Chapter 7 - The Fight

Goku and Vegeta flew to a place far away from the restaurant and got ready to fight. "Let me warn you Kakarot, I've become a whole lot stronger since the last time we fought. I've been training non-stop for the last few weeks. Well, almost non-stop, if you exclude going to the toilet, eating breakfast, lunch and dinner, an hour of sleep each day, and all those other necessities."

"That's what you say before every fight, and yet I still end up beating you."

"Who cares about our past moments. Saying it gives me confidence in myself. You should try it."

"OK then, I'm going to beat you again, Vegeta. Face it, you'll never beat me, not even if you miraculously become twice as strong as before."

"You're bluffing."

"I'm only saying it to give myself confidence, remember? And I think it works. This is fun! I might not train under four hundred and fifty times normal Earth gravity, but that doesn't matter. Gravity only makes you short. I mean, I'm a whole head taller than you! And you have so many wrinkles! I bet you the gravity did that! No wonder Bulma's nearly lost all her interest in you! Before you know it, she won't even be willing to sleep in the same bed as you. And then after that you'll be so short and have so many wrinkles that she'll kick you off this planet!"

"That's not true!"

"It's only a little speech. Don't tell me you actually believe everything that I say. I get it! You're jealous, aren't you?"

"Am not!"

"You are."

They exchanged a few more insults, and then Goku and Vegeta entered their fighting positions and powered up. Once they were both ready, the fight began. Vegeta lunged at Goku and started punching and kicking. Goku blocked every attack and was enjoying himself very much since neither of them was fighting at full power. After about a hundred punches Vegeta finally landed one in Goku's face. Goku then took control and went after Vegeta.

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Chi Chi and Bulma were watching from the restaurant, but they couldn't see much apart from two glowing yellow blobs flying around because they were so far away.

"Who do you think will win?" asked Bulma

"I don't know, but I hope it's Goku. I really don't want Vegeta to destroy my restaurant."

"How about we get as far as possible, just in case the two accidentally do blow this place up?" suggested Bulma.

"They won't. Goku will make sure of that, but still, it's a good idea. Let's go." Chi Chi and Bulma boarded Bulma's helicopter (or whatever it is) and went back to the Capsule Corp and kept watching the fight, both anxious to find out who the winner of the fight would be. Chi Chi started chewing her nails, which had just recovered from her last nail-biting attack. Bulma expressed her disapproval, and Chi Chi stopped. She started grinding her teeth, which was even more annoying.

"Would you please stop all your obsessive compulsive disorders? How many do you have, anyway?"

"Well there's my nail biting, teeth grinding, screaming, foot tapping, hair pulling, furniture smashing..."

Bulma wished that she had never brought up the subject as she listened to Chi Chi rattling off all her bad habits.

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Meanwhile Goku and Vegeta had finished warming up and were now firing ki blasts at each other. Vegeta was starting to get annoyed, so he decided to try and lower Goku's defenses and strike hard and fast.

"You'd better be careful Kakarot, I was in a bad mood the whole day because I was woken up by our neighbour's pet rooster, which mean's I won't show any mercy. It was screaming its head off at the exact time as my alarm clock, so I decided to blow it up."

Goku erupted in an uncontrollable wave of laughter, and Vegeta was very annoyed. "Kakarot! What's so funny?" he demanded, extremely frustrated. I was planning to kill him, but not by making him laugh to death! Goku struggled to gasp for air as he tried to speak. "Wha... what... what did... y... you blow... what did you bl... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Goku was laughing so hard that tears were streaming from his eyes and he was clutching his stomach in pain. Vegeta had enough, and started forming a ki blast, aiming it at Chi Chi's restaurant.

"If you don't stop laughing right now, I'll blow your mate's precious restaurant up," threatened Vegeta. That stopped Goku from laughing, but he still couldn't help himself giggling every so often.

"What I was trying to say was, what did you blow up, the rooster or the alarm clock?"

"The clock! Do you honestly think I would destroy my neighbour's chicken? Of course not! Good food is too valuable to waste."

"I totally agree with that. You mean one day you're going to chicken-nap your neighbour's chicken, cook it then eat it?"

"Yes. But I'm going to fry you first!"

"Hey, let me live! I have to have some of that chicken as well!"

By that time Goten and Trunks had arrived and were watching from a safe distance, and Goku and Vegeta started fighting again. Trunks was really disappointed because Goku and Vegeta had already started. He decided to blame it all on Goten.

"See Goten? I told you that we would miss most of the action, but you didn't listen, did you?" "Hey, you were messing around as well. Both of us wasted time."

"Next time listen to me. It's true, the young never listen to their elders. They'll always get into trouble, and when they do, they look for someone else to blame."

"That sounds a lot like you, Trunks."

"No it doesn't," denied Trunks.

"Yes it does."

"Well, maybe, but not really. What out!" Trunks and Goten hid in a nearby tree to avoid the ki blast that sped past them, and also to avoid being seen by their parents.