Chapter 2 : No Need For Food Storage
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Goku had walked with the two girls he found when he first appeared here. Both seemed to be content now, and rather quiet after their argument. They had taken him into a house, where he was going to meet everyone. The first person he met was a young boy called Tenchi, with black hair, some kind of pony tail, but he had seen cats more beefy, The boy seemed to have a strange quality about him, although he had sensed much stronger in Gohan. Maybe a hidden power as yet untapped to it's full extent. Might prove interesting. "Well, I suppose I could be in worse places than this living room," he thought to himself.
"So," Aeka said, "What is your name, and how did you get here?"
"My name is Goku, and I'm not sure about how I got here actually. I was on Namek-"
"Namek? What's Namek?"
"Ryoko, don't interrupt our guest. It's not polite." Tenchi interrupted.
"Sorry Tenchi...."
Ryoko fluttered her eyelashes at Tenchi, who immediately came over all red. Aeka shot Ryoko a fierce glance, clearly fuming. Goku looked on, eyebrows raised to the point that he looked goofy. "This is almost as bad as Bulma and Yamcha back home," he thought to himself. Ryoko and Aeka quit their game of exchanging glances, after Tenchi shot them both a look. Ryoko floated up behind Tenchi, prompting another embarrassed face from the boy as she brushed up against him and wrapped her arms around him, her hands wandering to places that Goku wasn't sure about. Aeka looked torn over whether to take action or to sit tight due to Tenchi. "If I don't know better, I'd say that kid likes the attention," he mused, "Heh, I hope Gohan has all that attention when he grows up!"
"Anyway," Aeka stammered, regaining her composure, as Ryoko continued wandering down Tenchi's front, prompting nervous glances from him, "Go on, you were on this Namek...?"
"Yeah... what was I saying? Oh yeah, I was on Namek, fighting for the future of the Universe, up against a force of evil called Freeza." Goku continued.
"Freeza? Sounds cold.." Ryoko muttered into Tenchi's ear.
"Yeah... he is a very cold, very evil person." Ryoko looked surprised, there was no way that man could have heard her say that. He seemed almost superhuman. "Insanely powerful. It was really the final stages of the battle. I was just about to finish him off. Namek had 20 seconds til it blew-"
"Blew, as in BLOWS UP!?" The three yelled in unison. Ryoko jumped away from Tenchi, mouthing the words "blow up" over and over again. Tenchi himself looked rather shaken, and Aeka didn't know what to make of it.
"Erm..... yep. What other sort of blew is there"
"I'm a little shocked actually... there wasn't a Jurai battleship nearby was there?" Aeka looked intrigued.
"A what battleship?"
"Fuck that, what makes anyone want to be near an exploding planet!"
Goku had no idea what a Jurai battleship was. Infact, that Jurai word seemed to be popping up almost as often as his stomach was rumbling. All he knew was that he had to get back to Namek and deal with Freeza, after eating of course.
"A Jurai battleship. One of the most powerful spacefairing vessels known in the Universe. Belonging to the Juraian Empire." Aeka replied.
"Erm.... no.... I've never come across a space battleship before. Any sort of space battleship. I've only seen the battleships on the sea, and they didn't come across as very tough."
"What about Soja? Ever come across the Soja? Kagato's ship that tried to capture Tsunami and destroy Earth just a year ago?" Ryoko looked flustered. How could this person not know about Jurai and yet still claim to be a space traveller. How could he not know about how Tenchi saved them all?
"Who is this Kaga... whatever? Or this Soja? Types of food?"
Ryoko, Aeka and Tenchi fell flat on their faces. Goku looked on, with a blank look on his face. Washu dashed in, having come out of her lab to greet the new arrival.
"Hi! My name's Little Washuuuu!! Greatest scientific genius in the Universe! What's your name?"
"Hey, my name's Goku! Pleased to meet you!"
"Would you like to be my guinea pig??? Pretty please?? I've never seen a person built up like you before!"
"Erm... little Washu, maybe you should wait a while before trying any experiments on our guest."
Goku continued looking blankly at the group. He had never seen a family this dysfunctional before, and was clueless as to what the place would have been like if he wasn't here. Mind you, he considered, the entire situation so far was confusing to say the least. He hadn't quite figured out how he got here.... actually, scrub that, he hadn't even started to figure out how he got here. If Bulma was here, she would have sorted this all out by now. "Thinking makes me hungry", he thought to himself, oblivious to the paradox he had created for himself within his own brain.
"Cmon, just a quick blood test. Just to find out what he's made of."
"Ask him. It's his blood."
"OK. Mr Goku, can I take a sample of your blood?"
"Yeah, sure."
Washu's face lit up. "Great!!! I'll just get out my equipment!" She rushed off, back into the closet that seemed to absorb everything that entered.
"Say, Mr. Goku, you said you wanted something to eat. I'll take you to the kitchen, I'm sure Sasami will be happy to cook something up for you when she gets back. Actually.... when did Sasami say she was going to get back anyway?"
"In a couple of minutes, Tenchi," came the regal reply from Aeka, now busying herself in the corner of the room.
"Ryo-Ohki gone with her?"
"Yup, haven't seen her." Ryoko had returned to her hibernation spot on the couch.
"OK. Mr. Goku, if you can wait a couple of minutes, you can eat something, maybe get some sleep too."
"Yeah, and I wouldn't mind finding out how you ended up with muscles the size of grapefruits."
"Grandpa might like to see you too. He's always interested in those who fight. He's pretty strong himself."
"Heh," Goku scratched his head, "I might have more fun around here than I wanted to really. I've gotta get back to Freeza soon though. The fate of the Universe depends on it."
"Pretty deep stuff for someone as laid back as you are," Ryoko said.
The closet door opened, and Washu stepped out, clad in a nurses outfit, and carrying about a dozen needles. Goku looked at her for a second, and alarm bells went off in his head.
"This will only take a second to do. Just these 11 vials then I'm done." Washu stepped closer, her intentions clear to him.
Goku jumped up in the air and screamed like a little girl.
"NEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDLLLLLEEEEEESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The Masaki house now had a Goku shaped hole in the wall, as the almighty Saiyan had crashed through the wall in panic, and was floating just above the lake, extremely scared of the pink haired mad scientist running towards him screaming at the top of her voice about how it was only a needle.
"TENCHI!! AEKA!! I'M HOME!!! I BROUGHT FOOD!!!"
"Food?!?"
Goku darted back into the house at horrific speed, attracted by his holy grail. When it became obvious to Washu that any attempt to use a needle on this Goku would prove utterly futile in the short or long term, she began considering other options. Given the speed he just displayed, superior to even Ryoko's by a factor of at least a hundred thousand, it would be one hell of a challenge. She smiled. This was one challenge she was going to enjoy overcoming. If she could ever get close enough to the man to do anything, that is.
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"Ryoko, I'd say that Mr. Goku can eat more than you can," Sasami said, smiling sweetly as per usual, with Ryo-Ohki in her resting place on Sasami's head.
"Impossible! No one has a bigger appetite than I do. At least, not among ordinary people anyway. Eats worse than I do though."
"Ryoko! How bad are your manners! Lord Tenchi would never pick anyone who had the manners of a pig like you do! You should be more like me." Aeka began another stareout competition with the cyan framed face of the girl from outer space, who happily took up the challenge. Tenchi just sighed and tried to get on with eating. This Goku did have a massive appetite, the largest he had ever seen, and that included Ryo-Ohki's. He was eating his food at a rate unheard of to modern science. He was strange, because although he said he lived on Earth, no human had those sort of abilities and appetite, or let alone close to them.
"So," Tenchi started, in between bites, "Mr. Goku...."
"Please, just call me Goku." The bulky man looked embarrassed, although he had, up to this point, demolished around a weeks worth of food. "I'm not used to being called MR. Goku. It's strange. It makes a change from being called Kakarotto though.."
"Ok, Goku. I was just wondering, where exactly do you come from?"
"Oh, I see. You've spotted something wrong and it's bugging you isn't it. Well, just to clear a couple of things up, I'm not human. I'm a Saiyan."
Ryoko spoke up.
"Look, Goku, I've been a space pirate, travelling the galaxy with Ryo-Ohki over there for hundreds of years under the influence of Kagato. In all those years of travelling, I've never come across anything like you, or anything even claiming to bear the name 'Saiyan'. So don't take it the wrong way if I'm a little offhand about your story."
Tenchi looked down in thought for a second. If even Ryoko, the one with more space experience than anyone else here, hadn't heard of these Saiyans, then....
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A brilliant flash of light overtook Tenchi's vision. "Wha.... what on earth has happened NOW??!?"
A voice came from within the light. "Tenchi Masaki. I know you have a visitor."
"What? Who are you."
"Someone who is interested in the long term effects on your dimension by extra dimensional beings."
"Huh?"
The voice from the white light became distinctly annoyed. "You're worse than Microbrain. Let me explain it to you piece by piece. If you want, I'll give it to you on cards, in foot high letters."
"You haven't answered me, who are you?"
"I am Q. You have a person called Goku in your house don't you."
"Huh... why, yes, I do."
"He will not be the last to turn up unexpectedly."
"What do you mean???"
"You will see......"
The light faded.....
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Tenchi's vision reasserted control over his brain, and all his senses came back to him, flooding his brain with information. His brain was hit with the sudden jerk reaction of Ryoko shaking him, looked extremely worried. The bulky form of Goku also towered overhead him, and Aeka was screaming at Ryoko for some reason.
"Hey Tenchi. You sorta conked out there for a moment," Goku's voice mentioned in a lighthearted tone.
"OH TENCHI! Are you alright??!!??" Ryoko grabbed Tenchi, crushing him like a Nissan in a car crusher. Argh... Ryoko, I like you a lot too, but at least give me time will you...
"I'm not wanting to sound imposing, but until I can figure my way out of this situation, do you mind if I stay here for a while?"
Tenchi managed to mutter a couple of muffled words before trying to struggle his way out of Ryoko's iron clad grip, which had the poor kid unusually close to her ample chest. Goku took it as a yes, and left Aeka, Ryoko, and the now bright red Tenchi to argue everything out.
"Wait a sec," he thought to himself, "there was some warrior guy named Yosho around here. Maybe I should pay him a visit."
"RYOKO!!!! GET YOUR FILTHY SPACE PIRATE HANDS OFF MY TENCHI!!!!!!"
With that, a huge ball of ki ignited around the Saiyan, and sending a huge blast of wind hurtling through the house, Goku set off to find this Yosho.
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Despite the grand total of reviews (ie, 1) I decided to continue with this. Unfortunately, my limited knowledge of anime puts me at a distinct disadvantage. Either way, whoever is reading this, keep reading. I promise it will get better soon :)
Coming soon: Chapter 3 - Never Annoy A Weapon That Hasn't Had It's Morning Coffee
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Goku had walked with the two girls he found when he first appeared here. Both seemed to be content now, and rather quiet after their argument. They had taken him into a house, where he was going to meet everyone. The first person he met was a young boy called Tenchi, with black hair, some kind of pony tail, but he had seen cats more beefy, The boy seemed to have a strange quality about him, although he had sensed much stronger in Gohan. Maybe a hidden power as yet untapped to it's full extent. Might prove interesting. "Well, I suppose I could be in worse places than this living room," he thought to himself.
"So," Aeka said, "What is your name, and how did you get here?"
"My name is Goku, and I'm not sure about how I got here actually. I was on Namek-"
"Namek? What's Namek?"
"Ryoko, don't interrupt our guest. It's not polite." Tenchi interrupted.
"Sorry Tenchi...."
Ryoko fluttered her eyelashes at Tenchi, who immediately came over all red. Aeka shot Ryoko a fierce glance, clearly fuming. Goku looked on, eyebrows raised to the point that he looked goofy. "This is almost as bad as Bulma and Yamcha back home," he thought to himself. Ryoko and Aeka quit their game of exchanging glances, after Tenchi shot them both a look. Ryoko floated up behind Tenchi, prompting another embarrassed face from the boy as she brushed up against him and wrapped her arms around him, her hands wandering to places that Goku wasn't sure about. Aeka looked torn over whether to take action or to sit tight due to Tenchi. "If I don't know better, I'd say that kid likes the attention," he mused, "Heh, I hope Gohan has all that attention when he grows up!"
"Anyway," Aeka stammered, regaining her composure, as Ryoko continued wandering down Tenchi's front, prompting nervous glances from him, "Go on, you were on this Namek...?"
"Yeah... what was I saying? Oh yeah, I was on Namek, fighting for the future of the Universe, up against a force of evil called Freeza." Goku continued.
"Freeza? Sounds cold.." Ryoko muttered into Tenchi's ear.
"Yeah... he is a very cold, very evil person." Ryoko looked surprised, there was no way that man could have heard her say that. He seemed almost superhuman. "Insanely powerful. It was really the final stages of the battle. I was just about to finish him off. Namek had 20 seconds til it blew-"
"Blew, as in BLOWS UP!?" The three yelled in unison. Ryoko jumped away from Tenchi, mouthing the words "blow up" over and over again. Tenchi himself looked rather shaken, and Aeka didn't know what to make of it.
"Erm..... yep. What other sort of blew is there"
"I'm a little shocked actually... there wasn't a Jurai battleship nearby was there?" Aeka looked intrigued.
"A what battleship?"
"Fuck that, what makes anyone want to be near an exploding planet!"
Goku had no idea what a Jurai battleship was. Infact, that Jurai word seemed to be popping up almost as often as his stomach was rumbling. All he knew was that he had to get back to Namek and deal with Freeza, after eating of course.
"A Jurai battleship. One of the most powerful spacefairing vessels known in the Universe. Belonging to the Juraian Empire." Aeka replied.
"Erm.... no.... I've never come across a space battleship before. Any sort of space battleship. I've only seen the battleships on the sea, and they didn't come across as very tough."
"What about Soja? Ever come across the Soja? Kagato's ship that tried to capture Tsunami and destroy Earth just a year ago?" Ryoko looked flustered. How could this person not know about Jurai and yet still claim to be a space traveller. How could he not know about how Tenchi saved them all?
"Who is this Kaga... whatever? Or this Soja? Types of food?"
Ryoko, Aeka and Tenchi fell flat on their faces. Goku looked on, with a blank look on his face. Washu dashed in, having come out of her lab to greet the new arrival.
"Hi! My name's Little Washuuuu!! Greatest scientific genius in the Universe! What's your name?"
"Hey, my name's Goku! Pleased to meet you!"
"Would you like to be my guinea pig??? Pretty please?? I've never seen a person built up like you before!"
"Erm... little Washu, maybe you should wait a while before trying any experiments on our guest."
Goku continued looking blankly at the group. He had never seen a family this dysfunctional before, and was clueless as to what the place would have been like if he wasn't here. Mind you, he considered, the entire situation so far was confusing to say the least. He hadn't quite figured out how he got here.... actually, scrub that, he hadn't even started to figure out how he got here. If Bulma was here, she would have sorted this all out by now. "Thinking makes me hungry", he thought to himself, oblivious to the paradox he had created for himself within his own brain.
"Cmon, just a quick blood test. Just to find out what he's made of."
"Ask him. It's his blood."
"OK. Mr Goku, can I take a sample of your blood?"
"Yeah, sure."
Washu's face lit up. "Great!!! I'll just get out my equipment!" She rushed off, back into the closet that seemed to absorb everything that entered.
"Say, Mr. Goku, you said you wanted something to eat. I'll take you to the kitchen, I'm sure Sasami will be happy to cook something up for you when she gets back. Actually.... when did Sasami say she was going to get back anyway?"
"In a couple of minutes, Tenchi," came the regal reply from Aeka, now busying herself in the corner of the room.
"Ryo-Ohki gone with her?"
"Yup, haven't seen her." Ryoko had returned to her hibernation spot on the couch.
"OK. Mr. Goku, if you can wait a couple of minutes, you can eat something, maybe get some sleep too."
"Yeah, and I wouldn't mind finding out how you ended up with muscles the size of grapefruits."
"Grandpa might like to see you too. He's always interested in those who fight. He's pretty strong himself."
"Heh," Goku scratched his head, "I might have more fun around here than I wanted to really. I've gotta get back to Freeza soon though. The fate of the Universe depends on it."
"Pretty deep stuff for someone as laid back as you are," Ryoko said.
The closet door opened, and Washu stepped out, clad in a nurses outfit, and carrying about a dozen needles. Goku looked at her for a second, and alarm bells went off in his head.
"This will only take a second to do. Just these 11 vials then I'm done." Washu stepped closer, her intentions clear to him.
Goku jumped up in the air and screamed like a little girl.
"NEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDLLLLLEEEEEESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The Masaki house now had a Goku shaped hole in the wall, as the almighty Saiyan had crashed through the wall in panic, and was floating just above the lake, extremely scared of the pink haired mad scientist running towards him screaming at the top of her voice about how it was only a needle.
"TENCHI!! AEKA!! I'M HOME!!! I BROUGHT FOOD!!!"
"Food?!?"
Goku darted back into the house at horrific speed, attracted by his holy grail. When it became obvious to Washu that any attempt to use a needle on this Goku would prove utterly futile in the short or long term, she began considering other options. Given the speed he just displayed, superior to even Ryoko's by a factor of at least a hundred thousand, it would be one hell of a challenge. She smiled. This was one challenge she was going to enjoy overcoming. If she could ever get close enough to the man to do anything, that is.
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"Ryoko, I'd say that Mr. Goku can eat more than you can," Sasami said, smiling sweetly as per usual, with Ryo-Ohki in her resting place on Sasami's head.
"Impossible! No one has a bigger appetite than I do. At least, not among ordinary people anyway. Eats worse than I do though."
"Ryoko! How bad are your manners! Lord Tenchi would never pick anyone who had the manners of a pig like you do! You should be more like me." Aeka began another stareout competition with the cyan framed face of the girl from outer space, who happily took up the challenge. Tenchi just sighed and tried to get on with eating. This Goku did have a massive appetite, the largest he had ever seen, and that included Ryo-Ohki's. He was eating his food at a rate unheard of to modern science. He was strange, because although he said he lived on Earth, no human had those sort of abilities and appetite, or let alone close to them.
"So," Tenchi started, in between bites, "Mr. Goku...."
"Please, just call me Goku." The bulky man looked embarrassed, although he had, up to this point, demolished around a weeks worth of food. "I'm not used to being called MR. Goku. It's strange. It makes a change from being called Kakarotto though.."
"Ok, Goku. I was just wondering, where exactly do you come from?"
"Oh, I see. You've spotted something wrong and it's bugging you isn't it. Well, just to clear a couple of things up, I'm not human. I'm a Saiyan."
Ryoko spoke up.
"Look, Goku, I've been a space pirate, travelling the galaxy with Ryo-Ohki over there for hundreds of years under the influence of Kagato. In all those years of travelling, I've never come across anything like you, or anything even claiming to bear the name 'Saiyan'. So don't take it the wrong way if I'm a little offhand about your story."
Tenchi looked down in thought for a second. If even Ryoko, the one with more space experience than anyone else here, hadn't heard of these Saiyans, then....
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A brilliant flash of light overtook Tenchi's vision. "Wha.... what on earth has happened NOW??!?"
A voice came from within the light. "Tenchi Masaki. I know you have a visitor."
"What? Who are you."
"Someone who is interested in the long term effects on your dimension by extra dimensional beings."
"Huh?"
The voice from the white light became distinctly annoyed. "You're worse than Microbrain. Let me explain it to you piece by piece. If you want, I'll give it to you on cards, in foot high letters."
"You haven't answered me, who are you?"
"I am Q. You have a person called Goku in your house don't you."
"Huh... why, yes, I do."
"He will not be the last to turn up unexpectedly."
"What do you mean???"
"You will see......"
The light faded.....
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Tenchi's vision reasserted control over his brain, and all his senses came back to him, flooding his brain with information. His brain was hit with the sudden jerk reaction of Ryoko shaking him, looked extremely worried. The bulky form of Goku also towered overhead him, and Aeka was screaming at Ryoko for some reason.
"Hey Tenchi. You sorta conked out there for a moment," Goku's voice mentioned in a lighthearted tone.
"OH TENCHI! Are you alright??!!??" Ryoko grabbed Tenchi, crushing him like a Nissan in a car crusher. Argh... Ryoko, I like you a lot too, but at least give me time will you...
"I'm not wanting to sound imposing, but until I can figure my way out of this situation, do you mind if I stay here for a while?"
Tenchi managed to mutter a couple of muffled words before trying to struggle his way out of Ryoko's iron clad grip, which had the poor kid unusually close to her ample chest. Goku took it as a yes, and left Aeka, Ryoko, and the now bright red Tenchi to argue everything out.
"Wait a sec," he thought to himself, "there was some warrior guy named Yosho around here. Maybe I should pay him a visit."
"RYOKO!!!! GET YOUR FILTHY SPACE PIRATE HANDS OFF MY TENCHI!!!!!!"
With that, a huge ball of ki ignited around the Saiyan, and sending a huge blast of wind hurtling through the house, Goku set off to find this Yosho.
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Despite the grand total of reviews (ie, 1) I decided to continue with this. Unfortunately, my limited knowledge of anime puts me at a distinct disadvantage. Either way, whoever is reading this, keep reading. I promise it will get better soon :)
Coming soon: Chapter 3 - Never Annoy A Weapon That Hasn't Had It's Morning Coffee