After checking three different transport lists Barodck began to really worry. Only the first transport carried slaves and his son was not on it. He saved Chichi and Gohan from the fate of slaves; however he couldn't find any trace of his son. He used all his connections to get the transport lists, and with every detail he had a feeling something was off. On most missions all three ships would carry slaves, many of them. In this case the first brought back only a group of 40 slaves, mostly men, and considering the capacity of the ships they could bring up to 4000 slaves. His daughter-in-law was beautiful for Saiyan standards, and it would only be logical to bring many female slaves as pleasure slaves, however less than 10 females were brought back. Nothing was adding up, and considering his experience this would only mean that someone had deliberately brought back only a few slaves, and that someone gave to order to destroy the planet. And his gut was telling him it wasn't an order from the King. Planets were rarely destroyed, usually all population killed or enslaved, and planet used up or sold. Destruction didn't bring any profits.

Gine had different worries, as a medical researcher she started wondering about their half-breed grandson. So at work she went through the database, and found no information about the possibility of Saiyans breeding with any other race. In fact it was clearly stated that no race was compatible to breed with Saiyans. But her grandson was born, and he was strong and smart. His Saiyan traits dominant, with a gentle character and less will to fight, but nevertheless he looked Saiyan enough. She got used to them in the house. Chichi was useful in the house, she kept everything clean and in order. Her cooking was fabulous and delicious. She was bossy and strong for such a weak female, which the family found amusing. Gohan quickly captured the hearts of his grandparents. Gine loved his inquisitive character, he wanted to know everything, and he learned Saiya'go really fast and spent a lot of time with her. While Bardock was amazed with his strength. Gohan had some fighting experience, he was trained well, and however his style and technique were completely different from the Saiyan ways of fighting. He was surprised with the child's power rating; it was close to his own. Much stronger than Raditz and Gine's. If the child kept growing and gaining power he would easily qualify for an Elite level. Bardock was born as a third class, after many years of battling and his special services to the crown he was awarded first class and the command of several second and third class teams. His physic powers were used by the King from time to time.

Now his instincts were telling him something was very wrong.

One night he asked his mate to do something to make sure their theories were true, and with the results he would personally go to the King. Gine took blood samples from Chichi and Gohan, and in secret analyzed them in her laboratory. The same day she returned home with a roll of papers.

"I decided to do the rest at home." Gine explained to her family.

"Did you destroy the blood samples and the data on the computers?" Raditz asked.

"Of course I did!" She spat at him.

"Did you destroy the backup files as well?" He kept asking.

"What back-up files?" she whispered terrified.

"I'm going to work in one hour; I got the night shift again, so I'll take care of those. For the last five years, all data from laboratories and ships is being copied into a special back-up system. It was designed personally by the King, however I know how to break into it and delete the information." Raditz assured her.

"If you don't delete it, out whole family will be in danger." Bardock told them. "I have a feeling we touched upon something really big, so be careful son." He held his arm for a moment.

"Dad just don't be sentimental on me. I can manage." Ratidz smirked.

"Now let's see what the genetic differences really are." Gine told them unfolding the papers on the big dining table.

Chichi, Gohan and Bardock saw a complicated diagram with genetic patters. Gine held different colour pens and started comparing the two blood samples by hand.

"You see, this is the Saiyan genetic code, and this is Chichi's." She pointed.

"There is only one strain of difference." Bardock quickly noticed.

"And these parts" she marked red "and these parts are exactly identical." Then she took a blue pen, and marked two other places saying "and these are very similar, the difference minimal."

"Now take a look at Gohan's." She pulled out another sheet. And put it next to Chichi's results.

"He has three strains like Saiyans, but these are similar to these parts of Chichi's strain." She marked another part green. "So I would say it didn't hinder his Saiyan strain but added something to it." Later she put all three diagrams next to each other. Gohan's strain was in the middle, it was clear he got all common parts between human and Saiyan DNA, the small extra part from human DNA, while the human DNA slightly modified his other Saiyans parts. Gine looked carefully at the markings trying to decipher what was responsible for what.

"This part is responsible for physical appearance." She marked one common part for all three sheets.

"This is responsible for intelligence." She marked one common part for all three sheets.

"Now here come the differences. He got this part from Saiyan DNS,"she marked in orange one part "this is responsible for strength and endurance. This is where our power rating came from."

"However he got this from his mother." She marked something in violet. "This part is responsible for emotions. The difference is minimal, nevertheless there is a difference, and this touches upon the strength and endurance part."

"So what do you really think?" Bardock asked.

"He has 80% of Saiyan DNA, while the human DNA modified and added up to the other 20%. These are mainly parts responsible for emotion and character. He will physically be a Saiyan, however he will be more sensitive and prone to emotions. The emotion part touches the strength part and changed one sequence in it, I believe it might actually make him stronger." Gine summed up her research.

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She suffered from nausea all day. She threw up in the morning, and with every hour she felt weak. He noticed her disposition around dinner time; despite sitting next to him at the main table she did not eat a bite. Her face was slightly green, and she tried to avoid the sight of food. He called him Nappa to take her to her room, and sat there thinking about the possible reason for illness. He felt fine, so the food hadn't been poisoned. He briefly considered the thought that those were typical symptoms of pregnancy, and dismissed the idea everyone knew there was no other species compatible to breed with Saiyans. After fulfilling all his duties he returned to her room and glanced at her sleeping body in her bed. He approached her and gently placed his hand on her stomach and focused all his senses. After a moment he felt it, a tiny pulse, and a not so tiny ki. She indeed was pregnant. He sat there next to her, thinking about how. He was told there was no species that could breed with them. Despite so many sexual activities of his soldiers with other races no half-breed children were born. He briefly considered that this pregnancy should be terminated immediately, but after a moment concluded that it might actually help his plan.

He went out of the room, and headed for his office. He logged onto his computer and accessed his data base. He started from all historical evidence of Saiyans not being able to breed with other races, and found many researches and documents confirming that fact. He saw tables of blood sample comparisons, all indicating it was physically or genetically impossible. Then he went on searching through the newest research conducted, and when he found nothing on the topic, he did a general search in the back-up files of all his research institutes. After a long time of reading useless information he found something surprising. On one of the computers in the Medical Research Centre someone had done 3 DNA tests, however no analysis or comments were enclosed. He zoomed into the results and looked at the strains of DNA, he knew what they were, but he had no idea about the details. One he recognized as Saiyan, the second looked similar to Saiyan DNA but there were some differences, while the third was complete different it had only two strands and evidently was of a different species. He checked who input the data and saw the name Gine. Bardock's mate, he remembered. Suddenly the data disappeared from the system. He looked surprised at the screen. Only a few people had clearance to go into the system. He checked the list of people currently logged in, and to his surprise he saw the name Raditz, the son of Gine and Bardock.

He tapped his fingers on the desk thinking, they must have had a good reason to tamper with the data. Bardock was faithful for sure, he knew the man from years before. He had been his tutor in his young years. And he only knew about truth about Bardock's special powers, and he knew the role Bardock played many years ago in saving his planet. His father trusted Bardock beyond any Saiyan in the empire. So he had no reason to doubt him now.