CHAPTER 27- Monkeys Everywhere!

AN : silverstar: Frieza isn't actually early, at most he's a month before schedule, sorry if I've confused you somewhere, I'll try to keep the timing more obvious from now on ^_^

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Disclaimer: after 27 chapters I'm really really sick of writing this, but anyway, don't own it, don't sue *sigh*

The camp fire glistened and emphasized the angular features of the two men around it with its warm glow. These men had feasted on a giant whale, the bones scattered about nearby were all that was left to tell its tale. Picking the remnants of his food out of his teeth with one of the smaller bones, the larger of the two men, or Nappa as he was known to a select few who chose to learn his name, tried to remember where he'd put his scouter, so he could get to work finding those Namekians. The second man, Radditz, was lost in thoughts of his younger brother, the one who had been sent to this section of the galaxy as a baby and had never been heard from again. He didn't often dwell on these thoughts, but then he didn't often have cause to journey to this particular quadrant. An idea struck him.

"Nappa?" he almost grunted the name, so as not to show any fear of his superior both in title and strength.

"what is it Radditz? Can't you see I'm thinking?" Radditz almost laughed, if Nappa had a weakness it was definitely his IQ.

"Nothing much, just the small matter of my brother, Kakarotto. I wondered, since this mission won't take us more than a day, if we could use our spare time afterwards to attempt to find him."

Nappa was about to give his companion a flat 'no' but changed his mind at the last minute. They saiyan race was dying out, and with the loss of their prince he was their new leader, another lackey wouldn't be such a bad thing.

"hell, why not? Another saiyan might come in handy, especially if Frieza doesn't find out about him" Nappa grunted in return. Radditz almost smiled. It would be interesting to see how his baby brother had turned out. "anyway" Nappa interrupted his thoughts "go find your scouter, we need to figure out where them aliens are hiding!"

"why don't you use your own?" Radditz snapped back, feeling a little bolder knowing that Nappa felt some need to preserve the saiyan race.

"Read my lips, Radditz. Me, leader, you, lackey. Now get to work!" he roared, accompanying his speech with a swift kick to Radditz's side. Radditz rubbed his aching ribs and hurried to find his scouter.

Once it was retrieved, Nappa placed it over his left ear and pressed the side button twice, bringing up any power readings on the planet.

Miles away, Goku lay in a restless sleep, plagued by bad dreams,

He watched in horror as Chi Chi's harsh words echoed in his head over and over, while her cruel eyes glared down at him. Over and over the words echoed, driving him insane:

"Goku, you're getting fat, I'm putting you on a DIET!"

"DIET"

"DIET"

"DIET!!!"

He shut his eyes tight and his power exploded, surrounding him in a blue glow

"NOOOOOOO!" He screamed

Goku awoke with a start, his own screams echoing in his ears, he looked around the room anxiously before realizing that Chi Chi wasn't there and he wasn't going on a diet.

"Gosh" he sighed, his eyes wide with surprise "I'm never eating cheese before bead time again" he laughed to himself at the foolishness of his nightmare, and rolled over to sleep, not noticing that the bed clothes had disappeared, burnt to a crisp by his powerful aura.

Back at the saiyan's camp site, Nappa dropped the scouter at his feet, his eyes were wide and sweat beaded on his fore head. He had been sensing the usual readings, a large cluster of fairly small power levels, a couple of slightly larger ones, although still pitifull even by Radditz's standards. Then it had happened, a sudden surge of energy, a frighteningly high power level. He hadn't seen the likes of it since…

"Prince Vegeta" He mumbled under his breath, still in shock.

Radditz stared dumb founded at his companion, he'd honestly never seen him this scared, he'd never seen him show any outward signs of fear at all.

"what is it?" Radditz was beginning to feel more than a little spooked by his superior's behavior.

"Prince Vegeta" Nappa whispered, not so much replying to Radditz's question as confirming it to himself "It has to be Vegeta, he came here to fight Frieza and then he disspeared, they said he was dead but… who else could it be?"

Radditz wasn't sure how to feel about this. He didn't exactly have warm feelings for the Prince, but he had to admit that Frieza had shown them a little more respect when Vegeta was around. But then, if the prince was resurrescted (or never dead) then surely they would have to chose sides, to fight with him or with Frieza, there would be no going back to annonimity within Frieza's ranks. They would probably be killed. He didn't like this at all.

Before he could voice his concerns, Nappa took off in the direction of the power reading leaving Radditz little choice but to follow or be punished for cowardice later. He sighed and took to the sky, struggling to keep up with the much more powerful saiyan.

Back on the lookout, Bulma and Vegeta were left utterly confused as Kami ran from the room in great haste. Vegeta merely shrugged and returned to his meal, which even he had to admit was delicious. Bulma frowned a little but decided that it would be inappropriate to go following the Guardian around if he had official business to attend to. She continued to eat slowly, hoping Kami would return soon with an explanation.

Sure enough, after about fifteen minutes he was back, and looking very concerned indeed. Bulma began to feel nervous

"what is it Kami?" she asked as politely as she could under the pressure of her own curiosity and the strong feeling that this would have something to do with her and Vegeta.

"It's the gang, on Namek" he replied quietly. Vegeta listened intently, realizing that this was relevant to his current situation. "I fear the situation is about to get more complicated" he sighed and took his seat at the table.

"in what way?" Vegeta stared intensely at the guardian out of the corner of his eye.

"Vegeta, do you remember the other surviving members of your race?"

Vegeta grunted

"do I remember them? Those two fools were the bain of my life for 20 years!"

"yes well, they, Nappa and Radditz, arrived on Namek a few hours ago with orders to purge the planet" Kami tried to hide his anger at the persecution of his own people, it wouldn't do to let personal feelings influence him right now.

"So what? If they don't know about the balls then what does that matter to us?" Vegeta replied coldly, annoying the guardian more than he would ever know

"Shut up Vegeta, let him finish!" Bulma was shocked by his harsh words, he had always been slightly cold but she had never experienced this level of cruelty from him.

Vegeta merely grunted, satisfied that he hadn't compromised his more sadistic urges.

Kami continued

"Vegeta, if the Namek elder dies, then the balls lose their power" Vegeta's eyes widened at this, this was bad "it gets worse" Kami continued, as if reading his mind "Goku has accidentally made himself known to the pair and now they believe, based on his power level reading alone, that he is you. They are heading for the ship right now."

Vegeta growled

"If they damage that ship I'll have them both hung drawn and quatered!" he hissed more to himself than the others present. Bulma shuddered, feeling that he truly meant his words.

Kami sighed

"I'm sure Goku can handle them, he is almost as strong as you now Vegeta" the guardian took great pleasure in witnessing Vegeta's obvious surprise at this, which was quikly covered with a smirk

"Almost? Well unfortunately for him he does not have the potential in his blood to reach the legendary level, but perhaps he'll make a passable sparring partner when I'm done with Frieza"

Bulma sighed at his arrogance

"whatever happens, I know Goku will pull it of, he's never failed me yet" Bulma smiled weakly before and exhausted yawn over took her. "I think it's time I got some sleep"

Kami nodded and called Popo telepathically

"Popo is on his way, he'll show you to the room he has prepared for you two"

Bulma smiled sweetly, while the realization dawned on Vegeta that they would most likely be forced to share a bed. He toyed with the idea of training all night as he finished his meal and Popo appeared in the doorway.

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