"The Bounty Hunter"
By: Coldfire
Vegeta growled and let loose a blast at the woman and snarled when she dodged it like it was nothing. In fact everything she was doing was nothing but a game to her! How dare she toy with him?! The all-mighty Prince of the Saiyans!
"All hail the mighty prince!" she mocked as she crouched onto a tree branch on all fours, grinning like the cat that got the canary. "Prince of a dead planet and a equally dead race. Now you're nothing but a distant memory."
"SHUT UP!!!" Another furious blast shattered the tree but Coldfire dodged it with ease and agility, landing on her feet before flipping back a couple of yards and faced him with hands on her hips.
"Now now big boy, shouldn't let you anger cloud your mind." She sighed and faded from view only to appear behind him and rammed her fist deeply into his spine. "Clouded mind clouds your senses."
The saiyan growled angrily and reached behind him, grabbing her fist and hurled her into a large boulder that shattered under her impact and sent up a small hurricane of dust. "You talk too much!"
The rumble shifted and the woman stood up, wordlessly shaking dust and pebbles from her hair and dusting her shoulders off with a flick of her wrist. She slowly walked over to him, slowly pulling a glove off and held her hand behind her back. "Why? Because I speak the truth? Face it Vegeta, you have a spreadsheet long enough to wrap this planet and create a bow to be gift wrapped to whatever disgusting creatures you were going to sell to. But I'm here to stop this. So be a good boy… and submit!" With the lightning reflex of a cat she pressed her palm against his forehead and shouted a single word.
At first nothing happen but a sudden bolt of electricity hit Vegeta directly to his brain, making him scream in pain and agony even as he tried to pry her hand off but it was no good. All his senses were going into over drive to try and figure out what was happening. The jolt soon spread to every nerve ending in his body, slowly making his limbs go slack and the screaming ended. Coldfire pulled her hand back and watched as the mighty man slowly fall face forward into the ground, barely breathing and with a scorching mark of a overlapping c and f on his forehead. He was completely under his control until she chose to remove the mark.
"Mission accomplished. Now, just gotta get you to the Council and collect my creds," she muttered to herself and pulled the glove on.
"No stop!! You can't do this!!" Goku cried out to her. Vaguely remembering when his brother, Radtiz paid an unexpected visit and kidnapped his son in exchange for 100 lives.
She snapped up to look at him and growled, showing she had two very sharp canines like fangs and eyes grew hard set. "Don't you dare associate me with that bull-headed brother of yours, saiyan! I have more honor than him and this is my duty!"
"H-How did you know about that?" Gohan asked as he tried to be brave, keeping Videl and Pan behind him at all costs.
"One of traits is I have ESP. Not much but it keep me alive and search for morons like this one." She nudged the saiyan some and was satisfied when he didn't make a sound.
"But you can't take him away he has a family!" Piccolo retorted and wondered why the hell he was defending him.
That caused her to raise a brow and looked around as if expecting them to step up and say so. No one had to because at that moment an airplane capsule flew into view and landed just a bit behind the group. Once it opened out a older woman with blue hair and eyes, a young man with lavender hair and blue eyes, and a little girl with the woman's hair and eyes stepped out.
"POPPA!!!!!!!!!" Heedless of the cried of warning from everyone the little girl ran up to the fallen saiyan and tried to wake him up, crying and looking so scared and vulnerable. "Wake up, please poppa! Wake up!!" She turned bright blue eyes to the woman looking down at her and ran up at her, pulling at her hand as an angry frown marred her lovely face. "Why you hurt my poppa?? Why?!?"
The bounty hunter reached down and slowly lifted the girl up with her hands under her arms and looked at her, everyone holding back a gasp of what she might to do to her worse then what she did to the others. But she did nothing except look at her for a long time. The only time she did move was when the little girl reached up with both hands and held the strands of hair away from her eyes, making her flinch a bit from contact. Something seemed to pass between them as she gently gathered her in her arms and fondly touched her braided ponytail.
"What's you name?"
"Bra. That's my poppa. And my mommy and big brother." She pointed over to the woman and a young man that was barely controlling his rage.
"Family…" For a split moment, something passed before the woman's eyes but she quickly pushed it aside. It was too painful to bear right now so she slowly knelt on the ground and let the girl go back to her family.
"Listen well because I hate repeating myself. Vegeta, Prince of the planet Vegeta and the Saiyan race, has been charged with a mile long list of crimes. Here," she held out her hand a tall stack of papers appeared before the family with a soft thump, "all the crimes against him are listed in complete detail and I don't feel like reading them all over. I'm a bounty hunter by the name of Coldfire and I'm here to take him to be trailed."
"Wait!" the woman called out, wiping away tears with the back of her hand. "Why are you coming after him now! It's been years since he did any of that stuff!"
"It wasn't until a certain Majin Buu incident did we realize that the race was still alive and all crimes caught up. All I have to do is take him in and he's to be trailed before the High Council of the Galaxy Rangers. But…" That stalled any words of argument the group was about to make and she tapped a gloved finger against her chin as she did a type of thinker's pose.
"I'll make you all a deal. Show me that this one had reformed and given up his ways permanently and I'll see what I can do. And that bit about him being a family man won't cut it." She grunted as she hauled the prince over her shoulder and headed back to her ship.
"Hey hold on! Where are you taking him?!" the young man yelled at her, wanting to do something—anything to get his father back!
"That's for me to know and you to not bother about. I'll be by and ask some questions of him. You won't know when or who I'll stop by to see and I like it that way. You see… I want to know what people of this planet think of this one. Don't bother going around and trying to butter people up. I'll know." With that she entered the ship and once the hatch closed the engines flares to life and took up into the sky, going higher and higher until they couldn't see a peck of it, not even the mighty heroes with their super abilities.
"Goku." Piccolo was the one to break the silence as he turned to the other saiyan. "What are we going to do?"
"I don't known, Piccolo. All we can do is… hope for the best." But deep down he doubted his own words. Vegeta's past had caught up with him but would his good life outweigh the bad? And if not… what were they going to do about it?
