Chapter 19
Too Late
Vegeta froze where he stood. The air had been sucked from his lungs. He could feel his eyes open wide in shock. Possibilities were running through his head on how this could be happening. The two had shown up without him even sensing them. They had to be extreme fighters for them to move so fast and not spike their energy. They looked nothing like him and yet they had the Capsule Corp. logo on their clothing. They were claiming to be his children but he had only just had a child born light years away on earth. It was possible that they were shape-shifters that could read minds, but then why choose someone so ridiculous?
"Who are you really?" Vegeta said glaring defiantly at the purple haired boy. Vegeta moved his body sideways so he could keep an eye on them both. Out of the corner of his vision he say the girl known as Bra struggling loss in thought on the rock to his left.
"Bulma, Bulma, Bulma where have I heard that name before? OH, I KNOW!" She shouted jumping off her rock in triumph. Vegeta switched the main focus of his attention to watch the girl. She was smiling stupidly holding one of her hands up into the air as if showing off some unseen prize. "That's mom's name! Bulma's mom's name! Wait, why did he call me mom's name?" She looked passed Vegeta to the unknown boy on his right.
"You must look just like her. Well that explains a few things." The boy replied quietly to himself. Vegeta was getting tired of this though. 'Who were they to themselves Bulma's children?'
"It doesn't explain anything to me so you better get talking before I get angry." Vegeta said glancing from the strange boy to the girl wait for one to speak. The boy spoke up first.
"I told you she's Bra Briefs and I'm Trunks Briefs. We're your children." By his tone Vegeta got the impression of a tired annoyance with all this talking. He wanted to do something but what?
"Well that's a nice sentiment but I don't believe you. You may not know it but I've been dead for a while and could not possibly have had kids your age. Let alone two." Vegeta said now slightly grinning. Trunk's brow furrowed in thought.
"What, you mean your time as a vampire? No we're from your first few months as a Saiyajin." Vegeta was shocked. The boy knew about his time on Earth, but not enough or he would know that he only had one kid and that the kid would be only a few months old by now.
"You're still wrong boy. I have only one child and a very young one at that." The boy only rolled his eyes.
"Twins, we were twins. I came first, then Bra. And the age difference is because we're from the future. We came through a time machine that Tobias built. Bulma would have built it but." Suddenly the boy's eyes flew to Vegeta's filled with fear. He didn't seem to move for a whole minute as he watched Vegeta's face for some kind of a sign. Vegeta looked around slowly catching sight of the girl also frozen looking at him.
"But what?" Vegeta asked looking at the boy again.
"You're not going to kill me?" The boy asked surprised.
"I don't see why I should just yet." Vegeta said still looking at the boy. He saw a flicker of movement out of the corner of his eye so he looked down. He jumped in surprise at the sight of Bra's face inches away from his own looking at his through questioning eyes.
"Bulma." She said slowly. Vegeta didn't move. She said it faster. "Bulma. Bulma, Bulma, Bulma, Bulma, Bulma, Bulma, Bulma, Bulma, Bulma!" She turned away from him still chanting Bulma's name starting to dance around the landscape. She jumped into the air floating and continued her dance in mid air. Vegeta watched taken so by surprise that all he to was watch as she spun in the air chanting his mate's name.
"What is wrong with her?" Vegeta demanded turning back to the boy. He watched too as his sister waltzed on tiptoe signing his mother's name. He tore his gaze from her to look at his father.
"I have many theories, but none have to do with why we came back in time. We have come to explain and to help you in the battle to come." Trunks explained looking only at his father.
"I still don't believe either of you are my children, and you have yet to explain anything to me as of yet." Vegeta said crossing his arms over his chest. Trunks' eyes fell to Vegeta's arms and he smiled. The chanting form of Bra spinning flew in between the two men interrupted this one sided heart felt moment. Trunks glared after her.
"Fine then I will explain everything starting form events that you already know are taking place." Trunks said turning back to his father who was trying every hard not to look at the crazed blue haired girl. "You and Aunt Talana just had a fight. A pretty important fight that will haunt the both of you till the end of your days and drive a wedge between the both of you for the rest of your lives."
"Talana and I have had thousands of fights, some worst and some not. We'll get over this fight just as we have gotten over all the others." Vegeta said not at all moved by what they boy was saying.
"And that may have been so, if something else hadn't happened afterwards. You see Talana and Tobias have been keeping a tight watch on Bulma for the past few months. But you see, because of the fight Talana and Tobias have cut contact with the world to stop Talana from creating a massacre in her rage. Talana is so mad she can't concentrate on anything but her anger and Tobias is so intent on controlling her he has shut out the outside world. And you have shut out that part of the universe for your own reasons.
"All of this is why none of you will be aware of the arrival of Freeza on Earth." The boy paused for a moment seeing the look on Vegeta's face. Rage was pulling on the Saiyajin's face making his whole body shake with the effort to control it. Trunks waited till Vegeta had the pent up anger in check before moving on. "He will be looking for your energy signal on Earth. Since Bra and I are half of you he believes that the combined auras of us is you. He will arrive at the house and kill Bulma."
Trunks stopped again. Vegeta had dropped his gaze to the ground shadowing his face from view. The older man didn't seem to be moving.
"I'm sorry." Trunks whispered.
"You're lying!" Vegeta yelled snapping his head up from the ground. His eyes were rimmed with tears not willing to let them fall. For you see he was begging to believe what the boy was saying was true.
"I'm not. Talana senses the death of Bulma first. Tobias and her transport back to the Capsule Crop. Compound in time to save us. Freeza looks for you on the planet for a week before he leaves. Two years later you met Freeza and destroy him. But while you're fighting he taunts you about how fast you ran from him on Earth. You see he believed that you were in the house on that day and ran from him after he killed the woman at the door. He tells you this of course and you realize just whom he killed. You go Super Saiyajin and kill him. Then you return to Earth.
"You go to Capsule Corp. to find that she's not there. You try following her energy signal but you just find Bra and I. Talana is pissed at you for not being there for Bulma. She hates you. That's when you began to train us. Day and night for years you trained us to be the strongest, the fastest, the best. Talana and Tobias gave us food and taught us everything we know. We were never allowed to say Bulma's name, no one was. You must have loved her very much for her death to hurt you so much. You always seemed to push Bra harder then me, like you hated her for some reason. Now we know, you hated her because she looks so much like mom." Trunks stopped to look at his sister. Vegeta looked to.
She was still dancing chanting Bulma's name. She looked as if she hadn't heard a thing that was being said only a few yards away. Vegeta knew better. She had heard everything that was being said she was just blocking it out. Something she had probably learned at a very young age. Trunks cleared his throat looking away from her. But Vegeta kept looking even after trunks began again.
"You trained us to survive. By the time we were 7 we could already become Super Saiyajins and had an IQ that rivaled those of the smartest in the galaxy. But it was never enough for you and we never really got very close. I think now that you did it on purpose so we wouldn't get hurt. But we still cried the day you died." Vegeta looked at him.
"It would be you here if you hadn't been killed. Androids, they ravaged the land for years and when they got bored they came after us. They had been fighting with the son of Goku for 16 years. But one day they killed the fighter known as Gohan and started looking for new blood. They came after you and killed you in the first battle. They might have let you go so they could play with you later but you wouldn't give up. You had knocked us out to keep us out of the fight so when we came to it was to late. Two years later the machine was ready and here we are. We are here to help you defeat Freeza, the androids, and save Bulma."
"I don't want your help. I don't even believe what you're telling me is even true. How am I to know that you two aren't some mind-reading freaks playing some scam?" Vegeta said watching the boy closely.
Trunks reached with one hand to the back of his neck and pulled something off over his head. He didn't look at it, just tossed it to Vegeta. Vegeta caught it with one hand not looking away from the boy. Vegeta lowered his hand and opened it only then looking down.
'Impossible!' Vegeta dove with his other hand into his armor pulling the gold chain off his neck. In one hand he held the gold emblem of the house of Vegeta and in the other its exact double. 'No this would mean that.' Vegeta snapped up to look again at Trunks. 'He brought this back from the my future self!'
"I'm sorry father." Vegeta looked down seeing for the first time Bra at his side one hand on his shoulder. She had such a sad look on her face. Like she could no longer hold up any more of her defenses. She collapsed against him hugging him around the shoulders. Vegeta was to overwhelmed to move. Vegeta looked back to Trunks who still stood where he was cold as stone.
"What time is Bulma killed?" Vegeta asked making no move to remove Bra from him.
"10:00 a.m. today." Trunks answered. Trunks just looked at Vegeta. He didn't try to touch him like Bra had but his eye said enough for Vegeta to tell that he cared just a deeply. Only Trunks was the one that had to stay together, he had to bare his burden alone, like the warrior the future Vegeta had taught him to be. Vegeta nodded logging the information away.
"But we need to know what time it is now. Our clock broke on the journey here." Bra said letting go of Vegeta at last. She backed up a few feet waiting for his answer looking up at him.
"It's 8:45. I'll met you two at the house when it's time." Vegeta said turning back to his ship. "Oh and one more thing." Without turning back he tossed the emblem back to Trunks. Vegeta could hear the sound of Trunks catching the necklace as Vegeta continued to his ship. Vegeta climbed inside the ship without look back to his children and blasted off. Vegeta glanced out one of the windows from the captain chair gazing down on his future legacy.
Vegeta set the autopilot for Earth including a landing protocol. He glanced at the onboard clock checking the real time, 9:47. Vegeta smiled. He stood up from his chair and moved to the middle of the room getting ready to transport to earth.
"13 to spare, and one hour to fight. Sorry kids but I have to face this alone." Vegeta whispered vanishing from view.
***
At Capsule Corp.
Bulma walked up the stairs hold one of her babies in each arm. She smiled down at the pair as she walked through the house with care not to wake them up. She entered the nursery smiling at the new room. Each side of the room had a cradle and dresser. On the wall to the right was a changing table with the left wall left open with two huge widows to let in lots of light and air.
Bulma set the slumbering infant Bra in her cradle closest to the door. The babe squirmed at first but settled down and continued to sleep. Bulma shifted young Trunks so she carried him with both hands and walked to his crib. The boy opened his eyes as he was being put down. He looked to his hovering mother reaching out his hands to be held.
"Caught me did you?" Bulma whispered taking hold of one of his hands. His small fingers wrapped around her thumb squeezing hard. She smiled wider.
"You're going to grow up to be big and strong just like your daddy. But don't worry we'll be fine. Because no matter where he is we'll always be together, all four of us." She watched as Trunks' little eyes grew hard to hold open and he to fell back to sleep. Bulma straightened arching her back backward stretching. She took one last look at her children and left the room closing the door after her. She had only just made it down the stairs when the doorbell rang.
"Who could that be?" She said to herself walking across the living room to open the door. Carelessly she flung the door open revealing someone she had never expected to see.
"May I help you?" She said taking in the two strange looking characters. One was so short he had to be only just bigger then Gohan. He had red beady eyes, dark lips, horns, and the strangest armor on. The other was fairly tall with green skin and matching hair in a long braid down his back. Bulma was use to seeing strangle looking people, I mean a bear is the crossing guard down the street, but it was their clothes that made them seem so alien.
"Yes you may. I am Lord Freeza and this is my associate Mr. Zarbon. And you are?" Said the short one smiling up at Bulma expectantly. Bulma stopped thinking for a second. She wasn't a fool she remembered who they were. She remembered exactly what they had done and just how dangerous they were. She couldn't just slam the door in their face and run for it, that would be a bit obvious.
"I'm Ms. Briefs." Bulma said leaning against the door hoping she looked natural and bored. They seemed to buy it.
"Oh how nice! The same Ms. Briefs that is the president of Capsule Corp.?" Freeza asked impressed. Bulma caught the tall one named Zarbon checking her out but chose to ignore him.
"The very one." Bulma said trying to smile. Freeza looked very pleased.
"Well isn't that lovely Mr. Zarbon? We have the head of Capsule Corp. right in front of us." Freeza said looking back to his companion. Zarbon grinned eyeing Bulma over once again.
"Very nice indeed." Zarbon said in agreement. Bulma shifted her weight uneasily as she looked at the taller man.
"Maybe you can help us then Ms. Briefs. I'm looking for an old friend of mine. I heard he might be staying here." Said Freeza turning back to the lady of the house. Bulma put on a puzzled face.
"No one's living here at present. But maybe I can tell you where they are." She said. She tossed her head to the side making her hair swing around her head while she smiled stupidly at the venomous little monster.
"Why thank Ms. Briefs. We're looking for a Mr..Vegeta?" Freeza looked up to her waiting for her reaction.
"That little bastard! That's who you're looking for?" Bulma screeched jumping away from the door. Both Freeza and Zarbon jumped in surprise.
"You know him then?" Freeza said interested moving slightly closer to the doorway.
"Oh I know him alright. That son of a bitch came waltzing into my office 11 months ago claming to be the Black Flame, someone I was researching at the time. A for a while I thought the jerk was the Black Flame. He sweet talks me a bit, lives in my house for a few months using up my food and training gear, and leaves! And he didn't tell me a darn thing! I had half a mind to burn the stuff he left behind." Bulma said put one of her hands on her hip continuing her airhead act.
"He left some of his stuff behind? Do you mind if I come into collect them? I can always give them to him when I see him again." Freeza said stepping closer to the door. 'He's trying to get into the house.' Bulma thought silently. She was well aware of the fact that a vampire couldn't enter a home without being invited. It was one of the only things that still worked on an ancient vampire his age.
"Oh no that's ok, I'll just get it myself." Just as Bulma turned to leave a cry broke the air. Bulma's head snapped around to stare in horror at the stairs. When she turned back to the door she looked back to normal but the two outside couldn't help but be curious about her reaction to the noise.
'Children? Do you think it could be Vegeta's and she's not telling us everything?' Zarbon thought to his master.
'Impossible, I was tracing Vegeta's aura. If it were a child of his it would only have half his aura. Anyway it's impossible for a vampire to conceive.' Freeza sent back keeping his eyes on the weakling human before him. She looked uneasy but Freeza wasn't picking up anything from her mind. She had a very small amount of ki but her mental levels seemed far advanced for any normal human.
"If you'll excuse me gentlemen." Bulma said turning towards the stairs.
"Wait." Zarbon called stepping forward. Bulma turned on him angrily.
"I have to care for my child." Bulma stopped her hand on her hips.
"Yes woman, go care for your little brat." Vegeta said snidely from the kitchen doorway.
"Thank you." Bulma said glancing over her shoulder. Bulma spun around taking a double take. Vegeta stood leaning on the kitchen doorway the stairs just behind him. "Vegeta?" Bulma whispered in awe.
"That's right woman, I'm back." Vegeta said an evil smirk spreading across his face.
AN: Review you people or I will go on strike! Almost none of you talked about the last chapter and the twist of the kids being twins. So be a nice reader and please review and tell me what you think.
Vegeta froze where he stood. The air had been sucked from his lungs. He could feel his eyes open wide in shock. Possibilities were running through his head on how this could be happening. The two had shown up without him even sensing them. They had to be extreme fighters for them to move so fast and not spike their energy. They looked nothing like him and yet they had the Capsule Corp. logo on their clothing. They were claiming to be his children but he had only just had a child born light years away on earth. It was possible that they were shape-shifters that could read minds, but then why choose someone so ridiculous?
"Who are you really?" Vegeta said glaring defiantly at the purple haired boy. Vegeta moved his body sideways so he could keep an eye on them both. Out of the corner of his vision he say the girl known as Bra struggling loss in thought on the rock to his left.
"Bulma, Bulma, Bulma where have I heard that name before? OH, I KNOW!" She shouted jumping off her rock in triumph. Vegeta switched the main focus of his attention to watch the girl. She was smiling stupidly holding one of her hands up into the air as if showing off some unseen prize. "That's mom's name! Bulma's mom's name! Wait, why did he call me mom's name?" She looked passed Vegeta to the unknown boy on his right.
"You must look just like her. Well that explains a few things." The boy replied quietly to himself. Vegeta was getting tired of this though. 'Who were they to themselves Bulma's children?'
"It doesn't explain anything to me so you better get talking before I get angry." Vegeta said glancing from the strange boy to the girl wait for one to speak. The boy spoke up first.
"I told you she's Bra Briefs and I'm Trunks Briefs. We're your children." By his tone Vegeta got the impression of a tired annoyance with all this talking. He wanted to do something but what?
"Well that's a nice sentiment but I don't believe you. You may not know it but I've been dead for a while and could not possibly have had kids your age. Let alone two." Vegeta said now slightly grinning. Trunk's brow furrowed in thought.
"What, you mean your time as a vampire? No we're from your first few months as a Saiyajin." Vegeta was shocked. The boy knew about his time on Earth, but not enough or he would know that he only had one kid and that the kid would be only a few months old by now.
"You're still wrong boy. I have only one child and a very young one at that." The boy only rolled his eyes.
"Twins, we were twins. I came first, then Bra. And the age difference is because we're from the future. We came through a time machine that Tobias built. Bulma would have built it but." Suddenly the boy's eyes flew to Vegeta's filled with fear. He didn't seem to move for a whole minute as he watched Vegeta's face for some kind of a sign. Vegeta looked around slowly catching sight of the girl also frozen looking at him.
"But what?" Vegeta asked looking at the boy again.
"You're not going to kill me?" The boy asked surprised.
"I don't see why I should just yet." Vegeta said still looking at the boy. He saw a flicker of movement out of the corner of his eye so he looked down. He jumped in surprise at the sight of Bra's face inches away from his own looking at his through questioning eyes.
"Bulma." She said slowly. Vegeta didn't move. She said it faster. "Bulma. Bulma, Bulma, Bulma, Bulma, Bulma, Bulma, Bulma, Bulma, Bulma!" She turned away from him still chanting Bulma's name starting to dance around the landscape. She jumped into the air floating and continued her dance in mid air. Vegeta watched taken so by surprise that all he to was watch as she spun in the air chanting his mate's name.
"What is wrong with her?" Vegeta demanded turning back to the boy. He watched too as his sister waltzed on tiptoe signing his mother's name. He tore his gaze from her to look at his father.
"I have many theories, but none have to do with why we came back in time. We have come to explain and to help you in the battle to come." Trunks explained looking only at his father.
"I still don't believe either of you are my children, and you have yet to explain anything to me as of yet." Vegeta said crossing his arms over his chest. Trunks' eyes fell to Vegeta's arms and he smiled. The chanting form of Bra spinning flew in between the two men interrupted this one sided heart felt moment. Trunks glared after her.
"Fine then I will explain everything starting form events that you already know are taking place." Trunks said turning back to his father who was trying every hard not to look at the crazed blue haired girl. "You and Aunt Talana just had a fight. A pretty important fight that will haunt the both of you till the end of your days and drive a wedge between the both of you for the rest of your lives."
"Talana and I have had thousands of fights, some worst and some not. We'll get over this fight just as we have gotten over all the others." Vegeta said not at all moved by what they boy was saying.
"And that may have been so, if something else hadn't happened afterwards. You see Talana and Tobias have been keeping a tight watch on Bulma for the past few months. But you see, because of the fight Talana and Tobias have cut contact with the world to stop Talana from creating a massacre in her rage. Talana is so mad she can't concentrate on anything but her anger and Tobias is so intent on controlling her he has shut out the outside world. And you have shut out that part of the universe for your own reasons.
"All of this is why none of you will be aware of the arrival of Freeza on Earth." The boy paused for a moment seeing the look on Vegeta's face. Rage was pulling on the Saiyajin's face making his whole body shake with the effort to control it. Trunks waited till Vegeta had the pent up anger in check before moving on. "He will be looking for your energy signal on Earth. Since Bra and I are half of you he believes that the combined auras of us is you. He will arrive at the house and kill Bulma."
Trunks stopped again. Vegeta had dropped his gaze to the ground shadowing his face from view. The older man didn't seem to be moving.
"I'm sorry." Trunks whispered.
"You're lying!" Vegeta yelled snapping his head up from the ground. His eyes were rimmed with tears not willing to let them fall. For you see he was begging to believe what the boy was saying was true.
"I'm not. Talana senses the death of Bulma first. Tobias and her transport back to the Capsule Crop. Compound in time to save us. Freeza looks for you on the planet for a week before he leaves. Two years later you met Freeza and destroy him. But while you're fighting he taunts you about how fast you ran from him on Earth. You see he believed that you were in the house on that day and ran from him after he killed the woman at the door. He tells you this of course and you realize just whom he killed. You go Super Saiyajin and kill him. Then you return to Earth.
"You go to Capsule Corp. to find that she's not there. You try following her energy signal but you just find Bra and I. Talana is pissed at you for not being there for Bulma. She hates you. That's when you began to train us. Day and night for years you trained us to be the strongest, the fastest, the best. Talana and Tobias gave us food and taught us everything we know. We were never allowed to say Bulma's name, no one was. You must have loved her very much for her death to hurt you so much. You always seemed to push Bra harder then me, like you hated her for some reason. Now we know, you hated her because she looks so much like mom." Trunks stopped to look at his sister. Vegeta looked to.
She was still dancing chanting Bulma's name. She looked as if she hadn't heard a thing that was being said only a few yards away. Vegeta knew better. She had heard everything that was being said she was just blocking it out. Something she had probably learned at a very young age. Trunks cleared his throat looking away from her. But Vegeta kept looking even after trunks began again.
"You trained us to survive. By the time we were 7 we could already become Super Saiyajins and had an IQ that rivaled those of the smartest in the galaxy. But it was never enough for you and we never really got very close. I think now that you did it on purpose so we wouldn't get hurt. But we still cried the day you died." Vegeta looked at him.
"It would be you here if you hadn't been killed. Androids, they ravaged the land for years and when they got bored they came after us. They had been fighting with the son of Goku for 16 years. But one day they killed the fighter known as Gohan and started looking for new blood. They came after you and killed you in the first battle. They might have let you go so they could play with you later but you wouldn't give up. You had knocked us out to keep us out of the fight so when we came to it was to late. Two years later the machine was ready and here we are. We are here to help you defeat Freeza, the androids, and save Bulma."
"I don't want your help. I don't even believe what you're telling me is even true. How am I to know that you two aren't some mind-reading freaks playing some scam?" Vegeta said watching the boy closely.
Trunks reached with one hand to the back of his neck and pulled something off over his head. He didn't look at it, just tossed it to Vegeta. Vegeta caught it with one hand not looking away from the boy. Vegeta lowered his hand and opened it only then looking down.
'Impossible!' Vegeta dove with his other hand into his armor pulling the gold chain off his neck. In one hand he held the gold emblem of the house of Vegeta and in the other its exact double. 'No this would mean that.' Vegeta snapped up to look again at Trunks. 'He brought this back from the my future self!'
"I'm sorry father." Vegeta looked down seeing for the first time Bra at his side one hand on his shoulder. She had such a sad look on her face. Like she could no longer hold up any more of her defenses. She collapsed against him hugging him around the shoulders. Vegeta was to overwhelmed to move. Vegeta looked back to Trunks who still stood where he was cold as stone.
"What time is Bulma killed?" Vegeta asked making no move to remove Bra from him.
"10:00 a.m. today." Trunks answered. Trunks just looked at Vegeta. He didn't try to touch him like Bra had but his eye said enough for Vegeta to tell that he cared just a deeply. Only Trunks was the one that had to stay together, he had to bare his burden alone, like the warrior the future Vegeta had taught him to be. Vegeta nodded logging the information away.
"But we need to know what time it is now. Our clock broke on the journey here." Bra said letting go of Vegeta at last. She backed up a few feet waiting for his answer looking up at him.
"It's 8:45. I'll met you two at the house when it's time." Vegeta said turning back to his ship. "Oh and one more thing." Without turning back he tossed the emblem back to Trunks. Vegeta could hear the sound of Trunks catching the necklace as Vegeta continued to his ship. Vegeta climbed inside the ship without look back to his children and blasted off. Vegeta glanced out one of the windows from the captain chair gazing down on his future legacy.
Vegeta set the autopilot for Earth including a landing protocol. He glanced at the onboard clock checking the real time, 9:47. Vegeta smiled. He stood up from his chair and moved to the middle of the room getting ready to transport to earth.
"13 to spare, and one hour to fight. Sorry kids but I have to face this alone." Vegeta whispered vanishing from view.
***
At Capsule Corp.
Bulma walked up the stairs hold one of her babies in each arm. She smiled down at the pair as she walked through the house with care not to wake them up. She entered the nursery smiling at the new room. Each side of the room had a cradle and dresser. On the wall to the right was a changing table with the left wall left open with two huge widows to let in lots of light and air.
Bulma set the slumbering infant Bra in her cradle closest to the door. The babe squirmed at first but settled down and continued to sleep. Bulma shifted young Trunks so she carried him with both hands and walked to his crib. The boy opened his eyes as he was being put down. He looked to his hovering mother reaching out his hands to be held.
"Caught me did you?" Bulma whispered taking hold of one of his hands. His small fingers wrapped around her thumb squeezing hard. She smiled wider.
"You're going to grow up to be big and strong just like your daddy. But don't worry we'll be fine. Because no matter where he is we'll always be together, all four of us." She watched as Trunks' little eyes grew hard to hold open and he to fell back to sleep. Bulma straightened arching her back backward stretching. She took one last look at her children and left the room closing the door after her. She had only just made it down the stairs when the doorbell rang.
"Who could that be?" She said to herself walking across the living room to open the door. Carelessly she flung the door open revealing someone she had never expected to see.
"May I help you?" She said taking in the two strange looking characters. One was so short he had to be only just bigger then Gohan. He had red beady eyes, dark lips, horns, and the strangest armor on. The other was fairly tall with green skin and matching hair in a long braid down his back. Bulma was use to seeing strangle looking people, I mean a bear is the crossing guard down the street, but it was their clothes that made them seem so alien.
"Yes you may. I am Lord Freeza and this is my associate Mr. Zarbon. And you are?" Said the short one smiling up at Bulma expectantly. Bulma stopped thinking for a second. She wasn't a fool she remembered who they were. She remembered exactly what they had done and just how dangerous they were. She couldn't just slam the door in their face and run for it, that would be a bit obvious.
"I'm Ms. Briefs." Bulma said leaning against the door hoping she looked natural and bored. They seemed to buy it.
"Oh how nice! The same Ms. Briefs that is the president of Capsule Corp.?" Freeza asked impressed. Bulma caught the tall one named Zarbon checking her out but chose to ignore him.
"The very one." Bulma said trying to smile. Freeza looked very pleased.
"Well isn't that lovely Mr. Zarbon? We have the head of Capsule Corp. right in front of us." Freeza said looking back to his companion. Zarbon grinned eyeing Bulma over once again.
"Very nice indeed." Zarbon said in agreement. Bulma shifted her weight uneasily as she looked at the taller man.
"Maybe you can help us then Ms. Briefs. I'm looking for an old friend of mine. I heard he might be staying here." Said Freeza turning back to the lady of the house. Bulma put on a puzzled face.
"No one's living here at present. But maybe I can tell you where they are." She said. She tossed her head to the side making her hair swing around her head while she smiled stupidly at the venomous little monster.
"Why thank Ms. Briefs. We're looking for a Mr..Vegeta?" Freeza looked up to her waiting for her reaction.
"That little bastard! That's who you're looking for?" Bulma screeched jumping away from the door. Both Freeza and Zarbon jumped in surprise.
"You know him then?" Freeza said interested moving slightly closer to the doorway.
"Oh I know him alright. That son of a bitch came waltzing into my office 11 months ago claming to be the Black Flame, someone I was researching at the time. A for a while I thought the jerk was the Black Flame. He sweet talks me a bit, lives in my house for a few months using up my food and training gear, and leaves! And he didn't tell me a darn thing! I had half a mind to burn the stuff he left behind." Bulma said put one of her hands on her hip continuing her airhead act.
"He left some of his stuff behind? Do you mind if I come into collect them? I can always give them to him when I see him again." Freeza said stepping closer to the door. 'He's trying to get into the house.' Bulma thought silently. She was well aware of the fact that a vampire couldn't enter a home without being invited. It was one of the only things that still worked on an ancient vampire his age.
"Oh no that's ok, I'll just get it myself." Just as Bulma turned to leave a cry broke the air. Bulma's head snapped around to stare in horror at the stairs. When she turned back to the door she looked back to normal but the two outside couldn't help but be curious about her reaction to the noise.
'Children? Do you think it could be Vegeta's and she's not telling us everything?' Zarbon thought to his master.
'Impossible, I was tracing Vegeta's aura. If it were a child of his it would only have half his aura. Anyway it's impossible for a vampire to conceive.' Freeza sent back keeping his eyes on the weakling human before him. She looked uneasy but Freeza wasn't picking up anything from her mind. She had a very small amount of ki but her mental levels seemed far advanced for any normal human.
"If you'll excuse me gentlemen." Bulma said turning towards the stairs.
"Wait." Zarbon called stepping forward. Bulma turned on him angrily.
"I have to care for my child." Bulma stopped her hand on her hips.
"Yes woman, go care for your little brat." Vegeta said snidely from the kitchen doorway.
"Thank you." Bulma said glancing over her shoulder. Bulma spun around taking a double take. Vegeta stood leaning on the kitchen doorway the stairs just behind him. "Vegeta?" Bulma whispered in awe.
"That's right woman, I'm back." Vegeta said an evil smirk spreading across his face.
AN: Review you people or I will go on strike! Almost none of you talked about the last chapter and the twist of the kids being twins. So be a nice reader and please review and tell me what you think.