"PLEASE NO! NO NEEDLES, I'D RATHER DIE!" Goku struggled to get away but in his weakened state there wasn't much he could do.

"You're not going to get a needle you idiot." Vegeta shoved some things out of the way.

"Why are these so old?" V asked grimacing at the old machines

"I… broke them." He cleared his throat and set the machine up.

"No needles?" Goku stared at them suspiciously.

"No, needles daddy, just a healing tank." V assured him hovering up a bit higher so that he didn't have to crouch so much.

"I trust you." Goku smiled at her. "and I'm so proud of both you guys." Goku smiled the two kids were tired and hurt and V's stomach grumbled but V and Gohan both felt a hundred times lighter. They only want to make him and their mother proud.

"V, you're hungry." Veltro interrupted them.

"and who's this guy? Goku smiled at Veltro. V grabbed Veltro's hand and held him up like a kid showing her father a new toy.

"this is Veltro, he's my best friend." V proclaimed proudly.

"it's good to meet, you, any friend of my kid's is a friend of mine." He shook Veltro's hand and then turned to Dronare.

"thank you." Dronare smiled, he wasn't sure why but this being Veroca's father seemed right. He knew she wasn't born his daughter, but this seemed like universe righting such a terrible wrong.

"I should be thanking you for keeping an eye on everyone." Goku shook his hand and winced.

"you should focus on resting. We'll need that strength later." Dronare clasped Goku's arm as thee machine beeped.

Alright, get in." Vegeta growled sick and tired of all this mushy stuff going on. When did the saiyan race fall so far? Elite warriors and this is what the few remaining had been reduced to? Sentimental morons?

You're the moron V hadn't meant to send the thought to Vegeta but by the death stare he gave her. she was sure she had sent it to him.

"Daddy will be all healed up soon." Goku smiled at his two kids and Dronare and Vegeta got him into the tanks.

Veltro gripped V's tail with his own and slid a reluctant glance.

"Your dad is really nice." He whispered, he thought that he was hiding how much he wished Goku wasn't everything she seemed to think that he was because then she'd be easier to convince about staying with him instead but he was even better than she made him out to be but v felt all of his emotions and sadness. She squeezed his tail back with hers.

"you're still my best friend." she offered a smile.

Krillin stepped up to the tank. "don't take too long." He only half joked. Being left alone with Vegeta didn't sound appealing.

"I'll be ready to fight again soon." Goku assured him.

Goku was sealed up safe and sound and healing, Vegeta led the others to a different area of the spaceship.

"A little armor can't hurt." Vegeta found the locker rooms and the spare sets of armor. He handed them out to everyone. The others didn't seem to have a problem, but V's hands trembled with the familiar armor in her hands.

"How do I get this thing on?" Krillin asked.

"Just pull it on, it stretches and if that doesn't work, I'll come over there and shove it over your head myself."

"Oh yeah, this thing stretched with you all the way into your monkey form." Krillin gave it a try and sure enough it went over without a fight.

Even Gohan had no trouble putting his on

"Why do ours have the spiky shoulders and you doesn't?" Krillin asked poking at the spikes.

"Mine is a new model." Vegeta answered. V would have been more surprised at his patience with Krillin's questions if she weren't still trembling in place with the armor still in her hands

"what's wrong?" Veltro asked, he even had his on, although Dronare declined.

"I don't want to wear this." V dropped the armor and tucked her hands under her arms.

"V?" Gohan felt the trembled in their link, fear and panic, he had very seldom felt that from her, but it was palpable right now.

"I'm not gonna wear it." She snapped again.

"Why not?" Veltro asked. Dronare didn't have to. He could guess without his telepathic abilities.

"I just don't want to." V walked out of the room. Vegeta just rolled his eyes, what would she reject next? She thinks she's an earthling now does she? She wants to fit in with her new goody two shoes family? She was a saiyan, he had seen it in her, she had the capacity to be ruthless and if it took her a lifetime, he would see to it that runt would make the last of the Saiyans proud.

Gohan and Veltro followed V, Krillin went to stop him but Dronare stopped him first. "why don't you just let them be, Veroca is a child, she has only wanted to be part of a family and you seem hell bent making sure they are as far apart from each other as possible. They're a bonded pair, there is nothing you can do about it."

"They're a what?" Vegeta demanded, annoyed.

"Bonded pair, they need each other to exist." Dronare clarified only offering the information that was obvious.

"Two halves of a single soul." he went on.

"That soul stuff is crap, she's a saiyan and she has a part to fulfill." Vegeta left on that note and Dronare just smiled and shook his head.

"It seems Everyone has strong feelings about Veroca." Dronare looked to Veroca "they either love or hate her." he looked to Krillin.

"I don't hate her." he denied but if he was being honest he kind of did.

"Just…All she does is get Gohan in trouble and hurt him, she might not mean to but she does." Krillin didn't know why he was trying to explain this to Dronare, he had every right to dislike V, he even had a valid reason.

"Remember she's only a child." Dronare patted Krillin on the shoulder and left to find his own son that was likely about to get into some trouble. While Dronare liked V for Veltro Krillin was right about V causing unintentional trouble. She can't help the reactions people have for her.

Veltro

"V what's wrong?" Veltro followed her as she left hopped out of the spaceship, her arms tucked under each other.

Nothing." She pouted still trembling. I'll never wear that again. She though fiercely.

It's the uniform isn't it?" Veltro guess, Gohan just watched, he wanted to help her but Veltro had gotten to her first and he didn't want to make him angry.

"I just…" she felt teats pricking her eyes, why was she being such a baby about this? She wasn't even wearing it.

"I'm fine, I just won't wear it." she dried her eyes, clenched her teeth and stiffened her lip "I'm not on their team anymore." She patted the tattered outfit piccolo had given her.

"I'll be fine in this. The skills piccolo taught me is all the protection I need." She smiled, just like her dad "we're gonna win guys." V proclaimed right there and then to her two boys.

Veltro and Gohan couldn't help but smile and V felt pride over that, that her smile made them smile.

"For sure!" Veltro nodded "there's no way they can beat us."

"We'll beat 'em, get Piccolo back and be home in no time." Gohan beamed at his sister

Dronare and Krillin joined the kids.

"Alright guys, we need to use these dragon balls before Frieza gets back."

"How do we do that?" We need Dende." Dronare answered. "He knows how to summon the dragon."

"I'll go get him." Krillin offered.

"I will accompany, you three will stay here." Dronare ordered the children and Veltro, for once, didn't even argue.

"Be careful V was worried about them, they had only seen a fraction of Frieza's power, they had never seen his deranged face as he watched a planet explode with the flick of his finger. Thousands upon thousands of deaths that he just laughed at,

"Of course." Dronare smiled at her "you watch the troublemaker."

"Of course." V smiled back.

"I'm not a troublemaker." Veltro scowled at Dronare, Dronare just patted his head and took off. V watched them go hurry back she willed the message to them.

Veltro hated to see Dronare fly off like that, leaving him again, off to do something dangerous, knowing he just got left here because it was the safer option.

"He just wants you to be safe." Interlaced their tails together. She was picking up his thoughts more easily the long she was around him.

"What if he gets hurt?" Veltro asked her.

"He can get hurt." V answered simply.

"No, he can't!" Veltro yelled at her, he had never been so angry before "he can't get hurt because then… then…" Veltro wasn't sure what he would do but it wouldn't be good.

"we can get hurt." V said holding tighter to Veltro's tail and grabbing Gohan's hand. "Me, Dad, Dronare, Krillin, all of us, we can get hurt, you can't, Gohan can't."

"How come!" Veltro yelled trying to yank his tail free, he couldn't believe she was being so so… so stupid!

"Because we fight for you guys." V met him levelly, she didn't raise her voice, she didn't look angry. She looked so incredibly sad that Veltro hesitated.

"If anything happens to any of you… we don't have a reason anymore," she offered a small broke smile, she always seemed so invincible "you're our universes'"

Veltro just stared at her, Gohan pressed closer to her, the constant chant in her head. He can't get hurt, why she throws herself in the line of fire for them. Nothing they throw at her could hurt her more than Gohan or Veltro being taken from her.

"But what if they get hurt and we have to face Frieza alone?"

"Then we have to do better." V said without hesitation. With such deep conviction in radiated to both Veltro and Gohan.

"You're already spouting the same garbage as that low class saiyan." Vegeta appeared at the door of the ship.

V didn't even respond.

"You can pretend all you want that you're one of them but we both know you have it in you to be just like me." Vegeta sneered. "you can hate me all you want but I'm the closest thing to a father you have,"

"You are not my father." V snapped, her energy swirling and rising with the anger that comment elicited.

"You're not good enough to be her father." Veltro glared at Vegeta, the root of her fear when Veltro had first met her. there may not be a creature in the universe he hated more. Vegeta was in charge, he could have been nicer to her, he could have made the others be nice to her.

"Shut it runt, Veroca knows who she is, she can hide it for as long as she can but the ruthless saiyan in her will come out." Vegeta walked behind them, placed a hand on both Veltro and Gohan's shoulders., V bristled, she would fight Vegeta right here right now if he tried to hurt either of them.

"Who knows, maybe you two, given the right circumstances, will show the saiyan in your blood." Vegeta laughed and went back into the ship. V clenched her hands, her heart rate rising, her energy pulsing.

Calm down. Gohan soothed stepping in front of her. Once her Gohan was in her path she did calm down, she would never do anything to hurt him.

I'm going to kill Vegeta one day it wasn't so much a thought as a deep seated desire in her heart.

"Come on Veroca." Veltro pulled her away from the ship and towards the dragon balls.

"We're so close." His excitement was contagious and V felt herself catching it.

"We're gonna do it." Gohan hugged his sister. "We're gonna get Piccolo and all our friends back."

"Yeah we are." V let herself feel their excitement, all they needed was Dende, then they could wish their friends back, then V could get Gohan and Veltro off this planet and to safety.

Just a little while longer.

Piccolo

I will kill him. The thought belonged to V but it was such a dark thought, it surprised even him.

"No, V." Piccolo recalled King Kai's words, the decision she had to make between good and evil. She was not going to make that decision, not without Gohan's influence, if Gohan wanted to be evil she would follow him, that's all there is too it. She'll forever be caught in this neutral limbo, her decisions based on someone else's choice.

Good thing that kid doesn't have an evil bone in his body." Piccolo smirked. No V would never make that decision for herself. That will always be Gohan's direction but as long as she never finds out it'll be fine. She'll never know the difference.

"I have to make sure she never finds out about it is all, considering I'm the only one who knows, that shouldn't be difficult." Piccolo glanced behind him, waiting for King Kai to show up the way he usually does when V accidently contacts him. Thus far the coast was clear.

I'll keep this secret, V Piccolo swore. I'll keep King Kai's mouth shut myself if I have to V, it's not fair how her life has been, even his own childhood while isolated and driven by one command, he had that goal. He couldn't imagine being treated as a prisoner, just waiting to die. He understood why V had the thought she had, he can only imagine how he would handle her it herself. He wouldn't blame her, if she ever acted on the thought, he wouldn't blame her, he would defend her even.

"She won't do it." That he was certain of. "It would hurt Gohan too much," Piccolo settled back into his mediation and attempted to follow the thing residual line her thought left behind. Maybe he could figure out what made her think what she did.

Author's Note:

Working on getting back on a regular schedule, this chapter is short but should be back to the regular amounth by next post date which is set for Sunday.

Thank you all who have been following this story for years and constantly remind me to keep going with this. i'm sorry i left you all on red for so long and had such an inconsistent posting schedule. i've really been working on trying to gain more followers and create a strong social media presence.

speaking of which if you like my stories and writing style I do have a new my hero Academia story on TikTok, it's got about 12 parts to it right now. and the most awesome thing just happened. One of my followers over there made some fan art of my OC for the Boku no Hero academia story and it was so touching and amazing.

I was so excited. my tiktok is nunchigoya if you want to go check that out.

I'm also doing some weeb gear videos as well as some of my own weeb gear with V on it so far I made stickers and pin/badges that i just love and am so excited about.

will be making a set of Gohan and V and Maybe Veltro as well dolls as I accidentally sold my own V doll when I had a strange but awesome order for dolls of them.

I appreciate all the comments, would love to see some even though I owe you guys the completion of this arc and the rest of the series like I originally planned.

Questions for you guys:

What would you like to see more of in the story?

what would content would you like to see if you did decide to follow me on tiktok?

Are there any general questions about V or this story you'd like to know.

what are your thoughts on Veltro?

Where do you think the soulmates situation is headed toward with Gohan and V? can you see them as a ship or should Gohan stick with Videl

I've thus far read paring her with Piccolo or Future Trunks and I honestly... I can see it bros

What ideas do you have for ChiChi's full acceptance of V or do you think she's just always gonna keep V at arms length?

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