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 thirty-second chapter of Crimson-dipped Obsession. Please do leave me a review, or follow and favorite. Anything to inspire me to write more.

Chapter 32: The Truth

[763 A.D. November 2, 11:30, Capsule Corporation, Bulma's room]

"That was fast of you, my dear little Bulma…"

Bulma gaped at the crater and huge cracks in the wall above her bed caused by a sudden punch from Vegeta, which she miraculously dodged by falling to her butt. Her blue eyes, wide with completely terror shifted from the wall towards Vegeta, whose head was lowered but she found a wide, sinister grin upon his lips. Why he abruptly changed into this psychotic, bloodthirsty side of his she didn't know.

"Vegeta! What do you think you're doing?!" she barked at him in panic, breathless.

The Saiyan prince slowly pulled his fist on the wall as he gradually turned his head towards her. She saw tears streaming down his eyes as he said: "I thought I can finally be with you after all that have happened between us. But it seems I was wrong."

Bulma gasped out, knowing nothing about how to deal with him this time. "W-w-what are you talking about?"

"If only you had not read that message, you wouldn't have been in this situation. And now that you know something about it I…"Vegeta turned to her slowly, his eyes glowing from black to crimson, and he raised a clawed hand with a murderous intent. "I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!" he roared in pure rage.

Bulma saw that scary look on his face and was certain that he's really going to kill her now. She quickly scurried away from him and out of the room as fast as she could. Why? Why is this happening now? He was just alright a few minutes ago! Why did he suddenly turn into this?! After what they just did he was going to kill her? The memories of their love making, his warm, sweet smile, his words, "I love you so much", "I will never hurt you", "I will not kill you like the rest", and "I will protect you no matter what." came to her. Why did he suddenly change?

There were loud bangs heard all over the house as all possible escape shut down and all lights suddenly went out. When Bulma finally came to the exit she found out that she couldn't open the door. As if the door was transfixed on the wall and no matter how hard she pulled it wouldn't just budge. She cursed through gritted teeth. She looked around and decided to go to the kitchen and break the window but the hammer she used didn't even had an effect on the supposedly breakable glass. She cursed again. She thought Vegeta was doing this, using his powers to prevent her from escaping. She remembered what made Vegeta freak out the most and she turned towards her father's biology lab to get the jar where her father kept a container full of worms in formalin. Then she saw a closet by the corner and decided to fit herself in.

Quietly, she opened the lid and the smell of formalin hurt her nostrils. Urgh, disgusting smell and contents but there was no other way for her to fight such a powerful alien like Vegeta. She hoped this would work out.

Bulma heard Vegeta singing as he looked around the house for her.

"…I can sense your horror, though I would like to see it closer… Here I come to find you, hurry up and hide, if you want a game then let's have fun. Where is it you've gone to, do you think you've won? A game of hide and seek has just begun… I could hear your footsteps, thumping loudly through the hallways. I could hear your short breaths. You're not very good at hiding. Just wait, you can't hide from me. I'm coming…"

She waited and after a few minutes, she saw Vegeta enter the biology lab. His face contorted as if he smelled something bad. He smelled the formalin, Bulma concluded. He looked around for a little, still singing.

"Knock knock, I am at your lab now, I am coming in, no need for me to ask your permission. I'm inside your lab now, Where is it you've hid? A game of hide and seek's about to end. I'm coming closer."

He walked into a table, and looked underneath it, "Looking underneath the table but you're not here I wonder." before he turned his head towards the closet where Bulma was hiding. He grinned sadistically. She felt as if he was actually staring at her so she decided to close her eyes. Still hoping he doesn't see her."Could you be inside the closet?"

She heard him snort, and then there was a loud sound of shattering glass, which was deafening considering there were lots of things made in glass inside that room. She felt the jar on her hands shatter to pieces and she opened her eyes to see the worms in her hands and the dripping formalin. She screamed and threw away what was on her hands in fright. She heard Vegeta chuckle outside and she turned to see his red eyes directly staring at her in the gap on the horizontal slats of the closet's door.

"So you were hiding here. I have found you, my dear. Looks like I have won. Now pay the consequence."

She shuddered at the sight of him. He abruptly ripped the cabinet's door off its hinges and Bulma screamed as he grabbed her foot. In her panic, Bulma caught a handful of the worms earlier and threw them at him. Vegeta stepped back, completely freaked out. Bulma used this opportunity to escape from him and ran out of the biology lab. She went back to the exit, hoping that the sudden shock she caused to Vegeta would open the exit door and allow her to escape.

As she ran towards the escape, she heard his enraged scream, and felt the entire house shook caused by his wrath. Bulma avoided the shattering glass, the falling cabinets and picture frames. And once she was on the exit she was disappointed that the door still wouldn't budge.

She turned around, and saw him coming for her. She could feel his burning rage, his murderous intent, his bloodlust, for a moment she thought that this Vegeta wasn't the one she married. "Why?" she cried out in fear, "Why are you doing this? Vegeta!"

He didn't answer. He just sauntered forward like a mechanical doll.

"Pssssst…"

Bulma heard someone called her attention, and she found Towa on the kitchen door, beckoning her to come to her. The kitchen was gone and was replaced by some kind of dark, swirling hole behind her.

"Over here, Bulma-san." Towa called, beckoning to with a finger.

Bulma didn't know if she could trust her since she is Vegeta's comrade.

"Hurry!" Towa called out again apprehensively.

Bulma decided to go with her, if it was the only escape she could have away from the murderous Saiyan Prince.

She sprinted towards Towa, and saw that Vegeta's reaction had changed into panic. Towa called out to her to hasten in alarm. Bulma dashed faster and Vegeta moved with superhuman speed to prevent her from coming towards Towa. Bulma didn't even saw him when Towa turned to him and with an invisible force, Vegeta was toss back, away from Bulma. Towa turned back to Bulma and reached out for her hand. Bulma grabbed Towa's hand and the two of them disappeared into the swirling hole, which vanished before Vegeta could enter it.

The last Bulma heard from Vegeta was a desperate cry, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Vegeta stared at the point where Bulma and Towa disappeared and screamed: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

He growled in anger, trying to focus all his rage to open up the hole where the two disappeared but found out that he couldn't. "Damn it, damn it, damn it! Damn it, Bulma! Don't do it! Don't look! Don't listen to her! Please! Don't listen to her! NO!"

He released his ki and powered up to his maximum, "OPEN UP and LET ME IN, DAMMIT! BULMAAAAAA! DON'T LISTEN TO HER, I BEG OF YOU, PLEASE!"

Bulma found herself floating in space. Several stars passed by her very slowly.

"W-Where am I?" she thought as she looked at her surroundings.

"We are at the so called 'Dimensional Rift'," she heard someone said on her right side. Bulma turned her head towards the source of the voice, and found Towa floating with her.

"Dimensional… Rift?"

"The space gap in which all the universes are seen through multiple holographic visions," Towa replied."You wanted to know why Vegeta was trying to kill you, right?"" Towa explained as they kept floating forward towards nowhere.

"There are twelve universes; they are collectively called as the Xenoverse, a name given to the twelve universes in general."

Towa raised her hand and her long wand appeared before it. She took the wand and waved it in front of them in a horizontal arc, twelve holographic visions appeared before them, each showing events in which the faces of people Bulma has seen were in. However, Bulma saw that the events that she was watching were completely different from the one she knew. For example, in one of the images, she saw Vegeta being killed by Krilin after his battle when he first arrived on Earth. On another image, she saw Vegeta being spared by Goku and Krilin, he said something to them after he entered his spaceship and then blasted off to space. There was also another image of Vegeta successfully purging the Earth.

"Each universe used to exist in almost the same time plane; however, a slight but rapid change in the events would alter the history infinitely, thus creating a new time plane. This phenomenon is called a paradox. And if the paradox within a timeline continued rapidly, it would lead to the creation of a new universe. Of course, not all alternate timelines are considered alternate universes, because timelines existed within the universe. What made an alternate universe different from an alternate timeline is that there were things within the universe that are completely existent within one but doesn't exist or have a different existence on another. For example, if you are a woman in your universe, you would have existed with another as a man.

"The reason why you see some events in these visions completely different from the ones you know," Towa pointed to the seventh holographic vision, the same image where Bulma saw Vegeta being spared by Goku and Krilin earlier. The event in the said vision was now on Planet Namek.

"Take a look at this specific vision," Towa told her. The image was playing events as if on a fast forward. Vegeta killing off Cui with a finger blast, Dodoria with a powerful one handed blast, Zarbon with a blast to the stomach, then Vegeta came together with Gohan and Krilin to defeat the Ginyu force, they were utterly defeated, Goku came to the rescue, later, she saw Vegeta, Gohan, Krilin and Piccolo, who was brought to life using the Namekian's Dragon Balls battle Frieza in his different forms, Goku arrives, Vegeta dies after Frieza fired a finger blast to his chest, Krilin exploding, Goku becoming enraged and transforming to a Super Saiyan, Goku and Frieza battle it out on Planet Namek that was on the brink of Destruction. Later, Vegeta was revived and was transported to Earth.

"That is the seventh universe," Towa told her. "It is the original universe in which all the eleven other universes were based on. Remember that only a slight but rapid change in history or existence would have a great effect on the timeline. These changes led to the creation of hundreds of alternate timelines and the eleven universes."

"Do you remember when Vegeta told you that it was you who actually fell in-love with him because you cannot resist him?" Towa asked.

"Uh… Yeah…"

"He's not lying to you."

"Eh?"

"You see, Vegeta isn't actually what you know him to be. Well, he used to be not like that. Prince Vegeta used to be a cold, heartless, arrogant, prideful, determined and selfish warrior prince. Yes, he was powerful, and he did kill lots of people. He was a person who never knows how to love a person. That was due to his past, in which everything was taken away from him when he was still a child."

The vision of the seventh universe showed Vegeta in his past under the Planet Trade Organization as he worked under the rule of Frieza. His father was killed; his people and home planet was destroyed. Vegeta remained under Frieza's rule and continued purging several planets, brutally killing people, destroying entire civilizations and worlds. In all of these Vegeta was laughing, enjoying his blood feast, but his eyes were dark and cold, almost dead inside.

"Of all that has happened in his life, Vegeta lost all hope. Believing that he has no heart and soul, that love is nothing but a foolish emotion for weaklings, he thought that he will live without it and tried to live in this belief.

"However, when he came to Earth the second time, everything he has ever believed in has changed. After he accepted your offer to stay at Capsule Corporation, several events had made him confused and definitely challenged those beliefs he held his entire life. While training under the pressure of gravity to reach the level of the legendary Super Saiyan, Vegeta finds your constant presence around him annoying. You were there taking care of him when he got into an accident, you fed him, gave him shelter, his training materials, everything he needed."

The vision showed Vegeta training and then the room in which he was training in exploded. Bulma and Yamcha came running towards him. Bulma anxiously held him on her arms, saying something. Vegeta also said something even though he was in a damaged state. Later, he was lying on a hospital bed with Bulma kissing the oxygen mask he was on.

"Vegeta didn't care about anything but power. His mind only focused on one goal, which is to become the strongest in the universe and defeat Son Goku. It was his aspiration, determination, fortitude and pride that caught your heart, which no matter how much he treated you like dirt, you cared for him and loved him dearly. Eventually, he became dependent to your constant treatment, that no matter how much the two of you fight, no matter how much he tried to avoid you, to make you go away, you were always there. He realized he couldn't live without you, but didn't consider it as falling in-love with you even if we say it already was. He was too proud to show or tell you that you were the first ever and only person who has opened up his heart."

The vision then shifted to where the Androids came, Vegeta became a successful on becoming a Super Saiyan and fought the Androids.

"Even with his newfound Super Saiyan strength and power, Vegeta was not capable enough to defeat Android 18. So he stood on a cliff mountain for three days thinking about his defeat."

The vision showed Vegeta being defeated by Android 18 and was later standing on a cliff without moving, it was as if he was a statue, staring forward without blinking. He had shut down everything as he was thinking very deeply of something, perhaps on why he was defeated or how he will exact his revenge to the blonde haired Android.

"It was at this time that everything has changed," Towa said, "With his heart full of rage and wanting vengeance, he analyzed his entire battle with Android 18 and thought of a what-if scenario, a scenario in his mind where he was able to defeat the Androids and kill Son Goku.

"Vegeta has unknowingly created a new universe, the Thirteenth Universe, innocently, with his imagination alone. A copy of the seventh universe where he existed as the most powerful warrior in the universe instead of Son Goku," Towa raised her wand and a new Holographic Vision appeared and came closer to them. It shows that Vegeta was able to defeat the Androids by himself alone.

"In this universe, Vegeta was able to defeat Androids 17 and 18, and after that waited for several days until Son Goku's recovery from a heart disease. Once he found Son Goku, he challenged him into a battle and was able to kill him. This brought out the anger of Goku's friends and he killed them all. You were shocked upon receiving such news and decided to stop him but he didn't listen. He broke up with you after that and left you alone with your infant son.

"For days, Vegeta relished his victory and claimed himself as the strongest in the universe but then he eventually felt empty and grew bored because there was no challenge to him anymore. To take away his boredom, he began causing havoc all throughout the Earth, killing people and creating chaos and destruction just like as what the Androids would have done in the future. This sort of act boils his Saiyan blood with excitement and the ecstasy causes him to eventually lose his sanity and became a madman.

"You, on the other hand, decided not to tell your son about his father, for you worry that he might be afraid of him. Years later, you sent your son to the past after you were able to create a time machine, in order to change things for the Earth's sake, and for Vegeta's sake as you would have thought.

"When your son came back, he already knew everything. For some reason, he decided to confront Vegeta and tell his kinship to him in hopes that this would bring Vegeta back to his senses and stop his madness. You decided to come along with him as well."

Towa waved her wand and the vision of the thirteenth universe suddenly zoomed closer as if she and Towa were entering it. A blinding light made Bulma cover her eyes.

When she opened her eyes, she realized that she and Towa were floating above what it looked to be a city, or it was a few minutes ago before a powerful destructive force had caused this once city be reduced to a barren wasteland. She found Vegeta standing on the center of it all, in his glorious Super Saiyan form, panting from exhaustion. But a satisfied but psychotic smile on his lips made him look horrifying. Blood of his victims was over him, and his face.

After panting a few breaths out he abruptly threw his head back and cackled madly and boisterously. He's completely out of his mind, and was controlled by none other than his own primal madness. Insanity rang through his laughter, joy over the slaughter and destruction he has caused.

A teenager with short lavender hair landed a few feet behind him. A blue-haired woman about in her mid-fifties, was clinger on the boy's neck, the boy carrying her in his arms. Bulma recognized that boy looked like that boy from the future who warned them of the Androids, Trunks.

The boy put his mother down and swallowed nervously, the younger Bulma realized that the boy was her son with Vegeta in the future. She thought how handsome her future son with Vegeta was, and contemplated that his and her genes created the perfect son.

The older Bulma put her hand over her son's shoulder, the boy turned to her with concerned eyes and she nodded in support at him. The boy nodded back, accepting.

"You can do it, Trunks," the older Bulma encouraged her handsome son.

Trunks? That was the name she always wanted for her son, and Vegeta had agreed to name him with that. It was strange that when Vegeta talked to her about having children, he also wanted the same name for his son.

Trunks bravely walked forward, as he stepped closer towards his father, Vegeta's mad laughter decreased in volume, sensing a presence near him.

"F-f-father?" Trunks stammered.

Vegeta's earlier stance changed. The Saiyan Prince turned around to look at him. His all-white eyes were glassy and distant. His pupils and irises had vanished completely. Was he blinded by his own insanity?

"It's me, Trunks, your son. Do you remember me? I was still a baby when you last saw me. Look, I grew up big and strong, a worthy warrior and son to you."Trunks smiled nervously as he introduced himself. "Please, come back to your senses. Come back and live with me, with mom and we can change everything. You can stop this madness now and live happily with us. Please!"

Vegeta blinked for a few moments, his brows furrowing at the thought. He's probably asking himself who this boy was; trying to recognize him through blurry memories but doesn't seem to recognize the boy. Vegeta let out a toothy evil grin before he threw his head back and let out a mad laughter, "Foolish boy, I don't have a son, especially not a stupid looking brat as you!"

Trunks' eyes widened in shock, "B-b-but I…"

Vegeta lowered his head, glaring at Trunks with his scary, dead and blank white eyes."I have no family or any foolish attachments. Strength and power are the only things that matter in this world. I don't care about anything else."

"But please, please! Remember me, I know you remember me!"Trunks was desperate. Perhaps the loneliness of a child growing up without his father on his side and seeing him for the first time and wanting acceptance made him to do this. He grabbed Vegeta by his shoulders, tears falling from his eyes. "It's me, Trunks, please remember that I am your son, your son with Bulma Briefs – !"

At the mention of Bulma's name, Vegeta's expression changed. He grew angrier than before. "You annoy me, brat!" he slapped Trunks' arm away from him and punched him on his face, causing the teenager to fall to the ground. "Don't you ever dare mention that foolish woman's name in front of me again! NEVER!"

Bulma saw the rage in him. She didn't know what made him so angry upon hearing her name. She found Vegeta's hand began to glow with his ki and he raised his hand to fire a ki blast towards his son. Before the older Bulma could react, Trunks was dead.

"Due to Vegeta's madness, he was not able to recognize his son. Perhaps because Trunks was still a baby the last time he saw him and that he really didn't care about the boy ever since he was born." Towa said to Bulma.

"Trunks!" the older Bulma cried out as she scurried towards her now dead son. Vegeta's expression abruptly changed, as if waking up from a long dream, a slight recognition appeared in his eyes, revealing his jade green irises. However, as this happens he was already firing a blast that was about to obliterate Trunks entirely – and blasted both the older Bulma and Trunks together. He was able to recognize her only at the last second. The younger Bulma screamed. But the sound was not even heard by Vegeta because it was only a vision of the future of an alternate universe.

Vegeta stared at the smoke of the explosion with his hand still outstretched, shock visible in his features. When the smoke cleared, he saw Bulma already dead. He let out a gasp of fear and ran towards her. His expression lost its psychotic look and was replaced by a look of fear, worry and regret.

"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!" he cried out in despair as he dashed towards Bulma's corpse and began to shake her. He clearly didn't know what to do, and he panicked.

"Wake up! Wake up, woman! Wake up!" cried a frantic Vegeta as he desperately shook the older Bulma lying steadily on his side. She didn't show any signs of waking up at any moment. Her skin was paling and her body was getting cold. Vegeta could not even sense her faint energy anymore. It was clear that she was dead but Vegeta was desperate to wake her up and refused to believe that he just killed the very woman who loved him dearly.

He ran his hands over her cheeks, feeling her cold skin over his shaking hands. Tears were beginning to stream from his eyes, tears he never thought he will ever have because of feelings for a mere, weakling human.

"This was Vegeta's biggest regret in his life. For someone whose Saiyan pride got the better of his rationality, he realized after Piccolo was killed by his own hands a few years ago, and now that you are dead, there was no way to bring you back to life with both the Earth's Dragon Balls and the Namekian's Dragon Balls. He regretted the fact that he was not able to tell you his true feelings, he was not able to show you that he cared for you…. Even though it was a long time ago…. That he was not on your side to raiseyour son, he did love you more than anything else, but it was his own pride that made him kill you in the process and made him regret all the things he has done to you. He thought of something, another what if scenario, a scenario in which he could go back in time and change the way things that have transpired. Just so he can make up to the things he did, he wanted to go back just so he can be with you again. This led him to create a new universe, which became the fourteenth universe."

When Vegeta realized there's nothing he could do, he let out a scream of rage as his powers exploded out of him in a destruction maelstrom. Thunder and lightning snaked down from the dark skies into the trembling earth. Without her, he didn't care anymore. He will destroy the universe and make everyone feel his wrath! His despair and rage caused his powers to open up a swirling warp hole on the skies above him. Realizing what it was, Vegeta's expression changed into one full of hope… and madness… he let out a dark chuckle as he realized what he can actually do.

"Now, let's go to the Universe you know so much about." Towa said as she waved her wand once again. Everything went blindingly bright for Bulma again. When she opened her eyes, she realized that the scene was changed.

"This is the Fourteenth universe, the universe created by Vegeta in his attempt to be with you. This was the time when Vegeta first came to Earth, I'm sure you remember this," Towa said.

"In the Seventh Universe, after a clash between Goku's 'KameHame Ha' Wave and Vegeta's 'Galick Gun' Blast, Vegeta loses and decided to transform into an Oozaru. By doing this, he must look at a full moon but the full moon was nowhere to be seen. He didn't find the moon and returned to the battlefield to create an artificial moon using his ki instead. However, this was not the situation that has happened in the Fourteenth Universe…. Watch what will happen."

"Time to stop worrying about being a pretty boy for now, I will transform into the Oozaru and crush him! Hahahahaha! My Great Monkey transformation is a terrifying sight to behold, even to myself." Vegeta was saying as he turned his head left and right, trying to look for any signs of the moon. Bulma saw that he was wearing that white and gold armor that he was wearing when she first saw him on the television screen.

"Hm? That was strange, it's almost past time, the moon should be out by now," Vegeta muttered to himself. He decided to fly around looking for the full moon in order for him to initiate his transformation.

Bulma and Towa turned to follow him.

While flying from place to place, Bulma found herself flying in the night sky. Vegeta saw no sign of the moon and its making him aggravated. While looking around, his sight was transfixed to the view of the night sky and the beauty of the Earth's constellations before him. Thousands and thousands of stars shone dazzlingly before him and the view of it was magnificent. Vegeta did love star gazing but this isn't the time for that. He has to find a way to defeat Kakarot!

Abruptly, there was a burst of light behind him, Vegeta sensed some sort of ki attack coming right towards him. He quickly twisted around to attempt to dodge but the attack was too fast for him to even react. An ultra-fast bolt of golden energy pierced his back, went through him and exited on his chest. Bulma was terrified on what she saw. Shocked on what just happened to him, Vegeta's body fell into the earth. He flinched in pain and coughed out blood, lots of it.

"Wow, I thought I targeted his heart but it seems I missed. What a lucky one. Oh well, at least I was able to weaken him that much."

Bulma froze. That voice. She knew that voice all too well. She has been hearing that voice lately. But how? It's impossible. That voice did sound like Vegeta but didn't come from Vegeta himself? How is that even possible?

"Fucking coward, show yourself!" Vegeta seethed. Bulma saw a dark figure land quietly behind him. Vegeta quickly turned around and what he saw made him freeze in completely terror, his eyes, huge and terrified stared at the dark figure that before him.

That man with bloodshot eyes that was glowing crimson was raising an axe behind him, determined to kill him with it.

Bulma cannot believe that Vegeta, the proud prince of the powerful alien Saiyan warrior race, to die due to having an axe chop his neck. But that man, his killer, was powerful enough to do it.

Vegeta tried to block the man's hand as the killer mercilessly swung the axe's blade towards him but the blade went through his forearm, chopping it off cleanly before it ruthlessly smashed into his neck.

He let out a bloody, fearful squeak, "STOP!" before the ground before him was splattered with Vegeta's Saiyan blood.

Vegeta was still as tough as he could be. Even with the hole in his chest and the huge chop on his neck that were draining his blood, he was still alive and kicking. He desperately tried to escape by crawling away from the killer but the man sauntered forward with the attempt to murder him. He decided that maybe transforming to the Oozaru form would likely make him win or survive; after all even without the full moon he was able to create an artificial moon in order for him to transform. He tried to focus his ki into creating one with his good and remaining hand, but the killer seemed to be familiar with what he was trying to do. The killer then harshly grabbed his tail and chopped it with the axe, The Saiyan Prince let out a painful scream.

Vegeta dreadfully attempted to fire a ki blast towards the dark man with all his remaining power but the man simply deflected his attack like it was nothing.

The man cruelly grabbed him by his armor and told him in a chilling tone, "You should be grateful that I'm the one to finish you, Vegeta. But before that, let me show you something so at least you can die proud of yourself in the otherworld," the man told him in a cold voice.

A golden light flashed on the man and he transformed. The light enshrouding his figure also made his cruel face clear to everyone.

"No…" Bulma shook her head and just cannot believe what she was seeing. There were two Vegetas right in front of her! A Vegeta from the future timeline of the thirteenth Universe, and another much younger Vegeta who was from the same universe as her.

Transfixed by the sight, the younger Vegeta was completely awed by the magnificent transformation his killer just performed before him and he didn't even see the man's attack coming. The killer grabbed his head by the hair with brutal force and with a loud snapping sound; his head came rolling into the ground while the rest of his body slumped into the pool of his Saiyan Blood.

Bulma screeched away in fear from the decapitated head that just rolled over towards her. She screamed in fright at the sight in front of her. She could have seen Vegeta killed many people in much brutal ways than this, but seeing Vegeta kill another Vegeta was too much for her. She could not even accept the sight of him being killed brutally in front of her. What made her so frightened was the fact that the dead Vegeta's eyes were transfixed exactly where she was as if he was staring right at her.

"T-T-This is…." Bulma didn't know what to say. She was too shocked to find out the truth.

"The Thirteenth Universe's Vegeta's powers allowed him to open up a warp hole that allowed him to create a copy of his universe, a new universe in which he could freely control everything within it as its Creator. Using his newly awakened godly powers to manipulate space and time, he transferred himself to the universe he created at the time when he first arrived on Earth out of his desperation to change everything that has happened. He planned to replace his incarnation in this universe by killing the other Vegeta, the same Vegeta who just came to Earth and wanting nothing but to destroy the humanity and the Earth, the same cold and heartless prince who still doesn't know how it feels to be loved. That dead Vegeta in front of you was the Vegeta you are supposed to fall in love with in this universe but…" Towa said.

"There's no need for two of me in this place. There will only be one Prince Vegeta, and the only one Bulma will ever love. I will not let a foolish past incarnation do the mistakes I did and hurt her once more. It's good for you to die, for you will only hurt my dear Bulma's feelings like I did. I shall replace you and make my Bulma mine, and this time I will make sure that I will make up for the things I have done. Love… I learned it because of her… She was the first person to ever open up my once cold heart and yet I ignored her, I was too bounded by my own Saiyan pride which I realized was nothing in comparison to the satisfaction of being with her. You are as bounded to that Saiyan Pride as I did before. If you cannot love her back then you don't deserve her love. You don't deserve it."

Bulma's tears streamed down from her eyes as she stared at Vegeta's decapitated head as its eyes stared back at her. It all made sense to her now, why Vegeta knew so much about her. His amazing strength, powers, his amazing confidence and knowledge, his weapons, the dino-capsules he has used, the armor he wore. Everything about him made sense now. Vegeta was from the future of another universe. That was why he continued to exist even if the younger Vegeta died. That dead Vegeta before her was just nothing but a copy of him, made after he has created the fourteenth universe.

"This was the Vegeta I was supposed to fall in love with… the same cold hearted prince I must show and teach what love was like… and he was killed due to the other Vegeta's own selfishness? Or was he killed because he was just a duplicate? But…Why? Because he regretted that he never told me how much he loved me?"

Bulma remembers the visions in the Seventh and thirteenth Universes, "B-b-but he was showing that just by being always on my side!"

Like Towa had said to her earlier, due to Vegeta's pride he was not able to say or show how much he loved Bulma, but to Bulma, he just showed her that just by not leaving her side no matter how much she annoyed him in the Seventh Universe. She understood him and cared for him more than anyone has ever done.

"Why would he go through this? Why kill his counterpart when he knew how it felt to be loved by me? Was he that selfish that he didn't want his counterpart to feel the same way he did when he was loved by me?" she cried.

Vegeta then looked at her, a psychotic grin stretched across his lips. "I am back for you, my Bulma." He said.

"Why?!" Bulma cried louder as if speaking to Vegeta right in front of her. "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!Vegetaaaaaa!"

Her desperate cry caused the scenery around her to fade and return her to the kitchen of her own home. Or, the supposedly kitchen of her own home until Vegeta's rampage earlier had caused her home to be obliterated. She glared at Vegeta with contempt, disgust and hatred while he stared back at her with his cold, expressionless eyes.

"Vegeta…" Bulma growled in anger, her tiny fists shaking with fury.

"So, you saw it, huh?" Vegeta told her coldly. Then he shifted his cold eyes to Towa, who was smirking back at him.

Bulma just glared, "How could you do this? You've been pretending all the time!" she growled through gritted teeth.

Vegeta's brows rose in confusion, "What do you mean by…pretending?" he asked curiously.

"That you are from this universe! I saw you! You killed your counterpart in this universe so you can replace him and pretend to be him! How could you do this? What you did is just beyond ruthless! To kill your own self for your own selfishness!"

"Call me selfish but I did it so he won't hurt you the same way I did with the Bulma from my universe. I was afraid he would do the same thing I did, that's why I decided to replace him so I could love you the way you truly deserved."

"That isn't love, Vegeta! You killed your wife and son because of your pride, and now you regret it, did all this and killed your counterpart?!"

"Counterpart? He's just nothing but a mere copy I created!"

"You didn't even let him feel the way he was loved by me just as you did! He did deserve to learn how it feels to be loved like you! Why punish him on your own sin?It was your fault you didn't appreciate your wife's love! I thought you really do love me after all that has happened between us, but after what I just learned of what you did… I do not even know you anymore! This isn't even love, Vegeta! It's madness! You're just nothing but an insane, selfish, obsessed bastard!"

Vegeta snapped at those words, "Insane, you say?" he snarled at her, his red eyes peering into her very soul with such hatred. "You dare call me insane?! What's insane is this stupid fate that does not allow me to have everything I WANT!" He screamed as he released his ki, and his dark aura exploded around him in a destructive maelstrom, causing Bulma to be thrown off a few meters away from him as smoke and dust swirled around them in a powerful tornado. Lighting immediately snaked down from the dark skies into the city, causing the transformers and electrical posts to explode.

"I could be the strongest warrior in the entire universe! I could have all the power to make everything in this universe mine! I could make everyone tremble in fear of my power, at my presence, at the sound of my name! I could have the power to destroy anything that gets in my way, even entire galaxies, even the universe! I could kill anyone who would dare oppose me! But it was YOU! It was you who changed all of that!

"You are the only thing that I cannot own without sacrificing my pride and my power. When I killed that bastard Kakarot and his weakling friends, I saw the contempt you had on me as if the way I finally regained my pride has disgusted you! The way I saw that look on your eyes made me decide to break it up with you because all my life I've been fighting for the sake of my own pride, it was the most important thing a Saiyan keeps the most! It was everything to me! But still… my emotions for you lingered every time I was alone. The emptiness I felt when I realized that I was too powerful, that no one would ever stand a chance against me in battle, made me think about you! You haunted my every dream and I longed for your annoying presence. I know I cannot go back when I saw that look. My pride won't allow me to go back and make it up to you. The least I can do for you wasto spare you and your son's lives even as I killed the rest of the Earthlings. Killing was in my blood. My primal instincts called for me to kill and destroy, to fight for blood and … in the end, I lost all my self control. My Saiyan instincts got the best of me, I enjoyed the slaughter and destruction that I caused, too much as if the scent of blood, the screams and cries of my victims were like my own brand of heroin, it made me feel euphoric and I lost all of my sanity… I… I…"

Tears came streaming down his eyes. "I didn't want it to happen… I really didn't want it to happen… I regretted what I did… That's why I did all this in order to make it up to you. But now that you already knew everything, you look at me with that same look of contempt again!"

Vegeta raised his hand to wipe away his tears with the back of his hand, "I already did it once! There's no doubt I can kill you the same way as I did before. With my power, I could create another universe and do this same thing again with another Bulma."Then a crazed grin stretched across his lips. "Heh!" he let out a dark chuckle. "And I can do this same thing over and over and over again! That sounds fun!" he exclaimed with overwhelming joy before he threw his head back and laugh madly. "Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!"

"You think this is a game, you jerk?! Do you have any slightest idea how many lives you are going to kill because of your selfishness?!" Bulma screamed at him.

"Of course I do!" he told her with that crazy look on his face. "Life is a game of survival. Those who are powerful and mighty survive, while those who are weak and foolish shall perish! That's just the way it is. It just happened that I have the power to play and survive this game of life over and over again. I don't care how many people I kill, so long as I get to enjoy myself with their fear and screams I don't care. Everything in this universe is nothing but my pawn, and this universe serves as my very own gaming platform."

"Vegeta! You've really gone insane!"

"Hmph!" Vegeta's expression changed again, into that cold look. He raised his right hand and outstretched it towards her, his palm facing Bulma. He began to gather energy for a ki sphere which appeared in front of his palm and as it gathered ki energy, it grew in size. Bulma shrieked in fear.

"Thank you for all the fun we had together, but this is the end, Bulma. Like I said earlier, you wouldn't be facing my wrath right now if only you didn't know anything about the truth."

Bulma stepped back in fear. "No… You can't be doing this…" she shook her head.

"Try me," Vegeta smirked. "Don't worry; maybe you could meet your dear Vegeta in the otherworld. When you meet him, tell him I'm sorry for what I did to him. You can write down your own love story with him in there," Once the ki sphere in his hand was the same size of a basketball, he said, "Goodbye, my dear little Bulma."

And then he fired.

TO BE CONTINUED

Author's Notes: First of all, I would like to thank you for all the wonderful reviews I received last chapter. I would also like to clarify that Dragon Ball Super is not included with the basis of this fan fiction so the explanations about the twelve universes in this fanfic is very different from DBS since when I first wrote this fanfic February 18, 2015 which is a few months before the release of Dragon Ball Z Fukkatsu no F and Dragon Ball Super.

This chapter is based on NDS Video game Dragon Ball Z SuperSonic Warriors. I have seen a clip on Youtube of it, it is about a What-if story of Vegeta defeating the Androids. I think the title of the video is "What if Vegeta destroyed the Androids".

The song Vegeta is singing while he was searching for Bulma is the English lyrics of "Hide and Seek" by SeeU.

Also, I would want to introduce the prequel to this fanfic called 'Crimson-filled Desires', the love story behind Vegeta and Bulma of the Thirteenth Universe of this fanfiction. Please do check it out as well.