Home Planet
"What are we doing here?" Vegeta asked, landing softly beside Goku. He quickly glanced around The Lookout and wasn't surprised it looked exactly as it did before it was destroyed during the battle with Buu. "I am not going back into the Time Chamber. Especially with you!"
"You know, Vegeta," Goku began, ignoring his question, "I met a lot of different races of people all those years I spent in Other World. The strongest in every universe. But I didn't see one other Saiyan."
Vegeta snorted. "You wouldn't unless you took a tour of hell. Our race may be strong, but we didn't have many other redeeming qualities."
"So, since I didn't get to meet any Saiyans there, I thought maybe you could show me around our home planet." Goku held his arms out in excitement, but Vegeta just narrowed his eyes at him.
"Has your brain finally turned to mush from all the fighting? There is no Planet Vegeta." He crossed his arms and turned his back to the other Saiyan to hide the pain in his eyes. "And every other Saiyan was either hunted down or sent on missions they couldn't possibly win. We're the last of our race, Kakarot. Frieza saw to that."
"That's exactly why we're going to take a trip to the past," Goku answered with a smile. When Vegeta turned around and gave him a puzzled look, Goku called out to The Lookout's caretaker. "Mr. Popo?"
A turbaned head poked out from the doorway, followed by the rotund demigod. "Ah, Goku. I see you have talked Vegeta into joining you. Everything is prepared as requested. Right this way."
"Thanks, Mr. Popo. Come on, Vegeta." He gestured for Vegeta to follow him inside and the older Saiyan reluctantly followed. The two fighters followed their escort through the labyrinth of the building until they stopped outside a door carved with an image of a clock without hands on it.
"All right," Goku said, rubbing his hands together. "Are you ready for this Vegeta?"
"I still have no idea what you're talking about, Kakarot," he grumbled.
Mr. Popo opened the door and they stepped inside. A huge pendulum suspended from the ceiling swung back and forth over a circle with intricate, glowing symbols. "Welcome to the Room of Time, or what I like to call the Pendulum Room," he said. "Step inside the circle and close your eyes.
Goku pulled the reluctant Vegeta inside the circle and said, "Close your eyes, Vegeta. Mr. Popo, send us to Planet Vegeta before it was destroyed."
Vegeta felt the strange sensation of increased temperature and gravity then opened his eyes to a planet he thought he would never see again.