The Terrians



Mari stood up the best she could. But Mari fell to the ground. Bulma looked at her.

"Mari?" Mari shook her head.

"There is something draining my power." Mari glowed for a moment. "Go on without me. It will be fine to go outside the ship. I'll catch up to you in a few minutes." Bulma's eyes searched Mari's face. "GO! I'll be fine. I'm a god. I have been through a lot and now is not the time that I should start being baby-sat." Bulma reluctantly got up and left with the others. They walked outside the ship. Bulma had a small gun with her in case she needed it. After all, she couldn't fire blasts of energy. Everyone looked around the room the ship was in. It was like a small graveyard for ships.

"Where the hell are we?" Bulma stepped are a scrap of metal. Goku fell over a big pile of metal. It looked like some pieces of a ship that had been ripped out.

"I have no idea." The door to their ship came down again. Alex stepped out of it. Yamcha looked over at her.

"Why did you change back?" Alex brushed some of her hair back.

"There is something here that is draining my energy. In this form it is harder to drain it." Krillin looked inside one of the ships briefly. A door opened a bright light shun through. There were some figures in the door way. The spoke to each other in a different language.

"Eaf ama to may k. Jar may ta lay jaus sa ba na. Toka ka di kaja!" The one reached out and pressed a button on a control panel next to the door. The lights came on. They wore a strange outfit. A red cloak with geometric symbols on it. And over their faces were metal masks. Their eyes were in shadows as they motioned to them and spoke in this language. Alex stood up and spoke in the lagnuage too.

"Ema coo te na ta fo sea carn toof!" They nodded. She turned to the others. "They can speak in your language." The taller one spoke to them.

"Welcome to our ship. We are sorry if we have done any damage. Please come with us." The two turned and left. They followed them. After a few moments of walking they came to another door. The taller one turned to them again. "I am sorry. I have not introduced myself. I am Talong. This is my friend Frane." He pointed to the door. "Please see our medical officer in case you have any wounds. We will come back after you have been examined." The two left. Goku started to go to the door.

"Chotto matte! Kakarot! How do we know if they are really our friends?!" Goku smiled.

"Why else would they treat us all nice and stuff?" Goku turned and walked in the room. Vegeta nearly fell on his face.

"Baka mitai!" Vegeta yelled. Bulma laughed.

"Oh come Vegeta! If they wanted us dead they would have done that already!" She laughed as she, Yamcha, Chaozu, Tien, Krillin, Trunks, Videl, Gohan, and Goten walked in. Alex, 18, Piccolo, and Vegeta stood outside the door. 18 turned to Alex.

"Who are they?" Alex looked at the ground for a moment then shook her head.

"I don't know." Piccolo looked at the door.

"We should go in. That way if they are up to something we won't rouse supposition." Vegeta looked off in the direction they went.

"For the life of me I can't remember who they are!" Alex looked at Vegeta.

"When you do tell us. I can't read their minds either. I don't like." 18 shook her head.

"The others are way too trusting." Alex sighed.

"Hai. Right now we should do what Piccolo said." The four walked into the room. It looked like any sick bay would. There was another one of those creatures there. His cloak was blue. He walked over to the four.

"Welcome! Come, come sit down over here." He motioned towards some beds. "This won't take long!" Three others came out and took Vegeta, 18 and Piccolo. The first one took Alex by the wrist and yanked her over to the bed. "Now tell me all abut yourself!" He pushed her onto the bed then took out some scanners. "It is so rare that we have some people new!" He waved them in front of her.

"Umm . . . where are the others?" He laughed.

"Oh well, they are being treated too! It doesn't take that long so they probably went off to tour the ship! Now, what's your name?"

"Alex . . . who are you?"

"Who how rude of me! I'm Coop!"

"What species are you?" Coop smiled.

"I am a Terrian! We Terrians are peaceful people who travel the universe!" He put away the scanners. "Oh dear, I'm finished! I wish we could talk more but you need to go catch up with the others!" Coop shoved Alex out the door. Alex stumbled a bit when she was pushed out. Alex looked around for a moment. Frane was standing outside. There were two Terrians behind him.

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Bulma was pushed out of the room. The others were there. All except Alex. Talong was there too.

"Talong, where's Alex?"

"Oh, her, yes, she wanted to take a tour of the ship." Bulma looked at him hard.

"Why didn't she wait for us? I thought we were going to do that too." Talong shrugged.

"She said that she wanted to go tour the ship the second she was out. So Frane took her to tour the ship. Now it is time for our tour!" He turned and left. Bulma and the others followed. Vegeta was not so eager too though.

As they walked down the hall Talong pointed and told them what each room was. Everyone listened but one. Goku. He kept on thinking about what Alex had said when they first started out on the journey. About Onra. No. Amaya. Goku still had a hard time with that. Onra was a goddess. Finally Talong turned to them.

"I'm sorry but I have to leave now. I will have to attend to some important business. I'll send someone to show you to your rooms." Talong turned and left.

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They had been all shown their rooms. But right now a certain group of them were at the mess hall. (Can you guess who? Well if you can't then I'll tell you.) Goku, Vegeta, Trunks, Gohan, and Goten! Well, Vegeta didn't eat until he was sure that it wasn't poisoned or drugged. (Guess how. Come on guess! Well if that's the case I'll tell you! He let the others eat for about 10 minute and when none of them had passed out or rolled over dead he started to eat.)

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Talong showed up a little later.

When asked about Alex he simply said that she was in a different wing. There was a small thing that had come up in her scans and they didn't want to have her give it to anyone. But she would be ok in a few days. The second Talong was gone they turned to each other.

"Since when does a goddess of life get sick?" Piccolo didn't expect an answer. But Goku was there.

"I guess it could happen." The others fell anime style! "Well, why would they lie to us?"

"Baka! Think about it Kakarot! We have been on that awful ship without a lot of distance. If someone sighed everyone would know!" Bulma nodded.

"Vegeta's right. There are only 3 levels. The main one, that Alex and I stayed on and monitored things, the training one, and then the rest one. Goku, we all have to sleep on the ground for enough room. But not all of us can go to sleep at once. It's not like I had enough time to really build a ship for enough room for all of us. And we're lucky that Alex doesn't need to sleep. If she did have something then we would have known and/or caught it. I don't trust them at all."

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Alex was in a glass bubble. She felt weaker and weaker by the second. She didn't know what was happening to her. She couldn't remember anything about what had happen the second she was out of their medical center. Alex drifted in and out of consciousness. (sp?)

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They had spent two days on the ship. Talong had asked where they were going. And Goku . . . well Goku was being Goku. He told Talong! Of course Bulma had to stop Vegeta from pounding in Goku's head. Talong said that the ship was going in the same direction. In fact they would past Red Eyes 7 and that they would drop them all off there.

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Alex groaned. She had a pain in her side. She could feel herself no stronger than a new born kitten. 'Some goddess I am! Being reduced to this.' Alex silently cured herself for letting her guard down.

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Talong met with the Z fighter.

"We will be landing on the planet Red Eyes 7 in three hours."

"Excuse me, Talong," Bulma looked at him. "But were is Alex."

"Oh yes, she wants to rest until that happens. The sickness is gone but it left her every weak. Oh, before I go I need you to do something for me Bulma. We have a small problem with something. I'm sure that a new pair of eyes will help us solve it. Would you help us?"

"O.K." Bulma was reluctant to leave with Talong.

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Bulma entered a room that was dark. There was a small table in the middle of the room. On the table were chucks of what appeared to be glass. She turned to Talong as he spoke to her.

"You see Bulma, we need to have this puzzled solved. I was wondering if you could do it?" Bulma nodded slightly confused.

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Talong watched Bulma solve the puzzle in little time. He smiled to himself. She left to go back to the others. Talong turned to Frane who had just walked in.

"Talong, the goddess hasn't transformed yet."

"I know that! If she had this ship would have been the most powerful in the universe. Until then . . . " He looked of in the direction that Bulma had left. "I found someone that might help with our weapons. She was able to solve the puzzle with easy."

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Bulma walked back to where she left the others. There was no one there. She walked around. She eventually got lost. She kept walking around hoping that she would find her way back. She didn't recognize anything. She then came to the end of that sections. There was a large door. She heard talking inside. There was a strange language written on it. She stepped up to the door. It opened. Inside it was dark. 'They sure got a thing for the dark.' She walked for a moment then saw it. It was the only light in the entire room and was surrounded with machines. A glass bubble.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________I'm 18. Yeah, yeah, I know, I don't really play that big of a part so why am I doing the preview this time? Well the others were hungry and left me standing here all alone. They'll be back in about an hour. Until then I stuck. Next time Bulma gets caught snooping around. The others are -- (Krillin walks up.)

Krillin:18, you're stuck doing the preview?

18: No, I'm just here to sing and dance. What does it look like? You can take over now. (18 turns to leave)

Krillin: Matte yo! What have you told them so far? (18 sighs and turns around to face him)

18: Bulma got caught, that's it.

Krillin: Nani! Bulma got caught?! And you told?! That ruins it.

18: Oh please, that's not what it is even about! It happens right away! Didn't you read the script?! (Krillin blinks once or twice.)

Krillin: We got a script? (18 fall anime style!)

18: Of course we do! How else do you explain that fact that we somehow win every time! (Not giving Krillin anything to answer.) You know what, I'll finish the preview! The Terrians aren't what they seem! And you and Krillin get to know what happened to Alex. (Turns and leaves but not before she smacks Krillin upside the head.)



Author's notes: I just had to do a funny one! It was too tempting! But you've got admit, it was funny!