Raditz was not a patient man. An entire year he had spent crammed into that tiny space pod, an entire year without pay, just to retrieve his blasted little sister he'd known for about two seconds, all to hand her over on a silver platter to his horny and brutal prince. And then this girl had the audacity to pretend she didn't know who he was? Patience may be a virtue, but he was not a virtuous man either.
"What happened to you?" He outright growled. For a moment his eyes were locked with his long-lost sibling's, only for his concentration to be broken by a cry of 'mommy'. Mommy. In reference to his sister. He stole a glance at the child. He should've given up on recruiting this woman then and there. The child had a tail. "You mated with a human!"
"That's none of your buisness!"
"Oh but it is, sister dear. Why do you think I'm here? Who is that child's father- don't tell me it's that baldy over there."
"No. His father was a fighter, from the desert. I met him when I was a child. We're split now, though. And even if he was, it's my decision who I have relationships with, not some stranger with a funky hairdo!"
"Oh, but I'm afraid that's where you're wrong, Kakarot. I'm sure it won't make any great difference to our prince, but it is a disappointment nonetheless."
"Can't say I'm sorry to disappoint." She frowned.
"Hn," He growled again as he watched the the half-breed cling to his mother's leg despite her prying at his fingers. "Kakarot, tell me, did you ever suffer a serious injury to the head when you were young?"
"What?" She asked distractedly, looking down at her son. He uncrossed his arms in anger. She wasn't even paying attention to him! Every second he spent talking to her he could feel his guilt at handing her over to Vegeta grow less and less. Serves her right for the torture she was putting him through.
"Did you ever hit your head?"
"Gohan," she chastized her son, still not looking at him. He took a step forward.
"Did you hear me!" He practically sighed in relief as her head finally snapped in his direction.
"Yeah," she said in a tone far too challenging for her situation. "I don't remember it very well, but you're right, I did hit my head when I was a child. I still have a scar where it happened."
"You stupid fool, you forgot."
"I forgot what? Tell me!"
"Goku!" Both saiyans attentions diverted to the old master of Kame house. "There's something your grandfather once told me that I think you should know. Long ago, your grandpa Gohan was walking through the woods when he came upon a crater that had been recently made in the ground. When he went to examine it more closely, he found what appeared to be some sort of spaceship. And next to it, there you were. Lying in a little round pod. Gohan tried to take care of you, but you were wild. Downright uncontrolable! And unusually powerful for a baby. You wanted nothing to do with Gohan's kindness. But then, one day, there was a terrible accident! You fell into a deep ravine, and badly injured your head. Your grandfather feared that he he had lost you, but somehow, miraculously, you survived.n Yes, any other child would have died, but you recovered. And from that day on you became a happy, loving girl."
"I'm an alien?"
"Well that explains a lot," Bulma butted in despite the un-saiyan-like pout her friend was sending her. Raditz grimace grew even deeper. Not only was she far too-too- puppy like, if he dare say it, she was even willing to allow what clearly a blatant insult on the side of the infernal blue haired earthling. "So you think Goku has some connection with this guy?"
"I wish I knew."
"Okay..." She turned back to me yet again. "You've got my attention. Now tell us who you are!"
"Well, I wasn't expecting to give a history lesson when I came here today..." Raditz smirked. Perhaps she would finally realize her incredible value and superiority in comparison to these earthlings and she would go with him willingly, as he had originally intended. "But alright. I'll tell you everything." With a flick his tail wrapped itself back around his waist in a show of dominance he forgot she wouldn't recognize. "After all, your going to be mated to the prince from now on and I would like for her majesty to be well informed." He made sure to use a mocking tone as he said 'her majesty' but he doubted she would pick up on it.
"Listen, I don't have any intention of-" A clinking of wood broke her off as the short one finally pulled himself from the side of the house. "Krillen, are you alright?"
"Yeah." Sadly. "Be careful, Goku. This guy's not normal."
"Believe me, I know. I could sense that from the moment he landed. Even now, standing here talking to him like this, something about him turns my stomach."
"Such harsh words. Careful..." He smirked again. "You're more like me than you realize. You were born on the planet Vegeta. You are a space fight, a saiyan warrior. Just. Like. Me. Allow me to introduce myself, I'm Raditz- your big brother."
"Goku- he looks like you."
"I don't think so." She disagreed offhandedly before going back to the topic at hand. "Besides, why should I believe you anyways?"
"Right!" The bald one chimed. "What's she doing here on earth if she's from another planet!"
He couldn't help but let out a dark chuckle. "That's simple. We sent her here. Her mission was to clear this world of it's current inhabitant- a mission which she has failed miserably." In fact if anything she's done the opposite. "You see, we saiyans are sort of like... planet brokers. We scour space searching for planets that will bring a high price on the galactic market. Once we find them, we send our warriors there to purge them of any life and make them ready for sale. It's a very, very profitable business, and we take great pride in being efficient in our work. For example, if we discover a planet with strong inhabitants, we send a team of our adult fighters to wipe them out. But for planets full of weaklings like this one, one of our babies-even female ones- is generally sufficient to carry out the order."
"If what you're saying is true, then you saiyans are just an abomination. You're space pirates, that's what you are."
"How can you send little babies off into space all alone!"
"What do you mean by 'even females'!" Hmph. At least she had some saiyan fight still in her if what she got out of that wasn't that she was sent out alone as a baby to massacre her precious planet but thr insult to her strength. Maybe he could get somewhere with her yet.
"Yes, even females who have at best half the strength of a male, are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves. Well- most of them! Kakarot, you're a disgrace! You could have easily wiped out every living thing on this planet by yourself. If you hadn't forgotten your orders it would have only taken you a year or two at the most. Especially considering this planet has a nice big moon."
"Let me guess, I was probably supposed to blow that up, too."
"You fool!" Why couldn't the prince have come to fetch his mate himself? The arrognat sod! Now he was the one being tortured by this half-wit puppy. "YOu know as well as I do it's the key to unlocking your true potential! I'm sure at least once in your life yu've looked at the full moon."
"I don't know what you're talking about!"
"Don't play dumb with me, I can see your tail clear as anyone, Kakarot."
"What does my tail have to do with this!?"
"Your tail is what gives you your ability to transform at the full moon. If you don't even know that, I can see how you'd be on good terms with these weaklings."
"Listen, this is my home, and these are my friends, so it doesn't matter what you say I am." She crossed her arm with an infuriating 'hmph'. "And you sure don't act like any brother I'd wanna have. My name is Goku, and I live here. Now leave us alone!"
"Yeah, just go!
"Even if your are siblings, that doesn't mean Goku has to destroy peaceful planets like you do, ya big creep!"
"Right! Goku even saved this planet once, mister. So go away!"
"Pah. So baby sister wants to be left alone." He began to make his way through the crowd of fighters, not failing to notice how his sister scrambled to pull her child from his path. "Well it's a pity that's not going to happen. No, at this point I'm afraid you're far too valuable to ask for that. You see three years ago our home planet Vegeta met with an unfortunate accident when a huge comet slammed into its surface. The planet was vaporized, and the saiyan race destroyed. There's not too many of us left now, sister. In fact, as far as we can tell there are only four, including you. We were the only saiyans away from home when the planet exploded. Like you, the rest of us had been sent off to preform a few... hostile takeovers. And now a group we are associated with just so happens to detect saiyan energy in this galaxy, and then I remembered you Kakarot. As the last female, I'm sure you can imagine our excitement. Now the royal line can continue. Around the same time we just so happened to discover a new planet we'd like to conquer. Only, the job's a bit too big for only the three of us to handle." His eyes darted to his scouter and back again. "Unfortunately your power level's only around average for a third class female, but with your help, we should manage nicely." He sauntered over to her and bent down to her height, noting in the back of his mind how short she was. Minus her hair the top of her haid would come up to Vegeta's shoulder,at best. "Are you excited?" He was almost surprised when she didn't step back at all. "You should be."
"I've heard enough!" Her fists clenched. "I'd die before I joined a group of pirates like you!"
"Interesting..." If she goona play it that way... "I've been meaning to ask you, Kakarot. I couldn't help but notice your son has a tail."
"Leave him out of this!"
"I'll decide that! If you won't join us, I suppose I'll just have to settle for taking the boy in your place." He bluffed like he'd be willing to risk his hide returning without her. Though the boy would be a nice edition, even if he was a half-breed.
"Over my dead body!" She jumped into what he had to admit was an impressive fighting stance.
"I see the fire in your eyes, sister, you should come with us. It's in your blood, you love to fight." She was unswayed. He didn't know why he bothered. "Now..."
"I'm right here with you, Goku."
"Don't worry about me, just protect Gohan."
She remained unwavering in her stance. Her eyes widened as her brother disappeared and she immediately dodged to the right. The blow still knocked her the side and left her wincing in pain, but not as badly as it could've been. He was almost a tad impressed. She'd almost managed to dodge his attack. Perhaps she had speed to make up for her lack of strength, somewhat. He scooped up her son by the back of his shirt and dangled him over his mother's wincing face. "Now as I said, I'm taking your son. If you ever want to see him alive again, I suggest you listen closely." He grinned as she managed the lift herself up on her elbow before falling back into the sand. "Now then. I'll give you one day to think about my offer. Although, let's be realistic Kakarot, I'm not giving you a choice. So, when you decide to join us, and you will, there's something I want you to do. Prove to me that you mean it. You can start by eliminating one hundred of these pathetic earthlings. Just dump them here on the beach when you're done, I'll be back tomorrow for a head count. So what do you say, Kakarot? I do hope you'll come through for me on this one, after all he is my nephew. It'd be a shame if I had to hurt him."
"Help, Mommy, I'm scared!"
"Gohan!" She manged to get flopped over onto her stomach and start dragging herself through the sand towards her son. "Give him back!"
"MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
The unthinkable has happened! Gohan has fallen into the clutches of the evil Raditz, and against her older brother's incredible strength, is there anything Goku can do to rescue her son? The outlook is grim, on the next chapter of The Dragoness!
-End Chapter-
AN: Huzzah, I have done it! THis is my second attempt at writing a fem!Goku story, the first of which I deleted. I know this one was very similar to the episode (episode 2, Reunions, if you're feeling nostalgic and want to rewatch it) but the main heart of the story is going to be Goku's relationship with Vegeta, so next chapter will skip ahead to their meeting (well, maybe I'll include a bit of King Kai, but I don't know) and as I'm sure you can guess I plan on some things remainiing the same, but others being... very, very, different. Some tid-bits you might have questions about:
1. Yes, in this fic female saiyans are physically weaker than the male ones, though they are are often either smarter, faster, or both. Goku will be weaker in this series than her male counterpart, and will have to find ways to use her superior speed to her advantage. I'm not gonna lie to myself, even in the real world more than half the time we are the physically weaker sex, so I don't see why this wouldn't be true for saiyan's, who clearly very closely resemble humans. There's just a greater emphasis on it there because they're a warrior race. I imagine their view of women to be more similar to the ancient Spartans, who their culture closely resembles. They were still expected to be athletic and strong, but were not sent into battle. An interesting thing about Spartans is that there were only two ways your name would be written on your gravestone- 1, if you were a dude, and you died in battle, and 2, if you were a woman, and you died in childbirth. This means that while they were still viewed as mainly existing for breeding purposes, for them this stigma wasn't negative- it was an honor, a thing to be respected as you respected men for their warrior strength, and prowess on the battlefield. Think of saiyan sexism something akin to that.
2. If you were curious as to ages or heights or anything like that , whenever I genderbend a character I just assume females to be a foot shorter than their male counterparts, and vice versa. This would put Goku, at this particular point in time, somewhere around 24ish years old and 4'9". Vegeta, from what I can tell, if somewhere around 29-30ish years old and 5'5". When I put these heights into an online height comparison simulator thing Goku came up to about Vegeta's shoulder, maybe an inch above. I know it's not very important but some people (myself included) really like to be able to have adetaied visual whenreading a story, so there ya go ^.^
And above all thanks for reading! Hope if the next chapter is posted when you're reading this you hit the next chapter button and if it's not you follow! I hope you enjoyed, and if not please tell me why in the review box! I would love to see my writing improve and I hope you can help :) But for the meantime, au revoir!