Sudden Realisation! (27)

"Are all the Saiyans gathered?" Freiza asked imaptiently.

"All apart from Vegeta and Nappa, who you have instructed us to spare," Zarbon said matter of factly.

"Good! That arrogant prick will be the prince of the dead when I'm done with them," Freiza said laughing wildly.

"And as for Nappa...well Nappa probably wouldn't realise the Planet was blowing up even if he was on it," Freiza said remembering a particularly idiotic monkey.

"Oh! I forgot about Raditz!" Zarbon added.

"Who's Raditz?" Freiza asked, completely unaware of the last Saiyan.

"Someone unimportant," Zarbon said concisely, not bothering to explain from the beginning who the measly Saiyan was. Even if he did go into detail about the Saiyan it wouldn't matter anyway because the Saiyan was with Prince Vegeta, if he bothered to spare Prince Vegeta why would he go through such trouble for Raditz as unremarkable as he was?

"Wait a few more minutes and I will show you the most beautiful fireworks in the universe!" Freiza said, entering his pod.

Zarbon shuddered internally, while he couldn't deny the death of a planet was an attractive sight when it was described in such a manner it felt a lot more sadistic than he had first thought.

Zarbon pushed these thoughts to the back of his mind as continued with guard duty.

"King Vegeta!" Bardock said bursting through the Palace doors.

King Vegeta, his ministers and several elite soldiers were huddled around his throne, seeming to be discussing something before Bardock burst in.

"SHHHH!" A minister brought a finger to his lips before motioning for Bardock to take off his scouter.

The thought hit Bardock like a train.

'Freiza traced the Scouters!'

This meant that Freiza already knew that Bardock knew what he had planned for the Saiyans.

And he felt like it didn't matter.

Not needing to be told Bardock stomped the scouter, breaking it into several pieces and the others in the room sighed in relief.

"So you already know?" King Vegeta said, his face completely grim. He struggled to bring himself to look at Bardock.

Bardock was stumped.

"We need to tell the rest of the Saiyan people! Try to get as many people off Planet Vegeta as possible!" he said, emotion uncharacteristically showing in his voice.

King Vegeta sighed dejectedly.

A minister spoke out.

"You low-class dimwit! Don't you think we've already tried anything you monkey brain could have thought! How dare you-"

King Vegeta interrupted.

"Freiza ordered his men to sabotage our ships, most of my faction tried to escape but the ships blew up before they could escape with them inside. The only silver lining was that my wife was able to get away using her own custom pod." King Vegeta said bitterly.

Bardock was again incensed.

If what King Vegeta said was true, then he had basically written off all lower-class Saiyans to die in ignorance, trying to save his own family and friends over his people. Although, King Vegeta had failed it still irritated Bardock that King Vegeta didn't do so much as warn the rest of the population. Many Saiyans had flown back to Planet Vegeta only to die by Frieza's hand.

It was all but said at this point.

Bardock's grip intensified as he was filled to the brim with anger.

The situation was so idiotic in his eyes.

Many decisions could have been made in many places and the Saiyans would survive.

His anger boiled.

He hated himself for not being smart enough to see it earlier, he hated King Vegeta for his uncalled for selfishness but mostly he hated Freiza who oppressed the Saiyans for as long as he could remember.

Bardock stormed out of the Palace, with one clear goal in mind.

Killing Lord Freiza.

"W-Wait! We have a-" A minister pleaded.

Bardock turned a deaf ear to their cries and soared high into the sky, not even thinking before his body was encased transparent white ki.

His eyebrows narrowed and his countenance screwed as he let the rage inside of him build up.

"This will be the last time!"

Bardock personally had never heard how powerful Lord Freiza actually was but that seemed to be an afterthought in his mind as pure instinct drove him to fight Frieza. Freiza was in actuality a bogeyman-like figure who only really appeared seasonally and would talk down Saiyans for seemingly no reason. Apart from the fact that royalty complied with Freiza or his strange behaviour there was no real reason to fear him.

Bardock spotted Freiza's ship on the skyline, various troops posted up already lingering in the space between the ship and the Planet.

Seeing this Bardock's anger exploded as white ki poured out of his body in every direction, he wordlessly approached the soldiers blocking his way.

"Lord Freiza is busy, go back down to your planet," an alien said, smiling at Bardock.

Bardock stood wordlessly, eyes glaring fiercely at the first alien.

"He said to go back down! Or will I have to move you?" another alien said floating towards Bardock.

No response.

"You asked for this!"

Bardock didn't even waste his ki, his fist tearing through the soldier like paper.

"Kuaaah"

Foul green liquid drooled from the creature's mouth before he fell towards the ground below.

"Why you-"

Bardock got started, pounding the alien in front of him to paste, his anger not subsiding in the slightest.

"Hey! What's going on over-"

BONK!

Bardock's fist slammed violently into the alien, killing him instantly.

"KYAAAAAAAAHH"

Weak aliens like the ones Bardock was fighting now were completely disposable in the eyes of Lord Frieza, he used intimidation tactics and exploited the assumption that others thought all his soldiers were strong.

In reality, this was far from the truth.

Naturally, the higher-ups in Freiza's empire had much more to do than simple guard duty.

Bardock felt his ki on the urge of bursting and let out a feral grunt, alerting the enemies to his location.

Bardock then started his rampage, sending fists and kicks to anyone or anything that came his way slaughtering the aliens above.

"Wah? Leave him! Lord Freiza's going to blow up his planet anyway-"

A purple laser beam pierced the heart of the alien who spoke.

Bardock looked at the direction it had come from and found Freiza sitting in his pod with his finger extending.

"This is why I don't gossip Zarbon, word always gets around!"

Zarbon snickered as he watched the alien's body fall to the ground.