Chapter 3 - The Enemy
"Is he awake yet?"
"I don't know."
"Is even alive..?"
"Yes. We've already established this a few hours ago."
Two figures chatter back and forth between each other in the small building of Planet 4019. They stand in front of the newest creation, the "Matter Reconstruction Device". Inside of this machine, a shadow appears to be suspended in liquid.
"You should know by now that I zone out a lot!" argues the taller one.
"Well maybe if you'd listen a bit more you could know these things already!" responds the shorter one.
These two beings were known as "Bakun" and "Suire", two loyal henchmen to the Planet Trade Organization. Bakun is the tall one, with bright yellow skin. Bakun is a good soldier, but not a smart one. Suire, on the other hand, is short, with a blue-ish green and scaly skin. Suire is the opposite of Bakun when it comes to personality, he's not a very good soldier, but he's definitely smart. Many soldiers are baffled at how much they bicker but yet they two work together so well, and how they became best friends so quickly.
*BEEP*
Suire looks down to the control panel, seeing the green light going off. "Ah, he's ready to come out now." Bakun turns to his friend.
"What took you so long?" Bakun asks. Suire's eye twitches slightly.
"It's not up to me when he's ready to come out. It's entirely up to the machine and him." Suire then looks down to the panel, "Releasing him... now." Suire announces, as he presses one of the buttons.
Inside the machine, the liquid begins to drain out of it, as it slowly opens. After a moment, a creature steps out of the machine. Almost immediately, the two soldiers stand at attention, and salutes the figure. The figure is still for quite a moment, before the creature slowly looks to the two at his left.
"Who are you two..?" The creature asks.
Before Suire could say anything, Bakun beats him to it, "I am Bakun, and this here is Suire. We are soldiers of the POTATO." All grows silent for a moment, as the creature stares at them. Suire reaches up and bonks Bakun upside the head.
"He means the PTO. The Planet Trade Organization, sir." Suire corrects. Bakun shakes his head clear from the stars floating around his head, and stands at attention again.
"PTO eh?" The creature again questions.
"Sir, yessir!" The two respond in unison.
The creature turns his head forward to think for a moment, before turning it back to the two. "What happened? Why am I here?"
Suire answers this time, "All will be explained once we get you to the rehabilitation center, sir."
"No. When I ask for information, I expect to receive information on the spot. Why am I here?" The creature says loudly.
"Yessir..." Suire answers. "You and your men were killed about one year ago by someone on the planet 'Earth'. Reports and gathered intel say that you were somehow sent into the star of that solar system. This theory is backed as well by the fact that the DNA sample we took was near the star."
The creature looks forward, "Ah.. I remember it now... What has happened since my departure?"
Suire answers again, "Well, King Cold had found Frieza near the ruins of Planet Namek, and had rebuilt him as a cyborg. They departed to planet Earth, the same one you went to, in search of a rogue Saiyan that had nearly killed Frieza. This Saiyan is presumed to the be the one that killed you. But..."
"But what?" The creature asked.
"But we've lost contact with their ship and their scouters months ago. They're both presumed dead, and the Organization almost fell apart." Suire answered sadly.
Silence fills the air again as they all grow mute. After a few moments, the creature begins to walk forward, and out of the room. Bakun and Suire scramble to follow him. Suire speaks, "S-sir, the rehabilitation center is the other way!" The creature responds without turning back.
"I'll be perfectly fine without it." It says. Suire looks up to Bakun, who then shrugs.
"Yessir..." Suire says.
The creature speaks again, "Where is the closest radar center?"
Suire responds, "It's just down this hall and to the left, sir."
The creature heads in the given directions and finds the room, it walks into it and up to a monitor. Shortly after, the two enter the room, and stand behind him. The creature begins to push buttons as the radar goes to work. A few moments pass by as the creature watches the monitor. The silence quickly goes to Suire's head, after a few minutes, and says aloud.
"What are you doing sir?" Suire says.
The creature remains silent. A few more moments pass by and Suire asks again, "What are you doing, sir??" Again though, no response. Suddenly, the creature rises as the machine continues to search.
"So I've been wondering, you said I was killed, correct?" It asks.
Suire responds, "Uh.. well.. yes, I did."
"Then how am I here?" It questions again.
"Well, for the past month or so, what's left of the Planet Trade Organization has been hard at work trying to find a way to bring someone back to lead us. After a while, they finally came up with a device. It's similar to our healing pods, only all you need is a bit of DNA. Once the DNA is added, it begins to reconstruct the person, which happens to be you. Sadly though, it can only do this once, because it requires a special fluid and other essentials that we ran out of building the machine." Suire explains.
"Then why not bring back King Cold?" The creature asks.
Suire responds, "Because King Cold was not a good ruler, all he would do is sit around and pamper Frieza all day long. He is not fit for the title of 'King'."
The creature gives a simple "Hm.." as a response.
*BEEP*
The creature and the two henchmen look down to the monitor. The monitor shows Sector Alpha-2497 of the East Galaxy, planet 40N3. The creature points to the location, "There. There he is. I know he is. I can feel it." The creature turns and begins to walk out of the room. The two henchmen follow him into the corridor. "Bakun?"
Bakun stands at attention, "Yessir?"
"Have a ship ready in 5 minutes with those coordinates locked in." The creature commands.
"Sir, yessir!" Bakun replies, and he begins to head off in the other direction.
Suire looks up to the creature, "But sir, what are you going to do?"
"Oh-ho-ho, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to go to that planet and kill that hairless ape that calls himself a 'Super Saiyan' and avenge my family as well as myself. Then I'm going to rid that rock of all of its life and sell it off to get our-... I mean, my business up and running again." The creature says. The figure and Suire finally reach the exit to the building and step out into the light. The creature appears to be mostly purple, but with a white chest, head, and gauntlets. He also has a long tail protruding from his backside, as well as a large blue stripe on his head, and red stripes going down from his eyes.
"B-but Lord-" Suire is then cut off by the creature holding up one of his hands.
It speaks, "No.. no no. From this day forward, I am no longer a 'Lord'. That title has no meaning to me anymore. No, I need something more, something bigger. Something that my father apparently couldn't hold, nor did he deserve." He walks forward a bit, "From this day forward I shall be known as..." He then sneers and opens his maroon-colored eyes.
"King Cooler"
To be continued.....