It was a bright and shiny night. The snow had frozen the flags to their staffs and the sentries weren't allowed to pass the time playing wargames for fear the glare would wake people up; they had snowball fights instead. Vegeta had heard the sickening cries of his fellow saiyan's fraternizing with the enemy for the last time. When Raditz came back down the hall to refill his empty bed, Vegeta was there waiting for him.
"What's up?" asked the menacing inferior, his voice heavy and eyes distant.
"This is going to stop."
"It's not as bad as you think." He stated drowsily as he stepped closer to his uncomfortable bed.
"What do you think you're going to get out of this relationship, Raditz? Power? He doesn't have any to give. Status? You're just a whore to these people. Security? They're not going to keep you as a pet. You're a soldier. You'd best not forget it. You're a fling for him while he's bored. He'll get bored of you, too."
Raditz was getting increasingly angry as Vegeta spoke, his eyes becoming terribly small and his head began to pound with his increased heartrate. His already sweaty body broke out with new moisture and his fists clenched as his hope of a peaceful night's rest faded.
"You're wrong! He loves me. You just don't understand it, you little foster child. Just because your royal asshole of a father didn't give a shit about you and chose to hand you over so he could live a few more years, that doesn't mean everyone's like that. If some damn fool honestly loved your sorry ass, I'd certainly not get in the way of it."
"I'm really sick of you thinking you can talk to me like that," Vegeta seethed.
"Just try it, prince ," he mocked, "See what happens to you."
His demoted master stepped forward, sporting his most evil sideways grin and smoothly kicked the mighty underling's most prized possession. He easily sidestepped away as the behemoth fell bonelessly to the floor. He then quickly kicked him in the head, took him by an arm and flew him outside through a window that opened along the way. He shook the glass from his hair and landed beside the first space pod he caught sight of. Thankfully, none of the guards had seen him nor heard the glass break.
He opened the pod door and set the burly monkey inside. He programmed the machine and sent it on its way.
The next day a certain blue reptile slithered into a mammal's vacated budoir. Not finding his paramour, he slipped a scouter over one eye and searched the building for his ironically miniscule ki signature. Not finding it, he located Vegeta and stalked over to him. When he got close, but still far enough away that Vegeta had not heard his approach, he sped behind him and grabbed him in an impassive hug that was so sudden and unexpected that the recipient was too shocked to do anything about it.
Zarbon whispered in his ear, "Where's Raditz?"
"I couldn't tell you," he replied.
"You can't or you won't?"
"Both."
Zarbon wrapped a hand around his victim's throat and squeezed. As Vegeta spluttered in his grasp, he whispered anew, "Ready to answer me now?'
Vegeta lifted a forearm and within his grip Zarbon saw a detonator and his thumb was atop the button. Zarbon's hands fell away and he backed up a few times till he hit a wall. Vegeta had fallen to his knees, lightheaded.
"Shit!! This isn't like you. Why would you want to blow him up?!"
"What makes you think it isn't wired to me? Or you?"
"Impossible!"
"Is it? It's also impossible to leave here without permission and yet Raditz seems to be elsewhere, doesn't he?"
"Master--"
"Isn't here."
"What do you want?"
"I want to get to know you better."
"You take away my boyfriend and now you want to fuck me?!"
"That isn't what I said...but, okay, we can do that, too."
Vegeta led Zarbon to Freeza's suite and had him sit on the floor, so he wouldn't have to look up at him.
"Raditz seems to think you love him."
"I do," he answered angrily.
"Why? I thought you hated us 'monkeys,' what's so different about him?"
"I did hate him at first. I started our relationship to spite Freeza, but Raditz is better than Freeza...in every way. So I began to love him and still do. What have you done with him?"
"I've freed him from this insanity. Just like I'm going to free myself. If when I see him he wants to come back to you, I'll let him."
"Vegeta," he plaintively asked, "may I go with you?"
"Fuck no! I don't want Freeza following us. He's way more inclined to look for us if you come along."
"If he finds out Raditz escaped, he's not going to let him just come back, he's going to kill him!"
"I'm sure he knows the danger he's in."
"Why are you doing this to us?! We were fine. If you wanted to leave, you could've just had Raditz ask me. I could've found you a ship with a cloaking device and you could've gone wherever you pleased."
"Yeah. Right. You'd have told your Master and I'd be dead. Raditz is not loyal to me anymore." He looked at his detonator and rubbed the button with his thumb. "Freeza doesn't know about your fling, does he? That's why you're scared."
"I don't know...he's vengeful, he doesn't tell you what he knows...he springs it on you, traps you with it...with my luck, he probably planned this fiasco."
"Maybe," Vegeta smiled.
"C'mon, Vegeta, let me go with you, I'll take Raditz off your hands and we'll leave you in peace."
"In pieces, you mean?"
"I swear I'll leave you alone."
"Even after what I'm about to do to you?"
"I can't live without him, Vegeta. He's the only thing that keeps me sane."
"Yet you'll still call him a thing"
"Please, excuse me, I didn't mean to call him that."
"There are no excuses for you. It was just force of habit, right; you forgot you weren't talking to Freeza because you're not used to being subservient around saiyans, right? Fuck you!"
Zarbon hung his head in defeat. He had just lost his last hope for a normal life and was now headed for a slow demise from heartbreak or a relatively quick death from Freeza, depending upon how much his master knew of the situation.
"So, do you want your beating before or after I fuck you?"
Zarbon blushed and whispered, "During."
Vegeta immediately got hard and his knees almost gave out at the revelation. "Now I understand why Raditz likes you." He walked over to his captive and gazed down at the lowered head. "I have wanted this sight my whole life."
He smoothed his hand over the green hair, then gripped it right at the neck and jerked it forcibly down, tilting the other's head as far back as it would go. He gazed at the inviting throat, no protest coming from his prey. He put his detonator in his boot while Zarbon couldn't see, then dug the tips of his fingers into his throat. Little rivulets of blood spurted forth from his nails and ran down Zarbon's neck, slid beneath his armor. The throneless prince looked into piercing orbs of sunlight and saw the rapture within. Disgusted, he let go of Zarbon entirely and watched him catch himself by throwing an arm behind him.
He turned questioning eyes on his newest master and was rewarded by a backhanded punch to the side of his head. "It's all Nappa's fault," he stated a few moments later.
"I thought Freeza was against fucking masochists, said it was against his religion."
"He is, I've hidden it from him."
Flabbergasted, Vegeta replied, "Well, fuck! Now I know I can't trust you...if you're able to keep a secret like this--when I know how he treats you--my God!"
"Fear, Vegeta. It keeps you....flaccid."
"But, your eyes! Surely he's seen it in your eyes?"
"Maybe a little--God, I hope not." A shocked expression came over his face and he tentatively brought his hand up against the saiyan's crotch.
"What?!"
"He's coming tonight, Vegeta. You need to hurry up and go."
"Don't you want to see me caught?"
"No. You'd blow my beloved up before you died. I want him to live. He can survive without me. I'm the only one who's life will end for this. No great loss, I'm sure."
"Freeza will miss you."
"No, he won't. His eyes are wandering, I'll be replaced soon enough, even if he doesn't kill me first."
Vegeta laughed. "It sucks to be you."
Of his own free will, Zarbon unzipped Vegeta's pants and freed his erection.
"Damn! How do you keep that monster hidden?! I see you inherited your father's size after all."
"Selective judgment. People see what they want to see, what they assume should be. I don't think I want to know how you've seen my father. You probably served him up for dinner one night."
He took the length in his mouth and slid up and down it, letting Vegeta buck randomly and as forcibly as he pleased. When the torrent finally came, he swallowed it down dutifully and backed away. He looked into glazed onyx eyes for instruction, but found none.
"So, Raditz gets this all the time, does he? The bastard! And here I thought he was being mistreated! Abused! By you! A fucking masochist! How could I have been so blind?" He laughed hysterically.
"We had occasional fights. I did beat the shit out of him a few times."
"Over what?"
"He kept...wanting...to see me...eat."
Vegeta laughed again. "Why?"
"Because I don't. I'm forbidden. He has the stupid assumption that I'm going to die without eating. Like it's fatal or something. I've been without food since I was ten. I think I'll survive, don't you?"
"You're one fucked-up individual."
"None of this has been my choosing."
"Except for Raditz."
"Yeah. Only him."
"You're never going to see him again."
"I know....Again, not my choosing."
"Yes, my decision. I love being the one to seal your fate." A horrible light was shining within Vegeta's dark eyes, a light Zarbon couldn't bear to witness, so he lowered his gaze and hoped it would go away.
Vegeta summoned a ki sphere from his black soul and hurled it at Zarbon's lower abdomen, effectively removing his armorless covering. As if Zarbon were a dog, he ordered, "Lay."
He walked around the prostrate man and then dropped an elbow to his kidney. Zarbon screamed and moaned, neither sounding like he got the least bit of pleasure out of that contact. Pleased with himself, Vegeta tossed the cape to one side, split the man's legs wider and roughly slipped inside. His recepticle grunted with his entry, but was soon moaning his pleasure at the violent thrusts of his partner. Perturbed, Vegeta powered up while still inside him and thrust harder and faster till Zarbon was about to explode with a massive orgasm. But then Vegeta stopped.
Having gone through such torture with Freeza, Zarbon patiently waited.
"You want some more?" Vegeta whispered.
"Whatever you wish," he passively intoned.
"That wasn't the question." He pulled a detonator from his pocket to show his anger and felt Zarbon tense beneath him.
'Yes! I want some more, much more-- I want all the cock I can get!"
"You'd do anything?" The smaller man lit his fingers and raked them viciously across Zarbon's ribcage, burning deep gouges into his flesh.
"Yes!" he screamed as his endorphins upped production and flooded him with euphoria.
"Push the button."
"What?!"
"Push it."
"But he'll die!" he protested.
"No, he won't."
"This is a trick--you're just like Freeza!" he yelled venomously.
"No, I'm not." He forced the detonator into Zarbon's hand and held it down with his own. He began pumping into him until he had him on the verge of insanity once more. And again he stopped.
"If you want more, push it." To force his hand, the saiyan struck with his teeth, biting the other's shoulder and shaking his head quickly back and forth like a canine.
Unable to think straight, he reflexively clenched his fist, therefore pressing the button and instantly heard a loud explosion downstairs. But he didn't care as he was being impaled again and a far greater explosion was going on within him.
When they were both spent and resting, Zarbon inquired if that was the original detonator and was told it was not. Vegeta got to his feet an hour later and they walked to Raditz' room. Vegeta laced his fists together and brought them around to smack forcibly onto the apex of Zarbon's cervical vertebrae, knocking him completely unconscious. A little while later he was on his way to rendezvous with Raditz.
Freeza returned from a killing spree to find everyone running amok. As Zarbon had been the one left in charge, he searched for his ki first. Finding it in a saiyan's quarters, he decided the saiyans were the cause of the trouble and were being dealt with. Not one to miss a good flogging, he went there immediately.
Upon arrival he found his second favorite reptile nailed to the wall in a grotesque mockery of religious fervor. His fingers were interlaced and sewn together and huge nails were impaled between the bones of his forearms. He was kneeling, both feet nailed to the floor. But the worst thing about it was he was praying to a picture of Raditz.
The tyrant grabbed one arm and yanked it free of the wall. Zarbon instantly awoke and screamed deafeningly. His penis stood up of its own accord, unmindful that it was no longer hidden. Freeza smacked him across his cheek to shut him up and saw him tremble in what he thought was fear, but was actually ecstacy.
"How did this happen?"
"They're gone," he moaned.
"Who?"
"Vegeta..and Raditz--He's gone!" He tried and failed to hold back his tears.
"The little monkey prince's rooms are ash now. I guess he was destroying evidence or just didn't want anyone else playing with his toys."
"Probably the latter," he stated matter-of-factly.
"Maybe I should send father after them, he needs something fun to do."
"If you love me, you'll let them go. Whatever punishment you'd give them, take it out on me. Please, I have nothing else to live for."
Horrified, Freeza replied, "I can't let them get away. Loyalty used to be common, but now you can't find it anywhere. Case in point, here you are crying over a motherfucking monkey instead of helping me retreive them. What the hell is your problem? You've been letting him fuck you, haven't you?"
"I'll fuck anything, Freeza, you saw to that."
He smiled radiantly, "Yes. I did, didn't I? It's good to know you haven't forgotten everything I taught you. But I can't let you fall apart over this saiyan." He ripped the other arm free and Zarbon fell backwards, too fatigued to sit up under his own power. Freeza spied his erection, but said nothing. He gripped the nail in one foot and twisted it. The blue man writhed on the floor, yelling out obscenities, but his stiffness didn't ebb.
He pulled the nail free from the floor and the foot and placed it at Zarbon's anus.
"Go ahead, myabe I'll get tetanus."
"You would already have it."
"I know, but it's the--Ah!" The nail was driven home and repeatedly forced back out and in till it was thoroughly coated with thick layers of blood and Zarbon had passed-out from sensory overload.
The second he awoke, Zarbon smelled it. Gasoline. And felt the viscous liquid covering him. He yelled, "No!" remembering an earlier experience, but once again a match was lit and up in fames he went.
He died shortly thereafter.
On a planet called earth, Vegeta found his fellow saiyan, Raditz. He knew another saiyan was supposedly sent here before their world was disintegrated and he had programmed the computer to tell Raditz about him when he was out of stasis. As luck would have it, the saiyan was still here and had even procreated with the natives.
And he was a sociable one, not the least bit paranoid about strangers. He let Raditz infiltrate his home without even a warning against touching his wife or child. His older brother informed him of his heritage and about Freeza and the planet trade. But the earthling didn't care much. He was introduced to all of Goku's friends and family and sparred eagerly with all who would let him. He beat the shit out of them all and watched with great interest as they were healed with beans faster than any isolation chamber.
He sensed his prince's approach while he was still in space, so he excused himself from his new 'friends' and went to greet his kidnapper. He watched the pod land and Vegeta exit, then went down to receive him.
"I found him. He's got a brat of his own and everyone thinks he's their savior."
"Great! What's his power level?"
"Lower than mine. No one here is close to matching us."
"You don't seem the least bit angry. What's wrong with you?"
'He's dead, Vegeta."
"No he isn't, he was fine when I left him."
"I felt him go...I could evil smell it...charred flesh."
"No offense, man, but you're insane."
"I know it's true. Just forget about it, okay? I'm never going back there, it's a death sentence to go near Freeza"
"Whatever." He shook his head at the weirdness of it all. "Tell me about Kakarott's friends."
Knowing Kakarott would come for them, the saiyans set about causing mayham and destruction. They decimated three entire cities before the calvary arrived to stop them. Large oil fires lit up the night, though the sky was darkened with smoke clouds. The saiyans sported their scouters and were ready when the earth's forces arrived.
They all landed together. Piccolo, Tien, Yamcha, Chaozu, Krillin, Kakarott and Gohan.
"Pitiful, just pitiful," Vegeta commented at their energy readings. "Just grab him, we won't need to fight them."
Raditz stepped calmly over to the opposing team, grabbed his little brother by the hand and took off with him. No one tried to stop him, they couldn't even see what he had done till they noticed Goku was gone. Vegeta watched them slowly figure it out, then let out the laughter he'd been bubbling with.
"You fuckers crack me up!"
He then sped away as well and the earth's special forces had no idea where he went. They slowly flew home wondering how ChiChi would take knowing her husband was kidnapped by aliens. But when they got there she was gone. They searched for her and found her on Bulma's property. She was coating the sidewalk, her head the only identifiable piece of her. No one had been quick enough to shield Gohan's eyes, so naturally he went ballistic. His ki skyrocketed and he blindly blasted off to find his father. He unerringly headed for America, his instincts uninhibited by thought.
In a little house in Wilmington, North Carolina the saiyans played poker and watched ninja and gangster movies. Goku didn't understand why Vegeta kept getting pissed at the endings and blowing up the television sets, but he didn't say anything. He just put in a horror flick to see if that would change his behavior.
During a riveting bit of suspense, they all turned when the door was kicked in. Vegeta, shocked out of his mind, didn't think, only shot an immensely powerful blast at the intruder. Raditz busted out laughing at him, so Vegeta stopped the movie and went to whaling on him. Curious as to who was trying to get at them, Goku went to the door and to his horror found Gohan spread out all over the ground. He fell to his knees and cried, knowing it was partially his fault that his son had died.
Unsure how Gohan had located them, they soon moved a little ways away to Lillington, North Carolina. But the place was so small, they soon went stircrazy and left, going farther north to Big Island, Virginia. They found a wonderful residence whose name I won't reveal, but whose initials are H.I. Therein they stayed in the basement for the most part and read books. They were quite amazed that all the books were centered around them and even more amazed that they seemed to hold knowledge of the future. But they couldn't tell which ones were true and which weren't, so Vegeta ordered them to read everything, just in case. When everything from every room had been read, they left; lest more should be written that they'd need to stay and read. They planned to go back once a year and follow up on everything, to see if any of the events they read about occurred in the meantime and whether or not they could use this information to choose their own future.
Next, they went west all the way to Bend, Oregon and stayed put. They looked up Capsule Corporation and Vegeta called them on a pilfered cell phone.
Bulma answered, "Hello?'
"We have your friend. He's alive and well, but not for long."
"Goku?!"
"Yes."
"What do you want?"
"I want a personal cloaking device--make that two and then I want all your notes on how to create more. And I want a spaceship--I'll fax you the blueprints. When you're finished I'll bring Kakarott to you personally. If everything's in order, we'll leave you in peace, if not, I'll kill you all."
"How do I know he's still alive?"
Vegeta walked over to where the other saiyans were playing blackjack. As they had planned it, Raditz picked up a syringe and showed it to Goku who promptly flipped out. "Aaaaaaah! Get away from me! No!" and fell back in his chair as he had been backing away the whole time.
The prince walked off and asked, "Satisfied?"
"You assholes! You better not hurt him!"
Vegeta laughed maniacally and hung up the phone.
When everything was completed and just needed testing, Bulma called Vegeta's cell phone.
"What?!" he answered angrily, tired of all the telemarketers that had been constantly harassing him. He kept having to force himself not to break the phone as it was the only way Bulma had to contact him.
"Your ship is finished and so are your cloaking devices. You might want to try them out, though, since I didn't have anyone here that was comparable to your power level."
"If this is some kind of trick--if they blow up--"
"I know--you'll kill me--you'll kill us all, muahahahaha! I know the drill, monkey boy."
"Bitch!" He clicked her off.
They all flew back to Japan, each one full of mastodon and mammoth goodness. Fifteen of each apiece. It was a special ocassion, after all. They had had to celebrate. It wasn't everyday you got the means to shape your destiny to your own specifications. Vegeta had been waiting for this day since he was born.
They landed at Capsule Corporation and Raditz remarked, "They redecorated since we were last here."
Vegeta laughed. "How do you know? Maybe the dogs just cleaned up while they were asleep."
"We should've charged them, paint like that isn't cheap."
"Yes, it is." He shot a man on the sidewalk and watched him paint the ground. "See?"
They both laughed and walked inside, Kakarott right behind them, restrained by Raditz' grip on his arm. Bulma greeted them at the door and led them to her lab where she handed over the cloaking devices. They were miniscule and she told them they could hold them, carry them in their pockets, on a chain around their necks or even get them implanted subdermally or deeper and they would still work. They put on their scouters and couldn't get a reading no matter how they tweaked the sensors. Satisfied, Vegeta pondered her words and elected to get his implanted beside his heart. Raditz, who was less afraid to get caught, decided to keep his in his pocket. He stood guard while his prince was operated on and was pleased that she gave him a senzu bean afterward. Vegeta was so amazed by the bean that afterward he kissed her.
Bulma then led them outside and showed them their brand new spaceship. Their pods had been deposited inside it as had the blueprints for the cloaking devices. Vegeta boarded his new ship and looked around, pleased with everything he saw. He fired her up and took her for a spin, noting that the woman had actually given him warheads and other means of mass destruction. Grateful to her, he decided not to use any of it on her planet. He landed and summoned Raditz aboard, leaving Kakarott behind. With no backward glance, they flew off to conquer their own empire in preparation to one day conquering Freeza's.
Disclaimer: What's mine is mine and what's yours is yours, if you can't figure out whose's whose, something's wrong with you.
