Dashade's Story

Dashde made no moves or gestures to comfort the girl in anywya, no smiles, no pats on the back or hugs. He just listened. It was honestly a bit confusing to him, how could the Namekian get a feeling of misdeeds from this one? She was hardly able to conduct evil even if she wanted to. "Thing? Well, to be fair, what else is there to call you as when we do not know your species?" He knew why the term offended her, he'd used it many times himself back at his home in his younger days. Thing, something different, something barbaric, somthing disgusting. "I think I made him sick or somthing..."

"And while name calling to such an extent that it brought tears could of been uncalled for, they don't have much reason to trust you anyways. And dodging questions about your motivations is a bit suspisous" He wasn't used to this trying to cheer other people up; he could barley do it himself. "Besides, what do you acomplish by running away, pissing and moaning like the age range you deny being in? If you want them to trust you and if you wish to be treated better by them, go and give them reason to. Don't run away and cry for everything to be fixed for you, or the best you'll achieve is a migrane and become more baggage for the people around you"

Admittedly, it did feel nice to have Dashade calmly listen to her problems without any clear signs of protest, but he could try and put more effort in looking like he cared. "So... What you're saying is... It's okay to not like it, but... It's up to me to change it?" It took her a while to wrap her head around what exactly Dashade was saying, though she could get the gist of it. I can't realy get mad at the green guy, yeah, his words hurt. But... She wasn't the most normal looking creature in the universe, and that was saying something. "I think I understand"

She also acknowledged that he had silently taught her that she needed better ways to use her emotions, running off and destroying everything in her path just because someone made her cry (Which is something she totally didn't do... At all...) wasn't going to bolster anyone's trust in her. maybe she should apologise. "Thanks for listening to me..." His strange method of making her attack him did help her let go of the confused anger she held, plus it was a good reminder of how inexperienced she was. A brutal beatdown and a stern lecture? Mr Shade would get along well with my Master... Though the Arcosian didn't seem to like smiling very much, he always looks grumpy. Not that Kazaam's Master couldn't smile, it's just whenever she did it looks like she's insulting you somehow.

A part of her wanted to ask Dashde why exactly he didn't smile, but she realised that she had already taken up a lot of his time and that he probably wanted to be alone or at least have her silent. "I think it's nap time now... Thank you for the talky stuff, Mr Shade" She bowed her head in graditude before shuffling away from Dashade, trying to give him space and resting her head on the ground, hoping she at least looked more comfortable then she felt on the ground. With that she closed her eyes and was out like a light... Hopfully.

"That is such bull..." Nion grumbled to herself at the Namekian, a bit peeved that the ones with an ability that gave a pretty good battlefield advantage were the spiecies that weren't very combat prone for the most part. Pure bullshit! "And are we seriously calling a brat, 'The Kazaam'? That sounds compeltly dumb"

When Taao also confirmed hearing the cry for food, Nion recovered her smug look and was almost too tempted to tell Pikruel 'I told you so!', but really she just wanted to get the brat and get back to her home so she could get some new armour... And get out of this damn silk. "Let's go and get the brat then" With that she flew off towards the direction of Kazaam, breifly wondering what the other energy signature was; fortunatly she didn't have to wait long for an answer when from high above she could see Dashade near a sleeping Kazaan, munching on something.

"Oh, not this asshole again!"

"Did that just... Happen?" Dashade asked himself after witnessing the girl pour her heart out, smile, thank him for helping and then just toddling off to sleep like nothing was amiss. "She's way to easily swayed... I mean, I pride myself on makeing sense. But she didn't even have long enough to look at my advice!" Shaking his head he gave out a sigh. It wasn't out of annoyance or stress though, he was at least happy that somone on this planet could sleep with such a goofy smile after the recent massacure of a battle. "Maybe she really is a child"

He had no time to think about it any more as he heard a loud curse from above him, with a surprised gasp his head whipped around to look skyward, only being able to produce an annoyed groan. It was the blue warrior. A.K.A the annoying one. "What part of 'bugger off' wasn't clear!? Seriously, HOW DO YOU PEOPLE KEEP ON FINDING ME!?"

To Pikruel's surprise, the Namekian really seemed to be able to sense Kazaam's energy. Although all he did was point in the direction that Nion already detected Kazaam in, Pikruel had no reason to think that the green man was lying to her. She made a mental note to herself to test out the limits of this ability later. For now, their task was to find the mysterious bubblegum girl. Soon enough, they did. But they found with her the Arcosian who wanted to be alone.

"What part of 'bugger off' wasn't clear!? Seriously, HOW DO YOU PEOPLE KEEP ON FINDING ME!?"

Pikruel waved her hands defensively. "We weren't looking for you. We were trying to find Kazaam."

Dashade backed away like a small animal that thought it was going to be attacked, his eyes giving Pikruel a supsious glare. "Just looking for Kazaam? Really?" His eyes wondered around to each other them in turn, waiting for any sign that he should make a break for it. If they were here to fight him, there'd be no point. They would easily outnumber and over power him. "Well, if you want to take her, she's right there. Good luck waking her up"

From Nion's uncouth reaction he could take an educated guess as to the identity of the second strong energy he sensed below, just few seconds later confirmed his expectations of a dark skinned, horned figure below. Pikruel who continued ahead of them touched down first, the Arcosian as Nion referred to him seemed none to pleased to see them again. As he descended he could easily hear the arcosian shouting, no doubt frustrated that three reminders of his latest shame arrived to haunt him once more, but they weren't there for him, he just happened to be in the wrong place at the right time.

With a deadly serious expression and his arms still crossed, Taao landed on two sturdy feet with a soft " crunch " as the bottoms of his feet crushed the grass beneath him. In his landing he oriented himself behind the two saiyans, still standing out due to the height difference between them.

"So she's asleep? Good. "

Studying the arcosian's body language he appeared to be relaxed, but the paranoid edge to his voice, and the way his eyes darted between them, gave off the impression of a clever animal waiting for a chance to elude a dangerous predator. Taao waited until the arcosian's eyes to meet his again before addressing him, adopting a less guarded tone which contrasted with his body language.

" peace, if we where going to kill you we would have a long time ago. As long as you're no longer aligned with those brutes we have no quarrel, in fact, my original offer is still open. "


He realized the irony of trusting a former enemy before a seemingly harmless child, but a person's true self can be ascertained in battle by the trained eye in battle, his actions could be predicted unlike the odd creature. This was something he expected warriors of their caliber to see, but the blue saiyan's thought process seemed to operate based on pride over logic.

He continued " If Frost is really gone, and we're to expect this Heeta character is more powerful than the guy we killed, then someone has to stop this Tyrant or nowhere will be safe. Obviously we're at a big disadvantage seeing as we know next to nothing about him and his army, but you alone know more than anyone here what to expect from this guy next. "

Nion rolled her eyes once again at Taao's attempts to negotiated and befriend the Arcosian, just another distraction that was keeping them there on the planet. "We found the brat, let's go. Unless this ends in a fist fight, I don't think it's going anywhere" She kept her eyes locked on Dashade along with a suspisous gaze, just hoping that he'd at least be stupid enough to throw a punch, kami knows she needs a good fight after basically missing most of the others.

Though soon a strange thought hit her as Taao talked about getting off the planet, making her turn to Pikruel "Wait, we came here in pods. How were we expecting to take the brat and jelly bean off the planet?"

Dashade let out a snort at the Namekian "Yes, insect-" Working off the idea that maybe beigna bit more insulting would get the 'Go away!' message through clearer "-I know plenty about Heeta's Empire, his Commanders and how it all works. I been licking his boots for years, have I not? But I'm not working for, with or near any of you. I'm still disgusted to know that I already have prior. So, please get it through your head just how I view your pitiful offer"

The Blue One be the first and most likley to attack me, maybe if I fire at her first, I can use the confusion to run... I can't stay here, that's for sure Thoughs of paranoia and escpe routes plauged his mind, though they were more comforting then... other thoughts that took place. The Namekian continued "If Frost is really gone, and we're to expect this Heeta character is more powerful than the guy we killed, then someone has to stop this Tyrant or nowhere will be safe. Obviously we're at a big disadvantage seeing as we know next to nothing about him and his army, but you alone know more than anyone here what to expect from this guy next. "

At this Dashade burst out laughing at the sheer ridiculousness of the statement 'stop this Tyrant', the Arcosian looked at hima s if he was mad. "Stop him? Lord Heeta? If Frost fell prey to him..." It was the most logical conclusion, Lord Frost just so happened to die JUST when Heeta was planning to start his campain? Heeta had to of been the one responcible for Frost's death. "Then my only advice to you is to blow yourselves up now, because if you're stupid enough to fight him, you'll only be remembered as insane"

"None of you and not one single monkey on that planet of Saiyans are even close to being in Heeta's leauge"

As Pikruel listened to the conversation between Taao and Dashade, she tried to picture what this Heeta was like. After driving away his forces with only two Saiyans and some allies they made on the way, she figured that Heeta would never touch another planet protected by the Saiyans again.

"I'm sure that this Heater guy is strong," said Pikruel, "but I think you're underestimating the Saiyans. We're the protectors of the galaxy. Every enemy that tries to mess with those under our protection never make the same mistake twice. If he's dumb enough to show his face, we'll deal with him when the time comes."

To Nion's question, she crossed her arms to think. "Umm... Taao. You're not from here. You must have a space ship, right? Would you happen to have room for two extra passengers?"

The insult bounced off Taao as if he didn't notice at all, he assumed it to be yet another attempt to undermine his appearance but he had no such insecurities to play on. He was however surprised at the arcosian rejecting his offer so coldly, as if he had some other way off this planet. He sighed Yet another fool allowing pride to rule over reason, so be it. Taao reasoned that if he wasn't willing to join them out of pride, then he could at least coax some information out of him, maybe the arcosian would feel some form responsibility for the monstrous acts he helped perpetrate. When he responded with laughter Taao scowled, but the words which followed was the biggest disappointment. For once he agreed with Nion, this was a waste of time.

while still glaring in disgust at his pitiful former enemy " I didn't realize I talking to a coward! " was all he said before Pikruel also chimed in, and after that there was nothing more to be said to the alien. From what he'd seen of these saiyans, if there was a whole planet of fighters like Nion and Pikruel then there was nothing to worry about, there was no need to proposition the aid of a coward.

"Umm... Taao. You're not from here. You must have a space ship, right? Would you happen to have room for two extra passengers?"

His look of disgust faded and he smiled down at the tailed saiyan as if he was waiting for that very question. " As a matter of fact I do, it's actually pretty large so I think we can all fit no problem. "

"A Saiyan is worth more then a thousand of whatever pitiful excuse for fighters that this Heeta can produce, as thus far you've proven today!" Nion growled, Dashade's constant jabs at Saiyans NOT being able to beat or dominate somthing was really striking some sensetive nerves. You never insult a Saiyans fighting abiliy unless you hve them on their knees and pleading. "If that guy ever comes crawling out of his hidy hole, he'll be eating the dirt before putting us down"

"I didn't realize I talking a coward!"

Taao's insulted just prompted Nion to bark ''That's what I've been saying the whole time, why did it take you so damn long to figure it out!?" Her fist slammed into her creamy blue palm as she glared at the Arcosian. "Besides, if Heeta is oh-so-powerful, then what's you running away with your tail between your legs gonna do? You'd have a better chance with us, at least then if we fail, you can bend over and tell him you were on his side the whole time. I mean, he probably doesn't even know that somone as insignificant as you betrayed him anyway"

First she was arguing to kill him, and now she was trying to convince him to join them. But it wasn't out of a sense of pity or actually wanting the guy there, no, it was much more simple. She just wanted to see his face when she proved his 'Heeta is invicable' spiel was wrong. That would show the coward.

The girl merely grumbled as everyone's arguing only seemed to increase in volume and annoyance, making it very hard for even Kazaam to stay slumbering peacefully. And I was just having a nice dream about a giant monkey, it was awesome and he was just about to get a giant banana!. With half lidded eyes and slumped arms Kazaam dragged herself to her feet lazily using her feet (By pushing herself upright against Dashade's leg). "Its nap time! You're not allowed to yell during nap time, it's the rules"

Rubbing her knuckles against her eyelids in an attempt to wipe away her sleepiness, Kazaam was surprised to be met with the sight of the group she had just ran away from. Were they looking for me? Was I out too long? "W-what are you guys doing here? Did I do something wrong again?"

"Coward? I may be a coward, but I'd rather that then simply causing more trouble for everything around me for no other reason then some damn stupid feeling to go against tyrants. Let me ask you Namekian, after you fail to kill Lord Heeta, do you know what he'll do? He look at you. He'll look at the Saiyans. He'll look at the... Kazaam. He'll see you all as examples of spieces that just want to be difficult and soon he'll be knocking on the doors of your homeworlds, to make sure your people don't follow suit. By rebelling you're only making it easier for the people around you to be harmed, in fighting Heeta you're signing the death warrents of others who never ha a choice to be involvd in this matter. DO YOU CARE ABOUT THAT!?"

Dashade's hands formed a fistas he grumbled, he wasn't a coward. He was just smart. He wasn't running away from his problems, he was finding a less suicidal way of solving them. He was in the right. Right? Why should I put my life on the line for others? I've already done so. I've already sacrificed so much and the people I saved just trned their backs on me and branded me a traitor. I DON'T OWE ANY OF THEM ANYTHING!

"W-what are you guys doing here? Did I do something wrong again?"

The Arcosian blined rapidly as the sudden intrusion of Kazaam's voice surprised him, looking down at the girl he let surprise shift around his expression as his mind brought him back to just a few minutes before hand.

I'm not a coward...

"Besides, what do you acomplish by running away, pissing and moaning like the age range you deny being in? If you want them to trust you and if you wish to be treated better by them, go and give them reason to. Don't run away and cry for everything to be fixed for you, or the best you'll achieve is a migrane and become more baggage for the people around you"

"dID i JUST THROW MY OWN WORDS BACK AT MYSELF...?" Dashade muttered aloud to himself. His own words had made sense to Kazaam, and now they sort of knocked some sense into him. He couldn't just run from Heeta all his life for his decision. Dashade decided to go against Holly, not expecting any reward or anyone to recognise his deeds, He willingly flushed his career down the toilet and it was of no fault of anyone elses but him. And either way, by going against Holly he'd probably indirectly helped Heeta target the Saiyans and the Namekians, hell, Melt was probably going to be reciving a visit soon. Because of Holly' death. "No...NO...You... YOu're right. Namekian. As much as I hate to admit it, you're right"

"You all went after Holly even though he displayed power that far outclassed your own, and you came out a head. Now, I still doubt your chances. But... I think the saiying goes 'Better to live one day as a tiger, then a lifetime as a mouse'. And I've already spent my life time as a mouse, under Heeta's boot. ANd for now, I'm ready to break the chains he has placed on me'' He wasn't doing it for any noble reason, or to impress. It was for revenge... Just revenge. Well, that's what Ddashade convinced himself and hopfully the others.

Pikruel shook her head at Kazaam. "No, no. We came looking for you because we didn't want to leave without you. We know you're not a thing. You're a person just like me, right? So how about we go back to Sadla together so you could do whatever your master asked you to do?"

Happy to hear that Dashade had changed his mind, Pikruel let out a wide smile. She didn't understand what convinced him, but she was happy to have a new ally. And perhaps...a new sparring partner.

"Good! It'll be nice having someone who knows about Heater on our team. Besides, without us, you'd kind of be stuck here. All of your former allies took their space ships and left. I've got an idea. How about me and Nion send our pods back on autopilot and we all fly back together in Taao's ship? That sounds like fun!"

Nion simply grinned to herself "Anything to get out of those pods, seriously, it's like living in a microwave. I'd prefer a wide of space" Unfortunatlythere really wasn't that big a space that could hold her ego, though really she was just glad that all this drama and yeling had stopped. Now she could get home and take this stupid cloth off. "Do we have anything else to side track us, or are we finally done for the day?"

We're about to walk into a life or death situation, and she's smiling? Must be a Saiyan thing The Arcosian kept his arms crossed and his expression stern, he at least had to keep upthe appearance that he was doing this under protest; narroing his eyes on Pikruel as she seemed to be the one that was telling the group where to go.

"Good! It'll be nice having someone who knows about Heater on our team. Besides, without us, you'd kind of be stuck here. All of your former allies took their space ships and left-" It took a surprising amount of resistance for Dashade to not correct the girl's pronounciation of Heeta's name, or grumble that he did not need to be reminded of him being abandoned. Oh kami, I think I'm taking this 'biterness' a bit to far... "-I've got an idea. How about me and Nion send our pods back on autopilot and we all fly back together in Taao's ship? That sounds like fun!"

"Fun?" He tilted his head to the side "I know you mostly fly in cramped pods, but I asure you that a space ship isn't really that magnificent of an experience"

At his back the arcosian responded to being called out just as he expected, with another miserable tirade " after you fail to kill Lord Heeta, do you know what he'll do? " What a joke, such a question. The arcosian continued to spew his none sense of Heeta targeting their people as punishment for opposing him, like he'd honestly never consider such a conclusion. He'd encountered his type before, a power drunk nutcase with egos large enough to look at whole worlds as possessions. One such man had come to his home planet before, a man claiming to be from a far away planet seeking rumors of magical balls that could make any wish come true. Of course they knew it was the dragon balls he sought, but his elder brothers feigned ignorance while attempting to offer hospitality to the traveler for coming so far in vein. It didn't work. Once the man came to understand that they weren't going to cooperate, he became hostile, killing several of his brothers. Taao was a young child at the time, but even as a child he understood his duty to protect his people. He rose up to strike the man down, and though the battle was hard fought he overcame, and here he stood.

" I know men like him, do you truly believe it matters to a person like that who opposes him? People who take whatever they want will do just that, and I'd rather take him out before he even gets the chance, or die trying " Though I don't plan on dying, I'm going to protect my people

After that Nion laid more hard truth on the arcosian, and she was dead on. Running away accomplished nothing, if he'd coward away from an enemy who'd easily slain his elder brethren, he and his kin may have been well wiped out. Taao heard the arcosian mutter to himself, and though his back was still turned to the arcosian he could hear the inner turmoil in his voice. He perceived that the arcosian was mentally battling himself, it seemed as though their words had finally forced him to take a good look at himself, or at the very least he saw the logic of his situation. Whatever the reason, he finally conceded, and not a moment too soon because Kazaam was awake now. Though he was still weary of this " mission " the strange child could have been sent on, he would have to tolerate her if they where going to work together, but he wasn't going to apologize.

" He's right you know, I learned the hard way that piloting a space craft safely is extremely difficult. It'd be more accurate to say I crashed rather than landed it, but the ship's still quite in tact. "

At that he jumped into the air on one foot, but instead of falling back to the ground he continued to levitate above them. He didn't want to stand around long enough for any one to second guess " just follow me "

"No, no. We came looking for you because we didn't want to leave without you. We know you're not a thing. You're a person just like me, right? So how about we go back to Sadla together so you could do whatever your master asked you to do?" As Pikruel finished her speech, Kazaam only gave a wide smile and forgot about her previous tired demeanour, instead leaping forward to hug the Saiyan with chants of 'Thankyou!Thanyou!' and ''Won't regret'' before stopping to listen to Taao

"Hey, I crash landed he as well! But my ship is kind of..." Kazaam pulled apart her hands and made a gurgling sound from the depths of her throat, as if to try and recreate the effect of an explosion. "And now I'm her-" Taao had already made his way into the air with a simple command, to which Kazaam assumed the others would follow.

At Dashades short lived and begrudging speech (Which Kazaam didn't really understand, and made her wonder what the two were actually talking about) Kazaam got more energetic in that her body started to shake with her smile, as she looked to the warrior and cheered "Oh, so you're coming too? Awesome!"

Taking to the skies, Pikruel followed Taao wherever he would lead them. She was pretty excited about this change of plans. She came to the planet with only one ally and was now leaving it with four. Before leaving, though, she had to make sure her pod was on its return trip home. Reaching into her shirt, she pulled out a small remote. She pushed a few buttons on it to give her ship the signal to go. Soon after, she would see it flash by the group and it rose into the sky to escape the atmosphere of the planet.

"So, Taao, what brought you to this planet, anyway? Did you come to defend the planet too, or did you have some other reason to be here?"