"This can't be happening..." She croaked, her voice trembling in fear and despair, tears starting to form. She unconsciously clutched Kakarot closer to her chest. He started crying, sensing what she felt.
Kakarot. The very idea that her little baby boy was going to die, along with her, made her feel physically ill in a way she couldn't even put into words. She wanted all this to just be a nightmare, trying desperately to think that this wasn't real, and she would wake up at any moment. Her heart thundered in her ears, despair threatening to overtake her...
Bardock grabbed her shoulders, snapping her out of her thoughts of death.
"Gine, stay calm, okay? We need to get Kakarot off this planet."
"Huh?" She asked, then remembered what he said. "H-How?"
"I have a plan." He answered, trying to keep his voice down but steady. "If we can steal an infiltration pod from the launch facility and send it off from the far side of the planet, away from Frieza, then we might just be able to sneak him away from here before anything happens."
Gine thought of this, then doubts started coming to her. "But... wouldn't they detect him? Frieza placed a no-launch order on all purging flights. Including infiltration babies."
Bardock glanced down at his son, who was looking up at him and his mother in fear, as if he knew they were discussing his very fate.
"I don't think they will. He has such a weak power level that I don't think it will register on their scouters unless they were actively searching for him."
Gine thought she heard Bardock chuckle to himself. As if the irony of the situation was making itself known to him. Here he was, a Saiyan father who wanted nothing to do with his weakling of a second-born son, being confronted with his species' own imminent extinction, now saw that his son's very weakness would save him from death, and was going to do everything he could to make it happen. She supposed it was funny in a morbid kind of way.
She sensed that Bardock had more to say, and he did.
"And...in a lot of the visions I had, I saw Kakarot too. I saw him all grown up."
Gine was taken aback. "Really?"
"Yes. I don't know why, but something tells me that his survival is critical. That it may have something to do with this..." Bardock said as he gazed down at his son. "...and if my visions are true, then Kakarot will survive. He must!"
A surge of hope filled Gine that wasn't there before.
"You sure that will work?" She asked, desperate.
Bardock looked up at her. He looked like he still wasn't one hundred percent sure himself, but all things considered, they didn't have many options.
"It may be our only chance to save him." Bardock said to her with finality.
Gine looked down at baby Kakarot in her embrace. She almost wanted to start crying. They were going to send him off so soon, out into the unknown to escape certain death, and it frightened her. She'll never get to see him again, or worse if they detect his pod, they will kill him.
They will kill him. Those words rang in her mind. She couldn't stomach that, the precious life in her arms taken from this world not even half a year old. She wanted to scream.
But, still, she trusted Bardock. Hell, she even loved him. And she trusted him to do what he knew was right. It may be risky, but if she wanted her baby to have any chance at life, and if he could see Kakarot in the future as he claimed...
"Okay." She said quietly.
"Good." Bardock gave her a quick embrace. Through the overwhelming despair, she was surprised by his show of affection. He seemed to have changed dramatically since the last time she saw him. And she cherished it.
"Alright, we have no time to lose. Meet me tonight at the old ruins out in the wastelands. Sneak Kakarot out of here and I'll have an attack ball there by then."
He started for the door. Then Gine realized something.
"What about Raditz? Or us?" She asked him.
Bardock stopped and turned to her. He thought for a long moment as if he was unsure.
"Let's focus on saving Kakarot first, then we'll see what we can do." He turned and left without saying another word.
Gine just stood there was for a long time, the weight of the situation sinking in. From just getting from work to here, her life had changed forever. Or at least what little time would be left of it.
Kakarot started to flail in her arms, getting her attention. Then, she remembered what she had to do.
"It's okay, sweetie." She soothed him, then set to the task of trying to smuggle her own son out the building. No one may know what they were up to, but she couldn't let anyone see her take her son home without authorization. He was never meant to be sent home, just sent on his mission. So, she had to be careful.
She ran back to the nursey to grab a blanket, wrapping Kakarot up in a bundle. That done, she ran out of the medical complex. Once outside, she weaved her way through a riot-in-progress to her home, not far from work, but it felt much further away this time. She clutched Kakarot close to her chest to keep his face out of sight and muffle any sounds from him. Gine momentarily panicked thinking she would arouse the suspicion of bystanders when he started crying. But thankfully, nobody paid her any mind. Everyone was too busy fighting, drowning out the sounds of his crying.
Gine finally reached her home. A small dwelling she shared with some coworkers who were still on duty. She set Kakarot down and went through all of her belongings and food storages to get all the supplies she would need to cross the wasteland to where they had to meet.
She pushed whatever lingering thoughts she had about her life and that of Bardock and Raditz. Right now, she had to stay calm and focus on the family in front of her that she could save.
Later that night, Gine was flying just a few feet off the ground at high speed towards the other side of the world. She was slightly panicking since she took so long to get out of the capitol. But she had to be stealthy if Frieza had any ground patrols to keep the Saiyans from wondering off.
It had been a long flight out into the wastelands. Even while flying as fast as she could, Vegeta was a large planet with a lot of ground to cover. She brought Kakarot in a sling to carry him while flying with whatever food or water they would need to cross this inhospitable stretch of the globe.