Disclaimer: You know the drill. I don't own Dragonball Z or any of its characters. All original characters in this fic belong to me and their other respective authors.

AN: Sorry again for the long wait. I've been swamped with a new story and haven't had time to update this one. I've got so many people coming on to the story right now that unless they decide to help me with their own parts, these chapters are going to be pretty far apart. Sorry again about that. These next few chapters will really be one chapter with several different parts. A mini chapter per new character, then I'll get back to the main story. Okay here we go. Enjoy the new chapter. This one's for you Casey!

Chapter 6: A breach in the barrier

Part A: Enter Casey

Seeing Jeri again had really changed her mood. She was so happy that she actually skipped from place to place. I mean, this had really made her day. She was ready to go chase some butterflies and honk at some ducks. Some would call her strange for that, but it was just normal fun to her.

This is where everything started changing for the fifteen-year-old.

She had just entered Central Park when she saw a bright light shinning from behind a thick grove of trees. Curiosity over rode her common sense, as usual, and she decided to go check out the pretty lights. As she got closer the lights seemed to dim for a moment, then completely go out. She was glad it was still light outside or she would have been seriously SOL.

As soon as she looked around the clearing in the trees she saw the form of a young man sprawled out on the ground. He looked like he was unconscious, but there didn't seem to be anything really wrong with him.

"Hey mister, are you okay?" Casey called, waving a hand in front of his closed eyes. "Hewo!" She yelled into his ear, which seemed pretty big.

'Poor guy probably got called dumbo a lot in school.' She thought with a frown.

Almost immediately the prone form on the ground stirred.

"Ugh...What happened?" He muttered.

Casey knelt down so she could see him better in the fading light. "I dunno." She shrugged, grinning at him. "I was hoping you'd tell me."

He pushed himself up slightly then met her gaze calmly. Confusion was very evident in his eyes, but so was curiosity.

Casey physically flinched at the supreme sense of de ja vu she was getting from this guy. He was taller than her, but not by that much. His hair was styled in a mohawk and bleached white. His eyes were a black color, almost the color of the night now around them.

They stared at each other for a few minutes before he said, "Your pardon, miss. I am afraid I was so disoriented that I forgot my manners for a moment. I am called Shin, Supreme Kai of the East. I was attending to some business here on Earth when I suddenly found myself sucked into a portal. Somehow I ended up here. Now that that is taken care of...Where am I, miss?"

"You're in New York City, silly. In the park to be exact." She giggled, as if every day someone fell out of a bright lighted portal near her feet and introduced themselves as a God.

"Oh, that makes sense I suppose. Just who are you, then?" Shin asked, smiling gently back at her.

THUMP!

Shin blinked several times, and raised a brow.

Casey fainted. Call it a delayed reaction to what her brain had finally processed.

(Shin)

'Oh, dear me! What have I done?' Shin thought as he knelt down next to the fainted girl.

Giving her the once over to assess her injuries if, indeed, there were any to be found Shin let out a soft sound of surprise. She was so young!

"You are just a mere child. Who in there right mind lets their child roam around at this time of evening?"

He now faintly remembered hearing Shen Ron tell him, while he was in the void, that there would be someone here that would change his life forever. The girl he met could not possible be the one the Eternal Dragon was speaking of, could she? Of course not, she was too young to be the one.

He decided to take a closer look at the girl. She was shorter than him, but it was apparent that she wasn't done growing yet so she very well may end up taller than him. Not that it was all that hard to be taller than him, he was very short. She had curly, chin length, dirty blond hair and, from what he had seen, mischievous blue-gray eyes. She had the lithe form of a young child, but there were also just the slight beginnings of curves that heralded young adulthood.

As he carefully gathered her into his arms he noticed she was also very light of weight. This was good since he couldn't very well leave her here where she could be molested or something to the sort. He knew he needed to take her someplace safe until she woke up and silently wished he were in Japan so that he could take her to Goku. The saiyan would know better than him what to do with a young human.

As if he had been heard, Shin and the unconscious girl called Casey, were pulled into another portal and teleported back to Japan and the Special Forces.

That's it for Part A.

I hope I wasn't too far out of character.

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Next up is Shooter! Be looking for Part B.

Ja ne, minna.