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AN= author's note

QAN= quick author's note

Bardock Reborn

Background: Ryanna is a human that has lived at Capsule Corps since the reincarnation of Buu. Since she has been an assistant of Bulma Briefs she has figured out the secret of the Saiyans, and the mysteries of the Cell games and the Z fighters past. What she doesn't know is that she would become more involved than she originally planned.

Chapter 10: Mating Repercussions

That night Bardock dreamed of another world. The faces he saw were happy, smiling and yet so familiar to him. The bustling city was primitive compared to that of his own, and the sky was as blue as a precious gem. Past the city were mountains of a purple and blue tinge, and dusted with a white powdery substance at the caps. He could smell fresh, beautiful air, and taste the bite of cold rain on his tongue when clouds swam over his head and suddenly poured onto his face. It was all so real, and yet he knew he was dreaming. This world wasn't his own, so why did he dream of it?

His vision warped and placed him in front of a large dome building. Outside grass grew fresh, and the scent of lemons and herbs touched his nose. He saw a middle aged woman outside tending to flowers. The hair on her head was as blue as the sky, dusted with silver strands and left free running down her shoulders. She wore a dress that was airy and brushed her knees at the gentle breeze.

A young man came out creeping behind her and wrapping her in his arms. She screamed then laughed when he spun her.

Trunks laughed with his mother and put her down. Bulma slapped his arms away still smiling. "You're just like your father. Always sneaking up on me!"

Who are these people? Bardock wondered watching them interact. He jumped over the fence and approached to talk to them, but stopped in his tracks when a familiar face ran up to join the two. "Angel?"

Ryanna ran to Bulma her hair bounded up to keep it out of her face. She held up some papers flashing it in Bulma's face and smiling wide as she explained her greatest and latest discovery. The lab coat was fresh and white. The goggles pushed up on top of her face and she hadn't removed her rubber gloves yet.

"I just need one more sample! I'll then have all I need to complete my-"

"Ryanna, I love your enthusiasm, but it's Sunday. You should be out having fun."

"I am having fun." Ryanna laughed sending Bardock's heart in a flutter. Curse the hold this woman had on him. "I love science, Bulma!"

"You're never going to meet a good man in the science lab, Ryanna. You need to get out there. Explore the world with your own two eyes." Bulma clasps her hands on Ryanna's shoulder. "Go on a date or two. You're so pretty, and you haven't shown any interest in any men."

"I just haven't found the right one Bulma." Ryanna tugged off the gloves and stretched them out. "This may sound weird, but… I stopped looking a long time ago for a reason."

"What reason is that?" Trunks inquired now fully interested.

"I don't think there is a guy here for me." She gave a half smile. "You see, I have this image in my head of the guy I want to be with. He's protective, curious, and strong willed. At the same time he gets on my nerves. He'll pull every string on my senses and just complete me 100%."

"What makes you think he isn't here?"

"I just know. Wherever that man is… he's not within close reach. I doubt if I'll ever find him. If I do, it'll be a great, and wonderful surprise."

Bardock listened and a smirk twitched his lips. This was a memory. So this is the place his Angel was raised. This planet, these surroundings, no wonder she was so gentle. Everything she said made perfect sense to him. She wouldn't find him on that planet, she would find him right where he had always been, waiting for her.

"Well, Angel, now you found me. I'm not letting you go."

What had she done? I mean what in the fuck had she done? What sort of otherworldly force caused her to succumb to the lust that had boiled inside her last night? Even worse why had she bit him? Ryanna rubbed the mark on her neck as she paced back and forth in front of the time machine, not sure whether she should contact Vegeta and ask him.

This was one little scenario that she had pushed out of her mind. Vegeta never talked about Saiyans and mating, or Saiyans and sex, because the woman he had ultimately mated with was human. It was different right? At least that what he had mentioned briefly.

"I couldn't give you much on that subject. There were no Saiyan females alive by the time I was old enough to take one so I found release elsewhere."

Didn't Saiyan parents ever give their children "the talk?" Wasn't there any form of knowledge that Vegeta had that he could give her? She didn't know, and she was afraid to ask, afraid of what the circumstances would come to. For the first time in her life she wasn't sure she WANTED to know something.

Why was it him? Ryanna thought remembering her dream last night. She had been thinking of home, and that particular memory just popped into her head. Bardock had rung every bell on her scale, and had tickled every inch of her senses. She felt heat, lust, passion, aggression, and (dare she say it…) love.

She had fallen in love with Bardock.

"Everything coming along all right then Ryanna?" Plenthor's voice made her jump and she whirled to face him. "Oh! Yes, forgive me I was deep in thought."

"So I noticed." He watched her pull the collar of her lab coat up covering her neck as she turned away from him again to work at her panel. "With how fast you managed to put that gravity simulator up I'm surprised this hunk of junk isn't finished already."

"Well," she laughed looking through the circuitry. "I'm being careful. The way this product was designed is so precise and intricate. I have to watch my work very carefully or I could end up floating through time and space."

"Now that would be something Frieza would just love to get his hands on. Time travel. Too bad there's no technology in the universe that could perform such a task." Plenthor said matter-o-fact like.

"Sure would be something," she said back keeping her humored thoughts inside.

"Course, if anyone could find a way you can. I'm not sure how, but your mind capacity for the science world is far superior to any being I've ever known."

"If you're not careful with your flatter Plenthor I could get a big head. I've been spending too much time with Bardock." She was glad that Bardock had been deep in sleep when she awoke that morning. She needed to concentrate her thoughts on getting home rather than on the hunky Saiyan. In fact she shouldn't even worry about Frieza. Things turned out all right in the end didn't they? Goku saved what was left of the Saiyan race and the universe from Frieza, the planet Earth where she was born was protected, and peace regained the universe from meddlesome tyrants… at least on her side of the universe.

"Speaking of Bardock, he was looking for you earlier. I told him you were hard at work." Plenthor looked over the circuitry his eyes narrowing over the complex cross of wires. The work really was different than that of this planet. Interesting.

"Thanks, I really don't need him pestering me."

"You really plan to leave? Even after you mated?"

She blushed and turned in her chair. "It's just sex, isn't it?"

"That mark on your neck tells me otherwise." Plenthor pulled down the collar motioning to the perfect outline of Bardock's teeth in her jugular. She grasped it and looked away her eyes widening.

"I don't know much of Saiyan mating." She gulped. "I didn't know what he was doing, but I was compelled to bite back, so I did."

"Cumbera won't be pleased, but I am. What you did was mark him as your true mate." The words rung off his tongue like a death sentence. Ryanna's heart slammed hard in her chest and she found herself fighting to breath. "Completing a Saiyan mark is like welcoming each other into your lives. Your thoughts become one when you're together, and you share dreams and memories. There will be little that the other won't know."

Her chair fell back as she rushed to her feet and fled out the room. Plenthor watched her go and took a look at her work again. His eyes scanned the workings and systems and finally he found a spread of paper with writing he didn't recognize. It wasn't the universal language that most beings wrote in, but a sort of marking, scribbles, lines, and dots. The only word he could make out was "Time."

"Fascinating indeed."

"Bardock!" Cumbera screamed making the Saiyan man wince and grumble. He turned and looked back to see Cumbera stumbling forward half blinded by her fury. She had rounded some in the past few weeks, her body stretching with child. She would bear him either a son or daughter, and then he'd be rid of her for good. The only one who would bear his children now, would be Ryanna.

"What do you want, woman?"

"Is it true? You mated with that clown of a woman?" Bardock mused at the name. "Clown," he snickered in his head, it didn't quite suit the image of his mate.

"I wouldn't call her a clown, but yes, I have mated." He turned his neck showing the mark Ryanna had given to him. He wore the mark proudly and honorably.

"You low class, piece of Namekien slime! How dare you? I should be your mate! Not her! I bear your children! She spends all her time in that stupid lab, performing her stupid experiments!"

"You only bear my children because you were convenient. I've always known you weren't my true mate, because your selfish, greedy, and you scream like a banshee!" Which she did now. The sound hurting his ears. He waved her away when she ran out wailing. He took a seat in the community lounge several of the men applauding his handling of the woman. He reached out to take a drink from his cup, but spilled the contents as his name was screamed again, this time by his real mate. "BARDOCK!"

Holy twilight, even the woman's yell could turn him on. "Angel?" He greeted watching her rush up flushed and surprisingly angry.

"We need to talk."

Bardock tried to touch his thoughts to hers but he felt a wave of emotion pushing him back. SO he rose and shrugged. "What about."

"Why didn't you tell me about marking?" Her voice was quiet now.

"I figured you knew?"

"How did you figure that?" She whispered harshly. She looked around seeing they had an audience and she grabbed his hand yanking him out. She dragged him to the gravity room and locked the door. This way no one would be able to hear if she murdered him. "I've never mated, nor have I been around Saiyans long enough to know!"

"Why does it matter? It happened and we're together."

"Why does it matter? Bardock I'm gonna be leaving! I'm not staying here."

"Why not?" Bardock said feeling his own anger boil at her assumption. "You like it here, despite Frieza's reign on us you have a good life. All the science in the world will be at your fingertips, you have a great facility, people who worship you, and me." He saved himself for last pulling her to him and letting the kiss cut off any argument she managed.

He pried her thoughts and found himself back in the world from before. The familiar face of the blue haired woman named Bulma, and the facility in which she ran. He pulled away looking down at her. "Is that woman so precious to you?"

His question made her heart leap. She didn't know what to do, or how to explain her connection to Bulma in a way to make him understand. Saiyans didn't hold a real connection to family because their young were sent off on their own at a young age. "She's very important to me, so are all of my friends." She quickly blanked any other images out of her mind and she made him look at her.

"Understand this Bardock. I care about you, otherwise I wouldn't have done what I did, but this bond is hard for me to handle. It's so personal, and it pulls me from two things."

"If you won't stay," Bardock started, and hesitated his own thoughts jumbled. "Then I'll just have to go with you."

It was a slight risk, but Bardock didn't live anyway, and taking him into the future with her would be a far better eternity. However, that would mean she would have to tell him the truth… and Radditz too.

"The truth?" Bardock puzzled making her curse. His eyes narrowed and his hands dug into her shoulder making her wince. "What truth? Tell me. What are you hiding from me?"

Ryanna felt the tug, his mark burning on her neck and her heart swarming hot in her chest. She touched his face a tear falling down. "The truth of my existence, and where I really come from."

Ooooh things are getting exciting. Will Ryanna really tell Bardock about where she came from? Will Plenthor discover the truth about her "ship." To find out stay tuned for the new chapters!

Next Chapter: Confessions of a Time Traveler