Make sense? I hope it does!
On the BattlefieldThrough the falling evening, two shining yellow eyes surveyed what was the battlefield of earth. There was a series of soft yaps and growls. Cautiously, a wolf with gray fur stepped out of the brush. Pausing every few minutes, it sniffed its way towards Vegeta, who was lying unconscious, covered in blood. If one could recognize, they would see this as Ferox, a companion of Raven.
Five years ago, in Raven's traveling years, Ferox and Raven had formed a bond of friendship. Ferox a loner, Raven unable to stay in one place too long. He'd even traveled through time with her, Goten, and Trunks long ago. A cunning animal, as clever and sharp as any human, he held his own and was known to be particularly unruly and vicious. When he'd first met Bardock, he'd seen the Saiyan as a threat to Raven and attacked him. Now, a few years later, after all the adventure, Ferox had settled down as the leader of a mountain pack. Raven still routinely visited the wolf and together they roamed Ferox's territory together.
Ferox walked up to Vegeta. Making care not to step on the beaten prince's tail, he nosed the Saiyans hand. Getting no response, he started to gently lick the blood from Vegeta's forehead. A few chosen pack members slunk out of the cover and went to tend others, like Goten and Goku.
Vegeta began to stir, murmuring, "go away Bulma."
Ferox whined and wagged his tail once and licked Vegeta's hand. Twitchingly, Vegeta opened his eyes and turned his head to look at Ferox. Stiffly, he swatted at the wolf, who fled and sat up, "disgusting." Though he stared at the animal as it returned, carrying a shallow rock filled with water. Careful not to spill a drop, Ferox pushed it towards the Saiyan. Still eyeing the intelligent wolf, Vegeta drained the water and did so again when Ferox returned with it, filled.
Grumbling, Vegeta got to his feet. The Saiyans used a clever attack plan. Make a false image to strength by sending the weak. Then sending the last sweep to end it quickly and leave quickly. Curses, they've changed their fighting style since I was with them the bastards. The pansies did not even stand up and give us a real battle, just hit us fast and left!!! Caught by surprise, none of us even attempted Super Saiyan, us idiots. Vegeta thought to himself, fuming silently. Revived by the wolves, Goten and Trunks were getting to their feet. Goku was lookingaround. Yamcha was nowhere to be seen. Gohan was tending to Jace, who'd been beaten the worst and was still out cold. Vegeta's eye twitched as he scanned for ki, where is the Kakarot Spawner? And the brat girls, Raven and Lynx? Vegeta's eyes widened in complete horror with another realization. Bra!!!
The Saiyan hastily zipped around. His daughter's ki was nonexistent. He grabbed Goku by the shoulders, "Kakarot, where's Bra!"
Goku saw the terror in Vegeta's eyes. He'd never seen such a thing in Vegeta. Actually, he was a little worried by it, "I can't sense her." Vegeta was petrified, though he tried to hide it as much as possible.
Jace, who was determined to get to his feet even with Gohan trying to stop him, limped over to the Saiyan prince. "They took her," he said painfully, barely unable to rasp. "tried to stop them, just couldn't. I'm sorry sir…" The boy blacked out, grabbed by Gohan before he hit the ground.
"I must see the woman," was all Vegeta said before he blasted off at full speed, in Super Saiyan 2.
"Vegeta!" Bulma shrieked, horrified when her husband returned, "your all bloody and…" She shuddered.
"Woman," Vegeta said, almost softly. "I need a ship, right now."
Bulma heard the concern in Vegeta's voice. He sounded, almost, hurt. Never had her prince shown such a thing. Bulma wrapped her arms around Vegeta, "what happened."
Though Vegeta was not the comforting guy, he put an arm around his mate and pulled her close, whispering, "they took Bra." Vegeta held Bulma closer as she began to shake and sob into his chest. And all this time, the prince just held her, waiting for her to stop. Once she was done, and the tears were gone, he said quietly again, "I will find her."
Bulma pulled herself away, tears still tracing her cheeks. "I'll get you your ship." And she fled to her lab to retrieve the same space ship that Vegeta had taken before he married her.
Once Bulma was gone, Vegeta heaved a deep sigh. He felt, odd, odd that he cared. The only other time he'd been remotely like this was before he sacrificed himself in an effort to rid the world of Majin Buu. Bulma returned with the ship. As she handed it to him, Vegeto kissed her tenderly on the forehead, "I will not return without our daughter."
Goku Instant Transmissioned to Vegeta's location. He caught the Saiyan loading supplies into a ship. "Leave now Kakarot," he growled.
"Vegeta," Goku yelled, "I know what you are doing and you must stop and listen."
"Give me a reason," Vegeta snarled as he continued walking back and forth from a pile of boxes, carrying as many as possible at once.
Well," Goku started, "you're distressed, I know, I lost my father and niece. But we mustn't be hasty. You are going strait to the beast without taking a sword. We must take time and plan, go over."
"I can do this on the way there." Vegeta carried the last box and faced his rival. His tail switched in an erratic motion, showing his displeasure. "What are you suggesting Kakarot."
"I'm coming too," Goku said firmly, "we can spar and become stronger as well, plus I'm not leaving my family either."
Vegeta's tail stopped lashing and was stiff at these words. When it relaxed and went back to twitched, Vegeta scowled, "then I need to go get more food."
"Already prepared honey," Bulma rushed out of Capsule Cooperation, holding a package or what the company was famous for. "This is enough food to even last Goku and yourself for ages." Bulma gave it to Vegeta, then broke down sobbing and hugged him again, "get Bra back safe!"
"Bulma," Vegeta gently pushed Bulma away by her shoulders and looked her in the eyes, "I give my word, she and I will return."
Goku gave a nod to Vegeta, "let's get going."
"C'mon Trunks, this is our chance," Goten whined. Even at twelve, he hadn't lost his little whine and could still kill with his puppy eyes.
"Shut up Goten," Trunks snapped.
The two, actually three were watching as Bulma waved goodbye to her husband as Goku and Vegeta boarded the ship. The third was none other than Ferox, who demanded going with Goten and Trunks, he had a silent way of telling what he was sought after. Hiding in a bush, they waited until Bulma turned and left. With a silent nod, Goten and Trunks tip toed from their hiding spots, Ferox dashed at their heals. They rushed behind a tree and watched, heads poking around to watch in a totem pole style, wolf on top. The ship door began to close and doing the famous spaz, the three squeezed in and entered this ship before their tails got scrunched. Giggling quietly and yapping as if laughing, the three smugglers went to hide so the ship could take off and get far from earth before they were noticed. That would ensure them getting taken along, though Vegeta might kill them, but then again, he might not.
"What are you up to?" Bardock stepped into the smaller room Raven had claimed as her own. She was sitting on the top bunk, staring at the ceiling vent. Beside her, she had her backpack and still looking at the vent, rummaged around it. Not answering, she pulled out a cap and de-capsuled it. An array of sharp weaponry appeared next to her on the bed. Her hand explored them without getting cut, and she chose a knife with a flat, broad tip.
"I'm," Raven reached out and touched the vent, "gonna escape and maybe mess up the ship to slow down the arrival to Planet Vegeta.
Bardock looked intrigued, "how so?"
"Well," Raven stretched out as far as possible to reach the farthest bolt on the vent. "They put the screws on the outside. That means I can get them loose, and go out."
Bardock jumped out of the way as the first of four bolts fell with a clinking sound. He picked it up and examined it, "this is rusted as well, tsk tsk, and I thought they'd do better."
Raven worked fast. On a tough bolt, she popped the cork on a bottle of oil and dabbed it on. As easy as pie, the screw slipped loose. She waggled her fingers at Bardock when she caught the last screw, a gesture that she wanted the one he held. And just in time, the Saiyan male caught the vent grate before it landed on his head. "Seems only you will fit."
"I know," Raven stuffed the screws under the mattress of the bunk. She shoed Bardock from the room. Once he was gone, she began to arm herself to the teeth as one might say. She concealed blades all over, a few in her belt, in her boot, one lashed around each wrist so they might slide into her palms when ki melted the ties. Also she equipped herself with the basic items a thief might use. Rope, a vile of oil, gloves and boot cloths of muffle her movement. She donned her backpack with would have anything else if the need came.
"See ya Bardock," Raven said when she permitted him to enter again. "Let's hope they don't do a cell search. Though I'll be back."
Bardock sighed as Raven skittered up through the vent. He listened, but she was so silent in movement he could tell if she was gone or still here. He decided to poke a look and found indeed she was long gone, a single, silver thread trailing off through the passages to mark her progress.
Crawling wasn't hard in the ventilation system for Raven. Being smaller because she was female, there was no problem getting through. Slow but steady, her progress was soundless. Not one cloth rustled or knife blade clinked. She stopped, sniffing the air warily and pausing. Underneath at the moment she was traveling above a main hallway. But a familiar scent was swept by her sensitive nose. It was Bra and Lynx.
Quickly, Raven prodded the small off flowing vents for the scent, taking careful sniffs of the air. She reached a grate where it was strong and immediately took out her flat headed knife. With some oil and quick, steady hands, she had it ripped off in no time and was heading down a separate passage.
Lynx and Bra were resting at the moment. They were hungry, and knew they had to conserve energy. Lynx woke to her growling stomach and sighed. Rolled over, ignoring her discomfort, putting away the though she hadn't had a morsel since before the big fight, a little more than a day or so away.
Almost dozing off, Lynx bolted awake when she heard some soft movement in the vent above. She slid off the bed to investigate. After finding the right vent, she heard a hushed whisper and a clink of metal, "coming down, outta the way."
Lynx stifled a gasp as Raven jumped from the vent, landing without even a 'thump'. "Raven!" She breathed, muffled by her hands over her mouth.
Raven gave a famous lopsided grin, "it's me alright, knew you guys were here and came to check on you."
"Let's escape, I'll go wake Bra!" Lynx was stopped by Raven grabbed her shoulder.
"No Lynx, we must not, not yet at least." Raven saw the pained look in Lynx's eyes. "It is too soon, we are in the middle of space. Even if Saiyans can breathe out there, we have no place to go and no way to get back to earth as well. We are to wait until we land on planet Vegeta, I have an ally in this ship. It's Vegetan-" Raven paused as Lynx hissed through her teeth, "-son. I can see his truth, he hates his father and is determined to see us go free in justice than face wrongdoing and such." Raven looked into Lynx's coal black eyes, pleading understanding.
Lynx, still agitated at the mention of Vegetan, nodded. Further conversation was held up by a stomach rumble that caused a small earthquake. "Heh, your hungry aren't you?" Raven asked, concerned.
Lynx again nodded, "I insulted the pansy prince and he suspended us to only water until we can be quote 'reasoned' with."
"Well," Raven had her pack off and was digging around. "We can't have the elemental and the princess starving eh?" Her hands clasped a dina-cap and she removed her hand from the pack. Raven tossed it to Lynx, "all the food a Saiyan pair might ever want."
The younger Saiyan girl looked at the capsule in her hands. It was, of course, labeled 'food'. "Thank you Raven."
The addressed waved her hands in front of her, "no problem, I have a few others of those so it isn't like Bardock and wolfy aren't going to starve if they give us nothing." Raven froze, as there was a click on the door, like someone was opening it. Hastily, without a goodbye, she was in the vent and long gone.
Lynx had hidden the capsule and was in a fighting stance. When the door opened, she did not see Vegetan, but what looked like a chibi sized Vegeta!
Raven had not actually left for good. She'd been watching before she scurried away. With slight glee, she pushed the grate away and leaped back beside Lynx, much to everyone's surprise.
Vegeto smiled, "well I see your exploring a little."
"Very much so prince Vegeto." Raven bowed in respect.
"Waz goin' on?" Bra yawned and rubbed her eyes as she walked over to Lynx, seemingly half asleep. Her eyes widened as they fell on Vegeto, "you look like my dad, just bite sized."
Vegeto gave Bra a smirk, identical to Vegeta's, "I am his nephew, cousin Bra."
The blue haired girl did eye him warily now. "That means Vegetan's your dad and…"
"I mean you no harm." Vegeto reassured. "I came to see you two to introduce myself and discuss to you a plan of escape." He caught Raven's eye, "you were next."
Raven laughed softly, "well, I'd love you hear you guys chat but." She looked, "I feel a little chaos is in store, to, er, slow the progress of this ship."
Vegeto waved as she flew and crawled into the vent, "have fun, do not get captured."
Vegeta had sparred with Kakarot for hours. Ceaselessly, they dueled; attaining levels they were unable to do on earth for fear of destroying the planet. Now hungry and tired, he felt the need for a little food. They had just existed the solar system and were well on their way to the coordinates of Planet Vegeta.
Well, at the same time, a certain three stowaways had grumbling tummies that had to be satisfied. Vegeta rounded the corner into the small kitchen just as the mischievous pair had begun to raid the fridge.
Goten noticed the silence from the gravity room. He poked Trunk's shoulder, who was stuffing his face with jello. Trunks, face reddish from the tasty gelatin, was aggravated his eating had been interrupted. Goten gestured to the direction of the GR. Twin eyes peaked past the fridge door, and spazzed out as a pair of hands gripped them from behind and hauled them into the air!
"KAKAROT!!" Vegeta bellowed, directly in the demi-Saiyans ears. He was definitely not pleased in the least.
"Yea Vegeta?" Goku asked, wearing a towel for he was going to take a shower, wandered into the kitchen to see what was up. "What do you want…oh?"
"Yes!" Vegeta seethed, "they snuck on! Did you know anything of this!?"
Goku itched his head and looked at the two cringing boys, who had their long furry tails tucked in-between their legs akin to frightened dogs. I didn't Vegeta. Boys?"
Goten looked up at his father eyes watery, "we just wanted to help and Vegeta yelled."
"Well," Goku again itched his head, "it can't hurt, I mean, their apt fighters, they can help if we need to battle. What do you say Vegeta?"
"I say kick them on the escape pod and send them home! We have no time to be babying two children! We need to train, I need to attain the third level before we get there!" Vegeta raged. His tail lashed and bristled. "And Kakarot if you are going to whine along with them, then you can go as well!"
Goten sniffed, "we just wanted to help out."
Wraith-like, Ferox silently walked up behind Vegeta. He eyed the lashing tail similar to a cat might watch a feather twitching. He was finally overcome with curiously and anger that his friends were being yelled at. He willingly snapped at the furry, brown, appendage, teeth making an audible crunch!
Vegeta went cross-eyed. He turned his head around, saw Ferox chewing on his tail, slowly looked back at Goku. "OWWWWW!!!!!!!!!" He lost all sense of dignity and danced around in pain, still holding the two boys, who looked terrified! Ferox detached himself from the tail, and was grinning as much as a wolf could grin. Vegeta, freed of the gnarling pain, immediately regained his serious stance. It was like someone hit a button in his head to make him distinguished again. Though Vegeta did curl his tail in front of him to get a better look at the damage. He just growled and shot the evil eye at Ferox, who raised his own tail high, a sign of his glee.
Goku sighed, "Vegeta, think, we will loose valuable time if we bicker about them. Let them stay, I think we might need the fight power."
Vegeta's eye twitched and he gritted his teeth. "Do not get in my way brats, and you wolf!!" With that he dropped the pair and stomped off, lock, stock and barrel irritated.
"Don't worry," Goku assured the boys and Ferox, "he'll be glad in a little bit."
A pair of night colored eyes watched a room below. Two people, Saiyans, moved around, turning knobs and adjusting measures of the power and engines. The eyes melted away as a man walked directly under the grate. When their back was turned, silently the cover slid off. Like a bullet, a knife shot out from the darkness. The man gave a small gasp as the keen edge buried itself in the back of his neck, severing the spine.
Raven slid out of the vent and looked at the stunned assistant and thrust out her palm, spreading her flingers, glowing with shining, red ki. The young male assistant covered his eyes as three blasts shot from Raven's hand. The only sound was three soft thumps and the assistant peeped out from his fingers and breathed a sigh of relief. When he looked back, he saw the door hinges had been welded together, he gave a gulp.
"Stay silent, you will be able to run when I am done," Raven barked harshly and she retrieved the bloody blade from the dead Saiyan's neck. After wiping the crimson fluid on the man's white lab coat, she returned it to a sheath on a sash full of blades. Inspecting the dials and such, she snarled, "kid, get over here."
The assistant cowered ever so slightly and scuffled over. "Yes?"
"What do all these things do?"
"Well," the assistant took a deep breath, "these control the lateral functions of the jet propulsions of this ships engines. The dials and other things control the speeds, depths and time we expect to get to a place-" KABOOM!!!!
The assistant screamed and flung himself to the floor, hands over head as a massive explosion tore through the room. Shrapnel and smoke filled the air. And through all this, Raven stood grinning so evilly with her hand out again. Ki swirled around her, whipping the smoke that hung all around, away from her body in a vortex of gray. The ship gave a visible shudder and anyone could tell it stopped moving. She settled her ki and patted the assistant's cheek in a mocking manner. "Have fun getting out, I have to go."
Vegetan heard the explosion from the other side of
the ship. His first instinct was to go and find the elemental. But a second gut
sense led him off to the normal prisoner chambers. He raged, "Guard, access me
to the earth Saiyans cell or you die right here!"
The poor pair of men that held
the keys couldn't work fast enough under the glaring royals eyes. To them it
seemed like eternity before the lock clicked and Vegetan swept past them.
Bardock was startled by the sudden appearance of Vegetan, he could sense it, all the evil and hatred that whirled around the man like an invisible aura. But the problem was, Vegeto was with Bardock as they conversed an escape plan, and now they were in big trouble if Vegetan found out.
"Shit shit shiiiiiiittt!" Bardock said in a hushed whisper. They were in the smaller of the two bunking rooms, with Fenrir in there as well. "Fenrir, go hold him up, growl from the other room or something, distract him while we hide the prince!"
Like a desert wind, the wolf was gone. They heard the footsteps as Vegetan walked past the room they were in. Without looking back, Vegeto ran for it, hovering a millimeter above the ground so he did not make a sound.
Pulling himself up like any proud Saiyan would, Bardock easily walked from this room and shut the door behind him. "May I help you your highness?" He felt like such a pansy saying those words, but it kept him from eating instant death.
"Where is the girl?" Vegetan snapped at Bardock, who leaned easily on the wall, arms crossed.
"She's resting," Bardock uttered flatly.
"Well she isn't anymore," Vegetan pushed past Bardock, who promptly grabbed the man's wrist, "release me at once or you will breathe death!"
"She mustn't be disturbed, her injuries are more dire and without adequate rest she will not heal quickly!" Bardock said extremely hurried.
"Well," scoffed Vegetan, "I will still see the brat, or is she not here?"
Bardock sweat dropped and backed up, shaking his head. "Enter."
Raven heard the tale end as she practically flung herself from the vent. In a hurried movement, she swept all visible blades off of her and stuffed them under the top bunk mattress. Without flinching, she took another blade and swiped it across her palm. Blood flowed instantly, dripping on the floor and bottom bunk. She hurriedly moved that bloody hand across her face and on other parts of her, giving the image she was wounded badly, that all her now gone cuts and slashes had opened up and bled anew when she was taken from the regen tank. Wrapping a bit of sheet on the palm gash, she hurled herself onto the bottom bunk and shut her eyes and relaxed her muscles as Vegetan entered not in the best of moods.
Well, Vegetan was a little disappointed. He expected her to be fighting, so he could find a blame for the explosion. But no, there was a Saiyan girl, tail limp, as she bled from cuts that refused to heal up. His eye twitched as he reeled from the room, temper swarming higher than ever as she slammed shut the cell door.
"That was close…" Bardock sighed and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Raven began to chuckle, then laughed as she sat up, cracking up. The older Saiyan thought she'd finally crack, "uh?"
Still giggling madly, Raven gave him a wink, "we're not going anywhere for a while!"
Bardock chuckled quietly, "so that's what that bang was, eh?"
"Yes," Raven licked her bleeding hand, savoring the sweet taste of her blood. When the bleeding stopped, she stood up and stretched and wandered past Bardock. From the bathroom and the sound of running water she yelled, "so what did Vegeto have to say?"
"Well, when you get out I'll show you kid." Bardock yelled back.
"Sounds good to me," Raven emerged, unbloodied. "So?"
Bardock chuckled and from a mattress took out a handful of rolled maps. He spread the large one on the floor, it was a map of Planet Vegeta. "Here," he pointed to a city region, "is where we will be landing. It is slightly out of the city and is heavily forested. We will not actually be boarding off, just refueling."
"Alright."
Bardock continued, "Vegeto gave me an escape plan. As we land, as, not before or after, we break out of the cell. He gave me a key to override the lock from the inside. We either kill the guards, or knock them out, and steal their armor, that old nut. We lead Fenrir as if we need him to help load the goods, disguised. Then we break for the forest very slyly." Bardock traced a route with his finer on the map. "We are to use no ki whatsoever, but make our way to the old city I used to live, where the main palace lay." He tapped a city far off. "There Vegeto will meet us. He knows for sure that they are going to keep Bra and Lynx there and attempt to train them. Then-" Bardock cracked his knuckles, "we hold a true battle, not like the cheap one on earth and destroy Vegetan-"
"Where does this we come from?" Raven crossed her arms seriously. "I vowed to kill him, he will be mine."
Bardock rolled up the map, "then it will be a race to see."
Raven scowled. For just a second, her ki flared. Her eyes flashed violet and her tail pure silver. Her hair streaked silvery and with Super Saiyan two gold streaks with black in between. She relaxed, hair and eyes and tail going back to normal brown and black. "I might point out my power exceeds yours many times over."
Bardock's eyes were flaming with jealousy, that she was a Super Saiyan, wait a Super Saiyan 2 for that matter. She'd attained the second level during training, learning fast. He closed his eyes and sighed, "First come first serve kid."
Raven snorted and too sighed, "oh well, we have a long time to figure it all out."
Well I hope you enjoyed that! The escapes begin!