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Crane!"
She hovered higher up to the room they jumped out of, still hanging on to Crane by his ankle. Kakarot and the whole gang was looking out in bewilderment at what just happened, including the girls who came out to see what the commotion was. They gathered at the railing to see who she caught.
She held him up high with one arm, but not enough to reach eye level. Reaching down with her free hand, Gine yanks off the mask covering his face.
"Why did you try to attack my son in his sleep?" She demanded, looking down on him while he was suspended.
Crane just looked at her, entirely dumbstruck at how this strange woman barged out of nowhere to thwart his plot, catch him in midair, and demanding answers from him like he's the subject and not the master. All the while she was holding him up so indignantly like a rabbit about to be skewered. And she was flying!
Then another thought crossed his mind as her words registered. Kakarot was her son?! He saw the shape of a tail whipping around behind her, just like the boy's tail. She had to be. But this was all so much to take in.
He tried to gather himself up from this turn of events. "Isn't it obvious?!" Crane angrily stated, loud enough for those on the hotel balcony to hear too. "He murdered my brother Tao!"
Some of the gang gasped when they heard Master Shen's words, looking at Kakarot as if looking for an explanation.
"Not on purpose!" Kakarot said, as he collected himself from this rude awakening. "He killed my friend's father and attacked me and Chi-Chi. We defended ourselves!"
"Yeah!" Chi-Chi backed him up. "And then he pretended to give up and threw a grenade at us, we kicked it right back at him!"
"It doesn't matter how it happened, my brother's death is on you, and he must be avenged!" Crane said furiously.
"No, no one is killing anyone tonight." Gine said. "And based on what I've heard about your brother, he got what he deserved."
Crane growled with the fury of a feral animal. "How dare you! You insolate woman! I'd ought to show you who-"
Gine squeezed his ankle where she held him, with her Saiyan strength it was like being caught in a hydraulic press. The bones crunched easily and satisfyingly in her grip. He howled in agony as his ankle was crushed.
"Don't you dare speak to me that way, you maniacal old fool." Gine shot back.
Crane was too overpowered by the pain of his now broken leg to counter and could only writhe in her grip like a fish plucked from water.
"You never threaten my child, especially when I'm holding you this high above the ground." Gine said with a menacing tone that made Crane show a twinge of fear in his eyes through the pain.
"MASTER!" Came a shout below, Gine instantly knew it was Tien. She looked fast and saw that he was jumping up from below, trying to intervene and go for her.
Gine reacted before Tien could counter. Without letting her captive Crane go from her grip she spun around to face Tien just as he was within reach of her. Crane screamed even harder when he was twisted with his broken ankle around in the air. Then, she swept her leg under Crane and landed a solid kick into Tien's side with incredible speed and force; all in one fluid motion. She kicked him in the chest hard enough to hear one of his ribs crack and send him straight into the ground below.
Tien shattered the concrete where he impacted and bounced away like a rag doll until he came to stop, groaning and barely moving. Gine was surprised that he wasn't dead from that blow, considering her strength among humans. This Tien guy must be a lot stronger than average.
Everyone could only stare in shock, especially Crane when he realized what happened. He stumbled for words, failing at the sight of his star pupil beaten aside in just one blow as if he were nothing. Beaten by this... woman!
"H-HOW?! HOW ARE YOU THIS STRONG?!" Was all he could say. Then, as some of his wits came back and realized something else that had been happening, "AND...H-HOW CAN YOU FLY?! THATS IMPOSSIBLE! ONLY I KNOW THAT TECHNIQUE!"
Gine didn't answer, he didn't deserve answers. She glared at him with daggers; and Crane, realizing how helpless he was against her and how his best fighter was useless to save him, could only cower and shudder at what other feats this strange, tailed woman could do to him.
For Gine this felt oddly empowering. She was focused primarily on getting through to Crane about what he's done. But in the back of her mind, she was savoring the fact that she could easily kill this man by breaking every bone in his body or throwing him into the ground hard enough to make him a red splatter. And not just as any bloodthirsty Saiyan would to anyone else, but to someone who had been such a bother to her, Kakarot, and their friends. For once, she was now going to teach someone the price of getting on her nerves and threatening the people she cared about. Something she never had in her entire life.
That notion made her blood boil even more, and Gine's thoughts clouded from all the times she remembered she had no control of anything in her life. All those times she had been put down and shoved around on planet Vegeta by her fellow Saiyans, unable to fight back since she was too weak. And then, having that fact turned upside down, being the strongest on planet Earth but always having to hold back less she hurt someone, especially Gohan.
Not now though, she thought. Now, she was not going to hold back on Crane. She was going to make him suffer, make him afraid of her. And she unconsciously squeezed harder on his broken leg, making Crane let out a tortured cry...
"GINE!" Roshi and Gohan shouted at her.
She snapped out of her red haze and spun around to see that the gang and other hotel guests could see what was going down. She had been hovering there for over a minute and made such a ruckus that people came out to see what was happening. She also noticed the damage she did to the room while trying to go after Crane.
Gohan looked at her with a mix of pleading and consternation.
"He is beaten. Let him go." He said slowly, but firmly. Kakarot stood next to him, but looked like he wished he could join his mom to help ring out Crane for what he was going to do.
Gine turned to Crane who was breathing raggedly and saw how frightened and in pain he looked. She then realized what Gohan meant.
Crane was no longer a threat to Kakarot, but now she was willingly causing him pain when he couldn't defend himself.
She felt a wave of overwhelming guilt wash over her. How could she do this? She'd never hurt anyone on purpose, the very thing she hated most. She had been through far too much to do something like that. She didn't know what came over her.
Those dark thoughts of helplessness really set her off, and she shouldn't let them control her. She's caused too much of a scene already and sh
ould've just dealt with it like an adult instead of like a Saiyan.
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