Note by author: Although this fanfiction is an independent story with its own storyline and places of action, it's also continuing my latest fanfic, "Too many Saiyans in Tokyo". I wrote that one quite a long time ago and considered it done but lately got a few more ideas for a completely new story… so here it is.

A short summary of current situation: Bulma built a space pod; Trunks and Goten used it to fly to our Earth, landing in Tokyo. Later their fathers followed them with the instant translocation technique. Along with the Outer Scouts they fought a demon from another dimension and managed to send it to the Dead Zone. Now the Saiyans are spending a partly unwanted vacation in Haruka's house since due to a magnetic storm they're unable to return…but the demon isn't defeated yet…

Enjoy…:3

Chapter 1 – Back home

The weather in Tokyo had been extremely bad for the past few weeks. Every now and then a cold breeze whizzed by, bringing sudden showers and occasional thunderstorms with it. People preferred to stay indoors and watch TV. In case they didn't have to go to work or school. It was quite sad to see all those men and women struggling through heavy rain. The children, however, had a great time. So many puddles and streams for toy sail boats! Wheee!

A small wooden house in the suburbs of the huge city seemed just like every other house in the neighborhood. Only that it currently had three Sailor Scouts and four Saiyan warriors living in there. For seven no-so-very-ordinary people their life in that house was still quite ordinary.

In a certain way…

"Vegeta!" a young girl with ultramarine hair shouted. "Didn't you go training in Northern Japan a few days ago?"

The mighty Saiyan prince came into the living room with a half-eaten chicken leg in his hand. "Yeah. Why?"

The girl pointed at the TV set. "In today's news they say that a huge crater was discovered in the uninhabited part of Hokkaido. The locals say that they had heard loud bangs and seen bright lights around that area. No falling meteorites were spotted. Any ideas how the crater got there?"

Vegeta shrugged. "A Saiyan needs to train in order to keep his reflexes and muscles in shape. Not my fault that humans get scared so easily..."

Trunks entered the room, soaking wet as a kitten. "Hey Dad, hey Michiru, what gives?"

Michiru glared at him. "Your dad's trying to blow my home planet up. And you are quite obviously trying to catch pneumonia or something. Have you been playing in the backyard again?"

The kid rolled his eyes. "It's so boring indoors… nothing to do… and if you think I'm wet, you should see Goten. He fell into a puddle again."

Michiru took a deep breath and then sighed. "Your mommas must be really glad not having you around for… almost two weeks now, eh?"

Trunks nodded. It was really already two weeks since a small space pod containing two half-Saiyans had hit the ground in a forest near Tokyo. A few days later the boys' fathers followed them using the instant translocation technique. Due to a magnetic storm, they had been unable to return home. Now the storm was long over but the Saiyans really enjoyed their unwanted vacation and their hosts didn't mind having them around either. Just Michiru had more laundry to do than ever.

One of the rooms in that house was dark. Even though there were many lamps in there, none of them was switched on. A pale, slim girl with short black hair was sitting on the bed. Her eyes were empty and terrified. She was Sailor Saturn, the Sailor Scout of Death, the most mysterious one of the Soldiers. She had many strange abilities and right now she really wished that she wouldn't have at least one of them.

She had just had a vision.

Goten pranced into the room. "Hey Michiru, hey Vegeta, look! I fell into a puddle again!" He was really a lot wetter than his buddy. Michiru silently pointed at a towel that was hanging on the doorknob. The boy grabbed it and wrapped himself in, announcing in a muffled voice: "And by the way, Haruka's back."

"It's about time," Michiru remarked. Haruka had left in the morning for a motocross race and now it was around three o'clock already.

"Hey everybody…" Haruka entered the room and stretched her back. "Wow, you have no idea what the weather is like out there! I haven't seen such a storm in years."

The others stared at her. Haruka looked like a living mud sculpture. Her clothes were covered with huge dirt stains, her blonde hair was dripping wet and her face could have proudly belonged to a very dedicated car mechanic.

"The bike's mudguards are old," the girl explained with a grin and put her bike helmet on the cupboard. A small dirt puddle appeared around it..

"How was the race?" Goten asked, sticking his head out of the towel wrap.

"Cancelled… they didn't want to hold the race with such weather. Sad, actually. But there'll be other races."

Michiru got up and confronted Haruka, staring right into her marine blue eyes. "And when the race was cancelled, where were you for five hours and how come you look like an undertaker, if I may ask?"

The other girl grinned a bit sheepishly. "Well, you see… since I was already there, I wanted to see how well I could race in such conditions… rode the whole track through. And I only fell twice, y'know," she added quickly, seeing the annoyed gleam in Michiru's eyes.

Michiru turned around and sighed again, rolling her eyes. "You will always be the same, or what? Go get changed. And by the way, the fridge is almost empty, we need to go shopping."

Trunks and Goten hopped up. "Oh boy! Shopping! Can we get potato chips? Please??"

"First we need to get to the mall without getting soaked," the girl replied.

"I'll go take a shower and then go pull the roof on the Porsche," Haruka smirked. "Just hold on for fifteen minutes."

"Hotaru, we're going to the mall. Don't you want to come?" Michiru opened the door to the dark room. Hotaru blinked, looked up and quickly shook her head.

"No… no thanks Michiru. I need to stay here and think of a few things…" The other girl nodded and closed the door.

"Ohboyohboyohboy, I love shopping!" Trunks stated merrily, hopping round the shopping cart. "You can always smuggle so much junk food into the cart without your parents even noticing it before the cash register. And I've never been into this mall here before, there seem to be so many yummy things here… ooh look, gum worms!"

Haruka grabbed the kid's jacket sleeve. "Hold your horses, kiddo. I'm not your mommy and since your dad hasn't proposed me yet, I don't think this will happen anytime soon either." She took a king-size pack of potato chips from the cart and pushed it into Trunks's arms. "Take this one back. Fast. In Saiyan tempo. And get a pack of cornflakes instead… these at least have a nutritive value of some sort."

Trunks pouted and wandered away. "But those chips are so delicious…"

Haruka rolled her eyes. Suddenly she blinked. Her eyes narrowed, she seemed concentrated for a second… then she smiled and pushed the shopping cart to the next isle.

"Hello, Uranus. What do you think, peas or soy beans?" A tall, beautiful woman with long dark green hair was standing in front of the shelf, holding two tin cans in one hand and a long scepter in the other.

"Soy beans are always better." Haruka stepped closer. "What are you doing here, Pluto?"

The woman turned around. "I have a message for you Saiyans. That means all of you – where's that funny-looking guy with spiky hair?"

Haruka's eyes flashed. "Trying to smuggle marshmallows into the cart, that's where." Goku, who had been crouching behind the cart, got up very quickly and made a classical I-didn't-do-it face. "What's the message?"

"An old friend of mine, Karin-sama, I think you Saiyans know him," Pluto put the cans away and confronted the others, "called me earlier this day and told me that your wives," she nodded at Goku and Vegeta, "want me to give you a very important notice. I think it sounded something like "get your sorry butts back home as soon as you get this message or you will pay a very high price"… but I'm not sure about all the profanities in that sentence. I may have missed a word or two..." She turned to the shelf again and frowned. "Wow, canned tomatoes have gone a lot more expensive."

Goku scratched his head. "We've really been away from our homes for quite a long time already, or what?"

Vegeta nodded thoughtfully. "I don't understand why they're so upset though… we were supposed to be training in the mountains one way or another."

"In the mountains or on another planet, I'd say that there's a small difference," Michiru remarked.

Trunks pouted. "I don't wanna go home yet…"

Vegeta gave him a glance. "Have you forgotten that school starts next week? That woman's right. I think we should lead towards home. It's been rather nice here but I say that we'll leave today."

"Right after dinner," Goku, Goten and Trunks demanded.

Haruka grinned. "Setsuna, we're running out of Senzu powder. Would you remember that when you visit Karin-sama the next time?"

The woman smiled slightly and nodded. "Will be done. If you'll excuse me now…" She took a can of soy beans and left towards the cash register.

"Wow, that was a great meal!" Trunks announced happily and patted his stomach. "I'm stuffed!"

Haruka peered into the empty jar of Senzu powder and threw it into the kitchen sink. "You're welcome. Who's gonna wash the dishes today?"

"You," Vegeta replied and stood up, "because we're going home now. Right, Kakarot?" He looked over his shoulder right into Goku's eyes. The Saiyan warrior blinked in confusion.

"Uhm, right. Now? I kinda thought that it would be nice… uhm… you know… digest a little before we leave…? Travelling with my stomach full always makes me teleport-sick… and "Pokémon" starts in half an hour… uhm, yeah, now. Okay. No problem. Yus. Now. Come on here, kids." He put his fingers against his forehead and tried to concentrate.

"Too much magical aura in this house," he declared. "No wonder, when this green-haired woman pops in and out so often… let's go outside."

The four Saiyans gathered together in front of Haruka's house as the three girls backed away. The storm had calmed down for a little while although the sky was still dark grey and a small thunderbolt struck quite nearby, predicting yet another shower very soon.

"Bye Haruka, bye Michiru, byebye Hotaru!" Trunks waved at the three. "It's been really great!"

"Yeah, thanks for everything!" Goten added and grinned widely.

Vegeta snorted. "Why don't we all cry and hug each other now so that the precious little goodbye would be perfect? Kakarot, are you going to do this teleport thing before the next century comes?"

Goku nodded. "I found Gohan's aura. Bye, you three… I'll miss you." He closed his eyes and activated all his senses for a transport through that huge distance between the two planets.

A bright light flashed in front of everyone's eyes. They were blinded for several seconds and felt like floating in the air. The odd feeling disappeared as quickly as it had come.

Vegeta was the first one who opened his eyes. He saw a huge green meadow with hills, forests and the buildings of a big city looming in the distance. Goku, Goten and Trunks were a few feet away, sitting on the grass and looking very surprised as they risked opening their eyes too.

"I'm pretty damn sure that the instant translocation has never felt like floating," Goku slowly said. "Did anyone else see that bright flash too?"

"Yeah," Trunks agreed. "And we're not in the Capsule Corporation's main building either. Maybe something went wrong…?"

"Maybe?" The Saiyans turned their heads to see Haruka getting up and looking around with a grim frown. "Gee, that's a very interesting theory you have here. Now what if I'd claim that everything is in perfect order at the moment??"

"Drop the sarcasm already, Haruka." Michiru got up too and looked at her sky blue dress. "Phew, no grass stains. Got lucky this time… does anyone know where we are?"

Vegeta pointed at the city in the distance. "That thing over there is most definitely Western Capital. Two minutes' flight. Something may have gone wrong with the translocation but at least we didn't end up on some lifeless moon in the other side of the Universe." He placed his hands on the hips and glared at Goku. "And ideas about how this happened?"

Goku shrugged and spent a second on concentrating. "Chichi's in Capsule Corporation's main building. Let's all go there and then see about it. I'm sure Bulma can find an explanation for it. Whadda you think, girls?"

"Do we have a choice?" Michiru asked back. She looked around. "Hotaru? Where are you?"

"Right here." The pale girl appeared from behind a bush. "Once we're already here, we might as well do a little sightseeing. I'm sure it's not impossible to get back home."

Haruka sighed quietly.

"Let's go then."