A blood promise

Age 737

Planet Meat

"Shugesh! Fasha! Borgos! What happened !" Bardock yelled out unable to contain his shock after seeing his massacred comrades. Their lifeless bodies unmoving it the rubble of a battle-scarred landscape.

"It can't be!" Bardock yelled

"Bardock." A weak voice called out from the rubble.

"Tora! Oh my god!" Bardock ran to his comrade.

"Don't tell me you let those meatheads do this to you guys?" Bardock asked holding his injured ally who laid in his arms.

"No, no way, you should know us better then that Bardock" Tora said weakly, words barely leaving his mouth as he tried to put on a smile but barely being able to put on a weak grin.

"I didn't think so, well what happened then?" Bardock questioned Tora, none of this making any sense to him.

"We were ambushed by Dodoria and his men" Tora said.

"But Frieza is the one who ordered us here" Bardock said shocked at his comrades words.

"It was a setup, Frieza wants us all dead" Tora said regaining his vigor trying to explain the dire situation to his comrade .

"But why,?" Bardock couldn't believe it, "I mean, after all we've done it doesn't make sense ! We took the jobs that even his elites wouldn't mess with and we still won!" Bardock couldn't contain his frustration. His crew served Frieza for years and now when they are becoming more powerful than ever he wants them gone.

Tora started coughing up blood, barely hanging on to his life. "We were starting to be the best fighters in his force" Tora weakly said "Frieza is scared"

"Scared of what!" a confused Bardock asked.

"Of you Bardock! Frieza is scared of you" Tora said his onyx eyes meeting Bardock's "He is scared of what you might become, you are getting too strong "

Bardock was only now beginning to understand what is happening. All his life he had been living on the edge of life and death just for that monster, trying to get stronger and cast away his low class status but it was all for nothing. His hard work and determination was all for nothing, it even doomed his crew and his race.

"Promise me something Bardock" Tora said hanging onto his life force by a single tread "Promise me that you will save my wife and newborn son "

"I did not even know you had a son Tora" Bardock said. He did not even realize that in the midst of all these missions he had not even thought about his family once yet alone Tora's family.

"Yeah he is a few days older than your son, I found out about him when we came back after our last mission" Tora tried to laugh at the situation but did not have the power to do so.

"I am going to try and save him and your wife, I promise" Bardock looked Tora in his eyes as he promised to fulfill his friends dying wish.

"Thank you, my friend and good luck" as Tora said those words he smiled while Bardock saw the life in Tora's eyes vanish .

"Goodbye Tora you were my best friend " Bardock admitted to his fallen comrade. He and Tora had finished more missions then he could count, he always envisioned dying alongside his crew facing insurmountable odds, now he would have to do that alone. He laid down Tora's unmoving body, his hand covered in the blood of his best friend. Bardock took off the piece of white cloth that Tora always wore on his arm since they were kids. Barock gripped the piece of cloth in anger letting it turn crimson from the blood that was on Bardock's hands. Bardock promised to himself that he would do everything to try and avenge his fallen friends.

Planet Vegeta

A white light is seen entering the atmosphere of a harsh blood red planet, a space pod lands on the landing deck of Planet Vegeta, a saiyan warrior steps out of it barely standing. Two Frieza soldiers rush over to see what is happening.

"Bardock!" A shocked Frieza soldiers exclaims unable to believe what he is seeing. Bardock the infamous low class saiyan soldier is standing there propped up against his space pod looking like he just came from a war zone. His saiyan armor is shattered and Bardock's body is bloodied and broken. It would be easier to count the parts of his body which aren't covered in blood then it would be to count those which are.

"Are you alright?" asked the other Frieza soldier.

"Yeah I am, please I need to go. Move!" Bardock said as he showed the soldiers out of his way. His body was barely holding on after battling Dodoria and his men. But he had to find Tora's wife Chaya.

"Do you know where the saiyan Chaya is?" Bardock asked the Frieza soldiers.

"I think she just went home with her baby "Said one of the soldiers.

"Good" Bardock said as he gathered what little strength he had to fly off in search of his best friends wife and child. A white streak trailing the bloodied fighter as he flew over the rocky land of the crimson planet.

"Oh my god look at this" one of the Frieza soldiers said to the other as he looked into Bardock's pod. The seat was covered in blood where Bardock was previously sitting.

Bardock landed just outside of Tora's home, he could smell the food that was cooking on the inside. Tora's house was a small one if you could even call it that. Tora had started a relationship with a low class female fighter named Chaya. He remembered seeing her once when he and Tora were preparing to leave for a new mission. Bardock barged into the small house not caring for manners as he yelled out "Chaya!"

A female saiyan came into full view holding a baby in her hands, the baby playing with Chaya's long black spiky hair.

"Bardock? Oh my god what happened to you? Chaya exclaimed seeing Bardock bloodied and bruised with a panicked look on his face and a red bandana on his head.

"Listen to me you and the baby have to leave. Now!" Bardock yelled in panic.

"Leave where? Bardock what is going on? Where is Tora? Chaya questioned Bardock not knowing why Bardock even came into her home.

"Tora is dead! My whole crew was ambushed by Frieza's men on his orders! My whole crew is dead I barely survived" Bardock said trying to explain the situation to Chaya

"What it can't be, why would he do that!" Chaya said trying to understand what Bardock is saying, Bardock's crew was one of the strongest in Frieza's army that is what drew her to Tora. Bardock had to be wrong it just makes no sense.

"We were staring to become too strong, Frieza is scared of what we might become, he is scared that we will overthrow him one day" Bardock said to Chaya.

Chaya just stood there trying to process what Bardock just said, it's true that they were staring to become more powerful but to think that Frieza would be scared of saiyans was difficult to wrap her head around.

"Why should I trust anything you just said Bardock!" Chaya did not want to believe what Bardock was saying.

"Look" Bardock said as he took Tora's bandana of his head "This is Tora's, he always wore it on his left arm" Bardock gave Chaya the piece of cloth "That is Tora's blood on it, his dying wish was for me to make sure that you two were saved"

This hit Chaya like a bag of bricks, she knew that Tora would never give the piece of cloth that was always on his arm to anyone. He would never give it up voluntarily, meaning the father of her child is dead. And if Bardock was right she would also be dead along with her child.

"Bardock I can't leave this planet, I have spend my entire life on it and I would rather die fighting for it than run away" Chaya said to Bardock "But I want my child to survive, I want my child to grow stronger then I or Tora ever were so let's go"

A child in black and blue armor is put into a white space pod with a red piece of cloth next to it. A woman looks to the child for the last time as she types in the coordinates. A tear rolls down her pale face.

"Goodbye Torato, we will meet again"

Thank you for reading, please leave a review any criticism is welcomed. If anyone is interested in beta reading this story I would greatly appreciate it. I hope everyone has a great day. Peace out