OPENING THEME
Episode 09:
BEAUTIFUL RESCUE: WISH GRANTED
As the light subdued, a running figure dashed towards them. Master Roshi blushed a furious shade of pink that matched the mysterious woman's long locks. She bent down at Vegeta's side and touched his face lovingly. She was an extraordinary beauty with cat-like ears and she donned an odd dress that doubled as a battle suit.
"Oh, I wish things could be different," she said sadly.
She stood up and faced the dragon, "Why dragon! Why have you brought me here? What can I possibly do?"
The dragon responded, "King Yemma's orders."
She thought a while before she asked her next question, "Does he think I can save my son's life as well?"
The dragon nodded, "You are the only one who can fulfill the wish and it was only made possible by King Yemma himself."
"I'll give it a try," she nodded. She turned to face the curious men, with Master Roshi exhilarated at the girl's beauty and more so at the expanse of her bosom, "There is only one way that I can help. I can make it seem like this moment never happened." A moment of silence passed and while fighting back tears, she continued, "I too just lost a son."
"Oh," Goku now understood, "You're Fahren's mother."
The woman nodded her head and Krillin looked utterly surprised, "But - but you're so beautiful and he's - he's such a monster."
However, this news infuriated Master Roshi, "Why does Vegeta always have to get the good ones!"
"Vegeta!" Krillin gawked at the old man and then at the girl, "And her? Their son?"
She nodded and his surprise was greatly exaggerated.
Master Roshi approached the woman, making kissing faces and noises at her as he took hold of her hand. In response, she unleashed a powerful gush of wind that sent him sailing.
Goku and Krillin prepared themselves for battle in a stance that signalled that they meant business.
"I'm not here to fight," she said firmly, "I just can't stand foolishness."
With his feet over his head and red with anger, Master Roshi complained, "I should've known. Vegeta's got a thing for coloured hair hotheads!"
"Shut up, old man!" she yelled in annoyance and Master Roshi hastily covered his mouth.
The other men relaxed realising that she was not there to cause any trouble. Goku sighed, he wasn't sure if his body could have handled another battle.
"Hey, I don't blame you. Master Roshi's a bit of a pain that way," admitted Goku.
The woman smiled and hugged Goku tightly much to his shock, "I never thought I would have had this chance."
"Um, you know her Goku?" Krillin asked looking on, blushing.
Goku shook his head and despite himself, he was also blushing as the woman's bust, which was not to go unnoticed, rubbed against his chest as she tip-toed in her excitement to grab as much of him as she could.
"My name is Mela," she said excitedly, now shaking his hand furiously and planting a kiss on his cheek, "I was the one who begged you not to take Vegeta's life during your first battle here on Earth."
"But - but -" stammered Goku as he tried to remember, "It was just a hunch feeling that I couldn't quite shake off. I don't understand."
"That was me. As I was already dead I could not pass on my memories to you and since you did not yet know Vegeta I could not reawaken any memories of him to you. I tried desperately to get you to feel what I felt about him."
She kissed him on the other cheek and made her way over to Krillin. She hugged him in a similar fashion and he shone a brilliant red, "And thank you, for obeying him." She kissed him on the forehead.
She returned her attention to Goku who was most certainly now as red as Krillin. Her happy-go-lucky attitude was quickly replaced by a stern attitude, "Just like our son, he had a hard life and because of it, sorely misguided."
She looked down sadly at the lifeless body and continued, "He may have preached otherwise but he only killed when he has no other choice. If he truly was as evil as he wants people to believe, I would have died the minute we met. In that moment, I knew he was different than the rest of Frieza's men - instead of joining in to kill me, he joined in to save me." She smiled at the memory, "He never quite admitted it but he was impressed with my fighting abilities. We Mezorans are a warrior race just like the saiyans were but we are a kind and peaceful people. He demanded that I train him and out of fear I agreed. He's not the most approachable man, y'know."
When she grinned widely, it forced them to gleefully nod in agreement.
She continued, "We became fast friends, in fact, more than that. Eventually, I understood that he wasn't as cold and ruthless as he led me to believe or else there was no way we could have loved the way we did. But, he was consumed by the thrill of power which I later learnt runs through his veins the day he was born and on top of that it was instilled in him by his father that he must become the best. As a child prodigy when it came to battle and his father the King, he still had to endure bowing down to Frieza especially after he lost everything at such a young age. You could imagine how that would make one feel."
Goku closed his eyes and shook his head. He knew the story of how as a baby he was sent away, narrowly escaping a fiery end in the planet's destruction. However, Vegeta was only a child but old enough for the burden to live on as a painful memory.
She closed her eyes, trembling slightly by the thought of what she was about to say, "Countless times, he told me that he wants nothing more than to achieve the legendary super saiyan and one day defeat Frieza. The Great Ruler, the emperor of my people, had been the one to invite Frieza to my planet unknown to us. In fact, Vegeta suspected that our planet was to be wiped out in routinely fashion. He helped devised escape routes for my people or at least the ones who would listen. Three years Frieza and his men stayed on our planet, neither of us knowing that the only reason we were spared was because the Great Ruler had formed an alliance with Frieza. What we thought was a sudden plague as he made us believe was indeed the effects of Frieza draining every last ounce of our people's energies and in return the Great Ruler would receive a portion along with riches untold. It was even he who alerted that my father and I were the only Mezorans to have the ability of time displacement. This threatened Frieza and inspired him to destroy us all."
She paused as though she was weighing whether or not to continue, "One of his men discovered who I was and informed that Vegeta and I were involved and expecting. Instead of carrying out his threat immediately, he waited months later until days before I was to give birth."
She flung her palm in the air wildly and a thick, purple mist appeared. In it, they were able to see the very memory of which she was speaking of. They saw a much younger Vegeta being thrashed by Frieza viciously, "Vegeta tried to fight him but he failed miserably and his life was only to be spared if only he destroyed our people, first starting with me. He struggled so much with that decision, he begged that he would do so if my life was spared. He was denied such and was willing to die alongside us but I forced him to see the promise he made. I got him to realise that if he died now, Frieza would only continue his rampage and planet after planet was in danger. I made him see that he could use our deaths as a reminder as to why he needed to continue to fight and never give up - to find that power, the power to defeat Frieza!"
The men saw Frieza's ever-growing energy ball reduced to nothing as Vegeta struggled to his feet and in turn formed his own. A clearly pregnant Mela turned her head away as she knelt before him. They saw how he hesitated and the pain in his eyes were so profound it moved them. As the blast consumed her, Vegeta turned his head to one side. Frieza could not be any happier as he laughed at the spectacle.
"Oh man," Krillin said clenching his fists, "I was never one to vouch for that guy when he wasn't on our side, but with a past like that, there's no wonder he was so evil. I would be too to lose my family so cruelly, so cold."
The others were too consumed by the tragedy to respond.
In the mist, they witnessed how Vegeta nodded ever so slightly towards some terrified Mezorans before he released another blast. They noticed how they tapped on a device on their person and a signal was beaming from it just before they slipped beneath the earth.
"He couldn't save me or Fahren but he did save many of my people that day including my brother and my father."
"So Frieza destroyed your people because of you and your father's ability?" asked Goku, shaking with sorrow.
Mela nodded, "The time displacement technique is a power unlocked to us as we progress in level much like the saiyans do. My father and I were the strongest by far of our people."
She waved her hands once more and the mist dissolved as though it never existed, "I believe that this technique can give me a chance to save our son from himself. When I died, I grieved when I realised that my baby wasn't with me. I only learnt that he was alive the same time Vegeta did, after all of these years. It hurts me to see the vengeance my son had against his father. I couldn't stand it!"
"How - how were you able to see this?" asked Goku cautiously.
"Through the East Kai. Through her, I've been watching out for Vegeta ever since my death in hopes that one day just maybe our son will find him." She held down her head, lost in the sadness that what she desired the most had indeed been realised but she had never wanted it to turn out the way it had.
"So how does this time displacement technique work?" asked Goku.
"I will go back in time through the memories of my host, in this case I will go to my son. At the very least I will be able to speak to him."
"And then what?" asked Krillin, "No offense, but he doesn't seem like if talking will get through to him."
"From his mother, it will. He believes he is doing me a grand favour by accomplishing this mess," she said softly.
Goku nodded, "You want to give him a chance to join you in the other world, don't you?'
The others were at a lost as to what he meant by this but Mela responded knowingly, "If I can't stop him then yes. Who's going to be the one to go back?"
"I will," Goku suffered immensely as he got to his feet, "It will be a bit tricky but I think I know how I can save them all."
Mela waved her hand wildly and the purple mist erupted washing over Master Roshi, Krillin and Pan, "Their fates are sealed and no matter what happens they have already been saved. They will remain here in time as opposed to this moment becoming nothing but a memory and reliving the tragedy."
"Uh, thanks." Krillin said, unsure as to how to feel about the possibility that where he was right then and now could never have happened and it was made official just by touching some purple mist.
"Grab my shoulder," she directed Goku, "All the events that had transpired will repeat themselves unless of course we make a change. However, be warned, once things are changed, it is final. I cannot go back more than once to a particular event in time."
Goku nodded.
END THEME:
PREVIEW OF NEXT EPISODE
Fahren shakes his head from side to side with such vigour as his eyes are consumed with a purple mist.
"Son Goku here! So I am on a quest to change our fates, so wish me luck. Somehow I didn't think Fahren would be rooting us on though. He - he!"
Fahren, now a child, is looking on with sadness in his eyes.
"How far back in time did we go again? Wow-wee! See you NEXT TIME ON DRAGONBALL SUPER: REAWAKENING HISTORY: THE TRUTH IS UNLOCKED"
END CREDITS : Author/Creator of the DBZ series and characters: Akira Toriyama
Author/Creator of this Story/Series; Creator of a Vegeta who has always possessed a pure heart and long before he met Goku; time displacement; and that awesome moment when the girl throws down Master Roshi: Chrissi B (c) October 2015