Thank you for all the review's I got from the first chapter! Now, to the ch. 2...
The sky went black.
Yajirobe had summoned the dragon.
Goku's heart pounded in his chest. It was now or never. He glanced down to Krillin and Gohan and gave them a slight smile of encouragement.
~Fool! Don't give the enemy any reason to suspect that something is going on!~ Piccolo's voice roared in the young Saiyan's head.
But it was too late, Vegeta, who was puzzled of to why did it the sky go dark so suddenly, saw Goku's little nod and did not like it.
He knew the earthlings planned something, and judging from their certain, and even excited expression's, he knew it was probably something big, and something he would most certainly not like.
"I don't know what you are scheming here, clown… But you're all even bigger fool's than I thought if you think I would just sit back and let you do what ever you scum's are planning to do!" Vegeta shouted. He then shot up into the sky and glared down at them all angrily.. Sparkling purple aura surrounded him, and Goku realized to his horror, that he was going to end the fight by blasting them all out of existence with a huge energy blast.
"Try to dodge this with your hakemahakeWHATEVER-attack, Kakarot~!" The Saiyan prince bellowed, and bursted into maniacal laugher, as the purple aura got stronger and stronger.
Goku opened the telepathic link with Yajirobe again and felt rising panic in the fat samurai's mind.
~Yarirobe! You have to make the wish now! NOW! PLE-!~ The connection broke.
"I hope you're done with the goodbye's, Kakarot!" Vegeta screamed mockingly. "This is the end! GALICK G-!"
Suddenly, a blinding light surrounded the evil prince. Screeching voice could be heard, then the light flashed like a small supernova and disappeared. The darkness passed and the sky cleared once again. A lone figure was left hovering into the air, and Goku squinted his eyes, trying to adjust them to see in the sunny daylight again.
"Who are you?" A childish, yet very commanding voice yelled. As Goku's eye sight cleared up, he saw a small boy, surely not older than eight, floating on the place where Vegeta had been just a moment ago.
The boy had spiky black hair, confused, yet angry onyx eyes. He was wearing an armor very much like Vegeta had, but without the parts that protected his legs, and the jumpsuit under it didn't have sleeves. Wrapped safely on the child's waist, there was a furry brown tail.
There was no mistaking it, the kid was Vegeta, as a young boy. Goku's jaw dropped open.
"I asked you idiots a question! Who the hell are you?" The kid questioned, very irritated. "And what the fuck is this place?"
"Son Goku, looks like the brat doesn't remember anything, and his power level isn't too strong anymore! Let's take him down!" Piccolo called and charged towards the boy. The miniature Vegeta fought back like a wild tiger, throwing punches and energy-blasts and snarling curses in alien languages.
Even as a kid, he was not an easy opponent, he knew unbelievable number of different kind of tactics and still seemed to have that surprising ability to know what his enemy was planning to do.
If they had been on their full power, the fight would not have lasted as long as it did, but after maybe twenty minutes of the frustrating battling, Piccolo managed to land a strong blow in the back of Vegeta's head that knocked him out cold. The Saiyan child dropped to the ground with a thud.
For a moment, they all just stared at the unmoving figure below. Krillin was the first one to speak: "W-... we won." the bald man whispered.
"We did." Goku nodded, small smile on his face.
Gohan just stared at the unconscious Saiyan prince with wide eyes, saying nothing. This was the first real battle the boy had participated. Goku wondered what was his young son was thinking about right now, but didn't ask.
"Time to finish this." Piccolo spoke up and approached their fallen enemy with raised hand that glowed with energy.
"No!" Goku cried, stepping in front of the small prince. Everyone stared at him, confused.
"He's not a threat anymore, he can't even fight back." The young Saiyan explained. When all he got was unbelieving, narrowed eyes he continued: "He's just a boy, a child! You really want to kill him?"
"He is no child. He's a murderer, a killing machine with no emotions." Piccolo growled darkly.
"You're wrong. He is a child, he doesn't have any memories from his adult life. He cannot be condemned from the act he has done as a grown up."
"You're going to let him roam around free? Even if he's young, he's strong enough to destroy the whole planet!"
"I won't let him, I'm going to keep and eye on him."
"You fool! He's born to kill, it's in his blood, he's unable to learn love or friendship! You saw how he fought us back, he's been fighting his whole life, he has probably killed hundreds of people already! He's a Saiyan!"
"So am I."
Krillin chose then to speak up.
"Goku, you hit you're head as a baby, remember? Master Roshi said you used to be really wicked before that..." He trailed off looking very apologetic.
"I don't care. I'll change him myself if I have to!"
"Then you will have only yourself to blame when he murders your wife and son in their sleep. He will never fit in, in the end you must kill him, or he kill's you." The Namekian growled and shot up to the sky, flying away.
The tree remaining warriors were left standing there in a silence.
"Yajirobe, the danger's over, you can come out of your hiding place!" Goku called out.
The fat samurai stepped out from behind a huge rock and yelled back, annoyed "I wasn't hidin'! I was just, uh, waiting for an opportunity to surprise the enemy from behind, but seems like the battle's over already, shame really, that. Yeah, I got here as fast as I could after the wish."
"What did you wish for, exactly?" Goku questioned.
"Ah! Uh... I was in such an hurry that I didn't really have time to think how to… you know, formulate my wish, and I had never seen the dragon that close and it really freaked me out, my mind went like, 'puff!' all empty!" Yarirobe stammered. "Then you started yelling in my head and it was all crazy so... I asked the Dragon to make the Saiyan to become a little brat..." He scratched the back of his head, grinning with a suffering look.
That explained all. Goku let out a small chuckle of amusement, which soon changed into a bubbling belly laugh, that hurt his broken ribs. He felt like a dark weight finally drifted off his back after a very stressful year of worrying about the upcoming battle with an enemy, who his brother had said was so strong that they wouldn't have a chance against them, and they didn't. But as the young Saiyan had noted before, thing's always seemed to turn out okay in the end.
Goku, Gohan and Krillin sat on the ground, dead exhausted. Yarirobe had left on food, he didn't seem to feel very comfortable with the three warriors. Goku's stomach was grumbling like it hadn't had any food in months. They knew that Bulma and co. were on their way, they could feel their weak, but familiar ki-signal's coming slowly closer.
Soon, a small humming could be heard, it quickly grew louder and Goku looked up to the sky, and saw the capsule corp's airplane on the sky. He could see Bulma waving at him from the plane's window.
"Chichi won't be happy when I tell her about the new house mate were going to have." Goku grinned at Gohan painfully. "But I'm sure she'll manage... He's a child, she likes kids, eh?"
"Oh, boy, you're going to get slaughtered, old friend." Krillin looked at his childhood friend with pity.
The airplane had finally landed. Bulma opened the door and smiled at the warriors, when something pushed her aside. Chichi stormed out of the device and ran headfirst to Gohan. She ranted hysterically about his appearance, displeased with all the bruises on her "baby's" body. She ranted about how the boy was now mentally traumatized and would grow up all twisted. She did not hear anyone's calming words, slapped off hands that to keep her still so she would calm down.
As Bulma heard about the death of her on/off boyfriend, she bawled, but soon changed her mood, stood up with a determined expression on her face and declared dramatically how her brave life partner had died on a glorious battle, for a good cause, just as he would have wanted.
Master Roshi had noticed the unconscious Saiyan prince and stepped closer to the kid, eyeing him closer.
"I'm very interested to hear the story behind this case." He said finally, causing the others to finally look at the boy.
Goku explained them what had happened, and Chichi finally snapped out of her ranting at Gohan and stared at his husband with unbelieving expression. As Krillin had predicted, a hell broke loose.
Chichi was furious, mad, she did not want this dangerous alien kid into her house, ruining Gohan's future. The argument just get going, without any progress, Goku or Chichi neither willing to give up.
Finally Gohan stepped in
"Mum, give it up already! He needs a place to stay and dad is the only one strong enough to control him! He's almost the same age as I am and the other option would be to kill him, is that what you want?" He stared at her mother's eye's with hard expression.
"No, but there has to be another optio-"
"There isn't, mum. He will stay with us." Then his voice softened. "He needs a chance."
Chichi didn't know what to say to that, so she gave up and relented to let Vegeta come bunking into their home, but only with the condition that Goku would never let the boy out of his sight, and especially alone with Gohan, nor herself.
"You better know what your doing, Goku!" She hissed as they got ready to leave.
'I hope so, too.' Goku sighed, mentally.
(a/n- What do you think? Please review, it inspires me the most on writing more! =))
And thank you again bvprincess23 for beta'ing. I thought about the chapter name's a long while, I liked them, yet I thought they revealed too much... in the end I decided to go without them. I'll send you a virtual cupcake, here! *hands over a virtual cupcake* :)