The orders were from his father and they were very clear. He had to at all costs retrieve Dr. Briefs's lead scientist from Planet Shurell and bring the scientist back to planet Vegeta. It was imperative that Dr. Briefs's man never fall into the hands of Frieza or his men.

Apparently when Vegeta was just a boy, one of his father's scouts happened upon a planet with an oddly similar dominant species to his own. At the time the Saiyans were indebted to Frieza, it was really more like enslavement.

Before any discovery of this planet or any space travel, the Saiyans were slaves of the Tuffels, who used their technological advancements to keep them in line. Until one Saiyan united the clans to turn their rage from each other and towards their clever masters. After the Tuffel war, most of the technology on planet Vegeta was destroyed, leaving the Saiyans in a position to accept help from the Planet trade organization. Frieza wanted them because of their fighting ability, and he was willing to give aid in the form of technological advancements that would help them do his dirty work. Saiyan troops were used as mobile slaughterhouses for inferior planets, hardly honorable work for a warrior race. It seemed that they traded one form of slavery for another; until the big breakthrough happened.

The story the prince had known, up until a few days ago, was that Saiyan scientists found a way to shield an entire planet from harm. It was some kind of force field that would repel energy attacks and prevent physical entry to anyone who did not have clearance. They were able to arm the system shortly before the Lizard King was scheduled to come and take Vegeta under his wing. Frieza wanted him as a hostage, but King Vegeta wasn't ready to give up his first son to be raised by a psychopathic tyrant. The shield went up and Frieza realized that he could no longer hold control over the Saiyans. Now they were bitter enemies splitting the universe in two. The Saiyans liberating planets and forming stronger alliances with new ones and the Kolds destroying worlds that showed no potential profit and committing xenocide to remove "unwanted pests".

The part of this history that had changed in the last few days was the identity of the savior of planet Vegeta. The top secret and classified information that not even the Prince of all Saiyans had been privy to, before his new mission, was that it was not Saiyan scientists who had saved Vegeta, but Earthling scientists. To the public eye it seemed that the little blue ball known as Earth, joined the Saiyan Empire about a year ago, but in reality the entire scheme for creating it was born between his father and one of Earth's leading scientists, Dr. Briefs.

Vegeta had learned that most of the technological advancements made over the last twenty years had actually come from Earth. Vegeta had only seen a few Earthlings since they became part of the alliance. They bared a remarkable resemblance to Saiyans, but had the most unremarkable power levels. His initial reaction was disbelief in what his father was saying; until he produced the newest piece of tech that had been delivered to him from Earth. It was packed in a tiny capsule that his father threw to the ground and in a puff of smoke produced a generator. Next to the machine was a disk, Vegeta retrieved the disk and the king put it into the player at his desk.

The disk began to go through different images with a voiceover; his father muted the video and began explaining, "These are included for instruction on the nature of the items he sends us. It also includes schematics that our scientists use to reproduce the technology. He has become quite good at making his inventions look more Saiyan, before we would have to add certain touches to make it more believable that they came from us."

Vegeta was in shock, "How do you know we can trust these people? How can we be sure that they won't enslave us like the Tuffels or Frieza?"

"Son, this alliance saved us from the Kolds. And for twenty years both sides have kept their promises. The humans didn't have to help us, they could have stood alone and resisted or stayed hidden and out of the whole thing."

The Prince stood with his arms folded and a scowl on his face, "So in exchange for some tech you allow a pathetic human to control Saiyan troops!"

King Vegeta stood, "Watch your mouth, Boy! I am the commander of Saiyan forces! The agreement I have with the humans exchanges information between us, no one gives orders to the other. I am not a foolish whelp, who cannot tell friend from foe!"

"So the humans ask for nothing?!"

"The humans want protection. My silence about their existence and the promise to leave their planet out of the line of fire were all they asked for in the beginning."

"And let me guess; they've gotten greedy have they? All the power and conquering we've done, and now they want in. Is that why their existence has gone public?"

The king took his seat again; he looked almost pained as if he had been the source of someone's disappointment, "They had to be exposed to protect them! Someone broke through; someone found them. The humans managed to kill the one they found, but there was no guarantee that their existence wasn't comprimised. We had to make the alliance public in order to protect both of our interests. Now we can receive help from them and everyone knows they are under our protection. And now they can more freely work with us."

"What do you mean?"

"It has been the humans who have found most of the new planets that were added to our empire. Their technology can easily scan planets and help determine what should be done. Their scouts have had to work in secret, but now they have the freedom to move faster and more publicly than before."

"Than before!"

"They are our eyes and ears inside the Kold empire. Dr. Briefs has tremendous insight with his technology and he's a savvy tactician when it comes to military campaigns."

Vegeta was absolutely exasperated, "I can't believe what I'm hearing. I can't believe…you're taking advice from a race with an average power level of 5!"

"What you believe is of little consequence now. There is news that someone has spotted Dr. Briefs's team doing some work on planet Shurell. One of his lead scientists is among them. Some of Frieza's men have been seen nearing the area and could come into contact with the team. They are in the middle of setting up a PPU system for Shurell. The enemy is far too close and the scientist on the set up crew will be one of the few people that know the codes to the PPU systems. That means if Frieza gets his hands on that person all the planets that use the system will be open to an attack, including this one.

Your mission is to retrieve the scientist and bring him back SAFELY to Planet Vegeta. Your primary objective is to keep the scientist out of Kold hands. Secondary to this is to allow PPU systems to be installed on planet Shurell, it serves as a strategic base and has resources from which Saiyans and Humans would benefit greatly."

That was all it took to send Vegeta on his way. He wouldn't take any chances with his own planet's security. He took a medium, scouting vessel that could hold him and a small crew as well as be fast enough to get them away from any of Frieza's scouting ships.

"Prince Vegeta, we are approaching planet Shurell."

"Good. Nappa, make sure that Raditz and Kakarot are ready; the four of us will make up the landing party."

"Right away, Your Highness."