Goku brought Piccolo up to introduce Chi Chi to him after her encounter with Vegeta. Chi Chi and him actually talked for a while after Goku and Vegeta headed into the water. After getting over the initial shock of green, she sort of liked him. Chi Chi was astounded on how Goku and him had ended up meeting. Enemies turned friends? 'Go figure only Goku would be able to do that.' Piccolo helped with cooking the food, he was not to fond of the water, but it helped everything go a lot quicker for Chi Chi. Once all the food was done Chi Chi called everyone over. The sun had gone down for the most part but Piccolo had started a fire for her and everyone.
Chi Chi sat next to Goku around a bonfire they had built now eating dinner and drinking. Everyone was happy talking and laughing. Piccolo decided to tell Chi Chi about him first meeting Vegeta and Goku and how much Vegeta had a stick up his ass. Chi Chi and Bulma just laughed historically at it all. Soon everyone was telling stories of each other. Funny, embarrassing, to downright historical.
Before the group knew it, it was 3 am and everyone was tired. Saying their goodbyes, 17 and Krillin took off flying and Piccolo said he would just stay outside for the night since he did not "sleep," just meditated.
Chi Chi was picking up the last few bottles and plates, throwing it all in the trash bag. Making her way inside she threw it all away and walked into the main house. Bulma was sitting at the counter already to bed, sipping on a cup of hot tea. "Where's Goku and Vegeta?" "Upstairs. I told Vegeta to sleep in the guest room and Goku is in your room….if that's ok. I didn't think you would want anyone in your parent's room." Chi Chi smiled.
"Thanks, I think I'm gonna head to bed now. I'll see ya in the morning."
Chi Chi headed upstairs and walked into her parent's room. She closed the door behind her and then slid onto the ground against it. She sat there for a while taking it all in. She never fully faced her mother's death, but now it was all front and center. She had to face it now or else. Silently she started to shed tears as she got up and walked over to the closet. Some clothes and shoes were on the ground from when Chi Chi and Bulma started to go thru her things earlier. Her mothers jewelry shined from the case in the corner and a picture of mother and daughter was displayed. She grasped a scarf that was hanging on the door and held it close to her chest.
"Goku, I don't understand how can you even begin to eat that much." Chi Chi and Goku both laughed together as they walked down a long path back to her house. Goku would always meet up with Chi Chi after school. They would go to the park and play with the other kids. Then he would walk her home. He said it was always his break time away from Vegeta and training.
The sun was slowly setting as both kids came into viewing distance of Chi Chi's house. Bright red, blue, and white flashing lights were all over the place. Her house was being swarmed by policemen and then off to the side people with cameras trying to get a shot of all the action going on from behind the gates.
Chi Chi took off into a dead sprint, Goku followed behind her. Panic and anxiety. She didn't know what was going on but she wanted her mother and father. Robert the family assistant came into view running around the police because he spotted Chi Chi. "Chi Chi! Over here!"
"Robert whats….whats going on? Wheres mom….and dad. What happened?!."Chi Chi was out of breath from running and Goku stood next to her still and on guard. Anxiety, Panic. Panic, Anxiety. It was getting worse. Adrenaline coursing thru her veins.
All a sudden flashes and people started to swarm around the three. People yelling and screaming at them trying to get an answer. "Sir Robert!" "SIR ROBERT over here! Whats going on?" "Could you inform us, is it true the lady was murdered!" "Over here! "Did the police catch the killer?!"
Panic. Full out panic, heart racing, panic…Robert grabbed Chi Chi and Goku by the shoulders and hauled them behind the police line where they could not be reached. Chi Chi escaped from Roberts grasp and sprinted inside.
"Chi Chi wait!" Robert tried to catch her but he missed. Robert started after her with goku behind him.
"Mommy! Daddy! Where are you! MOMMY! DADDY!"
Running upstairs she turned the corner down the hallway to find her father on his knees holding a woman's lifeless body.
"…." Chi Chi stoped cold in her tracks "da….dy…." Her heat and stomach dropped everything in her world stopped. She may not have known much for her age but the scene before her seemed all too clear to her. Chi Chi started crying and she walked up to her father.
Chi Chi dad held the body of her mother and cried as he rocked her back and forth. Chi Chi fell to her knees in front of her father and froze as she looked at her mother's face. The ground around where her body was found was pooled in crimson and the heavy sent was in the air. Goku and Robert had caught up at this point and stood at the end of the hall with the policemen. "No..Mom…MOMMY!"Chi Chi latched onto her mother's body and started to cry. "NO MOM! Wake up please mom wake up….."
Her father put her mother's body down and grabbed Chi Chi. She kicked and screamed in protest at her father taking her away from her mother. He held her and Chi Chi screamed "No No I cant leave her, I want my mom!"
Goku watch the scene in front of him unfold. He didn't really know what to say. She had been like a mother to him ever since they met the woman. Gohan was so good to him and Vegeta but once he met her, he knew what people meant when they talked about a mothers unconditional love. Now all he wanted to do was help Chi Chi. Something inside him told him to protect her but he didn't understand. She was his truest friend other than Vegeta.
He watched as Chi Chi stopped fighting her father and just fell to her knees on the ground. Tears welled up in his eyes and he didn't know what to do. Doing the only thing he thought he should do, he walked up to Chi Chi. Kneeling down next to her he hugged her.
Chi Chi looked thru her tears crying as Goku came over. He knelt down next to her and wrapped his arms around her. Chi Chi latched her arms around him and sobbed. She held onto him like it was for her life. Her mother was gone, never coming back. Just gone.
Chi Chi came out of her day dream realizing she was crying harder than she thought. Her face was all wet, her shirt covered, and the scarf too. Hauling herself upright, she decided she needed to shower and sleep. It was late and she had to head home tomorrow. She needed this. She thought this weekend was to help restore her broken heart but destiny had planned for other things. She thought it was to fix a broken heart for the man she loved but apparently it was to mend the broken heart she had sustained so maybe years ago.
Bulma sat in the kitchen sipping on her tea. She was about finished when she saw Goku walk into the kitchen. "Well someone looks beat, I'm surprised you haven't gone to sleep yet. You, Vegeta and your sleep."
Goku chuckled at her comment then frowned as he filled a cup of water up. "Hey Bulma, is Chi Chi ok?"
Bulma perked up at why Goku would be asking that. "I mean she is a lot better than I thought but I could tell she is kind of down when we went thru all her mother's stuff. Why do you ask?"
Finishing his glass of water he set it down "I could hear her crying. I think in her mother's room, I just…I want to go to her but I thought maybe she needed some privacy, and I just didn't know."
Goku ran his hand thru his hair.
Bulma smiled at Goku and looked towards the stairs "I heard her too. I think it's just that, she is finally facing it. She never really did. She shoved it aside and by the time she should have faced it, her stepmother and brother came into the picture so it kind of just dissipated away. Her life has been a nonstop rollercoaster. It's like a movie with her life sometimes. At least that's how I feel. And she doesn't even ask for any of this or go out searching for it. It kind of just happens to her."
Goku stood next to bulma and looked down at her "I want to know all about the kidnapping and stalking with Spike Bulma. What happened because she can't tell me much she doesn't remember a lot."
Bulma externally winced. "I, I don't know Goku I-"
"She told me all she can remember, and if I am going to protect her I want to know what I am in for here." Bulma sighed in defeat.
Slowly Bulma started to tell Goku how she was just in her lab with Vegeta when she had gotten a phone call. She knew when Chi Chi wasn't talking right away something was wrong. "After listening to all the yelling and ranting I realized what was happening. I started to track her phone and then contacted her father right away. I told Vegeta to stay behind at the time. If I knew he wasn't incompetent at defending himself, I would have had him come with." Bulma had a dry chuckle at the coincidence of the situation.
Bulma got up to rinse out her cup as she continued on her story. "I called all of Capsule Corps. Security force. There all mostly ex marines, seals, army personal. The Cops wouldn't have gotten their lazy asses there in time. We all took the helicopters to the island that her phone tracked us too and that when we had to hunt them down. The island was totally vegetated with no one living on it. We split up into teams to find them as quick as possible. Went west around the beach and that where I found Spike and Chi Chi fighting in the water. He somehow managed to throw her ashore and that's where she hit her head. I stayed back for a second to assess the situation and two other people came out of the brush. I have no idea who the hell they were. They disappeared after all this just as quickly as they showed up at the end of this all. Spike picked her up and dragged her into the trees and that's when I followed. Next thing I know I was blinded from some bright lights of an explosion. I rushed forward after and found Chi Chi down and Spike on the ground just unconscious like he was hit over the head bad or something. Chi Chi was a mess Goku when I found her. I…I didn't know if she was going to survive. It was so bad. There was blood everywhere and she was unresponsive."
Bulma held her head and rubbed her eyes from being tired and telling this emotional story. "Capsule Corp men searched the island after this and found a jet plane and two round ball like space ship things…..I mean I don't know what you want to call them. I have them under lock and key. I've used some of their finding to create the gravity simulator. Me and my father have been studying them. No one other than my father, those men, and myself know about them. If the public did I think we would be in total full panic mode because 'aliens' have arrived….hah aliens" Bulma laughed at herself for that comment.
Goku held up a hand "Wait Wait, are they round like a ball and can hold one person from the looks of them?"
Bulma nodded her head saying yes "But someone was staying on the island we found a fresh pit for fires and bones from them eating some of the animals."
Bulma stood up "we couldn't find the two other guys. I mean I could still describe them too you like it was yesterday. They were so out of place. Kind of hard not remembering them."
Goku shook his hand. "nah its fine go to bed Bulma I'm guessing your tired we can talk some other time" yawning Bulma headed upstairs and Goku headed outside to find Piccolo he needed some time to spar with someone to get this out of his head.
The Sun was starting to rise. Goku and Piccolo had decided that they should head back to where the beach house was. They had flown a decent distance away from the house. Its never a quiet time when those two spar. Landing on the porch Goku spotted Chi Chi walking out the side door and headed for the front gate. She had her headphone in, running shorts and a sports bra on. 'She always does love her morning runs.' Walking inside Bulma was cooking some food on the stove and Vegeta sat at the counter drinking his coffee. "Hey Goku! Wants some food!"
"Yeah that sounds great! I'm starving." Goku Bulma Piccolo and Vegeta sat around and ate just talking about the week they had ahead of them. When Goku turned to Bulma and pointed to Vegeta.
"So does he know or am I going to break the news to him?" Bulma glared at Goku from washing the dishes. "Thanks for throwing me under the buss you ass" Bulma pointed the wet and soapy spatula at him. "He's gonna have a shit fit for you not telling him either way. I mean- " Goku crosses his arms and smirked at the info he just divulged to Vegeta.
Mean while Vegeta stood still as he was about to take a slip of his coffee. He was just sitting there peacefully this morning enjoying coffee with no idiots to deal with until this started. "You know I am sitting right here….." "It's nothing huge, just a discovery I made a few years ago and its technology helped me to create the gravity simulato-" Bulma turned around to continue washing dishes and try to drop the subject. "Bulma found two space pods." Goku interrupted Bulma and smiled like a little devious child. That made Vegeta spit out his current sip of coffee. "And you didn't think this was viable important information for the prince of all sayian! Woman how would you think that this isn't important!" Piccolo decide this was not something he felt like dealing with so he went outside to sit down and wait this out. Bulma and Vegeta could be heard yelling back and forth on what both thought was important and not important.
Prince of all Sayian.
Global panic because 'aliens' are here.
Fellow sayian alive?
The ships being confiscated by the government
Needs to know who's ships they where for.
On & On & On & On This went on for at least 30 mins and in the middle of all this yelling Chi Chi jogged up from the beach to the porch from her run. Raising an eyebrow she took her head phones off she questioned Piccolo at what was going on. In response he just shook his head "How about you tell Goku to come see me when he gets some free time and not starting these fights between the two love birds." Chi Chi laughed and walked inside at his comment. "ummm HELLO?..." everyone turned around at the exact same time. "WHAT?!" Bulma and Vegeta said in unison.
"Good morning to you two love birds too. On a quiet note before you both start bickering like an old married couple again; I am packing up and headed back after I shower and collect a few of my mother's things. I have to go speak with my dad on a few things. And Goku Piccolo said just to go find him when you are free." With that Chi Chi turned around and headed upstairs leaving everyone dumbfounded with how perfectly fine she was after the past 48 hours of things she had endured.
Bulma just pointed at Chi Chi as she walked away "uhhh….." Goku and Vegeta just looked at Bulma. Bulma turned to Vegtea "This is not over-ah not one peep! I'm gonna go make sure she is ok?..."
Bulma walked into Chi Chis parents room and found the girl wrap in a towel fresh out of a shower. "SO, is everything ok?..." "Yeah Why wouldn't I be ok?" Chi Chi started to get dressed as bulma sat down on the bed
"oh I don't know…Goku…Heartbreak, Spike, your mother…..I mean any one of those but a combo and your acting like this…."
Chi Chi shrugged her shoulders. "I've come to the conclusion I have to accept the things that have happened and face them head on. So I am taking action and facing them."
"ok that's good and all Chi Chi but how in the hell do you…..wait what do you mean?! You're going to go find Spike and what yell at him!"
Chi Chi zipped up her bag throwing it over her shoulder. "I'm going to see my father talk to him and then later this week I'm going to take a little trip to the island to face everything. Go back and see where it all happened and come to terms with it."
"You are not doing this, not alone! You can't!" Bulma jumped up
"oh good I'm glad you want to come with too. I was hoping you would say yes! Just don't tell the boys please" She smiled deviously, Bulma let out a loud groan
" I did not- ugh Chi Chiiiii….." Chi Chi smiled at Bulma and headed downstairs to get going. She had a long ride back home and then to see her father.
Bulma yelled to Chi Chi as she walked out of the room "I still need to talk to you about things! Like as in Spike and bad things!"
"yeah sure sure Bulma later this week over lunch" Chi Chi ignored Bulma and just kept on going her way