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"Who would think that such pathetic planet such as Namek could hold such wondrous treasure?" Frieza steps heavily through the marsh. He stops suddenly, looking down at his feet."What is it, Lord Frieza?" Dodoria anxiously questions.He cranes his fat neck to look at the spot where Frieza has fixated his gaze. He doesn't see it, but Frieza does. He can sense it without the locator. Frieza bends down slowly, wearing a smile instead of his usual frown. He stands up strait, his hands cradling the orange sphere.
"Once I locate all of the Dragon Balls on this miserable planet, I shall be invincible! Call Zarbon and inform him that there is only one last Dragon Ball to collect." he orders.
Dodoria rapidly nods his large pink head as he fumbles with his communicator. He clears his throat before speaking.
"Zarbon, Lord Frieza has located the sixth Dragon Ball. Have you found the last one yet"
He stares intensely at the communicator in his hand. The only response is a long wave of static. Dodoria waits until the static has passed before trying again.
"Zarbon! Lord Frieza has located the sixth Dragon Ball. What is your location"
A female voice confusingly answers through the communicator.
"Well... his legs are in the ocean, his torso is embedded in rock, and his head is in my hands. What is your location?"
Echo held the small communicator in her palm, waiting for an answer. None came. She didn't want to kill the green alien, later identified as Zarbon, but he gave her no choice. Even after explaining chaos Frieza could potentially cause using the Dragon Balls, Zarbon just laughed. Did he really not have any remorse for the innocent lives that he has, and would have continued destroying?
Echo bends over and wipes her stained dagger clean on the bottom of her blue pant leg. She quickly sheathes it as she senses the two Sayians approaching.Goku lands softly on the ground next to her, as Vegeta slowly lands opposite of the two. Vegeta looks down at the dirt at his feet and follows the trail of blood. It leads him to a dismantled head, green in color. He grabs a fistful of hair as he lifts the head off the ground. He inspects the face before looking up at the woman before him.
"Nice work." He smirks.
She did not answer him, but looked almost pale in the face. He threw the head aside, not caring where it fell. Goku looks uneasy as he scans the sight. He decides to keep his comments to himself, noticing her reaction to Vegeta.
"We talked to the villagers in the east. The village was in ruins from Frieza's attack. The survivors said he took the Dragon Ball with five yellow stars." Goku said quietly.
He hated how the innocent people of this planet were being attacked. Until Frieza had arrived, they were a peaceful race, with no reason to fear strangers. Now half of their population was gone, and the other half severely wounded. Vegeta had no remorse for the people of Namek. He had only agreed to help keep the Dragon Balls safe from Frieza. Echo had told Goku earlier to keep a sharp eye on his Sayian brethren. 'We have just as much to lose if Vegeta uses the Dragon Balls as we do with Frieza' she had said. Goku agreed with her.
"What's that in your hand?" Goku asked.Echo looked to the small devise, still clutched in her hand.
"It was Zarbon's communicator. Frieza has the sixth Dragon Ball in his possession. We're running out of time!" She exclaimed.
"Then we should not waste our time here. We need to find the last Dragon Ball before Frieza does. Your plan of teams did not work, now we'll do it my way. The three of us need to separate and search on our own." Vegeta devised.
He boosted his energy before taking flight, leaving Goku and Echo behind.
"Should I follow him?" He asked.
Echo watched as Vegeta disappeared around a distant mountain.
"No. He's right. We'll cover more ground this way... Goku?"
"Hm?"
Echo stares into his eyes, her facial features softening as a small smile creeps upon her face.
"This is one hell of a first date. If we make it off of this planet alive...you owe me dinner"
Goku nervously chuckles as he nods his head.
The two split up, each covering opposite coast lines. Echo stays on the ground, scanning the terrain. The shore line ends at the base of a large rock formation. She effortlessly climbs the rock pile, making it to the top in a matter of minutes. She starts to climb down when she hears muffled voices from below. She begins to slowly lower herself to the levels of rocks below her. She reaches the ground and takes cover behind a large boulder. She doesn't need a formal introduction to who the two strangers are. From Vegeta's description it must be the infamous Frieza with one of his minions. Echo listens intensely as she spies on the enemy.
Frieza is in mid sentence as he pauses to look over his shoulder.
"...What is it, my lord? Do you sense something"
Frieza shakes his head as he glares back at Dodoria.
"The only place we haven't searched is high in the mountains. You will go there, and don't you dare return to me without the last Dragon Ball!" he orders.
Dodoria accepts his orders and flies north at an accelerated pace.
The mountains? That should be where Vegeta is searching. He should be able to handle himself...But what of Frieza?
Echo didn't need to peer around the boulder to know he was still there. She could sense his power.
"I know you're there. Come out and face me." Frieza calmly states.
Panic strikes her, as she weighs her options.
His energy level is high, but I should be capable of stalling him until Goku arrives.
Echo takes a deep breath before standing up, exposing herself to the enemy. Frieza inspects his competition.
"So you are the one who killed Zarbon? I didn't expect you to be so...intoxicating." He smirks.
"And I didn't expect the notorious Frieza, destroyer of worlds, to have such a low energy level." She shot back.
Frieza's smile sagged slightly at the corners of his small mouth.
"Are you disappointed?" He asks softly.
Echo bites down on her lower lip. She knows what he is capable of, and she also knows she cannot vanquish Frieza by herself.
Frieza looks satisfied by her reaction.
"You are not as clueless as you lead on. Do you think your Sayain friends will come in time before I transform? You'll only need to stall me for another twenty minutes, correct?"
"Maybe I don't need to stall you, Frieza. Maybe I can take you down myself." Echo speaks, finding her courage.
How many enemies had she faced throughout her elongated life? None of them held the potentional of destruction like Frieza has.

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Frieza's laughter vibrates through her ears. Echo struggles to her feet, attempting to clear away the ruble on top of her. Being thrown into a pile of boulders was not an easy feat to bounce back from. In the beginning of the battle, Echo had the upper hand. Until, that is, when Frieza transformed into his complete form. After that, she was having difficulty concentrating on her energy beams. The few she had managed to shoot were too far off target to do any help. She had gone back to her plan of stalling Frieza until help arrived, but now the plan had changed to throw any attacks that would keep her alive.Echo pushed with all her strength on the rock that was trapping her to any oxygen. She had spent the last fifteen minutes being Frieza's rag doll, and it had taken it's toll on her strength. The boulder wouldn't budge. She was trapped.
If I can't get out, then he can't get in-right?
The rock on top of her shattered and a muscular arm reached through the remains. It grasped Echo's throat and pulled her out of the pile of ruble.
"Giving up so easily, are we?" Frieza chuckles.
She can't answer, as her air supply is quickly dissolved. Her vision blackens, as her struggles against the alien weaken.
"You put her down!" A voice breaks out from behind him.
Frieza turns to see two figures land in a fighting pose.
"So good of you to join us, Vegeta. Congratulations on finding a stray Sayian. That ups your population to two. How nice for you"
Frieza laughs as he tosses Echo's body to the ground. Vegeta stands his ground, glaring at his enemy, as Goku rushed over to where Echo has fallen. He takes her head into his hands and brushed the dirt from her cheeks. Her chest slowly rises and falls, with great difficultly. He stands up, eyes focused on Frieza.
"Vegeta, take Echo someplace safe"
Since when do I take orders from such a low class Sayian? Who cares if the female dies? Vegeta thinks to himself. His eyes wander to Echo, who is lying still on the ground. Her clothing is tattered, and blood covers her face. Her biological healing power has taken into affect, as he can spot several large bruises on her legs. He looks back to Frieza, who has no physical wounds from the battle.
"Vegeta!" Goku impatiently calls.
Vegeta takes long strides to Echo, who is lying unconscious on the ground. He effortlessly lifts her into his arms, and looks back at Goku.
"You're a fool to stay and fight, Kakorott"
"Maybe I am." Goku answers solemnly.
Vegeta takes one last look at his enemy, Frieza, before leaving the battle field.
Vegeta heads toward the high mountains, knowing they were safe. The people of this planet cannot live on this thin air, so we won't have to worry about villagers, and I already took care of Dordoria - that fat pink blob. Echo starts to awaken in his arms, moaning softly. Vegeta spots a cave in the side of the mountain, and flies towards it. He puts her down on the hard stone ground as he looks out the entrance for any unexpected company. He closes his eyes and searches out for Frieza and Goku's energy.

I can't believe that fool is still alive! Why does his power level seem higher? Perhaps I should return to find out... Louder moans from inside the cave break his concentration. He looks back and sees Echo holding her stomach.Vegeta looks down at his clothing and discovers he is covered in blood. Instinctively, he frisks his body for wounds but doesn't find any. The blood must be her's, from when I carried her. He slowly makes his way to Echo, who still hasn't opened her eyes. He kneels down and removes her hands to inspect her stomach wound.
"Looks like the bleeding has stopped." he mumbles to himself.
He scans the rest of her body and finds a deep gash on her thigh. He sighs heavily as he takes off his own shirt. Vegeta tears a long strip on fabric loose from his shirt and brings it to her wound. He pauses before wrapping it around her leg.
"Cleaning it would be more beneficial before doing this." He decides.
Vegeta leaves the cave with the ruined shirt and returns in a matter of minutes, the tattered clothing dripping wet. He kneels back down to Echo's side and presses the wet cloth to her bloodied thigh. The torn pieces of her pant leg fabric are sticking to the make shift sponge. With another heavy sigh and a roll of the eyes, Vegeta puts down the wet shirt and rips Echo's pant leg, high above the cut, but still modestly covering her.
Why am I doing this? He thinks to himself as he continues to wash out the deep cut. His mind drifts to his and Frieza's earlier discussion, when he had first come to this planet to face Frieza. It was then when he found out the truth, that it was Freiza who destroyed Vegeta's home planet.
It wasn't enough that the Sayian race was reduced to serving under Freiza's orders, but he killed them, all of them. Spare of course myself and a few others. Now there's only me and Kakorott, who won't last long after fighting Frieza anyways. Is this the fate of my race? To be abruptly vanquished?
As his frantic thoughts consume him, he absently starts to wrap the strip of fabric around Echo's leg.
If I can't mate with another Sayian, my race is doomed!
His thoughts are once again interrupted by Echo, who has grasped his hands that were at her thigh, tying the fabric.Vegeta looks up from his work at Echo's face. Her eyes are opened now, but seem cloudier than usual. He tries to pull his hands away, but she tightens her grip.
"I-I need..." Echo attempts to speak. Her words are dry, and breathy.
"What? What do you need?" Vegeta's own deep voice asks, unsure of what to think of Echo's actions.
Her cloudy gaze never lifts as she stares into Vegeta's shifting eyes.
"...you." She finishes.
He is at a lost for words. Is this the answer to his unasked question; to breed a half Sayian race? Echo is pure Angelican, and their race ranks high in power. Surely it wasn't as bad as a half human Sayian child, like Kakorott had produced. Kakorott! Wasn't he smitten with Echo? Vegeta smirks as he rolls the thought in his head. She knows who the dominant Sayian Warrior is. She doesn't want that fool Kakorott any longer, she wants me, CRAVES me! He looks down at Echo's searching hands. She is tugging at Vegeta, causing him to lean forward. And who am I to deny her needs? He lowers his head to lock lips with Echo. Gingerly, she explores his mouth with her tongue. Vegeta enfolds Echo into his arms as he takes a more aggressive approach.
The weather outside the cave is heating up, unknown by the two. The lower mountains are cracking under the severe power surges emitting from the coastal front. It carries on unnoticed by Echo, for being in such a weak state, and Vegeta, for being too wrapped up in his own actions. The planet Namek is slowly breaking apart.

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A tall shadow is cast on the ground, flying at an accelerated pace. Piccolo is desperately searching to find the last two beings that Goku had ordered to evacuate the planet. It wouldn't be long before the planet would explode, and he was running out of time.
All is left is the coast where Goku and Freiza are fighting. And they couldn't be there. But where else? The high mountains in the east are uninhabited, so Vegeta wouldn't be there.
Piccolo stops flying and hovers for a moment. He grunts loudly as he changes his direction from north to east.

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It was better than she imagined it could be. It was the best she'd felt in over a hundred years, and considering the beating she had just taken from Frieza, she deserved it.I know the circumstances are bad, but I felt him. I could feel his desire, and his deep depression that was derived from it. His spirit called out to me, and my body answered! Oh god, this is it! Oh god!
It was her climax, and it was long over due. Echo wanted to let the world know who was giving her such pleasure through passion. She threw her head back and shouted her lover's name.
"...Goku!"
And it was over as soon as she had screamed his name. The rhythm had stopped and her eyes fluttered shut.
"What? How dare you call out for that pathetic excuse for a Sayian!" Vegeta shouted as he quickly released his embrace around her.
Echo's eyes opened wide as her vision was clearing before her. This wasn't Goku lying before her. This was...
"V-Vegeta?" She whispered.
"Of course it's me! Who did you think-" He stopped short.
They stare at each other for what seems like an eternity, when in reality it was merely a few seconds. Their stand off is interrupted by a long shadow starting from the cave entrance. Piccolo stands tall, with a look of disgust plastered to his face.
"What are you two-? Haven't you realized that the planet is about to explode? Well come on! We only have a few minutes to make it off Namek!" Piccolo turns around, slightly ashamed on what he walked in on.
Behind him, Vegeta and Echo dress themselves quickly and without making a sound. The three fly down toward the small space craft just below the mountains. As the launching ignition begins, Echo turns to Piccolo.
"What about Goku?"
"He's staying behind, still fighting Frieza. He'll make it out alive. I know he will." He answers, making sure not to make direct eye contact with her.
Piccolo bends his head down and speaks low to Echo.
"Are you going to tell Goku...about what happened in the cave?"
Echo stares blankly out the small round window as the space craft enters into orbit. She cradles her small stomach and looks down toward her feet.
"I suppose I'll have to...Now"

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