Chapter 7 Snooping in Secrets Wednesday June 11, 9am.

"KIAH!" Roshi yelled as he sent a Ki supplied shockwave in all directions, knocking the training droids back against the far wall.

"You spiked up to 35,000 there Roshi, but before you built up the energy for the Kiah, the scouter couldn't even detect you, even when you were beating the crap out of my droids with your fists." Slip reported.

As none of the droids got up after being smashed into the walls of the gravity room, Roshi decided that he had had enough "active" training for the day.

"Just a second." he said as he focused himself. "What is the reading right now?"

"Nothing why?"

Roshi then fired a small Kamehameha at the largest droid. The droid exploded into a billion bits of molten metal.

"Uhhh, it beeped, but never registered your level."

"Try now," Roshi said as he released as much Ki as he could.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

"AHH!!, It hit 52,000! no 55,000! Wow and you didn't even take very long to release that energy!"

'Sure,' Roshi thought. 'I just hope it is enough.'

"How did you do that?"

"I just released as much potential Ki as I could as fast as I could."

"Potential Ki? What do you mean?" Slip asked as she started picking up the pieces of the droids.

"Well, Ki can be classified four ways according to my father. The ways are Normal, Potential, Apparent, and Real."

"Normal Ki is the level that one is at in a normal fighting condition."

"Potential Ki is the maximum amount of Ki one can release through concentration."

"Apparent Ki is the amount of energy that a scouter or person can sense coming off of another person."

"Real Ki is the actual amount of Ki a person has at any given moment. During the last few sessions I have been attempting to remain at my normal fighting strength while giving off a apparent strength of the average human. So my Real Ki was probably around 36,000 or so when making my attacks. The rest of the time it was very low, like around 5,000. Since I only raised my Ki for the split seconds of the attack."

"Cool, hmmmm, I wonder how you do that... Would you wear a brain wave scanner and heart monitor during you next session?"

"Uh, why?"

"PLEEEEEEAAAAAASSE!!!!"

"Oh... ah... well, I guess."

"OH thank you! Now I might get some real information. This is cool."

Roshi sat deep in thought as Slip hooked him up to about a ga-zillion different monitors. He was actually surprised at how fast his training was progressing. After telling Slip his training plans on Saturday night, he had actually only been training for four days. His maximum power level had gone up from the mid-forty thousand range up to the upper fifty thousand range just by figuring out how to better focus his mind. He had been working on his serenity, as his father had called it. "Calm as the Sky and fast as Lightning," his father had said. Roshi thought he was starting to show some real control.

"OUCH!" His thoughts were interrupted when Slip slapped a suction cup thing with tons of little tiny pins on the center of his chest. "What the heck is that thing for? It hurts!"

"Roshi would you grow up it only has a few needles on it. Sheesh you act like it will kill you or something." Slip said as she quickly slapped another one onto his shoulder.

"Hey! That's enough of those little suction cup things!" Roshi said as he jumped out of his chair.

"Please? Just one more. These things are sorta like an advanced EKG sensor. Only one more come on!"

Roshi grimaced and sat back down. 'Oh well, at least she might learn something.' He thought as he returned to his thoughts.

Like usual, it was a bit hard to accept that his father had been right yet again. Not only had he been able to increase his strength while keeping the scouter from sensing him as easily, but he had also started to be able to sense other things much more clearly.

He was glad, because it now seemed as though he was really going to have a fight on his hands. Since Slip was still calibrating her gadgets, Roshi let his mind wander back and recall the conversation from the previous night.

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"Is Roshi there?" He asked to start off the call

"Yeah, I'm here?" Roshi replied.

"Good, I hope you have been training. The girl showed up here today and I had to fight her. Unless you have been training the girl will beat you."

"WHAT!" Slip exclaimed.

"Piccolo, why do you say she will beat me?'

"She was at about the same level you were at the last time we sparred. I beat the stuffing out of her. Which means since she claims to be a Saiyan, she will most likely be a lot harder for you to beat. She is also far more aggressive than you, and her special attacks are more dangerous."

"What do you mean more dangerous?" Slip demanded. "I mean, doesn't Roshi know just about every ki attack?"

Roshi laughed. "Um no, not even close. I know the majority of attacks used by our ancestors, but that is really only a small fraction of what people can and do do with ki."

Piccolo shook his head. "Correct, anyway, she has two attacks that could cause you problems. So watch out for these. In one, she charges her hand with ki energy and delivers an attack which is very much like, but not nearly as powerful as, Goku's famed Dragon Punch."

"Yikes, that could hurt."

"It did, I was mostly toying with her, but she connected once and turned my shoulder into mush, I had to regenerate that arm after the fight.

"What?!?!!"

"Exactly, the only other time I have ever needed to regenerate, was when you hit me with that blasted Kamehameha last time we spared."

"Hey, it is not my fault you dodged my Masenko and ran right into the Kamehameha."

"I KNOW! But listen, this attack hurts a lot worse because it pushes her ki into your body where it causes residual damage. You can't regenerate, so I would have a supply of Senzu beans."

"Right"

"The other attack creates a cone of super heated plasma that shoots out of her hand. It will burn your skin right off if you are not careful. So watch it."

"Ok, any other attacks?"

"Yeah, she has a ki ball thing, but a Masenko blows it up and it never got close to me." Piccolo paused for a moment and then realized something. "Wait, we are forgetting her biggest threat. She still has her tail. When is the next full moon?"

Slip quickly called up a calendar and looked at it. "Um, the full moon is on Monday, so if memory serves the day before and after also have enough of a full moon to cause the Ouzaru transformation."

Piccolo nodded and replied, "If she shows up before Sunday, you could really be in for it. Oh, and as you may know, I have some of the first Piccolo's memories that my father thought were important. So let me tell you what to do when she gets to earth."

As Kami, Dende had absorbed all of Piccolo's memories when he died. Namekians could share memories through telepathy and both Piccolo (the 3rd) and Nail had learned Piccolo's fighting moves that way. Along with some other information.

"Saiyan tails grow back, so you have to remove her tail and then cauterize the wound so that it never grows back."

Slip butted in, "yeah, and bring me back her tail. That way I can analyze it and determine if she is really a Saiyan. This is a chance of a lifetime."

"Right, anyway, she usually keeps her tail tightly wrapped around her waist, so removing it could be a challenge. If you do manage to remove it, you will most definitely make her furious, so be prepared to fight."

"I will be"

Piccolo gave Roshi a 'don't be so sure about it' look and shook his head. "Well that is more or less all I have to tell you. Good luck."

"Ok thanks. When are you coming back to Earth?"

"I'll be back with Nail next month, I'll talk to you then."

"Ok thanks for the warning, later."

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Slip was almost done hooking up the monitors to him. She was happily humming a tune while doing it. Roshi thought about how that conversation had ended on Tuesday and couldn't keep from being worried. He was relieved that it had been a full year and one half since his last sparring match with Piccolo. He had gotten a lot stronger since then, but if she was a full blooded or even partial Saiyan, he could be in for the fight of his life.

Then again, while Piccolo's news hadn't been the greatest, it had given Roshi plenty to think about over the night. 'I hope she doesn't show up until after the full moon. She is looking for us for a reason. I still hope I won't have to fight her. The only sure fire way I know of that would force a fight would be if I was forced to rip her tail off of her.'

And what if she arrived Sunday night? There wouldn't be time to get rid of her tail before she went Ouzaru. It would be a total disaster. 'Please don't let her show up Sunday or Monday or Tuesday.'

"All done!" Slip cheerfully said as she connected on last wire to the suction cup thing on his back. Slip had been happy ever since Piccolo had suggested removing the girl's tail. Slip was keeping something from him... He didn't like it.

"Why are you so happy? Why does the possibility that this girl is a Saiyan make you so happy?

"Oh, you wouldn't understand."

"Try me"

"Well, it's too advanced for you."

"Slip, I have a higher GPA then you do, now tell me."

Slip gave him a look of pure venom and then decided that she could talk.

"I go to a harder school then you. But, I guess you MIGHT be able to understand. We, We as in Capsule Corp have never seen DNA from a Saiyan female. This could be a great chance to learn about our own genetics!"

"Uh, last time I checked you were a girl."

She looked at him with a funny expression and toyingly said "Oh, and just how did you Check?"

Roshi blushed a shade of crimson rarely found in nature. "Uh, You ah, have Boobs... they kinda cause your shirt to bulge out. There are guys in my class that would kill for a picture of you. Not to mention they like to talk about when you well, ah, have certain pieces of clothing on."

Slip hung out with Roshi enough that most all of his classmates had seen her in just about every state of dress that was socially acceptable. To say that she was beautiful was an understatement.

While, barley above average height, Slip had a supermodel's figure. Not only that, but it was a figure that she liked to flaunt as much as possible. She also had long flowing teal hair that was just a shade bluer and just a touch lighter then the original Bulma's. However, the most striking things about the girl were her huge eyes that shined like polished turquoise.

Since she and Roshi were actually quite distantly related, and did hang out quite a bit, a lot of the world's tabloids went out of their way to put the two together as a romantically involved couple.

The two of them spent plenty of time mocking those very tabloids. They were close, but far more along the lines of siblings then anything else. In fact, the thought of being romantically involved with Slip was rather sick to Roshi. Which is why he blushed so much when she stuck her chest into his face while asking him how he knew she was a girl.

"You are so boyishly bashful that it is really quite cute. Ya know that?" Slip giggled as she went back to turn a monitor on.

"Great, the only girl who finds me cute is my COUSIN!"

"That's not what I heard Mariah say the last time I talked to her. She things you're all that AND a four course meal." Slip laughed.

"Slip we are JUST FRIENDS!" Roshi yelled.

"Oh I know! You like Kit! You want a nice furry bed warmer to keep you all nice and toasty in the winter. Bet she'd curl up into a nice cozy ball right beside you."

"Slip that is degrading and racist. Would you please stop trying to marry me off to all my friends and just tell me why the thought of studying this Saiyan Girl's DNA is making you so giddy?"

"Fine. I don't know about Kit, but Mariah really does think you're hot."

"Slip!"

"Well you are, anyway, I have looked at my genetic code, and yours, and Boxer's, and my mother's. But all the full Saiyan samples are from either Goku, or Vegeta."

"Isn't it illegal to look at peoples genetic code with out their permission?"

"The samples were taken when you were a baby. Your Parents gave us permission."

"Oh, how nice of them... ah, so why is this girl's DNA so important?"

"Well as you know, humans have 23 pairs of Chromosomes. Each parent supplies half of each pair to create an offspring. So if you remember your Biology classes, each parent has half of the alleles for each gene and at maximum, a 25% chance of passing on a specific trait."

"Right, I remember Mendel's peas, and the stupid squares that we had to use to determine genotypes and stuff, so what." Roshi said as he realized that he had made the mistake of getting Slip talking about something scientific. She was going to talk his ear off now.

"Well you know that the 23 chromosome is either X or Y, determining sex right"

"Yes."

"And the Y is smaller and has less genes on it allowing for males to get some sex-linked problems such as color blindness.

"Yes." He said as thinking that maybe if he only answered yes, she would get to the point.

"Well, as you know, there are three specific Saiyan family lines now on earth. The Gohan III (Pan and Ubuu's son) + Chemise line which both of us are members, the Bikini family line which both Boxer and Tee are part of, and the descendents of the original Goten."

"Yes."

"If Bra had had children it would have been the only family line with a Saiyan X chromosome.

"Huh?"... IDIOT!!! Now she is going into a new rant...

"We have samples from all of those early Saiyans, the Saiyan X chromosome is even bigger then the human one, meaning they have some genetic traits that none of us show."

"Oh, I am beginning to see why this girl would be important to your studies, you want to get a sample of her DNA to see what possible good or bad traits all of us have or do not have. Right?"

PLEASE Dende make her shut up and let me train...

"Yes, but there is more. There are some other very important differences between Human and Saiyan genetics. To start with, both of us have 24 chromosomal pairs."

'What?' He thought, 'That shouldn't be possible.'

"Uh, Slip, if I remember right, something with 24 pairs shouldn't be able to have offspring with something with 23 pairs, the matings shouldn't work."

Slip winked at him. "Right and it wouldn't and shouldn't work, but it does."

"Why?"

'Note to self,' Roshi thought as soon as he had said the word why. 'NEVER ASK HER WHY YOU IDIOT!!!!'

"Saiyans have an extra chromosomal pair between what would be the 15th and 16th human chromosomes. Since all the other chromosomes pair up, Humans and Saiyans are genetically compatible. Thankfully Saiyans have a much higher regenerative ability then humans, or the offspring would have ended up sterile."

This intrigued Roshi, and since he actually didn't mind learning new stuff he decided he might as well get the most out of it. "Ok you lost me, care to say that again."

"We are not sure, but we believe that when the Zygote goes through mitosis, the extra Saiyan chromosome duplicates itself making a full paired chromosome."

'That would mean...'

"So if it duplicates itself, then it is the exact same set of genes being passed down generation after generation?" Roshi asked tentatively.

"Yep, essentially, you and I have the exact same Chromosomal pair in what we have labeled the Saiyan Chromosome."

"So in different words, even though we call ourselves cousins, you actually are genetically practically my sister."

"Well, no not exactly, because we have many different traits from different parentage in the other 23 chromosomes, but as far as what makes both of us think of ourselves as Saiyans, I guess you could say that we are very closely related."

"Right, and you have to call me cute."

"You still stuck on that? Well I happen to know several girls besides Mariah that think you're more than just cute. Maybe if she isn't good enough for you, you should ask one of them out." Slip said as she started giggling.

"Gee, thanks. Just don't call me cute. Especially after what we have just talked about, it gives me the willies."

"Hey its not as if you don't already treat me like a sister you never had."

"Ah yeah right," Roshi said as he desperately tried to think of a way to change the subject. This conversation was even worse then the other one. Hmmm, she was actually getting to the point with the other one. "Ya know, its really weird, you've studied this stuff and you never told me anything. What all have you figured out?"

"I figured out you don't like being teased about your multiple girlfriends!"

"Slip! For the last time, Mariah is just a friend. Possibly more but right now just a friend. And Kit isn't interested in me even if I was interested in her so just leaver her out of this."

Slip nodded. "Hmm probably good that. I was only teasing about you and her. It wouldn't work anyway."

"What are you talking about now?" Roshi asked perplexed.

"Well, I probably shouldn't be showing you this, but" Slip said as she started typing a long list of request codes and passwords.

Something popped up on the screen. Roshi looked at it long enough to realize it was the first page of Kit's medical records.

Not wanting to pry into her records Roshi glared at Slip. "Why do you have access to Kit's medical records?"

"Well technically, I don't. But Capsule Corp takes care of all the medical stuff for all the Vulpines living on Earth, so I just hacked into the database."

"Slip, that's illegal."

"Yeah, so, no one is going to find out."

"Slip, I found out. I am someone. I don't want to know anything about what is on those forms. If Kit or Mariah or anyone else I am friends with has a medical problem or anything else they can tell me about it. I don't feel right about using the trust people place on the Capsule Corp to go digging into their personal stuff." 'What could possibly be wrong with Kit?' Roshi wondered. 'She hates secrets. If there was anything important I would have thought she would have told us.'

"Fine, not that it matters, says here that Kit is a perfectly healthy young woman. I just wanted to show you her DNA footprint. Vulpines have 28 chromosomal pairs. They aren't genetically compatible with Humans or Saiyans for that matter."

Roshi suddenly had a lot of new insight into Kit. Kit went to dances, and social stuff. But her heart never seemed to be into it. 'I bet that is why she got so strange this past weekend. She saw Niko and Carge, and then Mariah and myself having so much fun as a couple and a quasy couple, and she felt left out. Literally left out.'

"That must really suck for her." Roshi said.

"Yeah, well, Saiyans would have been in an even worse boat. As far as we know, there are only about three other races out there that might be compatible with Saiyan genetics. And Humans seem to be the best of the lot.

"How long has Capsule Corp been studying this stuff?"

"Since Bulma's time. We have learned a lot and a lot of nothing at the same time. For instance, take the Super Saiyan transformation. We have no idea what actually causes it. We have determined which of these genes is responsible for the changes when one goes Super Saiyan, but we can't cause it to switch on in the lab."

"Why not?"

"Because it is essentially a rapid mutation. If we tried to do it with a living person, it would probably kill them, and when we do it to a single cell, it just explodes and we don't get any information."

"Ah, why isn't the gene already switched on? I mean, all of the people that those genes originally came from were Super Saiyans before they passed on the genes."

"We don't know. It seems that if conditions are not right, it reverts back to its original form."

"Interesting. Well you have me all hooked up, I guess I should go train. You might actually learn something from watching those monitors."

'YES the I can go train now!!! She's done talking!!!!'

"Right, and it will give you a chance to stop blushing like a CUTE rose every time I mention Mariah..." Slip broke out laughing hysterically.

Roshi just meekly left the room thinking of how stupid he had been to even get her on to either of those conversations. His mind was also stuck on the formations of a plan to "hook" Kit up. If she wanted to play matchmaker with Mariah and himself, he could return the favor.

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