The Spawn of Tadeo (invite: hipo)

"Yep! Shadic, back and in the flesh. Good to see you again, Penny," He almost forgot the receptionist's name, but he remembered at the last second. Shadic looked over at Azuki and winked, to which she just raised an eyebrow mischievously.

"Got yourself a little girlfriend, do ya? Hopefully the welcome desk pays well because you are kinda unemployed," She joked, to which Shadic just rolled his eyes. Penny seemed to be going back and forth with Tadeo before forcefully hanging up the telephone. Uh-oh, that couldn't be good. Tadeo, or Cristel, must've been in a bad mood or something.

The hybrid scratched the back of his head, "Yikes, that doesn't sound too good." He looked toward the staircase, "Where are we headed-?" Suddenly, a green portal opened up that led straight to Tadeo's hotel room. Shadic pointed at the Gate, "I guess right there. Thank you Penny."

He walked into the portal with Azuki not too far behind, "Wow, this guy must be pretty special to be opening up rifts in space-time to let us walk right to his doorstep. A thousand times more special than you ever will be, Lightning Rod,"

"Gee, thanks. Also, what?" Shadic asked in confusion.

Azuki looked at her friend blankly, "He can make portals out of thin air. I think that's how they work, anyways, with rifts in time-space or whatever. I've been chatting with Pico's little girlfriend Presta a lot recently about the science behind my techni-" Shadic held up a finger to his face, signaling her to shush.

"You're rambling. Stop it," Azuki wanted to complain, but their conversation was cut short when Tadeo announced that the door was unlocked, basically giving them permission to walk in. Leading the way, Shadic slowly opened the door, knocking as he did so. He looked inside and joked, "Happy New Yea- what the?"

The scene in Tadeo's hotel room was not at all what Shadic expected. He knew the guy had a surprise, but two kids!? "Well, uh, it looks like somebody's been gettin' busy," He joked, looking between Dymond and Galileo.

Azuki entered the room too, even more confused by the situation since she didn't know the residents. She flicked her tail as she looked around, not quite sure what to think. In her eyes, there were just two young parents with a couple of kids, which wasn't exactly out of the ordinary for Saiyans. Then again, a lot of Saiyan children didn't know who their parents were to avoid attachment, but she knew human culture preferred to raise their own babies. Azuki was more focused on what Shadic's original introduction was going to be, "Happy New Year?"

Shadic narrowed his eyes at his female friend, "Would you rather I said something cringey like 'Surprise!!'?" To avoid an argument in the doorway of the new people, Shadic turned to his green-haired friend and his baby momma with a friendly smile, "Hey guys, how's it going. I'll introduce my tag along once you explain WHY YOU HAVE NOT ONE, BUT TWO KIDS! WHY DO YOU EVEN HAVE ANY KIDS?" Azuki feigned a wince in response to the hybrid's shouting, rubbing the back of her ear afterward. The situation was so bizarre to Shadic and he just wanted answers.

While Tadeo and Christel argued, Azuki whispered to Shadic, "I thought I was bad. Do they always do this?"

"Y'know," Shadic whispered back, "I don't know. I usually don't hang around both of them all too often, just Tadeo, the green-haired Saiyan,"

"About that," Azuki whispered as the couple's argument started to simmer, "What kind of Saiyan has green hair? Is he a hybrid or did he just die it? Either way he looks like a damn pineapple,"

Shadic rubbed his chin, "You know, now that you mention it..." When Tadeo told Shadic to never let himself get sabotaged, both he and Azuki awkwardly looked at separate sides of the room, the latter scratching her head and wrapping her tail around her waist. It was a nervous reflex Azuki had developed, since her tail was literally irrelevant in battle. Still, unless somebody knew her, it was unlikely they'd think anything of it.

The hybrid listened to Tadeo's levelheaded explanation, and not his shouting version, still quite surprised that his younger ally already had two children, "Galileo is a pretty cool name. Diamond wouldn't be bad either, if it was spelled correctly. What's with that naming trend anyways?" He asked, directing the question at Crystal spelled incorrectly, "Let me guess, your mother is named Emmeryld?"

Azuki was completely out of the loop in terms of what was going on in their conversation, but she did not have the same feelings towards Tadeo's age as a father and Christel's age as a mother, "I mean, women on New Vegeta - who aren't warriors might I add, I'm not a fucking mother, don't even bring up the possibility - are having children as soon as fifteen or sixteen. Helps keep the race young and ready for battle. I don't see the problem,"

"Yeah, well, on Earth, having kids young usually isn't ideal. Since, on Earth, people actually raise their kids rather than institutionalizing them immediately," Tadeo inquired about Shadic's plus-one, so the hybrid cleared his throat and held a hand towards his female ally, "Pardon me. This is Azuki, she's a space warrior who didn't fight in that invasion so she's cool. I've known her for a few years, so she's my, uh. My...g..ood friend(?). Yeah. She's my good friend,"

"Nifty. Did you forget how to speak properly just then?" Azuki joked, poking fun at the stumbling of his words.

To avoid embarrassment, he moved his hand towards Tadeo, and Christel, as he introduced them, "Azuki, these are Tadeo and Christel. C-H-R-I-S-T-E-L, which is why I brought up the odd spelling thing just a bit ago. Now you have context to that. I met Tadeo not too long after I met you so he's also good friend at this point. And Christel is, obviously, his significant other,"

The female Saiyan still wasn't fully used to Earth's customs and such, yet, but she did know it was common curtesy to shake peoples' hands upon the first meeting. She held her hand out to each of the people and said, "Yeah, if I helped the Saiyans here on Earth during that war, this planet would either be under new rule or it just wouldn't be here any more," Azuki gave them a mile, clearly joking, but also not at the same time. In combat, aside from the power difference, she was a much better fighter than Shadic, "Also, good job teaching your kids how to swear. That shit is what I'm talking about,"

Her comments were sincere, since swear words didn't mean all too much to her.