Out there chap3

Out there

Scott Douglas Davidson

Disclaimer: You know, I hear they've got a bridge for bid over on E-bay, maybe you should check it out. that is, if you actually believe that DBZ is mine.

Warnings: Character death (one you probably don't care about), some violence. Um... I guess this chapter's pretty clean.

Feedback: Constuctive criticism highly encouraged.

Still confusing. Are you trying to understand it? I told you not to bother. Of well, it's your own braincells that you're over-taxing.

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Koku
Ko-ku
Ancient expression; old poem
Time; carving; engraving; cutting

Nuka
Nu-ka
Rice-bran

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Chi-chi trudged out of the lake behind her bounding daughter, tired from playing around in the water so long, her tail flopping lazily around behind her. Nuka, her daughter, ran up to her father, Koku, jumping up and clinging to his chest.

Yes, by now you�ve realized this is yet another different universe than the last.

"Daddy! I saw a big fish when me an� mommy were playing in the water! It was shiny and had big teeth and mommy scared it away!" Nuka clung to her father�s neck and bantered on about the gigantic fish she�d seen.

"Heh. Well, I�ve got another big fish for your mother to cook for lunch. Oi, Chi-chi, what do you say to fish?" Koku picked his daughter off of his chest and set her on his shoulders.

"Sounds workable. Will the prince be wanting any?" Chi-chi shook herself a bit, then grabbed her towel from the branch she�d hung it on and wrapped it around herself.

"He�s the prince, what do you expect?" Koku grinned, wrapping his tail around his mate�s waist as they walked back to their house.

"Daddy! Look what I found!" Nuka held the grown wolf in a deathgrip as it whimpered and struggled faintly to get away.

"That�s nice honey, but I think it wants to go somewhere." Koku sweatdropped down at the poor wolf.

"Oh." Nuka released her hold on the poor animal, which took off like all Hades was after it.

"I see the brat�s as destructive to wildlife as you and your brother were." Came a voice from behind Koku.

"Well father, she is my daughter." Koku turned to grin at Bardock, who grinned back.

"Daddy, grandpa... We should go home and talk to mommy." Nuka held her arms out to be picked up. Bardock reached down and lifted her up onto his shoulders and started home.

"Were are you going?" Koku looked confused.

"Son, I�ve learned that when your daughter says something like that about someone, you listen to her." Bardock continued walking towards the house, and Koku dashed after him.

"Mommy?" Nuka looked around the house for her mother. Bardock and Koku followed her cautiously.

"Mommy!" Nuka ran back out of the house and around to the back, Bardock and Koku hot on her heels. Suddenly all three froze at the sight in front of them. Several men with dart guns were loading an unconscious Chi-chi, Vejita, Radditz and Nappa onto a truck.

"CHI-CHI!" Koku bellowed, striding forwards to save his bondmate.

"Hey, another one!" the guys grinned excitedly "That scientist chick�ll pay us a fortune for these aliens!"

"Watch out son!" Bardock called out as tranquilizer darts started whizzing through the air.

"Daddy!" Nuka cried out, "It hurts!"

Koku whirled around to see his daughter staring at a dart stuck in her leg, her head slowly drooping and her eyes drifting closed as the tranquilizer took affect. Koku turned cold eyes back at the men who were shooting. He heard his father fall to the ground behind him.

"You shouldn�t mess with a Saiyajin�s family..." Koku growled, his hair standing on end and his eyes fading from their dark black color "...If you want to live."

Super Saiyajin Koku lunged forwards at the men shooting at him, ignoring the darts as they flew harmlessly past him.

"Watch out!" one of the men called, and pulled out what looked like a belt-fed dart gun. Koku snarled and kept sending his family�s captors flying as the tranqilizers didn�t seem to have much affect.

...Funny how the truck looked like it was melting...

Koku awoke in darkness, feeling the walls all around him, but nothing outside of them. He could feel most of his family as well as the prince in the dark cell with him. ...Nappa and Bardock were missing.

"Anyone awake?" he cautiously spoke in a soft voice, in case everyone had a headache as bad as his own.

"Yeah baka, you were the last one to wake up, they took Bardock off for some sort of tests and Nappa�s gone." the prince snorted derisively, but Koku felt a comforting hand cover his own.

"So, father�s alive... That�s good. But what do you mean Nappa�s gone?" Koku asked "And if the others are awake, why won�t they say anything?"

"They were awake, they went back to sleep. And Nappa had a bad reaction to the drugs they got us with." Vejita�s hand tightened over Koku�s for a second before it was pulled away.

"I�m sorry Ouji-Sama... Do you know what they plan to do with us?" Koku was scared, he couldn�t pull up his ki to warm himself in the cold, dark room, so he leaned against the closest body for warmth.

"Apparently we�re some crazy onna�s pet experiment. From what I heard them say when they thought I was still asleep was that she collects aliens and mutations and does odd experiments on them." Vejita growled into the inky blackness of the cold room.

"That�s awful! We�re sentient beings! She has no right under galactic law to imprison us and experiment on us against our will!" Koku snarled and snuggled up against the warm body next to him.

"Rm... Keep that up bro and I might forget we�re family." a low chuckle arose and Koku felt an arm snake around him and squeeze his shoulders lightly "Nice to have you back in the land of the conscious again."

"Hrmph." Vejita snorted again "Either the onna is completely unaware of galactic law, or she doesn�t give a damn. Either way we�re stuck as some stupid human�s science project."

"Hm...? Is Koku awake?" Chi-chi yawned and Koku felt her tail wrap around his arm.

"Not a very big room, is it?" Koku commented.

"Nope, we aren�t �dangerous to each other� so we get to all get crammed into a tiny little room for the night, and let out into a larger enclosure during the day." Radditz shook his head, causing his great mane to flop over Koku�s face.

"How long have I been out?" Koku brushed his brother�s hair aside and snaked his tail around his mate�s.

"Two and a half days longer than us. They pumped enough tranqs into you to knock out six or seven Saiyajin your size." Chi-chi followed their twined tails to her mate and hugged him tightly.

Suddenly a bright light flashed into the room as the door was opened. They all squeezed their eyes tight against it. Another person was pushed into the room.

"Father!" Radditz stood up and caught the dazed Saiyajin before he could fall to the floor.

"Wow... I never knew I had a yellow namek for a son..." Bardock commented, right before passing out.