Three warriors walked down the corridors of the mall, glancing at the stores with little to no interest. Piccolo, Vegeta and Goku all had their hands shoved deep in their pockets and scowls on their faces.
"How do we get pulled into these situations?" Vegeta complained, "It's like some mystery author is writing stories and trying to make our lives miserable!"
"No kidding," Piccolo said, "I haven't been able to meditate since Buu, something always come up!"
"Yea, and I seem to just be weird!" Goku whined.
The two others turned to face the tall Saiyan. "We'll, more then normal," he admitted. Thus the three walked on in silence.
"Why don't we try this one?" Goku pointed to a store, not even knowing what it was, just looking for something to do, "It's better then walking and scowling."
The others exchanged glances and looked at Goku. Walking and scowling happened to be their forte. "Oh come on!" The kind Saiyan grabbed Vegeta and Piccolo and dragged them into the store.
"Holy shit!" Piccolo gasped, covering up his nose, "It smells in here, like a... Are you two okay?"
Both Saiyans had immediately stopped at the smell, each with wide eyes and open mouths.
"I smell..." Goku started.
"I smell..." Vegeta started.
"I smell..." Goku repeated.
"I smell..." Vegeta repeated.
"FOOD!" They both yelled and dived into the Yankee candle shop.
"Uhoh..." Piccolo realized the situation, and knew he was helpless to stop the two stronger beings. I just hope they realize they are candles before it's too late.
It took them fifteen minutes to figure out the scented candles were not food. Even so, Goku bought a few candles for the road, saying he had, "Acquired a taste for them."
"How much longer do we have to stay here?" Vegeta asked, almost getting run over by a patch of teenage girls running to get a new CD.
"Oh, probably another page or two," Piccolo said, "Brad seems to be running low on jokes."
"Oh, well, that's not so bad," Vegeta admitted, holding Goku by the back of his gi to keep him from attacking a Bath and body works store that also smelled really good, "Let's go in here. We might be able to find a good movie or two."
The three beings walked into the video store and passed up the rows of drama's, humors, and action movies.
"What's this?" Goku asked, picking up a DVD.
"What's what?" Vegeta asked, looking up from a Disney movie that had caught his eye.
Goku didn't respond, but turned the video to face the other Saiyan.
"Holy crap! That's us!" The movie was "Broly, the legendary Super Saiyan," and it sported Goku, Vegeta, Trunks and Gohan all in attack poses, "Buy it," Vegeta said, "I want to see what the hell is going on."
After that, the rest of the mall trip was rather boring. Vegeta blasted at the usual targets, Goku ate the entire food court, and Piccolo watched it all.
They arrived in Capsule Corp. and Vegeta immediately grabbed the small bag out of the other Saiyans hands.
"Let's see what this is all about," he said and inserted the disc into the CD tray. Seconds later he ejected it and rubbed his still sore sensitive ears, "Okay, let's try that again, but not in the CD player."
Goku and Piccolo sat behind him, and nodded, experiencing static in surround sound.
They all sat around as the usual advertisements for other cartoons played by, and then finally the main menu came up.
"Who's that?" Piccolo asked, pointing to the spiky haired being floating next to the menu options.
"I think its Broly," Goku said, scratching his head and taking a bite out of a candle.
"Broly! Humph!" Vegeta scowled, "Why would we name a Saiyan such a ridiculous name! Sounds like some form of vegetable!" The Prince of all Vegetables stabbed the PLAY button, and the movie started.
"Is that me?" Goku asked, looking as he waited in line with Chichi for registration, "I'M IN A SUIT! That can't be me! I never whine that much and never would wear a suit! They even got my expression all wrong!"
"Of course. They just HAD to start off with you," Vegeta spat, "I am your ruler and they still give you all the credit." He watched the happenings on the screen, "HAHAHAHA! You're woman has you on a leash! You're her bitch! HAHAHA!"
Piccolo grinned and Goku let out a small smile that clearly said he hadn't caught any of the insult. They continued to watch, Piccolo increasingly annoyed that he wasn't in the movie, Vegeta annoyed that he didn't get to fight, and Goku... well, he was to busy eating candles.
"Alright!" Piccolo yelled, "I get to make a dramatic entrance again!"
"Pffhh!" Vegeta scoffed, "The only reason I haven't jumped in is because I want to see Kakarot get his ass kicked."
"I don't think he's kicked me in the ass yet…" Goku said, whipping wax off his hands.
"Shh! I'm about to say something really dramatic!" Piccolo said.
The Piccolo in the movie gently lay Gohan on the ground and forced a bean into his mouth, "Gohan, eat his Senzu."
"So dramatic!" Piccolo said with tears in his eyes.
"Kakarot, if you don't mind my asking, why do you keep losing your shirts in a battle?"
"Well, Vegeta," Goku said, standing up, "It just so happens," He grabbed hold of the bottom of his shirt, "That I am damn sexy!" he yanked off his shirt and threw it in the corner. "And I intend to show you just how sexy I am!" He walked over to Vegeta and calmly straddled his princes' lap.
"It's about time!" Vegeta said and grabbed his waist.
Vegeta woke up from the dream with a start and glared at the other Saiyan, who was still engrossed by the movie.
"Stay out of my dreams!" he kicked Goku and left the building.
"What'd I do?"
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Vegeta blasted out of town and landed deep it the forest. "What the hell did that dream mean?" he asked, "Why would I want to do that with Kakarot? And why am I talking out loud?"
"But I thought you were talking to me!" a squeaky voice said from behind.
Vegeta turned around to see the biggest spider he had ever seen. Six feet long from web sack to antennae, with compound eyes and right baseball bat sized legs, it was a new sight.
"I'm sorry," Vegeta said, "Were you just speaking to me?"
"I sure was! I'm a GIFTS!"
"Well, technically you're a gift," Vegeta said, a little curious.
"What?"
"Singular. You are just one."
"Oh! Then we must be GIFTS!"
Vegeta was a little curious about this, but then he took his attention from the talking spider and looked around. The entire forest was covered with webs, and crawling on those webs were hundreds of large spiders, ranging from the size of basketballs to pickup trucks. (Arachnophobia, anyone?)
"GIFTS?" Vegeta asked in awe.
"Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders!" it chirped.
Vegeta fought to control his sanity and resorted to a more normal line of conversation, "What's your name?"
"My names Spider!" He said, and then looked Vegeta over, "You're cute!"
The last thing most people thought about a destructive Saiyan was the fact that he was cute, and Vegeta had to hold back a snicker, "Spider? That's your name?"
"Yep!" He looked Vegeta once over again, "Will you marry me?"
"Sorry, but I'm already taken,"
The spider slumped away, obviously heart broken. Vegeta glanced around and noticed all the spiders were off in there own little worlds, not really caring that a stranger was in their midst. Vegeta walked up to one that was making something out of some webbing.
"Hello," Vegeta said, "What's your name?"
"I'm Spider!" it said in the same high-pitched voice as the other one.
"You're Spider? But I thought the other… Never mind. What are you making?"
"Oh!" he held up a large sack of webbing that moved around, like something was trapped inside, "It's a McBug, for our fast food restaurant. Pre-webbed and still kicking! For the spider on the go!" It stopped and looked at Vegeta closely, "You're cute!"
Vegeta placed a hand on his forehead and wondered what in the heck was wrong with these things. "I'm sorry, but I already have a mate. Plus, I can't climb webs." Vegeta said, trying to let the spider down easily.
"But! But! You're cute! And you have two legs! And! And! And you don't have any Raid on you!" The spider ran away sobbing, but seconds later it resumed its work, having forgotten the conversation.
"Such strange creatures," Vegeta said and glanced around at the village. One spider caught his eye; it seemed to be doing martial arts! Vegeta walked up and gave what he thought to be a charming grin to the spider, "What are you doing?"
"You're not even going to ask me my name?" the spider stopped and seemed insulted.
"Is it Spider?"
"Wow! You're smart and cute!" Vegeta pinched the bridge of his nose, determined to make himself as un-cute as possible next time he ran into these creatures, "I'm a fighter spider!" the GIFTS continued, "See?" It jumped into the air and let off several kicks and, well, more kicks since it doesn't have any arms, but when it landed all of its legs got tangled and it fell over.
"Sorry," it said, "I don't have it down quite yet." It untangled its legs and moved away.
Vegeta noticed a commotion over at the other end of the village and walked over to see a spider that was obviously the king.
"I am King Spider!" it proclaimed, "I have heard of an outsider among us! Come foreword and speak!" Vegeta stepped foreword and the king looked at him, "Well! He's cute too!"
Vegeta ignored the comment, "I am Prince Vegeta, ruler of the Saiyan race."
"Oh!" The king said, "A royal cutie! What do you want?"
"Nothing really," Vegeta said, "Just looking around."
"Well, be sure to visit our gift shop! You'll find bug eggs, bug soda, bug's on a stick, bug shirts and bug Harry Potter books!"
Vegeta walked away to the outskirts of town, and then took off, wondering at the strange spiders, and what they were doing on the planet.
"Huh," Vegeta said out loud as a thought occurred to him, "I didn't even have to fight any one in this story." Quickly he turned around and blasted a few villains that popped up, just to make this an action story. Smirking, he headed back to Capsule Corporation, hoping to find company for the night with any one other then someone named Kakarot.
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It snowed! The first snowfall came to Bangor this morning! I think I got the first snowball, snowman, and snowflake on the tongue on the whole city! (Mainly because I was waiting for the gym to open when the snowstorm started. I had to run to a dozen different cars to get enough snow.) This story was motivated by Avernum 3, with the Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders. No matter what you do, they all thing you're cute.
Also! Happy Thanksgiving! (Hmm, Thanksgiving special, anyone?)
