Chapter 4
As the door to room 1117 opened, Raditz's mouth dropped as he stepped inside. Room was an understatement. This was more like a suite. There was a kitchen area, a living area, and four bedrooms. The best Raditz had ever seen before was a one room shit hole where the bed was the couch and the kitchen was a small toaster/oven.
"Huh never seen this big of a room before have you?" Raditz turned towards the deep voice. He saw a huge saiyan that had a small amount of hair on his head. The giant saiyan was smirking at the Raditz's shock at the size of the room.
"Yeah we don't get these kind of rooms in the third class sections," replied Raditz as he continued to walk around the room, still marveling at its size. The giant saiyan laughed and walked over to him and stuck his hand out.
"I'm Nappa by the way, and your name is," Raditz took the general's hand and shook it firmly. "Raditz." They let go of each others hands and Nappa walked over to one of the bedroom doors.
"Prince, we have a visitor." Nappa turned back to Raditz and nodded towards the door. Raditz took the hint and walked to Nappa's side. The door opened and out walked a small child with flame like hair. Raditz immediately noticed that on his armor was the royal insignia.
This must be the Prince Vegeta, he's suppose to be incredibly strong. Raditz quickly bowed to the Prince. He heard a snort and lifted his head to see the prince glaring at Nappa.
"Who is this Nappa? I can see that he is a third class saiyan, so why is he here?" Raditz could tell that the Prince was obviously annoyed at being disturbed just because of the arrival of a low class warrior.
"His name is Raditz, Vegeta. I sent a message out on the saiyan channel asking for all surviving saiyans to come here to check in with me." Vegeta snorted again.
"Whatever Nappa. Well let's see what your power level is third class. Hand me your scouter." Raditz quickly disconnected his green scouter and handed it to the prince. Vegeta put the scouter on and hit a button. Numbers began to flash across the screen of the green scouter.
Vegeta snarled at the power level that was displayed to him. "Pathetic. It's only 500! You disturbed me for this Nappa! He's barely even a saiyan!"
Raditz winced as he heard the young prince's insults. He had thought the prince would have been proud with his power level. The fact was that he actually had a fairly high power level among the third class warriors. However apparently compared to the prince's expectations, he came up well short.
"That's actually pretty good for a third class warrior my prince. Besides there only so many of us saiyans left, we have to take them as they come. Who knows, maybe one day he'll become even stronger than the elites who were on Planet Vegeta."
"Humph. A low class warrior could never surpass an elite, no matter how hard he works." Vegeta took off the scouter and threw it back to Raditz. "Next time you disturb me, it better be because a real saiyan shows up." The young prince stormed back into his room and slammed the door.
Nappa sighed. He turned to Raditz. "Sorry about that. He's young and he's taking the Planet Vegeta's destruction hard." Raditz just nodded.
"How did he know I was a low class warrior so fast." Raditz being a young third class warrior hadn't spent much time around the other classes of saiyan warriors.
Nappa shrugged. "Your armor. Only third class warriors wear black armor with brown spike guards. That or they wear whatever self customized armor they can scavenge. Second class warriors wear white armor with red spike guards, however the ones that are strong enough to fight with the elites are allowed to wear black armor with red shoulder spikes. Elites of course can wear either black or white armor but have gold spike guards."
Raditz nodded; slightly embarrassed that he had never learned any of this. All of a sudden the sound of a muffled voice was heard. Nappa cursed as he headed over to the kitchen counter and picked up a blue scouter. He brought the scouter to his ear.
"Nappa here." Raditz could hear the sound of a voice talking very fast. Nappa nodded his head. "Yeah I'll be right there." Nappa touched his scouter ending the conversation. "Hey you want to go with me and meet another saiyan."
"Sure." Raditz followed Nappa out of the room and down the hallway. "Shouldn't we tell the prince about this?"
Nappa shook his head. "He wouldn't want to come anyway." The two saiyans walked down a flight of stairs to the lobby of the building in silence.
"Why are we going to meet this saiyan? Why aren't we just waiting for him to come to the room like I did?"
"Because this saiyan just landed heavily injured and unconscious, that's why." snapped Nappa.
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A saiyan pod came crashing thorough the atmosphere of Planet Frieza 35. "Impact at landing station in 15 seconds," said the woman voice of the pod. The occupant of the pod did not even stir as the announcement was made. The pod made a resounding thud on the padded landing area as it crashed down into the landing area.
"Oh god not another one," groaned the head engineer as he recognized the saiyan insignia on the pod. He barked at his crew to get moving and they raced towards the pod. The engineer found it odd that by the time he and his crew made it to the pod the saiyan had still not emerged from the pod. While he was relived he had not had his head bitten off by an egotistical saiyan yet, he knew there would be hell to pay if he let someone die inside their pod on his watch.
"You there, check the occupant's vitals," he snapped at a small red alien. The man stiffened as he read his report. "They're barely functional sir." The head engineer groaned again. Now he had a half dead saiyan on his hands.
"Quick open that pod immediately and get a medical team over here." The engineers worked fast and managed to open the pod's door. The engineers looked inside the pod to find a young saiyan warrior who was barely hanging on to life. This kid can't be more than ten thought the head engineer as he shook his head. These saiyans began fighting as children and it sickened the scientist that children were forced to commit monstrous acts such destroying entire civilizations.
He shook his head again as he helped pull the boy out of the pod. By the time they had managed to extract the boy from his pod, the medical team had arrived and the promptly put the young boy onto the stretcher and rushed to the infirmary. The doctors continued to monitor the young warrior as they hoped they could get him to a regeneration tank in time.
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Nappa and Raditz arrived at the infirmary twenty minutes after they had left the housing buildings. They would have been there sooner, but while in cities it was against the law to fly anywhere so they were forced to run to the landing station. It was pretty far and Raditz was breathing heavily as they entered the bustling building. Nappa however did not seem to be winded at all and they only physical sign that he had just ran ten miles was one bead of sweat on the back of his neck.
Nappa led the way as the two saiyans headed towards the infirmary. Raditz wondered who this new saiyan would be or what class he would be. Raditz silently prayed that it would be another third class warrior so he could show the Prince that he was not as weak as he thought.
The two saiyan warriors entered the infirmary and were immediately stopped by a doctor who turned towards the taller of the two. "You are General Nappa correct," asked the doctor. Nappa merely shook his head and leaned to the right trying to get a view at the person in the far regeneration tank.
"Where is he," demanded Nappa as he moved past the doctor. The doctor pointed towards the tank Nappa had been looking at and Nappa quickly moved to the tank. Raditz slowly followed the older saiyan. Raditz was shocked to see that the occupant of the tank was just a kid. His hair was flame-like, kind of like Vegeta's except for two strands that fell across his face.
Nappa stared at the young saiyan. He recognized him from somewhere. Ah of course, this was the young second class warrior who had been assigned to an elite squad because of his amazing power level. Nappa let loose a small smile. It was a good sign that two strongest saiyans of the youngest generation had been able to survive the near extinction of their race.
Nappa's face quickly turned into a frown. He turned to the doctor who was now at the controls of the regeneration tank. "Do they know where his pod came from?" The doctor looked up. "I do not but I can call the lead engineer he should know." Nappa just grunted and turned back to look at the young saiyan. The doctor took that as a yes and called the engineer.
Nappa heard the door slide open and twisted his head to see a small purple man with green spots walk into the room. He heard Raditz let out a short laugh as he recognized the engineer from their early encounter that morning. The look on the engineer's face was one of pure terror as he saw the two saiyans in the room. He was afraid he was going to blamed for the young saiyan's state and he knew that the two saiyans would kill without a second thought.
"Do you know where his pod came from before it arrived here?" asked Nappa as he pointed to the pod. The engineer quickly nodded his head. "Its last coordinates correspond to a Planet Siga." Nappa frowned again. That meant that the young saiyan had been on a mission when Planet Vegeta was destroyed. If that was the case then where was the rest of his team. Nappa was friends with the leader of the squad had assigned the second class warrior to and knew that he would not have been killed on a simple purging mission along with the rest of his team.
"Sir," Nappa turned his attention back to the purple engineer. The engineer gulped before continuing. "We have what remains of his armor," he commented as he nodded towards the regeneration tank. "We could repair if you would like." Nappa just nodded and the engineer rushed out of the room to begin on the repairs.
Nappa looked at the kid in the regeneration tank again. How had he survived when every other member of his team had been stronger than him? Nappa shook his head. He would just have to wait until he woke up.
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Raditz continued to pace around the infirmary. It had been nearly three hours since they had arrived at the infirmary. He looked at the small saiyan who sat in the regeneration tank unmoving. Raditz then looked at the large saiyan he was patiently sitting in front of the tank with his eyes closed. Raditz snarled to let some of his frustration of being stuck in this room for so long out.
He continued his pacing as he thought back to his early encounter with the young prince. It infuriated him that he had been called a weakling. It was bad enough that he had lost all of his family and friends, and just to add further insult to injury, all the hard work he had put into to trying to be a great warrior meant nothing to a five year old prince who claimed to be far stronger than he was.
His tail smacked the ground angrily as he thought of the earlier encounter. What had the prince said, oh yes that he was barely even a saiyan. Raditz growled. He was a saiyan, and he would prove it to that arrogant little brat.
I will never show weakness to them. Vegeta or Nappa. Not even about the destruction of my home. I just have to get over it and never think about it again. I have to show that I'm worthy of being the Prince of all Saiyan's comrade. I have to prove myself!"
As Raditz made his commitment to himself, the purple engineer entered the infirmary again. This time Raditz noticed that this time he carried a suit of armor. "I'll take that," he growled at the small engineer. The purple man just nodded and quickly handed the armor over to the saiyan and hurriedly exited the room.
Raditz examined the armor he had just received. The breastplate of the armor was black, and the shoulder guards, abdomen area, thigh and groin guards where crimson red. That meant he was a second class warrior, but hadn't Nappa said he had worked with a team of elites? Yes, he had that meant that the kid in the regeneration tank had to be incredibly strong. Raditz looked up from the armor to examine it's owner. There was no way that kid was as strong the elites!
Raditz was pulled out of his thoughts as he heard the sound of multiple beeps. He turned to the doctor who was behind the control panel. He was startled as Nappa brushed past him straight towards the control panel. When had he woken up?
"What's going on?" asked the giant saiyan. The doctor looked up at the regeneration tank. "He's waking up. I can't believe it. There's no way he should have recovered this fast!"
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Sirius eyes fluttered as he began to open his eyes. He noticed that he was surrounded by green liquid and realized that he was in a regeneration tank. Great back in one of these things. How did I get here? Last thing I remember was barely surviving Rildo's attack. How did I manage to wind up back in one of these things. Oh yeah I remember something about being ordered to come to Planet Frieza 35 by General Nappa. I must of managed to get to my pod before I completely lost coconsciousness.
He stretched his arms as the green liquid began to recede around him. He felt good, he felt strong. Sirius smirked. He must have gotten a pretty substantial boost in power after the beating he received from the fat green warrior. He stepped out of the regeneration tank and looked around.
He was surprised to see two saiyans standing in the infirmary. One had really long spiky hair that went all the way down his back and only looked like he was a teenager. He wore black and brown armor which meant he was a third class warrior. The low class saiyan also wore red bands around his elbows and knees. The long haired saiyan also had Siruis's newly repaired armor in his arms. He quickly handed Sirius his armor. Sirius mumbled his thanks and he heard the teenage saiyan grunt in reply.
After Sirius had put his armor on, he turned to look at the giant saiyan who he recognized as the one and only General Nappa. The large saiyan had a small amount of hair that barely covered the top of his head. The general wore a armor that was only permitted to highest ranked officers in the saiyan army. The armor consisted of a navy blue breastplate along with golden shoulder, thigh, and groin guards. The abdomen part of the armor also was a golden color.
Sirius gave a saiyan salute to the general, which was returned. After the formal greeting, Sirius let his tail sway behind him as he flexed his muscles, relishing in his new strength. He turned to the doctor who still stood behind the control panel. "So what does that thing tell you my new strength is doc?"
The doctor hit a few button to bring up the data. "Your power level is now 3600." Sirius smirked. That was the biggest gain he had ever gotten after being defeated in battle. He was brought back to reality by the voice of General Nappa.
"What happened to the rest of your squad?" demanded the giant saiyan. Sirius face turned into a snarl at the thought of the fate of his comrades. All he could see was the dead body of Boris and the rapidly dropping power level of Lettu. Sirius clenched his fist. He had been unable to save them or even avenge them by killing their murderers.
"They were ambushed sir. I was off planet at the time but when I arrived I saw one of my team member's power level rapidly declining after having fought a huge power level. The inhabitants of the planet we were sent to purge had no members even close to that kind of power. I got to the spot of the battle as quickly as possible to only find the dead bodies of my comrades. Before I even had time to get over the shock, I was attacked by two warriors who had dark green skin with long light blue hair."
"I fought one of the warriors, however I was defeated and barely managed to escape with my life. I was able to hide from them before I was completely destroyed by his finisher. Before I fell unconscious I was able to get to space pod and take off for here because I heard part of your message. Sirius looked down at the floor and snarled after he had finished telling Nappa about the deaths of his comrades.
Nappa just stared at the young saiyan in shock. One of the saiyan's elite squads seemed to have been hunted down and killed. And these dark green aliens sounded familiar to him but he didn't know why. They must have been extremely powerful if they had been able to take down one of the saiyan's elite squads.
"How much of the message did you hear kid?" Sirius looked back up at the large saiyan to see a puzzled looked etched on the giant's face. "Not much," answered Siruis, "All I remember hearing is that it was from you, I had to go to Planet Frieza 35 immediately, and that it was an order." Sirius saw an image him crawling through the blood and mud of Planet Siga trying to get to his pod and muttering the message to himself as he passed what looked like a leg.
Nappa looked away from the young saiyan warrior who had returned to growling at the ground. The kid didn't know, and Nappa was sort of glad he didn't know He was obviously taking the death of his squad members very hard, and he may have not had the will to life if he had known of Planet Vegeta's demise. Nappa knew that the next piece of news that he would have to tell the young warrior would probably crush the kid. Nappa looked over at Raditz, who seemed to read his mind. The long haired saiyan just nodded and mouthed, "Get it over with."
Nappa sighed and turned back to the young saiyan. "Kid, there's something I've got to tell you." Sirius looked up from the ground to the see a sad look in the giant saiyan's eyes. "Planet Vegeta was, was destroyed a week ago by an asteroid. That's why I sent that message. It was a message calling all surviving saiyans here. And as of now, there are only four known survivors. You, me, Raditz over there, and Prince Vegeta."
Sirius looked at Nappa in horror. There was no way. First his squad and now his home planet! His entire race was gone, and right now there were only four saiyans left. It was all to much for the young saiyan and he fell to ground. He felt tears welling up in his eyes but he quickly drew them back. Saiyans did not cry.
How has this happened! thought Siruis. Saiyans are suppose to be the greatest warrior race in the entire galaxy. How have we been brought to near extinction in a single day!
Nappa turned away from the young warrior after delivering his terrible news. He thought it was better to leave the kid to his grief. He nodded to the doctor signaling for him to leave, which he did gladly. These saiyans scared and one that had just gotten the worse news of his life, might look to take out his grief and someone like him. Nappa then turned to Raditz and motioned for him to leave the room as well. The long haired teenager nodded and silently followed Nappa out of the room.
Nappa stood outside the door patiently as he crashing sounds. The kid was obviously taking out some of his grief on the equipment in the infirmary. Nappa noticed that Raditz had a small smile on his face. The large saiyan gave him a puzzled look and the teenage saiyan just nodded towards the small doctor. The medical man winched every time he heard a crash that was no doubt the sound of his equipment being destroyed.
Nappa snorted and shook his head at the doctor's despair. He was startled when all of a sudden of his scouter began to beep.
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Vegeta pounded the remote of the tv against leg. The young prince was beginning to grow impatient with Nappa's absence. The giant saiyan had vanished when he had come out of his room an hour after the arrival of the third class saiyan, who was now also gone.
At first Vegeta had not minded having the entire suite to himself. It was nice and quite and there was no Nappa there to tell what he, the Prince of all Saiyans, could and could not do. He had gone through the fridge, and eaten everything in there. He had then proceeded to go through all of Nappa's possessions and cloths and thrown them all around his room. Vegeta smirked. It would give him great pleasure to watch Nappa reorganize all of his things.
After having completely destroying Nappa's room he had gone to the couch and proceeded to watch tv. He hardly ever got to watch the strange box that projected images for his enjoyment, because he was always on missions or training. He was taking great pleasure in the rare free time he was receiving at the moment.
Vegeta growled. It had been hours since he had left his room. Nappa had been gone for far too long. While Vegeta was enjoying the time alone, he also wanted Nappa there so he could make him some more food, seeing as how he had already all the food they had had.
Vegeta jumped off the couch and headed into his room. He went over to his dresser and picked up the red scouter on top of it. He placed the scouter on his ear and growled into it. "Nappa! Nappa where are you! Answer me this instant!"
Vegeta heard the saiyan general's voice come into his ear. "My prince, I am at the landing station along with Raditz. A new saiyan had arrived shortly after Raditz arrived at the room. However he was badly injured when he arrived on the planet and we have been waiting for him to recover."
Vegeta was intrigued. Another saiyan had arrived. Vegeta wondered if this one would be worthy of actually being called a saiyan unlike that third class weakling he had met earlier. "How strong is he Nappa?" asked Vegeta. "Please don't tell me he's another third class weakling like that Raditz I met earlier today."
"No Vegeta, he is a young second class warrior, but he was working with a squad of elites because of his high power level." Vegeta smirked. Maybe this second class saiyan would be a worthy training partner.
"That's fine Nappa. Get back here immediately. I'm hungry and I need you to prepare me a meal. Bring that third class weakling if you want. I really don't care, just get back here now!" Vegeta hit the button to end the conversation and sat the scouter back on his dresser. He then walked back out of his room and jumped back on the couch and began to channel surf.
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Raditz heard yelling coming from Nappa's scouter and knew it must be the prince. Only that arrogant kid's voice could be so loud. He heard something about heading back to the room. "Are we going back?"
The large saiyan nodded, he then headed over to the infirmary door. Raditz watched as Nappa knocked on the door of the infirmary and yell for the kid to come out. After about a minute, Nappa began to knock again and was about to start shouting threats but the door slid open. Raditz watched as the young saiyan walked out of the room with his head hung down and his shoulders slumped with his tail limply hanging between his legs.
Nappa put his hand on the kid's shoulder and led him out of the medical wing. Raditz silently followed behind the other two saiyans. After getting out into the open air outside the landing station, Nappa walked in front of the young saiyan warrior and Raditz was in the back slightly trailing both of them.
They walked in complete silence to the housing district. Raditz could tell that the young saiyan was taking the destruction hard, harder than Raditz had. Raditz hadn't been able to sleep all the way to Planet Frieza 35. Every time he had closed his eyes, all he could see was Planet Vegeta exploding, and then his fathers face in extreme pain as his life ended.
Raditz shuddered and continued walking behind the other two saiyans. He had managed to cope with his home's destruction before he had arrived here, but seeing as how this kid hadn't even known about it until thirty minutes ago, he had not been afforded that luxury. Raditz could only imagine how the prince would react when he saw the depressed young warrior walking in front of him.
Raditz was forced out of his thoughts when he realized that they were in Housing Building S and heading straight for Room 1117. Nappa knocked on the door before opening the door, to find the young prince sprawled out on the couch watching tv. The small prince's head snapped towards the door as he heard the knock on the door and then the door open.
"Aw good Nappa your back, and I see you brought the weakling back as well. I'm hungry and I would like a meal prepared for me in thirty minutes. The weakling can help you with that." Raditz snarled and let his tail wave behind him in a sign of aggression. He was tired of being called a weakling by that pampered little brat. The prince however, did not seem to notice the sign of aggression sent off by the long haired saiyan.
"Where is the new saiyan, you said had arrived. I would like to meet the reason why you have been gone all day." Vegeta looked around Nappa until he saw Siruis, who still hang his head hung and his tail limp. Vegeta put on a face of disgust as he walked to stand before the new arrival. The saiyan before him looked like a wiped dog. A saiyan should never act like that.
"Why do you disgrace your race! At least have the dignity of wrapping your tail around your waist instead of letting it hang there like a dead limb." Vegeta noticed that the saiyan wearing black armor seemed to not even have heard him. The young prince snapped his fingers in front of the new saiyan but he did not even blink. His eyes were just seemed dead and did not seem capable of leaving from the floor.
Vegeta began to grow angry at this ne saiyan. He had thought he would be different, but this saiyan was no better than the weakling. He just seemed to act like a beaten dog, nothing like a true saiyan would act. At least the third class weakling had the dignity to be proud of the fact that he was a saiyan.
"What is wrong with you, you disrespectful brat!" yelled Vegeta. "Do you have no pride at all! Answer me when I talk to you!" Sirius continued to not even acknowledge the prince's presence.
"Give him a break." Vegeta towards the long haired saiyan who was snarling at him. "He just found out about Planet Vegeta so cut him some slack. I but even you were like this when you first found out."
Vegeta immediately shut his mouth as he was about to set loose on the teenage saiyan. The weakling had a point. He turned around and began to head back towards the couch.
Nappa, who had stayed out of the prince's rant, sighed a sigh of relief. He had feared the prince would kill Raditz right there on the spot. Luckily for Raditz, he had been right about Vegeta's attitude after he had been told of his planet's demise.
Seeing that no one was going to be killed, at least for the moment, Nappa headed for his room. After he opened his door, he stood in the doorway, with complete horror on his face at the sight he saw before him. "Vegeta what happened to my room!" roared the giant saiyan.
After hearing the Nappa, an evil smirk spread across the young prince's face.
Well there it is, all of the saiyans have met and already they have begun to fight with each other. What can I say, saiyans well be saiyans. Now review, review, review!