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AN: Well folks its been a long time in the coming but my writers block is gone and I'm back into writing, the rest of my stories will continue as I progress on them but for now here is  a sequel I promised everyone.  Thanks to all of you, the Fans. You all made this possible.

                                                                        Life after Rebirth

                                                                        Secrets revealed.

            Bulma was devastated.  After she had sent Vegeta into the field to save her son she had monitored everything through Vegeta's eyes. Everything was going well and according to plan; his mission was to save the earth and her son. She had programmed him with no memories. Vegeta had been wiped clean of all memories when she had terminated him six years ago. Everything was running smoothly.  He had no recollection of her when she had released him, he had given her no personality or bravado and followed her every order, as he should have.

            But that all changed the moment that Vegeta had seen Trunks and the man that was about to finish him.  He had gone ballistic! Personality, Memories, Abilities and even Conscious Thought had come roaring to life within him…as if he had never missed a beat.  And Bulma had to watch in horror as her creation, which she had destroyed because she was on the verge of believing him real, had at that moment truly and actually in fact done so.  How it had happened she did not know, but once the battle was over and her son had been saved that portion of Vegeta that had come to life had faded into non-existence. And he was once again a machine obeying her orders and leaving her son almost in tears.

            A noise from behind her alerted her to Vegeta's return and she quickly turned to face him.  The massive Saiyan stood stock-still and emotionless, as if awaiting orders.  Hesitantly Bulma approached Vegeta and began to examine him for damage looking for anything out of the ordinary.  Finding nothing seriously wrong with him she gave him the order to return to his chamber so she could further examine and go over the data, which she had collected, and Data that was sure to be in his memory banks.

Once he was secure within the confines of the cylinder tube Bulma began to have her computer extract and analyze everything that had happened with Vegeta from the moment he was awakened.

Elsewhere:

            Trunks had stood there stock still as he had watched his father fly away without answering to any of his calls.  Something wasn't right.  Something wasn't right at all.  Something about the way that man was talking about his father and that file his mother had had.  It kept nagging at him…something about it or perhaps something it had said within it he didn't know.  But he knew someone who would.

Frantically Trunks gathered the remainder of the Dragon balls and the broken Dragon ball Radar and quickly blasted off towards home.  This time his mother was going to talk to him, he would make sure she told him everything… or else.

Bulma's Lab:

            Bulma stared blankly at her screen, blinking once she turned her head toward Vegeta Blinked again then back at her screen.  "How can this be?" she asked her self for about the millionth time within the span of twenty minutes as she again looked over the data she had received. On the screen before her was a Diagram of Vegeta's AI OS or his brain if you will, and in the moment that Vegeta had first seen Trunks his brain waves are normal and her programming is still under control but as soon as it had registered that the boy was in mortal danger from out of no where a foreign anomaly exploded! Completely masking Vegeta's AI and completely took over control of Vegeta's body yet it was still Vegeta.  It made no sense to Bulma. And it scared her because as the more she thought about it the more it began to make sense and Bulma feared her worst fears were coming true.  Tears streamed down her cheeks and Bulma almost lost control of her self as further tests confirmed it, the Anomaly was 100% spiritual and in that brief moment of time it took to save Trunks Vegeta was real!

            Her knees buckled and her heart felt as if it was smaller then an atom.  If this information was true then she had killed a living being.  No matter how you looked at it, if her creation had advanced beyond the bounds of her programming it was no longer a Machine but a living being and she had killed him. This realization rocked her hard and when she couldn't hold it in any longer she began to cry.

            That was how trunks had found her, curled on the floor sobbing and shaking like a leaf.  At first he had thought she was hurt but on closer examination he realized she was just emotionally drained and needed sleep.  Gathering her in his arms he briskly walks over to his mothers lounge area within her lab and lays Bulma upon her cot, but as Trunks tries to lay her down Bulma's grip becomes like steel and she begins screaming to trunks in sobbed anguish. 

"He was real, he was real Trunks! Oh my god Trunks, he was alive and I killed him!"

            Confused Trunks asks, "Who was real mother? Who did you kill I don't understand?"

Terrified and lost Bulma looks into her son's eyes and her voice comes out no more then a whisper. "Vegeta, He was alive and I killed him Trunks!"

            Trunks was frozen, had he just heard his mother correctly? Did she just admit to killing his father all those years ago?  But he just saw his father he was alive and well some how his mother had brought him back right?"  Frustrated Trunks aggressively runs his fingers though his lavender mane and voices his confusion.  "I don't understand mother what are you saying tell me everything, no more secrets I want the truth!" he doesn't mean to shout but he is loosing control and can't seem to help it.

            Seeing the torment in her son's eyes Bulma pulls her self together as best she can and takes a deep breath, she knows what she must do.  To get her son back she must completely destroy everything he has ever believed in, tear down all the webs of deceit she had wove so well over the years to shield him and expose him the bitter truths of reality.  It wasn't going to be easy but with all her cards on the table she would either win her son back or loose him forever.  He deserved the truth though, just like Vegeta had told her all those years ago when she had killed him.

            Standing wobbly on her own Bulma composes her self with a reborn sense of purpose, she can see Trunks's eyes gleam in understanding as he stands up with her.  Seeing that he is ready Bulma grabs the data she received from Vegeta's battle and heads over to Vegeta's holding area with Trunks in tow. As they enter the area Vegeta's eyes follow they're every movement until they come to a stop in front of him, gazing with indifference instead of recollection. 

            "Why doesn't he remember us mother? Look at his eyes there is no recollection of us, only indifference what is wrong with him?" Trunks burst. Yet Bulma only silently hushes him and says "all in due time trunks what I need from you is to get your self conferrable, the only way I can tell you the truth properly is to start from the beginning and if you do not interrupt me. Can you do this for me my son?" Bulma asks softly.  After a moment of thought Trunks looks around and finds himself a chair and places himself within it.  When he is conferrable he looks back at his mother in silence and anticipation.