Vegeta sighed. Raditz should have been back a day ago. He could already see Bardock getting anxious, but knew that there was nothing he could say for to ease the man's worry.
He was about to ask the man about his wife when one of his guards came in. "Lord Vegeta, your brother wishes to speak with you."
He smirked. "He must have made it to Tech-tech. Tell him that I trust him to be back in 2 weeks."
"My lord, it seems that it is urgent." The guard informed him.
He quickly pushed past the guard and into the other room, finding his brother standing in front of a screen with his arms crossed, he looked very serious. "What's going on?" He figured that Tarble would have been too busy to call him. He understood what it felt like to take a mate now.
"Gure isn't here. The entire planet of Tech-tech has been destroyed." Tarble said with a snarl on his lips.
"Explain." He stated.
Tarble sighed. "It seems that Cooler has gotten out of prison. The Cold Empire has returned. I was able to help some of the survivors, but it seems that Gure has been taken by that ambassador, Yogut."
He felt sick to his stomach. "So do you think they are going to head here next?" He didn't like this. He didn't like it at all.
"After what we did to them, I would be surprised if they weren't after us. The saiyan race made a mockery of them, they will want their revenge." Tarble stated.
"How do you think that they escaped?" He asked. "The Galactic Commission should have been able to keep them locked up."
Tarble sighed. "Are you underestimating Zera, Vegeta?"
He looked at his brother in confusion. "You think that she's the one behind this?"
"She's the only one that could make it passed them. She's far from stupid." Tarble pointed out.
He felt his stomach drop, if Tarble was right, then Raditz was in danger. What if he had already been targeted? "Raditz isn't here."
"What?!" He could hear the fear in Tarble's voice. He knew what Zera would be after. "Why did he leave?"
"He left to find some plant. He said he would be back the next day, but he has yet to return. I'm going to send some scouts out to check the area. They can't be that close to us yet." He tried to reason with himself.
"I'm on my way back. We can come up with a plan of attack then. Have Kakarot…." Tarble had stopped as he realized the same thing. Kakarot was also gone. "When will he be back?"
He growled, cursing his mate. "He has another week till he gets to Earth. And then 2 more to get back." He had been so quick to send his Captain away so he could take his mate that he didn't even think of the ramifications until now. He could lead an army, he knew that, but Kakarot had every little detail down to a science. He hadn't been in complete control of his army since the war with his father. And now with the Cold Empire on his heels, he was going to have to try and fight a war without either of Bardock's sons.
He cursed himself again for thinking with is dick over thinking with his brain. Of course, something would happen with the two of them gone. His genius and his captain were gone and it was all due to his foolishness. "Just get back here. We will have to figure everything out between the two of us."
Tarble frowned. "Get Bulma to work on some new plans. The three of us are in for hell." With that the transmission ended and he growled. Everything had been turned upside down in a matter of minutes. He just hoped that things would turn out in their favor.
He looked around the sterile room as he came too. It was so bright that he had to squint as he looked around. He had never seen this place before. How far was he from home?
His head hurt. The last thing he remembered was trying to collect those plants on Yashion and now he was here. Well, that wasn't true. He heard a voice, but he couldn't place it.
He felt himself start to panic. Was he dead? Did one of those beasts on Yashion get him? He didn't feel dead. He could feel his heart beating in his chest and he was responsive. Of course, he had no idea what it would be like if he was actually dead. Would it really be that different? It wasn't like he could really test that. His parents were also very tight lipped on the subject.
"I can't believe you risked our plans for this!" He heard a voice that was familiar, but at the same time new. It was like he had heard it somewhere along the line, but maybe it had only been once.
He heard a female giggle and his blood turned to ice. It couldn't be. It just couldn't. This was one of his nightmares. It had to be.
"Of all of the irresponsible things you could have done, this is the worst!" There was a voice he knew. Frieza. His worst fears were now confirmed. He now knew who was on the other side of that door. The person that was dying to see him.
"Let me in, Frieza. I want to see him." She said; the voice was Onna's but it was truly said like the woman he despised. He pulled against his restraints. But they wouldn't budge.
"Once father knows about this..!" Frieza started.
"He'll do what? Remember, Frieza, if it weren't for me, the three of you would still be rotting away in that prison cell." She said in a chipper tone.
He cringed. Listening to Onna's voice talking in such a way was maddening. He began to look around the room. If there was some way to escape it had to be near.
Something told him that his power as a Nightwalker would not work here. It didn't work in the clearing and she had to know something.
"Says the person that landed us there!" Frieza continued to argue.
Zera only laughed. "No, that would be your own fault. Who was the on taking over the galaxy without permits or treaties? Not only that, who was using the commission for their money? Don't tell me that my little hobby was the only thing that brought you all to justice?"
He heard a smack and then an explosion. "You really are a nuisance. Father should have just drowned you at the start."
"Oh please, you're just a spoiled little brat. If you don't get what you want, you cry like a small child." She said with a giggle. He wondered where the explosion had landed if she was still standing.
"That makes no difference. You've endangered our plans." That strange voice said again.
"And Cooler and your plan didn't tell Vegeta that Planet Tech-tech was destroyed? I think they already know that we are here." She said coolly.
He froze again. Tech-tech was destroyed? If that was the case than what about Tarble and Gure? Was she okay? Did these bastards kill her?
"Speaking of Tech-tech, Yogut, why are you here? Aren't you supposed to be making that Queen your wife." Now he knew that name. That was the Tech-tech ambassador. And if that was true, then the Queen they were talking about was Gure. That fiend wanted Gure to be his! She was already promised to Tarble! He growled. The fact that someone had done this to his best friend had enraged him.
"I would have, but I need a sedative to do so. She's bitten me three times and almost bit my finger off." The ambassador complained.
He needed to laugh. Of course, Gure would do that. She was in love with Tarble. With a saiyan. No chosen mate of a saiyan would ever take that lying down.
"You can have that later. I wish to see him. It's been a long time." He cringed again. She sounded so loving as she talked of him. If only that was really his Onna. Then everything would have been simpler.
It sounded like they were about to argue, when she opened the door and left them behind. He didn't want to look at her or give her the satisfaction of his gaze, but as she walked forward, his heart dropped. The fact that she had Onna's body was very clear.
The small girl that he once knew had grown taller, but she was nowhere near his height, though she was still taller than Vegeta. Her hair was the same length, but that wasn't what his eyes were most attracted to. Her body now had a defined curve to it. She also had modest sized breasts, that were very revealed with the clothes she was wearing. He couldn't help it as he looked up and down her body.
She giggled. "I see you like this, don't you Raditz?" She said walking closer to him.
The smell came next, but it wasn't Onna's. He already knew that that smell wouldn't come. Only that disgusting smell that reminded him of that horrible place filled his nose. He made a gagging noise, but she didn't look deterred.
"I see that you're just as quiet as ever." She said, walking up to him and reaching up so she could touch the side of his face.
It was like she was burning him as he tried to flinch away, but couldn't move. She only giggled and he hated that sound. Of all of the places for him to have ended up, it had to be here. He thought to turn on his power again, but it wouldn't come. He was defenseless. "What are you doing?"
"So you do speak." She held his face in place, forcing him to look down at her. "It's been a long time since the commission hasn't it?"
He felt himself nod. "It should have been longer." He said in disgust.
She only smiled at him. "Oh, Raditz, you know that you've missed me." She said bending up on her tip toes and forcing his head down enough so that she could kiss him. He tried to move his face away, but couldn't. She only smiled against him as she pushed herself closer as his mind began to fog. He sighed as the scent began to change. He pushed down into the kiss and felt her open her mouth. He didn't even think; he didn't need to think. He only drove his tongue forward. He heard her moan as their tongues met in the middle. The smell was at full force now. The scent he had smelled all of those years ago was filling his senses and pulling him in. The smell of tattered old paper and hand sanitizer hit his nose; his brain went back to that day. The day his father had stopped them from becoming one. He cursed that day as she pulled him in closer. His lips came free from hers and he looked in her eyes. He could see her. Not Zera. It was her. It had to be her. "Raditz."
He whispered her name and he watched as she fell back behind those eyes and Zera came forward. "You thought you would make a fool of me, girly!" Zera looked around, but of course, she couldn't see Onna. She was once again hidden in the back of her mind.
He felt himself smile. After all of these years, she had never given up. She had waited for him. She still wanted him. He felt pure joy at knowing she was still in there. He could still save her. They still had a chance.
"Get that stupid look off of your face! I may have let her have control for a second, but that doesn't mean that you'll get to see her again." She snapped.
He only smirked. "You really think that you can stop her?"
She made to smack him but stopped. "Yes, but I know how to really torture her. I can kill her at any time, Raditz." She giggled and he felt himself cringe. "So it would be a shame if she had to die, wouldn't it?"
He growled. "What do you want?"
She walked up to him and pointed at his chest. "You."
He rolled his eyes. "You already have me."
She shook her head. "No, my love, I mean all of you. If you want to keep your precious Onna alive, you'll have to love me. Over and over again." She said getting herself too close for comfort.
He tried to use his Nightwalker power again. But again, it wasn't working. "What have you done?" He really did want to know this time. There had to be a way to counter it.
She let out that annoying giggle again, but then started to remove the spandex shirt she was wearing. He wanted to look away, but the fact that it was his beloved's body, made that impossible. He was seeing skin that he had never laid eyes on before. Her breasts where still stuck within a small bra, but everything else on her abdomen was exposed to him. He felt himself start to salivate. The idea of her body being shown to him was so enticing. Now that he knew that she was in there, that she could come out. He was more than willing to see more of that body.
"I think you were asking about this." She said pointing to a small, blood red crystal in her chest. He recognized it. It was the same stone he had seen in King Vegeta's pendent all of those years ago.
"Where did you?" He started.
She laughed. "It's called painite. Having shared a mind with your dearly beloved, I was able to discover not only what you are, but how to weaken your power."
He thought back to Onna's story of the Super Saiyan. "That's what the tuffles were looking for."
Zera only smiled. "Well, yes. But they didn't only want it for riches. They discovered that it could be used against certain transformations. How do you think they destroyed the original Nightwalker village?"
For a second, he could have sworn that Onna was standing in front of him. "So you're going to blackmail me then?"
She pulled at the spandex making it fall to the floor. "I see that you rather like this body of mine. Do you want to play with it?"
He felt a chill go down his spine as she started undoing her bra. "I…"
She giggled again. "I can see that you want it. Remember, you belong to me, Raditz, and I desire you." The bra fell to the floor and he felt a stirring down below. She walked forward and began to mess with his leg bindings.
As soon as his legs were free, she began to rub her hands against his crotch. He couldn't think clearly. All he could see was Onna touching him. Even if the smell was all wrong.
She moved up and started to free his hands, as his tail began to move of its own accord. It had found hers and was wrapping around it, sending sparks up his spine. "You see, Raditz. You want this. You know that you belong to me." She whispered as the last binding came free.
He was panting. He had to hold himself back. He couldn't do this. He couldn't give into this.
"Take me, my love. Belong to me again. It's the only way she can live." She said.
He let out a groan as she pulled at his jacket. "I…"
She smirked up at him. "Yes."
He looked down into those eyes. He had no choice. He would not mate with her, but he had to protect Onna. This was the only way. "I belong to you." With that he leaned down and kissed her. He hated himself as he pushed her to the floor. What he was about to do burned him, but he kept reminding himself. It was all for her. He would do anything for her. Even if it meant losing himself.
To Be Continued…
Author's Note
We haven't see Kakarot in a while. We finally will get back to him in the next chapter.