Dragon Ball: The Saiyan Ascension

Chapter 1: The calm before the storm

Age 770 - Frieza Planet #79

A storm was brewing across the universe, after the Frieza empire established itself as the greatest power of the universe, they expected only glory, instead, it has been experiencing a slow decline, with rebellions sprouting everywhere, the galactic patrol ready to attack and tensions rising as the saiyan empire continued growing bolder after their independency.

And now, with the revelation that all those rebellions were connected and led by a single man, a saiyan, tensions were at a breaking point, and the king was summoned for a meeting with the emperor on his palace.

"I assume you already know what the subject of this meeting is about, the revelation that the leader of the rebellion plaguing my empire is a disgusting monkey." Said the emperor, his rage-filled gaze making the king tremble "It was already enough shame for me when I was forced to reveal my true form, due to these rebels, and now, to know that one of you, is causing all of that, you have a lot of explaining to do."

"M-My lord, I assure you, we have no relation to the leader of the rebellion" Said King Vegeta, his voice shaking as he bowed "It was just as shocking for us to discover a saiyan would be behind all of this, I speak for all saiyans when I say that we are sor-"

"You speak for none father! the saiyan empire owes no apology." Prince Vegeta angrily shouted, cutting off his father "The traitorous bastard has been away for decades, he was believed dead, Frieza's empire is just as guilty for not finding out about him as we are."

The king immediately gasped, he looked over to Frieza expecting anger, but the emperor laughed "You really should start controlling your son better, Vegeta, he practically already dominates these meetings, if it continues like this, soon we might not be needing you anymore"

"We are already looking into it, we believe one of our generals might have been feeding him information, we will be holding his trial soon" The grand general, Nappa, stated "You do not need to worry about our allegiance to you, emperor, we will provide you the spy soon."

Frieza exhaled "Sometimes I regret giving you saiyans more autonomy, in the past I would've just killed this pathetic excuse for a king and captured that spy myself" Frieza said with a scowl in his face "Bring him to me as soon as possible, and I better see results." the three saiyans where then dismissed from the room.

"You should've known better than to disrespect me and the emperor like that, Prince! Do you want to get us killed?!" the king angrily shouted at his son.

"And you should know that he can't, we do not need to bow to him anymore father, to lower your head at his presence is a dishonor to our race! We have the power to be independent from him! To challenge him!" the prince answered back to his father, energy flaring up as he got angrier.

"You do not know what you are talking about, boy, his power still greatly eclipses ours!" the king also powered up in response to his son, although, in his old age, he was considerably weaker "Continue acting like that and you will doom us all in a war against Frieza!"

"Maybe a war is just what we need!" The prince shouted back

"If you truly think that, then I have failed you, boy, we are not ready for that!" Said the King.

"Calm down you two, we have to get the prince to his meeting with the spy." Nappa said, trying to alleviate the tension.

As requested, they both lowered their energy as they calmed down, the father and son then parted ways without saying another word to each other.

The prince and the general sat on their ship, heading course to planet Vegeta for the trial of the spy.

The prince was furious due to his father's actions, and Nappa was the only one who could deal with the prince's outbursts.

"I can't stand him anymore Nappa! that old fool prefers to remain a submissive puppet of Frieza instead of showing our might! He's shaming the saiyan race! Our pride!" The prince shouted at Nappa, letting out all of his anger on the general.

"I understand you, Vegeta, right now would be the perfect time to strike, but he just refuses to see reason, still stuck in the old days when we had no freedom under the empire." Said Nappa.

"We can try and deal with him later, now, about that spy." Vegeta said, as he picked up the files of the case, but by reading over them, Vegeta only got angrier "This is all bullshit! we've known him for years, the idea of working against the empire would never even cross his mind!"

"Frieza is trying to show his dominance, the accusations against him are slim." Nappa commented.

"Letting him die in an unfair trial like this would be a disgrace, we need to do something about this." Said Vegeta.

"You know Vegeta, the people do need a hero." The general looked over to the prince, a sly smile spreading across his face "And he is already loved by the low class, we can definitely use his help"

"Oh Nappa, it's rare to see you use that brain of yours for something good, I'm sure he wouldn't refuse to help an old friend." Vegeta answered, now a lot calmer as he planned for what they would do.

"Wait, what do you mean by that? I can use my brain a lot, that's why I became grand general!" Nappa said, clearly very proud of himself.

Vegeta looked over to the general with a deadpan expression on his face "You know you're only on this position due to your relation with my father, right?"

"What!? Of course not! I'm good at what I do!" Nappa answered.

"Goddamnit Nappa, I don't have the time to explain this to you, focus on our plan for now." Vegeta said, as he now continued looking over the files. "If we can get his help, then maybe soon Frieza will be bowing to us, and the saiyan race will show our might to the universe!"