11-11-2005, 08:23 AM
It was that same lunatic hallway again. Pillars stood haphazardly in no real order, torches jutting out of random surfaces, even the floor, all of them burning with an unnerving icy blue. Those twin, red coals burned in the distance, the same as last time. Bra knew they belonged to somebody, the thought of who exactly teasing her mind, infuriating her.
?Who are you!?? she screamed, her own voice ringing through her ears. Echoes sounded from all directions, despite the fact that the girl knew that her voice couldn?t possibly have carried for nearly as long as it did.
Those eyes refused to move. Refused to even blink, no matter how long and how hard Bra stared at them. Finally, the princess broke into a sprint, shooting through the narrow, blue-hued hall, whose walls degraded further and further out of focus as the cyan haired girl pumped her legs, accelerating as she hurdled past -and narrowly avoided crashing into- a torch, whose flames were extinguished by the sudden gust of wind generated by the little member of royalty.
She leapt forward, igniting her dazzling aura as she began to defy gravity, further increasing her rate of motion without being burdened with the ground. The two blazing rubies grew larger and larger as she closed in. Finally she would get the answer that endlessly pestered her since she?d arrived in this absurd location.
?Hey, Doctor!?
Doctor Bra shuddered to a stop, whirling around in search of whoever the voice belonged to. Typical, she thought pessimistically, there was nobody to be found -or sensed- anywhere. Wait. Doctor?
A cross between a gurgle and a groan escaped the girl?s lips. Her hand moved, brushing against what felt like floor tiles. Great, she?d been knocked unconscious in front of her father. That certainly was a fantastic way to show how far she?d come since she began her training. With a grunt of effort, her hand planted onto what was probably floor and pushed her chest off the ground. Finally, her pair of azure eyes opened, revealing a blurred, spinning version of the hallway they were in the last time she had been awake. There was smoke and debris... probably.
?Unh... what...? her words pitifully fumbled. Bra pushed herself to her feet, staggered, and then leaned heavily against the closest wall to stay upright. Vegeta stood, facing down at something on the ground. Her vision was still correcting itself, and from this distance, it was difficult to differentiate the object which attracted her father?s attention from a shapeless lump of clay.
?Two gone for me. And by my math...? it was the same voice as before. The strangely green person, ?That equals a head. His.?
The youthful princess couldn?t quite follow what Zarbon was referring to, but her eyes trailed to the lifeless body of the brilliant scientist. Gero had been killed, probably by whatever had succeeded in rendering her unconscious.
?Dad?? she spoke softly, approaching the silent man as her sense of sight recovered. Her overly delicate balance was still difficult to maintain, made worse by the fact that she had never truly learned to function without the tail she had lost during the last Friend or Foe tournament. What little dignity she managed to retain was most definitely completely lost once she finally saw what it had been that Vegeta was so focused on.
A painful blast of sound, unlike anything she?d ever heard before, sounded within her head. It forced her to wince for a moment, but faded as quickly as it came. It happened again; another quick pang of agony. Bra raised a hand to her head once again, her face contorted in exasperation. The sound had been like some kind of high-pitched distortion, only amplified a thousand fold and contained completely within her own mind. The thing at her dad?s feet was a body. Her powerful sense of ki told her that this body was dead.
The noise again. This time louder, and worst of all, sustained. The halfling closed her eyes and clenched her teeth, futilely pressing her palms into her ears, stumbling back a few steps. A low growl quickly escalated into a full-out roar of pain and confusion. Vegeta and Zarbon both turned their attention to the girl, who fell to her knees, screaming louder to try and drown out that terrible noise.
?NO!!? she shrieked, unable to escape her own mind, ?Stop it!! Stop it, dammit, stop it!!? the ear-piercing distortion grew in intensity, driving the girl to the verge of tears. Another scream of anguish rang out, but the noise was merciless.
?Bra!! What the hell?s wrong!?? the prince demanded, his eyes alive with something the girl had never seen in her father before. Without any warning, the sound vanished, eliciting a gasp of shock and release from the hybrid.
?I...? she stood up, walking past the man, stopping before the lavender haired corpse, ?I...? tears slid from her shimmering eyes. Once more, she dropped to her knees, placing a hand on Trunks? chest, ?...How??
The princess began to sob, looking down upon her brother. She was finally getting through to her older sibling, and now Fate had spat in her face. Blood seeped from a deep puncture wound in the half-breed?s throat, where a shard of metal had been lodged. His lips were blue... he hadn?t died instantly. No, he was subjected to death by asphyxiation.
Bra firmly bit her lip, so much so that a trickle of blood sprung forth, traveling down her chin. She tried so hard to choke back her tears, but this was her brother on the floor in front of her. Estranged or not, this was her family, sharply struck down by the hand of that loathsome fucker Brim.
?T... T-T... Trunks!?? the name seemed to be a subconscious cue, and the halfling started to bawl as she had done faced with her best friend?s death. She placed her head upon her brother?s chest, her fist coming down upon his shoulder hard enough to cause the body to shake under the impact. How cruelly unfair had this been! First Burter had been murdered, and Bra had never even been offered the chance to help. And now Trunks was dead. All for some selfish man?s dreams of wealth. Their deaths were mere trivialities to him. Statistics and plot devices. Nothing more.
?BRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM!!!? the princess thundered, her voice dripping with malevolence. She got to her feet, flashing into her super saiyan form as though it were nothing, ?You run me through this sick fucking game show, you take away who you damn well know is my best friend, and then you kill my brother!? I?m so fucking tired of your games, you fucking bastard!! Quit hiding from me, dammit!! Come out, so I can tear your fucking head off, you ugly green son of a bitch!!?
Tears continued to could her vision, but a force far more powerful clouded her mind. A titanic blast of energy leapt from her open palm, tearing the doors at the far end of the hallway off their hinges and far into the next room. The ensuing explosion rocked the complex, causing sediment to drift from the ceiling. None of this was noticed by the golden haired girl. She was livid, and determined to show Brim exactly how she felt.
With a roar of absolute fury, her golden aura detonated around her petite frame as the absolutely wrathful girl tore low through the air, leaving the other two in her wake. The hall opened into a control room, filled with computer equipment, charts, and drawings, all of which fell victim to a succession of ki blasts which set the room ablaze.
Bra snapped about, hurling an immense blast of ki into a wide LCD screen, consuming the display in a fiery display of the girl?s rage. She launched herself into another door, crashing through it with the shriek of rending metal. A man in a lab coat looked up from his workstation, along with two uniformed men armed with ki rifles.
?Hey, what the f-?
The super saiyan?s hands had met, releasing a searing final flash far before the soldier had a chance to finish his sentence. The aureate energy shredded through the three men, ripping them atom from atom before careening into the wall, tearing a massive hole through the thick steel.
Smoke had begun to fall in a haze over the entire area, and flashing red emergency lights had sprung to life. Twin sentry guns dropped from the ceiling, each one firing on the rampaging heiress.
?Fucking die!!? she retorted, screaming as she pitched two orbs of ki with all her might. Explosions rang out one after the other, reducing the automated defenses to ash. The hybrid continued through the hole in the wall, emerging in what had to be a storehouse.
The room was obscenely large. Huge metal crates sat in stacks, lining the walls, along with boxes, shelves, and pallets littering the vast warehouse. Bra grit her teeth, reveling at the chance to cause more damage. Her palm was thrust forward, and a tiny pinprick of light formed in her hand. Streaks of light appeared to be drawn in from all directions, disappearing into the minuscule sphere of energy which steadily expanded in size, and began to rotate in place. The princess forcefully rammed ki into the attack, which began to viciously spark as the super concentrated energy grew unstable. Guards charged down an aisle, opening fire upon the ireful super saiyan.
?Hey Brim!! Are you watching this, you fucking coward!? ?Cause the longer I have to look for you, the more shit I?m gonna break, you hear me!?? Bra fervently screamed, her eyes alive with contemptuous hatred. The big bang attack careened through the warehouse, crashing into a crate near the soldiers while the raging young girl crashed upward through the roof.
A gargantuan explosion engulfed everything within the warehouse, just after a hideous creature leapt up through the hole Bra created in the roof. Flames chased after it, and tore throughout the warehouse, obliterating everything it consumed. The heiress nearly destroyed the creature before realizing it was her own summoned avatar.
?Brim!! Where the fuck are you!? Quit playing with me!!? she shouted, leaping from the roof of the production building and taking to the skies. Grimshaw?s Memento faithfully galloped after her over the ground below, but the creature was hardly acknowledged by the deranged young girl, ?Twice now you took Burter from me!! Twice you twisted me around for your fucking fans!! Well fuck your fans! Fuck my fans!! They can all go to hell!! I?m coming after you, you hear me!? I will find you, and I?ll rip your sorry ass to fuckin? pieces!!?
Bra issued another ferocious scream, catapulting herself toward the only other place she thought he could be, desperately ignoring the tears which flowed freely down her face.
The translucent shade tirelessly chased after her, looking up several times in order to track the blazing golden missile through the skies.
The military base would soon be in sight. If Brim wasn?t there, Bra vowed that she would turn yet another piece of real estate into nothing more than smoking ash. No more games. It was time for blood.
OOC: Bra's heading for the Military Base in search of Brim. Vegeta and Zarbon, you're free to follow if you wish; it should be painfully easy to track Bra's ki right now.
?Who are you!?? she screamed, her own voice ringing through her ears. Echoes sounded from all directions, despite the fact that the girl knew that her voice couldn?t possibly have carried for nearly as long as it did.
Those eyes refused to move. Refused to even blink, no matter how long and how hard Bra stared at them. Finally, the princess broke into a sprint, shooting through the narrow, blue-hued hall, whose walls degraded further and further out of focus as the cyan haired girl pumped her legs, accelerating as she hurdled past -and narrowly avoided crashing into- a torch, whose flames were extinguished by the sudden gust of wind generated by the little member of royalty.
She leapt forward, igniting her dazzling aura as she began to defy gravity, further increasing her rate of motion without being burdened with the ground. The two blazing rubies grew larger and larger as she closed in. Finally she would get the answer that endlessly pestered her since she?d arrived in this absurd location.
?Hey, Doctor!?
Doctor Bra shuddered to a stop, whirling around in search of whoever the voice belonged to. Typical, she thought pessimistically, there was nobody to be found -or sensed- anywhere. Wait. Doctor?
A cross between a gurgle and a groan escaped the girl?s lips. Her hand moved, brushing against what felt like floor tiles. Great, she?d been knocked unconscious in front of her father. That certainly was a fantastic way to show how far she?d come since she began her training. With a grunt of effort, her hand planted onto what was probably floor and pushed her chest off the ground. Finally, her pair of azure eyes opened, revealing a blurred, spinning version of the hallway they were in the last time she had been awake. There was smoke and debris... probably.
?Unh... what...? her words pitifully fumbled. Bra pushed herself to her feet, staggered, and then leaned heavily against the closest wall to stay upright. Vegeta stood, facing down at something on the ground. Her vision was still correcting itself, and from this distance, it was difficult to differentiate the object which attracted her father?s attention from a shapeless lump of clay.
?Two gone for me. And by my math...? it was the same voice as before. The strangely green person, ?That equals a head. His.?
The youthful princess couldn?t quite follow what Zarbon was referring to, but her eyes trailed to the lifeless body of the brilliant scientist. Gero had been killed, probably by whatever had succeeded in rendering her unconscious.
?Dad?? she spoke softly, approaching the silent man as her sense of sight recovered. Her overly delicate balance was still difficult to maintain, made worse by the fact that she had never truly learned to function without the tail she had lost during the last Friend or Foe tournament. What little dignity she managed to retain was most definitely completely lost once she finally saw what it had been that Vegeta was so focused on.
A painful blast of sound, unlike anything she?d ever heard before, sounded within her head. It forced her to wince for a moment, but faded as quickly as it came. It happened again; another quick pang of agony. Bra raised a hand to her head once again, her face contorted in exasperation. The sound had been like some kind of high-pitched distortion, only amplified a thousand fold and contained completely within her own mind. The thing at her dad?s feet was a body. Her powerful sense of ki told her that this body was dead.
The noise again. This time louder, and worst of all, sustained. The halfling closed her eyes and clenched her teeth, futilely pressing her palms into her ears, stumbling back a few steps. A low growl quickly escalated into a full-out roar of pain and confusion. Vegeta and Zarbon both turned their attention to the girl, who fell to her knees, screaming louder to try and drown out that terrible noise.
?NO!!? she shrieked, unable to escape her own mind, ?Stop it!! Stop it, dammit, stop it!!? the ear-piercing distortion grew in intensity, driving the girl to the verge of tears. Another scream of anguish rang out, but the noise was merciless.
?Bra!! What the hell?s wrong!?? the prince demanded, his eyes alive with something the girl had never seen in her father before. Without any warning, the sound vanished, eliciting a gasp of shock and release from the hybrid.
?I...? she stood up, walking past the man, stopping before the lavender haired corpse, ?I...? tears slid from her shimmering eyes. Once more, she dropped to her knees, placing a hand on Trunks? chest, ?...How??
The princess began to sob, looking down upon her brother. She was finally getting through to her older sibling, and now Fate had spat in her face. Blood seeped from a deep puncture wound in the half-breed?s throat, where a shard of metal had been lodged. His lips were blue... he hadn?t died instantly. No, he was subjected to death by asphyxiation.
Bra firmly bit her lip, so much so that a trickle of blood sprung forth, traveling down her chin. She tried so hard to choke back her tears, but this was her brother on the floor in front of her. Estranged or not, this was her family, sharply struck down by the hand of that loathsome fucker Brim.
?T... T-T... Trunks!?? the name seemed to be a subconscious cue, and the halfling started to bawl as she had done faced with her best friend?s death. She placed her head upon her brother?s chest, her fist coming down upon his shoulder hard enough to cause the body to shake under the impact. How cruelly unfair had this been! First Burter had been murdered, and Bra had never even been offered the chance to help. And now Trunks was dead. All for some selfish man?s dreams of wealth. Their deaths were mere trivialities to him. Statistics and plot devices. Nothing more.
?BRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM!!!? the princess thundered, her voice dripping with malevolence. She got to her feet, flashing into her super saiyan form as though it were nothing, ?You run me through this sick fucking game show, you take away who you damn well know is my best friend, and then you kill my brother!? I?m so fucking tired of your games, you fucking bastard!! Quit hiding from me, dammit!! Come out, so I can tear your fucking head off, you ugly green son of a bitch!!?
Tears continued to could her vision, but a force far more powerful clouded her mind. A titanic blast of energy leapt from her open palm, tearing the doors at the far end of the hallway off their hinges and far into the next room. The ensuing explosion rocked the complex, causing sediment to drift from the ceiling. None of this was noticed by the golden haired girl. She was livid, and determined to show Brim exactly how she felt.
With a roar of absolute fury, her golden aura detonated around her petite frame as the absolutely wrathful girl tore low through the air, leaving the other two in her wake. The hall opened into a control room, filled with computer equipment, charts, and drawings, all of which fell victim to a succession of ki blasts which set the room ablaze.
Bra snapped about, hurling an immense blast of ki into a wide LCD screen, consuming the display in a fiery display of the girl?s rage. She launched herself into another door, crashing through it with the shriek of rending metal. A man in a lab coat looked up from his workstation, along with two uniformed men armed with ki rifles.
?Hey, what the f-?
The super saiyan?s hands had met, releasing a searing final flash far before the soldier had a chance to finish his sentence. The aureate energy shredded through the three men, ripping them atom from atom before careening into the wall, tearing a massive hole through the thick steel.
Smoke had begun to fall in a haze over the entire area, and flashing red emergency lights had sprung to life. Twin sentry guns dropped from the ceiling, each one firing on the rampaging heiress.
?Fucking die!!? she retorted, screaming as she pitched two orbs of ki with all her might. Explosions rang out one after the other, reducing the automated defenses to ash. The hybrid continued through the hole in the wall, emerging in what had to be a storehouse.
The room was obscenely large. Huge metal crates sat in stacks, lining the walls, along with boxes, shelves, and pallets littering the vast warehouse. Bra grit her teeth, reveling at the chance to cause more damage. Her palm was thrust forward, and a tiny pinprick of light formed in her hand. Streaks of light appeared to be drawn in from all directions, disappearing into the minuscule sphere of energy which steadily expanded in size, and began to rotate in place. The princess forcefully rammed ki into the attack, which began to viciously spark as the super concentrated energy grew unstable. Guards charged down an aisle, opening fire upon the ireful super saiyan.
?Hey Brim!! Are you watching this, you fucking coward!? ?Cause the longer I have to look for you, the more shit I?m gonna break, you hear me!?? Bra fervently screamed, her eyes alive with contemptuous hatred. The big bang attack careened through the warehouse, crashing into a crate near the soldiers while the raging young girl crashed upward through the roof.
A gargantuan explosion engulfed everything within the warehouse, just after a hideous creature leapt up through the hole Bra created in the roof. Flames chased after it, and tore throughout the warehouse, obliterating everything it consumed. The heiress nearly destroyed the creature before realizing it was her own summoned avatar.
?Brim!! Where the fuck are you!? Quit playing with me!!? she shouted, leaping from the roof of the production building and taking to the skies. Grimshaw?s Memento faithfully galloped after her over the ground below, but the creature was hardly acknowledged by the deranged young girl, ?Twice now you took Burter from me!! Twice you twisted me around for your fucking fans!! Well fuck your fans! Fuck my fans!! They can all go to hell!! I?m coming after you, you hear me!? I will find you, and I?ll rip your sorry ass to fuckin? pieces!!?
Bra issued another ferocious scream, catapulting herself toward the only other place she thought he could be, desperately ignoring the tears which flowed freely down her face.
The translucent shade tirelessly chased after her, looking up several times in order to track the blazing golden missile through the skies.
The military base would soon be in sight. If Brim wasn?t there, Bra vowed that she would turn yet another piece of real estate into nothing more than smoking ash. No more games. It was time for blood.
OOC: Bra's heading for the Military Base in search of Brim. Vegeta and Zarbon, you're free to follow if you wish; it should be painfully easy to track Bra's ki right now.
"I wasted time and now time doth waste me."
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"I just made you up to hurt myself, and it worked."
"I just made you up to hurt myself, and it worked."