Without further ado:

Chapter 10:Evil is Objective

~With Our Earthly Heros~

Gohan looked around, using the Dragonball detector as a reference in which direction he needed to go. It seemed it was taking him in the direction he'd felt Vegeta and later some of Frieza's men. He swallowed nervously as he approached a smoldering village.

He gasped at the sight, his eyes filling with tears as he looked at the bodies of numerous Namekians. "What happened here?"Thinking back when Vegeta had been at the village he hadn't sensed all this death, could it be that Vegeta led Frieza's men to the town where they'd killed all of them in the hope of obtaining another dragon ball?

He landed within the wreckage, his eyes wide as he looked around. He was just a boy, and yet some much death and destruction had happened before his eyes. He shouldn't be here; he shouldn't have to go through all this and worry about whether or not he would die.

What bothered him the most was he'd been powerless all the way until this point. There was always someone to protect him and in some cases pure luck.

But this, it broke his heart. How could someone do this? How could they so viciously kill innocent people?

They had to be heartless, that's all he could think of to explain this unnecessary taking of life.

Shutting his eyes, he couldn't bring himself to fight the tears overwhelming his sight. Anger and sadness swirled in his chest. They hadn't needed to die, no one did.

Swallowing his anger and pushing down the sadness Gohan began laying the namekians to rest. They deserved that much. Maybe then they could find the peace they hadn't received in life.

It would be hours later that he would continue his search for the dragon ball.

~With Our "Anti-Hero"~

Vegeta laughed to himself. Before him sat five dragon balls innocently gleaming in the sunlight. "Well, well, sometimes I even impress myself. With the one I hide in the lake that makes six," he laughed again. His wish was just within reach he just needed to find the last ball.

Gathering the five balls, he places them in between a fork in the land formation so as they would be harder to spot from above. Even so, their bright colors against the bluegrass would be easy enough for almost anyone to stop, this left him in a predicament.

Sitting down he began to think and formulate some plan.

None of Frieza's men had a scouter nor could they sense power levels meaning it would be easy enough to go and grab the one he'd hidden. Then again Zarbon and the others would be put on the lookout and be searching the planet not only for him but for the balls. Even if he got the one, he'd hidden, going and searching for the seventh would leave the rest unguarded.

He growled lowly.

Suddenly he felt a power surge headed his way. It was significantly large and made him stiffen. Could it be Zarbon? How'd he find him so quickly?

Focusing on the power his eyes widened, although powerful it wasn't as intense or as powerful as Zarbon's.

He waited for the person to get closer to get a look at the possible theft.

His onyx eyes widened before narrowing. It was the bold human, and they really had made it to planet Namek. And it seemed this one had a dragon ball.

He quickly flew after the human; Krillin. It seems luck was on his side; he would soon have all seven dragon balls.

It seems the human had also been looking to collect the dragon balls too bad for the human because he would be making his wish soon enough.

In the midst of tailing the seemingly oblivious human, Zarbon had found him and was now tailing Vegeta.

'Let him follow me; I'll take care of him just like I'll be taking care of the human. He probably thinks he can beat me because of our last fight, but little does he know that defeating a sayian only makes them stronger!'

Following the humans lead, Vegeta landed only a few feet away from him and another human. This human was taller though with blue hair and eyes and a curvy figure making him believe this human was female.

"Seems the surprises keep coming," a smirk grew on his face. "Looks like I found a couple of earthlings far from home and no one to save them," he laughed watching them tremble in fear. He had come accustomed to being the sadistic prince, people feared him and gave in to his demands when there was a threat of death hanging over their heads. "And look there you have just what I need so hand over the dragon ball! Don't do anything stupid now or it'll be your heads,"

They trembled unable to speak it seemed. He could practically taste their fear.

"And I wouldn't think about escaping with it either, because if you try anything like that the girl will suffer," he snickered but inside he cringed at the tears the woman began to shed. He wasn't going to kill them; he just had to act the part. "Now hand it over,"

Turning he watched Zarbon land while leering at him. He had to resist the urge to roll his eyes. The mint colored alien just couldn't resist showing off as was the case now as he did several flips before landing on top a rock.

"Looks like we have company,"

Behind him, he heard the woman sigh blissfully. "Wow!~ He's cute, I bet he's here to save me~," this time he did roll his eyes.

As expected it didn't take the alien long to speak, Zarbon did like to hear himself talk after all. "Vegeta did you think you could get away? Another dragon ball how nice of you to track it down for me," and he kept going. "Don't tell me you've joined forces with them? Come now Vegeta I thought you had more pride than that,"

"YooHoo!~ Thanks for coming to rescue me~" the woman kept babbling in the background making Vegeta snicker to himself.

"I'm not so much concerned with those two as I am about the other dragon balls. You can tell me or tell Frieza; it's up to you," he grinned

"Just try and make me talk,"

"With pleasure,"

Vegeta rolled his eyes as Zarbon got ready to charge him. "Come now, on with your little transformation. You don't think you can defeat me in that form, do you? Transform into that hideous beast, and then we'll fight."

"No one insults me like that," Zarbon growled. "For someone that looks like you, you have no right to call me hideous. I'd kill you where you stand if it wasn't for that fact that Frieza wants me to bring you back alive,"

"Yeah-yeah, get on with it ugly, I don't have all day,"

Zarbon seemed not to take him seriously as they began fighting. It took them all the way up into the sky, both easily dodging the other's attack. Vegeta wanted a fight, and Zarbon was going to give him that fight.

Out of the corner of his eye, the humans looked to be trying to escape. He fired a ki blast at them while dodging Zarbon's foot. That stopped them.

Back and forth they went, both seeming to toy with the other. Or that was Vegeta's observation.

"Your powers pathetic," Vegeta teased as he began to hover. "What a waste of my time,"

The alien growled, his eyebrow going so far as to twitch in his anger. And as before Zarbon's chest expanded and his muscles bulged under his skin. His perfect skin wrinkled to make scales, nails lengthen and his face twisted into that of his beast-self. He indeed looked that of a monster in this form.

From behind the woman cried out in horror.

And thus began a fight to the death.

But down below a trembling Bulma looked to the sky with her bright blue eyes. "Oh Goku where are you when I need you," She didn't want to die, not yet anyways she had so much left to do.

They seemed to be evenly matched. Or that's how it appeared.

When they finally came to a stop in front of the humans, both were surprised to see Zarbon was barely able to stand. His uniform had been ripped to pieces, and the armor had been shattered in several places.

"Face it Zarbon; I'm a lot stronger than you. Now would be a good time to start begging for your life," this was one of the few times Vegeta felt the killing of someone would be justified. Zarbon deserved to die just as much as Dodoria did. Once he finished with the henchmen, he would take his revenge out on Frieza.

Zarbon quietly laughed even though he looked as if he could barely stand.

"Your mistake is that you've underestimated the saiyans, unlike others that grow weaker we grow stronger," he laughed at seeing the fear in Zarbon grow. "You can break our bones, make us bleed, bring us to the brink of death but that only makes us stronger!"

"I don't care how strong you think you are you'll never defeat me!" Zarbon growled out in his gruff voice.

They raced at one another, punching and kicking at vital organs. Their fist was blurred to the two human onlookers, but in the end, Vegeta won. His fist broke through Zarbon's armor and then the skin causing violet blood to pore from the massive wound.

With his fist still in his body, Zarbon begged for his life. "Vegeta, please don't kill me. I was only following orders,"

"Sounds as if you're begging for your life after all," Vegeta smirked.

"Spare me, and we will be a team!" Vegeta's eyebrow twitched as he began to gather energy in his hand. "Together we can defeat Frieza,"

"I don't think so," with that he let lose his ki which tore through the body of his victim as if he were paper. With Zarbon's lifeless body landing in a lake the fight was finally over with Vegeta being the victor.

'I will be the one to kill Frieza, no one else,' he thought to himself before turning to the two humans. The man stood in front of the woman trying to shield her as she cried heavily. It seems she wasn't a fight. He momentarily regretted fighting in front of them for it had brought the innocent woman great pain. But what's done is done.

"Now that that's taken care of let's get back to business,"

~With Our Earthly Heros~

Flying back to where his group had set up camp. Gohan felt the presence of Vegeta's ki, not wanting conflict with the older and more powerful saiyan. He chose to hide on one of the islands in the hope he would just fly away.

He was trying his best to hide his power, but he just couldn't stop thinking about that village and that it was most likely Vegeta who had killed all of them. 'Come on, calm down,' he urged silently within his hiding place.

Feeling Vegeta's ki above him caused his body to tremble fearfully. He'd gotten so powerful in such a short amount of time, would his dad be able to save them from him and Frieza? Of course, but that thought did little to calm his growing fear of death. He wasn't ready to die.

'Please go away,' his heart hammered against his ribs, pounding loudly within his own ears that he fears Vegeta would hear it too.

"I know you're there so come out. Otherwise, I'll start shooting at everything in sight until I find you," Vegeta called out.

Gohan groaned as he looked at the dragon ball in his hand.

"Come out! This is your last chance,"

'I'm going to have to show myself,' he thought while worrying his bottom lip but he couldn't fight Vegeta and win, that'd be suicide. What was he to do?

All the sudden his energy began to grow. 'Oh no, he'll kill me with that kind of attack,'

"Wait!"Setting the ball down he swallowed his fear. 'Hopefully, it's safe here,'

The energy vanished.

Crawling up the rock Gohna got his first good look at Vegeta since arriving on Namek. "Stop, here I am,"

"The son of Kakarot, I should have known it was you. So we meet again," He landed only three feet away, and the power he radiated made Gohan shiver with a mixture of fear and anger. "I just meet with your friends, and I suspected you would be close by,"

His eyes widen. 'What did he do to them?' And then he stopped something else tucked away into his side. "It's a dragon ball! Where'd you get that from?!"

Vegeta laughed. "It was a gift from the bald one and the woman,"

"You better not of hurt them you monster!" he yelled angrily clenching his fists, his eyes filling with tears.

"I didn't touch them," he froze, his mouth ajar as he stared. "Because I now have all the dragon balls I was, as you say; merciful,"

'He thinks he has all of them,'

"What's that in your hand?" Vegeta leaned closer causing Gohan to jump back and hold the radar close to his chest.

"It's a watch?"

Vegeta snorted. "Really? With all the technological advances your race has created, you're trying to tell me that's a watch?"

"Y-yes! It's an antique!" Gohan cried quickly.

"Oh well, boy tell me is your father on this planet?"

"N-no, I don't know w-where my daddy is,"

Vegeta gave a sad sort of huff before raising his hand to Gohan's head. Gohan flinched as the large male gently patted his head. "That's horrible,"

When Vegeta did nothing, Gohan opened his eyes to look into Vegeta's that looked down at him sadly. "That's too bad you know because we are the last of our proud saiyan race. We should look out for one another,"

Gohan just looked up at him in awe.

"So I'll give you some advice, stay out of my way and be careful not to die," With that Vegeta left leaving Gohan frozen in place. This was a new side of Vegeta that he had never before seen or even thought existed. When he'd touched his head, it was so gentle, and he had smiled so kindly. Even his last words had been soft, in a way anyways.

Could it be that Vegeta wasn't all that evil?