Mother Knows Best

Mother Knows Best

By: Angelwarrior1

Chapter 1: A God Reborn


Her landing wasn't as rough as it should have been and so she looked to see what cushioned her fall. The beast laid beneath her. She wasn't sure of its demise, so she quickly scampered off of it. She kept her eyes on it until her attention was gained else where. Glowing green caught her eye and she turned her head slowly to gaze upon the cause. Tanned skin, rippling muscles, and dark features all captured her eyes. She slowly brought her eyes to meet his. He stared darkly at her and she could feel the dark power emanating from his form.

Quickly growing wary, she knew this new development couldn't bode well for her. Relying on her training, she straightened her posture and kept her injuries out of sight. If this gargantuan man knew she was hurt he would surely use that knowledge to his advantage. Her mind rang warning bells everywhere when he began to approach her. He stopped above her small form and stared down at her.

He could smell the tension in the air. Bending down he sniffed the small young woman before him. He instantly snarled at the scent she carried.

"Grr...Kakarot!" His animalistic growl startled her, but she didn't dare show this outwardly.

'He's talking about Goku, I'd recognize that saiyan name anywhere.'

"Kakarottttt....." His growling continued, and his body began to glow once more.

There was only one way to get out of her current predicament. This was her chance to escape alive. If she could convince him that only she knew where Goku was, she could have him travel with her until she found a way to lose him. He didn't seem to have much going on upstairs anyhow.

"You know Kakarot? I know him too. I can lead you to him if you want, but you must agree not to harm me in any way if I were to take you to him. Is it a deal?" She prayed inwardly for his agreement.

His only response was a grunt and a slight nod, as well as his powering down. She took all as a positive sign.

"I'll take that as a yes. My ship is a long ways off in that direction, but I've been injured by that beast. So..." She almost screamed when he took off with her in his arms.

He wasn't exactly gentle, but he wasn't a caveman in handling her injured body either. She silently wondered if he was just hiding his brain under a false image of brute strength, but she saw no reason for him to do such a thing. The flight wasn't painstakingly long and soon she found herself dropped to the ground, again not too rough but not too gentle. She slowly stood and punched in the code sequence that only she would know, making sure to cover the panel with her hands and body. She couldn't risk him learning the code and stealing her ship. Then she'd be in real trouble. After all, who knew how smart the man behind her was. He could be very intelligent.

Walking aboard after the ramp lowered, she instantly made preparations for take off. After planning her trajectory and formulating a quick plan in her mind she turned toward the behemoth of a male.

"I suggest you take a seat and buckle up, take off can get rough at times." She spoke of this as she found her seat and strapped herself in.

The giant man followed her after watching her silently and no sooner had he buckled in did the female voice of the ship come on.

"Preparing for lift off. Count down in 10, 9, 8..."

Looking at the man beside her, she studied his features. He really wasn't bad looking, he was actually quite handsome. In her opinion he'd look far better with a smile on his face, but oh well. The shuttle shook with the force of take off and soon they were flying through space to their next destination.

"Take off successful. Landing will occur in 72 hours."

A sigh escaped her mouth as she unbuckled her straps and went into her room. She failed to notice her new companion mimicking her actions and following her to her room. When she heard something fall she turned and saw that her new traveler had knocked something down with his broad shoulder. This caused her to giggle, which caused him to look at her oddly. Apparently he'd never heard a giggle before.

'How long has he been buried in that ice? Everything seems so new to him.' Sitting down on her bed, she looked out of the small window in her room.

"Were you down there for a long time?" The question was asked quietly.

"Hn." He grunted, she took this as a 'yes'.

"I see." She didn't want to upset him while on board, so she refrained from asking more.

"You can sleep on one of the spare cots the ship has in the control room. I expect you to knock before entering my room. Understand?" Her eyebrow arched at this.

He simply nodded his head in agreement.

“Good. You can do whatever you wish. Just don’t mess with the controls in the control room. We don’t want to take any unexpected detours.” Turning her head away from him, the giant took this as his sign to leave.

He left the room more gracefully than he had entered and walked around the small ship. Not seeing anything that interested him, he eventually made his way to the control room and sat in his take off chair. He then stared out into the recesses of space. To anyone who saw him, he appeared to have no brains. He did though, he was just raised not to show them. He was raised to show his brute strength. He was raised for his brute strength. The brain he possessed was never encouraged to develop into anything great or grand and yet somehow he soaked up knowledge very quickly. He learned over the years not to show anything other than his brutish ways though and it was easy for him to become angered at the slightest of things and use what he was brought up to use. His overwhelming power. For this brute of a man, power was the only thing he was praised for. Never for the underlying brilliance that his brain contained.

A few hours passed and soon the young woman became bored in her small room. Standing after several hours of sitting and thinking over the now piled high amount of problems she had, she decided to check on her new ‘friend’. She searched the ship and found him in the same spot he had sat down in hours ago.

“Hey, you doin’ alright?” She came up and stopped a few feet behind him.

All she received was the usual grunt. She rolled her eyes in response to this.

“I’m sure you must be hungry by the now. Right?”

Another grunt.

“Well I’m gonna make something. You can join me if you wish.” She wisely left him to whatever it was he was doing before she had interrupted him.

‘What could he have been doing just sitting there that whole time?’ She shrugged and decided not to dwell on it.

She was sure that with time she would figure out at least a few things about the man she now traveled with. He could only grunt so much. She smirked at the thought. His grunting reminded her of another person she knew all too well. She was fluent in grunts as a result. Making her way into the tiny kitchen, she took out several frozen dinners to cook and threw them into the oven. It wasn’t home cooked, but it was better than an empty stomach. A noise behind her made her pause for a moment. She turned to see him standing behind her, watching what she was doing carefully.

“I’m sorry this is all we have. We’ll have to stop and get more supplies, I’m only packed up for one person. I didn’t think I’d gain a companion on this trip.” She smiled lightly at him.

He simply stared at her face, his usual blank face in place. It made her a little nervous, like she was talking to herself or something.

“Um, well the dinners should be ready in 30 minutes. So, we have plenty of time to talk. I assume you know how to correct?” She shifted nervously at her question.

The man could very well get pissed at her for asking such a question and lash out at her. This didn’t happen though, as he simply grunted and turned to leave. It appeared that he sensed her nervousness. She inwardly sighed a breath of relief at his departure. The man certainly knew how to be intimidating. Keeping herself occupied for the next 30 minutes wasn’t easy. In her haste to leave earth so fast, she had forgotten to bring entertainment sources. She’d have to pick up something to do at their next pit stop.

Soon the bell on the oven went off and woke the now sleeping woman up. She groggily went and pulled out the dinners, but in her haste and sleepiness burned her hand.

“Shit!” She cursed in pain and anger.

After apparently hearing her, her lumbering companion decided to check out the foul word. He came up to her and looked down at her now injured hand that she was clutching. He took her hand and looked at it closely. Then he looked up at her pained face. Noticing that she was indeed in pain, he closed his enormous hand around her injured one and created energy into his palm. The soothing energy actually helped his hurt companion’s hand, healing it for her. Her eyes widened at this kind notion. She didn’t think he would ever help her, but apparently he just had. And he seemed perfectly calm about the whole thing, not once did his expression change.

“Thank you.” She quietly peeked up at him.

“Hn.” He spoke no more for the rest of the evening.

After a long trip to their pit stop, the pair finally managed to make it. They landed easy enough and the young woman prepared herself for another outing with her big form covering cloak. She felt a little more at ease with her huge male companion by her side now. They had managed to form…something. It wasn’t really friendship, but they understood one another…sort of. Whatever it was, she was just glad he showed no violence toward her. She had worried in the beginning that he would hurt her, but now she didn’t have to. After he had helped her it seemed that he had become slightly friendlier. She still hadn’t learned of his name, she even tried telling him about herself in hopes of receiving the same from him. He simply nodded his head at her information though and didn’t utter a word about himself. So she figured he’d tell her when he was more comfortable with her. No pressure from her.

The planet they had landed on was a very dry desert looking planet. The creatures there weren’t very friendly either and it seemed they were notorious merchants who practiced in all kinds of trading and selling. They even specialized in selling slaves, primarily female slaves. The thought angered her, but she had little choice in what planet she landed on. They were running too low on supplies to be selective of where she docked. So now she had to tread carefully around these ape like residents. They weren’t exactly pushovers either, though she knew she could still handle them if it got down to a fight. Walking through what appeared to be a market, she stopped at a food store. She ordered enough to last for several more months and was then told to wait for their delivery to come to their ship in another hour.

“I guess we’ll have to wait around for a little bit. Let’s look around in the meantime.” She led the way and looked at many booths set up on the streets.

Everything was so lively. Other species from nearby planets were gathered around different types of booths. And lots of yelling in alternate tongues rang throughout the streets. Eventually they arrived upon a booth that sold slaves. She peered out from her cloak and seethed silently at all the buzz surrounding these poor frightened creatures. Most were females. Many weren’t the same species, two or three at most of the same type. She didn’t see any humans obviously, since her planet had the others to protect it from invaders. It wouldn’t bode well with them if merchants came and started capturing innocents to sell. Not wanting to risk getting noticed, she wisely turned to leave. She bumped into someone. Her heart paused for a moment as she slowly looked up from under her veil. She sighed in relief when she was that it was only him. She even smiled up at him, though not sure if he could see it or not. She went around him and began to walk away, counting on him to follow her. Of course he did.