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Far above the sky blue planet called Earth, a threat of gigantic proportions is about to be unleashed upon the unsuspecting peaceful planet, only five months after the destruction of Buu...
Suddenly a floating body materializes out of nowhere up in the empty sky. Kakarot frowns at the lack of ground beneath his feet and looks down. With a shriek of sudden terror, he starts to tumble towards the Earth. "Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh SHIT!!"
The ground was starting to look really big really fast!! Suddenly, calling up unknown powers, his body stops itself and levitates only a few feet above the ground. Kakarot slowly squints his eyes open and sees himself hovering above the green ground. He frowns, "I'm...flying?" To his utter amazement he is. Something that he's never actually done and only seen before. Concentrating steadily, he wills his ki to slowly fall out from underneath and lands him softly on the grassy floor. Once safe, Kakarot clutches at his heart and says eyes wide, "That stupid machine!! If I ever get back to Otherworld, I'll destroy it for sticking me way up in the sky like that!!"
Kakarot finds himself on a cliff side, facing a cerulean sea and a woody continent. He feels a thrill of terror near the edge and quickly backs himself away from it. He didn't like heights, never did and never will! Only it seems like his fear intensified with his awful recent experience. He heads into the wooded area and thinks over the changes over Earth he actually managed to see while he was falling. {Earth has definitely changed a lot since I was a child. So many cities and towns all over the place! It's definitely going to be harder to wipe out this planet than before. But once there's a moon, it'll be a piece of cake!}
He suddenly pauses and looks back at his tailless bottom, "Dammit! I forgot I don't have my tail! Now what am I supposed to do?!" With a sigh of defeat, the lost saiyajin mumbles to himself, "I guess I'll have to figure that out later... But for now I just have to become more acquainted with... myself..." He realizes how wrong that sounded.
Through his trek through the deep woods, he finally finds something that he can look at his reflection in. A quiet isolated pond, unaffected by rippling winds, as calm as glass. He settles down near the edge to look at his reflection.
He frowns at, what is to his eyes, an ancient reflection. Shaking his head in silent denial he wonders, {How in the world did I get this old and not even know it? I know of only one technology that could have kept me unconscious for so long. I must have been in a sleeping chamber my whole life. Yes, that's it. I was imprisoned in a sleeping chamber and those dicks cut my tail off and woke me up. But did they imprison me in the first place? They were really friendly.}
Fighting to revive old memories, he suddenly recalls a friendly wrinkled face. The very first one that he saw on this blue-green planet. {It must have been that old man, what's-his- name, oh yeah... Granpapa. I never knew the old foagy was capable of such technology as a sleeping chamber. I suppose he must have, or else I wouldn't be like this.}
He pauses into a moment of reminiscence, looking up at the blue sky, "Father, do you think I'm dead? After all these years? Are you still alive? I hope to the gods that you are. Once I finish my mission, I'll be able rejoin you and we can fight that Frieza. When he's gone, the saiyajin race can be free from his tyranny for good."
Oh the bitter irony.
He sighs once again. "The only problem is the changes that have passed through all the years. When I was young there were only small villages. Those I could blast so easily, but with those cities it's going to be impossible with my level of experience. ARGH! All my attacks are obsolete now! If I want to kill these humans in the shortest time possible, I need some sort of strategy and a base of operations...and someone who will teach me more powerful moves. But who can I find that will teach me? I'm all alone here on this mud ball." He suddenly laughs at himself, "What kind of saiyajin fights a guerilla war anyway?"
Kakarot looks at his reflection once more. It only seems like yesterday that he was a child. Now his whole life is gone. Then something mysterious happens. The reflection of the water...changes. The saiyajin stares at it intently and watches his eyes grow wider from his constant scowl and his mouth forms a big goofy grin. He seems to be looking at a totally different person. Kakarot frowns, "What the...That's me, but it can't be..."
Kakarot bats his hand at it and the ripples of the water make it impossible to see. When it does come back, it's back to his regular constantly scowling reflection. Kakarot says in wonder, "Was that real?" He starts to ponder this phenomenon, but his thoughts are suddenly interrupted. By a rough, irritated voice.
"Kakarot, what the hell are you doing here? Figured out what you've done wrong yet?"
The younger saiyajin freezes instantly as if he was just electrocuted and he slowly looks around for the source of the voice and his eyes come in contact with Vegeta, the great and powerful saiyajin no ouji.
Whipping around, Kakarot falls down on his bottom in complete shock,"Holy-! Oh my god, Vegeta- I mean Prince Vegeta! What are you- Why are you here?!"
The ouji's eyebrows knit into a scowl. "What do you mean what am I doing here, Kakarot? What business is it of yours anyway?"
Kakarot yelps quickly,"Yes sir, so sorry sir!" afraid the prince will bite his head off.
Vegeta eyes Kakarot suspiciously, and starts to slowly pace around the stupefied saiyajin until he reaches his side by the pond, "Why the hell do you keep on calling me sir and prince?"
Kakarot says baffled, "Well sir, it's your proper title, isn't it?"
A frown meets him once more and the third class saiyajin is afraid that somehow he caused his ouji some distaste or other. However, Vegeta looks over Kakarot, trying to decipher his odd actions. {This definitely is not the way that Kakarot usually acts... But maybe he found a new way to apologize to me.} A sudden grin comes to his face, {The flatterer. He definitely knows me by now. But I'm still going to make him work for my forgiveness.} So Vegeta decides to stick around longer, to boost his already bloated ego.
"So Kakarot, what are you doing here on Earth? I thought you were in the Otherworld."
Encouraged by the smile, Kakarot answers, "Yes, I was there. But I got some crazy old lady to send me back to Earth."
"Who sent you back?"
"Someone called Miss Midge."
Vegeta suddenly paled. While he was up in Otherworld he heard... certain stories about the so called Miss Midge. "H-how did you get her to send you here?"
Kakarot says as if it's the most obvious thing in the world, "I told her about my mission on Earth."
The ouji sweatdrops and mumbles to himself, "Mission... Rrright..."
The younger saiyajin suddenly interrupts Vegeta's disturbed train of thought, "Prince Vegeta, how did you know I was in-"
Vegeta suddenly snaps in irritation,"SILENCE! Do not question a superior officer!"
Kakarot shows a slight sense of panic, "Yes sir! Sorry sir!"
Vegeta watches Kakarot for a while and then says, "Since you acknowledge I am your better, why don't you come with me to train in the mountains?" He adds in silent thought, {Then I can reap the benefits out of this unorthodox apology without anyone knowing!} He fights down a mischievous grin.
"Prince Vegeta, it would be an honor, sir!" Kakarot beams. Vegeta's ego soars even higher, but then the younger saiyajin adds, "But I was wondering if you could teach me instead because I need to learn more powerful moves. You'd be my first teacher!"
Vegeta is again suspicious, "I thought that the old pervert was your first sensei."
Kakarot frowns, "Pervert?" Well, come to think of it Granpapa did have a few randy magazines that a friend of his had given him. "Well, I suppose, but he really didn't teach me much."
A smirk. "Oh so you're going to denounce him then? Good, I never really liked the old man."
In slight confusion, the younger saiyajin starts out, "But sir, I-"
Vegeta yells just for the hell of it, "SILENCE! HOW DARE YOU DEFY ME?!"
"Yes sir! Sorry sir!"
Oh how he enjoys the look of panic on the younger saiyajin's face. Vegeta considers Kakarot's request. After a long period of silence he says, "I have certain conditions..."
Kakarot says, Sir, I'll do anything, anything!"
Vegeta slowly smiles. This is going to be very VERY fun. "Fine, we'll get started when we get to my retreat. I have a cabin up in the mountains." He turns to walk back to the mountain path that he just came from.
"Sir?" Kakarot says meekly.
"What now?!"
Kakarot ask hesitantly, "I was wondering if you had an extra set of clothes with you."
Vegeta narrows his eyes, "Why? You're already wearing clothes."
The other saiyajin blushes slightly, "Well, I don't want to stay in these human clothes. It's kind of embarrassing..."
The ouji smirks, "Finally, you're talking like a true saiyajin."
Kakarot frowns in confusion once more, {I wasn't before?}
A white leathered hand slips into more white armor, and Vegeta says,"I just happen to have an extra set with me. Consider yourself lucky." He tosses a capsule down on the ground and it poofs to reveal a box packed with a full set of a saiyajin spandex suit, armor and even a scouter. Vegeta adds, "Don't fret about being taller. It's a one size fits all."
Kakarot says curiously, "I'm taller than you?"
Vegeta scowls, "Don't mock me. Look at yourself, you baka."
Looking to compare Kakarot says in slight awe, "Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I've always considered you taller than I am."
Vegeta twitches, {He's going a tad to far in trying to flatter me.} Then to his complete shock, the younger saiyajin starts to change right in front of him. Vegeta yelps, "Whoa! Hey! What are you doing?!"
Kakarot says, "I'm changing sir, but if you don't want me to hurt your eyes with the sight of my lowly body, I'll just..."
Vegeta sighs "Nevermind, Kakarot. I might as well have gotten used to your nudist ways."
Kakarot raises his eyebrow, "Uh... Okay..."
As Kakarot slowly slips out of his orange gi, Vegeta desperately tries to keep from staring at him. He never really likes it when the stupid baka does that in front of him. Mainly because of the deep rooted seed of envy over the other saiyajin's perfect body. He steals a tiny quick glance and scowls, {Oh man...if only I had a body like that.}
Kakarot blushes, misinterpreting the look, and tries not to look at the ouji, speeding the process.
Once he's done, Vegeta coughs and regains his composure, acting as if nothing happened, "Alright let's go then." Kakarot nods and leaves the old gi behind and follows his prince up the muddy mountain trail.
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Far above the sky blue planet called Earth, a threat of gigantic proportions is about to be unleashed upon the unsuspecting peaceful planet, only five months after the destruction of Buu...
Suddenly a floating body materializes out of nowhere up in the empty sky. Kakarot frowns at the lack of ground beneath his feet and looks down. With a shriek of sudden terror, he starts to tumble towards the Earth. "Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh SHIT!!"
The ground was starting to look really big really fast!! Suddenly, calling up unknown powers, his body stops itself and levitates only a few feet above the ground. Kakarot slowly squints his eyes open and sees himself hovering above the green ground. He frowns, "I'm...flying?" To his utter amazement he is. Something that he's never actually done and only seen before. Concentrating steadily, he wills his ki to slowly fall out from underneath and lands him softly on the grassy floor. Once safe, Kakarot clutches at his heart and says eyes wide, "That stupid machine!! If I ever get back to Otherworld, I'll destroy it for sticking me way up in the sky like that!!"
Kakarot finds himself on a cliff side, facing a cerulean sea and a woody continent. He feels a thrill of terror near the edge and quickly backs himself away from it. He didn't like heights, never did and never will! Only it seems like his fear intensified with his awful recent experience. He heads into the wooded area and thinks over the changes over Earth he actually managed to see while he was falling. {Earth has definitely changed a lot since I was a child. So many cities and towns all over the place! It's definitely going to be harder to wipe out this planet than before. But once there's a moon, it'll be a piece of cake!}
He suddenly pauses and looks back at his tailless bottom, "Dammit! I forgot I don't have my tail! Now what am I supposed to do?!" With a sigh of defeat, the lost saiyajin mumbles to himself, "I guess I'll have to figure that out later... But for now I just have to become more acquainted with... myself..." He realizes how wrong that sounded.
Through his trek through the deep woods, he finally finds something that he can look at his reflection in. A quiet isolated pond, unaffected by rippling winds, as calm as glass. He settles down near the edge to look at his reflection.
He frowns at, what is to his eyes, an ancient reflection. Shaking his head in silent denial he wonders, {How in the world did I get this old and not even know it? I know of only one technology that could have kept me unconscious for so long. I must have been in a sleeping chamber my whole life. Yes, that's it. I was imprisoned in a sleeping chamber and those dicks cut my tail off and woke me up. But did they imprison me in the first place? They were really friendly.}
Fighting to revive old memories, he suddenly recalls a friendly wrinkled face. The very first one that he saw on this blue-green planet. {It must have been that old man, what's-his- name, oh yeah... Granpapa. I never knew the old foagy was capable of such technology as a sleeping chamber. I suppose he must have, or else I wouldn't be like this.}
He pauses into a moment of reminiscence, looking up at the blue sky, "Father, do you think I'm dead? After all these years? Are you still alive? I hope to the gods that you are. Once I finish my mission, I'll be able rejoin you and we can fight that Frieza. When he's gone, the saiyajin race can be free from his tyranny for good."
Oh the bitter irony.
He sighs once again. "The only problem is the changes that have passed through all the years. When I was young there were only small villages. Those I could blast so easily, but with those cities it's going to be impossible with my level of experience. ARGH! All my attacks are obsolete now! If I want to kill these humans in the shortest time possible, I need some sort of strategy and a base of operations...and someone who will teach me more powerful moves. But who can I find that will teach me? I'm all alone here on this mud ball." He suddenly laughs at himself, "What kind of saiyajin fights a guerilla war anyway?"
Kakarot looks at his reflection once more. It only seems like yesterday that he was a child. Now his whole life is gone. Then something mysterious happens. The reflection of the water...changes. The saiyajin stares at it intently and watches his eyes grow wider from his constant scowl and his mouth forms a big goofy grin. He seems to be looking at a totally different person. Kakarot frowns, "What the...That's me, but it can't be..."
Kakarot bats his hand at it and the ripples of the water make it impossible to see. When it does come back, it's back to his regular constantly scowling reflection. Kakarot says in wonder, "Was that real?" He starts to ponder this phenomenon, but his thoughts are suddenly interrupted. By a rough, irritated voice.
"Kakarot, what the hell are you doing here? Figured out what you've done wrong yet?"
The younger saiyajin freezes instantly as if he was just electrocuted and he slowly looks around for the source of the voice and his eyes come in contact with Vegeta, the great and powerful saiyajin no ouji.
Whipping around, Kakarot falls down on his bottom in complete shock,"Holy-! Oh my god, Vegeta- I mean Prince Vegeta! What are you- Why are you here?!"
The ouji's eyebrows knit into a scowl. "What do you mean what am I doing here, Kakarot? What business is it of yours anyway?"
Kakarot yelps quickly,"Yes sir, so sorry sir!" afraid the prince will bite his head off.
Vegeta eyes Kakarot suspiciously, and starts to slowly pace around the stupefied saiyajin until he reaches his side by the pond, "Why the hell do you keep on calling me sir and prince?"
Kakarot says baffled, "Well sir, it's your proper title, isn't it?"
A frown meets him once more and the third class saiyajin is afraid that somehow he caused his ouji some distaste or other. However, Vegeta looks over Kakarot, trying to decipher his odd actions. {This definitely is not the way that Kakarot usually acts... But maybe he found a new way to apologize to me.} A sudden grin comes to his face, {The flatterer. He definitely knows me by now. But I'm still going to make him work for my forgiveness.} So Vegeta decides to stick around longer, to boost his already bloated ego.
"So Kakarot, what are you doing here on Earth? I thought you were in the Otherworld."
Encouraged by the smile, Kakarot answers, "Yes, I was there. But I got some crazy old lady to send me back to Earth."
"Who sent you back?"
"Someone called Miss Midge."
Vegeta suddenly paled. While he was up in Otherworld he heard... certain stories about the so called Miss Midge. "H-how did you get her to send you here?"
Kakarot says as if it's the most obvious thing in the world, "I told her about my mission on Earth."
The ouji sweatdrops and mumbles to himself, "Mission... Rrright..."
The younger saiyajin suddenly interrupts Vegeta's disturbed train of thought, "Prince Vegeta, how did you know I was in-"
Vegeta suddenly snaps in irritation,"SILENCE! Do not question a superior officer!"
Kakarot shows a slight sense of panic, "Yes sir! Sorry sir!"
Vegeta watches Kakarot for a while and then says, "Since you acknowledge I am your better, why don't you come with me to train in the mountains?" He adds in silent thought, {Then I can reap the benefits out of this unorthodox apology without anyone knowing!} He fights down a mischievous grin.
"Prince Vegeta, it would be an honor, sir!" Kakarot beams. Vegeta's ego soars even higher, but then the younger saiyajin adds, "But I was wondering if you could teach me instead because I need to learn more powerful moves. You'd be my first teacher!"
Vegeta is again suspicious, "I thought that the old pervert was your first sensei."
Kakarot frowns, "Pervert?" Well, come to think of it Granpapa did have a few randy magazines that a friend of his had given him. "Well, I suppose, but he really didn't teach me much."
A smirk. "Oh so you're going to denounce him then? Good, I never really liked the old man."
In slight confusion, the younger saiyajin starts out, "But sir, I-"
Vegeta yells just for the hell of it, "SILENCE! HOW DARE YOU DEFY ME?!"
"Yes sir! Sorry sir!"
Oh how he enjoys the look of panic on the younger saiyajin's face. Vegeta considers Kakarot's request. After a long period of silence he says, "I have certain conditions..."
Kakarot says, Sir, I'll do anything, anything!"
Vegeta slowly smiles. This is going to be very VERY fun. "Fine, we'll get started when we get to my retreat. I have a cabin up in the mountains." He turns to walk back to the mountain path that he just came from.
"Sir?" Kakarot says meekly.
"What now?!"
Kakarot ask hesitantly, "I was wondering if you had an extra set of clothes with you."
Vegeta narrows his eyes, "Why? You're already wearing clothes."
The other saiyajin blushes slightly, "Well, I don't want to stay in these human clothes. It's kind of embarrassing..."
The ouji smirks, "Finally, you're talking like a true saiyajin."
Kakarot frowns in confusion once more, {I wasn't before?}
A white leathered hand slips into more white armor, and Vegeta says,"I just happen to have an extra set with me. Consider yourself lucky." He tosses a capsule down on the ground and it poofs to reveal a box packed with a full set of a saiyajin spandex suit, armor and even a scouter. Vegeta adds, "Don't fret about being taller. It's a one size fits all."
Kakarot says curiously, "I'm taller than you?"
Vegeta scowls, "Don't mock me. Look at yourself, you baka."
Looking to compare Kakarot says in slight awe, "Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I've always considered you taller than I am."
Vegeta twitches, {He's going a tad to far in trying to flatter me.} Then to his complete shock, the younger saiyajin starts to change right in front of him. Vegeta yelps, "Whoa! Hey! What are you doing?!"
Kakarot says, "I'm changing sir, but if you don't want me to hurt your eyes with the sight of my lowly body, I'll just..."
Vegeta sighs "Nevermind, Kakarot. I might as well have gotten used to your nudist ways."
Kakarot raises his eyebrow, "Uh... Okay..."
As Kakarot slowly slips out of his orange gi, Vegeta desperately tries to keep from staring at him. He never really likes it when the stupid baka does that in front of him. Mainly because of the deep rooted seed of envy over the other saiyajin's perfect body. He steals a tiny quick glance and scowls, {Oh man...if only I had a body like that.}
Kakarot blushes, misinterpreting the look, and tries not to look at the ouji, speeding the process.
Once he's done, Vegeta coughs and regains his composure, acting as if nothing happened, "Alright let's go then." Kakarot nods and leaves the old gi behind and follows his prince up the muddy mountain trail.
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