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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.

Chaotic Emperor01 - Yes, Chi-Chi is a Saiyan now.

jamesaubrey41 - I assume you mean Goku and Bulma as in a pairing? If so then I haven't given very much thought to pairings, so I don't know.

Gine awoke from her nap and sat up, noting that she felt way better than she had when she'd passed out.

She looked around trying to figure out exactly where she was. She was in a house in the ruined village that surrounded the base of Fire Mountain. I hope I didn't destroy anything when I put out the fire. This place does look abandoned though, so I don't think anybody would care if I had.

She stood and walked out of the house and onto the dirt road that went through the town, then she cast out her senses, feeling what was around. She frowned when she felt two powers, that were high compared to most beings on Earth, they were near Kakarot, Fasha, and Celera.

She flew over, noting the powers seemed calm and not in combat. When she landed she saw the two powers were a massive looking man in purple and brown armor, and an old man. She frowned in confusion when she noticed the old man had the greater power level.

"Have a nice nap?" Asked Fasha when Gine got within earshot.

"Yeah. Who are those two?" Asked Gine, looking curiously at them.

They walked up to her before Fasha could reply.

"I'm the Ox-King." Said the giant. "Your name's Gine, right?"

Gine nodded. "Are you the one that took care of Fasha and Celera when they first arrived here?"

"Yep." He replied. "That's me."

"And who are you?" She asked the old man, who was eyeing her up and down. Gine didn't really like the way he was looking at her.

"Me, young lady?"

Gine nodded.

"I'm Master Roshi, the turtle hermit. I'm the strongest fighter in the world!" He said, looking as if he was trying to impress her for some reason.

He's full of himself. With me, Fasha, Kakarot, Celera, and maybe even Gohan, being stronger than him, that makes him the sixth strongest. He did train Gohan though, so that counts for something.

"You're the one that trained Gohan, right?" She asked.

"Yep, he was my best pupil." He replied. "He never did surpass me though. When we fought I was able to win."

"Well I'm pretty sure the outcome would be different if you tried that now." Gine told him. "He's been training with me and Kakarot, and from what I can tell he's stronger than you."

Roshi was about to reply, but he was cut off by Kakarot.

"I want you to train me old man!" He demanded loudly.

"No, I'm afraid I won't do that." Replied Roshi. "You are not pure of heart, and I won't train someone that will potentially use my techniques for evil."

"Are you saying Kakarot is evil?" Asked Gine, glaring at the old man.

"I met him on the beach once, and what he showed me there was enough for me to judge him as unworthy of training." Roshi replied.

Well, Kakarot is kind of rude. But he's definitely not evil, this old man doesn't even know what real evil is.

Then she turned to Kakarot. "Why do you want to train with him anyway?" She asked. "He's not that strong."

"He trained Gohan. And Gohan knew some really interesting moves that I'd like to learn." He replied. Then he turned to Roshi.

"Is there anyway I could convince you to train me?"

Roshi looked thoughtful for a moment. "There's a town I need a package carried to." He said finally. "Carry the package there, and report back to me. Depending on your report I'll decide on whether or not to train you."

"That's it?" Said Kakarot, looking amused. "All I have to do is become your errand boy for a day? Fine I'll do it."

Roshi nodded. "Come with me when I leave and I'll give you the package."

"When are you leaving?" Asked Gine.

"We'll be leaving later today if that's fine with you." He replied.

"That's fine." Replied Gine, then she turned to Kakarot. "After your done come find me, we should be about done by then."

He nodded. "Alright mom. Where are Yamcha and Bulma?" He asked looking around.

Gine sensed them coming up from behind her, and turned around. "They're right there." She said.

"We've got the Dragon Ball." Said Bulma as they approached. "Only one more to go, then you guys can make your wish."

"That's great." Said Gine. "Kakarot's going to go do something for Roshi, so we're going to have to go on without him for a while."

Bulma nodded. "That's okay, with you around we shouldn't need him for the rest."

"Let's get going then." Said Gine as Bulma and Yamcha walked towards the car.

"Hey, Gine."

Gine turned around and saw Fasha standing behind her. "What's up?"

"You should come train with me after you're done with whatever it is you're doing, we'll get a lot stronger training together than we would on our own." She said.

Gine smiled. "Yeah, I'll come back. See ya." Then she took off down the road after Bulma and Yamcha.

After several hours they entered an area of dessert that had giant mushrooms everywhere.

I didn't know mushrooms even grew in the dessert. I wonder if they're artificial, I don't think their supposed to be this big.

Gine glanced to the side to check on Bulma and Yamcha, and saw Yamcha was pressed against the door, nearly falling out of the open topped car.

What's up with him? She wondered as she fell in beside him.

"What's up?" She asked.

He turned and leapt to the other side of the car. "N-Nothing."

Gine rolled her eyes. "It's obviously something, or you wouldn't be terrified of me and Bulma." She replied. "Why is that anyway?"

"N-No reason." He replied nervously.

Gine furrowed her brow in thought. What's something me and Bulma have in common? We're both women… That's about all I can think of.

"Are you scared of women, Yamcha?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.

"N-No, of course not! What a silly thought." He replied, clearly lying through his teeth.

Gine raised an eyebrow. "For a bandit you're a really bad liar. It's obvious your scared of us, and that's the only thing we have in common."

The dessert bandit hung his head. "Alright, I'll admit it. I'm scared of beautiful women." He said softly.

Poor guy. Thought Gine, sympathetically. That sucks, girls are a natural part of life, and from what Gohan tells me marriage is fairly common on this planet. Man that's a pretty bad… What's the word? Phobia, I think.

She gave him a sympathetic smile. "I'm really sorry about that. Is there anything I can do to help?"

He looked at her with an awestruck expression on his face. "You're not laughing at me?"

"Of course not." Replied Gine. "Everyone's scared of something, being scared of girls is something I haven't heard of before, but I'm sure someone else out there is afraid of the same thing. And if I can I'd like to help out."

Yamcha simply looked into her eyes for a moment. "Thanks Gine." He said finally.

"For what?" Asked Gine, confused. "I haven't done anything yet."

"You've already helped me out." He replied. "I don't think I'm going to be scared of girls anymore."

"Your welcome." Said Gine with a smile as she dropped away from the car. She loved to help people, it had always made her feel nice, and helping Yamcha, even if she didn't quite understand how she'd done it, had felt even better than usual.

They kept going until they stopped in a town at a building with a bunch of what Gine assumed to be pumps of some kind.

"Why did we stop?" She asked Bulma.

"We're stopping for gas and supplies, mostly food." She added glaring at Gine.

Gine laughed guiltily and rubbed the back of her head.

"You stay here, I'll be back with food, and maybe some new clothes." Said Bulma as she walked off down the road.

Gine turned to where Yamcha was pumping gas, and went over to watch him.

"What's this thing do?" She asked as she neared the gas pump.

"It pumps gas into cars so they can run." He replied.

"Your vehicle's run off gas?" Asked Gine. "Isn't that kind of inefficient?"

"How else are we supposed to travel?" He responded as he set the nozzle into some form of hole in the side, that Gine assumed led to whatever tank held the gas.

"Well, on Planet Vegeta all the Saiyan's could fly. So we never really needed cars." She explained. "And flying's pretty easy anyway once you get the hang of it."

"We'll I don't know of any human's that can fly." Replied Yamcha. "That's not exactly normal here."

"Yeah, I guess you're right." Admitted Gine. "Gohan's one of the best fighters on this planet, and he couldn't do it until I taught him how."

"Wait do you mean the Invincible Old Master Gohan!?" Exclaimed Yamcha.

Gine gave him a confused look. "His name was Gohan, and he was very strong for an earthling. But he never said anything about being Invincible. He did mention that he was trained by someone named Roshi."

Yamcha gaped at her. "You taught something to the Great Master Gohan. And your even stronger than him."

Gine nodded. "Yeah, didn't you watch my fight with Fasha? And I'm a Saiyan, we're naturally way stronger than humans. In fact." She added. "Some of our low class soldiers are born with power-levels around as big as yours."

"W-What? You mean there are babies as strong as me?"

Gine nodded and smiled sympathetically. "Yeah, I think I was weaker though, I've never been very strong." Her smile dropped. "I was actually called a disgrace to the Saiyan race more than once." She said softly. "I was actually a pretty pathetic excuse for a warrior. Maybe if I wasn't so pathetic I could've helped Bardock instead of being knocked out and sent here."

Yamcha put his arm around her shoulders. "Hey, being born weaker than some people is not your fault. And who cares how strong you are? You're a really good person, and that matters way more than physical strength."

Gine smiled at him. "Thanks, Yamcha."

They stood there for a little while like that until Gine heard a scream.

"That sounded like Bulma." She said as she stood up. "I'm going to go check it out."

She flew off in the direction of the scream.

It wasn't very hard to find the place where the scream had come from. There was an area in town that people were fleeing from. Gine landed in a street that had several alleys off in between what looked like stores.

Gine heard some shouting from in between what looked like a grocery store and a clothes store. She rushed into the alley and stopped dead.

Bulma was at the other end of the alley backed up against a wall, and two men were approaching her, laughing lecherously as Bulma stared at them in terror.

Gine's mind flashed back to an alley on Planet Vegeta, and a massive Saiyan with a thin mustache.

"Back off." Said Gine coldly.

The two turned around and smirked when they saw her.

They were dressed in black trench coats, black boots, and brown gloves. They had black rabbit ears on their heads that Gine might have found amusing any other time, and they had guns strapped to their sides. One was fat and average height, while the other was taller and skinnier. The walked towards Gine with arrogant smirks on their faces.

"Hey babe." Said the tall one as they came closer to her. "We were about to have some fun with your friend, but we can play with you first."

The fat one chuckled and started to reach for her. Rage flashed through Gine and she rammed her fist right through his gut.

He coughed up blood onto her face, then fell limp onto her her arm. Gine pulled her arm back and glared coldly at the tall one.

"If you leave now I won't kill you." She said coldly. "Though if I find you attempting anything like this again I won't be so merciful." She stepped to the side and allowed him to go past her, white-faced and shaking.

"The boss'll be here soon." He called over his shoulder as he ran down the road. "Then he'll do his special thing to you!"

Let him come. Thought Gine as she neared Bulma. I'll kill him to.

"Hey are you okay?" Asked Gine as she knelt down next to Bulma.

The blue-haired girl looked up at her with fear-filled eyes. "I think so." She replied shakily. "I thought they were going to..." She trailed off as she threw her arms around Gine.

"Hey it's alright." Said Gine comfortingly. "They're gone now."

Bulma released her after a moment and stood up, looking down the rest of the alley.

"What happened to him?" She asked, pointing at the fat man.

"I killed him." Replied Gine. "I didn't mean to, but I really hate people like that, let's get back to the car and get out of here."

Bulma grabbed some bags Gine hadn't noticed before and followed her out of the alley.

They hadn't gotten very far down the road when they heard a voice from behind them.

"Hey you two!" Said a voice from behind them.

They turned around and saw a giant rabbit walking down the road towards them, trailed by the tall man Gine had let live in the alley.

The man stayed behind looking fearfully at Gine, while the rabbit continued up the road towards them.

He got within arms reach of them and stopped.

"Let's just forget everything that happened today, and then we can all go on our way. Okay, girls?" He said as he offered his hand.

Who does he think we are? Thought Gine angrily. But before she could speak up Bulma slapped the rabbit's hand and flipped him off.

"No way!" She shouted. "Don't bother us again." She turned around. "Come on Gine."

Gine shrugged and turned to follow her. Then there was a puff of smoke from where Bulma had been standing, and when Gine turned to look a carrot was lying in her place.

The rabbit leapt for the carrot, but Gine moved, and when the rabbit's hand struck empty ground.

"Where'd she go?!" He shouted as he raised his head to look around.

"Change her back. Now." Said Gine coldly from behind him.

He whirled around and his jaw dropped when he saw her standing behind him.

"H-how did you get there!?" He demanded.

Meanwhile the larger henchman was moving up behind Gine, and now he leapt at her. She moved to the side and roundhouse kicked him into the air, sending him flying far away from the village.

"N-no I won't change her back!" He declared, then he cackled loudly. "If you touch me you'll turn into a carrot as well. And even if you could touch me you won't because I'm the only one that can turn Blueberry there back to normal." he cackled some more.

Gine felt her tail lash in anger. Scum, and scum like that are only concerned with one thing.

She aimed her hand at him and formed a ball of blue energy in front of her palm.

"Try me." She replied coldly.

He gaped at her, then at the ball of energy. Then he laughed nervously.

"Y-you're just bluffing."

Gine made the ball of energy grow slightly larger, and the rabbits eyes bulged.

"Alright, alright! I'll change her back!" He shouted fearfully.

He aimed outstretched hands at Bulma, there was a puff of smoke, and Bulma was sitting there on the ground in front of Gine.

Gine let loose her energy blast, it connected and exploded, completely destroying the rabbit.

"Lets go." She said to Bulma as she started walking again.

Bulma joined her, but seemed to sense Gine's mood and didn't talk.

I hate killing. Thought Gine sadly as she walked down the road, the anger that had been recently running through her slowly subsiding. But sometimes it's necessary, and that was one of those times.

What do you guys think about me responding to reviews that way?

I added power levels. The level of accuracy may be debatable but I'll try.

Reviews are always appreciated. Thanks for reading.

Power Levels

Gine - 2,000 (suppressed) 3,000 (maximum)

Fasha - 3,000

Kakarot - 600

Chi-Chi - 500

Ox-King - 90

Yamcha - 30