Prologue :
Vegita was sitting down on the ground. He was resting, a luxury he rarely
gave himself. Strangely, his thoughts drifted to Bulma. He frowned, those
humans and their silly feelings, they are all a bunch of weaklings,
pathetic. But, he is living in this planet, with a *human* mate, with
children forever tainted with the human blood. Suddenly, he felt a strange,
but familiar ki. Peculiarly, a hate he hadn't felt in years came with
feeling that ki. Then someone hidden in the shadows said "Vegita". He had
never heard such hate in one single word. "Who are you ?" "Coward,
weakling, you have tainted the Saiya-jin blood forever, you shall pay" That
voice ! It couldn't be ! Totally shocked he heard the stranger's next
words... "You'll pay, traitor, prepare for your death. Consider yourself
honored by being killed by the King and in battle, an honor you shouldn't
have" ...



Shadows From The Past
By : Sarah Slutz

First Chapter : The Time Machine
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You got a dream,
You got a hope,
just act on it,
and make it true,
but be careful about
your motives, they
may not all ways be
what they seem.

By, Chi Chi, taken from her poetry notebook, a fragment of a poem called
"Do Not Only Dream"
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Saiya-jins have never been fond of science, at a contrary, they have always
though it to be useless, but, what about other races ? Of course, only one
man was able to look at something as simple, yet as strange to a Saiya-jin
as using *science* to make his purposes, even if it implied using other's
people accomplishments, thing that the Saiya-jin has never found to be not
even a little disturbing ...

By, Bulma Briefs, taken from her book "An attempt to enter the Saiya-jin
culture" chapter 8, page 149.

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King Vegita sat in his throne in his usual pose, arms crossed over a well
developed chest, his perpetual frown in his face, his unruly hair with the
very prominent "widow's peak", his royal armor in his warrior's body . But
today his frown was deeper than usual. At his side, Nappa could sensed his
master's distress, and prudently stayed quiet. Finally Vegita made a move
to communicate ...

Vegita : Nappa, have the scientists (he spat the word as if venom) reported
yet ?

Nappa : Iie, they haven't

Nappa was curious now, he though Vegita's distress was because of the soon
to send Kakaloto to Earth, after all, he wanted the best profit of that
planet, that seemed like it had something useful. He didn't think his
master would be worried about those scientists, they weren't even
Saiya-jin, they were Tunderoids that were sort of cat like and so weak they
disgusted him. Who needed scientists anyway ? Strength is the most
important thing, what could science do for our beloved Vegitasei ? 

Sensing Nappa's confusion, Vegita said ...

Vegita : I know what you are thinking, science is really worthless *most*
of the time.

Nappa : Most ?

Vegita : I want to know about my future, about my son's future, about the
future of the Saiya-jin race in general. It's something I haven't been able
to understand, but maybe I just want to make sure.

Nappa : But sire, there's no need of that, I mean planets are baking by the
thousands, our economics are better that ever ...

Vegita : (with his famous sneer) You dare question my judgment ? I'm just
saying I'm interested in the future, and that I told those scientist to
build a time machine.

Nappa : Gomen nasai me Vegita-sama, and Konanban wa. 

... Some weeks later J . . .

? ? ? : (bowing down low) Your highness, the siencetists Chuntra and
Dantreo ask for a conference with your highness.

Vegita : Let them in, I spare their lives.

Chuntra and Dantreo enter the throne room nervously. Chuntra is short, with
a thin body filled with red fur, short, pointed ears and green, old and
wise eyes. Dantreo is younger, taller with black fur, bigger ears and
black, big eyes. He is Chuntra's assistant. Chuntra is about Vegita's tall.

Chuntra : Your highness, we have come to make a report about our
experiment.

Vegita : Is it finished yet ?

Chuntra : Hai, your highness.

Vegita : Then, tell me the future.

Chuntra : It is not that easy, your highness.

Vegita : What do you mean.

Chuntra : Let my assistant explain ...

Dantreo : Your highness, we have made a machine that sees in the future.
The problem is, there is more than one future.

Vegita : What do you mean ? And what is all this chit chat here ? Just show
me the machine.

Chuntra : Please your highness, listen and you'll understand the importance
of this machine. In reality we have discovered that there are several, if
not indefinite parallel "Vegitaseis" in time. That means that the
information you want to acquire may be found in any of the parallel
Vegitaseis. In each of this Vegitaseis there is a different, if not similar
future to this particular dimension, in some Earth may not even exist in
others there are different circumstances like the death of someone etc. In
some dimensions there are even exact copies of ourselves, different of
course because of the circumstances ...

In the course of all this Vegita was staring intently in Chuntra's eyes,
like trying to see if he was lying or not. It send shivers all over
Chuntra's body, but he continued talking ...

Chuntra : So your highness, as you can see, there is more than one future.
Vegita : The only future I want to know about is mine. All those other
dimensions really have not importance to me, they don't even really exist
in my reality. So, tell me about the future of *this* dimension or
whatever. 

Dantreo : Your highness, we must tell you that the future is already
written. Anything you do will not affect the overall outcome.

Vegita : So, I can't change the future ?

Chuntra : No.

Vegita : Are you trying to tell me that the only thing I can do is see ?

Chuntra : Hai, but, you can "visit" the future too.

Vegita : Well, I want to know anyway.

Dantreo : Even if you can't change anything ?

Vegita : Hai 

He said that hai with a finality tone cultivated with years of practice
saying hai with the true air of the King he was. Dantreo and Chuntra almost
collapsed and Vegita looked truly annoyed. The only reason that King Vegita
didn't kill them in that instant is strange, after all, he wanted <science>
what stranger reason do you want for a Saiya-jin ?

Later that day, Vegita was musing over what the scientist had told him.
Someone would betray the Saiya-jin and other Someone would destroy
Vegitasei and then only four Saiya-jin would be left. Then, even more
stupid was the fact that two of those Saiya-jins would die and Prince
Vegita, my son, for crying out loud, would settle with a woman of a
pathetically weak race in a planet of weaklings, what more would you want ?
What kind of fool do they take me for ? He thought, if I would have called
my most skilled story tellers, they couldn't have come with a more
fantastic tale. But something about all this was nagging me. I didn't know
what to make of it

Meanwhile in present time...

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Trunks : Goten, I'm worried.

Goten : About what ?

Trunks : The peace will never come again. I am always worried about what
new dangers could come. Tonight I had a dream about monsters and dangers
lurking everywhere and you and I couldn't fusion. It was horrible.

Goten : I understand you, I have been having the same problem. But there's
nothing we can do except train and be ready.

Trunks : Yeah, you're right.

Goten : At least some good things have happened ...

Trunks : Nani ?

Goten : Goku brought Ubuu here, remember, at least I have father now with
me, and mom is definitely more happy. She didn't even berate me when I
entered the house with my shoes all dirty.

Trunks : What could possibly make your mother that happy ? Hhhmmm, I
wonder.(he said it with a mischievous smile)

Goten : (red till the tips of his ears) What are you trying to imply ?

Trunks : (with a total innocent look borrowed out of Goten's long list of
them) What did I say ?

Goten : Now you'll see

And so they begin fighting, as always just for fun, but both knew it was
for training too.

Meanwhile ...

Bulma : Chi Chi, you look so happy. You have been radiant since the day
that Goku came back.

Chi Chi : The boys need their father.

Bulma : (with a mischievous smile) Those boys are adults. They don't need
their father anymore. That's not the reason for your happiness.

Chi Chi : Well, hhhmmm, ahem, ahh (she is blushing furiously)

Bulma : It's OK. I'm only teasing you, I know how you feel.

Chi Chi : (hastily changing the subject) I.... What project are you working
in ?

Bulma : Well, I am doing a special kind of capsule. These capsules are even
better because you don't have to push a button or anything to make it a
capsule again or throw it to the ground to make it whatever. Now, you'll
only have to use your voice and the capsule will be specialized with your
voice so no one will want to rob it because he can't use it...

Chi Chi's journal, 750 days after the last Tenkai-ichi Budoukai :

More than two years have passed since the last Tenkai-ichi Budoukai . At
last Goku has returned, and has brought Ubuu to train with him, well, Ubuu
has been training with Goku a year now. I'm just so happy that even Bulma
teased me today. I know he is a true baka sometimes (most of the time) but
he is sweet and considering. I missed him so much. He came for visits, but
that wasn't enough, and I even see Goten happier, even if he wants to hide
it, after all, he can pretend all he wants, he thinks he is  a man you
know, ah, my boys have grown op so much... And face it, I'm getting very
old, but, Goku doesn't seem to mind. All this year has been a very happy
one, but Goku and his friends have many enemies, who knows what could
happen next ?
