There was a tense mood in the air. The Regiment of soldiers in their shiny gun grey armor were standing in attention. There was over a thousand of them all staring at the spot where the craft was scheduled to land but they weren't the ones next to the Emperor. No standing closest to the Emperor was Teal and his black armored in stormtroopers with their laughing skull insignia on their helmets. There also was the three oldest of his oldest Romulus, Remus and Livy.
On Kakarrot face was a smirk. He had been waiting for this day for a while. He had no idea who was coming here but on this warm bright summer day he planned to show off for whomever showed up. If he was going to loss this day, he would do it in his royal armor with his medals and with the world he had 'liberated' watching.
They might all died but die seeing him as their defender. If any survived, he would be their god hero for all time. The history book of the distant future would trip over themselves singing his praise. He would not die some poor third-class SOB; he would die with glory and honor or win with glory and honor and secure his human's loyalty for all eternity.
He had considered being mounted for this, but he had realized that the horse would probably just get spooked when the ship landed, so instead was just standing in front of his men with his right leg on a flat rock. His cape blew in the wind like something out of a painting. The rock had been brought here just for that purpose.
A black suited man in normal officer's wear came to him and said, "My Lord the Doctor said the ship will be arriving in mere moments."
It was a blonde-haired young man. His face was cold, his stare long. He had little muscle on him. His hair was neatly tucked under his officers cap. He looked young for that uniform being of anywhere from fifteen to eighteen.
"I remember Twelve what my grandfather said. I don't need your reminders."
Twelve bowed to him "I'm sorry my Lord. I meant no offence."
"And none was taken. Just get out of the shots. My audience is watching."
He said knowing that the TV camera were focused on him. Far and wide the message had gone out. People on the streets, huddled in their homes. Even the Resistance was watching with the pick your poison realization who was going to be worse? Some thought who knew maybe the monsters would take each other out.
Then the pod came in with a thunderous explosion. It smashed into the ground kicking up a dust cloud. The glow red eyes of the of the power armored troopers was visible in the dust. Nor did the Emperor's eyes twitch in the dust, the fulfillment of his life was coming he wasn't going to miss a second of this.
He would assume Frieza would come in a much bigger ship or be a lot stronger for as it stood, he was a lot stronger than the invader but maybe he was hiding his real strength. Kakarrot aimed to find out.
The dust began to settle as the hatch to the pod opened. Kakarrot eyes went wide as he saw the someway familiar looking mane of black hair appearing with his tail around his waist in front of him and his army. Kakarrot and Raditz eyes meet and the world saw its second full bloodied Saiyan for the first time.
A Resistance fighter next to Dr. Brief said with tears in his eyes "We have two oppressors now not one."
Raditz looked around to see the army then at the man that was clearly his brother even looked the double of his late father minus the same facial scar. Raditz said "Brother."
In Kakarrot's mind came a name to mind imprinted in him "Raditz?"
Raditz nodded to him "Yeah it's me, I'm your brother."
All around the people of the world the people cheered. With a collective sigh of relief with the belief that the Earth was no longer in danger. The regime supporters cheered at even more was now on their master's side. The non-regime, non-resistance cheering that their homes weren't going to get destroyed.
"What going on here you were supposed to…"
Kakarrot cut him off "Um… The computer said our planet was dead and I had no idea any other saiyans was alive, so I figured it would be pointless. And I grew up here, so these are kind of my people now."
"So, you conquered them?"
"No brother I liberated them. They had a lot of inequality before me and I freed them of that. And now I'm their god."
Both Raditz and Kakarrot seemed confused by this situation. Raditz well didn't expect to be greeted by an army of the people that his brother was supposed to kill off and it was little weird to be talking to a stranger that looked so much like his father. Hell, his voice was even right.
For Kakarrot he was prepared to fight a battle to the death against a creature that killed his people. Now one of those people were here and now he was in some sort of awkward family reunion. Was Vegeta even blown up? He thought.
Kakarrot turned to the TV cameras and said, "Cut the feeds." The drones did so. He turned back to Raditz. "So, Planet Vegeta fine or…?"
"Oh no its still blown up but there are others."
"Others?"
"Well it's kind of why I'm here. See you were supposed to signal all clear and that you did your job. But since you didn't, we kind of assumed that you were dead, and this planet is kind of far from where we have been living. Prince Vegeta whose still alive you see, had this plan that we need more Saiyan's for, so he sent me to see if you were still alive. So, it's me, Prince Vegeta and Nappa who used to lead the army. We heard some rumors of others, but we never looked into those until we ran into some Saiyan's then the Prince came up this idea and told me to go looking for you."
"So, there are four plus Saiyan's left in the universe?"
"Yes."
"All of whom are male?"
"Well for the four yes plus I'm not sure. The boy definitely was one of us not sure about the others." Raditz looked to the children two of whom had tails and were clearly Saiyan asked "So I'm an uncle?"
"Yeah I've got four possible five and two more in about seven one more in eight. Humanity and us are very compatible."
Raditz's eyebrow raised at this "Interesting. I suppose they are fellow hominids."
Kakarrot smiled at him "My point exactly. Well think we have a lot to discuss about this plan and just to catch up."
Raditz was marveling at his little brother's palace. It was something that he had only seen Frieza and his family possess. It was lavish and expensive. A far cry from his bottom bunk in a windowless cell serving Frieza. No this was proof that his brother had power, power that he never had for a moment in his life.
Kakarrot watched his brother enjoying the fact that he was enamored by his palace. His brother appeared to low man on the totem pole. It was being easy he thought to turn him to his side by the looks of it. All he needed to do was promise him some power and like a starving dog he would eat it up.
Raditz asked him "So how many wives do you have?" He said eying the female palace guards watching them in this conference room.
Kakarrot still smiling saying "Twenty. I'll probably be having more eventually. But there are billions of humans, plenty for you to choose from if you want."
Raditz smiled at him "Isn't that just the definition of brotherly love."
"If you can't share with your brother who can you share with?" (He chuckled and as he did the officers started to arrive.) "Well almost everyone here, all but our demon friend."
It was then upon saying those words that through an open window Piccolo came in to the room. He barely made a noise. Kakarrot merely sighed thinking to himself 'he still thinks he's batman.'
"Alright now that our friend decided to make his appearance we can begin."
Kakarrot sat first then the rest did but Piccolo. Raditz was allowed to sit next to his brother even though it was Teal's usual seat. The recorder was turned on as Kakarrot liked meetings such as these, recorded for posterity.
"Alright what are you here proposing brother?"
"Prince Vegeta wants to start his rebellion against Frieza and the Planet Trade Organization (PTO). He wants all the remaining Saiyan under his command and we need an army. I didn't expect to find you with an army but since you do, our Prince demands of you to give them to our cause."
The moffs, admirals and general started to talk at fever pitch. They were all talking strategy and were filled with question big and small.
Kakarrot raised his hand and then stared daggers at his brother and then asked, "He commands me?"
Raditz confused said to him "Well yes brother. He is Prince. He gets to order us around."
Kakarrot getting angry showed his teeth and began to physical crowd his brother getting louder as he went, "I am Emperor of the Neo Saiyan Empire. I command a vast army and an entire world." He violently smacked the table. "I am commanded by no one. You are merely asking me to join in your cause to lend my support. You understand!"
Raditz was even more confused, he was getting intimidated by his little brother. It was starting to making him angry but his job was to convince Kakarrot of joining this mission and clearly his brother had what was needed for that mission to succeed.
Raditz relented to him "I'm sorry brother. I'm asking you to join our cause not ordering."
Kakarrot nodded at that his pride was satisfied, "Alright as long as we have that damn fucking clear. Now from what I'm hearing from my esteemed gallery of uniforms is that we are willing join in, and it is the details that are the real question."
The clear majority of the officers nodded only Black seemed hesitant in this.
Kakarrot confidently said "Right then Grandpa and intelligence will analysis your ship's data and we will formulate a plan of attack. Brother call up Vegeta and have him come here so that we can better coordinate also discuss how the galaxy will be divided up. And I think that concludes our meeting today. If you will excuse me, me and my brother need to do some catching up."
The recorder stopped.
The ship landed on that lush jungle world of Risa. It landed far away any of the major cities. A space port was far too risky. The reason why were simply these guys were probably friends with the bad guys it would too easy to find them. And number two it was probably going to cost money and money they know they had.
In front of the airlock the group gather with Bill at its head in his power armor.
"Alright here is how this is going to go. Mai you're staying here along with Ferro, Spunkmeyer, Frost, Dietrich, the kids of course and Chi-Chi."
"And Chi-Chi!? I'm not staying here!"
Bill sighed but he was not surprised "If this go south, I need you here. To hold the base. The thick jungle will not fully protect us. From space we will be hard to find, lower not so much. If they had in reality been tracking us with tech better, then we know of they will find us, and you will be the only reasonable line of defense to our only means of escape."
Chi-Chi looked at him with a bit of anger but then relented.
Bill then continued "The rest of us will leave with what gold and rare metal we have and go into town to see if we can buy or trade for something that could help us. We also need to get our bearings. Find a map and find out any political info. Maybe there might be people out there in the galaxy that fight these people. So, everyone keep calm, keep frosty and keep safe. Also, everyone the focus is on keeping Bulma safe. We need Bulma to keep the ship running so she is the VIP she is all of our top priority not me or anyone else."
Bulma went to disagree with him but Bill opened the airlock. Bill was the first on the jump, his feet the first on the ground. The planet around him was green. It was thick jungle with alien plants and signs of alien animals. Rainbow color gourd like flowers. A footprint in the soft mud nearby with three prongs to it, it was like a mixture between a dinosaurs and mammoths. It was familiar but still foreigner.
Bulma was next out still fuming a bit about the VIP status she had been given. She was in a sort of UNIT jumpsuit. It looked like cloth but was in reality bullet proof. They would had given her a power armor if they had a spar or she had known how to use one.
She walked in front of him and pushed her finger into his chest. Somehow even through the armor he could feel her finger.
"Listen I'm no one's damsel in distress. I can carry a gun. I can make an atom bomb in an hour."
Bill sighed at that "In one second Kakarrot can destroy a city without an atom bomb. He is not unique. These suits can maybe slow them down, the ship can let us flee only if you are around to fix it. None of us are engineers. I don't like being in charge, but I am, and I have to deal with that. You are essential, I'm sorry but it is true so, deal with it."
Bulma was shut up as out of the ship came the rest of the team. Bill took out a capsule and tossed it at the ground and a flying car came out of it.
"No one show your suits power unless necessary. I want it to be a surprise. Now let's get going."
They piled in the car and took off into the alien countryside.
A cadre of PTO armored soldiers stood in attention with an oddly dressed alien waiting at their head. He was a portly creature with fleshly whiskers. His skin was a grey color. His eyes like a snake's. they were black and no other color to his pupils and cornea's. He seemed nervous.
Like a rocket the two pods came down on the pads. They steamed and had a red tint to the hulls from the heat. The opened and the creature gulped down some air. Vegeta and Nappa emerged from the pods.
Vegeta looked at the reception and in particular the leader and then sneered. The cadre bowed. The leader came forward.
The leader said to him "Glorious Prince Vegeta of the Saiyan race. I would like to apologies for the governor general's absence. He is a busy man and other matters demanded his attention."
"So, how are you? The ass wiper?"
He faked a laughed and said, "Prince your sense of humor proceeds you."
"I'm sure tales of the Monkey Prince as you like to call me are far and wide."
He pretended to seem shocked "Prince I would never use that word."
Vegeta sneering said, "I'm sure."
"Would you like an escort Prince?"
"No."
"Can I ask what you are here for?"
"No. Come Nappa we have better things to do then get this piss pour welcome by a grinning moron"
The two took off into the sky and as soon as they were out of sight the man's face turned said "Fucking uppity Monkey's. I'm glad they're all but extinct."
In the air the two Saiyan's stopped midair and looked down on the lush world.
"This reminds off how my father described Salada."
"Who cares. Now we have to find our people."
"The scouters aren't really useful."
"Agreed. Maybe we should have asked the third class what they looked like."
"One had a tail. They should be easy enough to spot."
"Maybe. You take the other continent I take this one. They might not be in a mood to see us but don't kill them. We might need them and we're not here to kill them."
"Alright but if they try anything, I can rough them up a bit, right?"
Vegeta sighed and pointed at him "No! We want them on our side idiot. Don't fuck this one up."
Nappa nodded. Nappa left and Vegeta took to the ground to begin his hunt.
Into the outskirts of an alien city their car stopped. The city that they had come to was beautiful with white clean walls. The alien but gorgeous architecture was around them. There were foreign smells in the air of foods they did not know but smelled good. The scenery boasted blue mountains in the distance clean blue lakes. It would have been nice if it all been breath taking if not for the cruelty it was in service to.
The horrors of this world were apparent. People had collars on. Brands not tattoos were apparent. This was a slave planet with a slave economy. The collared people all had sour face. The scars spoke of their treatment. They were barely clothed. They were a wide variety of species. Many of whom even looked almost human.
Bill his eyes wide with disgust said, "Alright strangers let's get to work."
