A/N: Hey, I forgot to ask for you guys to check out the poll on my profile! I'd like some feedback on what things to bring into the reboot, and the first round is characters, so give me your input on who you'd like to see return. Don't worry, we'll eventually get to the more sitcom-esque format the old one had...! But first, I must give you...the feels. BD
Also, something I forgot to mention last time for those who didn't catch on, for certain characters, I WILL be using the Japanese versions of the names...where it makes more sense.
Saiyan names are supposed to be veggie puns, so Seripa, Toma, etc., make more sense than Fasha, Tora, and so on. But some characters will still remain the same, such as Bulma, and Krillin(if I even...include them? Ha ha I don't know what story planning is, I have vague ideas for the first about...10 chapters? Maybe 15 if I stretch the content). Anyway, HIT IT!
Chapter 2;
Sooner or Later, We Will Meet Again
All attempts at rallying support had been horrible failures, the two being laughed off anywhere they went. Freeza had the entire world brainwashed, and there was nothing they could do to stop the mass hypnosis.
Walking down the street, broken hearted, fretting over a horrible fate, and trying to figure out what to do, Bardock and Gine encountered Seripa and Toma.
"Oh, hey, guys!" Toma greeted happily, waving casually, "Didn't think you two would be out this late."
"Yeah, Bardock's a square!" Seripa giggled. Actually giggled. Upon further inspection, her face was pretty red.
"Wait a minute, is she drunk?" Bardock asked, all thoughts of impending doom vanishing at seeing the female of the squad actually unwound from her normal tight self. It was a rare sight, indeed.
"Yeah b'cus I'm not a SQUARE!" she slurred, holding her hands up to make a square, "That's yooou."
"...yeah. Okay." was Bardock's deadpan reply.
"Just...ignore her." Toma sighed, waving his hand dismissivley in her general direction, "Your head doing okay? The doc said something about brain waves. Sounded sorta serious."
"No. I'm...very very not okay."
"What, only got 24 hours left to live?" joked the group's tallest.
The serious look his best friend gave him immediately wiped the smirk off his face, "Possibly less."
Toma's face grew pale, eyes wide, "W-whoa, man, I'm so sorry, I-I didn't know...! They're sure there's not like...surgery or-"
"Not because of the head thing!" spat the scarred saiyan, before pulling him by the shoulder pad into a nearby alley, "That kanassan gave me psychic powers." his tone was grave as he spoke, "Freeza is going to kill us. All of us."
"...You're...sure?" he asked. Toma had never been one to question his fearless leader/best friend, "You're not just having crazy dreams? I mean, there was that one time-"
"Think about it for a minute. Psychic powers aside...why would he want all of us here, at the same time?" Bardock replied, looking deep into Toma's eyes to try and drive his point home, "You can't tell me you trust that rat of an Icejin..."
It took him a minute, but eventually the light bulb did turn on in the other's head, "...We have to warn the others...!"
"Already tried it. Everyone laughed. It's just you and me, old friend."
"...Craaaap..." he sighed.
Seripa crashed on Bardock's couch when the four of them got back, Gine sitting in the chair right beside.
"...that'll never work!" Toma interjected, he and Bardock going back and forth about strategy, "No frontal assault like that will ever succeed. Do you know how many people he has, not to mention himself?"
"Yeah, but the security's too tight! They'd catch us anyway!" argued back Bardock, "We can go for intimidation at the very least."
"He's the emperor of evil, I don't think he's going to be very intimidated by, like, two Saiyans."
"Two? What about-" Bardock asked, looking back at Gine and Seripa, "...yeah two."
"...what if...we ran away?" Gine asked, innocently enough, "We just all four of us run? We can even take Kakarot and Raditz with us!" a smile crept to her face, proud of her plan.
"No, that'll never work." Bardock sighed, "He'd be able to track us with the scouters. Not to mention if he's going to kill all the Saiyans, we'd be sold out in an instant by any race that caught wind of the situation."
"Not if we go to some back-woods kind of world." she continued, "And...if we don't take any scouters with us...they wouldn't know where we'd be going."
"Yeah but our power levels are too high." corrected Bardock, before stopping himself, "...actually...yours might not be." he blinked at the realization, "...you run. We'll cover you, you won't be noticed."
"What?! Leave without you?!" she exclaimed.
"Loud noises. Headache. Ow..." Seripa groaned into the arm of the sofa, "Shhhhhhhh..."
"You'll be killed...!" Gine continued in a harsh whisper.
"And you'll be killed too if you stay." he sighed, "You and Kakarot take different pods. Send Raditz a rendevous point. Take different routes there, it'll up your chances." he paused briefly, before adding in a more tender tone, "At least this way...SOMEONE survives..."
She gave him a long, hard frown, but couldn't come up with a logical argument against that, "...but...I love you..." her voice was barley audible it was so quiet.
There was a brief silence, before Bardock looked off to the side, "...and I love you...and that's why I won't let him kill you." his fists clenched at his sides, "Please...Gine..."
Gine bit her lip. She tried to summon words, but this was all happening so fast, it was hard to even process it was really happening. She finally opened her mouth to say something probably profound and definitely adorable, when Seripa interrupted with a loud, "Awwwwwwww, how sweet!"
"Toma, let's get a hold of Totepo and Panbuken." Bardock turned back to his brother in arms, "Maybe they'll believe us, at the very least."
Toma nodded, and the two men headed out, while Gine tried to get Seripa sober.
The skies were a soft tone of red as the twin suns of Planet Vegeta began to rise. They had been up all night, but the necessary preparations had been made. Kakarot was already on his way, Raditz had been sent the rendevous point through a private scouter channel, in code just to be safe, and Gine was about to get going herself.
"Are you...sure you can't just run, too?" she asked one final time, tears stinging at the corners of her eyes, "Please...y-you can't..."
Bardock, knowing what she was going to say, silenced her by placing a hand on her cheek, pulling her in for a long kiss, "...I have to try, Gine."
She put her hand over his, leaning her face into it, "In that case...you better win." she tried to put on a tough face, puffing her cheeks out and moving both of her hands to her hips, "If you get hurt, I'll kill you!"
"Right, right!" he couldn't help but laugh, "Just...be careful, yeah? I ain't gonna be around to protect you this time."
Gine nodded, wrapping her arms around his waist, "...I love you. I'll...see you later."
"Sooner or later." he agreed, returning the embrace, pulling a cloak around her shoulders and pulling the hood over her head, "Better get going."
One final glance between the two said more than words ever could, before she climbed into her own space pod and made her way off their doomed world. Bardock made his way back to his full squad.
He climbed up on the guard rail of the balcony they were standing on, facing his team as he spoke, "This is it, you guys. Our time to show the universe what we're really made of! Who's ready to take down that traitor Freeza?!"
The four others cheered in response, before climbing up next to him.
"No matter what happens...it's been one heck of a ride, Bardock." Seripa smiled up at him, "I'd follow you to Hell and back."
"If we don't live through this, I'll find you in Hell and shave your head." Toma teased.
"Let's do this!" Bardock smirked, before the five took off into the sky.
An alert sounded on the ship above.
"Lord Freeza, rebels are approaching." Zarbon warned, watching the monitors, "Shall we send out our elites?"
Freeza merely nodded, watching the scene from the large, round window before him.
"Heads up, looks like it's party time!" Panbuken smirked as the soldiers began to pour out like rain from Freeza's ship.
It felt like they had burned through thousands of elite soldiers by the time they reached the ship. It took literal mobs to hold back each one.
"Freeza!" Bardock yelled, not even bothering to struggle to break their grip on him at the moment, "Come out and face us! Coward!"
The other four joined in his cries, spouting off with whatever insults they could think of off the tops of their heads. Broken, battered, and bloody, but within them was the will to survive. The will to fight.
The upper hatch drew open, Freeza emerging in his hovercraft. Shocked that he had given into the rogues' demands, the soldiers holding onto the crew let go, drifting back, all whooping and hollering, "Long live Lord Freeza!"
"At what cost?!" Bardock snarled, his comrades gathering around him, "We know what you're planning on doing! You're going to kill everyone! Isn't that right?!"
Freeza stared at them with those piercing red eyes, a stern expression on his face. He did not deny the claim.
"Well...we're here to change that fate!"
"The fate of Planet Vegeta..." Seripa spoke up, charging a ki blast in one hand.
"...the fate of the Saiyans..." Totepo added, doing the same.
"...our own fate..." Panbuken copied the action of his teamates.
"...and your fate, too, Freeza!" Toma spoke up, again mirroring the rest of the crew.
"This is where it ends!" finished Bardock, hurling his blast, the others following suit.
What they didn't see was that Freeza had prepared his own attack, which was expanding rapidly. It enveloped the other blasts, seeming to almost feed off of them as it grew larger and larger.
The Saiyans' eyes all grew wide. A sudden revelation struck the entire group that they were like ants fighting a dinosaur, and there was no way they were surviving this. With a flick of his finger, there was burning, followed by silent darkness.