Vegeta paced. He still didn't know what Zunn was truly after. Even with Zunn not fitting in, that couldn't have been the only reason that the man was betraying them. There had to be another reason for all of this.

Bulma walked in and smiled at him. She had been looking over the computers for the last couple days. Zunn had not tried anything since the battle with Frieza.

"I wonder what he's up to." Bulma said.

"What do you mean?" Vegeta asked.

Bulma sighed. "He hasn't logged into a computer over the last couple of days. His time cards say that he has gone in for work, but there's been nothing suspicious."

Vegeta raised an eyebrow at this. "Do you think he knows that we're on to him?" He asked.

He didn't get an answer though as the doors burst open. A couple of soldiers came in, both of which looked staggered. "What is going on?" Bulma asked as the men breathed.

"Pod…" One man started, but was still clearly out of breath.

"Spit it out. We don't have all day!" Vegeta snapped.

Another soldier ran in, she looked competent. "Emperor Vegeta, a pod has just entered the cargo bay," She said.

Vegeta nodded. "And what does that have to do with anything."

"The markings on the pod are those of the Cold Empire, my Liege." She answered.

Vegeta's eyes narrowed. "Have you investigated who or what is on the inside?"

"A Tech-Tech, my Liege. She has been asking for Prince Tarble as well." The woman answered.

Vegeta moved around quickly. "Queen Gure of Planet Tech-Tech must have escaped King Cold's men," Vegeta said to Bulma. "Let's go and see this for ourselves." He turned back to the female soldier. "Has my brother been informed?"

To his surprise, the soldier shook her head, but was not the one to answer. "My Lord, Prince Tarble is nowhere to be found."

"He must be in the gravity room that I made him." Bulma said with a smile. "He's going to be in for one big surprise if it is Gure."

Vegeta grinned. "It's going to pull him out of the funk he's in. That's for sure." Vegeta turned back towards the door. "Lead us to her." He ordered.

The soldiers obeyed and Vegeta and Bulma followed them. Vegeta was still wrapping his mind around this. If Gure escaped, then she had to have some information. Maybe she knew the whereabouts of Raditz.

They entered the hanger and found that it was indeed Gure. She was arguing with a soldier. She looked very worried and was screaming frantically. "I need to speak with Prince Tarble right away!"

"You'll get him. We just need to you to answer a few questions first." Vegeta said with a smirk.

Gure almost jumped and then her eyes softened. "Emperor Vegeta… Finally, a friendly face."

Vegeta walked forward and Bulma gave her a smile. "We didn't expect you to make such a grand entrance." Bulma said.

Gure smiled up at her. "I wasn't planning to." Gure looked down. "Everything just got twisted up that way."

Vegeta frowned. "Something happened, didn't it?"

Gure looked off in embarrassment. "I couldn't save him…"

"Save who?" Bulma asked.

Gure's eyes filled with tears. "Raditz." Vegeta felt his stomach drop as Gure continued. "He broke me out of my prison, but when we had the chance to escape, he didn't even try." Gure sobbed. "He only said that he was still needed there."

Vegeta felt himself shake a little bit. "Did he say why?" The last thing that Vegeta wanted to think about was Raditz succumbing to Zera's insanity.

Gure shook her head, but spoke. "He didn't say why, but I saw her. That girl from all of those years ago is there."

So it was just as Vegeta feared. "So he has gone off his rocker then…"

Bulma sighed. "I don't think that's it. If I know Raditz, he has to be making a plan to stop Zera. Remember, Zera is using Onna's body. Raditz wants to free the woman he loves." Bulma smiled. "It's kind of romantic when you think about it."

Gure looked up at Vegeta. "I really hope that's the case, but I still wish that he had come with me. I don't even know if he's still alive. Cooler's men came after us and Raditz just sent me off and I was forced to watch as they attacked him."

Vegeta growled. "Why doesn't he just use his powers and be done with it?!"

Gure shook her head. "I don't think he can. That woman must have something that blocks their power, just like King Vegeta did."

Vegeta felt angrier. "That means that they have access to block all of the nightwalkers. Even Tarble…"

Gure looked down at the ground. "We are going to have to focus on brute strength this time." Her eyes became dark. "Leave Cooler to me…"

Bulma looked as if she was going to ask, but Vegeta motioned her to stop. Vegeta could see the pain and suffering in Gure's eyes. Behind the dark fire, there was fear and shame. Cooler had done the unthinkable. He knew that this was a private matter that didn't need to be discussed in the open. "Let us go in and come up with a plan of attack then."

Gure stared at Vegeta for a second. Vegeta knew what she was going to ask. "Where's Tarble?"

Vegeta sighed. "I have no idea. The guards couldn't find him, but that probably means that he's training." Vegeta still didn't like that his brother had not been found. Where did Tarble even go? Vegeta had seen the chamber that Bulma had built for him, but Bulma could still see it from the outside. Was Tarble going off to train in some unknown location? That would explain why Tarble was staying up so late. Vegeta turned to look at his men. "Find my brother. Look around the city if you have to."

Bulma gave Vegeta a concerned look. "You think he's outside of the palace?"

"He has to be if no one has found him." Vegeta said as they took the shuttle back to the palace. But as they moved, Vegeta noticed that Gure was looking down at her wrist. Vegeta moved over and grabbed her arm. There was some kind of device strapped to her. 'What is this?"

Gure turned red. "Cooler put this on me."

Vegeta put his hand on the piece of metal and it fell to the ground. "There's no reason for you to have that."

Gure gave him a grateful look. "Thank you, Vegeta." Gure then turned back into her smaller form. She didn't even want to look at her normal form anymore. The fact that Cooler had done horrible things to it, made her want to stay away from it.

Bulma looked confused, but didn't say anything. She knew that something had to be wrong, but from the look on Vegeta and Gure's faces, it had to be something personal. If Gure wanted to talk about it, she would.

Vegeta turned to look at the front of the palace as they stopped. Guards moved out of their way as they entered the palace. It was still very quiet. Tarble was nowhere to be found and Vegeta was starting to get pissed.

Gure looked around and sat down once they got to the throne room. At that time the door opened. She, along with everyone else, expected Tarble, but it was Bardock instead.

Bardock looked down at her. "I wasn't expecting you to be here." Bardock said.

Gure suddenly felt guilty. "Neither was I." She knew Bardock was Raditz's father; maybe she could soften the blow. "Your son saved me."

Bardock stared at Gure in shock. "You've seen one of them?!"

Gure nodded. "I was being kept prisoner by Cooler. Raditz was being kept in the same location." An idea came to her and she turned to Bulma. "If you can break into the system on the pod, it may give you the details of my location."

Bulma nodded. "It can't be that hard if they haven't tried to destroy that pod, yet."

Vegeta ran over to the screen and pushed a couple of buttons, some men in the hanger appeared, including one of interest. "Emperor Vegeta." Both men bowed, but Zunn grimaced.

"The pod in the hanger, has it been touched?" Vegeta asked, watching Zunn's reaction.

Zunn didn't even flinch. "It's being moved for scrap, why?"

Vegeta glared at the man. "Why would you even try to do anything without proper orders?!"

Zunn glared back, but was not the man to answer. "Prince Tarble wanted all unknown ships ripped apart if they came in. He wanted to be able to look over all their tech." The other operator said.

Vegeta pondered why his brother would even ask for such a thing. "Well disregard that. From now on, keep any enemy vessels intact and get clearance before tearing them apart."

The operator nodded, but Zunn continued to glare. "This hanger is your brother's territory."

"So you're going to push my orders to the side then?" Vegeta asked, hoping that he could just get the spy to reveal himself.

Zunn frowned. "No, my Lord."

Vegeta smirked. "Good. Now have a team bring that pod to the palace. It will be looked over here."

Zunn stared at Bulma and grimaced. "Will Prince Tarble be the one looking over it?"

Vegeta wondered why that was even important. "That is none of your concern. Just do as I say."

Zunn looked like he wanted to say more, but the operator grabbed his shoulder and shook his head. Vegeta watched in confusion. What was this? Was the operator in on everything? "We will bring the pod to you, my Lord." The transmission cut out and everyone was stuck there staring at the blank screen.

"Vegeta…" Bulma said. "I don't like this."

"You have the same feeling that I have, don't you?" Vegeta said.

"What is going on?" Gure asked.

Vegeta knew they were in good company. Gure wasn't going to say anything and Bardock had proved himself. "Bulma and I believe that there is a spy amongst us."

"A spy?" Bardock answered. "Who would have that kind of death wish?"

"I believe that Zunn is behind it, but I don't know if he's alone. Now I think that operator may also be involved." Vegeta said angrily.

Gure sighed. "Maybe he just wanted to keep the other one out of trouble." She almost laughed. "It's hard to believe that you could have a spy here. I figured that you would have figured out who it was from the beginning."

Bulma shook her head. "Without Raditz's power, we can't just probe his mind for an answer, and going after someone with such circumstantial evidence would be political suicide if we are wrong."

Bardock went tense. "Is that how Raditz was taken?"

Bulma nodded. "Whoever this spy is alerted the Cold Empire that Raditz would be off planet."

"That's not all. The spy changed the paperwork so that Kakarot got a ship with a broken hyperdrive." Vegeta stated.

"So this spy went after my family." Bardock growled.

"They either had a vendetta against you or the royal family." Bulma stated. "Either is a possibility."

"So Zunn is the prime suspect?" Gure asked.

Vegeta nodded. "He hasn't made a move since then, so we have no idea how to be sure of it."

Gure looked down. "Do you think that he knows anything about my planet?"

Bulma answered for Vegeta. "He was once on Tech-Tech, but removed due to too many accidents."

It was as if a light bulb went off in Gure's head. "That was the guy that messed up the computer system."

Now that really got everyone's attention. "What?" Vegeta asked.

"Our computer system crashed a week before the planet was destroyed. I should have known that something was going on." Gure said, feeling guilty. "If I looked into it, the planet would still be there. My race…"

Bulma put her hand on the small woman's shoulder. "There was nothing you could do. They deceived everyone."

"So you really think that there is more than one of them?" Bardock said.

"There has to be." Bulma said. "There is no way that one person could have come up with a plan like this. There has to be at least three."

Vegeta and Gure agreed. "Sooner or later one of them will mess up. Then we can strike." Vegeta stated.

Tarble sighed as he put down his book. He had finally finished the story and now he felt very dissatisfied. He didn't expect the story to end so badly for King Arble. What kind of end was that? To die in such a bittersweet way left a bad taste in his mouth.

Betra walked by him and put down a glass of tea. "So what did you think?"

"Is that it? What about King Arble's power?" He asked.

She smiled. "What would you have done differently?"

Tarble had to think it over. "I wouldn't have let anyone get ahold of those stones. Destroying them would have been a priority."

Again she grinned. "Well, they were hidden. Arble had just been betrayed."

Tarble made a grunting noise. "If it weren't for that sister of his, he would have been fine."

Betra laughed. "That's the problem with siblings."

Tarble sighed. "Ain't that the truth." His stomach made a garbling sound. "We should probably get something to eat."

Betra nodded. "I brought my own. Why don't you go and grab yourself something, My Prince?"

Tarble stood up and made his way towards the door. He moved up the stairs and out into the actual library.

The halls were empty again, but he could hear some shouting from down the hall. Something had to be going on.

Tarble walked forward, staying against the wall. He was going to listen in. Why the hell would anybody be running around the halls shouting? There had to be a reason for it.

Tarble moved closer to the sound and froze in place as he heard the conversation. "So Queen Gure has been sent here?"

"Yep and she's unharmed." A guard said.

Tarble felt sick to his stomach. Gure was here? Why were these guards just standing here? Shouldn't they be looking for him? Tarble growled as he came out and both men jumped. "Take me to her."

Both men nodded in fear. Tarble didn't know why. They just seemed terrified as they stared at him. He walked behind them, watching as they shook.

They stopped him just outside of the throne room and waited for him to go inside, but he glared at them. "Leave me." At that, the two of them scattered. Tarble almost chuckled at that.

He opened the door and everyone turned to him. Bulma and Bardock stared at him in confusion. Vegeta glared at Tarble and Gure looked over at him in fear… at least that's what it looked like.

"Where have you been?" Vegeta asked.

Tarble glared back. "Why does that matter?" Vegeta seemed puzzled by his words. "I'm not a child. I don't have to tell you everything."

"What are you going on about? I just wanted to tell you that Gure's here." Vegeta snapped at him.

"I see that, but, clearly, no one was looking for me. I found this place on my own, and by accident." Tarble growled. He knew that he had just lied to Vegeta, but he didn't care about that.

Vegeta glared at him. "I sent them to go look for you outside the palace."

Tarble rolled his eyes. "Why the hell would I be outside?!"

Vegeta's eyes narrowed. "We could not find you anywhere. How was I supposed to know that you were still in the palace?"

Tarble only laughed. "Did you really even look?"

Vegeta backed away from Tarble. "What is wrong with you? You're acting like a spoiled brat."

"And you don't act like one?" Tarble scoffed and looked about the room.

Gure was sitting there staring at him. For some reason, she was sitting in her small form. She looked nervous, but at the same time, she looked angry and Tarble could tell that that anger was directed at him. "Were you even going to say hello to me?" She snapped at him.

"I was going to say something." Tarble said.

Gure jumped up from her chair and walked over to him. She looked up into Tarble's eyes and flinched. The black that was once there had a red tinge to them. It was like his eyes were permanently stuck that way. "Then why are you arguing with Vegeta. He's only trying to help everyone."

Tarble almost walked backward. She was siding with Vegeta? "Why don't you stay out of our business?!"

Gure looked up at him in surprise. "Weren't you thinking about me at all? I was captured by the enemy!"

Tarble looked down at her. Her eyes looked sad, but they didn't look at him long enough. It was like it was painful for her to look at him. If that's how she felt, he would make it so she didn't have to look at him. He turned away from her. "I thought about you every day. I was working on a plan to save you. But it looks like you didn't need that."

Gure shook a little. "Raditz helped me escape. He's still there. We need to go after King Cold's men before they destroy another planet like they did to Tech-Tech."

Tarble wanted to growl, but a pod was brought into the room. Vegeta perked up at this. "What is that doing here?" Tarble asked.

Vegeta turned to him. "It's the pod that Gure was brought here in. I'm having it looked over."

"Why did they not just dismantle it like I asked for them to do?" Tarble glared at the men.

Zunn looked down at Tarble and seemed to smile at that. Vegeta noticed this. "Because we need to look for evidence, Tarble. From now on, I want all enemy ships kept intact."

Tarble glared at his brother. "Why? What evidence do you need from the whole thing? You just need the onboard computer. Why waste the man power by bringing it here?"

Vegeta froze. He didn't even think about that. He turned back around. "There might be more to it than that. What if there is something hidden on it and it gets destroyed in the process?"

"My men are better than that." Tarble growled before storming out of the room. He had had enough of this. Everyone was looking at him like he was a pariah. His anger grew as he reached the library. Not one of them was following him. He made it so they couldn't.

Tarble headed back into the depths under the library. He was just so frustrated as he closed the door to the chamber, locking himself inside with Betra.

She came to greet him, but frowned. "Is there something wrong, My Prince?"

Things began to move off of the walls as he walked over to one of the chairs and sat down. He put his head in his hands. "Gure has returned…"

"Isn't that a good thing?" She asked.

"She doesn't wish to see me." Tarble looked off to the side. "She sided with Vegeta."

Betra came over and went behind him, rubbing his back again. "You really are tense, My Prince." She purred into his ear. "Do you think that she was in on this the whole time?"

"In on what?" He asked.

"How do you know that this isn't just a bid for power from your brother? She's another pawn, My Prince. She's just going to lock you up like Vegeta is trying to do." Her voice sounded worried.

Tarble growled. "That's not going to happen. I refuse to go back to that." The room became darker as the fire in the gas lamps flickered.

Betra's hands came off of him and she moved around to his front and looked him in the eye. "No one can cage you, My Prince."

Tarble watched as she pushed lightly on his chest. He was very confused as she dropped to her knees in front of him. "What are you…?" He stared as she started unzipping his pants. "Betra, this isn't…"

She smiled up at him. "Relax, My Prince. This will help, trust me." She moved downward.

"What are you doing? I don't under -AH-!" His hand landed on the top of her head and his breathing became sharp as he gave into the relief she was providing him.

To Be Continued…

Author's Note

Uh-oh, Betra is showing her true colors now. It looks like she's turning Tarble away from everyone else. Will she succeed in her plan? Or will Vegeta and Gure save him? What of the Spies? You're just going to have to read to find out. Also bad Tarble, very bad Tarble.