In the outer ring of Vegeta city.
Night had fallen over the capital of the warrior race's planet. The sky lacking a lunar body meant there was no chance of haphazard destruction. Technology long since made up for the harsh living environments with vast portions terra formed to meet the needs of its inhabitants.
Within this lightless night the screams and moans filled the elite residency on the east side of the capital. In a neighborhood that would be normally quiet at nightfall. As a man cried out and a woman groaned in satisfaction the rest of the warriors, families, and single men and women were deeply disturbed.
"Ahhh!" And "mmmphs" filled the long night until the latest hours.
Finally someone had approached the noisiest house in the sector. Knocking with the back of his knuckles against her metal door. Despite this the moans had yet to cease. After a few more failed attempts at modestly knocking he began slamming his huge fist against the door.
"Negi, I swear I will knock this dam door down!" The burly voice commanded into the night.
Finally the obnoxious moans and screams had stopped. A moment later the door was sliding open, but what greeted the man was not the sight he had hoped for.
Negi the sadistic woman was in the clothes she was born with. Her tail drooped behind her muscular thighs. The sheer confidence in her sweaty gaze disgusted the man.
"F*cking hell Negi can you put some clothes on before answering the door!" He said while looking away, not that the woman was ugly, but because he was firmly resolved in seeing just one woman naked for as long as he lived.
"What!? And here I thought you finally wanted more than one mate Nappa~" she cooed, eyeing the strong man with a scary gaze. "This one's about to break too~"
"No!" Nappa firmly rejected her advances.
"Whatever, like is said, I should only be up for about another hour. If you change your mind let me know" she said while sexually assaulting the man with her eyes. Licking her lips before turning tail and shaking her butt in a failed final attempt to seduce the devoted man.
Nappa turned away and made his way home after the fact. The surrounding residents thanked him from behind their walls.
Once he had returned to his one and only mate, Nappa explained that their neighbor would be done making so much noise soon. The big man held his mate close while only deducing that Negi's actions were due to her being chewed out by the king.
Earlier that day she had angered the king so badly he released his energy in the castle. If he was trying to intimidate the entire Kingdom–he absolutely accomplished it. Leaving everyone to wonder what Negi had done wrong.
***
Negi had just finished her briefing. Not even withholding any details. With her lack of understanding the situation or the King's intentions she had believed Kappa's daughter to simply be in the wrong status, along with herself being in the wrong position.
Negi, the elite warrior, was not an instructor. Though she hid it, terribly so, everyone had a good idea at how freakishly sadistic she could be. It was only her merit and strength that proved her mentality was very much a use for the race. The restraint in her twisted personality also pushed her far above what a reject would be held in contempt for.
After hearing what she had said the King felt a vein in his forehead bulge. Quite frankly if it continued like this he was sure eventually some progress would be made, but unfortunately for him and more importantly her, Kappa's flame squadron had cleared their mission much sooner than he expected.
It was also with how ignorant Negi was portraying her job that had the King ready to flip out. His intolerance is hitting its peak.
"So you mean to tell me..." He starts before having to correct himself "let me get this straight. You have been assaulting this girl with no rhyme or reason?" Even though he asked this question, the King understood that breaking down the child's will was part of their way of training. It was how blatantly she enjoyed this failing of hers.
"Yes..Sire, you told me to instruct her and.." Negi started to sweat, finally feeling the pressure coming from her king's gaze.
"To teach her our ways."
"And I am sire, she's shown the will to be a furious warrior and a blood thirsty beast of battle like us.." Negi felt the sweat bead fall down her temple upon immediately realizing her mistake.
"Us?"
It was at this moment the scouters around the planet started to erupt in warning bells as they announced a power level was rising within the capital. Some were ignorant of this rising power, but the majority recognized that on this planet only one man had this level of power at his disposal. The race of saiyans was one where power ruled supreme after all.
"Us..me and my peers sire not-not you!" She corrected herself but it was too late as she felt herself raise off the ground. A hand keeping her above the throne room by her throat. "Ghhh"
"Negi Kappa's flame squadron will be returning and the girl will be by their side as long as they are on this planet. That is the deal I've made. Furthermore, she is not able to leave the rejection base until passing a reevaluation test. One that you will continue to intercept until that girl is ready to choose our side. If you fail me I'll turn you into space dust" he said while dropping her down to the floor below.
Negi almost forgot to fly as she hit the floor. Looking up at the man wrapped in a violet aura. The King passed his patience with the woman.
After that Negi had scurried out of the capital. Flying up into the air and proceeded to lock back into her duties.
***
Meanwhile at the cafe, Zukki had filled her tray with a very delicious looking amalgamation of meat, combined with some sweet smelling grey substance. It hit her tray with a splat sound before she was pushed out of line by the next person.
Behind her was the boy who followed her from the infirmary. 456 had this chance to understand that feeling he was experiencing and couldn't let it slip through his fingers. It was his turn to take some slop, he didn't even flinch as this was the norm for him.
Zukki had moved to a table and since the seat in front of her was free, 456 took it.
She was focused on the pile of slop in front of her. Her eyes twitching and lips curled down in a frown.
"Is this food?" She said out loud to no one in particular. The girl was grossly astonished by the food each and every time she saw it.
With his hands, 456 began eating the food he was served. A near identical pile of meaty great piles of squishy...food. While he ate his eyes were trained on her.
("Yes?") He would answer her rhetorical question in his mind. ("What is food to her?") Naturally came to mind as well.
Sure, even the new rejects struggle to eat this stuff the first time. Even though it is their one and only type of meal from the get go, hunger persists and eventually they get used to it.
"This is not food" she speaks while shifting her eyes up at. Her statement caught him off guard, like she had read his mind. The stare intensifies her words. "You look so confused, this stuff can't be edible"
"Edible..?" He questioned, his vocabulary not fully developed yet, although he could guess what she meant. "The food?"
"It's not food!"
Zukki was moving her hand closer to the slop pile. Clearly struggling to get it all the way there. A comical side to behold, her hand shaking on the way to its destination. She pulls back her hand in denial before forcing it forward in re-acceptance. The girl stares at the slop with some level of determination.
455 had been a little bit behind the two of them so after he got through the line he sat beside 456. Raising an eyebrow he looked over at his friend for an explanation.
"What is she doing?" He asked.
"Trying to eat the food" 456 responds
"It's not food!" Zukki complains without looking up.
"Zukki, you don't have to eat this f–stuff." He starts to say while correcting himself to avoid the complaint. Both Zukki and 456 look at him for an explanation why that would be the case. "You can skip meals..you just have to stop working hard on whatever your doing"
"Definitely not!" She intensely rejects that decision. Her desire to fuel her instruction and flame practice overrule her disgust. Zukki looked up at 455 with a fiercely determined glare.
Taking her second hand she forced the first to reach the hellish plate of food. Grasping at the slop and shakingly placing it in her mouth. The two boys watched as she struggled to consume the meal. Funny enough it was a tad bit easier after the first bite. It must have been her instincts coupled with just how hungry she was.
456 specifically noted how unpleasant her expression was as she continued to scoop handfuls of slop into her mouth. The girl was definitely not going to be cleaning her fingers after the fact. Meanwhile 455 was minding his own business and eating his food at a moderate pace.
"Why go through all that? You didn't need to eat all of it. If you just stop fighting that lady." 456 finally mustered the courage to ask Zukki after she finished the full pile of slop.
"Because I'm going to get out of this place. I'm not gonna lose to some disgusting slop." She claims with a victorious glint in her eyes that blows away 456's timidity.
"Care to explain what losing to food has to do with living here?" 455 asks without looking up.
"It's not food..." Zukki looks at him with a scarily deadpan expression.
"Ok ok.." 455 relents as he glances at that scary look she gives him.
"I have to keep eating this slop so I can beat that b*tch and leave this base. Then I can join my father!" She officially gave them her reason for working so hard, even eating something so disgusting in the process.
"B*tch?" Both boys said while looking at her confused. It was the new word that had them more confused than the idea of leaving this base.
"B*tch, that's my kind of language, haha" a new figure joined them. One 455 was familiar with. A kid with void like dead eyes sat next to Zukki. "So what's this about leaving the base?"
He overheard their conversation. It wasn't as if they were acting out in secret or anything, but Zukki's situation was distinctly different from his. The advantage irked him to his core but he did not display that emotion in the slightest.
"The name's Jagger, so are you talking about the re-evaluation in a few days or..." He interjects without a care in the world. "Oh and you three are 454,456, and the guy from the infirmary...455"
"That's Zukki to you and I have no idea what you're talking about. That lady said if i beat her up then i can leave this pathetic excuse for a base"
"Wow, someone else with a real name~" Jagger says with a condescendingly playful tone that just doesn't match his facial expression.
While 456 is thoroughly unnerved by this new presence and stays quiet.
"Reevaluation? What is that?" 455 brings himself to question Jagger through the hazy aura of intimidation.
"You don't know? It's a free for all, where a few low-class failures get placed in a dog pile of us rejects and the few remaining at the end get to officially leave this place"