"Call Zero over here for me Kakarot, I have a feeling I may need his unique skills if this does turn out to be the rebel leader." Vegeta huffed as he put a clean pair of gloves on and sat at the edge of the bed feeling refreshed and satisfied after his nice long shower. He looked around the tent while Kakarot made the call and found himself comparing this tent which had been his home for the past 3 years to his and Kakarot's bedroom back at the palace. 'God I miss that room.' Vegeta sighed to himself.
"He said he will head over to us now, Leo will be accompanying him of course." Kakarot gave Vegeta a knowing smile and sat next to him on the bed. "I think It's great knowing we aren't the only ones."
"What do you mean?" Vegeta asked puzzled.
"You know the only ones in this kind of relationship."
"Oh that, ye I guess it's nice to have other's to talk to about it and be open with. We know how hard it is to keep it a secret for so long so it will be good for them to have us to talk with."
"Ye I guess your right on that one, the first few years was hard. Hay I was wondering… who do you think is top?"
Vegeta slapped Kakarot's arm and laughed. "Why does that matter in the slightest?"
"Well it doesn't I'm just curious, I bet they think your top."
"Hay maybe I should try it sometime, you can be bottom for a change." Vegeta couldn't help but burst out laughing when he saw the fear in Kakarot's eyes. "Oh calm down, I'm not going to violate you like that, you can stay top."
"My Lord, Kakarot it's Zero and Leo." Zero shouted from outside the door to the tent. Vegeta took his seat behind his desk while Kakarot let the pair in. Zero was head of Vegeta's secret police and Leo was his second in command, they were both ranked the top pair in any activity given even back when they were at boot camp together where Zero and Leo first met each other. Zero had very short spiky black hair with pale skin and shimmering green eyes and even though he was chased after constantly by females; he was awkward and anti-social always giving off an aura that most other Sayians kept away from, everyone but Leo who stuck to him like glue, he had shoulder length blond hair with sky blue eyes and the complete opposite to Zero when it came to their personality's.
"Glad you could make it, sorry if I pulled you away from another assignment." Vegeta smiled and pointed for them to sit down.
"It's not a problem; we have been scouting out the area around camp ever since we heard the new that we had captured the rebel leader." Zero spoke with a hard voice but they all knew he had a soft side.
"Ye, it seemed to easy so we have been keeping an eye out for anything suspicious." Leo laughed, his voice was quite soft and a little on the famine side but it suited him, if Kakarot and Vegeta hadn't know he was in a relationship with Zero they would have pegged him down as a complete playboy.
"Well at least we weren't the only ones to think that." Kakarot smiled as he handed everyone a cup of tea and sat down on the edge of Vegeta's desk.
"We will be going to visit the prisoner soon, and I was hoping you would both accompany us, I may need you unique skill sets if he turns out to be the right guy." Vegeta knew everything about the pair, their relationship, who their families were and most importantly how skilled they were at extracting information and reading it out of prisoners. Leo was uncanny at reading people, the slightest twitch gave him some form of Intel, he knew just by looking at someone if they were lying or telling the truth; and Zero well he could cut and burn them until he got what he wanted, singularly they were amazing, but as a pair they were truly awesome and capable of squeezing every last drop of information out of a person.
"Not a problem." Leo laughed and handed Zero a black combination locked brief case. "I have a feeling you're going to need this."
"How did you know to bring it?" Zero asked puzzled showing the slightest hint of shock on his face.
"Unique skills remember, I could tell from Kakarot's voice that it may have something to do with this so thought I would come prepared." Leo smiled happily to himself and finished his tea in one gulp.
"Zero I hope you had no plans on cheating on him because I don't think you'll get very far." Kakarot laughed only meaning it as a joke.
"I wouldn't dare, he keeps hold of my brief case and I know what's in there." Zero shot Leo a quick smile showing he wouldn't dream of doing anything like that to him.
"My lord." 2 guards bowed as Vegeta and company neared the cave where the rebel leader was being held secretly.
"Has he said anything?" Vegeta demanded.
"No sire, he refuses to speak to anyone other than you." The first guard stated.
"How does he know Vegeta is on the planet?" Kakarot asked worried, it wasn't common knowledge and only Sayians knew he was here.
"We don't know sir, all we could think was we may have a spy amongst our ranks." The second guard huffed with a furious look in his eye.
"Make sure no one comes near this place, first sign of anyone; Sayian or not you report back to me understood." Vegeta took a large breath and stepped into the threshold behind Kakarot who insisted on going in first just in case it was a trap.
"Welcome to my humble abode." A voice echoed around the cave causing them all to be on high alert, "There is no need for that, trust me I'm well and truly tied up. You Sayians must be excellent at bondage." The man's laughter echoed through the cave making it sound quite demonic. Kakarot reached up and used a small ki blast to light up some torches he noticed were scattered around the cave.
The now enlightened figure was tied up with chains and ropes around a large central pillar which looked like it was holding the roof of the cave up, the man was nothing special as fair as they could see, no special cloths, no markings to show he was a leader, he was just a man… a dirty scrawny man who couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag.
"I've been told you are the rebel leader." Vegeta growled as he walked over and stood a few meters away from the man.
"That would be correct, your filthy bunch got lucky and stumbled across our HQ, killing everyone inside but me, as I'm sure you've realised I'm not a fighter, I fight more with my brain than brawn hence why we have managed to last so long against you."
"And yet you start a war against the strongest warrior race in the universe, do you have a death wish?" Vegeta spat.
"You know it was 20 years ago when your race came and invaded my home world, they ripped everything apart, killing millions upon millions just for sport… you bastards took everything away from me; my planet, my home, my wife and 3 children… all gone in an instant because you got bored! And just like that you left; you caused all that damage and destruction and then just left!" The man fell down against his restates clearly worn out by the mere memory of it.
"He is telling the truth." Leo whispered to Vegeta.
"What is your planet called?" Vegeta huffed.
"It doesn't matter; I vowed I would never go back there until I managed to kill the King or his bastard of a son!" The man spat at Vegeta who managed to dodge it with ease.
"I can see why you have a grudge against my father but why me?" Vegeta asked purely out of curiosity.
"You are next in line for the thrown; the sins of the father are passed down to the son! I'll stop you from doing this to another planet!"
"Jeez well I'm doomed then if I get to inherit not just the thrown but my Father's sins as well." Vegeta rolled his eyes. "Zero; get to work, I want to know everything he has to offer, he is bound to have a secondary HQ, possibly a third. I want their locations as soon as possible." Vegeta turned to whisper something to Kakarot when he heard Zero yell.
"CONCEALED WEAPON!" somehow the man had managed to conceal a small poison dark in his mouth, Zero had only managed to catch a glimpse of it as it shot through the air aimed straight for Vegeta. One minuet Vegeta was standing turning to see what Zero was yelling about and the next thing he felt was his body grow heavy as he landed in a heap on the floor.
"Vegeta." Kakarot whispered as he tried to hold himself up as he straddled Vegeta on the floor, "Are you alright?" He smiled.
"Kakarot? I'm fine, what happened?" Vegeta reached up and put his hand on Kakarot's cheek to show he was fine but his blood ran cold when his husband's usually warm cheek was freezing to the touch. "KAKAROT!" Vegeta yelled as Kakarot couldn't support his own weight and landed on top of Vegeta. "Come on Kakarot, snap out of it!" Vegeta begged as Zero and Leo pulled him free. Zero set to work quickly checking all of Kakarot's vital sighs while being watched closely by Vegeta.
"I'm so sorry…" Zero couldn't manage to finish sentence before Vegeta pushed him back and grabbed onto the cold body of his husband.
"Come on Kakarot this isn't funny! I'm going to kill you myself if you don't get up… Please we need to go back together, we need to rent the beach house again." Vegeta held Kakarot's hand to his cheek and cried into it. "We need to stay together." Vegeta started shaking Kakarot while ordering and shouting at him to wake up.
"Sire we need to get you out of here, we don't know if he has any other weapons." Zero said fighting back the tears in his voice.
"I'm leaving him here!" Vegeta barked as he slapped Zero's hand away from him.
"Vegeta please, I'll carry him back we need to get you out of here!" Zero grabbed onto Vegeta's shoulder and forced him to turn. "I understand your upset but we can't lose you to! Kakarot didn't die so you could follow him to the afterlife!" Vegeta didn't know what to do, he could only grab onto Zero and hug his desperately trying to stop this agonising pain in his chest.
"Zero what do I do?" Vegeta sobbed.
"I don't know, I really don't know but we really need to get you out of here, it's not safe." Zero said letting the tears fall down his cheeks as he hugged Vegeta back.
"Oh I'm sorry did he mean a lot to you? I have to say I've never seem someone jump in the way so quickly." The man laughed and Vegeta felt himself snap, he released himself from Zero's grasp and walked slowly over to the central pillar as his aura spiked and flashed gold pushing Zero and Leo back from touching him. "I see I've hit a nerve, Now you know how it feels to lose everything you loved, I hope you remember this for the rest of your life!"
"I'm going to rip you apart you BASTARD!" As Vegeta screamed the cave filled with a golden light as Vegeta ascended to the legendary Super Sayian, he took no time to close the gap between them and planted his fist through the rope and chains and straight through the man's chest, spraying blood all over the cave ending his life slowly and very; very painfully.
"Make sure you take Kakarot back to my tent!" Vegeta ordered as he slowly walked past and out towards the exit, clearly broken and beyond repair.
"Sire where are you going?" Zero asked as he ran after Vegeta trying to stop him.
"To put an end to this war!" Vegeta hissed as he shot off into the sky leaving a trail of gold behind him and a stunned Zero in the entrance.
"Zero!" Leo shouted from inside the tent as a dirty and blood covered Vegeta walked in through the door still in his Super Sayian form.
"Where is he?" Vegeta whispered referring to Kakarot.
"We placed him down on the bed sir and refused entry to anyone who asked." Leo bowed as Vegeta walked past, he wanted to tell him how sorry he was, but he has a feeling it was the last thing he wanted to hear right now so just let him past and took up point in front of the tent so no one would disturb them.
"I tried everything I could." Zero confessed as he stood up from his seat on the bed where he had been watching over Kakarot's body for any signs on life.
"Go be with Leo." Vegeta ordered not taking his teary eyes off the still figure of Kakarot. Zero just bowed and took his leave, "We will be right outside the tent if you need up." Zero spoke softly as he placed a hand on Vegeta's shoulder before leaving him in peace.
All night Vegeta sat on the bed next to Kakarot just taking in every detail of his face, the way his hair fell over his face, the way even in death he still seemed to smile… "Why did you leave me?" Vegeta begged as he let his tears full down his cheeks feeling himself grow panicked, scared, angry and confused all at once. He put his hands on either side of Kakarot's face and prayed to every god he could think of, hoping one of them would bring back his one and only beloved; but apparently no one was listening.