DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything in this story except for Matronene, it all belongs to the creator of DBZ, who's name I still can't remember. Heh...

Vegeta leapt off the floor four mornings later. It was time for that mission, and all he could do was pray to God that Matronene did all right, because if she didn't... he didn't even want to think about what might happen to him.

"Get up, woman," he muttered sleepily.

"What?" she grumbled.

"I said get up. Today's that mission..."

"Oh!"

Matronene leapt up and out of the bed. "Cool!"

Vegeta sighed. "It's not that cool, you know," he said. "I don't know how much of a conscience you have, but it might be a little burdened after today."

Matronene shrugged. "We'll see." She thought Vegeta was challenging her, saying that she wouldn't be able to handle whatever it was that they did. She could handle it. She knew she could.

After a few minutes, she had to know what Vegeta thought was so bad, so she asked.

"What's so bad that you do on these missions? I mean...it can't be that awful, could it?"

Vegeta shrugged. "It's not...bloody, or anything."

"What's so bad then?"

"You'll see," he sighed.

Matronene shrugged again.

The two saiyans left the room and met up with Nappa and Raditz and they walked down the hall together towards Frieza. When they got there, the four knelt down and Vegeta said, "Master Frieza, we are ready to depart on our mission."

"Well, go on then."

The saiyans got into their capsules and Raditz quickly set Matronene's coordinates for her.

Matronene watched as Vegeta's capsule soared out into space. Next was Nappa, then she was to go, and Raditz would follow her, to make sure she got there all right. She pressed the button and felt like someone dropped a couple bricks on her chest. She tried to keep her eyes open, but it felt like someone was trying to force them closed with pins. She heard a loud rushing in her ears, and realized that it could possibly be the sound of her blood. But the thought made her sick, so she pushed it to be back of her mind. Finally, as suddenly as it started, it stopped. She turned to see what she could, and saw one capsule in front of hers and one behind it. All she could see besides that were stars. So many, it seemed surreal. It was almost like there was more of it down by this planet than anywhere else. She sighed, leaned back in the capsule, and was ambushed by sleep.

Suddenly, she felt like she was going faster. Much faster, actually. She opened her eyes and realized that she was.

"Whoa!" she exclaimed.

Then she heard a voice coming from seemingly no where- "Relax woman, we just got pulled into the gravity force of the planet."

"Vegeta?" she asked.

"Yes, woman."

"How..how am I talking to you?"

"Through small radio-like things. They're installed in the floor of the capsule, you can turn it on or off. You must have turned yours on," Vegeta explained.

"Oh. Okay. Well, we're landing now?"

"Yes."

She heard a small scratching sound and concluded that Vegeta had turned his radio off. Matronene clicked hers off as well.

Then she felt herself get thrown back against the wall of the ship.

"Ouch," she groaned. "Jeez, that's forceful."

Matronene suddenly felt that her ship was seemingly steering out of control. She quickly turned on her radio and said, "Is this supposed to happen!"

"Yes, relax," said Nappa.

The girl breahted in deeply.

"You might want to sit down and lean way back," suggested Nappa.

She did, and said, "Why-"

Suddenly, she smashed into the ground so insanely hard she was jolted back. She gasped and groaned.

"That's why," came Nappa's voice. "Now, get out of the ship, the door will open in a second."

Low and behold, it did, and she stepped out. Vegeta and Nappa were already standing outside their doors, stretching. She looked over to Raditz and watched his door open.

Matronene looked around. The planet was average-sized, not too big or too small. It looked very normal. There was a river very near where they had landed, and it was very grassy and bright.

"It's early morning here," said Vegeta. He walked over to the river, cupped his hands, and dipped them into it. He raised to water to his face and smelled it.

"Poisonous water." He plucked a blade of grass and smelled that. "But there's nothing wrong with the grass. Which means..."

He looked over a strange deer-like animal with two heads, eating the grass.

"Which means we can eat the meat here," Raditz finished.

Nappa fired a small, thin ki beam at the animal. When it hit, the animal fell and died. Vegeta walked over and tore a leg off, then handed it to Nappa. He did the same for Raditz, then he called to Matronene. She approached with caution, and winced at the cracking of the meat being torn off the body.

"Here," said Vegeta. "Eat. You've got to be hungry."

Matronene nodded, but hesitated when it came to eating the deer.

"That's pretty sick," she said.

"You get used to it," said Vegeta. He bit into the leg of the deer and wiped some blood off his face.

The girl's jaw dropped. "My god."

Vegeta shrugged. "The first time I tried to eat a deer or something raw, I was so hungry anything tasted good. I just got used to it, I guess. You'll get hungry enough, if we're here for that long."

The other three saiyans finished eating their food.

"All right," said Vegeta. "We'll find a colony and attack."

"Like ambush?" said Matronene.

Vegeta nodded and continued. "Nappa, take the north and north-east side, Raditz, take the west and north-west side. Matronene...you can take the south and south-east side, and go after the west and south-west side. If you can."

"But won't someone have to go with her?" Nappa reminded him.

"Oh, right. You're new. Okay, Raditz, take those sides with her. I'm going to go to the north, since that's where their ruler is. Remember, we get them to join Frieza's throne as fast as we can, then we kill them. Do whatever it takes. Matronene, you're probably not going to fight anyone, just blow holes in the planet. In your uniform you have a radio like the one in the ships, just smaller. If you need help or get lost, just press the button. It's there on your shoulder, under that armor."

Matronene found it and nodded.

"All right," said Vegeta, "let's go."