Chapter 2 - Target
We sat in the kitchen; I watched the hologram video again. A shadow, it was so fast. The movements indeed looked like old school techniques of the Frieza Force. But it's still impossible that this is the same person I once knew.
Bulma came and sat next to me and looked at the pictures Jaco had taken. "So she was on your team?" Bulma looked questioningly. I pulled the picture toward me, but didn`t look at it. "No, this is not the that person. The person in the picture is not my old teammate."
Jaco came to stand with us "or she is the winter soldier". I threw him an angry look "nonsense, it does not exist. And we are going to prove it. Is your stupid ship ready yet?" Jaco sternly crossed his arms, I stood up and he looked at Bulma and said a bit trembling "You still had something for us right?"
Together we walked into my wife's lab, the place was always a mess. She grabbed a case of DynoCaps. Bulma started to tell which DynoCaps she had in the case. From sleeping places, food to medicines and other objects. Jaco was grateful, myself I didn't think it was so necessary, I was a warrior. I didn't need this stuff though.
Not much later we were at Jaco`s ship. Bulma gave one last lecture about the stupid DynoCaps. "Oh and last but not least, inside this Cap is a sedation mask. All you have to do is put it on and occasionally pop a capsule of anesthetic gas." Rolling my eyes, I listened to the story. I wanted to get this over with quickly.
We had been on the way for two hours, not a word was spoken. Something I personally liked. Although I was getting annoyed to death from the radio station that the purple white alien had put on. I don't know what I find worse, listening to the blathering of the alien or this radio station. My eyes kept closed, hoping I will sleep for a moment.
As I slowly began to drift asleep, the fool began to speak. "Vegeta, can I ask you something?" I took a deep breath "sure". Not that I felt like it, but the sooner this social stuff was over the sooner I could get some rest again.
Jaco began to speak. "I recognized the person in the picture from the old Frieza register, it said died in action. Was she ever found or did she disappear?" I closed my eyes again for a moment, thinking back. It was not a pleasant memory. "She blew herself up; there wasn't a to body to find." The patrol man was silent again.
Yet five minutes later that one started talking again "so there was no body". I was so done with this, why had I talked myself into this situation that I was coming along? "Just shut up." I dropped my chin on my hand and stared at the stars. There is a logical explanation why that person in the picture looks like Yuri, but it's not her!
After another twenty-four terrible hours we were planet Lamp. When we landed there were more Galactic patrolman. We got out; I felt eyes staring at me. A stately man approached me "You must be Vegeta, prince of the Saiyan race. Thank you so much for coming to protect Minister Fred."
Quickly I turned to Jaco, who anxiously took a step back. "Did I mention that you're sort of going under cover?" I had to suppress the urge to punch this patrol man with extreme difficulty. But then I heard a voice behind me "Vegeta, is that you?" when I turned around I saw Bozis there, formerly a commander in the Frieza Force.
Surprised, I looked at him "Bozis was it?" He nodded yes and took my hand. "That we would ever meet on this side. Who would have expected that?" We shook hands, still not understanding what he was doing here. "Oh I'll catch you up; I was never really in the Frieza Force. I've actually always been under cover". The man started laughing hysterically; I could only wonder how this moron survived this long.
Then the old commander became serious "But now to business. Someone has been targeting the senior politicos and ministers of the galactic ministry. It's the winter soldier; we need to get him now". Jaco came to stand next to me "her" and he handed a picture to Bozis, who looked startled.
"Wait, did you tell anyone the identity of the killer mercenary?" i looked at Jaco. He looked down "only my boss and you". He tapped his fingers together nervously. I sighed deeply once. "And isn't it an idea that you show people what the assassin looks like?" Jaco looked at me; he had sweat on his head.
The stately man who was waiting for us earlier interrupted us. "We have to go gentlemen. Here is your robe, stay close to the minister" I held a beige robe and looked at it as if it were a dirty cat from the street. Jaco and Bozis put it on and the hood over their heads. I reluctantly did the same.
We walked with the minister across the corridor towards the parliament hall. I had a scouter on, but this was of no use to me, perhaps for communication. There were few high power levels here, but I tried not to focus on heights of power levels. More on the patterns on which individuals moved.
Then I picked out something strange, a low power level but sat in a strange place. High, behind a pillar. So low that the scouter didn't even pick it up, but strangely present. In front of me I saw the minister walking, with Bozis in front of him who suddenly looked up and slowed down. This was the beginning of the attack!
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw from behind the pillar a completely dressed in black figure dashing off. With a mega speed towards the minister, I blocked the attack by jumping between them and blocking the figure.
All I could see were two icy blue eyes staring at me angrily. I powered up and blew the figure backwards. "Jaco the Minister!" Jaco grabbed the minister by the arm he was making a move to get help from Bozis, but I was one step ahead of him "Bozis, you fight beside me or against me now. It doesn't matter to me".
Bozis stared at me, then at the figure. The person was trying to get past me; this one had its focus completely on the minister. I hit the figure so hard that it flew out through a wall. Quickly I followed my target. It fired a ki shot at me, I blocked it. I must admit the attack was stronger than I expected,
I pulled the robe off of me, the scouter I put off and squeezed to pieces. My power level went up, energy flowed through my body. My target flew at me, there was a lust for fighting. A fist tried to hit my face, but I dodged. Until suddenly I did feel knuckles against my lip. "I felt that!"
As a counter reaction, my fist flew into my opponent's stomach. A woman's voice gave a scream in pain, but immediately recovered by making a kicking motion. Those icy eyes looked angry; we were fairly evenly matched,
Somehow I was done with this fight, though it was reasonably entertaining. A new power up brought me to Super Saiyan. But also my opponent became stronger; this could become interesting I thought. We flew at each other again. Although her attacks were more powerful, there was something that kept her from fighting fully. Then she tried to get past me again.
With my hand I grabbed her ankle and threw her in the completely different direction from the minister. I also flew after her. She managed to recover and landed on the roof of a building. My fist landed on her face and she flew across the roof with her face down, her mask falling off. She stood up and looked straight at me.
"Yuri?" I stared at her. Her eyes might have been colder, but every detail was right. The little scar on her eyebrow, the stubborn tuft of hair on her head even that little bite out of her ear. "Who on hell is Yuri?" she turned to me but then she was blown away by a surprise counterattack from Bozis and a group from the Galactic Patrol.
Chaos ensued, smoke and explosions everywhere. Shit I thought to myself. I tried to find her ki, but it seemed to be gone. Suddenly a ship flew away, as fast as I could I flew after it. I recognized the ki`s on the ship. But the ship was going in light speed, it formed an energy that blew even me away.
Jaco and I were in a room with some other patrol man and the minister. Again the picture Jaco had taken was on the table. Reluctantly, I confirmed that it was indeed Yuri. And that I was going after her. Everyone looked surprised. "Jaco, can you find out the location of Bozis' scouter?" Jaco grabbed a device from his pocket.
After a few clicks, we saw a blinking light on a map. "I hate light speed, but we know where they are." Jaco looked pleased with himself. "Then we'll go now." Jaco started sweating and grabbed my wrist "Vegeta, uh light speed, our ships can't do that." I felt irritated.
Then the minister stepped forward "maybe not yours. But ours can. Please, take mine". Satisfied, I grabbed a key from the minister's hand. "Come Jaco, you were so eager to catch the villain". The space police man strolled after me. My next target, Yuri!