But had he heard something? There was definitely nothing in the room. The windows were closed and locked as well as the door. Plus, what did he have to worry about?
Worst comes to worst, I'll just go super saiya-jin on their sorry asses! thought Goten confidently.
"Uncle Goten, I'm scayed," said Pan, walking over to him with a look of fear in her eyes, "I tink I heawd something."
"Shhhh…you're just imagining it. And I'll protect from danger anyway," boasted Goten, making Pan laugh.
"My daddy says you are da weakest one in our family!" said Pan laughing. Goten blushed and then turned angry.
"Well you tell your dad that I'll--"
creak…
Goten was cut off by a strange sound.
"Uncle Goten, did you hear that?" asked Pan.
"Yeah, I did. I'm sure it was--"
creeeeeak…
Goten was cut off again by the creaking sound. He looked around nervously. Pan seemed scared and jumped up onto his lap on the couch. Goten rubbed her hair, trying to calm her down, but she seemed frightened.
"Who's here?" yelled out Goten to no one in particular. There was no response…Goten sat there, looking around wild-eyed, and still there was no answer. He began to relax.
"See Pan, there's nothing to--"
CRASH!!!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Save me Uncle Goten! There are monsters in here!!!" yelled out Pan frantically. Goten jumped up and ran upstairs to his parent's room, where the crash had taken place. He saw that all the drawers had been pulled out, and the bed was turned upside down. The paint on the walls was chipping off, and the two windows were shattered. And in one of the drawers that has been pulled out, Goten saw a small slip of green paper. He read and his eyes opened wide. He turned to see Pan standing in the doorway, looking at the wreckage that had taken place in the room.
"What does it say? What does it say?" she yelled out to Goten. He turned to her, shaking.
"It says: 'Do not forget, Kakarotto, for your time for regrowth is on the horizon,'" said Goten, shaking his head confusedly.
"But what does that mean? I don't get it!" said Pan impatiently.
"Neither do I, Pan," said Goten, crumpling up the note, "neither do I."
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"You think it's funny, don't you Vegeta? Calling my house and scaring my mother? And what have you done to my father? You've made him sick, haven't you? I know you're up to no good, Vegeta, you never have been," accused Gohan. A dumbfounded Vegeta and Trunks stared up at sky, viewing the saiya-jin warrior with a look of anger in his eyes.
"What are you talking about? First you come to my house in the middle of the night! Then you make these false accusations! What gives you the right to be here?" shouted Vegeta back to Gohan.
Trunks just looked up in the sky and tried to figure out what was going on. Had his father done something wrong…again? And just went he had started to trust him… Trunks pushed the thought out of his mind. This was his father. He had to stand by him.
"A typical answer from you Vegeta. A pure lie. That's all you are Vegeta. You are made up of lies and deceit. Well I wouldn't pride myself in that!" yelled Gohan in anger.
"I really don't--"
Before Vegeta could finish, Gohan blurred out, and seconds later appeared in front of Vegeta. A look of shock appeared on Vegeta's face and Gohan punches him directly in the stomach, the Capsule Corporation house, shaking it's walls and leaving a huge dent in it. Vegeta stood up and looked at Gohan in anger.
"You don't know what you're getting into, little Kakarotto. I am the prince of all saiya-jins, and won't let you toy around with me like this!"
With that, Vegeta leaped at Gohan, throwing a punch the Gohan dodged. He then tried to sweep-kick Gohan, but Gohan leaped in the air, just avoiding another punch by Vegeta. Vegeta screamed and fired an energy blast at Gohan quickly, and when Gohan had swatted it away, he realized his mistake. Vegeta suddenly appeared behind him and axe-hammered him in the back. Gohan went flying downward and his the ground with a bang, kicking up a huge cloud of dust. Gohan flew at Vegeta, and they both exchanged some punches, both blocking, punching, and kicking at the same time. Gohan got a lucky shot in, and then brought Vegeta's head down on his knee, knocking Vegeta back. Gohan then took Vegeta by the hair and threw him high in the air.
"MASENKO!!!" screamed Gohan, who raised both his hands above his head, lined up with each other, and fired a large yellow blast right at Vegeta. Vegeta quickly rolled out of the way to be met by a kick to the face from Gohan. Gohan then formed a large ball of energy with two hands and shot it straight into Vegeta's midsection, blowing him far away.
"Okay Vegeta, had enough? Now you can apologize and all will be over with!" yelled Gohan to the distant Vegeta. What Gohan didn't see was Trunks behind him, who quickly double-kicked Gohan in the back, making him fly forwards. Gohan turned to the lavender haired 14 year-old and frowned.
"C'mon now Trunks, we don't have to fight. This is over with now," reasoned Gohan.
"I don't think so!" screamed Trunks, while his eyes lit up with a light blue and his hair flew up in the air, spiking itself in a golden color. The young super saiya-jin pointed his finger at Gohan.
"You don't mess with my dad like that! Just wait till he comes back, he'll be super saiya-jin two and then he'll give you a good whooping! But for now, you're mine!" screamed Trunks, launched himself at Gohan, who didn't look to happy to be fighting a young teenager. Just before Trunks reached Gohan, his father reappeared, stopping Trunks from advancing.
"Hey Dad, let's attack him together! Then we'll win!" said Trunks. Vegeta shook his head and turned to Gohan. He slowly lost his aura and dropped out of super saiya-jin.
"There's been a misunderstanding, kid. I never called your house. I don't even know your phone number!" said Vegeta impatiently, a little pissed that Gohan had just schooled him.
"Oh yeah, so why did our Caller I.D. say your number when my mom picked up? Try to explain that!" said Gohan.
"I really can't. Listen, we don't need to fight, I haven't even shown you my true power yet and I honestly don't feel like showing it. I want to go to bed. Just come inside and talk to my wife, maybe she can clear it up for you…" said Vegeta calmly. He then flew in through Trunks's broken window and wasn't seen again for the rest of the night. Gohan turned to Trunks.
"I'm sorry Trunks, it's just that your dad, well you know how he isn't the nicest guy ever and the call did come from this address, so I came here," Gohan tried to explain. Trunks phased out of super saiya-jin.
"It's okay, Gohan, c'mon let's go inside I'll get my mom…" said Trunks, and they went inside.
Ten minutes later…
"So you're sure that the call came from here, right?" asked Bulma to Gohan, who were both sitting in the same room on couches. Trunks was there as well, sitting on a chair.
"I'm positive, it said 25 Davidson Avenue on it. That's where you live, don't you?"
"Yeah, that's where we live," Trunks chimed in, "I'm positive."
"And you're sure you were home this morning, right?" asked Gohan again.
"How many times are we gonna tell you Gohan, yes we were!" said Bulma, getting impatient, "I'm sorry Gohan, but I think you've worn out your welcome here. We'll see you later," grumbled Bulma, helping Gohan to the door.
"And don't both coming back and start beating people up. It really isn't appreciated," said Bulma, closing the door hard. Gohan just looked at it strangely, but angrily. So who was the mysterious caller? And how was he still so sure that it wasn't Vegeta. Gohan paused, and could hear Vegeta snoring in the room upstairs. How could he be so sure that Vegeta wasn't behind it? Gohan wondered that as he slowly ascended into the air. He took one last glance at the house, then flew off into the distance.
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In a large white lobby of a hospital, the door suddenly burst open with two women trying with all their might to hold up a very strong, but very unconscious Goku. Two male nurses rushed over to help.
"We'll take it from here, ladies," one of them said, casually getting under Goku's right arm and the other got under the left. As Videl and Chi-Chi let go, both men collapsed to the floor.
"How can he be so heavy?" asked the other helper, pinned to the floor.
"Oh enough of this!" said Videl impatiently, and once again, with Chi-Chi's help, lifted up Goku and carried him to the front desk.
"Hi, we'd like to admit my husband here to the emergency room, please," said Chi-Chi to the woman at the desk. The woman seemed to ignore her and kept filing papers.
"Hello…" said Chi-Chi impatiently. The woman looked up at her, and then down again to type. Chi-Chi suddenly turned beet red and reached over the desk, grabbing the woman's collar.
"You listen to me little miss! You admit my husband here into the emergency room or I'll…I'll…"
"Chi-Chi, calm down!" yelled Videl, pulling Chi-Chi away from the now terrified woman. She quickly pulled out some papers and Chi-Chi signed them reluctantly. Some men came out with a stretcher and with Chi-Chi and Videl's help, were able to load Goku on to the stretcher.
"Man, lady, how did your husband get so heavy without being fat or anything?" asked one of the helpers, sweating like crazy.
"Well I guess they say muscle ways more than fat, y'know," said Chi-Chi nonchalantly.
"Whew…" said Videl panting, "that was quite a hassle, thank God we were--"
CRASH!!! BANG!!!
Chi-Chi and Videl turned around to see Goku on the floor, and the top of the once-working stretcher right under him. Chi-Chi sighed and fainted into Videl's arms.
--- --- ---
A large space pod hurtled through the galaxy at breakneck speeds. It resembled a large beetle, with a small head in front and a huge dome for the body. Four guns protected it from all sides, each on each corner of the large dome, and one on the top, as well as on the bottom. It was all a dark gray, and not very easy to see.
Laughter filled the inside of the ship, as five creatures of all different colors seemed to be enjoying a joke. They were all the same size and shape; they had bodies exactly like their ship, round and plump with tiny little heads on top. Their colors were red, yellow, blue, green, and brown.
"It looks like Blemeth with some huge white pimples all over him!" joked the red one, putting all five into another fit of hysterics.
"You could say it's even smaller then Yemeth's head!" said the green one, making them all crack up again. When they laughed they let out a gut-wrenching, wheezing sound (like King Kai's laugh in the dub) and sprayed purple goo all about when they did.
"How could you even think of taking us here, Remeth?" asked the blue one, getting a bit more serious, "who would ever decided to live here in the first place?"
"I like it," said the blue one, chuckling, "it's my color, and plus, maybe it has some good water!"
"Water, that's all you care about, Blemeth," said the green one grumpily.
"I wouldn't talk there Gremeth," said the brown one, "all you eat is grass!"
"But that doesn't compare to Yemeth, who drinks urine all day!" the green one shot back.
"It's not pee, it's condensed fiber-active urinal waste! And it tastes quite good, mind you! I can also bet it tastes better than what Bremeth eats!" said the yellow one chuckling. The brown one started to turn red.
"Hey, it's actually quite good, you are all just too scared to try it!" complained Bremeth. He turned to the red one for support but he seemed to be concentrating.
"Okay kids, enough joking around, we're set to land in about two hours. I want you all to strap in, this planet's atmosphere is tiny, but I never said it wouldn't be rough!" warned the red one. All of them strapped in tightly.
"All I can say now is full speed ahead!" yelled out the blue one.
"Yes, let's journey onward," said the red one, "onward…to Earth."
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"Okay, let's see here now. 23…"
A paperboy on his bike threw a paper at the house labeled number 23.
"Okay, now 24…"
He did the same thing with the next house, which was at the end of the block.
"And 25…"
He threw the last paper in front of the small blue house labeled 25, with peeling paint and uncut grass. The boy continued to ride, right past the street sign, reading the street sign, which in big letters read: DAVIDSON AVE.