It has been several months since Tara's last fight with Jinesis. She has gotten much stronger since then and still trains pretty regularly. Tara was lazing around in her bed and even though it was the middle of the day, she was on the verge of falling asleep again watching TV. She yawns loudly before feels a strange but feint energy coming from Jezebel's house. She raises her head and gets out of her bed confused. She looks out her window and sees Jezebel's house off in the distance. All seems normal, as she squints her eyes. "Hmm. She probably just brought one of her partners back to her home with her. I should go check anyways." Tara says as she puts on her God of Destruction clothes and heads out. She knocks on Jezebel's door, but there's no response. At this point, Tara is beginning to worry. She then opens the door and the house is completely silent. "Nanners? Are you here?" Tara calls out, but no one responds. Tara then realizes that she doesn't feel Jezebel's energy in the house at all. It's almost as she disappeared. "No, no something is wrong. Nanners wouldn't up and leave like this without letting me know first." Tara closes her eyes and tries to feel out Jezebel's energy. She feels her energy very feintly, but someone else is with her. "Got it. And, I don't know who that is with her, but they'd better start praying." Tara says angrily before she flies off toward the two power levels. She is lead to the school she went to when she was younger. No one is there at the moment, but she enters anyway. She walks the empty halls of the small elementary school, her footsteps echoing with each step. She stops for a moment and hears someone else's footsteps followed by a giggle. Tara immediately gets irritated. "I don't have time for this. I'll buy them a new school later." Tara says before she lifts two fingers and levels the entire building. Through the rubble and smoke, she finds what looks like a trap door made of metal. She can feel the two energies down there. "Nanners..." Tara says determined before she opens the door and jumps down. When her feet hit the ground, it's almost pitch black. She creates a purple flame with her left hand so she can see. When she can see, the basement area is in total disrepair. There are leaking pipes and moldy walls throughout, with various insects crawling around. "I definitely don't remember this part of the school." Tara says looking around. After a minute or so of walking around she approaches a large metal door. "There you are." Tara says before blowing the door away with a ki blast. On the other side of the door is a massive room with various broken machines and giant empty metal drums all about. Tara looks around curiously. "What the hell is this place? It looks like an insane asylum." Tara says. Suddenly the lights jump on temporarily blinding Tara. When she regains her vision, she looks up and hanging unconscious from the ceiling is Jezebel. She's hung by her hands. Tara's eyes widen in surprise. "Nanners!" Tara yells. "Ah, there you are!" A mysterious voice calls out from above. Tara looks up and when she sees who the voice belongs to, she fills with anger. It's a girl with blonde hair that was cut to her shoulders with a curvy figure. "Alice?" Tara says gritting her teeth.
Alice is standing on top of a massive machine with a devious smile on her face, her tattered clothes barely hiding her body. "It's been a while... hasn't it?" Alice says. "You're still alive? Where have you been all this time?" Tara asks and Alice chuckles a little. "Oh, now you want to know? Last time I remember, you threatened to kill me if you saw me again." Alice jumps off of the machine and lands a few yards in front of Tara. "I'm not interested in your games, Alice. What do you want with my grandmother?!?" Tara asks, getting a bit louder. "Oh, this old sweetheart? She was just a means of drawing you out. I have no interest in her." Alice says with smile. "Well, if you wanted me to kill you, you could have just asked." Tara says starting to clinch her fist a little. "Yes, but this is much more fun. After all, I'm crazy right?" Alice says, her smile growing wider. Tara narrows her eyes, watching her movements carefully. Alice continues. "I'm crazy, at least that's what everyone told me. After all, once you survive nearly being killed by a classmate, and two sieges of your home world, it really takes a toll on your mental health. I was taken away from my home, and brought to this lovely place you see here!" Alice throws her arms to her side and spins around happily, falling to the hard floor as if it were a bed of flowers. "You see Tara, in the records I was suffering from 'Severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.' So this became my home where they ran so many wonderful tests, and cared for me as if I was their very own, loved and cared for, LAB RAT!" Alice says with a crazed smile. Tara eyes down Alice as she monologues. She then looks up and her grandmother, then back to Alice. Alice gets on all fours and begins crawling in a circle around Tara as she continues. "They tried so many things, to make me 'fit right into society,' but nothing worked. They eventually gave up on me, and left me to rot with the rest of this place! At least, that was their plan. But, I got to them long before they could leave. The only problem was, I didn't have a home to return to anymore. I figured I had gotten pretty used to this place, and made it my own. Now the only thing left to do, is catch up with an old friend! Wouldn't you say, Tara?" Alice says as she finally stands back up to her feet. Tara's eyes are wide in surprise after hearing Alice's story. Tara thinks. (She's been down here, for all these years? Just being tested on and tortured? No wonder. She's gone completely mad, hardly even civil anymore. She's more dangerous and unstable then she's ever been. Right here and now, I have to kill her.) Tara takes her stance and powers up.
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The History of Tara
Hayran KurguThis story covers the complete history of my Dragon Ball OC Tara. With it being a complete history and with her being just over 1,000 years old at this point, it won't be a simple 3 part story like everything else. As such it'll take a while for me...