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Chapter8: memories of a foe.

Zara and the boys sat down in the back garden again. Until Zara got her energy back up they were having staring contests. Now it was Trunks verses Zara. They both sat opposite each other with Goten further off between them so he could referee.

Trunks stared into Zara's eyes, doing his best not to blink when he noticed something. Her eyes were so unusual. They looked gold but under a closer inspection he could see that they were changing. They were yellow at the moment but with an orange haze and every few seconds a different shade of yellow or orange would spark across, depending on her mood. It was alluring and soon he had forgotten all about the contest and was simply finding enjoyment in watching those strange orbs. He watched as a spark of red seemed to appear for a moment. She was annoyed. Someone was watching them.

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Vegeta leant against the wall in a dark room, staring out the window at the children outside. Trunks seemed to like this half-breed child, he observed. She was a new playmate for him and was strong enough to keep him entertained but he had a strange feeling about her.

Me? Be watched over by a saiyan? A voice seemed to ask in his head. Ha! A lower breed claiming to be a warrior is not fit to show me and my team around your pathetic excuse for a station. You better chose again. Vegeta growled as an image of a blonde man with the same eyes as Zara danced across his vision. How much he would have liked to blow that smirk of his face…

Vegeta sighed. Now that they had moved in next-door it was only a matter of time before he started to reflect on that one week. He closed is eyes.

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"Hurry up, baka! Why on earth did you decided to have a shower? We're going to be late all because of you, Raditz!" an agitated Vegeta yelled while he ran down the hall of the large space station. It was nine years before the present day. Vegeta was still living under the tyranny of Frieza with Nappa and Raditz.

"Well you could have mentioned that Frieza had ordered our presence!" Raditz huffed, his long, black hair still wet. Nappa shook his head while running alongside Vegeta.

"You were there when the message came! What did you think he was calling for? A quick chat?" Nappa pointed out. Raditz was about to make a come back when Vegeta motioned for silence.

They came out of the corridor to where what seemed to be every crew man stood lined up against each wall, each looking very nervous. All three saiyans looked around at the scene when footsteps could be heard coming from both ends of the hall. The saiyans looked expectantly when three hooded and clocked creatures swept round the corner, coming towards them.

Vegeta, frozen to the spot, stared at the three. Their attire was designed to intimidate. Their thick, dark brown cloaks made them look like bringers of death as they silently swept across the corridor. Each seemed to have their head lowered as they walked, keeping their faces hidden. The leader stopped abruptly in front of the saiyans and Vegeta had a good chance to size them up. The two in front seemed to be the height of a normal man, the leader being a head taller then the second. The third on the other hand was taking up most of the room in the corridor. The crewmen had to breath in and squeeze as close to the wall as possible to let him threw. His head touched the ceiling and his companions barely made it past his chest. It was a mystery as to how this man had even fit threw the air lock.

Then three more creatures appeared at the other end of the corridor, walking faster and a lot heavier. It was Frieza, Zarbon and Dodoria. Frieza gave his men a nervous glance before addressing the three men the stood before them.

"I see you arrived. If you will follow me to my office I would be glad to finalise the arrangements for the week." The pink lizard spoke. The air seemed to get thicker as the hooded creature at the front turned slightly to his followers before nodding at Frieza. Frieza nodded then turned to Vegeta who looked confused.

"You three, you were supposed to already have been briefed. You are to go to my office immediately!" Frieza ordered before rushing off with his men and his guests. Vegeta only just had enough time to bow his head in acknowledgement. He turned to the other two.

"Come on, we'll take the long way…" he muttered and pushed past his 'friends'.

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Vegeta was knocked out of his reminiscing as Bulma tapped him on the shoulder declaring lunch was ready. He stared at her then nodded walking past.

"What were you staring at?" she asked as she looked out the window.

"None of your business onna." He huffed before walking out. Bulma simply rolled her eyes and followed the prince.

When the prince walked in to the kitchen he was met by the boys greedily eating everything in sight whilst Zara nibbled on her sandwich staring at them in awe. Vegeta glared as Goten ate what looked to be the last.

"Don't worry Vegeta, yours are over here." Chichi stated, pointing over his plate while eating her own lunch. Vegeta nodded and grabbed it.

"Aren't you forgetting something?" Chichi asked, frowning at him. Vegeta glared then rolled his eyes.

"Thanks." He said sarcastically. (Hey, he may be the prince of all saiyans but he's still a little nervous around Chichi in the kitchen!) Chichi smiled, eyes still narrowed and loosened her grip on the frying pan she held behind her back. Vegeta eyed her before sitting at the table with the kids.

"Ah, that was good." Goten exclaimed, finishing his pile and now eyeing Vegeta's hungrily. Vegeta moved his away from the little saiyan with his eyes narrowed at him. He did not need the spawn of Kakarot taking his only meal before dinnertime. Stupid humans…only have three meals a day… he thought. He noticed Zara stifling a giggle before going back to her food, gazing from person to person. He stared at her. She was intriguing, much different from her father. Tank would jump into a fight no matter what he had been told. She appeared to eat more then him as well. But then again he had only met one Kalroo in his lifetime. And that was neither a child nor half-breed.

He could still remember meeting the older Kalroo after those nine long years…

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Vegeta stepped into the office of Frieza followed by Raditz and Nappa.

"Vegeta" the lizard said, turning it's gaze from the large window and staring at the prince, "I believed I said immediately. Not when you feel like it."

"Sorry my lord we were-"

"No excuses! Now come here, I have a job for you." Frieza walked to his desk and got into his hover chair, lacing his hands together business like.

The saiyans glanced at one another before fully entering the room fully and looking around. One corner was in complete darkness and next to it was a blonde man with intense golden eyes and a green lizard man with red slit like eyes and black hair in a crew cut. They both were wearing thick dark brown cloaks.

Vegeta gave them questioning looks before stepping up to the desk.

"As you can see Vegeta we have company aboard this station." He gave a nervous glance at the corner before looking back at the three saiyans, "they're here to inspect what we have here before a man called 'the lord' shows up to meet with my father and I. You three are to escort them."

There was a snicker from the corner. Vegeta stared at the blonde man.

"What?" he growled. The blonde man smirked and walked forward, facing Frieza.

"You expect me to be watched by a saiyan?" he asked Frieza.

"Yes. What's wrong with that?" the pink lizard asked. The blonde thought it a joke.

" Me? Be watched over by a saiyan? Ha! A lower breed claiming to be a warrior is not fit to show me and my team around your pathetic excuse for a station. You better chose again." He laughed. All three saiyans glared daggers at him. Then a hissing noise came from the corner.

"Easssy, cap'n Tank. Thessse sssaiyansss could be interesssting." The Green lizard man hissed. The blonde, now known as Tank, smirked at the saiyans the nodded at his friend.

"Fine Talius. We shall keep the saiyans." He now sounded almost bored. Vegeta 'humphed'.

"And what if we refuse?" he asked.

"THEN YOU'LL HAVE YOUR EMPTY HEAD CUT OFF!" Frieza roared making the saiyans wince.

Tank laughed and Vegeta glared at him. At this point he knew he did not like the alien.

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A poking on his arm made Vegeta snap out of his thoughts. Trunks was poking Vegeta's arm.

"Hey dad, can we go to the park?" he asked. Vegeta looked round the room to see everybody except him and his son had left. Vegeta stared at his son.

"What did your mother say?"

"Haven't asked her. She's showing Goten's mom something in the lab. Can we go?" Trunks asked, half begging. Vegeta sighed and nodded. Trunks grinned.

"Thanks dad!" he said happily before running off with one of Vegeta's sandwiches.

"Hey brat! Come back with that!" Vegeta yelled realising it was the last one.

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Vegeta sat down on a bench inside the park, grumbling something about missing valuable training time. He looked up at the kids playing on the monkey bars.

"Hey! Watch this!" Trunks yelled before doing some tricks on the bars that a four year old should not be able to do. He landed on his feet, on top of them when he was done, earning a clap from all watching. Zara & Goten hung from their knees watching Trunks show off to all the 'normal' kids watching.

Vegeta sighed watching the chibis. He stared at Zara in particular. He knew her father and as much as she looked like him, she was completely different. Innocent even.

He sighed again and looked up at the sky, closing his eyes.

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"Hey saiyan. How about this? Beat me this time and all the drinks are on me and you can go do what ever it is you prefer instead of hanging out here." The kalroo stated, laying his arm on the table ready to arm wrestle. Vegeta stared at his hand then smirked, taking the same position. It was near the end of the week. Vegeta and the others had shown Tank and his team around and were now simply watching them for Frieza. They were currently in a bar that was only meant for Frieza and his guards. Sure they would be in dire trouble if Frieza found out but it was Tanks idea and Vegeta had had too much to drink to think straight.

"Go Vegeta!" the other two Saiyans cheered, having drunk more then the prince.

"Ready? Wressstle!" Talius, the lizard yelled signalling to start. Vegeta tried to push Tank's arm down but ended up being flipped over when Tank slammed Vegeta's arm down.

"How the heck did you get so blooming strong?" Vegeta asked. Tank smirked and sipped on his drink before downing it like water.

"Wouldn't you like to know?" he asked, obviously the most sober despite the fact he had drunk the most. Vegeta pouted.

"Come on, you can tell…"

"No. Because you can't hold your liquor!" Tank said loudly before chuckling and getting up. Vegeta rolled his eyes and tried to get up while Tank and his team went to find more to drink. Raditz and Nappa helped their prince up.

"Don't worry  about it Vegeta. I've heard about Kalroos before…" Raditz said, sitting on a stool and grabbing an empty bottle.

"What about them?" Vegeta asked, staring at the bottle. Raditz looked thoughtful.

"Well, some Kailens came through ages ago and I spoke to 'em. They're from the same planet as the Kalroos, kinda like us and those Tuffles we wiped out…" he started to explain, eyeing the bottle he was holding.

"And?" Vegeta asked.

"And they said all this stuff about 'em. Like how the onna's all go hunting while the blokes stay home and train. And that they're retinas can be real valuable. Or good to eat according to one…"

"They eat their own eyes?"

"No, the Kailens did before they started experimenting. You see the Kalroos didn't care about the Kailens but the Kailens wanted 'em gone so they built weapons but the kalroo were too powerful and just beat the Kailens to a pulp! So they started doing biological warfare and captured a ton of kalroo, wiped their memories clean it did. The Kalroos couldn't fight back after that so the Kailens started experimenting with them and found all these cures for disease and better ways of preserving food and energy and stuff." Raditz stopped briefly, enjoying having Vegeta's full attention before continuing.

"Any how. They captured small hunting groups and experimented on some of them and putting some in zoos to watch. The rest were shipped to outer space for other people to deal with. Least they were off the planet so they didn't need to kill the ' little' guys. So you got all these powerful guys running around in space that couldn't remember how to fight or anything. But I guess some remembered on a count of Tank." Raditz finished. Well not so much finished but stopped when he saw who was behind Vegeta's shoulder.

"Oh please go on. Your conversation sounded so interesting. Talking about the history of my people like that. Please continue. I'd like to know more of what that Kailen told you." Tank said making Vegeta look round.

"Didn't see you there Tank. This just sounds so interesting, doesn't it?" Vegeta smirked before looking at Raditz again. "Continue."

Raditz hesitated and stared at Tank who glared back, daring him to speak. Vegeta stared at the look on Tanks face and smirked.

"What's the problem cat boy? This topic not bringing back some bad memories, is it?" he laughed. Talius glared.

"Hey! How dare you acussse the bossssss about being one of thossse weak enough to be captured! He wouldn't have- urk!"

Tank now held Talius by the throat and was pinning the reptile against the wall.

"Listen, friend, I was eight when that happened ok? If it's weak to be out watching a hunt with your father when a cloud of gas comes down, preventing you from breathing and wiping out your memory then I guess I was a weak kid, ok?" he snarled.

All stood in shock as the reptile struggled. Tank seemed to be considering something as the same thickness in the air appeared as it had when they had first shown up.

There was a low grumble from the dark corner. It was Grund; the big guy who had always either stayed in shadow or fully covered up in the cloak and hood.

Tanks sighed then growled.

"Fine, whatever!" he growled before dropping Talius. Tank then glared at the saiyans before firing the alcohol soaked counter with a ki-blast. Immediately flames roared up. The counter was on fire! Vegeta instantly started directing the other saiyans to put it out as Tank smirked and vanished along with his teammates.

As soon as the flames were out, Vegeta looked around the room, trying to find the others.

"Tank? You baka kalroo! You could have burnt the whole station down! Where are you damn it?" he yelled.

"I don't know who you're yelling at but I do know that you're in deep trouble Vegeta." It was Zarbon. He had came to find out what the commotion was about to find three saiyans running around in a bar reserved for Frieza, Dodoria and himself.

"All of you! Get out and go see Frieza, now!" Zarbon yelled. The saiyans cursed under their breath and left.

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Vegeta opened his eyes. That Kalroo had been a pain the whole week and when he said he'd make it up to them he left a nice going away present. The weird thing was that only Nappa, Raditz and himself had remembered about Tanks weeklong stay at Freiza's station. That wasn't a big help. He and Nappa had been sent on a purging mission to make up for damages while Raditz was sent to earth. Vegeta nearly laughed at this. If that had never happened then Raditz may not have been picked to go to Earth to check up on the planet. Which would have meant he never would have found out about the Dragonballs and met Kakarot…

He looked down to meet two golden orbs.

"Mr Vegeta…um…you know my father?" Zara asked confused about what she had seen. Vegeta nodded.

"So is that why you tested me? To see if I was strong like him?" she asked. Vegeta smirked.

"Half of it." He admitted before looking past her and getting up.

"Interesting Vegeta. If I hadn't just shown up then I might have actually known what that husband of mine did to you." Vegeta looked up at Sam then blinked.

"He married you?" that didn't sound like the man he remembered.

"Yes. On Talius's home planet." Sam stated before taking Zara's hand.

"I guess I owe you one for looking after her. And perhaps for what Tank put you through." She said before disappearing with her daughter. Vegeta stared at where they had been before turning to the boys.

"Come on. Time to go home." He said before walking home with the boys.

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A/n: ok, another chapter done. & Now you know more about Tank & the Kalroos. Don't think I shown it well but it'll do.  Kalroos are actually a lot like saiyans only in their case the weaker & more intelligent race are winning the battle of the planet. Could write in something about Kalroos turning into giant cat like creatures but that would just be a rip off ^ ^;

Oh, & if you're wondering why Vegeta called Tank 'cat boy' then it's because Kalroos evolved from felines. See how sad I am to come up with a whole race & even know what they evolved from? Oh well. See you next time.