Be forewarned, there's some cussing in this chapter.
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Dragon Ball Z Movie 14 The Lady Kari by NansJns
Ch.4: Kari is a WHAT?! The Surprising Revelation!
Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan were completely frozen by what they were seeing. The other Z-teamers felt like they were locked into place. Goten and Trunks, though surprised, were confused by the severity of the others' reactions. Golden bracelets were scattered on the floor around Kari, glinting in the ship's overhead lights. One last bracelet slid off its perch, and it hit the ground with a soft *ching* sound. Trunks rubbed his stomach where he had been hit, not with one of Kari's hands or her feet, but with what the bracelets had been covering. Kari's "belt" had actually been a bunch of bracelets over a long, brown, furry, MONEKY TAIL.
"That's IMPOSSIBLE! You'd have to be a . . .!!" Vegeta gasped again.
"A Saiyan?" Kari cut him off. "I am! Why do you _think_ I went to all of this trouble?! For the fun of it?!" Kari snorted in an unlady-like fashion as her tail swayed to-and-fro.
"But-but your hair! Your eyes! There's no such thing as a blonde, pale-eyed Saiyan!" Goku stuttered, utterly blown away. Trunks was the only Saiyan he had ever seen that didn't have black eyes, and that was only because he was half-human. Kari smirked in the patented Saiyan way, and tilted her head forward as she reached for her eyes. When she brought her head up, her eyes were closed, and then she opened them again. They glinted darkly, such a deep forest green that they might as well have been black. She held out her hand, on which sat the contact lenses she had been wearing to make her eyes a different color.
"My hair is naturally black. You don't want to know how much hair dye it took to make it this color," Kari shrugged offhandedly. Vegeta had other things on his mind.
"How did you survive the destruction of Planet Vegeta?! Why did you come after us now?!" Vegeta barked sharply.
"I survived the same way you two did - I wasn't on Planet Vegeta when it was destroyed. But unlike you, _I_ wasn't wandering free among the stars. I was in a laboratory," Kari answered coldly.
"Huh?" Piccolo grunted and screwed up his face. This felt very strange - another surviving Saiyan, and it was a woman. It did explain a lot, though.
"My full name is Kari Furauu*. When I was an infant, Frieza killed my parents, and took me," Kari continued, her eyes growing distant. She had been too small to actually remember it, but Frieza had recounted the incident to her enough times, and with enough gusto, that she could picture it. Her mother and father waiting for their next mission and watching over her while they did, and the evil, dwarfish, feminine-sounding tyrant Lord breaking in and killing them before they even knew what was happening, then lifting her by her tail and carrying her away, leaving the dead warriors to be found by their superior. "Only he and a few select scientists ever knew I existed. He used me as a test subject. . .so they say. . .but I was really just a Saiyan that Frieza could torture whenever he felt like it. The tests. . .needles, pills, liquids, electricity, anything they could think of to "test" me with, they used. . .so long as I suffered, it pleased Frieza. It was from me they developed the music box that could control Saiyans. . .they found that the right notes, set to the right frequency, puts Saiyans into a trance. They came up with a box that could control whole planets after Frieza had destroyed Planet Vegeta," Kari was holding herself, trembling at the memories, but suddenly she smiled, and her trembling stopped. "But then I heard the scientists saying that Frieza was dead - and not just dead, but dead at the hands of a Saiyan! So I broke free, destroying that damned "research base", and killing the scientists who held me prisoner!" Kari smiled nastily. She could still hear the alarms, and the scientists screaming, crying out 'She's free! She's free! Run!' And their death howls. In a small way, the Earth Special Forces couldn't blame her for taking such actions. "Of course, their experiments did have some effect on me - like giving me a sky-high pain threshold, and quickened healing."
"So. . .then. . .why the disguise? And why did you kidnap us?" Goku decided to get as many answers as he could from her.
"Why do you think?! Saiyans aren't a very popular species!" Kari was exasperated. "I have spent the last twelve years searching for other Saiyans, but every time I'd go to a planet that knew of us, they'd take one look at my hair, eyes, and most of all my tail, and attack me! Needless to say, they weren't interested in answering my questions, even after I beat them into the ground. So, I disguised myself, so that whatever they thought they were looking at when they looked at me, it wasn't a Saiyan. As for the kidnaping - I wanted you to come along, nice and peaceful. But you were too attached to that planet; I knew you wouldn't leave peacefully. So I. . .used the box," Kari gritted her teeth. She hadn't wanted to use the box, she hated the thing.
"How did you resist the damn thing?!" Gohan suddenly jumped in. Kari proceeded to pull two small plugs out of her ears.
"I was wearing these. They filtered out the music, without blocking all sound. Now, are we quite done talking?" Kari tilted her head to the side. This was getting boring.
"How did you know to come to Earth?" Piccolo asked.
"I didn't, at first. But a few weeks ago I came to a small planet populated by friendly creatures. . ." Kari paused and looked at Piccolo, "that looked just like you, now that I think about it. I told them I was looking for Saiyans, to, ah, let me see, what did I tell them? It was a small lie, to thank you for something, I think. Anyway, they told me to go to Earth, and even provided some coordinates."
"I still don't see why you wanted us," Goten piped up.
"Hmph. I'm gathering up all the survivors of Frieza. I just wanted to find some Saiyans so you could tell me about our race. And help me make the next generation of pure bloods, of course." Kari shrugged again. There was a moment of total silence from the Earth Forces, broken by Goku's voice.
"Say WHAT?!" he yelped. _That_ had come out of nowhere!
"You can't be serious!" Vegeta snapped. Small pearls of sweat had broken out across his brow.
"Does that mean what I think it means?" Trunks inquired of Goten.
"I sure hope not," Goten answered.
"Now see here! They're married-to US-and they already have children!" Chi-chi snarled.
"What the hell are you thinking?!" Bulma growled lowly.
"I'm thinking of saving a dying race, by any means necessary! I'm a pure blooded Saiyan, and I'm female! Our race doesn't have to die, or be bred out of existence!" With that, Kari motioned her guards forward, and flung out a ki ball to scatter the warriors.
Tien raised his hands in a triangular shape and flung out a ki blast that badly burned four guards. The wall behind them warped and fell over on top of them. Piccolo alternated between eye lasers and hand-to-hand. The guards were pretty weak compared to most of them, but there were so damn many of them. Yamcha, still standing guard over Bulma, punched a guard in the face and snapped his jaw bone in two. Vegeta and Goku were still focusing on Kari, figuring that the best way to stop this insanity was to stop her. Goten, Gohan, and Trunks were taking down guards left and right, keeping them from reaching their fathers. Chiao-Tzu flung ki bolts into the thickest clumps of guards, ending in chaos as they were burned and tried to dodge when there wasn't any room. Krillin was handling almost five guards at once, with 18 beside him handling five more. She uppercut one, drove her knee into the stomach of another, and slammed nearly a dozen punches into the stomach of the fourth. Krillin flattened one man with a single punch to the solar plexis, and broke the kneecaps of another. But they just kept coming. ((How many guards are on this ship, anyway?!)) he thought as he fired a ki ball at point-blank range into another guard. The bulkheads groaned again, still unheard over the ruckus the fighters were making.
Vegeta and Goku swung at Kari, who dodged as easily as before. She grabbed the front of Vegeta's shirt and flung him, hard, into Goku. They hit the ground in a tangled mess, Goku's breath leaving him in a rush. Vegeta was already back on his feet as Goku forced air back into his bruised lungs.
"Geez, Vegeta, how much do you weigh?! You're pretty heavy!" Goku coughed.
"Not now, Kakarott! Pay attention! I'll strike her first, and when she's distracted, you hit her where she's open!" Vegeta hissed at his low- class companion. Goku gave a small nod.
"Right," he said softly. Vegeta flashed forward too quick to see, and delivered a bone-cracking blow to the Saiyan woman's rib cage. She doubled over gagging, but still managed to thrust her hand against his chest and unleash a beam of ki energy. Vegeta didn't move out of the way in time, and the attack went through his left arm, sending his royal blood flying and spilling onto the floor. Goku then lunged at her, striking her side and legs, knocking her to the deck. Kari coughed and spit out blood. Her eyes were blazing. Her ki flared upward, and she attacked again, and the three of them became a blur among the crowd.
"Get her, Honey, get her!" Chi-chi cheered on her husband.
"Show that bitch who's boss, Veggie!" Bulma cheered along side her friend. Ki blasts were flying in every direction, destroying the inside of Kari's ship. Just as it looked like they were about to run out of guards, an alarm sounded. Mere seconds after the alarm went off, a massive suction filled the room from every direction.
"The bulkheads have been compromised in at least ten places all across the ship! Breathable atmosphere is rapidly being depleted! Everyone to the escape pods! ABANDON SHIP! ABANDON SHIP!" a voice bellowed over an unseen intercom. The guards who were still conscious looked to Kari for orders. Kari was floating a few feet away from Bulma and Chi-chi, with Goku and Vegeta right in front of her. The alarm and the orders had brought the fight to a complete stand still.
"You heard them! Let's get out of here!" Kari yelled, and the guards grabbed their wounded comrades and ran for the nearest escape pods. Before she followed, Kari looked down at the human wives of the last male Saiyans. She had a new plan. She suddenly seemed to vanish, and reappeared behind Bulma and Chi-chi as they tried to run for their own ship. Kari grabbed them roughly around their middles, pinning their arms to their sides, and smirked evilly. "You'll be most useful to me. We need to have a little girl to girl talk, anyway!" Kari hissed at them, and proceeded to move at top speed for her personal escape pod.
"CHI-CHI!!" Goku yelled in surprise when he saw Kari grab her.
"BULMA!!" Vegeta felt his blood boil. If that bitch hurt his Bulma, she'd die.
"MOM!!" Gohan, Goten, and Trunks all cried out at once.
"You want 'em?! Come and get them!!" Kari taunted as she vanished deeper into the ship. Goku, Vegeta, and their children were about to pursue when Tien and Piccolo stopped them.
"There's no time! The air will be gone in seconds! We have to get back to our ship!" Piccolo snarled at them. Most of them had dropped their helmets in the fight, but they quickly retrieved them.
"I'm not going anywhere with out Chi-Chi!" Goku barked at the Namek.
"I'm not leaving Bulma with that psychotic!" Vegeta snarled.
"What good will you do them if you suffocate?! We have to go now!" Tien insisted. They were already breathing heavily, and the air was vanishing too quickly to waste time arguing. Goku and Vegeta finally relented, and they turned and headed back the way they came. The suction was everywhere, and things were flying. They reached the air lock in seconds, gasping for air. Those who had space suits quickly went to the ship. Once they were on, Goku teleported everyone else over.
"All of the pods from Kari's ship are headed in the same direction. If we follow them, we'll find Bulma and Chi-chi," Yamcha observed as he watched several streaks fly from the hole-riddled remains of Kari's ship. Vegeta jumped into the pilot seat and started hitting buttons. He winced at the pain in his left arm, but ignored it.
"Hey, Vegeta, you should get that arm bandaged," Goku observed as he wrapped his own wounds, and applied disinfectant to some scratches and cuts Goten had. The little boy yelped at the sting.
"It's fine, Kakarott," Vegeta growled.
"I have some senzu beans," Piccolo observed off-handedly.
"I'll have one later," Vegeta focused on following the escape pods. "It's not that bad."
"I don't think so. That wound is still bleeding, and it must hurt. Take care of it - one of us will drive for now," Krillin stepped in, though he made sure to stay several feet back from the Saiyan Prince.
"This ship was built based on a Saiyan space pod. Apart from Bulma, I'm the best qualified to fly it," Vegeta answered shortly. His arm ached horribly, and though he could feel his fingers on that hand going numb, he didn't care. Bulma was in danger. That was what mattered. Goku approached him carefully, and started to wrap his friend's bleeding arm. Vegeta said nothing, and just focused on the screen in front of him.
"We'll get them back, Vegeta," Goku said in a low voice by his ear.
"Yes, we will. And if Kari has done anything to them. . ." Vegeta's voice was deep and menacing.
"We'll kill her." For the first time, Goku's voice echoed Vegeta's; they were of one mind on this. If Kari hurt either one of their wives, she would pay dearly.
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Next up: Ch. 5: Under Her Control
*-Kari Furaruu, when put into one word, is Japanese for "Cauliflower"! :)
If you want to tell me something, e-mail me at NansJns@aol.com! All comments welcome!
Dragon Ball Z Movie 14 The Lady Kari by NansJns
Ch.4: Kari is a WHAT?! The Surprising Revelation!
Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan were completely frozen by what they were seeing. The other Z-teamers felt like they were locked into place. Goten and Trunks, though surprised, were confused by the severity of the others' reactions. Golden bracelets were scattered on the floor around Kari, glinting in the ship's overhead lights. One last bracelet slid off its perch, and it hit the ground with a soft *ching* sound. Trunks rubbed his stomach where he had been hit, not with one of Kari's hands or her feet, but with what the bracelets had been covering. Kari's "belt" had actually been a bunch of bracelets over a long, brown, furry, MONEKY TAIL.
"That's IMPOSSIBLE! You'd have to be a . . .!!" Vegeta gasped again.
"A Saiyan?" Kari cut him off. "I am! Why do you _think_ I went to all of this trouble?! For the fun of it?!" Kari snorted in an unlady-like fashion as her tail swayed to-and-fro.
"But-but your hair! Your eyes! There's no such thing as a blonde, pale-eyed Saiyan!" Goku stuttered, utterly blown away. Trunks was the only Saiyan he had ever seen that didn't have black eyes, and that was only because he was half-human. Kari smirked in the patented Saiyan way, and tilted her head forward as she reached for her eyes. When she brought her head up, her eyes were closed, and then she opened them again. They glinted darkly, such a deep forest green that they might as well have been black. She held out her hand, on which sat the contact lenses she had been wearing to make her eyes a different color.
"My hair is naturally black. You don't want to know how much hair dye it took to make it this color," Kari shrugged offhandedly. Vegeta had other things on his mind.
"How did you survive the destruction of Planet Vegeta?! Why did you come after us now?!" Vegeta barked sharply.
"I survived the same way you two did - I wasn't on Planet Vegeta when it was destroyed. But unlike you, _I_ wasn't wandering free among the stars. I was in a laboratory," Kari answered coldly.
"Huh?" Piccolo grunted and screwed up his face. This felt very strange - another surviving Saiyan, and it was a woman. It did explain a lot, though.
"My full name is Kari Furauu*. When I was an infant, Frieza killed my parents, and took me," Kari continued, her eyes growing distant. She had been too small to actually remember it, but Frieza had recounted the incident to her enough times, and with enough gusto, that she could picture it. Her mother and father waiting for their next mission and watching over her while they did, and the evil, dwarfish, feminine-sounding tyrant Lord breaking in and killing them before they even knew what was happening, then lifting her by her tail and carrying her away, leaving the dead warriors to be found by their superior. "Only he and a few select scientists ever knew I existed. He used me as a test subject. . .so they say. . .but I was really just a Saiyan that Frieza could torture whenever he felt like it. The tests. . .needles, pills, liquids, electricity, anything they could think of to "test" me with, they used. . .so long as I suffered, it pleased Frieza. It was from me they developed the music box that could control Saiyans. . .they found that the right notes, set to the right frequency, puts Saiyans into a trance. They came up with a box that could control whole planets after Frieza had destroyed Planet Vegeta," Kari was holding herself, trembling at the memories, but suddenly she smiled, and her trembling stopped. "But then I heard the scientists saying that Frieza was dead - and not just dead, but dead at the hands of a Saiyan! So I broke free, destroying that damned "research base", and killing the scientists who held me prisoner!" Kari smiled nastily. She could still hear the alarms, and the scientists screaming, crying out 'She's free! She's free! Run!' And their death howls. In a small way, the Earth Special Forces couldn't blame her for taking such actions. "Of course, their experiments did have some effect on me - like giving me a sky-high pain threshold, and quickened healing."
"So. . .then. . .why the disguise? And why did you kidnap us?" Goku decided to get as many answers as he could from her.
"Why do you think?! Saiyans aren't a very popular species!" Kari was exasperated. "I have spent the last twelve years searching for other Saiyans, but every time I'd go to a planet that knew of us, they'd take one look at my hair, eyes, and most of all my tail, and attack me! Needless to say, they weren't interested in answering my questions, even after I beat them into the ground. So, I disguised myself, so that whatever they thought they were looking at when they looked at me, it wasn't a Saiyan. As for the kidnaping - I wanted you to come along, nice and peaceful. But you were too attached to that planet; I knew you wouldn't leave peacefully. So I. . .used the box," Kari gritted her teeth. She hadn't wanted to use the box, she hated the thing.
"How did you resist the damn thing?!" Gohan suddenly jumped in. Kari proceeded to pull two small plugs out of her ears.
"I was wearing these. They filtered out the music, without blocking all sound. Now, are we quite done talking?" Kari tilted her head to the side. This was getting boring.
"How did you know to come to Earth?" Piccolo asked.
"I didn't, at first. But a few weeks ago I came to a small planet populated by friendly creatures. . ." Kari paused and looked at Piccolo, "that looked just like you, now that I think about it. I told them I was looking for Saiyans, to, ah, let me see, what did I tell them? It was a small lie, to thank you for something, I think. Anyway, they told me to go to Earth, and even provided some coordinates."
"I still don't see why you wanted us," Goten piped up.
"Hmph. I'm gathering up all the survivors of Frieza. I just wanted to find some Saiyans so you could tell me about our race. And help me make the next generation of pure bloods, of course." Kari shrugged again. There was a moment of total silence from the Earth Forces, broken by Goku's voice.
"Say WHAT?!" he yelped. _That_ had come out of nowhere!
"You can't be serious!" Vegeta snapped. Small pearls of sweat had broken out across his brow.
"Does that mean what I think it means?" Trunks inquired of Goten.
"I sure hope not," Goten answered.
"Now see here! They're married-to US-and they already have children!" Chi-chi snarled.
"What the hell are you thinking?!" Bulma growled lowly.
"I'm thinking of saving a dying race, by any means necessary! I'm a pure blooded Saiyan, and I'm female! Our race doesn't have to die, or be bred out of existence!" With that, Kari motioned her guards forward, and flung out a ki ball to scatter the warriors.
Tien raised his hands in a triangular shape and flung out a ki blast that badly burned four guards. The wall behind them warped and fell over on top of them. Piccolo alternated between eye lasers and hand-to-hand. The guards were pretty weak compared to most of them, but there were so damn many of them. Yamcha, still standing guard over Bulma, punched a guard in the face and snapped his jaw bone in two. Vegeta and Goku were still focusing on Kari, figuring that the best way to stop this insanity was to stop her. Goten, Gohan, and Trunks were taking down guards left and right, keeping them from reaching their fathers. Chiao-Tzu flung ki bolts into the thickest clumps of guards, ending in chaos as they were burned and tried to dodge when there wasn't any room. Krillin was handling almost five guards at once, with 18 beside him handling five more. She uppercut one, drove her knee into the stomach of another, and slammed nearly a dozen punches into the stomach of the fourth. Krillin flattened one man with a single punch to the solar plexis, and broke the kneecaps of another. But they just kept coming. ((How many guards are on this ship, anyway?!)) he thought as he fired a ki ball at point-blank range into another guard. The bulkheads groaned again, still unheard over the ruckus the fighters were making.
Vegeta and Goku swung at Kari, who dodged as easily as before. She grabbed the front of Vegeta's shirt and flung him, hard, into Goku. They hit the ground in a tangled mess, Goku's breath leaving him in a rush. Vegeta was already back on his feet as Goku forced air back into his bruised lungs.
"Geez, Vegeta, how much do you weigh?! You're pretty heavy!" Goku coughed.
"Not now, Kakarott! Pay attention! I'll strike her first, and when she's distracted, you hit her where she's open!" Vegeta hissed at his low- class companion. Goku gave a small nod.
"Right," he said softly. Vegeta flashed forward too quick to see, and delivered a bone-cracking blow to the Saiyan woman's rib cage. She doubled over gagging, but still managed to thrust her hand against his chest and unleash a beam of ki energy. Vegeta didn't move out of the way in time, and the attack went through his left arm, sending his royal blood flying and spilling onto the floor. Goku then lunged at her, striking her side and legs, knocking her to the deck. Kari coughed and spit out blood. Her eyes were blazing. Her ki flared upward, and she attacked again, and the three of them became a blur among the crowd.
"Get her, Honey, get her!" Chi-chi cheered on her husband.
"Show that bitch who's boss, Veggie!" Bulma cheered along side her friend. Ki blasts were flying in every direction, destroying the inside of Kari's ship. Just as it looked like they were about to run out of guards, an alarm sounded. Mere seconds after the alarm went off, a massive suction filled the room from every direction.
"The bulkheads have been compromised in at least ten places all across the ship! Breathable atmosphere is rapidly being depleted! Everyone to the escape pods! ABANDON SHIP! ABANDON SHIP!" a voice bellowed over an unseen intercom. The guards who were still conscious looked to Kari for orders. Kari was floating a few feet away from Bulma and Chi-chi, with Goku and Vegeta right in front of her. The alarm and the orders had brought the fight to a complete stand still.
"You heard them! Let's get out of here!" Kari yelled, and the guards grabbed their wounded comrades and ran for the nearest escape pods. Before she followed, Kari looked down at the human wives of the last male Saiyans. She had a new plan. She suddenly seemed to vanish, and reappeared behind Bulma and Chi-chi as they tried to run for their own ship. Kari grabbed them roughly around their middles, pinning their arms to their sides, and smirked evilly. "You'll be most useful to me. We need to have a little girl to girl talk, anyway!" Kari hissed at them, and proceeded to move at top speed for her personal escape pod.
"CHI-CHI!!" Goku yelled in surprise when he saw Kari grab her.
"BULMA!!" Vegeta felt his blood boil. If that bitch hurt his Bulma, she'd die.
"MOM!!" Gohan, Goten, and Trunks all cried out at once.
"You want 'em?! Come and get them!!" Kari taunted as she vanished deeper into the ship. Goku, Vegeta, and their children were about to pursue when Tien and Piccolo stopped them.
"There's no time! The air will be gone in seconds! We have to get back to our ship!" Piccolo snarled at them. Most of them had dropped their helmets in the fight, but they quickly retrieved them.
"I'm not going anywhere with out Chi-Chi!" Goku barked at the Namek.
"I'm not leaving Bulma with that psychotic!" Vegeta snarled.
"What good will you do them if you suffocate?! We have to go now!" Tien insisted. They were already breathing heavily, and the air was vanishing too quickly to waste time arguing. Goku and Vegeta finally relented, and they turned and headed back the way they came. The suction was everywhere, and things were flying. They reached the air lock in seconds, gasping for air. Those who had space suits quickly went to the ship. Once they were on, Goku teleported everyone else over.
"All of the pods from Kari's ship are headed in the same direction. If we follow them, we'll find Bulma and Chi-chi," Yamcha observed as he watched several streaks fly from the hole-riddled remains of Kari's ship. Vegeta jumped into the pilot seat and started hitting buttons. He winced at the pain in his left arm, but ignored it.
"Hey, Vegeta, you should get that arm bandaged," Goku observed as he wrapped his own wounds, and applied disinfectant to some scratches and cuts Goten had. The little boy yelped at the sting.
"It's fine, Kakarott," Vegeta growled.
"I have some senzu beans," Piccolo observed off-handedly.
"I'll have one later," Vegeta focused on following the escape pods. "It's not that bad."
"I don't think so. That wound is still bleeding, and it must hurt. Take care of it - one of us will drive for now," Krillin stepped in, though he made sure to stay several feet back from the Saiyan Prince.
"This ship was built based on a Saiyan space pod. Apart from Bulma, I'm the best qualified to fly it," Vegeta answered shortly. His arm ached horribly, and though he could feel his fingers on that hand going numb, he didn't care. Bulma was in danger. That was what mattered. Goku approached him carefully, and started to wrap his friend's bleeding arm. Vegeta said nothing, and just focused on the screen in front of him.
"We'll get them back, Vegeta," Goku said in a low voice by his ear.
"Yes, we will. And if Kari has done anything to them. . ." Vegeta's voice was deep and menacing.
"We'll kill her." For the first time, Goku's voice echoed Vegeta's; they were of one mind on this. If Kari hurt either one of their wives, she would pay dearly.
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Next up: Ch. 5: Under Her Control
*-Kari Furaruu, when put into one word, is Japanese for "Cauliflower"! :)
If you want to tell me something, e-mail me at NansJns@aol.com! All comments welcome!
