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Goku woke up on the on his back looking up upon the stars, so bright and so beautiful. But the moment was short lived when when two figures run past him with a screaming child. Goku gets up from the ground more people pass him some coming towards him, then there's other running to the left and right. He heard screams in the far distance, people speaking in a language that is not familiar to him but understood every word.
"TI SYMVAINEI!" One shouts.
"POU EINAI III BASILIAS!" Another shouts running past Goku towards a giant castle.
"What...HEY! Why are you running to the castle?" Goku tries to stop one of the figures but ended up following him instead.
"Prepei an fygeis, VIASOU PRIN PRIN PETHANEIS KI ESY!"
And then the figure ran off. Deciding to not go towards the castle Goku turns around to head the other way.
Goku starts running towards where the shadowy figures are coming from from. And the closer Goku got to the source the more he felt the ground rumble. The sky a dark shade of red fire falling from the sky or are those burning soldiers?
Running past the large crowd of frightened people Goku couldn't help but notice how they faze right through him. But he can't think about that right now he needs to help save these people. The area around him started open up and warp around him, forest trees started to swirl around him. Red grass turns to turquoise and the shadows of beings with long tails turn taller, less saiyan. More Piccolo like. "What's the hell is happening." As Goku ran out to the clearing ahead the ground below him cracked and and pools of hot lava come up from the deep. The darkened sky scrawled and thunder with powerful light.
Goku could feel the heat of the lava burn through his shoes he had no choice but to fly up. Looking down upon the ground he sees all destroyed and on fire, Goku expected to hear the screams and cries of many but it was oddly void of that. Well almost void, he heard someone, something, laughing manically behind him. He turned around and sees some sort of lizard thing heavily damaged, its finger tip glowing with a Ki blast ready.
"AND NOW YOU SHALL DIE ALONGSIDE THIS PLANET GOKU!"
Goku blocked with his bare arms but there was no pain, in fact there was no impact on his arms. As Goku looked out from underneath his arms he saw a sight for sore eyes, him.
Or at least he think it's him, his face was shadowed over and it's hairs flowing in pale golden flames. Of course his old gi pants are on him but there heavily torn and is missing a boot.
"Uuuhh..... hel..lo?"
The figure didn't move, Goku reached a hand out questions if he needs medical help.
The figure pointed at Goku, or well past him. The ground once covered in lava had become normal once again, albeit dead.
As he looked around confused out of his mind, there were corpses on the ground. All his friends and family. Krillin, Yamaha, Tien, Chiaotzu. Everyone.
Is this a nightmare, it has to be a nightmare.
"This world... its dying.... fix it.... right the wrongs.... prevent this future."
"I.....What?!" Light blasts through the sky blinding Goku in the process. He can hear someone calling out to him.
"NO, what do you mean fix this? How am I to... to fix this?"
The speed of the wind picks up, Goku can feel the world around him swirling about.
The fiery figure speaks again in a booming voice. "I am part... of your fate. We shall.... meet again when war... is at its most... devastating point."
"What do you mean devastating..." the wind picks up even harder, almost like he's in the middle of a tornado. As a light from the sky shines bright engulfing everything in harsh light.
Vegeta walks towards Kakarots room the ship is about to start landing procedure soon and wants him to be strapped in. But as he walked in through the door Kakarot is flipping side to side on his bed and murmuring in his sleep. "A nightmare?"
Vegeta sets down his betrothed gi and goes to wake him from his nightmare, it was a light jostling at first but when that didn't work he tried jostling Kakarot a bit harder while lightly tapping his cheek. But that didn't work either.
"It's no use, forgive me for this my dear." Vegeta picks up Kakarot bridal style and brings him to the nearest washroom and gently placing him in the tub, all while ignoring the shouting of others asking what is gong on.
As he grabs a cup and fills it up with cold water, Vegeta is silently hoping he doesn't get mauled in the face when he does. Vegeta gets up close to his betrothed splashes the water onto his face.
Goku awakes with sudden shock with a figure up close to his face, with fight or flight kicked into full force Goku picks fight. Vegeta didn't even have time to react, with one swift punch to his face there came an audible crack.
!!CRACK!!
Goku peaked his eyes open, to see the damage he did only to be horrified that the figure that he punched was his fiancé, Prince Vegeta.
"OH GODS, Vegeta I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to!"
Vegeta struggled to sit up right on the the wall. "Hngh it's all right... it's my fault for startling you." Vegeta was covering his nose trying and failing keep the blood from seeping through.
"Oh.. Vegeta your bleeding let me see the damage." Pulling Vegetas stained hands away from his nose, taking note he owes his fiancé new gloves.
Goku went to open the mirror to retrieve the medical box. "Honestly how do put up with all the antics I put you through." Goku is all embarrassed, he's been startled awake before but never reacted like just now.
Vegeta finally started to catch his breath, gets up off the ground somewhat flustered, he had never been hit like that before. "I've been through worse, this is nothing."
"Dammit there's nothing but bandaids in here."
Krillin and Bulma were absolutely dumb founded one minute Vegeta was walking to Goku's room to hand deliver Goku's gi. The next Vegeta is carrying Goku to the bathroom.
Bulma walked up the bathroom door concerned as all hell, because she heard a loud crash come from there.
*knock, knock*
Goku... Vegeta, is everyone all right in there?"
The door opens up slightly with Goku in the doorway still in his navy shirt and boxers. "Heeeeeeyy Bulma, you wouldn't just happen to have a surgical sewing kit would you?"
Bulma crosses her arms slightly frustrated that Goku would ask such a question. "What did you dooooo?" Matching Goku tone mockingly. As she peaks into the bathroom to see what is happening Krillin is already digging through Bulma bag to get the kit.
"OH MY GODS GOKU!!" Bulma's shriek was enough to shake the wall.
After several minutes of searching through her many bags Bulma manages to find a med kit with surgical stitching inside and gives it to Goku. "Make sure to apply the anti-bacterial before and the second skin cream after your done ok?"
"I know, I know! You act like I haven't stitched up skin before." As Goku closes the door and look to the mess he made in the bathroom. Taking Vegeta back down onto the grounded begins to work.
It was awkwardly quiet, with the prince gasping every now and again as the needle plunged into his flesh. "So...what happened to your tail?"
"Had it removed, it was kind of getting in the way and training it all the time is a pain."
Vegeta face saddened a bit, no Saiyan should have their tail removed. "Do ever wish you had it back."
"Eh sometimes. What about you, do you wish you had your tail back?" Kakarot finished up the stitching and went to get more antibacterial from Bulma med kit.
"What do you mean? I still have my tail, see." Vegeta unfurls his tail that was around his waste revealing the dark brown neatly groomed appendage.
To Goku the tail was rather nostalgic, maybe he should his back, he really did miss having the appendage from time to time.
Wiping away the excess blood and dabbing some more antibacterial on the closed up wound Goku leave the bathroom to go change.
Piccolo sits quietly meditating in the pods chair. Deep into thought in order to unlock new strength, however this meditation was interrupted by an annoying beep.
*beep*beep*beep*
A holo screen pulls up with a request to answer a call, Piccolo who had nothing better to do decided to answer the call.
Prince Vegeta takes up most of the screen now with a stitching on his poor recovering nose.
"Ooooh, what happened my Prince, you look like someone put you through hell." Says Raditz as Nappa lightly chuckles at the sight of their powerful Prince.
Vegeta sighed heavily readying himself for more unwanted embarrassment. "It was Kakarot..."
You could here a pin drop with how silent it had gotten in those pods, the two Saiyans never suspected their future queen to pack such a painful punch on their Prince. As they all gawk at the poor Prince they hear Kakarot shout in the background.
"It was an accident alright I'm sorry!"
*ahem* "Anyway we'll be landing on planet Namek in about four and a half hours, how are you all doing on time."
Nappa pulls up some screens to see their time. "We're still on target, we'll be landing in about 30 minutes to an hour sire."
As Vegeta checks on the space map. He couldn't help but notice a much larger ship signal far away in the distance. Vegeta's heart sank in hopes that it wasn't those bastards. "Raditz look at that starship signal slight north to us."
Raditz scans the area closing in on the image, as the image starts to clear up his heart sank to.
"I regret to inform you my Prince but it appears to be the Ginyu forces ship."
"DAMMIT!" Vegeta slams his hands upon the control center ignoring the crowd of eyes that stared behind him.
"So freeza brought his lackeys, we can kill some lackeys."
Vegeta turns off the screen, and turns to look at the pairs of eyes that conveniently looked away. "Here's the thing, Frieza has called in...more reinforcements, slightly more powerful than the goons down there."
Krillin looks to Goku who appears to be very excited to fight even more bad guys, than just the assumed one big bad. "I don't think that's going to be a problem." Krillin has seen Goku fight to the very death even when they were kids, a few goons aren't going slow them down.
A foreign ship lands upon the land of Namek, as soldiers surrounded the ship already kneeling on the ground for the higher power inside.
The door collapsed to the ground as stairs formed from the former door. As footsteps can be heard coming down, it was Frieza. "Please tell me found something good, to call me down here is absolutely insulting to your emperor."
"Lord Frieza we found the artifact unfortunately it doesn't look like the Namekians will give it up without a fight. Awaiting your commands sir."
Frieza scorned look turned into a sick and twisted smile, "Did you now, how acceptable."
In a lone tall tree sits an elder and his attendee. Overlooking the large open window that stands before him. He senses a new source of power a power that just might be enough to defeat Frieza.
"It's seems the tides are turning, wouldn't you agree Nail.