I wish I owned DBZ, but I don't. I own DVD's and tapes, but it just isn't the same. I also don't own the right to Starcraft or any of the music pieces you see selected, just copies of merchandise, such a shame. The artists that created them are geniuses and we all must bow to them.

Chapter 4: Fasha's decision

Kerrigan showed me back to the room I had started out in, the chamber with the green healing fluid. I climbed in with a general lack of enthusiasm and it filled to the point where I was breathing the fluid again. At first I coughed on it, but it quickly oxygenated my blood and began to sooth my body's wounds. My overwhelming feeling to kill something had not decreased much, but lessened in intensity once I powered down. I was very ashamed of what I had done, and as far as I knew I was not under anyone's control other than my own. And I had enjoyed it, it felt like opening up a new door to a life I never had. I felt sick and excited at the same time, and I hated myself for it. Kerrigan stayed in the room for about five minutes before leaving me with my disgusted thoughts on the matter. She came back after about an hour, and the fluid drained enough for me to climb out.

"So why did I need healed if I'm supposed to regenerate?" I asked as soon as I climbed out.

She looked slightly amused, "Because only your tail had taken on the Zerg qualities. The rest of your body will slowly after each healing session you spend in there, otherwise you would develop those characteristics very quickly," she said. I wasn't sure what to make of that statement until I realized she didn't move her lips again.

"So why all the secrecy with me? It's like I'm dealing with two of you?" I thought back at her.

"I thought you would have figured that out by now, I don't want the Overmind knowing what I'm up to. If you're smart about it, you will follow my lead. You are being pretty convincing, even if it isn't an act for you, I suggest you keep it that way," she answered as she grinned slightly at my dismay. She pointed out some sort of nest like surface to lay on.

"I assume you will need to sleep somewhere, you can use that for a bed, it will provide suitable warmth for sleep," she said in a cold tone. It looked like some sort of gooey bird nest, without the sticks, just the goo. I found that on the end of it there was an opening of some sort, like a sleeping bag, and she ushered me into it. It was surprisingly warm and comforting, but it did nothing to ease my soul of today's events.

"I know what you're thinking, why did you take all those lives today when you didn't truly have to? The Cerebrate released the hormones into your blood enough to drive you mad with desire to kill. As I understand, most Saiyans love to fight as it is, so it was quite easy to do. And they will probably remain in there until you remove them yourself!" Kerrigan said in her slightly soothing voice, like she was a good person again.

"That's no excuse for what I did today, and how would I be able to remove my own hormones?" I asked.

"You'll figure it out someday. Besides, it isn't the chemicals as much as it is the source of them. For now I suggest you get some rest, we have a big day tomorrow. We need to gather up enough resources to build another Super Hive, we're leaving soon again!"

"Oh boy, off to destroy more innocent people!" I muttered.

She scowled, "Ha, those Terrans you killed today are no better than the old Confederacy, in fact that's what they were once part of. They got what they have deserved for a long time!"

"And the women and children, did they deserve it?" I asked.

"There were civilians?" she asked in surprise.

"Yeah, and I killed them too. You know what's really sick about all this, I fucking enjoyed it like a true Saiyan should. Now if you don't mind, I'd like to be left alone with my misery," I said, turning to my side underneath the gooey blanket.

"Well, the only comfort I can give you is that you won't see many more civilians after we leave. We're going to a deserted planet called Char, a lava filled wasteland. We will be staying there for awhile," she said. I didn't answer, only grunted. It seemed to be good enough for an answer, and I sensed her leave the room. I let myself shed tears with the crying women and children's faces in my thoughts right before I killed them. I slowly cried myself to sleep, only to vomit a few times during the night with the disgusting dreams I had of the same thing.

Interlude 4.1 –Dilemmas-

Vegeta scowled slightly when Tassadar told him. Their ship's hyper drive was slowly going to fail sometime before the dimensional jump, and they would need it to make the jump. Not only that, but they did not have the parts to fix it. Vegeta then looked over the star maps that they had on this area. He found that he knew them a little bit.

"If we're going to be around this area about a week before the jump, there should be a base around here somewhere. Should be Frieza planet number seventy-seven, and I believe I still have some credits. We should be able to find suitable replacement parts here!" he said.

"Excellent, I'll set course for that planet. Is it a commonly used trade post?" Tassadar asked.

"It was in the old days, I'm not sure what has happened to the Kold Empire since we destroyed its main cast of figures. It had spread through this upper portion of the east galaxy and the lower part of the north mostly. We didn't travel outside of those two quadrants that much, so I would assume its still there. It's probably a far cry from old empire standards, but it should be sufficient," Vegeta explained, looking thoughtful.

"Is there any possibility of confrontation then? You said that Saiyans weren't exactly popular with the hierarchy of the empire correct?" Tassadar asked.

"That is true, but most of them have been destroyed now. I doubt anyone around this area will even know what a Saiyan looks like without looking up history, I recommend caution irregardless," Vegeta warned.

"That you don't have to remind me of. Helm, set course for that planet!" Tassadar ordered.

"C'mon Vegeta, what could be out there? An old relative of Frieza?" Goku asked in a joking matter. The look on Vegeta's face didn't change much as he only glanced at the map some more while looking to be deep in thought. Then he left the bridge area and Goku followed him.

"Leave me be Kakarot, I have some business to take care of with the girl!" Vegeta growled.

"Awww, but I thought you said we were going to spar after Tassadar and you talked!"

"I've changed my mind, but I'll gladly beat you to a pulp in a few hours!" Goku rushed to the gravity room in excitement and awaited his rival there while doing warm up stretches.

Vegeta simply rolled his eyes, "Imbecile."

-

Vegeta came up to Fasha's room and buzzed the doorbell like device that was there.

"Come in," she said from inside. The door hissed open and Vegeta stepped in, it closed behind him. She had been washing some of the cuts and bruises she had received from today's training session before she turned to see who it was.

"Oh, your highness!" she exclaimed, bowing right away.

"On your feet girl!" he barked. She stood at attention right away, wondering what was going on.

"I am going to make this short, and I want absolute truth from you!" Vegeta began, giving off that threatening glare he could get a patent on.

"Of course," Fasha said nervously. Vegeta softened his look slightly, but not enough for her to notice,

"Do you truly, deeply, love the boy? Or is it the lust that a lot of females are known to succumb to? I realize he was around at a maturing stage for that to happen, and my decision to use the dragon to make him a kid again didn't help that out. Think before you answer, no matter what your answer is I will accept it and you will not be harmed," he said, slowing lowering his tone from yelling to just barely shouting. Fasha's face turned to pure bewilderment, before she thought it over.

Then she took a deep breath in hesitation, "I admit, I was driven to lust around him. It may have affected my behavior and my decisions. My behavior undoubtedly affected his own, after all I was the one to come onto him. I have adjusted to the fact that I do love him, but I can't honestly say that I wasn't affected by my own instincts," she said sadly.

"Then, when this is all said and done, would you rather stay here? Or go back with your crew and help rebuild that world? As you know we wished it back from destruction, not to mention you five are Ascended Super Saiyans now. That world will need all the help it can get from that point forth since the Zerg are in that new past as well. I will not dishonor you in any way if you wish to back out now," Vegeta said, almost hinting at it. Fasha looked like she was going to cry, but held it back.

"The choice is mine?" she asked.

"Yes, I need not remind you how the boy responds to emotions. You are a part of that baggage he carries with him!"

Fasha sighed, "Then I wish to perform the ceremony of detachment once we get Verto back. I'd rather he didn't live with shame or worry because of me. It isn't becoming of a true warrior like himself, I will go back with my comrades," she said with an eyeful of tears.

"Very well, it will be preformed. For the record, I think you will make a fine mate for any Saiyan out there. If the boy weren't in such a developmental and potentially dangerous stage of his life, I would not have objected to any of this. When we find the boy, we may need you to bring him back to our side, but his will is too strong to be easily controlled, I know him well enough to assure you of that. But we also do not fully understand how Zerg infesting works, so we proceed with caution. Training at nine hundred hours!" Vegeta barked as he left the room. Fasha allowed herself to cry for most of the night, but felt better about it in the end.

-

"Amazing, how did a power like this stay hidden from our wisest people for so long?" Aldaris asked as he had produced his first ki ball and held it up. Frost was very surprised that he picked it up so quickly, he himself took a week to just find his inner power as a kid, and here this alien who had no clue about it, did it in less than a day.

"You would be surprised how many races don't know about it, a sign of weakness in many eyes," Frost grinned slightly. Aldaris ignored that for the most part as he let the ki ball float around the room.

"There, I have taught you the secrets, not that it's much of a secret. Where is the Saiyan's home planet?" Frost said with a slightly impatient tone in his voice. Aldaris didn't answer right away before producing another ki ball and extinguishing the two as he brought them together.

"Are you familiar with a planet called Earth?" Aldaris asked.

"No I am not, though my father had mentioned it a few times," Frost said, looking puzzled.

"That is the planet of Terrans, humans I mean. However, Saiyans look a lot like them, minus the strength and tail of course," Aldaris explained.

"So that is where they slayed my family? Earth, in the north galaxy?" Frost asked, getting a nod right away.

"If you want your ultimate revenge on those Saiyans, you should head there and take it out on their planet! These Saiyans are very powerful to deal with directly, I would know," Aldaris suggested.

"Maybe I will at some point, but I would much rather see them die by my own hand. They have a habit of springing up like roaches out of nowhere, even if you vaporize the nest of them!" Frost said with a slight growl.

"So, is this all there is to ki basics?" Aldaris asked, bored again.

"No, there are things like powering up to increase fighting strength and gathering enough of it to make a planet destroying ball or beam, other techniques can be applied as well. These things can be learned easily on one's own with enough training however," Frost explained.

Aldaris grinned slightly, "Good, I shall make good use of my time then," Frost frowned slightly before a beeping on his scouter went off.

"Lord Frost, repairs to the Protoss ships are complete. They are ready to depart whenever they wish!"

"Good, well then I suppose we shall be saying goodbye now. I have some planning to do to rid myself of a certain pack of monkeys!" Frost frowned slightly as he turned to exit the chamber he and Aldaris had been using. The Judicator's grin turned wider as he called up his Psi energy. He then turned it onto Frost in a storm of lightning-like Psi bolts, shocking the son of Frieza until he collapsed. Frost lay crumpled, seemingly unconscious in no time.

"It seems you are the fool here Frost, but no matter. I suspect those Super Saiyans will wipe the floor with you anyway. If you aren't dead by the time they get here, you will be then!" Aldaris claimed.

"Treacherous bastard!" he managed to rasp before Aldaris hit him with another Psi storm assault.

"Nothing personal Frost, but I have never lowered myself to accept another species help. The fact that I made an exception is inexcusable to me. I must thank you, now that I know the secrets of ki energy, I will be able to conquer my dimension, and then I will return to conquer this one. Good luck against those Saiyans, I think I'll leave you alive long enough to watch your own bitter end when they get here, Muhahahaha!" Aldaris laughed a very villainous laugh as he departed the room and shut the door.

-

"Croton, we're leaving promptly. I want our fleet moving within two minutes!" Aldaris ordered as he hurried towards the ship.

"Yes Judicator!" It didn't take long for the Protoss to gather up their forces since most of them stayed with the ship. Down below, Frost stumbled out of the base, looking worse for the wear as he watched the ships escape into hyperspace. A few of his soldiers came to his aid, but he stood up by himself.

"So, did you plant the explosives?" Frost asked.

"Yes sire, the long range transmitter has been sabotaged with an explosive device that will go off whenever they try to use it and their hyper drive engines will blow in about two months. We aren't completely sure where their home planet is so they may in fact get there first. That is what you asked for isn't it sire?"

Frost smiled, "Yes, good work."

"Pardon sire, but couldn't you have destroyed them before they ever left? Why allow such slime to harm you?" the soldier asked.

"I wanted the information first. As far as harming me goes, the damage isn't as bad as it seems. He only hit me with a potent technique I wasn't ready for," Frost admitted.

"Is that why you actually bothered with wearing a scouter sire?"

"Yes. Now prepare the same sort of explosive for the next Protoss ship, they will contain our Saiyan friends. But I want them to get away without confrontation. If they truly are legendary Super Saiyans, we may be no match against even one of them. Somehow I doubt that is true considering the power I have acquired over the years, we shall see soon enough. Welcome them with open arms and gladly gift-wrap another little package, however give them enough time to catch up to Aldaris. After that we will find this dimensional tear and mine the entrance and begin redrafting our forces to take back what's been lost!" Frost ordered.

"Yes sire!" the soldiers saluted.

Frost smiled at this with an evil grin that only his father could have pulled off. So Aldaris, you think you got the last laugh. We will see when the Saiyans destroy you for me, and once we plant the mines they will be trapped in that dimension! Thus leaving me free to reconquer my father's empire, then maybe I will go after yours!

Next time on DBV: Verto's encounter with the Terran Dominion leaves him with doubts about his intentions and actions, and he is captured as result.