-Time skip-
Burdock stood in the control tower watching over the monitors and the Saiyans keeping an eye on them. The Vendra were getting closer and it was worrying him. He didn't want his step-son or his grandson getting caught and killed by those bastards. He looked around and wished Burtus was there, the man would make sure things were getting done a lot faster than they were now.
Bossa had been keeping him informed about what was going on in the meetings and well so far not much. Everyone was too busy worrying about the home world rather than getting rid of the bastards before they got there. He sighed and was about to go sit down, stress was not good for him and the baby, when one of the men jumped up.
"It's the prince's battle ship! Prepare the docks! Get a medical staff down there state! The princess is top priority!" yelled a young Saiyan boy, a friend of Gohan's from the academy.
Burdock walked quickly over to him and he bowed to his queen before he set up the communications link.
"This is Chrome Parsley, status of everyone on board?"
"This is Captain Burtus. The princess and the prince are currently resting in their room; it seems the princess has gone into another heat cycle." Burtus said, blushing slightly. "My men are running the ship and the Onna's are on board as well. We'll be landing in about three minutes."
"The dock's being prepped. And a medical team is on standby."
Burtus nodded before the link cut off.
"You're pretty effective, Parsley." Burdock said.
"Thank you, your majesty... Princess Gohan thought so as well."
"You are his friend, aren't you?"
"Yes, but I-"
"Then you can call him Gohan. He's still Gohan, just has a fancy title to make it more shiny." Burdock said, laughing when the black haired boy blushed and nodded.
They watched the sky and soon saw the battle ship coming in fast before the landing process began to slow it down. They hit the pad hard enough to shake the tower, but everyone on the ship was fine. Burdock quickly left to go meet his family. When he got down there, Gohan was being placed on the gurney as Vegeta covered him up and smiled softly.
"Get him to Dame Kakarot. Do so without incident and If I find out or if Dame Kakarot finds out that something happened to him. You'll wish for death by the time we're through." Vegeta growled out with a menacing smile on his face.
The men saluted and quickly left, being extra careful with Gohan. Vegeta dismissed the escort and the men practically ran out of there to find their mates. Burtus laughed a bit as he ordered the clean up crew to deliver everything to the palace. Bulma and Chi-Chi just stood to the side talking about a few things as Vegeta turned to his Leasmháthair. Burdock looked him over and sighed before pulling him to his chest.
"Leasmháthair?" He asked.
"Things are bad... come back to the palace and I'll explain. Also I think I have a few recommendations that may benefit you as well as please your mate." Burdock said when he pulled him away.
Vegeta said nothing, at least for now. The trip back to the castle was less then eventful. They stopped twice to let Burdock empty his stomach contents on the side of the road, but other than that everything was peachy keen. When the arrived, Vegeta was tackled by a very strong Toma.
"Han!" he yelled as he rubbed his cheek on Vegeta's thigh, his small arms locked onto the prince's calf.
"Toma!" Ditzu scolded, making his son whine and let go of his cousin. "Do not run off like that!"
"Mommy! Han's mate!" He whined, curling his tail over his leg as he gave him a wounded puppy look.
Ditzu felt his eye twitch as he looked at his son.
"Toma, do not make that face, you know you did something naughty, take it like a proud Saiyan." Burdock scolded before walking by, Vegeta silently following, but he gave Toma a small smile to show that he had someone on his side. Toma dropped his pout and took his scolding before his mother cuddled him and told him that running off was very dangerous. Vegeta shook his head as Burdock chuckled. Cubs were always getting into trouble, he could only hope that Radditzu was ready for that. When they got to the throne room, the generals were all at each others throats and Vegeto looked ready to blast them all to hell.
"SHUT THE HELL UP!" Bellowed Burdock, his more feminine voice echoing nicely off the walls. "Gods above, you bicker like cubs!"
"Queen burdock, please, you should be resting!" One general said.
"THE HELL I WILL!"
Yep, Burdock had first term mood swings as well as morning sickness. Vegeta smartly stepped out of his stepmother's Ki field so he wouldn't be burned or thrown when it flared. The generals fell silent and backed away, Burdock was a formidable man when he was the admiral, but now that he was both Queen and pregnant, it was suicide to try and order him around.
Vegeto didn't seem to care as he walked up to his heavy mate and kissed his neck, a low rumble coming from his chest as Burdock reluctantly calmed down and sulked at the silent reprimand for getting all hot tempered while pregnant. Seeing that his mate had calmed down, Vegeto purred and then turned his attention to his son.
"How was Earth?"
"Frightening... I don't know what was worse, the blatant disrespect of personal boundaries or Kakarot's Earthen Mate's mood swings." Vegeta stated, he wasn't going to lie, some things just scared him and made him glad he took Gohan away from earth before it had been too late.
"That bad?"
"There some highlight, all of which I brief you on when we settle what's going on here." Vegeta stated once more, keeping an even tone and looking about as happy as Vegeto at the mention of their generals.
"Don't bother, you'll just kill them." Vegeto said, dismissing his generals with a flick of his wrist. "The Vendra are advancing way too quickly and they've taken out cruise ships and supply ships. Either stranding or killing everyone on board. I fear we're facing war and these Vendra are a lot strong than anyone we've ever faced."
"Damn... That means I better see if the one can get a mass order of Gravity rooms built within the week."
"Gravity rooms?" Both Burdock and Vegeto asked.
Vegeta smiled as he nodded.
"It's exactly as it sounds. It takes the normally pull of gravity and multiplies it by let's say three times Vegetasei's natural gravity. It can crush you if you aren't careful. In fact the blue haired Onna told me that was how she trained to hand Vegetasei's gravity. Both here and the other one." Vegeta said.
"And have you tested it out?" Burdock asked.
"Me personally? No, I spent most of my time with Gohan both in and out of the bedroom. Burtus and the others? Yes they did and they seemed to enjoy it... Oh and I better see about those beans Kakarot's Earthen mate told me about."
"Beans?" Vegeto asked.
"Yes they call them Senzu beans and those things are very powerful. They are able to fill you up for ten days straight, heal all wounds and injuries as well as replenish your Ki." Vegeta said.
Vegeto blinked and Burdock looked like a little kid being told the best bedtime story ever.
"Well what are you waiting for brat! Go get her!" Vegeto yelled and Vegeta chuckled as he floated into the air and out the doors as the guards threw them open and then shut them again.
Burdock sighed as Vegeto picked him up and carried him to their room and laid him down. The could hold the meeting here since he wasn't about to play musical rooms. When Vegeta found them, he, the rest of their family and the midwives found places to sit around the room, Gohan and Kakarot being made to lay down on the King's bed with Burdock, the three Sons sighing and trying to relax a bit.
"Okay from my understanding you've created a room that could manipulate gravity?" Vegeto asked to make sure he got it right.
"Yes and I have three of them with me. When father and I first made them, we figured that you may want them since you're a warrior race. He made three more while I was here and I picked them up when we were on Earth. He's making four more so that way you can expand the academy more and have everyone train at the same level." Bulma said, holding up the case that had the GRs in it.
"And these... Senzu beans?"
"Eh! You talked Korin into trading with Vegetasei!" Kakarot asked stunned.
"Well. That was all Vegeta. When he asked why Piccolo was trading three rare blue Carp for a bag of Senzu beans; Korin told him that it's hard to get fish when you live so high from the Earth and Blue carp was hard to come by. So Vegeta offered to send a Saiyan year's worth of fish from Vegetasei and it's ally planets for Korin to train a few of the palace staff to grow them here for any wars and up coming battles." Bulma said.
"You better get to fishing, knowing Korin he won't be able to sit still for long." Kakarot said.
Vegeta nodded as Bulma told them about the beans and what the could do and how useful they've found them in the past. She even said that Korin would be here by late evening tomorrow to get a look at the soil and find suitable gardeners to grow the beans.
"Well I'm glad for small miracles. These Vendra are bad news. We've had to stop all cruise ships and supply ships from making trips here since the Vendra keep attacking them. I also had all our battle ships and pods return back home. Onna, how many Saiyans can train inside of the Gravity rooms at a time?"
"Well the one on Earth as built for about three people since well, I didn't know if anyone else was going to be coming with me and Chi-Chi and e trained under the intense gravity to be able to at the very least walk around here... If I remember correctly, father had these three built to the size of the ballroom. So a lot could fit. But I have to say that you should limit the amount because they could all get seriously hurt or even killed."
"I see. We'll set up on here at the palace for the Elite warriors to use, another at the academy for them to use, this will be their first war so they had best be ready for it. And the last we'll set it up on the plot of land just out side of the city and announce to everyone what is happening and for them to sign up to train. We'll do it in groups and each group will get a few hours a day to train, slowly increasing the gravity as we go. The rejuvenation tanks will be available and with the Senzu beans we should be able to treat everyone as best we can when in battle." Vegeto said.
"That sounds fine to me. But father we better fine new generals or else all this prep would have been for nothing."
"I have an idea!" Gohan chimed from the bed.
Everyone looked at him and he sat up a bit more, though he wasn't obvious in his pregnancy, the baby was draining him of a lot of energy. Once he got comfy again. He cleared his throat and said:
"Take your general's best attributes and combine with a few of the best minds in the younger generation as well as the top fighters. This way they can combine both the current army and the trainees to get us to one another as well as learn from one another. I can help the set up everyone. Just show me a few maps and I might get something done!" Gohan said.
"Are you sure that it'll work? The old farts can be a headache to deal with." Vegeto said.
"Well seeing as they listen better to grandpa than anyone else, he can help me keep them in line and I also have Vegeta and you." Gohan said. "Besides I doubt they want to anger a pregnant Iompróir."
Vegeto laughed softly but nodded his head in agreement. Pregnant Saiyans were highly dangerous Saiyans. If Gohan had to describe it, it would be like a napalm going off in a house made of glass. There was just no recovering from it. With that said, everyone settled down and began an in family plan to get things set up. Vegeto was also planning to have all the pregnant Saiyans, new mothers and newborns as well as the cubs that were still too young to hunt, let alone fight, taken off world and to a safe place...
-The next evening-
Kakarot hurried to the throne room with a childish excitement as Cornelius hurried after him so that way nothing happened to his mate or their second child. They got to the room and Kakarot squeaked and ran to hug the cat god that had trained him to fight king piccolo and again after Gohan had been born, he had shown him how to get to Kami's tower for more training.
"Korin!" he cheered and hugged him tighter.
"Goku? Is that you? My, my you're pregnant?"
"Yep! Me, Gohan and Papa are all pregnant! Though Gohan's due soon. I have another month and papa has a few more weeks."
"Well I'm glad to see that you're doing alright. Now then, I talked to the prince about the deal and seeing that you guys are headed for war, I'm going to stay to make sure that the beans grow safely and are hidden from the enemy. After that. Goku, would you mind fishing for me?"
"One of each fish right?"
"Bingo, kiddo... Now then. Is there a green house?" Korin asked as he looked to Vegeto as he nodded and led them to where he hoped would be a safe place for the beans to grow.
"They grow rapidly, about 200 of them grow in a day. Also it has to be cool, but sunny."
"Don't worry about that Korin. I built a climate controlled room. It's set to be as cold as the tower back home and the glass dome will allow plenty of sun light in. The soil and watering are tended by three of the gardeners that tend to Gohan's gardens." Bulma said as they entered the greenhouse and Vegeto called the three gardeners to him.
"I see. They will do fine. Now here's a personal stash for you to use. Gohan had caught a giant blue carp for me." Korin said handing a large bag to Vegeta as he then floated into the air and over the bare soil of the greenhouse.
As he grumbled and muttered about the room and the climate, his tail flicked about and Kakarot had to busy his hands otherwise he'd tackle the cat god and cuddle him like when he had first arrived on Earth. Once Korin nodded in a approval he turned to the gardeners and made the pay attention as well as Bulma, who was taking notes, while he planted the roots from an old Senzu bean vine into the soil and lightly watered them.
"Now because it's night, they won't grow any time soon, but with plenty of sunlight they vines will sprout and produce Senzu beans, and once it's full grown it will continue to produce senzu beans even if you don't take care of it. But if you must cut it at the base and remove the roots if you want to get rid of it."
"Do we have to preserve them in order to plant them again?" Vegeta asked.
"Yes, in a small jar with moist soil. That'll keep the roots healthy until you need to plant them again."
"Alright, thank you, Korin." Bulma said as she finished up her notes and then Korin indulged Kakarot's kitty obsession...
-Time skip-
"Madam Bulma." Vegeta said as he walking into the room and over to Gohan, the three Son's were getting examined by Gohan's doctor, Tuk.
He had finally moved passed calling her Onna though in public he still calls her that. Bulma learned that Onna meant either 'Bitch' as in "that's my bitch" or 'bitch' as in "you fucking bitch." But what shocked her even more was that the original meaning of Onna was for midwife.
"Hello Vegeta." She said and then looked back at the monitor she was sitting at as Tuk moved the ball like prob over the baby inside of Burdock. "The exam is going fine. Goku's having a another boy, Iompróir."
"What does that mean?" Gohan asked. "You promised to tell me on the honey moon but you distracted me with the trip to earth."
"It means 'Carrier.' We are the carriers of the species. We kept the term that Brolly used for his mate, a man just like us, to classify the males who can give birth." Burdock said.
Gohan nodded before Kakarot asked, "Then what does Brídeach an Gealach Dearg mean?"
"We figured that would be obvious, but it means 'Bride of the Red Moon.' Considering that all this started with the red moon on Earth, I figured seeing a red moon every three weeks would have been obvious to what the title meant..." Vegeta said. "In fact we have the legend somewhere in the library. I better go find that so you can read it..."
Gohan giggled when Tuk let out a series of clicking sounds that sounded suspiciously like him calling Vegeta an idiot. Once Tuk was done with Burdock he moved onto his original charge, the princess just smiled and laid back, he felt the semi warm probe on his belly and even felt the baby shift in him to feel it, giving Bulma a good picture of it.
"What? The baby's fully developed!"
"That's expected of the Brídeach an Gealach Dearg, they can carry cubs up to three to four months since they develop at a faster rate than a normal cub. I say the princess is due within the next week. The slit has formed." Tuk said as he showed her the black and blue bruise had a cut going through it. "It's still sealed up, but in due time it will begin to open up. For now let's keep it covered and be sure to keep it clean."
Gohan nodded and Tuk declared the exam was over. Chi-Chi quickly cleaned up the three preggos and helped them up off the tables with some help from Vegeta. Once they were sure they could leave, Burdock dragged Vegeta off to another meeting as Gohan said he was going to go home and rest up, he was getting tired a lot more often now. But that was due to the baby feeding on his Ki and Vegeta's as well when he was close by or they got intimate.
He looked around the gardens that surrounded his home. The vibrant colors of all the foreign and familiar plants made him smile. He hoped his baby would love the garden as much as he did. He laughed a little picturing Toma playing hide and seek with his baby cousin. Yes, he hoped the baby was happy. He jumped feeling said baby shifting and kicking his side. He smiled and rubbed his hand over where he felt the kick.
"Excited aren't you?" he asked as he kept walking.
"Princess!"
Gohan turned around to see one of the low ranking scribes running up to him. He was about to ask him what was the matter, when a loud siren rang throughout the palace, guards and units all began scrambling as Kakarot hurried down the path, waddling as fast as he could without hurting himself, or the baby he was carrying. Burdock not too far away.
"We're under attack! The droid pod we sent to take pictures of the Vendra ships to tell us where they were was shot down leaving the atmosphere!" Burdock said. "I'm glad for that, it was a smart move, Gohan."
"Thank you, grandpa."
"My ladies, this way!" The servant yelled as he pointed to the corridor.
They all hurried along, the servant carrying Gohan who was due soon. They didn't want him to suddenly go into labor or it could prove dangerous for both Gohan and the baby. As they ran down the corridor, a few escorts came running as well, all of them aliens from the allying planets.
"Queen Burdock. We've been given orders by King Vegeto and Prince Vegeta to take Each of you to one of the allying planets, to keep you safe guarded. And not to worry about the princess, the people of Skii 13 will keep him safe and will help him deliver the baby should he go into labor."
"What! No! I am not leaving my son alone!" Kakarot growled.
"You have no choice! If we keep you three together and the enemy manages to catch us they will have an advantage over the whole of Vegetasei! We pledged with our lives that the Queen must be safe as well as the Dames and Princesses related to the Queen!" The Purple Alien said as he picked up a struggling Kakarot and left down the hall while another, this one a dark orange grabbed Burdock.
"You servant, take the princess to Dock 5, his pod is prepped and waiting. The computer will moniter him and if he goes into labor in space, it will deliver the baby. Be sure to protect him at all costs!" The orange one growled before leaving down a different hall with Burdock who was cursing in Saiyanese to be put down.
The servant nodded and picked up Gohan and turned back. Gohan didn't like this, the air was suddenly very... icky. Like someone dumped a vat of slime into the atmosphere. He looked around as the rounded the building, but instead of heading out of the servants' exit and heading to ton to the Docks, the servant was heading towards the back buildings of the palace.
"What are you doing, we can't go this way! There's no exit!" Gohan said, not liking this. He was already flaring his Ki in an S.O.S manner it may not be strong but for anyone still in the palace they will pick up the fluctuations in no time.
"That's because I'm not here to protect you... Lord Frieza always gets what he wants and he will get it." the servant said, an evil smile on his pale lime green face.
"What! Let- Mmph!"
"Scream..., fight... or even struggle and I will make sure that the baby inside of you never breathes the outside air." The traitor hissed, sharp claws resting right where the thrumming Ki was beating erratically sensing that something was wrong.
Gohan looked scared, his Ki flaring vainly as he was carried into the back building and forced to sit in a chair, a Ki canon aimed at his belly.
"This is Syke. I have the Saiyan princess, do you have the Pod?" Syke asked into a scouter. There was a pause and Syke spoke again. "Yes the one at Dock 5. Bring it here, once we get the princess inside you may do as you please with his mother."
Gohan almost jumped up, but the Ki canon hummed in warning that it was gathering ions to shoot him with if he even thought about it. He sat back down, unsure of what to do. He couldn't think.
'Vegeta!'