A/N: Once again, sorry about the long span of nothing. I've had a bad case of 'not in the mood to type-itis' for over a month, and just got a PS2 recently. Pure bliss, DBZ Bodokai has kept me busy the past few days. Anyway on with the story.
Chapter thirty-three - Farewells
Gohan, Goten, Trunks, Mirai, Vegeta, Hiroshi, Da'kar, Videl, and Shin all stood at the lookout's edge watching the Earth far below and the stars high above. Closing his eyes Gohan saw his father, and Piccolo, and Krillin all smiling down at him. /Don't worry Piccolo, Krillin, we'll get then Namek Dragonballs somehow. And we'll stop Glacier and Buu./
"We'd better be going." Hiroshi said at last. "We've got a long trip to New Vegeta ahead of us."
"I think we all have people to say good-bye to first." Gohan said looking from one person to the next. "Mom's going to be worried enough about Goten and I as it is."
"Not to mention my dad." Said Videl frowning a bit. "Though how exactly I'm going to explain that I'm going into space with a bunch of aliens to another world to help save the universe is beyond me."
"So you're sure you want to go?" Gohan asked.
"Of course. I'm not letting you go alone, someone has to keep an eye on you guys." she said with a smile.
Gohan looked down at her and smiled. They'd talked for over two hours, most of the time Gohan was explaining his life story to her. It was during that time that Gohan realized how much he really did care for her, and vice versa.
"That women's probably going nuts." Vegeta agreed lifting into the air.
"Alright." Hiroshi said. "Da'kar, the Supreme Kai, and I will head to our ship and get it started. The drives take a while to warm up anyway. Where should we pick you up at?"
"Capsule Corp." Vegeta said. "You can't miss it." and with that he, Trunks, and Mirai sped into the distance.
"Right then." Said Gohan. "Ready to see mom again Goten?"
"Yeah!"
"Gohan?" asked Videl. "Can I come with you?
"Hmm? Sure." She smiled as the three of them took off toward the Son home.
"Well then, shall we be going as well?" Hiroshi said lifting off with Da'kar and Shin following behind him.
Son Family Home:
"You okay Chi-Chi?" Yamcha asked sitting another basket of clothes down in the grass. He'd been asked by Ox King to come out and help, and keep an eye on Chi-Chi. Right now she was staring off into the sky.
"Huh? Yeah, I'm fine Yamcha." she sighed.
Yamcha was about to say something when he sensed a power signal coming. "Hey! It's Gohan!" He cried.
"Really? Where Yamcha?" He pointed and she, as well as the Ox King, turned to look. They could just make out three dots of light. "It looks like Goten and someone else is with him too. Oh, they're all right!" she cried as Gohan, Goten, and Videl landed in front of her.
"Mom!" Goten cried running over.
She hugged him. "Where've you two been? I was so worried!"
"Sorry mom." Gohan said. "We had a small problem after we left."
"Where's everyone else?" Yamcha asked.
Gohan looked at the ground for a second before saying anything. "Dad had to go back to Otherworld... Vegeta, Mirai, and Trunks are heading for Capsule Corp... Krillin, 18, and Piccolo didn't make it. Where's Marron?"
"Bulma took her home with her." Yamcha said.
Gohan nodded, then looked to his mom. "We came back to tell you we'll be gone for a while."
"Gone?" she asked.
"We have to go to New Namek, for the Dragonballs. So we can bring back Piccolo, Krillin, and 18. I know we could use Earth's Dragonballs for Piccolo, Dende is already on it, but we still need the Namekian ones for Krillin and 18."
"Oh, is that all... here I thought you were going to say you were going out to fight some unbeatable monster."
Gohan looked down at the ground again. "Well... We have to stop Majin Buu, he's the one that killed the others.... and New Namek's been taken over by someone else who wants us all dead..."
Chi-Chi just stared at Gohan for a moment, he could see the tears in her eyes, but she surprised him with what she said. "You keep an eye on Goten, okay? And don't you get yourself killed out there, got it?"
Her response shocked him for a moment before he nodded. "Sure mom." he said hugging her. "We'll be fine, and we'll come back. I promise."
Capsule Corp:
The three Sai-jin royals landed behind Capsule Corp., where they found Bulma and Dr. Briefs working on something large and familiar. "Is that... a time machine?" Mirai asked startling Bulma.
"Mirai, Trunks, Vegeta!" she cried happily.
"Yes, yes, woman, we're okay." he said with a slight smile, which seemed out of place to Bulma but a sight that Mirai and Trunks had grown used to over the last three months they'd spent in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. That still didn't prepare either of them for seeing Vegeta wrap his arms around Bulma and kiss her.
"Ewwwww!" Trunks cried looking away. "Gross!"
Mirai laughed as Bulma stared at Vegeta in shock. Finally she recovered her composure, "What's wrong with you Vegeta?" she asked putting her hand on his forehead. "You don't have a fever..."
"He's okay mom." Mirai said. "There was an... incident." and Mirai explained about what Majin Buu had done finishing up with, "and shortly after he told us he was awake again he made some kind of discovery, but refuses to tell us what it is. He's only saying that he's finally figured it out, exactly what it is I'm not sure..."
"Wow." said Bulma. "I suppose you're going to go after this Majin Buu, and Glacier?"
"Of course." Vegeta said.
Bulma sighed. "Be careful okay? All of you. And Mirai, I'll have this working when you get back... I know your world is gone but maybe you can still fix things..."
Mirai nodded as Trunks gave Bulma a hug. "Thanks..."
Vegeta turned and looked skyward... "Now where's Hiroshi and Kakkarotto's brats?"
Satan City, Hercule's Mansion:
Videl, Gohan, and Goten landed outside the front door and looked around. After hesitating a moment she opened the door and stepped inside. "Dad?! Are you here?" she called.
Gohan and Goten looked around in awe at the large and decorated room they had entered. "This is amazing." Gohan said looking around.
"Videl?" Came Hercule's voice from a room off to the side. The three of them walked over to the doorway and looked inside. It was a large training room with weights and punching bags. Hercule was setting a dumbbell back in it's cradle and starting to sit up. "Where have you been? I was.." that's when he saw Gohan and Goten. "Who are they?"
"Friends." she said.
"Oh, and I suppose you spent the night with him huh?"
"No, it's not like that." Gohan said blushing.
"Look, Videl, you know what I said about you dating. Anyone you date has to be as strong as I am."
Videl and Gohan glanced at each other for a moment. "Dad, you saw the tournament yesterday."
"Yeah, nothing but a bunch of light show and trick users." he said. "I mean, people can't fly or shot light from their hands."
"You saw Videl's match." Gohan said.
At that Hercule froze. "He's right dad." Videl said. "Those aren't tricks."
"Of course they are!"
Videl closed her eyes and sighed. Then slowly she began to lift into the air until she was floating at eye level with Hercule. "See, it's not tricks." she said before landing.
"How... how'd you do that?!"
"I'll explain later dad, I don't have time now. I just came to tell you not to worry about me. I'm going away for a while, with Gohan, Goten, and some of their friends."
"What?! Where are you going?!"
"It's hard to explain dad... Just... Don't worry about me okay?" she said turning around toward Gohan and Goten. "Come on guys, let's go." she said walking past the two of them. They stared at her for a moment before following her out the front door.
Hercule followed them, and as he stepped outside he watched them fly away. /What's going on? This doesn't make any sense.... I've got to follow her, who knows who those guys are!/
Capsule Corp:
It was a few moments later as Videl, Gohan, and Goten landed at Capsule Corp. where the others still waited. "What took so long?" Vegeta asked.
"Sorry, a bit of trouble convincing Hercule Videl would be okay." Gohan said. "Any sign of Hiroshi yet?"
"Um, guys!" Bulma yelled. "You have to see this!" she said bringing out a small T.V. and showing them. On screen was the image of a large, gray, spherical ship moving over the city.
"That must be Hiroshi's ship." Mirai said. "How close is it?"
"Almost here." Bulma said as a shadow began to cover the courtyard. The group looked up as the large sphere blocked out the sun. "Amazing... it's got to be at least a mile in diameter!"
As the ship stopped overhead of them stream of red light came down and landed in front of them. "Is everyone ready?" Da'kar asked. They all nodded. "Good, follow me."
Hercule stopped his air car and stared up at the huge ship floating over capsule corp. "Amazing! They sure come up with some cool stuff there... Hey! That's them!" he cried as Gohan and the others flew up past him a few yards away. He reached down into a compartment and pulled out a small capsule before depressing it's tab. An instant later there was a small jet pack on his passenger seat. Quickly he put it on, set his air car on auto pilot to fly back to his house, and then used the jet pack to fly up toward the ship. "I don't know why I didn't think of this before!" he said with a big smile. "This must be how they do it, just with much smaller models."
***
"Damn, that hurts." a voice said painfully as it's owner came to at last. She looked down at her body and saw the source of the pain, her left arm was completely missing. "Oh, that's great." she winced trying to sit up. Once she was finally upright she looked down at her side where the newest surge of pain had come from only to find a huge gash, and her metal ribs poking out.
"Luckily the organ stuff was cauterized by whatever attack did this. Let's see how much of this I can fix." She closed her eyes and began to concentrate. After a moment she opened them and looked down again. She could still see her metal ribs poking out, but the organic stuff was somewhat healed.
Slowly, and painfully, she climbed to her feet and looked around. Off in the distance, about a hundred yards off, she saw Mainframe. "He looks even shittier than I do." she said with a laugh as she saw his missing legs and cracked head. "Ouch." she winced looking at the damage to his head. Bending down she used her healing powers to fix his fractured head but, as with her arm and torn abdomen, she couldn't fix him completely.
"We must have cat DNA in us." she said slinging him over her right shoulder. "Nothing seems to kill us, does it? But what the hell do we do about our damaged bodies? There's no way our powers could fix us, no matter how hard we tried. We need someone with technical no how, and resources." She sighed looking up into space, suddenly wishing they hadn't killed Gero. Sure, he'd been a total ass and control freak but...
"Of course! Bulma Briefs! Well bro, looks like we're heading to Capsule Corp."
Chapter thirty-three - Farewells
Gohan, Goten, Trunks, Mirai, Vegeta, Hiroshi, Da'kar, Videl, and Shin all stood at the lookout's edge watching the Earth far below and the stars high above. Closing his eyes Gohan saw his father, and Piccolo, and Krillin all smiling down at him. /Don't worry Piccolo, Krillin, we'll get then Namek Dragonballs somehow. And we'll stop Glacier and Buu./
"We'd better be going." Hiroshi said at last. "We've got a long trip to New Vegeta ahead of us."
"I think we all have people to say good-bye to first." Gohan said looking from one person to the next. "Mom's going to be worried enough about Goten and I as it is."
"Not to mention my dad." Said Videl frowning a bit. "Though how exactly I'm going to explain that I'm going into space with a bunch of aliens to another world to help save the universe is beyond me."
"So you're sure you want to go?" Gohan asked.
"Of course. I'm not letting you go alone, someone has to keep an eye on you guys." she said with a smile.
Gohan looked down at her and smiled. They'd talked for over two hours, most of the time Gohan was explaining his life story to her. It was during that time that Gohan realized how much he really did care for her, and vice versa.
"That women's probably going nuts." Vegeta agreed lifting into the air.
"Alright." Hiroshi said. "Da'kar, the Supreme Kai, and I will head to our ship and get it started. The drives take a while to warm up anyway. Where should we pick you up at?"
"Capsule Corp." Vegeta said. "You can't miss it." and with that he, Trunks, and Mirai sped into the distance.
"Right then." Said Gohan. "Ready to see mom again Goten?"
"Yeah!"
"Gohan?" asked Videl. "Can I come with you?
"Hmm? Sure." She smiled as the three of them took off toward the Son home.
"Well then, shall we be going as well?" Hiroshi said lifting off with Da'kar and Shin following behind him.
Son Family Home:
"You okay Chi-Chi?" Yamcha asked sitting another basket of clothes down in the grass. He'd been asked by Ox King to come out and help, and keep an eye on Chi-Chi. Right now she was staring off into the sky.
"Huh? Yeah, I'm fine Yamcha." she sighed.
Yamcha was about to say something when he sensed a power signal coming. "Hey! It's Gohan!" He cried.
"Really? Where Yamcha?" He pointed and she, as well as the Ox King, turned to look. They could just make out three dots of light. "It looks like Goten and someone else is with him too. Oh, they're all right!" she cried as Gohan, Goten, and Videl landed in front of her.
"Mom!" Goten cried running over.
She hugged him. "Where've you two been? I was so worried!"
"Sorry mom." Gohan said. "We had a small problem after we left."
"Where's everyone else?" Yamcha asked.
Gohan looked at the ground for a second before saying anything. "Dad had to go back to Otherworld... Vegeta, Mirai, and Trunks are heading for Capsule Corp... Krillin, 18, and Piccolo didn't make it. Where's Marron?"
"Bulma took her home with her." Yamcha said.
Gohan nodded, then looked to his mom. "We came back to tell you we'll be gone for a while."
"Gone?" she asked.
"We have to go to New Namek, for the Dragonballs. So we can bring back Piccolo, Krillin, and 18. I know we could use Earth's Dragonballs for Piccolo, Dende is already on it, but we still need the Namekian ones for Krillin and 18."
"Oh, is that all... here I thought you were going to say you were going out to fight some unbeatable monster."
Gohan looked down at the ground again. "Well... We have to stop Majin Buu, he's the one that killed the others.... and New Namek's been taken over by someone else who wants us all dead..."
Chi-Chi just stared at Gohan for a moment, he could see the tears in her eyes, but she surprised him with what she said. "You keep an eye on Goten, okay? And don't you get yourself killed out there, got it?"
Her response shocked him for a moment before he nodded. "Sure mom." he said hugging her. "We'll be fine, and we'll come back. I promise."
Capsule Corp:
The three Sai-jin royals landed behind Capsule Corp., where they found Bulma and Dr. Briefs working on something large and familiar. "Is that... a time machine?" Mirai asked startling Bulma.
"Mirai, Trunks, Vegeta!" she cried happily.
"Yes, yes, woman, we're okay." he said with a slight smile, which seemed out of place to Bulma but a sight that Mirai and Trunks had grown used to over the last three months they'd spent in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. That still didn't prepare either of them for seeing Vegeta wrap his arms around Bulma and kiss her.
"Ewwwww!" Trunks cried looking away. "Gross!"
Mirai laughed as Bulma stared at Vegeta in shock. Finally she recovered her composure, "What's wrong with you Vegeta?" she asked putting her hand on his forehead. "You don't have a fever..."
"He's okay mom." Mirai said. "There was an... incident." and Mirai explained about what Majin Buu had done finishing up with, "and shortly after he told us he was awake again he made some kind of discovery, but refuses to tell us what it is. He's only saying that he's finally figured it out, exactly what it is I'm not sure..."
"Wow." said Bulma. "I suppose you're going to go after this Majin Buu, and Glacier?"
"Of course." Vegeta said.
Bulma sighed. "Be careful okay? All of you. And Mirai, I'll have this working when you get back... I know your world is gone but maybe you can still fix things..."
Mirai nodded as Trunks gave Bulma a hug. "Thanks..."
Vegeta turned and looked skyward... "Now where's Hiroshi and Kakkarotto's brats?"
Satan City, Hercule's Mansion:
Videl, Gohan, and Goten landed outside the front door and looked around. After hesitating a moment she opened the door and stepped inside. "Dad?! Are you here?" she called.
Gohan and Goten looked around in awe at the large and decorated room they had entered. "This is amazing." Gohan said looking around.
"Videl?" Came Hercule's voice from a room off to the side. The three of them walked over to the doorway and looked inside. It was a large training room with weights and punching bags. Hercule was setting a dumbbell back in it's cradle and starting to sit up. "Where have you been? I was.." that's when he saw Gohan and Goten. "Who are they?"
"Friends." she said.
"Oh, and I suppose you spent the night with him huh?"
"No, it's not like that." Gohan said blushing.
"Look, Videl, you know what I said about you dating. Anyone you date has to be as strong as I am."
Videl and Gohan glanced at each other for a moment. "Dad, you saw the tournament yesterday."
"Yeah, nothing but a bunch of light show and trick users." he said. "I mean, people can't fly or shot light from their hands."
"You saw Videl's match." Gohan said.
At that Hercule froze. "He's right dad." Videl said. "Those aren't tricks."
"Of course they are!"
Videl closed her eyes and sighed. Then slowly she began to lift into the air until she was floating at eye level with Hercule. "See, it's not tricks." she said before landing.
"How... how'd you do that?!"
"I'll explain later dad, I don't have time now. I just came to tell you not to worry about me. I'm going away for a while, with Gohan, Goten, and some of their friends."
"What?! Where are you going?!"
"It's hard to explain dad... Just... Don't worry about me okay?" she said turning around toward Gohan and Goten. "Come on guys, let's go." she said walking past the two of them. They stared at her for a moment before following her out the front door.
Hercule followed them, and as he stepped outside he watched them fly away. /What's going on? This doesn't make any sense.... I've got to follow her, who knows who those guys are!/
Capsule Corp:
It was a few moments later as Videl, Gohan, and Goten landed at Capsule Corp. where the others still waited. "What took so long?" Vegeta asked.
"Sorry, a bit of trouble convincing Hercule Videl would be okay." Gohan said. "Any sign of Hiroshi yet?"
"Um, guys!" Bulma yelled. "You have to see this!" she said bringing out a small T.V. and showing them. On screen was the image of a large, gray, spherical ship moving over the city.
"That must be Hiroshi's ship." Mirai said. "How close is it?"
"Almost here." Bulma said as a shadow began to cover the courtyard. The group looked up as the large sphere blocked out the sun. "Amazing... it's got to be at least a mile in diameter!"
As the ship stopped overhead of them stream of red light came down and landed in front of them. "Is everyone ready?" Da'kar asked. They all nodded. "Good, follow me."
Hercule stopped his air car and stared up at the huge ship floating over capsule corp. "Amazing! They sure come up with some cool stuff there... Hey! That's them!" he cried as Gohan and the others flew up past him a few yards away. He reached down into a compartment and pulled out a small capsule before depressing it's tab. An instant later there was a small jet pack on his passenger seat. Quickly he put it on, set his air car on auto pilot to fly back to his house, and then used the jet pack to fly up toward the ship. "I don't know why I didn't think of this before!" he said with a big smile. "This must be how they do it, just with much smaller models."
***
"Damn, that hurts." a voice said painfully as it's owner came to at last. She looked down at her body and saw the source of the pain, her left arm was completely missing. "Oh, that's great." she winced trying to sit up. Once she was finally upright she looked down at her side where the newest surge of pain had come from only to find a huge gash, and her metal ribs poking out.
"Luckily the organ stuff was cauterized by whatever attack did this. Let's see how much of this I can fix." She closed her eyes and began to concentrate. After a moment she opened them and looked down again. She could still see her metal ribs poking out, but the organic stuff was somewhat healed.
Slowly, and painfully, she climbed to her feet and looked around. Off in the distance, about a hundred yards off, she saw Mainframe. "He looks even shittier than I do." she said with a laugh as she saw his missing legs and cracked head. "Ouch." she winced looking at the damage to his head. Bending down she used her healing powers to fix his fractured head but, as with her arm and torn abdomen, she couldn't fix him completely.
"We must have cat DNA in us." she said slinging him over her right shoulder. "Nothing seems to kill us, does it? But what the hell do we do about our damaged bodies? There's no way our powers could fix us, no matter how hard we tried. We need someone with technical no how, and resources." She sighed looking up into space, suddenly wishing they hadn't killed Gero. Sure, he'd been a total ass and control freak but...
"Of course! Bulma Briefs! Well bro, looks like we're heading to Capsule Corp."