A/N: Anyway, I knew that I said it would be a little while until I got a new chapter out, but I managed to write this in a little over an hour and a half (got preoccupied a few times), and I hope that you all enjoy this one. Let me tell you, some things are going to be happening in the 25th chapter that you wouldn't have ever expected, but then again, I'm sure you readers haven't expected most of the things that I've thrown into this story. Once again, I hope you enjoy!

Black Sunrise

Chapter 24:

He rolled his black eyes upwards as his mother cooed incoherently to her granddaughter who was currently trying to wiggle free from the tight arms that had wrapped themselves around her squirming body. "Mom give her to me. She doesn't want you holding her."

"Nonsense. This little darling loves me, don't you, you little snuggle-bug!"

Rayne made a face as she looked up at Lilian and then held her arms out for her father. "Dada!" Vegeta laughed and put down the diaper bag that he had slung over his shoulder onto the floor of the busy terminal to reach for his daughter. "See? I told you."

His mother pouted as she handed the little girl over to her son but the brightened as she saw 18 walking back with a little more bounce in her step. "Good news. Our flight's going to be a little early so we're allowed to go through security now and then to our boarding gate."

"Fantastic."

Bryce nodded his head and placed a hand on his wife's shoulder. "I cannot believe that our son is going on a trip with his little daughter and a beautiful woman. By the time he comes back he's going to be speaking with an accent."

"Get over yourself." Vegeta laughed, rubbing Rayne's back with his broad hand. "But anyway, we're going to get going and I'll call you when we get there."

"I hope you find what you're look for Vegeta..." his mother said with a soft tone.

"I hope so too. But I'm not going to give up even if I don't. Australia's a big place and I'm going to find her." His parents still had no clue that his sister was missing, a drug addict and a whore. He wasn't going to be the one to tell them. They thought that he had gotten a lead as to where Bulma was and he wasn't going to tell them differently.

Lilian hugged her son and granddaughter while Bryce kissed Rayne's forehead and then shook Vegeta's hand. 18 picked up the bag off the floor and smiled at her best friend's parents. "You take care of yourselves there."

"Don't worry Juu, we will." Together they watched the two older teens and the little girl walk out of their sight through the open glass doors to the security check. He handed the gurggling Rayne to his friend and took off his black corded coat and tossed it into the blueish grey baskets that he airport supplied for scanning, emptied out the pockets of the jeans that he was wearing, and then stepped through.

It beeped.

"Sir, if you could please step this way and hold your arms away from your sides and spread your legs for me..." Vegeta complied with the orders and stood spread-eagle while the man ran a hand-held scanner over his arms and down his sides. It beeped at his waist and Vegeta was told to lift his shirt and then they both saw the reason for the beep. His belt. "Sir, if you could please remove that..."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah..." Tugging the black leather and silver studs through the belt-loops, he handed it to the man, who passed it off to a woman who then proceeded to place it in another bucket and put it onto the belt that ran everything that was in the little baskets through the scanner. Nothing beeped on his legs but when the man got to his feet, his boots set off the little security device and he had to take those off as well. Standing in his black socked feet, he crossed his arms and growled slightly. Nothing else beeped and he was ushered to the side while 198 and Rayne walked through.

Nothing on them beeped and they waited for their belongings to come through and when they did, Vegeta shoved his feet back into his boots, grabbed his coat, threw that on, and then re-threaded his belt onto his jeans. "Well that was a total waste of time." He grumbled as they moved their way to their departing gate.

"Tell me about it. I don't see what's so important with boots and belts anyway..."

"It's a good thing that I didn't decide to pack my knife with me. They would have flown off the hook if they saw that on me."

"Smart thing too. You would have had to deal with the cops and we both know how much you hate authority."

"Yeah."

They sat in silence for a while and watched as the passengers walked off their plane and then stood in line with their picture identification out. Rayne looked around at everyone and smiled as people made the usual funny faces that they made when they saw small children looking their way.

An announcement was made for those with small children and those that needed assistance to board and a few people made their way behind the pair. "Hello! Welcome." A perky brunette beamed as she checked Vegeta and 18 through. "I hope you both enjoy your flight!"

"Yeah. Sure." He sneered as they moved through the enclosed hallway that would lead them to the aircraft. 18 took the window seat and settled Rayne on her lap while Vegeta shrugged out of his jacket again and placed their carry on luggage in the storage area above their seats and shoved Rayne's diaper bag under his seat. Sitting down beside his blonde friend, he buckled his seatbelt and then took his daughter into his arms and tickled her stomach. A red headed woman sat beside Vegeta and took one look at the little girl in his arms and sighed heavily.

"I hate sitting next to little children on flights...they should have told me that you were going to have a child and I would have taken a different seat." she sneered. Rayne's little face crumpled up and she burst into tears. "Great, just great! Miss! Hello! Excuse me!" A stewardess walked over to the complaining woman.

"Is there anything I can help you with?"

"I'd like to change seats."

"I'm sorry but this flight is totally booked and you're going to have to sit there for the flight."

"I don't want to sit here. I don't want to sit next to a squealing brat."

"She's not a brat!" 18 and Vegeta said at the same time.

"I'm really sorry ma'am, but there's nothing I can do about it. I'm sure that once we're in the air the little darling will quieten down and you'll enjoy your flight."

"I highly doubt it."

"I'm really sorry, but there's nothing we can do for you at this point in time."

"I will be contacting your boss and you won't have a job after this flight. I'm a VIP and the head of my company and I refuse to let some little hussy push me around. I paid good money for this seat and if there's nothing you can do about it, then make them move."

Vegeta couldn't take it anymore. "Listen you little cu...hag, if you'd just shut your trap and quit scaring my daughter, she'd stop crying."

"How dare you tell me what to do you no good inbred!"

"Oh no you didn't!" 18 fumed.

"Oh yes I did, and what are you going to do about it you stupid little blonde Barbie?"

"Barbie? You're calling me a barbie you snot-faced pussy fart? Pull your head out of your ass and face the real world. It doesn't circle around you and if you're going to complain anymore, I'm going to give you something real to complain about!"

"What do you think you're going to be able to do to me you little wench?"

"Ladies! Please just calm down!" The frantic stewardess pleaded.

"Yeah, just give it up. The little cu...hag is just going to keep running her mouth and you're not going to settle for name-calling for long. I don't want to have to shut your mouth for you 18."

"I suggest you keep your little bitch on a tighter leash from now on you scum-bag."

"If you don't stop this horrible ruckus, I'm going to have no other option than calling security down here and escorting you off this plane."

"I'll keep my mouth shut if she does."

People all around them had turned their attention onto the front row and a few people whispered behind their hands at the horrible attitude that the business woman had. Vegeta bounced Rayne on his lap and the little girl started to turn her crying into little giggles. It had taken the normal 10 minutes for the flight-crew to go through the safety procedures and then they were flying down the run-way, then into the air.

The little girl fell asleep almost instantly, her head on her father's shoulder, and he shifted around slightly, pulling up the armrest that was between his seat and 18's, shuffling closer to his friend and then placed the little girl in his lap while her legs resting on the blonde's knee. Wrapping a large hand around her waist, he made sure that she wouldn't fall off his lap and then settled his head back and let his mind wander.

"What are you thinking about?"

"Bulma."

"Bulma? As in Bulma Briefs?" the woman next to him exclaimed.

"Mind your own business." 18 growled, leaning forward in her seat to glare at the woman.

"How does some trailer trash know Bulma?"

"What's it to you?"

"Nothing and yet everything. Do you know where she is?"

"No."

"Do you know when she's going to be coming home?"

"No."

"Do you..."

"Listen, I don't want to talk about that woman and if you don't mind, I'd like to go back to thinking without your pathetic voice in my head."

"How..."

"Just shut your ugly trap and this flight will go by a lot quicker. You wake up my daughter and I'll have to seriously start taking some action. My daughter has had a long day and so have I. I don't want to have to listen to your ugly voice any longer. Shut up, enjoy your flight and I hope you get hit by a bus. The end. Open your mouth again and I'll shove a dirty diaper into it."

He nodded his head once and was glad that the woman had decided to close her loud mouth. He let his mind once more settle into the peaceful memories that floated around, filling his heart and body with a warmth that he had never known before. His sister was missing and had been spotted in Australia, so that's where he was going.

But because both he and 18 were going to go out and look for Keisha, he was going to place an ad in the newspaper for a babysitter and hopefully the position would be filled quickly enough that they would be able to start almost as soon as they got to where they were going.

Little did he know that as he was on the plane, a letter had arrived at his house for his trusted and more truest friend, a letter that would change everyone's lives forever.