To See the Old Neighborhood.....

Part 18

"So.......what do we do now?"

The question brought them to thinking. Turles looked around to see Freiza's men. Most were on the ground unconscious, or dead, but some were still standing, propping themselfves up agenst walls or hanging onto the backs of chairs for support, many with nasty looking broken limbs and bloody puddles near by where they oozed their life force away.

One common trait among the standing was fear. Absolute terror as they looked at the limp form of the great Freiza-sama, now a mangled piece of flesh, limp on the ground. It was admitedly disheartening to see their best warrior in such a condition.

"I suppose we clean up the rest of the trash around here," the King said, gesturing to the survivors, "Kill them."

"Ah, wait a second!" Goku said before he thought about it.

All eyes, both ally and enemy, turned to look at him. Vegita smacked his forehead and Gohan wondered exactly what was going to be said.

"Uh.....you're just going to kill them? All of them?" Goku asked weakly, suddenly losing his nerve......so many faces looking at him!

"Well.......I suppose if you think we should torture them........," the King said, stroking his mustache and tugging at his beard. The survivors wailed.

"Gah! That's not what I ment-"

"Oh, wait a sec!" Radditz said, shifting attention from his brother and onto him, "Don't you think we should make sure.....uh........Freiza doesn't have.....um.....more people?"

"But they're all here, or dead-" Bardock said, tapping his scouter and looking around to see if his first glance had been wrong.

"But...um....they're might be more ships!" Gohan quickly added, nodding his head to prove what he was saying.

"Freiza DOES have a brother and father........," Lotus said to the King, and Tripnup nodded.

"Oh, boy, if THEY were also brought back I'm going to punch Noone in the face!" Turles crowed, but stopped himself quickly whenhe realized what he had said, "Oop....."

"That's the second time you mentioned this 'bringing-back' buisness," Lotus said, giving them a suspicious look, "What do you mean by that?"

"Um....ye see......." Gohan tried to say, but then just decided to stop talking before he worsened things. Now what do they do?

"It......uh......see in the future......um.....we........," Goku started to say, rubbing his neck as he thought of the right words, but they seemed to be having a hard time coming. He knew that just one more slip could ruin this whole mess for everyone, putting an end to a vacation he had yet to have time to even enjoy! This was not fun!

"We killed Freiza," Vegita said, refusing to stutter his words like everyone else.

"And Koola," Gohan said.

"And King Cold," Goku said.

"Really?" Bardock asked, eyes shining.

"Um....yeah! So back in this time.......," Goku said.

"It just seems like they were all brought back....." Vegita added.

"When they're only alive at this time!" Gohan finished.

"Nice save," Radditz whispered in Goku's ear, no one else heard.

"Hush," Goku said, smiling weakly at the shocked listeners, whose eyes were wide, "Heh heh, see?"

"So.....we accually DO beat Freiza, then?" the King berated himself for accually doubting his people would ever be free.

"But.......," Bardock looked closely at the faces of each of his sons, "There's something else, right? About the future of the Saiyans?"

"You know we can't talk about the future," Radditz said quickly.

"But you already did just talk about-" Lotus started to say.

"Then we've already said too much," Goku interupted, then said in his usual jovial voice, "Why don't we all formally introduce ourselves? I see some faces I don't know!"

The King eyed him for a second, then said, "Not here. This should be more formal, like in the palace. Tripnup, Lotus, stay here and guard these.......men......until we decide what to do with them."

"Yessir......but what about Freiza?" Tripnup's white skin found a way to turn even paler.

"If he moves, kill him."

"He shouldn't regain consciousness for another hour or so, anyway," Gohan said reassuringly.

"Uh.....yessir."

"We'll do our best."

****

"Hey! I feel my dad's chi!" Trunks said, jumping up from where he lay, trying to sleep as it continued to pour outside.

Goten opened one lazy eye as he dragged himself to the world of the living from a sleep deeper than what should be healthy, "Huhn?"

"Wake up, lazy bones! Git up git up git up!" Trunks said, shaking Goten violently by the shoulders till he felt his teeth would rattle out.

"Knock off that racket, weaklings......mumble.......," Vegita said, bracing his limp form up with one arm, wiping the growth of sleepy from his heavy eyes.

"I can feel dad's chi!"

"Oh?" Goten said, not clicking yet as to what this meant, considering he was still working on why his bed was so hard, "OH! Me too! Yeah, and big brother's!" The little half Saiyan was suddnely wide awake, leaping to his feet as though he weren't half dead moments earlier.

"What?......chi?......," Vegita felt rather irritated, "What are you talking about?"

"They're back on the planet! We can get back to the palace where it's warm and where there's food and food and more food!" Trunks said happily, raising his fists into the air to emphasize.

"Don't forget food!" Goten cheered, raising his fists to be like Trunks.

Vegita, who had yet to even get to his feet yet, snorted once and rolled over, facing his back to them.

"C'mon, Vegita! Get up! Food!" Goten cried, shaking the young Saiyan Prince by the arm, rocking him back and forth.

"Quite it!" Vegita said, taking a swip behind him. Goten jumped back and stood, looking contemplativly at the prostrate form.

"Leave him."

Goten gave Trunks a helpless glance, but the older halfling just winked, "Let him sleep. Let's go raid the palace kitchen!"

"Oh KAY!" Goten hooted enthusiatically, and the two scooped up the three once sleeping baby's (awake by now from all the commotion) and headed for the mouth of the cave.

"Wait one minute!" Little Vegita was on his feet and standing with a scowl no one in the universe could replicate......except his older self who sat in the palace at the moment, "You're not going anywhere without me! You'd get into too much trouble."

"That the only reason you're coming?" Trunks asked, one hand on his hip while the other held his little sister.

"The soul and only reason."

Goten and Trunks rolled their eyes to eachother, but only headed out to brave the rain storm, Vegita behind them. Out to find their parents.

****

He walked the surface of the planet, hardly noticing the rain that pelted his dark blue hair, or the few raindrops that clung to his eyelashes. It didn't matter to him. He reached a hand up to his scouter and tapped a few buttons on it as he scanned the aria.

Multiple power reading, nothing higher than 13,000.........

Wait a second........

He turned his head back a few inches, going slightly cross-eyed to read his scouter correctly. Yes, he was right. There was a couple of extremely strong chi's eading towards the Saiyan palace, a couple hundred kilometers off.

"We'll start with them, then," he said, and smiled.

Lomen took off to follow the chi.

To be continued..........