In an Instant
Part 7
The King's new Groove (and it is UGLY!)
Disclaimer: Go elsewhere for it. I don't want to type it, and you probably don't want to read it.
ENJOY!
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Trunks gave a delighted giggle at his grandfather's now polka dotted and stripped hot pink and black hair. The king's eye was twitching madly, and he was struggling madly to get loose. It was such a pity that the ropes they were using were of Bulma's make, strong enough to hold Vegita in first level Super Saiya-Jin. Bulma gave the king a wicked grin, and turned to her mate.
::You want to let me go, Vegita.:: She smirked. ::You know you do.::
::Not really, Onna.:: He smirked. ::I want to kill my father. It wouldn't do for you to do it. People would think I was weak.::
::But 'Geta!:: She whined.
::NO.:: He stated flatly. ::Now let's get some sleep. We can finish his embarrassment tomorrow.::
::Oh, all right. If we have to.:: She sighed in defeat and nuzzled his neck. ::Tomorrow then.::
"Come, brat. We going to bed. The king wants to stay up late." Vegita smirked. Trunks gave a wicked grin, nodded, and followed his parents from the room.
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The next day dawned bright and far too early for Bardock. It had begun with his youngest grandson bouncing cheerfully on his stomach chanting, "Wakey, wakey, wakey!" Though he only got up when it became apparent that the boy was NOT going away and was NOT going to bother anyone else.
"Go AWAY brat." He snapped. Goten's lip quivered.
"Don't you love me anymore? I thought you loved me!" Tears sparkled in his big black eyes and Bardock's scowl melted before it even touched his face.
"Of course I love you Goten," He told the boy, "but I wanted some more sleep." Goten's tears disappeared instantly and he smiled.
"Yay! Grandpa still loves me!" The little boy cried, hugging the Saiya-Jin warrior. Not even Bardock could stop a smile.
"Now, go wake up every one else. I'm hungry and if I have to be up, so do they." He ruffled the boy's hair fondly and smiled.
"Okay, but you get to wake up Gohan. He doesn't like me when I wake him up." Gotan told his Grandpa with a short nod.
"All right, deal." He agreed and the two left the room.
And that was how he came to be in his current predicament. Which was being held up by his throat, unable to breath, because Gohan was half awake and thought he was an evil space critter out to kill them all. Well, he got the space part right, anyway.
"Gohan! I'm your Grandfather! I'm not out to rule the universe and I'm NOT trying to kill you!" Bardock managed to croak out. He was ready to pass out from lack of oxygen. Luckily for the hapless Saiya-Jin, Goku walked in on the little fiasco and pried Gohan's hands off Bardock's neck, and dumped a pitcher of cold water over his son.
Gohan woke up with a yelp, then blinked stupidly at the two men. "What are you doing in here?"
"Trying NOT to get myself killed." Bardock muttered with a scowl. "You tried to kill me."
"Really? Huh. Didn't Goten tell you not to wake me up like that?" He asked with a frown.
"No." Bardock shook his head. Gohan shrugged and walked out leaving the older two to look at him then each other. One with a knowing look, one unbelievably confused.
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Sometime later, the group of Saiya-Jins wandered up to the palace. They were stopped by the palace guard and Goku sighed. "Look. I know you are doing your jobs, but I'm here to talk to Vegita and the king. Well, maybe not the king, but I know Vegita at any rate. Let us through."
"And if I don't let you?" The guard pressed.
"Then I'll tell Vegita and He'll make you." Goku sighed.
"I don't believe you." The guard snapped.
::Hey, Vegita? Can you tell this idiot of a guard to let us in? He doesn't believe I know you.::
::Kakarotto? Why are you here so early?:: Vegita yawned, still not quite awake.
::Chichi wants to behead your father with her frying pan.:: Goku shrugged. ::And Goten wanted to dye his hair.::
::All right, all right. Give me ten minuets.:: The Saiya-Jin prince muttered with a second yawn.
::Kay! Thanks!::
::You are WAY to cheerful.:: Vegita snapped, cutting the connection.
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True to his word, the prince appeared at the gates to the palace exactly ten minuets later. He was cranky and annoyed, yes, but he was there. "What do you want, Kakarotto?" He snapped, giving Goku his typical "Glare-of-Slow-and-Painful-Death" and slamming the gates open.
"He wouldn't let us in. I told you that earlier, remember?" Goku rubbed the back of his head. Vegita shrugged and motioned them into the palace, closing the gates loudly behind him.
"Hey, Goku!" Bulma grinned, walking into the room. "Who are all these people?" She gestured behind the tall Saiya-Jin warrior.
"Huh? Oh! Well, the one is my father, I think you can guess who he is, and the female Saiya-Jin is Celipia and the other one is Toma." Goku turned to make sure he got everyone, then nodded proudly. "That's all of them!"
Behind him, Celipia turned to Bardock. "Your son, a THIRD CLASS, is on a first name basis with the ENTIRE royal family?" She gaped.
Bardock shrugged. "Apparently, though I wasn't aware that it was a regular basis."
"Of course. The baka is to stupid to do it only part of the time." Vegita gave a snort.
"Why else would I allow him to do it?"
"Because you know my Otousan can kick your ass?" Little Goten sent the prince the Son Grin. Vegita glared at the boy.
"SHUT UP, BRAT!" He snapped. Goten grinned. Chichi twitched and before anyone could blink two extremely loud KA-BONG's reverberated through the castle.
"OW! Okassan! What was that for?" Goten howled, clutching his head where the frying pan had landed.
"For cursing." She snapped. "And Vegita's was for living."
"Pardon me, woman, for not upholding your standards." He sneered, rubbing his head. There was another large ka-bong, only it was Bulma this time, leaving Vegita to rub a second lump on top of the first. He scowled at his mate and she gave a sweet smile. Muttering things about being a certain time of the month, he led the group to the throne room.
Erase and Sharpner hung back behind the group, shaking in fear, when Gohan spotted them. They were still a little freaked out by the whole "Gohan is half-alien and they have to go save the world from vicious Saiya-Jins" thing.
"Hey, you guys, what's up? You look scared." He smiled.
"NO!" Sharpner said sarcastically. "We only find out you're a half-alien and then you drag us to another planet to get a treaty signed only to find out they don't LIKE us and want out hides!"
Gohan shrugged. "So? It's the same thing that happened every where else that I've been. Why should my father's home planet be any different?"
"Every where else?" The blonde teens gaped at the demi Saiya-Jin. "What do you mean, 'Every where else'?"
"Well, first it was Radditz, he kidnapped me, as you know; then there was Vegita, he wanted to kill me too at one point; and then there was Freeza on Namek-sei but I think that was a race sorta thing when he wanted to kill me, I don't think it was anything personal anyway; and then there was Cell, and that was kinda more cuz my tousan, though; and then there was Buu. And that was another one of those 'let's destroy Earth people' but he was still evil." Gohan frowned. "I think that was every one... Oh, wait! Nope! I forgot Juuhachi! She tried to kill us too! Heh, silly me."
"And you don't have a problem with this?" Erase raised an eye brow.
"Naw! We all have our reasons to fight! Granted my uncle's was the dumbest, but still..." Gohan merely shrugged and continued towards the palace.
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(A/N) I live! *cheers* So, now that I finally got the chapter that's been sitting done, on disk, for the past three weeks out, do you think you could review? They make me type faster!
Kakarotto: Liar.
Lady Foeseeker: Shut up! They don't have to know that!
Kakarotto: *snickers* whatever.
Lady Foeseeker: Knocks him with a frying pan. Review, please?
Part 7
The King's new Groove (and it is UGLY!)
Disclaimer: Go elsewhere for it. I don't want to type it, and you probably don't want to read it.
ENJOY!
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Trunks gave a delighted giggle at his grandfather's now polka dotted and stripped hot pink and black hair. The king's eye was twitching madly, and he was struggling madly to get loose. It was such a pity that the ropes they were using were of Bulma's make, strong enough to hold Vegita in first level Super Saiya-Jin. Bulma gave the king a wicked grin, and turned to her mate.
::You want to let me go, Vegita.:: She smirked. ::You know you do.::
::Not really, Onna.:: He smirked. ::I want to kill my father. It wouldn't do for you to do it. People would think I was weak.::
::But 'Geta!:: She whined.
::NO.:: He stated flatly. ::Now let's get some sleep. We can finish his embarrassment tomorrow.::
::Oh, all right. If we have to.:: She sighed in defeat and nuzzled his neck. ::Tomorrow then.::
"Come, brat. We going to bed. The king wants to stay up late." Vegita smirked. Trunks gave a wicked grin, nodded, and followed his parents from the room.
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The next day dawned bright and far too early for Bardock. It had begun with his youngest grandson bouncing cheerfully on his stomach chanting, "Wakey, wakey, wakey!" Though he only got up when it became apparent that the boy was NOT going away and was NOT going to bother anyone else.
"Go AWAY brat." He snapped. Goten's lip quivered.
"Don't you love me anymore? I thought you loved me!" Tears sparkled in his big black eyes and Bardock's scowl melted before it even touched his face.
"Of course I love you Goten," He told the boy, "but I wanted some more sleep." Goten's tears disappeared instantly and he smiled.
"Yay! Grandpa still loves me!" The little boy cried, hugging the Saiya-Jin warrior. Not even Bardock could stop a smile.
"Now, go wake up every one else. I'm hungry and if I have to be up, so do they." He ruffled the boy's hair fondly and smiled.
"Okay, but you get to wake up Gohan. He doesn't like me when I wake him up." Gotan told his Grandpa with a short nod.
"All right, deal." He agreed and the two left the room.
And that was how he came to be in his current predicament. Which was being held up by his throat, unable to breath, because Gohan was half awake and thought he was an evil space critter out to kill them all. Well, he got the space part right, anyway.
"Gohan! I'm your Grandfather! I'm not out to rule the universe and I'm NOT trying to kill you!" Bardock managed to croak out. He was ready to pass out from lack of oxygen. Luckily for the hapless Saiya-Jin, Goku walked in on the little fiasco and pried Gohan's hands off Bardock's neck, and dumped a pitcher of cold water over his son.
Gohan woke up with a yelp, then blinked stupidly at the two men. "What are you doing in here?"
"Trying NOT to get myself killed." Bardock muttered with a scowl. "You tried to kill me."
"Really? Huh. Didn't Goten tell you not to wake me up like that?" He asked with a frown.
"No." Bardock shook his head. Gohan shrugged and walked out leaving the older two to look at him then each other. One with a knowing look, one unbelievably confused.
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Sometime later, the group of Saiya-Jins wandered up to the palace. They were stopped by the palace guard and Goku sighed. "Look. I know you are doing your jobs, but I'm here to talk to Vegita and the king. Well, maybe not the king, but I know Vegita at any rate. Let us through."
"And if I don't let you?" The guard pressed.
"Then I'll tell Vegita and He'll make you." Goku sighed.
"I don't believe you." The guard snapped.
::Hey, Vegita? Can you tell this idiot of a guard to let us in? He doesn't believe I know you.::
::Kakarotto? Why are you here so early?:: Vegita yawned, still not quite awake.
::Chichi wants to behead your father with her frying pan.:: Goku shrugged. ::And Goten wanted to dye his hair.::
::All right, all right. Give me ten minuets.:: The Saiya-Jin prince muttered with a second yawn.
::Kay! Thanks!::
::You are WAY to cheerful.:: Vegita snapped, cutting the connection.
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True to his word, the prince appeared at the gates to the palace exactly ten minuets later. He was cranky and annoyed, yes, but he was there. "What do you want, Kakarotto?" He snapped, giving Goku his typical "Glare-of-Slow-and-Painful-Death" and slamming the gates open.
"He wouldn't let us in. I told you that earlier, remember?" Goku rubbed the back of his head. Vegita shrugged and motioned them into the palace, closing the gates loudly behind him.
"Hey, Goku!" Bulma grinned, walking into the room. "Who are all these people?" She gestured behind the tall Saiya-Jin warrior.
"Huh? Oh! Well, the one is my father, I think you can guess who he is, and the female Saiya-Jin is Celipia and the other one is Toma." Goku turned to make sure he got everyone, then nodded proudly. "That's all of them!"
Behind him, Celipia turned to Bardock. "Your son, a THIRD CLASS, is on a first name basis with the ENTIRE royal family?" She gaped.
Bardock shrugged. "Apparently, though I wasn't aware that it was a regular basis."
"Of course. The baka is to stupid to do it only part of the time." Vegita gave a snort.
"Why else would I allow him to do it?"
"Because you know my Otousan can kick your ass?" Little Goten sent the prince the Son Grin. Vegita glared at the boy.
"SHUT UP, BRAT!" He snapped. Goten grinned. Chichi twitched and before anyone could blink two extremely loud KA-BONG's reverberated through the castle.
"OW! Okassan! What was that for?" Goten howled, clutching his head where the frying pan had landed.
"For cursing." She snapped. "And Vegita's was for living."
"Pardon me, woman, for not upholding your standards." He sneered, rubbing his head. There was another large ka-bong, only it was Bulma this time, leaving Vegita to rub a second lump on top of the first. He scowled at his mate and she gave a sweet smile. Muttering things about being a certain time of the month, he led the group to the throne room.
Erase and Sharpner hung back behind the group, shaking in fear, when Gohan spotted them. They were still a little freaked out by the whole "Gohan is half-alien and they have to go save the world from vicious Saiya-Jins" thing.
"Hey, you guys, what's up? You look scared." He smiled.
"NO!" Sharpner said sarcastically. "We only find out you're a half-alien and then you drag us to another planet to get a treaty signed only to find out they don't LIKE us and want out hides!"
Gohan shrugged. "So? It's the same thing that happened every where else that I've been. Why should my father's home planet be any different?"
"Every where else?" The blonde teens gaped at the demi Saiya-Jin. "What do you mean, 'Every where else'?"
"Well, first it was Radditz, he kidnapped me, as you know; then there was Vegita, he wanted to kill me too at one point; and then there was Freeza on Namek-sei but I think that was a race sorta thing when he wanted to kill me, I don't think it was anything personal anyway; and then there was Cell, and that was kinda more cuz my tousan, though; and then there was Buu. And that was another one of those 'let's destroy Earth people' but he was still evil." Gohan frowned. "I think that was every one... Oh, wait! Nope! I forgot Juuhachi! She tried to kill us too! Heh, silly me."
"And you don't have a problem with this?" Erase raised an eye brow.
"Naw! We all have our reasons to fight! Granted my uncle's was the dumbest, but still..." Gohan merely shrugged and continued towards the palace.
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(A/N) I live! *cheers* So, now that I finally got the chapter that's been sitting done, on disk, for the past three weeks out, do you think you could review? They make me type faster!
Kakarotto: Liar.
Lady Foeseeker: Shut up! They don't have to know that!
Kakarotto: *snickers* whatever.
Lady Foeseeker: Knocks him with a frying pan. Review, please?