Disclaimer: It's possible that I might have never really had the possibility of not owning what might have been known as Dragonball Z and therefore never having decided to not purchase Dragonball Z, but never having the possibility of owning said material I find it quite possible that I don't not own the rights to a certain japanese anime that may or may not be named DragonBall Z.
Brenman: This had even more talking then the last Chapter, but There is a lot of important information for my fic.
Chapter 7: Mystery (Meat?) Revealed
The two shocked women stood there staring at Goku for some strange reason. Gohan stepped forward and looked down at Vegeta. "Tell me Vegeta, do you know any of these people?" Gohan asked. "I just realized that we haven't been properly introduced."
Vegeta looked at the six new saiyans. "I know most of them." He stated, he pointed at Larvat first. "Larvat you know, his father was a high class noble that was on my fathers advisory council."
Vegeta next pointed to the woman that wasn't standing around in shock, "This is Princess Vetee (pronounced: Vuh-Tee.), she's my sister." All the Z fighters gasped at the news, but they got over it quickly. It wasn't all that shocking, they did look alike after all. "I admit that I do not know who this young man is, he is too young and must have been born after the destruction of the planet. If I had to guess I would say he is the son of Larvat and Vetee. making him my nephew, and if my sister followed family tradition at all, which I haven't, he will also be named Vegeta. Our family is very unoriginal when it comes to names." Vetee admitted that her brother is completely correct.
"Well that could get confusing," Bulma stated, "Why don't we call the young one Prince Vegeta and the older one can be King Vegeta for now." Bulma said, everyone agreed on that except prince Vegeta.
"What, why do I have to be the prince?" he demanded, "Why can't he be the prince and I'll be the king?" He glared at Bulma as if he should kill her for treason.
"Why?" Vegeta said incredulously, "Because I'm older and I could kick your ass. that's why." He explained smugly.
"We'll see about that." The young prince said before he turned around and stalked off to a corner of the yard.
Vegeta turned away from the stubborn young prince and pointed to Tippu, "Tippu is an elite royal body guard. As you may have guessed already, he is Nappa's younger brother. His family has been protecting saiyan royalty for about fifteen generations. This is why he is here, he is my sisters body guard" Vegeta stated. "You may have noticed that Tippu still has his hair, where as Nappa lost his. If your wondering, that's because of a very amusing prank played by Raditz that required expert use of a bottle of barbecue starter fluid, and a well aimed ki blast, but I'm not going to go into the details."
"Hang on a sec." Bulma said, "Where did you get Barbecue starter fluid in space. Barbecue's were invented on earth."
Vegeta started laughing, "Barbecues were not invented on earth, a barbecue is just a way to create a conveniently located fire to cook food on. Barbecues have been around forever. even before humans ever existed. Besides the word barbecue was brought here years ago by some traveling merchants." Vegeta finished his short history lesson and then returned to his job of introducing the new saiyans.
Lastly pointing at the two shocked women, "This is Queen Rosicheena, my mother," He said, pointing to the older woman, "and, this is Karak, Kakarott's mother." The Z gang looked shocked, and not only because they just met Gokus' mother, but also because most of the other saiyans were shocked to find this out as well. Tippu looked extremely confused, "But, what about Bardock then?" he asked before the queen stomped on his foot to shut him up. There was a moment of silence after Vegeta stated the last part cautiously and began backing away from the group because...
"KAKAROTT!" Karak screamed out and jumped on Goku hugging him fiercely. She continued her motherly ministrations of suffocating Goku until Gohan tried to pull her off.
"Ummm. Grandma," Gohan began, he was clearly unsure as to what to call this woman, "He needs to breathe." Gohan said softly. Karak calmed down and climbed off the fallen warrior. The saiyan woman turned to the demi-saiyan and looked him up and down. Gohan didn't like the way she was looking at him. The crazy woman unpredictably, or is it predictable, screamed out "GRANDCHILDREN!" and jumped on Gohan next. She continued smothering Gohan until Goten spoke up. Then it started all over again.
At the same time that Karak was getting to 'know' her long lost family members, Queen Rosicheena was examining her grandchildren. "Purple hair, it is a bit odd on a saiyan, But al least you've proven that your strong." She said as if she were expecting an army.
After the two women were finished Goku introduced all the Z warriors and their families to the new saiyans. Of course I won't write this out because if you don't know the characters, you shouldn't be here. I'll just write out some of the comments and you can figure out who they're referring to;
"Wow, she's hot" followed by, "Big Bang Attack"
"He's green." followed by a growl.
"She's hot t-" Thump ugh... Thump smash crash "Ouch."
"Purple hair?"
"He has three eyes."
"Who invited the circus?"
"Where's his nose?"
"He's short to."
"Purple hair?"
"Nerd."
"I didn't know people could get that old."
"Purple hair?"
"She's... ummm... not to bad looking" wait to get hit... "sigh, close one."
"Weakling"
"He's fat." (yes Yajirobe has returned.)
"It's a pig."
"And a cat, two cat's"
"And a turtle."
"Purple hair?"
After Goku had finished with all the introductions Vegeta grabbed Karak and his mother by their arms and pulled them away from the group and towards a tree near the edge of the compound. While everyone was watching Vegeta drag Gokus' mother away Goku decided that he had something insightful to say, "What was that all about?" (Oh so insightful. About as insightful as saying 'it's orange" while looking at an orange.)
When they reached their destination Vegeta turned the female saiyans so that they were looking straight at him. "I haven't told him anything, and I don't want you messing that up for me." He began while looking straight at Karak.
"You haven't told him." Karak said incredulously.
The Queen just nodded, "I thoughts so, they way they were acting around you and addressing you. Although, I do think he has a right to know."
Vegeta grunted at his mothers amazing skills of deduction and her two cents. He turned to Karak who was asking him a question, "How could you not tell him?" She demanded more then asked.
Vegeta shrugged his shoulders, "I don't want him to know." He stated simply.
The saiyan woman groaned, and said through clenched teeth, "Why not?"
"Because," Vegeta said and looked over his shoulder at the younger saiyan, "if I told him, he'd never leave me alone. I'd be like a nightmare, he already comes over almost every day. If we tell him he'll probably want to move in with us."
On the other side of the yard all the Z warriors were mingling with the newly arrived saiyans. That was all except for Piccolo who was listening with his sensitive hearing and trying to figure out what they were referring to. Dende had left earlier to get back to the look out, but of course he was also listening to this conversation closely. Dende was waiting to get some info to torture Vegeta with, Dende wanted revenge for when Vegeta kicked him on planet Namek after he had healed him. The little green guardian of the blue planet had a feeling that he was about to get the chance he was waiting for, and perhaps by using his guardians powers to take away Piccolo's common sense for a second he would have the perfect cover up.
Karak looked at the flame haired saiyan, "Are you ashamed of Kakarott?" She asked Vegeta harshly.
"Well," he began, "He is a bit slow, is you know what I mean."
"Didn't he say he hit his head when he was younger?" Karak asked. "That might explain it."
Vegeta groaned, "That is the only explanation." he stated his opinion.
"Vegeta, you have to tell him." Karak said with a tone of finality in her voice that Vegeta decided to ignore.
The saiyan prince looked at his mother and silently pleaded with her to help him out, but she pretended to not notice. "I won't tell him." he turned away from her.
Gokus' mother growled and turned her back to Vegeta also, "Fine, if you won't, then I will."
"No you won't, he doesn't have to know. Bardock can be his father." Vegeta spat at her and turned around panicked that she would do something so evil.
"Bardock is not his father Vegeta, you are." She almost screamed, but not loud enough to be heard by the rest of the Z gang. That is except for...
"WHAT, VEGETA IS GOKUS' FATHER!" Piccolo screamed while doing a extreeeeeeeeeemly slow motion face fault. Every one else, also in slow motion looked at Piccolo and registered what he had said before looking at Vegeta on the other side of the compound. Everyone is completely unsure as to whether or not they should believe what the big green Namek just said.
Vegeta, looking really pissed, turns to look at the offending alien, "Shut up Namek, that's supposed to be a secret." Vegeta saw everyone staring at him and then realized his mistake, 'shit, I shouldn't have said that, I should have denied it.'
All the occupants of the far side of the yard from Vegetas' group began running over to Vegeta to interrogate him. Vegeta watched as everyone on the other side of the yard began sprinting over to him in agonizingly slow motion while some one turned on the proclaimers in the background. The saiyan prince tried to run away, but was stopped by the two saiyan women. Vegeta figure that he couldn't run now and decided instead to glare at Piccolo so harshly that one of the nameks arms actually exploded off. It was regenerated a couple seconds later, but still, what a glare. Only Vegeta.
-- Lookout --
Dende was rolling around on the floor laughing. Yes, he had not only gotten Vegeta for kicking him, but he had also gotten Piccolo for telling him to clean up his room. This was a good day. No, scratch that, this was a great day, and he hadn't even gotten to torture Gohan yet.
-- Capsule Corp. --
As the Z gang and their new friends arrived at Vegetas' location they all began pestering him with questions such as, "You had a child with another woman and you never told me?" from Bulma of course, "But, I thought Bardock was Kakarott's father." from Tippu, "I have a brother?" from Trunks, or "How is this possible?" from Larvat.
Vegeta didn't look like he would be answering the questions any time soon so Karak stepped forward. "I can explain everything. Just listen to my story." needless to say, she had everyone's' full attention, even Bulmas' who was glaring at Karak as if she was suddenly a threat. " Vegeta is Kakarott's father, Vegeta and myself were friends when we were children. I lived in the palace ever since my parents died fighting the Largothians on planet Geema. When Vegeta and myself were only twelve years old, the King approached me with the chance to mate with the prince. Freeza had decided that he did not want the blood line of Vegeta to continue, the Vegeta family had long been the strongest fighters among the saiyans and Freeza feared that the royal line would continue getting stronger and one day may birth a warrior even stronger then himself." She paused for a second.
"Well, I guess Freeza was right about one thing." Gohan mumbled under his breath, then spoke out louder, "You were only twelve years old? Isn't that a bit young to be having children?"
Karak looked at her eldest grandson, "Saiyans mature quicker then humans, and it was necessary to create an heir to the throne before Vegeta turned fifteen. On planet Vegeta the standard mating age was fifteen, it was illegal for anyone younger to mate. If we waited until Vegeta was at the age of mating Freeza would have kept a closer watch on him. That is also why I was not chosen as a permanent mate for the prince, if I was marked at his mate, Freeza would have found out soon. I was chosen by the king and queen because I was one of, if not the most powerful female of my age on the planet. Also I was already living in the palace and I was friends with Vegeta, which meant that there was no need for an excuse for me to be in close proximity to him. When Kakarott was born we realized that he looked identical to my older brother Bardock. This gave us a perfect cover up for Kakarott. Bardock was a third class warrior and therefore was away from home frequently, when Bardock was gone with his team conquering planet Kanassa, his mate went into labour with his second child. This was two days before Kakarott was born. Both my brothers' mate and his child died in the birthing process. The doctors that had overseen the birth were killed by Nappa the day Kakarott was born to cover up the death of Bardocks' child."
All the people present that weren't full saiyans looked a bit disgusted. "You killed Doctors?" Videl asked. Karak looked at Videl and squealed, she reached over and plucked Pan out of the humans grasp and began rocking her.
"Kakarott was put in my brothers daughters place. When my brother returned from his mission he was never told about the switch, he truly thought that Kakarott was his son, he did look just like him any way." She paused again to see if anyone had questions.
Gohan spoke up again, "Shouldn't my fathers power level have been high? Wouldn't any one notice that, and Vegetas' always saying that my dads' power level was that of a third class warrior."
Karak smiled, "That is easy to explain, we placed a specially built tail ring on Kakarott's tail when he was born. The ring worked by squeezing his tail, it would have been painful and would have the desired outcome of lowering Kakarott's ki to a much lower level. I hear it caused him to cry almost none stop and apparently annoyed paragus's child to no end." She chuckled at the last line. "Because Kakarott's power level was measured at being so low he was automatically sent off to another planet where we hoped he would be safe from Freeza. Of course we made sure the tail ring was removed before he was sent here. That was the day that planet Vegeta was destroyed." She stopped on a sullen note.
Vegeta finally decided to speak up, "Now that you mention it, how did you escape the planets destruction?" Vegeta was very curious about this, he had thought that himself and Goku were the last. "Raditz, Kakarott, Nappa, and myself were the only saiyans registered to be off the planet at the time."
Queen Rosicheena decided to answer this question, "You are right my son, we weren't technically off the planet and because of that we were assumed to be dead. We were having a luncheon with some of the nobles on a space station orbiting the planet. As you know, any objects that are orbiting a planet with the exception of any moons are technically still part of the planet. When the planet was attacked, we were sent out in one of the escape pods, being the highest ranking passengers on the station, we were the first to be allowed on the escaped pods, the other pods that followed were destroyed by the explosion ours just barely managed to hold together, but we were sent off course and crashed onto planet Hydrobia. by listening to conversations transmitted over the scouters we managed to find out what had happened to our planet. We hid in the under water cities of Hydrobia for years until news came that Freezas' empire had been destroyed and the tyrant was killed. By the way, do you know who killed him?" She asked the group and saw a hand shoot up at the back of the group and recognized it as her grandson from the future, M. Trunks.
"Yes, do you know?" She asked.
"Ummm." Trunks said very articulately, "I killed him. Oh, and his dad." He stated with a small blush on his cheeks.
All the visiting saiyans gasped. The queen looked surprised and then a smile graced her face. "Congratulations." was all she said to the fact.
Vegeta was about to speak up about something when suddenly Goku snapped out of what ever trance he was in and ran over to hug Vegeta, "Daddy." he yelled.
"Crap," Vegeta said, "It's finally sunk in. Get off me you clown." Vegeta managed to pry Goku off with the help of Krillin and Yamucha (Because they haven't had much to do yet. I would have used Tien, but he doesn't seem to like Vegeta much, so he probably wouldn't help. I would have thought that Yamucha would hate Vegeta for stealing his girlfriend, but he seems really cool with him during the Buu saga.)
Vegeta looked serious and turned to Larvat so that he could try to speak again, "What are you doing on this planet? You said you have artifacts you're looking for. What artifacts, and what do you plan to do with them?" Vegeta had an general idea about what they would be looking for but he wanted them to confirm it.
Larvat looked at the saiyan formerly known as prince, but was now king Vegeta until they could come up with something better, "We came in search of the Black Star Dragonballs." he stated while overly dramatic symphony music boomed out in the background and everything went to slow motion as a random camera zoomed up to Larvats' face.
Trunks looked around and said dramatically, "Dun Dun DUN!"
Vegeta slapped his son in the back of the head while everyone gasped at the information. Piccolo was the first one to get his voice back, "What do you want with the Black Star Dragonballs?" He demanded.
Everyone looked at Piccolo like he was crazy, "Piccolo," Goku said, while he tried to hug Vegeta again, as if he were talking to a very young child, "the Dragonballs have red stars, not black."
Piccolo glared at the saiyan, who was not sitting on the ground with a Vegeta fist shaped dent in the side of his face, for using such a derogative tone with him, "The ordinary Dragonballs have red stars, but the Black Star Balls have... ummm, Black stars." He said lamely.
-- Lookout --
Suddenly up on the look out Dende gulped. His seemingly great day had just taken a turn for the worse. He had never heard of these Black Star Dragonballs and his great day had great potential to turn into a horrible day.
-- Capsule Corp. --
"What are the Black Star Balls?" Gohan asked his mentor.
Piccolo looked deep in thought, "The Black Star Balls, were created by myself before I split with Kami. Now that we have refused, the Dragonballs must be active again. They are the most powerful set of Dragonballs there are. This is because I am a super Namek, and therefore able to create balls just as powerful as the ones on planet Namek, but because you only get one wish that wish is stronger. The one wish you get can do almost anything." He looked at the saiyans, "Almost anything, such as bring an extinct race back from the dead."
Larvat nodded, "Yes, that was our intended wish. Will you help us?" he asked the group.
Goku looked really excited, "Of course we'll help you, this is gonna be so cool we'll get to meet more saiyans and we can have proper eating contests, I wonder if the saiyans have any good food recipes." he nearly yelled.
Every one sweat dropped.
Brenman: The part where everyone finds out that Goku is Vegetas' son was the original idea for my fic, but I eventually kept adding stuff and it turned into this. keep reading to find out more. Next chapter were introducing... King Kai, into the story. so all you King Kai enthusiasts get ready.