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I do not own Dragon Ball Z. This is a work of Fanfiction using the Dragon Ball Z world. Dragon Ball Z is owned by Akira Toriyama.
Gine stood there for a moment, looking in disbelief at the figure in a purple gi with a magenta undershirt, black boots, and armbands that was standing in front of her.
"Fasha, is that really you?" Asked Gine after a moment.
"Who else would it be?" Replied Fasha dryly.
"How did you survive? I though you died when Dodoria attacked you guys."
Fasha was about to answer when Kakarot asked. "Mom, who is that?"
"That's my old friend Fasha." She told him.
"That's Bardock's son?" Said Fasha as she sized Kakarot up. "You're pretty good if you can fight Celera evenly." Then she smirked. "Kinda reminded me of Bardock for a sec."
Kakarot looked at her for a second, then shrugged. "I'm told I look like him. But what's it to you anyway?"
"Acts like him to." Noted Fasha. Then she turned to Gine. "Now that that's out of the way, why don't you and me have a sparring match."
Gine thought about it for a moment. Well, it'll be a nice way to say hi after what… twelve years. And she'd got to be the strongest on the planet besides me. So why not?
"Sure." She said, smirking. Then she turned to Kakarot. "Go get Bulma and Yamcha, and take them to a place that's far enough away so that they won't get hurt." He nodded and walked back towards the car.
"You're always so worried about others, Gine." Said Fasha, smirking. "I never understood that until I came to this planet."
"Huh? What do you mean?" Asked Gine, confused.
"I'll tell you after we're done here." Replied Fasha as she took a stance. Gine nodded and got ready.
The two stared at each other for a while, then, to the eyes of everyone else, they vanished.
Gine rushed at Fasha and tried to slam both knees into the other woman's gut. Fasha leapt to the side and attempted a roundhouse kick. Gine fell to the side, then kicked Fasha into the air.
Gine leapt after her and tried a punch. Fasha moved to the side and landed a kick, then followed up with a series of punches and a roundhouse kick.
Gine recovered just in time to block a flying kick from Fasha. Gine threw her own kick which Fasha blocked with her forearm.
They smirked at each other then started to exchange punches and kicks at a rate that was to fast to follow.
This ended when Fasha slammed a knee into Gine's chin, sending her into the air. Then appeared above Gine and drop-kicked her into the ground, leaving a crater.
Gine pushed herself out of the crater and walked towards Fasha. "Wow, I've been training since I got here, and you're still really strong."
Fasha smirked. "Well, you always were weaker. I was hoping to go on for a while, but if you don't want to that's fine."
Gine cocked her head to the side. "Who said anything about stopping? I'm not even using my full power yet."
This caught Fasha's attention. "Really? You haven't even been trying. Well neither have I."
"Then let's go all out. No more playing around." Said Gine. Fasha nodded, smirking.
Gine crouched down and began to power up, flaring her pink aura.
Fasha frowned. "Gine, what are you-" She cut off as Gine's power-level began to grow. Fasha had learned to sense power-levels while she was on Earth, and Gine's grew until it equaled her own.
Gine finished, and stood up straight, smirking at Fasha who was standing there amazed. "I wasn't to sure I could get this strong myself, but I figured that if Bardock could surpass elite's then I could at least get this strong."
"Well then, this could be a better battle than I thought." Said Fasha.
Gine nodded, and got in her stance, Fasha did the same.
Meanwhile Kakarot and Celera were amazed by the power their mother's were showing. I had no idea mom's power could get this high! Thought Kakarot. I knew she was stronger than me, but not by that much! That just means I'll have to train that much harder.
Fasha rushed at Gine, who leapt into the air and fired an energy wave at the ground. Fasha barely had time to roll out of the way before the blast struck.
She looked into the sky just in time to see Gine come down and slam both of her knees into her stomach. Fasha doubled over, coughing.
Gine jumped into the air again and fired a barrage of energy blasts at her friend. Fasha flipped backwards out of the way, and fired an energy wave at Gine.
Gine dropped to avoid it, and was forced to block a knee that was intended to connect with her gut.
They started to exchange flurries of blows back and forth, until Gine landed a hard kick to the face that sent Fasha flying toward the ground. She attempted to follow up with a punch, but Fasha flipped backwards and blasted Gine pointblank with an energy wave.
Gine recovered in time to dodge a barrage of ki blasts that would've caused a lot of damage if it had connected.
After the barrage had gone passed Gine rushed straight at her opponent, who smirked. Fasha cocked her arm back and threw a fair sized energy wave at her.
"Heat Phalanx" Shouted Gine as the energy wave washed over her. Fasha's jaw dropped when Gine emerged from the wave unharmed, and covered with a fiery aura.
Gine landed a punch that sent Fasha flying and left a burn mark. She followed up with a series of kicks that sent her opponent skyward. She finished by dropkicking Fasha into the ground.
Fasha came up and they continued to exchange blows for sometime, completely destroying the landscape.
Finally Gine held up her hand. "Alright Fasha that's enough."
Fasha stopped, looking confused. "Why are we stopping? That was a lot of fun."
"Because I don't want to completely destroy the landscape, or fire mountain." Replied Gine. "And I know I wouldn't have won. The Heat Phalanx was taking to much energy to hold, even though I was only using it occasionally. So I would've been beaten when I ran out of stamina."
Fasha nodded, then smirked. "Well, it's nice to see you again." Gine smiled at her old friend, and nodded. "Yeah, I've missed you and the guy's. Now lets go get the kids."
"You said something about this planet changing you so that you actually cared about life." Said Gine as they flew back towards Kakarot and Celera. "What did you mean by that?"
Fasha stopped flying and turned to face Gine. "When I first arrived on this planet with Celera our pod exploded, and I was injured when our pod exploded for whatever reason. I passed out, and when I woke up we were in a castle of some kind and I was wrapped in bandages."
She stopped for a moment, and looked a little confused. "It was… strange." She said finally. "These people were helping me, and I'd never done a thing for them. I didn't understand it. There was this really big guy called the Ox-King that commanded them, and for some reason he took care of me and Celera while I was injured, even though he didn't know a thing about us and could have easily left us to rot. It reminded me of you, how you'd go out of your way to help people you'd never met and didn't have any reason to care about. It showed me that the world benefited from people like that, and how wrong we were about strength."
She smirked at Gine. "So I guess you were right all along, we should have been helping people. You'd better not tell anybody I said that. If you do I'll hunt you down."
Gine was stunned. She'd figured her friend had owed these people something and that's why they were still alive. But this had been completely unexpected, she'd never expected to find a Saiyan that would say anything like that.
"I won't say anything." Said Gine still stunned.
"Good, now let's get back before Kakarot and Celera come over here themselves." Gine nodded and they flew back towards the others.
When Gine got to Kakarot he glared at her accusingly. "You didn't use your full strength when we trained." He said, eyes narrowing.
Gine raised an eyebrow. "No, I didn't. You're to weak to take me at full power, maybe one day you'll be there, but for now I won't go all out against you."
He grunted stalked off toward Yamcha and Bulma. That boy'll be the death of me. Thought Gine.
"Hey, um… Gine's your name right?" Said a voice from her left.
Gine turned and knelt down in front of Celera and smiled. "Yes it is. What do you need?"
The girl looked down and kicked the ground lightly. "Well… I just wanted to apologize for attacking you and Kakarot earlier."
Gine looked at Fasha, who met her eyes and shook her head. Gine turned back to the girl. "It's alright, no one was hurt. Just watch who you're attacking next time, okay?"
Celera looked up at Gine and nodded. "Okay." Then she walked towards Kakarot.
Gine walked over to Fasha, looking around. "Where's that guy that took care of you two? I'd like to meet him."
"He went to go get someone that could put out the fire. He said it was some old man. I don't really believe it, but he sure does." Answered Fasha.
"Why don't you just put it out yourself?" Asked Gine, confused.
"I'm not sure if I can without destroying the mountain." Admitted Fasha. "You were always better at that stuff then me so maybe you can try."
Gine nodded. "I'll try it." Then she turned to Kakarot. "Kakarot, go get Bulma and Yamcha, and bring them to the mountain. I'm going to see if I can't put out the fire." He nodded and went off.
"Celera, you go with him." Said Fasha. Celera looked reluctant, but she took off.
Gine went straight to the mountain and stared at it, trying to find a way to put out the fire.
Gine frowned for a moment, then spoke up. "I think I can do it. I'll just need concentration." Fasha nodded. "I'll make sure you're uninterrupted."
Gine flew up, to where she was directly above the flames. Then she bent her arms at the elbows and summoned two yellow balls of energy.
She aimed her hands at the center of the mountain and fired. A large funnel shaped blast shot out of her hands. She felt it graze the ground and she directed it, widening the funnel until it touched the ground at the base of the mountain. Then she pulled up, curling the blast toward the sky, simultaneously cutting off the supply of energy and allowing the blast to go into the atmosphere.
She lowered herself to the ground, panting. That was a lot tougher than I thought it would be. And it actually worked. She smiled as she touched down and dropped to one knee. Man that took a lot out of me. Directing all that energy and keeping it up long enough really wore me out.
"Thanks Gine." Said Fasha as she came up behind her.
"No… problem… I'm happy to help." Said Gine between breathes.
Fasha's face took on a concerned look. "You look pretty worn out. You should take a nap. I'll make sure mini Bardock doesn't get into to much trouble while you're out."
"Thanks… but there's no… need for that." Replied Gine as she stood. "I'll be fine… just give me a minute." Then she fell over.
"Uh, huh." Said Fasha dryly. "Just rest for now old friend. You deserve it."
Gine barely heard her, already slipping into unconsciousness. I wonder what Bardock would think if he could see me now. Then she passed out.
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