Measure Of A Leader

A day later... The saiyans had all returned home and their new king has assembled them all for something important.

Vegeta: "I don't know about you, but I'm not staying on this planet! Compared to this place, Earth is a fucking paradise! Besides, I have a family there and my wife will kill me if I don't return home!"

Goku: "Both of ours will!"

Krillin: "Yeah, no kidding."

Random Female Saiyan: "The great king is afraid of his earthling wife?"

Vegeta: "You don't know my wife. So the choice is yours! Either stay here or come with us back to Earth! It's your choice, but I sure as hell ain't staying here!"

Nearly all of the saiyans were talking and a little unsure. But a very small team had already made up their minds.

Bardock: "My team and I have already decided to join you on Earth, your majesty."

Tora: "Yeah. You guys seem to get a lot of fun your way!"

Eren: "You have noooooo idea."

Isabel: "Heh-ha-ha-ha!"

Vegeta couldn't help but chuckle. Bardock then approached Goku.

Bardock: "If it's alright with you, son... I'd like to stay with you. Maybe even teach me a few tricks about the Super Saiyan form?"

Goku: "I don't mind. My wife... Err... That's another story."

Random Male Saiyan: "Even if we decide to go to Earth, w-where would we go? What would we do?"

Vegeta: "That's a good question, um... First off, you can't reveal what you are to anyone! Only a very select few know what Kakarot and I are and we trust them deeply. If you go around saying that you're an alien, then a few things can happen, none of them good."

Fasha: "Like what?"

Vegeta: "Well, people with either see you as freaks and a threat. Or they'll see you as a money opportunity, and take my word on this you don't want to know what could happen there. Or the very last thing is you'll be captured and studied on, experimented on, and a whole host of other 'fun' things which I've personally experienced first hand."

Goku: "That reminds me! (Snaps his fingers a few times) Hands off, Kurotsuchi!"

Kurotsuchi just growled with Levi, Eren, and a few other of their friends laughing at him.

Vegeta: "I'd actually forgotten that he was here! Thank you, Kakarot!"

Suddenly, Toushiro snapped his fingers as he had an idea!

Toushiro: "Hold on-hold on-hold on! Vegeta! How many squad members do we have right now?!"

Vegeta: "Uh... 55."

Toushiro: "That means we still need to find 145 more to get the squad back to full strength, right?!"

Vegeta: "Yeah...? But that's proving to be a challenge. There aren't enough graduates and only a small percentage match Squad 10's requirements. Why? What do you see?"

Toushiro just waved at the huge crowd of saiyans below them.

Toushiro: "I see 900 possible candidates right here!"

Vegeta looked over his entire race, all 900 saiyans. Now he saw what Toushiro was seeing! Why not have some of the saiyans join the 13 Court Guard Squads?! Squad 10 was desperately low on numbers after that whole Riku Kora incident. If Vegeta could do it, they could too! And not just in Squad 10! Some of the other squads needed some new members! Having a few saiyans in the ranks would defiantly strengthen the Soul Society!

Grimmjow: "That's not a bad idea!"

Renji: "It's not a bad idea, it's a great idea! Hell I can see Squad 11 loving the idea right now!"

Kenpachi: "I'd defiantly enjoy that!"

The saiyan race all started talking. Earth was sounding better and better. While the talking among their race continued, Goku approached Vegeta.

Goku: "So you're the king now, huh Vegeta."

Vegeta: "Yes... And, unfortunately, it can't be revoked."

Goku: "What?! You mean... You're the king for good?"

Vegeta: "Yep... At least until my replacement is ready. When that day comes, I'm suppose to hand it over willingly."

Goku: "So what you did with your father was basically against tradition, right?"

Vegeta: "Yeah, but... I was never one for following tradition. So until Kosa is ready to take my place, you're stuck with me being the king of our race, Kakarot."

Goku: "Tsk... Like that's any different from when you were the prince. Just so you know now, Vegeta, don't expect me to be bowing down to you any time soon."

Vegeta: "Actually... I'd like to know if you'd be willing to rule the saiyan race alongside me, Kakarot?"

Goku was understandably a little more than stunned.

Goku: "M-Me? You want me to lead beside you?!"

Vegeta: "Why not? I can't do it alone."

Goku: "Aren't I just a 'low-class' saiyan, as you've stated so many times in the past?"

Vegeta: "Well now there's the beauty of being the king. I can have that gone like that (snaps his fingers)!"

Goku just smiled as he closed his eyes for a second, agreeing with Vegeta. But he was waiting for a little more. And he got it.

Vegeta: "Besides... Except for the royals, like me and Kosa, I plan on doing away with that whole nobility class thing."

Goku: "And why is that?"

Vegeta asked Goku to come a little closer which the Earth saiyan obliged. The new king whispered something to his Earth saiyan friend.

Vegeta: "Between you and me... I'm getting tired of it. For the last few days, every time I heard someone bring up the class and rank thing, I thought it was Byakuya at first."

Goku chocked on a laugh. Byakuya did have a habit of doing something like that and it always had this annoying feel to it. But Goku could see why Vegeta was asking this of him too. Although the last of Frieza's army has now fled and scattered everywhere, the saiyan race was still considered vermin to many planets after what Frieza had them do. Clearing the name of an entire race was not going to be easy. That's why he needed help. All of a sudden, everything went quiet. Vegeta's father approached his son.

King Vegeta: "Vegeta."

The old king stood there facing his son for a long moment. Vegeta just stared back with a blank face. And then...

King Vegeta: "... I was wrong."

Vegeta and Goku blinked.

King Vegeta: "You are worthy as a king... And a great warrior too."

Vegeta smiled. That was good to hear.

Levi: "I hate to be the mood killer here, but I'm ready to go home. I'm gonna be washing dust off of myself and my clothes for days, not to mention my feet are kiiiillllling me!"

Ichigo brushed his hair and a nice little cloud of dust fluttered off. Eren patted his jacket and a dust cloud fluttered up too. Toushiro rubbed his sore feet. After that, the choice was made. Half of the saiyan race will join our heroes back home on Earth as soon as things are arranged. Bardock and his team were going on ahead with our heroes. After many days away, they were finally home.

Bulma: "Welcome home, my saiyan prince."

Goku: "Uh, actually, Bulma... Vegeta's no longer the prince."

Ichigo: "Yeah, he's the king now."

Bulma just stared at Vegeta with mouth open wide in surprise.

Vegeta: "It's a long story."

After a few days, things were finally arranged and 450 saiyans left Planet Vegeta and joined our heroes on Earth and in the Soul Society. For those in the living world, as long as they remained silent about what they are, they fit in perfectly. Those in the Soul Society were taken to the Academy to begin training. Now a week after the whole incident...

Jean: "Man it's great to be home!"

Eren: "Going to another planet was exciting and all, but I think I'll just stay here from now on."

Levi: "I second that."

Renji: "So, Captain Kurotsuchi. Did ya get any data?"

Kurotsuchi: "Lots!"

Toushiro: "Lemme see."

Kurotsuchi handed Toushiro his notebook. And something quickly appeared.

Toushiro: "Um... I hate to ask this... But did you by any chance forget to put this away during that rainstorm?"

Kurotsuchi immediately took the notebook back and examined it. All of the pages were water damaged and all of his notes were gone.

Kurotsuchi: "NO! Why does this always happen to me?!"

Krillin: "Because it's you!"

Everyone started laughing until Vegeta spat out a ragged roar in front of them all, unable to contain himself for a brief time. But the saiyan stopped as he knew that it might be too loud for everybody. Those that knew him, though, knew that he was dying to bellow out his excitement and joy to the whole world!

And even they agreed that it just didn't feel right without it.

Tora: "What the hell was that?!"

Krillin: "No-no-no! Do it, Vegeta!"

Yamcha: "Yeah, c'mon man!"

Hange: "C'mon, Vegeta!"

Goku: "Toushiro! Give'm the order!"

Then Toushiro gave him the command!

Toushiro: "Go on, Vegeta! LET'S HEAR YA ROAR BIG GUY!"

And with that, Vegeta stood up and bellowed out loudly to the whole world! He was soon followed by many. Toushiro whistled while Goku howled. Krillin whooped and hollered while Ichigo just screamed. Levi, Armin and Eren just cheered! The Earth allies were soon followed by many more. The measure of a leader is not determined in one single act. It's their lasting legacy. With the saiyan race growing in strength and purpose as galactic defenders, Vegeta's legacy is cemented to forever be a legendary one.

The End

Just as a future note, even though Vegeta's now the king, he'll still be referred to as "prince" and his father will still be called King Vegeta just so as to not confuse who's who.