Hatchi Hijinx

For Nasu it was of course just another day in this Tuffle metropolis that by now he had been overseeing day after day, even if quite unofficially so. Although he believed he had earned a reputation thus far to at least be friendly enough, even if his face as of late expressed anything but kindness.

Ever since he met Vocado he could not help but think back to his words; he could not believe that some people were conspiring to attack Hatchi just for the sake of bringing back the war. It simply made no sense to him, which gave him some insight as to what kind of people he would have had to deal with, nevertheless his routine did not change much.

He was a lot more alert than usual, however. By now he simply sat across one of the many rooftops, he would have had to actually reach out to Cheri soon enough about the information he had gathered by now. Given some time to prepare, maybe Hatchi will be able to defend itself well enough, otherwise Nasu has pretty much decided to watch out for anything suspicious, as usual.

So far so good, for now it was just the usual life. Flying vehicles, people that just walked around and there were also some interesting advertising going on; Tuffle bread? He could not help but wonder what that would taste like, but when his thoughts descended upon his imagination in the hopes of picturing it, instead his ears were suddenly alerted by… an alarm. Since he was expecting an attack, of course he did not quite enjoy this one bit and immediately shot off into the skies to reach the source of said alarming noise.

Once he made it close enough, he only found a dusty old place. However he could spot its front doors to now be open, it did not look much like an attack. At best someone forgot to turn off the alarm before opening the doors, but in any case he decided to investigate nevertheless. He descended onto the ground, and once he did, he only found one individual and it was a Saiyan.

It was not much of a surprise to spot a Saiyan here in this day and age, of course. But nevertheless Vocado did say that some of their kin decided to help Fukushu out with that wicked objective. So he needed to play it safe, besides there was also no excuse for just busting a place's doors obviously. He did not know if that was typical behavior for Vegetans but surely something was not right.

“Who are you? State your business here right now.”

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The Saiyan herself looked like she was slowly putting her mind at ease, which of course was fine also for him, he had only prepared himself mentally for a possible skirmish but it looked like maybe they could just switch to something a little more civilized after all. Which was weird, given it was all thanks to the Arcosian; again another point to his theory as to how dangerous Arcose could be with its words alone. Brumal too felt like quite an influential presence when he fought him at the tournament, but no matter now, of course.

Nasu nodded quickly in response to Cato when she mentioned the mercenary’s name. He was in agreement that it was not exactly precise from where such rumors started, in any case he felt it was all too strangely connected to the individual and would make sense as to how Vocado told him that Fukushu managed to even gather Saiyan supporters on his side.

“Yeah. I am Cheri’s friend and colleague. We work on a project to restore Sadala, by all means and definitions any sort of similar tensions between Saiyans and Tuffles will only harm all the hard work we have been putting into that, besides reigniting old wounds. There are plenty of reasons we seek to restore it, but nothing along the lines of moving the Saiyans there; see it as a symbol of peace between our people, rather. Something born of both Tuffle and Saiyan hands.”

Oh, he was somewhat getting good at promoting this thing. A few months back he would have probably not known what to describe that much, but anyhow he felt like he did not need to really go too much in depth. He had already announced in front of nearly every Vegetan back in the throne room, so rumors were probably out already.

“At the time we spoke with Azoth, too. I will have to pass by Arcose again in the near future to see if we can still count on the Empire’s support but I fear I can not move off Plant until these tensions are quelled.”

He said, with his eyes having briefly stopped over Ticoga until he turned once more towards his kinsman.

“I will reach out to Cheri soon, then.”

Nasu did not know how easily Cato would have gotten that chance to speak with Cheri, even the man had a hard time reserving some time to talk with her, but given the situation he was sure the Chancellor would give it some priority.

Ticoga’s account made things hard to pin down, by all he could tell, it could have just been this Heran’s men that staged an attack.

“I find it hard to believe that Tuffles played any part in that attack. I do not say it is impossible, but if they had anything to do with it, they have nothing to do with Hatchi and the current government. A rogue batch, at best. Whatever this group was, you can not deny that it is favorable to Fukushu’s cause and what he hopes to accomplish.”

Which again, not even he knew exactly what he could get out of reigniting a war. Was he just crazy for bloodshed? He did not know, but he wished to understand obviously. Just like he tried to do with Kamae, where he asked him a couple of questions to understand what led his actions to follow the methods he did.

A little bit of hesitation passed through Nasu, of course he could not just deny that it was probably for the best to make sure there was nothing suspicious. It was the best thing always to be transparent and again he could have possibly have overreacted, because he was somewhat under the mood after having heard Vocado about what was to come soon. In no shape or form did he really doubt Cato anymore, but he did not know to what extent this level of investigations would be acceptable in Hatchi. It was true that he had been a guardian of some kind, even if very unofficial, but he never had to really be this aggressive at it. He had his doubts, certainly.

“I will be honest, if any Tuffle is developing something outside the scope of self-defense, they are doing it somewhere outside of Hatchi. Probably an underground base or something. I do not have any reason or proof to believe there is anything like that going on, but the Tuffles are varied and different, just like my kin or literally anyone else is. Of course you will have a mad scientist in the lot, but my experience is that no one wants war in this city.”

He shut his eyes shortly and pondered it over, for a lengthy moment until he just sighed his doubts out for both of them to hear.

“Even beyond the mad scientist theory, no one would develop anything of that kind in facilities within the city borders. They would easily be detected and shut down. That is honestly my only bone to pick against this kind of investigation. But of course, if it serves to calm the waters, you can count on my oversight. I can probably pull some favors if we are stopped by law enforcement.”

Even if he would rather not have to bother Cheri or really anyone else for something of this caliber.

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In a way he also shared the sentiment that he had not much to say about the Heran, all things considered he did not really know anything else beyond Vocado’s words. He did not even have an interaction, as far as he knew, at least. Given he did not exactly have any dots connected thus far outside of his fellow Saiyan’s information. But they were enough for him since in the end he would meet him at the moment of the attack if it went through, therefore his mind rested easy on that matter. Whatever he was or did was currently none of his concern.

“I can not say you are wrong there.”

True, maybe outside of a select few there would not be much fear to be had, but at that point he was not really sure what point there was behind attacking a tavern. The only things his mind could really fall back on were a couple of possibilities such as the act having been entirely disjointed and disconnected from Fukushu and the rest, or perhaps there was something or someone in that tavern at that time that they could not possibly understand or picture at the moment.

The man watched while Cato put the door back together. He guessed that was probably fine that way, it would end up getting repaired sooner or later, there was no need for him to really bother with having to consult whatever guy was up for this place’s maintenance. Much like the other two had reaffirmed it was probably best to just check with the Chancellor at this point and he agreed, the first thing after talking with Vocado should have probably been that but knowing her she was probably all crammed up in her office.

Well, he was going to disturb her no matter what. The more time passed and given even this scene and all the extra information he gathered about the latest events, he figured this was more of an emergency than what he believed earlier.

“Yeah. I will head off now. I will bring her up to speed. Thank you, and take care. Both of you.”

Nasu hopped off the ground and soon he floated away into the distance, his energy levels dropping to an irrelevant level not to disturb Cheri on his way there much like last time while heading off towards her office.

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