Some time had gone by since the destruction of their home planet. They were not sure if they had gone unnoticed when they left or if someone had seen them or if Mandareen had been able to contact someone about their departure. All the same, they were wanting to lay low until they reached an area of space that had been untouched by Frieza's greedy little fingers. They were unsure how far his grasp reached so they didn't stay on a planet too long in fear of being discovered and sent to join their fellow Saiyans.

A total of nine of them had escaped the destruction of Vegeta, they were really close friends, and have battled alongside each other since they were children. The ship wasn't really big but it was big enough for the group to be relatively comfortable. After they set out on this journey, a few of the members of the group had become close with each other, more like intimate. In fact all of them had paired up with another, all but one.

The one who had watched her mate defend them as they took off. Day after day, she would look out the viewport wishing for her long lost love to come to her. A wish she knew that would never come. It had been years but the feelings that she shared with her mate were far beyond the normal feelings that one would feel. The bond they shared was deep and almost telepathic. This is why she felt that she would never fall for anyone ever again.

"Are you okay, Zonera?" A voice called out from behind her, bringing her out of her trance.

"What? Oh, yeah I'm fine. You know just the same old thing, Nori." Zonera said.

"I just wanted to let you know that we'll be touching down on a planet in just under an hour to pick up more supplies and to stretch a little before heading out again."

Zonera looked out the viewport to see a blue and green sphere rotating in front of them as they approached it.

A short time later, the ship had touched down on a landing pad and the Saiyans stepped off of the ship onto the concrete landing platform. The sky was of a mixture of pink and green which the oddity of these particular colors used in the sky were different to Zonera. She had seen just about every mixture of color in her travels with the exception of this one. She noticed that the landing platform overlooked the waters of an ocean or a lake. She wasn't sure which body of water it was but it was massive. The color of the water matched that of the sky so she surmised that the water was relatively clear and mimicked the color of the sky.

She separated herself from the others to go get some supplies of her own and to collect her thoughts. It wasn't anything against the others or to wallow in self pity about being the odd person out, it was just something she did. Plus she figured that all that time spent on a ship, the others needs some sort of alone time. By any other accounts by any other species she should be over the loss of her mate but emotions run deep within the Saiyan race, even deeper than many other species in the universe.

She entered what looked to be a food establishment of some kind and sat down. The place wasn't the most fancy of places she had been to but for the moment she really didn't care. The waitress brought her a water, which is all she really wanted and she just took in her surroundings as she sipped her water.

It was good to be off the ship for a bit and stretch her legs with natural soil under her instead of the standard hull plating beneath her feet. She would grow tired of the sounds of her boots hitting metal to which caused the sound of the dirt crunching under her boots to be a welcome sound.

After finishing her water and leaving some currency on the table, she left the establishment and headed back to the ship to gaze out at the ocean and admire its vastness.

However, unknown to her, she was being followed, by someone with long black hair, wearing brown and black armor and a tail.

The next thing Zonera knew was being grabbed, protesting, and then darkness.

Zonera slowly opened her eyes and she could make out blurry shapes and colors but that was it. She could hear voices too. They were muffled for the most part but the closer they were to her the more coherent they were.

"Zonera, what happened?" One of the female voices asked. She recognized it to be Ginga. Then she heard one of the male voices mention something about a hospital but she couldn't tell who had said it. Then she slipped back into the darkness again.

Zonera awoke once more, only this time she was more conscious and it was actually waking up instead of slightly coming to and then passing out again. She slowly turned her head to see Nori, Ginga, Cassava and Lima sitting in the room. None of the males were there. She surmised that they were at the ship.

Nori raised her head and was slightly started by the sight of an awake Zonera. "Zonera, you're awake."

Her statement brought the other three to attention and they rushed to their friend's side.

"What happened? Do you remember?" Lima asked.

Zonera nodded. "Yeah, I remember it. All of it."

"What happened?" Cassava asked. "When we found you, you were naked."

The statement didn't seem to faze Zonera at all. "He forced himself onto me. He caught me by surprise. My scouter didn't even pick him up. He was one of us."

"One of us?" Ginga asked. "It couldn't have been…"

Zonera held up a hand and shook her head. "No, I don't mean any of us on the ship. I mean he's one of our kind. He was a Saiyan."