There was a split second as everyone looked at each other, and then the room exploded into action.

Burter punched Nappa in the head, rendering him unconscious, and kicked Radditz into a wall. Luckily, before he could proceed to kill them, Vegeta shot a ki blast at him, barely even lifting his arm and with an annoyed expression on his face.

"NO!" Jeice shouted, but Vegeta sent another ki blast to Jeice's head. Trunks, now no longer outmatched, began fighting Zarbon and Dodoria off again, before Goku joined him, and, in less than a minute, both of Frieza's minions were dead.

Frieza looked pissed, but he didn't move. His red eyes focused on little Vegeta before lifting to the older Vegeta.

"What is going on?" he growled, his patience wearing thin.

Vegeta smirked and crossed his arms, looking smugly at Frieza.

"You're going to die, Frieza. In the most horrible way I can think of… but I guess I can spare some time explaining it all to you." he said darkly. "I come from the future. I guess from that you can gather that I am Vegeta. And yes, a future in which you are dead, and I am very much alive. Like I always said it would be." He laughed as Frieza's eyes widened. "These kids are my son and daughter, so I will also make you suffer for making them suffer. And, Frieza, I am a Super Saiyan, so you have every reason to fear me."

A chill went down everyone's spine, including Frieza's, but he hid it with a bored expression. Radditz, who was still awake, and Nappa, who had just awoken, heard the whole story, and felt their chests swelling with pride. Their prince had survived.

"Geez, Vegeta, you look so much like your father. Confident, angry and vengeful. How cute." Frieza said, his tail waving behind him. "But you are a monkey, and you are no match for me."

Goku watched as Vegeta's neck veins strained, and he knew that something bad was going to happen. He began to get a very Majin expression.

"Trunks, Bulla. Let's get out of here." He said.

"Take those two idiots with you." Vegeta said. Goku's eyes widened as he looked at Radditz and Nappa. He would have expected that from the younger Vegeta, but this was the same Vegeta who had killed Nappa without a second thought and spoken about Radditz as if he were nothing but a piece of crap. Upon seeing their hesitation, Vegeta turned to them. "The little rat will miss them! Now go!"

Frieza laughed as Trunks and Goku scurried to help the two sayians up.

"They wont get far." he said, pressing a button on his scouter. "Ginyu, Radditz and Nappa are leaving the Throne Room, accompanied by invisible people. Kill them all. Oh, and bring reinforcements. Lots of them."

Goku swallowed and glared at Frieza, before pulling Nappa along as Trunks helped Radditz and Bulla carried Vegeta.

As soon as they left the Throne Room, they came face to face with Ginyu, Recoome and Guldo, who were backed up by twenty or so soldiers.

"Alright." Goku said. "They can't see us, so let's sneak behind them and obliterate all the soldiers. Then I'll take on Ginyu, he's the one with horns. You take on the other two. Bulla, you try to stay behind until we clear a path for you so that you can run to the machine. You two, stay behind us."

Bulla was standing directly behind Nappa, so the others couldn't see Vegeta anyway.

"Well, well, well. Looks like Lord Frieza got tired of the monkeys. Finally!" Ginyu said. "Where is your baby monkey? Is Frieza torturing him in there?"

"Fuck you." Radditz spat.

Before Ginyu could raise his hand and kill him on the spot, a sudden burst of light surged from behind them and burnt all the soldiers that accompanied them. And then Ginyu and Recoome were falling to the floor, and two men materialised before them. Goku, who remembered Krillin telling him about Guldo's time-controlling ability, killed the little fat alien easily before engaging in battle with Ginyu.

Trunks, in turn, battled Recoome.

"Come on." Bulla said. "Vegeta needs help."

They nodded and quickly sidestepped the warriors. Soon, though, screams began to come from the Throne Room.

Frieza's screams.

Goku felt Vegeta powering up and a wave of dizziness assaulted him. He felt Ginyu getting in a few powerful punches, but he couldn't focus. He looked around and noticed that Trunks and Bulla looked dizzy as well.

"It has got to do with Vegeta powering up." he muttered before Ginyu kicked him into a wall, making it crack.

"Bulla!" Trunks said, trying to keep a laughing Recoome at bay. "It's Dad! His energy is too much for the timeline mixing. You have to - UNGH!" he got interrupted as the big oaf sank a fist into his stomach.

Bulla swallowed the rising bile and turned to Radditz.

"Take Vegeta. Take him outside, give him to my mother, she can heal him a bit. I'll go and warn my father."

She handed him the injured child, wincing as he whimpered, and ran back into the Throne Room.

The scene that greeted her didn't help the matters. The Throne Room was covered in blood, giving her an immediate flashback of the day they had picked Vegeta up from the training Room. Only this time, it was Frieza lying on the floor, covered in blood as her father punched his face over and over. He was Super Saiyan, energy cracking around him.

"Dad! Daddy!" she screamed, her eyes watering. Her father looked like a monster.

She felt tears running down her face as she spotted Frieza's tail on the other side of the room. And she began to sob hysterically as her father screamed, his mind somewhere else, perhaps buried in his memories, as he beat his tormentor to death.

She ran to him, screaming.

"Daddy! Stop! This isn't you!"

But he continued screaming into Frieza's face.

"YOU BASTARD! YOU BASTARD!"

Still crying, Bulla jumped to him, wrapping her arms around his neck, and his whole body tensed. For a split second, Bulla thought Vegeta was going to kill her, or beat her… but his body slowly relaxed. Bulla cried into his shoulder, feeling his overly warm body slightly burning her skin. But he slowly cooled down, and she felt a hand on her back, but she didn't dare to look up.

"Bulla?" her father asked softly.

"This isn't you, daddy." she sobbed. "You're not a monster."

Vegeta looked down at his crying daughter and then at his own body covered in Frieza's blood. Frieza was under him, shaking and beaten to the pulp. He swallowed.

"Bulla, why are you still here?" he asked softly.

"I came to tell you that you can't power up very much because it hurts Goku and Trunks." she whimpered without taking her face away from his neck.

Vegeta took a deep breath and raked a hand through her hair.

"Alright." he said. "Are you okay?"

"Yes, daddy." she whimpered.

Bulma's heart hammered in her chest as only the three saying ran out of the base.

"Oh my God! What happened to Vegeta? Did Frieza do this? Where is everyone else?"

"Your daughter said you could take care of the prince." Nappa said.

"Well, I can look at some of his injuries. And you are pretty injured as well. But where are my kids?"

"The girl should be right out. Your son and Goku are fighting Captain Ginyu." Radditz said. He watched as Bulma rubbed her forehead. "You didn't tell us you were Prince Vegeta's mate."

Bulma looked at him, surprised.

"What?"

"Prince Vegeta, the future version, he told us everything." Nappa said. He bowed his head. "You're our princess."

Bulma laughed humourlessly. She grabbed a capsule from her pocket and sighed, suddenly feeling very tired.

"Yes, I married Vegeta. But that's a very long story."

"We're glad he survived everything, outlived Frieza and built a life." Radditz said softly, looking down at Vegeta.

The three of them sat down as Bulma pulled out a few bandages and medical stuff.

As she got a closer look at the small kid, her eyes filled with tears.

"And I'm glad he gets a chance of doing that sooner." she said, her voice thick with tears.