Chapter 50

Interlude: Turles

Turles left his uncle and the old man scientist after a while, Bardock had pretty much nailed down the price and type of capsule he was buying, well, that Turles was buying. Now they were discussing the finer points of space ship engines so Turles took off. He decided to head for his ship back on Mt Pao, just to cool his head.

Turles was angry, he was so angry he couldn't even express his anger. Some of it came from the extract of the fruit that he'd consumed. Lakasei had done a lot of research over the years, he found that the fruit's power boosts leveled out after a while and they were not good for long term mental stability. As someone who valued their wits, Turles had made a vow to avoid the fruits if possible. That didn't mean he wouldn't use the cache he had if he needed to, just he wouldn't unless he really needed to.

Right now, if gulping down every drop would let him kill Brolly, he'd do it. However Brolly was too strong, even if he forced the stuff down Gohan's throat there was no certainty it would be enough. He had to watch his little cousin suffer, and he hated it.

On top of that, the fact that Raditz hadn't told him. He wouldn't say that he told Raditz every dirty secret in his closet but he told him the important stuff. The fact that Raditz had not once pulled him to the side while they were preparing for Brolly's arrival and told him the whole truth, well it made him angry because he didn't want to admit that it hurt.

Raditz was his best friend, even when he was the weak little thing that survived his first mission by a hair, that had been pulled from the healing tank much too quickly. Turles had taken an immediate shine to the frail child, even as his mother was telling him the boy would probably not survive. He helped him learn to walk on his tiny legs and watched his baby cousin defy the odds and survive his ordeal enough to be sent out the second mission of his life.

His Uncle hadn't really cared then, he had gotten back from his mission, seen the boy, looked shocked and turned right around to go on another mission. Raditz's mother had been shunned after that, sent off by the higher powers to work in the plants that produced food for the hungry populous of Planet Vegeta and Raditz was practically alone from that point on. Turles was the one that looked out for him.

Bardock would spend his time off his missions either drinking himself into a stupor, or visiting his mate. Turles was the one to seek out his small cousin and take him along while he escaped combat lessons. The two were inseparable when they were together, even when he ran away, ditching the Planet Trade Organization and becoming wanted by the Cold and the Saiyan Empires, he had made plans to go back for Raditz.

Then he'd heard of the so called meteor that had hit the planet, that lie gave to the truth quickly though, Freeza had it out for all saiyans, bounties on their heads, rewards for their hearts. Raditz was lost to him and he went into hiding. His grief at the time was another wave of rage; it was the emotion that came easiest for him. He killed without the promise of profit, and he was still too scared, too weak to face the person behind it all, Freeza.

Turles was captured by Freeza's men, and tortured, because of his likeness to his Uncle who had defied Freeza. He told them it was a common face among the third class and that he'd never heard of the man named Bardock. They didn't care, the recorded his pain for Freeza, but then they screwed up and he'd escaped. They told Freeza he was dead, he went along with it.

He found the seeds to the Tree of Might and made plans for revenge, but there was never enough power. The surge would level out and he needed more and more of it. So he amassed a crew and they destroyed worlds by the dozens, harvesting more and more of the fruit. However the power was still not enough, and then he heard that a saiyan had killed Freeza. It took the wind out of him for a while but he just did what he'd been doing, gaining more power destroying more lives, branching out in the vacuum created by Freeza's demise.

Then he came to Earth, and by then he was so long gone in the dark, in his own pain and causing it that he didn't care if Kakarot resembled his long dead Uncle, or that he'd found other saiyans after so long of only hearing whispers. He was arrogant and he was obsessed, and he lost. His crew was killed or hobbled, and he barely managed to crawl away in the aftermath of it all. To make all so much worse, he asked around about the saiyan who defeated him, he was he same saiyan who killed Freeza, and the same saiyan that had killed Raditz. Raditz had been with Freeza the whole time and he hadn't known he was alive.

He'd lost the seeds, and with them access to the great, and easy power they promised him but he still had his other enterprises. He healed Lakasei, who had been barely clinging to life, needing the Beenz's brain which the little imp provided after he was done bemoaning the loss of his brother. Only pieces of Cacao had survived enough that Lakasei was able to eventually rebuild him with a few more mechanical parts. Amond had been severely injured but he was the first to ditch Turles when he realized the Tree seeds were gone, normally Turles would have hunted him down and killed him but let it go.

Turles ditched Lakasei for a while, just to wander around and embrace the pure brutality of beating up those weaker than him just for the fun of it. He ruined other people's operations just so they'd have a bad day and he carried on like that for a while, pissing people off where ever he went. Then he ran into his uncle on Kapoli. His uncle was alive and more importantly so was his little cousin.

Turles arrived on Earth, and let Raditz pull him into this crazy thing they called a family with Kakarot's woman, and two brats, with little Parzni who he adored, and his Uncle who was all changed for the better now. He still had a criminal empire to run, but he got to be the nuisance of the family too. It was a little sickening but he got comfortable with it. Raditz being a breeder made no difference to him, when he asked about the father of his little cousin's sprog, Raditz told him it was a rogue saiyan he'd run into, that the saiyan was now dead. That was true but he never said it was Brolly, the same saiyan that they told him Vegeta had been afraid to face. They told him Brolly was some kind of Uber Super Saiyan, a mutant freak with power that seemed endless. They told him about Brolly, Raditz did not tell him that Brolly was the same rogue saiyan that raped him.

Turles was angry with Raditz, he'd never been angry with Raditz before and he wasn't really sure how to handle it. If it were his Uncle he'd punch him, if were Chi-Chi he'd break something, if it were Gohan or Goten he'd ruin something of theirs a book, or a toy, if it was Ox-King he'd trip the giant bastard up and watch him fall with that dopy look on his face, if it were Parzni he's threaten not to take her the next time he went treasure hunting, but it was Raditz and he didn't know how to be mad at Raditz. He'd have to do the mature thing and talk to him about no matter how queasy that made him.