(Meanwhile)
(Back at Kame House)
There weren't many unique details the group of perplexed Z-fighters could make out about their large visitor, only that he seemed to be standing upright with a perfectly symmetrical figure, almost giving the impression that he was a statue, and that he resembled some poor sap that got kicked off the SWAT team due in large part to his weight and size. However, the thing about the silent stranger that had the trio on the porch back up a bit was not because his height was quite intimidating, but the fact that they couldn't sense any energy coming off of him.
It was almost like he was…
Soon being joined by the concerned bodies of Master Roshi and Marron, the four active members of the team Tien, Krillin, Chiaotzu and Android 18, quickly slid into defensive stances as the immobile figure stared each of them down. As unnerving as it was to be singled out by this inanimate looking entity, the group still had the right sense of mind to be mindful of their surroundings. The blonde fighter standing on the far corner of their formation acknowledged this by edging her way in front of her daughter, where she then used her hand to gently ease her back into the house.
"M-Mom…?"
"Stay behind me, darling," the cyborg whispered, before fixing her glare upon the burly, armed robot standing out on the sand. "Krillin?"
The short fighter swallowed nervously, "I don't know. Tien?"
"I'm in the same boat as the rest of you guys. I've got nothing," the three-eyed martial artist replied, his brow narrowing firmly on the pear-shaped individual. "However, if I was a betting boy… I'd say that this guy was somehow connected to that alien planet appearing next door to us."
"Yeah. I think you're right," the former monk murmured, a bead of sweat running down his temple and to his cheek. "Man. I know I may have said this many times before, but I really hate it when I'm right."
"In most cases, you usually are," Chiaotzu added, while simultaneously swallowing nervously. "Wow. This guy looks scary."
The group remained silent for a full minute, wondering whether or not their unexpected 'guest' was going to do anything violent. It was while they were sizing up his frame did the five humans suddenly see the large figure's head rotate from side to side, as it then went about scanning the island in a systematic fashion.
After looking from one present figure to the next, the burly individual in the combat suit and visor then uttered one, clear word of dialogue.
"Beep." (Good morning)
The sudden, loud noise made by the robot had the people on the porch blink in unison. "Beep?" they all replied in sync.
All of a sudden, a series of computer sounds began to fill the air as lights and numbers jumped up on the inside of Mobi's visor. These readings focused in on each and every one of the fighters present and, after seeing the invader begin checking them out more thoroughly, Krillin, Chiaotzu and Tien quickly realized that the helmet the creature was wearing was probably some sort of scouting device; similar in design to the Saiyans they encountered back in the day wore. This became even more apparent when they saw the numbers of the headpiece flicker across the tinted glass and display five separate readings, which told them all that they were being checked out.
"Beep. Beep-beep." (This island has a collection of very powerful humans, but no Saiyans)
Once the details were displayed to the automaton, the dutiful warrior and diplomat then shut off the scanner and, bringing his arm up, snapped open a panel on his gauntlet.
"Beep." (I'll contact Sandra and let her know)
Thinking the robot was about to activate some sort of weapon, an alarmed Krillin threw both his hands forward and yelled out at the top of his lungs, unleashing a powerful beam of blue energy right at their stationary foe. His attack shot towards the robot like a comet, which looked up just in time to be hit square in the chest and sent careening over the ocean in the form of a ball-shaped projectile.
"BEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeep!" (SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!)
However, thanks to the heavy armor cushioning the force of the energy blast, Mobi was able to spin out of line of the attack and watch it soar off into the distance. Upon which the robot then suspended itself in the sky above the water and spent the next minute or so recovering from the surprise hit.
When Tien, Android 18, Chiaotzu, Master Roshi and Marron looked towards the man that'd struck the first blow, they saw that Krillin was glaring across the ocean with his teeth tightly clenched and hands still raised in a defensive way. "A lot of bad things happened from me acting stupidly. I'm not taking any more chances." With a courageous yell, the man then leapt from the porch and blasted towards the robot floating in the distance.
Smiling at her husband's enthusiasm, the calm and supportive Android 18 took flight as well, with Tien and Chiaotzu following shortly afterwards.
Spotting the trio of fighters charging towards him across the water at breakneck speed, the surprised Mobi quickly raised its hands and waved them through the air in fright. "Beep-beep! Beep! Beep!" (Wait! Please stop attacking! I mean no harm!) From the way it was reacting, it was obviously stunned by the group's sudden display of aggression and was now attempting to signal them that he didn't come to their domicile to fight.
However, being unable to understand the robot's peculiar exclamations or gestures, Krillin, Tien, Chiaotzu, and Android 18 wasted no time in charging the thing down and attacking it from all sides. The metal man quickly crossed his arms over its face and blocked the four simultaneous punches they threw at him. The force of their blows caused a thunderclap that sent the armored Mobi skidding across the sky, where he quickly opened up several air flaps on his armor and slowed his body down. The instant he stopped, the automaton looked up to see Android 18 and Chiaotzu raise their hands in his direction and fire off two golden blasts of energy.
Calculating the trajectory of the attacks at light speed, the robot fired up the boosters on his feet and back, which quickly propelled him up and over the beams in a blur of movement. As soon as he dodged the shots, Mobi opened up the metal plating on his shoulders and fired a cluster of blue, flare like attacks straight down at the small contingent of Z-fighters. The group scattered when the flares shot towards them and struck the ocean, where they all detonated in a series of electrical flashes that caused noticeable ripples across the surface.
Stopping several yards away, an alarmed Chiaotzu blinked, "Wow. That was close."
Looking down at the water, an observant and nervous Tien frowned deeply. "Was he… trying to stun us?" Before his question could be answered, the man suddenly sensed a shadow fall over him and spun around, throwing his arms up just in time to block a heavy chop from the massive robot dropping down on top of him. The blow connected with a loud 'clang', which then ended in a tug-of-war match between the tri-clops and the metal warrior.
The former's partner reacted in alarm and flew forward, "Tien!"
"Chiaotzu! Stay back!" the man barked, prompting his friend to stop in his tracks.
Clenching his teeth tightly and growling under the strain, Tien attempted to force back the robot's arm as it effortlessly continued to press down on him. However, after several seconds of grappling, the man realized he was at a disadvantage. This was probably due to the rigid posture his opponent had and the fact that it didn't have an expression to read. Even so, realizing that he couldn't push back his ridiculously strong foe, the human quickly opted for a new strategy and, throwing his legs up, sent a double-kick straight into the burly alien's chest. The blow struck the armored entity with a loud bang and sent Mobi flying backwards, allowing Tien to thrust his hand forward and fire another blast at the invader.
Mobi saw the attack coming and barrel-rolled around it, firing up its boosters to charge directly towards the bald warrior. "Beep. Beep." (You're vicious. I must knock you out before you endanger any lives) Picking up speed and bearing down on the man like a rocket, the robot then prepared to tackle his quarry head first.
Just before Tien could prepare to dodge or counter the fast-moving automaton, Android 18 and Krillin suddenly dove in from above and kicked the robot square in the side. Their simultaneous kicks landed with a loud boom of force and sent the metallic man hurtling in a downward trajectory. Trailing vapor, the robot quickly righted itself before it could hit the water and fired up its stabilizer jets. As steam rose up from the ocean just a couple of feet beneath it, the armored warrior looked up to see his four opponents converge on his location and glare down at him.
While they floated into place, Krillin's head suddenly perked up and his eyes shifted in the direction of the mainland. After staring off onto the horizon for several seconds, the raven haired fighter then looked across at Tien. "Hey man… do you feel that?"
The three-eyed martial artist quickly nodded in response, "Yeah. It seems like Gohan, Zangya and Videl are having problems of their own."
This realization put a nervous expression on the shortest fighter's face as Chiaotzu began trembling from head to toe, "This is bad."
Appearing both nervous and uncertain, Krillin quickly glared down at their burly adversary, who continued to hover above the ocean with its optical sensors fixated squarely upon them. "Looks like this is going to be a really long morning."
Android 18, hearing her husband clearly, grunted in response. "At least you'll be getting a good workout, honey."
Its scouter giving a new reading on its opponents' power levels, Mobi quickly assessed the situation for what it was. Once it was certain it'd gotten all the information it needed from three of the four life forms in front of it, it then craned its head and started to back down across the water. As it did so, a red warning light then began to flash in the corner of his visor.
"Beep." (I must contact Kure)
Just before it could make any plans to retreat or attack, both Chiaotzu and Tien suddenly threw their hands forward and sent a barrage of energy blasts down at the robot's position, prompting Mobi to raise its arm and defend…
XXX
(West City)
Back inside the lobby of Capsule Corp, things were still going by normally for the staff working on the ground floor. While the secretary continued on with her morning paperwork and the security guards over in their corner continued watching the news, over on the waiting room couch and blending into the scenery, the armor-clad Kure continued to wait patiently for her name to be called up. Though waiting for anybody else would've been a mind numbing chore, the cat-woman from another quadrant wasn't in any hurry at all and continued entertaining herself with the magazines the station had provided.
Legs crossed and Doctor Briefs' article held up in front of her face, the woman listened absently to the ambient noise going on all around her while casually flipping through the pages of Earth's science and mathematics. After analyzing one of the C.C sports cars being advertised in the free space, she then turned over and found a little snippet showcasing Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity and a cartoon version of Doctor Briefs explaining it.
After skimming over the numbers with her eyes, the young woman then gave an amused chuckle, while the cat ears protruding from the top of her helmet twitched adorably. "Your formula is spot on, Albert. But you're wrong about the speed of light being fixed. What about the thirteen other divergences?" Picking up a child's coloring book from the table next to her and flipping it over, she then pulled out an electron pen from her gauntlet and began scribbling across the page at high speed. "Energy does equal mass times the velocity of light squared in this dimension, but you're forgetting about the other twenty. It's Brianna's Fact of Transdimensional Motion versus Comprehensive First Dimension Linear physics. Clear example, if you break down the elemental components of the naturally recurring energy source Fulcrum, assume a constant decay rate and extrapolate for each of the fourteen galactic convergences it takes for a physical object to travel through a three-dimensional slip-space tunnel, you wind up with a formula for inter-dimensional energy increase that mass and light alone can't possibly explain."
Across the piece of paper, Kure managed to print out one of the most convoluted mathematical equations ever seen by a living person. Not only did it use symbols and numbers that were familiar to mathematicians from this planet, it also included a bunch of other drawings that were just incomprehensible, but seemed to connect to one another seamlessly.
Eventually the woman got to the bottom of the page and after looking for some more space to draw on, Kure then looked up with a thoughtful murmur.
"Hmm… maybe it would be simpler to explain if I wrote it using Algebraic graph theory?"
However, before she could get into the finer details of her explanation, she suddenly saw a red marker flash into view on her visor. Looking at the blinking text, which simply displayed the words 'Emergency' and 'Maya', the cat woman lowered her coloring book and engaged her mask's com link. "Talk to me."
Initially there was a blast of static. But after a moment, the crackling cleared up and a very angry, female Saiyan began screaming at the other end. "God damn it! Would you stop attacking me?!" The odd thing about the transmission is that it didn't seem like she was yelling at the person she was trying to contact, but at somebody else entirely.
Blinking in surprise, the perplexed Kure then attempted to adjust the signal. "Whoa-whoa. Maya. Calm down. What's going on? Tell me what's happening."
"Augh! Fuck!" the girl's shout came back before addressing her associate through the head piece. "Guess what… I found the Saiyan."
Kure craned her head towards the receiver in surprise, "Really? Up in the mountains?"
"Yeah! But here's the thing… he's half-Saiyan, he's got a little brother who is also half-Saiyan, and he's pissed off at me for some reason! Don't know why! AAAAAAAHH!" All of a sudden, there was the distinct sound of explosions and crashing, all of which echoed through the transmission for several long seconds. After they faded, ragged breathing followed shortly afterwards. "I think he's attacking me because-GAH… he thinks I tried to hurt his family."
Pausing for a moment, the bewildered Kure then gave her communicator a deadpanned look. "Oh God. You didn't, did you?"
"What?! No! Of course I didn't! What makes you think I-… SHIT!" Another loud whooshing sound echoed in from the other end, indicating the woman had just dodged something big and powerful, before she began screaming at her opponent once again. "That was aimed for my head, you dick!"
Shaking her own head, Kure then took on a serious stare, "Do you think you can try and defuse the situation?"
After a few more, incomprehensible grunts, Maya's aggravated response came through, "I can try! But unless this idiot stops shooting blasts at me sometime in the next few minutes, then I won't be able to do jack shit! RAAAGH!" When another blast being fired reverberated in over the airways, the spiky haired Saiyan then shouted. "You keep looking for the other Saiyans! I'll try and talk some sense into this-WHOA!" Following a second explosion, the exasperated Maya barked in outrage, "You know what… fuck diplomacy! It took us over a month to get here and I need to let off some steam!"
At that, a panicked look quickly appeared on Kure's face, "No-no-no-no-no-NO! Wait a second, Ma-" Before she could finish, the transmission cut off and a defeated look fell over the woman's face, "-ya. Damn it." All of a sudden, another red light began blinking on her visor, which she quickly responded to. "Mobi? What's wrong?"
"Beep! Beep-beep!" (Kure! The people on the island you sent me to are attacking me!) came the frantic response from the robot on the other end.
Staring ahead of her in surprise, Kure then looked over at the secretary behind the desk and then the security guards, all of whom were now staring at her strangely. "Wow. The humans on this planet are a lot more violent than I was expecting." Obviously being a little louder than she was anticipating, the armored woman cringed and lowered her head. "Do you think you can hold them off until Sandra orders us to regroup?"
After a moment of silence, the robot replied, "Beep. Beep." (I'll do my best. But they are very persistent)
"Alright. Good luck buddy." Switching off her receiver, the woman looked up and considered her situation.
So far, her best friend Maya had reported two bingos and her partner Mobi was experiencing technical difficulties. Judging from what she'd heard over their transmissions, her comrades were apparently being attacked due to a major misunderstanding in communication. This was probably because the people on this planet weren't used to receiving visits from other celestial bodies and aliens… or perhaps they had been attacked multiple times in the past by interstellar visitors. Whatever the case was, Kure reasoned that the people Maya and Mobi were now fighting were this planet's defenders, and they were now acting on both instinct and experience to protect their planet.
With her companions in trouble, Kure knew that she had to do something to try and fix this. After mulling it over in her head for a couple of minutes, the shrewd and intelligent woman then figured that if she tried talking to the people with the high power levels in this place, whom she deduced were in some way connected to the ones assaulting her teammates, maybe she could get them to go out and stop their friends from attacking her friends.
"That could work," Kure mumbled to herself.
After all, this was a pretty civilized building. Perhaps the strong people here were a lot more reasonable.
So, dropping the drawing book and standing up, the woman thrust her right arm out and activated her gauntlet. A weapon resembling a wrist launcher then popped out from one of the plates, which she quickly pointed towards the nearest wall. The sight of the woman's weapon caused the secretary to scream and duck, while the security guards nearby quickly rushed forward and reached for their pistols.
Before they could do anything though, Kure fired off a blue energy ball from her wrist, which struck the wall, flattened against it and expanded in the blink of an eye. The flash of blue light then vanished shortly afterwards to reveal a perfectly circular hole, large enough to fit a car through, had been drilled into the wall. However, the interesting thing about it was that there were no burn or shrapnel marks anywhere to be seen, nor had there been any kind of explosion. It was like the entire section of plaster had just popped out of existence.
After creating her makeshift doorway, Kure then turned to walk towards it, only to be greeted by the sounds of gunfire when the two guards in the lobby opened fire on her. The bullets effortlessly bounced off of the woman's body in a series of sparks and clangs, which prompted the humanoid cat to glance in their direction. When she saw the pair of guards empty their guns and reload, the woman raised her gauntlet arm and fired a second blue sphere of energy towards them.
When the ball of light struck the pair, it expanded and swallowed up the human and his anthropomorphic German shepherd partner in a blinding flash of light. However, when it seemed like the two guards had been utterly disintegrated by the attack, when the light faded shortly afterwards, it revealed the two men standing in defensive positions, completely unscathed… and butt naked. Upon realizing that their clothes and weapons had been disintegrated, the two men panicked and covered up as best as they could.
Their mortified reactions drew a childish giggle from Kure, who then wagged her finger at them. "Sorry, boys. But I'm on a very important mission and I can't have any of you guys interfering." After handily dispatching the men, the armored woman then turned her attention back to the hole and walked through it, leaving a pair of very embarrassed security personnel and one baffled secretary.
A few seconds after Kure left, the office door near the security station opened up and a clerk in a formal Capsule Corp uniform stepped into the lobby. Reading off of his clipboard, the man in the square glasses smiled and looked up, "Alright, Ms Kure. My name is…" He then stopped when he noticed the two naked men, the terrified secretary, and the massive hole in the wall. After looking around for a couple of moments, the man then murmured, "Did I… miss something?"