Ara's Wish

Untitled Part 4

"Do you have any idea what you've done, Vegeta?!" The saiyan king shouted at his son in the throne room. The younger of the alpha pair had his arms crossed with a scowl on his face. "You not only went to a party you were not invited to, but you made us look worse than the Colds! To a neutral planet with dozens of potential allies and clients!"

"Father-!"

"Do you know how I got the news?! Frieza came strolling in during my meeting with Cooler! You have embarrassed the entire empire with your actions! All over a woman!"

"I heard he tried to get her to leave Turles first." Tarble muttered off to the side as he watched his older brother get a dressing down. His brother shot him a look of murder.

"This was Turles' woman!?" The older Vegeta shouted almost shrilly. "Have you completely lost whatever sense you possess?! I can't believe you threatened his woman?!"

"It's not that big a deal, Father..." the younger alpha huffed as he crossed his arms over his chest. "Both of them are exiles. They have no influence over the empire." The princes watched as their father stomped a couple of steps away and started to pace. "And how the hell did you find out about that, Tarble?"

"Oh, my friend Bulma from Earth was invited to the party." The beta prince smiled innocently at Vegeta. "She called and told me all about it. She heard the whole story from Ara who she made friends with. You left a nasty bruise on her wrist, and Bulma saw it."

"This is unacceptable, Vegeta." The king whirled around to face his eldest. "If the woman was an exile, why were you even looking at her to begin with!?"

"I wasn't going to mate her!"

"Even more reason to have not bothered them!" Vegeta shouted at his son. "She obviously is close enough to Turles to know his history and not care. Claimed or not you should have known better than to interfere. That Turles is publicly appearing with her on his arm at all, obviously means he's serious about her. Turles has more influence over the empire than you think. There is a reason why he's so difficult to capture. He and his crew have allies everywhere...everywhere, do you realize just what that means he could be capable of?"

His voice made the heir flinch from the volume. He glared at the older man in slight confusion.

"You are assigned to Red Gem until further notice, and you'll report to the captain for your duties."

"What!?" Prince Vegeta shouted on outrage. "That's a surveillance ship along the borders of our territory! And you're putting me under the command of a second class?!"

"Be thankful that's all I'm doing, you brat!" The king snarled making his alpha son back down a little. "I have half a mind to strip you of everything but you name for this incident! Perhaps a year or so on that vessel will straighten your attitude out! I suggest you pack, you're leaving in the morning. So help me if you disobey me, Vegeta, I will publicly disown you."

"Fath-"

"Not another word, Vegeta!" The elder prince growled and stormed out of the room leaving his father and brother behind as he slammed the door in anger.

"Was that really a good idea assigning him to the Red Gem, father?"

"There is almost nothing he can do to make the situation with Turles worse on that ship. The last thing we need is for Turles to decide he wants Vegeta dead. Your brother is one of the strongest saiyans to ever live, but even he isn't immune to poison or assassins."

"You don't think Turles would actually do that, do you?"

"Just because he helped you doesn't mean he's not an opportunistic bastard. If he tries to kill your brother over this woman, there wont be much I can do. Turles will have to be captured or killed if that happens. The empire won't stand for an exile murdering the crown prince."