Unexpected Happiness (Vegeta x Goku)

Chapter 9

Bardock walked in one of the many conference rooms in the palace where Nappa, Raditz, and Brolly were already present. All that was missing was the king and his mate. It was a smaller party than one would have thought in planning a rescue operation for the prince, but King Vegeta thought that the less people that knew, the better.

The alpha gave a respectful nod to the others in the room, and all but Raditz returned the gesture. Bardock held back a sigh over that. He knew that his eldest son blamed him for Kakarot's disappearance, and the green clad saiyan couldn't hold it against him. He blamed himself as well.

His alpha son was angry and hurt after all these years, and their relationship was strained at the best of times. More than once had guards been called to help break apart fights that had broken out between the two. Now it was perhaps once every few months that Bardock saw his son.

"Gentleman," Yasi's voice drew Bardock out of his thoughts, and he felt his nerves act up at the sight of his rulers. "Thank you all for coming. I hope that we can proceed in finding my son now that we don't have to deal with the windbags in the Council."

Chuckles came from around the room that the general didn't share in. He had a handheld device in his hands that he kept glancing at periodically, and he felt unsure if he should bring up what he had despite the fact of the information was something that they needed.

"What do we know about the planet my son is on?" KV asked wanting to get started.

"Its small, the size of some moons honestly." Nappa input "All the data we have lists it as non important, a way station or medical facility of sorts. The planet is listed as 228 in the database, apparently barren of sentient life before it's conquest. Nothing of note in climate, mineral deposits, resources, nothing. Personally I don't get why the Colds even bothered with it."

"If the information I found is accurate, it's a research facility." Bardock said drawing everyone's attention. "Given the stable nature of the planet it certainly makes sense. Nothing to disrupt delicate procedures or risk exposing the facility short of invasion."

"For what?" Brolly asked cautiously.

"It's purpose is to allegedly produce better soldiers for Frieza's army. It's been in operation for some time, years even. From what I was told, he's also kept what goes on there quiet through rather forceful means which is why this is the first we've heard of it. I don't think it was coincidence Vegeta ended up there or that he was captured."

"You make it sound like his capture was planned rather than circumstantial." K. Vegeta said looking at his old friend.

"It might have been, just not for Vegeta." Bardock finally said. "I've looked over the reports and what I saw of the battle site, I don't think it was a coincidence there were 2 battalions of soldiers and members of the Ginyu force on a simple supply base. Frieza for whatever reason was gunning for a saiyan, and they got Vegeta purely by chance. He took the assignment last minute, and it was originally slated for a 2nd class demo team."

"You think Frieza wants to use a saiyan for his project." Raditz stated.

"It has to be a live subject for whatever he wants. Otherwise they'd have taken bodies from any of the conflicts in the combat zone. The set up on XR-56 was that for capture. Had a second class team gone they'd have been overwhelmed and either killed or forced to surrender if they couldn't transform." Brolly offered following the general's logic. "We'd have lost an entire team."