Star Labs
Catherine could not help but feel something was off, as the engineering team made the rounds of checking the current wires and everything else was in check that was all hooked up to a round ball that was as big as a human's head; all theories were sound, the orb itself having been confiscated from an alien wreckage after superman's interventions to save metropolis.
The government of course contracted her subdivision to study one of the objects they were able to confiscate, everything operated in this room was locked down and everyone was under an NDA, everyone's job and livelihood was essentially on the line to not spill what was going on in this room.
The room itself was quite large of an average american school gym, a whole range of computer servers and tech was all hooked up to analyze this one object; many of the researchers were able to analyze it was both a powersource and a probable way of transportation. The amount of energy their systems could scan into it was recorded to be on the scale of powering the eastern coastline for decades…or perhaps more.
The analysts were still calculating their numbers though, but for now, Catherine was in charge of recording and observing the first test run of the orb being put under a stress test to see if they could draw out any power from out of it.
Beside her, Jonny pushed his glasses up a bit on the bridge of his nose and cleared his throat as he leaned against the table he sat at, whilst she stood, "Begin the test." He announced beside her, and into the mic that allowed his voice to be heard through the entire room.
Catherine and Jonny currently occupied a raised platform that had two sets of stairways that lead up to it on both sides, with three large sets of glass walls blocking anything that might harm them from the orb, but at the same time afford them a clear view of the orb itself that was situated atop a pedestal, with various large wires attached to it.
They ran over several diagnostics to make sure everything was ready, Project Charon was soon underway, as machines began humming to life, and the orb itself began glowing bright red, then pink. Jonny glanced at his monitor, nothing too bad.
Catherine on the other hand jotted down into her paper on her clipboard in her hands, observing the stress testing they were putting on the alien technology; They needed to know more than just to believe it was a source of energy and perhaps the possible means of instant travel or whatever it was capable of.
Jonny leaned forward again to his mic, and spoke, "All signs nom-wait…no! Cut the power!" His calm voice suddenly broke into worry, as his monitor showed fluctuations in the orb's energy output.
Two of the engineers beside the wall in the far back, leveraged the large lever from its up positions, and quickly shut the whole power down to the orb in an instant; while a minute into stress testing what sort of power they could draw out from the alien technology was fine, it was only a matter of time after that first minute that everything was off.
While power was shut off to the orb, the object itself however continued to thrum with power and cause the pedestal it was one to shatter, allowing it to hover alone by itself.
Catherine sweated with nervousness, "Evacuate everyone out!" She yelled, only for the exit itself to quickly be locked down from an external source.
" I'm afraid I can't let that happen, who knows what that orb is about to do." The Director of the current Star Labs Catherine worked for spoke through the intercom.
While the orb itself continued to glow with more pink hues, it cracked while everyone in the security hastily brought their handguns out and aimed at the alien tech.
Catherine began to remember that one line from that dinosaur movie, it felt like her team was pretty much doing that this instant, and now they were about to experience more trouble than the orb was worth to the government.
Not but a second or so later, the orb finally cracked open and exploded into a large cloud of pink gas, alarms began going off, signalling a plausible biohazard had just been released; Catherine dearly hoped the orb was not just some container of some radioactive gas…that was pink in color for some odd reason.
After a few seconds, the pink gas itself was soon sucked inward by a lone silhouette of a humanish figure, its height looked like it was on the range of a preteen or early teen kid, judging from the being's silhouette.
Before Long, the pink gas was finally sucked into the being's form, allowing Catherine, Jonny, and the rest of the present company to witness a pink creature that stood on his two legs, dressed in only a white pair of pants and black boots; The creature looked male, and he was sleeping no less.
The entire room was quiet, as well as the siren itself ever since the unknown pink gas was withdrawn into the unknown pink creature. Jonny spoke first with a trembling voice, "Hey…" He whispered, not looking at her, as his eyes transfixed on the sleeping pink creature. "Um…what…should we do…this…I didn't study xenobiology, what is that guy?" he asked.
Catherine glared lightly at Jonny, before looking back at the sleeping creature, "Neither did I!" she hissed back with a whisper.
Before anyone could decide anything however, the creature's eyes opened while his snoring cut off immediately; the pink creature glared at the room with a set of eyes, the black sclera and while pupils glanced around as he stood up from his hunched over position he was sleeping in.
No one said anything as the pink creature looked around, before he began looking at his own hands and body. Did they release some sort of prisoner, what was this creature's story? A whole slew of questions ran through Catherine's mind as the creature began looking around more at the security force aiming their weapons at him.
Majin Kid Buu
I really don't remember anything that led me to having this body, waking up all over sudden was really jarring in this Kid Buu form; I knew I was Kid Buu, cause the floor was close enough and judging by everyone else, I'd pretty much reach only up to their waist or stomach.
Everyone was giving me cautious looks, and to be fair, If I was the real deal, this whole place would be nothing but rubble.
Looking around more to observe my surroundings, I tried to make sense of my situation; I don't remember getting hit by a truck, a car, or anything else, and I certainly don't remember dying or falling asleep…perhaps my memories were a bit jumbled from becoming this form.
It was one of those reincarnation things, and seeing as I was Kid Buu, this wasn't the worst start to whatever this new life of mine was; It would take some serious power to defeat me, but it wasn't like I was going to be an unhinged creature…I mean, I could, but first I need to figure out what to do with this new life of mine…near limitless strength was at my disposable, but at the same time, I don't have the urgent need to fight something…yet.
"You!" One of the security looking guards announced, as he stepped forward aiming a rifle at me, "State your name with your hands up!" he ordered, before a female voice yelled from the platform in the far back.
"Are you crazy, who knows what sort of creature that thing is!" The woman yelled at the security officer, expressing hysteria and anger at the man aiming a gun at me.
I blink at the security guard nonetheless, idly lifting my arm up to clench it open and closed a few times whilst glaring at the man, "Me Buu, me don't like being ordered!" I hissed back, before feeling surprised at the nonsensical way the words came out of my mouth.
I meant to say my name was Buu, and I don't like being ordered around without due cause! Just great, this body had a language filter! I'm going to have to figure out how to fix this soon!
Just as the security guard opened his mouth again, to no doubt order me around, I brought my hand out I was clenching, and flicked my fingers out to test something; the sheer force I flicked out with my fingers, rather than a single finger, caused a blunt force of air to send the security guard's body flying back, and crashed into the wall beside the platform the two scientists looking people were standing on.
The rest of the men of course, began firing their handguns at me, emptying their magazines into my body, the only thing I felt though was them bumping against my skin; while the man I sent crashing into a wall, collapsed to the floor and coughed in pain as he landed on his hands and knees.
"Cease fire you idiots!" The science lady yelled into the intercom, but it was too late as every security officer already ended up clicking their firearm triggers empty of their magazines. Looking up at the female scientist, she wore an average lab coat on, with pens in the breast pocket. She had blue hair with bangs framing her face, while her face was expressing caution and worry.
The other scientist was a male, the man had red hair and freckles with a pair of glasses framing his face, the two looked on with tension.
None said anything, save for one security guard that sounded young and was probably on his first day of the job, "Shit! It's another one of those super powered beings…we freaking brought a super powered freak to our planet!"
…wait, what? Wait, does that mean I'm in a world of Marvel or DC?
The man I flicked off to crash into the far off wall, finally picked himself up, and glared at me, "Great, and it's not like we have superman on speed dial!"
Well that answers my question…but then, who continuity am I in though? I've never read the comics.
Speaking again with an annoyed tone, "Me no freak, you just simple…you dumb dumb to order me." I grouched with a harsh glare at the man that spouted his mouth off at me. I of course meant to say I'm not a freak, humans are just used to seeing the majority of themselves, and that he was an idiot to order me around.
I really needed to broaden this body's vocabulary somehow…perhaps reading books will help.
One month later
Catherine
Beside the initial confrontation her subdivision had with Buu, he was agreeable enough to stay peaceful for the time being…sending officer Gerald into the wall with a flick of his fingers; from what Catherine could understand from Buu's simple speech patterns, he was going easy on the captain.
On the subject matter of Buu's broken english, it seems he was frustrated with his english, and asked help, in exchange for anything they needed from him; Catherine's division of course, was now figuring out what to do with Buu.
They practically brought to Earth an unknown being that calls himself Buu, she of course questioned how he got in the orb; the answers provided from Buu, allowed her and the analysts to paint a decent picture.
Majin Buu, he doesn't remember how he got into the orb, all he knows was that he has existed; what he was doing before his imprisonment in the orb, was beyond Buu's memories, so all Catherine and the others could assume, Buu's extended stay inside the alien artifact, damaged his long term memory.
Then the day happened when Buu wanted to leave the place and experience fresh air, the security and director weren't having it, so every door was locked down; what good that did, Catherine didn't know, as Buu had strength beyond what the doors and walls could defend against.
The director had to pull many strings and favors to not let their Star Labs be put into scrutiny, and gave Buu the means of citizenship through classified means that Catherine was forbidden from asking the director about.
That was fine with her, she didn't want to study another alien artifact for a good while; they already dodged a bullet with the well behaved Majin Buu, but it was also rather…amusing that Buu wanted a job and money.
It…was a rather novel thing to hear a creature summoned from an alien artifact to suddenly ask for work, so that he could buy himself food. At least those books she gave him to read about how the world works helped him know how Earth and its people worked.
As of the moment right now, Catherine was in charge of allowing Buu to stay with her until he could save up enough money for his own living space. Why was she in charge? Well beside the bonus she was getting for looking after a supernatural being they pretty much unleashed from messing with alien tech…really, nothing else besides the money…well maybe too to help the little guy get his english up to snuff. Buu really seemed set on trying to figure out how to live on earth.
Right now, Catherine was exiting out from her room, work clothes on and everything else; she still had a job besides looking after a supernatural creature, since Buu was more than capable of looking after himself…that, and really, who else beside Superman or who else knows could probably stop Buu if he ever broke into a rampage for some random reason?
Right as Catherine entered her living room, Buu entered her home wearing his earth clothes he was given to help blend more in with the populace of earth; Catherine watched as she carried her lab coat over her arm as Buu entered her kitchen with a container of food in his hands. "Bank was robbed…dumb dumb bad men fired at me…" He informed her, mostly likely to tell her why he was a bit later than usual.
As Buu put his fast food meal into the microwave for later, he continued to speak with her, "Held back, but broke bones of dumb dumbs." he scrunched his nose up as he looked over at her, he was getting better with his english, but not too much.
Catherine perked up a bit, and smiled, at least he had a sense of justice.