Hi guys! I bet you all thought I died didn’t you? Oh wait! No one has read this story! Lol, actually a few people have, Sue, Chibi Tenchi Sensei, and a bored MM.org member basically make up the ranks….But because two of these people asked me to, I am back! I will write a new chapter, though I can’t guarantee it will be my best. It is rather dis-heartening for an author to have his or her story received with, to put it mildly, less than open arms. But for the few, the proud, the dare I say brave of you that stuck it out….Here is your new chapter!
This chapter has very nasty death scenes. If that bugs ya, move on please! Thank you!
Disclaimer--Look I am a broke college kid, I can’t even pay my tuition!
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Vegeta paced back and forth through the long halls of Capsule Corporation, irritation written across his face, “Trunks! Trunks damnit! Where are you! We have one week and one week only till that bastard Freiza gets here! I need those new suits ready.” The agitated prince stopped his ranting to listen for a reply, but after a few silent moments the little patience Vegeta had been blessed with dissolved, “TRUNKS! DAMN YOU! Come out this instant or I will BLAST my way to where you are hiding!”
“Easy your highness, I was in the lab. Hard to hear even your voice through steal plated walls.”
“Watch your mouth. We may not be on Vegeta-sei, but I am still in charge.”
“Yes sir, I forget my place.”
“Yes you did, now….how are those new suits coming?”
“Almost done, but we won’t get a chance to test them I am afraid.”
“What? Why? You better have a good reason.” Vegeta hissed, the veins in his forehead beginning to show.
“Well, the armor is made with a very expensive and might I add, rare substance. I believe the Chiykuu-jins’ call it plutonium. At one time it was more abundant, but for the amount and grade we need…Well there just isn’t enough of it left on Chiykuu.”
“So what you are trying, miserably failing might I add, is that if the armor doesn’t work you can’t make more? Correct?”
“Yes sir.”
“Well then I suggest you make damn sure it works.” With that said the angry prince turned on his heels and left Trunks to formulate a flawless saiya-jin battle suit.
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That night, Vegeta was the one tossing and turning in his sleep. Finally after hours of restlessness, he got up and made his way to the balcony. “Alright Bardock you got my attention. What is it now.” He asked angrily into the cool night air.
“Patience young King. That is correct, you are king now.”
“King of what? No planet and five saiya-jins and myself? Don’t toy with emotions that are already bitter. Just say your piece and be gone. I have a mate to get back to.”
“You already know what I come to speak with you of. Freiza.”
The saiya-jin prince turned his head in the direction of the bodiless voice, and whispered, “Damn him. I will have my revenge on that bi-gendered freak, you can quote me on that.”
“I have no doubt that you will win, but at what cost? There will be losses, you realize that. Is it worth it? Is it worth your mate? Your friend? You countrymen? Is revenge for your plants pride worth all that? You are not ready yet Vegeta, and you know it. I M bout to do something I should not, but I grow tired of my “gift” and I think it is important that you see the end of that dream. You do know of which I speak do you not?”
“I know of the dream,” the obsidian eyed man said with heavy gruffness in his voice.
“Then relax and close your eyes Vegeta and you shall see the rest…
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Vegeta was standing in what appeared to be an empty battlefield, but upon closer inspection he could see bits and pieces of what looked to be people. The Saiya-jin prince felt his stomach turn. The sight was too graphic for even his stomach. As he walked the body strewn field he noticed something that looked oddly familiar. It was one of the armor chest plates Trunks had been working on, only this one held the marking of a guardsman, “This is Gohan’s. Trunk’s is marked with the science seal, and Kakarott and his mate carry their family seal, as do I and Bulma.” Vegeta picked up the burnt shield and dusted it off. Then he knelt and put on hand on his brow and a fist over his heart, “Sleep well fallen soldier, Gohan you were a good friend.” The black haired man continued his exploration of the field and what he saw next made bile rise in his throat, Chi-Chi lay, face up, eyes open slit from chest to stomach. Still a small smile played on her lips, “Kakarott must have been the last thing she saw…” Then Vegeta gently closed her eyes and whispered, “Even a loud mouth wench such as yourself deserves proper respect at death.” The next body, well half of a body he stumble led upon was Trunks. The brainy warrior had died fighting, that was obvious by the severed tail he still clutched in his hands. “Freiza you monster, what did you do to him!” Vegeta yelled into the air, expecting no response correctly.
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“Bardock I do not want to see anymore! Take this vision out of my head!”
“I am sorry your majesty, but I can not do that. You must see it all.”
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Vegeta was dreading finding the missing saiya-jins…Kakarott and Bulma. The prince walked a few miles before he found Kakarott’s shield. Then part of a tattered gi. And then he saw a sight that would haunt him forever, Kakarott trying to crawl in the direction that Vegeta had seen Chi-Chi. Though he considered the other saiya-jin a sap at times, he had been his best friend, and no man deserved to be reduced to crawling. It pained Vegeta to see his greatest opponent reduced to a mere child. So he did the only thing he could think of, he offered his fallen comrade a helping hand. Kakarott looked up, into the eyes of his leader, and whispered, “Vegeta…did you see her? I know she is gone, but tell me how far away is she? I just want to go with her by my side.”
“Shhhhh, don’t talk you fool. I will help you to her, you weakling, never could do anything right.” Vegeta said, a tiny hint of amusement in his voice.
Kakarott chuckled lightly and said, “Vegeta, find Bulma. Don’t worry about me I will make it, nothing, not even death can keep me from Chi’s side. You go find your mate and do me a favor…Kick Freiza’s ass please.” Then Kakarott shook Vegeta’s arm away and fell to the ground. Vegeta started after him, but before he could Kakarott whispered, “No. save my pride this. It is bad enough that I let that freak take my mate and my dignity, but I’ll be damned if he takes my pride. I am a Saiya-jin elite, and I will do this on my own. Goodbye Vegeta.” and with those final words Kakarott began his crawl to where his fallen love lay, so that they would be together, even in death.
Vegeta watched the once powerful fighter as he made his way across the rocky terrain, before turning and running to look for Bulma. “Bulma!! BULMA! Are you out there?!”
“V…vegeta?” Vegeta came to a complete stop, the voice was so quite he thought he had imagined it at first, but then it came again, “Vegeta.”
“Bulma, I am coming stay.”
He heard her give a dry chuckle and say “Like I have a choice.”
When he reached her, he immediately wanted to turn and run away screaming no into the dark, he wanted to hide, to not see his beautiful love laying on the cold ground, naked and bleeding, her tail, legs, and arms a mangled mess. It just wasn’t right. “No,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no.” He took her ever so gently into his arms and began to rock her back and forth whispering into her hair.
“Shhhhh, Vegeta. Freiza is still out there, go get him. Kill him, you must. No one else could.”
“I am going nowhere woman. I am staying here at your side. Who did this to you.”
“Freiza, apparently he didn’t want me anymore. Well at least not for his collection. But I should be the last of your concerns…Vegeta he is still out there, killing Chiykuu-jins.”
“They do not concern me, all I care about is you. Everyone else is gone, but you…you are still here.”
“And I will be here when you get back, go. Look Veg-head, I waited this long for you to find me, I am not going to die until I see that lizard’s head in your hands. Do you understand me?”
“Well well well, isn’t this a touching reunion? The saiya-jin monkey king and his fallen whore. I must say Vegeta you have excellent taste in women, I’ve never had a more succulent lay.”
“You shut your mouth you pompous reptilian bastard. I will kill you now, you know that right?”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk Veggie. I would think you would have noticed a pattern in the trail I left you. You saiya-jins are nor only weak, you are stupid too. What a shame, I really thought you would be more of a challenge.”
“Freiza bite your tongue. Saiya-jins are by far superior to your ugly ass self!”
“Oh the wench lives eh? I thought I had finished her earlier, ah well no matter…I’ll just take care of it now.” With an insignificant flick of his wrist Freiza sent a light beam at Bulma, and then…she was no more.”
Vegeta witnessed the whole event, but had been unable to move. But now, he fell to the ground beating it, making it shift and shake under the force of his unadulterated rage. Freiza watched in the nearby distance, mock written on his face. “What’s the matter monkey, mad cause I killed you personal slut?” Vegeta turned a murderous look on the Ice-jin. “Oh hit a sore spot did I?”
The now King of the Saiya-jin let out a mountain shattering roar and turned on Freiza, hate filling his black…no, wait, his Teal eyes! Freiza shrank back, “A super-saiya-jin!”
Vegeta laughed as his new found energy crackled around him, lighting the dark brighter than any day, “That’s right lizard, and now you die.”
Vegeta flew fast and hard at the Ice-jin, knocking him to the ground. Vegeta sat atop him slapping and pounding his face into the ground below. “You killed her. You took her away from me! You are the reason for all her suffering! Damn you, she was all I had left!” The sickening sound of bones crunching and cracking beneath his fist echoed in the air. Freiza’s wails and pleas were drowned out by the sounds of death and the ranting of the crazed super saiya-jin that sat atop him. “I will make you feel every thing she has gone through. And then when I am done, you will be praying for death you worthless piece of feces.” Vegeta took the bloody mass that was Freiza and threw him into the air, a sort of twisted game of skeet shooting then commenced, Vegeta throwing Freiza up, slicing him bit by bit with his ki, letting him fall the ground, and then repeating the process. When he tired of that, he grabbed the now un-recognizable lizard and broke the remaining bones in his body. “How do you like that you worm? Saiya-jins are superior. Say it.”
“…”
“SAY IT!”
“…”
“Damn you Freiza, I won’t ask nicely again, SAY IT!”
“saiya-jin are superior. There I said it! Now please, don’t kill me!”
“Nope. We Aren’t finished playing yet buddy. Like I said before you will be Begging for death after this.”
“What are you talking about?”
“This.” Vegeta snapped off each of the creatures finger nails and toe claws. He then slowly gouged the Ice-jins eyes out and shoved them in his mouth, “Now swallow.”
The Ice-jin shook his head in protest so Vegeta stepped down on his jugular, “Now please be a good boy and do as you are told.”
Freiza shook his head no again and Vegeta smirked, “All right then. Freiza give them my regards in hell.”
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Vegeta woke fully from the vision alone on the balcony, and visibly shaken. “Damn.” That was all that was said before Vegeta made the biggest decision of his life. He walked down the hall towards one of the many rooms, “Trunks,” he said as he entered, “Prepare two ships, every Saiya-jin on Chiykuu leaves tonight. No questions asked or answered.”
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Okay so like I warned, not my best work and not very long. Please allow me to explain myself. When I fisrt posted this story I screwed up, I posted 5 chapters at once, therefore….11 reviews. Well I was under the impresion that it A.) sucked BAD, or B.) was boring. For those of you that have tried to assure me otherwise I thank you. This is just a small chapter to give me a spring board for a nice long one. Please be patient with me…Thank you!
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