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The demi Neko-jin stretched out in a cat like fashion, though not getting very far with his chains. He sighed heavily remembering how he got into this mess.


A dark red tide of energy swept through the hallway and vaporized the guards. As soon as Calico touched the ground, something cold and very hard crashed over his collarbone. He yelled out as his back slammed against the wall, sending more pain through his crushed neck. Calico propped himself up on his tail and wiped his jaw of the small trickle of blood. The attacker was none other than Frieza himself.

"Damn."

Before he could react, Frieza phases out of sight and reappeared in front of him. His knee crashed into Calico's stomach and knocks the air out of him. He continued with an elbow to the top of his spine and slapped him to the rear wall with his concrete tail. The last thing Calico saw was Frieza standing over him before he blacked out.

When he had awakened he found himself being chained to one of the dungeon's walls. He wounds being still fresh, all he could do was hiss in frustration. That's when Reini came into view with her dark attire trimmed with jewelry, fit for royalty.

"Reini...what...the hell?" he asked, his words making his lungs burn.

She only stared on with cold eyes filled with insanity.

"Reini?" Calico asked once more, raising a brow.

She signaled the guards to leave and closed the cell up. She walked closer with hate in her eyes. She reached him and laid a blow to his chest. Calico gagged and coughed up a lot of blood. Reini smirked and lifted his chin up with her pointer finger.

"Tell me...." she began, "do you remember when we first met?"

Calico bit his lip and answered, "Yes..."

"You knew what I was up to then but you stopped me from becoming like I am now or you tried."

"Reini, no... you're a good person... don't tell me..."

"Don't tell you what? That I wasn't the little goody two shoes Reini-chan you knew. Well too bad." the demi saiya-jin smiled viciously and elbowed the man across the jaw. "I only played along with it until I was strong enough. Now you will not get in my way again."

"Reini...please reconsider." he choked. "I still believe... that you don't need this power driven life.... to be happy."

"Hey Calico, do you remember how the war started on your home planet?"

Calico's eyes widened. "Y-you?"

Reini laughed wickedly as Calico attempted to attack her with claws extracted from his human like hand and gritted teeth. "You bitch! You're the reason most of my race and family died! How could you!?!"

Reini turned and smiled cruelly to herself. "You know Frieza insisted on killing you but I motioned against it. You should be grateful."

"I swear Reini; you will die a terrible death for this!" Calico yelled as the flesh around his chains bled from the resistance.

"We'll see about that." she said plainly. "Oh guards! This little kitty's being bad, teach him a lesson."

The guards smirked as they began tormenting him.

He trusted her foolishly. When they first met she was a killer even at her age. He had thought he had changed her but obviously he was wrong. Calico growled in frustration then decided to save whatever was left of his energy. He needed to get out of there but how?

~ * ~

"FRIEZA!?!" the two saiya-jin royalty said in unison at the sight before them.

"What the hell boy!?" Vegeta growled in confusion. "You said Frieza was stronger than a super saiya-jin so how is he beaten?"

"I-I don't know!" Trunks shrugged with wide eyes.

Vegeta scowled and flew over to the ice-jin picking him up by the throat. Since Frieza was slipping in and out of consciousness the saiya-jin decided to get some answers out by ramming him into the wall a few times.

"Alright bastard, what the hell's going on?"

Frieza smirked and said something about 'stupid monkey' and tried to ki blast him. The ki ball was quickly slapped away, leaving Vegeta above the normal of pissed at the feeble attempt.

"Oh, a smart ass, are we? I'll fix that." Vegeta smirked and began laying lethal blows to the fiend.

Trunks sweatdropped and raised a brow. 'Well looks like father has that under control. If I try to stop him to get some answers out of Frieza, I'll be caught in the crossfire. I should go.'

"I'm going to search the rest of the palace." Trunks called and turned to the corridor.

He wasn't even sure if his father heard him but he didn't feel like repeating himself. Trunks then walked through the rest of the long hall that lead to the dungeon. The smell of blood and decaying flesh struck him like a wall.

"Kami! What the hell?" Trunks said as he covered his sensitive nose and raised his ki to light the way.

The foyer was cover with mangled bodies; some burned from ki blasts and other literally ripped apart. One warrior grabbed his ankle but Trunks kick it away and put up his guard.

"You have to.... *coughs up blood* ...stop...they..." his eyes rolled back in his head and strangled on the blood until he died.

Trunks winced and tried to figure out what he was talking about. The prince turned and decided to look elsewhere. He made his way to the ship hanger. He looked around and no one seemed to be their. Trunks snorted then looked at the controls; one of the ships where missing.

"Huh?"

Trunks hovered over the rail to see five of the large battle ships gone. The flashing screen caught his attention from the corner of his eyes.

"What's this? The ships course is to ....."

Trunks turned pale and ran directly to find a ship, a fast one, to get him back to Earth. Then he remembered his father was on the other side of the palace.

"Shit!" he realized and burst into super saiya-jin, wasting no time.

He blazed down the halls and burst in the doors of Frieza's chambers. "Father, we need to leave right now! I think mom and Bra are in danger!"

"WHAT?!?!" Vegeta yelled back in mid-strike.

"There is some war ships are missing from the hanger and their set for Earth." Trunks filled in and headed back around the corner.

The saiya-jin king cursed to himself earning a few strangled laughs from Frieza's mangled carcass, thinking that he would be spared. Wrong. Vegeta turned and delivered the finally kick to Frieza's face, instantly breaking his neck. Satisfied, he smirked and flew off toward the hanger.

~ * ~

Reini and her troops walked down the long hallway with Bulma and Bra in tow. Halfway through Bra had awoken and began fighting and flailing like crazy; she even managed to knock out one and scramble free. She didn't get very far until Reini picked her up at the back of her neck.

"No! Don't hurt her, she's just a child!" Bulma pleaded, easily restrained by the guard behind her.

Reini ignored the woman and smirked. "Girl's got spunk."

Bra growled, her little legs kicking in the air. "You're in big trwouble lady!"

"Oh my, is that so."

"Yeah, my daddy is the king of saiya-jin and he'll beat you up easy!"

"What did you say?!"

"That's wight and my big brwother is the prince and he wouldn't like you hurting me either." Bra smirked.

'This child knows where Trunks is?' Reini thought.

"Alright kid, where are they? Where is Trunks!?" Reini demanded and squeezed tighter.

"I'm not gonna tell you!" Bra yelled and spit in the raging teen's face.

Reini wiped the glob of spit off of her face and turned red with rage. The older demi saiya-jin then threw the child into the wall, which cracked under the pressure, causing blood to trickle from her head as she laid still.

"NO! Please! She doesn't know anything!" Bulma cried.

"SILENCE!!" Reini screamed.

"My lady..." one of the guards began. "May I suggest we put the child with the cat?"

Reini's face twisted from anger to an evil smirk. "That is a brilliant ideal. Yes, he could use a new scratching post!"

Reini motioned her hand as the guards dragged the limp bluenette toward the lowest dungeon. Bulma struggled with tears streaming down her face, only left to imagine what horrible fate was bestowed upon her very young daughter.

"Hey...where is we going?" Bra asked half dazed, almost to her destination.

"Your going to be the kitty's new playmate." The first guard smirked.

"You might wanna watch it though; he's been a little on the mental side lately." The other laughed, making Bra panic.

The third stopped in front on the dark cell, only a little of the front was light from the hall. From the inside, a growl hung in the air and green eyes reflected in the back corner's darkness.

'What the fuck now?' Calico mentally huffed as the cell door opened.

Something small was thrown into the darkness and left by the laughing sentinels. The figure scrambled back close to the door and was revealed as a little girl. She was crying and visibly scared and Calico was obviously confused.

'Did Reini really think I would injure a chibi?' Calico thought as he stirred closer, only for her to tremble in fear.

"Hey don't be scared, I won't hurt you."

"Y-you promise." Bra sniffed and held her knees close to her chest.

"Uh-huh, yeah. I promise." Calico assured gently.

"Ok." Bra smiled and moved closer to Calico. "Why are you in the dark? Come over here."

"I can't. I'm sort of stuck here."

"That's ok." Bra said as dug her dirty fingers in her pockets, finding her tiny flashlight. "See?"

She turned it on and gasped.

"Now don't be freight..."

"Wow, you're a big kitty!" the innocent chibi exclaimed, immediately seeing his flicking ears at the top of his head and swaying sliver tail. "But your face doesn't look like a kitty. You look like me."

Bra's round face searched him with awe with her dim light. "You have pretty kitty eyes. And you're cute too."

"Um thanks." Calico said and managed to hold her still for a second. "Now wait. Who are you?"

"Oh yeah, I'm Bra!" she grinned and sat in his lap. "And you are..."

"Calico."

"Ok, I'll call you kitty." Bra said and held his hand. "Oh no, you have big boo boo's on you."

"I know."

"Do they hurt?" Bra asked with teary eyes.

Calico sighed; he didn't want to lie to her. "Well...what about you?" he said changing the subject after noticing the trickle of blood on her forehead.

Bra brought her hand up and touched the sore gently. "A little."

"Here." Calico instructed and licked her wound.

"Ewwww! What are you doin'?" Bra pouted playfully.

"Well I'm part Neko-jin and Neko-jins have antiseptics in their saliva."

Bra looked confused. "It means that my spit cleans the sore." Calico explained. "Who did that to you anyway?"

"That meanie lady. She got mad when I didn't tell where my daddy was." Bra filled in as she played with the end of Calico's tail.

"Oh, who's your father?"

"Oh, my daddy is Vegeta-sama of the saiya-jins!" Bra piped proudly.

"Your father is Vegeta! And that means your brother is... Trunks!" Calico yelled. "Tell me, where is he!?"

"Oh no! Not you too!" Bra cried and ran from him.

"Oh wait. I'm sorry, Bra-chan. I'm a friend of Trunks is all. I didn't mean to yell."

"You're a friend?"

"Hai."

"Ok." Bra smiled and moved herself back into the comfort of her protector's lap.

'Great, if Trunks is alive then there's still a chance.' Calico thought. "Hey Bra, I need your help to get out of here."

"Alright!" Bra squealed and clapped her hands together. "Let's do it to it!"

"Great."

~*~*~

Little moans of distress came from Bra's throat, attracting the guard's attention.

"What's going on here?" he growl with annoyance and came to the cell.

"Please, please help me." she cried from the darkness.

The guard hesitated then moved closer to the door, right in to Calico's trap. He sprung from the darkness and wrapped his muscular arm around the guards neck; pulling him to the cell door. Calico struggled with him for a moment before snapping his neck by placing a hand over the guard's mouth and pulling back.

"Can I look now?" Bra whined with her eyes covered as Calico instructed her.

"No, not yet."

Calico brought the body down to the floor carefully and took the keys from him. He unlocked the door and slid the body into the dark corner of the cell.

"Ok Bra don't look back." Calico instructed and head out the corridor with her holding his hand.

"Kitty wait. We have to get my mommy before we leave. We can't leave her." Bra whispered.

Calico smiled warmly and kneeled down to her level. "Ok Bra, what does she look like?"

"Just like me." Bra answered. "And you have to promise me you'll save her. Promise me, Cali-chan!"

"Ok, I promise but now you have to go to sleep."

"But I'm not..." Bra couldn't finish before Calico pinched the nerve in the back of her neck.

Her small body fell forward and landed on his chest. "Forgive me child but you're eyes are too innocent." Calico said lowly as he put her between his gi front and his under shirt.

He then slinked off into the hall, trying to avoid as many guards as possible. His ears pricked up that someone was coming and jumped up from the ground, off the wall and was back first on the ceiling. He dug his claws into the wall and climbed swiftly thought the hall. He then stopped and smelled Bra and then sniffed the air. It was like the same scent the chibi had but stronger.

'That must be her mother.'

Calico thought as he moved over the guards down near the engine room. The heat was scorching as he made it down to the room. The walls where too hot to climb by on now but he no longer needed to, he could see Bulma's cerulean hair stand out from the others.

"Alright you weakling's you got two minutes." The large guard yelled.

"Thank Kami!" Bulma sighed.

She never worked in such heat before. She could already see the other workers charging over to the limited water supply so she made a break for it. She managed to get her a handful and drank it gratefully. Never would she take water for granted again. Two arms came and covered her mouth, pulling her back to the shadows.

"Look you don't know me but don't scream." A gentle voice said in her ear.

The next thing she knew, she was in the air, in the arms of some young man, looking at the ground below. He wasn't flying just making the largest leaps she'd ever seen. She couldn't even feel a jerk when he touched the ground.

"Stop them!" Someone yelled and began firing ki blasts their way.

She felt blood dripping though her cloths. The first thing she though was she was shot but it wasn't her blood, it was his. She gasped when she saw the bloody gaping hole in his chest. Calico struggled from the blinding pain but he couldn't stop. He'd promised to Bra that he would save her mother.

The reached the ships docking bay and jumped into the nearest ship. Without wasting anymore time, Calico quickly typed the keys and the ship hurled them into space. They were safe, for now. The demi Neko-jin fell back into one of the chairs and placed his hand over the wound.

"Damn, it's pretty deep." He sighed and let his hand hang limp.

Bulma wearily walked over to him and his deep glaze made her jump.

"Um thank you for rescuing me, but my daughter..."

Calico raised his hand and smiled weakly. "Here." Was all he said as he moved his gi front and presented Bra to her.

Her heart jumped with joy. "Oh thank Kami! Bra!"

She began checking her for injuries, seeing as how her clothes were covered with blood.

"She's not hurt...that blood is mine." He assured.

Bra stirred and rubbed her eyes. "Mommy?"

"I'm right here Bra." Bulma cooed and rubbed her back.

"Mommy, where's kitty?" Bra asked and began to wiggle out of her mother's grip. "Oh no mommy! Cali-chan has a big boo boo!" Bra began to cry when she saw Calico.

"Don't worry Bra, it's just a scratch." Calico said and looked at Bulma. "Accuse me; you wouldn't happen to know how to land this do you?"

"Um...yeah." Bulma winced at the gross eye sore.

"Hn good, 'cause I won't." Calico said with his last ounce of strength and blacked out.