"All I can do at this point is try to improve the future for you. The past is said and done, it's out of my hands. Regrets, indecision, mistakes, regardless of what happened nothing I do now can change those. All we can do is look forward." It was all he could do to make this up to Viral. It wasn't simply guilt that propelled Vegeta forward either, though it certainly existed; for all Viral did, for all he'd endured, he deserved better treatment. They spoke one way and acted another, praising him yet treating him like some fragile being. In some ways he had been as of late with his degrading health and yet now that he was healing he deserved to be treated better, given more liberties. "So you beat some soldiers, including an Elite, and yet you say you're weak? That seems to be the exact opposite," Vegeta mused, pushing himself up from the table, "I know Yumi is concerned about you, but I'd never assume she pities you. She knows perhaps better than I do what you're capable of, and she knows you can handle yourself in battle. Perhaps I should take notes from her for a change..." With that thought he left to prepare a meal, hoping Viral could sit long enough to wait.

"T-This isn't even a fight anyways! You're just tackling me!" Takeshi retorted, laughing as Shu commented on his losing his clothes. "I'm not stripping you, you know! Don't get any ideas!" Last thing he needed was this little kid running around in his underpants, he'd have some serious explaining to do! Finally managing to turn the tables a bit Takeshi rolled himself over, pinning down Shu and smirking triumphantly. Not knowing what more to do, and still trying to break free, he began to tickle at his brother's sides, hoping it might loosen his grip. "What's wrong squirt? You didn't want me getting away!" he taunted, keeping a grip on Shu's shirt as he went on, "Now you want to get away?" This was fun, they really never just clowned around like this did they? Taking pity perhaps on his sibling's plight the older boy finally released his brother, watching him as he rolled away and crouched, sticking out his tongue childishly. "It's all fair in a fight! You want to hold onto me? Then I'm gonna do what I can to get away!"

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Saving a bunch of Beastmen had been one of the more recent highlights of her life. Yumi still felt proud for what they had done, and even if the transition was proving to be difficult for them she felt they had a better life now. Free from the Saiyans, and free from Korian's rule, much to his chagrin, the Beastmen were being allowed to decide for themselves where they went. Some of them settled down and were adjusting to their new lives while others opted to continue fighting. The latter group was off with Kai, Choi and Kabocha right about now taking on some mission, something light for them to get their feet wet. She'd have gone if she could have yet she'd been volunteered for a more local job. Was it fending off invaders? Fighting some vicious local monster? Nope. Something was making the reservoir by the city dirty and they had been asked to go and clean it up. Or Aito had, and she and Viral were volunteered to accompany him for some reason. Not that she minded doing this, but given her last job this was awfully boring by comparison. 

"I hope they're going to be okay on their mission. That's a lot of people to have to watch out for," Yumi thought aloud, glancing out the window of their vehicle as it rolled along the streets. That Eris woman had gone along with their friends along with 4 other Beastmen. While all of them were keen on fighting they had no idea how capable any of them were, all the more reason they'd gone to take on a relatively easy job. Leaning back into her seat she let out a soft sigh, folding her arms and one leg over the other. "Why do you need help running tests on water again? I don't even know the first thing about this sort of work," she asked with a look to Aito, "Wouldn't Vegeta be a better assistant here? It's not that I don't mind helping, we're happy to help. But... I don't get why us?" Viral was intelligent too but she'd never known him to be terribly scientific. She could look at water and probably even smell what was wrong with it, but that didn't mean she'd know what it was or how to fix it. That sort of work was well beyond her ability.

"I figured it's not a bad idea to expose you two to a bit of science. Knowledge is a good thing," Aito answered, smiling knowingly as he eased the vehicle down a maintenance road, "And the work is quite simple really. We just put the water into some tubes, add chemicals and, if the water changes colors, we know whats in it." They had the same process back on Earth actually though the chemicals the Uuonians used were a bit different. Pollution aside he had brought Yumi and Viral along for a wholly different reason altogether, one he'd yet to tell them. When studying the samples brought to him he'd noticed some irregularities, traces of what almost appeared to be bacteria. When examined however the cells began to join together, becoming a noticeable blotch on the petri dish and even beginning to grow. Had he not sent a current through it to kill whatever it was he'd have had a potential problem on his hands. Simply put something more than simple pollution was taking place here, and bringing along a few extra bodies to potentially deal with a threat wasn't such a bad idea. That and he'd rather have company, working along could be so dull.