"You're…you're my…daughter?" Vegeta stutters.

Everyone is silent and fixated on Keira. Bulma looks from Keira to Vegeta, then to the onlookers. She sighs heavily.

"Okay everybody, let's give them some privacy, okay? Trunks and Gohan, you too!"

Bulma ushers everyone up and over the hill, leaving only Vegeta, Echo, Goku, and Keira. Echo takes a step forward and reaches her hand to Keira's face. Keira quickly turns her head and backs away from her touch. Echo stiffens.

"You've only attended school for ten years, surely you're not done."

"No, I haven't completed my education." She simply answers.

"Then why have you come to Earth?" Echo asks.

"I'm on a mission," she turns and glares at Vegeta, "to kill my Sayian father!"

Keira lunges toward Vegeta, and he braces himself, but a dark haired stranger holds her back. She cranes her neck to get a look at her captor.

"Hey kiddo! It's not very nice to pick a fight with your old man. Hey, are you hungry? We were having a picnic and you're welcomed to join us. We've got steak, potatoes, and rice curry… So what do you say?"

"You must be Goku, my mother's Sayian husband." Keira calmly observes.

"Yep, that's me!" Goku chuckles.

"And the sole reason my mother has been exiled and shunned by our people." She adds.

"Oh. Well… I guess that's me too…" Goku nervously replies.

"But you!" Keira refocuses on Vegeta. "YOU are the reason why I was taken from my mother at birth!"

"Please, my child, do not try to attack him again." Echo pleads.

Keira quickly diverts her attention back to her mother.

"Not attack him? For all that he's done to you? To ME?" She stammers.

Vegeta clears his throat. "I know what I've done to your mother, but what have I done to you?"

"You mixed my perfect Angelican blood with your weak Sayian blood." She says coldly.

Vegeta's nostrils flare with rage.

"We have much to talk about. Must you return home tonight, or can you stay for a few days?" Echo cuts in.

Goku lets go of his hold on Keira. "Yeah, you'll welcomed to stay at our place, kiddo."

Keira's eyes dull from a blazing red, to a fine hazel.

"Well, I can't exactly go back any time soon." Keira mutters under her breath. "Very well, I accept your offer." She turns back to Vegeta. "But we WILL finish this!"

Vegeta nods his head while he changes back from his Super Sayian form. He rises into the sky and flies over the hill. Keira never takes her eyes off of him.

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Echo shows Keira into the spare bedroom. It is a plain room with white walls, a single bed, a dresser, and a full-length mirror. There is a window on the opposite side of the room from the doorway.

"If you need anything, our room is further left in the hallway…Goodnight."

Keira changes into the extra large T-Shirt she borrowed from Goku. She folds back the sheets on the bed and lies down, pulling the sheets back up with her. She stares at the ceiling for what seems like an eternity. She closes her eyes for a minute and reopens them with a heavy sigh. She swings her legs over the bed and stands. Keira opens her door and takes a right down the hallway. The next door she comes across is slightly a jarred. She peeks inside to see a young man sleeping, loudly, in his bed.

This must be Goku's son, the half Sayian-half Human child.

She walks out of the hallway and into the main house. She explores the house, looking at photographs and admiring the simple décor. She walks out of the back door and climbs on top of the roof. Keira sits down and hugs her knees to her chest. She exhales, and can see her breath. She looks up at the stars, but turns back around, someone is with her.

"I figured you would be up here, watching the night sky." Echo says as she joins her daughter.

They are both silent, just watching the sky. Keira looks down at her mother.

"Why? Why wouldn't you let me attack him today?" She asks hastily.

Echo keeps her sights on above. Her eyes seem so distant. She says nothing.

"Mother, I asked-"

"Do you know how old I am?" Echo asks, cutting her off.

Keira blinks. "Eight hundred seventy two years."

Echo smiles. "Am I? I lost count after 500. I suppose it's on my record, that's how you know. I'd have figured they burned it after they exiled me."

"…They did. I stole the last copy before they could get their hands on it though."

Echo chuckles. "That's against the rules you know."

"I know. What does this have to do with my question?"

Echo ignores her. "I have lived so long. I have protected nearly every planet in the four quadrants of the solar system at least twice. I even destroyed some in my earlier days." Echo looks down at the rooftop.

"Your record states that you have destroyed nine planets, but you were pardoned for that."

"Funny how they pardoned me for annihilating millions of innocent lives, but exile me for marrying outside of our race." Echo sighs. "So is the race of the Angelicans I suppose. Anyway, I am answering your question. But it is complicated. Vegeta, your father, has done some very evil things in his past. You hate him because of what he did to me, but you must understand that you don't have that right."

"I don't have the right? I don't have the right to hate him? He took advantage of you during your cycle of weakness. You didn't even know it was him until much later. His seed produced me, and I don't have the right to hate him for that?"

"He didn't harm you. He has done nothing wrong to you. He has wronged me, that is true, but I have long past forgiven him. You must do the same. He is a good man now, a little short tempered at times, but a good man nonetheless."

"But he has done evil to me, mother! He has made me half Anglican and half Sayian. Sayians are a dead race, while no one from our planet has anything less than whole Anglican blood. He made me an outcast of our whole society!"

"He did not do that intentionally. You know that." Echo calmly states. "I cannot change the past. No one can. You can only change your future by your actions of today."

Echo looks back onto the stars, her knees pulled up to her chest, mimicking her daughter. Keira looks at her. She bravely scoots closer to her. Keira rests her head on her mother's shoulder. Echo turns and embraces her.

"I've waited a long time for you to return to me, daughter. I love you!"

When she breaks the embrace, tears swell in her eyes. Keira pulls in for another hug.

"And I have waited so long to be loved, mother!" She whispers.

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Miles away, in the city, is Vegeta and Bulma's house. He is lying awake, next to his wife, pondering.

I knew this would happen one day. But so soon? Fifteen years ago I made this mess, haven't I paid for it enough? Everyday I have to look into those blue eyes and remember what I did. There's no point of asking why I did it. I'll never know what came over me that night. It's really no surprise that she wants me dead. Damn! What was her name? Keira, that's it. Taken from this planet before I even had a chance to see her. She looks so mush like her mother, except for her hair, I suppose she gets that from me….

"Vegeta, are you awake?"

Vegeta breaks his train of thought. "Uh, yes. I am awake. Is something wrong?" He answers his wife.

"No, I just…Are YOU okay?"

Vegeta smiles, and turns over to face Bulma. "I will be, I suppose. Everything will turn out fine." He reassures her. He closes his eyes and falls asleep while holding Bulma.