Rifts and Changes

Chapter Three: Please have mercy on me, as I am nothing but a good-looking man with a brain I cannot control!

Disclaimer: Same as before.

A/N: Okay, lots of stuff gonna be found out in this chapter so pay attention. It's kind of complicated.

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Back in Japan…

"Oh crap. Oh crap. Shimatta." Gohan kept muttering as he walked back and forth.

"Gohan, calm down. She may not find out." Videl said, trying to calm her husband down.

"She will, and she will be so pissed off. I can just see her now blowing up roofs and stuff!" Gohan said. Pan looked at her parents quizzically and was about to ask them what was wrong when the doorbell rang.

"I'll get it." Pan said, but her parents were too distracted to notice her. She went to open the door and saw Krillin, Marron and #18 at the door. "Hello! Long time no see, what's wrong? You look concerned." Pan asked, as she let them in.

"Have you seen what's happening on the news?" Marron asked.

"Yes. Mum and Daddy are getting worried about it too. Grandpa, Vegeta-san, Trunks and Uncle Goten went to check it out." Pan said.

"I know, I'm worried because the transmission's gone out." Marron said. "I hope they're okay."

"I'm sure they are." Pan reassured. The telephone rang. "I suppose I'll get that too. Hello? Yeah, Daddy's here. Daddy, telephone. It's Uncle Nick." Gohan took the phone from her.

"Hey Nick. Yeah, I've been watching it. How are you holding up over there…uh huh…too late huh? They've already gone to the hospital? Crap. She's gonna know…that's exactly what I said!" Gohan said, rubbing his eyes with his free hand. "How soon can you get…oh yeah, I forgot. Yeah, I'll call them. Okay, see you after the shit hits the fan."

"Again with the bad words in front of us Papa!" Cory said, pouting. "If Grandma heard you, she'd smack you."

Back in England…

"Dr Summers, we've got four casualties from the fight downtown." A male nurse said, as he ran into the doctor's lounge. "Dr Stevens wants you to take a look at it."

"Am I ever gonna get this rep of 'weird doctor' off me Kurt?" Dr Summers asked, as she got up and walked with the nurse to the ER. He laughed.

"They're in here. These two just seem to be suffering from exhaustion whereas these two look like they've been put through hell. All of them are conscious now miraculously." Dr Summers looked at all four patients and gasped quietly. "You know what's wrong with them?"

"I think so. I've seen these types of injuries before and I know that we can't cure it here." Dr Summers said.

"To answer your previous question…no, you're never gonna shake that weird doctor reputation." Kurt said.

"Aww thanks Kurt." Dr Summers replied dryly. "I'm gonna see if I can get identification out of them could you please tell Dr Stevens that we need to get them a transfer jet to the hospital facilities of Capsule Corp in Japan."

"Right away boss." Kurt said as he sped down the hall. Dr Summers folded her arms and walked into the room.

"Okay, I have no authority to make you talk Mr Son and Mr Vegeta but I can certainly try and squeeze it out of your two sons." Dr Summers said. The two older Saiyans looked at her in surprise, whereas the two younger ones looked dejected. "Now Trunks and Goten, we can do this the easy way or I can poke your burn marks until you cry. Either way, I wanna know why you have chi burn marks and why the hell those aliens on the news were attacking you."

"Okay, either you're with those bastards that attacked us, you know us or you're psychic." Vegeta said, as angrily as he could given his current state.

"Hehe. Too easy." She laughed. "Well?"

"Natalie, please don't make us tell." Trunks said.

"Eh uh, you owe me Trunks. And now I'm collecting." Natalie said.

"So you're a doctor now?" Goten asked. "I just have to add, Hellooooooooo nurse!" (Come on, Animaniacs! I had to do it!)

"I don't think my husband would be too pleased to hear you say that." Natalie laughed. "Fine. If you're going to avoid the subject then I'm just gonna phone your brother and yell at him."

"Better you than me lady. Kakarrot's brat has a lot of explaining to do." Vegeta huffed.

Back at Gohan's…

"Okay, we'd better go to Capsule Corp. I'll explain everything there." Gohan said. Just as they were about to leave, Gohan's cell rang. "Hello?"

"Son, you are so busted."

"Crap. Hey Nat, what's up?"

"Don't 'what's up' me Son Gohan! I have got your father, your brother, Mr Vegeta and Trunks all sitting in the frigging ER! They looked as if they just got their asses handed to them and the guys that did it seem to be after you. And they seem to be displaying some familiar attributes no less, so what in the blue hell is going on? I am freaking out here Gohan."

"Nat…"

"Don't you dare start lying to me! I can tell when you're lying!"

"Look, I really can't talk now. Nick'll fill you in."

"Nick?! You mean even he knows what's going on?!"

"Please don't be angry. We only thought we were doing what was best."

"I hate that."

"What?"

"Just that!" Natalie said, as she hung up the phone.

"That did not go well." Gohan sighed. "Let's get going."

Back in the hospital…

"I could kill your brother you know. He didn't tell me anything." Natalie said, angrily. "And apparently, my husband is in on it too." Natalie walked up to them and checked all their vitals. "Luckily, we are good to go. We're getting a jet prepped to take you back to Trunks' house."

"Thank you Miss." Goku said.

"You're welcome." Natalie said. She turned around to look at the doorway. There was a tall, dark haired man standing there and he was very out of breath. He looked at her sheepishly.

"Hi honey." Nicholas said, grinning goofily. Natalie frowned.

"Don't you 'hi honey' me Nicholas Julian Summers." Natalie said, wagging her finger. "I knew it! I knew there was something you were hiding from me! How could you keep this a secret from me for so long?! I know I am not a fighter like you are but I think as your wife I deserve to know when my husband goes on a suicide mission!"

"Calm down, please." Nicholas said.

"I am calm buddy! Me not calm would involve various explosions and certain body parts of yours not existing!" Natalie yelled, waving her hands all over the place. The patients looked between the husband and wife as they argued. "It's just a cut he says! Gohan and me were playing a bit too rough he says. No need for me to worry about it he says! Do you know…?!"

"I know, you may have made a difference and we don't know how vital you could have been had you been there that day but Nat, I was only doing what I thought was best for you!"

"I'm not talking about that you oversized jackass!" Natalie practically screeched.

"Um, Dr Summers?" Kurt asked fearfully. "The jet is ready, and Jane and Sarah are ready to take the patients on board."

"Okay, do it." Natalie said, still looking at her husband with much anger. When the two nurses had loaded them onto the jet, Natalie walked away from Nicholas but he followed her. "Don't follow me Nicholas."

"I hate it when we fight Nat. Especially since you're doing most of the yelling inside my head." Nicholas said.

"Don't try and joke you're way out of this, it is not funny!"

"Who's joking? I'm having serious migraines!"

"Fine, you want verbal communication. I AM NEVER TALKING TO YOU AGAIN!" Natalie yelled.

"Honey, don't talk like that." Nicholas said. "Gohan wants us both to come to Japan."

"Well then bub, you're finding your own ride there." Natalie said, climbing into the jet.

"Honey…"

"You still don't get it do you? You don't trust me!"

"Nat, you know that isn't true!" Nicholas said. "I trust you with my life, never think otherwise."

"Okay then, if that is true why don't you tell me the reason you never told me about those guys attacking you before?" Natalie asked.

"Nani?!" The four injured Saiyans exclaimed.

"Did I miss a whole chunk of your conversation? Because I am totally lost." Trunks said, noting everyone else's confusion. Nicholas cast his gaze downwards.

"I…I can't." Nicholas said.

"Well, I guess that answers that." Natalie said, as she shut the jet door. The jet took off and sped towards Japan.

"Um, Gohan's friend?" Vegeta asked.

"Yes Trunks' dad?" Natalie replied.

"What the hell is going on?" Vegeta demanded.

"Well I don't know exactly but I think it has something to do with my husband and Gohan." Natalie said.

"But why would they be after your husband? He's just an ordinary human."

"Well…" Natalie said, nervously twisting her fingers. "That's not exactly true."

"Huh?!"

"Don't get overexcited, you'll pass out!"

"Okay, so explain what's up?" Goten asked.

"Natalie has special powers." Trunks said. Natalie rolled her eyes.

"Thanks Trunks! I had a nice little speech there ready to be used and everything." Natalie said.

"You're welcome." Trunks replied. "I didn't know that Nick did too."

"He does. So does Videl, Andie and David." Natalie said. "See, our forefathers or whatever they're called came from another planet Tocopherat. And I'm guessing from the whammy that those guys gave you, they are too."

"Why did Gohan not tell us?" Goten asked.

"Don't be mad at him, we asked him not to tell anyone." Natalie said. "But you can be mad at him for not telling you when these lot attacked before. I sure am."

"What do you mean, before?" Goku asked.

"One day Nick went out, was gone for a few days and then comes home battered. He tells me he went training with Gohan and that he was fine and I shouldn't worry. But now I'm starting to think otherwise." Natalie said, slightly scowling. There was a brief silence.

"So, what kind of powers do you have?" Goten asked, trying to break the silence.

"I don't have any really useful." Natalie said.

"Yeah right. Being a telepath is not useful." Trunks said, sarcastically.

"You can read minds?" The others asked. Natalie nodded.

"That's why it seemed me and Nick were talking in cryptic, we kind of talk telepathically and forget that we're doing it. Also, sometimes I get like vision thingies but they come as often as an honest salesman." Natalie said.

Meanwhile…

"Can we talk about this now?" Krillin asked.

"Everyone's not here yet." Videl said. Right on cue, Andrea and David along with their kids walked in. Their eldest, Claudia went straight over and sat with Pan and they quickly got into discussion.

"Hey guys." David said. "Funny how it's always a crisis that brings us together."

"Now is not the time to joke." Andrea said, scolding her husband. "What's going on?"

"Okay, just got off the phone with Nick. He says that Natalie did find out and she's mighty pissed." Gohan said.

"Great, let the PMSing marathon begin." David said, throwing his hands up in the air.

"I'm gonna let that slide on the fact that you're probably right." Videl said. "I think this is the reason she has passive powers. Her temper…"

"Okay, I am not understanding why you are afraid of this woman." Krillin said. "And more importantly, now that we're all here can we please talk about it?" Videl nodded.  "Thank you." Krillin said, as he sat down.

"I can't help feeling that I should wait until Dad gets here." Gohan said. "I don't think I can go through this again, there may not be enough time." The doors of CC burst open as hospital orderlies rushed Goku and Vegeta into the CC infirmary. Goten and Trunks limped into the room. They had decided not to go to the infirmary, during the hour-long flight Trunks and Goten had gotten better, but their fathers' state had deteriorated. Natalie walked in with a dark scowl on her face. Her friends visibly became shaken.

"Aunt Nat is very scary for such a small lady." Cory said, as Pan and Claudia nodded.

"Okay, now everyone is here. Can we please know what the hell is going on?" Krillin said.

"But Dad…"

"We'll tape it. Just go Gohan." Krillin said. Gohan went into deep thought.

"How should I explain this?" Gohan said. "I have no idea where to start…"

"Okay G, let the dumbest man in this room do the explaining in Layman's terms okay?" David said, taking centre stage. "Claudia, Adrian, Danny? You're going to have to hear this, it affects you too. Me, my wife, Videl, my scowling best friend over there and her husband are all technically from the same planet as those guys that attacked you."

"What do you mean technically?" #18 asked.

"Our great grandparents came from that planet for some reason we don't know. They had kids with Earthlings you know how it goes, and they lived and died here. Anyhoo, if you're from this planet you get special kind of abilities. You guys had to train to be able to do the things you can do but we were sort of born with them. Apart from my wife, our powers kind of became obvious when we were teenagers." David said taking a slight pause for questions. When there were none, he carried on. "Long story short, these guys came here before around ten years ago. It wasn't these exact guys though. There were three of them, three guys. All about our age back then. They came and found us, and said that they needed to carry out our execution. For some reason, our grandparents had fled that planet and we were gonna get punished for it so they attacked Videl first. We, except Nat, came to help. Long battle, lots of fighting and all except one ended up dying. He just disappeared. We never found him."

"Well, it looks like it's pretty obvious he went running back home, told all his friends what you guys did and now they want revenge." Natalie said.

"Don't be mad." Andrea said.

"Why is everyone telling me not to be mad? Or not to be angry? So, you're making all of my decisions for me now! Ooh, I just exhaled! Better tell me to inhale or I could die!" Natalie seethed.

"We were only doing what we thought…" David started.

"Was best David? Well while you were doing what you thought was best, you just signed everyone's damn death warrants. You could have at least told me! I could have helped."

"By doing what? Making random sarcastic comments?"

"No, that's what Nick is there for. I could have altered those guys' memory of our existence therefore avoiding the smack down altogether." Natalie said.

"You can do that? Since when can you do that?" David demanded.

"Right around the time you decided that I'm so friggin unstable and that you can't trust me with this kind of information."

"That's enough you two." Gohan said.

"Okay, now that we're back from the drama." Trunks said. "What does this have to do with us?"

"I'm the one who killed them. They want revenge on me." Gohan said, sitting down.

"Nii-chan, they've drained Tousan and Vegeta's strength. With a strange serum." Goten said. "It affected us too. Now we fight as if we were regular human beings that can manipulate chi." Gohan sighed.

"Where's Nick? We need him here." Gohan asked Natalie.

"I don't know and I don't care." Natalie said, folding her arms. Gohan looked at her puzzled.

"They got into a fight. She's not talking to him." Goten explained. Gohan sighed again.

"Can you please…?" Gohan asked. Natalie rolled her eyes.

"Fine." Natalie said. "But I'm bringing my kids too." Before Gohan could say another word, Natalie had vanished.

"What in the hell just happened?" Claudia asked.

"Claudia, mind your language." Andrea scolded.

"I will not! I just find out that I'm like part alien, that my parents are the friggin' power rangers and that Auntie Nat can disappear!" Claudia said. Natalie reappeared again with her family in tow. "And reappear with people! Okay, I am dreaming and I'm gonna wake up…dammit!"

"Well, she gets her freaking out skills from my side." David commented.

"Please talk to me." Nicholas asked his wife. She refused to talk to him. "Please?" Natalie turned around and scowled at him. "Ah, you have executed your angry scowl attack! But I can penetrate your angry scowl with my adorable teary-eyed sad pout!" Nicholas pouted at Natalie but she just scowled even hard. "In the infamous words of Dr McCoy, stars and garters! My pout didn't work! It always works against your scowl!"

"Nick…" Gohan tried to say.

"I have it! With the combination of your angry scowl and the silent treatment, you have penetrated my ultimate counter attack!" Nicholas said, as he fell to the floor and began to mock weep. "Please have mercy on me, as I am nothing but a good-looking man with a brain I cannot control!"

"Nick, this is not the time for jokes." Gohan sighed.

"Eh, gomen nasai Gohan!" Nicholas sweat-dropped sheepishly. Claudia walked straight up to Drake, Nicholas and Natalie's eldest son. He was very tall for his age, fifteen, and had dark brown hair and blue eyes. He had three siblings, in age order; Maria 10, Felicity 8 and Michael 6.

"Hey Drake, guess what. We're part alien." Claudia said, in tears.

"Yeah, I already knew that." Drake said.

"No. Way." Claudia said, looking at her parents.

"You told them?!" David asked.

"Yes I did." Natalie said. "They asked why they could suddenly make toast without a toaster and I told them."

"Oy, it's starting to feel like Buffy season seven in this house. Overcrowded." Trunks commented.

"Overcrowded? In this house? Really?" Goten asked. Trunks stuck his tongue out at Goten. Vegeta and Goku walked into the living room.

"Hey Tousan." Gohan said.

"Gohan, I have a few questions I'd like to ask you. What do you mean your friends have powers?! What do you mean they know about yours?! WHY HAVEN'T YOU TOLD US ABOUT THIS BEFORE?!" Goku asked.

"It never came into conversation?" Gohan said sheepishly.

"You have a lot of explaining to do." Vegeta said.

"Not again." David sighed.

"No, we heard all that crap. What I want to know is why in the hell were we never informed of this?!" Vegeta yelled. "I have no power! At all! You may like feeling like a wuss, but I don't enjoy it very much."

"I thought Nat was bad. I am so waiting for him right now to say bub and for claws to come out of his knuckles." Nicholas said to David, who snickered. Vegeta gave them both a cold look and they looked down at the floor ashamed.

"Why didn't you tell us of this whole matter? Didn't it ever occur to you that it would be a potential crisis?!" Vegeta roared at Gohan.

"Of course I did!" Gohan yelled back. "But I thought we could handle it!"

"What makes you think that we couldn't?!"

"Because it's our mess. It's not even Gohan's but he was there and Videl was involved…look Mr Vegeta, we're responsible. We wanted to take care of it, because it's our fault." Nicholas explained.

"If that's true, then why didn't you tell your wife?" Vegeta asked.

"Yeah, why didn't you tell your wife Nicholas?" Natalie asked.

"Aha! You broke the vow of silence! I'm back in the game babycakes! Let the stare down commence!" Nicholas said dramatically.

"Babycakes?" Natalie asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Ay no. It's the eyebrow of condescendence!" Nicholas said, shrinking in his seat.

"What didn't Daddy tell you Mama?" Felicity asked.

"Nothing darling." Natalie replied. "Daddy just has a little trouble communicating."

"Maybe I can help clear things up." The voice came from the monitor room. Everyone ran inside and saw Medilan on the screen smirking.

"Okay big bad, we want some answers." Videl said. "We're the assailants you wanted, so you'd better explain yourself. Why did you attack those innocent people?"

"To get your attention." Medilan replied.

"Why did you drain my father and Vegeta's strength? And how did you know how to do so?" Gohan asked.

"I drained them because I knew they could very well kill my men before they had a chance to carry out justice. I knew how to do so because ever since you killed my father Son Gohan, I have been studying you very carefully."

"You've been watching me?" Gohan asked.

"I never said that." Medilan answered. "Now that I have found you, I think it's only fair that you die for what you did to my father."

"Wait, what exactly did we do to your father?" Andrea asked.

"He was one of the men that you killed. At least he had the chance to come back here and tell us of your crimes before he died too."

"Crimes my butt. Your father and his boys came here and attacked us, saying that we were a betrayal to all things Tocopheran and that we needed to be exterminated!" David said. "We defended ourselves, and we're sorry that he died but dude he asked for it."

"Why with the dude? For what reason would you call him dude?" Nicholas muttered sadly.

"Liar!" Medilan roared. "My father would never attack someone without cause."

"Well either he has a double running around or it's your daddy who's the liar." Andrea said. "Are you sure you got your facts right?"

"This is pointless." Medilan said. "Why am I trying to reason with the spawn of these exiled Decolains?"

"Did he just curse at us?" Videl asked. The others shrugged. "What do you mean spawn of bla whatever?" Suddenly, there were sirens and lights flickering from Medilan's transmission.

"This isn't over." Medilan said.

On Medilan's ship…

"What in blazes is going on?!" Medilan demanded as he walked into the security room.

"I'm sorry to report sir, that prisoner 2952KL3 has escaped." A young woman said. Medilan's fists shook angrily at his sides.

"Where is he headed?"

"To Earth."

"Damn it." Medilan cursed as he punched a whole in the door of the security room. "Track the ship he's using."

"We can't. He's not using that mode of transportation."

"Damn it. Get the Pher Squad here, on the double."

To Be Continued…

My cliffhangers are back with a vengeance! Yay for me! Okay, I will update as soon as physically possible.