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"Get up, damn you."
Vegeta stared up hatefully at the horrible face that was Zarbon. Then he put one hand on the wall and hauled himself up, holding in a gasp of pain that was trying to escape from him. It was eight 'o' clock in the morning, and the training was finally over.
"How do you feel, Vegeta?" sneered Zarbon.
"Angry," Vegeta muttered shortly.
"And what else? I know there's something else."
The young used-to-be prince of the saiyans looked down at the floor and gave up. "Defeated. Humiliated. Stupid..."
"That's right. All right then. You may go now," Zarbon said, finally satisfied with Vegeta's answer.
The prince turned around nervously, not trusting Zarbon enough to not attack him from behind, and limped towards the door. He felt with every step that someone was trying to rip off his leg.
Finally though, he got out of the room, and shut the door behind him. Matronene, Raditz and Nappa were all waiting there for him. This only emberassed Vegeta more, he couldn't stand anyone seeing him this way.
"Prince Vegeta!" Matronene exclaimed. She rushed toward him, her hand outstretched, but he just slapped it away. "Don't touch me!" he snapped furiously.
Matronene looked slightly hurt, but changed the subject. "Are you all right? What did you have to do?"
"Don't worry about it! I trained, that's all."
Suddenly Zarbon came out of the room, shoving Vegeta out of the way, and sending him flying into the metal wall of the ship. The prince gasped in pain, caught totally off guard by that. Suddenly it seemed he couldn't take any more, because he leaned his head back against the wall, closed his eyes, moaned in pain and emberassment, and passed out.
Nappa sighed and walked over to pick Vegeta up.
Matronene was watching in fear and shock. 'What kind of monster could do this to the Prince of the Saiyans?' she thought sadly.
About half an hour later, the Prince came to. "What- what happened?" he muttered.
"Prince!" exclaimed Matronene. "I'm so glad you're all right!"
"Of course I'm all right! Why- wouldn't I be?" He had to force out the word 'wouldn't' with a lot of difficulty, it seemed he kept running out of air to use for speaking.
At this point, Raditz and Nappa heard that he had awoken, and came in.
"Vegeta," said Raditz. "Are you okay?"
"Yes! I'm all right!" Vegeta shouted. "I'm not that weak!"
"I never said you were!" exclamied Raditz, putting his hands up.
"Please, Prince, relax," said Nappa. "You've been through a lot over the last couple days."
Vegeta glared at the three saiyans. "Enough questions about if I'm all right. What have I missed? Does Frieza want anything else?"
"No, we haven't heard from him since last night," answered Raditz.
"And you haven't missed anything," added Nappa.
"Well, good," said Vegeta, and visibly relaxed. He glanced at Matronene standing in the corner of the room, and a question surfaced in his mind. "How did you escape off Planet Vegeta?" he snapped.
The other two saiyans looked at the girl. Matronene suddenly felt like she was put into the spotlight, and almost felt like she was shrinking. "Well..."
"Out with it, onna!" Vegeta exclaimed, exasperated.
"Okay! Well, the man called Bardock was going around, yelling that Frieza was going to destroy the planet. My parents said not to worry, he was full of it. But there was something about him that seemed like he was telling the truth and he wasn't insane. I couldn't convince anyone else, but I decided to get out. So I flew towards the side of the planet that Bardock wasn't heading towards, and I broke through the atmostphere, I felt like I was going to die right there but I looked around, I saw Frieza's energy blast, it was heading towards the planet and...it hit...and then...everyone died. I passed out at that point from lack of air and shock, and when I came to I was on a ship. Some Styrians said they had found me near death in space, and rescued me. I told them that my planet was destroyed by Frieza, and they raised me as one of their own. I acted as a Styrian, learned to cook like one, dress like one... then that freakish man came and said I looked like a saiyan, so they took me back here. They destroyed Planet Styre, as well."
Vegeta sighed, remembering the day his planet had been destroyed. "I see." He stared at the floor and was silent.
Later that night, Matronene was set to work washing the dishes after the food that was supplied to everyone on the ship that night- it couldn't exactly be called dinner. It was so little that it was practically a big snack.
Matronene wasn't complaining about washing the dishes. She had been raised to do so. It came as a shock to her when she Vegeta came up to her, looking very tired, and said, "Go to bed. I'll do this."
"No, prince, it's fine," she said, taken aback.
"That's an order. Go to bed, I'll do this. It's fine, onna."
The saiyan girl didn't want to do it, but she also didn't want to disobey the prince. "Are you sure? You haven't slept in a while- why don't you go to bed, this shouldn't take too long."
But this time Vegeta ignored her. He started washing the dishes in silence, and Matronene backed away and left. "Good night, Prince," she said.
Vegeta stared at her as she walked away. "Good bye," he whispered, so quietly that no one could hear him. 'I don't believe it,' he then thought. 'Another saiyan. And she's a female! It's unbelieveable. I- I don't want her to lose any saiyan pride, I won't let her do anything degrading. I won't,' he swore to himself. And he intended to stick to it.
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