Alright, Chappy 2!

Bardock

Raven awakened with a violent jerk back to reality. Night had fallen, and cold winds blew all around them. No stars twinkled, no moon shone, it was just dark. She sat up, hugging her legs as she shivered. A gi, though meant for fighting, was not good at fighting chilly weather. Not able to see anything in front of her, she stretched out a foot, kicking something. A yelp of pain greeted this action.

There was a yell as her hand grabbed a furry tail. "Sorry," she said and felt around until she touched a shoulder, "Goten right?"

"Yes," came the small voice, "it's cold." The chattering of his teeth were clearly audible.

"I know," Raven whispered, "cover your eyes."

"Why OWWWWWWWWW!!" He screamed as light flooded all over them. Raven held in her palm a bright orb of light blue glow. Goten rubbed his watering eyes, "I get why you said cover your eyes."

"Yes," she held it aloft so the light could travel farther. "I don't see them."

"Who?"

"Your friend Trunks and the wolf Ferox." She looked all around, nothing but what looked like dusty desolate terrain. "Where is this?"

Goten shrugged, "if I knew, I would tell you."

"Hmm," Raven stood up, holding her ki light high.

Outside the pool of light was just inky blackness. It hung over everything, like a dark blanket. If it caught you off guard, it would wrap around you and squeeze until the only sound you heard was your heart beating in your throat. She felt out with her energy, testing for any signs of life. She felt nothing, not even a glow if existence. She shivered as a sharp wind swirled around her, tugging at her ki and the loose ends of her headbands. They were in a barren wilderness, only sand a rock.

Goten shuddered in the chilling gust, "c-c-can we f-find someplace out of the wind?"

Raven shrugged as she began to walk. If her ki told right, there was a rock outcropping not too far to the west. And if she felt right, there was also a small flicker of life as well. The only noise for a long time was the sound of the wind, shifting sand, and the soft padding of footsteps. Goten broke the silence as he walked behind her, "um, Raven, how come you kinda look like me, and my dad? In your ki signal, it's kinda like mine."

The female Saiyan chuckled as she walked, flicking her long, graceful tail, "if I am correct, I am your cousin. You see, my mother was your dad's sister. I'm her kid."

"Ohh," Goten awed, "hey wait! If my dad had a sister, wouldn't I know her?!"

"Not necessarily," Raven hopped on a large boulder, the first of many in the now rocky region. Holding out her hand, she helped Goten up. "My mother died seven years ago, along with my father. I've been on my own ever since."

"That must be sad." Goten sighed as he scrambled over rocks, hopping behind Raven as she jumped from rock to rock, large jutting rugged stones.

"What must be sad?" Raven stopped and turned to Goten, hands clasped firmly on her belt, looking in his eyes.

"Not having a family," he averted his eyes. But Raven was off ahead again.

"You get used to it kid," she called, and yelped in surprise as she disappeared into the darkness.

Echoing off the stones, frantic barking filled the air, magnified by the reverberation. Goten flew as fast as he could to see if she was hurt. Happy giggling caught his attention. Confused, he called a ball of ki to illuminate the area. The light caught Raven, who was on her back, getting liked to death by…Ferox!

"Hey Goten," Trunks shouted from the mouth of a cave, he was waving gleefully, "took you long enough, wolf and I were here hours ago!"

"H-h-his name is Ferox," Raven laughed and pushed off the wiggling, hyper excited wolf! "Hey boy," she rubbed his head furiously as Ferox sat in her lap, tail still going fast enough to power West City for a year!

Soon, everyone was settled in the roomy cavern out of the wind. New greetings were exchanged as Raven got a fire going, from wood in a dina-cap stash. Flames crackly merrily, they settled back, warm and comfortable. Raven had even found a good amount of food in another dina-cap, she kept random items in all those she had. She and Ferox each gnawed on a large, raw steak as Goten and Trunks attacked a mound of fruit.

Raven sighed as she leaned her back on the cave wall, licking the blood from the fresh meat from her lips. "So, anyone have any remote idea where the heck we are?" She toyed with a blue glassed scouter in her hands.

Goten and Trunks took time to shake their heads before cramming more food down their throats.

"Hmm," she muttered as she speared a guava and apple on the end of her sword, propping it above the flames to roast. "Well, my scouter has a detailed map of the entire earth. And, this place does not show up at all."

"Strange," Trunks sat back, wiping sticky juices from his mouth with the back of his hand. "You think we're dead?"

"Weed 'ave 'allows Tunks," Goten said through a mouthful of fruit. He swallowed, "I meant we'd have hallows."

"I guess," the purple haired demi-Saiyan sighed. His hand edged towards the roasting fruit Raven had. She saw him from the corner of her eye, and jabbed at his hand. "Ouch!" Trunks yelped as he sucked on his finger, cut by the keen blade, Raven winked and kept her food toasting.

Raven held her sword in between her legs, still keeping the food over the fire. She fiddled with her scouter, and the pad of buttons on the side. Trunks jumped back as it let off a beep and the cave was temporarily covered in a blue veil. But it disappeared as quickly as it came. "It's programming a five hundred square mile area around here." She tapped the scouter and set it at her side. She pushed a lock of blue bangs from her eyes, though it fell back to place, "still bleeding Trunks?"

The addressed nodded. He watched as Raven tore a strip of cloth from her gi sleeve and handed it to him. "Thanks," Trunks mumbled as he tied it around the slash.

Raven winked, "wouldn't want you bleeding to death, eh?" She got up and brushed dirt off her cloths. "I'll be back in a sec, don't touch my fruit. Ferox, bite him if he does."

Goten cocked his head to one side as Raven disappeared into the darkness of night. But she soon returned, holding a massive armful of brushy leaves. She dumped the huge load into a pile, gathering up a smaller armful as she jumped onto a warm, flat ledge near the cave ceiling. After a few minutes, she noticed Goten and Trunks were looking at her funny as the spread the leaves around. She crossed her arms, "well, if you want a comfortable bed, use those for padding."

"Ohh," Goten realized, and created his own bed near the fire. He sat on the cushiony bed, "nice and soft!"

"Uh huh," Raven said as she plucked her sword from the ground along with her snack. Biting into the streaming apple, she thought, "tomorrow we gonna figure out where we are? Cause I think it is actually quite comfortable here, we have a stream and a god food supply."

Trunks tapped his chin, "well, I want to find Majin Buu and finished beating him, but, I can't sense him…"

"Well," Goten chirped snuggling into the soft leaves, "our dad's probably beat him already!"

"Yea," Trunks sighed as he settled in his own bed.

The night grew older, as winds howled relentlessly outside, the fire burned lower. Ferox twitched in his dreams, Trunks mumbled to someone in his sleep. Through the gentle glow of coals, a pair of eyes glowed. Raven was sitting on her bed of leaves, leaning against the cave wall as before. Thoughtfully, she sharpened a dagger, but it had already been razor sharp long ago. No, it was just to occupy time. The scouter finally beeped and she sheathed the blade with a sigh. She was tired, and decided to check out the findings in the morning. Soon, her soft snores were added to that of the boys, but she still kept one eye open for trouble.

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Bardock had just stepped out of a regen tank after a rough planet raid, Damn beings, didn't know you had defense like that. He shrugged as he donned his traditional armor. Dead now, serves them right. He lashed his tail, making sure it had not been injured. Flying from the base, he was bound for his home. In the middle of nowhere in the vicious desert of Vegeta, his scouter went off! Bardock's aura of ki disappeared as he halted, floating high in the sky. What's this? High power levels, could be anyone though. But the scouter says two are similar to my own. He hovered, deciding if it was worth taking a peak into. It was interesting, owing two of his three children were away on planet missions. The air hissed as he blasted off towards the mystery power sources.

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Raven was dozing lightly, cuddled with Ferox as she heard a rock shift on the outside. It instantly jogged her from her gentle slumber, eyes alert for anything out of the ordinary.

Someone slipped on a rock again, and a rather foul curse was uttered. She scanned below; Goten and Trunks were both there. As smoothly as oil, Raven jumped down from her ledge, she landed silently catlike. The coals from the fire were down to their last glow, deep red magma wavering as they ate their last fuel hungrily. Her tail twitched as she thought and listened.

She moved closer to the fire, and with a flick of her prehensile tail, smacked a coal from the rest. It shot off the cave wall and ricocheted. It was quiet for a small part of s second before a, "DAMNIT HOT HOT!!!!" Came from the outside along with other interesting strings of unclean language.

Raven chuckled as she quietly woke Trunks and Goten , tapping them with her foot. They woke with a start and looked at her with questioning eyes. She put a finger to her lips for quiet and they listened. A grin flashed on Trunks's face as he heard the colorful range of swears, Goten just looked horrified.

"You can stop cursing and tell us who you are!" Raven called to the mystery person.

A person poked around the corner of the cave. He had a scowl in much like Vegeta's. But other than that he looked exactly like Goku, save the scar on his left cheek. He gave a shocked sound and smirked when he saw Raven and Goten, "Osprey and Kakarot, you could have told me you returned back to Vegeta! How's the pirating do?"

Goten was slightly taken aback by the sudden tone of the person. "Uh, you look like my dad, but…you're not him?"

The man chuckled, "what, were you too young to recognize your father? Huh, your power level is much higher than before, maybe I was wrong, you might be special after all."

"No," Goten shook his head, "you must be making a mistake, your not him."

Trunks had his jaw almost to the cave floor when he looked Bardock over. The similarities between this man, Goten and Raven were unbelievable. Just the air around them dripped of family.

Nobody had noticed Raven start to tremble and back off, shaking her head. "B-B-Bardock!?"

"Bardock?" Goten and Trunks asked in union and exchanged looks, icy blue eyes meeting coal back eyes.

"You kid, that's me," the now dubbed Bardock looked her in the eyes. "You look surprised, Osprey."

"I'm not Osprey," Raven's voice quavered then strengthened, "Osprey, was my mother, I am her daughter, Raven Ketsueki of high first-class elite house Faito. But please," she bowed, palms up on her thighs so the dark-blue tattoo of elite on her right wrist showed, "call me Raven."

There was a snort, "kid, you say your Osprey's daughter, she is too young to have a kid your age, and I'm too young to have a granddaughter!"

"But sir," Trunks finally spoke up, "my dad once mentioned Goten's grandpa's name was Bardock! And if your Bardock, then, where are we!"

"Saiyans don't have purple hair." Bardock said flatly before continuing, "musta hit your head, we are on planet Vegeta, year (I don't know how years go in DBZ so I'm using ours!) 1956."

Three sets of eyes looked at each other, like silent speech. It was for certain, they'd gotten sent back in time, and the planet and Bardock still existed. Which also meant Freeza was alive as well. The two boys nodded to Raven, who seemed to know the most of Saiyan heritage, to explain.

"Bardock, grandpa Bardock." Raven started. "This is not easy to say but, uh? We are your grandkids, save the purple one." The 'purple one' glared, Bardock just had on the typical Son confused look, but he kept a firm face as he listened. "The kid that looks like little Kakarot is Goten, Kakarot's son. Kakarot is of course my uncle; my father's name is Fortis an elite and my mother is Osprey, your daughter. During a recent attack on earth, the planet Goten and I's parents peacefully settled instead of destroyed, a mistake with an attack and Oozaru happened and we were obviously thrown back in time." Raven paused, "do you believe me?"

Bardock shook his head, not to disagree, but like he was clearing his head of cobwebs. He was lost for most words, except for when he gurgled, "true?" Three heads nodded silently. "But, Raven, you look exactly like Osprey?"

"No," Raven shook her head and drew a picture from a pocket, one she always had with her. It was one of course, her mother. An identical copy of Raven stood grinning, a shining lake, forests and mountains biting the clouds in the background. A male Saiyan had his arm around her shoulders, wet from a recent swim. But the girl in the picture had a difference, where Raven had blue dyed hair, Osprey had dark red. "My mother had red bangs, I have blue."

Bardock cocked an eyebrow when he looked at the photo and grumbled, "I believe you all, but where did the purple haired kid come from?"

Trunks scowled and crossed his arms, "I just popped from the air with the rest. My dad's name is uh," he didn't want to say his father was Vegeta, "I forget, I never knew him. But he was a Saiyan! Goten and I are buddies right Goten?!"

"Yup," Goten bubbled happily and too much of Bardock's horror, wrapped his arms around the adult Saiyan. "I'm so glad to meet you grandpa!"

Bardock was to say the least, shocked at the sudden display of affection. He reeled back, out of Goten's strong grip. The child looked hurt, but understood. "Sorry kid," Bardock mumbled, "I need some time to think."

"Well," Raven threw her arms wide, smirking, "welcome to this cave, and stay as long as ya like gramps!"

Bardock had to grin, "well, I am your grandpa."

And in the back of the cave, Ferox the wolf was feeling left out. He whined and nosed forward. He edged close to Bardock, who looked curiously at the animal. He had never before seen a wolf. When Bardock jerked back, Ferox raised his hackles and growled deeply.

"Just let him sniff you," Raven said calmly, "it's his way to getting to know you."

Bardock stood stiffly as Ferox circled him, sniffing and when his examination was done, wagged his tail and sat down to be petted. Bardock somewhat hesitantly scratched the wolf's ears, and jumped when he licked his hand.

Raven laughed, "well, you fit his criteria! Now ifin ya don't mind, I'm going to bed thank ya much. We can talk a little more when the sun some up." She crawled up onto her high ledge and snuggled into her bed of soft leaves. Ferox abandoned Bardock's side and soon joined Raven, she threw her arms around the wolf and both were soon fast asleep. Goten and Trunks yawned and bedded down, before asleep, Goten murmured, "g'night grandpa."

Bardock was still confused about the happenings. He sat on the cave floor and leaned against the hard stone wall. Feelings and questions flew around his head, and before he could catch them, they slipping through his fingers like water. He sank into a restless doze, plagued by thoughts. And before he sank into a deep sleep, a vision came; he'd been getting them ever since that planet raid.

Three craters, three Saiyan pods. From two stepped the people from the picture, a young Fortis, hair wild in a rough mane, Osprey, anti-gravity spikes and red bangs. The pair spoke to one another, gestures indicating the third pod. Osprey shook her head about something and dashed off, tail waving. Fortis glanced at the pod, and followed the girl, leaving a baby Kakarot to be found by the kind elderly man that was Old Gohan.

Flashes of all both Bardock's children on earth showed through his skull. Kakarot fighting a three-eyed man; Osprey and Fortis holding up an orange orb with two stars ebbed in the center, and others. The last vision landed on Osprey holding a giggling toddler, with blue bangs and identical spiky hair. The small child wore a black gi and silver belt like the present one, and her small, yet long brown Saiyan tail lashed back and forth in a happy manner.

Bardock gave a sigh in his sleep at the last vision, to his tired brain, it was proof he did have a granddaughter, proof that he indeed was faced with the challenges of getting his future generation home.