Going Ape
By Trynia Merin
Disclaimer: I don’t own DBZ, Toriyama does. Idont' own Full Metal 
Alchemisteither. Funimation controls the rights to these two series. I only own 
Cabernet and Atomique, and other fan characters you don't recognize from the 
anime series. KISS and references to its members and fictional superhero powers 
are property of Marvel, Dark Horse, and themselves. I don't get paid for this, 
and it means no harm.
This chapter rated R for adult content such as language, nudity, and references 
to sex.


"It's about that time again," Radditzu murmured, glancing at Nappa. He had taken 
Atomique's hand and led her out to where Nappa and his mate Cabernet stood 
looking eagerly at the setting sun through the windows. 
"Yes," he nodded, glancing meaningfully back.
"What time?" asked Atomique. "Another mating ritual?"
Cabernet blinked twice, gaping at Atomique incredulously. "You mean you don't 
know…"
"She'll learn all she needs to know from him, you impatient wench," Nappa 
grunted.
"Make sure you tell her EVERYTHING she needs to know, you stupid whelp," said 
Cabernet. "And you demand to know or kick his ass, girl…"
"I shall," Atomique nodded, seeing the wink that Cabernet tossed her.
"Now, my skin's crawling and I'm itching to hunt, so let's GO!" Nappa barked at 
his mate, grabbing at her. She wrestled with him and they started to exchange 
blows.
"What the hell? Oh I get it, you like to beat the shit out of each other before 
you have sex?" she asked.
"Not so much THAT," Radditzu purred. "But they test one another's strength. And 
there is still yet another trial or so to face before the Royal approval has 
been made…"
"And they're renewing their vows, right?" she pointed at the others.
"Pretty much," Radditzu nodded.
"My children are going to forget what I look like…"
"My brother knows you're busy, so don't worry. He will not let them come to 
harm," said Radditzu, stroking her back.
"You guys have been so… so cool about all this," she said. Nappa and Cabernet 
stopped wrestling long enough to blink at her.
"More sentimental horseshit, really," Nappa barked at Radditzu.
"Excuse the hell me for giving a damn," she snorted.
"Ignore him. As far as we're concerned you're okay, Tomique," said Cabernet.
"Why?" she asked blatantly.
"You're one of us now," Cabernet said gruffly before she and Nappa walked out 
together. Their tails uncoiled from their waists lightly flicking across one 
another's backsides. Atomique felt her heart pounding in vast surges, sending 
huge gusts of what felt like liquid purple fire through her veins.
"Is it just cause I've grown a tail?" she asked.
"Woman you know well that they accepted you long before that. It simply clinches 
what you've become," Radditzu said dismissively.
"So regardless of this, Cabernet still would have…"
"They accept Buruma as their Princess," said Radditzu.
"Because the Prince will kill them if they don't," she mumbled.
"The Prince chose her as his mate. He has NEVER chosen a mate before. And never 
a non-Saiyan. It's never been done. Only when we had desperate times and it was 
commoners who did so. But a Royal…" Radditzu said quietly.
"I shouldn't question it. It's pointless," she said, shaking her head.
"Good. Cast it from your mind, and think of more important matters. You have 
another week to continue training before your satisfaction with your rival…"
"Oh Man… I almost forgot! My challenge to Dragon Womyn?" Atomique asked, letting 
him slide a sturdy arm around her waist. She wondered what the social morays 
were in terms of mates and public displays of affection, yet she guessed if it 
were unacceptable Radditzu would not have bothered.
"Yes you did, love," Radditzu said, pride gleaming in his eyes.
"Holy smokes, I'm a glutton for punishment. She's probably going to stew about 
it and think of some more nasty things to say or do to try and aggravate me," 
Atomique rolled her eyes.
"I don't think she'll be fool enough to humiliate you in public again… now you 
must train extra hard to fight her…" Radditzu said. Placing pressure on the 
small of her back just above her newly grown tail, he guided her towards the 
exit of the cafeteria. Atomique did not bother to question him because right now 
she only wanted to be with him, her mate and nobody else. He alone had seen her 
vulnerable, yet he had stood by her.
"Is this part of that traditional ritual?"
"This won't be permitted till your training is formalized," Radditzu said. "If 
she still wishes to have the honor of serving the Prince of All Saiyans she'll 
have to wait for his royal decree or risk humiliation. By then, you'll have 
mastered your ki direction…"
"What about the children?" she asked.
"My brother will care for them. He knew that this was going to happen… I mean 
with regard to the traditional Saiyan Mating ceremony. That's why you need not 
worry…"
"What will they think?" she asked quietly.
"Why should you care?" he asked matter of fact. "I guess there's no need 
worrying because it's done… I wonder if they'll insist… I get rid of it…" she 
shivered.
Radditzu bared his sharp teeth, hissing, "They had best not… unless you…"
"I don't want to," she murmured quietly. "It… suits me better… at least now I'm 
not going to be… weak against Blackwell ever again. He won't EVER… crush me or 
steal my children. I swear I'll destroy him…"
"And he shall," he nodded.
"I feel so… so…" she whispered.
"Embrace it. Don't reject what makes you stronger," Radditzu urged. "This 
happened for a reason. And it is not for us to question the will of Great Father 
Oorzu. Or the promise of the legendary…"
"They're going to shit bricks… when they see this," she whispered. "Will they 
try to take my children away?"
"Not while I breathe," Radditzu promised. "And they are OUR children, not 
theirs. And my brother won't let them…"
All the time her tail had come apart from her legs, slowly arching back and 
forth as if to ponder her dilemma. With a great force of will she managed to 
steady it, then practice positioning it at various places. She walked slightly 
hunched over with it extended and when coiled about the waist upright. A whole 
smorgasbord of smells and taste assaulted her, and grew more pungent by the 
moment. She let her glasses drop from her eyes.
"I don’t' need these anymore…" she said, looking down at them.
"Your eyesight is far superior even as a half blood," he muttered. "If what I've 
observed from my nephew is true, your power will be more then adequate…"
"How long does this last, Radditzu? Only as long as I'm pregnant?" she asked.
"Hard to say. I would hope that you'd remain this way… not that I did not desire 
you in your ningen form. What was inside has come to the fore," he said. His 
hand rested over her armored belly, feeling a strong ki. A brow cocked upward 
with the sensation of what seemed double what it would be from a pregnant 
female.
"I'm starving," she whispered.
"Perhaps you'd like to hunt for something later. Come with me…" he urged, taking 
her hand and leading her out.


She felt something brushing past the back of her leg as they walked along, 
guessing instantly what it was. With but a thought she let her own appendage 
lazily drop and move freely behind her. Perhaps when off duty they allowed the 
free movement of their tails, when they knew there was little chance of being 
caught, she surmised. Inside the center of the dome they came to a halt, and 
Radditzu pointed up towards the stairs spiraling up to the top of the converted 
office building. It had become the Saiyan living quarters and training facility 
for the growing number of soldiers in his employ. He gathered his ki to levitate 
himself up towards the skylight crisscrossing its bars to seemingly hold back 
the deepening night sky overhead. Automatically it opened, allowing them both to 
fly up into the night air spilling over West City. 
Spires twinkled, and they hung there, facing one another before Radditzu touched 
his booted feet on the curved top of the dome immediately outside the round 
skylight. She rested next to him, and grabbed his outstretched massive hand to 
steady her. Already sharp pinpoints of light precipitated from the hazy navy 
blue, while twinkling points denoted stars.
"Beautiful," she muttered.
"Indeed. One grows weary of remaining cooped up in artificial environments. And 
worrying about prying ears…" he added.
"Do I have… to kill her if we fight?" she asked, standing opposite her mate. 
Faint orange radiance from the streetlights bounced off the curves of her armor 
and his. Eerily they seemed a matched set, facing one another with hands resting 
on each other's waists. Her tail flickered clumsily against her thigh, then 
diverted to the back of his muscular one.
"Yes, if she refuses to apologize and abase herself, admitting defeat," Radditzu 
said. "And gives you back the injury she put upon your honor…"
"How do we fight?" she asked. "Some sort of gladiatorial one on one with the 
Prince and royalty watching?"
"That's but one way. It's however the Prince decides it's to be settled. Some of 
us fight in Oorzu form, while others chose one on one arena style or a hunt…"
"I don't want to kill her," she said. At first Radditzu grimaced because he 
thought she was being sentimental, but he saw her swallow the fear.
"You're Saiyan, woman. That's part of what you are…" he said, with a labored 
sigh.
"You misunderstand. I don't want to kill her because it would be a waste," she 
added. "Not because of any sentiment…"
"Ah… I see…" Radditzu nodded, stroking her hip, eyes widened.
"To kill I can handle. To survive. But to kill just without any use for the 
resources is wasteful. Why hunt just for sport when you could eat a kill? If I 
do have to kill her, I want full justification for it. It's far better if she 
lives with the humiliation that I stood her up, should it come to that…" she 
trailed off.
"You surprise me, and yourself," he nodded in appreciation. "But there will be 
times where you'll have no time to assess the pros and cons, you'll just kill on 
instinct…"
"Like I did as a State Alchemist," she sighed deeply.
"Indeed. I have an urge to fly away for a bit from this small city," he said. 
"Come with me… you appear as though you need it as well. The exertion will 
strengthen the children…"
"It is stuffy in here, love," she agreed. With precision he focussed his energy, 
then levitated to a height of fifty feet to hover overhead. She realized he was 
waiting for her to join him with his own power, so she reached out her ki to 
focus it as she had learned. More easily she defied gravity, levitating till she 
drifted right next to him, only six inches between them.
"This way. Catch me if you can, woman," he called. Something cracked against the 
backs of her legs, stunning her with a mere sting. It registered he'd swatted 
her with his tail, so she suppressed a frustrated snort of outrage to streak off 
after him.
"I'm going to find you, you hairy baboon," she laughed to herself. He made no 
effort to hide himself, simply letting her trace his ki with the scouter she 
wore. With more energy she flared a thicker envelope that sliced into the thin 
air.
A sheer flush of power shot through her, giving her an additional boost. 
Radditzu was toying with her, flying just beyond her range, then letting her 
catch up. When she had just about matched his pace, he burst ahead.
"Nice, but you'll have to try harder," he mentally chimed into her mind.
"Hey you! Make up your damn mind!" she shouted back, focussing her thoughts. All 
she heard was Radditzu's telepathic laugh ringing behind her temples. Balling 
her fist, she generated several purple spheres of light that orbited her fist. A 
spread hand gestured one to shoot past him at great velocity, while the other 
two remained just behind her, hiding by her body.
Radditzu turned, blocking one with a blast, then sent a beam whizzing towards 
her at great speed. She directed her second orbiting sphere to intercept then 
the third directly into his face. Yet she sensed something streaking just behind 
her at the periphery of her perception. That blasted double Sunday of his, she 
mumbled. Atomique let the beam slam into her back, and she curled her body up to 
plummet citywards.
"What the hell are you doing baka! I didn't hit you THAT hard!" Radditzu 
shouted, streaking down in his attempt to catch her. However she slammed a blast 
right before his face, blinding him.
"Sucker!" she cried.
"Ohh… you're going to pay for that, love," he laughed, clearly unharmed by her 
prank. By smell alone he shot off after her, heading towards the mountains 
beyond the city.


Radditzu closed his arm around her waist, dragging her towards his body. She 
struggled to break his hold, gasping with muscles unaccustomed to their new 
strength. A move Jeannie had used against her came into her mind, using her tail 
to wrap around his legs. Yet that would most likely leave her tail vulnerable. 
"How will you free yourself now, love?" he laughed.
"I'm working on it…" she grunted. Small jerks of her muscles squeezed against 
his hold. Something occurred to her. Bringing up one leg she hooked it around 
the back of his, then flipped her body forwards. She began a summersault with a 
generated stream of ki from her two flailing hands. Radditzu struggled to hold 
on as the angular momentum increased.
"You'll only make yourself sick love," he said. "I'm accustomed to operating in 
directionless space… without a need for a frame of reference…"
"Kuso," she grumbled. Gathering her ki she was this close to transmuting the air 
around him into nitrogen, then she stopped. Instead she formed a light mist of 
plasma that began to glow and flicker. Just the right frequency of the plasma 
would cause it to act like charged particles of an aurora. Radditzu was 
momentarily curious to see what she was attempting with this light show.
She stopped rotating, and levitated still. Radditzu tightened his hold on her, 
slowly bringing his arms in. Her hands misted with ki, generating the spheres 
that surrounded them both in the circling orbital. "You're just as trapped as I 
am…"
"You can't go anywhere either," she snickered. Radditzu realized her 'orbitals' 
were constricting, each of the independent 'electron' spheres coming ever 
closer.
"What are you doing love?"
"Watch…" she snickered. "You were the one going on about being used to outer 
space… well how about a little game of tracking trajectories? You can't tell the 
position and velocity of each of these can you? You can only GUESS where and if 
they're going to occupy the same SPACE as your head…"
"Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, yes I'm aware of your earth scientists 
theories," he laughed. "I'm fully versed in the physics of many worlds scholars, 
researches and the like…"
"Thanks to your father?" she asked.
"I shall tell you more, if you let down your barrier and we shall call time," he 
said, releasing her arms. His tail slid around her waist, lightly tickling her 
ribs. Each orbital dissipated, inches from singing his hair. Radditzu smile 
twitched into a sly half grin showing feral white teeth while his hands found 
the fastenings of her armor. Below them the surrounding forest teamed with the 
wildlife that had been recently released into them.
"You sure?" she asked. "You playing games with me?"
"I could very well be," he purred, sliding his hands down to beneath her armor. 
His finger slid along the corner of the spandex, lightly tugging at it. She 
gasped as he started to rip it away.
"Hey!" she yelled.
"You don’t need to cover your lovely skin… as one of us you're going to be near 
impervious to the elements…"
"What ELEMENTS are you talking about, monkey man because you're talking to a 
chemist…"
"The 114 occurring ones of course," he snorted.
"114?"
"Bejitasei orbited a double star system. One of the things our science counsel 
did was naturally discover the locations of naturally occurring 114. In the 
depths of the galaxy of course," he laughed. "Don't look so surprised. I don't 
subscribe to that fool thing of four elements of that backwater alchemy. Your 
true understanding though limited of this ningen 'periodic table' is one of the 
few things that shows some spark of intelligence…"
"So Saiyans have a periodic table?"
"But of course," he murmured, unfastening her armor and letting the pieces drop 
into the trees below. She snorted in frustration, growling and squirming.
"Jerk, I just know I'm going to have to find those damn things…"
"Then we should go someplace less exposed…" he nodded, levitating her down into 
the treetops. How ironic, she thought, landing in the trees as tailed primates 
when humans put such a premium on landing in the treetops and leaving them as a 
sign of intelligence.
"Humans think themselves so evolved because you lost your tails? How silly? We 
never lost them but when we left the trees we ate what hunted us… and the most 
aggressive of the primates next to you are the chimpanzees…"
"And the baboons…" she grinned.
"Hence calling me a hairy baboon is a sincere compliment…" he chuffed into her 
ear.
"Savage, vicious and annoying…" she added. "But oh so enticing. My hairy 
Neanderthal baboon…"
"The Neanderthals may have no tails, but they were… similar to Saiyan. Far more 
attractive than your most 'lovely' fashion models. Strange how you ningens still 
have traces of them…"
"They were two species that cohabited the planet…"
"As we and the Tuffles did on Planet Vegeta. But we won, and you Cro-Magnon won… 
unlike the unfortunate Neanderthal who were what we'd consider a superior 
species due to their strength. But you cannot deny there were crossbreeding. For 
your body type resembles one…"
"I love it when you talk scientifically. It's very arousing," she whispered.
"It was intended to be, love," he murmured, pulling her into the branches of the 
tree. Bits of armor hung here and there, and he soon added his own to dangle 
near hers. Fingers tore off the leggings and arms of her AE suit, while he sank 
his teeth into her neck.