He didn't get much sleep. He was far too excited for the night ahead of him.
At the moment, he was out waiting for his soldiers to come to him. The room was already filling up and he had already seen Raditz and Kakarot. Pulling Tarble out of bed was a little hard as his brother was up taking care of the scouter problem. He had left Bulma to her sleep though. It made him really happy that Tarble and her were getting along.
"So you ready for this?" Tarble asked, still a little groggy from his lack of sleep.
"I've been dreaming of this." He stated as Tarble passed him one of the new scouters. He felt himself smirk for a second. "Put your scouter on and put it on the lowest frequency."
His brother looked confused, but did as he asked. "I don't see what….." His brother looked at him in shock.
He laughed to himself as he watched his brother begin to talk with Gure. He had promised the girl this. It would be the only way that the two of them could talk without putting them in any danger.
He walked away, giving his brother some space and began handing out the new scouters himself.
"Hey Vegeta." Kakarot said wiping his eyes.
"Why do you look so tired. You didn't have as much to prepare for." He said.
Kakarot yawned. "I accidently got into some alcohol. Mom wasn't too happy about that."
He couldn't believe that his young charge had gotten drunk. "How the hell did you get alcohol in the first place?!"
"Oh, some of the adults were celebrating the upcoming battle. I was curious." Kakarot said, rubbing his head.
He sighed. "Just don't let it get in the way of your work. You have a battalion to command." He said bringing up the attack plans again.
The younger snapped to attention. "I'm really going to lead them?"
He chuckled at the boy's excitement. "This will be your first mission as my Captain." The hologram changed to show the middle of the city. "You will be in charge group 2. Your group will be taking a lot of hits. Keep the ground forces from getting air born and make sure that my group can get to the tunnels under the palace." He looked back at Kakarot to find him absorbed in the plan. It looked like he was studying everything. He did have to give it to Kakarot. While he wasn't very smart, he did pick up on anything that had to do with battle.
"How many are on my team?" Kakarot said, analyzing the main street.
"Your team is the largest, over half of our soldiers will be with you." He stated, watching for any resistance, nervousness, or fear. He found none.
"Who is going to be in charge of group 1?" The younger asked, curiously.
He smirked. Of course Kakarot would want to know that. "I'm giving that task to some of the class 4's. Their job is important, but they will be used the least in this attack."
"Where will my parents be?" Kakarot asked.
"Your father will be with you, while your mother stays here. Both Raditz and Tarble will be with me until we get to a small shaft in the tunnels. I will be going up; they will be going down." He explained.
"Why are they going down?" The boy said looking over the hologram that was now showing the interworking of the palace.
He crossed his arms. "The rest of the Tech-Techs must be down there. That's where most of the help stayed and from what I learned from Tarble, they are the doing all of the servant jobs."
"Why free them? Won't they see you as a threat? You didn't treat their ambassador with respect." His young charge pointed out.
He smirked. "They were sold into slavery by their ambassador and had their royal family hunted down. They will be happy enough to find out that their princess has survived and that she was safely in our care."
His young charge cocked his head to the side. "I thought it was because you wanted Tarble to do that nasty mating thing with her?"
His eyes scrunched up. "Tarble wants to make her his mate." He watched the look of disgust on the boy's face. "Do you think that she isn't good enough for him?"
"Well no, I was just saying that mating is gross." The boy said, looking like he didn't want to think about it.
"Did your parents give you the talk recently?" He teased.
The boy shook his head violently. "No….I asked Raditz."
He couldn't help it. He fell to his knees in laughter. "So now you think that mating is gross."
The boy nodded. "Yeah, I'm not going to do it."
He chuckled. "You don't really get a choice. It will happen on its own. Besides, what about Chichi?"
The boy looked confused. "What do you mean?"
"Oh come on Kakarot, you have to like her." He said, turning off the hologram.
"I do like her. She's my friend." He said.
He wasn't expecting that. "So you only see her as a friend?"
"Yeah, how else would I see her?" Kakarot asked.
He sighed "Never mind." The boy would see it someday. He would learn.
He turned away from Kakarot, to look over the room again. It was still filling up. Looking up at the clock, they were still on time.
Tarble seemed to have the scouter glued to his head and he couldn't help but smile as the boy blushed. When this was over, things would be easier on all of them.
It was still bizarre to him, 3 years ago he would have never imagined going to war with his father. He would have never thought that he would have found his mate on an unknown planet in the middle of unknown space. The idea of having Saiyans that weren't born to fight, being on a battlefield would have been laughable. His brother staying in that room, would have been normal. Raditz would have stayed with that crazy woman. Kakarot would have remained a weak soldier. They would still be under Frieza.
He took a deep breath. Soon, they would be off. And he would be going towards his destiny.
"You look like you have a lot on your mind." Raditz said, handing him a bag.
He opened it to find a bunch of senzu beans. "Are there any more than this?"
"Who do you think I am? There's a bag for every five people." The long haired boy said.
"Good." He attached the bag to the side of his armor. "I did want to talk to you about something else."
"What would that be?" Raditz said warily.
"I just want to know what you told Kakarot about mating?" He said almost laughing.
Raditz let out a chuckle. "I just told him the truth. Apparently, he couldn't handle it."
"That's an understatement. He says that he is never going to mate now." He joked.
To his surprise Raditz didn't seem to find it that funny. "I can see him fighting against it. Our parents are happy, don't get me wrong, but I don't see him being a family man with a mate and kids. He's more work oriented."
"What about me?" He asked. He was just as driven, if not more than Kakarot was. So why was Kakarot the only person that Raditz would think that wouldn't mate.
"You're a prince. You will be a King. You will need to have a successor. Without that, you may as well be forgotten." Raditz seemed to know his fear. "With Kakarot and myself, there are plenty of others to replace us. We aren't royalty, but members of the third class."
"You may have been born in that class, but the two of you have capabilities greater than that." He pointed out.
"That really doesn't mean anything. We could still be replaceable, even if we were born elites. There are other smart Saiyans, as there are plenty of skilled fighters." Raditz said, taking a strange bottle out of his pocket.
"That may be so, but your skills are up to my standards." He argued.
"That is true, both Kakarot and I know what you want and how we need to do it. But that doesn't mean that you couldn't find someone to fill in the gaps." The older boy said, taking a swig of something. It was then that he realized that the boy was drinking some alcohol.
"Are you drunk?" He almost yelled.
"No. That's my first drink really. I'm just preparing myself for this." The long maned boy sighed. "Like Tarble, I have never been on a battlefield before. This is going to be strange for all of us."
"All of you?" He said confused.
"My people from the med-wing passed their test" The older boy said, crossing his arms and leaning against the control panel.
He smirked wickedly. "So they are Nightwalkers?"
Raditz gave him a nod. "It seems that every Nightwalker is truly different though. Every single one of them have different abilities. Just like how both Tarble and I operate. I'll have to look into that."
"Speaking about smart Saiyans. Have you heard anything else about Onna or Zera?" He knew that this wasn't the best time to bring this up but it may calm the other boy's nerves.
"I've heard nothing." Raditz looked down at the floor. "From what I can tell, it may take me years to track her down. Unless I find any leads, I don't know where to start." The older Saiyan said dejectedly.
"Where was she the last time you saw her?" He knew that he needed to change the subject, but there was really no avoiding it.
"She was at the commission. As you know, she could get anywhere. They have stations all over the galaxy" The boy said, taking another swig.
"No. You really don't have to look." He said, taking the container from the boy and taking his own swig. "With time, she will come to you."
The older boy just nodded.
He looked back up at the clock. The room was full and it looked like everyone had their scouters. It was almost time.
He watched as his brother sadly turned off his scouter, giving him the signal that he was ready for this.
He nodded at Kakarot, who looked over at his team. He could see everyone filing into their squads.
"Vegeta!" He turned over to the doorway to find Bulma standing there. He couldn't help but blush. Chichi and Gure had refused to change out of their civilian clothes. He thought that she had made the same decision. But there she was in a set of female Saiyan armor.
He couldn't help himself as he flew over to her. "Why are you here?" She was sound asleep when he left this morning. They shared a barrack, but they had different rooms.
She blushed. "I just wanted to give you something before you left."
He looked at her still distracted by what she was wearing. She was made for the look that the armor gave her.
She giggled as she leaned in and gave him a small kiss, which he turned into a much more heated one.
He heard a couple of catcalls and froze in place. He forgot where he was for a second.
"Good luck." She said to him confidently.
He smirked. "I will see you when I return, my queen" He watched her turn even redder as he flew back to where he once was.
Everyone turned to salute him. "This is our moment of triumph. From here all of us fly towards hell with a vengeance. We will make our enemy fear the day that they chose to betray us. The day that my father tried to take my life, was not only an attack on me. But an attack on everything our race stands for. Tonight we will take everything from them. Giving them the pain and justice that they deserve." He looked about the room, looking over his entire army as readied themselves for him to say the word. "Tonight, we show them what elite really means. Tonight, we say to hell with your ancient ideas. Tonight, we take the first step towards building an empire that rules the entire galaxy!" Below him the roars and snarls of approval only served to strengthen his resolve. "Do not fear, the sounds of death. Embrace what you are. Embrace your heritage." The roars grew louder. "Tonight, we take back what is ours!" He turned his back to them as and pressed a button on a small console. A huge set of doors opened up, letting the moonlight come down upon them. No one changed into an oozaru as predicted. "Now let us strike fear into all that oppose us! Let us take our victory from their cold, dead bodies!"
To Be Continued…
Author's Note
Yes, I left it off before the battle. Trust me, next week's updates are going to be all action. And we also get another long speech from Vegeta (I'm actually follower of all things politics and not just from by country of origin. So I did some research into some different speeches before writing these.) Both the alternate Raditz story(the Middle Child) and Tarble story(Long Live the King) are up. They won't update as much as this one and this one is coming to an end soon. Yes, you heard that right. This story will continue into a third part which will mainly have the ending to a lot of different plot points in it. Not that I will be giving anything away.
Again, I hope you have enjoyed this story so far, as I have enjoyed writing it.
