*Crack*
Bura stretched long unused bone and muscle, bending in the small confines of her pod.
"How long have I been asleep?"
"One year, seven days, twelve…" The ships computer began to respond automatically to the posed question.
"What! I just slept a year of my life away?" Bura was out of her seat in disbelief, examining all the various life system controls trying to confirm what she had just been told.
"That is correct."
"Approaching home base in one hour ten min…"
"Home base?"
"Home base, launch pad nine, infant sector, capitol city Vegetasei…"
"What!!?!?"
"Home base, launch pad nine.."
"Stop! I heard the first time! of course out of all the coordinates I had to pick a dead planet!"
"Planet detected, planet detected!"
I'm telling you, you piece of junk it's gone!"
"Planet detected, planet detected, engaging thrusters to position for entering atmosphere."
"I said there is No…ahh!"
The ship began to turn and Bura was flung to her seat, quickly buckling herself into the restraints.
"Please remain seated and strap yourself in."
"Oh yeah thanks for the warning." She crossed her arm in a very grouchy manner and was resigned to wait till the ship was done with this nonsense.
"Landing on a planet that isn't…" Something Red and luminous caught her eye as the ship stopped it's side ways movement, only to move forward very rapidly. There, right in front of her was a huge, shinning red beacon in the eternal night
"…there"
"Planet fall in forty five minutes."
"But how?"
Planet side…
"Commander Zorn, pod ex700089 is approaching the atmosphere."
"I'll be there shortly." His scarred left had, dropped from the call button, pushing his dark mop out of his face Zorn made his way to the pod retrieval command center which had hastily be built a few months ago, when the Saiyajins had gotten over their initial confusion at being alive again.
Now they were trying to bring any and all wayward Saiyajin home where they belong.
Nappa and Radditz had arrived last week, both of them had been grim and refused to speak to anyone but the King, the news they had brought of Prince Vegeta had been promising, but it had been many long years since their subsequent deaths, so it was anyone's guess as to what the Prince's current location was or even if he still had his space pod.
Turles had arrived shortly after his long manned cousin, and was now seated at the controls in the retrieval room, awaiting Zorn's arrival and instructions.
With a swish of cape, Zorn was in the room and attaching one of the headsets.
"Bring up the logs and see who the pod is registered too before we take any action."
"Sir." Long powerful fingers flew over the keyboards strings of names and numbers rolled by and finally stopped.
"Sir, the pod is registered…" Turles stopped in mid sentences not believing his eyes.
"Registered too whom?" Zorn asked losing his patients for the millionth time that week, when you were isolated for so many years it's hard to be amongst people again, especially the often rash and irrational saiyajins.
"Kakarot."
Currently our heroine is…
"AYIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Do you have to fall so fast!" Bura's knuckles were white as she clutched her seat. Despite having grown up at capsule corsps, she had never quite had a experiences that was quite like plummeting to her seeming death.
"This velocity is necessary for…"
"Shut up! AYIEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Her view of clouds gave way to a fast approaching city and a landing site that strangely resemble a giant baseball glove.
"Aren't we going to slow down?" Bura asked nervously as the Giant mitt got closer.
"Not necessary."
Bura closed her eyes, taking several deep shuddering breaths as she trusted her life to out -of -date foreign technology.
She peeked open one eye after what seemed like an eternity later. She raked nervous fingers threw blue hair and for the first time noticed how much longer it was, trailing over her shoulders and down to her tail, it's furry, matching, blue length neatly tucked around her waist.
A hiss caught her attention from her befuddled musings as the door slowly rose open.
"Yatta!"
She nearly leaped out of the pod in excitement and certainly was not expecting to be gawked at by a small army of Saiyajin men.
"um, hello." She greeted in perfect Saiya-go.
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"All right men, be on guard, Kakarot could be dangerous.
Everyone of the elite guard was positioned around the launch pad, tensed as the watched the pod approach , sinking in to the cushion like pad it came to a halt.
No matter how many years of training no matter the countless bizarre missions any of them had been on, they were not prepared for the site that greeted them when the pod opened.
"Yatta!"
A lithe figure bounded from the pod, and skidded to a halt. Her long aqua locks were slightly disheveled, her equally odd colored tail curled and flexed behind her. The blue spandex body suit and white Armour clung to every sleek curve.
"Um, Hello." She greeted in perfect Saiya-go
Turles was the first to find his voice.
"Damn."
Woman stared and men, and men, well we'll use the word "stare" it's a bit more polite, at her.
Zorn regained his composure and extended his right hand. Welcome, I am Captain Zorn, King's man and commander of the royal guards. I extend to you the hospitality of the House of Vegetasei. He approached his hand still extended forth a warm disarming smile spreading across a still handsome faces despite the scares that marred the left side of it.
'oh he's so cute!" Bura thought, drawn in by that charming, gentle smile. He took her hand and delicately placed it under his arm drawing her to his side.
"May I have the pleasure of knowing your name?" He asked his voice smooth like velvet.
"Burahanni." She gave him her Saiyajin name, the one her father had proudly bestowed on her.
"Breathtaking. A very appropriate name for a lovely young woman such as yourself. Come your journey must have been long and I'm sure you would like to refresh yourself." He began leading he drown the corridor and almost as a side note turned to the still avidly "staring" men.
"Back to your stations, dismissed!"