Okay, as I said, the epilogue was almost written completely as I wrote the storyline, it was actually done before I even started writing the prologue. I hope you will enjoy this last part of "An Innocent Wish" and look forward to "A Desperate Wish" which will be the sequel.
For the last time: Enjoy!
"Daddy," the boy yelled and ran to his father, who sat in a chair in the living room, "daddy, daddy, daddy."
"Easy boy, what's the matter, where's the fire?" He asked and lifted his son to sit on his lap.
"At training today I heard some of the older boys talk about The Fatal Betrayal and something about King Vegeta being much different." Raditz tried to hold back a sigh. He had been grateful for his brother wishing him back to life, so he could start over at the resurrected Planet Vegeta, but after The Fatal Betrayal he would rather had staid dead. He looked down at his son and regretted the thought immediately. He loved his mate and their son, but to see his prince… king… change so drastically into something Vegeta had always despised was hard on the older warrior. "Daddy," the boy said, snapping Raditz out of his thoughts, "what did they mean? When I asked them what The Fatal Betrayal was, they said their fathers had told them, and I should ask mine."
Raditz looked out of the window and studied the red sky for a moment before he spoke. "You remember what I've told you about Freeza destroying our planet and entire race except me, Nappa, my brother and our King, right?" The boy nodded enthusiastically. "You also remember how our planet and race was brought back by a wish made by an earthling woman, right?" Again his son nodded. "There something I haven't told you, and Burdock, swear to me you will not tell anyone about this, because your uncle told me the story but almost no other saiyan if not even no other being know this, do you understand?" His son, whom looked just like the man he was named after, looked at him with serious eyes and nodded once again. Raditz couldn't believe his son already seemed so grown up when only being ten years old. "Everyone knows that the Earthling wished us back, but she had a condition to the dragon. The planet and all the Saiyans on it should be revived when she was six month pregnant with our king's child."
Burdock seemed confused. "Why would she want that? And why would she wish us back, I have never understood it." "According to your uncle, she was in love with Prince Vegeta. It seems she conceived a child with him but he was killed in a malfunctioning ship she and her father had built for him. When that happened she was forced to abort the child, because some other earthlings weren't sure a hybrid would be safe." Raditz grunted. "They should have known that your cousin Gohan already had helped safe their planet. But the earthling woman made a timemachine and traveled back to just before she arrived on Planet Namek." The young boy didn't look a hundred percent convinced but didn't interrupt him. "She made the wish with the condition, because she thought everything else would be as it had been before her travel, and then she would give Vegeta what he desired most: his planet and people."
"But what about The Fatal Betrayal, daddy?" Burdock asked impatiently.
"Hey, hey, I will get to that," Raditz said a bit irritated. He was way down memorylane and his son's impatience was annoying. "As I was about to say, the woman did conceive a child so our planet and race could resurrect. As soon as that happened, Prince Vegeta challenged our former king and killed him, becoming our new king. The new King Vegeta let the woman give birth to their child here on Planet Vegeta before sending them to earth." Raditz took in a deep breath. Not even his father knew all of this, but he figured he would someday have to tell it to the old Burdock before the young one would spill the beans while believing his grandfather knew it.
"A year and a half later some young punks wanted to get their own wish fulfilled so they traveled to Planet Namek. When they couldn't get the Dragonballs they annihilated the whole planet and set off towards Earth."
"Were the… punks… saiyans, daddy?" the boy asked with horror in his eyes. Even though he knew he himself someday would go purging planets like his father once had, Burdock knew that after helping in getting back Planet Vegeta and the saiyan race, Planet Namek as well as Planet Earth was not to be touched in a harmful way by any saiyan.
His father nodded. "I'm afraid so," Raditz said and felt the familiar tensing in his jaw and hands. What he would have given to kill those punks himself. "When they arrived at Earth your uncle was the first to get into contact with his instant transmission. They demanded to get the Dragonballs, but he told them they would have to wait a year, because they had just been used. It was of course a lie, but the punks believed him and went berserk. He was about to come down with a heart disease, so he couldn't fight them. Instead he instant transmitted himself home and got his family to the woman, who had born King Vegeta's child. She had two spaceships and your uncle took one with his family while she took one with her family and the rest of a group of friends. Kakarrot and his family had just taken off and the woman's ship would have been ready any minute when the punks found them." He looked out of the window once again, trying to calm himself down a bit.
"They recognized the woman but instead of showing her the respect she deserved they started torturing and killing all off her friends, her parents and at last, her daughter. She had tried to tell them, that they only needed to wait for three months and not a year as Kakarrot had said, but when they killed her daughter, she just went blank. They took off after making sure the planet would explode soon after. News of the two planets' annihilation reached Planet Vegeta, and King Vegeta left with his best soldiers to find out what had happened." Burdock seemed a bit restless and was clearly not eager to hear the story anymore.
"They soon took in Kakarrot's ship and he was treated for his disease, which had evolved into a common disease among saiyans the last ten years before the annihilation of Planet Vegeta. He told what had happened at Earth and that he could not get in contact with the woman's ship. Three days later they found the punks and the woman in her ship. The punks had tried to talk their way out of it, then fight. They didn't stand a chance against our king. If he hadn't been the strongest in the universe before, he became it. He found the hidden power within, a power believed only to run in the royal family, and he became a Super Saiyan once again, for the second time in his life."
"Wow," Burdock said with his eyes and mouth fully open.
"He killed the punks, and when they returned he killed their whole family so others saw what it means to go against our king. Your uncle was only allowed to survive because the woman wished so. And now you probably think 'oh, so that was The Fatal Betrayal'."
"Yeah," the boy said and seemed shaken when he saw the hard lines in the corner of his father's mouth. "But I know you, daddy, there's more, right?"
Raditz nodded and all his features went stern. "What really made the king go mad was what happened two weeks after they came back to Planet Vegeta. The woman had not been herself according to Kakarrot, but he has told me, that he never had thought she would do, what she did."
"What happened daddy?" the boy said with his eyes almost bulging out of their holes, so much had he opened them.
"She walked out of the secured chamber. On earth, the gravitation is only one tenth of what we have on Planet Vegeta. But after leaving a note the woman just left the room and killed herself. It was the king himself that found her. Kakarrot found King Vegeta on his knees in front of a pulp they only could recognize as the woman because of her scent. When he tried to approach the king, Kakarrot was almost killed. By that, the last remain of sanity in King Vegeta disappeared. Now, he rules the galaxy just as Freeza did, and how he swore he never would do."
Please don't hate me! I personally love a happy ending, but somehow I always end up writing the ecxact opposite… But then it's great that many things can happen in a DBZ A/U, and believe me, many things will happen in "A Desperate Wish".
As I wrote in "Like a Shooting Star", I want to thank all of you who have been reading my story and writing reviews and PM's. I had been hoping on a few readers for this fic, so all this attention have been overwhelming and heartwarming!
And to those of you who would have liked some more Trunks – I'm sorry, but for some reason I just wanted to do something completely unexpected with the baby. But if you want some Trunks, then look forward to "A Desperate Wish" and the next fic I will be making – I don't know what it's going to be called yet, but Trunks will be one of the main character, if not the main character.
If some of you haven't read it, I have made a very short one-shot, not an A/U, it's called "Giving a Lesson", please check it out.
Till next time!
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