I don't own Dragonball Z or any other anime shows. I don't even have my own house yet. Sorry for the repetitive disclaimer. I'm just too lazy to come up with anything else. This chapter is rather short, but the next chapter will be much longer.

Chapter 5: Destination Earth!

"So, your name's Goku, right?" Jessie asks, with great interest.

"Mmm…Hmm," Goku nods his head. Cathy has her attention elsewhere.

Goku says, "You're Jessie and…," he notices Cathy's face filled with concern.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

Cathy turns toward him. "Vegeta's coming!" she says.

"Pretend you're still asleep. I'll handle the rest," Goku volunteers. Cathy and Jessie lay down in their previous spots and Goku sits down with his legs crossed, awaiting Vegeta's arrival.

"There you are." Shock fills Vegeta's face, "You idiot! Get away from there! You're too close!" he yells. Goku merely looks up at Vegeta and holds his index finger to his mouth. Vegeta growls in disgust. He points to the area in front of him as if to say 'get over here'; his expression adds the word 'now!' Goku quietly rises to his feet and leisurely approaches Vegeta.

"What is your problem? Are you crazy?" Vegeta scolds when Goku finally reaches his altitude.

"You said they needed to stay asleep. One of them was moving so I sang a lullaby. They're sound asleep now." Goku says and follows up with a contented expression. Vegeta's eyes open wide then halve.

"Whatever," is his reply. "Let's go. And this time, I'm following you. I can't believe I have to baby-sit you."

"Okay!" Goku takes off at full speed.

"Kakarot! Slow down! Grrr…He's like a child." Vegeta takes off behind him.

"Man, that was close," Jessie says as she stands up and dusts herself off.

Cathy gets up also, "A little too close."

Jessie grows her wings and ascends into the sky, "Come on, Cathy! Let's follow 'um."

"Okay," Cathy says, "there' nothing else to do here anyway." She grows her wings as well and follows her best friend.

"Over here," Vegeta directs Goku. They descend toward the space pods used by the Ginyu Force. "You take that one. I'll use this one."

Goku then asks, in a lonely tone, "W-we're not sharing one?"

Vegeta freezes and slowly turns toward him, a look of shock and disgust rests on his face. There's a small moment of silence, then BOOM! Vegeta explodes, "WHAT DO YOU TAKE ME FOR! I'M NOT SOME SICK PERVERT WHO SHARES A POD WITH ANOTHER MAN, ESPECIALLY A LOW-CLASS SOLIDER!"

Goku cowers under the hysteric shouting. Vegeta huffs and puffs, slowly releasing his anger.

Out of context, Goku says, "You sound like my wife, yelling like that."

Vegeta falls over, feet in the air, twitching.

"Oh well," Goku shrugs his shoulders and enters his space pod. "Hmmm…" He begins to ponder. "There are a lot of buttons here. Which one means 'Earth'? I know, I'll ask Vegeta!"

Too late. As Goku says 'ask' Vegeta's pod shoots out of the atmosphere. "Darn!" he shouts, pounding his fist on the arm of the chair. "I guess I'll press a few buttons here and hope for the best." He pushes some random buttons and the ship takes off. "Where's the seat belt on this thing?" he yells as the ship hurls away from Namek.

"Maybe we should have helped him," Cathy says peeking over the ridge with oversized Namekian ears.

"Nah, he'll be fine." Jessie returns, while her ears return to normality. "Let's go to Earth, Cathy. Maybe we'll find a place to live."

"I don't know, Jessie."

"It's a new planet for us. We might learn something," Jessie says in a persuasive tone.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Cathy transforms into a being similar to Frieza's species. "Now I can breathe in space!" she says excitedly. "I really don't like the look though."

Jessie changes too. "Well you do look a lot like Frieza," she says jokingly, then flies upward at an extremely high speed (fast enough to escape the atmosphere).

"Hey, take that back," Cathy screams; then she races after her.

I warned that it would be short, but like I said, next chapter will be about twice as long. I really hope you readers are enjoying my story. I wouldn't want anyone to be tortured by it, although the cliffhangers in some of the chapters probably did torture some of you.