In Search of Amity

Period 24: The Mole Hole


Vegeta's eyes widened, to say his reaction was at the speed of light would be an understatement, his hands gripping the control stick so fiercely that it cracked then shattered between his fingers. Everyone went hurtling into their restraints and Goku went flying head first through the viewing window with an ear-shattering crack of glass.

The ships internal sensors detected the abrupt stop and interpreted it as a false start, thus it automatically shut down everything but life support and emergency lights. The cockpit was quiet and motionless apart from dusk filling the room, Trunks lifted his head from control panel slowly, and his matted hair falling around his face; blood suddenly runs down the bridge of his nose from a slash on his forehead.

"Ah shit." he hissed, patting the would with his fingers, he stopped and looked up to find glass all over the panel and then saw the hole in the viewing window, standing he looked through it and spotted Goku slowly standing up from the ground, broken glass stuck to his clothes and surrounding his feet. "Goku hold up!" He shouted and exited through the hole to attend to him.

Inside the ship Savarna lifted her head to find the room full of dust, straight away she tried to rise but found herself barricaded by a heavy force, looking down she found Dendes arm wrapped around her abdominal area. "Let me up." She said with panic in her voice, grasping his arms she tried to loosen his grip with her slender fingers, it was useless.

"You need healing first.," he said refusing to remove his arm. "What healing im fine let me go." she stressed and moved forward in her seat. "Listen to me, you need it." Dende pressed on and motioned his eyes down toward her legs, she followed his gaze and gasped when she found her legs had multiple slashes with pieces of glass lodged in.

"Oh god I cant feel it have my nerves been severed, can I walk?" she said frantically, watching the blood seeped from the slashes onto her feet. "No your nerves aren't severed, hold still and ill fix it… stop wriggling." Dende told her, reaching down he placed his open palm over her kneecaps, Savarna watches as a golden aura emits from under his hand to spread flowingly around her legs, it felt warm and the slashed parts of her skin tingled gently. The aura vanished like a puff of smoke and Dende removed his hand, Savarna leaned down smoothing a hand over both legs to find the skin healed and shocked that hair had began sprouting back through. With her mouth hanging open, she looked to Dende as he stood to assist others who may need him.

Goten had managed to slide under the control panel and avoid injury, slipping out he stood and observed the cockpit, he sighted Gohan lying unmoving in his seat, blood running from a large slash in his neck onto Pans shoulder who sat beside him, still unconscious. "Gohan!" he cried and bolted to his brothers side, unbuckling the restraints that held him, then slapping his cheeks with the back of his hand to rouse him.

Gohan's eyes flicked open. "What the hell, ah Jesus crist!" he moans from the searing sting coming from his neck, Pan had also awoken to find blood soaked into the shoulder of her top. "Dad hold still ill get Dende!" She said and hurried to unbuckle her restrains. "Dende hurry my dads bleeding bad over here, help!" Pan called to Dende a few rows back, the Namek nodded and leapt across two rows and to Gohan side, applying the same tactics he had to Savarna he healed the man.

"You almost killed us what the hell were you thinking!" Bra shouted at Vegeta, he turned to her with anger in his eyes. "Don't question me girl, I am doing what was necessary so instead of whining just shut up and get off this ship." He ordered and vacated through the broken viewing window, making his way across to the door market with an exit in the opposite wall.

Trunks stopped brushing glass off Goku's Gi when he saw his father leaving, starting to follow him intending to start have words; Goku reached out grasping him by the shoulder. "Don't start that now, make sure everyone is safe first… its not worth it Trunks." He said hoping to make sense, trunks shrugged Goku's hand off and walks back toward the ship, stopping when he notices the ships main entrance door in lying open.

Goku had simultaneously noticed this also; both looked at each other for a moment confused by this sight, then each mans eyes widened slightly when they realised. "Piccolo!" Goku and Trunks called through the bay but no answer came, which was not surprising in the least. Trunks shook his head. "He won't answer Goku you know what he's like" he commented with eyes scanning the room, Goku nodded "Yes, you don't call for Piccolo, he shows up." he stated shaking his head.

Goten gently lowers Savarna down to the floor from the viewing window. "Where's my dad did anyone see him come out?" she calls running up to Goku and Trunks. "He probably walked out before we all regained consciousness, I don't sense him on the ship anywhere." Goku said solemnly but Savarna shook her head. "No he wouldn't just leave us there like that, he, he couldn't of." She says with all hopes that what was being implied was a mistake.

"Come we need to be out of here like Vegeta said, he will turn up Sav' I promise he will." Gohan said with a comforting smile and hand placed gently on her upper back, though he had his reservations about Piccolo, he hid well. As everyone vacated the cockpit Trunks took this chance to retrieve his sword form the cargo bay, they may need it in this place. "Got it lets go" Trunks said running from the ship, following the route Vegeta took they exited the cockpit and found themselves in a long glass walkway, from inside you could see hundreds of other docking bays with identical walkways that led from them, it was much like a space age airport. Savarnas eyes searched the walkways from Piccolo but only fell upon foreign aliens and humanoids.

"This place is amazing, how can they build so much on such an unstable surface." Goten comments with awe, eyes unable to leave the view. "Electricity most likely or some kind of technique that doesn't exist on earth, and that your mom hasn't discovered yet." Gohan chuckled, elbowing Trunks arm, and he nods in return.

They had walked at least 200 metres and come upon a strangely shaped door, it had a number of panels that all met in the centre, Goku lifts an eyebrow at and then sees a small thumb sized panel on the side wall, pressing it the door opens in a circular fashion starting from the middle. Leading on everyone steps out to find them in a huge, noise hallway full of creatures and shop front stalls.

"Whoa now this is not your everyday place." Goten said stepping forward without regard, bumping into a stout alien covered in red feathers and spikes. "Cocha bul smoota!" it says in a raspy voice and continues walking. "Uh s…sorry sir." Goten babbles in reply, watching as the strange creature waddle away. "Your lucky he didn't decide to pump you full of venom boy." Vegeta snarls standing a few feet away observing his shipmates, everyone glad to see he was still with them.

Upon seeing him Trunks approaches with a snarl. "How about you waited and guided us through this if your such an expert." He snaps discreetly to his father, Vegeta snorts. "Stop your babbling and let go, you have too much to complain about Trunks." He says and turns away down the main street, Trunks follows from a respectable distance as the rest of the group huddles closely together behind him.

Goten pushes the girls gentle to the middle of the group, all three of them walk doe eyed as they observed the surroundings, open shop front with stools pushed against breakfast bars with creatures smoking from flute like pipes, water pipes fastened against the walls were full of holes with steam flushing out. Some had creatures eating strange concoctions of living and dead dishes that would make your stomach curdle.

Up ahead Vegeta turned a corner and disappeared behind a wall, Trunks power walked ahead so he could have him in eye view and turned the corner also, it was a long narrow alleyway with minimal lighting and dirty drain water running out from it. Trunks walked on, splashing through the shallow water with his heavy boots.

"Dad are you sure he knows what he is doing, I mean the way hat escort looked at him when we arrived had to mean something." Gohan whispered, pulling Pan closer as they entered the alley, Goku pressed his lips together. "The way I see it, you're not the prince of an entire race without getting some publicity." He smiles, and then slaps his eldest on the shoulder comfortingly. "Yeah, his planet was probably one of them to have the honour of the saiyajin princes visit." Gohan commented smugly to a deaf audience.

Vegeta stops at the end of the alleyway, a small door with iron bars running its entire length stood before them and only a small mail slot sides opening closed from the inside. "Now not a word from any of you." Vegeta warns, then with a solid he bangs on the bars four times and waits, the mail slot opening suddenly open and a pair of eyes appear shadowed over by its protruding eyebrow ridges. "Unack suk?" A throaty voice requests, Vegeta leans in closer to the opening. "Gulaph juk Freiza." he says then steps back, the opening slides shut and there is silence. "Stay close to me, we don't know what's in there." Goku warns in a whisper, huddling Bra and Savarna closer to him with his hands around their shoulders.

A rattling of chains erupted, banging against the inside of the door then it opened, the door flinging inside hitting the wall, Vegeta steps in. "In quickly." he says, everyone follows with Dende entering last to be sure everyone was in, once in he closes the door behind him. No one spoke as they walked down a long stairway leaning deep into the earth, small wall torches lit the way dimly, the walls a rough and unevenly shaped stone. "What can we expect to find down here?" Trunks ask, his hand lying discreetly on the end of his sword that hung over his back. "Humanoids." Vegeta responds flatly.

Trunks shake his head. "What I meant was, what kid of 'humanoids', Pilots, murderers, rapists, conman, anyone fitting that category?" He comments smugly waiting for a response. "All of the above, now if you are finished we can get ready for a days stay or two stay while repairs are…" Vegeta started to explain but Trunks intervened. "One or two days, here in this shit hole!" He shouts pointing down the stairway. Vegeta tensed up in annoyance. "Yes here, if you have a better idea go, go on and take these three warm blooded women back up to the street and find some place better." He snapped angrily to his son, he knew what was out there and knew what to expect with three young beautiful women around. Trunks eyes him for a moment and turns away in defeat, he knew what his father said was true.

Seeing no more words about to come from Trunks Vegeta continued down the stairway, moments later light emitted further down the stairs and not long after an opening that led into a low ceiling bar, everyone stopped in the doorway and observed the surroundings, the bar was Irish style with many humanoid creatures drinking, gambling and chatting amongst themselves. "Stay close." Goku said and on hearing his words, all patrons in the bar stopped what they were doing and turned toward them. An eerie silence filled the air, along with the thick cloud of pipe smoke that had the scent of burned newspaper.

Pan had a strange feeling she was being watched intently and turned slowly to her left, a male humanoid leaned against the wall, a sleazy smirk on his lips and it was clear that he was undressing her with his eyes, her eyes widened a notch and she turned away. Trunks noticed the situation and calmly stepped beside Pan, wrapping his arms around her shoulders, pulling her closer to him he eyes the humanoid icily. In return, he smirked, nodding faintly as he turned away and continued his drinking.

"Thanks." Pan whispered to Trunks and he lifting the left corner of his lip, he smiled down at her comfortingly. Strangely every patron simultaneously turned away ignoring Goku and his group, Vegeta stepped forward and through the crowd clearing a path for everyone to follow, leading them to a quieter corner of the establishment. "I guess we need to watch what we say." Goku alleged with a raised eyebrow.

"Welcome to the Mole Hole, now take a place here you will all be safe in this spot if any rioting breaks out," Vegeta indicated, motioning everyone toward a space near the wall. "Kackarot you come with me, we will find evergreen before he commits himself for indecent exposure. " Vegeta ordered and started back through the crowd the way they had come, Goku nodded and turned to his eldest son. "I'm sure he knows what he's talking about, rest up and get your bearings, we will be away from here soon." He assured received a nod from Gohan, and then headed off to follow Vegeta back up to the surface. "Girls sit against the wall so you'll have something to rest your backs against." Goten told them, arranging them so that Gohan, Dende, Trunks and himself surrounded them protectively, Trunks placed his sword down in front of him for easy retrieval.

After a few moments, Gohan stood up and looks to the bar with a thought. "Anyone want anything to drink, I have some zeni on me and im sure its enough for everyone." He asked, digging into his pocket to retrieve them. "Think they have clean water here, I could really go for some." Bra asked, her head leaning against the wall behind her. Gohan thinks for a second. "Id say so since it's the main resource for sustaining life and economy, if it wasn't clean nothing would be standing." He smirks cheekily, feeling invigorated for being able to use big words again, Bra rolled her eyes and nodded. "Yes thankyou Gohan I will have some clean water." Bra said overdoing her answer purposely. "Make that two dad." Pan added from beside Bra, Goten nodded "Add three more to the list for that order Gohan." Goten said on behalf of himself, Trunks and Dende.

Gohan nods. "O…K water for everyone, how about you Savarna did you want anything." He asked looking down to her sitting beside Pan, her knees pulled up to her chest and her head down. "Sav' do you want anything?" Pan also asked after she did not acknowledge Gohan, Savarna shook her head faintly in return. "That's fine Sav, we can get it for you later if you feel like it… ill be back in a few guys." He announces and stepping carefully over and between everyone, heads to the bar.


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