Hello everyone this didn't take long to write. Well here it is my explanation on how they all got there, and things of the like. This will put all the pieces together. I don't own all of them. Just Temari, Konan, Cosmos, and Narissa. Please support both. Thanks again to Requirem of Fire for being my beta. This is brought to you by a twenty-two year old Christian.
Ch. 7 How They Got There.
"Yep, it's you alright. I can tell. You've got that same look on your face that your tou-san would have if ever he got confused about something." Bardock groaned as he got up. "What the heck happened? I feel like I got hit by a freight train."
"Actually that was our fault sir." Gohan said. He wasn't sure if it would be a good idea to tell him that he knew his name. He wanted him to introduce himself.
The elder Saiyan shock his head at the boy with a smile on his face. "My name is Bardock. And I know your my eldest magomusuko. ((grandson)) Let's go I know a good place where we can talk in private." Gohan was in shock. This guy knew who he was. How was that possible?
"It's a long story. Here you'll need these." he then pulled out of a pocket in his cloak, and gave them each a cloak. "It'll hide what your wearing, your lack of tail, and your hair Kaiya."
"Are you sure that I'm this 'Kaiya' that you keep speaking of Bardock-san?"
"I'm sure. You do have your ka-san's face, and your tou-san's hair, except for the color. Besides I was there when you were born."
That's when she recognized his voice.
Chibi Flashback:
"It's a girl...and she's sucking on my pinky."
End Chibi Flashback:
"It was you. You were there. I don't believe it." She said in shock.
"Temari-chan?" Gohan asked in concern for his friend.
"It's okay Gohan-kun, we can trust him." She then put on the cloak he gave her, and Gohan did the same.
"Is it true that you can read minds?" Gohan asked his grandfather.
"Un, it is. Where did you hear that from?" The scared saiyan asked.
"The Yoma that possessed you."
"You mean that grey eleven foot freak-show?" They both nod. "I wish I had seen that thing coming. I would've never let it do that to me."
"It wasn't your fault. You can't see everything. Can you?" Temari asked her godfather. Though she did not know it yet.
"Your right. Let's head out then shall we?"
Some time later, they found themselves in what appeared to be a tea shop with really good seats. And they should know, they were in the best seats in the place.
"Um, Ojii-san. Isn't this rather expensive?" Gohan asked.
"It is, but I can afford it with my own money trust me. Oh and since this is a private room, your neko can speak freely." ((cat))
"I would ask how you knew that, but I can only assume you read at least one of our minds for that bit of information." Cosmos spoke with a slight edge of anger in her voice.
"I understand the secrecy thing. I was one of the few on this planet that knew of your existence." Bardock said which caused many eyebrows to be raised.
"How is that?" Temari asked.
"Well I'm going to have to explain this from the beginning." A waitress then appeared and no one understood a thing she said except Bardock. After they finished speaking she left.
"What was that all about?" Gohan asked. His curiosity was met with a smile.
"I ordered some tea. So now to begin this tale. It all started one-thousand years ago. We got into this war with another race called the Lunarans. It was a challenge, so it excited our ancestors. And they thought that those peacekeepers would be pushovers. Well they were wrong. They had a blast."
"The Saiya-jin wiped them out didn't they?" Temari interrupted.
"Actually no." The scared warrior replied.
"Nani?" ((What?)) They coursed.
"That's right, and here's why. You see, they were in a stalemate with each other when Frieza's ancestor and several others showed up. I think his name was Chilled. They started causing trouble on both sides. And it was the Saiya-jin king of all people who wanted to team up with the Lunarans."
"Did they agree?" Gohan asked.
"Yes they did. And they were able to drive them away. The Saiya-jin then joined what was called the 'Silver Alliance'. Now I don't know what they did to seal the deal on the treaty, but they did it. And there was peace for several years. Then something happened that caused the universe to split in two. No one knows how it happened, and here's the thing. When the split happened, it duplicated the system that it happened in, and the rest of the universe was divided between the two. Some of the Saiya-jin got to return home. And they continued to live the same way they've been living for the last thousand years. While the other half couldn't get home. They scoured the universe to find a new home where they would feel welcome."
"Maybe you should've tried Yardrat. I heard that they have the same appetite as you lot." Cosmos said as a little jab at humor. Bardock smiled at the joke.
"Well it's not like they knew that they were there. Well eventually the rest of them ended up on a planet called Plant."
"That's where you met the Tsufuru-jin." Gohan said.
"Yep, and when they asked if they could join their society, they said no. When they asked them if they could help them repair our ship..."
"They refused."
"That's right, and what worse, is that they just finished killing a kind race of people known as the Plants. And every time it looked like they were going to help our ancestors. It turned out to be their latest plot to try to wipe us out of existence."
"You gotta be kidding. What's next did they stick you guys in concentration camps and tried to kill you there too?" Temari exaggerated, thinking that there was really no way that could've happened to them.
"Ah yes, your referring to the Holocaust that happened on Earth. Yes they did at one point, but that figuratively, and literally went up in smoke. But there were several times that they almost killed us all. They did a lot of things to try and kill us, and we were trying to get them to see the error of their ways. But it never worked that way. We fell into our old savage ways and eventually things went from bad to worse as the war finally began." As he finished that sentence the waitress from earlier came in and gave them their tea, and Cosmos got a fish which she gleefully ate.
Bardock said his thanks and the others repeated what he said as to not to look out of place. And she left with a smile. "Now, where was I? Oh yes, the war." He said somberly.
"It wasn't pretty was it?" Temari asked
"No it wasn't. And I didn't want anything to do with it, but then my imouto-chan was taken by them." ((little sister.)) He growled as he squeezed his tea cup. It did not brake or shatter as he appeared to be having no restraint on the cup. It had to be a very dense metal.
"You had a..."
"Hai, I did. I didn't want to get involved with the war. It wasn't my problem, but they made it my problem when I found her dead three days later. Most people think that they were this kind and gentle race. That's not true. They were monsters. All of them. I joined up the day the war began. And I later on found out that she and Vegeta-ousama were in love, and they planed to become mates after the war. All they had to do was come to me and ask. I would've agreed. One thing that still survived in our culture, is when a guy is interested in a girl you talk to the closest male relative of said girl. My tou-san died years ago from fighting someone that he had insulted. His own fault really. Drunken baka. Anyway, it took ten years but we got rid of them. Then we joined him." He growled out the last part. He was still angry about what Frieza did to him and his friends.
"How did you guys even arrive here then if you were separated by what happened a thousand years ago?" Temari asked. Bardock took several calming breaths as he looked at his goddaughter.
"Well it was nothing short of a miracle that we all lived through the ordeal. One minuet I'm being hit with Frieza's Death Ball and the next thing I know, I'm hearing my mate's screams of horror as she see my body all bloodied and bruised."
"So you don't know what really happened?" Gohan asked.
"Not my own personal account no. I was out of it. I mean it's a wonder that I could make out Gine's voice."
"What happened ojii-san?" Gohan asked.
"Well apparently we were snagged from our universe and placed in the Sister Universe by our own personal two demoniacal vortexes."
"Like this?" Temari asked as she picked up the tea pot that still had tea in it. She looked like she was going to poor it all over the table, but at the very last second, a small vortex appeared having the tea land in his cup.
"I think that fits. Arigato." ((Thank you.)) He said in surprise. "No one's ever been able to do that before. At least as far as I know. Anyway, when Vegeta-ousama found out what I did, I got a huge promotion. I'm now one of his advisers."
"Nani!?" Temari asked.
"No way!" Gohan shouted. He was surprised that his grandfather has such honor. Vegeta would flip out about that.
"Yes way. Now with my new job, I could get lots of nice stuff, but I'm not going to let things get in the way of what I know is important. I just wish I knew what it was before we came here."
"And what do you dub as important Bardock-sama?" Cosmos asked.
"Family." He simply stated. "And you don't have to be so formal. I'm not really used to it. And I've had that title for years."
"What about my parents? How did you know them?" Temari asked wanting more then anything who they were.
"I knew them very well. Your tou-san and I became fast friends, and he was ousama's right hand man."
"Really, my tou-san was that important?" Bardock nodded.
"He kinda fell for the woman who was holding the throne for Vegeta-ousama. His line is of royal decedent. And her family was charged with running the kingdom during his families absents."
"So Vegeta's family has always been the ruling family?" Gohan asked.
"Hai they were. Now anyway, Zorn, your tou-san. He wanted my help to impress her, when little did he know your ka-san Konan went to Gine, because she wanted to try and impress Zorn. It was so funny." He said as he began to laugh near the end of that part of the story. It was something that had always made him smile.
"So we just both told them to be themselves, and they got together. And that just made things so much better. They thought they couldn't be happier. Then they found out about you, and they were ecstatic. But Konan had to go into hiding in order to hide you from the Queen."
"The Queen?" Temari asked.
"Narissa, I wish we could've put her on trial and had her executed, but we needed witnesses. And that's something we don't have. We have one being you. When we need at least two who saw it to back up the claim." Bardock said. And that name made Temari's blood boil as she remembered that cackle of hers as she murdered her parents.
"Temari-chan." Gohan's voice snapped her out of her thoughts. "Are you alright?"
"Hai, Gohan-kun. What else can you tell us Bardock-san?" She said trying to get back on track.
"Well, it was fourteen years ago today that you were born. That's right Kaiya. Happy birthday." He said to bring a more cheery mood to the room. He then pushed to her a small black package with a white ribbon tied to keep it shut.
She pull off the ribbon and removed the lid to see a pen with they same symbol as the cat's forehead and her broach. "Is this custom made?"
"Nope, I found it at a store today. I saw this coming last week, and decided to buy it today. Good thing I got it on my way to work. I was jumped before I got half way there. Do you like it?"
"It works very well with the broach I got today, and Cosmos too." She laughed. The cat then jumped onto the table to look at the pen.
"Ah, I see you found the disguise pen. It works very well with concealing your identity. You could make yourself appear male, or even change your hair color to help you fit in with the people of this planet." the feline said with awe. "And you found it at a store? Well that was very convenient."
"Hay what can I say? It happens. Anyway, there was a reason why I was there when you were born." Bardock said getting everyone's attention back to the story. He took a deep breath and said, "I...am your kyoufu." ((godfather)) (AN: Anyone else thinking Darth Vader on that line somewhat? I did and I just wrote it that randomly, and then it accorded to me. Man that's funny.)
Silence overtook the room. Bardock allowed them to take it in. It was crazy, but their was no deception going on in that room between anyone. Not even him. He decided to continue when he saw that they weren't going to speak. "It was two weeks later when they let their guard down."
"And she killed them, and almost got to me too." Temari said.
"Yes, and it was nothing short of a miracle that you survived that ordeal. Gine and I were more then ready to take on the responsibility of taking care of you, but your oji-san wouldn't have it. ((Uncle.)) He was too afraid to loose you. He'd already lost his otouto-san. ((Little brother)) He just couldn't bare the thought of loosing you too. So he sent you away."
"Did Vegeta-ousama know about this?" Gohan asked.
"Of course he knew. He was in the know from the beginning. And boy were we all shocked when we found out that you had a power level of twenty thousand."
"That's twice as high as Broly's." Gohan said in shock, it was just like in Temari's dream. 'I knew it from the moment she began to cry at the lake that it wasn't a dream, it was a memory. Wow pure-bloods have really good memories when they're babies.'
"That's right, and not just to what you said verbally." Bardock said making Gohan look at him in surprise.
"And Vegeta ou-sama didn't have anyone try and kill me?" She asked .
"No, he would never do that. Now it's your turn Kaiya, what happened to you while on Earth?" Temari took a deep breath and began to tell her tale filled with sadness and sorrow in the beginning, but was filled with happiness and laughter in the end thanks to Yoshi no longer being in her life, and her friends helping her heal. Bardock wanted to kill the man for what he did to her. But knew that he was suffering far worse then what death could ever do to him.
Ojii-san, who it Temari-chan's oji-san?" Gohan asked wanting to know now.
"You'll find out today during the party which is being set up at my house. It's for Kaiya's fourteenth birthday of course." Her godfather smirked. They were speechless as he stood up. "Common, let's go before Gine gets mad at me for being out later then planned."
...
"BARDOCK!" she scream as she stormed out of the kitchen with a clever in her hand. The children quickly hid behind Bardock for protection from her wrath. "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! I WAS SO WORRIED ABOUT YOU!" She yelled at him clinging to him in fear.
"Excuse me." Gohan said timidly. He did not expect this kind of reaction from a saiyan. Shock overtook the woman's face as she saw the boy in front of her.
"I don't believe it. Is that...is that who I think it is?" She asked looking Gohan over.
"Hai Gine this is our eldest magomusuko Gohan." ((grandson))
She squealed in delight as she gave him a hug that would've snapped him like a twig if he were frail human. "And who is this with you?" She asked with joy.
"Kon-nichiwa, kyoubo." ((Hello, godmother.)) Temari then removed her hood from the cloak she was given and showed her dark brown hair.
"Kaiya?" she asked as tears began to form in her eyes. The brown haired saiyan nodded and got the same treatment as Gohan did only moments ago. "How did you find them? This is a mirical? I thought he was in the Sister Universe and she was on Earth." She then kiss him passionately and they did that for a few seconds until Cosmos made her presents known to all in the room.
"Excuse me. Yes hello Gine-chan. I am Cosmos, and the only reason why it took us so long to get here, was because we were being caught up with what's going on around here. Not to mention some unforeseen compactions."
"A talking cat?" Gine asked thinking that she might be going insane. Her mood did a one-eighty and she smiled at her. She picked her up and began to pet her, making her purr.
"Excuse me." Temari said, gaining the attention of the others. "Is it alright if I invite some friends to the party?"
"Well of course you can Kaiya. This is your party after all. Now who are they, and where do they live?" Gine said with a smile on her face.
"Well some of them live in Tokyo. While the rest of them live in the Sister Universe." she was surprised to hear that, but she was alright with that. So Temari left in a vortex which shocked Gine to her core. To think that her goddaughter could do that.
"Come with me Gohan, there's something I want to show you." Bardock said as he lead him through the house. Eventual he found himself in what appeared to be a trophy room. And in the center, there was a white suit with a cape, a mask that goes over the bottom half of the face, a pendent with a crescent moon holding the cape in it's place, brown shoes, and a belt. (AN: Just think the Moonlight Knight except without the turban cloth thing, and a sword.)
"Believe it or not, I made this myself." Bardock said shocking his grandson. "It's amazing what you can do when you have the free time. And you find out that sowing is something that you're really good at, and could've been my trade had I grown up here in the first place." he added blushing at the thought of being a fashion designer.
"You actually made this yourself?"
"Yep, and if I'm right, it should fit you."
"ME?!" Gohan asked in shock.
"Yeah, try it on." Gohan did and it fit so well it was perfect.
"I think going Super Saiya-jin would work better if I was going to pull a superhero. That's what I made this for. It's missing something though. I just don't know what it is."
"I think a sword would go great with it." Gohan replied which caused Bardock to smile.
"Well then, if that's what you wanna do with it, then how about we call you the Moonlight Knight?"
"Moonlight Knight eh?" he asked as he thought about that. He really liked that name. It was better then what he could ever come up with. "I like it. You really saw this coming?"
"You bet I did. Get back into your normal cloths, and let's head downstairs, I'm sure Kaiya's going to be arriving with her friends from Tokyo very soon." he said. He quickly got out out of his new outfit and they headed back down stairs to sit and wait for Temari to return.
"Ojii-san, if you had the chance to go back in time to before Vegeta-sei was about to be destroyed? What's the one thing you would've changed about that day?" Gohan asked. His grandfather didn't take long to answer his question.
"The one thing I would change if I could go back would be to hold your tou-san at least one time when I never held him at all." Bardock said with a somber tone. "You know, I wish I had the opportunity to be with you and your family, but the void between the universes made it impossible. I'm sorry for never being there when you needed me most."
"Ojii-san...I forgive you. And if tou-san were here. I know he would forgive you too. And while Raditz wasn't the best experience from the family, you and ba-chan make up for what he did."
It was while Gohan was speaking that Temari appeared with the people she picked up from Tokyo. And when Gohan saw Usagi for the first time he thought he had seen an angel. She was the most beautiful person in the room to him and he had to shake those thoughts out of his head before they went somewhere he didn't want to go.
"Common, let's go meet the Kaiya's friends." Bardock said patting the boy on the back. They made their way to them and met her friends. After introductions were made, Temari then left to get the rest of the gang for the party to really get started.
...
Traveling to the Sister Universe Temari made her way to where Vegeta and his family was. One reason being that she had yet to check in and they were all worried about her. Though Vegeta would never admit it. And the other, she wanted them to be there too.
"So your telling me that Bardock, Kakarot's tou-san is throwing you a birthday party?"
"Yes sir. I turned fourteen today." she replied to her sensei.
"Can we go tou-san please?" Trunks pleaded with huge eyes.
"There's going to be lots of food." Temari said, and that's what hocked him.
"Fine, let's get this over with."
"I'll have to pick up the others too." she said.
"ONNA!" Vegeta shouted.
"NANI!?" Bulma screamed in reply. She was working on a very delicate device at that moment.
"She's back, and she's invited us to dinner somewhere." Vegeta said as he walked into the room.
"And where is it?" Bulma asked, kinda miffed that her husband would disturb him.
"Across the Sister Universe. Please, it's my birthday today." Temari piped in.
Bulma was shocked at this. "Really? How do you know?"
"Easy, my kyoufu told me. And I just met him today for the first time in years." she said excitedly.
"And who is your kyoufu?"
"His name is Bardock, and he's Goku-sensei's tou-san."
"NANI?!" Bulma screeched. How is he alive?! Didn't he take a Death Ball to the face?!"
"I'll explain later, let's go." she said in excitement, she really wanted them to meet everyone.
...
It was rather easy to tell them what was happening. But then she came to the final place on her list... The Son home. She knocked on the door, and quickly took a step back knowing that the door was going to fly open.
"WHERE IS MY BABY!?" Chi-Chi screamed at the top of her lungs making the poor brown haired saiyan cringe in pain. "I KNOW YOU HAVE HIM SOMEWHERE?! I THOUGHT YOU WERE SOMEONE I COULD TRUST WITH HIM! TELL ME WERE HE IS RIGHT NOW YOUNG LADY! OR I'LL-" Vegeta couldn't take it for another minuet. So he took a deep breath and showed how much guts he had, and cut her off.
"LISTEN YOU CRAZY ONNA! THAT'S WHAT WE CAME OVER HERE TO TELL YOU ABOUT!" he shouted, and then gestured for her to go ahead.
"He's just fine Chi-Chi-chan. Don't you worry about a thing. He's just with Bardock-san at the moment."
"And who may I ask is he?" She asked very angry.
"Your giri-no-chichi." ((Father-in-law.)) she said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"NANI!? HOW COULD A MAN THAT SHOULD BE DEAD BE WITH MY MUSUKO?!" ((SON))
"CHI-CHI-CHAN! I am asking you to please calm down. Neither of them are dead. They are in the Sister Universe. That's where they've been the whole time. All the Saiya-jin I mean. Now please calm down. I can sense ki as you know, and so can Gohan-kun. Neither of us sensed anything threatening at all from him. Otherwise we would've beat the daylight out of him. Not to mention he's my kyoufu as well." ((godfather))
"Alright. Fine. Goten let's go." Chi-Chi said blushing, as she didn't think things though, and began to shout at the girl for something like that.
"Alright! I can't wait to meet ojii-san!" Goten chirped excitedly.
They all arrived, and Temari couldn't take it any more and started picking her ears.
"You really need to learn to let someone explain what's going on before mouthing off like that." Vegeta said with a smirk on his face while Chi-Chi looked embarrassed.
After introductions were made Ami just couldn't help herself as she walked up to Tien.
"Hello, I'm Mizno Ami." She said politely.
"Tienshinhan." He replied showing the same politeness.
"I couldn't help but notice that you had three eyes."
"I did a lot of mediation in order to get it."
And their conversation went on from their touching several subjects, but mostly his eyes. Rei on the other hand walked up to the Saiyan Prince not knowing what to expect.
"Your Hino Rei are you not?" Vegeta asked as she walked up to him. She nodded. She didn't think that he would know her at all. "I could feel you ki. It's more like one that a miko would have. I've meet a few in my travels across the Sister Universe when I was searching for a man named Kakarot. And they are still alive for the record. They told me to go back to Earth and I would find him there."
"Was he there when you got back?" She asked.
"No he wasn't. It took a few hours, but he came back. How did you meet Kaiya?"
"Well, I was ten years old, and I was doing my chores. When I saw her hanging something on a tree at the Shrine. It said that she wished for peace and justice. She came once a week to hang the same wish on the tree. Always the same wish. Eventually I started talking to her, and she wasn't very open at first. But eventually she and I started hanging out and she helped out a bunch with my chores. We became friends during that time. The last time I saw her she had just hung another wish. It wasn't for peace and justice this time. It was for victory. That night she vanished. And I hadn't seen her until today when she showed up at the Shrine for a meeting we would have on where we thought she could be." She concluded.
At that moment there was a knock at the door. And Bardock was tackled by his grandchildren when he opened the door. After they had arrived things settled down again and the children began talking to Trunks and Goten. Well...not all of them.
Temari followed the boy to the garden where he just wanted to be alone. Spudz was wearing black robes and his hair was standing at an angle.
He went right in front of a post his right shoulder up agents it. He took a beep breath and slammed his shoulder into the pole. He let out only a small scream of pain and he fell to his knees. Taking in a few cleansing breaths he stood up and began moving his arm. That's when she realized... He set it back into place.
She'd only seen it done one person in two movies. "Lethal Weapon 2" and "Lethal Weapon 3". When had it happened? Why didn't he tell his parents?
"How was your arm out of socket?" She asked startling him.
"What are you doing here?" the boy asked.
"I believe I asked first."
"It's none of your business."
"I'll tell your parents if you don't tell me. And I can tell that they didn't know. Otherwise you wouldn't have needed to do that here and now." She could see right through him. He was cornered, so he was likely to retaliate because of this.
"You're threatening me?" he growled. "What makes you think that I'm going to tell some nosy girl that I've never meet before about my problems?"
"Because I've been there before." She said. "Not to mention I know how embarrassing it can be. Your right, I'm nosy, but I'm really good at keeping secrets, so it balances itself out." she smiled a sweet smile at Spudz and he sighed in defeat. He learned to sense this sort of thing from his grandfather so he could tell that she was being honest.
"Yeah, I have that problem, and I can't do anything about it even if I wanted to."
"Why not?"
"Because the one bullying me is the musuko of the Kocho." ((son)) ((headmaster))
"He's a jerk too isn't he?"
"Hai."
"I can help you if you want it?"
He looked at her with surprise. Here was this complete stranger offering her help to him. It was something to praise the gods about. He smiled but before he could answer they heard Bardock's voice calling her in.
When she entered in the house to the front door, she saw her uncle standing at the door. He was the King of all the Saiyans.
"Hello Kaiya." Vegeta knew that voice. That was the voice of his father. He looked over at the door to see him standing right there. That meant that Kaiya was his cousin. All the facts that hit him at once, and caused him to comically faint.
And here it is. Next time it will be the party and such which won't be lasting long to us. Hope you liked the laughs I through in. Please review and God bless you.