Hit the Floor
By: May-VeggieGirl1
'Ello again! Yay, I managed to squeeze in another update! Enjoyness
mkh2( )-- LOL that's great. Well, I can assure you now that Kakarrot will be safe... for the most part. eheheh... I am just trying to portray Vegeta accurately (But for future referrence, I really don't suggest reading any of my other fics, coz' I have a tendency to enjoy torturing Kakarrot. Maybe I shouldn't be turning people down to my own fics though x.x). Yes, Kakarrot will be able to prove his worth in time so no worries.
Daniel-- Thank you, I also thought it was an interesting perspective, hence why I'm writing this. I'm trying to update as often as I can, and I will process your request. All I can say in that area is I'll try my best to keep the humans from looking incredibly pathetic but without short-handing the saiyans and other opponents. Yes, now that you mention it, it is kind of sad that Toriyama-sensei did that. Once again, I'll see what I can do.
super saiyan 4 chichi-- Thank you, again, I am trying. See Daniel's response above.
I don't own DBZ. I'm flattered if anyone thinks that, because my drawing skillz simple cannot be compared. It would put Toriyama-sensei to shame. x.x heheh...
Goku thought quickly as the sealed off stone continued to constrict his space and oxygen. He took a deep breath and concentrated his energy to the remaining air around him before forcing it outward with enough propulsion to knock over a semi. The kiai shattered the rock encasement and set him free as he floated higher up into the sky. The moment the sediment bits began to give in to gravity's force, a giant spike shot up from the ground at him. He flew up and around to only have it follow him in like a snake closing in for the kill. Unable to loose its trail or slow down to catch his breath, he pulled his hands back and locked both palms together facing opposite directions.
"Kaaaameee haaameeee..." Blue light began to disperse from his hands before they began to glow with the soothing yet admirable force. If he had enough time, he would have strengthened the blast prior to firing it, but, with a last holler, he turned the rushed attack on the pursuer. Within seconds, minerals were stripped away and nothing but little remnants of smoke and ash remained in its wake. After waiting a few seconds for another preemptive attack, he let out a weary sigh and took the spare time to catch his breath. He really had enough of claustrophobic spaces.
Once a bit more calm and ready for a fight, he went to examine the unusual power level he felt before.
To discover it no longer was where he last looked.
He stiffened while closing his eyes to get another lock on the true attacker.
Below!
Goku barely had enough time to nimbly dodge another barrage of spikes, but, in his escape, let his guard down unintentionally, giving his attacker just enough time to strike. It emerged out of one of the dodged spikes, lunging itself at Goku and getting a good right hook in on him. Goku stumbled backwards in the air before halting so more spikes wouldn't plow through him. He sorely held his cheek while getting a better idea of what exactly this perpetrator was. It had dark brown, scaly skin and penetrating blue eyes which remained fixed on him. It slowly brought a long and sickly thin arm up to Goku, as he returned to a defensive stance.
He sure hits hard, and there's no way I can defend myself from a distance for a long period of time...
Goku waited for energy to form in the creature's hand and continued to remain still when that didn't happen. Suddenly another strange energy appeared behind him. Before he could turn to defend himself from the rear assault, he was kneed violently in the back, forcing him forward toward the first creature. Goku ignored the shooting pain spreading over his backside and used the momentum to forward a counterattack of his own. A second before his fist clashed with the native's face, Goku froze in place. The creature, having braced himself for the impact, slowly opened his eyes again to meet Goku's clenched fingers.
"I don't want a fight." He removed the limb, returning it to his side and loosening it. The second alien, who had sent him flying at the first alien in the begin with, charged again but missed his kick this time as Goku side-stepped it.
"No one comes here without wanting a fight," It hissed in a deep, threatening tone before throwing himself at Goku again. Fists clashed, the sound of their strength echoing among the high tree tops. The remaining alien joined his friend and more than doubled Goku's difficulty in keeping up with their blows.
Their strength is too much, my bones feel like they're going to crack just blocking the attacks!
Goku winced as more pain continued to pulsate from his arms and legs.
"I'm serious, I don't want to fight!" One of the two scoffed at Goku.
"Absurd, if people were that trusting they wouldn't be going around trying to conquer planets in the begin with!" The alien kneed Goku in the gut as he kicked the alien's side simultaneously. Goku bit down hard while doubling over and holding his stomach in pain; the alien he kicked only smirked with satisfaction. His attention was sharply redirected to the ground where one of the aliens had returned to and was now forcing pillars of more rock into the air.
Not again!
He would have groaned had he not been so preoccupied with keeping a safe distance from the rock. It twirled around like before and lunged for him, easily gaining in speed. Goku dived down low near the ground to weave in between the trees but to no avail as the rock simple uprooted the trees and tossed them like twigs.
I don't have a choice, I need to use the Kamehameha again...!
He turned back to it and realigned his hands while suddenly changing direction and flying toward the rock.
"Kamehameha!" The blast, even faster and less effective than his first, shot forward and began to peel away the rock again until something behind the rock caught Goku's attention. But by the time Goku had realized that the other alien had hidden in the rock to keep the element of surprise on their side, it was too late and the blast swept over it. The attack shifted by, and soon the only senses Goku could recognize was his own heavy breathing, the aching from the previous attacks, the continuous pounding of his frantic heart, and a dust cloud hovering in the air. The cloud slowly settled and finally revealed to him the alien, lying on the ground with some of the skin peeled off and the motionless eyes fixed on nothing in particular.
Yes, Goku had unintentionally killed the alien he begged for peace not even five minutes prior. He fell to his knees and clenched his gut, still feeling the effects of the earlier assault. He stared at the body even longer before his eyes fell to the ground in shame and sadness.
He was brought back to reality when he remembered there were two aliens. Goku glanced around for the second's energy signal, finally recognizing the alien fleeing the scene. He sighed heavily while hanging his head. That was it. He was sick of this. And his head wasn't going to look back up at the sky anytime soon. It was shame and mourning, hunger and exhaustion. His head wasn't going to look back up for the world.
After gathering enough strength to rise to his feet, Goku trudged his way back to the camp with a slight limp. He didn't even check to see who was where, it didn't matter to him at the time. These saiyans were horrible to be able to enjoy this work for a living so he figured the further he was from them the better. Of course, this didn't change his mood and even if they weren't blood-thirsty bastards he didn't want to talk about anything. He managed to reach his pod and bang on the door to make it open up without incident.
"Not bad, Kakarrot. Good job." He winced.
Good job?
Not wanting to exert his poor weary head any further with sicksaiyan customs, he glanced at Nappa to acknowledge his unusual 'congrats' and crawled into the pod. Moving the flower out of harms way and curling up in the congested living space, he soon fell into a deep, empty dreamless sleep.
Goku slightly stirred to the radiant, salmon-colored light beaming into his pod. The crisp morning air encircled him as he blearily opened his eyes and quietly blinked in a haze. The sun shone painfully in his eyes so he averted them.
"Come on Kakarrot, time to get up," the silhouette in front of him shifted to the side, unintentionally shading Goku's eyes. He opened them a little more and finally recognized the figure in front of him with the light trying to breech around their wild mane. "Alright, out. You can't sleep forever, ya'know." Weariness drowning out his brother's demands, his eyes fluttered shut as he let out a silent, content sigh and drifted back to sleep.
Goku's eyes shot open as water sloshed over him, he sat up quickly letting the liquid drip off of him. Shaking violently like a wet dog, he rubbed his tired eyes in irritation. He opened one eye and glanced up at Raditz, still holding the water basin.
"Hey, what's the big idea!" Goku protested, a little more awake than previously. He pulled at his soaking wet outfit and frowned. He was so beat last night after his little encounter that he didn't even change into his boxers. Not that he wanted them wet either. He humphed while squirming a little.
Scratch that, they're wet too.
"When I tell you to get up, you need to get up," Raditz growled softly as his eye twitched in frustration. He stepped back and let Goku have enough room to hop out of the pod. Goku turned back to look at the pod, everything, including the control panel, as soaked as he was.
"I hope all that is water proof," Goku mimicked the same tone as Raditz.
"What isn't waterproof these days," Raditz shook his head to the side. With a pout, Goku pulled off his weighted undershirt and rung it out.
"I'm not."
"Apparently. But that's a good, cause I don't want to have to blow off a flare signal everytime I need you to wake up." Goku shivered while glancing back up at the pod with sudden realization.
I didn't leave the suitcase in the pod, did I?
He poked his head inside and searched for it. When he found no evidence of it's presence in the pod, he left out a sigh in relief only to catch his breath again.
Chichi's flower!
Sure enough, there in the puddle on the floor sat the blossom, half drowned and utterly torn apart. Sadly, he gently slid his hand under it and lifted it from the water to observe it with gloom. The flood he could understand, but what baffled him was the condition it was in. The petals were covered with holes, the edges of the petals all sharp and rugged. Even the stamens inside drooped with the plant as Goku tried to perk it up in place. Raditz peered around him and watched Goku toy with the blossom.
"Kakarrot, you are one bizarre saiyan." And with that, he left Goku to wallow further over the flower. Goku sat on the ground while shaking his head to the side.
"I don't understand, how could this have happened?" As if to answer his question, a small round bug crawled out from hiding behind the stem. He scooted the insect onto his index finger and held it at eye level. "Hey, you ate my flower!" After pouting for a moment longer, a partial smile returned to his face. "I guess I'll just have to give you to Chichi then!" After a whiles thought, Goku hid the bug inside the same now-empty compartment Raditz had taken the remote to his pod from. Vegeta, who had been watching him again from the trees, snorted and shoved his hands into his pockets while strolling off.
"Pathetic," He murmured under his breath.
Sorry, I'm going to be lazy and stop here. Looks like Vegeta's being a bad little boy, good thing Goku has a tendency to find the silver linning. Also it seems the natives are going to be a little more aggressive than Goku thought. Next time: the saiyan raid! Will the four be able to safely overcome the aliens without any scrap of teamwork whatsoever? Probably not, heheheh. Review please!