Saiyans and Pride! A Killer Combo! [Koban/Pride Troopers]

Koban raised an eyebrow as the door to the training room slowly creaked open, to some it might be a bit disconcerting to have such heavy doors open and close without any discernible force behind it but Koban had grown used to the slightly haunted nature of the base, when the door opened and he could not sense anyone immediately near it Koban expanded his senses further and found another signature, it took a moment for Koban to remember who it belonged to but once he did he grinned.

“Thank you friend, it looks like we might have a guest today, try not to spook him too much eh?” Koban asked giving a vague look around the room. The Pride Trooper base was not haunted in the traditional sense, where there was an individual spirit that could actually be tracked down and sensed, instead from what Sam had told him it was as if the entire building had a spirit of it’s own, it had power to an extent but it was the sort of energy that was not easily detected without the right training.

Frankly that was more ideal than the opposite as it would have made sensing where the others were or anyone else in the base rather difficult. Koban received no actual response from the building but took the lack of any sort of negativity as a sort of acquiescence to his request.

With that Koban made his way to the door and just a few moments after Banzo knocked Koban pulled the door open to greet the large saiyan with a friendly grin “Banzo! It’s been a while, I’m glad you swung by when you did, I was doing a bit of training before heading out to do some patrolling.” If the Saiyan had swung by too much later Koban likely would have already been making a pass over the city. “What’s brought you our way? Everything alright?”

Koban’s head tilted to one side in confusion as Banzo gave him a run down of the events, Bella had given him the basics but his injuries had been such that she had kept him off of working on much of anything let alone either of the messes that had happened that day, while Koban was in far better shape now he had focused much of his attention on Satan City’s mess, passing over the information on the other event as mostly unimportant as it had been described as an essentially non-violent affair.

The idea that the WTF might just hand Vegeta back to the Saiyans WAS really very odd, enough that Koban could certainly see why it was Banzo might think it was a mask for the Satan City battle, but it didn’t quite sit right with Koban. It relied on the idea that enough of the Earths strongest defenders would focus on the Arcosian who by all account had not directly threatened the city, people, or planet but instead simply had created a scenario LIKELY to do harm, over a genuine threat.

It really was more bad luck than anything else that had kept so many distracted.

“Mmh, when the blockade was set up I wondered just how prepared the Earth would be for any sort of invasion. The Pride Troopers can really only do so much, especially with some of our numbers occupied with other threats or temporarily out of commission” By Koban’s understanding Sam was dealing with some sort of metaphysical magic-y threat and Tysco was stil not yet out of the hospital.

“I’d hoped the Troopers presence had been enough to kickstart the Earth and while it HAS helped, it’s clearly not enough. I’m just not entirely sure how to go about organizing an entire planet’s defense” Koban said scratching the back of his head, frankly organizing the Troopers was a handful most of the time, it was only because of Bella that things ran anywhere near smoothly. “Especially since I’m only sort-of acquainted with how the Earth really functions in the grander scheme of things” While Koban had been on Earth for a while now his focus had primarily been on establishing the Pride Troopers and building that presence, how Earth’s milltary functioned or anything like that was still quite foreign to him.

Koban was surprised by the revelation that Banzo might be leaving the planet some time in the near future, he supposed it made a certain amount of sense, if Namek DID have the Dragon Balls it opened up a whole lot of options for the Saiyans, and all things considered it was not unlikely that the Namekians would be willing to help with a wish focused on pushing back the World Trade Fleet.

“They don’t, at least not enough that take it seriously enough to pose a threat to the Fleet, maybe against the stock soldiers they have, but against any sort of officer? Or even an Arcosian that’s at least THOUGHT about training?” Koban shook his head sadly, it wasn’t Earth’s fault of course, there culture lacked a warrior’s mindset, they were a peaceful people for the most part a fact Koban loved.

Most who practiced martial arts did it out of passion for the ART or for self defense not simply to prepare themselves for real combat. “What you can do? I don’t really know. I suppose having someone as strong as you around for some training sessions could be good, adding someone new to the training would be great for adding a bit of diversity to keep everyone on there toes” Koban said more thinking aloud than anything else.

Koban chuckled as Banzo brought up how often it was that Earth ended up producing powerful fighters “I think it is just a matter of need, historically power levels tend to be pretty low all over the universe, you have some decently high outliers every now and then but usually not too many. Earth just always seems to get tossed right in the middle of things when stuff gets shaken up galactically” Koban said with an amused shrug “it sorta forces people to push themselves and when Earth get’s pushed it seems it can really push back if it wants.”

“Now we just need it to want it” Koban said with a sigh, he wasn’t quite sure exactly how to go about motivating a populace to action, perhaps though it didnt need anything in particular, perhaps just doing what he did best would be what the people of Earth needed.

As Koban mused on that Banzo seemed struck by insperation for something, before Koban could even ask what it was however Banzo made it clear he wanted to keep it hush hush, by the look in the large man’s eyes it didn’t seem like anything BAD, quite the opposite even so Koban decided not to push on it.

“Well if you need a hand with anything for whatever you have cooking I’m probably willing to lend one. Most of the others are out working or indisposed at the moment so at least for right now you’re stuck with me if you’re interested in any sort of training now” Koban said with a laugh.