Timely Arrival

2: Violent Saviour

Chapter 2: Violent Saviour

Bardock flew closer, and noted the familiar armour worn by Frieza's army.

'Each guy's lost a shoulder plating. That's a dumb design choice,' he idly observed.

"Bahaha, utter weaklings! Flee!" a goon up ahead guffawed.

The goon felt a hand on his armoured shoulder.

"Seems like you guys lost your fashion sense. Allow me!" Bardock yelled and tore off the shoulder pad, and kicked the goon hard in the back. The goon scrambled back to his feet and aimed his blaster at Bardock.

Bardock leaned forwards, "And what do you think you're gonna do with that, weakling?"

"You! Where did you come from?! You're wearing armour like ours-"

He was swiftly disarmed... in two different ways. Bardock twisted an arm and broke it, then shot the goon's blaster to bits before hitting him square in the chest. Onto the next one.

Luckily the next one was found sooner than he anticipated since the fella had been watching the whole interaction close by.

"W- Wait! Why are you-"

Bardock grabbed his wrist so tight it effectively cut off the blood flow. "I think I've got a great reason why. Anyone working under Frieza, Chilled or the like will suffer for what they did to the Saiyans!"

"The Saiyans-? Guahhhh!"

The goon met the same fate as the other.

"Anyone else?!" Bardock yelled.

Two more troopers entered the fray and were promptly given their promised fate. After a bit of silence, save the crackling of fire nearby, a green man slowly approached him. Bardock turned towards him.

"You... You dealt with those fiends, am I correct? Thank you. We owe you a great debt." The stranger bowed, before turning to look at his deceased brethren sorrowfully. "Though it is a pity your arrival wasn't a little sooner..."

Another of his kind rounded the corner from his hiding place and his face seemed to light up.

"You saved us again! Son Goku! You are Son Goku!" the younger male declared, pointing at him.

"Son Goku? I'm not this 'Son Goku'." Bardock eyed him with his brows lowered.

"You're... you're not? Then..." The younger peered at the older villager before asking the stranger, "Who are you exactly? Why are you here?"

"Name's Bardock. I dunno how I got here. Also, you're saying that I look like this 'Son Goku'? He some kind of friend o' yours?" Bardock crossed his arms, looking to the older man.

The older villager responded, "He's our saviour. He and his friends helped save our entire race from annihilation."

Bardock crossed his arms, taking the information in.

The older one went on to say, "Allow me to explain. But first, let us introduce ourselves. My name is Tsuburi, and this is Cargo. There are two more of us around here named Esca and Necke. Oh, how I wish they had been with the Elder before all this started..." Tsuburi sighed. He then asked, "Son Goku came from a planet called Earth. Do you know of it?"

"Earth? I do." Tsuburi had Bardock's full attention.

"Right. Well, he and his friends saved our entire race from annihilation a decade or so ago, when an alien tyrant descended on our old planet, named Frieza."

"Frieza?!" Bardock gawked. "Did he and his allies take down Frieza?!"

"Yes. Frieza was stopped on our old home planet and we all evacuated successfully thanks to them. Our numbers are small, so it was easy to accommodate us elsewhere, you understand."