The New Generation

Chapter 8

Wow, a Tail

'But how do I have a tail' thought Todd. 'I mean mom said they had it removed, how do I have one now, this shouldn't be right.' He then did the only thing he could think of to do. He ran to the science wing as fast as he could. He found Vegeta sitting at the computer staring at a computer readout.

"Uh Vegeta, what was that thing you gave me before, you said it woke me up."

Vegeta responded without turning, "It is called a senzu. It was a small one, so it healed some of your bruises and woke you up; the big ones could keep you full for a week and heal any grievous wounds, as long as you are alive. Why?"

"Well, I think it had a strange side effect."

"And that would be?" Vegeta started to turn around.

"Well, uh, this."

Vegeta simply stared. Finally, after he regained some of his composure, "WOMAN!"

"Vegeta, how many times do I have to ask you to stop calling me woman, I do have a name."

"This is very important. Take a look at the boy. I think you might find this interesting."

Bulma turned away from her computer and did a double take, "How did he get a tail?"

Todd answered, "It grew back when Vegeta gave me one of those senzu things. I just noticed a minute ago."

"Well I guess I was right about the saiyan DNA."

"Yeah, I guess so."

An hour later, Todd and Vegeta were standing outside of the gravity room waiting for Kira and Gideon's training to finish. Todd had rapped the tail around his waist just as he had seen Kira do the first time he had met her. They both wanted to see the others expressions and it would be easier if the tail was hidden at first. It was five more minutes before Kira and Gideon were finished. When they came out they could both sense something different about Todd but they couldn't figure out what it was. He looked the same, but something about his ki just felt different.

"Anybody ready to get some lunch?" asked Todd

"Sure" replied Kira, as they started walking towards the kitchen, "So Todd, how did your training go?"

"Well, it was different from anything I had tried before. But I must have over exerted myself because I woke up in the med lab."

"What happened?" There was now a sign of worry in Kira's Voice, Todd could hear it.

"I am not sure. Vegeta said that I sort of went ballistic, and pretty much disintegrated the droid, then just fell over. He dragged me to the med lab and fed me a senzu, and basically everything was alright." As they walked, Todd had begun to unwrap his tail from around his waist. He slowly let it fall behind him. Then he brought it up right behind Kira's shoulder. "Everything is good, except this." He said as he tapped her on the shoulder with his tail.

Kira jumped about a foot into the air and just hung there as she turned and saw Todd's tail.

"Wow, you grew your tail back. How did you manage that?"

"Now that I am really not sure about, it seemed to happen after I ate the senzu."

"That is really cool."

About a few weeks later, after some intense training for Todd. He was getting really strong, but he had not yet been able to become a super saiyan. Bulma told Kira that she should take Todd shopping so that he could have more than just a few sets of clothes. She gave Kira one of the Capsule Corp credit cards so that they could buy as much as they needed.

Kira and Todd flew across town to the mall, and for a few hours, tried to act like normal teenagers. They cruised the mall looking in all the different stores, they stopped in some and got Todd some different clothes. Kira wanted to stop in a few stores and get some things for herself. Todd was dragged in to 2 different woman's clothing stores, and felt decidedly uncomfortable being surrounded by nothing but woman looking at dresses. After Kira was finished, and Todd was extremely embarrassed they decide to get something to eat. Kira saw that Todd's saiyan appetite had finally kicked in, as they each ate a meal designed for 5. They paid the very astonished waiter and decided that it was time to head home.

It took them only a few minutes longer than usual to fly back since they had all the bags. But they ran in the door and deposited all the clothes and such in their respective rooms. Once they had done this they met up in the hall and that was when they realized that they hadn't seen anyone else since walking in.

They searched the house, and finally found everyone gathered in the science lab. They were all staring at Bulma's main computer screen. Trunks was the first to notice them standing at the door. He turned around to face them before he spoke.

"Mom picked up another reentry, this one seems bigger than the last one, and it is coming down just outside of town. And there are definitely multiple powers coming from this thing and one of them is big, so Nat and I are going with you this time. Sirius called us when he felt the powers, so he is going to meet us there. We need to get going so Kira, give Todd an armor suit. Meet us outside in five minutes."

Kira quickly led Todd to the armor room. She gave him blue body suit and then she handed him the armor pieces. He quickly changed into them, deciding that it was better not to ask questions. Kira also changed into a suit similar to his, but designed better for a girl. They then ran outside to where Trunks, Natalie, Gideon, and Vegeta were waiting. Vegeta was the only one not in armor.

"I am getting to old for this, I think you kids are up to it, so get going."

With that said, they all took off into the sky, heading in the direction of where they could sense the large power. They met up with Sirius about half way there, he nodded to everyone, but just glared at Todd. About a minute later they could see the clearing where the ship had landed, this one had made a softer landing than a pod, it was sitting on the ground instead of in a crater, and standing outside of it, were four warriors, watching them approach.

End Chapter 8