As the days passed from the secret arrival of Frieza, the days warmed and cooled with the passing time. Only today was darker. The clouds covered over the skies and the gray color sucked away the warm hues from the surrounding life.
Frieza was sitting at the door of his temporary home watching the ants cover their holes with pebbles. And he watched as one lone ant stayed outside the hill, to secure all the pebbles outside her home. A noble sacrifice to some but to her, that was just her job. To be born, work, and die in work or in protection of her trillions of sisters and mother.
Frieza stared at the little ant. When she finished piling pebble after pebble her rose his finger in from of her.
Her antennae wiggled and tapped at his skin. She curiously grabbed hold of his nail with her mandibles and tugged lightly. When she realized it wasn't going to come with her, she stopped and just crawled onto his finger.
Frieza raised the little being to his face and stared at her tiny form. He was reminded of those aliens that shared the similar mindset to these little beings… and also shared their numbers…

It was the races of his soldier Appule.
Their entire planet clusters brimming with the species working and slaving away till the old or sick would just die and lop off the rock.
He often would go there to trade food and supplies for soldiers. And although the cache was in no need of soldiers to defend their planets, they produced and trained them anyway for the symbiotic relation they shared with the planetary trade system.
It would have never been this was though….
It would have never come to such a compromise were it not for Appule.
The people attempted to shame him for his 'mutiny' by calling "Appule the Defiant", yet it did nothing.

When arriving to the planetary clusters, Frieza and his men were met by guards, their glands taking in the scent of each of Frieza's men and him. Frieza smiled and bowed his head with his hands behind his back.
"Good day, I wish to speak with your leader in hopes of nego-"
"Your kind isn't welcome here, Leave or we will send all of our castes upon you." The guard interrupted the tyrant.
Frieza's eyes widened. How dare this creature speak to him so impudently?
Zarbon took a step forward in hopes to not have his lord's wrath crack upon them.
"My lord, allow me-" he offered and stepped forward to the guards. "Forgive me if we sounded a bit commanding, but we are willing to speak with your leader so that we may form a beneficial allia-"
"BEGONE YOU BEAUTREON TRASH! You worthless DILTCH!"
Zarbon's golden eyes flashed and he stamped his foot.
"AH! Well I never!" he huffed angrily.
Frieza growled and pulled Zarbon behind him.
"Look you sorry saps, if you don't-"
The guards held up bladed staffs to Frieza's neck.
"ohhoho… so this is how it's going to be?" Frieza smirked darkly.
Zarbon tried not to smile or laugh, in slight grudge that Frieza was about to shred into them until a voice was heard from behind the guards.
"WHO DO YOU HAVE THERE NOW!?"
Appule, a scrawny worker, pushed aside the guards and looked at the aliens before him.
"Get back inside Citizen A77853!"
"No! Why are you blocking them?"
"They threaten the safety of the colony!"
"I doubt that! YOU!" he swiftly pointed at Frieza. "Why are you here!?"
"CITEZEN A77853 GET BACK TO THE HIVE!"
"We're here to talk to the leader in negotiation for trade and friendly alliance..."Frieza said through gritted teeth, not fond of repeating himself.
"SEE?!" Appule said to the guards.
"We see nothing more than threats to our colony! They have nothing but the stench of evil among them!"

Zarbon blushed and smelled his lilac scented wrists. "Lilacs are evil scented?"
"Oh gods Zarbon…" Frieza tried not to snicker.

Appule walked away from the guards towards the visiting aliens. "FINE! Then I'll give them the friend scent!"
Frieza and Zarbon looked at the skinny alien between them as he grabbed their arms and with the glands on is elongated head; spread his 'scent' onto the visitors.
The guards were stunned that this traitor would dare endanger the colony!
"Go, and follow the widest tunnel to the mother… no one will stop you" Appule smiled.
The two confused aliens walked forward and weren't stopped by the guards, simply walking past them.
Frieza and Zarbon made their way to the queen's chamber and once they found themselves inside, the nurses of the newborns stared at the strange beings before them… but they continued their work when they could smell there was no evil.
The queen mother looked up at the two and motioned them closer.
"Welcome children, what is it you need of me?"
Frieza spoke up.
"We aren't your children your highness, however we come to offer you and the planetoid clusters a trade system that we may both benefit from. I am from the planetary trade system and we would be willing to trade you food and other things for you hives, and in return you could give us soldiers."
She leaned closer and studied Frieza.
Zarbon became slightly nervous. He knew that his lord didn't like to be looked down upon.
"I see… well, I think that that is a very smart idea…. I haven't had outside visitors ever, and finally one comes not to take over our hives, but to help us get bigger! "
Frieza huffed as the large mother leaned back and giggled giddily.
The mother sent them away with the promise of new soldiers every comet-tail, which for Frieza meant he'd get a batch of nearly 10,000 every month.
As Frieza and Zarbon walked out he took note that the guards were no longer at their station.
Zarbon was already heading back to the ship unaware that his lord had stopped.
Frieza took note of the blood where that scrawny worker had been standing when they headed in.
Frieza took note to a few drops leading in a trail. Frieza began to follow the blood and came upon a HUGE crowd of the worker caste. Frieza began to fly up and see what they may be surrounding. To his suspicions it was the worker tied high on a post with a blunt wound on his head and a carved symbol on his bloody chest.
The guards yelled loudly "this Is the fate of those who are traitors! To be mocked and shunned by the colony and then to be infused with the fungus that eats us from within! He is sentenced to die slowly and in pain in reminder that he is 'The Defiant!' " They announced.
"I ACCEPT MY PUNISHMENT, BUT KNOW THAT IT WAS I WHO SAVED THIS COLONEY!" Appule cried out as a guard from the crowd brought forth a syringe that held the liquefied spores of the deadly fungus.
Appule closed his eyes and accepted his fate.
The guard held up the syringe but before he could inject it, he was shot down by a red beam of ki.
The entire cache looked up and saw Frieza.
Appule looked at the glowing red radiance that surrounded the stranger he helped.
Frieza lowered down and landed in front of the crowd and before Appule's pole.
He merely glared at the two guards that initiated this whole bother… and his red eyes paralyzed them in place.
He placed his hand on the pole and with one pulse of his energy; it fractured into millions of splinters. Appule dropped down onto his hands and knees as the ropes around him fell loose.
He looked up to the alien tyrant.
"Come with me... and show how dedicated you truly are..." Frieza held his hand out to the alien and watched as the other took hold with no hesitation.

Frieza looked back down to the ant that had become still on his hand. He stood up and went the mini fridge in the corner of his tent. He pulled out the slice of bread and a soda.
Being no bigger than a pencil eraser, she probably needed gooey food.
He opened the soda and with a leaf, picked up a drop of the sugary drink and held it in front of the ant.
She opened her mandibles and Frieza watched as the drop slowly diminished to nothing.
He took a bread crumb and held it to her.
Eventually she took it and just held it in her mandibles.
He hoped that she was eating.

Outside the sky cracked and the thunder rolled across the land. And soon all that was heard was the hissing of the rain all around.