More than meets the eye (open)

[Aice]

The cool rusted rails of the train system sat there quietly,
long forgotten by most people since the Saiyan attacks. These tracks flowed
through the whole city, lining the belly of the destroyed concrete beast. Every
day people would get in these packed metal tubes, to get to one part of the
city to another, it was usually madness but somehow they managed to do it every
day. It was Aice's hope to get these tracks up and working again, but he might
need some help, as fast as he was only one man. But that was for another day
when he had more time, today he was just scouting out the tunnels again. Sometimes
Aice would find a new tunnel or access door that he missed before, and other
times he would just find another dead end; but that was the excitement of going
down here. With no light Aice had to rely mostly on his other senses to find
his way around the tunnels.

Sitting on the edge before rail platform he searched through his black case
making sure that he had all the previsions he would need for the trip, seeming
satisfied he locked the case; tying to his waist. Hopping down from the edge he
made his way to the northern tunnel, its darkness already reaching out for
Aice. The light ran a bit down into the tunnel, but just like the rest it faded
into darkness at one point leaving the trail invisible to Aice. Taking one
glance back he plunged himself into the darkness, walking blindly as he went
the only sound that was made was from the sound of his feet. He kept quiet, the
worst part about scouting was that there was never anyone to talk to, it
sometimes got lonely down here for Aice; it was all part of the job though.

Eventually Aice's eyes adjusted to the darkness of the tunnel, which barely
gave him an outline of the surround walls, and tracks. Up ahead he could make
out the frame of steel door, the handle worn off with time. Climbing up onto
the sliding, Aice reached the door. Checking to see if he had been there
before, he felt the front of worn door. Feeling a few notches in the face, Aice
confirmed that he had been here before; whenever he had found something he
would mark it with different notches. Each mark would tell Aice something
different, so even if he lost all sense of his direction he could still find
his way out. Even as well as this system worked he would hope on day to get the
light down here to work, as easy as it was for Aice to travel down here it
wouldn't be for others.

Continuing down the rail path he followed into Rad city...

Aice could finally tell that he had gotten past the gates of Rad city; the
smell down in the rails began to change. While before it smelled of rotten
garbage, it now smelled of concrete and rusted iron.

"Maybe the reason the Saiyan's don't ever come down here isn't that they
don't know about it but maybe because it smells so bad." Aice laughed to
himself.

Up ahead the tunnel began to widen, and the sounds of Aice's footsteps began to
echo further away from him; he could tell that he was coming into a larger
room. The tunnel opened up to an actual train station, unlike the changing
platform where Aice came from this is where people actually would board the
trains. It excited Aice to see something this large untouched by the Saiyan’s
over all these year, even buried under there city it had survived better than the
rest of humanity’s structures. 

Climbing out from where the train would sit, Aice stood on
the boarding platform, still too dark to see much of anything. He knew there
was some sort of control station around here, like the one at the rotation platform,
but bigger. Searching almost blind in the dark he felt along the wall for a
door, he had never been down this far before; so Aice had no idea what he might
find.

Feeling the cold hard knob of a door, he turned the handle
pushing as he went, but it was locked.

“Of all the luck…”

Standing back Aice charged a blast of Ki in his hands, the
room glowed dimly from the blue ball. The ever moving Ki, made the blue shadows
dance across the room. Hold his hand out he let go of the ball, flying out it
slammed into the door. The door exploded in a flurry of blue fire sending
pieces of it flying across the train station, burning with Aice’s blaze. After
the smoke cleared the door that once blocked his pathway was now scattered
across the room and he walked inside the room.

From the first glance Aice could tell this was the control,
there were too many computer and buttons for it not to be. The whole room
seemed to be coated in dust, wiping is finger across the dash board Aice could
feel the buildup of dirt on his hand; just the way Aice liked it. The first
thing he would need though would be the lights, walking through all the trash
on the floor he made his way over to the wall. Aice knew that most old buildings
had things called fuses boxes, and somehow they made the lights work. Finding
the box on the wall, he quickly opened it feeling all the levers it had on it,
Aice knew little of what he had to do now.

"Well this is further than I thought I would get…well the
lights need power, so…” Aice charge his Pauper grief, only enough to get the electrical
field.

Touching the box with his electrified hand the fuse box began to spark,
as the lights in the station flickered on one by one.

“Glad that worked, really didn’t have a backup plan, I guess
it just needed a kick start after being off line for so long.”

Stilling in one of the chairs Aice looked over the train station;
finally he could make it out clearly.

[Malachi]

While searching for civilization Malachi had come across an abandoned tunnel with metal rails running along the middle of the tunnel floor. He suspected that following it back to its source would bring him to a town or city of some sort, since he'd been told by his mentor that human settlements were often highly industrialized. He kept one hand along the right wall as he walked down the dark tunnel. With his lack of eyesight the lighting or lack thereof made little difference to the human fighter. If not for the faint echo of his own footsteps it would have been quiet enough in the tunnel that the sound of his own hearbeat would have dominated his ears. The tunnel had many curves and several intersections. In truth Malachi was wondering of he wasn't headed into a deadly maze of some sort. If not for the lack of traps or creatures trying to kill him he'd have really believed the place was a labyrinth.

Malachi was already quite tired from walking to this underground place from out in the middle of the wilderness. The fact that he'd been trudging along through the tunnels for over an hour hadn't helped his morale. For someone with intentions of helping to fight an evil empire, you'd think he would have brought more supplies. Unfortunately supplies for humans on Namek had been running quite thin lately anyway, and so Malachi left the place with only a small portion of food and the clothes on his back. He'd eaten the food on the trip to Earth, and so he only had his outfit of Namekian clothes to his name right now. The blind warrior was getting more and more concerned the further he went in. He'd encountered two dead ends already and had to double back to find a different path that was open.

Another hour of walking down the same railway passed and Malachi was just about to give up and crash right where he was when he heard an odd sound that he didn't recognize, and the sound of a low hum filled the area. The sound echoing off the walls gave him a clear readout of the area he was now in. It was larger and more open than the tunnels before, and it had seats around the platforms above the railway in addition to...lighting? The lights did generate a small amount of heat that he could feel. More importantly, he had finally encountered a person. The rather exhausted looking human climbed up onto the platform that the other person was already standing on and 'glanced' at him with an uncertain expression.  "Hello?" He only gave that single word in the form of a question. He didn't know if this person was ally or enemy. Malachi knew he was in a rough situation. If it turned out that this guy was an enemy then he'd probably be sunk from being so physically drained already. On the other hand if he was an ally then perhaps he could help Malachi acquire some food, drink, and a place to rest. THis underground place seemed like a great place to get some rest, though. it was out of the weather and so far this other person had been the only one Malachi had found in these tunnels.

[Aice]

Aice had heard the stranger long before he saw him and
smelled him before he heard him, he stood out from the rest of the worn down
train station. Ducking slightly being the dusty console, the clothed person
entered the station wandering around in the tracks. He seemed to walk differently
than other people and his clothes where much different than someone from the
city would wear. Climbing out from track way, Aice could now tell that he had
gotten lost inside the tunnels; it was quite easy to get lost; especially
without the light to guide you.

"He must have gotten lost down here, without the lights, it’s very easy to
lose all sense of direction; I've found enough bones down here to know that to
be very true. What's with the clothes? I've never seen anything like them
before, their nice though, very nice. Guess he hasn't been in the city for very
long, otherwise it would have stripped him blind. The only thing I need to know
is he friend or foe?"

The man called out to Aice greeting him with a weak voice.

"Wait? He knew exactly where I was at, how? Maybe he can see through
walls, or sense power levels, like the Saiyan's with those damn scouters."

Aice had figured if his cover had already been blow and might as well talk to
the man to see what he needed; Aice didn't want to be rude. Standing up from
behind the train console, Aice walked out from the control room; standing a few
feet out from him Aice could tell he was much younger than he first thought.
Aice had guessed he was near his age, but he was much taller than Aice at least
by a foot or more; the clothes however made him look much older than he
actually was. Even as tired as he was, he was still much better feed than Aice
or anyone here in the city would have been.

“Doubt he’s an enemy, or working for the Saiyan’s dressed
like that, he looks like he’s from very far away, maybe a place without Saiyan's....”
Aice pushed the idea out of his mind; there wasn’t a place anywhere on the planet
that the Saiyan’s couldn’t get too.

Walking he stopped just a few feet out from the boy,

"...um...hi? What are you doing this far down here, did you lost like so
many before?" Aice asked the strange boy.

[Malachi]

Malachi kept quiet and still while he awaited some form of response from the other man. Was this man...hiding from him? Malachi made sure his focus was sharpened and trained on the direction the man was at in case he tried anything unpleasant. But judging from the hesitant reply that came next, the man was more concerned with whether Malachi was a friend or an enemy than anything else. So at least they were both on a level playing field in that regard. When the man finally stepped out of cover and spoke, Malachi was surprised by his question. But after a few moments of thought he realized that this fellow must not know of the kind of training he'd undergone. Malachi gave a slow shake of his head, "No, thank you for asking, though. I know my way out..." Malachi sighed and walked over to one of the benches, sitting down and then staring at the floor. His focus was still on Aice even if he didn't look straight at him. "I was looking for shelter, food, and civilization. Judging from your question I'd say I'm a fair distance from either of those even though I'm in this man made tunnel, right?"

That was just his luck. Walk into a tunnel for hours and still come up empty for the essentials. Well, at least he had shelter and a place to rest. But that didn't solve his lack of food and drink or his lack of direction in helping humankind. He finally turned his head to face the direction that Aice was in, his eyes unable to focus on any one point. "The warmth of the lights feels soothing after trudging down so many dark, damp tunnels. You are the one who turned them on, aren't you?" Since there was no one else down here and there'd be no purpose for lights to be on with no occupants, Malachi could only assume that Aice was the cause of the lights being on. Even if they weren't on at full strength it was still enough to be noticeable.

The only other thought lingering in the back of the human fighter's mind now was still whether or not Aice was friend or foe. So far his intentions had seemed quite good and he'd shown at least a small amount of concern for Malachi's health and safety. Malachi still couldn't be too sure, though, and so he was keeping on high alert in case anything happened that might cause problems.

[Aice]

"Well you’re not gonna find much in form of food down
here unless you like rats, got plenty of rats down here." Aice joked
trying to break the ice a little; Aice had no need or want to be a threat to
him.

"Civilization lies about 50 feet above you, but I would advise against you going
up there; to many Saiyan's up there. Once they see you they'll probably try to
enslave you, or kill you on the spot depends on the day, what's
today...Tuesday? Aice laughed.

"There's two large 'cities' up there, one we call Rad city, and the are the slums; that's where I from. Humans aren't welcome in Rad city, so I would again advise against going there, unless your into the whole, 'I like pain' thing. As for the slums, its not anything you would bring your date home too, but it's where I choose to make my life. You'd be welcome there, even though the people wouldn't show it, times are hard. I'd take a cold shoulder any day over a punch to the face." Aice laughed.

"As for shelter I wouldn't recommend staying down here, it gets cold, as I'm
guessing you noticed. No food, unless you like the rats? No, I wouldn't guess so,
and other than us we're probably the only two people in these tunnels for
miles. I'm surprised you found your way inside of here, there pretty difficult
to find and there aren’t many standing entrances left. Once most people take a
glance at them they turn right around and go home. Some people think they’re a bad
omen or cursed something like that, but there just really old and really
dark." Aice explained as he watched the boy sit down on the bench.

The boy began to talk about the lights feeling warm and asked Aice if he had turned
them on.

"The lights feel warm? I don't feel anything...maybe he’s on drugs, how a
lot of people get lost in here…strange kid."

"Ya that was me, took me a little while to get them running again, but I'm
glad that I did makes, seeing shit in here a lot easier. Hopefully I can set
some sorta outpost here, once I get back to my friends and tell them about this
place."

Aice noticed that the kid was still tense towards him, which was natural for
meeting someone down in a cold, dark train station. Aice hated when people
acted strange towards him, made him feel like he was doing something wrong, it
made him very uncomfortable. Reaching down to his black case, Aice popped its
bronze locks open with a snapping sound.

“I don’t have a lot but he sure looks like he could use it
more than me.” Pulling out his canteen of water he handed to the boy,

"After that long walk, I'm sure you could use a
drink."

Aice hopped it was help relax the kid a bit, making thing less difficult for
Aice.

“By the way my name is Aice Goto, now that your familiar with my name, what do they call you?" Aice smiled.

[Malachi]

Malachi had never heard of rats, and he wasn't sure what they would taste like or if he'd even want one. If Aice was talking about the furred vermin that scurried around like mad in the tunnels then he definitely didn't want to eat one of those. They wreaked of all sorts of unpleasant smells, one of which was of scavenger or carrion origin to be certain. "I'm not very sure what a rat is, but if you mean those forearm length vermin that have been scurrying around during my entire trip down the tunnels, I'd rather not put one of them in my mouth just based on the awful smell of them alone." He chuckled lightly. It was finally starting to sink in that Aice wasn't a danger to him right now.

Malachi's expression took on a much more serious and interested look when Aice began explaining about the Saiyan home city and the fact that they were just underneath it. It was true that going there alone would be a terrible mistake, but at least he'd gained some information as to the location of his foes. This fellow did seem to be a bit of a joker, or maybe he was just trying to lighten the mood? Either way Malachi was content to give a light chuckle as well after that 'what day is it' comment. He continued to keep quiet and listen to what the other man had to say. Upon hearing that most people considered the place an ill omen of sorts Malachi couldn't quite understand why. "Why would people consider such a well hidden sanctuary an ill omen? Clearly the Saiyans don't know about this place. It's practically a blaring weak spot in the defenses of their city." He grinned for a moment and then sighed.

When the canteen with water in it was offered to him, Malachi gave a genuine smile and nodded towards the other man, "Thank you very much. I could certainly use a drink now." He uncapped the canteen and tipped it up, taking a single big gulp before capping it off and handing it back. He appreciated the gesture, but he wouldn't take all the water that remained from the man. When given a name from the other human at last, Malachi nodded and replied, "I'm Malachi Savill. It's a pleasure to meet you, Aice. You've probably just saved my hide with that bit of information and the drink of water." He chuckled again.

[Aice]

Aice laughed at the boy not knowing about rats, it was funny
how he described them, as the dirty diseased animals they were. Aice often as
Aice had been around these filthy creatures, he had never really looked at them
the way the boy had described them as; they had always just been there to
Aice nothing more.

"Huh... I guess they aren't the most friendly, cuddliest looking of
things. I certainly wouldn't want one as a pet, or for food for that matter,
most just the full of disease part, aside from that just throw in a few carrots
in with them, yum yum." Aice laughed.

Aice leaned back against the cracked cement wall, a few flakes of old walls
fell off, slowly landing on the ground.

"As why people consider this place such a bad omen I'm not exactly sure,
might be more a respect for the dead kinda thing. Lots of people died down here
when the Saiyan's attacked earth, you've probably come across a few blocked off
tunnels, collapsed with rumbled. We'll I'm pretty sure some of piles had people
under them... crushed to death, not even knowing that they're planet was under
attack. So many people die in here others must think it’s bad luck, maybe there
spirits still haunt here or something. That's just my best educated
guess." Aice sighed.

 “Man it’s like this guy isn’t from earth; he doesn’t even
know what a rat is.”

"And I agree it's a great place to launch an attack from, if we had enough
man power that is. As it stands it's just a few us that can fight back. Even if
he tried we’d be very much out matched and outnumbered by the hundreds. As it
stands, I’m just scouting these tunnels tactical positions against the Saiyan’s.
After finding this beauty of a place I think my job is done for today, just
gotta remember to turn off the lights when I leave." Aice joked.

After Aice gave the stranger the water he intruded himself to Aice,

"Malachi Savill... it's a very...different name you have there...."
Aice pondered to himself.

“If that wasn’t the strangest name I’ve ever heard….”

"You're a very strange person your human but you know nothing of what’s
going on here, and you don't even know what a rat is. That's pretty common
knowledge here... where are you from? Because it's sounds pretty nice if you
don't have any rats.” Aice laughed.

[Malachi]

Malachi let out another light chuckle at the thought of a rat stew of some sort with carrots and the like mixed in with the vermin. He supposed that in desperate enough times one would eat anything if it would keep them alive. Malachi's face took on a more concerned and serious expression as Aice began to explain the reason so many people considered the tunnels to be a bad omen. He wondered why the smell of death was so strong here. He'd encountered bones a couple of times...some of them must not have been too old, just picked clean by the rats. It made him quiver in disgust and a touch of fear at the thought. "That sounds reasonable enough considering the bones I encountered on the way down here. As for being haunted, I didn't encounter anything otherworldly, but with everything that's supposedly happened down here it wouldn't surprise me if there were supernatural occurrences of some sort."

Aice gave another light hearted joke given their situation and Malachi couldn't help but laugh a little more. "I appreciate your attempts to keep things too tense or serious. It's not something I expected when I came here, but it's refreshing. Even in a place with such a dark meaning to the people here and such unfavorable conditions you still keep the mood from turning too grim. That's a talent, my friend." The blind man smirked and leaned back on the bench.

And then Aice hit the nail on the head quite literally with his last assumption and Malachi smirked, giving him a snicker before replying, "You're right in thinking I'm not up to speed on what's going on around here or even the kinds of life that exist here. I was born on Earth, but I was being raised on Namek from the time I was a year old onward. This is my first visit on my home planet since that time. So naturally there's a lot I don't know. Most of what I was taught was about Planet Namek and the Namekian way of life. My mentor was a young Namekian warrior. He took me in and helped me get on my feet when I was old enough to learn. It seems like you haven't noticed, but I'm blind." Malachi gave another light chuckle. "I'm quite thankful that I had someone skilled in the art of ki teaching me when I grew up. He made it possible for me to know my surroundings without using my eyes. I spent a large chunk of my childhood learning and practicing the skills to do so, actually."

This was a pretty big piece of information Malachi had just thrown out, and it was possible that it could be used against him in some way. He'd placed a lot of trust in Aice now even though they'd only just met.

[Aice]

"I find that humor is a great way to get through too
other people, it really helps to break the ice whenever I meet someone new. At
least if I know they have a good sense of humor, I'm probably gonna like them.
It’s not always the case though." Aice explained to Malachi.

Aice listened about how Malachi was born on earth but wasn't raised here for
very long, but somehow he gotten to a planet called Namek. Being raised by a
warrior of the native people that lived there, he was trained to overcome his
blindness. Aice could tell there was something off about Malachi, but didn't
know that he was blind, truth be told Aice had never meet a blind person face
to face before. Finally Aice could put two and two together; Malachi hadn't
actually seen him but instead had sensed him.

"So he doesn't sense power levels, I guess his higher senses made him able
to detect me. It must be pretty useful to be able to detect people without actually
being able to see them. I think I’d still rather have use of my eyes though.”

"Oh...sorry about not noticing that, I've never met a blind person before.
Usually anyone with any type of birth defect doesn't live very long on earth.
Only so much supplies to go around...."

Aice wasn't really by the fact that Malachi can come from off world; he
wasn't the first person he'd met who had come from space. Although he was the
first human that come from space that he'd ever met, which was very unusual. It
seemed to Aice that the universe kept growing with every new person he met.

"More importantly where was Namek, how did he get there and back to
earth?"

"If you don't mind he asking, what was a human doing on another planet,
and how did you get back here. I can't imagine Namek is very close by."

As far as Aice knew the only people who could travel across
the starts, were Winta’s people and the Saiyan’s. Aice had guessed that humans
made it to space but had never seen any means in which they traveled by. He
couldn’t imagine that a Saiyan had given humans a ship to travel with, as
generous as the Saiyan’s were with there technology.

[Malachi]

Malachi gave a friendly nod, "Well your humor hasn't fallen on deaf ears in this case. It's certainly lifted my spirits a bit, He admitted with a light chuckle. "Well, I have a feeling that you and I will get along pretty well even without the humor involved, but don't go disappointing me and missing a prime opportunity to lighten the mood in the future, alright? You set my expectations high," he added jokingly.

Aice's response about not meeting a blind person before only confirmed what the final message from his parents had said and what Lute had explained to him before. Medical facilities and supplies for humans were almost non-existant, and since the majority of humans were slaves they didn't have time to train a child in ways to overcome such birth defects. And chances were that that sort of training was unknown here on Earth. At least he felt some form of relief knowing that his parents had the foresight to save his life before it got into true danger and sent him to the one place where he might overcome his inability to see.

Aice's next question was no surprise. Malachi's twisted and somewhat confusing origins weren't something a lot of people knew. Even other Namekians weren't fully aware of what happened, and Aice was one of the first other humans he'd met."You are right about Namek not being close. The trip takes a few months even in the swiftest space pods. But, let me start from the beginning..." Malachi paused and took a deep breath, turning to face Aice directly as he began his explanation, "My parents were born in the 'free' part of Earth as far as humans are concerned. They weren't immediately claimed or purchased as slaves. But after a few years together they had me. Despite their best efforts, as you said, medical supplies to deal with a child that was born without sight were basically nonexistent. And so they sought other means to find me help and safety. The gift they gave me for my first birthday was freedom. I don't know if the Saiyan realized it or if he tried to track down the pod later, but my parents traded themselves into slavery in exchange for a space pod. They got help in programming the pod's destination and securing me before sending me off to Namek. And as I've already told you, I didn't get medical help per se, but my mentor, who took me in and raised me, taught me all I needed to know to be able to get around and live a fairly normal life without working eyes. Years later, that is to say right now, I took the same space pod that brought me to Namek and came back to Earth. I have a feeling my parents aren't alive anymore, but I couldn't live with myself if I didn't come back and try to change things so that no one else has to do what they did...live through what they had to."

With his lengthy story finished Malachi took another deep breath and sighed.

[Aice]

Aice stood there with his back against the wall listening to
Malachi's sad story, at least his parents had loved him enough to send him off
to far away from Saiyan's. The one question that ran through Aice's mind was
where did they get a space pod from, it’s not like you could go to the nearby
store and pick one up, mostly because they didn't have stores. Any type of
space travel machines probably were top secret with the Saiyan, so that no
human could escape from the earth. He was tempted to ask Malachi but it looked
as though the story had taken a lot out of him, Aice knew the feeling; it was
best for him to ask for another time. On top of that he might not even know,
being that he was a very young child at the time.

"I'm sure your parents are fine, it's a big city, and there’s plenty of
places to hide. Just look at these tunnels down here; most people don’t even
know how to get in her." Aice tried to reassure Malachi.

"...Well that's quite a story you got
there, at least your parents loved you enough to get you to safety; my parents
just left me in the trashed filled alleys with no goodbye. But I made it out
alive thanks to the locals around here, they trained me, gave me food, they
raised me. They're more like my parents than my actual parents, not that I
needed them anyway, I turned out fine." Aice laughed, pointing
down at his ragged dirty clothes.

"Not that I'm trying to compare
or lives or anything."

"So as 'nice as earth is', you know with all its happy people and
beautiful sun sets, why did you come back, to find your parents? Or to get
revenge? Because I'm pretty sure I can help you with either one." Aice
grinned.

Sliding off from the wall Aice walked over to the bench where Malachi was
sitting on; falling backwards he landed on the old steel bench. It gave a rusty
groan with the added weight but supported both their weight, putting one leg
over the other Aice relaxed in the chair.

"In case you’re concerned there are no
strings attached, you've been through a lot, hell I haven't even been off
planet and think my life's pretty rough. I think you could use a little help,
and I would be glad to provide my services. However if you really feel the need
to repay me, we could sure use some help getting these damn Saiyan's our
planet." Aice said joyfully.

"He doesn't look like too much right now, but we can use all the help we
can get. Hopefully with some food in him and some rest he'll be back on his
feet in no time."

Aice stretched his hand out to Malachi,
waiting to see if he would expect his offer of aid.

"So what do you say?" Aice asked.

[Malachi]

Malachi couldn't help but smile at Aice's attempts to reassure him of his parents' survival, but he shook his head and sighed, "No, if they are alive, I'd rather them not know I came back. I don't want them thinking I threw away everything they worked for. It's probably for the best that they believe their son survived and lived the happy life that they gave their own away so he could have." It was a grim way of thinking, but that would hopefully at least give them comfort if they knew they hadn't given up so much in vain. "Still...I wouldn't mind meeting them...just once...to let them know I was alive and well." He looked up at the ceiling, almost as if his gaze pierced through the fifty or so feet of concrete, metal, and rock to gaze up at the sky.

When Aice motioned towards his own clothing Malachi chuckled again and shook his head, "The Namekian people all wear similar clothes. The only difference is to distinguish the warriors, healers, and farmers of their people. But the materials and quality of their clothes are all the same. They say it's so that no one feels superior or inferior to the others. And the first thing they teach aside from that simple-minded equality is to respect your elders and learn from their wisdom. Though I was never lucky enough to meet the elders myself, my mentor would always bring me kind words from the elders when I was growing up."

The thought of those days made him smile. Even though they weren't so long ago, they felt like eons passed now that he was on Earth and realizing just how grim things were. But Aice's next question took Malachi by surprise, and garnered his full attention. The man had offered him not only aid in finding a place to stay and sustenance, but also in possibly finding his parents and fighting back against the Saiyan overlords. He smirked and stood up extending his hand to Aice once again, "If we find my parents along the way I'll consider it to be an added bonus, but for right now I think we should focus on making the world a better place one step at a time, and putting those Saiyans in their place. I'll gladly accept your help and I'll offer as much as I can back to you. I'm sure my skills could be of some use, at least."

[Aice]

Aice smiled at Malachi's optimism about his offer, it was
good to see that even though he had been gone for so long that he still cared
about the people here on earth, and his hate for Saiyan's made Aice happy. They
had been in power for too damn long it was time someone, some people to do something
about it. It was always good to see someone that hated them as much as he did;
it also meant that when it came down to making hard choices that Aice could
rely on him.

"Well glad to hear that your willing to fight back against the Saiyan's,
if only we had more humans from space to come back to their home planet after
many years of being gone and help us kill the Saiyan's we would be set."
Aice laughed.

Hopping up from the worn bench it squeaked again its metal relieved with the
loss of extra weight, taking up his water canteen Aice placed it back inside of
his brief case, snapping it brass locks shut. Turning back to face Malachi he
spoke seriously,

"Now I have a few friends back at my place, they might be kinda worry
about meeting someone new. Especially since you’re not from earth and
everything but I think we'll leave that part out for later. Anyway we're
definitely a strange group but we all share the same goal, which is to get the
Saiyan's off earth and reclaim it for the human's. With enough people behind
out cause I'm sure we can do it, but we can't trust everyone. You story seems
true enough, and you seem like a good kid to me. Just be relaxed and you
should fit in just fine."

"I'm sure Winta could tell me more about his people if I were to
ask."

Going back through the blasted down door, Aice flipped a few of fuse box
switches. Eventually he found the one that turned the lights off, one by one
the lights in the station turned off until it was dark.

"I'm sure you’re still able to navigate, can't imagine the darkness would
slow you down much." Aice joked.

Heading towards the tunnel tracks Aice footsteps echoed through the concrete
walls, bounced through the man-made structure. Hopping down to where the tracks
where at, his feet hitting the steel rail causing then to vibrate slowly.
Waiting till Malachi was down in the tracks with him, Aice led the way back
towards the slums.

"Oh and you might want to take some of those clothes off, they're gonna
make you stand out." Aice laughed.

End thread.(sorry for the lateness of my reply, had no wifi)

[Tenshu]

Aice: +1 User choice
Malachi: +1 User choice

Nice character building guys, I always like it when members get to know one another. Gives the story more life.