Chapter 9: Punishment Times Two?

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The pirate ship jumped to hyper drive and stopped in front of Planet Vegetasei in a couple of seconds then descended to the closest port near the castle. The door to the ship opened and a few guards stepped out followed by Vegeta who was carrying Phoenix since one of her major injuries was on her right leg. They were greeted by Bardock, Tales, Radditz, Kakkarot and a few others.

Kakkarot ran up to Vegeta and took Phoenix from him then went back to the others. Then a few more guards came out of the ship carrying Rictor's still unconscious body. Handed him to some Saiyan guards, bowed to Vegeta and they all left back out into space.

Bardock walked up to Vegeta next and said, "Your father wishes to see you. I advise you watch what you say he's in a very foul mood."

"Isn't he always?" Vegeta said chuckling. "Don't worry I can handle him just fix her up would you? And take him to a well guarded cell" He asked Bardock pointing to Phoenix direction with his head then at Rictor.

Bardock nodded and motioned to the others to leave, picked up the captain and left behind his family.

Vegeta sighed and thought to himself, ~Now what? He'll probably turn everything against me or worst take her away...~

~Well then you just have to watch what you say now won't you Veg-kun.~

~Phoenix? Geez you like this mind connection thing don't you?~ Vegeta thought to her chuckling to himself as he walked down the halls of the castle.

~Yup! I get to be with u 24/7 no matter where we are! and Vegeta...~ She said to him turning her cheerfulness to a soft sad but grateful tone, ~thanks for saving me from that jerk.~

~Don't mention it! I am here to take care and protect you and that's what I will do for all eternity my love.~ He said sweetly and charmingly. He stopped in front of his fathers door and sighed. ~Wish me luck. I'll need a lot of it.~

~Good luck my prince charming.~ She said giving him a mental picture of her kissing him then disappeared to leave him to his duties.

Vegeta let out another loud sigh as she left then knocked on the door to his fathers room.

"WHAT IS IT NOW?" The king bellowed through his door.

Vegeta gulped and answered, "It's me father. You wanted to-" Vegeta was cut off as the king swung the door open violently, grabbed him by the throat and threw him in the room in rage. He slam the door shut and walked up closer to the now gasping for air prince.

"YOU BAKA!!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?" He asked Vegeta yelling.

"I did what I said I would! I said I'll live my life MY way!" The young Vegeta retorted getting up.

The King surprisingly calmed down and started to laugh.

"What? Was it something I said?" Vegeta asked raising an eyebrow and watching his father laugh for the first time in his young life.

"Vegeta sit on the bed I got something I want to show you and tell you." The king said calming down and went into one of his drawers, pulled out a book then went to sit next to a nervous yet curious young Vegeta. He opened the book and started to tell his little story to his son...

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When Vegeta came back to Phoenix and the others they were all surprised to see him smiling happily after just talking to a furious King. He proudly picked up Phoenix and sat down putting her on his lap.

"So.. what happened?" Tales asked knowing everyone wanted to ask the same question.

Vegeta just smiled and shook his head then said, "later... come on we got a pirate to torcher..."

Phoenixs' face turned evil as she licked her lips. "Time for some revenge.." She said evilly at the last part making the others shudder. "What?" She asked turning back to her innocent self seeing this.

The other just laughed getting up. Vegeta carried Phoenix and they all left for the dungeon cells.

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They all arrived at the cells and were surprised to see that Rictor was already tied to the wall awaiting for the punishment to come, all but Bardock that is.

"Thought you would come to beat him into a bloody pulp so I got him tied up." Bardock answered their obvious question.

"Man how hard did ya hit him Vegeta? He's still knocked out cold!" Radditz asked tapping Rictor's face to try and wake him up.

Vegeta laughed and said, "hard enough."

"Vegeta put me on my feet I can stand up by myself now and I," She said pausing to smile evilly then continued, "I can wake him up."

Vegeta looked at the others who got those chills again and let her go then backed away from her.

She smirked and walked up to Rictor, pausing to turn to the others and said, "I would close my eyes if I were you guys. This won't be pretty."

All there eyes shot open in understandment and they turned around and blocked their ears not wanting to hear this.

Phoenix smirked more and turned back to the Captain. Her smirk turned to an evil grin as she kicked Rictor square in the nuts as hard as she could which was pretty damn hard.

His eyes popped wide open and he screamed in immense pain, "AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DAMN!!!!!!! THAT HURTS!!!!!"

The others in the room cringed at the sound of his screams trying to block their ears more. The screams died down to gasping noises. They unblocked their ears and turned back to Rictor.

"That's just the wake up call! Your punishment is a lot more worse than that!" Phoenix said then slapped him across his face as he had done to her only this time she hit him hard enough to make him bleed.

"Now Captain you see what happens when you mess with a Saiyan? So why did you even try?" Vegeta said somewhat calmly.

Between breaths Rictor tried saying, "I... didn't know... you were... Saiyans!... I... am... a... space pirate!... It's... my job!"

"Well space pirates have a ransom on their heads in this solar system so I guess we can either turn you in or-" Bardock said but was cut off by Phoenix.

"Or we get out the red hot pokers!"

Everyone around her backed up a few steps and the Captain fainted at the thought.

"What? Oh well there he goes again..." Phoenix said innocently then sighed. Just then her stomach growled and like a chain reaction every saiyans stomach started to growl one after the other.

"Alright let's go eat!" Kakkarot said cheerfully.

The others laughed in agreement and left the room.

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End of chapter 9