Chapter Sixteen- Golden Hearts
Minsa struggled against Riroku, and was able to get free of him just as he fired at Bulma, ChiChi, and Bardock.
She slammed down on the two launch buttons, and Vegeta's and Goku's ships leapt into the sky.
Then Minsa spun around and balled her fist together, and was about to bring them down on Riroku's head, when he spun around and grabbed her fist.
"Don't even think about it." He hissed. "Now you and I will be leaving on that last ship."
Minsa fought against him, but she wasn't stronger then him physically, and never had been. He had been one of her main trainers when she was younger, so he had always been slightly stronger then her.
"Let me go!" she yelled, and kicked him hard in the shin as another ki ball shook the dying planet.
He finally picked her up, and ran towards the ship, when suddenly someone came out of nowhere, smashing Riroku and Minsa to the ground.
"B-Bardock!" Minsa stuttered.
"Come on." Bardock said, holding out his hand.
"Where are ChiChi and Bulma?" Minsa asked, keeping a wary eye on Riroku.
"I put them on the ship before I came to help you."
"Are they both ok?"
"Both are a little burned, but they'll heal quickly." Bardock responded.
Then both of them were quiet, as they realized what was going to happen. With Goku, and the others so far away from the planet they couldn't use Instant Transmission to get here, and there wasn't enough time to switch the control panel over so that you could launch from inside the ship. One of them was going to die.
Minsa picked Riroku up.
"Go launch the ship with Bardock and the girls." Minsa hissed, and threw him towards the control panel.
Then she turned to Bardock.
"Hurry get to the ship."
"What about you?"
"I know where there are some more ships around the corner, that can only be launched inside the ship, so he couldn't have rigged those."
Bardock nodded, and hurried back to the ship.
Minsa turned back to Riroku, and gasped at what she saw. He was powering up to destroy the control panel.
'Oh crap! No!'
Minsa summoned all her power, and shot it at Riroku. Her eyes were shut tight, and praying that she would hit him, but not him him.
There was a loud thud, and when Minsa opened her eyes she thought she was going to be sick when she saw the body of her once best friend on the ground.
"Oh Riroku… What happened to us? Things weren't supposed to be this way…" Minsa whispered as she fell to the ground.
The planet gave another shudder and Minsa swore. She started to crawl towards the control panel, praying that she would make it before the planet was completely destroyed.
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Vegeta frowned from inside the ship. Half of his planet was already destroyed. He knew that the half where Bulma, ChiChi, Bardock, and Minsa wasn't going to last much longer, and he wondered if Riroku was giving Minsa trouble.
'I'm going to kill that bastard later.' Vegeta thought to himself. 'But right now, I couldn't bear it if the onna was hurt or…'
Vegeta's thoughts trailed off, unable to complete that awful idea.
'Or if Minsa… I wouldn't be able to bear either of their deaths…'
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Goku and Gohan stood tensely in the next ship, waiting for the ship with ChiChi and Bardock to be launched.
"Come on…" Goku whispered. "Come on…"
Gohan stood next to his dad, neither of them talking to each other, just muttering small prayers that ChiChi, Bulma, Bardock, and Minsa would all come out alive.
Then there was a huge explosion.
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"NOOOOOOOOO!!!"
Krillin and Yamcha suddenly back away from Vegeta, as there was suddenly a strange gold aura around him.
"V-Vegeta?" Krillin asked.
But Vegeta couldn't hear him over the sudden roar of the power around him, or even over his own screaming, as he yelled his frustration.
"BULMA!!"
'What the hell is happening to me? I feel stronger then I've ever felt before…'
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"NOOOOOO!"
A second scream echoed through the darkness of space at the same moment.
Gohan backed away from his dad, as he saw the sudden change.
"Dad!" Gohan yelled, but nothing changed, Goku's screams of pain still reverberated in the ship, as the golden aura surrounded him.
Goku fell to his knees crying.
'ChiChi… Minsa…Bulma…Bardock…'
"AHHHH!"
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Minsa felt her hand press the button, even as her body was consumed by the explosion.
'Good luck my friends, and may we meet again. Please make it Bardock, ChiChi, and Bulma…'
She shut her eyes then, and let the pain disappear.
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Suddenly Krillin and Yamcha started to yell and point, after Vegeta's screams finally ended.
"It's the other ship!"
"Bulma! ChiChi!"
Krillin and Yamcha were jumping up and down, and looked quite stupid.
Vegeta was silent for a moment as he looked at his hands, and put them through his still golden hair.
'I did it Minsa…'
Then he turned on the radio to the other ship.
"Bardock?" he barked into the radio, praying that his voice hadn't cracked.
There was a moment of pause, and then a reply.
"Prince Vegeta?"
"Yes, are Bulma and Minsa with you?"
There was a longer pause this time, and Vegeta gripped the radio hard, afraid of the answer.
"Bulma is…"
Vegeta felt tears spring to his eyes.
'Minsa…'
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Goku was finally quiet as they listened to the conversation between Bardock and Vegeta.
"Oh kami…Minsa…" Goku whispered, as they heard the news.
Gohan started to cry lightly.
"But what about Mom?" he then asked.
Goku picked up their own radio.
"Is ChiChi with you too Bardock?"
"Yes…"
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Vegeta looked up as he felt the other high ki in the ship next to him.
'So Kakarott is a Super Saiyan too… Who ever would have thought a third class baka would become Super Saiyan the same moment as the Prince…'
Then he looked up.
"We have to be getting to Earth before Frieza sees our ships." Bardock was saying.
"Alright…"Vegeta said as he threw one last glance at his destroyed home.
Author's Note: Ah, I'm crying now! Also I'm trying to decide if I should do a sequel where it tells about their lives back on Earth. I think there will be one chapter after this, but it will be a short one. Ya know, the journey to Earth, and thinking of Minsa… Anway, tell me if you think a sequel would be a good thing!