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AN: this really doesn't have a time setting, but Goten is like nine or ten so Gohan's like nineteen. Oh yeah and I'm just going to say Videl and Mr. Satan were transported back to SM dimension in the place of Rei and Ami. sorry if the time line isn't right for Buu and Goku coming back, but this just came to me. So yeah hope you like it.
KABOOM
The explosion seemed to almost rattle the Earth. Well it was no surprise since the two most powerful men on the planet were fighting each other, even though one was still a teen. Gohan and Vegeta were doing a practice fight, although Vegeta had mainly done it to prove he was more powerful, as usual. The older Saiyan had made it very clear that they were to hold nothing back, and they hadn't. But that explosion had been the two colliding in super Saiyan form, meaning that once the dust cleared, the field they were on would be destroyed and the two would finally be tired enough to stop and go clear out all the food in their respective homes. What neither expected when the dust cleared was that there would be two girls lying on the ground, holding hands and utterly unconscious.
Vegeta was breathing heavily, "What the?" he said, looking at the girls with a mix of anger and confusion.
"Wow," Gohan said as he landed next to the two, cautiously walking towards them. "Uh Vegeta, I think they're hurt." he said, walking even closer to get a better look. As he got with in a foot of the two girls he felt heat start to build until a ring of fire surrounded the girls, almost burning Gohan. Yelping, he jumped back staring in shock at the flames licking around the two, afraid they might be burnt. Vegeta watched as the boy floated up, seeing if he could get in from the top, but the fire just closed into a dome around the girls. The boy took a deep breath then dove into the fire, after a second he came out holding onto a hand of each girl. He landed a few feet away from the ring of fire, miraculously unscathed . "Hey, Vegeta, a little help would be appreciated, I'm not carrying them both to Capsule Corp." the boy shouted up to him.
"Why should I bring them there?" the older man sneered, landing next to the boy and folding his arms. He would never understand why the kid cared so much about others, he was one of the most powerful beings in the universe, he shouldn't have to care.
Gohan let out a frustrated breath, "Ok what about this? If you do then I'll fight you full force, no holding back." he proposed, knowing it would hook the man.
"You weren't before?" Vegeta's eyes narrowed dangerously.
"Kinda, but if you help me, I'll go all the way." Gohan said sheepishly.
Grunting, Vegeta took the tiny girl with short dark blue hair in his arms, grumbling about her clothes being weird, then shooting off to his home. Gohan sighed and followed. Glancing down at the girl in his arms he realized Vegeta was right, both girls were wearing odd outfits. The girl he carried wore a red skirt with matching high heels that showed off her legs. A white shirt connected with her short skirt and a red bow was on her chest. Gohan was pretty sure the other girl was wearing a blue version of the outfit, but then his eyes landed on her face. It had a little dirt on it but under it was beautiful porcelain skin, her lips had a natural looking red shine to them and her eyebrows were arched, giving her a severely beautiful face, even in unconsciousness. Her hair was flying everywhere as he held her in his arms, it was midnight black hair but with a tint of purple, and was so long that Gohan saw no end to it. She moaned, ripping him from his thoughts. Blushing he concentrated on following Vegeta.
Luckily she didn't wake up and Gohan landed at Capsule Corp in a few seconds. Vegeta hadn't waited apparently, so the young man walked into the open door and directly into the living room where everyone had congregated, staring at the blue haired girl now laying on the couch. The girl with blue hair was obviously awake and she was staring back at everyone with wide ocean blue eyes. "Uh, guys I think you're scaring her." Gohan spoke up from behind them.
The group jumped, Vegeta snickered from his place on a chair as Bulma walked in with medical supplies. Yamcha rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, Trunks shrugged and sat in another chair next to Goten, who was watching the proceedings with curious eyes, as Goku just kept staring at her with a confused look. "Gohan, what happened?" the young man flinched at his mother's severe voice. Slowly turning he gave her a charming smile, which was quickly wiped off as she glared at him.
"Uh, I don't know. Me and Vegeta were fighting and then they just appeared." he said, hoping his mother wouldn't yell and wake the girl in his arms.
"Chi-Chi, why don't we let the girls heal and stuff before we start asking questions." Goku soothed his wife, putting and arm around her and grinning at her. Chi-Chi's face softened and she nodded.
"Well, once the other one wakes up they'll probably be hungry, I'll go make something. You okay with a sandwich honey?" she asked the girl on the couch who numbly nodded, her eyes still wide and uncomprehending. Chic-Chi gave her a sympathetic smile and went into the state of the art kitchen.
"You can put her on the couch Gohan," Bulma said gesturing to the other blue couch in the living room, as she put a bandage on the blue haired girls arm, which was scrapped up. The girl didn't even seem to notice, her eyes followed Gohan until he put the purple and black haired girl down on the couch, gently slipping his hands out from under her and shifting the pillows so she was more comfortable. "Hey, can you tell me your name kid?" Bulma asked, waving her hand in front of her face.
Blinking the girl slowly got up and started limping towards the girl on the other couch. No one tried to stop her, just watched quietly as she slid down on her knees next to her friend. Not even Vegeta commented as tears started to spill down her cheeks. She watched the still unconscious girl, stroking her long hair as she whispered a name, "Rei." Everyone watched as she sobbed next to the girl, Gohan just stood at the arm of the couch watching. It seemed to be an unspoken agreement to stay quiet, they all felt as if they were intruding.
Bulma calmly walked over after a moment and sat on the couch, taking the blue eyed girl's hand she looked into her eyes with sincerity, "Can you tell us what happened to Rei?" she asked gently. At that everyone froze, waiting for an answer.
Taking a gulp of air the girl controlled herself, keeping the tears in. "My name's Ami," she whispered, Bulma nodded, she continued, "They destroyed it all, everything she cared about. There was suppose to be peace, at last, but some were still loyal to Beryl. They attacked us at the temple, today was supposed to be a good day not a battle. We were supposed to get closure, but they ruined it all. We fought them off but they destroyed the temple, the grave, everything with in a 1.562 mile radius, we stopped them but we were so tired. They caught us off guard...and then there was an explosion and I woke up here. I'm 74.5 % sure we either died or went through an inter dimensional rift." she murmured, staring at her friend. "Rei will kill me when she finds out I said all of this." Ami chuckled ruefully. No one commented, no one understood what she was saying.
Silence dominated the room until a moan came from the girl lying on the couch. All heads snapped at her as she shifted. The girl, now known as Rei, snapped her eyes open, her gaze scanned the room settling on her friend who smiled at her in relief. But then her gaze locked on the others, total strangers and Gohan saw her beautiful violet eyes narrow in contempt as they landed on Vegeta. In a second the girl had flipped over the back of the couch and was on her feet, a blazing sword of fire in her hand. "Ami, get behind me." she ordered, glaring directly at Vegeta, who cocked a brow at her then his eyes widened slightly.
"Goku, do you feel it?" he asked the man standing next to him, both were in fighting stances next to their sons. Goku glanced at the other man in confusion, then it dawned on him. He quickly started to pay attention to the ki in the room. At first it seemed normal then he felt the two girls' ki and his eyes widened. The girl with blue hair had a high ki but not as high as the one holding the flaming sword that had appeared from no where, he was pretty sure her's was higher because she was angry. The girl called Rei had a ki that was in league with Vegeta's and Gohan's in Super Saiyan form at the moment. Goku was surprised he hadn't felt it before since the other girl had a similar ki that seemed to rise with emotion and seemed just as powerful in contentedness.
"Wow that's a really high ki you got there." Goku commented, smiling at her in a friendly way. Her eyes narrowed as the sword seemed to glow with more fire.
Ami sighed as she reached over and tried to lower the weapon, with little success. "Rei, I'm happy you're awake, but seriously, you have to learn to listen before you draw a weapon. These people helped us, they seem good." she said, with an exasperated look.
Rei frowned but extinguished the sword of fire, turning to her companion she smirked down at her darkly, "You Mercurians, always the peace keepers and logistical ones." she seemed to tease.
Ami grinned back happily, "Yep, at least I'm not a Martian, always the warriors and men haters, oh yeah and don't you have that rumor of being green little men." she shot back as everyone else looked on in confusion. They even jumped in shock as the taller one laughed, Gohan blinked at her laughter, it was light and tinkling but with a dark edge. Oh well, at least they're okay, and it seems it wasn't my fault after all, he mentally shrugged, he had thought that he and Vegeta had gotten too caught in their fight and hadn't noticed the two girls and accidentally hurt them. That's why he didn't like fighting, people got hurt, or worse, died. To his shock the girl abruptly stopped laughing and stared at him curiously as Bulma started chattering away with Ami, who turned out to be a whiz kid.
Looking into the girl's violet eyes, Gohan almost got lost in the emotions swirling with in them. She smirked at him then turned away, although she looked uncomfortable from the looks she was receiving from Yamcha, Goten and Trunks, who were all watching her in awe. Gohan watched her sigh and pull Bulma away from her conversation with the blue haired genius, they had been discussing something along the lines of dimension hopping. After a quick conversation, Bulma scanned the room before her eyes landed on Gohan, a wicked glint in them.
"Hey guys can one of you escort Rei and Ami to a bathroom so they can get a shower while I get the girls some new clothes?" she asked, still watching Gohan with an almost malicious smile as he begged her with his eyes not to. If he was alone with her he'd probably embarrass himself. Luckily Bulma was distracted as two more guests arrived, Tien and Chiaotzu.
"Hey Bulma, Krillin told us you were having a reunion barbecue, decided to drop by if tha- uh who are they?" Tien asked, looking between the girls. Ami blushed as Rei looked back with a blank expression.
"Perfect timing guys." Bulma said happily as Vegeta rolled his eyes at Bulma's need to play match maker and Goku went to the kitchen with Goten and Trunks in tow, all three were starving. "Tien this is Ami and Rei, Vegeta and Gohan found them in a field when they were fighting, we're thinking dimension hopping. Oh can you show Ami where she can get a shower, thanks." she said quickly, giving him a sweet smile as he looked at her with wide eyes with his friend floating near his head. Bulma acted as if this happened on a daily bases, well it was that or an attack on the Earth. "Well can you? They were just in a fight, I think they deserve a shower." Bulma said impatiently.
"Uh sure." Tien said, still shocked, turning to a blushing Ami he continued, "I'm Tien and this is Chiaotzu." he said gesturing to his friend who floated over to her and stared.
"Hi, I like your hat." she said, smiling at the boy. He blinked and his face colored before he shot back over to his friend. "It's nice to meet you both." she continued sweetly, she gave Tien a furrowed brow, "It must be very helpful having a third eye, I like the color too." she commented in a curious voice. Tien stiffened in shock, most people tried to ignore it or poked fun at it, but this girl seemed genuinely curious about his eye.
Tien decided to change the subject though, "Follow me." he said, but not gruffly, as he started to walk away followed by Ami, who wore a confused expression.
"Hey, Tien, Chiaotzu, if I hear either of you layed a finger on her...well lets just say I have a lot of anger to work out of my system." Rei called after them, with a menacing look. Tien turned and nodded seriously, understanding her concern. Chiaotzu stared at her with wide eyes, Is that a yes or no?, he heard a voice say in his head. Jumping in the air he stared back at the beauty and nodded his head, saying in her head, Of course, I will respect a fellow telepath's wishes. Giving him a kind smile, that made him almost drool, she bowed her head slightly which he did in return. Turning away the little man followed the other two.
"What was that about?" Bulma asked, having noticed the two telepaths exchange.
"Nothing, just a warning." Rei said with a smirk in Vegeta's direction, obviously including him in the warning she gave the other two men about touching her friend. "Now can I go take a shower please?" she asked politely, turning to Bulma.
Bulma's eyes traveled to the only other male in the room besides her husband or still drooling ex, Gohan. "Yeah, Gohan, you know where the other shower is right? Tien will probably bring her to the second floor one. I think the third floor one is clogged, why don't you bring Rei to the fifth floor one? The elevator got fixed." she suggested, trying to make it not obvious she wanted to laugh at Gohan's panicked expression.
"Uh..." he trailed off, staring at Rei who coked a brow.
"I do not need his help, I can find it if you give me directions." she said, still staring at Gohan with a challenging gleam in her eyes, as if to ask if he was scared of little old her.
Gohan must have more Saiyan blood in him than he thought, because at that look he felt the need to prove her wrong and defend his masculinity. "No, I can take you, it's really easy to get lost in here." he said, giving her a fake smile.
"That's perfect then, once you're done you can come down and eat with us. Chi-Chi makes way more food than necessary, and I bet your hungry from inter dimensional travel." Bulma said happily, not noticing the glare Rei was giving Gohan, but Vegeta did and laughed, getting up from his chair he started to walk out of the room.
"Goodbye harpy." he called over his shoulder, Rei glared. She had had an instant dislike for the man on hearing his thoughts on Ami and her revealing outfits. His comment pushed her over the edge and she created a spark in her hand and flicked it at him, it lighted in his clothes and caught fire. As it spread he desperately tried to put it out, dancing around like an idiot.
"I know he's mean, but he is my husband, so if you could..." Bulma trailed off watching her husband jump around, trying to hide a smile.
Rei sighed, "Of course, my apologies." she said, with a flick of her hand the fire stopped and Vegeta was left there fuming covered in ash.
"I'll get you for that harpy." he growled, but he backed down at the glare that Bulma sent him. If he wasn't good then he'd be sleeping outside for weeks.
"Good luck with that prince." she said sarcastically, as he arched a brow she snorted, "Even if this is another dimension I still remember from my past life the Saiyans, brutes tried to take my planet in the Silver Millennium. When they were defeated they used their technology to jump to this dimension. I can sense a Saiyan of noble birth a galaxy away, we Martians will never forget how you ravaged our homes before you felt our wrath and fled like cowering dogs." she sneered.
Vegeta's eyes narrowed, "Yes, well if I remember correctly all Martians were wiped out by Beryl and her forces. That's why we Saiyans left, we were smart enough to know that your dimension was doomed, and to never go back." he snapped. "Your people were weak when it came down to it. You should have burned like the rest for not being able to protect your own planet and being too preoccupied with that sniveling Moon Princess, Sailor Mars."
Gohan and Bulma watched with wide eyes as the girls eyes seemed to catch fire, "Take it back." she whispered in a dangerous voice. The Saiyan smirked in a taunting way, only making her ignite fire in her hands, to Gohan's horror. "My people-" she started.
"Were sniv-" Vegeta began, but Gohan cut him off before he could say more. "Were probably amazing, but why don't you go get cleaned up, Rei, and then you can settle this later." he said desperately, she looked at him and her face seemed to soften, she stopped the fire in her hands and took a few breaths before glaring at Vegeta.
"Yes, I don't want the smell of Saiyan to stick to my skin much longer, we'll finish this later, may the best Martian win the battle." she said, turning to the door that Ami had disappeared through, Gohan following behind.
As they went further down the hall, Gohan heard Vegeta shout after them ," You mean last Martian right? Or do you mean Saiyan? More appropriate don't you think." Looking at the girl he saw her muscles clench as if she was trying to keep from punching something. As they walked down the hall to the elevator the silence was as loud as a room full of people, making Gohan feel even more uncomfortable. Once they got to the elevator, Gohan pressed the button but nothing happened, he had a creeping suspicion Bulma had stopped it on purpose.
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