AS22: beforeI forget, Ayokii is disclaimed. I didn't take it from anyone, its mine, okay? now onward!
Chapter 25: Action
3 days later
I was sitting in my cell again, waiting for morning light. As soon as we were out to shower (the one thing not coed) I'd pass on my message to Seripa, who'd pass it on to Bardock and the others. I was trying to keep any suspicion from being brought up, so I didn't hang around them like I was a new pack member. I stayed solo unless perhaps Kooler wanted to talk. I owed him, both as a friend and in a way, my rival, freedom as well, so it would be the 6 of us.
XxX
We were in the public showers, basically one large showerhead that filled a large room. We'd all stand and wash under the same shower for our allotted time of a meager 10 minutes.
Hey boys and girls, know how you pass a secret message in a shower full of women and female guards secretly?
I stood near Seripa as we showered. I turned to face her and nodded.
"Hey treegla, I know you can beat a sleazy Azil, but can you beat one of your own?" Seripa snapped.
(Bitch -- lizard)
"Shut up, genla treegla!" I called back.
(Monkey bitch)
She jumped on me and pinned me to the wall. I turned and pinned her. Everyone already knew I was stronger, so I held her by the neck, not really choking her but making it look good.
"Kooler is going with us," I hissed, keeping my tone down, "We're all meeting in the west corner outside after lunch to talk, as soon as lunch is over. My source did come through, but I can't say anything more right now."
"Right." She understood. I let her go, and she timidly walked to the other side of the shower.
"Anybody else think they stand a chance?" I called. No one replied.
XxX
The doors opened and inmates went out into the gray courtyard, the red sun shining brightly. It was a perfect day for those who knew no evil.
I stepped outside and went toward the west-side corner. This spot was the blind spot on the grounds. In this spot the guards in the towers couldn't see us. Other inmates could, but they were all well aware of my reputation as the treegla Sayjin, the Sayjin bitch. Before me, no one had ever stood up to Frigyd. Now that I was top dog, no one bothered me.
Bardock's team was already there, and to outsiders that was no big thing. Bardock and his team were like a family. I went over and joined them.
"So, what's going on?" Toma asked.
"We have another escapee-wannabe to wait for first." I said.
"Who?" Bardock asked. I turned and looked over my shoulder as I sensed Kooler approaching.
"Him." I said as Kooler got closer.
"That stupid Icejin Azil? Why him?" Bardock asked.
(Lizard)
"He tried to help me." I replied. Kooler joined the group.
"We have to make this quick. I convinced Frieza that Frosty was going after one of his women. We only have until the fight stops. Then those stupid guards will do their 'job' and break it up."
"Right, thanks Kooler." I said, "Okay, here's the plan. We're busting out tomorrow."
"Tomorrow? How?" Pota asked.
"I have a guy on the outside. He'll blow open those gates," I pointed out the south-side gate, covering the largest wall in the courtyard, "And he'll have an Ayokii for each of us. If all goes well, we'll travel west for two miles on the Ayokii. We'll then be out of the range of the collar controls and we can split up then, going our own ways. We'll send the beasts off in a third direction to throw off the guards and soldiers."
"Sounds good, but who's this friend of yours?" Kooler asked.
"He's no friend of mine, but he said he'd help us escape. It'll be after supper, during the changing of the guards. He says he knows for a fact that the 6 of us will be out here, we're all on the night shift for busting those damn rocks. Just like the cliché, huh? But that's why tomorrow."
"How are you contacting him anyway?" Seripa asked.
"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, Seripa." I replied.
"Or in this case, a gift Ayokii, right?" Bardock chuckled. I laughed too.
"Yeah. Any questions? Everyone clear?" I asked.
"Yeah, got it." Toma replied.
"Good." I glanced over to see Frieza getting his tail handed to him by Frosty, "Just in time, too. That fight is over." I said, laughing at the Icejin that once raped me. It may have all been in an illusion, but the pain was real to me. Who gets to decide on reality anyway?
XxX
The Next Morning
"Mom?" the voice echoed in the black oblivion. Only his form showed through, as if it was making its own light.
"Codie? Where are you?"
"I'm with you, aren't I?" a figure with black, folded wings came up next to him. Her white fangs and black eyes were a deep contrast in the darkness.
"No, Codie, she isn't your mother-"
"I have a mom, and a dad-" Cell appeared on the other side of him, "And my cousins." Dark Kakorot, Raditz, Gohan, and Goten appeared next.
"They're not your family!" I cried, "I am! Mirai, Kanji, and Andy! Remember Codie!"
"I do, and I choose this."
"Rise and shine da tregs!"
(Bakas)
I fell off the top bunk and on the floor.
"Codie!" it was only a dream. The floor was a hard reminder of that as I tried to untangle my legs from the sheet.
I have to save him, I only hope that dream and my rude awakening weren't an omen of things to come.
XxX
At lunch I ate as much as they'd give me. I needed to prepare, too keep my strength up. Frieza, on the other hand, wasn't feeling like eating. He felt like harassing me. When he came over to the table he sat down across from, waiting for me to notice him.
Oh gods of Planet Vegeta, help me…
"May I help you, Azil?"
(Lizard)
I was using Saya-jin more and more. This crash course in the language would make Vegeta proud. I only hoped I see him again to show it off.
"I've heard things about you, Katie. Your counterpart has told everyone on the planet about what you told her." He replied.
"Such as?"
"How you helped kill me, Cell, and this thing called Buu. I must know, is it all true?" he asked.
"What do you think? Me ta Tiom gha ore now. I reached it just over a year ago."
(I am SSJ4)
"Come on, you don't honestly think I believe you helped destroy me back before you even became a Tiom?"
(SSJ?)
"Wow, an Azil speaking genla. Never thought I'd see that." I said, taking another bite of my food.
(Lizard -- monkey)
"Imprudent genla." Frieza growled, "I had to learn it to survive in here. When I first came there were no other Icejin but my brother. Everyone in here was Sayjin."
"Nice story, where's the point when I start to care?" I asked, taking another bite.
"I think your head has gotten too big, monkey. Prove to me your power. Fight me."
"I'll be the man here and decline." The doors opened to the courtyard for the afternoon, "Frieza, let me give you some advice." I stood, getting ready to go outside, "Stop ticking off Sayjins. They'll be your downfall. At least, that's how it happened in my universe. Besides, I have already proven myself. I beat Frigyd, didn't I?"
I went outside, leaving Frieza uneasy by my speech. I seemed to know how to play him, if no one else. I had another hundred insults lined up for him, but if my plan as to succeed I couldn't risk getting locked into that damn little solitary confinement room again. I bit my tongue and left it at that.
XxX
Again, at dinner I inhaled my food. The weird little blue lump tasted similar to Chi-chi's Horn-toad Stew that had gone stale. When it's fresh it's good, but when it's old and cold it might as well be raw.
My eye's met with Bardock, and he nodded. They were ready. I gazed across the room and met eyes with Kooler. He was ready too. I only hoped Cell was ready.
"Cell, can you hear me?"
"Katie, what is it?" his reply was strong, which meant he was near.
"I'm just checking. Is everything ready to go?"
"Yes, as planned. I'll be there with the caxx Ayokii you need."
(6 Ayokii)
"Good, and thanks."
The connection was severed.
At night the courtyard doors don't open, normally. This time they did. The guards were on each side, calling names for those who had to work. This was the first time since I arrived that it had occurred.
I haven't even been here a week, but it feels like I've been stuck here forever. They say one second in Jutir, or hell, or HFIL, is as long as a lifetime. Makes sense naming this prison Purgatory.
My name was called, so I went to the courtyard. It was pitch black, the moon only seen as a sliver in the sky. A P'reel-hreth, a full moon, occurs only once every 100 years here, so any moon was astonishing to the Sayjins planet-bound.
"Alright you lazy no-good inmates, time to earn your keep." The guard was a human, a male who was very much a redneck in his ideals. Ironically, his name was Frank Drury. Anything not exactly like him was inferior. That included women, aliens, and even humans from other races. In all my time as a human, I never really thought of these things, but as a Sayjin I see it all the time. To me, you are what you are. I only judge by the heart and soul, not by appearance. If I did, Kooler wouldn't be with me right now.
"Now listen up," he began again, "I'm not so hard to get long with. You just do your work like good little aliens, and you'll be just fine."
"Look whose talking." A younger male Sayjin next to me said. Drury walked down the line to him.
"You say something, monkey?"
"Yes, I did. You're on our world, human, you're the alien here."
"Well, I see. You think just cause you're a Sayjin you can talk to me like that. You could easily kill me… without the collar." He came around and punched the Sayjin, knocking him to the ground. I wanted to stop this so bad I was shaking in anger, but I couldn't risk losing my chance at freedom. Codie meant more to me. I was only here to rescue him, not save this universe. But if I weren't so close to freedom I would have shown this Drury guy who the inferior really was, collar or no collar.
"Right, now that that's settled." He started walking up and down the line, "You aliens will be smashing up this junk for scrap. The rocks, aluminum, and whatever-the-hell else there is. Any complaints and the Empress gave me full authority to lock any of you in solitary for a week." He stopped in front of me and grinned, whispering, "Two for you, missy." Then he moved on, "Any question? Good! Get to it!"
We spread out as we started our work. We didn't have the luxury of using any tools, either. We had to use our fists and feet. As everybody worked, I started easing toward the others as we got ready to take off once the gates were blown open.
At first I was very antsy, looking toward the wall or the sky every few minutes. Drury was tracing the wall as he watched us. I was having doubts that Cell would really come through for us. I knew I could trust Cell, mi Teela-hreth, my best friend, and the incarnation of my son, but could I trust his darkling counterpart?
Then I heard a very low sound, like a rumbling or quiet thunder. It stopped and I heard snorting. I looked over to Bardock, and he nodded. I was hearing the Ayokii. In a flash the wall fell and collapsed, throwing rock everywhere and killing Drury.
What a waste of a life… maybe not…
"Alright, Kooler, Katrin, lets get out of this Jutir!" Bardock cried as we ran out through the hole in the wall. Other inmates and guards ran out as well.
"Look! There he is with the Ayokii! Wow…" I saw the old Namekian on top of a large white Ayokii. There were six more Ayokii with him.
Ayokii look very similar to horses, but the difference is like comparing your neutered poodle to a timber wolf alpha male. The Ayokii are very large, twice the size of a horse, and every one has a silver mane and tail. That silver is as brilliant as the P'reel-hreth, the full moon. Instead of hooves, their feet are similar to that of a wolf because the Ayokii were once predatory creatures. They still are, but they're tamed, like the first dogs on earth.
Also, the Ayokii are very strong. They can run twice as fast as a Sayjin without problem. They're great swimmers, and in the right conditions, they can jump so well you'd swear they were flying.
"Katie!" the Namekian waved to us, "I picked this one out just for you! His name is Biress Garu." he had a black Ayokii by the mane, holding it steady for me as I jumped on. Black Wind stomped on the grass, as though disagreeing with me.
"Good, boy." I patted him on the neck and he calmed down a little bit, "Thanks!" I held onto the mane tight. Ayokii may be tamed, but they refuse any kind of saddle or reins. You ride them like the Indians.
"Who is this guy?" Seripa asked me, but the Namekian heard her.
"Call me Capillary."
We got going west, away from the gates at full gallop. Riding an Ayokii is different from a horse as well. You have to lean down near the ear and call out your order. At least at first, once you've connected with your Ayokii it can almost read your body language for riding.
Bardock came up beside me on his tan Ayokii, making it look easy. I was having trouble with Black Wind. He didn't like me very much.
"Having trouble, Katrin?" Bardock called.
"Yeah, he doesn't like me."
"They're not suppose to!" Bardock laughed.
I looked ahead, seeing forest and valleys. We still had a while to go, but soon we'd be able to safely say we were free. But, on the topside, we were the first ones to ever break out of Purgatory Prison.