Chapter 2: Welcome to Earth! Now Go Home!
Planet Earth. Ruled by humanlike machines called reploids. The reploids have split into two separate groups: The Mavericks and the Maverick Hunters. Both groups are in constant battle, but the battles have only just begun.
"I've seen paint dry and grass grow in shorter time than he's taking! I'll bet fifty credits he doesn't get back here by tomorrow!"
Plasma shot up into the air, and a small pigeon fell down in return. The red-armored reploid blew at a stream of smoke that had risen from the barrel of his arm-mounted plasma cannon.
"I'll have to agree." He looked up at his blue-armored partner. "I don't know how much longer I can stand shooting these feathered creatures! Sooner or later, Sigma's going to find us and try to kill us again!"
The blue-armored reploid slammed her fist into the wall. "I need food! Where's that lame-brain brother of ours anyway?"
Her partner looked up. "Woah! Zera, calm down!"
A vein throbbed on Zera's forehead. She pointed her own plasma cannon at him. "Listen, Zero! When I get hungry, I get angry, too! So why don't YOU calm down!"
As the two siblings argue, a third reploid, wearing jet-black armor with gold trim, walked up to them with a bloody sack. "Sorry I took so long!" he said. His mouth curled into an evil smirk, slightly wrinkling the violet streaks that ran under each eye to his chin. "That guy at the meat counter was so annoying, so I told him that I either get the meat for free, or he becomes the meat. Too bad he decided to give me the meat." He gestured to the sack.
Zero grinned at his sister. "Okay, sis. Pay up."
"You are such an idiot." Despite her groans, Zera dug a wad of credits from her pockets. Zero counted it closely.
"Wait a minute! There's only thirty credits here!"
"Hey! I was hoping to win, you moron!"
The reploid looked up at the sky. "Um, guys?"
Still arguing, Zero and Zera look at him. "WHAT, FORTE!"
"I just, well.There's a couple meteorites going to crash into the field."
Zera groaned. "That's no fun! I'm not there to witness the death of the kid I called this morning!"
"Well, actually, I was hoping we could check it out. You never know when a little brat decides to play in the field this late at night." Forte grinned. "Or maybe Sigma's out there with the twerp! Man, I would want to see that bald idiot writhing in pain under that giant space stone. And to see human blood splattered under the bottom of the other one would just make my day!"
"Anything would make your day, Forte." Zero sighed. "I guess there's no harm in checking it out."
"YEAH!" Forte let out a whistle. "Gospel! Let's go!"
"Piano, come on!"
"Velguarder!"
A large violet wolf jumped from the window of a nearby building. Both of his front paws were bloodstained. Zera and Zero also whistled. A green lion and violet coyote leapt from the same window and dashed up to their respecting owners. At the right command, each animal became a transportation device: Gospel merged with Forte and enabled him to fly, Piano became a land speeder for Zera, and Velguarder transformed into a hovering jet board. The three siblings made their way to the field, but almost couldn't believe what they saw.
"Saiyan space pods?" Zera's eyes nearly popped out of her head. "I thought those were just a figment of some crazy human's imagination!"
Forte pointed at the pods. "Well, those 'figments' are opened, so you know!"
Sure enough, both pods were wide open, but had nothing in them. On the other side were two humans.
A groan betrayed Zero's anger. "It's just a hoax, you guys. See those two humans?"
Both humans looked at the siblings. The tallest let out a scream of fright, then ran off.
"You chicken! It's just the Mavericks!" The shorter one ran after his friend. "Get back here!"
Zera walked up to the nearer of the pods. "I wonder what the humans were thinking when they made these?"
"Nothing." Zero leaned against the pod. "That's the only thing they think about: Nothing. It's no doubt the same thing Wily was thinking when he built us to take over the world for him."
"Then we killed him!" Zera shot her arm into the air, throwing herself off- balance and into her brother.
"Right." Forte stood up, dusting his armor off.
The shorter human returned. He was talking to himself, but the siblings could hear him clearly.
"What is taking her so long? She said to meet here, and I'm pretty sure she would've shown by now." A brown-and-violet ponytail, not quite as long as Zero's or Zera's, bounced behind him gently. "She's always yelling at me for being late, and now she's late!"
Zera quietly gestured to her brothers to go around to the other side.
"Maybe she got scared when these things fell from the sky. Nah. She would've come to see if I was fine. Or maybe she thinks I'll be here my usual ten minutes late."
"Maybe she's frightened that Mavericks killed you!" Zera came into the young human's line of sight. "Or maybe it was me that made the call in the first place!"
The human groaned, looking at her with bright violet eyes. "I can't believe it! Can't you leave me alone?"
"No." Zera stood on the open door of the pod. "It's so much fun to torment you, kid. Besides, you're probably the only human I like. That's the reason I haven't killed you or your friends yet."
"I'm growing quite tired of all this. I just want to be able to go out once in awhile without you or your cocky brothers giving me a hard time!"
A wide grin crossed Zera's face. "Well, tonight's not one of those nights, kid. Zero! Forte! Action time!" The brothers didn't answer. "Will you idiots get out here?" When they still didn't answer, Zera climbed onto the pod, giving the human ample time to escape. "Have you two gone deaf?"
Zero and Forte were both sprawled out, groaning. With a sigh, Zera jumped down. "You two are both morons! I'm starting to believe I have klutzes for brothers!" She grabbed them both by the scruff of their necks, then lifted them to their feet. "Go grab the kid!"
Both reploids shook their heads.
"Are you two scared of a little human kid? GO!"
"He's got company!" Forte was whimpering like a scared puppy. "Two females, and they've got to be mages!"
"What makes you figure that?"
"They make fire shoot out of their hands!" Zero yelped.
"Big deal. All reploids can do that."
Shaking, Forte held up his laser cannon. "Not like this. Like this!" He held up his unchanged hand.
Zera dropped her brothers. "Too bad they're Hunters. They would be very helpful for us!" She leapt back onto the pod, then looked at the human. "I'm going after that kid. Maybe he can tell us who attacked you." Like lightning, she sprinted toward the human, but two females stood in front of her. "Out of my way, twerps!"
"Excuse me?" The black-haired female took a fighting stance. "I don't like your tone, bitch!"
"That's Miss Bitch to you!" Zera fired off a round of plasma at the female. When the smoke cleared, she was gone. "Okay, girlie. You're next!" She pointed her plasma cannon at the grey-haired girl, but the human caught her attention. He was running straight for her, but she was able to jump out of the way in time. A long tail, matching the color of his hair, whipped out behind him "Relax, Zidane! I'm not going to kill her just yet!"
"You can't call me Zidane, Mav! The only one with that right is Tina!"
"Oh, give me a break! Tina's dead! I killed her months ago!"
Instead of responding, the human pulled out a diamond-edged dagger and started lashing at her. Each attempt to attack failed as she jumped out of his way.
"Listen, kid. You might as well give up, because you're just going to lose again!" Zera pointed her cannon point blank at the human's heart, but her arm was nearly wrenched off by some unknown force.
"Leave him alone, lady!" The grey-haired girl grabbed Zera's other arm and held them both behind her back. "I mean it! You harm him, and I'll pull your arms off!"
Zera let out fake screams. "Help, Zero! This little girl's going to pull my arms off!" She laughed, then kicked back at the girl. "You must think I was built just yesterday! I'm not stupid, girl! Go cry for your mommy somewhere." She pulled her hands free, then turned back to the human. "Where was I? Oh, yes. I was just about to kill you.What?"
The human was gone. She searched around, but found no sign of him. When she felt she lost him, her hands were twisted behind her back again. "Damned girl! I thought I."
"I may act like a pussy, but I'm not a girl!" A strong foot kicked against her back, sending her sprawling into the ground. When she recovered from the attack, she saw the youth standing over her with a lavender beam saber in his hand.
"You dare threaten me with an energy blade?"
"Return to the hole you call home now, Maverick. I just may spare your life."
"I think not, kid!" Before she could fire off a round of plasma, the girl attacked again. She aimed multiple attacks at Zera's face, but none of them knocked her out.
"I thought I told you to go home!" Zera blasted the girl square in the stomach. Still, she rose to her feet. "Can't you just give up?" Several more blasts later, the girl continued to stand. "How can this be? I blew your friend away instantly!"
"I'm.not that.easy." The girl's eyes lit up suddenly as electricity shot from them. Zera flew back from the blast, hitting a tree. The force of the blast knocked her out.
Planet Earth. Ruled by humanlike machines called reploids. The reploids have split into two separate groups: The Mavericks and the Maverick Hunters. Both groups are in constant battle, but the battles have only just begun.
"I've seen paint dry and grass grow in shorter time than he's taking! I'll bet fifty credits he doesn't get back here by tomorrow!"
Plasma shot up into the air, and a small pigeon fell down in return. The red-armored reploid blew at a stream of smoke that had risen from the barrel of his arm-mounted plasma cannon.
"I'll have to agree." He looked up at his blue-armored partner. "I don't know how much longer I can stand shooting these feathered creatures! Sooner or later, Sigma's going to find us and try to kill us again!"
The blue-armored reploid slammed her fist into the wall. "I need food! Where's that lame-brain brother of ours anyway?"
Her partner looked up. "Woah! Zera, calm down!"
A vein throbbed on Zera's forehead. She pointed her own plasma cannon at him. "Listen, Zero! When I get hungry, I get angry, too! So why don't YOU calm down!"
As the two siblings argue, a third reploid, wearing jet-black armor with gold trim, walked up to them with a bloody sack. "Sorry I took so long!" he said. His mouth curled into an evil smirk, slightly wrinkling the violet streaks that ran under each eye to his chin. "That guy at the meat counter was so annoying, so I told him that I either get the meat for free, or he becomes the meat. Too bad he decided to give me the meat." He gestured to the sack.
Zero grinned at his sister. "Okay, sis. Pay up."
"You are such an idiot." Despite her groans, Zera dug a wad of credits from her pockets. Zero counted it closely.
"Wait a minute! There's only thirty credits here!"
"Hey! I was hoping to win, you moron!"
The reploid looked up at the sky. "Um, guys?"
Still arguing, Zero and Zera look at him. "WHAT, FORTE!"
"I just, well.There's a couple meteorites going to crash into the field."
Zera groaned. "That's no fun! I'm not there to witness the death of the kid I called this morning!"
"Well, actually, I was hoping we could check it out. You never know when a little brat decides to play in the field this late at night." Forte grinned. "Or maybe Sigma's out there with the twerp! Man, I would want to see that bald idiot writhing in pain under that giant space stone. And to see human blood splattered under the bottom of the other one would just make my day!"
"Anything would make your day, Forte." Zero sighed. "I guess there's no harm in checking it out."
"YEAH!" Forte let out a whistle. "Gospel! Let's go!"
"Piano, come on!"
"Velguarder!"
A large violet wolf jumped from the window of a nearby building. Both of his front paws were bloodstained. Zera and Zero also whistled. A green lion and violet coyote leapt from the same window and dashed up to their respecting owners. At the right command, each animal became a transportation device: Gospel merged with Forte and enabled him to fly, Piano became a land speeder for Zera, and Velguarder transformed into a hovering jet board. The three siblings made their way to the field, but almost couldn't believe what they saw.
"Saiyan space pods?" Zera's eyes nearly popped out of her head. "I thought those were just a figment of some crazy human's imagination!"
Forte pointed at the pods. "Well, those 'figments' are opened, so you know!"
Sure enough, both pods were wide open, but had nothing in them. On the other side were two humans.
A groan betrayed Zero's anger. "It's just a hoax, you guys. See those two humans?"
Both humans looked at the siblings. The tallest let out a scream of fright, then ran off.
"You chicken! It's just the Mavericks!" The shorter one ran after his friend. "Get back here!"
Zera walked up to the nearer of the pods. "I wonder what the humans were thinking when they made these?"
"Nothing." Zero leaned against the pod. "That's the only thing they think about: Nothing. It's no doubt the same thing Wily was thinking when he built us to take over the world for him."
"Then we killed him!" Zera shot her arm into the air, throwing herself off- balance and into her brother.
"Right." Forte stood up, dusting his armor off.
The shorter human returned. He was talking to himself, but the siblings could hear him clearly.
"What is taking her so long? She said to meet here, and I'm pretty sure she would've shown by now." A brown-and-violet ponytail, not quite as long as Zero's or Zera's, bounced behind him gently. "She's always yelling at me for being late, and now she's late!"
Zera quietly gestured to her brothers to go around to the other side.
"Maybe she got scared when these things fell from the sky. Nah. She would've come to see if I was fine. Or maybe she thinks I'll be here my usual ten minutes late."
"Maybe she's frightened that Mavericks killed you!" Zera came into the young human's line of sight. "Or maybe it was me that made the call in the first place!"
The human groaned, looking at her with bright violet eyes. "I can't believe it! Can't you leave me alone?"
"No." Zera stood on the open door of the pod. "It's so much fun to torment you, kid. Besides, you're probably the only human I like. That's the reason I haven't killed you or your friends yet."
"I'm growing quite tired of all this. I just want to be able to go out once in awhile without you or your cocky brothers giving me a hard time!"
A wide grin crossed Zera's face. "Well, tonight's not one of those nights, kid. Zero! Forte! Action time!" The brothers didn't answer. "Will you idiots get out here?" When they still didn't answer, Zera climbed onto the pod, giving the human ample time to escape. "Have you two gone deaf?"
Zero and Forte were both sprawled out, groaning. With a sigh, Zera jumped down. "You two are both morons! I'm starting to believe I have klutzes for brothers!" She grabbed them both by the scruff of their necks, then lifted them to their feet. "Go grab the kid!"
Both reploids shook their heads.
"Are you two scared of a little human kid? GO!"
"He's got company!" Forte was whimpering like a scared puppy. "Two females, and they've got to be mages!"
"What makes you figure that?"
"They make fire shoot out of their hands!" Zero yelped.
"Big deal. All reploids can do that."
Shaking, Forte held up his laser cannon. "Not like this. Like this!" He held up his unchanged hand.
Zera dropped her brothers. "Too bad they're Hunters. They would be very helpful for us!" She leapt back onto the pod, then looked at the human. "I'm going after that kid. Maybe he can tell us who attacked you." Like lightning, she sprinted toward the human, but two females stood in front of her. "Out of my way, twerps!"
"Excuse me?" The black-haired female took a fighting stance. "I don't like your tone, bitch!"
"That's Miss Bitch to you!" Zera fired off a round of plasma at the female. When the smoke cleared, she was gone. "Okay, girlie. You're next!" She pointed her plasma cannon at the grey-haired girl, but the human caught her attention. He was running straight for her, but she was able to jump out of the way in time. A long tail, matching the color of his hair, whipped out behind him "Relax, Zidane! I'm not going to kill her just yet!"
"You can't call me Zidane, Mav! The only one with that right is Tina!"
"Oh, give me a break! Tina's dead! I killed her months ago!"
Instead of responding, the human pulled out a diamond-edged dagger and started lashing at her. Each attempt to attack failed as she jumped out of his way.
"Listen, kid. You might as well give up, because you're just going to lose again!" Zera pointed her cannon point blank at the human's heart, but her arm was nearly wrenched off by some unknown force.
"Leave him alone, lady!" The grey-haired girl grabbed Zera's other arm and held them both behind her back. "I mean it! You harm him, and I'll pull your arms off!"
Zera let out fake screams. "Help, Zero! This little girl's going to pull my arms off!" She laughed, then kicked back at the girl. "You must think I was built just yesterday! I'm not stupid, girl! Go cry for your mommy somewhere." She pulled her hands free, then turned back to the human. "Where was I? Oh, yes. I was just about to kill you.What?"
The human was gone. She searched around, but found no sign of him. When she felt she lost him, her hands were twisted behind her back again. "Damned girl! I thought I."
"I may act like a pussy, but I'm not a girl!" A strong foot kicked against her back, sending her sprawling into the ground. When she recovered from the attack, she saw the youth standing over her with a lavender beam saber in his hand.
"You dare threaten me with an energy blade?"
"Return to the hole you call home now, Maverick. I just may spare your life."
"I think not, kid!" Before she could fire off a round of plasma, the girl attacked again. She aimed multiple attacks at Zera's face, but none of them knocked her out.
"I thought I told you to go home!" Zera blasted the girl square in the stomach. Still, she rose to her feet. "Can't you just give up?" Several more blasts later, the girl continued to stand. "How can this be? I blew your friend away instantly!"
"I'm.not that.easy." The girl's eyes lit up suddenly as electricity shot from them. Zera flew back from the blast, hitting a tree. The force of the blast knocked her out.