Chapter 5
Reserection
Raddiz never heard Meoke's story. He quietly slipped out of the room and down the hall. He began to rummage through Sotika's things. Looking over his shoulder every couple of minuets. He sensed she'd been hiding something and he was determined to find out what. He finally came across her blue scouter. He wondered why she still had it. It was such an old model, she'd been offered a new one dozens of times.

Raddiz then noticed that there was a message on it. He pressed the button and the words Sotika treasured plaid themselves once again. His eyes grew wider and wider. "Kakerott's alive!" he exclaimed It had been so long. The little terror was less then five when he last saw him. Bardock was always proud of Raddiz but he was unbelievably hopeful for his younger son. "We'll need him to fight Frezza ..." he thought


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"It'll only take a year to get there. I just have some personal business to take care of" Raddiz explained Nappa and Vegeta wished him good luck. "Don't come back" Sotika said with a smirk on her face. Raddiz glared at her threw the window of his space pod. As he blasted off Sotika let out a deep sigh. Vegeta picked her up by the waist and spun her around. "He's gone!" they said in that corny anime unison type of way Nappa just shook his head and walked into the house.


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Time pasted as it often does, one day to the next. Sotika and Vegeta were enjoying a period of relaxation. Just resting and growing closer. Nothing around them seemed to matter, Tika could ignore her past and Vegeta could forget his hate. But as some one once observed nothing lasts forever. And so this to came to an end.

One afternoon Vegeta and Sotika sat on a beach, just watching the waves come in, when Nappa came running over the sand dunes. "Guys!" he called out "I'm getting a transmission from Raddiz!" Sotika leapt from Vegeta's arms "What!" "Yea" Nappa continued "he's on earth fighting a Namek and some guy named Kakerott." Nappa said still trying to catch his breath Suddenly Sotika turned paler then the sand. How did he find out?! He'd screw it all up!

As the sun began to set Nappa was still dictating the fight. So far they'd learned alot about the fighting style of the Earthlings. And Soyika learned she had a nephew. She hung on every word, as Raddiz beat on Kakerott and his son beat on Raddiz. Suddenly Nappa stoped. "He's gone." he said Tika and Vegeta put on their scouters and were listening for any word form him. Nothing directed toward them, but a confident voice started talking. "On this planet we have some thing we call Dragon Balls ..."

Moments latter Raddiz stoped talking all together. then the scouter was disabled by a few earthlings. Kakerott was gone now too. How were they goning to kill Frezza now? She'd been waiting her whole life to find her brother, and Raddiz killed him before she could. "And then there were three" Nappa whispered


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Dawn broke free of the night. And the sun rose over the horison shedding light on the scene below. Nappa was checking the computers in the space pods. Sotika sat on a rockwhile Vegeta tried to comfort her.

"Are you sure you won't come with us?" Vegeta asked again Sotika remained silent "We have to go. If we get the dragon balls then we can become imortal. Then we can take Frezza no problem ... we have to try." "I know" she said softly She looked up at him, part of her wanted to go just to be with him. But she couldn't help it. Every thing felt pointless, she couldn't keep her promiss to her father. It was the only thing that kept her going all thoughs years and suddenly it was gone.


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Six months passed quickly by. Sotika barely noticed a day had passed. She moped around the house each day slipping further and further into nothingness. One day she was doing just this. She woke up and wondered for a moment how long she'd been asleep. Then desided it didn't matter any way.

There was a cry from the next room. She pulled herself to her feet and stagered into the room. To her suprise she found her father lieing on the ground. He was stained with blood and struggling to breath. She ran to him. "Why are you letting this happen to me?" he asked her Sotika was confussed. Suddenly Frezza appeared out of nowere. He began to destroy every thing around him. "Why won't you stop him" Bardock asked "What can I do?" she replied "Kakerott is gone there's nothing I can do." "Tika you can't do this, if you don't try!" he replied


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Sotika jolted up. She was shaking and covered in a cold sweat. She struggled to her feet and over to her dresser were the blue scouter lay. She pressed the button and her father's voice came thru the speaker. "I'll always love you."