-Here I am, once again updating this story!-

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Hey everyone; I bet all of you are wondering what's going to happen to Bra and Pan now that Ginyu tricked Vegeta. Well that is going to be answered right here in chapter ten!

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Trip through Time

Chapter Ten:

Bra vs. Vegeta

Oh man, this is not good… Bra didn't know what to do; one minute she and her father were talking, the next the Ginyu Force attacked them, and tricked her father into thinking she wore a tracker to attack him. Now she was standing in the now collapsed hall leading to the Saiyan's wing of the base, facing down her ten year old father, and he had every intention of killing her. She couldn't run away or he would contact Nappa and Raditz and tell them to attack Pan, who had gone with them to bring Nappa to Dr. Tori. The only thing she could do was hold him off until he wore himself out; if that didn't work she would have to find an opening to knock him out. Any ki blasts she used would have to be toned down; any at her top power would easily kill him. Right now it was just a stare down between her and her father, most likely if she didn't make a move soon he would attack first.

Which is what she did; she dug her boot into the rubble she was standing on and lunged at him, prepared to make her first move a shot at his stomach. But he saw through her and jumped into the air and delivered a punch right on the top of her head. Ignoring the pain shooting through her head and the blackness that blotted her vision she managed to block his next attack to her chest and got a kick in to his side, sending in into the wall next to them. Not wanting to take advantage of her opponent, especially since this was a weaker version of her father she waited for him to pull himself out. When he did get himself out of the rubble he was clutching the side she had hit, "Look will you please let me explain?" Bra asked hoping she could stop anymore of the fighting.

"I told you to shut up!" Vegeta snapped aiming a punch at her jaw; she caught his fist before it made contact and held it firm.

"You're making a big mistake!" Bra said.

"The only mistake I made was allowing you and your partner into my group" Vegeta said managing to punch her with his other hand; she flew into the rubble and winced as she landed on sharp pieces of metal.

Ugh, there's just no reasoning with him…he won't stop fighting until he beats me…I know my dad…he would never kill a female much less a kid…I mean he's a kid right now right? she thought picking herself off the floor to face her father once again. She could feel his energy rise and readied herself for whatever he was coming at her with next, then he vanished from her sight. He's moving fast, where did he go… in mid thought pain shot through her back as her father rammed his elbow into her back; before she could turn to return his attack he appeared in front of her and landed a punch to her stomach, just as she went flying he hammered her sending her right into the floor making a hole. Bra dug herself out and looked through the hole she had made falling into the floor; either her father was going to come down after her, or he would wait to see if she'd come out on her own, then attack the moment he poked her head out.

This can't go on; he's better then I thought, looks like I've miss judged how powerful he was at this age. Okay no more playing it easy for him, I have to stop this soon before something really bad happens Bra braced herself and flew out of the hole; just as she did ki rained down from where her father hovered in the air, she dodged everyone of his blasts and shot up head butting him in the stomach, then delivered a round house kick in the same spot sending him into the floor. He was covered by the debris; but she knew she hadn't hit him hard enough to hurt him, he could attack if he wanted to and she was going know where near that spot unless she was sure he wasn't playing possum. Just as she suspected he shot out of the rubble and sent a blast at her.

"Koruse!" She screamed using one of her defense spells making a horizontal wave with her hand, red energy came forth from her hand as she waved it and widened into a shied. His blast bounce off the shied and shot back right at him, the blast scraped his arm but didn't damage him.

"You are quite talented in Saiyan Spell Casting" Vegeta said ignoring his bleeding arm, "To use that you are defiantly of Saiyan blood, which further dishonors you for taking the side of an enemy of our race" he said.

"How many times do I have to tell you Ginyu is lying to you!" Bra yelled still hoping to sink the truth into her fathers head.

"That's enough talk!" Vegeta charged at her.

That's it! This ends here!

That moment went in slow motion as she charged right back at him; surprised at her sudden attack he went to punch, Bra sped up and appeared in back of him. Before he could even turn around to defend himself she landed a blow to the back of his head hard enough to send him crashing into the floor…he was knocked out. Bra floated down onto the floor and let out a breath; despite their difference in power her father managed to scuff her up quite a bit, she was actually sweating. Running over to him she took a look to see if she had hurt him bad; he had scraps and a few bleeding cuts from when she punched him into the floor, there were tears and rips all over his spandex suit and more then a few holes in his armor from her fist going through it. Aside from that he had dirt all over him from continually being sent into the floor. He wasn't hurt badly to the point of death, but he would have one nasty headache when he woke up, that and he's be pretty sore for a while.

She really hadn't wanted to do that, she really didn't but even if he didn't kill her he would have done something he would regret. Despite all this she wasn't to proud of herself, she would always get upset when her father would come home all blood from a sparring match, and here she was doing something similar to that. Shaking her head she went to reach for her father's scouter that he carried in his armor; she could beat herself up later about this, meanwhile she had to contact Pan and carry her father to his room, she couldn't leave him on the floor like this.

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"Its good to see you back from your mission Nappa" Tori said removing his gloves from his hands "I must say you got pretty banged up, maybe you should think of training before your missions just to give yourself more of an edge?" Tori said putting his equipment away, Nappa smirked.

"Ah don't worry about me, I'd like to see anyone mess with me" Nappa said flexing his arms.

"Heh, looks like the people of that planet messed with you, and you got the scraps to prove it!" Raditz said snickering as he did.

"I'd like to have seen you do any better" Nappa said putting his armor back on.

"Forget it, ever since Vegeta damaged that planet on our last mission three weeks ago we haven't gotten one. We did lose a lot of payment because of it" Raditz said sounding annoyed, "He gets way to aggressive…"

"I'm sure you guys will get another mission soon" Pan said.

"Yes well when you do I'd advice Nappa to stay behind if it's anytime soon, His injuries aren't bad but not serious enough for the Healing Chamber" Tori said.

"I don't see why you don't just let him in there" Raditz said leaning on the wall.

"Because it takes a lot of healing materials for each use, do you know how hard it is to get those materials?" Tori asked.

"Yah, yah…" Raditz waved him off, Tori just sighed…kids these days. A beep coming from Raditz got everyone's attention; with a puzzled look on his face Raditz reached into his armor and pulled out his green scouter, putting it on he pressed the button to open the transmitter "Who is this?" he asked.

Raditz? It's Bra, listen sorry if I interrupted something but I need to talk to Pan. Bra said, her voice coming in clear through the transmitter.

"Oh sure, hey Pan, Bra wants to talk to you" Raditz said taking the scouter off and handing it to her.

Not sure how to really work the device she mimicked what she saw her uncle do "Hello? Bra what is it?" Pan said, wondering why she was her friend was calling, she hoped nothing was wrong.

Pan? Good listen, I can't really say anything over the scouter but look, I need you to get over here fast. I'll explain when you get here.

"Um…sure where are you?" Pan asked.

In my dad's room Bra said

"Okay I'll be there in a minute" Pan said clicking the scouter off "Sorry guys but Bra wants me to get back to the room" Pan said handing the scouter back to Raditz and heading to the door.

"What is something wrong?" Raditz asked

"Oh no, Bra just said that Vegeta found the huge mess I left in the room, she says he's having a fit" Pan lied, Raditz rolled his eyes.

"Jeez he is such a neat freak…"

"At least he cleans his room" Tori said glaring at the Saiyan teenager "Once when I went down to your room when you were running a high fever, that room of yours looked like a war was fought in it!" Tori scolded.

"Aw doc…" Raditz wined.

"I'll be going now, see you all back at the room" Pan said, her words went un heard by the now bickering doctor and Saiyan teen, Nappa however waved her off but didn't bother to look at her. Closing the door she walked to the elevator Jeez, Nappa is real friendly… she thought as she got into the elevator and pressed the button to sub level two.

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Bra picked up her unconscious father; she wrapped his arm around her neck and began walking to the Saiyan's wing of the base, for her being only five and carrying a boy of ten years old, he was rather light and easy to get to his room. She didn't return the scouter, when he woke up he would naturally call Nappa and Raditz and then she and Pan would be caught more early. Hopefully her father would not wake up until she and Pan left. I hope Pan doesn't get the wrong idea when she gets here, the hallway looks like a bomb hit it… aside from that she had to figure out what she was going to do from here; the hall way was a mess, her father would defiantly attack her if he woke up before Pan got back, and how was she ever going to get her father to let her explain that this was all a misunderstanding?

Everything had completely fallen apart in the worst possible way at the worst possible time. She couldn't very well leave this time zone; the Time Machine didn't have enough power yet, and she didn't feel right leaving and having her ten year old father think that she had betrayed him, even if he wouldn't meet her until he was with her mother and she was born, it just didn't sit right with her. She got to the door of his room and opened it; careful not to wake him she placed him on his bed, then she sat down on a near by chair to wait for Pan, and to think of a plan of what to do next…

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The elevator finally got to her floor and Pan stepped out; she was quickly alerted to something wrong, she saw the stair way was blocked off by collapsed wall, as if something had been thrown forcibly into it. Fearing the worst she ran to the door leading to the Saiyan's wing, and found the door completely blown apart along with half the hallway in front of it. Melted metal and concrete littered and blocked the way; digging her way through and more worried for her friend and her father more then ever she ran the rest of the way to Vegeta's room, jumping over a rather large hole in the floor she got to Vegeta's room and opened the door. There she found a rather ragged out Bra sitting in a chair, and an even further ragged out Vegeta sleeping on his bed. "Bra what happened? Did someone attack you? Is Vegeta okay? Are you okay? We better get you both to Tori's office" Pan said all in one breath. The raven haired quarter Saiyan didn't get a response from her friend, who continued to stare at the floor, her bangs hiding her eyes from view.

"Ginyu…" Bra whispered.

"What?" Pan asked not able to hear her friend's voice.

"Its all Ginyu's fault" Bra looked up at her friend, a forlorn look dulled her normally shining blue eyes.

"Bra…what in the world happened?" Pan was really starting to worry; Bra never gave anyone such a sad look unless she was really upset. Before she could answer Vegeta began to stir, he was waking up!

"Pan come on! We can't be here when he wakes up!" Bra said whispering rather fast and grabbed Pan, dragging her out the door to the elevator.

"But why?" Pan asked looking back to the room.

"I'll explain when we get out of here, now come on!" with that she dragged Pan into the elevator and pressed the button for the Main Level.

Unknown to her in her haste to leave before he woke up; the chain keeping her locket around her neck broke…and fell on the floor of Vegeta's bed room…

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His head was killing him; on top of that his whole body felt sore, his muscles felt like they were made from rubber. Where was he? And what happened that he was in this condition? Opening his eyes he shut them quickly as the light made his eyes burn and his headache even worst; allowing the spinning in his head to clear he opened his eyes again and blinked to clear the fog from his vision. He was in his room on his bed; he could tell that his armor was broken beyond repair and that there were more then a few rips in his suit, he could feel the stinging from the cuts all over him. Closing his eyes he tried to remember what had happened before now; Nappa had arrived back, he Raditz and that girl named Pan walked Nappa to Tori's office, he and that girl Bra were on their way to his room.

That was it! Now he remembered! He and Bra were walking to his room and the Ginyu Force attacked them!

Vegeta managed to pull himself up into a sitting position on his bed, leaning onto the wall. That Bra girl was wearing a tracker! She helped the Ginyu Force attack him; she was a spy for Freiza all along just as he thought. He had to call Nappa and Raditz; he reached into his armor and found nothing, that girl must have taken it to give her and her partner more time to get away. Damn it! Ignoring the pain and spinning in his head he got off the bed and walked out of the room heading to the elevator, he couldn't contact Raditz and Nappa by scouter so he would have to go to them. The images of those girls flashed through her mind; he was just starting to think that he could trust them, that unlike the others before them they weren't trying to get in his group just to get protection, or to try and get into the higher ups good books. They had tricked him; he should have never given them a chance when he met them, he should have walked off and left them to fend for themselves.

Getting into the elevator he pressed the button and leaned onto the wall; in a way he blamed only himself for what happened, he remembered when he first came to this place at five years of age. At the time he thought he was the only living Saiyan left, until Raditz and Nappa were brought into the room. Even with others of his own kind there were more experienced and powerful fighters who would more then often attack him…and he would either be force to fight or run. Fighting always lead to being severely injured, and being left even more defenseless then before. It was when he was attacked a month after coming that he found that Dr. Tori had survived, he had been reassigned to Freiza's ship. Since then Tori seemed to take it upon himself to become sort of like a guardian to him, scolding him for doing dangerous things, in fact Tori did that a lot to Raditz as well.

When he first met those two girls it reminded him of when he first came to this hell hole, and like himself their planet had been destroyed along with any relatives they had. He knew better then most how this place could be, he was often targeted for attack in the past due to being the youngest fighter in Freiza's army. He was until those girls came along; living in this place was a constant fight to live, you had to fight to keep your right to live. Fight or die, the weak die and the strong survive in this place, that was silent law around here. Strong prayed upon the weak and the weak either got stronger or died within a week's time or less. And those girls being Saiyan's, he just couldn't bring himself to just leave them…and this is were his sympathy got him…again. He cursed himself for ever getting the impression of the blue haired girl reminding him of Yasai, he felt like he had dishonored her memory by ever thinking that that traitor acted like her.

The elevator stopped and he got off; oddly enough the Medical Wing was empty and quite, as he walked down the hall to Tori's hall he began to plan what should be done about those two girls. Getting to the door he heard Raditz and Tori having another argument, he knocked on the door. "Who's there?" Tori's voice came from inside.

"It's me" Vegeta said.

"Vegeta? What are you doing here? Bra just asked Pan to come down to your room, something about her making a…" Tori stopped in mid sentence when he saw him "Vegeta what happened?" Tori said concerned, Raditz looked from his spot on the chair to see what Tori was talking about.

"Vegeta! You look like hell, who did this to you?" Raditz asked, Nappa looked a little shocked.

"It was those two girls" Vegeta said as he walked in, Tori went to get a pair of examination gloves.

"Pan and Bra? But they haven't done anything to make us think they were untrustworthy…"

"Until now…" Vegeta said as Tori began looking at his injuries.

"But Pan just left not too long ago, she said that you were angry about a mess she left in your room" Nappa said.

"There's more then a mess down there right now Nappa!" Vegeta said glaring at him "That girl Bra was wearing a tracker! She's been spying for Freiza all this time, the Ginyu Force attack me when we were on our way to my room" Vegeta explained wincing as Tori cleaned his wounds.

"Crap…are you sure?" Raditz asked, frankly he had started trusting those two girls a few days after he met them, Vegeta always told him that his trust would get him killed one of these days. He had started to even feel a kind of connection with the girl named Pan.

"I found the tracker on her cloths Raditz!" Vegeta snapped.

"Something doesn't feel right…" Raditz said, those girls just didn't seem like the type to back stab somebody…but then again he had only know them a few days…

"I agree…something doesn't seem right to me either about this" Tori said who was wrapping gauze around Vegeta's arm "I mean if she really wanted you dead why would she save you from Kiwi?" Tori asked.

"She set me up!"

"All I'm saying is you should really think about it…did you let her explain anything?" Tori asked; he knew Vegeta was a very distrusting person, and for all the right reasons. However there were some people who could be trusted and Tori felt that those two girls were some of them. Tori had seen many new teammates of Vegeta simply try to befriend him for protection from the higher ranks fighters, or try to attack and beat him to gain more power. Because of that Vegeta stopped allowing new people into his team and stuck around Nappa and Raditz and himself, which was why he was rather surprised when Vegeta came in followed by those two girls. Vegeta must have seen something in them to allow them into the group, perhaps he saw himself in those girls.

"I attacked her that's what I did!" Vegeta said.

"And when you were fighting her…did she deliberately try to hurt you?" Tori asked putting the gauze away.

"She did nothing but dodge! She put a few hits in, and she wouldn't shut up, the next thing I knew I was in my room with my head pounding" Vegeta said getting off the examination table.

"Now if she really was in league with Freiza and the Ginyu Force…wouldn't she kill you while you were knocked out? Instead of bring you to your room?" Tori asked looking the boy in the eye. Vegeta was at a loss for words; it would have made more sense for her to have killed him then, but still the suspension still floated in his mind, too many years of having do this kind of thing had taken their toll on him of ever really trusting anyone outside the small group that was gathered in the room.

"Hey Tori…Vegeta has a point I mean…she could be trying to trick us, I mean sure I just got back and just met them…but Vegeta is right how can we trust them?" Nappa said, like Vegeta he had seen many things that lead him to be un trusting himself, however Nappa was much older then Vegeta, there for Nappa had seen much worst then the ten year old prince. It was something that was helping to feed the fire; Tori hoped that one day Vegeta would get out of this nightmarish place some how, and if he ever did Vegeta could not live in suspension of everyone and everything around him. It was a small and near un seeable hope that Tori kept to himself, the young boy had become sort of like a son to him, he and Raditz. He knew he was playing a slightly dangerous game with trying to get Vegeta to trust anyone; there was always the risk of what Vegeta always looked out for, someone looking to kill him.

"Before we do anything, I would suggest that we find those two and get them to tell their side of the story!" Tori said "What is the point of getting rid of someone without them telling their side of the story?"

"But where are they?" Raditz asked.

"I was knocked out…I have no idea where they are" Vegeta said.

"I saw the girl named Bra walk with Vegeta back to the room, and you know that other girl came with me and Raditz down here" Nappa said.

"Find the girls and then we will figure out what to do from there" Tori said; the three nodded and headed out the door, the doctor didn't really know what to do…he just hoped that for Vegeta's sake that the girls had not actually tried to kill him.

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Bra sat on the rocky ledge of the hill; after leaving her fathers room they had run right out of the base, outside where the metal building that took up much of the medium sized planet could be seen at a distance. The planet actually looked more like a rather large asteroid as she looked out at the scenery; all she saw was rock, rock and more rock. No trees or grass or flowers were anywhere around were she sat or even further out in the distance; the ground was just dusty barren rock that no kind of plant life could not possible live, there was a rather light breeze blowing, making the dust from the ground whirl about. The atmosphere of the planet seemed similar to that of earth; the air was breathable so she nor Pan who sat next to her didn't need suits to breath. She could look up at the sky and see thousands of stars that looked close enough for her to touch, she could see a few colored dots among the darkness, likely other planets of this current system. Sadly there was no sun in sight, no moon either…that was probably a good thing since her father and his friend still had their tails…

Dad… she felt her stomach twist; she had told Pan everything of what happened, about Ginyu attacking and tricking her father, how she had to fight her own father in combat where his goal was to kill her. Despite the fact that her father didn't know who she really was, or that he had been tricked she couldn't help but feel terrible about what she had done, weather or not he would have killed her or not. She knew she hadn't hurt him badly but it was the fact that for the first time in her life she had been forced to fight for her life, and her opponent happened to be her father.

"Hey Bra?" Pan called; from the way the blue haired girl explained everything to her she felt she should leave her alone, after all Bra and her father in their real time zone were near inseparable, and even thought the Vegeta she had fought a few minutes ago wasn't the one she knew, it was easy to see that Bra was quite upset. Still they couldn't just sit here, "Bra? Hey what are we going to do?" she asked.

"I have no idea…" was the muffed reply.

"Well…we can't just sit here…"

"Well we sure and heck can't return to our own time period!" this time Bra sounded more upset "The Time Machine is out of power, it takes a pretty long time for it to power up for another trip! That won't be for at least three weeks!" Bra was nearing the yelling zone "We can't go back, we have no place to go, my father thinks I want him dead, and were stuck here for three weeks on a rock and its obvious that my father is going to come after us"

"Well we can't just sit…"

"Pan…could you just leave me alone for a while?" the blue haired girl said nothing more, she curled her legs up and layed her head on her knees and wrapped her arms around her legs. Not wanting to further upset her friend Pan decided she would try talking to her later…when she calmed down a bit.

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"No where…we looked everywhere and nothing…" Vegeta said walking into his bedroom and plopping down on his bed Raditz walked in after him.

"Yah…not only are girls hard to find…but their hard to keep track off!" Raditz joked; Vegeta threw him a look and laid down on his bed he let his right leg hang over the side, putting his arms behind his head he began to tick off the places they had looked and places they had yet to search for the two missing girls. Nappa felt that he should back track and search the areas over again, just to see if they might go in them.

We looked in the Drill Room…or what's left of the Drill Room, we looked in the Docking Bays, we snuck into the kitchen and they weren't there either…we looked on every floor of the base. Where are they? They couldn't have disappeared…

"Hey Vegeta?" Raditz called, thrown from his thoughts he looked over at the second class fighter who was looking at something in his hand.

"What?"

"Your mom's locket is on the floor here…" Raditz said, he held the silver locket in his hands.

"That's weird; I haven't taken it out today…" Vegeta said taking the locket, strange it looked older then normal…

"You really shouldn't be so careless with stuff like that…" Raditz lectured.

"Yah, yah…I wonder why it looks so worn thought" Vegeta said walking over to the drawer he kept it in.

"Well duh! You've had the thing since you were what? Two years old? I think it would have seen at least some wear and tear after eight years in your care!" Raditz joked looking over at the prince "Hey Vegeta what's wrong?" Raditz asked, Vegeta was just standing there looking into the drawer "Hey? Are you going to put it away or not?" Raditz said finally breaking Vegeta out of the trance he was in.

"It's already here…" Vegeta said.

"Yah, its in your hand. Now put it away so we can start looking for the girls again…"

"No I mean…" Vegeta turned around and held out both his hands…each holding identical silver lockets, one holding an older looking one, the other holding a locket that still looked quite new.

"What the hell?" Raditz said in a shocked voice; they both looked the same, same metal, same shape, they both had the Royal Family Crest in bordered with the Royal Family Coat of Arms. However the older looking one had a broken silver chain on it, the other just had a piece of thick string. "The last time I checked you only had one"

"I did have only one…" Vegeta said putting the locket he had just taken out back into the drawer, then turned to look at the one in his hand. "Where did it come from?" Vegeta asked himself out loud.

"Maybe it belongs to one of the girls? I mean your mom bought the thing right? Maybe their dads came to their planet on a visit and gave one of the girl's moms the locket?" Raditz guessed, I mean that could be the only thing right? Jewelry was a big think with Saiyan girls, there was no way that that could be the same locket.

"No impossible, my mom got this locket custom made. That means the locket was made special by my mother directions, this is a one of a kind locket" Vegeta explained.

"The how can there be two of them?" Raditz asked.

"I don't know" Vegeta said trying to open the locket, there were spots for pictures in the one he had, maybe this one had pictures that could answer all these questions.

Knock, knock

Both boys looked up to the door; Raditz curiously went over to the door while Vegeta stuck the locket in his armor, he got into a defense stance in case there was an enemy behind the door. Seeing Vegeta was ready for the worst he called to whoever was outside the door "Who is it?" Raditz asked.

"It's Nappa" came a voice…it didn't sound right…

There was no leaving the person out there, if they didn't open the door they would just barge right in and break the door right off the wall. Raditz nodded at Vegeta who returned it, bracing for whatever might happen Raditz opened the door. He was rammed right into the wall as something rocketed into the room right at Vegeta, then he felt something slam right into his stomach knocking the wind out of him. He doubled over wrapping his arms around his abused abdomen, coughing up blood he looked up to see who his attacker was, and saw Dadoria's wicked looking face looking down at him, a smirk present on his face. He looked over to find Vegeta pinned to the wall by Zarbon who had him by the neck. "Well, well Zarbon…looks like their little girl friends aren't here" Dadoria said looking over at the green haired fighter.

"Yes too bad…I was hoping to get a chance to fight them" Zarbon said not taking his eyes off his current victim "Well Vegeta, where are they?" Zarbon asked.

"Go.to.hell" was Vegeta's response; it got him set slamming into the floor with Zarbon's foot crashing down into his stomach, he screamed in pain before coughing up blood.

"Look we're trying to be nice here, you little brats have cause a lot of trouble as of late. Those two girls are in just as much trouble, if you tell us where they are Freiza might just cut off some of the punishment he has planned for you" Dadoria said.

"Forget it, we don't sell out our allies!" the out burst from Raditz had Dadoria landing a punch to his jaw, sending him flying into the wall. But the pink mutant didn't stop there; he walked over and picked him up by his hair and punched him in the stomach and landed another blow to his jaw, then allowed him to fall to the floor curled up in pain. His whole body was screaming in pain, he didn't think he could move much less stand up.

"Raditz!" Zarbon tightened his grip on Vegeta's neck to quite him; the prince could feel the blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.

"Come now, we can do this the easy way…or the painful way" Zarbon said tightening his grip further to where Vegeta could barley breath. Vegeta had to think of something fast before he and Raditz were beaten bloody; he had only one option and he had to use it quick.

"RADITZ! RUN! GO NOW GET OUT OF HERE!" Vegeta yelled as best he could with Zarbon practically choking him.

"WHAT! ARE YOU NUTS! I'M NOT LEAVING YOU HERE!" Raditz yelled back.

"LOOK, YOU HAVE TO GET HELP! FIND NAPPA AND LOOK FOR THE GIRLS!" Vegeta yelled; at the moment Raditz was the only one of them that wasn't being held in place, there was no way he could break free of Zarbon's grip. He had been in this position before and all it got him was Zarbon beating him further, and he needed to have as few injuries as possible. He knew what was going to happen when Raditz ran and got away, and he needed all the strength he could to endure what laid ahead until Raditz and Nappa got back with the girls.

"BUT VEGETA!"

"DAMN IT RADITZ! WHILE YOU CAN RUN!" Vegeta yelled; Zarbon, sick of hearing the boys yelling match sent his foot into the wall, crushing Vegeta's tail. Scream would not define the sound Vegeta made as he felt white hot fire burn from the spot Zarbon had his foot right up to where his spin connected with his skull. He felt his strength drain from him like a bleeding wound, he swore that Zarbon's blow must have broken at least one bone in his tail, he wouldn't be able to walk for hours even if no bones were broken. Through the fog of pain in his eyes he saw Raditz still on the floor with a look of horror on his face, "Raditz…Raditz go! It makes no…sense for both of us…to be caught!" he was starting to have more trouble breathing with Zarbon's grip on his throat, his lungs were starting to burn and he was feeling light headed.

"VEGETA YOU BETTER BE ALIVE WHEN I GET BACK!" Raditz yelled getting to his feet.

"FORGET ME JUST GO!" Vegeta screamed before Zarbon added more pressure onto his tail, Vegeta let out a strangled scream of agony. Ignoring his teammate's pain and remarkably dodging Dadoria's fist he ran out of the door. Raditz ran pushing the pain in his abdomen and everywhere else aside, he had to get help, he had to get Nappa and the girls if they were ever going to save Vegeta. He knew where Zarbon and Dadoria were going to take the prince, and the better he got the others the sooner they would be able to rescue him from it. He looked behind him and saw Dadoria hot on his trail; with everything he had he sped down the collapsed hallway and practically flew up the stairs.

He had to get away, he just had to.

Flying up to the main floor he ran down the hall; paying no mind to the other fighters walking down the halls as he shot passed them. He did a double take in a two way hall and sent Dadoria flying into the opposite hall, using this extra time he threw his energy into one last sprint and became a blur to those around him. Skidding into another hall that was empty he ran into an open door and closed it; he huddled in the corner and strained his ears for any sound outside. He hated hiding from an opponent, but there was no way he could take on Dadoria and come out of the fight alive. He stopped breathing as he heard footsteps outside the door, daring to look out of the small creak in the opening of the door he looked out. He saw Dadoria walk by looking for his prey. "Where did that brat go? Damn it I should have brought my scouter" he heard the pink mutant growl, "Damn it! Where is he?" Raditz heard a crash but remained quite. "No matter, we got Vegeta. Catch one and the rest come after him" Dadoria said and walked off. Raditz waited until he could here nothing in the hall before coming out.

He was shaking; he literally felt like water he could hardly stand without his legs shaking, despite what had just happened the rush with his almost apparent death left him feeling slightly giddy. He breathed in and then let it out, he had to calm down and find the others. He would start with the girls; they had checked for them everywhere…except outside the base, and right then Raditz wanted out of this place more then anything! His mind set on his goal he headed to the entrance hall as fast as he could…he had to find Pan and Bra, then he could go after Nappa…time was of the essence he had to hurry!

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Sorry for all the violence, but we all know this is the kind of thing Vegeta had to put up with almost everyday while living under Freiza.

Well quite a few of you were wondering about Bra's locket and there it is! I think this is possibly the longest chapter in the whole story…at the time anyway. Ugh my hands are KILLING me…