Fair, but would she know that? Plus they're still basically extinct and it doesn't seem likely her mother treated her worse cos of her heritage unless she did, so her even knowing, or more, being seemingly ashamed of it feels weird to me.
Rhyme & Reason (Dragon Ball AU)
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TC9078
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She... err... doesn't? She said she's a half-breed, aka, she's half Saiyan. Also, if I didn't state it clearly enough, she doesn't care about the Saiyans. She was just pointing it out for his information.
It's not that it's bad, it's just so slow!
As I've stated before, Gine was the wide-eyed idealist... some things never change.
The phrasing here is what gave me that impression, sorry if I misread it
Wouldn't that just be a power thing not a style/skill thing?
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Man, a whole bunch of curveballs hit this chapter. Maijin Buu visions, Super Saiyan (2) Vision, Chichi being half Saiyan, and to top it all off we still don't know why Kakarot's Ki was purple.
Based on the fact that the Super Saiyan 2 was a kid and Goku isn't anywhere near that point right now, the two obvious candidates are Buu being released early against a Gohan equivalent, or a gotenks equivalent. The fact that the gi is orange seems to rule out the latter unless they randomly decided to have a metamoran fusion switch clothes, so my guess remains that its a kid gohan vs buu fight or an OC demisaiyan.
Chichi being a half saiyan and the explanation behind felt a little weak, but it's not a load bearing structure of the story so some weakness there in exchange for having the setup you want isn't necessarily bad.
Based on the fact that the Super Saiyan 2 was a kid and Goku isn't anywhere near that point right now, the two obvious candidates are Buu being released early against a Gohan equivalent, or a gotenks equivalent. The fact that the gi is orange seems to rule out the latter unless they randomly decided to have a metamoran fusion switch clothes, so my guess remains that its a kid gohan vs buu fight or an OC demisaiyan.
Chichi being a half saiyan and the explanation behind felt a little weak, but it's not a load bearing structure of the story so some weakness there in exchange for having the setup you want isn't necessarily bad.
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No, the stammering was because he thought she was Surai at first.
Not exactly. Piccolo said in the manga that the Crane Method of Flying is inefficient compared to his own (which I presume is the same one that other races use).
I mean, you're close.
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But it came after she corrected that?
Keep in mind Piccolo was an arrogant demon king with magic powers and given how isolated Namek is I don't see why they'd use the version Frieza's forces use, especially when they have a vastly better understanding and skill with Ki than they ever did.
TC9078
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I don't know what to say, other than that she wasn't supposed to sound embarrassed, she was supposed to sound deferential. Or at least formal.
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Wait what!?
Well at least now Goku and Chi-Chi won't have such a awkward relationship like in Canon
Doru
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The only real problem is Goku and Chi-Chi need more money in the future to pay for the bigger food bill, and the bigger one caused by having their kids be 3/4 saiyan instead of 1/2.
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The fact that Chi-Chi is a literal princess and the world martial arts tournament is a thing doesn't make me worry that much.
It was the (...) if that helps, it made it seem like she was hesitating and uncomfortable.
Wait why would she be deferential? Does she buy into the class system and feel she is lesser than Kakarot?
TC9078
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Maybe that was the wrong word.. Just go with formal.
Sorry if I am being difficult, and that does help.
TC9078
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Um... he mistook her for Surai, not Seripa.
Ch. 8- The Quiet Town
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Thanks to @Ranma-sensei for editing!
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Following the sun, Bulma drove the car west as fast as she could. They were so close to finishing the journey! There was only one Dragon Ball left. Unfortunately, in order to get the Seven-Star Ball, she had to bring the Princess of Frypan Mountain with her. Chi-Chi wasn't a bad kid from what she'd seen. In fact, it was probably the opposite since she owned the Flying Nimbus and could fly on it.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It was more that she'd strongarmed Bulma into bringing her along, and she didn't really bring much to the table. Chi-Chi was strong and rich. Kakarot was strong, and Bulma was already rich. They didn't need her- but Kakarot had made his opinion very clear that he wanted her to come along. I think he has a crush or something. That has to be it. There is no other reason why he would be acting this way towards her.
They stopped next to a small river for the night, and made camp. While Kakarot went out to hunt and make food, Bulma decided to wash herself off in the river. It was cold, but she got used to it, like a pool. While she didn't have soap to clean herself completely, she was at least able to get most of the dirt and grime off of her skin. While sitting in the water, she looked carefully at the wound on her arm. It had mostly scabbed over, but there were still some open parts that didn't bleed but could easily get infected.
Suddenly, Bulma heard a splash. Looking quickly in the direction of the noise, Bulma saw a small head poke out of the water. It was just Chi-Chi, probably having the same idea as her.
Noticing her, Chi-Chi swam up to Bulma. "I'm sorry for forcing you to let me come with you, I just didn't think you'd let me if I asked. Please forgive me!" she begged.
Bulma's mind completely blanked. She just didn't know what to say to her. A literal Princess just came up to her and begged for her forgiveness. Not only that, but from what Bulma could tell, Chi-Chi had no idea who she was, so as far the girl knew, Bulma was just a normal teenager. She sighed and smiled at Chi-Chi.
"You don't need to worry, Chi-Chi. You can accompany us, I don't mind." she lied. She really didn't want the girl to come along, but she was so innocent... Bulma didn't want to break her heart. Chi-Chi seemed to fall for it.
"Thanks, Bulma," she replied.
"Bulma! Chi-Chi! I made dinner!" a voice called out. The two of them quickly climbed out of the water and put their clothes on. As Chi-Chi put her gi on, Bulma saw something on her. Wait... is that... As Chi-Chi ran over to the fire, Bulma grabbed her shoulder.
"You have a tail?!" Bulma demanded. Chi-Chi gulped and blushed. "Kakarot is an alien, so I can understand him having one, but how do you?! Are you adopted or something, from the same race as him?" Kakarot was suddenly standing next to the two of them.
"Chi-Chi's mother is of the same race as me. Her father is the Ox King. She's a hybrid," Kakarot answered swiftly. Bulma's eyes widened at the revelation. So... that's why he wanted her to come along. He thought his entire race was dead, and then there's this girl. He must be loathe to part from her... the only member of his race he knows.
Chi-Chi whined. "I'm the Princess of the Ox Kingdom, I was born and raised on Earth, and my father is an Earthling. I don't want to be called a hybrid. I'm just an Earthling. Calling me hybrid like that sounds like you're talking down to me."
Kakarot looked at her side-eyed. "That's what you called yourself when you introduced yourself."
"No, I said I was half-Earthling. That's the half I want to be identified as. I don't know anything about my other half's culture, history, or anything else, and I don't care to," Chi-Chi clarified.
"That makes no sense, you should embrace the entirety of who you are!" Bulma said.
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Bulma, than are dreamt of in your philosophy," Chi-Chi recited.
"Hamlet, Act One, Scene Five," Kakarot noted. "So, what you're saying is that it's more complicated than she makes it out to be?" Chi-Chi nodded. Bulma chose not to pursue it any further, sitting down to eat in silence.
-R&R-
After Bulma fell asleep, Chi-Chi walked over to where Kakarot sat on a small log, poking at the firepit with his pole, trying to extinguish the last embers. She sat next to him on the log. After an awkward moment of silence, she spoke.
"She doesn't know, does she?" Chi-Chi asked. If she did know, she'd understand why I hide it.
Kakarot shook his head. "No, she doesn't, and I plan to keep it that way. She told me that her sister is friends with someone from the Galactic Patrol. I fear she may reveal us by accident."
"The Galactic Patrol?" Chi-Chi asked, eyebrow raised. Now there's a group I haven't heard of.
"The main enforcement arm of the North Galactic Federation. Earth lies in their territory, and Saiyans are personae non gratae to them." He looked directly into her eyes. "It matters not if you are entirely Saiyan like me, or only partially, like you. If they see us, they will try to kill us upon recognition."
"But... but why? We're small children!" Chi-Chi protested.
"We're dangerous to them. We're the reason they lost so much land to the Planet Trade Organisation. We infiltrate other human worlds, we massacre the population, then the planets are sold to a PTO ally to make colonies and harvest resources. Saiyans were always given a nice percentage of the sale of the worlds they conquered." Kakarot said.
"That's terrible!" she squealed. "How could you do that?"
Kakarot pointed to his head and tapped his temple with his index finger. "They train us in our spaceships. We're taught what we need to do, and that's it." He put his arms back down. "That's why I'm here. I'm supposed to kill everyone on this planet, then signal the PTO to come and grab me, and they'll sell this planet for profit."
"But you won't... will you?" Chi-Chi asked. If he does, I'll stop him. I don't know if I can, but I'll try!
"It doesn't really matter. I'm too weak to even take on your dad, let alone the Turtle Hermit at full strength. I can't complete my mission in this state, so you needn't worry. I couldn't do it even if I tried," he said. Kakarot hopped off the log and laid down in the grass.
"Lay down and sleep. We have a long day tomorrow." After the boy closed his eyes, Chi-Chi layed down and followed suit, letting her exhaustion in as sleep consumed her.
-R&R-
Kakarot, meanwhile, continued to lie awake even as the girl fell asleep. I'm not strong enough. I need to get stronger... I don't want to kill either of them... but I might have to. Damn it, what do I do?! He took a deep breath to steady himself. I need to speak to my mother, she'll know what to do... after we find the last Dragon Ball, of course. Can't exactly leave now, can I? He closed his eyes and let sleep take him.
-R&R-
Bulma awoke the next morning slowly. The sun was still low in the east as she sat up and stretched, letting out a gentle yawn as she did so. A gentle breeze blew her hair out of her face as she stood up. The two alien children were still asleep on the ground; Kakarot with his tail curled around him protectively, and Chi-Chi a few feet away in a similar pose, but her tail hidden by her obi.
Bulma pulled her map out of her bag to see their location. Okay, so we're not far away from the border of the Ox Kingdom. Just across the border there's a decent sized town... I could probably buy some capsules there. Should take us about an hour to get there.
Plan set, Bulma cupped her hands around her mouth. "Kakarot! Chi-Chi! Wake up, it's time to go!" The two children were up within a minute, though both were yawning still. "We're about to cross the border out of the Ox Kingdom. Chi-Chi, be careful and don't say who you are, someone might want to hurt you out of revenge or something." The girl nodded crisply. "Kakarot, don't attack anyone. If they attack you, feel free to break their pride." The boy nodded, visibly reluctant.
Bulma smiled and climbed in the car, starting it. The children climbed in the back behind her, and they drove off up the road.
-R&R-
Sipping from his canteen, Yamcha watched the two through his telescope. He started his car and kept pace with them. "Those fools. They don't even notice me following them. Getting my wish is going to be child's play."
Puar floated up next to him. "What is your wish, anyway? Unlimited money? An invisibility cloak? A girlfriend?"
Yamcha put his hand to his chin and thought. "I don't really know, Puar. A girlfriend might not be so bad, but that seems like a waste of a wish. I doubt we'd ever be able to get the Dragon Balls again, and that Kakabrat might beat me up even worse than before."
"Well, we need to think of one quickly, they only have one Dragon Ball left to find," Puar noted.
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As the sun was nearing its apex, Bulma drove the car into the small town she'd seen on the map. It had a small gas station, and several shops, but didn't seem to have any running water. She parked the car next to one of the gas pumps and waved down the attendant.
"Mind filling up my car?" she asked kindly.
"Um, sure," he replied, a tinge of fear in his voice.
Bulma smiled and grabbed her backpack. "I'm going to go shopping, watch the car, guys!" Kakarot and Chi-Chi just looked at her unamused.
-R&R-
Chi-Chi looked over at the attendant as he filled up the car. "Hey!" she called, "do you guys get many visitors?"
The attendant shook his head. "No, no one comes here anymore. Shame, really. The market in the middle of town used to have goods from all over." The gas pump clicked and the attendent pulled it out of the car, hanging it back up.
Chi-Chi put on her best angelic smile. "The girl with the purple hair has our money. Would you mind waiting for her, pretty please?" The man quivered under her innocent eyes.
"Sure, sure, just don't take too long. The cost is 4,239 zeni." Meh, not terrible. Chi-Chi hopped out of the car and leaned against the side. Kakarot leaned out of the car next to her.
"There's something odd about this town. I can't put my finger on it," Kakarot muttered. As Chi-Chi opened her mouth to reply, Bulma came jogging back over with a bag in hand.
"Hey guys, I got us a bunch of stuff, and I even got us a house capsule, fully stocked!" she cheered.
Kakarot sighed. "How much did you spend, Bulma?"
"523,621.35 zeni. I checked," she replied nonchalantly. As Bulma and Kakarot began to talk behind her, Chi-Chi decided to walk around a bit, waving behind her to let them know she was walking off. She looked up one of the roads and just walked up it calmly.
-R&R-
Looking up the road, there were stalls holding fruits lining it. Kakarot had desperately wanted to walk up and try some, but Bulma told him not to, and instead had given him a sandwich she'd bought on her way back from the capsule store.
"It's a shame. Capsules are going out of stock everywhere, now," Bulma said, sadly.
"Is there a reason for that?" Kakarot asked.
"Yeah, Commander Red wants to monopolize production for his army." After seeing Kakarot's confused face, she added, "Commander Red is the leader of the Red Ribbon Army, a large paramilitary group that controls most of the world west of here. The company that makes capsules is headquartered in West City, which is under their control. He ordered them to stop selling abroad completely at the end of this fiscal year. They've already scaled it down by 68%. They'll only continue to get rarer and rarer."
"Where are you from, Bulma?" Kakarot asked, suddenly curious.
She sighed. "West City."
"So, you know about them first hand." Kakarot looked up at her. "If you ever-" he was interrupted by a loud crash. He turned to look and saw a big guy with goggles and... rabbit ears smashing the apple stand. Seeing the rabbit ears immediately made Kakarot lose any respect he may have had for them. He could barely even take them seriously. "Well, those guys look like idiots, what with those dumb ears," he remarked dryly.
The rabbit guy grabbed a civilian by the collar, yelled at him, then punched him into the wall of the closest house, before turning to see the two of them. He walked over to them with his hands in his pockets and perhaps the smarmiest smile that Kakarot had seen.
"My, my, my. Now isn't that a gem. How would you like to spend time with a real man, pretty lady?" he said. Wow. And Bulma says I'm overly dramatic.
"Why," Bulma asked, "have you seen one?" The rabbit guy flushed and sputtered.
"Wow, that may be the closest thing to injury you've done to anyone on this trip," Kakarot remarked. Bulma winked at him and gave him an 'okay' sign with her right hand with a smirk.
The rabbit guy growled and grabbed his weapon off his back. "Alright, bitch, I was trying to be nice. Now you're going to follow me or I'll make your life a very short-" Kakarot didn't even wait for the guy to finish talking. He grabbed his Power Pole and extended it into the guy's gut, knocking the wind out of him, and causing him to drop his rifle.
"Huh," Bulma said, looking at the rifle, "Kalashnikov Automatic Rifle, 1947 Model, who would've guessed." Kakarot didn't even bother replying. A faint sound was reaching his ears. He looked in the direction it was coming from and held his pole over his head. "Stay here," he said to Bulma, before running and vaulting over the next few houses with his pole. As he flew over the houses, he saw what he'd heard- Chi-Chi was standing there whimpering as some other guy -with the same weapon the first guy possessed- shot at her. Of course, all the bullets were bouncing off her arms, but it probably still hurt.
Not hesitating for a second, Kakarot extended his Power Pole and swung it as hard as he could at the man's neck. With a BOOM it impacted the side of the man's head, and his head snapped to the left with a resounding SNAP. Even if that hadn't snapped his neck, a fatal brain hemorrhage would have finished the job there.
He landed right next to Chi-Chi and smiled at her lightly. "You good?" he asked. She crossed her arms.
"I was doing just fine. I was waiting for him to run out of ammo, then I was going to hit him," she said. From behind her, a small boy in a headscarf poked his head out, before running into an alley behind the now-dead man.
"Well, that was fun. Now I guess I-" Something suddenly hit Kakarot in the head... and it really hurt. He turned in the direction it came from and saw another rabbit guy lying prone on the ground with a longer gun, including some kind of vision assister on top of it. The rabbit guy fired again, this time Kakarot backhanded the bullet, sending it into a nearby wall. It still stung, but not as much as before.
"Any ideas on how to deal with this guy?" Kakarot called.
"Just one!" Chi-Chi replied, cupping her hands at her side. "Kamehameha!" The blue and white beam shot from her hands and engulfed the prone man in light. The man screamed for several seconds, but it soon ceased. When the beam subsided, the man had been burnt beyond recognition, even the rabbit ears had been disintegrated.
"Well, I guess roasted rabbit is on the menu tonight, huh?" Kakarot remarked. Chi-Chi just looked pale, her eyes were wide, and her breathing had slowed.
"D-did I just kill him?" she stuttered. Kakarot sighed.
"Yeah, and I just hit that other guy so hard in the head his neck snapped. It's not a big deal, these guys are terrible people, anyway, they're terrorising the town."
"Yeah... yeah, you're right. They deserved to die, it shouldn't bother me. I'm the Princess, I'll have to preside over these one day, anyway," Chi-Chi replied meekly. She took a deep breath, and opened her eyes, refocused. "Let's continue, then."
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Ranma-sensei
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I missed something: this repetition hurts. Best replace the second one with 'the first one'.
TC9078
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Fixed. Thanks.
I think I have to stop here, I know Kakarot is meant to be kind of a villain protagonist but ignoring my own discomfort with this characterization and attitude, I feel it does not make sense in terms of character or world building.
Sorry, but good luck to you, you are a skilled writer even if our tastes diverge.
I am sorry and do hope you continue this as it seems to be a passion project and as I said you are very skilled.