Passing the Time part 4
Vegeta fell on his knees screaming, his entire body was burning, he could smell his burning flesh and burning hair. He dropped and rolled on the hard metal floor over and over again rolling from the left to the right, until the fire finally died down to nothing. Vegeta slowly put his feet under him using his arms as stabilisers, standing up leaning against the wall, he looked at his damaged body, dark brown second degree burn marks everywhere with the still present smell of his burning flesh and hair, it raised his ire. He thought to himself seething with gritted teeth 'Who ever did this will pay. I will find out who they are and make them suffer, before ending what remains of their worthless life.'
Vegeta using the wall as support limped to the infirmary the way he knew, which was longer than the one unknown to him, the hidden door and it's corresponding emergency passageway.
The human Doctors removed his armour, and placed him in the medical tank. Once in Vegeta was floating in the green liquid with the oxygen mask on he stayed vigilant but not conspicuously so. As his experience showed, he couldn't hear anything in the liquid, he could feel energy now for sure, but that didn't tell him much, so he kept his body relaxed and his eyes only slightly open by such a tiny fraction, that to the casual observer he had his eyes closed or was sleeping. This was all so he could be fully aware of everything around him, a trick he learnt on Planet Trade Organisation controlled planets, that were in fact more dangerous places than purge planet combat zones. They were so dangerous because most PTO soldiers had a grudge against the saiyans for wiping out the vast Bulk of their population, especially since the saiyans were the main work horses of the PTO, the disgruntled soldiers would take any opportunity to fulfil their vengeance.
Vegeta kept his eyes Focussed on the area he could see in front of him through the plexiglass tinted by the green liquid, he began thinking of the first mission he did after becoming a ward of Frieza and before his planet blew up, after the mission he found out that they as saiyan mercenaries, they got paid in vast sums of God spent mostly on High quality chef cooked food and from Nappa learnt that saiyans usually exceeded Target planet Quotas. The PTO regulars on the other hand made up of survivors recruited by the clean up crew also made up of regulars, who were more powerful than their fellow race but cherished their life above everyone else's forced to aid in the purge of their own survivors or die along with them. They didn't get paid in gold like mercenaries no they got paid in food stamps for every planet they conquer they get five months worth of food each, this was how Vegeta and Surviving crew was treated after his planet blew up, they were paid in food stamps for every planet they purge, however the five month food stamp payment only lasted them fifteen days, forcing them to go from Target planet to Target Planet without much of a break. The princes crew because of their productivity were kept around. Vegeta visibly shivered at the memories of being Frieza's ward, constant mental demeaning, physical humiliation, many times the saiyan crew were forced to strip naked in the presence of Zarbon (Frieza's Right hand man, a pretty boy faced blue skinned alien) , Dodoria( Frieza's head of Security a pink fat spiky blob of an alien man) and Frieza( a short asexual white lizard like alien with a tail with Horns jutting straight out the side of his head at an upward angle), solely for the tyrants amusement to see their reaction to their humiliation. If they tried to attack him he would simply kill the weakest one, though they were always smarter than that. Vegeta however when he was older and knew about sexuality, would make jokes regarding the lizards sexuality. The tyrant as punishment would torture the saiyan prince and force him to heal without a med tank, he was only allowed to use ancient healing methods such as antibiotics, anti inflammatory medication, ointments, bandages, surgery and pain medication,which would mean he would have to take on missions injured, prolonging his recovery and eventual Zenkai.
One of the Red Ribbon Empire Doctors walked into the room and walked next to the med tank console, he looked at it then turned his eyes to Vegeta. Then the tank beeped, indicating it was about to drain, the Doctor walked to tank and looked up as the tank drained, he began inspecting all the areas on Vegeta's body that were injured, satisfied he moved his mouth ordering something to one of his subordinates. The Tank then completely emptied and a orderly came in placing his scouter, a fresh yellow guard pad coloured with white base armour and a replacement stolen two piece dark blue skintight flexible armour, made up of a long sleeve top and pants, all placed on a table with his surviving white gloves and yellow tipped white boots.
The Doctor and the subordinate left as the tank opened, Vegeta walked to the table and got dressed.
When he pulled on his last glove, he stated in his mind 'Now, who has the balls and the smarts to place a trap. I doubt the Humans would want to, we are part of the Monarchy as Lords, so I doubt them, though you never know. Then there's Raditz, he's smart enough to modify his ship , so a trap like that would be nothing, And unlike before he's not scared of my strength anymore, maybe he wants payback for all the times I threatened him with death. Nappa is loyal to the strongest saiyan, so he's out. Kakarott doesn't need traps. Turles is a wildcard I don't know what he can do, he's just under me in strength, I don't know what motive he would have. To narrow the suspects down, I'll have to interrogate any witnesses in 'or near the training area.'