The Sacrifices We Must Make Part 1
Zarbon was lying down in the sun next to Liya his ex girlfriend and anteater like purple alien with thick lips and huge eyes, Icey Freezer and Cooler's annoying but sweet cousin, Constantine Icey's husband and another general of Frieza's and Appule, Zarbon's best friend in the world besides Cui. They had nothing to worry about as far as they were concerned, except the bickering which usually took place between Liya and Icey.
"Zarbon do I look more beautiful than Icey?" Liya asked.
Zarbon sighed he could not bear another bickering contest right now between Icey and Liya, he had heard them bickering at one another all weekend, Liya recently threw a temper tantrum just because Icey tripped at the ball and Zarbon helped her up, if there was anything that Liya was prone to it was unnecessary jealousy.
"If I say yes will you stop complaining?" Zarbon asked.
"Of course I will," Liya said.
"Well in that case you do look rather ravishing today there so more than Icey," Zarbon said.
"That's not fair Zarbon, you know that I have hair and she has fur," Icey said.
"Who says that you have to have hair to be cute?" Constantine said laughing.
"You always shave your head like you would know dear," Icey said to Constantine.
Although Icey and Constantine loved each other very much, they bickered at one another, "Guys I'm trying to get darker, I have very fair skin and you two bickering at one another isn't going to make it get any darker, its more likely to get burnt!" Zarbon said lifting his sunglasses up.
"And we're supposed to care because?" Constantine asked.
That Constantine was a kind man, but he could be ruthless and annoyed easily when given the chance. He and Zarbon used to be rival generals before the Sayain genocide took place, in the end he helped other tope generals outvote Zarbon one to four in favor of annihilating the Sayain race.
Zarbon was the only general in the room that had second thoughts, in the end he delivered the message to Frieza that in fact it would be a bright idea to eliminate the Sayians. Of course it was Frieza's idea to begin with, Zarbon only went along with it since he was outvoted even though he hated the idea of eliminating anything no matter how horrible they seemed to him.
"Never mind so much for stating one's opinion," Zarbon said.
"Do you mean opinion or a fact?" Appule asked putting on more sunscreen.
Frieza came out into the desert where the group of friends tanned, if Frieza showed up at something like this then that meant that it was an emergency and important.
"Zarbon get your stupid Primal Changeling butt up right now!" Frieza yelled.
"I'm coming sir, sorry guys we'll have to continue this later!" Zarbon said getting up and following Frieza into the palace.
"Why does Frieza have to always have to come and get Zarbon at the wrong times?" Liya asked.
"Don't look at me," Appule said., even though clearly Liya was not looking at him at all.
Inside the palace Frieza was thumping his tail onto the ground and Zarbon did not know what to think of this, he smiled thinking that it would make Frieza feel less intense.
"Did I do something wrong sir?" Zarbon asked.
"No you did not…Its Kiwi he's sick with typhus, he drank the water on Planet Booshka after I strictly told him not to!" Frieza yelled.
"Oh no, no wonder he didn't show up to join us to tan our skin!" Zarbon said.
"Yes now you know, so I need someone to handle the finances while he's out in the hospital." Frieza said.
"Let me guess you want me to handle them?" Zarbon asked.
"You're the only one other than Kiwi that knows how to file the orders for what planets to conquer and sell to the highest bidder," Frieza said.
It was true, Dodoria could not do it because he sucked at math, Shasha could not do it because he could not read English or any other language besides his native Cyrillic language, which was actually a type of Russian dialect. Liya could not do it because she was a solder and she handled the slave courters, Appule was a nurse and just graduated from nursing school, but also could not do it because he was in charge of healing the solders up.
"I'll try Frieza but I warn you my math skills are weak compared to my military skills," Zarbon said.
Next thing you know Zarbon was in the office where Cui usually handled the finances, he had a head microphone on and a few pencils out in front of him. What Frieza did not tell him was that dealing with customers could be a real pain in the ass. Zarbon was trying to be as patient as he could be with a customer who got mad that a planet that he bided on got sold.
"No sir I've already told you Planet Zamara has already been sold to the highest bidder, would you perhaps like another planet?" Zarbon asked.
The person on the other line hung up, "Oh well he hung up," Zarbon thought.
Then another call came in, "Hello welcome to Frieza's Planets how may I help you?" Zarbon asked.
"My name is Fielding Mardock and I would love to place a bid on Planet Primal if I may," He said on the other line.
Zarbon's eyes grew wide, Planet Primal was off limits as far as everyone knew, it was not only under the protection of Frieza's older brother Cooler, but it happened to be the planet that Zarbon was born on. He had not seen his planet in years, there was no way in heck that he would sell it to anyone.
"Sorry but Planet Primal is currently unavailable, allow me to read you the planets that are available for takeover," Zarbon said getting a list out to look at and read off.
"No you don't understand I want that planet so badly, I need to put my species on that planet so that we could not die off!" Fielding Mardock said.
"But sir it's off limits," Zarbon said.
"You must ask Frieza if it's available please I really need this planet for my materials," Mardock said.
"Fine I'll ask him, have a nice day," Zarbon said pushing the button so that the other line was off the hook.
He took his microphone off and sighed, he did not want his species to be annihilated despite the fact that many Primal Changelings lived on Planet Frieza and Shasha's home Planet Cyrillic. He had to protect his home planet, his womanizing and estranged dad was the king of the planet, but that did not mean that Zarbon wanted it to be destroyed.
He had recurring nightmares about when Frieza pulled mass genocide on the Sayains by destroying Planet Vegeta. Although Zarbon liked to boast about it along with the other non-Sayains, deep down inside the situation made him more terrified of Frieza and of what Frieza was capable of, therefore he tried his best to convince Frieza not to destroy another planet, which of course did not go over well with Frieza.
Appule came into the room, "Hey Zarbon I wanted to see how you were doing, I brought you some cookies to eat," Appule said putting the cookies down on the table.
"No thanks Appule I'm not hungry," Zarbon said.
"What's the matter you look almost white in the face," Appule said.
"I just got off the microphone with this customer who wants my home planet to be taken over!" Zarbon said.
"Oh boy I thought that planet was off limits," Appule said.
"I thought so too, Cooler would not allow Frieza to take over that planet," Zarbon said.
"Yah especially after Frieza tried to annihilate the Primal Changelings on this planet a long time ago," Apple said.
"What you mean to tell me that Frieza tried to drive my species to extinction on this very planet?" Zarbon asked with his eyes wide.
"Never mind we'll talk about this some other time!" Appule said blushing almost making the mistake to tell Zarbon a deadly secret that he never or may not have known.
"We must never let Frieza know that this person wants to buy my home planet!" Zarbon said.
"What are you talking about?" A shrilly voice said behind them.
Zarbon and Appule turned to see Frieza's small figure in the doorway, it turned out that Frieza came to check up on Zarbon as well.
"Nothing I got to go!" Appule said running out of the room faster than a flying squirrel.
"Hello Frieza what are you doing here?" Zarbon asked.
"I see that we have a high bidder for your home planet, I'm going to convince Cooler to stop protecting your species on this planet and on Planet Primal!" Frieza said.
"No please don't hurt my home planet, I haven't seen it for years!" Zarbon said.
"Too bad I want the money Zarbon, I need that money to build more palaces and hot tubs!" Frieza said.
"What about your people?" Zarbon asked.
"Fuck them! Fuck your species too, your species are too smart for their own good!" Frieza said.
"That's not 100% true, Shasha is dumber than Dodoria!" Zarbon said.
"He's from Planet Cyrillic what did you except?" Frieza said.
Once again, Frieza was right, most primal changelings on Planet Cyrillic were stupid, illiterate and non spiritual. Many years ago before Zarbon and even Shasha were born, the Cyrilicans wanted to break away from Zarbon's home planet and live on their own planet since they were atheists and wanted to speak Russian rather than English or Japanese or even French.
Sadly to say, most of them found themselves even more deprived since there were no books, printing press, and it got very cold during the winter months. Then a lot of them migrated to Planet Frieza to make something of themselves, they then established successful communities and all that jazz, though they were not allowed to elope with one another, talk with the other species on the planet or even look the Icejin changelings in the eyes when saying hello.
"Look I'll do something for you just to keep you from destroying my home planet!" Zarbon said.
"Who said destroying it, I meant selling it!" Frieza said.
"I'll do anything!" Zarbon yelled.
"Anything? All right, I am quite lonely and I need someone to rule my evil empire with me, so I want you to marry me!" Frieza yelled.
"Oh come on, I'm your adopted son you can't just marry me!" Zarbon said.
Zarbon would have rather of died than marry Frieza, after many years of Frieza sexually abusing Zarbon, Zarbon hated sex and refused to make love to anyone else let alone marry them, besides it was illegal for primal changelings to marry anyone on planet Frieza. It could end up with a fine or execution depending on how bad the eloping was.
"Yes you're right, damn it! I was just joking, nobody would want to marry you anyways, you won't make love to me anymore let alone anyone else! I know what I'll marry Icey my stupid cousin!" Frieza said smiling.
"She's already married to Constantine, besides you can't marry her either, she's your cousin," Zarbon said.
"I know what, I'll marry your ex girlfriend Liya!" Frieza said.
"No don't marry her, you'll regret it I promise you!" Zarbon said.
"No I must marry her or else your home planet will be destroyed!" Frieza said teasing Zarbon in the cruelest way possible.
Zarbon then had the unpleasant job of telling Liya about Frieza's proposal to her, Liya was so upset when she heard the news. She hated Frieza with a passion, ever since the day that Frieza had Shasha kidnap Liya to bring to Planet Frieza so Zarbon could have a playmate, she hated him. She hated him even more after Frieza had her husband and daughter executed on his orders.
"No I can't do it, he's a horrible man that had my daughter and husband beheaded!" Liya said crossing her arms.
"It will only be temporary I promise you," Zarbon said.
"I have no interest in becoming your mother!" Liya said.
"Frieza's not my real father, he's just my master who claimed me as an heir to the throne, he never even refers to me as a son and you know how he humiliates me in front of the other generals and Dodoria and Shasha!" Zarbon said.
Appule could not help but laugh in the background while he was reading a book on medicine, "What's so funny Appule?" Liya asked.
"Nothing except that the look on your face is so funny!" he said laughing.
"Shut up cretin! I've had a long day and I need to go to sleep, good night!" Liya said going over to her couch and closing her eyes.
Zarbon went over to the couch, "Liya dear, think about all the power you can have in the world, think about all the men that will want to court you," Zarbon said.
"I don't care about that Zarbon, I want my daughter and husband back!" Liya said.
"Ok here is the deal, maybe what I need to do is get you to see that Frieza isn't such a bad person after all," Zarbon said.
Appule lifted his face above the book he was reading, he raised his eyebrow bone, he could not believe what he was hearing, after all we were talking about a man that killed not only his own people but eliminated entire alien races.
"Frieza is good? Yah right that'll happen when I actually start shedding more fur so that I go bald!" Liya said as she got up, went over to her vanity and started brushing her purple thin fur.
Appule got up and took Zarbon out of the room, "Zarbon this is wrong, does she even know what the risk is if she doesn't marry Frieza?" Appule asked.
"No I haven't told her and hopefully she won't find out, you see between me as a general and you as a doctor, her race was exterminated many years ago and if she finds out that I want to protect my own race which is mainly located on three planets, she'll have a cow." Zarbon said.
"Zarbon Frieza just wants to sell your planet, not eliminate everyone on it, besides I'm not a doctor, I'm a nurse," Appule said.
"What you told me that you were a registered doctor!" Zarbon said.
"Well honestly that's just small talk, Frieza will not let me become a doctor, he said I wasn't stable enough to handle such stressful situations!" Appule said.
Of course Frieza did not know what he was talking about, Appule not only was working on a doctor's degree in nursing but he actually delivered babies for Zarbon's sister Miretta, Liya, and even other primal changelings and Icejin changelings. He was even a registered gynecologist assistant and in charge of healing the solders up after battle. Appule could have been a doctor and succeeded if he wanted to…if only Frieza would let him.
Zarbon rolled his eyes and then continued on, "We can't let Liya know what is at stake, she might feel left out if I tell her the truth," Zarbon said.
Later on Liya finally agreed to Zarbon's odd request, if only an experiment date could take place to see if Frieza and Liya were actually compatible enough to be together for a long time. Zarbon and Appule sat in the camera room looking at the restaurant on the TV screen where Liya and Frieza sat at a table, they even had on microphones so that they could tell Frieza was to do, since they made Frieza put in a tiny ear microphone.
"This isn't going to work," Appule said.
"She required that she go on a date with Frieza to see if they're even a match, you never know, she might actually end up liking the guy." Zarbon said.
"And you don't mind that she's actually going to be dating Frieza and eventually end up marrying him?" Appule asked.
"Be quiet let's start the commands," Zarbon said.
Frieza looked at Liya, "So you like to dance for fun?" Frieza asked.
"Yes I do, dancing is my life, and I love to yell at the girls if they don't do their ram du jams right." Liya said.
"Boy this conversation couldn't get any more boring," Appule said.
Frieza then smiled at Liya awkwardly, "I like to garden a little bit to make the place more prettier, the bad part about it is that each time I plant a flower I always have to pull them out of the ground because I forget that sometimes bright colors are horrendous to me!" Frieza said.
"Is that so?" Liya asked.
Zarbon then knew what he had to do to help Frieza break the ice, talk about important stuff that did not require talking about stupid moronic stuff.
"Step aside Appule! Frieza tell her that she is pretty looking!" Zarbon said.
"Oh that's so gross!" Frieza yelled.
"Do it or else she won't marry you," Zarbon said.
Even though Zarbon looked handsome enough to know what he was talking about, he actually had no idea how to seduce a woman or even cared to either. He was too respectful towards women to actually get into their pants when he was not supposed to. He could also empathize with Frieza, Dodoria and Shasha's rape victims more easily than any of those thugs knew how to do.
"Ok fine, Liya you look handsome!" Frieza said.
"Oh please nobody says that anymore!" Liya said getting her pocket mirror out, she then pulled out her lipstick and starting putting some on.
"Sorry dear, I've been alive for about a little over two hundred years, I'm a little old fashioned," Frieza said.
All the sudden things got really shaky when Icey and her husband Constantine happened to be eating at the same restaurant, it was Constantine's birthday and Icey insisted on going out and celebrating it with him, they then spotted Frieza with Liya and decided to walk over to them and say hello, Zarbon saw this happening and he was nervous.
"Oh no what are Icey and Constantine doing there?" Zarbon asked.
Frieza then saw Constantine, "General Constantine how are you doing?" Frieza asked as he got up and hugged the much taller Constantine.
"If you're asking if I'm still alive then I'm doing fine your sovereign," Constantine said in a rather arrogant sounding tone.
"Oh what a suck-up!" Zarbon said for this did not go over well with him.
Constantine thought he heard Zarbon's voice over the earphone, but then dismissed it as a hallucination, caused by boredom.
Appule looked at Zarbon, Zarbon was one of the biggest suck-ups that Freezer commanded, however most of the stuff Zarbon told Frieza were stuff that Frieza wanted to hear more so than what Zarbon felt in his heart.
"Constantine what is that bitch doing here with you?" Liya asked getting pissed off.
After all Icey was her biggest rival for Zarbon's heart, sadly Zarbon and Icey did not like each other like that nor even hinted it at all. It was all in Liya's head, Liya in the end was a drama queen and needed drama to spice up her boring palace life when she was not teaching ballet or going on a mission.
"Hello Liya my what an ugly dress you have on, your tits are about to stick out in a moment!" Icey said.
"Excuse me but at least I have tits!" Liya yelled.
"Why you bitch!" Icey tried to attack Liya, then Constantine had to hold Icey back.
"Stop it girls you're ruining my birthday!" Constantine said.
"Yep this is getting bad, I have no choice but to go there and make an even bigger scene!" Zarbon said getting up and running out of the room.
"Zarbon wait, you'll get lost over there!" Appule said.
Oh well, Zarbon knew where the restaurant was located, he had been there many times with his friends and Liya, it was only a few blocks away.
When Zarbon got to the restaurant he saw the women bickering at one another even more so than he overheard on the microphone.
"I'll telling you bitch, you're going to get slapped!" Liya yelled.
"Slap me then bitch!" Icey yelled.
Zarbon then stepped in, "Stop it! You two are acting like savages! You are acting below the level of your own levels!"
Everyone just looked at Zarbon, they did not expect to see him there, nor did they think to actually ask him any questions. Then the awkward moment passed and someone had to ask him what he was doing there in the first place.
"Zarbon what you doing here? I didn't see you at all sitting down and eating, you could have come over to our table and talked with us, we would have loved to have had you as company." Icey said.
"No Icey that's impossible, he would have ruined my birthday even more than you or Liya would have," Constantine said as he looked at his pocket watch, which looked like an advanced pocket watch.
"No I wouldn't have allowed him to come over to your table just to say hello! He's my man!" Liya yelled.
"Liya how many times do I have to tell you, we broke up a couple of years ago, we have moved on from one another you are just making matters worse!" Zarbon said to her blushing badly.
"You two have officially ruined my birthday!" Constantine yelled.
"Oh shut up!" Everyone yelled at Constantine.
Appule could not control himself, he laughed so hard that the earpiece in Frieza's ear fell out and hit the ground.
Liya picked the earpiece up and investigated it, "What is this?" she asked with a dirty look on her face.
"Uh its my hearing aid, you do know that I'm partially deaf right?" Frieza asked.
Even though it did not look like Frieza had ears, he did and they were on the side under where his horns were located.
"Frieza I never want to see you again or even talk to you!" Liya yelled, she threw his earpiece into his face and left the restaurant angry.
Later that evening, Frieza walked back and forth with Appule and Zarbon sitting down in front of him worried that he would massacre them for doing such a crappy job of getting Liya to like him.
"I knew this was a bad idea, I knew it all along!" Frieza yelled.
"Maybe if you weren't such a Napoleon completed idiot then maybe it would have gone better! You didn't even try to break Icey or Liya up! You just let them fight, if it hadn't been for me or Appule then they would have ripped each other to shreds!" Zarbon said.
Frieza then sneered at Zarbon, "Did you just defy me general Zarbon?"
"No I didn't, I just am saying that if you wanted to get Liya to like you then you should have tried harder, like stand up for her, or take her side, or just not take sides at all and leave the conflict!" Zarbon said.
"Look Zarbon, this is the real world, this isn't fairy land where people live happily ever after and turn the bad guy into a romantic hero! In the real world, people get hurt, and if Liya needs to feel hurt to love me, then that's all its going to take!" Frieza said smiling.
"Oh my God, you don't care about Liya at all, you just want to hurt her even more than you used to!" Zarbon said.
"What do you mean used to hurt her?" Appule asked.
"Oh Frieza didn't tell you, I wasn't the only person he fucked when I was little, he did the same thing to Liya and does the same thing to Prince Vegeta!" Zarbon said.
"Yep I'm not surprised that that happened," Appule said looking down and shaking his head.
"Enough! I will now do something so vile that nobody will be able to stop me! I'm going to screw over Liya and instead go after Icey!" Frieza yelled.
"You mean?" Appule asked.
"Yes Appule that's right, I'm going to marry Icey and murder Constantine for insulting me in front of Liya and ruining my chances with her!" Frieza yelled laughing like a maniac.
"Yep its time to go now," Zarbon said taking Appule by the hand.
"Just one moment, and just to make sure that none of you tell anyone about this…" Frieza said about to finish what he was saying.
Hours later Appule and Zarbon were bandaging their wiped backs up for speaking out against Frieza and being threatened into keeping quiet about Frieza's evil and nonsense of a plan.
"I don't understand, he never had a chance with Liya, I mean if he destroyed her species and had her mother murdered by Shasha and he raped her as a child, then why would Liya love him anymore than Shasha or Dodoria?" Zarbon asked.
"Frieza is Frieza, he thinks he can fuck with anyone who disobeys him." Appule said bandaging Zarbon's back up.
"That tyrant, I never liked him, he excepts me to like him after he treated me like not just a sex slave but a sheltered spoiled brat! He has got to the in the high running for worse adoptive parent of the century!" Zarbon said.
"We have to warn Constantine and Icey about what Frieza's plan is," Appule said.
"Yes but how are we going to do that?" Zarbon asked.
"I have an idea," Appule whispered in Zarbon's ear and Zarbon smirked as he listened to what Appule had to tell him.
End of Part 1