A Long Overdue Heart to Heart

Vegeta walked back into the house. He had been training with Trunks all day, letting the boy take advantage of him. If there was one advantage of having offspring, it was the fact that he was fun to have. Vegeta grabbed a towel and wiped the sweat from his brow.

He suddenly felt an arm wrap around his neck. Bulma swung around him and hugged him. Vegeta smirked. "Hello, dear!" she beamed. She looked at Vegeta, who only stared blankly at her. Bulma grabbed his arm.
"C'mere," she said, "We need to talk."

She sat him down on the couch and then she sat beside him. "What do you want now, woman?" he growled. Bulma only stared. "Now you listen here," she started, "I'm a little tired of this. We've gone through a lot together. Cell. Buu. Kids. Marriage. The hard stuff. We've never really... talked."

Vegeta looked a bit confused and quickly looked out the window. "What... do you want to know?" Vegeta muttered. Bulma smiled, "Your past."

This made Vegeta jerk. He stood up and tried to walk away, but Bulma quickly stood in front of him. "Listen, bud," she said, "You already know all about me, and I know next to nothing about you. So, we're here. We're doing this now."

Vegeta sat back down and folded his arms, his eyebrows furrowing like they always did when he was displeased. "What about my past?" Bulma nustled up beside him.

"I want to know, first, about you as a kid."

Vegeta looked at his wife and then turned towards the window again, this time looking towards a certain spot in the stars.

"Planet Vegeta." the Saiyan prince said solemnly, "That's where I was born. That's where I was raised. What else do you want?" Vegeta quickly tried to escape again. Bulma sat him down again. "That's a little vague." she said, "Give me a little more detail."

Vegeta leaned back and looked out the window again. "Fine." he said, giving in, "From the time I was born to the time the planet was destroyed, I was ushered around and there was always a royal attendant at my side. I was a little snob. I loved every minute of it.

"I don't remember too much of my childhood. I've been consumed with revenge ever since I left those days. But I do remember a few things. One thing was my father. He always did love me more than anything. My mother died during childbirth. I was never even told her name. But my father, I was all he had left. Me and... well, I'll get into that later, I guess.

"I remember my life on the Saiyan homeworld very vividly. But there was one day that stood up among all the others for me. The day I met my first love."

Bulma stared at Vegeta for a moment as he paused. She was waiting for him to go on, but she wasn't sure she was ready for this. They had only been together for about a month or two. Maybe she shouldn't have cornered him like this. Maybe she should have waited for this. No. She had to learn of his past before she could come to terms with her own future.

Vegeta continued on. "I first saw her a few weeks after my father agreed to go into partnership with the Cold family. Frieza showed up with a battalion of fighters at his side. That's where I met Zarbon, Dodoria, Captain Ginyuu and all the rest. There was one soldier that I took notice of. She stood comandingly with her armor and long blue cape. I walked up to all the soldiers and they were introduced to me. Her name was Lorelei. She was a humanoid, but I had no idea what planet she was from. All I knew was that she had no tail, and thus was not a Saiyan.

"I kneeled before Lorelei and kissed her hand. I was only 13, a young boy with raging hormones. She blushed. I was a bit higher in the pecking order of things than she was, and she was 18. I stood smiling as the soldiers were escorted out of the room. I walked out into the courtyard of our castle, which doubled as a fighting arena. Then he walked up to me.

"Nappa."

Bulma rested her head on her hands and sat still as Vegeta paused yet again. He was remembering things he didn't want to remember. But he did need to get this off his chest.

"Nappa was our highest ranking soldier. He was leader of the palace guard, the army, and my father's personal task force. He was also my personal assistant. Every day I trained with Nappa. I may have been royalty, but all Saiyans needed to know how to fight. I learned every move I know from Nappa. He trained me in the vast areas of martial arts he had mastered. But on that day, he said something that troubled me.

"I don't like her." he said during the middle of our training. I was shocked. I was the prince, and therfore did not care for his opinions outside of fighting. I knew he was referring to Lorelei. I retorted back.

"Well I don't like Turnia. That whore." I said. That hit Nappa hard."

"Who's Turnia?" Bulma asked.

"She was Nappa's wife." Vegeta answered, "I had fallen in love with this girl at first sight, and whatever Nappa said about her would have pissed me off. Nappa stopped the training right there.

"Come at me." he said, "I want to see what you have learned, boy." He put an emphasis on the word boy, as if to say that I was so far below him and had no right to speak of his wife in such a way. I smiled and rushed Nappa. The big galoot held out his arm and released a stream of energy. I flew back into the wall.

"Immediately, a pack of guards ran in to see what the big noise was. These guards included Frieza's goons. Nappa stood, fuming. I shook off the cobwebs and ran at him once more. Nappa once again shot a blast at me. I flew back. The guards tried to help me up, but Nappa held them back.

"I don't plan on hurting him." Nappa said, "I just want him to learn a lesson." Nappa jumped high into the air and came down on top of me. He began to unleash a flurry of punches on my head.

"Apologize." Nappa boomed, his face showing no signs of emotion whatsoever. I spit blood back in his face. "You first." I stood firm, and that was when I saw Lorelei run out of the back, accompanied by Zarbon.

"Imbeciles!" she cried, "You dare let the Prince of the Saiyans be beat upon by an unruly heathen?" Lorelei ran up to us and punched Nappa into the wall, his long black hair covering his face. She helped me up and ordered Zarbon to take Nappa away, whatever that meant. I turned as she held me in her arms and looked into her deep, brown eyes. Her short, blue hair glimmered as she smiled back at me. She told me everything would be okay and that I would never see that "bad man" again.

"Flash forward about two years. I've grown to be a great fighter. After Nappa left, I was trained daily by Lorelei, my father, and once even Frieza. I showed promise, they all said. Then one day, I was training with Zarbon and Dodoria ran out. He quickly rushed me onto Frieza's ship, saying the planet had to be evacuated. As I sat alone in a small room, I looked out the window. From that side of the ship, I couldn't see it. Frieza destroyed my planet."

Vegeta stopped again, giving a solemn moment. Bulma put her arm around him. "Are you sure you want to go on?" she asked. Vegeta nodded and hid the wiping of a small tear from his eye.

"That day," Vegeta said, "was the most sad day I ever had to endure. I was told the planet was destroyed by a natural explosion of the planet's core. They said my entire race had refused to evacuate the planet they loved so well. Only a select few had decided to come aboard, and they were immediately accepted into the ranks of Frieza's army. Of course, at the time, I knew of only one. His name was Turles. He was born of a Saiyan fighter and scientist named Bardock. His brother was supposedly away on a planet known as Earth."

Bulma was going to interject, but she said nothing.

"Aside from Turles, I didn't think there were anymore Saiyans alive. At the time of the planet's destruction, two Saiyans named Paragus and Broly were away, outcast from planet Vegeta. As far as I knew, I thought everyone else was dead.

"A few years passed. I grew further from Turles. He was assigned to a different sector. I stayed aboard Frieza's ship, content to stay as close to Lorelei as I could. One day, we happened upon a ship containing a load of passengers. They were from all different planets. Two individuals I noticed immediately. One was a woman. She had long, flowing blonde hair. The other was a man who wore a hat that shadowed his face. The two were escorted onto a passenger ship. Soon, however, I was caught off guard. I stood alone in my quarters when the man and woman suddenly walked in. I turned and chewed them out for not knocking and for being rude. The man removed his hat and the woman removed her wig.

"It was Nappa and Turnia."

Vegeta smiled at this, but continued on in the same breath. "I was so glad to see Nappa. I hugged him and his wife. We had parted on bad terms, but we were now three of a handful of Saiyans still alive in the galaxy. Nappa had contracted some sort of disease on the planet they lived on after his exile. I immediately sent for the doctors to check him out. That was when the real chaos began.

"Nappa was sent to the med ward and I talked a bit with Turnia. She said Nappa had told her of the day he and I had fought. She said she harbored no ill will towards me or Lorelei, and neither did Nappa. She said they only came to make amends. I stood and touched Turnia on the cheek slightly. I then looked down.

"I don't mean to be rude," I said, "but you seem to have gained a few pounds." Turnia looked at me and smiled. "You're not being rude. As a matter of fact, we were going to tell you this together, but I ought to tell you now. Nappa and I are going to have a baby." I stood up and hugged her, and she hugged me back. I started to jump, my young overexuberance taking over. And then, she went into labor. That same moment."

Vegeta suddenly changed his entire demeanor and turned to Bulma.

"Can I finish the story later?" he asked, "I'm not quite ready to tell this part."

Bulma nodded and Vegeta left the room. She sat alone on the couch and thought to herself.

'Maybe I shouldn't tell him just yet.' she thought, 'I'm not sure he'll be ready for another one until after he finishes the story.'

With that, Bulma put her hand on her stomach and lay back on the couch. She had another long nine months ahead of her.

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So, I just couldn't post the fourth part of the Idiot's Guide, could I? Well excuuuuse me if I'm pissing any of you off with how long I'm taking. I've been having problems lately. First off, the MAN at school put me down so I'm not alowed to use the internet anymore. Well, after I realized these were just empty threats (I.E. They meant nothing), I got the Playstation 2 I had been saving up for since Christmas. Then I bought Kessen, Zone of the Enders, and Madden 2001. That's been occupying my time.

Now Spring Break's over. I'm back to my old self again, as the King in Mario 3 always said, and now I'll hopefully be back on a regular writing schedule. This is just the first part of a hopefully two-part story. Sorry about the name of Nappa's wife. It's stupid, I know, but I just wanted to keep the Saiyan name/ Vegetable motif. Get it? Turnia/Turnip? Whatever.

I have to write down the Trunks Special as I already have Bardock and the movies in the Idiot's Guide. Dragonball Z/X-Men's going nowhere. I've got one paragraph of the second chapter. Oh well, I'll finish it eventually. I've got major plans for Dragonball Zero, but that'll come later.

So, um, check out my website at rpg/MATTSPAGE. OH YEAH! has been abandoned. Goodbye SRG. We'll miss you. Fight! For everlasting peace!

BOOYA! -Matt Ryan