"Enough, enough. We need to get these guys to the hospital. I have no more senzu beans, I'm sorry. I will try to force some to grow faster, though, okay?" Karin said. With that, Roshi bent and lifted Goku's shoulders, and Raimi went to his feet.BR
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"Oh, no you don't! Get into that ship and sit down! You aren't lifting a cup of tea until you're looked at, hear me?" Karin said. Raimi and Goku blinked, but since he was third in command after Kami-sama and Mr. Popo, she did as he ordered. Yajirobei helped load Goku onto a stretcher and into the ship. Master Roshi took the controls, and they lifted off.BR
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Bulma was still sobbing, with Chi-Chi cradling Gohan next to her, while Raimi sat in the back, near Goku, and across from Yajirobei. Kurilin was directing them to where the bodies of the others were lying under the starlit sky.BR
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"A little more... yes, that way... " He pointed Roshi in the right direction, and they fell silent, Bulma's crying the only sound.BR
"Bulma, please don't cry... I know that this is really unlikely... I mean it's only a slim chance... Don't get your hopes up, but there maybe a small possibility that we can bring them back to life after all... " Bulma sat up and gasped.BR
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"Of course, I could be grasping at straws... " Kurilin mumbled.BR
"You said something like that before... what did you mean, Kurilin?" Goku asked. Just then, Kurilin saw the place where the fight had begun.BR
"Well, I'll tell you later. Master, this is the place where the bodies are... "BR
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They let Bulma help with Piccolo and Tenshinhan, and there was nothing left of Chauzu; but Raimi was forced to help Kurilin and Karin to keep her away from Yamcha's battered body. Not even Kurilins assurance that he was in no shape to be seen would keep her away from him. She cried again as Raimi and Kurilin held her while Roshi and Yajirobei put him into the coffin like boxes they were using for the sad task. Suddenly she turned to Raimi and stared at her. Raimi wondered if she had a trademark anime sweat drop on her temple as she cringed under Bulma's gaze.BR
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"You... You knew, didn't you?" Raimi nodded. "And will he come back?" Again Raimi nodded. Bulma smiled and slid one arm around Raimi's waist. "Well, then. You look awful! You shouldn't be standing out here, lets get you back onto the aircar." Raimi blinked in surprise as she was hustled back on board. She noticed that Bulma looked back over her shoulder as Yamcha's box was loaded and stored below deck.BR
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"I wish there was some way to bring them back... the sacrifices they made were so great... " Karin said softly, a little distressed purr in his voice. Roshi clenched s fist in very unchacteristic rage.BR
"I feel so angry at myself... but I am nothing near the caliber of their powers... " he said as he looked at the coffins of his students. Bulma brushed by him, sniffing but looking better.BR
"Hey, Roshi, go and cry your eyes out, it did wonders for me!" Roshi looked at her funny as she sat at the controls, and got going towards the hospital.BR
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Raimi sat next to Goku, focusing fiercely on staying conscious. If Goku was awake, then she'd stay awake too! She hoped... She glanced over at Chi-Chi, who was stroking Gohan's hair and trying to peek over her shoulder at Goku. She thought that Chi-Chi was feeling guilty, but she'd never admit it. Raimi felt bad too about yelling at her, but she'd always felt that Chi-Chi was fifty percent of the problem in her and Goku's marriage. Still, he probably could defend himself, if he wanted too... She felt Goku touch her leg.BR
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"THANKS!" He mouthed exaggeratedly. Raimi smiled and gently moved his hand back to the stretcher, since his arm was broken. He frowned and stopped her, looking at his fingers, which were stained red. He realized that her armored stretch suit was drenched in blood, and looked up at her. She shook her head.BR
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"I'll live 'till we get to the hospital, so don't worry. Saiyans can accept any blood type, as I understand it, so I'll be right as rain soon enough. You are hurt much, much worse, you know." She whispered. He scowled at her, but made himself relax. There wasn't anything any of them could do until they got there anyway. Just then, Gohan stirred in Chi-Chi's arms.BR
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"GO-HAN! You woke up!" she gasped loudly. The boy jerked awake, looking around wildly for Vegeta.BR
"It's alright, Gohan! Mamma's here! Ohhh, my poor baaaaaby! You must have been so frightened, with that huge monster attacking you, and that big monkey!" Chi-Chi wailed, and Gohan stared at her.BR
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"M-Mommy!!" he said, finally getting the fact that they were alive and well.BR
"Gohan fought well. You should be proud, Chi-Chi." Master Roshi said. Chi-Chi wrinkled her nose, but smiled and nodded.BR
"It's really over, Gohan! We did it!" Kurilin said. Gohan stared in amazement at his battle companion.BR
"But, the Saiyan, he... "BR
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"Well, he... he got away. But, we really showed him before he left! I bet he never wants to see Chikyu-sei again!" Kurilin turned to look at Raimi, who looked away, not wanting to say anything that would freak them out needlessly. Luckily Yajirobei piped up and tried to bet with Kurilin about Vegeta's intent to return.BR
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"But, wait... Daddy! Where's Daddy!" Gohans voice rose in panic as he looked franticly for his father. Chi-Chi humphed as Goku called from his stretcher.BR
"Behind you Gohan! I'll be fine, thanks to you!" he said, sighing with relief that his son was okay. Gohan scrambled out of Chi-Chi's arms and looked back at his father.BR
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"Daddy!" Gohan laughed, and smiled hugely at Raimi as well. She smiled weakly, and sighed as Chi-Chi grumbled about Goku and Gohan being in danger again.BR
"But Mom, the whole earth was in danger... " Chi-Chi waved the fate of the world away snapping that she'd warned Goku about letting Gohan fight, and ignoring Yajirobei's remark about smacking sense into one's wife to Goku.BR
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"Kurilin, what were you about to say... about hope... " Bulma asked. Kurilin looked at her as he gathered his thoughts, and then smiled.BR
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"Oh yeah! Well, it's like this... " he explained about how Vegeta and Nappa had heard of Dragonballs from Raditz scouter when Piccolo had taunted him, and recognized Piccolo as an alien form the Planet Namek-sei; and about how they intended to go there if Piccolo wouldn't tell them about the Dragonballs from Earth. There was stunned silence as the implications of this sank into everyone's brains.BR
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"That's right! The Nameks have the powers to make magic balls!" Gohan said in the silence. Kurilin nodded.BR
"If we could get to this Namek-sei... There just might be a set of Dragonballs there... " Kurilin said.BR
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"... And then we could wish everyone back!" Karin said happily.BR
"Piccolo can come back too!" Gohan said excitedly. Chi-Chi gaped at him in horror.BR
"What are you saying Gohan!?" She squeaked. (Everyone ignored her.)BR
"Yep, and if Piccolo comes back, then Kami-sama would too, and our Dragonballs would be restored as well!" Kurilin yelled happily. "It could work, it really could work!"BR
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"Um, that's your big hope? Going to another planet? It's fantastic and impossible... " Bulma said listlessly. Kurilin protested, but she turned her sad eyes to him and he fell silent.BR
"Kurilin, how will we even find this planet?" she asked. Kurilins face froze in stunned surprise. Raimi bit her tongue, and waited for Goku to speak, and he did, right on cue...BR
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"Hey, leave it to me! I'll ask Kaio-sama, I think he'll know where it is!" he said. Everyone looked at each other in bafflement as he spoke in a strange voice. "Kaio-sama, I know you were listening, do you know where this Namek-sei is?"BR
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"IPlanet Namek? Sure, I know where it is. Why do you think I am called the Lord of The Worlds/I?" Kai's voice said in every ones ears as if he were there with them. The startled passengers looked at each other in bafflement.BR
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"Um, I can hear him too. This is a trick, isn't it?" Kame-sen'nin said chuckling nervously. Everyone shook their heads, indicating that they heard him too. Goku laughed in delight.BR
"Lord of the Worlds, we are listening, please tell us what you know." He said.BR
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"ILet me congratulate you, and all the others too! When you were injured so badly, I thought all was lost! I am very impressed/I." King Kai said. Goku sighed.BR
"I just didn't expect him to have so much power. Not even the Kaio-Ken was much help against him."BR
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"IWell, yes. Vegeta's power was a slight miscalculation on my part... okay a pretty big mess-up is more like it/I... " King Kai said unhappily.BR
"Um, then... do you think I shouldn't have let him get away?" Goku said plaintively. Raimi rolled her eyes, and the rest of the party gasped in shock.BR
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"IWell... Frankly, no you shouldn't have/I... " King Kai started.BR
"Hold on, wait a minute! You aren't saying Goku let him go, as in let him go!" Roshi said. Kurilin sighed and promised to fill him in later.BR
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"IYes, do that. But now, let us see about just where Namek-sei is... in Chikyu-sei terms, it seems to be bearing SU83, or, no it's 9045XY/I... " Bulma jumped in surprise and shock.BR
"Did he say 9045XY?" She yelped. Kurilin stared at her.BR
"Are you saying you know where that is, Bulma?" He asked. She whirled around and glared at Roshi.BR
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"Hey, Turtle Lover, take the controls, would yah! I gotta do some calculating!" Roshi obediently took the wheel with a puzzled echo of "Turtle Boy?" under his breath. Bulma pulled a capsule from her "Gotta have it" wallet and opened her navicomputer. She typed like mad, growling about bad news.BR
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"Oh, no you don't! Get into that ship and sit down! You aren't lifting a cup of tea until you're looked at, hear me?" Karin said. Raimi and Goku blinked, but since he was third in command after Kami-sama and Mr. Popo, she did as he ordered. Yajirobei helped load Goku onto a stretcher and into the ship. Master Roshi took the controls, and they lifted off.BR
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Bulma was still sobbing, with Chi-Chi cradling Gohan next to her, while Raimi sat in the back, near Goku, and across from Yajirobei. Kurilin was directing them to where the bodies of the others were lying under the starlit sky.BR
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"A little more... yes, that way... " He pointed Roshi in the right direction, and they fell silent, Bulma's crying the only sound.BR
"Bulma, please don't cry... I know that this is really unlikely... I mean it's only a slim chance... Don't get your hopes up, but there maybe a small possibility that we can bring them back to life after all... " Bulma sat up and gasped.BR
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"Of course, I could be grasping at straws... " Kurilin mumbled.BR
"You said something like that before... what did you mean, Kurilin?" Goku asked. Just then, Kurilin saw the place where the fight had begun.BR
"Well, I'll tell you later. Master, this is the place where the bodies are... "BR
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They let Bulma help with Piccolo and Tenshinhan, and there was nothing left of Chauzu; but Raimi was forced to help Kurilin and Karin to keep her away from Yamcha's battered body. Not even Kurilins assurance that he was in no shape to be seen would keep her away from him. She cried again as Raimi and Kurilin held her while Roshi and Yajirobei put him into the coffin like boxes they were using for the sad task. Suddenly she turned to Raimi and stared at her. Raimi wondered if she had a trademark anime sweat drop on her temple as she cringed under Bulma's gaze.BR
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"You... You knew, didn't you?" Raimi nodded. "And will he come back?" Again Raimi nodded. Bulma smiled and slid one arm around Raimi's waist. "Well, then. You look awful! You shouldn't be standing out here, lets get you back onto the aircar." Raimi blinked in surprise as she was hustled back on board. She noticed that Bulma looked back over her shoulder as Yamcha's box was loaded and stored below deck.BR
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"I wish there was some way to bring them back... the sacrifices they made were so great... " Karin said softly, a little distressed purr in his voice. Roshi clenched s fist in very unchacteristic rage.BR
"I feel so angry at myself... but I am nothing near the caliber of their powers... " he said as he looked at the coffins of his students. Bulma brushed by him, sniffing but looking better.BR
"Hey, Roshi, go and cry your eyes out, it did wonders for me!" Roshi looked at her funny as she sat at the controls, and got going towards the hospital.BR
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Raimi sat next to Goku, focusing fiercely on staying conscious. If Goku was awake, then she'd stay awake too! She hoped... She glanced over at Chi-Chi, who was stroking Gohan's hair and trying to peek over her shoulder at Goku. She thought that Chi-Chi was feeling guilty, but she'd never admit it. Raimi felt bad too about yelling at her, but she'd always felt that Chi-Chi was fifty percent of the problem in her and Goku's marriage. Still, he probably could defend himself, if he wanted too... She felt Goku touch her leg.BR
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"THANKS!" He mouthed exaggeratedly. Raimi smiled and gently moved his hand back to the stretcher, since his arm was broken. He frowned and stopped her, looking at his fingers, which were stained red. He realized that her armored stretch suit was drenched in blood, and looked up at her. She shook her head.BR
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"I'll live 'till we get to the hospital, so don't worry. Saiyans can accept any blood type, as I understand it, so I'll be right as rain soon enough. You are hurt much, much worse, you know." She whispered. He scowled at her, but made himself relax. There wasn't anything any of them could do until they got there anyway. Just then, Gohan stirred in Chi-Chi's arms.BR
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"GO-HAN! You woke up!" she gasped loudly. The boy jerked awake, looking around wildly for Vegeta.BR
"It's alright, Gohan! Mamma's here! Ohhh, my poor baaaaaby! You must have been so frightened, with that huge monster attacking you, and that big monkey!" Chi-Chi wailed, and Gohan stared at her.BR
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"M-Mommy!!" he said, finally getting the fact that they were alive and well.BR
"Gohan fought well. You should be proud, Chi-Chi." Master Roshi said. Chi-Chi wrinkled her nose, but smiled and nodded.BR
"It's really over, Gohan! We did it!" Kurilin said. Gohan stared in amazement at his battle companion.BR
"But, the Saiyan, he... "BR
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"Well, he... he got away. But, we really showed him before he left! I bet he never wants to see Chikyu-sei again!" Kurilin turned to look at Raimi, who looked away, not wanting to say anything that would freak them out needlessly. Luckily Yajirobei piped up and tried to bet with Kurilin about Vegeta's intent to return.BR
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"But, wait... Daddy! Where's Daddy!" Gohans voice rose in panic as he looked franticly for his father. Chi-Chi humphed as Goku called from his stretcher.BR
"Behind you Gohan! I'll be fine, thanks to you!" he said, sighing with relief that his son was okay. Gohan scrambled out of Chi-Chi's arms and looked back at his father.BR
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"Daddy!" Gohan laughed, and smiled hugely at Raimi as well. She smiled weakly, and sighed as Chi-Chi grumbled about Goku and Gohan being in danger again.BR
"But Mom, the whole earth was in danger... " Chi-Chi waved the fate of the world away snapping that she'd warned Goku about letting Gohan fight, and ignoring Yajirobei's remark about smacking sense into one's wife to Goku.BR
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"Kurilin, what were you about to say... about hope... " Bulma asked. Kurilin looked at her as he gathered his thoughts, and then smiled.BR
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"Oh yeah! Well, it's like this... " he explained about how Vegeta and Nappa had heard of Dragonballs from Raditz scouter when Piccolo had taunted him, and recognized Piccolo as an alien form the Planet Namek-sei; and about how they intended to go there if Piccolo wouldn't tell them about the Dragonballs from Earth. There was stunned silence as the implications of this sank into everyone's brains.BR
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"That's right! The Nameks have the powers to make magic balls!" Gohan said in the silence. Kurilin nodded.BR
"If we could get to this Namek-sei... There just might be a set of Dragonballs there... " Kurilin said.BR
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"... And then we could wish everyone back!" Karin said happily.BR
"Piccolo can come back too!" Gohan said excitedly. Chi-Chi gaped at him in horror.BR
"What are you saying Gohan!?" She squeaked. (Everyone ignored her.)BR
"Yep, and if Piccolo comes back, then Kami-sama would too, and our Dragonballs would be restored as well!" Kurilin yelled happily. "It could work, it really could work!"BR
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"Um, that's your big hope? Going to another planet? It's fantastic and impossible... " Bulma said listlessly. Kurilin protested, but she turned her sad eyes to him and he fell silent.BR
"Kurilin, how will we even find this planet?" she asked. Kurilins face froze in stunned surprise. Raimi bit her tongue, and waited for Goku to speak, and he did, right on cue...BR
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"Hey, leave it to me! I'll ask Kaio-sama, I think he'll know where it is!" he said. Everyone looked at each other in bafflement as he spoke in a strange voice. "Kaio-sama, I know you were listening, do you know where this Namek-sei is?"BR
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"IPlanet Namek? Sure, I know where it is. Why do you think I am called the Lord of The Worlds/I?" Kai's voice said in every ones ears as if he were there with them. The startled passengers looked at each other in bafflement.BR
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"Um, I can hear him too. This is a trick, isn't it?" Kame-sen'nin said chuckling nervously. Everyone shook their heads, indicating that they heard him too. Goku laughed in delight.BR
"Lord of the Worlds, we are listening, please tell us what you know." He said.BR
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"ILet me congratulate you, and all the others too! When you were injured so badly, I thought all was lost! I am very impressed/I." King Kai said. Goku sighed.BR
"I just didn't expect him to have so much power. Not even the Kaio-Ken was much help against him."BR
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"IWell, yes. Vegeta's power was a slight miscalculation on my part... okay a pretty big mess-up is more like it/I... " King Kai said unhappily.BR
"Um, then... do you think I shouldn't have let him get away?" Goku said plaintively. Raimi rolled her eyes, and the rest of the party gasped in shock.BR
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"IWell... Frankly, no you shouldn't have/I... " King Kai started.BR
"Hold on, wait a minute! You aren't saying Goku let him go, as in let him go!" Roshi said. Kurilin sighed and promised to fill him in later.BR
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"IYes, do that. But now, let us see about just where Namek-sei is... in Chikyu-sei terms, it seems to be bearing SU83, or, no it's 9045XY/I... " Bulma jumped in surprise and shock.BR
"Did he say 9045XY?" She yelped. Kurilin stared at her.BR
"Are you saying you know where that is, Bulma?" He asked. She whirled around and glared at Roshi.BR
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"Hey, Turtle Lover, take the controls, would yah! I gotta do some calculating!" Roshi obediently took the wheel with a puzzled echo of "Turtle Boy?" under his breath. Bulma pulled a capsule from her "Gotta have it" wallet and opened her navicomputer. She typed like mad, growling about bad news.BR
