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Chapter-2
Bardok: Who is your father, boy?
Trunks: Vegeta
Absolute pin-drop silence, that even the guarding ogres found disconcerting.
King Vegeta: Come near, brat! Do you mean my only living son has sired a freak-haired kid mating with some mud-ball planet woman?
Trunks (slightly irritated): Hey, you are insulting my home planet, you know? Even if I AM your grandson, half of my genes ARE from my mother, who is a beautiful, blue-haired genius…
Radditz: BLUE HAIR! Does she hang out with my idiot brother, and a bald man, and an old man, and a turtle, and a Namek?
Trunks: You just mentioned Goku, Krillin, Master Roshi, Turtle and Piccolo.
At this point, a Bardok look alike emerges from the shadows in the corners and grips Trunks' hand through the bars.
Look alike: Is there a scar-faced fool too? Is your planet blue?
Bardok: Calm down Turles!
Trunks: Oh! So you are the one who planted the Tree of Might!
Turles bares his teeth; Radditz steps in to push him back to his corner. Everybody knew how Turles had been killed on a blue planet where the yield of the fruit was in heavenly abundance. They had deduced that it must have been some super-strong planet to have held that much nutrients, and never imagined it could be Earth, the mud-ball home of Radditz' disgraceful brother.
King Vegeta: So you are from a strong planet and have a worthy mother. Still you are no relation of mine if you don't have a tail!
Trunks: I had one when I was born, but on Earth, there is a full lunar cycle every 28 days. So we cannot risk keeping it. Gohan's tail keeps re-appearing often and even Turles has seen him go Oozaru.
Radditz: I remember, Kakkarott's tail had been cut-off too…
King Vegeta: Was you tail a proper one?
Trunks: Dunno, mom said it the colour of my hair though.
King Vegeta (sweat-dropping): My grandson – a PINK tailed Saiyan!!!
Trunks: Its not pink, its mauve. And speaking of 'pink', let me tell you about my first encounter with my father of this time-line.
And Trunks recounted the 'Badman Shirt' incident, after which a bald giant went into hysterics, throwing incoherent words in-between:
Ha ha ha…killed me…ho ho …fathered a funny half-breed…he he he…after all those years…ha ha…
Trunks: so you must be Nappa!
Bardok: Yes, got a bit unhinged as it was Prince Vegeta who killed him. So your mother and Kakkarott's mate belong to the same race of the same planet?
Trunks: Yes, and though they not fight themselves, their genes have somehow made Gohan and me stronger than our fathers.
Bardok: Must be like a catalyst, that itself is not a catalyst, but enhances a chemical reaction…hmm, that's interesting.
Trunks: Of course, you are the scientist that discovered the Fake Moon, right? Well, then Gohan still has a chance, you see his mom wants him to be a scholar, and is afraid he wont be one, given Goku is…um…NOT intellectually inclined…
Radditz: You don't have to be polite about my idiot brother. By the way, is he fighting that monster you mentioned?
Trunks: Um…he just sacrificed himself in a method that almost worked, but Cell got back and King Kai of the North Quadrant died (King Yama told him – remember?).
King Vegeta: Ha Ha Ha! A dead Kai! But honestly, if you and that other brat do all the fightings, what are your worthless fathers doing?
WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO Piccolo is green, daughteralucard AND chibineko. It feels great to be reviewed so positively for the first chapter of my first story… Stay with me till the end.
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Love, Porunga.