Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ TOSOV (BOOK 3) ❯ LOVE CONQUERS ALL ( Chapter 36 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

WARNING! ANGST. HEART BREAK. VIOLENCE. CROSSOVER WITH YYH AND COWBOY BEBOP (BORROWING GREN). SHOUNENE AI. YAOI. FLUFF! MUSHINESS! SUGARY TREATS!

CHAPTER XXXVIII

LOVE CONQUERS ALL

Vegeta sat in the cockpit of his ship and drifted in the vast void and solitude of space. It seemed so long ago that when he was in such a state as he was with his heart ripped to shreds, that he would find some helpless planet and send it to another dimension. Well, there were plenty of planets the Saiya-jin had conquered for Frieza that he needed to liberate and ally himself with, he would pay a visit to one of those. A wicked smirk that his handsome face had not seen for nearly a decade emerged from its place of hiding. His brows furrowed into the hard cold look they had when he had first invaded Earth and he set a course for a planet he knew would give him a real fight. If he lost, so be it, no one would miss him... Except his kids.


"GONE?! Trunks, 'Tousan can't be gone! What's gonna happen to us?" Teresahan cried when her half brother told her the news.

" 'Tousan said for you to take the newborns to Minervasei and you three will live with King Aegar. The demi-Saiya-jin will be here and Uncle Raditz, Kale and the others when they relocate to Kale are to bring Cilvi and Endive. That Saiyan is never to be mentioned and is to be considered branded," Trunks told the group as they made their way to watch the fighting Pokemon.

"I don't blame him. He's not at the palace, I can tell you," Kale shook his head.

All eyes riveted on the youngest full-blooded son of King Vegeta. "What do you mean, Uncle Kale, that he's not at the palace?" Goten asked, his eyes round in surprise.

"He's left the planet, in fact!" Kale paled at what he sensed from his brother.

"Oh, God, do you know what he's capable of when his emotions are out of whack? At his level now, he could take out half the universe we inhabit if he snaps!" Raditz screeched.

Ears as sensitive as a Namek's picked up the conversation. 'Gone? Have I driven him to leave by my actions? Wait, no, he treats me like the scum he always calls me, so why should I care?' Kakarrot mused, as he lay resting and recovering from the severance of the bond.

"I want poppa back and the way he was with his feelings in tact! I'll kill that-!" a hand clamped over the small prince's mouth.

"Not so loud, chibi. He can hear us from this distance if we're over loud. Listen, I want to get them back together as well but we have to eliminate the competition," Trunks whispered and the kids nodded.

"Hey, even though he's my friend and I was beginning to warm to your dad, Goku should not have done what he did! I'll assist in any way. Your dad's come a long way to be sent back to the way he was. When he and Nappa came to invade this planet over twenty-five years ago, he was ruthless and cruel but he only fought Goku. Gohan and I will invite him for dinner tonight and talk this over with him. Pan would love some time with her grandpa," Piccolo nodded then the group sat to watch the Pokemon fights.

Several hours later, the crowd began to depart and parents carried tired chibis to air cars, busses vans, space crafts, or on their backs if they could fly and lived locally. Trunks had invited Kurama and Hiei to join them and the two accepted. Grabbing hold of anyone who knew Instant Transmission, the Saiya-jin teleported back to Little Vegeta.

"Hey, put the chibis to bed then we'll see if we can track our runaway prince," Kale suggested and the parents did so.

Once the chibis had been settled, Kale, Raditz, Goten and Trunks all gathered in the radar room. Kale and Trunks illuminated the holographic map of the known solar systems and watched a lone blip head towards a planet in Quadrant 960, Sector 77, which was a good two-week journey from Earth via a conventional craft. The trip was just a week's journey for a Saiyan one, and hardly any time for a pilot who knew IT and could teleport his craft to within a hair's breath of the planet.

"Oh, my God! He can't be doing what I think! He'll get killed, that little shit hot head! Now I have to go after him!" Raditz had gone white as he watched the blip's motion.

From the doorway of the radar room, several sets of eyes peered onto the map and noted the same blip as it moved toward a large dot. Adults and children, who knew the prince, could not sleep; well, that included the entire clan, however. The reason was their concern for both the second largest, most powerful Saiyan warrior and their broken hearted prince.

"That can't be good if Uncle Raditz has to go after poppa. C'mon, time to pay one shit for brain dead monkey a visit and teach him a lesson he'll never forget!" young Endive remarked in a whisper to his sister and cousins.

"Not without us, you're not! Let's go then! My Matu's come a long way from a grumpy alien bent on destruction to the soft hearted being he is now!" Teresahan retorted and took the younger kids with her.

"Hey, what's going on out there?" it was Kale's voice that boomed from the radar room then moved to confront the crowd gathered at the door which included his three elder children. "What are you all doing here, you're supposed to be abed!" he glared down at the children then swept the adults with a piercing gaze.

"We're gonna go teach Kakarrot a lesson about destroying the male bond! He had no right, poppa's heart broken and that's why he took off! I want my poppa, Uncle Kale and it's not fair that that big ape can get away with this!" Endive lost control of his emotions and grabbed onto his uncle.

"This is Yamcha's-"

"Sir, vid-phone, for you?" Han had disrupted the discourse and bowed to Trunks.

Trunks nodded. "I'll take it in here," the demi-Saiyan prince nodded and returned to the radar room. "Trunks here. Gren? What's wrong, what is it?"

"Yamcha threw me out. Told me I was no longer welcome. Please, I have nowhere else to turn," the young male that the prince and his friends had rescued at the park cried.

"Ok, I'll be there in a flash. Stay where you are," Trunks terminated the call and tapped his mate on the shoulder. "He's outside Yamcha's place. This unsettles the kids, and my little brother and sister have lost it! We have to make your dad see the mistake he's making and hurting Gren in the process!"

"We'll come too, those two might give us a hard way to go and you two know how ruthless Hiei and I are when we battle. No one does that to Gren twice in one day! I may be sending my soul to King Enma's desk via e-mail, but to deprogram Goten's dad would be well worth it. Let's go!" Kurama said his voice even and controlled.

"What are you all doing?" Kale asked.

"We're gonna rescue Gren and deprogram my dad from that evil Earth-jin's influence! He's wanted my dad back ever since V-sama and he bonded on Minerva," Goten hissed.

"All right, you guys do that, Raditz, Teresahan and I are gonna go after Vegeta. I'll contact the home planet to send back up, if needed!" Kale nodded and moved to the radar room.

"Right troops, let's make it happen like yesterday!" Trunks ordered. "Everyone who can fly and use their powers are the only ones to go on this mission. The rest of you stay here, train and watch over the cubs!" Trunks yelled then opened the front door to the palace and several gravity defying beings took to the air.

"Hey, Gohan and Piccolo took dad to dinner. I'll contact Gohan and tell him the sitch!" Goten said as he flew with the others.


At Kimshi buffet Goku sat pigging out with gusto, as did Gohan. The owner, Earan Humizu-he had not left the planet-stood talking with his guest.

"So because V-sama yelled at you, treated you like scum and humiliated you, you took another and you're carrying the prince's cub? V-sama must have really lost his edge if you, your lover and the little one are still alive. Not to mention any other offspring between you three! What were you thinking, idiot? You are a disgrace to the Saiyan race!" Earan hissed, throwing his hands up in disgust.

"It's all right, Earan, his mother and I will take it from here," a hard cold voice sounded which caused Earan to smile.

"As you wish, my cousins. He's all yours," Earan bowed then vacated the dining area slamming the Earth raised Saiyan with a glare that could freeze the sun.

Kakarrot looked up and ... "MOM! DAD! I-I thought that you had left for Kale?" the large Saiyan stammered.

"Outside, boy! I don't care how powerful you are, I am your Outusan and I will always have authority over you! Now, let's go!" Bardock hissed, grabbed Kakarrot by the ear and teleported them away from the eatery. Gohan and Piccolo followed.

"W-when did you learn Instant Transmission?" Kakarrot gasped, as the group had been teleported to a desert away from habitation.

"In Other World, where else! What the hell's wrong with you, boy? You have the most sought after prize of our people and because he treated like dirt, you leave him! You're pathetic! It's this freakin' planet and their poisonous ways that's stripped you of who you are! You, Kakarrot, my son, born of Saiyan royalty himself, stripped of his pride, his essence, his loyalty to the crown and for what? That little Earth shit's gonna lose his usefulness, die, shrivel up and dry out! You'll never be able to reach completion without blowing his head from his body! You have two choices: First, stop living in this fantasy, return to the one who has given his heart to you and raise fat healthy cubs. Two, die like the shame you have become along with the rest of this planet and that is no threat!" Bardock hissed as he held his son by the neck then began to rain punches into the large warrior's face. Then the scarred warrior began to mercilessly tear his son apart without care, to make him feel physically what their prince must be feeling emotionally.

Kakarrot's eyes widened in fear. Blow up the Earth, himself and everyone he had come to care about? Well, he had not been with many of them since he and the prince had gotten together. His sons and grand child had blossomed to their full potential since being with the prince. Vegeta had let him be himself and never really mistreated him the way Chichi had done. Sure, the prince yelled at him, humiliated him and... 'Those we care about we treat like scum. Those we hate, we kill without mercy,' the words of the prince's former little sister had rushed back into mind. Kakarrot let his body go limp as he realized just what he had done and why he was feeling so badly now because the bond had been severed and the link closed. Bardock stopped beating his son who had burst into tears.

"Oh, dad, what have I done? I have to apologize to his highness, but he'll never forgive me. That's not his strong point," the large warrior cried.

"He love's you, he'll forgive you. You carry Saiyan royalty in you. Did you have relation with that human? Did he enter you?" Bardock asked incredulously as he stared down at his son.

Kakarrot shook his head. "I pleasured him but I had to stop when he screamed in pain and told me he could no longer handle me. He had thrown his human lover out for me to move in. I realize I can't be with anyone other than my prince," Kakarrot sniffed.

"Then let's get you cleaned up and we'll go find our prince," Bardock snarled and turned his back on his son.

In the meanwhile, Yamcha had unexpected visitors he could not handle. He was extremely weak from his short passion session with Kakarrot and was very ill prepared for the situation he found himself in. Two beings only as tall as his thigh and a lovely figure had him pinned to the bed from which he had not risen since Kakarrot had left with Gohan and Piccolo.

"Please, don't kill me! Goku was heart broken, so I offered him comfort," the large super human cried.

"Yamcha, you're supposed to have been my lover but you took another! I hate you, Yamcha, and I'm leaving you for this young buck here, your own grandson!" Gren indicated young Corinth as the two had immediately fallen in love with one another at first sight.

"Any last words before we blow you and this miserable little mud ball to the next dimension?" Endive snarled as he extended his hand in the same manner of the elder prince.

"Endive, no, that is not the way. Let us just leave him to suffer and think about the error of his ways." Trunks smirked.

"No, y-you can't leave me to die like this. I-I'm sorry," Yamcha rasped against a bloody throat.

"Who said anything about leaving you. We'll just drop you on your head at the nearest health facility," Goten snarled, his black eyes glinting with malice.

"H-how could you all be so cold? What have I done?" the human gasped.

"Only caused the first ever severance of a Saiyan mate bond which caused our dad to skip the planet to who knows where! I just pray dad's in his right mind when we find him or we will remove the remaining Saiya-jin and descendants and make a hole out of this planet! I8, 17, Krillin, Serena, take hold of the corners of the sheet and bring him to Capsule Corp. That blue haired female will know how to repair him. Meet back at LV Island and we'll go search for Vegeta from there," Trunks ordered and the four he had named jumped into action. The demi prince and the others returned to Little Vegeta.


Vegeta's ship had crashed onto the planet's surface and had caught the attention of the locals the second they had picked up his approach on their radar. Several grey skinned beings with long tails, ruby eyes and black painted lips surrounded the prince's craft. Vegeta looked out of the window and could not stifle the laugh that exited his lungs.

"In the name of Lord Frostige and Lady Frizzle, you are commanded to exit the craft!" one of the gray creatures commanded.

"Computer, power reading of the strongest moron out there?" Vegeta spoke to the cockpit computer.

"Strongest warrior is at two hundred-sixty-five thousand-four hundred twenty, Prince Vegeta," the automated voice of the computer responded.

"Chicken weakling Ice-jin. This'll be a piece of cake," Vegeta assured himself and he clicked off the power in his pod, opened the hatch and exited. In a slow meticulous manner, the prince put away his pod before he turned his attention to his welcoming party. The prince floated out of the crater the pod had created. "Well, well, if it isn't the Dover Boys. How nice of you to greet me, I want to see the king of this planet!" the prince commanded.

"No one sees king Stygia or Queen Imione without Lord Frostige's approval!" another of the grayish lizard type Ice-jin greeters hissed.

"I shall see this Lord Frostige then I will see the native king of this planet," the Saiyan prince nodded.

The lead Ice-jin pressed a button on his scouter. "What is it, Ice Cube, I am busy!" a voice sounded over the scouter.

"Begging my lord's pardon, but we have an illegal visitor, sir. He has the look and stench of a Saiyan about him," the officer grimaced.

"You should talk, ice box brain," the prince muttered, his arms crossed in his usual arrogant manner.

"Show him," the voice commanded and the officer looked to Vegeta. "Good Lord, no! Bring that one to me, I will deal with him personally! Lord Frostige out!" the voice roared then the line was silent.

The troop began to tremble and looked at one another in fear. "I-I have never heard Lord Frostige sound so... Let us not hesitate! Soldiers, grab the prisoner and move out!" the officer in command ordered.

"You touch me, you die. Don't worry, I can't run anywhere, so I will be behind you," Vegeta shot back in his smart manner of speech.

The Ice-jin rose into the air and Vegeta followed, not soon after the group landed in a court yard that led to a castle much smaller than the one Trunks was about to inherit from the Saiyan prince. They marched through the yard where any activity ceased so that the locals could watch the procession and bow as the militia walked through. The gates of the castle were opened once the troop was near enough.

"You men return to duty, I will escort this hot shot to Lord Frostige," the commander ordered his men who bowed then left then he continued down a long corridor that led to a set of doors with a guard on each side.

"General Ice Cube, state your business," one of the guards spoke in haughty tones.

"This creature crashed outside the city. Lord Frostige ordered him brought here to be dealt with," the general nodded.

The guards stepped aside and the two pulled open the oaken wood doors to admit the visitors. Once in front of the throne, Ice Cube bowed on one knee.

"Bow, Saiyan scum, or Lord Frostige will have you for lunch!" Ice Cube sneered in a whisper.

"I bow to no mortal but King Vegeta," the prince rejoindered.

"Well, well, a smart allelic. Are all Saiya-jin as stupid as you or are you a unique specimen?" a raspy, effeminate voice asked and a being in the exact image of Cooler in his final form rose from a gilded throne. "I am Lord Frostige and this lovely creature is my mate Lady Frizzle. What is your business here, monkey?" Frostige asked in frosty accents.

"Oh, nothing much, other than to send you to join those other slimy lizards in hell and reclaim this planet for the Stygians," Vegeta remarked, his own voice cool although he was itching to throttle the gray skunk for his profanity.

"How cute, the little monkey prince thinks to take this planet on his own. Cold was right, these cretins are the height of stupidity, 5'0"," the Ice-jin lord chuckled sans mirth. "Listen, monkey, Frieza gave me this rock to do with as I wished and I will have no challenge to my authority. Now, I will have you taken to one of our guest rooms but one wrong word and I will cut out your heart with a spoon!"

"As if. Blow all you want, Frostige, but in the end, I will have this planet and it will return to the leadership of the Stygians!" Vegeta snorted in derision, however, he stiffened as he felt a presence in the room but it was one of fearful awe.

"Ice Cube, take this rat monkey prince to the keep and make sure he can't escape!" Frostige ordered.

"Follow me, monkey!" the general snarled, turned and moved to the exit.

Before turning to follow that low life son of a snarlag, the prince flicked his finger against his thumb and a burst of chi sailed to Lord Frostige, caching that being in the back of the neck and sending him to the ground.

"Lord Frostige!" the guards leaned to assist their lord to his feet.

"Hands off, hands off!" The Ice lord turned to see a smug Saiyan prince sauntering down the throne room to the door. He also noted that the prince' bushy tail stood straight up as if to say '*F* you!' Shaking his baldhead, the Ice lord muttered, "No way," and returned to his seat.


On the Island of Little Vegeta, Raditz, Kale and Teresahan met Kakarrot and his parents. The former three were not overly happy to see the only being to have ever broken the prince's fragile, newly healed heart. The second Kakarrot stepped into the palace he was met by a hail of punches and kicks.

"You have some flaming nerve returning here after plummeting your mate into a state of despair so deep that he took a suicide mission by himself! If he gets killed, it'll be on you!" Raditz snarled as he threw several punches to his younger brother's already distorted face.

"Ok, son, that 's enough. I think we ought to concentrate our efforts on locating Vegeta," Bardock spoke.

"I know where he is, Outusan. We'll wait until the others return from their mission, and then we'll teleport to Frieza Planet 25 or Planet Stygia. I only hope that we can talk him into forgiving his mate," Raditz shook his head then went to wait for Trunks, Goten, the children and all who had gone on the mission to knock sense into Yamcha.

The group did not have long to wait. "Mission accomplished, Uncle Raditz, Uncle Kale! Can we go find poppa now?" young Prince Endive jumped around in excitement.

"What's he doin' here? It's because of him daddy left in the first place!" Cilvanti snarled and lunged at Kakarrot but Bardock grabbed her and held her back from attacking the royal mate.

"Simmer down, my princess, he's been beaten enough. Now, let's all get things together and teleport to this Planet Stygia your uncle said your dad went to," Bardock ran his hand over his grand daughter's brilliant blue highlighted black hair.

"We're ready, let's go. Only the royal house shall go. We don't know what kind of life is on this rock and we definitely want to pose no danger to the prince. Grab hold. Raditz, send me an image of a safe place to teleport," Trunks said after he had given Kakarrot three senzu beans so that he could make the journey.

"Why don't we just tune in Vegeta's frequency on the scouter?" Kakarrot suggested and all agreed.

With an image of the prince contained within the eyepiece of the scouter, the group joined hands and teleported to Planet Stygia. Ironically, the family materialized in the exact spot where Vegeta's pod had crashed.

"Look, a crater! This must be where 'Tousan landed! I can feel his chi, to the east!" Teray exclaimed and went to move when a chi blast caught her in the chest.

"Teresahan! Oh, baby, please!" Kakarrot screamed as he reached for a senzu bean to put into his daughter's mouth.

Suddenly a rain of chi blasts and energy balls sailed into the group who barely managed to return fire. Bardock, Kakarrot and Onya screamed in anger and their bodies began to metamorphasize into the giant were-gorilla of their race.

"Good idea!" Raditz exclaimed threw an energy ball and the others looked into it to begin their own change into Oozaru.

"Fantastic, we'll fly over head and locate the source!" 18 said, as Krillin, Marron, 17, Serena, Piccolo and herself took to the air. Of all the human Z sensi members, 18 and her family had actually taken their time to get to know the taciturn prince.


From a window in his room in the castle keep, Prince Vegeta watched the horizon blaze and he felt several familiar chiis at different levels of intensity. A battle was ensuing and he was in the city under heavy guard so that he would not escape. Cameras outside the window barred that route and a chi dampener on the door kept him at bay. He whimpered as he felt the battle. Oh, his scouter! He was glad for once to have thought to bring it. Affixing it to his handsome face, the prince tuned in the frequency to watch the fight. He gasped when he caught sight of two Pilzara, one Femzoro, several Oozaru and... 18? 17? Serena? Kurama? Hiei? What were they all doing there and why were they involved in a life or death battle, which they were winning at present?

"Cease fire, Saiya-jin, this is impossible! You should not be able to slaughter us like this?" it was General Ice Cube's voice full of fear and amazement.

"That's the trouble with you freeze face idiots, you underestimate the power of your enemies and it gets you every time!" a familiar Oozaru voice sounded.

"General Ice Cube, what is going on out there?" it was the voice of Lord Frostige.

"More unwelcome visitors, lord. They wiped out my army and-"

"They nearly killed my mate's and my daughter!" a very familiar voice sounded and the prince clicked a button until he saw... Him.

Vegeta's blood froze in his veins. Oh, God, now what was he gonna do? He had treated the one he loved shamefully and was ill prepared to face him but he knew he'd have to. 'Oh, Kakarrot, why? I-I'm sorry, love,' Vegeta thought to himself as unbidden tears cascaded form his onyx eyes, not only for the severed bond but for the near loss of his eldest male born female.

Back on the battlefield, the Saiyans who had transformed, began to melt back into their mortal beings and the humans landed to join them.

"W-what manner of creatures are you to so easily dispose of our army? Our highest power is mine of over two hundred thousand but yet you caused me damage! Frieza and Cooler both warned of how powerful you monkey brained worms were and that is why we keep those of this planet controlled! Plus, Frieza told everyone that he had destroyed that barrel of monkeys known as Vegetasei and all it's inhabitants!" the general stammered.

"He did, he just never counted on his slave finding his heart, performing several good deeds, repenting for what that Ice-jin prince had forced him to do and encountering a being who could restore those who had been killed at either of their hands. Meet your worst nightmare!" and with that, Bardock powered up to Super Saiyan level-1 and slammed a gush of chi into the general's face and he melted like the block of ice that he was. "C'mon, let's go get our prince!" the scarred warrior, lover to King Vegeta, Matusan of Raditz ordered the troop.

The group of Saiya-jin and humans took to the air, thankful that tiny moving targets were hard to fire upon, however, they kept their senses on alert for any and all possible attack. Hiei and Kurama having been taught by Trunks and Goten how to fly in the same manner as Gohan had taught Goten and Videl so long ago.

In his room, Vegeta had removed his scouter after he had seen the general melt away. His heart was slamming into his chest cavity with the ferocity of a jackhammer. He felt as if he would pass out from the rush of blood coursing through his veins but he held himself together. Then his mind remembered what the general had said about there being Saiya-jin on this planet. At that instant, he felt the same presence he had sensed in the throne room.

"You can come out, I won't hurt you," the prince spoke in his native tongue.

"You speak my language! How?" a fresh faced child no older than Cilvanti, Endive or Pan eased out from behind a dressing screen.

"I am a Saiyan as I perceive that you are as well. I am Vegeta no Ouji Kalegetasei, with whom do I speak?" the elder prince nodded.

"I am Prince Uslagg of Stygia, son of King Stygia and his lover Minosaia," the young being bowed.

The two princes studied one another with deep scrutiny. Vegeta was taken aback by the look of this cub as the boy could have been Raditz's exact double with enough of Bardock's looks not to be a complete royal, plus the boy had strong silver highlights woven within his onyx chestnut red hair coloring. His eyes were a silver streaked onyx color. However, hadn't there been rumors about Bardock being of the royal house? Although tongues waved faster than flags on Vegetasei, the thought couldn't have been circumstantial, if at all.

"Why do you have the look of King Stygia's brother, Vegeta about you and bare his name as well?" the young prince asked, his gaze one of suspicion and scrutiny, his silver streaked eyes glittered in the light.

Vegeta fought the look of surprise that would have overtaken his face. "King Stygia is King Vegeta's brother? How can that be? My 'Tousan never spoke of any sibs!" Vegeta's mouth hung open.

"Not surprising, it was hushed up from the start and the only reason I know is because I've seen portraits Queen Vegetanna gave to my 'Tousan. I was told that her majesty had had an affair with an elite warrior while the king was away on a mission with King Cold and the crowned prince. It was said that when the queen neared her time, she went into hiding, delivered the cub then sent the warrior and the chimp away. Here, I'll show you! Lemme go get my album!" the chibi prince exclaimed then disappeared behind the dressing screen.

Vegeta fell back against the pillows as his bemused mind toyed with the nugget of information he had just received regarding his grandmother. Well, he shouldn't have been surprised, bi-gendered males, in a sense cheated on their female mates, why couldn't the dissatisfied queen? Shrugging, Vegeta decided his family was much too complex an enigma for one very tired prince to piece together, thus he felt his body relax and drift.


The heat in his body was maddening and the tight strain of his blue gi was worse! He felt his lips being tasted, teased and prodded, his frame was pressed to something solid and his arms raised automatically and encircled a large mass.

'Hnnn, Kakarrot... forgive me, love. Please, take me anyway you see fit!' he whispered in the obvious dream his subconscious had slipped into.

'Not if my beauty remains sleeping,' a throaty response sounded in the prince's mind.

'That's never stopped you before my overheated bishonen. I miss you, mate of mine. Please... I love you!' the prince whimpered in his sleep.

"Wake up, sleeping beauty. I'm no dream, my love, and I do forgive you," and at that Vegeta's eyes snapped open.

"KAKARROT! How? And the rest of you, how did you all get here?" the prince slowly sat up with assistance from his mate whom he embraced.

"A little thing called a holomap, my brother, and it picked up the blip of your ship. We watched as you descended onto this rock, but why here?" Raditz asked as he shook his brother's hand in greeting.

"I was upset, angry and had to cool down. I knew a battle would settle my nerves, plus I needed to think. It is good to see you all, though, and I'm, impressed, great battle! Especially you, koi," the prince leaned over his mate and kissed him.

"DADDY!"

"POPPA!"

"MATUSAN!"

"GRAN PA!" several small high-pitched voices shrieked and the prince found himself parted from Kakarrot and tackled to the bed. Wet sloppy kisses washed his face.

"I take it you all are glad to see me? Hello, chibi mi, poppa's sorry for upsetting you all," the prince hugged the children to himself.

"Did you see me fight, poppa? Did I make you proud?" Endive exclaimed, his young face enraptured in the light of success.

"I did indeed, my prince and I'm proud of all of you!" the prince managed to sit up and lay his head on his mate's shoulder.

"Prince V- Who are you and how did you get here?" a young voice sounded and the crowd turned to find a tiny version of Raditz with silver streaked eyes staring at them.

"Who are you, chimp?" Raditz asked, blinking wildly at his tiny image.

"Everyone, I'd like for you to make the acquaintance of Prince Uslagg, Prince of Stygia. Your highness, Regent Bardock, his mate Onya, his sons Raditz and Kakarrot," the elder prince then introduced everyone present in the moderate sized bedroom.

"Oh, here, look! I think his (Bardock's) portrait is on one of these pages!" the young prince exclaimed and handed Vegeta his album.

Opening the book, the Saiya-jin gasped. "So this is what happened to this treasure! Look, here's your dad, Vegeta and your grandmother holding a chibi who looks like the chimp, here!" Bardock gasped.

"That's my poppa, King Stygia. Queen Vegetanna had him but had to demote his dad to third class and send them away until her eldest son returned. It wasn't until after the old King Vegeta was killed that Queen Vegetanna called her lover and son back to Vegetasei to live in the palace. The new king was overjoyed to finally have a companion near his age," the young prince explained.

"We should like to meet your king," Bardock nodded.

"Come, I will take you, I am sure he would be over blown to meet his brother's cubs as well!" Uslagg headed for the dressing screen, which was behind the location of the cameras.

"Wait, to be sure those Ice dogs don't find so many 'illegals'..." Vegeta stood with his back to the window and the cameras. "Everyone, close your eyes!"

"Yes, brilliant idea, koi!" Kakarrot smiled as he turned his back to his mate.

The crowd shielded their eyes just as Vegeta yelled, "SOLAR FLARE!" a blinding bright light engulfed the room, then the group followed the younger prince behind the screen and down a trap door.

"This is how I get in and out of this place. Those fools think the place to be haunted. I can't wait till Minosaiasan pushes my brother into the universe, then I'll have someone to play with," Uslagg sighed as he led the group through a maze of passageways. "Light your kiis, it gets pitch along here and I wouldn't want any of my guests to become with injury. The Narsian fruit isn't ripe as yet."

"Narsian fruit? What's that for?" Serena asked as she grimaced.

"We use the fruit to restore our powers after training, a hard battle or a sparring match. Trouble is, the trees grow on the Ice-jin side of the planet and the trees we've planted have just begun to bloom," Uslagg supplied.

"What is this place, kid, it smells like a sewer," Kakarrot grimaced.

"It is. I might suggest that we take to the air a bit as I don't know how deep the water is but I do know some nasty creatures live herein," the tiny prince said and everyone who could levitated above the surface.


"Ennosh, are you sure he's not about the palace?" a large being with silver streaked black chestnut hair and pained, hysterical silver streaked black eyes asked as he paced the floor of an elaborate throne room.

"No, my king, but there was a battle in the desert, mayhap the young prince found that to his interest and went to join. Goodness only knows how much energy his highness has! We get ragged out just to look at him!" a nervous servant volunteered his opinion.

The king sneered at the hapless servant and pinned him with an angered glare, his hand raised and a ball of energy danced in the middle. "You dare! Say good-bye-!"

"Poppa, I'm back!" a small, excited squeal came as a tapestry parted and a small figure baring the king's features entered the room.

"Uslagg! Oh, chibi mi!" the king fell onto the little prince's neck. "You've been to the Ice kingdom, haven't you? How many times must I tell you not to venture there until you are strong enough to beat them or unless the God of all heavens sees fit to send us a miracle," the king shook his son.

"Well, I don't know if you could call us a miracle, but my sons, family, friends and myself just wiped out the entire desert infantry," Bardock said as he stepped into the throne room.

The king turned to see several beings exit from behind a tapestry, which depicted a glorious planet purge after celebration. The king turned, stood, then...

"V-Vegeta? I-I-" the king never completed his sentence as his body crumpled and he loss consciousness, however, before his royal body could hit the floor, both Bardock and Prince Vegeta caught him.

"Stygia-san! Stygia-san!" a being who could have been Bardock's twin brother gingerly made his way over to the fallen king as his girth was swollen as if with child.

"Minosaiasan! How does the cub?" Uslagg asked as he watched the other attempt to sit by the king.

"Here, well get him to bed then you can be with him and we'll explain," Prince Vegeta said as Bardock took the unconscious form and was led to a sitting room where he lay the king on a day bed.

"Who are you all and why do four of you seem so familiar to me?" Minosaia asked as he stroked his king's long silver streaked midnight chestnut flamed hair. "Wait... YOU? Oh, my God, Bardock, frere c'est vous?" Minosaia gasped as he looked closely at Bardock.

Bardock's mouth hung open in stunned silence before... "MINOSAN!" As if a magnet had possessed the scarred warrior's body, Bardock and Minosaia were wrapped in one another's arms, tears falling from their eyes. "Oh, twin, it's so good to see you again! I can't believe you're alive!"

"Bardosan, it is I who cannot believe that you are yet breathing! We had heard a report that Vegetasei had been destroyed with all who remained on its surface! How did you survive?" Minosaia exclaimed as he ran his brother's tail through his hand and vice versa.

"I had died along with Stygia's own brother, who had been killed first. That Ice-jin dog, Frieza, I'm glad I was finally able to see him sent back to hell with his brother, Cooler!" the scarred warrior explained.

"But you are here, now! Explain this?" Minosaia asked.

"His highness and my son, Kakarrot, became acquainted with the Supreme Kai of the universe, undertook a delicate task, won and the Kai rewarded them with the restoration of our people, even the king," Bardock smiled as a moan emitted from the day bed.

"Min-Minosan?" the figure on the bed began to stir and both Bardock and Vegeta were by his side to assist him up. "Oh, love, I-I thought I had seen the ghosts of our dead brothers," King Stygia moaned as he clutched his head.

"It was no ghost, Styagia-san, they are here and I know they will help us in our fight with that filthy Ice rat, Frostige," Minosaia smiled as he held his king close.

Slowly looking around, King Stygia noted all the new arrivals then lost his emotions when his eyes fell upon Vegeta. In a flash, the prince found himself in a bear hug that rivaled anything his mate could inflict, however, that large Saiyan stood beside his vested interest.

"Oh, my brother, my brother, you are alive! I cannot believe this!" Stygia cried into the prince's royal blue battle gi.

"AAHH! Your majesty, I'm Vegeta's son!" the prince hissed in discomfort.

Stygia's emotions hitched and he looked up into the prince's eyes, the black brown flame of hair, and the short stature...short?

"W-what is this? My brother shrunk to a quarter his height!" Stygia shrieked.

"Stygia, petite mon frere, c'est fils mon," a voice whispered into King Stygia's ear and that king whipped around.

Stygia looked from one to another and reeled off balance but father and son both had a strong hold on him. "Easy, mon oncle, we have you," the prince assured as the two returned the king to his day bed.

"How? How is this possible? We had word that Frieza had destroyed Vegetasei and that all that had remained had parished! Oh, my brother, it is so good to hug you again!" Stygia cried into his brother's bronze colored gi.

"All is well, chibi, shh, I'm here and I'm alive again," Prince Vegeta's mirror image, the king, sighed as he kissed his little brother.

" 'Tousan, how did you get here?" the prince asked, shaking his head in disbelief.

"A frantic call from your brothers said that you and Kakarrot had a falling out and they were afraid for the universe," King Vegeta turned hard eyes on his eldest born of female.

"They needn't be, I wouldn't have hurt them. It was my fault that my mate had sought comfort from another so I came here with the intention of liberating the Stygians from Frieza's tyranny. I completely forgot about Frostige," Prince Vegeta shrugged.

"Vegeta, this rock was conquered before you were even conceived, how did you know about it?" the king asked, his tone incredulous.

"I wondered into Frieza's map room once and found records of the planets he had had various races conquer for him. I found the records of the Saiya-jin, took them and the others and studied them. I still have them and the goof never knew them to be missing. Then again, they had been stored with trash to be incinerated. Guess who was on trash duty at the time? That's how I found out about the earlier purges," the younger Vegeta retorted in a low even voice.

"Mon frere, I'm glad he did come and that he brought the others or we would never know our brothers survived. Come, I shall have the servants show you your rooms, then we'll celebrate in true Saiyan style!" King Stygia had regained himself after seeing his brother for the first time in over fifteen Saiyan years.

King Stygia called for a number of servants to show his guests to the guest chambers and the chimps to the nursery. The chimps had been bonding on their own as their parents had been reuniting and had been led by Prince Uslagg to a training chamber. Uslagg and Pan had launched into an all out war along with the fifty chimps who had accompanied the Saiya-jin and Earth warriors to Planet Stygia. Frantic servants searched the palace to no avail and returned to King Stygia, bowing and cowering in fear.

"How can you not find over fifty chimps with power levels that can generate an entire planet?!" Stygia hissed.

"Many apologies, my king, but your chimp must have led them over to the Ice kingdom-"

"Poppa. Why'd ya interrupt us, we were having fun!" a small voice yelled in struggle.

"I'll blast you six ways from Sunday if you don't drop me this instant! I don't care if our 'Tousan's are brothers! Let go of me!" another voice shrieked in anger.

"I trust this is what you are seeking?" Prince Vegeta carried two very active and highly charged male Saiya-jin by the scuff of the necks then dropped them to the ground as several tiny faces looked up at him then all bowed in reverence when they saw the king.

"We're sorry, King Stygia, we only wanted to train and spar, so Uslagg took us to a trainer," Cilvanti explained.

"Forgive me, 'Tousan, I wanted to see what they were made of and how they could destroy the Ice infantry the way they did," Uslagg sighed.

King Stygia turned to his repentant only son. A smile touched his hard lips and his face lit as he realized this was the first time his son had ever had any beings his size and power level to train with and a laugh exploded from his lungs.

"Oh, chibi... Take your friends and cousins to the guest rooms, love, then we'll have a celebration," the king softened and sent the child off.

"Go, be off with the lot of you and mind the serving staff! I'm sure King Stygia would like not to have to scrape toasted maid or spattered butler off the furnishings!" Prince Vegeta admonished the other chimps then sent them off behind Prince Uslagg, then he turned to take his own leave.

"Nephew, a moment if you please?" Vegeta turned to face his uncle. "How did you know where to locate them?"

"They're Saiya-jin, they love fighting. That little skirmish just whetted their appetite for more. Truthfully, I have a strong bond with my offspring. Will there be anything else, my king?" Vegeta asked with a slight bow.

"No, my nephew, you may go until celebration then we'll sit to plan how to reclaim the planet. Ennosh will show you to your quarters" Stygia smiled and the prince took his leave.

Vegeta followed the cowering servant who kept looking back to the prince as if expecting to be blasted at any turn.

"You have a problem. My presence makes you nervous, does it not?" the prince asked in haughty tones.

"Y-Yes, master, it does. I feared you even on Vegetasei when I first had to change your wraps as my mate had taken ill with an infestation," the servant stammered.

"Ah, yes, I remember you know. I nearly killed you because my mulagon (a mule type animal) was under done. Well, moron, it was your own fault my blast struck you. I was aiming for the cook's head but you stepped in the way" Vegeta remembered.

"But you killed him later. We went through more cooks than any other servant. Here we are, sire, right next to Bardock's youngest ape. One would have to be blind to miss the looks he'd been giving you earlier as if he were your mate," Ennosh snickered.

"Watch it, you bald moron or I'll have your neck stretched. He is my mate as his sire is mate to my own. What, having fantasies on bedding the chosen one? As if! I'd blast you six ways from Sunday if you dare breathe my way in such a manner. Go, you're dismissed," Vegeta tossed his head indicating the servant make himself scarce.

Once the servant had departed, the prince entered his chambers and looked around. It was more spacious than the one he had been given in the Ice palace and a lot warmer as well. There was a gold framed canopy bed with dark blue and white trimmed coverings, portraits of battles and faces the prince had known in his youth, a marble fireplace with a roaring flame in its mouth provided the delicious heat that rivaled the one in Vegeta's body. Yes, he was still on fire from his mate's little wake up call and needed to have it sated. Dispensing with the tour, Vegeta closed his eyes.

'Kakarrot? Kakarrot, can you hear me, koi? Come,' the prince commanded gently in his mind, as he had reopened the link that he and his mate had shared. Suddenly, he felt a vice encircle his trim waist and a wetness against his neck at the sight of his raised passion mark. Lifting his arms behind him, Vegeta encircled the solidity at his back. Inhaling deeply, he melted into the embrace. "I love you, Kk, never forget that," the prince sighed as the large warrior leaned and took his passion's lips with his own. "Welcome back, love. I'm so-"

Kakarrot put his fingers to his prince's lips to silence his banter. "Baby, it's ok. I'm sorry, too. It was stupid of me to give into that Earth scum's request and I'm glad Raditz called mom and dad but I'm also glad that Piccolo and Gohan had taken me to dinner to talk to me. Dad really trashed me, then when we returned to the palace, Raditz took his turn. The kids returned and I guess they went to see the weakling. Cilvanti was set to pounce but dad stopped her. It's you turn, now. I know you've always wanted a reason to kill me," Kakarrot's eyes were downcast.

Vegeta smirked and pecked his love on the lips. "As tempted as I am, it is you who should trash me. It would be no less than I deserve for abusing your emotions yet again. You get dominant, tonight, and I don't care how rough you get. I doubt I have a memory I haven't shared with you. I love you. Come, koi. There's a trainer at the end of the hall that I found Uslagg and the other chibis in earlier. Then, after you beat me soundly, I'm yours to command. I know how you enjoy it when I dress femme, so I shall do so without Velmora's aid," the prince offered as he caressed his mate's raised neck wound with his tongue, then tilted his head to nip the large Saiyan's chin.

Kakarrot nipped the prince's nose then lifted his head to look deep into his small mate's glistening eyes. The larger Saiyan's heart constricted in his chest. His mate was willing to sacrifice his pride and dress femme without calling on Velmora to save him from the humiliation. "You must feel really bad for what happened if you're offering to dress femme outside of our sister. You don't have to trash your pride and do that. They say that forgiveness is the sweetest form of revenge and that's just what I've done, Vegeta, I forgave you. Can you forgive yourself, my love? In the early days you had such a battle with self-forgiveness. Heh, it's easier for the God of the universe to forgive us than for us to forgive ourselves. Don't be so hard on yourself, look passed your own faults and see the vast horizon. We are bigger than the problems we find ourselves in, okay? Hey, we haven't sparred since we returned from Minervasei, how about it, me petite Ouji-san?" the large Saiyan smiled as he stroked his koi's bushy tail.

Vegeta sniffed once against tears that had fallen silently as the two had embraced. "Th-hank you. You always know how to calm me when I can't seem to calm myself. Come, koi, y'know little Uslagg is near SSJ, I detected that when I first met him," the prince smiled at the larger Saiyan as he went to clean his tear streaked face.

"I sensed that as well and so is the little one Minosan is carrying. I hope he makes it, that cub's gonna be hell to push through. Well, shall we depart?" Kakarrot smiled and Vegeta put two fingers to his head and teleported to the gravity chamber.

Vegeta crouched into position, as did his opponent. The prince smirked, "You must be ragged out after that battle and transforming, you can't honestly tell me that you're not," the prince hadn't failed to note the significant drop in his opponent/lover's chi level.

"I'm all right, I was more too worried over our eldest princess to have much of a care for myself," Kakarrot mentioned, which caused the prince to straighten his posture.

"Teray? W-what happened to my princess?" Vegeta gasped as the color drained from his handsome face.

"After we had phased onto the planet in the desert, Teray noted a crater where your ship had crashed. She told us that she sensed your chi to the east of our location, powered up but a chi blast caught her in the chest. I gave her a senzu to at least patch the hole until we could get her to a tank. I'm glad this place is nearly as well equipped as Minervasei. How'd you know about it?" Kakarrot asked, then he noted the vacant look of his mate. "Vegeta? Hello, Stygia to Prince Vegeta, wake up!" Kakarrot called.

"M-My baby? My baby! Kakarrot, how could you?" the prince lost his composure and collapsed as the gate that held his tears at bay broke open and the water soaked his face. Everything hit at once, how he had caused his bond to be temporarily severed, his deep over powering love for the large Saiyan in whose arms he was being cradled and the near death of his first born female offspring from a male. His small body erupted into Super Saiyan level-3 but Kakarrot had grabbed a hold of the prince to throw an area shield around the two of them to contain the blast.

Kakarrot cradled his mate, after Vegeta's energy had subsided, and rocked him as he sang the Saiyan lullaby to his stricken mate.

Night, my children,
All is quiet
No more fuss
No more riot.

Rest my loves
You're too small to spar
Dream of worlds
And galaxies
Both near and far.

Sleep, my babies
Your moms are near
Daddy's here too
So there's naught to fear.

You are Saiyans
Tried and True
Strongest warriors
The universe fears you.

We will not butcher
We will not bite
A new sun is shining
In our hearts tonight.

Sleep tight, my ones
Let rest claim your souls
Let parents worry
And take the controls.

Sleep tonight, dear ones
God watches our rest
He keeps us till morning
When we're at our best.

Not soon after Kakarrot had ended the song, was the prince softly purring in slumber. Kakarrot closed his eyes and teleported the two of them back to the prince's room and laid his weary mate on the blue satin bed covers, the top coverings had been turned down. After removing the prince's boots and gloves, Kakarrot covered his love with the feather filled comforter, then moved around the bed to crawl in beside the resting prince after removing his own boots. Wrapping Vegeta in both his tail and his arms, the large warrior kissed the tip of his mate's widow's peak then snuggled down to let sleep claim his own ragged out body.