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A/N: Now I said 10 reviews for wensday, you guys did 9 which is just as awesome :P. But I have a regular work schedule starting tomorrow so i'll be limited with writing and not churning out updates like this and spoiling you guys. Now this is the final chapter for this saga, the story will continue after this point so don't think i'm ending it here. You would probably kill me if I did, though don't worry once you read this chapter i'll be hiding... Not that I have a reason to hide .

As morning passed it was almost time for Bulma's plan to begin. She'd gone over everything in her mind. At this point she didn't have much uncertainty left as to whether if it would work, but she was never a person to give up. She had spent most of the morning in the dining hall. Getting her fill of breakfast, with an ever happy Veneta. She tried to give Vegeta a chance to let her go willingly, and not step this far. But the stubborn saiyan refused to listen to her. It would take less than an hour now for it to begin.

She rested a hand on her stomach as she softly rubbed the baby bump she was growing. She would either be free, or she would be stuck here for even longer and in perhaps far worse conditions. Her hopes were growing higher, and she could almost taste her freedom. Bulma could only hope everything would go smoothly and nothing would change or alter her plants that she had created.

Bulma glanced in Vegeta's direction, even though she knew that the change had not occurred yet. If it had, Vegeta certainly wouldn't be behaving so strangely. One half of him wouldn't let her be alone, and the other would've been far from her.

Before even he caught Bulma staring at him, he felt something shift, like a flux of some kind outside. Bulma was about to start sampling Veneta's dessert's when Vegeta jumped up from his chair. The entire stations shook for second, as a low rumble echoed all around. Bulma stared at Vegeta, as his eyes shifted around looking at her as Veneta remained where she was looking around at what was going on.

Phoenix came in through the door, in a heavy rushed movement. His visor glowing red as he looked around for something. "Trouble." Was all he said.

As soon as he said that, Bulma felt her nerves start, it was beginning. What would Vegeta do?

"With me," I want to make sure the barrier is not affected." He said in a tone that was not to be second guessed.

Bulma kept her breathing calm, but it didn't alleviate her worries, the feeling of everything go according to plan was here and now. She watched as Vegeta stormed out of the room, Veneta remaining quiet as she looked to Bulma, her black eyes blinking up at her.

She closed her eyes for a second before looking down at the little girl who was looking for some reassurance. She knew that Bulma had done something with the barrier, she'd worked on it earlier, but she knew that her momma didn't sabotage anything. She just wanted to experiment with it. Unfortunately for her, Bulma didn't explain to her everything. This was her only hope right now was to draw out both of those two to the outside in order to deal with both of them.

"Woman, stay here." Vegeta said reappearing as he prepared for whatever was causing trouble.

"No, if there's a problem maybe I can help." She said following him, with Veneta right behind her. "You don't know if it's a big deal, and there can be something that I might get that you won't. I'm not asking to fight but at least observe okay?" She knew that Vegeta couldn't sense any attacking otherwise he'd probably have said no before she even finished.

Vegeta snorted, but she was at least right about that. "You will remain by the doors, no further."

Satisfied, Bulma followed behind him, knowing that she would not in fact remain by the door. She was going to set up everything perfectly…

[***]

They headed outside observing nothing out of the ordinary, the gravity chamber was off to the side remained idle as normal. Vegeta walked forwards to see if anything was beyond the barrier, nothing was there, but he remained silent. Just standing there waiting.

It took several minutes as they waited, the minutes passing by, but nothing happened. Bulma was patient, since he was there, standing just in front of the field.

"ACTIVATE!" She yelled, to make sure that her voice command would be heard since she didn't know how loud she would have to be.

It wasn't more than a second later, that a thud was heard, revealing Bulma's plan entirely to Vegeta. She kept her eyes locked forwards at the point of her trap. His head slowly raised up from the ground as he was on his knees, enraged, his anger directed wholly at her. Vegeta's onyx eyes were locked with her blue ones.

It was pointless now since Bulma had set the trap to lock his body in a field of one thousand times earth's gravity, she had him trapped, with all her careful actions. Even if he did attempt to break this, it would only escalate in power.

"Phoenix stop her," Vegeta exhaled through his teeth, his eyes looking towards his companion who crumbled to the side. His orange visor turning off completely as he became just a hunk of metal.

Bulma took a breath, before letting herself exhale. It had worked. There was nothing Vegeta could do to stop her, so she knelt down and wrapped her arms around Veneta's body, surprising both.

"You won't stop me, I'm leaving, and she's coming with me." She said her voice harsh and cold.

A flash of pain could be seen in Vegeta's eyes, as they flashed red but black still remained. Bulma remained holding Veneta. After all, she wanted her to know that this wasn't going to hurt her. The small girl had nearly been shocked silent as she just tried to process what was going on. What was her momma trying to do? Flee and leave Vegeta all alone? That was wrong!

Vegeta understood her actions clearly, but he was unable to react. "Bitch… You will stop this at once!" he shouted as if his words would remove her restraints from him.

Bulma pressed a small kiss on Veneta's forehead, "It's okay, I promise." She said softly before standing up and glaring directly at Vegeta. You don't own me anymore.

"I am in control, you don't tell me what to do anymore. I've programmed a section of the facility with the same gravity system that I built in your ship. It only took the matrix replicator to place it exactly where I wanted you to stand." Her tone, sending shivers down his spine. "I'm going home, that's final Vegeta."

Vegeta's fury surged as his eyes went red again, he tried to shove upwards to a knee but the action only increased the pressure he was under forcing him back to the ground. "You, deceived me." He growled, his voice sounding painful as she saw the other side take hold. "I- I never wanted to hurt you."

He never wanted her to feel pain, he wanted her to embrace him as he did her. Didn't she know he had done what she asked? It was exactly what she told him she wanted, he was going to make her happy. Instead he was met with a cold betrayal.

"I made you my mate to love you!" He screamed looking at her the pain evident in his eyes, as his body began to shake at the intensity of his rage.

Bulma's heart felt a little torn, she was being cruel about this, but she had already decided, she licked her lips for a moment. As she was the only one capable of doing anything as she looked back at Veneta who was just a statue. She hoped the little girl would understand what she was doing was for both of them, because she didn't want her believing this was to make her be upset. It was true she was stealing her away from the man who saved her life, but she couldn't let her life be nothing more than just a servant all alone on a derelict science facility her entire life.

"You don't love me Vegeta," She said stopping just feet away from him. She applied what she meant to only half of Vegeta, so it wasn't a complete lie. Somewhere in his twisted mind he might really love her.

Vegeta kept his teeth clenched as he looked squarely at her. "I made you a mate. I made you my queen, I picked you over all others."

She couldn't be thinking this. How many times had he told her he cared about her, showed her his affections, pleasured her body, what did she want from him? He'd give up so much to her already.

"You, made that decision, I never had a choice. It wasn't your decision to choose for me. You don't have the right to force me into a relationship, you betrayed my trust back on earth." Vegeta was opening his mouth to speak but she continued.

"I'm tired of being a possession Vegeta, I have no free will, only what you want. What you need, you do not own my life Vegeta."

She'd kept this emotion building since coming here, but it also came from years of failed relationships as well as her time with Yamcha. The night Vegeta took her to see what he was doing.

"You ruined my life Vegeta, you raped me in my own home, yet that wasn't enough for you, was it? No, you destroyed my life with Yamcha, because you wanted to break my heart, my love for him. You didn't ask me if I wanted to know, you made that choice. "Bulma could feel the tears beginning to swell in her eyes but she kept them contained.

"You and I, we never are meant to be."

Bulma could hear and see his heart shatter as she said those words.

"I don't love you, I never will." She said, her voice becoming softer.

Vegeta looked worse than when he had been killed by Frieza, he did not feel anger, it was just pain.

"You don't," He said shaking his head, those red eyes flashing for a moment to black. "You will learn your place!"

No matter what she said, the two halves were fighting, one desired her love, the other just wanted her to be where she should be.

"YOU don't tell me what to do anymore!"

Veneta had been watching the whole interaction, completely silent. She didn't know what to do, she thought it was one of those adult things that happened. But as it went on, it only looked like Bulma was hurting Vegeta. She didn't like it; mommies and daddies didn't fight. They didn't leave one another, they loved each other. She felt her heart rate increasing each second.

Bulma took one more breath, taking a few steps back away from Vegeta and stopped next to Veneta. "Vegeta, I am leaving, this will end once I'm gone, but the barrier on this planet will remain for six months. If you want to come back to earth to fight the androids you can, the ship is also yours for that. But I swear Vegeta if you come back to hurt me or my family I will not stop Goku from hurting you."

Vegeta stared at Bulma but his eyes looked to Veneta, the woman didn't know what she was doing. She could ruin everything, she was just a typical human. Thinking with their damn emotions, not with their brains. This woman thought she would leave him, he'd escape long before that and he would make her pay.

"If you leave, I will make you pay." He said as he began to slowly rise up, overcoming the increasing gravity.

"You are still my mate, willing or note, even if I don't desire it. You will not leave here unless I command it."

Bulma shook her head, he hand slipping down to gently cradle Veneta's soft fingers in her own. "Will you come home with me?"

Veneta didn't act, she was ready to cry. She didn't know what she wanted.

"Please," it was all she could say.

The young woman felt her lips press together, she saw the pain in the little girl's face. This situation had unfolded badly, but it was what she expected to happen. She didn't want her to hurt like this, but she had to show her the truth. If she left without ever telling her that they had no intention of returning, she didn't know if that would be worse.

"I promise you'll be happy. Everyone will love you, just as much as I do." She whispered.

"Lies!" Vegeta snarled, his eyes straining as the gravity shoved him back down.

She was playing with fire. Often, he didn't imagine Veneta ever leaving, the girl idolized him far too much for her to want to leave him. He'd kept her here only because he had no choice! Every minute this woman continued to rant on, filling her head with stupid human emotions, no one would love his Veneta. He was the one who cared for her, he's the only god damn reason she was alive! Bulma would not take her from him.

"Why do we have to leave?" Veneta asked, looking up at Bulma's eyes.

Vegeta struggled to take another step closer but still the crushing gravity kept him pinned to the spot.

"You can't leave! I am your prince you will not leave with her!" he shouted, his voice angry but also desperate.

Vegeta was losing control, if she found out… He didn't want that. He could see his servant was having second thoughts, let the fucking woman go at this point she could not take Veneta from him. Her heart couldn't take this, her body and mind were incapable of such a high level of stress.

Her life mattered so much to him, but the woman had no idea of that fact. Vegeta wasn't trying to trick her into staying for his own sake. The girl had to stay, even if she was weak she required support to maintain her pitiful existence. Perhaps it had made him blind too her suffering, realizing that she might be better off if something like this did happen.

A clang interrupted their thoughts as Bulma turned to see the large quadruped slowly moving. His visor was on, but it appeared that only half of his body was working. He appeared trying to talk, but his mouth wasn't working. A garbled mess of static was the only thing one could hear as his spiked arm tried to right himself.

Vegeta looked at him, his expression one of anguish. "Do it!" He shouted.

Bulma didn't know what he was referring to, perhaps for him to attack? She shook her head, no he wouldn't do that. Even still she had thought she had disabled his systems, he was linked to the Cybernetic network, on this station, Veneta showed her all the links, and she had set them to disable for a short period of time. So how was Phoenix even able to move? His core was shut down wasn't it?

"Momma Please! Don't go!" Veneta said, her eyes filling up with tears, she grabbed at the hem of her shorts with pleading eyes.

Bulma was saddened, as she cast her gaze from the struggling quadruped to embrace her. "Veneta, I'm doing this because you need to be a part of the universe. You don't need to be only here. I want to see you grow up, be your own woman. That's what a mother would want."

"B-But! I can't! I can't go!"

Vegeta had told her that she couldn't leave this station without his permission, he had to make sure she was prepared to leave. But still, why did this have to happen? Why couldn't her momma stay here? They could be her mommy and daddy, she could be a big sister- Why-? Why!?

Bulma wrapped her arms tightly around the little girl, she didn't want to leave her behind. She wouldn't force the little girl to leave, that would be traumatic, she wanted this to be her choice. Knowing this might be her last chance to see her if she didn't want to leave. The tears from earlier spilled out, as she couldn't keep them back. Veneta felt the tears as she saw Bulma crying.

"Mommy, Please. I-I-I."

She could give her a sad smile.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done this too you. I won't force-"

"Damnit woman you are killing her, now stop it!"

Vegeta's roar brought her eyes back to her, what was he talking about? She wasn't killing her, there would be no way she would willingly hurt her. Though, she realized that right now she might be gone forever from this girl's life. Never to see her again, the bright smiles, the hair brushing, the girl cuddling. Because she was going to leave, but she was going to destroy her adopted daughter's happiness.

Bulma stood up, she wasn't going to keep doing this. She drew out her remote and pressed the switch, just beyond the shield appeared the shuttle she had worked on, the matrix replicator moving it here in a matter of moments. Veneta watched, her hands wanting to reach out for her, her voice wanting to call out but she couldn't. She was trapped in a position where she could not move. It was getting hard to breathe, as she fell on her knees looking at Bulma.

"Woman, you will be forgiven of everything. I won't hurt you, I won't punish you. I swear on my honor!" He said as black and red fought with one another in his eyes. "I'm begging you woman!" He shouted his voice strained as he looked towards Veneta, she was sobbing, his head snapped to Phoenix who was getting up on one leg.

Bulma closed her eyes, she should've just left in secret, but there was no guarantee that Vegeta could not have interfered. But abandoning Veneta without a word edgewise… without giving her the chance to come home with her.

"Mommy Don't leave me! Please MOMMA!" The shrieking voice, made Bulma cry harder, as she came back and hugged the little girl one last time tightly. Kissing her cheek, it was horrible feeling that was being dredged up from her soul.

"You were the best daughter I could've dreamed of and I love you, don't ever think otherwise."

All Bulma could do was close her eyes and let go, she plugged her ears with the sounds of her hammering heart, that beat into her ears. Praying, that she might be forgiven for this sin.

[***]

Vegeta was right, it was too much he watched her depart in a flash, a minute after she left the gravity ended. Phoenix crashed over again as his body jumped back to life. He didn't have time for this. The damn woman and completely ruined everything! Veneta-!

He jumped to his servant's side, she was crying, sobbing incoherently. He held her head close to his own…

Vegeta looked down at her, she was so broken she couldn't even answer.

"You are a saiyan, you will survive, you are going to live," he said his voice emotionless

He'd failed, Vegeta knew it. Nappa, that bastard would pay for this, he would regret his betrayal, but that would come once he had served his usefulness. Once anyone betrayed him, their lives were forfeit in his eyes.

It wasn't because Veneta's life had mattered to him, but because she was his people, it was his duty to protect them. King Vegeta had died trying to save his son, yet he wasn't strong enough and had paid for it. He wasn't strong enough with such a waste of power and stature. Because of his father's actions, he had been stuck with Frieza.

"Can I be… buried?" She said reaching up for his face.

Vegeta's face was crushed, he did not say anything. She was accepting death, embracing its release from her misery. What kind of prince was he?

"Can… it…be…pretty?" she said louder, as he small hand touched his face, she couldn't see him. It was just a mass of black.

She remembered that pretty things were nice things. Vegeta couldn't handle this, he'd killed women and children before. But never did he hold one of his own people broken, he knew the hell Frieza could put someone through.

Gently he raised up with her in his arms, the saiyan girl who didn't know the joys of being a saiyan. He cast glances towards all of them who had done this to her, and his anger boiled up to the surface. "You bastards will pay!" The bloodshed wasn't pleasing, it wasn't sweet, because in the end he still lost. He carried the girl out of the labs and towards the artificial room. I didn't know, he thought as he felt tears roll down his cheeks.

"I can save her," Said the voice of a massive machine, bringing his attention to him. It was massive, an orange visor glowed, as he looked down at him. "It will be only a mirage, but for her she will live again. Unlike me, she will have a real body."

What had convinced him to hand her over to Phoenix. All Vegeta felt in this moment was his own heart beating against his chest. She was looking up at him, agony written on her face as he took his hold of her arms to prevent her from flailing. He was too distracted, he did not feel the large metal hand on his shoulder, it was cold and emotionless. Vegeta turned his head towards him hoping for something. He nodded his head, telling him it was time. Gently Vegeta moved his hands from her shoulders to around her neck.

The scream escaped her throat she felt like she was choking. All she wanted was her momma back, she wanted to be happy! Her thoughts were a mess, she couldn't believe this! How could she lie to her! Trick her! Sadly, for her, all her hopes and dreams were shattered as Vegeta held her neck tightly. She looked up at him, her tears were nothing to the look of pain on his face.

She couldn't help but look into his black eyes and saw his own tears, he was in pain just like she was. She hit his wrists as she lost focus of everything, her tiny fists doing nothing to alleviate the pain.

"MOMMA!" she screamed, her pain rising. "COME BACK!"

Why? Everything could've been great. She had done everything that her mother had wanted, why couldn't she still be with her. Now that she was gone her heart was tearing itself to pieces.

Was this her fate?

Once again, she looked towards Vegeta and noticed his eyes were closed, his hands tightened around her neck. The pain continued as she struggled for no reason. "PLEASE!" she begged, tears running down her face.

A sharp crack echoed throughout the once noisy scene. Her body fell to the ground, her head twisted in an unnatural angle. Her thoughts turned black, the pain was gone, as Veneta's eyes were closed by the gentle hand of the man she dreamed of calling her father.

Only one word escaped her thoughts as she slipped into the darkness, please.

A/N: I cried while writing this, don't think that i'm a cold son of a bitch. Now don't go trying to kill me now, otherwise you won't have the ending, just part 1 of this saga is complete for now. With hopefully more on the way.

R&R *Be nice, if you can. If you wanna give me a little lashing for that i'm okay with that*

MB