Ice Cave

-----So I've been not doing enough physical activity, so I need to start doing exercise, stretching and going on walks. I'm not like over or under weight, but I also forget to eat sometimes so that's a problem. So Yeah every time I do a dbz chapter I am going to also try and make a day of exercise, which might mean the day I write the chapter and the day i publish the chapter will be different. That's all. Hope y'all keep health too!-----

I looked around the mountain scanning chunks of the mountains for anything odd. Eventually I found a cave with strange shaping to it. Flying to the location of the cave it was buried in thick ice that I started melting through. Heating it up with just a small beam of ki. Eventually getting inside of the cave I had realized why it was odd. It was a man made cave with wooden supports.

I estimated the wood was maybe 50-100 thousand years old. I would have to physically analyze the wood to get the right age. However looking at the damage it had sustained I likely couldn't do any large movements. I lightly tapped one of the wooden supports and the wood actually broke apart at my touch. The ice behind it shifted slightly, meaning it wasn't all one piece.

I floated off the ground ever so slightly and continued down the cave. I didn't want to slip on the ice after all. Scanning the cave it went down into the mountain to a large open space. The place I arrived was a little...Astonishing. i had to use some ki to see, but it was certainly worth it.

"Holy cow...Perhaps I should've tried to bring Chi-Chi here?"

The opening led to a large cave filled with plants. The ground was a little muddy, but it was solid and from what I could tell the plants had rooted deep into the ice. Literally feeding of the cold. It was actually beautiful. I had to admit I loved flowers, but these were truly incredible. I started to taking samples of the plants and the bright pink flowers that grew from them. When I touched one of the flowers it bite me.

I withdrew my hand slightly and noticed the blood that dripped from my hand. It wasn't poisonous, but something was funky about the bite. I passed my ki into my hand and the odd feeling disappeared.

"Interesting, it has the ability to infuse ki into its carnivorous bite..."

The question now was what did it feed on normally other than the cold within the air. I cut samples from the plants and wrapped myself in my force-field to prevent them biting me again. Carnivorous plants were some what rare. They also had the ability to both producers and consumers. The question was however what light did they absorb while in this cave?

The answer was none, it was nearly pitch black in here. So these plants had become ki producers similar to that of the senzu beans. I still wondered what they normally ate though. I looked down to the ground and re thought about the showing this place to Chi-Chi. I took a picture of the literal writhing mass of centipede like creatures. I bubbled some in a force-field and captured them, but I didn't want to touch the disgusting creatures myself. At least while they were still alive.

I moved into the cavern while the hanging plants tried to wrap around me, but my force-field zapped them away. The masses of bugs seemed to follow me, but as I head towards the center of the cavern less and less followed below me. Eventually none followed and the plants cleared away almost entirely, but a weird black grass.

However the slow absence of the plants and bugs at the center of the cavern was not the most interesting thing. It was instead the broken and destroyed spaceship that sat withing the center. i scanned and and found it extremely radioactive.

I would be fine, but it was very very strange. The spaceship was obviously converted into a home, but the primitive rockets and clear cockpit. I dropped to the ground and felt the grass reacted to me. Pulling away from my presence. I opened the door to the converted spaceship and the smell of death hit my nose. I was slightly sickened, but my curiosity pressed me forward. Within the space I found a mess. A skeleton presumably what caused the smell had sat in the corner. It had three eye sockets and was almost double the size of a normal skeleton. With the bugs outside its no wonder the skeleton was stripped of its flesh.

Analyzing the space I found a tank, like the kind that contained pet reptiles or...centipedes? I picked up a tablet of some kind and a picture frame. In the picture was a group of triclops like Tien. However this group had baby blue skin and tiny horns. I put the picture frame back down, but kept the tablet. I would turn it on after I search the rest of the ship. Opening into a secondary room i found it was a mess of of the same plants outside. However these were withered and dying they attached to the plants outside though through a hole in the roof. Broken pots and watering cans were scattered around. The area was a air filtering system for the ship it seemed.

I checked the next room on the spaceship finding it led to a broken down engine that used an extremely deteriorated radioactive substance. This was where the radiation was coming from, from the air filtering room and this one I guessed at some point the fuel source broke-down and the plants in the ship and died while the ones that spread outside had survived.

Entering the last room excluding the cockpit was a sort of bathroom kitchen area. It had a bunch of really older containers of unknown brand name foods. With nothing worth investigating unless I wanted to try some incredibly old canned alien food. I left for the cockpit and found it converted into a bedroom. It was also with anything notable. I had however sat down in one of the seats and took out the alien tablet again and plugged it into my bracelet to power it. An alien language popped up and I translated it.

It was a logbook. I skipped through it and reading the pages I found interesting...

----Sorry, but y'all gonna have to wait till next chapter. I will likely post it as an extra to this one, but it won't be directly connected to this one on the schedule.----