I hope everybody is enjoying the fic so far! I think it's going well for my first DBZ fic. Angel of Death, Alexial's motives and energy source will be revealed soon enough, so please keep reading! Again much love to the Poetess who has be a loyal and avid reader! I appreciate it! And I didn't know they did that with the Dragonballs after Buu...told ya I've only seen to where kid Buu attacks the planet of the Kai's so how the entire Majin Buu thing ends is still some what of a mystery. I understand about the guy humor thing too but what can I say...I'm a guy. I'll try to throw in something more international next time so we can al laugh and play in the warm sun...oh god what was that last thing I just said *smacking myself* that's not the way you talk to the people Wolf! *smacking myself* Too damn cheerful! *smacking myself* But don't worry Poetess I didn't take it as criticism! But anyway, everyone enjoy this next chapter!

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Goku gazed at the capsule that sat dormant in his hand. He looked up at Bulma.

"So what exactly does this thing do?"

She adjusted herself applying more support to Trunks' dead weight before looking back at Goku with a razor sharp glare.

"Well why don't you press the button and find out!?!"

Goku threw his hands up in mercy with a sheepish grin.

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry Bulma. Here goes nothin'..."

Goku pressed the switch atop the capsule tossing it on the ground. They all watched with curiosity as the capsule exploded in it's normal fashion, awaiting the dust to settle in. They all shot up with an oooh. Bulma grinned on cockily.

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Vegeta was getting pounded by the overpowering Alexial, she was smacking him around mercilessly. She kneed him in the stomach before grabbing the back of his pants slinging him around in a circle. She slung him hard towards the ground tossing her chains in pursuit snatching him just before he hit the ground, Vegeta looked up, blood streaming from his mouth and nose as he gritted his teeth. He rolled over to gaze at his enemy. She stood there mocking him in her stance. Vegeta powered up again grabbing the chain, yanking her to him. Alexial was surprised at his strength and determination. She was even more stunned when his fist made an acquaintance with her jaw several lightening quick times. He followed up grabbing her face gripping it tight. Alexial tossed her hands around his wrist pulling and scratching at him. Vegeta's grip was one of great magnitude.

"Never count a true Sayain out of a fight!"

Vegeta then took his other fist driving it into her throat, chopping at that same point. Alexial gagged out still in shock he had power left. What was with this generation of warriors?! They tended to bounce back when you least expect it....this was something she definitely wasn't use to. Vegeta looked down at her cleavage, there sat the green stone that took his energy wave. Vegeta then proceeded to clutch it.

"What! What do you think you're trying to do!?!"

Vegeta smirked tightening the grip on her face.

"What does it look like!? No jewel, no power!"

Alexial was pulling her hardest to try and get Vegeta's grip off her face. Vegeta in return was trying his damnedest to rip the stone from her breast line. Both were grunting in a struggle as Vegeta wrapped his legs around her waist. Vegeta turned on his power, pulling, trying to gape the gem away from her. He had no choice but to use his other hand. Alexial's face bled in five different area's where he was digging his nails into her skin. Enraged, she unleashed her chains wrapping them around Vegeta's torso, pulling and squeezing the life out of him. They both screamed in writhing agony as the struggle was immense.

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The group stared as the clouds of smoke finally settled. There sat a small box like contraption with tons of loose wiring and an orb on top. It had a high tech look to it.

"What exactly is that thing?"

Bulma walked over to Mr. Satan with a smile, patting his cheek.

"That my dear Hercule...is the Capsule Corps Warp Gate!"

Mr. Satan looked at Gohan and Videl and they returned the puzzled glance. Bulma held Trunks arm up offering his limp semi-conscious body to him. He nodded picking up Trunks off her shoulders, holding him in his arms. Bulma popped her knuckles sitting down Indian-style in front of the machine. Piccolo was the first to walk over leaning over her shoulder.

"So this thing will open up the dimension Alexial is using to fight Vegeta?"

"Well it should...I'm not exactly sure how many planes exist in the point of compressed time, and we've only just begun research, but it's better than sitting around watching Vegeta get the crud kicked out of him!"

"Actually he appears to be winning..."

Bulma looked over at Michelle who was now looking up along with the others.

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Vegeta began landing unrelenting blows to Alexial's face. She continued to squeeze him hard. Vegeta yelled out before again refocusing on her stone.

"You die Sayain!"

She continued to try and pry him away, still holding him in the most deadly of holds with her chains. Vegeta coughed up a slight amount of blood from the pressure of her attack. He spat in her face with an arrogant smirk.

"Bite ME!"

She smiled complying, opening her mouth chomping into his right hand. Vegeta promptly drove a fist into her face before rekindling his handle on the stone.

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Bulma shook off her stare at the battle; beginning to press in a series of code. The small orb on the top of the machine shot into the air, splitting into several smaller orbs just in front of Bulma. They opened turning into micro-satellites spreading into a circle about 6 by 6 feet apart. She smiled typing in another code as a blue light was reflected between them all opening a rip in the dimension. They all took their eyes off Vegeta placing them back to Bulma and her invention. A brown void was in the satellite radius. It was like looking through a frozen mirror. The radical wind blowing the dust seemed to freeze everything in the range of that void. It stood still even though activity was going on behind that direct spot. Gohan peered in closely.

"Wow time is frozen in the whole area…?"

"Not exactly. Just the void. in that dimension that precise moment of time has stopped. That is how she is able to get around Vegeta. She is freezing him moving away and stepping back into the physical plane!"

"Of course! That's why it doesn't pick up as speed, she's phasing..."

Bulma looked up at Gohan with a nod placing her hand under her chin.

"That's right. But how is she able to exist in that plane...theoretically, going into the void will entrap you in that precise moment and time…?"

Piccolo watched as Vegeta continued to struggle with Alexial.

"Then if we can't go into the plane to intercept her, how is this contraption any use to use?"

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Alexial began to scream out in intense pain as Vegeta began to slowly rip the gem free from her chest. He gave her a smirk as the chains slowly loosened, turning on his power once more.

"This is pay back for my son..."

Vegeta ripped the jewel clean from her flesh. The entire gang watched stunned at Vegeta's will and strength as the stream of blood trailed from the Sayains hand to the new crevasse in Alexial's chest.

The injured Vegeta flipped back down to the planet holding the gem firmly in his hands, he then crushed it. Alexial looked at him shocked.

"Oh...I'm sorry, but it looks like I broke your toy. Clumsy me...."

Everyone watched astonished as Vegeta placed a hand over his scarred ribs, laughing his insane, arrogant laugh. Alexial's eyes fluctuated in rage. Vegeta continued.

"What's the matter you look upset...want me to buy you a new one?"

"You....IDIOT!!!!!"

"Idiot am I? I wasn't the moron wearing jewelry to a fight. Maybe you should have thought that one through more thoroughly. Hn, what ever will you tell your mother when she finds out you broke your precious charm she gave you for Christmas...?"

She clutched her fist again as he looked up at her. She was red with anger, gazing into his arrogance.

"And here she thought you were a big girl now..."

He began laughing in mockery again.

"Stop that! This isn't funny!"

"I'm laughing..."

He continued to laugh as her eyes lit up. She couldn't believe she forgot. Alexial clutched her fist turning back on her green glow. They all looked up as her wound healed...and a new stone fazed up to replace the old one, passing through her skin and halting Vegeta's insane laughing with an open mouth. Alexial began laughter of her own.

"Alexial made me so good I forgot I was just her shadow...the real Alexial and her stone are miles from here. What you crushed was simple a hunk of hardened flesh..."

Piccolo and the others shot up. They were certain she was the real deal, after all, the other copies did fuse with her to make the warrior that floated above them. Vegeta narrowed his eyes attacking her once again. He was almost instantly intercepted with a ki blast of her own nailing him in his chest. She followed quickly with a stream of blast in a similar fashion. Vegeta felt every last shot, screaming out with every single blast. Alexial shot down after him planting a boot to his face sending Vegeta stifled , backing slowly with his head cocked back from the shot, she began to use time compression again to avoid the attacks of a retaliating Vegeta, placing in uppercut, after kick, after punch onto the Sayain warrior before finally blasting him again, sending him skidding across the shredded terrain. She demonically floated out into the air as he struggled back to his feet. His entire left pant leg gone, and half his shirt ripped away, leaving his bare bruised and bloody flesh open to her attacks. Vegeta stood there, his right eye shut, gripping his ribs. Hopping for another energy burst. Vegeta screamed out again as the radiating light of his Super Sayain 2 form jolted on.

"I'm not finished yet! Come on!"

Vegeta left his feet charging towards her with ki energy surrounding his fist. He cocked it back as Alexial stood their confident. Vegeta rushed her swinging and punching at her, she simply phased behind him grabbing his fist. He looked back at her shocked as she shoved his hand into his own chest exploding the attack on Vegeta. He flew off towards the others skipping limply across the ground. Vegeta struggled even worse to try to get his feet now. Alexial flew after Vegeta, kicking him in the ribs shooting him farther than the initial blast. Vegeta stubbornly tried to stand again.

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"Bulma you better do somethin' quick! Vegeta isn't looking to good at this moment."

Mr. Satan looked down at Trunks whom much like his father tried stirring in the most willful of ways. Bulma's fingers seemed to grow wings as she type with intense grace and speed, a simple tear dancing in her eye as she could hear Vegeta's shrieks of pain from Alexial's beating of the Sayain Prince.

"Now if I reverse the mechanisms function....it should take an adverse effect on that dimension."

Bulma continued to type with great speed.

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Alexial ran her foot repeatedly in Vegeta's ribs. He coughed up blood screaming out as he continued to try to stand and fight.

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Goku looked at Goten. His eyes were fixated on the Sayain prince being pummeled and pounded. He then looked back at his father with piercing pleading eyes. Goku screamed out in rage as Bulma pushed the final button on the machine.

"It's done!"

She looked over at Goku who, turned on his energy. He gazed back over at Bulma. She nodded to him.

"Goku...save Vegeta...."

Goku transformed into a Super Sayain 3 taking to the air with nothing but anger in his eyes. The satellites on Bulma's device flipped upside down emitting blue waves into the sky. They all watched wonder...what in the hell did Bulma just do?

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Goku sped towards Alexial ripping with power. She looked up with a smile preparing to become un-hittable...except Goku planted his fist clean in her jaw sending her flying into the distance. Goku hopped back on the attack chasing after her, placing blow after blow on Alexial. She threw her chains after Goku in a desperate attempt to snag an advantage, he caught them, breaking them then firing an energy wave into her. She spun towards the planet as Goku hopped on her crushing blow after blow into her body. Alexial didn't know how to handle the situation...it appeared as if she had lost the ability to jump time! Without that advantage she wasn't much of a match for the Super Sayain 3 form of Goku. Goku deliver a straight kick into her mouth, spinning into an elbow. He then followed by grabbing her by the throat conveying a blast at point blank rage into her. She flew off limply as Goku cocked back preparing to attack.

"KA-MEA-HA-MEA....."

The blue light blackened the sky as he prepared to unload the finishing touch.

"HA!!!!!"

Alexial was nailed clean by the wave sending her body into the ground. Goku floated down in front of her holding a hand out into her face. Alexial's eyes widened in terror. Goku had gained an unruly advantage over her quickly as his attack lit up in his hands. She smiled.

"No matter my master lives....and you won't live to see the day of her glorious reign..."

The clone began to glow laughing wildly. Goku figured it quickly, as he turned hopping over to Vegeta, picked him up and using instant transmission, fled from the vicinity. Alexial's shadow exploded, in a final act to kill Goku. The winds ripped flying over to the others blowing them back slightly. They all watched as the dust settled and Goku appeared next to them with a battered Vegeta. Bulma ran over to him kneeling down next to him as he sat crumpled on one knee.

"Why......"

They all looked back at Vegeta. He looked up at Goku with teary eyes as both the Sayains returned to their normal states. Goku wiped the sweat from his brow.

"What's that Vegeta?"

"Why..."

They all looked at him now as he stood. Bulma tossed one limp arm over her shoulders to support him as he clutched his damaged ribs with his other. He continued with a hitch of resentment in his tone.

"Why...why must you always interfere!? Why are you always there to play hero!? Noble Kakarot...willing to give his all for the sake of his love ones! No second thoughts or questions asked! All out of the goodness of his own heart!"

Goku turned to him with sympathetic eyes.

"Vegeta, I wanted to help y...."

"I didn't ask for help! I didn't want it! All I wanted to do was fight my own battle, win for once without someone coming on as my crutch!"

He looked over at Bulma pushing her away from him. He doubled over onto his knee's again, tearing slightly.

"I can't even save my own son with out the help of a half breed, his low class father, and a Namek! Have I gotten that weak that you don't even let me finish my own battles any more!?"

He looked over at Bulma who was taken aback by Vegeta's reaction. She had thought he was over this some what, but again his pride dwindled, questioning himself, wondering if he was good enough...wondering his worth. He looked around as no one said a word.

"Bulma...your invention. I saw you use it...used it to help Kakarot save my hide. Should I add you to the list woman?! Kakarot, Gohan, Trunks and Bulma! My knights in shinning armor..."

Vegeta shuffled through the pack looking over at Trunks in Mr. Satan's arms.

"I still think you're strong Vegeta. I only wish I had half your strength, so I could fight with you guys...so I didn't have to fake any more."

Vegeta looked at Hercule.

"Well I'd gladly give you my strength...cause I'm tired of fighting loosing battles! I'm tired of being a martyr! I'm tired of ascending to the strongest warrior in the universe...."

Vegeta clutched his fist with passion before reopening his hand staring into his palm.

"....and having it snatched away."

They were stunned. Only Bulma had ever heard him publicly acknowledge his true power. Vegeta had never given himself a secondary rank, and rarely had they seen him act so...mortal. The impossible seemed to have happened. And over the decade and a half they had known the Sayain Prince, the one thing he was always known to have and keep had fled him in front of their very eyes. Vegeta had lost his pride.

END OF PART X

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Next time on Dragonball Z! While the Z warriors regroup and recuperate, Alexial tries to regain her original strong hold back! Else where Gohan and Bulma plunge into Alexial's demonic tomb hoping to recover valuable information! It's time to rethink and re-strategize on the next episode of Dragonball Z!!

To The Strong Holds of Alexial