Expanding Horizons [INVITE]

It was a work day for Nero which meant Pankaa either got to chill out with the neighbours around their apartment, or go out with his still rather new babysitter bot, Care. He hadn't gotten to go out too often yet in his new suit or with Care but every time he had it had been a mini fun adventure! And while he still tended to go out with Nero mostly, today wouldn't be the same case, today he was on his own-- Aside from the android babysitter that is of course, free to wander around for a bit while Nero was at work, if anything went wrong then Care of course could call the Saiyan at any given time, which helped give the rather carefree Pankaa a sense of security, even as he tried to hop around the city in his funky cooling suit.

Time passed by though, quickly at that and it wasn't long till the Avali found himself feeling both hungry, and also wanting to see Nero again, he knew he worked with pancakes but not exactly where he worked with them. So he'd explore around with the compacted Care following close behind. Looking up at each store as he passed, earning some looks from other people walking by thanks to his size and the suit he was in, but he didn't seem to mind or notice. Eventually his searching would pay off too as he came along a line of food stores, including one that seemed to do pancakes. The choice was obvious, he'd go for the pancake place obviously, not just because Nero worked at one but also cause it was how he earnt his name!

He'd point up at the door to Care and say, "Ee?" To ask to be let in, but the robot shook its head though, but Pankaa wasn't taking no for an answer when it came to pancakes! After a few hops for the door handle, and despite Care's protests, The avali managed to snag the handle enough to get the door to open slightly before then pushing on it to let himself inside. Seeming pretty proud of himself for getting the door open on his own while the robot made an electronic grumbling noise behind him as it followed, Pankaa took a look around the place. Everyone and everything was so much taller then him and at first it made him bundle up a little bit out of fear. But he wanted those pancakes...

He'd look around for something familiar, anything would do! That's when he caught sight of something blue, or more, someone blue, Nero wore blue! Blue must be friendly and good. Pankaa decided to approach the blue being, giving a gentle tug to the bottom of Nashi's right pant leg. He knew this individual was not Nero despite the blue, there were many differences. He'd then point at himself while looking up at him, "Pankaa!" He'd smile beneath the helmet, and despite the visor, his face was clear and easy to see through it. He'd then point up at the counter and to the menu he could hardly see at his height, "Up up?" He hoped he wasn't too hard to understand, sometimes at home he had to try and explain things more then once for Nero too, but his height made it a bit easier at what he was trying to say, he needed a bit of a boost to see the menu! Blue was a clever colour, he was sure anyone wearing this much blue would work it out for sure!

When Nashi spotted him, Pankaa would give a big smile and stomp his little feet on the spot excitedly, clenching his tiny hands into fists as he shook them up and down as well to show that excitement. He was very small and very hard to miss sometimes but thankfully he had been noticed! Blue really was a clever colour!
The other boy then brought up pancakes, and while Pankaa had been meaning to say his name, it was also what he called pancakes the first time he'd seen them. He had also pointed to the menu as well so Nashi wasn't exactly wrong to think he might've meant pancakes as well. To clarify so the blue boy knew he meant to introduce himself since it was polite to, the Avali would point at himself again with both of his little hands and then repeated; "Pankaa!" He'd then throw his hands up in excitement while giving a playful sort of bounce on the spot, his tail bounding around behind him "Pankaa me!"

Nashi did get that he wanted to be picked up though, and Pankaa would carefully hop onto his hands after he put them together after having knelt down. It was certainly a bit different to how he was used to being picked up and he was glad his clawed feet were covered by soft boots instead for the moment, so he didn't risk accidentally scratching his new friend. The other boy then lifted him up, standing back up again with the Avali still on his hands. Pankaa at first gave an excited chirp of a noise, lifting his hands out to help himself balance better, with his arms up high enough the mesh that protected his arm wings from the Earth's atmosphere would form out more to better show he even had them in the first place. Once the Avali's first hand excitement passed though, he then became a little shaky when he looked down and realized how high up he was, for most it was hardly much height at all, but for Pankaa it was high enough to be at least a bit scary! He'd let off an unsettled sound, which sounded a bit like the mumbling coo of a pigeon more then anything else, before he'd then steadily turn and move carefully instead to sit on Nashi's shoulders, he was a surprisingly good climber and did his best to not grab onto anything that might hurt like the blue boy's ears.

Once he felt more steady and stable at that height he'd look back to the menu and listen to Nashi as he spoke up again. Apparently he had gotten a blueberry one and asked if Pankaa wanted to share or if he wanted something different. "Buu Bewwy!" He'd exclaim, before blowing a raspberry. That was another berry he knew! The Avali had an idea, he may end up needing Care's help say it, first though came the question of where his parents where and his first reaction to this was to flatten his ears back and look aside, his bubbly smile being replaced with the total opposite. "Uh" He'd then perk back up a little and fiddled with his hands, "Newo's worky" He'd then settle with as an explanation. Deciding to try and say it first before getting Care to help, Pankaa would then look back to the menu and point again, holding up two of his gloved claws with his other hand "Two? Two Pankaake and share?" He'd ball his hands into fists again and shake them excitedly, trying to pick another flavour aside from the already picked blueberry. "Mable!!" He'd decide on, letting off a few excited cheeps after having picked something, if they were sharing two different flavours then maybe Nashi's situation of ordering something he didn't really like was somewhat fixed, or at least it would be if he liked maple syrup.

Pankaa shortly after realized that he had mentioned his name but hadn't given the other boy time to say his! So he'd promptly turn to look more at him and ask, "Name?" Hoping he wasn't beyond asking at a still polite time to!

Well Nashi wasn't wrong, he did like pancakes... But still! He'd have to try and get his name across in some other way. He couldn't be too upset though, he was still getting pancakes and he wasn't being completely misunderstood either, it was progress even if only a little.

"Eee!" Pankaa would nod and shake his fists in an excited manner again, when the blue boy repeated 'Blue berry', still atop Nashi's shoulders. He wasn't sure why the word was repeated but it excited him anyway, Blueberry! Yes!
Shortly after Nashi repeated the two pancakes comment too, causing the little one even more excitement, was he excited about the thought of them getting two pancakes? Or was it because Nashi understood what he had tried to say without any help from Care to explain it? Probably a bit of both, either way he was a wiggling ball on Nashi's shoulder at this point. "Two!! Two!!" He wasn't too sure what the next phrase from the other boy meant but he liked the way the first word sounded, so he repeated it, "Heck!"

Soon enough, Nashi would fill in the part about his name and Pankaa would look up at him for a moment in a pause, there was a sound in the other boy's name that was still rather hard for the young Avali to say at the moment, "Nachi!" Oh well, he tried! 'Nachi' had asked him for his name though too, causing the boy to look around for a moment before lightly tapping at the robot that had followed him into the shop and quietly had shifted itself into being able to fit on the back of Pankaa's suit. Once tapped on, the robot, which looked to be like some sort of caregiver robot, would unfold and float nearby, keeping its legs together to do so. "Pankaa me!" He'd repeat to the robot, who seemed to know what that meant after a second or two and promptly it'd say and also write out what it was saying on the TV on it's chest to translate. "[His name is Pankaa!]" Hopefully that cleared up the name troubles! Care would then promptly put themselves back 'away' on Pankaa's suit back once more.

The avali then found himself being softly placed down onto a table top, and he'd sit and stay there as Nashi went to go order, though he wasn't sure how he got to the conclusion of a tree but Pankaa would laugh and clap his hands anyway "Heheh! Tee!"

Nashi was so incredibly fast at going to order and at coming back to the table, that Pankaa had barley started to even get up by the time he got back and seeing him back so quickly made the avali wobble his arms a little in surprise as he finally did get to his feet. It was rather soft but he would let off a surprised bird-like sound at it. It would seem that despite the confusion, he did end up getting the maple syrup pancake anyway and that now they only had to wait. But waiting was boring! When Nashi sat down at the table, Pankaa would waddle over to him and get to a close distance, but not an uncomfortably close one, before then pointing at Nashi's ears while perking up his own ones, all four of them at that, "Eee?" Nero didn't have ears like that, neither did Russe and he hadn't gotten to meet many people aside from the two saiyan's and Nero's neighbours so naturally he was curious.
Just who was this kind friend he had made exactly?

When Nashi asked if he actually wanted pancakes or was just trying to tell him his name, Pankaa laughed lightly, what a silly blue boy! "Both!" He'd smile and clap his hands again, glad that Nashi had eventually worked it out though. One day he'd work out how to say "Pancake" and "Pankaa" differently enough to not cause others confusion like he had with this. "Hungy for Pancaake!"

Plopping himself down into a sitting position atop the table again, the Avali tilted his head lightly as he listened to the other boy explain his ears. They were blue, he was blue and they were like a cat, cause he was a cat, or was at least sort of a cat. "Buu Cat!" He was learning so many words from this new friend, it was fun! Pankaa's ears were more of an orange and brown, because he was orange and brown! It made a lot of sense thanks to how Nashi put it. What a clever cat! Putting his small clawed hands onto the visor of his helmet, Pankaa would try to point to his eyes, "Buu!" His eyes were blue, or at least sort of were, so that was cool, right? As for the species part, the small bird would tap his gloved claws together, thinking for a moment, "Abali" He meant to say "Avali" since he knew what he was, but the "v" was still a tricky little letter!

Eventually their pancakes were brought over and Nashi would move the blueberry one to himself before moving the maple syrup one to Pankaa, who seemed to almost vibrate from how excited he was to be having a pancake. He'd nod to Nashi's question before then pausing a moment, and then pointing at his own pancake, and then to Nashi, "Half?" He'd ask, motioning a line down his pancake, Nashi had been kind enough to get it for him afterall, if he wanted half, Pankaa could share.

Potentially sharing aside, the Avali couldn't eat anything with his visor in the way, so he'd reach back and clip in two buttons on either side of his helmet, which made it retract back into itself and into the back of his suit, keeping only a support for the back of his head. He'd shake his head lightly and wiggled his ears for a moment, blinking a few times. Pankaa knew he couldn't keep his helmet off for long though, he had a timer to stick to until the Earth's air started to effect him again. But for now he wanted to enjoy that pancake!

As Nashi ate each individual blueberry, Pankaa would tear off little pieces of his own pancake, dunk them in the excess syrup that was oozed all over his plate, and then began to nibble and bite at the bit he tore off. He was only a little guy so even the smallest bits of the pancake seemed big for him, but he was going to do his best to eat as much of it as he could anyway. He wasn't always the best with words or phrases, but being around Nero had taught him quite a few of them, even ones he was still learning the sounds of in full, he knew manners, or at least knew them a little bit, so before fully getting into the pancake he'd pipe up again, "Thank you Nachi!" Well he almost got it fully right, at least he got his thanks in!

When Nashi complimented the colour of his eyes after Pankaa had pointed out that his were blue, the young avali would smile and hide his face a little shyly behind his tiny hands for a moment, which didn't really hide much since they were so small in comparison to his head, but they could cover his eyes well enough and if he couldn't see you then you clearly couldn't see him, right? Yeah, that's how it worked!

When the brief shyness washed away though he'd remove his hands and be see-able once more, and just in time too since Nashi had figured out what Pankaa meant by 'half' and started clicking his fingers in response. This caused the younger boy to laugh lightly at the sounds, he'd seen Nero click his fingers before too usually when doing finger guns but the blue boy was doing it a bunch! Eventually the clicks did more then just noise and motions though, activating what looked like some sort of blade, which was of course blue in colour. The blade did some slicing and eventually they had a trade of halves, which made Pankaa clap together his tiny hands and nod eagerly. Nashi had done it! "Aa!" He'd squeak excitedly as he looked to the finger that the blade had come from, how did Nashi get it? Could Pankaa learn to do the same? Is the blade always blue or was it only blue because Nashi is? There were so many questions but they were a bit too complex for him to properly ask right now and he didn't want to take up a bunch of Nashi's time just to ask about a blade.

While the blue boy mixed and mashed his words, the Avali didn't seem to mind too much and gave him a sort of encouraging smile, as if to say he knew Nashi would get it eventually and after a bit of trying he settled for something simpler. Pankaa would tweet some soft, happy chirps as he sat down and started to dig into the pancake halves he now had on his plate, opting to use his little hands despite how much the little robot with him seemed to protest about it, insistently pointing to use the knives and forks provided but they were all a bit too big for Pankaa!

After a moment of eating though he'd set the part he'd been eating away at back down just before the helmet he had on before snapped back around his face and head, protecting him from the planet's heat again since he'd been out in it long enough. The avali would place his hands on the bottom of the helmet to find comfort in it being there to protect him before looking to Nashi again. "Nachi f..F-Family?" He'd ask in a similar fashion to how Nashi asked about Pankaa's parents earlier on. The kid still seemed to have a bit of trouble with 'f's but that word in particular was one he was more used to saying by now.

It wasn't hard to guess why he got his new name from pancakes whenever it came down to this kid getting his hands on some, after a few smaller bites he started to dig in a bit more and take bigger pieces on, eating a similar sort of fashion to that of a saiyan almost at this point. Probably had something to do with being around one very often as he was being raised by one. He loved his pancakes and that much was very obvious.

Nashi was certainly still faster at eating then Pankaa though as he much bigger then the young Avali and could fit more in at one time, he also spent his time chewing and enjoying the flavours, especially when it came to the syrup part of the pancake, that was his favourite!

Pankaa would listen as Nashi answered the question provided, slowing his bites so that he made sure he caught each word, thankfully his new blue friend did understand what he'd asked too! The avali would smile hearing that they were all safe and well and nodded to let the other boy know he understood what had been said. "Ma" and "Pa" were certainly much easier words to say then dad and mum, he'd be saving those for later for sure if he ever needed to use them in the future. "Safe good!"

For a moment or two Pankaa seemed to cast glances to where the workers of the establishment would be, behind the counter, around the tables. But there was no luck on finding Nero and he seemed lightly disappointed by this, letting out a light sigh. At least he was with a new friend though! He wondered how proud Nero might be of him for making a friend today.

Eventually the young avali finished up on his pancakes, the one half he'd received from Nashi was certainly new to him but he seemed to enjoy it nonetheless and finished it in the same amount of time as the other one. When he finished he would stand back up and swing his arms back and forth a little bit before giving a little bounce of excitement from on top of the table, balling his hands into fists. "Play?" His feathers fluffed up from beneath his suit as he'd let off a light but very happy chirping noise in his excitement. For someone so small he sure had a lot of energy!

The young avali would do his best to keep his excitement down a little bit at least for Nashi's sake until the other boy had finished eating his pancakes too, double checking his own plate to make sure he'd finished off all of his own food. However his excitement peaked back up and he did laugh lightly at Nashi's finishing gulp. "Tag! Hide n Seek!" Pankaa would respond with after being asked what game he likes, "Anything fun!" In his excitement he'd become unbalanced enough from his little bounces that he ended up toppling and falling back into a sitting position atop the table with a soft 'thud' which only seemed to make him laugh more rather then become upset.

"Park! Yeah! Let's go park!" The avali would chirp happily, throwing his little arms up into the air again in his excitement, making the wing flaps of his suit unfold to follow along his wing feathers. "Do you know where park is?"