Vee: Reda, why are you making me stay here?

Reda: Because...

Vee: Because why, bitch?

Goku: Vee...

Vee: Stay out of this, Kakarot!

Reda: Vee, if you want to leave just leave!

Vee: Finally! (Walks out the door with his arms crossed)

Goku: Now, Reda...

Reda: Get out! Leave me alone!

Goku: Jeez! (Goku leaves) Sorry...

Reda: (sits back in her chair) Finally, peace and quiet at last.

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Chapter Seventeen: Tethgarous

The missions of an evil mind. One can usually predict them. They usually have something to do with destruction. Destruction...that's a big word. Destruction means utter chaos and damaged to a non-repairable state. Evil loves creating destruction. So when Psyfoam wants to send Vee and Reda away on a mission, of course he'd going to tell them to create destruction. The only question is...Do Vee and Reda actually want to carry it out?

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She jumped to her right to dodge a blast of ki energy, and then ducked to miss one aimed for head. Another one came from left, heading for her feet, but she jumped and flipped backward to just barely miss an air strike. She landed right on top of one of the small robots, sending a burst of mechanical parts fleeing from the explosion. She looked around. Three more to go.

Reda quickly looked toward Vee, assessing their progress. He had more robots circling him, but she knew he had destroyed about fifty of the miniature robots by now. Reda had only counted twenty-four for her.

Damn! She was behind!

Come on, Reda. Pick up the pace.

With that thought, Reda quickly flew up into the air, smiling when a group of ten robots flew after her. She flew at her top speed for a while, and then slowed down to let them think she was tiring. She continued to float backward until the point came where she was certain her enemies would start firing. Then she slammed on the brakes.

As the ten robots zoomed past her, Reda grinned and began collecting energy. They must have gone two minutes out of their way before the stupid robots realized their prey wasn't there anymore. Reda waited patiently, and as soon as they got in view she unleashed her ki. The ki blasts weren't anything compared to Vee's, but they were good enough to blow one up and set off a chain reaction; exactly what she had planned for.

Reda smirked as explosions rocked the sky. Before she could head back to Vee, a red light glinted in her eyes. After getting through her shock that a light had actually swarmed through the smoke, Reda remembered her master's commanding words.

"Destroy the source of the good-natured robots. I believe the source is a madman that goes by the name Tethgarous. I wouldn't bother with him on normal circumstances, but in his madness he's creating robots with good intentions. Tethgarous himself has evil intentions, and I've ignored his boasts of genius, but the time has come to be rid of him. This is where you come in."

"And how are we supposed to find this Tetgarhrohs guy?"

"His name is Tethgarous, Vee. You'd do well to remember that. His madness and above average brains know how to dispose of Saiyans. Tethgarous has an underground lab that is completely unreachable, save for the one opening that sets his robots loose. If one of you were to be close to the opening when you destroyed a robot, you'd definitely notice red warning lights flashing..."

That must mean she was near the entrance. Now to find it, and fast. Reda followed the red light down to the ground. The place should be at the end of this red light. She flew out of the smoke, and lost sight of the red light.

"Damn! Where'd it go?" Reda shouted, a little louder than she meant.

She looked at the ground, floating in mid-air. Her eyes searched like a pair of helicopter searchlights. Then she caught it; a red light barely visible to the left. Reda flew straight at it. Her voice must've set it off. That was a smart move, Reda.

When she approached the entrance, having blown up exiting robots along the way, Reda quickly examined the hidden opening. She was interested in the science of foreign planets for some odd reason. Maybe it came from her mother, who had died birthing Kakarot---Goku. But she held no grudge against her "younger" brother. It was not his fault that Mom died, although Raditz had taken it in the wrong way---stupid Radish head.

As Reda thought these thoughts, she admired the technology used to keep this opening invisible. One weakness wasn't bad. Psyfoam would have a big lecture to give Tethgarous about perfection - her master was a huge perfectionist. Let's say it. Psyfoam was a complete lunatic when it came to perfection, and sometimes she considered that very annoying.

Reda put her frustration in Psyfoam aside, the tail tightened around her waist being the only indication she was mad. She was one of the few Saiyans that didn't wrap their tail around their waist to avoid someone grabbing it, but when Reda got mad she had to squeeze something. Using her tail was a good way to unleash her anger. The robots were lucky they weren't in her sights now, or they would have been dust by now.

After calming herself, Reda went into the secret lab. She wondered how far underground it was. It didn't matter, but it would be nice to know just for comfort sake. As she walked down the narrow hallway, she noticed the lack of creativity. A plain steel hallway was pretty boring to walk down with no change evident for quite a while. Reda praised her luck that Vee wasn't there with her. He'd be having a cow! Vee just absolutely lived in a creative world. The two adjectives he would use to describe himself would be powerful and creative. They fit him, true, but they weren't the two adjectives she'd use to describe Vee. She'd pick something along the lines of selfish and arrogant.

"Why, hello there. Who the hell are you?" A strange voice brought Reda to the current mission and made her stop still.

She looked around, noticing she had finally found her way to the underground lab, and she did not like the looks of it. Reda saw strange equipment scattered about in unorganized piles. She was disgusted with that. At least the guy could organize his equipment properly! That wasn't too much effort.

Reda swerved her head when a blinding yellow light caught her attention. It was just a computer screen, but the message on the screen freaked her out.

Saiyan Generics - Experiment 204

Okay, time to check out the mysterious lab owner. Now she had a better reason to kill Tethgarous instead of Psyfoam's order. Nobody should be allowed to experiment on different species. She even disagreed with animal experiments, so Reda definitely had a thing with Saiyan experiments. HE wouldn't experiment on her, and she knew Vee would be last on his list for sure. Of course, there weren't too many Saiyans left in the universe.

Reda turned her head in the direction of the speaker. Well, he was humanoid - sort of. He looked like someone who tried a wrong experiment with a cat. Other than that...he was ugly. The guy had big ears and a big nose with slanted eyes and thin eyebrows. His long gray hair looked really weird with his cat features. He wore no shirt and had dark gray cat hair on his chest. Tethgarous - for Reda had come to the conclusion that this guy was who she was looking for - had short skinny legs that reached out to big paws that resembled a cat. The guy's arms and hands were similar, and he had a dark gray tail with a black spot on the tip. Reda supposed that the cat part of him was cute and the human part was very, very ugly. Not a good combination.

"Ahh...I see I've stumbled upon another Saiyan. Come in, girl. I mean no harm." The cat creature spoke.

Reda held back and raised an eyebrow. "Another Saiyan?"

He nodded, "Yes, a young boy was battling my robots, and doing a mighty good job of it I'll admit. But he didn't take into account that I had a back up plan. I don't believe he'll be fighting for a while."

"Vee!" Reda exclaimed, completely shocked that Vee, a Saiyan prince, had been turned into an experiment. Well, he didn't have good reflexes and she did. She had something to rely on. "What did you do with him?"

Tethgarous chuckled, and a half-purr came out with it. "I wouldn't worry about him if I were you. You've got much bigger things to worry about. But don't worry. You'll be next to him soon."

As he said that a dart-gun appeared in his hand and he shot a drugged dart at her. Reda instinctively moved to the side. "I wouldn't count on that. One: drugged darts won't bother me. Two: I'm the fastest Saiyan alive, so you won't best my speed. Three: I'm smarter than Vee, so besting my evading tactics might be a little difficult."

To Reda's surprise, the cat/human laughed. "Oh, this isn't any normal drugged dart-gun. It's got a special drug in it that brought your friend down in less than three seconds. I wouldn't keep that confident attitude much longer if I were you."

"I could say the same," Reda said, crossing her arms in front of her chest.

"Oh, but I've got a reliable reason to be a little overconfident." He smiled.

Reda raised an eyebrow. "Yeah? Well, so do I."

Then she jumped two feet in the air and flipped backward, dodging a blast from a robot that had tried to sneak up behind. Little did the robots know; she was an expert in evasion techniques. No one could best her at that, especially not a pack of robots. Reda looked at the cat/human and was surprised to still see that confident grin on his face. What did he have up his sleeve?

Reda spun around and ducked, charging a ki blast in her hand. When she stood back up, she fired, destroying the group of four robots. She smirked.

"Ha! What do you think now?" As soon as she said that she realized her mistake. The robots had been a distraction, and Reda now had the drug of Tethgarous running through her veins. Lucky her. Reda had one last thought before she passed out. Stupid reflexes. They needed to train harder.

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Reda: Well, hope you're enjoying it. I like reviews. ... Sorry, usually someone interrupts me there. Maybe they finally left. Yes! I'm alone! Wow! This feels...not as good as I thought it would.