Heart to Heart Chapter Three
So the moon rose and just like every other day, the sun later took it's place once more. Bulma awoke to the tweeting of birds and the playful laughter of young Trunks watching television with his Grandfather. Today was a beautiful day. However, she couldn't get the stories Vegeta had told her yesterday out of her mind.
'I have to know.' she thought to herself, 'I have to know everything.' Whether Bulma was being nosy or was engrossed in her eternal quest for knowledge was anybody's guess. Still, she managed to track Vegeta down to the Gravity Chamber which she and her father had rebuilt.
She looked in and saw the sweat dripping down her husband's face. It was intense training, to say the least. She quickly pushed the button marked off on the outside of the door and the gravity reverted to normal. Vegeta, however, was so used to the gravity, he flew straight out the roof, laying waste to the Gravity Chamber.
"Agh," Vegeta moaned, grabbing his head, "Why in the Hell did you do that?" Bulma laughed and shrugged.
"Um," she muttered, "Guess I just thought the gravity ratio was greater than the inertia you had built up. Guess there was a miscalculation." She shrugged and laughed. Vegeta angrily grabbed the shirt he had layed outside and and put it on.
Vegeta let out a sigh, "I guess you... want me to finish the story."
"Actually I was just coming to say hi," she joked, "but since I'm here..." She patted Vegeta on the butt. He gave her a coy look and sat down on a nearby step. Bulma was obliged to sit right beside him.
"Okay," Vegeta said, "We were, where? After the whole Wyndia debacle? Right. Anyway, you could say I was a bit pissed. Here's Frieza who, for some reason, almost had us killed. Frieza probably had Nappa's son killed personally. Too scared of the Saiyans, I suppose. I couldn't help but wonder whether or not Turles was still alive. Frieza couldn't be trusted.
"Nappa was inconsolable, yet he put on an act in front of everyone, even Raditz. Nappa didn't trust him entirely. The guard, Lukar, had been a plant, so what was to lead us to say that Raditz wasn't. He was getting back into his old ways back when he used to work for Frieza before supposedly being captured by the Wyndians.
"Still, even through all this stuff, I still had Lorelei. I had fallen hopelessly in love with her but the only way I could show it was by trying to best her in every way. She was a much better soldier than me, though. I could never reach her level. Still, it was the hunt that thrilled me. The quest to better myself if only to impress her was the greatest experience I ever could've felt.
"Time passed after the Wyndia assignment and we were put on the shelf. We weren't sent on any type of assignment. Lorelei still went out and she told me about everything. One day, she was telling me about a routine visit to Planet Arlia and I realized it was, well, quite boring. I stopped her and grabbed her hand.
"Lorelei," I said, "From the time I first saw you, I knew I loved you. I would do anything for you. Even some things I might later regret. I ruined Nappa's life. There's no way I can take that back. But if I can go that far, I want to take it farther. Lorelei, I..."
"That was when I noticed she was just staring at me with this blank expression on her face and her mouth hanging open ever so slightly. I stopped what I was saying. Maybe then wasn't the right time. Maybe I made a mistake.
"Then she kissed me. I had never felt anything like it before. Pure passion. When she pulled back, I wiped my mouth and she looked away. I grabbed her and kissed her back. We were together now. Nothing would ever be the same after this.
"Suddenly the ship rocked. We were thrown off her bed and onto the floor. I ran out and asked what had happened. Supposedly we had been hit by a missile from the nearby planet, called Sotsu A-79. Frieza immediately ordered all soldiers to go to the planet for a ground assault. Lorelei's squadron had been all but killed off entirely, leaving only two soldiers. Nappa, Raditz, and I were ordered to join her troop.
"The six of us landed on the planet hoping to form a surprise attack. The residents of this planet were a mix of all kinds of people. The planet was a part of Frieza's league, but it was leading a rebellion that they said involved other planets. No matter. The time for action was now. We had to protect Frieza at all costs, although I would've just as well let him die.
"We ran towards the citadel in the middle of the main city. Laser blasts belted us from all sides, and the other two soldiers were killed. The rest of us barely made it into the heavily guarded fort. Lorelei motioned that Nappa and Raditz should lure the others away while she and I attacked the leader of the troops. Nappa and Raditz warily went along with this.
"I walked towards the large metal door that contained the President's chambers. I noticed there were no guards around. We opened the door and I saw there were no people inside.
"A trap." I said, "Must've been designed for us. If this was a trap, then where is the real President?" I turned towards Lorelei, who just stood showing no emotions whatsoever. I raised my eyebrows but thought nothing of it.
"Listen," she suddenly said, "There's no reason why I can't tell you this now. It doesn't really matter anymore, anyway. Frieza is scared of the Saiyans. He has been ever since he heard the prophecy of the Super Saiyan. He destroyed the planet with but a wave of his hand. He is so much more powerful than anything you can imagine. The only reason he kept you and Turles alive is because you were impressionable and Turles was totally loyal to Frieza." I looked in shock as she told all this to me. Everything was starting to make sense. Lorelei continued.
"When we happened upon Nappa, Frieza became enraged. The mission to Wyndia was a trap to have you killed. They were all traps. I watched as Frieza took Nappa's son and strangled him, breaking his neck. I watched as Frieza killed this baby. Raditz suddenly came into the picture and ruined that whole plan. Frieza could kill you himself, but he doesn't want to lose the faith of the soldiers. That's what this trap is for. Nappa and Raditz should be dead by now, if all went right. I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry..."
"I looked at her for a second and then ran to her, cradling her in my arms, letting her cry on my shoulder.
"I'm going to go get Nappa and Raditz, you stay here. Don't feel sorry for your self. It's... okay."
I rushed out of the room and to the battlefield, only to see no battle at all. Bodies lay scattered across the fields, yet I saw no sign of Nappa or Raditz. I suddenly heard a footstep and turned to see my Saiyan brothers.
"So," said Nappa, after we returned to Frieza's ship, "Frieza did everything. That bastard. He'll pay for this. I swear on the blood of King Vegeta the Twenty-First and the rightful ruler of the universe, prince Vegeta the Twenty-Second." Nappa slowly bowed before me. We had been talking and suddenly he just blurted this out.
"Raditz then walked over from his spot in the shadows and stared at me.
"The Saiyan race is one that shall thrive for eons to come." he said, "There's no possible way I will ever let that tyrannical monster touch another person ever again. I do this to honor my race, and my masters. King Vegeta the Twenty-First, Gods rest his soul. And you, Prince Vegeta the Twenty-Second. I will kill Frieza. WE... will kill Frieza!" Raditz began to storm out of the room.
"STOP!" I cried, holding back Raditz, "Lorelei told me that Frieza is quite possibly the strongest being in the universe. I believe her. There's no use in going and getting yourself killed. We can train and become stronger than him. Plus, going now would give him an excuse to wipe all of us out, including your brother, Turles."
"Raditz stopped for a second and looked at the floor. He knew I was right. There was nothing we could do for now except stay alert and watch our backs. Nappa and Raditz trained daily, while I trained with Lorelei. I'm not sure you'll want to hear this, woman, but she was the woman I lost my virginity to, the woman I lost my innocence to, and the woman I lost my heart to. I loved her more than life itself. Should anything had happened to her, I would've died.
"Then one day, around three years later, Lorelei called us down to the surface of an uninhabited planet, just waiting to be terraformed. Nappa, Raditz, and I stood there waiting for her to say something. Suddenly another ship appeared above the horizon, and Turles exited the ship. After exchanging pleasentries with his brother, Turles took his place by our side and stared at Lorelei. Finally she began to speak.
"Lord Frieza has begun a new system that is designed to terraform a planet easier. It's quite large and involves meticulous work by the scientists to make just one unit. Sadly, that' not what we're here for today. Today, I have been sent here to re-train you. Don't ask me what I mean. Lord Frieza's word is final. I learned that the hard way by letting you go on planet Sotsu A-79. I should've killed you when I had the chance. Now traitorous leeches like you are going to go therough the same re-training I had to go through."
"Re-Training?" Turles suddenly blurted out, "This is brainwahsing! I have no intention of uprising against Frieza and I don't know why-" Lorelei cut him off with a swift ki blast through his chest. Raditz kneeled down and held his brother in his arms. Turles died that day or so we thought. But that will come later. We stared at Lorelei, eyeing her as she paced from side to side. Whatever Frieza had done to her was too much for me to bear.
"So he brainwahsed you?" I asked, "Lorelei, I..."
"QUIET!" she screamed, "I''ve heard enough out of you! I got close to you in order to learn what you monkeys were planning. You know, Vegeta, I was really starting to like you for awhile, but now you'll just have to be another mindless soldier, or another carcas like your friend there." Loerlei laughed at us, a despicable grin on her face. Raditz seemed poised to attack, but I only stared at her, my mouth wide open. Everything had been a ruse. It had all been a plot of this... this BITCH... to learn of our plans to determine if we needed Frieza's brainwashing or not! I fell to my knees, unable to speak or move or do anything.
"Suddenly, Nappa punched at Lorelei sending her into a nearby mountain, which crumbled to dust.
"NAPPA!" Raditz and I cried in unison.
"I've been waiting to do this since that day back on Planet Vegeta." said Nappa, "Y'know, I always thought you were a little too good to be true. There's nothin' I hate more than women who act like dogs. Then I hate women who are just total idiots. And then there's you. You dirty, conniving bitch! I've had enough! I'm going to kill you!" Nappa advanced towards her, but she jumped to her feet.
"Nice speech, monkey." she said, "But talking won't do you any good. So, I say this, Nappa. On the contrary, I'm going to kill you." Lorelei rushed towards Nappa and kicked him in the gut. Suddenly she was behind him, kneeing him in the lower vertebrae. She took hold of his scalp before he could fly into a hard enough object to stop him.
"I could only stare as Lorelei punched him repeatedly in the sternum. Raditz jumped at her, but she swatted him away. He wasn't half as strong as Nappa, and Lorelei was destroying him. Memories of Lorelei and all the times I had with her flashed by me. I looked at her. Then at the Ginyuu insignia on her armor. Memories of my family back on Planet Vegeta flowed back, and the memories of how I trained with Nappa and how my father used to play with me as a boy. Memories of Bardock, the royal science chancellor, and Paragus, the secretary of war, showering me with gifts and all manner of things. Then more memories of Nappa.
"Nappa trained me.
"Nappa raised me.
"Nappa loved me like the son he never...
"And that was enough to make me pounce on her. Nappa was a closer father figure than my real father. Sure, I loved him, but Nappa made me into a man. I jumped on her and pinned her to the ground. I stare into her large, green eyes, which perfectly complimented her green hair. I almost stopped for a second, but then I thought of Nappa.
"You leave him alone," I said, "Bitch." With that I raised my hand and disentegrated her head with a ki blast, powered by pure emotion. I'm not sure which one, though. Love. Hate. Betrayal. Fear. No, it was probably all of those, and many more. Lorelei hurt me, and that left an unhealable scar."
Bulma looked at her husband and saw him stare blankly at the floor for a moment. It was a painful memory, one of many. Maybe it was better he not go on.
"I know what you'r thinking, woman," siad Vegeta, "But I can go on. I have to. There's only a litlle more. As soon as we re-entered Frieza's ship, we were ambushed by the Ginyuu Force. All three of us were taken to different parts of the ship and Turles' body, which was being carried by Raditz, was thrown in the trash, which was picked up by a band of pirates a few days later.
"Anyhow, we were all put in tiny desensitivity chambers, and then we were given Frieza's own unique brand of brainwahsing. I can't remember a bit of it at all. The next thing I remember is waking up with Nappa in our quarters. It seemed that I had fought Frieza's programming the most, which knocked me out for a few weeks. Raditz was sent to a planet on a mission to recover a soldier that was sent there long ago. Nappa and I were to monitor it via scouter.
"During those few weeks, I said nothing to Nappa, and he said nothing to me. All the memories of Turnia, his son, and the battle with Lorlelei had been lost to him through the brainwashing. I, on the other hand, only forgot about Lorelelei. More weeks passed with no words between the two of us. Suddenly, we began monitoring Raditz's battles with the denizens of that planet, who had high power levels for people of that sector. It astounded us then, that Raditz was killed, but due to the brainwahsing, we had forgotten our ties to him and thought nothing of it.
"Like I said, the only memory I had was that Frieza destroyed my planet. Frieza was the enemy. Then I heard about the Dragonballs. Some... mystical objects that could grant wishes was beyond me. Up until then everything had been pretty normal. And then the Dragonballs came into play.
"And then after that, Kakarot came into play.
"When we got to Earth, I watched as Nappa callously destroyed a city, killing all the citizens. I had some sort of vague memory of Nappa and I destroying a planet, Arlia I believe, but the whole trip was like a blur. Time passed. Nappa was totally different. He had no other desire than to serve Frieza's purpose, to destroy this planet and/or conquer it.
"So we fought the Earth's Special Forces. Nappa wanted to play with them so he released the Saibamen, an experimental bio-engineered being that was first created by Bardock over twenty years back. When I saw Yamcha get killed by the Saibaman, I couldn't help myself. Something snapped in me.
"I laughed.
"The man had defeated the Saibaman, but had been killed by a cheap shot. I couldn't help but burst into laughter. Then the short, bald one, Krillin, showed me pure emotion after seeing his friend's death, by obliterating the Saibamen. Our side had lost, but I couldn't help but root for him deep down inside.
"Then Nappa asked me a question that made me come to a decision. He asked, "Can I go kill the reporters?" Those were his exact words. He had been robbed of his soul and his spirit by Frieza. I nodded and watched him follow through.
"After a three hour standstill, which had already resulted in Tien and Chaozu's deaths, Nappa was bloodthirsy once more. He rushed to kill Gohan, a young boy who had done nothing up until now. We had already discerned that he was Kakarot's son. I wanted Kakarot to join us in our fight against Frieza, but I could see now that Nappa had changed sides.
"The next few minutes were a blur. After Piccolo died, I could see my dreams of taking revenge upon Frieza fading away. Nappa and Raditz were gone, and now, without the Namek, the Draonballs were too. Then I came to a startling realization. The Dragonballs were created by the Namek, or Nameks, if you count Kame, so their home planet must have it's own set of Dragonballs! I was a genius.
"Still, I don't remember too much until I was awoken by a loud grunt. That of Kakarot punching Nappa. I watched in awe as Nappa, a man who was in the upper eschelon of fighters in the entire cosmos, was manhandled and tossed around like a rag doll. Although I hated seeing Nappa be destroyed like that, I couldn't help but smile at the potential Kakarot had for possibly being the one to help me vanquish Frieza.
"Then I saw as Nappa was rendered crippled by Kakarot's Kaio-Ken attack. Nappa reached out to me, asking for my help. I whispered to myself, "I am so sorry, old friend. I cannot save one who is already dead. I hope that, in the next world, you find your wife and son and regain that which was taken from you. Goodbye, Nappa. And good luck."
"With that I hoisted Nappa into the air and fired a thunderous blast, disentegrating him. I had finished him off, but in my eyes, thanks to Frieza, Nappa was already dead. Now it was me and the Earthlings. I wished to battle Kakarot in an effort to test his skills. I never realized that I was getting into the fight of my life. Kakarot, Krillin, Gohan, and even Yajirobe, were enough to defeat me. Imagine what it would be like if I teamed with them against Frieza.
"I had found the one. Nappa, Raditz, and even Turles combined with me would've been nothing compared to Frieza, especially with his lieutenants, Zarbon and Dodoria at his side. But now I had found those who could help me in my war. But now it was not just my war, for you see, Frieza wasn't as dumb as I had once thought. He had made the same deduction about the Namekian Dragonballs that I had. The bastard.
"Now on Namek, I was forced to hide from Frieza, but I couldn't help but cause a few Namek casualties on the way. Maybe Frieza's tricks had gotten to me, too. Or maybe I had always like the kill. But whatever it was, on Namek, I became the most cold-blooded being I had ever seen. And I loved it.
"Maybe that was what I needed. A mean streak. Time passed and the battle with the Ginyuu Force began. I watched as Rikum utterly destroyed us all. Krillin, Gohan, and I esaily fell by the wayside. Then Kakarot appeared again. Kakarot showed me what a true Saiyan could accomplish. He dispose of the Ginyuu's easily and even overthrew Captain Ginyuu himself, although he took a bit of damage.
"Then the battle with Frieza himself came. I watched as Frieza hovered towards us, his tail twisting and contorting behind him. Maybe there was no way I could beat him. Not even with Kakarot. I felt it come back. A feeling I hadn't felt since that day I first kissed Lorelei on the hand.
"Fear. Pure, unadulterated fear shook my very body. Again a blur. Frieza took us to our limits. All of us, including the newly wished back Piccolo. Frieza showed me the adavanced form I had seen the day we returned from Wyndia. Then, after more firce battling, he evolved again. Then again.
"Still, we kept fighting. There was no running from this battle. He would hunt us down. Dende had been killed and Piccolo was injured. I was now the last hope. And then I fell too. Frieza wrapped his sickening tail around my throat, squeezing every last breath out of me. I tried to struggle, but I wasn't stupid. It would only deny the inevitable. I was to die that day.
"And then, just in the nick of time, once again, Kakarot arrived. I was too far gone to save, however. I said few parting words to Kakarot, words that I cannot recall, and then I did something I had never even come close to doing.
"I cried. Everything had all bulit up to this moment. Everything I had done with Nappa, and Raditz, and Lorelei, and Turnia, and all the Wyndians. This was the culmination of it. This was the end. As my spirit faded into the next world, I saw my life flash before my eyes. Then... I was gone.
"You've never died before, have you, Bulma? It's a horrible feeling. It's like you're sick and you're only getting sicker as the seconds slowly tick by. When you finally reach the afterlife, though, it all goes away, and you're alowed to see everything. Even in death, Frieza's influence tortured Nappa. I could see Turnia trying to comfort her husband, who wanted nothing more than to kill all things. It saddened me. Still, I couldn't help but find joy in the fact that Kakarot was annhilating Frieza.
"Then I was wished back, to once again battle Frieza, only to have it taken away from me by the wish. I was transported back to Earth. There I met you for what was really the first time. I fell in love with you there, but I couldn't admit it. So I left, in search of Kakarot.
"More time passed and you know how everything turned out. I'm now where I belong. Here on Earth. I may have lost some friends, but I gained a family. I love you, Bulma. And having a child, well, that's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. And nothing can ever top that."
Bulma looked at her husband. "Nothing?" she asked, "Well, um, what would you say if I told you I was... um, pregnant?" Vegeta whirled around and grabbed his wife's shoulders.
"Are you serious?" he asked. Bulma smiled and nodded. Vegeta picked up Bulma and spun her around. Life could only go uphill from here. Everything had come full circle. When Vegeta had started out, he was a happy child in a loving home. Now he was probably the happiest man on Earth, and in the most loving home of them all.
Vegeta kissed his wife and walked inside.
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