Monkey Shines

[Selypa]

Who wouldn't love it when Luck decided to pucker up, put on some pretty red lipstick, and start kissing ass like it's the end of the badonkadonk world?

Unlike mister excitement, who was on the verge of bursting into a jaunty little skip with maybe a twirl or two of excitement and a joyful little hum, Selypa contained her excitement to a grin, and brought her knuckles up to crack them, her eyes already narrowed with the possibilities running through her mind.

After a moment, however, she shook her head. Daydreaming would have no purpose right now. As they had all learned too many times, dropping one's guard in the home stretch could seriously fuck a person up.

As her commander and friend spoke, she turned to him, watching him before bringing her own hand up in a sharp salute, violet eyes bright with anticipation. She was ready for this. They were all ready for this.

"Yes, sir! I'll get shit settled down here while we wait. Just don't take too long. Ain't fair for you to be grabbing drinks without the rest of us, you crazy bastard." The grin tweaked at the corners of her lips again as her own hand lifted in a salute, her eyes narrowed with mischief now, as well as determination. She was already readying herself for what was likely to be two hellish days- ha, get it?- that would drive them nuts.

Selypa only watched him go for a moment before she strode across the grounds. Her previous anger with the fat Panbukin was just about gone. All right, not really. But she was willing to wait now, and wait for the right time to kick his ass... Such as when they were alive. Right now, they had to focus on surviving.

"Toma!" Her voice called across the grounds sharply as she crossed the distance to him. Her eyes flickered about the area, noting the lack of Raditz. That, and the lack of his energy signature... God, she couldn't believe he had done it. He really was worth a bit more then they had thought.

"Let's get out of here. I'll explain later. Right now, we need to find a secure location and hole up."

[Bardock]

"Secure? In Hell? That would be like a needle in a haystack..." Or a small group of Saiya-jins in a mountain of needles...? Toma held up a hand, already figuring out a good location. The Needle Mountains were good hiding spots when they needed to get out of sight. Albeit it was also an obvious place to look, but it was hard to enter and not know where your already learned and established enemy was hiding. Squatters had it easy for ambush work. "We'll head over to Needle Mountain, find us a mound that isn't occupied...or take one. Who cares. Let's go."

He gestured at the others to follow with, but he took his time by walking, wanting Selypa to tell him what was going on as they went. "Where's Bardock? And better yet, where did his kid go? We were looking at him one minute and then he just disappeared."

While they made their way to the mountain, Bardock was making his way towards some freedom. The ogres walked, one on either side of him, as they took him to where a room with portals for those permitted an exit pass like him was located. The gateway he would use would send him outside the gates leading into Mount Five Element on Earth. They were rambling off some generic rules he would have to observe and whatnot. The third class had to force himself to pay attention though most of it was some basic stuff he had already figured out. Once they came up to the gateway, he grinned before nodding at them, "All right, I think I got it all. See you guys in two days."

'Or not for a long fucking time, suckas!'

Bardock passed through the gateway and stepped out into the glow of a pleasant afternoon, shadowed by the massive gate behind him. He was greeted with fresh air instead of the stagnant smell that seemed to permeate Hell. As he stood in the shade, he concentrated as he reached out his senses to figure who was where. Almost immediately, he recognized Raditz, being the one ki on the planet he was most familiar with sensing. The others would take some getting a feel for, or even finding since quite a few were being suppressed. However his eldest son stuck out like a sore thumb so that was the one he would focus on. It seemed he was in the company of at least one other considerable power.

"Man...I get the feeling I've got my work cut out for me. Well, time to get cracking!" The Saiya-jin smirked before his ki powered up enough to launch in the air, heading in the general direction of his son and whatever companion he might have picked up.

[Selypa]

She had to hand it to Toma, he knew his way around a proper defense better then she did. Sure, she could figure out a defense, or a good place to hide, if she really had to, but her temper sometimes got in the way of that. All right, it frequently got in the way of that. Who cares? She did her job and she did it well. And she listened to Bardock.

... Most of the time.

Selypa glanced at Toma, tilting her head a bit before glancing around them. Right now, she wasn't sure how much she wanted to tell Panbukin and Totepo. Thankfully, the former was hanging back, forcing the latter to stay with him. She watched them for a moment before tilting her head to the saiyajin in the ice-blue armor.

"Bardock's heading to Earth. The two of us went to see King Enma to try to get him a day pass... Enma gave him two. Not sure why, but I'm not complaining. He's going to try to get a foothold in Kakarot's family and get his hands on the wish- Dragon Balls." Selypa spoke quietly, almost too low for even Toma to hear, as she kept her face from twisting into an expression of excitement.

"As for Raditz... Don't ask me how he did it exactly, but he managed to get ahold of someone in the living world, and was revived. Extracts from the Tree of Might, if I remember correctly. Apparently whoever he talked to on the other side was willing to dig up one of his bones and toss it in. Bardock's going to do the same. He's going to wish for our remains from Meat, and dump them in the extract."

Now she looked at him, allowing a smirk to tug at her lips.

"See why we need to keep out of trouble now?"