An Unlikely Pair; The Warrior from Space and Martial Artist from Earth

All of this began when a martial artist, having just recently gaining his own dojo to teach his style of martial arts, found a strange pod that crashed into the eath nearby one morning. There was a woman inside, dressed in odd armor, who had been injured and fallen unconscious. The martial artist - a man named Juhua - carefully got her out of the strange circular pod and brought her inside the dojo. There, he could more easily tend to the wound on her head and let her rest. She awoke a few hours later, though she wasn't the most docile person when she came to.

She moved right to attack the stranger, but he didn't react at all or move to block her attack. She stopped it right before her fist could make contact with his face, Juhua only commenting that he was surprised by how tall she was - they were almost the same height, and Juhua was tall even for a man. Since that seemed to distract her, he went on to explain what happened earlier that day. At the realization of her space pod having crashed, she rushed out to it to assess the damage. It was a quick revelation that she'd be stuck there for awhile, until she could fix what was broken, so Juhua offered for her to stay at the dojo until its repaired.

Over the next year, the woman - who eventually told him her name was Trata - ended up acquainted. He insisted on helping her repair the space pod even if he wasn't the most knowledgeable about normal Earth technology, let alone that of another world, and eventually she also began training with him. Over time, it was fixed well enough to be sustainable in space, but there was a little problem that came by the time the repairs were complete. Trata hadn't exactly intended to get as close to the human as she had, as such feelings - at least the kind by Earth's definition - were seen as a weakness.

Still, the two wound up a couple. And, as luck would have it, Trata figured out she was with child just a few days before she planned to leave Earth. With there being no possibility to risk the force of leaving Earth to return to her actual ship, she had little other choice but remain on Earth until the child was born.

The Small Child With Ruby Eyes

When her daughter was born, Trata could only stay for a short time to recover before she would need to return to her duty as a Saiyan warrior. The day before, she warned Juhua that other Saiyans may come looking for her, leaving Earth in the night after Juhua and the infant fell asleep. It was for the best, in her eyes, as Juhua wanted other things for the child than she did.

When Juhua awoke to find Trata gone but Jasmine still asleep, he had to sort out what to do. He hadn't wanted her to know of her Saiyan lineage if Trata left Earth, knowing it would surely be dangerous if what she warned him of was true. So, he decided it would be best to hide both it and the fact that he was her father. He removed the tail she was born with, and tweaked the story of what happened in his head. Instead of Trata leaving alone, he would say that her parents entrusted her care to him while they explored the vastness of space. It wasn't entirely wrong, though he felt guilty that he would have to change the truth a bit.

Juhua raised Jasmine as a normal human, and although she was mostly like your typical toddler, there were a few interesting quirks. Particularly, while the little girl's hair was softer than a full-blooded Saiyan's, it still was quite wild. Most means to tie it failed, and she also seemed to recover from injuries a little easier than normal human children. Jasmine, believing 'Master Juhua' to be her mentor, was set to become his apprentice and eventual successor of the Shengkai Dojo.

A Visit From Space! Where did this illness come from?

Six years after Trata left Earth, three Saiyans arrived with just one mission; find and retrieve the Saiyan child mentioned to be there. However, because Jasmine was only half, many features common in full-blooded Saiyans weren't apparent with her; she had different hair and eyes, and was unaware she ever had a tail. With Trata having neglected to inform them of where she could be found, the Saiyans eventually left empty handed.

However, they also left something behind. It was a minor illness to them, hardly any different for them than the common cold for humans, but Earthlings didn't have the same immunity to it. As the illness spread, it became more and more serious. People began to die from it, and the pace of these deaths only increased over the following weeks. It grew into an epidemic within months, but thankfully, it hadn't yet reached the Shengkai Dojo.

About this time, Jasmine had begun her training as Juhua's apprentice, having been told that her parents entrusted her to him before they left to explore space. Though the concern over this illness was growing, they continued to live a quiet life as Juhua taught her all he knew. Though, there were some training mishaps; Jasmine hit her head on the edge of a door at one point, and at another, was somehow able to get herself caught on the peg of a training dummy. She had to wait there until Juhua returned from gathering herbs to be freed; he was actually rather impressed that she managed to do that.

A Pandemic; The spread of a dangerous illness!

Within about two months, the illness grew to pandemic levels, infecting people across the globe, It was killing many, and even more who survived had side effects from the disease that may never leave them. Although it didn't seem that the disease would make it to the Shengkai Dojo, Jasmine and Juhua were still rather cautious of wandering away from the dojo. They were lucky not to get it; Juhua simply out of luck, and Jasmine due to her partial immunity.

Jasmine's training continued despite the growing pandemic, as it could thankfully be done with just herself and her mentor, away from most other people. She quickly gained an understanding of what she was being taught, just as Trata had told him she would due to her Saiyan blood. Combat and discipline both came easily to her, and by the time she was ten, she had begun learning techniques most didn't learn until their late teens at the earliest.

As time passed, the world adjusted. A cure had just begun undergoing development, but there was no telling when it would be completed. All the people could do was wait and persevere.

A Potential Cure At A Cost

Over the next few years, medical personel across the world were working feverishly to find a treatment - even a cure - to the illness that struck their world. One was eventually proven effective, but there was a problem; the two major powers in their world had begun arguing over who would recieve the first supply. Neither seemed to budge on their stance, but talks were being arranged to decide on a solution.

The first two went well, but that didn't last.

During the third discussion, one side had an assassination attempt occur, although it failed. The culprit revealed that they were hired by the other side and was able to give valid proof of this, and so, the discussions fell through. The leaders of both returned to their own contries, preparing for what would be done about this. Jasmine could tell something was wrong when news broke out, but Juhua tried to assure her that everything would be fine.

But his smile was ever so slightly off after that.

Retaliation; The moment everything fell apart

With the failed assassination came grave consequences for everyone.

War was declared and things quickly escalated. The two global powers decided to use their most powerful weaponry against each other to decide who would gain the chance to cure their people of the disease; bombs made from uranium. Many locations were targetted, including the large city that could be seen in the distance from the Shengkai Dojo, and there wouldn't be enough time to flee.

Juhua asked his apprentice to go into the bunker, where she would be safe, but refused when she asked him to come with her as it could only sustain one person. Jasmine rejected the idea with that realization, trying to push her mentor inside but he was immovable. Juhua then came up with a plan; he offered Jasmine to stay with him, knowing that what was to come would only be more difficult alone. Jasmine agreed, but when she was distracted, was knocked unconscious with a hit to the back of her neck.

Juhua caught her, and took her into the bunker. He activated everything neccessary for her to survive until the end of this nightmare, then left the shelter's interior and activated the lock. He returned inside the dojo, and awaited what was to come.

Sheltered From Destruction and a new friend

When Jasmine awoke, she was alone in the shelter. The doors were sealed tight, and what technology was there was already operating. In particular, there was a little computer that, when she started thinking out loud, actually responded to her. It called itself G4-14 so Jasmine nicknamed it GALA, and soon the AI began to tell her what had happened. GALA was installed into the bunker before Juhua found it, and is why the shelter was still able to be used; while he managed to fix some minor problems, most required GALA to fix and so only needed to keep its power going.

It showed the footage it captured before its camera was broken, depicting her mentor knocking her unconscious and entrusting her to GALA, before leaving the bunker. The next it showed her was the blast from the bomb, before the footage cut to static. That was where its camera failed. The young martial artist broke down, with the AI awkwardly trying to console her.

Once she'd calmed down, she asked if she'd ever be able to leave, in which GALA told her eventually she could - at least, once the fallout cleared. GALA had a monitor that would tell them when it was safe to leave. However, the AI warned that once she left, it would be deactivated as its purpose had been served. And so, Jasmine spent the next few months with the AI, until its readings showed that the fallout had cleared. GALA thanked Jasmine for treating it as a person rather than an AI and quietly deactivated, allowing the doors to unlock on their own.

Alone and Afraid On The Scarred Earth

A few months after the bombings occurred, the fallout finally cleared enough to leave her small shelter. When she came out of the bunker, only vague remnants of the Shengkai Dojo remained; the blast had obliterated just about everything in sight. A young Jasmine was left there within the ruins of her lost home; whatever food was still in tact had long-since gone bad, safe for a few spare days' worth in the shelter.

She spent the next two weeks there, her fourteenth birthday passing without her even realizing it. She built Master Juhua a makeshift grave, filling it with whatever flora was left nearby as there was no body to bury, where the tea flowers he had been growing once were. Eventually though, her body became weaker from the lack of food, and fresh water was starting to become harder to find in the immediete vicinity too. Finally, though she was terrified to, she finally left the ruins of the Shengkai Dojo.

Eventually, she collapsed from exhaustion, only to be found by a small group of other survivors. They'd originally thought her dead, but once they checked and realized the teenager was alive, quickly got her back to the little settlement they'd established. She stayed with them for a time, but it didn't last. One of the survivors grew irritated with her, thinking she was getting special treatment, and began turning everyone else against her.

Jasmine was eventually run out.

Learning To Survive; A Decade-Long Trial

Over time, Jasmine got used to surviving on her own. Amazingly, her training beforehand proved quite helpful, allowing her to handle the harsher conditions a little easier than the other survivors. It allowed her to set up multiple little "bases" around the area she stayed in, fairly out of sight or in places others would think impossible to act as shelter. She even managed to find some old books in a library that still stood somewhat, which allowed her to avoid any dangerous flora and fauna.

She appeared to other people less and less often, eventually only showing up once in a blue moon to trade or very rarely pass along a message to another settlement. However, this isolation soon became a double-edged sword; while she was often safer by being alone, she also grew to fear other people and what social skills she did have quickly deteriorated. She became extremely guarded and blunt over time, private to a fault in order to avoid any mishaps with other people.

Of course, even that would never prepare her for what was to come.

The Fateful Day! A Life Turned Upside-Down

Ten years to the date after the bombings occurred, Jasmine found herself negotiating with a small settlement just outside the ruins of a small (almost village-like) town where her current "base" was located. She'd tried to talk into lending her a bit of food in exchange for the ammunition she'd found. She didn't have much use for firearms, given her exceptional martial arts abilities, but she slipped up and said the wrong thing to their self-appointed "leader". She recieved some nasty cuts - one from a bullet that grazed her leg and another from a knife put to the base of her neck - and fled, leaving half of the ammunition there. They chased her for a short time, but eventually she lost them after ducking through a few alleyways in the ruined town.

She managed to return to her makeshift base, the lowest level of the town's small library (or rather what was left of it), otherwise unscathed. She began to treat the injuries with a first aid kit she grabbed from an abandoned hospital a few days prior, but she hesitated. Something was watching her, but no matter where she looked, no one was there. Thinking herself just paranoid, she continued her self-treatment.

That was when she heard the deep, bellowing voice - not audibly, but in her head. She hardly had a moment to think before she was blinded, and felt something around her shift. It was as if she were moving, but she was entirely still.

Time Broken Apart

Outside the bounds of time, the Supreme Kai of Time begins noticing anomalies appearing in the many branching timelines. The powers of those who once threatened so much were growing unexpectedly strong, so much so that she hadn't known what she and her assistant could do on their own. The Supreme Kai of Time Had devised a group of time travelling warriors referred to as the Time Patrol, lead by her assistant - a man who managed to travel through time to create a better future, Trunks - but would they be enough? It didn't seem so, they needed more help. Trunks came up with an idea, one to utilize a powerful relic.

They could gather the Dragon Balls. With all seven, they could ask the Eternal Dragon to bring someone to Toki Toki City, someone with the potential to help them in this mission. The Supreme Kai of Time came to agree with him, sending him off to gather them. Thankfully, it wasn't particularly difficult for them, and Trunks began the preparations to make that fate-defining wish...

A Wish Granted; The Future Warrior Appears!

Having gathered all the Dragon Balls to Toki Toki City’s pedestal, Trunks summons Shenron. When asked for his wish, he explains that he needs a warrior with the potential to help him stop the force manipulating the timelines. The dragon’s eyes glow as the wish is accepted, and with it, a bright light begins to shine. It gains a humanoid figure, and once the light fades, reveals the warrior Shenron brought to Toki Toki City; a woman barely any older than Trunks, with crimson red eyes and long brown hair. Problem was, she didn’t exactly look like a warrior, being dressed like just a normal civilian. The woman looked confused, glancing around only to eventually spot the huge dragon looming in the sky behind her before it disappeared, scattering the Dragon Balls in doing so.

Trunks approached her, and the woman was immediately put on guard once she spotted the sword on his back. Apparently she was right to do so; without so much as noting her confusion, Trunks lunged at her with the blade unsheathed with the woman only barely dodging the sword’s motions. Though, he instead decided to come at her without any weapon, given she herself didn’t have one. She had a lot of trouble fighting back, but eventually, came to realize she’d have to. The scuffle came to a halt when something occurred that shocked both of them; with a loud yell, a barrier seemingly made of Ki keeping Trunks at bay, only ending when she went silent. With that, Trunks stopped fighting her, apparently impressed.

Tossing his sword into the air and letting it land perfectly in the sheathe on his back (and scaring the woman half to death in doing so), Trunks apologizes for attacking her, explaining that he had to test her. The explanation began once introductions were out of the way, that Trunks wished for the woman - Jasmine - to be brought to this city that seemed outside the grip, all to help him fix the worrying changes in history. Jasmine has doubts that she’s anything of the sort of warrior he’s looking for, but he disagrees; Shenron wouldn’t make a mistake like that. And so, although uncertain of what she must do, agrees to help Trunks in his mission.

With that over, Jasmine officially became a Time Patroller, and Trunks lead her to the Time Nest.

A Temple Where Time Gathers, The Time Nest

Upon entering the Time Nest, Trunks pulled out a scroll with a strange violet aura flowing around around it. As he began to explain what was happening, he placed the scroll on the table before them - unraveled - as it showed a scene play out. A man in odd armor had an aura around him similar to that she could see on the scroll, completely overpowering the other two fighting him. As she watched the scene play out, Trunks continued on with his explanation; that none of this was meant to go on the way it had, and that he needed her help to stop it. When she questioned why he needed her to stop it, it was revealed that he had wished her there for that exact purpose. He would be keeping an eye on things, but had to stay in the Time Nest for the time being.

Trunks closed the scroll back up, and held it out to Jasmine. Though she was reluctant, she accepted and allowed it to send her back to the time he'd shown her; Age 761.

Gohan Kidnapped! The Saiyan From Another World

As Raditz fights Goku and Piccolo, he at one point knocks knocks the two away and dodges Gohan's attempt to stop him. Seeing the opening, Raditz tries to kill the then-unconscious Gohan with a ki blast, but misses as a new power level is detected by his scouter. When the dust clears, Jasmine is seen lying the sleeping child in a safe place on the ground before her attention is turned to him. Though Goku and Piccolo are confused, having never seen this woman before, they assume she's on their side since she just saved Goku's own son from certain death. The two of them get back to their feet, and they begin to fight again with their newfound ally.

The fight itself isn't easy. Apparently the flight Trunks was capable of and those energy-like attacks were actually pretty common among these guys, with her being the only one that couldn't utilize either. Still, despite this, their efforts combined were enough to defeat Raditz. It was in a way that Jasmine hadn't been prepared for, though; Goku, the father of the kid she just saved, sacrificing himself to ensure Piccolo's attack would land. She took that time to hide away, watching from behind the face of a cliff before allowing the Scroll of Eternity to bring her back to the Time Nest.

The Supreme Kai of Time Appears

With the first of her missions complete, Trunks and Jasmine began to head their way out of the Time Nest in order to take care of the numerous wounds she'd recieved while fighting Raditz. However, as they left the Time Vault, a rather large owl caught their attention, and with it a small Core Person. Trunks was quick to introduce her as Chronoa, the Supreme Kai of Time whom governs the entire place. Though, Jasmine learns quickly that the idea of wishing her there was merely a suggestion made by Chronoa - and that Trunks was supposed to prepare her better for the fight.

After scolding Trunks for - as Chronoa put it - not treating Jasmine 'like a lady', she uses her power to both heal her and replace her tattered clothing with a new gi that would be much easier for her to fight in. She then instructed Trunks to teach her to use ki and to fly, so that she would have a bit less trouble in the next part - it would be needed, as apparently more scrolls were beginning to change. Though he's uncertain about the idea, she encourages him - besides, it was his responsibility to help her since he was the one that brought her there.

With that out of the way, the two leave the Time Nest to begin Jasmine's ki training.

Time To Manipulate Energy!

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