Roger's ki sensing abilities helped him to land the team in another wooded area away from, but not to far from, what seemed to be a large town or small city.

"This is the Sebris system." Bardock commented. "See that third moon on the right. It's one of the few moons known that is almost entirely copper ore. It also has a thin oxygen atmosphere which is why the entire moon is green like that."

"Good, we seem to be in the right place. Everyone suppress your ki as low as you can. We don't want to be discovered quite yet." Roger said.

"Why all the stealth? We are much stronger than any ki I feel on this planet. Why are we sneaking about?" Raditz said impatiently.

"Because if we go charging in there like bulls, we will probably not get the antidote we need." Roger said.

"Besides father, that poison they have brought King Vegeta and Goku down, and they are the two strongest people on Vegetasei." Jessica observed.

"Damned me for a fool! Why didn't I think of asking Korlos for some of those invisibility belts!" Roger said.

Kirillin's face brightened. "Yeah! That would have made things much easier!"

Frowns appeared on Raditz's and Bardock's faces. "We don't mean to complain, but that's not very.... Saiyan." Bardock spoke up.

"That's okay. I'm going back to talk to Korlos about the belts. When I get back, myself, Kirillin, and Gerald will go into the city. Raditz, Bardock, and Jessica will wait here until they are needed. Roger said.

"Wait!" Raditz looked surprised. "Wait here?" Raditz looked at his father.

"Waiting here isn't very Saiyan either." Bardock gave a crooked smile. "I think would prefer using the belts and joining you after all."

Raditz nodded his agreement.

"Whew! For a minute I thought we were going to have to stand around out here for Dende knows how long!" Jessica smiled.

"Ok, seven invisibility belts coming up!" Roger said, then disappeared.

Ten minutes later Roger reappeared with the belts. "Sorry it took so long, but Korlos when through a basic operations lesson with me. They're pretty simple to operate. The belts communicate with each other, so as long as you are within 200 yards of another person using a belt, then you can see each other while remaining invisible to anyone without a belt."

Everyone donned their belts and Roger instructed them quickly on their use. Everyone activated their belts and became invisible. The team could see each other, but their seemed to be a white shimmering field surrounding everyone's bodies.

"Whew! What's that smell?" Raditz exclaimed.

Roger smiled widely. "Well Raditz, the field makes you invisible, but it also contains your scent as well."

"What?!?! You mean that's me smelling like that?" Raditz looked embarrassed.

"I told you to take a shower before we left the house this morning father." Jessica was trying not to laugh at her father.

Bardock, Gerald, and Kirillin were barely containing themselves.

"Wait until we get home young lady!" Raditz teased.

Jessica just smiled.

"Okay, everyone grab hold, I'm going to take us closer to the town." Roger said.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Bulma was slowly slipping into despair. She had tried every known antidote known to both Human and Saiyan science. Nothing changed the course of the poison in Vegeta's bloodstream. She thought about trying to derive something from the known antidotes, but somehow she knew that wouldn't work either.

"This calls for something completely different. Somehow I know that. But where do I start?" Bulma mumbled to herself.

"Your majesty." Turles called from behind Bulma.

"What?" Bulma answered rather irritably.

"We would like to question the prisoners." Nappa said from behind Turles.

"Do you think they know anything more than what they have already told us?" Bulma said.

"Not sure, but anything they might know could be crucial." Nappa said.

Bulma looked at the two warriors. "You guys aren't just looking for an excuse to beat the hell out of the Icejins are you?"

"Certainly not!" Turles exclaimed.

"No!" Nappa followed.

Nappa and Turles smiled wide trying to look as angelic as was possible for two Saiyans to look.

"Uh-huh. Well, I'm not buying the act boys. You can go and question them, you know the door code, but they are to be alive and relatively unhurt when you leave them, do I make myself clear?" Bulma looked stern."

"Of course your majesty!" Nappa said.

Nappa and Turles bowed low and walked out.

Nappa and Turles exchanged a look out in the hall on the way to the holding cell.

"Unhurt she said." Nappa repeated.

"Relatively so." Turles replied.

Both men grinned wickedly.

Bulma walked into the dispensary and checked her patients. Not much change except the slow, steady decline of both men's health.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Goku was tired. He so much wanted to set Vegeta down and sleep, but he knew that the instant he did that, Vegeta would be swept off to whatever awaited fate awaited him at the source of the power pulling them along.

Vegeta wasn't helping much. He was slipping in and out of consciousness. Each time he would awaken he would demand Goku let him go, and start struggling. This caused Goku to use up his precious reserves of energy even faster. Vegeta even invoked his status of King and ordered that Goku let him go. Goku refused, and Vegeta threatened to have him executed as a traitor just before he lost consciousness again.

"K-Kakkarot?" Vegeta awakened again.

Goku immediately tightened his grip in preparation for Vegeta's demand to be let go.

"Yes Vegeta?" Goku answered.

"I-I'm s-s-sorry, you're n-not a t-traitor." Vegeta stammered.

Goku looked at Vegeta in shock. An apology was the last thing he expected from Vegeta.

"It's okay Vegeta." Goku smiled.

Vegeta's apology caught Goku off guard enough that when Vegeta used his remaining strength to push out of Goku's arms, Goku lost his grip on the King and Vegeta started flying away.

"VEGETA!" Goku called as he made a desperate grab for his friend. More out of blind luck than skill, Goku felt his right hand close around the King's ankle.

"K-Kakkarot.... let... m-me.. go... Save... y-yourself... please!" Vegeta's voice was weak as he lost consciousness again.

Goku pulled Vegeta back to him hand over hand. The effort seemed Herculean. Finally, he had a firm hold on his friend once again.

"Vegeta you damned stubborn little..." Goku went on with a string of expletives that one seldom heard from the normally gentle natured Saiyan.

Goku dug in and fought the unknown force once more, but he knew that he didn't have the energy to go on for very much longer.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Roger, Gerald, Kirillin, Raditz, Jessica, Bardock, and Raditz appeared on the edge of what appeared to be a large plaza of some sort. Beyond the plaza streets went off in several different directions. Some seemed to be housing or barracks of some sort, and others seemed to be business establishments, mostly centered on the assassin trade. Knife shops, gun shops, and various other weapons shops. Up the very center of the plaza, a wide street ran off to what seemed like a palace of sorts. The plaza and streets were all busy with some vehicle and a lot of pedestrian traffic.

"Crap!" Roger whispered. "How are we going to get through that without being detected!"

"I don't see anyone with a scouter." Bardock observed.

About the time Bardock finished his sentence, three uniformed men entered the plaza, each one sporting a scouter. Everyone in the team reflexively suppressed his or her ki even lower.

"Well, we won't be flying anywhere either." Raditz moaned.

"No, that would be detected immediately." Roger mused.

"So how do we get to that palace without touching anyone and without raising our ki?" Bardock asked.

"Maybe we don't. What happens when one of us goes Super Saiyan level two or three?" Jessica asked.

"It blows the ki detection devices up!" Raditz said.

"So, if one of us were to go Super Saiyan level four....." Roger finished. "It would blow them up faster than they would have a chance to figure out what was going on. They might even think it was some sort of malfunction. I like that idea! Jessica you're a genius!"

"I know." Jessica said with a straight face. Raditz playfully cuffed her along side the head.

Roger teleported away from the town a few hundred yards and started to power up. He flashed into Super Saiyan level four, and as predicted every ki detection device on the planet exploded. Then he teleported back.

Roger noticed the three uniformed felines were holding the sides of their heads and looked shocked. Bits and pieces of scouter were all around them. There were also faint trails of smoke coming from a window on one of the upper floors of the palace, and from several places around the town.

"So, unless there are people here that can sense ki, we should be able to fly right to the palace." Bardock said. "Good! Let's go!"

Bardock swept into the air followed closely by the other team members.

"Look out!" Jessica called as several uniformed felines with scorch marks in their fur and red welts along side their heads flew towards them in a rage. The group quickly descended below the felines as they screamed past.

"They look decidedly pissed." Raditz observed.

"Look, they must have gotten a fix on my location before their ki devices blew up. They're headed directly for the spot I was standing when I went Super Saiya level four." Roger said.

"Did you feel their ki?" Roger said. "They're quite strong."

"They pose no threat to us." Gerald bragged.

"No, but I did not expect them to be this strong. The Assassin wasn't nearly that powerful." Roger pondered this for several seconds as they resumed their trip to the palace like structure ahead of them.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++

"Captain, we've searched the area and have found nothing. Someone was here, the ground and trees have been disturbed slightly, but there is no scent at all." G'rirth reported.

"No scent? That's impossible, every living thing has a scent!" The Captain snapped back.

"Captain!" Called a feline guard from another direction.

"What is it?" The Captain said irritated.

"We've found something, you should come and look." The Guard averted his eyes from his superior.

"Very well, doesn't seem like much here, lead the way." The Captain demanded.

"The Captain and the young Lieutenant flew for quite a distance then landed in a small thicket.

The ground had been partially trampled down, like maybe a half a dozen or so people had been standing here. There was a strong scent in the air.

"Saiyans!" The Captain growled low in his chest.

"What? You mean the Saiyans that destroyed our planet?" The younger man exclaimed.

"You are too young to have ever seen a Saiyan, but I'll not soon forget their stench!" The Captain said.

"Everyone, back to the palace!" The Captain suddenly barked then took back to the sky at super sonic speeds.

No one questioned the Captain's order, and followed him back towards the palace.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++

"So... Now that we are here, how do we get in?" Raditz queried.

"You would think that these guys were expecting some sort of trouble." Bardock observed.

It was true; the front gate to the interior courtyard of the palace was heavily guarded. They seemed like they were already in a state of war.

"I don't know Bardock, but they certainly seem to be in a state of preparedness." Roger agreed.

"You don't think Korlos warned them of our coming do you?" Raditz asked.

"Could be, but judging from his reaction when I mentioned the feline assassins I would bet against it. It's possible that they are prepared for something else entirely. Or guarding something of great importance." Roger mused.

Suddenly half a dozen feline warriors flew up to the front gate and they started talking, or more accurately, mewling and yowling at each other. Roger figured it must be their language.

"Don't look now guys, but I think our presence has just been discovered." Jessica said. "I could see a image of Saiyans in the mind of that one." She pointed towards the feline with the most decorated uniform.

:"Image?" Kirillin asked.

"Most beings think in pictures as well as words." Jessica explained. "I can't understand the language, but I can see the pictures. The man was defiantly making some sort of reference to Saiyans, and it wasn't at all flattering."

Raditz looked at his daughter. "You hang around Gohan way to much."

Jessica smiled. "What's wrong? Maybe I'll be known as "Jessica the Wise" one day."

"I love my nephew, but I would rather you be known as "Jessica the Strong" one day." Raditz retorted.

"The terms strong and wise are not mutually exclusive." Jessica returned.

Raditz didn't say anything more, mostly because he wasn't quite sure what "mutually exclusive meant."

"Okay, we need to get into the palace. Do we just fly over their heads through the gate?" Roger was focused on the front gate.

Well father, to get into the courtyard we can just fly over the wall.

Roger looked up to where his son was pointing. "Well duh!" He mentally berated himself.

"Let's go." Roger said sheepishly.

The group flew up and over the outer wall of the palace and hovered above the yard to get their bearings. There were several guards along the battlement that suddenly turned in their general direction and began to scan the skies with their eyes.

The group noticed this. "How can they sense us?" Bardock whispered softly.

Suddenly Roger remembered something about the cat he had once owned.

"The whiskers!" Roger thought, "The whiskers are used when hunting and are very sensitive to shifts in air pressure and direction. They detected our movement passed them!"

Every one froze in place, not daring to move.

After what seemed like forever, the warriors turned back to their duties.

"Slowly, very slowly descend to the ground." Bardock said.

"This isn't going to be easy, is it?" Raditz smiled.

"No, afraid not." Kirillin sighed. "Story of my life!"

"We'll need to move slow, follow me." Roger asked.

The group moved at a snails pace to avoid moving the air to abruptly, still a couple of guards turned to look in their direction. Roger then floated slowly above the guard's heads and entered the open palace door and floated along the ceiling until he entered a large anteroom. The rest of the team followed suit. The room was empty so they dropped to the floor.

"What now?" Bardock asked.

"Now this!" Roger extended his ki slamming the palace doors shut and used a tight beam of ki to weld them closed.

The rest of the team looked at Roger in surprise.

"Well, I'm getting tired of sneaking around and we are running out of time." Roger said quickly.

Suddenly there heard voices coming from the interior of the palace. Two of the voices were quite familiar to Roger.

It was King Fridgitor and his demented daughter Icia.

"What the hell are they doing here?" Roger whispered.

"Friends of yours?" Kirillin asked.

"Some old acquaintances." Jessica said.

"Yeah, Uncle Fridgitor." Gerald smirked. "Do we get to play with him again?"

"Maybe later son." Roger smiled.

Fridgitor was talking to a regal looking feline with a long flowing cape and what looked to be a crown of sorts. It was hard to tell due to the length of the mane on this feline. Roger assumed him to be the king. Meanwhile pounding had increased on the door Roger welded shut. Several other Icejins and felines started searching the anteroom.

"That door is not going to hold up too long." Raditz said.

"Okay, times as good as any. Let's take some prisoners." Roger said. "Turn your belts off."

The group flew out from their hiding place, and while Gerald and Jessica knocked out the guards and other icejins, Roger, Bardock, and Kirillin secured Fridgitor, Icia, and the feline king.

Raditz flew over to hold the door closed.

Bardock had Icia in a headlock and seemed to be enjoying himself.

"What? Who dares abduct the King of the Frithes!

"Ah, so that's what they are called!" Roger thought to himself

"Frithian King, we are here so that you and these two can answer for crimes committed against the Saiyan race. Most notably, the attempted assassination of King Vegeta." Roger announced.

Roger watched for and got the expected reaction. Their heads snapped up at the phrase 'attempted suicide'.

"My name is 'T'Salvus, " The Frithian King says. "How dare you abduct me!"

"This is no abduction your majesty. It's an arrest. We are already holding three co-conspirators on Vegetasei." Roger stated flatly. "There is only one thing that will prevent your execution at this point."

"Oh, and what might that be?" T'Salvus looked defiant, but there was still a great deal of fear behind the eyes.

"Give us the antidote for the poison used on King Vegeta." Roger demanded.

"I don't have it. The Icejins supplied it. You will have to ask them." T'Salvus said.

Suddenly T'Salvus was engulfed in a blinding white light, and disintegrated completely. Bardock who was holding T'Salvus, was thrown violently back against the wall where he lay stunned.

An evil chuckle escaped Fridgitor. "You'd better let us go if you know what's good for you. You see, we've been doing a little experimentation since our last encounter."

All of a sudden Roger felt a huge ki, a horribly huge ki. As he turned around, Coldar came in to view. But it wasn't the Coldar he'd seen cowering in a corner on Kleeft. This Coldar was much larger, and far more muscular, and with a ki that Roger had never felt in an Icejin before. Additionally, this Coldar had a shock of jet-black hair running from the middle of his forehead, down the middle of his back. His tail was now covered with black fur.

"We meet again Saiyan." Coldar grinned evilly.

"You see, the assassin we sent wasn't just there to kill Vegeta, he was also there to transmit Vegeta's DNA sequence back to us here so we could augment Coldar here. Seems the experiment worked out pretty well." Fridgitor smirked.

Roger started to power up but Coldar attacked so fast that Roger didn't have a chance. Roger felt a bone-crushing blow as he flew through the palace, penetrating almost a dozen walls before exiting the back of the palace and falling into a ravine.

"Father!" Gerald flashed into Super Saiyan level three.

Coldar turned toward Gerald. "I remember you well boy, time to die!"

Coldar stretched his hand out charging a huge ki attack.