Disclaimer. I do not own Dragon Ball Z however I enjoy it very much.
This story is specifically for Anny. Thanks for the reviews and opinions and I must say that I totally agree with you even though the notion never occurred to me. I was really eager to get to the part where I am now so I kinda rushed the story to get there. So instead of interrupting my current Fanfic I decided to start a new one. I hope you enjoy, just please know that it might take awhile because family stuff doesn't come easy to me.
Raising Zion.
"Take us home, Kakarot." Prince Vegeta said tonelessly.
Kakarot silently put a hand on Vegeta's shoulder. He then teleported them back to the battlefield. It had been the only place that he could pick up an energy signal on.
"What's this Goku? I thought you were running." Cell asked.
"Mind your own damn business you freak." Vegeta snapped in anger.
Vegeta turned his attention back to the boy in his arms. He was breathing fast and shallow. His eyes were wide and filled with confusion.
"Slow down your breathing." Vegeta murmured softly putting a hand on the boy's small chest.
The boy didn't seem to respond. Vegeta tried to read his thoughts. They were too chaotic.
"Look at me, easy. They won't hurt you anymore. I won't let them hurt you ever again. You have to slow your breathing. You have broken ribs and I don't want you to damage yourself any further. I know it's hard but you have to calm down." Vegeta spoke softly and quickly.
He was vaguely aware of the other's eyes on him. Mostly it was Trunks and it bugged Vegeta that he had to see this. After he had treated Trunks and to now see him with the boy like this, it had to hurt.
"The kid looks like Vegeta. Do you think it could be like a brother of something?" Krillen muttered to Piccolo.
"Idiot. The planet was destroyed years before the boy was even born. I'd say that it's his son." Piccolo replied harshly and Krillen blushed.
"Kakarot, tell your son to finish that battle and all of you leave me alone." Vegeta snapped.
The boy's eyes were darting in every direction. His breathing was becoming irregular as he tried to do what Vegeta said. Vegeta sat down as slowly as he could so as not to jar the boy. The injuries were far too familiar. He knew what it was like. He had lived through years of it.
He became aware of the sounds of battle indicating Gohan's continued battle. Frieza's taunting voice floated to the surface of Vegeta's memory. "Take heart my pet, your son lives. Regretfully his mother did not survive. I will raise him as my own and I will tell him that his father was a good and loyal servant. He is quite powerful even for a Saiyan runt."
He had searched for the boy but no one had known anything, but then again his goal had been to find Kakarot.
"I'm sorry." Vegeta whispered not really to anyone.
The boy's hand fisted and his breathing spiked indicating pain. Vegeta was at a loss for what to do. He knew the others were eyeing him and he wanted to blast them for it, for the accusations in their glares. He squeezed his eyes shut and fisted his own hand so tightly the glove creaked in protest.
"Is there anything I can do?" a soft voice asked with concern.
Vegeta opened his eyes to see Trunks kneeling in front of him.
"I didn't know." Vegeta felt the need to tell the boy.
Immediately he wanted to blast himself with his own Ki. He felt stupid for even admitting that much to the lavender haired boy.
"Is he your son?" Trunks asked quietly, looking down.
"Yes. Frieza killed his mother." Vegeta replied bitterly.
An explosion of power brought their attention to the fight below them. Gohan, it had been Gohan. Vegeta felt like he had been physically punched. Gohan had found a level beyond. He had ascended. A mere child had done what he himself had failed to do.
Vegeta watched in disbelief as Gohan bested cell in every way. Then his expression changed to one of disgust as Cell produced seven blue freaks. He ordered the blue things to attack them after he had surprised Baldie and taken the senzu beans.
Vegeta watched in horror as they came closer. He had to defend himself and the boy but even from this distance he knew that the blue things were stronger than him.
He became aware of the rage that had been building inside of him. Carefully he put the boy down and stepped back a few steps. He jumped into the air and then let the rage take over. His power exploded higher than it had ever been as his scream of rage echoed back to him. He surprised himself as he attacked the blue freak, destroying it with a single blow. Even Cell took a surprised step back at his ferocity.
Destroying the freak had made him feel really good so he went for another one. He didn't care who was supposed to be taking care of the freak but he was now. This one took three blows but soon it too joined the other one in the rubble.
His attention was brought back to the boy as a blue freak crept towards him. He saw the infuriating and weakling Yamcha lying out cold a few feet away.
"Oh no you don't!" Vegeta yelled throwing a highly concentrated ball of Ki at the blue abomination.
It wasn't dead but it wasn't about to attack the boy anytime soon either. He decided that it might be a good idea to stay with the boy from then on.
He noticed with a sense of satisfaction that the others weren't doing so well with the abominations. Even Kakarot was having difficulty but that was excused do to his earlier fight with Cell.
Gohan stepped in and defeated the abominations with an ease that Vegeta had lacked enraging Vegeta even more, but he didn't react. He watched Gohan attack and toy with Cell. It was comical really. The boy had said from the beginning that he didn't wish to fight and not to push him. Well Cell pushed and now he was going to die. Then they could all go home and he could then decide what the hell he was going to do with the boy.
"Gohan stop messing around and finish him!" Kakarot yelled at the boy.
"No dad, he deserves to pay for what he's done." Gohan replied tonelessly before delivering a blow to Cell's stomach that made him cough up the toaster.
Cell reverted back to his previous form where even Vegeta could destroy him. Then everything turned around when Cell started to inflate. He laughed triumphantly as he announced his self destructing plan to destroy the planet and all of them in the process.
Kakarot then used his instant transmission technique to take Cell away from earth and to who knew where else. Vegeta again felt as if he had been punched. The moronic clown had done it again.
Everyone was trying to come to terms with Kakarot's noble sacrifice. Vegeta busied himself with the boy. He wasn't one for tears or good-byes He picked him up and prepared to fly to capsule corp.
"Is he going to be ohkay?" Trunks asked, stopping Vegeta's retreat.
"Physically yes but mentally I'm not sure." Vegeta replied not looking at the lavender haired teen.
They sensed it before they saw it and even then it was too late. A Ki blast immerged from the smoke and hit Trunks in the chest, killing him instantly.
Vegeta stared in shock at the crumpled form. His head wiped to the source of the blast and saw Cell's laughing figure. How was that possible?
Vegeta could do nothing but stand with the boy in his arms and stare in shock at Cell. Even Gohan was speechless. Then the rage that had never really left Vegeta's mind came bubbling back. He put the boy down and attacked Cell head on even knowing that he could never win. All he could see through the red haze of hatred was cell and Trunks' crumpled lifeless form.
He didn't even make a dent in Cell. It took Gohan bravely rushing in front of him to stop the fatal blast of Ki from killing him. It was humiliation at its extremes. Even with the loss of one arm Gohan still managed to destroy Cell once and for all.
Vegeta looked at Trunks' crumpled from and the boy's unconscious one.
"Here, I'll help you take them back." Yamcha said.
Vegeta bit back the snappish reply. He just didn't feel like it and that spoke volumes. He picked up the boy and Yamcha picked up Trunks. They then flew to Capsule Corp. Bulma had been at Master Roshi but when the T.V. signal had cut out she had returned home to see if she could do anything.
Vegeta landed lightly and took a deep breath. Yamcha landed next to him and rudely yelled for Bulma to open the door.