"It's not too late for help, don't be silly. Viral's really bad so it's going to take a while, that's all. You're nowhere near as bad as he is, we can probably fix you in a couple of days," Takeshi replied, smiling as he tried to cheer Shu up, "We can help Viral, and we can definitely help you, so don't worry so much, okay buddy?" Compared to Viral, the little guy basically had no problems at all. Sure he had nightmares, but he was eating and sleeping, plus he could still smile and have fun. That wasn't really a whole lot to have to fix, and when they finished up on this planet they could finally get to helping it. "Well... How about you just help me, can you do that?" Takeshi asked, "I'll fight, you just help from the back, you know? Shoot a blast or two at him, just watch where he is, you know? I'll do the fighting, you be my back up." If the little guy agreed to that idea then everyone won; Shu wasn't going to have to fight their father and Takeshi didn't have to worry about him getting hurt. No doubt Shu would be in danger even then, but if he could just keep their dad preoccupied and the others Krom then there wasn't any problem. "We're gonna beat them, you got me? We're going to make them pay for hurting our friends, then we're gonna come back and make everyone all better!"

Haku wasn't sure what good he could do for T'charrl now, albeit he needed quite a bit of reassurances himself too; his friend had never seen Yamate, or probably even an Elite for that matter so he didn't have any clue what they were getting into. The fact that everyone on board was nervous ought to be indication enough, and he saw it potentially making his friend uneasy too. "If I'm lucky he'll just make fun of me. We're going to fight him though, I doubt it'll be that painless," the Saiyan lamented, sighing as he slouched back in his seat. Feeling the shuttle lurch slightly, Haku knew that their trip to Numina was beginning and he felt quite nervous about that. It was intimidating enough having to fight the Princes and T'charrl back then, now he was facing off against the King? Sighing softly, Haku hung his head before turning it slightly to look at his friend, managing a weak smile. "You're way stronger than most of us here, you'll probably be the one to beat him, just like with the monster," he answered, frowning when T'charrl mentioned changing. "You don't have to, you're plenty strong without that. That's... That's probably just them talking because they're scared, but I won't make you change and neither should they."

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Even if they didn't have the coordinates for Numina, finding the world wouldn't have been overly difficult. There were only a handful of worlds out here by Uuonoe, and fewer still were colonized by people. If just looking at the world from space didn't make it obvious, then entering the atmosphere and seeing freshly razed cities scattered along the surface certainly did. It was far from the all-out destruction one might have come to expect from the King and his troops, but it was still nasty nonetheless; buildings were left smoldering and crumbled, and no doubt countless soldiers down below had lost their lives in the battles. Kabocha kept their shuttle up high enough to avoid any potential crossfire, that and out of a desire of not wanting to see everything firsthand. Saiyans were a bit cruel when they fought, he knew that personally, but the King had a special brand of cruelty for those who opposed him. If there were any survivors down below they were facing that gruesome scene now, and just thinking about it made his stomach churn uncomfortably. As they headed in a southerly direction he noticed that patches had evidently been spared ruin, which was odd considering who was here. Why would certain places be left untouched?

After looking around at the controls for a few moments Kabocha finally found the speaker system, having only barely familiarized himself with the console beforehand. Flipping it on he let out a silent sigh, looking through the glass of the cabin out at the ocean below them. "Alright... The distress call came from this direction, about a kilometer out. We should get there in a couple of minutes, but I'm putting us down before it, we'll go in on foot so the shuttle doesn't get damaged. Anyone got a problem with that bring it up here, but I'm not losing our only ticket out of here." 

Unsurprisingly no one came forward to complain, not that anyone had any reason to. If things did go south then they may need to try and escape, and doing so without any ship would make things infinitely more difficult. Takeshi was fine with going in on foot anyways, it meant they might be able to get the jump on one of the men and land a good blow before the fighting even began. That would only work of course if everyone suppressed their energy to absolute zero, which while they had tried to before entering the atmosphere there was no guarantee it had worked. At the very least they hadn't been attacked just yet, which either meant they were still clear or wandering into a trap. Rubbing at his head he glanced over at Shu, seeing his younger brother still quite nervous over what was going on. "Hey... Hang in there buddy, it'll be okay," he said, reaching over and giving Shu's back a rub, "Like we talked about before, let your big brother handle the fighting, you just blast 'em from where you are and everything will be cool, got it?" They had refined Shu's Ki control somewhat, and now was a good a time as any to test just how well. Flight should be fairly easy at this point, and while they'd not done extensive practice with blasts he was fair confident he'd not get blown away by the little guy on accident.