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Warning: usual violence/language

CHAPTER 13: DISCOVERED

A short beep announced a person requiring entrance. Frieza sighed and snarled an annoyed "Yes?"

The door slid open to reveal a blue-coloured humanoid soldier. "Lord Frieza, sir, we received a message from one of the Ginyu Force's scouter."

Frieza turned his hover chair around to face the soldier "You have? And? What news? Where the hell are they?"

"There … is some good news, sir…"

"Spill it!"

The soldier gulped under the piercing cold glare from the Ice-jin "T-They found the Saiyans… s-sir…"

"Ah! Finally! Tell them to bring me those monkeys immediately!"

"I'm afraid that... that's not possible, Lord Frieza."

"Nani? And why not?" His glare intensified, promising death to an answer he wouldn't like.

The soldier caught the hint, but what could he do? If he lied, he'd die anyway, Frieza would find out soon enough… Silently saying his prayers, he muttered "The… Ginyu Force is dead, sir…"

"WHAT? BY THOSE MONKEYS?"

"N-No, sir! … Sir Recoome was winning from the Saiyans, but… something… er… unknown appeared and killed them, sir."

"NANI?" The entire spaceship shook.


A few hours later…

Frieza sat in his hover chair in the control room, Zarbon and Dodoria standing on either side of him. He heard the messages from the scouters the computer picked up, at least they now finally knew where the Saiyans were. The technicians at the computer were still examining the readings to find out who or what it was that killed both Recoome and Burter. Guldo was killed by the longhaired monkey, but there's still no trace of Jeice.

Frieza sighed. Why are those idiots taking so long over a simple read-out…

The computer beeped. They seemed to have found out something, but the technicians all looked like struck by lightning.

Frieza blinked at first, then growled in annoyance "Well?"

"Er………" was his only answer.

Frieza started to turn a strange sort of shade of red. "WELL?"

The technicians all jumped and looked to him at his sudden outburst. "… er… Yes, sir?"

Frieza growled again and looked to the technician near him "You… What. The. Hell. Killed. Recoome. And. Burter?" One eye twitched.

The tech gulped nervously "Er… erm… well…" He looked back to the screen "The… reading didn't give out any powerlevel at all, sir…"

"Nani? … And as for who or what?"

"It… seems to be a Saiyan, sir…"

"What?"

"But… there were only three left alive…" muttered Zarbon.

"Yeah…" spoke Dodoria "And which monkey is it supposed to be…"

"The… computer claims… it's the Saiyan called Bardock…"

"NANI?" all three yelled.

"B-But… that monkey is DEAD!" Dodoria managed to get a stronger shade of pink as well.

"T-That's what I thought…" agreed Zarbon.

"You stupid fool!" the pink alien yelled furiously "Your readings are wrong!" Several small drops of cold sweat were running over his head and face. It was rather clear he had a strong sense of fear in his heart.

"I-I'm sorry, but it's an exact match to the Saiyan warrior Bardock that… died at the destruction of Vegeta-sei… t-that's why it took so long, we checked over and over again, but it all ends up on the same, sir…"

'N-No… it…it can't be that he has risen from death again! I was sure I had killed him on that planet! But still he came back to Vegeta-sei… It is IMPOSSIBLE to have escaped the destruction of the planet' More sweat drops ran over the pink face.

"You look so distressed, Dodoria…"

"L-Lord Frieza, I … there must be a mistake, we SAW the monkey return to the planet in his space pod. He couldn't have survived."

"Exactly… It can't be Bardock that killed Recoome and Burter, he would never have been able to anyway even if he was 'restored from death', especially in that way the scouter picked up…"

"… Hai, Lord Frieza… but… what was it then?"

"That's what we need to find out… we'll…"

Frieza was interrupted by a technician that came to them "Sorry to disturb you, sir, but Master King Cold wants to speak with you."

Frieza blinked a few times 'Now what does father want, as if I'm not busy enough already…' He gave a slight nod and followed the technician in his hover chair to the large screen on which the arrogant face of his father could be seen.

"Ah, there you are, my son… I heard you had some trouble with your monkeys…"

Frieza coughed "… Just some minor problems, father. Nothing I can't deal with myself."

"Oh, I wouldn't say that. I heard about your 'little' accident with a certain axe-using Saiyan…" Frieza gained that odd red colour again at this "And whatever happened to your Ginyu Force?"

"How… do you know about that, father?" He said in an icy cold voice.

"We just happened to pick up the scouter messages, my ship's close to that planet… Chikyuu-sei, was it?"

"Hai… But why are you calling me then?"

"Just to make the suggestion that I will check out whatever happened on that planet… I'm rather curious about what could kill your strong Ginyu Force like that." The last part held an obvious sarcastic tone.

"The catch?"

"Oh, nothing… just one condition. If I manage to catch that creature that killed your Ginyu's, you'll let me have it together with the Saiyan monkeys…"

"Nani? But those monkeys belong to me!"

"You lost them, I'd say… Don't worry, I'll be sure to punish them for escaping from you, but I find those monkeys that could do so rather amusing and interesting, especially after what that longhaired one did to you." And he added with an even more amused tone "Does it still hurt a lot, my son?"

Frieza growled and ignored the last comment "Fine… for now… just go check it out, it would take longer for me to get there, but I'm coming anyway! So do whatever you want, I don't care." He pressed the button to close the connection, practically fuming now.


King Cold smirked. 'I don't care for that stupid Ginyu Force having been killed, they were just weaklings. But the creature that killed them… if what that Burter said in the message is true… it was supposedly lightning fast and had a lot of power. But no powerlevel? How odd… but convenient, the enemy wouldn't see him coming even if they used scouters. What creature could it be... Seems interesting enough and I could always use some new strong fighter in my army. As for the Saiyans, I suppose they should be given at least some serious training. That son of mine is much too soft on his trainings, how does he ever think about ruling the universe then? Not that he ever will… I will of course.'

He clicked on several buttons on the panel in front of him. He was alone in a large room, an office room in his quarters. No normal soldiers came in his quarters, only his lieutenants, a few servants… oh, and of course… the 'night entertainment'. On the screen in front of him appeared different data and pictures.

"Hm… no wonder Frieza's so possessive over 'his' monkeys… not bad… all three of them…" His smirk grew, and more the perverted way now "I suppose I could also just keep them as sexslaves. Now, that Bardock character that's supposedly the 'creature'."

He typed a few seconds and another screen popped up. "Clearly stated that he was killed in the destruction of Vegeta-sei. So it's impossible that he would be that creature. Heh, and he looks like a regular Saiyan to me… hm? What coincidence… The father of two of the three remaining Saiyans? That must be it, the computer messed up their readings.

Another screen to the side lit up. He clicked another button and a soldier's face appeared on the small screen. "Sir, we're heading to the planet Chikyuu-sei. We'll arrive there in a day."

"Good… warn me two hours before arrival."

"Yes, sir." The screen went back out.

King Cold returned his attention to the larger computer screen and typed away, his eyes never leaving the screen.


Raditz yawned and opened his eyes. He smiled looking down to his newfound koi in his arms. He gave him a light lick across the cheek, lay him carefully down and stood up. He managed to find his shorts and shirt in a corner of the room and put them on. After sliding his gloves and boots back on, he walked outside with his chest armour in his hand.

Turles looked up to his younger brother. "Ohayou…"

"Ohayou, onii-san." Raditz blinked and looked to the stranger sitting next Turles. "Who's that?"

The stranger looked up to him "I'm Piccolo…"

"And you're from this planet?"

He nodded his head once.

"Odd… I thought you looked a lot like a Namek."

"Wait, that's it! Yeah, you're a Namek…" Turles suddenly exclaimed.

"A… Namek?" 'I'm…an alien? … What the fuck…'

"Yeah, been at the planet Namek once, but Frieza suddenly lost interest in the planet and the mission was called off."

"Frieza?… Mission?"

"You don't know Frieza here on this planet?… Heh, Ilike this place already…" said Raditz.

"And who would this Frieza character be?"

"Greatest asshole in the universe. Describes him perfectly."

"It's a bit of a long story…" said Turles, "But I suppose it'll become your business soon enough, once Frieza finds out where we are."

"But… how would he, we…" started Raditz.

"Guldo, Recoome and Burter had scouters, Raditz. Frieza knows we're here."

"Nani?… Fuck!"

"You really seem to hate this person."

"Understatement of the millennium…" growled Raditz.

"You'll know enough if we just say that he's some really strong bastard that destroyed our home planet and is most likely heading this way now."

"Hm… and why is he coming here?"

"Frieza's rather pissed about the fact that we escaped from him and that he … hurt that son of a bitch a lot with that axe of his."

"Like with that frog creature?"

"… You watched us?" asked Raditz.

"I was in the neighbourhood when I noticed rather high powerlevels. I just went to check out and saw those three aliens that attacked you."

"You have a scouter then? Don't see one."

"What's a scouter? I've heard you use that word before, but I don't get what you mean with it…"

Turles took out his scouter from his armour's pocket. "Well, it's rather cracked and broken from the fight now… but this is… was a scouter. It reads powerlevels and their positions, also functions as a transmitter, that's the annoying part of it. If you use it, everything you say is recorded back at the base."

Raditz raised an eyebrow "But if you don't know what a scouter is, how did you notice their powerlevels then?"

"I sense them."

"Sense? Just like that, without any technological device?"

"Yes, besides, the enemy can always hide his powerlevel by powering down, I doubt a 'scouter' picks that up. You shouldn't rely too much on something like that."

"Hm…" Turles nodded.

"Now, I already told you my name, and you seem to know my… race… will you tell me who and what you are?"

"Well… My name's Raditz, and we're the last of the Saiya-jin, the Saiyan race. Turles here's my older brother, and the third Saiyan is Vegeta, the Saiya-jin no Ouji."

Piccolo nodded. 'So that Son Goku's one of those Saiyans? It's a too great coincidence that he looks like an exact copy of this Turles.' "And do you know what that creature was that saved you yesterday?"

"Nani?… Oh, that black creature." Raditz looked to Turles "Yeah, what the hell was that?"

"I don't know, I've never seen anything like it before in my entire life. But if it saved us, I don't think we should fear it, besides, we have more important things to worry about. Frieza is coming after us, there's no way he'll just let us go and he must have received the scouter messages from those freaks."

Raditz growled and sighed then. "Yeah… but what can we do against Frieza… We're just not strong enough yet… But it'll be a fucking freezing cold day in Hell if I let him just take Vegeta again!" he snarled.

"That counts for us both, brother, Frieza won't touch our Prince ever again."

"But Turles, you… Hey wait a minute… your wounds healed!"

"Yeah, thanks to him…" he nodded his head to Piccolo.

"Nani?" Raditz looked to the Namek.

"He's got some healing item, worked like a charm…"

"Seems like it… wow… works even better than a regen tank."

"Yeah…" Turles stood up and stretched some. "How about we go get some food, I'm fucking starving."

"Hell yeah…"


'Ohayou' (Good) Morning

I think the other used Japanese words are rather obvious, otherwise, just ask.