(last time)

“Are you sure you want to go through with this Usa?” Gohan asked, worried for his sister’s safety.

“Yes I’m sure, and don’t worry so much. I won’t be in any more danger than you.” She replied, reminding Gohan how she had managed to kick his but the day before even after all his training with Piccolo.

 

Usagi slowly opened her eyes and then turned to face Bulma with a smile,

“The shield is set, neither Gohan or Krillon will be able to sense your power level, or hear any noise we make,” she said happily.

“Good job Usa, we can’t let the guy’s be the only ones to train,” Bulma stated, then the two began to spar. Soon they were oblivious to everything but each other and their attacks.

Usagi threw herself into the exercises, all though Bulma wasn’t as strong as she was; it was still wonderful practice for her, on speed and agility. Bulma, her mother, and herself had also formed a blood bond of sorts one day during training. They had been sparring and the three had already taken numerous cuts, and by some chance one of each of their cuts happened to join together at the exact same time forming a bond between the three. The result was that it was easy for the three to communicate telepathically, and both Bulma and Chichi, had received the ability to hide their power levels so well that they could appear to have power levels weaker than even most humans if they chose. Also, Chichi and Bulma would be able to aid Usagi in a group attack, much like her Senshi would.

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Krillon and Gohan sat on the floor taking deep breaths; they had just had an intense work out and now taking a break. Suddenly, Gohan sat straight up and turned to Bulma and Usagi’s room.

“Hey, Gohan. Is something wrong?” Krillon asked, after Gohan’s sudden movement.

“I don’t know, It’s just that I can’t sense Bulma’s ki or anything in their room for that matter.” Gohan answered not turning his gaze from the door.

“You’re right Gohan, I can’t sense anything either. I hope they’re all right. Let’s go check.” Krillon answered, a frown of worry appearing on his face as he and Gohan got up and walked over to the door. Gohan knocked on the door and waited for an answer. Not getting one he knocked again and called to Usagi and Bulma.

Usagi and Bulma were in the middle of an attack when suddenly Usagi turned to the door and her face turned into to shock and then fear.

“Oh No! Krillon and Gohan are right outside the door and waiting for an answer from us!?” she shrieked immediately healing any cut’s and bruises she and Bulma had dealt each other. The two then quickly scrambled around the room picking up knocked over objects. Once this was finished the two quickly changed out of their training outfits and into pajamas, and leapt into bed, just as the door blew open.

“Usagi! Bulma! Are You All Right?!” Gohan yelled after using an energy beam to break down the door and rushing in, Krillon right behind him. Usagi and Bulma both sat up in bed, their hair a mess and turned to scowl at the two Z fighters.

“OF COURSE WE’RE ALL RIGHT!” Bulma yelled at them. “Why wouldn’t we be.”

“Well, ahhh, we couldn’t sense you’re ki anymore Bulma, and when you didn’t answer our knocking or yelling at the door; I guess we got a little worried,” Krillon said in their defense his hand behind his head.

“I put up a shied to block out all those noise the two of you make, when you spar,” complained a ‘still sleepy’ Usagi.

“Oh!” was all that came from Gohan who then turned a few different shades of pink. “Uh sorry about that Usa, Bulma.” He mumbled out. “And I guess we kinda broke the door too,” he said studying his feet.

 

Usagi, Gohan, Bulma, and Krillon looked around in awe. They had finally arrived and were now taking their first look at the planet’s green skies, and strange landscape.

“We made it. We actually made it to planet Namek,” Bulma said smiling brightly. Suddenly everyone froze.

“Wha …….Wha…..What is that!?” Bulma stammered out weakly.

“I d…d…don’t know,” Answered Gohan. “It’s much stronger than Vegeta.”

“Yah, No kidding,” Krillon said standing frozen in place.

“It’s him,” Usagi whispered.

“What do you mean Usa? Who’s him?” Bulma asked forgetting her own fear.

“It’s him, the one who arranged for the destruction of the Moon kingdom and Silver Millennium. It’s Freeza, a terrible tyrant who has been the cause of the destruction of numerous planets and people, completely wiping out many of them, that’s what he intended for my people. But thanks to my mother, Queen Serenity, I survived,” she said her voice taking on a hard edge that none of the others had ever heard before.

“That’s terrible,” Bulma whispered, a few tears gathering in the corners of her eyes.

“Well let’s get going then. We can’t let him get the Dragon Balls,” Krillon stated. Everyone nodded and Bulma pulled out her Dragon Ball radar.

“All right the first one is this way,” she said and pointed. Soon, all were in the air, Usagi forming a sort of bubble around herself and Bulma so that neither of the others had to carry her, and they began seeking out the first dragon ball.

“There is something going on just over that hill.” Gohan stated as they flew in the direction of the dragon ball. The group quickly dropped down and climbed up to the top of the hill and cautiously peeked over the edge. They stared in horror at what they saw.

 

“Tell me, now where is the dragon ball” a nasal and feminine sounding voice asked the group of Nameks.

“We’ll never give it to you,” the oldest of the Nameks replied.

“Well then, I guess I’ll just have to force it out of you,” the feminine voice stated. Usagi, Gohan, Bulma, and Krillon watched as the big blue skinned man that held a dragon ball blasted the Namek.

“NOOOOOOO!” Usagi screamed as the creature then aimed at a small boy. Gohan and Krillon quickly covered Usagi’s mouth while struggling to lower their power levels even more. Bulma just gaped and lowered her own power level unconsciously. They continued to watch what was going on.

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“Zarbon. What was that?” Freeza asked.

“I’m not sure Lord Freeza, I didn’t get any additional power readings, so it must have been one of the Nameks,” the blue skinned creature answered.

“I grow tired of waiting for an answer,” Freeza stated than shot out a blast killing three more Nameks, one of them a small boy, the other’s brother to be exact.

“All right, we will give you the dragon ball as long as you leave the rest of our people in peace,” one of the Nameks said speaking up.

“Fine then,” Freeza answered. The Namek disappeared into to a door way and then soon reappeared with a dragon ball in his hands. He walked over to Zarbon and handed it to him.

“Now leave us in peace,” the Namek said. Freeza just laughed and began killing all of the Nameks saving the other small boy for last.  Freeza was about to kill the young Namek when their was a blinding flash of white light. When they could see again, a young girl and boy stood in front of the Namek shielding him form Freeza.

“You WILL NOT kill any more of these people!” a very angry and pissed Gohan shouted. Freeza just stared at the two; a young boy with black hair and black eyes, dressed in an outfit like the Namek’s, and a young girl with long silver hair in a braid, a headband across her forehead, and wearing some sort of martial arts uniform in dark blue.

“Oh and I suppose two little kids are going to stop me,” Freeza said menacingly. The young girl studied him hard for a moment before answering.

“No, but a legend might,” she replied in a silvery voice that had a hard edge none could have expected from such a delicate looking creature. She then closed her eyes and before anyone else could move there was another brilliant silver flash and all three were gone. Freeza just growled.

“Dodorio, I want you to find those three brats and bring them to my ship. Then continue your search for the dragon balls. Zarbon, since you detected Vegeta landing I want you to go after him and bring him back to my ship, then you also will continue your hunt for the dragon balls. Now the rest of you go find the dragon balls and then report back to my ship where I will be waiting.”

“Yes Lord Freeza,” was the unanimous answer he received before each of them bowed and took off. Freeza then took his now five collected dragon balls and returned to his ship.

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“Usagi and Gohan! If you two ever do that again I swear I will make sure Chichi doesn’t let you train for a year!” Bulma shrieked at the two eight year-olds that were busily studying their feet.

“I’m sorry Bulma-san, it’s just that I couldn’t let Freeza completely wipe out the Nameks like he almost did to my people as well as the Sayians and numerous others,” Usagi said softly raising her head with crystalline tears softly falling down her cheeks.

“Oh Usa,” Bulma said softly before pulling the young girl in to a hug while she let out her fear and frustration in tears. Her anger satisfied with the lecture and Usagi’s apology, she then turned to the young Namek boy, who stood behind the other two, his face a complete look of shock and confusion.

“Now who might you be?” Bulma asked.

“Uhh…. My name is Dende. But who are you? You aren’t from Namek, and if you’re not with Freeza, then why are you here?” the young Namek replied.

“My name is Bulma Briefs, but you can just call me Bulma. The bald short guy is Krillon…”

“Hey, do you have to pick on me?!” Krillon interrupted at Bulma’s description.

“Oh keep your pants on. This cute little guy is Gohan, and this is Usagi. She’s really the one who rescued you back there.” Bulma said finishing the introductions.

“We’re here for the dragon balls so that we can wish some of our friends back to life.” Gohan then said, answering the second question.

“It looks like we’ll also have to keep Freeza form getting them and making a wish, or who knows what he’ll do,” Usagi said after wiping the last remaining tears from her face.

“Oh. Well thank you for rescuing me, I just wish some of the others had escaped.” Dende said softly looking back in the direction of the village.

“Well I hate to break this up. But we need to get going or one of those guys will find us and then we may really have problems. Usagi can’t continue to keep teleporting, or she’ll use up all her strength,” Krillon stated, not wanting to get caught, especially since he sensed someone coming their way.

“Hey, I have an idea. Why don’t we find somewhere for Bulma and Usagi to hide, that way if we’re in trouble, we can just contact Usagi and hopefully she’ll be able to get us out of their and to safety.” Gohan said, also making a good excuse to keep the two of them safe.

“I know! We can take them to Guru’s. They should be safe their, besides, Guru has one of the Dragon Balls,” Dende said happy to be able to help these people who had saved his life. Besides he could tell that they all had good hearts, especially Usagi and Gohan.

 

“What is going on here?” Dodorio grumbled to himself, his scouter kept trying to lock onto an area of absolutely zero. “It just doesn’t make sense, Everything gives off a bit of a reading so why is there an area of zero. I better check this out. Wait a minute, what is that strong force coming my way it can’t be Zarbon……... IT’S Vegeta!” he exclaimed. Quickly he flew down and received another shock, in the area that was reading zero, there were five people, three of them, the ones that Freeza had sent him after.  “Well, well, well. What do we have here? Could it be the very three brats that I would be looking for,” he said smirking as he moved closer.

“Congratulations, so you found us.” The girl said, then with a wave of her hand there was a silver glow and Dodorio’s scouter began to pick up their power levels. ‘Hmmm, they were under some sort of shield. All of their levels are pretty low, but I still can’t pick up anything on that girl.’

“Now be good Brat’s and come along nicely. Lord Freeza is waiting.” Dodorio said in a terrible attempt of sounding sweet.

“Now, Now Marshmallow Head. Is that any way to speak to royalty?” a snide, but familiar voice asked from behind him. Dodorio turned to see Vegeta standing behind him with his arms crossed and a smirk on his face.

“What royalty monkey?” Dodorio replied, not impressed.

“You mean you haven’t met the Princess yet? I’m shocked. You do know that it is not wise to go around insulting the heirs of races that are much stronger than you. The Lunarian Princess can’t be pleased.” Vegeta replied snidely with a big smirk at the ugly pink creature’s reaction to this piece of information.

“You must have taken a severe blow to the head Vegeta. There are no Lunarians left alive, let alone the princess.” Dodorio answered back sounding quite annoyed.

“Really Vegeta-sama, do you have to spill it to everyone as to who I am, I would like to just live as a normal girl and not a princess for once yah know.” The young girl said speaking up again.

“WHAT!?!? YOU CAN”T BE LUNARAIAN!” Dodorio shrieked, then claming down. “It doesn’t matter, no little brat makes a fool out Freeza, or me. Besides the Lunarian race was nothing more than a hoax, the reason no one could sense their power was because they didn’t have any.”

“Oh you are even more of a fool than I thought.” Vegeta said still standing there with a smirk. Dodorio just glared at him until his attention was once again drawn to the silver haired girl. Who stood there her small hands clenched into fists and her eyes closed, her face pulled tight with anger and determination.

“First you go around attacking and killing innocent people. Second you work for an alien tyrant who doesn’t realize that he is creating his own death, and third. Third you mock me and MY People!” At the last statement her eyes flew open and a brilliant silver glow surrounded her. “It is people like you that cause others to grow-up with hearts and minds full of hatred and fear, instead of love and kindness. Now meet the fate you have created for yourself! Moon! Beam! Blaze!” She shouted and a brilliant beam of light shot out from her hands turning Dodorio to dust.

When this was finished, the glow slowly left her body and then she collapsed. Gohan immediately had her wrapped protectively in his arms, while the others still stood their amazed at what she had been able to do. Vegeta stared. ‘ No wonder Freeza feared her and her people; they are capable of using their emotions to increase their power. Then again, maybe that’s why he feared the sayians as well. Well I’m going to make sure that Freeza doesn’t destroy her, she can fix all the wrong that has been done.’ With these thoughts he then turned his attention back to the small group.

“We really should get to Guru’s, but neither Krillon or me can carry both Usa and you, Bulma, and Dende isn’t strong enough to keep up with us by himself. So how are we going to get there?” Gohan stated trying to come up with a solution to their problem, all four of them forgetting about Vegeta who now spoke up.

“I’ll carry the Princess to this location, I’m not going to let Freeza get a hold of her anymore them I would let him get the dragon balls.”

Gohan and Krillon just stared with expressions of complete shock, they had totally forgotten about him.

“NO WAY! You’ll Probably Kill HER!” Krillon yelled in shock and horror, causing Gohan to grip Usagi tighter.

“You fool! Did I Kill her on Earth! Either let me take her, or I will just take her from you and keep her with me,” Vegeta sneered at them and took a step closer to the group. “A Princess belongs in the company of other royalty, not with third class hybrids like you, kid.”

“Give me one good reason why we should trust you,” Gohan asked, his face set with a look of determination.

“Guys, I think we can trust him with Usagi. I don’t know if she told you, but Usagi told me everything that happened that day back on Earth when she first met Vegeta. He told her to stay alive. He’s not going to kill her,” Bulma stated, giving Vegeta a calm and calculated study, ‘ I’m right, just by hugging him that day she worked her magic on him, and he could no more hurt her than he could destroy the entire universe with a single thought, let alone kill her. No Usagi would be just as safe, if not safer in Vegeta’s care.’

“Are you sure Bulma?” Krillon asked not convinced.

“Yes I am. He couldn’t hurt Usagi anymore than Goku could.” Bulma replied while looking Vegeta in the eye. He only returned the stare. With this decided Vegeta took the unconscious Usagi from Gohan, then waited while Gohan picked up Bulma, and Krillon picked up Dende and they headed off. Unfortunately another one of Freeza’s lackeys had locked on to Vegeta and was soon on their trail.