Chapter Two: A Trip Through Time
Kuririn was the first to speak.
He backed away from the two
Saiya-jiin in shock. "Kami-sama, how
could you do that? You know
what will happen when the full moon is out!
We'll have two Oozaru
running around trashing Chikyuu!"
"Yeah! Just what we need,
two giant monkeys wreaking
havoc!" Yamucha snorted. Bulma
whacked him alongside the head
with her hand.
"Chill, guys! Gohan wouldn't
do that, would you, Gohan-chan?"
Bulma asked.
Gohan, in shock, was busy examining
his tail in his hands.
"Well, I, uh..."
Vejiita wrapped his tail around his
waist and crossed his
arms. "The brat doesn't know about
the Oozaru transformation! He
doesn't remember from the other times he
transformed. Unlike the
pathetic third class brat, I can control
my Oozaru form." He
sniffed his nose in the air walked away
from the group.
"Vejiita-san, wait." Kami called
out to him. Vejiita stopped
but did not turn around. "I also need
to ask you for a favor."
"What do you want now, Namek-seijiin?
This had better be
worth my time and energy."
Kami continued slowly. "I am
aware that you can control your
Oozaru form. What I am asking you
is to show Gohan and Goku how
to control theirs, as well."
Vejiita turned around and glared at
Kami. "Why would I want
to do that?" He pointed at the young
child. "I could care less for
the gaki! He can destroy this miserable
planet as much as he wants."
He frowned as he realied what Kami asked
of him. "And what about
Kakarotto? You said both of them."
"Actually, as I gave you two back your
tails, I gave all the
Saiya-jiin back their tails."
Gasps of disbelief arose from the others. "What? Nani?"
Kami continued calmly. "I can
give you something else in
return for training the two."
Vejiita crossed his arms and frowned.
"A bribe? You can't
buy the Saiya-jiin no Ouji, Namek-seijiin."
He turned back around
with a snort.
Kami smiled. "But I think this
would be of interest. Does the
name, 'Seiika,' ring a bell?"
The prince stiffened dramatically.
In a flash, he stood in
front of Kami, gripped the front of his
robes, and lifted him off the
ground. He growled in the face of
the green creature. "What do
you know of her? Tell me now, Namek-seijiin
or your life is extinct!"
The others were surprised at the reaction
the one name
could cause in the diminutive male.
Mr. Popo recognized the name
Kami mentioned. "Are you sure about
that, Kami-sama? Do you want
to do this?"
Kami looked over to the black-skinned
male and nodded his
head. Mr. Popo sighed and nodded back.
Kami refocused his
attention on Vejiita, who was getting angrier
with every second he
didn't speak. He spoke quietly.
"Calm down, Vejiita-san. Put me
down, and I'll tell you about Seiika.
And Serori."
Vejiita stared into Kami's eyes, trying
to find the truth
buried within them. Kami returned
the stare with an air of peace
and calm. Vejiita saw what he was
looking for, and set Chikyuu's
guardian down and backed up a few paces.
"Speak, Namek-seijiin.
Now."
Kami sat down at a nearby table, and
motioned for everyone
else to get comfortable. Vejiita snorted
and continued to glare at
Kami, his eyes not wavering. Kami
focused on the Prince and
motioned him to take a seat. Vejiita
stared down the god and finally
consented, with the deepest scowl ingrained
within his features.
"Will you teach Goku and Gohan how
to control the Oozaru
forms?" Vejiita snorted but finally
consented with a small nod.
Bulma spoke with a confused tones.
"Kami-sama, who is this
Seiika and Serori? Fruit and Celery?"
She chuckled a little. "They
almost sound like Saiya-jiin names."
Kami smiled. "Well, you are right,
Bulma-san. They are
Saiya-jiin. And they are on Chikyuu."
Everyone around the table
gasped in astonishment, including Vejiita.
"But I thought Vejiita-sei was demolished
by Friezer. How
can there be any more Saiya-jiin, Kami-sama?"
Kuririn asked
confusedly, albeit with a little fear.
He didn't want to have to worry
about any more Vejiita's or Radiitzu's or
Nappa's running around.
"Because, baka, they were off Vejiita-sei
when it was
destroyed." Vejiita sneered at the
bald monk. His gaze turned
reflective for a moment. "But I had
thought their pod was
destroyed by Friezer's scouter ship."
Kami nodded thoughtfully. "Well,
I believe their pod was
damaged, at least it looked that way when
I saw it enter the
atmosphere."
"But," Bulma asked impatiently,
"who are they? Why did
Vejiita-baka react so strongly to the names?
Especially Seiika's?"
Kami turned to the Prince with a small
smile. "Why don't you
ask Vejiita-san for yourself?" Everyone
turned toward him in
anticipation of the answer to recent question.
Vejiita just 'humphed'
and closed his eyes, ignoring everyone in
the room.
Bulma started to get mad. She
stood and shouted at the top
of her lungs, "Vejiita no baka! Tell
us now or no food for a month!"
Everyone jumped and ducked under the
table. Vejiita just
opened his eyes and scowled in her direction.
"Onna! Must you yell
at all times? Soon I'll be completely
deaf." He sighed and the scowl
momentarily left his face. He spoke
softly. "Seiika is...my sister.
My twin, actually."
Bulma's anger left as fast as it came.
She sat down with an
astonished look on her face. "Your...your
sister? Twin? How?"
Everyone peeked up from underneath
the table and looked in
the direction of the Prince. He scowled
at the attention he was
receiving and scoffed in Bulma's direction.
"I think you can figure
that out, Onna." He spoke in a condescending
manner. "Or would you
like me to explain it to you?"
Bulma blushed furiously and for once
didn't comment.
Chou-tzu, who had been quiet so far, spoke
up in his tinny voice. "So
where are they now, Kami-sama?"
Tenshinhan finished his friend's set
of questions. "And how
strong are they?
Everyone looked at Kami for the answer.
It was a question
that was flashing across everyone's mind.
Kami cleared his throat
and spoke. "Well, they are in Tokyo.
The Nerima district to be
exact. That's where the pod crash-landed."
"There are other Saiya-jiin in Japan?"
Yamucha wondered out
loud. "Why haven't we been able to
sense their ki before?"
"Well," Kami coughed, "I
suppressed their ki so no one could
sense their difference. They were
raised as Humans, by Humans,
and they do not know about their true nature."
"So there are two untrained Saiya-jiin
running around
Tokyo?" Kuririn exclaimed.
Yamucha chuckled ruefully. "I
feel sorry for the citizens of
Tokyo." Others joined in his amusement.
"Actually, they are not untrained,"
Mr. Popo explained. "Both
are trained in the Art. Serori is
the best in his area, and has
accessed some of his Saiya-jiin heritage.
Seiika has been trained,
but not as extensively and aggressively
as Serori. Seiika is now
known as Tendo Akane, and Serori is known
as Saotome Ranma."
The others were quiet as they pondered
this information.
Suddenly Kuririn jumped up. "Saotome?
Ranma? I've heard that
name before! He's supposed to be the
best martial artist in Tokyo!"
Kuririn looked confused for a moment.
"But he's only a teenager. He
couldn't be the same one. Vejiita-sei
blew up when Goku was a baby,
right?"
Kami nodded solemnly. "Yes, the
Ranma that you are talking
about is the same one that is also Serori.
True, he is only a
teenager, but he is the best in all of Tokyo.
Some of his exploits
you may have heard about might be a little
exaggerated, but they
are probably as close to the truth as you'd
get, without going to the
sources themselves. They have had
some wild adventures. And
Ranma has improved his skills with each
encounter."
"Just like a Saiya-jiin," Vejiita smirked.
Kami nodded. "Yes, he does exhibit
some traits. Speed,
agility, and the love of a fight."
Kami chuckled. "I couldn't suppress
everything. Although, Akane, or Seiika,
has shown the spirit of her
true nature quite often."
"What do you mean by that, Kami-sama?" Gohan asked.
Vejiita snorted loudly. "What
the Namek-seijiin means is
that Seiika has a temper." He looked
at Bulma. "And I can bet it's a
rather short and nasty one, too. It
always was."
She just sniffed in return and turned
toward Kami. "So why
are they so young? Shouldn't they
be the same age as Goku and
Vejiita? Seiika...Akane should be
the same age as Vejiita, since they
are twins, correct?"
Kami shrugged his shoulders.
"I do not know why they are
younger. They arrived on Chikyuu a
few years after Goku crashed."
Kami recalled the night with a faint smile
on his wrinkled face. His
gaze drew itself inward as he retold the
night's events. "At that
time, I did not know about Vejiita-sei's
fate. I did know that all
they would cause was trouble. For
when they arrived, they almost
immediately transformed into Oozaru and
started to demolish the
surrounding area. You see, there was
a full moon out when they
landed..." He broke out of his self-induced
trance and looked around.
"It would probably be better if I let you
experience it for
yourselves." Kami stood up and with
a flash, everyone in the room
disappeared.
**********
~Chikyuu, Tokyo, Nerima. Sixteen
years before the present date, or
Several years after Goku's crash-landing~
Four adults crowded in awe and in fear
around a gigantic
crater a rather small, metallic sphere created
when it dropped out
of the sky. The crater that the sphere
rested in was deep, and the
adults had to peer through the dust and
dirt that clouded their
vision to see what had landed in the backyard
of two of the four's
residence.
Without the four Chikyuu natives' notice,
nine beings popped
into existence above the crash site.
They hovered in the air and
observed the reactions of the four on the
ground silently. Kami
spoke in normal tones. "We are merely
observers here. They can
not hear, see, or sense us. Ranma
and Akane have just landed, and
the four adults down there are Tendo Soun
and Kikuko, and Saotome
Genma and Nodoka." He pointed out
each as he spoke. "These will
become Ranma and Akane's adopted parents.
Soun and Kikuko
already have two daughters, and Genma and
Nodoka just lost a son in
the childbirth process."
The others remained silent and watched
attentively as the
four adults on the ground muttered to themselves.
Suddenly, the
hatch on the spacepod opened, and a metallic
voice could be heard
over the wind:
::transport complete. destination--chikyuu
achieved. shutting down cryo-stasis
process.
estimation to reanimation complete:
fifteen
standard minutes. beginning
reanimation now.::
"So, they were cryo-genetically frozen?"
Bulma wondered.
"That would explain why they are so young.
They didn't age while
they were in space."
Vejiita nodded in agreement as he stared
transfixed upon the
scene below him. "All pods were equipped
with the cryo-stasis
process for long-range space travel."
He spoke quietly, his gaze
steady on the scene. "Cryo-stasis
was only activated for extremely
long distances or if something went wrong
with the module."
Everyone remained quiet as they watched
the two males
venture down into the crater to check out
the space pod. The males
walked around the pod, examining it, pointing
out different things to
each other. Suddenly the computer
voice broke through the males'
discussion:
::reanimation process complete.
starting
resurrection process now. estimation
to
complete awareness--one standard minute.::
"Resurrection process?" Kuririn
wondered aloud, as a puff of
gas was released into the air surrounding
the module. The two males
backed away quickly. The females above
them called out to them in
worried tones.
"A gas to wake them up, baka."
Vejiita snorted loudly. He
became quiet, though, when he saw what happened
next. The gas
had dissipated. After a few moments
of tense silence, a small hand
tentatively curled around the edge of the
door and two smoky blue
eyes framed by unruly black hair peeked
above the frame. The blue
eyes quickly disappeared back behind the
door and a set of dark
brown ones replaced the blue.
Vejiita gasped at the sight of the
brown eyes. "Seiika..." he
whispered. Bulma, who was next to
him glanced in his direction at
his hushed word.
More of Seiika's face revealed itself
as she became bolder.
She looked about and stepped out of the
pod, with Serori
immediately right behind her. The
girl, Seiika, wore a deep-purple
dress with gold-threaded accents around
the waist, collar, sleeves
and bottom hem. A thin circle of gold
twisted around her forehead.
The boy, Serori, wore white armor, with
gold accents. A bodysuit
underneath the armor was the same deep purple
as the girl's.
Around both their necks hung a fairly large
pendant. They both had
furry brown tails that were wrapped and
tucked around their waists.
The girl had shoulder-blade length dark
brown hair pulled back at
the nape and the boy had his free, sticking
upwards and outwards,
angling towards the right in three thick
branches. Ranma/Serori
said something to Akane/Seiika and she responded
in a language that
no one understood, except the Prince.
"What did they say?" hissed Bulma.
He floated down to get a better look
at the children. "He
basically asked her if she was messed up
in the head for getting out
of the pod so soon. She told him to
shut up and that she knew what
she was doing." Vejiita gave the two
young Saiya-jiin a small smile
and a shake of his head. "They're
just as I remember."
The floating group watched as the Serori
and Seiika took in
their surroundings. They both suddenly
froze as they saw the four
adults staring at them. Serori stepped
in front of Seiika and called
out in a harsh tone to the adults.
The four adults looked at each
other in confusion, not understanding what
the young male had said.
"He said, 'I am Serori, champion of
Seiika no Oujo of
Vejiita-sei. What is your business?'"
Vejiita explained before he
could be asked.
The two females pushed forward and
made soft sounds to
the two children, beckoning them to come
closer. Serori gave them
a frown and turned toward Seiika.
They talked quietly to each
other, and holding hands, floated out of
the pit and level with the
Humans above them.
The four adults and the two children
stared at each other,
not knowing where to go from there.
The two female adults stepped
forward again but halted their advance when
Serori growled at
them, and flared his aura into the visible
spectrum, a corona of blue
surrounding the young pair. He moved
completely in front of his
Princess and fell into a ready stance, awaiting
any sign of attack.
The males, recognizing what the young boy
was doing, called back
the females. The females complied
reluctantly; when they were
back even with the males, Serori partially
relaxed his stance, and
wiped out his aura. The smoky blue
orbs took in every little detail,
and was aware of everything.
Vejiita watched the reactions of both
groups on the ground.
He noted with pride how Serori protected
his sister, and gave the
males a wide smirk when he heard them mention
the Art. Those
fools don't know how deep they are getting
themselves. Just wait
until they transform.
As soon as he finished that thought,
he noticed that Seiika
had looked skyward and taken note of the
full moon. She gasped
aloud and pulled on Serori's arm.
He turned around and looked in the
direction of where she was pointing.
At once, both children started
to breathe hard and change into their Oozaru
forms.
"They're transforming!" Kuririn
exclaimed, pointing out the
obvious.
Gohan watched in awe and with a touch
of fear as the two got
bigger and hairier, clothes stretching and
pulling to meet their new
bodies' proportions. "Is that what
happened when I looked at the
moon before?"
Kuririn nodded. "You and Goku
both. I imagine Vejiita looked
that way, too, but I didn't see him transform
then." He shuddered a
bit in remembrance. He then glanced
at the moon and then the two
male Saiya-jiin in his presence. "Kami-sama,
why aren't Gohan-kun
and Vejiita transforming now?" Everyone
looked at the child in
question.
Kami explained patiently, "We are not
officially part of this
time. The moon's rays will not effect
them."
Gohan patted his form and shivered.
"I do feel sorta tingly,
though."
"It's just your body's reaction to
the two's transformation,
and the fake-light of the moon," Kami
explained comfortingly. "You
won't change. Not now." Everyone's
attention was brought back
forward when they heard two loud roars.
They had finished the
transformation and were completely Oozaru.
Serori-Oozaru and
Seiika-Oozaru started to methodically rip
the surrounding area
apart; throwing trees, tossing boulders
and anything else that
caught their attention. The four adults
on the ground screamed and
yelled in terror at the sight of the ape-monsters.
The males quickly
started to run away in fear, pulling the
females behind them.
Vejiita laughed at the adults trying
to scurry away from the
rampaging Oozaru. "Don't run, baka!
That'll only get their attention
more!" He roared even louder when
Serori-Oozaru stomped his foot
down in front of the fleeing group, making
them fall and trip over
the gigantic toes. He grasped at his
stomach, he was laughing so
hard.
Bulma 'walked' down to where the diminutive
Prince was
laughing his head off. She smacked
him in the arm, trying to get his
attention. She only hurt herself in
the process. Vejiita did notice
her there, though, and half laughed,
snorted at her. "Don't even try
to injure me, Onna. You'll only succeed
in
hurting yourself."
Bulma rubbed her throbbing hand and
scowled in his
direction. "Then stop laughing at
the Humans!"
He laughed some more. "I'll stop
laughing when they give me
a reason to stop, Onna. And stop ordering
me around!"
"I'll stop ordering you around when you listen to what I say!"
"And that will be never!"
"Fine!"
"Fine!" By this time, the two's
tempers were in full flare and
nothing could get their attention, except
for Gohan's shout.
"Hey, Kami-sama! Here comes...you,
or the young you, I guess.
Boy, that sounds weird."
And indeed, a slightly younger-looking
Kami came barreling
down from the sky and launched a ki blast
at Seiika-Oozaru. She
just batted the blast away and took a swipe
at the flying green
creature. Serori noticed the Namek-seijiin
and bellowed in his
direction. Kami shot another blast
at him, and Serori turned away,
dodging the missile of ki. It did
not hit its target directly, but did,
in fact, neatly slice off his tail.
Serori gave one final deafening roar
and started to shrink
and de-transform. The young-Kami looked
startled at the
detransformation but quickly figured out
what happened. The next
blast was aimed at Seiika's tail directly.
She was busy snarling at
the adults on the ground and did not see
the blast coming. She, too,
started to shrink when her tail was severed.
Young-Kami hung in the
night air and watched Seiika shrink down
to normal size. The adults,
once they saw the two children unconscious
on the ground, slowly
inched their way over to the young Saiya-jiin.
Young-Kami floated down to the group
of people and landed in
a kneeling position in front of the unconscious
ones. The adults
gasped and backed away, thinking that this
creature maybe could
transform, as well, and attack them.
Young-Kami just ignored them
for now and concentrated on the task he
was going to complete. He
placed a hand on each child's head and muttered
something under his
breath. There was a flash of light
and after the adults blinked a
few times, noticed that the green-skinned
creature was standing in
front of them. The females clutched
their corresponding male in
fear.
Young-Kami smiled at them gently, and
spoke in soothing
tones. The words floated up to everyone's
ears. "Don't worry, the
Saiya-jiin will not transform again.
They are exhausted right now,
and are sleeping off the effects of the
night's events." He bent
down and picked the two sleeping children
up. "I have suppressed
their memories and abilities." He
held out the children to the adult
females. "They are only babies.
Would you look after them and
raise them as your own?"
The two females came forward and took
a child each into
their arms. They murmured words to
the toddlers in their embrace,
and turned toward the males, offering them
a glimpse of the
sleeping Saiya-jiin. They looked and
murmured back to the females.
They, in turn, nodded at Young-Kami, accepting
their new charges.
"Thank you, all. Love them as
your own, and everything will be
fine." Kami smiled at them again,
and flew up into the sky. One of
the males shouted something at the disappearing
Namek-seijiin, but
did not receive a reply.
Vejiita floated over to where the adults
and children stood in
a huddle, observing their behavior with
the young Saiya-jiin. Bulma
floated closely behind him. "It looks
like they were, or are, in good
hands," Bulma noted with a smile.
Vejiita just snorted and floated
to where the female was holding Seiika.
He stared intensely at the
adults, and then turned his gaze upon his
sister.
His stare disappeared and it became
an almost loving gaze,
looking her up and down, trying to etch
every detail into his memory.
Bulma came up along side him and watched
the Prince get a longing
look as he tentatively reached out to touch
Seiika's cheek. His hand
passed through her, but she moved in her
sleep as a response,
turning in the direction of his hand.
Vejiita grunted as the ability to
touch was unattainable. Bulma gasped
at the child's reaction and
placed her hand on Vejiita's arm to comfort
him. She leaned her
head against his head and watched as the
Prince ran his hand
through his sister's hair and cupped her
cheek lovingly. Seiika gave
a little sigh in her sleep and the Prince
returned it, albeit it was
louder, and with more longing. Vejiita
mumbled something under his
breath that Bulma couldn't understand and
withdrew his hand,
lingering on the pendant she wore.
Bulma noticed it too, and asked him
about it. "What is that
pendant, Vejiita-san?"
"It is the insignia of the Saiya-jiin.
It marks you as a
Saiya-jiin and shows what your status is."
The pendant that Seiika
wore was a stylized silver 'V', slanted
to the right. There were
three gold rings surrounding the top of
the first prong of the 'V',
and a large red ruby rested at the base.
He pointed out the
different features. "Each ring symbolizes
a class. If there are no
rings, that means you're Third class, like
Kakarotto and his brat.
One ring, Second; two rings is First, and
Three rings means you are
an Elite." He pointed out the large
red stone. 'The stone is what we
call a 'Vartat'. It's very rare and
signifies royalty." Vejiita then
reached behind him, and from nowhere, pulled
out his own insignia.
It was exactly the same as Seiika's, but
a little more battle-worn.
Bulma jumped slightly at the appearance
of the necklace.
Where did he pull that from? She moved
behind him, patting him
down, searching for a hidden pocket.
Vejiita blushed and scowled at
the attention Bulma was giving him and swatted
her away with his
tail.
"Never mind where I pulled it from.
I'll explain about it later,
if I feel like it." He tied his insignia
around his neck and tucked it
into his bodysuit, away from curious and
prying eyes.
She came around to the front again.
"You'd better. If I
didn't know better, you pulled that from
sub-space." He scowled and
turned his attention away from her, crossing
his arms. She smirked
and crossed her own arms and leaned closer
to him. "You did, didn't
you? You can access sub-space!
Why didn't you mention it before?"
He sneered at her. "Why would
I want to, Onna? It's no
concern of yours what I can do or cannot
do." Bulma was going to
start into him, but they noticed that the
adults were leaving. They
turned and watched as both Seiika and Serori
were carried inside
the nearby dwelling.
Vejiita sighed and stared at the lights
that flickered inside
the house. Bulma leaned up against
the sad Prince in a show of
support. "She's still out there, you
know." She spoke quietly. "You
can meet her again when we get back."
Vejiita's expression brightened a bit,
but returned to the
familiar, and safe, scowl as he pulled away
from Bulma's
half-embrace. "Don't worry about me,
Onna. I will do fine on my
own." With that, he crossed his arms
and floated back up to where
everyone was watching the house and the
Prince silently. They all
had seen the stony mask of anger Vejiita
usually wore torn away
when he confronted his long-lost twin sister.
Bulma stared after the scowling Prince
and shook her head.
She floated back up to everyone else and
gave the sulking Prince a
small smile. "Whatever you say, Vejiita-san,
whatever you say." She
turned to Kami. "Are we ready to go
back?" He nodded and there
was another bright flash as everyone disappeared
from the night
sky.
**********
~Kami's Lookout, Chikyuu, Present~
The arrival back in the present was
not as exciting as the
arrival in the past. Everyone was
quiet as they pondered the sights
and information they received in the last
hour or so they were
time-traveling.
Bulma spoke first. "You said
earlier when you gave back
Vejiita-san and Gohan-chan's tails back
that you gave *all* the
Saiya-jiin their tails back, right?"
Kami nodded with a smile. "That I did, Bulma-san."
Gohan spoke next. "Does that
mean Serori and Seiika, I mean
Ranma and Akane, have their tails back,
too?"
Kami nodded again and smiled wider.
"That it does,
Gohan-kun."
Vejiita spoke gruffly. "What
about their memories and
abilities?"
Kami furrowed his forehead in thought.
"Those should be
coming back as well, although they will
come slower than the tail."
He chuckled lightly. "They won't remember
all at once, but when
they wake up in the morning, they will have
a surprise waiting for
them!"
"You mean their tails, Kami-sama?" Kuririn asked.
"Yes, that, and they will be starting
to remember some things
from Vejiita-sei and such. They will
think it was a weird dream, or
something to that extent, but their tails
will tell them otherwise."
"Um, Kami-sama?" Gohan asked
hesitantly. He was holding
his tail in his hands. "When is the
next full moon?"
Kami absently scratched his head.
'It'll be in two days,
Gohan-kun."
"Will that be enough time for me to
learn how to control my
Oozaru form?"
Kami nodded soberly. "It should
be, Gohan-kun." He turned
to Vejiita, who was off to the side.
"Will it be, Vejiita-san?"
He looked up at Kami, and then glanced
at the young
Saiya-jiin. He closed his eyes and
spoke. "Possibly. If the brat
actually trains at it seriously."
Kuririn turned toward the green Namek-jiin.
"What about
Serori and Seiika, I mean Ranma and Akane?
Won't they transform,
too?"
Kami nodded. "Yes they will,
if they look at the full moon.
That is one reason why I wanted to have
Vejiita train young Gohan
here on how to control his transformation.
Hopefully, two Oozaru
with their minds intact will be able to
handle two others without
awareness. Do you think you both can
handle them, Vejiita-san?"
The Prince scoffed and sneered in his
direction. "I don't
need the brat along to handle two rampaging
Oozaru. I am the
Saiya-jiin no Oujii. They will listen
to me no matter what state their
mind is in."
"Even Seiika, Vejiita-san?" Bulma
asked off on the side,
giving him a small smile. Vejiita
just snorted and turned away from
the group.
He called over his shoulder to Gohan.
"Be ready at the crack
of dawn, in the large canyon, brat.
We will begin your training,
then." He turned around and with a
flash, grabbed Bulma and shot
over the edge of the palace, to return to
Capsule Corp.
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~The Expanse of Space, Far Side of Pluto ~
A lone spaceship skirted the edge of
the galaxy, paused, and
set a course for the only inhabited planet
in the galaxy of Sol. A
smaller, blue-tinged, oxygen-rich planet
third from the gaseous ball
of light.
Within the ship's hallowed passageways,
its inhabitants
bustled around in activity. Warriors
trained, scientists studied,
children played, and the captain prepared.
Prepared for what some
may ask? What he prepared for was
the advancement of his race.
For that was what he and his crew and
civilians did; they
advanced their race.
Now, that doesn't sound like a bad way to lead your life.
Actually, it sounds rather admirable.
Advancement for knowledge
and growth always leads to a better life,
doesn't it?
Usually.
But how the crew and the captain of
the battleship, Tokemomu,
accomplished this left a foul taste in many
people's mouths.
They did, indeed, live up to their name.
Assimilate.
For the battleship Tokemonu
was on a mission of mercy, or so
they thought. They were on a mission
to further their race by
capturing the natives of unsuspecting planets
and changing them into
their own race. For they thought
that if you were not a part of
them, you were inferior.
How considerate.
For they were the Kiseichuu Hachi.
And they were on their way to Chikyuu.
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