The odd group landed on the large expanse of grass surrounding the Briefs compound with a sort of ill grace. The two Saiyans had no difficulty finding the place and landing safely, but Goku, Krillin and Master Roshi al had a wild ride. With Goku enjoying the carefree ride while his companions hung on to dear life, they zoomed across various landscapes and into the heart of the city, which neither the bald headed monk or the sweetly naïve Goku, had ever been in before.
"Wow! Look at that house! Its huge… I bet a giant monster lives inside and that's why they need such a big place!" Goku said in awe.
"Idiot… its just a palace. There is no giant monster." Vegeta said shortly. Imbecile, Vegeta thought. He was regretting the decision of letting this sad excuse of a Saiyan and his friends tag along. He would just let the boy teach him how he senses people without scouters and then he would get rid of him and his idiotic friends.
The door of the palace opened and he saw Bulmas mother step out into the front yard with a large plate of cookies balanced on one hand. He could smell the sweet scents wafting from the plate clear across the grounds.
"Yoo-hoo! Oh boys! Your back! And you brought friends! Just in time too. I made cookies and there's plenty for everybody!" she said in a loud carrying voice, excitedly waving the plate of cookies and unexplainably not dropping a single one.
Radditz, Goku and even Krillin all perked up at the thought of cookies. Master Roshi began staring, open mouthed at the site of the curvaceous blonde with the goodies, even Vegeta looked excited, though he tried to hide it under a contemptuous glare.
Goku and Radditz raced to the promised treats, forgetting all dignity as they fought there way each trying to get there first. Vegeta took a second to show that he, at least, had some dignity before zooming after the two, Krillin and Master Roshi close on his heels.
"My, my you boys are hungry. Why don't you introduce me to your friends?" Mrs. Briefs said looking at Radditz, who blushed furiously under her gaze. He had always been a sucker for a pretty face, though he was doing much better than the old man who was ogling her chest and seemed to be on the verge of a major nosebleed.
The group came in through the front door following closely behind the vivacious blonde with the cookies, while she pumped them for information on who the newcomers where.
"Are you boys also aliens?" Bunny said absentmindedly walking through the halls.
"Well Goku is apparently Radditzs' long lost brother, but I'm a 100% human stud at your service" Roshi said bowing low, all the while not taking his eyes off of Bunny's ass.
"Oh how nice" Bunny said waving an airy hand while Vegeta rolled his eyes behind her back and gave a quiet snort of derision. Why did the pervert have to come along, he thought.
"Well everyone is in the meeting room discussing big plans. You can follow through this hall, while I go back and get some more coffee" she said happily. She walked away, although Goku started trailing behind her apparently in a trance by the woman who magically made food appear. Krillin took him by the arm and poked him, hissing a sharp "Later" in his ear.
They proceeded down the rooms into the committee hall, where a large group of people were sitting stiffly. Vegeta recognized his father and Nappa sitting at the top of the table along with Dr. Briefs and Bardock, but there seemed to be thirteen more people clustered around, each looking sweaty, fat and uncertain. These humans were utterly worthless.
Goku walked up to the nearest human sitting at the table, who was busily patting at his bald spot and looking nervously up at King Vegeta, he tapped him on the shoulder and loudly asked "Are you my father? You don't look like you could fight all that well" he then proceeded to lift the man up and pat him on the bottom, apparently searching for a tail.
"Nope, its not him" he said letting go of the surprised man and continuing down the table to the next man.
"You idiot! He's not our father!" Radditz bellowed starting after Goku.
King Vegeta and Bardock, who had both been laughing loudly at the antics just moments before, stopped suddenly.
"What do you mean our father?" Bardock said in bewilderment.
"Father, this is Kakarot. We found him on an island with those two" he said pointing at Master Roshi and Krillin "he apparently has no idea of who he is and before we met him, he believed himself to be an earthling named Goku."
"Are you telling me that the boy we sent off seven years ago, doesn't know that he's a Saiyan? How could this be? I programmed his ship myself." Bardock said.
"Apparently, he sustained a head injury as a child and has no recollection of the programming." Radditz said shrugging his shoulders. "No doubt about it though that's Kakarot"
Bardock looked at Goku more closely and saw his own familiar features reflected back at him. The same wild spiky hair, the same set and determined jaw and wild look in his eyes, but this boy was surely like no other Saiyan. He was to carefree, too at ease. He felt a pang of guilt for not even knowing that the boy existed after all these years, and he wondered how his own father had sent off him and his four siblings without a backward glance.
"So… you're my dad. That's better, at least you look strong. Can we spar?" Kakarot asked immediately. Okay that is definitely a Saiyan quality, Bardock thought to himself.
"Ahh, maybe another time, I have to sit in on this conference for now." Bardock said uncomfortably. He had never been good around children, the young ones always made him uncomfortable. Hell, he had barely ever spent any time with Radditz when he was a child, only seeing him whenever he got home from long journeys that lasted months at a time or during the annual tournaments that the training schools held once a year.
King Vegeta was looking on impatiently, it was a strange sight seeing Bardocks youngest but they had business to do and it was better not to make Freiza wait.