Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Runaway Prince ❯ Escape from Frieza base... ( Chapter 1 )

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Notes: Well, have you ever wondered how Vegeta would've turned out if he hadn't been raised by Frieza???

Runaway Prince

Chapter 1

"Prince Vegeta??" Napa called, searching the seemingly endless corridors and rooms of the base, trying to find his young charge. The giant bodyguard was cursing under his breath every step of the way and struggling to keep his voice calm. He knew how angry Frieza would be if anything had happened to the young prince, and he knew he would be the first to feel the tyrant's anger. "My prince, where are you? Vegeta? Sire, please come out, Lord Frieza wants to see you and…"

Crouched low in a darkened corner of an open room, Prince Vegeta watched his bodyguard trudge past, and he smirked. Frieza was a bastard that he hated and Napa was an idiot. The clever prince let his tail flicker curiously in the shadows as he crept from his hiding spot, and looked around the room. So, this was the nursery? He snorted, walking slowly through the dark and silent chamber. He had to find a baby that would be leaving soon, so he checked the charts and finally, at the far end of the room saw something that looked promising… even if it was more than a little insulting.

According to the chart, the infant was called Kakarrot and he was a third class warrior. Vegeta wrinkled up his nose in disgust until he looked at the next line. Parents… Celera and Bardock. He had heard of those two… Vegeta chewed his lip for a moment, but before he could come to a decision, the lights came on and the workers came back. Vegeta hid, crouching low and silently behind the incubators.

"Well, that was a great lunch, what'dya say we go ahead and launch this lil guy, Kakarrot's next, isn't he?"

"Yeah, yeah, let's do it, I've got about a million forms to fill out on a couple of these new ones yet and…" The larger took Kakarrot in his incu-bed and tucked it under his arm and Vegeta growled low as he followed them. When they reached the launch area, the prince forced himself to be quiet, and hid silently in the shadows next to the launch tube. He had to trade places with that infant… but how? Vegeta wondered. The whole point was to escape Frieza undetected… and if he knocked these idiots out and stole the pod, it would alert Frieza to his plan and he'd be retrieved even sooner than Kakarrot would've been after completing his mission. To do this quietly was the only way he could train and try to get strong enough to destroy Frieza. He knew he couldn't train his hardest if he always had Frieza's goons around him to report his every move and power increase!!

They placed Kakarrot in the pod and had just begun to hook up the hoses and wires to the incu-bed when a loud beeping began in the nursery and several of the babies began to cry. "A'gus, you forgot to empty the excrement holding tank before we went to lunch, didn't you?"

"Hey! I didn't see you run over to hit that switch either!! Damn it I don't have time for two dozen screaming kids right now… Alright, Kakarrot, you stay here, lil' fella."

Vegeta was simultaneously relieved and disgusted… but not knowing how long the two morons would be gone, he wasted no time in unhooking the small pod from its place in the larger one. He smirked as he put the infant's little pod down and tapped a button on the top of the incu-bed, opening it. He took the sleeping Kakarrot out and gently put him on the floor. The infant began to stir restlessly as soon as his warm skin touched the cold floor and Vegeta smirked evilly as he jumped into the pod and slammed the door, launching it as the baby Kakarrot started to cry.

"Later, Napa. Catch me if you can, Frieza." Vegeta smirked, he tapped out a few commands on the pod's computer and the mission profile came up. "FX-50? Poor kid, this mission sounds really boring, but then again I'm not interested in the mission. I just need the time to train." The five year old Prince smirked as sleep mode engaged itself and settled down for a nap.

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Hearing the loud cries of Kakarrot in the other room, the two techs scrambled back into the launch bay and gasped. The pod had rolled away from the ship and the baby wasn't even in it. "How did you get yourself out of your pod, there Kakarrot?"

"I told you never to leave babies in the pods with the hoses and wires unhooked! Obviously he was too close to the edge and it rolled out. Look, the catch on the top was opened, the main access is still closed! When it rolled over he fell out." Now we've lost an empty pod and it'll be at least twenty minutes to reprogram a new pod for this kid."

"But sir!! I swear I had most of them hooked up!!"

"Yeah, right. So let me guess, you think someone just waltzed right in here and unhooked everything and stole the mission from our little friend here? Honestly, A'gus I just don't see how you ever got this job. Put him back in his damn incu-bed this instant and let's get back to work. Before someone finds out we lost a pod."

Baby Kakarrot had stopped crying to look at the two men as they came in and he growled as A'gus reached for him. The infant slapped at the man's hand and tried to bit him, but the technician only stuffed him back into the tiny pod and closed the hatch, he tapped the button that would release the gas and put Kakarrot back to sleep with a sigh of relief. "Don't worry kiddo, we'll get you out of here in no time."

True to their word, the two technicians had Kakarrot launched and safely away just as a Saiyan space pod landed on the target nearby and Bardock crawled out…

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