Planet Tamaran
"Sister!" Koriand'r's voice rang out through the hallways leading up to the throne room, as she stormed past the guards, and entered the room with a slam of the double doors after she shoved them out of her way, "Please!" She clenched her fists with anger and worry as she stomped over to a now vacant throne, with Komand'r standing at the bottom of the steps leading up to the throne seats that once seated the two sisters' father and mother.
While both wore their ornate royal clothes, while sporting the style of how Tamaran's dressed, Komand'r continued to have her back turned towards Koriand'r' with her arms crossed and hands clenched onto her arms; a subtle clenching of her hands happened as Koridand'r marched up towards her, while Komand'r was staring at the empty throne seats her parents once occupied.
A hard and angered gaze was focused on the two seats, for Komand'r, this was not how she wanted to ascend to the throne after the war with the Gordanians; she suggested offering her dearest brother Ryand'r to help cease the war, and bring peace while at the same time giving her the right to ascend to the throne by rite of lineage.
Ryand'r was strong enough like her and any other Tameranean to weather being solve into slaving, until she could gather enough fighters of her own to head out and bust him free from whoever the Godanians sold him off to.
Her dearest brother will hate her, but in the end, peace was made for her people and in turn gave her an instant win for the throne.
Komand'r's hands clenched against her arms, while she heard her dearest sister storm up to her, "Sister! How can you just stand there, while mother and father are gone from our lives!" she shouted in anguish towards her.
Komand'r's eyes glared at the thrones, of course Koriand'r was more emotional than her over their parents, she was the favorite child, while she had to work for everything to gain her parent's affection.
Koriand'r's hand reached onto Komand'r's shoulder, and moved to turn her sister around and face her, "Sister!" she gritted out, with tears falling from the corner of her eyes, while Komand'r's kept a stoic and harsh glare back at her, "Did you not hear me? And not just that, brother dearest was sold off to our former enemies, how can you just stand in this room and not attend the funeral of mother and father at the very least!?" she begged with emotional tears.
Komand'r broke from her stoic look, and snarled at her sister, "I know that, sister, not everyone weeps like you, I'm dealing with it in my own way!" she scowled, and slapped the offending hand off from her shoulder.
A small part of Komand'r did in fact miss her parents, but right now, she needed to start making plans of retrieving her brother to make him hand the line of succession off to her, to make her the official empress of Tamaran. She'd make those Gordanians pay for attacking her people, she would stab them in the back through the peace deal they made, right after she recovers Ryand'r.
Koriand'r glared at her eldest sister, "Then what about our brother!?" she threw her arms out to her sides in exclamation, tears still breaking out from her eyes. She then clenched her fist and held it against her chest while she held her other arm up to the air towards the window where the night sky could be seen, "We've got to do something! He must be suffering under those Gordanians!"
Komand'r narrowed her eyes at her sister, and decided to just be out with it and tell her, "I know." she said through clenched teeth, before speaking more clearly with her sister, "I suggested mother and father hand Brother off to them-"
SLAP
Koriand'r's right hand was now in the direction of her left, after slapping her big sister's face, her own hand was red while Komand'r's face was now red too; the entire room fell silent between the two sisters, "YOU'RE HEARLTESS!" Koriand'r yelled hysterically at her sister, an emotional hurt look was expressed all over her face.
Komand'r's head was currently turned to the side, nothing was expressed, save for a calm look as she stared off to the side, she slowly reached up to touch her stinging face and slowly looked back towards her sister, "...would you have perhaps gone in brother's stead instead…" she slowly narrowed her eyes at Koriand'r, her tone slowly morphing into her anger.
"I…I…yes!" Koriand'r stumbled back, before finding her courage back on the question, she cared enough for her brother to go in his place.
Komand'r however smirked now, "Funny, I was planning on telling mother and father they should hand you off to our enemies, but I had thought otherwise and hand off our brother otherwise." she explained. The irony is that her sister Koriand'r would be willing to go to her brother's place to make peace with the Gordanians, was not lost on her.
Koriand'r's eyes widened, while she stepped back, "Sister, how can you just…do you not love your family at all? How can you just say these things!?" she cried out.
Komand'r glared at her young sister, crossing her arms and sneered, "You keep whining, but I don't hear anything from you about rescuing our brother." she pointed out, glaring at her innocent sister. "Stop asking such ridiculous questions!" she yelled back now.
Koriand'r, having finally had enough patience ran thin with her sister, stomped forward to grab her sister by her collar and pulled her over to her, "I will ask the ridiculous questions! Where is the sister I grew up with! Where is the nice sister that would always save me from trouble! This is not you!" her voice cracked in pain and sadness.
Komand'r slowly reached up to grip her sister's hands, and pry them off, Koriand'r herself letting her sister manhandle her hands while she searched answers from her older sister. Komand'r expressed a frown while giving her young sister a sharp look, "Perhaps, you were just growing up with an innocent outlook on life, dearest sister. I just kept most of myself hidden, what you see now, is what I am." she deftly shoved her sister's hands away.
While Koriand'r's hand's slackened to her sides, Komand'r slipped past her young sister and marched off out of the throne room.
Koriand'r quickly turned around to softly glare at her sister's back, "And what will you be doing now?" she hollered over, unsure where to go on in life from here.
Komand'r stopped right at the closed double doors, and turned her head to look off to the side, but didn't deign to look at her sister, "What do you think, I'm stabbing some Gordanians in the back, and getting dearest brother back." she hissed back, before reaching for the doors and thowing them open to march on out.
For Koriand'r, the entire throne room was silent, and it felt more empty than ever with her parents now gone. She reached up and clenched her fists against her chest, before throwing them down at her sides to catch up with her sister. "You will not go alone!" she yelled after her sister.
Earth
Hive Academy
Adeline Wilson sat at her desk as she went over the various files of new students that would be attending the academy, the selection was often easy to do, considering her academy was able to house more than enough students to be molded and trained into villains for hire; the matter of training them and blitzing them through trials and lessons was a different one altogether, but all in all she's had success with the academy.
Reaching over to flip a folder, she frowned and glanced down at the picture of the young girl named Jinx within the file; she had fired and made sure the idiot that sent out Mammoth and Gizmo to retrieve that girl, was found later by Chesire to make him disappear.
She should have just gone out, and retrieved the girl herself; The headmistress of Hive Academy had kept an eye on most metahuman child through various means, and Jinx was ripe for the taking to induct into her academy, her powers alone were quite good to group up with Gizmo and Mammoth.
Adeline shook her head and placed the folder away, whether the girl was now in the city or not, it mattered not, she had other children to kidnap or induct into her academy; children were afterall easy to mold, to develop their minds into criminal ones, and set off to become viable villains for hire.
The headmistress tapped her finger against her desk, before she reached down to open one of her drawers and pulled out a personal phone; she still wanted someone to complete the group she intended to make with Gizmo and Mammoth as star pupils.
Gizmo was a genius with his gadgets, while Mammoth supplied the muscle of the team, an additional member to the duo would boost their efficiency quite well. Adeline's thumb dialed through a set amount of numbers, before she placed the phone up against her ear.
The line rang a few times, before a familiar voice to her spoke with tempered calmness that seeped with authority, "Adeline." a masculine tone spoke, "I'm a bit surprised, it's been a while since you called this number of mine, besides our more…public one you have with the academy." the man remarked, expressing some curiosity into his tone.
Adeline's throat clenched a bit, old memories of them together resurfacing, before she calmed herself to be more straightforward with her ex-husband, "Yes, well, I was hoping to use our more personal contact number to discuss a matter I have with the academy." She answered him, keeping herself calm.
Slade made an annoyed grunt on the other end of the call, before he spoke back, "My answer is the same as the last time, I'm not going to be some teacher at your academy. I have other things to do, than teach some kid villains how to wield a knife, muchless how to take over a city or rob a bank." he answered her.
A wry smirk found its way on Adeline's lips, the image of her ex-husband being a teacher at her academy, did bring her some amusement, given his hardass nature, "Perish the thought, I was actually calling in to see if you'd like to send in your daughter." she offered with her mouth back to its thin straight line.
"...Rose is still in training, I'd rather not have her come with me to Jump City yet." He answered her, some hesitation in his tone of voice.
Adeline's eyes widened a bit, before schooling her features, giving her phone she held up to her ear a sideways look, "You…you're coming to Jump City?" she asked, expressing some surprise. "I…I thought you were still doing business in Gotham?"
"I was. Had some business to do a contract with the Penguin to gather up some capital." Slade answered her.
Adeline sighed to herself, before she looked off into the air as she leaned back in her chair, "I see…well, in that case, wouldn't that be more of a reason to let Rose finish her training in my academy?" She questioned Slade, whether he'd take the offer or not, it didn't matter, she had other teens that could complete the team with Gizmo and Mammoth
Adeline turned in her chair to continue leaning back into it, while she gazed up a bit, her fingers idly tapped on her desk, "She wouldn't be that far from you after all in the end, and my academy offers plenty of lectures that would suit her villain career."
"...I'll consider it…so long you're offering the lessons for free, cause from the sounds of it, you need a rising star in your school." Slade chided her, already onto what Adeline needed from the conversation.
She sat up straight, earning in her tone as she spoke with her ex-husband, "Well, knowing she comes from you, I would hope she would be the best candidate to be the leader of any group I place her up with." she answered, while she returned her chair to its position towards her desk, "I have other candidates of course, but I wanted to ask you first for your daughter to be among my students, before I tried other options."
Slade chuckled with mirth on the other end of the call, before he answered back to Adeline, "I do need to instruct her on certain lessons involving many other things, but I will be busy once I get started setting up in Jump City…" A pause in Slade's voice, made Adeline know he was now thinking more on it.
"Hrm, very well, expect Rose to arrive next month, I'm still helping her with a few things on my own end." Slade finally decided on the decision, making Adeline smile a bit, "Expect me there as well when she comes" He ended the call then, making Adeline glare a bit at her phone as she pulled it away from her phone.
While their marriage ended on a sour note, things between them softened back to a more amicable relationship over the decades. "Would it kill him to at least say goodbye?" she asked herself, before stowing her phone back into her desk drawer.
Jump City, Library
Majin Buu
It was another day, and right now, I want to try and fix this stupid speech of mine. That's why right now, I was sitting in one of the library's private rooms with a laptop on the table playing a disc for speech instruction.
"Repeat after me, She sells seashells on the sea shore." A robotic feminine tone instructed me.
…Um, I don't think I got the right lessons here. I frowned a bit, this was more like a tongue twister thing. Screw it. "She sells seashells on the sea shore." I grouched out, before closing the program, this was both embarrassing and annoying. Clicking the button on the side of the laptop to eject the disc out, I picked out and placed the CD into its sleeve, before shutting the laptop's disc tray closed and the laptop itself after shutting it too down.
I reached up to pull my head apart into two, before smooshing it back into one in anger; I said the words just fine, but this was not good enough to get this stupid mental block or whatever it was to cease making me speak in broken english.
Whoever put my soul in this body, did a shoddy job. My only conclusion right now, is that Buu's own simple minded way of speaking is so ingrained in his body, that's my best assumption.
Leaning back into my chair, I crossed my arms with an annoyed scowl, "I…need…to…speak…right…this…is…bull…crap!" I slowly spoke out.
….
"Buu needs to speak right!"
Damn it! I did it fine the first try while being slow. I scrunch my nose up in disdain towards my situation. I do remember that the original Kid Buu spoke well enough to show he understood how to speak, but it was just simple speak with the few times he did say anything.
I tapped my fingers against my arms, before deciding to get out and eat something. I really wanted to fix this speech of mine, but my stomach was yearning for something sugary right now. Perhaps I could find an ice cream place…nah, I'll just turn some trash out from a bin and try and make my own.
Collecting my things and exiting out from one of the rooms the library offered the visitors to use for studying and other things, I walked out into the third floor and headed for the stairs.
"Excuse me." A familiar voice prompted my attention, making me cease my steps, and turned around to glance in the direction of the nearby bookshelf aisle I was walking past. I tried to school my features as best as I could, as there stood Raven, dressed in her blue over cape or whatever it was that she wore, while keeping its hood over her head. The only thing visible were her eyes and lower mouth and cheeks.
She only had to look down a bit to look me in the eyes, "hmm? Need something from Buu?" I questioned her.
Raven seemed to be inspecting me for a second, before answering me with a frown, "..Not really..." she answering me, expressing a drawl and dry tone, while at the same time some curiosity dripping into it. "...sorry...just checking if I was right about something." she followed up with a shake of her head.
I frowned back at her, lifting a brow of uncertainty of why Raven wanted to pull my attention aside to her "Right about what, Goth girl?" I asked, while keeping the borrowed laptop under my arm.
…I wonder if I can create a working PC…a test for later.
Raven let out an annoyed grunt, while looking off to the side, before looking back at me, "mmh...Sorry, my curiosity was just getting the better of me." she shrugged with a dry tone.
I blinked at that, before I spoke again with her, "What was goth girl curious about?" I urged her, narrowing my eyes in suspicion at Raven.
Raven glanced off to the side, before she looked back at me, seemingly having been in quick thought before she'd answer, "Just forget about it." She answered me, before taking her leave of the book aisle, and headed down the nearby stairway.
What the hell was that about?