Bardock tossed and turned. His sleep was restless and nervous. He was having another vision as he slumbered. He'd had them after his last planet pirating, when that fish being had attacked him.
"HAHAHA You Saiyan Monkeys, now you will die!!" Freeza, that all evil, rather womanish being laughed gleefully. A death ball hovered inches from his finger, poised, ready to be hurled at the Saiyan planet. Bardock, he saw himself telling Freeza that the Saiyans no longer ruled under Freeza's name. The evil creature took no notice and with a shriek of devilish delight, sent the destructive mass towards the planet. A small figure, dwarfed by the death ball, hurled herself in front of it, blazing with a blind aura of ki as she was engulfed alive.
Bardock woke with a start from his dream. He breathed heavily and wiped dripping sweat off of his forehead. He threw off the covers of his bed and paced. Pausing to think, he swept through the house, disregarding the three future Saiyans sleeping on the couch. But one was not present, and that animal is gone too. Bardock throwing open the door to his home and far away, on a ledge looking out over the forest near the Saiyan city, he saw Raven standing, looking at the sky.
Raven heard Bardock coming. She didn't look back as he approached. Nodded to the sky, two bright sparkly objects had appears. "Those are no stars."
Then he's here! Bardock gritted his teeth. I must keep the Saiyans from being destroyed!
"Do you suppose we go and have a welcoming party Bardock?" Raven still did not turn. She laid a hand on Ferox's head lovingly, "you have to stay here Ferox."
Bardock knew what the girl was thinking. "The boys?"
"Huh, they are dead to the world when they sleep. They won't notice we left."
"Then," Bardock thought, "why are you awake?"
Raven inhaled the cool air through her nose. "I'm a light sleeper. I was hunting; I felt a disturbance in this planet's energy force. It was not right. I came back here, and Freeza's ships had appeared in the sky. Plus," she laughed harshly, "You think I would sleep through a fight?"
"No, no," Bardock floated in the air. "By all means come, but Freeza's mine!"
Raven laughed and hovered herself, "he's who ever gets there first. We go!" The speed of flight into the planet's upper atmosphere reduced them to shining spots, quickly disappearing.
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Goten snapped awake. He looked around desperately and spotted Trunks. The chibi pulled his friends tail in haste!
"OW!" Trunks yelped. "Goten!" He cried in anger.
But Goten was in no mood for reasoning. "Grandpa's and Raven's ki signals are really far away!"
"Raven's probably hunting," Trunks grumbled. "and Bardock probably went out on a mission NOW GO TO SLEEP!" Trunks curled up and sighed. One eye opened, irritated, when Goten got up, tossing his covers over Trunks. "Mph, hey!" Came a muffled cry.
The chibi Goten hopped around, trying to pull on one of his stubborn boots. He tripped over a pillow and fell flat on his face, but his boot was on! "See ya Trunks." Goten ran out the front door, which had been left wide open.
Trunks knew better than to skimp out of an adventure, he could sleep anytime. Hurriedly he bolted out after his friend. He joined up with Goten at the cliff's edge, with Ferox. "I think they went up," Trunks muttered, "to those stars?"
Goten's eyes were wide with realization, "I think that's Freeza's ship! The planet's gonna get destroyed!" Goten took off, but Trunk's grabbed his foot to hold him down.
"Goten, that's Freeza we're talking about!"
Angrily, Goten kicked Trunk's hand and burst off in a veil of ki. He yelled as he was getting farther away, "scaredy cat!"
Trunks twitched and his face went red, "I'm no scaredy cat!" He shouted and took off after Goten. When they were aligned up hee said, "and I'm going to be the one to beat him!"
"Ready old man," Raven called as the first flank of resistance zipped out of the ships.
"Ready as ever kid!"
Raven's hands snapped in front of her, each hand horizontal on top of each other so her palms faced outward. "IRATUS IGNIS!!"
A fiery red wave of blazing hot ki shot from her palms. Bardock even covered his head to protect his face from the blazing heat. The resistance didn't even get a chance to scream as they were engulfed in the attack. There was burning destruction everywhere.
As the ray shrunk and disappeared, Bardock looked at Raven, "let's go."
Onward they flew, higher into the planet's atmosphere. The pair of them relied on swarms of ki blasts to destroy all who opposed their advance. Raven zipped and maneuvered like a precision pilot, avoiding on comers, then blasting them to nothing with rages of ki. Bardock flew strait, accumulating beings trying to drag him down. He dealt with all using one, well placed shaft of raw energy. Like valiant warriors, they met Freeza with no fear as the Tyrant floated out of his ship, silent.
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"Looks Trunks I see them!" Goten squeaked and flew faster.
Trunks caught up, looking around at the dead, "yea and they left their card waiting."
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"Stupid Saiyan Monkeys!" Freeza yelled at the bold pair of pureblooded Saiyans. "Now you will know your deaths!"
Bardock stood fast, ready to charge. He noticed Raven scoot off. But he knew she was up to something, she was too brave to skitter from any fight. Bardock made sure Freeza didn't notice, "we're free Freeza, we never will serve you again!"
Freeza laughed, "of course you'll be free, free to explore hell!" Upon the woman lizard thing's outstretched finger, the death ball began to glow and grow.
Raven, floating unnoticed to the side of Freeza, so her back faced space finally yelled, "I think you are just trying to cover up with lies that you will die today!"
Freeza turned to face the insubordinate female Saiyan, taking the aim of the death ball off planet Vegeta. "You brat!"
"But we all know a hermaphrodite like yourself cannot face the truth."
Freeza began to shake with rage. "You will die!"
Raven just chuckled, "words, are all those are, words cannot hurt me, they are like autumn breezes through the great canyons, they do nothing."
The death ball increased in size as the very touchy Freeza got angrier, he seemed to have a rather short fuse. Freeza whipped around and hurled it at Planet Vegeta on impulse, instead of the cocky Saiyan.
Bardock's eyes widened. So the small plan had failed. Almost paralyzed by the sight off the mass about to destroy his home, he could not move. About to die, he saw Raven launch herself in the path of the death ball. Just before she was overwhelmed, ki flamed around her body, and in her fists a prepared beam of her own ki. "Nooo!" Bardock yelled and charged. He felt arms encircled him and yank him away, away from the path of destruction.
Like a dying sun, the death ball exploded. A spray of ki burned Bardock's skin lightly, but did nothing otherwise to hurt. When the light from the explosion faded, he saw Goten and Trunks had pulled him away. And the Saiyan's jaw dropped.
The boy's hair was spiky and golden. Their eyes were lit with jade. A strong ki surrounded them as well.
"Super Saiyans?" Bardock whispered. Then he realized the previous time at the cave, duh stupid, he chide himself for not remembering.
"Yup," Goten chirped.
Bardock, was given a new energy seeing his grandson and friend legendary Super Saiyans. The wretched out of their grips. "Stay here."
Freeza was in a fit. His death ball had not done the desired reaction, but just exploded, taking only one Saiyan, just one! He sneered when he saw the other Saiyan, the infamous Bardock, approach him again.
"Freeza!" Bardock bellowed strongly. "You will pay now with your life."
"Oh and what was I going to pay with anyway?" Freeza hovered out of the floaty chair.
"You killed my granddaughter, you attempted to destroy my planet, and you will if I let you live!"
"Oh I'm so afraid Saiyan," Freeza laughed, "have you even noticed my strength? I could beat you with no hands."
There was a swish of air on either side of Bardock. Goten and Trunks, Super Saiyans had come, grinning. Goten whispered, "triple beam attack, joint Kamehameha Wave."
Bardock had to think a second, and then smirked to Freeza, "before you die, meet the Super Saiyans that have risen!"
Strangely, Bardock had no idea what a Kamehameha Wave was, but it came to mind. In sync with the two small children, he pulled back his hands, clawing them, slowly saying, "Ka-Me-Ha-Me…………" a brilliant orb of shining ki was forming. Bardock felt all his power flow to his hands. The light given off by the three was blinding. "HA!!!!!!!!!!!" They yelled!
Three Kamehameha Waves flew towards Freeza. Freeza had no time to scream before being overwhelmed by the blue-white energy! The vividness that came from the attacks made the Saiyan sky sparkle, turning a few heads. On the planet, life went on normally, unaware that they'd come near to destruction.
Bardock's Kamehameha Wave died down with the boys. He expelled a lungful of air with a sigh. How the hell did that attack come to mind? He grimaced, Freeza was at least dead. But Raven was as well. Nobody should be able to survive that death ball head on.
" 'ello Bardock." Came a cocky voice.
The addressed swung around. Sitting comfortably on the edge of Freeza's ship, was Raven. True she looked rather bloodied up. When the death ball exploded, it shattered her ki shield and the energy slashed her. A long cut on her forehead bled sluggishly into her left eye, but she was grinning all the way. "Welcome back!" Bardock yelled to her, covering up his relief.
Raven patted the ship, "kinda big, but would you know how to use this thing?"
Bardock saw the sparkle in her open eye. "Yes, is it empty?"
"Yup," she laughed, "I took care of that when you were having a little fun. Nice Kamehameha Wave, didn't know you knew that one."
"Grandpa," Goten had powered down from his Super Saiyan state. "I'm hungry."
"Huh, one second Goten," Bardock, mumbled. He did not care of anyone else was looking at him. He gathered Raven into a hug, much to her shock and surprise. "Don't do that again," he muttered into her ear, "what would I tell your parents?"
"That I died fighting," she whispered back and embraced her grandfather, coiling her tail around his arm. "And I died a warrior."
Bardock chuckled softly and released her. "You need a healing tank," he said flatly, wiping off the warm blood that had oozed onto him.
Raven just smirked and shrugged, "a little blood is nothing, but if you insist. One second," she threw a dina-cap at the now empty ship of the late Freeza. This capsule was a little larger for things larger than ordinary. In a poof, she clutched the capsule in her hand, and there was no more ship to be seen. "Alrighty then." The bloodied up girl followed her grandpa, cousin and friend back onto the planet.
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"Yea sure this thing will heal me?" Raven rapped a knuckled against the smooth tank, looking at her reflection distorted by the glass.
"Yes," Bardock grumbled. They were on the Saiyan military base. This was where he always landed and got healing if direly injured. It was also the place the average troops stayed to drill and deploy around the planet. "Just step in and put on that mask and in a half an hour you'll be healed."
Raven tapped this glass again, turning her head to look at Bardock, "if you say so."
Raven opened the hatch to the regen tank and climbed in. The door closed shut as she put on the oxygen mask. She was slightly startled as the tank began to fill with water. But she soon relaxed as she floated in warm water. For a while, she closed her eyes and napped. She woke when the water began to drain. With a yawn and stretch, she pulled off the oxygen mask as the tank door opened.
Hopping out of the regen tank, Raven did a very dog-like thing. She shook her head and body, ending with her tail, sending water spraying all over the place. Grinning as Bardock snorted irritatedly and tossed her a towel to dry herself and her cloths, she said, "huh, that was quick."
Bardock scowled, "suicidal kid, that was very suicidal."
Raven itched the non-existent itch on her neck, "what, trying to take on Freeza? Or getting you wet?" She smoothed out her black gi with her tail, and tightened the silver belt.
Bardock scowled deeper, "both."
Raven smiled oh so sweetly, "well old man, if time had played out without disturbance, than you would be dead at the moment, killed by the death ball. I was just interfering, A, to keep you alive. And B, well, now I can say I fought Freeza!"
Bardock just grumbled and left as a doctor swept in. A female Saiyan, with limp, blond hair and a tail of a creamy white. She was in a doctor's coat and had a nametag stating 'Dr. Yula.'
"Well hello, you must be Bardock's daughter Osprey." The woman checked her records. "You are to get a physical."
Raven snorted, "when was this arranged?"
Dr. Yula looked at her clipboard again; "you haven't had one since you were three or so. So Bardock said while you were in the hospital, why not."
"Fine, stupid bastard, I need no check up," Raven sighed and was motioned onto a scale. She was the perfect weight for her age, or ten.
"So," Yula said as she checked Raven's throat with a tounge depressor thingy, "how was the planet mission you were sent on?"
"Ith waz fon, glo booomy." The muttered through the piece of wood, the doctor was finished and she spat, ridding the woody taste and corrected herself, lying deftly "it was entertaining, it wasn't that hard to blast the humans out of existence."
"Is that so," Dr. Yula was writing on her clipboard again. "I need a blood sample as well to check for underlying problems that you might have."
Raven yelped at the thought of needles. But she held still, though had white knuckles as Yula skillfully drew a actually tiny amount of blood. "Is that all?" Raven breathed a sigh of relief.
"Yes," Yula said, "only need a small amount. I'll be back in a few minutes with the results, and then the only other test is a energy reading to see how strong you are."
"Gulp," Raven said as Dr. Yula disappeared through a door.
Within five minutes, she was back, "well, you are the most healthy child I have seen in here for a while, nothing wrong whatsoever, your height, weight and such are perfect, now follow me to the gravity ki measuring chamber."
"Ehehehe," Raven giggled nervously, and followed Yula down a passage. She was awesome when it came to sensing and locating ki signals, but hiding her own was difficult.
Yula motioned her into a large, metal room and shut the door, appearing in the single window. Over a loudspeaker came, "I'm going to see how strong a gravity you can handle, and in turn, your power level will rise to keep up with the change."
There was a whirring sound and Raven felt a light tug on her body. She shook her head, showing that the setting was too weak to even bother her. The gravity obviously double and Raven just sighed irritatedly. Her eyes flicked to the readings on gravity, and her ki next to it. 10g/115
Again, Raven just gave an irritated shake of her head.
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The rising of the levels continues in small jumps, Raven was beginning to feel some strain, but raising her ki level easily nulled that.
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She decided to cut her ki rising at around a thousand, though she could go a great deal higher. It was not to look weak, but so she wouldn't be seen too high.
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Ki flared around her in a rippling aura! She strained a little when the level jumped to a 79 times the planets gravity! Not wanting to surpass a power level of a thousand, she made as if to fall to her knees, struggling to stand. When the gravity was abruptly cut, Raven was launched into the air. She controlled her flight and hovered to the now open door.
"You a very much a daughter of Bardock." Yula laughed, "More training and you'll probably surpass him. Though you are strong for your age, you have a long time to go, but are developing nicely." Raven smiled and rubbed the back of her neck as she was reunited with Bardock. Though Yula had a question, "a while before you came in, there was a huge explosion in the sky. I wonder what happened."
Goten jumped onto Bardock's back, climbing into his shoulder. He and Trunks had waited around until Raven was done healing. "Yea that was us fightin' Free-OUCH RAVEN!!!"
Raven coughed as she held onto Goten's tail, he slid off of Bardock and she swung him over her back, still hanging onto his tail. "Goten's a little ambitious, he thinks of big fights and fantasies and sometimes blurts out they were done."
There was a resounding crunching sound. Raven gave a yelp as she leaped into the air in pain, Goten hanging into her tail with his teeth. She hit the ceiling and fell back down into a disorderly entanglement with Goten. "Goten," Raven snarled at whapped him with her tail, "no biting you rabid little animal!"
"But Raven," Goten cuffed her back and whined, "you pulled mine first!"
"That's enough, Osprey, Kakarot! Separate now!" Bardock barked as the two began to fight. Almost instantly they backed off.
"Interesting," Yula commented. "So it was a fight with Freeza." Her eyes began to shine with hope, "did you happen to see who was fighting?"
"Us!" Goten chirped before anyone could stop him. But he portrayed such child innocence that it was impossible to make up an excuse.
"We must be going now, Raditz will be getting nervous with that wolf around!" Bardock grabbed his two grandchildren and jogged off before there could be any protest. Yula just had a confused look on her face.