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A/N-I am a huge Celipa/Bardock fan, so just to clear up any misunderstanding, when Celipa told Bardock to go visit his son, she meant that he should see him because he had rarely seen her son while she had seen him a lot.

A/N #2-Though they won't show up until later, I will warn you that Vegeta, Bulma, and the others are the same age as Goku, so they're all babies right now.

A/N #3-Saiyans marry at age 14 and start having babies almost immediately.

A/N #4-Turles is Goku's twin

The Last Survivors

The first thing he saw was the rock in front of his face. The first thing he felt was dirt and blood on his skin. But the first thing was aware of was the dirt in his mouth.

Bardock did not like the taste of dirt.

He pushed himself up into a sitting position, trying to wipe the dirt out of his mouth.

"So this is Hell," he muttered, looking around the barren wasteland. But even as he told himself this, small things began to disprove the fact that this was hell.

Where was everyone else? Where was the Great King Yamma people blabbered on about. Why was he still bleeding?

"Bardock…"

He turned his head to the sound. Crawling towards him was a Saiyan female. He squinted, his vision blurred, and could just make out the sight of long, late-evening sky colored hair.

It was Kiwa.

Celipa's twin.

His sister-in-law.

Inspecting his in-law further, he saw why she was dragging herself along the ground.

Her entire right leg, from calve to toe, was blown off. Dried blood was all over her ripped clothes, and strings of muscle and tissue dragged along the ground.

He didn't flinch; he was too used to carnage for that. But instantly he thought how Celipa would react.

The twins were unusually close for Saiyan siblings. Saiyan children were pitted against each other to end familial ties. Emotion was weakness.

But Celipa and Kiwa were unusual; unlike other Saiyans. They were best friends as well as twins, as close as Bardock and Toma were. And the twins thought the same way, and their thoughts were different from other Saiyans. Neither Kiwa nor Celipa thought much of their purging jobs. Despite this fact, both were incredibly strong fighters. What they mainly did on duty was intimidate, or tell the others that they were bored and this was worthless.

Why do people die? A typical Saiyan response was "To see who was strong and who was weak".

Kiwa and Celipa had thought hard about that question, until they came up with the same answer: "People die to show those still living that life is a precious gift".

But why Bardock had to be the one to learn that firsthand instead of Celipa or Toma…His fist clenched as he fought for control.

"Bardock, my…sister's…not…dead."

He looked down as he felt Kiwa grab his leg.

"Listen, I know you two were close and all, but you have to accept it."

Kiwa shook her head. "I can still feel her chi. On Meat-sei. Celipa's alive…just barely. Her chi is holding steady at about 3."

Of course! How could he be so stupid as to forget that Kiwa was a Spirit Saiyan! She could sense long-range chi without the aid of a scouter! And she must have a link to Celipa in especial!

"Can you feel Toma and Totepo and Panboukin?" he asked.

She looked away. "No."

He dug hi fingers into the dirt and bit his lip. His friends were dead, his wife was almost dead, and his sister-in-law was dragging herself through the dirt with only one leg. He clenched his teeth.

"You can cry…it's okay to cry," Kiwa whispered.

He looked down at her. "What are you babbling about?" he said gruffly.

"Our society makes us so heartless. We're never taught how to cry. Babies have the right idea. They know naturally how to cry." She looked up at him. "Would it help if I passed out?"

He shook his head. "No. If you passed out, you'd probably stay that way."

Kiwa laughed bitterly. "I'll stay alive for Celipa's sake. But other than that I have nothing to live for."

"What are you talking abou…" He cut himself off abruptly. He could've smacked himself. He was such a blind fool! How could he have ignored all those looks Kiwa gave Toma, and the times Toma had asked about Kiwa? The two had so obviously been in love.

Frieza had taken more than Kiwa's leg. He'd taken Toma and with him, Kiwa's will to live for anyone but her sister.

He looked down at her and quoted what she had once said.

"People die to show those still living that life is a precious gift."

"Mmm," Kiwa moaned, closing her eyes. "Toma would agree."

Celipa hurled every curse she could think of at Toma's corpse. "This is just going to kill her. She'll kill herself. You…" She went off into another round of anger and sorrow-filled curses.

Celipa had woken up on top of Toma. She'd been instantly mortified until she realized that Toma was dead. And that scared her even more than her initial shock. Like her twin, she didn't think much of the blood and destruction that went along with her job. And to see the object of Kiwa's affection lying dead on a strange planet…once again she pondered how worthy the cause was.

She had rolled off him and onto the ground, and then inspected her wounds. She found her person to be as well as expected. She hurt all over and could barely move, feeling that the slightest twitch of a muscle could turn her body into shards of glass.

Her spirit, however, was soaring. She'd done the impossible. She'd survived an attack from Dodoria. No one could say that, except maybe…

Bardock. Her spirits plummeted. Was he still alive? She wished to God that her scouter hadn't been destroyed. Or that she had Kiwa's special powers to sense chi.

She tried to sit up, but almost instantly she hit the ground. She could barely move.

Cursing Dodoria and Frieza and the whole universe, she tried crawling, dragging, and scooting over the ground, until throwing up her hands and giving in.

Tears of rage and sorrow starting welling in her eyes. Angrily, she brushed them away with her fist but they came back. Here she was, at 15 and looking every day of 30, dying on a strange planet away from her husband, her sister, and her 3 sons, and trying not to bawl like a baby.

Her control lessened as tears slid down her cheeks, and for the first time in her life, she cried with real, true, raw emotion.

She cried shamelessly for a long time. Who was there to upbraid her for weakness? Everything she had ever known was crumbling at her feet. Why shouldn't she cry?

After awhile she got a hold of herself. She wiped away the tears, tasting their salt in her mouth, and forced herself up. She wobbled and knelt, resting her hand on the ground, gathering strength.

Then, mustering all that she could, she pushed herself off the ground and, tensing, started to walk.

She was too weak to fly, and Meat-sei's atmosphere didn't intertwin with Vegeta-sei's. But if she could get to her space pod, she could get hom.

Home.

It sounded nice.

Poor Celipa, she doesn't have much of a home to go back to…

Anyway, I know you're thinking "But Celipa loves fighting!". However, after watching the Bardock Special, I saw that she never did any actual fighting. In her Oozaru form she just kinda roared a bit.

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