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: Now, I bring to you the twenty-eighth chapter of Crimson-dipped Obsession. Please Read and Review!

Chapter 28: A Deal with the Devil

[Age 763, September 4, 11:29, the Island 9 km Southwest of the South City]

Pain. He felt a sudden pain ripped from within his chest, and this sudden pain made him lose his concentration in the battle. The table has turned once again and the twin Androids had beaten him because of it, sending him plummeting into the ground.

Son Goku remained lying in the crater, and then suddenly curling up because of this pain in his chest. His hands gripped into the clothes on his left chest as he begins to find it hard to breathe. Just what the hell is happening to him?

Soon, the Super Saiyan transformation was lost to him, deep ragged and staggered breaths came out of his mouth as he struggled against the pain. The Androids noticed this and was wondering what was happening to him.

"Bulmaaaaaaaaaa!" he heard Vegeta's desperate scream along an explosion somewhere in his side. Vegeta! Someone… Help me… Goku thought desperately.

Goku found Lapiz and Lazuli approaching him, their feet locked on top of his chest, making it harder to breath.

The heart virus Trunks was talking about must be what was attacking him. The vial of medicine was back on his home, kept on his drawer. He didn't know that it would attack him this soon as well.

Not far away from where Goku was suffering, Vegeta was grieving, not because Bulma was dead but because he failed once again to protect her. Bulma was unconscious but was on the brink of dying, all because of his carelessness. Out of his panic, Vegeta took a senzu bean and tried to make her eat it. But because she was unconscious she was not able to swallow the bean.

Vegeta cussed before he grabbed her in his arms and blasted off in a hurry.

"Vegeta!" Goku cried out. Vegeta turned around, to see Goku suffering in his heart illness down there. Goku's tears fell in his eyes, as he tried to raise one hand in a desperate attempt to ask for his prince's help. "Help… me… Vegeta… Please…"

The Prince of all Saiyans just stared at his remaining people, the only remaining one. He found the Androids 17 and 18 stepping on him as he struggled to breath. He concluded that Kakarot must be having that heart virus Trunks was talking about, but for it to be this soon as well?

The remaining three Androids, 17, 18 and 20 watched at him, waiting for him to try and save his archenemy. Android 16 was destroyed mercilessly earlier when he found out that Android 20 has fired at his Bulma.

However, the Saiyan royalty made no move to save his best friend. Instead, he turned around to leave in a hurry, but not before he gave Goku a wide, evil smirk that made the low class Saiyan felt so betrayed.

Goku didn't know why he felt so betrayed. By Vegeta's personality, he would have expected him not to help him after he sensed Bulma in danger as well. Of course, Bulma was first and foremost priority but… yes, he felt a sense of regret for asking the proud prince for his help. Why would he even care about the others if Bulma's life is on danger as well?

With such regret that Goku was not able to say goodbye to Gohan and Chichi, in his last dying breath, he thought, "I'm sorry, Gohan, Chichi…" as tears fell into his eyes. Goku didn't know what actually killed him, if it was the heart virus itself or the twin Androids themselves. But there was no physical pain… just the regrets.

Irami left Gohan on the way back to the Paozu Mountains after receiving a call on his cellphone. When Gohan sensed his father's ki disappeared to his senses and with a pang of grief, he knew that his father's dead. What did just happen? Where is Vegeta? Why didn't he do anything to save his father? He could sense the prince's ki leaving the battlefield with incredible speed. As tears fell into his eyes at the grief of his father gone, Gohan decided to go back to where his dad is.

Once he was back on the battlefield, he found his father's cold body on a crater. The Androids are nowhere to be seen and since he could not sense them he has no idea where they went to.

In complete disbelief, Gohan wondered how come his father's dead despite being a very powerful Super Saiyan. He quickly ran towards his dead father and cried out in grief. Is this the work of those Androids or Vegeta himself? Or probably that heart virus? B-But, Vegeta shouldn't leave him here to die. Why?

With his dead father in his arms, Gohan let out a loud cry. Rage, pain and betrayal overwhelmed him so much that he felt himself losing control over his power. But before he could release the beast within him, a gloved hand shot out of nowhere from behind him and ripped his heart out mercilessly, splattering the ground with Gohan's blood.

Vegeta let out a satisfied chuckle, "Ah finally, the pests are finally out of my way." he said as he turned around to see Kakarot's corpse lying on the ground. His wide evil grin stretching, he looked over at the fallen Saiyans with satisfaction. "I say that I made a good job on this plan, Hah!"He contemplated himself proudly. "However, I'm not done yet." He looked up into the skies, watching as the dark clouds retreat above him. "The Androids are still in my way, but they're of no problem at all. It's that Irami Keiji I'm worried about."he said. "For now, let me attend to my dear little Bulma and just sit down and watch as those foolish puppets do my work for me. Hehehehe…"

[Age 763, September 12]

Bulma opened his eyes inside a well lit room. She realized that she lost consciousness after she found Doctor Gero fire a blast on her direction. What happened? Are the Androids destroyed now? Did Goku and Vegeta emerge victorious?

She turned her head towards her door when Vegeta peeked in her room. "Oh, hey you're awake." He said as he approached her, carefully because he was carrying a tray with a plate of food and a glass of juice and placed it on the table. Once he set it in there, he leaned towards Bulma like a child desperate for the warmth of his mother. "Bulma! I thought you're going to die in there! I was so worried about you, my dear!" he moaned. Bulma smiled at him awkwardly.

"Uh… Thanks. I'm fine now…" she assured him. Vegeta turned his dark but innocent looking eyes on her, pouting like a child. "How long am I like this?"

"Almost a week."

"A week?!"

There was a long silence between them.

"I'm sorry…" he told her, guilt and regret in his eyes.

"What for? You were amazing back there, Vegeta! You easily destroyed those Androids!"

Vegeta looked down, guilt in his eyes. Bulma noticed something was wrong. "Why? Is something wrong? You won, right?"

"When that bastard doctor fired at you, I was so worried about you that I rushed you out of the battlefield as soon as I could…"

"And…?"

"…And… And then, because of it I left Kakarot to battle alone against the Androids by himself."

"What?!" Bulma shouted at him in disbelief.

"I… I thought he could handle them by his own… but I was wrong. H-he was killed by them. I'm sorry."

She just stared at him, hoping he was only kidding her around.

"I told you, you'll always be my first priority. You were dying in there." he tried to explain to her, hoping she won't be mad at him. "Can you blame me for this? I told you that in the first place. I could care less about the others so long as you and I survive."

Tears soon fell from Bulma's eyes as she began to weep. All of her friends are now dead. Goku, Yamcha, Krilin, Tienshinhan, Piccolo. "Gohan? What about Gohan?"

"As soon as he sensed Kakarot gone, I sensed him went back to the battlefield and was killed, too."

Bulma wailed loudly now that every one of her friends has been killed. She didn't know what the Androids are doing now but they're probably killing all humanity now.

Vegeta embraced her in his muscular arms and he comforted her, "I'm sorry, Bulma, but I'm still right here. I'm still here for you. There's no need for you to cry. I'm sure we'll find another set of Dragon Balls in space after we're done in here."

"Where to? Planet Namek was destroyed after your battle with Frieza, right?"

Vegeta smirked back at her. "I know there's another set of Dragon Balls in space. Trust me."

"Really?"

"Yes, but for now we have to deal with the problem we have in here first."

Bulma wiped her tears with the back of her hand. "So what else happened after that?"

"The Androids began to cause havoc outside, probably looking for us. I have set up a Capsule House underground to hide in. The house is built with a barrier that allows us both to hide our energies within, making the Androids blind to our ki." Vegeta explained. Bulma's brows furrowed in confusion, as her questions these past two weeks before the Androids showed up came to her mind again.

"Vegeta, can I ask you some things?"

"Sure, anything you want," he smiled.

"Where did you get these things?" she asked him carefully.

Vegeta blinked at her. "Uhh…" he muttered. "Alright you caught me… I stole them. Hehehe… Sorry about that." He said.

"You stole these things in our lab?"

"Not really. I stole some things from your laboratory and remade these things."

"So you are able to create machines and weapons on your own as well?" Bulma smiled.

Vegeta looked away, blushing this time. "Kind of."

"Wow! That was amazing! I knew you were a genius but what I didn't know is that we have the same common interest!"

"Not really. My interest is of battle, so I create things that are necessary to enhance my skills in battle. Or weaponry."

"What about that battle armor you were wearing? Where did you get it?" she asked.

"What do you mean? That battle armor was mine all this time. I got it from… space."

"Space?" Bulma gave him a skeptical look.

"Yeah? Why?"

"It looks kind of familiar to me."

"Was it the sketch you've done for me over a month ago?"

"How did you know that?!" Bulma screamed at him before she quickly took back her question. "Oh yeah, I forgot you're a freaky stalker." She mumbled.

"Anyways, we should do something about Doctor Gero and those Androids. Most likelythey're going around killing the humanity in search for us right now."

"Okay…" Bulma sniffed.

"My first plan is to search for Gero's laboratory. I doubt the Androids we have seen so far are his only creations." Vegeta told her.

"How are we supposed to do that?"

"It's pretty simple. We are just going to try and wait until Gero goes back to his laboratory. I assumed that showing them my full power would make him run away back to his hideout. However, my problem were those twin Androids, 17 and 18, they're much more powerful than what I have expected. I want you to build a destructive device that would be capable of activating their self destruct sequence. Here," Vegeta handed her what it looked like were pieces of a remote control and a microchip. "17 and 18's programming were probably inside the microchip within this remote control. It's the remote Gero used to control their actions but was destroyed by his children the moment they were awakened. Funny the Doctor was still alive now, wasn't it?"

Bulma took what Vegeta was handing over to her, "Alright I'll check this out sometime later. I'm starving."

"Yeah, you should eat." The prince told her as he took the tray on the table beside the bed and gave it to her.

As Vegeta watched at Bulma eat, he sensed someone outside the door. "Just a sec, Papa's already here." He said.

"Eh?" Bulma mouthed.

"I told him we're hiding out in here." Vegeta said as he disappeared into the door. A few seconds later, he returned with Doctor Briefs in tow.

"Papa!" Bulma cried out as she set her food aside and jumped towards her father. Doctor Briefs embraced her back. "Oh Papa, you were safe!"

"Stay in here, the both of you. It's much safer here than outside." Vegeta ordered.

"Yeah, the Androids are causing such havoc across the Earth. Luckily, Vegeta-kun sent a message to me to take alternate routes underwater and underground for me to be able to come in here." Doctor Briefs said.

"Hehe, it's all I could do for you Papa. Sorry I was not able to take you with me."

"By the way, where is Panchi?"

"Uhh…"

"I have no clue of Mama's location as of now, but I was trying to find her these past few days. Don't worry, I'll find her as soon as I could." The prince assured them. "As of now, I'll leave the two of you in here. I'll go out for now and look for mama and try to search for Gero's laboratory, too."

"Alright, be careful son," Doctor Briefs told me.

Vegeta grinned back at him, "Always. Thanks"

And then he was gone, leaving Bulma and her father alone.

"Do you want to eat, papa?" she asked. Her father turned to her to reject her offer.

"This place seems to cramped out of air. Ah!" Doctor Briefs said as he sat next to his daughter. "I wonder how Panchi's doing now. I'm worried."

"Don't worry, papa. Vegeta's going to find her." Bulma assured.

"Should we go out to get some fresh air? This place seems to lack of it."

"Hmmm… Okay, let's do that after I'm done eating these."

Once Bulma was done eating her food, she and her father went out of the Capsule house to walk around the small island. The island was Paradiser's Island itself and despite having bad memories of the island, Bulma ignored her traumatic experience of it just because her father was on her side by now.

"Ah! Such a fresh air is good!" Doctor Briefs said, stretching his arms in the air. Then he turned to his daughter and said, "Vegeta-kun's such a sweet boy, isn't he? Something that's seems unusual by the looks on his face."

"Honestly, his smile looks creepier than he looks." Bulma said. Her father laughed at it.

"Well, yeah. But he'll do well for you, dear daughter." Her father said, smiling. "A strong man who would do anything for you, a man with his unbelievable power and strength would always keep you safe from any danger and he seems to take good care of you dearly. I clearly see how he loves you. Why don't you marry him?"

"Eh? Papa! Why talk about marriage now?" asked Bulma in trepidation at the thought of her marrying that psychotic Saiyan.

"Because you're getting old, dear daughter and Vegeta-kun seems to be the right one for you. Even your mother agrees with it."

Bulma snorted at the thought of her and Vegeta in wedding clothes and before the altar. It was a sickening thought to her.

Abruptly, something was odd at that picture in her mind. A dream of hers so long ago, that time before she has declared her relationship with Vegeta. She was about to marry the Saiyan Prince, but in exchange for the lives of everyone she knew of, and of the entire humanity and of the Earth. She shuddered in fright as she remembered that dream. Was that a premonition of what was happening now? And she thought she was able to prevent it from happening by declaring their relationship to everyone. What's happening now?

"Bulma, are you alright darling?" asked Doctor Briefs as he held his daughter on her shoulders, snapping her out of her trance.

"Pa… Papa…" she blinked, her eyes were huge with fear and she could feel her entire body go numb. She shook her head, trying to erase those stupid thoughts away. It is impossible. It cannot be true. "Papa, don't worry. I'm fine."

Her father just smiled at her.

Just as they were about to continue walking around, somebody fired an energy blast at them. Luckily, it was only meant to get their attention and was fired at the ground in front of them. Bulma and Doctor Briefs fell into their backs. She looked up to see Androids 17 and 18 above them. The dark haired Android's hand was outstretched towards them.

"So this is where you've been hiding all this time," Lapiz said with a cruel smirk on his handsome face.

"H-How did you-?" Bulma was about to ask them but the female Android cut her off.

"Because we sensed your presence, duh." Lazuli replied while rolling her eyes off as if the answer to Bulma's question was pretty obvious.

"Anyways, we have some business to take care of with your egoistic boyfriend. Where is Vegeta?" asked Lapiz.

"I…I don't know," Bulma responded.

"You don't know?"

"Yes, I do not know where he is but what I know is that he's finding a way on how to destroy you machines!" Bulma snarled at them.

Lapiz and Lazuli laughed at her, "What? Destroy us? Bwahahahahahaha!" Lazuli laughed.

"If he really could destroy us just as he said then he would have done it sooner, but it seems to us as if he likes playing games."

"Like hide and seek." Lazuli said.

"Yeah, that." Lapiz agreed. "That or either he's just all talk."

"If you have seen how he's destroyed the rest of your playmates then you would know that he's not even in his full power when he did that."

The twins looked at him, "Such trust for your lover you have, Bulma-san," Lazuli said.

Lapiz continued, "I wonder how you would have reacted if you have seen how your Vegeta left your best friend to die in the battlefield just to save your pathetic little ass."

Bulma gritted her teeth as she glared at the two Androids in fury. They are the reason why all of her friends are dead. "You killed my friends, you're all going to pay!" she threatened. The cyborgs simply laughed at her little threat. After all, what could a powerless little girl do against them?

Out of rage, Bulma picked up a dino capsule from her pocket and pressed a button on it. It changed into a pink laser gun. The laser of this invention of hers back when she was just a little child is capable of destroying one island. The power of it probably matches one weak blast from Vegeta but maybe it could save her against them or maybe buy sometime for her prince to return and save her again.

Bravely enough, she pointed the gun on Lazuli and fired it at her. But the blonde haired beauty was able to dodge her pathetic attempts to hit her with such ease. Getting tired of it, Lazuli fired a blast of her own towards Bulma's direction. The blue haired girl was able to leap away from the trajectory of the blast but her father was not able to. As the smoke clears, Bulma saw the unconscious body of her father.

"Papa!" she cried as she ran towards her father but Lapiz knocked her lightly off into the ground and took Doctor Briefs as a kicked the laser gun away from her as well.

"Do not worry, Bulma-san. Your father is still alive but we are going to take him for now and along your mother."

"My mother? My mother's with you all this time?!"

"Yes, sorry we didn't tell you earlier but we had her hostage over a week now. But worry not, she's in a good condition."

"Why? Why are you doing this? Let my parents go! They have nothing to do with this!" Bulma shouted back at them desperately.

"Ah, ah… They have something to do with all of this. Why? Because they are a part of Vegeta's family."

All that Bulma could do was to look at them doubtfully.

"Now, if you want to get them back alive, do one favor for us."

"What is it? I'll do anything."

Lazuli laughed again, the sound were like bells chiming against the chilling wind. "Anything we say? Alright then, it's pretty simple and we all know that of all people, only you could do this."

"Wh-What? I'll do anything you want." Bulma pleaded, tears in her eyes.

Lapiz and Lazuli grinned at her as they both peered down at her with their cold, pale blue eyes, "Kill Vegeta for us. We will meet you tomorrow at the Northern Mountains. You have to surrender his head to us before the sun sets. If you have done that, then we will safely return your parents, alive and perfectly well."

Bulma froze in shock as she heard their deal. She didn't know what to say at that and she just helplessly watched as the Androids disappear with her father. What would she do now? She didn't even know how she was going to kill Vegeta on top of that. Heck, she didn't even know how to kill people, Saiyans even, then how was she going to do it? But her father and mother were in danger. What would she do?

Vegeta returned and found her on her knees on the ground, completely frozen in shock. He quickly ran into her anxiously, asking her what she was doing outside all alone but didn't even get an answer back.

"Bulma! Bulma! Hey! I'm here!" Vegeta was calling out to her, gripping her on her shoulders and shaking her hard. Soon, the rain began to fall hard from the sky, soaking the both of them but both didn't care. Vegeta was looking at her, extreme worry etched across his face. He didn't know what has happened to her and she was just there, unmoving as a statue. He pulled her into a kiss, hoping to snap her back to reality. "Bulma, dear, I'm here. What the hell happened to you? Answer me, please." he moaned, troubled at her stationary form. He ran his hands on her face, pulling her blue hair on the side away from her face.

Vegeta smelled her fresh tears fall from her eyes, but the tears weren't visibly noticeable due to the rain that continued to drip over them. Bulma blinked, as her shaking hands finally moved, shaking, trembling. Vegeta didn't know if it was because of the cold or the fear she was feeling.

Bulma's lips quivered in fear as she finally said, "T-T-The Androids… T-They… They… They took my mom… and dad… T-They told me… they told me… that if… I-if I want my parents back alive and well… I… I must… I must kill you… a-and present your head to them…" she told him, her eyes still wide and dilated with terror.

Vegeta just stared at her. Those Androids are such cowards for asking someone else to kill him. Normally, he would simply find them and destroy them this instant but seeing Bulma act like this before him, what should he do?

He wanted so much to comfort her, to protect her but he was too late to do so. He wanted those Androids to pay so dearly for what they did to his Bulma.

"So… Are you going to kill me now?" he asked.

Bulma's large blue eyes stared at him, looking for answers to her questions earlier. How is she going to do that in the first place? Would he even allow her to kill him?

Vegeta turned to pick up the pink laser gun lying not so far from him and handed it over to her. He let out a smirk at her, she watched at him in surprise and disbelief, why is he doing this?

"It's okay with me if you want to kill me. I told you before, that I am more than willing to die for you if it means to protect you… or keeping you happy." he told her as he placed her trembling hands over the gun's grip and her index fingers on the trigger while he pointed the muzzle towards his left chest, he held her hands tightly as his smile widened. "Here is where my heart lays, my heart which every beat down to its last is offered to you. Here, you may pull the trigger as you wish. I have lowered by ki enough for such thing to kill me."

Bulma continued to gaze at him with huge, disbelieving blue eyes, "Y-you can't… Y-y-you can't possibly do this…" she cried.

Vegeta's smile widened for her, showing her his perfectly white teeth. "Bulma, you know very well I am always prepared to die for you anytime. Why? Because that's how much I love you! Heh!" His grin widened, as his eyes squinted happily.

Bulma just stared at him as tears fell from her eyes uncontrollably. Finally letting go of her pain and grief, her hands let go of the laser gun, which clanked into the ground loudly before she wailed out loud, like a child who has lost everything she has.

The Saiyan prince simply watched at her as he snorted back, "Tch! You're too soft-hearted, woman,"he told her before he raised his arms and pulled her closer towards him to comfort her, embracing her in his strong muscular arms. "I know, the world is such a cruel place. If you're too soft hearted then you cannot survive this game of life. You have to be cold and ruthless so you can kill or to be killed is your only choice. You're lucky that I will always be with you to protect you. You are free to use me, and I will use all my powers to get rid of those that hurt you. What do you say now? Should I destroy the Androids for you and everything that gets in your way?"

Bulma continued her wailing on his shoulder as he rubbed her back with his hand.

"Hush now, my dear little Bulma. We're going to get through this, remember that always." He told her in a soothing voice.

"Please! Please save my father and mother! Destroy those damn Androids for me, please!" Bulma cried out.

He smirked, "Alright, alright… I'll do it, anything for you. So stop your wailing now, okay?"

"Hn…" Bulma nodded back.

Vegeta rubbed her head as he continued to comfort her as if she was a crying baby on his shoulder. A wide, evil smirk stretched on his lips as his eyes glowed crimson."Everything has gone according to my plan and finally I have succeeded on it. Now it's time for me to take what's mine."

TO BE CONTINUED.

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Vegeta: "I'd love that!" he exclaimed, "Just you wait, Gero. I'm coming to destroy you! You cannot hide from me."

Lazuli: "Doctor Gero's somewhere creating another Android, one that would be capable of destroying you completely, Vegeta!"

Gero: "Bwahahahahahahahaha! Foolish monkey! No matter how powerful you are, you will never be able to get inside this place! You may have found where I am hiding, but so long as you don't see me you will not be able to destroy me nor my new creation! This place has been protected by a powerful barrier that would only absorb your blasts! Only I can open the entrance! The security lock's can only be opened by my retina alone!"

Vegeta: "Hehehe... Well, well... Isn't that interesting..."

Gero: "Face it, Vegeta. You will never win!"

Vegeta: "Don't worry about me! I told you I will continue to chase you even if I die. Hehe…"

Bulma: "Vegeta! I still want to watch the stars with you!"

Computer: "Identity confirmed, unlocking..."

Vegeta: "Found you, doctor!"

Gero: "What? Why are you here? How did you open the locks?"

KABOOOM!

Bulma: Vegeta!

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