LilAngelLady: I in no way shape or form own rights to Dragonball Z nor am I affiliated with its creator, producers, or distributors and all that jazz.

Vegeta: That's it? That's the disclaimer? I'm ashamed to be part of a fic with a disclaimer that utterly boring.

LilAngelLady: You think you could do better?

Vegeta: Of course I AM the Prince of all Saiyans! (LilAngelLady mocks Veggie during this sentence) Hey! Stop that or you'll regret ever allowing me to set foot in this ridiculous rubbish!

LilAngelLady: I'll get Kaykora on you if you try anything... She is MY character after all...

Vegeta: I despise you...

Chapter 25: Internal Dissent is Just the Beginning

"Have you heard what's coming out of the palace?" An older Saiyan woman gossiped to an equally old Archesaiya woman.

"No what?" Se replied anxiously.

"Well I heard that the Queen Kaykora has abandoned her duties to train all day and she isn't tending to Council meetings like she should. I also heard that she's gotten very close and comfy with a low rank country boy!" The Saiyan gossiped.

"What do the Council of Elders have to say about all this?"

"They're outraged! This goes against everything that is traditional for a Queen to do! For course her Father WAS an ex-mercenary no less! And they crowned him King! It's ridiculous!"

"It is! I hope that the Council does something about it soon! Before things get out off hand! Although, I must admit things have been going much better since the Queen returned. We have been safe and we'll continue to be safe now that the Grand Matron is dead."

"I don't know... This rash of slacking may throw everything off. Without a strong leader we're not a strong kingdom."

"Perhaps... Perhaps..." The Archesaiya replied walking away. The Saiyan snickered. She was doing her job and she was doing it well.

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"What do you mean I HAVE to play Battleball?" Gohan asked disgruntled.

"It's school policy. All guys play Battleball or Combat Duels. You're a guy, you play Battleball." The coach said tossing him a jersey. "Now get changed and come on we're wasting time at practice." Gohan grumbled and walked into the locker room and changed.

"This is a waste of time I'll slaughter these guys." Gohan thought to himself with a sigh as he headed onto the field.

"Here these should fit." The coach tossed him a pair of gloves with some wires and weird looking electrodes at the fingertips. "Now here's the jist Gohan. This is the ball." He held up a metallic ball. "Those gloves are programmed to give your ki a special signature unique to your team. So whenever you hit it, it lights up with you teams color. Got it?" Gohan nodded. "Now anything goes but blowing up the arena on purpose and deliberately hitting someone with a ki blast." Gohan nodded again. "Your on the blue team for practice so head on over there."

"Hey welcome to the team. My name's Jasco." The one wearing the 'captain' logo on his shirt said extending a hand.

"Gohan." He said reaching out and shaking hands with his new team mate.

"I'm the blue team captain, if you want any pointers or whatever, just ask." He said with a caring smile. Gohan nodded. "Better get ready here we go." Jasco said taking to the air. Gohan turned around in time to see the ball coming flying at him he lifted up a hand a shot a weak ki ball at it. Sure enough it turned blue. Then he gotten flattened from the side.

"Come on newb, get in the game." The red captain scoffed as he flew away from Gohan. Frustrated Gohan took off after the ball.

"Gah these guys are really fast..." Gohan thought as he raced around trying to keep up the pace. The longer he went the longer it became apparent he was the target of both teams more than the ball was. "These guys are really asking for it..." He gritted his teeth and landed in the middle of the field. A couple of the red team member smirked and charged him. Gohan let out a battle cry just before they hit him, he sent out an energy wave knocking them back. Before anyone could really know what happened he hit the ball with a single blast and with excellent control guided into the appropriate goal.

"Great job Gohan now you've got it!" The coach beamed scratching his nose. "Sometimes you just have to throw your weight around!"

"You're alright kid." The red captain said floating down. "Sorry about riding you like that. I just wanted to see if you could cut it. Some guys they bring in here can't get it done in competitions so we weed them out before they get there. My name's Jazcin."

"Good one bro I thought you were going to scare him off. He looked decent turns out he's more than that." Jasco said landing by them.

Gohan noticed someone else come on the field and talk to the coach. He smiled when he realized who it was. "What are you doing here?" He asked as they approached.

"Thought I'd give it a shot." They said. "My name's Kakorrot I'll be playing on your team." They said turning to look at the blue captain.

"Welcome to the team. Come oh we're going to start the next round." Jasco said floating over to the blue side of the field.

"How did you get in here and why aren't they trying to stop you?" Gohan asked Kaykora telepathically. She pointed up the stands by the entrance. "Perception Distortion?" She nodded and smiled.

"Come on you two!" They floated over to their side of the field.

"Thought I'd give this s hot instead of watching all the time. Besides what are they going to do to me if they find out?" Kaykora responded telepathically. Gohan shrugged slightly. A red team member kicked the ball and gave it a ki blast and it rocketed towards them. "I've got this." Kaykora said with a smile then turned her back to it. Before Jasco or Gohan could move in and take it, She flipped over backward giving the ball a blazing kick and blasted it in one motion. The buzzer went off as the ball hit the back of the goal. Everyone stared at her a minute. They didn't have time to think about it much when the coach threw the ball back into play.

After about 2 hours of running, shoving, kicking, blasting, and cursing, practice was over. The coach jogged over to Kaykora, Gohan , and Jasco who had dominated the match. "You three were awesome! I really think we have a shot against Allagan Province State this year. See you tomorrow." He said grinning from ear to ear.

"Well you see coach, there won't be a next time for me." Kaykora said steeping forward a few feet.

"What do you mean?"

"Well you see I'm not allowed to play." She said taking off her helmet. And her hair fell down to her mid back.

"AAAAAHHHHHH!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!!!" The Coach shouted bowing down. All the players turned and stood in shock. Jasco dropped to his knees. He looked up then yanked Gohan down.

"It was an honor playing with you Your Highness."

"Yeah same here. You guys are great. I think with Gohan playing you've got a shot at the Kingdom title." Kaykora said smiling. "You know you don't HAVE to bow down to me... I think that's all really silly."

"But Your Highness..." Jasco protested.

"Hey whatever floats your bubble. Come on Gohan our moms were cooking a killer dinner and I can almost taste it." She said giving him a hand up. "I say we hit the after burners." She floated up into the air. Aarian floated over and joined her.

"Afterburners?" He floated up to her.

"Yeah. Hey Jasco, you and your brother wanna come with? Think of it as my way of saying thanks for not trying to break me into a million pieces like everyone else." Kaykora smiled.

Jasco's eyes widened. "Really?" He stood up. Kaykora nodded. "Hey Jaz! You're not going to believe this come here!" Jazcin came over. "We just got invited to dinner with the royals." Jazcin looked up amazed.

"Are you coming?" Kaykora asked playfully. They came up to them. "Give me just one second." She said with a smile. She started powering up and then transformed.

"OH THOSE AFTER BURNERS!!!" Gohan exclaimed doing the same.

"Whoa what? I thought only the Queen could go Super!" Jazcin said confused.

"Anyone can do it with the right training an motive." Gohan said matter of factly. "We can try to teach you some how if you want."

"Here you'll never keep up with us like that." Kaykora held out a hand to each of them. "Hold on tight!" She shouted as they took off at blazing speed.

"That was great Mom." Goten said patting his tummy.

"Yeah it was." Trunks said leaning back in his chair.

"This is some family you have here." Jasco said timidly.

"Well you see Bardock, Goku, Chichi, Gohan, and Goten are one family. My Dad over there, Bulma Trunks, my soon to be little sister and I are another. Everyone else got annexed and added one way or another and we all sorts adopted everyone as family." Kaykora said happily. She slid back her chair and stood beside the table. "Hey if none of you mind, I want show my friends here what are family is really like." She winked. Vegeta smirked and got up. Bardock chuckled and did the same. Goten hopped up and rode his shoulders as he walked out of the room. Everyone else followed not all to sure why at the moment.

"You two are about to see what true power is." Vegeta said with his signature grin.

"Oh I get it now." Goku smiled. "You first Vegeta."

"What did you think I was going let you go first Kakorrot?" Vegeta smirked and powered up. One by one the Z Fighter started powering up. The twins looked on in wonder at the superpowers before them. Then without warning they all transformed at once. The force of the energy sent the twins back a couple feet before they regained their balance.

"This... This... This is unreal..." Jazcin choked out. Jasco nodded.

Kaykora stepped up to them. "Want in?" She held out a hand. They both tried to take it at once. She laughed and they blushed. "You have been chosen by divine powers to defend the universe. Think your up to the challenge?"

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"You're incredulous actions are becoming outrageous! Battleball? What were you thinking?!" The Council's High Elder snapped.

"I don't know why that sport is only for guys. I bet girls would be just as good at it as guys. Well in fact now I KNOW. But we don't have any programs like that for girls and I'm out to change that." Kaykora explained coolly

"Then what his this talk of running around with a low class, weak peasant boy?" Another Elder fumed.

"For one thing his name is Naros and for another he's no weak peasant boy anymore. For a third you nor I can control the heart. I love him and he loves me and you're not going to split us up because you think he's to low for me." Kaykora responded still calm.

"You have been skipping out on your responsibilities!"

"I have attended every Council meeting, I have voted on EVER important judgment. Not only that but I've brought up several of my own. I don't know where you've been getting your information from but it's probably gossip." Kaykora responded just as calm as ever.

"It is mostly." Varna chirped boredly. "I don't know why we're here or why they're so mad. None can say that in the time you've been here our kingdom has floundered or crumbled. It's improved quite substantially and will continue to under your guidance. As far as I'm concerned this meeting is over." She pulled herself up and walked out of the room.

"Varna is right you know." Another Elder added. "We're going on gossip here. We know what goes on better than anyone seeing as we're constantly on the palace grounds. Sure at times she may hold off responsibilities but she's young. This is a great burden for someone her age or any age for that matter and I think we should cut her some slack." The other Elders thought about this a moment.

A ball of ki crashed through the balcony windows and went through the ceiling. A mob of angry citizens had gathered around the Council building and were shouting anti-Royal slogans.

"Your Highness, I must insist you stay in here." A guard protested when Kaykora tried to go out to the balcony.

"I'm not going to stay here and let me people be in the dark anymore. They deserve to know everything. Come on there's an evil aura outside and we need to deal with it." Kaykora motioned for the Z Fighter to join her outside. They followed her as she charged passed the guard. "I'm tired of being treated like a paperdoll so delicate weak and fragile." Kaykora muttered.

"There she is! There's the blasphemous demon Queen!" A Female Saiyan shouted from atop a platform in the crowd. The crowd roared in anger.

"Well now we know who the mouthpiece is." Kaykora graoned. "What is your dissent with me?" She called out.

"You break tradition by running around wherever and with whoever you please! You're fraternizing with a peasant boy when there's scores of Elites worthy of your hand that would produce stronger heirs. You spend more time outside of the capital city then in it. You insist on breaking long established rules!" The Saiyan yelled and the crowd roared. Kaykora was becoming visibly angry and emotions she'd kept pent up in side were boiling to the surface. "You ran around without a guard and bring strangers into your home. But above all else you've with held vital information about your true motives from the masses."

"I AM NO PAPERDOLL AND I WILL NOT BE SUBJUGATED BY THE MASSES TO BE AS SUCH!!! I AM A TRUE SAIYAN AND AN ARCHESAIYA!!!" She screamed going straight to level 2. "I am a living creature and you can not honestly expect me to be happy pent up in this city like a cage! I am 18 years old and from time to time I like to act like it! And as for withholding information, I'm on a mission to assemble fourteen beings chosen by the Ancients to save the entire universe from YOUR master. If anyone should be accused of withholding information it should be you!"

The Saiyan smiled. "Very good Queen." Then she disappeared.

"Kaykora!" Brolli shouted jumping in front of her in time to take a major blast head on. "She's concealing her energy level. Please let me weaken her before you Unite with Naros, I know how it drains you." He said caringly. Kaykora nodded but soon was nailed in the back by the foe. She slammed in to Brolli who turned and caught her and shielded most of her body from another blast. His arms were scorched and Kaykora's clothes were tattered from the strength of it. Brolli floated down and sat Kaykora on the ground.

"Oh please weak fool just let get this over with." The Saiyan snapped.

"You're the fool. You have no idea who you're messing with!" Kaykora called cockily.

A visibly angry Brolli transformed. His power was so great that it flattened everyone directly below him but Kaykora who was smiling. "You might want to get out of here." She said calmly.

"Now you will experience true pain." Brolli said with a voice not his own. His rage was so great for this idiot injuring his friend that his eyes were nothing but white glowing masses on his face.

"What the Hell..." Jazcin said standing on the balcony stunned.

"Brolli has a special spot his heart for Kaykora. She was his first friend and only friend for awhile." Gohan explained.

"He's incredibly powerful. Is he stronger than Kaykora?" Jasco asked in a similarly stunned tone.

"At the moment no but if he goes level two he might be. I've never seen Kaykora go level three so he might be." Goku said smiling.

"She's been level three." Naros interjected hopping over the side of the balcony. He managed to pull Kaykora on to the balcony while she watched on contently as Brolli and his foe danced across the sky. A thunder had rose up from the streets as citizens of the capital scurried away.

"Brolli! Take it south!" She called. Suddenly a streak formed in the sky quickly followed by another one. The Gang took to the air and followed them to the mountains to the far south of civilization.

"It's been a delightfully fight but I really must be getting on with my true objective now." The women said with a cocky smile as she broke from Brolli. "HIE NY CARU!"

"BROLLI! GET OUT OF THERE!!!" Kaykora screamed as she flew towards him.

"NO, NO, NO! No one's mastered that attack in thousands of years!" Naros shouted in disbelief.

"That feels like a kamehameha wave..." Goku said gritting his teeth.

The beam hit Brolli with tremendous force pushing him to the ground from several hundred feet up easily. It looked as though he had it under control but at the last moment it engulfed him and a huge explosion went out throwing Kaykora far away. She staggered to her feet and rubbed her right arm briefly before running toward the crater formed by the attack. "Brolli!" She screamed in sadness as she saw his battered and smoldering body lay lifeless in the bottom of the crater. "Oh you are going to pay!" She screamed powering up to level 3.

As soon as she finished transforming she met a swift kick to the head that sent her flying. Without time to react she was sent flying back and forth from attack after attack with no way to gain the upper hand.

"How? How is she stronger than Kaykora at level 3?!" Vegeta was in total disbelief. No one could answer his question.

"This is to easy. Now you die weakling!" The Lady Saiyan aid charging towards Kaykora fully prepared to go straight through her.