In a low-class residential area on the outer rim of Kusatta city, sat a decently constructed single person abode. Something made in the past few years, lacking the erosion of time that sets in quickly on planet vegeta.
Opening the door was a young adult male. Tufts of hair randomly jutting out of his generic unmistakable low-class hairstyle. The one that screamed mob character to anyone worth their salt. Yet he had traversed past the line that made him nameless. From grunt A toYasai the low class warrior.
Success in succeeding in the conquering of planets. Merit from many hard fought battles. Now Yasai was faced with a choice.
Continue to wage war under the saiyan banner or take the manual Labor safe route. Now that he had achieved the bare minimum, a safe life was allowed for him. A home earned with the pay he secured. For a young maverick like himself, he was free to live his life.
The thought of lingering on this planet never really crossed his mind, not until the other day that is.
Lifting off the ground Yasai had decided to do some brief wandering. Towards the city center where a transmission was being projected. On each block the same projection was being displayed like a new headline.
[Flame Squadron's successful return.]
Once in range he activated the public transmission.
"Kappa's flame squadron, an outstanding success" the transmission played regaling the information. Going into depth on the results that came from the squads success.
Yasai only got his news from the official transmissions. Like most that cared to pay attention. All other reporting businesses never stay afloat long enough to matter.
"They used to pick up the scraps, however they've now been pushed to take on much higher value planets." The transmission explains.
"Yeah yeah" Yasai stops the transmission. "So they survived that pig planet" he mused knowing the gossip about the flame squadron.
"A bunch of crazy fanatics. But they work" he shrugs while pressing the skip button on the scouter. The transmission skips to the other story for the day.
"Another battle of the royal family ends at the Reject Prison. One of our own has fallen to that of a reject. Toge has is now a prisoner"
Yasai coughed in response. "Oh dam..i know he was.. weak" the word comes out with disgust, but more shock than anything."welp, not my problem. Never let my occurrences pile up like that."
Yasai shrugs off the news of a peer's failure before flying off again. As he reaches the tips of the buildings he faces the larger city that can see in the distance just barely. His mind was wondering that way for a very special reason. Visiting this person would surely clear up his mind.
When he landed in the elite district many eyes glanced at his arrival. They all checked him out as if he didn't belong. The glares with high power levels sent shivers down his spine, but it was nothing compared to that feeling when she would open that door.
He knocks and the sight before him makes his tail stand comically on edge.
The woman with shoulder length wild black hair stood before him. She had opened the door and only had a towel draped around her shoulders. Aside from the tasteful piece of cloth covering her small breasts, her body was utterly bare. A tuft of hair ornamented the spot just south of her midriff. Her form made the man drool, but her eyes made his spine tingle.
"Look at you, cocky enough to return without being told. Come on doggy, F*ck me" Negi demands with a hungry smirk. Her tail peeked between her muscular thighs in a gesture that mimicked a finger calling him forward as she stepped back.
Yasai gulps as he understands heaven and hell awaited. Closing the door behind him they disappeared only to disturb the neighbors moments later.
***
While Yasai faces his most devious adversary, Toge still struggles to accept his new home.
"Will you give it a rest already?" The gruff voice commands.
The saiyan with the Mohawk had been tossed back into his cage. Gravel crushing beneath him as he settles on the ground for the first time in days.
"Are you insane? The food they serve here is a joke. At least we could eat the damned wildlife out there." Toge spat, waving his arm for emphasis from his position on the ground.
The gruff saiyan responsible for perimeter guard parted his lips to shut down Togi when he stopped speaking. "Just send me to the front line" Toge relents like he has the option to start from the bottom.
"No," the man replied curtly.
"What!?"
"What do you mean? The military is slobbering at the chance to recruit new front line warriors" he protests like the man before him missed some huge point.
But the gruff man remains firm.
"You are correct. However.." he sighs, finally showing a modicum of compassion for a man unfit to even die in battle. " Toge, you are no longer a warrior." The man punctuated his statement with a deep breath and a slow blink of the eyes. "Reject number 336 I suggest you return to the cafe or your quarters. Do not make me force you to return"
"You son of an ape, Kürbis!" he cursed before lunging at the guard.
The guard didn't have this job for nothing and the resistance was met with the same force every other one got. Knocking the wind out of the rejects lungs. Leaving him crumpled, except this time the man kicked over Toge's body.
Kneeling down he mused. "Hmm 336" he says while using his fingernail and a little bit of Force to carve out the numbers.
The gruff guard, Kürbis, then flew off to attend to his duties. He was sure to catch another fool trying something sneaky today. The man just didn't expect to find someone running already.
Lo and behold a dark haired spec edging across the wasteland just passed the barbed wire fencing.
Of course the gruff man easily swooped down and intercepted the boy. It was Jagger who had made the decision to bolt. Parts of his body clearly scrapped and cut due to haphazardly climbing the sharp wire.
"Well, it took you a couple months give or take. Why now kid, you looked like one of the smart ones" he mocks. Stopping the boy from just circling around him. "Ignoring me are we?"
Kürbis really was a patient person. That is when his job remains simple. When the prisoners understood their place, but no, it was times like this where he despised the part of his job that made him act like this wasn't just that. A prison set to hold the trash he corralled.
The gruff man grabbed the boy by his shoulder and began flying back.
"Let me go!" The boy roared out like a feral beast. He repeated it and clung to the man as they approached the base. Bitting his hand to get away by any means.
"Gah..you brat" Kürbis swats at the kid, dropping him to the ground below.
They weren't too high up so the boy was already running away again. Eventually the guard finished his job. Jagger back in his confines, yet he was clearly attempting to leave. Before Kürbis made the decisive action, Jagger yelled out something in desperation that made the man freeze.
"My father...he will..he" Jagger grasps at straws hoping something he knew would get him away from there. "My father Aldera.. he's going to come for me once he's an avenged mother!"
"Kid..stop lying through your teeth. You don't know an aldera." The man was somewhat in denial.
The rumors of elite class families being targeted. He didn't want to believe it. How could believe the news going around of people's partners and families targeted; he has one of his own.
The man pressed his hand into the kid's shoulder to root him down. Then he pressed a button on his scouter.
"Negi, one of the pri–rejects" he starts, correcting himself before continuing. "Says Aldera is his father. Permission to contact Aldera?"
The man sounds like a middle manager asking if it's ok to speak to another assistant manager rather than his own boss. Because his actual boss isn't there to solve the problem that day.
***
"Permission to contact Aldera?" Spoke Kübris on the other side of the transmission.
An unsatisfied Negi grumbled as she left her partner passed out on the bed. Making her way to the bathroom she answers without a care. "Whatever, do as needed..." She prepared to toss the scouter aside, but then added "and don't contact me unless it's an emergency"
Turning the shower on she washed the sex off like it disappointed her. Then she just hit the terminal beside her shower. She was hearing the news for the first time, although most of it had been privy to her before it was announced.
Only the obituary section caught her ear as she zoned out underneath the pressure of the water.
"Zana, a decorated middle class warrior. Perished on an envoy mission. Her squad was taken out while representing the Freiza force." Conveniently the assassins were dealt with before they could sell out their client.
"Sh*t, isn't that Nappa's mate.."
***
While Jagger awaited his father, Toge had his body carried to the infirmary. Laid out on one of the few beds while two boys looked over at him with amusement.
"Teacher.. why is he still trying to escape?" Spoke the curious reject given the designation 455.
"Must be great out there" the other boy designated 456 reasons.
"Fufu, why not ask him yourself" the playful purple dinosaur lady giggles as usual. Behind her kind eyes was a calculated decision. The adults were lost to her, but if she could use this one as a lesson–that would be to her preference.
The boys both grimaced at the thought of interacting with an adult besides Būdo.
Būdo understood right away and decided to bread crumb them the information. With a sly smile, a giggle ready to leak out.
"Well must be something amazing. You could always ask Zukki" she gestures to 456 already recognizing where his curiosity lies.
456 doesn't respond, but his eyes widened with some sort of realization.
"Oh, teacher, you're right. Zukki is always complaining about our food. Maybe it's better out there." The boy Muses before shrugging off the possibility.
The three of them continue to speculate the sleeping Toge's motivations.
***
When Aldera got the call he wasn't busy. Ever since he slaughtered the last spy all that's been on his mind is his late partner. A woman thoroughly understood his darkness and matched it with her own. They were the couple that would target other couples in the tournament. Revelling in the suffering was their love language.
Surprisingly even to himself he found his body rushing to meet this son of his. Once the boy was insight all it reminded him of was the long lost darkness that would never return. Her nose and eyes. Even how his tail flicked. It reminded him of her.
He may have started his journey wishing to see his son, but by the time he arrived he wanted nothing to do with him. Touching the ground to the silence of both saiyan.
Jagger made some mistake in his judgement because when he rushed to the side of his father the boy couldn't enter his personal space. The look was not that of a father. It's the look of a man stuck in the anger and anguish stage of grief.
"Fa-ther.." he eeks out like he's made the biggest mistake of his life and just realizing it. The boy expects physical pain and yet he only receives words.
"Child, don't waste my time."
"Wait father..what about mother" he reflexively touches the worst wound in response.
"..your mother is dead. You killed her" he delivers the line with enough venom to kill a horse.
"Wha.." Jagger can't even react properly.
"Your existence is the reason she has died. So if you are going to make me even humor your existence.. don't you dare do it as a piece of garbage"
Aldera says then turns to Kübris and spits "and don't let that lazy B*tch, skip out on her duties when she just got assigned"
A crushed and stunned Jagger can only watch as his father drops the bomb of his mother's death, blames it on him, and then just leaves without explanation.
***
"You better not plan on staying this soft. I'm not a fan of nursing broken men" Negi says to Yasai while kicking him off her bed.
It's how he doesn't even get right back off the floor or protest–but grunts instead.
"Seesh..go back to the frontlines before thinking about returning." Negi says with a voice of disappointment. In her mind the fun games were gonna end and she thinks ("this fool will die soon anyway") while watching him raise up. The look in his eyes was not that arrogance she had found in their meeting.
No, the young man's eyes held a loyal dog's resolve.
"The Frontier company has returned, I'll be joining them on the front lines this time" he declares as if to make up his mind.
The frontier company was respected, although they were the type to bring in anyone and everyone eligible. Not to mention this work was funded directly by Frieza himself.
"Whatever, just get out of my house!" She demanded before he could even grab his clothes. Tossing them like litter out the door after him.
Yasai was out half naked on the street stumbling when he fell into a huge body, The man was The elite class warrior, and general Nappa.
"Sir" he scrambles before rushing off. Though he was left wondering what business the man had with Negi.
" Tch" clicking his tongue when he was far away he declared in his mind that he would return stronger.
***
Far on a distant side of the planet a kind sickly woman with blue hair watches out the window.
In another room a mother introduced her elder son to his younger brother.