Chapter XXV: Rescue

He was trying to sleep, but it was so hard on those chairs. He couldn't remember the last time he slept in a normal bed... it had to be before the Planet Trade Organization's times.

He kept trying to maintain his eyes close but nothing worked, and now those noises weren't helping... Now that he thought about it... those noises weren't usual.

"Hey, Nappa, can you hear that?" He finally whispered.

The older saiyan grunted thinking Radditz was just being paranoid again, but now he could hear that too.

"Footsteps" Said Nappa.

Both saiyans stood up and carefully walked outside their rooms to the hallway. They saw a group of three soldiers running far to their right, they turned their heads now to their left and saw another couple of soldiers coming.

Nappa suddenly saw on the hallway the green-skinned reptilian alien with an orange mohawk. "Malaka!" Called Nappa approaching to the alien scientist who was now looking at the saiyan.

"What's going on?" Asked Nappa.

"Didn't you hear? They found Vegeta" Answered Malaka.

"What?!" Asked Radditz running to them.

"Yes, they said they saw him in a low class planet near the hj-7 System, Freeza is sending an squadron to capture him. Seems that after all, he did escape" Shrugged the green alien.

Nappa nodded as a sign of thanks and walked back to their rooms, Radditz followed. Once they were inside Raddiz talked.

"He's alive! That's good news, isn't it?" He said smiling.

"Not so sure, if Freeza gets to him, he's going to kill him. This is not just any mistake we did in the past, this time his punishment will be death" Said Nappa.

"Then what do we do?" Asked Radditz worried.

Nappa sighed "We're still his guards, I don't serve Freeza and I never will. I promised to take care of the prince and I prefer to die fighting against Freeza besides Vegeta than stay in here."

Radditz sat and thought about Nappa's words. "I guess you're right, I just hope Vegeta is ready for Freeza"

"I don't think he would have left without a plan, but honestly... I don't think so. Doesn't matter anymore at this point anyway." Said Nappa.

Radditz nodded. "So, what now?".

"We need to move fast, I'll go try to convince Malaka to give us information where did they saw Vegeta the last time, you go to the docks and see if we can get a ship without being notice too soon, I'll meet you there in twenty minutes".

Radditz nodded and both saiyans got out from their rooms knowing none of them would ever come back.

Thirty minutes later Radditz was getting anxious, Nappa was ten minutes late and there was a huge list of possibilities for his delay and 99% of them meant death. So when he saw the bald saiyan running to the ship he sighed in relief opening the ship's main door.

"What the hell took you so long?" He spat.

"Shut up low class, I'll tell you when we get the fuck off here, come on" Responded the angry saiyan.

Radditz rolled his eyes with the 'low class' adjective, and followed Nappa. In less than ten minutes they were off one of Freeza's space station.

Radditz was looking at the worried saiyan sitting next to him, after twenty minutes from the take off, he seemed to be finally breathing. Nappa turned his head acknowledging the question in Radditz's face and answered.

"I asked to Malaka for directions, he gave them to me without hesitation" Smirked Nappa.

Radditz lifted his eyebrow "And that doesn't bothers you? He could be telling Freeza right now!"

"He won't, he hates Freeza as much as we do. He worked on planet Vegeta when you were little, he was a scientist there. He always felt sorry for the saiyans, he works for Freeza as we do, because we don't have a choice".

Radditz nodded, and watched how the older saiyan wrote the coordinates to the system were Vegeta was seen the last time.

Vegeta woke up again in the pilot's seat, it was definitely not more comfortable than his bed, but he still couldn't sleep every night on it, his back was still killing him. He looked at the time at the clock in the control panel and it showed 03:42. Annoyed he tried to shift himself in the chair to get at least a couple more hours of sleep, when he heard a scream, it was a male scream.

'Damn Kakarrot, if he thinks I'm going to see if he's fine he can just die already' He thought and tried to close his eyes again. A couple of minutes later he heard another scream. Now it sounded female...

'Either Kakarrot's balls got tinier or the woman screamed now' He thought, he was fighting the need to stand up and see what happened, he wanted to sleep...

But he was a saiyan...

and he was curious by nature...

"FUCKING SAIYAN GENES!" He screamed and walked to the room were the screams came from. Both the woman and Goku were standing in a big hall that had a wide window.

"What the fuck is it now!" Screamed the angry saiyan, he stopped when he saw both his ship's partners were pale with wide eyes, then he looked to the window and he saw it.

A huge ship was flying to them, Vegeta saw the ship and knew exactly what it meant.

"Fuck" He managed to say, when their ship got anchored by the biggest one.

Bulma saw the panic on Vegeta's eyes, she had never seen him scared in the time they've met, their ship was loosing stability and they were rolling to the walls.

"Vegeta!" She cried scared. Vegeta grabbed her and kept her in his arms without taking his eyes from the window.

"What do we do now Vegeta?" Asked a scared Goku to his left.

"We have to fight" Then he looked at Bulma "Woman, don't you dare to stay away from us, close, but always behind us.

"What? No! She better stay on the ship!" Said Goku.

"No, they could take her if she stays, we don't know how many they are, she'd be better with us" Answered Vegeta.

Goku nodded and frowned, their ship wasn't entirely inside the bigger one yet, and he could still feel the high kis on the ship. He could understand why Vegeta was worried, some of them were too high, and too many. He had never been scared on his life, when a fight was near he was always happy, but now for the first time, he felt completely outmatched, and knew nothing good was on that ship.

The ship was inside in just a matter of minutes, but it felt like hours to them. Vegeta was freaking out even when his exterior didn't show up. He was supposed to control the super saiyan by now, hell his own son managed to control it at the age of 8, why the fuck couldn't he? He could feel a familiar ki on the ship, Zarbon.

He remembered how the freak looked at Bulma the first time... HELL how SHE looked at the freak the first time, and the memory wasn't pleasant. Bulma made a fool of herself at the time, because she didn't know the freak was a psychopath, bisexual rapist with the most fucked up torture techniques he had ever known.

He closed his eyes, he had to control the SSJ now, he needed it, he was trying to concentrate and nothing was happening.

He heard the main door of their ship opening and he opened his eyes. He looked at Goku and nodded. He stood up and walked to the door, there were hundreds of guards standing outside his ship and around a path. In the end of the path was Zarbon.

With Bulma walking right behind him, and Goku to his right, he walked to the green haired alien.

"Vegeta Vegeta, tell me you didn't think we forgot about you?" Said Zarbon

"Zarbon! I knew I smelled body glitter!" Smirked Vegeta, several soldiers tried to contain their laughter.

"I don't think you're going to be able to make your little monkey jokes for too long, Lord Freeza asked me personally to retrieve you".

"Aaaw and did you wet your g-string when the lizard talked to you?" Mocked Vegeta. "It's a pity really, because you see, I think you're going to disappoint the lizard..." Smirked Vegeta.

"Oh how cute! You're going to fight me little monkey? Please! how pathetic. I do think is rather amusing how trough the years you keep thinking you're going to defeat us" He said, and then noticed the person behind Vegeta. "And who's the delicate being behind you?".

That crossed Vegeta's wires, he immediately frowned but didn't answer. Zarbon smirked "I see you found another monkey from your species" Glared Zarbon at Goku. "You're like roaches, I thought we killed you all fifteen years ago... anyway, like I asked you before rude monkey. Who's the beauty on your back?"

"That's none of your business, I came here to negotiate. Let us free now, and I'd spare your life for now." Said Vegeta.

Zarbon and many soldiers around them were laughing.

"Oh my Vegeta, your monkey brain never ceases to amuse me, I can almost see why Freeza kept you as his pet all these years. But I guess with your tiny brain you cannot comprehend the situation, let me explain it to you then. You're surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, some of them with your same strength. And then is me, Freeza's right hand, and I'm more powerful than you could ever imagine" Then he stopped and looked at Bulma again. "But I guess we could make a deal, I mean, to show you some hospitality since you're at 'home' again" smirked Zarbon.

"Handle me the woman, and I won't kill the little saiyan roach to your side" Smirked the green haired alien.

"How about no" Answered Vegeta instinctively grabbing Bulma's wrist.

"A possessive monkey! Is that your mate saiyan?" Laughed Zarbon "Stupid monkey, there're no more female saiyans alive, you thought you could look for some kind of replacement? How pathetic!" Smirked Zarbon. "Now... Since my patience is running low I have a new proposition... how about I take the woman, I kill both of you saiyans scum and take your rotten corpse to Freeza to fuck until he breaks you in two?".

Vegeta growled and immediately bended grabbing Bulma on his back and punched Zarbon on his gut. The soldiers were alerted with the attack and Goku began to fight them, not letting them get any near the main fight.

Zarbon was trying to hide his surprise, Vegeta was way faster than the last time he fought him. Just a punch on his face ended a fight the last time he saw him, but now even if he managed to hit him, Vegeta kept fighting. At certain point, Vegeta dropped Bulma avoiding a punch that was directed to his back, Bulma was sitting on the floor with panic, watching how both saiyains were fighting to death. After a moment of shock, she frowned and grabbed the power pole from Goku's back, and without much grace she began to send blind hits around her, and managed to put some soldiers down.

Goku looked at her fighting with his pole and screamed "Power pole, grow!".

She screamed watching how the pole grew on her hands hitting soldiers even far from where they stood. Even when she was being able to hit some of them, others that seemed to be way more stronger were just getting pissed and trying to attack her, just when they were going to, they seemed to stop looking behind her.

Bulma turned around and saw Vegeta on his knees, the Blue haired alien was now transforming into a bigger frog-like version of himself. She saw how Goku's eyes grew wide, she couldn't feel power levels, but she was sure she could feel that now that ugly pansy was way stronger. Before she could even form a thought, she saw how everything began to move in slow motion. Vegeta was being crushed against the floor, there was blood coming out of his mouth, and she could see the pain on his eyes. He was trying to power up, but he couldn't. She looked to her left, and saw five soldiers attacking Goku who was now struggling to get free, but the soldiers seemed too powerful to him, maybe one at a time he could have defeat them... but he was losing, they were losing.. She turned to see behind her, and saw a green alien with bid fangs jumping against her, to attack her, to kill her...

She closed her eyes and winced, but the paint didn't come, she opened her eyes and saw a tall man punching her attacker, to her left another man was... ¿electrocuting Zarbon? he looked just like the first man that saved her, and he put a device on Zarbon's back making him fall to the floor. She looked down and Vegeta was unconscious, his blood was everywhere, and was coming out from his mouth, ribs, eyes... Kami knew how many other places, his body seemed completely broken.

Even with Zarbon down, there were still hundreds of soldiers attacking, and she could hear that there were many others also attacking Freeza's soldiers, she sat on her knees grabbing Vegeta on her arms as trying to protect him from more damage. She had his face on her chest and she put her face against his hair and closed her eyes, waiting for all the screams and blood to end, praying for his wounds to stop bleeding, and over all, praying for him to be still alive.

The fight was still around them, when the man that 'electrocuted' Zarbon grabbed Vegeta from her arms, she screamed trying to get to him again, but another black haired man grabbed her not so gently. She kept fighting for them to put her down and let her go to Vegeta, he needed help, if he was still alive he needed a doctor, and she could help, he needed her, she needed him! The last thing she saw was a short teen, dressed in blue frowning at her. Since she kept fighting for them to put her down, and to get Vegeta back, they hit her on the back of her neck, and now, everything was black.

Her body ached, her eyes were heavy. She was trying to wake up, her mind immediately screamed for Vegeta, but her body was not responding. With difficulty, she opened her eyes and tried to sit. She was in a bed in a small room, fighting her body, she stood up and ran to a window, she looked outside and saw a red landscape.

'We're not in space anymore, where the fuck are we?' She asked to herself scared, she saw a door and walked to it... it was closed.

Frowning she noticed there was an electronic device that opened the door, which was a little weird compared with the room decoration (all wood... or at least it looked like classic wooden furniture).

She took a look to the electronic device, and taking a clip from her hair she began to open it. After ten minutes she managed to open the door just to see a man that was about to enter in her room.

The man was dressed in an armor that looked a lot like Freeza's armor, he also had a scouter. Which meant to her, they were Freeza's men.

"Where do you think you're going?" He said roughly.

"Where is Vegeta?" She immediately asked. She was scared, but there was no way she was going to show it, she needed to find Vegeta and Goku and get the hell out of there.

The man in front of her glared. And then was when she noticed it, that was the man that 'saved her' from the attack of the alien in the ship, his hair was just like Goku's.

"I SAID where IS Vegeta? And Where did you take Goku?!" She demanded.

The man lifted and eyebrow and sighed annoyed, he pushed his scouter and seemed to be talking in a weird language she couldn't understand. Someone was answering him and he nodded.

"Come with me woman" He said again roughly.

Bulma felt her legs were wobbling, but she tried to contain herself as stoic as she could. She followed the tall man in silence while looking around her.

The construction was extremely bizarre, just like her room looked like a mix of an old building and a new one, something that could match a decaying Medieval castle with the newest technology she could see on Earth. Big panels with information were on the sides, huge windows with silver metallic frames adorned the ancient towers.

"Where are we?" She asked, but again she didn't get any answers from the man walking ahead.

The tall man stopped in front of a big door and wrote a code, the door opened and they got inside. There were a lot of 'eggs' shape machines in there, with doors in the front. The man took her to a particular 'egg' that seemed to have something... or someone inside. The machine was filled with a green liquid. Before she could take a better look the man stepped in front of her, he seemed to be looking at someone behind her, since her gaze to the machine was now being obstructed, she turned to see the little man she saw before losing conscience.

"Who are you, woman? What's your name, and where do you come from?" Asked the small man.

Bulma lifted an eyebrow, if there was something Vegeta taught her, was to trust nobody, especially on space. "And who ARE YOU? I think I deserve an answer before you do, you and your men kidnapped us, hit me and Kami knows where you took my friends, so WHO ARE YOU and WHERE ARE MY FRIENDS!" She screamed, the little man looked a little nervous now, but he gained his confidence back quickly and screamed back at her.

"DO NOT TALK TO ME LIKE THAT YOU WEAKLING, DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU'RE TAKING TO? I AM THE KING OF ALL SAIYAINS!" Screamed the little boy.

Bulma was confused "You're the what?" She managed to say... 'Wasn't Vegeta the prince of the saiyans... so this short stack is... the King? It can't be... he's too young to be his dad, he kinda looks like Vegeta tho, but in the wrong way!... But he's younger than Vegeta!'

Bulma finally snorted and smirked "No you're not! You're too young... and short!"

That annoyed him enough, out of rage he began to create a ki ball. Bulma's eyes grew wide 'Oh crap... the short stack can do the magic tricks too! STUPID BULMA!' She was petrified and could feel the warm of the ki ball when a voice behind them stopped the boy.

"TARBLE! STOP IT!"

All turned to see behind them and saw a man that looked A LOT like the one who saved her, and retrieved her from her room earlier, but older in a weird way.

She looked at him as he slowly walked near them, 'that was the man that 'electrocuted' Zarbon!'

"This is not the moment to lose your patience Tarble, your power is needed in bigger fights" Then the man looked at Bulma. "Young girl, I must apologize with the methods we used to retrieve you from Zarbon's ship, but that's all we had at the moment. Both of your friends lay in regeneration tanks, one of them is right behind you" He motioned with his hand, and Bulma turned to see the tank behind her that was not being blocked by the other big guy anymore. 'Damn are these guys twins or what?'.

She tried to look trough the green liquid inside the tank, and saw Goku.

"Are they going to be ok?" She asked.

The man nodded "You came from Earth, didn't you?"

She was a little surprised, and at the same time she didn't know if it was prudent to tell him anything, as far as she knew they were Freeza's men.

The man could see her gaze on his armor and smirked "Do not take us as Freeza's soldiers, I thought that was more than clear when we saved you from that ship".

She was still not sure, but somehow she felt relieved "I-I am from Earth, how did you know?"

The man's smirk turned into a small smile, he was looking pass her, into the regeneration tank. "Because that's where HE was" He said.

"Who are you?" She asked.

"My name is Bardock" he said putting his hand on the tank "I'm Kakarrot's father".

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"Are you still breathing young girl?" Asked Bardock

Bulma was looking at him with wide eyes, she was in shock, then was when she noticed everyone around her had a furry belt... TAILS!

"I imagine this might be some kind of shock to you young girl, but I need answers. How did you find them?" Said Bardock frowning.

"You-You mean..."

"Yes, the saiyains" He interrupted.

"Well... Goku I met years ago, when he was little. We used to go to adventures together...and Vegeta..."

That name changed the faces of the three men around her.

"He arrived in my planet like a year ago, a bit more maybe. He saved us, he lived with me" She said as she looked at the boy running to the regeneration tank besides Goku, the boy was desperately trying to look inside the tank.

"What's going on?" She asked.

The only one that didn't look so surprised was Bardock, he was thinking.

"Is is true, Bardock? Is HIM?" Asked the boy with wide eyes.

"I think so" Said the older saiyan.

"You think? I thought you met Vegeta!" Screamed the boy.

"I met him when he was five!" Screamed the older saiyan, the boy looked at him with wide eyes, somehow he looked a little afraid of the older saiyan.

"He does look like his father..." Said Bardock taking another look into the tank.

Then Bulma remembered. "You trained Vegeta" She said looking at the man who was surprised with her statement.

"He told me" She said making a pause "He... told US" She said looking at Goku. "Goku was curious about his origins, he told us about you... but..."

"Goku?" He asked interrupting.

"Yes... he, that's his name. He was adopted on Earth by on old martial art fighter, he named him Goku". She said, Bardock nodded and she continued. "Vegeta told us you were dead, that you died with the rest of your race".

Bardock stood looking at her 'So he didn't know...' He thought.

"Turles" said Bardock.

"What?" Answered the Bardock look-a-like.

"Order some food, both of them are going to wake up hungry... and angry. I'll start the waking process".

Turles nodded and left. Bardock looked at Bulma and said "There is no point in giving you any more information until they wake up." He said thinking. "What's your name girl?".

She gave him a weak smile and said "Bulma, Bulma Briefs".

Bardock smiled at her and said "Well, I think you didn't introduce each other correctly before, Bulma, this is Tarble. Vegeta's brother".

A/U: Thank you for your reviews! First I must say that the "body glitter" line is from DBZ Abridged, I just LOVE that line, makes me laugh every time I hear it.

On the other hand, about the 'lemon' I know I rated this as M, but I have absolutely no idea how to write that. I know I wanted at least to write about 1 approach between them, but before this point didn't feel right to me. I've always hated the

"Hey nice to meet you, I'm a hot human with big boobs, but you know, I just broke up with my weakling boyfriend! / Hey I'm a saiyan, I'm an ass but I'm hot, I have a penis look at it woman, LOOK AT IT! you know how to deal with break ups? SEX!"

I know I might be taking too long, but just when I was going to make them... 'giggity' on the ship... it was weird with Goku just in the other room... I don't know... But it's coming, I promise!

Thank you again for reading and reviewing!

Edit 19/09/2013 : This chapter is kind of bugged to me... It keep having reviews from it, but it shows no 'views'... Oh well...