--- The Phoenix Chronicles ---

Chapter 21 - The Beginning of the End

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On the unknown planet, the feasting frenzy was well under way. To say it was chaotic would be an understatement, and yet, this was fairly normal for a Saiyan mealtime. The twins, Oran and Lime, seem to have taken up a 'watch' over their older brother and 'sister', Kaen and Pi, as they eat, as if to make sure they don't up and leave again; after all, they've been gone for 4 standard years now, which is almost half their short lives.

Pi smiles at them while she eats, both happy at being with family again, and amused at their behaviour, and while, to an outside observer, Kaen appears to not even notice their existence, it's the subtle things the kids have long since learned to look for that say he's just as happy as she is to see them again, if not more so.

Avery and Kat seem to have loosened up some, obviously realising that they were in no immediate danger, but both seem to realise that even attempting to maintain a conversation with or around eating Saiyans is utterly pointless. A quiet Frost tries to keep his meal as meagre as possible; reaching out for more food comes with a very real risk of losing a limb.

Flute remains passive at the table, seeming as if the sight of people inhaling food doesn't affect him, but Viola seems to be having a harder time trying to keep the disgust from her face; sure, she's seen Saiyans eat before, but that was only 2 - now there's 9 of them! Noticing her discomfort, Flute sends her a telepathic message, "It's like the sun; try not to look directly at it."

Now she has to fight down the urge to giggle, opting to take his advice and look at the tree line behind them. "Good advice. I always wondered how you did that..." He just smiles at her, a very faint smile that goes unnoticed by everyone. However, given the food before them, it's doubtful anyone would care whether they noticed or not.

Before too long, the meal seems to draw to a close. The twins finish at the exact same time as each other, facing each other for a moment with a grin before each letting out a massive belch - a standard after meal contest of theirs; this time Oran wins, much to Lime's annoyance. Soon all that remains of the food is a single shank of meat, which appears to be quite tasty looking and, judging from the smell, one of Raene's special recipes.

Avarrdo looked at it hungrily and made to swipe it, but was beaten by Truniz, "Sorry, closer relative. I get first choice."

The shank was then taken by Kellre, "My wife's cooking. I get first call."

However, before anyone could open their mouth to argue, or even blink, the shank was flogged by Kaen, who wasted no time on words, simply consuming it the second he acquired it, a bastardly satisfied look on his face as he did so. Three vicious glares instantly locked onto him, glares that would have nailed lesser beings to the proverbial wall, but it just makes his smirk widen, as he makes a show of licking his fingers. Every non-Saiyan quickly made polite excuses and hurried as fast from the table as they could without looking like they were fleeing, as the stand off continued.

Truniz made the first move, diving at Kaen over the table, but the other two men weren't far behind. Kaen, however, just flipped backwards, avoiding Truniz's fist with ease, then again to dodge Kellre, and again Avarrdo, and he kept going; quite a feat for a man wearing a long black leather trench coat. The main reason for this wasn't to get away from the older men; he could have just as easily flied. It was to clear the camp; well, that, and he was in a particularly good mood.

Truniz laughed, "Looks like he learned to dance like a little princess since he left home."

By this time Kaen had reached the tree line, impacting a tree with his feet mid-flip, and launching himself off it at such speeds his coat was left behind, racing back towards the older men. His father saw the move coming a mile away, already swinging to hit the young man in mid air as the other's dived out of the way, but his fist hit nothing but air as the image faded. Within seconds a kick was swung at his back, but he dived out of the way; Kellre, however, was close enough to catch the leg and use it to throw Kaen with his own momentum.

Spinning acrobatically in the air he landed on his feet again, in just enough time for the youngest of the older men, Truniz, to send a swift fist towards his kidneys. Before it could hit Kaen grabbed his wrist, grinning like an idiot, "Uh uh, not today." The flame-haired young man then jumped into a double kick at Truniz's face, but Truniz instinctively rolled back and kicked up.

Feeling the blow make contact, the first today to do so despite doing minimal to no damage, he followed the momentum upwards, taking to the sky, but was met by a fast moving Avarrdo, who knocked him back towards the ground, and Kellre, who made sure he kept going. Kaen just spun again as he fell, hitting the ground hard, but on his feet, doing far more damage to the ground than to himself. Still grinning, he commented offhandedly, "Not bad, I might actually break a sweat!"

Before he can make another move, three mild ki-blasts are sent his way. Raising his right hand he fired three back, detonating them long before they could reach him; this was responded by larger blasts. Phasing out, he reappeared behind them, growling, "If you want to play that way fine," before raising both hands and rapid-firing off several low-to-moderate (by his standards anyway) blasts at the older men. They reacted by ducking and weaving through the blasts as they flew towards him, Truniz being almost hit square in the face by one, but it's Kellre that reaches him first, giving him a strong knee to the gut, followed by a hammer blow to the back that sends the young man flying back towards the ground.

He never hits, as again a fading image continues his path, but this time he doesn't make himself known right away. The three of them look about quickly, trying to find him again; after all, they don't have their scouters on, and thus Kaen is the only one there who can tell where everyone is. A cry of "Inferno Blast!" rings out, echoing through the trees, but the location of the user quickly becomes clear when the red beam emerges from the tree line at high speed, and had Avarrdo not instinctively leaned back, said blast would've taken his head off; well, if it was strong enough.

They scatter and dive into the trees after him, but before too long the three-on-one fight has dissolved into a free-for-all, after one too many attempted punches went wild, hitting an ally instead of it's intended target. 'Ah, I missed this,' Kaen thinks to himself, unknowingly allowing his mate to hear the idle thought, as he dodges another blow to the face, responding in kind. Each man would've been lucky to have landed half a dozen blows, and unlucky to have been hit by half a dozen, when April, Raene, and Pi, decide they've had enough, wandering over with freshly washed cooking implements, Raene holding two, and each delivering single precise blow, before hauling off their respective loved one/s to cool down.

Despite the treatment, Kaen can't help but grin to himself, a grin that screams 'it was worth it'; the other men seem to share the sentiment. Risking more pain, Kaen just comments offhandedly, "You guys sure have gotten soft these past twelve months. That barely qualified as a warm-up..."

Truniz snorted, "Soft? I haven't felt a gut that easy on my fist since I fluffed my pillow."

Kaen just shrugged, "If I'd have been using more than a tenth of my power, at most, you'd have broken something."

His father, obviously thinking this was nothing more than idle bragging, barked a short laugh, "Yeah, broken into fits of laughter. When did you start fighting like you were the twins age?"

He just grinned, "When I know for a fact I'm in no danger of being hurt."

Kellre grinned, "With my daughter protecting you, of course you won't be." The other men burst into fits of laughter, not even attempting to hold it in.

Still grinning, Kaen added, "Them's fighting words."

The older man just grinned back again, "Then that's between me and my little girl isn't it?"

Kaen just shrugged, as if to say 'Go nuts, I won't stop you.' Kellre shrugged back, but with a wide smirk, replying 'As if you could.' This time, Kaen just rolled his eyes, inwardly thinking 'Don't tempt me old man,' but letting him make of it whatever he wanted.

Truniz and Avarrdo, just getting over their amusement, sighed slightly, before Avarrdo spoke up, "So, what brought you out this way boy? You mentioned the Namek was your employer, mercenary work?"

Kaen just shrugged again, "More or less. Needed funds, as I basically had to rebuild my ship from the ground up, and a way to train, so when some merchant told me he was gonna pay me to fight, it solved both my problems. But as for how we came here, we picked up a transmission from this planet that was most... interesting."

Avarrdo scratched his head, "Funny, I don't remember using your frequency; in fact, I haven't used it since I got your death report."

"Wouldn't have mattered anyway; my radio, like most of my ship at one point, was completely fried," he replied. "It was Frost's ship that picked up the signal, not mine. A purely accidental transmission, but one that got my attention." He seemed to be making a point out of dancing around just what the transmission entailed.

Avarrdo just fixed his son with a flat stare, "Don't use that double-talk crap with me boy, if you know what's good for you. What transmission?"

Giving a replying flat stare, Kaen answered, "You couldn't hurt me if you tried old man, but I'll give you what you want anyway. By the sounds of things, the twins were playing around the radio, and accidentally switched it on."

The older man's flat stare became an all-out death glare, now directed the twins' way, the intensity likely to flay other beings; for their part, the twins resembled the proverbial deer in the headlights. Kaen phased in between him and the twins, saying, "Leave them alone. Accident happen, and if not for this one I'd have never found you guys."

Despite Kaen's efforts to save them from their father, it didn't stop April from grabbing them by the ears and giving them a stern talking to as Avarrdo fixed his elder son with a more normal look, "Don't get me wrong, I am happy you're here, but rules are rules. Same for Korin, same for you, same for the twins: my inventions are not toys."

Kaen was going to further defend his siblings, he really was, until he remembered a similar incident he himself had done when he was younger, and the reprimanding that came with it. He also remembered the twins being in trouble for it at least once before, and thus they should know better. Nodding once, Kaen just stepped aside, "Fine, you do your job, I'll do mine."

April paused and looked over her shoulder, the twins still firmly in hand, saying, "Yes son, you seem to do well at it too," as she motioned towards the mostly pock-marked now-clearing, the result of the men's previous free-for-all.

He just snorted, "Please, like I was trying. I stand by my previous statement: that was barely a warm-up."

Kellre gave a short laugh, "If we tried to warm-up between the four of us, there wouldn't be much of a planet left!"

Kaen just shrugged, "Wouldn't be the first planet I glassed, and I doubt it'd be the last either."

Truniz nodded, "Seems that's the only way to go these days. A lot of planet need to get dusted; most of the worlds us Saiyans get sent to are pretty intense."

"Oh no, I don't destroy them, per say, more like... reset them, make the planet start from scratch as a ball of molten slag, " Kaen corrected, grinning slightly.

Truniz just shrugged, "Potato, Potatoe."

"There is something strangely satisfying about wiping out an entire race single-handedly isn't there?" he asked with a slightly wider grin. The other three all shared the same grin with him for a while, before he, turning curious, asked, "So, what's your tally? My memory's not what it used to be..."

The men seemed to take the second statement in stride, not asking why his memory wasn't that good; as Saiyans, they realised that it was obviously due to some head injury. With a slight smile, Avarrdo said, "Between Kellre and I, only seven, but we spent more time in the labs than on the field; after all, good warriors come and go, but good engineers and scientists are hard to come by."

Truniz gave a short laugh, "I've done away with five myself."

A smirk on his face, Kaen just pointed his thumb to his chest, "Eighteen, and counting."

Avarrdo shook his head, joined by Kellre and Truniz, mock scolding looks on their faces, "Tsk, tsk, tsk. Such sloppy work son, that you had to destroy 18 planets? Really, I thought you had more finesse than that." The 'insult' carried little to no real care; after all, they were Saiyans, and for Saiyans wide-scale destruction is just a fact of life. If anything, it appeared as if they had to resist grinning a bit themselves.

Kaen just shrugged, "Not sloppy; thorough. I don't like leaving witnesses, and it's the best way of making sure."

Kellre snorted, "You can wipe out an entire race and still leave the planet whole for re-sale you know."

He growled a bit before he could stop himself at the dark thoughts that comment arose, but he composed himself quickly, "I don't do that anymore."

Truniz just shrugged disinterestedly, "So we figure, but just 'coz you don't work for the Cold Empire doesn't mean there aren't other people who aren't interested."

"Oh, they'll be prime for terraforming in ten years," he replied offhandedly. "'Sides, if you want something in this universe you've got to go out and get it yourself."

A small, polite, clearing of the throat interrupted their discussion, as Flute made his presence known, "Speaking of which. As per our agreement Kaen, we are almost done. I apologise if I seem impatient, but I would prefer to complete my task. Each day, each hour longer this takes can cause more problems for my world."

Kaen just shrugged and waved his hand dismissively, "Don't worry about it, I've worked for far worse impatient people; compared to many of them you've been surprisingly calm about everything. I'll be ready to leave again within the hour, at most." Flute nodded solemnly, making his way back to the Icebreaker, Viola by his side, and Kaen turned back to the older men, "Well, you heard the guy, I gotta ship out shortly. After that I've got a little... personal grievance to take up with a certain someone. Actually, a couple of someone's, but that's neither here nor there..."

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Elsewhere, after wandering off in an effort to be as far away from their angry father as possible, the twins stumbled upon the message pod the adults were waiting for. Drawn by the beeping noise it was making, Oran walked over and picked it up, turning to his sister and saying, "Hey, this thing's makin' funny noises. We better find dad. He'll know how to shut it up."

Looking around, and not seeing anything she recognized, Lime replied, "Um... Where are they?"

Smacking his forehead, and grumbling under his breath about 'stupid little sisters', he shot back, "They're right... um..." His face fell when he realised that he couldn't see anyone either, and suddenly remembered that they'd both left their scanners back at camp. Quickly regaining his confident look, he pointed randomly, whether by sheer luck, fate, or irony, ending up pointing directly at the camp, and declared, "They're that way!"

A glare on her face, and hands on her hips, she barked, "How do you know?"

He just stuck his tongue out at her, "I'm older than you, I know these things."

Before their argument could go any further, and possibly result in damaging either each other or the message pod, Pi found them, shocking the pair of them by saying, "Hey, what do you guys have there?"

Forcibly turning away from her brother, Lime piped up, "We found a message pod."

Sticking his tongue out again, this time at her back, Oran chirped indignantly, "I found it!" She just stuck her tongue out in response, snatching the ball-shaped device off him and handing it to Pi, who, in turn, just laughed to herself at their behaviour.

As they headed back to camp, the twins continued to bicker to themselves about just who found the pod. Laughing a bit, Pi interrupted, "Come on now, we can't spend all day arguing like this."

Breaking the argument to look at her, both of them chirped simultaneously, "Yes we can!" They did, however, stop; it seemed that agreeing on something, regardless of what, stopped the argument. Shaking her head, and handing the pod back to Lime, she grabbed them by the scruff of the neck, dragging them off for good measure. They whined and complained about the treatment, like all little kids will do, but they knew it was pointless to fight it.

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Before long they reached the camp, and Pi got everyone's attention, "The twins found something."

All the adult Saiyans looked their way, but it was Kellre that spoke, "Well, what do you have there then kids?"

Lime piped up, "We found a message pod," before her twin could say anything.

Her father just nodded, "Well, bring it over so we can play the recordings"

Snatching it from her hands, Oran ran it over. Nodding Avarrdo took it from his youngest son, absently patting him on the head. The boy turned and stuck his tongue out at his twin sister, but his gloating was rudely interrupted by a smack on the back of the head, delivered by his mother, who scolded, "Don't be mean to your sister." Rubbing his head, he just sat down on the ground and pouted, knowing arguing with his mother would be pointless; after all, he did start the fight with his sister.

Avarrdo chuckled to himself and pressed the necessary points on the pod to begin message playback:

"Kzzzta-Sei has been deZzzt..."

He muttered something sounding like a curse before trying to fix it.

Walking over, Kaen commented, "Don't tell me after all this waiting the damn thing's broken?"

Shaking his head, his father replied, "No, no, probably something bumped loose when it landed, almost there..." A little more tinkering, and the whole message began to play, but the news was far from good:

"Warning to all planets in sector 38.257, rogue meteors may be in the area following the reports that Vegeta-Sei has been destroyed."

A rare look of full-blown shock filled Kaen's face. The twins looked on the verge of tears, and Pi fell to her knees and held her head, trying to take it all in; had Kaen not been so shocked himself, and rightly so, he would have moved to comfort his mate, but instead Kat took his place, wrapping a comforting arm around her adopted sister's shoulder. Among the older Saiyans there was a silence that was drowned out only by the feeling of loss.

Frost, watching the information over Avarrdo's shoulder, particularly the visual information of what used to be Vegeta-Sei, commented before he could stop himself, "That's a load of bullshit if ever I heard it." Every single Saiyan in the camp, excluding the two youngest, immediately turned to glare at him. Taking a step back, he forced himself to swallow, "Uh..."

The glare soon faded from Kaen's face, although that did nothing to diminish the anger shown; it was just now no longer directed at the Aisu present. With fire in his eyes, he growled, "You're right. There's no way meteors could've wiped out the planet; it's not possible. The core of the planet's too dense, to say nothing of the surface..."

Frost nodded. "I've seen this before," he began, "That's a planet that's been blown up; there's nothing natural about it. As he said, Vegeta-Sei wasn't your run of the mill planet compared to most others; it's giant. Only someone with immense power could have done that, and I'll give you three guesses who that could be; I doubt you'll need more than one."

The ground started to shake and groan as Kaen's power level started rising to match his anger. With his hands clenched hard enough for his fingernails to draw blood, he growled viciously, "I should've hunted down that bastard and broken him in half long ago!"

The older Saiyans made no move to stop him, believing this to be merely his way of coming to terms. Instead, they just shook their heads, Kellre speaking first, "That would have been pointless."

He glared at them without meaning to; in his anger, he didn't realise he was glaring. His power level still rising, and the rumbling of the earth increasing, he barked, "I could have stopped him! I could have saved Vegeta-Sei!"

Avarrdo spoke out, "It was rumoured that at last recorded value, Frieza's power level was twelve million."

April joined in soon after, "Even King Vegeta was only two hundred and fifty thousand."

He didn't seem to hear them, as his power, and anger, kept rising; if he had, he surely would have had something to say about the king, and it wouldn't have been flattering. Before long, the rumbling became so great that standing became difficult for the weaker of the group, Kat and the twins falling down, while Avery chose, for his own safety, to take to the sky. Cracks began to splinter the ground, and even several trees fell over as his power rapidly approached the barrier he'd come to recognise.

With a final cry of, "I'm gonna kill him! He must pay a debt of blood for what he's done!" his body erupted into a flash of blinding light, his body instinctively adapting to cope with his increased power. When the light died down, the shaking with it, he still stood there, in the same position as before, but now with the golden hair that no longer surprised the crew of the Icebreaker, but through the older Saiyans for a loop, as they looked at him uncertainly.

For his part he didn't seem to see them anymore, his eyes seemingly looking past them; past everything. From the feelings bleeding their way through the bond, Pi could tell he was reliving some particularly unpleasant memories. Moving towards him, she said forcefully, "Stop this! You think that it will help to go hunt him down? I told you, I won't lose you again, and if that means I have to watch you twenty-four seven then so be it!"

He blinked a bit before his teal eyes focused on her, and he relaxed slightly, but his voice was no less serious than hers as he locked eyes with her and replied, "You won't lose me." She kept her eyes locked with his, neither moving, neither blinking, a familiar, stubborn look on her face. Shaking his head slightly, but somehow not breaking eye contact, he added, "Do you think I'd go without you? You said it yourself: together there's nothing we can't do. But he must be made to pay for what he's done to the Saiyan race."

She sighed a little, "Always thinking you'll be the one to do it... I'll be honest with you Kaen. I like a good fight, I like it when the odds are against us, but Frieza isn't bad odds; it's suicide."

He just snorted, "Please. I don't believe he's half as powerful as he claims he is. Twelve million? Ha. Take it from someone who knows, rumour always increases values by a factor of 10, at least. Hell, he probably spread the rumour himself! Sure, he's more powerful than most normal people, but you and I are hardly normal are we?"

This time, Frost snorted, "You're kidding yourself. I know you can sense power and crap like that, and I know I can't, but standing next to Frieza you can feel his power, no matter who you are, and that's just when he's in his first stage."

Kat had to bite her tongue to keep from blurting out a little piece of information that Frost either forgot, or simply forgot to mention it for whatever reason: the fact that Kaen, in his current form, was stronger than Frieza in his second, and may even be stronger than Frieza all together. After all, they were trying to talk Kaen out of hunting Frieza down, not into it, and so this would most likely be anti-productive.

Turning to glare at Frost, the look seeming all the more effective given his current state, he stated firmly, "Mark my words. I will see the life fade from Frieza's eyes, even if it takes a lifetime."

Avarrdo intervened, "That doesn't matter now."

He lowered his head, sighing a little, "No, I guess not..." It was only then that he realised his current state, as he saw his golden tail swishing back and forth; he'd become so used to this form he didn't even realise he'd changed into it.

His mother only shook her head, "You always let your tail get away with you when you get upset." She honestly didn't know what to make of her son right now; sure, he'd thrown his fair share of tantrums in the past - every kid does - but she had never, in his entire life, seen as much emotion from him as she saw from one glance into his eyes, not even when Korin had been reported dead. And, on some level, that scared her. It seemed that, after every tragic event, his focus doubled, if not tripled, and now, it seemed, he had focused on the one thing she truly thought impossible.

Finally managing to shake off the shock of everything that had happened in the past half hour, tops, and seeing the current state of their big brother, the twins ran up, stopping less than a foot in front of him as Oran chirped, "Wow. You look so cool big brother! How do you do that? Can you teach us?"

Shrugging his shoulders, and absently wrapping his tail back around his waist, he replied, "Honestly, I have no idea how I do this. I just needed more power than I had one day, this happened, and I've since learned to control it. I don't even know what it is."

Avarrdo, Kellre and Truniz seemed to be discussing something from their position across the clearing, but, as they were speaking so low that only they could hear what they were saying, what they were talking about was anyone's guess.

The twins both seemed very disappointed at his reply, their faces drooping, as Lime muttered, "Aww... we wanted to learn it..."

Pi smiled and knelt down to their level, "It's not fun to learn anyway."

The awed look returning, Lime piped up, "You can do it too?"

She nodded, "Yup, I learned it myself. It was Kaen's fault, and it hurt a lot."

The little girl looked accusingly at her big brother, obviously asking why he hurt Pi, but she said nothing. Pi giggled a little and gave the girl a kiss on the cheek, and Line, in turn, jumped up and wrapped her arms around her big sister's neck.

Kaen just muttered, "You make it sound like I meant it to happen... I didn't exactly enjoy discovering this new form myself..."

Pi just shrugged out of Lime's grip, giving her mate a kiss, "Yes, well that wasn't my fault either."

Raising an eyebrow, he just muttered to no one in particular, "Why am I always blamed for everything, and yet nothing is ever your fault?" She just grinned, but that simple grin said a lot. It said that it was the way it had always been, the way it always would be, and the way it should be, and he would do well to just accept it.

After brushing herself off, Kat walked over to the group, crouching down between the twins and began getting to know them, in an effort to get their mind of the negative things they had discovered today; after all, they were now her siblings as well, and she wanted them to be taken care of. Soon, the three of them seemed to all be talking at the same speed, at the same time, all three voices merging into a massive jumble of nonsense, and yet it was clearly obvious that all three of those involved understood every word completely.

Avarrdo turned from Kellre, announcing, "Alright, we have made a decision."

One golden eyebrow raised, Kaen asked, "Oh really? Please, do share."

His father nodded, and took on a lecturing tone, "It is entirely possible that, if Frieza destroyed Vegeta-Sei, he wants to kill all Saiyans, so it would be best if we assembled all the Saiyans we could before they are hunted down and killed."

Nodding, the golden-haired young man replied, "I agree with you so far, but what do you mean 'if'? You know as well as I do this is Frieza's work; he might as well have signed it!"

Avarrdo shook his head, "The 'if' was implicatory to Frieza's want to destroy all Saiyans; ergo, 'if Frieza wants to destroy all Saiyans he will destroy Vegeta-Sei', not to exclusion of the fact he was responsible." This all delivered with the full force of his lecturing tone, as a tutor to a particularly ignorant, or thick-headed student.

Sighing, he fixed his old man with a bored look, "Always the teacher huh? I see some things never change."

"As long as there are rocks in your head son, there will always be something to teach you."

Kaen barked a laugh, "Then you're going to be doing that for the rest of your natural life. As I said, some things never change." Shaking his head to sober up, he added, "Alright teach, what's the plan?"

Avarrdo nodded, and began, "Vegeta-Sei was a large planet, with a population in excess of fourteen billion Saiyans. Millions leave Vegeta-Sei every day doing missions for the Cold Empire, or just for the Saiyan ruling body, so we are hardly the last. Using the Icebreaker, we can send untraceable coded messages to all Saiyans, warning them about Frieza's treachery, and set varied rally points using the Icebreaker to recover these Saiyans. Obviously, the ship's not big enough to house everyone, but it can hold enough for a large army. We amass them together, and then either go about re-building our race, or preparing to throw our lives away to see Frieza's head torn from his carcass; either is good."

The young warrior just nodded again, "A good plan, as always. I will need to make a final run to finish my business with Flute, but we can work around that, and after that I'm all yours."

The older warrior nodded again, "Of course. This won't be a problem will it Frost, using the Icebreaker?" The pale-blue Aisu seemed to pale even more, becoming almost white, at the prospect of even more Saiyans with a thirst for killing someone who looked near identical to him, but he merely nodded, having to bite his tongue to prevent from babbling how he'd already promised the ship to Kaen anyway, or how, as it's maker, Avarrdo was more than welcome to it, and so on.

And thus, on a day of dark news, a new plan was formed. An age-old alliance had been shattered, and the banner of war had been dropped. A people had been crippled, and their planet lost forever, but the assembled Saiyans knew one thing. If Frieza thought it was going to be that easy to destroy the Saiyan race, he was in for the surprise of his life. Every Saiyan worth his salt was always willing to fight, and for a cause as great as this, every Saiyan would willingly throw his life away if it brought the whole but one step closer to victory. In the end, the Saiyan race would be avenged. It was only a matter of time...

End Chapter 21

To be continued...