Vegeta waited for Onna to give him an answer, but she said nothing. She was pondering the idea she had. "Well, where are they?" He asked.
"I need to do more research to be sure, but if I'm right, they won't be as far as we think they are." Onna said.
Gure walked up to the female saiyan. "You don't want to get our hopes up, do you?"
Onna nodded. "I want to be sure before everyone runs off on a wild greese chase." She moved towards the stairs. "I'm going to go find as much as I can. My family's library has to be somewhere on this planet."
"We moved a lot of those books to the royal library after the war," Bulma said. "Raditz and Tarble knew to save them."
Onna couldn't help but smile. "Of course Raditz would want them."
The group began the long journey up to the surface. Vegeta still had way too many questions. Now that he knew what Betra had done, he felt worse about not speaking with Tarble. He really thought that Tarble was stronger than that. The emperor had put all of his trust in Tarble, but his brother didn't even trust himself. How did Vegeta not notice his brother's pain?
"Vegeta?" He looked over at his mate. "Don't blame yourself for this."
"How can I not?" Vegeta said. "I should have listened to you. If I did, she never would have been able to get close to Tarble."
"But you trusted him. You were so confident in his abilities." Bulma said.
"I'm still confident in those abilities." Vegeta sighed. "And I still trust him."
"But what if…" Bulma started.
"His mind has been warped. My trust in my brother wasn't the problem. I overestimated how much Tarble trusted himself." Vegeta stated as they walked. "I knew that he didn't like to be alone, and I left him by himself. I left him wide open for an attack."
Gure sighed in front of them. "She's hypnotized him."
Bulma almost laughed. "Hypnotism isn't real."
Onna answered for Gure. "She put him under some kind of trance. My sister has the power to manipulate, so it looks like Tarble was hypnotized." She thought over her words. "I just want to know why King Vegeta thought that I was unaffected by her power."
They reached the top, finding everyone but Kakarot and Chichi still there. Bardock walked forward, he wanted to get his mind off of Kakarot. "Did you find anything?"
"We found something alright." Vegeta growled. "Tarble's mind has been completely messed with."
"My sister is behind it." Onna said. "King Vegeta promised her that she would be a queen. She used her own power as a nightwalker to cause illusions to trick Tarble into following her every move."
"Illusions, huh?" Raditz was kind of impressed that someone could make an illusion that Tarble couldn't see through. "So if Tarble was tricked, then how do we protect ourselves from a power like that?"
"Well one of us doesn't have to worry about that." Vegeta said, looking at Onna. "My father believed that your mate could repel that power."
Raditz looked over his mate then began to think. "It kind of makes sense when you think about it."
"How does that make any sense?" Onna said, looking very confused.
"How long were you processed by Zera?" Raditz asked his mate.
She gave him a puzzled look. "A little over ten years…why are you asking? You already know that."
"Because, from what I read about the Frostian parasite invasion, you were supposed to disappear within months. They usually bury the host under themselves quickly, but you were still coming out of her frequently." Raditz paced. "Maybe the power you have, doesn't let you be manipulated by others."
Everyone pondered his words. "If that is true, then you're very lucky." Bulma said. "If that was anyone else, they would have been screwed."
Vegeta continued to look around the room. "Where did Kakarot go?" He wanted to see if there was any way that he could push that sensing ability of his up so that they could find Tarble. Onna didn't think that his brother was that far away, so surely Kakarot could find him.
"He's not in the best mood right now." Gine said, looking down.
"I'm not in the best mood either." Vegeta said.
"Vegeta, he knows." Raditz sighed.
The emperor wondered what the genius was talking about then froze. "He remembers the second level of super saiyan, doesn't he?"
"More like, he remembers killing our mother." Raditz said. "He's going to need time to accept it."
"At least he's not alone. Chichi will help him." Gine said, with a sad smile.
"Anyway, we need to find out how we are going to save Tarble." Gure said.
"Let's split up and work on finding different information." Bulma said. "It may help Onna track him down."
Vegeta nodded as he watched them take all kinds of books off of the shelves. No matter what it took, he would find Tarble and make all of this right again.
A couple of days went by and they had found nothing so far. There was not a single bit of information that they could use. It was maddening really. Vegeta knew that they were close, but they just couldn't find the last clue.
He was about to say something to his mate, when the door to the library slammed open. A couple of his soldiers ran in. "My liege, the planet is under attack!"
Vegeta growled and ran to check. It was just as he thought. The Cold Empire was right on their doorstep. "Bulma, you stay here with Gure and Onna." He ordered his mate. "Raditz, come with me."
The larger saiyan stood up and followed him out of the door and out of the room. "I'll put the security protocols in on the palace. You run and get everyone dispatched."
"Make sure that our armor is dispatched as well." Vegeta ordered before zooming out of a nearby window. He only looked back to find the shield around the palace go up.
The sky around him was starting to fill with his soldiers. All of which looked ready to fight the menace that came to their doorstep. He watched as Kakarot zoomed up next to him. "How many do you think there are?"
"Thousands." Vegeta smirked. "Nothing that we can't handle."
Bardock looked up. "There's that slime ball, Zarbon."
Vegeta chuckled. "Let's make them wish that they never came to our doorstep uninvited."
The sky filled with growls and snarls as the fighting began. Flashes of light filled the sky, with blasts of energy hitting targets and making them fall to their doom. Blood rained down, coating the streets with red.
Vegeta turned, just in time to shove his hand through the chest of one of Cold's men, at the same time he blasted another ten.
Cries of pain filled the sky as more fell. Making piles where the corpses fell. Through the mess of men, no one could find where Zarbon had run off to. Vegeta couldn't pinpoint his signal, and they there throwing so many of their men at Kakarot. It made the Emperor think that his captain was a target. "Give Kakarot some back up." He ordered, just as Kakarot sent out a blast that killed off twenty of his attackers.
Bardock growled as he eyed one group of fighters. "The Ginyu's are here." His eyes went over to his old team. "We'll take them out."
"Send them to hell," Vegeta ordered, knocking out a few weaklings.
Kakarot veered around, sending a punch through a man's skull. Suddenly he sensed a rather large Ki, no there were two of them. "Vegeta, Cold and Frieza are on that ship." Kakarot said. He sensed movement. "It looks like they want a fight."
Vegeta smirked. "Let them come. I'll take out all of my anger on them."
Kakarot smirked back at him, going up to super saiyan. "I can't let you have all of the fun."
"Then be my guest and pick one Kakarot." Vegeta said with a deadly smirk.
A large bomb went off behind them and they turned to see that the shield on the palace was down. "Dammit, I guess I'm going to have to settle for Zarbon then." Kakarot flew off towards the castle without orders, making Vegeta grin as he turned back to find Cold coming towards him.
Raditz moved down to check on the shields someone had messed with them. He growled as he eyed Zarbon messing with the controls. "I wouldn't touch those, if I were you."
The green alien stopped what he was doing, only to glare at the saiyan. Zarbon turned on his scouter and laughed. They left a weakling in charge of the palace? They were just asking to be killed if that was the case. "So what are you going to do about that, Weakling?"
Raditz smirked. "So you think I'm weak?"
"I know that you are." Zarbon looked him over. "Wait a minute, you're that scrub that Zera was obsessed with, aren't you?" The green alien began to laugh.
Raditz felt angry. "You really wish to taint her memory."
"Says the man that killed her," Zarbon laughed.
Raditz moved forward quickly, going to punch the idiot in the face. He didn't kill Zera, he saved her. Like he was going to let this bastard bad talk what was now his child.
Zarbon caught the punch mid-air. "You really thought that that would work? Don't make me laugh."
Raditz only smirked. "No, but thanks for touching me."
The alien looked confused as the saiyan's eyes turned dark red. Everything in front of Zarbon went black as memories began to go through his head. Pain was shooting through his body as each memory cut him deeper.
On the outside, the alien was squirting blood from his body as each memory cut him on the outside as well. Raditz chuckled as he reached deeper, diving into the recesses of the alien's mind, ripping the man to shreds.
The saiyan's smirk fell as he came across a particular memory. One that involved Frieza and the commissioner. He growled loudly, making the alien fall to the ground as a corpse.
Raditz looked down at his clothes, he was covered in blood. Just as he was about to make a comment about it, Kakarot flew in. "Damn, I was going to kill him." His brother looked at him, then away. Kakarot was still mad at him.
"You need to get out of here, Kakarot." Raditz said.
"You don't need to tell me that. I've got a war to fight." Kakarot snapped.
Raditz walked up and grabbed his brother's arm. "Chichi's in danger."
"How do you know that?" Kakarot growled. Who would dare to go after his mate?"
"I saw it in Zarbon's memory. Frieza is going to take her," Raditz said. "I know that you don't trust me right now."
Kakarot said nothing as he flew off, panic was going through him. He hoped that he got there I time.
Cooler looked around the strange planet he landed on. He sighed. He was planning to go to Planet Vegeta with the rest of them, but he knew those saiyan's were here.
The frostian wanted his revenge for Gure. That bastard, Tarble, took her heart from him. He would destroy the saiyan prince.
Cooler walked closer to what looked like a temple. But as he entered, he heard a mad chuckle from behind him. He turned quickly to find the short saiyan prince standing there.
Tarble's tail was flicking back and forth dangerously. "Why have you come here?" What was a frostian doing in his kingdom? The longer he stared at this one, the more he wanted this one dead. Something about him made him feel nothing but hatred.
"I'm here to kill a monkey," Cooler said, "for hurting my Gure."
Tarble felt confused. He hated that Tech-Tech. His mind flashed slightly to a strange memory of Gure patching up one of his wounds. The girl was blushing. "What do you mean by 'your Gure'?" Tarble felt angry, but he didn't know why.
"She's going to marry me." Cooler said. "I've already taken that from you, so you won't be the first." Cooler grinned.
Tarble felt his eyes flash as he growled. "You touched her?" His mind went back to Gure. Her fears of being touched made sense now.
"Yes, I did. She screamed a lot, too." Cooler bragged
The saiyan growled as the darkness pooled around him. "You touched her…you touched my Gure!" The darkness made to strike as Cooler flew up. The fight was on.
Chichi moved around the kitchen quickly, everything sounded really bad outside. "Gohan, I need you to stay in here, okay." She told her son as he stared up at her from inside of a cabinet. "And hide your Ki for me, okay?"
Gohan nodded as she shut the door, giving her a sad look. Chichi knew that he had to sense what was going on outside. Her eyes went over to Coco who was chirping next to her, trying to keep her calm. "Don't be scared, okay? Goku is going to take care of those men. You'll see." She knew that she was trying to convince herself more than the bird, but it wasn't helping.
Chichi heard a noise, but stayed back. She felt a chill go down her spine. Her husband wouldn't just come home in the middle of battle. She put herself into a fighting stance as a couple of soldiers came into her home. She jumped up, knocking the two of them to the side with swift kicks to the face. Another came in and made to punch her, only to get grabbed by Coco's beak, then ripped in half as the bird placed her feet on its stomach and pulled.
Chichi pet the bird on the head, but froze as she heard a chuckle. "I wouldn't celebrate yet." She moved back into a fighting position as a strange looking alien walked into the room. Coco clapped her beak in annoyance.
"Who are you?" She said, glaring at the intruder.
The man chuckled again. "I believe you are Kakarot's mate, are you not?"
Chichi continued to glare at the lizard looking man. "Goku is my husband and mate, but others do call him Kakarot." Like she would lie about the man she was going to spend her life with.
"Then you're exactly who I'm looking for." The man made to attack her, only for Chichi to jump out of the way. Coco moved around, grabbing onto the lizard man's tail, only to be tossed into a nearby wall. The bird let out a weak chirp before the man blasted it in the stomach.
"Coco!" Chichi moved forward to check on her bird, only to be back handed into a wall, knocking her out.
The man walked up, putting the woman over his shoulder. "This should bring that oaf out of hiding." He knew the commissioner would be pleased. Not that it mattered if she was pleased or not.
He looked over, watching as the bird tried to stand. It was dragging itself in front of some cabinets. "Lord Frieza, we need you on the south side…" Frieza chuckled at the transmission. He could ignore it. The saiyan emperor would fall at his father's hands; that was all that mattered. Now he just needed to taunt a certain captain. Killing this Kakarot would be a fun, especially if his mate had to watch.
To Be Continued…
Author's Note
I really need to leave these without cliffhangers, oh well.