A/NThis is the DBZ universe as it were, with one adjustment. The level of foresight Bardock receive will receive is far less then in the Anime. Repercussions would be things like joining his team on Planet Meat. This story will entail Bardock and his crew's adventures and will be key in bringing the downfall of Frieza and the Cold family.
The Father's Fate
The Story of Bardock
"I don't remember a darn thing about it, and frankly I think you're full of it, Fasha." A sizeable man said.
"For me, it's like waking up from a dream, you sort of remember, then it all just slips away." said the next man in a circle of people dressed in some sort of armor.
"Bardock says he remembers every second of it." A short haired woman said, rather snidely.
"Don't make me laugh, Bardock may remember every second of every battle, but he remembers nothing of his personal life. Allow me to demonstrate. Bardock! When was your son born?" a tall man in blue armor said.
"Who knows? But it was a long time ago and doesn't really matter." The man known as Bardock concerned.
"You're too much, Bardock! It was just yesterday, you should go see the tyke, I'm sure he's miserable." The woman known as Fasha said.
"Ha. A little father son bonding, eh? How nice. What's the point, they'll just send him out anyway. Bordos, how much time until our next assignment?"
"Well, we have a day or two of rest. Then we gotta take one out of the stack. Why, you think we're ready for another elite one? Bardock, this was hard! Tell him Tora." The big man said, pointing to the tall man in blue armor.
"I think we are ready for it, I mean we mopped the floor with these Kanassans. And this was an Elite mission. We can take anything!" the man stated. As if on cue, the rocks around the circle of warriors exploded, revealing a green man, with a white undertone, scales covering his back.
"You dogs will pay for what you have done to my people!" Stepping up on a rock, the green man, a Kanassan, jumped over Bardock's head and chopped him in the back of the neck with a flat hand. Bardock fell forward, stunned. Before the Kanassan could land, Tora fired a ki bolt straight into the Kanassan's back. The green man flew forward and barely stopped himself from slamming headlong into the side of a crater.
The large man, Bordos, stepped forward and fired a blast straight at the Kanassan. As it struck, the Kanassan's form was enveloped in white light.
"I have transmuted your foul energy into something more tolerable. The one who seeks the power, Frieza, shall not receive it. But you, Bardock, shall receive it. You will see your end, just as we had to see ours." The green man lifted his hand and pointed it at Bardock, who stood stunned for a second, then growled at the gesture.
The Kanassan started to laugh maniacally at what he was attempting. As his laughter grew louder, the energy swirled around him faster. Beginning to mumble, the Kanassan forced the energy towards Bardock.
"Shut up!" Bardock shouted, firing an angry red blast forward, completely destroying the Kanassan. Bardock breathed a sigh of relief, then fell forward. The last things he heard was his teammates wondering about the Kanassan's words.
"Let's get him out of here, he looks like he's suffering." Fasha said, looking down concerned for Bardock. The rest of the team simply nodded and picked Bardock up. They gently set him down in his space pod and put the coordinates in for the healing station, just outside of planet Vegita. As the door closed, the ship took off and raced towards its destination.
"You know, I could use an hour or two in a healing pod, I mean this planet took a lot out of me." Tora said, looking around, bored.
"Yeah, plus we should be there when Bardock wakes up." Fasha said.
"Plus, we can't get a mission without him around." Bordos said, getting into his pod, which seemed to barely contain his mass. He waved as the door closed, waiting for the pod to launch. Fasha and Toma seemed to take cues and followed suit.
Where am I? I remember the kanassan, saying something about seeing his own demise. Demise? No, he said end. But that doesn't help me, now does it? So, where am I? Bardock continued to think. Suddenly a bright light flashed, and he found himself staring at a giant red orb, thinking of his son. Kakarrotto Kakarrotto Kakarrotto, his mind repeated, over and over.
After a few moments, Bardock's eyes snapped open and a beeping sound started. He looked to his side and noticed that he was in a healing chamber. As he looked up, the doctor nodded to him and pressed a big green button. Suddenly, the liquid, some sort of healing soup he considered, began to drain away. As it emptied, the glass slid down, and he stepped on the ledge.
A doctor ushered him to his clothes and gave him a few seconds to get dressed. "You know, Bardock, it would be wise to take it easy for a while, I mean you always come back half dead. You may grow stronger because of it, but you might not always be so lucky." the doctor spoke in an old nasally voice.
"Yeah, well, I wouldn't know, I'm not wise." Bardock responded.
"Oh, I think you are. How else could you come back from every mission, no worse for the wear after a quick heal?" the doctor argued.
"It doesn't take a whole lot of smarts to know how to fight." Bardock retorted as he slipped on his wristbands and walked out of the room.
"Soon he'll be as strong as the king. I reckon one more mission would put him over." The doctor said to his assistant.
"Bardock, you're up already? The doctors said you had brainwave issues." Toma said.
"Yeah, don't push yourself. We need you around for a long time!" Fasha said.
"Get to the meeting room, Frieza gave us a mission!" Bordos said, closing the link to Bardock's scouter. Just as Bordos stopped, Bardock ran in the room and around a corner, to find his team discussing something about meat.
"What's up?" Bardock said, looking around.
"We got a mission, we're going to planet Meat! How lucky, those meatheads aren't nearly as strong as the Kanassans." Bordos said, grinning.
"What happened to R and R?" Toma grumbled.
"Frieza ordered us there, directly. I don't think he knew you were up yet. But he said to go on without you. Weird, huh? We wouldn't leave you though." Fasha said, looking up at Bardock.
"Okay, then let's go!" Finally some respect! Well, it's about time, we earned it.
The Saiyan warriors walked briskly to their respective pods and let the computer auto navigate them to Planet Meat. The crew all checked their systems on the way there, and agreed that the systems were nominal and they would be ready for the job no matter what happened, their usually pre mission psyche up.
"Bardock, this mission was given to us, I don't think they considered you to be here, so...um what I mean is, maybe you should wait at your pod." Bordos said, rather timidly for a man of his stature.
"What are you saying?" Bardock said, considering. "Okay, you have an hour to do what you need to." He said, finally agreeing. If they get stronger, then we as a whole get stronger.
The pods slammed into the surface of the planet, making separate craters. All the doors opened at once, revealing the pilots. The four of them got up and formed a little circle.
"Okay guys, you have an hour. I'll be listening on the scouter just in case things don't go as easily as we all hope it will. Stay together and oh yeah, break them, don't just kill them all. Frieza would be more happy if he had a workable population." Bardock stated.
"You got it, boss." Toma said, smiling. The grew took off, heading in the same general direction. Bardock flew into the air, looking around, taking in the sights. Killing time. After a few moments of peace, his mind grew white. Pictures of him in an orange gi flooded through his mind, causing him to wince. The Bardock in the vision seemed paler, missing scars of battles. There was something else about him. A sort of feeling of rightness. Oneness, almost like a calm flooded over Bardock as he watched the doppleganger. My son!
Snapping his head up, Bardock realized people were shouting into his scouter. Turning it on, he located several power levels immediately. Two power levels at twelve thousand, one at thirteen thousand, Fasha, Bordos, and Toma respectively. But then there was a power level at thirty five thousand. Several other powers suddenly appeared as well, all above eight thousand. Sensing major trouble for his team, Bardock created an aura and jetted off towards his team.
"Well, well, well. Little Saiyan scum made it this far? How do you expect to survive what I brought for you?" a fat pink man said, wearing battle armor. His head and arms adorned by spikes.
"What are you doing? Frieza ordered us here!" Toma said, defiantly.
"Haha! Frieza ordered you to a trap! He has taking quite an interest in you dogs. I'd take it as a compliment. Well, sort of, you see, he is worried you might become to strong to control, so he has put it on us to make sure you and your leader aren't at Vegita in time for the "party"." Dodoria sneered.
"What! How dare you" Fasha said, jumping forward, fist aimed for Dodoria's face. With a quick movement, he had Fasha's hand in his. Fasha, slightly stunned, gave the pink warrior enough time to toss her into a group of men, ready to pounce. Toma raced to the far side, feet slightly off the ground, elbowed the closest minion in the face. As the minion was lifted, Toma grabbed his feet and flung him into another and fired a bolt that killed them both.
At the same instant, Bordos flew directly opposite of Toma and punched another henchman in the face, spinning slightly and delivering a roundhouse kick that sent the minion reeling. Bordos spun slightly more after his kick, tossing out a ki bolt that struck another soldier in the face, knocking him away, leaving his armor smoking. Dodoria started off after Bordos after tossing Fasha, and as he got close enough, Bordos stopped what he was doing and grabbed Dodoria and suplexed him and flipped off him, tossing out a few more ki bolts.
Fasha caught herself right outside a group of henchmen, each having their own attack prepared. Fasha quickly spun left, dodging a few ki blasts. At the end of her spin, she had to knock a ball of ki away. As she slapped the orb, a warrior appeared behind her and grabbed her arms, holding her tightly in place. The warriors she flew towards moments before began a second wave of attacks.
As the energy loomed closer, they formed into one giant beam and closed in on Fasha. At seemingly the last moment, her captor let her go and spun away. Without warning, the captor was uppercut into the blast immediately before it hit Fasha, all in the span of the beams travel. Fasha was slightly burned from the explosion, but not dead.
"Fasha! I have you, don't worry. You're not hurt too bad." Bardock said as he gently laid her on the ground. As he looked up, a scowl crossed his face. "Whatever you morons are doing, I have had enough!" He growled, powering up. His white aura appeared, seemingly from nowhere. Bardock rushed forward, drove an elbow into the nearest fighters face, knocking him away. As he flew backwards, it felt like slow motion, as Bardock moved next to him and axe handled him towards the ground, but as he fell, Bardock slammed a knee into his gut, putting him out of the fight.
Toma and Bordos both seemed winded after taking on a combined total of thirty men, and still Dodoria stood, unharmed. The pink man stood for a moment, unmoving, then smirked. The air around him was heating up. The charged particles were moving, leaving a very small vacuum.
"It's over, dogs!" Dodoria chided. Looking like he was about to laugh, Dodoria opened his mouth and instead of noise, a yellow beam flooded forward at the two Saiyans. The two countered with ki attacks of their own. The twin white beams slammed into the yellow one, hardly slowing it at all.
"Dodoria, you pig!" Fasha shouted, joining her teammates with a ki attack. The three beams combined into one, slowing the yellow one to a grinding slow pace. All the warriors were weary, even Dodoria. The second one of them slipped, it would end.
"Hey, Frieza's lap dog, did you forget about me!" Bardock shouted, bringing all his power to bear. He formed an elongated ki bolt, similar to a javelin and threw it directly at Dodoria's head.
The result of Bardock's interfereance happened immediately. Dodoria dropped his beam completely, and the three Saiyan's beams slammed into him, blasting him away, leaving fragments of his armor on the ground. Bardock rushed to Dodoria, slamming a foot on his chest and keeping it there.
"What are you doing here? Why are you trying to kill my men? Answer me, pinky." Bardock growled.
"Ha. We are Frieza's elites, not you. You apes are just for doing low level jobs, not taking ours and making us look bad! It is us who are in Frieza's high regards. Your janitors, you mop up what we don't want to, not what we can't!" Dodoria smiled scornfully. Bardock increased pressure, forcing Dodoria to stop smiling.
"You tried to kill us out of egotism? Give me one reason to let you live." The Saiyan barked.
"We didn't fight you for our egos. We fought you for Frieza. You have him scared. One of you, or all of you, I don't know, may rise up. Together you stand, you might have had a chance to stop him. But..." Dodoria stopped.
"But what? Tell me now. Or do you want my men to report your failure to Frieza."
"Alright , Saiyan. Frieza intends to destroy planet Vegita. He will be there shortly. There's nothing you can do to stop him. He has all of his elites with him. The Saiyan race is doomed. The ones sent out today will be sent out without any idea of who they are, or their heritage. Face it, monkey, you're done for." Dodoria giggled slightly, in spite of the injuries he had incurred.
"Die." was all Bardock said as he sent ki through the pink man's body, sending a ripple through him, killing him. "Alright. You heard him. Vegita is done for."
"Bardock! You have got to be joking, we can't let him do it, we have to stop him." Toma stated.
"I know that. You guys can't fight, you'll only serve to kill yourself. And I have a sinking feeling Frieza would have no trouble destroying the planet, let alone killing me. I do have a plan though."
"Bardock, we won't let you fight Frieza. I wont let you!" Fasha said.
"Don't worry, I wont fight him yet. I think you guys should go to a healing station, far from here. Probably a planet like Jidur. Don't auto navigate, use your own algorithms. I'll be there, after I make a stop to Vegita.