I wish I owned DBZ, but I don't. I own DVD's and tapes, but it just isn't the same. I also don't own the right to Starcraft or any of the music pieces you see selected, just copies of merchandise, such a shame. The artists that created them are geniuses and we all must bow to them.
A/n: Okay, I gave the hopeless romantics some attention, now were going to turn up some of the violence. This one gets a little messy.
Chapter 18: Crushing Revenge
"Beep Beep, wake up Verto," the computer said. It roused me from cold sleep slowly, and I wiped my eyes. Up ahead I saw a pretty shitty looking brown and red planet, nothing a pack of strong fighters would want to live at. I glanced over to see eight other pods around my own in the blackness of space. I slowly remembered what was going on, and realized that the prince, Nappa and Raditz had opted to travel with us. Well here we go. I sighed and stretched, watching the pod start to burn through the atmosphere, making it shake a bit. The ground zoomed up quickly for me most undesirable part of any trip, the landing. I got out of the smoking pod, careful not to touch the metal, for it radiated a lot of heat. The others were getting out as well, and met me atop the craters in a group behind the prince. Then I took in the surroundings, or what should have been. The land was covered in blast craters, and random bodies lay everywhere, in strange alien shapes.
"Uh Bardock, weren't there supposed to be people here?" Tora asked.
A small smirk opened up on Bardock's face, one that I wasn't too fond of, "Well, seems someone saved us the trouble already." Eight hands went to their scouters to find any trace of life. I didn't bother, I was already picking up the ki reading, and I knew exactly who it was. So, Frieza did show after all, that freak is finally gonna get what he deserves!
"Something is jamming the signal, but there is something coming from about fifteen miles in that direction!" Raditz pointed out.
"Then we go there!" the young Vegeta said, lifting into the air, his cape billowing out as his aura went off for flight. The rest of us did the same, though I was a bit hesitant about showing it off. So I hung back for a few seconds, making sure I had a good grip on my suppression. Suppressed power or not, this was not going to be the most joyful thing I had ever done. If anything it was like another one of Vegeta's tests. But staying out of the battle until his younger self was dead when I could wipe out the enemy in no time, it just didn't fit. The whole possibility of a time paradox with two Vegeta's meeting did present a potential problem though, and eased my conscience just slightly. The young prince himself seemed to be in a bit of a hurry, and some of us had trouble catching up, that being Raditz and Fasha, who hung back towards me. Raditz seemed to be the weariest one of the group, not to mention the weakest. His level was down to where it should be, around one thousand or so, and at his age of about fourteen, that was considered second class. According to his birth record it should have been higher. He was working with both his prince and his father at the same time, so nervousness really poured out of him, which might have kept his power down a bit.
Fasha kept looking over at me though, "Kid, are you getting the bad feeling about this that I am?"
"Yeah you could say that," I said, keeping my eyes forward. After a few minutes of silent flight, we arrived at the location Vegeta pointed out. It was quiet as a tomb with no scouter picking up anything. I felt a ki flare behind us, very far back, somewhere around the pods! I scowled as I sensed a notable ki signal blazing our way from the pods; no doubt one of Frieza's lackeys had blown them up.
"What is it?" young Vegeta asked, noticing my distress.
"I think the space pods just got blown up," I said solemnly. This caused several questions to be asked at once, but Vegeta answered them all by using his scouter to try to contact his own pod. When nothing came back to him, he feared the worst. This caused everyone to light up in surprise, but that didn't last long, because the scouters started going off just as a new set of ki signals arrived. We turned to see the big pink freak Dodoria along with a small group of elites with them as well. And behind them sat Frieza in his big chair, looking quite pleased with himself. Frieza's ship was landing a short distance away, but no one came out.
"Gentlemen, its about time! We were starting to worry, Muhahahaha!" Frieza started to laugh along with his cronies.
"Frieza, what are you doing here?" Vegeta asked.
"Let's just say I've come to exterminate vermin, namely you Saiyans!"
"What?" Vegeta yelled.
"Did your feeble monkey ears miss that? I said that your time of life is over! The rest of your kind is already gone, and now it's down to you nine pieces of trash!" Frieza declared. I sensed Zarbon flying in from behind us; he had probably been the one to destroy the pods as he landed next to Dodoria.
"What are you saying you purple headed freak?" Nappa shouted, disregarding his so called place with Frieza now.
"How many times do I have to say it before you listen? I said I just blew up the whole monkey farm! Planet Vegita is gone!" Frieza laughed sadistically. I scowled and glared at him, the rest of the group did so, but were struggling not to launch at him and crush his skull.
"And now you're here for us, with so few men to wipe us out? I have no intention of going with out a fight!" Vegeta shouted, tossing his orange cape off. Nappa and Raditz jumped up next to him with rage pouring off them.
"No, I will fight them first! Only when I die will you join the battle!" the young prince declared, starting to power up. Well Vegeta hit that flaw in his pride right on the nail.
A blue and white aura surrounded him, similar to the one I had seen before; only this one was a bit more erratic. I felt his ki just about double in strength, making his level about twelve thousand or so. He could beat the elites easy, but Zarbon and Dodoria would beat him down, never mind Frieza. Nappa and Raditz backed off as the prince charged forward, being met by the elite group. There were only four elites in the group, and no doubt their scouters were giving them something to think about. Vegeta punched the first one in the face, breaking most of the bones and sending a vial's worth of blood into the air. He growled in rage and backhanded the next one in the gut, his fist plowed right through the second elite. He blasted the first one into nothing a half second later. The third and fourth backed off slightly, trying to rethink their strategy. Then they flew up into the air, blasting ki waves down onto Vegeta. I sensed he was barely hit at all, but the huge wall of smoke that went up blocked both elites view, who were now across from each other. I sensed Vegeta soar upwards and grab the first one into a full nelson, breaking his neck quickly. The smoke cleared just a tad and the other elite saw this and fired. Vegeta saw it coming and dodged easily as the blast obliterating the other elite. Vegeta swooped over and double arm smashed the last elite, before shooting him with a strong blast, killing him off for good.
He landed and stared down Zarbon and Dodoria, who were presently trying to decide who was going to fight. After a few minutes of bickering, Frieza snapped up and ordered Dodoria to do it. The pink buffoon pumped his arms sideways in a stretch, ready to pound Vegeta. Vegeta wasn't going quietly, if I knew him, and I did, he would go out with a bang. Dodoria flew towards Vegeta with a simple fist outstretched. The Saiyan prince didn't wait for that to hit and phased out just as the punch arrived, only to reappear and kick him in the back, making him bounce off the ground. Zarbon suddenly appeared in front of us, his green hair swished around his head.
"This doesn't have to be a private party, in fact I think we should spice it up!" Zarbon began by kicking Nappa harshly in the chest, sending him to the ground in pain. Raditz didn't wait around anymore and foolishly charged at Zarbon, who grabbed the punch and broke his wrist easily. Then he held out his palm below Raditz chin, before blasting an instant later. The look of shock on Bardock's face rivaled Goku's own when Frieza killed Krillin.
"RADITZ!" he shouted in terror before snarling, "You will pay for that!"
"Make me pay then, monkey! None of you can beat me!" Bardock charged Zarbon, getting kicked into the air for his efforts. Tora and Shugesh jumped into the air and followed. Borgos and Fasha also jumped in right away, and all of them attacked Zarbon, giving Bardock enough time to start charging a Power Ball. When he launched it into the sky, Frieza blew it up an instant later.
"Up to the same old tricks, you're not pulling that off today Saiyans!" he said, shaking a finger at us. I kept my hard stare on Frieza while watching the others. The cocky freak didn't have a chance against me, but I still didn't want to be caught off guard. I saw Dodoria finally get a good hit on Vegeta, before pummeling the Saiyan prince for all he was worth. I sensed a serious drop in Vegeta's ki and a spark of anger ignited. My power suppression started to falter, something Frieza did not notice, as he was too busy enjoying his goons beating on the Saiyans. The only thing keeping me from blasting them all to death was Vegeta's pride and respect, drilled and often beaten into me while in the time chamber. He didn't want me to fight just like his younger self didn't, and it kept me from even moving. Zarbon was holding all five of the crew off, occasionally six when Nappa joined in. I had to hand it to him, even outnumbered he could hold himself against a people that were half or less of his own power.
Dodoria was enjoying himself, pounding Vegeta into the dirt, then picking him up and throwing him into the air and sending him down again in repeated acts of brutality. Each time a blow was landed on the Saiyans, my anger rose. Soon thereafter my aura appeared just out of angry ki, despite my efforts to calm down. Zarbon then got Nappa knocked down and out, followed by Shugesh and Borgos an instant later. Tora and Bardock continued to try, only to get knocked away, but not giving Zarbon enough time to recover. Bardock fired a few more Power Balls, but Frieza destroyed all of them before they could do any good. Fasha picked herself up and flew back over to me, standing in front of me and blocking my death glare at Frieza before I noticed her.
"Are you going to do something or not, you can wipe the floor with these goons!"
"Vegeta ordered me not to interfere until he was dead or the situation called for it. The risk of those two meeting each other is too much to chance. I respect his wishes and know how much of a blow to his pride it would be if I jumped in for him, as much as it hurts me to stand here!" I said.
"But he's going to get killed for sure!" Fasha screamed at me.
"Yeah, I-I know," I choked back a tear as I looked away for a moment. A few ki explosions went off, Tora and Bardock fell from the skies and landed hard, ki dropping to barely awake.
"Now your luck has run out monkeys!" Zarbon grinned. Okay, I must keep them alive, now I will do something! I turned to blast into the path of Zarbon's next beam. It never came, because a loud shout from Nappa announced his arrival as he rammed into Zarbon, knocking the pretty boy's scouter off and leaving a trail of blood from his mouth. Zarbon recovered quickly and rushed up to knee Nappa in the stomach harshly, who's face then turned to shocked agony.
Zarbon's hand appeared at his neckline, "Goodbye Saiyan!" A half second later Nappa's head was missing, and in a truly gruesome sight, we saw the head bounce off the ground and it landed right in front of my feet. Something inside me snapped, even though I had never known Nappa and never seen him in person except a few times, I knew this could not go without a response.
"Fasha, take this and get the others out of here! There are five beans inside, give everyone one, including yourself, they will heal you. Go now, before I lose it," I whispered, dead serious as I handed here the capsule. A cry of pain reached my ears and I snapped my head up to see Dodoria holding Vegeta by the tail and swinging him around above his head. He gave him the toss as I watched, laughing slightly when he saw my face. I shuddered in anger and stepped forward.
"That's enough!" I shouted. I didn't care about pride now, the beast inside of me was tired of listening to rational thought or Vegeta's orders. My aura was now coming out in smoky streaks, much like Buu did when he blew his top.
"Oh and what will you do, boy? Sure you're strong for your age, but if prince Vegeta can't do anything to us, you truly have no chance!" Zarbon chuckled in his fruity sounding voice. Dodoria laughed some more before turning back to Vegeta, who wasn't moving much. I could sense that his ki was nearly gone.
"Zarbon, just get the job done, quit monkeying around! Hahahaha, monkeying around, Hahahaha!" Frieza's sick voice rang in my ears loud and clear, pushing me past the breaking point.
"Say goodbye brat!" Zarbon shouted, jumping in front of me and kicking my side. I didn't even flinch, more like a feather had touched my armor, and my eyes stayed locked on Dodoria's actions. He puffed up a bit in the cheeks before firing his patented mouth beam at Vegeta, hitting dead on, and finishing him off for good. His armor was shredded off, and he fell to the ground again, his tail limp and his body unmoving. I searched for any possible ki that was left, but only found emptiness. No. As Vegeta's fire died, mine erupted in a blaze. My silver aura filled with light and tore away at the ground around my feet, sending Zarbon flying away just from the force. But I hadn't even gotten started yet. I had followed Vegeta's orders and kept my power back, now that he was gone, they were going to pay with their lives. The Saiyan beast inside me came roaring to life with my anguished scream, Dodoria and Zarbon's scouters shattered an instant later. Frieza didn't have one on, so he was merely curious.
"What did your scouter say Zarbon?" he asked.
"No way, impossible, the scouter read three hundred and ninety thousand when it was destroyed! But the boy only had a power of fifty-eight hundred! That isn't possible even with the moon!" Dodoria claimed. I ignored the astonishment between the goons, dropping all restraints and letting my power flow once again, back to where it should have been. My aura dropped when I was done releasing my hidden ki, getting up to about one quarter of my full power. It calmed me slightly, but I was still very pissed off at the bunch.
"Go and beat him down like the monkey he is! I'm sure your scouters were malfunctioning anyway!" Frieza smirked and laughed. I sensed Fasha and Bardock's ki go back up to normal, meaning she was using the beans, the others were revived a minute later and all had flown to watch the battle I was about to start.
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"C'mon kid, let's dance!" Dodoria grinned and charged towards me full speed. He reached out to punch my face, but pulled his arm back right away, because I had just snatched it out of the air and broken it with a knife hand chop before he could even notice it.
"How in the hell did you do that?" he screamed at me while holding his hurt arm.
"I get my exercise on beating up pumped up muscle heads like yourself," I scowled before kicking his leg, breaking it on contact as well. He fell to the ground in pain, the broken arm was suddenly forgotten because of the new leg injury.
"You know, if I do this, then you'll forget about your leg!" I said, stomping on his opposite foot. He screamed like a baby and held his now crushed foot.
"Stop screaming, you pathetic worm! Or I'll blow your head off next and end your miserable life now!" I shouted at him. Dodoria complied and just whimpered a bit, before I kicked him in the side slightly. I jumped and laid into his back with a few kicks, leaving quite an impact as his armor shattered. His ki dropped more, but the pain was keeping him awake. I rolled him back over, and saw that he wasn't screaming anymore, because he probably couldn't feel the pain now.
I spit on him with disgust, "Now with your last pitiful minutes, watch what you were up against!" I shouted at his face before phasing over to Zarbon, who stood frozen in fear.
He scowled slightly, "I must admit, your power and skills are much higher than I expected, but it's not good enough! Are you up to the challenge of fighting me next?"
I stood my ground, unfazed by his speech, "Will you hurry and power up so I can show you how fruitless this is?" I shouted. Zarbon gasped, but didn't answer and soon his form bulged in size, turning him into a scaly beast with more mass and a bit more power. He shot a purple blast at me first, one that was easy to dodge. He tried to reappear above me and kick me into the ground, but I had already caught his kick before he sent it, throwing him instead into the ground. Then I landed on his back with some speed, shattering his spine and thus crippling him from even moving without my say so. I picked him up by the armor and tossed him over to where Dodoria was. I now turned my attention to Frieza, who was smiling wickedly at the situation. Despite what Dodoria had just done, his boss was the one I wanted.
"Yes, a rare match indeed, one that requires my awesome power to win. I will enjoy beating the life out of you and your friends, just as I did King Vegeta!" he said. I cocked an eyebrow at him before staring at the ground longer. I felt slightly guilty about not killing him back on Treme.
"Oh yes, I personally killed that worthless pile of trash before I blew up the planet! Hell, his son had more potential than he ever did, and look what happened to him!" Frieza claimed, apparently was trying to get me riled up before we fought, to make my fighting sloppy. What he didn't know was that it was going to take about fifty million copies of himself to pull that off and even be effective.
"You, young Saiyan, also have great potential! But, you don't even compare to me. The power of my left arm is more than you possess in your entire body! So to be fair, I will only fight you with my left arm! Now that we have that straight, let's get down to business!" He grinned and put one arm behind his back.
"Suit yourself you fool, but you're gonna need everything you've got to survive this battle, and that is impossible as it is!" I said as I charged slowly at him. He was more than ready, and deep down I wanted to mess around with this freak and make him suffer just a bit. I walked right up to him and glared him down nearly nose-to-nose. He apparently didn't like this, and he used his left arm to grab mine and squeeze for all he could. When he did, his fingernails broke against my skin, and he started to struggle with it.
"What's wrong Frieza, under a little pressure?" I asked, snatching my arm away and punching his stomach a little more than harshly.
He doubled over in pain, face full of shock, "But how?"
"You should have kept a better eye on me, and then you would know. But I'd guess that I'm a two to three hundred times more powerful than you in our current state, and that is only the beginning," I smirked, kicking him in the same spot. His ki dropped to about half of what it was, he had made the mistake of not powering up at all.
"I know you're confused Frieza, and you're not sure how to continue. Let me make it easier. There my back is turned, is that better, isn't that how you like to work?" I asked while turning around. Frieza was still gathering himself to realize this, but then I heard him laugh.
"Big mistake, SAIYAN!" he yelled, grabbing my sensitive tail and squeezing it. I'll be the first to admit, it hurt even if a normal human grabbed my tail, never mind now, but it didn't get the result Frieza was looking for. I back kicked the alien, clocking him in the jaw with my boot. He let go abruptly and stood with a priceless shock on his face, with a few broken teeth sticking out from his mouth.
"That's it Saiyan, you're dead!" he shouted once he came to. He rose into the air with his finger outstretched, gathering massive ki. Soon his large and orange death ball appeared and grew really big.
"Now die with this planet!" He tossed it directly at me and the planet of Meat. It approached slowly, and gave me more than enough time to knock it back at him. His eyes lit up in surprise when I did, but he jumped out of the way and watched his ball go into space. I took the advantage of distraction and rushed up to nab him by the horns. I hurled the alien higher into the air, phasing out and reappearing in his path. I promptly punched his head and sent him back down to the surface. He hit the ground with a nasty thud and his armor came up torn. I flew down soon after hitting him, landing about six feet away.
But he wore a bright smile, "Interesting, I finally have the honor of fighting a true Saiyan and have to transform to win!"
"Go ahead, but it won't do you any good to simply double your current power. I could beat you at your maximum without breaking a sweat!"
"No way, that is impossible! No one can fathom my full power! You lie boy!" Frieza spat at the ground.
"Maybe, but I guess you're not going to find out, your time ends now!" I yelled, charging ahead. I came up to Frieza faster than he could react, and took his legs out from under him, smashing him into the ground again with doubled up fists.
"You, you freak, you must be a Super Saiyan, aren't you?"
I smirked slightly, "I'm a bit more than that!"
"Let me transform so you can test your powers then! Surely you're up to the challenge! You're a Saiyan after all, with wonderful skills!" he grinned.
"I could, but your final form is nothing special! I'll be up to the challenge when there is one, it isn't you. I'm going to kill you!" I yelled, stomping a foot into his midsection, breaking the worn out skin and pushing my boot into his insides. He lost consciousness then, the pain was too great for him. I held no shame or pity for what I had done to the group. I had crippled them beyond belief, but inside I knew if I let these three live, then this new reality could not live in peace. I shot a small ki blast at Frieza's neck, separating it from the body and destroying the head. The remaining body then fluxed out of control without a brain to instruct it, and I finished it off with the next blast. I noted several small ki signals scrambling around in the ship behind me, none of which I knew to be familiar. I blasted it and them to dust a second later as chunks of the spaceship came raining down around me. I spat on the ashes of Frieza and walked back to where the crew was landing. No one dared say a word to me, as they were still not believing what happened, even though I had told them that I could take him out easily.
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"Wow kid, I mean unbelievable! I always thought he couldn't be beaten, but you just did and, oh wow!" Shugesh said first. Random excited comments escaped their mouths as I walked up to them. They all looked slightly scared of me, and I suppose I couldn't blame them at this point. My senses picked up on something from far away, but above us. The ki from it flared once, high enough for me to recognize it as I looked up.
I smiled and looked back down, "Prepare to leave, our ride is here," I said, walking in the other direction.
"Where you going kid?" Bardock asked as the ship started to land nearby.
"I'm not done yet!" I called back, before scowling again and walking forward. Up ahead of me, Zarbon and Dodoria were attempting to hide under rocks that they could barely move.
"Oh crap Dodoria, he's coming back!" Zarbon panicked.
"No kidding you green gak faced idiot!" the pink beast shouted back.
"You didn't actually think I'd forget about you two, did you?" I asked. My inner beast wanted to kill them, and I stopped holding it back. These two would only cause more pain, and from what they had done earlier, mostly Dodoria, I had something quite terrible in mind. I held up my finger and shot a ki beam directly at Zarbon's eye, piercing it and watching it go through his head and out the back, killing him instantly. Dodoria saw this and attempted to get on his knees.
"Please forgive me, I'll do whatever you want. I'll become your slave, just don't kill me!"
I stopped and smiled evilly, "Anything I want huh? Okay, commit suicide!"
"Huh?" he asked, stunned.
I frowned deeply, "You heard me, kill yourself, blow yourself up from the inside using your ki. If I were you, I would, just to atone for all the lives you destroyed. You disgust me, and your kind will cease to be as long as I am around! Do it, or die anyway!" Dodoria obviously had trouble following this order, for two reasons. First, he didn't have hardly any ki to do it with, and two, he was dead either way. He gave up quickly and refused, then I kicked him in the head, sending him back into the dirt. The raging beast called me to do something horrific for his death, he had killed Vegeta. True it wasn't the same Vegeta I personally knew and looked upon in admiration, but the effect was the same. I bent down and punched a hole into his chest, around his heart. Then I grabbed his heart muscle with my hand and ripped it out as it was still beating and pumping the blood left inside of it. Dodoria died right then, no sound came from him at all. I held the heart high into the air, before uttering a loud snarl and squeezing the oddly shaped heart until it exploded. Then I threw the squashed heart down and snarled at the sky again, only this time much louder than my vocal cords should have been able to handle, similar to the way I growled while in ape form. Satisfied, I walked back to the group, wiping a bit of the blood off my face. It was only then that I grimaced at what I had just done, I was sick with myself over it already, rather he deserved it or not. Why the hell did I just do that anyway?
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Vegeta was already out of the ship when I came back, adult Vegeta that is. Bardock and the others had bowed at first, but he told them to stand, the whole time he was sending a smirk my way. When I arrived, I wasn't sure if to feel ashamed for what I just did to all three of those goons or not. I didn't have a real issue with what I did to Frieza and Zarbon, but Dodoria was just something else altogether.
"Well boy, seems that this trip was good for you, you really are a Saiyan at heart. I really didn't think you could do it!"
I looked at him strange, "Do what?"
"That's right, I never explained it. It's kind of like a connection between you and myself, but unlike the warrior's bond, the trainer's bond doesn't fulfill itself all the time, and it has fewer properties than any other bond. I knew this bond had formed between us, as it does with everyone, you have fulfilled it however. That doesn't happen often," Vegeta said, still smirking.
"Oh, so you are his teacher after all, that explains what we just saw," Bardock commented.
"What do you mean by that?" I asked.
"Well, the pink lamebrain over there killed the other me right? In Saiyan mythology, if an enemy kills the teacher, the pupil will rise up to fight and defeat that enemy. You just fulfilled the final act so to speak, ripping the enemy's heart out and crushing it in your own hand while. No doubt you even tasted some of that blood and you enjoyed every second of it, is that correct boy?" he beamed at me now.
"Yeah," I said, looking down slightly.
"Good, this trip wasn't a complete waste of time then!"
I hit quick realization with those words, "What do you mean by that? Did you plan all of this?"
"Sort of, I programmed the codes for planet Vegita into the chamber while you were with the Satan girl that night we encountered the Zerg. I even let Trunks watch me type in the code for the point of entry in the timeline. That's how he learned it; I planned this trip without anyone else knowing after you turned older. I wanted you to see our race for what it was, go on missions like I did in old times, and maybe even pick up a mate for later times. I see you and that girl over there are a bit close, and yes I planned this all out to an extent. I knew I could count on the boys to screw up the machine. The whole thing with Frieza and the Zerg were not my doing however," Vegeta laughed a bit before going back to his usual scowl.
"Any other reasons behind this?" I asked sternly.
"Humph, well I did gather up that pack of females for you. I wanted to see if you could resist them since you can't seem to resist just one!" he frowned as Fasha and I blushed at the same time.
"So what now, sire?" Bardock asked in respect.
"We go to Namek, there is something to take care of there. Then I request you five to come with us to our dimension, to fight the Zerg, will you accept?" Vegeta asked, not ordered.
"As long as we can return here," Bardock answered, sounding a bit confused at the whole ordeal.
"That will not be a problem, my woman can handle that," Vegeta smirked.
"Then we accept, and are honored to serve you again sire!"
"Good, now let's get going! We have to get to Namek before Kold realizes what happened here. Suppress your power again boy!" Vegeta ordered, walking up the ramp. I reburied my ki just as he ordered it, knowing full well that King Kold probably would figure out what occurred if I didn't. We followed inside slowly, the ship was a replica of Frieza's and armored guards littered the floor, all dead.
Vegeta went down the hall, before pointing at a room, "Freshen yourselves up!" Bardock opened the door as Vegeta walked off, and it was a laundry room full of bodysuits and armor. Bardock right away took off his torn up armor and suit, and starting rummaging through a cabinet. He started pulling out an exact copy of what he had been wearing, before I jumped up and stopped him.
"Why not dress better than that?" I said, pulling open the elite armor cabinet and tossing out blue suits.
"Whatever you say sir," he mumbled.
"Don't call me sir," I said, tossing him newer style armor that was a bit more mobile, just like the armor Kibito had given me when I was dead. The crew hesitated before shedding their old low level armor and putting on the nicer looking combat suits, gloves and boots included. I dawned my own new suit, shedding the scabby ones left on after the battle with the Zerg. I put my blue pants on first, inspecting my scars on my chest and stomach from the Zerg battle. They were pale in color now, but the skin was still a bit loose around them. They still looked like surgery marks that had to be stitched up. Fasha had just finished dressing, and came over to me, inspecting them herself. The crew suddenly left the room, leaving just us in there.
"So how you holding up kid?" she whispered while running her gloved finger over the old wounds.
"Okay I guess, it kinda bothers me that Vegeta planned all this, but I can live with it. I doubt he ran it his wife or anyone else first, knowing him," I chuckled and scratched the back of my head in a silly smile.
"Well I'm kinda in a tough spot here, rather we go with you and stay on your world or not. I'm the only female Saiyan left, I don't think the guys are going to want to mate with human females either," she said.
"I don't think Vegeta would ask them to go if he didn't expect you guys to want to come back. Besides, you guys are probably going to be much more powerful afterwards if I know Vegeta, and I do. And if my guess is right, we might do something about that little problem," I said. I put on my blue spandex top and slid the armor over my head, stretching it out to fit my form and putting on the new boots and gloves. Fasha leaned back against the wall, waiting for me it seemed. We left the room a minute later, tails both swishing in anticipation of Vegeta's plan on Namek.
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"We arrive on Namek in about a day, I suggest you six get some rest," Vegeta said just as we entered the bridge area. So we turned right back around with the rest of the group and had Bardock lead the way to some bedroom areas. We found one after several attempts, though a few bodies lay scattered and dead in the room with about fifty beds or so. The beds were separated slightly by small walls between some of them, making cubical like bunks that were side by side. The crew for the most part stayed together, laughing and gossiping about the battle they had just witnessed. I didn't get involved; instead I opted to take one on the far side of the room, leaving myself alone to think about my more aggressive side and what it did today. In one hand I held the power to destroy galaxies with my command with my pure Saiyan strength and rage, and on the other I held my pure heart of goodness according to the Kais. The Kanassan's words didn't go unnoticed, he told me I had a pure enough heart to be worth the mystic power. And he told me that I would eventually master the Psi energy, but my previous actions had made me doubt if I had a truly pure heart or not. Though the way Vegeta spoke, it was like a built in reaction, and he had wanted me to shed some of my kindness in the first place. But my kindness had brought me this great power, or at least that's what I was led to believe. I was confused beyond belief. So confused I didn't notice Fasha slip in and plop down on the bed beside me, startling me from my trance.
"Whatcha thinking about?"
"I'm a bit confused about this whole how to be a better Saiyan thing. On one hand I am a bit too nice to people, making my heart more pure and able to attain this mystic power I was blessed with, and on the other I have the raging beast from hell that couldn't possibly have a shred of kindness in him. Yet Vegeta seems to prefer the beast that can't hold the great power, I don't get it," I slumped on the bed, holding my head in distress.
"I think you're letting it get to you too much, he mostly wants you to see that our race isn't just a bunch of brutes out for a fight like it may seem. We show emotion too, we just do it differently and only around others like us," Fasha said in seemingly deep understanding, "At the same time, he was right, you are a bit too nice. Don't get me wrong, I've seen you fight, and you do it very well, but out of battle you're just a puppy dog, and sometimes that can get the best of you. Those trashy women showed you that, even if you didn't accept their offer," she said, smiling strangely.
"Good point, I'll be more like a brick wall then next time," I laughed a little.
"Will you quit emitting that smell, you're driving me crazy!" Fasha said in a teasing voice, poking my side.
"What smell?" I asked.
"That one that tells me you're almost ready to be mated and make someone spew out a kid, it kinda gets to females you know. Just like we drive the males crazy, you drive us crazy, is that crazy enough for ya?"
I nodded, "Yeah, but its not like I'm trying to do it," I said, leaning back on the bed.
"Well it's a bit crowded in this room, mind if I bunk with you again?" Fasha asked with a wide smirk. I smiled, happy to have her company; she was a pretty good friend, even if our relationship was a bit more than just friends.
"Sure, I have plenty of room," I played along. She took off her armor, but left her suit on, and I did the same. She pushed the other bed she was on together with mine and laid back with her head on my arm. And soon we fell asleep like that; the day had been a bit pressing on us both.
Interlude 18.1 –Fasha's request-
"I would really appreciate it sire if you would allow it," Fasha said to Vegeta, both alone on the bridge.
"I've told you before girl. The boy's age must be restored, so you cannot have him!"
"Please sire, I'd do anything. I'd even wait for him, or become a child again myself!" Fasha was almost on her knees now. Her last statement caused Vegeta's eyebrow to twitch slightly.
"You would wait for him? You wouldn't return with your crew? But you would stay and wait for him, you are attracted to him that much?" Vegeta asked.
Fasha hesitated there, "Yes sire, I didn't think I did before, his kindness had made me think of him as weak minded. But lately I have been shown otherwise. I am intoxicated by his scent and his power, and I can say that he returns it to a degree, always trying to not disappoint you," Fasha said.
"I'm sure it's just lust, you should learn to control your urges," Vegeta muttered.
"I have sire. I'm a third class Saiyan so I know what it means to forget about what I want and do what is required. Something our elites have forgotten about. I am fairly sure about this," Fasha claimed.
"Humph, figures the boy's greatest weakness would turn out to be women. Very well, you have my permission to mark him as yours, however, you are to wait the ten years or so until he is mature before you complete the ritual. You will not leave his side for any advance on any other male during that span. Even if he accepts when you do the proposal, he or I can break it off at any time! That is my deal, do you accept?" the prince asked the low level girl with an extremely loud voice even for him.
"Yes sire," Fasha bowed.
"All right then, you are to perform the rituals as written and slowly bond with the boy without sealing the deal. I will be the witness, but be forewarned, you renig on this deal and he won't be able to save you from me!" Vegeta grunted back at her with his patented death glare. Fasha nodded and left the room quickly, skipping a little bit down the hall. Somehow I don't think that girl is the one for the boy, even though all the signs currently point to her. It doesn't feel right, but then again I have been wrong before. Humph, a wish from Shenron will fix that, until then I suppose the boy could use a little… experience. Vegeta smirked slightly as he stared out the window as the halfway point in the trip clicked off on the clock.
Power levels:
Verto (suppressed): 5,800, 25 percent power: 138,000,000
Bardock: 8,000
Tora: 6,000
Shugesh: 4,800
Borgos: 4,700
Fasha: 3,300
Prince Vegeta: 6,000, max: 12,000
Nappa: 3,500
Raditz: 1,000
Frieza's elites: 8,000
Dodoria: 21,000
Zarbon: 23,000, transformed: 33,000
Frieza (form 1): 530,000