Thanks to Betterdays623, Spellweaver10 and Merifaye for your reviews!

Merifaye: I took your advice with my new OC I'm adding to this story :) He's a minor character, but he plays a part none the less!

Spellweaver10- I won't tell you where it goes, but I plan on spending a good amount of time developing the characters and their relationship. I personally view Vegeta especially pre-Buu to be very prideful and that humans are inferior to him and that's why he takes whatever he's offered with no problem, to me he feels entitled. Also I created my OC to be very naive. I had always wondered how Vegeta would act with a weaker person and how their relationship would develop. We have a while to go yet :) I hope that helps explain it better!


Emma had really done it this time. She should have known better than to push Vegeta. The man was full of secrets and it was obvious they would not be divulged easily, or even at all. It had been weeks and she hadn't seen even a glimpse of him. The snow had been plowed and she fell back into her routine and after a few days, she figured her wild encounter with the alien Prince had come to an end.

If only she hadn't pushed so hard. By nature she had an extreme thirst for information, and the Saiyan Prince was a well of it. Her mind had been clouded by thoughts of him for weeks. If only she would have done this, or didn't do this… it was driving her nuts.

"Hey Em, you okay in there?"

Emma shook her head of her thoughts, "Sorry Mark, I'm a little out of it today. I have the maps. Give me the description of our missing person." She was about to go out on a Search and Rescue mission. The mountain trails in the area were always treacherous, and there was always some poor soul who decided to tackle them during the winter. In the mountains the weather was always unpredictable and the snow banks could mask a number of dangers. The snow could be too soft and you could slide right off the bank, step onto a false ledge, a number of things.

Mark eyed her carefully. "If you aren't 100% you shouldn't be going out today. I can assign someone else."

Emma shook her head, she needed this. She needed to get out there and to clear her mind. "No I'm good, just tired. I'm not going out today. I'm heading the base and sending the dogs and their handlers out."

"Well if you're sure. He's been missing for 3 days, his name is Hiroki Kasho, male, 6 foot even, 205 pounds. He has dark brown hair, a trimmed beard. Last seen wearing an orange vest with denim pants. Make sure your team knows they have to be careful with him. He's a known out of season hunter and poacher. There's a good chance he went up there alone to do some illegal grizzly hunting and will be armed. He has been known to defend himself if he feels threatened so proceed with caution." Mark handed her a few bags containing clothing. "Here are the scent packs, everything has been worn recently and unwashed so we have a good chance of them picking up the scent."

Emma took down the information and bid Mark farewell. She made it back to her cabin where they decided to set up base since she was the closest to the location where they found Hiroki's truck. She relayed all the information to the team and set up her laptop, maps and radios to keep in touch with them, now it was just time to play the waiting game.


Vegeta was frustrated. Gohan was progressing tremendously, and he thought that he would progress as well while training the teenager but found that his power levels were remaining the same. He had been training with Gohan for the past week and instead of blowing off steam it was frustrating him further.

It was all that damn woman's fault. Who was she to be unafraid of him? He was the Prince of all Saiyans, feared by all. He could kill her with a mere twist of his arm, yet he didn't. The shelter she provided him with was sufficient as well as the food and for the most part she left him alone, as he preferred. But occasionally the insufferable woman would try to stick her nose into business that was of no concern to her.

She had succeeded in getting under his skin, and it was enough to want him to blow Gohan's head off.

"Vegeta, I need to go home. I have to get ready for my exams." Gohan said pulling Vegeta out of his thoughts.

Vegeta sneered at the younger saiyan. "Why trouble yourself with human tasks? This should be of no concern to a saiyan."

Gohan scratched the back of his head and giggled nervously. "Maybe not, but my mother is scarier than any saiyan I've encountered." Vegeta frowned and unexpectedly blasted Gohan right off of his feet. Gohan frowned and slowly pushed himself to his knees. "What the heck was that for?"

Vegeta crossed his arms and smirked down at the half-saiyan on his knees before him. "You should be more wise in choosing your words."

Gohan rubbed his head, "Gosh Vegeta, it was just a joke. She is really scary though."


"We are picking up on a scent trail, one of the dogs just alerted. I think we are closing in on him now. I'm in sector 5 now."

Emma pulled out her topographical map and scanned the sector the team was in. She picked up the radio and spoke into it, "Towards the north east of sector 5 is a lake so if he's smart you'll probably find him somewhere in that direction. We will have to dispatch helicopters if he's injured, there are no access roads. Keep me updated, over and out."

Emma cut the line and began to pace impatiently. She had no doubt that Hiroki would be found, the state he would be found in is a different story. Emma kept fighting off a nasty chill, there was just something that wasn't sitting right with her about the situation and it was beginning to make her feel very uneasy.


"You are weak if you will listen to the wishes of a mere human woman." Vegeta spoke arrogantly.

Gohan shrugged his shoulders and stretched out his aches and pains. "She's my mother, you can't tell me you weren't afraid of your mom."

Vegeta crossed his arms over his chest and turned away from him. "I had no mother."

Gohan rolled his eyes at Vegeta's arrogance. Leave it to the Prince of all Saiyans to claim he just popped out of thin air. "Come on Vegeta, everyone was born from someone."

Vegeta sneered and spit out some of the blood that was still lingering on his tongue from their last spar. "I was born because it was necessary for the King to have an heir. I was born to a nameless woman whose identity I never learned or cared to know."

Gohan frowned, what an idiot. He had to just open his stupid mouth. "Uh, sorry Vegeta," he apologized awkwardly.

Vegeta rolled his eyes and said, "Shut up. Just leave and go home to your foolish mother."

Normally Gohan would defend his mother's honor, but maybe Vegeta was right and he should watch his tongue. He wasn't exactly afraid of Vegeta, but he was someone that he definitely didn't want to piss off. Without another word Gohan flew away towards home.


Emma was nervous. It had been two hours since she last made radio contact with the team. They usually kept their radios silent unless absolutely necessary to reserve batteries. It was not strange to go a couple of hours in silence, but something wasn't right… she could feel it.

Finally she couldn't stand it anymore. "Base to camp, this is Emma. What's your location?" Emma waited a full minute and felt the hair on the back of her neck begin to stand up at the completely silence. "Base to camp, are you there?"

Again, there was silence. Emma shakily pulled open her laptop and pinged the GPS trackers that were linked into the radios, and received nothing. There was no response from the trackers, the radios had either been turned off or destroyed. They weren't out there near long enough for their batteries to drain, even in the cold.

Something had gone terribly wrong.


Vegeta was restless. After Gohan left he took out his frustration on a number of trees and a delicious deer that happened to cross his path. No matter how hard he focused on training he was just getting more and more frustrated. Training had always been his way to blow off steam, and now it just wasn't cutting it.

Vegeta stripped and cleansed his wounds in the icy river. The cold shocked his skin and instantly made him alert. He ran the cold water through his hair and scrubbed his face vigorously. After flaring his ki to dry his skin he quickly dressed and decided what to do next.

He was bored, tired, frustrated and hungry. With Kakarot gone he didn't have a full time partner to spar with. Gohan was too busy trying his best to be human and his younger brother Goten was a mere infant. He could always go back to the gravity chamber at Capsule Corp, but then he would have to deal with the insufferable Brief family once again. He decided he would rather deal with a thousand questions from Emma than deal with five minutes of Bulma's constant badgering.

Before he really even realized it he was flying toward's Emma's cabin in the woods.

"What do you mean you can't dispatch a chopper? These people's lives are on the line! Not only do I have an S&R victim who has been missing for days I now have 4 people and their dogs who have fallen out of radio contact! People's lives are at stake here!"

"I'm sorry ma'am. We can't dispatch until the morning. The snow will be starting up again within the hour and visibility will go down to zero."

Out of frustration Emma threw her notes against the wall. "I can give you the exact coordinates down to a God damned 5 square mile radius and you won't even send anyone out to try? People are going to die!"

"Well you seem especially vivacious this evening."

Emma whirled around and glared at the Prince with wide eyes. "You're back," she whispered.

Vegeta rolled his eyes, "Obviously."

Emma tuned back into her conversation and said. "I hope to God I find those people alive because if I don't you will feel my wrath come down on your head." Emma tossed the phone down on the table and turned back to Vegeta. "I need your help."

Personally, Vegeta was enjoying watching Emma's conversation. This as definitely a new side of her that he wasn't aware existed. Apparently the woman had some spunk after all. He smirked down at her and said, "How interesting."

Emma snarled and marched up to him, taking him completely by surprise when she grabbed his chest plate and glared into his eyes. "Does it look like I'm fucking around?"

For the first time in a long time Vegeta found himself almost enamored. Her face was flushed with fury and her eyes were sparkling with anger. It had been a long time since he had seen a female so enticing. If he wouldn't have been so frustrated the last few weeks he wouldn't have even noticed the allure she held. The passion he saw in her gaze reminded him of a saiyan. He smirked at her and said, "You are quite enticing when you are angry Emma."

If Emma wouldn't have been so wound up her mouth would have dropped to the floor at his comment, but in her current state she couldn't have cared less if he thought of her as a fat cow. "I have a search and rescue party out there that's fallen out of radio contact. I know where they are located within a five mile radius and the company that runs our medical helicopters are complete morons and won't fly out a chopper. I have half a mind to ask you to go out there right now and blast them all away."

Vegeta raised his brow at her. "You are angry."

Emma began pacing again and raked her fingers through her hair. She willed herself to breath evenly and turned back towards Vegeta. "There are 4 people out there, 4 dogs and a victim they were out searching for. I know something terrible has happened. They are all in danger. I don't really know how to explain it, have you ever just had the feeling where you know?"

Vegeta recalled receiving the news from Frieza that his planet had been eliminated by a meteor shower. He remembered the feeling in his gut that told him otherwise. He knew from the moment Frieza opened his mouth that somehow he was responsible. "What do you expect me to do about it?"

Emma once again grabbed the Prince, this time she grabbed his arms. The skin on skin contact sent a jot of electricity through Vegeta's skin. He was used to people being afraid of him, not daring to get close enough to lay their hands on him. Normally he would punish his would-be attacker immediately, but with her the feeling was strange, but not altogether unpleasant.

"I need you to take me up there. I can carry my emergency pack on my back, it's only about 10 miles north of here. I can save those people Vegeta, they don't have to die… but I need your help."

She was so interesting, Vegeta thought to himself. He could see the passion she had in her eyes for saving these people. She truly cared whether they lived or died, where he was the exact opposite. He didn't care about their lives. It would not phase him in the least of they perished on the mountaintops. But there was just something about the way she looked at him, her eyes were pleading with him.

Over the years many people had asked him for many things. They had asked him to spare their own lives, they had asked him to kill, but never had he been asked to help save people in such a way by such a woman. She looked at him like he was her only hope, it was the way the people of Earth had always looked at Kakarot, while they stared at him in fear.

Vegeta looked down at Emma and nodded once. "Stop blabbering and grab your pack, lets get this over with."