Hanasia, Queen of the Saiyans

3.36 In space, no one can hear you scream

Hanasia flew vertically.

As soon as she reached high enough, she felt the characteristic pain in her ears and nose, she still continued straight onwards, and it was becoming more and more painful. She then transformed into Super Saiyan, and held her breath, and all pain dissipated. She was then able to reach summits no Saiyan had reached without hurting herself, there were even at noon, the sky darkened. And it was the night. The day had stayed below, on the ground.

It was surprising: the sun still shined, even stronger than before, but nothing nearby apart from her was lit, seen as there was nothing except for the ground way down there. The day couldn't continue where there was no air... She gazed at the stars. So, each one was in reality a sun, they had told her. And the worlds around those suns were like islands to reach, and even easier to find than an island, because those generally hid themselves (due to the curvature of the planet, but Hanasia didn't understand that), whereas here, she just had to go towards the luminous spots.

Evidently... there were thousands of them! But the invaders couldn't be far. She'd try the brightest star, and from there, ask for directions, simply put. She launched at full speed into the darkness, telling herself she could easily hold one or two hours without breathing.

Without gravity to hold her, without air to slow her, Hanasia continued acceleration for a number of minutes, engulfing monstrous distances. Hundreds of thousands of kilometers later, she realized that she was going to need to breathe earlier than she had thought. At the million kilometer mark, she thought of turning back. She turned her head and saw her starting point, which was now a small round spot, in her eyes smaller than a moon. And as she observed it, all the while accelerating, she noticed it was getting smaller. Yes, she was going very fast. Immensely fast, in space, nothing stopped you. She regained hope and accelerated towards the brightest star amongst the others she had seen.

Her whole body was telling her to breathe with insistence, and she couldn't see her planet behind her anymore. Except maybe, a small dot. The spot she was heading for however, hadn't grown an inch.

In a reflex, she opened her mouth and breathed in. But nothing came. All her instincts launched, in pure panic. It was as if she was drowning!

As she was directing herself in the opposite direction, the dot that was her planet wasn't growing, if anything it kept getting smaller! Indeed, all she was doing as slowing her massive acceleration, and the u-turn hadn't stopped it just yet, seen the speed she had reached. Without any logic, she tried to breathe again, but it just worsened.

The Super Saiyan was going to die in a completely stupid way.

When they realized the Queen of Saiyans had gone "on foot" to reach other planets, the Tsufuls were dumbfounded, jaw-dropped, and then shattered.

They decreted a new emergency situation amidst the victory celebrations. Their detectors still followed the whereabouts of Hanasia. But by the time they had a ship ready and launched, she was already exiting the solar system.

It was decided that the rebels, who already had a stealth ship at the outskirts of the system, would go to fetch her. They were in a better position, and what's more, a Tsuful was present on the ship, Hanasia would be able to trust them. All too happy to see in real life, and maybe even save the life, of the strongest fighter of the universe, the navigators head straight to the estimated location of the Saiyan.

When they arrived, many long minutes later, and when they found the lifeless and non-luminous body of the Saiyan, their faces darkened, aware that their mission was now to recuperate a corpse. They all knew that even a powerful warrior couldn't survive in space longer than a few minutes in normal form, but they kindled hope for this Super Saiyan.