Chapter 10: X

I love how this story is unfolding, and I have no idea where it's going yet! I find that I have trouble giving chapters names because the chapters seem to have more depth and events that take place, so if I use roman numerals, for example Chapter 10: X, it's because I didn't know what to call it. After you read this chapter, post reviews, and also, possible names for this chapter, because I'm clueless on this one. I hope you're all enjoying it. Please review, I need to hear (Read in this case) those opinions, thoughts and feelings about the story so far. You guys rock, thanks!

The skies were gray. People would become gloomy, or feel eerie, just by looking at it. The dark rocks, yellowish grasses, and distant rock formations were now visible. This place truly held more secrets than originally thought. The landscape had changed as a result of the explosion. Sand and rock had been thrown in every direction. Lying down, with sand all over him, was Raditz. His armor was destroyed, leaving only his trunks, half of his torso armor, and cracks in his wrist bands and boots. He was breathing heavily.

A little further from him was the group consisting of Piccolo, Goten, Trunks, Vegeta, Goku, and Gohan. The thoughts ran through Gohan's mind, but he spoke them as he cried. "Why? Why did this happen!" He yelled. He burried his head into his arms and fell onto his stomach. "Damn!" He yelled.

"Gohan," Said Goku. Goku knelt down next to Gohan. "I'm sorry Gohan. For everything. You didn't have to come out here with me." Goku sat criss cross next to him and patted him on the back. "We'll get her back, Gohan."

Gohan slowly lifted his head and looked over to his father. "Father, you mean it?" He said through his tears.

Goku nodded his head. "Yes. And, I have to apologize about something else." Gohan then fought to get into a sitting position. "Goten," Said Goku, "Come here."

Goten nodded, "Okay... daddy." Goten walked over slowly to his bruised father. Once he reached him, Goku took him into his arm.

"Listen you two," He said, "I've been very tense lately. Something has been bothering me for weeks, and... I believe it is the same thing that Bardock was feeling. I also think that it has something to do with Raditz being alive." Goten scratched his head, and Gohan sighed. "Raditz is your Uncle, Gohan. And Goten, you too." Goku looked to Gohan and saw him with his head down, "Listen, I don't know if he's going to join us, or become our enemy once again. But Gohan, I think now would be the time to forgive him."

Gohan looked up with widened eyes. "Forgive him?"

Goku nodded, "He just saved your life, son."

Gohan looked around, "Are you sure?" He said, "You mean, it wasn't Piccolo, or Vegeta?"

Piccolo nodded, "It was Raditz." He said. "He jumped in front of the blast to save you. He survived, but just barely."

"Maybe this will pay off your beef with him." Said Vegeta, "Back then, he was an arrogant prick who was always trying to get on people's nerves. Today... he still is an arrogant prick, but he went ahead and sacrificed everything for you."

Gohan sat in thought for a moment, then Goku spoke again. "And besides, thanks to him, we can go and save Videl."

"Me?" Said Gohan.

"She is YOUR mate, is she not?" Said Vegeta with a sarcastic tone.

"Well that's true." Said Gohan. "I still can't believe she's gone." Gohan brought his hands to his face again.

"Big brother?" Said Goten, walking over to his brother.

Gohan looked up, "What, Goten?"

"We'll find her." Said Goten. "We'll find her, I know we will." Goten smiled. "If it makes my big brother happy, then I know we'll find her!"

Gohan smiled and embraced Goten in a hug. "Thank you Goten, I'm sure we will too." Gohan struggled to get up to his feet. Goku and Goten helped him up. "I just hope they aren't too far away.

"Where... where am I?" Videl awoke in a strange room. She couldn't see anything. The only light came from a small opening. Otherwise, the room was completely dark. "Ughh..." She got up on her hands and knees and crawled over to the opening, feeling around for any objects she may run into. She was lucky, not one chair, table, or metal post of some kind. She peeked through the opening. She saw one of the soldiers that kidnapped her, then the other one walked into the room.

"So... is she still alive?" Said a voice from the right side of the room.

"Yes General Chaz, she is still alive." Replied a soldier.

"Excellent. Our lord will be very pleased with her... a Sayian as a sacrifice. It will give him even greater power than he has now. Not that he needs it or anything." General Chaz walked back in fourth in front of Videl's eyes. The opening in the wall was actually part of a door. And then she realized that she was inside of a cell. "Listen, you two keep an eye on her until we get to Planet Arpalei. I'm pretty sure that our lord will be as pleased as I am." With that, General Chaz exited the room, leaving the guards in the room.

"Oh, Kami no." She said to herself. "They've taken me away. I must be in outer space." Videl crawled back over to the other side of the room and curled up into a ball. "Oh Gohan, please rescue me."

"Ah... there we go... papers." Bardock knelt on the ground, going through the items of a soldier he had attacked. "Hmmm... well, this is no good." He said, "The only thing on this paper is a... recipe for... Ramen Noodles with cuts of Steak mixed in?" Bardock then looked around, "Hmmm... Sounds nasty, but if I know Kakarot by now, I know he'll eat something like that." He then stuffed it into his pocket and grabbed another item. "A slinky?" He said to himself, "Wow... this army stuff must be very boring..." He kept the slinky, "Goten will like this." He said. "Ah... here we go." The paper he held at this point contained graphs, charts, and various locations of other soliders.

"Alright, Ranza might be able to figure this one out." Bardock folded up the document and put it in his pocket. "Alright, back to the cave I go." Bardock then flew off in the direction of the cave. "Hmm..." He said, "I wonder why nothing big has happened yet." The ground then began to shake. Bardock stopped. "Earthquake?" He said. Suddenly, molten rock shot up in front of his face in a towering wall. "Gragh! What the?"

The wall of lava was high, and very wide. Bardock couldn't waste any time. He powered up and shot himself up high in the air so he could fly over this huge wall of hot liquid. Once over the wall of lava, he rushed toward the cave. After a few minutes, the cave was in sight. "Ah, there it is haha." Bardock flew faster toward the cave.

At the cave, Ranza had awoken and walked out of the cave. He stretched his arms, and moved his hair out of his face. "Wow, I slept well." He looked around, "Bardock? You there?" He looked to the south, where he saw Bardock approaching. "Hey Bardock!"

Bardock saw and heard him, and he waved. He slowed himself to a halt just in front of the entrance to the high elevated cave's entrance. "Hey, I found some of those guys and took them out. I found some pretty interesting stuff." He pulled the slinky out of his pocket.

"Wow, a slinky?" Ranza said, "Those guys must have been bored." Bardock nodded, then pulled out the recipe and handed it to Ranza. "Wow, I love steak, and I love Ramen noodles, but why the hell would someone mix them?"

"His mate was probably pregnant?" Said Bardock. Ranza began to laugh out loud. "I did find something of possible value." Said Bardock, as Ranza stopped laughing. He pulled out the document and handed it to Ranza.

"What the?" Said Ranza with excitement. "This is..." Bardock looked at him and smirked, he knew now that the document was useful. Ranza once again spoke. "This has information on it that could help us. User-names, Passwords, charts. And... what's this." He pulled something off of the document and held it up to the sun light. "Ah..." He said, "It's a computer chip."

"Okay." Said Bardock, "So... where are we going to find a computer?"

"I've got one..." He said, reaching into his pocket. He pulled out a scouter, "This was originally meant to be used if the helmet was somehow damaged. And the helmet never had a computer slot on it." He pressed a button on the scouter, opening up a slot on the side. He then slipped the chip into the slot and put on the scouter. "And I'll just press this..." He pressed a button, and information started to be analyzed. "Um... this could take a while."

Bardock sighed, "Well... I say we leave this cave. It's only a matter of time before they find us here. Plus, I believe that we would have a lot of problems being trapped inside of a cave against an army."

"Agreed." Said Ranza.

"Alright, then we'll leave." Bardock then took off, heading south. Ranza nodded and followed him. The two flew through the air at high speed. Bardock then caught sight of the wall of lava. It wasn't as high anymore, but was still very hot. "I remember you," He said, talking to the lava as if it was a living being. "YOu shot up right in front of me, almost burning my face.

The scouter than began to beep. "Hold on." Said Ranza, pressing a button. This brought up a screen that displayed some of the chip's info. "Oh lord." he said, "It reacted to the lava." He looked at the lava wall. "It says that lava occasionally shoots up out of the ground, but not very wide, or high. It's not common for them to last for long periods of time." He scanned the ground below. "If in an icy region, the ice isn't supposed to melt, and the ice down there is melting."

Bardock looked down. "What else does it say, it must have something to do with the army here on this planet."

"Well, it's definitely an unnatural occurrence. Something they did must have triggered it." The lava then stopped shooting out of the ground and fell back into it. Bardock and Ranza both peered into the deep cavern left by the lava. "Wow... that's deep." Said Ranza.

Bardock nodded. He then looked to both of his sides as if he were looking for an opponent during battle. "Uh oh, someone's here."

"Huh?" Said Ranza.

"Shhh..." Said Bardock. The ground lightly trembled, then out of no where, soldiers broke through the ice in the ground and on the walls of the mountains and flew toward Bardock and Ranza.

Ranza looked around in fear, Damn it, they found us. And they know that I'm rebelling. He became nervous, but tried to hide it.

"Well well well," Said one of the soldiers, "If it isn't Ranza. I always knew you were trouble, but really, abandoning us on such an important operation? Come on kid."

"Why do you care?" Replied Ranza, "I wasn't much help to you anyway." Ranza took a quick look around, "You guys are elites? The black armor prooves it."

"Hmrph. You remember well." Said the soldier. "You haven't seen elite armor since..." The soldier stopped and closed his eyes. "Well... we won't go there."

"I remember, you were there." Said Ranza. "You guys are sick. Murderers are what you are." He clenched his fists and raised his voice. "I'll take my revenge for what you and your men did to me!"

"Calm down my friend, you'll blow a gasket." The soldier said with a smirk, "You want revenge, then you'll be quite happy to know that a certain someone is on his way here from Planet Yowai." He grabbed his radio and began to speak into it. "General, are you there?"

"Yes, what do you need Raoul?" Replied the general through the radio.

"I've caught your friend, Ranza, trying to rebel against our plans." Raoul kept this twisted look of enjoyment on his face, directed toward Ranza.

"By himself? If so, then he is the biggest idiot in the world."

Ranza recognized the voice. "That... that's... General..." Ranza began to shake.

Raoul spoke to the General once more. "No, he's with someone... a... Saiyan."

The General didn't speak for a moment, the huffed. "A Saiyan?" Raoul nodded with a, mmhmmm. The general spoke again. I encountered a group of Saiyans and a Namek this morning. About seven. What does he look like?"

Bardock thought for a moment. Seven Saiyans. Kakarot and Vegeta count as two, Goten and Trunks. That makes four, but why did they come? Then there's Gohan and Videl. That makes six. A seventh Saiyan? Who could it? Bardock then had a quick premonition. He couldn't make out what he saw, but it was a person, quickly flying by Bardock, too fast to make out who it was. Whoa, he thought, That was crazy. I wonder who this seventh Saiyan is.

"Uh..." Raoul looked at Bardock, who had the look of anger on his face. "He has pure black eyes, and hair. And his hair goes off in all directions."

The General then spoke. "I battled a Saiyan that looked just like that, he was one tough opponent."

"You fought on that planet?" Said Raoul with excitement. "Good lord, I hope you're okay, you know the curse of that planet."

"I'm fine," Replied the General, "I just need some, R&R. I'll be there soon enough. I went to use my Black Death beam on one of the Saiyans, but then one of my men threw another one of the Saiyans into the path of the beam, and then a third Saiyan jumped in front of it. I assume he's dead now."

"I would imagine so." Said Raoul. "No one has ever survived that attack."

"I did win myself a little prize though." The General sighed through the radio, "A damsel. Although she's a Saiyan, she is everything a man like myself would want." He then re focused on the situation at hand. "Anyway, I'll be there soon, I'm sure you can hold them until I get there."

"Yes sir," Sair Raoul. Raoul then shut off his radio and looked at Ranza. "Well well, looks like a high school reunion will take place soon. If only the Grand Master of this operation could see all of this, he would torture you until you feel the same fear that you felt back then."

Ranza had been touched deep inside, he was about to snap, but what he didn't realize was that Bardock was also about to snap. Barock then realized that the General was talking about. Oh no, that's what that earlier vision was... Gohan was the Saiyan that was thrown in front of the attack. But which who exactly saved him? And the "damsel," that must be... "Videl." He spoke his thought just loud enough for Ranza to hear it. Ranza looked behind him at Bardock with confusion. "My grandson... he'll never forgive himself..." Bardock's look of awe turned into a look of rage.

One of Raoul's men began to laugh. "Oh brother, the fear on Ranza's face, it was so amazing! I almost died laughing. I would probably die just to see it again!"

Bardock clenched his fist. "You would die to see it?" He said to the soldier, who stopped laughing and looked at Bardock with confusion. Bardock then yelled, "Then prepare to die!" He brought his hand back and charged up a blue energy blast. The quickly thrusted his hand at the soldier and fired the attack at him. The attack consumed the soldier. The sound of his screams and melting flesh were heard by the soldiers and Ranza himself. Then, an explosion quickly ended the attack. The soldier was gone... dead...

Raoul, who had is arms crossed, unfolded them and looked at Bardock in awe. Bardock then glanced at a line of soldiers who were scared out of their minds. "No one messes with my family!" Bardock then fired another blast, consuming a row of about six soldiers, destroying them. He then looked at Raoul with pure hatred in his heart. Something that he hadn't felt since Frieza's men killed Bardock's unit and best friends.

Raoul then spoke, "Saiyan... you're quite powerful, it's not everyday that someone can take out seven of my men with just two blasts, impressive. But compared to me, they're nothing."

"Shut up." Said Bardock. "It was your kind that killed my best friends. They were my team mates, my friends, my family. You look just like one of them. That Zarbon character, you come from the smae planet, I can tell. Him and Dodoria were the worst of those bastards, besides Frieza."

Raoul looked at Bardock and then began to laugh. "Well, I can't say much for Dodoria, that fat moron, but Zarbon? Oh that fool couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag." Raoul then bowed with arrogance. "But you're right, we are of the same race." The light blue skin, and body structure were similar. But this man had red spiky hair, rather than long green hair. "Zarbon was a distant cousin of mine. I found out that he was killed by a Saiyan and was in disbelief. But then, I found that I was able to surpass even his skill. Then Frieza. So it's safe to say, that even the strongest Saiyan will have trouble dealing with us. Especially the Grand Master." Raoul was soon cut off when he found himself in excruciating pain.

Bardock had jammed his fist into Raoul's stomach. Raoul began to cough miserably. "I told you to shut up." Said Bardock. Ranza watched in awe, he'd never seen someone move so quickly in his life.

Gohan and Goku were both stretching out and recovering from the toll the planet was taking on them. Piccolo and Vegeta tended to the boys, who, by just running around, were losing energy.

"Gosh Dad," Said Gohan, "I wonder why we're not recovering as much energy as before."

"Hmm..." Said Goku, "I don't know, do you think it has something to do with the day light?"

"Probably." Replied Gohan, who then felt something in his head. Huh? What's that.

Gohan, it's me. Videl

Gohan gasped. Videl, are you okay, where are you?

I've been taken by that bastard General Chaz, they got me during the explosion. I can't see anything, my powers are rendered useless in here, and I heard a conversation that Chaz was having with someone... I guess over radio.

Oh Kami, He thought, Videl, I'll come and save you, WE'LL come and save you. You mean more than anything to me baby, and I'd rather die than see you go out like this.

Oh Gohan, I have faith in you. I love you. Come soon, I'll be waiting.. I hope.

The mental link closed, and Gohan found himself with Goku's hand waving across his face. "Hello? Gohan, yoohooo... you in there?"

Gohan almost fell over, "Yeah, I'm fine. Videl just contacted me through the metal link."

Vegeta walked over and jumped in on the conversation. "Well, what did she say?"

"Well, a lot of stuff about Chaz having a conversation over a radio with someone, not being able to see, and not having use of her powers."

"She's in one of those cells that use the same kind of spell that this planet uses." Said Vegeta, "They must have harnessed it while they were here, and amplified it with a special chemical." Vegeta looked at Goku, "Look, we have no more time to just stand around here, we need to hurry up and get out of here so we can recover more efficiently, sleep, and eat. I'm hungry."

"Haha," Said Goku, "Finally, someone who agrees with my stomach. But how will we know where to go once we leave." Everyone went silent for a moment. Suddenly, a voice called out from the left of the group.

"You know, eavesdropping is a great tool to use when stranded on a dark planet, with no idea where you are, while it's being invaded by idiots like Chaz." Raditz was walking over to the group, holding his left arm with his right, and limping. Gohan gave him a dirty look, but then stopped when he thought about what the others had said. "I know where they're going, why they were here, and why they took the girl."

Gohan ran up to him, "You know all of that, really?" Raditz nodded. "That's great, where, why?" Gohan then stopped and looked behind him. Goku had a plain look on his face, and Gohan understood it. He then turned to Raditz. "Um... I have to say something first."

Raditz looked at him with confusion. "Look, I know you're all hungry, but I don't have anything."

"No, it's not that." Said Gohan. "I have to apologize." Gohan sighed. "I've been a total jerk since you've shown yourself to be alive... because I haven't forgiven you for what you did all those years ago. But then you saved my life, and now I realize that I should let the past go, and I apologize."

Raditz looked at Gohan with the most confused look that anyone had ever seen, it was even causing Vegeta to look confused. Raditz looked over to Goku and simply said, "You or your mate?"

Goku scratched the back of his head with an obnoxious smile and replied, "Not me."

Raditz looked back at Gohan, "You're one strange child." He said, "You can be so powerful and vicious in some situations, and in others, it's like you're an angel. A Saiyan raised by a battle hungry father, and a strict mother. Must be tough." In all of these words, Raditz didn't acknowledge the apology. Much the opposite, he didn't even lean toward it. Moving on, he walked past Gohan and then stopped behind him. "Kakarot, I'm going to tell you once, and only once what I know. After that, you're on your own, understand."

Goku nodded. The rest of the group nodded as well. Gohan just stood there in awe, but what was he to do? Gohan simply turned around and got ready to listen to Raditz.

"Alright then." Said Raditz.

Bardock pulled his fist back from Raoul's stomach, causing Raoul to fall back a little bit and almost throw up. He then lowered himself to the ground, Bardock then followed. Ranza went down next, and the rest of the elite soldiers went last.

Raoul forced himself to stand up straight and he looked Bardock right in the eyes. "Okay," He said, "We'll fight the old fashion way."

Bardock cracked his neck, his knuckles, and his back, then spat on the ground. "I'm fine with that, I have no problem with fighting you."

Raoul glared at Ranza, "You stay out of this, I want to deal with you personally. If you get involved, my soldiers will have no choice but to take care of you." Raoul lookedback at Bardock. "Ready?"

Bardock stretched out his legs like Goku would normally do, then he got into a low fighting stance. "Damn right." Said Bardock.

Get ready for some action my friends, something's about to go down! Secrets to be revealed, people to be rescued. All these mysteries and more in the following chapters. Those reviews would be awesome, I'm glad I'm able to do this again! Thank you guys so much, you're the best.