The Dimension of Weirdness

Chapter 4. A New Face

Tiara Phoenix turns off the T.V. There was a movie on, called 'The Cell Games'. It was a 'remake' of the real Cell Games from a few years ago. Tiara thinks that the guy playing Cell looked really dumb. You could tell it was a costume. Hurcule was playing himself, and the guy playing Goku – well, let's just say that if this was based on the real Goku, he wasn't what she had expected. In all her 19 years she had never seen such an idiotic and pathetic script. Tiara walks into her cramped kitchen. She realizes that she had to have dinner before she left this pathetic planet named Earth. This 'Goku' was nowhere to be found, and she had other places to look. Tiara walked over to the fridge and peeked inside. Yep, lots of food in there. She grabs an armful and dumps it on the bench. This was the way Tiara had dinner. She starts to chow down.

Later, outside, Tiara starts to pack the last of the Capsules into a small briefcase. She didn't need much, but she'd decided to bring some of the stuff she'd gotten attached to during her two-year stay on Earth. And some things from her past. Like the small photo album she had from when she was still living on Planet Vegeta.

She opens it now. On the first page stood her Saiyan family. The picture had been taken a few days before she left to explore the stars, at age 15. None of them had suspected that this would be the last time they would be seen together. Frieza had blown up Planet Vegeta a few weeks after Tiara had left. Tiara closes the photo album and slides it into a secret compartment in her capsule. After a thought, she adds a book she had recently bought about Magick and closes the compartment door.

Tiara's emerald green eyes flash, and she flicks her ebony hair as she gazes at the outside walls of her apartment, at the place that had been her house for two full years. Tiara had never been to school on Earth. She had made no friends. She wasn't lonely. But she had never called anywhere home. And she doubted she'd find her true 'home' anytime soon.

Tiara bends down and picks up her dagger, the one that had belonged to her mother. She fingers it carefully before lifting her slim, full-length, black leather pants and sliding the dagger down the side of her lace-up black leather knee-length boot, up to the hilt. If there was one thing her mother had taught her, it was to always be prepared. That's why Amaya (Tiara's mother) had taught her how to throw a dagger.

And Amaya had taught her daughter well. Tiara never missed; and even though she usually used energy attacks, sometimes digression was necessary. The silver dagger had served her well on Earth; maybe it would help her in space too. Who knows?

Tiara Phoenix lowered her pants leg and grabbed her coat, a long black leather jacket that went down to her knees. It had a lot of pockets, and a good half of them were secret. It was useful to have secret pockets.

Her silver headband and her sliver pentacle necklace shone in the sunlight as Tiara climbed into her capsule, and the door closed. She programmed the computer to beep loudly when they reached the edge of the Milky Way, in case she fell asleep, and dumped the briefcase in another compartment. Tiara lay back and watched the scenery get smaller as her Capsule took off and left the Earth far behind.

Tiara's Capsule reached the edge of the Earth's galaxy without any problems. But then something happened. The big blue and green round whirly thingy appeared, and sucked Tiara, her capsule, and all her possessions into its depths. Her last thoughts in that dimension before she disappeared were of her only living relative, her sister Sebena, whom now Tiara thought she would never see; and of Goku, the strongest living Saiyan in the Universe.