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- Planet Vegeta; Elder Moori's Village -
Gohan snarled in rage as he watched the merciless slaughter of the Namekian villagers. His quest to Namek was supposed to be peaceful and full of adventure as he hoped to revive his master and friend, Piccolo. Instead, he was but a witness to an invasion and massacre of the natives.
"Gohan...calm down, we can't let them detect us." The hand of a short, bald monk clasped onto the young boy's shoulder.
"Krillin, I can't watch this!" Gohan moved to jump, only to be pulled down quickly by Krillin. "Look! If we jump down now, we won't be able to wish everyone back and we'll just be two more wishes."
Krillin's reasoning seemed to work as the young boy's power began to decrease. Gohan was still fighting within himself to not let out his anger.
The two Earthlings watched on as the invaders slaughtered the villagers, mainly a pink fat soldier and a light-bluish soldier doing most of the work and a horned alien in a hovercraft watched on.
"Zarbon and Dodoria, I believe we are done here." The horned one said to the other two as they finished up, leaving only three survivors, an old man, and two children. So the short one is in charge, Krillin thought to himself.
"Very well, Lord Freeza." Zarbon said as he picked up his two dragon balls and returned to his leader's side. "My lord, it seems in that skirmish our scouters were destroyed."
"So it would seem," Freeza looked towards the old man and smiled. "You have destroyed our scouters, so would you be kind and point us in the direction to the next village? I promise you and the little ones will be spared."
Just do what he says and you'll live, old man, Krillin tightened his fists.
"I am the Elder of this village, which you've destroyed, and loyal to my brethren." The Elder Namekian glared at Freeza. "I refuse to aid you."
Freeza frowned a bit, before laughing maniacally. "Very well! Dodoria finish him and the littles too!" His tail hit the side of his chair as Dodoria appeared behind the Elder.
"Elder Moori!" One of the two Namekian boys cried out. Dodoria quickly locked his grip around Elder Moori's neck, choking the life from him.
"If you tell me where the wish orbs are, I'll spare one of them." Dodoria said tightening his hold a bit. Moori remained stubborn, as he tried to pry Dodoria's arms from around his neck. "I guess you've decided already, oh well." Quickly he twisted the Elder's neck to the side, successfully snapping it. The Namekian's body dropped to the ground as the two children watched in horror.
"Cargo, come on! Let's run!" The two boys ran as quickly as they could.
Freeza groaned. "Dodoria, we can't leave any witnesses so hurry and dispose of those little ones."
Dodoria eager to dispose of the remaining Namekians, fired a ki blast from his mouth and killed Cargo. The other Namekian boy fell to the ground in shock.
"Krillin..." Gohan watched in horror as Dodoria approached the child. He could feel his anger boiling up and couldn't sit and watch any longer. Yelling, he went straight for Dodoria. The young Saiyan planted his foot into the fat alien's jaw and sent him into one of the houses.
"What the!" Zarbon said, rushing for Gohan.
Krillin reacted quickly and planted his heel into Zarbon's face, breaking the handsome alien's nose. "Grab that kid and let's go!" Krillin yelled.
Zarbon covered his nose with his hand, blood trickling down his chin. "Lord Freeza, should I pursue?" He asked the small tyrant.
"No, Dodoria will clean up his mess, so get up you fat lard and go after them!" Freeza yelled. "Zarbon grab the orbs, we will be returning to the ship."
As Zarbon, Freeza, and the remaining Freeza Force Soldiers gathered the dragon balls, Dodoria went after Krillin and Gohan, his eyes filled with bloodlust and anger.
- Nonoi -
Nonoi sped up as she felt the energy of multiple Namekians drop. She could no longer sense Elder Moori, but she could still feel the energy of one of the villagers and three others. It's flying with three other beings? Could it be the invaders have a hostage? Wait no one seems to be chasing the other three and increasing their power every second, she thought.
- Gohan and Krillin -
Gohan and Krillin darted and zoomed through the rocks, trying to lose the raging and hotheaded pink alien, who was hot on their tails. The Freeza henchman crashed and destroyed the cliffs in his way as if they were nothing, his attention on the two Earthlings and the Namekian child.
"Krillin, his power is increasing!" Gohan yelled.
"You better keep running brats! Not even immortality will save you from me, cowards!" Dodoria screamed in pure rage, shooting off energy blasts at them.
One of the blasts caught Gohan square in the back, making him drop the Namekian in his arms. The child plummeted towards the ground before being caught by Gohan once more.
Krillin edged himself towards the pair. "Gohan, go on ahead. I'll catch up"
Gohan nodded and sped up, leaving the bald monk behind with the enraged pink monster.
Dodoria laughed as he watched Krillin turn towards him and take a defensive stance. "I would say you got some guts, but you do know suicide is the coward's way out?"
Krillin remained silent. He knew he couldn't win this battle, but he had a trick up his sleeve.
"Silent eh? Well, I guess you're too scared to talk." Dodoria laughed and dashed at Krillin, who flew away once again. "Argh! Running again?!"
That's right, I'm running again! Keep following me, you big idiot, Krillin thought as he led Dodoria away.
Once he gained a great distance away from Dodoria, he whipped backward towards Dodoria. "Solar Flare!"
A bright light emerged from the bald monk, effectively blinding Dodoria for a quite a while, but this was enough time for Krillin to take cover.
Dodoria circled around the rocks, angerly searching for Krillin. Lord Freeza would have his head if he didn't bring back at least one.
Growing impatient, he shot a blast into the valley and grinned. "It's much easier looking for corpses."
He continued to shoot blasts, splitting the waters and creating craters as well as leveling the surrounding rocks.
"I might've gone overboard," Dodoria descended down to water levels. "Nothing could survive that, man Lord Freeza is gonna be upset at me." Taking one last and final look, Dodoria left and headed for Freeza's ship.
- Nonoi -
The female Saiyan rushed towards the four ki signatures. "Two of them seemed to have separated." She focused harder.
"The Namekian is with one, I'll head towards that one then." Lowering her power a bit, Nonoi made her way towards them, carefully avoiding the other four.
- Dodoria -
Dodoria blasted back to Freeza's ship, keeping an eye out for any villages or survivors.
With our scouters gone finding those wish orbs will be hell, he thought to himself. This planet is quite small, however.
Suddenly the flat of a boot connected with the pink alien's temple, stopping any other thoughts he had and sending him into the waters below.
As he crawled out of the waters, he noticed someone standing before him.
"Freeza must be a bad master, one of his dogs seem to be too far from its master," Vegeta said, staring down Dodoria. "Wait don't tell me...he sent you after me?"
Dodoria glared at Vegeta. "Lord Freeza wouldn't waste any resources on a monkey." Dodoria grinned but immediately stopped when the Saiyan Prince began smirking.
"So there's something very valuable to Freeza, making him send his third in command?" Vegeta asked. "Well, it seems you're missing something valuable as well, Dodoria." Vegeta tapped his scouter, scanning Dodoria's power. 30,000 isn't that high, let's see how strong I am.
"Vegeta, why don't you give me that scouter and maybe I won't tell Freeza I saw you." Dodoria held his hand out. "Hurry now, my kindness can last for but so long."
Surprisingly Vegeta gave up the scouter willingly with no trouble, even letting the brute fix onto his face and ear.
"Why thank you Vegeta." Dodoria said. "But I changed my mind, I lost some respect from Freeza earlier and bringing your head to him should restore my standing."
Vegeta was in front of Dodoria before he could react, the Saiyan's fist pummeling his chest. Dodoria was sent flying into the water by the force of Vegeta's punch. When Dodoria came up from the waters, he noticed the Prince smirking. "You know, I used m to fear the thought of battling you Dodoria." Vegeta's hand began to glow purple.
"GALICK GUN!" Vegeta yelled, a purple beam emerging from his hands, speeding towards the waters below.
Dodoria was hurled by the blast onto dry land by the blast. His body could barely move, but he still managed to crawl away. The Prince stalked the pink alien, crushing his hands beneath his foot, causing the brute to cry out in pain.
"You're boring me, Dodoria," Vegeta began to power up a ki blast. "Any last words, scum?"
"V-Vegeta, wait!" Dodoria cried out. "I-I can tell you w-what r-really happened to your planet!"
Vegeta eyed Dodoria down suspiciously, before powering down his blast. "I'm listening, mutt."
"F-Freeza! He lied about an asteroid destroying Planet V-Vegeta, it was him!" Dodoria said. "He was scared of the Saiyans and their potential."
Vegeta stared at the pink brute shockingly, before becoming enraged. "My birthright! My Planet! My people! Stolen away from me by that coward!" He began to charge up a ki blast and aimed it at Dodoria. "Starting with you, I'll show Freeza true fear." He fired off the blast and sped out of the area, Dodoria's body was completely obliterated in the aftermath.
- Krillin and Gohan -
The young hybrid and his bald companion anxiously flew towards Bulma, the Namekian child, who revealed his name as Dende, flew close by. The duo reunited not long ago as the bald monk lost the pink brute hot on his tail.
"Yo Gohan," Krillin said. "Are we going in the right direction? I could've sworn I've seen that cliff at least five times already."
"Yeah I'm positive we are going in the right direction." Gohan said. "Mom said I had a keen eye fo-"
The child stopped abruptly when an unfamiliar power level came into his focus. "You sure he didn't follow you, Krillin?"
"I'm sure, Gohan," Krillin answered. "There's no way he could've caught up to us." He looked around nervously for a place to hide. "Come on Gohan and Dende, let's hide down there and suppress our power."
The trio quickly hid behind a rock and grouped together, waiting for the threat to appear before them.
- Nonoi -
Nonoi stopped suddenly as she lost the energies she had been following. She was originally following two, but a third grouped up with the others. "Where are they? I was right on them. They must be hiding from me."
- Krillin and Gohan -
Gohan peeked over the rock to get a look at who was tailing them and instantly his body tensed up. He grabbed Krillin's gi and tugged restlessly at it. Krillin looked up at what the hybrid Saiyan was seeing and he raised an eyebrow.
"Who is that?" He asked in a quiet tone. It seemed to be a girl. "I've never seen her before. She's not wearing that armor like those other guys from earlier."
"I don't know, Krillin." Gohan looked at Dende. "Do you know?"
Dende shuffled over so he could get a good look at who Gohan and Krillin were talking about and instantly he smiled, jumping out of the coverage of the rock. " Sister Nonoi!"
"Dende wait!" Krillin yelled running after the small boy.
The Namekian boy waved his hands frantically as he tried to get Nonoi's attention. Finally, the female warrior noticed him and descended downwards. Nonoi and Nail would visit the young boy and his brother every once in a while and help him with his chores and study work.
"Dende?" Nonoi welcomed the embrace from Dende, patting his head. "Why are you-"
"Hey! Who are you?!" Gohan yelled out, taking a defensive stance towards Nonoi, the bald monk following.
Nonoi quickly brought Dende behind her and took a defensive stance too. "I should be asking that since you're invading my home." She glared at Gohan and Krillin. "Why do you have Dende?"
The topic of discussion was between the three fighters. "Stop! Sister Nonoi, these Earthlings saved my life after the village was...after the village wa-" Dende began to choke up, remembering the slaughter of his village.
Nonoi eased up. So they weren't the ones attacking the villages, she thought as she approached the Namekian child. "You did well Dende, you're strong." Looking towards the Earthlings, she bowed towards them. "Thank you for saving my younger brother, my name is Nonoi." The Earthlings seemed harmless, plus their energy was lower than hers so she could handle both of them if they tried anything.
"Nonoi, eh? Well, I'm Krillin and this young kid here is Gohan, we're from Earth." Krillin extended his hand for Nonoi to shake. "It's great seein-" Krillin stopped as he felt a surge of power heading towards them. "Everybody lets hide, that energy is definitely bad!"
Dende grabbed Nonoi's hand and ran back behind the rock they were hiding behind before, Gohan and Krillin following close behind.
The quartet huddled together and suppressed their power. "Why are we hiding?" Nonoi asked. "Because we don't know who that is and it could be anyone, there was this one guy named Freeza with horns and his power was out of this world!" Krillin explained, shuddering at the thought of the guy. Freeza didn't even seem like he was exerting his power at all when they were at the village to Krillin and the sheer thought of all out Freeza scared him even more.
"Very well." She said, peeking her head out. The female Saiyan noticed a figure speeding towards them. She tapped Gohan's arm to get his attention, the young warrior shuffled around and looked out, immediately freezing when he noticed the figure.
"K-Krillin! I think that's V-V-Vegeta!" He said in shock. The Saiyan Prince seemed to be looking for something or rather them, frantically pacing back and forth, as well as cursing profanities. The battle between the Earthlings and the Saiyan Prince and his comrade was only a month or so before, and yet Vegeta looked safe and sound. He couldn't have used a senzu bean, so how did he heal so quickly? Not even a scar branded on his figure.
"Krillin, what do we do?" Gohan whimpered.
"I d-don't know Gohan. How could he have found us? On Earth, he needed one of those scouters to track energy, right?" Krillin replied. " So unless he has a better version of one of those things, we are screwed because that means he can sense energy, even if we hide our power!"
Vegeta suddenly sensed a small power level coming from below him and looked. He figured it must have been coming from behind the rock our quartet was hiding behind. "Must be behind that rock."He began his descent.
"We have to fight, it seems Earthlings," Nonoi said. "On the count of three we all jump out and charge, Dende you will head to Elder Guru."
Before the female Saiyan could begin her count, a large fish emerged from the lake beside them, coming back down with a magnificent splash, soaking the Saiyan Prince and the area around him. Vegeta frowned, flicking his gloves dry. All this time he spent following this fish, Freeza could have tracked down another dragon ball. He needed to get back in the hunt for them and fast. He ascended back upwards and multiple power levels popped into his focus, giving the Prince cause to leave the area.
Nonoi and the others were left soaked by the huge fish, but they if getting wet ensured their safety, it was worth it.
Krillin looked towards Gohan, who signaled Vegeta had left, and pointed behind him. He figured they should take back routes and not fly or they would attract unneeded attention. "We should get going, guys." The others nodded and began their venture back to the cave they called their hideout, hopping from rock to rock back to the cave.
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