(Meanwhile)
Just down the hall, sealed in the vibration resistant, energy-proof chamber known as the Capsule Corp's Gravity Room, Vegeta was currently putting his son through one of the most intense morning training regiments he'd ever been through. Dressed in his blue spandex uniform with white gloves and yellow-tipped training boots, the prince of all Saiyans had a serious look on his face as he watched Trunks go through a series of fighting maneuvers and attack the air with a variety of punches and kicks.
Shouting with every blow he unleashed, the lavender haired boy fought against the weight of over five hundred times gravity pressing down on his body, while simultaneously attempting to execute each of his attacks properly and without fault. Thrusting his hands in a blur of straight punches, the youngster then spun around and threw a kick, only to stumble to the side when he brought it back down to the ground. It was a sight that put a harsh glare on his father's patient face.
"Sloppy. Don't throw your leg so far back. You'll knock yourself off balance," the man stated, at the same time seeing his son reset his position.
Gritting his teeth, Trunks gave an affirmative nod and brought his hands up high. "Yes, dad." Swallowing nervously, he then leapt into the air and performed a series of side-kicks, which cut through the space like a spray of bullets, before he threw his left arm forward and launched a barrage of high-speed jabs. This was then followed by the boy dropping down to deliver a right hook, a left elbow, and finally a right flick-kick.
Watching his son a little bit longer, the father then tapped his finger against his bicep and spoke, "You're slowing down, pick up your speed a little more. Don't even think about slacking off."
Trunks then went about adjusting his form to accommodate for his father's instructions. When Vegeta nodded in approval, the child then proceeded to move into a new set. But just as he was in the process of sliding into a new stance, a tremor throughout the room put a stop to the pair's training. When both of them looked around, wondering what the heck that sudden vibration was, a loud crashing sound suddenly echoed throughout the dome, followed shortly by the wall on Vegeta's right-hand side exploding in a shower of white rubble.
From the cloud of debris, a body was sent flying between the father and son duo, which struck the wall on the far side and dropped to the ground with a heavy thud. The second it touch down on the tiled surface, emergency alarms blared into life, which then prompted the computers to shut down the engines running the simulation. As soon as the gravity field lifted, both the perplexed Vegeta and his equally surprised son then found themselves staring at a tall, slender figure adorned in black armor, kneeling beside cracked barrier.
Confused, the two Saiyans then looked over their shoulder and towards the hole that'd been blasted through the GR from the outside. When they did, they saw the massive, hulking figure of Android 16 come stomping through. He was then shortly joined by Bulma, who was now adorned in her female Battle Jacket and had the suit's tinted visor engaged.
Upon seeing the pair appear, Trunks blinked, "Mum?"
"Oi! What the hell's going on?" Vegeta barked in both confusion and irritation.
Bulma, frowning deeply, pointed across the training room floor, "Take a guess, genius!"
Hearing a low groan, the Saiyan Prince and Trunks quickly snapped back to the black figure in armor, whom they saw shake her head and rise up from the ground. Dusting off the specks of rubble covering her shoulder plates, the stunned Kure then adjusted her ears and whipped her tail around, which she double-checked to make sure was still attached. Confirming that it was, she then looked ahead of her once again and frowned across at the group of people staring her down.
Upon getting a good view of the human torpedo, Trunks then blinked when he noticed the appendages protruding from her armor. "Hang on… are those… cat ears… and a tail?"
Hmm. That was odd. This was the first time he'd ever seen someone with authentic cat-like qualities on their person. As perplexing as it was, the boy suppressed any further questions he had on the matter and listened in as the intruder began to speak.
"Okay. That… was mean." Kure quickly perked up when she spotted Vegeta and Trunks standing in front of her, both of whom had now assumed similar fighting stances and had all of their attention fixated squarely upon her. Curious, she then activated her inbuilt scanner, which quickly got a bead on their power levels. "Oh. So this is where the two of you were hiding; inside a training room that can suppress energy. That's cool." When the numbers came back to her, along with a series of biological scans and prints, Kure balked in surprise. Upon which, a smile quickly appeared on her lips. "And it looks like I found the other Saiyans Maya was screaming at me about over the radio. Even better."
Vegeta and Trunks appeared genuinely stunned when they heard the woman mention the name of their race.
"Wait? You know about the Saiyans?" the prince asked in his gruff tone of voice.
A chuckle left Kure's lips at the obvious answer. "Of course I do. There isn't a civilization in the universe who doesn't know about your race." She then placed her hands on her hips and smirked. "After Frieza wiped out a majority of your population on Vegeta, everyone thought your people had become extinct. But, as it turns out, it's not that easy to wipe out an entire planet made up of the strongest and fiercest collection of warriors in the cosmos."
Upon processing her words carefully, the full-blooded royal then frowned deeply and took another fighting stance. "And let me guess… you came here to try and finish the job?"
"What?" Jerking in surprise, the brown haired feline then raised a hand. "No. That's not what I-"
"An entire alien planet just appeared out of space right next door to ours," Bulma interrupted through her suit's speakers, cutting the intruder off and turning her attention to her husband and son. "You and Trunks didn't know about it because the two of you were stuck in here training for the last hour. I was going to come and get you after we figured out what the heck was going on." The scientist then pointed across at her target, "But then this woman busted into our facility and broke into my lab."
Freaking out a little, Kure then held her hands forward, "Wait a second. I honestly didn't mean to-"
Eyes flashing red, Android 16 took a big step forward and stopped the intruder mid-sentence, "The staff at the front desk reported this woman coming in through the front entrance and booking an appointment with one of our liaisons. She then sat down in the waiting area, where she then began exhibiting odd behaviors. After which she attacked the security guards stationed in the lobby and started firing energy blasts at the walls."
"Well, yeah! I did! But that was only after I received a message from my teammates telling me that they'd gotten into fights with several other people living on this planet and then this… this… uhh…!" Kure shouted, only to trail off moments later when she realized the words that were coming out of her mouth, "this… isn't helping me is it?"
Unfortunately, the young woman didn't have time to rephrase her sentence, as the strongest warrior in the room decided right then and there to take immediate action…
"That's all I needed to hear," Vegeta said, before charging forward with his signature yell. "You're mine, woman!"
Hair bristling in panic, Kure lunged forward and ducked low when the prince dove at her with a flying side-kick, a maneuver which allowed her to avoid the vicious fighter while simultaneously sending her into a tumble. After rolling along the ground, she then sprang up, slid along the tiles, and assumed a low defensive stance. Sensing a second attack coming from behind, the cat woman quickly slipped her head to the side and threw her hands up, allowing her to catch the wrist of an attacking Android 16 and stop the man dead in his tracks. Upon locking his massive arm, the woman spun around and tossed the hulking male across the room and towards one of the heavily reinforced walls, only to see the cyborg flip in midair and land hard on the tiled floor several yards away. After redirecting the robot, Kure once again dropped to the floor to avoid a flying punch from Trunks, who then leapt at her and began lashing out at the woman with a series of vicious punches. Once again, the alien woman effortlessly weaved between his attacks, which eventually ended in her spinning around the child when he dove at her with an overhand, causing him to overshoot. The second she avoided his hit, the interstellar visitor then raised her arm and blocked a flying punch from the suit wearing Bulma, which connected with her gauntlet with a resounding clang.
When the scientist yanked her arm back and began to throw a left hook, Kure skillfully slipped under it, mounted the suit's forward leg with her foot, and ran up its front. This maneuver was similar to a person running up a wall, enabling Kure to drive several vicious kicks against the unit's front before back-flipping off of it, allowing the woman to spring away and land safely in the center of the room in all fours. When she looked up to see the surprised Bulma stagger away, Kure's ears suddenly twitched at the sound of approaching danger, prompting her to reach back with her tail. Her appendage stretched to an unbelievable degree, allowing the sharp minded Kure to wrap it around the leg of a charging Vegeta and catch him by surprise. Unable to react fast enough, the cat-like appendage wrapped around his ankle suddenly redirected the Saiyan and threw him upwards, slamming him into the roof of the GR. After impacting the ceiling, the tail then yanked him back down, driving the man into the floor before Kure spun him around and chucked the prince into an approaching Trunks. The father crashed into his son from the side and sent both of them tumbling across the room.
The two quickly leapt to their feet and, slamming their feet into the tiles, skidded to a stop. Upon which they looked up at their opponent in surprise, whom they saw assume a very cat-like fighting stance, her hands formed into claws and her tail swishing about behind her in an aggressive and predatory manner.
Eyes darting between the four figures in front of her, Kure then cringed in disappointment, "Alright. I guess if we're going to do this… I might as well play along." Reaching up, the woman pressed a button in the side of her helmet, which then activated a small, red signal light.
His sensors flaring brightly in warning, Android 16 leaned forward and, giving an angry, robotic yell of his own, charged towards the alien to carry out his attack. However, with her instincts set on full alert, the defensive Kure was ready and waiting for him.
With a loud hum from the back of her suit, the woman raised her left hand and, activating a built-in plasma cannon from the side panel, fired off an electrical ball of energy at the advancing android. The charged shot struck the red haired man dead on and sent the hapless cyborg blasting back at breakneck speed, upon which he then slammed into the Gravity Room wall before dropping to the floor. The other three fighters looked across at their cybernetic ally in alarm, where they saw blue electrical currents begin running up and down his body. While Android 16 was still alive and conscious, he was now lying helplessly on the floor, jerking, twitching and convulsing.
Bulma, gritting her teeth in anger, threw both her hands forward and, with a yell of effort, launched a powerful blast of fire at the woman in black armor.
Quick as ever, the female alien leapt clean over the ball of flames and dashed out of the room via the massive hole she'd formed. She then disappeared around the corner, leaving her opponents in her dust as she then attempted to get some more space.
Seeing the woman literally turn tail had Vegeta snarl in frustration, "Get back here!" Not willing to let her get away so easily, both the prince and his son wasted no time in going after her.
"Stop, you!" Trunks' yell echoed down the hallway as the pair darted out of sight.
Upon seeing her family give pursuit of the woman and hearing explosions begin echoing throughout the facility, Bulma then looked behind her and towards the fallen Android 16. Concern quickly fell across her face when she saw the twitching robot pan up to her, "Sixteen? Are you…?"
"I'll… (tzt)… be fine. That woman… (tzt)… hit me with an… e-energy disruptor. I just need t-to… (tzt-tzt)… shut down for a moment and… (tzt)… reboot my systems," the red haired cyborg replied, his eyes fixed upon his creator as he then pointed out the hole that they'd come through, "G-Go."
Nodding in understanding, the woman powered up her suit and rushed out the door, leaving Android 16 to slowly recover from the EMP attack.
The chase was on.