>>5647964https://youtu.be/O4guQY47tzQThe two of you appear in what looks like a throne room, and your sudden appearance catches a number of guards and others by surprise. “Videl! Welcome, welcome!” Kuriza on the other hand is more than happy to see her there, and eases everyone with a wave of his hand. “Ah. Hey Peppa.” he remarks more neutrally, walking towards you both after hopping out of some personal hoverchair of his. He’s wearing an outfit similar to the ones he and Videl wore for the Tournament, though with the addition of some fancier PTO armor over the chest, cape attached to the shoulderpads.
“Hey!” you greet warmly.
“From your message you seemed to need my help.” he remarks, tapping his Scouter. “…with something about a world that was destroyed?”
“It’s… a bit of a long story.” you say as you rub the back of your neck.
“I have time.” he says confidently. After a beat, though, he calls out to a koala-looking alien, “Sorbet, make sure I have time!”
“L-Lord Kuriza, this is highly irregular…” he complains, shoulders slouching.
“Yes, it is.” he acknowledges. He then motions for you and Videl to follow him without any further remarks to the koala guy. “So, long story you say?”
“Well…”
As you all walk and talk, explaining what happened with M2 and the Machine Mutants, passing along a few people that keep greeting and saluting Kuriza in a friendly manner. You arrive in a smaller, more personal-looking room, part office, quarters, and… er, playroom. You see some alien figurines, action figures, plush toys… oh hey he’s got some game consoles from Earth!
Kuriza sits down on a chair that’s like a giant bean bag, yet filled with some more foam-like material given how he sinks back into it. “So the Machine Mutants lost their other big world, have been trying to reestablish themselves, but likely have just erupted into some kind of internal conflict. You on the other hand were hoping to find them a new planet in order to ease tensions between not just them, but the rest of the universe?”
“That’s a decent summary of it.” Videl nods. “Anything to add, Peppa?”
“We also don’t want to encourage them to take over more planets, repeating what they did with M2 and attempted on other worlds. The catch is, they have some particular worlds they’d need, ones we’d prefer weren’t… you know… acquired by unsavory means.” you explain. “One with nanomachines that cover the planet’s surface like M1 and M2, or more inert metal worlds that could easily be utilized by them.”
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