Disclaimer: the usual blah blah blah…
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Angel Wings-008 Nappa calls Bulma tyrant from his own distorted vision of the universe during the servitude under Frieza. He never got to experience love like Vegeta did on earth. I will deal with that issue later.
Countess57 I think I have successfully cleared your confusions. Lol.
chibi dende, anonand Choco_saiyan THANX (grin)
A/N: I hate ChiChi. She reminds me of Jessie of Team Rocket from the Pokemon series.
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Chapter 2
Piccolo was taking Radditz and Bardock to Mt. Pau. He didn't quite trust the former (he rarely trusted anyone, except Gohan maybe), but the latter was just so much like Goku… His Namekian ears caught the discussion between the Saiyan father and son:
Radditz: Father, are you quite sure of this? I mean, I bloody kidnapped that kid and he cried the whole night…not to mention the disastrous next morning…
Bardock: Don't worry too much, after all you can't be 'killed' again…ha ha.
Piccolo decided it was high time he warned them against ChiChi and her Frying Pan.
Gohan was too distracted to concentrate on his studies. The ki s were approaching nearer. The only thing that calmed him was the presence of his green mentor. He looked out to the terrace – his mother was humming to herself while hanging out washed clothes to dry. AAAAHHHHH – his MOTHER!! How was he to handle his mother when they arrived?
Goten, happy as ever, was fishing in the river with Ox King. Every two seconds, he would feel impatient, jump off to see if the fish had taken the bait, and in effect scare them away, and then start jumping in frustration.
"Goten, why don't you do what your father did?" Ox King asked.
"Dad did what (jump)? Dad did what (jump)? Dad did what (jump)?"
Ox King explained and Goten jumped into the stream – to manually "catch the biggest fish in the river".
Piccolo sensed the hyperactive mini Goku and decided to start from him, rather than his mother.
Just as Goten emerged with a HUGE blue fish from the water, the flyers touched down. Ox King looked at them and blinked twice (anime style). Bardock lifted the gigantic fish from Goten.
"Hey there, little guy. Wow, you look just like me when I was a kid!"
Radditz interjected, "but he must be someone else, when I saw Gohan, he was bigger, and looked different."
"Wow, you know my big bro?" Goten jumped "do you know my dad too? Who are you?"
Piccolo took introduction into his own hands "Goten, this is Radditz, your father's 'big bro', so he is your uncle (Ox King falls over, anime style), and this is their father, that is, your grand father, Bardock. You always ask what did your father look like, well, he looked like him (points to Bardock)."
"So you are my grandpa too?" Goten led them home.
Gohan, in his trademark shy manner, lingered at the door of the kitchen, where his mother was cooking then.
"Uh, mother, can you please arrange lunch for a couple of guests?" Like Goku, he suffered from the insufferable goodness of heart.
"Who is coming, Gohan? It is not easy to prepare for extra meals without prior notice, you know?"
ChiChi looked sky-wards through the kitchen window and mumbled "like we can afford to cook enough to entertain guests anytime…Oh, we are nearly broke and my baby boys aren't grown yet…"
She suddenly suddenly noticed the 'guests' arriving – the obnoxious, once a terrorist Namek, her father, a long haired someone in a dress like a tunic, Goten, and…carrying a huge, blue fish…Goku? GOKU!!!
Gohan rushed after his mother, who practically was wailing in front of Bardock, waving her frying pan.
"Mom," Goten innocently said, "doesn't this new grandpa look like dad?" his face shone with the expectation of having surprised his mother. She only cried harder…so her Goku has not come back? This was his father? WHAT? Wasn't this guy supposed to be dead? Was he wished back? Who was the other guy? What was happening?
Radditz had approached Gohan and said in a quiet voice "I am sorry, I truly regret my actions of earlier."
"You still have some explanations to give," the teenage half-Saiyan replied, "specially for…father."
"What has he got to do with my Goku?" ChiChi demanded.
"Well, I…well; he died…after I took Gohan…"
"WHAT! SO YOU ARE THE MONSTER WHO (sobs) TOOK MY BABY AND (sobs harder) KILLED Goku…for the first time that is… (trails off)."
Goku's voice from HFIL "hi, ChiChi, I came back, right? Besides, he is repentant…" The poor dead Saiyan never got to finish, ChiChi held her frying pan like a battle axe and screeched:
"Has no one got any compassion for my poor nerves? First, my husband is killed by his brother, then the dead brother comes back, and my son asks me to COOK for that 'guest', just like you (Goku) made me make breakfast, lunch and dinner for the green captor of my baby while you went sparring before the androids came!"
"I do not eat, so no breakfast, lunch or dinner for me…" The ever rational Namek had said something terribly wrong.
"WHAT! GOKU, YOU COME BACK, AND I WILL STARVE YOU TO DEATH" ChiChi screamed to the sky above.
"Whoa, ChiChi, you just cook so good that I could not resist the extra helpings…" Goku whined.
Bardock, having longed for home made delicacies ever since his death, exclaimed,
"I can't wait to taste your cooking, ChiChi!"
Goku realised it was high time he went away. So he checked the conditions of Capsule Corp. instead. Piccolo excused himself and fled to Dende's Lookout. Ox King volunteered to get more groceries and went off to the market. Goten suddenly wanted to go to the bathroom.
ChiChi decided that since even Gohan wanted to have the Saiyans with halos on head as guests, she was seriously outnumbered. Besides she felt a bit curious to know her late husband's original culture. There must be something more than just arrogance…Vegeta would never have apologized like Radditz did. And her father in law was a scientist who could help her little Gohan become a scholar.
At CC, Bulma was thinking along parallel lines. She was curious why and how could Vegeta's family hand him over to a monster like Frieza, and turn his exterior shell so rock hard. She, of all people, knew that even though he never expressed, he certainly felt what any normal person would.
She rang up Krillin and Yamcha and explained the situation. They (most reluctantly) agreed to go and check on Gohan and Goten after lunch.
In the meantime, the king and Nappa got ready and wore earth clothes after making sure there was nothing pink (they remembered Future Trunks' account of a certain 'BADMAN' shirt *1). Happily inhaling the merry smells of the great food Bulma's mother was cooking, they joined the others at the dining table.
Trunks was simply fascinated with the golden halo on the big bodyguard's shiny, bald head.
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*1) read the prequel Grandson. (Just a 3 chapter fic)
Suggestions required about what 'tortures' are in store for Nappa when the ever mischievous Trunks and Goten get a free hit on him. Also, how will the hurting ones get to understand the p.o.v. s of the ones that hurt them?