Authors Note: I'm going to Mexico for the next 2 weeks so I'll on a bit of a hiatus but it should give me plenty of time to think about future chapters.

Corrupted Destiny

Episode 8

December 25th Age 761

"Yahoo!" Nappa screamed as he felt a sense of excitement he only truly felt when piloting a ship in a battle

"Ha Ha!" Vegeta let out as he was hitting his targets.

During this time Gohan was still terrified of the situation he was in and only grew more frightful when he saw his uncle dropped on the ground like a ragdoll. Gohan looked at the mysterious intruder who dropped Raditz's unconscious body on the ground she wore the same armor as him except completely black she also had blue skin and wore a blue scouter along with a red bandana covering her mouth.

She had an insect like appearance with what looked like feelers on her head along with small white pupils within completely black eyes. Gohan shivered at the sight of her and kept completely quiet and thankfully she didn't notice the corner he was in. She proceeded to jump down into the gunner room where Vegeta was stationed.

"I think we lost them." Vegeta said as he no longer had any obstacles in his line of fire.

"Alright we're just about to leave the planet's atmosphere so go tell Raditz to get back inside." Nappa told his shipmate.

"Assuming he isn't already dead." Vegeta remarked with a grin on his face but as he was about to get up from his chair he felt fast yet painful jabs to all his pressure points making him collapse on the ground yet he was not passed out and remained in a conscious state but was unable to move.

"So you Saiyans aren't just all talk most people who take my hits die yet here you are still with the will to fight." the mysterious mercenary said with snarky tone

"Nappa! We have an intruder!" Vegeta screamed

"Why can't you do it the autopilot on this thing sucks big time." Nappa said with much annoyance

"Are you defying me!" Vegeta said with the mercenary being shocked at how with Vegeta's words alone she could feel all his hate.

"Ye..Yes of course! How foolish of me!" Nappa said realizing his mistake of defying his fellow Saiyan. He walked outside of the control room and started charging up his Ki to it's maximum.

The ship started shaking to Nappa's immense power and the mercenary soon picked up Nappa's battle power on her scouter and climbed up the ladder that led to the meeting room and came face to face with the Saiyan warrior.

"Looks like I'm gonna have to squish a bug literally and figuratively." Nappa said with great confidence

"That's cute you assume you can win just because of your big muscles don't you?" the insect like alien said getting into a fighting position that Nappa very rarely saw.

"Wait a minute... Are you one of Freeza's lower level mercenaries?" Nappa asked with a genuinely curious expression.

"Well I guess I should tell you my name before I send you to the afterlife, It's Masai and I'm the best Freeza has to offer thank you very much." she said as if she had been insulted.

"I know my stuff bug and that's the fighting position all beginner mercenaries use if they're trained by Freeza's Forces." Nappa said with a stern face

"I tried becoming one when I was young I nearly got myself killed though but I got one of the biggest Zenkai's ever from it." Nappa stated with a smile.

"Well I'm an official mercenary and your probably just a low level soldier with that 7,500 Battle Power... that should already determine the outcome of this battle don't you think?" Masai said with an angered expression.

"We Saiyans never run even if we know we can't win." Nappa said before charging straight at his opponent and before she could deliver a devastating blow Nappa stopped right in his tracks throwing her off guard and in her state of confusion Nappa used his tail to wrap around her legs which sent her tumbling to the ground which Nappa then proceeded to shoot a Ki blast straight out of his mouth with her taking every last bit of its power.

Gohan looked in shock and couldn't resist but cheer for what was technically his companion. "That was great Nappa!"

He screamed confident in Nappa's victory "Heh, heh I affectionately call that technique the Nappa Cannon." Nappa said confidently as he looked down at his opponent and noticed her armor had been destroyed and proceeded to trash talk his fallen opponent

"Geez they give you guys some worthless armor and that insect body can't be any more durable I'm assuming." Nappa remarked before feeling a striking pain to his chest delivered by a strong kick from Masai.

He fell to the ground clenching his chest in pain as Masai started crushing his head under her foot. "Ahh!" Nappa screamed as he was completely overpowered by the low rank mercenary.

Gohan looked in horror as Masai's seemingly lifeless eyes started staring at him while she continued to torture Nappa even after he had lost conciseness "Stop..Stop it." Gohan said frightfully.

Masai continued to stare at him until she grabbed out a pistol and aimed it right at Gohan. He looked in fear and started crying which made Masai's scouter start reading a ridiculous Battle Power of 704.

"This kid can't be that strong if he's that young it's ridiculo.." Masai said before feeling her neck being choked making her drop her pistol.

"Y..You" she said as the spiky black hair of Vegeta came into her eyesight.

"That's right you may be able to take down these clowns but the prince is on an entirely different level." he remarked as he clenched his fingers into her neck and started to attempt a decapitation technique but he then noticed her bandana melting away...

"What the.. Ow!" Vegeta shouted as a purple acid hit his hand and started burning through his glove.

He quickly removed it before it could make it to his skin and his eyes widened up at the sight of her spiral shaped mouth with sharp teeth and her purple acidic spit dripping onto the floor and even its tough material couldn't withstand the acidic material the spit was made of. She started shooting her spit at Vegeta with precise small shots and he took all the hits unable to dodge as his body still hadn't fully recovered from the devastating damage he took earlier. He fell to the ground breaking his fall with one knee and panted heavily while Masai creeped over him like a hunter with it's prey.

"Why...don't you torture the kid.. that would be a lot more fun.." Vegeta said with a smirk on his face as he noticed the boys rising battle power with his scouter.

"I suppose you're right though I feel a bit bad he looks so cute in that armor." she said sadistically as she picked up her pistol and pointed it at Gohan and started charging it's plasma ray with a sadistic laugh being Gohan's breaking point as the ship started shaking as he screamed

"LEAVE ME ALONE!"

"1,297!"

Masai said in absolute shock as Gohan charged at her but before she could even shoot her blaster she felt the excruciating pain of Gohan's head butt heavily injure her sensitive insectoid body. She started scrambling around struggling to find footing and dropped her blaster while screaming in pain

"You little bastard!" she shouted as Gohan passed out after expelling so much of his energy.

Masai felt a hand go straight through her body and before she could even attempt to fight back she heard the voice of Vegeta yell "Galick Burst!" and her insides were completely destroyed by the Saiyan prince's devastating Ki attack

All she could do was scream in agony as Vegeta grabbed her head with both his hands using his thumbs to jab her eyes out and then screamed

"The Saiyans are a true warrior race!"

and split her head in two with his strength alone then kneed the still standing body to the ground and squashed it with his foot as her body still continued to fidget around trying to cling to life but stopped shortly after Vegeta's foot stomping. He fell to the ground not caring about all the green blood on the floor and simply took in his moment of victory.

After a couple minutes of relaxing on the blood of his enemy he stood up still quite stiff from his injuries and checked on his two shipmates

"He's knocked out but he'll be fine" Vegeta thought to himself after inspecting Nappa's body.

"His hearts stopped worthless idiot." Vegeta thought as he inspected Raditz's body and promptly gave him CPR knowing they needed Raditz's skills on a spaceship.

"Haah!" Raditz let out as his heart started beating again and he regained consciousness.

"Is the bug gone?!" He asked Vegeta still flustered by his sudden blackout

"Yeah I took care of her want a piece?" Vegeta responded as he gave a half of Masai's head to Raditz.

"Geez you really did take care of her." he said with a shocked expression as he noticed all the other remains of her body

"I have the other half of the head if you want it." Vegeta said casually

"Uhh...no I think collecting heads is Nappa's thing." he responded

"Only if he can't eat them." Vegeta said with a chuckle.

Raditz let out a loud laugh and said "That's so true!" while continuously laughing

"Shut up it wasn't that funny." Vegeta said with a serious expression and Raditz promptly shut his mouth.

"Oh yeah By the way I saw that hidden potential your nephew has first hand." Vegeta remarked

"See incredible isn't he?" Raditz replied with a cocky expression

"Yeah sure anyways that stupid smirk on your face reminded me of the promise I made yesterday." Vegeta stated

"Wait wha.." Raditz said before receiving a powerful punch to his gut and passing out once again.

"And of course you pass out why couldn't they have sent any other Saiyan besides you to come with me on that mission the day our planet was hit by that meteor."

Vegeta remarked aloud annoyed at his partners weakness. He then decided to walk over to the prodigal Saiyan hybrid to wake him up.

"Hey kid wake up." Vegeta said as he was kicking the passed out Gohan.

He slowly awoke from the kicking and looked up at Vegeta with a fearful expression "uhhh.. It's good to see your still alive ." Gohan said trying to remember the Saiyan prince's name.

"It's Vegeta you idiot and I assume you don't remember what you did to that bug over there." Vegeta questioned

"I did that.." Gohan replied with a frightened expression

"No but you did help with your hidden power and I know what your thinking I don't have any hidden power" Vegeta remarked while doing a terrible impression of Gohan's voice.

"But trust me that power of yours can be useful I predict that you will be a valuable asset to me if you survive the trials, hell even surviving these next couple days will be impressive." Vegeta said with a stern voice. Gohan simply stared at him with a blank expression and asked

"Why do I have to be an asset to you?"

Vegeta gave an angry look at Gohan and slowly grabbed him by his armor and slowly said his words with clear anger in his voice to make sure Gohan remembered them

"Look kid you better get used to my insults, sarcastic comments, and everything in between cause no matter how strong you end up being I will never treat you for more than what you are..and you are low class scum.. just like your father.."

"You don't know anything about my dad!" Gohan screamed

"I know one thing about him... that he's a dead man!" Vegeta yelled as he punched Gohan directly in the face causing him to nosebleed and shed tears

"As I was saying you are nothing but low class scum just like your father, just like your uncle, and just like their father before them. It's in your blood to be nothing but tools for us elite warrior's so as long as you keep your mouth shut and stay useful I won't have to subject you to years of physical and mental pain like I have to you're uncle Raditz. If our planet and race were still around you would be praising me like a God because I am the strongest Saiyan in the universe even my own father feared my power."

Vegeta then dropped Gohan on the ground with Gohan holding back tears as much as he could and with teary eyes and snot filled nostrils he asked Vegeta

"Are R..Raditz and Nappa gonna be.. be okay?"

"Yeah they'll be fine all three of us should get a Zenkai Boost from the fight." Vegeta responded "What's a.. a.. Z..Zen..Zenkai Boost?" Gohan asked puzzled.

"I'll explain later for now I'm gonna pilot the ship until Nappa gets up then I'll hang out and see how that worthless uncle of yours trains you." Vegeta replied while walking to the control room

"Why.. aren't you gonna train me if... if you think I'm gonna be u..useful?" Gohan asked frightfully. Vegeta simply looked at him with a threatening grin and with a blood curdling chuckle said

"I don't want you to die too quickly."

Will Raditz's training be enough to prepare for something even Vegeta struggled with? What type of trouble will the Saiyans get themselves into after what they pulled? Find out on the next exciting episode of Corrupted Destiny!