Before this chapter starts, I just want everyone to know that Bardock's squad have their Japanese names. For the most part, I prefer them over there English ones, but that's just me.
Bardock flew forward with Toma, Panbukin, Toteppo, and Selypa behind him. He knew that the Ginyu force had gone this way. He just wondered what they were after. What could be over here that was so important?
As they continued to fly, it came to him. The lab was over on this side of the city. "They're planning to take out the lab!" Bardock said.
"How do you know that?" Panbukin asked.
Toma rolled his eyes. "We're flying that way."
"It's right in front of us." Selypa agreed.
The fatter saiyan grumbled under his breath.
Bardock knew they didn't have time for arguing though. "We have to stop them," he stated. "They probably want to take some of our plans as well."
"It would be bad if they got their hands on our tech," the only female commented. "Those lizards would be unstoppable."
"Especially if they got anything that your boy made," Toma said.
Bardock couldn't help but grin at that. Every time someone wanted something that Raditz made, he couldn't help but feel proud. It made him want to shove it all in the faces of those that said that his line was weak after his eldest was born.
They flew closer, seeing some damage to the building. "They must already be in there," Toma said.
Bardock growled. "We're going have to split up in there. Stay in teams of two."
"What about you?" Toteppo asked.
"I'm going to find Ginyu," Bardock said with a grin. "Find the others and take them down."
They nodded and split up. Selypa and Toma went one way while the other two went the other. Bardock walked down the hallway that was straight in front of him. He knew where his son's office was. Ginyu had to be there. He smirked. He couldn't wait to see Ginyu's head roll across the ground.
Toteppo and Panbukin had gone to the right, but they could already hear the sounds of talking. "Who do you think is down there?" Toteppo asked.
"Who cares? We're just here to kill them." The fatter saiyan said with a laugh.
From down that hall, they saw two men come out, Guldo and Recoome were walking towards them. "So it looks like we have someone to play with, Recoome." The small green man said. Recoome only laughed.
The two saiyan's didn't have much time to move out of the way as a blast came from Recoome. Guldo only pointed to where the large man had to fire, laughing like a madman.
The larger saiyan looked over at the fat saiyan, noting the holes in the floor. They had no time to get their bearings though, seconds later the wall next to the fat one caved in, as Recoome stood over him. Guldo continued to laugh. "The other one is going to try and move behind you." Guldo said.
Panbukin growled. They were using some kind of mindreading powers. They were going to have to take out the small one first if they were going to get anywhere.
The fat one sent Toteppo a signal, then made to focus completely on Recoome. The redheaded alien punched him in the gut as the larger one moved around, quietly, making it look like he was knocked out.
The fat saiyan continued to take hit after hit. He could hear the green alien laughing at him, but he didn't really care. This was giving his partner a chance. They couldn't let Bardock down. Their leader trusted them to take out these guys and he would do what his leader asked.
A blast moved forward, cutting Guldo's laugh off. Recoome stopped and turned his head, just in time to watch the green alien's head fall to the floor and roll towards him. "Guldo…" The redhead turned back towards the fat saiyan. "I'll kill you!" Recoome struck Panbukin in the jaw, breaking it as he went into a blind rage.
The fat saiyan moved his leg up, hitting the giant in the crouch, making Recoome let out a groan in pain. Panbukin move his hand up, gathering all of his life force in one hand. "I'll see you in hell." He blasted it out of his body, sending it straight through the alien's, blood fell to the ground, as did Recoome.
Toteppo moved forward, trying to get over to his fallen comrade. His arm was numb as he tried to move Recoome off of Panbukin's body, but he was able to manage. He gave his comrade a smile. "So you went out in glory then? Fucking bastard."
Toma sighed. He wondered if anyone else had been lucky.
"Are you paying attention?" Selypa asked.
"I'm paying attention," Toma said. "I'm just worried about Bardock going after Ginyu by himself."
"Bardock is a big boy," She said, walking past him. "We need to look for those cronies of his."
"If we're lucky, we'll get to see them do that stupid dance of theirs," Toma laughed.
She couldn't help by giggle at that. "Yeah, what do they think they are? Dancers?"
"All they look like is losers," He laughed.
"We look like losers?" Both of them stopped as they heard a voice behind them and turned quickly, only to be pulled apart and shoved into each wall. "Who's the loser now?"
"Come on, Burter, you going to show off that speed of yours again?" Jeice said, laughing to himself.
"I was just putting them in their place," Burter said, looking over at his comrade.
Toma looked across at Selypa, the two of them nodded at each other before Toma moved his hand down sending a blast into Burter's knee, making the blue alien cry out in pain and forcing him to release them.
The two saiyans fell to the ground, but pulled themselves back up quickly. They needed to get out of the way.
Burter made to grab at Toma again, but was given a swift kick to the face by Selypa. She was breathing hard. "Go after Jeice, I'll get this one."
"You think so?" Burter laughed, "Like you can out speed me!" The blue alien rushed her again, hitting her in the ribs. She felt some of them crack, spitting out some blood.
Toma moved quickly after Jeice, leaving Selypa to her fight. He knew better than to interfere with another saiyan's fight. She wouldn't forgive him if he jumped in to help her, especially with Jeice still running around. "Get rid of him quick." Toma said, before launching himself at the red alien, grabbing Jeice's white hair and slamming his head against the wall.
Burter made to ram his leg into Selypa's stomach again, but this time, she grabbed his leg, twisting it awkwardly. The blue alien growled, trying to speed away from her, but she held on to him as he dragged her through the building. "Did you just want to show me around?" She taunted with a grin.
"Crazy, fucking bitch!" Burter snapped, but stopped trying to run. He made to bash her head in, but she moved at the last second, grabbing the blue alien's head, and shoving it into the wall.
Down that hall, Toma kneed Jeice in the stomach, only for the red alien to grab his foot, tripping up the male saiyan. Toma fell to the floor as Jeice climbed on top of him, punching him in the face.
Toma moved his arms up, grabbing onto the arms of the red alien as his lips dripped blood down his face. "Give up, saiyan. You can't win."
The male saiyan growled, "Our kind will survive."
"I doubt it," Jeice laughed. "King Cold will execute your leader himself."
"A scumbag like Cold will never touch our emperor." Toma snarled, grabbing the red alien's arm and biting down into it, pulling off the tissue in one go. Toma spit it out off to the side with a laugh as Jeice went to grab his arm, giving him the shot he needed. Grabbing the red alien's, neck he twisted it, snapping Jeice's neck in one go. Toma sighed, pulling himself up. He laughed. "Good riddance." He knew he had to find Selypa now, wondering if she had taken care of Burter.
Down the wall, Selypa was dragging Burter's head against the wall. His blood was running down it as she jabbed his back in, right down on where his kidneys would be. Burter let out a groan as he collapsed against the floor. She blasted him, making the blue alien's face melt.
She looked over at him and laughed, even if it hurt. "That wasn't as hard as I thought it would be."
Toma looked down at his hands. "We've become stronger. King Vegeta's rule weakened us…the Emperor has made us strong."
A step creaked and they got ready for another fight, only to find Toteppo walking towards them. "Where is Panbukin?" Selypa asked.
The tallest fighter looked off to the side. "He died in battle. I took out Guldo, but Panbukin put all of his power into taking out Recoome."
"At least he died with honor," Toma said as Selypa coughed up some more blood.
"We'll have to tell Bardock when we find him," Toteppo said. "Then he can break it to the widow."
"She'll be set for life though," Toma said, pulling the female around. "He died protecting the empire, she will understand."
The group nodded. "Let's find Bardock. I want to see if he's got Ginyu down for the count." Selypa said, coughing.
"Maybe I can find you a senzu bean," Toma joked and she glared at him.
Toteppo shook his head as Selypa moved away from Toma and down that hall. "You're a mated man, Toma."
"I know…" The soldier looked away from the taller saiyan. "It doesn't mean that I can't look though." He walked after the woman, she was right. They needed to find Bardock.
Again Toteppo shook his head. "And you think I'm the idiot."
Bardock moved through the building quickly, getting into the main lab. He looked around but found no one. He sighed, walking over to a station that had his son's name on it. He read his son's writing and grinned. It was in tuffle, but over the years, Bardock had picked up a couple of words.
He grabbed a vial in front of it and pocketed it. What better way could Raditz test it out? He figured that his son would be amused if he knew what Bardock was planning to use this for.
But he needed to move on. His son's office wasn't far from here.
Bardock walked through the compound, going up a flight of metal stairs, finding the office completely empty. There were files thrown around the room. Ginyu had to be fed up with trying to find anything he could really replicate. All of the ideas that were scrapped were in here. Unless Ginyu got into the computer system, there was no chance of him getting anything.
The saiyan moved on, leaving his son's office, and walked down a small strip, only to hear the sound of someone rooting around. Bardock looked at the door in front of him. It was Tarble's office. He growled; if the Prince was in his right mind, he would kill anyone for touching his things.
But it looked like that was going to be up to him. He could hear the scanning sound of the purple alien's scouter. "Hmm, more of this dead language. I didn't think that those monkeys would make such a tough security system."
Bardock smirked. 'Go ahead, underestimate us.' He thought to himself.
Ginyu sighed. "I hope that Zarbon is doing better than I am. He should be finding better things in the palace library." The captain moved out of the office, just for Bardock to surprise him by bashing his face into the wall. Ginyu fell backward, down to the lab below.
Bardock jumped over the railing, only to look straight into the purple alien's eyes. Seconds later, he shook his head. How did he get on the ground? He felt a punch to the face and fell against the floor.
Bardock made to move, but his body felt strange, but he didn't understand why.
He heard a laugh and turned to find his own body laughing at him. Bardock looked at a computer screen, only to see his reflection in shock. Somehow, he was in Ginyu's body.
"So I see you've discovered my little ability." Ginyu sneered. "After I kill you, I can go after your family. I imagine that I can get close to that Emperor of yours with a body like this."
Bardock growled. "Give back my body."
"Like I'm going to do something stupid like that." Ginyu chuckled. "You're going to have to fight me for it."
Bardock snarled. "Like I'll let you leave this place in once piece." He made to throw a punch but Ginyu blocked it with ease.
"You're not used to that body. There's no way you can win." Ginyu chuckled. Bardock couldn't help but growl as he felt a punch to the gut, then a blast in the chest. "Thanks for the body." The captain said, about to walk out the door.
Bardock pulled himself up, sending a blast over Ginyu's shoulder. "I told you. You're not going to take one step out of this place."
Ginyu turned back, chuckling darkly. "I guess that wasn't enough to kill you. What a shame."
The saiyan snarled, watching as Ginyu powered up another blast. He barely dodged out of the way, diving forward and grabbing the captain's legs, knocking him down to the ground.
Bardock moved quickly, getting ready to punch the alien in the face as their eyes locked. Again, the saiyan felt the sensation of moving, but this time he was back in his own body. He growled, pushing his knee up so that he could kick the captain off of him. The saiyan had the upper hand now that he was back in his own body. Ginyu had already wounded himself after all.
Ginyu didn't seem too thrilled about the idea of being back in his own body though as he tried to move forward, but was hindered by the gash in his chest. The purple alien had to get back into the saiyan's body or parish.
Bardock tossed an energy blast at the captain, making him fall onto some glass from the broken lab equipment.
The captain laid there, biding his time as the saiyan walked up to him. He knew that the saiyan would look down at him, believing him dead. Ginyu had his entire plan worked out.
The moment he knew that the saiyan was standing next to him, he opened his eyes staring upward. He expected to transfer, but only screamed in agony as a strange liquid fell on him.
Bardock tossed the vial that was in his hands. Raditz would be proud that he was able to read the tuffle words for Caustic Soda. Raditz was always talking about how base burns were worse than the acid ones.
Ginyu was trying as hard as he could to get the burning substance out of his eyes, but soon his nose burned as well as his mouth as his skin began to melt off of him.
The saiyan stood there, looking down at what he had done with a smirk on his face.
"Kill me." Ginyu whispered as the compound began to spread to his lungs.
Bardock only stood there and watched as his comrades gathered around him. "What did you do to him, Dock?" Toma asked.
The leader smirked darkly. "I just showed him one of my son's concoctions." The rest of the saiyans laughed. "Where are the others?"
"All dead." Selypa answered.
Bardock looked over his team, noticing that someone was missing. "Where is that tube of lard?"
"He's dead." Toteppo said.
The leader sighed. "Did he take down a Ginyu?" Toteppo nodded. "Then he will have died with his honor intact. I will see that Vegeta gives him a proper burning." Bardock growled down at Ginyu as the purple captain took his last breath. "We'll just leave their corpses for the animals," Bardock said, looking down at Ginyu. "I bet Coco would find this one delicious."
With those final words, Ginyu took his last breath. Bardock took pleasure in the fact that the last thing the captain heard was how his body and those of his comrades would be defiled.
"Let's get out of here," Toma said. "Selypa needs a senzu."
"Toteppo, take Selypa to a medical unit. Toma and I will return to the Emperor." The large saiyan nodded, then picked up the female before walking out of that place.
"I could have done it." Toma said under his breath.
Bardock grinned, "Should I tell your mate…"
"You wouldn't dare," Toma said angrily.
"Stop fooling around. You're only going to get yourselves in trouble. I doubt your mate and hers are going to like it." Bardock sighed.
Toma glared at him. "It's not my fault that I mated too young."
"We'll talk about your relationship problems later. I just don't need you muddying up the battlefield with your desires," Bardock told him, walking past his second in command. "The emperor is waiting."
Toma sighed. "I'm coming."
"That's what I thought."
To Be Continued…