"Everything happened so quickly. Our King was right. This was the end.
Frieza had been destroyed, slain by the hand of a Saiyan; a low-class Saiyan, as fate would have it. Many were sure that the death of the evil Emperor would create a power struggle among Frieza's elite forces.
How wrong we were.
Wrong and foolish, for Bardock's newfound prowess flocked Frieza's army, including many Saiyans, to his side. With his new power, he sought revenge against those loyal to Frieza, whom had taken so many lives, including his wife's. With his new golden form of legend, Bardock turned his attention to the King that had sworn allegiance to the tyrant and with his new army, attacked Planet Vegeta without mercy, intent on destroying our elite class and our King.
Vegeta, on that fateful last day, the only thing that mattered to me anymore, was keeping you safe. You are our last hope."
PLANET VEGETA
ROYAL SAIYAN PALACE
The palace wall shook in protest as the large figure crashed against it. Doubling over on his knees, King Vegeta coughed blood and glared up at his foe. Glowing like the sun, Bardock smirked as he motioned with his hand to the right. Bright blue energy materialized in his palm and he hurled it at the last elite saiyan standing. The elite, a balding old man, screamed as the blue energy twisted him in an unnatural way. The blast settled, reducing him to charred remains, adding to the pile of dead elite saiyan bodies that littered the floor.
"I'm only going to ask again once," Bardock growled menacingly. "Where is he?"
With what little strength he had left, King Vegeta pushed himself to his knees. His wife, Queen Cilan was pinned to the floor under Bardock's boot. He knew they were no match against the Super Saiyan of legend, but of all the things he had lost, he still had his pride.
At least he knew that his son was safe. When Bardock had launched his attack, he hadn't only killed the adult elites. He had his men attack the birth pods as well. Knowing what would happen to his newborn son if Bardock found him, Vegeta had left the baby boy to his most trusted general, who promised to take the newborn prince far from Planet Vegeta until the boy had grown.
"His name is Vegeta, Prince of all Saiyans," the King coughed again. "And one day, he will destroy you, low-class scum."
Bardock scoffed. Dropping to his haunches, he grabbed a fistful of the King's hair and forced him to look him in the eyes. King Vegeta's face was beaten and bloody, and one of his eyes was so swollen that he could not open it. Vegeta stared into those glowing blue super saiyan eyes.
"You paraded yourself as the strongest Saiyan in the galaxy, yet you sold us to the devil."
Bardock slammed the King's head against the bloody floor. Vegeta grunted in pain as Bardock placed his boot on his neck.
"You made us slave away for that worthless animal Frieza. You kept us under his iron fist and when some of us tried to resist, he killed them and you laughed." He ground Vegeta's head against the floor.
"I did what he said," Vegeta coughed. "because Frieza said he would kill my wife and son."
"What about my wife?" Bardock lifted the King up by the hair. "That monster killed Gine! He took her from me. He slaughtered my team in cold blood. And now you're going to know what it feels to lose everything." Bardock drove his fist against Vegeta's stomach and let him drop again. Turning to face Cilan, he raised a hand and a blue orb formed in his palm, growing large and glowing brightly as he aimed it at the saiyan queen.
"No," Vegeta begged, grabbing at Bardock's pants. "Have mercy!"
"It's time for you to pay for your sins, Vegeta." Bardock yelled over the deafening energy. "When I'm finished with Cilan, I'm going after your son and all those who are still loyal to Frieza and you. And I'm going to kill them, too."
"Vegeta!" The Queen cried.
"CILAN!"
"This is a little something I like to call 'rebellion spear'," Bardock laughed. "A parting gift for you, my queen. Here! Have it!"
The large ki blast flew from his palm and struck Cilan, sending her flying. The royal medallion around her neck fell to the floor and rolled to Bardock's feet.
"Cilan!" Vegeta struggled to crawl over to his wife's side as Bardock examined the medallion in his large hand.
"Vegeta," Cilan coughed weakly as Vegeta cradled her in his arms. Once the second strongest saiyan in the world, the queen was now reduced to a crumbled, dying girl. "Vegeta. Promise me that our son is safe."
"He is," Vegeta said, trembling.
"Good," Cilan began to fade away. "Good. He will avenge us all. I've always been by your side, my King. Take this, my last gift to you. Make him pay for what he did to us."
With the last of her energy she created a white glowing orb the size of a fist and handed it to Vegeta.
Vegeta stared at it, feeling Cilan's energy within it.
"I will," Vegeta said, but she was already gone. "My queen."
Vegeta felt new power surge through him as the orb grew in his palm.
"Damn you, Bardock. I will kill you..."
Bardock looked up from the medallion, amused at the sudden rise in Vegeta's power.
"I will kill you!"
The white orb continued to grow in Vegeta's hand. He blasted a hole in the ceiling and released it, staring straight into the blinding light.
"Watch out!" One of his new soldiers, a young girl with waist long hair, yelled moving to strike Vegeta, but Bardock raised his hand to stop her.
"No. This will be very interesting!"
Vegeta lifted his head, his grunts intensifying and becoming monstrous. His eyes glowed red with fury as his face mutated. Hair grew all over his body and his body began to grow.
"Now this is more like it, Vegeta!" He yelled at the transforming king, crushing the medallion in his hands. "I've always wanted to fight an Oozaru!"
Vegeta responded with a mighty roar that shook the ground.
The young saiyan girl at Bardock's side glanced nervously at him nervously. He only smirked.
Lightning and a golden aura enveloped Bardock who stared intently at the Power Ball in the sky that was now the size of an adult sized space pod. Golden hair began to sprout all over his body and Bardock felt his power increasing again. With a monstrous laugh he launched into the air, leaving the young girl behind.
The two Oozaru met in the middle of the ruined palace as the Saiyan civil war raged on throughout the bloody red skies, with Saiyan loyalists clashing against Bardock's newly anointed Black Army.
On the other side of the city, two saiyan pods launched into the skies. A newborn baby wearing the medallion of Saiyan royalty slept as the pod blasted away from the other. From the second pod, the saiyan general Nappa watched intently until the first pod disappeared through the thick red clouds and out of sight. He had made sure to engrave Vegeta's name on the medallion he placed in the pod, so that Vegeta would know that he was the rightful Prince of Saiyans.
For now, he would obey the King's last command.
He would bide his time and when the newborn Prince was old enough, he would come for him. The coordinates he had set on the pod belonged to a distant planet that sat alone in an otherwise uninhabitable solar system.
Yes, the elite saiyan blood coursing through the boy's veins would make him a god among men. When the time came, they would avenge Vegeta's elites.
When he was sure both pods had cleared Saiyan space and were out of harm's way, Nappa closed his eyes, resting from his wounds. As he drifted to sleep, he heard through his scouter what he once thought impossible. Planet Vegeta had fallen.
It took the pod a little over one year to reach Planet Earth, passing over sandy deserts, bustling cities, and glistening oceans to land atop one of the highest mountains. There, he was found by a humble man named Son Gohan, who lived in the mountains as a hermit. The old man felt compassion for the boy and took him in as his own, naming him Vegeta, after finding the name engraved on the strange medallion.
Vegeta continued to grow in strength and prowess, training under Son Gohan, until he was fifteen years old. That was the fateful day when he met a girl who was on a quest for the myserious Dragon Balls.
Author's Note:
Thank you for taking the time to read my very first Dragon Ball fanfic. I know the first chapter feels a little rushed, but I'll try my best to flesh them out a little more next time. This is my first fanfic in a loooong time and I have to find the time to finish my other works, but I really felt inspired to write this story. Yes it's another What if Vegeta was sent to earth instead of Goku fanfics. But I feel like I have enough content and surprises to keep it interesting for a good long story. Anyway, I hope you like it. This idea sprouted out of the idea of Bardock going Super Saiyan on planet Meat when he finds his team slaughtered as well as Dragon Ball Sai. I know I made Bardock super evil, perhaps to the point of breaking character, but I just felt like Bardock at that point had a take no prisoners outlook on life. Writing King Vegeta with only a few seconds of screen time to use as reference was really hard, but that's okay. We won't be seeing him again.
The next several chapters (around 15-20 or so) will focus on Vegeta, and I'm planning on taking him through various familiar locations from DB, DBZ and DBS, with an eventual shift to Trunks when he comes along, but we'll see how it goes. I will do my best to respond to reviews, both positive and negative, within the following chapters. Please stick around and let me know what you think! Thank you!
Credits: image is Son Vegeta by BK-81 on DeviatARt