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Ginyu rubbed his head as he pulled himself from the rubble of Bardock's explosion before staring in horror at what the saiyan had become. He'd seen the footage of what Broly was capable of and immediately recognized the transformation for what it was as power rolled of the alpha saiyan in waves. How the hell had Bardock, originally a third class warrior, ascended when countless other elites had failed. Not even Vegeta, at his most desperate, had transformed when they captured him, and he was the strongest saiyan born since Broly.

Bardock roared and phased from view before appearing and hitting the purple alien hard enough Turles could hear bones crack. His scouted chimed, and the pirate quickly answered.

Turles, why isn't Bardock answering?! Tora hissed quietly like he was trying to keep from alerting someone.

"He's busy. What's wrong on your end? We already know about the Ginyu Force."

The hell?!

"Oh good, you haven't run into one of them." He said cheerfully before wincing as Bardock threw Ginyu head first through a wall. "What did you run into?"

Just get him down to the med bay, we've got a- The transmission cut off suddenly, and Turles knew they needed to get to the others if they were calling for back up.

He wanted to shout to his little brother that he needed to hurry up, but he was almost afraid of getting on the younger alpha's bad side at the moment. The commander possessed a nasty temper, and he was currently taking it out on Ginyu. Turles didn't want to become his brother's new punching bag any time soon.

"How…how is this possible…?" The purple man spat out through bloody teeth. He looked like a mess the pirate vaguely noticed. Numerous cuts were slowly dripping blood over the floor, one of the man's horns had been broken after one too many crashes through the wall, and his entire body was shaking with the effort to avoid Bardock's fists and feet. "You're a third class, general or not! It should be impossible for a low class saiyan to obtain this kind of power!"

"How I got is none of your business, bastard!" Bardock snarled as he slammed his fist into the captain's side making his opponent fly into another wall. "All you need to know is that I will end you for touching my son!"

Whitish blue ki blazed into life in the super saiyan's hand, and he extended his arm ready to blast Ginyu into nothingness only to pause when the heavy injured man started to let out a raspy chuckle.

The sound had Turles tensing, but it looked like Bardock was just ignoring it. Why the hell was Ginyu laughing? Bardock was literally beating the hell out of him as a super saiyan. It had the dark skinned saiyan worried for a moment when something flashed in his mind about why fighting the leader of the Ginyu Force was so dangerous.

"Not if you can't hit me!" Ginyu held up his arms away from his body and a yellow light enveloped him.

"Shit!" Turles hissed as he tried to move to his brother. "Bardock! Move!"

"Change now!"

The younger alpha tried to follow Turles' warning after firing his blast, but it was going to be too late. The pirate was quick to grab a steel plate that had come loose from the wall during the fight and threw it in front of Bardock just as a yellow beam shot out of Ginyu and headed straight for the younger man.

The light was blinding, and Turles covered his face hoping that he hadn't been too late. After what felt like forever, the light died down and the pirate blinked away the spots from his vision.

His eyes landed on the super saiyan who dented the wall in his haste to escape from the beam, and when Turles looked for Ginyu, all he saw was a smoking scorch mark on the floor. He took a few cautious steps closer to Bardock's body hoping that his brother was still the one in control. His hand was fingering the blaster on his hip, ready and willing to use it if he failed to protect his little brother. He wasn't going to allow Ginyu to possess his brother's body. The sheer repercussions of such a thing would be horrifying, and they might as well blow up Vegeta themselves to prevent the Colds from killing them in sick sport.

"Bar?"

"What?!" The commander snapped out. "You couldn't warn me of whatever the hell that was before the fight?"

The older man let out a sigh of relief at the snark only Bardock could possess. He came around and helped the golden haired man to his feet with a cocky grin.

"And let you miss out on the joy of discovering that….nope!" He chuckled as the other man bared his teeth in irritation. "You can chew me out later, brother. Your team called for back up in the medical bay."

"Bastard!" Bardock snapped out. "Why didn't you say that in the first place?! Let's go!"

++UH++

"Shit!" Tora winced and grabbed at his face where his scouter exploded. His skin was singed, but a low growl drew his eyes back to the feral beta.

The older man felt sweat beading on his forehead and back of his neck when enraged dark eyes locked onto him. Hopefully they're crazy ass leader would hurry the hell up. Tora blinked and suddenly the beta was moving.

'Shit he's fast!' He fired off harmless blasts only for the little saiyan to weave through them and was nearly on top of him before he could jump back. Toa snarled and lashed out with sharp claws coming within a hair of his skin. He could see more of his leader in the beta's movements, his style though it was more wild and less refined. Fasha grabbed Chorri's fur and hauled her to her feet and made the cat face her.

"Call him off!"

"I can't." Chorri shook her head. "He doesn't listen to anyone, he's almost completely feral."

Fasha cursed as she glanced back at the pair on the floor. She needed to find a way to get the beta off Tora before he was mauled to death. The smaller male had already drew blood from the alpha, and the saiyan woman couldn't tell where the wound on Tora was located.

The shrill beeping of her scouter had Fasha jumping in surprise as the large power level it detected closed in on her location. Luckily, she vaguely recognized Turles' ki signature close to it before the piece of tech fried. But her commander's speed and how she knew he'd respond to Tora's transmission had her more concerned.

"Bardock, no!" Fasha shouted too late as her squad leader, in the transformation of a super saiyan shocking her beyond words, burst into the room loud enough to startle the cubs into crying again.

Bardock froze when the dark eyes of the saiyan on top of Tora locked into him, and his power bled away from shock. The beta roared with a snarl and slammed into Bardock sinking his fangs into the older man's arm as he automatically brought it up to protect his throat sending them both to the floor.

"Kakarot?" The word was soft, shocked and almost afraid and unheard by anyone else in the room. There was no recognition in the rage filled dark eyes before the teeth sank further into his arm drawing a hiss of pain from Bardock.

"Shit! Get him off, Bardock." Sharp claws raked the older alpha as the beta grew more agitated and snarled around the flesh in his mouth. The alpha felt his heart break seeing what his son had been reduced to. Whatever horrors his son had been through here, he didn't recognize them being here to help.

"Shut the hell up!" he snapped without taking his eyes off the beta. "Don't interfere, you hear me."

"Bardock, we need to knock him out before he mauls you too. He's already torn up Shugesh and Tora." Fasha shouted at him.

"We are not hurting my son!" The commander growled before gritting his teeth as Kakarot's teeth went deeper.

"Kakarot, I know you're in there." Bardock said softly. He didn't react to his son's growling or the tightening of the beta's jaw drawing more blood. "Come on, son, you know me. It's ok." He winced as the beta's teeth dug in deeper but remained calm.

"Its ok, kyauta." Confusion swirled in his dark eyes, the smell and words not making sense to the beta. He only recognized some of the words this One used. They made his head hurt. Made him feel like he couldn't breathe with a weight on his chest. "You're safe now, Kakarot, we're going to take you home. Just calm down, makoa, I won't let anything else hurt you."

Dark eyes softened and turned downcast in their confusion. They were saiyan, like him and Alpha. That smell was irritatingly familiar and that voice….it was there in the back of his mind. Not me knew that voice. He had argued with them. The voice that tried to protect him...them. With a whine he released his hold on the male's arm and gave an apologetic lick to help clean the blood away. His head was pounding as he tried to remember.

"Hey, don't worry about it, makoa." Bardock soothed managing to sit up. Hesitantly his hand reached out to touch the beta's mane with his other hand. Kakarot tensed but did nothing more than sniff the hand. Spices, and that hot smell like Hot Place. He smelled safe, familiar, like Alpha did, but similar to his own smell. A word came to mind finally as he heard his other half whisper it.

"…Teti….?" His eyes watered as that fragile hope fluttered in his heart. Teti was strong, he could make it all stop. Teti would keep them safe, make the Bad Ones leave him and the cubs alone. The beta nuzzled his father's hand with a soft whimper.

"I'm here, Kakarot." Bardock softly said gently pulling his cub to him, tears in his own eyes. "I've got you, son, its ok. Teti's here." The beta jerked back in tears as his mind warred with itself.

Teti was here. Teti saw, saw how weak, saw how damaged. His head felt like it would split open. Teti wouldn't want him. He was weak, so weak…His hands gripped at his head as he whimpered and curled in on himself. Flashes rang in his mind. Everything hurt, he wasn't better from what Bad One did to him. His tail wound around his stomach, his cubs safe at least. What if Teti was mad? What if he was angry about the cubs? He had attacked Teti, he shouldn't have done that. Where was Alpha? Alpha promised. Geta promised.

"Kakarot, calm down." Bardock tried to soothe the beta. His son was breathing shallowly and staring blankly with wide eyes in the middle of an episode of some sort. He didn't know what to do to help Kakarot. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Vegeta Raditz and Nappa enter the medical bay. His student was only in pants and looked pretty beat up. Suddenly, Vegeta was there in front of his son and placed his hands on the panicked beta's shoulders.

"Kakarot...Toa you have to breathe." Vegeta flat out ordered. "They're here to take us home, just like I promised remember? "

"…Alpha?" The little beta whimpered and clenched his eyes shut. Bardock didn't miss the look of surprise on his student's face.

"It's going to be ok." Vegeta soothed. "You need to breathe, this is your father. No one is going to hurt you. They're saiyans like us. Take a deep breath for me." Kakarot shook his head as shivers wracked his body.

"hurts" he whined.

"I know, think about your cubs. Kome and Seba. Your new cubs. You need to calm down for them." Vegeta tried and relaxed seeing the beta at least attempting to breathe slower. "That's it. Kome and Seba are safe. I wont let anyone hurt them. Your father won't either. They're all saiyans like us. No one will hurt you or the cubs."

"Cubs?" The general asked confused. Vegeta turned to the barricade and gently spoke. Ginyu's words rang in his mind. Getting him to have the brats is the hard part.

"Kome, its ok to come out, they're here to take us home." There was no movement at first. "It's ok, they just want to help your tama. They'll take us where no one will hurt your tama, you or Seba." Slowly Kome eased out of the hole, Seba clinging to his chest. His eyes locked onto Bardock, and he froze shrinking inward a bit. Kalious, they had so much of Kakarot in them, the smaller one was his spitting image.

"Hey, it's ok. This is your Grandfather, your tama's father. He wont hurt you." Seba squirmed out of his brother's arms and latched onto the saiyan prince as soon as he was in reach, climbing up to the alpha's back and burying his face in the prince's neck. Kome also remained close to Vegeta and bared his fangs at the others when he noticed their stares. Relief flooded the prince's face as the beta started to relax before concern set in when the beta continued to whimper.

"Kakarot, what's wrong?"

"hurts" Vegeta's eyes widened, and he immediately turned to the medic.

"Did he finish his treatment?!" Chorri shook her head.

"When the alarms went off I hit the emergency stop. I didn't want anyone to use the override to kill him. He deserved to fight for his cubs."

"What's wrong?" Bardock asked concerned.

"Kakarot was injured, Zarbon was powered up to full and threw him into a wall.."

"He's out of immediate danger." Chorri said softly. "The cubs are fine, he's likely hurting from the remaining bruising he suffered."

"Cubs?" Bardock asked confused before his mind registered the sweet scent from his son. His eyes immediately zeroed in on the bite mark on Vegeta's neck and quickly found a matching one on Kakarot's shoulder peaking from the neckline of his shirt. His fist clenched as he growled at his student causing everyone to freeze.

"How dare you." The general hissed angrily.

The prince looked over at his mentor and was startled by the rage in his eyes. His hold on Kakarot tightened, and he instinctively drew the cubs closer to him. When the older male moved to take Kakarot from him, Vegeta snarled and shifted the upset beta away from him.

"Give me my son or a swear to the gods I'll end you for what you did to him!" Bardock snarled. "It's bad enough you got him pregnant but I will not forgive you marking him. Do you have the faintest idea what he's been through here?!"

"Do you!" The royal snarled back feeling the cubs shrink closer to him. "I've been in his mind, Bardock, I know better than you do what happened to him. I can't change what happened, and I'm disgusted with myself for my lack of control but Kakarot is my mate. If Kakarot truly doesn't want this, then and only then will ask the goddess to annul the bond!"

"I don't understand why you're angry." Chorri said softly drawing their attention. "I understand some of how saiyan marking works and-"

"Shut up!" Fasha snapped.

"No, what do you know?" Vegeta asked while Bardock snarled. "She's seen everything, and Kakarot trusts her. He told me she's the only one that has never lied to him."

"I don't care what she knows, it doesn't change the fact you tricked Kakarot in to mating with you! If you hadn't bitten him first this wouldn't be an issue."

"But Kakarot bit Vegeta first." She stated, the name coming out hesitant. Vegeta felt his breath freeze in his lungs. Kakarot….Toa had chosen him? "It was sometime in his second day with Vegeta. He bit the prince, and we were worried he was going to go further and try to kill Vegeta like he's done before during a heat, but nothing happened."

"He bit me first?" He demanded. "You're positive?"

"You don't…the concussion. You don't remember what happened during his heat do you? The drugs and your concussion you had." Chorri said the last more to herself. "Yes, he bit you first, and you bit him later, the next day before his heat ended."

Before Bardock could demand anything else from Vegeta or the woman, someone else came rushing in the medical bay.

"Little brother, we need to go now!" Turles hissed as he glanced down the halls. "My crew just informed me that Frieza is on his way back, and we NEED to leave!"

Vegeta's eyes drifted over to the space pirate feeling very confused as to why he would be there and why no one was attacking him, but he snapped out orders that had Nappa and Raditz almost jumping into attention.

"Get Tora, Shugesh, and Borgos!" The beta whined again before slumping against the young alpha, and this had Kome and Seba letting out panicked cries. Immediately, his tail brushed over both boys to try and calm them down. "Don't worry, cubs. He's just asleep. It'll help him heal."

"What do with do with her?" Fasha asked. "Should we dispose of her?" Turles got a good look at the feline once his attention was drawn from the hall way. With a suave smile he strode to the lavender feline and bowed at the waist.

"Hello milady, if I may escort you to my ship?" He said extending a hand.

"You can't seriously want to take her with us, she's one of them!" Fasha shouted with a snarl as the pirate gently took Chorri's hand and kissed. "Bardock, reason with your insane brother!"

"My ship, my rules!" He chirped back.

"She's going with us." Vegeta shot back as he carefully lifted his unconscious mate to Bardock's annoyance. "Chorri, can you carry the boys? I can't take them and Kakarot." It was plain to see Kakarot wouldn't be releasing Vegeta even in his sleep. The black tail was tightly latched onto the prince, and everyone could see that despite Bardock fuming over this he didn't try to take his youngest from the prince. Seba had whimpered and Kome hissed when he approached them as well.

The older alpha could understand that, however much it pained him. The cubs didn't know him and were half feral from what he could tell. His shouting at Vegeta made them wary of him. And whatever else had happened to his son here, Kakarot trusted Vegeta and recognized him as someone safe, if not his mate. The fact Kakarot listened to his student and attempted to calm down, while pregnant only confirmed this.

"Come on." The commander snapped out as he watched the katu woman take the smaller cub from his student while the older one moved closer to her. "Let's get out of here."

++UH++

Vegeta held the beta close to his chest as the ship ascended higher from the planet that he and his mate had been trapped on, and he glared at it with rage filled eyes. He snarled at the sight of every feature from the buildings to the cratered surface of the planet.

"Stop the ship." The Prince hissed our as he stalked to the door. The conscious members of Bardock's rescue team stared at the alpha before Turles spoke up.

"It would not be wise, highness. The lizard will be back soon, and I for one don't intend on fighting him anytime soon." His eyes flickered back to the com system to navigate them out.

"There's time enough to do this, pirate." Vegeta calmly spoke which had Raditz and Nappa stiffening up. They nervously watched the prince where he stood at the door. "Just stop the ship and open the door. I'm in the mood for some fireworks."

"Ahh…" the space pirate smirked as he maneuvered the vessel. He pressed a few buttons, and the door let out a hiss as it opened up. The cubs let out nervous cries that made Chorri try and shush them as Vegeta stood before the opening with Kakarot still held in his arms.

Shifting the weight of the smaller saiyan so his left arm was free, he gave one last look on what had been Kakarot's, Toa's, and who knows what other poor souls' personal hell before extending his arm with his middle and index fingers held out. He charged his ki and allowed a blast to form on the tips of his fingers before sending it off to the planet.

Once the energy hit the surface, it quickly burrowed through the crust all the way down through the mantel to the core where it exploded. Vegeta took no satisfaction in watching fissures crack open in the surface as magma surged upwards due to the waves of energy surging through the planet. Soon the small world started to break apart until with a flash of light, the planet exploded.

The prince hugged the still sleeping beta closer to his chest as he watched the planet and the base disintegrate into dust. As soon as everything was gone, he turned to walk back inside the ship.

"Take us home."