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Point of no return II

He made a silent vow that no matter what, he would save that little blue planet.

Finally, hours later, they mercifully landed. Trunks took a deep breath as the door to his space pod opened on a new, strange planet. He had decided that he would go along with the charade of participating in the purges, without actually killing anyone. How he would do this, he wasn't quite sure. But it was worth a shot.

Trunks picked up his scouter and climbed out of his space pod at the same time as Raditz. Nappa and Vegeta were already standing on the new planet, both of them silently looking around, their backs to him. Vegeta looked over his shoulder, his dark eyes surveying the landscape. Trunks saw lights activated and running on his father's green scouter and realized that Nappa and Vegeta were both trying to pick up any signs of a potential threat. Trunks glanced around, but the planet was mostly barren with something like sand under his feet. The sand was actually black. Trunks looked up to the sky, but there was no light from a nearby sun; only the light of the stars illuminated them. The night air was cold, and it chilled Trunks down to his bones.

"All clear," Nappa said, before turning to the smallest Saiyan of the group. "Vegeta, what's up? Why did we stop on this planet?" he asked as Raditz and Trunks walked up to them, the four Saiyans forming a small circle. Vegeta wasn't looking at any of them, staring off into nothing that Trunks could see. Trunks wiped the sweat off his brow as they waited patiently for Vegeta's command.

Finally, the prince grunted and turned to them. He crossed his arms over his chest and began to speak in a relatively patient tone. "We can't do our assignments for Frieza until we get our scouters back online. I stopped here to get it taken care of."

"How, Vegeta?" Raditz said curiously.

"Don't fry your brain thinking about it, Raditz," the Saiyan prince answered with a smirk. "Now then. You and Nappa go and... relax a while." Vegeta shifted his gaze to Trunks and his smirk suddenly turned downright sinister. Trunks shifted uncomfortably when he saw it. "I will take the boy with me, and we will take care of business."

"Aw that's no fun, Vegeta. There's nothing else to do around here," Nappa said in a tone dangerously close to whining as Raditz laughed.

"Come on now big guy, don't tell me you forgot Uvi's tavern on the west end of this planet already," Raditz said with a snicker, slapping Nappa on the back.

"Oh that's right!" Nappa laughed, his eyes suddenly bright with excitement. "Hell yeah, let's go right now!"

Vegeta chuckled and shook his head a bit, suddenly reminding Trunks of a father amused by the antics of his children. The teenager cracked a small smile, his heart warming a little at the sight. "You fools are too much," the prince said with clear amusement in his voice. "Go, enjoy yourselves. You will hear me when our scouters are back online."

Raditz laughed as Nappa gave a howl of excitement, before they both blasted off into the air. Trunks watched them fly off, before turning to look at his father. Vegeta was staring at him, his dark gaze as intense as ever. Trunks wiped the sweat off his brow again, feeling extremely uncomfortable under his father's scrutiny.

"So... where exactly are we going?" Trunks asked nervously.

Vegeta studied him for a few more moments, and it took all of Trunks' willpower not to look away. Finally, Vegeta smirked. "There is an individual on this planet who has the intelligence and the ability to reset our scouters' communication ability to my specifications. He owes me a favor and that is the favor I want. He is a... friend," the prince said, his smirk growing.

Somehow, Trunks seriously doubted that. He nodded anyways. "Which way?"

"This way," Vegeta said, motioning with his head. Trunks waited for Vegeta to take to the air first so he could follow him, but he blinked in surprise when the prince just turned and began walking in the direction he had motioned to.