>>6100079As you lay in the silence, worried about your confrontation with the monster, suddenly a thought comes to mind. If it were YOUR child, you'd want to know. And have a feeling Bardock, one of the few other Saiyans you knew to keep a wife and family before you, would agree. So, you reach out telepathically to a fellow father, heart heavy with bad news.
“Hey, Bardock, this is Karn. Can you hear me?” you <span class="mu-i">think</span> out into the void. It takes several seconds, but you finally hear a reply back.
“Karn? What's going on?” he asks you. “Do you have any news?”
And oh boy you do. Not GOOD news, but news nonetheless.
“It's about Raditz.” you tell him, then explain everything to him. He doesn't interrupt, letting you tell him everything. Including what you'd been ordered by King Vegeta to do tomorrow, should the plan fail to save his son's life. And once you've told him everything, he remains quiet a few more moments, until finally answering.
“I see. It is for the best.” comes his reply, you can almost feel his entire body sighing. “Raditz wasn't a great kid or anything, but I know he'd hate to be under some bastard's control like that. If you can't save him, then definitely take him down. He would rather be dead than some Tuffle bastard's meat puppet. Promise me you won't let him suffer under that monster's control, Karn.”
“I won't. One way or another, Baby dies tomorrow.” you answer, Bardock asking a few more questions about how Baby gets inside someone, if it needs be through an injury or just any opening, how your daughter avoided getting captured upon confronting him, and how he knew deep down when King Vegeta gave him the order he knew his son was dead. He then ends the link, you ending it from your end as well as sleep finally begins to take you. Almost as soon as you close your eyes again, they spring open, feeling someone watching you. And there, standing just inside the doorway of your room, is Haathe.
“My lord. I know you wished to be up early today, to start as soon as possible. So, I came to wake you.” she says softly, bowing as you sit up.
“Thanks Haathe. Appreciate it.” you whisper back, gently sneaking out of bed. Meloka and Towa grumble a bit, but neither wakes, you going and quickly getting dressed as Haathe leaves. You sense her energy heading back to her room, no doubt to go back to sleep as you quickly pull a suit on, donning your boots and gloves for a training suit before heading towards the door yourself. Looking back, you see your wife and Towa, both still asleep before you exit, making your way down the halls then to the ramp, leaving your ship behind.
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