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/lalala /- means the characters are thinking.
(~ lalala ~)- means I wanted to add something of my own.
Wolverine knew that this was the Professor's way of paying him back. He knew that the Professor must have known about how he felt about the Namek, and he would have to remind himself to thank the Professor and tell him to stop digging around in his head, "It's no problem."
Logan brought Piccolo to his- no, their room after his wound was bandaged. He still couldn't believe that Piccolo was as light as he was. All his muscles deceived his actual weight. Since he was half-dragging Piccolo because he was so short, he just picked him up and carried him the rest of the way up the stairs. Of course, the man fought the fact that he wasn't injured, but indeed ok, and could walk on his own since that is what his legs were for in the first place. Logan was just thankful that no one saw them, otherwise he would have blushed for the first time in his long life.
"Here." Logan opened the door, and gently placed Piccolo on the bed.
"I'm quite capable of walking on my own, if you don't mind. I don't need your help."
"Sure, sure Piccolo." Logan busied himself with picking up what meager possessions he kept in his room, "What kind of name is that anyway?"
"It's Namekian. But I think it's some sort of instrument in English." explained Piccolo. While getting settled in the bed, he took in his surroundings. It was a huge room with a very high ceiling. There was one extremely large window and balcony that let in the afternoon sun, but other than that there was nothing interesting in the entire room, except for the occupant himself who was busy, so Piccolo tried to fall asleep.
"Well, I wouldn't know about the instrument thing. Doc would though. So where's Namek anyway?" asked Logan trying desperately to keep the conversation going.
"Look, I don't want to talk about me, ok. Why do you want to know? You're just making conversation." said Piccolo absently waving his arm around, with the other on a pillow to keep him propped up.
"Yes, that's true I am just making conversation. I do want to know about you because...because the professor wants to learn about you." Wolverine was getting angry. Piccolo didn't have to talk to him like he was lower than he was, "You have the bed, I'm sleeping on the couch. Good-night."
"Thanks, I guess."/ Since when am I nice to anyone, I'm Ma Jr., son of Piccolo Daimou. I'm supposed to be a loner. It's that kid, Gohan, he changed me, I guess it was for the better though. I wonder how that kid's doing anyway. /
"Hey guys! What's up?" Bulma walked into the Kame House and exchanged pleasantries.
"Well, Bulma, um... I can't really explain it to you here. Everyone, lets go back to the portal, and see if we can't do something to get Piccolo back." Goku lead everyone to flying cars, and they made their way to the last place they saw Piccolo.
"What do you think that thing was anyway?" asked Kitty.
"I think we'll have to ask Piccolo that question. I couldn't trace his movements. It was almost like he was moving faster than the human eye." said Scott taking a chair by Jean.
"We will have to have many questions answered once he wakes up." Professor X dismissed the others and was left to his own thoughts of what happened that afternoon.
Piccolo awoke the next morning with both a headache and his shoulder in agony. It didn't help that once he opened his eyes he was greeted with the snoring, drooling form of a bulky Logan. All he could say about the situation was "Argh."
The sudden noise woke up the slumbering man. He, however, was greeted with a bare-chested Namek. What he had to say about his situation was "Hey" which was returned with a raised eyebrow ridge.
/Great...He's up. / sneered Piccolo as he got up to go find a waterfall and get clean.
/Great! He's up! / thought Logan as he too got up to go take a shower and get clean.
"Where can I wash myself?" asked Piccolo stretching and testing his shoulder. / Why is my shoulder hurting so much? I should have just healed on it's own by now. What is it with this place?! It's starting to get on my nerves. /
"There's a shower in the other room." Logan nonchalantly waved his hand over toward the bathroom.
"Oh. An indoor waterfall? I've heard of those."
Logan just looked up and started laughing, "Yeah, sure. An indoor waterfall."
Piccolo was definitely getting to be annoyed with this human, if his shoulder didn't hurt so much, then he would have given that guy something to laugh about, but for the moment all he said was, "Hn."
When Piccolo had finished in the "indoor waterfall" he materialized some clothes, without his usual cape, and turban, for that would upset his shoulder. He never really noticed that his shirt was cut extremely low, providing any and everyone to gaze upon his perfectly shaped pecs and abdomen. However, Logan, who was making his way to the bathroom for his shower, noticed right away and became embarresed when Piccolo asked him what he was staring at.
"Nothing."
Piccolo was walking around the mansion, taking in its immense size. The Professor came up to him and Piccolo asked, "Where are those kids from yesterday?"
"Oh, they are at school."
"What's school?"
The Professor blinked and replied, "It's a place young people go to to be educated. Haven't you ever gone to school?"
"No. I don't think so."
"How old are you?"
"I think I'm 15 or 16. I'm not entirely sure."
The Professor blinked again. "The how are you able to know two languages. Didn't you go to school to learn English?"
"No." Piccolo didn't feel he had to elaborate.
"Hm. Would you like to go to school with the rest of the kids?"
"No. I wouldn't fit in. I'd much rather try to find a way to get back to my dimension. Besides, training is all I do anyway."
"You mean, all you do is fight?"
"Hai."
"I'll bring Logan out here. You can show him what you know. He is the best fighter we have here."
The Professor pushed a small button on his watch and spoke into it saying, "Logan, please come to the East field. I'd like you to help train Piccolo."
A tiny electronic voice appeared a few seconds later. "Sure thing, Charles."
The Professor turned back to Piccolo. "He should be here momentarily. In the mean time, why don't you show me some of your attacks."
"Well, I don't know if you'll be able to see them. I'll just stick with ki blasts you can see."
"What are ki blasts?"
"Well, ki is in everyone. We all have it. You just have to be able to control it, make it do what you want." Piccolo cupped his hands together and a small light started eminating from the very center. "See? This is ki."
"Interesting."
"You can use ki in many different ways. Such as to float." Piccolo made the ball float up into the air directly ahead of Professor X and himself.
"You can also make it larger and smaller." The ball became large then shrunk back down to its original size.
"It is also possible to throw the ball a something, which results in an explosion. This form of ki is the main use that my friends in the other dimension and myself use when fighting. See that small tree over there?" The ball flew towards the tree and it exploded immediately followed by a loud explosion. Once the dust had settled, all that was left of the tree was a small crater.
Wolverine came jogging up. "What happened?"
"Piccolo, here was just showing me some of his attacks. Maybe we should wait till the children return from school. They should be here any minute. It is Friday, so they shouldn't have any homework that needs to be completed right now. Come, we can sit and wait." He turned to Piccolo as they walked inside. "What would you like to eat?"
Piccolo stared back down at him. "I'll just have some water."
"Are you sure, you didn't eat anything yesterday."
"No, I'm fine. Water is all I want right now."
Wolverine walked behind the two and thought / Maybe he's so thin because he doesn't eat anything. Does he have some sort of health problem? Is he anorexic? /
They all sat around the table and made small talk (well, Logan and Professor X were the only ones talking) until, about five minutes later, the kids came running into the mansion.
It was like a flock of elephant had run through. Shoes were thrown here and there. Bookbags carrying mounds of books were tossed into messy rooms. Chatter was a main sound in the mansion until the Professor summoned them to the large living room.
"X-Men, I would like you all to go to the danger room and..."
There was collective sigh.
"Aw...come on Professor. We just got home from school. It's friday." whined Kurt.
"Yeah, don't make us go through one of Logan's training exercises so early!" complained Kitty.
"Let me finish children. As I was saying, I would like you all to go to the danger room. I would like you to view Piccolo's powers, maybe he can help on some missions."
Everyone looked over to the Namek currently standing in the doorway.
"Let us go, shall we?" the Professor said as he moved beyond the Namek and into the hallway leading to the danger room.
When the X-Men came to the room, everyone but Logan and Piccolo came up to the observation tower to look out on Piccolo as he went through the level.
"Okay, you'll be going through the same exercises the kids go through. If you can make it through their's then you can start on my routine. Got it kid?"
Piccolo looked a little annoyed at being called a kid, "Whatever, let's get this over with."
Logan looked at him, strangely. / Maybe he doesn't know how hard the level will be./ "Look kid, this isn't a walk in the park. Some of the other mutants haven't been able to get past this level."
"I'll breeze through this. How do you say it? No sweat?"
A laugh, "Yeah sure, kid." Logan then left to go to the observation tower.
Piccolo was left alone in the white room with nothing but silence.
The room became darker...
Piccolo levitated into his meditative lotus position and closed his eyes. Concentration clear on his face.
His sensitive hearing picked up movement.
He let the footfalls become closer and closer. He estimated there to be about 40 of them.
As he slowly opened his eyes, he found himself face to face with armed foot soldiers.
Sorry this took so long to come out. The next part will be a while since I have SOLs to finish. Thank you to everyone who had reviewed! You guys are great! Domo arigato.
/lalala /- means the characters are thinking.
(~ lalala ~)- means I wanted to add something of my own.
Wolverine knew that this was the Professor's way of paying him back. He knew that the Professor must have known about how he felt about the Namek, and he would have to remind himself to thank the Professor and tell him to stop digging around in his head, "It's no problem."
Logan brought Piccolo to his- no, their room after his wound was bandaged. He still couldn't believe that Piccolo was as light as he was. All his muscles deceived his actual weight. Since he was half-dragging Piccolo because he was so short, he just picked him up and carried him the rest of the way up the stairs. Of course, the man fought the fact that he wasn't injured, but indeed ok, and could walk on his own since that is what his legs were for in the first place. Logan was just thankful that no one saw them, otherwise he would have blushed for the first time in his long life.
"Here." Logan opened the door, and gently placed Piccolo on the bed.
"I'm quite capable of walking on my own, if you don't mind. I don't need your help."
"Sure, sure Piccolo." Logan busied himself with picking up what meager possessions he kept in his room, "What kind of name is that anyway?"
"It's Namekian. But I think it's some sort of instrument in English." explained Piccolo. While getting settled in the bed, he took in his surroundings. It was a huge room with a very high ceiling. There was one extremely large window and balcony that let in the afternoon sun, but other than that there was nothing interesting in the entire room, except for the occupant himself who was busy, so Piccolo tried to fall asleep.
"Well, I wouldn't know about the instrument thing. Doc would though. So where's Namek anyway?" asked Logan trying desperately to keep the conversation going.
"Look, I don't want to talk about me, ok. Why do you want to know? You're just making conversation." said Piccolo absently waving his arm around, with the other on a pillow to keep him propped up.
"Yes, that's true I am just making conversation. I do want to know about you because...because the professor wants to learn about you." Wolverine was getting angry. Piccolo didn't have to talk to him like he was lower than he was, "You have the bed, I'm sleeping on the couch. Good-night."
"Thanks, I guess."/ Since when am I nice to anyone, I'm Ma Jr., son of Piccolo Daimou. I'm supposed to be a loner. It's that kid, Gohan, he changed me, I guess it was for the better though. I wonder how that kid's doing anyway. /
"Hey guys! What's up?" Bulma walked into the Kame House and exchanged pleasantries.
"Well, Bulma, um... I can't really explain it to you here. Everyone, lets go back to the portal, and see if we can't do something to get Piccolo back." Goku lead everyone to flying cars, and they made their way to the last place they saw Piccolo.
"What do you think that thing was anyway?" asked Kitty.
"I think we'll have to ask Piccolo that question. I couldn't trace his movements. It was almost like he was moving faster than the human eye." said Scott taking a chair by Jean.
"We will have to have many questions answered once he wakes up." Professor X dismissed the others and was left to his own thoughts of what happened that afternoon.
Piccolo awoke the next morning with both a headache and his shoulder in agony. It didn't help that once he opened his eyes he was greeted with the snoring, drooling form of a bulky Logan. All he could say about the situation was "Argh."
The sudden noise woke up the slumbering man. He, however, was greeted with a bare-chested Namek. What he had to say about his situation was "Hey" which was returned with a raised eyebrow ridge.
/Great...He's up. / sneered Piccolo as he got up to go find a waterfall and get clean.
/Great! He's up! / thought Logan as he too got up to go take a shower and get clean.
"Where can I wash myself?" asked Piccolo stretching and testing his shoulder. / Why is my shoulder hurting so much? I should have just healed on it's own by now. What is it with this place?! It's starting to get on my nerves. /
"There's a shower in the other room." Logan nonchalantly waved his hand over toward the bathroom.
"Oh. An indoor waterfall? I've heard of those."
Logan just looked up and started laughing, "Yeah, sure. An indoor waterfall."
Piccolo was definitely getting to be annoyed with this human, if his shoulder didn't hurt so much, then he would have given that guy something to laugh about, but for the moment all he said was, "Hn."
When Piccolo had finished in the "indoor waterfall" he materialized some clothes, without his usual cape, and turban, for that would upset his shoulder. He never really noticed that his shirt was cut extremely low, providing any and everyone to gaze upon his perfectly shaped pecs and abdomen. However, Logan, who was making his way to the bathroom for his shower, noticed right away and became embarresed when Piccolo asked him what he was staring at.
"Nothing."
Piccolo was walking around the mansion, taking in its immense size. The Professor came up to him and Piccolo asked, "Where are those kids from yesterday?"
"Oh, they are at school."
"What's school?"
The Professor blinked and replied, "It's a place young people go to to be educated. Haven't you ever gone to school?"
"No. I don't think so."
"How old are you?"
"I think I'm 15 or 16. I'm not entirely sure."
The Professor blinked again. "The how are you able to know two languages. Didn't you go to school to learn English?"
"No." Piccolo didn't feel he had to elaborate.
"Hm. Would you like to go to school with the rest of the kids?"
"No. I wouldn't fit in. I'd much rather try to find a way to get back to my dimension. Besides, training is all I do anyway."
"You mean, all you do is fight?"
"Hai."
"I'll bring Logan out here. You can show him what you know. He is the best fighter we have here."
The Professor pushed a small button on his watch and spoke into it saying, "Logan, please come to the East field. I'd like you to help train Piccolo."
A tiny electronic voice appeared a few seconds later. "Sure thing, Charles."
The Professor turned back to Piccolo. "He should be here momentarily. In the mean time, why don't you show me some of your attacks."
"Well, I don't know if you'll be able to see them. I'll just stick with ki blasts you can see."
"What are ki blasts?"
"Well, ki is in everyone. We all have it. You just have to be able to control it, make it do what you want." Piccolo cupped his hands together and a small light started eminating from the very center. "See? This is ki."
"Interesting."
"You can use ki in many different ways. Such as to float." Piccolo made the ball float up into the air directly ahead of Professor X and himself.
"You can also make it larger and smaller." The ball became large then shrunk back down to its original size.
"It is also possible to throw the ball a something, which results in an explosion. This form of ki is the main use that my friends in the other dimension and myself use when fighting. See that small tree over there?" The ball flew towards the tree and it exploded immediately followed by a loud explosion. Once the dust had settled, all that was left of the tree was a small crater.
Wolverine came jogging up. "What happened?"
"Piccolo, here was just showing me some of his attacks. Maybe we should wait till the children return from school. They should be here any minute. It is Friday, so they shouldn't have any homework that needs to be completed right now. Come, we can sit and wait." He turned to Piccolo as they walked inside. "What would you like to eat?"
Piccolo stared back down at him. "I'll just have some water."
"Are you sure, you didn't eat anything yesterday."
"No, I'm fine. Water is all I want right now."
Wolverine walked behind the two and thought / Maybe he's so thin because he doesn't eat anything. Does he have some sort of health problem? Is he anorexic? /
They all sat around the table and made small talk (well, Logan and Professor X were the only ones talking) until, about five minutes later, the kids came running into the mansion.
It was like a flock of elephant had run through. Shoes were thrown here and there. Bookbags carrying mounds of books were tossed into messy rooms. Chatter was a main sound in the mansion until the Professor summoned them to the large living room.
"X-Men, I would like you all to go to the danger room and..."
There was collective sigh.
"Aw...come on Professor. We just got home from school. It's friday." whined Kurt.
"Yeah, don't make us go through one of Logan's training exercises so early!" complained Kitty.
"Let me finish children. As I was saying, I would like you all to go to the danger room. I would like you to view Piccolo's powers, maybe he can help on some missions."
Everyone looked over to the Namek currently standing in the doorway.
"Let us go, shall we?" the Professor said as he moved beyond the Namek and into the hallway leading to the danger room.
When the X-Men came to the room, everyone but Logan and Piccolo came up to the observation tower to look out on Piccolo as he went through the level.
"Okay, you'll be going through the same exercises the kids go through. If you can make it through their's then you can start on my routine. Got it kid?"
Piccolo looked a little annoyed at being called a kid, "Whatever, let's get this over with."
Logan looked at him, strangely. / Maybe he doesn't know how hard the level will be./ "Look kid, this isn't a walk in the park. Some of the other mutants haven't been able to get past this level."
"I'll breeze through this. How do you say it? No sweat?"
A laugh, "Yeah sure, kid." Logan then left to go to the observation tower.
Piccolo was left alone in the white room with nothing but silence.
The room became darker...
Piccolo levitated into his meditative lotus position and closed his eyes. Concentration clear on his face.
His sensitive hearing picked up movement.
He let the footfalls become closer and closer. He estimated there to be about 40 of them.
As he slowly opened his eyes, he found himself face to face with armed foot soldiers.
Sorry this took so long to come out. The next part will be a while since I have SOLs to finish. Thank you to everyone who had reviewed! You guys are great! Domo arigato.