Chapter 7: A Clear Conscience
Back on the planet Namek, Goku held his fists upwards, his narrowed eyes on the struggling Vegeta to his left.
"Save your strength, Vegeta."
The small prince coughed violently once again, tightly shutting both eyes.
"No! There's more...he killed..our home planet. It...was him..."
Frieza scoffed, crossing his arms with a smirk.
"He's just a corpse and he's still blabbing. I'll have to gag him to shut him up."
Vegeta's face twitched heavily, reopening his right eye.
"Your father...and mine..."
He spasmed, hyperventilating for a moment before continuing.
"The whole planet...he blew it up. It's true...no one survived but...us. Ask him if you want...he'll tell you...he's proud of it!"
Frieza's smirk widened at Vegeta's desperation, Goku's narrowed eyes widening slightly.
"Please stop talking Vegeta! It's sapping all of your strength!"
Vegeta clutched hard at the dirt, his body shaking even more violently.
"No! Listen...you have to hear this..."
A steady trail of water flowed from the only opened eye of the Saiyan prince, streaming down and washing some of the dried blood as it travelled to the ground.
"We worked...so hard for him. We did everything he asked of us...and more. He took me from my father...when I was just a little boy!"
Goku blinked hard, his expression mirrored in Piccolo, Krillin, and Gohan all standing back a few feet from the three.
"He made me do...whatever he wanted. Said he would kill my father...if I didn't. I did...everything he asked...but he...killed him anyway. Along with everyone else..."
Goku's glare returned, his eyes trailing towards Frieza as Vegeta continued.
"He was scared of us...scared that a Super Saiyan would be born someday! And rise up to overthrow him..."
Frieza kept his smirk, his arms still folded across his chest while his tone dripped with sarcasm.
"A touching story."
Vegeta's closed left eye began to water, his eyelid unable to hold the water back as he sniffled slightly.
"Kakarot...please! Destroy...Frieza...he made me what I am! Don't...let him...do it to anyone else! Whatever it takes...stop him! Please!"
Goku's shock intensified, watching Vegeta slowly lie still and his chest come to a halt. The wind ruffled his hair, but nothing more on the still body at Goku's feet.
"Vegeta..."
Vegetto kept his eyes trained on Vegeta, his slits for eyelids twitching. His mind continued to race without control beneath the controlled exterior that is his physical body, the memories flooding through.
These...memories...none of it is mine. None of it is mine...none of it is mine!
The fusion suddenly doubled over, both hands flying to his head while the dual voice erupted into a short burst of frantic words.
"I wasn't strong enough father!"
Vegetto shook his head, groaning heavily as Vegeta's voice rang out inside of his mind. However, the Prince's speech was more ferocious than usual, his words dripping with venom.
He took me from him! He made me his slave...tortured me! Took away my childhood! Killed me! Killed my homeworld! Mocked my Saiyan ancestry! Disgraced me! Humiliated me!
The fusion continued to writhe, only for the second voice of Goku to ring out next, his tone also deadly and sinister.
All of those people..millions of lives taken before their time...crying out for protection with no one to save them! Innocent families...children...crying out for mercy. Only for them to be cut down by that evil villain who enjoys the pain he causes!
Vegetto stumbled forward, falling off the cliff and crashing into the dirt on all fours. He panted hard, bullets of sweat flowing down his forehead as the two voices became one inside of his head.
I can feel the pain of my Saiyan brothers and sisters...the disgraceful death they suffered. The innocent civilians and the proud warriors of a noble race...destroyed in a single ball of energy. Only to satisfy a pleasure and fear from a scared little man...
The fusion's breathing began to slow, yet he clenched at the dirt with extensive force. Small chunks of dirt began to rise up into the air around Vegetto, sparks of electricity blossoming around his chest.
"He is the cause of my pain..."
The fusion slowly rose to his feet, his gloves tightly clenched in his grasp.
"And I will have my revenge!"
Vegetto then rapidly blasted forward, leaving a trail of blue energy behind him as he closed in on the fighters across the river.
The Supreme Kai of Time screamed, throwing the scroll at Trunks who stared on with wide eyes.
"He's going to change history!"
The Kai stormed angrily, slamming her foot to the ground in a temper tantrum.
"Go go go! Pull him out of there, kill him, do something! He's going to cause a paradox that will break the boundaries of reality if you don't do something now!"
Trunks gasped, still clutching the scroll tightly.
"But...but I don't understand?! He just writhed in pain for a few moments and now he's suddenly wanting revenge on Frieza?"
The Supreme Kai's frantic words calmed slightly, but her tone still held her fury.
"The fusion isn't just a combination of power Trunks! Everything your father and Goku experienced over the years is fused together within him! All of that hatred built up inside of your father...mixed with Goku's hatred of Frieza's tyranny..."
Trunks' wide eyes turned to the Kai.
"I can't even begin to imagine what he's feeling right now..."
The Supreme Kai scoffed in response.
"Well I can! And he's about to show what he's feeling when he erupts with all of his power on Frieza and shatters the flow of time! And unlike your little adventure to the past, there's nothing I can do now to contain it!"
Trunks pulled at his hair, wildly flaring up in anger at the Supreme Kai of Time.
"So that's why you wanted me to keep in contact with him on this mission?! Why didn't you tell me this could happen?!"
The Supreme Kai's yelling matched trunks' in response, tightly clenching her fists.
"How was I supposed to know that something was going to prevent me from pulling him out of the Scroll?! You were only meant to try and talk him down so he wouldn't come back here so angry...not actually prevent anything!"
Trunks grunted in annoyance, lifting two fingers to the metal earpiece in his right ear.
"Well it seems like our only hope now. If we can't convince him to stand down, everything will be destroyed."
