Getting Back in Touch

Habana grinned as she strode through the star port, the Radditsu port was not home to many particularly impressive ships, the bulk of it's ships were actually just basic pods, the main transportation for low-class warriors as they often neither needed a grandiose ship nor had the funds to afford one, the larger ships mostly belonged to businesses or more well off mercenary's. Of them all however perhaps the most impressive simply by default was the one most familiar to Habana. The Pixie Blue, it belonged to her friend and ally Pin and up until she'd acquired the Eclipse it had effectively also been her primary mode of travel chiefly by Habana seeking out Pin and dragging him to the ship in order to go somewhere.

It had made sense then to do so, Pin was the first person she chose to start working with once she'd become Commander aside of course from Zucceta herself. Unfortunately Pin's work on Namek at Zucceta's behest had necessitated that Habana spend a bit of Zeni on a ship of her own, the Eclipse was nice, small and sleek it was excellent for taking off without letting anyone know where she was going due to the ships built-in stealth drive technology. But the stealth tech necessitated it to simply be a seated vehicle where the Pixie had enough space that actual training could be done, Pin had even installed a gravity chamber to make that training go even better.

Approaching the Pixie Habana realized just how long it had been since she had really gotten to see Pin, sure technically she had reunited with him not long ago during the fight in Korgustu Square but that had been a brawl and it had provided minimal opportunity to actually interact with Pin, or with the child that had been accompanying him. Shortly after Pin had contacted her to see if she wanted to swing by the Pixie to catch up and now here she was.

Stepping up the ramp Habana walked through the doorway taking a quick glance around Habana found the place to be in a familiar sort of disorganized chaos, it was vaguely reminiscent of the state it seemed to always end up in after she dragged Pin and Jala off somewhere, it was just a bit odd considering that Habana did not necessarily peg Pin as a particularly messy person himself.

With a shrug Habana wandered through the ship until she reached Pin's office, to her surprise she could hear voices within, raising an eyebrow she stepped into the doorway and found, as expected, Pin himself, but in addition to him there was the child who had been near him during the fight with Zucceta. It seemed that she had been right that they were connected in some way, it also helped explain why the ship was in it's current state as not only was there the girl but in her arms was a small black kitten.

To Habana's amusement Pin seemed utterly distracted as he zipped around his office, he seemed to be trying his best to get the office into a more organized state and to hiss credit it appeared very nearly done. For now Habana would remain silent and wait for one of them to notice her presence as she propped herself up against the door frame and watched them with a grin.

Pounce showed his affection with scratchy kisses to Kay’s webbed fingers, and the girl laughed with delight in the way the young should. As he started to tell her that he didn’t think of girls like that her mind immediately went to the pin-up but he beat her to the punch saying ‘except for the very rare occasion.’ The child shrugged and went back to playing with the cat who seemed to be teething. Grabbing a chew toy for Pounce to bite, she gently tugged it back and forth with him as Pin told her about their forthcoming guest. In a way, she felt honored that he wanted her to meet his friends. All three feet and forty pounds of her felt unworthy, though, of meeting people of such renown and merit. Granzel she’d heard of as well and maybe some day she’d meet that mysterious man but, honestly, Kay-El was more interested in Habana and the like. Those people were the ones legends were made of.

As if the thought could summon her, the scouter went off and promptly rebooted itself. Looking towards the door when Pin did she watched as her brother greeted the newcomer, someone she recognized now by both face and name from that day in the square. That had been an exhilarating day, to be sure. One to ‘remember,’ as Pin said, when she not only got to meet the Queen but was able to witness a Saiyan reach a new transformation beyond anything Kay-El ever saw before. But, naturally, in front of this stranger Kay returned to her usual quiet, observant self. Respectful, she remembered what her military adoptive mother used to spout about ‘children are supposed to be seen and not heard.’ And even then, if Kay could have gone invisible, Pea would have preferred that. If she wasn’t heard, rarely was she observed, as with what happened with General Mayze recently. Keep to herself and adults tended to forget she was there which worked for her as often as it didn’t. If Pin hadn’t called her into this meeting she’d have thought to leave them to their reunion, but he must want her there for a reason, right? With a shrug that meant everything and nothing all at once, she looked Pounce in the eyes who looked over at Habana curiously. They shared more than just an inquisitive personality trait, the girl and her cat.

Pin laughed as he shook Habana's hand.  What a complete asshole, standing there in silence, eavesdropping.  If it had been anyone else, he'd be kicking himself, but considering Habana was one of the few people he could let his guard down around, it didn't really bother him at all.  The Commander would probably continue to bust his mechanical balls about the conversation he'd had with Kay until the end of time, but that was pretty much par for the course.

"It's definitely been far too long.  I feel like the last time we really spoke was when that Earth android visited.  I never did make it to that training session..."  Pin mused.  He'd been called away on his mission to Namek shortly after the encounter with Cipher, if memory served properly.  "I was hoping to make some more progress with my own training before we crossed each other's paths again, but well fuck it."

When Habana referenced Kay-El, Pin smiled and looked at the little girl.  A younger model indeed, though he wasn't sure about the replacement bit.  The two of them held very unique positions in his life, and he doubted either of them could replace the other, or be replaced.

"She followed me home.  Can I keep her?"

Pin winked at Kay, and gestured for her to introduce herself.  He'd decided that it would be best for him to let her do her own talking.  Give her enough space to get socially assertive.

Habana let out a sigh as Pin mentioned the 'training session' that he had managed to escape thanks in part to Zucceta ordering him to Namek “You and Mayze both managed to avoid it which was lucky for the both of you. I'd planned to throw Jala at you and let her cut loose” Habana said with a smirk, her mother had as of yet not actually had an occasion to put her full power to the test her scouter indicated now however that such a 'threat' was not actually substantial against her mechanical friend as Pin's power was far beyond Jala's a fact that would very likely cause the older saiyan a bit of frustration but ideally would give her a bit of additional drive to grow stronger, she was unlikely to let a bunch of young warriors outclass her for long if she could avoid it.

“You don't give yourself enough credit Pin, I might not be able to feel your power but a scouter doesn't lie you've gotten MUCH stronger since we last saw each other and are worlds beyond when we first met” Habana would then turn her attention back onto the young saiyan before her, Kay-El, a slightly odd name sure, perhaps either she was not raised on Vegeta or her parents merely had different taste in names than the norm.

The girl continued speaking and revealed a VERY strange point of information about Kay and Pin's relationship. She'd called him her brother. Habana briefly favored Pin with a questioning look at the revaluation, she had been under the assumption that Pin was in fact an entirely mechanical entity meaning that his ability to actually have siblings would necessitate that they too were mechanical, other androids created by his own creator. Not quite proper 'siblings' by blood but essentially the same.

The problem of course was that Kay was not an android, if she possessed any cybernetic enhancements they were not enough to even cause a change in her energy flow as she was as easy as anyone else to read. “A pleasure to meet you both” Habana said with a smile as she returned her attention to Kay giving Pounce a scratch behind one of it's ears. Part of Habana wanted to actually ask about the Elephant that had promptly placed itself in the room but with Kay present it made addressing it a touch more difficult.

Watching as Habana and Pin exchanged yet more looks in the way old friends did, Kay fidgeted a little on her perched seat atop the desk. Pounce nipped at her fingers, the little cat was teething, and Kay reached in her pocket to produce one of the toys she’d gotten for his teeth to find rather than her more tender flesh. He meowed softly and batted the thing away which jingled a bit, and then he performed his namesake and pounced. Landing on the floor he gave chase the the toy that had bells attached, completely enthralled by this new development.

It was clear from his posture and attitude Pin wanted Habana to guess at who sent Kay after Pin or, rather, told Kay he existed and suggested she find him. Either way, she wasn’t going to split hairs with those details and instead of blowing up his spot and ruining his game, Kay watched Habana as well. Pin had mentioned Habana knew Sam and also called him ‘uncle,’ oddly enough, and that’s what the five year old always called him. Although she knew him for about a full year now, most of that time was spent training.

Again, that training of not speaking unless spoken to kicked in and since Habana only responded to her before engaging in further conversation with Pin, Kay kept her silence and divided her attention between the toy chasing kitten and the conversation between Pin and the Commander.
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Queen Habana
(Sorry, this fell off of my ‘participated’ thing apparently :/ )