-A youcmou-jin's past-
As the Ship was zooming through space, Crowe contemplated his history and what he knew about his race.
He knew he was a Youcmou-jin and he knew that the Youcmou-jin were a warrior race, born in space instead of on a planet. He knew that at some point in time, his race decided that they needed a planet to live on too, just like all the other races. He knew that his race had taken a planet from another race, the Changelings of Clan Ice, the so called 'Aisu-jin'. However they found that the planet was too cold for them and that taking a planet was pretty easy because they were quite strong compared to other races.
The Youcmou-jin then enslaved the remaining Aisu-jin and started taking over planets, soon enough they found races willing to buy planets for anything from prison planets to practice targets for new horrible weapons. The Youcmou-jin didn't care about it at all, afterall they were a warrior culture, their only goal was victory in battle and personal strength.
But Crowe als knew that this eventually led to the downfall of the Youcmou-jin. The victims of the Planettraders, as the Youcmou-jin had started to call themselves, formed and alliance to take back their worlds and to get revenge upon the Planettraders. At the head of this alliance were the two leaders of Clan Ice: King Cold and Ice Boss.
And he knew that after the Youcmou-jin were defeated, they surrendered, instead of being enslaved by force. Which was a great dishonour. Clan Ice took over the Planettraders, the old slaves stayed slaves only with new masters. The Youcmou-jin pledged to work for the Planettraders and were bound by their battered honour to work for Clan Ice.
He was only a little of boy of five years old when his father and mother, two prominent members of the Katka-tsume tribe, unceremoniously grabbed him from his nest and stuffed him, along with hundreds of other children, in stasis pods. He himself was supposed to be shot to a distant planet in the north galaxy callek Namek-sei, however before they could launch his pod, his parents were killed. It wasn't untill later that Fridge explained to him what had happened and why.
After they took over the Planettrade Clan Ice's grudge against the Youcmou-jin had only grown and at the same time, the Youcmou-jin had slowly, but surely started to form and organised rebellion. It was then that the two most ruthless members of Clan Ice decided it was the right time to simply kill all the Youcmou-jin.
By this time the Youcmou-jin race had grown weak from living on a planet, they were used to living in space, and Clan Ice had grown stronger as it discovered the remarkable third and fourth forms of their race. Killing the entire Youcmou-jin population was a field day for the two 'Icers'. However when Airko and Fridge arrived on the planet the Youcmou-jin had been assigned, Hane-sei, they found the Youcmou-jin fully ready to fight and in fact Youcmou-jin children were being launched in pods to unknown locations.
Fridge was touched by the way the Youcmou-jin were ready to fight for their ideals even though theywere defeated, enslaved and had no hopes of winning. When Clan Ice had been subjugated they simply let it happen to them and then they schemed their way back to freedom, however the Youcmou-jin had been training and developing new techniques, they were planning to fight for their freedom. Airko, however, was not impressed.
Fridge and Airko fought their way through the Youcmou-jin to the leaders of each tribe, after they killed the tribal leaders, the rest of the tribe was disorganised and easy to deal with. However when they reached the quarters of the leaders of the Katka-tsume tribe, they found only the bodyguards of the triballeaders and a stasispod containing those bodyguards' son. Airko quickly killed the bodyguards, but as Airko prepared to blast the pod, Fridge stopped him.
Fridge was not above killing the adult Youcmou-jin, in fact he didn't even considder killing children that fought back as a bad thing. But taking the life of an innocent, unconscious child while his race was out their fighting for his life was where Fridge drew the line. He made decision there and then that he would save this child, which could very well be the last of his race and he would watch over this child and raise it.
Ofcourse while he was busy deciding this, Airko charged a ball of Ki and was preparing to throw it. Frige quickly slammed his elbow to the back of Airko's head. Airko was in his second form, Fridge was in his fourth, though he hadn't intended to do so, Fridge had torn Airko's head of and send it flying. Fridge knew at that point that he would never be able to return to his familiy again unless he'd blame someone else. So he took the pod and flew to Hane-sei's moon and left the pod there.
Then he returned to his father, Ice Boss, and his uncle King Cold and told them that the Youcmou-jin had killed Airko. Both Aisu-jin were enraged, but not nearly so as Frieza and Coola, Airko's younger brothers. Together Frieza and Coola formed a giant ball of Ki and thrusted it towards Hane-sei, after which the planet exploded. Unfortunately for Fridge, the moon he had put the pod on was blown away aswell, though it was not destroyed.
Fifty years later, King Cold and Ice Boss confronted Fridge: Airko had survived his decapitation (Note from the writer: remember, Frieza and his kind don't breathe, hence they can survive decapitation for a while because their brains don't die from lack of oxygen.) and had made it off of Hane-sei just in time. Now because Fridge had hit Airko from behind, Airko didn't know it was Fridge who had actually attacked him and that saved Fridge's life.
However he was still banished from Clan Ice territory for letting the Youcmou-jin get to Airko and for not paying attention enough to see that Airko was still alive. Fridge then made it his life's goal to find that moon that had been blown away.
He took the direction it had been launched in and set out a search pattern from that. It took him 150 years to finally find the moon, but since then he had been training Crowe. That was eleven years ago. Crowe was now sixteen years old and so strong that Fridge had been forced to reach past his fifth form into a whole new demi-form (some physical change, but not an enirely new form yet) past fifth just to keep up with him (note: Fridge is less powerfull than Frieza and Coola, Crowe's powerlevel is about one million).
"Hey Crowe, quit your day-dreaming, we've arrived," Fridge said with a smile on his face.
"Fridge," Crowe thought, even though he knew Fridge couldn't hear his thoughts, "you may not be my real father, but to me you'll always be my 'dad'."
As the ship landed, Crowe opened his closet and took his last set of undamaged clothes, a tight body suit made of red fabric, made to be able to cope with Crowe's high speed and energy.
On it he saw the mark of the Katka-tsume tribe, a black claw with an equally black fire burning around it. The same as the tattoo above his right eye, his last reminder of his real parents.
He fastened his shoulder length hair in a pony-tail using a ritual clip, a sign of maturity among the youcmou-jin, a present from Fridge when his powerlevel exceded 500.000, and put on his boots.
"I'm coming, dad," Crowe shouted as he openened the door, "I mean: Fridge," he quickly corrected himself, though he knew Fridge didn't mind.
As the Ship's airlock linked to the asteroid-base's Crowe considdered how lucky he had been and then looked at Fridge, who was smiling.
Yes, he really was lucky and happy about it too.
More notes from the writer:
You've probably noticed that this piece was a bit longer than the previous two chapters, this is because the first two chapters are intros.
Chapter one introduces the style of action used in Flight of Crowe, chapter two makes the reader (that's you) familiar with the way Fridge and Crowe live and it gives good picture of Crowe's strength and attitude.
Also you may have noticed how high Crowe and Fridge start, powerlevel wise. This is because Crowe is going to encounter everyone's favourite Saiya-jins somewhere later on and he needs to be ready to face up to them. Also the 'Icers' are all pretty tough, sending poor Crowe at them with a powerlevel of around 500 would get him killed during the first encounter and since Crowe doesn't have any Dragonballs (yet) that would make it a pretty short boring fanfic, wouldn't it :).
Lastly you may have noticed slight resemblances between Crowe and Goku (and between Crowe and Superman, for that matter). This was done entirely unintentional. However I needed to have Crowe be born at a time when Frieza, Coola and King Cold were still around while still making him the same age as Trunks and Goten (seeing as how DBNK's cast was at that age.). A stasis pod was the obvious answer.
Originally the Youcmou-jin blew up the Icers' planet and then were kicked off theirs by those same Icers, but I thought the 'Frieza blows up a planet' way of making Crowe an orphan was much mor dramatic and DBZ-ish.