AUTHORS NOTE!
So I finished the prologue and was very happy with it, unfortunately it took away from my sleep and I couldn't sleep all night because I kept thinking of the direction I was going with it. SO Now I did chapter 1 of The Renegade Outlaw.
Just to clarify, I am fully educated on Turles back story and know all there is to know about him. But none of that really applies to this. I have taken the character of Turles and turned it into my own so I hope you guys like the feel of it. Be sure to leave a review so I can continue this!
CHAPTER 1:
Age 740
Staring out the large window of his quarters aboard the P.T.O.S.S Hanasia Captain Turles could do nothing but fester. It had been three long years since the tragedy that fell upon the Sayian race and changes that came with it. With the destruction of the Sayian planet, Frieza gather the remaining Sayians to his private castle in the empires capital. Among them, excluding Turles, stood General Nappa, Turles nephew Raditz and the prince of all Sayians, Vegeta. Out of all of them, Nappa was the most talkative, his rage towards his peoples destruction spoke for the minds of them all. "What do you mean a meteor! How could your people have missed that?!".
"It was a mistake" replied Zarbon, Frieza's right hand chieftain, Zarbon was a man of beauty, smooth skin, perfect hair and the chiseled features of a god. "According to the recordings we obtained, there was a malfunction in the orbital monitoring systems" spoke Dodoria, Frieza's brute enforcer, military expert and personal boogie man. Dodoria was bulkier than Zarbon, horrific and monster like with a spiked skull and grueling claws "as Zarbon said, a mistake". Nappa, gritted his teeth, snarled at this "You're systems! You'remen! You're mistake!" Nappa was a strong Sayian, loyal to his people and the royal family, he and Prince Vegeta had been the ones to take this the hardest. Turles looked towards the throne of Lord Frieza, who sat comfortably and allowed his men to answer for him. "Coward" he thought to himself "letting his patsies speak for him, he doesn't deserve that throne". Turles crossed his arms, showing his own annoyance towards the universal dictator.
Zarbon scowled at the Sayian general "you aren't the only one whose suffered losses General, we had over two hundred station soldiers on planet Vegeta". Nappa spat at the comment in disgust "men you can easily replace! Just attack another race and enslave them!" Turles looked at Nappa with surprise "Nappa, calm down" he said softly, Nappa turned to him swiftly "Quiet low class! This is all bullshit! Frieza is afraid of us, afraid of our legends! He did this!" Nappa turned back to them in fury "This wasn't a mistake, it was a genocide!" Turles glanced back to Frieza who continued to listen to the speech with a look of boredom across his face. His relax manner towards the conversation proved to Turles that Nappa's claims were not false. Frieza was notorious for genocide, especially if it benefitted him, but this was not the time nor place. But what could Turles do? He didn't stand a chance against Nappa, let alone Frieza. All he could do was stand by and plan an escape route. If this got bad, he had to get himself and Raditz out of there.
"Speak!" Nappa continued "Tell us all how you destroyed our families! tell these boys how you killed their fathers!" Dodoria positioned himself into a more cautious stance "watch your tongue when addressing Lord Frieza you Ape" he threatened. Before Turles could stop him, Nappa charged in a blind rage. Dodoria and Zarbon readied themselves for a fight, but Nappa merely passed them, heading straight for the lord himself. "Shit!" Thought Turles, grabbing hold of Raditz hand, ready to sprint from the chambers. "Nappa stop!" shouted Prince Vegeta, surprising everyone in the room, including Nappa, whose fist was just inches away from Frieza. Turles looked at Vegeta with shock. Prince Vegeta was such a small child, but nothing more than a likeness of his father. He was a strong child who commanded respect and fear, and he always received it. Turles chuckled at this, "he would have made a fine king" he thought to himself.
Nappa turned to the prince "But... Vegeta I-" "Enough!" Vegeta cut him off "I will not be defied! Get back here, now!" Nappa looked to Frieza with rage, only to be met with the calm cool eyes of the tyrant, who didn't move from his throne. "Nappa, now!" commanded the Prince. Nappa slowly backed away from Frieza and returned to the Princes side, defeated. Zarbon and Dodoria relaxed their stances, chuckling at the warrior "The great General, defeated by the command of a child" chuckled Zarbon. Vegeta glared at this "I am no child" he said "I am a Prince! The Prince of a race killed by your incompetence and I want my compensation for my losses immediately."
The two chieftains were taken aback by the child's words. A twisted smirk crawled across Dodoria's face "rewards?" he sneered "what do we owe you, child? Consider yourself lucky we kept you alive". To Turles amazement, Vegeta did not react to this, most Sayians his age would have challenged Dodoria, but Vegeta just continued. "Though my people have gone, I still hold Sayian royal blood in my veins" he said proudly "I understand it was a act of nature but it is one that could have been prevented, by your people, making it your responsibility". Dodoria became enraged by this "You ignorant monkey! How dare you speak to us in that way! I'll-" a hand fell to Dodoria's shoulder, Dodoria looked over to see Frieza was standing behind him. "That's enough Dodoria" said the tyrant "The Prince has made a good point".
Frieza continued past Dodoria and Zarbon, both who relaxed their stances at his presence. Frieza stopped a few feet away from them, smiling gently "You all have such incredible potential" he said "but you monkeys are so disobedient and prideful". Vegeta smiled at this "it is our pride that keeps our strength pure" he replied, making Frieza erupt with laughter "spoken like a true king" Frieza's laughter died off immediately, replaced with a cold stinging tone that sent chills down Turles spin "but Prince or not, no child will command me". Turles and Nappa readied themselves to defend their Prince, only to be surprised by the shriek of Raditz "he isn't commanding, he is requesting". Turles turned to him, giving him a look of fear "That's enough Raditz!" Vegeta threw his hand up to Turles "no, he's right". Vegeta began approaching Frieza calmly "I do not wish of command you Lord Frieza". Vegeta stops just a few inches away from Frieza, kneeling down before him "I wish to serve you, the compensation I ask if for a unit of soldiers for us to command, for us to enforce your will, for us to continue our servitude to you". Nappa, Turles and Raditz all await nervously for Frieza's response, knowing that if Frieza feels insulted, they will all most likely die right where they stood. However, to their surprise, Frieza simply smiled at this "you are quite brave, young prince, I admire that" Frieza placed his hand on the princes shoulder "I will make sure you understand where to focus that bravery".
From that moment, Vegeta and Nappa were stationed into Lord Frieza's personal militia, tasked with conquering worlds with high prices as well as powerful opponents. As Sayians, Vegeta and Nappa gladly accepted, knowing full well that Frieza was only doing this in hopes that they would die in battle, furthering the Sayian peoples extinction. As for Turles and Raditz, they were given a more demeaning task. They were commissioned a ship and ordered to hunt down any and all rebels to Frieza's empire. Men, women and children who opposed Frieza's might were to be executed by any means necessary. Turles was given a handful of soldiers to command and for three years, they hunted down any and all signs of rebellion.
Turles had never felt any sympathy towards these rebels, to him they were nothing more than a challenge to his strength. But each rebel group that he faced, none had been much of anything, idealists with no power backing their words, except for one. Three years ago, a true warrior had risen and challenged Frieza's might, killing and destroying countless cities, soldiers and bounty hunters that belonged to the Frieza empire. According to rumor, the warrior wore tattered battle armor and sported a red bandana. The rumor also stated that during a full moon, the warrior would transform into a beast, destroying it's opponents without fail. Upon hearing of this warrior, Turles could not help but feel excitement and immediately set out to find him. Not only could this mean that another Sayian had managed to escape Planet Vegeta's destruction, but he wanted revenge, just as he did.
The doors to Turles room opened, Turles turned to see the now teenage Raditz standing in the frame. After the death of his father and Turles brother, Turles stepped in to teach and train the boy, showing him the old ways of the Sayian race. Over time, Raditz had grown strong, putting him up to the level of Frieza's elites. And as time grew forward, his anger and his hatred had grown deeper. "Uncle, we are nearing our destination" he said, Turles turned and faced the window again "That is Captain to you boy". Raditz was a very defiant and opinionated teenager, constantly barking and biting when he should sit quietly and await command. Turles cared for his nephew deeply, but he wanted him to understand that no matter how strong he was, there was someone always stronger. "Show me the proper respect" he commanded sharply "Next time I'll beat you for it" Raditz gritted his teeth at this, but bowed "I apologize Captain, we are approaching our destination, you are wanted at the bridge". Turles turned and left his room, Raditz following behind him.
Turles walked the halls of his ship, his pace increasing with his eagerness to fight the rebellious outlaw. Turles turned to Raditz "I want you to assemble the ground team, tell them to prepare for battle and meet at the pods in ten minutes". Raditz nodded and ran off down a different corridor to prepare, he too had felt the eagerness to fight "just as his father" thought Turles proudly. Turles entered the bridge of the Hanasia, going unnoticed "Attention!" he shouted in a commanding voice. The men in the room stand at his presence, Turles smirks at this and continues into the room "What is our status" he asked as he sat in his chair in the middle of the ship. A small man sitting at one of the computers turns back to his computer screen "we are exiting colossal drive in three...two...one". The ship stops, moving slowly through the vacuum of space, in view is the glowing of a red planet. Turles looked at it curiously "What is the name of this planet?" he asked. "Yardrat, a planet of mystics. According to our records, the last several expeditions that have been sent by us have either gone radio silent or come back dead". Turles looked at him surprised "dead?" he asked, the soldier nodded "reports say their ship life signs indicated they were place in the pods after death... these people sent them as a message". Turles smiled at this comment "no" he said slyly "not a message... a declaration of war".
The man turned and looked at Turles confused "but...sir the records also state that the Yardratian people are peaceful mostly, for them to declare war in this manner is odd". Turles nodded "yes...but this behavior is not of Yardratian descent... a Sayian is behind this". Turles stands and addressed the crew "Myself, Raditz, Gimlock, Jax and Fortu will go to the surface to find this rebel, when I call, make your descent and we will begin our search. We will kill and destroy everything until he shows himself. But until then, you are to leave nothing alive or standing, understood?" The crew all shouted in agreement, Turles turns and leaves the bridge, speeding to the surface pods. As he sped toward the launch bay, he could not hide the excitement that burned in his heart. A slow smiled inched onto his face"The Renegade Outlaw" he thought "show me why they fear you".
Age 737
Planet Meat
"10 minutes until arrival to Planet Meat, please awaken and prepare for landing"
Dodoria awoke from his travel induced slumber as grumpy as ever. Why did he need to be the one to go check this out? Dodoria grumbled at this "I was just here damn it! Why couldn't Zarbon do this?" he thought to himself "they better have a really good excuse". Two weeks after the destruction of Planet Vegeta, Lord Frieza commanded a militia base to be built on planet Meat, which was routine. After a large amount of the a planets population had been wiped out, a base would be built and the remainder of the populace would be killed off, thus leaving it vacant and ready for sale. However, after a few days, communication with the base went dark and for almost two months, stayed dark. Lord Frieza grew weary of this and gave him the order,
"Dodoria, would you be so kind to go and find out why my planet has not returned our calls"?
Dodoria reluctantly agreed, deciding to go alone rather than waste his mens time with some communicational pod finally broke the planets atmosphere, crashing through it's sky. As it broke through the sky, Dodoria noticed the site of the bases main construction area. Dodoria scoffed at this "Well it seems fine, why the hell haven't we heard from them?!" Dodoria pushed his transmitter button to activate his speaker "This is Dodoria, I will be reaching the landing pads in about 1 minute" no answer, Dodoria pushed the button again "This is Dodoria, can anyone hear me?" still no answer. Dodoria leaned back irritated"why isn't anyone answering?"
The pod crashed into the landing pad softly, smoking and red hot. A sudden gas appeared and chilled the pod, after a moment, the pod opened and Dodoria exits the pod. Dodoria lands a few feet from the pod and gazed at the structure in shock an awe. Before him lay the remains of not just the structures of the building site, but also stacks and stacks of soldiers, doctors and builders of Frieza's army. Dodoria stood speechless, did the people of Meat over throw them? If he remembered correctly, the reports stated that the inhabitants of Planet Meat didn't have a power levels over five hundred. Even in mass groups, most of these men were of levels that ranged between two and seven thousand, they could of easily handled a revolution. "This is preposterous! I nearly wiped out ninety percent of this rocks population" Dodoria activated his scouter, only to be surprised yet again "What?! How could this be?!" The scouter had shown that the inhabitants had increased by thirty percent. The scouter suddenly started beeping frantically, Dodoria looked at it curiously "wait, incoming power of...twenty-five thousand?!" before he could react, Dodoria felt a swift kick to the side of his head from the back, destroying the scouter, the shattered pieces of the scouter stabbing and gashing his cheek with glass and metal. The force of the kick sent Dodoria flying, only for him to smash into the sand like ground, burying him.
Dodoria rose from the dirt, the side of his face bleeding lust in his eyes. Dodoria quickly turned to face the opponent who attacked him, shouting menacingly. "Who dares to attack the great Dodor-" before Dodoria could finish his sentence, he felt another strike, this time in the stomach. Dodoria felt blood explode from inside his gut and spat out his mouth, shocked by the sudden smash. Before he could recover, another swift kick to the top of his head was delivered, sending him crashing towards the ground. This time however, Dodoria caught himself, Dodoria turned in a rage and fired several blasts towards the direction he just came. "Bastard!" he shouted as he continued to rain fire into the sky. Each blast filling the air with a burning smoke "you fucking bastard!"
After a few moments, Dodoria finally stopped his attack, breathing heavily from the spent energy and the injuries he had received. "You should have made sure I was dead" said a voice, "but I'm glad you didn't" Dodoria stared hard at the black smoke clouds, "I know that voice" he thought to himself as he tried to see through the smoke. As the smoke cleared more and more, the pit in Dodoria's stomach dropped deeper and deeper. When the sky finally cleared again, Dodoria felt it completely fall. Floating in the sky, his arms crossed and a smile on his face, was Bardock. Dodoria scowled at him angerily "How are you alive?!" he asked with a low growl. Bardock simply laughed at this "Your team found me and put me in the healing tanks. Big mistake". Bardock was dressed in his tattered armor, sporting a red bandana around his head.
Bardock lowered himself to the ground. Dodoria following. The two warriors stood across from one another, each glaring at the other. Dodoria smiled at him evilly "You have no chance against me!" Bardock smirked at this "Did you not get a look at your reading properly, Dodoria?" Dodoria spat at him "A simple malfunction! You are a Monkey! A simple minded ape! How could you surpass me?!" Bardock smiled at this "big talk for a guy you got thrown around by a monkey". Dodoria glared at this and got himself into a battle stance, Bardock, however, remained in a relaxed pose. Dodoria felt his temper rise at this, how could this low class have such insolence. Dodoria chuckled heavily at Bardock "So confident, reminds me of your comrades, they were so proud of their strength. Such a shame".
Bardock's smile faded, in it's place was hatred and anger. Bardock pointed to the bandana on his head "do you know what this is?" Dodoria smirked at this "who gives a rats ass?" Bardock gritted his teeth at this "This rag is soaked in the blood of my fallen brethren, the brethren who fell by your hands". Bardock slowly flowed into a battle stance "I will avenge them". Dodoria smiled at this "Oh will you? With what army?" Bardock smiled coldly at Dodoria "Oh, don't worry, I've seen your future Dodoria, and Zarbon, even your precious Frieza's and you will die by Sayian hands". Dodoria chuckled at this "my future? The only thing in my future is drinking your blood at my next meal!"
Dodoria's charged viciously to Bardock, rage filled with ever fists and kick he threw at at him, with speed more furious than a flickering fire. However, despite his efforts, Bardock simply dodged every one of Dodoria's attacks. Dodoria grew more and more angry at this, "how?! How is he dodging my attacks?! he's a monkey! a damned monkey!". Bardock caught one of Dodoria's fists, gripping it tightly. Dodoria cried out in pain as he felt his fist breaking under Bardocks grip "When I went to Kanassa, I met a old weakened man and he gave me a gift,, the gift of divination" Bardock let go of Dodoria fist and began delivering a multitude of punches and kicks, each one landing onto Dodoria. Bardock gut punches Dodoria, breaking his armor and causing him to spit up more blood. "I've seen everything Dodoria, from this fight to the final battle with your master" Dodoria backed away, holding his stomach, glaring at Bardock. Bardock spit to the side then readies himself for another round "you're done, all of you!"
Dodoria quickly rose to the sky "you are nothing!" he shouted, Dodoria began to power up, preping his most powerful attack "I will end you Monkey!" Bardock simply smiled at this. "Power up all you want Dodoria" he said with a sly grin "I've surpassed you". Bardock crouched himself, lowering his hand to the ground. Slowly, a heat begins to flow from the ground his hand hovered above "this is your end Dodoria". A blue sphere began to gather in the palm of his hand, growing larger and larger. "Shugesh, Borgos, Fasha, Tora, this is is for you" Bardock closed his hand tightly, absorbing the blue ball into his fist. "I'll never forgive you!" Bardock blasted into the sky toward Dodoria, his hand glowing from the energy he gathered. Dodoria smiled at this "die!" he roared as a large stream of energy explodes from his mouth, which seemed to tear through the sky like fire.
Bardock remembered this attack well, it was the same attack he had used in his attempt to kill Bardock. Before, a direct hit by this would have evaporated Bardock, but now, Bardock welcomed it. Bardock raised his fist, which emitted a powerful blue sphere surrounding it. Bardock felt Dodoria's attack connect with his own, but it did not stop him from moving. Bardock continued his assault and before Dodoria could react, Bardocks fist connected with Dodorias cheek causing his head to explode from the powerful force. As Bardock watched Dodoria's corpse fall the the sand of Planet Meat, he simply looked to the sky with a smile. "Rest my friends" he said to himself "rest" Bardock lowered himself to the ground next to Dodoria's corpse, staring at it with disgust. "Such a waste of power, given to such trash like you" Bardock looked back to Dodorias pod "guess my lucks changing", Bardock powered up an flew over to the craft.
Upon entery, Bardock began fiddling with the ships navagation systems "alright, where's the nearest port?" after a few moments the system gave Bardock his answer "Planet Frieza 19, if I remember right, that's pretty much just a small station". Bardock typed the coordinates into the system and before he knew it, the ship took off at full speed. Bardock sat there a moment, reflecting on the the events that had just happened. With the death of Dodoria, he would be hunted after, classified as a 'Renegade' and an "Outlaw". Bardock smirked at this "I kind of like that" he said with a sneer. Bardock turned on the ships communications and began to speak "listen up you spineless cowards! this is a wake up call, for years my people served under the thumb of Frieza, yet he killed us anyway and I want retribution. Frieza if you are listening to this, I will destroy your tyrannic image, I will kill your men, and then I will kill you. Find me, I'll be waiting".
For three years, Bardock kept every bit of his word, traveling to any Frieza occupied territory, leaving everything and anyone in a sea of fire. Soon, people began to look at him with a sense of hope, as a hero. During his journeys, Bardock learned from various different styles of fighting, becoming stronger and wiser in his techniques. As time went on, Bardocks visions became clearer and more precise. With the aid of this ability Bardock began to see the barbaric ways of the Sayian people and soon grew beyond them. And as he trained with his new found master on planet Yardrat, Bardock felt a familiar energy, one he had never felt before, but one he knew well. "Raditz" he said quietly "you're alive?"
AUTHORS NOTE!: Wow, long chapter! Hope you guys enjoyed it! I will be posting chapter 2 this week as well so stay tuned and stay excited for the next installment of "The Renegade Outlaw"