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"Keira, it's morning." Echo sings sweetly to her slumbering daughter.

However, there is no movement under the sheets. Echo narrows her eyes and cocks one eyebrow.

"Keira?" She asks, a little more firmly than before.

She tries gently shaking Keira's shoulder. Nothing. Echo shakes her head.

"I see you've developed more than that hair from your Sayian blood." She mumbles. "KEIRA!" this time shouting her name and violently shaking her.

Keira abruptly sits up and focuses on her mother sitting before her. "What? Who? Oh, it's you, mother. What time is it?"

Echo smiles, "It's breakfast time. Come on, I made pancakes!" Echo leaves the room.

Keira sits on her bed, watching her mother leave and shut the door behind her.

"Pan…Cakes?"

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Keira makes her way down the narrow hall into the dining room where her mother, Goku, and Gohan are sitting around a circular table. There are two empty chairs. She stops and looks at her choices.

Which is the lesser of two evils? My mother's disgusting Sayian husband, or his retched son with half human blood?

"The chair next to Gohan is your seat, honey," Her mother sings out from the kitchen.

Damn. I hope he doesn't talk to me at least.

Keira takes her seat next to the empty chair and Gohan. She sits up strait and places her napkin in her lap while she patiently waits for breakfast.

"Your mother makes the BEST pancakes, just you wait! Isn't that right Gohan?"

Gohan sighs deeply, "Yeah, I guess."

Goku nervously laughs, "Well don't get too excited son! Speaking of which, Keira, have you met my son, Gohan? He's 17 yrs old and he is entering his last year of high school. Do you have high school on your planet?"

Keira looks at Gohan. His head is bowed, focusing on his empty plate. She continues to stare as she replies, "Schooling begins when an Anglican child is one year old. From then until the child is twenty is basic schooling for all Angelicans. We learn all martial art forms available, and we are taught the dimensions of each galaxy quadrant, the rise and fall of all civilizations, as well as 100,000 spoken and written languages…. Gohan, is it?"

Gohan looks up at Keira for the first time, but says nothing.

Goku is the one to speak "YOU HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL THAT LONG JUST FOR A BASIC EDUCATION? THAT'S-"

"Pancakes!" Echo chimes in as she walks through the door with two towering plates of pancakes.

"Oh Goody!" Goku loses his train of thought and starts drooling at the sight of the food.

Echo sits down next to Keira as everyone starts to grab the pancakes. Goku and Gohan start furiously scarfing down the food at a scary accelerated pace.

Keira turns to look at her mother as she has already started cutting up the pieces of her second pancake. Keira looks at the pile of pancakes in front of her and spears one. She holds the fork eye level and examines the pancake. The others stop eating and watch her. Keira is suddenly aware that all eyes are on her. She never takes her fascination off the fork.

"It is to my understanding that a cake is a confectionary substance eaten by the lazy humans of Earth for a fattening dessert. Am I misinformed?" Keira asks, still studying the pancake before her.

Gohan grabs Keira's plate and plops a pancake on it. He proceeds to butter it, and then pour an excess amount of syrup on it. He cuts one small piece out of it, and then shoves the plate in front of her.

"Just try it." Are his only words to her.

Keira puts the speared pancake back on top of the pile, and then picks up the gooey piece of pancake. She looks at Gohan accusingly, then at her mother. Echo slightly nods her approval. Keira sighs and closes her eyes as she puts the food in her mouth.

"You have to chew it." Her mother encourages.

Keira squints her eyes more as she starts to chew the solid food in her mouth. As the chewing motion becomes more natural, she slowly opens her eyes. She swallows the last bit in her mouth. Gohan picks up his own fork, and starts eating his breakfast again. Goku follows his lead.

"You should really try it with fruit and powered sugar!" Goku exclaims in between bites.

Keira also starts to eat again, this time on her second pancake. She spears the whole pancake with her fork again. Everyone, once again, stops eating to stare at her actions. Keira shoves the whole thing in her mouth and manages a smile before she starts chewing again. Echo laughs, and starts to bring her own plate into the kitchen.

After everyone has had their fill of breakfast, Goku and Gohan make their way into the living room, and Keira walks into the kitchen to help her mother.

"Do you eat pancakes everyday?" Keira asks her mother shyly.

Echo laughs, "Well it seems to be the favorite for breakfast so I make it a few times a week."

Keira's eyes grow larger, "That was only breakfast? There are other meals as well today?"

"Don't you eat on your planet?" Gohan asks, making his presence known.

Keira is drying the plates from breakfast as she answers.

"Angelicans only eat a Jell-O-like substance in the morning. It's filled with all of the vitamins and nutrients we need for the whole day. After that, we can only drink nutrient enriched water. It's why Angelicans' bodies are the healthiest and most fit bodies in the seven different universes."

"Bummer." Gohan replies as he reaches in the refrigerator for a can of soda.

He closes the door and opens the can. He stands there drinking and sees from the corner of his eye that Keira is watching him. Seeing that Gohan noticed her, she quickly looks back to the dishwater she is draining. Careful not to look back at Gohan, she reaches for the dishtowel to dry her hands. Gohan reopens the fridge, and grabs another can of soda.

"Here. Liquid confectionary substance at it's finest." He says as he tosses the can to her.

Keira drops the dishtowel and catches the can. Gohan walks out of the kitchen. She imitates Gohan's actions and flips the tab of that can to open it. She starts to drink the fizzing liquid. Her eyes grow bigger and she starts spitting out the liquid and coughing. Echo laughs as she tends to her daughter.

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Vegeta is furiously punching a wide steel pole. As he dents the metal, his son Trunks enters the training room.

"Father, mom says to tell you breakfast is ready." Trunks says while yawning and rubbing the sleep from his eyes. "Why didn't you wake me to practice this morning?"

"You're complaining?" Vegeta answers back.

"No." Trunks replies a little too quickly.

Suddenly, an idea flashes through his head, "Hey! Can we go see Gohan and his mom and dad today again? And that new girl too. What's her name again, Dad? Is she a Z Fighter too?"

Vegeta makes his last punch count as he breaks the pole in half. He turns and puts a hand on Trunk's shoulder as they walk out of the room. "Keira. Her name is Keira. And yes, we are going to see them again today."

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Back at Goku and Echo's house, Keira is outside sitting on the grass, watching Goku and Gohan train together. They attack each other first with kicks and punches, but they keep blocking each other's attack moves. They fly apart and simultaneously conjure up an array of power bombs. The opposing attacks are too big to deflect and they are both knocked off their feet. Keira laughs uncontrollably at the sight. She stops abruptly and looks towards the house. Goku stops laughing as well and notices Keira's serious look.

"What's wrong, Keira? Do you sense something?" Goku asks as he walks closer to her.

"It's an Anglican signal… They've found me." She solemnly remarks.

"Oh so you didn't mention where you were vacationing to?" Goku relaxes as he asks.

"There are no vacations during the schooling process. I left. I… I ran way." Keira stammers.

"You WHAT?" Goku asks as Keira runs inside the house.

Keira doesn't answer as she races towards her mother's location in the house. She can feel Goku and Gohan are following. She stops outside of a tall brown door, with a strong white light seeping through the cracks. Keira presses her ear against the door to hear. Goku and Gohan do the same when they approach the door. It does no good however, because the voice they hear is not speaking English.

"We have warned you of the repercussions, Echo Moon. You were not to be in any contact with Keira after her birth." The voice booms.

"You cannot deny me my daughter! She wanted to know who I am, but you denied her the proper information she requested." Echo strikes back.

"You don't have any rights to her. You have committed the most heinous crime in producing offspring with another alien race! You should be grateful we allowed her life and brought her up as a whole Anglican!"

"Grateful? Grateful to have my child taken away from me, for you to raise her so that she feels like a mutt amongst her own people? I don't think so!"

"Despite how you feel, you have offended the consol in breaking the agreement. If you value your life, you must return Keira to her home planet IMMEDIATELY!"

Echo is silent for a moment, then stands up strait and firmly states, "She IS on her home planet. And to assure that she has the free will to be anywhere she desires, I accept the repercussions."

"What are they saying? It sounds like nonsense talk!" Goku complains.

"Dad, it must be the Anglican language." Gohan explains.

"Oh no…. MOTHER DON'T!" Keira screams with tears in her eyes as she burst through the door.

It's too late however. By the time Keira is through the door, her mother has collapsed on the floor. Keira stops in her tracks, while Goku rushes to his wife's side. Gohan stops in the doorway, behind Keira.

Echo turns her head to face Goku at her side and weakly says, "Please…Take care of her…"

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