Many years ago,

A nervous voice "You want me pretend to be his father?" A far younger Bill asked her, his single blue eye blazing with fear and discomfort.

Chi-Chi who is visible pregnant looked him straight. She looked very desperate and equally uncomfortable asking him this.

"No. I want you to be his father. I know it is a little old fashion, but it can't be just me. Besides Trunks is going to talk about Yamcha and I know he's going to ask, 'Who is my dad?' and I need to show him someone. You need to be that someone."

Bill white in the face as he seemed to hear Diane screaming in his ear as he saw the flames glowing in Chi-Chi eyes. He pulled his eye away from her as he felt as though he needed to vomit. He said weakly "I don't like lying."

Chi-Chi rushed over to him and held his hand. Her eyes supremely focused on him.

"It won't be lying. You will be his father. You'll be there like you were for me. You'll be the man how helps protect him, like you did before he was even born. You'll be there after a nightmare. You'll be there when he has an awkward guy question that I can't answer. I need you be that good man that I can show to him and say this is how a man should behave. You've already sort of done this for Trunks and I don't ever want him to know what his…" (She said spitting with anger.) "sperm donor is like. I don't even want it to be true. It will only make things more complicated."

"What if he ever discovers the truth? It will hurt him. He will see it as a lie. I see it as a lie." He said as he felt the ghosts watching him.

Chi-Chi pulled his head to look at her "Its not a lie. You'll be there. You're a better man. A better example. He might be Saiyan but with you he will be a human. He can grow up kind, strong and good."

"They'll tell him. The first chance they'll get."

"No, we will when the time is right."

Present

Bill stormed into his room Videl having by her words sent him back to the church as he keeps hearing and seeing his brother's head explode. The room spins and he collapses to the ground as Mai comes in looking for him.

Mai rushes to his side and in a panic asks, "Are you okay?"

He looks right through her and she hugs him.

Bulma and Chi-Chi come in and in near unison ask, "What's wrong?"

Bill shakes them off and gets to his feet "Nothing I… tripped."

Bulma looks at him closely like the doctor she is. "I don't think so. Are you having another episode?"

Bill shakes his head "No. I'm not."

"Are you sure?"

Bill nearly yells "I'm fine!" (He sighs calming down.) "Now we have to discuss what to do."

Mai nods at that, "We can't let her go that's for certain."

Bulma while still looking Bill over, "We can't keep her she'll just try to escape or give away our position."

Chi-Chi softly stomped onto the floor, "Yeah but we certainly can't kill her."

Bill suddenly looked quite uncomfortable as he shook his head.

She looked right at him, "We can't kill her Billy."

"We shouldn't rule that possibility out. We have way too much at…"

She interrupted him with a stern voice "We're not having this discussion. We are not them! She is unarmed and helpless. We're not killers!"

"Helpless right! Please! She is a warrior. I've seen her eyes. She's already coming up with an escape plan. She is a butcher in service to worse butchers. She is brainwashed and corrupt. No amount of kindness and morality is going to change that."

"Sounds like what you had to say about Vegeta and looked what he did for us Bulma still has her son thanks to him."

"He was on our side temporarily. She is not. She is in service to the enemies of everything we stand for."

Chi-Chi having thought things over "Why did you ask her that last question?"

He looked away from her thinking it over as he talked "Because she's not Teal's or Violet's."

"What do you mean?"

"I've seen both of them and I've seen her eyes before. Green and Purple don't make black. In one of the bulletins it said that Hercules Satan and his wife had been killed in a MO raid. The Doc said she was pregnant, and that girl has his eyes. She's Hercules kid. They were there with us the day we left the Earth. Teal probably 'adopted' her after he killed her parents."

Chi-Chi eyes lit up "Wait the guy who like wet himself against Piccolo?"

"Yeah that guy."

"We have to tell her!"

Bill scoffed at this, "She won't believe us because I don't have proof and she won't want to listen to us."

She shrugged at that bit of logic "Well fine! But we still can't kill her."

Bulma spoke up "If we can find a planet that they're not looking for us on, without people or a way to tell them about us. If we could abandon her on a planet like that it would be best."

Mai said to them "Yardrat is empty and no one is looking for us there."

All their eyebrows went up at once.

In silence the three had been watching each other. Videl looking them over felt quite confidence about her chances. Gohan was an easy mark and Trunks was stupid. None of them had even realized that she was hiding her energy. All she had to do was wait and she knew she would find her opening.

Buzzing around in the back of her head, however, was Bill's words. It was like a sick feeling and it was growing as she fought to stop them. The fever dreams had always felt real. The doctors and the meds always made it better but there was none of that right now. Man, she could really use a fucking drink she thought.

Videl fed up asked in a meek but breathy voice "Gohan could you please give me some of that flask before I die of thirst."

Trunks scoffed then smiled "Sounds good. Keep her dry." (Gohan got up of his chair and went over to her. Trunks hissed in frustration at this.) "Are your serious man!"

"She's just thirsty she won't try anything while there are two of us."

Trunks stayed in his seat and Gohan kneeled in front of her and in a whisper asked, "You won't try anything will you?"

Videl in a seductive whisper in his ear "Nah big boy. I'll like some privacy for when we do that. But then again I'm up for anything you want to do."

Gohan face went red again and his pants felt tight again. He quickly reached behind her and grabbed the flask. Videl of course was sure to moan in his face when his hand touched her ass much to Gohan's discomfort. He quickly gives her a swig and tries to back off.

Videl says breathlessly and with bedroom eyes to him as he pulls away 'Thank you."

The door to the room opened. Bill came in with the others. Bill eye went to Videl "Okay. Today is your lucky day. We're going to find a nice spot to drop you off and let you live. Until then you'll be staying with us. I'm glad to see that you already got a bucket. Now we are all going to take turns watching her until we reach our destination."

Videl could scream. If only they were sticking around awhile longer. The chip in her back would only lead them to her if it was within a couple million miles. But it was okay that they weren't killing her. It did leave her with more time with Gohan.

Thus, began the shifts of her jailers all but Bulma who need to fly the ship. Each one of them would guard her for about six hours she counted the moment they left the planet.

First up to watch her was Bill. He made Videl wished for Trunks because at least she could easily get a rise out of him. But with Bill it was just 'quiet time.' All he did was stare at her with his one eye and point his revolver at her. It was total silence she tried to strike up a conversation with him, but it didn't work. He must have still been pissed off about earlier.

Next up was Chi-Chi. She was breath of fresh air compared to Bill, she got feed. Chi-Chi even asked her a few things about the Empire. She was disgust by Videl's answers but still.

Chi-Chi wanted to know if the 'mercy' project was really happening and it was. Videl didn't really want to defend the fact that the children born with disabilities were being mercifully 'prevented' from weakening the empire. It didn't even fully sit well with her, but the Emperor was god, so it wasn't something that anyone she knew questioned. When Chi-Chi tried to argue with her about it Videl just reminded her about the Spartan's and stated that 'this is just how warriors do things.'

Mai then came up after Chi-Chi. She was quieter than Chi-Chi. She mainly wanted to know about her fellows at UNIT. Videl couldn't give her much. The MO is tight lipped about that sort of thing. Videl was busy fighting external enemies not internal enemies.

Now to Videl some of the things the MO did were scummy. They were famous for using people's families as hostages to get them to surrender. Their science experiments were stuff of rumors and nightmares. Some of project were just to satisfy morbid curiosity. How long can this species survive without skin? If we remove this organ when will they die? It was a mercy to kill all of them Videl saw it. If she took any prisoners, they would just end up test subjects or forced laborers.

Videl fell asleep sometime while Mai was watching her and woke up to Trunks mug. The blue haired kid by Videl's estimation was no less a virgin then Gohan but he didn't like her at all. Videl mentions her arms were numb and he looked happy that she was uncomfortable. She thought he at least made a good guard dog.

It was mostly silence when Gohan finally arrived for his shift.

"Okay you can go to bed I got this."

"No way I'm staying here with you."

"Why?"

"Because she's got you around her finger man and I'm not leaving you alone with her." He wasn't budging she could tell and soon it was the three of them again.

Videl wanted to work him over some more but it was pointless with Trunks there. He was not leaving the room when she wanted water. He had Gohan get some and Trunks was the one that poured it down her throat. He was in between the two. He was a real thorn in her side that was until he fell asleep.

Videl pretended to fall asleep and Trunks finally let his guard down. The moment she was sure that Trunks was asleep, she knew it was go time.

Videl quietly "I'm sorry Gohan." She would get him back to her.

Gohan came from the back. He was curious on what he had just heard. He came quite close to her just like she wanted "Sorry?"

Videl nice and 'sincere' "I'm sorry about the way I've been treating you. I will admit that I've been intentionally been trying to make you feel uncomfortable."

Gohan lightly chuckled "Well you have been doing a pretty good job of it."

"I know but I want to start over as it were."

"I would like that too. I actually had wanted to ask you some questions."

"Sure, hit me with them."

"What's the with the tally marks?"

"Planets that I've liberated."

"Liberated?"

"Conquered if you want to call it that."

Gohan sighed "So do you like hurting people?"

"They're not people. People look like us. They're just animals that need to be put down."

"But they lived, they could think and they could feel."

"You didn't go to school Gohan you won't understand."

"They teach you to kill in school?"

Videl "The party teaches us the history of man. Of how people have been oppressed for millions of years by non-hominids because we are the superior race. It's just the reality, your mother is just brainwashed to think otherwise."

Gohan very taken aback "None of that sounds right."

Videl realizing she was losing him "My bad. It's just what I'm used to." (Changing the subject.) "So, you have a tail."

"Yeah." He kneeled in front of her and his came from his behind him to wave around in front of her.

"You know I've met a few people with tails."

Gohan still quiet but excited "Really."

"Yeah. I think there is about over a hundred of them. I'm sort of friend with maybe three of them."

She lied Remus had been nice when he was younger but now, he was a drunken wreck. Livy was always a stone-cold bitch and Gracchus always had the personality of a stump. The rest of the Gero's she had maybe met for an hour each. Romulus was the one she was closest with and he didn't even have a tail.

"So, I guess mom was right there are others with tails."

"What did she say about your father? May I ask?"

"Oh, you met him already. He is quite protective. I'm sorry that you two aren't really getting along but you really shouldn't have said those things to him."

"Right that I'm sorry about that too. My mouth has a mind of its own sometimes."

Gohan with soft eyes "You know I think I like this you a lot more than you earlier."

"What?"

"Well I kind of feel like you weren't being genuine with me earlier. You know I kind of like talking with you Videl." He gave her a smile and warm overtook her

There wasn't a hint of sarcasm, lust or anything. She was in a panic in her mind because it suddenly hit her how damn perfect, he was. He was just not what she was used to at all.

People in Videl's world were all scheming, were all numb to suffering, they all had edges and scars. Gohan was not that at all. He was not being nice because he wanted to get into her pants, he was being nice just because he was nice. None of this made any sense to her.

Now she felt really dirty like she had been corrupting a beautiful work of art all this time. She knew she still need to escape mind you, but this just made things awkward.

"Are you sick?" (He felt her head and his touch was maddening.) "You feel warm."

"Um…Its just I'm warm. Your hands."

Gohan hand pull away as she could smell the air. Gohan smelled really damn good to her right now. His smile was damn room brightening now that she thought about it. He had all the strength in the universe, but he didn't want to use any of it.

Now Videl felt really uncomfortable and it was a relief when Trunks woke himself up and Gohan went back to his seat. Now him watching felt very weird. It was like the table had turned. This was going to be a long ride she could just tell.

Romulus was looking out into the vast nothingness, when the there was a ringing in his helmet. He tapped his helmet it was Cobalt "My Prince the Emperor wishes to make contact with you."

Her tapped his helmet again turned around and kneeled with his arm going up so as to heil. The hologram appeared before him the red glow of it touching the cool black of his suit.

"What is your biding my Father?"

"Rise my son." (Romulus got up.) "Bah still you insist with this mask."

"Do you wish me to take it off?"

"No, it suits you at this point. The reason why is that I'm approving the General Offensive."

"Father?"

"It's high time that we finish this business with the UPA and move on to expanding into Andromeda. No more wasting time with the thousand cuts it's time to go for the jugular. You were right, and I have grown bored."

"Well the party congress is coming up."

"I will not be there."

Romulus genuinely taken aback "You have never missed…"

Kakarrot shot quickly "And I'm still not. In a way I will still be there. You will be representing me."

"Father?"

"You are my heir. They must get used to listening to you and obeying you. You are heaven's son. Your son will be Emperor and so on. Provided that you finally consummated your marriage that is."

"My sister and I are not quite on speaking terms."

"You don't need to talk or even like each other. I want the bloodline pure. Maybe I should be considering making my own grandchildren. I wonder if I would go that far? A question for another day. Go represent me. You can even wear that mask if you want. The war is ending. The hammer is falling. Billions are going to die and there is no one who's going to stop us."

The hologram disappears, and the room grew dark to the point that Romulus merely faded into that darkness.

So were going back to Yardart next time for some good old revelations and some old friends.