"Leave 'em." I replied after a while of debating with myself.
There's no reason for me to save them. Not now at least. The damned planet and its inhabitants are nothing but a damned inconvenience.
A planet full of planet conquering warriors who slaughtered billions and sold hundreds of thousands of planets to the highest bidder is more of a danger to the universe more than it is a benefit. After all, it's partially, if not mostly, their fault for why our universe's mortal level is so abysmally low, which in turn leads to the near-erasure of Universe Seven during the Tournament of Power.
Still, despite their numerous faults, it was a shame that a race like the Saiyans to be wiped out.
The Saiyan Race is such an interesting one. How could it not be? An entire race of people who have the potential power to rival the gods? It's unbelievable.
If I was older, maybe had some more time, I probably could've done something about them. Possibly even enlist the help of the Universe 6 Saiyans in order to do so. But I didn't have the time nor the luxury to change the entire foundation and culture of a planet full of barbarians.
Especially since I never wanted that responsibility in the first place.
"There's no reason as to why we should go out of our way to save them." I added with a bit of finality.
Salza, Dore, and Neiz looked towards one another after hearing my statement, their faces a bit shocked.
"Damn..." Dore muttered.
"That's... just cold..." Salza added.
Cooler on the other hand just shrugged his shoulders without any care.
"Then I suppose that's that." He replied as he leaned back in his chair, "Salza, if there are any Saiyan teams that haven't arrived on Planet Vegeta, get ahold of them and tell them to convene on Cooler Planet 141. And also arrange for them to be picked up and distributed around the Cooler Force. Dismissed."
As commanded, we all left the Control Room and Salza immediately went to go do task he was assigned. I nod my head towards the other two before turning away and heading back towards the Training Room.
Once there, I locked the door with my Command Code. Apart from Cooler, no one will be able to enter this room until I deactivate the lock.
When that was done, I grabbed my Scouter and called my father. The Scouter tries to connect, but he doesn't answer the call. I call my mother next, but it was the same on her end as well.
Letting out a sigh, I called Vegeta, who answered the call immediately.
[What?]
"Hello to you too." I said, rolling my eyes at his rude answer.
[Hello. Now what do you want? We're busy.]
I hear explosions on the other end and I flinch from how loud it was coming through the Scouter.
"Right... I'm guessing by those explosions that you guys are still off-planet?" I asked.
[No, we're just blowing stuff up for no reason.]
"Alright, smartass, I don't need the sarcasm. Just don't answer the return order to Planet Vegeta." I tell him.
[Wasn't planning to.]
"Good. I'm sending you some coordinates. Our families will be there."
[Our families? What--]
"Bye, Vegeta." I said before disconnecting the call. "Little shit, I swear the next time I see him I'm gonna..."
I let out a tired sigh before sending Vegeta the the coordinates to Earth, to which I then used Kai Kai to teleport myself there.
---
[General POV]
Outside a small house in the middle of lush green forest, an old man could be seen, going on a leisurely walk around nature. The old man wears a martial arts uniform consisting of a sleeveless orange jacket over a long-sleeved black shirt, with a green hat on his head.
He walks down the path, smiling without a care in the world as he went. He walks until he reaches a large waterfall, letting out a breath and savoring the scene of water crashing down onto the rocks.
"Are you just going to stand there?" The old man asks, feeling the gaze of a familiar set of eyes.
Coming out from the tree line, Zyleth steps forward and stands beside the old man, his eyes also resting on the waterfall.
"Gohan." Zyleth says, greeting the old man with familiarity.
"Zyleth." Gohan nods, a small smile forming on his lips. "It has been some time since I saw you last. I would offer you some tea, but I don't have any on me at the moment."
"It's fine." Zyleth shook his head, appreciating said offer.
The two sat there for a moment, a comfortable silence falling between them before Gohan finally asks, "What brings you here?"
"It's time." Zyleth said simply.
Gohan's eyes widened for a brief moment before nodding solemnly. He knew exactly what Zyleth was referring to.
"I see..." Gohan muttered softly, "I'm so sorry..."
"Don't be." Zyleth replied before suddenly disappearing.
Gohan let out a brief sigh before turning around and walking back towards his home.
About a year ago, a peculiar young boy with a tail had came to him on a day just like this, with him sitting near the same waterfall.
He was nice enough. Very polite for a boy his age. The boy came and went, never overstaying his welcome and always disappearing suddenly with no explanation.
After a few meetings, the boy revealed some very interesting things. About how he was a member of an alien race called Saiyans and his people were soon going to be wiped out. If it wasn't for the fact that the child had turned into an ape the size of a mountain, he never would've believed any of it.
The boy asked the old man to take care of his family. To teach them all about Earth and the people who made it their home.
The old man was hesitant, of course he was, who wouldn't be? But the sincere look in the boy's eyes as he made the request warmed his old heart.
Soon after, the boy had cut down some trees and made multiple cottages near the man's house in preparation for his family's arrival. Despite being a child, the boy's craftsmanship wasn't that bad. The cabins themselves being quite cozy and spacious.
"I should make them some tea." Gohan said to himself as he walks back, ready to welcome some new friends.
---
On Planet Vegeta, Bardock and Gine jumped from rock to rock, a Space Pod sitting atop Bardock's shoulder. They went under the cover of darkness, careful as to not cast suspicion on themselves.
From within the confines of the pod, a young three-year old Kakarot can be heard crying.
"Is there another option?!" Gine asked, unsure if this was the right course of action. "Let's think about this!"
"No, it's the only choice." Bardock replied. "If I turn out to be wrong, I'll go and rescue him."
Upon reaching a satisfactory spot, far away from prying eyes, the two Saiyans jumped down to the ground and walked towards a more flatter area.
"But... in that case, why don't all three of us run off somewhere together?" Gine asked.
"We can't." He answered instantly. "They'd use their damn Scouters and be able to track us down in no time."
"Bardock..."
Gine looked to the ground, apprehension and confusion sinking deep within her. She didn't want to send her son away.
"Why are you going through so much trouble? It's not like a Saiyan man to worry about his children, so what's gotten into you?" She asked.
"I don't know..." He replied softly. "Maybe it's because I'm constantly fighting, destroying, that I'd like to actually save something for once. Especially someone who was judged to be a lower class warrior. Like my Kakarot..."
Bardock set the pod down onto the ground, looking at his son through the red glass.
"I programmed this to head to a distant planet called Earth. The people on that world have low power levels and aren't technologically advanced. I think he'll be able to do well there, Gine..." He told her, watching as Kakarot placed his hands on the glass in an attempt to reach out for them. "Good thing is it's not an extremely valuable world, so I'm hoping it won't even show up on the Cooler Force's radar."
"If your father is wrong about this then we'll come and get you immediately." Gine said as she placed her hand on the glass, trying to reassure both her and her son.
Bardock leaned down next to Gine, giving his son a proud smile, "Listen, son, you do what it takes to survive, got it?"
Kakarot looked confused, raising an eyebrow at his father.
"We'll see you very soon!" Gine said, tears threatening to fall from her eyes.
Bardock placed his hand on the glass, prompting young Kakarot to place his small hand over his.
"Goodbye..."
The pod then started to lift from the ground, Kakarot looking at his parents with a distressed look upon his face. Unable to hold herself back, Gine took a few steps forward and yelled out to her departing son.
"Don't forget us, Kakarot!"
The pod rose higher and higher, ready to take off in the direction of Earth when it suddenly stopped in the middle of the sky.
"Seems I got here just in time..."
Zyleth suddenly appeared on top of the pod, his fingers gripping into the metal so hard that it ripped holes in the outer shell.
"Zyleth...?" Gine muttered under her breath.
The sight of their eldest son gave Bardock and Gine quite the shock, wondering how and why he was here.
"What are you doing here?" Bardock asked, looking at his son with vast amounts of confusion.
Zyleth ignored their questions and floated back down to the ground, ripping the pod's door open. Kakarot, upon seeing his big brother, reached his arms out towards him and begged to be taken out of the pod.
"ZyZy..." Kakarot muttered through tears and sobs as Zyleth picked him up, causing him to tightly wrap his arms around his elder brother's neck.
"Shhh... It's okay..." He whispered softly, his hand rubbing against his brother's hair. "You grew up since the last time I saw you, huh?"
Kakarot nodded and the sounds of his crying soon started to fade.
"Zyleth... What are you doing here?" Bardock asked as he walked up to his son.
"To save your sorry asses." Zyleth said as he walked right past his father and mother, heading into the direction of the Saiyan Capital.
"Save us? Does that mean Cooler isn't going to blow up the planet?" Bardock asked, looking at Zyleth with widened eyes.
"Cooler is halfway across the Universe right now." Zyleth told his father.
"What?" Bardock muttered in shock.
Bardock and Gine looked towards each other in disbelief before running after Zyleth.
"But the signal ordering all Saiyans to return to Planet Vegeta was from the Cooler Force." Bardock said.
"It was a fake. Frieza used a fake Cooler Force ID to transmit the signal." Zyleth replied.
"How do you know?" Bardock asked.
"Cooler told me." Zyleth answered.
"And you believed him?" Bardock asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I don't have time to get into the pros and cons between two tyrant brothers, just believe me when I say that Cooler had nothing to do with this." Zyleth told his father, looking into his eyes with a serious gaze.
"Wait, even if that's true, aren't you supposed to be serving on Cooler's ship? How are you here if Cooler is halfway across the universe?" Gine asked.
"The way I got here is the same way I'm going to get you off this doomed planet." Zyleth replied cryptically.
---
[Zyleth's POV]
We finally arrive at our house and once the door has closed, I used my Scouter to contact Paragus.
[Zyleth? It's been a--]
"Long time, yes I know." I interrupt the Saiyan Colonel, not wanting to waist time with pleasantries. "Listen, I need you to get over to my parent's house as quickly as possible."
[What? I'm sorry, but I'm kind of in the middle--]
"If you're not here in the next ten minutes, I'm leaving you to die with the rest of this goddamn planet." I told him before dropping the communication.
"Wasn't that a little... harsh?" Gine asked.
"I don't have any frame of reference as to when Frieza is going to blow this planet to kingdom come, so time is literally of the essence." I replied before looking towards my father. "Contact all the members of your team and tell them to come here."
"But you still haven't told us--"
"Do you want to argue or do you want to live?" I asked, cutting him off.
He looked at me for a moment before taking out his Scouter and making the calls.
I make another call myself, trying to contact the King, to which the call dropped immediately.
Typical...
I then tried contacting the Queen, which to my surprise, actually went through. She answers, her sounding very tired.
[You better have a good reason as to--]
"Frieza is going to blow up the planet. Meet me at my parent's house" I tell her before disconnecting.
"Who was that you just called?" Gine asked.
"The Queen." I answered.
Gine raised an eyebrow and looked at mewith bewilderment.
"Why would you call her?" She asked.
"Because she's nice enough for a Saiyan woman and Vegeta needs a win." I tell her. "Besides, the King didn't answer."
Seriously, the dude needs at least one functioning parent. At least with her still alive, Vegeta might honestly be a bit better than he was originally in canon.
I mean, I doubt it, but it doesn't hurt to try.
Feeling a presence coming towards us, I open the door and see that Paragus has arrived.
"Oh good, you're here." I said before handing Kakarot to my mother.
"Now, what was this about you saying that--"
"Yeah, save that thought. It'll be easier just to explain everything while everyone else is here." I told him.
As I say that, Borgos and Shugesh finally arrive, the latter looking as if he was about to fall asleep at any moment.
"Man, what's this about Bardock? You woke me out of my late evening nap..." Shugesh mumbles.
Late evening nap? It's fucking midnight...
Tora later arrives as well as Fasha, the two look around at the small gathering of Saiyans and their faces shift to one of curiosity and confusion.
"What's going on?" Fasha asks.
"Hold up a second, we're still waiting on a couple people." I told her.
Almost as if on cue, the Queen finally arrives, causing my eyes to widen when I see what's in her hands.
"What's Tarble doing here?!" I asked.
"I brought him, obviously." She replied.
She knew damn well that wasn't what I meant! And isn't he supposed to be on a distant planet by now?!
My eyebrow twitches at the timeline differences that this will probably cause, but I quickly move on since we're running out of time.
"Okay, whatever, it's fine." I told her before looking around and asking, "Where's your husband?"
"Don't worry about him." She said with so much spite that it causes me to raise an eyebrow.
I'm... not even going to touch that...
"Now, will you explain why you called us all here?" Paragus asked.
"You didn't tell them?" Sela asks.
"Not yet." I replied.
"Tell us what?" Tora asked.
"Frieza is about to blow up the planet." I tell them, ripping off that bandaid as fast as possible.
Besides for Sela and my parents, everyone around me looks at me as if I've gone crazy.
"That's... That can't be true, right?" Paragus asked.
"Nice joke, little man. Come on, tell us why you really called us out here." Shugesh says with a hearty laugh.
I just continue to look on with a serious expression, signaling to everyone that I wasn't joking. Seeing this, Shugesh's laugh slowly dies down and it was quickly replaced with horror.
"But why?!" Paragus exclaimed.
"Does it really matter at this point?" I asked. "The planet is dead. We have to leave."
"Can't you just... fight Frieza like last time?" Tora asks. "That red and black... thing you turned into, can't you do that thing again?"
I shook my head, "That was just pure luck. Besides, even if I did transform again, I'd probably be the one destroying the planet. That's why I said that we need to leave. "
Of course I could just beat him in my base form, but then everyone going to Earth wouldn't happen.
"And how do you plan on us doing that exactly? Frieza's men are in the upper atmosphere. If we try to leave on a ship, they would shoot us down as soon as we started taking off" Sela pointed out.
I look at her with a smirk before thinking of Earth and teleporting us there.
---
"What the-?!" Bardock yelled out as we were now suddenly standing in the middle of a large forest.
"This is how." I said towards the former Queen.
Everyone looks around at the scenery, wondering where I had just brought them.
"Where are we?" Fasha asks.
"Earth." I told her.
Bardock and Gine suddenly snapped their heads toward me.
"Earth? Wait, how did you..?" Bardock muttered.
"How did I what?" I asked, feigning ignorance.
Before he could ask anymore questions, there was a rustling of leaves that gathered everyone's attention. I look over and see that Gohan had poked his head out from the bushes.
"Hello--"
Paragus immediately fired a ki blast towards him, causing me to blitz in front of Gohan and deflect the blast into the air before it could harm him.
I glare at Paragus and release half of my full power towards him, causing him to fall onto the floor paralyzed.
Yeah, I finally figured out the Beerus special.
I walk up to Paragus and kneel down beside his head, making him look me in the eyes.
"If one hair on that old man's head is out of place, I swear to you now, I will send you flying into a star." I told him with no room for argument.
He lets out an audible gulp and mutters, "M-My apologies..."
I release him and allow him to stand up before motioning towards Gohan, saying, "Everyone, this is Gohan. He'll be your guide whilst you're living on Earth."
"Hello." Gohan greeted them all with a polite smile. "Would any of you like some tea?"
Everyone just stares at him with weird faces for a long moment before Shugesh breaks the silence, asking, "What's tea?"
For the next few hours, I help get my family and friends settled into their new houses. They weren't all that lavish, but neither were the accommodations on Planet Vegeta, so they will be just fine.
Although the Queen might take some time to get used to the smaller space, but that's a her problem.
---
[General POV]
"But, Lord Frieza, if you destroy Planet Vegeta, Cooler will take this as an act of war." Frieza's 'advisor' informs him.
"Then let him. My brother sealed his fate when he stole away my chance at righting the humiliation I suffered at the hands of that monkey child." Frieza replies through gritted teeth before turning around to exit the ship. "If he wants to ally himself with these monkeys, then he'll suffer the consequences of doing so."
The right side of Frieza's body had been replaced with mechanical parts after the encounter with Zyleth. Every time he caught a glimpse of his metal appendage, all the anger came flooding back as if it had all just happened to him.
Rising from the confines of his ship, Frieza raised his index finger and quickly formed a large Supernova.
"HYAAAAAAAAH!" Frieza yelled out with a deranged smile as he pointed down, sending the Supernova down towards Planet Vegeta.
The Supernova ripped through the planet's atmosphere, the clouds near its vicinity evaporating from the extreme heat. On the surface, crowds of Saiyans could be seen looking up towards the sky, unable to look away from their impending doom.
The Supernova crashes into the planet, tearing through the crust and pushing through to the planet's core. Cracks appear on the surface, the planet breaking apart until it explodes into a ball of fire.
Frieza looks on, laughing maniacally as he watches the number on his Scouter reduce at a alarming rate before it finally hits zero.
"I for one feel so much better now." Frieza says.
"Well that's good. Wouldn't want you feeling stressed." A sarcastic voice sounded out from behind Frieza.
Hearing the familiar voice, Frieza slowly turned around and saw the object of his ire. The lowly Saiyan child that had humiliated him so.
"You..." Frieza seethed.
"Me." Zyleth said simply before extending his arm and swiping his hand downward.
Frieza suddenly felt himself pinned against his hip, unable to stand or even move his body.
"So, how've you been?" Zyleth asked as he sat beside the pinned Emperor, removing the Scouter that was on his ear. "Ooh, nice Scouter, is it new?"
"You wretched beast! Release me this instant!" Frieza yelled.
"What, so you can go into your final form and kill me? Oh no, I'm not that stupid. I wouldn't stand a chance against you if you managed that." Zyleth replied before crushing the Scouter in his hands.
That was an obvious lie, but he couldn't have Frieza going off to train. That would be very disastrous to his health at this point in time.
"So how's the family? Your father doing alright?" Zyleth asked with a smirk that infuriated Frieza even more.
Frieza glared at the child, his eyes turning bloodshot as he struggled to get up so that he could rip Zyleth limb from limb.
"That's good." Zyleth said before looking towards his destroyed homeworld.
Seeing the direction of which Zyleth turned his gaze, Frieza smirked and said, "Oh? Feeling a little homesick, monkey?"
Zyleth turned his gaze back towards Frieza, his eyes empty of all emotion. As he stood up, he plunged a ki blade right through Frieza's back.
"AAAAAH!" Frieza yelled out.
"Got anymore jokes?" Zyleth asked, kneeling down and plunging the blade deeper, twisting it ever so slightly. "Whatever, it doesn't matter. I'm just here to give you a message."
Zyleth leaned down and whispered into Frieza's ear. "You're going to die."
He then disappeared as if he was never there, leaving the so called "emperor" to stew in even further humiliation and torment.
"Damn you..." Frieza said through gritted teeth before yelling towards the heavens. "DAMN YOU!!!"
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