My RPG

[Wolfstar]

Tratz stood up, his triangular eyes narrowed to menacing slits. "We already told you that we're only here for a rest. I don't care what the hell you've got hiding around here, but there are no Andalites in our group. However, you are staring at a legendary Ni Asyas Daemonous, and trust me... I'm willing to kill you to get you to shut up, goat breath."

The oxman scowled and appeared ready to skewer Tratz with the spear, but he did not act right away. Tratz maintained his glare, almost daring the creature to make a move. "Now, if you will excuse my friends, they have an acquaintance to catch up with. I on the other hand am willing to dance with you." He let his ki spark in his hands to punctuate the threat. "That is, if you can keep step with the rhythm of the tune we sing on Ateg Evev."

[chibi cajones]

OOC: Let the bodies hit the floor!


*****

While the Oxman's focus was mostly on Tratz, At let his Buu form relax slightly and partly dissolve--not completely, as he wasn't sure how that would affect his stowaways--and slip quickly into the floor to head after Nijam.
... But then the tentacle creature threw tendrils into the gummy substance, and At found moving much more challenging. Problematic was that he was mostly out of sight now--but not incapable of yelling <I'm stuck!> into Andros and Tratz's minds.

Andros was quickly to his feet, stepping around the table hurriedly and watching that the oxman didn't move to restrain him. Before he continued to move, he kicked under the table, hitting one of the tentacles that was holding At. He then took off at a sprint, for Nijam was within steps of the door.
<They weren't lying,> At's thought speak sounded choked--quite an odd sound for telepathy; <Can't... stay morphed...>

At this point, Nijam made a brief stop at the bar and threw a hand full of coins onto it before turning back for the door. He turned at such a moment and position, however, that he got a very clear image of two half-saiyans and a human being hurled across the floor, crashing into tables as they struggled to gain control of their motion.

Under the table, At was shrinking fast, and the goo that was Buu's body was reshaping and starting to change composition in many places as bone, organs and flesh began to take its place.
The oxman stepped back, regarded the strange events, then drew and jabbed his spear at the ground. Which was, of course, a mistake, as he found Andros' fist in his side quite promptly. The tentacle creature drew back, noting that its victim had become what appeared to be a human child--granted, one with a worn, age-betraying look.

Nijam hit the door running. Kejek was first to his feet, but Kyu and Shaoten still beat him out the door, several of the patrons now not just looking, but moving in.

"I smell something saiyan!" came the howl of a creature we'll carelessly call a wolf-creature that was moving toward the revealed stowaways. Several other aliens and outlaws were in motion, but not all for the revealed--a few were moving in to further examine the dealings of the Oxman, and one quickly moved in to try and relieve Andros of his cloak--an action that earned the creature an elbow to the face.

Kejek spun and held out his wand, sending a red stunbolt into the chest of an oncoming alien. Those that were interested in the chase slowed, but Kejek had done his job--giving Kyu and Shaoten cover to continue the chase, which he immediately rejoined.

Nijam had made good distance, but was still visible to the eyes of Kyu and Shaoten--not quite so trained in spotting the unspottable as some of those that were presently on the megaship, but well enough to keep track of their prey. Nijam made one brief pause once he neared a turn into an alley and signaled back in the direction of the tavern, prompting a pair of bird-warrior-creatures to jump into the path. Shaoten jumped clean over one, Kyu punching the other into a wall and running on past.
By now, Kejek was on their heals, and the bird-warriors stopped in confusion as to who they should apprehend. This of course meant Kejek was free to scatter them to the nearest wall and run past, keeping in sight of the chase.

Nijam disappeared down the alley, gaining enough distance to turn back and send a stream of red light from his eyes at his pursuers. Kyu and Shaoten dodged the attack, but Nijam was again heading away.
"We aren't catching him like this," Shaoten observed, "We need another plan..."
Nijam was slowed when a wall of fire rose in front of him, but only for a moment, as it was no difficult task for the Hermalyan bandit to clear the flames.
"I'll take the sky," Kyu said, then flew high over the surrounding buildings and rushed off to try and block the end of the way. Nijam turned, threw an energy ball, and blasted a hole in the nearest building, then disappeared into the ensuing cloud of dust.
... And was met with Kejek, who at that moment burst through the building's proper entrance, levitating a crate near the door and throwing it in the path of the unfocused attack Nijam threw out to shake him. Nijam then flew up and rushed to break through the opposite wall, but Kejek turned and raised his wand, and then bellowed "Accio crystal!"

There was a flash of green as Nijam scattered debris in his exit, an almost luminescent crystal flying from him and into Kejek's outstretched hand.

Kyu flew straight for Nijam when he saw him rise above the building into which he had fled, but Nijam didn't flench immediately. Instead, he laughed insanely.
"Why aren't you threatening me?" He asked, glaring in amusement at Kyu, "Then maybe I'll let you have that thing."
"If you insist!" Kyu said, rushing at Nijam with fist outstretched. Nijam sent out an eyebeam, and Kyu fell to the roof below, a shocked look of pain frozen on his face.
Shaoten was quickly at the roof, and immediately halted her charge on Nijam when she saw Kyu unmoving on the roof with a large burn across his chest.
"Have a nice day, assholes!" Nijam laughed as he flew off into the reddened sky.
"Go after him!" Kyu said, coming to his senses and rubbing a hand over his wound, "Hurry; I'll catch up!"
"He's long gone," Shaoten said, kneeling by Kyu, "And he hit you..." Kyu sat up, but winced in pain when doing so. "I think we've been over estimating ourselves..."

[Wolfstar]

"There's nothing here worth fussing over," Tratz announced, grabbing the oxman by the horns on his head and slamming the man's protruding nose against his knee. "Go get that Hermalyan bastard while I cover your trail!"

Thick silver mist began to flow around him, a sneer playing on his face as he locked eyes with all the creatures that had risen to fight them. He had realized it years ago, a fact that most Ni Asyas denied. They were just like the Saiyans in that they had extremely heightened pleasure from battle. The dozens of foes that had gathered around the group, the thought that he would get to fight them all alone, it thrilled him. But strangely enough, the thought that he might get to be the hero this time, the thought that he might be able to do something without some Saiyan cramping his style, that was what reigned supreme in his head.

Spikes began to erupt from his back, covering from his shoulders on down his tail, giving the appendage a pitch-fork ending. Two horns rose from his head and his eyes became a crimson darker than blood. Before the mist could clear, Tratz whipped his tail forward, striking the oxman's tentacle monster accomplice and tossing him over a row of other monsters and into a few deserted tables behind the crowd. "You degenerates look like you've never seen a real man fight before!" He punched a primate creature below the rib cage and followed up with an elbow to the top of its skull as it hunched over, crumpling the foe on the floor without effort.

Suddenly, a hand reached out of the crowd, grasping Tratz by the throat and lifting him off the ground, pushing him against a support column in the middle of the room. Tratz smirked despite the discomfort and brought a hand up to the face of the creature holding him. Light danced in is outstretched palm before removing the head of the alien that had grasped him.

The crowd seemed much more reluctant to continue, all save for one figure that stepped forward even as the others stepped back. The creature had cracked gray skin with red filtering into the cracks and sunken dark eye balls with shimmering yellow irises. It was not natural born, Tratz could tell that instantly. Sharpened metal claws flashed in its hands as it leapt at Tratz, slashing furiously at the air. "And what the hell might you be?" Tratz questioned as he blocked with his tail spikes, although the claws still managed to cut into the hardened material.

"The only thing you need to know about me or my kind is that I only do this because I was bored," it replied with a surprisingly feminine voice. "If you are worthy in this battle, I shall name a planet after you in the name of the Decroyer Imperium after we purge the current residents. But first, I will kill you."

[chibi cajones]

As soon as the tentacle creature had been sent flying, At scrambled into a crouch. The forced demorph had been most unexpected--indeed, he hadn't encountered such a thing before--and it seemed unsure what would happen if he tried to morph again. so instead he slipped under another table, and another, until he was near the door--not too difficult since the fighting had the attention of most of the patrons. Andros had noticed, though, as he had been ready to get to At once he had pulled away from those in the tavern that were interested in him, and he was quickly beside him.
"Do you know what that was about?" Andros asked.
"I've heard of a creature that can detect morphing," At answered, "And it probably picked up his transformation..." He shot a glance at Tratz. "But that forced demorph never happened to me before."
"Can you still change back into the form you came in?"
"I think so."
"Can you catch up with the others in that form?"
"Yes," At was more sure now.
"Go find them and update us," Andros instructed, "Hopefully we can be out of here in a minute." With that, Andros moved back toward the battle, but hesitated when he heard mention of the Decroyer Imperium. In the time it took him to register the creature that was the primary challenger of Tratz, At had managed to regain most of Majin Buu's physical features and was making his way out the door.


Kejek pocketed the crystal that he had summoned away from Nijam, then climbed out the hole Nijam had used to escape and scanned the sky. He caught sight of Nijam off in the distance, and was quite certain he couldn't bring him down, but he took aim anyway.
Shaoten and Kyu came to land none too gracefully near the building; Kyu had a large burn mark across his chest, but otherwise the two were unharmed.
"Umm, flying?" Kejek gave them an annoyed look.
"He's too far to catch," Shaoten conceded.
"This is a pursuit, not a race," Kejek scolded, "He'll stop somewhere; and when he does, he's up for finding. He might hide out somewhere; then we can corner--"
The bird-warriors from before had rounded the corner and were rushing for the trio, letting out battlesquawks as they hopped/ran for their prey. Shaoten stepped into the path and folded her arms, then held out both hands. From each hand flew a jet of white light, sending both bird-warriors flying; they fled quickly and the trouble was up.
"Well, this was a lot of worthless," Shaoten sighed as she turned back to the others.
"Not as worthless as it should be," Kejek said, withdrawing the green crystal and holding it up, though the shadows of the buildings made it difficult to tell how much the crystal would glimmer when struck with focused light.
"What does that do for us?" Kyu asked, tearing off a chunk of the remains of the front of his shirt to bandage his new burn.
"It gives us a clue as to what the shapeshifter was up to," Kejek answered, "But I can't make much of this other than the pattern looks very... very... weird. And ... deliberate?" He sighed and put the crystal away.
There was something of an echoing zip-sound as the form of Buu appeared in the way where Kyu, Shaoten and Kejek were gathered.
"He got away," Kyu said bitterly, looking at the ground.
"But we got the crystal," Shaoten added, but her focus was turning to Kyu's behavior.

<They have the crystal, but he got away.>
When Andros heard this, he immediately turned to Tratz. "It's time to leave," he anounced, though he was ready to get back into a battle stance when he saw the unrelent in the thing that Tratz was presently fighting.

[Wolfstar]

Dohati reared his head back, belching out a roiling purple fog that instantly began to numb Goti's mind. Poison, he was certain. The others also seemed effected at that instant, but Noa still fought on.

"Terra!" she gasped, calling out to the green Ra-Seru on her wrist. The creature shimmered for a moment before materializing as a large green woman with wings and a staff.

<This is unacceptable,> Terra said, thrusting the staff forward and creating a fierce wind that swept the purple fog away, providing clean air for the heroes. In the same fluid motion, Terra smashed the staff into Dohati's head, sending him tumbling backward with a loud curse.

Goti prepared to leap and continue the strike, but the winged woman, Zora unleashed a devastating wave of energy bursts that knocked Goti back even while holding on to Chaos Energy.

"Why don't we just get the hell out of here?" Bardock shouted as he directed Juggernaut to assault Songi with an energy beam from its mouth. Songi held his hand up, redirecting damage from the attack with his Ra-Seru and leaving himself relatively unharmed.

Despite the odds, the Legaian villains were taking an early advantage in the battle. Even with the advantage of numbers, Chaos Energy, and Juggernaut, Goti wasn't sure if the heroes could win. Bardock's idea seemed like the only true choice. "Chaos Wave!" Goti shouted as he launched his father's signature attack at Zora, striking her from the sky. At the same time, he flew backwards, placing one palm on the off-white sphere of the Time Matrix, locking his mind on a place that he hoped would be safe; the Saiyan Space Colony.

"No!" Songi shouted, launching a lightning attack at Goti while leaping toward the sphere himself. Keeping a hand on the device, Goti ducked behind the large sphere, avoiding the attack. As he did, he felt another consciousness join the search for a destination, this time directing the Time Matrix toward Planet Hermalya. Goti could see both locations clearly, connected through the universe in ways he could not even fathom, as it all seemed turned inside out, upside down, and distorted from a million different angles all at once.

A third destination joined the mix when Bardock arrived next to him, his brows furrowed. A boy in green armor, holding a sword and blanketed in a brilliant light, castles and a very Earth-like setting joined the mix. Goti realized Bardock was thinking about the stories their father had told them as children, about a boy warrior from a planet named Agteka, told to him by his own master as he was growing up. Goti wanted to tell him to focus on the Space Colony so they could overpower Songi, but the orb was already in motion, although to where Goti could not discern.

As before, the Chaos Energy swept the other nearby warriors, friend and foe alike, into the transportation. However, this time Goti felt himself losing consciousness as they trekked to some unknown location. Before passing out completely, he saw a man standing in the path of the Time Matrix, although he was not human. He was also broken and fragmented as everything was while touching the strange device. Behind him was another figure, a glaring eyeball on top a monstrously tall metal throne. Both figures seemed displeased, but Goti would not figure out why or even who they were before the Time Matrix swept by them and before he drifted out of consciousness.

***

OOC: Dun dun dun!!!

[Wolfstar]

The white sands of Hueco Mundo reflected the vicious bursts of green and red energy as Chaos Waves collided with Ceros in a battle where neither warrior seemed to have an advantage. When Cyba and Wolfstar punched, the sand rippled away in great tidal waves, unable to stand the ferocity of the energies the two emanated.

Already bearing one long scratch across his shoulder, Cyba avoided the zanpaku-to in Wolfstar's hand with all the speed he had to dodge. Wolfstar moved so fast that Cyba's eyes could not keep up with him, but at the same time Wolfstar could not land a blow on Cyba when he dodged either. The battle seemed fruitless at first, but Cyba knew what he had placed on the line when setting up the fight and he was not willing to lose it while he could still breath. Manipulating his Chaos Energy, Cyba dove into the sands, suppressing his energy as to not be found. He could feel Wolfstar moving in on the Chaos Image he had left above in the air and readied himself.

Bursting forth from the white sand, Cyba rushed above to Wolfstar, who had just noticed that the image he thought he was pursuing was in fact a false rendering. Directing Chaos Energy into a sword formation, Cyba created a blade of his own which struck the zanpaku-to in Wolfstar's grasp.

"Not as easy as you thought it was going to be, is it?" Cyba laughed as he pushed the blade away and struck Wolfstar in the leg with a kick. Wolfstar struck Cyba with his elbow while turning his blade back into position, readying a piercing attack at Cyba's chest.

"I have drawn my weapon, boy, but I have yet to release it," Wolfstar replied, driving his blade forward with a fresh burst of energy. Cyba dodged left but was caught in a torrent of flames released from Wolfstar. Once again changing the flow of the Chaos Energy, Cyba formed a protective bubble around him and formed another around Wolfstar.

"Sphere of Chaos!" Cyba called out, causing several hundred smaller, yet potent blasts of Chaos Energy from within the sphere to strike Wolfstar in a painful assault. The two men backed away from each other for a moment after their attacks receded. Cyba suffered burns on his arms and had blood oozing around the wound on his shoulder. Blood soaked the white robes around the left side of Wolfstar's torso, along with ripped and frayed pieces of fabric. "Do we really have to do this?" Cyba asked softly. His voice may have been tempered, but it was not out of fear of losing.

"It is the only way," Wolfstar replied, his voice mirroring the sentiments of his student. "In another time this would not have been necessary. Cyba, I failed you greatly as a master, just as I fail you now. I have too much I regret. I am dead, yet I can not die. This is torment you could never imagine until you suffered it yourself, and if that shall happen, I have failed you yet again in the most unforgivable way." He paused, holding his zanpaku-to out in front of him. "Yet the wheels of fate always turn. This battle was destined to happen long before either of us took our first breathes. Let us leave nothing to regret on this day. Let us see this through."

Cyba was slightly taken aback at the short speech. It was much more like how Wolfstar had spoken to him when he was his master, yet the Arrancar influence was still there. All he did to answer was nod, then flared up the Chaos Energy around him to greater levels.

"Let us leave nothing to regret." Cyba thought he saw tears forming in Wolfstar's eyes. He thought he could feel them in his own. The zanpaku-to in Wolfstar's hand began to glow as the black cloak was ripped apart and scattered to the ground below him. "Take Flight, Angel Perdido." A great light erupted around Wolfstar as his power increased terribly, making Cyba want to drop to his knees.

"I'll leave nothing to regret," he whispered.

[chibi cajones]

OOC: Bleargh, I think this post will count as bad RP-ing. Though there are a few ways some things could be changed if preferred... so meh, direct thine complaints hither and the necessary changes will be made; but I think it's time a little bit of fragmentation got dealt with.

*****

Seeing that Tratz's opponent wasn't interested in the success of their mission, Andros grabbed the closest stool he could reach and hurled it at the creature. The projectile was shredded in a flash that didn't affect the battle in the slightest, and when Andros attempted to charge in and kick the thing away, he found something fast and sharp knocking him back too quickly to identify the source.
And then At-Buu walked in, casually flicked his antennae, and tugged Andros out of harm's way, then scooped up Tratz and hurried out of the tavern.

"Sorry to leave our guests hanging," Andros said once he was on his feet in the streets of Onyx not too far from where the galaxy glider had been parked, "But the megaship is heading for Legaia, and taking the Galaxy Gliders over that sort of distance isn't something we can risk when dealing with the Unifier."

<Buu's body is reacting with the crystal,> At warned, <I can't hide it for long.> So without wasting any more time, the team flew away from the crossroads of evil and back to the megaship.


"Scanners confirm mass refractivity," Deka anounced once the crystal had been brought forth for scanning, "Enhanced spacial capacity is apparent; further data cannot be accessed." Tommy had joined the examination of the crystal, and at these words examined it closely.
"Is there a way we can open it?"
"Whatever's inside could be dangerous," Kejek cautioned, his wand ready in the event that something unexpected happened.
"Deliberate changes in pressure from a biological source may have an effect," Deka explained. Shaoten stepped in and grabbed the crystal.
"What are you doing?" Andros said in surprise.
"We went through a lot to get this," Shaoten answered, closing her fist tight over the crystal, "We might as well get it over with." After a couple seconds, she opened her fist. Then a great force from the crystal came at her and she let it fall to the ground, where a green light grew into a humanoid shape.

A pair of dark green eyes darted around the room, observing all that were gathered and the banks of equipment behind them. Then a pair of gloved hands came to the face that framed the eyes and pulled something away--two tiny crystals from the looks of it. Then, the scale-headed man looked defiantly at the closest person and crushed the crystals between his fingers.
"If you work for Krysalor," the voice was high and a mix of squeaky and exhaustingly rough, "You'd best make yourselves scarce. He's not going to be a happy hulk tomorrow."

Kejek's wand was leveled at the man's chest. Judging by the fierce, Vegeta-challenging scowl, he was pissed.
"We don't know anything about a Krysalor," Tommy offered, "You were in a--"
"Start talking," Kejek broke in, glaring into the man's eyes fiercely, "We know full well that you either just helped or pissed off the Unifier's shapeshifting zellit." The man's features coiled back in a moment of terror, then smoothed into a look of triumph.
"You're from Earth, aren't you?" He paid closer attention to those gathered around him. "Earthlings! And no sign of his old rivals among you..."
"Not all of us are from Earth," Andros interrupted, "And you're not telling us anything." The man gave a snakeish grin.
"It's been a long time since I had to worry about earthlings," he explained with calm satisfaction, "Back when I was caught up in a plot of galactic intrigue. But my old boss didn't quite get what he wanted, and the Esrevni Intelligence Agency offered me a way to stay hidden; it's trying on one's sanity to be a pawn to such a man. And then Captain Krysalor and some of his goons captured me and forced me to put my own twists on some technology I'd only heard about from stories about what my old boss had done. I was tired of being used, of course, and I wasn't about to let them get rid of me without shooting themselves. All of the prisons and gateways and weapons they got from me were connected to my body so that if I died, they're facility died with me! So they put me away to keep me from being a liability. Next thing I know, a bunch of tough guys have me on this ship, so I disabled the special bariers in Krysalor's prison. And now..." the way he ran his index finger along his opposing wrist was almost massichistic. "I'll have answers from you."

*****

OOC: Guh! *headdesk* well, that just plain sucked!
The barier that blocks Kikyo's magic has been disabled!

[chibi cajones]

OOC: Yeah... why I didn't do this in my previous post is beyond me and kinda screws things up, but I figure it might help anyway.


*****

Before the light immonating from the cell had completely died, a frantic message came to the leader of the EIA team, indicating that bizarre activity was being detected between sections of the facility.
~:Some fail-safe has been tripped,:~ one of the agents suggested, ~:But why?:~ The team leader then looked to the cell that had been given much attention since the incapacitating of the fighters in the area, and noticed that it was dark. One of the agents looked up, not sure of what to make of the situation. Then the other ran a crystal along the edge of the door, and there was a slight hiss of air as the ceal broke and the door was torn open.

[Wolfstar]

OOC: When it comes time to fic-alize this, it should probably go before the exodus from Onyx.

***

Savagely-bladed knives sprang to the Decroyer warrior woman's hands and in less than a second, she had flung herself at Tratz. "A legendary Ni Asyas Elite, here in Onyx," she said, slashing with the knives through the air only slightly slower than Tratz could dodge. "Run out of Saiyans to kill, have you?"

"I don't let a man centuries dead tell me what to do anymore, that is all," Tratz retorted, leaping backwards over an upturned table before kicking it at his assailant, who swiftly slashed it in half with her knives. "There are still plenty of those foul monkeys for me to kill, when I so choose. But first, there's a threat to the entirety of existence that I've taken an interest in eradicating."

She nicked his forearm with a blade, but Tratz retaliated with a palm strike to her sternum, tossing her back until she kicked off from a support beam and returned to combat without missing a beat. "Your rag-tag band will never defeat MemKarostlous, fool. My Lord Deathspawn serves him, and his legions conquered many star systems by their own rights long before the Unifyer came. What's more, is that there is a civil war on your own planet, one that will determine whether or not your people serve the Unifyer as well. As an artificially created life form, such as myself, perhaps you should be on our side. Think of all the glorious battles we could see together!"

"Trust me, I see plenty of glorious battles on my own," Tratz muttered while still barely keeping ahead of her deadly blades.

Suddenly, another figure appeared, similar in appearance to the Decroyer woman. It knocked Tratz back with a surprise kick, then grabbed the woman by the shoulder. "We have been ordered forth, Ki-zaran-kazarafa. Leave this Ni Asyas, for we must leave at once." This one had a much more masculine voice, with iridescent blue eyes.

"It seems our play time is being cut short, Ni Asyas," the woman said while sheathing her daggers. "I predict we will meet again on some battlefield and Forge the Bond once more. Perhaps then you shall reconsider joining as my battle brother and serve a lord worthy of your strength and skill, instead of the degenerate Saiyans you serve now." With twin flashes, the two Decroyers were gone.

"I serve no one!" Tratz bellowed, slamming a fist into the ground, his crimson eyes flashing almost with physical energy. He thought for a moment how much he hated Cyba for taking away his Ni Asyas pride. However, it was with that same action that Tratz became free, and no matter how much he despised losing his pride as a Elite Saiyan Exterminator, he owed Cyba for the freedom. It was then that the others approached him in a hurry.

[Wolfstar]

Bardock sat up slowly, his temples pounding as the pain of a severe headache struck him like a hammer blow. He reached out with his mind, keep his eyes closed, searching for Juggernaut, but the connection had been severed. That meant the monster was lurking about somewhere, which did not ease his mind in the least.

Opening his eyes slowly, Bardock jumped to his feet promptly as he spotted the form of the Castle of the Mists in the background. "What in the name of Kami is going on?" His eyes had drifted skyward, revealing a bizarre patchwork that sent his mind reeling. The darkened sky of Planet Hermalya existed in patches, with an Earth-like sky dominating in others, but most startling of all was the metal dome that filled in the rest. His thoughts flashed back to the three locations that had been called upon while connected to the Time Matrix; Planet Hermalya by Songi, The Saiyan Space Colony by Goti, and the legends of Planet Agra by himself.

"All three of them," Bardock said with a shudder. "The Time Matrix has that kind of power? To create it's own reality?"

"Unbelievable, isn't it?" Songi said from behind him, striking him in the back with a red wave of energy that sent him crashing through several gnarled trees of Planet Hermalya. Bardock started to stand, but was kicked roughly in the chest and sent flying to the fields surrounding the Castle of the Mists, which was producing the horrible Mists that drove the Seru into madness and monstrosity. "Now you know why the master wants it. It's too dangerous for you and your rebel friends. Too bad you'll die before they can figure it out." Another flash of red light burned in Songi's palms and blazed through the air toward Bardock, but a green blur struck it away from the Half-Saiyan.

At first, Bardock thought it was a bolt of Chaos Energy from his brother, before he saw that it was in fact in the form of a young man adorned in green and gold armor, a shimmering silver sword in one hand and a polished green and gold kite shield in his other hand. "No way..." Bardock muttered while standing, his gaze unable to move from the dark haired man.

"Another child?" Songi grunted before his eyes went wide at the massive amount of energy the young man channeled into his sword. "But a dangerous one, no less."

"Holy Ray!" the young man shouted, releasing the pent up, pure white energy in a focused torrent from the tip of his sword, ripping the ground apart that it flashed over. Songi raised a feeble defense as the energy washed over him, but it did not hold for even a fraction of a second.

***

OOC: Wonder who that could be... *snickers*

[Wolfstar]

OOC: Despite my better judgment, I'm continuing the TMworld bit.
We need a the Gotenks...

***

Something poked Goti in the ribs; not too hard, but hard enough to make him stir from his sleep. "Just a few more minutes," he slurred, placing a hand over his eyes. Another poke followed. "Come on, give me a break..." he muttered as he reached out to push away the source of the disturbance, which promptly struck him. Sleep was no longer an option. "What?"

He opened his eyes to find himself in the room he used to inhabit while on the Saiyan Space Colony, soon after Overlord Friu had been defeated. He had been told it was also the room his father used to live in before he fled to Earth at the age of fifteen. That didn't shock him as much as the sight of the bright-haired woman in green that stood over him, a curious gaze filling her entire face. "Hey hey hey hey! I thought you were dead!"

"Vahn's friend, Noa, right?" Goti asked, sitting up as she nodded vigorously. He was glad to find himself in a new orange gi, just like the one his great-grandfather Goku used to wear. "Looks like the Time Matrix picked me," he said. "But where is the thing?" The massive white orb wouldn't have fit in his quarters. He rose, opening the metal door, his eyes widening as he saw an ocean outside his door. "What the hell?" The water filled the opening but did not spill into the room. He stuck his hand out into the liquid to test it.

"Wow, that's amazing!" Noa shouted, flapping her arms as she spoke. "Terra, isn't that really cool?"

<Incredible,> the Ra-Seru agreed. <However, I suspect the Time Matrix is behind this.>

"You mean it screwed up?" Goti asked. "The Saiyan Space Colony is supposed to be just that; a colony in space. Last time I checked, there are no oceans in outer space."

<You did overwhelm the Time Matrix with commands. It must have done the best it could.>

Goti nodded. "Yeah, that must be it. You mind waiting here?"

"Don't be long!" Noa answered with a wink. Goti felt his cheeks burn. Instead of focusing on that, he took a deep breath and jumped out into the aquatic abyss and looked up to see that several other parts of the space colony were bisected by the ocean as well.

Goti came back into his room, miraculously dry after crossing the threshold. "I can get us out of here, but to where exactly I have no idea. Up for some exploring? Maybe we can find the others."

"Ok, let's go!" Noa said as Goti summoned his Chaos Energy powers, which came very easily in the strange environment. He created a bubble of Chaos Energy that surrounded both of them, then guided them both out into the water and up to a corridor of the Saiyan Space Colony. "Wow, this place is pretty big."

"Long time no see, Goti!" one of the inhabitants of the colony said as the two of them crossed to a connection corridor, a Saiyan about the same age as Goti by the name of Murkion. He was the son of one of Cyba's friends, Arnek, an older Saiyan that had helped watch over him in his youth. "Did you come to let me join you in fighting the Unifyer?"

Goti froze. "What did you say?"

"Did you come back to get me to help you fight the Unifyer? I've been wanting to come kick some ass with you ever since we got rid of Friu, man!"

"I never told you about the Unifyer," Goti said, his eyes narrowed. "I didn't even know about him when I last saw you. What the hell is going on?"

Murkion shook his head slightly, rolling his dark eyes. "Ok, ok, jeez. If I had known you were going to be so touchy about it, I wouldn't have asked. So what about your fight with the Hermalyan Empire then? You tore Dashyr apart right?"

"I didn't tell you about that either!" Goti's head was spinning as things began to make less and less sense to him. He almost thought he imagined the face protruding from the wall, until he realized it belonged to the Sim-Seru Juggernaut.

Acting quickly, Goti grabbed Murkion by his Saiyan armor with one hand in Noa by the wrist with his other, jumping through a door just as Juggernaut discharged a burst of red energy, obliterating the hallway behind them. "Shit, that Juggernaut thing is back," Murkion muttered, pulling his shaggy black hair back with a red strip of cloth. "At least I'll get to beat something up today."

"Just stay back," Goti commanded, holding out a hand before Murkion leapt out into the demolished hallway. "I don't think you can handle this one."

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OOC: Uh... I meant to do more, but I'm tired and this is getting long, so perhaps more after some sleep...

[Wolfstar]

OOC: Tired of working on my paper, so taking a break to get to the intended stopping point from the last post.

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Goti glanced around quickly, noting that they stood within one of the many open sparring centers. He counted that as an advantage, since Juggernaut would have fewer things to materialize from, which would hopefully keep the monster in the open.

As the creature's head lifted from out of the padded ground below, Noa leapt at it, unleashing a fierce combination of kicks and flips, each causing the monster to flinch different directions. Goti joined in, doing his best to beat the beast back, to inflict as much damage as quickly as possible. When Murkion joined the onslaught, to Goti's dismay, Juggernaut sank back into the ground.

"Get back here, you wimp!" Murkion shouted. A destructive beam of red energy fired from the ceiling, giving Goti just enough time to grab his companions once more and dodge. The beam smashed through the floor, and through the several floors below it. The air began to rush out of the room in a torrent. Looking down, Goti saw the blackness of space.

"Oh great!" Focusing his Chaos Energy into a disk, he applied the energy to the Saiyan Space Colony as a patch in order to keep the air in. "We're getting out of here, now! We can't fight Juggernaut like this!" The Chaos Energy disk continued to grow, cracking and splitting the floor in more places. "Just keeps getting better! Chaos Energy is out of control here. Now seriously, we need to leave the colony immediately!"

The three of them ran out into the ruined corridor and leapt into the aquatic abyss, all the while Goti hoping his bubble of Chaos Energy would stay in his control long enough to reach land. He could already feel it fighting against him, wanting to scatter in all directions or do something even more unpredictable. And that was before Juggernaut struck the Chaos Bubble from above, smashing it into the depths of the ocean floor and stepping on it, holding the trio there as the Chaos Energy continued to rebel against his hold.

"If anyone has any ideas, now's a great time!" Goti shouted as he struggled to hold onto the Chaos Energy.

[chibi cajones]

wolfstar said:

Clidax's backhand attack hit Kairin with a devastating force that flung him across the cratered ruins of the Temple of Terra Dax. Trunks reached out swiftly to catch the young man, preventing an impact with a sharp remnant of a former pillar of the temple.

If not for the fact that I like using random magictricks to screw around with ages, Trunks and Kairin would be the same age. ^_^. (Though I did explain that in like the first three pages, didn't I? ).

(Though in the one DBR episode where they were together, it sort of seemed like Trunks was a little older... but only when they were standing next to each other. *confused*. *wants to make a video of that episode* because the bgm for the end is stuck in my head...)

... I'm just... kinda here tonight and in a posting mood that I shouldn't be in.

[Wolfstar]

Well, Trunks isn't all that old. Sure, he's an adult but... ah crap, this just isn't working

[chibi cajones]

I blame Ketchup.