When two stars align. (Maruca/Open)

[brandon007]

Having finally returned to Earths orbit, Brandons ship entered as a firey ball in the sky. But lucky, Brandon had gotten used to landings by now, and manually guided his ship to land in the same spot from which he had arrived in this universe. A Crater that his body made, deep in the forest of Yunzabit Heights.

Granted, the landing went smoothly, however he was still unaware that aliens were not wanted on Earth anymore,. But the curiosity of how he made the crater in the first place was all too overwhelming.

The landing gear dropped down as the starship touched down on the barren earth. The loading ranp lowered itself, and Brandon once again stepped out onto the planet he onced called home. "Maybe its time to see how much this planet is really different from what I remember..." He said, as he decided today was a good chance to test out his new Promethean scouter. He slipped the device onto his head, and made sure the connection to his wrist computer was secured. "Whoa, this thing is weird... You sure you calibrated it accurately Aeva?" He said, looking through a strange interface. A Picture of a girl, who Brandon assumed was his AI partne appeared in the corner of his Scouter Hud.

"Positive, Granted the software was a little more different then what Im used to, but I managed." She said to him, as he started to scan for any nearby lifesigns.

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Deep in the forest Maruca had gone for a morning walk. She had been spending the night at the nearby New Crane School run by Master Jorlaxl and his students and had gotten to know a few of the people there the previous day, Eona, a strange man named Toshio, and a robot named Souka. she was still surprised that so many had come to this area when she was in fact trying to hide from Geurin and his goons.

To make matters worse, she felt she had not gotten in enough training recently. Master Jorlaxl had invited to possibly train her when she showed up on his doorstep, but he had been too busy talking with Souka and Toshio about robots. So she had spent her time with Eona talking and doing other things with her in the kitchen and around the school. These conversations had been decent and she had even eventually got to see Toshiro Rei, her student, when he had wandered upon the school. Together they had gone and experienced a new gravity machine she had bought, but honestly to her it had definitely not been a work out since Toshiro was doing all of the struggling while training.

The question was now though had she reached her limit? She pondered this as she looked up into the sky and saw a curious fire ball fall through the air. "So Geurin is up to shooting people down now to avoid having them land on his planet?" She thought. She saw the direction in which the space pod fell and sighed before taking off at a very fast sprint towards its direction. She was glad to be wearing Earth clothing instead of her normal regalia since whatever creature was inside the ship would probably get confused either way.

She skid to a halt as she reached a crater and noticed a man, who was slightly shorter than her get out of his ship. He had black hair with long bangs, completely black pupils and wore a rather dark, jacket and black pants with shoes. "Wow," she thought as she approached the ship. "This guy could be trouble. I might as well do Geurin a favor and lead him away from Earth or the school." She hated helping her enemy, but she thought she saw a scar under his bangs as she approached him directly from the front and got a clear look at him.

"I hate to say this sir, but you must have landed on the wrong planet. Aliens aren't allowed here and since I'm one I know this for a fact. You'll just have to get your ship repaired and leave like me in the next few days. Anyone left here will probably die." She stated. She wanted to make Earth sound threatening and hoped Geurin never carried this out against her or the rest of the KGSF, oh, wait, he already kind of had. Oh well, this guy was probably in trouble she supposed.

[brandon007]

Brandons scouter locked onto Maruca's power signature, as he turned to look at her as she approached. He listened to her words, but her beauty was more then distracting for him, however he did catch a few words that disturbed him. "Aliens not allowed here? Absurd. I have been living here for over 20 years, and I have not heard of such a thing." He said, as he quickly looked her over and smiled softly. She seemed to be roughly around his height, which was curious since most of the women he met are shorter then him. Finally, a girl who was almost as tall as him. "Strange, I will tap into the Earths communication systems, and find out if what she says in true. I have been stuck in that outpost for over a thousand years, and I dont plan to get buried here." He heard his AI say as his Scouter went dark for a while.

Then he remembered Amaranth saying something about staying with someone named Jorlaxl. "Well, I only came to Earth to learn a few things from someone named Jorlaxl." He said, finding himself attracted to the tall woman. While she was a complete strange to him, Brandon felt comfortable around her. The ramp behind him retracted into the ship as the door locked closed behind him as he kept an eye on her. His scouter read that she was alot stronger then him, as he knew he had to tread carefully. "Im Brandon, whats your name?"

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"My name is Maruca Senda, and I know Master Jorlaxl a little. He might be training me a bit before "we", a group I know, intends to leave the planet. I met him only a few hours ago, but he may be busy with the new influx of people You should leave when "we" do if you don't want trouble here." Maruca responded to him. As he stepped off the ship and the ramp retracted she noticed he had a strange device over his eye and was talking to someone or something.

"May I ask what that is..." she asked pointing at his scouter. "If that thing is something used to kill me or others I will have to take you down right now. I'd rather not, but if you intend to mess up this planet before my group leaves it, hm... Actually, Geurin might take care of you so never mind. Just leave if you don't want to be splattered. He won't care if you've lived here twenty years and I don't either." She was confused right now and uncertain of the man before her because he had a villainous look about him due to what he wore, yet he was trying to act nice to her. It put her on the defensive slightly.

She took a step back and bent her knees a little. She was preparing to lunge at him or rush him if she needed to. But as is she felt she could take him. He did not look too strong, although, she was always estimating these things in fights. So she would not know until she tried to attack him. Risks were what her Amazonican heritage was telling her, yet at the same time the Florians were peaceful towards others. It was conflicting that was for sure.

[brandon007]

"Well I had a friend recommend me to train under him until I learn about my past a bit." He said, as he saw her start to get defensive when she pointed out his scouter. "Huh? This? Its just a scouter, with Promethean software." He said, like the term /Promethean\ was supposed to be a common thing. "Its not a weapon, I assure you."

It was then he saw her prep to attack, possibly by instinct. He quickly put his hands up and said "Whoa there sweetie, Im not here to fight. I have fought huge Nameks, and strange Icerians, I dont wanna fight a beauty such as yourself." as he really did want to fight her. He felt too comfortable around her, which slightly confused him. He only felt like that when he was around Ammy, but this girl clearly wasnt her, hence the source of confusion.

The sun soon came above the tress, shining direct sunlight on them both. And much to Maruca's surprise, Brandon hid himself from it in the shade of his ship. "Damn sunlight." he mumbled as he looked back to her. "About not being allowed on this planet, I will have to--" He started to say, but his scouter flipped back to life. "It seems shes telling the truth Brandon. The government has issued orders to the military to dispose of any Non-Human lifeforms on Earth. No idea why." He heard a feminine voice said in his ear. He pressed a finger against the ear piece, as he said to Maruca. "One moment please." He said to her with a smile, as he turned from her for a moment to listen to his AI.

"You sure? That seems a bit extreme, and odd." He said. To Maruca, it would look like the boy was talking into his scouter with someone else. "Positive. If I were you, Id talk to Joraxl, learn what you need, then get the hell out of there." She said, as Brandon nodded and replied "Got it, Ill be quick, I Hope." as he turned to look at Maruca.

"Maruca you said your name was? Its a pleasure to meet you, although I wish it was under better circumstances."

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Maruca kept her body tense while Brandon tried to explain while he was there. If he was here to see Master Jorlaxl based on a reference for training from someone else he shouldn't be too bad, yet that robot guy who had come in had a bad attitude. He talked about the device over his eye being some kind of scouter with a technology or software installed into it. She had this kind of thing on her ship so this was not too bad either. Although, her software was probably different than his. He assured her it was not a weapon though either.

The strange thing is when he started talking about creatures called Icerians and Namekians. He had fought some of them before? She had no idea what Icerians were specifically, yet surely, these Namekians he had fought were tough for him. Maruca had fought one Namekian via Geurin and had nearly died doing so. How strong was this guy? He could still be a threat.

He started to complain about the sunlight and spoke into his device which was informing him about the situation on Earth. It must have had the ability to pick up radio signals. Maybe TV channels too. The way he was going about doing this and everything he had done was quite leisurely though. Being relaxed must have meant he was extremely strong. She would have to throw him up against Nam and see how he fared.

She relaxed her knees and stood up straight again finally, having process everything else he wanted to say, and seeing he was ready to focus on her again. She gazed at him and said, "Yes, that's my name, but I don't know yours. I guess I don't need to. I'm not trusting you one bit, so I'm going to take you right here and now and drag you by the ear back to someone who could help me out."

She gave him a smile before exuding a little of her ki. A wavy image was left where she stood before she rushed around to his back side and attempted to grab both of his wrists with her hands and lock them together. She would stop this possible threat if he tried to move against her. She could not believe he was anything but that still considering he was standing before her, gathering information on the planet, and had lived on it twenty years yet had randomly showed up here in a space ship. There must have been a strong reason he left and he wanted to leave and then come back. He could only be an alien, and as an alien he was threat to the Earth. Maruca had thought about things for a while over Geurin. And one thing she knew was that undisclosed space travel was an issue. Even on Amazonica people she was certain came to her planet despite Saiyan threat without telling anyone.

[brandon007]

"Im not going anywhere, unless its a place I want to go." He said after hearing her plans for him. It wasnt pleasing in the slightest. She wanted to go with brute force right off the bat? He was impressed with her already as he saw her image flicker. But his scouter tracked something new. Rapid movement. "Spin and extend arms!" He heard his Ai say just as his scouter said tha Maruca was behind him.

Spinning on a dime, he whirled around, whipping his wrists out fof her reach, and extended his arms on each side of her head, placing his palms against his ship hull, with Marcua inbetween them. She could either duck and escape, or attack at such a close range. "Got ya!" He said with a sly grin. Maruca could see that for an alien, Brandon would have nice teeth. "My, your eyes are gorgeous." He said, his cheeks turning a bit red as he suddenly felt a small shock on his ear.

"Pay attention Brandon!" Aeva said to him, loud enough that Maruca could also hear her. Brandon shook his head, and glared at his 'attacker'. "Yes well, if I am going anywhere, it will be of my own free will. You want to fight, Ill be more then happy to oblige ya. But I have one rule when it comes to fighting women like you... No killing." He said, still smiling as Maruca could see small arcs of electricty sparking near his ears. It would see that the boy had tricks up his sleeve that would make him a dangerous opponent.

"So what will it be? Do we take the easy way, or the hard way?" He asked, staring right into her eyes.

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Maruca was not surprised when he sought to disobey her notionns and spun around to try and meet her. He pushed his arms out and around her head and placed them on the side hull of his ship. Maruca stopped when he saw him smile at her and lowered her arms. He was giving her a smile of all things now? And what was with the comment? He shouldn't be doing anything like that with someone he had just met. Maruca shook her head as his AI told him to pay attention and caught word of his name. She could see electricity flowing around his ears and it made her frown. He really was going to fight back.

"Brandon, I hate to say this, but I think I'm possibly going to go the hard way with you. You don't seem like much in the threatening mood today, yet somehow I think you are." Maruca crossed her arms and pouted. How would she get out of this? It was then she realized she was standing on the ground. There was plenty she could do and since he wished to embarrass her like this or try to. She would give him 150% embarrassment back. He was being rather stupid right now. She could tell he was hitting on him kind of. It would have been nice if she weren't on such an increasingly hostile planet with a stranger.

She raised her left knee up to her chest and balanced carefully on one foot. Before pushing the limits of her normal strength in the muscles into her leg. It was time to flip and launch this play boy alien into the air. He was annoying her. Her power increased to 47,315 units of energy as she slammed her foot down on the ground before Brandon. The ensuring stomp would probably be too fast or too powerful for him to see or block she hoped and by launching him into the air she could finish this fight rather quickly. She only hoped it did not kill him. He had a tremendous amount of questioning still to go through before Maruca decided whether she could maybe drag him along with her to see the KGSF so they could finally leave the planet. Their stay here was far from welcome here anymore. And the increased number of aliens showing up here, like Brandon, well, actually there had not been any recently, but that was the whole point of her hostility it was time to go.

[brandon007]

Brandon was indeed unprepared for the sudden assault, as he was kicked up into the air. "Whoa!" He said, sensing himself airborne. He saw that Marcua kicked pretty hard, as he went up higher and higher. His chest hurt from the kick, though he was amazed at how agile she was.

However, electricty wasnt the only thing he could use. A Strong wind suddely blew through their area, mainly directed at Brandon as he stopped flying backwards, and suddenly seemed to hover in mid air. The boy could control the wind as well, shocker.

"Ok, time to get a bit serious." He said, as ice started t form on his feet and hands. The sudden weight increase was too much for the wind to keep him hovering, as he came crashing into the ground, creating a good sized cloud of dust in the air. He smirked to himself as he started to walk towards her, out of the cloud.

It was then she could see that Brandon was covered, head to toe in electrified ice. Granted, the armour looked rather heavy, and it was. As Brandon seemed to walk a bit slower then the average person, he stopped when he was outside the cloud. He extended a hand towards her, and gestured her to come at him. It was as if he was taunting her to attack him directly as electricity in the amour seemed to gather around one of his fists.

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Maruca admired her powerful kick as she watched Brandon fly through the air. Unfortunately, her glee stopped when she noticed he was floating in the air. "Fast recovery..." she thought.

A chill went through the air as the temperature suddenly dropped and Brandon walked out of a cloud of dust covered in ice. The ice was carved into the shape of body armor and electricity surged all around him. "What a weird person you are..." she stated. "I actually think I might want to continue this fight since weird people interest me from time to time." She noticed he was already beckoning her towards her and she knew that this might be a good time to train her close combat skills more. She had trained them with Nam, but she still did not feel comfortable with her skills.

She ran towards Brandon and leaped a foot off the ground before sticking out her right leg to perform a flying side kick towards the cent of his torso. "How old are you Brandon!" she cried as she sailed through the air with her foot out. "I'm 367 years old this year. I'm probably not your type."

[brandon007]

"Hmhmhm..." He said in a hushed laugh. Weird was he? Well, she had seen nothing yet of what he was capable of.

He saw her rush in with a kick. He tried to block her attack, but his armoured slowed him down the point here his arm missed, but luckily, his armour did the blocking for him, absorbing most of the impact as it cracked. "Ha! If ya wanna hurt me, you gotta do better then that!" He said, laughing at her attempt, as he didnt know her foot cracked his armour.

"Im around 25 years of age...But Luckily, We Darklings dont age as fast as normal people!" He said, as he sent his electrified fist at the only thing he had access to at that time. Her leg, or more precisely , her knee. The energy on his fist screamed like a dragon as his fist soared towards her knee, as he hoped that he could temporarily disable her.

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Maruca could feel her foot crack his armor under a great deal of pressure caused by the impact of the bottom of her foot. This kind of strength surprised her and should have sent him flying, but it did not because the moment she kicked him she felt a surge of electricity surge through her leg. She kicked out her other foot and used it to rebound quickly by doing pushing off very hard against his torso. She flew backwards and hardly caught the answer she was looking for to her comments before she hit the ground and skidded on her back.

"Don't talk and fight..." she told herself. The pain caused by the electricity really hurt so she decided to change things up. She stood up from the ground unsteadily and voiced, "Look Brandon, I'm sorry to attack you out of the blue like this, but you sound like a young guy, so how about we stop fighting before I kill you." She really felt if she wanted to win against him she would have to use her full power. She just had no idea how much difference in strength there was between them, if she did she would have started throwing him about like a rag doll if she could despite the pain. That was the best way to get someone as strange and dark as him to talk right? That's how Florians treated their enemies, if he could be counted as one.

[brandon007]

Brandon stopped in his tracks as his ice armour cracked more from the previous impact, and finally shattered, making a pile of ice pieces at his feet. "You, kill me? Sounds more like your giving up. But apology accepted." He said as he took a deep breath, and gently expelled his stored up energy in the form of a white mist.

"Im glad I dont have to fight ya. I could of really hurt you, and I didnt want that." He said. He didnt know how powerful this beautiful woman was, but he had a feeling, that if she was as powerful as she was beautiful, he could of been in real trouble if he had pissed her off enough. "So whats the matter? You dont like young hot guys?" He asked, as if teasing her. To see her react to his teasing seemed to be more satisfying then beating someone to a pulp.

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"I probably am giving up..." Maruca answered him with a shrug. "But only because it might seem pointless to kill you now maybe. I mean you've made some strange, non-aggressive comments, so I'm still having mixed feelings on you, and yes, I do like hot guys, but maybe not you yet."

She bent down and began to rub her thigh on right leg it. It still felt as though electricity was going through even though Maruca knew she was not near a source of it anymore. It was slightly painful and hoped that her entire leg did not start swelling. She should have really gone and fought him at full power she felt if she were going to really fight him. She had hoped to start fighting him to draw out his true reasons for being on Earth, but after having attacked him she realized that was stupid of her since he would be too busy defending himself from potential injury and she would too. Civilized talk was the only way maybe and that definitely felt to be true based on how she had crushed his ice armor in one kick. Perhaps her pain was coming from having touched his armor too long with her bare foot? Florians hated the cold.

[brandon007]

Brandon gave her a confused look. Mixed feelings? When did he ever give her the impression that he was hostile? Strange. He then dusted off a piece of ice on his shoulders as he smiled at her. "I dont know how I gave ya mixed feelings. Im a good guy, once you get to know me better." He said, as he rubbed his side, where her boot had impacted the armour. He lifted up his shirt, and it showed a nice bruise, along with some nasty looking battle scars. "Heh, You got a good kick Marcua." He said as he put his shirt down.

"So anyways, you said you wanted me to meet someone? Ya know, the person you were gonna drag me by the ear to see? Who is this person?" He asked, a bit curious as to whom she was referring to.