Despataorito

Alpinia, much as Taori loved her, was quite the snorer. He laid in bed next to her as she slept, her snores the only sound that filled their humble home in Tarbel Village. It didn't really prevent him from going to sleep, though in the early morning, he typically awoke first, and didn't always feel like immediately getting up and ready. So, that meant laying in the dark and listening to the raspy rhythm of his wife's snoring. Still, as he turned to look at her snoring, drooling, mouth agape face, he couldn't stop himself from smiling. And then, another noise entered his ears that wiped the smile right off. In fact, it was loud enough to jolt Alpinia awake, as well.

"Huh?" she groggily mumbled as her eyes blinked open, and both of them sat up in their bed. It sounded like... Some loud, shrill singing? Or, chanting? It didn't seem like it was coming from very far away outside their home. "What the hell...?" Taori grumbled as he threw off his blanket and stood up to head outside. He was almost at the door, though, when Alpinia raised her voice. "Taori, wait!" she said, and he glanced back at her. "What?" She gestured down below his waist. "Put some pants on." He glanced down and, indeed, he was not wearing pants. "...Good save."

A few moments later, Taori, now wearing pants, emerged from the front door and headed towards the source of the sound. And when he got close enough to see what it was, his eyes widened in a mix of shock and horror. A Destron Droid?! Here?! Taori wasted no time inserting himself between the old Saiyan who the Droid had knocked down and the robot itself, immediately falling into a battle stance. "Get out," he warned the Android. Some of them could think for themselves, and he hoped this one was one of them: he wanted to avoid fighting in the middle of Tarbel Village. "Now."

Oh, great. It was a bot with an attitude. Taori sure loved those. His face looked rather unamused as the Destron Droid quite sarcastically mocked his arrival, though it almost seemed as though it had been waiting for someone like him to arrive. He supposed there was one benefit to the amount of sass this hunk of metal was giving off, though - the more annoying they were, the more satisfying it was to bust them down into nothing but bolts and dented chunks of steel after the fighting got started. And, if this thing was going to keep acting like this, Taori felt like a fight was inevitable.

"I don't hate it, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite," he replied in a matter of fact tone of voice. "My wife likes it, though, so I've learned to tolerate it." As the robot sat itself down her tilted his head from side to side, cracking his stiff neck. His arms were soon stretched after that, followed by his legs, and the Saiyan twisted his waist around to finish up. Having just climbed out of bed, Taori was still quite stiff, so if there was going to be a fight, he needed to loosen himself up a bit first.

After he was done, he cracked his knuckles, then got himself ready. "Personally, though - I'm more of a heavy metal guy. Rather, I love the sound of it breaking." In a flash, Taori burst ahead, his hands positioned behind him, both simultaneously bursting out explosions of ki in a direction away from the Android. However, this was all by design: the momentum of the explosions rocketed Taori forward in a spiraling motion, his leg outstretched and primed in a position to kick the Droid right in its neck with tremendous force!

While Taori had been hoping to knock the Destron Droid flat on its back, he supposed driving it into the very ground it sat on was a decent alternative. He'd certainly done his part to show he was a force to be reckoned with, at the very least. Although, as powerful as the blow had been, he knew it wouldn't quite be enough to take the thing out in one hit.

He'd left his scouter back in the house, but based on how it reacted to his strike, they were probably fairly close in battle power. It had definitely been hurt by his attack, so it most likely didn't have too much power over him, but it had also withstood it decently, which ruled out the idea of him being too far superior in might. Either way, he was going to have to play this one carefully if he didn't want himself or any of the other Saiyans in Tarbel to get hurt.

And this bot certainly did have a mouth on it. Taori's face was unamused as the droid made a mockery of the idea of two Saiyans getting married. Though, he supposed it wasn't exactly like the robot was capable of feeling love itself - so what would it really know about any of that? "No," he curtly replied as the droid asked what ceremonies were involved in his union with Alpinia, "We crushed a cup."

And then it was back to the fighting. The Droid summoned forth some metallic globs which swiftly formed themselves into more conventional, sharp weapons as they hurtled through the air at Taori. How fun. Taori leapt back and kicked away the first couple of weapons that reached him, though it was hard to respond to every single one of them at once. One nicked his arm, and another his cheek, until finally he'd knocked away the last one.

"Not moving from that spot, huh?" Taori asked, "Gonna be hard for you to do that if that spot doesn't exist anymore!" He then slammed his foot into the ground, propelling himself ahead as ki charged up in both of his palms. One ki ball was sent hurtling towards the Droid's face, while the other was launched a moment later, aimed straight at the stage the robot was on top of. Both were primed to explode on impact. Taori felt confident the city council wouldn't mind the destruction of property, given that it was for the sake of keeping everyone in the village safe.

...Although, admittedly, he was mostly keen on destroying the stage out of spite for the robot.