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Dragon Ball Z is owned by Akira Toriyama, I own nothing except my own OC and ideas.

Kat slowly opened her eyes to the blue sky above. She couldn't really remember what had happened. The last thing she remembered was Gohan- Gohan!

She jerked her body up and realized she was lying on grass in some sort of field.

"So you've finally woken up," she heard a voice behind her.

She looked over her shoulder only to have to look up at the large form that was Raditz. Only then did her memory of the day's events come back to her.

"Shit," she mumbled.

"I was starting to think I overdid it," he said in a cool husky voice.

"What do you want? I thought aliens were supposed to come in peace," she spat, slowly getting up and dusting herself off.

He chuckled, "Please, peace is the last thing I came to bring."

"Can't your ass just leave this planet? No point in trying to convince Goku. He'll say no either way."

Despite appearing to be quite spunky at the moment, Kat's heart was beating erratically. This guy could kill her at any moment, without warning at that! She had to be strong however not only for herself, but for Gohan as well. She couldn't let this guy know just how scared she was of him at the moment.

"We'll see about that. After all, not only do I have his son but I also have one of his precious friends," he replied, slowly walking towards her until he was standing right in front of her. "And a fine one I should add," he smirked, running the back of his index finger across her cheek.

She stepped back, away from him, away from his touch. "Where's Gohan?" she demanded glaring at him.

"Who? The brat? He was being annoying so I locked him up in my pod," he smirked, pointing behind him at the huge crater in the ground.

Kat peered behind him and gaped at the large crater.

"That is definitely not coming in peace," she muttered running over to it.

Raditz looked on as she ran to the crater in an attempt to probably comfort the boy. It didn't really matter to him; she could try to escape for all he cared but it would all be in vain, for he would be able to easily track her with his scouter.

Once on the edge, she saw the foreign space pod in the center, and in it, she could see poor Gohan crying. "Gohan!" she called, carefully sliding down in an attempt to make it to the crying boy. Once there she tapped the window on the pod trying to get Gohan's attention. "Gohan!" she called again, this time successful.

"Miss Kat?" Gohan sniffed, rubbing his eyes tiredly.

"Hey," Kat soothed, "you alright?"

"Ah, so you've managed to shut him up at last," Raditz, standing tall on the edge of the crater, sneered with his arms crossed across his armor covered chest. "I should at least thank you for that." Kat looked up and glared at him then turned her attention back to the poor boy locked up in the space pod.

"W-where's my daddy?"

"Your daddy will be here soon, I promise. And when he is, he'll make sure to kick some alien ass!" she shouted the last part hoping Raditz would hear.

He laughed, "As if Kakarrot could even lay a finger on me. Apparently you missed how easily I took care of him."

"Oh I saw it all right," she murmured. She turned back to Gohan, "Hey Gohan, mind doing me a favor and sit down on that seat."

Gohan did as instructed. Kat then pressed her face against the window in attempt to see as much of the pod as she could. Everything looked so complex. It was hard for her to even try and make out the simplest things.

"Try as much as you want, you won't be able to open it."

Kat sighed. She wasn't really scared anymore. Now, it was more like annoyance. "Please, I can break into almost anything," she said rather proudly of her talent. "Now Gohan," she said getting the young boy's attention who was fiddling with the hem of his shirt. "Press as many buttons as you can until this door opens."

"Nice try but that pod only answers to me."

"Dammit," she mumbled. "Everything will be all right, I promise. Try not to make too much of a fuss and stay calm. I'll be right back, in the meantime just try not to waste too much energy, take a nap or something." He was probably safer in there than out here.

"Be careful Miss Kat."

"Sure thing buddy," she gave him a thumbs up then began climbing the crater. When she hooked her leg atop the edge to climb out she felt something in the pocket of her sweats. She sat up with her legs dangling on the edge and felt her pocket for what it could be. Then it struck her. Her phone! How could she have forgotten it! She could just squeal in delight if it weren't for the pain in the ass standing a little ways from her.

"Hey you! I have to go to the bathroom!" she hollered out to him.

"Excuse me?"

"You heard me! I have to use the little girls' room."

"Well then go," he smirked at her.

"Perv," she mumbled. "I need privacy," she looked around the area, "like those boulders over there."

"Fine but you only have five minutes to make it there and back."

"I'll make it." She ran off to the boulders smirking to herself. Once she was out of sight she pulled out her phone and a little card Bulma had given her earlier.

She hunched down and dialed the number and hoped someone would pick up fast. Second ring later someone answered, "Hello?"

"Bulma?" Kat whispered.

"Kat?!"

"Yo." Kat could hear the voices of Krillin and Master Roshi in the background sounding surprised as well.

"Oh my goodness Kat, are you alright? Is Gohan alright? Where are you guys? Have you been hurt?"

"I'm fine. Gohan's fine. Neither of us have been hurt. I don't exactly know where we are but Gohan has the Dragon Ball, couldn't you use the radar to find us?"

"Yeah but not at the moment, we're having slight technical difficulties and not only that but Piccolo's here on the island! He and Goku are actually going to work together in an attempt to defeat that Raditz guy!"

"Goku's probably still beat up huh?"

"Yeah..."

"Listen, I don't have much time. You have to trust me on this, don't come after us right away."

"W-What!?"

"Trust me, have Goku rest up and replenish his energy and plan everything out more thoroughly. We're not in any really danger. Hell, Gohan's probably safer than I am. He's locked up in the guy's space pod thingy. I can take care of myself so don't you worry about a thing. Please."

"….Fine. Please be careful."

Just as she hung up she noticed a shadow looming over her and the next thing she knew, her phone was snatched out of her hand.

"Hey- what the-!"

"Time's up," Raditz said in a low voice, easily crushing the phone in his hand.

Kat's jaw fell to the floor. "What the hell!" she stood up straight and glared at him. "Do you have any idea how much that cost- wait, you perv! What if I were to have actually been doing something? I'm pretty sure I still had like a minute left."

"Well it seems as though you were lucky now weren't you?" he leaning over her.

"You son of a- hey what are you doing? Put me down!" she thrashed as he tossed her over his armor clad shoulder.

"I need to take better care of you," he said, placing a hand on the back of her thighs as he walked back to the field.

"That hand better not move any higher," she mumbled.

"What was that?" he smirked to himself.

"Nothing! Just put me downnn- ow! I said put me down not toss me down!" she said, rubbing her sore bottom.

"You humans complain a lot."

"Really? Is that fucking so?"

"Don't test my patience, Kat."

"Don't test your patience?" Kat laughed. "I can act like a complete bitch just for the sole purpose of testing your patience, Raditz," she challenged.

"Don't you forget that I can easily kill you right here, right now," he threatened menacingly.

"Really? If that's the case then why haven't you killed me yet? Hm? If you're going to kill me might as well do it now, I won't even turn around."

'This woman…' Raditz thought as he observed Kat with her arms crossed across her chest. "I won't kill you . . . not now at least."

"Yay for me," Kat muttered sarcastically, "Beats having to pay all of those unpaid parking tickets I've got piling up at home." She sat down crossed legged and began to think up of ways on how to possibly make time go by faster. Something told her that Bulma was able to convince Goku to wait and replenish his strength.

Raditz watched Kat as she played with strands of her hair while sitting on the ground facing away from him. If he thought Gohan was the only pain here, he was wrong. Kat was ensuring that she piss him off as much as she could. He could play games too. Oh how he would enjoy this. Now what should he do to get under Kat's skin? The more he thought about it, the more he realized that Kat got irritated just by his mere presence. A dark smile crept its way onto his face as he knew the perfect way to mess with her. He snapped out of his thoughts as he noticed her getting up and walking towards the space pod.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

Kat ignored him and continued walking towards the space pod until she was at the edge of the crater. She began to slowly slide down but then her body collided into something hard.

"Ow! Damn it! What the fu-"

"I asked you a question, what are you doing?" Raditz asked, looming over her as she rubbed her face.

"Owww," she mumbled. Man was his armor hard. "What does it look like I'm doing!" she glared at him.

"I thought we established that you can't be left on your own," he answered slyly.

"Does it look like I'm making any calls? And besides you destroyed the only form of communication I had. There's no point in running away since that thingy shit on your head will track me down."

"You're smart for a puny human."

"I'm not an idiot," she said. "And I'm not short, you're just freakishly tall. Now if you would be so kind as to get out of my way," she said clasping her hands together. He just stared at her until he slowly stepped to the side and allowed her to pass. She then headed to the pod and saw that Gohan had actually fallen asleep. Aw, poor kid.

Raditz noticed the way her eyes softened upon looking into the window of the pod and was curious as to what had caused her change in demeanor. "What is it?"

"He's asleep." Was all she said as she turn and climbed out of the crater. He stood there for a few seconds before simply flying out and onto the ground up above.

She went back to where she was seated before and rested her arms on her knees. She was seriously bored and needed something to do. She exhaled loudly then switched from sitting to lying on her side with her arm propped up so that her hand was supporting her head.

"Why does it matter so much if Goku comes with you or not?" she asked, glancing at him. Damn he was a freaking giant.

"We've been having some troubles conquering a planet that would bring an incredibly high price in the galactic market. With Kakarrot's assistance, I'm positive we would attain the planet and quite a high profit from it," he explained.

"How many of you Saiyans are still alive?" she asked, getting up off the ground and dusting herself off.

"Four, including myself and Kakarrot."

"And I take it you guys are strong?"

"Of course we are, we're a race of fighting warriors," he said with a sense of pride.

"Ah, then you should might as well leave this planet now," she said nonchalantly.

"Why is that?" he questioned, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Well you said it yourself earlier today, without a tail a Saiyan can't unlock his full potential or whatever. Well as you've noticed earlier, Goku doesn't have his tail. It was permanently removed so there's really no point in forcing him to join you and your pals."

"How exactly did Kakarrot lose his tail?" he inquired in a low and dangerous voice as he slowly stalked towards her.

"I'm not exactly sure how it was removed permanently but what I do know is that it was cut off once with a giant pair of scissors but then it grew back but then it was pulled or ripped off but then it grew back yet again."

Raditz couldn't believe what he was hearing. If someone were to just firmly grab his tail that would bring him to his knees, but for it to be pulled right off? He couldn't imagine the pain.

"That fool!"

"A smart fool! He's better off without his tail! All that damn thing ever brought him was pain. Not only that but when he would transform, the poor guy wouldn't even be able to control it! He would go on a rampage!" she countered.

"Ha! That's only because he's a low class Saiyan, unlike myself," he gloated taking a step closer.

"Oh? And what exactly are you?" Kat asked, not intimidated by him.

"I am a First Class Saiyan, a rank that a low class such as Kakarrot could only dream of possibly achieving."

"Is that so?" she raised an eyebrow, crossing her arms over her chest. "If most of the Saiyan race is long gone, except for you four, why do you still wipe out planets? There must be different reason other than it'll bring you profit. I mean seriously, if there really are that many left, why risk losing the rest? I know that you guys are strong and all but c'mon, why else would you keep on doing it unless you're being forced to. That's the only logical explanation here."

He just looked at her with an amused expression. "Like I said before, you're very smart for a human," he said running his thumb along her jaw.

She inwardly smirked; he was trying to mess with her. Well two could play at that game. "You think too low of us humans," she said, tracing her finger along the outline of his armor's chest plates. Damn, for some asshole from outer space, he sure was handsome. Not only handsome but also built. His arms, his legs and although she couldn't see his chest nor abdomen, she was sure that too was built. Probably in part from being a race of fighting warriors.

Whatever caused her change in demeanor? He didn't know, not that he really cared for that matter. He would admit though that Kat was quite an attractive female, even if she was only human. Damn, he couldn't remember the last time he was with a woman – probably a really long time if he couldn't remember. Great, now he had to keep his libido under control. Figures, the one time he finds a female to his liking, it's under harsh circumstances such as probably having to kill her once he's finished his business on the planet.

"Humans are weak creatures. Of course one would think low of them," he said.

"They're weak in strength compared to you, yes. But strength and power isn't all that matters. To you Saiyans it probably is, but not us humans."

"Of course it's all that matters. If one has tremendous power then everything else is unnecessary."

"Is that so?" She said tilting her head up to look at him. "We'll see about that. Once Goku comes and kicks your ass we'll see what really matters."

"You put so much faith in Kakarrot," he said slowly wrapping an arm around her waist.

"Of course I do. He's my friend and I trust in him that he'll come soon enough."

"And what if he doesn't come?"

"I highly doubt that."

Suddenly Raditz snapped his head up as his scouter began beeping. He whipped his head around to find the source of the energy detected. Whatever it was, it was coming at him fast. But it wasn't just one, it was two. It couldn't be Kakarrot . . . then who?

"Kaaat!" a voice shouted from afar.

Raditz turned around, not letting go of Kat. He was shocked to see Kakarrot and the green man from earlier heading straight towards them.

"Goku!" Kat shouted trying to pry Raditz's arm from her waist.

"Kat!" Goku called as he and Piccolo set their feet on the ground. "Are you okay? Where's Gohan?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," she called as she tried to break free of Raditz's hold but to no avail. "And Gohan is safe locked in his space pod."

"Have you hurt them Raditz?" Goku shouted to his older brother.

"Why would I hurt them? I'm only trying to be as friendly as I can possibly be," he said in a mock tone. He pulled Kat closer to him and put his free hand on her back to keep her still then tilted his head down to nuzzle her hair. He had her flush against him. Oh how he wished that he wasn't wearing any armor right now.

Discomfort was evident on Kat's face. "Let her go!" Goku shouted.

Raditz smirked knowing his foolish brother wouldn't try anything as long as he had Kat. "Why would I do that Kakarrot? She just looks too good that I plan on keeping her."

Kat's eyes widened at what he just said. There was no way in hell that she would be with someone like him.

"Goku!" she shouted.

"Let her go!" Goku demanded more firmly, starting to get angry at seeing one of his friends like this.

"Enough of these games. You let the woman go now so we can get on with this fight," Piccolo removed his weighted cape and turban, and tossed them aside.

"So the green man wants to fight, very well." He loosening his hold on Kat but before she could run off, he quickly grabbed her again and pulled her to him. Running a hand through her hair and speaking in a low voice that only she could hear, "I'll finish this quickly then we'll be on our way." He then let her go completely, all the while smirking to himself.

"Kat get away from here!" Goku ordered.

"You don't have to tell me twice," she mumbled as she ran off to a safe and distant location from the fight that was about to ensue . . . But mainly to get the hell away from Raditz.