Part 6 – A Surprising Ally
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." – Ancient Proverb
Standing proud in her newly given queen's battle attire that was recolored to look like her proud father's king armor, Clara scanned the area around her to look for a sign of the Royal Military, Cretos, or Axmir. Standing next to her on her left was her brother, on her right was Goku, and Lenora and her father stood behind her. While the supporters looked on from underground, they were all afraid for the woman that they risked their lives to protect.
"So, where are they, Gohan?" Clara asked as Gohan jumped up to join them after catching his breath.
"They were right behind me," he said once he realized they weren't coming from out of the underground tunnel. "Maybe they went out of one of the other exits."
"Maybe," Clara quietly agreed as she tried to focus on scanning the area. "Come on, let's go," she said as she started to quietly and lowly run towards one of the major cities. "Stay low to the ground," she said once the others followed her. "We'll check every single underground entrance. Gohan, take your father and go East, Lenora, take my father and go West, and Vegeta, you come with me, and we'll head South."
"What about the North?" Goku asked.
"I'm not trying to walk into their base," Clara argued. "There's going to be more of them there than anywhere else – might as well take out the small numbers first."
"I'm not so sure that's a great idea," Vegeta scoffed at his sister's orders.
"Do not argue with me," she snapped. "This is my planet."
"It's fine," King Vegeta interrupted the sibling squabble that was beginning. "Come on, let's go," he said to Lenora, and once Goku gave Clara a kiss, Goku and Gohan went to their area, and Lenora and King Vegeta went to their area.
"So, what did you mean by that not being a good idea?" Clara quietly asked Vegeta as they continued to make their way to the South side of the planet.
"Father can't keep it in his pants," he replied, sounding disgusted.
"He and Lenora had sex?!" She quietly hissed in disbelief.
"I may have walked in on them," he answered. "It was disgusting."
"You mean, you actually watched them -,"
"No!" Vegeta cut Clara off. "It was right after when they were still getting dressed."
Wow dad, way to go. Just go and have sex with a goddess, Clara thought as she rolled her eyes. Well, actually - "Come on," she said as she undid the first cover to another underground tunnel, "let's go."
"So, what're we going to do?" Vegeta curiously asked as he and Clara began making their way into the tunnel.
"We're going to find the sons of bitches," she told him, "and hopefully, we'll run into Virtus and his men. This is the way they headed."
"And when we find them?" Vegeta questioned.
"If it's Cretos and or his men, then we kill them, and if it's Virtus and his men, we'll team up with them, and hopefully, he'll have the Second Two soldiers on his side," Clara explained. Please, still be alive Virtus, she pleaded to herself.
Cautiously, the Saiyan twins made their way through the tunnels and went every way possible. All the while, Clara kept her rifle aimed, and Vegeta kept his guard up and ready to attack at the sight of any enemy.
"How strong are these guys?" Vegeta asked while the two kept making their way through the tunnels.
"The normal military can only use weapons like I can, but the Royal Military can use energy blasts," she told him. "That's why I can't take them. Because of Gurki's power, they didn't want me knowing any energy blasts, so they didn't teach me any."
"Then how were you able to copy my Big Bang Attack in the gravity room?"
"If Gurki takes over too much of me, then she can copy attacks and aim them at whomever she wants," Clara explained, "but as long as I'm using her, I can only use her power for what I already know how to do. Think of it as a steroid or something like that." Suddenly, coming from around the corner, Vegeta and Clara heard a sadistic laugh that sounded awfully familiar.
"Well, well, well," Cretos said as he came walking around the bend with Axmir by his side. "Now I know what happened to Gurki's power." Quickly, Clara fired a round of bullets, jumped back, and Vegeta blasted the both of them with his strongest attack, but it proved to do nothing. "Very cute, Prince Vegeta," he laughed as he brushed some dirt off of his armor. "And as for you," he said as he smiled sadistically at Clara, "I'm going to need that staff of yours that you have on your back."
"Go to hell," she said, sounding disgusted as she reloaded even though she knew it wouldn't do anything.
"I have a better idea," he said as he began walking towards the twins. "Axmir, bind them." Doing as he was commanded, Axmir bound the two Saiyans and rendered them unable to move.
"How the hell were you able to find us so quickly?" Vegeta demanded to know.
Cretos laughed. "Let's see now," he began sarcastically. "'Axmir, find Kali. Axmir, find Gurki. Axmir, find the Saiyans.' It really wasn't that hard. You bunch severely underestimate me."
"Yeah, and how about if we took that damn staff away from you?" Vegeta snapped at him. "I bet you'd be nothing but a powerless king."
"You can take the staff away all you want," he chuckled. "Hell, here, you can have the staff on Kali's back as well as the one in my hand, but I warn you, it won't do you any good."
Clara scoffed. "You have a broken piece of that staff in your hand, don't you?"
Cretos smiled as he walked up and stroked Clara's left cheek. "Awe, my precious queen, you know me so well."
"Get your damn hand off of her," Vegeta angrily commanded through his teeth him as he tried to break the bind that was holding them still.
"I'd stop moving if I were you," Cretos chuckled. "Don't you remember what happened last time?"
"It's going to take your energy, Vegeta," Clara told her brother. "Stop moving."
"That's a good girl," Cretos said sadistically as he held both sides of Clara's face. "Now, here's what's going to happen, since Gurki's power is already clearly inside of you, I can only assume that you already had that pathetic Saiyan child and took Gurki's power from her with the staff that you possess. I know you're not going to willingly let that power go, so we're going to have a little fun."
Clara spit at Cretos. "You stay the hell away from my daughter," she ordered him.
"I don't want your stupid daughter," he laughed. "However, once you forget how to control Gurki again and she leaves your body again, she'll inhabit the new daughter that we're going to have."
"Our what?" Clara asked in fear and disbelief.
"You heard me," Cretos chuckled. "You'll give me another daughter sooner or later," he began. "Whatever boys are created will be killed, and we'll start all over again until I have the girl that Gurki can inhabit, and then, I'll take Gurki's power from her."
"You son of a bitch!" Vegeta yelled as he continued trying to get free. "Don't you lay another hand on her!"
"Vegeta, stop moving!" Clara ordered him. "You're only going to give them more energy and wear yourself out. I'll be fine. He won't get what he wants."
Cretos laughed as he stroked Clara's ponytail. "Those are some brave words coming from a woman who's not going to remember this conversation, or your family ever again," he smirked. "I hope you enjoyed your short time with that Saiyan trash and your child. I know you're with that Saiyan – I can smell him all over you."
"You're damn right I am," she hissed, "and let me tell you, he found spots in one night that you couldn't find in four years."
Cretos looked at the smirking and cocky Clara with disgust and anger. "Thought relocation," he said through his teeth as he gripped Clara's ponytail tighter and grabbed Vegeta's right shoulder.
…
Heading towards the West side of the planet was King Vegeta and Lenora. Much like Vegeta and Clara's search, their search wasn't turning up much of anything.
"I say we just go destroy the bastard's castle," King Vegeta scoffed in annoyance.
"Kali would never forgive us if we destroyed that castle," Lenora began. "Not that we could anyway. I'm sure that Cretos probably had Axmir put a guard over it."
"So what? We take out whatever Royal Military guards we see by using the element of surprise?" He asked.
"That's the idea," Lenora confirmed. "If we can weaken the Royal Military, then Cretos will be weakened – he's not going to fight as long as he has someone to do it for him."
The Saiyan King scoffed. "Coward."
"He's a coward, but that doesn't change the fact that he's strong and tactical," Lenora laughed. "So, about earlier -," she began.
"What about it?" King Vegeta cut her off.
"I just, uh, well, I wanted to say 'thank you', I guess," Lenora stuttered.
King Vegeta chuckled. "For what?" He asked. "I needed it just as much as you did." Suddenly, in his tracks, King Vegeta stopped to feel what was happening around him. "Do you feel that?" He asked Lenora.
"Is that -?"
"Clara," King Vegeta interrupted her. "Yeah, and Vegeta. Something's happened to them. Their energy is fading – almost completely gone."
"They couldn't have died, could they?" Lenora asked with concern as if they were both of their parents.
King Vegeta thought for a few minutes. "I don't like the feeling of this," he said quietly.
…
On the East side of the planet was Gohan and Goku. Just like the others, their search for any of the Royal Military members was coming up with nothing, and overall, it was just a meaningless walk through the tunnels.
"Hey, dad, what's wrong?" Gohan asked worriedly as he looked at his father's concerned face that he was trying to cover up.
"I'm not sure," Goku admitted. "It feels like something is wrong, but I can't sense anything weird."
"Is it something to do with the others?" Gohan curiously asked as he grew more concerned due to his father's demeanor. In reply to his son's question, Goku felt around for everyone else's energy, and after a long search, he concluded that – aside from his and Gohan's energy, he could only sense King Vegeta and Lenora.
This is bad he thought to himself once he realized that he couldn't pinpoint Clara or Vegeta. "They're not there," he said quietly. "Clara and Vegeta aren't there."
Gohan became shocked at the words his father was speaking. "What?! What do you mean they're not there?!"
"I mean I can't sense their energy, Gohan," Goku confirmed as he tried to find them again, but once again, he turned up nothing.
"So, they're…dead?" Gohan hesitantly asked his worried and aggravated father.
"No," he answered sternly and confidently, "they're not dead." At least I hope not, he added in his head.
…
The echoes of the dripping sounds rang in Clara's ears and soon, she found herself opening her eyes to discover what kind of situation she and her brother were in. A quick glance around the room, and the feeling of familiarity hit her. This is just like that room that Doctor Uling and Doctor Sosa had me in, she told herself. As she looked to the floor beneath her, she saw that she was hoisted high above the stone floor, and her hands had been tied above her head and chained to the ceiling. Although the sounds of the echoes had woken Clara up, she looked over to her left to see that her brother was still knocked out.
"Hey," she hissed as she tried to swing herself towards him and kick him so that he'd wake up, but in the end, she wasn't able to reach him. These shouldn't be too hard to break, she thought, especially now that I have Gurki's power back. Clara went to tap into Gurki's power to help her break the chains, but she found that she was unable to transform, and that her strength wasn't growing whenever she tried to raise it. "What the hell is going on?" She asked herself. "I should be more than strong enough to break these silly little chains."
"Just stop before you break your arm or something," Vegeta said as he opened his eyes and turned towards his sister. "You're not going to break them."
"I should be more than strong enough to break them, but for some reason, I can't even gather enough strength or use Gurki's power," Clara explained as she continued trying to get free.
"You're not going to," Vegeta argued. "This same thing happened to father and me," he began. "When we came looking for you the second time, Doctor Uling prevented us from gathering any energy."
Clara scoffed. "Then how did you transform?" She asked. "When I saw the two of you fight Gurki, he was clearly a Super Saiyan, and you were a Super Saiyan Three."
"We broke the block by continuing to raise our power," he told her. "One clone of Doctor Uling was with us and sending the energy that was in the room with us in one direction, and the Doctor Uling that was in the room with you was sending it in the opposite direction, so that none of us could gather energy."
"Then come on," Clara urged him. "We have to break whatever he's using to block us from gathering energy."
"We can't," Vegeta said tiredly. "I lost too much energy earlier."
"I told you to stop moving around so much," Clara reminded him. "This is all my fault," she said quietly as she finally gave up on breaking the chains.
"No, it's this coward's fault," Vegeta began to counter. "He's the one who found –,"
"I led us to him," Clara told her brother. "I led you and me towards Cretos and Axmir – intentionally."
"You what?!" Vegeta exclaimed in a rage. "You led us to them?!"
Clara quietly nodded as she looked away from him. "Yes," she confirmed. "I didn't think it'd end up like this though."
"What the hell, Clara?! What the hell were you thinking?!" Vegeta yelled at her.
Clara took a deep breath in and tried to ignore her brother yelling at her. "I don't know," she shook her head. "I thought my plan would work, but it clearly didn't."
"Plan?" Vegeta scoffed. "What plan? To get us caught and strung up like sheep?"
"No!" She defended herself. "It was one I was sure would work!"
"And what plan would that be?" Cretos laughed as he Axmir appeared in the room with the twin Saiyans.
"Screw off," Clara snapped at him as she tried to kick him as he moved towards her.
"You always have been a feisty one," he chuckled as he held her legs, and as Vegeta saw him, his anger towards his sister was moved towards his evil brother-in-law.
"You stay the hell away from her," he ordered through his teeth which caused Cretos to turn his attention towards the Saiyan Prince.
"Axmir," Cretos began ordering, "inflict pain on him every time he chooses to speak or move. I don't care what you do – just don't kill him."
"Understood," Axmir replied in a monotone voice.
"Stay away from him," Clara ordered Axmir as he closed in on her brother and began deciding what he was going to do, and even though he meant it would result in his torture, Vegeta couldn't hold back on trying to keep Axmir away from him and Cretos away from Clara.
"Now, back to you," Cretos smirked as Axmir formed a knife in his hand and sliced down the Saiyan Prince's right cheek. "What's this plan you're talking about?" He asked.
"Wouldn't you love to know?" Clara said in disgust.
"It doesn't really matter what your plan was because it's not really going to matter," Cretos said in a casual tone while he started to take her boots off, and again, Vegeta tried to get him away from her which resulted in more pain inflicted upon him. "Now, since Uling and Sosa couldn't do their damn jobs, I suppose I'm stuck doing it."
Clara scoffed. "There's nothing you can do to me that your little minions didn't already do."
"Exactly," he laughed. "Tell me, does this look familiar?" He asked as he pulled out the staff that Clara had taken from Axmir. He laughed once more when he saw the look of realization on Clara's face. "Now, you're completely powerless."
Cretos, now having both staffs and the broken piece off of the second staff had complete control of the God of Darkness. "You know, I trusted Axmir with this staff when I gave it back to him, but I can now see that it was just a mistake, so now we're back at where we first started, and I must say, you look mighty cute strung up like this." Again, his words provoked more fight out of Vegeta, and again, he was cut. "So, now, all I guess there's left to do is to get Gurki's power from you."
Clara laughed. "Good luck," she said as she spit at him which resulted in Cretos slapping her across the face, Vegeta trying once again to get free, and Axmir inflicting more pain on the prince. "You can do whatever you want to me," Clara continued, "but you should know that no matter how many times you have your way with me, our half-breed will never be able to be a host to Gurki. Not only will I not allow her to leave my body again, but she also can't inhabit the body of a half-breed, you moron. So, this just goes to show how much you don't know about the power you want so badly."
Cretos smirked. "She'll leave your body once you forget how to control her again, and having her out of your body is a start," he said as he held up a syringe full of the drug that had been given to her time and time again to make her forget everything she knew. "So, you can say 'goodbye' to your brother who's going through all of this pain trying to stop me, that Saiyan monkey that you've been sleeping with, your 'precious' little daughter, your 'honorable' father, and that stupid maid."
"So then do it," Clara challenged him as she hid the fear and nervousness in her voice. "Let her cause mayhem on your planet – it's exactly what you're doing anyway, as far as my daughter and my family – they'll remember me while I can't remember them, but we found a way to get my memories back before, so we'll do it again."
Cretos snickered. "If you were going to leave this planet again, then yes, maybe you would, but none of you are leaving here."
With nothing left to do, Clara tried to kick the syringe out of Cretos' hand as he moved closer to her, but he dodged every one of them, and when Vegeta tried to help her, he was only met with more torture. As her heartrate began to speed up, she felt the sharp tip of the needle enter the vein on the left side of her neck, and the red fluid that she hated so much slowly entered her bloodstream – causing her to lose consciousness.
"Let's go," Cretos ordered Axmir. "Stop what you're doing and take me back to the throne room. We'll come back later." Doing as Cretos ordered, Axmir got rid of his knife and he and the Sroidian King vanished out of the room.
"Wake up!" Vegeta yelled over at his sister whose eyes were closed but struggling to open. "Come on, wake up!" Slowly, her eyes began to open, and she looked to her left to see her badly cut up brother still next to her.
"How do I remember you?" She asked him. "I should've forgotten you."
"You mean; it didn't work?" Vegeta asked in confusion. "Why didn't it work?"
"Should we question it?" Clara scoffed. "Idiot. He must've made a bad batch."
"We need to get out of here," Vegeta said, changing the subject back to what they were doing before Cretos and Axmir came in. "There has to be a way out."
"Goku will find us," Clara said quietly and confidently. "I know he will."
Vegeta scoffed and became offended. "If you think I'm going to put my faith in that idiot, then you must have gone crazy. You may be confident in him because you're sleeping with him, but I am not. I'll get us out of here."
"That's not why I'm confident in him, and it was only once," Clara argued quietly as she continued to try to figure out why the drug hadn't worked on her. "He'll come because he loves me."
"Well, clearly he's not coming," Vegeta argued. "Otherwise, he'd have been here by now. He may be an idiot, but it doesn't take him long to figure out that something's wrong."
"Unless he can't," Clara said quietly.
"Huh?"
"It's just like the prison except backwards," she added.
Vegeta caught on to where his sister was going. "Where we can sense out there, but they can't sense us in here," he realized. "We aren't supposed to be found."
"That's why he hasn't come," Clara confirmed. "He can't sense our energy."
"But what's the point in that?" Vegeta wondered. "If they wanted to kill all of us, then they would've made it so that the others would be trapped in here just like the prison cell when they came to help us."
"They don't want to kill everyone – just us," Clara realized. "We're the only two Royal Saiyan family members besides dad, the Sroids hate the Saiyans, so they targeted us because we're technically the Saiyan Prince and the Saiyan Princess."
"Then they would've gotten father as well," Vegeta argued. "He's the king. Why go after the two of us and not dad?"
"And why didn't that drug work on me like before?" Clara thoughtfully added.
…
In King Cretos' throne room, he sat atop his throne drank a glass of his wine, and looked down at his faithful servant – Axmir, the God of Darkness, who was kneeling before the Sroidian King.
"The trap is laid, correct?" He asked Axmir in a serious tone after taking a sip of his drink.
"Yes, your majesty," Axmir replied. "Once the Saiyans find Prince Vegeta and Queen Kali, they too shall be trapped in the room."
"And you've made it so that the piece of trash sleeping with my wife can't use that little technique of his, correct?"
"Yes," Axmir confirmed. "No energy from outside of the room can be felt – just as the prison cell was."
"Very well," Cretos nodded. "And how long will it take for Kali to lose her memories? The sooner she forgets how to control Gurki, the better."
"It should be about an hour, your majesty," Axmir replied. "The drug that Doctors Uling and Sosa gave her acted on her already existed amnesia from the accident, so the affects were immediate."
"Excellent," Cretos laughed as he got up and walked towards Axmir. "Soon, my loyal servant," he began as he motioned for Axmir to stand. "Soon, we will have the darkest power of the Saiyans to have ever existed, and then everything shall be at our disposal."
"Yes, your majesty," Axmir agreed with a smirk. Although Cretos could see the smirk and desire for power on Axmir's face and in his eyes, what he couldn't see was the small piece of a broken staff that was under his large toe in his left shoe.
"You've done well," Cretos smiled as he walked past Axmir and continued drinking his drink. "I ought to offer you more than half of Gurki's power."
"No, your majesty," Axmir declined. "You deserve all of it, after all, you are the mastermind."
Cretos laughed and felt flattered. "Why, thank you," he replied. "It takes a lot of quick thinking to come up with what I did – especially with no help."
"Right," Axmir smiled. "You, sir, are a genius."
"Aren't I, though?" He chuckled. As he continued to walk around, a wave of fatigue engulfed his body. "Axmir," he said tiredly as he felt like he was going to pass out.
Axmir smiled. "Yes, sire?"
"I feel as though I may have drunk too much," Cretos said as his gait became wobbly. "Put me in my sober state at once." However, unlike every other time Axmir had been told to do something, he just smiled as he heard the order. "Axmir!" Cretos yelled. "Return me to my sober state right now! I command you!"
Axmir laughed as the piece of the staff that was in his boot appeared in his hand. "Do you, now?" He smiled as he held up the broken piece to Cretos who had begun falling to the floor. "You listen to me, King Cretos," Axmir began in a mocking tone. "Your days of controlling me are over. I'm a God, not your puppet, so yes, Gurki's power will be taken; however, that power shall be contained, and you shall be put in the grave that you've dug for yourself. Now, what I put in your drink won't kill you," he continued as he began to pull the staffs off of Cretos' back and look for the broken piece in his pocket. "You will, however, enjoy a nice, long nap." As Cretos fell completely to the floor, Axmir gathered everything that he needed so that he could take complete control of himself once more, headed out of the throne room, and strapped his staffs to his back. And if I have to team up with the Saiyans to put him in his grave, then so be it.
…
"So, do you want to tell me what this plan of yours was?" Vegeta asked his sister for lack of anything better to do.
"Yes, but I don't want you to yell at me again," she scoffed.
"Just talk," Vegeta ordered her.
Clara took a deep breath in before explaining why she and her brother had been captured. "Something happened with Virtus," she began. "I can pretty much say he's dead. I took you and me to the South because that's the direction that I sent him and his army in; however, I knew that once word got to Cretos about Virtus being killed, he'd go to the South Section to collect the body of his traitor. I wanted to find Cretos – that's why I wanted everyone else to go a different way – I didn't want them caught, but I thought that you and I would've been able to handle him. There's a, and it sickens me to say, but there's a torture room in the castle that's used whenever we have enemies, and Cretos wants information taken from them. I thought he'd take us there, and if he had, then I could've gotten us out of there, we could've found the staffs, and we could've ended this by now, but once again, I was stupid and underestimated him. I should've known that he'd have something like this up his sleeve, but I overlooked it – thinking it was too much to come up with in such a short time, but somehow he had it all worked out. That's why I didn't want you to keep moving once we were caught, I knew we'd need your strength in order to get out and get the staffs. It was the only chance that we had of getting into the castle – if we had just gone in through the front door, we would've been killed, and it was a risk that I had to take."
Vegeta scoffed at what he was hearing from his sister. "Well, look where your little plan got us," he said as he gave her a harsh reminder by rattling the chains around his wrists.
"You don't need to remind me," she said quietly as she turned away and stared at the door that led to and from the room. Out of nowhere, the door creaked open, and one of Clara and Vegeta's most hated enemies walked into the room with a serious look on his face. Axmir, who had come in alone, snapped his fingers and the chains that held Vegeta and Clara broke apart and disappeared into thin air – dropping the Saiyan twins on the ground.
"You're welcome," Axmir said in an unenthusiastic tone as he watched Vegeta and Clara stand back to their feet.
"What the hell was that?!" Vegeta demanded to know, and Clara's face said that she wanted to know as well.
"Don't question it," Axmir said as he turned and walked out of the door. "Come with me."
"And why should we?" Clara asked, skeptically. "You've done nothing but cause pain to all of us."
"If you want King Cretos dead, then follow me," he ordered them, sounding more stern. "Consider me an ally from here on out."
"I'm sorry, our what?" Clara asked in skepticism as she and Vegeta cautiously followed. "Why on Earth would you want to be our ally?"
"We have similar interests," Axmir sighed. "Let's leave it at that."
"Similar interests?" Vegeta questioned. "You just gone done cutting me up, and you expect us to believe that we have similar interests?"
Axmir stopped, exhaled, and turned around to face the Saiyans twins. "Here," he said as he held his hand up to Vegeta's head and healed him completely. "Happy?"
Vegeta scoffed.
"What are these 'similar interests'?" Clara questioned as she watched her brother's face go back to normal, and the trio continued walking.
"We all want Cretos dead," he told them.
"So then go kill him yourself if you want him dead so badly," Vegeta hissed.
"Don't you think I would've if I could've?" Axmir said, beginning to sound irritated as the three of them entered the back hallway of the throne room.
"Why can't you?" Clara curiously asked as the walls around her began to feel familiar. A few moments of silence went by before Vegeta and Clara realized that something was wrong. "Axmir, why can't you kill him?" Clara asked again, this time, sounding more demanding.
"I thought I could," he began, "but I found out that I don't stand a chance against him."
"Stop beating around the bush and spill it," Vegeta snapped as the door to the throne room began to open.
Axmir took a deep breath in. "He kidnapped a Namekian from Namek, forced him here, and forced him to create a set of dragon balls just like the ones on Namek," he began. "He's wished for immortality and invincibility, so not only can he not die naturally, but he can't be killed." After walking through the back of the throne room, the two in shock Saiyans and Axmir walked around the back of the king and queen's thrones to see the still-unconscious Cretos lying on the floor. "I was able to knock him out by spiking his wine though," Axmir continued. "No matter how much I put in it, he won't die, but he can still be knocked out."
"But you have your staffs," Clara pointed out.
"Yes, and the pieces," Axmir confirmed. "So while he may be powerless, we still can't kill him."
"Except he's not powerless," Clara argued. "He's got the Royal Military on his side. That's 15,000 men who are as strong as can be, and he still knows how to put up a good fight. The only thing he's missing is controlling you."
"Not exactly," Axmir admitted as the three of them looked down at the unconscious king. "He may have taken some of my energy and used the staff to transfer it to himself."
"He what?!" Clara exclaimed. "How could you have let him do that?!"
"It's not like it was my choice," Axmir defended himself.
"So how did you get free if he was controlling you the whole time?" Vegeta suspiciously questioned.
"Everything I've done is for a reason," Axmir began. "When he gave me my staff back, I broke a piece off to use as a failsafe, and then I fixed my staff. I purposely let Kali take the full staff in hopes that it would be a start to getting me free, but you see how that turned out. From then until now, I've allowed Cretos to control me, but when I saw an opportunity to take my freedom back, I took it, and now here we are."
"So you want to kill him for controlling you?" Vegeta asked.
"Yes," he confirmed. "I'm a God. He shouldn't have the power to control a God, and if working with you Saiyans is the way to achieve that, then so be it."
"Fine," Clara nodded as she continued to look at her unconscious ex-husband. "I'll trust you – for now – but if I even think that you're going to betray us, I won't hesitate going after you."
Axmir smirked. "You should be more careful with your words when you're speaking to a God."
"I don't care what you are," Clara argued. "If I feel like you're going to hurt me or my family, I will end you, are we clear?"
"Crystal," Axmir smiled. "Shall we shake on it?" He asked as he held out his right hand to Clara. Carefully, Clara grabbed his hand, and the two of them shook on the deal to become allies. And once this is all over, Gurki's power will be mine, he told himself as he let go of Clara's hand and looked back down at Cretos. I'm sorry, Kali, I just can't allow you to have all that power to yourself.