Ch. 41: Preparing for Namek (2)

"Namek, huh?" Whis asked Kelsey, processing what she'd just told him.

"Yeah. Mistress will be interfering with Frieza's plans on that planet. She's also going to help the Earthlings get there, in order to warn the Nameks who are currently living there." Kelsey clarified.

"In the same way as she 'interfered' with her brother's little... problem?" Whis wondered.

"I don't think so. Being so direct was kind of a last resort for her. Apparently, he wasn't supposed to go wild like that in the first place, but Mistress wanted to attempt to have Gohan keep his tail, since it could be useful for his growth in the future. Unfortunately, she couldn't keep her power sealed while ensuring that Gohan's tail stayed on, so he lost it anyways." Kelsey told him.

"You don't seem to be that devastated by the fact that your mistress failed one of her objectives, Kelsey?" Whis wondered. He'd been living on Beerus's world with Kelsey for the last two months or so, and he knew that each Core girl had an incredible trust and attachment in their 'Mistress.' It even surpassed his own connection to the Grand Minister. Normally, hearing that her Mistress failed would've sent a Core girl into a huge spiral.

"Mistress didn't fail one of her main objectives, though. Her brother simply looked at the wrong thing, and consequently lost his tail. It honestly had very little to do with Mistress." Kelsey told him, her head cocked in confusion, like the idea that any of that was her Mistress's fault just didn't make any sense to her. It kind of surprised Whis.

The stronger a god was, the more of a perfectionist that they tended to be. It came hand-in-hand with arrogance. But this Hanna girl didn't think that way at all.

She had an incredibly precise plan, sure, but it also allowed quite a bit of leeway in case something went wrong. It was as if the end result was all that really mattered, and that getting there was just a chore, in her eyes. Mortals naturally tended to think this way, sure. If there was only one way that you could ensure a result, it was only obvious that you'd only worry about that one way, but as a god, Hanna could literally do whatever she wanted, as long as it didn't literally destroy the Universe.

Fighting against such a powerful deity would likely require the Grand Zeno himself to actually take her seriously, which would mean the instant annihilation of everything that existed, whether Zeno succeeded in destroying her or not. On top of that, if she were to attempt to match the Grand Zeno's power in order to defend herself, her personality would likely be sheared into a simplistic weapon, same as the Grand Zeno's personality had been reverted to nothing but the childlike nobility that defined him.

That was the true price of perfect, divine power, after all. 

In the future, when Goku and Vegeta would discover Super Saiyan Blue, that was because both of their divine energies were unexpectedly pure. All they'd wanted was to get powerful, and at that first step into the divine, the exact details of how they were to obtain that strength didn't matter as much as that purity.

Once they got past that during the Tournament of Power in the original series, their forms had diverged. Goku had gone down the path of 'Instinct,' since that was the main trait that defined his personality. Consequently, that path was incredibly similar to the path that the Angels themself had gone down, since it was the most powerful path. 

Meanwhile, Vegeta's path had been 'Pride,' a far different path, weaker, yet easier to advance in. But Whis didn't know any of this yet. All he knew, was that he didn't want to know what path this new god had managed to perfect.

"Alright. I won't interfere with anything that your Mistress does on Namek, then. Even if Frieza dies." Whis promised.

"Mistress thanks you." Kelsey told him, "Also..."

...

In another part of space, there was a large, balloon-like spaceship covered in reflector plates zooming through space. There wasn't a single person on the ship above the age of 18.

When the tyrant, Frieza had taken over the planet that the children had come from, their parents had shuttled them all into the ship, complete with a full life support system, security system, and enough fuel to allow them travel for quite a long time, before having the children blast off, wandering through space. Their original fate had been to keep wandering until they eventually ran into the ship that Bulma, Krillin, and Gohan had taken in the anime, after which, they would have kept flying until they made it to some sort of trading post type planet several years away from where they were currently, at the rate that they were going. Unfortunately, they wouldn't have enough fuel to make their trip without our help. 

Now, the children on board the ship were panicking. 

"We're flying directly into something that looks like a black hole, Zeshin!"

"I can see that! Try to turn around!" The leader, Zeshin ordered.

"We can't! The controls are shot!" 

The balloon ship flew right into the hole, which closed behind them.

"We... aren't dead?" one of the kids asked.

"Zeshin, we're in a different quadrant of space. There's nothing nearby... at all... Except for that planet over there."

"Can we control the ship now, Boon?" Zeshin asked.

"Yeah, the controls seem to be working." Boon said.

"Then let's try to go in that direction. We need to find the way to the planet that we were talking about. Preferably inhabited."

"I... Can't." Boon realized.

"What do you mean? You told me that the controls are working."

"I can change the speed, and make micro-adjustments, but I can't keep us from going toward that planet. We're not going to crash, I don't think, though."

The kids ended up orbiting the mysterious planet for about a week before landing, eventually starting their own civilization, finding all the information that they needed to do so mysteriously coming up on the computers. The gravity on the planet fluctuated widely from place to place, but the spot where they landed had gravity more than weak enough for even the youngest children to help out considerably with construction efforts. Unfortunately, the spaceship never flew again after they landed.

"Problem solved. We'll monitor and replace the planet into normal space when the time is right. We'll use the trading-post planet that they originally intended to go to as a spatial reference when we do." Chelsea declared, watching the children, who were in a solar system created on the far side of the Core universe. Currently, they'd disabled the actual 'ship' function on the spaceship, leaving a bunch of extra educational programs there instead.

Since the planet had been created specifically for their use, the children wouldn't have any problems settling there until their intellect grew enough to fix the parts on their ship that the Core Girls had disabled.

Once they were capable of taking care of themselves to that extent, the girls would place the planet into normal space-time and allow the children to choose whether to develop their own civilization on that planet or go to the trading post planet to which they were originally heading.

"What about that stupid planet in the K5-162 system?" Another Core girl asked.

"Obliterated in its entirety. Whis didn't object." Chelsea told them.

"I guess all that's left is to time the flight, then."

"Yeah. We're ready for takeoff."