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Point of no return II

"I thought maybe you would want to have this, Trunks."

"What is it?"

"This is a pendant with the family crest of your father's royal Saiyan lineage. You're Vegeta's son, a prince in your own right. If anyone deserves to have this, it's you."

The thirteen-year-old took the chain with the engraved pendant in his hands as if it was made of porcelain. He didn't have anything of his father's except his blood and his features. It was like he had suddenly stumbled upon the world's greatest treasure, and he treated it as such. "Wow... this was really my father's?"

Bulma smiled a pained smile. "The chain? Not exactly. I had it made for him, but well... I never got the chance to give it to him..."

"I see," he said gently, holding the chain up in admiration. "His royal family crest..." he said in awe.

"Yours now."

Trunks stared at the two items a moment longer, before panic hit him as he realized that Vegeta was sure as hell going to notice that the broken piece of armor was no longer near him. He put his chain back under his suit and thought about what he should do next. He decided to put the piece of armor away first and then look for tools. The teenager jogged back to the room the Saiyans all shared and frowned when he saw the scanner to get back in.

Damn it, he thought to himself. Not knowing what else to do, he decided to just go for it and raised his hand to the scanner.

To his shock, the door opened.

Trunks immediately went over to the cot his father had been laying in, and grimaced in disgust. He put a hand to his mouth and covered his nose, the feeling of nausea coming back with a vengeance at the smell of the blood. The teenager held back a gag, before looking at the small piece of armor that his father had kept for who knew how many years. He put it down on the floor, tucked in the corner. If Vegeta asked, he figured he could say that it fell out of his grip when he helped him to the rejuvenation chamber.

Trunks was turning to leave when he almost ran right into Nappa. Startled, the teenager sat down on Vegeta's cot. Nappa gave him a suspicious look.

"Did I interrupt something, kid?"

"No," Trunks immediately replied, cursing the Saiyan's bad timing.

"Did you get Vegeta to a rejuvenation chamber?"

"Yeah. Some guy named Cui set him up."

Nappa snorted. "That fish face freak talks too damn much. Vegeta is going to kill that guy one day." Trunks just nodded as he silently pondered whether or not to ask Nappa where he could find some tools. "Well, I just wanted to see if you were hungry and wanted to grab some grub, kid." Almost on cue, Trunks' stomach growled. Nappa smirked as the teenager blushed in embarrassment. "Guess that's a hell yeah huh?"

"Um, well, actually," Trunks started as he removed his red scouter and looked down at it. "I think there's something weird with this scouter. Is there somewhere I could maybe find some tools to fix it with?"

Nappa looked down at the scouter, before looking back at Trunks like he was crazy. "Just get a new one, kid. And here I actually thought you were smart," he laughed.

Trunks sighed in defeat. He was resolving to just look on his own for tools when he suddenly realized that if they did have a big supply of scouters, they might have something there that he could use. The teen looked up at Nappa, "Where can I get a new scouter, Nappa?"

"Didn't Vegeta take you to the equipment room to get changed? There are scouters there."

"Great," Trunks said, standing up now. He was pretty sure he remembered where that was. Nappa frowned as he looked at him.