Kudo the Saiyan had to come from somewhere, right? I think this little chapter should reveal a few things:
-14 ¼ years ago-
The baby was on its own.
Drifting in a void of darkness that was dotted with specks of white light, that seemed distant and unreachable.
The only thing preventing it from drowning in the nothingness of the outside was a sheet of white metal, moulded into a ball, and a pane of thick, red-tinted glass.
Death would surely come for it. The ball had stopped moving on its own, it was no longer covered in the white light which made it move so fast and with such… purpose, and direction.
It was merely drifting now in a straight line.
The baby began to cry.
Where was his uncaring father? His fleetingly affectionate mother? Where was the bosom he had been comforted by for such a short time, before he had been put in this cramped little capsule and sent away?
The baby knew not the answers to these questions.
He just cried.
And cried.
"GET HIM!"
The shout came from further down the ship.
Kabij barely registered it.
He was already sprinting away at full pelt.
He didn't care about his 'Saiyan pride' at the moment, he just wanted to survive this one.
He had to get away.
From him.
For his son's sake.
In his heart, he had always known that Freeza was not all that he seemed to be. He had never been quite honest with the Saiyans.
He had always given them the toughest jobs and the dirtiest jobs, and they followed his orders with a mixture of fear... and oddly enough, gratitude.
Freeza had given them an opportunity, a chance for them to revel in their might and live without a care in the world, which was, on a basic level, what the average Saiyan wanted from life.
Recently, that had changed.
Freeza had begun to realise that the Saiyans were getting to be…
too powerful to be his subordinates (many liked to think that he even feared them),
and a considerable number of Saiyans harbored resentment for Freeza's constant dictatorship.
So, he had decided to get rid of them.
And get rid of them he would.
That's why Kabij was running.
He knew Freeza would slaughter every last one of them.
Like animals.
Kabij was one of the Saiyans who had accompanied their King, Vegeta, to Freeza's quarters so as to overthrow him and ensure the Saiyan race's independence from his rule.
Vegeta and the rest of his escort were killed a few seconds later, right in front his eyes.
Kabij was met in the corridors of Freeza's ship by squadrons of armed soldiers, who had their blasters raised at him.
He vaporized all of them in an instant.
He dashed through the smoke, smashed the airlock and flew away at full speed, towards the the planet Vegeta.
After a few minutes of high-speed travel, he arrived.
He landed with force on the roof of the local infirmary and crashed through it.
He fell into a corridor along with glass and rubble and broke into a run.
Why was he doing this? Shouldn't he be looking after himself right now? Trying to escape?
What was this little weakling worth to him?
He shook his head and ran on.
He collided with another Saiyan who was running in the other direction as he ran. He recognized him as Bardock, a well-known low-ranker who had become an elite due to many successful missions.
"Out of my way!"
The other Saiyan growled with anger and determination as he shoved Kabij aside.
Kabij normally would not have taken this sort of attitude lightly from another Saiyan, but time was not something he had at the moment.
He turned the corner into the baby ward and there he saw him.
His new-born son.
The child was technically motherless, as the overwhelming majority of Saiyan sexual interaction was casual and instinctive.
Kabij didn't even remember the girl's name.
All he knew was that this little weakling was his only relative, the only bearer of his blood.
He had to protect him.
He took the baby in his arms and ran out into the back of the hospital, where the baby pods were located.
They were for the weakest of new-borns, the ones not fit to become Saiyan warriors. They were sent away to other planets so that they would hopefully annihilate the population there and be retrieved later in life.
He would send his son away, somewhere where Freeza would never find him.
Kabij found an empty pod and almost threw his son in it in hurry.
There was no time to work out where he was sending him, so he quickly strapped him in and gave the co-ordinated destination panel a good slap.
The small pod began to beep and inside he could see robotic arms moving around inside to inject the baby with all sorts of cryogenic chemicals.
It began to hover a few inches off the ground, and then, suddenly, it blasted off into the air in a flash of white light.
Kabij just realised that his son didn't have a name yet.
And then it came to him.
"Goodbye, Eleryc, my son." he said as a small smile came to his face.
"I hope we meet again someday."
And as he watched the tiny pod become a mere sparkle in the thick red sky,
the ground below him began to crumble in a trickle of orange light.
The baby stopped crying.
It had cried for at least an hour, but it was tired; no-one was there to help it.
No one could hear him.
No one cared.
And just as the tears in his eyes began to dry up, they began to glow.
They had been struck by rays of green light which had soon illuminated the pod in its entirety.
In front of it was a bright green halo of energy, seemingly hovering in space.
Its center was darker than the void that surrounded it, and through it no stars could be seen.
As the pod approached, it began to speed up, as though being pulled towards it.
The light and the sudden speed frightened the child, who whimpered in fear.
The green energy quickly became a blaze of blinding light, the closer the pod came to it.
Suddenly, acceleration stopped.
As did the light.
This void seemed... different.
For the world on the other side of the ring was a world of its own.
The specks of light that were stars were now far smaller in number, and through the glass pane,
a small blue-and-green sphere covered in wispy white streaks could be seen in the distance.
And the baby's pod was moving closer and closer to it.
*gasps*. Lol jk, anyway I hope you liked that little special chapter, (DBZ crossover's gotta relate to the DBZ universe at some point, amirite?)
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