Gine and Chichi came to the palace late in the evening. A maid showed them the way into the most elegant part of the palace. There Nappa showed them into the elegant private part of the palace, and guided them into the Queen's bedroom.

The room was dark, but they could see a person on the bed. Gine turned on the light, and the person woke up immediately. The Saiyan woman looked in amazement at two beautiful blue eyes, and a petite face surrounded by wild long blue hair.

Chichi was stunned for a different reason. She darted out towards the woman, only to be met by two hands grabbing her. It was Nappa, who didn't like the black-haired woman's sudden movement.

Bulma rushed out of bed and hugged Chichi almost violently. Chichi took her into her arms, as the blue haired girl cried silently in her arms.

"You know her?" Nappa asked suspiciously, and Bulma just nodded. "So I'll leave you women." He left the room.

"Bulma what happened to you?" Chichi asked gently. Bulma looked up at her but didn't say a word, which was out of character for her.

"Can you speak?" Gine asked the beautiful girl. But the girl just shook her head.

"Oh my..." Chichi whispered.

Gine carefully examined the girl, but didn't see any evident injuries. She took a look into her throat, and carefully looked at her neck.

"You were injected with a substance developed on Bayeer, it's a special chemical that obstructs the vocal chords, and the process is permanent but reversible with a special injection." Gine told the women.

"How far are you with your pregnancy?" Gine gently asked. Bulma showed her three fingers.

"The King wants me to take blood samples from you to do a DNA matching test." Gine told her the reason they were both there. Bulma just nodded her head and gave her hand towards the Saiyan woman. After it Bulma grabbed Chichi's hand urgently, and with her lips she spoke two syllables "Goku".

Chichi just shook her head. "We have no idea. I and Gohan made it out as slaves. After coming here we met Goku's family. In fact this is Goku's mother." Both women looked at Gine, but Chichi continued talking in their native language Japanese so that no one else could understand. "We barely made it, the conditions in the slave transport were awful, and it was really difficult. However after landing here we can't complain, Bardock Goku's father is really nice, so are his mother and brother. They treat us well. However I don't really like the fact that we are slaves and that Gohan is going to become and fighter one day. I always hoped he would be a scientist like you." Chichi explained. "How are you really?" Chichi asked. But Bulma started shaking. "Was it that bad?" Bulma nodded. "And how is it now?" Bulma made a wavy line with her hand in the air. "Do you have your capsules?" Bulma nodded. "Are you planning to escape?" Bulma obviously hesitated, but finally nodded. "Well if you decide to flee, be sure to take us with you. I don't like this place much, and this is not a good place for a good future for us." Bulma nodded and held Chichi's hands for a long time.

Gine told Chichi it was time to go, and Chichi said her last words "Take good care!"

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When the strange alien chatter had ended, and the door shut, Vegeta decided to walk into her room. He found her on the bed, a bit shaky but in good condition. She looked up at him, and for the first time he saw a flicker of emotions on her face. He would call it self-confidence, and yet there was a spark of sadness in it. He felt the need to ask her how she felt, but he decided speaking to a mute was a waste of time. After a second or two her face went back to the normal stone poker face. He extended his hand and she took it without any hesitation, and they left for his room together.

Later when she awoke in the middle of the night, she could feel his hand on her stomach, as they were snuggling together. And she wondered what it actually meant for her and the baby.

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Gine showered Chichi with a million of questions on the way back. She was surprised to hear that Chichi had actually known the girl very well. That she was close to her son and grandson. Chichi however did not mention anything about what made Bulma so interesting and special. On the way back they stopped at the medical centre, and with a new printed out DNA paper came back home so that Gine could make one more analysis. The same night on the same kitchen table, she confirmed that Bulma was also compatible with Saiyan DNA, and later sent a quick message to the King with the confirmation.

Bardock came late at night, only with bad news. He and Raditz checked all logs, and no detailed logs of the space flights were in the system. As if no ship had ever gone to Earth. Only a few people they spoke to give any details about whom and on whose order used the ships, and slowly they were working out a list of possible crew. Later Raditz crisscrossed the suggested list with official work records, and nothing was matching. People, who were said to be on Earth, were on logs somewhere completely different. Raditz browsed desperately the back-up files and managed to recreate some of the original logs, and slowly they were constructing a list of Saiyan crew. However both men were worried, a conspiracy at this scale was unheard of in the Saiyan Empire. Someone really influential must have messed with the records and files. No normal soldier would dare do that to their feared King. Bardock kept having a really bad feeling about all this, so later at night he sent a message to all his most trusted soldiers saying "Are you with me to the end?" and all his men answered yes.

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That night having only a few hours of sleep Bardock was tormented by visions. He saw blood, he saw gore, he saw the floor of the palace tainted. He didn't see who and what happened, but the nightmare continued. Suddenly he was taken to a different place. The room was all white, in the middle there was a strange shaped pod of some kind. When he came up closer he was looking down at his own face. When he woke up the first thing he did was to draw the strange symbols he saw on the pod, his message said Kakarot and the words CAPSULE CORPORATION were written next to it.

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Before dawn Raditz and Bardock gave the King the results of their investigation, and a list of possible suspects. With the King they drew a connection between the names, and slowly progressed onto pinning down three names. Three most esteemed Council Member names.