As soon as Vegeta has arrived outside, he activates the space capsule and flies off immediately.


When Vegeta emerged from the planet's atmosphere, contact was made with him.


A picture of Dr. Briefs.


"I see you're on the road again. Are you coming home soon, Vegeta? It's time."


"No, I'm not coming back."


"Vegeta, now listen carefully to me. You are needed here, your family needs you."


Vegeta is already hammering the off switch desperately.


"You can forget that. Bulma made sure that the connection couldn't be broken. Vegeta, you have to slowly start looking straight up again. If you keep looking back it will kill you."


"Nonsense, don't give me shit like that."


Dr Briefs turns off the monitor in a dejected manner.




Around noon, Bra and Pan finally crawl out of bed.


Bra immediately storms into the kitchen with Pan by the hand.

There she only meets her grandmother.


"Tomorrow, Grandma. We are very hungry."


"Sit down


Both hit it hard.




Meanwhile, Trunks flew to the cemetery where Bulma was buried.


He walks slowly towards her grave and kneels in front of it.


"Mom, what should I do? You're no longer there and Dad is gone too. Now I'm all alone."


"You are not alone." comes a voice behind him.


Startled, Trunks turns around to see Son Gohan standing in front of him.


"You don't understand me anyway." says Trunks and wire his way back to the grave.


"How should anyone understand you. If you don't even do it yourself."


"Let your sayings stick. Why are you here anyway?"


"I wanted to put these flowers on her grave before I picked Pan up. Trunks, we miss her a lot too. But you have to be strong now."


"Vegeta isn't the only one allowed to behave selfishly, is he?"

"How do you mean?" Son Gohan asks him puzzled.


"He just ran away, he ran away."


“You cannot understand this reaction. He is afraid. For him, his whole world collapsed in seconds. "


"Now you're starting to protect him too. Grandpa also said something like that. Before that he would have lost a lot more than we do. I don't understand, we love everyone."


Gohan shakes his head dejectedly.


"You really don't understand. We all miss her, but she has never meant as much to us as he did to him. She gave him a life. She gave him two children of whom he is very proud."


Trunks smiles contemptuously at So Gohan.


"Sure, because he's so proud of us, he runs away."


"That's exactly why. He trusts you. Vegeta is sure that you are strong enough to get through this without him and to take care of your sister. Believe me, he would not have left."

Trunk's face grew somber.


"Shall I tell you why he never loved anyone before Bulma? Because he didn't love himself and without self-love you can't love another. But she showed him that he is also worth loving.


There is one more thing to keep in mind. We will all see your mother again in the afterlife. But who will open the gate to heaven for him?


Trunks now realized why they were protecting him. His eyes fill with tears and he knelt again in front of his mother's grave.


"I was such an idiot."


Gohan approaches Trunks and puts his hand on Trunks' shoulder.


"Trunks, the worst of all torments is loneliness. Vegeta may be strong on the outside, but deep inside the trembling and crying child."


They linger at the grave for a few more minutes until they fly back to C: C together.




Vegeta fell asleep in his space capsule and this light being appears again in his dream.

Before Vegeta's astonished eyes, this being takes on the appearance of Vegeta as a child.


The child turns away from Vegeta and stares into the darkness.


Vegeta shudders when the child starts speaking in his previous voice.




"A face in the mirror, familiar and yet so strange.


A child's laugh in the distance, happy and yet so sad.


A caress on my skin, beautiful and yet so painful.


A rain shower pelts down on me, cold and yet so burning.


A pair of eyes in my face, radiant and yet so empty. "




On the last sentence, the child turns around and looks Vegeta directly in the face.


Vegeta wakes up from his dream and is completely disoriented for a moment.


'Where am I here? What happened?'


As if someone wanted to give him an answer, a picture of Bulma on her deathbed shoots through Vegeta's head.


'I lost everything.'



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@ Serran and vegeta_kakaroto


Thank you very much for your dear clerk


You gave me courage and made me really happy.




And I still have a question, is my story a cool off from someone else?




Greetings Shibo