Alright so summer is finally here and I have just a little more time on my hands; hopefully I'll get some of these stories out, and maybe not get so lazy. To do this I'm setting goals for myself so wish me luck. The upside is I have a new computer and I'm only taking two classes this summer.
Alright so like most of my stories, this one is not a solo accomplishment. A few will come straight from my mind later, but right now they will be co- worked upon. I work on them with my best friend who's pen name is in the processes of changing and I currently don' know it. I don't know what I'd do with out her. So if you' re still here you can read the disclaimer.
Disclaimer: I don't own Dragonball Z. I also don't own a character used in a later chapter. Another disclaimer will appear in that chapter as to not ruin the surprise of his appearance.
Another note: here as to avoid people telling me that my story is a A.U., and they need to be told before they read the story. I just have one thing to say: considering the fact that Fanfiction has the word fiction in it, will pretty much mean it's not going to follow the exact story line.
This story is also focused mostly on Gt/Mar and Gh/Vid. The only other couple that will be in here...well, that also will be posted later. Surprises people!
So here it goes the first story that Kawaii Marron 17 and I have finished, rewritten, and hopefully it's entertaining . So enjoy and you know what to do at the end, review please!
Playboys of the Outer Rim
Chapter: 1
Ring of the Bell
It was a dull day, the kind of day that makes the suicide rates go up. It was dark gray outside on the planet Earth. The sky was threatening to rain, but the clouds refused to cry. This was not at all important to the people of West City. They continued to go about their day as they would normally. Only the 'crazies' were out on the street claiming that the dooms day was here or the sky was angry and preparing to fall. This was a normal day for most people. The citizens of in West City never paid attention to the comings and goings of strangers, and are more worried about their own lives. Of course, why should they worry about what's to come when they're content with their lives in the present moments. Greed, lust, and power drove the people in West City, and lust just happened to be getting one man in a small spaceship parts shop down town in a lot of trouble with two young girls...
Videl Satan leaned forward onto the counter of a small parts shop allowing the store clerk to openly ogle her. She was appalled at her actions, but couldn't help but feel a little satisfied that this guy was making it completely easy to rob him blind. A year ago she would never be here allowing this guy to stare down her shirt, but she figured that was probably Marron's fault. Ever since Marron McBane and Videl Satan met, Marron started to teach Videl the tricks of the trade. The year had been eventful for the duo. They had raised a bounty for themselves, under false names, and that alone made it almost impossible for bounty hunters to find them. The ones that happened to come up against these two thieves were in for a shocker. They didn't look it, but they were strong and pretty clever they've had to be to not have gotten caught in the last year. Marron did everything in her power to keep from getting caught, while Videl would be happier to seek out her own revenge.
"Marron what's taking so long?" Videl asked getting rather annoyed as she pushed her long wild black hair over her shoulder, and began to drum her nails on the counter. She then noticed the small amount of drool escaping the clerk's mouth. Videl rolled her blue eyes. "Marron we have to be in Satan City in at least a week, or my father will kill me. Do you really want to lose your partner?"
"Kid calm down..." Marron emerged with a fairly large bag of capsules. A smirk was brought to the blondes face as she saw the scene before her. Her blue eyes danced with mirth.
"Hey, should I leave you to take care of your friend there?"
"One day I'll kill you." Videl threatened her blonde friend. It was an empty threat; they both knew that.
Marron just smiled sweetly, and her smile grew as Videl jumped the counter and held the guy by the throat with the tip of her knife. She had to take a little pride in Videl's work, after all, she taught Videl all she knew. The only problem seemed to be Videl's refusal to use a gun. Videl hadn't killed anyone and refused to. Marron had yet to work the idea in Videl's head that if it comes to herself or a victim living, it was ok for Videl to chose herself. Oh well, she'll come around eventually.
Videl tossed the bag of money, she had collected from the frightened little man, to Marron. She then cuffed the clerk to the pipe against the wall, and kneed his happy little 'friend' for a small bit of pay back for her self mortification. She hopped back over the counter, and she was pleased with her own work. To say the least, Videl had a problem with men.
"So are we done now?" Videl was less than impressed with Marron's little stop. In Videl's mind it was a waste of time, and she wasn't happy about it. While they needed the parts Videl could easily fix the ones they had, and there wasn't a real need for brand new parts, but hey in the world today the new the better right?
"Yes, but remind me why we had to come to the Outer Rim...Earth of all places."
"You know why. Lets get out of here."
Both girls made their way to the door. Marron turned back around and blew the whimpering clerk a kiss and winked at him before she flipped a small gold coin to him. Videl couldn't help but roll her eyes at her partner. Marron always insisted on putting on a show.
Their attention was brought quickly to the door as a bell rang above the door brought the thieving duo's attention to two young men about their ages. They were conversing with each other so they didn't notice Marron and Videl dart into the aisle.
"We wait till they pass, they're so caught up in there own conversation that they won't notice till the bell rings and then we break and split up just in case they decide to play the hero."
Videl nodded in agreement and kept alert; half listening to the guys conversation.
"How are we supposed to get the parts we need for our ship, we have no money."
"Goten will you just shut up, for once in your life."
"Gohan all I'm saying is that..." Goten Son ran a hand throw his black hair, "There's a man hand cuffed over there."
Gohan Son the elder of the two stepped toward to counter where the store clerk was cuffed and rambling. Gohan couldn't make sense out of the man. He reached down with one hand to pull the man to his eye level. "What happened?" Was Gohan's blunt response and attempt to silence or make sense of the clerk.
"We should go." Videl whispered to Marron as Videl received a nod in response.
"Hey what's this?" Goten saw the small coin on the floor, picked it up and looked at it. There was a girl winking at him on one side, and the other side had another girl who looked quite evil, Gohan was ignoring Goten, so he slipped the coin in his pocket.
"You and those stupid coins...now come on lets get out of here...without a scene." Videl hissed causing Marron to pout.
"Fine I'll be good this one time, but only cause I like you." Marron winked at her partner and tapped Videl's nose.
Videl sighed. She was seriously contemplating what life would be like without Marron. When she decided that it would be dull and boring; shortly Videl agreed with herself, Marron wasn't so bad. At least life with Marron kept her on her toes.
Videl and Marron made a break for the door as the two brothers' attention was on the clerk, who was telling a horrendous lie about how five guys who came beat him then robbed him. Videl throw open the door causing the bell to ring once more.
The clerk forgetting his pride and yelled as Marron and Videl split in the street. "That's them; they robed me."
Gohan cocked his eyebrow, "What happened to the five guys?"
"I...um..."
Gohan couldn't really have cared less. They needed the parts to fix their ship, and at the moment he had an advantage over the poor clerk. "Listen, I have a proposition for you..."
Goten, however, wasn't waiting. He felt that he needed to correct the injustice done as he took off into the street. Quickly, he choose to turn right, following the blonde sprinting down the main street. It was rather crowded for such a gloomy day, and the youngest Son was having a lot of trouble getting by them at a safe speed.
Marron couldn't comprehend why this guy was after her. It wasn't like she was stealing something she wanted, or even stealing just for kicks. They needed to fix their ship and she believed they needed new parts to do that, so it was a need. Videl had run them into an unfriendly part of the Outer Rim, and their ship had taken some bad hits. That was understandable right? Ok, so they did hold the clerk at knife point and take his cash but hey they left him alive. Besides they were thieves. It was their way of life, but that didn't make it right for this goodie, goodie here to chase her down.
She had run in a circle and some how ended back in front of the parts shop. She ran into a wall, that she didn't remember being there before, and fell to the ground. Thinking briefly, she had ran into walls before and she remembered them to be a lot softer then what she hit. Looking up she realized she had run right into the man she was running from. She thought she must have gotten really turned around. It was then that she recognized her chaser. He had a nice reputation attached with his brother's. She always tried to make sure she knew the bounty hunters that could pose a problem, and these two where some of them. For a while neither moved, both unsure as to why. Then with out warning Marron pulled one of her guns out from it's hidden position, and fired rapidly. The crowd screamed and cleared fearing for their own lives, which caused Goten to become distracted. The bullets weren't going through, but they were being embedded into his skin, and it was just enough pain to stop him from chasing Marron any farther.
Marron was gone by the time Gohan emerged from the shop with a handful of capsules.
"Goten you shouldn't concern yourself with local low lives...they're worth nothing ans somehow you always end up hurt." Goten was in too much pain from being shot in the chest, so much so that he couldn't come up with a smart ass remark to throw out. He knew it wasn't anything too serious, but it sure as hell hurt.
Gohan just shook his head. His brother didn't use common sense all the time. He was always rash, and that was definitely one of their fathers' traits. Gohan calmly walked over to the heap that Goten was in, bent down, grabbed his younger brother by the collar, and dragged him away.
The day had been interesting.
Videl made her way back to the ship with no problems however she found Marron there waiting for her.
"Okay Viddy-dumpkins quiz time...who were they?"
"I have no clue." Videl crossed her arms and sat down to find a huge shirt laying next to her. She slipped it on which made a nice contrast with her blue and green pleated mini skirt.
"Tisk, tisk Rookie, you haven't been studying..." Marron teased her younger partner. Videl was only seventeen, two years younger, but far less experienced. Marron has been in the business since she was little. Marron, her former partner, Katrana who ran off to be with a bounty hunter, and Marron's mother all started to search for their family members ten years ago. Marron was searching for her father while Marron's ex-partner was searching for her two younger brothers. Now Marron is nineteen and never found her family. She lost her mother years ago looking for them. "They're the Son boys, Gohan and Goten. Lets just hope to never run into them again...luckily the eldest, I believe Gohan, didn't seem interested in us."
"Let's hope because we can't have any trouble this next week. My dad isn't the brightest, but I'm sure he might get suspicious if we have bounty hunters chasing us." Videl turned her attention to the T.V. It was fairly boring. She badly wished to be somewhere else. Preferably fixing their ship up properly, so they can get off of the planet as soon as possible after the week was up. She sighed as Marron began to scold Videl for not being on top of this, and needing to be more attentive. Videl was only half listening to her partners rants. That may be what Marron was talking about.
Goten wasn't in any serious danger, it just hurt. None of the bullets were deeper then an inch into his skin, but that was surprising from the short distance they traveled. He was unsure of how many there were, but he knew there had to be quite a few. He wished Gohan would hurry up with that first aid kit. Goten needed to distract himself from the pain of the now forming bruises around the bullets. He blamed himself and it hurt his pride. He let his guard down, and didn't anticipate the gun.
He couldn't sit. It hurt too much. He tried to reach for the remote, but it was too far away. So he just lied on the couch praying for Gohan's return with the damned box. What seemed like hours of pain to Goten waiting for his brothers return was only a minute he really could be impatient at times.
Gohan set the first aid box down on the floor, and sat in a chair next to the couch to watch the local bounty channels.
Goten sighed. He guessed it would be awhile before Gohan decided to remove the painful balls of metal.
"What are you doing? "Goten was ignored, so he tried to reach for the first aid box, and perform some self removals. Instead all he accomplished was falling to the floor and causing more pain.
He then had to roll over so he was on his back.
Gohan blissfully ignored his younger brother's pain. "Most likely they wouldn't even be worth our time."
"Anyone's worth our time right now. We're broke Gohan." Goten moaned in pain from just talking. It would be wise for him not to move and just wait for Gohan to come to his senses and remove them; however, wise was not a word to describe Goten Son. Goten just groaned and gave up for the time being. His bullet holed shirt was covered in blood, and currently was covering the nice shades of purple, green, blue, black, and yellow of his skin from the blood clotting. Goten was able to turn his head just enough to see the T.V.
He blinked... "No!"...he blinked twice...then painfully reached into his pocket to remove the small coin he found earlier. He looked at it, then back to the T.V. He couldn't believe his eyes.
"Gohan, that's them...or her rather, the blonde was the one I went after."He sat up to see the T.V. better...bad move, bad, bad move.
"WHAT?!" Gohan exclaimed, but not from what his brother said. It was the price on their head that caused Gohan to yell."You're shitting me!"
"I don't think a T.V. can shit anyone..." Goten was in shock, too so much that he remained sitting, and forgot the pain he was feeling. He soon regretted that as he passed out from the pain, shock, embarrassment, shock, and pain.
Marron Consia and Katrana Satan were worth 2.5 million a piece. Gohan was resembling a fish, as he reach over and pried the coin from Goten's hand. It was them alright, and Gohan was really kicking himself for not going after those two now.
Videl finally got away from Marron's rants, and was currently entangled in wires and metal. This is where Videl was happy, it was her way of coping with the world.
"They've upped our bounty again." Marron leaned on the doorway of the engine room. "Those monkeys will be on our trail if they see this."
"Monkeys...aren't all the Saiyans dead? Something about their home planet exploding, or imploding?" Videl continued to work she didn't like the sound of this.
"Most of them, very few survived, and these two are half Saiyians. I believe at least. You might want to prepare yourself in case of another encounter. They're supposed to be two of the best out there." Marron's voice was harsh but changed quickly as she met Videl face to face, "Go rest bunny! We have much to do!"
'Bunny?!?' Marron had finally lost it.
Right so I gave half of the story to Kawaii Marron 17, and she went giddy on me. I feel I have to give a little credit to Cowboy Bebop since watching that with Kawaii Marron 17 gave us the original inspiration for the story. Ok so here' a preview of:
Playboys of the Outer Rim
Chapter: 2
Food Glorious Food!
When she turned around, he couldn't see her face. Her thick black hair was blocking it from view. She didn't take his hand, but stood on her own. She pushed her hair out her way, quickly wrapping a rubber band in it creating a low ponytail. She then got a good look at the man in front of her, and joined in acting like a fish. They stared for a few minutes before either spoke. Neither managed much but they spoke, or rather yelled, in unison.
"YOU!"
It wasn't a dull day that was for sure.
Alright that's it for now. Be kind and please review. Thanks for reading the whole chapter. I'm done for now next Chapter hopefully will be out at least by a month after this is posted. This is Marie Marko saying goodbye, and please remember to review.
P.S. Reformatted to make for an easier read; sorry for those who read early and had to deal with the difficulties.
