Earlier that Day
Jinx
Exiting out from the temporary home Victor and his dad offered her, Jinx stretched her arms up and yawned, enjoying the morning sun, before letting her arms go limp to her sides to walk off; she still have some cash saved up to use, but not enough for a downpayment or anything, just enough to grab herself something to eat.
She remembers the late night shifts of working as a convenience store cashier in her old town. It was fine, but quite droll; that sort of life didn't feel like it suited her, she had better things to do than work a nine to five wage slave job. Sure, that sort of thing was good for most people that were normal, but here she was with the power over bad luck.
"Yo, wait up!" Victor hollered over as he exited out of his home as well, ceasing Jinx's internal thoughts on what to do now that she was pretty much on her own per say.
Victor himself locked the door up, and walked over to her now wearing a hoodie, baring his entire upper cyborg part of his body to the world. She smirked a bit as he jogged a bit over to her, "What, did you want to keep this gal some company?" she asked coyly, to tease him a bit and amused herself.
Victor stumbled over his feet a bit, before righting himself back up as he approached her with a bit of a blush on his face, "What!? No!" He held his palms up by his chest in denial, "I tried hitting up Buu, and see if he wanted to hit the Arcade, but he said he had other things to do." he chuckled nervously. "I mean, the house has been getting a bit stuffy, and I just figured we should hang or something!" Victor offered.
Jinx relaxed a bit with Victor as she gave Victor an amused stare, he wasn't a bad looker from those old photos before he was a Cyborg she saw in the house, shame he had to lose all that. "Hmm, I suppose I'll let you hang with me." she answered back, and walked off with Victor catching up to walk beside her.
Jump City Arcade
"Oh come on!" Jinx scowled as she tried to beat Victor in a fighter game, dubbed as 'Roadbrawlers 2'. Jinx did her best to not button mash to get the combos off right, but Victor was already spamming combos off left and right.
Victor however smirked as he was pulling out one final finisher to pull Jinx's character heart out and stomp it into the ground, "rrrggh!" She pushed herself away from the controls and huffed her annoyance out from her lips.
Victor turned and gave Jinx a prideful grin, "Booyah! Number one baby!" He cheered, while she crossed her arms and walked off, making him frown. "Uhh…we can try another game, if you'd like." Seemingly catching on that he was pretty much playing in a whole different league against Jinx in the 'fighter' game.
Jinx sighed to herself, of course a boy like him would be invested in a game like the one, he pretty much beat her in a one sided versus match, "Whatever…" she huffed, eyeing the arcade for other games to play, and smirked as she spotted a dancing rhythm game.
Jump City Park
Content with eating a cherry vanilla ice cream in a cone, while Victor was still waiting in line across the street inside the ice cream parlor, Jinx was pleasantly enjoying her late morning snack after beating the cyborg in a dance off game; he even complained that his rhythm sensors were off and needed calibration, whether that was true or not, it suited Jinx just fine to get back a win against Victor.
She didn't spend hours at the arcade in her old town for nothing, save for getting away from her parents. The dancing game was also very fun and it made her feel more alive than living in that drab town of hers.
The caw of a bird caught Jinx's attention as she looked up while finishing off the top half of her ice cream cone, and noticed a very odd green colored looking hawk; Jinx ceased eating her snack, and watched the green hawk dive bomb down towards the tree across from her.
Jinx bewilderingly watched the hawk cease its dive bombing just enough to then flap its wings and hang in the air long enough to suddenly transform into a green looking monkey, before it fell down into the foliage of the tree itself.
Before long, a human shaped person exited out down from the tree's foliage and behind the bushes that blocked her view of who it was.
What is with this city!?
From out of the bushes, a green skinned boy that looked in his early teens, walked out, wearing a mask that sorta made the boy cute in a way, with the rest of his hero looking suit was colored in a purple, black and grey color scheme.
She raised an eyebrow and frowned, what's next? Aliens coming down to ravage the city?
The boy nervously raised his arm up and greeted, "Yo!" he responded to her questioning look at him, his voice was a bit scratchy and high pitched, showing he was still going through puberty.
Jinx blinked a few times at the sudden greeting by the green boy, before she gave him a weird look, "...Hi?" she spoke back, unsure how to deal with the absurdity of this situation…then again, who was she to talk? She could throw around bad luck spells, and she's already met the Buu kid and Victor, what was one more?
Breaking both of them from the awkwardness of the situation, Victor spoke while he was heading over to her seat, "They didn't have the flavor I wanted…" He grouched, earning both her's and the green boy's attention.
"Dude…" The young green teen spoke, his eyes wide with awe, "You look so cool with that stuff."
Once Victor reached the both of them, he looked at her first, earning a shrug from her, she just met the boy. Victor then looked back towards the other boy, and smiled, "Uh…thanks!" he remarked.
The green skinned teen clenched his fist with excitement, "Dude, you're like Robot Man, but an upgrade!" he cheered.
At that, both her and Victor looked at the other teen boy, confused on who he was referencing; of course, it was also a bit funny that there was an actual Robot Ran, since Buu has a habit of calling Victor 'Robot Man'.
"Who?" Victor asked the green boy, giving the other teen boy a questioning look.
Making a bashful look, the other teen reached behind his head and scratched at it nervously, "haha, sorry," he chuckled nervously, he made a flippant gesture, "Just an…old teammate.." he answered with a wince on his part.
Well that sounded like it had some serious baggage behind it.
Victor
It was generally pretty cool to earn praise that he looked cool from more people, besides the stares he got initially when found himself in this new cyborg body. But getting out more after meeting Buu had helped Victor get out of his funk, to not be bothered by the stares too much, he also liked helping people from time to time with the strength this body afforded him.
Besides shooting his 'hand cannon' he found his cyborg body could do, he was able to help lift cars with ease and easily fix a car with tools from out of his finger tips, all those simple abilities barely scratched the surface of what this cyborg body could do; he was finding more and more appreciation for his dad having saved him, and gave him a new opportunity in life with this new body.
Meeting this green skinned young teen boy, having him call his cybernetics 'cool', brightened his mood after getting thrashed in the dancing game against Jinx, besides the fact that the ice cream parlor didn't have his favorite flavor.
It was also funny that there was in fact some hero out there named 'Robot Man', judging by what the boy was dressed like a hero, and the fact he called the Robot Man his former teammate. He should telled Buu he needs to give him a different nickname, rather than Robot Man, or at the very least try and pronounce his name.
The little pink dude seemed smart enough, but he had a bit of a problem with forming coherent sentences…but Victor supposed not everyone was perfect.
Victor smiled a bit as he held his hand out to shake hands with the newcomer of the city, "The Name's Victor, thanks for the compliment." he introduced himself.
The other teen boy smiled a toothy grin and shook hands with him while thumbing at himself, "Nice'ta meetcha, you can call me Beast Boy!" he responded, before both retracted their hands.
Victor lifted his brows a bit in wonder, before realizing the other teen was keeping his name secret, "Oh, well…" he didn't want to ask for his real name, since he probably wanted to keep his identity a secret…but that was a moot point with the green skin and all…
'Beast Boy' chuckled a bit, and lifted his mask off to show his face, "But that's just my alias! The real name's Garfield!" he shined a toothy grin, and rolled his eyes a bit, "I mean, not like this green skin of mine will help me keep the two identities separate!" he remarked jokingly, while poking his elbow into the air towards Victor as a bit of a jab at himself.
Victor smiled back at the deprecating humor 'Beast Boy' had for himself, "Well, whichever name you wanna go by, welcome to Jump City!" He responded in kind to Garfield's humor attitude.
Before he could ask what he came to the city for, a loud rumbling echoed from within Garfield's stomach, making him awkwardly chuckled while he patted his stomach, "Sorry! Long trip." he explained, prompting Victor to smirk.
Seeing this could be a way to get to know the little guy more, Victor figured he could talk over a meal with the dude. Plus, he'd earn a possible new friend, it also helped that Garfield was a bit of an easy-going teen in nature. "Hey, there's this nice joint, you like pizza, right?" Victor asked, figuring he could make friends with this other teen.
Garfield offered a cautionary look, "Do they serve veggie pizza?" he questioned.
At that, Victor frowned a bit, he actually wasn't sure about that, he always bought the meat lovers supreme on the occasion he went to the pizza joint, "Why? You vegan or something?" he asked.
Garfield shook his head, and looked back up at Victor, "No, I'm not into that kind of lifestyle, I drink milk and stuff…it's just that I've been many of the animals that people eat." he answered.
Victor looked at the other teen in confusion, "What do you mean?" he asked, right before Garfield shifted his form into that of a bull.
"See?" The now green looking cow showed the two, before turning back into himself, Garfield smirked and puffed his chest out with pride, "I can change into any animal!"
"That's pretty awesome!" Victor remarked with a broad smile, while out of the corner of his eyes the saw Jinx looked less shocked, probably having seen the dude do it before, "… well, we can see if they have veggie pizza." he then added with a shrug, before looking back over at Jinx, who was in the midst of finishing off her ice cream cone. "You wanna come too?" he asked, not wanting to leave her out of the friendly excursion with the newcomer.
Popping the last bit of cone into her mouth, before speaking after she swallowed her last bit of treat, she shrugged back, "Eh, not really. I think I'll go visit the city more, see what else it has to offer for fun.
Victor nodded while he bid Jinx 'later', as she walked off into the city from out of the park. "Dude." Garfield spoke up with a sly grin, "Nice girlfriend!" he gestured with another elbow jab into that air at him.
Victor stumbled over his words, before he coughed into his fist, and lightly glared down at Garfield, "It's not like that between us." Though it would be nice, but he just met the girl the other day. "She's just some girl that needed a place to stay at for the time being, and my pops was willing to offer our spare bedroom!" he explained, only to earn a smirk from Garfield.
"Not helping your case, dude." The other teen lightly smirked back.
Space
Gordanian Slave Ship
Klaxons blared throughout the entire space faring rig that was one of the many spaceships the Gordanians used to ship their acquired slaves, to sell off to other space faring races that took part in the intergalactic slave ring. The entire bridge had been located by the attackers of the spaceship, shortly before it was entered into with extreme force by the first attacker.
This in essence was to take care of any attempts to hail for help from other Godanians, as within the Bridge, Komand'r smirked as she finished off the last crew member of the bridge by slamming the Gordanian head first into the floor; the entire metal floor itself caved in with the aliens blood leaking out from the concussive force his head was smashed into the force.
In another part of the slaver spaceship, Koriand'r let loose her energy ball beams from her hands, using excessive force to empower her balls of energy to cause massive damage to each Godanian she threw each one into. She hovered in the air as she brought her hands together to project an energy star bolt the size of her body, and fired it off into the hallway full of Godranians, taking out the three of the five.
The two that survive managed to duck out of the way in time by diving out of the way into empty cells, before peeping out to try and fire their guns at the Tamaranean; Koriand'r growled but kept her emotions in check to keep her powers at their peak capacity, she had to feel joy, and the joy she wanted to feel was finding her dearest brother and rescue him from all this.
Koriand'r flew through the hail of gunfire, while firing off star bolts at the soldiers, "I shall not rest until I find my brother!" she growled out, while the soldiers were blasted in the chests by her starbolts, blasting them back down to the floor with smoke coming off their chests.
She landed down beside the closest one, and grabbed him by his armor to pull him up, "Tell me! Where is the one known as Ryand'r! Speak now, and I shall cease!" She demanded with pure green eyes lighting up.
The Gordanian coughed with a bloodied mouth and smirked before he spat into her face, then fell unconscious in Koriand'r's grip. Koriand'r scowled, before reining in herself, and let the slaver go, his body collapsed to the metallic floor below.
"Princess!" K'tten's voice brought Koriand'r attention up to the nearby entrance to the holding cells, all of which were empty and open.
Koriand'r's snapped her attention over to her fellow Tamaran, one of the few that tagged along to help the two sisters receive the young prince. Standing within the doorway was K'tten herself, sporting a long hair mohawk that was draped to one side, while on the other side of her face was covered by little bits of cybernetics. She wore a blue suit with some purple, keeping the same style as most Tamaran had for their culture.
Koriand'r floated over and landed to stand apart from her and her sister's navigator, "K'tten, no luck from the other cell blocks!?" She urgently asked, only to earn a shamed shake of her head.
K'tten frowned as she responded back, "Afraid not, princess, but the others are still making rounds of the ship." She explained, offering her princess a sympathetic smile.
Beside Koriand'r and Komand'r, at the behest of Galfore, it was advised they were accompanied by the best warriors they had on hand; Galfore of course came along, along with K'tten, while Komand'r took Rendll that she had some prior friendship with.
This would be more than enough to attack a lone Gordanian ship.
Off in the distance within the ship, gunfire and blasts still went off along with the klaxons blaring. K'tten tilted her head towards the hallway behind her, "We should leave and see to your sister, she took charge of taking out the bridge." She suggested.
Koriand'r smiled and nodded, "Agreed! Perhaps my sister was able to figure out where our brother is from the bridge!" She agreed with K'tten.
Meanwhile, with Komand'r, the eldest princess scowled as she tried to make sense of the onboard controls the bridge had, pouring herself over the central unit as she pulled up information on every shipment this ship had done, followed by every other ship with records of Tamaraneans.
"Of course we were too late!" She hissed in anger, seeing that records showed the Gordanians sold Ryand'r off to some organization on a planet named Earth; the transaction was some sort of mineral the Gordanians prized very dearly, in exchange for selling the prince and some alien tech off to this organization off to.
Komand'r narrowed her eyes in suspicion, "Hive academy?" She read the name off with bewilderment, what kind of absurd school bought aliens and tech?
The door behind her 'swooshed' open, letting her know she was no longer alone as she stood up to see who was coming into the bridge of the slave ship, "Rendll." She acknowledged the other Tamaranean, a rather sadistic yet useful pawn she brought with her to break her brother free.
Rendll smirked as she stepped into the room while tossing aside a bloodied Gordanian she had dragged with her the entire way, "No luck, but it did feel good to get back at these bastards." she mused with a rueful smirk as she strutted into the room and flew over to a nearby seat to kick back and relax, "What about you?" She asked while bringing her hands up to use them as leverage behind her head to relax her head down against as she looked back at her princess.
Komand'r smirked back, making a flippant gesture at all the corpses that littered the entire bridge, "I got my own fun in as well, and I figured out where they sold my brother off to." She scoffed next with a frown as she stood upright with her fists against her hips, "We just need to take a trip to some backwater planet called Earth." She mused, bringing her palm up to her chin while musing.
Rendll frowned while lifting a brow of inquisitiveness, she sat up right to converse more directly with her princess, "Oh, and here I was hoping we could pillage more Gordanian ships, before finally finding Prince Ryand'r." She made a mock pout.
Komand'r continued to smirk, "Me too." She agreed, then expressed a stern look, "But I think this is where we should split, I'll be sending you and the others back to Homeworld. A simple visit to this Earth shouldn't be more than a simple matter."
"Sister!" Koriand'r hollered as she entered through the doorway of the bridge, bringing with her her friend K'tten as the two flew and landed within the bridge, her young sister looked at her with anger in her eyes, "Please tell me you found any clues to Brother's location!? He was not on this ship!"
Komand'r smirked once more, "Oh don't worry, sister. I know where he's at." She answered, earning a relieved look from her young sister.
Hive Academy
Ryand'r woke up with a gasp of shock, before wincing as he held his head in pain, feeling below him a bed he had found himself waking up from; Ryand'r winced more as he tried to remember where he was, even more how he got here. It hurt more as he tried to think back, before he ceased doing it.
The doors to the room opened, alerting Ryand'r to his visitor entering the room. Draped in a white garb underneath a black and gold shoulder chest piece, the man beheld a smirk as he had his arms folded behind his back, "Greetings, my dearest new student." he greeted, Ryand'r for a second swore the man's eyes lit red for a second.
Ryand'r narrowed his eyes at the suspicious man, while holding his head from the migraine he was feeling, "I'm sorry sir, but I don't know your language…" and he certainly didn't want to kiss the man, regardless of if it would help him instantly learn the language.
Seemingly unbothered by Ryand'r alien language, the man now spoke into his mind as his eyes now definitely glowed red, "Don't worry a thing, child, you're safe here with me. This school will help you understand everything."
Ryand'r was far from naive, and all the alarm bells rang off in his mind with this man, but he didn't want to do anything yet, he needed to make a plan of escape from this place he was in. "So you say…" He mentally thought back to the man, who in kind smiled back.
Majin Buu
The guttural chanting of monks pervaded the temple, as I sat inside a room; I sat atop a small pillow meant for people to sit cross legged on, and held a steaming cup of hot tea in my hands. Bodhi, the monk that introduced himself later and had offered me Tea earlier, was seated across from me pouring his own tea.
I sniffed the tea a bit, getting something of a good aroma from the tea leaves that were in the water; I wasn't much of a hot or warm tea person in my last life, I was an American that drank his tea ice cold with sugar. It honestly really was foreign to me of the idea of drinking Tea anything beyond cold.
I took a sip from the cup, and let the contents of the drink swim in my mouth before I swallowed the sip I took down my gullet. I honestly don't know, I'll have to take another sip. It was a strong flavor but it was hard to pin down on a very small sip.
Right before I moved to take another sip, Bodhi spoke as he let his Tea sit for a bit on the stone table between us, "So, how did you manage to get here?" he asked, before finally taking his cup of tea to sip from it.
I eyed the monk for a few seconds, before answering as he finished his sip and set his cup down, "Flew down on chopped log, threw it across ocean and rode it. Buu can fly, but felt like riding a log." I answered, a short and sweet to the point honest answer.
Bodhi formed a rather tense grin, "Ah, I see. Then you let fate decide your path. A straight one, but stayed the path to see where it led." He mused, while palming his chin.
To be honest, I did want to visit Japan, but it's not everyday I bothered to ride through the sky in style like Tao Pai Pai; so I stayed aboard the log and waited till it finally stopped its trajectory by falling out of the air and impacting the ground below.
Hopefully, I can apply the same muscle memory of how hard I threw it, and aim it back towards the West Coast of America.
I nodded at the monk, took another sip from my cup of tea, before speaking back, "Buu intended on visiting different place, but Buu wanted to see rest of ride."
The monk smirked back, took a sip from his tea, before speaking again to me, "Curiosity is many things, it makes fools out of us, but it can also lead us to new things." He mused.
I furrowed my brows, thinking on it for a bit, before nodding. It felt like he was making some philosophical viewpoints at my words. "So where is Buu, exactly? Shangri-la?" I asked, making a reference to a fictional place I remember, while also cracking a grin to show I was joking.
Bodhi smiled back, chuckled, and let his tea stay idle on the stone table, "Ah, I'm afraid not, this place is in fact called Nanda Pardat." He chuckled with mirth.
I have no idea what that place is, besides the fact it looks like it all belongs to a possible spot for the League of Assassins to set up shop at. Away from the wider world, and the perfect place to stay out of sight.
Taking the last sip of my Tea, I set it down and nodded at the Monk, "Do monks have scrolls, or offer lessons? Buu was planning on learning martial arts sometime in future." While I'm certain brute strength was fine and all, and I certainly could scrap in a fight, martial arts in Dragonball Z were after all somewhat of a key point besides all the Ki blasting and planet busting moves.
Bodhi chuckled once more, "I see, you wish to create a better foundation for your strength!"
I gave the monk a bit of an annoyed grunt, while I eyed him a bit. "Buu's asking Monk for help with fighting moves, not mind lessons!" I griped, while earning a rueful chuckle from the man.