~ Yay first chapter! I've worked hard on this fic and I hope you like it! I had this story out a while ago but I started running out of time to work on it and I got farther and farther behind on it so for a while, I gave up on it. But here I am, after a little revising and more chapters, ready to be dedicated to it. Just pleaz R/R and tell me what you think! This is an A/U fic that takes place after the cell games around the time when Majin Buu would have appeared except in my story this takes place instead. I hope you like it and now with that said..ON TO THE STORY!!!

P.S. I don't own any of these characters from DBZ..life is cruel..but there are a few that I do own that I made up with my own witty imagination ~.^ lol so you no sue and me no kick butt ^^ I do own a fat, orange cat if any one is interested tho ^^ any takers?....*crickets chirping* (-_-)* darn..

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Tribulations from the Past :

My story begins not on earth as you may think but far from it in fact. Thousands of light years away, a single ship flew through space. But this wasn't any ordinary spaceship, not ordinary at all. If you were to look at this ship from the ground it would seem as tall as the highest human skyscraper, and as large as a football field.

The sleek, smooth form gleamed of black and silver chrome, with countless windows making it give off a beautiful but deadly aura that told even the strongest and bravest of warriors that the owner of such a vessel was not to be messed with or underestimated. To do so would without a doubt produce dire consequences, because this intimidatingly beautiful machine just happened to belong to a saiyan............

She stared out of one of the immensely oversized windows watching the billions of stars and occasional planet rush by in a blur. Her expression was bored and withdrawn, her piercingly black eyes not really seeing anything they settled their gaze on, for her mind was far away....

"You can't just keep pushing me away forever!" she spat at the dark man before her. He merely glared at her while crossing his arms and started to walk away. She quickly reappeared in front of him. He stopped and balled his fists at her.

"Sakura, if Frieza didn't favor you as he does, then you would be dead by now! You disgust me! Why would you think that I would ever consider mating with trash like you?!"

Furious, she exploded at him. "Trash?! How dare you!? I am the strongest saiyan left and any male would feel privileged just to stand in my presence, you should feel honored that I have chosen you!" she yelled accusingly.

He gaped at her not believing what he was hearing. 'strongest saiyan left? He should feel honored that this pathetic, nerve grating, weak, baka of a saiyan wanted him??' He couldn't take this anymore, "strongest?!?" he angrily yelled back at her, everyone knew that he was the strongest not her! He would have to teach her differently then, this was the last straw.

She watched him faze out of view and felt him give her a round house kick to her back. She flew into one of the crumbling houses they had just destroyed during their current planet purge. She flew through the partially obliterated walls and righted herself before she went through the building completely.

Sakura turned around with her back against the wall just in time to see him charge her. She tried to block, but, much to her annoyance, he was faster than her.

He grabbed her neck with one hand and pinned her arms with the other while holding her legs firmly against the wall with his knee.

She watched a glowing light emit from his hand that was holding her neck as it created an energy collar that, once completed, pinned her head to the wall.

Letting go, he proceeded to do the same with her arms stuck by her side and her legs stuck to the wall. (A/N-ya know like during the majin buu saga when goku and vegeta were fighting each other before vegeta sacrificed himself and he did this kind of think to goku against a rock wall..yea like that : ))

He had stepped back admiring his handiwork while she growled out her frustration.

She saw him smirk and slowly raise one arm, her eyes widened, ' he was really gonna do it! He was going to kill her!' "W-Wait,!! Don't! You don't want to do this!" He paused,"Oh really? Because I could swear I want nothing more than to do just this."

She closed her eyes and waited for the attack. When nothing came she opened them in shock.

His body was still facing her, but he was looking behind himself. She couldn't see what he was staring at, but the voice that followed, normally striking fear and despair into most people that heard it, brought relief and erased all fears for her.

"Ve-get-a..... the cold lizard tyrant hissed in a sickeningly sweet tone of voice, drawing out the syllables in the prince's name.

Vegeta quickly composed himself and turned to face him completely. He bent down on one knee and placed his fist on the battle scarred floor while resting his other hand on his raised knee and bowed his head. "Lord Frieza." He spat out the sickening sentence tasting its foulness on his tongue.

Sakura would have taken the same position had her bonds not kept her from doing so.

Frieza let out a harsh laugh after looking around, finding the present situation quite humorous. Both Sakura and Vegeta gaped wide-eyed, surprised by his sudden outburst. Frieza switched his gaze from one saiyan to the other. He decided he would have some fun with them.

'Oh, it was always such fun toying with their simple monkey minds!'

Vegeta had to compose himself for the second time that day and at least attempt to explain himself. This was not the first fight he and the bitch had gotten into. Frieza had told them both numerous times that he would not tolerate fighting among his soldiers. Well, he told Sakura anyway. Vegeta nearly got the life beaten out of him as a punishment. Frieza had always favored Sakura over everyone, she sucked up to him like no other, kami how he hated her.

Even though he knew his attempt would most likely be futile, he would at least attempt to explain himself. He didn't feel like getting the shit beat out of him today..not that he did any other day.

"My Lord, allow me to explain.." before he had finished his sentence, Frieza sent him a death glare and calmly walked over to him.

He stopped his deadly march within a few feet of Vegeta and just glared down at him. All expression of humor gone from his seemingly bloodless white face (A/N- just a thought. in my story Frieza is in his final form. I like that one the most.. Ne way. back to the story!)

Vegeta was still currently in his kneeling position. He knew what was coming next.

If he stood up to face the tyrant, he would take that as insubordination and give him an even worse punishment than the one he knew was already promised to come. So he was stuck in this degrading position staring at the monster's knees. He kept still, gritting his teeth and letting out a barely audible growl.

He spoke at last.

"So monkey..tell me.. because my mind must have slipped. Just when did I say you could talk?!" The evil tyrant growled and kicked the prince in the belly, causing him to land over where Sakura, still bound, was watching all that transpired with silent amusement.

She always enjoyed watching Frieza punish Vegeta. Hell, half the time his beatings were entirely her fault. She would purposefully make up lies to tell Frieza, saying that he was being lazy or sloppy in his purges, though both knew those two words were anything but describing Vegeta..just to punish him further for not succumbing to her wishes to be with him. Granted, the only reason she wanted him was not only because he was the most sexiest thing she had ever laid eyes on, but, he held the title of prince, and even if he was ruler of a practically dead race, it would still give her power, and she hoped, over him.

She would use him as she needed and if he ever became useless other than for a good screw, than she would dispose of him how she saw fit. Did she love him? She didn't know the meaning of the word. She cared for no one, a heartless creature such as she didn't care about such nonsense. That was for fools. She merely saw a challenge and a hot body that also held much power.

She watched on in sick glee.

Vegeta growled, jumping to his feet in a flash. He didn't care anymore, he was in a fight and he was not going to lay there and take it like a pathetic weakling with no honor. He had pride damnit!, and he would do his best to stay in the fight as long as possible.

He knew he could not win, but he was at least going to try. Especially with that brown-nosing bitch watching his every move now. 'Bah! She must be loving this.' He thought with anger. She'll get hers someday..Frieza won't always be there to save her and he would be ready.

He stole a glance at her and told Sakura all the hate he felt for her in a single facial expression I believe only he could pull off.

She would have inched away from the death glare he sent her way and hidden behind Frieza if she still hadn't been restrained by the energy bands Vegeta had placed on her. Since she couldn't, she simply gulped and looked away. He smirked, 'Good she's afraid of me. She will have good reason to be so when I'm through with her.'

He felt pleasure thinking of all the painful things he would do to her when suddenly, his thoughts were rudely interrupted when Frieza landed a punch to his gut. Despite himself, he let out a pained cry and bent over from the blow.

Smiling with sadistic pleasure at the pain he was causing the prince, Frieza crossed his arms and watched as Vegeta tried to stand up straight but failing as his gut continued to clench in pain. Growing bored he decided to end it, but just as he was once again walking over to the hunched over teenager, the saiyan fazed out of view and yelling out "Final Flash!" he released as much power as he dared centered right for the monsters' mid-section.

Sakura gasped, 'How could he release that much power? It didn't seem real, was he really that strong? How could he be that powerful without her knowing?' She squeezed her eyes tightly shut trying to block out the intense light rays emitting from his outstretched hands.

Vegeta had to close his eyes against the strain of controlling the ray. 'This won't kill the bastard, but it'll make it awful hard for him to walk tomorrow.' He thought, starting to focus on slowly diminishing the ki beam.

Releasing the breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding, his eyes searched the debris and dust that swirled in the air. His super alert senses heard a sound and he tensed up more than he already was, just to realize it was only that bitch Sakura coughing from the dust filled air.

The dirt slowly settled back onto the earthen floor so he could finally see...nothing. He was gone. 'Blast it! Where did he go?' His eyes caught a glimmer. What was that?............There it was again. Then it clicked. He was using super speed and constantly moving around so Vegeta couldn't see him..or so Frieza thought. He smirked, well, he would show that freak, never underestimate the power of a saiyan..especially when that saiyan was him.

He paid close attention to every glimmer, timing it, estimating the next place it would show up. When he was sure he had it, he let out a yell and placed a well timed kick right into midair, causing Frieza to appear in the seemingly empty spot right where he had anticipated he would go.

Frieza couldn't believe it. 'How did he do that?!' This really pissed him off; the little monkey was making a fool out of him! Even if it was only in front of that brown-nosing saiyan still attached to the wall. Oh, he would pay..right NOW!!!

Vegeta barely had time to let out a satisfied grunt at his success when the lizard grabbed his head and brought it crashing down on his knee. Dazed from the attack, Vegeta couldn't even block the arsenal of attacks that Frieza bombarded him with.

After thoroughly beating him, Frieza uncoiled his long, deadly tail and wrapped it tightly around the prince's neck. Feeling too weak, the prince merely let his arms lay limp down his side. "Now" Frieza hissed, "release Sakura from her bondages." Vegeta, with his eyes scrunched tightly closed, gritted his teeth and balled his fists. Seeing the show of defiance, Frieza squeezed his tail tighter, with out a doubt making it extremely difficult to breathe.

His resolute finally gave out and he slowly raised his right arm and pointed his finger into the air and made a slicing motion letting his arm fall back down limply at his side. The bonds holding Sakura disappeared and she landed neatly on what was left of the floor.

The white lizard smiled a sick grin at her as she haughtily strode up to Vegeta, still being held from the neck by the monster's tail. "Sakura my dear, are you quite alright?" she smiled with demented pleasure at him. "Of course my Lord, but he really needs to be taught his place, only fools go around attacking people who he knows are stronger and better than himself. He just cannot handle the fact that he is a weakling. "

Hearing this, the prince snapped open his eyes and glared loathingly at her with a growl. She saw this and unexpectedly threw a punch at his face. He saw it coming and took from what little strength he had left and caught her smaller fist in his hand and squeezed as hard as he could. Wincing, she drew back and glared at him.

Frieza chuckled, "Now now my dear, we must do something about that temper of yours." He giggled from his clever wit. She straightened up then bowed, "Of course my Lord." He then looked at the nearly unconscious prince, "and you.." he twisted his tail around so Vegeta had to look at him, even though one eye couldn't open, and the other one only successfully opened part way. "You need to learn some manners," with that he threw him down on the floor hard, "Let this be a lesson to you."

Giving him one last good kick he turned around and started to leave for the ship beckoning Sakura to follow him. She obliged, but not before she leaned down next to him struggling to get into a sitting position and whispered, "Sooner or later my prince..sooner or later.." and with that she turned her back on him and walked away.

She never saw him again.

After that, she was told that he had limped to a rejuvenation tank and as soon as he was healed had gathered up Nappa and Radditz and flown to planet Arlia to purge it themselves. After that, they had gone to some other planet in search of something called 'Droogen Bats?' What the hell was that? Maybe that wasn't the right word but what ever it was, Frieza had wanted them too and left to find them first.

News had spread like wildfire that Frieza had been destroyed in battle but she hadn't believed it. Who in the universe could possibly stand up to the mighty Frieza? No one that she had ever heard of that was for sure. Still, it had been several years since Frieza had left and everyone else believed that he was dead and gone. Close to ten actually, and she had seen neither hide nor hair of the prince either since that last encounter.

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She sighed, coming out of her deep thoughts, she still needed that arrogant saiyan if she was to get his title and become queen.right now that was all that she cared about.

She slammed her fist on the arm of her control seat. "Damn him!" Where the hell did he go? Was it possible that he had been killed? Hmph, it would serve him right, such news would be a delight for her to hear, that is, if she simply didn't need him alive.

The doors to the main control room, where she presently was, swished open and she heard someone call out her title. "Commander Sakura?" She turned around and greeted her most trusted comrade. "Oh, Lieutenant Hachiro, I trust you've come to give me good news on your quest to track down Vegeta's signal?" He grinned at her and handed over a stack of papers that, at a glance, showed her numbers and even more numbers that she didn't understand the meaning of and simply raised her eyebrow at him, silently demanding that he just say it in layman's terms.

He read her expression and quickly replied, "We believe that he has resided on a planet called Earth. His exact location there is not currently known, but he is there.

She grinned maliciously.

"Captain!?"

A large, green, fish looking man stood at attention, "Yes Commander?" he stated with a salute. "Change course!" She returned her eyes to the window, staring at the emptiness of space. "We are going.. to Earth, Captain."

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A/N- Whew! ^.^** Well there it is! My first chapter back on FF.net! PLEAZ REVIEW!!!!!!!!! I mean..noooooooooooooo Im not begging for reviews nope.. not me......well ^.^* maybe a LIL bit! C'mon it takes one minute!! Reading your readers reviews, besides writing the actual fics themselves, to me, is one of the main reasons why I do it. I want to know what people think of my work. I never realized how important reviews were to authors until I started typing my own and thinking 'man I hope this isn't too shitty so maybe Ill get some' so this is the first and last chappie that ill beg for em! And onnne more thing, if ne one wants to be on a mailing list then I can just email whichever people would like to know when I have new chapters out. Just tell me you want to be on it in your review: D and Ill add whoever wants to be on it! So I have a couple chapters typed up already but I think they'll be out every week or two, it depends, so I'll try to keep some sort of schedule going but well see how well that turns out : ) so ne way til next time!

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