Pikruel's Story

*Beep, beep. Beep, beep. Beep, beep.*

Pikruel stepped out of her shower, holding a towel that was wrapped around her torso. Her scouter was beeping from its place beside her bed. When she heard it, she quickly leaped over to grab it.

"Looks like I've got a message on my Tuffle machine. I wonder if it's about my next mission."

Attaching it to her head, she tapped the button on her ear to display the text of her message. It read, "Pikruel, you have been assigned to defend Planet Melt from invaders. Your enemies reportedly represent Emperor Heeta. Fortunately, Heeta does not appear to be with them, so a small team should be enough to drive them off. The coordinates have already been sent to your pod. Good luck. --HQ."

As soon as she read the word "assigned" Pikruel was already out the door, running as fast as she could to get to the pod bay.

"Alright! A new assignment! I hope these guys are tougher than the guys than the ones from last time. Those guys were too easy."

She stopped suddenly when she noticed the people around her giving her weird looks.

"Uhh... Maybe I should get dressed first. Heh heh..."

After returning home, Pikruel put on her dark purple and green fighting gi and rushed to her space pod. Soon she was on her way, flying through space in her white orb.

Pikruel landed a few minutes after Nion, crashing down a few miles away from her partner's location. Using her scouter, Pikruel homed in on Nion's ki and flew her way. However, before she could make it half way, Pikruel heard screams and turned to investigate.

One of the invaders was down below, standing just outside of a hut. One of the insectoid people, a large male, knelt on one knee, with a hand to his side.

"Give up, little bug," said the invader. "You know you can't win. Why fight?"

"Because as long as there is strength in my body, I will not give in to evil."

"Well, then, let's see how long that lasts."

As the invader raised his gun arm, a little child ran out toward the adult.

"Daddy! Don't hurt my daddy!"

The adult raised his hand towards the child and yelled, "No, Flame! Get back inside!" But it was too late. The invader turned his arm canon to the approaching target and fired. Just then, Pikruel appeared in a flash and deflected the blast.

"Who the Hell are you?" asks the invader.

"I'm a Saiyan, protector of the innocent. Ally to good, nightmare to you!"

When the invader moved to fire again, Pikruel grabbed the canon by its opening and releasing her own blast of energy to the inside. The arm canon exploded in a flash of light. The invader yelped and took a big leap back.

"You're going to pay for that!" the invader yelled as he turned and ran.

Before the invader could get far, Pikruel kicked him from behind and sent him flying high until he disappeared as a little speck in the green sky.

"Don't worry about me," Pikruel said to the blue woman. "These guys are pushovers."

Pikruel stopped and looked Noin up and down. "Forgive me for asking but...are you one of the good guys or are you a bad guy? You look like you're half Saiyan."

When the invader finally crash landed, he rolled over onto his back and slowly raised his left hand to his cracked helmet. "C-commander Holly... We have a p-problem."

"What is it, soldier?" the man in red's voice spoke into his ear.

"There's someone here. She calls herself a Saiyan, and she's here to protect the Meltians."

"A Saiyan...? Was there more than one of them?"

"I only saw the one. Also, Commander, I think I've got a few broken bones. If you could--"

Holly cut off the soldier and turned his frequency to all his men. "Attention. There's a Saiyan woman in 25 miles Southwest of our landing site. All units in the vicinity, find the Saiyan and engage."

Nion froze up with her eyes glaring daggers at the other woman, her knuckles already whiting from the pressure placed on them. "I assure you that I am a FULL BLOODED Saiyin! And there is absolutly NO reason to think otherwise!" Her eyes clamped shut as she calmed her self down, crossing her arms and coughing away her mix of embarasment and annoyance. "... So, that means you're my partner for this mission then? You know that the guy you kicked is still breathing, right? Could cause a few problems... Not that I mind the more forceful assault"

Pikruel raised her hands up defensively. "Sorry, sorry. It's just that you... Well, never mind. I'm not worried. If all our enemies are as weak and this guy, we could take on their whole army. There's no need to kill them. Just beat them up bad enough that they run away and never come back."

The Meltian man stood up slowly. "Thank you so much for your help. I don't know what I would have done if they took my daughter away from me."

"You and your family should get out of here. There's no telling how many more of them will come now. I don't want you to get caught up in this."

"Caught up in this? But it's our planet. This is our fight."

"I understand what you mean, but you're in no condition to fight, and no offense but you'd just get in the way. We can't fight at full power and protect you at the same time."
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"Let's worry about the one we know about first, Arcosian," Commander Holly replied in a somewhat condescending tone. "If more of these Saiyans turn up, we will deal with them too. Now, get down there and make sure this Saiyan is taken care of."

"I'm not worried" Her laugh returned, leaning over as she tapped the other Saiyin's forehead. "It's just I don't want you complaining and screaming for my help when these guys overwhelm you" Turning her head towards the distance Nion let out a slight grunt of satisfaction, bringing her hand up to press against her scouter. "Speaking of overwhelming, looks like they found the guy you knocked out"

The Saiyin let out a wide grin as she turned fully to face what she was guessing to be an army, smashing hr fist into her palm. "Ready, Partner?"

The invaders were swarming around the two saiyans in moments, giving the the child Meltian just enough time to help her father to safety. Pikruel raised her fists up to a fighting position. "I'm ready."

One of the soldiers reported in. "There are two aliens here. One is blue, and one is a weird pink color. Which is the Saiyan?"

"I don't know what a Saiyan looks like!" Commander Holly replied. "If they're not natives, and they're not with us, then they're trouble. Exterminate them both."

The soldiers rushed it at once to fight. Pikruel blocked a punch and a kick, then kicked her attacker in between the legs, knocking him into the air. She punched a second enemy and back kicked another. When the first dropped back down, she punched him in the gut to knock him back up a little, then then back flipped and kicked him, sending him flying hard into a group of others.

"See?" Pikruel said as she rapidly punched and kicked whatever enemies came close to her. "These guys aren't a problem."

When she got no response, she stopped and turned to look for her partner. She found her in the crowd just in time to see her thrown into a mountain. "Oh, no!"

Pikruel started to rush toward Nion, but troops quickly swarmed around her and latched onto her. She struggled to get free, but their collective grip made any kind of movement difficult. Then one of them made the mistake of accidentally cupping his hand around her boob, and Pikruel erupted into an explosion of energy, sending the men flying in all directions.

"Honestly," Pikruel said with her arms crossed and her face all red. "You people have no manners."
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"I don't care how many there are," Holly said to the Dashade. "Just eliminate them. Arcosian? Must I do everything myself?"

From her perspective, it looked that the fight between her comrade and the Arcosian was not going in her friend's favor. Attempts to rush in to help would be futile, however, as swarms of enemies floated in her path to prevent her from moving very quickly. Then she had an idea. She released a ball of golden energy towards the enemies in her path, then closed her eyes and squeezed her hand to make the ball explode into a blinding light.

With her enemies stunned and unable to fight, Pikruel charged up her next attack. "Galick...Gun!"

The purple beam of energy cut a path through the swarm of invaders, allowing her to quickly approach the Arcosian with ease.

The hit to the stomach came as a shock for the Arcosian, knocking the wind outta him with a surprisingly strong forehead. "No! My gaspocket!" He reels back for a moment, but his grip on the Saiyin's legs still held firm. Wondering if maybe her headbutt would be stronger if she hadn't already been damaged so much.

When the cry of a Galick Gun reached his ears, he snapped his gaze accordingly to face the other Saiyin that now rushed towards him. Let's kill two birds with one stone Staring down the other Saiyin with out so much as a thought, Dashade swung around and launched Nion's body right at Pikruel. "Well, maybe you swing her way!"

...That was terrible

"That was in...terrible...taste..." Ninon choked out as she felt her body launched yet again through the air, heading straight on a course to slam into her partner dead on. She felt her pride slowly stagger again against the transpiring events, the Lizard man's domination of her was completly humiliating, and now she was about to be used to take dwn her partner as well. It was unacceptable, all she could hope that Pikuel made for a soft landing, or she would be worrying about the condition of her head after this. "Damnit...Damit...DAMN....it..."

Taao had arrived well in time to hang back and witness the heated exchange between with an alien who was obviously the same species as Frost, only his armor was black. He didn't think there was anyone one this planet really strong enough to appose an invading force so he was surprised to find that the army already being pressed, shocked when he realized it was only two female warriors. They where both giving their all, one stood alone against the army of grunts while the other battled who appeared to be the commander in single combat! It was an incredible sight that gave him a much needed boost of hope and confidence, he was almost beginning to think that they wouldn't need his help at all, so he decided to wait for the right moment to make his move and until then he would wait and passively store as much Ki as possible without alerting the enemy.

Using the momentary distraction caused by the violent Ki wave to close in on the battle, in the next second after blasting down the brunt of the armies forces she broke off, charging directly at her comrade who'd just lost upper hand of her own fight. Charging straight at an fully aware enemy like that, bad move as she quickly learned when the black alien hurled the other woman directly at her. The resounding crunch of their bodies slamming into each other was enough to make him wince in pain. By the time they where in a tangled heap on the ground Taao had made it to ground under the cover of the boulder sized chunks broken from the mountain. From there he only had to cross 15 meters and unleash his surprise attack. Easy enough. However in his current state, without much time to prepare, he doubted seriously that he'd have enough power to kill the guy, however killing for him was a last resort.

"1...", " 2.." on the count of three lept over the boulder with a front-flip. In the time it took to reach the ground he'd gathered all the strength into his leg muscles that he could while at the same time focusing all the Ki he'd managed to gather in his right hand. The moment his balls of his feet hit the planets surface he rushed at the enemies back at break neck speed, crossing 10 of those meters in almost a blink of an eye, right arm outstretched with his fingers together, sharp nails forming forming a blade as sharp or sharper than any blade aimed to pierce the alien through the left shoulder. He did all this in the matter of seconds, and there was no battle cry to give away his position or angle of attack. This was his gamble.

Sometimes Nion both windered and cursed the one who came up with the idea for the Saiyin's battlesuits, they were easily ripped (As she could see now, by the end of this she would be lucky not to become practically naked) and in the crux of a arduous battle the wear's aching body and sweat would only make the suit tighter and more uncomfortable. That was the feeling she experience as her head slammed directly into Pikruel's chest, sending them both to the ground, the fabric of her body suit scratching at her skin. I swear, these were made just because the Saiyins wanted to still be able to flex on the battlefield

The Arcosian's tactic of throwing her own ally at her was unexpected. At the speed that Pikruel was moving, she didn't have much time to react. She took the full brunt of the attack, flying down together with Nion at a supersonic crash collision to the ground. At least, that's how it would appear. But when Nion would come into contact with Pikruel, she wouldn't feel any resistance from her body. A second later, Pikruel disappeared.

A few feet away from Dashade, she reappeared, firing a standard ki blast from her outstretched hand. If successful, she would continue rocketing up to Dashade and uppercut him in the face.

"How do you like that?" she said. "I call it the Fake-Out Mirage!"

The Arcosian continued to pull the Namekian against him, growling to himself at the situation he had managed to move himself through. He was put off by how easily the warrior had simply let her friend fall just for an upper hand in the fight. "Take a load of this" Shaking his mind free of the thoughts plaguing it, Dashade continued pulling the Namekian towards him, either the Ki blast hit dead on, or he was taking someone with him.

As he'd hoped the alien's full attention was focused on finishing off his current battle as quickly as possible, too focused to become aware of the imminent danger until it was too late, Taao's gambit paid off as his attack found it's mark. The elation and victory he experienced was a fleeting one. The alien proved to be more resilient than he'd expected, giving no time for a finishing blow to be dealt he'd took hold of Taao's extended right arm just before dashing into the air, Taao's immediately understood he'd made a critical misjudgment in not going for a vital organ. The alien had begun to prepare a counter attack but Taao's paid it no mind, he already knew what he had to do to escape this situation and he did,'t hesitate for a second. This time Taao did let out a cry as he raised his left arm in a right angle above his head just for a moment before bringing it down on his bicep with enough force to lob it clean off. Unlike most creatures, loosing an arm or leg was hardly a hindrance to a nimekian warrior.

With the threat removed Taao immediately dashed backward putting even more distance between him and the enemy to avoid any counter blast the alien probably hoped to trap him in. It's only victim would be his already severed arm. He looked up just in time to see one of the women appear near to the alien, and using a ki blast propelled herself vertically, right for the alien. He marveled at their raw combat ability, Taao fully expected they would both be out for a while, but here she'd already recovered and launched a counter attack which was to her credit quite unorthodox. Weather or not her second attack proved more fruitful than the last Taao hoped she would keep his attention long enough for him to gather the energy he needed to regenerate his right arm and get back in the fight.

Nion had expected to land on her partner when she slammed into the other's body, what she did not expect was to go right through what had in fact just been an after image. This did not bode well for the warrior, and before she had the chance to yell out in frustration her head collided with the groundwith a loud thump.I'm going to kill that Lizard bastard... When I can use my legs again...

In her downfall Nion was able to look up from her position, her mouth spitting out pieces of the ground that invaded her mouth, allowing her to witness the Namekian Warrior get Dashade in the shoulder. Before ripping off his own arm. "WHAT IS WRONG WITH EVERYBODY ON THIS PLANET!?"

The sudden loss of weight from the Namekian must have affected the Arcosian's aim, because Pikruel was able to circumvent it with a minor shift in her flight course. She decided against punching her target directly in the head. Because she didn't know how much punishment he could take, the blow could be potentially fatal. She instead aimed for the Arcosian's core, using stored energy in her fist to give her attack extra power.

"Leave this planet alone!"

When the Namekian warrior was suddenly disarmed Dashade's aim wavered a bit in surprise, he knew that Namekian's could regenerate, but he would of never thought that the warrior would voluntarily rip off their own limb. Dammit! He knew that his other opponent was coming straight for him now, but the thought came to mind that the Namekian had opened himself up for the perfect opportunity to be caught vulnerable. The energy for the regeneration would take time to gather after the blast that was thrown at Dashade, and it was doubtful there would be much of a fight against a one armed warrior.

And that's when Pikruel's fist implanted itself firmly within his chest "Arg! SHIT!" Was the only words he was able to gasp out as the punch threatened to tear right through his armour and skin.

"Leave this planet alone!"

The words got on Dashade's nerves slightly, making his retort as he reached out to grab a hold of her shoulders. "I will leave this planet when the threats against my men cease their pointless slaughter!"

Pikruel's attack made it through, but this foe was surprisingly durable. She was starting to get excited. Finally, a real challenge. She quickly pushed herself out of range of the grabby Arcosian, but his words caught her by surprise. He was concerned about his men. Maybe he's not a bad guy after all, but why is he with them?

"I'm not interested in hurting any of your men, but this planet isn't theirs, and I won't do nothing while your men slaughter them and steal their lands."