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Chapter 1
Vegeta's footsteps echoed eerily across the darkened launch bay of Freeza's ship. The sickly red glow of the emergency lights provided just enough illumination for the saiyan prince to make out the carnage in the room. The dull red light seemed to make the blood splattered across the walls and floor gleam with an evil radiance. He turned his head slowly to take it all in. Bodies and pieces of bodies were scattered everywhere, some appeared to have been torn to shreds as if some kind of animal had ravaged them. Others were cut to pieces with surgical precision while more still didn't even have a single mark on them. Those were possible the most terrifying for their faces were all locked into expressions of pure horror.
"You're Highness." Raditz said as he and his squad bowed before their prince.
Nodding his head at his third in command in acknowledgement Vegeta waited for the warrior to continue.
"It is the same all over the ship Sire. We could find no-one alive." The long haired saiyan continued. Very silently in the very depths of his own mind where no one else could here him, Raditz was just a little spooked.
Vegeta looked out over the launch bay again before looking at the man in front of him. "And Freeza?" he asked in a voice as cold and emotionless as the empty space in which the spaceship floated.
"With the power down we had been unable to enter his private quarters but we could get no life readings on our scouters." Raditz replied, knowing that, that was not what his prince wanted to hear but he had no other news to tell him.
Vegeta stared at his third commander before turning to look at the man standing slightly behind him. "Bardock?"
The scientists shook his head in bewilderment. "From what I can tell, from my readings Prince Vegeta the ship itself is not damaged. If I can get to a control station I would be able to return power to the ship and them maybe we will be able to get to the bottom of this mystery."
Vegeta again looked out at the scene in front of him almost in admiration. The sheer level of carnage spoke of not only power but hatred so strong that you could almost smell it on the air. Nodding his head, he looked over at his lead scientists and first advisor. "Nappa, escort Bardock and his team to the main control room and restore the power. Bardock see if you can get into the security system and find me some answers. Raditz you will come with me. We have to find Freeza."
"Yes your Highness." The group chorused as they bowed to their prince again.
As Bardock's group headed for the upper levels, Vegeta headed into the heart of the ship were Freeza's quarters were located. As he walked through the dimly lit halls his thoughts drifted back to the years he had spent onboard this very ship, a servant to a creature he despised with every fibre of his being. When he had finally managed to escape and returned to his people he had vowed to destroy Freeza. After that he had spent every waking moment training to become stronger, faster, and smarter than the despicable lizard that his race was forced to call lord. And now, when he finally had managed to achieve that what he had sought, the status of legendary, the power to defeat Freeza, now he was faced with this enigma. He absently kicked a severed head out of his way as he continued to stride down the long corridor that will bring him to the private quarters of the creature he came to kill.
As he came to a halt before the doors he touched the scouter he was wearing. "Bardock how far are you with getting the power back online?" He asked. Bardock was one of the few people that Vegeta respected. Although he was listed as a third class solder, Vegeta knew that he was far stronger than that, also he was an absolutely brilliant scientists who had looked out for Vegeta ever since he was a small child. When Freeza had taken the young prince, he had sent his only living son with him as a bodyguard.
"It is taking slightly longer that I had anticipated, but I should have power to the doors in about a minute the lights is going to take a bit longer." Bardock stop for a second before he continued. "Who ever hacked the systems is an absolute genius. I have never seen coding so intricate and complex. If we can find the one that did this I would like to have a long talk with him." The admiration in his voice was hard to miss.
Raditz shook his head and concealed a smile as Vegeta muttered something about bloody scientist under his breath. "You can talk to whomever, only after you have restored full power to this ship Bardock!" he snapped and glared at Raditz when he saw him turned his head. Vegeta knew that he was smiling, he had to admit that only Bardock could say something like that and get away with it and Raditz knew it.
Before anyone could say something the door opened with a startlingly loud whoosh sound. Raditz looked around the small room as they entered. This was the entrance hall leading into Freeza's so called throne room. "My lord, look." He said suddenly in a hushed voice. Creating an energy ball to light the room better, he pointed to what had caught his eyes. Captain Ginyu's body or more precisely what was left of his body. It was torn into shreds and it was quite clear that some parts were missing.
"My lord." Another member of Raditz squad called out suddenly kneeling next to a badly burned body. Turning it so that he could see who it was, he looked up at Vegeta, "It is Zarbon, sire."
Vegeta pushed the solder out of his way as he look at what was left of Freeza's second in command. "Not so pretty anymore my dear Zarbon." He grinned suddenly wondering if the green skinned man had still been alive when his face had been burned like that.
Turning he pointed to the doors leading into the throne room. "Open them and let's see if Freeza is here."
"At once sire" the solder replied and rushed over to open the door.
As they stepped through the door way it was like stepping into the very hart of darkness. There was no light not even the emergency lights seemed to work. Just as Raditz was about to create another energy ball, lights suddenly blazed out, momentarily blinding the group. "We have restored full power to all sectors of the ship sire." Bardock's voice came over the intercom system.
"Sire?" Bardock asked after a few minutes of silence. However the reply he got was not from Vegeta but from his son.
"You better get down here father." Raditz replied softly.
Vegeta was in shock, he knew he shouldn't have been, all that he had seen had been leading up to this but still he couldn't believe it. This was not how it was suppose to be. He scanned the room again to confirm what his eyes had told him. Freeza was dead. Hell he was more than dead; he was in a great many small pieces all over the floor. It appeared that whoever had killed him had done so slowly. Cutting him up piece by piece. He could not say how long he stood there staring at the picture the room presented. He was dimly aware of Bardock's arrival in the room, but that was about all. He was pulled back to reality when he heard Bardock cry out.
"Sire look!" Vegeta turned his head and looked in the direction that Bardock was pointing. There propped up in the shadow of Freeza's throne was a woman. At first he thought that she was a saiyan but as he draw closer he saw that she didn't have a tail. Her colouring also wasn't that of a saiyan her skin was incredibly pale and her lips were the colour of freshly spilled blood. Her eyes was closed it and there was a look of serenity on her face it almost appeared that she was sleeping. Her clothing was strange, she was wearing a pair of off cut shorts made from some strange light blue material, and a red tube top. At first he thought that it was red but as he draw even closer he saw that it was in fact a pink top that had been stained red by the blood seeping from the wound in her side. But the thing that was the most startling that daw him and intrigued him was the colour of her hair. It was a bright, extremely intense azure blue. He almost absently wondered if her eyes were the same shade when open or if they were darker.
Touching his scouter he realised that he couldn't get a reading, it was almost if there was some kind of energy interfering with it. Absently he removed one of his gloves and reached out to touch her neck to see if she had a pulse. The moment his skin touched her, a shock ran up his arm. It almost felt like he was being electrocuted. A startled oath escaped his lips and for a slit second the women open her eyes and looked into his. For a second time that day he lost complete track of reality as he stared into the soft blue eyes. As she closed her eyes he shook his head. He had no idea how long he had been entrapped in those eyes, had it only been seconds or had it been hours, he was unable to say.
Pulling his glove back on as he stood up he turned to Bardock. "Is the regen tanks in working order?"
Looking at the woman laying at Vegeta's feet Bardock nodded. "Yes sire."
"Good I want her fully healed as soon as possible." He replied as he turned and headed for the door.
"But sire," Nappa interrupted suddenly "Why should we heal this female?"
Raditz shook his head at the stupidity of that question. Sometime he seriously wondered how Nappa had made it so far in live as he had with such limited metal prowess.
Vegeta stopped and turned, the look in his eyes spoke of death. "Firstly you should heal the female because I said so. Secondly she is the only survivor on this entire ship. She should be able to tell us what exactly happened here." And with that he turned around and left the room.
Raditz walked over to his father standing next to the unconscious woman. Bending he picked her up marvelling at her beauty and the fact that she seemed to have almost no weight. She seemed so fragile, almost like she was spun from fine glass. "I'll see to her. Vegeta is going to need you to break into the ships computer to get at the information stored in there."
Bardock nodded and left the room with a nervously sweating Nappa in tow.
Raditz looked over the rest of his squad. "You two come with me. The rest of you start cleaning up this mess."
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Vegeta was standing in the main control room watching Bardock work at one of the control stations trying to break the security code of the ships computers. Raditz was in his usual place to Vegeta's left and slightly behind. It had been almost 4 hours since the group had boarded the ship.
Raditz touched his scouter as it beep softly. "The female will be healed in 30 minutes time sire."
Vegeta nodded his face expressionless. Then he will get his answers. Then he will know who the one was that stole his revenge from him.
"Intruder alert! Intruder alert! Intruder alert!" An alarm suddenly cut through the stillness of the bridge.
"Bardock!" Vegeta yelled at the top of his lungs to be heard over the noise of the alarm.
"It's not me sire it seems that we have an intruder on board!" Bardock shouted back, while at the same time trying to turn the alarm off.
"REALLY WHAT gave you that idea." Vegeta modulated his voice from screaming to normal speaking as Bardock turned the alarm off.
Ignoring the heavy sarcasm in his prince's voice, he studied the screen in front of him for a second before he replied. "Some one is in the med bay where the female is being kept." He had barely finished talking, before Vegeta took off heading for the intruder, shaking his head all Bardock could do was follow the prince and his son.
As they busted into the room it felt as is someone had knocked the air out of him. Standing in the middle of the room was a man dressed in an outlandish bright orange gi. He was gently holding the still unconscious female in his arms, a look of sadness on his face before he looked up at them. He raised one had and placed two fingers between his eyes frowned and then vanished.
Only one person spoke in the silence that descended on the room and he only spoke one work. "Kakkarot"
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