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Kid Vegeta Saga:
The Hardest Mission

Beep beep.

I hate this annoying sound of my scouter! Just get it on with it!

"Come on! I know you're here somewhere. I can read your presence!" I screamed out loud.

"Somebody has to teach you patience."

Who was that? I turn around, slightly in fear, to face the inhabitants. They are pale, as white as can be, but have the strangest hair colors: blue, just like their eyes. What is even stranger is they look very much like us Saiyans, except for the blue hair and eyes. They are decent looking slender humanoids, just like me, but dressed in strange pale-green garments that hangs loose from their shoulders and tied around the waist with a brown leather belt.

"We have no desire to hurt you if you came in peace," the leader, I assume, spoke up.

"Peace? I came here to rule you all, not for rainbows and unicorns!" I spoke too soon, once again. I've made that mistake twice in a row, first with the lady-boy Zarbon, and now with the Gorgons.

Me and my big mouth.

"You're just a boy, but you have the black heart of an evil adult," said the same person who told that I have to learn patience. He is slightly younger than the leader. I assume he's the strongest warrior of the group of twenty men who are all waiting for the leader's approval to attack me after I blurted out my true intentions here.

"Don't try my patience!" I hissed. I hate it when people talk like they know everything about me; I've lost someone dear to me. I can't fool myself into thinking that my mother was a worthless Saiyan. Yet I believe every word my father tells me about a Saiyan's honor. I still can't forget about her. She was sent on the hardest mission and failed. Now, I won't fail. This mission is not only for myself and the king, but also for the fallen queen. Mother, I won't fail this mission on you.

Notice me, mother.

"Oh, I see that I hit a nerve." That guy smirks at me, but looks away at the older Gorgon. "Leader Gorg, do I have your permission to rid our planet of this beast?"

"You may do so, Mish." Gorg, the leader, turns his back on me as if I'm nothing more than just an insect. Curse him!

I am infuriated. Angry that others don't acknowledge my strength and status. Well, no more. Everything is going to change from now on. I can test my power boost I got from Zarbon that day. I begin to power up, my blue aura licking my tiny body as I lift myself off the ground and fly to the person called Mish. I have to beat him.

He's fast! Better look out! Mish thought.

My first move is my fist, as usual, followed by my knee plugging into Mish's gut – completely taking him by surprise – playing dirty, just how I want it to be. I hear his groans. Good; he's in pain, which means I'm taking the lead. I quickly elbow him in the face, leaving his well-shaped nose to bleed.

Blue blood? Strange; it's my first time seeing it, even though they say that a royalty's blood is azure-blue… I find that nonsense. Nothing can be as ruby-red like the growing passion inside of me that mirrors the imaginary scarlet fluid I want to spill on this peaceful planet – or what it seemed to me earlier.

I send him flying to the nearest mountain by kicking him in a rotating way, scowling as I am, I grunt heavily while doing so. That guy is innocent. I am the one who invaded his planet to disrupt their peace and harmony. Therefore, I am guilty. However, I am imagining in my mind that I am fighting the most ruthless creature I've ever met, Frieza.

He crashes against the beige mountain. The Gorgons who were all rooting for Mish are silenced. Good; they're all afraid of me…! Look how they're trembling at the sight of me.

"Now, bow down to the prince of all Saiyans, who took his precious time to play around with your pitiful kind!" I begin to laugh.

"I think you're the one to talk, prince." I hear from a relatively long distance, but loud enough to make out who and what it was saying.

I'm not having my day…

"OOFGH!"

Take that, you monster! Mish thought after he headbutts the four-year-old Saiyan prince.

The first thought I am having is, what the Hell is going on?! I can't seem to measure myself up to this as of why I'm not leading the fight like before. Was he going easy on me just a few seconds ago?

Oh, the humility…

My scouter wasn't defected; this guy's strength is huge. I can hear the Gorgons cheering even more loudly than before. Is this my fate? I fall on the hard green ground, waiting for my end.

Just make it quick…

Mish grabs my armor by the collar. "Weakling. You were so full of yourself earlier. I have to admit, no one did quite a number on me like you did in a long time. But I have to say that never in my lifetime did a kid even twice your age made me use my power like today. I'll make sure that you can no longer harm anyone. If your heart is as evil as this, what will become of you when you reach adulthood, hmm?"

I gag.

"Any last words, fallen warrior?" Mish's scowl deepened. The Gorgons were hesitating the prince's demise. After all, Vegeta was a kid. He could change.

He can make a difference.

"E…Evil huh?" I catch Mish off guard and somehow surprise him. "I… know nothing…" I throw up thick blood. "…except for… being this way…" I continue to lock my dark eyes into his blue ones. My mouth does not talk, but I let my eyes do the talking.

My eyes can talk.
My eyes say everything.

Now that Vegeta gets a taste of his own medicine, will he survive this battle? Find out in the next chapter of Legendary Assassin.

Yeah, I've been on a vacation. But I have to admit, I like this chapter, especially the last part. Ever wondered the same thing when a scene zoomed into Vegeta's eyes? It always felt like his eyes were doing the talking instead of his mouth. His eyes are a mystery and have a history.

Please review and make my day! =D I promise to upload faster if you make me happy this way.

You have a point about Vegeta 'changing,' However, you should remember that without anyone to follow his orders, he HAD to do all of the killing. I'm sure he still found killing a vast amount of Namekians amusing, thanks to their numbers.
- Nothing will be altered about his natural Saiyan bloodlust. But you should keep in mind that Akira had the intention to make Vegeta the exact opposite of Nappa: the brains, strength, short, more patient, charming, more evil, and handsome.

Frieza kind of adapted Vegeta to a slave pet he wanted to break and turn him into nothing but a killing machine. Any friend Vegeta had a bond with got killed. This went to the point he would carelessly throw away his comrades lives no matter how meaningful they were once to him like Nappa was pretty much his father in the end guiding the prince to at least stick to Saiyan values and never to let Frieza have the last laugh.
- Nappa was indeed the only father figure Vegeta had after his own father's death, but you have to keep in mind that Vegeta never thought of Nappa that way, he even thought Nappa was an annoyance during the Saiyan Saga. However, there is a reason way beyond Planet Vegeta and the royal family's destruction that Vegeta grew up hating Frieza, without letting his 'master' get wind of it. In real life, we call it the early stages of sociopathic disorder.

Frieza gave them weak missions so they wouldn't get stronger. He'd let him get stronger a bit but then his strength would stay still.
- That's the most obvious answer. It's strange that Vegeta was the strongest of the planet and only get around 5000 - 6000 power boost in two decades. That's why I'm changing a few things to make DBZ more believable than Akira's attempt.

I'd say if Raditz or Nappa ever fucked up, Vegeta would get blamed and tortured etc.
- How can you be so sure? I'd say that Vegeta got mentally tortured by Frieza by humiliation, and not physically; Vegeta would have gained a lot of power if Frieza even nailed him once. I've read these kind of fanfictions here about 'stereotypical' Vegeta-Frieza torture, but it doesn't even make sense if you look at it my way.

I DEFINITELY want to explore that Vegeta. Could you send me a bio of exactly what he's like, so that I can try writing him like that in my DBZ fics? It's unlikely that I'll make him exactly like he is supposed to be due to me being more used to the anime version of Vegeta, but I WILL try.
- Why not research it yourself?

So, we get to see how Vegeta is supposed to be? It's confusing, but I'm willing to give it a try.
- It was even more confusing for me why Vegeta changed so much after the Saiyan Saga. I didn't get that eerie dark feeling anymore that I used to.

Saiyan Saga Vegeta has always been my favorite, so I'm really, REALLY curious to see how everything plays out.
- Mine too! Hopefully you'll enjoy reading it =)

Toriyama doesn't hate Vegeta, don't be a fanboy. He even gave Vegeta the hottest MILF in Dragon Ball and made him into a Gary Stu. You know who Toriyama hates? Look at Yamcha.
- I'm not a boy and I'm not fanboying or fangirling Vegeta over a fact that is stated by AT himself, thank you. The real Gary Stu of DBZ is Goku. You'd do well researching the definition of "Gary Stu", as you probably don't know the meaning behind it.

The reason he didn't kill more when Raditz and Nappa were alive because even though he was a lot stronger than they were, he let them kill more people.
- That's why he let Nappa do all the fighting and agreed without even making Nappa reconsider. Remember how Vegeta was very eager to "dirty his hands" during the Buu Saga twice by rock-paper-scissors with Goku and Gohan?

I can see PATIENT(!) Vegeta doing very well after the whole "tries to obliterate Earth" thing
- Patience can be even deadlier than hasty like Nappa. Try to remember how he was compared to Nappa and why it was the reason that it scared Piccolo when he compared Vegeta to Nappa during the Saiyan Saga when Vegeta was waiting for Goku to show up.

I am curious. Just please don't change Vegeta TOO MUCH.
- I'm not changing Vegeta. I'm just 'reviving' him.

The reason why Vegeta never did anything big is because his Japanese fans liked Goku and his family more.
- Japanese fans have seen Goku grow up into an adult from the first episode and beyond. But the Japanese fans (especially girls) were rooting for Vegeta because they, too, thought that Vegeta was awesome, even though they didn't know him as well as Goku. Most Westerners started out with DBZ, the arrival of Raditz, so that is also one of the main reasons, other than Goku's humble nature that the Japanese adore, that Vegeta has more fans in the West than Japan.