~~Rei's house~~
Rei crept around her house so as to not let her grandfather know of her presence. She wanted to think about what she was going to tell him. She didn't know if she would be in trouble or not, but she knew she didn't want to find out without having a story to back herself up. The wooden floor creaked as she walked towards her room.
Her grandfather poked his head out of his room and smiled as he saw his granddaughter walking down to her room. "So nice of you to drop by every now and then."
Rei froze in her spot, not wanting to look back and see if her grandfather was angry with her or not. "Well I thought you'd like it."
He emerged from his room and walked in her direction. "Everyone was worried about you kids." He proceeded to walk closer. "Did you learn anything from this whole ordeal?"
Rei turned around, expecting to see her grandfather angry with her, but to her surprise, he was smiling. "Yes." She couldn't understand why he wasn't laying into her for leaving. Normally he didn't approve of her leaving to go anywhere overnight without telling him.
"Good, good. I hope you enjoyed yourself while you were there since you're going to be doing extra chores around here for the remainder of this vacation. What did you learn?"
'That's it? No grounding? No yelling?' "I...uh...opened a link between me and my friends. I even reached a new level of power."
"I knew I felt something different about you when you walked into this house."
Rei jerked back. "What? You mean you knew I was here to whole time?"
Her grandfather nodded. "I'm not at all stupid, Rei. I could feel your presence. I do know a little about martial arts, you know. Just make sure this doesn't happen again." With that, he turned around and slowly walked back the way that Rei had come in. "I'll be in the dojo if you need me." 'There's something more odd about that girl now then there was when she left.'
"Ok." 'Weird...why is he acting that way?' She just shrugged and turned back to go to her room. She didn't want to make a big deal off of getting off easy.
~*~*~
"Mom! Dad! I'm home!" Minako kicked her weighted shoes off and ran into the kitchen of her home. Her parents weren't there so she ran to where she figured that they would be, in the living room watching T.V. "Where are you guys?" She skidded into the living room and wasn't at all surprised to see her parents cuddling on the sofa. "Hey! I said I was home!"
Mr. Aino looked back to his daughter with a slight smile. "We know. You don't need make your presence known every time you enter a room. You said you were home when you entered the house, that's enough."
Minako frowned at her father. She looked to her mother, who had a little bit more sympathy in her eyes. "Don't be mean to her. She didn't do anything wrong. Dear, how were your dance lessons?"
'Huh? Oh yeah, I was supposed to be at the lessons today. They don't even know I was gone since I didn't go with them in the first place. I was wished there. COOL!' "Oh they were fine. We didn't do much today. We'll be doing more tomorrow though." She giggled at her pouting father.
"That's good. Honey, why are you wearing your Gi? And look at that one; it's completely torn up. Did you decide to fight with your friends after class?"
Minako let out an 'eep' as she looked down to her Gi, which she had forgotten that she was wearing. "Uh...Yeah. We just wanted to try out this new attack that we thought of. Then it got a little out of hand. Nothing to worry about."
Her father frowned. "Good. She's fine. Now let's get back to the movie. Minako, go play with your friends or something."
"I don't know what you have against her. You don't have to be jealous of her all the time." Mrs. Aino slapped her husband in the back of the head. "Now settle down."
"I'm not jealous. I just want to watch the movie. Look at that! Now I've missed part of it. Minako, make yourself useful and bring your father a cold beer."
"What? So you can get yourself drunk again? I'm not going to help kill you! If you want to poison yourself with that garbage go ahead! But I'm not going to help!" She turned around and stormed down to her room.
~*~*~
"Where have you been Makoto!?"
Makoto hung her head low as she stood before her father, who was at the moment scolding her for reasons unknown to her. All she had done was casually walk into the house, knowing that her parents wouldn't know that she had gone to the past since she had really only been gone for half a day and she was supposedly at martial arts school all day. But when she walked into the house her father had been at the door ready to yell at her. "I've been fighting."
"Bull crap! You've been out playing with your little friends, haven't you? The martial arts school called today and asked where you were! You didn't show up there at all. So I ask you again! Where have you been!?" He grabbed the front of her Gi and pulled her up to his face.
Makoto could hear her mother screaming at her father to let go, but he wasn't listening to her. Makoto wasn't the least bit scared. She knew that her father couldn't do anything to her. In the past, she had been afraid of him, but not now. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."
"Try me!"
Makoto grinned. "Ok. Well, I've been in the past with my friends. We fought a huge fight with Cell and we all nearly died. But we ended up winning."
Her father glared into her eyes that came to her as a challenge. "You dare to lie to me!? You aren't nearly strong enough to even beat Mr. Satan, let alone Cell. Mr. Satan barely beat him, but he was stronger than him, luckily! There is no way to even go into the past so don't even try to go there! How do you expect to be able to beat Satan when you get older if you don't ever train when I tell you to!?"
Makoto burst out with laughter at that one. "You think that Mr. Satan is stronger than me! Oh man, that's just TOO funny. Dad, you crack me up!"
Her father threw her to the ground. "Oh you think you're pretty funny don't you? Why don't you continue to laugh in your room, which is where you are going to be for the remainder of winter vacation. You will only be allowed to leave when you are at martial arts school."
Makoto stood up and brushed herself of. "So, I don't care. But, you really don't get it do you? Goku is SO much stronger than Satan. I'm stronger than Satan. Anyone can be stronger than Satan."
"You dare to mock Mr. Satan!?"
"What's there to mock?" She laughed inside. She could tell that she was making her father angrier and angrier with every time she opened her mouth.
"You better have some respect. He's the only reason why you're here today."
"That would be false. As I believe, Gohan beat Cell. And in the past, me and my friends beat him."
Makoto's mother ran to her side and grabbed her by the shoulders fearing that he father would try and hit her. "Sweetie, maybe you shouldn't aggravate your father."
"Well maybe if he wouldn't be so closed minded and BLIND to everything that goes on around him, I wouldn't have to aggravate him."
"You're treading on thin ice, young lady." Her father was getting ready to slap her.
"Fine, fine. I'll shut up. But just keep in mind, Mr. Satan isn't nearly as great as you think he is. You should try talking to him. He's really just a big dork."
"Wait a minute, you've met him?"
"Oh yeah, Satan? I've known him since I was about five. Usagi's older brother married his daughter, Videl. She's a nice person. She's actually strong, unlike her father." With that, she pulled away from her mother and began walking back to her room. "Maybe I'll let you meet him one day."
~*~*~
~~Capsule Corp.~~
Usagi sat in between her parents on the sofa as everyone waited for her to try and explain to them what exactly had happened. "Well, first I want to apologize to everyone for being stupid. I know what I did was wrong. I knew what I was doing before I even left."
Vejita, who sat the farthest away form the group and had a scowl on his face, couldn't resist saying something in reply. "You're damn right you were being stupid. You lied to me. I should kill you on the spot for lying to me. Kakkorotto, how many times have I told you that you need to control your brat now?"
Goku shot a nasty glare over at Vejita as he let out a quiet protective growl. "Don't even go there, Vejita. I'm not in the mood for an argument." He looked down to his daughter. "You weren't exactly being stupid, you were just being a kid."
"Yeah, sis. This is kind of like the time I snuck out of the house on hire dragon to go to the Kame house with Krillin, even after mom told me not to."
Chi-Chi looked over to Gohan, who seemed to be pretty proud of himself. "Don't think I've forgotten that. Along with that bimbo Marron."
Goku chuckled when he remembered the stories that his wife told him about that girl. "Anyway, Usagi, why don't you tell everyone who the real enemy was."
Usagi nodded. "Ok. It was Cell." She paused for a moment to let everyone in the room gasp. All except Bulma and her parents. "Yup. He was back with more power than before. He was pretty tricky but we got him under control. He even had all these kids, but we killed them all too."
"Wait a minute, how did he have kids?" Piccolo was pretty sure that he knew how that happened. He had, after all, had his cells put into him. "He did the egg thing, didn't he?"
"Yeah. We killed them all after they ambushed us."
"THEY ambushed you?"
"Yeah? What's the big deal?"
"You did check the area for more, did you not?" Usagi shook her head. "YOU IDIOT!"
"Why are you calling me names, Piccolo? That's mean! We didn't need to look around. We didn't feel any more power coming from anywhere."
"Shut up! You always need to look! You even said yourself, Cell is tricky! I'll bet you now that the past is being attacked by any of the Cells that were left! You really messed up this time!"
Usagi dug her face into her father's side. "Don't yell at me. I didn't know."
"And where was Mamoru when all of this was happening?" 'He's going to get a good beating for this.'
Usagi pulled away from her father as he wrapped his arm around her. "He was outside the room of spirit and time with everyone."
"Oh, and all of this happened in the room?" He arrogantly replied
"What's wrong with you?"
Piccolo rubbed his temples. "Nothing. Look, I'm leaving. I have something I need to take care of." He walked to the door and stopped just before leaving. "Don't take this personally." He opened the door and walked out.
Goku curiously looked to Gohan. "What was all that about?"
Gohan shrugged. "I have no idea." The room went silent for a few minutes as no one really had much to say to each other. They were just happy that the whole ordeal was done and over with. Now they could finally move on.
All of a sudden, Usagi began to shake with fear. "Daddy..." Her eyes grew wide as her face turned pale.
Goku looked down to his daughter with worry. "What is it, sweetie? What's wrong?!" He got began to get a bad feeling when she didn't answer. Her fear just rose inside. "Tell us what's wrong."
"He's here. HOW DID HE GET HERE!?" She gripped his hand and held it with all of her strength, which wasn't that much since she was still tired from performing the combined attack.
Goku tried to pull his hand away but Usagi wouldn't let him. She just tightened her grip every time he tried. "Usagi, you have to tell us what's wr..."
That's when Gohan felt it too. "Father...That wouldn't be Cell...would it?"
"Huh?" He looked up to his son and froze in place when he felt the power level of Cell appear in Satan City. "Oh no..." He looked down to his daughter and tried to pull his arm back. "Usagi, you have to let go. Daddy needs to go take care of this."
"No! Daddy, this one is stronger than the original Cell."
Vejita jumped up. "Original Cell? What are you talking about, girl?! Are you telling me that you ACTUALLY did let one of those monsters live? AND NOW HE'S HERE!" In a flash, he powered up to Super Saiyan, level two. "That bastard wont get far. I'll break it in half with my hands." He shot up through the roof.
Bulma frowned as she looked at the hole that was just created by her husband. "You animal!"
"Usagi, what are you talking about?"
She looked up to her father. "Just what I said. He's stronger than the original. I don't know how. Wait a minute...maybe he absorbed all of the Cells that we killed. Oh daddy, Piccolo was right. I am an idiot. I let one of those things live."
"Stop it! You aren't an idiot! You're just learning. Now let go!" He ripped his hand away from Usagi's and jumped to his feet. "I'm getting out of here. I'm not going to let that thing go on a rampage."
"Goku!"
Goku looked back to his wife. "I'll be ok. I'm not going to die this time, Chi-Chi."
"Be careful."
Usagi looked up at her father in fear. Part of her wanted to go, but she knew that she wouldn't be able to hold up against the monster. He was too strong for just her. She figured that her friends wouldn't want to fight it again anyways. They would just have to leave it up to the others.
~*~*~
~~Mizuno Household~~
Ami's head poked up from the book she was reading while her mother was making dinner. "Mom, Cell is here."
Her mother turned back with a face filled with horror. "What are you talking about?"
"I mean, he's here! Cell is here! We have to fight him again!"
"You ARE NOT going to fight that thing. Leave it up to Usagi's family. They can do it."
"I don't think so, mom. They are going to need our help." She grinned. "And plus you said I could fight. Remember?"
Mrs. Mizuno sighed. "All right. Just this once. But I'm coming with you. I want to see what goes on at these fights."
"What!? You'll be..." She stopped to rethink what she was going to say. Had she have continued her mother wouldn't have agreed to let her go. "Ok, grab my hand." She stood up and held her hand out to her mother, who hesitantly grabbed it. "Hold on."
~*~*~
~~Capsule Corp.~~
Usagi looked up at her mother, who seemed to have trouble sorting out her feelings. She couldn't quite remember a time when she had seen her mother so scared. Except when all the Saiyans were becoming ill. But this fear exceeded even that. "Mom?"
Chi-Chi didn't jerk her head one bit. "I'll be ok. I'm just remembering what happened last time Cell came here. I hope everyone is all right."
Usagi turned her head to Bulma when she felt the Ki's of her friends in that direction. "What are you doing here?" She stared upon her friends and someone she didn't expect to see at a time like this. "Mrs. Mizuno?"
Mrs. Mizuno pulled her hand away from Ami's and glared at Usagi. "It's your fault that Ami is fighting. You and your bad influence."
"What is that supposed to mean? I didn't force her to fight. She just wanted to one day."
"Oh don't give me that. I'm watching you. One false move and that's it."
Chi-Chi wasn't about to just sit by and watch her daughter be once again slammed by anyone. She had gone through enough with almost everyone she cared about, it was time for all of the yelling to stop. "Don't you accuse my daughter of anything. I know she isn't perfect, but who is? Your daughter isn't all high and mighty herself."
That offended Mrs. Mizuno. "Look Mrs. Son. I raised my daughter to be a good person. Not a thug like yours. If your daughter can't handle hanging around good people, then I don't want her to run around Ami, at all, period. I don't want Ami to learn her bad habits."
"Are you trying to start something with me? Usagi is not a thug! She just knows how to live, unlike Ami! You shouldn't shelter her to the point that she doesn't know how to make friends! Maybe you should rethink the way you raise her!"
"Well I never!"
"Well now you have!"
Usagi giggled as her mother continued to fight with Ami's mother. 'Wow...daddy was right. Mom is cool here too.' "You guys, stop it! This isn't the time for fighting! Cell is here and we need to go help dad and the others." She looked to her friends, who were looking kind of shocked by Chi-Chi's behavior. "That is why you came here, right?"
Ami pulled her mother back a ways so she wouldn't be able to talk to Chi-Chi without yelling, something she didn't exactly like to do. "Yes. We know how to fight Cell. They don't. At least not this one."
Usagi nodded. "That's true. I guess we should be going then."
"No. You aren't going anywhere near that fight, Usagi. Let your father handle it. He is the strongest one out there right now."
Usagi ignored her mother. She knew that it would be hard for her to let her go, but it was something that both of them would have to live with. Usagi didn't know how well she would be able to hold up against the Cell Jr., but it needed to be done. Even if she were only to give them pointers on how to fight him. "Let's power up, hopefully for the last time. We made the mistake of letting him escape. Now is our chance to make everything better."
Chi-Chi was in awe as she watched her daughter's hair and tail turn silver. "You're a Super Saiyan too? NO! I've lost my little girl!"
"Relax, mom. I'll be fine." 'I hope.' She stepped forward towards her friends, who were also powered up to their fullest. "Let's get out of here before it's too late."
"I said no! You're not going. Leave it to your father!" Chi-Chi lunged for her daughter and grabbed her tail. In return, Usagi collapsed to the ground from the loss of power. "I'm sorry Usagi, but this is for your own good. You don't have enough power to do something like this again. You said so yourself. Goku even said so."
"Mom, please. Don't do this. They don't know how strong Cell Jr. is. Let me go." 'Why does she have to be so stubborn?'
"I may let Gohan and Goten go out to battle, but not you. I'm not letting you go. You've fought enough for one day."
"Mrs. Son!" Mrs. Mizuno shouted. She had seen enough. "Let your child go. I'm taking her with me. You two aren't fit to be parents."
Usagi and Chi-Chi both looked up. "What?"
"You heard me. You are obviously hurting your daughter. First you allow her to fight evil beings and now this. Tell me, do you beat her too?"
Chi-Chi scowled as she let go of her daughter's tail. "What did you say?" She angrily approached Ami's mother wanting nothing more than to throw her out of the house for accusing her of being an abusive parent.
Knowing that her friend wouldn't hesitate to do something horrible to Mrs. Mizuno, Bulma decided it was time for her to step in. "Ladies do NOT fight in my house. I already have to deal with one hot head I don't need anymore. Now Mrs. Mizuno, none of my friends are as bad as you think. I know you don't approve of fighting but keep your opinions to yourself. And Chi-Chi, I think you better watch Usagi better. She just teleported away with the other girls."
Chi-Chi looked around the room. "What? She didn't! She..." She clenched her fists. "That girl is going to make me go insane! What am I supposed to do with her? She wants to fight but she'll get hurt if I let her."
Bulma could empathize for Chi-Chi. She remembered what it was like when Trunks was fighting with Vejita. She had worried about him when Buu was there. "It's ok. She'll be fine. Have a little bit of confidence in her. She made it back home alive. She can do it again."
"I just worry about her. She's too much like Goku for my comfort."
"Ok, now THAT I can agree with."
~*~*~
~~Satan City~~
Cell Jr. rampaged through the city like it was nobody's business. He destroyed buildings, crushed cars, and killed thousands of innocent people. The people who had not been killed by Cell Jr. were congregated in front of Mr. Satan's mansion , waiting for him to come and save them like he had all those years ago. "SATAN! SATAN! SATAN!" Chanted the people. The crowd went wild when he finally decided to come out.
He threw his hand up with just his index and middle fingers out to make a 'v' sign, which made the crowd even more hysterical. "Citizens of Satan City, I have watched the news. The news of Cell has spread faster now than it has before! I, Mr. Satan, shall once again save everyone from death!"
"HA! You couldn't beat Cell JR. If your life depended on it, Satan!" The crowd quieted down as they turned around to see five girls arrogantly standing behind them.
Satan panicked. He knew that Usagi didn't like him. She always tried to expose him at every chance he got. "Aww...look. It's little Usagi. Citizens, this is my daughter's sister-in-law. We play fight all the time and I usually let her beat me. You know. I don't want her to have hard feelings. But Usagi, this is no time to act like this. It is dangerous for you to be here. You should leave."
"Oh cut the show already, Satan. You're a fraud. Gohan, Goten, Dad, Vejita, Piccolo, 18 and all of the other REAL fighters might let you get away with this, but I'm not. You shouldn't get the glory! Gohan should and you know it!"
The crowd gasped at the way that the little girl was talking to their savior. "Hey learn some respect kid!"
"Yeah! You wouldn't be here if it weren't for Mr. Satan."
Makoto smirked. "No, we wouldn't. We would be somewhere else fighting Cell Jr. Instead, we have to make sure you don't try anything stupid like going there to get yourselves killed."
Mr. Satan glared down at the girls. He had to think of something quick to say so that his fans wouldn't think he was a wuss. "Don't you mean that YOU guys should get out of here?"
Usagi rolled her eyes. "Give it up." She jumped into the air. "I have a trick for you! WANNA SEE!?" She built up a small Ki blast and shot it down to an unoccupied area of the ground. Everyone ran for cover as the ground blew up. "Why don't you try doing that? Why don't you try to even fly? Videl can fly, why can't you? I'll tell you why, it's because you're weak! That's why!"
"Usagi that's enough!" Gohan lowered himself to his sister's level of altitude.
Usagi gulped as she turned around to the angry voice of her brother. "Oh hi Gohan...Uh...Sorry about this."
"This isn't the time to be doing this. In fact, you shouldn't be doing this at all. Let's go." He looked down to the ground where screaming people were running in all directions. He squinted to find the other girls. "Come on! Dad wants to talk to you guys!"
"Gohan, you can't just let Mr. Satan take credit for what you did. It isn't right. It isn't fair for us who fight for real."
"I don't care what you think about this, Usagi. It isn't your place to decide. You weren't even a part of the fight with Cell. Now let's go before dad gets mad."
Usagi frowned as her brother flew off and her friends came up behind her. "Why is he being mean all of a sudden? And what was that supposed to mean!? I was a part of the Cell fight!? I just helped kill him!" She gave herself a burst of power and quickly caught up to her brother. Her friends were soon to follow.
~*~*~
Cell Jr. flew from the city the woods, where he felt the Ki of Usagi and her friends flying to. His objective was to kill them since they had somehow managed to kill his father. He also wanted to pay them back for killing off all of his brothers. 'I'll get Usagi's power as well. I don't care if the queen wants me to or not. She is sure to except me if I bring back her special power.' Cell Jr. smirked as he increased his speed.
~*~*~
Gohan arrived to where the rest of the fighters were with the girls. Cell Jr. was close behind him. It would only be a matter of about five minutes before he would arrive and all hell would break loose. "Father!" He stopped where he was and waited for a response.
Goku turned around to the sound of his son's voice and began to approach him. He poked his head to the side to see his daughter and her friends close behind. "Hey! Come here!" He waved for them to come and watched as they complied. "Ok then. We don't have much time, but you guys know how Cell Jr. works. Or at least a little bit. How much stronger than the original is he?"
Ami looked to her friends. They all appeared to not really want to talk about it. "I don't think he's that much stronger. But any more than he was is still bad."
Piccolo and Mamoru arrived on the scene at that moment. "Look Odango, you let one live." Usagi didn't say anything. She just turned to him and stuck her tongue at him. "Now we have to fight this thing all over again. You guys had better be ready to do your little shit attack again."
Goten came up from behind Mamoru and slapped him upside the head. "Would somebody get this kid to shut up already? He's starting to piss me off."
"You two be quiet. We have no time for a fight between us. We have to prepare ourselves." Goku powered up to Super Saiyan two.
"Daddy, you're going to need more power than that. Is that as high as you can go?"
"I'm just getting myself ready for the power. I haven't gone level three in years." 'Looks like I'm going to need it, too.' He crouched into his position that would allow him to go level three.
Rei turned around when she sensed Cell Jr.'s power right behind them. She concentrated her energy to speak to the girls. 'He's here. Why can't they feel him?'
'Huh?' Minako turned around and nearly screamed.
Cell Jr. raised his fighting power up to his maximum. "This is fun. Scaring you guys like this, I mean." He noted the frightened look on Minako's face. He let himself glide on over in the middle of the gathered fighters just in front of Usagi and Goten. "My, my. How much you are all so different in this time."
Goku finished up his transformation and turned to Cell Jr. with a scowl on his face. 'He's a lot different than the Cell we fought. That black layer must have be the protective layer that Usagi was telling us about. Better be careful about that.' "How did you get in here undetected?"
Cell Jr. stretched his arms and legs as he cocked his neck from side to side. "You know, this dark energy I have is really useful. It allows me to lower my energy nearly all the way but I still have the same amount of power. Pretty nifty, huh? That should answer your question, Goku."
"Why don't you enlighten us with the story of your queen and this 'dark energy' you speak of." He hovered towards Usagi. Cell Jr. was getting a little to close to her for his liking. He knew how the queen was after her energy.
"Must I really tell you that boring story. While I would love to tell you of it, I would like to talk of something else, first. Something that I'm sure my father would have wanted me to do, since I do have his memories now, as well as all of my brothers'. That's just a perk of being able to absorb your family members."
Makoto reached into her pocket where she found one single Senzu bean. 'Hey, I found a Senzu bean. Why don't we split it and then take this guy out right away with our attack?"
'I don't think he's going to be so stupid as to letting all of us get out of his vision. He just said that he had his father's memories. He's going to be watching us especially.'
'Dang. you're right, Ami.' Makoto ditched the Senzu idea and tried to think of something else. 'If we get a chance to do it, I think we should take it.'
'Agreed, what do you guys think? Minako, Rei, Usagi, any suggestions?'
'Wait, I think we should see what dad has planned first. He's a pro at these kinds of fights. His power is even as strong as Cell Jr.'s, unless we count that dark energy stuff, which adds a lot of power. But so far, that energy hasn't done much for him.' They all lost a small amount more of their energy as a result of using the link.
Cell Jr. smirked as he decided to start with his story. "Yes, it was a nice sunny day in the mountains. The birds were chirping, the flowers were blooming, the grass was a nice shade of green and the trees gave off a sent of pine. But somewhere, deep in the forest, things weren't all cheery for one little girl. One little girl who opposed one of the most powerful beings in the universe. This child was sentenced to death for foiling my queen's plans. As a result, my father was sent to kill her, but before that, steal her energy. Yes, the little girl soon learned not to try to go against the almighty Cell. He didn't waste any time taking care of things. He threw her about, beating her like the animal that she is. He laughed as she screamed out in pain and for help. He even sold the lives of her friends just to make sure that he would be the one to kill her. She had no hope. She wasted her chance to kill him. She underestimated him. And he..."
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Goku let his fist fly into Cell Jr.'s face, causing the monster to fly down to the ground. He didn't want to think about his daughter in such danger. He didn't even want to hear about it. Goku let himself fall to the ground as well. "I'm not going to waste any time ripping into you! You have come once before. Or at least Cell has. I'm not letting you do the same damage as he did! I've had it with you!"
Cell Jr. looked up at Goku in terror. "What power you posses. Why was I able to be thrown to the ground like that. I am supposed to be unstoppable."
"Shut up!" Goku raised his leg and kicked Cell Jr. in the ribs, causing some of his protective skin layer to crumble away.
"Hey! This is just like when dad and me came back to the fight right after he reached level two. Do you guys remember when the clones were still out and about?"
Makoto positioned herself above Cell Jr. "That's right! Goku, keep going!"
Goku listened carefully to the words of the younger fighters for they knew exactly what they were talking about. "Gladly. Cell Jr. I know you're not your father, but you have his memories. Here's what I've wanted to say to you for the longest time. You've screwed with my family in more ways than one. And now, with what you just told me about what you did to Usagi, oh now you've crossed the line." He jumped backwards into the air and pulled his arms to his side. "You aren't so tough!"
"You always have to show off, don't you Kakkorotto?" Vejita flew away without even waiting for a reply. He hated to see Goku always get the victory. He hated, even more, to see Goku powered up to level three.
Goku continued to glare down at Cell Jr., who seemed to be having a hard time getting up. "Your time has run out! KA-ME-HA-ME-HA!" A massive golden ball of energy emerged from Goku's hands. He fired it upon the enemy and watched as it ripped through the air down to the ground. "Don't even think about coming back, again. The Kamehameha wave completely tore Cell Jr.'s body apart until there was nothing left. Goku's glare turned into a soft frown as he powered down since the final threat was gone.
"Way to go dad!" Usagi flew up from behind her father and hugged him. "He was easier here than in the past."
Goku smiled as he powered down and turned around to look at Usagi. "Did you get your mom's permission to come here or something?"
Usagi shamefully looked down to the ground. "No. I kind of snuck out when she was talking with Ami's mom. She didn't want me to go, but I wanted to help."
Goku sighed. 'Great, another fight. Chi-Chi's going to blow up when we get back. When will these two stop going at it?' "We better get you back then."
~*~*~
~~Capsule Corp.~~
The living room of Capsule Corp. was completely quiet as the women awaited the return of their families. They had been waiting for about a half hour already and had only been quiet for about ten. Their had been about three separate up stirs from Chi-Chi and Ami's mother that Bulma had to mediate.
And one was about to begin once again. "Honestly. How long does it usually take for them to beat one little enemy?"
Chi-Chi was quick to turn to Mrs. Mizuno and reply. "Why don't you go out there and try to fight them! They have risked their lives a number of time to save this planet! You should be thankful!"
"Well if my Ami comes back all beat up I'm holding your family personally responsible! It was Usagi who put the idea in her head anyways!"
"You disrespectful little...oooooh you make me so mad! Usagi is not a bad kid! Did you ever stop to think that Ami WANTED to fight!? Usagi wouldn't have forced her to fight if she didn't want to! She's not that type of kid!"
Bulma stood up and put her hands in front of each woman's face. "Ladies! Please refrain from continuing this POINTLESS fight!"
The three turned their heads towards the front door as it busted open and every fighter walked in. Goku was the first to come in and was followed by the rest. "Did we come in at a bad time?"
Chi-Chi jumped to her feet. "Goku, tell her that our little Usagi is not a bad kid! Tell her to SHUT HER MOUTH!"
"Huh?" He looked to Mrs. Mizuno who looked as if she were about to explode with anger, much like his wife. "Mrs. Mizuno, I've told you this time and time again. We don't push our kids into something that we don't think they can do. Maybe you should give Usagi a chance."
He began to make his way to the kitchen but was stopped by the angry face of his wife. "What? I told her what you wanted me to."
"That's not it! This is about you!"
Goku gulped as he jerked back. "Me?"
"YES! What do you have to say for yourself?!"
"About what?"
"You know what I mean! What just happened!"
"What did just happen?"
"YOU LET USAGI STAY OUT THERE WITH YOU! I DIDN'T WANT HER TO BE OUT THERE! I TOLD HER TO LET YOU HANDLE IT!"
"Oh...well...she...didn't..." 'Crap, I can't make Usagi look like the bad guy. Not again. I can't let her get yelled at.' "She didn't want to come back so I didn't make her. It was all right. I had everything under control." Usagi smiled up at her father. She would have to thank him for taking the fall for her later.
"Goku, I'm sick of this!"
"What?"
"Don't play stupid with me! You're always let her have her way. I'm the only one who ever sets limits for her while you always play the good guy. You make me look bad in front of her. Actually, you've done this with all three."
"I set rules."
"Not exactly. While you set rules that keep them safe, you don't set rules that allow them to learn and grow into well-rounded adults. If it were up to you, fighting would be all they know. Without me, they never would have gone to school, just like you never did. Is any of this making it past your thick skull?"
"Why don't you learn how to control your woman Kakkorotto? You shouldn't let them think that they can act this way. Don't let her talk to you like that. Show her whose boss." Vejita snickered at Goku's behavior.
"You pig!" Bulma punched her husband in the lower back, a place that he wasn't expecting.
"I have been putting up with this ever since you first started training her. I'm already having a hard time getting her to do her chores and her homework. All she wants to do is fight or be where you are. I even have a hard time trying to get YOU to do anything around the house. All you do is sit around and watch television or go off and train with the kids. You make me do everything around the house and whenever I try to get Usagi to do anything, you always tell me to lay off."
"Chi-Chi, do we need to be talking about his right now?"
"YES!" She looked to her daughter, who seemed to be enjoying all of this. 'Well, she said I beat him in the past. Why not...' "Goku, I challenge you."
"WHAT?!"
"You heard me!"
Piccolo and Vejita couldn't help but burst out and laugh at that one. Vejita especially. "You can't beat a Super Saiyan. Hey green man, you seem to be having a good time over there with this. Why don't me make a little bet. 10,000 to one that Kakkorotto will win."
"Hey, we'll take you up on that bet, Vejita"
Chi-Chi looked hurt as she looked over to her daughter. "You're betting against me?"
"NO! Mom, we're betting FOR you, aren't we girls?" Chi-Chi's heart nearly melted with joy when she heard that.
"Oh yeah. Go Chi-Chi!" Minako threw up fist up into the air as she began to get excited.
"Here." Ami held out twenty dollars. "This is all we have. If Chi-Chi wins, then we keep this money and GET the money you're putting out on the table. But if we loose, you can have our twenty."
Mrs. Mizuno slapped her daughter's hand. "Shame on you!"
"Hump. I knew you were a fool, Usagi. But I never thought you were THAT much of a fool. Chi-Chi could never win. But we can't make it just twenty dollars if we're putting that much money out on the table. You're going to have to work it off. For the next two months, after school and on weekends you have to be our servants and do as we say."
Usagi grinned. "Fine."
"For once I agree with the Namek. You're all fools, I bet 1,000,000 to one odds the woman will lose." Vejita smirked at Chi-Chi, which only made her blood boil more.
The girls turned to look at each other and only giggled over their victory, which was sure to happen.
Piccolo decided to have a little more fun. "No sense letting a once in a lifetime agreement go up, I'll see half of it, and make it 2,000,000 to one."
Chi-Chi was about to go off when her daughter interrupted her. "Ooh, I think I like that better. What about you girls?" They nodded to add their agreement.
Goku was completely stunned by their decision, even Chi-Chi was stunned. Both fighters wondered what the girls could have been up to.
Vejita continued to smirk as he laughed. "Just like taking candy from a baby. Kakkorotto, you're raising a bad gambler." Piccolo just glared at them, knowing that they were up to something.
Makoto sat down on the floor as she prepared to watch the fight. "Put your money where your mouth is."
Piccolo and Vejita were infuriated. They intended to teach the brats a lesson or two about gambling.
Vejita continued to laugh, almost to the point of cackling "Your loss. We'll buy a couple of shots and toast your stupidity. Then we'll make you our slaves until you've worked off the debt."
Piccolo chuckled. "Incredible, three agreements in a day. Am I starting to like Vegetable boy? Nah..."
Usagi thought for a moment about what she wanted. "Well we'll use for... "
"College funds." Interrupted Ami.
The other girls all groaned at that. Minako rolled her eyes. "Always thinking about school. Come on, we want to use it for something cool."
Ami sighed. "All right, all right. We can use 10,000,000 of it for College. Splitting it between the five of us should cover the costs for each of us."
Usagi's eyes sparkled as she thought of a great idea. "I got an idea, how about a Super Tree house."
Minako was quick to respond. "Yeah, we can build it to withstand any thing. That would be SO cool."
"And have all the comforts of home. And maybe even a place where I can talk to the spirits."
Makoto thought of something that she had always wanted. "Big screen TV. How sweet would that be?"
"Top of the line stereo and surround sound. You know, so I can practice my singing. After all, if I want to become a Super Star, which I am, I need to practice." Everyone laughed at Minako.
Usagi grabbed her stomach as it grumbled to be fed. "A HUGE FRIDGE PACKED WITH FOOD."
"And a big kitchen so I can practice my cooking." Everyone curiously looked to Makoto. "What? It's a hobby."
"Toys. Lots an lots of toys!" Usagi had always wanted to go on a toy-shopping spree.
"Cloths and jewelry. A Super Star has to have a full wardrobe." Minako stated as she went starry eyed and looked up to the ceiling.
Minako quickly looked down to Usagi as an idea seemed to hit both of them at the same time. "VIDEO GAMES!"
Ami thought of what they really needed if they wanted all of that stuff. "It's own power generator, with back up."
"Always thinking, aren't we Ami?"
Ami blushed as she took Rei's words as a compliment. " You do realize that we'll have to build on several tree's. Connecting them all."
Usagi was completely lost in her daydream. She couldn't wait for her mother to win them the money. "Yeah, but give it a natural feel, we can have rope bridges between the sections as well. Do it with a main house at the center. We can make it by the lake. Yeah and have swing ropes from it into the water. THAT WOULD BE SO COOL! Maybe we can build it together with all our families and friends help. But make it really strong. Maybe we can put our shields around it to help make it stronger."
"But then it'd be an ugly and rubbery."
"I don't think so, Minako. I think we can make it so it enters into the tree's and what we built so they keep their natural look. It'd just take practice. Something that will take time, but will be rewarding."
Usagi continued to have ideas flow into her head. "Cool. And we...."
Vejita began to get annoyed with the girls' dreams. "Enough you won't win"
Usagi smirked. "I should warn you two, we will win. Well MOM will win. Do you want to back out."
The rest of the fighters laughed at that. Except Bulma who just studied the girls' facial expressions.
She turned back to Vejita and just glared at him. "If you do this idiotic stunt and lose, it comes out of your savings, not mine or capsule corps. Better hope you win too. You may have the remains of the Saiyan treasury, but even that will have a big bite out of that Billion in the account. Especially, with all the damage you always have to have repaired with your tantrums.'"
Vejita just turned and smirked as he replied. "But of course. It's a sure thing."
Piccolo began to get a bit nervous now. He had a VERY large savings himself from his time of being just Kami and Piccolo as two separate people. As big as Vejita's, it wouldn't hurt him TOO much if he lost. But for the first time, wondered what they knew. But his pride wouldn't let him back down. Though, they did seem to be a little bit on the confident side for whom they were rooting for.
Chi-Chi listened to this and continued to stay stunned. The girls had faith that SHE would win. Betting their entire allowances. Also they wanted to use some of the money too collage, a swell of pride entered her heart at that. But the tree house. Oh well, it'd be a nice place close to home that they could go to Her anger quickly grew again as the laughter from her supposed 'friends and family' grew loud again. 'They're making fun of me again.' she turned to her husband and realized that he too was laughing at the thought of her winning. 'He doesn't think that they should bet against him.' She gasped as he slowly began to turn to them and forbid that they bet against him. She wouldn't allow that to happen though.
"Fine you can make the bet. But Twenty-five million goes to collage and trust found so you don't need to work during that time or afterwards. The other fifteen you can use for your tree house and any left over in an account for you to use with MY discretion."
Goku turned to his wife and looked at her as if she were crazy. "You're going to let them throw their money away? Or are you planning on having me lose intentionally?"
Chi-Chi's anger grew out of control. "Do not even think of holding back. I want you to TRY to go Super Saiyan, IF you can, DON'T hold back. I WON'T."
Horror entered his eyes as he realized that she was utterly serious. "Chi-Chi you got to be kidding, please. I don't want to hurt you."
Gohan and Goten added their agreement to their father's, making her impossibly even angrier. But not Usagi. She knew what the outcome would be. She looked up to her father. Not only did she know the outcome, but also she knew the reasons. "Daddy, it's not about love, it's about respect."
Both of her parents looked down to their daughter in confusion. That's about the time that Chi-Chi realizes that Usagi really DID understand. But Goku was still confused. "Huh?"
Chi-Chi's temper had reached its final point. "Enough, the fight begins now. Power up to Super Saiyan, now if you can."
Goku would have to give in to this one. Chi-Chi wouldn't drop this until one person was a victor. He sighed. "Fine" He began to concentrate his energy to return to the form of being Super Saiyan, as he was when he fought Cell.
Chi-Chi didn't give Goku a chance to so much as move before she made her first move. Knowing that if she were to allow him to, she would have lost, she rushed towards him, making it look like she was going to ram into him, but instead skid down between his legs and hit him in the groin as hard as she could with both of her hands put together to form a bigger fist. Losing concentration, Goku collapsed to the ground.
Chi-Chi quickly stood up and turned to her husband, who was now on the ground in pain. "You have to concentrate to become Super Saiyan that's a weak spot that you may want to fix."
Usagi jerked back. 'Whoa! That's EXACTLY how it happened n the past! They ARE the same. COOL!'
This time, Chi-Chi wanted to do something new. She wanted to teach herself a new thing. She remembered how Goku had told Usagi how concentrating Ki inside your body first and then outside made it possible to use it with ease. So, concentrating her ki as she had seen her husband and children do for years, and having, listen to her daughter talking about it when she was first learning from her father, she powered up a power punch and hit him in the back of the neck just above the shoulder. Normally this secrete nerve punch her father taught her wouldn't effect Goku, but with the added ki energy and his pain, it worked, causing him to become immobile.
Everyone gasped as they became shocked over the fact that the mighty Goku has in fact been defeated by his wife.
Usagi jumped to the air. "WAY TO GO MOM! That's exactly how it happened in the past."
Chi-Chi, who was out of breath, looked to her daughter with happy eyes. "Thank you, Usagi."
Vejita became furious. He looked down at Goku and opened his mouth to yell at him. But Chi-Chi was in no mood for any more yelling "Don't even think it." She said, in a cold deadly voice.
Bulma laughed as she saw the anger build up on her husband's face. "Well you idiot. It looks like you and green jeans just lost twenty million each." Vejita was stunned by the thought and was about to protest, when she cut him off. "Oh no you don't. They gave you a chance to back out of the bet, and you refused. On the honor of Namek and the Saiyans you are now honor bound to pay off. Let it teach your arrogance a lesson. Beside, they intend to use it well. Let the kids have some fun."
Mrs. Mizuno laughed her hardest as she walked up to Vejita and Piccolo. "I'd have paid to seen this fight. HAHAHA. But not as much as you did!"
(YAY!!!! I'm FINALLY done with this chapter. Can you believe it? I can't. HEHEHE, I'm happy now. Wow, 16 pages for ya. I should have split this into two parts. But because I know you all would have yelled at me if I did, so just for you I made it into one. Hope you like it. What do you think? Gotta go start on part one of chapter five. JA ^_~
P.S. Comet moon was responsible for that last bit. You know, the tree house and betting bit. I though it was a cool idea so I wanted to use it.)
18
Rei crept around her house so as to not let her grandfather know of her presence. She wanted to think about what she was going to tell him. She didn't know if she would be in trouble or not, but she knew she didn't want to find out without having a story to back herself up. The wooden floor creaked as she walked towards her room.
Her grandfather poked his head out of his room and smiled as he saw his granddaughter walking down to her room. "So nice of you to drop by every now and then."
Rei froze in her spot, not wanting to look back and see if her grandfather was angry with her or not. "Well I thought you'd like it."
He emerged from his room and walked in her direction. "Everyone was worried about you kids." He proceeded to walk closer. "Did you learn anything from this whole ordeal?"
Rei turned around, expecting to see her grandfather angry with her, but to her surprise, he was smiling. "Yes." She couldn't understand why he wasn't laying into her for leaving. Normally he didn't approve of her leaving to go anywhere overnight without telling him.
"Good, good. I hope you enjoyed yourself while you were there since you're going to be doing extra chores around here for the remainder of this vacation. What did you learn?"
'That's it? No grounding? No yelling?' "I...uh...opened a link between me and my friends. I even reached a new level of power."
"I knew I felt something different about you when you walked into this house."
Rei jerked back. "What? You mean you knew I was here to whole time?"
Her grandfather nodded. "I'm not at all stupid, Rei. I could feel your presence. I do know a little about martial arts, you know. Just make sure this doesn't happen again." With that, he turned around and slowly walked back the way that Rei had come in. "I'll be in the dojo if you need me." 'There's something more odd about that girl now then there was when she left.'
"Ok." 'Weird...why is he acting that way?' She just shrugged and turned back to go to her room. She didn't want to make a big deal off of getting off easy.
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"Mom! Dad! I'm home!" Minako kicked her weighted shoes off and ran into the kitchen of her home. Her parents weren't there so she ran to where she figured that they would be, in the living room watching T.V. "Where are you guys?" She skidded into the living room and wasn't at all surprised to see her parents cuddling on the sofa. "Hey! I said I was home!"
Mr. Aino looked back to his daughter with a slight smile. "We know. You don't need make your presence known every time you enter a room. You said you were home when you entered the house, that's enough."
Minako frowned at her father. She looked to her mother, who had a little bit more sympathy in her eyes. "Don't be mean to her. She didn't do anything wrong. Dear, how were your dance lessons?"
'Huh? Oh yeah, I was supposed to be at the lessons today. They don't even know I was gone since I didn't go with them in the first place. I was wished there. COOL!' "Oh they were fine. We didn't do much today. We'll be doing more tomorrow though." She giggled at her pouting father.
"That's good. Honey, why are you wearing your Gi? And look at that one; it's completely torn up. Did you decide to fight with your friends after class?"
Minako let out an 'eep' as she looked down to her Gi, which she had forgotten that she was wearing. "Uh...Yeah. We just wanted to try out this new attack that we thought of. Then it got a little out of hand. Nothing to worry about."
Her father frowned. "Good. She's fine. Now let's get back to the movie. Minako, go play with your friends or something."
"I don't know what you have against her. You don't have to be jealous of her all the time." Mrs. Aino slapped her husband in the back of the head. "Now settle down."
"I'm not jealous. I just want to watch the movie. Look at that! Now I've missed part of it. Minako, make yourself useful and bring your father a cold beer."
"What? So you can get yourself drunk again? I'm not going to help kill you! If you want to poison yourself with that garbage go ahead! But I'm not going to help!" She turned around and stormed down to her room.
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"Where have you been Makoto!?"
Makoto hung her head low as she stood before her father, who was at the moment scolding her for reasons unknown to her. All she had done was casually walk into the house, knowing that her parents wouldn't know that she had gone to the past since she had really only been gone for half a day and she was supposedly at martial arts school all day. But when she walked into the house her father had been at the door ready to yell at her. "I've been fighting."
"Bull crap! You've been out playing with your little friends, haven't you? The martial arts school called today and asked where you were! You didn't show up there at all. So I ask you again! Where have you been!?" He grabbed the front of her Gi and pulled her up to his face.
Makoto could hear her mother screaming at her father to let go, but he wasn't listening to her. Makoto wasn't the least bit scared. She knew that her father couldn't do anything to her. In the past, she had been afraid of him, but not now. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."
"Try me!"
Makoto grinned. "Ok. Well, I've been in the past with my friends. We fought a huge fight with Cell and we all nearly died. But we ended up winning."
Her father glared into her eyes that came to her as a challenge. "You dare to lie to me!? You aren't nearly strong enough to even beat Mr. Satan, let alone Cell. Mr. Satan barely beat him, but he was stronger than him, luckily! There is no way to even go into the past so don't even try to go there! How do you expect to be able to beat Satan when you get older if you don't ever train when I tell you to!?"
Makoto burst out with laughter at that one. "You think that Mr. Satan is stronger than me! Oh man, that's just TOO funny. Dad, you crack me up!"
Her father threw her to the ground. "Oh you think you're pretty funny don't you? Why don't you continue to laugh in your room, which is where you are going to be for the remainder of winter vacation. You will only be allowed to leave when you are at martial arts school."
Makoto stood up and brushed herself of. "So, I don't care. But, you really don't get it do you? Goku is SO much stronger than Satan. I'm stronger than Satan. Anyone can be stronger than Satan."
"You dare to mock Mr. Satan!?"
"What's there to mock?" She laughed inside. She could tell that she was making her father angrier and angrier with every time she opened her mouth.
"You better have some respect. He's the only reason why you're here today."
"That would be false. As I believe, Gohan beat Cell. And in the past, me and my friends beat him."
Makoto's mother ran to her side and grabbed her by the shoulders fearing that he father would try and hit her. "Sweetie, maybe you shouldn't aggravate your father."
"Well maybe if he wouldn't be so closed minded and BLIND to everything that goes on around him, I wouldn't have to aggravate him."
"You're treading on thin ice, young lady." Her father was getting ready to slap her.
"Fine, fine. I'll shut up. But just keep in mind, Mr. Satan isn't nearly as great as you think he is. You should try talking to him. He's really just a big dork."
"Wait a minute, you've met him?"
"Oh yeah, Satan? I've known him since I was about five. Usagi's older brother married his daughter, Videl. She's a nice person. She's actually strong, unlike her father." With that, she pulled away from her mother and began walking back to her room. "Maybe I'll let you meet him one day."
~*~*~
~~Capsule Corp.~~
Usagi sat in between her parents on the sofa as everyone waited for her to try and explain to them what exactly had happened. "Well, first I want to apologize to everyone for being stupid. I know what I did was wrong. I knew what I was doing before I even left."
Vejita, who sat the farthest away form the group and had a scowl on his face, couldn't resist saying something in reply. "You're damn right you were being stupid. You lied to me. I should kill you on the spot for lying to me. Kakkorotto, how many times have I told you that you need to control your brat now?"
Goku shot a nasty glare over at Vejita as he let out a quiet protective growl. "Don't even go there, Vejita. I'm not in the mood for an argument." He looked down to his daughter. "You weren't exactly being stupid, you were just being a kid."
"Yeah, sis. This is kind of like the time I snuck out of the house on hire dragon to go to the Kame house with Krillin, even after mom told me not to."
Chi-Chi looked over to Gohan, who seemed to be pretty proud of himself. "Don't think I've forgotten that. Along with that bimbo Marron."
Goku chuckled when he remembered the stories that his wife told him about that girl. "Anyway, Usagi, why don't you tell everyone who the real enemy was."
Usagi nodded. "Ok. It was Cell." She paused for a moment to let everyone in the room gasp. All except Bulma and her parents. "Yup. He was back with more power than before. He was pretty tricky but we got him under control. He even had all these kids, but we killed them all too."
"Wait a minute, how did he have kids?" Piccolo was pretty sure that he knew how that happened. He had, after all, had his cells put into him. "He did the egg thing, didn't he?"
"Yeah. We killed them all after they ambushed us."
"THEY ambushed you?"
"Yeah? What's the big deal?"
"You did check the area for more, did you not?" Usagi shook her head. "YOU IDIOT!"
"Why are you calling me names, Piccolo? That's mean! We didn't need to look around. We didn't feel any more power coming from anywhere."
"Shut up! You always need to look! You even said yourself, Cell is tricky! I'll bet you now that the past is being attacked by any of the Cells that were left! You really messed up this time!"
Usagi dug her face into her father's side. "Don't yell at me. I didn't know."
"And where was Mamoru when all of this was happening?" 'He's going to get a good beating for this.'
Usagi pulled away from her father as he wrapped his arm around her. "He was outside the room of spirit and time with everyone."
"Oh, and all of this happened in the room?" He arrogantly replied
"What's wrong with you?"
Piccolo rubbed his temples. "Nothing. Look, I'm leaving. I have something I need to take care of." He walked to the door and stopped just before leaving. "Don't take this personally." He opened the door and walked out.
Goku curiously looked to Gohan. "What was all that about?"
Gohan shrugged. "I have no idea." The room went silent for a few minutes as no one really had much to say to each other. They were just happy that the whole ordeal was done and over with. Now they could finally move on.
All of a sudden, Usagi began to shake with fear. "Daddy..." Her eyes grew wide as her face turned pale.
Goku looked down to his daughter with worry. "What is it, sweetie? What's wrong?!" He got began to get a bad feeling when she didn't answer. Her fear just rose inside. "Tell us what's wrong."
"He's here. HOW DID HE GET HERE!?" She gripped his hand and held it with all of her strength, which wasn't that much since she was still tired from performing the combined attack.
Goku tried to pull his hand away but Usagi wouldn't let him. She just tightened her grip every time he tried. "Usagi, you have to tell us what's wr..."
That's when Gohan felt it too. "Father...That wouldn't be Cell...would it?"
"Huh?" He looked up to his son and froze in place when he felt the power level of Cell appear in Satan City. "Oh no..." He looked down to his daughter and tried to pull his arm back. "Usagi, you have to let go. Daddy needs to go take care of this."
"No! Daddy, this one is stronger than the original Cell."
Vejita jumped up. "Original Cell? What are you talking about, girl?! Are you telling me that you ACTUALLY did let one of those monsters live? AND NOW HE'S HERE!" In a flash, he powered up to Super Saiyan, level two. "That bastard wont get far. I'll break it in half with my hands." He shot up through the roof.
Bulma frowned as she looked at the hole that was just created by her husband. "You animal!"
"Usagi, what are you talking about?"
She looked up to her father. "Just what I said. He's stronger than the original. I don't know how. Wait a minute...maybe he absorbed all of the Cells that we killed. Oh daddy, Piccolo was right. I am an idiot. I let one of those things live."
"Stop it! You aren't an idiot! You're just learning. Now let go!" He ripped his hand away from Usagi's and jumped to his feet. "I'm getting out of here. I'm not going to let that thing go on a rampage."
"Goku!"
Goku looked back to his wife. "I'll be ok. I'm not going to die this time, Chi-Chi."
"Be careful."
Usagi looked up at her father in fear. Part of her wanted to go, but she knew that she wouldn't be able to hold up against the monster. He was too strong for just her. She figured that her friends wouldn't want to fight it again anyways. They would just have to leave it up to the others.
~*~*~
~~Mizuno Household~~
Ami's head poked up from the book she was reading while her mother was making dinner. "Mom, Cell is here."
Her mother turned back with a face filled with horror. "What are you talking about?"
"I mean, he's here! Cell is here! We have to fight him again!"
"You ARE NOT going to fight that thing. Leave it up to Usagi's family. They can do it."
"I don't think so, mom. They are going to need our help." She grinned. "And plus you said I could fight. Remember?"
Mrs. Mizuno sighed. "All right. Just this once. But I'm coming with you. I want to see what goes on at these fights."
"What!? You'll be..." She stopped to rethink what she was going to say. Had she have continued her mother wouldn't have agreed to let her go. "Ok, grab my hand." She stood up and held her hand out to her mother, who hesitantly grabbed it. "Hold on."
~*~*~
~~Capsule Corp.~~
Usagi looked up at her mother, who seemed to have trouble sorting out her feelings. She couldn't quite remember a time when she had seen her mother so scared. Except when all the Saiyans were becoming ill. But this fear exceeded even that. "Mom?"
Chi-Chi didn't jerk her head one bit. "I'll be ok. I'm just remembering what happened last time Cell came here. I hope everyone is all right."
Usagi turned her head to Bulma when she felt the Ki's of her friends in that direction. "What are you doing here?" She stared upon her friends and someone she didn't expect to see at a time like this. "Mrs. Mizuno?"
Mrs. Mizuno pulled her hand away from Ami's and glared at Usagi. "It's your fault that Ami is fighting. You and your bad influence."
"What is that supposed to mean? I didn't force her to fight. She just wanted to one day."
"Oh don't give me that. I'm watching you. One false move and that's it."
Chi-Chi wasn't about to just sit by and watch her daughter be once again slammed by anyone. She had gone through enough with almost everyone she cared about, it was time for all of the yelling to stop. "Don't you accuse my daughter of anything. I know she isn't perfect, but who is? Your daughter isn't all high and mighty herself."
That offended Mrs. Mizuno. "Look Mrs. Son. I raised my daughter to be a good person. Not a thug like yours. If your daughter can't handle hanging around good people, then I don't want her to run around Ami, at all, period. I don't want Ami to learn her bad habits."
"Are you trying to start something with me? Usagi is not a thug! She just knows how to live, unlike Ami! You shouldn't shelter her to the point that she doesn't know how to make friends! Maybe you should rethink the way you raise her!"
"Well I never!"
"Well now you have!"
Usagi giggled as her mother continued to fight with Ami's mother. 'Wow...daddy was right. Mom is cool here too.' "You guys, stop it! This isn't the time for fighting! Cell is here and we need to go help dad and the others." She looked to her friends, who were looking kind of shocked by Chi-Chi's behavior. "That is why you came here, right?"
Ami pulled her mother back a ways so she wouldn't be able to talk to Chi-Chi without yelling, something she didn't exactly like to do. "Yes. We know how to fight Cell. They don't. At least not this one."
Usagi nodded. "That's true. I guess we should be going then."
"No. You aren't going anywhere near that fight, Usagi. Let your father handle it. He is the strongest one out there right now."
Usagi ignored her mother. She knew that it would be hard for her to let her go, but it was something that both of them would have to live with. Usagi didn't know how well she would be able to hold up against the Cell Jr., but it needed to be done. Even if she were only to give them pointers on how to fight him. "Let's power up, hopefully for the last time. We made the mistake of letting him escape. Now is our chance to make everything better."
Chi-Chi was in awe as she watched her daughter's hair and tail turn silver. "You're a Super Saiyan too? NO! I've lost my little girl!"
"Relax, mom. I'll be fine." 'I hope.' She stepped forward towards her friends, who were also powered up to their fullest. "Let's get out of here before it's too late."
"I said no! You're not going. Leave it to your father!" Chi-Chi lunged for her daughter and grabbed her tail. In return, Usagi collapsed to the ground from the loss of power. "I'm sorry Usagi, but this is for your own good. You don't have enough power to do something like this again. You said so yourself. Goku even said so."
"Mom, please. Don't do this. They don't know how strong Cell Jr. is. Let me go." 'Why does she have to be so stubborn?'
"I may let Gohan and Goten go out to battle, but not you. I'm not letting you go. You've fought enough for one day."
"Mrs. Son!" Mrs. Mizuno shouted. She had seen enough. "Let your child go. I'm taking her with me. You two aren't fit to be parents."
Usagi and Chi-Chi both looked up. "What?"
"You heard me. You are obviously hurting your daughter. First you allow her to fight evil beings and now this. Tell me, do you beat her too?"
Chi-Chi scowled as she let go of her daughter's tail. "What did you say?" She angrily approached Ami's mother wanting nothing more than to throw her out of the house for accusing her of being an abusive parent.
Knowing that her friend wouldn't hesitate to do something horrible to Mrs. Mizuno, Bulma decided it was time for her to step in. "Ladies do NOT fight in my house. I already have to deal with one hot head I don't need anymore. Now Mrs. Mizuno, none of my friends are as bad as you think. I know you don't approve of fighting but keep your opinions to yourself. And Chi-Chi, I think you better watch Usagi better. She just teleported away with the other girls."
Chi-Chi looked around the room. "What? She didn't! She..." She clenched her fists. "That girl is going to make me go insane! What am I supposed to do with her? She wants to fight but she'll get hurt if I let her."
Bulma could empathize for Chi-Chi. She remembered what it was like when Trunks was fighting with Vejita. She had worried about him when Buu was there. "It's ok. She'll be fine. Have a little bit of confidence in her. She made it back home alive. She can do it again."
"I just worry about her. She's too much like Goku for my comfort."
"Ok, now THAT I can agree with."
~*~*~
~~Satan City~~
Cell Jr. rampaged through the city like it was nobody's business. He destroyed buildings, crushed cars, and killed thousands of innocent people. The people who had not been killed by Cell Jr. were congregated in front of Mr. Satan's mansion , waiting for him to come and save them like he had all those years ago. "SATAN! SATAN! SATAN!" Chanted the people. The crowd went wild when he finally decided to come out.
He threw his hand up with just his index and middle fingers out to make a 'v' sign, which made the crowd even more hysterical. "Citizens of Satan City, I have watched the news. The news of Cell has spread faster now than it has before! I, Mr. Satan, shall once again save everyone from death!"
"HA! You couldn't beat Cell JR. If your life depended on it, Satan!" The crowd quieted down as they turned around to see five girls arrogantly standing behind them.
Satan panicked. He knew that Usagi didn't like him. She always tried to expose him at every chance he got. "Aww...look. It's little Usagi. Citizens, this is my daughter's sister-in-law. We play fight all the time and I usually let her beat me. You know. I don't want her to have hard feelings. But Usagi, this is no time to act like this. It is dangerous for you to be here. You should leave."
"Oh cut the show already, Satan. You're a fraud. Gohan, Goten, Dad, Vejita, Piccolo, 18 and all of the other REAL fighters might let you get away with this, but I'm not. You shouldn't get the glory! Gohan should and you know it!"
The crowd gasped at the way that the little girl was talking to their savior. "Hey learn some respect kid!"
"Yeah! You wouldn't be here if it weren't for Mr. Satan."
Makoto smirked. "No, we wouldn't. We would be somewhere else fighting Cell Jr. Instead, we have to make sure you don't try anything stupid like going there to get yourselves killed."
Mr. Satan glared down at the girls. He had to think of something quick to say so that his fans wouldn't think he was a wuss. "Don't you mean that YOU guys should get out of here?"
Usagi rolled her eyes. "Give it up." She jumped into the air. "I have a trick for you! WANNA SEE!?" She built up a small Ki blast and shot it down to an unoccupied area of the ground. Everyone ran for cover as the ground blew up. "Why don't you try doing that? Why don't you try to even fly? Videl can fly, why can't you? I'll tell you why, it's because you're weak! That's why!"
"Usagi that's enough!" Gohan lowered himself to his sister's level of altitude.
Usagi gulped as she turned around to the angry voice of her brother. "Oh hi Gohan...Uh...Sorry about this."
"This isn't the time to be doing this. In fact, you shouldn't be doing this at all. Let's go." He looked down to the ground where screaming people were running in all directions. He squinted to find the other girls. "Come on! Dad wants to talk to you guys!"
"Gohan, you can't just let Mr. Satan take credit for what you did. It isn't right. It isn't fair for us who fight for real."
"I don't care what you think about this, Usagi. It isn't your place to decide. You weren't even a part of the fight with Cell. Now let's go before dad gets mad."
Usagi frowned as her brother flew off and her friends came up behind her. "Why is he being mean all of a sudden? And what was that supposed to mean!? I was a part of the Cell fight!? I just helped kill him!" She gave herself a burst of power and quickly caught up to her brother. Her friends were soon to follow.
~*~*~
Cell Jr. flew from the city the woods, where he felt the Ki of Usagi and her friends flying to. His objective was to kill them since they had somehow managed to kill his father. He also wanted to pay them back for killing off all of his brothers. 'I'll get Usagi's power as well. I don't care if the queen wants me to or not. She is sure to except me if I bring back her special power.' Cell Jr. smirked as he increased his speed.
~*~*~
Gohan arrived to where the rest of the fighters were with the girls. Cell Jr. was close behind him. It would only be a matter of about five minutes before he would arrive and all hell would break loose. "Father!" He stopped where he was and waited for a response.
Goku turned around to the sound of his son's voice and began to approach him. He poked his head to the side to see his daughter and her friends close behind. "Hey! Come here!" He waved for them to come and watched as they complied. "Ok then. We don't have much time, but you guys know how Cell Jr. works. Or at least a little bit. How much stronger than the original is he?"
Ami looked to her friends. They all appeared to not really want to talk about it. "I don't think he's that much stronger. But any more than he was is still bad."
Piccolo and Mamoru arrived on the scene at that moment. "Look Odango, you let one live." Usagi didn't say anything. She just turned to him and stuck her tongue at him. "Now we have to fight this thing all over again. You guys had better be ready to do your little shit attack again."
Goten came up from behind Mamoru and slapped him upside the head. "Would somebody get this kid to shut up already? He's starting to piss me off."
"You two be quiet. We have no time for a fight between us. We have to prepare ourselves." Goku powered up to Super Saiyan two.
"Daddy, you're going to need more power than that. Is that as high as you can go?"
"I'm just getting myself ready for the power. I haven't gone level three in years." 'Looks like I'm going to need it, too.' He crouched into his position that would allow him to go level three.
Rei turned around when she sensed Cell Jr.'s power right behind them. She concentrated her energy to speak to the girls. 'He's here. Why can't they feel him?'
'Huh?' Minako turned around and nearly screamed.
Cell Jr. raised his fighting power up to his maximum. "This is fun. Scaring you guys like this, I mean." He noted the frightened look on Minako's face. He let himself glide on over in the middle of the gathered fighters just in front of Usagi and Goten. "My, my. How much you are all so different in this time."
Goku finished up his transformation and turned to Cell Jr. with a scowl on his face. 'He's a lot different than the Cell we fought. That black layer must have be the protective layer that Usagi was telling us about. Better be careful about that.' "How did you get in here undetected?"
Cell Jr. stretched his arms and legs as he cocked his neck from side to side. "You know, this dark energy I have is really useful. It allows me to lower my energy nearly all the way but I still have the same amount of power. Pretty nifty, huh? That should answer your question, Goku."
"Why don't you enlighten us with the story of your queen and this 'dark energy' you speak of." He hovered towards Usagi. Cell Jr. was getting a little to close to her for his liking. He knew how the queen was after her energy.
"Must I really tell you that boring story. While I would love to tell you of it, I would like to talk of something else, first. Something that I'm sure my father would have wanted me to do, since I do have his memories now, as well as all of my brothers'. That's just a perk of being able to absorb your family members."
Makoto reached into her pocket where she found one single Senzu bean. 'Hey, I found a Senzu bean. Why don't we split it and then take this guy out right away with our attack?"
'I don't think he's going to be so stupid as to letting all of us get out of his vision. He just said that he had his father's memories. He's going to be watching us especially.'
'Dang. you're right, Ami.' Makoto ditched the Senzu idea and tried to think of something else. 'If we get a chance to do it, I think we should take it.'
'Agreed, what do you guys think? Minako, Rei, Usagi, any suggestions?'
'Wait, I think we should see what dad has planned first. He's a pro at these kinds of fights. His power is even as strong as Cell Jr.'s, unless we count that dark energy stuff, which adds a lot of power. But so far, that energy hasn't done much for him.' They all lost a small amount more of their energy as a result of using the link.
Cell Jr. smirked as he decided to start with his story. "Yes, it was a nice sunny day in the mountains. The birds were chirping, the flowers were blooming, the grass was a nice shade of green and the trees gave off a sent of pine. But somewhere, deep in the forest, things weren't all cheery for one little girl. One little girl who opposed one of the most powerful beings in the universe. This child was sentenced to death for foiling my queen's plans. As a result, my father was sent to kill her, but before that, steal her energy. Yes, the little girl soon learned not to try to go against the almighty Cell. He didn't waste any time taking care of things. He threw her about, beating her like the animal that she is. He laughed as she screamed out in pain and for help. He even sold the lives of her friends just to make sure that he would be the one to kill her. She had no hope. She wasted her chance to kill him. She underestimated him. And he..."
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Goku let his fist fly into Cell Jr.'s face, causing the monster to fly down to the ground. He didn't want to think about his daughter in such danger. He didn't even want to hear about it. Goku let himself fall to the ground as well. "I'm not going to waste any time ripping into you! You have come once before. Or at least Cell has. I'm not letting you do the same damage as he did! I've had it with you!"
Cell Jr. looked up at Goku in terror. "What power you posses. Why was I able to be thrown to the ground like that. I am supposed to be unstoppable."
"Shut up!" Goku raised his leg and kicked Cell Jr. in the ribs, causing some of his protective skin layer to crumble away.
"Hey! This is just like when dad and me came back to the fight right after he reached level two. Do you guys remember when the clones were still out and about?"
Makoto positioned herself above Cell Jr. "That's right! Goku, keep going!"
Goku listened carefully to the words of the younger fighters for they knew exactly what they were talking about. "Gladly. Cell Jr. I know you're not your father, but you have his memories. Here's what I've wanted to say to you for the longest time. You've screwed with my family in more ways than one. And now, with what you just told me about what you did to Usagi, oh now you've crossed the line." He jumped backwards into the air and pulled his arms to his side. "You aren't so tough!"
"You always have to show off, don't you Kakkorotto?" Vejita flew away without even waiting for a reply. He hated to see Goku always get the victory. He hated, even more, to see Goku powered up to level three.
Goku continued to glare down at Cell Jr., who seemed to be having a hard time getting up. "Your time has run out! KA-ME-HA-ME-HA!" A massive golden ball of energy emerged from Goku's hands. He fired it upon the enemy and watched as it ripped through the air down to the ground. "Don't even think about coming back, again. The Kamehameha wave completely tore Cell Jr.'s body apart until there was nothing left. Goku's glare turned into a soft frown as he powered down since the final threat was gone.
"Way to go dad!" Usagi flew up from behind her father and hugged him. "He was easier here than in the past."
Goku smiled as he powered down and turned around to look at Usagi. "Did you get your mom's permission to come here or something?"
Usagi shamefully looked down to the ground. "No. I kind of snuck out when she was talking with Ami's mom. She didn't want me to go, but I wanted to help."
Goku sighed. 'Great, another fight. Chi-Chi's going to blow up when we get back. When will these two stop going at it?' "We better get you back then."
~*~*~
~~Capsule Corp.~~
The living room of Capsule Corp. was completely quiet as the women awaited the return of their families. They had been waiting for about a half hour already and had only been quiet for about ten. Their had been about three separate up stirs from Chi-Chi and Ami's mother that Bulma had to mediate.
And one was about to begin once again. "Honestly. How long does it usually take for them to beat one little enemy?"
Chi-Chi was quick to turn to Mrs. Mizuno and reply. "Why don't you go out there and try to fight them! They have risked their lives a number of time to save this planet! You should be thankful!"
"Well if my Ami comes back all beat up I'm holding your family personally responsible! It was Usagi who put the idea in her head anyways!"
"You disrespectful little...oooooh you make me so mad! Usagi is not a bad kid! Did you ever stop to think that Ami WANTED to fight!? Usagi wouldn't have forced her to fight if she didn't want to! She's not that type of kid!"
Bulma stood up and put her hands in front of each woman's face. "Ladies! Please refrain from continuing this POINTLESS fight!"
The three turned their heads towards the front door as it busted open and every fighter walked in. Goku was the first to come in and was followed by the rest. "Did we come in at a bad time?"
Chi-Chi jumped to her feet. "Goku, tell her that our little Usagi is not a bad kid! Tell her to SHUT HER MOUTH!"
"Huh?" He looked to Mrs. Mizuno who looked as if she were about to explode with anger, much like his wife. "Mrs. Mizuno, I've told you this time and time again. We don't push our kids into something that we don't think they can do. Maybe you should give Usagi a chance."
He began to make his way to the kitchen but was stopped by the angry face of his wife. "What? I told her what you wanted me to."
"That's not it! This is about you!"
Goku gulped as he jerked back. "Me?"
"YES! What do you have to say for yourself?!"
"About what?"
"You know what I mean! What just happened!"
"What did just happen?"
"YOU LET USAGI STAY OUT THERE WITH YOU! I DIDN'T WANT HER TO BE OUT THERE! I TOLD HER TO LET YOU HANDLE IT!"
"Oh...well...she...didn't..." 'Crap, I can't make Usagi look like the bad guy. Not again. I can't let her get yelled at.' "She didn't want to come back so I didn't make her. It was all right. I had everything under control." Usagi smiled up at her father. She would have to thank him for taking the fall for her later.
"Goku, I'm sick of this!"
"What?"
"Don't play stupid with me! You're always let her have her way. I'm the only one who ever sets limits for her while you always play the good guy. You make me look bad in front of her. Actually, you've done this with all three."
"I set rules."
"Not exactly. While you set rules that keep them safe, you don't set rules that allow them to learn and grow into well-rounded adults. If it were up to you, fighting would be all they know. Without me, they never would have gone to school, just like you never did. Is any of this making it past your thick skull?"
"Why don't you learn how to control your woman Kakkorotto? You shouldn't let them think that they can act this way. Don't let her talk to you like that. Show her whose boss." Vejita snickered at Goku's behavior.
"You pig!" Bulma punched her husband in the lower back, a place that he wasn't expecting.
"I have been putting up with this ever since you first started training her. I'm already having a hard time getting her to do her chores and her homework. All she wants to do is fight or be where you are. I even have a hard time trying to get YOU to do anything around the house. All you do is sit around and watch television or go off and train with the kids. You make me do everything around the house and whenever I try to get Usagi to do anything, you always tell me to lay off."
"Chi-Chi, do we need to be talking about his right now?"
"YES!" She looked to her daughter, who seemed to be enjoying all of this. 'Well, she said I beat him in the past. Why not...' "Goku, I challenge you."
"WHAT?!"
"You heard me!"
Piccolo and Vejita couldn't help but burst out and laugh at that one. Vejita especially. "You can't beat a Super Saiyan. Hey green man, you seem to be having a good time over there with this. Why don't me make a little bet. 10,000 to one that Kakkorotto will win."
"Hey, we'll take you up on that bet, Vejita"
Chi-Chi looked hurt as she looked over to her daughter. "You're betting against me?"
"NO! Mom, we're betting FOR you, aren't we girls?" Chi-Chi's heart nearly melted with joy when she heard that.
"Oh yeah. Go Chi-Chi!" Minako threw up fist up into the air as she began to get excited.
"Here." Ami held out twenty dollars. "This is all we have. If Chi-Chi wins, then we keep this money and GET the money you're putting out on the table. But if we loose, you can have our twenty."
Mrs. Mizuno slapped her daughter's hand. "Shame on you!"
"Hump. I knew you were a fool, Usagi. But I never thought you were THAT much of a fool. Chi-Chi could never win. But we can't make it just twenty dollars if we're putting that much money out on the table. You're going to have to work it off. For the next two months, after school and on weekends you have to be our servants and do as we say."
Usagi grinned. "Fine."
"For once I agree with the Namek. You're all fools, I bet 1,000,000 to one odds the woman will lose." Vejita smirked at Chi-Chi, which only made her blood boil more.
The girls turned to look at each other and only giggled over their victory, which was sure to happen.
Piccolo decided to have a little more fun. "No sense letting a once in a lifetime agreement go up, I'll see half of it, and make it 2,000,000 to one."
Chi-Chi was about to go off when her daughter interrupted her. "Ooh, I think I like that better. What about you girls?" They nodded to add their agreement.
Goku was completely stunned by their decision, even Chi-Chi was stunned. Both fighters wondered what the girls could have been up to.
Vejita continued to smirk as he laughed. "Just like taking candy from a baby. Kakkorotto, you're raising a bad gambler." Piccolo just glared at them, knowing that they were up to something.
Makoto sat down on the floor as she prepared to watch the fight. "Put your money where your mouth is."
Piccolo and Vejita were infuriated. They intended to teach the brats a lesson or two about gambling.
Vejita continued to laugh, almost to the point of cackling "Your loss. We'll buy a couple of shots and toast your stupidity. Then we'll make you our slaves until you've worked off the debt."
Piccolo chuckled. "Incredible, three agreements in a day. Am I starting to like Vegetable boy? Nah..."
Usagi thought for a moment about what she wanted. "Well we'll use for... "
"College funds." Interrupted Ami.
The other girls all groaned at that. Minako rolled her eyes. "Always thinking about school. Come on, we want to use it for something cool."
Ami sighed. "All right, all right. We can use 10,000,000 of it for College. Splitting it between the five of us should cover the costs for each of us."
Usagi's eyes sparkled as she thought of a great idea. "I got an idea, how about a Super Tree house."
Minako was quick to respond. "Yeah, we can build it to withstand any thing. That would be SO cool."
"And have all the comforts of home. And maybe even a place where I can talk to the spirits."
Makoto thought of something that she had always wanted. "Big screen TV. How sweet would that be?"
"Top of the line stereo and surround sound. You know, so I can practice my singing. After all, if I want to become a Super Star, which I am, I need to practice." Everyone laughed at Minako.
Usagi grabbed her stomach as it grumbled to be fed. "A HUGE FRIDGE PACKED WITH FOOD."
"And a big kitchen so I can practice my cooking." Everyone curiously looked to Makoto. "What? It's a hobby."
"Toys. Lots an lots of toys!" Usagi had always wanted to go on a toy-shopping spree.
"Cloths and jewelry. A Super Star has to have a full wardrobe." Minako stated as she went starry eyed and looked up to the ceiling.
Minako quickly looked down to Usagi as an idea seemed to hit both of them at the same time. "VIDEO GAMES!"
Ami thought of what they really needed if they wanted all of that stuff. "It's own power generator, with back up."
"Always thinking, aren't we Ami?"
Ami blushed as she took Rei's words as a compliment. " You do realize that we'll have to build on several tree's. Connecting them all."
Usagi was completely lost in her daydream. She couldn't wait for her mother to win them the money. "Yeah, but give it a natural feel, we can have rope bridges between the sections as well. Do it with a main house at the center. We can make it by the lake. Yeah and have swing ropes from it into the water. THAT WOULD BE SO COOL! Maybe we can build it together with all our families and friends help. But make it really strong. Maybe we can put our shields around it to help make it stronger."
"But then it'd be an ugly and rubbery."
"I don't think so, Minako. I think we can make it so it enters into the tree's and what we built so they keep their natural look. It'd just take practice. Something that will take time, but will be rewarding."
Usagi continued to have ideas flow into her head. "Cool. And we...."
Vejita began to get annoyed with the girls' dreams. "Enough you won't win"
Usagi smirked. "I should warn you two, we will win. Well MOM will win. Do you want to back out."
The rest of the fighters laughed at that. Except Bulma who just studied the girls' facial expressions.
She turned back to Vejita and just glared at him. "If you do this idiotic stunt and lose, it comes out of your savings, not mine or capsule corps. Better hope you win too. You may have the remains of the Saiyan treasury, but even that will have a big bite out of that Billion in the account. Especially, with all the damage you always have to have repaired with your tantrums.'"
Vejita just turned and smirked as he replied. "But of course. It's a sure thing."
Piccolo began to get a bit nervous now. He had a VERY large savings himself from his time of being just Kami and Piccolo as two separate people. As big as Vejita's, it wouldn't hurt him TOO much if he lost. But for the first time, wondered what they knew. But his pride wouldn't let him back down. Though, they did seem to be a little bit on the confident side for whom they were rooting for.
Chi-Chi listened to this and continued to stay stunned. The girls had faith that SHE would win. Betting their entire allowances. Also they wanted to use some of the money too collage, a swell of pride entered her heart at that. But the tree house. Oh well, it'd be a nice place close to home that they could go to Her anger quickly grew again as the laughter from her supposed 'friends and family' grew loud again. 'They're making fun of me again.' she turned to her husband and realized that he too was laughing at the thought of her winning. 'He doesn't think that they should bet against him.' She gasped as he slowly began to turn to them and forbid that they bet against him. She wouldn't allow that to happen though.
"Fine you can make the bet. But Twenty-five million goes to collage and trust found so you don't need to work during that time or afterwards. The other fifteen you can use for your tree house and any left over in an account for you to use with MY discretion."
Goku turned to his wife and looked at her as if she were crazy. "You're going to let them throw their money away? Or are you planning on having me lose intentionally?"
Chi-Chi's anger grew out of control. "Do not even think of holding back. I want you to TRY to go Super Saiyan, IF you can, DON'T hold back. I WON'T."
Horror entered his eyes as he realized that she was utterly serious. "Chi-Chi you got to be kidding, please. I don't want to hurt you."
Gohan and Goten added their agreement to their father's, making her impossibly even angrier. But not Usagi. She knew what the outcome would be. She looked up to her father. Not only did she know the outcome, but also she knew the reasons. "Daddy, it's not about love, it's about respect."
Both of her parents looked down to their daughter in confusion. That's about the time that Chi-Chi realizes that Usagi really DID understand. But Goku was still confused. "Huh?"
Chi-Chi's temper had reached its final point. "Enough, the fight begins now. Power up to Super Saiyan, now if you can."
Goku would have to give in to this one. Chi-Chi wouldn't drop this until one person was a victor. He sighed. "Fine" He began to concentrate his energy to return to the form of being Super Saiyan, as he was when he fought Cell.
Chi-Chi didn't give Goku a chance to so much as move before she made her first move. Knowing that if she were to allow him to, she would have lost, she rushed towards him, making it look like she was going to ram into him, but instead skid down between his legs and hit him in the groin as hard as she could with both of her hands put together to form a bigger fist. Losing concentration, Goku collapsed to the ground.
Chi-Chi quickly stood up and turned to her husband, who was now on the ground in pain. "You have to concentrate to become Super Saiyan that's a weak spot that you may want to fix."
Usagi jerked back. 'Whoa! That's EXACTLY how it happened n the past! They ARE the same. COOL!'
This time, Chi-Chi wanted to do something new. She wanted to teach herself a new thing. She remembered how Goku had told Usagi how concentrating Ki inside your body first and then outside made it possible to use it with ease. So, concentrating her ki as she had seen her husband and children do for years, and having, listen to her daughter talking about it when she was first learning from her father, she powered up a power punch and hit him in the back of the neck just above the shoulder. Normally this secrete nerve punch her father taught her wouldn't effect Goku, but with the added ki energy and his pain, it worked, causing him to become immobile.
Everyone gasped as they became shocked over the fact that the mighty Goku has in fact been defeated by his wife.
Usagi jumped to the air. "WAY TO GO MOM! That's exactly how it happened in the past."
Chi-Chi, who was out of breath, looked to her daughter with happy eyes. "Thank you, Usagi."
Vejita became furious. He looked down at Goku and opened his mouth to yell at him. But Chi-Chi was in no mood for any more yelling "Don't even think it." She said, in a cold deadly voice.
Bulma laughed as she saw the anger build up on her husband's face. "Well you idiot. It looks like you and green jeans just lost twenty million each." Vejita was stunned by the thought and was about to protest, when she cut him off. "Oh no you don't. They gave you a chance to back out of the bet, and you refused. On the honor of Namek and the Saiyans you are now honor bound to pay off. Let it teach your arrogance a lesson. Beside, they intend to use it well. Let the kids have some fun."
Mrs. Mizuno laughed her hardest as she walked up to Vejita and Piccolo. "I'd have paid to seen this fight. HAHAHA. But not as much as you did!"
(YAY!!!! I'm FINALLY done with this chapter. Can you believe it? I can't. HEHEHE, I'm happy now. Wow, 16 pages for ya. I should have split this into two parts. But because I know you all would have yelled at me if I did, so just for you I made it into one. Hope you like it. What do you think? Gotta go start on part one of chapter five. JA ^_~
P.S. Comet moon was responsible for that last bit. You know, the tree house and betting bit. I though it was a cool idea so I wanted to use it.)
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