Yumi hadn't a clue why Viral hadn't surfaced yet, but she figured it couldn't be anything good. Something might have gotten to him, or maybe when he fell he hurt himself and couldn't get back up. As it happened the former was the case; spines poking up above the water's surface told her there was something in there. Overcoming her fierce disdain of water awfully quickly she darted back into the lake, splashing a bit awkwardly as she tried to swim over to where Viral had been. Murky as the water might be she could tell soon as she had reached the same point that her friend wasn't there any longer. Where then? Where could he have gone? Hissing angrily Yumi scanned the water for any trace, desperately trying to find where Viral had been taken. She might not have spotted anything had an odd coloration of the water not caught her attention; a pool of dark liquid was gathering at the surface. Swimming deeper she wrinkled her nose in recognizing that it was blood, and grew even more concerned as she recognized it being Viral's. He was under water then...? Being wet was so disgusting, her ears were going to get water logged and it would take hours to clean herself, but she couldn't well leave the Beastman. Inhaling deeply she dove under the water, blindly paddling towards where she hoped her friend might be. 

"What are you, my mom? Teach me manners? Hmph, maybe I am a bit of an ass, but at least I'm not acting high and mighty, saying I'm going to teach people like I'm someone special," Kabocha retorted, rolling his eyes. In fact he had been doing just that, but only the twins would acknowledge this; he could do no wrong. Even if the twin was trying to blame it on him he was sure Kai saw the children as weird too. It wasn't bad to think that when it was true! Just as they saw Kaesstrian children as odd he was certain Kaesstrians in turn would look at Saiyan babies weirdly. All covered in goopy, disgusting mess and like an over-inflated small person even Kabocha considered their own children to be a bit of an oddity. "No, trust me, I got PLENTY out of those girls. I have money to throw around so I don't care if they ended up taking some or not," Kabocha said, waving a hand dismissively. No longer feeling up to dealing with the woman and her stall the Saiyan handed off their exchanged currency to his friend, smirking when Kai asked about it. "But you looked like you had so much fun with it I couldn't bear to keep you from enjoying yourself." That and he didn't want to speak with her so soon, he was still marginally annoyed. 

Just spotting T'charrl randomly out in the forests was going to be impossible; hiding was his specialty and he knew the area far better than they did. If they had any hopes of finding their friend they would have to try something else, maybe even use their scouters to pinpoint where he was. Takeshi was hopeful when he turned his on and began speaking that they might get a reply, but after a bit of waiting the line remained utterly silent. Making a sound of discontent he glanced over at Shu, shaking his head as he lowered his hand. "Nothing, he didn't reply. Anyone using it can hear, as long as your tuned to the same signal. I'm willing to bet ours are, so he should have heard us," Takeshi replied, "And you just have to push the button on the side, right by your ear. Try it, I'll keep an eye out for him." Knowing the guy they were looking for he could very well have had a bit of a panic over who knows what. If that was the case, and gods forbid he couldn't handle it, then they may not see their friend for some time. What a rotten thing to happen; get back to Kaesstra only for T'charrl to freak and get lost. 

Everything about this situation was confusing, from the vaguely familiar, overly-inflated Kaesstrian to that strange static that came through that device. L'esta hadn't even noticed it before, but now that he was seeing it he recognized the tool near immediately. If he wasn't mistaken that was the same device the Saiyans who befriended the Prince had used before during their visit; this revelation only served to confuse the Captain even further. Did those children have something to do with this? Or was it sheer coincidence? He loathed to believe it may just well be coincidence, something was much too strange about everything for it to be just that. Holding the stranger at sword point while trying to suss out what to do next the Captain found his decision being made for him. In sudden surge of anger T'charrl shouted at him before swinging some strange blade at him, forcing L'esta to react. Parrying the arm-blade he was astonished by the force behind it, having to fight to grip onto his sword as he stumbled slightly. So this person was just as strong as he feared, it was best then his men stayed back. "I tried to give you a chance, but you leave me no choice now!" the Captain snapped, raising his sword up high before taking a swing at T'charrl, "For the safety of Kaesstra you must die!"