Goku flew with a slight smile. The wind whipping in his face, he remembered and loved how simple and grand and wonderful life was. Sure he could have used his instant transmission, but simple pleasures like flying were the best.

Something in his mind suddenly pinged and Goku's smile was left in the wind behind him. He felt Vegeta's ki, raw and roaring, zoom far away across his path and near that he felt a ki that burned with evil on the outside but was frozen into something unbreakable on the inside. Niy. There was no other ki signature like it. It had to be her. Goku frowned now, as his mind quickly made up its decision. With a burst of ki, he traveled in their trail. He could tell they weren't fighting, so there was no real need to rush. Hell, Vegeta wasn't even in Super-Saiyan yet. Goku's eyebrows furrowed deeper into his Saiyan brow. He didn't like it. Vegeta had no idea what he was getting himself into. And the worst part, Goku told himself, was that he knew Vegeta didn't care.

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Vegeta hated to be in anyone's dust and he scowled as that Niy creature always blasted in the air ahead of him fast enough so he couldn't keep up without wasting all of his power. But Vegeta wasn't stupid, he new that conserving energy before a fight with an unknown enemy was the smart thing to do. He knew she was taunting him and he would not show any weakness to this freak. He knew he was her superior anyways. No one could match his power. No one, except Kakorrat.

He growled in irritation at the thought, but its significance blazed in his mind. If he could beat this other freak of nature, this yet unnamed foe of his, based off of his own Saiyan blood nonetheless, it would be one very large step in dominating Kakorrat totally. And then, then, he would truly live up to the Prince of Saiyans he was born to be.

Then Vegeta smiled ruthlessly, saying, "Kakorrat will be nothing." He was so self-absorbed in thought, that he hadn't noticed Niy had stopped ahead of him and he almost overran her before he jerked to a stop.

"What are you so happy about," Niy sneered at him. "You're going to die here in a few minutes and you're smiling like a bloody fool. Even I expected more than that out of you, Saiyan."

Vegeta growled as his rage roared inside him. But in spite of it all, he didn't try to attack Niy. She already proved herself to be so far beneath him.

Niy sighed exasperatedly and said, "Well if you're going to be like that, then I hope you do die. It would save this world from another pitiful fool," she mumbled.

Vegeta didn't have time to make his retort because Niy shot down towards the land under her, jerked to a stop inches before it, and gracefully stepped down to the rubble that remained of Dr. Gero's laboratory. Vegeta, not wanting to be outdone, landed in his own fashion, leaving a crater around his footprints as he landed.

He barely had to time to react when Niy said, "You better protect yourself." She stuck out her hand and in one giant blinding blast of light disintegrated the feet of dirt beneath her and Vegeta in the breath of the next second. He barely had time to cover his head with his arms. As the dust cleared and Vegeta stopped coughing on it, his eyes caught Niy's impatient waving hand.

"Hurry up," she said, not even bothering to look at him, "This way." And with that, she jumped into the newly formed tunnel of scorched rock.

Vegeta dug his hands so hard into his clenched fists that he hurt himself. It didn't really matter though, he was too angry to care. With what ever shred of patience remained in him, some signal from his brain connected and Vegeta jumped into the deep tunnel.

Vegeta landed into a room of rusted metal and broken glass. He didn't care, he had seen it all before. Except the secret door which Niy opened now. With a silent smoldering anger he followed Niy and looked down the stairs. From some unknown source of power, lights flickered to life. He followed the freak down the stairs, never getting too close and never trailing too far away. Experience had taught him to be wary.

The stairs were short and in front of him, and as he reached the bottom he saw the giant glass cylinder and the being of life. He gaped at astonishment as the woman floated in the nurturing water of her cage. No one had said his foe would have beauty!