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Bulma, Goku, and the two revived demi-saiyajins watch the doctor as he examines Piccolo's ears. Bulma sighs and looks at her watch, "What in the world is taking Gohan so long? He should have come out of the bathroom by now."
Goku asks, "Are you still mad at him for ruining your house?"
Bulma says dismissively, "Oh that. It's alright. I just got a little carried away. Besides the cleaning bots are doing such a great job with it," pointing to a couple knee high robots sweeping up the crumbly debris of the drywall.
Goten looks up at Piccolo behind the doctor and asks, "Hey, mister. Is Mr. Piccolo going to be deaf forever?" his voice full of concern.
The doctor smiles and pats Goten's head, "Don't worry about him, sonny. He'll be fine. The damage is just temporary, but it'll take a little while to heal back to its full potential. Meanwhile he can take this medicine," he hands a bottle of pills to Piccolo, "that will speed up the healing process. And," he hands a brown paper wrapped package to Piccolo, "this is also for you."
Piccolo looks at it hesitantly and opens it up. Then he does something no one has ever seen him do before, he turns pale. He sets the package on the table and pushes it away in total humiliation.
Goku frowns and picks up the package to look at its contents. and then he starts laughing his head off, "Oh Kami! I can't believe it! A hearing aid!" Everyone stares at him in disbelief, but sure enough follow suit. Piccolo blushes, a purplish hue rising to his cheeks.
Bulma says, "Well, thank you doctor," still giggling, "you've been a great help." And she starts leading him to the front door.
The doctor watches them with a puzzled expression and says, "No problem." He walks out onto the front lawn and says, "Call me if his hearing doesn't improve in a couple days." Bulma nods, and closes the door. Then she goes back to the living room, where she sees Goku and the boys trying to convince Piccolo to put on his hearing aid.
Bulma laughs, "Come on, Piccolo. This is for your own good."
Goku shrugs, "Well, he's going to have to put it on sometime."
Trunks grins impishly, "And when he does," he whips out a camera out of nowhere, "I'm going to take a picture of it!"
Goten smiles, "Who'd a thunk we'd see the day Mr. Piccolo has to wear a hearing thingy!"
Just then Gohan comes downstairs from the bathroom, covering up his face in embarrassment. He asks, sounding very distressed, "Bulma, how long is that lipstick supposed to last?"
Bulma frowns, "Until you wash it off. Why do you ask?"
Gohan moans and takes his hands off his face, revealing bright, crimson cheeks. "I can't get it off."
Seeing his face, Trunks and Goten burst into laughter and giggle simultaneously, "You look like Chiaotzu!"
The demi-saiyajin demands, "Why the heck are you laughing, Goten? You're the one who put it on me!"
Goten's eyes go wide, and he looks down at his feet, "I'm sorry Gohan. I shouldn't have laughed."
Trunks grins impishly, "Well, I think it's still funny," and seats himself onto the couch with his camera in hand.
Gohan decides to ignore the violet haired troublemaker and turns to his father, "Dad, remind me never to go anywhere near sugar again."
Goku frowns in confusion, "Uh.sure Gohan," not really understanding the reason behind the request.
Bulma takes Gohan's hand and starts to pull him back upstairs, "Come on you. Let's see if some makeup remover will work."
All the meanwhile nobody notices when Piccolo finally puts on his hearing aid and tries to get out of the house without grabbing anyone's attention. Unfortunately he grabs Gohan's. Gohan asks, "Hey Piccolo, where are you going?"
Piccolo stiffens up and turns around, covering the ear with the hearing aid. Then he says rather quickly, "Well, I, uh. I was just going back to the lookout, so I'll see you! Bye!" and so he tries to flee.
But Trunks yells, his face lit up with mischievous glee, "Hey! He can hear us! He has his hearing aid on!"
Goten points to him, "Quick! Get him!"
Gohan frowns, "Hearing aid? What the he-." His eyes widen as he understands the situation, "Holy cow! This I have to see!" Piccolo freezes up and tries to run, but the demi-saiyajins pounce on him while Trunks tries to take a picture with his camera. Bulma and Goku sweatdrop as they watch the kids' antics.
Piccolo focuses his mind and suddenly Trunks' camera breaks in his hands. Trunks yelps, "Piccolo! You ass! You broke my camera!"
Meanwhile. Kakarot goes on yet another killing spree. This time not with careful planning, but only out of blind rage. As he flies over the city, he blasts every human that he sees, including little girls, pregnant women, teenagers, old men, anyone that comes within his sights.
He screams out to the city, "Die! Die! DIE! I hate you humans! You humans spawned the woman that bore my sons! And you will die for it!"
People scream in terror as they try to escape, but Kakarot never misses. In his rampage, he comes upon a father trying to protect his little son. Kakarot pauses, suddenly seeing himself down there protecting Goten. He seethes with anger and yells, "I HATE YOU!!" and throws an impossibly huge blast at the two, disintegrating their bodies.
The citizens around him scream, "He's insane!" "A monster!" "Run for your lives!"
At the other end of the city, Videl, patrolling the skies in her saiyaman2 outfit, notices the humungous amount of smoke coming from the direction of Kakarot. She frowns, "What in the- Oh my god! It's him! Kakarot! I didn't think he was going to come to Satan City!"
As she sees another huge explosion, she clenches her fists and growls, "That freak! I'll get him! but Gohan would get so mad if he knew I went after Kakarot." Then another explosion changes her mind, "Man! I can't let him go on with this! Well, what Gohan doesn't know won't hurt him."
Videl blazes off in the direction of the blasts, but after a little flight she notices a clearing ahead of her. She frowns, "What the- Where are all the buildings?" But as she gets closer she sees her answer.
Ruins and flames. Corpses and dismembered parts littering the ground, either charred or slowly being licked up by the fires. Videl covers her mouth, afraid of she dares to open it she might vomit. She thinks, {Oh my god. How can anyone do this?}
Insane laughter floats to her ears from behind the smoke and Videl slowly flies into it to investigate. She sees Kakarot had spotted a small group of school children and was just about to blast them. Videl screams, "NOOO!" and flies at Kakarot, kicking him in the head, distracting him long enough to allow the children to escape.
Kakarot cricks his neck from the bent position that Videl kicked it into. Not noticing Videl right away, he looks down to see that the children are gone from his sight. He mumbles, "Oh well, I'll get them eventually. Now who hit me?"
"I'm up here you big lummox!" Kakarot looks up and sees someone wearing the stupidest costume he's ever seen. Even stupider than what Gohan was wearing. As the person flies closer, Kakarot notices it's a girl. And in fact the costume is very similar to Gohan's. He frowns with thought, {That's very similar to his suit alright. This onna must know him then. But what is her relationship to Gohan? Is she a rival or an ally of his?}
The girl yells, "Stop your killing or else!"
Kakarot laughs and turns around to face her, "Or else what, little girl?"
"Or else I'll make you!" She clenches a fist and points the other one at him, "You'll pay for what you did Kakarot!"
Again Kakarot frowns, "How do you know my name?"
"My partner in crime fighting told me about you, freak. He told me all about you. You and your-"
Kakarot cuts her off in the middle of her speech, "Yeah, yeah, whatever. But how well do you know Gohan?"
Videl growls, feeling a little ticked at his arrogance, then she says proudly, "I'll have you know that he's my boyfriend! Do you have a problem with that?"
Kakarot pales, his mind racing with more demi-saiyajin freaks, "Actually, I do. But rest assured the problem will be fixed." Without warning he fires a ki attack at her, but she dodges it, the blast singing her clothes. Kakarot thinks, {So, she's obviously faced regular ki attacks before, well I won't underestimate her this time.} He yells, "SAIYAN RAGE!" and throws his favorite attack at Videl.
Before Videl knows it, the blast hits her, and she falls out of the sky onto the ground below, severely burned. Barely able to breath, her blurry vision allows her to see Kakarot land and walk up next to her. She thinks, {What was I thinking? Attacking Kakarot all by myself? It would be like attacking Goku!}
Kakarot puts his foot on top of her head and growls, "This is for even thinking about going near my son."
Videl pleads mentally, {Please forgive me, Gohan.} Then Kakarot slams his foot down.
At that very moment, in the distant West City. Gohan suddenly shivers, attracting the attention of Krillen sitting beside him on the couch. Krillen asks, "Hey, are you all right?"
Gohan frowns, "Yeah, I'm fine. I just got the shivers."
The next morning. Bulma's voice rings throughout the house, yelling, "The time machine's ready! Come out to the front lawn!"
Goten and Trunks look up from their game, and Goten smiles at each other, "Cool! Let's go see!" They run out and see that Piccolo, Gohan, and Goku are already out. Goku is looking more sweaty than usual, making it apparent that Bulma interrupted him in the middle of his training.
Goten looks up at the machine in awe. It's much similar in structure to the model she based it on, however, it's a bit larger, giving enough room to seat two people. Bulma smiles, noticing Goten's wonder, "So what do you think of it, Goten?"
Goten grins, "It's so cool! I wanna ride it!"
Bulma looks up at the other and says, "I modified it a bit from the original design so that it runs on solar power. It won't ever need fuel, and it can carry much more weight."
Goten crawls up to the machine and points to the panel, "What does this do? And this? And that one?"
The blue haired scientist laughs and answers, "I'll show you, Goten. Gohan you better listen up too. It's more than likely you'll be the one using it."
She goes out on an all out tutorial about how to use it, taking up a long time, and giving Goku a sever headache. He solves the problem by just ignoring Bulma and resting under a tree, letting her continue the lesson. It's not long though before Piccolo decides it's a waste of time, and Trunks gets bored. So they accompany Goku in his resting spot. Goten and Gohan are the only ones listening as Bulma finishes up the lecture.
Bulma looks over at the other three, quite annoyed and says, "Goten, why don't you go wake them up?"
Goten nods cheerfully, "Okay!" and hops out of the machine, to wake the others.
Bulma turns to Gohan and asks, "So when do you plan on leaving? I assume that you're the one that's going to go."
Goten comes up to them and whines, "But I wanna drive it." Bulma and Gohan look at the other three and sweatdrop seeing that Goten "woke" them up with ki blasts.
Gohan frowns, crossing his arms, "Goten, I think I'm speaking for Mom when I say this too, you're too young to go off on your own."
Goten protests, "But I know everything that I need to do to drive it! I paid attention the whole time! Isn't that right, Aunt Bulma?"
Bulma says evasively, "Well, Goten, you did, but I agree with Gohan. You're just too small to operate a machine like this."
Goku walks up and asks, "What's the problem?"
Goten tugs at his father's gi and says, "Daddy, they won't let me drive the time machine, but I paid attention to Aunt Bulma's lesson the whole entire time! And you would let me drive it, wouldn't you?" making the biggest puppy dog eyes he can with Goku.
Goku says, "I don't see what's wrong with it."
Gohan says unbelievingly, "Dad!"
The saiyajin frowns, "What?"
Bulma insists, "Goku, it's just too dangerous. He could get lost, or the time machine could get wrecked, making him get stuck in a different timeline forever!"
Goku says, 'Well, in that case. Goten, these two probably know best."
Bulma frowns, "What do you mean_probably_?"
Goten pouts, "But I wanna drive it."
Goku sighs, "Sorry son. Maybe when you get older." Goku takes up Goten into his arms and starts to bring him into Capsule Corps.
Bulma turns back to Gohan, "So when are you going to leave?"
Gohan answers, "Probably tomorrow morning."
Goten, who was listening in on their conversation, asks, "Daddy? Can we stay here the night?"
Goku smiles, "Sure, if it makes you feel better."
The demi-saiyajin turns his gaze back to the impressive machine basking in the glow of the dawn's early light, "It makes me feel a lot better."
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Bulma, Goku, and the two revived demi-saiyajins watch the doctor as he examines Piccolo's ears. Bulma sighs and looks at her watch, "What in the world is taking Gohan so long? He should have come out of the bathroom by now."
Goku asks, "Are you still mad at him for ruining your house?"
Bulma says dismissively, "Oh that. It's alright. I just got a little carried away. Besides the cleaning bots are doing such a great job with it," pointing to a couple knee high robots sweeping up the crumbly debris of the drywall.
Goten looks up at Piccolo behind the doctor and asks, "Hey, mister. Is Mr. Piccolo going to be deaf forever?" his voice full of concern.
The doctor smiles and pats Goten's head, "Don't worry about him, sonny. He'll be fine. The damage is just temporary, but it'll take a little while to heal back to its full potential. Meanwhile he can take this medicine," he hands a bottle of pills to Piccolo, "that will speed up the healing process. And," he hands a brown paper wrapped package to Piccolo, "this is also for you."
Piccolo looks at it hesitantly and opens it up. Then he does something no one has ever seen him do before, he turns pale. He sets the package on the table and pushes it away in total humiliation.
Goku frowns and picks up the package to look at its contents. and then he starts laughing his head off, "Oh Kami! I can't believe it! A hearing aid!" Everyone stares at him in disbelief, but sure enough follow suit. Piccolo blushes, a purplish hue rising to his cheeks.
Bulma says, "Well, thank you doctor," still giggling, "you've been a great help." And she starts leading him to the front door.
The doctor watches them with a puzzled expression and says, "No problem." He walks out onto the front lawn and says, "Call me if his hearing doesn't improve in a couple days." Bulma nods, and closes the door. Then she goes back to the living room, where she sees Goku and the boys trying to convince Piccolo to put on his hearing aid.
Bulma laughs, "Come on, Piccolo. This is for your own good."
Goku shrugs, "Well, he's going to have to put it on sometime."
Trunks grins impishly, "And when he does," he whips out a camera out of nowhere, "I'm going to take a picture of it!"
Goten smiles, "Who'd a thunk we'd see the day Mr. Piccolo has to wear a hearing thingy!"
Just then Gohan comes downstairs from the bathroom, covering up his face in embarrassment. He asks, sounding very distressed, "Bulma, how long is that lipstick supposed to last?"
Bulma frowns, "Until you wash it off. Why do you ask?"
Gohan moans and takes his hands off his face, revealing bright, crimson cheeks. "I can't get it off."
Seeing his face, Trunks and Goten burst into laughter and giggle simultaneously, "You look like Chiaotzu!"
The demi-saiyajin demands, "Why the heck are you laughing, Goten? You're the one who put it on me!"
Goten's eyes go wide, and he looks down at his feet, "I'm sorry Gohan. I shouldn't have laughed."
Trunks grins impishly, "Well, I think it's still funny," and seats himself onto the couch with his camera in hand.
Gohan decides to ignore the violet haired troublemaker and turns to his father, "Dad, remind me never to go anywhere near sugar again."
Goku frowns in confusion, "Uh.sure Gohan," not really understanding the reason behind the request.
Bulma takes Gohan's hand and starts to pull him back upstairs, "Come on you. Let's see if some makeup remover will work."
All the meanwhile nobody notices when Piccolo finally puts on his hearing aid and tries to get out of the house without grabbing anyone's attention. Unfortunately he grabs Gohan's. Gohan asks, "Hey Piccolo, where are you going?"
Piccolo stiffens up and turns around, covering the ear with the hearing aid. Then he says rather quickly, "Well, I, uh. I was just going back to the lookout, so I'll see you! Bye!" and so he tries to flee.
But Trunks yells, his face lit up with mischievous glee, "Hey! He can hear us! He has his hearing aid on!"
Goten points to him, "Quick! Get him!"
Gohan frowns, "Hearing aid? What the he-." His eyes widen as he understands the situation, "Holy cow! This I have to see!" Piccolo freezes up and tries to run, but the demi-saiyajins pounce on him while Trunks tries to take a picture with his camera. Bulma and Goku sweatdrop as they watch the kids' antics.
Piccolo focuses his mind and suddenly Trunks' camera breaks in his hands. Trunks yelps, "Piccolo! You ass! You broke my camera!"
Meanwhile. Kakarot goes on yet another killing spree. This time not with careful planning, but only out of blind rage. As he flies over the city, he blasts every human that he sees, including little girls, pregnant women, teenagers, old men, anyone that comes within his sights.
He screams out to the city, "Die! Die! DIE! I hate you humans! You humans spawned the woman that bore my sons! And you will die for it!"
People scream in terror as they try to escape, but Kakarot never misses. In his rampage, he comes upon a father trying to protect his little son. Kakarot pauses, suddenly seeing himself down there protecting Goten. He seethes with anger and yells, "I HATE YOU!!" and throws an impossibly huge blast at the two, disintegrating their bodies.
The citizens around him scream, "He's insane!" "A monster!" "Run for your lives!"
At the other end of the city, Videl, patrolling the skies in her saiyaman2 outfit, notices the humungous amount of smoke coming from the direction of Kakarot. She frowns, "What in the- Oh my god! It's him! Kakarot! I didn't think he was going to come to Satan City!"
As she sees another huge explosion, she clenches her fists and growls, "That freak! I'll get him! but Gohan would get so mad if he knew I went after Kakarot." Then another explosion changes her mind, "Man! I can't let him go on with this! Well, what Gohan doesn't know won't hurt him."
Videl blazes off in the direction of the blasts, but after a little flight she notices a clearing ahead of her. She frowns, "What the- Where are all the buildings?" But as she gets closer she sees her answer.
Ruins and flames. Corpses and dismembered parts littering the ground, either charred or slowly being licked up by the fires. Videl covers her mouth, afraid of she dares to open it she might vomit. She thinks, {Oh my god. How can anyone do this?}
Insane laughter floats to her ears from behind the smoke and Videl slowly flies into it to investigate. She sees Kakarot had spotted a small group of school children and was just about to blast them. Videl screams, "NOOO!" and flies at Kakarot, kicking him in the head, distracting him long enough to allow the children to escape.
Kakarot cricks his neck from the bent position that Videl kicked it into. Not noticing Videl right away, he looks down to see that the children are gone from his sight. He mumbles, "Oh well, I'll get them eventually. Now who hit me?"
"I'm up here you big lummox!" Kakarot looks up and sees someone wearing the stupidest costume he's ever seen. Even stupider than what Gohan was wearing. As the person flies closer, Kakarot notices it's a girl. And in fact the costume is very similar to Gohan's. He frowns with thought, {That's very similar to his suit alright. This onna must know him then. But what is her relationship to Gohan? Is she a rival or an ally of his?}
The girl yells, "Stop your killing or else!"
Kakarot laughs and turns around to face her, "Or else what, little girl?"
"Or else I'll make you!" She clenches a fist and points the other one at him, "You'll pay for what you did Kakarot!"
Again Kakarot frowns, "How do you know my name?"
"My partner in crime fighting told me about you, freak. He told me all about you. You and your-"
Kakarot cuts her off in the middle of her speech, "Yeah, yeah, whatever. But how well do you know Gohan?"
Videl growls, feeling a little ticked at his arrogance, then she says proudly, "I'll have you know that he's my boyfriend! Do you have a problem with that?"
Kakarot pales, his mind racing with more demi-saiyajin freaks, "Actually, I do. But rest assured the problem will be fixed." Without warning he fires a ki attack at her, but she dodges it, the blast singing her clothes. Kakarot thinks, {So, she's obviously faced regular ki attacks before, well I won't underestimate her this time.} He yells, "SAIYAN RAGE!" and throws his favorite attack at Videl.
Before Videl knows it, the blast hits her, and she falls out of the sky onto the ground below, severely burned. Barely able to breath, her blurry vision allows her to see Kakarot land and walk up next to her. She thinks, {What was I thinking? Attacking Kakarot all by myself? It would be like attacking Goku!}
Kakarot puts his foot on top of her head and growls, "This is for even thinking about going near my son."
Videl pleads mentally, {Please forgive me, Gohan.} Then Kakarot slams his foot down.
At that very moment, in the distant West City. Gohan suddenly shivers, attracting the attention of Krillen sitting beside him on the couch. Krillen asks, "Hey, are you all right?"
Gohan frowns, "Yeah, I'm fine. I just got the shivers."
The next morning. Bulma's voice rings throughout the house, yelling, "The time machine's ready! Come out to the front lawn!"
Goten and Trunks look up from their game, and Goten smiles at each other, "Cool! Let's go see!" They run out and see that Piccolo, Gohan, and Goku are already out. Goku is looking more sweaty than usual, making it apparent that Bulma interrupted him in the middle of his training.
Goten looks up at the machine in awe. It's much similar in structure to the model she based it on, however, it's a bit larger, giving enough room to seat two people. Bulma smiles, noticing Goten's wonder, "So what do you think of it, Goten?"
Goten grins, "It's so cool! I wanna ride it!"
Bulma looks up at the other and says, "I modified it a bit from the original design so that it runs on solar power. It won't ever need fuel, and it can carry much more weight."
Goten crawls up to the machine and points to the panel, "What does this do? And this? And that one?"
The blue haired scientist laughs and answers, "I'll show you, Goten. Gohan you better listen up too. It's more than likely you'll be the one using it."
She goes out on an all out tutorial about how to use it, taking up a long time, and giving Goku a sever headache. He solves the problem by just ignoring Bulma and resting under a tree, letting her continue the lesson. It's not long though before Piccolo decides it's a waste of time, and Trunks gets bored. So they accompany Goku in his resting spot. Goten and Gohan are the only ones listening as Bulma finishes up the lecture.
Bulma looks over at the other three, quite annoyed and says, "Goten, why don't you go wake them up?"
Goten nods cheerfully, "Okay!" and hops out of the machine, to wake the others.
Bulma turns to Gohan and asks, "So when do you plan on leaving? I assume that you're the one that's going to go."
Goten comes up to them and whines, "But I wanna drive it." Bulma and Gohan look at the other three and sweatdrop seeing that Goten "woke" them up with ki blasts.
Gohan frowns, crossing his arms, "Goten, I think I'm speaking for Mom when I say this too, you're too young to go off on your own."
Goten protests, "But I know everything that I need to do to drive it! I paid attention the whole time! Isn't that right, Aunt Bulma?"
Bulma says evasively, "Well, Goten, you did, but I agree with Gohan. You're just too small to operate a machine like this."
Goku walks up and asks, "What's the problem?"
Goten tugs at his father's gi and says, "Daddy, they won't let me drive the time machine, but I paid attention to Aunt Bulma's lesson the whole entire time! And you would let me drive it, wouldn't you?" making the biggest puppy dog eyes he can with Goku.
Goku says, "I don't see what's wrong with it."
Gohan says unbelievingly, "Dad!"
The saiyajin frowns, "What?"
Bulma insists, "Goku, it's just too dangerous. He could get lost, or the time machine could get wrecked, making him get stuck in a different timeline forever!"
Goku says, 'Well, in that case. Goten, these two probably know best."
Bulma frowns, "What do you mean_probably_?"
Goten pouts, "But I wanna drive it."
Goku sighs, "Sorry son. Maybe when you get older." Goku takes up Goten into his arms and starts to bring him into Capsule Corps.
Bulma turns back to Gohan, "So when are you going to leave?"
Gohan answers, "Probably tomorrow morning."
Goten, who was listening in on their conversation, asks, "Daddy? Can we stay here the night?"
Goku smiles, "Sure, if it makes you feel better."
The demi-saiyajin turns his gaze back to the impressive machine basking in the glow of the dawn's early light, "It makes me feel a lot better."
