Chapter 1
Age 758
For the later years, Turles spent most of his time destroying planets, collecting the seeds, planting them, eating the fruits and repeating the process, he did this process enough times to be one of the most powerful beings in the universe outside of Freeza's army, he was even hired multiple times to protect civilizations from Freeza's influences, and many times lazy soldiers from Freeza's army paid him to conquer a planet in their place, he didn't care about credit or glory, all he wanted was their money so he could live the independent life he wanted, when he wasn't working as a mercenary he was spending his rewards on bars and brothels across the galaxies, and in one of these bars he found two Saiyans like him, he didn't spent much time in Planet Vegeta but he recognized one of them as Prince Vegeta himself, since he was in a good mood, Turles decided to approach them.
— Your majesty, I wasn't expecting to meet someone of your class in a place like this. – Said Turles.
Before he could get any closer, a bald Saiyan stood in his way.
— Who the hell do you think you are to approach the prince like this? – Asked the bald man.
Vegeta took a look at Turles, he didn't recognize him, but he recognized his tail, a Saiyan, much like himself.
— It's okay, Nappa. – Said Vegeta.
— Nappa? – Turles burst in laughter – What the hell happened to your hair?
— W-What? You bastard… - Said Nappa, grinding his teeth.
— Watch your mouth! A low class warrior like you doesn't have the right to speak to the elite in such manner! – Said Vegeta.
— Low class warrior? – Asked Turles – I advise you not to underestimate me, "prince", but leaving that aside, I didn't come here to start a fight, as fun as that would be.
— Then what the hell do you want? – Nappa asked.
— I simply came here to offer my services as a mercenary. – Said Turles.
— Ha! Your services? What makes you think that we need the help of a scum like you? – Asked Vegeta.
— I don't know, perhaps it was the scouter you're wearing, or maybe your armor, you claim to be an "elite" but you're just another one of Freeza's dogs, you always come barking to me when you need help.
— What did you say? – Asked Nappa.
— Your heard me the first time, when you're too lazy for a work or you see a planet that's a little stronger than usual you always come to my services, this time I was kind enough to come to you.
— If you keep talking like that I'll make you swallow your teeth! – Screamed Nappa.
— I'd like to see you try… - Answered Turles.
Before a fight broke out, another Saiyan with longer hair wearing a similar armor approached them.
— Here are the drinks. – Said the third Saiyan, holding two glasses of martini.
Then he stopped and took a long look at Turles.
— What the hell are you looking at? – Asked Turles.
— K-Kakarot? – Asked the Saiyan.
— Kakarot? My name is Turles.
— Sorry, is just that you look a lot like my younger brother…
— I guess the low class warriors are mostly carbon copy of each other. – Joked Turles.
— Raditz, since you're here, go with him. – Ordered Vegeta.
— W-What? Go where? – Asked Raditz, confused.
— To our next planet, I'm curious to see if this man is really strong as he says or all he can do is talk. – Said Vegeta.
— Oh, so you're interested on my services after all? I'm glad, but I don't work for free you know, if you want to hire me you gotta show the reward first. – Said Turles.
— Of course I know that, I'm not stupid, Nappa, show him the money. – Said Vegeta.
— Uh… right. – Said Nappa.
Nappa grabbed a sack full of gold and showed it to Turles.
— But don't you think you'll get paid before the job is done. – Said Vegeta.
— Of course, so what's the work? – Asked Turles.
— You'll take Raditz with you to conquer this planet, don't get me wrong, I am more than capable of doing it myself, but I'd rather not waste my time, so you two will do it, if you manage to finish the job the money is yours. – Said Vegeta.
— Heh, and here I thought you'd give me a challenge, very well, I'll accept your deal. – Said Turles.
— Raditz will take you there, don't worry, I'll be waiting here for your return, if you survive that is. - Said Vegeta with a cocky smile
— And how can I know you'll really be here when I come back? – Asked Turles.
— You can use Nappa's pod to go to this planet. – Said Vegeta.
— W-What? – Asked Nappa.
— Hmm, okay, tell me where this planet is and the job will be done. – Said Turles.
Turles and Vegeta continued to discuss the details of the job for a few more minutes, when Turles got enough information, he got in Nappa's pod and parted away with Radditz.
— This is the place. – Said Radditz, getting out of the pod.
The planet was mostly a massive desert of red sand, there was barely any oxygen in the atmosphere, most of the air was pure sulfur.
— Hmpf, this place stinks. – Said Turles, when he also got out of his pod.
— Well, now you know why that bastard Vegeta sent us here in his place. – Said Raditz, putting on a gas mask over his mouth and nose.
— Whatever, let's just get this done with so we can get the hell out of here. – Said Turles.
Suddenly, they felt the floor shaking beneath their feet.
— What now? – Asked Turles.
— Watch out! This place is overtaken by giant sandworms! – Screamed Raditz.
Right after saying that, a giant purple worm like creature came out of the ground and tried to attack them.
— Oh, that's just great! Sandworms! – Said Turles.
Turles was annoyed for allowing himself to be fooled by Vegeta, besides the terrible odor on the atmosphere of the planet, underground monsters were by far the enemy he hated the most, it was painfully annoying to kill them, most of the time he simply destroyed the entire planet instead of killing them one by one, but that wasn't an option there, he was hired to conquer this planet and he wouldn't give Vegeta the satisfaction of failing this job.
Turles killed the creature with a single punch to the face, despite the annoying nature of the enemy, they were weak.
— I-Incredible! – Said Raditz, surprised by Turles' power.
— Behind you! – Screamed Turles, pointing at another monster behind Raditz.
— Double Sunday! – Yelled Raditz.
Releasing two energy beams from his hands, Raditz also killed the creature with a single attack.
— Impressive, I guess you're not bad after all. – Said Turles.
— I may not be as strong as Vegeta or Nappa, but don't you dare to call me weak! – Said Raditz.
— With someone like you by my side we shouldn't have much trouble dealing with these things. – Said Turles.
— Sure, if we get in trouble we can just use the Oozaru. – Said Raditz.
— Oozaru? Oh, right, it's been so long since I last used that that I forgot about it, but with enemies like that I doubt we'll have to appeal to that. – Said Turles.
— R-Right…
Turles and Raditz continued to hunt down each one of the creatures until there was none left, it took them much longer than they predicted, but at last, the job was finally over, Turles didn't break a sweat after the whole battle, but Raditz was clearly exhausted.
— Ah… that… must be the last one… - Said Raditz, gasping for air.
— Hehe, what's wrong? Tired already? – Mocked Turles.
— N-No… it's just… the atmosphere of this place… it's hard to breath… - Raditz tried to make an excuse for himself.
— Yeah, this smell is killing me… - Said Turles – But you're stronger than you look, why do you walk around with those morons?
— Tsc, it's not like I have a choice, Vegeta and Nappa are the only one who show me some kind of respect on Freeza's army. – Said Raditz.
— Oh yeah, I can see that, sending you to this dump of a planet. – Said Turles – Why don't you leave them? Get stronger on your own, I never needed anyone's help.
— Well… I'm not like you. – Said Raditz.
Turles grabbed a fruit he was keeping with him and threw it at Raditz.
— You wanna get stronger? Eat this then. – Said Turles.
— Eat it? – Asked Raditz holding the fruit in his hand. – Alright…
Raditz took a bite of the fruit and when he swallowed, he felt an immense power boost.
— W-Wow! What the hell is this thing? – Asked Raditz, eating the rest of the fruit.
— I know, incredible right? The first time you eat it you find a power you never knew you had. – Explained Turles.
— Do you have more of these? – Asked Raditz.
— Right now, no, but think about what I said, you don't need to follow anyone's orders, if I were you, I'd try to find this brother of yours and convince him to join you, then you'd never have to deal with Vegeta or Nappa again. – Said Turles.
— I… I'll think about it, thanks, Turles. – Said Raditz.
— Don't thank me, I'm not your ally, just a mercenary, one day we may fight as enemies, if that happens, for your own good you better get a lot stronger than you are now… - Said Turles – but for now let's get the hell out of here.
Turles and Raditz went back to the planet where Vegeta and Nappa were waiting for them, their bodies were stinking with the smell of the planet, Vegeta burst in laughter when he saw everyone avoiding them because of their odor.
— Laugh all you want, the job is done. – Said Turles.
— Right, I can smell your victory from here. – Said Vegeta.
— Raditz? I think my scouter is broken, your power is way higher than it was before. – Said Nappa.
— Ha! Maybe if you moved your ass instead of leaving all the hard work for me you could get stronger too. – Said Raditz.
— W-What did you say? – Asked Nappa.
— If you want to fight I'll gladly face you, but only after I get my payment. – Said Turles.
Vegeta threw a bag of coins at Turles, he realized it was much more empty than before.
— Vegeta, where's the rest of my payment? – Asked Turles, in a serious tone.
— I don't know, I guess I spent a little here and there, I'm sorry, is that a problem? – Asked Vegeta.
Without saying a word, Turles powered up, the number on the Saiyans' scouters were unbelievably high, 3000, 5000, 8000 and it blew up after reachin over 10000, Vegeta and Nappa were dumbfounded, Turles' power was simply ridiculous.
— Is… is that the legendary… Super Saiyan? – Asked Nappa.
— D-Don't be ridiculous, Nappa! - Said Vegeta, dumbfounded by Turles' power.
— Super what? I don't care what you're talking about, I just want my payment so I can get out of here and take a long bath, so… you either give me my gold or I'll paint the walls red with your blood – Said Turles, staring at Vegeta.
Vegeta got up from his seat with a look of pure rage on his face.
— I guess you made your choice then... - Said Turles, preparing for battle.
Everyone in the bar turned their attention to the Saiyans, a bar fight would surely make things a lot more interesting.
The first one to attack was Vegeta, smashing his fist on Turles' face, Turles responded by grabbing his wrist and twisting it until he heard a snap that made Vegeta scream in pain, Nappa was frozen in place, not knowing what to do, Raditz was doing his best to hold his laughter, Turles interrupted Vegeta's screams with a headbutt against his nose that sent him crumbling away, everyone in the bar was cheering at the scene.
— How dare you... - Said Vegeta, holding his bleeding nose - How... DARE YOU!
Vegeta charged against Turles in a blind rage and landed his knee against the mercenary's guts, Turles was completely taken by surprise by his speed and before he could react the next attack was already coming his way.
— Big Bang Attack! - Yelled Vegeta.
A massive explosion followed, blowing up the entire bar and killing everyone in it except the 4 Saiyans.
— I guess you're not a fan of audiences. - Said Turles among the dust.
— That... did nothing... - Remarked Nappa.
— I guess I can play with you for a while. - Said Turles.
Even faster than before, Turles flew towards Vegeta and punched his guts, the prince fell on his knees gasping for air.
— I'm not done with you yet. - Said Turles.
The mercenary lifted Vegeta by the hair and punched his stomach again, making the prince spit his blood on Turles' face, which clearly annoyed him, much to to Vegeta's amusement, but Turles punched the smile away from his face.
Vegeta was knocked out on the floor, now even Raditz was a bit worried to what would happen next, but he was glad he wasn't the one going agaist Turles.
— That's all you can do? - Asked Turles - That was ridiculous...
Turles started charging his own attack, a powerful ball of purple energy that would send the prince to the after life, then he felt a heavy hand on his shoulder.
— W-Wait! - Said Nappa.
— If you wanna die then wait for your turn. - Said Turles.
— Your payment! - Said Nappa, showing a bag full of gold coins.
Turles dismissed the energy and picked the bag of gold, this time it was much heavier.
With a grin, Turles let go of Vegeta's hair and let his body fall on the floor unconscious.
— Nice doing business with you, "prince". – Said Turles before walking away, he had no more reasons to stay there.
Turles left the planet and went to the next one, looking for more opportunities to make money, but he left a mark on the memory of the Saiyans, Vegeta was mad at the idea that a low class warrior, a mercenary who sold his services to anyone who pays more, was so much more powerful than him, he refused to believe that there was a Saiyan stronger than him in the universe, Raditz pondered about his words, leaving Nappa and Vegeta for good and live on his own, the idea crossed his mind many times but the voice inside his head suddenly got a lot louder, not much longer after his encounter with Turles, Raditz followed his advice and left to Earth to try to find his brother and maybe fight by his side…