A/n: You guys are too cute lmao. Thank you all for reviewing and keeping up with this side story of mine. My top priority is finishing up my other story, Walking Towards the Sunset, but this will be updated often :-) Just never the same day as WTTS is. Lmao. I hate leaving stories unfinished; so hopefully, I am doing a good job with updating.

Enjoy!

"Either Bardock's hanging out with one of these aliens," Tora chuckled as his scouter was picking up two power levels not too far from where Fasha and himself were standing over a pile of dead Stratreonians. He kicked a body out of the way as they made their way to the ground. "Or he found Gine."

Fasha smirked, aiming her energy tipped finger at the bodies. Within a couple of flicks, there was nothing left before them. "At this point, I really don't care who he mates with. More of us need to start having offspring before the whole damn population is wiped out!" When Tora raised an eyebrow, the short-haired female rolled her eyes. "Don't even think about it."

"Alright, alright!" he chuckled shortly to himself and brushed off his armor. "I'm just saying, you're so concerned about Bardock having a child and you're only getting older..." Tora ignored the warning glare. "So why don't you go for it? Unless you think there's someone else..." Somehow, he managed to dodge the same energy blast she had used earlier to get rid of the bodies. While the ponytailed male stood in front of her and continued to tease, their scouters began to pick up two unknown, yet weak, power levels coming from their landing site.

"Who the hell do you think that is?" Fasha glowered, looking off in the distance where their ships were. "You'd think all these pests would be dead by now!"

Tora growled under his breath, not taking any risks. "I don't know, but it's not good. Come on!"

Flying through the sky at a lightening fast speed, the two warriors of Bardock's crew scanned the area as they were approaching their pods. To their horror and frustration, two Statreonians warriors with brown hair had finished destroying two ships and were getting ready to kill another. Wasting no time, Fasha landed behind the shorter of the two and snapped his neck. His friend, frozen in terror, could only hold the fiery weapon he had used to ruin their ships up high but with no movement. Tora came down hard on the orange-clad warrior with two fists, instantly killing the weakling on impact.

Landing on his feet beside Fasha, he spat on the ground in disgust. "Pathetic."

"Yeah, well, they still did their damage!" the woman snarled and motioned to the two destroyed pods. "How the hell are all of us going to get home!? Only one person can fit inside a ship!"

"I know," Tora sighed and shook his head. "I know."

The two remained silent for a moment, veins of frustration not hiding themselves on their foreheads. Picking up their leader's power, it wasn't until Tora caught sight of Bardock levitating towards them with Gine in his arms that gave him the best idea he believed he ever had. "Hey, Fasha," he whispered into her ear as she kept her sight on her suspicious looking leader and longtime friend. "I've got a great idea. Just follow my lead, okay?"

Fasha glanced at him through her peripherals, but nodded as Bardock landed directly in front of them. The scar-faced Saiyan dropped Gine on her feet, and the woman immediately turned her back to her other members so they couldn't see her tears. Bardock was already in full-on scowl, pissed off mode, having caught sight of the wrecked ships from the sky. "What the hell happened here!?"

Tora struggled to keep his sly smile off his face as he patted Bardock on the back. "Hey, no big deal. Some of those freaks ruined two ships, but you know how we have that large rescue one back at the launch site... Two of us just need to stay here until we come back to get them. And I've been thinking," he winked at Fasha, whose eyebrows were raised just as high as Bardock's while Gine's ears perked up a bit. "The leader is never allowed to abandon his crew, am I right? It goes against all regulations. You'll need to stay."

"I already figured that," Bardock shrugged, no longer interested as he pushed Tora's hand away. "Go ahead and call Shugesh and Borgos over here. Let them know that we're staying. Fasha, I'm counting on you to-"

"Whoa!" Tora raised his hands in the air immediately. "No way! Gine is going to stay."

"What!?" Bardock growled while Gine hunched over a little more, embarrassed that the second in command would even recommend such a thing. After seeing how violent he was, the poor woman wanted nothing to do with him or being a soldier anymore. "Are you going against my orders?"

"Stop," Tora laughed and patted his angry friend's back once more. "You're not that kind of guy, Bardock. Come on, just let Gine stay here with you. Maybe you can toughen her up a bit or something. You really want to be stuck with anyone else?" Bardock immediately glanced over at Fasha, who shook her head.

"Sorry," she smirked and placed her hands on her hips. "The rescue center is only going to listen to Tora, and I need to be there so he won't sound like an idiot. You have Shugesh who will most likely eat you, or Borgos whose face will give you nightmares. If I were you, I'd stay with the girl you were holding earlier." The two sneaks began chuckling when Bardock started to fume. Tora looked beyond the messy-haired Saiyan to the near doubled-over female trying to hide her face from them.

"Is that alright, Gine!? Not that you have a choice, though!"

The female sighed a ragged breath, and slowly brought herself up right again. She turned around, hoping her face wasn't tear stained anymore, and flashed a thumbs up to the tall Saiyan with a sad smile. "Yeah. Sure. Totally fine."

Once Shugesh and Borgos arrived, Bardock turned his attention to the sullen female while the rest of his crew began discussing what was going to happen. "Look, I'm not happy about this, either. But now, you're definitely going to listen to me. Got it? Those warriors could be hiding out somewhere, and I'm not going to have to deal with a dead body to bring back home." His scowl deepened when Gine wasn't looking at him. "Did you hear me? I said-"

"I know what you said!" Gine snapped, causing an awkward silence to grow among the crew as they all looked at the small woman in shock. Their eyes continued to widen when she jabbed Bardock's chest with her finger. "As far as I'm concerned, with them gone, you have no crew and you're no leader! And definitely no leader of mine! I'll meet you back here whenever they get back. For now, just stay out of my sight!" With a huff, the sudden feisty woman crossed her arms over her chest and began walking away without another look back.

Tora was the first to snap out of the shock, and whistled loudly while Bardock's eye began to twitch. "Well, this should be interesting. See you as soon as possible, Bardock! And please, don't kill each other!" The messy haired Saiyan didn't watch them get into the remaining four pods, but knew it as soon as the laughter had ceased that he was going to be alone on this green planet with the little Gine until his crew rescued them.

He took a step forward in the direction where Gine's back was beginning to disappear.

Don't do it.

Another.

Don't you fucking do it!

Bardock cursed under his breath while his crew had already launched themselves into the deep blue sky. "Hey!" he shouted, and saw that the woman had stopped and was glancing over her shoulder. "Just... Just wait."

"My legs hurt. I'm hungry. Why are we walking around like this? There's nothing here; you killed everyone and everything. We're going to die out here, aren't we?" Gine was pouting her biggest pout, but this time, Bardock wasn't interested in it. In fact, he wanted to wipe it clean off her face. They had found a forest region among the desolate planet and were wandering aimlessly through it in silence until Gine began to whine.

"Flying will waste energy; we need to be alert at all times no matter what. If you could just shut your trap for a moment, I'll find us something to eat. And you'll either kill me by your annoying little voice, or I'll murder you first," he glared over his shoulder at her with his black brows furrowed. "Did I answer all your questions?"

When his little companion stuck her tongue out at him, he smirked and turned his attention back to the front. He yawned loudly, causing the black birds in the trees to flap their wings away from the Saiyans as quickly as they could. Gine gasped loudly, reaching a hand out to rapidly tap Bardock's shoulder. When he turned around to face her, he rolled his eyes at the way she was jumping up and down and pointing at the flying animals.

"Ooh! Ooh! We can eat them, can't we?"

"No," Bardock scoffed and then gestured to trees to their right. "Just beyond those, there's a small field with deer. Smells delicious, doesn't it?" Gine's eyes widened in horror as the male grabbed her wrist and began pulling her towards the direction he was speaking of.

"You can't kill deer, Bardock! That's wrong!"

"Oh, shut up! You wanted to kill those birds," he grunted as she began digging her boots into the ground to stop him. "It's the same fucking thing, just tastier." He snarled loudly when she began to cry, and threw her over his shoulder while she began wailing louder in hopes of scaring the deer away.

"There are plenty of birds on this planet and not enough deer!" she cried out while pounding on his back. "Please, don't!"

Bardock threw her down on the ground with a loud thud, causing Stratreon to slightly shake. He knelt down beside her, holding her chin up to he could look into her reddening eyes. "You do realize that you'd be dead without me, right?" He searched his eyes, hoping to find fear in her wide orbs but only discovering sadness. The same damn orbs that caused his chest to ache with guilt earlier. He cleared his throat to make his voice sound rougher, more fearsome. "You wanted food, you'll get food. Just stay here and don't do anything."

"Bardock..." she cupped his face in her hands and frowned while sniffing twice. "Why can't you be a good man? Why do you always have to be so mean?"

"Let. Go."

"All the Saiyans do is show their brutality and hope it impresses those they seek to please. If you really want to impress me, why don't you show those deer some mercy?"

Bardock's eye began to twitch for the nth time around this dainty woman; and he could feel his face becoming hot under her touch. He wasn't sure if he was on the verge of a blush, or about to snap her in half. "I'm not trying to please you," he spoke through clenched teeth. "You don't mean anything at all to me. You never will."

"If that's true," Gine pressed, her orbs full of determination that was overpowering anything his could ever throw at her. "Then why did you save me in the first place?"

Cursing under his breath, he shoved her hands away from his face and disappeared through the trees to leave Gine on the ground, alone with her thoughts and hopes.

The two stranded Saiyans sat across from each other, one wearing a frown and one wearing the biggest grin that one could ever don. In between them was a fire, started by a mixture of their energy and some logs.

"I'm proud of you."

"Hn."

Gine giggled over the blazes, some of the sparks flickering out and dying in the air. The flames illuminated the features of Bardock greatly from her point of view, accentuating his frustrations. It was true, that the woman had found her leader better looking than any other male she had ever encountered in her lifetime, but after what he did, she couldn't help but have her eyes light up as bright as the fire when she looked at him.

Still, there was something inside of her warning not to reach out and hold him. So, she decided to reach for something else. Picking up the stick with some meat on the ends, she pointed it at Bardock.

"More crow on the cob?"