A/N: It's Age 781. Ages: Raditz (35), Beetra (32), Froze (Should be 28, 2 4/5), Yamcha (48), Bulma (48), Vegeta (Should be 49), Bulla (Screwed up year: either 3, 1 or 6?), Goku (Should be 44), Chichi (44), Krillin(45), Marron (10), Goten(14), Trunks (15), Mai (Should be 50 or 44, 15), Gohan (Should be 24, 26?), Videl (25, 27?), Pan (1).
Chapter 11
Age 737
On an unknown planet, Raditz was stuck within a cave slowly dying from starvation and thirst since the cave he took residence on had little source of edible food and water to spare after a few weeks of loneliness and fear for his life had passed.
The young lied on the cold ground truly believing that he was going to die pathetically like he'd been promised by others that it would become.
His head ached, eyes stung in a pool of red, hair oiled and stuck to his face, and mouth dried up unable to utter out songs to ease his pain. His stomach was hollow like air, and then felt like something dropped inside him that it was painful to breathe as the expansion of his stomach ached him further.
Only ten years old, he just wanted someone to hold him before he died. He wanted his mother to be here and hold him but the wish was so fake and idealistic that his death became all the more realistic and accepting. His father not being there added to its effect.
But one thing kept him wondering and alive: Kakarot
Raditz wondered how Kakarot was doing on his mission since he hadn't known about the planet's demise. His scouter was broken. He wondered if that Gine woman would make sure he came back to their society to continue being a proud saiyan.
He read books of different versions of hell, heaven and just materializing into something else like a sword or gold.
Not knowing the end, he only hoped that he would be given mercy but even found that thought to be very idealistic.
"Hey, there's someone here!" A man shouted. "It's a saiyan!"
"A saiyan?" Another younger voice questioned. "Is she alive?"
"She's a boy, my prince. A son of a third-class saiyan I knew back."
Raditz was numbed by the cold and falling to unconsciousness. He wasn't aware that he was being held in someone's arms. The next thing the child knew was that he was waking up in the medic again feeling terrible, but after being fed, he felt a lot better.
The doors to the medic opened to reveal two saiyans: Nappa and Prince Vegeta.
The five year old scowled at him, "Listen here worm, I am your prince, Prince Vegeta, and you will do whatever I have to say. Got that?!" Raditz was silent. He was shocked to meet thee Prince Vegeta who was as rude as an elite would be. "What's wrong? Forgot to speak?"
"Give him some time, my prince." Nappa advised. "He must have heard that our planet has been destroyed along with the rest of our race by a meteorite."
That shook the young boy to attention of what he had just heard. Yet he was still shocked silent. Weeks away from civilization, he had a lot to think on and the sound of their race being killed off didn't really irk him since they were never kind to him. Death was something to easily accept in their kind, anyway. But he couldn't help asking, "And...my parents?"
"Dead." Nappa responded frankly. "Most of the saiyans were on the planet, including your parents, when it was destroyed."
"...And my little brother? He went on a mission. He can't be dead! His name is Kakarot!" He questioned with more vigor. With more concern in his voice.
"And another worthless third-class." The prince pointed out. "Alive or not, he'll just slow us down like you will. I honestly would have left you to die, but the more the saiyans, the more it'd piss off Lord Frieza." He declared, turning away to get out of the sick-smelling room.
"Shouldn't we at least make sure that he got to his destination?!" Raditz cried out.
Nappa responded, "He did reach his destination. I checked for other saiyan pods who have left and only his signal reported back. We'll go get him when he's done."
"And when will that be?"
"I don't know. When we need him, we'll get him." The man responded without a tone of sympathy. It was like they were just having business. "You were lucky that we were assigned to take down all the living beings on that planet. Welcome to the team, kid."
"...It's Raditz." He said.
"What?"
"My name is Raditz." The boy repeated louder. "And thank you."
Nappa stared at the male at his strange kindness. "Tell me. Are you Gine's kid or Mame's?"
"Kid Mame's." He responded putting his long hair over one shoulder.
"Ah...There might be some hope for you, kid." The elite told him and walked away.
Raditz understood that what the two saiyans thought was that he was going to die eventually on their missions. And he accepted that like he accepted every other presumption that came his way.
At first on the team, he was quiet. Trained with them for a little while before being given the paper work and reports to handle when he had shown Nappa that he was capable of reading and analyzing quick for his age.
On missions, he was the one who got hurt the most and ended up at the medic while the other two saiyans were fine and laughed and mocked him when he was healed.
Their cruelty was nothing new, but when Raditz got a better hand on the missions, he showed his childish side and became more vocal against Prince Vegeta that had them fighting like regular kids. The younger saiyan obviously out beat him while the older one would outsmart him in taunts.
The prince would be pissed in the end, but Raditz would be happy because it wasn't like the past fights. Their own was more fun. His smiles and laughs at the end would make his prince arch an eyebrow at how weird he was, but he would also think to himself privately of how fun it was, too, even if it was incredibly immature.
Then when Raditz became fourteen while Vegeta was still nine, Nappa allowed him to follow him to the stripper bars all around space.
The teen had been to many different planets, but this one was a completely different world. There were many levels that had different types of aliens dancing provocatively. Everything turned dark blue with lights blurring his vision. The music blared out. There was strange intoxicating smells all around. Raditz felt dizzy, but Nappa caught him.
"Whoa there. It's intoxicating isn't it. They use addictive incense in here. It attracts the comers to stay until they spend every coin."
"I read about this kind of place. Should I keep my guard up?" The young male asked cautiously.
"Ha! You're a proud saiyan warrior. If anyone pull anything just kill them. They don't call the authorities to this kind of place. No one comes here without expecting to get in trouble and probably die." The man laughed boisterously, and Raditz tried to follow along. He was still worried since he was still a warrior with a power level a little over a thousand. He kept his scouter with him to make sure he wasn't getting into a bigger fight than he hoped for.
"Come here." Nappa placed a hand on the younger male's back to show him to a table where aliens were gambling with glowing dices and cards. The other aliens seem to know the elite as much as he knew them while they let them in on the game.
Raditz observed how the game was played and the other players. Nappa seemed like an excellent player, but wasn't lucky. The young teen noted on how the females blew on the dice before they were rolled.
He also noted on how other players had an eye on him. The teen wasn't so innocent in a stripper bar to know when someone desired him. He decided to play with it by going to Nappa's ear to whisper, "Let me blow the dice."
"What?" The bald man was confused.
Raditz just cocked his head to the side with a knowing smile. Nappa looked that way, but then had an affectionate hand on his cheek by the young teen who smirked. He said in their language in a sexy fashion, "I'll distract them. Let's double the amount."
Nappa raised his eyebrows at such a daring proposal but played along. When the dice was in his hands, he made Raditz blow on them. When they rolled, he got a good number. When it was the other's turn, Raditz distracted them by having his hands on the older saiyan while looking at them as if he was pretending that Nappa was them.
In the end, the saiyans won the whole house, and the two left triumphantly.
"That was very smart of you, Raditz. Distracting them like that." The older saiyan praised him for the first time.
"It was nothing." Raditz told him happily by the compliment. "I learn from the whores that go around in Frieza's ship when we don't have a mission."
"Hanging around the whores huh. That's my boy!" The older man patted his back. "You must be wowing them with your saiyan skills!"
The young male blushed. "I don't do that with them!" He corrected. "We just talk."
"Wha..." The very idea of having conversations with a whore seemed impossible to even imagine. "You mean you don't do anything with them?"
"No...I don't want to touch sloppy seconds! That's disgusting!"
"Have you done it with anyone at least?" He inquired. Raditz crossed his arms blushing brighter as they reached their space pods. "So you're a virgin after all! Hahaha! I knew it!"
"Shut up old man! I just haven't found a woman I prefer since all the saiyan females were wiped out!"
"Still." He snorted, "A virgin! Hah! I bet Vegeta would've lost it at a much younger age than you! Most saiyan males lose it when their twelve or thirteen, and your older than that! Hahahaha!"
"I told you to shut up!" The virgin got into his pod to get away from the man who continued to laugh at him. Raditz did want to do it, but not with just anyone. After the physical abuse he's been through, he wasn't ready to let anyone touch him intimately.
But that was a want that was ignored by Nappa who wanted him to do more than do teases at his side. "You want me to become a stripper? Why in the galaxy would I do that?! Didn't you tell me that I was a proud saiyan warrior?!" He demanded answers as they were in their pods heading to a space bar.
"I know, but if you do those sexy dances, then you would bring in more money!"
"What sexy dances? I know nothing!"
"You just need to sway your hips to the music. You'll have a pole so just play with it." Raditz grumbled to himself. Nappa continued, "Lord Frieza had taken a liking to the idea, too. With you, bidders for planets will rise up if they know that the saiyans raid it. If they make you happy, they'll believe that they can see more of you."
"Am I supposed to have anyone have my way with me, too?"
"No. None of that kid. You being a virgin will higher up the price. The point is that the better you dance, the more people will want to see you and fantasize about having you."
"Like a thing."
"It's not a common thing you'll be doing, Raditz. If Frieza gets more bidders, then more missions we'll have. The more missions, the more happy our prince will be. You vowed to make him happy, didn't you?"
That was true. Raditz wanted to make their prince happy. For the fact that he was their prince and could kill him, and that he was fond of their prince despite his arrogance at times. Plus, he would become more useful doing this. "...Alright."
And so, Raditz becoming a stripper became nothing new to him. At first, he felt being violated by eyes that he became more self conscious of himself, but then seeing as it got sales going up and more missions coming in, he adapted to it. Their prince was happy as well, thinking that Frieza had finally come to appreciate them.
It continued for years, even after he mated with Vegeta, that he danced in ridiculous clothing or none at all to please others.
And then came the pregnancy, the adoption, and the deal with Frieza. The rape, the prostitution and the escorting that went on.
He had come to adapt to such horrible conditions since he never had confidence in himself to begin to have a simple happy life with his prince. He had stopped crying by instinct when he was brutalized, but he would be driven to do so in loneliness when he was allowed to be back with his prince on their missions.
Prince Vegeta had come to truly hate him, but kept him on the missions, thinking that Raditz would get his punishment by getting hurt since he won't be there to protect him like before.
He deserved it since he was holding secrets he still could not tell. Nappa was aware of this and had come to look at him like a deformed creature. Yet, the man hadn't been cruel to him since he knew Frieza must be doing a thorough job of it already.
Raditz hoped to never be cornered, but then as fate had put it for him, he was stuck within a cave with lit jewels when the place darkened from the rocks that closed the exit. Him and his prince were blasted into the cave during the their raid from an unexpected blast of a machine from the enemy.
"DAMMIT!" Vegeta blasted at the rocks which had caused the cave to quake frailly above them.
"Stop my prince! You'll crush us!"
"Shut up! I can get out of this!"
"No you can't!"
"Shut up! You can't tell me what to do!" The stubborn man in his early twenties roared at him.
"I'm telling you to not be an idiot!" Raditz snapped.
"Who is the idiot here, you whore!"
"Doesn't mean I'm wrong am I! The cave is fragile, and if you blast the rocks away, you'll only have the ceiling collapse on top of us before we can get out!"
"Hmph. I can handle a bunch of rocks."
"It's stupid to take the risk. It's better if we follow the gems. They seem to be arranged to lead somewhere." The long hair male pointed out.
It sounded like a good idea, but Vegeta didn't want to seem willing. He ranted, "We wouldn't be in this mess in the first place if you weren't so inadequate for battle!"
"I know." Raditz agreed. "Let's find a way out of here quickly. Nappa may need our help."
"If he does, then he should be good as dead."
Raditz didn't respond as they followed the arranged gems. With each step, the older saiyan became more nervous. That nervousness turned into full blown anxiety when they came across multiple ways with arranged gems going to each one.
"What now, genius?" Vegeta questioned.
Raditz tried his scouter to detect any life, but it looked like his scouter detected the same amount of energy at each of them. This either meant that all of them led to the same exit, or held something in each.
"Well?!" The prince was becoming impatient.
"Wait. I researched that this planet's caves can lead to plants that could poison you through smell. All passages had shown to have the same power levels emitting from it, meaning that all of them may be either a way out or a trap."
"Oh that's nice to know. I knew I should've just blew those damn boulders away and got myself out of here an hour ago! At least I know that I could get out of a bunch of rocks!"
"Then go then!" Raditz yelled unable to handle his prince's presence any more. "Nothing is holding you back!"
"Fine then! Go and get poisoned, you whore!" He demanded but neither men moved. Vegeta wanted Raditz to reply back to his remark, but the older saiyan ignored him. This made the man growl. "Why do have to be like this?!"
"I am not being like anything! I am simply trying to make the best of situations, and seeing that you want to do something incredibly risky, you may do it! I don't doubt that you can survive it." Raditz found himself held against a wall. A clearly pissed off Vegeta ready to teach him discipline.
"Listen to me, you damn whore! I will not tolerate your attitude towards me; your prince who you were supposed to serve under loyally!"
Raditz's heart pierced by those ignorant words. "I am loyal to a fault."
"A disgusting fault you mean! How can you turn to Frieza?! Did you always have a sick mind?!"
"My mind is my own and none of your business! I serve you my prince through risking my life for you! But you can't own my heart or mind!"
"Heart or mind?! Are you saying that Frieza has these?!"
"NO!" He stopped himself, realizing that he was walking on eggshells. "Lord Frieza...only has my desire." He tried not to scowl or vomit. "That is all. I desire to lie with him in such matters that aren't your concern."
There was a moment of silence before the taller man found his wrists bound to the wall. Vegeta growled, "I won't let him have it. I won't let that bastard have anything from you." He reached to kiss, but Raditz moved his face away.
Vegeta was enraged by the act that he threw Raditz on the ground catching him off guard before roughly kissing the male and holding his wrists down. The older one tried to make this stop. Going so far as biting his prince's lips til it bled.
The younger saiyan snapped back at the defying act, but didn't stop to claim what was rightfully his. Raditz knew of this, but didn't want it to happen in such a way. He didn't want to add Vegeta to the list of men who raped him.
He cried for it to stop, starting with a stutter until it got louder and his tears dropped. "STOP! PLEASE STOP! PLEASE!" He sobbed unable to find dignity when all he could do was panic for his body and emotional safety.
Vegeta did stop unlike the rest, and saw how frightened the taller saiyan, who was once his mate, was. He released the male's wrists that began to bruise. Raditz stayed lying down looking away from the man as he cried.
The prince stood on his feet. He was a cold blooded warrior, but no rapist. And that made Raditz feel love for him further. The older sat up trying to say without a stutter, "I'm sorry, my prince."
"For what?" He inquired not looking down at the frightened monkey.
"...I'm sorry that I can't be yours."
"...Shouldn't it be that you won't. I..." Vegeta wanted to say something. Raditz didn't know what it was, and assumed that they weren't of sense.
Later, they were able to get out after choosing one path that was the right one, and they found Nappa who had successfully did the mission.
When they got back, Raditz was immediately called to Frieza's side. Vegeta didn't look at him when he left, and wasn't to return for months which separated them further to the point that whatever they had potentially in their hearts was close to vanishing.
So on, there was the forced pregnancy for Froze, and then Gamete.
Someone he came to fall in love with. "You are beautiful." The two were lying down on a bed after a session of sex.
Raditz simply gave a small smile to those words he heard from others before. He responded, "You too."
"That doesn't sound so confident. Did I chose the wrong face?" He asked in concern.
"No. Your face is fine." He caressed the man's cheek. His heart felt like reaching out to him, but his insecurity told him to not go too deep. That he was just being a nuisance if he was true. He settled with kissing Gamete, and telling him, "I love you. And thank you for everything."
"I haven't done much at all. If I could, I'd stop all the men from touching you. It pains me with great jealousy that I can't have you all to myself."
"But you do. Every other man and woman or thing is nothing to me. I love you. And your hands on my body are hands on my body. Not tools finding a way to pull me to pieces like a toy." The saiyan told him honestly and repeated, "I love you."
Gamete grinned softly at him. "More than your prince?"
"...Yes." He admitted and received a kiss for his answer.
Raditz was being truthful when he did love Gamete more so than Vegeta in the respect of desire. He had fallen in love, and while on his escorting or prostituting business, he had made others fall in love with him. Even if he was a different race, a different creature, he was desirable.
Then there was one person who made him question love. An old king. Raditz had pleased him with his conversational skills and wits, but the man had seen beyond him. "You believe that you are in love with this Gamete. That's very unwise considering his profession." The two were in a bedroom. The old king was sitting on a chair, facing the window where Raditz was using its seat.
The saiyan retorted, "Being in love is not a choice. I feel this for him for everything he has given me."
The king retorted back, "Except the truth, and you know that this relationship will come to an end." The king said. "Raditz, I love you."
There was no reply to his words. The saiyan was deeply troubled with them because he couldn't help but feel something for them. What he felt was different than what he felt for Vegeta and Gamete. It hurt but also made him feel genuine in the moment of those words.
"I...admire you." He finally said.
This made the king smile sadly. "Do you understand why men desire you, Raditz?"
"Because I'm a rare specimen."
"No. It's because you're strange. A good kind of strange. Rare you are, but if you were anyone else but yourself, I wouldn't have bothered speaking with you."
"You don't bother touching me." This confused and saddened him a bit. He crossed his arms, looking out the window.
"Because your mind is much more interesting than your body. The reason you are so desirable is because even if you are used, you have so much strength left in you to not be broken. Bits of you are cracked, but the overall center is still there. Your true love. And a love that you desire. Not in lust, but in wistfulness. You miss someone."
"Yes. Froze."
"No. It's none of your children. It's not your prince or anyone that you think that you're in love with. The real reason you stay so strong; the reason you still venture on is because there is someone you truly miss. Someone you don't truly know, but is all you truly have left from your home planet. A good someone."
"...My brother." Raditz admitted. "Kakarot is still out there, and Prince Vegeta still doesn't need him. I don't want to beg because my brother's pod no longer gives a signal, and I don't want to know for the worse."
"You know he's out there. You still feel his presence."
"I'm not a psychic, my king."
"But you have a good sixth sense. You did told me that you knew whenever this prince of yours was hurt or needed you. You also sense the same when you think of your brother or children. You know."
"What is your point, old man?" Raditz wasn't really up for an epiphany or further explanation of himself.
"I'm just saying my reasons. I admire you, too." The man smiled full heartily. The saiyan felt an ego boost for himself and wished that he didn't have to leave but so much more was waiting for him back. The least that he could leave with was a kiss to the forehead before doing so.
He did miss and yearned for his little brother Kakarot, and didn't know at that moment that he would meet him, and die for it.
Age 781
Raditz was brushing her hair in her dressing room after a long concert show. She stopped when there was a loud thump against her door. A clear sign of an attack coming to her. By intuition, she wasn't surprised when it was Vegeta who opened the door and slammed it closed with a composed-as Vegeta could be-expression.
The singer put the brush down on her table, and faced her chair toward him with a refine lady's posture, "You could have just told him who you were. He would have let you in."
Vegeta just stood there with his arms straightened at his sides. Fists clenching hard as a sign of his anger and need to let it out.
"Don't waste my time, Vegeta. You are a saiyan. Shyness is very uncharacteristic of you."
"And you being a complete smartass is uncharacteristic of you, too!" He shouted with restraint rage. His fists clenched harder that if he wasn't wearing gloves, his knuckles would've been white. "Why?" He questioned gravely. "Why didn't you tell me the truth! That Frieza did that all to you! That you had given us both our children! Why didn't you tell me?"
"Are you asking why I didn't tell you then or now?" Raditz questioned with a tone that she had an answer to both, so Vegeta demanded for both. Raditz looked at him with a stern face with honest eyes. "It was my duty to protect you. I never knew what I was until I realized I was pregnant. You were 17 and proud. Young and proud of a heritage that despised my kind. Be truly honest with yourself, Vegeta. Would you have not killed me because I was a defect, and if I did have your child, that would have made you a defect, too? The last of the royal blood betraying his heritage for a defect like me? I couldn't risk my life or our child."
"No! I would have...I would have done something!"
"That doesn't matter. Neither is telling you now about the past. I protected you because it was my duty. and I loved you. Don't make me feel ashamed for that!" The woman reasoned, and saw the uneasy look that her prince had.
He growled as he wanted to say something, but just didn't know what to say. So Raditz continued, "I still love you, Vegeta. But not in the way Bulma does. Our relationship in the past was based on lust. Nothing more."
Her prince faced away from her. His body trembling with guilt. Raditz stood up and turned him toward her and hugged him. The man kept standing as he was with his head faced to the ground. Tears formed at his eyes. He hadn't cried since the great disappointed of facing Frieza. This felt worse.
After Vegeta's tears settled, the two were on the couch of the room. Raditz was singing to him like old times when the prince couldn't sleep. "Y'know," The woman spoke, "If I had been bought back as a man, I would have left long ago, never having told you in the end...Would you rather have never known?"
"Don't be a fool. Now I have more of a reason to become stronger...and less of an idiot." Her proud prince admitting that made her smile with mirth. She kissed his temple as a sign of soft nonsexual intimacy.
Vegeta looked at her with eyes filled by messages. Raditz patiently looked back at him as a sign of willingness to listen. Her prince looked away, feeling awkward. He got up to leave but paused at the door.
The woman was curious but had the feeling that it wasn't something nice to ask or say. Vegeta faced her but eyes diverted to nothing worth his sight. "Is the rest of what he said true?" He questioned reluctantly.
Raditz asked, "What do you mean?"
"Did you...! Were you in a relationship with him?!"
There was a moment of silence. Raditz thought that they could have left on a clear positive note, but there was still so much to clear. She knew that that part of her life was not his right to know, but reasoned with herself that she wanted no more secrets. So she nodded, "It happened after Froze was born. I was at the moment of need because I was losing another child. I pleaded for Frieza to at least let me hold him since death was inevitable. Gamete was there and convinced him that I should. I was grateful to him and felt like I was in his debt."
"For holding your child once?!"
"For everything!" She spoke clearly above Vegeta's voice, "I accepted my suffering since I was an unwanted child. As a saiyan, I never complained. Never asked for comfort but wanted it so badly! And he gave me that. Gamete made the fear go away. Frieza and his subordinates didn't touch me too often as before, and I was able to see Froze more than I believe could ever happen. He made me feel needed. How could I not fall in love?"
"You were in love?" Vegeta was shocked by how deeply close the woman was to the monster.
Raditz wished she could take those words back, but there was no holding back, "I was." She emphasized that it was in the past, but it did little to quench the awkwardness of the truth. "I was a virgin to love, and what is love than just having the feeling of need, gratefulness and desire for one. I felt all of these for him...When I learned the truth after all those years of being a fool, I was hurt and frightened because he never truly cared and wanted to sell my body to lose a child again. But I was also not surprised, and I was relieved to have not been a complete fool to think I was actually worth such luxury."
"Weren't you furious?! Defect or not, you were still a proud saiyan warrior! How could you not feel rage!"
"...I just didn't. It must be a disappointment, but like I told you before, I am no warrior. I can't feel rage like the rest of you do."
"None at all?!"
"I can feel frustration, irritation and other types of anger, but not anguish or rage. Ironic that that's what triggers a super saiyan."
Her response did little to settle Vegeta's anger. Vegeta wasn't sure what he was angry about. Raditz wasn't angry, and that made him lose his reason to be. The woman's calmness overwhelmed him. Unable to counter, he walked out the room.
Raditz sped walk after him, "Vegeta," The man stopped and faced her, "Thank you." The woman then walked back to her room. That was the least that she could do to leave it at a positive note.
Vegeta was back home looking down at his baby girl, Bulla, in her crib. The little girl looked a lot like her mother. The first time he held her, he thought that she was his first and only little girl. Now he realized that he had a thirty-two year old daughter marrying one of Goku's worthless and annoying friends.
He remembered back at the party when he first saw her. He thought she was a sickening copyright image of Goku by how annoyingly innocent she was. But knowing who raised her, he wasn't surprised she turned out the way she was. She had most of his looks.
Gene, no, Beetra was a powerful saiyan warrior highly respected in the universe. So childish and free of care but also amazingly talented in battle.
The man felt like he had been dead for the same amount of years as Raditz to miss out on her life. He reasoned that he shouldn't care about those years and see her as an extension of him, but he couldn't help being proud that one of his offspring grew magnificently with the full saiyan blood with tail attached.
He hadn't seen her since the party. He wondered how he should face her now. He figured it didn't matter. The point was that the fact didn't have to change anything dramatically.
Bulma entered the room. "There you are! Did you talk with Raditz?" The man gave an affirming grunt. He felt his wife's hands on his shoulders. "So how did it go?"
"It went fine." He said not in the mood to talk about it.
"That doesn't sound like fine to me. Did you get in a fight with her?!"
"I didn't! How could we?! He was too calm to get into a real fight!"
The baby cried. Bulma grabbed her into her arms and calmed her down. "What do you mean she was too calm?"
Vegeta responded controlling his volume, "Even when he told me that he was used, he wasn't angry at all that he was. Saw what he did as right, but it doesn't feel like that! Doesn't feel like that at all!" The man gritted his teeth hard. "Telling me to not make him feel ashamed! Who does he thinks feels ashamed here! I thought of him as a coward, a weakling and a traitor, but to know the truth now...how can I live with myself knowing I was the reason he suffered."
"Well sulking about it won't do you any good." The woman told him. "Just be nicer to her from now on. Visit her like Goku does. Make her know that she is important to you, and okay with whoever she is even if it annoys you or is against this stupid heritage of yours. Don't hold on to the past, and appreciate what you have now. She loves you, Vegeta. Nothing is ever going to change that so don't be afraid to be open with her."
The man heard his wife's words and they were true. He approached her, giving her a short kiss, and looked down at their little girl. Trunks came in, "Hey, what's everyone doing over here? Anyway, I'm going on a date with Mai. See ya!" The fifteen-year-old went off.
Raditz's last concert was over. She was glad to have the whole thing done with and just live with her life now. It had been two months since she had seen her brother, his family and his friends. Now Kakarot was going to be introduce to a new life of Raditz's own that she made when she was dead.
"How are you doing?" Grimes asked her in her room since he slept over. There were bottles of alcohol laid across the floors. Raditz had been drinking since the whole tour started. She's been needing to drown herself from harsh memories since Gamete bought them all back more vividly.
"I'm doing good." She said. "Thanks for everything, Grimes. I'll miss you. Hope that your tattoo shop will be a hit."
"Me too. Are you going to tell Patrick good bye before you leave?"
"Yeah."
She cleaned herself and her house, and then made breakfast before sending Grimes back to Patrick and told them both goodbye. She then flew over at Goku's place, sensing that all three of them were inside still having breakfast.
They must have sensed her since the door automatically opened, and Goten ran out to give her a hug that forced her off her feet as he cried, "AUNT RADITZ! You're back!"
"Urgh. Yes, I am. And I'd like it if I could stand. Did you have a growth spurt?" When they stood straight, the woman looked at the male. Certainly a year ago he was only slightly above her waist but was now up to her chest.
"Yeah! I grew up a lot! Someday I might be as tall as you!"
"Considering our genes, that's not likely." The woman was only half his aunt and her tallness came from her mother side. Goten pouted at the fact. He really wanted to someday meet his aunt eye to eye. On a lighter note, she asked, "Did you get your birthday present?"
"I sure did! And I didn't open it like you told me on your note! I'll go get it now!" He ran into the house leaving the adults to talk.
Chichi was the first to do so, "It's so nice to see you again, Raditz. Come in. How was your tour?" The three went in to sit around the table.
"It was a pain to go through, but I got paid millions for it since almost the entire city wanted to attend." She smiled proudly at her accomplishment to round such fools with her talents. "I'm glad that it's all over. How have you been Kakarot?" She was more interested of how her little brother had handled the last two months since the incident with his anger.
"I'm good. I'm sorry about how I reacted before. I shouldn't have let him get to me, and scare you like that." Goku responded earnestly. "I'm still furious, but I'll try not to cross that line again."
"That's good to hear because I have a preposition for you."
"A preposition?"
"Found it!" Goten ran out with a wooden box with strange intricate sketches and set it on the table. Raditz pulled out a key from her pocket and opened it to reveal a light orange watch with a green casket-shaped screen on it. She placed it on the male's wrist making it fit right.
She responded to the earlier question, "I have a preposition to make you, Kakarot, reach your full potential. You already reached the level of a god, and I want to help you hone it into a form you can reach alone like the super saiyan."
"What?! Really?! You can do that?!"
"Not me but someone I know. And no, it's not Beetra. It's her master."
"Beetra's master!" Both Goten and Goku cried out. It couldn't be just any master, but a master of a god!
"Beetra?" Chichi was lost for a moment, "Oh you mean Gene! She's stopped here a couple of times! It was really a surprise that she was Vegeta's daughter! It was like a soap opera with all the secrets and surprising family members! She's a really good girl like my son Gohan! She even helped Goku with his problem."
"She did?" The mother knew her daughter had come after a week passing her promise of three days since there was an intergalactic war that needed her to appear as a god to calm them down and reason with them to stop the violence and bring the leaders to court while also trying to stop other influences from preventing it.
She came back with Froze and was told about what happened to her mother through Yamcha. Immediately, Gamete was apprehended by the authorities when Raditz allowed the charges to pass. Being a court with advanced technology, there was no need for witnesses, so the woman didn't need to uncomfortably take a stand to show proof. Especially since the scar Gamete hoped to leave didn't remain.
Right now, Beetra was a part of a project with Bulma to create a shield for the Earth without disrupting the Earth's natural hemisphere. Froze was helping Master Kunkun in preparing training courses.
"Yeah." Goku responded. "She told me about how she lost control when you were hurt, and how angry and frightened you were when she did. It helped make me understand more of why you were upset with me. Since I have the potential to be a god and all."
Goten added, "She was really cool, too! She beat dad with a single move to the stomach! She was so fast that I didn't see her. Trunks couldn't see it either! He was super stoked to know that they were related!" That was good news for the mother to hear that the half siblings could get along.
"That's good to hear. And possibly someday, your father may reach to half her potential. Beetra is twice the strength and even more so in talent than Beerus. So Kakarot, the preposition is for you, and your fellow fighters who wish to achieve their total potential as well. Friends and family may visit, too. Goten's watch is capable of working similarly to your instant transmission, but focuses more on thought."
Raditz held Goten's wrist to display the watch and press her index finger on it. The two transported to the other side of the room. The woman further explained, "Just the touch of the finger can trigger it. But if you can't touch it, it will answer to a sudden quickening of the pulse on Goten's wrist, and bring him to where you want or some place safe. He can bring anyone he wants if he thinks of them. He doesn't have to be very specific because the watch won't bring those who brings a negative reaction to him so enemies are less likely, unless Goten has a certain affection for the enemy."
Goten's eyes lit up at his gift. "And you're giving this to me?"
"It's your birthday present, brat. Of course it's yours." The woman was given a hug again.
"Thank you, Aunt Raditz!"
"Yes. Yes. You're welcome." She patted on his back. The height made her realize that he was a big boy now and was to be given the affections as one. "So on, Kakarot, I want you to round up your fellow fighters and ask them and their family and friends if they wish to be a part of this. Chichi, it would be nice to have you there to prepare their meals after a hard day of training."
"Of course, I'd like to come! It's been a while since I cooked anywhere else than my own kitchen. Will I be able to learn different kinds of new recipes?"
Raditz affirmed that she was, and Goku went off to tell the others about it. While the man was, the ex-singer helped his wife pack and teach her nephew on how to fully control his new watch.
Later, these were the fighters to train: Goku, Vegeta, Goten, Trunks, Tien, Chiaotsu, Yamcha, and Piccolo.
The visitors were: Bulma, Chichi, Videl with Pan, Gohan, Krillin with his family, Mai and her crew and Puar.
Everyone was ready. Raditz used Goten's watch to send them to a new planet.
On the new planet, it was very similar to Earth's forest nature, but the sky was pink, and there was no sun in sight. They were before what appeared to be a mountain but there was a door attached to it.
"They're here!" There was a joyous female cry from the sky. Beetra with a group of five females flew down from the sky. "Hey everyone! Ready for training?!" Excitement was evident in her bright, cheery posture.
"Beetra," One of the females spoke, "You should introduce us first."
"Oh right! Sorry! I got a little too excited there." She gave a guilty grin. "You guys, these are my friends who are gonna help you train. Chesna, Teeyik, Cralettish, and," She said a very difficult and long tongue twisting name.
The woman of the name simply said, "You may call me Flute." She had a upside-down, purple, triangle-shaped head with four vertical, almond-shaped eyes that shone green. Her lips were luscious while there was a hole behind her head. The rest of her body appeared to be normal like a human woman's own. "And this is my daughter. You may call her Huilu."
A pink and shorter version of the woman stepped out of her shadow and stood beside her. She was as tall to her mother's chest and had purple eyes. "Haifa bay." She greeted. Both wore a strange flexible material that shined. They had it wrap around their legs up to their arms like an over-the-shoulder mummy suit.
Chesna was a shorter, curvy, pink jello who wore what looked like a turquoise sports bra and white baggy pants. Teeyik was taller than Beetra and appeared to look like an elf by her pointy ears, but was without any gender significance. She had red skin, but didn't have any eyes. Her mouth remained open without a tongue or teeth. Only gill-like slits inside. Cralettish was not seen until she increased in size after jumping off Teeyik's shoulder. She had two snake heads, the midsection of a frog, and the legs like a grasshopper.
Then something appeared between the women and the others. It was a short, pink ,stubby man wearing a purple bathrobe and had bunny-like feet. His eyes covered by the fur and no lips as he opened his mouth, "So you're here. I'm Master Kunkun: Teacher of the gods and demi gods. Who are my victims?" He spoke in a rush but understandable tone.
Raditz responded, "Just as I told you before." Then she turned to them. "You guys will be separated into two groups for a tour of the place. The fighters will follow Master Kunkun and the girls. The others will follow me."
They understood her instructions and went along. The fighters had to take a path at the right side of the mountain. The others took the left side.
At the left side, they went up a few steps of stairs before entering a tube where a circular floor moved for them. When they got around the mountain, the newcomers were awed by the horizon. There was a forest, a volcanic place, a desert where the sun was unbearably hot but the tube kept them at warm temperature, a snowy place where a blizzard would blow from time to time, an acidic swamp with strange plants living among it, and many more.
"Wow, they're going to train here?" Videl asked, becoming excited and worried for the men.
Raditz responded, "Yes. Beetra and her friends trained here and has become one of the most respected fighters among the universe."
"Are her friends gods, too?" Krillin asked.
"Not at all. They only got to be a part of the training through Beetra since Master Kunkun doesn't just train anyone. If he did, there would be far more dangerous people than Buu who could destroy the universe over and over again if they cared. Powerful alien gods do live among us now, but has been either tamed, sealed away or both. While I was a spirit, Beetra and Froze were the first of his students who he encountered and asked to train them since their birth was rare." She said the fact. Not at all bragging.
"By the fact that they were born a god through a normal being right?" Gohan asked.
"Yes. They had potential that the others feared, but since they learned restraint, they weren't considered a threat to erase by the court."
"Who's Froze?" Marron asked.
"That's what I would like to know." 18 said. "He's this Frieza guy's child. I haven't seen him." The others agreed.
Raditz explained, "Froze isn't a very social person. It takes time to build trust for him to encounter you without meaning harm since he was been raised to hunt and destroy by his father, but you will see him since he is also helping with the training."
After the tour, they were shown back to the mountain and went inside. To their surprise, it was a bright, cheery place: the beach. Behind them was the same door connected to a similar mountain.
Up a hill, there was an extravagant beach house. They went up the stairs to be greeted by another female alien. She looked like a pink, plastic version of a barbie doll and octopus with tentacles for her hair. She wore a one shoulder maize yellow dress with jewelry on. "Hello everyone!" She spoke with that rich person's accent. "Welcome to Planet Liveritious. Make yourself comfortable."
Raditz lightly shook her head with an amused lopsided smile. "Everyone this is Miraku. Master Kunkun's wife."
"It's nice to meet you." Krillin stepped first with his hand out. Miraku stared at it confused.
Raditz told her, "This is the hand shake I told you before. I know. It's weird."
"Oh yes." The woman bend down to hold out her tentacle to shake his hand . "It's a pleasure to meet you too."
"Uh, right." It was a weird first encounter, but nothing gross. They all settled inside to see that it was like living within a rich person's condo.
Raditz explained, "They built this to fit your needs since Master Kunkun and Miraku doesn't have the need to eat or sleep. This planet is theirs and are the only living residence who are up to our intelligence. The rest are animals to hunt."
Everyone found their own room, and made themselves comfortable as if they never left.
As the sky faded into a nice shade of purple with stars evident in the sky, the warriors came back carried by the female warriors.
The men had to hunt animals in wild, strange environments separately and were nearly killed in the process. Only Kakarot and Vegeta's weren't cared for since they had to find the energy to heal their wounds in order to achieve their god form.
Their friends and family found that harsh, but the two saiyans agreed that they can't be babied if they wanted to achieve their maximum potential. But they were given a hearty meal by the animals they did catch after Chichi, Raditz and Beetra prepared it with the help of the others.
"So will Tarble be here?" Bulma asked Beetra during dinner.
"Dad has work to finish before coming here. He's a part of the justice court of the universe. It's a tough job, but he's a quick thinker." She responded proudly of her adopted father. "Aunt Gure also helps him file and so on with the job. Since my mom helped create the court of justice, it had provided a lot of peace treaties and jobs to give a steady economy for each galaxy. We're steadying towards the east galaxy now. We're still repairing the south galaxy."
"Wait, Raditz created a court?" Gohan found that interesting.
Raditz quickly explained, "It's nothing to be excited about. It was a planned organization with the Kais since the guardians were killed by Buu. The Kais had a poor system to begin with. With the new system, we've been able to prevent further destruction of galaxies being erased times and times again. The court has been threatened on more occasions, but with my children and others loyally guarding it, it's been peaceful to a degree."
"So you actually know the kais?" Kakarot asked.
"I didn't before. Coming back to life made me forget what happened while I was dead. Now everything is different." Raditz admitted.
The others noticed it, too. The woman had shown to be calmer, wiser, more intelligent, and even graceful. Almost changed to what seemed for the better, but for someone almost perfectly likable and intelligent, it was frightening when you weren't liked by her. Especially when she had powerful children, and Beetra seemed willing to do almost everything for her.
Then there was a sudden disappearance of a large portion of meat from the table. Everyone heard a loud burp from the corner.
They looked at that direction to see a mint green skinned baby alien similar to Frieza's race but with black spiky long tied hair. His eyes were the color of red and little horns spiked up like a Longhorn cattle. He had the lizard tail with a darker green tip that matched the color of his shiny midsection. He wore only what looked like a black speedo.
"Froze!" Beetra cried out happily. And then blew a whistle like a dog. "Come here, boy!" She clicked her tongue to do so. The baby got on all for legs, having his tongue stick out. He barked and ran over to her to hug her.
The others were shocked. This was Froze. The child of Raditz and Frieza. A child that ate a huge chuck of meat and acted like a dog.
Yamcha reached out his arms, "Hey buddy! Remember me?!"
The baby attached himself on the man's face sniffing his hair and then licked his cheek. And then headbutt him, and then did the same to Puar before jumping on Raditz's arms who held him lovingly. Yamcha fell off his chair laughing lightly. "Yup. It's him. He remembers me." He lightly laughed again as Beetra helped her fiance' up.
The child's mother introduced, "Everyone, I'd like you to meet Froze. He's supposed to be over twenty but is only almost three biologically. It takes ten years for him to reach one year."
"So this is him huh?" Bulma asked and looked down at the cute baby. "How are ya little fella?"
The baby growled at her. "He's not used to your scent. Frieza had no plan to make him take over the estate business, so made him into a weapon of destruction. So you'll have to excuse his barbaric ways."
Goten and Trunks went closer for a clear look at the baby who stared at them with curiosity. He went over to them and sniffed them, and then licked each of them on the cheek.
"Ew!" Trunks wiped his face while Goten laughed at the affection.
"I think he likes us." The saiyan thought.
Raditz explained, "You have Beetra's and my scent. Froze is good at detecting relatives by scent. Bulma may be the mother of Trunks, but she has no blood relation to me or Beetra."
"Well, that's no fair!" The woman pouted at being the odd man out along with Chichi who was in the same boat.
"Just give him time. He'll like you eventually like he did with Yamcha." Raditz pointed out.
Beetra said, "It took two years for Froze to like Yamcha. It took a bit more with my other friends."
Teeyik had the slits in her mouth open to speak as if she had multiple voices. She said with soft nice ones, "It was rather hard to be friends at first without Froze's approval."
Cralettish agreed as she spoke with each head who said one sentence at a time, "We did meet as rivals at first...We all thought we would die at the first encounter with her brother."
Chesna made a horse noise, "I could've taken care of him square flat. I wasn't scared."
Huilu approached her from behind and cried out. "BARK!"
"AH!" She stuck onto Teeyik like a mess of a jello.
The rest laughed at the comedic joke.
"That wasn't very nice." Flute scolded her lightly after giggling, too.
After the nice meal, everyone went to their rooms. Froze slept in Beetra and Yamcha's room. Raditz had a room to herself.
Goku and Vegeta were lying down outside, and were inside a bowl-like leaf stemming out of a tree. They were told that inside wasn't toxic as they lied on the blunt center.
"I feel so tired, but I can't sleep." The taller saiyan thought he should say, "Today's lesson was really tough. Having to go out and face all those different creatures and even my super saiyan 3 was no match for any of them. Do you think Raditz's enemies are that strong?"
"It doesn't matter how strong they are. If they try to hurt him or any one else, we'll beat them to a pulp." Vegeta said point blank.
"Y'know I just realized that you still refer Raditz as a 'he'."
"Of course you idiot! That's his real gender! Nonsense with this she business. Once the former kai is found, he will revert to his true self. Real self and maybe the amount of assholes out there will deplete to nothing with their one tracked minds."
"Is that what you're really fighting for?" Goku asked glancing at him, and then back up at the stars. "Master Kunkun told us that we needed to find our sole desire and through that, we can become a full fledged god without anyone's help. We could still do it without his help, or so he says, but if I really want to reach my maximum potential, I rather have him teach me than do so blindly."
"...Me too." Vegeta admitted. "Your son seems to have it all together. He's excelling faster than all of us, and he didn't even turn into a god himself a few years back."
"Trunks seems to be excelling, too, y'know." The saiyan reminded the father of the child.
"I know that but not like your son. When he was told to know his sole reason to do this, he found it in a snap. Just like that, and he was able to take down at least one of the beast by just going through super saiyan 2. It unnerves me."
"Why's that? We'll catch up in no time since we've been doing this way before he did."
"It's not that." The man sat up. "It's that he truly cares for Raditz. We came here to become a god in order to protect him since he can give birth to them in a snap. Have you seen my daughter. She's faster than the speed of light, and is a highly respected warrior, but none of that. What I'm trying to say is, it unnerves me that your son can love him more than I do."
"Hey!" Goku sat up trying to appease him. "I love her, too, but I know I'm not just doing this to protect her but everyone else. We all love differently, Vegeta. Goten only got to know her for almost a year, and has a lot to lose if he isn't strong enough for her."
"And you think I don't feel or think the same."
"Ah, no!"
"Quiet, Kakarot. I know what you mean..." The man was silent until he asked, "So what's your sole reason? My son's own seems to be impressing his girlfriend. The dolt. When does he plan to ever be serious with anything other than his girlfriend."
"It's not a bad reason though. It's nice to have someone that you're willing to go lengths for. My reason? Well I guess you can say that I just want to power up to reach the level of making a good fight with you and every other fighter. And also..." He looked down, "To not become a cold blooded killer. Master Kunkun knows what I did to Gamete and how Raditz felt when she saw me do it. I shouldn't have tried to bring down Gamete like that. He may have done horrible things but to let him win by psyching me out the way he did, I couldn't forgive myself or feel like I can turn back from that. Raditz knew that. Knew that I would lose my sanity if I let someone else's words and actions effect my judgement and do the unneeded. If I had killed Gamete the way I intended before, he wouldn't have been given the rightful justice by the court, and stay away from Raditz ever again. Death isn't permanent from my experience."
"That's quite a speech, Kakarot. Bravo. You learned something."
"Thanks!" The man didn't notice the insult at all. "So how about you?"
"...I don't know."
"What?"
"I said that I don't know! I want it for the same reason as you to prolong fights, but I feel like I should do it for something more. I figured that it was to protect everyone I love, but even that didn't feel like enough for me! I don't know my sole reason!"
Then a voice said, "Maybe it's forgiveness." They looked up to see Mai. A very sudden character to be in the conversation. "Ah! Sorry! I didn't mean to eavesdrop! I came here looking for Trunks. He seemed very upset earlier, and I can't sense energy." She blushed and had gotten used to seeing Goku.
"Sorry, we don't know." Goku replied. "This place is a bit hard to sense much by the variety of life here."
Vegeta then asked, "And what do you mean forgiveness."
"U-uh forgive me, Vegeta-san! What I meant was that you probably feel guilty by how you sounded. I don't know what you feel guilty about, but whatever it is, and if it's worth it, fight to make it right. It doesn't have to be physical, but rather just need to talk this through clearly. Anything that you left unsettled on to become a more positive note." The woman advised. She had read and watched a lot of drama shows and movies.
"That's great advice!" The younger saiyan responded to it and approached her, "Let me help. I think I just tracked his energy." He grabbed her into his arms.
The woman panicked. She wasn't that used to him. "Ah! That's not really nece-!" They transmitted away, leaving Vegeta to think on her words. He scowled deeper when some parts were true.
When Raditz exited her shower in a bathrobe, she found Vegeta sitting at the foot of her bed patiently. "My prince? Aren't you tired?"
"Yes, but I have something to say." He stood up, facing her. "I am furious with your past actions. I don't want to make you feel ashamed for it, but I won't lie that I am enraged about it to the point that I want to hunt down every one of those creeps including those in the Otherworld and tear them to pieces to make sure that they never existed! Including Nappa! I want to become a better fighter; I want to be able to protect those I love, but I also want to keep you from doing such despicable things again! Do I make myself clear?"
Raditz took a moment to process what she was told. She smirked. "Like father, like daughter. Beetra told me something similar to that before when she was training under Master Kunkun. Alright Vegeta. Go make me proud."
"Damn straight I will!" He fumed out of the room.
Raditz held in her laugh. She was never going back to being a victim of rape, but it was nice to know that others were willing to prevent it either way.
A/N: Yeah, so a lot of OC characters. Master Kunkun is pretty perverted like Master Roshi, but won't be seeing much of him. Miraku is his transgender wife who can be superficial, shallow but all around can be a good person. Then there are Beetra's friends: Chesna (Fun-loving with an attitude), Teeyik (Kind and sweet), Cralettish (Wise and serious), Flute (A wise and kind mother), and Huilu (Mischievous).
So line of serious lovers: Vegeta, Gamete, King Sipfor/Not so serious lovers: Patrick and other random earth and alien guys./Rapists: Frieza, his crew, buyers and Gamete.
Goten's love is sort of hard describe. It doesn't necessarily borders on incest, but he does feel a great need to be with her since they are family, and Raditz had told him before on what her family views were before as a saiyan which does spark his sole reason to be stronger to change that view for good.
