Crag Climbing (Open)

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It was rare that Korla left the confines of the Capital, it was really the closest place to a ‘safe zone’ for her that existed here on Vegeta. She lacked much in the way of useful data on how the Saiyans had warped and distorted Plant in the years since the war and she ultimately wanted to take as little chance of running into any more Saiyans than was entirely necessary. That of course left her with only a few places to go to, the ‘Destron Crags’ were however one of those places.

Not exactly ‘safe’ by any definition these mountains had once been beautiful peaks dotted with research centers devoted to a wide variety of Tuffle sciences, some were of course for weapons testing, the peaks were devoid of much in the way of natural life and what little did exist were easily sent away with robot patrols.

At some point after she had been ‘put away’ during the Saiyan’s assault it seemed the Saiyans had lay siege to these centers and in doing so had unleashed horrors upon the world, Destron Gas, Korla had only heard vague rumbleings about it, intended to cut the legs out from under the Saiyans as the gas was made to attack beings like Saiyans that constantly radiated powerful energy.

Korla found that the more ‘normal’ strains that lingered in the city and even out in the ‘Crags’ were thankfully not exceptionally attracted to her, perhaps because she was a Tuffle? Or perhaps because the gas had become inert over the years, why exactly she was unsure but her present mission was to delve into the lower parts of the crags in search of one of the research centers, to see if perhaps anything useful remained.

Part way through her climb she heard voices and groaned expecting to see a Saiyan fly down, what she got instead however was a strange alien being, with a flick of her wrist Korla created her blaster though she did not take immediate aim at the intruder “Whoever you are with is right, this place is not safe and toxic to most life”

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Aya smiled as they shook "Hi Anny! Anny's a nice name!" although as the interruption came by Korla- it spooked her, she jumped a bit when she spoke as she didn't hear her coming. The addition of the blaster didn't particularly help. Why was she here? Is there a reason? "Are you the guardian of this place?" she asks raising her hands, looking about. As she looked upon the various crags where some were filled with an ominous looking gas. She began lowering her arms as she muttered "everything's so dead... There's no life..." That sent a particular shiver running down her spine. She directed her attention back to the group, and noticing Leech finally joined the discussion as Leech directed a question to Korla, she turned to Korla and Leech waiting for korla to answer, before extending both her hands to them both and shook her head "Sorry- I'm Aya, Aya Oso. I'm an Earthling" She smiles happily to them both.

"I suppose it is a good name," Anny grunted. The only reason she chooses it was that her true name was not all that nice at least with rolling off the tongue and Anny sounded like the start of her name. She wondered what she would have picked if she didn't want to go with a nickname over a makeover. When Korla mentioned saiyans Leech grunted. "One of us Saiyans or work for them. I mean I suppose we do." Anny waved her hand under her throat to tell him to shut up. Leech saw and just turned around. "What I mean to say is that we work for the Saiyans but contracted. We got no loyalty. We just do our thing and hopefully, we can get paid or have a good time. You know." Anny facepalmed that was still not a great answer.

Anny looked back at Aya, she did have a good point. What would this person be doing here? She didn't look Saiyan she was some sort of white-skinned warrior. Leech would see that Korla was heading up so Leech would look her over. Other then that gun she seemed pretty good. Though he was unsure if he was into people who looked that alien. He liked the Saiyan look. Guess he should keep that to himself though, he didn't need a blaster to the face that was no fun. One interesting she did note that wast he places were not all dead just poisoned and dying. "So this place is like some wasteland cause of the Saiyans. What would be doing here to cause that?" He didn't think that Kayen lady was the type to throw her trash and leave it be. She seemed more of the type to blast into nothingness.

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Korla’s indifferent expression shifted as she glared at the Alien, try as his companion might to get him to shut up he pushed on with claiming that they worked for the Saiyans, while it was entirely possible he was simply trying to seem more impressive all it really did was ensure that Korla could not trust the pair, at the very least even if they WEREN'T working for the Saiyans he had no issue presenting himself as if they WERE meaning that all that the Saiyans might do and were doing were fine by him as long as he was paid.

“You should listen to her, shes clearly the smart one” Korla said rolling her eyes at him before turning to the strange and rather excitable Alien, she did her best to commit names to memory before introducing herself and then between her and Leech they inquired HOW it was that the Saiyans were responsible for the current state of things.

Giving out history lessons was not necessarily how Korla had planned to spend her day but any means she could use to undermine any positive views others might have of the Saiyans was more or less time well spent “Yes, Saiyans do tend toward more brute force methods. The Destron Gas itself is not something they created, instead its spread is a result of their actions. The Destron Gas was created by the Tuffles, the original dominant species of this planet, it had a variety of intended uses but during war time its use was focused into weaponry and it’s production ramped up. Destron is only mildly dangerous to those without high combat power, but the stronger you are, the more dangerous it gets. The Saiyans with their naturally high combat powers were as such highly susceptible to its effects where the Tuffles were not”

“The Tuffles had many facilities capable of producing Destron Gas, when the Saiyans won the war rather than carefully shutting down these facilities they rampaged through them, tore them to pieces and crushed them underfoot. And in doing so they poisoned the world, they ruptured and destroyed every and any safety precautions taken.” Korla looked away from the others and back at the crags

“These mountains used to be very beautiful, but so much untreated Destron for so long has twisted and warped them almost beyond recognition”

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Aya was quiet, she mulled over what was said, the scent of vile gas hinging between life and death for anything truly powerful down below into the crags. Taking in the information, there was a look of surprise on her face as she learned about this. The saiyans, the Tuffles, and the reactions of the saiyans. Finally, very calmly, almost wistfully she spoke "So, the Tuffles Cheated Nature."

A strange mix of words from a bear girl seeming so innocent. Though she continued. "In nature, when some animal is stronger than ya, ya devise a way to flee, or sneak. If you are the stronger animal, they grow and expand as necessary, soon prey that used to fear the predator no longer has to 'cause the group goes to larger and more powerful beasties to feed themselves, eventually meetin' a balance. but, the tuffles toyed with nature. Using a gas that affects people more when they're stronger, they've ruined the chain of nature to fend off a threat that wasn't even a threat in the long run" Aya spoke, not with anger, or frustration at the facts before her. She was merely making an observation. Though unaware of the impact her words might have on the group she spoke to.

Leech pointed at Aya. He didn't realize anyone would agree with what he had to say. It was the time of survival the strongest would live and the weak would die. Plus they did mess with that gas. It seemed like a bad idea to create a weapon like that if you didn't want it to destroy your planet. Like how was it even supposed to work? It seemed to do deal a lot of damage to just this area so were they gonna spread it across the whole planet? Leech was a dumb guy but he had to admit this seemed even dumber then something he'd do. Granted agiasnt the Saiyans maybe that was their own choice that Kayen lady was a monster. So maybe it was if I can't have it no one can situation. "What does Invase mean?" Leech interrupted as Anny face palmed. "Christ you're stupid."

Anny rubbed her chin she could understand what Aya and her brother were saying but he also felt with Korla was saying. The Saiyan had destoyed their world in some sense. Their lives were crushed under the waste of someone far stronger than them. How they butchered all these people and ended her old species life. Yet, she really didn't feel that much sympathy. She wanted too but it was not she had not done what Korla had described. She had crushed under her feet along with her brother. Just meeting someone who felt that pain and somehow came out alive didn't make her want to change her ways nor feel bad for it. She did sense though Korla power increased briefly. She decided to move on from the subject. "Well, I can see you got a strong feeling on this. I wish you the best of luck on that but I can sense Ki. I've felt the strength of the Saiyan queen and right now she'd crush you. So don't do anything crazy." No need to see her kill herself over revenge especially if she had no chance of success.