Just a short explanation regarding Piccolo's power level. While merging with Kami and Neil should make him more powerful as he is right now in this story, the reason why he is weaker is, that as a slave, he had hardly any time to train. Merging alone without training doesn't quite have the same impact. Remember that all he did in the cannon version was train.

"Great!" Krillin smiled, also recognising the signs.

"Which one of you would like to die first?" Freeza asked, looking at the two saiyans who were on the ground.

Vegeta was finally able to get up, but just like Goku he was leaning against a rock for support. Suddenly Freeza raised his hand and hit Krilin with an energy beam.

"No, Freeza stop!" Goku called, watching as Krillin flew up higher and higher.

"Help me!" Krillin cried out, then he blow up leaving nothing behind apart from smoke.

While Freeza laughed, Goku began to shake from anger:

"I won't let you get away with this!"

Both Vegeta and Freeza looked at him surprised. While Freeza couldn't sense Ki, he could see that something was about to happen.

"I won't let you!" Goku cried out again.

Vegeta felt how Goku's Ki increased by every second with such a speed what he never thought possible. And it was higher, what he ever felt. Not even Freeza was so powerful. Suddenly Goku's hair began to change colours. First, it was blond just for a second, but then as his Ki busted, his look changed in an instance, his hair become blond and his eyes were blue. While his appearance changed, it was his look, what was the most intimidating. That piercing look filled with hate as he looked at Freeza… Vegeta has never seen such a look before and most certainly he never held Goku capable to have such a look at all.

"What now? Saiyans transform into Apes, but this is completely different from anything I have ever seen before. Darn, what does this mean?" Freeza asked.

"You just don't know when to stop, do you?" Goku asked back, teleporting before him and grabbing his hand with an iron tight grip.

Freeza tried to free his hand, but couldn't and he cried out in pain as his bones crushed. Then the saiyan kicked him into his stomach and he fly with enormous speed, hitting a smaller hill and destroying it almost entirely with the impact. While Freeza was clearly cornered, Vegeta looked at the fight and he had to punch himself to make sure he was not dreaming. It was beyond doubt that the legend was true, Goku became the super saiyan. But how? And why? Why he of all the saiyans? His fighting style also changed, now he fought like he indeed wanted to destroy his enemy, not just defeat it. There was so much rage in his eyes, that the king hardly recognised the man before him. Now Freeza wasn't holding back, he needed every bit of his power to keep up with his enemy. It was a fight, nothing like any other in the history. The king was too taken aback by it, to realise that the younger saiyan was slowly losing his grip. He fired a Kamehameha to Freeza, who blocked it with his own energy beam, then they tried to overpower the other. Suddenly Freeza had a better idea, he jumped away from the attack and hit Goku in his stomach, then flew up with him, just to crash with him into the ground. He flew so deep into the ground that lava erupted, engulfing Goku. As Freeza flew up, he erupted to a cruel almost hysterical laugher:

"Not even a super saiyan proved to be powerful enough to destroy me! I'm invincible!"

As Vegeta looked up at him, he lost his willpower to remain standing; he collapsed and remained sitting on his heels. He knew too well that it was a matter of seconds before the lizard will come for him and kill him. Surely after that he will keep his promise and destroy Planet Vegeta, like he intended to do it more than 20 years ago. The king hit the ground with his hands and cried out of anger. He began to shake, thinking about losing everything. He will die and with him his whole race will die as well, as nobody is powerful enough to protect the planet.

"I will blow up this whole planet!" Freeza cried out and threw an energy ball into the ground, which began to make its way towards the core of the planet to make it explode. "I don't need the stupid Dragon Balls anyway, I'm the most powerful creature in the universe even without them."

As the king heard him laugh, his rage just increased and he felt like he will explode. His Ki increased dramatically and he felt like his body was on fire. Every fibre in his body burned and he never felt so much pain before. He was sure that he will simply explode, even before Freeza has a chance to kill him. He was the King of the warrior race, he should have been the one to become a super saiyan. Yet a third-class fool, who was nothing like a saiyan, achieved it instead of him, yet even so they failed. It seemed like Bardock only managed to prolong their life's, but saiyans had their own fate, a fate what couldn't be changed; they had to die. They will all die, the most powerful warrior race is unable to stop Freeza. He, he king of his race failed to protect his people… No! They cannot die, he cannot die! He felt how his Ki increased even more, but instead of exploding, he also changed. His hair become blond and his eyes were blue; Vegeta also turned into a super saiyan.

"You!" Freeza called, looking at the king. "Going blond won't change anything. It never did much use for your comrade either!" He laughed.

Vegeta launched his attack against the tyrant, while he subconsciously registered, that he never felt such a rage before, neither thought he that it was possible to have such a feeling at all. He launched himself toward Freeza and attacked him. Just when he felt he has the overhand, Freeza hit him with one of his beams and he fall towards the ground. At the last minute he was able to stop his speed somewhat, still his impact made a crater.

"Don't you dare to think that you defeated me!" Goku cried out and stepped next to Vegeta.

"Kakarott?" The king looked at him, unable to believe that he was still alive.

"Let's take him down together!"

Vegeta nodded and they launched their attacks together.

During that time Piccolo, Gohan and the 4 Namekians who were saved stood around Porunga, the Namekian dragon. They got so far to ask the dragon to create a copy of Earth, when the Grand Elder contacted them telepathically:

"Freeza will blow up the planet, we all have to get away from it!"

"What?" Piccolo asked, unable to believe his ears.

"Let me and Vegeta say here, we need to defeat Freeza" Goku barged into the conversation, while he fought against Freeza.

While he couldn't exactly discuss this with Vegeta, he was sure the King would agree with him. He wanted to make put an end to this once and for all.

"Father, no! You will die here!" Gohan objected.

"Don't worry about me, I will figure out a way to get off from this planet before it's destroyed!"

Dende, who made the first wish, looked at Piccolo for advice.

"You heard him; make a wish to teleport everybody to the new Earth, except for those two and Freeza.

As Dende spoke the words, Porunga's eye lighted up and one-by-one every remaining survivor on the planet got teleported to Earth.

"What is your third wish?" Porunga asked, when he himself also arrived at the newly created planet.

"Bring back everybody to life who were killed by the saiyans on Earth" Gohan said.

"Oh, that will be a problem" Moori interrupted. "Porunga can only revive one person per wish!"

"What?" Asked Piccolo and Gohan at the same time.

"I'm sorry, it's the way it was designed" Moori said.

"I know you will need to find a new planet, but can we use the last wish nevertheless?" Piccolo asked.

"Of course. Your friends saved our lives, we are indebted to you" The Grand elder said. "We can wait a year to relocate."

"Then first ask the dragon, to bring to this new Earths the souls of the people who were killed on Namek. Even if they were revived now, they would instantly die as they would resurrect at the planet they died. And there is no Namek any more" Piccolo said.

During that time Vegeta and Goku fought Freeza and they also fought against the time to make it off from the planet before it exploded. Fighting side by side provided to be the greatest weapon and they defeated Freeza with a final energy beam, what they fired at the same time.

"Now we have to get out of here" Goku said and he quickly explained to Vegeta that Piccolo and Gohan already made their wishes.

"Let's get to Freeza's ship!" Vegeta advised.

"Darn it, I cannot sense any life force at all, so I cannot use instant teleportation" Goku called.

They began to fly as quickly as they could and managed to get off just in time before the explosion. Though some meteorites hit their ship and they had to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. It turned out, the planet was the next target of Freeza, so once their inhabitants learned that he was dead, they treated the two saiyans as heroes. Though they didn't quite had such an advanced technology, hence it took almost a months until they were able to repair Freeza's ship.

"Wow, so you guys really know how to possess somebody else's body?" Goku asked, as he tried to discover whether this race has something useful what he could learn.

He was standing before the workshop where their spaceship was taken and spoke with a man called Hermer. He looked almost like Dodoria and Vegeta couldn't help to feel that this race was somehow related to Freeza's ex-soldier. While Goku was talking and apparently making friends, he remained in the background, sitting under a tree, observing them from some distance.

"Yes, but it's extremely dangerous as your body will remain empty until you return to it." Hermer explained.

"Oh, so it's not a body switch, but a real possession?" Goku asked.

"Yes and the maximal amount of time is 10-15 minutes. It depends on how well you have mastered the techniques."

"Hey Vegeta, do you wanna learn this with me? Sounds useful" the younger saiyan asked.

Vegeta wanted to say no, he had every intention to turn down the offer, just like he turned it down before, yet fighting alongside with Goku somehow changed his view. Also in the previous week they constantly trained together to be able to turn to a super saiyan any time. They were not quite there yet, but their bodies needed some rest and that's how Goku got the idea in the first place to learn something else here. It wouldn't hurt to give it a try, right?

"Ok" he agreed, got up and walked to them.

They learned the basics in the remaining 3 weeks and finally, they travelled back to planet Vegeta. When they landed the saiyans run to their ship and cheered them on. Chichi and Gohan hugged Goku tightly, while explaining that the plan worked and there is a new Earth. Vegeta indicated the saiyans that they don't need to bow and he looked for Bulma. It hit him when he realised she was nowhere to be seen and it hit him that he was disappointed. Why? It's not like she was his mate and even if he had a mate, it's not like she would welcome him back with happiness. Yet, as he looked over to Goku and his family, it seemed nice. Nice? Really?! Was he totally losing his mind? Saiyans were not capable to love. Ok, Bardock and his mate were a bit different when she was still alive, but all the others treated them like they were stupid. No wonder their son ended up being soft… But was he really soft? Before the fight with Freeza, Vegeta would have answered with yes straight away, but… he has seen Goku as a super saiyan and the way he looked at Freeza and how he fought against him; that was purely a saiyan fighter. He changed after Freeza killed his best friend, he changed because cared. And why did he change? Because he was afraid to loose his people. Does that mean he was also capable to feel? Feel other than rage, hate, anger…?

"Sire" Bardock stepped to him, bringing the king back to the presence.

"What is it Bardock?"

"In case you are searching for Bulma…" Bardock began, but couldn't finish as Vegeta shouted:

"I'm not looking for her damn it! Why would I do that?!"

He felt how the other saiyans looked at him, but quickly looked away and pretended like nothing happened. Bardock couldn't repress a smile, despite the fact that Vegeta was looking at him.

"She told me to tell you that she went back to Earth."

"What?"

Vegeta was confused now. She told him that she wanted to stay. Though he told her that he cannot take her as a mate, although that was clearly what she desired. It was understandable that she wanted to go back, there was nothing keeping her here. Nothing… Vegeta was shocked how hard it hit him, it hurt to know that he won't be able to see her again. Damn, this pain wasn't even physical and it hurt just as much if not more.

"You can bring her back" Bardock said.

"While I most certainly have the power, I won't force her to come back" Vegeta answered and just then he knew it was the truth.

He… cared about her too much to force her to do anything. He already destroyed her home and forced her to be his slave for 5 years, that was more than enough. Bardock wasn't sure what to say. He had a good enough idea what was going in his king's head as he was in love with his first any only mate, despite being a saiyan. He doubted that any of the other saiyans noticed how they looked at each other. While Bulma and Vegeta always kept a safe distance when they were in public, he caught some of the glances what they exchanged. Yet, he just couldn't reveal to Vegeta, that he knew that he was in love. Sincerely he doubted that the king fully realised it himself, not to speak about accepting it.

"Sire, I don't think you need to force her" he finally said.

"What do you mean?"

Hell, it should have been Goku, who told him that. Apart from Bulma, he was the only one who dared to argue with him or say no. But his son just had no eyes for these things, even though he also loved his mate. In some perspective he was just like an overgrown child.

"I think she will come back, you just have to ask her!"

Vegeta was about to shout off Bardock's head, that he is the king and he won't ask anybody, when it hit him that his advisor might be right. Bulma said that she wanted to stay… Without answering to Bardock, he stepped to Karris saying:

"Keep an eye on the things, I have to go to Earth!"

"Earth?" Goku stepped to them. "Let me come with you!"

"You are still my subject Kakarott and you have to remain here, with your own race!" Vegeta snapped.

"I will stay here, but not because you say so" Goku said then shoot out his tongue.

"How dare you?!" Vegeta shouted and turned into a super saiyan, with the full intention to beat Goku up, but he also turned and avoided his kick with ease.

They might have gone off and beat each other up, but the others gasped as they saw the two saiyans change.

"What is it?" Nappa asked.

"These Ki… it's impossible!" Karris said.

"Is the legend true?" Bardock wondered aloud.

Vegeta and Goku looked at the others' shocked faces and changed back.

"Oh yeah, during the fight with Freeza we reached the super saiyan level" Goku smiled sheepishly.

"Both of you?" Radditz asked. "But the legend says that there is only one super saiyan in every 1000 years.

"Seems like the legend is wrong" Vegeta smirked.

After some discussion the saiyans left, apart from Karris, Goku and Vegeta.

"So, are we going to Earth?" Goku looked at the king.

"Fine, you may come" Vegeta sighed, giving in.

"You are going to bring back her, aren't you?" Karris asked, when Vegeta was about to board his small spaceship.

Goku was already inside his and started the engine.

"Who?" Vegeta asked.

"Bulma of course! You see, we really miss her."

"What? Who do you mean when you say "we"?

"I think most of us. It's just not the same without her and she promised to teach us some other Earth games to have fun."

Vegeta looked at Karris like he has grown a second head. He had no idea that Bulma was so popular among the saiyans. Sure, he heard that some of them spent time in her lab playing cards, bowling and whatever stupid games she taught them and yeah, even he played Activity, but… The picture was just never clear until now. Still, what does it change?

"I will persuade her to come back" he answered, then also boarded the ship and left the planet.

It was more than strange when Goku set foot on Earth 4 hours after that. The planet was an exact copy to every last details. They landed in the garden of the Capsule Corp, so only a few seconds after they stepped out from their spaceships Piccolo came to see them with 3 other Namekians.

"Hey Piccolo!" Goku smiled, then looked over at the other Namekians and asked:

"How come you guys are also here?"

"Freeza blow up their planets, remember?" Bulma asked, stepping out of the house.

When she saw that Vegeta was also there, a bright smile spread on her face and she waved. Vegeta had a hard time keeping his stoic face as he simply wanted to get to her and hold her.

"Oh yeah" Goku answered.

"Don't just stand there, come inside!" Bulma said and led them to the living room, where they settled down.

Bulma explained to them what their 3 wishes was so far from the Namekian dragon and since Porunga couldn't revive more than 1 person per wish, they had a new Kami for Earth; Dende. Dende activated the Earthly dragon balls and with that they revived all the people who died when the saiyans came to Earth and they also revived the people who died on Namek.

"I was never really good in math, but isn't that two wishes?" Goku asked.

"I upgraded the dragon balls a bit and now Shenlong can fulfil two wishes" Dende explained.

"I see. Wow, that's cool!"

"Luckily a year on Namek is only 130 days on Earth, so we only need to wait 100 more days until their dragon balls are active again. Then the Namekians can wish to have a new planet and they can go home." Bulma said.

"Goku?" A familiar voice asked and as the saiyan looked to the direction he saw Yamcha, followed by Chaoz and Tien.

"Hello guys!" He smiled and run to them.

"Can we talk?" Vegeta asked looking at Bulma, then he added: "Privately"

"Sure" She nodded and led him to the lab.

As soon as the door closed behind them, Bulma jumped to the saiyan hugging him tightly:

"I was so worried and I'm so glad that you are alive!"

Vegeta wasn't prepared for this and he stumbled and had to take a step back to find his footing again. Before he could stop himself, he hugged her back, putting his head to her neck and breathed in her scent. He assumed she wasn't happy to see him, at least not really as she only smiled when they met. Again, when Bulma spoke he had the feeling she was reading his mind:

"You know how damn hard it was to restrain myself in front of the others? I mean knowing you, I figured you are not found of the "public display of affection"."

Vegeta had to smile as she was even mimicking his way of talking. He withdraw a bit so they could see each other.

"Why did you come here?" he asked and he was angry with himself for being afraid to hear her reply.

"Oh, I just wanted to grab some of my stuff and helped my parents to move. I figured you won't mind as you were not on the planet anyway. I wasn't planning to stay, unless you don't want me to come back with you."

"I want you to come back! I came here to bring you back!" the king answered.

She looked at him with her blue eyes, trying to find out his intentions. After several minutes of silence she asked:

"Why do you want me to come back?"

"Because you are my best scientist."

"Oh… I see" she signed and suddenly she looked very sad and disappointed.

Vegeta grinded his teeth and he was angry because he answered that and he was even angrier for the real answer. When he thought she was planning to stay and he lost her, it felt… bad. Now that she was willing to come back, he just couldn't state his reason.

"I…" he began, but couldn't finish it.

He had no idea what to say. Sure he knew what he wanted to say, but he couldn't say that, it was against saiyan traditions. Though it seemed like his body was not willing to accept those traditions as without meaning to, he stepped to her and kissed her. First, she tried to resist, but she gave in and they kissed passionately. He stoked her hair, while she put her arms around his neck. It felt so right, like they were destined to be together. When he stepped back, Bulma said:

"Can you tell me what was that, if I'm just your scientist?"

"You wanted it too" he answered.

"Well, yeah. I know what I want and I already told you that. But what is it that you want?"

That was it, Vegeta just couldn't resist any longer:

"I want you to be my mate!"

"And what about the saiyan traditions?" Bulma asked, taken aback by his answer.

"I'm the king, I can change the rules or at least break them" Vegeta smirked and he hungrily kissed her.

The majority of the saiyans had no issues with the fact, that Bulma became their new queen and since Vegeta was a super saiyan, none of them would dare to object anyhow. Most of them were just happy that the king finally choose a mate and waited for his heir to be born, making sure that the royal line continued. Thanks to the new technologies, Earth was only a few hours away by spaceship and with some training both Goku and Vegeta learned to use instant teleportation to cover that distance, as Vegeta finally agreed to learn some new alien techniques. A year later Trunks was born and half a year after that, Goten as well. Both demi-saiyans had an enormous Ki even as a baby and there remained no doubt in Vegeta, that human-saiyan combination proved to be an actual improvement in their powers. While the Kaioshins had their doubts regarding the saiyans and they considered destroying their planets with a meteorite (just like Kaio told the story to Goku in an alternative universe), after Freeza was eradicated, they realised that with the saiyans around, they had a whole race acting as the peace-keeper. There was no doubt that the previously bloodthirsty saiyans changed and they will be able to preserve peace across the whole universe.

Thank you all for reading the story and again, thank you for the reviews! This is the end for this story. Just like most of the stories, it could be continued, but I felt like this is where I have to stop. For those who have not read my other stories, you might find those also interesting :) For those who read them; keep an eye out, I might come back with a new story!