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Bardock and Celipa's House
Vegeta met his mother and the rest just outside the palace gates, where, apparently, King Vegeta had posted extra guards to prevent the from reentering. It wouldn't have mattered, 3-year-old Goten could've taken them out by himself, but none of them had any desire to go back in the palace.
"Well, Celipa, we're obviously off-duty," Bardock said. "Might as well go back to our 'humble abode'."
"This way," Celipa said, leading the way to their house.
Though it was third class, Bardock and Celipa's house was quite large. Being royal guards and soldiers gave the two of them an exceptionally large fortune, but neither wanted to step up to even 2nd class.
"Too much political nonsense," Bardock said when he had finished explaining the size of his house. "We're soldiers. We don't make the laws, we just uphold them."
"Ah, the complete opposite of the popular Earth saying: We don't make the rules, we just break 'em," Gohan commented.
Bardock pushed open the door. "Radditz should be back from his post at the edge of the city soon."
"RADDITZ???!!!" Gohan yelled. He looked at Piccolo and Goku. "I thought you killed him!"
"I thought we did, too!" Goku replied.
"Radditz has never died in his life," Bardock said. "He spoke of you, actually. He said just as you were about to hit him with the 'Beam Cannon' attack, he fazed out and left his own image instead."
"Great," Goku groaned. "He knew the Double-After Image. That means that the first time I died, it was a complete waste."
"Nothing is ever a complete waste." Chichi said sensibly. "If you hadn't died the first time, you wouldn't have gotten training from King Kai. Then Vegeta would've blown up Earth. Trunks, Goten, Marron, and Paris would never have been born, and the rest of us would've died." She clucked her tongue. "I don't see how that could be regarded as a complete waste."
"Speaking of those four, where'd they run off to?" Krillin asked, looking around.
All four of them were zonked out on the living room floor, their steady breathing showing they were asleep.
"It's late, isn't it," 18 remarked dryly. She swooped up Marron and let the girl lean into her shoulder, head resting on her mother's cheek. 18 sat down on the couch and settled herself into the cushions.
Celipa glanced at the clock. "It's 10: 41," she said. "Not late at all."
"Maybe not to full-grown Saiyans, but to young Half-Cyborgs, or Half-Saiyans, or even Full-Humans, it is," Bulma said. Unceremoniously, she picked up her son and put him on the couch. The rough handling didn't wake him at all, and soon, he was joined by Goten and Paris.
"Okay, so who is everyone?" a low, growling voice said. Everyone still awake turned around to look as Radditz sauntered into the house, arms crossed.
Gohan's eyes turned green as the old anger returned. His hair began to quiver as horrible memories returned to him. It was because of this man that his father had died! Suddenly, his hair shot straight up and turned gold, as an aura circled around his body.
"Oh my God!" Celipa screeched. "Oh my God!"
"The legendary!" Bardock yelled. "He's become the legendary Super Saiyan!"
CLANG!!"Gohan, no power-ups in-doors!" Chichi yelled, brandishing her Almighty Frying Pan. She pressed the button that shrunk it down and shoved it back in her pocket. "You know what happened back on Earth!"
"Gohan?" Radditz looked over at his nephew, who had changed so much since their last encounter. "Kakarot's brat? A Super Saiyan?"
"Aren't you surprised?" Rosicheena yelled at the others. "He just went Super Saiyan!"
"Why should I be?" Chichi said, shrugging. "Goku…I mean, Kakarot and Vegeta can go Super Saiyan as well!"
Bardock, Celipa, Radditz, and Rosicheena all turned to look at the two Saiyans. "Is…Is that true?" Celipa stuttered.
"Yeah," Goku said. "Gohan and I can reach SS2, and Vegeta can reach something around SS1.99 or something around that. He's really close to SS2."
"God," Celipa said, sitting down hard on a chair. "Three Super Saiyans."
"Why did that girl address you as 'Goku', Kakarot?" Bardock sitting down next to his wife. "And who are these people?"
"This'll be a long story," Gohan muttered as he sat down on the floor. Most of them also sat, but some remained standing.
"As you know, I was sent to Earth as a baby," Goku started. "But I hit my head and forgot all about the Saiyans, and an old martial arts master named Gohan gave me the 'proper' raising of an Earthling child. He was the one to change my name to Goku. Then I met that blue-haired girl, Bulma." He pointed to her. "She was looking for the Dragonballs, 7 magical balls…" Goku went on and on about his adventures since then till now, introducing everyone as he went until her reached the Cell Games. "…And Vegeta shot a ki blast at Cell's back, distracting him enough so Gohan could gain the upper hand and destroyed Cell. (A/N: In this story, Goku didn't die, though Gohan did beat Cell) We wished everybody back. That was three years ago. Then, Bulma's father, Dr. Brief, saw Vegetasei when he was teaching some astronomy students. And that's how we got here."
"Wow," Celipa said. She propped her elbow on the armrest of the chair and leaned her head on her cupped hand. "Wow," she repeated.
"So, let me get this straight," Bardock said. "Chichi, Gohan, and Goten are your family. Bulma and Trunks are Vegeta's. The short baldy, Krillin's, mate is the blonde girl named 18, and that other blonde is their daughter, and the black-haired guy is 18's brother 17. The three-eyed man is Tien, and the dark-blue haired girl is his mate, Launch, and her mini-me is Paris. (A/N: I don't know what Paris really looks like) The green one is Piccolo, and really small one is Chiaotzu, and the other black-haired guy is called Yamcha."
"Yep," Goku said.
Chichi glanced at the clock. "Jesus, that took two hours!" She looked over at Gohan, who, in spite of himself, had fallen asleep, his head leaning on the couch armrest.
Bulma yawned. "I guess we should hit the sack."
"Where will you sleep?" Celipa said.
"Here." Bulma took out a capsule from her pocket and pressed a button. She tossed it on the floor and waited for a second.
POOF!
A spare bed appeared.
"See, didn't I tell you we might need extras?" she said pointedly to her companions.
"What…what is that?!" Bardock yelped.
"It's called a Dyno-Cap. It holds basically anything you put it in. It works by shrinking and object's molecules and encasing it into the capsule."
"I've seen everything," Celipa muttered.
"No, you haven't," Vegeta said rolling his eyes.
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