Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ....Or the saiyans would live!!!!

AN: ahh.....I wrote this origanlly watching SG-1...and now Independance Day....hmm....

I hope you like this one.....I originally named it The end comes near....I like this better though..lol!

Only a couple chapters to go..!!

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8 months later:

Juniper walked through the streets, looking for nothing in particular, her hand was softly touching her bulging stomach, the babe would be born any day now...and Bardock would have it no other way than to have it a boy.

" Juu!!" Came an oddly familiar voice from the dark shadows of another street.

" Lemone!!??" Juniper gasped, recognizing her second-sister even in the gloom of the evening streets, and hurried over to her.

To her surprise, she noticed that what she had thought Lemone to be holding was groceries was, in fact, a happy little Saiyan babe, chewing away on one of her slim fingers...his flame-like black hair seemed too large for him, but Saiyan babies' hair was often like that at very young ages.

The baby seemed oddly familiar, but Juniper could not put her finger on it, making a face, she asked, " Who's the little charmer??"

" I could ask the same to you!" Lemone laughed, studying Juniper's obvious bulge, " I mean, you ARE pregnant, right, Juu?"

The baby clapped happily, and pointed at Juniper's stomach, babbling some sort of baby-talk.

Lemone laughed at the child, and shook his hand, saying, " Yeah..she is huh..widdle Veggie?"

" Veggie?" Juniper asked, raising an eyebrow.

Lemone laughed, blushing slightly, and said, " This is my Son, Vegeta....after his father."

Juniper's mouth dropped agape, the King's SON?? Unbelievable! She would not have been more surprised if Lemone had confessed that BARDOCK had been the father...no wait, she would have been LESS surprised if she had.

" You...." Juniper coughed, then Lemone pointed up at a before-unknown golden circlet in her luscious black hair, then said,

" I answered YOUR question, now answer this, whose mate are you???"

" Bardock is my mate." Juniper said haughtily, lifting her chin up slightly.

" Oooh, a hottie..." Lemone winked, then said, " So, what's his name then, your child I mean?"

" Well, we were thinking maybe Radditzsu.....but I just didn't like it....after a few suggestions, we settled for Radditz or Raditz." Juniper said proudly.

" What KIND of suggestions??" Lemone giggled, readjusting her baby on her hip.

" Lemone!!" Juniper snapped, slightly annoyed at Lemone's dirty mind set, "NAME suggestions, of course!!!!!"

" Of course."

Annoyed, Juniper quickly changed the subject

" Why Vegeta? That's unlike you to be so unoriginal!!"

" Well.." Lemone laughed, " You are lucky, your mate isn't so stuck on himself!!"

" Oh really?" Juniper shot, laughing, " And I thought you knew him, Lelo!!"

" Ha ha!! Well, at least your mate can't kill you with a whim...thats a pretty good bargaining chip!"

Lemone sighed suddenly, as her baby fidgeted, and made and angry noise at her, as if he wanted to get to his crib, and said, " All right, all right....I'm GOIN'!"

She smiled at Juniper and said, " Well...The prince wants to go home...." She chuckled slightly, and continued, " See you soon!"

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The alien blew air out through his thin lips heavily, all the people were too easily cowed... he needed a warrior race to conquer....he needed to taste the salty blood of stubbornness....Suddenly, he remembered the Saiyans.

" Mister Zarbon!"

" Yes, Milord?"

" It is time." Frieza said, smiling slightly, as he saw the look of confusion in his second's eyes melt to one of understanding and excitement....Zarbon had been waiting eagerly for this for years now.

" I, I'll tell the navigator!!!! Zarbon said excitedly, rushing into the navigator's room.

As Frieza watched his second scurry out of the room, he wondered to himself if the Saiyans were really all that they were hyped up to be.

Frieza would not be disappointed.

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1 week later:

Bardock paced back and forth, in front of the bedroom door, agitated, as Juniper's strangled cries rang out.

The birth of a Saiyan child was no easy process, partially because of the violence of the child, and also because of the fact that the children are born with their hair.

The midwife had said that this child in particular had difficult hair.

After a final, strangled cry tore from his beloved mate's throat, he could hear the savage crying of the baby, and Bardock rushed in, the cropped-haired midwife now held the baby up to a mirror, and if it had not expected itself to be born Saiyan, it's long spiky hair cascaded down it's tiny body outside the receiving blanket the baby was wrapped in, and Juniper had managed to prop herself up to a sitting position, and was now loudly protesting not having her baby in her arms.

" Hey! Give my mate her baby, you stupid broad!!!" he said suddenly.

Meanwhile:

Letta was caring for her vegetable market when she saw it:

The largest comet she had even seen, came plummeting from the sky, to crash in the horizon. She, along with millions of other Saiyans 'round the world, pointed, speechless, at the huge U.F.O.

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" Isn't he handsome?" Juniper laughed, cradling her cooing baby, as he grasped her finger in his two tiny hands.

" Of course he is! Don't forget who little Raditz' father is." Bardock laughed, as he sat on the bed next to her.

" Actually, he does take after Juniper more." The Mid-wife pointed out, Bardock frowned, and was about to say something, when an urgent pounding came on the door.

" What could it be THIS time?!" Bardock growled, for they had not noticed the comet. Suddenly, as Bardock headed over, suddenly a shock wave from the crater's impact slammed through their house, almost knocking Bardock over, and blasting out every window in their house.

" I'd guess THAT." Juniper said cooly.

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The alien called Frieza walked out of his ship, as the door opened with a 'hiss', and turned into a ramp, followed by his 2nd, Zarbon, his 3rd, Dodoria, and a blue scaled creature from the planet Kegara, who called himself Kiwi.

They were greeted by a few stunned Saiyan guards, which they swiftly disposed of.

Then, Frieza laughed, and said loudly, " I am the Lord Frieza, I claim this planet as my own, and you really can't do anything about it....though I hope you try..."

The rest of the men standing there glanced at one another, and then back at Frieza, who stood barely at 4'

" We can take 'em!" They smirked.

That would be their greatest, and last, mistake.

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Juniper shivered as a chill breeze blew through the room, and she wrapped her baby Raditz tightly in the blanket, rocking him soothingly, as he sputtered, trying to decide if he would cry or not.

' Oh, Bardock, don't get killed out there, we still need you!' Juniper thought.

That night:

While Juniper cradled her, now sleeping, baby, she dug out a cup from the cupboard, and poured some piping-hot honeyed tea for herself.

Suddenly, the door burst open, and a bloody, out-of-breath Bardock stumbled in, and leaned heavily against the wall, as he slammed the door shut, gasping for breath.

Stunned by the immensity of his wounds, Juniper let her ceramic cup drop to the floor, shattering it, and causing the dark liquid to splash on her white shoe, staining them, though Juniper did neither noticed nor cared.

" Bardock?!! What?!!" She started, when the baby burst into tears, kicking, screaming, and biting; the slamming door had obviously woken it, and the cup and her screams had whipped it into a frenzy.

" I...I'm fine...Raditz..." Bardock coughed, pointing at her squalling baby.

Juniper looked down him, and frowned, then produced a bottle of milk, and placed it in the crib, he promptly shut up, then she hurried over to Bardock, and despite his constant objections, she sat him down in a chair, and got bandages and water.

" What happened??" Juniper breathed, as she took a large, alcohol soaked, sponge to his wounds to start cleaning them.

Bardock winced slightly, and said, " An alien...attacked....took us all day fighting, but he made it to the capitol....we failed......It's all up to diplomacy now...but Lelo thinks it's doubtful...."

Grimacing, Juniper took some special healing liquid 'Maskqua', and poured it directly on his wounds to purify and heal them.

As the stinging liquid boiled on his numerous wounds, Bardock threw back his head and roared in pain.

" Shh.." Juniper smiled slightly, " Raditz is trying to sleep you know..."

" Sorry..." Bardock grimaced, " But that stuff hurts more than GETTING the bloody wounds..."

Juniper smiled up at him, as she wrapped cool, clean, bandages around his wounds, then slid up to his lap, sitting comfortably in his arms

" I know a cure for the pain." She whispered quietly in his ear, " In fact, as your doctor I'm ordering you to take it.."

" I like this doctor.." He smirked slightly, switching off the table lamp next to them.

The Next day:

Juniper tiredly opened her eyes, to see a note on her pillow, picking it up, she read it and frowned.

It read:

Beloved, I was called back to oversee the negotiations, I cannot say when I shall return.... I love you My spice...

^Yours;

**Bardock

Juniper sighed, and wondered if they would make it out of this one.

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Frieza smiled malevolently at the King, who was whispering animately with the Queen, who held her young babe on her knee

Yes...That woman....she knew somehow.....she could ruin everything....she would have to go....Oh, and when she did, This race would be his...yes....he laughed quietly to himself, in a way only the truly mad could ever achieve.

This race would be fun to kill.

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Ahhh.....Sad...huh? I didn't actually have this as a seperate chapter at first it was all chapter 3.....but this has a different tone, don't you think..?

Anywhooo....I hope I updated this one quickly enough...Oh, and a little plug here....Go see Oujou!.com....This is a funny FUNNY site..I write my book listening to their music videos too...^.^

Yusagi Sombermoon

Signin' off folks!