We get to mom's house, and she is overjoyed to see me. She takes one look at me and knows just what needs to be done. She takes us down to the basement and does an ultrasound on my belly.

The jelly she squirted onto my stomach was cold, and made me have to pee. She began rolling the ultrasound stick over me, and stopped right below my bellybutton.

"There's the head," She said excitedly. "It's in the right position to come out."

I lean up to see. My heart nearly skips a beat. There, on the screen, was a black and white image of a tiny person curled up into a ball. Its hand flexes, and it yawns, rubbing at its face.

"Oh that's so cute!" Vienna gushes.

Bulma takes my hand and presses it against my stomach. "There's the head right there." She says, and gently moves my fingers back and forth. I could feel it. I could feel it inside me.

I look from my hand to the screen. "There's only one?"

"Only one." Bulma assures me.

This was a relief.

She moves the ultrasound stick upwards. "There's the little tail," She says, showing me the appendage rapped around its legs. "And…" She moves over to the side. "Do you want to know the sex?"

"Yes!" Vienna cries.

"No," I insist, and they both look at me. "I… I want to be surprised."

Bulma nods and pulls away, the image fading. "It looks healthy. The birth should be no problem."

I nod and sit up, my hands on my belly, right where the head was. It was strange to think that its head was less than an inch below my fingertips. "How much longer?"

"Oh, any day now," She says with a smile. "It should be ready to come in less than a week."

Vienna looked over joyed, but I was terrified. Less than a week? That was all I had?

We flew home silently. I wanted to talk to Da. He would at least be able to give me some information about what to expect.

When we got back, Kage came out to greet me.

"All systems are go?" He asks.

I nod and press his hand just below my belly button as Papa exists the house as well. "You feel that?" He nods. "That's the head."

He cracks a smile and watches as the baby gives a stretch, little feet and hands clearly visible under my skin.

Papa is the next to feel. "Hey little guy," He says. "Almost ready?"

I nod. "Any day now."

Kage whistles. "We don't even have diapers."

I laugh. Diapers. There was a lot of stuff we didn't have.

"Well, you'll have to get diapers," Papa agrees, "But there's still a bunch of stuff in the attic from when you three were babies. I saved it."

I cocked an eyebrow. "Da didn't make you get rid of it?"

Papa grins. "He doesn't know it's there. Come on, we'll take a look."

The four of us go up into the dusty attic and take a look at all the stuff up there. There were the three cribs, tons of baby clothes, toys; pretty much anything we could ever need. Kage and Papa started bringing stuff down and Vienna and I started dusting it off.

"So I have a boy pile, and a girl pile," Vienna says. "You better hope it's a boy; we have a ton of boy stuff."

The pile was three times as big for boy clothes as girl clothes. They were even prepped already with little holes in the back for tails. This couldn't have worked out better.

Kage brought down the last box and set it down. "We ought to go shopping don't you think, love?"

I nod. "For some essential stuff I guess. But I don't have any money…"

He gives me a sympathetic look. He didn't either.

"Call mom, she'll hook you up." Vienna says offhandedly, throwing the baby clothes into a hamper to wash before the baby could wear it.

I give her a call. "Hey, mom, it's Aizel,"

"Yes, sweetie, what's up?" She asks.

"Well, we're figuring out some stuff we're going to need, and we think we want to go buy some diapers, but-"

She cuts me off. "Meet me at the mall in ten minutes. I'll take care of everything."

Kage and I meet her there as she said, and Vienna is right about her hooking us up. She has us each push a cart, and fills them all as high as she can with diapers, baby powder, formula, food, and an array of other things I wouldn't have even thought of. When we went to check out, the bill was over a thousand dollars.

"Mom, this is way too much stuff; you didn't need to-"

"Of course I did, sweet heart, who else was going to get all this stuff? You just take it and you can thank me later." She winks, and returns to her car. "You two got that all, or do you need some help?"

We shake our heads, and she drives off in her car.

Kage and I tote the many bags back home and set them down in the living room.

"Um… where are we supposed to live?" Papa asks us when the bags just kept coming in.

"It's not that much, is it?" I ask with a nervous laugh. Oh, yes. It was a lot.

"Well we can store a lot of it upstairs," Vienna suggests. "And maybe the baby will be a little poop machine so they'll go through these diapers really fast."

"If it's anything like the three of you, it will be a little poop machine." Papa says with a roll of his eyes and begins moving stuff upstairs.

We get everything put away just in time, before Da finally shows up at the front door.

It had begun to rain, and so he was soaked. He steps in, his boots squishing against the wood floor.

"What are you doing here?" Papa asks.

Da gives him a scornful look. "I live here, Kakorot." He snaps. "I have every right to be here."

He glances around the room, and his eyes fall onto my swollen belly. His expression darkens. Then he looks over at Kage, who stays his ground.

"You," Da hisses. "What have you done to my son?"

Kage does not answer, and Da charges him, catching him by the throat. He makes a sickening sucking sound, and begins to choke.

"Vegeta," Papa says warningly. "Let him go!"

Da squeezes harder in response. "Do you understand what you've done, boy?" He demands of him. "You have ruined everything!"

Kage is turning purple. His eyes are beginning to roll to the back of his head.

"Vegeta, stop!" Papa says, rushing over to him, and yanking him away.

Kage crashes to the floor, gasping.

Papa grabs Da into a headlock and Da thrashes wildly around, terrifyingly.

"Do you understand what you've done to our family, you selfish piece of shit? I am going to make sure you never lay a hand on him for as long as you live! Which won't be long; you can count on that, boy!" He continues to scream.

Everything was getting so out of control. It gets worse when Da wretches himself free and pounces onto Kage once more. He begins to punch him over and over again in the face, his fist coming back bloodier every time. Kage struggles to get him off, but he can't seem to fight back such raw Saiyan rage.

Vienna starts to scream, and I squeeze my eyes shut, pinned with fear. Papa tries desperately to pull him off; to reason with him.

"Stop it!" I scream, and all of a sudden I feel my gut wrench, and then a flow of water down my legs, like I had peed myself. I look down, and my pants are soaked.

All eyes turns to me and the room goes still. I put my hands to my belly and stare back. In a hollow voice, I say, "My water just broke…"