Chapter 27 - 24: What Could Be Worse, Joining Hands With The Enemy Or Having Your Planet Blow Up? (1/2)
”The leader of the Cold Force, His Imperial Majesty Great King Cold has arrived!”
After Kikono announced the arrival of King Cold, a cold glint streaked across his eyes. Seeing alien presences were not unknown to the Saiyans. Saiyans were a warrior race that conquered other planets by eliminating all lifeforms that posed a threat to the highest bidders who would buy out the planet. However, it was the first time an alien race stepped foot onto the Saiyan's planet. If one were to speak of the Tuffles, this planet was originally their home world and the Saiyans eliminated the last of them only last year, changing the planet's name from Planet Plant to Planet Vegeta. The Saiyans could have sold this planet as well and moved somewhere else but after the Tuffles took them in out of pity, the King decided to settle on this planet. They were a small group after all since their home planet, Sadala was destroyed due to internal conflict, and the Tuffles didn't think the Saiyans would do much, but boy were they ever so wrong about that.
An arrogant look appeared on King Cold's face. He saw several dozens of Saiyans. A few appeared to be scared just by his presence alone, while some appeared confused, but most of the other elites who've gathered from the high class district were rather angry. Some even started to curse at King Cold.
”How the hell could we let someone invade our city without notice!?”
”Did ya think he would take us for fools? Sure he might be giant but we still got our pride damn it!”
”But he declared himself as an Emperor...Doesn't that rank him higher than our King?”
As anger and confusion spread out through the present Saiyans at the docking bay, blue veins appeared on the right side of King Vegeta II's forehead. He then took a couple steps and raised his voice to calm down the clamor.
”SHUT UP!”
After hearing their King raise his voice in anger, cold shivers went down the spines of the present Saiyans. After calming down, the non-combatants that were maintaining the docking bay slowly backed away, while the elite guards took defensive stances forming a circle around King Vegeta II, Nao and Miya. Nao also regained his senses from being in a stupor and he then had a direct look at King Cold. His whole appearance appeared the same from what he could remember and after another second he felt a tug from his back, only to feel Miya gripping onto him. He then heard Miya whisper into his ear.
”Brother, the energy of this guy is so dense...I'm scared...”
”Shhh, Miya. We will need to get used to this type of energy sooner or later. We can only hope he doesn't kill us right here...”
Nao brought Miya closer to him with his right arm and tried to shield her from King Cold's vision, which he probably knew it wouldn't work out but he still decided on doing it anyways. King Cold's stature was imposing to the current Saiyans around him and his eyes then laid on the old Saiyan who raised his voice, only to see two small children behind him surrounded by a group of guards. Seeing this piqued his interest but before he could say anything else, he saw the old Saiyan in front of the two children approach him.
”So you must be that damn Frost Demon that's been terrorizing the planets in our region, huh?”
”Hoh, so you know of me? I thought you Saiyans were all just dirty monkeys. Seems some of you possess enough intelligence. Do you know the reason why I've come here then?”
”Tch, is that how other races see us as? Us Saiyans have our own methods of gathering intelligence, so you don't need to worry about that. From the way you brought your whole army here, even a damn fool could take a guess at what you want from us.”
”Well, you Saiyans claim yourself to be the strongest in the galaxy so I've personally come here to test the waters but what I've seen thus far is rather disappointing you see. You seem to be the leader around here. It's rather intriguing you are trying to protect two children. Care to explain?”
”Humph. This King doesn't need to explain it to the likes of you. You only care about the final decision of whether we join you or not right? Why concern yourself with these two brats?”
Hearing that Nao and Miya were being mentioned to King Cold, the two tensed up a bit. However he saw King Cold turn his head toward the small yellow alien besides him.
”Kikono, go fetch a scouter for me. Our database only details that Saiyans are born brown yet here are these two Saiyans with white and red hair. Maybe this planet won't be such a bore after all.”
”As you wish, Your Imperial Majesty.”
Kikono's eyes turned wide after receiving an unexpected order, but he immediately gave a bow and swiftly entered the ship. At the same time more anger appeared on King Vegeta II's face and his right hand eventually formed a fist. He then turned around only to see a tense Nao and a shivering Miya.
”Nao, Miya, don't tell me you two brats tried to sense that bastard's energy?”
Hearing a sudden question, Nao, who was still staring at King Cold with a blank stare, finally realized the situation at hand. He then turned to look at King Vegeta II only to see his usual angry expression.
”We did...Your Majesty. It's a lot more fearsome than I expected. His power might even be beyond 15 times that of our current strength. That's only in his base form too...”
However just as he finished saying that last part, Nao immediately put his hands over his mouth. Nao only whispered this so King Cold couldn't hear it but it was still clear enough to be heard by King Vegeta II and he became confused for a bit as he heard a word that he was not familiar with.
”Base form? Nao, are you saying that bastard still has hidden strength up his sleeves?”