Jump City
I'm pretty sure Catherine's Lab, job, or whatever, had cameras in her living room, I highly doubt it was that simple to get that lab off my back, much less the US government; here was some unknown creature that was previously stuck inside an orb, as they told me before, and now I was living rent free at the moment to stay at Catherine's until I could put a down payment on my own apartment.
Reading those library books really helped sell the point that I was learning about this world and other things any common person would need to know to function as any reasonable person would.
Course, the question popped up how I knew how to learn English literature that fast, I just replied with 'fast learner'...which was close to the truth. Kid Buu is supposed to have some sort of ability that allows him to see something once, and use it as well; I was just stretching some bullshit truth to help me here, might have to test it later if I can actually learn other languages easily to back up my claim.
Stepping into the kitchen after taking a shower, while this body of mine didn't seem to produce that nasty smell of sweat, I still worked around heavy equipment and plenty of other machinery that had exhausts that would spew out noxious fumes; on top of that, I just just wanted to feel a bit fresh and relax in a five minute shower.
While I was a male Majin, my tool downstairs was gone…gonna need to play the Taps for that sometime later…after learning to play first…I have a list somewhere I think.
Wiping my head dry followed by the antennae atop it, pulling it a bit as well to test the elasticity of my body again; I yanked it forward and wiped the piece of my body dry, before letting it go to relax atop my head.
Wearing my new pair of baggy blue pants, I stepped up to the microwave and extended my arm a bit to place heat up the container of my food I brought home; some nice noodles and chicken
With the microwave humming to life, I took my towel to the hamper near the entrance to the bathroom, and tossed it into the bin.
Walking back to the microwave once it was done, I pulled my food out and took it to the kitchen table to grab myself a seat and eat; using a plastic fork that came with my order to go, I ate my takeout food with gusto, but it was missing something.
Looking over at the bag of sugar beside the coffee maker, I extended my arm over and grabbed the bag of sugar, and pulled my arm back over to sprinkle in some sugar; for whatever reason, this body of mine preferred sweats just like Fat Buu did.
Putting the bag of sugar away back to its spot, I continued eating my meal in relative peace. The television was still on after Catherine left, leaving it on the news channel. My curiosity was piqued a bit when the news reporter stood outside the bank I went to and cashed my checks at.
"Thanks Keith. As you see behind me, is Jump City's bank, where not but a few hours ago, an attempted bank robbery took place."
The female reporter looked quite nice and happy, while the male newscaster in the split screen news expressed some concern as he leaned against his table.
"I see, and what of the robbers, and the hero that stopped them? Were the police able to ascertain the hero's identity."
The female reporter smiled apologetically, I continued to watch the news with barely any gratification. I was there, they interrupted me cashing out, I stopped them. End of story.
"Well…unfortunately for the robbers, the hero broke a lot of their bones, and from what bystanders were able to detail about the whole thing, the hero has been the local novelty worker down at the docks!
The newscaster raised his brow a bit, and smirked.
"Ah, that weird looking guy down at the docks. Didn't we cover some of that story two weeks ago about the local alien worker?"
Some amusement was shared between the two, while I began to tune them out. It really was quite a novelty, if I thought about it more, you don't see a caped crusader or an off world alien seeking work on Earth.
Really, I could go out there and be a hero, but that demanded most of my time…I could do it, but then that would probably lead to an escalation of villains rising up against me; that's how it works, right? A hero begins cleaning shops of their town, city or whatever, then all of a sudden he or she begins collecting a rogue gallery of villains to fill the vacuum for the hero to fight against.
It was sort of an escalation thing or something, not sure really.
Wait, what would my rogue villain gallery be?
Shrugging to myself, I struck my fork down, but found that I had eaten all of my food now, making me frown. "...me still hungry…" I grumbled, at the same time, internally annoyed that I was still speaking simple broken english.
Exiting out the front door of the apartment with my hands in my white hoodie pockets, where my wallet and flip phone was in, I stepped out onto the sidewalk with my sandals on and walked. There was a pizza joint I wanted to visit that looked very familiar from my memories; it looked very reminiscent of the one in the titular teen titan show, where most of the members of the team would eat pizza at.
I'd earn quite the few stares from the general populace, but it was getting less so over the weeks I spent in this city; some children even pointed their fingers at me while tugging at their moms' hands as they passed by me, but I paid them no mind. My stomach was aching for more, and I had some reasonable amount of cash on me to pay for more food.
Pausing in my steps after realizing something, I grumbled a bit, which caused a few bystanders to back away…guess my voice had the effect coupled with my appearance.
Jumping up to instinctively feel the sensation of flying, I took off to fly towards the more vibrant part of the city, passing over the roofs of the many apartment buildings. While feeling the wind blow past my face, I finally spotted the pizza joint I kinda remember, only seeing it more differently from what my memories could paint.
Again, people began pointing up at me, while others looked and simple went about their days, more than likely having seen me before; landed outside the double doorway of the pizza place, I stepped foot into the establishment to order up myself some good pizza, preferably anything beside pineapple on it…and anchovies….wait…would those taste any good to me now in this body?
…eh, I'll try pineapple later, I'm really feeling for some pepperoni pizza tonight!
Flashback to the day after Buu was released
Catherine
A day after the near catastrophic instant dubbed as the 'Majin Buu' incident in official records, her entire division was now staffed with xenobiologist; Buu himself was very accommodating contrary to the first impression everyone had with him. The entire room that once housed the orb he was supposedly imprisoned in, was now refitted with the state of the art tools to see what sort of creature Buu was.
Of course, from what broken English Buu could speak, he understood that the people looking at him were scientists studying him. In his own words, Buu spoke before he allowed one of the scientists to inject a needle into him and try to draw blood out, "Me know what you are. Understand what doctor is."
Whatever origin he was from, or civilization, it helped matters that Buu knew what a needle was and what everything around him was…
It also helped matters that he didn't just smash his way out. Catherine has seen him help lift the heavy machinery out of the room, before the team of engineers and crewman took it the rest of the way out; Buu barely looked troubled in lifting the heavy objects, so suffice to say, besides flicking the now fired former security captain, Buu's strength needed to be stress tested sometime this week.
The aforementioned needles never did draw out blood…just his own pink body that he could control himself and return back to him…not a total loss in understanding what Buu was.
Right now, Buu was sitting at a table, he had requested something informational about their world to help him learn, so a book was given while the rest of the scientists study the small pink blobs he allowed them to take from him; however, he gave a warning that they might come to life on their own and become sentient…
That was just nice, Majin Buu could spread his species via fission, and they weren't even sure what his weakness was.
Catherine took a seat across from Buu, and cleared her throat to begin speaking with the creature, and brought her clipboard up to begin writing it into, "If you would, my superiors have asked me to ask a few things…beside what you remember…" she smiled a bit to disarm the situation of tension in the air.
Buu lowered his book, and looked at her with an even look, his imperceptible gaze made her feel he was more than a threat than he looked, and he really was, after what Catherine witness as he was able to withstand a hail of bullets and easily flick the air to cause a person to fly across the room and crash into the wall.
Buu grumbled a bit as he placed the book down, and nodded, "Ask, don't know if can answer all…Buu wants something eat after." he grouched.
Catherine blinked at that, they hadn't done a full study of his body yet, but it does check out a being like him would have some sort of hunger pang like any other creature.
She smiled again and nodded, "I'll see what I can have our people get you…uh, anything you remember eating?" she asked.
Buu scrunched his nose a bit, before answering, "Sweet, Buu's taste buds need…something sweet." he grouched.
Hmm, his body probably needs high sugar contents, so his body was most likely firing off neurons in his mind to yearn for anything sweet, which helps that the word exists in his vocabulary.
Catherine looked over at one of the scientists that worked under her, Jonny was out for today, so she had someone else; The other man nodded back at her and walked off to exit the room and grab something for Buu to eat.
Returning her gaze to Buu, she began asking if he would be inclined to show anything he might be able to do; they now had xenobiologists in the room, something she wished would take this assignment off her hands, but nooo. The director insisted she stay and help the team with Majin Buu.
The word itself of Majin, she was pretty sure that it came from somewhere in the english language or somewhere else, but Catherine couldn't pin where.
After a few hours of Buu trying out different things, from showing energy orbs that could destroy anything, to using his antennae to turn an object into chocolate…something he did after he ate all the candy her assistant came back with, suffice to say, she didn't like the idea of Buu being able to turn everything into chocolate.
"Why turn people into chocolate?" Were Buu's simple words, which made most of the staff sigh with relief, it seemed he too didn't like the idea of turning something living into chocolate…for now.
They might have to bring in a cow to test if he could though…