Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Life of A Puppet ❯ Allies or foes? ( Chapter 2 )

L.O.A.P.

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Chapter 2

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Allies or foes?

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Last chapter;

Poor teenage Radiztsu is teamed up with the young prince Vegeta and his body guard, Nappa. Vegeta ran into a Sayajin girl who shouldn't be on the planet, and I left him fighting for his own being in a mind battle.

Puppet continues…

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Vegeta

Everything was dark. I couldn't see; I couldn't move. My whole entire being was focused on saving myself from complete and utter invasion. I was trapped in the native's mind. He knew I was here and was intent on finding out where and who I was. I could no longer hear anything around me. I had no idea what was happening to the native, and she wasn't high on the list of priorities.

I felt so stupid. Such a simple thing, such an incredibly simple thing to do, and yet I had let my guard down. It was only for a split second, but that's all the native needed wasn't it? He had sensed my presence and was hell bent on finding where I was, both physically and mentally. Needless to say I was literally running through the native's mind. I only had to lose him for just one split second, and then I could leave his mind without worrying that he would follow me. If he did follow me, then he would find my physical body, and my physical body was inches behind him

Weaving through his mind was incredible. It was like a mind field, covered in memories. His past came flying at me in a jumbled order. His wedding day, his tenth birthday, his first night with a girl, the death of his first son…

" ...Wait a second"

I quickly held onto that memory and rapidly scanned it. His youngest son, Jeraka, had died at the young age of twelve. It was a dark night; Jeraka had stepped out of his families hut to join up with his friends for a secret late night hunt…

I started to run faster through his mind. While I was running, I softly whispered in his mind `Jeraka'; slowly at first, then faster and faster as I devolved further into the memory for more information.

…A large animal emerged from the shadows. There were intruders in his territory, he must defend his territory. Creeping through the undergrowth the creature spied Jeraka...

I was rapidly speaking his son's name by now. Painful memories constantly overwhelmed the native. He slowed his pursuit, confused and emotional from the images he didn't want to see. He started to withdraw from the chase, roles were reversed; I started to chase the native, using his own memories against him.

…Jeraka didn't hear the creature as it burst from its hiding place...

I heard the native cry out mentally to himself.

…Large horns pierced unprotected flesh…

That was all that it took for the native to recoil. Carefully I pulled out of his mind. It only took a few second for me to be alone again. I started to re-gain my senses while the native was preoccupied. I could feel the air around me and the earth under my feet. The native started to move away, wanting to be alone with his thoughts and memories. He ignored the crowd around us. I could see the native of in front me pull away, dazed and confused.

I could no longer see the captive in the clearing. Confused, I quickly scanned the area. Instantly I felt the fear from the crowd. To my left was the captive, no longer bound, but walking freely. Next to her were two large men, tails curled around their waists.

"More Sayajins?! What the hell is going on?"

The Sayajin trio took to the sky at once. Gasps came from the crowd. An old native pointed and exclaimed something loudly. I payed no attention to the scene as left the ground, oblivious to the gasps and exclamations around me, and followed the trio.

The other Sayajins kept just above the trees. They were flying rather slowly and the two men were rapidly firing questions to the young captive. They obviously didn't expect any of the natives to follow them, so they did not look behind them. I followed unnoticed.

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I was lead to a small clearing, several kilometres from the village. Hidden amongst the trees were four pods. Bracken and large branches covered them, partly concealing three pods. So now I knew how they got here, but why they were here still eluded me. There was a small fire in the center of the clearing. A large furred animal roasted above the flames. The scattered remains of other animals were in a haphazard pile off to the right. This group had been here for a while. There was a fourth Sayajin sitting on a rock, keeping an eye on their slowly cooking lunch. As the three Sayajins landed in the middle of the clearing, he turned his head toward them.

"I told you to keep an eye on her." he stated.

Before either of the two men could answer, the young girl spoke out.

"I do not need baby sitting Turkan! I am perfectly capable of looking after myself!"

The Sayajin to the right of the girl moved toward the fire as he spoke,

"Yes, I'm sure you are fully capable of looking after yourself Tanya" He spoke slowly and then smiled as he sat next to Turkan, "And if we had left you there with those natives I'm sure you would of magically gotten yourself out of that, situation."

Tanya lowered her head. Turkan walked over to her and hugged her.

"Look Tanya he softly spoke as he knelt down to meet her eye to eye, "it's not that I don't trust you, it's just that you are so young and inexperienced. I wouldn't want to lose my favourite little sister.'

Tanya smiled

"Turkan, I am your only sister silly! Besides, I'm going to be stronger than all of you combined!"

The three male Sayajins chuckled.

"Yes Tanya you will with that attitude, but you won't be around long enough if you don't stop running off you hear?'

Tanya nodded. Her brother waked over to the larger of the two other Sayajins and motioned for him to come and talk. The other Sayajin stood, and together they walked into the trees a short distance from the clearing. I started to move to follow them, when my scouter beeped loudly. Quickly I reached up to quieten it, though Tanya and the remaining Sayajin heard the noise. The Sayajin mentioned Tanya to be quiet as he rose slowly, charging a ball of Ki in his hand.

"Who's there? Show yourself!"

I picked up a rock and threw it amongst the underbrush across to the other side of the clearing. The Sayajin turned and walked towards the noise. With the Sayajin distracted, I took off without any of them noticing.

I kept my Ki was low as possible and flew westwards from the camp. What were three Sayajin's doing here? Who were they? Who was the young girl? The only thing I knew for sure was that they were defiantly not spies of Freeza. A Sayajin would never voluntarily work him. I shuddered at the thought of the tyrant. I had only been in the planet trade for one year, most of it spent travelling from planet to planet, and yet so far I had not seen any reason to trust Freeza. Why my father did confused me. The only advantages we Sayajins gained from joining Freeza were the opportunities of space travel. I shook my head to clear my thoughts; there would be plenty of time to figure it out. Though right now I had to sort Nappa out, I was annoyed that he had interrupted me. I frowned, it was not like Nappa to disobey orders. Slightly worried now, I switched back on my scouter and called Nappa.

"Nappa, what do you want!" There was no point in being nice to him; no matter how long he has been working for me, he wasn't a friend, or so I wanted him to believe.

"Vegeta, where are you?" He replied hastily.

"Sector 4 g"

"We have a problem" answered Nappa.

"What kind of problem?" I frowned, now what?

"We saw a class D group with 4 party members 20 minutes ago in sector 4 f, heading in your direction and we just saw a second group; Class C, 3 party members."

"What!?" Nappa wasn't kidding, this was defiantly a problem. We were supposed to be the only ones here. Four rouge Sayajins and now 2 groups from planet trade, what else could go wrong?

"Where are you now?" I asked

"5 k"

"Keep out of site; I will be there as soon as I can."

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Radiztsu

I didn't know what was going on, but Nappa seemed worried, and I was worried because Nappa was. There was a good chance that Vegeta was now worried too. Elites and royalty are not supposed to worry about anything. I looked up at the tall Sayajin, if something could unnerve this Sayajin, then it pays to be wary of it as well, and now Vegeta was on his way here. I was stuck on a planet with an elite that wanted to use me as his personal punching bag; a pint sized royal pain in the ass and now two other Planet Trade groups. And that's not mentioning Vapir and Drekat, the two Kreeplings, on the other side of the planet. Great, just great. This was not what I had in mind when I signed on for this job.

Nappa walked over to the nearest tree and sat beneath it. He rested his back against its large trunk. A small green light blinked every few seconds from the top of his scouter. He had activated the tracking system. With this system, both he and Vegeta could know the exact locations of each other. Taking Nappa's lead I too sat, though as carefully and as slowly as I could, against the nearest tree. I had many bruises and I suspect a broken rib from our `sparing' match earlier on. Nappa smirked when he saw me wince as I sat down; I payed no attention to him as I checked the time on my scouter; 1504hrs, only a few hours until sundown. My scouter didn't have a tracking system. It couldn't even read a power rating above 500. I relaxed my shoulders and sighed.

Six months ago I had been on Vegeta-Sei working in one of the Planet Trade factories. The Planet Trade was a large business, and not everyone could, or was aloud to, `fight' on the front lines. Anyone that could be spared from trivial jobs like farming had to `help' in the factories. There were many words and phrases like that, `fight', `help', `for the good of all'. It was all crap. They just wanted to pretty up everything.

My job was assembling the xk-500; it was part of navigational system in the space pods. The work itself wasn't hard, it was tedious and frustrating. It wasn't the work that was hard; it was the way we were treated. Day in, day out I had to solder the same wirers in the same places. No Sayajins were in charge. Various aliens from other races were our bosses, and they didn't take too kindly to Sayajins. I closed my eyes at that thought. No, not many races did take kindly to Sayajins. The other races treated us like the natives on the planets that were purged; stupid, ugly…pitiful, just to name a few. The Sayajins would jump up and create a fuss over such trivial words. I slowly shook my head, fools. They should just keep quite and use their brains instead of their brawns for once.

I looked up into the blue sky over head. Being here, outside and away from high powered officials, away from my parents, away from my father, that was what I thought the Planet Trade would offer me. The freedom of a whole planet, a chance to grow and test my fighting skills without rules or limitations, all this and more was what I was led to believe. I had been part of the Planet Trade now for five years and yes, there were times where groups were given these opportunities, though those times were few and far between.

Nappa stirred as his scouter beeped a warning signal. He reached up, turned it off and looked to the sky.

So Vegeta's arrived has he? I thought. I quickly stood and positioned myself behind and to the right of Nappa. Vegeta may have been young, but his temper was only rivalled by his father's. There was no way I was getting in the way of him.

The young prince landed before Nappa. Vegeta couldn't have been an inch over three feet tall and was dwarfed by Nappa's frame. My scouter pin-pointed his small frame and informed me that his power reading was unreadable. I cursed the under powered scouter, of course it was unreadable. Vegeta's power level must be around 10,000. I, like most Sayajin's, was envious of the child's power. Vegeta was on the same level as the highest elites, including my father. Within a few short years the young prince would out power his own body guard. What would happen to Nappa then I thought.

"What's the situation?" Vegeta hastily asked Nappa.

"The Class C group changed direction a few minutes ago, they are now heading south west. The Class D group is staying on their current course."

Vegeta brought his right hand to his face, deep in thought.

"Any word from the two incompetents we came here with?" he asked

"No, none at all. My scouter can not detect their signatures either, they are out of range."

Vegeta frowned.

"Neither can mine." He replied and slowly started to pace in front of Nappa.

Great I thought. I had hoped that one of them would know what to do. Stuck on a planet with two of the most powerful Sayajins alive, along with two Planet Trade groups that were not even supposed to be here… I would do just about anything right now to get out of this.

"Radiztsu." Vegeta spoke, turning to look at me.

Uh? I thought, looking Vegeta in the eyes.

"Follow the class D group. Do not make your presence known. Your power reading is just above theirs but that is no reason for them to know you are there. Understand?"

I just merely nodded.

"Report back in half an hour." Vegeta turned his attention back to his body guard and motioned for him to follow him away from where I was standing.

Kami, I knew I said I'd do anything, but I didn't mean for you to take it literally. I quickly took to the sky and programmed the scouter to track the Class D group.

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Nappa

I watched Radiztsu take to the sky and softly chuckled. That kid was stronger than he thought. Though I couldn't help but get the impression that he had some problems with people higher than he was, and I didn't mean in the power reading sense. I shrugged my shoulders, he wasn't my problem. The chance of us meeting again within the next few years was slim. I slightly shook my head as to clear my thoughts and followed Vegeta.

Vegeta started to slowly follow an old game trial. He could never keep still for long. I walked up along side of him and noticed the worried expression on his face.

"Vegeta, what is it?"

He frowned and continued walking, as if he was trying to find the answer himself. I turned my head towards him, hoping for him to continue; often on other occasions he wouldn't. He frowned deeper, gathering his thoughts before he spoke. It was at times like this that no matter his age, he looked so much like his father.

"There are Sayajins on the planet." He spoke, though more to himself than me. I raised my eye brow.

"Er Vegeta, I already knew that."

He quickly stoped and looked at me like I didn't know what I was going on about. He then realised what he said, then relaxed and continued walking.

"No Nappa, that's not what I meant. There are other Sayajins on the planet."

This instantly got my attention.

"Other Sayajins? Do you know who they were? How many of them?"

"There are four, two Class C's, a Class B and a young girl…" He trailed off at that thought.

I picked up the lead, "What about the girl?"

"The scouter read her at 10."

"10! How young was she?"

"She couldn't have been much older than I."

"But that doesn't make any sense. A two year old has that kind of reading." I scowled, "The scouter must have a fault."

"Um, must have." He blinked a few times and looked upwards. "Though why they are here is just as puzzling as the other two groups."

I shrugged my shoulders. "There could have been a mix-up back at head quarters. We did leave rather suddenly. Maybe they didn't get the message that we were taking care of the planet."

"That is a possibility, though it didn't look like they are here to purge the planet."

"The Sayajins? How so?"

Vegeta paused to think "Well, for starters there's the girl…"

"The power reading could have been false" I interrupted.

"It also could be true" Vegeta shot back.

"Well what else makes you think they're not here for the planet?"

"They're hiding. The pods have been covered for sometime now, and it looked like that they have been here for a while."

"Hiding from what though?"

"Who knows." We walked in silence for several minutes, both in thought. It was quiet out here in the forest. The only sound was the cracking of dead leaves beneath out feet.

"The other two groups" I bluntly stated.

"What about them Nappa?" Vegeta questioned

I looked to Vegeta, I had the answer. "They're here for the other Sayajins."

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