Sorry this took so long to get this written (I know I know, I promised this over a month ago Sakura. I'm sorry) so…
LAST TIME:
Raven gets food (all you can eat) and meets Bulma, Vegeta, and Trunks at the restaurant. Sarro (Yamne's wife) happened to know Bulma so she introduced Raven to her. Vegeta heard the name Raven and recognized her. He dragged her outside to find that she WAS the Raven from his dream. They all went to the parade and met Goten and Gohan (who also remembers Raven)
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"You know her Gohan?" Bulma asked. Gohan didn't answer, he just continued to stair at Raven, a loss for words. "Gohan?"
"Kinda." Gohan replied, not taking his eyes off of Raven.
"'Kinda'?!" Bulma said. "You know, the whole lot of you are have been acting weird ever since Raven showed up." Raven shifted her feet. She looked only at Gohan but she could feel the weight of Sarro, Yamne, Vegeta, and Bulma's eyes. Trunks and Goten just looked from adult to adult as the parade went on behind them. Gohan even almost missed Videl on her float along with the Police Department. (He would have if Goten hadn't mentioned 'his girlfriend' was passing).
"What's going on?" Bulma pressed.
"Later." Vegeta said. Bulma gave him a stern look. Vegeta (dangerously) ignored her. Bulma relented and they all turned to watch the parade. There was an almost dark feeling below the seeming cheerful people (minus Vegeta) in Vegeta's bubble. It almost turned into an amusement when Hurcule the "Savior of the World" and "World Martial Arts Champion" came by waving around his hands flashing the victory sign at the people around watching. But the boys got bored long before the parade ended.
"Can we go now." Trunks grumbled.
"Alright." Bulma said. "Why don't we all go to my house for dinner?"
"Yeah!" came from the Sons and Trunks.
"We have some plans for dinner, sorry Bulma." Sarro said.
"That's fine. See you latter!"
"Bye!" Sarro and Yamne said and turned to get to their car. Raven was at a loss for what to do. She had NO idea of how to get home or what she was going to do, much less where she was going to stay if she couldn't find a way home…Wait a sec! She was in the DBZ universe right? Almost ANYTHING was possible here! She could use Shenron!……She hoped.
"Raven?" Bulma cut into her thoughts.
"Yeah?"
"Would you like to join us?" The look Vegeta was giving Raven made up her mind quickly.
"Sure, thanks." She stuck close to the group as they made there way out of the crowd. Once she had enough room, Bulma pulled out a capsule that contained her car. They all piled in and took off.
What am I going to do? Raven thought, There's NO way I can convince them of what I know came from a baka anime show!!! How DID Akira Toriyama know about this place anyways? Did he guess? Is he powerful in the Force? Raven doubted that. Did he visit here before? Or did simply WRITING it create this place? If that was so, Raven wanted to go to Pern too. Not to mention visit Lancof and Sendar, the Rider and his Dragon in HER story. But back to the problem. Raven ran many scenarios about what she could do and none of them had a happy ending. Raven was reaching the point of despair when Bulma said.
"We're here!" Then Raven could only gape at the awesome building she had seen so many times before. Capsule Corp. The outside was exactly like what was pictured in the anime. The only glimpse inside she had gotten of the place was in the 13th movie. "Exploding Dragon Fist, If Gokou Can't Do it Who, Else Can?" It was her favorite movie and she had seen it many times. It was subtitled but Raven didn't mind. She liked the subbed version anyways. Japanese was such an awesome language anyways it had even slipped into her daily vocabulary. Baka (idiot/fool/exc) Gaki (kid/brat) Konnichiwa (hi/good afternoon) Jaa (shortened 'bye') Konbenwa (good evening) Sumimasen (sorry/excuse me) Iie (no) Hai (yes) Oohayo (good morning) Nani (what) and many more. The people who she generally hung out with learned them rather quickly.
"C'mon!" Trunks grinned and pulled her out of the car when she was paused, looking in aw at the place she had only seen in the anime. She let Trunks drag her into the building. It seemed that the kid had become attached to her.
"I want to talk to you Raven." Bulma said. Raven nodded and followed as Bulma turned to lead her into another room. "But you stay." She said without turning around as Trunks also moved. He pouted but stayed put. Bulma lead her to another living room. She waved Raven to have a seat in a chair and Bulma took the opposite.
"So." Bulma said, getting strait to the point, "What do you know that rubbed Vegeta's fur the wrong way?"
"Well…" Raven quickly pondered whether or not it would be good to tell the truth. "I told him that I knew he was…IS the Prince of Saiyans." Bulma's eyebrows shot up in surprise.
"How did you know THAT bit of information?!"
"That's a little hard to explain." Raven hesitated. "And I don't think you'll believe me."
"My husband's an alien, my son can blow apart mountains with his hands, try me." Raven laughed.
"Alright. Back home there's a TV show that comes on at 6:30 called Dragonball Z. It's an Anime or 'cartoon'" Raven made a face. She HATED calling animes 'cartoons' it just didn't fit them. Bulma still looked to her for an explanation so she continued. "It was originally in Japanese but it was dubbed into English and put on Cartoon Network. That's the TV station that shows DBZ."
" 'DBZ'?"
"Dragonball Z. sorry. It's just easer to say DBZ." Bulma nodded. "Anyways" Raven continued, "The show's mainly about this guy named Goku who runs around saving the universe from evil villains and such."
"Goku?! There's a TV show about GOKU?!" Raven nodded.
"Not to mention Vegeta, Gohan, you, Chichi, Yamcha, Videl, Goten, Chibi Trunks, Mirai Trunks¾"
"Who and WHO?"
"Oh sorry." Raven laughed. "Chibi is Japanese for young…I think…and mirai is future. I just picked up the original Japanese words to specify between young (chibi) and future (mirai) Trunkses." Raven sighed. In this time period that she was in, she wouldn't get to meet her favorite character Mirai Trunks.
"So…we ALL are in this…this anime?" Bulma asked and Raven nodded.
"The DBZ timeline goes from when Raditz shows up until……sometime after Buu. Not to mention at least 15 movie specials." Raven sighed. "But the Dragonball series goes from when you first meet Goku until Goku marries Chichi I think. And from what I've heard it has even more movies than DBZ does."
"So you like know our whole life then?"
"Not really. I haven't seen much of Dragonball. But I know enough."
"Do you know what happened to M…mi…"
"Mirai Trunks?"
"Yeah." Bulma said. "Do you know what happened to him after he went back to his time?" Raven chuckled. Well this ruled out the Bojak movie being true.
"He defeated the androids 17 and 18 with no problem. He also fought and defeated Cell with no problem. It almost looked like he was coming back to this timeline when Cell attacked him." Bulma looked at her blankly "I guess he didn't then."
"You don't have any proof of all of this by any chance do you?" Raven thought for a bit.
"I do have this card." She pulled her Gohan card out of her pocket. She always carried the thing around. It was Gohan's Personality card from the card game and it was almost like a good-luck thing for her. She handed over the card to Bulma.
"This almost looks like Gohan when he was younger." Raven nodded.
"That card came from the DBZ card game." She shrugged.
"You're right. This is hard to believe." She looked up at Raven. "But I do believe you. So you're a fan of this anime DBZ?" Raven grinned.
"Hard-core fan!" Bulma laughed.
"I can't believe what you must be going through right now! The 'characters' of you're favorite show; you come to find, are real! AND you get to meet them!"
"I can't meet my favorite character though."
"Who's that?"
"Mirai¾Future Trunks."
"Well then, who's your second favorite?"
"Um…wow that's a hard one. I'd have to say Chibi Trunks and Goten…and Vegeta…and you…" Raven laughed and put her hand behind her head.
"You know. Goku had the same habit." Raven froze.
"Hm?"
"That." She pointed to Raven's hand.
"Oh." Raven grinned. She quickly brought down her hand into her lap. "I picked it up from him." She laughed and Bulma joined in. It looks as if Raven won't be so alone in this insane place. She actually didn't half mind if she was stuck here now. How awesome would it be to live at Capsule Corp? But she wondered how SHE could be a Saiyan. Was this some insane world that she made up with her fantasies and dreams? What caused her to come here? She looked down at her hands.
This feels too real to be a dream. Raven thought why am I here? Is there a reason or was it some freak accident? Or was I supposed to be here from the start? I'm a Saiyan. Maybe I was sent to where I belong. It would have been Planet Vegeta but it was destroyed. Was I sent here because the Prince is here? Or maybe it's just because this is the largest concentration of Saiyans outside of the Other World. Raven didn't have any answers to the questions. There was only a slight pulse of fear beating through her with each breath she took as she rose from her seat to follow Bulma back to the rest of the group.