~Takula Saga~
Chapter 42 – The Universal Library Opens
The six on the small spaceship looked on with wide eyes as the large asteroid slowly consumed the entire window, forcing them to look at it. It was huge, no doubt about that. But if this thing really was a space station, where were they going to land? Would their shields even let them pass? Maybe they should send a message towards their ship, or wait for them to hail themselves instead?
Gohan glanced towards the three people that were new to space, Goten, Trunks, and Videl. All of them looked as if they had seen a ghost, though the young saiyans weren't as scared as curious. Their pail white faces had a tint of excitement in them. It was in their blood after all to get excited about these kind of things after all.
Videl however didn't have that bit of excitement. Maybe he should have tried to make Videl stay back on earth after all. It had occurred to him before take off that it might not be a good idea for Videl to come, but she wasn't one to be left behind. Besides, he could see Videl ready to fight it out for her chance to come with. If he could go, why couldn't she? Gohan chuckled nervously to himself as he pictured Videl's glare if he had tried to make her stay. He had brushed off his worry then, but now it was back, eating away at him.
"Hey Videl, are you gonna to be okay?"
The black haired woman snapped from her trance, some color returning to her face. "Y-ya. I'm fine."
"Hey big sis, are you scared?"
Gohan took a worried look at the young Goten at Videl's feet. It's a good thing his little brother was cute, otherwise Videl might-a smacked him cold. Now all the color was back into Videl's face, a red fit of rage consuming her. Ya, she'd be fine just as soon as they landed.
"N-No! I'm not scared, not at all!"
Goten smiled, putting both hands behind his head. "Okay, cause if you were we'd understand. It is pretty scary looking."
Videl glared down at the small boy with wild hair. Her fists were clenched, herself nearly going cross-eyed as her body trembled in anger. How dare that little ball of energy ask if she was scared. Of coarse she was nervous, it was a giant ass space station! But scared, Videl Satan did not do scared. Not ever, especially sense her near death experience. Fear was something that happened sure, but never so much that it was paralyzing. She didn't want to have to have Gohan protect her again. She wasn't some princess that needed rescuing from a knight. She didn't do damsel in distress.
Suddenly, the ship rocked back and forth, sending all those who were standing to the floor. The shaking and rumbling continued for about five seconds before finally leveling out again. Everyone gripped their now soar body parts as they looked towards Vegeta, who was looking over the display with a rather displeased look.
"What was that?" Krillin said, holding onto his head. Darn, when he wasn't ready for it the ground sure was hard.
Vegeta grunted, slowly standing up from his seat as he turned to the others. "It's some kind of tractor-beam. Our ship doesn't have the power or the tech to break free, so it looks like for the rest of the way they'll be flying for us."
Something close to a television screen came down from the ceiling, coming just down so everyone could see it. Soon an image came to focus, a blue haired woman and a gray haired man with a black cat on his shoulder looking at them. "We're starting to lose our connection with you guys. It seems that the ship is also giving off some sort of signal that's scrambling our tracker. Once inside it looks like you'll be on your own."
"Make sure you take care of the kids Vegeta! I don't want a repeat of what happened when you took them to the park!"
"I told you that wasn't my fault woman!" So some random kid with a mullet was put in a hospital. It wasn't his fault, the idiot tried to bully Trunk's and Goten. The kids just kicked his ass, not his fault in the slightest.
Suddenly 18 and Marron pushed her head onto the screen, forcing the first two to the side as they tried to stay in the picture. "Make sure you get home quickly Krillin. The new house is going to be here soon, and I'm not going to set it up alone. Do you hear me?"
Krillin smiled nervously, nodding to say he understood. "Got ya. We'll be back soon, I promise."
"Huwwy back daddy!" Marron waved to her father just before two more pushed onto the screen.
Tien and Yamcha smiled. "You guys just couldn't wait huh? Well don't worry, if you guys mess it up we'll be hear to back ya up!"
Vegeta huffed, Tien looking to Yamcha. "You really think we could do it if they couldn't?"
"Well, when it comes to fighting they got us, but we got, well...I got the people skills! This race might even be all female! Then I'd definitely be able to help! Hey you guys, if it's an all female race get out of there and let me handle it, okay?"
Finally, one last head pushed her way in with all the others still trying to get on screen. "Gohan, you make sure Goten behaves, okay? You two watch out for each other! And Goten, make sure you watch out for Videl! If anything happens to her Gohan's chances to marry her go out the window along with my grandkids!"
Gohan smiled nervously with a large red hue covering his cheeks, waving to the screen as static started to cover up the picture. "Don't worry. We'll all be home soon."
The faces on the screen quickly said their goodbyes all at once as the static consumed the television set, making it one large jumble of incoherent words. The six on the ship turned back to the window as they slowly neared the space rock. As they got closer, the rock seemingly opened up, reveling a smaller ball of metal looking material inside the cloak. As they floated in, the shield closed back around them.
It wasn't long before they were closing in on the large metal ball. As they neared, a hanger of sorts opened up, allowing their ship access to the large building.
Videl unconsciously backed up and to the side, just behind Gohan's arm. Damn, this was nerve wrecking. What, was their ship trying to compensate for something? It was huge! And now being inside, it seemed to be even bigger than what she imagined. Looking up at Gohan, she found him with a calm look on his face. With a sigh, Videl tried to calm herself. If he was so relaxed, she surely didn't have to worry.
Vegeta put their ship's landing gears out and opened the door just as their ship touched down. As the small orb like ship began to power down, the six from earth inside slowly made their way outside. Vegeta nonchalantly made his way down the ramp, the others being a little more cautious. Goten and Trunks looked around the large room they had been pulled into, their mouth's slightly gaping in awe.
"Wow! This place is really big! What do ya think Trunks?"
The strangely haired saiyan turned to his best friend, a slight smirk on his face. "Five zenny on us having to blow it up we leave."
Goten giggled as the two continued to look around the room they had been lead too. Videl and Gohan stepped off the ramp as they too took in their new surroundings. The hanger itself was little more than the shiny reflective metal looking material. Who's ever this station thing was obviously liked their reflection. As they walked, a silent metallic tap would come from their feet hitting the floor. Gohan walked up to Krillin as the small ex-monk was glancing around the room.
"I wonder how long they're going to make us wait."
Krillin glanced back at Gohan, shrugging. "Beats me. I wonder if they'll even be able to speak the same language."
"Well, whatever's taking them so long, they better hurry up." grumbled Videl. She was starting to get edgy.
Just then, a door across the room slid open. A large red humanoid stepped forward. The six from earth turned to face their new acquaintance, the four older ones mentally prepared themselves for whatever happened next, while the two young saiyans just looked at him curiously. The man stood at least seven feet high, with long white hair running down to his shoulders. His face was scrunched up, making him look stern and unforgiving.
His clothes were strange, at least to them. He wore pure yellow boots that looked something like the saiyan boots Vegeta wore. Further up a large orange wrapping around his waist hung down infront of the man's legs. Behind you could make out a sky blue leggings that the man wore as pants. A large red overcoat with stiff shoulders that extended far further than they needed to finished off the man's ensemble. The man also had a red headband that covered his forehead, possibly to hold his hair back from his face.
After a few long moments of silence, the large red man finally spoke. "Follow me. My master has been expecting you."
The red alien turned and started to walk away, not even bothering to check to make sure they were following. Goten and Trunks turned to the others to see if they were going too. The others looked at each other for a second. Did they want to follow? Vegeta finally grunted as he began to walk towards the doorway where the red alien had been standing moments before, settling the argument. If they came all the way here, they might as well find out what they wanted.
As they all made their way through the doorway, they found themselves in a long hallway. The large nameless alien continued to lead them down the dimly lit hall until they reached yet another door. With a swoosh noise the door slit up as they neared it, relieving a large white room. The six from earth shielded their eyes as they made their way in, the pure white burning at their eyes. When they finally could see again, they found the red alien standing next to a shorter purplish one.
This new one looked much younger than his counterpart. A white spiky mohawk covered his head, making him look a little taller than he really was. His outfit matched the taller red alien's, however his was blue and his orange wrap at his wast didn't flow down infront of his legs. The smaller man smiled as he eyed each of the fighters.
"Welcome. My name is Takula, and this is my library."
The six from earth looked at the shorter one. Even though he was the smaller of the two, it was easy enough to tell he was the one in charge, especially now that he had said so. But the white room didn't seem to much like a library.
"What do you mean, library? This whole ship is just one library?" Videl blinked. She was expecting some kind of war machine or something of the like. A library definitely wasn't even on her suspicion list.
The small man chuckled. "Well, a museum might be a better description, but it started as a library. It is this ship's purpose to gather and protect the knowledge of the universe. I am a supreme kai, and it is my job to gather and record that knowledge."
Gohan, Krillin, and Vegeta's eyes widened along with their bodies stiffening at that statement. A supreme kai? They had never heard of such a thing, but they very well knew what it meant. This alien was above even the Grand Kai Goku had spoke of when he visited them. The two younger ones and Videl however just stared at the small purple alien, confused about what he was talking about.
"You've already met my assistant Kibito." Takula pointed up to Kibito, insinuating that he was talking about the red alien at his side. "I'm glad you've all come. I was hoping someone would."
Finally Gohan snapped out of his daze. "Wait, you want us to come here? For what reason have you come to earth?"
"To be frank, this Universal Library has been closed for a long long time now. The Cold Family had long been trying to track me down and use the knowledge this station contains to their own advantage. But all of a sudden, the Cold Army fell apart. I found it rather odd, but at first I figured they simply gave up. This stations technology is far above there own, the shielding around can protect the knowledge easily from them. The cloaking also is far above anything they could have worked around, so I figured it was simply that. But one day, I picked up large power levels coming from a small planet far removed from the more populated space. One of the power's was Frieza, but the other I didn't recognize, though it did feel similar to a fight I had felt a few years earlier on Namek. So, I decided to investigate."
In the middle of the white room, a small circular hole about five feet wide opened in the floor, a small circular device rising in it's place. Soon, a holographic depiction of earth appeared above it, just at eye level. The see through earth slowly rotated around on it's axis, the blue and green of the planet sparkling as it turned.
"To be honest, not even I knew of a planet that existed with such life so far from other planets. It's no wonder so few people know of it's existence. But this station held knowledge of it none the less."
Takula's eye started to sparkle, as if he knew something the other's didn't. However, a history lesson didn't sound so exciting for Goten and Trunks. The oddly haired saiyan turned to his friend, trying to be sneaky as he tugged on his sleeve.
"Hey Goten, let's go exploring! I saw a different door not far back, let's go!"
Goten quickly nodded. "Okay, let's go!"
The two boy's stealthily made their way back out the still open door to the hallway they had came from, un-noticed. The four older ones had all their eyes fixed on the supreme kai, a sense of something big about to be told to them. Someone who the Kai's hadn't even been able to meet must have a reason to suddenly show himself to them.
Takula continued on. "Well, the knowledge I have gathered so far from just coming this close to the planet has granted me some interesting facts. To think that saiyan's could have found their way to this planet. The rest of the universe believes you to be dead, Prince Vegeta."
The prince was even taken back by this. How could he have known from just looking? Vegeta's face quickly returned to it's normal neutral state, glaring across to the two aliens. "How could you have known that? Only the Namekian's could have known."
"You doubt my abilities Prince? I don't blame you, but please try to be more open minded. I have been at this for many thousands of years now. I even was around to witness not only the second fall of the saiyans, but the first as well."
"F-first, what do you mean by the first fall of the saiyans?" spoke up Gohan. The first fall? He had never heard of anything besides when Frieza killed Planet Vegeta. But the way this guy was talking, that was the first fall.
Krillin must have had the same thought process, because quickly he joined Gohan. "Ya! We've never heard of anything like this, Vegeta told us all he knew, so how could you know more than him?"
"I'm sure you've all heard the story of how the first saiyans landed on Planet Truffle with one broken space ship with barely any saiyan's on-board. Don't tell me, you've never wondered of what happened before that? Never wondered what forced the saiyan's to land there with a broken and beaten ship?"
The four left glanced at each other. To be honest, they usually had other things to worry about. And during their free time they didn't exactly spend it wondering what happened thousands of years ago. Takula visibly sighed, rubbing his eyes.
"The young really are mindless." Gohan and Krillin smiled nervously as they eyed Vegeta and Videl, both whom were glaring daggers at this small purple Takula. The supreme kai took no notice, or ignored it as he raised his hand towards the hologram of planet earth. Quickly it started to take a new shape of a planet much like earth, but the continents were much different along with the bodies of water.
"Now listen young ones. As a good will offering, I will tell you something about you saiyans that has been long forgotten in the sands of time." Kibito looked as if he were about to protest, but one look from Takula made him remain quiet. The four from earth that were still in the white room watched intently. This guy was a supreme kai after all.
"Thousands and thousands of years ago, the saiyan's were a race not unlike myself. Yes, saiyans at one point held the position of supreme kai's. They watched over the universe from the planet before you now. My own race were their assistance, and peace ruled over nearly everything. But as time moved on, a new young and powerful race came to crave the power the saiyan's held. A war broke out, which consumed the entire universe."
The hologram quickly changed to a picture of space, with thousands of specks that represented fighters seemingly hanging in the nothingness. Soon the small dots shot towards one another, explosions soon lighting up the darkness.
"The saiyan's proved powerful, and the new race was nearly beaten withing the first year of the war. But a second race, the Majins, another powerful race that had instead power, great magic. They could create beings of immeasurable power, so many of them that the saiyan's were out numbered. Still, the saiyan's still held the greater power. The two races fought together against the saiyans, and in the end everything was placed on one large battle. However, the alliance fixed the fight before it could even begin."
The four left listening continued to watch as they learned about the saiyan race before the truffles and Frieza. Even Vegeta was rendered senseless as he learned things about his own race that even he didn't know of. The hologram now changed to something that resembled the shape of dna.
Takula smiled, reveling in the fact that his listeners were so intent on learning. At least the young mortals knew to pay attention and learn a little from history. "With the magic of the Majin's and some of the knowledge this new race had, a small group of them snuck to the planet the saiyan's called home and let lose a Magical Virus. Instead of attacking the body, this virus attacked the power the saiyan's held within themselves. It was radical, and brilliant move, but cowardly none the less. Ironically, some of the saiyans that were hit by this virus lost their tails, as you all know the tail is the source of power for a saiyan. Because of that, they couldn't transform and take part in the final battle."
"So, where did they go? I'll admit, I had to do some digging in the library's databanks to refresh my memory. The planet they fled to was said to be the Saiyan home-world, where their race had started. It was uses as a place to prove themselves, and to reach the final transformation that gave saiyans so much power. The planet wasn't even on my databanks, let alone known by the public. I was only able to find it by looking at an old saiyan book I took from a saiyan ship from back then. But back to the story, two space ships left the planet the saiyans had called home. One with those who could still transform and fight heading for battle, and another heading for the unknown planet where the saiyan race began ... Tell me young ones, do you know where that planet is or what it's called?"
Silence passed over the four from earth. They glanced at each other, confused. How could they know? The only planet Gohan had Krillin had been to was Namek, and that couldn't be it. This was Videl's first time she had been into space, so she couldn't know. The three turned to Vegeta. He had traveled all over space for Frieza and had been to the most planets of any of them. Maybe he knew? But just one look told them he also didn't know. So...why did Takula expect them to know?
Takula sighed, once again rubbing his eyes before looking back at the four. "Come on, think! Use logic. Gohan, you are a star student, are you not? Use that large brain of yours and thing! It never bothered you that when alien's like Raditz or Vegeta came, you both could speak the same language? Or when Frieza would reference a earthling sport? It never bothered you how similar earthlings and Saiyan's look? Ehhh...fine, let me spell it out for you. After that battle thousands of years ago, the remaining saiyans fled in their broken space ship, landing on the Truffle Planet. As time went on, the power virus faded away, but it's damage remained. The saiyans could only transform into their giant ape form, not being able to tap into their more powerful golden powers. The other saiyans, whom had lost their tails from the effect of the virus however and had to flee for safety for their home planet. They lost their tech, but kept their language and games, slowly evolving without the need for powers. However, I believe they simply lost their ability to transform, and their powers might even be greater than the saiyans whom kept their tails."
The four pairs of eyes slowly grew wider as realization started to dawn on them. Takula started to smile as he saw them start to figure it out. "The reason why human's and saiyan's can use energy, often times the same light blue color with golden energy balls. The reason why human's and saiyan's look so much alike. The reason why earthlings and other races from space have the same language. Humans, with their power locked away, have infinite potential. Saiyans, with most of their power stripped away but kept their tails, kept the talent to use energy easily from a young age. Humans, Saiyans, they're the same thing! The reason why both Goku and Vegeta gained the ability to reach into themselves and pull out the power that had been taken away from them, their return to their races home planet. The planet that few people if anyone even knew of. "
It finally hit the four from earth, nearly knocking them off their feet.
"Earth..."
Author's Annotation:
I hope you enjoy! I worked extra hard on this chapter to make sure things flowed nicely for this little tidbit. The reasoning behind the title is reviled! Talent and Potential. Not only does this make Videl a saiyan, not a half saiyan, but a whole one, this also makes Gohan a hybrid of the two different ways the saiyan race evolved. The talent to use energy easily and the potential to use the power locked deep down within the humans all those years ago by the virus.
The reasoning behind this? Well, I read somewhere a while ago that the reason Goten and Trunks are never seen with tails is because that trait is recessive. I didn't learn much in Biology, but I did learn that a recessive trait will not show if a dominant trait is also passed down to the infant. And since Goku had a tail, he had two recessives. Which means, for Gohan to get a tail, Chi-Chi would at least have to have one recessive gene.
Goku would be tt and Chi-Chi would have to be Tt. A big T meant you wouldn't have a tail, sinse it was dominant. Since she's never seen with a tail, that would give her the big T. If you have no idea what I'm trying to explain, try looking up gene's on wiki. It does a pretty good job explaining things.
Basically, if Chi-Chi had two big T's, Gohan couldn't have genetically had a tail. Since he did, that meant there was saiyan blood in Chi-Chi. And making us human's a lost chunk of the saiyan race was just to fun of an idea to pass up and just make a few people like Chi-Chi and Videl part saiyan.