Bubbles escape from the mask of the boy in the tube of green liquid. His eyes opening and closing over the course of a few hours. The room was quiet, leaving the conscious child to his thoughts.
"This is mind numbingly boring" Goku ruminated in the pod. He had no clue how to figure out what time it was or the date. "Even though I've seen Gine, his mother, all i can do is wait."
Goku was forced to confront and reflect his position. If he really was burdened with all the responsibility of his destiny, how could @#$_ follow in his footsteps.
This time he was deep in thought when the exhaustion of his body kicked in. His sleepy little eyes got heavy and he did not fight it.
***
After he was brutally beaten quicker than he could realize, the timid boy with twisted knife-like parted hair ended up right next to his fellow failure. Well he should have, but his healing process took much more time.
Exiting the pod with just as much grace as he did the last time, the boy found himself alone. No one rushed to greet him and none of the other pods were in use. The quiet unnerved him.
He was nude and fresh out of the pod. The chilly air conditioned room had the boy searching for his body suit. With his haste he did not notice there was one on the floor to the right of the healing chamber. Picking it up he stick his legs in first before pulling his hands through the sleeves.
Once he was dressed, the boys only option was to search the other room. Thankfully he didn't have to go looking far as an alien was working in said room.
He gave the alien a long stare before it started to send shivers down it's spine.
"What!?"croaked an unnerved bipedal frog. His throat blew up as a nervous tick was activated.
"Do you know where I'm supposed to go?" Questioned the boy in a soft timid tone. The alien perceived this as an act. The froggy alien started to sweat profusely leading to the child to tilt his head in confusion.
The alien nearly jumped out of his white boots as if caught in the web of a psychopath. Gulping he inched to the computer as if he was about to he jumped if his eyes left the boy.
With a few soft clicks and lack of interest the frog got the information from the computer the boy seeked. "The rejection base.." he said with hope that it meant he was off the hook.
Turning his head to the door "the.. rejection bae. Where is that?" He questioned further, not having a clue where anything was. The boy hardly even knew where he came from let alone where to go.
The frog alien was incredulous as he finally started to realize maybe the boy was simply just dumb.
"Just take this and follow the arrows" he handed the boy a scouter. After repetitively explaining how it worked the toddler was finally out of his non-existent hair.
***
The boy now adorned with a scouter, a large white ear piece with red lens attached over his right eye, followed the blinking arrows on the screen. Every so often it would point in the direction he was to report to.
Along his journey he would hear the snickers of older saiyans who looked in his direction. Hearing a preemptive beeping sound, he watched as they probed his power level. Curiosity got the best of him as he mirrored their actions. Finding that when he did so, some arbitrary numbers would appear in his red lens.
"What does that mean..?" he mutters to himself only to be intimidated by the adults who had probed his information.
All he knew was that when they saw the number, they looked at him like some small creature. Even smaller than he already was compared to them.
Along the way not a soul answered his curiosity, the imperative knowledge eluded him. Following the arrows led him to an elevator. The arrow pointed down so he pressed the bottom most number.
The elevator was silent as the carried him downward. From one metal box, to a metal hallway, and back--and forth. Aliens entering and leaving prolonging this vertical travel.
Finally as he reached the floor and trotted along the way it led him to the outside. A start contrast, a barren wasteland pinkish terrain awaited him. It was significantly less interesting than being inside as he followed the arrows for miles.
Every once and a while he would turn to see the retreating outline of the incubation ward. It took hours before he noticed the stout and wide building ahead. There was a tall old fence surrounding the perimeter that was tipped on barbed wire. It did not look like an inviting place.
The arrows had directed him across the fence to the right where he would follow it.
About five minutes into his journey around the perimeter of the fence, smacking and crashing sounds could be heard. Dust was kicked up and stagnated in the air.
"Huuuaaah" a gutteral feminine roar was encroaching with each step the boy took.
A girl who had to be the same age as him was getting battered around by an adult saiyan woman. When scanned his scouter showed a much larger power level than he had seen on the adults who scoffed at him. The child had a significantly smaller number, but it was closer to the adult woman than his own.
The adult glanced his way with a sick smile that snuffed out the boys curiosity. The boy felt shivers down his spine upon seeing that expression. His legs started moving just that had stopped. Though he couldn't help but noticed the girls tenacity. The only positive display of emotion since gaining consciousness.
***
Negi was in the middle of beating–instructing Zukki whilst noticing trash walking by the outer perimeter. "Tch" she clicks her tongue after glancing over at the boy with a disgustingly low power level. She had been watching Zukki's power level this whole time. "Alright pipsqueak, twenty more sets and your done for the day"
Pushing off the ground Zukki growled lightly. "And what if i keep attacking you after.." she says while leaping from her spot on the ground, from hands and knees to her superior's face. "Twenty!" Her arrogant claw strike is evaded by a tilt of the head.
"Then I'll make you stop" Negi lifts her leg, kicking the toddler up into the air. Zukki gets painfully lifted over her superior's head before crashing into the ground behind her. "But please, oh please, prove me wrong" she thinks with her true expression starting to leak out.
"One" Negi counts and then turns to the side and catches Zukki by her large spiky head of hair. Before the feral child could bite, a knee gets slammed into her abdomen halting her jagged teeth.
Negi dropped the child onto the ground expecting a moment before she would get up again. Zukki ever desperate to continue swallows her pain and pops right back up. Launching straight up like a rocket, fully ready to uppercut the adult with her head
Catching the older woman off guard she stepped onto her back foot. Leaving Zukki to shoot up into the air, her hands clenched to the sides of her body. The girl shooting up in the air spread her arms frantically flailing them, using sheer effort to overpowered the inexperienced air control.
Being caught off guard pissed Negi off. Instead of acting superior with her nonchalance she decided to swiftly meet Zukki at the apex of her flight by actually defying gravity. Not even pushing off the ground, Negi had lifted off the ground with some grace and speed, her body acending vertically like it took no effort.
"That was two" Negi had announced as she caught Zukki by the neck. Twisting around in a 180° she tossed Zukki to the ground, being sent down from a height of twenty feet above.
The adult instructor watched as her inferior crashed into the rocky gravely surface of planet vegeta. The hard red ground hid the blood stains of the past–the present as Zukki twitched, and the future as Negi planned to continue the brutal traditions.
Negi reached the ground with eerie silence, her white boots touching the ground beside Zukki.
"Still going for more than twenty sets?" Negi arrogantly gleamed down from her standing position, her voice lacking the same level of condescension due to being caught off guard a moment ago.
Pissed off, she was ready for the girl to get up again. Instead of getting a sudden reaction like before Zukki could only defy her with a glare of contempt. Spitting up some blood the resilant child rebelled against the internal damage to her body.
Stepping on Zukki's body Negi sneered "that was short, from your bluster i assumed you would be fighting me all day, hell i thought you would be a true prodigy with that power level of yours" she grinded her foot in while preparing to hit the kid where it really hurts.
"I can't believe you are Kappa's daughter–" and just when the damage settles "you know what, Mizu would spawn a weakling like you" Negi attacks the childs source of pride.
Spitting to the side of Zukki's head, negi then kicks her away. Turning to walk away and only glancing back to see the kid coughing up more blood.
"Drag your body to a healing pod, we'll meet the same time every day for as long as you interest me" Negi embellishes her orders while walking away. The speed in which she moved away, purposefully not flying right away.
Keeping her scouter turned on, the sheer spike in the child's power level was far from what Negi expected. It was sudden and came only after a gutteral roar. Like there was a lapse of time between the intention and the increase of strength.
"Huuuaaah" Negi only turned in enough time to take a strike to her cheek. A resounding smash filled the grounds behind the reject's base. It echoes in the empty zone.
Negi's face contorted as her head was forced to turn. The pain sent a shock through her system and when her reflexes kicked in, it was like time slowed to a halt between them. Her face stoped turning and the punch lost all it's force.
With one hand the adult saiyans griped the toddler's face a and slammed her into the ground crushing the grave like substance. Negi's face remained contorted with a look of anger and sadistic satisfaction.
"There yo-" she began to speak only to be interrupted by the kids claw ripping through the air. "Hraah" Negi caught this childs wrist as she roared out viciously.
Tossing Zukki aside harshly, she only came back mindlessly. Scratching, clawing, and slamming her fists like her souls was replaced by some demonic beast.
About thirty minutes later Zukki could not move. Her bones had been crushed, then, and only when her body would not even work could she be knocked out.
"She is an animal, even with her arms and legs shatter. She was still screaming until the final blow" Negi spoke to herself while beginning to fly away, never taking her eyes off her. Then it dawned on her "she's not going to heal in time..".
Negi then personally carried the child out of the rejection base. "With her power level, they won't notice she doesn't belong" she ponders the contradiction while flying. "A child like this, with this much talent." In the end she decides to not look this gift horse in the mouth.