A/N: I don't own DBZ and I don't pretend to. This story is AU so that gives me free range and my characters OOC (out of character). Be warned spelling and grammar mistakes will be found. ALWAYS! Another Warning, this could end up as a Yaoi male/male coupling. If you are homophobe then don't read. No-one is making you. Rated R
Royal Delivery
Chapter 20"How did you go? Did you find anything out?" Raditz asks
"Please say you did." Nappa pleaded
"Well I did find something back there. There was an old lady she told me some big guy, bigger than me, knocked this kid out. It sounds like Gohan. She said he picked up the boy and took off down one the street. I went down where she said and I couldn't see anything and no one is very helpful down that way. Who ever this guy is, he has them scared." Turles explained.
"Shit this isn't good. I'll have to go back and tell him." Raditz looked off in the distance in thought.
"I know what you mean, besides being cut down by the King." Nappa said looking around were they stood watching others around them doing their own thing, while they worry about the youngest prince of Vegeta-sei.
Raditz pointed to them both. "You two keep looking I go back to the ship and report it."
"I'll go back and see if I can find out anymore. Come on." Turles said as he hit Nappa on the arm for him to follow.
Raditz called out. "Meet me back at the ship."
"Ok." Turles turned around and waved a hand and they both headed back down to the streets.
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"What did I say BRAT!" Vegeta was livid. In front of him was his son all bloody with a cut lip with blood seeping down from a cut above his eye and next to him his friend looking much the same condition but with cut lip and raw bruises where a fist had connected with his eye.
Mirai looked everywhere other than his father as he stood at attention. His friend was doing the same in front of his Kings desk listening to the same threats. "So you decided to call the head commander's son yellow belly chicken?" The King growled without shifting his eyes from his son rebellious face.
"I meant it to the room in general. He just happened to be standing in front of me at the time."
"I can vouch for that, plus he threw the first punch." Ursus added. With Mirai's blues shifting from his father to his friend and sighed before looking back over his father's shoulder. They heard a beeping coming from a small panel on Vegeta's desk. Mirai frowned and watched his father turn from them to take the call. The boys couldn't hear what was said as the king listened to the voice miles away.
"Raditz what is it?"
"You WHAT!" Vegeta eyes darkened as his brow furrow into a deep frown with every word that was nervously sent to him. Both boys watched as the King, whose composure just went deadly serious. His stance suggested that they were about to go to war.
"Close the port! I ORDER IT! All the ships are to be impounded! No one arrives, leaves or craps with out me knowing GOT IT. I'll be there in two days. FIND HIM!"
Vegeta's blood was on fire his mind was racing. In a split second both teens dodged a ki blast that was shot between them from the King's raised hand obliterating the door of the office. His sights shifted to both boys who were transfixed on their spots with eyes a wide as plates.
"Dad?" Mirai questioned, frowning with the near miss.
Both teens could hear the place come alive outside in the corridors with the sound of footfalls. The King said nothing until a crowd of guards rushed in. Guards pilled up to the door stepping over the splintered pieces. "Sire?"
"Get the ship ready NOW!" Vegeta bellowed.
"Yes Sire, of course." The dazed man nodded and placed his closed fist over his chest plate in a salute before leaving with the others. When the King was in a mood you don't ask.
Mirai frowned as his blues returned to see his father pulling on his gloves. "Dad what the hell is going on?"
"Your brother has been taken!" Vegeta hissed as he tugged at the glove with his eyes a blaze.
Mirai eyes widened. Disbelief washed over his face. "WHAT?"
"You heard! I have to tell Kakarrot." Vegeta passed his son and his friend.
"Dad, I coming." Mira followed with Ursus rushing up behind being careful not to trip over the door pieces and the servants cleaned around them.
"No brat!" The King eyes didn't stray from his destination with one goal on his mind to get on the ship as fast as possible.
Mirai kept a quick pace with his father with the same determination. "If you don't let me go with you I'll find my own ship."
Vegeta frowned as he bounded up every second step to the private apartment with his son next to him. "Fine boy I have no time to waste arguing."
As they all rushed to keep pace with the King Mirai barely heard his father's quiet creed. "I want lose him a second time."
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Nappa, who was leaning against the side of the ships ramp watching Turles heading over the space port, turned when he heard footfalls from behind him coming down the ramp. "So how did you go with King?"
Raditz kept his eyes fixed on his brother's approach as he jumped of to stand next to Nappa. "I thought Oou-sama took the news of his son disappearance quite well."
"That bad." Nappa said while uncrossing his arms with a raised brow.
Raditz shook his head. "No worse he will be here in two days."
Nappa pushed off the ramp and faced his friend. "Shit I'm leaving."
"Relax Nappa. We will work this out." Raditz said as his brother rushed up to them with his hands on his hips catching his breath.
"What is to work out I mean we lost the youngest prince of Vegeta-sei. When the King comes we're dead, end of story." Nappa called with Turles glaring at him.
Raditz waved off his concerns. "Yes I know all that. Thanks Nappa for reminding me. How did you go?"
Turles shook his head as he looked up. "I don't know. I have asked everyone back there and they are all been tight lipped." He said getting his breath back.
"The King has impounded all ships no one is to arrive or leave this place until further notice. He's sending in the Royal Guards." Raditz explained to both of them as they looked around the port with all the ships that were now being numbered and locked down by the order of the King of Vegeta-sei.
"Shit that will upset things." Nappa looked as he saw others off in the distance arguing with officials about their ships.
"Yeah but who ever has Gohan won't be able to leave with all the security about to flood this place." Raditz explained getting both the two warriors attention.
"That will just push him further back into the shadows." Turles argued.
"Not necessarily. Once the word gets out that the King of Vegeta-sei is arriving with his royal guards in search for the missing prince. Raditz disagreed
Turles nodded. "They will want money for the boy for the Ojii."
"They could just take the money and kill the boy?" Nappa argued.
Raditz shook his head. "No not unless he's stupid enough to want the whole of the saiyanjin army on his back."
"Well it work?" Nappa didn't like it. It could back fire.
"There is only one way to find out." Raditz said with them looking at him with the same fears.
"Spread the word then." Turles looked over at the others ships picturing in his mind eyes Vegeta-sei royal ship landing with all it guards, his friend since they were all part of the same army.
"Spread the word his coming to kill us."
"Shut up Nappa." Turles growled.
"Once word's out we'll have his attention. If he doesn't already know that the port is closed." Raditz says hoping to trap the person responsible for this kidnapping.
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"I'm coming I'm not going to sit by Vegeta, not when we could lose him again. I won't have it. I'll grab some stuff and then we are gone." Goku called from the hall rushing of to get ready after being told of his young son's fate.
"Dad who are you going to leave in charge while your gone?" Mira asked following behind his father into his parents bedroom with his papa disappearing into the walk in robe.
"Artimis. I can trust him." Vegeta said as Goku tossed two bags on the bed Mirai sat on his parent's bed watching his papa hastily packing.
"I suppose you are coming?" The King looked up from his work to see the other boy looking at him with his hand around the carved frame at the end of the four posted bed.
"You might need me." Ursus said watching Goku disappear into the bathroom only to come back out with hands full of stuff.
"That will be the day." Vegeta huffed before glaring at his son watching him like he used to as a young cub. "Grab your stuff we gone from here in one hour."
"Come on Ursus lets grab our gear." Mirai bounced of the bed grabbing his friend's arm before heading for the door.
"Where are the boys going?" Goku called as he came back in from the walk in robe with some clothes for Vegeta and himself.
"Gone to grab their stuff." Vegeta said as he grabbed his things off his mate.
Goku sat on the bed watching with clothes still in his hand. "How could they lose him? They were supposed to be keeping an eye on him."
"I will find out more when we get there. Then I'll skin them." The King said as he did his bag up.
"I hope we haven't lost him again Vegeta. I don't think I can take it a second time. Not after this long we so close and now this. I'll kill the bastard that has done this to our family." Vegeta sighed and brought him up for comforting hug.
"You and me both Koi. It's time to go. The boys will meet us at the ship. It's already for us and awaiting orders to leave."
"Leave, I want to go now, yesterday." Goku said stressed as he shoved his stuff in and closed the bag.
Vegeta lifted his partner's chin up from his work and brushed his lips over Goku's own silks. "We will be there in two days. If I can make the damn ship go faster we will." His eyes sent reassuring smile back to his mates as he let his thumb trace Goku bottom lip and leaned in for another more powerful kiss. Warmth and love was sent to the other before they pulled away with the same determination. No words were spoken as they both grabbed their bags and left for the ship in the dark of the night.
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Mirai, what's going on?" Ursus asked as they both stepped into their room back at the barracks.
The prince turned back around with his own bag opened in front of him on the bed with some clothes in his hand. "I know as much as you do Ursus. But I swear that I'll get him back I won't lose him, not again. If I could go back in time I would have never have left Burles ship without Gohan." He said throwing his gear in his bag.
Ursus shook his head. They had had this talk a thousand times before and always the same blame. "You know as well as I do that you couldn't have done a damn thing to save him. We would all been separated either way or most likely been killed trying."
Mirai turned and sat on the bed with his blues lost in thought as he looked over at Ursus bed in front of him. "It's always there, Ursus, that I could have done something, stopped what happened to us. My family has spent too long in grief and I won't let anyone take away our chance for happiness.
Mirai looked back at his friend who was busy with his own bag now. "Papa and father have both cried over this for too long. I know, I have seen them when they think no one is around. It cuts you to see them like that, knowing they could blame you for not going back to save your little brother."
Ursus stopped what he was doing to look back over at his friend. "So that's it you think they blame you for all of this shit?"
"What do you think? I was his big brother. If I had stopped that fire back on Turles ship we wouldn't have ended up in sick bay. Then Burles wouldn't have taken us." Mirai snarled.
"Mirai, that guy would have got you sometime later. He saw his chance. People like that don't stop because there are obstacles, not when money is in involved." Ursus shook his head in disbelief.
"I don't care I could have stopped it. I could have!" Mirai eyes darkened with the same glare his father had when he heard the news.
"Hey settle down. We'll get your brother back but if you want to be there to see him you better get your ass into gear so we can go." Ursus snapping Mirai's back out of his regrets.
"Yeah you're right. We have talked long enough. It's time to have some action and when I find who ever did this I won't hold back." Mirai shook his head as he closed his bag.
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Elsewhere, in one of the many back streets, a large man was drowning his thirst with some strong liquor feeling very pleased with himself as he looked down at the sprawled body laid out on the bed on his stomach and unconscious with his wrists bound behind him. Where the man had dumped him since then the young teen had a fresh bruise and a cut to one side of his face. "So boy did you every thought you would see me again?"
The man frowned and tried to nudge the boy awake. "Wake up! Stupid kid, huh well stay like that it's not like you going to go anywhere. Not yet I'll get us a ship and we are off this planet. Huh never thought I'd see you again, hey my pretty. Ha ha."
TBC…
A/N: Well I go and work on chapter 21 now. If there is something you would like to see let me know and I'll see what I can do. Who should rescue Gohan?
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