AN: Happy new year everyone!

"We raised the gravity to 0.75 this morning, and we had a spike in the power levels of both of them." Nasu looked at her expectantly. "So what now?"

Yasai lifted her chin from her hands. "What do you mean "spike"? Like short bursts, or did they just raise their power levels again?"

"Short burst. It was relatively insiginificant for the girl, for Gohtin it went into the range of an elite."

"Really? I wonder... Give them two days, raise the gravity to 0.85, give them two more days and then raise it to normal levels. And Nasu, they can go to the mess now. No more food to their room."

Nasu scribbled it down quickly. Yasai had no idea why he was still using those old-time notebooks, but if it made him happy… "Do you think they´ll reach a plateau soon?"

Yasai rubbed her nose, leaning back in her chair. "I don't know. That's what we´re going to find out. What about the DNA analysis?"

Nasu sighed, turning a few pages in his notebook. "They are not related and it looks like she wasn´t lying. The DNA is a very close match to yours. Could almost be your daughter."

Yasai rolled her eyes. "She´s my age."

"I said almost, Yasai. Could be your father or some of the previous princesses."

Yasai nodded slowly. "Unlikely." She hesitated for a second. "What if they didn´t lie? Think she´s the daughter of our current prince?"

"Well…" Nasu closed his notebook and slowly walked over to her desk. "We need to wait until we are back on Vegeta-sei to do a proper analysis. We only have your DNA here. Could still be your father."

"Or they are from the future. That´s it, right? The little prince doesn´t know what a dick is for yet and I doubt our king would make bastards and not take care of it." She eyed Nasu closer. "Way too careless for him. Let´s see how this turns out and then decide if we take them to Vegeta-sei."

Nasu sighed again. "Yasai… if they are just two dumb bastards who were left by their parents on some uncategorized planet and we bring them home we…"

Yasai waved her hand, making him shut up. "I know, Nasu. It´s going well for us, right? I´ll only consider it if we got a reason."

Nasu stared at her for a few seconds longer before he shrugged and shuffled out of her office. Yasai sat quietly at her desk a while longer, staring out of the window into the blackness outside. She was well aware that it was a risk to their very successful careers. But she had a feeling deep down in her gut that it would be worth it.

"I hope... It is finally... 10 g." Bra was sitting on her bed, raising one leg at a time, slowly. After it was made clear that they won't be getting any food to their room anymore, Bra reluctantly resigned and started working out as well. If lifting her arms and legs occasionally could be called working out. But it was more exhausting than anything she had ever done before. Goten was doing a bit better, he was already sitting on the floor doing push-ups. But then again, he was a super saiyan.

"I think so. Maybe they had to raise it, maybe their coworkers complained."

Bra snorted. "Commander Yasai doesn't look like the kind of person who would be easily impressed by complaints."

Goten made a weird noise, a grunt or maybe a short burst of laughter. Both was fine with her. "Well maybe she was annoyed herself. Right?" He stopped while sitting up, grinning at her. Usually, she would throw pillow at his head, but the pillow was heavy, and it was way too exhausting. Instead, she let her legs dangle down the side of the bed, and the back. "You are absolutely right. I wonder when the next audience will happen. Since they definitely didn't believe us last time."

Goten stopped again, this time he just lay on the floor. "Maybe they'll throw us out at the next stop."

Bra looked over the room, the tiny windowless room with the dark gray walls, the black floor, just enough room for two bunk beds and enough space between the bed for Goten to do his situps. It was barely more than a prison cell. It did have a bathroom of its own, so tiny she could barely squeeze herself into it, but that was the extent of their luxury. "I don't know if that would really be so bad."

Goten kept quiet for while, before he resumed his workout.

A few hours later Bra was scrolling through her phone, trying to find some music that wouldn't go on her nerves. Which was a hard task, considering that she couldn't move properly, that it was freezing in the room, but the high gravity made her sweat like a pig and that Goten obviously wasn't faring much better, because he was complaining about everything she put on.

"For fuck´s sake Goten, I can just turn it off." She pushed her phone away, not in the mood to argue anymore. Even talking was exhausting.

"I was just…"

They both looked up when the door open. It was Nasu again. Time for another audience. Nasu just waved his hand, expecting them to follow. Bra glanced sideways at Goten, raising her eyebrows. "Must be important."

Goten shrugged, or some low energy version of it. "Or they don't want to alarm us that they´re kicking us out."

They slowly walked to another conference room, this one had a green carpet and it was bigger. Yasai was sitting on the far end, a broad grin on her face. She looked just like Bra´s dad at that moment, and Bra wanted to tell her to stop it. Instead, she pressed her lips together and tried to ignore it. When they sat down, Yasai activated her tablet and immediately started talking.

"How high can you raise your power levels?"

Now that… Goten twitched, probably thinking about what to say. "Not much. We had to adapt to the high gravity. We're not used to it."

Yasai grinned again. "I know. You told group 457. And yet there was a spike in your power level, right when we raised the gravity. Up to elite level."

Bra glanced nervously to Goten. It would be best if he raised his Ki a bit and they´d be done with it. Yasai had a predatory gleam in her eyes and Bra suspected that it wouldn´t do them any good if they tried to challenge her determination to find out of what exactly they were capable of. Bra pushed his leg under the table, hoping he would get the hint.

"Right. That's all I can do."

"And how does some bastard who can't even talk properly gain such strength? Were you born with it?"

Goten hesitated, and Bra wasn't the only one who noticed it. Yasai got up, and slowly circled the table. She stopped next to Bra. "I'm waiting."

Goten slowly turned around in his chair. Yasai was so tiny, she barely towered Bra. It still made a shiver run down Bra´s spine. And this time it was not for the freaking cold.

"Yeah. I was born with it."

Bra didn't move. She didn't dare to. The tension was so thick she could've cut it with a knife. She couldn´t even feel Ki and knew that Yasai was radiating it.

"I don't believe you. Show me."

Goten's eyes widened. "Listen Commander Yasai, that was all I was able to do. I can probably control it, and…"

"You are lying. Show me."

Goten stared at her helplessly, and in that moment, Yasai gripped Bra's throat and lifted her up in the air. It all happened so fast, Bra´s mind didn´t even follow. There was just this unrelenting pressure on her throat and the need to breathe, she just… couldn´t… she tried to claw Yasai´s hand away, but she was too strong, she should´ve known, that dumb bitch had already looked ready to eat them both alive when they entered and now… Bra felt the gravity press down on her head, making it even worse. She couldn´t touch the ground anymore, how was it possible, Yasai was so tiny, and how… she gurgled, the pressure behind her eyes unbearable, there were spots in her vision and finally… she fell hard on the floor, gasping so violently for air she started coughing. Goten hadn´t helped her. She saw him, standing a few steps away, surrounded by a golden glow. That fucking idiot. Someone grabbed her, lifted her on her feet, she didn´t want to, she couldn´t stand, it was too hard, but whoever it was didn´t let her go and she relaxed in the grip. They left the room and Goten didn´t follow, why didn´t he follow?

Bra thought they wandered the damn halls for an eternity, everything looked the same, and everyone was staring at them. They finally entered an elevator, full with other people, all of them staring as well. She looked up. Nasu was still holding her. They were the only ones who left the elevator at their stop and he led her to a huge open room, the white walls so bright it hurt her eyes. He said something she couldn´t understand and finally she could sit down. Someone pressed something cold against her throat. It made it easier to breathe. She closed her eyes, trying to calm down her heartbeat, trying to get her brain working again.

She took a deep breath. She would kill Goten.

"Show me or I´ll kill her!"

Goten stared wide eyed at Yasai who had lifted Bra off the floor by her throat. She was still struggling, but her head was already turning from red to purple.

"Stop it! She can´t…" Bra barely moved anymore, only some sloppy attempts to push Yasai away. He had to do something. For a second, his mind went blank. And then he felt the familiar warmth of his Ki surround him. Everything was easier in an instant, he could feel his muscles relax and his mind calmed down and he had focus. He raised his hand, ready to blow Yasai away, but she had already dropped Bra, an insane grin on her face. There were too many teeth in that grin. He cocked his head, waiting. Bra was still alive, her Ki was fluctuating wildly but it was strong.

"The scouter is already out of range, it has to be in the tens of thousands or even higher."

They weren´t even looking at him. He got closer, Yasai´s Ki wasn´t that spectacular, he could just crush her.

"What is this transformation?" He saw himself reflect in her black eyes. They were so black, he had never seen anything like it. Nasu had walked around the table and lifted Bra up. Goten raised his hand again. "Leave Bra alone."

"Don´t worry about her Gohtin. She´s fine. Tell me about this transformation."

Nasu didn´t move. He knew that it was dangerous. Smart guy.

"Gohtin, we´ll bring her to the infirmary. I don´t care about her. We could have avoided this."

Nasu still didn´t move. Goten lowered his hand. "If you don´t help her I´ll kill all of you."

Yasai nodded slowly and Nasu finally left the room. Goten wanted to punch the bitch, but he knew he couldn´t. She was their ticket out of here.

"Super Saiyajin."

Her eyes widened. "Really." She looked him up and down, he could smell the shift in her interest. It was disgusting. "From some bastard… are you sure it´s not a transformation of your other half?"

"Yes."

She stopped at his face. "Is it genetic?"

"No."

She walked a step closer. "Can you teach it?"

He slapped her, hard enough that she slammed against the table and left a splatter of blood on the floor. She coughed, spat, and got up again. Wiped her mouth. "Let´s have a chat. Bura needs to recover."

She got a patch with the cold stuff on it that she held on her throat. It was easing the pain and made it easier to breathe again, but it still hurt and when she checked she saw dark purple marks on her skin. Someone had brought her back to her room, some staff from the infirmary who were wearing beige uniforms instead of dark grey ones. She wondered where Goten was, if he was still chatting with Yasai. If he tried to get away after he had killed the bitch. There should´ve been an alarm in that case, or not? She heard nothing.

When he finally returned he looked glum and lost in thought and he startled horribly when he noticed her.

"Bra! Are you ok? I thought you were still in the infirmary, can you… can you talk?"

She huffed and regretted it instantly. "Yes. Where have you been?" Her voice was raspy but it worked fine enough.

"I talked with Yasai. What´s this?" He pointed at the patch. She removed it shortly for him to look at.

"By talking I hope you mean beating the shit out of her."

He looked away guiltily. Of course. If he hadn´t been such a damn coward she wouldn't sit here like this. "No, we talked about my transformation."

"Great idea. After she tried to murder me!"

"She only did that because I didn´t power up! She doesn´t care about you. She doesn´t care about killing you."

Bra looked away, her mouth barely managed a meager smile. "How reassuring. That the murderers on this ship don´t want to waste their energy on me. Oh, don´t look at me like that! What do you think Youzi and her crew were doing on that planet?"

Goten stared at her for a while before he turned around and threw a tablet on his bed.

"What´s that?"

Goten looked at her shortly. "Got the translator and some language learning program on it. They speak two languages and we´re supposed to learn them."

Bra frowned. That was… "Why? Goten, what did you tell them?"

"Just what you wanted me to do anyway. I agreed to teach them how to become a super saiyan. That way they can defeat Freeza themselves and we can leave earlier."

Bra felt her mouth run dry. "You… what? WHAT? I didn´t tell you to do that! Why would you agree to that? Are you out of your mind?"

"Oh, I´m sorry I´m not doing what you told me. Glad you´re fine." He walked past her, into the little bathroom. Bra immediately got up and grabbed the tablet. She had to learn those languages, and fast. No way she would stay longer than necessary. She had to save them both.