The sky's light hit Sabbra's eyelids and woke her up. She leaned up and stretched her arms over her head as she yawned. She checked on her unicomm, which thankfully was not broken. As a matter of fact, it was...overcharged?
"Right, the spaceshock dragon." Sabbra said while she pocketed the unicomm and took out her bounty receiver.
[I should probably check out that job since I'm going to be on the move for now, maybe I'll find a way to get rid of Friktos.] She thought as she rubbed her eyes. She tapped the device's green center, and it began ringing for around a minute or two. Someone finally picked up.
"Hello hello Sabbra! We have come to make you an offer you can't refuse." The employer said in a dramatic tone.
"Just get to the point..." Sabbra said, which prompted the man to continue.
"We sold a village artifact and our fellow neighbors kiiiinda got upset...we got exiled, so we gotta get it back. We sold it to a mob boss and he won't let us buy it back. So just help us steal it back so we can get unexiled...please? We'll pay you whatever you want." The man said in a more desperate tone.
"Sure, just send me the location. I usually do assassinations, but eh, what the hell, I'm open." Sabbra said as she stood up while rubbing her neck, even if it was fully healed by now.
Sabbra received the location and pulled up her black hood, which hid her face inside its shade. She took out her unicomm and began doing the planet teleporting trick with the Kai Kai, teleporting from planet to planet. She eventually reached a hazy red asteroid and saw a golden spiky spaceship in the distance. A silhouette waved at her from the ship's window as she approached. She walked under the ship as a platform floated down with a short, well-suited man who had green skin, pointy ears, no hair, and a pair of antennae.
"Hello! You came here faster than I expected! I am Carac." The suited young man spoke.
"Well nice to meet you. I'm ready to go." Sabbra said before she looked around and took a deep breath. "Huh...that's weird, why does this random space rock have air?" She said as she took some more deep breaths. Carac offered his hand to help Sabbra up the platform, which she just ignored as she stepped up to it. They silently stared at each other for a few seconds before Carac retracted his hand and answered her question.
"This spaceship brings its own atmosphere generator! That's almost as cool as this...'money'." Carac said, which triggered the platform to hoverlift the two of them onto the ship.
"Honestly...the at most sphere generator is cooler than the floating door." Sabbra said. Carac sighed in disappointment due to her taste.
The ship's interior had many luxurious decorations made out of precious alien materials and gems. It was... overwhelmingly gaudy. Sabbra whistled and thought to herself [atleast SOMEONE knows how to decor date, unlike a certain lizard].
"Hey lil' bro! How are ya! Who's this?" A slurred voice from behind Sabbra and Carac said as he hugged both from behind. Sabbra let out a high pitched yelp and elbowed the hugging man on the gut before she skittered forwards, turned around, and aimed a finger gun at the now downed man. The man seemed to resemble Carac as he was the same species and wore a matching suit. The main difference was that he was taller than even Sabbra, and would tower over Carac when on his feet. The man held his gut and groaned as he bled some purple blood from his mouth.
"Woah woah woah! Chill out Sabbra! Abosa, sober the hell up! That's the assassin!" Carac said as he shook the taller man named Abosa.
"Why did he do that?! He tried to crush me!" Sabbra said as she charged a ki blast on her fingertip.
"What? No! It was just a hug!" Carac said. Sabbra squinted her eyes, which were visible as red glowing irises under her hood. "...It's a sign of endearment..." Carac said, but Sabbra just narrowed her eyes further. "...Guess they don't do hugs where you're from, please give us a moment... Abosa, you okay?" Carac said as he softly shook the drunk man who still held his gut in pain.
"Yeah yeah...I'm okay...let me just..." Abosa said before he grunted a bit as he regenerated and lost his slurred voice. "There, sober." Abosa said as Carac helped him up to his feet. "Sorry about the unsolicited hug, Sabbra was it?" Abosa said as he walked over to Sabbra, wiping the blood from his mouth with his left hand and then offered a handshake with his right.
"Aren't you fearless..." Sabbra said as she hesitantly dissipated her charged ki blast and gave him a handshake. "Well, you're a Namekian, which I've heard is a peaceful race. So I guess I overreacted. Just...don't do that again...and I'm sorry." Sabbra said.
"It's all good man. So, welcome to the S.C. Unnamed!" Abosa said as he spread his arms wide open as if to present the ship. "That's a placeholder name." Abosa said in a quicker and quieter tone, Sabbra softly chuckled as the name reminded her of home.
"That's real table, I struggle naming things these days too. So what exactly are we gonna steal? This art in fact must have sold for A LOT to be able to afford this ship and soup posely pay me as much as I want." Sabbra asked.
Carac snickered at Sabbra's pronounciations of some words, which prompted Abosa to slap the back of his head. "Ow..a Dragon Ball, an orange sphere as big as umm...my head! It has six stars that will always face you regardless of where you look at it from. Collect seven of them and you can grant yourself a-" Carac said before Abosa slapped the back of his head again. "-VERY GOOD LOOKING COLLECTION!" Carac said as he rubbed his head.
[Ugh, why would he think it's a good idea to tell her that they grant wishes?] Abosa thought to himself.
[They grant wishes?...this...this could help me against Friktos! No, Cryo! Both! Holy shit...maybe even dad...] "Sounds good! Tell me where to go!" Sabbra thought and said afterwards as she gained a broad smile that was unseen under her hood.
"Oh we'll take you there. No offense, but we don't want to risk you stealing the Dragon Ball for yourself." Abosa said as he walked over to the front of the ship, Carac followed beside him.
[Oh come on! Wait, I actually get to sleep while probably moving farther away from Friktos. Could be worse.] Sabbra thought as she shrugged.
"Let's go. 'Money'." Abosa said, which triggered the platform to open up again. "Ugh, why did we make 'money' both the voice command platform AND launching the sequence?!" Abosa said as he side-eyed Carac.
"We?! YOU set it up that way while you were drinking!" Carac said.
"Fine fine fine, we'll just reconfigurate it or something." Abosa said as he checked the control panel.
Sabbra admired the ship's tasteless decorations while the namekian brothers fidgeted with the controls, eventually blasting off. She looked at her hooded reflection on one of the shiny vases, which would fall and break after the ship's launch.
"Aha! I told you that vase wouldn't survive for longer than three blast offs! Pay up!" Carac said as he poked Abosa on the forehead.
"This is the fourth blast off, you idiot! I don't owe you scrap!" Abosa said as he slapped Carac's hand away and they began arguing in the background. Sabbra looked at the namekian brothers going off on each other and snickered a bit. She leaned back against a wall and slid down. She sat down and her vision grew dark.
Sabbra woke up and found herself sitting in front of Carac. A 3x3 grid made out of golden chains was on the floor between them. Sabbra had small gems in her hands, while Carac had gold coins.
"Come on Sabbra, hurry up, I'll beat you this time." Carac said, as he held his head up with his free hand.
"What? What happened?" Sabbra said as she looked around the ship. She rubbed her eyes. [Didn't I just sleep? Why do I still feel tired?] She thought to herself.
"We were playing Rocks and Leaves, or I guess in this case, Coins and Gems. Hey...are you okay? Your eyes changed again." Carac said.
"What?!" Sabbra said as she dropped the gems and jumped to her feet. She made a Shatter Orb without the red glow inside. She looked at her eyes on the ball's reflection, she had not even noticed that her hood was down and her face was revealed. "Were they blue?!" Sabbra said as she dissipated the Shatter Orb after seeing her eyes were still the usual red irises. Her yell woke up Abosa, who had fallen asleep on the pilot seat, though he was too drowzy at the moment to complain.
"Woah! Calm down, they weren't blue. Your irises just turned into very small pupils, like dots." Carac said.
"DOTS?! White?! Were they white?!" Sabbra said as she shivered. She held her arms.
"No, still red. Seriously, are you okay? You've been jumpy since you got here. Are you always like this?" Carac said.
Sabbra rubbed her arms and remained silent for a few seconds. After she settled down, Sabbra shivered and felt her skin crawl. "...I'm okay, just...t-turn up the t-t-temporal ture, please." Sabbra said as she rubbed her arms some more.
"The temperature? Eeeeh, I rather not. Plus, we are going to reach the planet in a few minutes." Carac said.
"...Please..." Sabbra said as she breathed heavily and gripped her arms tighter. Carac rolled his eyes.
"It's not even that cold but okay. Abosa, turn up the temperature." Carac said, Abosa groaned and complied. He turned up the ship's temperature.
"Thanks...so...Rocks and Leaves? I haven't played that in years, I made it, so how did you know about it?" Sabbra said as she sat back down on the floor with her legs crossed. She rubbed her hands as she felt warmth again. Sabbra let out a sigh of relief as her breathing returned to normal.
"I didn't? You offered to play, besides, it's not exactly an original game." Carac said as he picked up the gems and chains, since Sabbra didn't seem interested in playing anymore.
"But I didn't. Last thing I remember was you two arguing about weather who won over a vase breaking." Sabbra said.
[Why do I feel she said 'whether' wrong?] Carac visibly held in a laugh. "You really don't remember turning the vase shards into candy and giving it to us, but being disappointed when we told you that our kind doesn't eat? Or asking us to play Rocks and Leaves? You seemed so cheery and playful, it was kind of adorable. You really don't remember?" Carac said as he pocketed the gems, coins, and chains.
"I'm smacking the back of your head next time you laugh at the way I talk. But yeah, I don't...so no blue or white eyes, just small dot RED eyes?" Sabbra said.
"Yup, just that." Carac said as he shrugged.
As Sabbra pondered about this situation, Abosa stood up and walked into a room. "Catch!" Abosa said as he peeked out of the room while wearing a mask and threw out two of them to his brother. Carac put the first mask over his mouth and handed the second one to Sabbra. She grabbed and looked at it. It was a white mask with 6 small black filters.
"Great...wait what's this for?" Sabbra said, looking over to Abosa.
"The mission is on Planet Eitchtuo. An underwater planet." Abosa said.
Sabbra looked at the mask further. She focused on the 6 filters. "Are you sure I need this? While I enjoy breathing, I don't actually need to. Plus, I can-" Sabbra said. {-speak like this.} The namekians heard her voice in their heads, Carac's mouth hung a bit open at the revelation.
"Telepathy will be pretty useful. But keep the mask around, you never know when one of us might need a spare." Abosa said as he walked over to Carac and Sabbra, carrying two backpacks. He handed one over to Carac.
"Mind talking, cooooool, just like the Elder!" Carac said as he put the bag on his back.
"By the way Sabbra, I didn't ask you this earlier, but does that candy-fying beam of yours work on people?" Abosa said.
"NO!" The room fell silent after Sabbra's violent response. The brothers gave each other a concerned look. Sabbra looked at them briefly and then down to avoid eye contact. She stood up and stored the mask in the pocket with her unicomm. She took out her unicomm to check her current location and realized a note-taking application was open. "Hey, Carac, was I using my unicomm earlier?" Sabbra said.
"Yeah, why?" Carac said as he stood up, walked over to the front of the ship and looked out the window.
"Just curious." Sabbra said as she read a note on the application that read '-Hello! If you read this! Write a message back right here! I'll answer next time you go to sleep!' [What the hell?...who's in my body? Whoever it is, they seem friendly at least, and know about my old games. I'll deal with this later. I'm just glad my eyes didn't turn blue, meaning it's not Friktos.] Sabbra thought to herself as she let out a yawn and rubbed one of her eyes.
"We're here. I'll explain the plan on the way." Abosa said as he looked over to the big blue aquatic planet that was visible from the ship's front window. The space around the planet was surrounded by sleeping colossal whale-like creatures.
"Why didn't you explain it to her during the ship tr-" Carac said before Abosa slapped his head. Sabbra walked over and looked out the window.
"Hey look, Baiyous! Didn't expect them to be around this system." Sabbra said as she pointed at the spacial leviathans. Carac stood right beside her to marvel at the Baiyous.
The golden spiky ship landed on a large floating platform with other parked ships. The tourist parking platform floated over the water that enveloped most of the planet. The namekians exited the ship and quickly dived into the water, but resurfaced when Sabbra did not follow. She stood on the edge of the platform, staring at the depths of the ocean planet. "Sabbra? You coming?" Carac said.
Sabbra kept staring at the ocean, only hearing the waves. Abosa reached out and tapped her foot to grab her attention, as she did not register follow-up calls. "Huh? Oh yeah, sorry. Yeah, I'm coming." Sabbra said as she inhaled and exhaled deeply one last time before diving into the planet.
Author Notes: Hello, again, sorry for taking so long to update...again. I'll do my best to finish the next chapter quicker.
I tried a new format, starting a new paragraph every time a different character speaks. Hopefully that is easier on the eyes. Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoyed the new chapter.