DBZ

Light in the Darkness

Chapter 12

Darbon's return

October 3, 2018

Vegeta had practically locked himself in the gravity ship to train for the last several weeks only coming out to eat, bathe, a few hours sleep, and demand better equipment. So far Dr. Briefs had managed to make him three battle drones with two levels of difficulty and that had seemed to take his training to the next level. A few times a week he trained with Keisha in the ship but mostly he trained by himself as always preferring to train in solitude.

Keisha for her part did regular training out in the yard unless she wanted to do intense training then she left the property going out to the isolated desert areas where she didn't have to worry about the Human's getting in her way, or she was able to get in a few hours training in the gravity chamber by herself while Vegeta was busy. Today happened to be one of the day's where she stayed in the yard and did a more precise training.

Yamcha just so happened to be here on the Capsule Corp property too training, he seemed to not like leaving Bulma here alone with these two Saiyan's, so he was tending to hang out here, being Bulma's boyfriend he was naturally always welcome. He was in his training Gi given to him by Master Roshi long ago, and he was focusing his strength into punches while he constantly looked between the training ship and Keisha.

Keisha for her part ignored him as she worked her way through training stances. Slow, elegant, precise and powerful with no waisted energy as she moved from defensive to offensive in the span of a heartbeat. She had also changed her attire to what the Human's called yoga pants which were teal, a teal sports bra, a pink training tank top, teal tennis shoes with pink laces, and pink gloves.

"Why don't you two spar?" Bulma asked from the back patio as she put her magazine down with a huff it has been weeks and all her friends are off doing training leaving her with nothing to do so naturally she was bored out of her mind.

"You want me to kill him?" Keisha asked curiously as she just continued her routine without missing a step.

"Well no actually sparing is training right?" Bulma asked confused it's what the others had always called a training fight.

"Do you realize my dear Bulma just how much of a hinderance that would be? How one tiny mistake from me would kill him." Keisha said as she stopped and turned to face Bulma curiously. The woman was extremely smart but sometimes she said the dumbest things she has no idea what she's talking about in terms of fighting.

"Is it that much of a gap between the two of you?" Bulma asked curiously looking from Keisha over to Yamcha to verify what Keisha was saying.

"No, it's not a huge tremendous gap." Yamcha said with a nervous laugh and a scratch to the back of his head.

"Really? Why don't we test that theory?" Keisha said as she turned from Bulma to look at Yamcha with a smirk and a glint in her eye that told him he was a fool if he didn't back down.

"Uh… No thanks… I'm really not in the mood to spar right now…" Yamcha said laughing nervously as he put his hands up in front of him shanking them trying to prove his point of not wanting to fight with her.

"Honestly Yamcha how do you expect to get stronger if you don't spar with someone. What you're doing seems pointless." Bulma said with a huff as she looked at him like he was crazy. She knew to improve oneself a person needs a rival, that's how she made it to where she is today trying to be better than her father and it had paid off she was by far more unique in her plans and was able to get most of her work complete well before the due date. Sometimes it was a hassle like today she had nothing to do because she had already completed everything due for the week.

"You're right Bulma I'll go train with Krillin or Master Roshi." Yamcha said with a wave then quickly took to the air flying away quickly.

"Ugh…wait that's…not what I meant." Bulma said with a sigh as she watched him get smaller in the sky as he flew away.

"I have a project for you Bulma if you're up for it." Keisha said with a wink and a lop-sided grin when she turned to face the gorgeous heiress.

"Yeah sure what is it?" Bulma said with a sigh what kind of project could Keisha want done she wondered as she looked over at the Saiyan Princess.

"Something most likely only you can do on this planet." Keisha said as she walked over and sat down across from Bulma.

That peaked Bulma's interest as she leaned up crossing her arms on the table and leaning on them curiously. "And that would be?" she asked intrigued.

"It's actually two projects one would be to create some learning drones for the training ship over there the other would be creating better versions of our armor." Keisha said as she watched Bulma for her reaction.

"Clothing is not my thing." Bulma said as she leaned back in her chair slightly disappointed with a frown on her face.

"Just imagine the level of design and planning it would take to protect us from dangers such as blasts, falls, and standard fighting at our level. Not only would it need to be redesigned but it would have to be better than what we had before when we worked for Frieza, considering we died wearing that armor." Keisha said as she leaned in closer to Bulma slightly over the table with her arms braced on the table.

"Redesign it better… I don't even know what it was made of before?" Bulma said as she looked up at the sky crossing her arms over her chest as she thought the offer over to be honest the idea was promising.

"No problem I'll give you my armor to test and examine." Keisha said as she watched Bulma curiously would this woman take up her offer and work on this for them she wondered.

"Alright but no promises I don't even know if that material can be reproduced here on Earth." Bulma said with a smile on her face as she looked down at Keisha. "Go get it and meet me in my lab. Lunch will be soon and his highness will come out to eat, ya know it would be nice if he talked a little instead of grumbling then shutting himself away again." She said with a sigh as she stood up looking over at the gravity ship Vegeta was training in.

"Yeah well, he's always been a loner, he's not really good at small talk. He says what he has to then moves on quickly." Keisha said with a small laugh as she followed Bulma's gaze over to the ship. "You'll just have to let him get comfortable first." She said then stood up and walked towards the house.

"He's been here for nearly a year counting before you two left to go terrorize the Galaxy some more." Bulma said with a frown as she followed Keisha into the house.

"One year of freedom verses 20 in practical slavery, come now Bulma surely you can see how it's going to take a long time for him to get comfortable trusting anyone, more or less normal social graces." Keisha said as she glanced back at Bulma at the bottom of the stairs leading up to their rooms.

"You caught on quick enough." Bulma said accusingly as she crossed her arms looking at Keisha like she was crazy.

"My older brother dear Bulma protected us as best he could from Freiza's wrath taking punishments himself to spare us, please remember he is my Prince as well as my brother. He was given to Frieza first around age 5, he fought to stay alive for years alone while I trained hard on Vegeta and other worlds, so I had trainers Vegeta had to figure it out on his own with the threat of Frieza standing over him. I'd say I was around ten before I joined Vegeta in Freiza's services." Keisha said then turned and walked up the stairs believing she had proven her point that her brother deserved more leniency.

Bulma thought about what Keisha had said as she watched her walk up the stairs, perhaps she was being unrealistic in expecting Vegeta to come out of his shell so quickly. She looked over out the back patio doors to see the space ship with light flashing out of the windows like normal when Vegeta was training and she smiled softly before turning and walking down a corridor to go to her own personal lab. She had decided no matter what she was going to be that man's friend.

Several minutes later Keisha walked into Bulma's lab to find her setting up testing equipment. "Where do you want this?" she asked curiously holding up the armor and the special stretchy materials that went under the armor.

"Here let me see it." Bulma said as she walked over and grabbed the armor curiously. She rubbed over the smooth material until she reached a hole in the armor looking up curiously at Keisha.

"That's the hole from the blast that I died from." Keisha said understanding the curious look in her friend's eyes. "Vegeta's armor has a similar hole piercing through from where we rebelled against Frieza on Namek. We had planned to bide our time and gain power but when Vegeta thought I had died on Earth he had nothing to lose so he went ahead and rebelled." She said taking the armor back from Bulma then putting it on to show her exactly where the blast had gone.

"Went straight for your hearts." Bulma said as she covered her mouth wide eyed.

"Yes. Vegeta died first putting aside his pride and begging Kakarot to kill Frieza. I died next trying to avenge my brother. We were no match for him our deaths were sealed the moment we rebelled." Keisha said sadly as she took the armor back off and looked down at it knowing that had it not been for the wish made with the Earths dragon balls they would still be dead.

"Well let's see what I can do to improve this." Bulma said cheerfully as she took the armor away from Keisha and took it to an analyzer to determine what the armor was made of. She placed the armor inside then shut the door sealing it and turning on the machine. "Depending on what type of materials it can and cannot identify it should take about two hours. I'll get a notification when it's done." She said showing Keisha a hand-held device before putting it in her pocket.

"Thanks. Now to the other project." Keisha said with a soft smile as she glanced up at a monitor that was set on watching the gravity room. "You always have that watching the gravity chamber?" she asked curiously nodding to the monitor.

"Ever sense Vegeta scared the life out of me storming in here to tell me he blew out the simulator. As long as I pay attention to it I have warning when there is something wrong with the ship." Bulma said as she watched the monitor for a few moment. "I'll get the plans my dad made for the ones that Vegeta is using now after lunch and see what I can do to improve them." She said with a smile as she looked over at Keisha.

"Right I'll go get Vegeta for lunch." Keisha said then turned and left the lab, down the hall way, across the living room, and out into the back yard. Something was wrong she didn't see anything but she had an alarm of warning going off in her head like a sixth sense for danger as she looked around trying to figure out what was bothering her.

"You alright?" Bulma asked curiously as she stepped out on the patio she figured that Keisha would have made it all the way to the ship by now.

"Fine. Go back inside." Keisha said as she stepped off the patio heading for the ship, goose bumps and a slightly nauseous stomach told her there was definitely something wrong as she continued to look around curiously. Getting to the ship Keisha took to the air landing on top of the ship looking around from this higher spot, once she saw nothing she closed her eyes and concentrated on her senses feeling for all power levels around. Most were weak humans then she could sense a long way off all the Earth Special forces she sighed then shook her head with a frown then she floated down to a window knocking on it to get Vegeta's attention.

Vegeta shut down the gravity simulator then opened the door. "What?" he asked irritated as he glared over at Keisha who seemed distracted.

"Lunch." Keisha said as she lowered herself back to the ground looking around. What the hell was giving her the creeps? She wondered confused as she started walking back to the house. "Vegeta seal the ship." She said glancing back at him normally they didn't seal the ship because that required a passcode to get back in which was a waste of time.

"Don't be ridiculous that's…" Vegeta said as he crossed his arms glaring at her from the bottom of the ramp.

"Do it Vegeta!" Keisha said irritated as she glared back at him stopping in the middle of the yard to stare him down if need be.

"Fine whatever." Vegeta said with a dismissive wave then walked over beside the ship and pressed a few buttons. 'What's up with her she's being strange?' Vegeta asked himself curiously glancing back at Keisha to see she was on guard waiting for him to catch up to her. He walked over to her curiously stretching out his senses and like her earlier he didn't feel anything out of the ordinary. "What is going on?" he asked quietly as he fell into step beside her with his arms crossed over his chest.

"I don't know, something's not right though." Keisha said concentrating at the area around them with a frown.

"That's not a good enough reason for me to waste time having to use the passcode to get back into the ship." Vegeta said irritated what had gotten into her. She normally didn't behave this way.

"I'm telling you damn it somethings fucking off." Keisha said irritated as she glanced over at him once they were about halfway back to the house.

Vegeta looked at her wide eyed she never cussed at him. So he took another look around with his senses but still nothing out of the ordinary. Then a scream tore their attention off of each other to the house drawing their attention to the blue haired heiress being held by a man in Frieza army armor. "Damn where did he come from?"

"Where did they all come from?" Keisha corrected him as she watched twenty men land in the yard surrounding them then she got into a fighting stance putting her back to Vegeta's.

"Oh I really wouldn't." a tall green skinned alien said as he made his way through his men to stare at Vegeta and Keisha with a smirk on his face and Bulma's arm in one of his large hands. "You seemed on edge woman." He said as he walked over to Keisha grabbing her chin and dragging her eyes to his.

"Ow you're hurting me." Bulma said as she stumbled around behind him.

"Darbon." Keisha said then tore her eyes from the alien jerking her head back out of his hand to lock eyes with Bulma. "You didn't destroy that chip did you?" she asked irritated.

"No never got around to it." Bulma said with tears in her eyes this alien was hurting her arm she felt like it was going to break.

"Which was so fortunate for me." Darbon said as he back handed Keisha across the face which didn't really do what he had expected.

Keisha brought her face back to facing Darbon. "You'll not survive this no matter if you surrender." She said angrily as she glared at the man.

"Thanks for the warning." Darbon said with a smirk on his face as he looked around at his men laughing causing them to laugh as well.

"It wasn't a warning." Keisha said as she moved lightening fast slamming her elbow into his middle causing him to step back slightly and let go of Bulma as his hand went to where she had hit him. Seconds later Keisha was kicking him across the face spinning around to get the most power behind the kick as possible sending Darbon across the compound slamming into the compound wall.

"Kill them!" Darbon yelled at his men angrily as he stood back up wiping blood from the corner of his mouth.

"Don't get caught again." Vegeta mumbled to Bulma as he pulled her over to him to protect her with Keisha landing beside him again.

"I've got this half you get that half." Keisha said with a smirk now that the battle had begun she was excited.

"Right." Vegeta said with the same smirk on his lips then the two took off into the on coming alien's leaving Bulma in the center of the original circle

Vegeta and Keisha were fighting to keep the Frieza force away from Bulma and doing a really good job of it ten of the twenty were already down after just a few minutes. Darbon watched getting angry as his men fell one after the other to the two monkeys then his eyes landed on the woman they seemed to be protecting and a smirk crossed his features. "Die!" he yelled out to get everyone's attention then shot an energy blast at the weak Human woman.

'Bulma…' Keisha thought as her body moved without thought of what to do next she appeared in front of Bulma using her hands she was trying to block the blast with one of her own, but with the second she had she couldn't drag out enough power. She was picked up off her feet and flung back several feet away from Bulma landing on her side skidding a few more feet before just laying there.

Bulma rushed over to Keisha worried. "Keisha…" she said softly as she rolled her over to see her breathing and she released a breath of her own.

"Get up!" Vegeta yelled back at them as he now took on the remaining eight by himself but that left Darbon unchallenged and he was making his way over to them laughing.

"Silly monkey you can't compete with me." Darbon said laughing obnoxiously walking towards them.

"Really…" Keisha said as her eyes opened and she pushed herself up to standing guard over Bulma again. "You're too full of yourself." She said angrily as she glared at the man.

"Look at you monkey one blast from me and you're all beat up and bleeding." Darbon said as he stopped he would show this stupid monkey not to mess with him as he raised his hand and charged another ki blast.

Keisha was panting slightly hard as she used the back of her hand to wipe blood from the corner of her mouth then wiped it off on her shirt which was now tore in several places with grass stains. "Remember what I said earlier Darbon. I will kill you." She said as she shoved Bulma towards the side of the house and go t into a fighting stance.

"Such stupid creatures you don't even understand who your superiors are." Darbon said then shot several ki blasts at Keisha who dodged them easily.

"Last account I had of your power Darbon you were on par with Gynu right." Keisha said with a smirk as she fired a few of her own ki blasts at him who dodged as well. But the men behind him fighting Vegeta trying to flank him weren't so lucky as three more of Darbon's men went down leaving only two more for Vegeta to deal with.

"That's right monkey are you finally starting to realize your place?" Darbon said with a laugh as he crossed his arms.

"Saiyan's are a warrior race we gain power when others would just roll over and die fool. When was the last time you checked your scouter?" Keisha said with a smirk as she began raising her power intent on terrifying this man before she killed him.

"Oh don't worry you stupid Monkey you're nowhere near me." Darbon said with a laugh but he indulged her raising his hand up to his scouter turning it on to check her power level. His scouter read 3,587,000 before it exploded. "It can't be… there's no way…" he said stepping back away from Keisha trembling.

Keisha smirked as she started forward her eyes promising him death. "You tried to use me to kill Vegeta, then you went after Bulma you will pay for that with your life fool. Never underestimate the powers of a Saiyan!" she said as she made it over to him.

"I don't believe it my scouters broken." Darbon yelled as he attacked Keisha and she grabbed his hand without losing ground squeezing it hard. He tried using his other hand to punch her to get his hand free cause she was crushing the bones.

"You should have left well enough alone." Keisha said as she dodged under his other hand then was right in his face. "Freiza is dead a Saiyan killed him and his father what made you think you could fair better." She asked as she punched him hard across his face sending him to the ground skidding several feet away.

"There is no way a monkey could kill my lord Frieza." Darbon said as he looked up from the ground at Keisha with fear in his eyes.

"You can't keep sending us into battle, nearly killing us, without the inevitable ending of our gaining power, a power you could never imagine in your small feeble mind." Keisha said getting a really thrill out of explaining Darbon's situation to him. "Don't worry you will now join your master in hell." She said then raised her hand charged a ki blast and obliterated him.

"Well now I know why you were so edgy how did you know they were here?" Vegeta said as he looked at her crossing his arms over his chest he had watched the last several minutes proud of his sister putting the man in his place after what had happened on that plant nearly a month ago.

"I didn't know it was him and his fools, there was just something a gut feeling warning me of danger. I really don't know what set it off." Keisha said with a shrug.

"Perhaps it was because he had attacked you before, and they were all here watching you." Bulma suggested as she walked back over to them.

"It's possible I guess." Keisha said with a shrug glancing around at the dead. "Time for lunch." She said then walked over towards the house.

"What about this lot?" Bulma asked stunned as she looked around at the bodies then shuddered.

"They'll still be dead after lunch unless you fool's search for the dragon balls and wish them back too." Keisha said with a shrug then walked into the house ready for lunch and a change of clothes.

"Don't worry no chance of that happening." Bulma said as she ran after Keisha into the house not wanting to be around so many dead bodies leaving Vegeta alone in the yard.

Vegeta looked around at the bodies then smirked as he vaporized them knowing he would have to do something with them after lunch anyway he rather just get rid of them now. "Done." He said to himself before also disappearing into the house.