The party

'Watch it ya big jerk' yelled Pan as she gat a huge splash from her uncles cannonball into the swimming pool at capsule corp. Goten just laughed at his niece as she hauled herself onto the side of the pool and rang her hair out.

'It makes me feel so old' complained Bulma to Chi Chi and 18 as they watched their children 'just look at their youthful fun, do you remember when we were like that?' Bulma sighed as she asked this question and took another drink from her tall glass topped with a pink umbrella.

'No' said 18 simply, reminding the others she had never been young like that or she had and she couldn't remember it thanks to Gero's tinkering around with her body and cybernetic implants.

'It's been so long since we were all together huh buddy' sighed Yamcha as he tied his hair back into a ponytail.

'Yeah it has, its good to get together now and then I just wish Tien, Chautzo, Yajarobe and more then anyone else Goku could have come, then everyone would be here' sighed Krillin as he held his glass in hand looking up at Yamcha 'One question, I've been meaning to ask you Yamcha, what's with the hair? You having some mid-life crisis?' joked the small man whose hair now had a distinguished fleck of grey in it.

'No nothing like that' laughed Yamcha nervously 'just my girlfriend likes it like this.'

'You've been holding out on us' teased Krillin nudging his friends arm 'how long has this been going on?'

'About a year' said Yamcha as he rubbed the back of his neck.

'Anything else you've want to tell us?' asked Krillin jokingly.

'Well I might not have mentioned I have a son' said Yamcha going bright red'

'What! You have a son, congratulations but why didn't you mention him or bring him?' asked Krillin.

'Well he hasn't spoke to me in a while' confessed Yamcha as his voice took a sadder and more serious tone.

'Of course he hasn't spoke he must only be 3 or 4 months, you may not know much about babies but they don't start speaking for a while' laughed Krillin.

'He's 17' informed Yamcha much to Krillin's surprise.

'What 17 that's impossible isn't it?' asked Krillin slightly bemused.

'No, shortly after we got wished back after the whole Buu thing me and his mother got together, when he was about 1 we had a falling out, me and him kept in touch till he was about 9 but then his mom moved across to the other side of the world and said I was to have no more to do with him because I was a bad influence, all he wanted to do was be a fighter and that's not the life she wanted for him' explained Yamcha.

'That's too bad buddy' sympathised Krillin to his friend as he patted him on the back.

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'Please, please, please, please' begged Hercule to his daughter and granddaughter who was now drying her hair.

'No!' insisted both of the girls flatly.

'I miss Buu' sighed Hercule 'come on it wouldn't take more then a day, I want to keep the title in the family'.

'No' insisted the girls once again.

'All, I ever wanted to do was supply the right of life for my family' moaned Hercule 'I know I can be a little embarrassing at times and I'm not as strong as anyone here but I just wanted to make sure Pan or even her children when they come have enough money so they needn't struggle, if that makes me a bad grandfather I'll leave, I'm sorry' Hercule hung his head and shuffled slowly away followed by his old sick looking dog named puppy.

'I hate it when he does this' sighed Pan under her breath to her mother 'he always knows how to make me feel guilty. 'Fine! Grandpa I'll enter into the tournament' yelled Pan as Hercule jumped up and down with glee before he jumped forward covering her mouth.

'The tournament, yeah I'll enter if you do Pan' yelled Bra.

'Us too' came the voice of Trunks who was in the pool with Goten and Uub 'since I handed control of the corp. back to mom I got nothing but free time, I've already made my fortune that will keep me and my family covered for a long time.' Goten and Uub nodded their agreement to the plan as well.

'Well if your in, I am too' yelled Vegeta from over next to the barbeque 'what about you bookworm?' asked Vegeta at Gohan trying to get some real competition.

'Gohan don't be silly he is as weak as a bunny nowadays' laughed Goten as Trunks and Uub sniggered.

'I can still beat you little bro' laughed Gohan 'I still keep my training up, I just keep it on the DL' bragged Gohan trying to sound cool with the hip new language all the kids in his class spoke which caused Pan to slap her forehead.

'Vegeta don't you think its time you gave up fighting?' asked Chi Chi 'your getting awfully old for it now don't you think?'

'Nonsense woman, I am a Sayain we age much slower and live longer then you weak humans I'm as healthy now as when I arrived on earth and I'm much stronger too' bragged Vegeta 'anyway you just don't want me to enter so that your little trio over there have a better chance.'

'You wont live longer then me' laughed Roshi 'I'm 368 and still going strong, your nothing but a young pup, actually I might join this thing to show you how its done'

'What breaking a hip' said Oolong slightly under his breath only to get death stares from Roshi.

'Well Roshi, you aren't the best example of growing old gracefully are you' laughed Bulma which made Roshi turn bright red.

'Oh no look what you did now' said Hercule to his granddaughter 'I didn't want any of them to enter then you would be guaranteed to win.'

'This way it'll be more fun' laughed Pan.

'Pan dear wont you still just be in the children's division?' asked her mother which caused her face to drop.

'Nope the next tournament isn't for two years, you'll be legal by then, I just thought I'd ask you now so I could maybe help train you' laughed Hercule before becoming ever so shy at the end and blushing.

'Oh okay sure you can help train me' said Pan emphasising the help not wanting her grandfather to ruin her chances of winning.

'Finally I get to compete it has been so long since I've had a challenge, well its not really a challenge I'm stronger then all of them but at least they can give me a run for my money' thought Vegeta as he cackled to himself 'if only Kakkarot was here now he would be a challenge because he is a true warrior unlike these fighters' Vegeta thought of the word fighters with some disgust as he flipped the burgers almost sending some into orbit.

Meanwhile in a not to distant star system (in terms of how close star systems get)..

'Yes sir we will be there in 90 Nectors, they are totally unawares of our arrival' said a small balding green man dressed in battle armour.

'Excellent, is there any word from the beta squad?' asked a man flanked by two others all were cast in shadow so it was impossible to make out there features, all that could be seen was a grey hand with what can only be described as claws much like Piccolo's gripping onto the arm of his chair rest.

'They are on target and will reach it in approximately 80 Nectors' answered the small man who snarls almost naturally as if it were his normal expression 'Should I send for the high warriors?'

'No, this is personal we will handle this ourselves' cackled the man who stood behind the man in the throne.