Chapter 7: Traitor

Gohan and Videl were searching for an exit from the lookout when they got a phone call from Piccolo. "Videl, it's me. Goku is alive. They're moving him. I don't know where yet. Come back to the Karin Temple." Piccolo hung up, and was confronted by Vegeta. "What are you...?" Vegeta attacked him with a punch, and he fell to the ground. Vegeta took out the phone and called Videl.

"Hello, Videl."

"Vegeta? Where's Piccolo?"

"He had an...accident."

"WHAT? You killed them. Why?"

"I'm tired, Videl. I'm tired of this war, I'm tired of fighting. But most of all, I'm tired of his bullshit."

"My God. Goku. You gave them Goku."

"What?" Gohan went pale. "That..."

"He lied to us, Videl! He tricked us!" Vegeta spoke harshly.

"That's not true, Vegeta. He freed us..."

"Free. Free? You call this FREE? All I do is what he tells me to do. If I have to choose between that and the Cell Game, I choose the Cell Game."

"The Cell Game isn't real!"

"Oh, I disagree, Videl. I disagree. I think the Cell Game can be more real than this world. But...No! I don't believe it!" he exclaimed as Piccolo got up.

"Believe it or not, you're still going to burn. LIGHT OF DEATH!" Piccolo shot a beam out of his fingertips that hit Vegeta in the chest, knocking him backwards into a wall. A trickle of blood went down his face. Piccolo checked his pulse and knew he was dead.

Gohan and Videl got to the tower just in time. "You're hurt."

"I'll be all right."