Chapter 3 : The Change of Hearts
'Next destination, Planet Earth; Estimated time left – Thirteen Minutes… Hyper Cryo Sleep mode turning off…'
"Huh! Is it time already?" Ornichi woke up with a start, "Well then …" He stretched his arms and shut off the Auto – Drive, the ship gave a sharp jerk, "Easy now baby… Easy…"
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"Hey Gohan, you and Trunks go and call the rest of the team to Kami's lookout. We will meet you there!" yelled Goku in air still holding Goten in his arms, which he was really disliking. "Let go dad! I can fly!" he kept on saying much to his dismay.
"No! I will go with Gohan. You take Trunks and Goten with you… He can be anywhere" Vegeta said, and pointed Trunks to come up and go with Goku. Vegeta now had trust in Goku, but still he considered him his arch nemesis. Call it a Saiyan thing, but it's just like that!
Gohan and Vegeta sped off…
"Gee! Your dad is really turning into a good guy!" Goku said to Trunks.
"Well… that's my dad!" he replied
"Kid, you got any idea where the rest of them are?" Vegeta asked, not looking back, "I don't know! I suppose Krillin will be at the Kame house gardening with Master Roshi and Jenna, and Mr. Piccolo might be in the woods training with the rest of them…"
"All right then, you go and get those two jokers and I will go get the Green Man!" saying Vegeta speed off not listening to Gohan's protest against him calling his Friends 'Jokers'.
"Typical Vegeta! How the hell did he become one of us?" Thinking Gohan also speed off towards the ocean, in the midst of which was a small island sporting only one house, 'The Kame House'.
"Hey guys! Anyone there? Hello!" Gohan shouted at the main door. He knocked on it but got no reply. Being the well mannered guy he was he thought, not of barging in, but first peeping through the window! He tiptoed right towards it and raised it a little, still no sight of anyone…
"Hey! You were looking for someone?"
"Ahhh! Jenna? What's the big idea? I nearly had a heart attack!"
Jenna or android 18 is the wife of Krillin. He fell in love with her almost instantly when he laid his eyes upon this beauty, but Jenna felt it when Krillin refused to destroy her. After the defeat of cell, they soon got married.
"Sorry… So what's up kid, how's school?"
"No time for that, where's Krillin? Earth's under threat once again, we need to go to Kami's… Dad is headed over there with Goten… Vegeta has gone to get Mr. Piccolo and the others" Gohan said it all in one breath…
"They will never learn know will they? Hey Krillin! Come on let's go…" Jenna yelled
"Vegeta should have reached there by now, lets waste no more time… Come on!" Gohan said, and along with Jenna sped off in the sky towards Kami's Tower… "Hey wait for me, you guys!" Krillin trailed behind…
"You wanna fill us up while we reach there?" Jenna used her mind to convey the message to Gohan, "Yeah sure!" He replied in the same way…
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"What the hell took you so long?" Vegeta said to the trio, who just reached Kami's Tower, "We had been waiting for ages now!" Goten pressed his hands on his mouth and gave a muffled laugh. He always found Vegeta's remarks highly amusing, Goku looked at him, and though he said nothing Goten understood from his dad's eyes, that he had to be serious about this…
Kami turned to Goku and continued the ongoing conversation… "Goku, I have sent Mr. Popo and Yacharobi to recollect the entire Dragon balls… But I am not sure whether the Dragon will be able to fulfill our wish…"
"I understand Kami, but we need to take the chance. This is the only way to ensure the safety of every person living on Earth…" He turned towards Yamcha, Tien, Chiaotsu, Krillin, Jenna and Piccolo…
"Listen you all, this might seem a little hasty but I think it's for the best that you also leave Earth as soon as possible…" Goku couldn't complete his sentence; he was cut in between… "What? You want us all to leave, when you need us the most?" Krillin said with an angered look in his eyes…
"Kakarot's right! This menace we are talking about is a Level 5 Super Saiyan… And, no disrespect meant, you all can't even manage to beat a normal Saiyan…"
"But somehow they managed to defeat you, Prince Vegeta" Said Jenna mockingly in her husband's defense, Vegeta gave her a cold look; she passed the same back…
"Listen! We all may not be Saiyan's but we sure do know how to fight. Even if we can't defeat him, we can borrow a little time, so that you can find how to defeat him, and, no disrespect taken…" Piccolo said looking at Vegeta…
"Piccolo's right Goku… We may not be strong like a Saiyan, but we sure have the Spirit…" Yamcha said
Goku was about to say something, but Vegeta interfered, "You fools! Why don't you understand…? You can't hold him down even for a second; you all will only be in our way, Nothing Else!"
"Vegeta, please, we are not here to…"
"Shut up Kakarot! You know it as well as I do, if they go in there with us they will be killed. How can you not care for them?"
Everyone there was shocked, hearing Vegeta, the most ruthless, arrogant and aggressive Z fighter, talking about care, of all the things!
Trunks mouth fell open, on hearing his dad saying such things. He now wished that his mom were here to witness it, because she would never believe it until she saw it herself…And for that matter, no one would!
"Ve…Vegeta… I never thought, you… cared for us all!" Said a shocked Krillin…
"Huh! Showoff!" whispered Jenna under her breath…
"I don't all right! Just do what you all want to, but if you are in my way, you are dead…Understand that!" Vegeta said trying to show anger in his eyes, but everyone there could now see, a changed Vegeta...