Here I'm again with a new story. I'm not sure yet how long it will be, but I will try to update it at least once a week.
I always wondered why Vegeta never used the Dragon Balls to wish back the saiyans, so I decided to make them come back. The story is set 1 year after the end of DBZ. In my previous stories, I mostly escaped to write about Vegeta's parents, but not this time! :)
"You have to help me gather the Dragon Balls!" Bra looked at her brother.
They were both sitting in the living room and just finished watching a movie.
"What exactly are you planning to wish?" Trunks asked, looking at his little sister.
Bra was only 8 years old, but there was no doubt that she was every bit as stubborn as Bulma. Once she decided something, she couldn't leave it until she got it. But at least Bulma was 16, when she left everything to gather the dragon balls.
"That's none of your business."
"I'm not helping then."
"Ok, I never actually hoped that you will simply cooperate. It seems you are lacking the proper motivation." Bra smirked.
Trunks looked at her as she crossed her arms on her chest, staring at him. Even though she looked like their mother, right now she was a spitting image of their father, especially that smirk. It was unnerving.
Bra had it all planned out and now she just needed to handle a couple of things first, to make her plan work. The next morning she flew to the mountains, to go over and play with Pan. At least that was the official version, what she told to her parents. As soon as she landed, she saw Pan running towards her, grinning.
"Hey Bra!" She called.
While she was only 2 years younger, the princess sometimes felt like there was at least 10 years age difference between them. Pan was so childish. Sure, she was her best friend and she liked playing with her, but still… She wasn't clever enough to help with her plan and she might not have been able to keep her mouths shut, hence Bra never told her what she was about to do.
"Hi Pan!" She answered and run past her, shouting back: "Sorry, I have no time to play now!"
"No time to play?" Pan repeated it, trying to make some sense from it.
Finally she gave up and run after her friend.
"Good morning Bra!" Chichi called as she looked at the girl, busting into her house. "Pan is outside…"
She was standing in the kitchen, washing a huge pile of dishes. Bra always wondered how she could keep up that, without any robots to help. Their house was much smaller as Capsule Corporation and Gohan's house next to them wasn't much bigger either, still it had a warm homely feeling and she enjoyed it there.
"I know, I have seen her. But I came here to see Goku."
"Me?" Goku asked, stepping into the living room.
"Yes!"
Chichi and Goku exchanged a confused look, while Pan also entered the house.
"What do you want from me?" Goku asked smiling, while he crutched down and messed up the little girl's hair.
Bra considered trying to break his fingers, but decided against it. Goku was a goof but he was the strongest fighter ever. Also the one, who learned many special abilities from all his masters over the years.
"I want to learn how to use teleportation!" She finally stated.
While Goku had no idea, why this technique was so important for Bra to learn, he agreed to teach it to her. He was always glad to have some willing students and recently Pan was the only one who was enjoying training with him. Gohan wasn't training with him much since he married and started to teach at the university and Goten… Well, he trained with Goten, but he wasn't so excited about it anymore as he was when he was little. He also had Uub to train and that took a considerable amount of his time, still having a new student was always good.
"So you are back?" Vegeta stepped inside the living room, with a towel around his neck.
Bra looked up from her book and grinned, knowing how her brother hoped that he will escape training somehow.
"I'm, but…" Trunks began, but couldn't finish.
"You have 10 minutes to get changed and meet me in the gravity room" the prince said, looking at his son.
The demi-saiyan sighed, aware that regardless what he would try to say, there was no way he could escape training. Apart from school, he was working at the laboratory helping out with some projects and he was training as well. He had hardly any free time at all and there was no hope, it would change in the near future. Sure he knew, he needed to be strong as peace never lasted, but he was 19, he should have gone out on dates and stuff, instead of getting beaten up on a daily basis. When Vegeta left and went to the kitchen to grab some food, Bra followed him and sit by the counter, opposite him.
"What do you want?" The prince asked.
He already knew this look; his daughter always wanted something when she looked at him like that. Yet as unlikely as it was, she mostly got her way, even with him.
"Tell me more about the saiyans!" she asked.
"I already told you what is there to be told. Freeza blow up the planet and killed all of them."
"I know that! I also know that you was one of the bad guys and wanted to blow up Earth, you already told me that a month ago. What I want to know is, what was it like to live on Vegetasei?"
Vegeta looked at his daughter, who was looking at him while she was leaning her chin on her hand. Ever since he told her the whole story, she was nagging him with this. Just like Trunks, she wasn't that shaken about his past. She was rather curious about their folk. He thought about the fact, that he hasn't even shared much with Bulma as he was not willing to talk about such things, yet it seemed like he had no other choice this time. For days he hoped that she will simply give it up, but he was disappointed. She was just too stubborn! He gave in, promising to talk with her once he finished their trainings with Trunks. As soon as Trunks came out from the gravity room hours later, Bra rushed in as she just couldn't wait any longer.
"Damn it girl, let me at least grab a drink!" Vegeta said.
"Here you go daddy!" Bra smiled and pulled out a bottle behind her back.
There it was, he had no more excuses to postpone this. Sincerely he thought that the hardest part would be to tell her why he came to Earth, but he was mistaken. He sit down on the floor and she followed suit.
"What do you want to know?"
"Everything" she chuckled. "I talked with Goku, Gohan and Goten but they were not much of a help. I know saiyans had tails and could change into apes at full moon, I also know that their tail was their weak point. Goku mentioned that a full blooded saiyans' hair never grows/changes and that his father was called Bardock and supposedly looked like him, but apart from this, I don't know anything."
Vegeta looked at her surprised. So she was thinking this seriously, as she already talked with the others. Just why was she so interested?
"Oh yes" she added quickly "I also know about Radditz and Nappa, the only other saiyans who were not killed by Freeza."
"You know that Radditz was Kakarott's brother?"
"Yes and that he kidnapped Gohan to force Goku to return. But… I don't know anything about my grandparents."
"My father was killed by Freeza as he was foolish enough to attempt to rise up against him, when he was weak."
"What about my grandma?"
Vegeta sighed again; he knew it will be a long discussion. It became a habit that at the evening Bra located him somewhere and he had to talk about saiyans at least for half an hour. As he recalled the servants and the elite fighters, memories surfaced inside him. Memories, what he assumed were long forgotten. First he was reluctant to say much, but as the days passed he gave in and told her almost everything on what he could remember. He thought it could be worse, at least she wasn't asking what he did under Freeza's command. Not that he would reveal that to her more specifically then "killing entire races and destroying planets".
"It's incredible that you can even remember on so many saiyans!" Bra called one evening. "I mean you were only 5 years old, younger than me!"
"Seems like I have a good memory" Vegeta nodded.
Indeed, he had a good memory. He remembered on more faces who suffered death by his hands, than he ever wanted to and he also knew most of the planets name's what he destroyed or cleaned from its inhabitants for Freeza to sell.
"I think she is up to something" Trunks shared one afternoon, when Goten was hanging out at Capsule Corp and they were at the pool, enjoying the warm weather.
They were sitting under a beach umbrella, just finishing their watermelons.
"Bra?" Goten asked back.
"Yes. She has long conversations with father almost every day and she is not willing to tell me what is that about."
"Have you asked Vegeta?"
"Yeah, sure, because he is the type, who would simply answer a question." Trunks said, putting his elbow on the table and leaning with his head on it.
"Right, you got a point!" Goten grinned, grabbing the last slice of melon and devouring it.
"Hey Goten, how long should I wait until you come here?" Valese, Goten's current girlfriend asked, standing at the side of the pool.
She had long wavy brown hair, brown eyes and big boobs. She also had a great figure, which was just enhanced by the red bikini she was wearing.
"Comin'" Goten called and he rushed there.
"Do you want more ice tea?" Trunks turned to Marron, who was sunbathing next to him.
She was almost 15 and she spent a lot of time with Goten and Trunks in the last couple of years. Just like Bra, she was too clever for her own age and she enjoyed hanging out with them, rather than with her classmates.
"Yeah, but let me come with you!" She nodded, then grabbed her gown, put down her sunglasses and they went inside the house.
"What do you think, how long will Goten keep Valese around?" Marron asked, while Trunks pulled out a new bottle of tea from the fridge.
Goten was very popular among the girls and he changed her girlfriends, like others were changing clothes. Trunks and Marron had a hard time remembering his current girlfriends' names and they already gave up counting just how many he had.
"Not sure, a month?"
"I say no more than two weeks."
"Are you still doing it?" Bra called from the doorway, causing Trunks and Marron to spin around and look at her.
"Doing what?" Trunks asked.
"Making bets about Goten's girlfriends. You are so childish!" the young princess smiled, while she pulled out a coke from the fridge.
"You are the one two talk?" Marron raised her eye-brown.
"While I might be younger, I'm a genius and I'm more intelligent than you two together."
"You would like that, wouldn't you?" Trunks grinned, indicating Marron to get back outside.
As Bra looked them go, she just had a brilliant idea, how to make his brother help her with her secret plan. Later when Goten, Trunks, Marron and Valese finished watching a movie in the living room, Bra grabbed Trunks' hand and pulled him out to the hallway.
"What? I'm busy you know!" He snapped.
"Tomorrow, you will help me find the dragon balls" She stated.
"I already said no. Nothing changed!"
"Oh but it did" Bra smiled. "I have a motivation for you."
Trunks raised his eye-brown, looking at his little sister. Somehow the way she was looking at him, made him feel bad, like she had some evil plan.
"If you don't help me" she began, than spoke a bit lower "I will tell Marron that you like her!"
"What?" Trunks cried out so loudly, that Goten, Valese and Marron looked at their direction.
"It's nothing, I will be back in a sec!" He tried to sound relaxed, while he grabbed his sister and pulled her farther away from the door.
"So?" Bra asked, hardly able to repress a smile.
"So what?"
"Do you want me to tell Marron how you feel about her?"
"How the hell do you know that I…. how I feel? She is just a childhood friend!"
Trunk felt himself blushing, while his heart rate increased somewhat.
"Brother, you might be 11 years older, but I have eyes for these things. Even before you panicked and dragged me here, I already knew it. Though your reaction just confirmed it. Never play poker bro, you won't be any good in that!"
Trunks' mind was racing, waging his options and trying to find a way out. As he looked at Bra, he knew that she knew what he was thinking about and she let him have time to think everything over. When he realised there was no other way, he almost gave in, then something hit him:
"If you tell Marron, I will tell it to Goten!"
"Please, that is not a threat. I will tell him myself" Bra smirked, then walked back to the living room.
Trunks followed her, not quite sure what to expect. It was obvious that Bra liked his best friend since a while now, but as Goten had similar abilities to detect these as Goku, he had no idea about it.
"Goten, do you have a sec?" Bra asked.
"Yeah" Goten answered and turned towards Bra.
He was sitting on his heels, so his head was almost at the same height as Bra's.
"You have 10 years" she said, causing everybody to look at her curiously.
"What?" Goten asked back, not quite sure what she meant.
"You have 10 years to have as many girlfriends as you want. Then, you will be my boyfriend!"
Trunks looked at them and he even forgot to close his mouths. His little sister just confessed her love to his best friend. Valese looked at Bra, then at Goten, not quite sure what to think, while Marron brush out laughing.
"Why would I date you?" Goten asked, still not quite sure what was happening.
"Because I love you and once I'm 18, I will make you fall in love with me" Bra said with such a determination, that Marron stopped laughing.
Bra pressed her lips to Goten's and give him a light kiss. Before Goten realised what was happening, it was already over and Bra was standing at the door, looking up at Trunks:
"So?"
It was just too much for Trunks, he couldn't think realistic and he agreed to help. He felt terrible that an 8 years old girl succeeded to blackmail him, but it seemed she had even more brains than he assumed. How the hell did she figure out anyhow what he felt for Marron? For crying out aloud, he barely became conscious of it a week ago!
The next day when Trunks was about to leave with Bra, Bulma entered the house and looked at them.
"Where are you going?"
"Trunks promised me yesterday to bring me to the amusement park" Bra lied.
"He did?" Bulma asked, looking at her son.
"Well… yes! Everything for my little sister, right!" Trunks said, putting Bra into his arms and giving her a peck on her face.
He knew how she hated that, so at least he was getting some revenge on her. He had to take every little opportunity as Bra was a sharp girl. Bra hugged him and forced a smile on her face, playing along.
"Have fun then!" Bulma nodded and went into the living room.
She couldn't help to feel that her children behaved somewhat strange just now, but with her family, strange was something what she experienced on a daily basis. She shrugged it off and continued to walk towards her lab; she had a project to finish.
"How do you plan to find the dragon balls without a radar?" Trunks asked, once they were in a safe distance from the house.
"Who said that I don't have a radar?" She smiled, pulling it out from her pocket.
"You stole it?"
"I'm just borrowing it. It's not like mum will need it right now."
"You really thought this true, didn't you?"
"Oh yes!"
While they were flying towards the nearest one, Trunks asked:
"What do you want to wish?"
"You will see son enough!"
"Why do you need me at all?"
"Because I'm not allowed to go anywhere apart from Pan's or Marron's house, even though the only people who are stronger than me are either my relatives or my friends. But I can go anywhere with you!"
"True…"
As they both had inhuman speed and flying was quite quick, they gathered all the balls before the sun set. Bra was really proud on herself and when she called the dragon, the made sure she was as far away from home as possible. She picked a small rocky island in the middle of the ocean. While her father might realise straight away why the sky was dark, he couldn't use instant transmission so it would take him a few minutes to reach her and he was not the type who would ask for Goku's help. While Bra heard about the dragon, it was the first time that she was actually seen it and it took her breath away, once it came forth.
"What is it that you wish?" Shenlong asked, looking down at the two demi-saiyan with his red eyes.
Bra winked to Shenlong, then flew up and whispered her first request:
"Restore Vegetasei somewhere near Earth" Bra called.
Trunks looked at her like she was crazy. He already thought about a million wishes what her sister might want, but… he still had no idea, what was going on inside her head.
"Your wish is granted" Shenlong called as his eyes glowed even more red for a second. "What is your second wish?"
"Bring back all the saiyans, who were killed on or since the day Freeza blow up the planet" Bra whispered again, smiling.
Shenlong eyes glowed one more time, then he stated:
"Your second wish is also granted. See you in a year!"
Trunk stood there dumb folded, not quite sure what to think or say.
"Tell daddy to get Goku and they should come and find me!" Bra said, then she concentrated on the saiyans and as the restored planet was relatively near, she managed to find a strong Ki and simply disappeared.
"Bra!" Trunks called, trying to grab her, but he just managed to grab the empty space. "Bra! You cannot be serious! Just what the hell was all that? And how am I supposed to tell dad that?!"
"What?" Vegeta asked, just arriving and landing next to him.
"Dad!" Trunks cried out and jumped.
He never expected him to arrive so quickly and his head was full of questions. He was sure Vegeta will blame him for letting his sister go, hell, he wasn't just letting her, he was helping her or at least covering for her. But he had no idea what she wanted.
"Where the hell is your sister? I sensed her Ki just a moment ago!"
"I… I have no idea! Look, she forced me to gather the dragon balls and she made two wishes, but I have no idea what those are."
Trunks felt how his palms became sweaty and his throat was dry like the dessert. He tried to find Bra's Ki, but it seemed like she just disappeared from the planet.
"She forced you?" Vegeta stepped closed, throwing a murderous look at his son. "Your 8 years old sister forced you?
"Well yeah… she was blackmailing me" Trunks answered, realising how lame that just sounded.
Vegeta was angry, no! Angry wasn't even covering what he felt at the moment; it was rage. His daughter just disappeared and he couldn't sense her Ki. And he just found out, that his son was helping her.
"She cannot just disappear" he stated, trying to calm down himself.
"She almost looked like Goku, before he teleports somewhere, but she doesn't know how to…" Trunks began, but Vegeta interrupted him:
"Unless that clown thought her how, for some reason. Kakarott!"
With that Vegeta stormed off, causing Trunks to almost loose his balance and fall into the ocean. Goku felt Vegeta's Ki rushing towards him and he barely had thought that maybe something happened with the Dragon Balls, when he felt a hand grabbing his shirt and a very angry prince shouted into his face:
"Where is my daughter?"
"Bra?"
"Damn it Kakarott, how many daughter do I have?" Vegeta asked and as he realised that Goku was actually thinking about the answer, he shouted: "Of course Bra!"
"Well, how should I know? I mean I have seen her yesterday when we trained…"
"Trained? Since when are you training with her?"
"She asked me to teach her how to teleport and you see, I saw nothing wrong with that so…" As Goku was trying to explain, he felt that somehow he just made the prince angrier instead of the other way around, yet he had no idea, what his problem was. Then he just got conscious of his question, which was about the whereabouts of Bra. Vegeta could sense Ki, why would he ask him where she was? When he tried to find her though, he couldn't.
"I cannot sense her" he answered.
"That's what I'm talking about! Trunks told me she made two wishes, then she simply disappeared."
"I sensed her near Shenlong, so she called him. Why?"
"I have no fucking idea, but I don't care either. I just want to know where she is!"
Vegeta let go of Goku's shirt and they began to search for her Ki again, even though they knew it was impossible to miss among humans. Sure, she wasn't the strongest among them, but she was way more powerful that any of the humans. Again, they couldn't sense her, but they sensed somebody else…
