Note, this is my first fanfict, I have always been a fan of DBZ, but I DO NOT OWN IT. I am simply a humble writer using his laptop. PLEASE NOTE! This story will jump around the first few chapters but if I'm correct, It should all make sense soon enough. ENJOY AND REVIEW

It was a beautiful day in West City, as far as beautiful days go. It had been a few months after the whole Majin Buu fiasco and things were finally back to normal. But you can already guess that something is going to go wrong (It wouldn't be much of a DBZ story if the Earth wasn't in danger now would it? I thought so, anywaaay….. I guess the best place to start would be the massive dome building that is Capsule Corporation. We shall start with Vegeta who currently is not in a good mood… well in a worse mood when you think about Vegeta's personality.

"WHY YOU LITTLE BRATS! WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU, I'LL RIP YOU IN HALF!" Yelled the Prince of the Saiyan's. The Prince had just gotten out of the shower when he was greeted by a Velociraptor standing on top of the toilet. Needless to say that the culprit was none other than the prince's own son, Trunks, and his best friend Kakarrot Junior, I mean Goten. The two were now running for their lives through the halls of Capsule Corp with the infuriated Saiyan in hot pursuit

"Trunks! I think your dad's mad at us" said Goten as he ran for dear life.

"YA THINK!" Screamed Trunks. His prank seemed so good and It worked better than he expected, It wasn't to often that Trunks got to hear his dad scream like a girl. He just forgot to plan out the whole "Exit Strategy".

"What do we do now?" Goten asked, he knew that they couldn't out run the enraged saiyan forever. 'Why does he ever go along with his friends ideas, they almost always get him in trouble' thought Goten.

"RUN FASTER" Yelled Trunks.

As the two 'half-saiyans' ran for there lives, they reached the door that led outside, sweet freedom, all the boys needed to do was get out of the building and they would be able to fly away. Easier said than done, Vegeta had almost caught up and was centimeters from grabbing Goten.

"NOW I'VE GOT YOU, YOU MISERABLE LITTLE DEMON" Screamed Vegeta.

It was at that moment that Goten felt a hand grasp his belt and jerked him backwards. Trunks couldn't help his friend even though he wanted to, he knew that his punishment would be far greater than his friends and he didn't want to stick around to find out how much greater it would be. And with that Trunks sped out the door.

The look on Goten's face was nothing but terror. Vegeta held the small boy by his belt at eye level. Goten's heart sank when he saw the evil smirk appear on his best friends dad's face. Vegeta watched as tears began to fill the young boy's eyes. If this prank had been pulled on him in the past, he most likely would have vaporized the culprit without even caring, but ever since the Majin Buu Crisis, he had changed, though he was still grouchy and mean and bossy and rude and basically a jerk, he was not as bad, and he showed more emotion and care towards the ones he loved. At the risk of being beaten by Chi Chi's frying pan of doom, he gently placed the small boy down on the ground. He bent down onto one knee and dried Goten's tears with the sleeve of his shirt. They looked each other in the eyes. Goten was no longer scared, he knew if Uncle Vegeta wanted to kill him, he would have died minutes ago, of course he might just be waiting until he caught Trunks, then he could kill us at the same time. The prince stood up and camly spoke to his son's best friend.

"Why don't we go find Trunks?"

Goten, still unsure of whether he was going to suffer the prince's wrath, hoped for the best and followed Vegeta outside. As the two fighters exited the building they were greeted by an unexpected and frightening scene. Standing before the prince and the child was a tall skinny man with a purple haired child under his arm. The man looked rather odd, his face didn't even look real, It looked like a button eyed doll, he swayed back and forth as though he was a puppet on strings. He wore a black suite and had his unused arm behind his back. Vegeta spoke with a voice that Goten recognized as the voice that had just chased them through the building.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO MY SON" barked the prince, Vegeta sounded so angry that Goten jumped in the air about three feet. There was no answer from the puppet figure.

"WHAT ARE YOU DEAF? PUT MY SON DOWN NOW OR FEEL PAIN AND SUFFERING LIKE YOU NEVER IMAGINED!" Vegeta said, his voice exploding from rage, he was already mad about the dinosaur in his bathroom, and now some…. Button Eyed….. Tall….. Puppet…. Thing had his son. His voice was so loud that Goten was no longer behind the prince but rather in his arms. Vegeta gave him a death stare. He quickly jumped back to the ground not wanting to upset the man any further.

"I'M GOING TO COUNT TO THREE, IF MY SON IS NOT REALESED, I WILL GET HIM MY SELF THEN BLAST YOU INTO OBLIVION, DO YOU UNDERSTAND!" Demanded the prince. Still no answer.

"ONE"

He began to power up to super saiyan, though he could not sense any energy signature from the figure, he wanted him to enjoy the full, "Vegeta-kicks-your-ass" experience.

"TWO" Vegeta got ready to launch towards the man and retrieve his son.

"THR" Vegeta was cut off by the puppet man's voice, though his lips did not move, technically he didn't have lips, his mouth was sown on. The man held up a finger and waved it back and forth.

"ah ah ah" the man said with a voice that sounded eerie and just plain creepy. It sent shivers down Goten's spine. The voice for some unknown reason seemed to have a echo to it

"There once was a Saiyan Prince dad

who shouted threats and sounded quite mad

with a raise of his ki

he must want me to die

just because I have his son"

"Hey that last part didn't rhyme with anything" Yelled Goten, who was hiding behind Vegeta. He wanted to help his friend, but he was way to afraid to move; something about this man really freaked him out. He may be one of the toughest fighters in the universe, but he was still a kid. Vegeta on the other hand was in complete shock, was this man mocking him, trying to disrespect him? Never in his life had he been so insulted, this man was talking to him in poetry, something Vegeta hated almost as much as saying Kakarrot's earth name.

"I was getting to that

you annoying brat!", said the puppet figure

Goten and Vegeta just stared.

"Now its time for some fun" Finished the button eyed man, with that he began to laugh. The hand that had been behind his back had appeared. His hand had 5 long sharp blades; one on each finger. He raised his hand and ripped a portal into the air. At this point Vegeta was charging full force at this puppet, button eyed, poetry talking, kidnapping, weakling who was taking his son to Dende-knows-where (God-knows-where). Before Vegeta could grab the man, or more importantly his son, the two were gone, through the portal which had disappeared.

Vegeta fell to the ground in disbelief, his son was gone. Goten ran over to him, tears began to fill his eyes, he just let that thing take Trunks, he could have helped him if he wasn't such a!...'Baby' Goten thought, Trunks called him the B word every time he was afraid. Maybe it was true; he let Trunks down because he was too big of a baby to move. Vegeta ignored the child and searched for his son's ki, but no luck. Finally he looked up at Goten, and realized they won't get Trunks back by just sitting there, he grabbed Goten and practically flew back inside to contact the others.

THERE! First chapter it done! YAY, so who is this mystery puppet figure, why does he talk in rhymes, and why has he taken Trunks, and more importantly, where to? Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z (Which I do not own!) epic closing music plays in background.