"This is bullshit!" A sulking Frieza huffed, folding his arms in annoyance. "Why does that overgrown slug get to be alive again? I'm your brother!"
"You always say you're not my brother!" Frikiza argued. "Anyway, if you want to earn a day of life you have to join the rehabilitation program."
"Whatever." Frieza hissed. "Just make it happen. It's not like I'm going to do any harm while I'm alive."
"Ha!" Cell laughed. "You're such a liar, Frieza."
"Shut up!" Frieza growled, glaring at him.
"Frieza… I don't believe you." Frikiza stated. "Your family may be down here, but you're forgetting that I used to run the Planet Trade Organisation in my universe – I know how many contacts you have. If you were alive, I don't even want to think about how much damage you could do to!"
"Trade Organisation? Contacts?" Cell repeated, smirking at Frieza. "You're so organised crime."
"Thank you." Frieza purred, and looked at Cell fondly. "You know… If I ever get my empire back I'll make you my new right hand man."
"What!" Zarbon cried. "What the hell, Frieza!"
"Are you surprised?" Dodoria grunted, looking at him. "You've been replaced. Deal with it."
"You have nothing to worry about, Zarbon." Cell said, and moved his eyes to Frieza. "If I was ever given life again, I would start a rival empire."
"You'd what!" Frieza yelled.
"Oh don't look so sad." Cell soothed, smirking at Frieza mockingly. "You can be my chief underling."
"Why you dirty little –"
"Frieza!" Frikiza barked, grabbing Frieza's tail before he could lunge himself at Cell. "Why did you ask me to come here? Was it just so I could watch you two argue?"
"No!" Frieza snarled, turning on her. "It was so you could explain why you have given life to King Piccolo!"
"It wasn't me who did it!" Frikiza protested. "I just nominated him, but the decision was made by –"
"Oh, don't give me that crap!" Frieza snarled. "So why didn't you nominate me?"
"What do you care anyway?" Frikiza frowned. "You have all your family and servants down here. If you were alive you'd just spend a day doing things for yourself for a change. I mean, it's not like you could actually start up your empire again. I'd be watching you like a hawk and I wouldn't let you do a single bad thing!"
"What?" Frieza blinked. "You'd be there?"
"Of course!" Frikiza gasped. "You didn't think they'd just let a hell inhabitant run wild did you? I have to stay at King Piccolo's side the whole time he's alive."
"Really…" Frieza mumbled. "So what's the point in reviving him?"
"Well… I don't know." Frikiza shrugged. "He could go visit his son, I guess. Or go see a movie."
"I don't think he's the type to watch movies – unless it's through a spy-screen." Frieza replied. "And he only wants to visit his son so he can kill him, so if you're going to be there to stop that then what's the point in him being alive? He can't do what he wants to do."
"Really…?" Frikiza mumbled. "Do you think he won't have fun…?"
"Frikiza, does King Piccolo know you're going to be babysitting him the whole time he's up there?" Cell questioned.
"Well… I never said it…" Frikiza admitted. "But… Surely he doesn't think he'd just be let loose on Earth?"
"Well… Don't tell him you're going with him." Cell smirked. "It'll be a nice surprise."
"I should tell him…" Frikiza uttered. "What if he decides he doesn't want to go anymore?"
"Ugh. Frikiza, you care too much about what people want." Zarbon said. "That's why Zarba dumped you, you know. You're too nice."
"She didn't dump me!" Frikiza argued, blushing. "We – we decided to break it off – together! It was a mutual agreement!"
"Mm-hm." Zarbon replied, not believing her.
"I'm going to tell King Piccolo that I'm coming with him!" Frikiza pouted, and left Frieza's cave.
Dodoria looked at Frieza.
"Hey… Lord Frieza. I just thought of something." He began.
"That's very nice, Dodoria. What do you want, a promotion?" Frieza retorted.
"A promotion? I thought Cell was the next in line for my job." Zarbon sniped. Frieza glared at him, and Zarbon lowered his eyes. "Sorry, Lord Frieza…" Zarbon mumbled sheepishly. He gritted his teeth and looked up in anger at the sound of Cell laughing.
"Uh… yeah." Dodoria uttered, ignoring his master's remark. "What I was thinking was, they're not going to Earth until 2pm, right?"
"And?" Frieza growled.
"Well… if King Piccolo really is allowed a whole day of life, that would be twenty four hours, right?"
"Yes?" Frieza said impatiently. "So?"
"So… I was thinking, twenty four hours would take us to 2pm tomorrow…" Dodoria looked at his Frieza. "So uh, if Frikiza has to stay with him the whole time… What are they going to do tonight?"
"…" Frieza, Cell, Zarbon and Dodoria all looked at each other, and a wide grin spread across Cell's face as he exclaimed,
"They're going to break Frikiza!"
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"Frikiza, I am going to say this for the last time. I do not need you to come with me!" King Piccolo boomed.
"And I'm going to say this for the last time! I don't have a choice! If you don't take someone to supervise you, you can't go!" Frikiza argued back. "If you want you can take Tira –"
"That's even worse!" King Piccolo roared. "She's even more pathetic than you!"
As the two of them argued back and forth, King Piccolo's mutant namekians sons huddled together in the corner, shaking wildly.
"They're… They're going to the surface together! They're going to spend a whole day together!" Cymbal shrieked. "That's a date, right?"
"Don't be a fool, Cymbal!" Piano scolded. "King Piccolo has to take a supervisor, and his supervisor just happens to be a girl! That doesn't make it a date."
"Yeah – if it's a date doesn't he have to give her flowers or something?" Drum looked at Tambourine. "You interacted with a lot more people than we did – what do people do if they want to make it a date?"
"I – I don't know! I only spoke to people I was about to kill, and we didn't talk about that!" Tambourine protested. "Oh! But when I was looking for my targets, I saw some boys and girls holding hands at an amusement park… And they shared ice cream."
"So it's not a date unless you share your food?" Drum questioned.
"Or do you just have to hold hands?" Cymbal asked.
"I don't know. Maybe you just have to kiss." Tambourine replied.
"Kiss?" Drum looked at him. "What's that?"
"What!" Cymbal gasped, staring at Drum in shock. "You don't know what a kiss is?"
"You do?" Drum replied, looking at him questionably.
"Well… I've never done it, or seen it… But I know it's what people do when they're dating." Cymbal said.
"Well what exactly is it?" Tambourine asked. "I've heard of it too, but I've never seen it… isn't it kind of like fighting, but you're naked?"
"No, fool!" Piano growled impatiently. "That's not kissing, that's something else!" He let out a sigh. "Kissing is just… Well, it's with your mouths… Essentially it's just a way to share spit."
"Ew!" His mutant siblings all cried.
"That's disgusting!" Drum gagged.
"Yeah, why would anyone do that?" Cymbal frowned.
"I have no idea. I just know that's what people do when they're dating." Piano shrugged. "Maybe it's a human thing."
"Yeah, must be…" Tambourine mumbled, and the other mutants nodded in agreement.
Drum looked back over at King Piccolo and Frikiza, noticing how angry King Piccolo was. He was such bad company when he was angry like this… He was so violent and bossy, and he said such nasty things and spoke to the mutants in such a foul way… Drum let out a sigh.
"Still… Do you think if King Piccolo ever did get a girlfriend, he'd mellow out a little?" He thought aloud.
"Maybe, but… He's not gonna meet a girl just in one day, right?" Tambourine reasoned. "After all, he'll be too busy looking for the dragonballs."
"If he ever manages to do even that." Piano said glumly. "I doubt Frikiza will let him so much as look for them, let alone make a wish."
"Yeah…" The other nameks sighed.
"He's gonna come back grumpier than ever…" Cymbal groaned.
They listened in dismay as King Piccolo's voice got louder and louder as his anger grew.
"I am not some kind of rabid dog, nor am I a child! I am the demon King Piccolo, and I will not be babysat by anybody!" He screamed.
"You said." Frikiza shrugged. "But really, what do you think it'll accomplish?" She pulled a watch out of the front of her armour and looked at the time. "You have five minutes until you're brought back to life. Either accept the fact that I'm coming with you and stop acting like a child, or I can cancel it right now and you'll stay dead forever."
"Grrrrr…" King Piccolo snarled in annoyance. He wanted to kill her… Of all the people to spend a day with, why her!
He glanced at the watch in her hand, and King Piccolo's longing for life suddenly got the better of him. Fine… She would get her way, for now. All King Piccolo had to do was play along. Frikiza was naïve, and far too good-natured. If King Piccolo just acted nice to her for a couple of hours – no, just one hour… She would let her guard down. Then he could break away from her and search for the dragonballs. One hour was alright, wasn't it? He would hate it, definitely. King Piccolo had absolutely no doubt that it would be a long, agonising hour… but really, what was one hour compared to an eternity as ruler of the universe? Nothing. It was nothing. It was a small price to pay for such a big reward… Fine.
King Piccolo let out a sigh.
"Alright. You win." He grunted, and sat down on top of his suitcase. "You're carrying the luggage though."
"Fine." Frikiza shrugged. She pulled out a capsule. "Move out of the way."
"What – gyah!" King Piccolo leapt off the suitcase just in time to not be put into a capsule. "You stupid girl! Do you have any idea how much I hate being tapped in small spaces!"
"Well you can tell me all about it when your day starts, any second now." Frikiza smiled.
"Hm? Oh…" King Piccolo took a step back as he started to feel funny. His body… He started to feel warm. His energy was changing, his heart was beating… Oh, this was it! Finally! He was becoming alive! "Boys!" King Piccolo looked at his sons and they grinned back at him.
"Good luck, King Piccolo!" Cymbal exclaimed.
"Sire…" Piano smiled. King Piccolo met his eyes and spoke to all of them telepathically.
"When I gather the dragonballs, I'll wish you all back."
"Thank you, King Piccolo!" Their voices were the last thing King Piccolo heard before he was suddenly brought back to life, and he and Frikiza disappeared before their very eyes.
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Author's Note:-
Apologies for the short chapter! Originally I was going to have the content of chapter 5 in here as well, but I thought it would make this chapter too long so I decided to split it up. I'll try to upload chapter 5 ASAP, but for now please read and review :)