Papri didn't turn, even as behind her the planet was engulfed in a fiery explosion. She didn't flinch as the shockwave shook her pod, the destruction of an entire planet not a gentle thing, she just sighed. Bleakly, she wondered if she'd actually be allowed to eat tonight...

Or… Much like Kakarot and Vegeta, Papri escapes the destruction of their home planet. Unlike Kakarot however, she wasn't sent to a nice safe planet in the middle of nowhere space. And unlike Vegeta, she wasn't able to spend life under the boot of the younger brother who always let him have a bit too much leash because it was amusing.

No, instead she spends life under the heel of the more calculating older brother. And he isn't intent on letting her go any time soon…

It was common knowledge throughout the galaxy that Saiyan lived to fight, to test themselves against strong enemies in a bid to get stronger and face even more powerful enemies. A never ending cycle of violence that they relished with all of their beings.

Papri was no different. Despite having barely reached her majority, the young Saiyan was already more than used to conquering planets on her lonesome, defeating their most powerful defenders in combat before wiping them from the face of the galaxy.

Having been born with a power level only seen in royalty, Papri had always been destined for power. A fact that was further proven as her power level surpassed five thousand before she even hit ten, a feat unheard of even from King Vegeta.

It had been years since someone was forced to join her on her depopulation missions, and now almost nobody did so if they could avoid it, not wanting to share the same space as the 'dirty ape'. It didn't bother Papri one bit, in fact, given her circumstances, she preferred it that way. It gave her a chance to actually cut loose and have a bit of fun.

Only she wasn't really having fun at the moment.

Papri lazily ducked under a kick aimed at her head, the leg ruffling through her hair as it passed, and struck out with her own kick. Her opponent, a purple alien whose species didn't really matter as they were going to be extinct soon anyway, wasn't able to block or dodge her attack and was sent flying away with the sound of breaking bones.

He righted himself in the air, hand coming down to cradle his middle, "You…you are no child. You are a monster!" The alien coughed, purple blood oozing from his mouth and the numerous wounds on his body.

He was supposedly the defender of this planet, protecting it from invasion with his 'overwhelming strength'. Papri was having trouble believing that at the moment. The fight hadn't even been going on for ten minutes and he was already on his last legs despite Papri trying to draw it out as long as possible.

Papri stared at the pitiful alien in boredom, arms crossed as they had been since the fight started, "You know, this is a lot less fun than it usually is. Normally when I do this I actually have fun fighting all the defenders off at once. But you're the strongest guy around and you're so…weak."

Papri glanced down at her crossed arms, "I even gave you a handicap and everything." She sighed, uncrossing them, "Oh well, I guess I better wrap this up before I get yelled at. Or worse…"

He screamed out a battle cry as he rushed her, a glowing orb of yellow ki held in his hand. He threw it towards her as he got close and she didn't even bother dodging, letting it impact against her chest in a fiery explosion that did nothing but send smoke flying in every direction .

The alien rushed through the smoke, slamming a fist against Papri's face ineffectively. He shot his other fist forward, then again, and again, each attack not even making the young Saiyan's face budge an inch.

As the assault continued, Papri slowly raised her hand, fingers splayed and palm aimed at the alien's head. Realization dawned in his face, and he immediately tried to retreat away from her, but she just grabbed him by his shoulder and held him in place.

As he struggled against her iron grip, a bright red ki wave shot from her palm, engulfing the alien's face completely. He went limp immediately as his head disintegrated under her attack

She let go of the corpse, letting it fall to the city below, screams ringing out as the inhabitants realized their defender had failed. She sighed again.

"Well that was the last notable power level on the planet. Better hurry up and finish here." she said as she floated upward even higher and higher, until she had the entire city in view. She gave a small grunt as she power up slightly for what she was about to do, a red aura springing to life around her.

Her long black hair swayed in the wind as the young Saiyan brought a gloved hand up, focusing her ki in her palm and bathing the dark sky around her bright red. Flashes emerged from the buildings below her as the city's remaining defenders desperately tried to stop her attack.

She ignored their efforts, she was far too powerful to have to worry about propulsion based weaponry and the highest power level her scouter had detected on this planet peaked at just below five hundred, less than a fraction of her own.

She had just killed him and her armor wasn't even scuffed from the battle. There was nothing they could do to delay the inevitable.

Her cherry red aura burned brightly around her as she took aim at the center of the city below/ Her Red Racer attack usually didn't take this long to charge, but because she was using it the way she was, she had to make sure that blast radius was sufficient. It wouldn't be fun to have to chase down any stragglers if she didn't get them all in one go.

The high pitched whine of her ki sphere rang in her ears as she finished preparing her attack. She checked her aim once more and let it loose, a blood red comet emerging from her hand to race toward the populated buildings below.

There was a moment of silence, before the sphere of ki detonated, blossoming outwards from the point of impact to encompass the entire city in a fraction of a second. Screams rang out and were silenced swiftly as the city's population was reduced to atoms in mere moments.

As the smoke and ash cleared, Papri admired her work. Where there was once a large city, populated by tens of thousands of beings, there was now a smoking crater, fire burning at its center. She breathed deeply, taking in the smell of burning flesh with a grin on her face.

"I do good work." She mused to herself as she took in the destruction of the last populated city on the planet.

Kiishi V, the planet she had just devastated, was a relatively large planet all things considered. The size of a small gas giant and mostly land. Normally it would take an entire fifty man team of normal soldiers. Or around ten competent saiyans.

Instead, she had devastated the planet by her lonesome in just a few days, traveling from city to city and turning them to smoldering rubble as the inhabitants were powerless to stop her.

And with this city's destruction, the planet was sufficiently depopulated. The dregs that she missed would die off in mere months. Her work was done.

"Now to get off of this mud ball…" She muttered to herself. Her aura sprung to life around her as she prepared to make her way back to her Attack Ball, only to be stopped in her tracks as the device attached to her face rang in her ear.

Someone back at the home ship was hailing her. She brought her hand up to her scouter, pressing the small button on the side to answer the call.

"What?!" She yelled in irritation.

"Make your way back to the ship, ape, Kiishi V has been designated for destruction by order of Lord Cooler. Nobody wants that mud ball." The voice said. It was Orishi, her 'captain'.

Papri ground her teeth together, tail lashing angrily behind her as she processed what she just heard.

"Are you fucking kidding me?!" She shouted, her scouter beeping as her power level rose with her rage, "I just spent days depopulating this planet city by city, and when I finish you tell me it's going to be destroyed anyway?! Why didn't you say anything earlier?!"

"I must have forgotten." Her hand clenched around the scouter at his mocking tone. She could just barely hear the laughter of his companions in the background. He must have her on speaker. Good.

"Yeah, I'm sure you did. Seems like the pitiful thing between your legs isn't the only head that's useless." She snarled, gaining a little satisfaction as the laughter increased, this time aimed at Orishi.

"Watch it ape." He snarled, "Don't forget who you are talking to here. I own you." A click punctuated his statement.

Papri's eyes widened as she heard a beep, before her vision went white with pain as the fucking collar around her neck sent waves of electricity surging into her nervous system.

She clutched at the metal contraption with a shout of pain, kicking a flailing uselessly in the air as she tried to rip the offending device off to no avail.

She began falling out of the sky as the pain consumed her, just barely managing to correct herself before she plummeted into the smoking crater below. The collar didn't care however, still sending pulses of painful shocks directly into her neck and spine, torturing her with the push of a button.

Her torment lasted several seconds before ceasing, leaving Papri shaking violently as residual electricity ran through her veins.

She hunched over in the air breathing heavily, spit mixed with blood fell from her lips and it was all she could do to pay attention as Orishi's voice came through her scouter once more.

"I hope that was enough to remind you of your place ape. Report back to the ship right now. Or do I need to see just how long I can keep my finger on that button?" He taunted.

Papri's pride flared at the idea of acknowledging this man as her superior. She wanted nothing more than to race back to the ship and beat the bastards face in, but she couldn't.

Not only did he hold that damn button to her collar, but Orishi also had a power level of over forty thousand, she stood no chance against him. She would just have to grit her teeth and bare with it for now.

"Yes sir." She forced out through clenched teeth.

"Good ape. Now hurry, I would so hate to accidentally hit you with this attack I'm about to fire. When you get to the ship, report to the debriefing room." He hung up, leaving her alone on a soon to be annihilated planet.

Papri just floated there as she took in what had just happened. Hours of wasted effort depopulating a planet that would be destroyed in just seconds. Hours of sleep lost and hunger gained as she flew from city to city, eradicating these insects just for her orders to change at the last second.

And then Orishi activates that damn collar, reminding her place as a slave under his boot! It was all just so…so…!

"AARGH!"

An enraged scream left her mouth as she thrust one of her hands down at the already destroyed city, releasing as much ki as possible at once in a fit of anger.

A beam of crimson several feet wider than she tall blasted from her hands, her glove burning away at the intensity of the ki. The attack impacted the crater below and immediately began burning its way into the planet itself.

Magma began spewing from the ground as cracks raced outward from the center of her attack, the planet shook below the Saiyan as it failed to stand up to her immense anger.

Her ki quickly burnt a hole through the crust of the planet and began making its way into the mantle, burrowing through earth and lava like it wasn't there. If she had actually formed an attack instead of throwing out pure ki, she probably wouldn't even have ground to stand on as the planet would have erupted spectacularly.

Even in her enraged state, Papri knew she would die a long, painful death if she destroyed the planet's core while she was still in its atmosphere, so she slowly let off on her attack, the wave of ki slowing from a torrent to a mere trickle in seconds.

She took a deep breath to recover some semblance of calm, before rushing off towards her Attack Ball like a fiery red comet. She reached it in mere seconds and climbed inside, pressing buttons methodically .

She programmed her pod's auto pilot to take her to the home ship, and sat back to wait. The pod slowly rose into the air, unbothered by the geysers of magma around it, before rocketing off into the sky.

Within seconds, she was in space, and Papri didn't turn as a massive beam of purple ki shot by her pod, missing it by mere inches. She didn't flinch as the shockwave shook her pod violently and chunks of rock flew by the view port. The destruction of an entire planet was not a gentle thing, she knew that all too well.

She bleakly wondered if she'd be allowed to have dinner tonight but then immediately dismissed the thought, after all, she had been denied food for less than insulting her captain practically to his face. She grit her teeth in frustration as her pod approached the home ship.

She had a feeling she knew exactly what awaited her there.

Papri stared resolutely straight ahead of her as Orishi paced slowly in front of her, his footfalls heavy against the reinforced steel floor.

Orishi's species, the Neijin, were normally extremely scrawny and thin, all skin and bones under barely-there muscle. And above all, they were weak, the strongest among them having a power level lower than two thousand and no unique skills to make up for it.

Orishi was not like the rest of his race. He was a mutant, massive, easily clearing seven feet tall and more muscular than the largest saiyans. Massive veins throbbed angrily under his pale blue skin and his purple eyes constantly glowed with restrained ki.

And he was currently lecturing Papri, though the fact that only he and her were in the debriefing room let her know exactly how this was going to play out.

"The disrespect you have begun to blatantly show me is…concerning." Orishi said, slowly circling her, "One might think you are forgetting your place."

Papri grit her teeth, "I'm no-"

SMACK*

Papri cradled her now throbbing jaw, the skin under her hand already bruising from Orishi's vicious backhand.

"I DID NOT COMMAND YOU TO SPEAK!" He shouted angrily, "WHEN YOUR BETTERS ARE SPEAKING, YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND SHOW THE PROPER RESPECT!"

He took a deep breath and slowly walked toward Papri with a malicious grin, "But ah, I suppose I shouldn't expect a saiyan to understand the meaning of respect, mindless savages the lot of you." He mocked, "The only reason you aren't currently licking Frieza's boots like the rest of your pathetic race is because our master thought he saw a modicum of potential in you." He walked closer to her, leaning in until they were practically face to face, "I, on the other hand, can see you for exactly what you are."

"A Weak. Simple Minded. Insignificant. Ape. One who deserves nothing more than to live a life polishing the boots of those stronger than you." He spoke slowly, enunciating each word.

Papri grit her teeth at the insult, blood boiling in her veins. Orishi had alway had a way of getting under her skin with his comments and he knew that. He was trying to make her angry, make her lash out at a 'superior officer' so he could justify the following punishment to his superiors.

And yet, despite knowing all of this, Papri was a proud saiyan above all else. Her pride would not let the repeated insults to her and her race go unpunished.

She opened her mouth despite herself, "And the only reason you aren't enslaved like the rest of your pitifully weak race is because you just happened to be born a bit stronger than the rest! The strongest members of your damn species have power levels below two thousand, it's no wonder we beat you so easily! You should be grateful we didn't just eradicate you completely, it would have been a mercy!" She shouted, red ki flaring around her.

An angry vein appeared on Orishi's head and Papri took some satisfaction that even though she had done exactly as he wished, her comments had hit harder than he expected them to. He took a deep breath through his nostrils before turning to her, purple eyes filled with rage.

"It seems I've given you too much slack in your chain. You need a lesson to teach you not to disrespect your betters, and I'll be sure to give it to you in the only language you filthy savages understand." He said lowly. Papri's eyes widened and she tried to back away but she wasn't fast enough.

Orishi struck out with a closed fist, smashing into Papri's chest faster than she could perceive. The saiyan held back a cry of pain as her armor was broken with a single strike, white hot pain radiating in her chest as she was sent flying with the blow. She slammed into the far wall, denting it, before falling to the floor to clutch her no doubt broken ribs,

She had no time to wallow in her injury however, as her eyes caught a flash of purple and she rolled to the side quickly, a ball of ki exploding against the area she had just vacated.. It scorched the reinforced flooring, indicating that it would have done much worse to her if she hadn't dodged it. She got on her hands and knees, looking towards Orishi as he slowly walked towards her downed form.

"Your punishment begins now ape. Try to make it fun for me before you pass out." Orishi laughed as she stood on shaky legs. This was a common occurrence for her, and so Papri knew exactly how painful the next few hours of her life was going to be.

She would try to fight back as she always did, her pride as a Saiyan wouldn't allow her to do anything less, no matter how hopeless it was.

She squared her stance, spitting a large glob of blood from her mouth as she did so. Orishi grinned maliciously across from her and the large alien didn't bother taking a stance, merely raising a hand and beckoning her forward. She took a deep breath before obliging him, her ki flaring around her as she charged forward at the smirking captain with an enraged yell.

Distantly, the saiyan couldn't help but wonder how long she'd spend in the healing pod this time. Maybe she'd be out before the end of tomorrow…

Just another hellish day in the life of Papri, saiyan slave of Cooler's army.

Alien Defender Power Level: 479

Papri Power Level: 8,093

Orishi Power Level: ~40,000

Cooler Power Level: 6m

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