The Adventures of Crispy Boy, Mean Girl, & Turtle Man!

Quantum hurried over to help the master get to his feet, "Thanks kid. For your first bit of training, you need to, uh," He looked around like there was supposed to be something out on the lawn, "Oh yeah. Turtle! Bring me those milk bottles!" Roshi called out to his friend, Turtle, "You have to deliver twenty milk bottles up and down that mountain there," He pointed at the mountain across the way, "Before breakfast time, which is in about thirty, maybe forty-five minutes. People used to struggle with this, but now it seems like everybody knows how to fly.

"Okay, sounds simple enough," Pico responded, smiling at his master. Despite first impressions, maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all.

Roshi nodded, "It never used to be," He looked back at his house and waited for Turtle to come out with the milk.

Meanwhile, Azuki pulled Pico aside, so the boy quickly begged, "Please don't hurt me! I didn't know why Mr. Shadic made you tag along either!"

She grit her teeth, but then sighed and asked with, "Is that little mask thing of yours able to communicate with 'Mr. Shadic,' by any chance?"

Pico gulped, instantly realizing where she was going with this, "I mean, yeah, in case he needs to scold me or something from far away," He had already started to lift the mask off before Azuki asked her next question, which she asked with feigned excitement.

"Awesome. Can I talk to him real quick? Have a quick little adult talk while you do your little delivery mission?" Quantum nodded, thankfully feeling comfortable enough to take off his mask. His dark brown hair was a mess as it tumbled out of the tight mask, which he handed over to the scary Saiyan lady. She snatched it away from him and held the thing up to her ear, really awkwardly trying to use it like a telephone, "Oh Shaaaaadiiiiic. Are ya there?"

The speaker sounded, "Sorry, P, I'm kinda busy right n-" The hybrid got cut off by his lady friend, who instantly started shouting into the microphone embedded within the mask.

"HOW DARE YOU USE ME AS A BARGAINING CHIP FOR THIS CREEPY OLD FUCK. WHEN I SEE YOU AGAIN, YOU'RE DEAD. DO YOU UNDERSTAND, YOU LITTLE SHITTER?" The woman continued shouting into Pico's mask, so the boy returned to Master Roshi, who was at the front of the house helping Turtle. The turtle had finally made his way out of the house, and he was dragging a cart full of milk cartons behind him.

The boy pointed at milk bottles, "Those the ones?"

Roshi nodded, "Don't spill a single drop, that's the hardest part of the challenge. It was, at least. Like I said, everybody knows how to fly these days," The master noticed there was an extra bottle, so he picked it up and started drinking it himiself, "Get to it... uh," He scratched his head, trying to remember the boy's name.

"Pico," He answered, grabbing the cart from the friendly turtle.

"Right. I can remember that easier now that you've taken off that dumb helmet. See you in a few, Pico. And make sure to be quick!"

He nodded and smiled, "Roger that, sir! Be back in a flash. Well not a flash, since that would be pretty freaking fast and it probably wouldn't work out so well when it came to not spilling a drop of milk. And, uh, yeah, I should probably go," Pico lifted the cart, with ease, and started walking to the shore of the island, which wasn't far. When he walked past Azuki, she was still scolding Shadic for his stupid, yet very prepared, choices.

"...SO I TURN AROUND AND THAT CREEPY OLD FUCK IS STARING AT MY ASS, MORE THAN YOU EVER HAVE IN ALL THE TIME THAT YOU'VE KNOWN ME, MIGHT I ADD. THANKS FOR THAT, BY THE WAY. I.." Azuki was more than mad; she was livid. Quantum couldn't help but laugh, nervously that is, before he took into the air with the milk jug cart in hand. How could anybody possibly do this without being able to fly? Delivery via air seemed like the only way to do it, unless the old students had to swim! That would be some intense training, especially since there were sharks in that water! Before long, Quantum saw the little village atop the mountain. Clearly, the mountain had a winding path full of jagged rocks and steep climbs. That must've been part of the old training course, and it definitely appeared to be in a state of disrepair. At this point, nobody was getting up that and nobody was getting down.

He arrived at the village and delivered the milk bottles to each and every doorstep, one by one, carefully placing each one as to not spill them. Some of the people poked their heads out of the windows and gave their appreciation for the boy. It was a nice little village, far, far away from all the commotion of South City. This place probably didn't even have to worry about the mess that was the Demon War. As nice as it was, though, he didn't think he could ever leave city life, especially after seeing what happened when things got out of hand. He felt like it was his duty to defend the innocent using his ki training, and being out in the middle of no where would make that very difficult.

When he returned to Master Roshi's island, Azuki was still tearing into Shadic verbally, "...ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME?! I THOUGHT ALL THAT NATURE TRAINING WAS SUPPOSED TO MAKE YOUR HEARING BETTER...!" She was pacing around, yelling out into the sky and into the mask's microphone.

Quantum walked over to Roshi, who was sitting on his porch watching the woman's anger with wide eyes and lust. He plopped the cart in the sand and asked, "What's next?"

Roshi climbed out of his boat, alongside his friend Turtle, and walked over to an empty plot of land. Well, almost empty plot of land. There was a bunch of construction equipment scattered around. The master instructed, "Pico, I need you to clear off this plot of land. Construction on a pizza parlor is supposed to begin soon and I cannot wait. Then again, they've been saying that for decades now, but I still have hope!"

Quantum scratched his wet hair, shaking his head to help the drying process. After a twenty-mile swim, with a heavy turtle shell on his back, this was the next part of his training regiment? Strange. He dropped the turtle shell onto the soft, golden sand of the beach. The whole area was beautiful, but it made him wonder why they were building a pizza parlor in the middle of nowhere. Aside from the village, which was impossible to reach unless somebody could fly, and Master Roshi's island there was nobody. He cracked his knuckles and got ready to clear out the area when Azuki floated down onto the beach. She was fuming in anger, even though she'd been talking to Shadic for well over an hour at that point.

Azuki tossed the mask of Quantum back to the boy before blasting everything and anything she could on the plot of land. One would think all her yelling would have helped her cool down, but that obviously was not the case. There were a toolbox and a few tools sitting out on a table until Azuki blasted them with her fire-enhanced ki blasts. When she was done, there was nothing but dirt and a foundation for a building. She was breathing heavily, after exerting so much power, but it seemed to have worked to mellow her out.

Pico walked over to the corner of the plot, grabbed a single remaining hammer, turned slightly, and set it down outside of the construction zone. Then he turned to Azuki and smiled, "Thanks Ms. Azuki!" She returned the watch to the boy, then turned back towards the ocean with her arms crossed, clearly not wanting to talk any more, "I'm still thankful!" He called out, but she didn't react to that one. Well, maybe she did, because her tail wrapped around her waist like a belt, as many Saiyans tend to do.

The Turtle Hermit and Turtle walked around the plot of land, inspecting the work Azuki and Pico had done in such a quick amount of time. The Turtle expressed his thanks to Pico, but Roshi was distracted by the Saiyan woman, still. He did not think she was very powerful, since she was not participating in Pico's training, but clearly she was above the small scale of the Turtle School. Quantum put his mask back on, "Mr. Shadic? Are you okay?"

"Oh thank, well, uh, me. I'm glad to hear your voice again, P, since I haven't heard much besides her screaming for the past hour and a half," Pico smiled.

"You really made her mad," Pico responded, looking at Azuki who was still pouting.

Shadic was busy with something, so it took him a little bit to respond, "Yeah, but it saved you an entire day of searching for some poor girl. I hated that task so much. I took one for the team, basically, and so did she."

Quantum grinned at his mentor's comments, "I barely know her and I already know she's actually going to kill you when we come back,"

"Sheesh, no kidding. Hey, P, I gotta go. Try to calm her down for me, please? You don't really wanna see me die do you?" Shadic pleaded, to which the boy just laughed.

"I mean, it would be pretty funny. But yeah, I'll try. Talk to you later, Mr. Shadic!" Quantum took off his mask, which then got absorbed into his watch. What's next?