It's been TWO YEARS since I updated… wow I'm bad. Well here it is. I finally got motivated to write. I realized I didn't like the direction I was going in so I had to think about how I wanted to continue. I probably don't have any people who want to read anymore. But here it is anyway.

Chapter Seven: Runaways

I yawned and kicked the autopilot on. Rising, I stretched then headed out to the main area.

Two days! We had been traveling non-stop for two days. I checked the radar every hour and noticed Frieza had deployed twenty ships to search for us. Even the master ship was moving. We were in big trouble.

The only thing I could do to hold off Frieza was to trip the signal that the ship put out. That would hold him off for a little bit, but he would soon find out why we left and then he would find us…

Pushing it out of my head I entered the main area and stopped. Rena was seated by the window. She was still dressed in the uniform she stole, her green eyes radiating fear and amazement. I couldn't believe that I had disobeyed Frieza for this…girl. What the hell had gotten into me? In less than a day I had turned soft.

"It's so…big," she mused.

I knew I should have been surprised she sensed me here, but I wasn't. I was beginning to realize she had a hell of a lot more powers that she didn't let people know about.

"And you just realized that?"

She looked back to me, a smile on her face. "I mean, I never realized how huge it was." She returned her attention to the window. "Living on a ship kinda ruins the whole thing."

I winced. I kept forgetting that she was born and raised on that cursed ship. At least I got to experience some time off where she had to stay there. All the time. Now I'm beginning to feel sorry for the brat…

I shrugged, not particularly caring.

Her smile spread and she began laughing. I thought she had completely lost her mind and prepared to hit her when she said, "I don't even care if Frieza catches us. I at least got off that damned ship and saw…something! Ok, it wasn't a lot but it was more than I've ever seen."

"You're insane."

"Probably," she replied. "But I have to be in order to defy the greatest villain in the universe."

I was about to come back with a good comment when something started beeping. Cursing, I headed to the cockpit, Rena close behind me. I checked the signals and cursed again. "We're running low on fuel. We need to land, but it will be risky."

"They're still far behind us. There's no way that Frieza could find us."

I growled. "Do you know how many planets Frieza owns in this universe? Two in five of the places we land on will belong to him."

"Then that means three of five won't which means we have a record in our favor. Besides, we need to land."

I wanted to strangle her at the moment but her pathetic little mind was right. I took a seat and she joined me. As I took over the controls, I really hoped we didn't land on one of his planets.

Ten minutes later I located a small planet about ten minutes later called Leof. After requesting permission to land, we set down on a small pad that was in disrepair. I had to stop myself from snorting at the pathetic area.

As Rena got up, I grabbed her arm. "We get fuel and come right back. No other stopping, understood?"

Rena frowned. "You don't expect me to go around in this, do you?"

"Yes," I replied as she simply rolled her eyes and pulled away. I let a string of curses roll out as I followed her. She was so…annoying! I couldn't believe I was risking my life for her.

I exited the ship to a softly red planet and beings in bright green jumpsuits. I glared at them as they walked over.

"We want to inspect the ship," one explained. "It's policy."

I just growled and moved on with Rena. We were able to rent a spacecraft and head into a nearby crowded little city. It was really crowded too. The streets were about teen feet wide and there were about 1000 people in it. There were shops for just about anything you could imagine from jewelry to exotic leathers from the south galaxy.

"There's the fuel," I said spotting a small wood building with tanks out front. "I'm going to go…"

I stopped short when I noticed the brat wasn't next to me. I growled and whirled around. There was no possible way I came here and lost her. I kept turning and finally found her in front of a clothing store looking at some pants. I fumed and stormed over to her grabbing her arm.

"Don't do that, woman! Stay where I can see you! This would be worthless if one of Frieza's men found you."

She actually genuinely looked upset. But I could care less so I just pulled her away from the clothes and dragged her to the fuel area. After yelling and arguing with a pathetic creature with yellow skin, I managed to get enough fuel to fill up. But when I turned around, once again, she was gone.

"I'm going to kill her," I muttered. "Then I can end this whole damn problem! I'll just kill her!"

"Vegeta!" I turned around and prepared to yell when I noticed she was changed. Instead of the blue suit of Frieza's army, she was wearing silver pants and a black shirt with yellow boots. But that wasn't what stopped me from yelling. Rena was running through the crowd; she was running from someone.

"What the-" I didn't get to finish my sentence because she grabbed my arm and took off as fast as possible, the Leofian guards right behind us.

"What did you do? I told you to keep a low profile, brat!"

"It wasn't me," she replied. "I swiped these clothes and came back from changing when they spotted me. They said they needed to take us into custody. Guess why."

I cursed. Why didn't I think of it? "They found out our ship was Frieza's."

"And they hate Frieza."

"Damn it all to hell!" I just scooped Rena up and took off to the air, the Leofians yelling angry insults at me as we went. "We need to get back to that ship. They probably have it under custody and soon they'll be having the whole army after us."

"We don't need that ship," Rena replied.

I looked at her like she had three heads. "So do you plan on flying all the way to that god planet? If not we need that ship!"

"That's not what I mean," Rena said. "There has to be other ships around here. If we reset that homing signal then Frieza will come here while we go somewhere else."

Damn. How'd she get this smart? "Only one probably, genius, where do we find the ship?"

"I saw one on the way here. It was on the side of the road."

"And probably broken. We need one that we know works."

Rena frowned. "Then we steal one. I'll take care of that while you get the signal started again. Then I'll come for you."

He raised an eyebrow. "How do I know you just won't leave me to die?"

"You don't," she answered. "You just have to trust me."

I thought that over. What would be the worst that would happen if she did leave me? I would just kill all the guards and go after her then kill her. It wasn't a big deal. I just didn't like someone else watching my back. It meant trusting someone else and that wasn't something I was willing to do. However, it was the only way out. And every second we wasted here was time we wasted finding that planet.

"Fine," I said landing in a barren desert. "You get a ship and I'll do get the signal. If I don't hear from you in ½ an hour I'm coming after you and killing you."

Rena allowed a small smile. "Sounds like a plan. See ya in 30 minutes."

Then she took off. I sighed and took to the air too. If this girl abandoned me…I didn't even want to think about what I'd do to her. But it would be extremely slow and painful.

I swooped lower to the ground as I neared the landing pad. Finally I landed behind a fairly large red bush. Peering out, I spotted at least two-dozen soldiers guarding my ship. I knew I could easily blast them and make my life easier, but someone would probably survive (with the way my luck was going) and I wasn't willing to risk that.

Think. What could I do to distract them? They don't look that smart…that was it. Raising my hand, I aimed and blasted an energy ball about 1500 feet in the opposite direction. Immediately the guards scrambled to the area leaving the ship unattended. With a smirk on my face, I flew to the ship.

In a matter of minutes, I had the signal back on. With a frown, I flew off the ship to my hiding spot. Rena had twenty minutes to get back before I made sure she wouldn't fight again.

Suddenly a power source popped into my head. I rolled to the side as a beam flew overhead. Getting up I leapt and landed on my attacker. With one punch I knocked a gun from its hand and then lifted it up by the grimy khaki shirt.

"Who the hell are you?" I growled. The creature I held couldn't have been more than four feet tall and was light skinned with cat like ears and a purple tail twitching behind it.

"Don't kill me!" it screeched as it began to flail its arms. "I didn't mean to hurt you! I'm starving my family is on the streets and I needed food and-"

"Shut up before I kill you," I hissed. It immediately snapped its mouth shut. I looked it up and down and noticed it was furry and male. This was all I needed. A psycho cat that wanted to eat me…what else was going to happen to me?

With a growl I tossed the thing to the ground. "Get out of my sight."

A grin spread across his face as he dropped to his knees and began worshiping. "Thank you, oh merciful lord!"

No matter how much I liked this it was annoying. I sent him a glare and, taking the hint, he ran as fast as he could through the undergrowth. Once he was gone I turned around and came face to face with a Leof guard. He pulled out his silver gun and growled.

"Guards, arise!"

From out of the undergrowth came at least ten guards. I cursed myself for the stupidity. How could I not have thought guards would have been left behind? I'm such an idiot.

"Hands on your head," the guards ordered.

"And what if I refuse?" Did they really think I – Prince of all Saiyans - would listen to them?

The guards shoved his gun into my chest. I frowned and clenched my fists. "That was not a smart thing to do."

With one blast, that guard was gone. Then I set to the others, I needed a good fight anyway.

I was slightly disappointed with the turnout as I downed them all in less than ten minutes. As I sat among my carnage I thought about what I had gotten myself into. I was with a girl that could potentially destroy the universe, being chased by the most evil creature (next to me) in the universe and now didn't have a ship. I repeat…I risked my life for this? The only thing I could get out of this – besides living – was a chance to get stronger and finally kill Frieza…hmmm…I like that idea. Screw the brat; I was now in this simply to get stronger. Once we "saved the universe" I'd kill her then kill Frieza and be the strongest fighter in the universe.

As I sat chuckling to myself, I heard engines. Looking up I saw a crude spaceship land in the field next to me. It was huge and clunky with the silver paint chipping and rust forming everywhere. As the door crashed open, Rena stepped out grinning.

"Got a ship," she replied. "Let's go. You can fly."

I didn't argue, considering I was the more experience pilot. Moving inside I wasn't surprised to find it looking just like the outside. The cockpit wasn't much different, I noted. Sitting, I kicked on the engines and blasted off. I kept the engines on high until we were safely away from the planet. That was when I heard yelling – and it wasn't Rena.

"Put me down you baka! I can kill you, woman!"

I knew that screech…putting the ship on autopilot I headed to the back of the ship to find Rena holding that creepy creature I encountered earlier. Once he spotted me, he began flailing.

"Merciful lord, save me! Tell this whore to sit me down!"

Growling, Rena slammed the creature into the ground clamping her hand around its throat. "You call me a whore again and you won't have a head. Is that clear?"

Alright, this trip just got worse….

From here we're going to switch tracks from wonderful me (it's a shame, I know) and go to the scum of the earth. You'll see how I found this out later…

Frieza paced the dark hall of his ship, tail lashing out behind him as his temper rose. Dodoria and Zarbon in front of him, heads down. They knew their master was angry and wanted to do nothing that would evoke that wrath upon them.

Stopping, Frieza turned to his servants, hands behind his back. "Tell me again, how two monkeys managed to escape my ship?"

Zarbon opened his mouth to open but was silenced as Frieza's hand slashed across it. Zarbon fell to his knees clutching his face, warm blood running through his fingers.

"Go and find me those monkeys, Zarbon. No more excuses. Leave."

Zarbon and Dodoria nodded and left as fast as they possibly could. Then Frieza ambled across the metallic floor to a figure chained in the corner. As he neared it was evident this creature was a man, but from all the lashings and starvation he was barely recognizable, his black hair well past his waist.

"I have a mission for you. It will give you a chance to redeem yourself." The man didn't stir and Frieza smirked. "Perfect. You will find Vegeta and the brat Rena. When you find them you are not to kill them, but bring them back to me. Is that understood?"

When no reply came, Frieza's tail lashed out against the man's side. A hiss came from him. He raised his head, his black eyes cold and emotionless. "I understand, Lord Frieza."

Frieza grinned. "Perfect. You will leave tomorrow at dawn." Frieza then headed for the doors. As he reached them, however, he paused. "And Raditz? Don't mess up."

Sucks right? Well, it's about to get a lot worse. Having Raditz tailing us will be the least of our problems. What is in store for us will be something that will make or break us.

Sorry for how short it is. I just needed to get something out to get back in the groove. I promise I'll have something up – something longer – soon. Until then - MS