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Post by Nase on Mar 13, 2020 13:45:50 GMT -8
As Nase stood up from his makeshift chair in the middle of a clearing, he began to stretch his limbs dramatically, as if he had been asleep for a month. Looking around as he did so, he began viewing the scenery around him. A few trees and some small animals running around, the area he was in was perfectly serene. The only thing it was missing... was other people.
"Well, this seems promising... Not."
Usually not one for socializing, the 6 foot android was really looking for a city or village, really anything that he could stay in for a while as he tried to figure out what to do from now. Kicking away the log he had just been using, Nase began to brush off leaves and dirt from his jacket and pants. How did he get so dirty so quickly? It's only been... Oh.
"A whole half hour since I was dropped here and I'm already becoming one with nature. I'd be happy if this wasn't my only set of clothes."
He continued to stretch as he spoke to himself, only stopping once he heard a cracking noise come from his arms.
"That... didn't sound goo-"
With an audible Shhhk, the hatch in Nase's right arm opened and a ball of ki started to form out of it. Before the energy ball could fire or become larger, he panickily closes his hand, and the ball disappeared with a soft fizzle. Unclenching his jaw and eyes, he slowly put his hand down and began to look at his palm through the glove. The hatch had closed up again, as if nothing just happened, much to Nase's confusion.
"What did that machine do to me?"
Pondering it for a second, he shoved his hands into the pocket of his jacket, and started walking forward, continuing to think over his transformation.
"(Ne, Man, Muta... Is that some kind of codeword or something? I wonder if it has to do with why I can use Ki now. Guess I'm going to have to learn how to control it better)"
As Nase walked, he began to periodically suppress and release his energy around him, causing a faint green aura around him to repeatedly flare up and die out within seconds. This did cost him a lot of energy, but as he suppressed for the fifth time, he felt something pulse inside of his body. He touched his back and felt an orb-like piece of metal in the small of his back. As he touched it, the auxiliary core in his body began to cause him to glow fully green, causing wind to start pushing away the grass and leaves around him. In his surprise, he pulled out the core and began to look at it. Confused and alarmed by its placement in his body, he started trying to remember where it came from.
"(What the hell?! How long was I unconscious in that machine? How did it have time for this get here?)"
Not being able to shake his confusion, he tried to put it in his pocket, but it wouldn't fit. Thinking for a second, he looked around lifted the back of his shirt and pushed it back in and felt a brief boost in energy again, before continuing to look around.
"Well, that was the weirdest thing I've done so far."
...
Nase didn't really know if he the way he was going was the right direction, but he was sure going to try. Every single valley or hill he went over, he kept thinking to himself that there was going to be a city or something along the lines of that waiting for him. But as per usual, nothing was there, forcing him to continue his journey. While he was upset he had no idea where he was going, Nase did enjoy the scenery of the land around him. The sparse greenery around him, and the occasional animal running around made the expedition a little more bearable each time. It would have been a perfectly fine stroll for him, except for the fact that he was being boiled alive.
"Ugh, Damn it."
With a loud thud, the robotized Tuffle fell to the ground, sweat dripping off of him from his excessive travelling. As he collapsed, the hot sun continued to singe him, as if to taunt him. This only made him more upset as he slowly rose his head.
"I can't... take this anymore... It's been like... an hour already."
Getting up slowly, the sour humanoid took off his dark coloured jacket, leaving his white undershirt uncovered and his dark arms mostly exposed. He wiped the top of his face with his left arm, standing akimbo with his other. Tossing his jacket, over his shoulder, he looked up at the sun with a gloved hand, blocking the direct light from his eyes.
"Not going down for awhile, huh?."
Shaking his head, Nase continued marching into the distance, looking around more intently this time, for a settlement, a place to rest, even a pool of water would be fine. The sweating northerner once again wiped his brow with his arm, and instinctively rubbed the side of his neck, freezing once he felt metal rub against his fingers. Immediately pulling his hands from the sides of his neck, he quickly looked around the expanse to see if anyone was around. Once he was sure that he didn't see anyone, he calmed down and looked at his hands. the reflective metal showed his face, revealing that on the left and right of his neck, grey-blue metallic plating was attached to him (or maybe it was in him rather than on him, he couldn't tell).
"Ugh great, I look like a robot too. Now how am I supposed to go around like this?"
In his frustration, he slapped his hands against his face, which knocked him over with a loud metal clunk. Falling onto the ground, the now stunned young adult, rubbed his head, the grass and sticks underneath him completely destroyed from the impact. Shaking his head, he slowly sat up, standing fully once he got his bearings fully. Brushing himself off, he began muttering to himself annoyedly.
"I've got to get used to this already. If not, I might as well just stay here."
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Post by Nase on Mar 24, 2020 18:24:56 GMT -8
"Maybe I could just call for help and hope someone hears me?"
Sighing to himself, he shook his head and walked out from under the trees he was hiding behind. Scratching the side of his face, Nase restarted his aimless walking through the plains he was dropped into. Roaming on forward, contemplated the idea of calling out for help. Cupping his hands to his face, he was about to shout out into the air before thinking against it.
"Nah. That'd probably make me look like an idiot at this point. Which might not be too far from the truth seeing how I got here. Let's just try and not get robbed."
While monologuing to himself, he heard a crack a few meters away from him.
"Eh?"
Hearing a footstep coming his direction, he dove behind a rock headfirst, and sat still as the person slowly started approaching. Waiting for a moment, Nase saw as the person's boot step right next to his hiding spot... and then slowly walk away from him. As the man left, Nase heard a deep growl leave their mouth.
"Huh, thought I heard someone."
Once the large figure finally left, Nase stopped covering his nose and mouth, and slowly turned around to see who just came searching for him. He saw a giant humanoid, both wide and tall, with long, dark, shaggy hair and a bo staff in his hand, presumably to use on him if he got too careless. But the part Nase focused on the most, was the monkey-like tail that Waiting until he left, Nase turned back around and sighed aloud in relief.
"(What on earth was that guy? His energy wasn't that high, but it was completely monstrous. I better make sure he doesn't sneak attack me or something.)"
Getting up from his hiding spot, he looked to see where the guy had disappeared to and saw him going into the trees. That's suspicious... Nase slowly began to stalk behind him and followed him until he reached a... campfire?
"(Maybe I was wrong about the time? It looks like its still noon.)"
Hiding behind a nearby tree once the monkey-tailed man turned around, Nase continued to his investigation until he saw the man stopping near the fire, and begin talking with others that looked like him. Once Nase got a good look at them, he started to get an idea on what he was dealing with.
"...They're Saiyans..."
Usually confused with a form of beastmen, the Saiyans were a peculiar bunch that the Tuffles just so happened to share a history with. Nase didn't know much about it, but from his parents... he's heard how they can act. They can act aggressively if caught in the wrong mood.
"This... doesn't sound like a good idea."
Nase began stealthily walking towards the group at the campfire, making sure he was hidden behind the shrubbery all around him. Even though he was planning on asking them for help, Nase still didn't trust any of them, especially since the closer he got, the more the ki around the area felt grosser and grosser as he continued. Nase didn't know why their ki produced a "flavour" to him, or why he could taste it at all for that matter, but he just knew he didn't like it.
Bad tastes aside, Nase was curious what they were doing and found a tree near that that he used to find out. He turned sideways and laid his head onto the tree, as to hear them better.
"So... you found some, eh?"
The fat Saiyan stabbed his staff into the ground and rested his arm against it, gestured behind two others of his kind.
One of them smirked and lifted up one of his hands, and with it, a young girl being dragged by her hair was lifted up into view of both the large Saiyan and Nase. Her face seemed dirty and bruised and she was flinching hard as her hair was pulling her up.
"If we found some? Ha! It was our easiest raid yet! All we had to do is get some extra Volunteers!"
He threw down the girl onto the ground next to the fire, and she fell with a hard thud face-first. As she fell, Nase noticed that she was tied up at the arms and legs with rope and her arms were in the same condition as her face.
"W-What are they..?"
"I even found two kids that were going into OUR territory without payment. Can you believe that? Well, if their parents want to see them again, they're going to pay double the fee!"
Stepping over the girl he just dropped, the smaller Saiyan picked up what looked to be a crudely made sword, worn down and rusted until the grey of the blade was barely even visible. Gesturing with it into the air, he swung it formlessly into the air around him.
"And if they don't want them, Screw it! We'll sell 'em to the highest bidder. All we have to do now is wait and then BOOM! We're rich!"
While the three of them continued talking, Nase began stepping backwards in shock. A wave of dread hit as he heard what the group in front of him was saying. But he couldn't have heard them right... right?
"They're... They're going to sell them."
Glaring out towards the Saiyan criminals, Nase knew what he had to do.
"I... I have to stop them!"
He stopped moving for a moment, taking note of everything in clearing. Instinctively shutting his eyes, Nase focused his energy out towards the area ahead of him, slowly feeling the air around him. He starts seeing warped signals of people ahead of him, glowing with the same colour of green as his ki.
"So there's three of them. The two closest to me have lower ki reserves than the last one. A staff and a rusty sword are beeing used to replace this. And there are three others tied up."
Opening his eyes once again, he stood up fully and put his hands into the pockets of his jacket. Squinting his eyes, he began walking towards the encampment ahead.
"Welp. Here we go."
As Nase marched onwards, he began to think for a second.
"(What just happened? How did I even do that?)"
Shaking his head, he ignored his sudden autopilot and focused on his main objective.
"(It's not important. What I need to worry about now is how I'm going to save them. At least I have the element of surpri-)"
Suddenly and boisterously, a stick underneath Nase's foot snapped, alerting both the three Saiyans and the girl who raised her head to the noise.
"Who's there?!"
"(CRAP!)"
Nase stood perfectly still for a moment, and the bandit with the sword lifted up the girl and laid her against a tree, with him standing in front, ready to fight.
"Show yourself!"
After pausing for a moment, Nase sighed and lowered his head.
"(So much for that.)"
Accompanied by a large amount of rustling of bushes, a silhouetted figure walked up to the encampment, black attire causing them to stick out, along with their equally as visible dark skin and hair, which was covering their face.
"Who are you? What do you think you're doing here?!"
He raised his head sharply and let his hair fall beside his eye as he spoke.
"My name... is not important. I heard from your charming conversation, that you were planning on selling people."
"What? You planning on buying?"
Looking down, he saw the fear-filled gaze in the girl's eyes and averted his eyes from her to the guy standing in front of her, now pointing his sword at him. He balled his fist and turned to the original speaker.
"Not exactly."
The large alien became irate, beginning to yell at his sudden visitor.
"Not exactly?! What do you think this is? Get lost, kid!"
"(Kid?)"
Before Nase could speak again, the third Saiyan, the one Nase noted to be the strongest started speaking.
"Don't tell me... Are you really going to try and fight us for them?"
Turning his attention to him, Nase spoke again in his deep monotone voice.
"You could say that."
The Saiyan laughed and stood up from what seemed to be a chest he was sitting on. Tapping the side of his head, a screen that went over one of his eyes started flashing numbers until it stopped at one of them. Smiling cruelly, the Saiyan retorted once again.
"Well according to this right here... He tapped the side of his head, where an old scouter was hanging off of. Compared to the rest of the group, the scouter seemed to be the cleanest thing of the group, though it was outdated. It seemed like he was using it to scan Nase, which while it made him uneasy, it did give him comfort in the fact that he needed it to scan him.
...You're only at a 15 with your power level. The two right in front of you are collectively a 45. Do you really think you can win?"
Pausing for a moment, Nase gave himself time to think, which only made the Saiyan smirk even more.
"(Only a fifteen? But... that can't be correct. These guys don't seem that strong... Unless...)"
Looking at his arm he tried to sense his own ki and it came out the same as the thug said. Only a fifteen. But as he continued sensing, he also noticed a fell of great energy stored inside of him. He wasn't giving off any extra power more than the previously stated number, be he knew that was only around a tenth of his actual form.
"I guess your right."
"Well, at least you realise the stupidity of your actions. But, seeing as you where we are and what we're doing, I can't let you walk away either."
With a snap, the largest of the three came rushing towards Nase, with the sharp tip of his bamboo staff aimed straight for his stomach.
"Have fun in HFIL, kid!"
Seeing the man rush him, Nase pulled a hand out of his pocket and tensed it like as if tensing for a slap. Shifting his body out of the way, he forced the staff away from him and raised his fist with a menacing glare. Speaking with a much more guttural tone, Nase tensed his arm until muscle was seen through his shirt and jacket.
"Who are you calling 'kid'?"
With his free arm, Nase clenched a fist and slammed it into the stomach of the kidnapper, dazing them briefly as spit shot out of their mouth.
"W-Woooaaah. What just..."
Nase swung again, this time with his leg, forcing his foot upwards until it was in line with his neck, launching his opponent in the process.
"I'm twenty-one and a foot taller than you."
The Saiyan landed shortly after and the remaining saw their interrupter crack the knuckles of his recently used hand and fold his arms.
"Besides, you're saying a kid's going to kick your ass?"
"What the- How did you do that?!"
"What? You're afraid now? You were just saying how much stronger you guys are compared to me. Why don't you prove it?"
While the Saiyan with the staff was slowly getting up, the most powerful one, which Nase assumed to be the boss, stood up fully as if to fight him. He raised one of his hands in the air and a small light blue ball formed above it.
"You're going to regret trying to be a hero, Kid"
"Again with the 'kid' stuff. You know, I probably should have just said my name."
Looking to his side, he noticed that the bandit with the sword started running towards him.
"Aw crap."
Slightly increasing the released energy he was using, he quickly jumped out of the way of his strike. Swinging again at his arms, the Saiyan tried his best to make sure that Nase didn't leave without a scratch. Nase did his best to dodge, and barely dodged the last of his slashes which caught part of his jacket as it missed his chest.
"Ah, come on man! I really liked this jacke-"
Just as Nase was finishing his sentence, the ki blast that the gang leader was charging was flung straight in front of his face.
"Holy-"
Stumbling back a step, Nase looked up to see the Saiyan he was fighting give him a confident smirk before going for another flurry of attacks against him. Right before the bade could get proper momentum, Nase held the sword arm and the side of the blade with the palms of his hands. Struggling against Nase's grip, the Saiyan attempted drilling the edge of his sword into the centre of his hand. Terrified once he didn't even flinch, the Saiyan was too stunned to notice Nase headbutt him until it was too late. As he fell down, he noticed Nase quickly wipe off his hands, without even a cut formed. He did notice a shining grey light coming from his hands.
"Wh- What the?!"
Nase kicks away the sword away from the criminal into the bushes and glared at him as he stared back in shock.
That should take care of that.
Abruptly and audibly, a heavy stab struck Nase in the back, forcing him to flinch significantly as he fell forward, the bamboo staff falling from him as the Saiyan behind him grunted victoriously. Knees buckling even more, Nase basically fell onto the ground as the gang leader spoke once again.
"See you later, brat."
Nase turned his head to the side, and saw a ball of ki the size of his head formed above the hand of the leader. The energy blast was then launched after Nase who had all but completely collapsed, unable to move out of the way. Holding onto his back with one arm, he stuck out the other as if to try and block the attack.
"Have fun on the other side!"
"Shi-"
With a large explosion and a dust cloud, the released blast had filled up the air with dirt and rocks flying into the sky.
"Heh, that's about enough of that. Time to get back to business."
The captain started turning around to the kidnapped children when his outdated scanner began beeping intensely.
"What the-"
Turning around, he saw the large cloud of smoke still there in front of him, until a bright red glow was seen coming through it. A large green aura pulsed out from the dust, launching all the debris and smoke away from the center. Nase was then fully visible and the leader saw that he didn't look like he was hit at all by the blast. The scouter on the leader's head kept going until it finally stopped, adding to his fear and awe even more.
"Y-your power level... i-it-"
Nase began walking over to the leader, every step sounding heavier and heavier with his green aura still flickering around him. Stepping back from his now scowling opponent, the boss began looking around frantically for anything to protect himself with.
"Don't bother, you've already lost. Just accept it already."
Becoming even more and more scared, the boss crouched down and picked up a box from the ground.
"Here! take this! Just leave me alone."
Confused as he was tossed a random container, the aura around Nase's body died down for a second as he tried to see what was inside of it. As he stopped to think for a moment, the bamboo staff that originally stabbed him began hurtling through the air towards him. Almost immediately turning toward the attack, his flowing energy pulsed again as a faint green turned bright and deafening, causing the staff to snap in half upon contact, shocking both enemies with its destruction.
Turning fully to his current assailant, Nase primed a hand towards the Saiyan and a green ball of energy started forming in front of it.
"Shouldn't have done that."
The ball shrunk to half size right before it fired, causing a blinding light to shoot out from his hand, cutting through the scenery around him. This barely missed who he was aiming at, who immediately ducked for cover upon seeing this.
"Ah, dang it. Why does that keep happening?"
After looking up from the ground, he noticed the carvings made into the trees and the cowering man in front of it.
"Oh. That's... new."
Flexing his fingers while looking at his now smoking hand, Nase suddenly perked up.
"Hey... I could use this."
The wincing Saiyan looked up for a moment and saw a large glowing figure dash past him and stop right behind him.
Behind him, he heard a charging noise start, sending a shiver down his spine. Jumping up, he saw Nase holding a similar ki blast as the one that shrunk a couple seconds ago.
"Huh?"
Jumping up in shock, the criminal started waving his arms frantically as Nase began smiling.
"I know... I'll call it-"
Shrinking the attack on purpose this time, it fully disappeared for a second, before he pointed a glowing finger at his opponent.
"Neutron Star!"
Firing his newfound ability, Nase skyrocketed the large Saiyan into the sky, launching him further and further into the forest, sending him far away from the clearing, leaving a jade green streak in his wake.
Slamming his fists together, Nase smirked as his aura died down again causing the gang leader's scouter to start beeping again. Confused by this, he stood in shocked as it returned to a measly 10 PL.
"H-How the hell did you do that?"
"Huh? Do... what?"
Shakily pointing at Nase, he took off his scouter and began stammering.
"Your power level... It was just a 15 before, but it exploded to a number above 100! And now it's just 10?! Are you even a human?"
Hearing his questions, Nase shook his head and began walking to his final opponent.
"For your first question, I don't really know, and if I did, I wouldn't tell someone like you anyway..."
Now basically on top of him, Nase leaned over to shorter Saiyan, tugging at the collar of his shirt, revealing the pieces of metal replacing parts of his neck and clavicle around his body. This also revealed the continuation of his arm markings, which continued to coil around his body until the head of a dragon was imprinted onto his left chest in dark ink.
"And as for your second... I'm not even fully organic, and no, for your information, I'm not human."
He stepped past the man and started towards the tree that the tied up girl was laid onto. Stopping halfway, he turned his head to the remaining thug.
"I'm going to free your 'volunteers' now. You're not going to try and fight me for them... Are you?"
Feeling an immense pressure coming from the 'kid', the last of the kidnappers ran away, without a second to answer the question. Once he was out of sight, Nase sighed as he turned back around and began untying the girl that was on the tree. When he was halfway done with her arms, he started a conversation.
"Are you alright?"
Rubbing her wrists once they were freed, she frantically nodded her head, repeatedly speaking as to get the point across.
"Y-Yes, yes! Thank you so very much!"
"It's going to be alright, don't worry. I'm almost done untying your legs. The other's are behind that bush other there?"
"Um, yes. Thank you again for saving us, Mister! How did you know we were here?"
"It was... just a hunch. (I don't even know myself actually). Will you be alright to stand on your own?"
"I...think so"
The girl wobbily stood up from the tree and turned to where Nase was. He was walking through the trees and started going towards where he first sensed the children's ki signatures. Finally coming up on the area, he saw two sleeping kids tied up on top of a branch of a tree, with their feet dangling towards the ground. Scowling as he saw, this he thought to himself on how glad he was that he chased them all off before he came to them. Feeling a tug on his jacket, he turned to see the girl he just untied looking up at him with very worried eyes. Puzzled by this, he turned fully around to her and kneeled down to her
"A-Are you alright? What's going on?"
Rubbing her arm and looking down, she finally looked up and clasped both her hands.
"I... Thank you for saving me, Mister, but I don't know how I can repay you! I don't have any money... a-and my parents aren't doing so well either, and I-I..."
Seeing that she was obviously flustered and tearing up, he patted her head and managed a faint smile for the girl he just rescued.
"It's okay, it's okay, I don't want any of your money, it's fine~"
"But... but... I. I want to make this up to you! There has to be a way for me to repay you!"
Nase thought to himself for a moment before smiling and clapping in satisfaction.
"Do you know where the nearest town is?"
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