Oh, I want you, I dont know if I need you, but oh, I'd die to find out.
As the group made their way to the throne room, Princess Serenity thought they made quite a sight. She was flanked on either side by Prince Endymion and Prince Vegeta, and Bulma on Vegeta's other side; Endymion had her arm, and for once, Vegeta was being relatively nice. Serenity chalked his behavior up to Bulma, though; she felt the Sayajin Prince saved up the energy to be extra rude and vulgar to the Capsule Corp. heiress, on the basis that she antagonized him constantly. Serenity hadn't ever seen two people who liked to scream at each other so much.
She put the thought aside as they walked up the carpet to the throne, where her mother sat. She broke away from her fiancée and rushed into her mother's outstretched arms, laughing.
"Serenity, sweetheart, I'm so glad you're safe. And you would be Prince Vegeta of the Sayajin, I assume." The Queen detached from her daughter, and curtsied to the Sayajin. "I hope your journey here was comfortable?"
"Yes, fine. Perfect." Vegeta clamped his jaw shut and bowed shallowly at the waist, and seemed unable to say anything more civil.
"We were just about to recess for lunch; I would be honored if you would join us." Queen or not, Vegeta was starting to scowl, a sure precursor to cursing.
"I was under the impression that you would be ready to go to war as soon as we got here. Lunch can wait until I've ripped Freeza's head off his shoulders with my bare hands."
Princess Serenity slapped her forehead with the palm of her hand and groaned.
"Then at least come and meet the warriors you will be fighting with; I'm sure it will help greatly for you to understand what kind of army we have assembled." Queen Serenity steered the Sayajin prince toward the dining hall, her small smile just a little forced. Vegeta huffed but followed; as soon as he stepped through the doors, he wished he'd brought Raditz and Kakarrot with him. He'd never seen so much useless frippery in his entire life, so much elaboration on gleaming and glittering white. His primal nature almost demanded that he spill some blood across the pristine walls and floor, just to have some color. The only bright spot was the cluster of Nameks at the far end of the hall. Vegeta glanced over his shoulder, one eyebrow raised at Bulma; she shrugged, then tried to grab at his cape as he took off across the hall, making a bee line for the Nameks.
"Piccolo!" was the only warning that anyone got, as Vegeta slammed into the Namek; there was a flurry of blows, before the two fighters backed away. "Miss me, green bean?" Vegeta was grinning ferally, wiping at the blood trickling from his lip.
"Hell no," the Namek flashed his fangs in a grin that bordered on homicidal. "I'm surprised you dragged your furry ass here, though. Not falling for the pretty princess, are you?"
"That idiot klutz? Not fuckin' likely. Any girl I set my sights on will have more balls and bloody-minded ferocity than any princess," Vegeta spat the last word, but kept grinning. "I wouldn't have come at all, if it weren't for the blue-haired bitch. She's fun to have around,"
"Prince Vegeta, I'm so glad you already know our fine Namek allies. May I enquire as to the circumstances of your previous meeting?"Queen Serenity was hovering disapprovingly, her smile gone plastic.
"I got my ass stranded on Namek a few years ago," Vegeta shrugged, trying for an easy dismissal. Piccolo laughed, long and loud, then clarified.
"Stranded my ass, spaghetti hair, you blew your ship up on purpose so your father had to spend eight months tracking you down. And was he ever pissed when he finally got there!" Piccolo laughed again, then seemed to have a sobering thought. "You didn't bring the two idiots with you, did you?"
"Raditz and Kakarrot? Of course they came, I wouldn't get into nearly as much trouble without them. I brought all of Nappa's kids, too, and if you thought their old man was bad…" Vegeta laughed at the face Piccolo made, then glared suddenly as the gathered Sailor Senshi started to hover. "You got a problem?"
"Prince Vegeta, these are the Sailor Senshi; the rightful guardians of my daughter. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto." Each girl curtsied, openly eyeing the Sayajin with trepidation, despite the slight bow he gave each of them. "And these men over here, are the Z-Senshi of Earth. Tienshinhan, Choutzou, Yaumcha, Krillin, and Androids Sixteen, Seventeen, and Eighteen." Vegeta inclined his head, and received the same respectful nod of one warrior to another. "I can only assume that you have met Nail and Dende during your stay on Namek, of course; do correct me if I'm wrong."
"We've met," Nail stood with his feet shoulder width apart and arms crossed over his chest, glaring balefully at the Sayajin Prince. "And if I never saw you again, it would be too soon,"
"Kiss my furry ass, green bean," Vegeta grinned, cocking his head just slightly at the door before Raditz and Kakarrot came rushing through.
The brothers skidded to a halt, dropped to one knee, slammed a clenched fist against their chests, and Raditz rose smoothly to his feet.
"Ready for battle, Highness," the grin Raditz gave was feral in its intensity, "Awaiting orders to move out."
"Stand down for a half hour, we're having lunch. These Lunarians seem to think they're capable of feeding even one fully grown Sayajin," Vegeta didn't quite sneer, but it wasn't an unstudied insult.
"Lunch? That's awesome! I'll go get Dad!" Kakarrot took off without being ordered or even addressed, going through the door so fast he knocked one of the huge oak panels off of its hinges.
"He hasn't changed a bit, has he?" Piccolo asked, then dodged frantically as Raditz cried out and tried to pounce. "Stay the hell away from me, you crazy monkey!"
By the time Kakarrot had gotten back, dragging a thoroughly exasperated Bardock behind him, everyone had settled down in their seats for lunch; Kakarrot shoved his father down into one of the last two remaining seats, right next to Pluto. Bardock loaded his plate, caught the awkward glance the Sailor shot him, and considered for about half a second before he opened his mouth.
"Is it polite for me to try and talk to you while I eat, or what?" Pluto stared at him in mild surprise, then laughed.
"You certainly cut to the chase, don't you?" she smiled, and Bardock found himself dividing his attention between filling the constant black hole of his stomach and getting laid.
Further down the table, Raditz paused to take in the completely disgusted look on the face of the Senshi sitting next to him; looked at his food, looked at her, looked at his food, swallowed, and looked at her.
"If I'm not allowed to kill you, you aren't allowed to look at me like that," Raditz told Mars, scowling back at her.
"If you wouldn't shovel your food into your mouth and then proceed to chew with your mouth open like you were raised in a barn, I wouldn't be horrified enough to have to look at you at all!" She snarled, and Raditz suddenly understood why having a woman yell at you while the smell of her hormones when crazy was an extreme turn on.
"Yeah, well at least I wasn't raised to have a silver spoon grafted to my pallet, you spoilt tart. How are you ever going to please a man if you cant get rid of that bitchy attitude of yours?" She went red and spluttered so prettily Raditz leaned forward to burn her scent into his memory. "You smell, too; goddess of blood, do you want to be crazy and alone in twenty years?"
She screeched and lunged for him, manners completely disregarded as she started swinging a silver pitcher at him. She chased him right past Venus and Yaumcha, the desert bandit blushing horribly as Venus flirted shamelessly. Neptune turned from listening to Venus and Yaumcha to look at Mars chasing the burly Sayajin around the dinning hall; she met her lovers eyes, and Uranus shrugged helplessly. Their eyes traveled over Pluto and Bardock, dismissing the older womans faint smile as polite interest, and watched as Jupiter offered Piccolo hot water with lemon. Kakarrot, who was sitting right next to the Namek and was so busy shoveling food into his mouth that he could hardly be expected to notice Armageddon, actually turned, commented on the fact that the Namek was blushing, and promptly ignored the newly forming couple.
Bardock watched Raditz stay just out of reach of the Sailor Senshi, and made an educated guess. "Five to one he's in bed with her by the end of the week," Bardock smirked suddenly, and turned to his dining companion. "Should I piss you off to the point of chasing me around with blunt objects?"
"No," Pluto decided thoughtfully, "I'd much rather work at seducing an older man than have it done for me."
Bardock didn't see Android Seventeen pass Sailor Mercury a bowl of peas, but Neptune and Uranus caught the blush between them when their fingers brushed.
"Is it just me," Neptune started.
"Or has everyone just paired off?" Uranus finished.
"I think we may be right." Neptune took a thoughtful bite of salad, and chewed slowly.
"I think we might, indeed." Uranus squeezed her lover's leg underneath the table, and neither of them saw Vegeta brushing his tail up and down Bulma's legs, also using the table as cover.
At the very center of the table, Queen Serenity sat and watched the chaos unfolding around her; if the alliances her daughter had made didn't kill them, each other, or themselves, then they were going to procreate, she realized. She didn't know how to handle that thought, so she chewed quietly on her fish as Princess Serenity tried to get Endymion to try some morsel of the meal off of her fork. On her other side, Bulma and Vegeta had delved whole-heartedly into another argument, the volume rising noticeably with each passing minute.
The queen gave thanks that the King of the Sayajin hadn't come himself; considering the son, she could no longer even imagine the father.
A/N; Obviously, this is the hook up chapter; I'm establishing couples early on to silidify the plot later. It'll all make sense, I promise. Savage Garden again. I've been listening to it all day, and have pumped out the last three chapters in one day. Cut me some slack...