Chapter 7

Massacre looked from Vegeta to Piccolo wondering what they were looking at. Then she noticed that Vegeta was more looking at Piccolo than he was at her. Piccolo's look on his face was one of admiration, and remembering.

Massacre then realized what Piccolo was thinking about. The Crusades and everything in between the 4 years after that. Massacre started to blush and get nervous, and Vegeta could tell.

"Ok Namek, why are we sitting here when there is an android out on the loose? We should be going after this thing and trying to finish this ordeal once and for all!" Vegeta was starting to get annoyed.

Piccolo was startled for a second and then looked at Vegeta with a look of seriousness.

"Vegeta is right, we need to gather ourselves and get together a battle plan." Piccolo turned toward the east.

"I just hope that we can find him. If he is going after those extra energy cells he was talking about earlier then we have no time to lose. He could be impossible to beat after that you know?" Superman was getting as impatient as Vegeta, with good reason.

"I'm not entirely sure that is what he was meaning to do. I think he is still around, observing what we are planning next. And if that fact is so, I think we should take this somewhere else. Let's all go to the lookout and try to come up with something else" And with that Piccolo powered up and headed in the direction of the lookout.

"What is the lookout? And where is it anyways Vegeta?" Superman asked intently.

Vegeta scoffed and then turned to Superman, "A place to waste time and be safe. But also a good place to train, if you need to."

Vegeta powered up as well and started to head in the same direction. He stopped and turned around, "I suppose you all need me to guide you, so if your coming get up here and stop looking around like idiots!"

Superman looked at Massacre, shrugged and said, "Hey it can't hurt to go somewhere that the androids won't find us."

Superman flew off towards Vegeta, "Are you coming woman?" Vegeta asked.

She turned and faced them.

"I'll be there shortly, just get going!" She swore to herself as she realized she was planning something else.

Vegeta turned with a look of disgust, and started flying in Piccolo's direction with Superman right behind him, looking back and wondering what was bothering Massacre.

Massacre sat and stared at the now abandoned nuclear plant. She was sent there to make sure that the battle involved innocents. But instead she was late because she couldn't find her damned day timer. If only she could have been more organized, she might not have botched this one up. Other than seeing Piccolo, this was the worst day she had since her inauguration of becoming War's apprentice. She hadn't planed her entire afterlife being a bringer of destruction of the planet. And the only person she had ever loved in her afterlife was the one being who was charged with the guardianship of the Earth. Man her afterlife was getting more complicated by the second.

What she hadn't considered is that it could get a lot worse. And it did the next day. Massacre finally awoke the next morning in the same spot she was in when they left the night before. It was early morning here, where she slept in Purgatory it would be considered mid afternoon. She cursed herself for letting herself sleep, and got up and dusted her cloak off. She decided that she would help Piccolo, even if it cost her apprenticeship. She owed Piccolo that much, and a lot more for not letting the lookout end up involved in a lot of the creations she was responsible for. Even though Buu ended up becoming vastly out of her control, because he was made from magic, instead of human scientific methods.

Back at the lookout Vegeta, Piccolo and Superman sat at the edge of the half sphere lookout looking down in wonder of what was going on down on earth.

"So what do we do now?" Superman finally asked breaking the silence.

Piccolo looked on in a daze at the Earth, almost like he was trying to watch what was going on like he had done all those years ago.

"Excuse me sir, but we are receiving a transmission from New Namek. Elder Morey wants to talk to you Piccolo." a voice from behind them said.

It was Mr. Popo, the care taker of the lookout and tower it stood on. He was also the companion for anyone who becomes the guardian of the Earth. But since Dende had been guardian and was killed in battle trying to heal Goku, there was no guardian, and no Dragonballs to wish anyone back. So Piccolo took guardianship again till a new Guardian could be found, or they could get a hold of New Namek for a wish on their Dragonballs.

"Thank you Mr. Popo, which is the best news we have had in the last few days." Piccolo turned and smiled at him.

"Are you meaning to tell me you have been planning on using one of their wishes the entire time and you did not tell me Namek?" Vegeta demanded.

"Explain, right now!" exclaimed Vegeta.

"Who is Elder Morey Piccolo?" Superman asked.

Vegeta looked at him and realized he didn't know the whole story. Vegeta explained it all as best as he could.

"So that's why you guys have been so worried. I thought it was because of the situation down there." Superman conjectured.

Piccolo kept on walking to the entrance to the main hall and then stopped when he felt a familiar power approaching the lookout. Vegeta did a one eighty degree turn when he felt the energy too and almost dropped to his knees.

"My hopes were true, I wasn't sure if they had survived. I thought for sure they had been taken out, so I waited to see if you could make a difference Vegeta. I'm glad I did, you proved to be more than what I was bargaining for." Piccolo said with a smile.

They all looked off to the west with great satisfaction, well that is all except for Superman, who was still just a little confused.

"Hey there, glad to see some of you survived. I wasn't sure if my gut instincts were right or not. Guess I'll never doubt them again, how's it going Vegeta?" said the man flying towards them.

He was followed by another person who was oddly similar to him in appearance except the symbol on his back.

"I'm so glad to see that you survived Gohan, and Goten you sure have gotten stronger since the last time we met." Piccolo said with a sound of relief.

Gohan and Goten landed. They were dressed in the same familiar outfits of their dad Goku, except for Goten's which had sleeves down to his wrists. But both of their symbols on the back were different. The one on Gohan's back was that of Piccolo's camp, and the one on Goten's back was that of Master Roshi's.

"Master Roshi thought it would be fitting if we wore our dad's uniform. But with the symbols of which style we fought in." Gohan said.

Piccolo could not hold back his pride, and relief that they were still alive, and honoring their father.

"I don't think he would have it any other way Gohan." Vegeta said with sincerity, which was rare for him.

"Ok, now that everything seems to be falling into place, we should only be expecting one more person if my guess is correct. We should be expecting her right about now." Piccolo gestured to his left as a cloud of smoke appeared.

Massacre appeared out of the cloud and looked back at everyone.

"Ok, what did I miss?" She said uncomfortably