Chapter Three

AN: Hello guys. Well, I warned you that this fic was the last in my list of priorities. Hopefully you guys will still read this thing. Now that I've re-read the first and second chapter I have no idea why I originally had planned even in the short run so… I'll think of something as I type. Hope you guys enjoy it! Also, it's been entirely too long for me to be away from this fic. Next time I don't update for more than a month drop me an email. It's in my profile.

Juuban Hospital

"They, they're gone!" The doctor exclaims.

"And I'm glad they are!" Mrs. Tsukino shouts. "I cannot believe you were going to turn those poor children over to some 'proper authorities' so they could be studied like some lab rats!"

The doctor immediately tries to assume innocence. "But Miss, those children were obviously abnormal. Especially the one with lightning all around him. They could be dangerous to others, or worse, themselves!" All the while he is glancing at the hair left on the bed from their tails. Fortunately for the Goku and Vegeta, Usagi chooses this moment to come in from the hallway.

"What are you looking at Mr. Doctor person?" Then seeing the hairs on the bed she reaches over and grabs one of them. "Hey, this feels funny! They feel kind of like those shirts mommy likes. What did you say it was called mommy?"

"Silk honey." Mrs. Tsukino says looking down at Usagi. Then, looking down and grabbing the other hairs, she takes Usagi by the hand and leads her from the room. 'At least now that doctor won't have anything to id them with. Without that hair he can't get their genetics down. I don't doubt that he was going to try and sell them to the government. I'm sure they would have loved trying out different experiments on them. Especially if they saw that lightning.' "Let's go home honey."

Back with Goku and Vegeta…

"Now what are we supposed to do Kakarott! I can't believe you! Why didn't you power up? If it made you struggle at your normal form, it couldn't have stopped you as a Super Saiyan you fool!"

Goku stands there sheepishly and scratches the back of his head. "Gee Vegeta, I never thought of that…"

Vegeta growls in anger and glares at Goku. "Kakarott…"

Goku gets a worried look on his face as Vegeta swings his arm back and gathers energy in his palm.

Suddenly, the air in between the two starts to shimmer. A black and purple portal opens, and a woman steps out. Goku and Vegeta suddenly take a fighting stance, when they sense the woman's ki and decide that she's too weak to be a threat.

The woman looks around for a moment before looking down and seeing the two child Saiyans. "You two! Just what do you think you're doing coming here like this! Anyone who intends to enter other times must go through the time gate and request my permission! You two went beyond that! Dimensional travel is not allowed! It shouldn't even be possible!"

Goku gets a confused look on his face. "What are you talking abou…"

"Just who do you think you're talking to woman!" Vegeta yells at the woman who dares talk down to him. "I don't answer to anyone, especially some pathetic weakling like you!"

"Vegeta wait a second. She might know how we got here!" Goku says.

"I don't care if she knew how to send us back home at the snap of a finger! No one talks down to the Prince of all Saiyans! Besides, she already said that inter-dimensional travel should be impossible, so she obviously doesn't know how we got here, much less how to send us home you idiot." Vegeta responds angrily.

The woman, (who we all know is Setsuna) is getting annoyed at Vegeta's mouth. "I don't care who you are. It's my job to watch the time gates, and therefore this entire universe, and you just dropped into it. It's my responsibility to get rid of unwelcome visitors, and I certainly didn't call you. Not to mention that something was hiding you from my sight until I searched manually. Nothing is meant to be hidden from me. Anything that is, is not something that I'd approve of. And anything that I don't approve of is either sent back, or eliminated. However, According to the law I can't kill you until you show me that you are dangerous, and I can't send you back home, as I don't know how you got here. So what am I to do…?"

Vegeta looks at Setsuna and smirks. "Well, since you obviously can't help us, we have no use for you. So maybe you could just shut up and leave us alone. We are perfectly capable of taking care of ourselves. Besides, you couldn't 'eliminate' us if you tried weakling."

"You know I am really getting tired of being called a weakling!" Setsuna yells, eyes flashing. The job of watching the time gates is too important to be handed to just anyone you know. And I really don't like disrespectful children! I think I'll just have you put in a foster home somewhere! One that I know isn't the cream of the crop!"

"Child? Just who are you calling a child youngling? By the looks of you you're no more than 19! Besides, I could easily tear you apart in battle. You are nowhere near as powerful as I am and therefore you could not possibly control what happens to me. You humans are so stupid! Thinking that you area so superior just because you rule your planet. Ha pathetic! You've never had any sentient beings to challenge you, so how could you possibly know if you are truly superior to anything?" Looking up at Setsuna, Vegeta sneers derisively. "I should blast you where you stand but I really don't feel like hearing Kakarott's mouth."

Looking over at Goku he snorts and says, "If you're done talking with this fool let's go."

Goku shakes his head at him. "Wait a minute Vegeta, I want to ask her something." Hearing Vegeta's snort he looks up at Setsuna and grins sheepishly. "Sorry about him. He's kinda harsh until you get to know him. And he really hates being told what to do. But uh, you said something about being the guardian of the time gates? What's that exactly? And why do you say we're from another universe? How do you know we didn't just travel through time?"

Vegeta listens while pretending not to be interested. "Well," Setsuna says, "I can feel when someone travels through time. There is a sort of resonance. Not to mention I can see what time your lifeline was in before it crossed into the new time. Well, your lifelines just suddenly appear. They don't come from anywhere. It's almost like a newborn. The moment life first enters the body, the lifeline comes into existence. It starts out weak, then grows stronger, then, as you grow older, weakens again. Yours just pops into existence at a tremendous strength. I've never seen lifelines so strong. That alone would have caused me to be watching you if you had been born here normally, but then the way you arrived… Any tiny chance that I wouldn't be interested in the strongest lifelines ever seen immediately disappeared."

At this Vegeta snorts and crosses his arms. "Of course we have the most powerful lifelines ever seen. We're Saiyans. Didn't you hear me say I was the Prince of all Saiyans?"

Setsuna tilts her head to the side and thinks for a moment. 'Saiyans? Where did I hear that before? Did father say something about them? Saiyans, lifelines, arrogant princes… Arrgh! If I wasn't barred from going outside of time I could ask father what they were.'

"I've made up my mind. You're going to have to have a place to stay right? And you definitely need to go to school… Fine. You two say you can take care of yourselves, but how adept are you really at that?" Setsuna asks.

"Well-" Goku starts to answer. "Extremely." Vegeta cuts in. We could survive in the wilderness if need be. Why? And what's this nonsense about going to school?"

"If-" Setsuna starts to answer before Goku cuts in. "Hey, I always wanted to go to school! Gohan went and I never got the chance!"

Receiving equally strange looks from both Vegeta and Setsuna for different reasons, Goku immediately challenges Vegeta. "I bet I can do better in school than you Vegeta!"

Crossing his arms Vegeta turns away from Goku. "Ha! You must be joking. Don't insult my intelligence you third class clown."

Smirking Goku also crosses his arms. "What's wrong Vegeta? Scared that the 'weakling' humans are smarter than you?"

"Hello? I'm still here." Setsuna says irritably. "Now, we're going to put you in a building just out of town. You have to catch the bus to school every morning, but it'll be far enough from town where no one will notice that you don't have any parents. I'll see how you two handle yourselves, but if I see you need supervision I'm going to have to put you somewhere where you have actual parents. I don't like messing with people's minds, but if I have to I will. Don't make me regret trusting that you can handle yourselves."

With a wave of her time key, the two Saiyans are transported to a house in a secluded area just outside the city. Looking at each other Goku shrugs, Vegeta snorts, and they enter the house.

Back at the time gates, Setsuna is exhausted. 'Why was it so difficult to send them to the house? It's almost like they… resisted somehow. But that's impossible. And what did they call themselves again? Saiyans. All I remember is that they were important somehow. But were they good… or bad?'

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