Chapter 30

The blip on the screen continued to bleep and flash. The beautiful blue haired woman watched, intrigued as the object moved at a steady speed. Was it a meteorite? Or a craft of some description? Whatever it was it was small, small enough that it couldn't really cause any real damage if it crashed into earth, but maybe she should check it out anyway

"Chichi? Come look at this" she called out to her companion. Chi-Chi was a small and slim woman, also very beautiful. She made her way over to look at the screen

"What is it Bulma?" she asked upon seeing the blip on screen

"I'm not sure" Bulma answered, tapping away at a few keys on her computer

"Probably just a rock right?" Chi-Chi shrugged, they saw plenty of stuff falling from space around here, it was nothing unusual in their line of work. Bulma and Chi-Chi were astrophysicists, space was kind of their thing.

"I don't think it is a rock" Bulma wondered aloud, zooming her screen in on the object

"Why?" asked chichi

"Well….its maintained the exact same speed since I spotted it, a meteorite would have sped up when it entered our atmosphere. This thing seems to have speed control, I think it's a small craft"

"Shit, are you sure?"

"No, but let's go and check it out anyway, Yamcha, get in here" Bulma called out to her colleague. A big guy with long black locks entered the room, and smiled warmly at Bulma, she pushed her glasses up on her nose

"Where do you think this will land?" She asked pointing to the screen. Yamcha's eyebrows shot up in surprise when he saw the blip

"What is that?" he asked and leaned across the two women to tap the keys

"We don't know, you wanna come with us to check it out" Chichi asked

"Dam right I do, given its current projection it should land around here" Yamcha wrote down some coordinates messily on his hand

"Give or take a few miles, let's go, we don't have long before it hits"

The three scientists grabbed a lot of hi tech looking equipment and hurried to Bulma's truck as fast as they could.

They drove in silence, Bulma trying hard to keep her attention on the road and listen to Yamcha's directions. But her mind kept drifting. Could this finally be it? Could this be aliens? Bulma had dedicated her whole existence to finding life somewhere out there, she knew there was something else, she just knew it, she could feel it in her blood. That's the only reason she got into this line of work. Her and chichi would spend hours musing about aliens. What did they look like? What did they sound like? What had they seen? Would today finally be the day she found the answer to all her questions? She sure hoped so.

They headed out of the city, to a mountainy desert

"Should be here somewhere, it'll probably land in a couple of mins, it seems to be slowing down" Yamcha mused almost to himself.

"Slowing down?" Chi-Chi's eyebrows shot up her forehead in surprise.

"If its slowing down it must be a ship" both women bounced in their seats excitedly.

"Keep your hair on ladies, we don't know its aliens yet" Yamcha tried to be the voice of reason. He couldn't understand the girls obsession with space creatures. He couldn't care less if they were out there or not, Yamcha was more interested in the beauty and expanse of space, not what may or may not live up there.

"Stop here" He instructed Bulma. Who slammed the brakes on causing them all to jerk forward. Yamcha held on to his laptop. Bulma had never been a great driver, but still insisted on driving for some unknown reason, and Yamcha was not brave enough to argue with her. Both of his colleagues were feisty ladies.

The moments passed, feeling like years till something finally came into view

"There" Chichi shouted, pointing to a round grey object, hurtling towards the earth.

"My god, what is that?" Yamcha exclaimed jumping out of the car, the girls had already left and were running towards the object

"Don't get too close that things gonna make a dent" he called to them.

They all stood in silence, no one knowing what to say or do, as the grey craft crashed into the ground throwing up a thirty foot dust wall all around them. Bulma coughed as she inhaled the dust, but she didn't care, she was too excited to worry about things like her health right now.

The dust settled and the round object sat in a crater, unmoving.

"What shall we do?" Bulma asked

"I don't know" Chichi replied

"For god's sake, you two have been waiting forever for this moment. Go over there and try to open it" Yamcha said exasperated

"well, it's a bit scary, Yamcha. You go" Bulma ordered pushing Yamcha forward.

Just as he made to walk towards it a whirring sound stopped him in his tracks. Very slowly a hatch opened upwards to reveal two men, one tall and one short. Their appearance was strange, Yamcha had never seen hair like that before. Not only was it the blackest of black, but it also grew in the wrong direction. It only took him a few moments to figure out that these two were not of this world.

The smaller one looked more like an angel that a man, this is what Yamcha imagined god looked like, everything about this man was celestial, perfect. And his companion wasn't too bad either. Yamcha looked at the girls, they both stood stock still staring open mouthed at the new arrivals.

Vegeta surveyed the area through the window before pressing the door release button. There was no one around but three humans with weak power levels, they were no threat to him and appeared un hostile.

They had been travelling for three days with no food or water and Vegeta was growing more and more worried about Kakarot. To be honest, even if these guys were hostile, he would just kill them and get Kakarot some water anyway.

Kakarot was fine, Vegeta's concerns were unnecessary, in fact he was better than fine. He noticed a couple of days ago, that his Ki restrictors had stopped working. As soon as the left planet Vegeta's atmosphere he had felt the twinges of his power returning. Now that they were 232,370 million miles away, his power was back, he could feel it coursing through his body. He knew he could punch a hole in a mountain if he wanted, he didn't want to, but he could. He decided not to tell Vegeta yet, he wanted it to be a surprise.

"Hello" Vegeta called to the three figures stood a few meters away from their pod

"Hello, do you come in peace?" A tall stupid looking creature called back. Vegeta led his mate forward by the hand, they stopped a couple of feet in front of the three humans. The two who appeared to be female had not spoken yet. They seemed incapable of speaking at the moment. They were obviously dazzled, Vegeta was used to that, but he seemed to have no effect on the male, he wondered why.

"I am Vegeta, prince of Planet Vegeta, this is my mate prince Kakarot. We come in search of refuge. We have travelled for many days, can you provide food and a place to rest"

Bulma pulled herself together, this was her dream, she was actually talking to an alien

"Of course, you can stay here for as long as you like. Welcome to our planet". She noticed the strange way the two men stood, hand in hand, their brown fluffy, what appeared to be tails wound around each other's. The smaller man stood half in front of the bigger guy, as if he were ready to take a bullet for him at any second. Bulma had to drag her eyes away from the face of the smaller man, Vegeta he said his name was, he was very beautiful. Kakarot was obviously the younger of the two, little more than a boy. He wore a wide grin on his youthful face. Quite the contrast to Vegeta's scowl.

"We have food back at our lab, and places to rest. Please come with us" Chichi gestured towards their car. Chichi was lucky enough to be bundled into the back of the truck with the two muscular aliens

"So…you're aliens, right?" She asked awkwardly, a blush spreading across her cheeks

"Were Saiyans, how come you don't have a tail?" Kakarot asked, he couldn't stop staring at the strange creatures. They looked somewhat like Saiyans but there were small differences, the tail for one. They didn't have a lot of muscle, they seemed kind of….soft and squidgy. Their eyes were strange colours too.

"We don't have tails" Chichi giggled, she noticed how good-looking the taller Saiyan was, he had the most happy eyes she had ever seen. Something about him just made her smile.

The drive back to capsule corp was short, Kakarot done most of the talking. Vegeta was quietly enjoying the massive sense of relief that had overcome him. he had kept his mate safe, no one would find them here. He closed his eyes and silently said a prayer for Nappa, Mell and Mayze, without them he wouldn't have made it this far. They sacrificed themselves for him and he would never forget them.

Strange to think that just one short month ago, the most important thing in his life was power-levels, clothes and fun. Now he had something so much more valuable, he had purpose. Kakarot was his hew world, his reason for breathing. He squeezed Kakarot's hand in his own. Kakarot felt the light pressure and smiled at his prince. Vegeta knew he would never get tired of that smile, with a little sigh he smiled back, ready to face whatever their new life had in store for them, together.

The end.

Author's note.

Well, that was quite a journey. Writing this story was both rewarding and emotional at the same time. I want to say a special thank you to LVR4Trunks-n-Vegeta, Gokukinz, whistfulmuse, Lady Akizuki and MrsVegetaOuji. You guys have been amazing, the reviews you write are what made me keep going so, thank you. And to everyone who took the time to read, follow or favourite my story, thank you too. You are all amazing xlxl.

Sequel, anyone?