Melt

The impact of the Saiyin pod smashing into the side of a mountain would appear violent to most, but to the Saiyins inside the pod it felt like a gentle breeze that ripped them from their slumber. It wasn't the most quiet enterence, but you couldn't really b silent when your only landing method was hope to the Kia's that you didn't end up a stain on the planet surface.

Nion nimbly stepped out of the pod as soon as the shaking stopped, raising a finger to her scouter to get in contact with her fellow Saiyins. With her eyes moving up to the sky, she knew she wasn;t allowed to start the mission until the otehrs had landed. Pffft, I can handle a simple invasion. This is a mission for babies. But, maybe I'll get a shot at that Heeta fool. A fight with an Arcosian Emperor would be worth the trip

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.

"Seriously? Ally to good, nightmare to you?" Nion's loud cackel at the quote was easy enough to hear even from her place up in the sky, though only grew louder upon her quick descent down to Pikruel. "What are you? A Saiyin or a dancing jester?" She stood next to the other woman with a smirk, looking over to where the speck had once been. "You wasted a lot of time on that one guy, hope you can keep up when we have an army comming at us"

The Saiyin paid no mind to the child, their father, nor the tail that hung around the other woman's waist.

Hm There it was, the binary orchestra sounding from his scouter to notify him of the changed power level. In the distance one of the many soldier's power level spiked for a moment, only to crash down to stable level most used for when one was asleep. Dashade's eyes narrowed with suspicion, one eye staring out of the window while the other examined the low number. Such a level was odd when the troops were in the middle of an invasion, they should at least have their average power level in case they encounter resistance, a lower power level would suggest...

"Is one of our men having an early power nap, perhaps? Or has some of the resistance managed to put of a fight?" Scouts were still out gathering information about the surroundings, of buildings, covering positions and evidence of other threats on the planet. Dashade was almost tempted to go and see if one of his comrades were facing peril at the moment, but he was not allowed to leave the ship unless told so. Plus, the fact that the soldier still had a power level meant that the man was still alive. The Arcosian only sighed. "I hope the Commander doesn't have so much fun that he forgets he has reinforcements at his beck and call"

"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"

The ships erupted in activity as soon as the call came in, legions of soldiers falling in to rush off the ship and into the frey. Some annoyed that their short lived break was over, and other fired up and ready to be the first of the army to take the head of a Saiyin, Dashade followed the troops from more of a distance so he would be able to slightly hover off the ground. Sometimes he regretted his peoples natural feet, the few toed limbs were not made for a casual walk or run, they were made for a grip. It was especially uncomfortable with such a heavy tail dragging behind him. Now I realise why my kind grew so found of Hover Chairs

"It was only a matter of time before those monkeys to catch the scent of blood, but I never expected them to come so quickly. And iin so few numbers... There must be others" Saiyins were a well known force of might in the galaxy, if there was anything common sense would dictate in days like this it would be to never get in a Saiyins way unless you're prepared to fight. Such a prey made an astounding trophy for any fighter, though as the Arcosian raised his fingers to his scouter to talk on the Communication line, he reminded himself that none of this was for any type of sport. "We should send more troops to the surrounding areas, Sir. I find it unlikely that these two came alone"

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."

"Yes, Sir" Dashade almost saluted at the Commander's tone, before telling himself that his superior couldn't actually see him. Shaking his head, the Arcosian sped after his fellow soldiers, his scouter letting out various beeps as he tried to see if any other high power levels were near by. "Always helps to be cautious"

His eyes narrowed at the power level of the two saiyins in the distance, he estimated that that wasn't those two's limits and they were already over the average of the army. "Hm, this fight will not be easy"

"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.

There was no hesitation as soon as the invaders appeared, Nion treated them with a light smirk as she held two fingers out while channling her ki. "Hmf, you chumps are in my way. Where are the real fighters?" The swarm of enemies drew closer every scond, but not one inkling of worry seemed to show on her face. "Better clear the way... OBSTRUCTION!" She released the pressure from her fingers and slashed them through the air, releasing a shickwave throughout the wave of fighters, many of the invaders being blasted into the distance while others simply crashed to the ground.

She gave a flick of her head as she looked over the many dwned foes, though was surprised by how quickly they filled in, no doubt these creatures, no matter how weak were going to be a handful. "Fine, for today I'll play exterminator. Take it as a privelage that I'm even bothering" With that she dashed into the air, letting out small ki blasts to knock her opponents off balance before imbedding her knee in their guts. After delivering a finishing blow to another opponent her eyes spotted one who stood with their hands up to their scouters, seemingly speaking into it. Maybe he's taling to somone impportant, can't have that, can we? With that she took off, rushing towards the man with her fists ready to connect.

This was the first time Dashade had encountered Saiyins other then the reputation that surrounded them, of their iron will and immense strength. Of the myths depicting their ape-like transformations. But even then he was surprised by these two already, up close he could clearly see that their reputation was not as much of an exaggeration as one would think, the fact that two were holding off an army was impressive already. Well, he wasn't sure both of them were Saiyins, the other woman was... blue. I remember one of the Soldiers mentioning little blue people in passing once... Smufs, was it? I assumed that was a children's tale...

However, there was barley any time to think as he closed in on the battlefield, the bodies of his comrades sailing through the air past him as both threats dispatched them with ease. Just rushing them was only leaving their troops open to attack, Dashade knew he had to strategize for success. Luckily the very loud blue one revealed her arrogance very easily as she sent out some sort of shock wave to thin the numbers, her guard was down, she wasn't expecting much of a fight. Dashade supposed he should of been disgusted that she so effortlessly and happily kills his men, but he probably would be the same if he was on the other side.

When she rushed in for the kill on another soldier, Dashade didn't hesitate to leap into the air and shot towards the woman. The quicker he ended this, the less casualties there would be. He hoped that her dropped guard would give him enough of an advantage to quickly finish her off, but he wouldn't get his hope up. Stretching out his feet, he aimed to grab a hold of the Saiyin's head with his feet and send her flying into the mountain a small distance away from the crux of the action.

A fist ramming through the man's chest and leavng him a cold dead corpse, so that Nion could pick up the scouter and spout a threatening monolouge to his commander. Well, that's what would of happened if her head hadn't suddenly been held captive by three long lizard-like toes that calmped down with a steel grip. "Arg! The hell!?"

Before she could register just what was going on or even evok an emotion over it, the female Saiyin was pulled up into the air and swung around for only a few moments, before the alien toes loosed their grip and sent her flying across the sky. Only pain flooded her body when it came into contact with the rocky surface of the mountain, her tough Saiyin skin breaking through the rock with no scars, her armor on the other hand didn't do so good.

"Well..." The words were coughed out with a cocky grin, dirt littered her body as well as rips in her armour, she didn't mind though. A clean Saiyin was a lazy one. Picking herself up from the small impact site, she glared daggers into the battleground. "A new challenger... And here I was thinking this was going to be boring"

The Arcosian narrowed his eyes at the currently flying body of his opponent, slightly regretting the unneeded destruction of the mountain after the Saiyin had sent his men flying in different directions. Dashade took a stand atop the crumbling surface of the mountain, standing opposite the woman recovering from the throw. Black pupils glared at the warrior. "Apologies for the rude interruption" He held out his hands where he formed two balls of crimson Ki that glistened in his palm.

"But those are my men you are intent on harming, something which I can not allow" While he knew he had left the other Saiyin to do what she wished against the army, from a distance he was able to tell the distance between the two's fights back before he had charged Nion. The blue one only saw the invaders as her enemies and reflected that with how she happily slaughtered them, but the other one's attack judging from placement and scouter readings were never intending to kill. It was a slim chance of truth, but even if he was proved false, Dashade at least accomplished lightening the load on his fellow soldiers. That was all he could do.

Taao placed his right hand against the warm exoskeleton of one of Melt's indigenous insectoid species, a juvenile male, even now he could feel the young boy's life force ebbing. Dammit, the war is supposed to be over, who would do this? Taao proceeded with what was a routine procedure of bolstering the creatures wavering life force with his own, transferring energy into his body in order to speed up the healing process of his energy burned exoskeleton. By his reckoning the wounds could only be a product of Frost's army signature arm blaster, but that just didn't make sense. Frost and his army where the heroes that liberated planet Melt, he'd worked side by side with the men in the relief effort. They where heroes. Yet this was obviously no accident even now he could feel the tole healing the boy took on his body, strength left his body all at once as a heavy sweat left grin skin glistening in the low light. He'd managed to bring the boy back from the brink, good as new, but not for free. Something was seriously wrong, he could feel it in his gut.

The meltian boy began to stir, he groaned for a few seconds before sitting up on his elbows. Taao waited patiently for him to awake fully, though he was eager to get to get to the bottom of this. " you saved my life, thank you, I thought I was a goner "

Taao stood and placed a firm grip on the Meltian boy's shoulder and squeezed " Tell me what happened, who did this to you? "

" I don't know who they where, they said they worked for Lord Heeta and that Frost was dead, we tried to fight for ourselves like he taught us but a man in red just killed everyone! My Parents too...he said our world belonged to lord Heeta and that it's p-p-pointless to resist "

The first part seemed to spill out his mouth all in one breath, it took him a couple seconds to process it. Frost dead? How could that be, and who the was this Heeta creep? If they ruthless enough to slaughter these beaten down people in cold blood, then they have to be stopped Taao stood up to his full 216 cm and pulled his cloak over his head. He came to this planet to aid the relief effort, not fight a war, but he wasn't going to stand by while the people he helped save be enslaved all over again. Guru would be ashamed. The boy objection when he declared his intentions, said all he would was get killed to, but Taao wasn't going to die here, and neither would anyone else if he could help it. He told the boy to hold up in his home until things where safe and flew off in the direction of the fighting.

"Well, ain't I lucky" It was exciting when she first laid eyes on her opponent, out of all the creatures she exected to fight, an Arcosian was not one of them. Arcosians, she knew them well. Depending on what side of the galaxy you were on, they were either misunderstood little creatures or galactic tyrants. Tyrants were her view on things, she had always longed to kick one to the curve, but after Frst had risen to power they had given less reason for her to do so without reprocusions from her superiors. Some say that Frost was a shining example of why Arcosians aren't all bad, she would call those tellers fools. One shining apple from a long line of Tyrants? Frost wasn't a menevolent Emperor, no, he was just a ruler that realised publicly being a Tyrant wouldn't help him take everything over. At least to Nion. "A bloody Arcosian. You must be Heeta, well, I'm guessing here... I mean, all you Arcosians look the same to me. A lot of needless blood on your heads"

Looking over him didn't really impress her, but then again she had never actually seen any images of Arcosians that actually showed them to be physically intimidating. At his quires to her harming his men, she imply laughed. "What? Are you trying to tell me you care? That's a laugh" She got into a fighting stance, staring her enemy down. "You might of taken me by surprise, but you're nothign compared to me. Your power level is pitiful, even if above average"

Taao was deep in thought as he soared high over the terrain, deciding to fly at a speed that was neither fast nor slow in order to actually figure out just what exactly he planned on doing. He had no idea how many enemies he faced, was this some rouge with a single squadron, or a true invasion force? Was he still truly ready to fight? All these questions and more swirled in his mind,

Taao had long since renounced his warriors ways in lieu of a life as a healer shortly after he arrived on planet Melt and witnessed firsthand the conditions war had left the land and it's people. Back at his home planet there was no precedent for such destruction and loss of life, namekians lived relatively peacefully, he and his warrior kin only ever fought to protect the Dragon clan in order to preserve their most sacred treasure. Unlike other Senshi ( warrior nameks ), Taao inherited the ability to heal wounds in similar manner as those of the Dragon Tribe, even more rare the innate ability to fly. Taao felt he never understood why he had the power, until he left his home and eventually arrived on planet Melt where he's served as a healer for the disadvantaged natives, who until Frost arrive, stood no chance at all.

" Dammit " he growled through clenched teeth If Frost is truly dead, then they stand no chance even still, they'll be enslaved all over again " No, I won't accept that. Whoever these scum are, prepare to feel the power of a Senshi! "

With strengthened resolve, FWOOSH! like an arrow he flew at his max speed in the direction in which the boy had directed, though he noticed he reached the limits of his speed rather quickly, no doubt a result of saving the meltian boy's life. However there was no time to rest, it was time to act. Even now as he drew nearer his sensitive ears could pick up sounds of battle.

" An army, just my luck "

I've never grown to dislike somone so quickly... I think I'll enjoy putting this monkey in her place. Dashade refrained from replying to the girl's comments when his scouter started receiving the reading of a new power level entering range, his head snapped to get a clearer reading, though keeping one eye peeled in case the Saiyin attempted to make use of the short distraction. "That power level... it's spiking, and all units are already here..."

He turned back to glare at the Saiyin, quickly moving his hands up to attempt to contact the Commander again, hoping that his opponent wouldn't cut him off. "Commander Holly, there seems to be another power level entering the battle. I do not have visual, but it is certainly not one of ours"

Nion too had noticed the in comming power level, when the bulk of the forces here were around the same in scale, a higher or lower one was easily noticable. BUt really, she didn't care if the person comming was friend or foe, strong or weak, what she did care about was the growing feeling that the Arcosian was ignoring HER. "Hey, jackass! I'M RIGHT OVER HERE!" To most her yelling would seem immature, but when he turned towards the power level, she took it as a sign of him underestimating her.

And it felt much worse when he started taking a god damn cal to his commander "STOP IGNORING ME!"

"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?"

"No, Commander. You do not. I was merely keeping you updated" The Arcosian kept his eye on his increasingly angrier opponent, holding out the Ki blasts. "Now, you have my full attention" Without hesitation Dashade rushed forward, launching the Ki blasts at the Saiyin, one heading to collide with her front while the other aimed to circle around and wait behind her. When the front one got close enough for Dashade's liking his closed his open palm with a smirk. "MILKY CANNON!"

The first explosion of Ki from the ball manage to completly take the warrior by surprise, the sheer force colliding with her body and throwing her backwards and towards the other Ki 'mine'. But by now she had gathered her wits and came to her sense, her natural Saiyin instincts surging through her and helping her just launch herself over the 'mine, allowing it to go off on her terms. Th enext explosion gave her momentum to fly into the wall of the small crater she had made, instead of crashing through it though, she slamed her feet into it so that she could push herself off of it and into the air.

In the air she began to spin, gritting her teeth as a slight bit of motion sickness started to take place. The world around her spinned out of visability for her, all beside her target as she only got fast and faster. "WHIRLWIND!"

Dashade jumped back at he witnessed the woman avoid his second attack, not hesitating to fire a barrage of ki blasts at her as her feet slammed into the 'wall'. However with a yell of 'Whirlwind' she had become just agile enough to narrowly avoid the blasts, surprising the Arcosian as her body became a mid air drill, shooting towards him faster then he could blink.

Without a thought to get in his was the Arcosian doubled back away from the attack that still made good ground to catch up with him, he needed to stop it right in it's track, or wait for the spinning to dizzy his opponent. Digging his feet into the ground, he stood defiantly before her, moving his hands together before ripping them apart with a roar. "GRAVITY... IMPACT!"

With that battle cry, Dashade felt the Ki from quickly in front of him as the attack came close to hitting, he slammed his hands against the air with such ferocity that the Ki seemed to spark at it. A brief shock wave appearing before him.

The Ki blasts came swiftly and made for a hard time for her to avoid each of them, the smoke that would arise from them decimating the mountainside only served to increase the difficulty, but with enough sharp turns and determination she lessened any blows comming upon her. The only pain of the manuver was her out of control spinning and the Ki blasts that came to brush just past her skin, leaving a red tinge in it's wake.

Finally her whirlwind closed in on the creature that she hoped was Dashade (she really couldn't tell at the moment), ready to slam dead centre into his chest and knock him off balance. Unfortunatly for her the shock wave caused by the Arcosian stopped the impact of her attack, instead of her hitting Dashade she was pushed out of her spinning motions and flung up into the air with a large bruise under her white hair.