Disclaimer: I am not a Japanese man who's name I cannot spell, therefore I
cannot possibly own DBZ or any of the DBZ characters.
IMPORTANT: I don't know if the ki signature theory is correct or not but it works in with my plot so it's staying.
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"General Cadd! The subject is back again!" The stout man who bore a striking resemblance to a brick outhouse looked across the small, brightly lit room to Private Bury who practically had his face pressed against the security monitor. "Are you sure? Last time it was just a cat." General Cadd had a hatred of cats which stemmed back to a rather disturbing childhood experience so he was not too pleased to have to deal with anything that resembled a feline in any way. "I'm sure Sir. It's floating about a metre above the ground."
General Cadd had been the commanding officer at the secret military base, hidden deep below the slums of Satan City for some time now. The base was known as the Closet and a lot of sensitive information was kept there. The General was completely dedicated to his job, keeping said base a secret, and he did not appreciate any security breaches. The small floating cat- thing was definitely a security breach.
"Right." He picked up a black phone set into one of the walls and began speaking immediately. " I want all available officers to the surface. The subject has returned. I want it captured alive." He soon started watching the monitors again, watching the cat-thing's progress.
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Puar was tired. She had been roaming around Satan City for days looking for someone to be her new best friend. Returning to the apartment, and to Yamcha, was not an option as her pride would not allow it. It is a little known fact that Puar's pride can rival Vegeta's at times. She floated down a dirty, gloomy street, deserted after the sun set and rain filled clouds began to rule the sky.
I could always shapeshift into human form and find some friends that way.
She considered this as she slipped through a hole in a tall wooden fence which seemed to be supported only by the layers of graffiti that decorated its surface. A compound of concrete buildings, emptied and left to crumble long ago, loomed ahead.
Yeah, but they wouldn't be your friends now would they. They would be friends with your human form.
Floating past the weathered remains of the once impressive building she came to a old tree, what she believed to be the only other living thing in the compound. The interior of the tree was hollow and she found that it made an excellent place to sleep. She had been returning here every night since she had left Yamcha. So far all the people she had met had run away, beleiving her to be some kind of demon.
It doesn't matter anyway. I don't have enough energy to transform into anything. I'm too tired. And too hungry. What the hell was the last thing I ate?
Puar curled up into a small blue ball as the heavens opened up and cast a thousand raindrops on the city below. Thankfully the hollow tree was waterproof. It was not fun when she got wet. She screwed up her tiny nose, a very Vegeta-like move. Just the thought of being wet was unpleasant. Puar knew that she smelt bad if she got drenched. It was like a wet dog smell but about ten times worse. She shuddered, remembering how Yamcha would tease her about it. He meant it in all good fun but it still hurt.
It's not my damn fault that I have fur. And it's no picnic being the smelly one either.
Deep in her misery, she didn't notice the men in army uniforms slowly closing in.
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"Onna! Where are you woman?" Vegeta stalked into the lab bringing the package with him.
"I'm over here!" Bulma's voice rang out from inside what seemed to be a giant oven. "Did Puar like the present? I know it was late but you know, better late than never."
"Fuzzball wasn't there." The prince sat down on a stainless steel stool next to the giant oven, putting the package on the floor.
Bulma's head popped out, grease marks decorated her face. "I wonder where those two went?"
"Yamcha was still there." Vegeta pulled on his left earlobe. It was the only hint to what he was thinking. Bulma worked out long ago that he only did that when he was worried about something. Vegeta hated having people know his weaknesses so she kept this bit of information to herself.
"Why didn't you leave the present with him?" The blue-haired genius eyed the package.
"He was drunk." His permanent frown lines deepened. "He said that Puar had been gone about a week."
"What!" Bulma screeched, "Where did she go? Why isn't Yamcha out looking for her?" She waved a screwdriver above her head in anger. "That idiot!"
"I told you before, he is drunk. Judging by the state of their living quarters he has been for some time. Foolish human."
Suddenly Bulma calmed down, lowering the screwdriver back to whatever she had been doing previously. " Well it not a problem. You can just look for her Ki signature for me." She gave Vegeta a look that gave no room for arguments.
The sayain sighed inwardly. How could someone so smart be so.....dense. "Puar is a shape-shifter. I can't trace her Ki signature."
"What?" For once Bulma was completely confused. "I've asked you to look for her signal before and you've always been able to find her."
"I can never find Fuzzball's Ki. I just traced the human baka. That was how everyone found her."
"Why can't you find her Ki?"
Vegeta growled softly in irritation. "Puar is a shapeshifter. She changes form. Because of this her Ki signature fluctuates."
"Do you mean her power levels change? That shouldn't matter."
"Her power levels change but that's not all." Vegeta reached into Bulma's toolbox and pulled out three different sized spanners. "Imagine this spanner is Gohan." He dropped the smallest spanner on the floor. "This is him as he normally is. The next spanner is Gohan when he is a super sayian." The middle sized spanner fell next to the first. "And the last one is Gohan in SS2." The last spanner made a heavy thunk when it was dropped with the others. "These tools have different power levels, or in this case, sizes. They are still the same thing. They are Gohan, or spanners. They have the same Ki signature."
Bulma nodded, still not sure where Vegeta was going with this.
Reaching into the toolbox again, Vegeta brought out a washer, a bolt and a nut. "These are all Puar. The sizes are different, changing the power level. They are also different things. The bolt is Puar in a human form, the nut a dog and the washer a fish. These three forms have different Ki signatures."
Throwing the three items back into the toolbox, he looked directly into Bulma's eyes.
"I cannot tell where Fuzzball is if I cannot find which signature she is using."
"Wait a second, Why don't you lock on to her normal signature. The one she uses in her normal form. You must know that signature at least."
Vegeta tugged on his earlobe again. "I'm trying to explain this as simply as I can. Puar doesn't have a normal Ki signature. Her power levels are steady but she has the same power level as thousands of humans on this planet so I can't trace her that way. Her normal form has a countless amount of Ki signatures. She flickers through all the Ki signatures that she possesses, mixing them around as she goes. She has a different signature from second to second."
Vegeta sighed as the confused look was still across Bulma's face. "The best way I can explain it to you is to think of a river. The water is her Ki. The currents in the river change the position of the water constantly. The river is never exactly the same."
"Well if that's true then why don't you just look for the Ki signature that keeps changing?"
"That would work if she was away from other lifeforms but as I can't find her she's either in a city somewhere or is dead. The Ki signatures of the humans would camouflage her own changing one."
Climbing out of the innards of the giant oven, Bulma grabbed her cellphone and dialled Roshi's place.
"We're just going to have to look for her manually then."
Someone picked up the other end of the line and they had a brief conversation, ending with an agreement that the search party would be based at Capsule Corporation.
Walking up to the living quarters, Bulma looked across at Vegeta. As soon as he heard the decision that the operation would be based at the CC building, a cold sneer had fallen onto his proud features.
Okay Vegeta, I won't let them know that you actually care. Bulma laughed to herself despite the seriousness of the situation. I still can't believe the nickname you gave Puar. Fuzzball!
"Hey Vegeta."
"What, woman?"
"This whole shape-shifting thing. Does it apply to all shapeshifters?"
"No. Freiza was a shapeshifter and his Ki signature didn't change. It's probably a defence mechanism in Fuzzball's race." Yet again, Vegeta's frown lines deepened.
What the hell was Fuzzball's species anyway?
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Martial Arts Master- Yay! First reveiwer! I can totally see Yamcha with a drinking problem. I mean, he's gone from being a big scary bandit who can take on anyone to being outdone by little kids. (seriously, that's gotta be degrading even if the kids happen to be half sayian.) That's a huge blow to his ego. The main question is though, Are the Z fighters and Co. Yamcha's friends or are they really Puar's?
Dark Evrae and EvilFives555555- thankyou!
Electro Nemesis- Thanks for your opinion! All the references to Puar that I could find were as a 'she' or an 'it' so I'm making Puar a 'she'. Also you put it that he originally intended Puar to be male. The words 'originally intended' implies that Puar was suposed to be, but is now not, a male.
parrakarry123- I'll try to update more often. I hate it when people forget my birthday! (In actual fact, I'm the one who forgets my birthday the most. I have to think very hard to work out that I'm 16)
IMPORTANT: I don't know if the ki signature theory is correct or not but it works in with my plot so it's staying.
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"General Cadd! The subject is back again!" The stout man who bore a striking resemblance to a brick outhouse looked across the small, brightly lit room to Private Bury who practically had his face pressed against the security monitor. "Are you sure? Last time it was just a cat." General Cadd had a hatred of cats which stemmed back to a rather disturbing childhood experience so he was not too pleased to have to deal with anything that resembled a feline in any way. "I'm sure Sir. It's floating about a metre above the ground."
General Cadd had been the commanding officer at the secret military base, hidden deep below the slums of Satan City for some time now. The base was known as the Closet and a lot of sensitive information was kept there. The General was completely dedicated to his job, keeping said base a secret, and he did not appreciate any security breaches. The small floating cat- thing was definitely a security breach.
"Right." He picked up a black phone set into one of the walls and began speaking immediately. " I want all available officers to the surface. The subject has returned. I want it captured alive." He soon started watching the monitors again, watching the cat-thing's progress.
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Puar was tired. She had been roaming around Satan City for days looking for someone to be her new best friend. Returning to the apartment, and to Yamcha, was not an option as her pride would not allow it. It is a little known fact that Puar's pride can rival Vegeta's at times. She floated down a dirty, gloomy street, deserted after the sun set and rain filled clouds began to rule the sky.
I could always shapeshift into human form and find some friends that way.
She considered this as she slipped through a hole in a tall wooden fence which seemed to be supported only by the layers of graffiti that decorated its surface. A compound of concrete buildings, emptied and left to crumble long ago, loomed ahead.
Yeah, but they wouldn't be your friends now would they. They would be friends with your human form.
Floating past the weathered remains of the once impressive building she came to a old tree, what she believed to be the only other living thing in the compound. The interior of the tree was hollow and she found that it made an excellent place to sleep. She had been returning here every night since she had left Yamcha. So far all the people she had met had run away, beleiving her to be some kind of demon.
It doesn't matter anyway. I don't have enough energy to transform into anything. I'm too tired. And too hungry. What the hell was the last thing I ate?
Puar curled up into a small blue ball as the heavens opened up and cast a thousand raindrops on the city below. Thankfully the hollow tree was waterproof. It was not fun when she got wet. She screwed up her tiny nose, a very Vegeta-like move. Just the thought of being wet was unpleasant. Puar knew that she smelt bad if she got drenched. It was like a wet dog smell but about ten times worse. She shuddered, remembering how Yamcha would tease her about it. He meant it in all good fun but it still hurt.
It's not my damn fault that I have fur. And it's no picnic being the smelly one either.
Deep in her misery, she didn't notice the men in army uniforms slowly closing in.
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"Onna! Where are you woman?" Vegeta stalked into the lab bringing the package with him.
"I'm over here!" Bulma's voice rang out from inside what seemed to be a giant oven. "Did Puar like the present? I know it was late but you know, better late than never."
"Fuzzball wasn't there." The prince sat down on a stainless steel stool next to the giant oven, putting the package on the floor.
Bulma's head popped out, grease marks decorated her face. "I wonder where those two went?"
"Yamcha was still there." Vegeta pulled on his left earlobe. It was the only hint to what he was thinking. Bulma worked out long ago that he only did that when he was worried about something. Vegeta hated having people know his weaknesses so she kept this bit of information to herself.
"Why didn't you leave the present with him?" The blue-haired genius eyed the package.
"He was drunk." His permanent frown lines deepened. "He said that Puar had been gone about a week."
"What!" Bulma screeched, "Where did she go? Why isn't Yamcha out looking for her?" She waved a screwdriver above her head in anger. "That idiot!"
"I told you before, he is drunk. Judging by the state of their living quarters he has been for some time. Foolish human."
Suddenly Bulma calmed down, lowering the screwdriver back to whatever she had been doing previously. " Well it not a problem. You can just look for her Ki signature for me." She gave Vegeta a look that gave no room for arguments.
The sayain sighed inwardly. How could someone so smart be so.....dense. "Puar is a shape-shifter. I can't trace her Ki signature."
"What?" For once Bulma was completely confused. "I've asked you to look for her signal before and you've always been able to find her."
"I can never find Fuzzball's Ki. I just traced the human baka. That was how everyone found her."
"Why can't you find her Ki?"
Vegeta growled softly in irritation. "Puar is a shapeshifter. She changes form. Because of this her Ki signature fluctuates."
"Do you mean her power levels change? That shouldn't matter."
"Her power levels change but that's not all." Vegeta reached into Bulma's toolbox and pulled out three different sized spanners. "Imagine this spanner is Gohan." He dropped the smallest spanner on the floor. "This is him as he normally is. The next spanner is Gohan when he is a super sayian." The middle sized spanner fell next to the first. "And the last one is Gohan in SS2." The last spanner made a heavy thunk when it was dropped with the others. "These tools have different power levels, or in this case, sizes. They are still the same thing. They are Gohan, or spanners. They have the same Ki signature."
Bulma nodded, still not sure where Vegeta was going with this.
Reaching into the toolbox again, Vegeta brought out a washer, a bolt and a nut. "These are all Puar. The sizes are different, changing the power level. They are also different things. The bolt is Puar in a human form, the nut a dog and the washer a fish. These three forms have different Ki signatures."
Throwing the three items back into the toolbox, he looked directly into Bulma's eyes.
"I cannot tell where Fuzzball is if I cannot find which signature she is using."
"Wait a second, Why don't you lock on to her normal signature. The one she uses in her normal form. You must know that signature at least."
Vegeta tugged on his earlobe again. "I'm trying to explain this as simply as I can. Puar doesn't have a normal Ki signature. Her power levels are steady but she has the same power level as thousands of humans on this planet so I can't trace her that way. Her normal form has a countless amount of Ki signatures. She flickers through all the Ki signatures that she possesses, mixing them around as she goes. She has a different signature from second to second."
Vegeta sighed as the confused look was still across Bulma's face. "The best way I can explain it to you is to think of a river. The water is her Ki. The currents in the river change the position of the water constantly. The river is never exactly the same."
"Well if that's true then why don't you just look for the Ki signature that keeps changing?"
"That would work if she was away from other lifeforms but as I can't find her she's either in a city somewhere or is dead. The Ki signatures of the humans would camouflage her own changing one."
Climbing out of the innards of the giant oven, Bulma grabbed her cellphone and dialled Roshi's place.
"We're just going to have to look for her manually then."
Someone picked up the other end of the line and they had a brief conversation, ending with an agreement that the search party would be based at Capsule Corporation.
Walking up to the living quarters, Bulma looked across at Vegeta. As soon as he heard the decision that the operation would be based at the CC building, a cold sneer had fallen onto his proud features.
Okay Vegeta, I won't let them know that you actually care. Bulma laughed to herself despite the seriousness of the situation. I still can't believe the nickname you gave Puar. Fuzzball!
"Hey Vegeta."
"What, woman?"
"This whole shape-shifting thing. Does it apply to all shapeshifters?"
"No. Freiza was a shapeshifter and his Ki signature didn't change. It's probably a defence mechanism in Fuzzball's race." Yet again, Vegeta's frown lines deepened.
What the hell was Fuzzball's species anyway?
*&^%$#@*&^%$#@*&^%$#@*&^%$#@ Reader Reviews:
Martial Arts Master- Yay! First reveiwer! I can totally see Yamcha with a drinking problem. I mean, he's gone from being a big scary bandit who can take on anyone to being outdone by little kids. (seriously, that's gotta be degrading even if the kids happen to be half sayian.) That's a huge blow to his ego. The main question is though, Are the Z fighters and Co. Yamcha's friends or are they really Puar's?
Dark Evrae and EvilFives555555- thankyou!
Electro Nemesis- Thanks for your opinion! All the references to Puar that I could find were as a 'she' or an 'it' so I'm making Puar a 'she'. Also you put it that he originally intended Puar to be male. The words 'originally intended' implies that Puar was suposed to be, but is now not, a male.
parrakarry123- I'll try to update more often. I hate it when people forget my birthday! (In actual fact, I'm the one who forgets my birthday the most. I have to think very hard to work out that I'm 16)