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Chapter 2: Surprising planet
The ship rattled and shook as they dropped like a stone in to the planet's atmosphere. Bulma watched reentry glow as sparks and long flares of fire danced across the window. The landing was harsh the ship teetered on its landing gear and threatened to topple. Bulma held on to the rail in front of her so tightly her knuckles had gone white. The ship wobbled a bit more but then seemed to settle. The entire planet was covered with little grass-covered islands and deep blue sea. "Why did we land here? Where are we?" Krillin asked.
"There is a problem with the ship, nothing I can't fix but we are going to be a little delayed. This planet doesn't have a name as far as I know." Bulma shrugged hoping the relaxed look on her face covered up for the nervousness in her voice.
"Are there any people here?" Gohan asked looking around.
"None that I know about." She replied holding her hand over her eyes as a shield from the strong midday sun. Gohan scanned for any signals of life but found nothing but some animals in the waters and the normal plant life. "I need some space to start on the repairs why don't you go out and explore. Krillin could you stay here and give me a hand?" Bulma said shooing them away. Vegeta scanned the horizon and pointed to a pointed to a spot far from the ship. Goku nodded and they both flew off. Gohan watched them fly away and almost backed in to Piccolo who was getting off the ship. He apologized and looked up at his mentor.
"Piccolo-san how about we go to, I need a good work out." He looked down and noticed how much Gohan had grown.
"Yea kid." They flew off to join the others.
"Mommy can I go with Gohan?" Goten could not wait until he was older to train like his big brother.
"And get yourself injured, I don't think so. Why don't you and Trunks go play? I am sure you will find something to do." Chi-Chi smoothed his hair and went to help Bulma and Krillin with the ship.
She felt them land and shivered not wanting to admit her fear. "I can feel them. Four enormous powers, why are they here? I hope they don't find me. I should go hide. No that is c0wardly. Father would not be proud of me if I did that. Maybe the time has come for my revenge. If I am going to fight them and take their ship I might as well have a good meal." She pulled a two hundred-pound fish from the sea. Glad to have something other than her next battle to think about.
"Gohan, concentrate you can do better than that." Piccolo shouted, easily dogging a barrage of kicks and punches. It was hard to tell just how much time had passed since they started. The sun seemed to stand still in the sky and it's rays beat down with more heat than they had when the ship landed. The land shimmered and clouds started to form in the humid air. Gohan found that the heat was making things far harder than normal. The thick hot air made him feel sluggish and the reflections in the water were far too easy to mistake for ki attacks. The heat was affecting his father as well.
"Vegeta I am getting hungry lets head back."
"Kakkarott you think with your stomach."
Goku smiled and lazily replied. "You may be right."
"Shut up and fight." Vegeta growled Goku was unshakeable. He simply smiled and went super sayan as easily as breathing. Vegeta felt the old anger bubbling up. He was the saya-jin prince, why did this third class nobody beat him to his heritage? Even now that the playing field was even he still felt cheated. Why shouldn't he? Kakkarott had done it first and nothing could change that. It almost made him glad that the rest of this race wasn't there to witness this. Sometimes he could not figure out why he put up with Kakkarott and all of earth's weak little people.
Vegeta's stomach spoke reminding him how long ago he had eaten lunch. He clamed victory and turned to head back.
"Do you guys smell fish?" Vegeta just stared at Goku with one eyebrow razed.
"Maybe you are smelling mom's cooking?" Gohan suggested trying get back before this erupted in to another fight.
"It is south of here. I am going to go find it" He looked so determined it made Vegeta laugh.
"Kakkarott if there was any thing to smell I would smell it too."
"You coming Vegeta?"
He gave Goku a look filed with sarcastic pity and blasted off towards the ship without looking back. Goku was all ready floating gently along following his nose. Gohan decided that with his fathers knack for finding trouble he had better fallow and Piccolo had the same idea and came along as well.
She turned the spit as the fish finished roasting. It looked delicious. "Here come three of them. I bet they are worn down after all that fighting. I wonder where the fourth one went. If I hide now I may just have a chance." She ducked behind the spit hideing most of her body. "I am such a stupid coward. I am strong I shouldn't be here."
"I think I smell it too dad and I see smoke." Gohan looked at the ground blow him trying to find some proof that his father wasn't chasing some phantom.
"Wow what a fish. It looks just like the ones at home." Goku said spotting the fire.
"What is that hiding in the smoke?" Gohan was confused he went in for a closer look. His father stopped him from getting much closer. Gohan held back he had seen a light in his father's eyes that could be trouble later. That light was pure curiosity.
"I will go see." Goku said as he landed and walked slowly towards her.
"Be careful Dad." Gohan said wondering what they had gotten them selves in to this time.
"I feel them there too close. The smoke should hide me. I will fallow them back to their ship and attack at night when the cold has gotten them. Then I will go back where I belong. From there I will get my revenge. I will be a fighter just like Father taught me. I will hunt down the ones that killed him."
Goku landed on the island blowing part of her cover away. "Curse the wind they saw me. If I fire the first shot I might just have a chance." She fired a ki ball from the smoke that missed hitting any thing by a good foot.
"It's ok I am not going to hurt you." Goku tried to get a closer look at what had fired at him.
"Portus de bita." She growled, trying to keep him from blowing the smoke away.
"Do you speak English?" He smiled at her and tried to sound calming. She charged from the smoke preparing another yellow ki ball.
"Pourtus de bita." She screeched leaping at him. The ball shot from her hands and Goku let it hit him head on. The gust of wind from the impact knocked her back to the ground. When the dust settled he was unscathed and shocked to see who had attacked him. She was very small and her skin was blue-green. Two antennae stretched up from her forehead and twisted around in to compact spirals. She wore a threadbare blue jumpsuit with cracked and battered armor. It creaked a bit as she gulped down what ever air she could force in her lungs. Her hair was a long tangled mass of black that hung down her back and was tied back in a crude braid. There were streaks of soot and dust running across her face. Her dark eyes where wide with fear and anger. Her hands shook as she prepared another blast this one aimed at his head. "Pourtus de bita." She said glaring at Goku.
Piccolo's eyes widened. "I know what she is saying. She has a strange accent but it is Nameck-go." Piccolo landed and stared at the little girl firing a blast at her feet. She dropped the ki and jumped back in fright as much from the sight of a nameck as the blast. Goku stepped back and Gohan landed beside him. They both looked at Piccolo and the girl wondering what he was going to do next.
She tried to run but Piccolo caught her wrist. He lifted her up off the ground careful not to bring her too close. She glared at him and tried to twist herself free. "Why did you attack us?" She tried to kick her way out but her legs were to short to reach. "I am not going to leave until you answer my questions."
"I need a ship. Are you going to kill me?" She said quietly in nameck-go. He didn't answer.
"I am Piccolo, this is Gohan, and that is Goku. Who are you?"
"I am Balla." She tried to avoid his black eyes.
Gohan and Goku looked over at Piccolo expectantly. "She is Balla and she is wants our ship." Piccolo let her down but gripped her wrist harder. Balla knew she was going to have a bruise there at best. "Why do you need a ship?"
"Are you solders from Emperor Cold?" Her eyes darted around and she franticly tried to free her hand. Balla tugged on Piccolo's hand and flailed her arm around not caring if she broke her wrist in the process. He grabbed her shoulder and forced her to stop. Piccolo glared at her wondering what kind of planet they had run in to. She had to be trouble to bring that name up.
"How do you know Cold?" Balla couldn't look at him. Her entire body was screaming at her for her to run. She could here her own hart beating in her ears. Balla stood silent she could feel his grip tightening. It was only a dull ache now but if she didn't speak soon it would be much worse.
"He rules the universe. You don't know him? I only attacked because I thought you were his men." She lied praying Piccolo wouldn't see right through her.
"I am going to let go. Run if you want but I am fast." He released her and Balla fell back cradling her wrist. "That tall spiky haired one seemed to like my food. If I give it to him maybe they will leave me alone."
"You can take my food. Let me go home." She said turning and looking at Goku. Piccolo stared at her, he wasn't about to let her go and get reinforcements. He scanned around seeing if he could feel anyone else he felt nothing but her and themselves. "But I didn't feel her until after she attacked." Piccolo reminded himself. She was weak but if more like her appeared there could be problems. He looked at her again and knew how to do it.
"She is inviting us to dinner." Goku looked at the fish and his stomach growled. Gohan smiled knowing what his father wanted.
"Dad we had better go tell mom. I bet she will be glad she doesn't have to cook." Gohan said starting to smile. He took off towards the ship. Goku looked back at them once and then went after his son. Piccolo stayed where he was watching the little girl carefully he had questions to ask. Balla had attacked them and he didn't want to let her get away and do it again. This could all be some kind of trick.
"You know what kind of power we have." His speech was sharp and she knew what he wanted without having to say the rest. Balla exhaled and wished they all would just go back where they came from.
It took less then three minutes to get back to the ship. Trunks and Goten were the first to see them arrive. They tossed their shovels down the hole they had been working on and ran over as Gohan and Goku were landing. Gohan reached down ruffled his brother's hair. "Where are you digging up this time?"
"A burred treasure." Goten said looking at his brother like he would have to be crazy to dig for any thing else.
"Well can you take a brake and go get mom for me?" Goten nodded and went inside with his ever-present shadow Trunks along for the ride. Chi-Chi came out with a scolding look on her face.
"Goku did you really go looking for roasting fish on this uninhabited planet?"
Gohan spoke before his father could answer. "We rely did find some Mom. There is a little girl living on the other side of this planet, she has invited us over for dinner." He glossed over just how they had met. His mother didn't need to hear that. It was probably just mistake of a frightened kid anyway.
"Is she the only one living here?" Chi-Chi looked concerned.
"We didn't ask. She only speaks nameck-go. Piccolo has to translate for us."
"Bulma will be glad, this will give her a chance to test her new translator" Chi-Chi went around the side of the ship with a smile. "Finally some good news." She thought.
Gohan bent down to talk to Trunks. "Where is your dad?"
"He and Mommy were fighting again. He flew off some where." Gohan shook his head, this kind of thing happened all the time. Krillin and Bulma stepped out from the side of the ship looking tired and sweaty with tiny bits of debris clinging to their cloths. Bulma went inside and came out holding something that looked like a hands free telephone. Chi-Chi fallowed her out her arms were so full of food she could barley get out the door. She knew that the child could not possibly fix enough food. Goku picked up his wife as if she was as light has a feather, Gohan held Bulma. Krillin was left with the two filthy boys, who did not want to leave the hole they were digging. He sighed pulled them out by the waist. Trunks looked up and noticed that everyone else was gone. As soon has Krillin set them down they were off chasing after the rest of their families. Trunks was flying along and Goten was matching his pace running and leaping across the islands. Krillin brushed off most of the
dirt and fallowed the boys.
Chapter 2: Surprising planet
The ship rattled and shook as they dropped like a stone in to the planet's atmosphere. Bulma watched reentry glow as sparks and long flares of fire danced across the window. The landing was harsh the ship teetered on its landing gear and threatened to topple. Bulma held on to the rail in front of her so tightly her knuckles had gone white. The ship wobbled a bit more but then seemed to settle. The entire planet was covered with little grass-covered islands and deep blue sea. "Why did we land here? Where are we?" Krillin asked.
"There is a problem with the ship, nothing I can't fix but we are going to be a little delayed. This planet doesn't have a name as far as I know." Bulma shrugged hoping the relaxed look on her face covered up for the nervousness in her voice.
"Are there any people here?" Gohan asked looking around.
"None that I know about." She replied holding her hand over her eyes as a shield from the strong midday sun. Gohan scanned for any signals of life but found nothing but some animals in the waters and the normal plant life. "I need some space to start on the repairs why don't you go out and explore. Krillin could you stay here and give me a hand?" Bulma said shooing them away. Vegeta scanned the horizon and pointed to a pointed to a spot far from the ship. Goku nodded and they both flew off. Gohan watched them fly away and almost backed in to Piccolo who was getting off the ship. He apologized and looked up at his mentor.
"Piccolo-san how about we go to, I need a good work out." He looked down and noticed how much Gohan had grown.
"Yea kid." They flew off to join the others.
"Mommy can I go with Gohan?" Goten could not wait until he was older to train like his big brother.
"And get yourself injured, I don't think so. Why don't you and Trunks go play? I am sure you will find something to do." Chi-Chi smoothed his hair and went to help Bulma and Krillin with the ship.
She felt them land and shivered not wanting to admit her fear. "I can feel them. Four enormous powers, why are they here? I hope they don't find me. I should go hide. No that is c0wardly. Father would not be proud of me if I did that. Maybe the time has come for my revenge. If I am going to fight them and take their ship I might as well have a good meal." She pulled a two hundred-pound fish from the sea. Glad to have something other than her next battle to think about.
"Gohan, concentrate you can do better than that." Piccolo shouted, easily dogging a barrage of kicks and punches. It was hard to tell just how much time had passed since they started. The sun seemed to stand still in the sky and it's rays beat down with more heat than they had when the ship landed. The land shimmered and clouds started to form in the humid air. Gohan found that the heat was making things far harder than normal. The thick hot air made him feel sluggish and the reflections in the water were far too easy to mistake for ki attacks. The heat was affecting his father as well.
"Vegeta I am getting hungry lets head back."
"Kakkarott you think with your stomach."
Goku smiled and lazily replied. "You may be right."
"Shut up and fight." Vegeta growled Goku was unshakeable. He simply smiled and went super sayan as easily as breathing. Vegeta felt the old anger bubbling up. He was the saya-jin prince, why did this third class nobody beat him to his heritage? Even now that the playing field was even he still felt cheated. Why shouldn't he? Kakkarott had done it first and nothing could change that. It almost made him glad that the rest of this race wasn't there to witness this. Sometimes he could not figure out why he put up with Kakkarott and all of earth's weak little people.
Vegeta's stomach spoke reminding him how long ago he had eaten lunch. He clamed victory and turned to head back.
"Do you guys smell fish?" Vegeta just stared at Goku with one eyebrow razed.
"Maybe you are smelling mom's cooking?" Gohan suggested trying get back before this erupted in to another fight.
"It is south of here. I am going to go find it" He looked so determined it made Vegeta laugh.
"Kakkarott if there was any thing to smell I would smell it too."
"You coming Vegeta?"
He gave Goku a look filed with sarcastic pity and blasted off towards the ship without looking back. Goku was all ready floating gently along following his nose. Gohan decided that with his fathers knack for finding trouble he had better fallow and Piccolo had the same idea and came along as well.
She turned the spit as the fish finished roasting. It looked delicious. "Here come three of them. I bet they are worn down after all that fighting. I wonder where the fourth one went. If I hide now I may just have a chance." She ducked behind the spit hideing most of her body. "I am such a stupid coward. I am strong I shouldn't be here."
"I think I smell it too dad and I see smoke." Gohan looked at the ground blow him trying to find some proof that his father wasn't chasing some phantom.
"Wow what a fish. It looks just like the ones at home." Goku said spotting the fire.
"What is that hiding in the smoke?" Gohan was confused he went in for a closer look. His father stopped him from getting much closer. Gohan held back he had seen a light in his father's eyes that could be trouble later. That light was pure curiosity.
"I will go see." Goku said as he landed and walked slowly towards her.
"Be careful Dad." Gohan said wondering what they had gotten them selves in to this time.
"I feel them there too close. The smoke should hide me. I will fallow them back to their ship and attack at night when the cold has gotten them. Then I will go back where I belong. From there I will get my revenge. I will be a fighter just like Father taught me. I will hunt down the ones that killed him."
Goku landed on the island blowing part of her cover away. "Curse the wind they saw me. If I fire the first shot I might just have a chance." She fired a ki ball from the smoke that missed hitting any thing by a good foot.
"It's ok I am not going to hurt you." Goku tried to get a closer look at what had fired at him.
"Portus de bita." She growled, trying to keep him from blowing the smoke away.
"Do you speak English?" He smiled at her and tried to sound calming. She charged from the smoke preparing another yellow ki ball.
"Pourtus de bita." She screeched leaping at him. The ball shot from her hands and Goku let it hit him head on. The gust of wind from the impact knocked her back to the ground. When the dust settled he was unscathed and shocked to see who had attacked him. She was very small and her skin was blue-green. Two antennae stretched up from her forehead and twisted around in to compact spirals. She wore a threadbare blue jumpsuit with cracked and battered armor. It creaked a bit as she gulped down what ever air she could force in her lungs. Her hair was a long tangled mass of black that hung down her back and was tied back in a crude braid. There were streaks of soot and dust running across her face. Her dark eyes where wide with fear and anger. Her hands shook as she prepared another blast this one aimed at his head. "Pourtus de bita." She said glaring at Goku.
Piccolo's eyes widened. "I know what she is saying. She has a strange accent but it is Nameck-go." Piccolo landed and stared at the little girl firing a blast at her feet. She dropped the ki and jumped back in fright as much from the sight of a nameck as the blast. Goku stepped back and Gohan landed beside him. They both looked at Piccolo and the girl wondering what he was going to do next.
She tried to run but Piccolo caught her wrist. He lifted her up off the ground careful not to bring her too close. She glared at him and tried to twist herself free. "Why did you attack us?" She tried to kick her way out but her legs were to short to reach. "I am not going to leave until you answer my questions."
"I need a ship. Are you going to kill me?" She said quietly in nameck-go. He didn't answer.
"I am Piccolo, this is Gohan, and that is Goku. Who are you?"
"I am Balla." She tried to avoid his black eyes.
Gohan and Goku looked over at Piccolo expectantly. "She is Balla and she is wants our ship." Piccolo let her down but gripped her wrist harder. Balla knew she was going to have a bruise there at best. "Why do you need a ship?"
"Are you solders from Emperor Cold?" Her eyes darted around and she franticly tried to free her hand. Balla tugged on Piccolo's hand and flailed her arm around not caring if she broke her wrist in the process. He grabbed her shoulder and forced her to stop. Piccolo glared at her wondering what kind of planet they had run in to. She had to be trouble to bring that name up.
"How do you know Cold?" Balla couldn't look at him. Her entire body was screaming at her for her to run. She could here her own hart beating in her ears. Balla stood silent she could feel his grip tightening. It was only a dull ache now but if she didn't speak soon it would be much worse.
"He rules the universe. You don't know him? I only attacked because I thought you were his men." She lied praying Piccolo wouldn't see right through her.
"I am going to let go. Run if you want but I am fast." He released her and Balla fell back cradling her wrist. "That tall spiky haired one seemed to like my food. If I give it to him maybe they will leave me alone."
"You can take my food. Let me go home." She said turning and looking at Goku. Piccolo stared at her, he wasn't about to let her go and get reinforcements. He scanned around seeing if he could feel anyone else he felt nothing but her and themselves. "But I didn't feel her until after she attacked." Piccolo reminded himself. She was weak but if more like her appeared there could be problems. He looked at her again and knew how to do it.
"She is inviting us to dinner." Goku looked at the fish and his stomach growled. Gohan smiled knowing what his father wanted.
"Dad we had better go tell mom. I bet she will be glad she doesn't have to cook." Gohan said starting to smile. He took off towards the ship. Goku looked back at them once and then went after his son. Piccolo stayed where he was watching the little girl carefully he had questions to ask. Balla had attacked them and he didn't want to let her get away and do it again. This could all be some kind of trick.
"You know what kind of power we have." His speech was sharp and she knew what he wanted without having to say the rest. Balla exhaled and wished they all would just go back where they came from.
It took less then three minutes to get back to the ship. Trunks and Goten were the first to see them arrive. They tossed their shovels down the hole they had been working on and ran over as Gohan and Goku were landing. Gohan reached down ruffled his brother's hair. "Where are you digging up this time?"
"A burred treasure." Goten said looking at his brother like he would have to be crazy to dig for any thing else.
"Well can you take a brake and go get mom for me?" Goten nodded and went inside with his ever-present shadow Trunks along for the ride. Chi-Chi came out with a scolding look on her face.
"Goku did you really go looking for roasting fish on this uninhabited planet?"
Gohan spoke before his father could answer. "We rely did find some Mom. There is a little girl living on the other side of this planet, she has invited us over for dinner." He glossed over just how they had met. His mother didn't need to hear that. It was probably just mistake of a frightened kid anyway.
"Is she the only one living here?" Chi-Chi looked concerned.
"We didn't ask. She only speaks nameck-go. Piccolo has to translate for us."
"Bulma will be glad, this will give her a chance to test her new translator" Chi-Chi went around the side of the ship with a smile. "Finally some good news." She thought.
Gohan bent down to talk to Trunks. "Where is your dad?"
"He and Mommy were fighting again. He flew off some where." Gohan shook his head, this kind of thing happened all the time. Krillin and Bulma stepped out from the side of the ship looking tired and sweaty with tiny bits of debris clinging to their cloths. Bulma went inside and came out holding something that looked like a hands free telephone. Chi-Chi fallowed her out her arms were so full of food she could barley get out the door. She knew that the child could not possibly fix enough food. Goku picked up his wife as if she was as light has a feather, Gohan held Bulma. Krillin was left with the two filthy boys, who did not want to leave the hole they were digging. He sighed pulled them out by the waist. Trunks looked up and noticed that everyone else was gone. As soon has Krillin set them down they were off chasing after the rest of their families. Trunks was flying along and Goten was matching his pace running and leaping across the islands. Krillin brushed off most of the
dirt and fallowed the boys.