Title: Crimson-dipped Obsession
Summary: Bulma Briefs' life made a horrifying turn when an obsessed Saiyan prince arrived on Earth and wanted her to be his! What's more to this alien was a dark secret that has caused a change in the history of Dragon Ball Z, and if it is revealed, it holds the fate of the entire universe.
Genre: Horror, Psychological Thriller, Romance, Mystery
Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball Z. Some events in this fan fic is also inspired by Mirai Nikki and DBXV.
Warning: You might find Vegeta out of character in this story as this fic is made as an answer to the question 'What if Vegeta was a yandere?'. Vegeta is originally and generally a tsundere. A Tsundere is a character who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warm and caring side over time. The yandere personality is the exact opposite of a tsundere personality. A Yandere is a character who is genuinely kind, loving, sweet or gentle, but can suddenly switch to being aggressive or deranged. (From wiktionary).
If you don't like Vegeta to be like a yandere then I suggest you to turn back now and stop reading as this story also contains lots of blood, gore and violence.
Author's Notes: This chapter is mostly based on the manga, although there will be several changes since the distortion in the balance space and time has occurred. Finally they arrived on Planet Namek! What darkness awaits them? Let's find on the Eighth chapter of Crimson-dipped Obsession! Please don't forget to kindly review and let me know your thoughts.
Chapter 8: Planet Namek
[762 A.D. December 18, Outer Space, Inside the Namekian Spaceship]
Finally after thirty-four days since they left the Earth, Bulma, Vegeta, Gohan and Krilin arrived on Planet Namek.
"Look! It's Planet Namek!" Bulma exclaimed as she pointed at the huge green planet before their view through the window.
"Beautiful…" she continued as she gazed at the planet.
"I will set the ship to land; fasten your seatbelts, Earthlings!" Vegeta announced at them as he turned to the main control computer, not really interested with gazing at the planet all day long.
The three of them did as what they told to and Vegeta said to the computer in Namekian language, "Computer, search a suitable place and prepare for landfall!"
As the computer searched, Vegeta sat down in his chair and fasten his seatbelt. Then suddenly, they felt as if the spaceship was falling into the planet. The three earthlings screamed until the ship settled down into the land with a powerful crash.
A few moments later after that worrisome crash, Bulma, Gohan and Krilin all set their eyes on the wonderful surroundings of Planet Namek. The unlike the blue skies of Earth, the skies of Planet Namek was green. There were several archipelagoes that were surrounded by crystal clear water, the meadows within the archipelagoes were filled with strange trees, blue green grass and other several rock formations. and the warm temperature of the surroundings reminded the Earthlings of a typical summer day on Earth.
"Wow…" Bulma whispered in amazement as she continued gazing at the sight before her eyes. When she snapped out of her amazement, she exclaimed, "We did it! We've landed on Planet Namek!"
Krilin and Gohan both cheered loudly along with her. "Yaaaay!"
Vegeta remained on his seat and just smirked as he watched at them cheer. A few moments later, Bulma stood up and approached some kind of machine and began tinkering it, "Hang on guys, I will check the atmospheric composition. Luckily, I was smart enough to attach external sensors! If there is little amount of oxygen, we have to use the oxygen masks I brought but our time outside will only be limited…."
"There's no need for that, Bulma," Vegeta told her.
"And what makes you think that?!" she screamed at him.
Vegeta pointed at the window and she saw that Krilin and Gohan were already outside. Bulma's mouth went agape in surprise and Vegeta laughed at her reaction.
Meanwhile, outside the ship….
"This place looks like the place where Piccolo trained me," Gohan said.
"Yeah, that place where we first fought the Saiyans. Maybe Piccolo unwittingly picked a place similar to his home planet." Krilin told him.
Bulma suddenly appeared behind them yelling angrily: "Oh yeah! Why are you just strolling out like that! How sure are you that there is no poison in the air, huh?!"
The surprised and clueless Krilin and Gohan turned to her, wondering what's with her temper. Vegeta came down last, telling her, "Forget about it, Bulma. Bring out the Dragon Radar and check if there are signals from the dragon balls."
"Right," Bulma said as she took the radar from her pocket and pushed the button on the top of the radar. "Look! There is a reading! There are indeed dragon balls in here!" she exclaimed, pointing at the screen of the radar in her hand. Vegeta, Gohan and Krilin looked over the screen.
"You're right! Yehey!" Krilin shouted.
Bulma and Krilin held hands, and began dancing in joy, "Yoo-hoo! Yoo-hoo! We did it! We did it!"
Gohan let out a childish laughter while Vegeta's eyes quickly narrowed in jealousy, however, a sudden feeling of a powerful evil ki snapped the both of them and made them look on the direction of the ki source.
"Krilin-san! There's a powerful ki over there!" Gohan pointed to where he was sensing the ki.
Bulma and Krilin stopped their joyous celebration, "Ki?" Krilin mouthed and then attuned his senses in that direction. "You're right."
"I feel a lot of them."
And everyone of them is strong. What could it be?"
"That must be Frieza," Vegeta said.
"Frieza?"
"What? The little boys didn't tell you? Frieza is the Emperor of the Universe." Vegeta explained. "He is very well by far the most powerful in the universe."
"Much powerful than you?"
Vegeta just stared at Krilin with a cold look and the bald headed monk simply shrugged.
After a few tense seconds of silence, Vegeta answered, "They must have learned about my rebellion by now. I can probably take out all of Frieza's men, but Frieza is of another matter. Frieza must have been in here for the Dragon Balls, too."
"Eh? He's also here for the Dragon Balls, too? M-M-Maybe we should get back to Earth… right, Gohan?" Krilin said. "B-b-but…. I mean, I-it's alright if Vegeta and I will be left in here but… I-it's Gohan's safety I'm afraid of."
"Don't be ridiculous, idiot!" Vegeta yelled back, "If Frieza gets his wish then he will destroy this planet and we will have no chance to get the Dragon Balls! We have no choice but to carefully lay out tactics so we can outsmart him and his men in order to get the Dragon Balls from them. For now, we have to take at least one Dragon Ball to prevent them from having six."
"Y-y-you're probably right!"
"Krilin-san! Vegeta-san! Someone's coming!" Gohan said, stopping the two from their arguments.
"Hmmm?"
"It's probably a Namekian!" Bulma said.
"No, they're not…."
A few moments later, two creatures appeared behind the rock on the island before where Bulma and the others stood. Both of the creatures were wearing similar armor to Vegeta but were in a different color. One of them had a bulky build, with light blue skin and orange hair and beard; he also had horns sticking out of his head, while the other looked like a reptile standing on two feet. He held what it looked like a laser gun, and both wore scouters on the left side of their faces.
"Huh? They're not Namekians! Who are they?" said the reptile person.
"It doesn't matter. Our order from Lord Frieza is to kill everyone on this Planet," said the orange-headed alien.
"Huh? Look at what they're wearing. They are similar to yours, Vegeta." Krilin said.
"Of course, I used to be one of Frieza's soldiers," Vegeta told Krilin.
"I don't care about what they are wearing! The thing is they aren't here to become friends!" Bulma said while hiding behind one of the space ship's legs.
"Huh? Hey, isn't that… Prince Vegeta?" the reptile person said, pointing at the Saiyan prince.
"Y-yeah! He is! Ha!" said the orange haired alien. He and the reptile person floated into the sky and approached Vegeta, Krilin, Gohan and a scared Bulma. "Hey, Vegeta! News said you were killed on the planet where you, Nappa and Raditz came from! Looks like it's a fake! You were indeed alive! Lord Frieza was mad when he learned that you came to some other planet without being ordered! Good thing is I heard he's going to forgive you after you found out a way for him to gain eternal life! What are you doing with those guys by the way?"
"Tch! I have no time to waste explaining things to small fries like you." Vegeta answered.
"Small fries? Hahahaha! As if your companions are any better. They don't even have a slightest fighting power!"
"Hmph! Fools!" Vegeta thought as he let out a confident smirk.
"Hey, look! You just picked a wrong time to get here on an adventure trip, little tourists!" the reptile person said, raising his laser gun. "Too bad… you have to get all trapped in here." Then he fired a blast towards the space ship, which destroyed its front part, including the controls of the ship. Bulma screamed in fright as she fell into the ground in a prone position.
"Bulma!" Vegeta quickly turned around and found her lying on the ground.
"Oh no! The space ship!" Krilin screamed as he looked the smoke coming out of the now mangled front part and broken window of their space ship.
Vegeta turned to glare back at the two other Frieza soldiers, growling in rage. "I'll fucking kill you!"
Before the two soldiers could open their mouth to speak, Vegeta pointed his two fingers at them and made their torsos explode in a shower of entrails. Krilin and Gohan jumped in fright at what happened, thinking that Vegeta has succumbed back into that scary killer they saw him become while trapped within the mirror spaceship several days ago. However, Vegeta turned to them with his sweet smile.
"Don't worry about it. I'll handle them on my own." He said as he approached Bulma and helped her stand. She was already crying at the fact that there will be no way for them to go back to Earth. "Cease your tears, Bulma. While we're all in here together, I will definitely protect you."
Bulma sniffed, "That's not it! The spaceship! The spaceship, it's destroyed! Waaaaaaah! How can we go back to Earth?! Waaaaaah!"
"Don't worry, Bulma-san! I'm sure the Namekians will help us fix our space ship," Krilin said.
"We should go. Some others may come after us so it would be safe for us to find another place to stay." Gohan suggested.
"Yes, let's do that for the meantime. Let's go Bulma." Vegeta said.
Bulma sniffed. "I wish I have your optimism."
While Bulma, Gohan and Krilin took their bags from their space ships, Vegeta went to the corpses of the two soldiers he just killed and took the scouter from the orange headed man.
"I hated using these scouters, but it will be helpful for a meantime. I needed it to investigate Frieza and the other's plans. That way, I can know their exact location and where they are holding their Dragon Balls."
When he returned, the three are now ready to go.
"Ahm, Vegeta, why did you take that?" Krilin asked.
"It's necessary. I will simply use it to investigate Frieza and the other's whereabouts. Shall we go? Remember to lower your ki as much as you could." the Saiyan Prince explained.
The four of them began to search for a place to stay…
Meanwhile… in one of the villages… A small orange skinned leopard-like alien humanoid stepped forward. In his arms was an orange, crystal-like ball about the same size of a basket ball. The ball had three orange stars on it. It is the three star Dragon Ball.
"My Lord Frieza, it is ours." The creature said.
Three figures were before him. On the left side was a fat pink skinned man with spiky horns over his head and forearms. He was wearing a black and brown armor. In his bulky arms was another one of the Dragon Balls, which had seven stars on it. On the right side was a pretty boy with light blue skin and long green braided hair. He was tall and wearing white and brown armor, with purple arm warmers and purple stockings. In his arms were two other Dragon Balls with two stars and five stars.
In between these two men was the most feared Emperor of the Universe, sitting within his hovering throne. Lord Frieza was a white, pink and purple lizard man with protruding black horns on the sides of his head.
"Thank you," Lord Frieza said. "Now we have four of them. Dodoria-san, please look after them. I heard Vegeta is after them too." He ordered the horned pink skinned guy. Dodoria took the three stars Dragon Ball from the unnamed soldier.
"Yes, milord." Dodoria bowed in respect.
Frieza noticed his other soldier's silence and asked, "What is troubling you, Zarbon-san?"
"Frieza-sama, it seems that the rumors about Vegeta being dead are a fake. According to the two scouts I've sent to look at the location of the three new ki sources, they have found him alive and with unknown new companions. The three powers appeared but quickly disappeared in the blink of an eye. As of now, the two scouts I've sent are killed."
"So Vegeta killed them?"
"Probably, sire. However, there was no reading on the scouter about Vegeta's power. The reading was completely zero."
"Completely zero?"
"Yes, milord."
"If Vegeta was indeed alive, then he must have learned a new trick while on Earth. My, my… what a rebellious little monkey he really is. It's a shame that he went against me and my orders that I have to do this. Send someone to dispatch him immediately. If anyone was with him, kill them all, too. Understand?"
"Yes, milord. I will send Cui to take care of him immediately. Everyone knows those two were always equal in fighting abilities. Even if Cui fails to defeat him, at least he could stop Vegeta from coming after us."
"Very well, then."
[762 A.D. December 18. 9:20. Earth, Sun Wukong Hospital, Goku's room.]
Meanwhile, back to the Sun Wukong Hospital on Earth… The doctor was checking on Goku when Yajirobe came in.
"What's up, monkey man!" Yajirobe greeted.
"Yajirobe!" Goku greeted back with a grin.
"The Senzu beans are finally here! Here's one!" Yajirobe took a piece of green bean from a brown sack in his hand and put it in Goku's mouth.
"Hey! What are you feeding my patient?!" The doctor protested.
As soon as Goku ate the Senzu bean, all his injuries have fully regenerated to the surprise of the doctor and the nurse he was with.
"Alright! I'm healed!" Goku exclaimed as he jumped off his bed and quickly went to the cabinet to get his dogi.
"Where are you going?" asked Yajirobe.
"I'm going after Bulma and the others to Planet Namek. The Lord of Worlds contacted me a few days ago and told me that Bulma, Gohan and Krilin are in danger."
"But isn't Vegeta with them?"
Goku didn't answer for a few minutes.
"What's up?" Yajirobe asked.
"Actually, I am going over there to have a very important talk with Vegeta."
"About what?"
"About…. Something. It's between me and him to talk about. Sorry."
"Oh I see. So how are you supposed to go to that Planet Namek?"
"Bulma's father visited me a few days ago and I asked him to make a spaceship out of the Attack Ball I used to go here when I was still a baby. Luckily he was able to find where it is and I think the ship is all set to go now."
Goku stood in the windowsill and called out, "Kintoun Cloud!" then he turned to Yajirobe, "Thanks a lot Yajirobe. I'll be going now!" then he jumped out of the window and was caught by a yellow flying nimbus cloud, leaving a wondering Yajirobe and a shocked doctor and nurse in his room.
[762 A.D. December 18. Forty-five minutes after their arrival on Planet Namek.]
Vegeta, Bulma, Gohan and Krilin were still walking on the meadow, finding a suitable place for them to hide. When Vegeta suddenly stopped, Krilin, Gohan and Bulma were screeched to a stop as well.
"W-What's the matter, Vegeta?" Krilin asked.
"Go first and find yourselves a shelter. I have some business to take care of." He said. He approached Bulma and pecked a kiss on her cheek, making her blush. "I will be back very quickly." He smiled at her and then blasted off towards somewhere, leaving the three of them wondering where he's going to.
They continued walking around… Ten minutes later…
"You guys know what… I have a doubting feeling about Vegeta." Krilin asked.
"What do you mean, Krilin-san?" Gohan asked.
"Remember what the kids in that weird space ship told us about him? I really couldn't shake the feeling that there's really something about Vegeta that he was hiding from us. I mean, we know he said he used to be that Frieza guy's soldier. What if he just set a trap for us all the way in here just for him to get the Dragon Balls for himself and wish for eternal life? Or what if he's actually with that Frieza guy? I- I don't really know. But I get this feeling that Vegeta was pretending all the time."
"Pretending what?"
"Pretending to be nice and helpful towards us. I don't really get what his true intentions are but….. I don't really get it."
At that time, Planet Namek suddenly shook as dark clouds loomed over the entire planet.
"W-What's happening?!" Bulma screamed.
Krilin and Gohan's senses quickly screamed danger at the powerful ki that seemed to just explode out of nowhere.
"This ki! It's Vegeta!" Krilin recognized.
"What?! Vegeta?! Vegeta's doing this?" Bulma asked.
"Woah, his ki is so powerful! I can't believe he's this strong!" Gohan said.
Krilin felt a chill across his spine. "If Vegeta was this powerful then we are really completely no match against him. I hoped that my doubt about which side he was really in was just nothing but a stupid feeling."
A few moments later, everything finally calmed down, even Vegeta's ki suddenly went back to zero. A few minutes more and Vegeta returned to where they are.
"I'm back!" Vegeta cheerfully exclaimed.
"W-Where did you come from?" Krilin asked.
"I went to greet an old friend and brought him to the next dimension." Vegeta smiled back.
"Y-your power's incredible, Vegeta-san! I never thought you were that powerful at all!" Gohan said.
Vegeta let out a snort. "That isn't even my full power. I just powered up a bit just to send a warning at Frieza and his men. Don't worry about it. They're probably peeing in their pants right now."
"You called that power up just a bit?!" Krilin screamed. "J-j-just how powerful are you really?'
Vegeta just stared at the fearful look Krilin was giving him. He let out a smirk and simply said, "Not telling you for now but you'll find it out soon enough. Shall we go? Find a hide out?"
"C-can we really trust you?" Krilin asked.
Vegeta suddenly stopped at that question. "What do you mean?"
"How are we supposed to be sure that you wouldn't turn on us?"
Vegeta stared at Krilin for a long moment before he let out a laugh, "Ahahahahaha! It's Bulma. Just Bulma. Only Bulma. That's it. You know you can trust me because of her!" then his expression turned cold and demanding, "Now get on with it or I will personally drag the three of you!"
Back to Frieza's group…. three minutes ago…
Dodoria was staring at his scouter in shock, "Then his power really is thirty-two thousand… He swatted Cui just like a fly…"
"I can't believe Vegeta has gotten this powerful!" Zarbon said.
"No matter, that level of power is completely nothing if you two combine your forces." Frieza said. "Let's just look for the fifth dragon ball, shall we?"
"Yes, milord."
A purple aura surrounded Frieza and his soldiers and then they all lifted off into the sky.
[762 A.D. December 18, 10:20, Capsule Corporation on Earth]
Goku leaped off the Kintoun Cloud once he reached the yellow domed building. He landed in the backyard garden where he was greeted by Mrs. Briefs. She offered him some tea but he politely declined it and asked her where Doctor Briefs was. She brought him to where her husband is. Goku saw that the genius doctor was still busy making the space ship he asked for him to do.
Doctor Briefs showed him the inside of the round and massive Capsule Corporation space ship. He explained to him the controls of the ship and the gravity simulator he attached per Goku's request to be used for his training. When Goku asked which thing was still unfinished, the doctor replied about the stereo speakers. Goku was surprised and asked him not to install those things since he was really in a hurry because Bulma, Gohan and Krilin might be in great danger. When Doctor Briefs was called by his wife to have some tea, Goku decided to escape from him and pushed the start button to blast off towards Planet Namek.
This was Goku's first time travelling in space (of course, he wouldn't remember travelling when he was a baby) and was transfixed by the view of the stars in the galaxy and thought that it's already nighttime, wondering if there was no daytime in space.
He then began training under the pressure of 15Gs as he travelled towards Planet Namek.
"Just you wait, Vegeta!" Goku was determined to face Vegeta on Planet Namek. No matter what happens, he will find out who and what Vegeta really is.
[762 A.D. December 18. An hour and twenty minutes after their arrival on Planet Namek]
Bulma was getting tired of walking for almost an entire hour or so…
"Hey, Bulma! Hurry up, would you? You're such a slowpoke!" Vegeta told her harshly.
Bulma sniffed, "You guys can fly, can't you? Why don't you carry me?"
"We cannot fly since we are trying not to use ki so we wouldn't get that much attention from Frieza and his soldiers. If they notice us then we'll all be in danger." Gohan explained.
"B-b-but…. We've been walking around for almost an hour here…. I just wanna go home… I want a bath…"
"Come on and snap out of it, Bulma! Do you really want to bring your dead friends back or what?" Vegeta told her.
"I wouldn't be in this place if you didn't kill them!" Bulma yelled at him. Vegeta shrugged and simply rolled his eyes.
"Look, Bulma-san! A cave! We can hide in there for a meantime," Krilin pointed at a small cave before them.
"That would be much convenient than nothing," Vegeta said.
Then suddenly, the three boys quickly snapped as their senses screamed danger.
"Several powerful ki sources are moving right towards us! That could be Frieza and the others." Vegeta announced.
"Damn it! Let's hide! Quick! Into the cave!" Krilin shouted, he, Bulma and Gohan quickly rushed towards the inside of the cave. "Hey, Vegeta!"
The Saiyan Prince hesitated at first but quickly ran into the cave. "Here they come."
A few moments of tension made the three Earthlings glue themselves into the sides of the cave. Several aliens passed by outside the cave, they passed by very quickly with unbelievable superhuman speed.
A second later, Bulma peeked outside the cave without actually seeing anything. "Huh? What? I didn't see anything." She turned around to see both Gohan and Krilin frozen in both fear and shock. "What's up with you?"
"Bulma, check the dragon radar and see where they're heading. They have four dragon balls in their grasp." Vegeta told her.
Bulma took the Dragon Radar from her pocket and saw that four Dragon Balls were together and were moving with pretty amazing speed. "You're right! They really have four Dragon Balls!"
"Gohan, did you feel their ki?" Krilin asked.
"Yes," Gohan replied.
"Everyone of them is powerful! What about that one guy in the lead?"
"Yes! H-His ki is incredibly powerful and evil! I felt being frozen in place feeling that kind of power..!"
"That's Frieza," Vegeta told them.
"H-He's even more powerful than you…." Krilin said.
"Yes, that's why we really needed to be careful in our tactics." Vegeta said.
"Damn it! Just how are we supposed to get the Dragon Balls from them?!" Krilin shouted in frustration.
"Leave that to me. For the meantime, I needed you and Gohan to investigate the area where they're heading. Report to me whatever you can find. Be careful not to be caught, understood."
"Let's go, Gohan." Krilin said.
"Yes!" Gohan nodded.
Krilin and Gohan left Vegeta and Bulma in the cave.
"There they go. I guess I'll have to set a Capsule House inside," Bulma said as she took out a dyno-cap from her pocket, pushed the button on the top of the capsule and threw it into the ground. In a small puff of smoke, a simple, round house appeared before them. "Let's go in, Vegeta!"
Bulma and Vegeta went inside the Capsule house. They both went straight to the kitchen. Bulma went to the refrigerator to get a pitcher of cold water and poured some water into a glass.
"By the way, Vegeta, I was wondering what you were bringing all this time inside the dyno-capsule you borrowed from me." She asked.
Vegeta borrowed a dyno capsule from Bulma before they left the Earth thirty-four days ago.
"Oh, that's something you wouldn't want to know," Vegeta told her.
"Oh, really?"
As she drank with satisfaction, she didn't notice Vegeta's change in behavior. He stood behind her, his cold eyes glowing crimson red.
Bulma collapsed on the floor, the glass of water in her hand crushed to pieces before her.
Vegeta took the said dyno-capsule from under his armor and pushed the button on top of it then he threw the said capsule on the floor. In a puff of smoke, several things appeared before him. The things composed of different kinds of weaponry, from guns, to knives, to swords, to axes, and other blades. There were also several bottles of expired medicines, and vials of poison. There were also chains, ropes and padlocks. There was also a box of dyno-caps inside, which he already had prior to his coming to Earth. Vegeta found something he wanted to use and took it in his hand. He turned his head to see the unconscious Bulma in the floor. Vegeta stood up then took Bulma into his arms and went straight to a bed room. He carefully placed her on the bed. He went back to the kitchen and took a syringe with a clear liquid in it. He plunged the needle into her vein and pushed the plunger, emptying the contents of the syringe's tube.
"This would make her fall asleep for several hours until I come back."
He returned to the kitchen and found something he wanted to see. When he finally found it he took it in his hands, stared at it and talked to it.
"This is also one thing I wanted to do just for you. Just wait and see. Vengeance for what they did to me will soon be delivered to hell and I will make sure that I will be the one to do that. Would that satisfy you more than enough?"
He ran his hands over that thing, just like what a human does to comfort a poor little child.
"Don't worry about anything. Your cry for vengeance will be satisfied once I finish off the entire Planet Trade Organization one by one. Frieza will pay for what he did to us, for what he and his men have done to all of us. I will definitely make him pay and offer his and his soldier's heads for you."
He stared at the thing in his hand and let out a dark chuckle. Then he wrapped his arms around the thing as if to comfort it from harm as he returned to the room where he left Bulma and watched at her with his glowing crimson eyes.
"For my Bulma, for my dear little Bulma… and for you…my dear little brother…"
In his arms was a skull, with several decaying tissues still attached on it.
"Sleep well, my dear little Bulma…."
Vegeta then turned to where he can sense the ki sources of Frieza's men.
"You are going to be next, Dodoria!"
Author's Notes: For those who are wondering about Vegeta and Cui's battle in here, I decided not to change the battle from what happened in the original anime. The only thing that changes in that scene was the power level reading Dodoria had seen on the scouter when Vegeta has powered up, I changed it from 24,000 to 32,000.