Unexpected Fate

The Training

Unexpected Fate

Chapter 02-The Training

It felt like all of the events leading up to this point were only yesterday. Bardock had witnessed the fall of his crew and had been left for dead to Dodoria on Mito-sei. It was before the attack that Bardock had vowed to his dying teammate to extract vengeance against Frieza.

The very attempt to stop Frieza however was all in futile and Bardock was sure at that time that he would definitely lose his life before he could even dare lay a finger upon the overlord. The sole survivor of the group of Saiya-jins that considered themselves an army of their own, Bardock thought back to the last day that Vegeta-sei still existed and wished that he had died then with the other countless lives lost when it was destroyed.

Now in this day and time, Bardock had awakened twenty-four years later. In the last several hours, he had been spirited away by a man named Scrix, told the fate of his eldest son and told that he could redeem himself by aiding his youngest that had no recollection of who he truly was. All of this seemed rather farfetched on the warrior that had once considered himself on par with Frieza before the overlord easily managed to deflect his blast with his own.

By this time Bardock had time to think about these events by himself, he had only made it a sixth of the way up the wall towards a mysterious destination that only Scrix knew about. More thoughts began to circulate through the warrior's mind and they were doubts about this mysterious person that had managed to bring him to this planet.

'What difference does it make now that I'm receiving this training?' Bardock thought silently to himself while Scrix waited on a cliff several meters above him. He felt his muscles ache from the climb he endured thus far and dug his hand into the stone-like wall before him. 'If he's so strong, why did he not intervene when the planet was doomed to vanish? Why did he just let them all die?'

Bardock suddenly felt disoriented and lost his grip. Falling towards the ground, he found he could not summon the chi to save himself. His mind currently was locked in a vision of his youngest son drowning beneath the surface due to Frieza. During this vision, Bardock felt himself falling deeper in the dark blue waters; almost to the point where he could not even see his youngest son's struggle anymore. Was Frieza murdering the son he had chosen not to associate with? If so, why was Frieza pulling such a cowardly trick making this warrior struggle for air he could not breathe?

Seconds before impact with the ground, a hand grabbed Bardock's wrist and the Saiya-jin warrior snapped out of the vision. Looking up, he saw Scrix holding his wrist like a lifeline. For a brief moment, Bardock blinked; trying to remember what he had been doing prior to this.

"Be more careful," Scrix warned. "You're lucky I happened to keep watch over you." Those words made Bardock remember suddenly and the weight upon his back confirmed what he had been doing prior to the vision. The warrior had been climbing the wall and wondered about this mysterious being named Scrix. So far, there was no proof that Scrix showed in being a god. If anything he was a pain to Bardock's side than anything else.

"Why didn't you protect the other Saiya-jin when Frieza was to destroy the planet?" Bardock accused Scrix. "If you are a god, then you have the power do you not?"

"Had I intervened, then the balance of life and death would have been greatly affected." Scrix began. "If I done so, another would have taken advantage of your people and you along with everyone would have still perish in time."

"You lie." Bardock snarled. He still hadn't accepted this man was a god and refused to believe a word that any other threats would come after him if Frieza had been taken out.