Chapter 2: The insanity begins
A few weeks alter, Gohan, Videl, and Chi Chi decided to visit the Briefs family. Trunks came over during his lunch break from his office in Capsule Corp.
"Hey Bulma, how's everything going?" Gohan greeted. "
"Well it's going Gohan. Come in and sit."
They all sat and talked for a while when Vegeta came into the room.
"Am I missing the party?"
"Hey Dad, been a while since we seen each other. Why have you been so distant?"
"Been busy son. I suppose me and mother could have you stay to catch up."
"Sounds great!" Trunks exclaimed.
"Sounds good to me too" Bulma said. Well we can all catch up at the Capsule Corp Christmas party coming up. Gohan we're going to celebrate your new employment as Senior V.P. and Trunks' promotion to President."
"Good to have family on the inside eh Trunks?" Gohan joked as everyone laughed.
Gohan sat back and started thinking. He started thinking about the past and started to talk about old times and Goku. For what seems like hours everyone except Vegeta talked about Goku and the countless times he saved everyone. With each word that came out of their breath, Vegeta just got angry. He looked and stared a hole into Gohan, seeing him just as the son of Goku, another Sayian who should be low-class but has surpassed him in the past and made a fool out of the Prince of Sayians. Vegeta couldn't take anymore of the conversation and just exploaded with anger.
"Is that damn fool all you people can talk about? For God sake he's gone, move on with your lives!
You all just followed him like sheep, always relaying on the hero to save your lives! It's pathetic!"
Everyone just looked at Vegeta with amazement. They couldn't believe the words coming out of his mouth. After a few seconds Vegeta left the room and headed towards the gravity room to train. Trunks went after him.
"Dad what was all that about?"
"Get away from me!"
"What is wrong with you? You've been acting like this for weeks."
"Shut up! How do you even know, you don't live here"
"Mom told me."
"Stupid woman should learn to mind her own damn business."
Trunks stood in front of Vegeta blocking his way.
"Dad, I've never seen you like this. Come on talk to me, I'm your son."
"My son? You're not my son, your nothing like me! You let your emotions get in the way of finishing off your opponent. If you were my son you wouldn't follow the same ideas as that Goddamn idiot!"
Trunks felt like he had been ripped to shreds by what his father told him. Vegeta saw the emotion in his son's eyes and couldn't care less. Vegeta stretched his arm out and put his hand in front of Trunk's face.
"Now unless you want your features to be rearranged. I strongly suggest you get the fuck out of my face!"
Trunks looked into his father's eyes and saw he wasn't bluffing. He quickly got out of the way and
Vegeta went into the gravity room to train. Everyone decided to leave except Gohan who stayed to talk to Trunks.
"Why his he acting like this?"
"I don't know, it's like something has possessed him. Mom told me that for the past few weeks he's been having nightmares and waking up screaming."
Gohan looked towards the door that led to the gravity room, thinking of what caused this sudden change in Vegeta.
"Trunks, have you noticed that as soon as we started talking about my father, Vegeta quickly got angry and yelled?"
"Yea, but your not suggesting that Goku is doing this to him, is you? I mean, Goku passed two years ago."
"Still, there maybe something in Vegeta that has some hatred for my father and just now is eating him alive. I have to know for sure."
Gohan knocked on the door to the gravity room and called Vegeta to come out, but no answer. Gohan and Trunks tried again and again changing from knocking to pounding, but got the same results.
"Looks like we have to do this the hard way."
Gohan charged a ki blast and fired it at the dorr which exploded open. Gohan and Trunks ran in only to find that Vegeta wasn't there.
"Gohan, he's gone!"
Both of them saw the huge hole in the wall. Vegeta had run off again.
In the canyons, Vegeta stood on top of a cliff. He looked as if he was dressed for battle, wearing his old full body blue jumpsuit and Saiyan armor.
"Why…Why do those fools still talk about you like you were still here?" He started to think to himself
"Even in death Kakarot, you still torture me."
Vegeta felt something behind him, he quickly turned around and saw Goku standing there, smiling, not moving or talking, just staring and grinning at Vegeta.
"What? How? You can't be alive! You…I saw you die by that heart virus! That's it, you've come back to to make a mockery of me haven't you? Well talk you piece of shit! TALK!"
Vegeta got no answer from what he saw as Goku.
"Answer me! Why have you come back?"
Still no response. In reality there was no one there, just canyon's and mountains, but in Vegeta's mind he saw Goku, still grinning and staring. Vegeta grew angrier by this; he started to power up and put both his hands up to prepare for the Galick Gun.
"How dare you come here to mock me Kakarot! I've put up with your bullshit for long enough! Unless you want me to send you to hell where you really belong I suggest you answer me!"
Vegeta still didn't get a response. All he was doing was driving himself deeper into madness. The anger and jealousy that he thought was put behind him, was lying dormant for all these years and now it's eating away at Vegeta, making him insane.
"WORTHLESS SCUM!"
Vegeta fired the Galick Gun to what he thought was Goku. The blast went and destroyed nothing but mountains that was in its way. After the explosion, Vegeta looked and saw nothing but smoke and dust.
"What? What is wrong with me?"
Vegeta looked in the air and saw Goku again, this time in torn clothes and a Super Saiyan. The same stare and grin was on his face.
"No, no, no, who the hell do you think you are to take my birthright!"
Vegeta turn Super Saiyan and went after what he thought was Goku and threw a huge kick only to find that he kicked air. Vegeta screamed into the night sky and looked around.
"Where are you, you bastard!"
He looked down and found a golden aura with electric sparks around it. He saw Goku, Super Saiyan two. The same stare but this time with a look of determination on his face, as if he was daring Vegeta to fight him.
"You think I will be outmatched by you? You're nothing to me but a low-class fuck-up who got lucky!"
Vegeta turned super sayian two as well and powered up. He put his palm out to where he saw Goku and continued to power up.
"See if you can survive this Kakarot, a big bang surprise from me to you!"
Vegeta had an insane look in eyes and started laughing like a madman. Gohan and Trunks were only 10 miles from where Vegeta was charging his Big Bang Attack.
"What is he doing!" Trunks yelled.
"I don't know, but we better stop him before he destroys the planet!"
Gohan and Trunks both turn Super Saiyan and rushed to where Vegeta was. It took Vegeta 5 minutes to charge his blast to full power.
"Hahahaha, so long Kakarot. See you in hell!"
Gohan quickly turn super sayian two and kicked Vegeta in the face before the blast could be fired and sent Vegeta flying. Gohan and Trunks looked into the direction that Vegeta was going to shoot at.
"What or who was he going to blast?" Trunks asked.
"I don't know. It doesn't make any sense to fire at nothing."
"Oh shit, Gohan he's gonna come back and he's going to be pissed."
"We'll try to talk and calm him down, maybe figure out what exactly is going on."
Vegeta stopped himself from going any further. He stared at the direction he was in and didn't know what exactly hit him. He let out a growl and a yell and exploded towards Gohan and Trunks. After a minute, Vegeta stopped in front of Gohan.
"Where is he?" Vegeta asked.
Gohan looked confused. "Who?"
"You know who, where is he?"
"Vegeta, I have no idea who you're talking about."
"Idiot, your father, Kakarot. Where is he?!"
"Vegeta, What is wrong with you? My father is gone remember?!."
"You're lying! I saw him right there, mocking me!"
Vegeta pointed to where he was going to fire his Big Bang Attack and saw nothing.
"What, how did he—no I saw him he was right there."
Trunks went over to Vegeta and tried to console him.
"Dad, listen you're worrying everyone. You could've destroyed the entire planet. I understand that you spend most of you life trying to be the best, but Goku is gone now and you've got nothing else to
prove to anyone. Come on dad; let's go home you can lay down and rest."
Vegeta looked at his son. He knew that Trunks was right and powered down back to his normal state.
"Thank you Trunks, I apologize for what I said before I…"
"Hey no problem dad, what's important is that we get you to feel better."
Gohan and Trunks both powered down and took Vegeta home.
"Vegeta, where have you been, I've been worried sick about you and…."
"Mom please, dad is not well."
Gohan started to explain what happened to Bulma as Trunks put Vegeta to bed.
"There you go dad, all you need is a good nights rest and you'll be fine. Good night dad."
"Good night son and thanks."
Trunks gave his father thumbs up and closed the door. Vegeta went to sleep seemly calm.