Disclaimer: No…I don't own DBZ.

Sorry for the delay. I've been having writer's block and then I got a flame and school got in the way and academic team and archery. I'm busy. So I got a flame. Is Blame really horrible? Do you think Tai is perfect? I consider Tai a little too mean and materialistic. Well, cheers.

Blame

Chapter 14

"I what?" ChiChi asked raising an eyebrow.

"You died…In my RPG game I made up when I was thirteen. It's kind of like Dungeons and Dragons but different." Tai explained.

"Okay." ChiChi replied, slightly confused.

Tai shut her eyes and took a deep breath. She was going to tell her mother what really happened, but she choked. She knew she couldn't do it, but she tried anyway. Pan was looking slightly alarmed. She knew Pan wasn't expecting that. Tai quickly changed the subject.

"Did I tell you Uub and I are engaged?" Tai asked.

"Yes. You did. He seems really nice." ChiChi smiled.

"He is. Dad doesn't like him though. Ever since he found out we were going out, well, he got into evil-stay-away-from-my-daughter-don't-even-think-about-it-or-try-anything-or-I-will-kill-you-and-I-will-really-enjoy-it-so-there-overprotective-father mode." Tai said not stopping to take a breath.

"That doesn't sound like Goku." ChiChi replied.

"He's changed a lot since I was born." Tai answered.

He changed all right, Tai thought. The Goku from this time was way different than his future self. The Goku from the past was cheerful, happy-go-lucky and carefree. The Goku from Tai's time was the exact opposite of his past self. The Goku from Tai's time was serious, and calm, and worried too much. At first, he didn't even want Tai to do any martial arts. He hadn't even trained since Tai was born! That was big. His past self really liked fighting in this time. Tai felt a pang of guilt. It was her fault that her father wasn't doing the things he loved. Just then there was a knock at the door. It was Bra and Bulma.

"Hey Pan!" Bra exclaimed, walking over to her best friend.

Pan and Bra reminded Tai of the way her and Meg were. That is, before Meg died. She and Meg were the best of friends. Where there was one, there was the other. Meg was the one who got her together with Uub. Tai, Meg, and Uub were known as the 3 Musketeers in their youth. Tai was glad Bra and Pan were friends. Everyone needed a close friend.

"Well hi guys." Bulma said. "We just came over to see you guys."

"Yeah. I think that's kind of obvious." Tai replied.

"It's nice to see you too, Tai." Bulma smiled sarcastically.

"You know I was kidding. That's me. The kidder." Tai answered.

"Yes. Bra has told us a lot about you." Bulma smiled.

"Did she tell you I snuck off to Florida with Uub and my friend Meg one spring break and nobody caught us?" Tai asked grinning.

"No." Bulma replied eyeing Tai.

"Good 'cuz nobody is supposed to know that!" Tai smiled.

Bulma looked at Tai as if she were a crazy person. Something just didn't seem right with Tai. One minute she seemed like she was an evil tyrant bent on destroying all good and the next minute seemed like a crazy kid. Neither of her parents were like that but Bra had told her that Tai marched to the beat of her own drum. Bra had told Bulma that Tai was a good person, not evil. Bra had said she looked up to Tai as a role model but from what Bulma had seen from Tai was that the girl wasn't exactly a perfect role model.

In the future…

ChiChi looked over the pages in the family photo album. The pictures were mainly of what it was like after she had died. They were mainly of Tai. Tai looked beautiful. She looked like an amazing girl. ChiChi wondered how one girl could feel so much pain. How could Tai feel so unloved? ChiChi stopped at a picture of Tai. It looked as if she were thirteen or fourteen. Tai was wearing a red halter-top dress that stopped just above her knees. Her hair was put into a updo and curls were hanging down wonderfully. Next to Tai were Uub and what seemed like Meg. All three kids were smiling happily. Tai looked as if she were laughing. They looked so happy.

"It was her eighth grade graduation dance." Came Goku's voice from behind her. "She looked so beautiful. She really reminded me of you."

Goku sat down by his wife and looked at his wife with pain in his eyes. He wanted to tell her he was sorry for what he had said last night. He knew he had hurt her but he himself was still hurting. He had lost his wife and now his daughter and granddaughter were gone as well. He knew he should probably give up on Tai once she got home. She probably hated him by now and there was the whole thing in the past. He remembered Meg telling him that Tai was in the past, before she was born. He wondered what exactly Tai had told their past selves. He wondered if Pan and Tai were okay.

"They're okay." ChiChi assured Goku.

"How'd you know I was thinking about them?" Goku asked his wife.

"Saiyan bond remember?" ChiChi answered. "Don't give up on Tai. She'll come along."

"I doubt it. She hates me. She said once she turned eighteen she was out of here. Her birthday is tomorrow. That's how long you've been dead. Eighteen years." Goku murmured.

"You've gotten through the rest. You could do year eighteen." ChiChi managed to smile.

"You don't know what it was like, the first year without you. I was out of it. I hardly remember any of it. I went into a sort of depression, started drinking. Vegeta whipped me back into shape again. He said something about being strong for Tai. So here I am, eighteen years later, and my daughter hates me, is in the past, a new evil has showed up and I haven't trained since Tai was born." Goku replied staring at the floor.

"I'm sorry. I know what it was like without you. God, I wish I was there to watch Tai grow up. And Goten, he was only eight." ChiChi said, starting to cry.

"I know. He didn't take it too well, but you can see that. But we'll get through this. I promise." Goku whispered wrapping his arm around her…

Goku and ChiChi didn't see it, but as they were talking, Goten and Meg snuck out of the house. They both agreed that Goten's parents needed some alone time, especially after their argument. They had decided on going out to go to the CC. Gohan and Videl were there, trying to help Trunks with the time machine and they decided to go to. The two took off through the sky and flew toward the gigantic corporation.

"Hey…Meg…Can I ask you a question?" Goten asked.

"Sure. What?" Meg replied.

"How'd you meet my Mom?" Goten asked.

"She heard me talking about the Saiyans and asked me how I knew about them and you get the rest." Meg answered.

Flashback…

Meg stared into the eyes of a pink alien whose head was the shape of a football. Meg had only been dead for about a week and this alien, whose name was Bjor-Toran, was telling her about his home-planet and Meg about hers.

"Hmmm…from what you say about Earth, it doesn't seem like many of your kind know about aliens. You don't seem surprised by me." Bjor-Toran mused.

"Oh, I'm not just any Earthling. You see I know some aliens. One of them is a Namek." Meg smiled.

"Namekians are a well natured species." Bjor-Toran replied. "But you said you knew some aliens. What race are the others?"

"Saiyans." Meg answered matter-of-factly.

"SAIYANS! THOSE FILTHY-SCUMS DESTROYED MY HOME-PLANET! IF I COULD JUST LAY MY HANDS ON ONE OF THEM! DO YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW THEIR PRINCE? VEGETA WAS HIS NAME!" Bjor-Toran yelled causing some 'people' to star.

Meg looked around furiously, scared of Bjor-Toran. She herself knew that Vegeta was once evil, but he was on the good side now. She noticed some others talking about the Saiyans. Were they that bad? They must have had a very bad rep to have so many people bad-mouthing them. Meg noticed one person though looking at her oddly. She looked familiar.

"The aren't bad people." Meg snapped at Bjor-Toran.

"What makes you think that?" he sneered.

"The Saiyans are low-life killers." Said another. "They killed my wife and son."

"The destroyed my home-planet of Xazoijerre." Growled someone else."

"THEY USED TO BAD BUT THEY ARENT NOW! I KNOW TWO OF THEM. THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE! MAYBE VEGETA DID KILL OTHERS BUT HE DOESN'T NOW! HE LIVES ON EARTH! HE'S MARRIED AND HAS TWO KIDS! I KNOW THEM! AND THE OTHER! HE USED TO BE THE STRONGEST PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE AND HE ONLY USED HIS POWERS TO PROTECT THE UNIVERSE! BUT HE GAVE UP ON FIGHTING FOR HIS FAMILY! HE'S A SINGLE FATHER WHO HAS THREE KIDS! ONE OF THEM WAS MY BEST FRIEND AND SHE'S ONE OF THE STRONGEST PEOPLE ON EARTH! HER NAME IS TAI AND SHE'S A GREAT PERSON! SO STOP TALKING ABOUT THEM! THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE!" Meg shouted.

"You know about the Saiyans? You know about Goku and Tai?" came a voice from behind Meg.

Meg turned around to see it was that woman. But now Meg recognized her from one of Tai's pictures. It was Mrs. Son…

End Flashback…

Gohan, Videl, Trunks, and Bulma were all in the lab looking at the time machine when Goten and Meg arrived hand-in hand. Gohan somewhat smiled, but it was forced. It looked as if none of them had gotten any sleep.

"You guys sleep last night?" Gohan asked.

"No, Mom and Dad were up arguing half the night." Goten answered.

"And who can sleep? We have a job to do." Meg replied. "So, when did you guys make a time machine? How does it work? How many people can go at a time?"

"Well, we've had it for quite awhile, you know, just in case anything happened. Have you seen Star Trek? We've designed it so we can beam people like that. We can beam as many as we want to. Someone though will have to stay back to beam us back home." Trunks explained.

"Awesome." Meg smiled. "So when exactly can we travel back? A week wasn't it?"

"I said a week at most. If we are lucky, I might be able to finish it by tomorrow. We could go then." Trunks explained.

"Do do do do do do do do." Meg said in the Twilight Zone theme.

"What's with that?" Gohan asked.

"Kind of funny isn't it? Us going to the past on Tai's eighteenth birthday. That would sure lighten her spirits now wouldn't it?" Meg said sarcastically.

"Yeah but if we don't get there ASAP, Goku or Vegeta would probably kill someone." Bulma pointed out.

"Yeah." Everybody said in unison.

"It's times like these that I'm glad that I'm dead." Meg mused.

"Shut up." Gohan snapped.

"Shutting." Meg replied.

"So Goku and ChiChi were fighting?" Videl asked.

"Yes. Don't ask us what about because we aren't even sure." Goten answered.

"Whoa." Gohan murmured. "This is turning into a soap opera."

"Tell me about it." Meg agreed. "No all we have to do is turn it into a fairy tale."

That's Chapter 14. I hope you review and that you liked this chapter.