DBZ Story
Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ or any of its characters except the ones I created and no money is being made off of this it's just a hobby.
Bardock had been searching for the Red Ribbon Army for a couple hours with no success. He grunted in frustration as his scouter picked up more common power levels.
"Who knew these humans would be so hard to find?" He asked himself.
He decided to continue his search tomorrow. On his way back to Mt. Paozu he stopped at Pota's to check on him.
He arrived and surprisingly found the lobby empty. The three elite saiyans had finally decided to ease up. He walked back to the room Pota showed him before.
"Hello Bardock, back kind of soon aren't you?" Pota asked as he greeted Bardock, "But then again these three have been telling me about your power."
"No I couldn't even find them and what exactly did they tell you?" Bardock asked curiously.
"How your power rivals my big brothers, he must be cursing the old gods as we speak." Pota said with a smile on his face. "A low class rivaling the king in power, who would have thought?"
Bardock could see the three elites shift uncomfortably as Pota spoke so carelessly about their king.
"I don't know about being his rival in power." Bardock said trying to downplay his power.
"It's unbecoming of a saiyan to be so modest about power." Aspera said from her chair.
Bardock ignored her comment and turned his attention back to Pota, "I didn't come here to discuss how strong I am, I came here to check on you."
"With all due respect Bardock I may not compare to the likes of most saiyans but here on earth I am neigh untouchable." Pota said a little offended.
"Exactly you're not completely untouchable and I was sent here to make sure you were completely untouchable." Bardock shot back.
Before Pota could respond Brolo's deep voice cut in.
"Bardock where's the little lady you brought?" The giant asked receiving a pointed look from Bardock.
"That's my business not yours." Bardock told him.
"Maybe you should lighten up." Cress said stepping up to Bardock.
Aspera and Brolo followed suit standing on each side of cress. Bardock and the three elite continued their staring contest before Pota broke it up.
"There will be no fighting here this is my home, take it somewhere else." Pota said in a commanding tone.
Bardock smirked, he would have to put these saiyans in their place. But that would have to happen another time.
"Bardock." Pota said getting Bardock's attention, "There is something I need you to do."
"What is it?" Bardock asked folding his arms.
"You three go guard the door again." Pota said waving the three guards off.
A sneer appeared on the face of Cress, "Why should we listen to a weakling like you?"
Before Pota could respond Cress received a swift punch to the gut courtesy of Aspera.
"Fool, he is still the brother to the king." She said before leaving to guard the door.
Brolo obediently followed his captain and Cress gave on last glare before doing as he was told. Pota smirked, "Being the king's brother does have its perks."
Bardock just continued to stare at the man in front of him. For the most part he acted nothing like a saiyan but there were times where he did. He looked the part but then the clothes he wore took away from his natural saiyan look. He would have to keep an eye on him, he was the king's brother after all.
"I need you to go check on what's left of my team." Pota told him.
"Your team, what do you mean your team?" Bardock asked genuinely confused.
"Yes I was sent here with three other saiyan scientist, one died and another one left. I used to keep in touch with the last remaining member but it's been a while since I've heard from him, Take this and find him." Pota said handing Bardock a small piece of paper.
"I'm not familiar with earth I don't know what this means." Bardock said looking at the paper.
Pota nodded in understanding. He turned around picking up a small phone. He began giving orders to whoever was on the other end. It wasn't long before he was facing Bardock again.
"There's a driver waiting out front, give him the paper and he will take you there." Pota said walking passed Bardock.
"Where are you going?" Bardock asked with irritation clear in his voice.
"I still have a business to run and don't worry I'm taking Vegeta's dogs with me." He answered smirking.
Bardock stood alone with the small piece of paper in his hand. He looked down at it one last time before going to meet the driver. He arrived outside spotting a man dressed in all black waiting next to what he recognized as a car.
"A-are you t-the man Mr. Pota told me about?" The driver nervously asked the heavily muscled warrior.
"Yeah, let's get this over with." Bardock slapping the piece paper into the poor man's chest.
The driver began to wheeze as the air slowly made its way back into his lungs. Bardock poked his head out of the window.
"Humans are so fragile." Bardock thought to himself. "Come on I didn't hit you that hard."
The driver nodded as he coughed. He eventually got into the car and drove off. Bardock eyed the outside world as they drove through the city, Central City according to the signs. It was different than what you would see on Vegeta but the biggest difference were the citizens. Humans were livelier, most saiyans didn't interact much besides on the battle field or in the mess hall.
"Uh sir we're here." The driver said getting Bardock's attention.
Bardock arrived at a small house just outside of the city.
"I'll be back soon." Bardock told the driver as he got out of the car.
The driver nodded before turning the car off. The powerful saiyan moved towards the house. He looked around taking in his surroundings. A scowl found its way on to his face as a nagging thought of something wrong crept to the front of his mind.
"This doesn't feel right at all." Bardock thought to himself.
He froze as images of explosions flashed through his head. Quickly recovering from his brief physic episode Bardock turned on his scouter just to be safe. He scanned the area around him, many power levels appeared all around him. A glint of light in the distance amplified by the lens of his scouter caused him to shut that eye. With his open eye he witnessed his driver and the car exploded as the rocket collided with the car. He heard the futile screams of his driver.
His battle senses kicked in as soldiers started pouring in from every direction surrounding him.
"That was just a warning shot, now tell me who you are and what you're doing here." A man with jet black hair stated.
He appeared to be the leader of the present soldiers but he did look quite young.
I'm Bardock, who are you?" Bardock asked a little peeved at his current situation.
"I am Captain Copper of the red ribbon army." The man said, his voice full of pride.
Bardock smirked, "You weaklings just made my job easier."
Sensing the ill intent coming from the low class saiyan, the captain ordered his mean to fire.
Looking down at his chest as the bullets bounced off, he calmly wiped off his chest plate. He gave them a feral smile before disappearing. Not a second later screams began to fill the air.
Captain Copper stood frozen in fear. Every time Bardock appeared Copper's eyes were locked onto the swaying brown tail.
"H-he's the s-same as that man." Copper thought, "Retreat!"
The remaining red ribbon forces attempted to flee. It proved to be in vain as Bardock used his superior power to wipe them out.
"Where's the family that lived here?" Bardock asked pointing at the house which was now littered with bullet holes.
Captain Copper continued his crab-like escape as Bardock stalked closer. Bardock's warrior personality caused him to frown at such a cowardice act.
"If you're going to die," Bardock said lifting him off the ground. "Then die like a man."
With a new resolve Copper began fighting back but to no avail. Fear once again gripped his heart as the saiyan in front of him gathered energy in the palm of his free hand.
"I asked you where the family was." Bardock said squeezing his captive's throat.
Captain Copper remained silent. Bardock grew tired of waiting, he released his attack. The beam of energy pierced the red ribbon captain's shoulder eliciting a scream.
"T-t-they're at our base in the northern mountains." Copper managed to get out in between heaves.
"Take me there." The scarred saiyan growled.
He received silence as an answer. He realized the captain had passed out from the pain. Bardock dropped the wounded soldier.
"You don't deserve a warrior's death, coward." Bardock said as he walked away.
He lifted off of the ground flying back towards Pota's place. He knew the location of the base but he didn't know how to get there.
As he took off he failed to notice the flashing red light in the palm of Captain Copper and the flying object above them.
X-x-X
The blaring sound of a siren grouped with a flashing red light equaled chaos. The secret base of the red ribbon army was in a state of red alert. In a last ditch effort to save face Captain Copper alerted his comrades of the impending doom.
"All officers level-3 and above please report to the commander's office at this time." A female voiced said through the intercom system.
Ten minutes later inside the commander's office were some of the most powerful men on earth. They were the highest ranking members of the red ribbon army and the harbingers of death. On the far right stood a dark skinned man, next to him was a man with blond hair and blue eyes, then there was a mountain of a man with green hair and lastly was an elderly man.
"Colonels Black and Blue and general brown, I'm glad you three could make it on such short notice." A tall man with blood red hair dressed in a tuxedo.
The elderly man cleared his throat making his presence known. The red haired commander frowned as he looked at the older man.
"Ah I suppose it's a pleasure to have you Dr. Gero." The commander said barely holding back his disdain for the man.
"The pleasure is all mine commander Red." Dr. Gero said with an equal amount of disdain.
The tension between the two didn't seem to affect the other men in the room. Since inception of the criminal organization the relationship between the commander and the head scientist had been strained. They both had lofty goals and in order to succeed they needed each other so they tolerated the presence of the other.
"I mean no disrespect commander but what's so important that you need all of us here?" Colonel Black questioned.
"It seems Pota has made his move." Commander Red answered.
Colonel Brown scoffed, "With what army, we've crushed his people countless times."
"And why would he attack now when we have his friend's family?" Colonel Black asked curiously.
"Tch…friends, Pota does not have any friends just pawns to sacrifice to get what he wants." The commander yelled losing his temper.
"What makes this attack so different from the others?" Dr. Gero asked.
"I'll show you." Red said picking up a remote pointing it towards the screen behind him.
The screen flickered to life. The monitor showed the encounter between Bardock and Captain Copper's forces. As the video came to an end the color of Red's face nearly matched his hair. The other men showed no type of reaction to the video.
"So what's the big deal, he took out little Copper's team by himself I can do that." Colonel Brown said, his voice heavily affected by his country accent.
"Idiot, did you not see what was behind him?" Dr. Gero asked in a harsh tone.
Colonel Brown took a closer look at Bardock. His eyes widened slightly as his eyes fell on the saiyan's tail.
"So he brought reinforcements from wherever he came from." Colonel Black stated.
"I haven't heard from you Colonel Blue, what do you think?" Red asked his most trusted soldier.
"I think-." He began to say when an explosion shook the building.
"Get to your stations," The commander ordered his soldiers. "And no matter what no one gets passed any of you."
While the other men including the commander ran off to their battle stations, Dr. Gero gingerly walked out of the office.
"Fools, such impatience will be their downfall." He said as he walked down the hallway.
X-x-X
"You little maggots think you can take me on." Bardock taunted as he watched more soldiers come towards him.
In the midst of punching a hole through a soldier Bardock looked behind him. Pota was nowhere to be seen.
"Ah forget it he can handle these weaklings." Bardock said snapping a soldier's neck.
Watching the saiyan tear through the foot soldiers was a sight to see, whether it be a pleasant one or a disturbing one was up to you. He moved with grace as he slammed his elbow into the top of a soldiers head liquefying his brain.
"You don't look so tough." A deep voice came from behind Bardock.
Bardock dropped the dead soldier in his hand before slowly turning to face the owner of the voice. A muscular man with blond hair cut into a crew cut.
"Another one of you captain guys?" Bardock questioned, "The other guy didn't do too well."
"I'm no captain you savage I am Colonel Blue, the strongest man in the world." Blue proclaimed ripping his shirt off revealing his muscular chest.
Bardock checked his scouter. He didn't seem impressed with the numbers that popped up.
"Hmm…300, he's even stronger than Roshi and Gohan." Bardock thought to himself. "You may be a god compared to the insects on this planet but where I come from there are children stronger than you."
"Stop with the lies you animal-." Colonel Blue's insult was cut short by a fist in his chest.
"Like I said I know children stronger than you." Bardock said before releasing his ki inside of the colonel's body.
Blue gave one last shocked look before his body exploded in a bright light. The light died down to reveal a very bloody Bardock. Chunks of the colonel slid down his armor, he flicked a small piece off of him.
"Bardock quit staring off into space and come on." Pota said flying passed Bardock.
Bardock spotted the huge box he was carrying. He quickly caught up with the weaker saiyan.
"What's in the box?" Bardock asked curiously.
"Something far above your intelligence, leave the science to me and you keep to the fighting." Pota said still looking forward. "Speaking of that could you please destroy that base and those runts once in for all."
"Wait what about your teammate and his family?" Bardock asked suddenly remembering his secondary mission.
Pota frowned, "They're safe and sound, I got them out while you were being a typical saiyan."
Bardock growled at the jab but let it be for his family's sake. Although Pota wasn't in his brother's good graces didn't mean he wouldn't retaliate if he killed him.
"Whatever they're your problem not mine." Bardock told him.
"You're right now can you get on with the destroying?" Pota asked gesturing towards the base.
Bardock stopped mid-flight and turned back towards the base. He gathered a massive amount of energy for his signature attack. A bluish-white energy covered his hand, it quickly grew in size, and soon it was bigger than his head.
"And to think this was for Frieza." He said before launching the attack at the mountains.
Pota watched with a malicious smile on his face as the attack made contact. The mountain collapsed on itself causing the base and the men in it to be buried. That sense of doom once again crept into Bardock's head. He had a feeling he couldn't trust Pota but then again he didn't trust him from the beginning. He was after all still a member of the royal family.
"Let's go I have something to show you." Pota told Bardock before speeding away.
Bardock followed pushing the dark feeling back into the depths of his mind. The trip back to Pota's was a short one. When they arrived things were eerily silent and the place was empty.
"Where did everyone go?" Bardock asked suspiciously.
"My wife and kids have gone out for the day and I sent Vegeta's dogs with them." Pota said as they walked to the back.
They arrived in the room where Bardock met Pota when they arrived on earth. Pota removed a picture from the wall and behind it was a hand scanner. He placed his hand on it and a piece of the wall slid to the side revealing a steel door. He picked up the giant case he took from the red ribbon base.
"Follow me." Pota told Bardock as he stepped through his secret door and into the darkness.
Bardock followed the royal saiyan, curious as to what he was going to see. Pota led him through what looked like the med bay on Vegeta. There were machines everywhere and healing pods.
"Wait right here and whatever you do don't leave this area." Pota told him with a serious look in his eye.
Bardock watched the other saiyan walk away. As soon as he felt Pota was out of range Bardock did what Pota told him not to do. Bardock didn't like being told what to do. As he stepped through the darkness, he could hear a faint scream. He didn't know if it was in his head or real but he continued to follow the scream. As he got closer the scream became louder and soon it was apparent that it was in his head but a reality.
He stopped in front of a door not unlike the one leading to the laboratory. A small amount of light shone in the darkness from under the door. Bardock crept closer and closer, he knew whatever or whoever was screaming was behind that door. He slowly opened the hatch to look inside. His eyes widened at the sight before him.
"I told you not to leave that area." Pota's voice cut through the darkness.
"How long have you had them?" Bardock asked on edge.
"Longer than you've been here." Pota said in an uncharacteristically dark tone.
"Why did you kill your teammate?" Bardock asked as an image of the dead saiyan in the cell flashed through his head.
"He got in my way." Pota simply answered.
It all started coming together in Bardock's head. King Vegeta didn't come in contact with Pota by accident, Pota wanted to be found. But the big question was why?
"So what's your play, why did you let your brother find you?" Bardock questioned.
"Ah you're smarter than the average saiyan but I guess I can tell you since you're about to die." Pota said with a sadistic smile on his face.
Bardock flinched inwardly at the insane look on Pota's face. From day one he sensed something off about the man. He could never fully trust someone that was related to Vegeta and he didn't know why that was. Little did Bardock know that his distrust for the royal family could be traced back to their ancestors that roamed the saiyans original home planet.
"My brother never loved me…even as a newborn. When my little brother was born everyone was happy, father would get his powerful heir and mother would get someone her husband could accept." Pota said walking closer.
"That's quite the story, a little sappy for a saiyan though." Bardock joked.
"You laugh but the moment Vegeta laid eyes on me I knew things would change for me. I knew if I could get his approval then father would have no choice but to respect me. But that never happened, at every chance he got Vegeta embarrassed me. As we got older that need for approval turned into hate and one day I got tired of it and I failed a mission knowing the consequences." The royal saiyan said stopping in front of Bardock.
"I'm lost, what does any of this have to do with bringing me here?" Bardock asked.
"And here I thought you were smart." Pota said snorting. "I want to kill my brother and you're going to help me."
"Ha and why would I do that?" Bardock asked.
Pota began chuckling, he raised his head just enough so Bardock could see the crazed look in his eyes.
"I'm going to make you." Pota said before snapping his fingers.
From the shadows appeared Aspera, Cress and Brolo. On their heads was some kind of metal contraptions. They stood stiff on each side of him. Aspera stood to his right, Cress on his left and Brolo behind him.
"Is that what you took from that base? Is that the reason you needed saiyan warriors?" Bardock screamed.
"Correct, you see I could never kill my brother with condition and all but four elite level saiyans?" Pota said letting Bardock answer that himself.
"As much as I don't like Vegeta I won't let some silly sibling rivalry doom my people, OUR people!" Bardock told him.
"Our people, our people could care less about us. You have been scorned your whole life for being born to a woman who was unfortunate enough to be called a low class. Fight with me and we will rule the saiyans, they will be sorry they ever wronged us." Pota argued.
Bardock shook his head, "I will not be remembered as a traitor to my people and I will not put my family in danger."
Pota sighed as he shook his head, "Well I can't let you live, tear him apart."
Pota turned his back and began to walk away. As soon as Pota became unseen the three elite saiyans struck.
Bardock brought up his elbow blocking a kick from the giant Brolo. He grimaced as the kick stung his elbow. He didn't have any time before Cress upon him kicking him in the stomach. Bardock grunted as he hit the wall.
"Fighting you three at the same time is going to be tough." Bardock said wiping the blood from his mouth.
They remained silent continuing their attack. Aspera attacked for the first time delivering a powerful blow to Bardock's midsection. It didn't stop there she continued her onslaught landing blow after blow. Bardock was sent flying once again. This time he stood up with an angry look on his face
"Okay that's getting old, it's time to let loose." Bardock said smirking.
Power exploded from his body, the same blue-white aura from before surrounded him. The ground around him began to crumble.
"I can't afford to keep playing around." He said disappearing in a burst of speed.
He appeared behind Brolo with his fists raised. He brought his down his fists down in a hammer-like fashion smashing into Brolo's head. He disappeared appearing behind Cress sending a devastating kick to his back. He quickly moved his head to the left dodging a lightning fast punch from Aspera. He used his momentum to quickly turn and send his elbow into her side.
Aspera was sent flying. Bardock looked around at the damage the fight had caused. The walls had huge dents in them and the floor was ruined. With the three elite saiyans down for the moment Bardock turned his attention back towards the cell. He ripped the door off revealing a woman with blonde hair holding two infants, next to her was a rotting corpse.
"Are you alright?" Bardock asked the woman.
The woman flinched and held the two babies closer to her. Bardock saw her eyes fall on his tell as she visibly tensed up.
"Come on woman, I'm not like Pota I'm trying to help you." Bardock said reaching his hand out.
The woman didn't make a move. She just sat there looking at Bardock. Her babies seemed to be sleep as they made no noise.
"Look I'm going to leave this place and go somewhere safe, whether or not you and your babies come with me is up to you." Bardock said before turning to leave.
As he walked away he looked out the corner of his eye. He saw the woman get up and leave the cell. She took a while as she walked passed the corpse in the cell. Bardock smiled as saw the woman reach the outside world.
"I'm getting soft, normally I would have left them to rot but I guess I'm not the same person as I used to be." Bardock thought himself.
Bardock could now hear the cries of the twins. In her right hand was a baby boy with the darkest black hair Bardock had ever seen and in her left hand was a baby girl with blonde hair. He assumed the boy took after his saiyan father and the girl after her mother.
"How are we going to get away from this place?" The woman asked speaking for the first time.
Bardock frowned, originally he had planned on flying but he couldn't fly with the children. They couldn't walk Mt. Paozu was too far away. He looked around, his eyes fell on a car in front of the building.
"Can you drive?" He asked the woman.
She nodded, "Yes I can but we don't have car."
"Sure we do, come on." Bardock said walking towards the aforementioned car.
He promptly ripped the driver door off. He stepped aside gesturing for the woman to get in. She quickly got in ready to get away from Pota. She looked down at the babies in her arms and then at the steering wheel with a troubled look.
"I can't and hold my babies." She told him.
"Hmm…give them to me I'll hold them until we get there." Bardock offered.
She looked at Bardock with a look of disapproval. Currently his armor was cracked, bruises adorned his face and blood splotches were littered all over his body.
"I won't hurt them, I am not a child killer." Bardock said, "At least not anymore."
Eventually she reluctantly handed them over to the saiyan. Her fear of being caught again and putting her children in danger was more than that of her distrust for Bardock after all he did save them. She quickly started the car pulling off.
"Uh where are we going?" She asked stopping.
"Just go that way." Bardock said pointing west towards the mountains.
Bardock looked down at the two children in his arms. They were saiyan half breeds, much like his possible grandsons Gohan and Goten. He did see that they didn't have tails.
"What happened to their tails?" Bardock asked.
"Hmm…no they never had a tail like their father." She answered getting sad at the mention of their father.
He wanted to know what happened to the saiyan, though he did have an idea but he saw that she wasn't ready to talk about it.
"How old are they?" He asked as they woke up.
Their eyes grew wide as they landed on the saiyan man. Bardock cringed as they began screaming as loud as they could. He had to suffer through the screaming until they reached the base of the mountain.
"We can fly from here." Bardock said as they stood staring into the forest.
"Fly, I don't think that's safe." She said unconsciously holding her children tighter.
"I'll fly slowly besides you don't want your children in that forest." Bardock told her.
Multiple howls pierced through the air proving Bardock's point. The babies resumed their crying as the howls reached their ears.
"They sure do cry a lot to be saiyan children." Bardock told her.
"Well Mr.-?" She began to say.
"Bardock." He told her.
"Well Mr. Bardock they are not saiyan children they are my babies, human." She argued.
"Yeah whatever, come on let's go I have to get back to my family." Bardock said picker her up.
"You have a family?" She asked in a soft tone.
"Yes, you'll meet them when we reach our destination." Bardock answered.
The rest of the trip was pretty much in silence with the occasional whine from the babies. The small hut that housed Bardock's family and Gohan was soon in sight. Bardock landed on the ground, he gently sat down the rescued woman and her children.
"Now you can-." Bardock began to say before a ki blast crashed into his face sending him flying into the forested area behind him.
Aaaaannnnddd that's it, this chapter came to me pretty quickly. I hope you all like it, I know the fighting scenes weren't the best and I would really like some help on how to write them properly. They may have seemed short but you have to realize that Bardock is stronger than everyone on earth at the moment.
On to the next subject, I know the red ribbon army fell kind of easily but they will be coming back and stronger than ever. Sorry to leave you with a cliffhanger but I had to or else the opening of the next chapter won't be as good.
Until next time my faithful readers, LKnight out.
