Hard hits
They had barely had anytime to escape. The computer had been very malfunction for months forcing the few science minded Saiyans were forced to manually monitor life support and the engines. The staff had been worked to their breaking point and beyond. The warning had made with mere minutes before the impact of the planet.
The computer had found this habitable world by accident. But there wasn't time to learn much more about it. The chief engineer had determined that the ship might not survive atmosphere entry. He and his crew opted to stay about to navigate the ship to the surface. He was an honorable man to the last.
The King had decided to be the last of those on board and Prince wanted to stay with his father. Guarda not wanting to be left out said with her sort of second adopted father or her sparring partner stayed. The ship was breaking up but due to the King's size Guarda were forced to a life pod without the King.
While Guarda and the Prince were heading to the life pod a piece of the haul blow apart by the dramatic temperature increase. A chunk of the hall went flying towards Guarda due to the distraction of the ship collapsing she didn't see it coming. It would be child's play to either destroy the shrapnel or just use her energy to absorb the impact.
The Prince did see in those microseconds the shrapnel coming for her. The Prince moved his own body in front of herself to take the shrapnel no time for him to set up his own defenses. The shrapnel hit the Prince quickly piercing his upper chest and his left eye.
Guarda confused by what was happening turned to see the Prince collapsing in her arms from her view an unseen object. She looked down at her Prince bleeding from his left eye and chest grabbed ahold of him with all her might and dragged him to the life pod.
Tears came from her eyes seeing the Prince like this for one entire year he had made an ass of himself to her. He had continue to call her feral spar with her constantly. He had gotten better at fighting her which was fun but still he was a sore loser.
All of her wins over the year were resulted in him being angrier more willing to fight her. But fighting him had become her daily ritual. The door closed to the life pod and they ejected plummeting towards the surface of the Planet.
The Prince was twisting and turning in her arms with pain, growling in agony. What she could feel and see the wounds were painful she wasn't a doctor but she didn't believe that the wounds were fatal. Still he was in pain and she could do nothing.
The ship exploding merely second after they escaped it. The explosion tossed around their little life pod around like a rag doll. The pod twirled in the atmosphere until reaching the lower portions of the planet's atmosphere then straighten up. The life pod hit the ground on planet with tremendous speed.
The life pod nearly collapsed under the strain of their hard landing. She punched the broken door of the life pod open. The sun of this world hit her face immeasurably a year of being on the ship had been a claustrophobic one. She had been used to sunlight, free clean air.
Remerging into this liberating non-sterile atmosphere it was great. There was no time for that however, she went back into the life pod and grabbed the Prince and dragged him out onto the planet.
Panicking about the Prince's wounds she asked.
Guarda "Are you okay Prince?"
The Prince shoots back quickly.
Prince Vegeta "Of…course I am Feral!"
Guarda rolls her eyes a bit and says.
Guarda "Well I hate to break it to you but the hunk of metal in your eye begs to differ."
The Prince smiles and says.
Prince Vegeta "Shows what you know I am a Prince I don't break easily."
Guarda getting angry at his stubbornness says.
Guarda "Fine then I guess then you don't need my help!"
The Prince eyes close as he says.
Prince Vegeta "Absolutely."
Now fully angry at the Prince she yells.
Guarda "Have I ever told you that you are damn impossible! Princy I am going to save your life whether you like it or not!"
Guarda stormed off back to the life pod to find medical supplies. While Prince chuckled a bit about getting a rise out of Guarda. Guarda returned shortly with a few bandages. She cleans the Prince's wounds and bandages them up.
She does not attempt to remove the object sticking out his eye. As soon as she is sure that she could do the best she could she sat down on a rock next to the Prince. Sure she hadn't expended a lot of energy but this had taken a lot out of her and she needed to sit. She looked at the Prince still mostly likely in pain but trying to do his best not to show it.
Calm down now that it would seem she had done all she could for the Prince she inquisitively asks.
Guarda "Why don't you want to show that you're pain Princy?"
With a good deal of confusion he responds.
Prince Vegeta "What?"
Guarda "You heard me. No matter what kind of injury you always have to act like nothing fazes you. It only gets worse around me or your father. You only seem to have two setting gloating and anger."
Trying to play it cool he says.
Prince Vegeta "Well theirs a lot to angry about with you around."
Confused she asks.
Guarda "So you hate me then?"
Flippantly he says back.
Prince Vegeta "Sure whatever you say."
Guarda "Those shrapnel pieces of the exploding ship?"
Confused he asks.
Prince Vegeta "What?"
With a unsure smile she asks.
Guarda "Those were coming for me weren't they?"
Turning his head away from her he says.
Prince Vegeta "I don't know what you're talking about."
Now utterly confused but feeling like she is getting closer to answers she asks.
Guarda "I bet you don't. What is it? Why do you call me 'feral' yet try and save my life?"
In a pout he says back.
Prince Vegeta "Number one I didn't try I did and number two none of your business."
Sarcastically she says back.
Guarda "I am pretty sure that my life is my business Princy."
Angry by her being sarcastic and by her line of questioning.
Prince Vegeta "Will you please stop calling me that it's undignified!"
Being annoyed by him failing to answer her questions.
Guarda "Like I told you last time maybe if you won for once I would stop. But you haven't won yet and frankly I don't feel like it right now."
Prince Vegeta "Very well as soon as I heal I will be able to make stop!"
Frustrated she says.
Guarda "And there you go again it seems like every time I want to talk to you about something you end up wanting to talk about how you're going to beat me."
Prince Vegeta "Because I am going to prove I am your better one of these days!"
Confused but with a softer tone she asks.
Guarda "But why? I like to spar with you. Hell I don't like the days when we don't spar."
With a sigh he says.
Prince Vegeta "You don't mean that."
Excited to prove her feeling to the Prince she says.
Guarda "Of course I do. When you're not being a pompous ass you're a great fighter. I even like you're arrogance it makes it funer when I great to prove you wrong. Somehow even with all the pain you must be in you still want to challenge me. It's great. I never meet anyone more determined then you. I have only gotten stronger with you around. You always want to prove how strong you are to me but you already have. I wouldn't have been willing to spar with you all those times if you hadn't."
With some disbelief the Prince asks.
Prince Vegeta "You think I'm strong?"
Happily she states.
Guarda "Yeah! No one could compete with you. Well other than me. But that doesn't mean one day you might over take me. You keep me on my toes push me to get stronger. I enjoy you Princy!"
In a pained omission he says.
Prince Vegeta "I… don't think I would be as strong as I am now without you Feral."
Happy that she got thought to him asks.
Guarda "So you agree with me?"
Prince Vegeta "Sort of."
Guarda "So then answer the question why did you protect me?"
The Prince's face turning red said in a shout.
Prince Vegeta "Because I felt like it. Now stop asking!"
The fog of the conversation now dissipating.
Guarda "Why did you feel like it?"
In a yell.
Prince Vegeta "I told you to stop asking!"
In a cocky grin as if a trigger had been pulled in her mind different from her normal state she seductively states.
Guarda "Princy you can't order me around. As you're so fond of reminding me I am a 'feral' with no clan, no tribe, and no class."
The Prince looked at her for real for the first time in this conversation to see her. Her face was partially shadowed by the sunlight which seemed to just get hotter. Even with her partial shadowed face he could tell that there was a gleam in her eyes. All of his senses were switching from focusing on the pain to her.
She could smell him taste him in that moment. It wasn't like she couldn't before but now it was all she could seem to focus on. His blood, his sweat, and his breath they had all just gone from background information to all that mattered to her.
It wasn't hot early but now it felt like the surface of a star. But it didn't feel bad it was great. She strolled over to him taking her time. She felt as though in whatever was about to happen she wanted it to happen slowly. He used what strength he had to push himself up.
He wanted to be on his feet but at the moment that was not happening. Their tails meet and began to twist around one another her hands soon went to his back encircling him. Their eyes were lock on one another. A word was trying to escape from his and her mouths 'mine". Guarda's and the Prince's faces were about to meet when a loud ringing could be heard soiling the mood.
Despite whatever was about to happen with the Prince she wasn't entirely sure what exactly sure. The ringing brought her back to the real world.
The Prince was badly injured, they crash landed on an alien world, she didn't know what had happened to the King, she had no idea where the other survivors where and to top it all off somehow that little exchange with the Prince just made her forget all of those facts.
Veler would have scolded her right now if he was here for losing focus in such a critical situation. Also thinking about Veler completely erased whatever lingering fog that seemed to be in her mind.
She pushed herself off from the Prince and rushed over to the ringing coming from the life pod. Meanwhile the Prince's head and upper back hit the rocky soil with a thud and had a disappointed look on his face. She pick up the communicator she pressed the on button.
Unknown saiyan voice "This is commander Bachoy. Who life pod is this?"
Guarda "This is the Prince's life pod but we need help the Prince is alive but injured. We might very well need a doctor."
Commander Bachoy "Excellent the Prince is alive!"
Guarda "Yes but like I said he is injured."
Commander Bachoy "Can you activate the beacon on the life pod."
Guarda "I'll try."
She fumble around the life pod looking for anything that read anything like emergency beacon. She finally found something to that extent but it was smashed.
Guarda "Aw… It appears to be in tiny pieces Bachoy. So is there a second plan or what."
Commander Bachoy "Okay just go outside and use your ki to make a flare. We will try and spot you that way."
Guarda "Okay."
Guarda went outside and shot into the air a ball of her ki it exploded.
Commander Bachoy "Great I think I saw it your quite a ways away but we will be over as soon as possible. We have a lot to discuss."
Guarda "What does the head count look like Bachoy."
Commander Bachoy "Hard to say right now we got a count of sixty. It's bad by the looks of it their couldn't be anyone alive who was still on the ship. That heat would have been too much. They would have been vaporized. And look I don't think were alone on this planet.
The crash site I got a glimpse of it before it became blackened crater. It kind of looked like a city to me. I just hope they don't want to start a fight with out over accidentally blowing one of their cities up. Might be fun but I would not want a battle to the death to be the first interact with these people. I would hate to lose anyone else for no reason."
Guarda "Yeah I would have to agree with you. I think we have lost enough already."
Guarda turned off the communicator she breathed a sigh of relief she looked over to the Prince to see that he must have passed out. She could smell his breath still so he was still breathing.
She suddenly felt as though she was being watch now. Unlike other Saiyans, Veler had taught her how to sense ki so no one had ever snuck up on her. Whatever his was had managed to get quite close until it made its present known.
She look up to one of the plateaus above her head to see a particularly short figure in white robes before her. He was bare foot his ki was different from anything she had felt before she wasn't sure if that was because he was an alien or something else to it.
The red symbol on his chest were unfamiliar but yet the get up were the symbol were they were familiar. It was all reminiscent of Veler's clothing as she never saw him wear armor like the vast majority of other saiyans wear. She put the pieces together in her head quickly this must be the guardian of this planet.