In Search of Amity

Period 13

With his hands knitted behind his back Goku strolled through the vacant hallways in the east wing, his mind occupied by many things and one of them being Dendes reclusive behavior from the moment capsule 4 took off, unless there was a group meeting Dende would be no where in sight and Goku felt it were his duty to find out why. Channeling his senses as he wandered he discovered the recluse just a breath away down the path, reaching the spot the sayajin stopped looked around the area carefully for any signs.

"Dende can I speak with you please?" he voiced serenely, hearing his voice echo slightly but there was no voiced response or any sound at all for that matter in return, he couldn't have mistaken Dendes location but ki just doesn't lie that way, unless Dende was deterring him on purpose. Pacing a few steps forward his knee impacted with some kind of metal, looking down to the darkened floor he found a large vent casing leaned up against the wall.

Knitted his eyebrows in confusion he looked above him to find a large ventilation duct molded into the ceiling and a few feet away was a missing casing.

"What the?" he asked himself before going to stand directly under the opening that sat 4 feet above his head.

"Dende are you up there?" he voiced, again there was nothing to indicate the presents of anyone. Seeing as everything pointed to someone being in this precise location Goku bent his knees slightly and leapt up to the vent, his fingers gripping the edge he easily pulled himself up high enough to see what was inside, instantly he felt a cold rush of air blow across his skin.

"Brr man its cold up here!" he exclaimed before reverting back to the problem at hand, Lying right in front of him was Dende, motionless almost corps like except for his chest rising and falling every so often.

"Dende are you alright," he whispered, taking his index and gently poking the Namekian hairless head.

There was a slight twitch from his eyebrow ridges then a shallow nasally breath that made Goku blink with shock, for was in a state that Nameks do not experience, sleep.

"You gotta be kidding me." he said aloud, but before saying another word dropped down to the hallway floor quietly to make minimal disturbance. Suddenly without warning the floor swerved onto a 45 degree angle and Goku stumbled uncontrollably to his right until his shoulder fell hard against the wall

"Ahh what the hell!" he shouted, grasping his shoulder as the ship tilted back the other way and his body went flying into the left wall, this continued until he caught his balance and levitated from the ground.

"What the hell!" the prince growled, floating up from the floor his body didn't impact any walls or sustain any damage, Pan on the other hand was rolling from one side of the floor to the other, her hands dragging across the floor as she tried to slow herself down but to no avail. Finally managing to slow down enough when the ship straightened up, she flew up into the centre of the chamber beside Vegeta.

"What's happening?" she shouted looking around with angst as equipment resistant to the gravity chamber effects came tumbling to the floor.

"Do I look like I know?" Vegeta shouted back then soared down to the controls, trying to verifying if the chamber had turned itself off which it hadn't.

"Lets get out of here now before anything else happens." he advised, flying up and clutching hold of her arm he hauled her swiftly to the door, kicking it out off its hinges with the underside of his boot, outside they found Piccolo and Bra had already arrived and were holding on for dear life to unmovable apparatuses. When the ship turned again to the right everyone was watching in time to see Goten suddenly slide out of one of the rooms on his buttocks, flying past everyone across the floor he used his feet to cushion his stop against the wall he was heading toward.

"I've heard of 'induce nausea' but this is ridiculous." he protested grabbing his mouth quickly with his lips tightly together. As suddenly as it began the shacking and tipping came to a sudden stop as if nothing ever happened, everyone waited a few seconds before letting go and getting to their feet, from the top of the staircase the cockpit door suddenly swung open violently.

"Is everyone aright?" Trunks shouted anxiously.

"I could have been better, what the hell was that." Goten shouted, rubbed his carpet burned rear with both palms; Trunks bit his lip with an overabundance of nerves.

"Well um, we were just testing some piloting skills in case they are ever needed, you know if the pilot is injures or something but next time ill be sure to let you all know before hand ok BYE!" he said waving down to the group who were surrounded by fallen equipment and before anyone had a chance to speak he closed the door quickly behind him, there was a tense pause in the group before Pan started shaking her head unsatisfied.

"Since when does Savarna get to pilot the ship as her training and we get beaten to a pulp." she griped angrily tucking her loose, messy hair behind her ears.

"And have to meditate to the pretzel alter, in pretzel comfort!" Bra added with equal spite, unaware of Piccolos icy glare boring into her head. The language was starting to foal up so Goten stepped in.

"Just calm down a second your all going to train as pilots, Savarna was just first on the list to do so but she will go through the same training as you guys" He pointed out, not wanting things to get ugly. Pan and Bra didn't dispute the subject any further, though they wanted to, they wanted to yell and banter as to why she was treated with more consideration but of coarse the reason was more than clear, she had only the blood of humans flowing through her veins making her the weakest. A puffing Goku came jogging into the foyer holding his chest with one hand.

"Is everyone ok here?" he asked puffing profusely.

"Were fine Dad, you look like shit though" Goten remarked smartly coming to stand beside his father.

"Piccolo, there's, something you have to see, come." The sayajin panted, signaling by hand for the Namek to follow, Piccolo uncrossed his arm with confusion on his face and followed none the less picking up his pace as he went along. Goten looked over to Vegeta for some kind of indication as to what was going on, the prince locked eye with him for only a second before turning away and with a snort and returned to the gravity chamber.

"C'mon girl, I still have you for 6 hours of ass shaping and muscle building before your free to claim your life back from me" he shouted from inside, Pans eyes widened and she naively twisted her head around to observe her rear.

"Lol, you ditz Pan he says that to me all the time and I don't look!" Bra chuckled hysterically, harshly his green talon poked his companions pink shoulder muscle, receiving a low groan and then a total body shivers before steeling down.

"Hmm" Piccolos throat murmured before he dropped down from the vent to the floor.

"Well is he alright or should I get a first aid kit or call Bulma or something!?" Goku demanded with urgency as Piccolo dusted off his shoulders before reaching down for his shoulder weights.

"He's fine, preparing for the conditions on new Namek" Piccolo remarked, slipping the weighted pads over his head and down comfortably onto his breastbone. Goku gave a single long blink lifting his eyebrows higher forming wrinkles in his forehead.

"Come again, what this temperature thing that I haven't heard anything about until now?" his hand twirling around asking for elaboration as he spoke in a calm tone. Piccolo was already in the midst of leaving the room and stopped upon hearing Gokus question, neglecting to turn and face the sayajin he took in a deep breath, exhaling it voluminously.

"Namek is very far from what it used to be, further than you could possibly imagine Goku" he warned before daring to speak any further on the matter, uncrossing his arms he whipped the length of his face with a dry cold palm and then looked down at it to find it covered in his sweat, yet he felt cold from the ventilation shaft air above and around them.

"The air is made up of the fumes from the dead and smoke from the burning, its dark, you never see the sun even during the day, just a faint light like it was permanently an overcastting thunderstorm." He began speaking and walked to the nearest wall, staring into it as though the stars on the other side were visibly.

"Any above ground water is deadly to consume and in some cases touch, animals abandoned the motto of survival of the fittest, now its survival of the last to be assassinated, no trees, grass, rocks or seasons." Mono was the tone he spoke in as Goku listened on hardly taking a breath.

"The ground is so unstable and weak that earthquakes are as common as temperature change, any rain they get is filled with acid burning their flesh so quickly that you melt alive... If I were human and believed in their god Goku, ids say it's the worst parts of the bible." the Namek finished, his anger growing in his heart and throat with every work that went by. Goku was left stunned as Piccolo finally turned to face him, the look in his eyes made it very clear that his comrade was suffering inside more than first thought.

"You weren't just told this were you... you saw it.when you read Dendes mind you saw everything that he saw" No Verbal response came, However the body language from Piccolo was more than enough to confirm the truth to Goku.

The sayajin hands shook against the cloth of his gi bottoms, what passed through his mind was anger at all the pain and fear that the Namekian race was enduring and he didn't get there in time to prevent it, the peaceful and simple farmers and brave, noble warriors were all but vanishing in the blink of an eye. Perhaps worst of all he would never get to see those that he loved most and l, they were already long gone. this for Goku was the most painful factor of all

"Piccolo, I promise you whatever is causing this I will find out what and ill shut it down so help me god, I wasn't there for them for too long, im going to be there for them now" he pledged making a fist and slamming it against the wall on his left.

Thank you for reading.