Post by Cale Reigo on Jul 18, 2016 16:44:31 GMT -6
"Daaaddy!"
It was his day off. Cale was sleeping in. Cale never slept in.
"Daaaaaaaddyyyyy."
Where was Sammi? Hadn't she offered to keep the twins busy?
"Daddy!!"
A smack to the face finally roused Cale, and as his reflexed cried out to respond to the attack he reminded himself that it was just his precocious daughter Rava and not an intergalactic threat. "Yes Raba," he groaned, sitting up and letting the sheets on his body fall forwards, rubbing his eyes to peer at the young Saiyan girl. "What's wrong?"
"Cole won't listen to mommy and he keeps trying to go fly and shooting ki blasts and he almost hit Turtle and mommy had to stop one from hitting YOU and--"
Cale tiredly hushed Raba with a hand over the mouth, nodding solemnly. A crash resounded outside Kame House, the home that the Reigos had been using during their stay in the Age 1000, and he got up to handle the developing situation. Walking down the stairs with Raba in tow, Cale headed outside and narrowly dodged another ki blast, catching it in one palm and tossing it out towards the sea.
"GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE--" Sammi, his wife, shot by in front of him chasing Cole, their equally precocious son. It had very quickly become apparent that while Raba took after her father, Cole very much took after his mother. A troublemaker through and through, Cale took no small vindication in the way Sammi had to face her own demons in Cole for all the trouble she had given him years before.
"Youuuuu caaaannn'ttt geeeettt meeeee~~" Cole sang, zipping around through the air and firing off blasts in random directions, most of them thankfully going nowhere.
"DON'T MAKE ME HAVE TO--oh, hello dear!" Sammi stopped short in another round about the house, laughing to Cale nervously. "W-we didn't wake you, did we?"
Cale sighed, shaking his head and crossing his arms. Raba, standing next to and a bit behind him, copied his motion. "No, but Raba did." The pointed glare he sent down to her made her drop the mimicry in shame. "Why do you let him get away with these things for so long?"
Sammi shrugged, giving him a sly grin. "I'm just trying to let him get some energy out of his system. You know as well as I do that he won't learn otherwise. I mean," she sidled up to Cale, making Raba give a disgusted look. "I didn't~"
He rolled his eyes and looked up towards where Cole was flying in erratic arcs through the air, focusing on an area in front of the boy's intended path and zapping between dimensions for a moment, using Instant Transmission to pop up in front of Cole. The boy struggled to stop, crashing directly into his father's crossed arms and rebounding off just far enough away for Cale to reach out and grab him by the shirt. "Are you going to come quietly or do I have to file a report with the Patrol?" he asked the boy softly.
Cole, finally caught, blanched up at his father, gulping and nodding shakily. "S-sorry Daddy..."
"I'll bet," Cale responded, seeing through the child's bluff. He headed back down to Kame House's little island, depositing the boy on the sand while his sister ran up and Sammi walked calmly to Cale's side. "Cole we've talked about this, you can't just let everything out like that."
"I... I know!" Cole pouted, crossing his arms on the ground and glaring up at his father and mother. "But there's just... so much! I wanna know what I can do!"
Sammi knelt down. "And your father and I will teach you in due time," she assured him, giving his scruffy hair a ruffle. "But for the moment, you have to let Cale and I teach you how. There's never been Saiyan children as strong as you two are."
Cale nodded, almost grunting. "Control is key."
"Control is key!" Raba piped up, nodding back.
"Control is key..." Cole muttered under his breath.
"Good," Cale quipped. "Now if we've reached an agreement, and everyone is going to listen to their mother, I'm going to go back to sleeping in for the first time in several years."
"About that, Cale," came a painfully familiar voice from behind him, both of the twins lighting up and leaping into the air to crash into the large form of Kibitokai.
They laughed and zipped around him excitedly before Cole accidentally ran into Raba, causing the two of them to enter a childish tussle in the air and Sammi to rush in, pulling them apart and keeping them at arm's length from each other while speaking to the Kai. "Shin, what brings you to our little... paradise?"
"Yes, I'm curious as well," Cale shot the Kai a deadly glance. "What was so important as to interrupt the one day off I've taken in years?"
Kibitokai shrank a bit, clearing his throat. "W-we have a guest!" he explained, chuckling awkwardly. "The North Kai from another timeline has arrived very suddenly and wishes to speak with you."
Sammi looked to Cale questioningly, and he already knew what she'd want to know. "Why me?" he asked. "I don't recall ever meeting any of the Kais from any other timelines."
"Well, not you by name... but he has requested our strongest fighter and... well..."
Cale sighed, pinching his nose for a moment. "Has he said anything about why he's visiting Toki Toki City?" Cale asked, already forcing the still tired parts of his mind to begin working. It looked like sleep still wasn't going to come to him so easily.
"No," the Kai shook his head, white main flailing about. "He wanted the three of us there first."
"Alright," the lanky Saiyan nodded with another sigh. "Head back, tell him I'll be there in an hour. I at least want to get a good breakfast and spend a LITTLE time with my family today."
The Kai opened his mouth to urge Cale to go now, but another daggered look silenced him and he nodded in agreement, turning around and teleporting away. Sammi approached Cale, giving him a long kiss good morning and a sultry look when it broke, arms draped around his neck as the kids ran inside at the mention of breakfast. "You know, a few years ago you would have run off the moment that Kai said he needed you," she complained, grinning.
"Yes, well a few years ago I didn't have a wife and kids," he retorted, chuckling and giving her a half smile. "Not much point in protecting them if I don't know anything about them. What's for breakfast?"
Sammi ran a finger up his chin, flicking off of it and striding towards the house. "Whatever you want, Commander."
An hour later, Cale was in his full uniform, the modified Saiyan armor used by many in the patrol gleaming on his chest, Edge strapped to his back and putting the shine on his armor to shame. He approached the gateway in the center of West City, a massive open area emblazoned with the Time Patrol's crest. Soldiers saluted around him, but Cale kept walking straight forwards, his mind on what was waiting. "One for Toki Toki City, clearance Commander Reigo," he rattled off to the lanky Namekian working the logs this shift.
"Uh... wh-which one, sir?" he asked nervously, illiciting an annoyed twitch from Cale. These damned new security features. First the Kai of Time had INSISTED the Time Patrol's base of operations be moved to the neutral Toki Toki City, which resided between timelines, and then demanded that they start verifying anyone who came and went in increasingly convoluted ways.
"Commander CALE Reigo," he replied, the annoyance showing clearly in his voice.
"R-right, Commander C-Cale, sir," the Namekian stuttered, tapping away at his keyboard and causing one of the smaller portals nearby to open up. "You are cl-cleared for entry into Toki Toki City, Commander."
A part of him begrudgingly wished that he wasn't.
He stepped through, feeling the familiar weightlessness of Instant Transmission, the technique that the portals mimicked to move soldiers from Earth to Toki Toki City, closing his eyes to the multicolored pocket dimension that he was already well used to passing through. When he arrived in the massive, floating city Cale switched on the auto pilot, letting his feet guide him to where the Kais met while he watched the Patrolmen around him go about their business, taking notes of which were training the most dutifully, who all was returning from missions, and who all was leaving.
"Cale!!" Krain Nightspier ran up to him, panting and holding up a hand to stop his movement, the large gourd of sake on his back sloshing. "I-I'm sorry, I tried to tell them not to bother you."
"It's fine, Krain," Cale patted his longtime friend on the shoulder, shaking his head. "The Kais are going to do what they want. We're just here to fight their battles. Anything I need to be aware of?"
Krain shook his head this time. "Everything's been normal so far today. I was planning on checking up on the new recruits later."
"Let me know if any of them stand out. I'm going to go play pawn," he said, stepping around Krain and heading towards the Supreme Kai of Time's chamber in the center of the city.
He took a breath before entering the area, adjusting Edge's strap and walking into the waiting Kais' area.
It was his day off. Cale was sleeping in. Cale never slept in.
"Daaaaaaaddyyyyy."
Where was Sammi? Hadn't she offered to keep the twins busy?
"Daddy!!"
A smack to the face finally roused Cale, and as his reflexed cried out to respond to the attack he reminded himself that it was just his precocious daughter Rava and not an intergalactic threat. "Yes Raba," he groaned, sitting up and letting the sheets on his body fall forwards, rubbing his eyes to peer at the young Saiyan girl. "What's wrong?"
"Cole won't listen to mommy and he keeps trying to go fly and shooting ki blasts and he almost hit Turtle and mommy had to stop one from hitting YOU and--"
Cale tiredly hushed Raba with a hand over the mouth, nodding solemnly. A crash resounded outside Kame House, the home that the Reigos had been using during their stay in the Age 1000, and he got up to handle the developing situation. Walking down the stairs with Raba in tow, Cale headed outside and narrowly dodged another ki blast, catching it in one palm and tossing it out towards the sea.
"GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE--" Sammi, his wife, shot by in front of him chasing Cole, their equally precocious son. It had very quickly become apparent that while Raba took after her father, Cole very much took after his mother. A troublemaker through and through, Cale took no small vindication in the way Sammi had to face her own demons in Cole for all the trouble she had given him years before.
"Youuuuu caaaannn'ttt geeeettt meeeee~~" Cole sang, zipping around through the air and firing off blasts in random directions, most of them thankfully going nowhere.
"DON'T MAKE ME HAVE TO--oh, hello dear!" Sammi stopped short in another round about the house, laughing to Cale nervously. "W-we didn't wake you, did we?"
Cale sighed, shaking his head and crossing his arms. Raba, standing next to and a bit behind him, copied his motion. "No, but Raba did." The pointed glare he sent down to her made her drop the mimicry in shame. "Why do you let him get away with these things for so long?"
Sammi shrugged, giving him a sly grin. "I'm just trying to let him get some energy out of his system. You know as well as I do that he won't learn otherwise. I mean," she sidled up to Cale, making Raba give a disgusted look. "I didn't~"
He rolled his eyes and looked up towards where Cole was flying in erratic arcs through the air, focusing on an area in front of the boy's intended path and zapping between dimensions for a moment, using Instant Transmission to pop up in front of Cole. The boy struggled to stop, crashing directly into his father's crossed arms and rebounding off just far enough away for Cale to reach out and grab him by the shirt. "Are you going to come quietly or do I have to file a report with the Patrol?" he asked the boy softly.
Cole, finally caught, blanched up at his father, gulping and nodding shakily. "S-sorry Daddy..."
"I'll bet," Cale responded, seeing through the child's bluff. He headed back down to Kame House's little island, depositing the boy on the sand while his sister ran up and Sammi walked calmly to Cale's side. "Cole we've talked about this, you can't just let everything out like that."
"I... I know!" Cole pouted, crossing his arms on the ground and glaring up at his father and mother. "But there's just... so much! I wanna know what I can do!"
Sammi knelt down. "And your father and I will teach you in due time," she assured him, giving his scruffy hair a ruffle. "But for the moment, you have to let Cale and I teach you how. There's never been Saiyan children as strong as you two are."
Cale nodded, almost grunting. "Control is key."
"Control is key!" Raba piped up, nodding back.
"Control is key..." Cole muttered under his breath.
"Good," Cale quipped. "Now if we've reached an agreement, and everyone is going to listen to their mother, I'm going to go back to sleeping in for the first time in several years."
"About that, Cale," came a painfully familiar voice from behind him, both of the twins lighting up and leaping into the air to crash into the large form of Kibitokai.
They laughed and zipped around him excitedly before Cole accidentally ran into Raba, causing the two of them to enter a childish tussle in the air and Sammi to rush in, pulling them apart and keeping them at arm's length from each other while speaking to the Kai. "Shin, what brings you to our little... paradise?"
"Yes, I'm curious as well," Cale shot the Kai a deadly glance. "What was so important as to interrupt the one day off I've taken in years?"
Kibitokai shrank a bit, clearing his throat. "W-we have a guest!" he explained, chuckling awkwardly. "The North Kai from another timeline has arrived very suddenly and wishes to speak with you."
Sammi looked to Cale questioningly, and he already knew what she'd want to know. "Why me?" he asked. "I don't recall ever meeting any of the Kais from any other timelines."
"Well, not you by name... but he has requested our strongest fighter and... well..."
Cale sighed, pinching his nose for a moment. "Has he said anything about why he's visiting Toki Toki City?" Cale asked, already forcing the still tired parts of his mind to begin working. It looked like sleep still wasn't going to come to him so easily.
"No," the Kai shook his head, white main flailing about. "He wanted the three of us there first."
"Alright," the lanky Saiyan nodded with another sigh. "Head back, tell him I'll be there in an hour. I at least want to get a good breakfast and spend a LITTLE time with my family today."
The Kai opened his mouth to urge Cale to go now, but another daggered look silenced him and he nodded in agreement, turning around and teleporting away. Sammi approached Cale, giving him a long kiss good morning and a sultry look when it broke, arms draped around his neck as the kids ran inside at the mention of breakfast. "You know, a few years ago you would have run off the moment that Kai said he needed you," she complained, grinning.
"Yes, well a few years ago I didn't have a wife and kids," he retorted, chuckling and giving her a half smile. "Not much point in protecting them if I don't know anything about them. What's for breakfast?"
Sammi ran a finger up his chin, flicking off of it and striding towards the house. "Whatever you want, Commander."
An hour later, Cale was in his full uniform, the modified Saiyan armor used by many in the patrol gleaming on his chest, Edge strapped to his back and putting the shine on his armor to shame. He approached the gateway in the center of West City, a massive open area emblazoned with the Time Patrol's crest. Soldiers saluted around him, but Cale kept walking straight forwards, his mind on what was waiting. "One for Toki Toki City, clearance Commander Reigo," he rattled off to the lanky Namekian working the logs this shift.
"Uh... wh-which one, sir?" he asked nervously, illiciting an annoyed twitch from Cale. These damned new security features. First the Kai of Time had INSISTED the Time Patrol's base of operations be moved to the neutral Toki Toki City, which resided between timelines, and then demanded that they start verifying anyone who came and went in increasingly convoluted ways.
"Commander CALE Reigo," he replied, the annoyance showing clearly in his voice.
"R-right, Commander C-Cale, sir," the Namekian stuttered, tapping away at his keyboard and causing one of the smaller portals nearby to open up. "You are cl-cleared for entry into Toki Toki City, Commander."
A part of him begrudgingly wished that he wasn't.
He stepped through, feeling the familiar weightlessness of Instant Transmission, the technique that the portals mimicked to move soldiers from Earth to Toki Toki City, closing his eyes to the multicolored pocket dimension that he was already well used to passing through. When he arrived in the massive, floating city Cale switched on the auto pilot, letting his feet guide him to where the Kais met while he watched the Patrolmen around him go about their business, taking notes of which were training the most dutifully, who all was returning from missions, and who all was leaving.
"Cale!!" Krain Nightspier ran up to him, panting and holding up a hand to stop his movement, the large gourd of sake on his back sloshing. "I-I'm sorry, I tried to tell them not to bother you."
"It's fine, Krain," Cale patted his longtime friend on the shoulder, shaking his head. "The Kais are going to do what they want. We're just here to fight their battles. Anything I need to be aware of?"
Krain shook his head this time. "Everything's been normal so far today. I was planning on checking up on the new recruits later."
"Let me know if any of them stand out. I'm going to go play pawn," he said, stepping around Krain and heading towards the Supreme Kai of Time's chamber in the center of the city.
He took a breath before entering the area, adjusting Edge's strap and walking into the waiting Kais' area.