Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Requiem for Vegeta-sei ❯ 5 ( Chapter 5 )

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Meanwhile back at the Gravity Chamber…

"Come on, Vegeta! What's going on?"

"I told you not to follow me Kakarot! Now get out of my site."

Goku moved in front of Vegeta as the smaller man threw punches at an imaginary foe. "I didn't follow you," he said with his goofy smile starting to appear on his face. "I got here at the same time you did."

"Damn instantaneous movement!"

"So is she a full-blooded Saiyan? Like you and me?" Goku took the Prince's silent glare as an affirmative answer and continued on his train of thought. "She looks younger than Gohan, so she would have been born after Vegeta-sei was destroyed. But that's what I don't get. I only know of male survivors. So unless there's something about Saiyan breeding that I don't know…"

"There were more survivors of Vegeta-sei than just us," the prince started as he shut off the gravity in the chamber. "The strongest of us were already off world working for Freiza. Others suspected Freiza might take their children or worse, so they devised a plan. They would send more of their children out on missions, like you were sent.

"More adults started taking on off world missions, too. Freiza assumed it was out of loyalty to him. Then the space pods started 'malfunctioning', veering off course and eventually exploding. Freiza assumed this was because of Saiyan stupidity. He couldn't have been more wrong.

"It was a Saiyan genius that that devised how to make the pods transmit signals back to Freiza that showed them veering off course, malfunction, and then disappear as if they had been destroyed. He never knew it but his loyal pets were slowly evacuating their home world and relocating on another planet."

"What about the ones sent off as babies, like me?" questioned Goku trying to absorb all the new information the other man had given him. It was, by far, the largest amount of information Vegeta had ever told him of their home world.

"Piggy-backed on the implanted mission directions, was the information telling them that once they completed their task to go to the new location in stead of Vegeta-sei. When you hit you head, you must have lost that as well as your orders to destroy Earth."

"Oh," the brain damaged Saiyan said as he rubbed his head. "Is that how you survived?"

"No you idiot! I was one of Freiza's Saiyan slaves. I was contacted later, after the planet was destroyed and told about the refugees. They weren't sure that they could trust me," Vegeta smirked almost reminiscently. " Heh, they still didn't trust me even after I went there…"

The Prince of All Saiyans had a look of horror on his face. He slowly sat down on the floor, leaning his back against the control panel. He lowered his face so he was staring at the ground in front of him. Then in a quiet voice, he spoke, "They probably think that it was I who betrayed them… that I killed them."

"Killed who?" the third-class-born warrior ask as he sank to the floor beside the prince. He did not receive an answer for a long time and was beginning to think that he would not get one.

"That bastard had told me that he had my pod tracked. That he had found their hiding place," Vegeta didn't have to explain who the bastard was Goku knew he meant Freiza. "When I fought him on Namek, he told me that he had just received word that his men had successfully destroyed the planet they were on."

"So that's why you just seemed to break down…" Goku remembered but did not mention that he assumed that that had been the reason Vegeta had cried while dying.

"I didn't want to believe him," he continued wetting his lips nervously. "So after you got back and we were waiting for the androids, I had to see for myself. There was nothing left. They were all gone…Freiza had taken everything from me for the second time in my life. And at that moment, I just snapped. Right there in space, where they all died, I snapped."

"You went Super Saiyan for the first time…" Goku sat there not knowing what to say. The girl must have reminded him of all he lost. Wait a minute if she's alive… Goku jumped to his fee when he came to the realization. "If the saiyan girl is alive, then that means that they all must be!"

Goku grabbed Vegeta by the arm dragging him out of the Gravity Chamber. "Come on, we have to find out why she came for you."

Vegeta dug his feet in and wrenched his arm out of the taller Saiyan's grasp. This sent the still moving Goku face first into the grass.

"Whoa, now what's the problem?" the grounded Saiyan ask looking up.

The other Saiyan had turned and started to ascend the stairs into the chamber again. He stopped for a minute thinking; he then lowered his shoulders in resignation. "If they are alive, that means I abandoned them. That I abandoned her…"

Goku ran up and stopped Vegeta by placing a hand on his shoulder. "You didn't think that they were alive. You've spent all this time with what you believed to be the only Saiyans left. She should understand that once you tell her. I don't think she knows you're not the only Saiyan here," they both jumped when they heard someone swear loudly in Saiya-go. " We better go, the boys must have brought her here."