A/N : hey ppl! thank u soo much for the reviews, well i dont wanna spoil the story so go ahead and read away! -xxx-

Dislcaimer : don't own dbz, don't mean to offend, please don't sue

Departing Vegeta – sei was extremely hard for Bulma, saying good bye to her magical palace, The King and Queen, who were more like her Uncle and Aunt, saying good bye to Kakkarot and Krillin (she got half a rice ball and a pretty handmade necklace out of flowers from them both) and she got a glare and then a pat on the head from the recovering hair victims, Radditz and Nappa. They took a photograph, much to the adult Saiyans and Vegeta's dismay. But the hardest part was not being able to say a proper good bye to Vegeta. Before they left the roof, Vegeta told her specifically, he didn't want any hugs or kisses or girly stuff done to him when they said goodbye, Bulma, saddened and hurt agreed, nevertheless and it was killing her when she was about to step onto the ship. Her determination, to uphold her promise surrendered, under the frantic need to take one last show of affection from the Prince, away with her. Sprinting towards him, she wrapped her tiny pudgy arms around his neck in a warm embrace and squeezed tightly. Horrified by the little girl's display of affection in front of nearly everyone in the entire palace, Vegeta pushed her off him making her stumble on to the floor. Glaring fiercely at her, he bent down to whisper in her ear,

"Never touch me again, you baka, you are nothing to me, and I hate you, now get lost." Bulma's eye widened and the colour in her face drained away, leaving nothing but a white canvas. She was passed crying and just stared up at the retreating Prince that had just destroyed her fragile little heart.

A pair of cold eyes stared out into utter darkness, he welcomed the darkness as if it was his closet ally, it has the power to drive any man insane, even if he was the strongest being alive, and this thrilled the eyes to no end.

"Sire we will be approaching Vegeta-sei in two days," the cold eyes snapped away, from its bottomless retreat and stared at the disturber, however a twinkle of insanity danced in the blood thirsty eyes.

"Good Dodoria, charge up the canon, we shall finally see what the might race of the Saiyans are capable of."

Two days had passed since the Briefs departure. Prince Vegeta sat on his windowsill staring out onto the palace grounds. Dark clouds consumed the skies of Vegeta, the smell of rain approaching lingered in the air. Vegeta sighed, despite himself. He had every right to be enraged; what that girl did was unacceptable and degrading. No one lowers the Prince's standards with the display of affection! It was preposterous! Even so, Vegeta could not shake the feeling that had constantly been tormenting him since he turned around to get a last glimpse at the girl, what he saw traumatized him; a truly broken girl at the age of 5. Vegeta immediately regretted the words he had spoken just moments ago, but his pride wouldn't let him correct his injustice. Unexpectedly, Vegeta was blown onto the ground by a massive force of energy. Vegeta clumsily picked himself up trying to get his bearings. There was a huge hole in the wall and fire and smoke surrounded him, soon enough his situation worsened when he found himself attacked by a green humanoid. Given no time to think, Vegeta's Saiyan instincts took control and Vegeta fought back with all the skills and power he could congregate. It seemed for awhile that Vegeta had the upper hand until another opponent swiftly took a blow at his neck rendering him unconscious. Before his eyelids caved and darkness engulfed his mind, an image of blue occupied his thoughts for just a moment,

"Bulma" he whispered, and then darkness.

Vegeta abruptly opened his eyes; a loud knocking had disturbed his, almost peaceful slumber, reluctantly he moved to open the door. The green man stood, blocking the entrance.

"What do you want?" Vegeta snarled viciously, the man just raised an eyebrow in a mocking kind of way.

"Follow me" he stated simply and walked down the hall, Vegeta, knowing he didn't have any other choice followed him, silently fuming but still keeping his arrogance in tactic. The green man took Vegeta to the elevated stage of a large white room, with windows occupying the space where the walls should be, giving a semi circle view of the galaxy outside. Control pads where located in front of the windows and centered right in the middle of the stage was the back of a large white and purple seating pod.

"Ah Vegeta, so glad you could join us" said the occupant of the pod. The doors automatically opened and Kakkarot, Krillin and Radditz entered the room, followed by, best described by Vegeta was none other than a big pink fat blob, blessed with legs. The pod turned around to face the Saiyans, The pink and green aliens knelt, forcing the others to do the same. Vegeta wriggled out from their grasp and sneered at the others in disgust. This made the pod laugh.

"Vegeta, always the amusing one, but like all other amusing things, they must come to an end." Swiftly a long thick white tail emerged from the pod and whipped Vegeta's back causing him to kneel down in pain.

"There that's much better, now I will not tolerate anymore monkeying around, do I make myself clear ape?" unanswered the tail kept lashing out on Vegeta's back, opening old scars and creating new ones, till his entire back was covered in blood. Finally Vegeta let out a weak answer.

"Yes"

"Yes who?" one last blow almost made Vegeta unconscious, but phenomenally he corrected himself,

"Yes…Lord Frieza"

"Good ape, you should know your place by now. Now I've called all you pathetic monkeys in here to assign you one last purging mission before we make way back to Planet Cold-sei. We will be arriving in 1 day time, I don't want any survivors, we are going to exterminate the planet and put it on the market, Now get out of here all of you before Prince ape stains the carpet with his unworthy vile blood." Frieza turned his pod around to face the windows. Kakkarot and Krillin ran to Vegeta's side and Kakkarot hoisted his Prince up, trying hard not to inflict too much pain. When leaving the room the last thing Vegeta heard was,

"Captain, set coordinates to Planet Earth." Vegeta frowned, why did that planet sound familiar? No sooner than he thought it a sharp pain inflamed his thoughts.

"AHH, Kakkarot, WATCH IT!"

"Opps, sorry Vegeta" Kakkarot apologized with his signature grin and his cheeks flushed with embarrassment.

Vegeta groaned and concentrated on trying to reduce the pain. He did that everyday, and everyday he got the same punishment, everyday for the passed 12 years.

'Urgh! I've got to get out of here!'

Bulma looked down at her reflection in the cup of brown goo. This was her 3rd cup of coffee this morning and she was just getting started. She put her spoon in and swirled away her reflection, directing her attention back to her best friend sitting opposite her, Chi Chi. Chi Chi had raven coloured hair, with bangs and her hair was long silky that she tended to put up (Kami knows why?!) The two girls had grown up to become beautiful looking young women, with gracious curves that you could ski off. They amazingly had moderate well shaped breasts (that every woman envied) and flat toned stomachs. Bulma had kept her beautiful blue eyes, while Chi Chi had huge onyx coloured eyes that flashed with intensity, every time she got pissed off.

She and Chi had been best friends since, well since as long as she could remember. They met on the first day of pre-school; Bulma was being played piggy in the middle with her school bag by some husky jerks and as if out of nowhere Chi Chi karate kicked one boy from behind sending him to his knees. This startled the other and knowing this, Bulma took advantage of the situation and started to fight back using techniques she picked up from watching the Saiyan boys for almost a year; Bulma sighed in remembrance. It had been a long time since she had thought about her uneventful trip to Vegeta-sei; 12 years in fact, and yet she still felt the pain of a broken 5 year old girl. However this pain had turned from sadness, anger, hatred and now into wariness. After leaving Vegeta-sei, Bulma found herself a changed person. Some of her innocence had left her, and trusting people didn't come easy after that; that's probably why it took her so long to get a boyfriend, however she still didn't know that she could trust Yamcha (little did she know, she couldn't).Bulma left her thoughts and tried again to focus on what Chi Chi was saying. She sighed, it was futile, and she massaged her temples in defeat. She was still only young, but Bulma had been training hard to soon step up and claim her rightful position as head of the Capsule Corporation. She was only 17 years old and feeling stress she should only feel years from now. Turning back to her thoughts and regretting it made her wonder why she was thinking about it in the first place. It had been years since she had thought of Vegeta-sei and it's in habitants, in fact the last time she really thought hard about it was when she received the shocking news that the planet no longer existed. She remembered that day quite clearly. She was first shocked beyond recognition, she was just on the planet, not days before, breathing in the oxygen, taking in the scenery; she knew it would be the last time in a long time she would see the planet but she never knew to would be her last, forever. She mourned for 2 weeks straight, for the loss of the planet, for the people, the King and Queen, Kakkarot, Krillen, even Radditz and Nappa, they weren't that bad. However when it came time to mourn for the Prince, Bulma almost didn't, but then agreed that everyone should be mourned for and said a quick 'sorry baka' and pushed him to the back of her mind. In truth she was furious with him, saying those things to her, then dying and making her feel all bad and stuff. Bulma giggled at her childish thoughts. Of course she knew she felt bad and was too immature to say it, she knew know that if she did see him again she would be relieved.

Without warning a massive force of energy threw both girls and everything surrounding them into the glass windows of the coffee shop. Rapidly picking herself up and standing next to Chi Chi, Bulma absorbed her surroundings. It was complete anarchy. Rubble, fire, smoke and dead bodies filled the streets, while the piercing volume of terrified screams filled that air. Standing in the midst of all this were strange looking men, different colours and sizes, but all wearing nearly identical combats suit, indicating they were in the same league shooting out ki blasts from their palms and using humans as target practice. She wanted to scream, however it seemed her voice had left her, instead she felt a faint coming on, everything felt so surreal, like she was in an amazing quality 3D movie. Much to Bulma's horror she felt a hard tug on her wrists, she turned, and ready to defend herself when she saw Chi Chi throwing her an urgent look.

"BULMA WE'VE GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW! THROUGH THE BACK!" Before Bulma had time to process the order she was being roughly pulled through the chaos that was happening inside the shop. Remarkably, the two young women managed to escape to the back door of the shop without any intervention. Heading down an untouched back alleyway Bulma and Chi Chi sprinted for their lives. As Bulma sprinted all that was going through her mind was 'Oh Kami! Oh Kami what is going on? Who were those aliens (Bulma came to the conclusion that the multi-coloured men were aliens, it didn't take a genius to figure that out, which she was). She was so engrossed in her thoughts that she didn't see the rock hard chest in front of her that she collided into.

'Going somewhere ladies?' Bulma tried to focus her version and saw a blurry looking Chi Chi attack a blurry looking man. She watched in terror as her best friend was thrown into the wall. "CHI CHI!" Bulma screamed. But before she could get up to aid her friend, a white gloved finger aimed at her throat with a little ki blast building up at the end of it. The ki blast shone a bright white, illuminating the offender's hard face. Bulma let out a gasp in disbelief,

"Vegeta?"

'Little wench thinks she can defeat me we we'll see about- WHAT?! Did that bitch just say my name?!' Vegeta dropped his arm a little and his eyes widened in disbelief.

"W..Wh..What did you say?"

Bulma blinked again in amazement, he just spoke, confirming that he was not just some mere hallucination, meaning Vegeta, the boy she thought was dead only moments ago was standing right in front of her…

"ANSWER ME BITCH!" that shook Bulma out of her thoughts and before she could stop herself she angrily retorted back,

"I said Vegeta you baka deafened dumbass!" irritation flickered through her sapphire eyes, her eyebrows narrowed in rage and her lips turned into the most offensive frown. Vegeta suddenly froze; the anger drained away and was now replaced by bewilderment.

"Bulma?" Bulma smiled furiously at the sound of her name and leaped up to the stunned looking man brining him into an enormous embrace.

"OH KAMI VEGETA! Is it really you? I thought you were dead! Oh kami how are you're parents? And Kakkarot? And Krillin? And is- Whoa" Bulma's endless interrogation abruptly came to a halt; she unwound herself and in reverse to her previous actions gave him a hard shove. Vegeta at this point was shoved back into reality, reviving from the woman's interrogation to be confronted with her fury.

"VEGETA! What the fuck do you think you were doing?! YOU WERE ABOUT TO KILL ME! What the hell is this?!" taking in her fury, Vegeta supplemented some of his own into the conversation.

"WOMAN SHUT UP!" it worked. Silence filled the air, both started at each other with rage.

"Vegeta…" Bulma broke this silence with just a whisper. "What is going on? Why did you try to kill me and Chi…CHI CHI" Bulma gasped, she forgot all about her best friend! Bulma fled to her unconscious friend's side and lifted her into her lap. Sadness filled Bulma's heart, this was not her day, she felt a presence linger over her shoulder, and she lifted her head up to make contact with two deep onyx pools.

"Vegeta what is going on?" her voice startled Vegeta; it was not filled with anger, but sadness and fear. He considered not answering, but staring at her he knew he couldn't turn away; not from her, not again.

"Ok listen woman, I'm saying this once! No I'm not dead. Neither is Kakkarot, Krillen or Radditz, Nappa is though…along with my parents and my race, Vegeta-sei no longer exists, it was purged and destroyed by Frieza only 2 days after you're departure. Frieza kept the others and I alive and I have been living under his rule for the past 12 years. Your planet is now experiencing the same fate my planet did, purge then annihilation." Bulma gasped with horror and disbelief, tears now streaming freely down her face.

"What…oh kami NO!...there is nothing I can do?" she looked up desperately at Vegeta. His unemotional face caved at that moment; he knew what she was going through, her life was crumbling apart right in front of her, literally, and there was not one thing she could do about it. Regretfully Vegeta slowly shook his head, and for the first time in his life apologized with all the sincerity he possessed.

"No…I…I'm sorry" Bulma broke down; she sobbed and howled all over her friend, her fragile body shaking violently with every breath. Vegeta, not able to bear site turned around and started to walk away.

"VEGETA WAIT!" The Prince halted and turned. "You're not going to leave me? Are you? Oh kami Vegeta please don't go! Don't go! Not again!" with those to last words Vegeta scooped Bulma and Chi Chi up and made a run for it, looking extremely pissed off. He abruptly stopped at a corner of a building and peaked around it. Frieza's ship was 200 meters away. He put down the two women and was about to give instructions when Chi Chi decided to wake up.

"…what…what…what's going on?...YOU!...HELP! HELP! HE-" Chi Chi's hysterical screaming was put to an end with Bulma's hand firmly around her lips.

"Chi…its ok, look this is Vegeta, you remember I told you about him once or twice, look he's going to help us, don't ask question just follow, and not more screaming, got that?" Chi Chi slowly nodded and Bluma let her free. Vegeta sneered at the black haired girl, his sensitive Saiyan ears could only take so much.

"Ok now listen up, you can't stay here, whether you like it or not your planet is going to be destroyed, I can't help it but I can help you two, I need to get both of you off this planet NOW. Frieza has escape pods, now what you-"

"-well, well, well Vegeta, what do we have here? You of all people should know this is no time to be flirting." Vegeta swirled around to face the green haired man, Zarbon.

"Zarbon" he hissed, trying to get the green haired freak off his back. Zarbon took a glance over at the females that Vegeta was with, when suddenly he smiled.

"Found you!" he grabbed Bulma by the wrist and blasted off; impulsively Vegeta sped up to block Zarbon's path.

"What the hell are you talking about you green haired freak by, 'found you'" Zarbon tried to fly past, however Vegeta kept on blocking the way.

"What's it to you?" Zarbon sneered.

"The fact that you are taking away my kill of the day, that's fucking what, I saw her first, I kill her first, so give it back!" Vegeta tried to make his lie as believable as possible, thankfully it worked.

"You imbecile! I'm not going to kill the wench; in fact I have straight orders from Frieza to bring her to him immediately, so you don't lay a finger on her APE!"

"I don't believe your lies; you just want to have her as your little whore!"

"Believe what you want ape, NOW MOVE!" and with that Zarbon flew off in the direction of the ship.

"Shit…" muttered Vegeta. He descended back down to Chi Chi, giving her a deathly 'shut up or be shut up" look.

"Women listen, I don't know what is happening but I will find out, go find a safe place to hide and suppress you're ki, don't panic, otherwise they will find you. Once I find out what is going on I will fetch you, bring on board and both of you shall escape before dusk, am I clear?! Chi Chi nodded and watched the spiky haired man jet off after Bulma. Chi Chi soon then disappeared looking for a place to hide.

A/N : i was kinda nervous about this chap cuz i really have to get into the older mind set, so tell me how u like please :)