Vegeta wasn't exactly the type of person who liked waiting. Yet, if
there was one thing he could do, it was just that, wait. After all, he'd been
waiting to destroy the Moon Kingdom since he was eight. And he'd been
waiting equally long to get back at Freezer for enslaving him and his fellow
saiya-jins. He could wait a while longer for the Renegades to arrive.
He past the time thinking of the sweet revenge he had planned for
Freezer. Again, it would involve more waiting on his part. Waiting for the day
that he would become a Super Saiya-jin. After all, it was his birth right. Only
he held the noble blood necessary to achieve such legendary status. Well,
there was his son, Trunks, but that didn't count. But oh, to see the look upon
Freezer's face when, on that glorious moment, he realizes that he played a
hand in creating what would bring about his downfall. For it was Freezer that
gave the toughest jobs that even Zarbon and Dodoria wouldn't touch to
Vegeta, causing his power to rise to unimaginable height.
It would only be a matter of time until Vegeta was a Super Saiya-jin. The Princely Saiyan just knew it. But for now he simply spent his free time
savoring the look of terror on Freezer's face as if it would be his finest
meal. It would truely be a 'kodak moment' that he would have to capture on
film.
Then there were the Lunars. They would need to be taught lesson as
well. Vegeta smiled at the thought. So many pains to show Serenity and her
body guards, so few Senshi to use them on. He could teach them the pain of
having a internal organ removed, or how much it hurts to slammed through
fifty feet granite while enduring the explosion of a large ki blast. Ultimately
though, Vegeta figured he'd just let Taurus and his men have their way with
the girls. Then, they'd be forced to live the rest of their days with the shame
of giving birth to saiya-jins. Yes, enteral shame was a the best punishment
for such insolence. To think they could just threaten him and the rest of his
race, not to mention his son did they? They would learn pain.
'Yes, how did they find out about Trunks?' Vegeta thought. For the better part of two years he'd kept Trunks a secret to all but a few saiya-jin. If the Lunars discovered his son, it would only be a matter of time before Freezer discovered him. Then Freezer would take Trunks, and use the boy as he'd used Vegeta in his younger years. Trunks was the last hope for the saiya-jin if Vegeta couldn't become a Super Saiya-jin . . . and soon.
"Vegeta-Sama," a voice called out, bringing Vegeta out of his train of thought. "The Renegades sir, they're here."
"Finally, I was getting tired of waiting."
Saurin didn't mind space travel. Hell he was born in space, it was his home. But he didn't enjoy the landing part one little bit. The old X class frontier ship was older than his grandfather Auron, and didn't make the good landings under the any circumstances. So landing on a space port designed for saiya-jin space pods was no small feat. Nappa and Radditz were at the port waiting for the Renegades, and had seen the landings with their own eyes and knew what would happen.
The large ship came down; shaking, shrieking, and wobbling all the way. Once it finally did stop, the main hatch slowly opened- spewing a misty cooling fog. Seconds later, a figure wearing white bolted out of the ship screaming at the top of his lunges, "I LOVE YOU GROUND! I LOVE YOU GROUND!" over and over again. Nappa and Radditz found it quite humorous seeing 'The Great Slayer' nearly lose his lunch from nothing more than a bumpy space landing.
"Having fun, sport?" Nappa chidded between snickers. "You know kid, you really need to grow up a little and get over your weak little fear."
"Huh?" Slayer responded, not yet quite sure yet as to who was speaking. Once he saw that it was simply Nappa, he passed off the insult as nothing more than the noisy brute's best attack. "Oh, hey cousin. What's this we hear about Vegeta and Lunars?"
"That's not a good combination." Ren added, stepping out of the ship.
"Maybe not for you," Radditz replied, "but we got a score to settle with those little moon freaks. Just follow us, Vegeta will explain everything."
After an uneventful walk through the halls, the Renegades came to the throne room, where Vegeta was seen giving the 'death calls' (term given to planets due to be cleared for purchase) as they were known to Saiya-jin squad leaders. When Vegeta saw that the Saiya-gin had arrived, he gave them a shrewd smirk.
"Glad to see you finally made it. I was being to wonder if that piece of junk space ship of yours had blown up on you." He then noticed that someone was missing. "Where is that old man, Auron?"
Saurin just lowered his head, "Grandpa died a long time ago." he then narrowed his eyes, and spoke, "What's the deal with you and the Earthlings?"
"Just like Auron, right to the point." Vegeta responded. "Come with me, I have something to show you all." Vegeta, his staff, and the Renegades proceeded to what the Saiya-jins called the war room. Which, was basically, a large round room with a holo-projector in the center.
"This certainly is a large round room." Ren commented.
"Well, you make us a better one then, smart guy." a voice, which belonged Taurus, replied as he entered the room and seated himself. It was then the meeting started. Vegeta rose and spoke.
"We received this little 'threat' six days ago." Vegeta started, activating the projector. A 3-D image of Queen Serenity then appeared over the monitor.
"Someone's wet dream come true." Virgo said, eyeing the image. Everyone but Vegeta, Slayer, and Taurus found the comment funny. The holo-message continued:
"Attention saiya-jin filth. We, the people of the Silver Alliance, have decided that your kind has been allowed to live for far too long. Your systematic destruction of life will no longer be tolerated. We offer you a choice, either end your killing ways, or be destroyed one-by-one." The image then gave a bone chilling smile, "Starting with your son, Trunks."
"WHAT!!! SON! YOU HAVE A SON!" Virgo yelled, nearly choking from the shock. "SHUT UP!" was the reply everyone gave him.
"The choice is yours Vegeta, you have a month to comply." with that, the message ended. Radditz was the first speak:
"Err, every time I see that message makes my blood boil."
"You Saiya-jin get upset easy." Nexis stated simply.
"Why such a long wait?" Ren asked, curious as to the month long ultimatum.
"You have a son?!?!?" Virgo repeated.
"Here's my question," Slayer started, "why'd you bring us here? Why not just attack them now? Save you the trouble of us stopping you."
Taurus smiled, "Finally, an intelligent question."
Vegeta stared at Saurin with an odd seriousness, "I want you with us."
"What?!?!?!" the Renegades said in unison.
"It's tainted." Vegeta began, "Your blood. It may be cold and reptilian, but it is still saiyan blood. We're practically family, the Saiya-jins and Saiya gins. Being family, we need to fight together to beat our common enemies, Freezer, Coola, Cold, the Lunars..."
"Wait a minute Vegeta," Saurin said, cutting Vegeta off, "since when do we go from being weaklings, to family, to being so strong you want us to fight Freezer with you? And when did the Lunars become my enemy?"
"Well, you're the one who calls us cousin, lizard! And the Lunars killed just as many of your kind as they did mine! I felt a little revenge was in order, so I cooked up this nice little plan that will benefit both of us." the saiyan king ended with a sinister grin.
"Hah! This I gotta hear!" Ren laughed propping up his feet.
"It's simple, as long as the Lunars die by saiyan hands, I'll be happy."
"I see where this is going." Nexis said.
Vegeta snickered, "That's right, friend. I want you Renegades to attack the Earth. Don't let anyone or anything live! Just bring me Serenity, and her body guards alive. I'd like to make her pay personally."
"You gotta be kidding?" Slayer responded. Virgo just erupted into fits of laughter.
"HAHAHAHA! I get it! You want us to do your dirty work for you so Freezer gets pissed at us instead of you! You sly dog! HAHAHAHA! And here I was starting to believe that shit about 'family' and 'common enemies'."
"Not a bad plan, actually." Taurus commented scratching his chin.
"Except there's no fucking way we'll do it!" Ren yelled.
"Vegeta," the Slayer started, "the Earthlings, Lunars..ahh, whatever! They're weaklings, not stupid. Trust me, I've known Serenity since she was a baby! She wouldn't do anything this rash."
"That's funny," Nappa said, "Taurus told Vegeta the same thing."
"That's 'cause Taurus is smarter then you." Virgo snapped.
"What's that, lizard!?!?!"
"And stronger..."
"Why you little!!!"
"...and doesn't smell as bad as you do."
"That's it lizard boy! You're dead!"
"Bring it on, you brain dead monkey!"
"QUIET! BOTH OF YOU!" Vegeta yelled, silencing both saiyans.
"Let's talk about this son of yours." Ren said, trying to change the subject to something less volatile.
"Yeah Vegeta, I didn't know you had a heir." Slayer commented.
"That's because we've keep him hidden from Freezer, and everyone else, for the better part of two years now." Taurus replied.
"Why's that?" Nexis asked.
"Hmph. Come with me, I'll show you."
Vegeta lead the group down the halls and corridors to one of the palaces many towers. "He's in here." He opened the door, revealing what looked like an average nursery, with an attractive Saiya-jin nurse maid. She seemed shocked to see so many visitors.
"Ve-Vegeta-Sama," she stuttered, "Prince Trunks is resting now, so
please, don't disturb him."
"Helllllooooo sweetness." Ren said giving a sly, lover boy smile. The
smile faded as soon as his scouter, an every other scouter in the room
started going off. [Insert typical DBZ gawking stare thing here;-).]
"Fighting power 8,000!!! Unbelievable!" Nexis manage to say through his shock, "That kind of power is unheard of for a child!"
"No wonder you're pissed." Saurin said. "8,000 in his sleep, image what it's like when he throws a tantrum."
"I'd rather not." Virgo replied.
"With a power like that, this kid could take on Freezer some day." Ren added.
"Exactly." Vegeta said. "He can also hide his true power from your scouters. 8,000 is an inaccurate reading. So what will it be Renegade? Will you help?"
Saurin thought about it. So far, Vegeta had a right to be pissed off. It looked like the Earthlings had crossed the line...wait a minute! The messenger at the space port, said Serenity wanted to talk with them. He couldn't make any decisions until he'd talked with the Earthlings.
"Vegeta," he started, "you know I just can't say yes like that. Let me talk to Serenity."
"Out of the question!" the Saiya-jin king snapped, "The longer I wait for you to play detective, the more time Freezer has to find out about Trunks!"
"I'm not asking for long Vegeta! Just give me two weeks! Two weeks to talk with Serenity, and get to the bottom of this."
Vegeta thought it over. He was hesitant. "Well I err, I mean....what will you do if she is planning something?"
"Then I'll buy you nine mantles for your new trophies."
"Two weeks, starting right now, this second."
The Slayer smiled, "Thank you Vegeta. But I do have one more thing to ask of you."
"What is it now?!?! I gave you your two weeks, what else do you want?!?!"
"I'd like access to your data files. I'd like to check something."
Vegeta was quite surprised by the request. "What for?"
"I'm wanting to make sure my files on Bardock are the same as yours, that's all."
All the Saiya-jins where very shocked by the request.
"Bardock?" Taurus questioned, "Why him?"
Radditz just smiled, he knew just what the Renegades where looking for. "Don't tell me you actually believe those stories about my old man leaving his second son on Earth. They're just that, stories."
"Oh, come on Radditz," Ren started, "don't tell me the idea of having a long lost brother doesn't intrigue you?"
"If I do have a brother on Earth, I'd only want to kick his tail for not destroying the place by now!"
"Do whatever you want," Vegeta said, heading back to the throne room, "it's your time that you're wasting."
"Right. Virgo, Nexis, head back to the ship. Get it prepped for launch. Ren, you're coming with me."
As the two Saiya-gins headed for the computer room, the same thought crossed both their minds; The legend of Kakarotto. But the legend really begins with Bardock, hero of the Saiyan/Lunar war.
He started his life as a low class Saiya-jin fighter, or at least that's what his strength test showed. Bardock was one of only four Saiya-jin now known to have the ability to rise and decrease his fighting strength at will. Only Vegeta, Taurus, and more recently, prince Trunks, are known to share the ability. It's also rumored that Bardock could 'sense' a fighters fighting strength without the use of a scouter, though there is no evidence to prove this. With the ability to increase his ki and rumored to be able to sense ki, it wasn't long before Bardock went up to the ranks to middle, high, then elite class. He and his team of elites were destined for greatness.
Though it's not known who Radditz's mother was, there are those who think it was Seripa, a member of his team. And while there's no denying that they where fond of each other, there's no proof that she is the mother of Radditz. But she is the supposed mother of Kakarotto (if there is a Kakarotto). Seripa was killed in action. That's what the report on the attack on the moon says anyway. Yet there are two reasons for the stories of 'the missing son of Bardock' carry on; medical reports, and Toma, Bardock's best friend.
"Before Saiya-jins are cleared to leave the planet on missions of any kind," Ren started, as if he'd read the very text you have just read, "they must take a medical examination first. Before the doctor for Bardocks team died in the fight against Freezer, he claimed that Seripa was pregnant."
"Yeah," Saurin responded, "finding those documents would help. Now lets see here..." Saurin and Ren began going through the computer files, hoping to find the last document the doctor left before he, ah, left. Much to their amazement they found Seripa's last medical files had been deleted.
"That's weird." Ren commented. "Why in the hell are her files erased?"
"Well, that only leaves us with Toma's story." Slayer replied.
Toma was Bardocks right hand man, and good friend. He was the sole survivor (just barely) of Bardocks team after they fought Freezer. On his deathbed, he told an interesting story...
"He said Seripa didn't die on the moon like Bardock said." Saurin began with an eery knowledge of the text above. "He said that Bardock knew they couldn't beat Freezer, and didn't want Seripa or his unborn son, Kakarotto, to live under Cold's rule. So he removed her tail and sent her to Earth. He died after telling the story."
"It's a saiyan bedtime story now." Ren added.
"You don't believe that Kakarotto exists do you, Ren?" Saurin asked.
"It just doesn't make sense. If there was a Saiya-jin on Earth, he would have shown himself by now."
"Yeah, but no Saiya-jin ever bothered to check out the story either. And since he would be on Earth anyway, why not check?"
Before Ren could responded, Virgo's voice chimed over the communicator on his scouter. Saurin also picked up the message:
//Saurin? Ren? You copy?//
"Yeah, I copy. Is the ship ready?"
//Yeah, well there's a problem with the ship.//
"What is it?"
//It's not here.//
"WHAT!!!!"
//Just what I said, it's gone.//
"Damnit! You and Nexis meet up with us back at the throne room."
//Right. We're on our way.//
...minutes later.
Vegeta had barely been in the throne room for two mintues when his 'sixth sense' kicked in. He felt a fairly desent size ki build up right outside the door. It felt familiar like he'd sensed it mere moments ago. 'It couldn't be. . .'
*BOOM*
The doors were blown open. All the Saiya-jin went nuts in the choas, not
really knowing what had happened...everyone but Vegeta, who seemed pretty
calm, if not curious as to why the Renegade's had blown down his door.
"What's the meaning of this Saurin? And it had better be good."
The Slayer was in a state of much unhappiness at this point. He just knew that Vegeta had something to do with his missing space ship. "Oh, now that's funny! Where's my ship, you saiyan rat!?!"
Vegeta was completely unfazed by the Saiya-gin's insult. In fact, he thought it was funny that Saurin thought that he, of alllllllllll people, would take his ship. "Get real, Slayer. What would I want with that piece of junk?"
"Don't play dumb with me! Where is it?!?!"
Now, Vegeta was upset. But strangely, it was Taurus who saved the day;
"Calm down Renegade. Your ship, if that's what you call it, is fine. I saw Bulma taking to her workshop about an hour ago. You should look there."
Vegeta muttered something along the lines of 'stupid woman' under his breath.
"Bulma? Never heard of her. Who is she?" Ren asked.
"Our chief science officer. She's in hanger thirteen. Word of advice, don't hurt her, heheheheh."
"Riiiiiiight."
A quick flight, and another blown down door later found the repitilian fighters at Hanger 13. The sight that awaited them was both shocking and amazing. From what they could tell, this Bulma stripped their ship down to its frame, then, put on a new one, added a new engine, and God knows what else in an hour! Too bad they didn't ask for it, other wise they might of been happy.
"Hey! Anyone in here named Bulma?!?! Show yourself!!!"
Much to their surprise, the voice barked back rather violently, "Yeah, just hold your horse! I'll be right there!!!" With that, a short little blue haired Saiyan hoped out of the ship, and shot them all a dirty look. But the look faded away to a much more pleasant look. "Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were Vegeta. So, what can I do'ya for?"
Any of the violent tensions Saurin had had all faded away by now, "That's our ship. What did you do to our ship?"
"You called that place of junk a ship? I'm amazed it could fly!"
Violent tensions, rising....
"Well, it did. That ship is older then my grandpa! Now tell me what you did to it?"
"Calm down, Saurin," Ren cut in, "take a look at this engine. It's a Crel 3! It's far better then the old one, an-ohhh, what's this thingy?" Ren went on admiring Bulma's handy work. "What else did ya upgrade?"
"Hey, Ren! Your not helping."
"Say, you guys are the Renegades aren't you? That explains the old hardware." Bulma stated. "Well, for starters I added a new frame to handle the increase in speed, a new navigation system, a star gazer, a capsule function.."
"Capsule function?" Virgo inquried.
"Man, you guys are from the old school. You telling me you don't know what a Capsule is?"
"...no." they all replied.
"Well, I'll show ya." she said as she walked towards the hatch. She pressed a square panal and in a puff of smoke the ship was gone. In it's place, lay a small capsule.
"WHAT THE FUCK!"
"Neat huh?" Bulma said, igoring the curse. "If ya don't mind me asking, what are you all doing here? I thought the last time you were here, Vegeta nearly cut your throat open?"
"Oh ya, yeah that he did" Saurin just kind of mumbled.
"We're here because it looks like the Lunars found out about Trunks."
Virgo responded, "Now if you don't mind me asking, what did you mean when
we first came in here? You said you thought we were Vegeta."
"That's terrible." she said thinking about what he said about Trunks. "What are you going to do about it?"
"We're going to Earth." Nexis replied.
"Yeah, but we gotta get there in a hurry, Vegeta gave of two weeks to find out what's going on." Ren added.
"Then ya may want to take these." Bulma said, giving them each a capsule. "There's a space pod in each capsule. They'll get ya there in no time! I also left some Saiya-jin fighting armor in your ship. It may come in handy."
"Wow, thanks!" Slayer smiled, holding the capsule, "This will save time alright! Thanks, Bulma!"
"Don't mention it. And to answer your question," she pointed at Virgo, "Vegeta's my husband."
"NO WAY!!!!" All the Renegades yelled.
"But your ki's only 350! I always thought that Vegeta would marry an elite!" Virgo exclaimed.
"Yeah, well I love you too." she remarked, obliviously taking Virgo's comment as an insult. "But I don't think you have time to be asking me stupid questions! Now get out there and find out how the Earthlings found out about my son!!"
"Yes ma'am!"
The Renegades headed outside and released their capsules.
"Ever flown in one of these before?" Virgo asked, approaching the ship pod.
"Nope," Ren replied, "but how hard could it be?"
The doors closed, and the space pods shot off into th sky. Their destination, Earth.
Hey, this is Slayer! Man, this just keeps on getting weirder and weirder!
First we land on Earth and find out there are seven large ki's! Then we find
out that the Earth also received a threat from Vegeta too! What the hell is
going on around here?!?! Do we find the son of Bardock? Wellll, I won't ruin
the surprise, but maybe the title will. Next time, on Dragon Senshi G!