Spiritual Misadventure
By: Agasaki Ishano
Disclaimer: I do not own anything but my ideas and myself, take them and die.
"Speech" *Thoughts * _Emphasis _
(My notes)
Chapter one: In The Beginning
A dark haired boy, 16 years of age, walked down the moderately busy streets of Lindsay, Ontario. His large black coat, barely keeping the harsh winter winds from his vulnerable skin, he entered Archie's, a comic, cards and video store. He nodded to the man at the counter, whose name he had never bothered to get or remember if he had asked for it before. "Hey." He muttered as he glanced at the comic shelf, not seeing any new ones, he turned to the man. "Do you know when you'll be getting some new X-treme X- men?" He casually asked of the storekeeper.
The keeper shook his head, "I don't know. They should have been in last week. Try again next week Ok?"
The youth shrugged slightly, "Ok, sure. Anything new for Magic." He questioned as he looked over to the clear glass case that held the boosters and starter sets of one of the only games that kept his attention for a long period of time.
Again the storekeeper shook his head, "Apocalypse is still the only new set out so far."
The boy nodded and attempted to start up some small talk to avoid going home to face the horror of studying for exams. "Got any favourite cards from the set?"
The storekeeper began to respond but a teenager in a black trench coat entered and walked towards the magazine rack. The guy at the counter kept one eye on the new kid while still talking to the first youth. "Not really, they all have their perks. But if you're running a green/black I'd add a few penumbra creatures and some regenerator spells."
Another kid walked into the store, "Hey Evan." He said, perking up a bit as he saw his friends face.
"Hey Paul. What's up?" Evan responded. "You getting some magic or something?"
Paul nodded and asked the storekeeper for a starter pack. Soon after he left, the other two teens still in the store.
Just then, the trench coat kid pulled out a 9mm automatic pistol, and yelled out, "Both of you!! On the floor!!" Evan and the teller responded quickly, dropping to the floor. The gun toting kid rang in a purchase and started to empty the cash register. Evan began his attempt to escape. He slowly slithered towards the door of the store, but the trench-coated teen noticed him and squeezed off five rounds. Evan convulsed in pain as each hollow pointed round cut through his flesh and ripped up his internal organs, spraying blood on the floor as they exited the other side. Evan screamed as the boy released another six shots that shattered his cranium and brought darkness.
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Evan awoke in a void, with small specks of light smattering the background. *I must be dreaming. This can't be real. * Evan felt his stomach lurch as the points of light closed in on him and engulfed him in bright whiteness. *Uhh, did I take acid or something? Cause this is crazy trippy. * He thought as he felt another lurch and the light giving points shot back to their previous position. *What the hell is going on!?! It feels like I'm in some sort of weird catapult that won't fire at an angle. Down then up and down again. Man this is tiring. * Then he felt a new sensation, much like feathers covering his body, sort of tingly. *Ok, I thought the broken catapult bit was weird, but this takes the. * Evan never finished his thought as the 'catapult' launched him at an incredible velocity towards the points of light. When he hit the light, instead of stopping and falling again, he broke through it and picked up speed. Strange voices, or at least Evan thought they were voices, started calling out in different languages, or at least tones of voice. Then everything became like some strange, real life science fiction movie as oddly shaped space craft of various designs began moving around, flying from planet to planet and occasionally shooting at each other with beams of energy. Then Evan spotted something strange, something he recognised.
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"King Vegeta! You must believe me!!" a man with large, black, spiked hair yelled at a larger man with larger, spikier hair.
"Bardock, Frieza will not destroy us, we are to powerful and to large an army. I have nothing to fear for my son." King Vegeta stated and put a hand on a smaller version of himself that looked up to his father and nodded.
"Yes Bardock, we will defeat Frieza." The young prince said in agreement with his father.
"Please. Allow me to help you sire. I can save your son, I have already sent my boy Kakorotte to a distant planet known as Earth. There he will dominate and keep the planet for the race until needed if we survive. But he could use the prince's help as he is much more powerful than my son." Bardock bowed as he attempted to change his lord's mind.
King Vegeta paced, with Vegeta standing back to allow his father to think, "You raise a good point Bardock, to long have I gone without a vacation. Of course your boy will save some of the planets life forms for target practice." Bardock nodded a smile on his face.
"Of course your highness, my boy would not think to disobey, he has been well trained." The king nodded and brushed his hand over his Saiyan armour, taking away a small speck of dirt that had fallen from the ceiling.
"Good, then if Vegeta wishes to accompany your boy he shall." King Vegeta turned to his son. "What do you wish Vegeta?" Vegeta held a hand to his chin.
"I think it would be fun to destroy a planet. I want to go." He answered in a raspy voice. Bardock nodded.
"I'll set up the second pod to the same coordinates Kakorotte went to." King Vegeta nodded.
"See that you do. Vegeta, go with Bardock. You will launch as soon as possible." Vegeta smiled.
"Yes father."
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Evan's eyes grew large, *That's Planet Vegeta. And Frieza. * Evan was to caught up in the moment to notice the Saiyan space pod headed from the planet and towards him. *That means I'm in. * Once again he couldn't finish his thought as the pod rammed through him, and he felt himself again for the first time before some gas poured out of a vent in the pod. Evan outstretched his now small hand and tried to stay awake, but the gas was to powerful and Evan fell into hyper sleep. Small hand collapsing, limp onto his dark Saiyan armour.
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BOOM!!! Evan awoke to the bomb shell of a collision, wondering if he was awake. But strangely everything was dark. *Uh, my head is killing me. * He thought as he felt around for his bed light, which was no where to be found. He passed his hand over some sort of switch and the lights went on. He groggily looked around and snapped to awareness. "WHERE THE HECK AM I!?!?!" He screamed as he pounded on the metallic sidings of the sphere he currently inhabited. Then he noticed his hands. *They're so small, like. a child's. What's going on here? * He looked himself over. *I look familiar, but not the way I should. Something is definitely wrong. I have. Saiyan arm or. Oh god. * he thought as he grimaced when his hand touched a small tail. *As I suspected. I knew I recognized that scene from somewhere. Frieza must have been just about to blow Planet. Evan wiped his forehead and almost screamed. *Ok, this cannot be happening. I cannot be who I think I am. Please God let me wake up. PLEASE!!! * He brought his hand up further, running it smoothly over the large spikes in his hair. Then he swiftly brought his hand down and smacked his face once, then twice when the first blow didn't awaken him from reality. "I guess I'll just have to deal with it." He pushed a hand up against the space sealed door to the pod and it glided open.
"OH MY WORD IT'S A SPACE MAN!!!" A lady screamed, and many others, all yelling about the space man, followed her cry.
Vegeta put a hand on his forehead and brought his head down. "It's going to be a long day." He muttered as he started out of the large crater his pod had made in the downtown area of Orange Star City.
Some police officers leapt behind their cars and drew pistols. "STAY WHERE YOU ARE!!! WE WILL SHOOT!!!" Vegeta shrugged.
"Fine by me, I've already been shot a couple times today." The cops lowered their weapons in confusion.
One officer turned to his partner. "Did he just say 'I've already been shot today?'" He asked. The other officer nodded.
"I think so." Vegeta shook his head.
"Incompetent fools. Can't even arrest a kid." One policeman looked interested.
"Did you just say you were only a kid. Not a space man?" He asked with genuine curiosity.
Vegeta put a hand to his chin. *If I tell these idiots that I'm just a kid who got caught in a Capsule corp. experiment gone wrong, my identity would be safe and Goku would be able to handle the entire Dragonball series without me messing things up. Cause that series is the best part about this universe. Wait I'm still treating this like reality. that I guess it is, cause I was shot and died, maybe that would explain the whole broken catapult. What was that about anyway? * One of the cops had already walked up beside the young Saiyan and was about to put a hand on his shoulder to break off his trance when Vegeta spoke up.
"Yup, I'm just a kid. I was testing this new space pod for Capsule corp. Pretty nifty eh?" *God I feel dumb. * Vegeta thought as he awaited the officer's answer.
The policeman cheered up instantly and placed a firm hand on Vegeta's shoulder. "Ok sonny. You're free to go. But tell Dr. Briefs not to fire any of his contraptions at Orange Star City again please Ok?" Vegeta nodded.
"Sure thing mister!" *I'd like to vaporize him for gene pool cleansing reasons alone. * Vegeta gave of a large phony smile and began walking backwards attempting to get away from the policemen.
"Cute kid eh?" One officer asked his partner.
"Yeah, but someone should cut his hair." The other officer said, both men nodded and let out a simultaneous "Mmhmm" Vegeta just walked away and started to pick up speed.
He stopped three blocks later and considered the second officer's suggestion. "I probably should cut my hair, although it suits me, a nice Gohan in cell series cut would do me fine." He approached a random lady and in a childish voice asked. "Excuse me lady, I'm supposed to meet my mommy at the barber shop. But I don't know where it is. Can you tell me?" He asked, giving off puppy eyes and looking like he was about to cry.
The lady bent down and kindly pointed the way for the Saiyan. "Just down the street dear, you can't miss it. It has a big red and white pole out side of it." She smiled and Vegeta thanked her and started towards the barbershop.
*Oscar please. Thank you, I would like to thank Akira Toriyama for writing these people as mindless buffoons that I may bend to my every will. * He started to walk with a bit of pride in his step, *Oh, I da man. *
As he neared the barbershop he noticed that he would need money to get a trim. *What can I do that isn't to demeaning, such as begging. Stealing is out of the question at the moment, as I don't want to raise any more suspicion with local law enforcement, though they would die at my ha. Got it. Fighting tournaments. * The spiky haired Saiyan looked around, and conveniently enough there was a flyer for a children's anything goes martial arts tournament hosted in another district. *Look out tournament, here comes the prince of the remainder of the Saiyan race. Which reminds me, Radditz and Nappa will be of great aid once I am older. Hehehe. * Vegeta let out some of his evil laugh without realising it and scared away an old lady. *Now I need to know the full power range of this body, cause I haven't seen Vegeta chibi ever. well there was GT but that was his grandkid. *
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Later that day in an abandoned warehouse in Orange Star city. "HA!!!" Vegeta threw a punch that shattered a wooden beam with ease. "Man, I am good. Now to try some ki." Vegeta put one hand in front of him and aimed at another beam. He started to push some energy into that hand and attempted to make it fly at the beam. He began to sweat, pushing harder and harder at the ki that was building in his hand. "Must. shoot. pole." Vegeta grunted as he kept on pushing the ki. "Must. find. out. how." He let out a yell of anger and pushed harder, a ball of bluish green ki appeared out of his hand. He pressed harder and the ball started to grow, then he released the pressure he had been putting on the ball, it expanded ten fold and shot towards the beam at breakneck speed. Vegeta realised what was going to happen and his eyes went wide. "Uh oh." He stated and crossed his arms in front of him to defend against the blast as he had seen some of the characters do in the normal DBZ series.
THUD!. THUD!.. THUD! THUD! THUDTHUDTHUD!! Vegeta panicked when he realised that the thuds where support beams breaking in half and that his ki blast was still going. Just at the most inopportune time, the exhaustion of firing such a blast caught up to the young warrior and he felt weak at the knees. *I have to get out of here!! But my knees are about to collapse, and just as I found out how to control some of my power too!! * Vegeta allowed his knees to go out and he slumped down to the floor, accepting defeat at his own hands. There was a loud cracking sound and the black haired boy looked up to see the roof starting to cave. *I have to do something. I must live. * the cracking grew louder and the roof sagged even lower. *I have to live. I can't die. Not again. * Another loud crack echoed dully through the building and Vegeta attempted to stand. He got up on shaking knees and took four steps towards the doorway that was over 20 feet away. Vegeta became determined and started slithering towards the exit on his stomach. Another dull crack, this time longer and harsher, Vegeta didn't even bother to look up to estimate how much time he had left before the roof collapsed on him. Then, just as Vegeta was 2 feet from safety, a long ripping sound forced him to look up and regret that he did, a large wooden beam fell from the ceiling and landed right on top of him. Vegeta called out for anyone to hear, "HELP ME!! PLEASE!! HELP ME!!" He began to sob. "Not again, please. Not again."
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When the small Saiyan awoke he found that he was in front of a desk, an incredibly large desk, with an equally huge man sitting behind it. The titan of a man looked over his massive desk and down on the short prince. He then returned to his desk and flipped through some files. "Your name is Evan William McNeely, correct?" Evan/Vegeta nodded. "And you were thrown into this body after you died?" Again Evan nodded to in awe of what was happening to say anything.
"Well Evan, your in luck. King Kai wants to see you, he wishes to help you deal with your current situation and train you. You may become a great fighter in that body, but always remember to fight with your heart, stay pure Evan. I realise that you may not be ready to run snake way right now, but try to make your way to King Kai, You do have eternity you know." Evan nodded, still to amazed at what was happening to him. The large man pointed towards the road of Snake Way. Evan walked up to the long road and adjusted his Saiyan armour.
*This is going to take some doing, but if I'm stuck in this body, Kai training will definitely help. Better be off. * Vegeta thought as he started to jog down the road to King Kai's planet.
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Three days later, Vegeta fell to the ground for the umpteenth time in three days, he gasped for breath and reviewed his situation. "Jogging is not helping, though I feel more in shape. I still have like a bazillion miles left. Goku flew there; maybe I can do that too. I mean, my ki level has been rising, I can feel that. If I can use that huge blast, I just might be able to fly." Vegeta stood up after his short breather and spread his legs and arms. He let out a scream and watched as blue ki erupted around him. *Little power up and I should be good to go. * He stopped powering up after a few minutes and jumped into the air, projecting his ki at the ground, sure enough he stayed in air. "WHOH!!! THIS IS COOL!!!" He yelled as he did an in air summersault. He started to laugh at attempted o project himself down snake way. After a few bad attempts involving a few crashes, a couple scarps and a close call at landing in the home for infinite losers he started off in the direction of King Kai's planet at a moderate speed.
"This sure beats walking" he noted as he rocketed down the twisting path. "I could get used to this."
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Six days later.
Vegeta stopped flying as he saw a small planet and the end of Snake way, just in the distance. He laughed and jumped into the air clicking his heels in delight. "I MADE IT!!!" He fired up his flying ability and shot towards the planet. "YEEEEHAAAAAHH!! I MADE IT!!!" He came to a halt just before the miniature planet and remembered the gravity. *I should approach it sort of slow and try to land gently. * He thought as he floated towards the orb.
He slowly made his way to the ground, using more and more ki to keep himself from crashing into the side of the rock. *Slowly, slowly. * He thought as he felt the ground beneath his feet. He stopped projecting ki and stood straight up with only minor difficulty. "Not so bad. Man, Goku must have been a wimp not being able to stand on this planet. Vegeta attempted a step and was sucked, like a vacuum, straight to the ground.
"Oh man, that hurts." He groaned as he attempted to push himself off of the side of the planet and onto his feet.
Then a voice called out, kind of nasal, but familiar to Evan. "henh henh." The voice laughed as Evan felt footsteps approaching him. "Finally someone pays respect to me." He voice started laughing again.
Evan laughed, "Hi King Kai. How are you today?"
King Kai stopped, "A yes. You must be Evan, The one who was trapped in another's body. Correct?"
"Yes, that's me, and you should be glad I got stuck in this body." Evan replied with a strain in his voice.
King Kai looked interested. "Oh, and why would that be Evan?" Evan attempted to shrugged but hurt himself instead and let out a yelp of pain.
"ARGH!!" He yelled, gritting his teeth. "Because. this one. would have caused some nuisance to Earth and put some innocents up here when they could be living. And we wouldn't want overcrowding would we?"
King Kai laughed. "Hey. You just passed the test. You made me laugh. Now shall we start with your training, or do you think you should adjust to the gravity here first?"
Evan screamed and projected ki at the ground, straightening himself in front of King Kai. He grunted roughly. "Let's begin."
King Kai seemed surprised that such a small boy could have that much control over his ki and was silent for a second. "First, you must catch Bubbles." Evan shrugged, this time not hurting himself.
"That could take some doing but I'll try it." Then Bubbles ran up beside the large catfish of a man named King Kai and eeped once.
"Ok, begin." The Kai said and started back to his house to steep a pot of tea.
"ALRIGHT MONKEY!! YOUR MINE!!!" Evan lunged at the simian and projected more ki at the ground, making him fly farther but still missing the monkey, who easily evaded. "Damn monkey." Evan muttered and then remembered his own tail and laughed. "I just dissed myself." He said between laughs.
Bubbles turned around and noticed that Evan was no longer attempting to catch him and climbed the only tree on the planet and picked an apple and started to eat. Evan got an evil grin.
He aimed one hand at the tree and started to charge a small shot of ki at it while powering up enough to fly over and grab the monkey before it knew what was going on.
Evan crawled closer to the tree and cradled the half-formed ball of ki in one hand while using all of his remaining strength to push himself into a jumping position. "heh heh heh." Evan laughed silently as he aimed the blast at the top of the tree so not to destroy King Kai's tree, only a portion of it.
Evan released the blasted and launched himself at Bubbles at about the same time, the blast hitting the tree and knocking Bubbles out of it and Evan catching Bubbles before the monkey even hit the ground. "GOT YA!!!" He yelled as he grasped the chimp with every last ounce of strength he could muster.
King Kai walked out of the house and almost jawdropped. "HOW COULD YOU!?!? YOU HAVEN'T EVEN ADJUSTED TO THE GRAVITY!!!" Evan just smiled and released the confused simian.
"I call it strategy. You should look into it." He laughed a bit and soon King Kai and Bubbles joined in.
"Well you passed this round of training, but the next trial will be much more difficult. You have to." Evan cut him off.
"Give me the hammer and point me towards Gregory." King Kai literally jawdropped this time.
"How the heck did you know that!?!?" He asked in utter confusion,
"Anime. In my world you are just an anime character." King Kai pondered this.
"So you know exactly what will happen before it happens here?"
"Not quite. You see, my being here may throw the entire continuum off. But I'm trying to stay out of Goku's life until absolutely necessary. Like when Radditz comes."
King Kai nodded, "Then this world owns you thanks for saving us." Evan nodded.
"I guess they do don't they. Now on to Gregory." King Kai shook his head.
"First, we eat." Evan's stomach growled in agreement.
"I guess that's a yes from Vegeta. Let's eat!!"
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two weeks later.
Vegeta/Evan had adjusted nicely to the gravity and had been hunting the evasive cricket for two days now. Mallet in hand he silently stalked the small planet over and over. He had grown much more muscular because of this invigorating game of cricket chasing.
"Here Gregory. Come here Gregory. I don't want to bash you with this over sized hammer. No of course not. I just want to give you some nice warm tea King Kai made you." Evan called out hoping to get the insect's interest.
Sure enough a small bug head pooped out from the tree and looked Vegeta over, "Hey, you don't have tea!" He squeaked as Evan prepared a mallet strike.
"No. But I have MALLET!!" Evan swung the large hammer at the bug who skimmed off the side and off around the other side of the planet. "DAMN BUG!! I WILL HIT YOU!!"
"No you won't!" a small voice responded from the other half of the planet.
Vegeta's eyes narrowed. "damn bug." He muttered as he sat down to think up a strategy to hit this bug.
*Tried tricking him, probably won't work again. Hmm, what to do with a bug. * "AH HA!!" Vegeta triumphantly yelled as he rushed to King Kai's house and rummaged through the pantry till he found some sugar. *Ants are drawn to sugar, why not crickets. * "heh heh heh. * Vegeta laughed as he walked out side and began humming a happy tune, spreading sugar in a line up to the tree and putting a large patch right underneath the shade of the apple tree. *Cricket is going to die. *
A few long hours of waiting and not moving, Gregory finally started to eat at the sugar. *Come my pretty, there is a large patch of the sweet stuff right here, underneath my mallet. *
Gregory looked suspicious, not quite comprehending why there was a large row of sugar. He looked down the row and noticed a heaping pile of sugar and didn't question it. He ran at a high speed towards the granulated goodness and started feasting. Then, out of nowhere, a large, wooden mallet connected with the cricket's head, knocking him unconscious.
Vegeta jumped from the tree where he had been hiding. "ONCE AGAIN EVAN IS VICTORIOUS!!!" then he pondered this for a minute. "Or am I now Vegeta? Hmm, I'll ask King Kai after I show him my latest conquest." Evan/Vegeta picked up the small bug and cradled it in his small arms. He then set out towards the house.
In a few minutes Evan encountered King Kai with Gregory just starting to regain consciousness. "I got him good." Vegeta said proudly. "And I was wondering, am I Vegeta or Evan? Cause it's confusing me. I have traits of Vegeta and still retain my conscious memories." King Kai put a hand to his chin and thought about this for a second.
"Well I'd say you're a bit of both." He stated in a sure of himself voice.
Evan/Vegeta stared blankly at him, "Thanks. You are so much help."
King Kai just shrugged. "I suppose you will be called Vegeta more often than Evan so I'd take on the name Vegeta just for simplicities sake." Vegeta thought about this.
"Makes sense, seeing as that's what Nappa and Radditz will call me. Ok then, I am Vegeta." He looked himself over, "Not the Vegeta I hated during DBZ, but still Vegeta. Oh yeah! How will I get back without being wished back to life? I mean nobody knows me down there and If I remember correctly, the Dragonballs are few and far between."
King Kai smiled. "That's the best part. I can contact Guru on Namek and have you wished back to Earth once you have finished some more heavy training." Vegeta looked optimistic.
"Great!! That's some of the best news I've ever heard!!" He jumped up and down creating small craters due to the extensive gravity. He then looked down at his holes. "Oops. I have to fix that don't I?" King Kai nodded.
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Vegeta stood outside the house one week later, with one hand in the air, King Kai close beside him, coaching him in the art of the Spirit Bomb. "Focus Vegeta!! Focus!! Draw from life you have never seen, draw from the planets around you, draw from untapped power inside yourself!" The walking catfish yelled out.
Vegeta groaned as he kept the 40 foot ball of ki floating above his head. "Uhh, King Kai. We've been at this four days now. Can't I get a break. I mean I know I'm dead but I still need sleep." King Kai took this moment of weakness and broke Vegeta down even more.
"A BREAK!! WHEN YOU ARE FACING THE MOST POWERFUL VILLAIN IN THE UNIVERSE." Vegeta cut him off.
"There will always. be one stronger." He grunted as the ball grew another good foot.
King Kai was amazed. "You are wise, you know never to think yourself the best, because there is always one that will best you." Vegeta let out a strained laugh.
"I'm just a kid King Kai. I can't be that wise."
King Kai let out a throaty laugh. "You are the wisest 5 year old I have ever met. Perhaps it's the inner teenager." Vegeta laughed this time with more of a strain as he forced more ki into the large ball making it now about 50 feet in diameter.
"How big did you want this thing? The universe is endless I know. but I can't reach that far." He stated with a small peep of a scream escaping his lips.
King Kai sat down. "I know, I only want it to be about ten times bigger than my planet. That's ten times bigger than you have it now." Vegeta groaned.
"You know Kai. You should start a torture business. you're a pro."
King Kai lay down on his back. "I know, but only for you Vegeta."
Vegeta forced a smile. "What are you intending to do with this anyway?" He asked curiously.
Kai smiled broadly. "Well, with your power, in a few days lets just say I will have a nicer tan." He started laughing in his nasal way and Vegeta just stared at him.
"Your making me create a Spirit Bomb sun!?!?" He almost tossed the ball aside in confusion and anger. "WHY?"
"Because you can." King Kai calmly said as he hopped to his feet. "I'm going to put a kettle of tea on, you want some?" Vegeta nodded.
"And can you throw some Chinese spices in there, cause that's the way I had it at home, and to tell the truth, I kind of miss it." Vegeta started reminiscing as King Kai nodded and made his way to the house.
*I'm never going to see home again so I might as well live with it. Come on!! Don't even think about your past life!!" Vegeta scorned himself, *You are Vegeta now!! You don't have to act like him but at least get over the fact that your name isn't Evan any more, you have no siblings! So stop torturing yourself!! * Vegeta broke down into tears and fell to one knee, still keeping the sprit bomb afloat.
A tear rolled down the Saiyan's face, he let it roll off his face and splash against the hard earth softening a small spot for a few seconds before it evaporated in the heat of the energy ball hovering over the planet, which unbeknownst to Vegeta was increasing greatly with his agony. A few more tears followed the first on a path down the young prince's face, with each one the bomb doubled, drawing from the pain of planets across the universe and beyond. Vegeta looked to the now incredibly bright sky and realised that the bomb was the right size and then some.
"KAI!! GET OUT HERE!!" He yelled, still a slight sob in his voice. "I'M DONE!!"
King Kai ran outside. "You're. not joking." King Kai was clearly amazed. "H- How did you." Vegeta looked almost proud of his tremendous accomplishment if not for the tear lines down his face.
"Kai, I want to fast track my training, I have to get back to normal people. I need to have a social life other than you, a monkey and a talking cricket. It's not normal for a growing boy."
"Ok Vegeta, I will teach you the rest through telepathy on Earth. I'm going to miss you. And please put the sun a bit away from the planet, it's really bright!" Kai said squinting his eyes and attempting to shield himself from the intense heat that amazingly didn't seem to affect the teenager in a child's body.
"Sure thing Kai. We should get a telepathic bond so we can keep in touch. Plus I'll try to send you a few good fighters so you can show off to Grand Kai." Both Kai and Vegeta began laughing.
After a bit Kai started to bond his mind to Vegeta's.
Vegeta thought back to his mentor.
Kai laughed mentally.
Vegeta smiled, sending a wave of happiness to King Kai.
King Kai laughed out loud, "You can't win em all Vegeta!" Vegeta smiled again.
"Guess not Kai. Now are we going to get me alive or what!" He playfully yelled at his friend.
"Sure, I'll get Guru on it. You can take a look around, say good bye to the guys and stuff." King Kai suggested.
Vegeta nodded, "Call me back when the wish is about to be made Ok Kai?" The catfish-man nodded and Vegeta started to take a walk around the small planet.
He approached Bubbles, "Hey buddy! Come here and give me a hug goodbye!!" The monkey lunged at the spiky haired boy and toppled him over, giving him a crushing hug, which Vegeta returned. The two then got up and pretended nothing had ever happened and soon after fell on their backs laughing. Gregory snuck up behind the pair with a bag of sugar a mallet.
"It was a nice trick Vegeta." The small bug admitted, "It will be quiet without you here."
Vegeta smirked, "Don't worry, I'll send a bunch of warriors up here to bash you with a hammer." Gregory looked worried.
"Oh no, I wouldn't want to put you to any trouble." He stammered as he started to back away.
Vegeta lunged at the bug and caught him in his arms, "I was joking Greggy. I won't send people to bash you!" Gregory sighed in relief. "I'll send people and King Kai will make them bash you!" Gregory squirmed out of the boy's grasp and rushed away trying to find a good hiding spot for later use. Vegeta turned back to Bubbles. "We didn't get to play around much Bubbles, but I'm sure I'll come back sometime, I mean I _am_ Vegeta, somebody has to want to kill me!" The monkey laughed and eeped back a conversation that Vegeta didn't understand.
"Um sure Bubbles, what ever you just said." Vegeta mentally complained.
Vegeta smiled and waved to Bubbles, He thought spoke as he started running towards the other side of the planet, using bits of ki to speed his retreat from the monkey.
"Hi King Kai! I said my goodbyes and I'm ready to go! I'll miss you." Vegeta extended his hand for King Kai to shake, which he did.
"It was nice training you Vegeta, you were one of my best students." Vegeta released Kai's hand and bowed before his tutor.
"It was an honour being trained by you." He rose from his deep bow, and then added. "But we can still train telepathically." King Kai nodded, his eyes getting misty.
"Guru says it's time to go. You will be exactly where your body was when you died."
Vegeta nodded. "Ok. Oh, and about that, was my death accidental, or did you have a hand in it, cause I don't think I could use that much ki at such a young age." King Kai smiled.
"Although I wanted you to be up here to train you for the coming troubles, I didn't play any part in your death. You did that quite well on your own." The spiky haired Saiyan shook his head as he remembered the incident at the warehouse.
"I am quite the reckless kid eh?" King Kai nodded.
Vegeta felt a tingling, much like at the 'catapult' before. "I guess this is goodbye for now, but I'll see you later."
"Not too often I hope." Kai said with a chuckle.
"No not too often." The a bright light rushed towards Vegeta, sucking him into it and spitting him outside of the warehouse which apparently had just been rebuilt and had a plaque with a copper engraving of his face and some writing on it.
"Ok, that is weird. I wonder if I can visit my grave? Or did they bury me?" Vegeta shook his head to clear the questions and started to read the plaque.
*This new Orange Star City warehouse is dedicated to the little boy with the tail, whose life was cut short when this building collapsed on him. God rest his soul. * Vegeta laughed, *God rest my soul indeed! I just seem to be immortal!! Who needs to wish for it when I can just body hop! * The young Saiyan started laughing loudly, which drew the attention of workers inside the warehouse.
One of the men poked their head out and quickly pulled it back in. "You guys!" Came a slightly muffled voice from behind the large steel door. "I think I just saw a ghost!!" Some masculine groans of disbelief echoed out of the warehouse shortly after. "SERIOUS!! I SAW A GHOST OF THE KID!!"
"What! The kid!?! The one who was killed at this very building?"
"NO WAY!! Let me see!"
A large amount of heads popped out the side of the half opened door, just to see a set of Saiyan armour lying on the ground.
*heh, that'll keep em wondering for a while. Now then, I am trained so I can fight in that Kid's martial arts tournament. Then I will finally get my haircut! * Vegeta walked down the street and received many different remarks about him bearing a resemblance to the kid who had died over at the new warehouse.
*Man these people take everything to heart! One little kid just happens to shoot the support beams out of a large building and get crushed and they make a massive deal out of it. One that lasts just over a month! * He approached the barbershop he had visited before and found the flyer for the tournament. *Well, better prepare. I don't want to disappoint the public with a bad battle do I? * Vegeta thought as he strolled casually towards the outskirts of the City and out into the farmlands. *I'll just train out here, what's the worst that could happen? *
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Author's notes: (well that's the first of many chapters of me being trapped in Vegeta's body. The fact that he, and Krillen, are my least favourite characters in the entire anime just happened to suit seeing how most people would go for one of their personal favourites, such as Goku or Trunks, or if you have seen Ranma ½ a lot of writers go into Ranma. Anyways, I wanted to point that out so you don't think I am liking this. I mean, it's not bad, but it's now Piccolo. Now if I was going easy on myself, that is who I would have chosen hands down. I mean the man, although there are no men in Namekian culture because of asexual reproduction, leads a hard life. First he, as Kami, gets rejected from the position of Earth Guardian, then he gets kicked out of his own body just because he is evil! IS THAT A CRIME!!. well it generally leads up to one or more crimes but now I'm contradicting myself. Anyway, he is booted from his body and then this little runt of a kid rips straight through his gut, forcing him to shoot of an egg, which becomes the Piccolo we know and love. Anyways he keeps getting his ass handed to him, and then he has to go through King Kai's madness! WILL THE EVILS NEVER STOP FOR THIS POOR SOUL!! But back to Spiritual Misadventures. I will be fighting in a tournament over in another district as you may have guessed, but before that there will be a complication, and a bit of a twist on the story. I think you'll enjoy it. Well see you when I get the next chapter done! BYE!)
Agasaki Ishano e-mail- agasaki@crystal-tokyo.com website-
By: Agasaki Ishano
Disclaimer: I do not own anything but my ideas and myself, take them and die.
"Speech" *Thoughts * _Emphasis _
(My notes)
Chapter one: In The Beginning
A dark haired boy, 16 years of age, walked down the moderately busy streets of Lindsay, Ontario. His large black coat, barely keeping the harsh winter winds from his vulnerable skin, he entered Archie's, a comic, cards and video store. He nodded to the man at the counter, whose name he had never bothered to get or remember if he had asked for it before. "Hey." He muttered as he glanced at the comic shelf, not seeing any new ones, he turned to the man. "Do you know when you'll be getting some new X-treme X- men?" He casually asked of the storekeeper.
The keeper shook his head, "I don't know. They should have been in last week. Try again next week Ok?"
The youth shrugged slightly, "Ok, sure. Anything new for Magic." He questioned as he looked over to the clear glass case that held the boosters and starter sets of one of the only games that kept his attention for a long period of time.
Again the storekeeper shook his head, "Apocalypse is still the only new set out so far."
The boy nodded and attempted to start up some small talk to avoid going home to face the horror of studying for exams. "Got any favourite cards from the set?"
The storekeeper began to respond but a teenager in a black trench coat entered and walked towards the magazine rack. The guy at the counter kept one eye on the new kid while still talking to the first youth. "Not really, they all have their perks. But if you're running a green/black I'd add a few penumbra creatures and some regenerator spells."
Another kid walked into the store, "Hey Evan." He said, perking up a bit as he saw his friends face.
"Hey Paul. What's up?" Evan responded. "You getting some magic or something?"
Paul nodded and asked the storekeeper for a starter pack. Soon after he left, the other two teens still in the store.
Just then, the trench coat kid pulled out a 9mm automatic pistol, and yelled out, "Both of you!! On the floor!!" Evan and the teller responded quickly, dropping to the floor. The gun toting kid rang in a purchase and started to empty the cash register. Evan began his attempt to escape. He slowly slithered towards the door of the store, but the trench-coated teen noticed him and squeezed off five rounds. Evan convulsed in pain as each hollow pointed round cut through his flesh and ripped up his internal organs, spraying blood on the floor as they exited the other side. Evan screamed as the boy released another six shots that shattered his cranium and brought darkness.
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Evan awoke in a void, with small specks of light smattering the background. *I must be dreaming. This can't be real. * Evan felt his stomach lurch as the points of light closed in on him and engulfed him in bright whiteness. *Uhh, did I take acid or something? Cause this is crazy trippy. * He thought as he felt another lurch and the light giving points shot back to their previous position. *What the hell is going on!?! It feels like I'm in some sort of weird catapult that won't fire at an angle. Down then up and down again. Man this is tiring. * Then he felt a new sensation, much like feathers covering his body, sort of tingly. *Ok, I thought the broken catapult bit was weird, but this takes the. * Evan never finished his thought as the 'catapult' launched him at an incredible velocity towards the points of light. When he hit the light, instead of stopping and falling again, he broke through it and picked up speed. Strange voices, or at least Evan thought they were voices, started calling out in different languages, or at least tones of voice. Then everything became like some strange, real life science fiction movie as oddly shaped space craft of various designs began moving around, flying from planet to planet and occasionally shooting at each other with beams of energy. Then Evan spotted something strange, something he recognised.
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"King Vegeta! You must believe me!!" a man with large, black, spiked hair yelled at a larger man with larger, spikier hair.
"Bardock, Frieza will not destroy us, we are to powerful and to large an army. I have nothing to fear for my son." King Vegeta stated and put a hand on a smaller version of himself that looked up to his father and nodded.
"Yes Bardock, we will defeat Frieza." The young prince said in agreement with his father.
"Please. Allow me to help you sire. I can save your son, I have already sent my boy Kakorotte to a distant planet known as Earth. There he will dominate and keep the planet for the race until needed if we survive. But he could use the prince's help as he is much more powerful than my son." Bardock bowed as he attempted to change his lord's mind.
King Vegeta paced, with Vegeta standing back to allow his father to think, "You raise a good point Bardock, to long have I gone without a vacation. Of course your boy will save some of the planets life forms for target practice." Bardock nodded a smile on his face.
"Of course your highness, my boy would not think to disobey, he has been well trained." The king nodded and brushed his hand over his Saiyan armour, taking away a small speck of dirt that had fallen from the ceiling.
"Good, then if Vegeta wishes to accompany your boy he shall." King Vegeta turned to his son. "What do you wish Vegeta?" Vegeta held a hand to his chin.
"I think it would be fun to destroy a planet. I want to go." He answered in a raspy voice. Bardock nodded.
"I'll set up the second pod to the same coordinates Kakorotte went to." King Vegeta nodded.
"See that you do. Vegeta, go with Bardock. You will launch as soon as possible." Vegeta smiled.
"Yes father."
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Evan's eyes grew large, *That's Planet Vegeta. And Frieza. * Evan was to caught up in the moment to notice the Saiyan space pod headed from the planet and towards him. *That means I'm in. * Once again he couldn't finish his thought as the pod rammed through him, and he felt himself again for the first time before some gas poured out of a vent in the pod. Evan outstretched his now small hand and tried to stay awake, but the gas was to powerful and Evan fell into hyper sleep. Small hand collapsing, limp onto his dark Saiyan armour.
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BOOM!!! Evan awoke to the bomb shell of a collision, wondering if he was awake. But strangely everything was dark. *Uh, my head is killing me. * He thought as he felt around for his bed light, which was no where to be found. He passed his hand over some sort of switch and the lights went on. He groggily looked around and snapped to awareness. "WHERE THE HECK AM I!?!?!" He screamed as he pounded on the metallic sidings of the sphere he currently inhabited. Then he noticed his hands. *They're so small, like. a child's. What's going on here? * He looked himself over. *I look familiar, but not the way I should. Something is definitely wrong. I have. Saiyan arm or. Oh god. * he thought as he grimaced when his hand touched a small tail. *As I suspected. I knew I recognized that scene from somewhere. Frieza must have been just about to blow Planet. Evan wiped his forehead and almost screamed. *Ok, this cannot be happening. I cannot be who I think I am. Please God let me wake up. PLEASE!!! * He brought his hand up further, running it smoothly over the large spikes in his hair. Then he swiftly brought his hand down and smacked his face once, then twice when the first blow didn't awaken him from reality. "I guess I'll just have to deal with it." He pushed a hand up against the space sealed door to the pod and it glided open.
"OH MY WORD IT'S A SPACE MAN!!!" A lady screamed, and many others, all yelling about the space man, followed her cry.
Vegeta put a hand on his forehead and brought his head down. "It's going to be a long day." He muttered as he started out of the large crater his pod had made in the downtown area of Orange Star City.
Some police officers leapt behind their cars and drew pistols. "STAY WHERE YOU ARE!!! WE WILL SHOOT!!!" Vegeta shrugged.
"Fine by me, I've already been shot a couple times today." The cops lowered their weapons in confusion.
One officer turned to his partner. "Did he just say 'I've already been shot today?'" He asked. The other officer nodded.
"I think so." Vegeta shook his head.
"Incompetent fools. Can't even arrest a kid." One policeman looked interested.
"Did you just say you were only a kid. Not a space man?" He asked with genuine curiosity.
Vegeta put a hand to his chin. *If I tell these idiots that I'm just a kid who got caught in a Capsule corp. experiment gone wrong, my identity would be safe and Goku would be able to handle the entire Dragonball series without me messing things up. Cause that series is the best part about this universe. Wait I'm still treating this like reality. that I guess it is, cause I was shot and died, maybe that would explain the whole broken catapult. What was that about anyway? * One of the cops had already walked up beside the young Saiyan and was about to put a hand on his shoulder to break off his trance when Vegeta spoke up.
"Yup, I'm just a kid. I was testing this new space pod for Capsule corp. Pretty nifty eh?" *God I feel dumb. * Vegeta thought as he awaited the officer's answer.
The policeman cheered up instantly and placed a firm hand on Vegeta's shoulder. "Ok sonny. You're free to go. But tell Dr. Briefs not to fire any of his contraptions at Orange Star City again please Ok?" Vegeta nodded.
"Sure thing mister!" *I'd like to vaporize him for gene pool cleansing reasons alone. * Vegeta gave of a large phony smile and began walking backwards attempting to get away from the policemen.
"Cute kid eh?" One officer asked his partner.
"Yeah, but someone should cut his hair." The other officer said, both men nodded and let out a simultaneous "Mmhmm" Vegeta just walked away and started to pick up speed.
He stopped three blocks later and considered the second officer's suggestion. "I probably should cut my hair, although it suits me, a nice Gohan in cell series cut would do me fine." He approached a random lady and in a childish voice asked. "Excuse me lady, I'm supposed to meet my mommy at the barber shop. But I don't know where it is. Can you tell me?" He asked, giving off puppy eyes and looking like he was about to cry.
The lady bent down and kindly pointed the way for the Saiyan. "Just down the street dear, you can't miss it. It has a big red and white pole out side of it." She smiled and Vegeta thanked her and started towards the barbershop.
*Oscar please. Thank you, I would like to thank Akira Toriyama for writing these people as mindless buffoons that I may bend to my every will. * He started to walk with a bit of pride in his step, *Oh, I da man. *
As he neared the barbershop he noticed that he would need money to get a trim. *What can I do that isn't to demeaning, such as begging. Stealing is out of the question at the moment, as I don't want to raise any more suspicion with local law enforcement, though they would die at my ha. Got it. Fighting tournaments. * The spiky haired Saiyan looked around, and conveniently enough there was a flyer for a children's anything goes martial arts tournament hosted in another district. *Look out tournament, here comes the prince of the remainder of the Saiyan race. Which reminds me, Radditz and Nappa will be of great aid once I am older. Hehehe. * Vegeta let out some of his evil laugh without realising it and scared away an old lady. *Now I need to know the full power range of this body, cause I haven't seen Vegeta chibi ever. well there was GT but that was his grandkid. *
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Later that day in an abandoned warehouse in Orange Star city. "HA!!!" Vegeta threw a punch that shattered a wooden beam with ease. "Man, I am good. Now to try some ki." Vegeta put one hand in front of him and aimed at another beam. He started to push some energy into that hand and attempted to make it fly at the beam. He began to sweat, pushing harder and harder at the ki that was building in his hand. "Must. shoot. pole." Vegeta grunted as he kept on pushing the ki. "Must. find. out. how." He let out a yell of anger and pushed harder, a ball of bluish green ki appeared out of his hand. He pressed harder and the ball started to grow, then he released the pressure he had been putting on the ball, it expanded ten fold and shot towards the beam at breakneck speed. Vegeta realised what was going to happen and his eyes went wide. "Uh oh." He stated and crossed his arms in front of him to defend against the blast as he had seen some of the characters do in the normal DBZ series.
THUD!. THUD!.. THUD! THUD! THUDTHUDTHUD!! Vegeta panicked when he realised that the thuds where support beams breaking in half and that his ki blast was still going. Just at the most inopportune time, the exhaustion of firing such a blast caught up to the young warrior and he felt weak at the knees. *I have to get out of here!! But my knees are about to collapse, and just as I found out how to control some of my power too!! * Vegeta allowed his knees to go out and he slumped down to the floor, accepting defeat at his own hands. There was a loud cracking sound and the black haired boy looked up to see the roof starting to cave. *I have to do something. I must live. * the cracking grew louder and the roof sagged even lower. *I have to live. I can't die. Not again. * Another loud crack echoed dully through the building and Vegeta attempted to stand. He got up on shaking knees and took four steps towards the doorway that was over 20 feet away. Vegeta became determined and started slithering towards the exit on his stomach. Another dull crack, this time longer and harsher, Vegeta didn't even bother to look up to estimate how much time he had left before the roof collapsed on him. Then, just as Vegeta was 2 feet from safety, a long ripping sound forced him to look up and regret that he did, a large wooden beam fell from the ceiling and landed right on top of him. Vegeta called out for anyone to hear, "HELP ME!! PLEASE!! HELP ME!!" He began to sob. "Not again, please. Not again."
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When the small Saiyan awoke he found that he was in front of a desk, an incredibly large desk, with an equally huge man sitting behind it. The titan of a man looked over his massive desk and down on the short prince. He then returned to his desk and flipped through some files. "Your name is Evan William McNeely, correct?" Evan/Vegeta nodded. "And you were thrown into this body after you died?" Again Evan nodded to in awe of what was happening to say anything.
"Well Evan, your in luck. King Kai wants to see you, he wishes to help you deal with your current situation and train you. You may become a great fighter in that body, but always remember to fight with your heart, stay pure Evan. I realise that you may not be ready to run snake way right now, but try to make your way to King Kai, You do have eternity you know." Evan nodded, still to amazed at what was happening to him. The large man pointed towards the road of Snake Way. Evan walked up to the long road and adjusted his Saiyan armour.
*This is going to take some doing, but if I'm stuck in this body, Kai training will definitely help. Better be off. * Vegeta thought as he started to jog down the road to King Kai's planet.
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Three days later, Vegeta fell to the ground for the umpteenth time in three days, he gasped for breath and reviewed his situation. "Jogging is not helping, though I feel more in shape. I still have like a bazillion miles left. Goku flew there; maybe I can do that too. I mean, my ki level has been rising, I can feel that. If I can use that huge blast, I just might be able to fly." Vegeta stood up after his short breather and spread his legs and arms. He let out a scream and watched as blue ki erupted around him. *Little power up and I should be good to go. * He stopped powering up after a few minutes and jumped into the air, projecting his ki at the ground, sure enough he stayed in air. "WHOH!!! THIS IS COOL!!!" He yelled as he did an in air summersault. He started to laugh at attempted o project himself down snake way. After a few bad attempts involving a few crashes, a couple scarps and a close call at landing in the home for infinite losers he started off in the direction of King Kai's planet at a moderate speed.
"This sure beats walking" he noted as he rocketed down the twisting path. "I could get used to this."
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Six days later.
Vegeta stopped flying as he saw a small planet and the end of Snake way, just in the distance. He laughed and jumped into the air clicking his heels in delight. "I MADE IT!!!" He fired up his flying ability and shot towards the planet. "YEEEEHAAAAAHH!! I MADE IT!!!" He came to a halt just before the miniature planet and remembered the gravity. *I should approach it sort of slow and try to land gently. * He thought as he floated towards the orb.
He slowly made his way to the ground, using more and more ki to keep himself from crashing into the side of the rock. *Slowly, slowly. * He thought as he felt the ground beneath his feet. He stopped projecting ki and stood straight up with only minor difficulty. "Not so bad. Man, Goku must have been a wimp not being able to stand on this planet. Vegeta attempted a step and was sucked, like a vacuum, straight to the ground.
"Oh man, that hurts." He groaned as he attempted to push himself off of the side of the planet and onto his feet.
Then a voice called out, kind of nasal, but familiar to Evan. "henh henh." The voice laughed as Evan felt footsteps approaching him. "Finally someone pays respect to me." He voice started laughing again.
Evan laughed, "Hi King Kai. How are you today?"
King Kai stopped, "A yes. You must be Evan, The one who was trapped in another's body. Correct?"
"Yes, that's me, and you should be glad I got stuck in this body." Evan replied with a strain in his voice.
King Kai looked interested. "Oh, and why would that be Evan?" Evan attempted to shrugged but hurt himself instead and let out a yelp of pain.
"ARGH!!" He yelled, gritting his teeth. "Because. this one. would have caused some nuisance to Earth and put some innocents up here when they could be living. And we wouldn't want overcrowding would we?"
King Kai laughed. "Hey. You just passed the test. You made me laugh. Now shall we start with your training, or do you think you should adjust to the gravity here first?"
Evan screamed and projected ki at the ground, straightening himself in front of King Kai. He grunted roughly. "Let's begin."
King Kai seemed surprised that such a small boy could have that much control over his ki and was silent for a second. "First, you must catch Bubbles." Evan shrugged, this time not hurting himself.
"That could take some doing but I'll try it." Then Bubbles ran up beside the large catfish of a man named King Kai and eeped once.
"Ok, begin." The Kai said and started back to his house to steep a pot of tea.
"ALRIGHT MONKEY!! YOUR MINE!!!" Evan lunged at the simian and projected more ki at the ground, making him fly farther but still missing the monkey, who easily evaded. "Damn monkey." Evan muttered and then remembered his own tail and laughed. "I just dissed myself." He said between laughs.
Bubbles turned around and noticed that Evan was no longer attempting to catch him and climbed the only tree on the planet and picked an apple and started to eat. Evan got an evil grin.
He aimed one hand at the tree and started to charge a small shot of ki at it while powering up enough to fly over and grab the monkey before it knew what was going on.
Evan crawled closer to the tree and cradled the half-formed ball of ki in one hand while using all of his remaining strength to push himself into a jumping position. "heh heh heh." Evan laughed silently as he aimed the blast at the top of the tree so not to destroy King Kai's tree, only a portion of it.
Evan released the blasted and launched himself at Bubbles at about the same time, the blast hitting the tree and knocking Bubbles out of it and Evan catching Bubbles before the monkey even hit the ground. "GOT YA!!!" He yelled as he grasped the chimp with every last ounce of strength he could muster.
King Kai walked out of the house and almost jawdropped. "HOW COULD YOU!?!? YOU HAVEN'T EVEN ADJUSTED TO THE GRAVITY!!!" Evan just smiled and released the confused simian.
"I call it strategy. You should look into it." He laughed a bit and soon King Kai and Bubbles joined in.
"Well you passed this round of training, but the next trial will be much more difficult. You have to." Evan cut him off.
"Give me the hammer and point me towards Gregory." King Kai literally jawdropped this time.
"How the heck did you know that!?!?" He asked in utter confusion,
"Anime. In my world you are just an anime character." King Kai pondered this.
"So you know exactly what will happen before it happens here?"
"Not quite. You see, my being here may throw the entire continuum off. But I'm trying to stay out of Goku's life until absolutely necessary. Like when Radditz comes."
King Kai nodded, "Then this world owns you thanks for saving us." Evan nodded.
"I guess they do don't they. Now on to Gregory." King Kai shook his head.
"First, we eat." Evan's stomach growled in agreement.
"I guess that's a yes from Vegeta. Let's eat!!"
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two weeks later.
Vegeta/Evan had adjusted nicely to the gravity and had been hunting the evasive cricket for two days now. Mallet in hand he silently stalked the small planet over and over. He had grown much more muscular because of this invigorating game of cricket chasing.
"Here Gregory. Come here Gregory. I don't want to bash you with this over sized hammer. No of course not. I just want to give you some nice warm tea King Kai made you." Evan called out hoping to get the insect's interest.
Sure enough a small bug head pooped out from the tree and looked Vegeta over, "Hey, you don't have tea!" He squeaked as Evan prepared a mallet strike.
"No. But I have MALLET!!" Evan swung the large hammer at the bug who skimmed off the side and off around the other side of the planet. "DAMN BUG!! I WILL HIT YOU!!"
"No you won't!" a small voice responded from the other half of the planet.
Vegeta's eyes narrowed. "damn bug." He muttered as he sat down to think up a strategy to hit this bug.
*Tried tricking him, probably won't work again. Hmm, what to do with a bug. * "AH HA!!" Vegeta triumphantly yelled as he rushed to King Kai's house and rummaged through the pantry till he found some sugar. *Ants are drawn to sugar, why not crickets. * "heh heh heh. * Vegeta laughed as he walked out side and began humming a happy tune, spreading sugar in a line up to the tree and putting a large patch right underneath the shade of the apple tree. *Cricket is going to die. *
A few long hours of waiting and not moving, Gregory finally started to eat at the sugar. *Come my pretty, there is a large patch of the sweet stuff right here, underneath my mallet. *
Gregory looked suspicious, not quite comprehending why there was a large row of sugar. He looked down the row and noticed a heaping pile of sugar and didn't question it. He ran at a high speed towards the granulated goodness and started feasting. Then, out of nowhere, a large, wooden mallet connected with the cricket's head, knocking him unconscious.
Vegeta jumped from the tree where he had been hiding. "ONCE AGAIN EVAN IS VICTORIOUS!!!" then he pondered this for a minute. "Or am I now Vegeta? Hmm, I'll ask King Kai after I show him my latest conquest." Evan/Vegeta picked up the small bug and cradled it in his small arms. He then set out towards the house.
In a few minutes Evan encountered King Kai with Gregory just starting to regain consciousness. "I got him good." Vegeta said proudly. "And I was wondering, am I Vegeta or Evan? Cause it's confusing me. I have traits of Vegeta and still retain my conscious memories." King Kai put a hand to his chin and thought about this for a second.
"Well I'd say you're a bit of both." He stated in a sure of himself voice.
Evan/Vegeta stared blankly at him, "Thanks. You are so much help."
King Kai just shrugged. "I suppose you will be called Vegeta more often than Evan so I'd take on the name Vegeta just for simplicities sake." Vegeta thought about this.
"Makes sense, seeing as that's what Nappa and Radditz will call me. Ok then, I am Vegeta." He looked himself over, "Not the Vegeta I hated during DBZ, but still Vegeta. Oh yeah! How will I get back without being wished back to life? I mean nobody knows me down there and If I remember correctly, the Dragonballs are few and far between."
King Kai smiled. "That's the best part. I can contact Guru on Namek and have you wished back to Earth once you have finished some more heavy training." Vegeta looked optimistic.
"Great!! That's some of the best news I've ever heard!!" He jumped up and down creating small craters due to the extensive gravity. He then looked down at his holes. "Oops. I have to fix that don't I?" King Kai nodded.
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Vegeta stood outside the house one week later, with one hand in the air, King Kai close beside him, coaching him in the art of the Spirit Bomb. "Focus Vegeta!! Focus!! Draw from life you have never seen, draw from the planets around you, draw from untapped power inside yourself!" The walking catfish yelled out.
Vegeta groaned as he kept the 40 foot ball of ki floating above his head. "Uhh, King Kai. We've been at this four days now. Can't I get a break. I mean I know I'm dead but I still need sleep." King Kai took this moment of weakness and broke Vegeta down even more.
"A BREAK!! WHEN YOU ARE FACING THE MOST POWERFUL VILLAIN IN THE UNIVERSE." Vegeta cut him off.
"There will always. be one stronger." He grunted as the ball grew another good foot.
King Kai was amazed. "You are wise, you know never to think yourself the best, because there is always one that will best you." Vegeta let out a strained laugh.
"I'm just a kid King Kai. I can't be that wise."
King Kai let out a throaty laugh. "You are the wisest 5 year old I have ever met. Perhaps it's the inner teenager." Vegeta laughed this time with more of a strain as he forced more ki into the large ball making it now about 50 feet in diameter.
"How big did you want this thing? The universe is endless I know. but I can't reach that far." He stated with a small peep of a scream escaping his lips.
King Kai sat down. "I know, I only want it to be about ten times bigger than my planet. That's ten times bigger than you have it now." Vegeta groaned.
"You know Kai. You should start a torture business. you're a pro."
King Kai lay down on his back. "I know, but only for you Vegeta."
Vegeta forced a smile. "What are you intending to do with this anyway?" He asked curiously.
Kai smiled broadly. "Well, with your power, in a few days lets just say I will have a nicer tan." He started laughing in his nasal way and Vegeta just stared at him.
"Your making me create a Spirit Bomb sun!?!?" He almost tossed the ball aside in confusion and anger. "WHY?"
"Because you can." King Kai calmly said as he hopped to his feet. "I'm going to put a kettle of tea on, you want some?" Vegeta nodded.
"And can you throw some Chinese spices in there, cause that's the way I had it at home, and to tell the truth, I kind of miss it." Vegeta started reminiscing as King Kai nodded and made his way to the house.
*I'm never going to see home again so I might as well live with it. Come on!! Don't even think about your past life!!" Vegeta scorned himself, *You are Vegeta now!! You don't have to act like him but at least get over the fact that your name isn't Evan any more, you have no siblings! So stop torturing yourself!! * Vegeta broke down into tears and fell to one knee, still keeping the sprit bomb afloat.
A tear rolled down the Saiyan's face, he let it roll off his face and splash against the hard earth softening a small spot for a few seconds before it evaporated in the heat of the energy ball hovering over the planet, which unbeknownst to Vegeta was increasing greatly with his agony. A few more tears followed the first on a path down the young prince's face, with each one the bomb doubled, drawing from the pain of planets across the universe and beyond. Vegeta looked to the now incredibly bright sky and realised that the bomb was the right size and then some.
"KAI!! GET OUT HERE!!" He yelled, still a slight sob in his voice. "I'M DONE!!"
King Kai ran outside. "You're. not joking." King Kai was clearly amazed. "H- How did you." Vegeta looked almost proud of his tremendous accomplishment if not for the tear lines down his face.
"Kai, I want to fast track my training, I have to get back to normal people. I need to have a social life other than you, a monkey and a talking cricket. It's not normal for a growing boy."
"Ok Vegeta, I will teach you the rest through telepathy on Earth. I'm going to miss you. And please put the sun a bit away from the planet, it's really bright!" Kai said squinting his eyes and attempting to shield himself from the intense heat that amazingly didn't seem to affect the teenager in a child's body.
"Sure thing Kai. We should get a telepathic bond so we can keep in touch. Plus I'll try to send you a few good fighters so you can show off to Grand Kai." Both Kai and Vegeta began laughing.
After a bit Kai started to bond his mind to Vegeta's.
Vegeta thought back to his mentor.
Kai laughed mentally.
Vegeta smiled, sending a wave of happiness to King Kai.
King Kai laughed out loud, "You can't win em all Vegeta!" Vegeta smiled again.
"Guess not Kai. Now are we going to get me alive or what!" He playfully yelled at his friend.
"Sure, I'll get Guru on it. You can take a look around, say good bye to the guys and stuff." King Kai suggested.
Vegeta nodded, "Call me back when the wish is about to be made Ok Kai?" The catfish-man nodded and Vegeta started to take a walk around the small planet.
He approached Bubbles, "Hey buddy! Come here and give me a hug goodbye!!" The monkey lunged at the spiky haired boy and toppled him over, giving him a crushing hug, which Vegeta returned. The two then got up and pretended nothing had ever happened and soon after fell on their backs laughing. Gregory snuck up behind the pair with a bag of sugar a mallet.
"It was a nice trick Vegeta." The small bug admitted, "It will be quiet without you here."
Vegeta smirked, "Don't worry, I'll send a bunch of warriors up here to bash you with a hammer." Gregory looked worried.
"Oh no, I wouldn't want to put you to any trouble." He stammered as he started to back away.
Vegeta lunged at the bug and caught him in his arms, "I was joking Greggy. I won't send people to bash you!" Gregory sighed in relief. "I'll send people and King Kai will make them bash you!" Gregory squirmed out of the boy's grasp and rushed away trying to find a good hiding spot for later use. Vegeta turned back to Bubbles. "We didn't get to play around much Bubbles, but I'm sure I'll come back sometime, I mean I _am_ Vegeta, somebody has to want to kill me!" The monkey laughed and eeped back a conversation that Vegeta didn't understand.
"Um sure Bubbles, what ever you just said." Vegeta mentally complained.
Vegeta smiled and waved to Bubbles, He thought spoke as he started running towards the other side of the planet, using bits of ki to speed his retreat from the monkey.
"Hi King Kai! I said my goodbyes and I'm ready to go! I'll miss you." Vegeta extended his hand for King Kai to shake, which he did.
"It was nice training you Vegeta, you were one of my best students." Vegeta released Kai's hand and bowed before his tutor.
"It was an honour being trained by you." He rose from his deep bow, and then added. "But we can still train telepathically." King Kai nodded, his eyes getting misty.
"Guru says it's time to go. You will be exactly where your body was when you died."
Vegeta nodded. "Ok. Oh, and about that, was my death accidental, or did you have a hand in it, cause I don't think I could use that much ki at such a young age." King Kai smiled.
"Although I wanted you to be up here to train you for the coming troubles, I didn't play any part in your death. You did that quite well on your own." The spiky haired Saiyan shook his head as he remembered the incident at the warehouse.
"I am quite the reckless kid eh?" King Kai nodded.
Vegeta felt a tingling, much like at the 'catapult' before. "I guess this is goodbye for now, but I'll see you later."
"Not too often I hope." Kai said with a chuckle.
"No not too often." The a bright light rushed towards Vegeta, sucking him into it and spitting him outside of the warehouse which apparently had just been rebuilt and had a plaque with a copper engraving of his face and some writing on it.
"Ok, that is weird. I wonder if I can visit my grave? Or did they bury me?" Vegeta shook his head to clear the questions and started to read the plaque.
*This new Orange Star City warehouse is dedicated to the little boy with the tail, whose life was cut short when this building collapsed on him. God rest his soul. * Vegeta laughed, *God rest my soul indeed! I just seem to be immortal!! Who needs to wish for it when I can just body hop! * The young Saiyan started laughing loudly, which drew the attention of workers inside the warehouse.
One of the men poked their head out and quickly pulled it back in. "You guys!" Came a slightly muffled voice from behind the large steel door. "I think I just saw a ghost!!" Some masculine groans of disbelief echoed out of the warehouse shortly after. "SERIOUS!! I SAW A GHOST OF THE KID!!"
"What! The kid!?! The one who was killed at this very building?"
"NO WAY!! Let me see!"
A large amount of heads popped out the side of the half opened door, just to see a set of Saiyan armour lying on the ground.
*heh, that'll keep em wondering for a while. Now then, I am trained so I can fight in that Kid's martial arts tournament. Then I will finally get my haircut! * Vegeta walked down the street and received many different remarks about him bearing a resemblance to the kid who had died over at the new warehouse.
*Man these people take everything to heart! One little kid just happens to shoot the support beams out of a large building and get crushed and they make a massive deal out of it. One that lasts just over a month! * He approached the barbershop he had visited before and found the flyer for the tournament. *Well, better prepare. I don't want to disappoint the public with a bad battle do I? * Vegeta thought as he strolled casually towards the outskirts of the City and out into the farmlands. *I'll just train out here, what's the worst that could happen? *
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Author's notes: (well that's the first of many chapters of me being trapped in Vegeta's body. The fact that he, and Krillen, are my least favourite characters in the entire anime just happened to suit seeing how most people would go for one of their personal favourites, such as Goku or Trunks, or if you have seen Ranma ½ a lot of writers go into Ranma. Anyways, I wanted to point that out so you don't think I am liking this. I mean, it's not bad, but it's now Piccolo. Now if I was going easy on myself, that is who I would have chosen hands down. I mean the man, although there are no men in Namekian culture because of asexual reproduction, leads a hard life. First he, as Kami, gets rejected from the position of Earth Guardian, then he gets kicked out of his own body just because he is evil! IS THAT A CRIME!!. well it generally leads up to one or more crimes but now I'm contradicting myself. Anyway, he is booted from his body and then this little runt of a kid rips straight through his gut, forcing him to shoot of an egg, which becomes the Piccolo we know and love. Anyways he keeps getting his ass handed to him, and then he has to go through King Kai's madness! WILL THE EVILS NEVER STOP FOR THIS POOR SOUL!! But back to Spiritual Misadventures. I will be fighting in a tournament over in another district as you may have guessed, but before that there will be a complication, and a bit of a twist on the story. I think you'll enjoy it. Well see you when I get the next chapter done! BYE!)
Agasaki Ishano e-mail- agasaki@crystal-tokyo.com website-
