Chapter 28- A new planet, a new threat

They didn't really have much imagination for the color of the planets in the universe. This Namek was blue as well. The only difference being it was considerably bigger than the last planet, and was full to the brim of technology.

In fact, as the pod drew closer- there didn't seem to be any tech on this planet.

I could see where Piccolo got his habit of hanging out in wastelands from, because that was pretty much all this planet was. Desolate green land with blue bushed trees.

Not a single namekian to be seen. Which got me wondering if the rest of this species would look like Piccolo, providing we found them that is.

Vegeta had taken a continuous nap over the past couple of days it took the pod to reach namek, but was wide awake and fully alert as the pod brushed against the rolling green land. He almost ripped the door open if his hurry to get out, hastily attaching the scouter across his right eye.

"Alright I'm of" He said, whilst I was still clambering out the pod, my muscles stiff from lack of movement and exercise.

"Off where!?" I said in exasperatedly. We had barely been here five seconds, where was he expecting to go.

"To find Frieza" He called over his shoulder as he set of at a jog across the barren land.

I would have stopped him but it was pointless. The saiyan was on a mission. He was probably going to use the scouter to locate him. He wouldn't need if he could sense energy like the rest of us. A confession he had made in the all too silent pod when conversation was as dead as half the stars.

You wouldn't even need to be an expert to sense what could only be Frieza's energy on this planet. I had never felt something so malevolent. There were other tiny pinpricks of energy dotted around the lands, which I could assume to be the namekians.

And then, smack in the middle of a group of the pinpricks, was two balls of energy around about the same as Vegeta and a massive dark force at the head of them. If that wasn't Frieza, I dreaded to think what could be.

I was already filled with dread as it was, knowing from the fear in the aliens back on Frieza planet 365 that there could be nothing good coming of a gathering of namekians with him.

I had already started flying before the thought of that it wasn't my business came up. But then that's what I'd been doing ever since I left that human-infested planet. Poking my nose in business that wasn't mine.

Practically instigating my own death sentence at certain occasions.

The flight wasn't long, but already a few pinpricks of life had dropped of by the time I reached a voluptuous crate made from rock. The mountains here were nowhere near as big as the ones on new earth, but they made up for in thickness.

The important thing was they provided cover, and as I heard a blood-curdling scream- I figured that was all I needed.

I let the scream die and a body drop before I risked poking my head around the corner. The sight that greeted e wasn't pretty. Little circular houses were empty as the natives had been forced outside to a massacre. Five green bodies similar to Piccolo's but a darker shade and thicker lay decimated on the ground. Those would have been the strongest. Fighting to defend their village.

All that was left now was the namekian elder who was a very dark shade of green, wrinkled with age.

In front of them was the energies from before, with small, unimportant energies beside them. Those were clearly the henchman, similar to the ones of Frieza planet 365. The two Vegeta sized energies belonged to a grotesque, pink spiked alien that looked as mean as a sumo wrestler, and had the size to fit the bill too. He clutched two orange balls in his grubby hands, each with stars in the middle. I counted five on one and two on the other.

The next was much more endearing. A handsome, blue skinned alien with green braided hair. He was tall and lean, with a haughty look on his sculptured features. He wore the same chest armor as the others, but his long blue legs were encased in dark blue stockings. He too clutched two of the orange balls. A three star and a six star this time.

'Oh here we go again'

'Very funny, he's probably gay. The handsome ones always are'

In between them though was the thing from nightmares. The appearance may have fooled someone at first but he was clearly a force to be reckoned with.

He was small but deadly. He sat regally in a hovering chair with a tail the size of godzilla's hanging over the side flippantly. The tail had a curved point on the end and like the rest of his skin, was pink with wrinkled lines. His torso covered by the same sort of armor his troops wore, except it seemed to be integrated with his skin.

The face was the worst part of it all. Purple lipstick on chapped skin. Pink stripes of the wrinkled skin under his eyes contrasting with the pale violet of his face. The eyes seemed to be too thin. The top of his head had no hair, only an outer skin casing with two black horns either side of it.

An orange henchman stepped out of the circular homes, clutching another of the balls. The one called Frieza beckoned him with a bony finger and the alien hastened over to him, placidly handing him the ball.

It was silent for a moment, a staring contest emerging between the elder namekian and Frieza. His henchman stood bored beside him. It was only when the hottie lifted a finger to his face I realized the three major ones had scouters just like Vegeta's. I wondered if they were still observing his conversations.

A blue finger tapped the side of the scouter, expression unchanging as numerals flicked over the red plastic.

"Well Zarbon?" Frieza spoke for the first time, the voice harsh but feminine. Doubts crossed in my mind as I had never comprehended that Frieza could be a woman.

"My lord, Que has arrived on schedule and is looking for Vegeta as we speak" Oh, well that settled that one.

"And the scouts we sent out earlier?"

"They seem to have just apprehended the new arrivals now sir" The two voices were very opposite. Zarbon's was deep but with a lilting accent. If Frieza kept females there was no doubt they would all over this one.

A gasp then escaped Zarbon as he continued reading the numerals.

"What is it?" A hint of frustration in the feminine tone.

"Uh, well my lord. It seems that the scouts we had sent out for our new arrivals have just been..killed" Frieza sighed softly.

"It seems I have employed such weak henchman. Never mind, we'll take care of the new arrivals if needs be" He sounded bored, like killing was the sort of thing he discussed everyday.

"That's not all sir" Zarbon seemed hestitant to fill in the rest.

"What is it now Zarbon" He made no effort to keep out the annoyed tone.

"Que has found Vegeta"

"And?.."

"His power level is far more substantial than it was before"

"How so"

"It's already at twenty thousand and still rising"

"What!? I thought him and Que were supposed to be evenly matched!"

"Well they were sir but it seems Vegeta's little trip to earth has given him a little power boost"

"Twenty two thousand!" Zarbon exclaimed, and the plastic suddenly sparked and blew into pieces, hitting the ground as fragments. Zarbon winced a little too late.

"Huh, would you look at that. The scouter's gone and malfunctioned. After all there's no way Vegeta could have raised his level in such a short amount of time. I told you, you should have switched to the newer model" The pink monster then pressed a stubby finger to his own scouter, watching with mute interest as the numerals quickly flashed.

"Twenty-four thousand? How's that even possible"

"It's insignificant" Frieza calmly stated.

"But it's higher than both mine and Zarbon's power levels" He flustered.

"Insignificant to me" Well that said it all about the people in this universe.

"Any other tedious information you'd like to report?"

"Que is dead" Oh, well that's good news at least.

"Interesting" Frieza then flicked a pointy nailed finger towards the watching namekian, a purple beam zapping him straight through the heart.

"I would say business is done here"

"Yes my lord" The two spoke simultaneously.

"There's another village about thirty miles from him" Zarbon and the other one nodded before the whole lot of them, henchman and all blasted through the air at the speed of light.

They left a brooding silence behind.

"My god. What did I just see"

"I don't know Lessa, but how about you don't get involved this time huh?"