A Chance Encounter

It was not very often that he decided to have alcohol, it also wasn't very often he decided to leave his lab to get it, either. But here he was, sat in a booth in the corner of a bar in Conton. The atmosphere was entirely different here too, dark, to encourage people to relax, with music echoing softly across the room, the thrum of conversations drowning most of it out.

He took a sip of his glass of apple whiskey, enjoying the flavour and smoothness. He'd decided to come drink today rather than deal with the myriad of problems that had been popping up in his life recently. First, Rupiri had been particularly violent this month, he'd had to hide in his lab just to be left alone, secondly, he'd been doing overtime at his job as Time Commander, it seems that someone had altered a timeline near irreparably and he'd had to deal with fixing it.

Honestly he'd just wished he could take a day off from paper work or dealing with the various morons he had command over somehow fucking up time rather than fixing it. One particular idiot had even managed to kill his past self erasing him from ever existing, fixing that had been a hell of a workout. He took another sip from his glass, taking a look around the bar. There were various groups here, Majins, Saiyans, Namekians, Humans, and other assorted aliens. All in various states of inebriation and merry making. He almost envied their ability to just let go and forget about their problems for a while.

He took his pack of cigarettes out of his shirt pocket, opening it he grabbed one and the lighter stored in there. Sighing he lit one up and put it in his mouth. He inhaled the acrid smoke, savouring it before exhaling, honestly he had gone through so many packs of these things through the last month he had stopped counting. Recently he had bought several cartons worth and now they were all nearly gone.

"Mind if I join ya?" a feminine voice cut through his thoughts.