What's Good About Life? (Dragon Ball Z SI Chapter 10)

Whis hummed as he watered the flowers in the garden of Beerus' palace. It was another quiet few decades as usual when Lord Beerus was taking a nap with nothing exceptional happening.

"Hmm?"

And suddenly it was not.

Whis put aside the watering jar, and held his staff while examining this new god ki he was suddenly sensing.

"Remarkable." Whis noted with neutral interest, as one would examine a particularly clever feline that learned to walk on it's hind legs all on it's own. "To think that a mortal would manage to attain God Ki. I wonder who was the incredible tutor that he had? One of the Kais, maybe? This would be an interest endeavor to look into."

Whis nodded to himself on his new self-appointed task. Beerus didn't need him for a decade and a bit thought. He had time.

Of course, for now he just observed. Mortals tended to be skiddish when they are greeted by an unknown higher power after all.

The one whom the god ki belonged to was a Saiyan as well, even though there are only a handful of them now, after Planet Vegeta's destruction. Remarkable indeed.

Paragus was hiding in fear as usual, as his son was going on another rampage.

One of the Vampa Beast, a new one to this territory didn't get the message that this place belonged to them, and kept trying to kill them.

However, it was of the variety that was strong and sneaky, thus got the drop on Paragus and Broly, injuring Broly in the process.

And in doing so enraged him.

Broly kept fighting the Vampa Beast till he finally killed the blasted thing.

But now, while he was victorious, he had been injured and in pain, thus rampaged around anything, to take out any perceived threat he may find.

Paragus kept hidden, holding the shock collar remote for dear life. He didn't want to use it if he could help it, and it was best not to let his son run his rage out. Also, it is possible there might still be a threat around. Many times Paragus and Broly thought they were safe, only for a hidden monster to come out of the woodworks, thinking they let their guard down.

So for now, Paragus just kept an eye on Broly, while quietly...

Wait, where did Broly go?

Paragus' eyes widened as his instincts kicked in. He jumped away from the wall he was against, only for it to break an instant later.

Paragus' finger quickly came down on his remote pointed at Broly-

Only for a sudden redheaded figure to appear between them grabbing Broly's fist, halting the berserker Saiyan in his tracks.

"Woah, you're an angry boy, aren't yeah?" Said the Red Stranger.

Paragus didn't know what's happening, but didn't let this chance go, and pressed the remote.

The shock collar activated, zapping his son, making him scream in fear and pain. It pained Paragus to have to do this, but he had no choice.

"Huh, I think I see what the problem is." Said the Red Stranger with a contemplative look.

Paragus' eyes widened as he tried to shout.

"No! STOP!"

Only for his cries to fall on deaf ears, as the Red Stranger grabbed the electric shock collar, and crashed it off of Broly's neck.

"See, nothing to zap you anymore. All better right?" Said the naïve Red Stranger.

Broly roared louder, his green aura exploded tenfold with more power, and ferocity now that there is now thing hold him back.

"You fool! That collar was meant to contain him. Now his rampage will be unstoppable! We're all going to die!" Cried out Paragus.

"Aaww, relax~." The Red Stranger gave him a placating smile, while slapping away Broly's attacks like they were nothing.

Paragus blinked and reassessed that what he was seeing was really happening. He was wonder if he had died, or just gone insane.

"Big guy here, just needs to play till he's all tuckered out." The Red Stranger slapped on of Broly's punched upwards, with the back of his hand, before spinning and throwing a tailslap that launched Broly into a nearby mountain.

"W-What?" Said Paragus wide-eyed.

"I'll come back once he's calmed down, okay?" The Red Stranger, who now that Paragus really looked at him, might be a Saiyan? said.

Before the elder Saiyan could say anything, the Red Stranger flew at Broly who broke free, ripping his way out of the rock and stone launching himself at the Red Saiyan mid-air.

For the next hour Paragus was treated to an impossible sight for him.

The Red Saiyan was actually fighting equally with Broly. No, playing with him almost. Broly's power and rage naturally kept rising as his opponent wouldn't fall down, and even Paragus warned the other Saiyan about this, and yet the Red Saiyan wasn't worried.

Then it finally happened.

Broly's power plateaued, going as high as it could, with no possible victory over the Red Saiyan in sight.

And eventually, inevitably Broly tired out and lost consciousness.

"Phew," said the Red Saiyan. "He was really stubborn to keep fighting even at the end." Paragus noted the Red Saiyan didn't seem to look winded or have even broken a sweat. "So, I only came here because I sensed his rampaging ki. Do you two live here?"

"'Came here'? This is Vampa a desolate world. We aren't living here, we're trapped here." Paragus then looked desperate, his wish to just leave this hell of a world, overcoming any pride he used to have. "Please, can you take us with you on your ship?"

"I didn't come here with a ship, it's a personal teleportation technique." Before Paragus could lose hope, he continued. "I'm good enough with it to bring others. It's not that difficult for me. Come on, let's go pack up whatever you wish to take. I know a place you guys would appreciate that's a bit nicer."

The Red Saiyan carried Broly on his back, and flew with Paragus.

"Say, I forgot to ask your name?" Said Paragus.

"Ah, right. It's Dive." Dive smiled.

Paragus blinked in surprise. "...Your parents named you after the Derserter?"

Dive had a playful grin. "I am the Deserter."

He said, leaving a gobsmacked Paragus flying after him.

The first thing that Broly saw when he woke up was a different sky.

A different sky than the one he had seen all his life on Vampa.

He sat up in a panic, wondering what's happening.

"Woah, woah, calm down, buddy." A familiar voice called out, it was the red guy he was fighting.

"It's alright Broly, we're in no danger." His father spoke from next to him, actually putting him at ease.

"The sky..." Broly muttered.

"Yeah, you're not on Vampa anymore." Said the red guy.

"Not...on Vampa?" Broly wasn't sure how to take this information. Vampa was a violent, hostile, terrible place, but it was his home for all his life. His father desperately wished to leave it, and Broly did wish to see other places, but he wasn't opposed to living on Vampa mostly.

He had to process his emotions on all of this.

Then to his horror he noticed something missing.

"T-The collar." Broly said with wide-eyes as his hands went to his empty neck.

"Yes, the Deserter here broke it while fighting you." Paragus growled, now feeling less worried as he had interacted with Dive and saw what he was like.

"Deserter?" Broly asked.

"S'up, name's Dive." Dive grinned as he extended a hand, and Broly hesitantly shook it. "Yep, the one from that Deserter story." He chuckled, before sitting in front of Broly with a somewhat serious expression. "Look Broly, this is something I talked with your father about, but there is a way for you to never have to worry about going berserk again."

"Broly won't go berserk?" Broly said, his way of talking showing his subpar mental development.

Dive's eyes went to Paragus for a moment, before coming back to Broly.

"We're on a a planet name Yardrat, same name for the people, or Yardratians." Dive said with a nod. "They are a people who are extremely versed in ki, or if you're not familiar with the term, energy and spiritual practices. They can help you gain control of your anger, so it can never be aimless and harm those you don't intend to."

"Can you just give us a ship and let us go on our way?" Paragus grumbled.

"Don't have a ship, don't need one." Dive shrugged. "You can try and get yours fixed from the random body parts of other ships that landed here, and were abandoned, or crash landed here. Other than that, you're on your own." He looked at the two with a smirk. "Of course, you can just learn Instant Transmission here, and just not need your own ship."

"So Broly and Father can go...to Vegeta without a ship?" Broly spoke up.

At his words, Paragus looked conflicted between happy and sad, while Dive just sighed.

"Yeah, Planet Vegeta doesn't exist anymore, it was destroyed by Frieza a long time ago." Dive then smile. "On the other hand, Frieza is dead, so you don't need to worry about him."

"I supposed that's something." Paragus muttered.

He looked then conflicted for a while. Despite how he acts, he does care for his son, and even if he was angry at King Vegeta and the rest of his bloodline, his son's needs are more important than his petty ones. He at least took comfort that it was Frieza that killed King Vegeta and made him suffer.

Still, the chance for Broly to have his anger under control would be a boon for his son, and would even help his stunted mental growth, that Planet Vampa ripped into him.

"Broly," he finally spoke. "What do you wish to do?" Paragus ultimately decided to leave the choice to his son.

"Broly doesn't..." the giant Saiyan looked down. "Broly doesn't want to get mad and hurt people anymore."

"Alrighty then!" Dive jumped up to standing using his tail, and smiling widely. "Come on, I know the place around. Let's go meet Elder Pybara."

The father and son followed after Dive, their battle instincts and wariness still up, as they were used to environment being a threat to them. Yet the wildlife that they encounter, if any, were hardly a threat. They got some good meals out of it.

"Mr. Dive?" Broly suddenly spoke up.

"Yeah, Broly?"

"What are you?" He asked. "You look like Broly and father, but are you Saiyan? Broly thought Saiyans only have black hair? Why do you have fur?"

Dive smiled kindly as he began to regal Broly with stories about his life after leaving Vegeta, while embellishing some parts (only to say he did afterwards), and yet leave things vague in a way that Paragus can't use that information to become a Super Saiyan or the like. The old Saiyan general wasn't a bad person, but he wasn't trustworthy either, and his desire for revenge can rear it's ugly head again.

Yet for now, Broly and Paragus knew tranquility.

AN: Notes to self: Timeline-wise 8 months before Trunks warning.