It took him a couple of days to get away from everything; the media, his mom, classmates who, after nearly a year away, he barely remembered but all of whom seemed to think he was their best friend now. But as soon as he could Gohan went in search of the one person who had never been very far from...
With the Queen at the spaceport on the other side of the Palace, Vegeta was briefly in charge of watching the baby. Zarbon presented himself within seconds of the inevitable call. He had been expecting it. Vegeta held the screaming, squirming Heir out to his liaison, barely grasping the baby's sides with his fingertips as he tried to get the...
Vegeta watched the exodus from Chishan's storage area, waiting until Bulma was within the single G confines of the Palace before announcing he had wasted enough time lounging about. He took off for the training cubicles in the military compound. Hoping that meant that the Heir's arrival wasn't imminent (although more likely it just meant Vegeta was...
The dual questions of where is she? and why am I doing this? tore at him. I knew there would be problems if anyone got lost. Teeth unconsciously worrying his lower lip, Vegeta said I could go anywhere, Goku reminded himself. This is where Radditz is from so it's got to be okay for me to be here, right? Then, again, ...
Gohan stood with his face upturned to the dark night sky, his countenance set and resolute. There was no doubt in his mind that his words were heard by something other than the ancient stones and the spindly plants scrabbling for purchase in the barren soil.
Sighing, Zarbon diligently attempted to rephrase previous statements. "Gohan, you can't go blowing walls down in the mess hall just because someone is being rude to you"
Chi-chi soon heard all about Goku's 'fight' with his mother. The guards, agog over the incident, spoke of little else. Flabbergasted witnesses reported that Goku simply stuck out his clenched fist without apparent force and the highest-ranked warrior in the armed forces went careening into a newly-gouged divot. Trying to explain why he batted...
The place Zarbon assigned them was far from a hole in the wall. Goku thought the suite, roughly the size of their entire house on Earth, far more luxurious than anything he imagined Vejiitasei's warriors living in. He turned out to be correct. Radditz was happy to inform him that his posh quarters had nothing to do with Goku's standing...
Nappa stood for a moment in the emptying Engineering compound, glowering impotently. What had happened here? The King had been unnecessarily endangered, that much was clear. The rest made no sense. Radditz—Radditz!—ordered him restrained when he went to administer swift retribution. Then Chishan, who owed his very existence to Nappa, had the gall...
Goku stood at the circular port window, watching the bright, colorful dot that was Vejiitasei become more like a ball, knowing it would soon fill his entire vision. Must be the 'orange' time of year, he thought, recalling his brother's comments about the vivid, variable cloud cover of his native planet.