To See the Old Neighborhood.....

Part 21

Goku and Gohan exchanged concerned looks as they felt Trunks's chi fall back out of Super Saiyan and start to move (yes the chi MOVED) out of his body! It felt unnatural!

"What are you staring at?" the King asked, looking annoyed from Vegita to Goku to Gohan to Radditz and back to Vegita again, hoping the answer came from the Prince. The other's seemed confused or confusing whenever they tried to explain anything.

"They feel something again, right?" Nappa asked Turles, who nodded his head but kept his eyes on the concerned faces of everyone.

"Feel? What do you mean?" Bardock dared to ask, keeping the corner of his eye on the King incase he would try to cuff him for speaking when not spoken to.

"Chi," Nappa said, glancing at Turles for a second to make sure he was right.

"Chi?"

"Yes. They feel chi," Turles said annoyed and looked Goku in the eye, "What is it, Kakarot?"

"It's Trunks," Vegita said, hiding the concern in his voice, "He is..........hurt."

"Oh, just that?" the King said mildly, raising a brow at how worked up they got about one simple kid.

"YOUR KID IS HURT TOO!" Gohan yelled and turned toward the door, "I'm going to check it out, anyone wanna come help let them speak now."

"You're not going without ME," Goku said, and turned to face the other Saiyans in the room, "Bye, guys, we'll get this all straightened out."

"Ah......Kakarot?" Bardock said, hesitating a moment.

Goku paused in the door way.

"I think I should go too-nn!" the last words issued out of Bardock's lips were cut short as he fell to his hands and knees, eyes glazed.

"Hey, dad!" Radditz said, rushing to his father's side, Goku hung back, still hesitant about what to do around this man that sired him.

The whole room was silent for a moment as Bardock's breathing rose and fell rapidly, and his body twitched a few times.

"What.........what's happening to him?" Gohan said, hands outstretched to try to help, but if he only knew what to do!

"I don't-" Radditz almost said, but stopped when his father's eyes snapped opened again with a wild look in them.

"Are you oh-" Goku tried to ask, but was interupted as Bardock jumped to his feet and raced for the door where he paused to turn around.

"Help me stop Freiza! He's about to destroy the planet!" he yelled, a wild look to his eyes.

"What?!" Gohan asked, quickly shifting his chi sensing ability to Freiza's ship, "He's right! Freiza didn't stay unconscious as long as we thought he would!"

"What are all you talking about?!" the King hollered, "One minute we're introducing owrselves, then we're saying the children are hurt, now we're all saying that Freiza has survived the pummeling of a lifetime and is about to destroy the planet! WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW *W-H-Y* WE'RE ALL THINKING SUCH THINGS!?!?!"

"Um......it's kinda hard to explain." Gohan said and didn't bother furthering the explaination as suddenly a small, wet body came barreling through the wall, plaster and marble flying everywhere.

"DAD!!" Goten yelled and without thinking or looking jumped on the man that he recognized as his father............which happened to be Bardock, who looked rather shocked to suddenly have a small, cold and extremely wet boy attached to his upper torso.

"SINCE WHEN DID MY PALACE BECOME A CUM'N' GO?!?" the King bellowed, on his last leg of patience way back when Freiza had been mentioned. He had been OVER the edge since then.

"Goten?" Gohan asked, tossing an apologetic look to his frightened, newly discovered grandfather.

Goten looked up at the face of the man he was so desperatly clinging to and his face snapped out of a frightened, childish expression to an accusative one as he jumped off of Bardock and yelled, pointing a finger, "YOU'RE NOT MY DAD!!!"

"Um........Goten?" Gohan asked again, feeling embaressed for his whole family in general.

"BROTHEEEEERRRRRR!!!" Goten suddenly bawled and hurled himself into Gohan's surprised arms. The little boy paused to look up into Gohans face to make sure he had the right person this time before re-burying his head in his brother's neck, "No one's who they're supposed to be!! Some guy's chi is just like Trunks's cause he stole it with kyushu suru, everyone is starting to look like everyone else, Trunks's soul is captured, I don't know where Pan is, Bra keeps crying, I'm wet, I'm cold, I'm hungry AND BROLLY'S DEAD!!!!"

There was a general pause of confusion in the room for a moment before everyone yelled at once, "WHAT?!"

"Yeah," Goten said solomnly.

Bardock snapped out of his near coma-like state of confusion and yelled, "We don't have time to worry about it! FREIZA'S ABOUT TO KILL US ALL! KAKAROT, YOU HAVE TO FIGHT HIM! I SAW IT!"

"Saw what, now?" Goten asked, turning around in Gohan's arms, rubbing one eye.

"The future! The future! I saw it, I did!" Bardock yelled frantically, trying to hurtle out the door as he was now being held agenst a wall by Radditz and Turles, concerned that in his state he might further the damage Goten's enterance had caused to the palace.

This thought seemed to prompt a few more feet of the wall Goten had smashed through to fall to the ground. Wild, speratic sprays of hard rain blew in through the hole, dampening the already sweaty faces of the room within.

The King's face started to turn red, "My......my palace........"

"Okay, okay, whatever," Gohan said to Bardock, then turned to his father as he continued to pat Goten on the back, "You go ahead and kill Freiza. I'll see who this other guy is."

"Right, but shouldn't you have some help?" Goku asked as he and Bardock stood side by side to leave.

"Naw, me and Goten should cover it," Gohan said, and without anyone in the room's permission, he and his brother zoomed out the giant hole in the wall.

"Kakarot, I'M going to kill Freiza," Vegita said, stepping in Goku's way as he and Bardock started to leave.

"If that's your way of saying you wanted to come," Goku said with a smile, "You coulda' just asked."

They, too, flew out the giant hole in the wall Goten had made, going slower for Bardock to keep up.

"There they go..........," Nappa said, holding an arm up to shield the rain that was blowing in through the hole and into his eyes.

"Yep, there they go......," Turles said, crossing his arms and turning to face Radditz, "You do realize your family is probably the most insane bunch I've ever met."

"It took you that long to figure that out?" Radditz grumbled and sat down on the ground to wait for something to happen.

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For perhaps the hundreth time since the King and the Prince, with the other members of his party left, Lotus cursed his luck.

He didn't want to just WAIT here, watching an alien that could kill him in an instant if he came to. He was feeling a heavy sense of regret for having participated in the beating of the comatose tyrant, fearing that he would feel the repercussions for such acts. HE HAD KICKED FRIEZA!

And he had a feeling that if Freiza came to...........ulp.

As for Tripnup, that was the last thing on his mind.

He was too busy cursing his poor eyesight.

An albino's eyes are not accually red, they are clear. The red hue is the visible hundreds of blood vessels beneath the iris. All the fighting Tripnup had faught in his past years, where the intense, ultraviolent reflections of exploding chi were a way of life had proven hazardous to his delicate, sensitive eyes.

To put it in short, he was probably one of the only Saiyans that was farsighted. He had even had a prescription scouter made, but he had unfortunatly forgotten to bring it with him, leaving him at a disadvantage to the other Saiyans.

He was among the many who were unhappy that day.

Lotus jumped when he thought he saw Freiza move.

"Did you see that?!" he asked, eyes wide.

"I didn't see ANYTING," Tripnup grumbled, not even looking up from the ground that he was professionally scowling at, "I never see anything."

"Yeah, I guess you're right, I'm probably just paranoid......." Lotus said shakily, "I'm going to get something to eat from the kitchenette, I'm sure this dump has one. You want anything?"

"No......YES. All the food you can carry and more," Tripnup said, eyes still glue to that certain spot on the floor that held his intrest. Lotus left.

"Damn these eyes," was the last thing Tripnup said before he was envoloped in unconsciousness.

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