I immediately regret posting that because that felt like it had so many errors in it but I can’t just keep it in my drafts forever-- I kept rewriting it from scratch and I need to get at least some of Mysteria’s backstory out soooo
Enjoy? I dunno.. if that’s the right word to say in this situation???
Mysteria let out a sigh as her ki blast tore through the Oozaru that had appeared in the middle of West City, shaking her hand to try and relieve the sting of her sore body. She could hardly keep up with all of this and it was only getting worse by the day...
at this rate...
She was brought out of thought by the cheering crowd below, blinking in astonishment at the sheer number. They must have been hiding once the giant monster had appeared. Mysteria definitely didn’t expect any of this, nor the wide smiles and laughing people all around. It was such a stark contrast to their bleak environment that she almost felt like she got whiplash just thinking about it.
Just Mysteria was about to brush off the praise and be on her way, she felt tiny digits wrap around one of her own. Glancing down, she saw a small child fit to burst into tears right then and there. A twinge of pain wracked her chest as she crouched down to be closer to the small face, placing a hand atop their head and forcing a wide smile across her face.
“Hey, there’s no need to cry. When I’m done, everything will be good as new, alright?” the saiyan said, hoping to calm the girl.
Behind tears, the young girl before her nodded their head, though it still seemed to do little to stop her crying. Slightly miffed, Mysteria stood and glanced about to see if she could find why. Sure enough, her eyes stopped at a hunched over woman sobbing as they tried lifting rubble from a pile. A brief flash of confusion hit her, before the spark of realization had her there in an instant to help.
Unlike the woman, it wasn’t a strain to lift the heavy chunks, tossing them aside on the road where she was sure nothing would get hurt by it. After several massive hunks of rubble were removed, she could see the tiles of the building’s previous ground floor and--
Her body went cold, unable to tear her eyes away. She didn’t even need to figure out what she was seeing herself. No, the mother’s redoubled cries of anguish did it for her... but she couldn’t move. Mysteria’s muscles locked at the horrible sight before her. She was fighting back the urge to scream at this, only stopped from this when she remembered the other child.
Connecting the dots, it made the woman feel ill, the large chunk of rock in her hand being flung hard as a result rather than going to the pile on the street. Her efforts redoubled, she lifted the rest of the rubble in one mighty heave-- seeing one of the bystanders doing what she was about to ask of them and retrieving the body for the grieving mother.
Tossing the rubble aside, she couldn’t meet the mother’s eye as she turned away. She, however, didn’t even need to see the look on the woman’s face to know... it was her fault. She hadn’t gotten here in time to save them all. She was the one that was to blame. Mysteria grit her teeth, letting a long exhale slide between the pearly whites while she tried to calm herself.
All of this had to be stopped.
Once she felt calm enough, Mysteria dared a glance over her shoulder just in time to catch the man that was about to speak to her.
“This... thing...” they began, obviously having trouble coming up with the words, “something similar happened quite some time ago. Never to this degree but--”
“Out with it,” Mysteria hissed, unable to suppress her anger about this whole event.
“--right, right.. The.. Demon King Piccolo. Ages ago, he terrorized the world and threatened to bring all under his heel..”
“This is important.. why?”
“W-Well, my brother says he saw a man looking like them Southward and--”
Before he could finish, the saiyan was already barreling through the skies. She already got the information she needed and she couldn’t stand the way she felt. At least now she knew where to look next. She had to stop this.. Piccolo.
You're not the only person whose future and timeline were ruined. Stop being such a baby and move on.
“Congratulations, other timelines were ruined. Makes me feel a whole lot better about the children I got to see die firsthand, that person I had to put out of their misery, or even the gaping hole that was put through my chest. I feel so much better now.”
The shriek that emanated from Shuushinchuu had to’ve been audible for miles around (especially considering the acoustics granted by being in a wasteland-type area, bereft of foliage that would’ve dampened and swallowed up sound). She reached up, pale fingers threading through orange hair, and made as if to tug it sharply. She, the woman, she had been trying to, to, to get rid of the dragon balls?!
“Why on earth would you do that?! Don’t you know what the dragon balls are used for? You- you can’t just destroy them!”
“What they’re used for?”
There wasn’t much of a response for this, a twinge of anger crossing her face before she quickly bottled that up before it had time to surface fully.
“Go on, tell me what they’re used for.”
With that, she swept her arms around to the barren streets and rubble of various dilapidated buildings all around. There was an occasional human among them, though they’d quickly hide behind something if Shuu glanced in even their remote general direction. There was hardly any signs of plant-life in the slightest, save on occasional tuft of grass daring to sprout from the wastelandish area.
“Considering they’re what caused this, I don’t exactly feel like my anger is unwarranted. Especially since I was told they couldn’t fix what they’d done.”
Due to the state Earth is in, Mysteria hasn’t gotten a proper meal in ages-- at least for full-blooded Saiyans. She’s basically going on what would be considered bare minimum for us to maintain some semblance of fitness.
She also hardly gets any sleep that isn’t just her body shutting down. There’s distortions bringing Hell onto Earth everywhere and the only living people of any notable power is Piccolo. As such, she’s always too antsy to sleep until she literally passes out from exhaustion.
These, of course, are prominent reasons as to why she’s also basically capped her power growth. She cannot actually take care of herself well enough in order to grow. The only way she’ll do such is with a Zenkai Boost.
The blast had been aimed at her, at the small orb on the ground, and considering the force it was likely it would have shattered it if it had connected. She was lucky she had been able to jump aside quite literally, body forming around herself before she jerked to the side.
“Wha- HEY!” Red eyes stared at the blast impact before she turned to glare (metaphorical) daggers at the source of the blast. “What the hell are you thinking?!”
This was it. She was getting rid of these damn things and calling it a day. She’d been carrying this thing around since she found it again but it was time to just do away with it. They were far more trouble than they were useful.
Well, imagine her surprise when she saw someone seem to just.. appear where the Dragon Ball had been.
“W-Well.. getting rid of the Dragon Balls..?”
She stumbled through the sentence, still trying to process what was going on. Sure, that Omega Shenron thing was made from Dragon Balls but didn’t seem to be the case here. She didn’t seem like a monster dragon.. thing.
The blasts clash in the air, quaking the ground below with the impact…! The blasts hold position for a moment, then, ever so slowly, the center of the beam creeps back towards the great ape…
As the Saiyan fended off the four others, she glanced toward the clashing beams struggle for dominance. Damn, whoever that was really was strong if they could actually fight back head on against a Great Ape’s beam.
“Alright, let’s give this a shot!” She let out a brief burst of ki to make the ones around her stumble before collecting it into her hand.
“Ka..me..ha..me..”
“HAA!”
Firing off the immense beam, it collided with the massive creature’s back and broke its concentration. Staggering forward, there wasn’t enough time to recover before the two beams on either side of it connected.
She was done being underestimated by this woman. Ki explodes from the Majin, a staggering power quite quickly emanating from her and leaving no debate to her strength.
“LET’S GO!”
Oona rockets straight at the Great Ape with no hesitation, ready to take it down…!
Damn, that was a lot of power..! She hadn’t expected that much from the stranger, but she wasn’t one to be outdone either.
“Alright, fine..”
She cracked her knuckles, flying for the four Saiyans that had taken notice of them thanks to the duo’s power. The Great Ape fired a beam from it’s maw at the pink one and the four Saiyans, Bardock included, were swarming Mysteria.
Well that didn’t add up. He should have died with Planet Vegeta, so how would he be here. Unless ‘Hell on Earth’ meant reviving the dead?
“Hm. All right, lead the way, then.”
“You know him or something?”
She frowns at this, wondering why the other would know the name. Regardless, she begins flying in the direction she last saw them.. only to groan when she spots a Great Ape in Saiyan armor in the distance.
“Welp, they definitely came back... though now just one of them is throwing a tissy, at least..”
Literally all the other Saiyans she knows try to kill her. She met Vegeta once and he beat the ever-loving fuck out of her in a tournament with the denizens of Hell. Oh, Nappa was there too.
‘Hell on Earth?’ Oh boy. That only raised more questions… but, it did explain the state of things. Maybe Oona could help out for a bit…
“Here.”
She tosses a capsule over to the saiyan.
“Press the button, let the mist from the capsule fall onto you. Should help a bit. After that, let’s see if we can’t do something about some of those friends of yours, all right?”
The saiyan catches the capsule, quirking a brow as she hesitantly pressed the button. A moment later, she blinks a few times when she suddenly felt at least mostly rejuvenated.
“Oh, I didn’t know Capsule Corp made senzu capsules..”
Well, they did have some strange tech she didn’t know of.. and they weren’t even human...
Good grief, what a ki! Far past the average warrior, for sure… these saiyans she was dealing with must be quite something. Either way, Oona wasn’t too worried, she should be able to manage just about anything this timeline could toss at her…
“All right… well… what’s the ordinary, then? I’m… not exactly from around here.”
The pink skin and black eyes may have been a hint towards that.
What was the norm? Well, that wasn’t really a question she expected to be asked. Most everyone in the universe seemed to know of Earth’s predicament lately.. which left her even more exhausted when they came as well.
“Well, I mean... Hell on Earth. Literally. Some days it might be just a few straggler lowlifes and other times I’m dealing with more tail than I ever wanted to see.”
A joke. Granted, that was more to take her mind off the exhaustion and potentially cracked rib. She wasn’t sure. It would heal, likely.
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