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In a swift motion, she picked up Kakarot into her arms and took a seat inside the pod instead. Kakarot suddenly calmed down, so happy to be in his mother's embrace.
As she strapped herself in, Bardock spoke up. "I will go face Frieza right after you launch, hopefully I can distract him enough to allow you two to escape. Who knows, I may even get lucky and land a hit on him. Besides, we Saiyans will not go quietly." He said with an ounce of pride.
Gine looked at him with awe, how a low-class warrior like him would go on to challenge the galactic tyrant himself. Even in the face of certain death, Bardock showed no fear. Not even King Vegeta himself showed that kind of courage against incredible odds.
She remembered then why she fell for Bardock.
"If you do..." Gine said, "...You know where to find us. And find Raditz if you can. We will be together again!" Sadness returning to her at the mention of her eldest. Oh she dearly wished she could have seen him one last time. If he was still alive...
"Don't worry, we will." Bardock assured.
So many impossible promises were being made already, Gine thought morbidly. But no matter what, in death or on a far-flung world, they will all be reunited as a family again. Someday.
"Goodbye, Bardock" Gine said, her voice breaking again.
He nodded solemnly, "Goodbye, Gine." He then looked down at Kakarot, now looking up at him calmly. "And goodbye to you too, my son."
Bardock reached over and pressed the launch button. The pod came to life and the door closed. It locked with a hiss as she and Kakarot were sealed away from the outside world.
Gine pressed a hand against the glass window. She may never see Bardock again, so she took her last chance at what she had to say.
"I love you." She said, tears falling down her face.
He heard her through the glass, and Bardock simply smiled back at her.
"I know."
He didn't explicitly say he loved her back, but it was as close to it as a Saiyan could, and she'll take it.
A light began beeping on the pod's control panel, signaling it was ready for take off. She felt the engines come on as the pod lifted slowly off the ground, then stopped, floating in the air momentarily. She never broke eye contact with Bardock as he watched.
Then, without much warning to brace herself, the ground receded away with blinding speed. The sudden acceleration made Gine's vision tunnel for a moment. She never got a last glimpse of Bardock before he became too distant to see.
Her vision cleared when the pod's artificial gravity kicked in, nulling the acceleration on her body. Kakarot cried again, from the unpleasant takeoff. Already they were in space. Planet Vegeta was a brilliant magenta sphere in front of her through the window. It was receding fast, far enough to see it in its entirety after a minute into the flight.
Gine spotted Frieza's ship on the other side of the planet, hovering in place in high orbit. She wondered if they spotted them.
Then, she saw specks appearing around the ship, and they were moving. Her heart suddenly became a lead weight. They had been spotted. She had doomed herself and her son...
They didn't move after them though, they just stayed near Frieza's ship. Weren't they going to at least send attack squads or fire lasers at them?
Planet Vegeta got smaller and smaller as they get farther and farther. But nothing happened. They were still in one piece. Did they make it? Did she dare hope that this was all a false alarm?
After a while, Planet Vegeta became far enough away that it was a pinprick of light outshone by its parent star, indiscernible from all the other stars that made up the infinite sea of outer space.
A high-pitched beep and rushing hiss of gas indicated that the pod's stasis mode was activated. Kakarot's crying ceased when he was induced into sleep for the long journey to their destination.
Gine felt her mind slipping. She fought to stay awake and keep an eye on...
She suddenly saw a bright flash where Planet Vegeta ought to be, as if it had become their star system's second sun.
Something within her felt torn away, sensing Bardock's life force through their bond disappear...
He had failed, and he, along with their entire race, and her home, was gone...
Those were Gine's last coherent thou
ghts before everything faded away into sweet oblivion...
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