Inside a jungle, surrounded by darkness due to the tall trees and vegetation that blocked the sunlight, a white-haired individual was sitting with his eyes closed — If you looked closely, small flashes appeared in the place swirling around the boy, those flashes were made out of Ki, although it was very weak, to the point of not being able to be seen with the naked eye most of the time. This, however, gave a mystical aura to the location.
The boy was Baël, he had his eyes closed and was seemingly completely focused on something, but he was not absorbed, if you were there, you would feel as if he was watching you, he seemed to feel everything around him while also concentrating on himself.
The lights entered Baël's body as they revolved around him, the situation was reminiscent of a black hole.
When the last of the lights entered his body after a few hours, Baël opened his eyes.
(Baël's POV)
I opened my eyes after meditating, it had been three months in which I meditated endlessly since I could improve myself, I also took advantage of those moments to think and devise things.
Zak taught me a better method of meditation, at the beginning I only tried to focus on myself, which is a type of meditation, but not the best, the next level was to focus on my surroundings, and the last one, the one I was in, was to focus on everything, it's nice how nothing escapes your senses, in that state you have absolute control of your body, you stop giving importance to life, you lose preferences, tastes, you become a human it's the most perfect form, this is the best state to see your own mistakes certainly, and although I could achieve something similar with [Gamer's Mind], this one gave a somewhat different effect — I still had preferences and emotions, but they were at a perfect control, so they take control over me.
I lifted off the ground and began to fly, I was heading towards my ship which was a few hundred kilometers away from me, barely a two-minute fly.
Without further delay, I got into the spaceship.... This trip is going to cost me dearly.... Renting these ships is not cheap...! Heh, I'm just kidding, the army missions often give a very handsome reward when they're about conquering planets, and that's the only type of mission we do... Besides, I've earned a lot on these trips.
My eyes closed at the sight of space....
...
I was in front of a door, this was the door to my house, I had already paid the rent for the ship, and I was ready to get down to business and do some research, maybe with a little luck even take a break.
A scanner came out of the door, it locked onto my eyes and scanned my pupils for a few moments, when it was done, the doors opened.
Upon entering, I was met with a surprise that was completely expected for me.... Carro was on the couch of my house again.
Baël:"... How many times have I told you not to enter MY house without my permission...?"
Carro: "Come on... I'm not bothering anyone here! You haven't been back for months! Where were you supposed to be?"
I gave a sigh.
Baël: "Don't be so quick with the questioning... I just went to train... Look, you know what? Fine, stay here, just don't bother me, I have important things to do."
I could see how Carro was nodding carefully — Although she gained some trust with me because I allowed her to, I could feel her contained fear of breaking my orders, I could also notice a great deal of respect caused because I achieved what I promised. She had accelerated her power increase quite a bit, but she didn't usually show said respect, much less in public.
A voice rang in my head.
Zak: "Well, now with that... Intruder aside... I'm going to tell you the plan"
Baël: "Sure, just let me go to the Sex Dungeon real quick"
Zak:"... Did you just... Call the planning room "Sex Dungeon"...?"
Baël: "Of course. Can you think of a better name? If I say it out loud they'll just think I have some weird fetish and not that I'm making plans about ruling the universe.... Besides, it's funny as fuck when used casually, it'll come in handy to keep me from getting bored."
A sigh rang out as Zak gave up, while he was reconsidering his life decisions, I entered the Sex Dungeon.
The door opened with a sound pleasing to my ears, the typical sound of an object that didn't let air through opening.
Inside the room there was what appeared to be a laboratory, empty glass flasks, glass shelves holding materials, metal tables, even half of the room was dedicated to the construction of devices, forging and assembly of machines or robots... Obviously and unfortunately, nothing was automatic...
Everything glowed with a metallic sheen, this place had become the stuff of my dreams lately, I will accomplish many things here.
The door closed behind me, and I sat down on a cushioned chair, which adapted to my body immediately.... Damn, how I love the new interstellar era!
Zak: "If you've stopped being an asshole.... Come here now..."
I smiled at his resigned voice and listened to him, closing my eyes and in no time I appeared inside my own mind, I got the hang of it pretty fast.
My "roommate" Zak, greeted me with his typical cold smile.
Zak: "Okay, okay, okay.... Let's make this quick. I have some.... Remodeling to do in here, which I can't do because someone won't let me without your permission."
At the mention of that someone, the representation of the system appeared....
Baël:"... Don't try anything funny..."
Zak: "Oh come on! You already know that if I try something that harms you it will only be worse for me, I can't defend myself against your system, so why would I try something like that when I can continue to rule? After all... I am you."
A sigh came out of my mouth.... I looked at the system.
Baël: "Let him do whatever he wants.... As long as it doesn't include any kind of control over my body."
[At your command Baël, permissions granted]
The sweet voice of the system appeared together with her sweet smile... I was right to create it.
After that, the darkness that enveloped my whole mind trembled, changing everywhere, colors started to appear all around the place and by the time I realized it, I was in a big library.
Baël: "What the hell did you do Zak?!"
Zak: "Hey, hey little buddy, take it easy! Haven't you ever heard of what a memory palace is?"
... A memory palace... I've heard about it, it's a technique for memorizing, imagining rooms where thoughts are stored or something.... Wait... Does that mean that what you're trying to do is to arrange my thoughts in a library?
Zak gave a little clap.
Zak: "I see by your expression that you figured it out! Looks like you're not such a dumbass after all!"
I didn't respond to his insult while avoiding the urge to gouge his eyes out.
Zak: "This is something better than the aforementioned! The above was only for mere humans, we have a supercomputer in front of us! And me, a sentient computer!"
Baël: "I doubt the last part..."
Zak: "I have feelings you know? Even if I don't look like it, you foolish lout."
Baël: "I'll let you have dreams, you cognitive asshole"
After exchanging a few insults, he showed me the best of this creation.
Zak: "This room is not just for storage, obviously the system and I can manage all this information quickly, and with it, it's like having a guide! Imagine having the weaknesses of the final Boss written down on a sheet of paper to know what to do in battle!"
The realization hit me instantly, certainly the intelligence boost had made me much better, but I still couldn't remember everything, this would be a huge improvement.
Zak: "And not only that, the best thing of all is.... The new ability to create simulations!"
Baël:"... I've done that plenty of times before, see who's useless now..."
Zak: "I wasn't referring to your pitiful attempts at recreation, with the system processing and me tweaking the final details, we will use all the information to simulate anything. Battles? Easy-peasy. If a plan work? That's what I want it for!"
A chuckle escaped out of my mouth, this is certainly better than I anticipated.
Zak: "But don't get your hopes up, we can't know everything if the enemy has an ace up their sleeve.... You won't end up very well. And if you don't have enough information about their personality, maybe the plan won't work! So don't even try to trust your instincts, because in that case we'll both die."
He said that last part with a deadly coldness, it was clearly a warning...
A cold laugh with a hint of amusement came out of my mouth.
...
(Narrator's POV)
The white-haired saiyan we know was in front of a large metal building, in front of it was an alien with pink skin, he had some spikes for his head and arms, his form was humanoid, fat and bald, this was Dodoria — Along with another alien named Zarbon, they were Frieza's right hands, however the latter was not present.
Dodoria's maximum power was around 22.000, however Baël did not trust him, as he might have some ace up his sleeve that he didn't have time to show in the original anime.
The system screen appeared before Baël, this one had a new statistic about Dodoria.
[Knowledge: 86%]
This indicated how much he knew Dodoria, the higher the percentage, the more accurate a simulation including him would be, this percentage was so high because of the knowledge he had from the anime and the time he had been inside Frieza's Army.
Dodoria: "Why did you want to talk to me, monkey? You know damn well I don't have any time for bullshit, so speak! And it better be worth it!"
Dodoria looked somewhat annoyed, and spoke imperatively, still, he paid attention to what Baël would say, if he heard something he didn't think was important he'd probably punish him with a beating.
The white-haired boy smiled.
Baël: "Come on! Relax a little Dodoria! Being Frieza's right-hand man must be exhausting! Wouldn't you like to come over for a few drinks with me?"
Despite saying that in a happy voice, Baël's face looked seriously into Dodoria's eyes, trying to make him understand something.
Baël took a tracker out of a bag and quickly opened it with his hands, the tracker snapped in half in an abrupt way, he took out a device from inside and a note from the bag.
The note read "Dodoria, this is a microphone, take off the tracker, we need to talk about something very important.", all of this was written in some strange symbols that were a commonly used as the universal language.
Dodoria was surprised, his first reaction was to doubt Baël and thought he could have put it there, but then he thought about it further, even if it wasn't Dodoria's forte, he was still the right hand of the emperor of the universe.
However, Dodoria had to dismiss that idea, he had just seen how Baël had broken the tracker to open it, so he didn't have the skill to leave it intact with a microphone inside.
Baël: "You want something strong, don't you? Come on, I'll pay! Believe it or not, I can last very long in a drinking game!"
While Baël was still talking as if he was trying to convince Dodoria, he took out another note. This one had written in the same universal language "You may not believe me, but if you give me your tracker I can show you that it also has a microphone, if not you will have lost a mere tracker, and you'll still be able to give me a beating!"
Dodoria stared at the message for a few seconds before finally nodding.
Dodoria: "Ugh... Okay"
Before Dodoria could hand it to him, Baël, who in his mind was rejoicing with joy as he praised himself and his [Acting] skill, grabbed Dodoria by the shoulder as if they were friends, the situation was funny as Baël needed to fly to reach him, then he spoke.
Baël: "Perfect! You'll see that you won't regret it...! Dodoria, take off the tracker man! We're going to have fun not fight on a mission! Hahaha!"
As he said that he grabbed the tracker and ripped it open in half with a lot of strength, the tracker snapped off ceasing to function, and he pulled out a device similar to the one he had taken out of his tracker, now that there were no microphones they could talk however they wanted.
Baël: "Phew.... That was hard..."
He said with a sigh.
Meanwhile, Dodoria's head was spinning.
Dodoria:"... W-Why do they have microphones...?"
He asked very confused.
Baël:"... Mine because I'm a Saiyan, they monitor us all after the destruction of planet Vegeta..."
A grimace of apparent pain appeared on his face as if remembering the past.
Baël:"... And obviously it wasn't destroyed by a meteorite as the army says.... We both know it was Frieza... And I bet you were present..."
Dodoria tensed for a moment, then he prepared himself in case Baël wanted to seek revenge, yet, instead, Baël let out a light laugh.
Baël: "Calm down man.... I'm not seeking revenge... In fact, I seek your help.... You know what happened to my race, and we are monitored.... You are also monitored... Do you understand that?"
Dodoria's expression froze instantly.
Dodoria: "I-Impossible! I-I'm Freezer's right-hand man! I've always completed my missions!"
Baël: "Well, it seems you're not that useful to him anymore.... Let me remind you that you're not his only right-hand man..."
Dodoria: "Zarbon?! That vermin?!"
Baël: "He may have given a false report, saying that you want to betray him, or that you broke orders or missions, this way he would have much more power being Freezer's only right hand, and he would have much more confidence."
Dodoria was silent as he checked that, indeed, everything Baël said could be true.
Baël: "However, you can't do anything yet.... If you kill Zarbon you will only make Freezer think that he was right, and he will expel you, killing you in the process, if you stay without doing anything he will finish you off, if you try to convince him that what Zarbon said is not true.... You know what Freezer does even to messengers who bring him bad news.... He finishes them off... So I doubt he'll listen to you, the moment you open your mouth you'll be dead..."
Dodoria's face paled.
Dodoria:"... S-So... W-What should I do...?"
Baël:"... You have to rebel!"
Dodoria: "Are you crazy?! Freezer has immeasurable power! We can't do anything to him! Just by sending in the Ginyu special forces or even a large number of soldiers he'll finish us both off!"
Dodoria made mention of Freezer's strongest squadron, the Ginyu Special Forces.
Baël: "That's where you're wrong.... It's not just the two of us."
Dodoria:"... Huh?"
Baël: "We have a large part of Freezer's Army on our side... You want to know why? Easy... Racism. Many alien races have been maintaining a great grudge against each other, and it turns out that this hatred has reached its breaking point.... Entire factions have been created that will be killing each other in no time... I suppose you want to know how I know that?"
Dodoria nodded slowly as he paid attention.
Dodoria: "I don't understand how this has been able to hide from my sight..."
Baël: "I know because I've lived it, Dodoria. I am a Saiyan, many races hate me to death, they despise me, it has reached the point that in some missions, companions of other races have tried to kill us while we were on another planet... Do you understand that? Do you know what it's like to live in fear that at any given time someone could kill you?"
Dodoria fell silent.
Baël: "I request that the people who suffer this discrimination come to our side, we can create a faction and hide in it, Freezer may wipe out some, but not all, even if he did, we would have enough time to escape his clutches! We can live, Dodoria! We can escape and even have an organization of our own! You can have your life secured without having to please a tyrant who would kill you for failing just one of your missions! Do you understand that Dodoria!? Freedom is what I'm giving you right now, we can live! We can free ourselves from this tyrant's shackles!"
Baël's voice cracked at the end, causing tears to flow from his eyes from emotion, Dodoria also seemed extremely emotional.
Dodoria: "Fuck yes! Yes! Yes I want to do it! I don't want to die just for a piece of shit like Zarbon! I don't want to die for a lie at the hands of a tyrant! I want to live! I want to rule my own life!"
A smile appeared on Baël's tear-stained face.
Baël: "Then we have an agreement Dodoria.... For the moment you have to keep pretending to be a member of Frieza's army.... Just wait a little while and the internal war will begin.... It won't last long, I promise."
Dodoria nodded in understanding.
(POV Baël)
Honestly... I deserve an award for this.... This time I really surprised myself!
Well, with Dodoria on my side, I will wreak havoc inside Frieza's Army, almost everything I told Dodoria was a lie, Freezer didn't plan to kill him, Zarbon didn't betray him, no one tried to kill me, the only true thing, was that there was hatred between the races, but it wasn't as exaggerated as I painted it, but still.... The firewood is there... All it takes is a spark to start the flames.... And that will make the story I told Dodoria seem like a fairy tale in comparison.
An internal war that will destroy the army, this will attract Frieza's brother Cooler, even though they are brothers, Freezer's family would not hesitate to kill each other just for power. Cooler will take the opportunity to finish off the army and keep a lot of profits for himself.
A smile of genuine joy appeared on my face.
Dodoria saw my smile and smiled back, he thought I was glad to be able to escape just like him.... What a poor, poor soul...
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