"I GAVE YOU MY ALL VEGETA!" Bulma screamed. She snatched up a small ornament and launched it at the Prince as hard as she could. "I GAVE YOU A SON, MY VIRGINITY; I EVEN GAVE YOU MY HEART!" She threw another ornament. Hot tears of anger and desperate sadness cascaded down her face.
"I DIDN'T MAKE YOU DO ANY OF THAT!" Vegeta shouted back, "AND I CERTAINLY DIDN'T MAKE YOU KISS THAT DIRTY HUMAN!"
"MAYBE IF YOU PAID A LITTLE MORE ATTENTION TO ME I WOULDN'T HAVE KISSED HIM! AND WHO'RE YOU TO TALK? I WALK IN HERE AND YOU'RE ALL UP ON MISS SAIYAN SURVIVOR HERE!" Bulma collapsed on the floor, crying. "I loved you Vegeta. Do you hear me? I loved you. And what did you do with my love?"
"IS THAT ALL YOU THINK ABOUT? WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU? WHAT ABOUT WHAT YOU DID TO ME?"
"I thought we had worked that out Vegeta! But you still had to go and get cozy with that woman!"
"GETTING COZY?" Vegeta's voice inclined again, "WE WERE NOT 'GETTING COZY'!"
"I FOUND YOU AND HER IN OUR BED! I CAN'T BELIEVE I WAS STUPID ENOUGH TO THINK YOU LOVED ME! But you don't, do you Vegeta? I want to tell you something. You broke my heart." Vegeta paused, then said in a dangerously quiet voice,
"So, I broke your heart and you broke mine. There's something I want to tell you as well. I thought that maybe, just maybe, someone could love me. But I guess I was wrong too." He slammed the door on his way out.
It had been the worst fight in the history of Bulma and Vegeta's fights. Afterwards, Bulma Briefs went running up to her room, sobbing with grief and heartache. They had lied, cheated, and worst of all, betrayed one another. If only…if only the last week hadn't happened…
"Honestly Chichi, I'm not sure I can live with him anymore. I might as well pack up and leave, he wouldn't notice. He doesn't pay any mind to me at all. I'm sick of him. And I'm sick of Trunks coming to me with bruises and broken bones."
"You should just leave him Bulma." Chichi advised. "He's not worth it. For goodness sake, he abuses your child! Not like Goku. But then, I did get the better alien of the two, didn't I?" Right on cue, Goku entered the room. He was having difficulty removing a fish bone from his throat. After gagging it up, he belched loudly. Seeing their astonished faces Goku said,
"What? It attacked me!" And left the room. Chichi and Bulma stared at each other until Bulma started to laugh.
"Well, you try working on him." Chichi said, embarrassed.
"Chichi, if he were my husband, he'd be too scared to belch around me."
"He's not your husband."
"I know." Bulma looked down again, ready to cry. "I should leave Vegeta. And it's true, he does abuse Trunks badly, but I love him Chichi, and Trunks loves him too. Somehow I always think he's not so bad."
"Bulma…"
"I know Chichi, alright? I know! He's a murderer. He's killed billions of people and blown up their homes. But there's this big sadness in him, like an empty hole. If it weren't for me he'd be completely alone."
"Bulma, you don't even know if he loves you."
"You're right, I don't. But sometimes I think he might."
"Come on Vegeta, Bulma is over at my house crying her heart out right now." Goku said.
"Woman cries too much." replied Vegeta.
"You make her cry Vegeta."
"She should learn to stay out of my way."
"Somehow I think staying out of your way makes her cry. Don't you love her Vegeta?" Goku blurted out. Vegeta didn't say anything for a moment.
"What kind of question is that you dunce?" He said finally.
"So, you do love her?" Vegeta was saved answering that question by a large object hurtling toward earth.
"What the heck?" said Goku, jumping into the air after Vegeta.
Whatever it was that crashed had made a gigantic crater. Vegeta peered into the hole. His heart lurched excitedly. He climbed into the hole and inspected the object.
"Kakarott, it's a Saiyan space pod!" he said in a voice between excitement and curiosity.
"No way! What's it doing on Earth?" Vegeta pressed a button on the pod. The damaged door opened slowly. Inside was a very attractive woman with long black hair and dressed in Saiyan armor. She struggled to open her eyes halfway. She crawled out part way and looked up at Vegeta. She grasped his hand for support.
"Prince Vegeta, thank goodness you're alive." As soon as she said that, her arms gave out and she fainted. Vegeta caught her body and gently lifted her body the rest of the way out of the pod.
"Is she a Saiyan?" asked Goku.
"Must be." answered Vegeta. "She's got a tail. Can we take her to your house Kakarott?"
"Y-yeah, sure."
Chichi and Bulma were still talking in the living room when Vegeta and Goku entered. When she saw the woman's limp body Bulma leapt off the couch.
"Oh my goodness Vegeta! Who is she?" Chichi helped position the woman on the couch.
"I don't know." Vegeta responded. "Her ship crashed nearby."
"Do you know her?" Chichi asked.
"I've never seen her before."
"Goku! Go get water for her!" Chichi ordered.
"Right." Goku ran to the kitchen and returned with a cool cloth. Chichi laid it on the girl's head. As soon as she did, the woman sat up.
"My Prince!"
"Prince?" Bulma repeated, looking at Vegeta. "Vegeta, is she a Saiyan?" Vegeta nodded.
"My name is Shiriga. And you human woman," she glared at Bulma, "have no place to talk to His Majesty like that!" Bulma crossed her arms.
"This 'human woman' is 'His Majesty's' wife. I will talk to him any way I please." Shiriga looked up at Vegeta.
"Is this true?" Vegeta's cheeks reddened a little.
"We have a son." Bulma said with a smirk. Shiriga was quiet for a moment.
"That can be dismissed. You have been gone awhile. You have the right to be with other women. But that's all over now. Right outside of this system is a planet very much like Vegeta-sei. A small group of Saiyans have begun to build a colony there."
"All the Saiyans died! How is that possible?" Vegeta asked
"The Saiyans who were sent to other planets. There were thousands sent each day."
"Frieza sent people out to destroy those Saiyans." said Vegeta. "With the exception of Kakarott here. Such a misfortune."
"There are others like him. Frieza did destroy most of the other Saiyans, but he missed about 500. I know that we are the weakest of the Saiyans, but we've grown stronger…and we hoped that our Prince…the strongest in our race would be proud of us. We want you to come lead us. Your son is welcome too. His standing as prince compensates for his…" she raised a brow at Bulma, "tainted blood."
"How dare you…!" Bulma raised a fist. Goku held her back mouthing, 'no'.
"I need time to consider." Vegeta said after a long pause.
"Vegeta, you're not actually thinking about going, are you?"
"It's time for Trunks's training. I'll make the decision within a week. I'm certain Kakarott will allow you to reside here during that time."
"Please do." Shiriga said.
"You've accepted Earth as your home Vegeta; we've made a life here, together! And Trunks, you can't take him away from his home, or from me!"
"Bulma…it's time for Trunks's training."
"Hey Mom, Dad said that there's another Saiyan! Can I go see her?" Trunks asked as he and Vegeta immerged from the gravity chamber.
"We'll see honey. Go do your homework." Trunks ran upstairs.
"Did you also tell him that he might relocate to another planet within the week?" said Bulma sharply.
"No." Vegeta lay down on the couch. After a few minutes, Bulma sat down next to him. She stroked his cheek.
"Are you going to leave me Vegeta?"
"Bulma…" he growled softly, "I don't want to talk."
"We need to talk." Bulma insisted. "Now, are you going to leave me?" Vegeta didn't answer. But it was the kind of silence that answered everything.
"I won't let you take Trunks. No matter what that woman said he'll never fit in there. He'll never be accepted. I'm going to talk to Chichi. You say goodbye to your son and get out. I don't want you to be here when I get back." Bulma grabbed her keys and slammed the door as hard as she could.