Bardock's footsteps were silent as he moved through the corridors of the research base on Frieza 228. He could hear the ruckus his team was causing on some of the other levels, and he decided that a more cautious approach would be better since both he and Turles were heading for the control room. He was looking for data on what was going on in this base, and the control room would be the best location to start looking.
The commander stopped at a corner and peered around it to see a couple of guards that looked like canines with blasters on high alert. The green clad saiyan narrowed his eyes as he studied the two guards trying to figure out how strong they could be. If he was fast enough, he might be able to get his information.
"Don't worry, little brother." Turles' voice from beside his had Bardock head turning slightly as he refused to look away from the guards. He could see the purple armor out of the corner of his eye as the older alpha got into a pouncing position. "I got this."
Before his older brother could move, Bardock sprang from his spot and was on one of the guards almost immediately. He snapped the man's neck without a thought before moving to grab the other man in a choke hold. A dagger had appeared in his hand, and the commander was quick to rest the blade against the guard's throat.
"Keep your mouth shut unless you want to end up like your friend over there." The saiyan twisted their bodies so that the guard could see the fallen body, but still allowing the captive male enough space in his hold to remain conscious. "I'm looking for some information, and if you give me what I want, I'll let you go. Where are your data banks?"
"Go to hell, saiyan scum!" The smaller man struggled in Bardock's hold. "Just wait unt-AH!"
Bardock twisted the blade that he impaled in the dog man's outer thigh making a spray of blood splatter on the floor and walls. He roughly pulled his dagger out making his captive let out another pain filled shout before he held up the bloody metal so that blood dripped on the man's nose.
"Lets try this again." The commander placed the tip of his weapon on the guard's right shoulder joint just under the armor covering his torso. "Where are your data banks?"
The guard looked about to refuse to answer, Bardock slowly put pressure on the knife. This had his captive pausing as he felt a few drops of warm liquid seep into the skintight fabric of his body suit. He panted for a few more seconds.
"Two levels down by the medical bay." He hissed through gritted teeth.
"Good. Now where is Vegeta? I know you have him here so don't bother trying to deny it." His grip loosened some, but still remained tight enough for the canine male to remain trapped. He slowly moved the dagger so that the tip rested at the base of the guard's throat under Bardock's arm. He spun the blade on the skin like he was tightening a screw.
"Science wing. Same level."
"Hmm…" the alpha hummed in thought before he loosened his arm around the guard's neck feeling the body relax under his arm. "Thanks."
Immediately, Bardock buried his dagger in the guard's throat hearing a gurgling sound as he released the body. The green clad saiyan slung most of the blood off his weapon before sliding it back in its sheath hidden on one of his hip guards. He reached up to transmit the location of the saiyan prince with his scouter when he saw his brother's look of shock.
"What?" Bardock asked after a minute. "You're my brother, you didn't think I learned a trick or two from you before you left?"
The older saiyan blinked a couple more times before a weird grin grew on his face, and he moved to hug Bardock around his shoulders. The lighter skinned alpha grunted as he struggled in his brother's grip.
"I'm so proud of you!"
"Get off you crazy bastard! We don't have time for this!" Surprisingly his brother let go of him.
"You're right, little brother." Turles said with a grin. "We can celebrate later. I want stories! Details, lots of details!"
"Turles, we are not celebrating that! No one is supposed to know I can even do that!" Bardock snapped as they quickly made their way down to the stair well.
"Meh, I'm the crazy pirate. Who is going to believe me?"
Reaching the control center, Bardock got to work while Turles covered him. The pirate tossed his brother a small data stick before he could do much more than turn off the alarms.
"Stick that into one of the ports. Once you get passed the security, it will upload a duplicate of everything straight to my ship and make a copy on the stick. If nothing else, it will be good for a distraction."
"You got this idea from my computer, didn't you?" The younger growled glaring at his brother but doing as he was told. Turles just chuckled.
"You're a mad genius with tech, little bro. I'd be a complete idiot to not borrow some of your ideas. I promise no one else has one if that makes you feel better." With a critical eye, Bardock watched the file transfer begin and quickly started looking for the prisoner logs. He needed to know if Kakarot was here and they didn't know how much time was left. Going back 15 years didn't give him anything. There were names and dates for all kinds of races, most with the words maze and deceased…but nothing on Kakarot. The alpha cursed looking again, he had to be here. There was a video proving his son was brought here at some point in the last 15 years, so why wasn't Kakarot listed here? Could Kakarot have used a different name? It would make sense. There's no way Frieza wouldn't have set a trap for himself if he knew Kakarot was his son. Or even made sure he knew how much suffering the little beta went through before killing him or shipping him off somewhere else. A third run through of the list left him with nothing before he noticed Vegeta wasn't on the list either. Vegeta should have been at the very top or close to it.
"Bardock, we need to move. Is the transfer done or not." Turles hissed softly. The pirate was getting a bad feeling. There had been no patrols and this should have been one of the first places guards rushed to. It was possible Frieza took most of the soldiers with him but surely he'd have left someone here in a worst case scenario. The demon was a paranoid bastard like that.
"Something's not right, Turles." Bardock said not looking away from the computer. "Kakarot and Vegeta aren't in the prisoner's logs. Kakarot could have given a fake name, but there's no mistaking Vegeta. Why wouldn't that information be here?" The pirate raised a brow and came over to the screen.
"That can't be right. We know the prince is here, that guard confirmed it." His eyes scanned the screen looking for something. "Wait, he said Vegeta was in the Science Wing…."
"And not the cells." Bardock followed where his brother was going before trying to pull up the file labeled research. Dozens of project folders appeared before the screen froze demanding a password. "Damn it!"
"Bar, we can deal with it later, we can cover more ground if we search the Science Wing."
"I'm not leaving here without finding out what happened to Kakarot." Bardock snapped.
"We will but we need to keep moving before reinforcements get here and shoot our plan to hell."
"It's a bit late for that." Both saiyans spun and felt the blood drain from their faces. That was why there were so few soldiers here, they didn't need them.
"Ginyu." Bardock cursed as Turles said the name. Of all the rotten luck.
++KV++
Vegeta opened his eyes biting back a groan at the pain in his muscles while he tried to figure out what was going on. He probably scared Kakarot half to death suddenly leaving the Ao Tokonga like that, but the sirens woke him up.
Gathering his arms under him he moved to sit up from where he'd been sleeping face down on one of Toa's only remaining blankets. Zarbon ruined the rest of them, by either his ki blast burning them or his blood all over them. Vegeta froze hearing the cocking of a gun.
"Don't move." The guard hissed making the prince cut his eyes to the barrier. It was weaker than before, with visible blue ripples of electricity passing through the field at irregular intervals. Sorbet had seen fit to station two guards on him and prevent him from making an escape attempt after the malfunction with his collar and what he did to Zarbon. Not a bad move by the scientist regrettably, but an unnecessary one since he wouldn't go anywhere without Kakarot and certainly not until he knew the beta was alright.
"What's going on." He way he phrased it, it wasn't a request. He slowly sat up ignoring the gun trained on him while the other produced a familiar remote that almost made him snarl. Just how many of those things were there?
"Nothing you need to worry about, monkey." The one with the remote said. "Make one move I don't like, and I'll make sure you don't move again until Sorbet patches your ass up." The prince growled angrily as his fangs peeked from his lips.
An energy blast lit up the hallway, and the two guards cursed before they were hit full force and dropped to the floor their bodies smoking. That made the prince quickly get to his feet flexing his claws. If some one was going to kill him, he'd be damn sure to make them work for it.
"Aren't you a site for sore eyes, Your Majesty." Vegeta froze hearing that voice as its owner stepped into view.
"Nappa! You're alive?!" He rushed to the barrier but didn't touch it, it wasn't stable enough for that without sending a nasty shock though the one who did that. "I saw the ship blow up with you in it."
"Takes more than an explosion to kill me apparently." The massive saiyan bragged.
"Was a damn close thing though." Raditz said stepping into view. "We're clear for now. Father and Turles are getting info from the data banks right now"
"Turles, whats he doing here? I thought we were trying to kill him too?" The prince asked thoroughly confused.
"Details later, he came and offered his help for personal reasons." Raditz explained as he snatched a scouter from one of the downed soldiers. He whistled getting a good look at the collar around Vegeta's neck. "Damn, that's a nasty piece of work. How long have you had that thing on?"
"It was there when I woke up. There's a remote for it by your foot." Vegeta said as his tail twitched in irritation. "Just be careful what you touch, the son of a bitch has it cranked to the highest setting and that's at least the third remote I've seen for it."
"Got it." The long haired alpha muttered as he picked up the remote. His face twisted into a scowl as he tried to figure out how to avoid electrifying his squad mate.
"Damn Vegeta, what did you do in here?" Nappa asked while Raditz worked. "It looks like a war zone. What the hell is that green shit everywhere?"
"Zarbon." There was an agitated growl to the prince's tone. Both of his teammates froze at the name.
"Wait…you killed Zarbon?!"
"How!?" Raditz demanded. "With that collar on, you shouldn't have any ki to use."
"He pissed me off. Anyways I think it was earlier today? Yesterday? Only way to keep time in this place is meals and even that is screwy. It doesn't help I spent a few days drugged and concussed when I first got here."
Raditz just shook his head after studying the whole remote before pressing a button that had the prince tensing for a shock, but the collar popped open from around his neck to fall to the floor with a metallic ring in the air.
Vegeta immediately ran a hand around his throat feeling relieved that it was gone, and he had to hide a small smile as he felt his ki rising in his body. The sound of a shock had Raditz and Vegeta looking over to the side to see Nappa frying the control panel by the cell.
The wall flickered a couple of times before it powered down, and the prince gave a fanged grin as he stepped out of the cell. He dug his fingers under the cuffs around his wrists and pulled them off to join the collar on the floor.
"We need to get back to the ship." Nappa said as he looked around the corridor by the entrance of the labs. "Bardock and Turles should be making their way back by now, and I have no idea how long Frieza will be gone for…"
"No." Vegeta hissed as he moved to the door feeling the wounds on his back pull. "We need to get to the medical bay."
"We can treat you on the ship, your highness, there is no time!" Raditz almost snapped. "We are-!"
"I'm NOT leaving without them, Raditz!" He glared at the taller man while baring his fangs before looking out the door trying to capture either his mate's or the cat's scent so he knew which way to go. "I promised Kakarot! I will not leave them here!"
The prince ignored the choked sound he heard behind him as he finally caught the beta's scent. Kakarot and the cubs were nearly defenseless if they were all in the medical bay together and even if Kakarot wasn't unconscious, there was only so much he could do with his own restraints on. The prince worried about the boys, they wouldn't understand any saiyans in the base were their friends and here to help, and he had no idea how Toa would react. Given that Toa didn't remember he was a saiyan until he met Vegeta the prince really doubted the beta would see them as allies if they upset the cubs. More than anything he needed to get to them and make sure they were alright.
"Kakarot is here?" Raditz demanded grabbing Vegeta by the shoulder and spinning him around. "My brother? He's alive?" The prince didn't have words for the pain and hope mixed in his eyes. "You've seen Kakarot? Spoke to him?"
"Yes." He wasn't sure how to tell Raditz that his little brother wasn't the person he remembered. He started to move down the hall when voices not belonging to either of his teammates had him stopping.
"So that's who the little bitch is."
"Looks like it, mate. Lord Frieza will be very pleased to know. We finally know the little slut's name after all this time."
Vegeta felt his lip curl up into a snarl as he looked back to see Jeice and Burter from the Ginyu Force coming down the opposite corridor. Raditz and Nappa were quick to flank their prince as all three took in the situation. Vegeta just snarled out a word once he realized he wouldn't be able to go after mate.
"Damn."
++KV++
"Look at who we've got here." Ginyu chuckled as he crossed his arms over his chest to look at the brothers. "The infamous Bardock and the Dreaded Pirate Lord Turles. You know, I had a feeling the little monkey we've had here was related to at least one of you judging from his looks alone, and I was right. Do you have any idea how much money I stand to make when I turn both of you in to Lord Frieza?"
His words had Bardock tensing where he stood, and Turles glanced at the younger man before looking back at the purple man trying to figure out how they could get away. The pirate had managed to get the data stick from the console when Ginyu announced his presence, so that was one less thing to worry about. Ginyu wasn't something they planned for. What the hell were the ginyus even doing here?! They were supposed to be in the next quadrant over.
"From what my subordinates have reported in, you two are not the only ones to find this place. It would seem that we no longer need to hunt down you monkeys for Sorbet's project anymore. Well aside from you two that is. I hope Frieza lets me take a turn with you in the maze."
"The hell you talking about?! What project?!" Bardock bit out with a growl.
"You break into to this base, and you don't even know what its for?"
"We know enough." Turles snarled.
"Then you know we are making stronger soldiers. We might have only had one breeder, but I'm sure Sorbet can work around that. Maybe you can all take turns, or better yet maybe we can dose the lot of you and watch you all fight it out. If not I'm certain that you'll be put to work one way or another. So you have me curious, which one of you does the beta belong to? He certainly did a good job of messing himself up, but I think a decent hosing down will be more than enough to show Lord Frieza the resemblance between you."
"What beta?" Turles felt a shiver run up his spine when he heard the cold and calm tone. He was more than familiar with his brother's temper than anyone else, and Ginyu had pushed Bardock's buttons in all the wrong ways. Ginyu just chuckled at the question.
"The little whore Sorbet's been using to try breeding Lord Frieza's new army." The purple man said with a shrug. "We never did find out his name before the little bitch went crazy. He certainly was fun to play with. Tell me are all saiyan breeders screamers or is it just him."
Wisps of ki started to radiate off of Bardock startling Turles while Ginyu raise a brow. The younger alpha's bangs shadowed his face.
"You 'played' with him? Is that all that was? Some kind of game?"
"And very satisfying sex." Ginyu said with a lecherous smirk. "I think that's the only time I've ever seen one of you monkeys beg let alone cry. My whole team took turns holding him down for each other."
Power exploded off Bardock and Turles backed away quickly as computers started to blow all around the room. This was just like that night at the house went Bardock realized Kakarot was tortured in Frieza's maze. And this time there was no distracting his brother or talking him down because he had one of the assholes right in front of him. Yeah, he was sitting this fight out unless Bar needed help thank you very much.
"I'm going to kill you."
"I'd like to see you try." Ginyu chuckled as he watched the saiyan. The man shifted into one of his stupid poses with one arm extended straight up while the other was lifted so it was parallel to the floor and one leg was lifted at the knee. "But you're taking on Captain Ginyu! The strongest fighter under Lord Frieza himself! If you are anything like the slut in the labs, then all I need to do is smack you around a few times and you'll be rolling on your back showing your belly like a bitch."
Bardock let out a roar as he charged straight at the purple man catching him off guard as he shifted towards a new pose. He slammed his fist into Ginyu's face with a vicious snarl on his face, making his opponent fly out of the control room and through the wall. The commander followed hot on his heels, and Turles was forced to hurry after them.