Chapter Eleven: The Grand Matron's Warning
Kaykora and Bardock(who was unseen to anyone else) waited patiently in a room with everyone. Well with the exception Goku who had the misfortune of dealing with a birthing Chichi.
"GOKU!!! IF YOU EVER PUT ME THROUGH THIS..." Chichi could be heard screaming before a long intangible scream came from the delivery room. There was a few seconds of silence before a child's cries could be heard followed by Chichi muttering loudly something about he should be used to blood and such by now. That was followed by two petite nurses gingerly pulling Goku out of the delivery room. A sort of euphoric look was on his face that made everyone wonder if he was dazed, confused, dazed and confused, or just plain over-joyed.
A doctor came out and informed everyone that the delivery went well and Goku and Chichi were now the proud parents of a little boy. He allowed them each a few minutes to come in and visit with mother and child in small groups. Kaykora went in with Gohan and an unseen Bardock who gazed down at his tiny grandson with proud in his eyes.
"I'm glad I get to see him like this." Bardock spoke in telepathy to Kaykora.
"Beautiful isn't he? All tiny and stuff." She responded in the same fashion.
"Thank you Nanakia for this opportunity." He mused quietly. Kaykora's pendent flashed lightly and briefly as if Nanakia was speaking her piece on the matter. "I have been given a second chance to be with my family instead of watching them grow from some far off place."
Kaykora thought about this comment carefully for a moment when a brilliant idea dawned on her. "What if you could have a REAL second chance?" She mused as a smile crept over her face.
"What do you mean?" Bardock asked looking down on her with a confused expression.
"Ok time for the next group." A nurse chirped happily as she ushered Gohan and Kaykora out of the room. Kaykora sat down in a chair and continued to smile strangely.
"What if I wish you back with the Dragonballs? We'd have to clear it with Nanakia first and make sure with won't screw anything up, of course. But would you come back? Would you?" Kaykora responded excitedly trying to contain herself from everyone else.
"Aaahhh... What do you mean?" Bardock asked looking on her even more confused.
"The dragon of Earth can resurrect you if you can come back. Then you can actually be HERE with your family and interact with them. Wouldn't that be great?" Kaykora exclaimed even more excitedly as she squirmed slightly in her chair.
Bardock's eye widened and tears formed. "I would love it more than anything else in the universe." He choked out.
"Then come on!" With that Kaykora bolted up.
"I just remembered something really important! Gohan, do you think Goku and Chichi would mind me borrowing that Dragnball we found a while back? I might need it.
"No I don't think so..." He responded warily. "Why what's going on?"
"No time to explain. Tell you... Errr... show you later if it works out!" Kaykora exclaimed running down the hall.
Gohan sighed loudly and chased after her. "Bulma if they ask, I'm in the cafeteria. And try not to let Mom go looking for me."
"I swear those two just keep acting stranger and stranger. I'm just glad I was never THAT spontaneous and crazy when I was their age." Bulma said sighing and plopping her head in her hand. Tien and Yamcha looked at each other a second and laughed hysterically. Bulma went off the deep end and Gohan could hear her as he boarded the elevator on the other side of the building.
"Someone's in for it now." He thought to himself and sighed. "I just hope it's not Kaykora and I when we get back."
"So are you going to tell me why we just spent almost all day looking for the Dragonballs?" Gohan said in a half whine.
"Patience, Gohan I have to check something first." Kaykora responded with playful excitement. "Nanakia please come forth and speak with me!" She called out to the air. Within seconds Nanakia appeared in what now seemed to be her typically smoky entrance.
"Wish away." Was Nanakia's simple reply before Kaykora could even open her mouth.
"So it's ok?!" Kaykora exclaimed happily.
"Certainly. Gaia and I have worked things out with the higher ups and things are set you can make the wish and all will be well. In fact I already figured it in to the new timeline." Nanakia said with a slightly arrogant tone and a matching expression.
"You're awesome Nanakia!" Kaykora again exclaimed as she jumped up and embraced the now slightly bewildered deity.
The bewilderment quickly vanished and with a certain smugness Nanakia replied. "I know, I know. I'm only a goddess after all. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to work out some final details with Gaia." Nanakia said with a warm smile as Kaykora stepped back and she returned to her crystalline home.
Gohan looked on confusedly as Kaykora arranged the Dragonballs and summoned Shenlon. "Great and powerful Dragon. I wish for you to resurrect the Saiyan Bardock if it is within your power!"
"It is well within my power to grant this wish." The Dragon said it's grim beastly voice.
"My second wish is for you to then teleport him to this spot." Kaykora called out again.
"Your wishes have been granted." The dragon said again before it shrunk back into the balls and they disappeared. Kaykora turned around to see Gohan staring at Bardock in shock as Bardock looked at himself trying to see if it worked.
"Am I really alive?" He asked in disbelief.
"One way to find out." Kaykora responded with a smile. "Noh nika den onok!" She called and let rip and powerful ki blast. Bardock stuck out his hands and caught the blast and deflected it up into the air then blasted it. When the flash of the explosion ded down he looked at Kaykora wide-eyed then at Gohan. "It worked!" Kaykora exclaimed running over and hugging Bardock.
"Aaahhh... Someone want to tell me what's going on?" Gohan asked confused but his apprehension eased by Kaykora's act of affection toward the stranger.
"My name is Bardock, but you can call me Grandpa." He responded with a smile. Gohan's jaw dropped he stammered a few moments trying to process this overwhelming new development.
"Come on!" Kaykora said taking Gohan by the wrist and dragging him into the air. "We still have to introduce Goku to you Bardock." Bardock laughed and took Gohan's other hand and together they towed the bewildered boy back to the hospital.
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Kaykora looked out over the plain before her. In just a few weeks she would be out cold in Bulma's new contraption that with any hope would unlock her past. Her journal had been rendered useless in the battle with Cell. This was her last hope to find her father and save her people. The only bright spot had been her happy times spent with her now large family with her three brothers and two sets of parents and adopted "grandfather" Bardock. Not to mention her 20 + cousins and best friend Heroli. As she thought about this under her favorite tree nestled in the small valley she had come across months before.
Kaykora sat back deep in thought as she reclined against the tree. As she did an eerie vision entered her head. Darkness crept into her mind along with a foggy haze. Out of the haze emerged a figure, which Kaykora soon recognized. "Hello my soon to be pet." A shrill voice rang out. "You have eluded me long enough. I have finally gotten a lock on you and soon my minions will come to claim you for my army." The evil coldness said in a grimly excited way.
"Never. They'll never take me." Kaykora responded defiantly.
"Oh you are strong yes, that's why I want you. However, I have amassed and trained an elite force of five warriors very near your power to a retrieve you for me. Certainly you can destroy one with a bit of a tussle but five is most definitely beyond your capabilities." With that remark the Grand Matron laughed wildly her cold voice piercing Kaykora's heart.
"Never!" Kaykora screamed transforming simultaneously in her vision and real life. "I will never do your bidding! I will never allow you to corrupt me and force me to hurt those I love!!!" Kaykora shot at the Grand Matron who laughed wildly and disappeared before the blast reached her.
"Whoa! If you wanted to be alone you could have just said so. I would have understood." She heard Bardock say. Her eyes snapped open in time to see the dust from her attack die down.
"I have to go. I have to leave this place." She said gravely as she got up and started walking away.
"No, no I'll leave." Bardock said soothingly.
"Not this valley!" She snapped. "This world, this galaxy! I have to get as far away from here as possible."
"What's wrong?" Bardock said with concern as he pursued her.
"The Grand Matron has found me. She's sending a force of five warriors nearly as strong as me to bring me back to her. She plans on using me in her army to conquer the universe!" Kaykora fumed as she looked out over the lake. "I have to leave, I'm only putting you all in danger if I stay."
"Kaykora you forget that we are much stronger than you give us credit. In my stay here I've increased my power many times over. I never imagined I could achieve this kind of power. Not to mention you have an army of your own loyal and true. That's why you're here to begin with." Bardock said putting a hand on Kaykora's shoulder. "We're Saiyans, and Saiyans stick together. We've supported you so far and we're not going to back down now." Bardock said smiling.
Kaykora looked up and smiled at him. Tears welling up in her eyes as she realized no matter if she found her real father or not she would always have family here. "I'm going to summon the Goddess and see if she can give us a timeframe." Kaykora said hardening up and getting serious again. Bardock nodded in approval at the idea.
"Nanakia please come forth I really, really need you right now." Kaykora said with a slightly desperate tone.
Nanakia came forth in a fiery smoke laced entry. "This was not part of the plan!" She creamed stomping around wildly. "You were supposed to go to her not her come to you! And there was never meant to be any minions! Something is very wrong here and I intend to find out!" Nanakia said stopping and looking at Kaykora. "I'm sorry but it truly seems things have left my hands."
"It's ok for right now give me a timeframe how long do we have to train for this?" Kaykora said calmly.
"Let me get a fix on them." Nanakia said concentrating carefully. Her eyes widened and Kaykora and Bardock knew bad news was coming. "Three months if they don't stop." Nanakia said slumping over on the ground. "It wasn't supposed to be like this. I'm sorry Kaykora I never meant for you to have a death warrant. You have enough responsibility as it is... Now this... I'm sorry." Nanakia said quietly in a disheartened tone.
"It's ok. I'm not fighting this battle alone anymore." Kaykora said smiling at Bardock then putting a hand on the goddesses shoulder. "It'll be ok. Now you go back and give Hell to whoever is causing this mess." Nanakia looked up at Kaykora and nodded. She got up and disappeared in the same fiery blaze in which she came. Outside Kaykora beamed renewed confidence, on the inside she was falling into dark despair and fear.
Kaykora and Bardock(who was unseen to anyone else) waited patiently in a room with everyone. Well with the exception Goku who had the misfortune of dealing with a birthing Chichi.
"GOKU!!! IF YOU EVER PUT ME THROUGH THIS..." Chichi could be heard screaming before a long intangible scream came from the delivery room. There was a few seconds of silence before a child's cries could be heard followed by Chichi muttering loudly something about he should be used to blood and such by now. That was followed by two petite nurses gingerly pulling Goku out of the delivery room. A sort of euphoric look was on his face that made everyone wonder if he was dazed, confused, dazed and confused, or just plain over-joyed.
A doctor came out and informed everyone that the delivery went well and Goku and Chichi were now the proud parents of a little boy. He allowed them each a few minutes to come in and visit with mother and child in small groups. Kaykora went in with Gohan and an unseen Bardock who gazed down at his tiny grandson with proud in his eyes.
"I'm glad I get to see him like this." Bardock spoke in telepathy to Kaykora.
"Beautiful isn't he? All tiny and stuff." She responded in the same fashion.
"Thank you Nanakia for this opportunity." He mused quietly. Kaykora's pendent flashed lightly and briefly as if Nanakia was speaking her piece on the matter. "I have been given a second chance to be with my family instead of watching them grow from some far off place."
Kaykora thought about this comment carefully for a moment when a brilliant idea dawned on her. "What if you could have a REAL second chance?" She mused as a smile crept over her face.
"What do you mean?" Bardock asked looking down on her with a confused expression.
"Ok time for the next group." A nurse chirped happily as she ushered Gohan and Kaykora out of the room. Kaykora sat down in a chair and continued to smile strangely.
"What if I wish you back with the Dragonballs? We'd have to clear it with Nanakia first and make sure with won't screw anything up, of course. But would you come back? Would you?" Kaykora responded excitedly trying to contain herself from everyone else.
"Aaahhh... What do you mean?" Bardock asked looking on her even more confused.
"The dragon of Earth can resurrect you if you can come back. Then you can actually be HERE with your family and interact with them. Wouldn't that be great?" Kaykora exclaimed even more excitedly as she squirmed slightly in her chair.
Bardock's eye widened and tears formed. "I would love it more than anything else in the universe." He choked out.
"Then come on!" With that Kaykora bolted up.
"I just remembered something really important! Gohan, do you think Goku and Chichi would mind me borrowing that Dragnball we found a while back? I might need it.
"No I don't think so..." He responded warily. "Why what's going on?"
"No time to explain. Tell you... Errr... show you later if it works out!" Kaykora exclaimed running down the hall.
Gohan sighed loudly and chased after her. "Bulma if they ask, I'm in the cafeteria. And try not to let Mom go looking for me."
"I swear those two just keep acting stranger and stranger. I'm just glad I was never THAT spontaneous and crazy when I was their age." Bulma said sighing and plopping her head in her hand. Tien and Yamcha looked at each other a second and laughed hysterically. Bulma went off the deep end and Gohan could hear her as he boarded the elevator on the other side of the building.
"Someone's in for it now." He thought to himself and sighed. "I just hope it's not Kaykora and I when we get back."
"So are you going to tell me why we just spent almost all day looking for the Dragonballs?" Gohan said in a half whine.
"Patience, Gohan I have to check something first." Kaykora responded with playful excitement. "Nanakia please come forth and speak with me!" She called out to the air. Within seconds Nanakia appeared in what now seemed to be her typically smoky entrance.
"Wish away." Was Nanakia's simple reply before Kaykora could even open her mouth.
"So it's ok?!" Kaykora exclaimed happily.
"Certainly. Gaia and I have worked things out with the higher ups and things are set you can make the wish and all will be well. In fact I already figured it in to the new timeline." Nanakia said with a slightly arrogant tone and a matching expression.
"You're awesome Nanakia!" Kaykora again exclaimed as she jumped up and embraced the now slightly bewildered deity.
The bewilderment quickly vanished and with a certain smugness Nanakia replied. "I know, I know. I'm only a goddess after all. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to work out some final details with Gaia." Nanakia said with a warm smile as Kaykora stepped back and she returned to her crystalline home.
Gohan looked on confusedly as Kaykora arranged the Dragonballs and summoned Shenlon. "Great and powerful Dragon. I wish for you to resurrect the Saiyan Bardock if it is within your power!"
"It is well within my power to grant this wish." The Dragon said it's grim beastly voice.
"My second wish is for you to then teleport him to this spot." Kaykora called out again.
"Your wishes have been granted." The dragon said again before it shrunk back into the balls and they disappeared. Kaykora turned around to see Gohan staring at Bardock in shock as Bardock looked at himself trying to see if it worked.
"Am I really alive?" He asked in disbelief.
"One way to find out." Kaykora responded with a smile. "Noh nika den onok!" She called and let rip and powerful ki blast. Bardock stuck out his hands and caught the blast and deflected it up into the air then blasted it. When the flash of the explosion ded down he looked at Kaykora wide-eyed then at Gohan. "It worked!" Kaykora exclaimed running over and hugging Bardock.
"Aaahhh... Someone want to tell me what's going on?" Gohan asked confused but his apprehension eased by Kaykora's act of affection toward the stranger.
"My name is Bardock, but you can call me Grandpa." He responded with a smile. Gohan's jaw dropped he stammered a few moments trying to process this overwhelming new development.
"Come on!" Kaykora said taking Gohan by the wrist and dragging him into the air. "We still have to introduce Goku to you Bardock." Bardock laughed and took Gohan's other hand and together they towed the bewildered boy back to the hospital.
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Kaykora looked out over the plain before her. In just a few weeks she would be out cold in Bulma's new contraption that with any hope would unlock her past. Her journal had been rendered useless in the battle with Cell. This was her last hope to find her father and save her people. The only bright spot had been her happy times spent with her now large family with her three brothers and two sets of parents and adopted "grandfather" Bardock. Not to mention her 20 + cousins and best friend Heroli. As she thought about this under her favorite tree nestled in the small valley she had come across months before.
Kaykora sat back deep in thought as she reclined against the tree. As she did an eerie vision entered her head. Darkness crept into her mind along with a foggy haze. Out of the haze emerged a figure, which Kaykora soon recognized. "Hello my soon to be pet." A shrill voice rang out. "You have eluded me long enough. I have finally gotten a lock on you and soon my minions will come to claim you for my army." The evil coldness said in a grimly excited way.
"Never. They'll never take me." Kaykora responded defiantly.
"Oh you are strong yes, that's why I want you. However, I have amassed and trained an elite force of five warriors very near your power to a retrieve you for me. Certainly you can destroy one with a bit of a tussle but five is most definitely beyond your capabilities." With that remark the Grand Matron laughed wildly her cold voice piercing Kaykora's heart.
"Never!" Kaykora screamed transforming simultaneously in her vision and real life. "I will never do your bidding! I will never allow you to corrupt me and force me to hurt those I love!!!" Kaykora shot at the Grand Matron who laughed wildly and disappeared before the blast reached her.
"Whoa! If you wanted to be alone you could have just said so. I would have understood." She heard Bardock say. Her eyes snapped open in time to see the dust from her attack die down.
"I have to go. I have to leave this place." She said gravely as she got up and started walking away.
"No, no I'll leave." Bardock said soothingly.
"Not this valley!" She snapped. "This world, this galaxy! I have to get as far away from here as possible."
"What's wrong?" Bardock said with concern as he pursued her.
"The Grand Matron has found me. She's sending a force of five warriors nearly as strong as me to bring me back to her. She plans on using me in her army to conquer the universe!" Kaykora fumed as she looked out over the lake. "I have to leave, I'm only putting you all in danger if I stay."
"Kaykora you forget that we are much stronger than you give us credit. In my stay here I've increased my power many times over. I never imagined I could achieve this kind of power. Not to mention you have an army of your own loyal and true. That's why you're here to begin with." Bardock said putting a hand on Kaykora's shoulder. "We're Saiyans, and Saiyans stick together. We've supported you so far and we're not going to back down now." Bardock said smiling.
Kaykora looked up and smiled at him. Tears welling up in her eyes as she realized no matter if she found her real father or not she would always have family here. "I'm going to summon the Goddess and see if she can give us a timeframe." Kaykora said hardening up and getting serious again. Bardock nodded in approval at the idea.
"Nanakia please come forth I really, really need you right now." Kaykora said with a slightly desperate tone.
Nanakia came forth in a fiery smoke laced entry. "This was not part of the plan!" She creamed stomping around wildly. "You were supposed to go to her not her come to you! And there was never meant to be any minions! Something is very wrong here and I intend to find out!" Nanakia said stopping and looking at Kaykora. "I'm sorry but it truly seems things have left my hands."
"It's ok for right now give me a timeframe how long do we have to train for this?" Kaykora said calmly.
"Let me get a fix on them." Nanakia said concentrating carefully. Her eyes widened and Kaykora and Bardock knew bad news was coming. "Three months if they don't stop." Nanakia said slumping over on the ground. "It wasn't supposed to be like this. I'm sorry Kaykora I never meant for you to have a death warrant. You have enough responsibility as it is... Now this... I'm sorry." Nanakia said quietly in a disheartened tone.
"It's ok. I'm not fighting this battle alone anymore." Kaykora said smiling at Bardock then putting a hand on the goddesses shoulder. "It'll be ok. Now you go back and give Hell to whoever is causing this mess." Nanakia looked up at Kaykora and nodded. She got up and disappeared in the same fiery blaze in which she came. Outside Kaykora beamed renewed confidence, on the inside she was falling into dark despair and fear.