Chapter 5

            "Before I go any further into my story Trunks I want to let you know I love you more then anything on this earth.  You must understand this before I tell you the next chapter in Vegeta's life." 

Trunks looks up at his mother in anticipation, mixed with some fear. He did not like the tone of her voice it, he could not explain it but her voice was sending off a bad vibe he could read a mile away.

"I know this mother continue telling me the truth you have denied me my whole life. I can't wait to hear what comes next." His voice is thick with seriousness. Bulma can tell he is none too pleased about being lied to.

            "There is no easy way of telling you this next part Trunks so I will just get it out in the open before I loose every ounce of courage I have left in me.  Vegeta is…" Bulma's eyes close and her head bows in shame "Vegeta is not your father Trunks."

There is a crack of loud thunder and a streak of lightening that sound and flash somewhere close by from a storm that has appeared out of no where, but as close and as loud as it was, the sound of Trunks's heart breaking was even louder.  The words echoed in his mind some how praying that he had heard his mother wrong.

            "What did you just say mother?" His voice trembles with raw emotion. Bulma can hear it clearly and she hates her self even more for telling him but it had to be done if she was going to tell him the truth. It would be the whole truth and nothing but the truth nothing else would do. If not for her self then for Vegeta she owed him that much at least if not much, much more.

"Vegeta is not your father Trunks. At least not your complete father." She looks at Trunks for the first time and her heart begins to break she can see the tears in his eyes. God she hated to see him cry. He was so strong all the time and to see him cry truly tore at her soul.

"In truth your real father is Yamcha. I wont go into details on how or why it happened that is not important, but when I found out I panicked. Two weeks after I found out I was pregnant, I had the top doctors take the fetus out, inject some Sayian genes into it, and put it back… in secret, of course. So there wouldn't be any doubt whose he was." I had already programmed Vegeta with the knowledge that we had been mates. If you were born human he would have blown a gasket, not to mention the illusion that I had been creating would be washed away in the blink of an eye and I just could not have that."

"How did you do it through all these years mother? How did you keep this from him and from all of us?" Trunks interrupted.

Well back then when we would bed down his body would shut down and he would go into a standby mode. He would dream like we do but they would be fabricated dreams that I placed into him.  These dreams however were not registered as dreams but factual events, as if he was actually doing something at that very moment instead of sleeping. It was during this time that I would run tests, add new battle tactics for him to perfect in the GR or upgrade him in anyway I had invented or perfected. It was also the time when he regenerated most of his energy he had spent during that particular day.

You see when I first created Vegeta I could only make him so strong because he did in fact have something like a battery in him. However with the increase in Gokou's power after each fight I had to figure out a way to have Vegeta do the same it was impossible for what I had equipped Vegeta with to ever hope to compete with Gokou's new Super Sayian power. I had to make something better.

Only god knew how I was going to do that I certainly had no clue but determined like always with a challenge I continued on like a mad scientist. For the longest time I had failed. Vegeta's power grew on its own gradually but nothing like Gokou's. Another thing I learned about Vegeta was that in order for his biomechanical body to sustain the power he had gained he had to train constantly, almost never ending. I had to find a way for him to generate enough energy to compete with Gokou and not send me into the poor house while doing so.

It was an accident really the way I fixed Vegeta's energy problem. Gokou had stopped by that day to see how Vegeta's training was going and to try and get him to spar. Unfortunately though I had been up all night working on some new battle somatics for Vegeta and I was grouchy, exhausted and PMSing.  As you know those are not good combinations.

When he just instant transmitioned behind me in my lab it was too much and I exploded on him.  My reaction was so scary to him he cowered away from me almost not recognizing me in my angered state.  He actually threatened half jokingly to Spirit bomb the evil morning demons out of me. And just like that with those simple words my mind exploded with ideas that couldn't have been my own. And I knew then how I would salve Vegeta's energy problems.

            It required me to completely remake Vegeta's body. I would base it on the basis of Gokou's Spirit Bomb attack. Or rather the way he gained energy for the attack that is.  The whole process took me maybe two months to perfect and have a working design. Now instead of having to regenerate his lost power when he slept he would now draw it in from the world around him.

From plants and animals to humans and the cities they lived in, Vegeta would draw in not the spiritual energy of they're souls but the excess energy they created and wasted unknowingly day in and day out.  His range was not large at first but I had made it self-evolving. The more energy he needed to keep up with Gokou the larger the radius he was allowed to draw energy from would grow.

During the recreation of his body I made a few appearance changes, I toned up his muscles, bulked him up thirty-five pounds and deepened his tan. When everything was set I just performed the switch when he entered his nightly sleep mode. It was that simple. Unfortunately I now had to fabricate a dream for him that would make his increase in power seam believable and acceptable. That took about a month and a half. I was almost due with you at this point.

So I fabricated an adventure out into space, his search for ascension and his being trapped on a barren planet about to be destroyed by a meteor.  For reasons unknown I had Vegeta's mental trigger be thoughts of me and his unborn child instead of them being of him beating Gokou.  Then after his transformation I had him return home crawl in bed with me and fall asleep content with his accomplishments.

I was exhausted from my work and you were draining my body of every ounce of energy I had left, without knowing it I fell asleep beside him.  When I woke I was wrapped in the strongest, gentlest pair of arms I had ever been in, pressed against a massive muscled chest that purred like a large Siberian tiger. I felt safer in those arms then I had ever felt in my life. I was lost in a sea of comfort and I never wanted to be saved. That was until I remembered where I was and who's arms they were.

You see Trunks Vegeta when he sleeps never moves. He is totally shut down void of all motor skills until he is done regenerating his energy reserves.  For the briefest of seconds I panicked and he instantly sensed this!! I was flabbergasted when his eyes opened and he asked me what was wrong. I played it off like I was just shocked he was home and asked him if he would release me so I could go to the bathroom. Vegeta did so and I quickly ran to the bathroom, locking the door behind me.

After several minutes of contemplating on how this could happen I had to just chalk it up to the fact that Vegeta's new body did not need to shut down any more to regenerate. So now when he went to bed he actually retained his motor skills and only acted accordingly to the dreams he was having, he was acting just like a human. I knew then things were going to change forever between us. In a way his new body made it possible for me to end up loving him as a person instead of just enjoying him as a creation.

You were born not too long after this and with your birth came a whole new side to Vegeta that I had never imagined I would ever see yet alone programmed into him. You gave Vegeta love Trunks. He would never show it to the public but when he was alone with you in your room or else where in the house he would become this whole other person, looking back now I have to say that this other side of Vegeta is in fact the Real Vegeta. It's the only way I can explain it." Bulma is staring at her son the whole time she tells him this and the smile that spreads across his face as she tells him of Vegeta's love for him warms her heart with hope that everything will work out after all.

It's weird that Vegeta would keep his transformation secret from everyone until the Androids attacked but he did. His power was tested in my lab and it was truly amazing! He was once again stronger then Gokou and he could not be more happier…another emotion I had not given him. Damn it I should have seen it coming Trunks, but just like everyone else I was becoming caught up in who he was

 And forgetting what he was.

You know the rest of what happened with the Androids in which your future self died. This is another moment in time where I think the Real Vegeta took over enraged with your death he erupted in a blind fury, attacking cell with every fiber of his being. Vegeta's spirit truly put my creations body to the test during that out burst he virtually depleted his stored energy to nothing. Then Gohan saves the day with everyone's help and we all go home safe and sound.

After Gokou died we were all lost for a while. He refused to be wished back what were we to do now?  With no Gokou Vegeta had no primary objective so he was especially lost I had to come up with something for him to do because like it or no he was now earths only defense. Several times I had almost pulled the plug on him after Gokou died. But every time I almost did so one question kept me from pulling through with it. What if the world is ever in need of a strong hero some time in the near future? Who will they turn to? With Gokou gone there was only one answer.  Vegeta. 

So I left him operational and changed nothing about him.  I had my own problems to deal with at the moment. I had a child I had to raise a business to run and now on top of all that I had to take care of my father he had had a heart attack shortly after the cell games and he almost died. My mother had an emotional break down from the stress and worry. There just wasn't any time for Vegeta.

With no primary objective and me with no time to create one he roamed free day in and day out. Coming and going as he pleased I never even checked in on what he was doing, I was too busy. But no matter how long he was gone during the day I would always wake up wrapped in his arms every morning with Vegeta purring softly totally relaxed and unstressed. He's what got me through my fathers near death, and your early years growing up.

It went on like this for years, and without me knowing it I began to fall in love with what he had become without my knowing of it. He had become his own man, with no programming of instructions from my self or any others.   We became a family it's as simple as that.

With our lives calming down and peace settling in I began to have more time for my self which in turn allowed me to think more about my inventions…well Vegeta mostly to tell you the truth. I hardly ever seen him in the day and sense you had learned how to crawl walk and fly in the same day I hardly ever saw much of you as well either. You were always with your father."

"I thought you said he wasn't my father mom why do you still call him my father if it's not true!" Trunks interrupted violently.

His words sting her but she is quick to reply. "Because Trunks Genetically he is not your father but in our hearts he is and always will be your father!  He and I raised you not Yamcha! He doesn't even know and he never will! He raped me Trunks I don't want anything to do with him ever again! I wasn't about to abort a baby no matter whose it was. The whole time after I found out I would tell myself the baby was not the one at fault that rapist Yamcha was. So I was more then happy to turn you into Vegeta's baby. He was mine and I was Proud of him therefore I would be proud of anything born of his genes.  And I am Trunks! You are the best thing to ever happen to me no mater how you came about."

Bulma is crying now, shamed for telling her son the one thing she had never told anyone before. Trunks stares frozen in shock, he hadn't meant to make his mother break down and cry. Despite what she has done he didn't want to make her cry. Slowly he moved to her side and embraced her hugging her tightly to him trying to sooth her.

"I'm sorry mom I didn't know I didn't…" Bulma silences him with her finger upon his lips.

"I'm fine Trunks it's just that I have always seen Vegeta as your Father despite who got me pregnant. If he was real I would have had a million children of his if I could, he is a wonderful father. So much in fact that he became like a second father to Gohan after Gokou died and the only father little Goten had known. It was adorable the way you guys acted together when there were no quote on quote "Pathetic Humans" around.

 For seven years he raised you guys. It somewhat infuriated Chichi the way they clung to Vegeta in the absence of they're father but she was grateful for it nonetheless.  In seven years he became a hero, a father a husband and a human.  I was loosing sight of everything that he originally was, I was drowning in what he had become and I loved it."

Bulma pauses her story to look over at Trunks who is listening intently with a hidden fire in his eyes, he was boiling mad inside she could tell… but at who? Yamcha for raping her, or was he this mad at her for all the lies she has told him? Or was it both of them equally? It was hard to tell but she could see that Trunks defiantly needed a break.  Tenderly Bulma places a hand upon Trunks shoulder and smiles lightly at him.  "Go take a break dear. You look like you need one and I do as well now that I think about it I need to do some things before it gets too late." 

She sees his eyes soften for a minute before he comes out of his small daze like state and just nods to her before standing and walking to the door. He looks back at her for a moment before calling out to her. "Hey mom?"

"Yes Trunks?"

"Thanks for telling me the truth…it hurts but its better then not knowing. I'm not terribly upset at you; you had your reasons I guess.   But in the future will you




not lie to me any more no matter what? I hate that more then anything and to hate your own mother is not natural. I would not wish to do that for the rest of my life, so nothing but the truth from now on ok?"

Bulma is taken back for a moment, just the thought of Trunks hating her brought tears to her eyes it was something she couldn't bear. So the answer to his question was as easy as science for her. "Ok Trunks, no more lies from here on out…for what its worth Trunks I'm sorry for all of this."  Trunks just turns his back to his mother and begins to walk into the darkness in silence not even replying to his mother's heart felt sentiment.