*RING RING*
"…WHA-" *BOOM-CRASH* "...great" Well, if Vegeta could choose what his best day was at this point of his life, this one already wasn't starting the best, far from it in fact… Because really, no one in their correct mindset would want to be so frightened by a damn phone call in- what he would assume to be early morning, to the point of slipping entirely of his bed and into his nightstand- or maybe the proper term would be THROUGH his nightstand, even if he didn't even know how he fell through it but how he sleep at night is another matter entirely, so now he would have to go into one of the shops at Shallot city today to cash a new nightstand more sturdy when he could do nothing beside training all day, tho maybe in the late afternoon
*RING RING*
Now that he's thinking about it, why is this damn thing so loud?! Whoever is called him this early got to have the freaking best excuse or someone's gotta get beat up by the Prince of all Saiyans today
…
Who is he kidding? He already knows who is annoying enough to be calling him this early
Vegeta picked up his scouter, pressed the *accept call* button and without even looking at the number, he decided to speak in a rather annoyed tone at whoever was calling him
"Komatsu, what do you want?"
'Howdy, Veggie!!! How is it going?'
"First of all, What is with the 'Howdy'? Are you a Space cowboy now?" Vegeta asked as he rose an eyebrow
'Eh…? Idk… I kinda thought it would sound… cool?'
"...Nvm that but second of all, what do you even want at 7AM in the morning?"
'Uh? Oh! Aspara will come to my house in about an hour or so to invite me to a fishing session and I was thinking that maybe you would want to join us too? Even if you weren't particularly invited, I doubt if you came unannounced that it would bother any of them'
Thinking about it, Vegeta proposed "My morning is already dedicated to training today but maybe you can at least come to the castle later with Aspara and we'll eat it together? I'll even come with next time"
'... alright, it's good for me, see you in a few hours then?'
"See you"
As he heard the device hung up, he tossed it on his bed and without another word, he left his chamber with his training gear to the training room where Nappa will be waiting for him
As he arrived, he immediately took noticed that Nappa was not alone but with some weird alien looking guys that… wear what he would assume is the Cold uniform waiting for him with Nappa (tho he doesn't remember if the douche bag took over already but that doesn't matter, its some guys with the Cold insignia and he doesn't like it, not one bit)
On this note, Vegeta immediately took Nappa by the wrist, who stumbled a little as he didn't expected the little prince to suddenly grab him and without another word and with the confused look sent by the Cold soldiers, he guided Nappa towards a room adjacent that was at enough distance that the morons wouldn't hear their talk
When Vegeta judged that they were at enough distance, he dropped Nappa's wrists and exclaimed in rage and indignation "Nappa! What the hell are these guys doing on OUR planet?!"
"Wow! Calm down my prince please! They are here for only a few days to just assist at your training and see your performance as well as Aspara and Komatsu!"
Vegeta launched him a deadpan stare "…Didn't you think it's a little suspicious?! Like what if they are here to spy on us or something so they can attack us later?"
Nappa put his hand under his chin and thought about it "I think it's better to just think of it as an opportunity to make a demonstration of your power and to pass the message that we, the Saiyans, are not to mess with and also this is your opportunity to show the strength of our squad, as the leader, and maybe in the future we will be rewarded who knows?"
Vegeta gave him a really annoyed look but eventually agreed "...Alright but I am still NOT ok with putting on a show for these clowns but if it's a demonstration of strength they want, it's a demonstration of strength they will get…"
𝙵𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝙻𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛
As Prince Vegeta walked confidently into the training room, Nappa guided the two Cold soldiers into the control room and as he leaned against a wall and crossed his arms as he made a sign with his right hand to a scientist to debut the onslaught
The scientist in charge of the control panel pressed a button and five Saibaimans were released, all smugly smiling and crouching menacingly around Vegeta, who didn't move a muscle and continued to smile confidently at them as if his opponents were only mire worms
Suddenly, one Saibaiman leaped at him with his menacing war-cry and tried to impale the Prince, but only to get him to simply move to the left and letting the Saibaiman, completely shocked, pass in front of him without touching him whatsoever
The second Saibaiman tried his luck by not letting him recover from the attack of his previous companion and attacked him immediately… only to get the same result and just passed in front of the prince without the creature being able to do anything
The third one tried to claw at him by jumping directly in front of the Prince, but he could only taste another fail as Vegeta simply jumped back at a safe distance
"YO?! Did you see that?!" One of the two soldiers exclaimed in shock
"…Yes, I saw that and you shouldn't be surprised, its Prince Vegeta after all, he's one of the best of his race, same for his squad"
"One of the best?! No way!!" The frog like creature exclaimed in terror, with sweet falling of his forehead, as Nappa couldn't help but escape a small smirk of contempt in the background
Without warning, all sights returned to the screen as all the Saibaimans apparently had enough of being mocked by the Prince and so they all decided to all jump at Vegeta at the same time to win by overwhelming him… but the only reaction the Saibaimans got from the Prince was to lose his smirk of amusement, to cross his arms and in an instant, with an intense scream, Vegeta released some of his energy and all the Saibaimans went flying into the wall of the training chamber, one immediately dropping dead to the floor
And as if the scene wasn't scary enough for the two soldiers, Vegeta smirked to the screen and with one finger, he pulverized all of the Saibaimans
"…Unbelievable!! And you are telling me it was only a warm up?!"
"I told you…, they are no regular third class were observing, they are all Super Elites"
"My gosh… What's he and the others gonna be like when they're full grown??"
Nappa smirks and leaps off the wall as he departs from the room "Mmf, they are the future of the entire Saiyan race it's what they are, and an advice to you all, stay on their good side and you'll hopefully live to see another day…"
Just a Nappa left to escort the prince into his chamber, the frog-like creature spoke low enough as not even his soldier comrade could hear the end of his sentence "Well yeah?! Duh… ⁱ ᵈᵒⁿᵗ ʷᵃⁿᵗ ᵗᵒ ᵍᵉᵗ ᵒⁿ ᵃⁿʸ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉˢᵉ ᶜʳᵃᶻʸ ᶜʰⁱˡᵈʳᵉⁿ'ˢ ʰⁱᵗ ˡⁱˢᵗ…"
"What?" His comrade replied, seemingly confused
"Nothing nothing, who's next to supervise before we get the heck out of here?" The frog-like creature was really not paid enough… well he was not paid at all but you know what he means
"Mmh…" His comrade muttered as he peaked at his screen "Aspara from the Bardock Family, recent power level registered around the 14.000 units"
"Oh ok…" the soldier drank his drink, only to spew it back out instantly "14.000?!?!"
𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙽𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚊 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎
As the two Saiyans walked away from the training chamber, Nappa addressed the Prince "It was glorious, Prince Vegeta! You should have seen their faces!"
Vegeta only scowled "Yeah yeah… I just hope that this mediocre of a show was enough to drain any hope of theirs that some clown could one day rival us, that's only it really-" As he shrugged and was about to continue his sentence, his father suddenly appeared around the corner, seemingly speed walking and nearly bumping into them
"Father? Everything's good?" Vegeta successfully spoke loud enough for his father to snap out of whatever he was thinking and stopped right in front of them and immediately, Prince Vegeta could see that his father was in fact not good as he had some sweet descending on the side of his face, which is kinda not reassuring as its kinda the King were talking about "Alright, what the hell is going on with you? You seem as if you saw King Cold himself trying to kill you" As the Prince crossed his arm and waited patiently with a perplexes look in his face while Nappa beside him had a look of curiosity, the King looked surprised for a moment before he recomposed himself and regained his usual demeanor "Oh, hi to you, my son, nothing's wrong just… some important matters I urgently need to attend to so I'm sorry if you wanted to chat for a while. I do not have the time right now" He posed for a moment "and Nappa, I have a mission for you.
Can you follow me?" Nappa replied a nod, while he was uncertain of what was happening, he was certainly not one to discuss orders
As the King and Nappa departed, Vegeta just stood there, dumbfounded at the situation, and as he watched them leave, he didn't know why but he suddenly felt the urge to follow them
𝙰𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚅𝚎𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚊 𝚏𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎
Now he really did question why the heck did he decide to follow these two morons, when he first proceeded to follow them through almost the entire castle, until they reached the safe room where they kept all of their treasures who either came from a successful mission or from the late Tsuful people, they went to pick up a pillow, why a pillow was here in the first place was above him but whatever, to instead after some deliberation pick up another one (same question) that was in a less well kept place and then departed again to the dining room for whatever reason, where they discussed for some time before Nappa took his leave, after that his father only proceeded to do what he was still doing right now, walking back and forth in the room as if he waited for someone
And so here he was now, crouching behind some rocks (why his father kept the dining room like this he couldn't tell, like you have this kinda majestic illumination in the center that is always keeping the Big Table well light up, and you have this grand shadow contrast of fall out rocks beside the 2 huge pillars, maybe a style choice?) while observing his father walking around the table in loops while muttering to himself, at least the secondary door behind him could serve as an escape route just in case his father came too close to his direction
The front door suddenly opened and two weird (appearance wise) people he cannot recall ever see enter the room
The first one, the one who opened the door, is a man with pale blue skin, white hair and violet eyes, he's holding in his right hand a long scepter with a gem who… seems to float above it? This man's attire consists of a maroon robe, a black cuirass with the same white and orange diamond decorations, a blue sash and around his neck is a large light blue ring. Oh and he of course also wears black high-heeled shoes (as if he's not tall enough)
The second one is a purple anthropomorphic hairless cat with golden yellow eyes, and unlike his comrade, he looks like he didn't eat anything for days (he can even see the ribcage at this point, even at his distance) and height wise… Well, he's lucky he has big ears because if his stature wasn't so weirdly imposing with his demeanor and his manner of putting his fists behind his back, he wouldn't be the least intimidating. His attire otherwise is somewhat similar to his comrade, dons black, blue, and gold with the same white and orange diamond decorations as the taller one.
On one hand, while he doesn't really like that some random filth can burst through their castle, unannounced like they own the place and if he had no brains, he would walk right up to those fools and get them out of his castle himself this instant
But one the other hand, if he takes time to think this through a moment, he had only saw Father like one time earlier and these fools could totality have an appointment and only him didn't get told for some reason, it would be rude be not impossible
…He'll listen for now to see what's this about
The purple cat was the first one to address his Father, tone above all polite but coupled with some condescendance "Saiyan King, it has been… quite some time, hasn't it?"
The King took a posture straight, tho lacking his usual confidence as he seemed to have some difficulty at looking directly at the stranger "Affirmatif, Lord Beerus, it has been quite some time that you granted us this immense gift that is your presence among us, tho I assume you are here above all to claim what you tasked us to collect?"
While the blue man still didn't move nor mutter a single word for the entire conversation, the purple cat eyes narrowed for a second as he looked at the King before a smug expression appeared in his face "Huh, straight to the point are we? Fine then"
Some time passed as they continued to discuss a little, or just his Father rambling at the purple cat while the blue man continued to smile
"You know these guys?"
At this, Vegeta nearly jumped out of his skin as he rapidly turned around (silently tho because he still doesn't want to blow his cover) to find his friends, also crouched, just beside him (how he didn't hear them is impressive but it also means that their cover is safe, for now) while the two were just looking at him as if expecting an answer
…Oh right "No I do not, I came here because my Father was acting strangely so I decided to investigate the matter myself"
"...and?"
"Nothing" The girls just stared at him with a deadpan expression that prompted him to continue "Well, nothing helpful I mean, I followed them around the entire castle to the safe room to pick up at first a pillow to then abandon this same one to pick another, to then return here until these guys arrived"
Aspara just released a sigh of exasperation "Yay, we finally are going somewhere! For our part we arrived some time ago, we would be here much earlier if Komatsu hadn't suggested at the last second to take the other door just in case there was trouble so we wouldn't just barge in in the middle of it, tho it took us some time but we managed to arrive here in time it seems"
Komatsu continued "Yeah, we were searching for you so we could show you what we catched for dinner and when we arrived here, it was as if the whole atmosphere changed, so excuse us for being curious but it seems to be anything but normal"
Vegeta raised an eyebrow in question "What do you mean the atmosphere changed?"
A loud gasp interrupted their discussion as all three peaked around their hiding spot to see the purple cat stranger… choking their King with his tail wrapped around his throat?!
All color dried from their faces as all three kids could only watch in dread as their King was literally choked in mid-air by the cat while the blue man had moved a little bit away and now was stationed beside a pillow cut in half on the ground behind him
"You know, Saiyan King" The purple cat started, his voice weirdly calm "for a moment, only a moment, I thought that this meeting would go flowlesly, you would have give me what I had requested from you, I would have been satisfied of your kind for once and I would have left without an inch, as simple as that" he stopped for a moment and suddenly his tail tightened around the King's throat, making him gasp even more as he tried to get out of his grip, in vain "but of course you Saiyans would complicate things as always"
Without hesitation, the purple cat slammed him to the ground, face first
As Vegeta kinda regained his temper, he exclaimed "Wh-what's going on?! How can Father get ragdolled like that without doing anything to this filth?"
Komatsu, still pâle, replied "We kinda knew there would be trouble with what we sensed but I think we kinda underestimated this guy…cat?"
Aspara tho still didn't talk, and while she was kinda pâle too, she only stared at Vegeta, who was restraining himself for the moment but it was clear that he only wanted to go and put these guys in there place for humiliating his Father, but after several seconds, she return to see how this would play out, while she was really caught of guard on how her King was manhandled by this punny cat so easily, she would have gone in herself and teach them a piece of her mind for humiliating her King… but she had the sensation that it would only sign their death sentence
They abruptly stopped talking as they saw that the King tried to get up… and be immediately stopped as the cat put his foot on his head to stop his ascension, putting him in a submissive posture
The cat then spoked again, tone condescending "Can this miserable little brain of yours comprehend why I am so angry, Saiyan King?"
"Because I promised to fulfill your mission in the time you gave me, Lord Beerus, but it took longer than I thought it would-" "Wrong"
The King immediately gasped as the cat, Lord Beerus as he previously introduced himself, interrupted him, voice firm
"Father is being humiliated, how can he take being looked down like this?! Just who is this filth?!"
"I don't know… I have a bad feeling about this if even the King is terrified of him" Komatsu continued, uncertainty in her voice
"While I consider myself a rather flexible deity and I know that you mortals have your limitations…" He paused for a second, before continuing, his voice gaining a threatening tone that send chills down on their spine
"But if there is one thing that I cannot tolerate, it's the callous arrogance of those who do not pay the respect a destroyer is due"
'A destroyer? What the f*ck's a destroyer?' Aspara meanwhile thought, not liking where this was going, before flinching as the King's head was smashed further into the ground
"I ordered you to find the most comfortable pillow in all the Universe, and I know for a fact that you obtained it, and while your tenacity was impressive, your methods were… a bit severe"
The cat / Lord Beerus crouched next to the King and lifted his head by his hair, making him look at him, though it looked quite painful "I bet you don't even know how many creatures you killed in that raid… But of course being what I am, I could have accepted all of that if you had actually given me the best pillow instead of keeping it for yourself, and trying to fool me with the second best" Lord Beerus forced the King's head to look at what remained of the fake pillow beside the blue man, before turning him back towards him and smashed his head against the ground, again, again… and again
Seeing this, Prince Vegeta was at his limit, his teeth were gritted and he couldn't stop shaking in rage, but then, as he took a step forward, a hand was placed on his shoulder and stopping him, he turned his head to see that Aspara was the one that had intervened
"What are you doing?!" Spoke Vegeta through his teeth
"…are you seriously gonna go against that? Can you not see what he's doing to the King? Are you seriously thinking you can do better?" Aspara asked him with a tone extremely serious while looking a him straight into his eyes
"…so what am I supposed to do? Stand in here, hidden like a coward while my Father is getting beat up? I was not considering you to be a coward, Aspara" Vegeta looked straight at her, still shaking but his words only made Aspara frown as she didn't waver for any instant and replied "This is not cowardice but strategy, if you want to go out there, fine, you think I'm a coward and want to go in head first, fine, but don't illusion yourself, you WILL fail"
Vegeta winced at the end of her sentence but she still continued anyway "Just think for a moment, you said that when you followed them, you passed by the safe room and there were 2 pillows right? Well, the second one is surely the one that this Beerus wants, and if he is a 'flexible deity' as he said it himself, I can think that he will surely not be against that we correct the mistake that your Father had made and give it to him, right?" Aspara proposed as the smashing continued in the background
Vegeta didn't like this, this was not his style, not at all, but with Aspara's words dancing around in his head with the mental image of his Father being ragdolled around like a doll replaced by himself… he wouldn't risk an humiliation like this
As the seconds passed, Vegeta scowled but agreed to the idea nonetheless "Tch, fine, we go with the idea, but if this doesn't work and he's not living us alone after this, I'm going to take him down… beside, how are we going to keep them distracted for this? It's at the other end of the castle!"
A light bulb lit up in Komatsu's head "We can give them some of our fish!" She stopped for two seconds though, uncertain "…Cat's love to eat fish, right?"
"I think so? Some planet we 'visited' had cats and I think they liked that? I'm not sure I remember correctly, we weren't really here to discuss with the locals anyway…" Aspara put her chin in thought, but then she remembered that it was not really the situation to think about that "Right! So, we'll distract them with food while you Vegeta will go with your Father and reclaim this damn pillow as fast as possible, ok?" The two nodded "Alright, at three we go"
"One!"
"Two!"
"…Three!" At that, the three left their hiding spot and slowly walked into their direction to prove that they were not here to fight
Lord Beerus stopped smashing the King's head against the floor, the later almost knocked out, as he heard the footsteps, he turned his head in their direction while the blue man only looked at them with some curiosity, still smiling
"…What do you want, children, I am a little occupied right now as you can see" Lord Beerus gestured at the crumbled form of their King at his feet
Komatsu decided to speak first "Hum… hi? Mr deity…destroyer? Hum, we are sorry that our King has tried to fool you, but if we know where your actual pillow is and one of us can go grab it for you in the most brief delay, will you be satisfied? We will even offer you as many of our fishes as you want in the meantime!" She said, bowing at the end of her sentence, praying that her little actress skills will be enough
Lord Beerus looked at the three for a moment, expression stoic, before abruptly letting the King fall on the ground and got up himself "Fish you say? I really hope for you and your entire Galaxy that your not trying to fool me again, Saiyan child"
Fortunately for Komatsu, she did not move an inch from her position and stated, voice unwavering "No, Sir, Lord, Destroyer!"
Aspara stiffened a laugh as her friend mixed the pronunciation but immediately shut up as Komatsu glared her way as to say 'I swear to Kami if you f*ck this up and we die for it… I'm gonna search for you in the entire afterlife and if I find you, I'll kick your ass so bad you'll wish you were never born!'
Fortunately for Aspara, Lord Beerus didn't seem to notice, or if he did he didn't seem to care as he kept staring at Komatsu as if he could analyze her entire soul just by looking at her, until he put both of his arms behind his back and addressed her "Farewell then, lead us to this feast, Saiyan child"
Komatsu let out a unconscious sigh of relief and nodded and Aspara looked at Vegeta expectantly while the other just rolled his eyes but moved towards his Father nonetheless, and as she and Komatsu guided them out of the room, Vegeta helped him get up and both of them left the room as well
𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙰𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚊, 𝙺𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚜𝚞 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚠𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚜
As Komatsu chose to lead the way, with Lord Beerus walking just beside her, it left Aspara with the strange blue man and for now she didn't know how to feel about him, until now, this…person has not demonstrated any kind of dangerous behavior unlike the other one, and while she hadn't detect anything suspicious about this guy, she knew not to judge a potential threat by his appearance, as her Father would often say
But as she mused at the topic, the strange blue man suddenly addressed her, voice as calm as a soft breeze "I have to admit I didn't expected this tactic from your kind, I had expected you all to just charge all at once at my Lord as it is the mentality of most of your kind, no offense"
Aspara just raised an eyebrow in a curious yet suspicious manner and shrugged careless "Hum… not taken? We t'en to do that a lot and would it have been anyone else, we surely would have done it without hesitation, but I guess I just had a gut feeling that it was not the best solution in this case"
The blue man only let out a little laugh "Yes, and really thought well too… This tactic of yours to use food to appease my Lord, really well played on your part, your King had him in a really not such good mood but you still went and managed him to give you a second chance" The sudden look of unease of the little girl made him correct his phrasing "Do not worry, little one, I will not say anything, not many can claim witnessing the wrath of a god of Destruction, spoke their way out of it and still be alive after, I just wanted to say that I am agreeably impressed is all"
Aspara let out a sigh of relief and decided to take advantage of this moment to know a little bit more "So, hum, I heard from our King that the cat man is a destroyer… What even is that? And who are you?"
The blue man chuckled softly before he replied "Your right, where are my manners, I am Whis, the intendant of Lord Beerus the Destroyer of this Universe, who I would advise you to refer to him as such if you don't want to summon his anger again by the way"
Aspara peaked an eyebrow in curiosity "This Universe?"
"Oh Oh Oh! This is quite another long topic, Saiyan child, and at your age, the chance of you understanding anything I'm saying would be abysmal I'm afraid" Whis said, tone apologetic
Despite being slightly disappointed, Aspara let out the topic as the God of Destruction, his Attendant and the two Saiyan children walked in silence with the only sounds hear in the halls being their footsteps, loudly echoing around the air
𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝙻𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛
As it turned out, Aspara's idea worked quite well surprisingly, Lord Beerus was slightly impressed by the size and also pretty satisfied that they had in fact told him the truth, while Whis weirdly gushed over the food and quite literally described every bit of flavor he ate…
After that, the two Vegeta's had arrived with the actual pillow that Lord Beerus had asked, and after finishing their feast, Lord Beerus warned the King that, hadn't the three children saved his ass right there, their planet may not had survived
And after a goodbye from Whis and a slight gesture of hand as a farewell from the Lord of Destruction, the two vanished in a flash of light and sped towards the cosmos, to never be seen again…
𝙱𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙶𝚒𝚗𝚎'𝚜 𝙷𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎
"Well…" Thought Aspara, flying towards home "This day was quite not what I was scared expecting"
After taking her things and saying goodbye to her friends, she sped up towards home at maximum speed, after the revelation that Gods apparently existed, eventual existence of other Universes and this 'Lord Beerus' having a power that would have put the Cold race to shame… she really needed to let out some steam after all of that, and nothing was better than a good old training session!
Thought she will definitely share what she found with her Father after this when he's home to see if he knows anything about it
As Aspara reached her destination and started to land in her yard, she saw her little brother leaving the house to greet her "Sis!"
"Hi" She simply said with a little salute as she landed beside him "Nothing particularly bad happened while I was away? I kinda don't have time for anymore surprise today"
"Uh… no? Why do you ask?" Raditz wondered with a tilt of his head
"Nothing! I'm gonna go shower now, I'll see you later okay? Okay! Bye!" Aspara said hastily as she speed walked passed him and entered the house, disappearing from his sight and leaving him confused
Next Chapter : A little Brother's motivation and more Siblings Bonding?
