Chapter 9: The King of All Saiyans

Planet Chilled

"The planet of the Saiyans, hmmm? Is that what you said?"

The usually cold surface of the planet was on fire; said fire reaching out for miles. Flames spread across the ground like water, engulfing everything that it touched. In the center of the flames, a large figure stood menacingly. Said figure was holding another member of his species by their throat, mercilessly choking them.

"L-Lord Frieza…" The man struggled in his grip as the air was stolen from his lungs. Sickle hadn't personally met Frieza before, and he certainly hadn't expected it to turn out like his. "M-My son… That is where he was s-stationed…"

"And your son is the one with the exceptional power level, hmm?" Frieza asked slowly, his voice in a playful hum. He'd already ascended to his second form, mainly because he thought that he was going to have to take out the threat he'd heard so much about. He was disappointed that the boy had made a run for it.

"Y-Yes…" Sickle was losing breath quickly, and his voice was going along with it. When Frieza had shown up to Sickle's doorstep with his personal squadron, Sickle knew something was wrong. Whatever they wanted with Sub, it wasn't pleasant…

"You've earned your life due to your loyalty." Frieza let go of his fellow Frost Demon, letting him fall to his knees and choke to collect his breath. While Sickle did that, Frieza turned to face his squadron, and he smiled at them wickedly.

"You've been tasked with finding the boy who dares to mock my power. Let me know if he truly is there, and then you may engage. Aim to kill." Frieza said confidently, into which the members nodded.

"It will be done, Lord Frieza."

Frieza began to walk away with his elite squad, but he felt someone grab onto his leg. When Frieza turned to look down, he saw that Sickle had clutched onto his leg, a look of fury on his face.

"After all I've done for your empire, you betray me by killing my only true heir! You're pathetic, Frieza! One day, my son will complete annihilate you! He'll take full reign of the universe!" Sickle growled in fury, his anger boiling over as he did. Frieza simply chuckled to himself darkly, before raising a finger.

"Threatening your leader, hmm? It's treason, then."

A red beam of light was the last thing that Sickle saw, before everything went black.

Sub

When we finally got back to the ship and flew off, I was bombarded with notifications.

PING!

Guest Completed!

Team Quest

Fusion of Death

Objective:

Take over the Metamoran home planet and prepare their world for selling

Hidden Objectives:

Spare the Metamoran people! - Complete - 3000 EXP & Reputation Increase with Metamoran species!

Eradicate the Metamoran people! - Failed - 5000 EXP & Reputation Decrease with weaker alien species!

Find the Hidden Vault of Techniques! - Failed

Rewards:

7000 EXP

200,000 Universal Currency

Teachable Skill - Fusion Dance Technique

-2423 to Level 8!

Total XP (2423/39,865)

LEVEL UP!

Rewards:

+ 4 Attribute Points

+ 2 Feat Points

+ 2 Special Attack Points

Well, that was certainly great! I leveled up, and apparently I could now use the fusion technique? I think? I wasn't sure what it meant by 'teachable skill'. I'd find out when the time came. At the moment, I didn't have much time to think about any of that. I didn't even have time to allocate my new points.

They allowed me to go and place Leek in a healing tank, but Paragus made it quite clear that he wanted to have some words with me when I returned. On my way back, though, some interesting words caught my ear.

"-ower skyrocketed!"

"She has the power of the Super Sai-"

"Legendary Super Saiyan!"

That last one caught me off guard, and I stopped in the hallway, before backtracking and entering the room. A small group of the Saiyans were in the room chatting about the mission, their faces lit up in excitement.

"It certainly was incredible! Her power was more than anything I'd ever seen! And her aura was golden!" One of the men recalled, causing me to raise my eyebrows. Could that have been right? A Super Saiyan already?

"Rot is frightening when she wants to be. I'm not surprised that she snapped when he almost killed her son!" Another Saiyan said, causing my eyes to widen. It was Rot? But that couldn't be right? With a power level like hers, if she became a Super Saiyan, she would have squashed that Prince. Something wasn't adding up.

I slipped out of the room and back to where I was supposed to meet with Paragus. When I arrived, he was waiting with his arms crossed. Okro was standing on the other side of the room with his arms at his side. They both looked unusually apprehensive of me, and keeping my face expressionless probably wasn't helping

"Mission was successful, huh?" I tried to break the ice with a smile. They didn't smile back.

"Were you aware that Leek was a Saiyan?" Paragus asked quickly, into which I gave a sharp nod.

"I was aware. The tail was a big give-away." I joked around, but quickly cleared my throat when I saw that they weren't laughing back. Right, it wasn't the time to joke.

"Explain how the boy came into your possession." Okro called from the other side of the room. "Why is a Saiyan child with a Frost Demon?"

I could tell that they were extremely suspicious and a little mad. Okay, maybe more than a little mad. But I'd thought about all of this beforehand.

"I found him on my home world. I'm not sure how exactly he got there, but we took care of him. Our planet is extremely cold, so he would have been dead a long time ago if we just left him alone." I told them casually. They didn't seem as mad as before, but they weren't done with their questions just yet.

"How did he get there in the first place? A child all the way across the universe?" Paragus asked me with narrowed eyes.

"Are you really surprised? Seeing as your race send their infants all over the universe to conquer worlds?" I countered as I crossed my arms. I didn't want to tell that that he was stolen as a baby, for obvious reasons. I didn't need to lie either. Just give them a little bit of misdirection.

"We wouldn't send a child to a world filled with people with power levels as high as yours. It would be a suicide mission." Okro said in disbelief, slightly unnerved. "King Vegeta is stupid, but he couldn't be that stupid, could he?"

"Don't speak of your King in such a disrespectful way!" Paragus hissed through his teeth, before turning back to me. "Even if Leek was sent to your planet on accident, there is some strange things I noticed.." Paragus began but I cut him off.

"The pale skin and strange colored Ooraru form?" I asked rhetorically, before continuing. "Honestly, that was the first time that I've seen his Oozaru form look like that. But that may be due to some… Modifications that we had to make…" I stopped and let my eyes scan the two Saiyan's faces. Paragus seemed shocked, but Okro was outright furious.

"You have no right! To experiment on a Saiyan child is unethical and wrong!" Okro shouted as he slammed his fists onto the table in front of him, cracking it. I was surprised at such a big reaction, but then the reason came to me. Okro had just lost his two kids. Anything to do with kids must have been close to his heart.

"If we didn't, then he wouldn't have been able to survive on our planet. He would have been dead within hours." I replied confidently, but his angry face didn't subside. "Would you have liked it better if we had put him out of his misery in the cold?" I questioned.

"What did you do to him?" Okro asked through gritted teeth. "What kind of experiments were run on him?"

"I'm not sure. I'm not a scientist. I'm an Engineer." I shrugged my shoulders. "Whatever they did to him helped him to survive on our planet, and perhaps gave him a little boost in strength. Nothing harmful to him." I told him. He seemed to calm down a little bit and didn't speak up in response.

"A little boost in power? What is his power level?" Paragus asked me, into which I gulped. That was one piece of information that I wasn't sure about sharing just yet. I couldn't trust Paragus fully just yet. He was still more loyal to the Saiyans then to me.

"It's… High… Higher than anyone his age…" I said truthfully. I just ignored the part about him being stronger than any of the Saiyans that I'd met so far… I mean, I still hadn't seen the Kings power level, but I was sure that after the training I'd done with Rot, Paragus and Okro, they were stronger than him.

In the anime, if I was recalling correctly, Vegeta stated that he had surpassed his father's power level when the Prince was only a kid. That mean that King Vegeta must have had a power level lower than 18,000, which was Vegeta's power level when he first arrived on Earth. Right now, Paragus was just underneath 50,000…

I'd always wondered why the Saiyans never actually tried to raise their power level by training. That way their 'low class' warrior could have probably went up in the ranks. Maybe they weren't pushed to their limits by strong opponents enough? Or perhaps the jealous king couldn't stomach anyone being stronger than him and had them killed like he tried to do with the original Broly.

Anyways, that didn't matter right now. I was still in the cross hairs of two confused Saiyans.

"We're going to have to report this to King Vegeta." Paragus told me, which caused me to narrow my eyes. He must have caught my look, because he continued a moment later. "He is the King of the Saiyans. He must be informed of all things related to the Saiyan race. Especially something involving the manipulation of Saiyan DNA."

"Whatever." I replied. "But I might not agree with what he decides on."

"And if you don't agree?" Paragus asked slowly. I turned to face him and our eyes locked immediately. I must have looked particularly fierce, because a shiver broke out across his body.

"Then, let him try to stop me.…"

Paragus gulped and looked away from me, letting the room fall back into silence. I wasn't going to pretend like I would let King Vegeta bully me around. No. He may be the king of the Saiyans but he wasn't my king. Especially knowing that I could squash him like a bug if I wanted to.

"Now I have some questions for you." I revealed to the two of them, catching their attention once again.

"I heard that Rot displayed powers that were similar to the Super Saiyan of legend?" I asked curiously. Okro looked at me with a startled look on his face.

"What do you know of the Super Saiyan?" He asked in shock.

"More than you think." I replied with a smirk on my face. "Now, am I correct with my question?"

"Yes.. Well, I think so…" Paragus started, before pausing and going over the memory. "Her power skyrocketed. I haven't mastered reading energy like you were teaching us, but I didn't need to. Her energy was raw and overflowing from her body in waves. It was incredible."

"And her aura was golden?" I asked in interest. "What about her hair?"

"Her aura was golden, yes. And her hair…" He thought for a second. "It stuck straight up. Like it was on edge."

"But it wasn't golden?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Golden? No." Paragus said, but looked at me in confusion. "Why?"

"Well then, she isn't truly a Super Saiyan." I said with a sigh, maybe a little disappointed. Or relieved? I'm wasn't quite sure. "Not yet, at least."

The room fell into silence once again. When I looked up, the two of them were looking at me with strange looks on their faces. I couldn't stop the smirk on my face from growing.

"W-What..?" Okro said slowly, his voice faltering for a second. "How would you know this?"

"Just trust me on this. I know things…" I said, but their faces still told me that they didn't fully believe me. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you how I know. But one reason I know, is because your planet isn't the only one with a Super Saiyan legend.."

"One of the ancestors of the Frost Demon race had an encounter with a Super Saiyan. In his own words, a Super Saiyan is marked by golden hair." I told them. "But that isn't the only way I know. I know more about you Saiyans then you probably know about yourselves."

They both stayed silent for a few moments, processing the words. After a few seconds, one of them finally decided to speak.

"What else do you know about our race? And the legend of the Super Saiyan?" Okro asked me, his face obviously still shocked.

"Ah, well to tell you that, there is a few requirements." I said with a smile.

"What are the requirements?" Okro asked quickly.

"For one, you can't tell anyone what I tell you about the Super Saiyan transformation. Only you two and Rot will know, for now. And second of all, you have to promise to definitely not tell King Vegeta." I said, which prompted a shocked look on Paragus's face. "Oh, and third! We need to convince the Saiyans out there that what they saw was not anything to do with the Super Saiyan."

"Those are some strange requests." Okro said immediately. "Why wouldn't we tell the people? This is what we've been waiting for! For centuries!"

"And this information can not be kept from the King! He must know that the legend isn't myths!" Paragus spluttered out.

"What if I told you that eventually, if Frieza gets word of the Super Saiyan legend, he would get worried? Paranoid?" I said slowly, letting the words creep in. "You know what happens when dictators get worried that their subjects might be capable of over-throwing them?"

The look of horror on their faces reassured me that I got the message across.

"And as for the king… He's a jealous man. He wants to be the strongest. Do you think that he would stand by casually knowing that there was a Saiyan who achieved the legendary form before him?" I asked them. I knew that Okro agreed with me, but Paragus was a little skeptical. How ironic.

"I'm sure that the King would accept the Super Saiyan as an asset to the Saiyan army. He wouldn't weaken the empire because of something so small!" Paragus said, although his confidence wasn't as strong as before. I shook my head and smiled at them both.

"How about we test that theory, then." I said, which earned two raised eyebrows from them. "When we get back, after we tell Vegeta about Leek's status as a Saiyan, we'll inform him also of the fact that you two, along with Rot, have passed his power considerably. His reaction will prove my point, I promise you both."

"W-What?" Paragus said, his eyes wide in shock. "Surely, our power level is still nothing compared to the King?"

"You're mistaken. I know for a fact that you, Rot and Okro, have surpassed him. By quite a lot, actually." I revealed to them both. Paragus was frozen in shock, but when I caught sight of Okro's expression, I narrowed my eyes. The smile on his face was wide, and a little sick.

"Okro, don't even think about it." I said immediately, knowing his intentions. "Just because you're stronger than him, don't go rushing off and do something stupid. You can get your revenge for your family another time, just not by killing him."

Okro's face twisted into irritation and he glared at me. "Will you stop me if I try?" He asked me, and I immediately nod sharply.

"The Saiyan Empire would go crazy. That isn't the right way to go about things." I tell him with a sigh. "But that's besides the point, do we have an agreement? If I prove that King Vegeta can not be trusted, you promise not to tell him about the Super Saiyan form? At least not yet?"

"Agreed." Okro agreed immediately, but it took Paragus some time to accept the proposal.

"It's settled then. I'll tell you all you want to know once I've proven my point about your leader. Of course, I'll have a separate conversation with Rot." I tell them both. "But first, we need to go out there and squash the rumors. Unless you want your planet to go up in a ball of fire and explosions?"

"Right."

Later

When the liquid drained off of his face, I made sure that I was the first person that he saw. We weren't far from Planet Vegeta when Leek was finished healing, so it was pretty good timing. As soon as the liquid completely drained off of him, Leek jumped out of the pod and looked around in alarm.

"Wait! What happened?! Where'd that guy go?! Where's Soko?!" Leek panicked. I rolled my eyes and put my hand on his shoulder to keep him in place. He looked up at me and began to calm down.

"You see why I wanted you to stay with me now?" I chuckled, much to the small Saiyans annoyance. "You all could have died, and I would have been on the other side of the planet."

"Well, we didn't die.. So ha." Leek mumbled and crosses his arms over his chest. "Is Soko okay? Last thing I saw, he got smacked out of the sky."

"He's okay. He's being healed right now. He took quite a lot of damage from that hit, though." I told Leek, who frowned in response. "Something bothering you?"

"It's just… I wanna be stronger." Leek said to me, which interested me. He hadn't outright said that to me before. Sure, he said that he wanted me to 'teach' him stuff, but not downright that he wanted to be stronger. This was an interesting development.

"And why's that?" I asked.

"The red guy… He said that my kicks and punches were bad. And somethin' about poten… Potential? I dunno what it means but it made me feel weak. I don't wanna be weak. I wanna be able to fight better! And defend my family!" Leek said with confidence. I nodded my head in response.

"Well, I'm sure that I can help you with that." I told him, which prompted a smile from the pale Saiyan. "But not right now. We need to go meet the King of the Saiyans. About you."

Leek's face twisted into confusion. "Why me?" He asked with wide eyes.

"Well…" I pointed back at Leek's tail and shrugged my shoulders. "Let's just say that one too many people saw that tail of yours." I chuckled when I saw Leek panic, realizing that his tail wasn't hidden by his cloak anymore.

"Oh no! I forgot the red guy took off my cloak!" Leek blurted in panic, looking back at his twitching tail.

"It's alright, kid. It wasn't your fault. At least you don't have to wear that cloak all the time, huh?" I said as I patted him on the shoulder again. He calmed down and then nodded his head with a small smile.

"Yeah… I hated wearin' it everywhere." Leek giggled to himself. "What do you think the King's goin' to say?"

"I don't know, but don't worry about it. You could blow him up easily." I said reassuringly, but regretted it when I saw the look on his face. "But don't do it! Promise?"

"Yeah, yeah. Okay." Leek mumbled under his breath. I stared down at him, until he groaned and looked up at me. "Okay, I promise. Happy now?"

"Very." I say with a smile. "Alright. If he asks you anything, just tell him the truth. Now, let's go."

Planet Vegeta

It was the first time that I was actually going to the main city of the Saiyans territory. I didn't leave my ship much, except to train and to get parts. I didn't often leave that radius. This was going to be entirely new for me.

Paragus was flying in the lead with me, Okro, and Leek following behind. Rot stayed back in a tank so that she could get back to full strength. She wouldn't be needed for this anyways.

As we flew through the red sky, I could heard for the first time the war raging across the planet. Sometimes it was faint, but there was a constant sound of explosions in the distance. It was making me feel slightly weird. If these people truly were real, was I just going to stand by and let them get destroyed?

I didn't know much about the Tuffles. I knew that they believed that they were innocent in the war, and I wasn't sure what to think about it. Baby and Dr Lychee would have definitely been extremely biased, so who knows? Maybe the Tuffles were deserving of being destroyed? But another interesting thing to consider was how technologically developed that they were. They managed to have a 10 year stalemate against the Saiyans, just because of their technology! They must have had incredible minds!

I had an idea about that, but it had to go to the back of my head as we finally approached the palace. It looked just like it did in the new Broly movie, up on the side of a cliff, right outside of the city.

The first thing that I noticed was that portions of the city looked like it was recently bombed and attacked. I looked down at the destruction, and even noticed that some of the palace had a hole in it.

"What happened here? The Tuffles attacked the city?" I asked Paragus as we flew.

"No. This was the main city of the Tuffles. This was where the war started." Paragus revealed as we approached the castle. "We took their capital as a declaration of war."

"I see.." I hummed to myself as we kept flying. The Saiyans probably didn't have much time to properly fix up the city after they conquered it. The Tuffles would have been furious and they've been in a constant war ever since.

We finally reached the entrance of the castle and touched down. I looked around just in time to see a few Saiyan pods being launched off into space. I watched Paragus watching the same launch, and then look back at Leek. I grinned to myself. Perhaps my partial lie is good enough.

The Saiyans at the entrance didn't look as rough as most of the ones I'd met. One look at their power levels told me that they were probably low or middle-class. They were probably just servants or something.

"We've come to talk to the King about the case of a lost Saiyan." Paragus said to the guards. They gave me a long look and snarled.

"We know. He's been waiting." The Saiyan tells us, which causes me to raise an eyebrow. "What is that thing doing here?" The Saiyans asks as he stares as me.

"I'm the boys guardian. Now if you don't mind, we'd like to get in." I tell him with a smile on his face, despite my annoyance at being called a 'thing'. I flared my aura a little when I said it, and it was enough for them to shut their mouths and let us through.

When we finally got into the throne room, I scanned it over with my eyes. Apart from the interesting and beautiful art on the windows, the room was pretty bare. I mean, apart from the 20 Saiyan guards and the King and Queen.

Wait, a Queen?

"Welcome." King Vegeta looked as smug as always. Immediately upon him opening his mouth, Okro and Paragus fell onto their knees, along with the guards.

Leek looked around at the bowing people with interest in his eyes. He looked up at me, as if to ask for approval, and I nod my head. We both bow together, and I can practically see the king's triumphant smile. Of course he'd be happy to have someone from Frieza's race bowing to him.

I didn't want to bow to this huge dick of a person, but it was the smart thing to do. I wanted the Saiyans as an ally, and even though I didn't particularly like King Vegeta, he was still the ruler of the planet. Maybe I could actually get him to like me?

"You may rise."

We all rose in unison. Paragus was the first to step forward and bow once again.

"I am Paragus, the leader of division 136 of the Frieza Force." Paragus announced himself humbly. King Vegeta nodded his head, allowing Paragus to rise.

While Paragus debriefed the king on the mission, I decided to use observe on the guards in the room, and most importantly, the King and Queen. The guards weren't anything special at all. They averaged about 6000. Not bad, but not good by a long shot. I then turned to the royalty.

King of All Saiyans

Name: Vegeta III

Race: Saiyan (Male)

Age: 40 Years

Relation: None

Status: Alive (Calm) (Base Form)

HP: 10,000

Power Level: 12,000

Level: 5

King Vegeta is a proud leader of the Saiyan race. He prides himself as the strongest of the Saiyan race. Although he is extremely harsh and irrational at times, he does generally care about his race.. He is extremely arrogant and proud.

Hm. That sounded about right.

Queen of All Saiyans

Name: Pea

Race: Saiyan (Female)

Age: 23

Relation: Feared

Status: Alive (Panicked) (Base form)

HP: 8000

Power Level: 14,000

Level: 4

The Proud and intelligent Queen of the Saiyan race. She is smart, vicious and beautiful. She is often the little voice whispering in King Vegeta's ear, but does not have the leadership skills to lead the empire on her own.

Now that was interesting. King Vegeta's wife was stronger than him? He couldn't have known that, right? If she was as smart as her description showed, I doubt that she would advertise that she was stronger. The King would look weak with a Queen that was stronger than him. Perhaps I could use that to my advantage.

"Hmm, clearly this boy is a Saiyan." The King spoke back to us, once Paragus had got to the main point that we'd came here for. King Vegeta stared down at Leek with calculating eyes.

"It is a possibility that we accidentally sent him off to the wrong planet, seeing as we have no idea where the Frost Demon home planet is located." King Vegeta said as he thought. Pea stirred next to him and leaned forward, her eyes examining Leek carefully.

"He seems.. Off…" She concludes as she looks at him. "Is he sick? He's rather pale. And his eyes...They aren't the usual color of a Saiyans."

Paragus seemed to lose his voice for a few seconds, and I shook my head and took a few steps forward. All eyes fell on me as I bowed again, this time next to Paragus, and prepared to speak.

"I am Sub of the Planet Chilled. I am the child's protector and guardian. The reason that Leek seems so ill is because of some adjustments that our scientists had to make so that he could live on the planet without dying due to the climate." While I spoke, I lifted my head to see their reaction. King Vegeta looked shocked, but Pea's face lit up in horror.

"You manipulated the DNA of a Saiyan?" Pea gasped at me. I shrugged my shoulders due to habit, before opening my mouth to speak again.

"With all due respect, if they didn't alter his DNA, he would have been dead a long time ago." I said in defense..

"Then he would have died with honor!" Pea hissed at me, her temper getting the better of her. "A true Saiyan doesn't need help to survive."

"Funny that you'd say that, because I've always wondered where the Saiyans would be if the Tuffles and Plantians hadn't offered you free real estate on this planet?" The look on their faces was priceless. "That sure seems like help to me."

King Vegeta stood up quickly and growled his teeth. His aura flared briefly, lightning up his corner of the room for a second.

"You dare speak to my Queen in that tone?!" King Vegeta shouted, his fists shaking in anger. Pea reached up and put her hand on his arm in an attempt to calm him.

"It's alright, Vegeta." Pea said slowly despite her anger, her eyes jumping from her King down to me. It was clear that she was nervous. "What should we do with the boy?"

King Vegeta sat back down on his chair and thought for a moment. "He may be tainted, but he is still a Saiyan. He'll be classified as a Saiyan and will be able to live like a normal Saiyan boy" King Vegeta decided, which made me smile slightly. Until...

"We have to check his power level to determine which class he falls under." Pea spoke up immediately, causing me to frown. I hadn't thought about that. How would I get around it? I opened my mouth to speak, but Paragus spoke before I could.

"Sub has a scouter that can read power levels by just looking at someone. It's a modified version of the scouters that Frieza supplies to some." Paragus revealed to Vegeta, much to my annoyance. I knew that the Saiyans had their own way of reading power levels, at least the scientists do, but I was hoping that I'd have some time to maybe teach Leek how to suppress his Ki.

"Oh? Well then, tell us his power level and let's get done with it." King Vegeta motioned to me, obviously irritated with my presence still. I sighed and un-clipped my scouter from my belt and placed it on the side of my head.

"You may not like the results…" I said under my breath, but due to the quietness in the room, everyone can hear it clearly. I thought about lying, but realized that there would be no point. They could see the numbers on the screen, so lying would be pointless.

"His power level is resting at 161,280." I tell him slowly, and just as I expected, his face twists into rage immediately. Exactly what it looked like when he saw that Broly was born with such a high power level. How predictable.

"Impossible!" He shouted. "No Saiyan warrior is even approaching a power level so high! It must be a different sort of measurement then our system!"

"I assure you that it's not wrong." I reply casually. "And also, you're also wrong about 'no Saiyan approaching' that power level. You have two Saiyans right here that are rising pretty high. Paragus here is already up to 54,000 after training with me for a few weeks, and Okro isn't very far behind. I'm pretty sure that they'll surpass Leek soon, if Leek slacks on his training."

King Vegeta was livid. It didn't take a dummy to know that he felt threatened. Pea seemed taken aback, but she wasn't nearly as angry as her mate. She placed another hand on his shoulder but he shrugged it off.

"Preposterous! There is no way that a middle-class could surpass me! And especially not a child!" King Vegeta shouted down at us. I took up from my kneeling position and looked at the king with bored eyes. I obviously wasn't getting to get him to like me at this point.

"Maybe if you weren't sitting on your ass all day and actually trained, you wouldn't have such a low power level. What was it again?" I sighed and tapped on the side of the scouter. "12,000? Wow. Even your Queen has a higher power level then you." I chuckled.

There was another political route I could make to get the Saiyans on my side, without sucking up to Vegeta.

My taunting sent him over the edge, apparently, because he reached out in my direction and a large ball of burning energy flew out of his hand in my direction. It was big enough to consume the entire group of us if we were that weak. I frowned at the aggressive move and shook my head.

I took a step in front of the group in an instant, and simply put my hand out in front of me. When the ball of fiery energy hit my palm, it flickered out of existence like a flame in the wind. The look on shock on King Vegeta's face was nothing compared to the gasp of shock that I heard from those behind me.

"You would dare try to assault me and my squad?"

I expanded my aura forwards and towards the king, and although I suppressed my Power Level to about 1 million, I knew it would be more than enough to get my point across. Vegeta froze on the spot, his arm still extended. His eyes were wide in horror as he felt the blunt end of my power directly on him.

I considered killing him right there and then, but I had to stop myself. No, it would be enough to humiliate him in front of his guards. I had to play it political if I wanted to do this right. The guards would be shocked that their 'all powerful King' was defeated so easily by me, and at least one of them would tell someone. But that wouldn't be enough. The Saiyans were used to being dominated by Frost Demons, because of Frieza… I had to try something else to break the Saiyans trust in the King.

"Since you seem to doubt what I'm saying, how about I offer you a way to disprove my claims?" I suggested seriously, still holding Vegeta in the same spot. Pea looked extremely worried, but she didn't dare to speak out against me.

"Paragus, Okro and another Saiyan in our squad are personally trained by me. They all have exceptional power levels that will increase with more training. Since Vegeta seems to believe they aren't as strong as I say, I challenge him to a fight with one of them." I challenge him with a smile on my face. At the same time, I let my aura give out, and the King collapses onto his knees.

While he starts to regain his breath, I look at Pea's sweating and worried face, and I can see that she is calculating. She probably didn't know what I was planning planning, but she knew how devastating it would be if Vegeta was defeated by one of the others

"As Queen, I decline this proposal." Pea said quickly, as she helped to get King Vegeta to his feet.

"Oh, is the King afraid of losing?" I taunted with a raised eyebrow. "Surely the King of the Saiyans should be able to handle one Saiyan warrior? Or perhaps he'd prefer it if he had two back up Saiyans fighting along with him?"

Pea was starting to get frustrated and opened her mouth to reply again, but King Vegeta growled and brushed her helping hand away from his arm. She stayed silent and let him get up on his own. As soon as he was back on his feet, the fury in his eyes spoke volumes.

"I accept your proposal. But I will be fighting alone." King Vegeta growled in response, much to my delight. Pea's face morphed into panic for a moment.

"But my Kin-"

"BE SILENT!" He roared in fury, instantly silencing her. "A true Saiyan never backs down from a challenge! I will beat his warriors with ease!"

This was going so well! I thanked myself again for investing in intelligence. Vegeta's massive ego helped a little bit too…

King Vegeta scowled at us before he walked out of the room, done with the conversation. Pea was left standing near her throne, an uncertain look on her face. I smiled at her and mockingly bowed.

"One more question, before I leave." I said in delight. "What status will Leek go by?"

Pea's face went red but she contained her anger quicker then it came. The glare she gave me was turned down towards Leek, who was behind me. A small smile slid onto her face, despite her anger.

"His status will be undetermined until after King Vegeta fights one of your warriors.." Pea told me as she collected herself. "We still have to determine if your Power Level reader actually works, right?"

Huh, so she's petty.

"I guess that you're right." I said with a smile, before I turned away from her and to the shell-shocked faces of my group. "Now if there's nothing else, we'll be going."

The entire palace seemed deadly silent as we made our exit. When we finally got out of the castle and started to fly through the air back to my ship, someone finally spoke up.

"I'll fight him." Okro said with determination in his voice. I shrugged my shoulders and sighed. I guess I could grant him that request. "That was a bold move that you just made. But it did prove your points."

It sure did.

"What will you do in the time leading up to our next mission? Do you plan on training us more?" Paragus asked, finally speaking up and breaking out of his trance.

"We'll get back to training eventually, but for now, I have an idea." I said with a grin. "We have a war to end."


I hope you all enjoy the chapter. It wasn't action heavy, but it did show some of what Sub has planned. And also what's going on with Frieza and such. Before they even show up, I'm just letting you know that this 'elite squadron', is the Ginyu Force of this era. How strong or weak they'll be, you'll have to see soon.

Lemme know if you liked the chapter and the first encounter with a Canon character haha. What do you think that Sub is trying to do by having King Vegeta fight with Okro?

Until next time