Remember when Bardock was sent back in time to the planet "Vegeta" by the tyrant Frieza? What if he didn't go back in time, but just got sent to another planet. We all know what that planet is!
When Bardock found out about Friezas plan, he went, and failed in attempt to stop him. Though he wasn't killed, he was sent back in time by Frieza. What if he wasn't, but instead sent to another world. But as you may know, Frieza seeks to rule all of the galaxy. What if Frieza came to Bardocks new found home and destroyed it. Will Bardock avenge his race? Does he have the power to let go of his saiyan pride, and call this new land home? Can he defend it?
"Frieza!!" Bardock screamed his name as he almost literally tore through his soldiers. One by one more bodies continued to float through space. Bardock had went through a lot today, first he lost consciousness and found he could now see the future, the finding out that his son was an absolute disappointment due to his low power level, then he went to a planet and found his friends dead, after he found out that Frieza was going to betray his race and kill it, then the day got even worse when he tried to inform his race about the things he just found out, but noooooooo, they had to be a bunch, of STUPID RETARDS, who can't trust LIVING PROOF, that FRIEZA IS ON HIS WAY TO...
"Well Bardock, you finally made it to your funeral." Frieza said with a smirk on his face. "I have to say, I'm quite impressed by you Bardock. You managed to actually kill some of my elite soldiers. Too bad you'll be dead along with your planet before anyone will know.".
"That's enough Frieza!" Bardock yelled at Frieza with an incredibly defiant face. "We've had enough of you Frieza, and now I will stop you!" Bardock still looked at Frieza as a blue ball of energy began to form in his hand. "Now feel the wrath of the Sayain race!!!" Bardock threw the ball of energy as Frieza created a much larger ball of his own.
Frieza gave a loud laugh as Bardocks ball was simply absorbed by Friezas orb that continuously got bigger and bigger. Followed by Bardocks futile attempt to damage Frieza, he showed signs of fear with a deeply frightened face as he watched Friezas sphere of light grow at an alarming speed.
Still outspreading his bursting laughter, Frieza flicked the finger he was using to hold the ball forward. Bardock still stared in terror at the awesome sight that lay before him. 'Well, this is the end.' Bardock thought before his demise. 'I guess there will be no one else to stop Frieza.' The ball of light now surrounded Bardock. The impact tearing through his armor. But then he felt something. 'Wait, what do I see...' A form somewhat like a horse formed in his head, becoming clearer and clearer. 'What is that... who is that... Is that, a horse?'
'W-where am I? Am I alive? I feel... weak. What happened? The last thing I remember was fighting Frieza and then I... died. I think?' Bardock slowly began to open his eyes. He lifted his head and looked around him. The only two things he could see were trees, and grass. 'Why am I in a forest?' Bardock slowly began to lift the rest of his body. 'Ow...' Bardock now found out that there were several minor wounds on his body. He was a strong man, but he could still be wounded. Bardock slowly walked over to a nearby tree and put his... hoof? 'Th-this isn't a hand! This is a hoof!' Bardock thought. Ignoring his wounds he quickly fled to a small pond that was nearby. He looked at his reflection to see not a saiyan, but a horse! 'What happened to me!?' Bardock thought as he began to panic. 'No no no no no no no no no no!!!!!! How did this happen!' Bardock looked down between his legs and saw his four legs, and surprisingly his bracers. Not his body armor though. He began to spin around in circles and tripped. 'Ow... where is my headband?' Bardock put a hoof on his forehead and felt his untamed hair and his head band. 'Good that's still there. I need to calm down and think a little. I need to find some sort of civilization. Any signs of sentient being will do.' That being said, Bardock began to float off the ground. 'Let's go.' Then Bardock fled off into the distance.
It had been about 5 minutes since Bardock left the middle of the forest he was is in. His wounds still hurt a little, but that didn't stop him from reaching his unknown destination. Without his scouter it was hard to find a town. This gave him some time to think a little. 'So when I get to civilization do I kill everything I see, do I just ask someone for information, or do I just go find information on my own. That's a really hard decision. Death? Or knowledge? I think I'd rather not mess with anyone. Just find what I'm looking for, and go home.'
"Found it!" Bardock mumbled to himself. 'Finally, I found a town with... oh gosh dang it ponies. At least they look like I do.' Bardock began to slowly float down to the town below. Landing on the ground with a "tmp" he sighed and closed his eyes. 'Wait I just thought of something.' Bardock opened his eyes. 'I don't think most of these ponies can fly.' Bardock looked around himself as he found a bunch of unicorns, pegasi, and normal ponies staring at him. 'Oh well.' He thought. Bardock showed no change in his face as he slowly began to back away from everyone that was staring at him. Soon he just began to sprint, looking for something that was alone for him to talk to. As soon as he had lost the ponies that were staring at him he stopped, looked at the ground and sighed. 'I guess there's nothing here that can fly like me.' Bardock then looked into the sky and saw a blue blur that was gliding in the sky. 'Never mind.' He kept on watching the blue figure as it kept getting closer and its details became clearer. 'I think it's coming closer.' Bardock thought, looking at the details of what he could see now was a rainbow maned cyan pegasus that was coming right for him. 'That reminds me, I still don't know where I am. I'll ask it.' Bardock moved over a bit and waited for a few seconds for the pegasus. It landed with a quiet "tmp" and stared at the stallion that was still staring at her.
"What?" The cyan pegasus said.
'So they can speak.' Bardock thought.
"Why were you staring at me?" The pegasus said with a somewhat threatening face.
Bardocks face changed to a strong stare as he began to speak. "I-I was wondering if you knew where I am.".
"Your in Ponyville you dolt." The pegasus said, still not changing the position of her face.
"No I mean the planet."
"...What..."
"A planet."
"Is this like a trick question?"
"No. I would like to know what planet I'm on."
"Are you like one of those people on those shows that walk up to random people and ask them stupid questions?"
"No."
"Why are there cuts and bruises on you?"
"I got in a fight."
"What kind of fight.?"
"A very..." Bardock instantly stopped. He stood absolutely still as he gave a face like he was staring of into space. He just remembered what he had found out about Frieza, that he was going to destroy his race.
"Are you ok?" The pegasus said with a now curious face, walking a bit closer.
"My race is... gone..." Bardock looked at the ground. He looked like he was about to cry.
"Your race? Your race is basically talking to you right now. Your race is talking to you right now. Wait... are you an alien?" The pegasus showed an exited and surprised stance and look, to Barock.
Bardock threw his head into the air. "DANG IT FRIEZA!!!!"
"W-what?"
"I'll get him back for this, I'll kill him." Bardock mumbled to himself, just loud enough for the mare to hear.
"Wait wait you'll what?"
Just then, Bardock released all of his energy at once, while also screaming his heart out.
"Whoa, calm down!" The mare yelled to Bardock. She began to feel the immense power of Bardocks energy. 'What's happening to him?' She thought to herself.
Bardock was now acting like a madpony. Losing all control and sanity. "THE NEXT TIME I SEE FRIEZA I AM GOING TO TEAR OUT HIS THROAT AND ORGANS, AND USE HIS BODY PARTS AS STONES SO I CAN PELT HIM WITH WHILE HE'S CRYING IN HIS OWN BLOOD, BEGGING FOR MERCY AS HE SLOWLY PERISHES INTO OBLIVION!!! THEN I WILL USE ALL MY POWER TO DISINTEGRATE HIM INTO NOTHINGNESS, UNTIL NOT ONE ATOM OF HIS STUPID KARKASS IS LEFT". It took a while for Bardock to calm down. But after his little bloody speech, he began to calm down.
Bardock was now panting as if he (And he basically did.) screamed his soul out. The cyan mare stood awestruck at what just took place before her. "Um...uh...eh...".
Just then a door opened from a nearby tree. "What the...who? Rainbow Dash what just happened?"
"Um... ok, sorry, but say that again?" After Bardocks little tantrum outside Twilights house, she took him inside after Rainbow told her what had happened. After she took him inside, Bardock kept on asking the same questions he asked Rainbow Dash. He also threatened to kill both mares. (And one dragon.) But then Twilight asked how the stallion made an earthquake like that.
"An explosion of energy, now tell me where I am!" Bardock said, now mostly infuriated due to lack of knowledge.
"Ok geez, your in Equestria, calm down." Rainbow said.
"Energy? Like stamina?" Twilight said with a curious voice.
"Thanks for the information. I'm going to go." Bardock said, walking towards the door, also completely ignoring Twilights question.
"But, hey wait!!" Twilight said, motioning her hooves for Bardock to stop. "I still have questions! Can't you wait!".
"No." Bardock didn't turn his head around when he said this. Instead he just locked himself in place.
"Please!"
"No."
"Pretty please!"
"No."
"But can't you just-" THUMP!!
Bardock finally turned his head around. "What was that?".
"I don't know." Said Twilight, walking towards where the sound came from. Bardock and Rainbow watched Twilight walk down some stairs and heard the thump a few more times.
Twilight turned on the basement light with her magic and walked into the room, looking for where the sound was coming from. At first glance, all the eye could see was a bunch of lab equipment, vials, and other things you would see in a lab. Twilight slowly approached the thumping sound cautiously, getting in a bit of a walking-fighting stance as she got closer to the sound. She eventually found herself in front of what looked like a wooden cellar door that was shaking and making the sound that was emanating in the room. Twilight got in a fighting stance, putting one hoof forward, and the one on the opposite in the back, backwards and bent down. She then prepared her magic, putting a lavender colored glow upon the shaking cellar door, and opened it.
The cellar door immediately flew open as a pink blur popped out of the door and started to bounce around the ceiling and floor of the room. Twilight gasped at what appeared in front of her. The pink color bounced around for about two more seconds before coming to a complete stop, crashing into some nearby boxes. Twilight approached the thing that had buried itself in cardboard boxes, and charged her magic. "Come out and face me... Pinkie Pie?" Twilight said as the pink mare with a miners hat dug herself out of the boxes.
"Heya Twilight!!!" Pinkie said with her usual energetic voice.
"Hi Pinkie. Why were you in that cellar?"
"Oh, well, its not a cellar! It's a cave! I dug it!"
'So that's how she gets inside my house.' Twilight thought. "Why would you dig a cave to my house?".
"Because doors are boring! Then again, if you think about it, I came out of a door. And it was kind of jammed. But exploding out of it sort of made it fun!" Twilight looked at her with a confused look that sort of said, "What... the... heck...". "Aaaaaaanyway! that's not what I'm here for! I heard that there was a new pony in town! I heard he was... um..." Pinkie put a hoof to her chin. "green... I think... and had red things on his legs and head... aaaaaaand... Oh YA!!! He could FLY!!! Ponies said that he wasn't even a pegasus! Or maybe they did... Why would anypony be surprised by a pegasus that could fly anyway? Unless they had like a broken wing or something. Then I guess they would be surprised. AHA!! I'm going to throw him a surprise party!" The pink pony smiled in Twilights face, and then immediately backed off. "Oh right, off topic, heehee. Aaaaaaaanyway, he can FLY!!!!!" Pinkie screamed in Twilights face.
"Ok Pinkie, give me a little space please." Twilight said, pushing the party pony away. She didn't really believe what her friend had said. Until remembering what had happened earlier outside did she start to believe. It all kind of added up, he was a green stallion with red things on his head, his odd behavior. But the earthquake? What about that?
In the middle of Twilights thoughts, she heard something upstairs. "No! don't go!" Rainbow Dash yelled. Twilight immediately responded.
"Uh oh." Twilight said, rainbowdashing up the stairs, Pinkie Pie trotting behind her.
"Uh oh what?" Pinkie said, catching up to Twilight.
Ignoring Pinkies question, she immediately darted toward the already open door. "Wait! No! Stop!" Twilight exclaimed, rushing towards the green stallion.
The stallion sent a surge of energy from his body outward, easily knocking Twilight to the ground. Then, to Twilights surprise, and Pinkies exact description, he actually, "flew", away.
"OOOOOOOH!!! OOOOOOOH!!!! That's him!!! That's him!!!!" Pinkie Pie said as she walked outside, pointing at the airborne stallion.
"Dash!! Catch up to him!!" Twilight yelled to Rainbow Dash who was standing next to Pinkie Pie, just outside the front door of Twilights house.
"Consider him caught already." Rainbow said looking over at Twilight with a nod and a cocky grin.
And the rainbow maned mare began her race with Bardock.
>o)O(o<
Bardock was fast. Rainbow struggled immensely to keep up with him. She had never met anypony that ever even matched her speed. But here she is, struggling to keep up with an earth pony. She knew she couldn't stop now, Twilight had questions.
Rainbow Dash stared into Bardocks eyes as he looked back at her. His eyes were like cold metal. But it didn't frighten Rainbow one bit. If anything, it was a reflection of his ego. While staring into his eyes Rainbow trailed off to his tail. His tail was not a long lock of fur, it was a monkey tail!
Though Rainbow only got a glance at the tail, for Bardock threw a sphere of blue light behind him from his front left hoof, in which Rainbow dodged easily. Behind her she saw a little bit of the landscape explode. How was it possible that an earth pony could hold such traits? But she could not hesitate now, she had to catch this stallion. Bardock squinted his eyes a bit at Rainbow's dodge and threw another ball from his hoof. Rainbow dodged this again.
Bardock turned around while still flying forward and sent a montage of blue sphere's at Rainbow Dash. Rainbow dodged many of these with ease, and many with difficulty. This was getting way too difficult, plus Bardock was probably going to glass the landscape with his blue balls in no time. She had to do something desperate. But what? He's too fast, and plus he can use this freaky magic. But he wasn't fast enough for a Sonic Rainboom.
With that, Rainbow Dash flew up into the air, avoiding a few spheres and making it high enough to perform a Sonic Rainboom. Rainbow looked down at her destination. Bardock had stopped in his flight, and his spherical onslaught. He was now staring into Rainbows eyes, and she was staring back into his.
Rainbow positioned herself for the Sonic Rainboom, and Bardock positioned himself for a charge. Then there was a brief moment of silence as they prepared themselves. Bardock silently powered up his energy, waiting for anything to happen, while Rainbow did the same. Then they charged.
Rainbow Dash could feel the feeling of wind on her face as she charged downwards towards Bardock. By now she didn't know what she was going to do. She was just attacking Bardock head on in an all out charge. Bardock knew what he was going to do: Knock her out, and then get out.
Rainbow was about to break the barrier, but Bardock came in too early. They clashed, making a huge rainbow colored explosion. So Rainbow Dash finally realized, Bardock...
Twilight paced her floor as Pinkie Pie hopped along it. The suspense was killing her. Who knows if Rainbow actually was able to stop Bardock? After making an earthquake, and flying, who knows what else he could do? For all she knew Rainbow could have been knocked out before going in a all out charge on him.
*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*
"Rainbow!" Twilight silently yelled.
Twilight walked over to the door and opened it. The green stallion was not there. An unconscious Rainbow Dash was. Twilight gasped and pulled her inside her house.
"Oh my gosh! Who did that to Rainbow Dash?!" Pinkie Pie asked.
After Twilight put Rainbow Dash on her couch she said, "I don't know, but I'm guessing that stallion."
"Meanie weanie! Why would somepony do that?"
"I don't know. I'm going to check for injuries."
Twilight thoroughly looked at Rainbows head, legs, and basically her whole entire body. Other than a few bruises there were no visible injuries. Twilights horn gave out a lavender glow and she used her magic to check for any internal injuries. Other than an absent mind, there were none.
"She's not hurt very much, just unconscious." Twilight said.
"She took a nap while trying to catch that guy?"
"No. That stallion knocked her out, and from the looks of it she'll be out for at least two days. This stallion definitely knows how to knock a pony out."
"Well that's mean."
"Pinkie Pie, I need you to tell everypony in Ponyville to keep an eye out for this stallion."
"Oki doki loki!"
>o)O(o<
Bardock was now back where he started. This forest. Now that he knows where he is, he can now settle down in a cave, or make a house, or steal a house. Not that he actually knew where he was. Everything just happened so fast. Killed by Frieza, became a pony in a place called Equestria, and now he will be officially alone. His race is dead, his friends are dead, his sons are dead, and he has no way to avenge them.
Bardock sloped his head down as he walked on the ground. He could notice no details of the forest but grass and roots of trees. Right now he wanted to be alone to think. Though there was nothing to think about. He could be angry that he couldn't get off this planet, but what would that do? Even though he could go into space as a saiyan, who knows if a pony can? He would need a ship, and this civilization is so undeveloped that it would be surprising for anything on this planet to even have the thought of a space ship.
Bardock finally made it to a cave. It was a relief because it started to rain, and Bardock didn't want the blood on his headband to wash off. The cave was dark and cold. Perfect. Nothing would want to come in here. Or that is what he thought, for he heard a loud grumble in the cave as he went closer and closer into it. As he kept on walking he saw a large light. They were a giant stack of gems.
Bardock ignored them and laid down on a rock. The rock was hard, cold, and moist. But that texture didn't keep Bardock from sleeping. So he slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep.
>o)O(o<
Bardock awoke to the feeling of warm breath on his back. It felt nice to him not to be cold. Until he woke up to find a gigantic fire-breathing dragon breathing down his spine. 'Oooh... breakfast.' Bardock thought.
So with little difficulty, he was eating that dragon in no time. He even got it to make a fire to cook it with. It might have started a forest fire, but he didn't care about wildlife. All he cared about was this breakfast. After he was full he decided to venture a little further into the cave to see if there were any eggs or offspring from the dragon. He did find one dragon egg. He was going to wait till that hatched and eat it too. That or make scrambled dragon eggs. But he had no pan. So he was going to wait.
He had a really hard time trying to pass the time. He tried training, but that almost destroyed his home. He tried just exercising, but push-ups were too easy. He tried tearing down the burnt trees, but that lead to finding civilization. It was a farm. He didn't want to go near civilization because he was a afraid something might disturb him, or they will want to catch him. That's when he thought, 'Maybe I shouldn't be here. Maybe I should be with this race and try to make friends with them. Even if I am this horse thing, it doesn't mean I can't have the spirit of a saiyan anyway.'. Being a saiyan means having this certain pride. It is basically called saiyan pride. Because that's what it is. 'I should at least try. I'll come around to it.'.
>o)O(o<
Meanwhile, at CMC headquarters...
Applebloom and Sweetie Belle were both discussing something that has to do with painting while Scootaloo was approaching the clubhouse headquarters with some information about a new job.
And she was happy with this job. It had to do with finding a pony. A certain green stallion. Scootaloo had finally made it to the CMC headquarters. She got off her scooter and took her helmet off. Then she walked up the stairs to the front door.
*SLAM* The door opened and silence filled the room. Nopony said anything until Scootaloo did.
"Girls."
"Yes si- I mean ma'm!" Applebloom said, walking forward and holding her hoof to her forehead.
"Yes ma'm!" Sweetie Belle said, doing the same as Applebloom.
"Applebloom, keep this in your head:" Scootaloo got up in Appleblooms face, "I-am-a-ma'm. You will forever address me as ma'm forever. Twenty push-ups." Scootaloo got away from Applebloom and both her and Sweetie Belle gave loud 'Yes ma'm!'s and started doing push ups.
"Not you Sweetie Belle, only Applebloom."
"Yes ma'm!" Sweetie Belle got up from doing her push-ups.
"Quit saying 'yes ma'm' so much."
"Yes ma'm!"
"10 push-ups!"
"Aawww..."
"Do it."
"Ok..."
"Alright you've learned your lesson you don't have to do push-ups."
"Scootaloo just get to the point. Why are we going through the soldier thing?" Sweetie Belle asked in annoyance.
"Oh yeah, we have a job. There's a missing pony in Ponyville, and we're going to find him!" Scootaloo answered.
"Does that mean we get to be detectives?" Applebloom commented.
"I think we already did that Applebloom." Scootaloo said.
"Then were 'missing pony searchers'!" Sweetie Belle said.
Then they all said in unison, "YAAY!! CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS MISSING PONY SEARCHERS!!!".
>o)O(o<
"Um... Applebloom, are you sure you found something that looks like green stallion in the Everfree forest?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"Darn tootin' ahm sure. Ah saw him pushing down burnt trees round here. See! there's a little spot where there are knocked down trees."
"Hm... well let's go!" Scootaloo pronounced.
So with that, they stepped into the dark, creepy forest.
It didn't take them long to find a path of knocked down burnt trees. It was almost as soon as they moved into the forest that they found it too. The dragon fire spread really far. It went so far the CMC could see Bardocks cave from where they were.
"Ooh! There! I bet he's staying in that cave!" Sweetie Belle said.
"Who sleeps in a cave?" Scootaloo questioned.
"Maybe he's a cave pony!" Applebloom said.
"I highly doubt it." Sweetie Belle said.
They finally had reached the mouth of the cave. Everywhere in front of the cave was cleared of trees, but to its left and right it was thick with living trees. There was small light that they could see deep into the cave, though it was pitch black all they way there. And now it was beginning to get dark.
"Let's go in there, get that stallion, and go back to headquarters before it gets dark." Scootaloo said.
Just before they entered the cave a growling sound could be heard from some bushes to the groups right. Sweetie Belle approached the growling rustling bushes in curiosity.
"What is that?" Sweetie Belle said.
That's when the sound revealed itself from the bushes. Five angry, hungry, burnt wolves.
The three fillies became pale with fear as the wolves slowly came closer to them. They screamed just like themselves; fillies. Then without any time to react, the wolves jumped towards the three frightened girls.
The three backed away slowly towards each other in fear. The wolves each moved towards the terrified fillies with foam leaking from their grey mouths. They were most definitely hungry, so what better thing to eat than three defenseless fillies?
"N-n-nice puppies." Applebloom said, shuddering in fear.
One of the Crusaders would've commented that the wolves were obviously not puppies, but their minds were too clouded by their fear to think straight.
The three kept backing up until each of their rumps hit a tree in unison, causing them to "eep". They now had nowhere to run, nowhere to go. They were too tangled in fear to think up an escape plan, or any kind of plan for that matter.
The wolves came to a stop and prepared to attack the three fillies. Scootaloo began to cry out an extremely loud cry.
Bardock slept in his dark cave while thinking about the events that had just occurred. The one that perplexed him the most was how Frieza's death ball even brought him here in the first place. It was impossible, even for Frieza, to create a rip in space-time. That brought up another question: Where or/and when was he?
As he thought this up he heard a shriek, and a cry from what sounded like was a little girl. Only it wasn't just one, it was several. Bardock was curious, so he decided to get up and investigate.
When he got to the mouth of the cave, he saw three fillies backed against a tree, and five wolves about to jump and kill each and every one of them.
He had to think fast, so he teleported to the one in the middle and punched it directly in the skull, shattering its bones and killing it. Bardock retracted his hoof and stood there, looking at the blood that wasn't soaked up by the earth.
Though with little time to react, another wolf from the left of the Crusaders attempted to pounce on Bardock. Though for Bardock, he had all the time in the world. He easily dodged it by vanishing. The wolf fell to the ground and got up. It looked to its right to find the rest of its pack to be lying in a heap of bloody bodies. It turned its attention forward and found Bardock floating upside-down and looking straight into the terrified wolf's eyes.
"Boo." Bardock said.
The wolf instantly fled into the woods almost as fast as Bardock could move.
Bardock giggled as he softly spun himself to his hooves. He then turned to the three petrified fillies standing with their flanks up against a tree. The each just stared ahead into space and breathed heavily. It wasn't surprising to see them like this after what they had just been through.
Bardock approached the three cautiously, he didn't want to put them in anymore shock than they already were. Then he thought of something: He never approached with caution, or try and help anyone or anything, or care about many lives in general. His entire life was filled with the death and despair of other species. The only people he really cared for were his team, and his race, and they were dead. They are dead.
Shoving that thought aside, Bardock decided to get back on the more important subject.
"Are you ok?" Bardock said.
Scootaloo broke from her trance first, she decided to speak up. "Y-y-yeah. W-were fine." She moved away from the tree and toward Bardock. "Who are you?"
"My name is Bardock. You three should get going, it's getting dark. I'd hate it for anything else to die." Bardock gestured to the piles of flesh, bone, and blood behind him.
Scootaloo took a moment to shudder before turning her attention back to Bardock. "Thanks Bardock. My name's Scootaloo. Can I ask you something?"
"No, but you can get out of here before it gets dark."
"How did you do all that? How did you fly when you don't have wings?" Scootaloo began to get excited, and race around Bardock asking a seemingly endless amount of questions.
"Listen kid, you need to get out of here before more wolves come here. I'd hate to have to scoop up a bunch of bits of flesh and bone that I won't be eating."
That was when Applebloom woke up. "Ah!!" Applebloom yelled, "What happened? Are we dead?"
Of course Scootaloo's response to this was, "How fast can you move? Can you teach me to do that? You are soooo cool! I mean, your still not as cool as Rainbow Dash, but still pretty cool!"
"Scootaloo, who is this?" Applebloom asked.
Scootaloo stopped in front of Bardock and faced Applebloom. "This is Bardock, he saved our lives with some sort of awesome magic!"
"You need to get-" Bardock looked up to see the night sky, and looked back at the two non-petrified fillies. "Grr. Look at that, it's dark. Now your going to have to walk in the dark!" Why do I even care? Bardock thought.
Scootaloo turned to Bardock. "Ooooor. We can stay in your cave!"
"No!" In that exact moment, a flash of lightning marked the beginning of a great amount of rain that instantly soaked Bardock, and caused his mane to cover is eyes. "Fine."
"Yes!" Scootaloo said with a hoof pump.
Bardock gestured toward the cave and said, "Just get in the cave.".
Applebloom grabbed Scootaloo, stopping her in her tracks. "Are ya sure we should trust a stranger?" Applebloom asked Scootaloo.
"Of course we can trust a complete stranger that just mutilated a couple wolves to save our lives." Scootaloo replied.
"Ah guess when you put it that way..."
"Great!"
Applebloom grabbed the statue of Sweetie Belle and followed Scootaloo and Bardock into the cave. Once they all got themselves situated near the fire, Scootaloo took notice of the gigantic corpse of a dragon behind them.
"D-did you kill that?" Scootaloo asked Bardock, sounding a bit scared.
Bardock was laying down next to the fire, staring into the wriggling flames. It reminded him of his race. How sometimes after a good raid on a planet, he and his buddies would have a good campfire to cook the meat they had just massacred. But look at him now, his heritage stripped from him in the form of a weak pony. Sure, he had his tail, but what else? Everything he had is dead. His life, his sons, his planet, his king. Was there any point now? What is the point now? Of course, there must be one.
"Bardock?" Scootaloo tried to get Bardock's attention, but he just stood up and walked to the mouth of the cave.
There went his saiyan pride in the form of a tear. He just let it go, falling like his race did. His old race did. Now he lived here, among the equine species. He wasn't even sure how he got here, saiyans were never much on the bright side anyway. There was more brawn than brain in his body. But of course that gave him assurance that there still was a little bit of saiyan in his body.
He sat, staring past the rain and into the moo-. No! He told himself, quickly jerking his head away. While his head was in this position, he looked at his monkey tail. He didn't know if he could still turn into the Ozaru if he stared at the moon too long. He didn't wan't those girls to die or get hurt.
Bardock took a deep breath through his nose before going back into the cave.
The first thing Bardock noticed was that the white one was unfrozen, and was rubbing her hoof on the dragon corpse's skin with the two other girls.
"Alright, it's time to go to bed." Bardock said.
The three turned to Bardock. "Aww, but why?" They each said in unison.
"Because it is. Just go to sleep."
"But-"
Bardock blew up the fire with an energy blast, extinguishing it, and filling the room with darkness.
"Fiiiiine."
"Do we have to sleep on the floor?" Scootaloo asked.
"Do I look like I have any pillows?" Bardock said.
