Vegeta Jr. : Well, she really can't tell the future, or not exactly. She can see possible outcomes.
Now on with the story!!
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One week later, in The Nexus Goku and Trunks Jr. were going all out against Vegeta in their Super Saiyan Five forms. Try as they might, neither combatant could land more than one technique out of five hundred on the Prince of all the Saiyans. And that one barely fazed him at all. Vegeta had learned Goku's lessons well, first blocking, then dodging then phasing through his adversaries at a thought. All around them, the other Z-Warriors that had not gone with Tao Kaioshin, and not currently in the Room of Spirit and Time were also training.
"So tell me again Kakkarot. What the hell is up with that crazy little demon?" Vegeta was curious.
"Well, I don't really know. One day this week, Bura brought it up with that thing on its head and the thing started doing chores for her. Apparently, Bura put together some sort of headband that keeps anyone from contacting Lumbistru telepathically, including Cordell. Bura had Dendi test it, and he couldn't get through." Goku tried to explain again.
"So, my daughter has a pet demon. Well isn't that just damned great!" Vegeta lamented as he phased in behind his Grandson and used a hammer blow to send the younger warrior careening into a small moon. The moon now sported a Trunks Jr. shaped crater. "To think I told the girl no when she asked for a damned cat!!"
Suddenly, they heard a scream from where Pan and Bura were training. Two screams in fact. The Z=Warriors turned to see what was happening and were looking directly at Super Saiyan Three Pan, and Super Saiyan Three Bura, in the middle of the Fusion Dance.
"Umm… Did you guys know that they could do that?" Goku looked surprised.
"No, nobody tells me nothing anymore!" Vegeta looked on puzzled.
Rou Kaioshin was pleased. He had sensed that the girls were close to this, so all he had to do was coach them a bit. He was sitting on a small knoll on a nearby planetoid with The Supreme Kai.
Before them now stood a very powerful and extremely cocky Super Saiyan Three Paura, looking like she wanted to take on the entire demon horde.
"I've always wondered about this Vegeta. Are Saiyan women typically weaker than Saiyan men." Goku asked.
"Yes, although there have been notable exceptions in our history. Saiyan females typically become stronger between the ages of around 3 or 4 Earth years old, through their mid-adolescence. Say 14 or 15 Earth years old." Vegeta explained. "Beyond that, males are typically stronger, and faster. Females are often the better battle strategists though."
"Do you think that it's possible for females to attain Super Saiyan Four, or Five?" Goku continued.
"Well, I don't know. If you had asked me a few months ago if it was possible for them to attain Super Saiyan Three, I would have said 'No'." Vegeta looked at their combined daughters. "Now I just don't know."
"Ok, wait here. I'll be back." Goku said to a puzzled Vegeta as he put two fingers to his head.
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"Ok Roger, extend your bubble around everyone." Tao Kaioshin said. "You have to be able to hold that bubble for an extended period of time and protect everyone against the negative energy within the Demon Realm."
"Goku is coming." Jessica said.
Tao Kaioshin looked at the girl. "That's not possible. No one can get in or out of this plane of existence unless I…"
Goku suddenly appeared in front of Tao Kaioshin.
"Hi Ultimate Kai!" Goku smiled a huge goofy grin.
"Goku!!?!?! B-but how!! You can't be here! It's impossible!!" Tao Kaioshin stammered.
"Hehehehe… Goten chuckled. That's my father. The word 'impossible' doesn't really register with him." Gohan, Trunks, Piccolo, and Roger were also chuckling. Jessica was smiling wide.
"Remember what you said about knowing everything being boring Ultimate Kai." Trunks said.
"Alright Goku, now that you've defied every law of physics that I set up, would you care to tell me exactly what it is you want?" Tao Kaioshin said a bit peeved.
"Oh, oh right.. Well, Pan and Bura need their tails back, would you do that please?" Goku pleaded.
"Very well, if you promise not to teleport here again!" Tao Kaioshin said. "This place is supposed to be inaccessible you know!"
"Gee thanks Tao Kaioshin! You're the greatest!" Goku teleported back to the Nexus.
Tao Kaioshin turned to his team. "How did he do that?"
Gohan shrugged his shoulders. "My father has a knack for doing the impossible Ultimate Kai. He simply doesn't place any limits on what he can do. Telling him something is impossible only makes him more determined."
"Amazing man." The Ultimate Kai whispered.
"More than you know." Piccolo said.
Tao Kaioshin walked over to the Eternity Pond and spend the next hour studying the man known as Goku.
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"Well, where the hell did you go?" Vegeta demanded.
"Not Hell, I went to ask Tao Kaioshin for a favor." Goku said.
Paura suddenly screamed and clutched at her posterior. A tail suddenly ripped through her work-out pants.
"Is that the favor?" Vegeta smirked.
"Yep." Goku winked.
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"Ok, Z-Team One. The reason you are here is that the most important mission is the destruction of the Conduit Generator. But more importantly that that, the destruction of the Conduit Generator at the right moment in time." The Ultimate Kai announced.
"What do you mean, 'the right moment in time'." Piccolo said.
"If we destroy the Generator while Cordell is still inside, he will build another and try again." Tao Kaioshin explained. "We must allow the conduit to be formed, and hope that Cordell leads his forces out into the Mortal Realm. Then destroy the generator. Hopefully we trap the remaining forces inside The Demon Realm will be leaderless and revert back to their nomadic ways. The rest of the Z-Warriors, from the outside will be able to defeat the demons that make it into the Mortal Realm, once they've been cut off from the negative energy of the Demon Realm, and Cordell as well, I hope.
"You hope?" Gohan said quizzically.
"Cordell is extremely powerful, and he doesn't rely on the negative energy of The Demon Realm for his strength, although he can use it when he wants." Tao Kaioshin answered.
"I see. Ok then, what's the first order of business?" Gohan queried.
"Well, first off, I am putting Jessica into Piccolo's charge for the time being. You are to help her hone her telepathic abilities and bring out any latent abilities she might have." The Ultimate Kai nodded towards Piccolo. "You are also to train her strength and fighting abilities."
"But sir, she is only human and…." Piccolo started.
"Humans and Saiyans are the same. You will bring out the Saiyan in her." Tao Kaioshin said. "Remember that she is not an ordinary human."
"How long do we have?" Piccolo asked.
"As long as it takes. Time has no meaning here." Tao Kaioshin smiled. "A year, a Century, it makes no difference
We've been training for over 50,000 years. Goten said.
"Wha? But I just seen you yesterday!" Piccolo said.
"C'mon, surely the part of you that was Kame understands what is going on here." Trunks smiled.
That's when Piccolo noticed. Goten and Trunks weren't quite the same as they were. Sure, they were still Goten and Trunks, but it looked as if the wisdom of ages had been imparted to them. Their eyes, their eyes had a deep wisdom behind them now. They stood with supreme confidence. Goten wasn't the somewhat clueless son of Goku anymore.
Gohan moved up next to Piccolo. "They've changed…"
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The Z-Warrors arrived back at Capsule Corporation. The Supreme and Elder Kais decided to head back to there own world. Since many of the Z-Warriors were now training with The Ultimate Kai, the remaining fighters decided to consolidate their training on Earth. Kirillin was given special permission to be on Earth for as long as was needed. The World's Martial Arts Tournament was less than two weeks away. Of course, 18 sensed his ki and came hunting for him.
"There you are! I knew that was your ki! What are you doing on Earth!" 18 exclaimed. "First I sense you on some remote mountain top in Tibet, now here you are! Tell me what is going on here!" 18 Demanded.
Kirillin started telling his wife the entire tale.
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Goku sensed Vegeta's ki level get very low. After finishing his shower, Goku found Vegeta on the roof of Capsule Corporation seemingly lost in his own thoughts.
"I'm not bugging you being here, am I?" Goku began in an uncharacteristic display of manners.
"Always!" Vegeta smiled. "But please stay."
Vegeta seemed to be focused on the people passing by on the streets and sidewalks below.
"Isn't it ironic that we, the powerful Saiyans, are all but destroyed while these weak humans have survived?" Vegeta asked.
"I suppose so. But they owe their existence to our efforts. Otherwise they would have been gone too." Goku said.
"True, but why have we protected them all these years? Did we know, on some level, they were also Saiyans? How is it that you felt so at home here, even though you knew yourself to be different?" Vegeta kept asking. "Did you think that you were human even though all obvious signs indicated that you were not?"
"At first I did. When I was a little kid. But even before Raditz came the first time, I had known that I was not human. I had no idea what I was, but I knew that I wasn't human." Goku admitted.
"After we returned from Namek, when you defeated Frieza, and I got to know Bulma, I realized that I was feeling very protective of this planet, although I had no idea why." Vegeta continued. "I was naturally protective of Bulma, and Trunks, and later Bura, but I had also grown protective of this planet, and all of the people on it. It confused me. I didn't know why and cursed myself for being so soft. It was one of the biggest reason I let myself become Babbidi's slave." Vegeta explained.
"Some slave! You never did a thing the guy told you to do!" Goku smirked.
"True." Vegeta smirked back. "But now we know why I wanted to protect this world. These humans, these people, are us. They are our people, and our only hope of continuing our lineage."
"That's true Vegeta. So we must continue to protect them." Goku supplied.
"Yes." Vegeta said simply. "Among the Saiyans, there was a
legend."
"What is it?" Goku asked looking very interested.
"Every two-thousand years or so, there is a prodigy, a special child born with incredible powers and abilities. They can read thoughts, see the future in a limited way, heal the sick and injured, restore life, and destroy evil. Some were even rumored to have been Super Saiyans." Vegeta explained.
"Do you think that….?" Goku started.
"If Humans are Saiyans, then they may well have a similar event. And Jessica may be the fulfillment of that event." Vegeta said. "She could be far more powerful than either of us realize."
"True, we'll need to see what develops with her." Goku smiled. "She certainly is a very Saiyan acting child. She's incredibly brave."
Vegeta nodded and smiled, the smile faded "I still wonder why Tao Kaioshin left us here, instead of there helping him." Vegeta said. "Besides Trunks, we are the two strongest."
"That made me a bit mad at first too." Goku frowned. "But I guess he is The Ultimate Kai, and knows what he's doing. And we got to trust in that."
"Trusting hasn't exactly been a strong point of mine." Vegeta smirked.
"You're learning my friend." Goku put on a big cheesy grin.
"'My Friend.' There was a time when I would have tried to beat the crap out of you for saying such a thing to me. Now, it feels right, it feels good. Ok then, come along my friend!" Vegeta grabbed Goku under the arm, put two fingers to his head, and instant transmissioned them to the Kitchen where Bardock was busy preparing lunch.
"How did you do that?!?!?!?!" Goku stammered in surprise.
"All these years of watching you do it, I finally figured it out!" Vegeta said excitedly.
"You dog!!" Goku took a playful swipe at Vegeta's head, Vegeta blocked and returned the favor.
"Ok you guys, none of that in the kitchen." Bardock said.
Vegeta and Goku stopped in their tracks at the sight before them. Bardock was wearing one of Bulma's "Kiss The Cook" aprons, and was covered in flower and various other spices and condiments.
Goku and Vegeta started making kissy noises at Bardock.
"ALRIGHT YOU TWO, OUT, OUT! I'LL CALL YOU WHEN DINNER IS READY!" Bardock screamed.
Goku and Vegeta retreated to the living room laughing their asses off.
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6:30 AM the Following Morning. At Kame's Lookout.
"Ok, you have all spent at least three days in The Room of Spirit and Time. Let's see what you got! " Vegeta ordered.
"You got it boss!" Raditz sported a far shorter hair style these days. He looked like Goku's twin now, except he was taller and his body build was quite a bit stockier.
Raditz, Nappa, Bura and Bardock all went Super Saiyan Three.
To everyone's surprise, Pan pushed beyond Super Saiyan Three and went Super Saiyan Four.
Pan started giggling.
"What so funny?" Bura asked.
"This fur tickles!" Pan answered.
Abigail was busy admiring Raditz in his Super Saiyan Three level. What Godlike features Raditz had when they first met was amplified a thousand fold with that gold waist length hair and golden aura surrounding his body. To extend matters even further, Raditz and Bardock were the last to use the Room of Spirit and Time and Raditz had rips and tears in various spots in his workout clothes. One such rip was delivered via a ki-loaded kick from Bardock that left Raditz tail area and just a hint of butt cheek open for inspection. Abigail was definitely inspecting.
Yambia, Chi-Chi, and Bulma noticed Abigail's intent gaze.
"See something there you like?" Bulma poked Abigail with an elbow. Abigail awakened
from her reverie of the flesh and blushed bright red.
"Well, I-I…" Abigail started.
"Don't worry Abigail." Yambia consoled then winked. "I guess there was something more go on in that Garden than talking, huh?"
"Yeah.." Abigail said dreamily.
Dr. Briefs had a real reputation for being a nose in the books, nerdy type of person. This was, for the most part, an earned reputation. However, after he met his wife, someone that he had never, ever expected to have fall in love with him in a million years, Dr. Briefs adopted a bit of a wild, romantic, streak. The Garden is where he let both his scientist side, and his wild romantic side, come together. Not only was the garden filled with rare and exotic plants and animals that would make a botanist and zoologist green with envy, but there was also beautiful works of art in the forms of paintings and sculptures, and fountains many original works. The Gardens went on for miles disturbed only by the automatic caretaker druids and the occasional wanderer. Dr. Briefs would make it a point to bring his wife into the gardens and just get lost for a few days between projects, or sometimes when a project wasn't going to well to renew his inspiration. Mrs. Briefs often seemed like a bubblehead, but she was totally devoted to Dr. Briefs. Bulma and Vegeta had often taken advantage of the Gardens many wonders before Bulma left this dimension. Vegeta's favorite part of the Garden was the small spring fed pond with the small waterfall at one end. It was where both Trunks and Bura was probably conceived. It was where Abigail and Raditz had wandered to and had not emerged until early morning, two days later.
After two days without food, Abigail was famished. Raditz, on the other hand, was ready to tackle and eat the first living thing he came across in the Garden. Abigail stopped him from blasting a small dinosaur.
"Let's just get to the kitchen, ok?" Abigail smiled at Raditz. Despite Raditz's inexperience, being a virgin and all, he turned out to be a passionate and attentive lover. Abigail had never felt like this before, not even with Jessica's father. She was head over heels, no holds-barred, in love with this man from another world.
When they entered the kitchen, Vegeta was there waiting for them. He smiled at the couple.
"Can I speak to Raditz alone?" Vegeta asked.
"Umm… Sure.. I'll go upstairs and freshen up." Abigail said. Vegeta had offered to give Abigail a place to stay and a new job at Capsule Corporation so she could stay close to the situation and keep up with what was happening with Jessica. Raditz and Abigail had looked in on her via Tao Kaioshin's crystal ball while Piccolo was teaching her to meditate. The sight of the huge green Namek with the little girl was… cute somehow.
"Yes Vegeta?" Raditz said as soon as he knew Abigail was out of earshot.
"You've been gone for two whole days." Vegeta raised an eyebrow at Raditz.
"I know Vegeta, I-I've been…." Raditz started.
"Spare me the unsavory details Raditz." Vegeta said with a smirk. "I know what you've been doing, and with whom. But you've missed training, we can't afford that right now. We've all got to be able to count on each other."
"I know Vegeta." Raditz looked a bit ashamed. "It won't happen again."
"It's okay Raditz. Don't think I'm totally unsympathetic to what you're going through. This is your first love, isn't it?" Vegeta said.
"Y-yes… It is Vegeta." Raditz said.
"Thought so." Vegeta smirked. "I will schedule time for you and her to be together in the training, but don't just disappear like that anymore, okay?"
"You got it." Raditz smiled a big goofy Son type grin.
"Get out of here you big goof!" Vegeta said and wondered to himself if a big goofy grin could be genetic.
"Things were much easier in the old days. I'd have just vaporized him and been done with it." Vegeta thought. "Of course, back then I was Hell-bound. Life's full of little trade-offs I guess." Vegeta smirked as he started preparing the next weeks training schedules.