-A wake up call-
After a few seconds, the ship was hailed. On the screen a familiar face appeared.
"Hello there, children," A voice spoke through the speaker.
"Ice Boss!" Fridge and Kabbats yelled in unison.
"Indeed," the changeling replied, "So, my son, have I punished you enough now? Taking away your son as you almost took my succesor? Are you ready to come back into the family and take your rightful place as a planettrader lord? I'll even grant your monkey amnesty if you come back."
"Oh come on father, I know you don't truely want me back, family never meant anything to you. I'm just a thing to you. I'm a thorn in you side and you want to yank me out. Wether you simply discard me or keep me to remind others how you deal with thorns is of no importance to you." Fridge replied bitterly.
"Ah my son, you know me so well...." Iceboss smirked as he shut down the comm signal.
"Do you notice how he calls me son? A son in our culture is a failed succesor, related to his parents only by blood not by heritage. I don't care though, he was a 'father' long before he ever started calling me son," Fridge explained sadly, "Farewell Kabbats, it was nice to know you, but my father is powering up his weapon again, if they can destroy that asteroid, we don't have a chance."
As the artificial Saiya-jin and his former general prepared for the impact, something about the burning ruins of the asteroid caught their attention.
Just as the weapon on Iceboss's ship started glowing, indicating they could fire any second now, an explosion was visible on the outside of the burning asteroid.
The weapon fired a bright beam of energy straight for the ship.
"This is it, it's too late to do anything now!" Kabbats exclaimed as the flash of the beam brightened the windows of the ship.
Then, all of a sudden, another explosion appeared on the asteroid and from it a jet of fire streamed in front of the ship, right between the ship and the beam.
The tip of the stream of fire hit the head of the energy-beam, a massive explosion was the result.
When the flash of the explosion faded and the smoke cleared, something was floating in space at the point where the explosion had occured.
Startled as he was, Fridge had a few minor problems targetting the ship's sensors, but when he finally succeeded the shock only grew.
"It's..!" Fridge yelled as he looked at the screen.
In space, the object moved.
Crowe relaxed the blocking stance he had taken to deflect the energy beam. The strain of neutralising two of these powerful blasts had almost been too much on him, but he had managed to pull through.
"Iceboss! Illsuited father to my mentor! Destroyer of my people! You have two hours to prepare yourself and after that I will destroy you!" Crowe yelled across the void of space certain that Iceboss would hear him.
Just as he had expected, Iceboss' ship retreated quickly, setting course for the nearest Planettrader base.
Crowe quickly set course for the ship he had saved, to meet up with Fridge and Kabbats, who he knew had also heard him.
"Crowe, you fool! You should have destroyed them immediatly!" Kabbats scolded him as he reentered the ship.
"I would have, but after using the Ki-bubble technique twice, it's a surprise I'm eve able to stand without being held up," Crowe explained himself, "I was bluffing. I know that the three of us will probably be able to take them on, or at the very least we will be able to get far enough away from here before they'd realise we weren't going after them."
"No!" Fridge suddenly stated after considdering the last part of what Crowe had said, "this must end here and now. If we run now, we'll never have this great an opportunity again and besides they'll hunt you down specifically after this. Before this whole chain of events, they would've left you alone if you no longer travelled with me, but now you're considdered and official thorn in their side."
"Then a thorn they considder me and a thorn I will be..." Crowe said with resolve.
In case anyone is interested in this: Crowe can speak in space, even though there is only vacuum in space, because his race is originally from space. How they do it exactly I don't know, they never told me. ^_^
This episode was a shorty compared to the previous few episodes, but that's because it was originally intended to be part of episode 6. However that made episode 6 very long and maybe a bit too 'full of events'. So I decided to cut it in half (sorta) at a point of suspense.