Nappa had lifted Negi off the ground out of some begrudging solidarity. Two especially battle hungry elites stuck on their homeworld due to their leaders' whims. Tossing her battered body over his shoulder like a heavy sack.
After the fight he himself was definitely going to enter a healing chamber. Negi had gotten some really painful hits on him. Leaving their armor behind he enters the medical wing of the building. Because it was a necessity in a place like this. People were brought to the brink of death here all the time.
When he arrived at the medical wing Nappa was checking around for a specific chamber. Then he spotted it before stuffing Negi in.
"Sir.. that's for the younger...." a purple alien tried to protest.
"So what she likes'em small"
"But–"
"Just prepare the machine" Nappa intimidated the alien with just the raise of his voice.
The healing chambers meant for younger saiyan or smaller bodies, was half the normal size. That meant Negi would have to curl up in a fetal position, which Nappa did not do carefully at all.
The chamber would close after the alien was forced to accommodate this decision. The breathing mask was still able to fit on her face so she was stuck in there until someone let her out.
"Hmmp" Nappa took one last glaring glance at the woman. Her bodysuit is still very much on, regardless of the fact the healing would be less effective this way.
Nappa would leave to enter a proper healing chamber and by the time he was done, Negi wouldn't be out of hers.
***
When she did finally wake up, Negi found herself cramped in a tight and wet space. Her legs tucked together and an arm stuck behind her back. Despite her building anger she chose not to destroy her way out–that would lead to getting banned and not some monetary penalty.
Thump!
Thump!
Thump!
Finally an alien came to release her from her chamber. Negi had been banging her head on the glass for a good half an hour before the yellow reptile half her size drained and opened it.
Negi groaned while dragging her sore body out of the chamber. Falling to the floor with a splat, her hands played on the ground as she caught herself from face planting on the cold metal floor.
"We told him not to.." the reptile alien meekly explained in mutter.
"Shut up..just prepare a proper pod size for me" she groans out, not fully healed.
"Yes, Ma'am"
"Grrr" she growls at the reptile referring to her as ma'am, which only makes him rush to the task at hand. Thankfully for that alien, Negi wasn't fully healed or in the mood to waste energy on him.
Negi peeled the wet body suit off her hairless body revealing a lack of undergarments as she went completely nude for anyone to see. She did not care who saw. The peaks of her modest chest were a darker hard pink and her tail trails behind her firmly sculpted buttocks.
The sight would only unnerve an alien, grossing them out, while a fellow Saiyan passing by would say "hey after you're done here wanna.."
"F*ck off" she shoots him down without a glance.
Walking one toned tantalizing leg after the other, her hips sway the brown tail back and forth. Her seductive gait was wrapped in anger and frustration at the soreness she felt. When the man glanced back he could see the tension in her and when he saw the scar on her back his scouter revealed a number that made him quietly walk away.
Negi was too annoyed to pay the man any mind. She found her new properly sized healing chamber and took extra time to heal properly.
("Mental note; don't antagonize Nappa about his dead mate") She thought while closing her eyes and taking a nap.
The aliens would prepare a body suit and armor set for when she excited the chambers. Her day would end rather uneventfully after that.
***
The following couple days she found herself arriving at the prison again and again in the same place as before. Slightly amused that the rejected 456 had continued to return. Her amusement vanished each time right away as to her the change in the boy was practically invisible.
The gossip mattered little to her either.
Toge must have been nursing his wounds because she didn't see him.
Kürbis felt relieved she wasn't forgetting her scouter. Thanking her for finally curbing the newest prisoners' stubborn attempts to flee.
What did remain absolutely consistent was the brooding reject curled up against the wall. Starting off into the distance. His expression is a chilly combination of soft features and a gaze that reminded her of one of her peers. So of course each day she took the time to punt him across the yard.
What she always missed was his gaze on her back, like a predator waiting, and how he would crawl to reset his position.
Unlike the prior few days she didn't run into Nappa at the dueling center. The handful of matches she fought ended in much more positive fashion than with the burly brute.
***
On the fourth day she actually noticed a change in the boy, 456 had a decent, albeit pathetic turtling structure to his guard. If this was Nappa she wouldn't be able to break it if he put his mind to it.
She gave him a shot to the back that didn't knock him out. On a whim she held back and sent him tumbling. Only to find that he was woefully unprepared. Digging her fist into his gut the fight ended right then and there.
***
The fifth day was somewhat more entertaining than the last. She downplayed 456's willingness to look straight at the danger. Though he flinched at her lazy feint. Her gut punch left him spitting out whatever he had in his gut.
She ignored his slowly building resiliency and moved on.
Today she spotted Toge clenching at the chain link fence.
"Oh 336 you wouldn't happen to be planning on running away now would-" her words are interrupted by her scouter beeping. Warning her that an energy signature was spiking rapidly.
Not some high power level, just the speed in which the power rose and well plummeted as she turned to see those eyes. Ones even closer to the void than her own.
Catching the brat with twin peaks for hair by the throat. He came from above, on the roof somehow. The distance between the building and at least halfway towards the perimeter was no short length.
Negi's scouter revealed nothing special from the power level that rose and fell ominously.
"You…grr f*cking ape woman.. I'll kill you" the boy struggles and screeches.
Beep!
She turns her attention to Toge who tried to blindside her with all his might. Negi simply catches and grips his fist tightly, locking him into place.
"Wow..336, look at you already making friends" she mocks the man with the spikey mohawk. "It's like..you were meant to be here all along"
While the both struggle to get free, Negi shoves the boy, Jagger, face first into Toge's.
Crack!
The both of them fall to the floor after their heads crack together. They were alive of course, just going to wake up with similar head splitting headaches.
With that her day ended as most of them do, alone in her bed feeling extraordinarily restless. Negi was beginning to wonder how each day might unfold in this position. It was especially boring when her main focus was gone, but that should change in just a few days' time. When Zukki is forced to return for more instruction. Not that Negi had gained any confidence in her ability to do so in the days since.
Tomorrow would be the sixth day without Zukki.
(A/N: Thus ends Negi's little interlude. I had to split this one up for the sake of getting it out, but i fully intened for this chapter to be one whole instead of four.)