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(a/n- Sorry a billion times for the long wait! I wanted to update sooner but It was a long week with lots of test and I got my report card and, so yeah… I tried my best on this chapter though I kind of rushed so I hope it's alright… Enjoy? [By the way, can anyone who hasn't vote on my poll?])

Secret conversations; A 'perfect' landing

Last time:

"S- so… you three are… leaving?… and disobeying Lord Frieza's orders?" Nappa sputtered. I rolled my eyes and sighed irritably… again. Next to me Vegeta huffed in annoyance and glared at the sputtering idiot.

~*~*~*~*~
"Watch where you're going!" I growled turning my head to see who it was.

'Great. Just who I needed to see.'

"Why would I want to do that? Not watching where I'm going seems to annoy you so much!" He replied, a cocky smirk creeping onto his face. I raised my eyebrow and rolled my eyes, turning around.

"I don't know what makes you so stupid, but Jeice, it is definitely working." I muttered.

~*~*~*~*~
"Well if it isn't Vegeta."

My tail bristled at the sound of the voice.

I lifted my head and turned to see a smirking being behind me. My eyebrow twitched.

"What the hell do you want, Cui?" I growled, anger tied to my words as well as a warning. He didn't catch the hint.

~*~*~*~*~
'Oh, how I feel like punching that smirk right off his face!'

I clicked the button and watched as the one in front of me opened slowly.

"Someone's obviously cranky." I heard Vegeta mumble. I turned my head and glared at him again. If looks could kill, I am certain he would have dropped dead on the spot. I saw him attempt to suppress a shudder. He failed miserably.

~*~*~*~*~
Soon I was seeing nothing but the darkness of space, save passing meteors, comets and a few stars. I sighed, deciding not to use the gas to put me to sleep for the next two years… of course, I would eventually use it… but for now, I would prefer not to. It didn't take very long before I began to drift asleep.

'It's gonna be a boring two years…'

Now:

(Tera's Pov)

[BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!]

I groaned trying to ignore the loud sound. This is NOT how I wanted to wake up.

'God damnit!… Maybe if I ignore it-'

[BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!]

Giving up, I sighed and without opening my eyes, clicked the button on my scouter.

"What?" I grumbled in annoyance. Really I'm just dying to know the person who decided to wake ME up in the middle of MY rest!

"Err, umm… Tera?"

Of course. It just had to be Raditz.

"What do you want? And was it necessary to wake me up?" I growled finally opening my eyes. Of course, there wasn't all that much to see. Just the darkness and emptyness of space. That only annoyed me more.

"I… I *gulp* I didn't mean to wake you I just needed to know something…" His voice trailed off not knowing what else to say.

I sighed and held back another groan, sitting up a bit.

'This better be really good!'

"This better be real good for your sake! What is it that you need to know?" I questioned but with less venom.

"Well you said I should do more search on finding those coordinates, so how should I search? I tried putting in the name in several different languages but I can't find anything about the Planet my b-"

"SHUT UP!"

I blinked when I caught the second voice.

"Vegeta?" Now I was confused.

'W- wait a sec, was he listening to-'

"Your both idiots!" He growled sounding aggravated and… tired? Looks like I wasn't the only one who was woken up?

"Who are you calling an idiot?" I asked narrowing my eyes even though I knew he couldn't see.

He growled again.

"Think about this: I can hear your conversation on the scouter. RADITZ can hear the conversation on the scouter. NAPPA, wherever the fool is, can hear your conversation on the scouter. That means EVERYONE can hear your damn conversation on the scouter! I suggest you don't be so damn specific about finding Raditz's… pet on whatever the planet's name is. You know that everyone can hear you and would be… highly annoyed at how loud you are talking!"My mouth formed an "O" by the time he was done. I got it.

'Damn… how did I not realize that.' I thought for a second and was relieved to realize we had said neither the planet nor the fact that their was a Saiyan. Of course we were keeping this from Nappa, we couldn't exactly, completely trust him and… we could never let Frieza find out… obviously I didn't think this through… 'Now I'm just hoping Raditz took the hint…'

"Yeah whatever. We'll be quieter just go get your beauty sleep or whatever it is you were doing because YOU need it, cranky." I said somewhat teasingly.

"I am not the one needing beauty sleep!" He snorted.

"Shut up!"

I sighed and then resumed my conversation with Raditz. Though some part of me was saying Vegeta was still listening.

'I swear… there is no way of getting any privacy in my life!'

(Vegeta's Pov)

I listened to the rest of their conversation staying silent. Not one thing they said interested me in the least bit so my mind was wandering.

I didn't really care about Raditz finding this long lost brother of his.

I admit, this Kakarot might be a little helpful to us, but I highly doubt that. He'll probably be as weak as his brother.

But it feels strange… Shouldn't I be happy that another Saiyan may be joining us? Heck, maybe he'll be stronger than Nappa!... Doubt it…

My attention was suddenly snapped back to reality when I heard someone growl. Voice or not, it wouldn't be hard to identify the person speaking.

"Yeah, you do that and I'll be asleep for the next two years. Good luck!"

I rolled my eyes and laid back in my seat trying to find some way to get comfortable.

When I was at least a bit comfortable, I pressed a button to the right of me. I sighed as the gas began to fill the pod.

'Two years straight of sleep…'

[BZZZZZ! BZZZZZ! BZZZZZ! BZZZ-]

{SMASH!}

I growled in annoyance as I picked up my hand from the now smashed speakers.

'That is a HORRIBLE way to wake up!'

I opened my eyes and groaned silently realizing I was landing. And it wasn't going to be one of those nice peaceful landings.

I began scrambling around and pushing the buttons necessaryy for a good landing. Though, it wasn't going too well.

'God, two years went by quickly!'

"Any readings?" I growled to the computer. This landing was going to be horrible, I was sure! The pod should be slowing down at least a bit, but I am more than sure that it was speeding up.

"ALBUNCTON! ALBUNCTON!" I growled staring in confusion at the pod buttons.

'What exactly is it trying to tell me? Why is it so damn annoying? I have no time for these puzzles!… perhaps I shouldn't have smashed the speakers…'

I glanced out the window and could see that I was getting closer to the ground.

'Damnit!'

I paused for a moment, teeth clenched, trying to figure out what to press- and the pod suddenly lurched forward-

[SMASH!]

Sending me back, hard, into my seat. I growled again in frustration and moved myself back. Perhaps that's why there is a seat belt…

(Tera's Pov)

[BZZZ! BZZZZZ! BZZZZZ!]

'Grrrr! Yes, because this is my ideal way to wake up!'

My hand moved without me really realizing, probably force of habit, and pressed the button seizing the alarm. "Thank you! Some peace and quiet…

Looks like 2 years went by pretty quickly…'

I opened my eyes and began flicking the controls. At least it seemed like I was going to have a decent landing

"Countdown begin." I commanded the pod as the planet became clearer and clearer.

"!0!… 9!… 8!…7!…6!…5!…4!" I laid back in my seat and waited for the impact of my landing. "…3!…2!…1!"

The impact was quite brief as I felt myself smash into the planet. It was definitely a tough planet, that was easily figured out, since I didn't go very deep into the ground.

I pressed the button and sighed as the door slowly went up, creating an opening.

It felt rather good to stretch my legs. After being asleep for two years, you feel rather cramped.

I was now standing outside my pod, in front of it and was observing the area.

The planet wasn't particularly horrible, but it also wasn't particularly great. Their was a lot of mud, telling me it must rain a lot. Good, I like rain.

It was so calm and nice. Relaxing.

I landed on the hard ground, lucky for me, so there was no mud on my pod… but there was mud all around it.

I glanced up when I saw the two other pods approaching. At least I think one of them was a pod. One was very far away though.

'Raditz is probably having trouble landing…?' I guessed to myself when I noticed that the far off one was moving around a bit crazily. I blinked when one pod suddenly sped up and came straight for the ground next to me and-

"ARRRRRGHHHHH!" I yelled/ growled loudly in anger and frustration as I was splattered with mud.

'I swear, whoever comes out of that pod is going to get it!'

Still very angry, I jumped from my pod to the one that was now opening.

(Raditz Pov)

I was in a bit of a good mood as my pod landed.

I could tell I was going through mud, so I had to speed up a bit so I could land on solid ground. That probably splattered mud all over the land. 'Wonder if there were any locals affected by that…'

When I was finally good and my pod was planted in the ground, I pressed the button and emerged from my pod.

I didn't get a very nice greeting.

I was a bit surprised to see Tera standing in front of me with her hands on her hips… covered in mud.

My bad.

'Crap! I'm dead!'

"What's the big idea, splattering me with mud?" She hissed. I could feel some of the blood drain from my face as she glared at me.

"I- I didn't know you were t- there." I stuttered.

"Saiyan's don't stutter!" She snapped.

"Sorry!" I said quickly, looking away in humiliation. She only snorted.

My head suddenly snapped up when something caught my eye. I squinted as it came closer and closer.

"Hey… is that?" I started, but trailed off as it got closer… and faster! I heard Tera snicker behind me.

"Looks like His Majesty is having a hard time landing his ship." She said sounding amused.

"Yeah… but it looks like he's coming right foe us." I pointed out as the pod became a whole lot more visible. She suddenly stopped snickering.

"I think we should-"

"That would be smart…"

"Yeah, lets."

The pod was in front of us in seconds. I gulped and jumped as it came right to me. I luckily got over it.

I let out the breath I was holding and turned to see the pod. This time though, Tera wasn't standing next to me. I nearly fell when I saw that she was-

'Damn.'

(Tera's Pov)

I jumped first. But I jumped to early.

I expected to land on the ground again, and was very surprised when I landed on top of Vegeta's pod.

'You're kidding me right!'

I was basically on my hands and knees, gripping the sides of the pod that was going very fast! I could feel frantic movements going on in the pod. 'Really! He's been using these things his whole life, you'd think he'd have figured it out by now!'

"Vegeta!" I growled loudly and put my face in front of the see through plastic. He looked up from the controls at me. He looked surprised but then yelled something.

"What?" I asked in confusion cocking my head. He pointed his finger forward at me. I stared at his finger for awhile before realizing that it wasn't me he was pointing at. I lifted my head away and almost screamed when I saw the mountain we were approaching.

"OMEGA WAVE!" I yelled, basically in panic. I was relieved when the chi wave collided with the mountain before we could. I shut my eyes as the mountain exploded and rocks and pebbles landed all around us.

'We lucked out.' I thought as the pod continued to zoom further. 'I should probably stop this thing right about now.' I thought to myself.

I knew my full power could probably send the pod straight into the ground, but Vegeta and Raditz's scouters would pick it up. But I didn't have must options.

I powered up slightly and sharply, put as much pressure as I could onto the pod with my hands, sending us straight into the ground.

It probably wasn't just me though or the pod would have kept moving. Vegeta must've pressed something.

Sighing in relief, I jumped off of the pod just as it opened.

Vegeta stepped out looking exhausted.

"Why are you looking all tired?" I growled. " I'm the one who just rode on top of a pod with an INSANE driver!"

He glared at me.

"I wasn't driving it, genius."

"No, duh!" I snorted.

"That's not what I meant," He scolded back. "The damn controls weren't working!"

I, curiously, stepped forward and bent down to peer into Vegeta's pod. The problem was obvious the moment I looked in.

I stood back up and looked at his smirking face.

"See." he growled.

"Yeah, I see Vegeta. I see the problem. The problem is you smashed the speakers and a bunch of other controls, so you couldn't land." I answered nonchalantly with a raised eyebrow. He didn't answer at first as his mind processed his mistake. He then looked up at me and glared about to retort when Raditz landed in front of us.

"What happened." he asked amazed at the damage we caused to the planet.

"Well," I began, "Sir genius over here-"

"Shut. The hell. Up!" Vegeta growled, cutting me off. I only smirked as he stomped away and Raditz stared in confusion.

"Are we going to start purging the planet today?" Vegeta asked from where he stood, arms crossed, backs to us.

"Awww, is Vegeta mad at me?" I taunted, well… teased. He growled.

"Just answer the damn question!" He barked.

"Yeah, sure, whatever." I answered.

"Hn." He then took off into the sky. When we didn't follow he turned back around and yelled down at us;

"Well? Hurry up! I'm freaking starving!"

I rolled my eyes and floated up ready to follow. After a minute or two, Vegeta sped up.

( Raditz's Pov)

We followed Vegeta in the sky as he tapped the scouter to get a reading on the power levels of the planets creatures. Since Frieza sent us, I was a bit worried about how strong these guys were. Tera and Vegeta could probably handle it… but since Nappa was originally supposed to go… could I- ?

"So how did your little research project go?" I looked to my side to see Tera looking expectantly at me. Then I remembered why I had been in my good mood earlier.

I clicked a button on my scouter and turned it off before speaking. I saw her nod in approval and turn off hers as well.

"Well, I didn't find anything until today. When I woke up from the two year sleep I found one last file of it and it seemed to have a lot of information but I didn't have a lot of time to read it over before I landed."

"So go read it." She responded.

"But I thought we were going to start today." I said in confusion. She seemed to think for a moment.

"Well me and Vegeta could handle it for today, you could start tomorrow… Now go!"

"O- okay." I said stuttering. Then, realizing my mistake I corrected myself, "I mean, Okay, yeah, going now!"

I then flew back to my pod, ready to find this planet "Earth".

(Vegeta's Pov)

When Raditz left, I heard and out of the corner of my eye, saw Tera fly forward. She stopped next to me.

"Looks like it's just you and me Vegeta." She said smirking. I rolled my eyes.

"Hn. Lucky me…" I murmured.

"Still grumpy? Maybe you didn't get enough sleep…" She continued.

I smirked. "Your one to talk. What happened to your beauty sleep?"

She glared. "Same thing that's about to happen to your face; It got jacked up!"

"Coming from you, that really hurts." I said with mock hurt.

"It's about to hurt more! Not that you could do anything about it." She shot back.

"Attack my pride, why don't you." I replied dryly.

"There's just so much of it to attack!" She scoffed.

"Hn."

…

"There's the town." She said after awhile when we paused in the air.

"Time for business." Was my answer as we floated downwards.

(a/n- Sorry x1,000,000,000 again! Any questions…? Comments…? Opinions…? Ideas…? Review!)

*Jade: Duhhh! She would never miss a chance to bother him so she will definetly be teasing him about Bulma! Sorry I took so long, even longer than last time, to update but I will be updating sooner since spring break started! And I'm super glad that you will continue to read! XD

*All you crazy reviewers: [I know I shouldn't… but I have to get this out:] Tera and Jeice? Understandable (That you would think so) Tera and Nappa? WHAT DID I DO TO GIVE YOU THAT IDEA? Tera and Raditz. Hmm… I guess but she doesn't seem so fond of him and I did say SUPERIOR ATTITUDE (Hint, hint ^.^) which he seems to lack. You people have some strange imaginations, that's for sure! But review anyway!

* All reviewers- I basically planned out the next few chapters, but I have a question that will affect the future. See with a lot changing, I've been thinking about how to get rid of or keep a few characters. So, please answer this in your review: Do you think Raditz should become a major character? I mean, he kind of is now, but I mean, should he live and become like very important to the plot. I can see ways in which he could, but its also possible for him to just… you know- bye! Soo, what do you think?