The Sacrifices We Must Make Part 2
Frieza decided to invite Constantine over for dinner and Icey to come along with him. Zarbon was not invited of course since Frieza blabbed to him that he was planning on killing Constantine and making his cousin his wife.
This plan of course was ludicrous and sounded like Frieza just came up with the idea in a second more so than a year or more. Frieza had the table set and he invited Icey and Constantine in to sit down.
In all honesty it killed Frieza that he could not have Icey for a wife, if she was not his cousin he would have probably of been married to her by now. King Cold forbade Frieza to marry any of his blood relative, which was understandable. Besides the main reason for wanting to marry Icey other than having a huge crush on her, Frieza thought of her being an easy target.
She would always fight with her mother who was King Cold's younger sister and who owned a charm academy. She also got into trouble with Zarbon and Liya too, she was trackless and because of her Tourette syndrome, she could easily rub people the wrong way.
Frieza was not even submissive anyways and to make matters worse, Cooler was expected to act more grown up than Frieza since Frieza was the younger of the two half brothers. Frieza had always been a spoiled brat and was favored so much by his father and it made Cooler feel jealous and angry at him, which is probably why he would always stick up for Icey whenever Frieza would laugh at her Tourette or her clumsiness.
"Oh this looks so lovely, I'm so happy that you invited us over." Icey said.
"Yes why did you all the sudden invite us over, you never invite us over to talk let alone hang out with." Constantine said.
Yes it was Constantine's right to be suspicious of Frieza's friendly invitation; for one thing Frieza was not friendly at all. Usually when he was that meant that he wanted something out of it, he had done this when he was a child and Cooler even knew what that meant.
Frieza smiled and said, "Oh dear, sweet Constantine I wanted to make up to you about last night of course, you know how I was on a date with Liya and I bumped into you two unexpectedly?" Frieza said.
"Yes we think nothing of it!" Constantine said sitting down and putting his napkin in his lap.
"I think something of it; Liya is the rudest person I have ever met!" Icey said sitting down as well.
"Yes I remember in ballet, when you two used to compete with one another for the mini prima ballerina!" Frieza said laughing.
"It was the worst nightmare anyone can go through, I'm glad I don't do ballet anymore." Icey said taking a piece of bread and spreading butter on it with her knife.
Meanwhile Zarbon and Appule were outside of the dining room trying to figure out a way to sneak into the kitchen and get the apple pie that Frieza planned to poison Constantine when he ate it.
"How are we going to pull this off, it's almost impossible to think about!" Appule said.
"I have an idea, how about you go into the kitchen and tell the cook that he is needed into the dining room while I'll sneak into the kitchen and get rid of the pie!" Zarbon said.
"Ok that's fine," Appule said.
Appule went into the kitchen and tapped the cook on the shoulder, "Yes can I help you?" she asked turning around.
Where did the man cook go? Was he sick, on vacation, was he executed? Appule had no time to speculate, it was only a matter of time before Constantine would be eating the pie that Frieza had poisoned for him.
"I believe that Frieza wants to see you in the dining room." Appule said taking her by the hand and leading her down the hall to the dining room.
Zarbon then snuck in and could not see the pie on the table, perhaps it was in the refrigerator? He went up to the refrigerator, opened it and saw the pie, it looked delicious, but deadly as well. Yep there was defiantly some kind of toxin in there, Zarbon was about to take it out of the refrigerator, but sensed someone coming into the kitchen! He panicked he would get whipped by Frieza if Frieza ever caught him sneaking food.
The cook went up to Frieza in the dining room, Frieza looked surprised to see her, "What are you doing here? Is something wrong with the desert?" Frieza asked.
"That's strange I thought that you called me here because you wanted to ask me something!" The cook said confused.
"Nonsense, who told you that?" Frieza asked.
"I don't know his name since I'm new here, but…" before she could finish, Frieza interrupted her.
"Get out of here and make sure that desert is ok!" Frieza said.
She then ran out of the dining room scared, while Constantine and Icey looked at Frieza like he was mad. There was some reason why Frieza wanted that desert to be ok, but they would have no idea why.
"How interesting, I wonder what you were going to tell her?" Icey said.
"Let's not let this spoil the evening!" Frieza said fake smiling.
Zarbon meanwhile decided to hide behind one of the many stoves in the kitchen, the person came into the kitchen and went to the refrigerator, Zarbon could not see who it was nor really tried to look, he only thought to stay quiet.
"You look yummy my precious pie!" The voice said.
It was Vegeta! That stupid Sayain Prince, such a snob on a way bigger scale than Zarbon could ever be, since he was raised by the Sayains to think of his own race as superior to that of other species of the universe. He also had a major appetite for food and Frieza had a curfew for him sneaking food as well. Vegeta then took the apple pie out of the refrigerator, went to the table and put it down. He grabbed a fork and knife out of the cabinets and was about to eat the pie.
Zarbon usually hated the Sayain, but he did not want him to die so soon nor see him throwing up blood, so he had to stop him! Zarbon got up fast and then hit his head on the lights, "Ouch that hurts!" he yelled putting his hand on his head.
Vegeta turned around and saw Zarbon in the kitchen, what was the pretty boy doing in the kitchen? Was he perhaps sneaking food too, or maybe he was going to tattle on him. Either way he knew too much! "Zippy what are you doing in the kitchen?" Vegeta asked.
"I would not eat that pie if I were you!" Zarbon said.
"Why not, so that you can get fatter like you used to be when you were a kid?" Vegeta asked laughing.
"That's not nice at all!" Zarbon said.
"That's right, Frieza told me all about your weight problem when you were younger and even told me some of the nicknames people used to call you! So if I were you, I would get out of here before I start telling Nappa and Raddiz what those names used to be! I'll have them spread as many rumors among the sex slaves about you as they can!" Vegeta said.
All the sudden the cook ran into the kitchen and saw Zarbon and Vegeta arguing, "Vegeta!" she yelled.
"Amenli!" Vegeta yelled back.
"That is not the pie that I promised you!" she said.
Zarbon turned to Vegeta, "You bribed her into giving you food?" Zarbon asked.
"I couldn't resist him, he's just so charming and handsome, in a Sayain warrior kind of way!" the cook said gulping.
"Even if it isn't the pie you promised me I'm going to do the dishonest thing and eat it!" Vegeta said about to put the pie into his mouth. He was too hungry to really care what anyone else thought.
"NOOOO!" Zarbon and the cook yelled together.
It was too late, Vegeta had to go to the hospital to get his stomach pumped before Frieza found out about him eating the poison pie. Vegeta needless to say was not happy that the pie was poisoned and immediately accused Zarbon and the cook of plotting to kill him since apple pie was his favorite desert.
Vegeta lied in bed throwing up into a spit up bucket that the nurse gave to him, "I can't believe that you tried to poison me!" Vegeta yelled at Zarbon and the cook.
"No I was going to make a pie for you, but I had to take care of Frieza first!" the cook said.
"Oh so it was Frieza that you were trying to poison!" Vegeta yelled spitting up into the bucket.
"No never, he requested me to make the pie!" the cook said.
"Amenli, who was the pie originally for?" Vegeta asked as he started spitting up blood.
"I don't know Frieza just told me to make the pie! He never said who it was for or who would be eating it! He just told me to put a whole bottle of rat poison into the pie and make it look like there was no rat poison at all!" Amenli said.
"You and Zarbon need to get out of here right now!" Vegeta yelled as his throw up and blood reached the top of the bucket. "Nurse I need a new bucket! Get me a new bucket!" Vegeta yelled.
Zarbon did not bother to stay and went home, he tried to think about what Frieza's next move to kill his friend and rival would be.
As for Frieza's backup plan to poison Constantine, it completely backfired since Constantine and Icey decided to skip desert and go home early. Constantine was safe…for now, Frieza would have to kill him some other time.
Frieza had to think of something else, this time not blab to Zarbon or Appule just to be more cunning! However that did not go over well since Zarbon was able to sniff his next plan out. You see Frieza made it illegal to communicate telepathically, but it was one hard thing to resist not doing, since most of the aliens that hung around Frieza could communicate telepathically anyways. Frieza was born with no telepathic powers at all, he was just born to kill really.
Either way Zarbon was able to read Cooler's mind while he was walking past him, Cooler was against the idea of having one of their best generals that they shared together murdered. Also Icey would be heartbroken, although Frieza's feelings for his cousin were strong even to the point where Cooler was not fooled. He knew that Frieza had horrible strategic talent and horrible calculations.
Zarbon ran to the room where Appule was located, Appule was about to go assist someone in the emergency room, then Zarbon came into his room, "Appule Frieza is going to try to keep on killing Constantine and marry Icey!" Zarbon said.
"I don't really like Constantine that much anyways!" Appule said.
"Appule, Constantine is one of the best generals of Frieza, if Frieza kills him or exiles him, then we're in deep trouble!" Zarbon said.
"But if you don't let Frieza kill Constantine and marry Icey then he'll get even worse over time!" Appule said.
"Still Constantine might be my friend and all that, but he's still my rival and I need the drama in my life so it makes him look more inhuman than me whenever we decide to kill an entire species! He's more ruthless than I am! I don't like to order the elimination of species, but Constantine has no problem doing so!" Zarbon said.
"Yes but saving Constantine almost got us killed the last time!" Appule said as he was going out of the room.
"Fine then I have to save him myself! I need to make sure that there are no assassination attempts!" Zarbon said to himself.
Later on he happened to see Shasha and Dodoria sitting down for a sandwich talking with one another; it had been a hard day of training which they usually did together.
"I hear we have job to do at ball!" Shasha said in his thick Russian accent.
"What might that be?" Dodoria asked.
"We must assassinate Constantine husband of that pretty Icey Cold, you know Frieza's cousin?" Shasha asked.
Uh oh, it was true! Frieza had not given up the opportunity to kill his cousin's husband! Zarbon had to come up with a new plan.
The night of the ball approached sooner than Zarbon could come up with a plan to stop everything. He decided since he had no idea how Frieza would try to destroy Constantine, that he would have to look out for anyone suspicious.
Other than that, he dressed up for the ball as usual, however something was a little bit off, he did not see Constantine or Icey there. He wondered if he was too late or if they were late, or if they canceled or what-not.
He then dialed Appule on his cell phone, "Hello?" Appule answered.
"Appule it's me Zarbon, do you have any idea where Constantine is?" Zarbon asked.
"How should I know, I'm not at the ball." Appule said.
"Give me that phone!" Icey said taking the phone from Appule.
"Icey is that you?" Zarbon asked.
"Yes Zarbon it is me, we decided not to go to the ball, since Constantine isn't feeling well and he has a major problem with some bad gas, and it smells bad!" Icey said.
"Good because I was so worried that Frieza's hit men would kill Constantine!" Zarbon said.
"What Frieza hired hit-men to kill him? Why would he do such a horrible thing?" Icey asked.
"Ok let me come over there, where are you?" Zarbon asked.
"We are at the hospital and Constantine is about to get into the tank to fart out all his gas out, the water said that it should calm his body down enough to release the gas out." Icey said.
Zarbon then hung the phone up and tried to go, "Where do you think you're going?" a voice said.
Zarbon turned around, it was Liya she looked beautiful, more-so than she ever had before, even if it was said in another story that she looked that way, this is the truth this time.
"Hi Liya what's up with you?" Zarbon asked.
"Why are you talking to Appule on the phone and not to me? I came here to find you, and now that you are about to leave my presence I'm quite upset!" Liya said.
"Aw I'm so sorry to hear that," Zarbon then picked the petite Liya up and hugged her tightly.
"Oh Zarbon! Could we ever be together ever again, especially after I dumped you for someone my own species all those years ago?" Liya asked.
"Nope I got to go bye!" Zarbon then put Liya down and ran out of the ball.
He ran to the hospital and met Icey there in the room where Constantine was in the healing tank farting a lot. Yes Zarbon truly did not understand the situation, but at least Constantine was in no immediate danger.
"Zarbon why does Frieza want to kill Constantine? I thought he liked him killing a lot of people!" Icey said.
"It's difficult, but I'm going to have to tell you the truth! I can't lie anymore for Frieza! Frieza wants to marry you and since Constantine is your husband, he thinks the right thing to do would be to kill him first and then marry you later." Zarbon said.
"Ew Frieza wants to marry me, yuck he's my cousin, I can't do that that's just tasteless and gross! Besides Frieza is not tall, he is not remotely cute, and he drinks too much!" Icey said.
"I know that, but we have to get you out of this situation somehow!" Zarbon said.
"The only person I can think of that would be brave enough to convince my cousin not to marry me and kill Constantine would be my older cousin Cooler!" Icey yelled.
"Sounds perfect!" Zarbon yelled.
Zarbon and Icey ran out of the room while they left Appule having to deal with Constantine farting in that healing tank.
Cooler was not at the ball, it was just some kind of welcome ball to the new Ginyu Force anyways. Cooler could not understand why Captain Ginyu was put in charge of that school that was turned into a university and into a school.
Sauza that blue humanoid, who was genetically proven to be Cooler's illegitimate son from a raped slave girl, was at his side. In public however, Sauza was not allowed to call him father. He was not allowed to tell people that he was his son, he also was not allowed to show his Icejin Changeling feet either. He had to keep a low profile, although he suffered from narcolepsy a common disorder among the Cold family.
Sad thing was that Sauza used to be in love with Zarbon since nobody else would be his friend, even though he was supposed to be Zarbon's adoptive cousin since Zarbon was adopted by Frieza. Zarbon on the other hand never had any feelings for Sauza and rejected him, Sauza was crushed. However, Sauza also liked girls, so it's not like his heart was completely broken.
Zarbon and Icey went up to Cooler and Sauza, "Well hello Zarbon, long time no see, I mean really." Sauza said.
"Cooler Frieza wants to marry me and kill Constantine, can you possibly save Constantine somehow?" Icey asked.
"Yes I could, but first things first; I need his records from working with Frieza so that I can make him my general so he doesn't have to work for Frieza anymore." Cooler said.
"Oh damn it! Now I'm going to have to order the elimination of species for him!" Zarbon yelled.
"I don't understand your logic of being kind-hearted Zarbon, but we all have to do things we don't want to do. So I suggest that you get the paperwork and I can have a talk with Frieza and see if I could possibly save his life so he could work for me in destroying and occupying other planets." Cooler said.
"That's fine, but why do you hate killing entire species, I don't understand that at all." Icey said to Zarbon.
"Yes I'm not proud that I'm soft deep down inside, but it's in my nature to be softhearted." Zarbon said.
Then Zarbon had a flashback of him as a little boy and Frieza ripping a beautiful butterfly up in front of him, this butterfly he chased after many times, but Frieza caught it and started to use his hardening tactics on the soft and sensitive little Zarbon.
"Zarbon if you don't do what Frieza says, I will declare a butterfly genocide…on the entire butterfly race! MA HA HA HA!" Frieza said throwing the suffering bug onto the ground. Frieza then stepped on it and Zarbon cried even more.
Frieza caught another butterfly and starting to rip its wings off. Poor little Zarbon stood there crying his tender young heart out.
"Leave those butterflies alone Frieza, they did nothing to you!" Zarbon said as a little kid in the past.
Back to the present, the flashback had made Zarbon angry to when he ranted out, "They did nothing to you Frieza!"
Everyone looked at him like he was nuts, "Oh so it's one of those things, that doesn't make much sense hum?" Icey asked.
"Yes, yes it is, I would rather not talk about it," Zarbon said.
Everything turned out for the best, Constantine got a new job as general for Cooler, got paid twice as much as he did from his last job and was even granted mercy from Cooler! Icey was happy and she got to file a restraining order against Frieza, which Frieza was not allowed to change or else big brother Cooler could get mad at him.
Zarbon got a promotion as Frieza's top general, the job that Constantine had, and he did not have to take the blame for killing another species as long as he lived…well almost never again. He still had to vote with the other lesser generals on whether to murder an entire species or not, and he continued to be outvoted since most of Frieza's other generals were ruthless and wanted those species destroyed, they did not have the tender heart that Zarbon had.
As for Liya, well she was still trying to win Zarbon's heart back, which would either be in her dreams, or take longer to do so.
End of Story