"Wow, it's incredible!"
"It's so LONG too, especially for a guy as short as you are!"
"Can I touch it?"
Krillin's face turns beet red.
"WOULD EVERYONE PLEASE STOP IT!" He yells.
The rest of the Z Fighters take a step back, aside from the tall blonde woman holding an infant. Her face is emotionless.
"Oh come on, Krillin! You've been bald your entire life, why the sudden change?" Goku laughs.
Krillin rolls his eyes. "I did it to please the ladies, Goku!"
"Ladies? Meaning more than just me?" 18 demands.
"What? No, I-" he stumbles.
"Oh looks like the honeymoon is OVER!" Yamcha cuts in.
Yamcha and Goku bend over with laughter. Tein tries to hold a strait face, but his eyes are watering.
"Okay, that's enough boys! Krillin, I think you look very handsome." A soft voice soothes.
Krillin blushes. "Oh, thank you Echo."
18 rolls her eyes at her star struck husband. "If it was anyone but YOU, Echo, I'd be worried."

Goku stops laughing. "And if it was anyone but Krillin, I would be worried!"

More laughter erupts between the men, this time 18 joins in.
Echo politely smiles. She is dressed in long kaki pants with a dark blue blouse, to compliment her light blue hair. She always wore her long hair down, and it wildly blew across her face when the wind picked up. She never minded, however. She loved days like this, when the sun was out and shinning, and the slight breezes didn't make it too hot. Of all the planets she resided on, Earth was her favorite.
"Hey, I set up the blanket on the bottom of the hill, like you asked." Gohan walks up behind the group.
"Oh, thank you very much. Is everyone ready to eat?" Echo asks.
"I'm ready to cook the steaks we brought!" Goku gleams.
"We brought the potato salad." 18 states, as Krillin proudly holds up the big bowl.
"I brought the refreshments. There are all the essential vitamins and protein mixed in with healthy soy product. I've recently discovered how rejuvenated I've felt after drinking one!" Tien says as he hauls a cooler on his shoulders.
"And I brought the beer!" Yamcha perks up.
"Yamcha, you were supposed to bring plastic eating utensils!" Scolds Echo.
"Don't worry, we picked up some on our way here!" Chimes in a distant, familiar female voice.
Bulma and Trunks run towards the group, baskets in hand. 18 looks around.
"Did Vegeta come with you two?" She cautiously asks.
"Oh, he's sulking behind. You wouldn't BELIEVE what it took to get him out here though!"
"I'd believe it." Echo quietly remarks to herself.
Goku looks up at her, quiz idly. Vegeta joins the group as they all start walking down the hill. Trunks runs to walk beside Gohan.
"So where's the Green Man?" He asks him.
Gohan looks down at Trunks. "Piccolo couldn't make it."
"Oh."
Once down the hill, Goku and Yamcha set up a grill to cook the steaks. Bulma engages conversation with 18 as she tries to calm her daughter down.
"Trunks was very fussy as a baby too, but whenever he started to act up I would dip his binkie in sugar water and stick it in his mouth."
18 nonchalantly nods her head, only half listening to her friend's advice.
Tein and Echo discuss the advantages of soy product compared to real meat to a stubborn Krillin. Trunks tries to talk to Gohan again, this time about school. This catches Gohan's attention. Vegeta just leans back on a near by tree, watching everyone. He throws a few extra glances at Echo, who is laughing freely.

How could she choose that fool over me? After what I gave her?

Her laughter abruptly stops however, as she looks towards the sky.
"Echo, what's wrong?" Tein timidly asks her.
At the same time, Goku and Vegeta pick up on the new presence. A few seconds later, everyone is looking in the sky.
"I don't get it, what are we all looking at?" Bulma clueless asks.
"Something is drawing near…or Someone." Echo answers her.
Vegeta pushes off the tree and uses his advanced Sayian senses to pick up on where the energy is coming from. Then, in the middle of the out stretched blanket, a light appears. Everyone scatters a few feet away. The light appears as bright-fractured rainbows, with colors everywhere. The bright light takes a solid form, and shows curves of the feminine sort. The last details are shown until all the light has faded away. Before the Z Fighters is a young woman with long flowing black hair. She stares intensely at Vegeta.
Vegeta stares back.
She looks just like Echo! The figure, the posture… Except for her black hair and her eyes… Her eyes!
The strange girl's eyes are a blazing red, and they are full of hatred. A small smile appears on her face. Vegeta cocks his brow in confusion. He takes a single step toward her. At that instant, she releases an energy ball and hurls it at him. He crashes into the tree he was leaning on just moments ago. Vegeta stands up and instantly goes Super Sayian.
Her eyes slightly enlarge at his transformation. She intensely throws more attacks at his direction, and when she pauses, she is blinded from the dust. As the cloud settles, Vegeta is nowhere in sight. Before she has a chance to realize it, he is behind her. He picks her up off the ground and throws her at a tree a few yards away. She immediately stands up, but Vegeta races over to her and grabs her by the throat and smashes her against the trunk of a tree.
"Perhaps you will think twice before attacking a Sayian warrior, that is, if you live long enough to!" he screams as he tightens his grip.
"NO, VEGETA, STOP!" Echo yells as she tries to loosen his grip on the girl's throat.
There are tears in her eyes. "That's…That's Keira."
Vegeta loosens his grip on the girl. "Do you know this girl then?"
The young woman smirks, and as she is finding her voice, she replies for Echo. "Yes, she does. As should you, Father."