"It looks like that did the trick. " Raditz stated with a smirk, panting heavily.
Eighteen nodded in agreement, before crossing her arms over her chest and frowning. "I suppose so. But we have a problem on our hands, in case you haven't noticed."
Raditz looked at her in confusion, not comprehending what she meant by that.
Eighteen rolled her eyes, before continuing. "Our ship is destroyed, Raditz. How are we supposed to get back to our Planet?"
Raditz cursed, turning his gaze towards their ship, which had multiple ki blasts through it. He'd completely forgotten that it got destroyed in the mist of battling the Humanoids before his transformation occurred. "This planet has to have some sort of transportation on it."
"And if it doesn't?" Eighteen inquired.
"Then until something else comes to mind, we're screwed." Raditz answered seriously, observing Eighteen's appearance and taking in his as well before locking gazes with her. "Our Saiyan attire looks like it'll manage until we get out of here at least. We need to split up and scout the area ; That way we can find something to settle in."
Eighteen nodded. "We can meet back here. Half an hour sounds good?"
"Perfect."
Raditz turned to take off but came to a halt when Eighteen called his name. He turned to face her in curiosity. "What is it?"
"Be careful." She stated coolly before departing, not giving him a chance to respond.
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"Kakarott." Bardock called. He tried getting in contact with Raditz, but he just couldn't seem to get through to him for some reason. He was on the ship, and he had yet to depart from Planet Meat. He needed to get a hold of either of his sons and fill them in.
"Father?"
Bardock sighed in relief. "Kakarott, we have a bit of a problem on our hands. How far are you from Planet Aroin?"
"I'm 48 hours away. What's going on?"
"I need you to turn back home immediately. Frieza plans to destroy the planet and we need to take action. I'm going to head to Planet Aroin to retrieve your brother."
"Alright."
"You wouldn't happen to know about Vegeta's whereabouts have you?"
"Vegeta's on Planet Vegeta. If memory serves me correctly, he and Nappa just got back from an assignment."
"Perfect."
Bardock immediately cut the connection with his youngest son, and proceeded to get in contact with someone else. "Bulma. Can you hear me? "
"Yes. What is it?"
"It's Frieza. I need you talk to the King and warn him. Frieza plans to destroy the Planet - "
"I know. I've overhead Frieza's conversation on the scouter. I alerted the King already."
"Connect me with King Vegeta, then. I have a plan."
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Eighteen walked through the part of the planet that wasn't too ruined, looking for somewhere for her and Raditz to settle in until tomorrow. When Raditz went in his Ooazaru form he slightly overdid it; for majority of everything was totaled. Granted, that was the point of this assignment, but their ship was destroyed, which meant that they had to find something of use on this waste of a planet. She didn't care if Raditz didn't mind sleeping outside, she did mind and if she didn't find something soon, she'd make the rest of the trip back to Planet Vegeta hell for him.
Eighteen smirked at the thought, before suddenly frowning in realization when all of the surviving buildings she found either looked as if it was on the verge of collapsing, or already down for the count. Apparently, this part of the planet was more ruined then she thought.
Eighteen's eyes suddenly narrowed as she stilled, her icy, blue eyes darting around, drinking in her surroundings. Someone was watching her, and she didn't like it. She formed an orb in both hands and whirled around, rolling her eyes when she saw Raditz smirking at her. The orbs in her hands dissipated. She scowled. "Why are you here? This isn't where we agreed to meet at, and it hasn't even been a half hour yet. "
"I saw you walking when I was flying, and decided to stop by."
Eighteen scoffed. "You're an idiot. Did you find anything?"
"No. That's why I'm - "
Raditz eyes widened in shock when he was cut off by a ki blast through the leg from behind, small amounts of blood coming out of his mouth as he fell forward. Eighteen looked on in alarm, gritting her teeth in anger when she spotted the one responsible. A Humanoid. She phased behind it quickly, placing her hands on his head, and snapping his neck. She didn't have time to play around. That idiot had gone and got himself injured. She rushed back to Raditz side, and grabbed one of his arms, gently pulling him to his feet and hefting his arm over her shoulder, before heading in the direction of the ship.
If she didn't hurry, he'd lose too much blood and die. "You need to be more aware of your surroundings. " She spat out angrily.
Raditz grimaced. "It's not my damn fault I - "
She shot him a heated glare. "Shut up."
Eighteen's expression became one of relief when they finally reached the ship merely minutes later. She wasted little time heading inside, and rushing to the washroom, hoping that it was still intact. Thankfully, it was. Eighteen laid him down on the floor, before ripping off her skirt and pressing it to his injury in order to stop the blood. She then turned to face him, "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine." He dismissed. "I could have gotten myself back just fine."
Eighteen scowled. "Of course, you could. It's not like you took a ki blast through your leg. Oh, wait...that's exactly what happened."
He smirked, before retorting. "I didn't know you cared so much."
She folded her arms over her chest, staring down at him with a cool expression. "Who said I did?"
Raditz raised an eyebrow as he sat up slowly. "So, you're saying you don't?"
Eighteen said nothing in response, instead she began to stand up, seconds away from walking away. But Raditz didn't let her, he grabbed her wrist, halting her movements and pulled her close to him. Surprisingly, she didn't protest, or try to free from his grip on her. Raditz encouraged, grasped her chin, turning it towards him and leaned in, his lips hovering over hers. He suddenly pulled back, smirking. "You have way too much damn pride sometimes. You remind me of Vegeta. "
Eighteen rolled her eyes, ignoring the slight disappointment she felt when Raditz pulled away. "Don't compare me with him. I get that enough from Bulma."
"I can see why. " He muttered under his breath.
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Kakarott sighed. His thoughts were running a mile a minute. This was is. The time was coming for them to finally stand up and rebel against Frieza. After years of being under his control, they would finally take back what was rightfully theirs : freedom. Once they got rid of Frieza for good, they would no longer have to work in fear of their home planet being destroyed. They wouldn't have to tolerate his presence again, nor take the taunts he and his followers liked to dish out all of the time. And they certainly wouldn't have to follow his every order.
After finding out what Frieza had in mind, he was glad Chi-Chi came along. He wouldn't know how to take it if something was to happen to her. Chi-Chi's been his friend since childhood, and he wouldn't lie and claim that he didn't contain strong feelings for her, and then earlier, when she kissed him...he couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe that she actually returned his feelings. For how long, he wasn't sure. He just knew that he'd protect her.
"I see you're finally awake."
Fasha groaned and sat up slowly, observing their surroundings with a frown. "What's going on? And where's Toma and the others?"
Bardock sighed. "It was a set up, Fasha. I heard it all from Dodoria. He told me himself before he left me for dead. And Toma and the others are dead."
She clenched her fists. "Why the hell would Frieza do this?! We've been nothing, but loyal to him! And this is how he repays us?!"
Bardock gripped his wife's shoulder's. "Fasha, calm down."
Fasha scowled at him. "How can I be calm when Frieza had our comrades killed off?!"
"We're going to avenge them. That's for sure. But we have a huge problem on our hands, Frieza plans on destroying our planet. When I alerted Bulma, she already knew and alerted King Vegeta."
Fasha gritted her teeth. "So what's the plan then?"
"King Vegeta is probably holding a meeting with the other Saiyans and informing them about our situation. He's going to buy us four days, and then we're going to lure Frieza to us and take it from there. We're going to have our strongest Saiyans face against him."
Fasha raised an eyebrow. "Why four days? And our strongest Saiyans are Kakarott, Vegeta, Zangya, and Eighteen."
Bardock nodded, before elaborating. "I originally planned for Kakarott to face against Frieza, but King Vegeta argued that Vegeta would be a much better match. So in order to come to an agreement, we decided to just have the strongest of the Saiyans fight. Only problem is Kakarott is 48 hours away from Planet Vegeta, while Raditz and Eighteen are 72 hours away, but luckily, Planet Aroin is 48 hours away from Planet Meat."
Fasha nodded in understanding. "So the four days are basically to give Kakarott and Eighteen time to get to Planet Vegeta in order for battle?"
"Basically. I already alerted Kakarott and told him to turn around...I couldn't get in contact with Raditz, so we're heading to Planet Aroin. This could have been another one of Frieza's set ups. "
(48 hours later)
"This is Planet Aroin, huh? It looks like Raditz and Eighteen handled their assignment pretty well."
Bardock nodded. "Perhaps."
Fasha looked at her mate suspiciously for a moment, before rolling her eyes. She could tell he was still in pain. She didn't know who he thought he was fooling, but it certainly wasn't her. "Go to the ship, Bardock. You're hurt. I'll find the other two."
Bardock looked reluctant to do so, but he knew that Fasha was right. He still hadn't fully recovered from fighting Dodoria. Fasha had tend to his wounds as best as she could on the way here, but he already knew he'd have to spend some time in the Regeneration Chambers as soon as this whole Frieza mess was over and done with. "Fine. Just be careful."
Fasha smirked faintly, and nodded silently. "Yeah."
As soon as Bardock was out of sight, Fasha clicked a button on her scouter and waited patiently for the location of her son to show up. Once it did, she took off in the direction her scouter stated, at high speeds. They needed to hurry up and get back to Planet Vegeta in order to take down Frieza once in for all.
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Fasha halted in mid-air before slowly descending on the ground. With the guidance of her scouter, it didn't take long to find the two. She should have known that they would have stayed in the ship, but hey, as long as she found the two without a problem, she didn't see the need to complain. "Raditz!" Fasha called loudly. "Let's go!"
Almost immediately Raditz and Eighteen came into sight. She smirked, satisfied that the two were okay. "Alright. Let's go. Something came up and - what the hell?" Fasha stopped mid-sentence and sent a scowl in Raditz direction with narrowed eyes. "Why do you smell different?"
"..."
"Raditz!" Fasha barked.
Raditz held his hands up in the defense, lookly mildly irritated. "Eighteen...I... Mother, before you get upset - "
Eighteen rolled her eyes. "We accidentally mated." she answered simply.
Raditz looked at Eighteen with wide eyes. "What the hell, Eighteen?! I was trying to ease into it - "
Fasha looked at the two warily. "I didn't know you two were dating. How long has this been going on?"
Raditz paled. "We weren't."
The purple-eyed Saiyan gritted her teeth at her eldest son. "So it was meant to be a meaningless fling?"
Eighteen nodded. "Basically."
Raditz shot Eighteen a 'shut the fuck up' look to which Eighteen just simply smirked. Raditz turned to face his mother, clearing his throat. "If it means anything, I like her."
"Raditz." Fasha started through clenched teeth. "If we weren't in such a serious situation. I'd beat the hell out of you. Mating isn't temporary. It's permanent." Fasha closed her eyes, exhaling slowly. Kids these days took things so damn light! "This discussion isn't over. As soon as all this crap is taken care of, you and I are going to be in the Sparring Chambers for a while. Let's go."
A/N: Once again, a special thanks to Aeternus Rosa and LyraRayne for reviewing last chapter and the previous ones as well.
