He looked like he'd been slapped, and he hurriedly stood up and pulled me to my feet while a ghost of a smile came across my face.

"Are you…serious?" he asked hesitantly.

"Why would I lie about this?" I asked, a little hurt. He shook his head, and then pulled me into a tight embrace, one that I thought he would never let go from.

"I could have hurt you," he said, and I pulled back just enough to see his face drawn into distraught.

"Oh, Pic. I was just playing, I wanted to get some stress out before I told you. I didn't know you were serious until after." I reached up and cupped his face tenderly and he pulled me into a rough kiss. I gasped slightly but gave in easily, his lips moving over mine with endless precision. Our bodies were nearly melded together and we didn't leave that room for awhile so that he could adjust to this news. One thing led to another and soon I was being placed onto the bed carefully and I chuckled as he viewed me reverently, his hand falling down to caress my stomach.

"I'm not gonna break, Pic." I murmured to him, and he continued touching my skin. I sighed at the contrast of his long fingered, calloused hand stroking my tan smoothe skin, smiling down at him in love.

"I am not going to let anything happen to you." He growled suddenly, and I knew he was being serious however I still had stuff to do.

"Pic, I've got to help Raditz tomorrow with something, and then you can be my protective alpha all you need to be." He looked like he didn't like that idea one bit, but it didn't matter; I still had to complete my initiation which we may or may not have lied about a little bit to the priest that had legally bound us to one another.

"I want to be there then." I would have rolled my eyes, but the intensity with which he was looking at me quelled any withstanding argument inside of me.

"Ok, fine. Not like I could keep you away anyways. Oh, I don't want to tell the others just yet. Just in case."

"Just in case of what?" I was afraid to jinx anything so I sent him the wave of uncertainty that swept through me so he could figure it out on his own. He lay down next to me on the bed and wrapped me into his arms, and we fell asleep like that comfortably. Tomorrow was going to be a long day and we both needed our rest.

Raditz and I left the house early the next morning with crisp instructions from Piccolo that we were to check in with him every five minutes or he would destroy something. We regarded each other with similar expressions of exasperation but acquiesced, and then both put our hoods on and left out the door to the balcony. We there in no time, since by now I knew the way there without having to follow Vegeta. The plan was that we'd stake it out and enter once he left, laying in wait for him when he returned home. Raditz had cut his hair short again, shaving the sides and leaving the middle a little longer; stylish yet still badass. His intelligent black eyes roamed over the surrounding village as we landed in the predawn shadows in a tree across from the park.

Secretly, I think he wanted to run into Vegeta, but that was just me. The man hadn't been laid in years from what I'd heard, and his tail was twitching in agitation. I suppose I would have been restless as well if there was a chance I would see my long lost mate, even under such circumstances. My glossy black hair was tied back in a tight knot at the base of my skull and I'd trained myself to breathe only barely whilst on reconnaissance. We lay there in wait for hours as the sun slowly woke up the world with its' sluggish ascent into the sky, and finally around midmorning the door to our queries house opened and out stepped a young man with brilliant mahogany coloured hair with a few black streaks throughout that was hanging loosely around his jovial looking face. He had laughing black eyes and a permanently quirked mouth; he wasn't ugly, that was for sure. He strolled out into the street along to the shops and I settled down further into the shadows, waiting for Raditz to cast the cloaking spell over us and signal us to move in.

He put his hand up and I tensed, ready to go: there it was, the signal. We stole forwards, two invisible spies on a mission, and he easily picked the lock into the house and we lay there in wait. I stood up against a wall out of sight and in the darkest part of the room while Raditz lazily leaned against the counter. His entire body was quivering in excitement at the prospect of finally being able to get back at his one time mate, and I thought about how hard it must have been for Raditz when he'd been turned out into the streets by the love of his life. My tail reached around my stomach and idly massaged my stomach, and I grinned unseen by him with happiness. The tiny lifeform inside me would grow stronger each day and I was so happy that it was put in there by Piccolo. I loved him more than anyone would ever know. I stiffened when I heard a hand on the doorknob, and Raditz tensed, his muscular arms bulking up just the tiniest bit. He looked menacing, to be perfectly honest, and I almost felt bad for the young man walking into a scary looking half skeleton man (the mask was on his face as ever) leaning against the counter.

He stepped inside and closed the door, placing some bags on the table right there, and then whipped around sniffing. Sniffing? I dimly realized that this man had a tail and it was raised in fright before Raditz motioned for me to move forward and knock him out. It was all easy naturally; we were to knock him out and then tie him to a chair and then question him. We stood around him after making sure he was sufficiently tied down to a table chair before Raditz had me wake him up. Shrugging, I slapped him awake then moved away as he came to with a gasp, his left cheek left red and stinging. He squinted right over to where Raditz was standing, using the light and shadows to appear distorted, and he sniffed the air again before-and this creeped me the fuck out at first-smiling at him.

"Mama?" he asked in question, his voice light and airy.

"I'm not your mama, kid, now shut up and listen to me. I have questions that you're going to answer, firstly being what your business with the Saiyan Prince is." Raditz's gruff voice came out a little muffled, and the kid frowned momentarily before sniffing at him again.

"What do you want with my father?" he asked suspiciously, and he sniffed the air yet again.

"Your father?" Raditz nearly choked.

"Yes, he's my father, what do you hope to gain by kidnapping me? I promise you that I have nothing of value. My name is Alexion, and Vegeta is my father." Then it all clicked. The hair, the face, the eyes, the way he kept sniffing in the air towards Raditz with an air of wild hope…this was…this was Raditz' and Vegeta's child! I stepped forward to say as much when Raditz took down his skull mask and leaned forward, sniffing experimentally.

"Alexion, you said?" he said faintly, and took a hesitant step forward before the door slammed open so hard it nearly rocked off its hinges. Something came at Raditz so fast it was a blur, and they both slammed into a wall with the smaller figure on top of Raditz who was giving as good as he got. The boy, Alexion, who really wasn't a boy as much as he was a young adult like Trunks and Goten, was watching fearfully. I couldn't raise my ki and instead snapped my fingers, instantly transmitting us somewhere in the wild. Alexion was still bound, and I helped him up but hissed at him when he tried to rush forward into the two snarling Saiyans; there was no doubt in my mind that that was Vegeta himself, and he'd felt something wrong from his child; a call for help if you would. I didn't blame him for wanting to save his kids life considering we were planning on torturing him and gaining whatever we could from him for knowledge. The fact that that thought didn't phase me very much told me I was becoming more like Piccolo each day.

My attention was drawn to the two wrestling Saiyans struggling for dominance as I held a death grip on Alexion's bound hands. He fell to his knees in fright as Raditz topped Vegeta and punched so hard the ground around us rumbled.

"STOP!" he screamed, and to my everlasting astonishment, they did. It must have been a parent thing, and he struggled against his bonds to go to them.

"Explain this, now! What do you want with us?" he yelled at Raditz, who still had Vegeta pinned to the ground. Vegeta was bleeding from his mouth and nose, one eye nearly shut, and he was grasping Raditz enclosed fist around his throat making it harder for him to breathe.

"Ra-ditz…"he choked, and Raditz focused on the prince for a moment.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you both off right now?" he sneered, and then I noticed that Vegeta was crying, tears forming in his one good eye and leaking out slowly.

"Because…he's your son too." He coughed. Raditz, unfortunately, was taking this all too slow, and the shock of the statement allowed Vegeta to slide out from underneath him and send a roundhouse kick to the back of his skull. He swung around and caught the brunt of the kick on his forearm, and then snarled, standing up to his full height, towering over Vegeta. The smaller Saiyan elite wrapped his tail around his waist and emitted a high pitched keening noise…was he submitting? I could hardly believe my eyes at this. I wasn't prepared for anything like this, I thought this kid had just been a lover that we could use to extort shit from Vegeta, I didn't know we were walking in on a fucking family feud.

The two started arguing back in forth in Saiyago, and I rolled my eyes. Fuck that language, however Alexion seemed to be following each word intently, tears running down his face.

"NO, YOU LISTEN TO ME, YOU SONOFABITCH!" Raditz roared, and effortlessly pinned the Prince to the ground, who was crying freely.

"This is what's going to happen: I am going to give you two options, and you are going to choose one. And you're going to shut up until I'm done talking because you've done enough damage here," he paused and Vegeta bit his lip reminding me irresistibly of myself at that action. I did that to entice Piccolo to kiss me or take me, so I narrowed my eyes at the prince and watched him for any trickery. When the prince looked like he was listening, Raditz spoke again.

"Option one: you fight me, here and now, to the death. Winner takes the victory and has to live the rest of his life knowing he killed his other traitorous half. Option two OPTION TWO!" he shouted as Vegeta started protesting, "IS THAT YOU STEP DOWN FROM THE SAIYAN THRONE AND SUCCEDE IT TO TRUNKS, GRANTING HIM ACCESS TO CAPSULE CORPS IN THE PROCESS." He roared over Vegeta's protests, and Vegeta gasped as he slapped him across the face and heard the rest of the speech.

"You dare…you want me to do what?!" he hissed, and Raditz tore his mask off in rage.

"You heard me, princeling. Now decide your fate." Raditz then got off him and stalked a little ways away, crossing his arms over his chest. Vegeta slowly got up, his dark brown tail drooping dejectedly behind him, his incredibly toned legs and ass being shown off through his tight joggers pants that went down mid calf. He was in his tennis shoes from before and wearing a black low cut tank top and a grey hoodie that was zipped halfway up. He reached up, breathing heavily, and wiped some blood from the corner of his mouth. Alexion was hidden behind a grim expression, determined not to shed anymore tears over his fighting parents apparently, and Vegeta looked over at him.

"Would you hurt him?" he asked Raditz, and Raditz studied the young man before him before his eyes flicked back to his mate.

"I don't know him. I might, though smelling him now," he paused and sniffed the air, "I doubt I could hurt my own child. I'm not a monster like you are, Vegeta." Vegeta looked like he'd been slapped at that.

"What?"

"I saw what you did to Trunks, broke his arm in half and kicked him out for mating to someone. What, couldn't stand the thought of your son breeding with a third class? Well let me tell you something, that 'third class' that he's mated to is my nephew, and is one of the toughest fighters I've ever seen."

"No, I didn't…Raditz, listen to me!" he stomped his foot in frustration, and Raditz quirked a brow at him.

"I didn't want to hurt him, I knew he was pregnant and couldn't handle the fact that he would go through a pregnancy at home where his mother was. She pointed some…blasted scientific device at me and it…it controlled my body! My mind wasn't my own!"

"Well it sure was the night she came in and-"

"SHE DID IT THAT NIGHT TOO! I WOULD HAVE NEVER HURT YOU THAT WAY!" he roared, and fired a giant ki blast into a far off mountain. Great, alert everyone we were here, fucking awesome Vegeta. I rolled my eyes again. Vegeta sunk to his knees as Raditz approached him and started sobbing in earnest, and he spoke in broken Saiyago to his mate who for his part looked upon him disbelieving and in distaste yet he listened nonetheless. When Vegeta ended his explanation, whatever it was, I realized that I'd let go of their son, but he hadn't moved one inch, his head hanging low.

"Did you even want me?" he muttered, and both of his parents snapped their heads to him. Raditz spoke up first, his voice thick with emotion.

"I didn't even know you existed until a few weeks ago, and even then…I had no idea…I thought Vegeta had gotten rid of you," he gave a heartfelt explanation and Vegeta turned his teary gaze back to his mate.

"I had him in secret, I sent him away to a convent and visited regularly to ensure he was getting proper care; he has your temper," he smiled briefly, and Raditz…well, I honestly couldn't tell what Raditz was doing since his scarred features were twisted into some bizarre formation. Vegeta turned towards Alexion and his voice took on a pleading tone.

"Alexion, I named you after what your mother wanted. He always wanted to name a child Alexion, and so I named you that. I have never regretted you from day one, but to protect you I had to send you away." Raditz turned away suddenly, Vegeta reaching out to him, his arm outstretched and then slowly falling back to his side.

"What is your choice, Vegeta?" he folded his arms over his chest and waited, his tail firmly wrapped around his waist as usual. Vegeta's tail was thrashing behind him in anxiety, and then I finally noticed for the first time that Alexion was holding onto the tip of a furry brown appendage linked to his backside as well.

"Raditz…"

"CHOOSE, VEGETA." Raditz thundered. There were several minutes that passed by as Vegeta chewed his lips, waging a colossal internal war with himself. Give up his throne to his halfbreed son whom he apparently actually did love, or live the rest of his life knowing that he either killed the man he obviously still loved or be killed by him.

"Raditz…I'll give up my throne. I want…I want to be with you and our son." He uttered so quietly I barely understood him, and then the scene before me became a little confusing as Raditz strode towards his mate and held him tightly to his body. They sank to the ground holding each other and crying, the entire scene very emotional.

"There you are, Gohan." I spun around and then sighed in relief as my mate came up to me, one brow raised in disbelief at the scene going on behind me.

"Uh…Pic? I think we should give them time…uh, alone, if you catch my drift." He nodded in agreement and then Alexion piped up in a small voice.

"Um…can I come with you guys? I don't really want to see my parents going at it." I smirked, but looked at Piccolo since he was there; the dominant one could make the decision. He grimaced, then nodded after some thought.

"I suppose. But I'm watching you, kid." He threatened, and Alexion beamed as we got the hell out of there as the other two Saiyans started kissing and petting each other heavily.

"I take it he chose option a?" Piccolo muttered as we took off hand in hand. I smirked.

"Obviously. Unless death by sex is a thing." I refused to look at the evil grin he was giving me and ignored the innuendo he muttered under his breath. I sighed, things were just getting even more confusing, and now we had two more Saiyans in our family. Good thing the house had four bedrooms.

*dundunDUUUUUNNNNn! lol. there you have it folks, the truth behind the handsome young man. also, vegeta and raditz are horny as fuck. some big truth spills in this chapter. evil scientist bulma...or is she even human? maybe she's an android? maybe things at capsule corps are not all they seem? we will explore things more in depth about that in coming chapters. read and review my lovelies ^-^