Never too Late

Sorry for the break in chapters..It\'s been a long time and I\'ve been busy.. So I hope you enjoy this chapter!



I do not own dbz or any of its characters...



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Prince Vegeta looked on with fear, his eyes wide as he watched his father power up, already getting ready to slaughter all of those who got in his way.

"BARDOCK!" Vegeta yelled, about ready to jump out of the spaceship when Dr. Squash grabbed him and threw him back in.

"Why did you stop me! Bardock needs my-"

"I\'m sorry Prince Vegeta, but Bardock wants to help you, not the other way around." Dr. Squash said, already trying to close the door before the Prince could get back out.

"Besides my Prince, you\'re not thinking right. Your \'feelings\' are only going to get the better of you if you go chasing after Bardock. Come, let\'s go, I\'m already setting up an escape ladder for them just incase." The Doctor said, trying hard to block Vegeta from the door.

Bardock walked in between the guards and his Sons, and stared down the king, Anger and rage in his eyes. Bardock growled "You can\'t hide the truth forever King Vegeta...You know it was going to get out somewhere..But What did you do?!" "You hide it from ME!, you abused your own son to the point of Madness, and then to top it off, You yell AT ME for hiding your Truth from everybody ELSE!"



Bardock\'s power grew, as he still felt the ground shake. King Vegeta was still clearly the stronger one in this fight however Bardock hoped the tables would turn." Bardock growled "I don\'t care..As I finally get the satisfaction of getting you Out of MY LIFE!!"



The anger flowing out of Bardock\'s body, was shown in his aura at the time.



Tora locked onto two extremely high power levels, plus many medium power levels, and then two power levels to the right on that ship. As he flew up, he knocked hard on the ship and yelled "HEY Let me IN! This is Bardock\'s friend Tora!"



Bardock looked back only to see Kakkarot get thrown into a wall and growled "Don\'t INTERFERE!" Bardock\'s mind was screaming "I knew it was a damn bad idea to get my Sons involved in this mess!!"



Raditz watched as his brother got hit with a large ki blast and sent against the wall, if he had that much power..there was no damn way he stood a chance against King Vegeta...and turned back "KAKKAROT!" as he turned his head, King Vegeta kicked him in the stomach and then pointed a hand at Raditz "Watch your worthless son die or Give up!!"

Bardock growled back at King Vegeta and said "Don\'t call me dumb King Vegeta...I\'m smarter than you think!" Bardock yelled back "Oh? Then why does both my sons know everything that has been going on in the last few days..hm King Vegeta?!" "You see King Vegeta, I know EVERYTHING that\'s been going on.. The abuse..The medicine..

Bardock shook his head grimly, with a frown on his face "No.." "Your answer is "NO!"



Raditz said nothing as he glared at King Vegeta\'s pissed off eyes before he turned his glare back at Bardock.. His first objective was to try and get his brother out of any more danger..



Tora watched the door get pulled off as Prince Vegeta appeared to be in a hurry, and sped off after Prince Vegeta..who looked like he was in a mad rush to stop somebody...Somebody Extremely powerful.



Ha! and I bet you don\'t even know what the medication is? Now do you Bardock?" King Vegeta said in a huffy tone, wearing a smug grin on his face as he ran a hand through his hair.

"You just don\'t get it Bardock, I can\'t have imperfection take the throne after me. So I\'ve been doing some...modifying on the Prince, Making him more like

me. Which is quite simple really, it just involves injecting him with chemical solution with my influence in it, it\'s a shame the little pansy is having a negative effect with it," King Vegeta growled, his eyes narrowing in anger.

"And it\'s all because of you! Because of you Vegeta can\'t get his head straight, I blame you and all the other fools who have been messing with his head, now just curl up and die!" King Vegeta growled, his right hand glowing red as he began to send a ki blast in Bardocks direction.



"NO!" Prince Vegeta yelled out, dashing as fast as he could in Bardocks direction.

Vegeta could feel the ki blast strike his back. Blood spurted from his lips as it ripped him open.

His eyes wide, he stared into Bardocks face, his eyes moist as he suddenly began to lose feeling.

"Thank...god...you\'re...unharmed..." Vegeta choked, falling slowly to his knees as he began to lose his vision.

Bardock growled back "More than you\'ll ever be, A Coward.."



Bardock quickly turned his head as Prince Vegeta appeared and growled just as the Prince took the ki blast intended for him all along "Prince Vegeta...Why the hell did you have to come AND BE A HERO!" "Now because of you, It will only make it harder to protect YOU!" His wounds were already opened again, and he was drifting into unconsciousness. He would stay unconcious or worse if he was left that way. But Bardock understood the Prince\'s pride.

Kakorrot began to stir in and out of consciousness, he was able to witness Prince Vegeta taking on the Ki blast intended for his father.

It was at that very moment that he realized what the Prince had felt, the reason why the Prince took the blast.

"Wow...and things are just getting....weirder....ouch...." Kakorrot chuckled, watching as Raditz made his way over to him.

Smiling at his brother, he said weakly.

"Hey...guess...lunch...isn\'t the worst of my....problems...huh...haha..." He laughed quietly, his eyes shutting as he slumped over.

Raditz was looking at his brother on the ground and said "You just can\'t stop your jokes, Can you little Brother?" Raditz eyed his father and King Vegeta once, hoping he could Take his brother to Dr Squash for help. He flew up, in case King Vegeta thought they would be escaping the battle scene in general.

Hmph, it appears my son\'s feelings for you may be his downfall after all, what a fool. Look how pathetic he is, struggling to live when he\'s not even worth it...I was even more of a fool to believe that I could turn this waste of meat into something better!" King Vegeta growled, dashing out and grabbing his son by the hair and thrashing him hard on the ground.

"Look Bardock, look hard at your pathetic Prince. You still have a chance, join me or join this pathetic excuse in hell!" He hissed, yanking his son up so that he was pressed to his fathers chest, his face cocked upwards so that he could look up into his fathers face.

Leaning closer to his son\'s face, King Vegeta whispered.

"I knew, I knew that when you were young you were a mistake, and I will make sure to correct that mistake," He said, laughing as he kissed his sons cheek.

"Even if that means spilling your blood all over the ground and beridding of you!" He hissed, making sure Bardock heard that last part.



Vegeta grimaced as he listened to his fathers words, each one of the hitting him like venom, rushing through his veins and burning him to the core.

Why...why father...why do you hate...me so much.... Vegeta\'s mind whispered, blood still pouring from him as he could feel himself slipping.

Bardock growled a lot madder now, he knew the second he would reject, King Vegeta would Kill his Prince. And once he was done with him...King Vegeta would come after him...Hopefully there was enough time for Raditz to get Kakkarot to Dr. Squash\'s ship.



COWARD! Killing your own cub for your own sadistic pleasure, how low could you GET, KING VEGETA?! The hatred flowed through his veins and watched as Blood kept pouring from Prince Vegeta\'s wounds. He would protect the Prince until the very end.. and said "Don\'t Give UP Prince Vegeta..Don\'t let your Father push you around!"

Kakorrot could hear his father, but he could not see nor could he fully understand what was happening around him. It was if the world hard turned gray, and he could only see shadowy figures because of their power level.

Father...Vegeta needs you...you\'ve always...been there...for him... Kakorrot tried to say, but found he had no voice.

Vegeta gritted his teeth as the pain swiftly took hold of him, he felt like a puppet in his fathers control.

It was then he felt it creeping, the other personality trying to take over.

"No...stop..." Vegeta whispered, his mind becoming once again a battle field.



(Vegeta\'s Flashback)



" You worthless child! I can\'t believe you!" King Vegeta yelled, smacking his son in the face.

Little Vegeta cried, which in return got him more beatings.

"Stop crying! Be a man you wasted meat!" King Vegeta yelled, stomping out of the room and allowing Zarbon, Dodoria and a few guards to have at Prince Vegeta.

"no...stop..." Little Vegeta cried, his eyes darting at the door as he watched Bardock walk by, but couldn\'t find his voice to scream for help...



"You Pig," Prince Vegeta hissed, already his second personality taking over as he wrenched his fathers arm off from him and twisted it backwards.

"You allowed me to suffer...to be abused in so many ways...for you own benifits! Ha! Now it\'s your turn to wither!" Prince Vegeta yelled, punching his father hard in the sternum.

Prince Vegeta smiled twistedly as he raised his hand in the air, allowing a ki blast to rise in the air and shower down, hitting guards and almost hitting Bardock and his sons.

Bardock blocked a lot of the ki blasts that came from Vegeta\'s second personality, it was back. Bardock came forward again, his words must of driven him into another nightmare, he created this mess, so he\'d fix it. Bardock watched as King Vegeta tried to lunge at his son, but only to get thrown back by him. He thought King Vegeta would get what he deserved, but no person deserved to be ripped to shreds like this.



Bardock yelled again trying to get through Prince Vegeta\'s head, seeing that he was reliving one of his worst nightmares again and said in the calmest voice possible "Let Prince Vegeta go.. NOW!!! I don\'t fucking care what the King thinks, drop him NOW!" Even though he knew that Dadoria, and Zarbon was still twice as strong as him.



Raditz protected his brother from the ki blasts, while he watched a lot of guards fall.

"SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP!" Prince Vegeta screamed, his hands now clutching his head in pain as he shook, small trickle of blood slithered down his nose and over his lip.



"Dodoria, hold him down," Zarbon smirked, watching as the over weight pink guards men grabbed little Vegeta, thrashing the child to get him to stop moving.

Little Vegeta sobbed quietly, he watched as they laughed at him while removing their armor, already he shut his eyes so that he could block everything out, to block himself out.



"SHUT UP! JUST DIE! ALL OF YOU JUST DIE!" Prince Vegeta screamed, in a twisted frenzy, he lashed out and kicked his father hard enough to propel him across the yard, smashing into the side of the outer court building.

Vegeta then turned his attention to Bardock, moving at blinding speed to appear in front of him and round house kicking him, causing Bardock to fall to the ground.



"NO! STOP IT! SOME ONE, HELP ME!!" Little Vegeta screamed, his eyes shut to the world as he felt pain all around him, searing into his soul and burning through his blood, screaming bloody murder from the inside.

He tried to block out their laughter, he tried to block everything out.

It was then something broke inside him, something...evil...something that would help him....take care of his problems...it would erase him slowly...so that he would never have to feel pain again....



"Why..." Hissed Vegeta as he took Bardocks face into his hands, his eyes tainted and slit like a mad animal, his fangs exposed as he wore a twisted sick grin.

"Why...wont you let me...just disappear?" Vegeta asked, bringing his face close to Bardocks, it was slightly softer than it was, it was as if he was no longer there, his mind else where as he spoke.

"I\'ve...always reached out for you...you couldn\'t save me Bardock...you couldn\'t save me...from them...You couldn\'t save him from them Bardock, it\'s all your fault..." Vegeta hissed, suddenly talking in a third person as he began to laugh wickedly, grabbing Bardock by the back of the head and kissing him roughly on the cheek before whispering in his ear.

"You should have...just left me on that planet...you may come to hate me after all..." Vegeta said, suddenly turning and firing a ki blast at a nearby group of guards, ripping them apart into a cloud of body parts and blood.

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What is going on between Bardock and Vegeta and What will happen to King Vegeta as he faces Vegeta\'s rage..

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