"Wait, so what happened to the guy after that? Did he make it out, or-"
"No Idea. Hope He Was Crushed."
"Fair enough. But are you really that lucky?"
"Probably not, but we haven't seen him in weeks. We're hoping that's the end of it." Cynthia answered for Tater, as she opened the door and let herself in. "You two are finally talking, great."
"You must be Tater's… companion."
"And you must be Tarble. I've heard a lot about you. It's great to finally, really meet you. My idiot really looks up to you, you know." We shook hands.
"MGHN!" Tater protested through his useless jaw.
"That's nice to know. I definitely won't forget it." I smirked at the big lug.
That's what Tater gets for all the stories he'd told me about in the last twenty minutes.
Apparently, while he'd taken a couple months to recover from the thrashing that I'd given him, Tater had been active almost constantly since the moment he'd gotten the okay to leave the village.
The first thing he'd done is go north. Apparently, there was a group of dinosaur-like creatures blocking a river that ran straight through the desert from end to end. To repay the debt he owed to the villagers for taking care of him, Tater had destroyed the dam blocking the water, and put the fear of God into the dinosaurs that made it so that they'd never consider doing it again.
Then, hearing about a witch who could predict the future, if one either paid her or defeated all of her unusually powerful fighters, Tater and Cynthia had made their way to Fortuneteller Baba's palace, deep in the same desert that Cynthia had been born and raised in.
After beating most of Baba's fighters with ease, though, Tater had gotten a little overconfident.
So, when he'd been hit with a ki technique that turned one's own internal ki against them, he'd been caught completely off guard.
Everybody survived, but the resulting explosion destroyed a large portion of Baba's palace. To say that the old lady had been angry at him was a massive understatement.
She'd literally tried to send the guy to HFIL on the spot. Apparently, she could actually do that, under certain extreme circumstances.
Only by promising to pay Baba back had Tater managed to escape that fate.
So, she'd sent him to the south seas to search for a long forgotten trove of pirate treasure buried deep undersea.
Along the way, he'd stopped at a little village on the water, to gather a bit of information about the whole 'pirate treasure' legend.
Unfortunately, that particular village was too close to a military outpost. A Red Ribbon Army military outpost, of course. Because why would Murphy's Law not take effect at every turn?
As such, when he'd entered the village, Tater had gotten into the middle of a Red Ribbon shakedown. Apparently, a blonde man backed up by a half-dozen soldiers, was threatening the owner of a fashion store.
When Tater tossed them all out of the village on their butts, he got standing applause and free stuff. The village considered him a hero at the time.
But that put him on the Red Ribbon Army's radar. When he dove into the pirate base, the blonde guy followed him all the way into the depths.
Where Tater nearly drowned him to death.
In response, the blonde guy… confessed?
Surprisingly, the dude was a gay pervert with a serious masochism fetish, and psychic abilities.
Since then, the guy, Lieutenant Blue or something, had followed Tater all over the planet, his psychic powers getting stronger and stronger every time, making him harder and harder to kill in the process.
Apparently, he even once managed to knock Tater unconscious with newly unlocked, Tater-specific telepathy. Tater woke up and blasted the guy away with his full power before anything had actually happened, but it taught him to never underestimate anyone. Especially the weak or weird.
Anyway, in the end, Tater brought the treasure back to Baba, clearing his debt and saving his soul from instant HFIL.
And leaving him and Cynthia completely penniless, in a world that they knew little to nothing about.
The first thing they did, once Baba kicked them out, was wander aimlessly. They ended up going north, and getting ambushed by the remnants of the dinosaur village that'd been hoarding water from Cynthia's village.
Apparently, Cynthia was trapped inside of a gigantic ball of some sort of rubbery, gum-like substance that stuck to everything like cement, while Tater slaughtered the entire group, except for a small group that he allowed to escape, so long as they took the crazy blonde weirdo who'd shown up to declare his undying love to Tater in a telekinetic ambush that simply served to irritate the Saiyan.
Only a week later, they were ambushed by the blonde guy, Blue, again, where he let slip that he was able to use Red Ribbon spy satellites to track the duo down.
So, Tater flew back to Blue's original, already abandoned, base on the island in the south seas, and found all of the location data on all the other, known Red Ribbon Army bases.
The subsequent massacre took but a single week.
When I asked them just how thorough they were, the pair simply shrugged. They didn't even remember individual faces, so I couldn't ask them about what happened to Gero and his son.
Which meant that I'd have to investigate myself, thoroughly and personally.
How fun.
After that, they simply wandered for three years or so. During this time, Tater got locked in a box, a jar, and finally, eaten by a demon 'king' that was leading a horde that was terrorizing a small city.
He also, apparently, got hit in the head by a girl named Arale, who had the ability to somehow turn her fist into a hammer and, by slamming it into a person's face, completely override their personality.
He spent three days as a butler before Cynthia finally convinced the little girl to fix him, after which they ran into a little blue guy, a talking dog, and a woman, who convinced them that there was a powerful monster in some crypt.
The monster was an explosive. From what I heard, that stupid Pilaf fellow tried to use Tater to get a Dragon Ball from some scary, trapped ancient crypt, then they set explosives to get rid of the guy and cover their tracks.
Unfortunately for all involved, once they actually got the Dragon Ball from the crypt, they were ambushed by the Blue guy again.
Pilaf tried to sacrifice Tater to Blue so that he and his crew could run away with the Dragon Ball.
Betrayed and extremely annoyed, Tater blew the crazy blonde guy deep into the depths of the cavern, which collapsed with the guy inside.
Then he took the Dragon Ball from Pilaf as payment for the irritation, threatening him to never show him his face ever again.
That was just a few weeks ago. The pair hadn't seen Pilaf or Blue since.