Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Breathe Today, Tomorrow Unknown ❯ Pseudo ( Chapter 15 )
Thanks for being patient! Lots of stuff going on in life, as we all have, and I have been stuck on this chapter for a long while. It is a bit rushed, so again, please excuse all of the errors within it.
A half hour went by fast as the two Saiyans closed in on Earth. If there was one thing they both could agree upon, it was the excitement that they both possessed for not having to sit still for much longer. The trip itself wasn't too bad, but sitting still for a couple of days not being able to do anything except pray that they completed the mission that the Prince had requested of them was exhausting. If they screwed up, it would be the end of both of them.
"Finally, I can't wait to get some human food!" Raditz spoke as his mouth began to water at the thought of all the food he would consume. If humans did one thing right, it was make food.
"Don't get ahead of yourself," Nappa began messing with the ships' controls as they quickly approached the green and blue planet. "We have to find the girl first, get her back to the ship, and then we can get food. All without the humans knowing we're taking one of them."
"That shouldn't be too hard, humans are dense." The long haired Saiyan focused his eyes on Earth, growing more eager as they got even closer to freedom.
"That is true." Nappa began to slow down the ship until they came to a halt. "We're here." A sigh of relief escaped his mouth knowing that he wouldn't have to be shoulder-fucking Raditz much longer.
"Where do you think they went?"
"If they were smart, they would have gone off the grid and not even come to Earth."
"Ah fuck, they might not even be here?!" Raditz quickly began to respond as his temper rose quickly.
"We know they had to come here first. Don't forget that Kakarot typed in the coordinates before disabling the tracker. They could have ditched the ship here and gotten another one, hopefully they did not." Nappa wasn't fond of feeling like the babysitter out of the two.
"I swear if they got in another ship and ran, I am going to kill everything on Earth."
"Make sure you do it before Prince Vegeta kills us for failing." Nappa's voice was stern at Raditz' sassy tone.
"I don't see how it would be our fault." He crossed his arms.
"And since when do you remember Prince Vegeta being understanding of situations?" Nappa had made a fair point. Vegeta didn't care if it was your fault or not; if he was angry enough, you'd die if you failed in his eyes.
Only a sigh of confirmation left Raditz' mouth. He knew Nappa was right, if they didn't get his blue-haired slave back, they'd both be punished.
"Luckily," Nappa leaned back in his chair, a smirk forming on his face, "We now know that they came here first." As the ship rotated around Earth, Nappa paused to aim the ship at one spot. "Do you see that?"
Looking into the distance, a smile grew on Raditz' face as well. "Well I'll be damned, it's a cloaked Red-236. So this must mean that they're near the 5th Human Trafficking Site."
"Precisely." Nappa confirmed, "Lets get these assholes so we can go home already." Placing his hand on the gears, Nappa began to steer the ship to Earth. As they zoomed and touched ground in no time, they both sat up from their seats, walking to the back of the ship.
"We need to blend in." Raditz spoke as they made their way down the hall of the ship.
"That's the smartest thing you've said this entire trip." Nappa stopped as he paced back a few steps, placing his hand on a button causing a door to open. As it opened, he grabbed random clothes, throwing them to Raditz; grabbing some for himself as well. As they both striped down, they both seemed uncomfortable when they both had finished getting dressed.
"These are so uncomfortable." Complaining wasn't foreign to Raditz' tongue. But how else was he suppose to feel when he was wearing things that were foreign to his body? His legs were not used to the denim feel of his pants. Hell, he wasn't used to wearing pants at all; anything that went passed mid thigh seemed too long.
"I agree, but this will cause less of a scene." Nappa spoke as he wore the same materials that his colleague wore.
"Yeah, us not being ungodly tall among the tiny beings wouldn't cause a scene either." Raditz spoke as he had a point; there was an obvious difference between them and the humans.
"Remember when we talked about humans being dense?"
"Yeah?" Raditz raised a brow.
Nappa shook his head as his fellow Saiyan didn't understand where he was getting at. "Well, that means they wont find our height ungodly, they'll all just think we're tall."
"So, us being tall isn't weird, but our clothes are?" Raditz squinted his eyes as his lip twitched a tad.
"The combination of the two would seem weird and make a scene, yes." Nappa was as monotone as he could be.
"But if we were short and wore our normal attire, that wouldn't be weird?" A curious one he was.
"Raditz, just... Just stop." The bald Saiyan brought his index finger and thumb to the bridge of his nose and rubbed hard in a circular motion. Prince Vegeta had to hate him somehow if he really paired the dumb Saiyan with him. Nappa began to wonder what he possibly could have done to the Prince to make Raditz his partner.
"I don't see how me asking questions is so wrong." Raditz knew he was pissing off his bald friend. He was pleased by his actions and Nappa's reactions.
With his hand still being on the bridge of his nose, Nappa used his other hand to press the button to open the ships' doors. He really wanted to end Raditz, but all in all, he needed him for the mission; four Saiyan eyes were better than two. As the door began to open, the sun's beams started to illuminate the inside of their once dark ship. Taking in a deep breath, Nappa broke the silence after a few moments of soaking in the foreign sun, "Lets head to the city and begin our look for the wench and your traitor brother, shall we?"
"A traitor indeed." Raditz' brows quickly furrowed at the reminder of his brother. He had obviously known the trip was about bringing him back as a bonus to Prince Vegeta, but the fact that Kakarot had tarnished their family's blood sickened him. Of all the bloodlines to get screwed up, it had to be his. Sure, the line wasn't actually messed with, but the fact that if Raditz wanted to have kids one day, they'd be known as the Saiyan with the traitor uncle. No matter what success they did in their lives, Kakarot would always be brought up in any equation: They do something amazing, the response would be something along the lines of 'You have made the Saiyan race proud, especially after what your uncle has done.' Or if they themselves messed up, it would be 'Tarnished blood ever since that Kakarot.' It was a lose-lose situation.
"This is the most quiet you've been the whole trip, whatever is on your mind, keep it that way." Nappa was elated to not have to hear Raditz next to him as they walked to the city. Sure, they could fly, but if they put on the clothes to not make a scene, then they might as well not fly either.
"Oh, it will be on my mind until we get the bitch and possibly my brother." Raditz snapped a bit.
A smile spread across Nappa's face at Raditz' anger. It would in fact be a quiet trip to and in the city. He was delighted.
As their quiet adventure came to an end, they finally made their way through the outskirts of the town and into the city itself, running into human after human. They were both used to seeing the sights of the city walls that they were immune to its intriguing ways. They couldn't care less about the unique structures or hustle and bustle the humans' lifestyle. But the humans sure cared about theirs.
Walking casually down the sidewalk, both Nappa and Raditz could feel the humans' eyes burning into them as they moved across the pavement. Ignoring their stares and glares, they continued to walk towards their destination of the Hot Spot.
"Excuse me." They heard a soft voice followed by giggles from behind them.
"Well that's a bold move." Raditz spoke to Nappa as they continued to walk, looking over his shoulder to see a group of girls following them. "Check out these ballsy ones."
Looking over his shoulder in turn, Nappa made eye contact with the group behind him. "Ballsy indeed. I don't think we've ever been talked to here." He brought his head back to look forward.
"Are you guys basketball players?" A different voice asked from behind, followed by giggles once more.
Taking his eyes off of the girls behind him, Raditz looked over at Nappa. When Nappa made eye contact back with him, a smile crept on both of their faces. In unison, they both stopped; the human girls almost ran into their sudden stop.
"Why yes, we are basketball players." Raditz spoke as both Saiyans folded their arms across their chests, looking at the women now in front of them.
"See, I told you Ari!" A girl with glasses spoke aloud at another girl while keeping her eyes on the two gigantic men. "With their height, it only makes sense." A smug look formed on her face.
"You don't know, they could be from another part of the world. They could be Samoans. Just because they're tall, doesn't mean they have to be basketball players." the girl that was addressed as 'Ari' began to talk as she faced the girl who had snapped at her.
"Ugh, whatever. They said they're basketball players, so I was right." She darted her eyes towards the other girl before returning them back on the Saiyans. "You guys must be rich!" She placed both of her palms together in front of her face as her eyes widened, followed by the agreement of the other girls in the group.
"Dear God Paige, take your nose out of their asses for just one minute and take a breath." Both of the Saiyan's began to smile at the comment that Ari had made to the girl now known as Paige. They didn't know that humans could be that feisty when not enslaved. They were both very amused at what was happening in front of them.
"What did you just say to me?!" Paige's eyes grew enormous as they stared daggers into Ari. "You're just jealous that they're not even paying any attention to you. Why don't you just leave." Her voice began to get higher.
"Yeah, just leave Ari. We don't want you here." Another girl chimed in.
"They don't want you here either." And another one chimed in.
"Go back to your sad little house and leave us alone." And another.
"Yeah!" Said the last.
"Fine, I will. I don't need just money in a man to make me happy. It also takes personality and the ability to make one laugh. I highly doubt they have any of that." Ari yelled back at all of the other girls as she began to walk away.
"Fuck her, Paige. She doesn't know what she's talking about." A red-headed girl spoke to the ring leader of the group.
"Yeah, you're right." Paige straightened herself up before looking back at Nappa and Raditz. "Wanna go get some dinner with us?" She twirled her hair with her index finger, not breaking eye contact.
"We would love to get some dinner with you fine, classy girls." Nappa began to speak before getting nudged by Raditz.
"Really? We would?" Raditz spoke confusingly.
"Of course we would. We'll take them to the Hottest Spot in town." Nappa winked at his fellow companion as he watched the whole scenario click inside of Raditz' eyes.
"Oh yes, of course!" Raditz was fully on board with this, "We could use some entertainment before we have to go to work."
The girls giggled in unison.
"Work? Do you have a game tonight?" One of the unnamed girls asked as she couldn't control her excitement.
"You could say something like that." Raditz replied as he and the other Saiyan turned around and started to walk away, girls trailing behind and all.
"Can we go to your game?!" Paige's familiar voice echoes in their ears as they walked.
"Oh, I'm sure you'll all be going to our games for the rest of your lives." Nappa glanced at the girls behind him as he spoke.
"Really?! Even the ones out of town?" Another voice spoke from behind
"Especially the ones out of town." Raditz spoke this time, while nudging his friend. It seemed they had a nice little inside joke that the girls would only learn soon enough.
Again, they heard screams and laughter behind them along with other such random talk. It wasn't until they started walking in back roads away from the city that the girls addressed them again.
"Where are we going?" The ring-leader asked.
"To the hottest spot in this city? Have you never been?" The long haired Saiyan asked in a lower tone.
"No."
"Well, you're in for a treat then." Nappa winked at the girls, easing their minds at his friendly appearance.
"If you say so." Paige's face became soft once more as she continued her conversation with her eager friends.
"Finally, we're here." Nappa spoke as he began to knock on the door. "You girls stay quiet until we're seated for dinner." He kept his friendly face on.
It was only moments before the door opened. An unexpected expression came from the man on the other side of the door; it was Derek.
"Wow, they must be really good if the Door Boy is blown away by their appearance!" One of the girls enthusiastically whispered to another as they looked at the well dressed man.
"Come in, come in!" The man in the white tux spoke as he bowed out of the way, letting them all pass through. Once they were all in the small entry way, he shut the door behind him. "How can I help you on this fine day?" Derek was nervous. Unbeknownst to the two Saiyans in front of him, Goku and Bulma had only left hours ago after causing quite the scene.
"You can start with taking these girls." Nappa spoke as he watched Derek lock the door.
"Why yes, of course." He quickly walked to a button that was on the wall, pressing it.
"Take us where?" The girls looked at each other in the fancy establishment with a smile.
Within moments, men began to file into the room, taking position behind each girl, grabbing onto their forearms to restrain them. Their panic was apparent.
"What the hell are you doing, get off of me!"
"Let go!"
"What the fuck, let go!"
"What's going on?!"
All of the girls began to scream as they started to struggle against the men behind them. They grew silent when they heard the laughter of both Raditz and Nappa in front of them.
"You should have listened to Ari." Raditz spoke as he walked over to Paige, placing his hand on her chin, holding in firmly in his grasp. "We're human traffickers, you'll never see your family again." A wicked smile formed on his face as he saw the terror in her eyes.
"No..." She barely made a sound as she looked into his sinister eyes.
"Oh yes. And look around at your friends. "He ripper her face one way and then another so she could see her frightened companions. "You'll never see them again. They'll never see you again. Hell, none of you will ever see each other ever again. Now isn't that something." Raditz had been waiting for this moment ever since Nappa had invited them back. Their annoying voices, questions, sentences, entire existence bothered him. But now, he was in his own zone.
"No, please. Just let us go!"
"I want to go home!"
"Fuck you! Let me go!
All of the girls screamed once more as they learned what was to become of them.
"Take them." Raditz spoke as he let go of Paige's face. Both Nappa and Raditz enjoyed the sight of the girls struggling for their lives as they were dragged away. The room was silent as they could still hear the screams of the ladies from behind the door. It was only when the screams could not register to them any more that they began to speak.
"So," Nappa spoke as the events that had just taken place didn't phase him one bit, "Have any Saiyans stopped by within the passed couple of days?"
"Not that I have seen, sir." Derek quickly replied, remembering what Goku had told him about blabbing on them. It was a test, and Derek wanted to pass it.
"Ah, I see." The bald headed man walked towards the tiny human. "Then we'll need some money from the vault. It's a pain being on this planet."
Derek's eyes grew wide, not knowing what to do. After a moment of thinking, he straightened himself up before speaking. "We don't have much, due to transferring it to another unit."
"Why did you transfer it to another unit?" Raditz began to butt-in.
"We're trying to make that unit the money holding location, it's a safer unit than this." He spoke fluently.
"Give us what you have, then." Nappa snapped, not wanting to go to another location in order to get currency.
"Yes sir." Derek spoke as he headed into the elevator at the end of the room. "Will you be joining me?" He questioned as he held the elevator open.
"There is no need for us to go with you, just get us the damn money." Nappa spoke as he folded his arms in front of his chest, annoyed.
"Yes sir." Derek removed his hand from the elevator, allowing it to take him down to where the vault was located.
"This better not take long." Raditz leaned against the wall as they awaited their human servant to retrieve the money.
"Well, at least we had some sort of entertainment before getting here." Nappa spoke, referring to the girls they had just convinced to come to the location.
"I didn't think you had that in you, to be honest." Raditz looked at his fellow Saiyan as he spoke.
"Had what in me?" Nappa raised a brow at Raditz, not knowing what he was getting at.
"Fun." He took in a deep breath before speaking once more, "I never thought you'd do something like that. Hell, I thought we were just going to blow them off, ignore them, or possibly even kill one. I never thought you'd devise the plan to bring them back here and enslave them for their entire lives. How dark you are, Nappa." Raditz let out a short laugh.
A smug smile crept underneath Nappa's mustache. "I am full of surprises." He let out a short laugh as well.
"Well, I am looking forward to them." Raditz took his back from the wall, placing a hand on Nappa's shoulder as he shook him a bit. It was all in good fun, and rare for the two to get along as well as they were in this moment, that was until the elevator door opened once more, bringing Derek back into view.
"It's not much, but this is the rest of what he had." He handed the Saiyans fifty grand.
"That's more than enough, we don't plan on being here long." Nappa took the money, giving half of it to Raditz; both placing it in their pockets. It truly was more than enough money than they needed. If they didn't get the girl and Kakarot within a few days, they had to return back no matter what and face whatever success or consequences that the Prince would think of.
"We'll be back in a couple of months to collect the humans. Make sure we have a fine selection. Depending on upcoming events, the Prince will need it." Nappa shot his eyes at Derek, letting him know that he wasn't playing around. If they didn't get his current concubine, they needed to replace her with something even better than what that blue-haired girl was.
"Nothing but the finest for the Prince of Saiyans." Derek again bowed before the Saiyans, showing his complete, nervous loyalty.
"Good." Nappa placed a hand on the side of his mustache, playing with the fine hairs and he turned around to head for the door.
"Make sure Paige gets it." Raditz chimed in as they opened the door, talking before it closed. That girl had really annoyed him. The last thing he saw was Derek nodding his head in agreement. "So, where shall we look first?" The long haired Saiyan spoke as they made their way down alley after alley to the city once more.
"I'm not sure. You know your brother best, where do you think he'd go?"
"Hey, if I knew my brother at all, I would have predicted his treason and prevented this whole mess." Raditz quickly replied, a tad offended at Nappa's remark.
"That is true." Nappa agreed as they reached the city, being greeted with eyes from all over once more.
"You know, we could just get food." Raditz placed his hand on his stomach, hoping Nappa would agree.
"You have the same appetite as Kakarot, that's for sure. Nonetheless, that's a good idea. I think the last time we were here I had something called a cheese burger." He bit the inside of his cheek thinking of how delicious the burger was.
"Cheese burgers are the absolute best!" Raditz sped up his pace as he knew exactly where to get one. Nappa followed, knowing that the hungry Saiyan would lead them to food.
It didn't take long until something caught Nappa's eye. Squinting his eyes, he began to look into the distance. "Raditz!" He whispered a yell as he grabbed his colleague's shoulder, forcing him to stop.
"What the Hell Nappa!" Raditz was raged, not liking to be toyed with when food was on the line.
"Shut up and look over there!" Nappa pointed.
Following Nappa's finger, Raditz began to look into the distance. It was then he was what Nappa was so excited about. "It's the girl!" Far in the distance, bright as day, the two Saiyans spotted a girl with blue hair, accompanied by a taller, built man with spiky black hair. As they continued to watch, it wasn't long until they saw the two head into a building. "Let's go!" Raditz began to run after them.
"Don't make a scene, Raditz!" Nappa continued to hold his shoulder, pulling him back. "We see which building they are going in, we'll follow in after them."
"We can take them right now, we're Saiyans!" an annoyed Raditz spoke as he tried once more to go after them.
"We can't let the humans catch on to us trafficking them." Nappa spoke in a low whisper. "If they catch on, they can start planning on battling us."
"They wouldn't win, though!" A still annoyed Raditz began to retort.
"It doesn't matter. It's best if they keep their daily lives like nothing is happening to them. Not knowing we're picking them off one by one is the best way to keep it. We don't need a riot. Now stop being stupid about this. Lets go follow them, okay?" He let go of his shoulder, feeling that his angered friend had calmed a bit.
"Fine." Raditz put his hand on the shoulder Nappa was previously holding, rubbing it as they began to walk towards the building. Once entered, they watched the couple enter an elevator. As they watched the numbers at the top of the shaft to see which floor they were heading to, they began to take the stairs to meet them at the top.
Climbing the stairs didn't take long, since they practically hovered to the top. When they found the floor they were heading to, they caught sight of the blue-haired girl entering a room, closing the door behind her. That's when they decided to make their move. "Lets go, Raditz."
The two Saiyans burst through the door. Nappa went straight for the girl, grabbing her by her hair and holding her up; her cries filled the room until he used his other hand to cover her mouth.
"Where's Kakarot?!" Raditz searched the room for his brother. "I know he is somewhere around here, where is he?!" His voice began to raise as his blood began to boil.
Nappa removed his hand from her mouth so the girl could speak.
"I don't know!" She yelled as she felt the weight of her entire body being suspended from her hair.
"He was just with you, where is he?!" He pursued her more.
"I don't know!" She yelled again.
"I don't think she's going to give him up, Raditz." Nappa spoke as he looked at the girl's tear stained cheeks.
"I don't know why you're protecting him." Raditz calmed a bit as he darted his eyes side to side just in case his brother decided to surprise them.
"It doesn't matter, lets just take her and go. She is all Prince Vegeta wants." Nappa remained holding her blue hair, but allowed her feet to meet the floor.
"Prince Vegeta..." The girl began to cry as her feet touched the floor.
"Oh yes, you thought you'd escaped him. I'm sorry to tell you sweetheart, but we're bringing you back to him." Raditz' voice was the same sadistic tone as when he spoke to Paige.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" The girl yelled back at him.
"Don't play dumb with me!" His eyes narrowed at her.
"I'm not! I don't know what you're talking about!" She repeated herself once more.
"She's trying to play us, Raditz. Don't let her work you up. She's just mad that we caught her and her lover isn't here to save her." Nappa chimed in while still holding her hair.
"I don't know who you're looking for, but she's not me! I'm Maron, not the person you're looking for. I don't even know who Kakarot is!" She remained yelling her story to them.
"My bad: Goku. I forgot you call him such foolish names." Raditz calmly spoke as he looked at the blue-eyes girl.
"I don't know who that is either. Please, let me go and leave me alone!" Her eyes no longer produced tears as she tried to be strong in the situation, not knowing who the hell the gargantuan men were.
"Shut up." Nappa grabbed the girls' neck and began to squeeze. He locked eyes with her as he choked her, watching her struggle until she was no longer conscious. "Well, we got her. Now lets go home. I'm tired of this cat and mouse game."
"What about Kakarot?" Raditz asked as he folded his hands across his chest.
"Prince Vegeta's main concern was us getting his girl. When Kakarot learns she is gone, he'll come to Planet Vegeta to try to get her back." Nappa slung the girl over his shoulder as he headed for a window to climb the fire escape to the roof of the building.
"That's true." The long haired Saiyan began to follow until they both stood on the roof.
"We're going to fly back to the ship." He tightly held the girl and he began to levitate.
"What about making a scene?" Raditz mocked as he himself began to levitate.
"It's getting dark, no one will see. The only person who will see is Kakarot, and we want him to see anyway so he can follow." Nappa began to fly off back to their ship with the blue-haired girl in hand.
"In due time, brother." Raditz took a look over the darkening city as he, too, shot up into the air and headed back to the ship.
A/N: Again, sorry for all of the mistakes I have within this chapter. Comments are always welcome, good or bad :3