"Well t-then it's not your fault, is it? If you didn't even complete your training no one can blame you..." Haku argued, smiling uncertainly at his own argument as he rubbed his hands together, "I mean... That's like a soldier being s-sent to fight without being trained, right? Good thing is we can t-train you, or... Someone can. I can't." He couldn't help with the blades, that was something entirely alien to a Saiyan and they didn't have anything remotely similar to that. Their biggest quirk were the tails which they were born with, albeit Haku like many others had theirs removed early on by one of the doctors. Without those they looked rightfully human which probably explained why he'd so easily melded into society back on Earth, even if he felt horribly out of place. "But someone has to know something... I mean... You s-said there were others like you before, right? That you didn't want to b-be like them," Haku pointed out, "So... We just n-need to learn more about them. And we already talked about going back to y-your home, so... That might work. Someone's got to know something right?"

How infuriating to have this theory and no solid evidence, it was enough to drive Vegeta mad. Unfortunately for his hypothesis as well neither Shu nor Takeshi had paid any mind to where the smoke itself had gone, and he'd only noticed a handful of wisps, hardly enough to be conclusive evidence. "That... Is actually a brilliant suggestion, Shu. I'm impressed," he muttered, looking over at their friend thoughtfully, "He was able to connect to Otherworld, I see no reason he can't repeat the same process here." Previously however it had something to do with spirits, hence the connection, and that wouldn't work unless someone had died on the other side. Barring that Vegeta was uncertain of what the parameters were but it was their best bet right now. Approaching T'charrl and Haku he waited until the latter finished speaking, clearing his throat to get T'charrl's attention. "If you're not feeling too worn down from the fighting there's something I'd like to test regarding the rifts," Vegeta explained with a nod towards the brothers, "We think that the vapors left behind by the monsters all moved towards one place, suggesting perhaps they're returning through that spot. I know you're capable of opening portals of your own, do you think you could try reopening one? It may help us reach the others."

"Hopefully T'charrl can do something, otherwise we're in a real mess here," Takeshi muttered as he scratched his head, "It's gotta suck being over there, you know? I wonder what the place is like. I mean looking at it through the portal was bad enough, but being there? I don't envy them..." Here they were already done on their end while Viral and the others were still probably duking it out with whatever lay beyond the rift. With little else to do for the time being Takeshi took a seat on the grass, motioning for Shu to join him. "Hey, relax buddy, we kicked butt and everyone's fine, there's nothing to worry about," he reassured with a pat on Shu's back, "You doing okay? Those things didn't hit you did they?"

Yumi had come so close to being squashed that she felt the air compressing around her, narrowly avoiding being smacked as Viral's kunai found its mark. Dashing up the creatures neck she stopped atop of its head and made another series of gashes along the length of it, drawing a fair bit of blood in the process. Far from done however she got atop the creature's head and grabbed hold of feathers for support, snarling as she freed one hand to smash a fist atop its skull, repeating the motion several times and causing the massive beast to yelp in pain. Figuring she could kill it this way she nearly toppled off when the creature suddenly spread wings from its sides, a fierce gust of wind almost uprooting her as it took to the air in one swift motion. Fighting to keep her grip Yumi held onto its flesh and smashed into its skull again, being yanked about in the process as it tried to shake her off. If she killed it then it would stop flying, and if it was dead it couldn't hurt Viral, these were the only two things she cared about.