Two Very Loud and Manly Men [Koban]

Today had been a pleasantly quiet day so far, while Koban certainly enjoyed his work helping people it did his heart good to spend a fair amount of time on his patrol without needing to take any action, to be able to just see people going about there day under no duress.

Of course, if Satan City was doing well enough that probably meant it was best for him to move on to one of the other cities, while he had not gotten any calls about anything major yet his abilities might perhaps have more use elsewhere before things got bad enough for someone to call him in.

With things as calm as they were Koban decided to grab a snack while he debated where to head out to, he was halfway through a cup of instant noodles when his peaceful walk was interrupted by the sudden arrival of a rather large and red-faced man, his loud declaration that they needed to talk caught Koban off guard nearly causing him to spill his noodles.

“What can I do for you? Is something wrong?” Koban asked raising an eyebrow at the man, as far as he could remember the man was a complete stranger even if the man seemed quite certain that Koban was the man he was looking for.

As Koban waited for the man’s response he took a moment to get a good look at him and as he did so realized just how strong the man was, it was rare to meet up with people who’s relaxed power was stronger than his own and so far it also usually meant for interesting times considering how well his encounter with Mal had gone.

The man standing before him even beyond his actual power level had the look of a powerful person, tall broad-shouldered and with a physique that clearly showed the man worked out often he at first looked like a Human but the longer Koban looked the less certain he felt, something about the man felt a bit… ‘more’, perhaps he was a Saiyan?

The answer to that question came sooner than Koban expected as the large man spoke, complimenting Koban on his power before going on to explain the attack on Vegeta, Koban wanted to interrupt but with the man making no actual stops as he spoke he had no time.

“Yeah I had heard about the invasion, I like to keep an ear open for big shake ups in the galaxy, I’m sorry for what happened. You’re actually not the first Saiyan I’ve talked to about this though, I met up with Prince Vocado a bit ago when his ship landed. I’ll most certainly be lending a hand if the WTF decides to attack Earth or the Saiyans that are here.” Koban said with a nod, he wasn’t quite sure if the WTF would be bold enough to attack the Earth itself, with Vegeta at least they had a long history of issues, but even if they were just seeking the Saiyans Koban had no intention of standing back.

“I’m Koban, Captain of the Pride Troopers and I’d be glad to spar with you” Koban said with a grin.

Koban grinned as Banzo mentioned that Vocado had apparently spread the word about them a bit, having more people know about the Troopers was an ever-present step on the road to having the team be a more readily recognized and perhaps to some extent ‘official’ force of good and justice in the universe.

“You should never be embarrassed to look for help, working with others makes us stronger. It's part of why I made the Pride Troopers.” Koban said doing his best to reassure Banzo against his misgivings on seeking aid, Koban could sort of see why it was that he might take issue, Saiyans were as a species generally defined by pride, pride in themselves, pride in their species, and so on.

“I’ll keep a look out for him, if he’s actually a proper Demon then Sam will probably know how best to deal with him,” Koban said with a nod, tapping the compartment in his right pauldron and grabbing a notepad and pen from within jotting down the name Banzo had provided and the basic and potentially relevant information.

“Yeah fighting here would probably not be for the best, while the people might enjoy the show for a bit if we wanted to get any sort of serious I imagine we’d become a bit of a problem, I know a few good places in the area that we can use though,” Koban said, the few places actually IN the city were limited based on their strength so it was probably going to end up being somewhere on the outskirts of the city.

“The Pride Troopers are pretty simple, we’re really just a group of people looking to make the world, and once we’ve got the means, universe, a better place. Most of the time we do a lot of work helping people and doing our best to pair out different skill sets to get the jobs done.” Koban explained his excitement and passion for the team shining through as his already jovial attitude intensified.

“Earth has quite a few places that are particularly good for training if you know where to look, honestly im really surprised that Earthlings dont have a higher average power all things considered, there planet has some pretty wild places” Koban said with a shrug, Earthlings as a whole didn’t tend towards being particularly strong but boy oh boy when an Earthling DID take training seriously they could easily put most others on notice.

“Maybe another time we could give one of those a go” Koban offered, he already found himself fond enough of Banzo that he had no problem planning to meet up with him again down the road, perhaps they could even set up some sort of training brawl between the Troopers and some other members of the surviving Saiyans.

Koban remained quiet and made effort to cut off Banzo to judge him as he mentioned being a privateer and his expression showed no distaste for what the man described only briefly faltering as Banzo mentioned pirates “While you might think of it as particularly heroic I, at least from what you described, certainly would. Protecting others, fighting slavers, and pirates are all heroic things to do, that you might have done it for money does not lessen the good you have tried to put into the universe” Koban said letting a wide grin dominate his features to mask some of his unease, pirates brought up a lot of bad memories for the blue hero.

“It’s a bit more complicated than that, while yeah I have had a few run-ins with pirates those have never really been anything TOO bad, just villainy on a different sort of scale, pirates are almost always the definition of what I stand against...” Koban said with a shrug, Banzo seemed like a decent person, Koban rarely had much occasion to speak about his own problems with pirates, being a generally upbeat and positive sort of person he rarely ever took the time to bring them up meaning that even his Trooper’s knew relatively little about his parents.

“But if things had gone differently long ago, there's a good chance I would BE a pirate.” Koban said with a sigh, he liked to believe that even if his parents had not been taken down that he would never have become like them, but it was difficult to know how much of who he was today relied upon being raised by a good man. “My parents were pirates, from what I’ve read they were a really nasty team at that. I got lucky though, before I was old enough to start becoming like them they were taken down by the Galactic Patrol.” Koban said hoping that it would not color Banzo’s opinion of him much or at all.

“I like to hope my work does a bit to undo the damage they did while they were out in the universe. It’s part of why I don’t want my team to just focus on one planet, Pirates and those like them don’t focus on one world, they strike at anything and anyone they think they can take down, someone needs to be out there stopping them.”

Koban was only vaguely surprised by Banzo’s admission that he was half demon, at this point he was starting to think that there was something about him that acted as a sort of Demon magnet, quite a few of his close friends were either part or full Demon along with quite a few of his enemies. He was also not exceptionally surprised by Banzo’s description of typical Saiyan familial relations, he had learned quite a bit about that from his own time on Vegeta with Ayoshi.

Koban was relieved of all the tension he hadn’t even realized he had built up in himself as he gave Banzo the rundown on his background, it was nice to have someone tell him the same sort of stuff he did his best to tell himself. Koban’s grin returned as Banzo spoke returning to its full strength as the large Saiyan gave his last statement before his phone buzzed.

“Thank you Banzo, I usually try to keep that sort of stuff in mind, it used to get to be a lot more when I was younger, but you’re right. I’m my own man, though even if I don’t need to feel responsible for fixing what they have done part of me does like the idea that I can undo some of the pain they brought into the universe.”

“I’d definitely be down to meet up again some time. Hopefully, once the Headquarters is a bit more situated you can meet some of the others.” Koban said with a grin taking Banzo’s hand and giving a firm but friendly shake “Likewise, if you or any of the other Saiyans on Earth need a hand you have the Pride Troopers to rely on.”