Heart to Heart Part Two
A few hours later, Vegeta walked back into the room and realized Bulma was still there.
"What are you doing in here, woman?" he asked.
"Finish the story." she smiled, pulling Vegeta down onto the couch. The Saiyan prince rolled his eyes, but resigned to his fate.
"Where was I?" he asked, hoping to get out of this.
"Turnia was giving birth."
Vegeta sighed and continued his story, "Turnia had gone into labor. I accompanied the medical workers to the birthing quadrant. Turnia was in immense pain and she was screaming at the top of her lungs. I tried to comfort her, but I was barely out of my teens and didn't know much about this whole process. She kept breathing hard and I was scared out of my wits.
"There was nothing I could do but watch as she went through the extensive pain. I thought to myself, 'My God. What is happening? Is there nothing I can do?'
"And there wasn't. In the adjacent room, Nappa was being tested and subequently treated for his disease. Something he picked up on a planet called Yardrak. Anyway, he couldn't even hear his wife's screams through the wall. He couldn't hear the doctor's whispers. He couldn't hear my inner pain.
"He couldn't even hear his wife breathe her last breath.
"I ran up and held her in my arms. I had dealt with death too many times in the last few years. My father. My race. There was only her and Nappa. I wept as the doctors pulled the small child from the dead woman's body. I'm sure they had noticed, but they din't care. They did work for Frieza after all. I wiped the tears from my eyes as I looked upon the tiny creature that had emerged from Turnia's body. Her son. Nappa's son.
"A few days passed. Nappa said nothing to me as he was always sitting alone with his child. I found later that it was a male and Nappa wanted to see me. I walked into Nappa's room. The lights were darkened so much that I could not see. Suddenly they snapped on and I saw Nappa, still sitting in the shadows.
""Nappa," I said, "You wished to see me." Nappa stood up and put his hand on my shoulder. I looked up, horrified by what I saw. Nappa's hair, which had looked like a shorter version of Raditz's, was all but gone, save for the small goatee that was his trademark. I was shocked. A Saiyan's hair is his honor, his past glories. A Saiyan's hair does not change, no matter what. If a Saiyan changes personality in some way, his hair will always identify him. Nappa's was gone.
""It was the treatment from the doctors." Nappa said, "They did cure me of the disease, but it was all experimental procedures. I ended up losing my hair and my pride. Now you are all I have left."
"What do you mean?" I replied, "You may have lost Turnia and your hair and we both lost the planet, but you have your newborn son."
Nappa smiled and looked down at the boy. "I'm going to name him Vegeta, after you." I smiled at Nappa and then at the baby. Nappa was looking only at his child. Frieza and Dodoria knocked on the door and entered.
"So another Saiyan has been found." Frieza sneered, "And now one has a son. Nappa, I've come here to offer you admittance into the ranks of my army. Your child will be fully taken care of in times of trouble. I'll be sure to take care of him... personally."
Nappa looked into the eyes of the tyrant and then back to me. He nodded his head and Frieza told Nappa and I to suit up. We were going on our first of many missions together."
Bulma thought over a few questions in her mind, but she decided not to ask them. Questions like, "Why did you kill Nappa on Earth?" and "What happened to the baby?" She figured Vegeta would answer those questions in due time.
"Now, this mission was to the Planet Wyndia, where a race of winged warriors lived. We were to accompany Zarbon to the planet and make sure nothing interrupted the dealings Zarbon would have with the leader of the Wyndians. We stood outside the door to the large, steel Wyndia Palace. A group of soldiers stood around us, not permitting us to enter. If Zarbon did not exit within ten minutes, however, we were to take immediate action.
"Zarbon appeared before us exactly nine minutes and forty-five seconds after he entered the palace.
"A succesful mission." Zarbon smiled, "I believe we no longer have anything left to worry about from these bird-like barbarians." Suddenly, Zarbon's scouter began to beep. He pressed a button and his eyes widened. "Dear God..." he muttered, "This meeting was a diversion! The Wyndians are on Lord Frieza's ship and are attacking!"
"At that same moment, Wyndian soldiers began attacking us from all sides. We fought with every thing we had and it seemed to be efficient enough. The charred flesh from the dead Wyndian carcases left a horrid stench, one that I still remember today. We had caused so much destruction, just the three of us. Of course, that was just the start. The palace gates opened and wave after wave of Wyndian soldiers poured upon us. We may have been three of the universe's strongest warriors, but we stood no chance against a million warriors of half our respective strengths. Even Zarbon, who was at least thirty times as strong as I was at the time fell easily. We were taken.
"When they threw our unconscious bodies in their dungeon, we found ourselves stripped of our scouters and our battle armor. There were three others in the small cell with us. Two were Wyndians themselves, by the look of their rags they were theives of some sort. The other sat in the shadows, only his long black hair could be seen in the dim light.
"Who is that?" Zarbon asked one of the thieves, "A friend of yours?" The blonde headed Wyndian, named Achtuk, shook his head.
"His name is not known to us." Achtuk said, "We have been here for two years and this one was here long before us. He has never spoken in the time we have been here and we have seen his face only once, when he beat a guard in an effort to escape. He was quickly subdued. He's actually a bit scary. Also, um, he looks a bit like you two." Achtuk motioned towards me and Nappa. We looked at eachother and then at the figure in the shadows, who had stood up and began to walk forward.
"That was where we met Raditz."
Bulma looked at Vegeta and then at a picture of Goku that was on her mantle. It reminded her a bit of that fateful day that Raditz came to Earth and put events into motion that brought her husband to her. Vegeta went on.
"Raditz looked at us coyly. He had a long, black beard to go along with the extrmemely long hair he had. I looked him over and saw the striking resemblance between him and the Saiyan warrior I had met when i first joined with Frieza, Turles.
"Are you related in some way to Bardock, the Saiyan scientist and inventor?" I asked.
"You know as well as I do, my liege." Raditz responded, leading me to believe he knew exactly who I was and what had happened to Planet Vegeta. Raditz then began to go on and explain what happened to him. He said that he was a high class soldier within Frieza's ranks, but when he and a group of others went on a mission to Wyndia, to trade for some resources, he was taken and the others were killed.
"As Raditz spoke I could tell all that was on Nappa's mind was his son. After Raditz finished speaking, I put my arm around Nappa. I turned and called for one of the guards to come. Like a complete idiot, he did. I told him that Nappa was suffering from severe stomach pains and when Nappa heard this, he immediately began to play along. And man was he selling it.
"The guard rushed in and gave Nappa a few pills he had in his pocket.
"I hope he's okay." the guard said, "I don't even know what the Hell's going on what with Frieza ordering an attack on his own ship." I was about to knock out the guard but I stopped myself.
"He ordered who? The Wyndians?" I cried. The guard nodded. My fist clenched tighter. There was something wrong. Something very wrong. I could tell that this guard, named Lukar, would be of some use to us, so I kept him around for the time being. Zarbon sat silently.
"I ordered Achtuk and the other thief, Tulak, to check out the king's doings, while Lukar helped us escape. Lukar made an excuse that he was escorting us to be executed. A blatant lie that any moron could have seen through since we weren't shackled or anything. The Wyndians may have been skilled fighters, but they weren't the smartest people. When we finally reached the outside, I volunteered to take Lukar and go back for Achtuk and Tulak, not to save them, mind you, but to get the information they had found out.
"As we snuck into the king's chamber, I noticed the room empty, as though it had been hastily evacuated. As if they were going somewhere. Or as if they were hiding...
"We searched the room and found, to our horror, the dead body of Tulak and a mortally wounded Achtuk. Achtuk handed us a pack of papers which detailed instructions from Frieza to the Wyndian king, Killiak. We didn't have time to look them over when we were attacked by an ambush force of Wyndian soldiers. I looked at Lukar, who only pulled out his gun and pointed it at my head.
"Foolish Saiyan," he smiled, "You want to be a great soldier? Rule one: Don't trust anybody." Lukar pulled the trigger, but he was suddenly tackled by Raditz, who tore into him like an animal tears into carrion when it is famished. Lukar was instantly killed. The twenty soldiers that surrounded me were in heated battle with Nappa and Zarbon.
"The battle raged on and we eventually won. One soldier survived and shot a killing blast at me. Achtuk suddenly leaped in front of the blast with his last ounce of strength and was torn in half by the sheeer force. I kneeled down and looked at the blood stained face of this man who I had me just earlier that day who had sacrificed himself for me. That day I learned of sacrifice. I rushed the lone Wyndian soldier and punched a hole through his sternum. The battle was over.
"We ran to our pods and flew back to Frieza's ship. As we exited the dock, we saw the carnage around us. There were dead soldiers everyewhere. Nappa ran towards the nursery where his son was. Raditz, Zarbon, and myself went towards Frieza's chambers. We saw that the door had been blasted away and inside stood the hulking for that was Frieza. He had transformed into his second form in order to disembowel the Wyndian king, who lay dead on the floor. We only gazed upon Frieza's second form for about three seconds before a bright light blinded us and we saw Frieza in his first form again.
"Today we have lost many of our finest." he would later say, in address to the surviving members of his army, "The Ginyuu Force has suffered significant losses and only Captain Ginyuu, Rikum, Jeice, Berter, Goldo, and Lorelei survived. Luckily, the scourge that was the Wyndian race is extinct. Survival of the fittest, I say. Take heart in the fact that you, my friends, are fit enough to survive."
"Frieza made me sick. He didn't say anything about him ordering the attack himself. He said nothing about the fact that he was behind the whole thing. When I showed Nappa and Raditz these plans, they shoom their heads. Nappa was especially angry. His son had died during the attack. Now the army was all he had left. Frieza would pay."
Vegeta stared at the wall in front of him blankly. Bulma layed her head on his shoulder.
"I'll finish this tomorrow." he said, "I need to get some training by myself in today. Maybe you should work out a bit too. You look like you've put on a few pounds."
That was a bit insensitive and if Bulma hadn't known she was pregnant, she would've slapped him silly. This time she just nodded in agreement and watched him go out the door. She called Trunks in and asked him to fix her a watermelon and pickle sandwich. Trunks almost gagged but he did as his mother asked.
She needed some rest anyway, but she still wanted the story to be completed.
So, there's the second part of Heart to Heart. Poor Nappa. I'm being so mean to him. Oh well. I always seem to throw the most hardships to characters I like. Vegeta hasn't had too many bad things happen to him, but there's still more to go. Also, I really wanted to have Nappa's son live, but there was nowhere for him to fit. Oh well. Same with Achtuk the Wyndian.
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