To See the Old Neighborhood.....

Part 22

Freiza slowly became aware, at first confused, then angry as he recalled the nasty bruising he had recently suffered through.

Suffer from a Saiyan?

Was he losing his mind!?

Then, out of the blue, it all made sense. The call from Lomen about a planet that had been gone for so many years, the common thought that he was dead, the sudden strength of the Saiyans that had attacked him..............

He remembered. It wasn't a gradual rememberance. It didn't come slowly and easy for him to except.

He just knew all of a sudden. He remembered destroying the planet as though it were so long ago. He remembered Namek. And.........he remembered his sudden and surprising death at the hands of an unknown kid with a sword.

It was as though he knew it all along, yet only had privy to his memories now.

That didn't mean he wasn't prepared to act on these new found memories. He had to put a stop to the Saiyans. Even if it ment destroying Vegita-sei twenty times, fifty times, a hundred times over!

They. Must. Be. Stopped.

He listened quietly as one of his Saiyan guards got up to get food. Typical Saiyan, always thinking with the stomach...........

"Damn these eyes," the second guard mummered. Freiza couldn't stand to wait any longer. In less than the blink of an eye, he had moved his small, compact body behind the unknowing Tripnup, too busy cursing his poor sight to notice his sudden danger.

All it took was a quick blow to the base of Tripnup's skull to put him out, though whether he was dead or not Freiza neither cared to know or would have bothered checking.

He had more important things to worry about. Like the second (and hopefully last) destruction of Vegita-sei.

****

"How do you know where you're going?" Bardock asked, looking around nerviously, expecting Freiza to appear at any moment.

"We already TOLD you, idiot! We can feel chi!" Vegita, flying ahead of father and son, yelled. He was as angry as anyone else, but he also had his usual feeling of rage to deal with also.

"You don't have to yell, Vegita," Goku chastized, "You had just as hard of a time understanding what feeling chi was all about too, remember?"

".........Shut up, Kakarot," Vegita mumbled, not bothering to argue further. He normally loved arguing, but recently all it did was confuse him and/or the person he was arguing with. Things were just getting too strange in this point of his life to bother with factualities.

"Um........well, since you know........," Bardock risked a few more words, "Then how long til we get to Freiza? I have this horrible feeling like the future of the whole planet is already just a memory......."

Goku and Vegita gave eachother knowing, slightly sad looks but few on in silence, letting the harsh rain whip through their hair.

"We'll stop Freiza in time......," Goku said finally, no lie in that.

^This time.......^ Vegita said to him mentally ^We'll at least stop him in time THIS TIME.^

Goku nodded solomnly.

****

"You mean he knows more about kyushu suru that I do?!" Gohan exclaimed.

"A whole lot more n' dad an' you put together! He took Trunks's chi without even touching him or one of his attacks!" Goten explained as he and Gohan flew to the last spot Goten had been with Trunks, Pan and Vegita.

"I hope they're all right.......," Gohan said, feeling slightly guilty that he was pretty much only thinking of Pan's safety. But she was his daughter. His kin.........

"Me too........," Goten agreed and they both sped up a bit. Hoping their loved ones were okay.

****

"The baby is crying........" Nappa said as he Radditz and Turles all hunched over a crying Bra.

"What do we do?" Radditz asked nerviously, "We can't just let her cry. It'll drive us insane!"

"Um......perhaps we should feed her?" Turles offered.

No one moved for a second.

"Is there anything we can do to make her stop crying that doesn't involve.......ya know......accually DOING anything with her?" Nappa asked after a moment, "I've seen them feed babies on T.V. before........it looks difficult."

"You shouldn't believe everything you see on T.V." Radditz mummered, he didn't like T.V.

"But it's a reoccuring theme on T.V! Multiple sources an' all........," Turles argued.

"Well.........it could still all be myth!" Radditz refused to give up his side of the argument.......as well as he was stalling for time till they HAD to do something.

The King stood leaning agenst a far wall keeping his silence. He didn't have a clue what do do either.

"You can feed her then, Radditz!" Turles said quickly, a sly and hopefull look in his eye.

"I'm NOT doing it!" Radditz said quickly, "I don't even know what the little beggers eat!"

"Baby food of coarse!" Nappa said.

Turles and Radditz stared at him for a second.

"Do we HAVE any baby food?" Turles asked at long last.

"Um......" Radditz said, tapping his chin and looking at the cealing.

"I sure don't," Nappa said, patting his gi and checking the pockets.

"None of us do," Turles said glumly.

"Ah.........," Nappa said, sniffing at the air for a second, "Does anyone else smell that?"

"Yeah, it sure is foul," Radditz waved a hand in front of his nose, "What is it, anyway?"

All three suddenly jerked their heads to look at the still crying baby, sniffing sharping.

"Er.......anyone here know how to change a diaper?" Nappa asked nerviously.

All three of them gulped.

****

Trunks slowly and painfully opened his eyes.

He slowly became aware he wasn't out in the rain anymore, though the jumpsuit under his armor was still wet. Knowing how fast it dried, he couldn't have been under shelter for more than a couple of minutes.

Trying to become familiar with his surroundings, he looked to his left and to his right. He was lying on the cold ground of a cave (he wouldn't be surprised if it were the same cave he, Goten, Vegita and the three tykes had been in not too long before. As his eyes became used to the dark interior, Trunks could see that Vegita and Pan were lying on each side of him.

Concerned at first, the small lavender hair boy became relieved to see each of their chests rising and falling slowly in quiet sleep........or was it sleep? Were they victims of the chi vampire too? Were they drained dry of their power as he had been and left to slowly regain it only to be taken back again?

He hoped not.

"Oh, I see you're up now.....or at least awake."

That voice was easy enough to recognize. It was that jerk Lomen.

"What do you want?" Trunks asked.

"Just some information-"

"And my chi."

"And your chi."

"Then why am I here? Why aren't you sapping my power right now?"

"You don't have any power right now," Lome chucked.

Trunks gasped when he realized he truely COULDN'T feel his own chi. But he would not show fear........

"Yes and," Loman continued, "I'm kind of concerned."

Trunks looked at him but didn't move or talk, hoping to hear more as Lomen drifted away from talking to him and started musing to himself.

"Perhaps I should have stopped that little runt that got away. He said his brother also knew kyushu suru........and his father........but could that be possible?"

Trunks doubted Lomen was accually talking to him.

"And I made the mistake of absorbing little Vegita's chi too fast. For some reason his wild Saiyan chi hurts more when it runs through the system than yours does.......is there some difference between you and that Prince besides your unique hair color?"

This time, he was talking to Trunks, but the boy was too caught up in thought to answer him right away. Lomen had said it was harder to absorb Vegita's chi than his. Did that mean that half breeds like him and Goten were easier to absorb than their fathers would be?

"No difference that I can think of.......," Trunks said, deciding to keep his hybrid blood a secret for now. No point in handing out useful information...........

"I didn't think so. Anyway, I'm going to stay here until I decide whether I should call my army here or not."

"Your army?" Trunk asked, shifting his sences to outer space in hopes of feeling this said army....but he found none.

"You CAN feel chi, can't you?" Lomen asked, keeping his eyes on Trunks in an almost unnerving manner.

Trunks held his silence again and just stared out the mouth of the cave at the rain as it poured down.

Vegita rolled over in waking and murmered, "........mmm......hungry......."

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