Summary: Raditz made a different decision that fateful day, if Kakarot refused to join him and his own people. Then his son will have to take his place, abducted at the age of five. Gohan is forced into the service of one of the most evil and powerful dictators the universe had ever seen. The only question is whether he will be the one who submits, or will he finally be the salvation the saiyans had been looking for after all this time?

Chapter 1: Mission Failed

He didn't know how long he had been stuck in this tiny cramped ball on the lap of the man who had taken him. But he knew it had to have been a long time from how stiff his body felt and the way Raditz was snoring. The last thing he remembered was pounding on the glass and crying as the planet faded away behind them, he didn't remember going to sleep. Had Raditz knocked him out somehow? He wished his daddy was here, but even if he was he doubted he would be much help. Gohan shivered in fear of that memory, seeing the way Raditz had so easily beaten his dad with a single kick, the strongest man in the whole world, scared him. But he said he was taking him to meet his bosses, how could someone be even stronger than him?

A loud beeping noise began to blare throughout the pod, from the way Raditz groaned behind him, Gohan knew his uncle was awake. He looked out the small purple window and let out a gasp of fear and awe, it was a space station! Just like in those space books that mommy would read to him every night before bed. Tall metal towers, strange circular ships that were much bigger than their tiny pod were flying by or just sitting on big round platforms jutting out from the main tower at the center of the station.

Raditz shoved him roughly to get his attention, nearly knocking his head against the window, he heard his uncle say, "get ready runt, landing in one of these things isn't very pleasant. Welcome to your new life away from those weaklings on Earth." He wanted to cry, but he held it back as best he could, he would not let this bad man know he was scared.

He felt the pod shake as they descended rapidly, but while he was trying to steady himself, Gohan was violently knocked against the glass door of the pod as they hit the landing pad. Taking in a sharp breath at the feeling of pain, he rubbed his head and could already feel a small bump where he hit his head. A few moments after, the pod of the door opened with a chirp and Raditz shoved him out of the pod onto the cold metal floor. The bigger saiyan crawled out after him and grabbed him by the back of his shirt and pulled him to his feet. "Come on, don't try and run or I'll break your legs, keep your tail wrapped around your waist. Some of these bastards won't think twice about pulling it if you leave it dragging behind you like that."

Gohan was almost shaking in fear, he could feel tears welling up in his eyes but he still remained silent. He wrapped his tail around his waist like a fuzzy belt, he followed behind his uncle, not straying more than a few feet away from him. He felt a gust of wind as another ship landed behind him as they were leaving the landing pad, he reached up to hold onto his hat but then he remembered, he lost it when Raditz kidnapped him. It was probably still lying in the sand of the beach right now, he wanted to shout or cry or something… anything! But he knew Raditz would just hit him again if he did. They walked for a while, passing by a bunch of different aliens, all of them terrifying to him. Some were tall, others were short, many were all different kinds of colors with horns on the tops of their heads, some of them almost looked human or saiyan, but none of them had monkey tails like him or his uncle. But, they all wore strange armor like Raditz and the strange glass thing over one of their eyes.

Finally, after passing empty grey hallway after empty grey hallway, they arrived at a door with strange symbols above it. He guessed it was some form of alien writing, he only wished he could read it, maybe even find a way out of this place. There was no chance of him escaping his uncle as long as he didn't know where he was or even how to get off the station. The door opened, Raditz went first and Gohan followed after him, not wanting to be left alone in this alien environment. The room was almost entirely empty, a few metal dummies in the vague shape of people were lying in a broken mess in the corner of the room, covered in dents and scorch marks. Only two other people were in the room with them, one was a giant of a man in black and yellow armor with black boots and armguards. He was completely bald and had a pencil thin mustache who doubled over in laughter as soon as he caught sight of him and Raditz. In contrast, his companion was much shorter and had at least a foot of hair that stood completely straight up. He wore white and yellow armor with a dark blue undersuit and matching white boots and gloves. And like him and Raditz, they both had tails wrapped around their waists. But the most disturbing part was the shorter man's cold stare, as if he felt nothing but contempt and hate for everyone and everything around him, including Gohan. He knew these had to be Raditz' bosses, and they were even more terrifying than his uncle.

Raditz quickly stepped forward to try and explain himself, "Vegeta I can-" The short man, who he now knew was named Vegeta, turned his haunting gaze towards his uncle, "Raditz… Are you telling me you wasted my time, forced us to complete a three person extermination job on our own so you could bring me a toddler. When you promised me a fully grown saiyan warrior who could help us with my mission? Raditz tried to interject, "but Vegeta! I was only-" Vegeta didn't give him a chance to explain himself, he punched his uncle square in the stomach, forcing him to double over and knocking all of the air out of his lungs. "Give me one reason why I shouldn't murder you and this brat here and now."

Choking and gasping for air, he said, "the boy… is stronger… than Kakarot... My brother refused to join our cause, but it doesn't matter, this boy's power level is easily twice that of his!" Vegeta frowned, "is that so?" He walked past Raditz until he was right in front of him, he was shaking uncontrollably in fear at this point when Vegeta pressed a small button on the pink device on the side of his head. Several alien symbols popped up and a few seconds after a beep. The frown deepened and as he turned back to Raditz, he held out his hand palm facing him and a small blue ball of energy formed, "Raditz, if you think this is a practical joke than your sense of humor needs work. Because a boy with a power of six isn't any use to me, it isn't even worth the energy I use to kill him with. "Vegeta! Don't! His power is tied to his!-" It was too late, the ball of ki was already rushing towards Gohan, all the time he had to do was shout, "No!" in a combination of fear and anger towards his impending death, but before it could reach him, an aura of white light enveloped him and absorbed the blue energy. The machine on the side of Vegeta's face began beeping wildly as the numbers began to rapidly change and from the shocked expression on his face he wasn't expecting this. After the white aura dissipated the machine stopped reacting, Vegeta only muttered one word to himself that Gohan could barely hear, "800?"

Raditz had managed to get back on his feet and Gohan could clearly see cracks along his armor from where Vegeta had hit him. "That's what I've been trying to tell you! This boy has so much potential as an infant, imagine how strong he could be as an adult. He may even become as strong as Bardock was!" Vegeta turned back to his friend after thinking about it for a few moments, "what do you think, Nappa?" The big man shrugged his shoulders," sure, why not? If he's got the potential to outdo even me than it could be fun, besides, it would piss Frieza off, a hell of a lot, knowing there is another surviving Saiyan. Even if he is just a half-breed." Vegeta grinned, "all right, all right, you've convinced me. Besides, it might be nice to have a new punching bag around here for a while." Vegeta turned his attention back to Gohan, "all right brat, here's the deal. I am your prince, you are nothing but a low class weakling who isn't even fit to polish my boots, but since there are so few of our people left these days I'm out of options. I'll let you live for now, but you're going to have to pull your weight around here. Raditz will be the one to train you until you're of actual use to us, but if you don't reach a power level of 1,000 within a month. I'm going to kill both you and your uncle. Got it?"

Gohan nodded while looking at the ground, too scared to even speak. So it was a completely shock when a fist collided with his jaw, he felt his teeth rattling as he fell to the ground. "This is your first lesson brat, when I talk to you, you look me in the eye and say, yes sir. Understand? Gohan looked up, gritting his teeth he said, "yes sir." Vegeta smiled, "good dog." He motioned for Nappa to follow him out, "get him into some proper armor and start training him Raditz. I would if I was in your scenario. See you two in a month." Gohan glared at Vegeta's back as they walked out of the room, but he knew if the prince had even noticed, he didn't care. This was the first time he ever felt genuine hatred for another living being, and he didn't like it. Gohan looked up at the sound of approaching footsteps, Raditz towered over him, but to his surprise, he offered him a hand to get him off the floor. He surprised both of them when he didn't accept it, "come on, we need to get you suited up before you start your training. Gohan said nothing, but trailed behind his uncle back through the labyrinth of the station.

They turned left and came across another door, it opened automatically and both saiyans walked through it. This time the room was completely empty, Raditz walked over to a set of lockers and opened it. He pulled out a set of clean armor and one of the metal devices everyone wore on their faces and placed them on the nearest bench. "I'll wait outside while you change, don't take too long and put on the scouter once you're done changing, you're going to need it."

As soon as Raditz left the room, Gohan sat down on the bench next to his new clothes. Now that he was alone, he finally broke down and the tears came. He tried his best to keep it quiet, he didn't want to give his uncle or anyone else the satisfaction of knowing how scared he was. His parents were gone, he was stuck in the middle of space surrounded by scary aliens who all hated him and hit him. Now he was going to die if he wasn't as strong as Vegeta wanted in a couple of weeks! He wiped his eyes after a few minutes, if he took too long, Raditz will come in and see him like this. He stripped off the clothes his mother made for him and folded them up, left in nothing but his boxers, he put on the black full body undersuit, then the black armor with a green stomach and straps, unlike the other sets of armor it only had two shin guards instead of three. Lastly he put on the white gloves and green tipped boots and attached the green scouter to his left eye. He carried his old clothes out with him as he left the armory, Raditz was leaning against the opposite wall of the hallway, so he saw him immediately as he exited the room. Raditz nodded in approval with a small grin on his face, "good, very good, you almost look like… Never mind, it doesn't matter, what are you doing with that garbage?"

Gohan gulped, "what do I do with my old clothes?" His uncle shrugged, "leave them, the cleaning bots will throw that crap into the incinerator once they get it." Gohan furiously shook his head, "no! You can't take this away from me as well! I won't let you!" With a mix of confusion and anger, Raditz said, "why do you even care about that junk? You don't need it anymore. Just get rid of it and move on." Again he shook his head, "no! You took everything from me! You can't take all I have left from my mom and dad as well!" Raditz stared at him for a moment or two before sighing, "fine, come on then." Cautiously, Gohan followed him, not sure where he would take him. They passed multiple hallways and travelled down several flights of stairs until they reached the very bottom of the station. They travelled through the halls until they reached a door with some symbols above it, as soon as he looked at it the number 38 popped onto the screen, he finally realized the scouters were used for translating these symbols on the doors and walls.

Raditz opened the door and it opened up to a very small room, the lights instantly came on as soon as they entered, inside were two bunks pressed up against the opposite walls with just a few feet in between the beds to walk through. The only other pieces of furniture in the small room were two small footlockers at the foot of the beds. "You can leave your old clothes here, don't make a habit of it. Frieza doesn't exactly give us a lot of storage space. Now come on, we need to begin your training." Gohan placed his clothing in the small footlocker, there was barely enough room, but he made it fit and followed his uncle out. Before Raditz could go back to the training room, Gohan said, "thank you uncle." Raditz hesitated for a few moments before replying, "it's not a big deal runt. Don't tell anyone or I'll kill you myself." The duo made their way back to the training room, luckily it was still empty by the time they made it back and Raditz locked the door behind them. "All right, if you're going to survive in this line of work you have to learn how to fight. Today I will teach you the basics of the saiyan fighting style and ki control. Now pay attention.

They spent the next eight hours going over the basics, he learned the first basic stances of Raditz's fighting style and a couple different types of punches and kicks. But mainly they focused on him controlling his ki, by the end of the day he was completely drained but he managed to learn how to make a basic ki blast and how to use ki to enhance his strength. By the end he could barely stand from how drained he was but Raditz seemed satisfied by his progress. "Come on, let's go and get some food and you can go to bed." Gohan nodded eagerly and followed Raditz towards the mess hall, the room was completely packed. Robots served the alien soldiers and were passing out plates and bowls to everyone, they waited in the line and grabbed the rations they were provided then found a small table near the back.

Gohan looked down in disgust, the only things provided to them were a small bowl of grey mush and two rolls of bread for each of them. He hesitantly took a small bite of the groul with a spoon, it didn't taste like anything but it was definitely filling him up. All he could think of during the course of the meal was how much he missed his mothers cooking. Raditz was still eating by the time Gohan had finished and he looked up just in time to see a purple skinned alien that looked like a cross between a fish and a frog walking towards them. As soon as Raditz caught sight of him, he cursed in a language he couldn't understand and glared at the alien, hoping to scare him off. The alien was clearly undisturbed by the murderous glare coming from Raditz and walked up to their table, "well, well, Raditz. I didn't know you were into men, especially men this young. What? Doe Vegeta not fuck you as hard anymore?" Raditz growled, "fuck off Cui." The smile that the alien called Cui had on his face grew as he caught sight of Gohan's tail, "Well! Well! Looks like another one of the monkeys survived that meteor collision with your homeworld, what's your name little monkey?"

Gohan copied his uncle by glaring at the fish faced alien, "none of your business." The alien grinned, "oh! Is that so? You gonna make me beat it out of you, you little snot nosed brat?" Raditz stood up and pushed Cui away from him, "leave the boy alone, you ugly fucker." Without a second thought, Cui kneed Raditz in the gut and the saiyan flew back and hit the wall behind him. The room erupted in laughter around them, "stay down on the ground where you belong you dirty ape, Frieza should've killed a useless animal like you a long time ago like he did your father." As Cui was walking away, Gohan was ready to chuck his empty bowl at the alien's head, but seeing the look Raditz was shooting him from the floor he hesitated, but he still threw it anyway. The bowl shattered as soon as it struck and the laughter immediately died, Cui slowly turned around with a murderous look in his eyes, he immediately knew he made a mistake.

"Raditz, I think your little whore needs a lesson in humility, I think I'm going to teach him a lesson myself. Training room. Now." Gohan glanced to his uncle for help, but seeing the look of fear in his eyes Gohan knew he made a huge mistake. Cui grabbed him by the arm and began half dragging and half leading him back to the nearest training room. The journey was far too short for his taste, and his fear grew the closer they got.

As soon as the door opened, Cui threw him forward and Gohan struck the opposite wall, as soon as he hit the ground, he scrambled to his feet. He turned just in time for Cui's fist to strike him in the face, Gohan span as he fell again, he tasted blood. Before he landed on the floor, Cui's knee caught him in the stomach and knocked him back up into the air. Gohan had no time to react as a kick sent him back into the ground, he felt some of his ribs break under the strength of the kick and he could barely let out a gasp in pain, so overwhelmed by the pain he was experiencing he couldn't even scream. He could see Cui's smug smile as the alien picked him up by his collar, he couldn't even understand what the alien was saying. He faded in and out of consciousness, he was sent tumbling into the darkness by one last punch to the head.

He didn't know how long he slept, but he was more confused than anything else from where he was. His armor had been stripped off him, leaving him in nothing but his boxers, the world around him was a greenish blue color and he had a breathing mask strapped to his face. Looking around, he realized he was in a tank, Raditz was in the same room, dozing off as he leant against the opposite wall again. He tapped on the glass of the tank and Raditz snapped back to attention, his uncle walked over to a nearby console and pressed a few buttons. Slowly, the green liquid inside his healing tank began to drain, as soon as the tank was empty the door opened up and Raditz helped him undo the breathing apparatus attached to his face. "That was an incredibly stupid thing you did back there boy. You're lucky Cui didn't kill you." As soon as they got it off, he replied, "its better than sitting on my ass and letting that guy humiliate us! Why didn't you fight back!" Raditz slapped him, his cheek stung painfully and he felt tears welling up again, but he pushed them down. He wouldn't give Raditz the satisfaction of seeing him in pain, "listen and listen well you little bastard! Everyone here hates you! Most of these fuckers would kill us in a heartbeat if given the opportunity, the only reason you are still alive is because Frieza would kill the idiot who murdered his toys. If you want to survive in this world, you need to learn when to grit your teeth and bow your head to those stronger than you. Do you understand me?"

Gohan bawled his fists and gritted his teeth, "I hate it here! I hate this place! I hate these people! Why did you bring me here!" Raditz grabbed him by the shoulders, "you will listen to me and listen well boy, you don't get to decide the hand life deals you, you need to do what you're told and wait for the right time to strike back. Do you understand me? We need your help in order to survive in this scenario, Vegeta may talk a big game but he needs me, you and Nappa if he is going to pull off his plan! But it's going to take a long time for it to happen. You need to be patient, and when this is over I swear if we aren't all dead by then, I will take you back to Earth and your damn family. But for now I need you to play along, do you understand me?" Slowly, Gohan nodded, he would play along for now. But one day he would escape this place and find a way home, or he would die trying.

Power Levels:

Vegeta: 18,000

Cui: 18,000

Nappa: 8,000

Raditz: 1,300

Gohan: 250

Gohan (Enraged): 800

Author's Note: This is something I've wanted to do for a while, I have always been interested in the idea of Gohan joining Frieza's army and there isn't enough of this concept floating around on this site.

Cover art by NickOnPlanetRipple on DeviantArt.