Trouble with Chibi's (Chapter 3)

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Yes, that's right, it's here at last!

A/N: To help with some confusion in this part of the story (two Vegeta's in the same time frame, the one we've already met (the King that beat Muck) and one yet to be met (his older son), the son shall be refered to as 'Prince Vegeta'. Just 'Vegeta' will be the King.

Trouble with Chibis

Chapter Three - The Past is the Future

East City:

"So, what should we do with these three anyway?" Piccolo asked gazing down at Jewel, Emerald, and Diamond. The three women were bound by two sets of pulsating energy bands created by Vegeta. The three were slowly coming back to conciousness as Yamcha and Hercule walked into the battered store.

"That was fast..." Hercule said gazing down at them.

Vegeta snorted. "These three never even saw us move. That's the problem with being this strong, it's hard to find a good fight." he gazed over to Goku and smirked. "And someone doesn't like to spar with me at full strength." Goku scratched the back of his head and grinned. Vegeta looked back down at the women and frowned. "Ten years ago this would have been easy, I'd have just blasted them into oblivion...."

"How about we take them back to Capsule Corp?" Goku suggested. "Bulma said she'd finished rebuilding 16, right? We can have him keep an eye on them... And they can help Bulma around Capsule Corp while we're gone too."

"That's actually a good idea Kakkarotto." Vegeta said, cocking an eyebrow.

"When we get free..." Jewel said as she finally came to and took in her surroundings.

Vegeta grinned. "When you get free 16 will be watching over you, and he's even stronger than I am." He smirked as the three women paled. A little half-truth wouldn't hurt matters, 16 was stronger than him in his base form. "So you'll be on your best behaviour while we're out, or he'll just send you off to Otherworld." He held out an arm and the energy rings lifted the women into the air.

"Uh, what should I tell the police?" Hercule asked. "They've surrounded the area about four blocks away...."

"Tell them you almost had them..." Piccolo started. "But they blinded you and ran off. They should eat that up." And with that the Z-Fighters took off with their prisoners in tow.

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Unkown Location:

Gohan watched as the landscape passed by underneath them. There was battle damage everywhere, blasted craters, smoking rubble, and charred bodies. Some of the bodies looked Human, or rather, Saiya-jin. Others were obviously not, and had the remains of similar armors to what Muck had been wearing. The flight lasted nearly an hour, the entire time nothing but silence, as they flew over desolate landscapes and all but obliterated cities. Gohan could tell that the civilization that had once been here had been fairly advanced by the looks of the remains of some buildings.

Finally a large and sprawling structure came into view. It looked to Gohan like someone had merged a Castle, a military compound, and a city into one building. As they neared, Vegeta descended toward the structure and the others followed him down. As they passed over the outer portion of the compound Gohan heard cheers sounding, along with chant's of "Vegeta!" that spread quickly in every direction. A few moments later the small group came to a landing in a grassy opening near the compound's center. It was the first sign of plant life Gohan had seen the entire time.

As soon as they landed several people came running out from inside. Some had trays of food, others containers of water, and they all wore red and white toga like clothes. And then a woman pushed through the group, long black hair flowing halfway down her back with wild clumps sticking out randomly along the way. Her skin was a dark tan, in contrast to the far paler tones of the rest of those present, and she was fairly short as well, possibly a half foot shorter than the Vegeta that Gohan knew. She also wore a toga like outfit, but her's was white and blue, and it looked far more elegant.

As soon as she reached Vegeta she threw herself against him. The Saiya-jin gazed down at her and grinned as he wrapped an arm around her. His other arm grabbed one of the containers of water and he began to chug it down, not stopping until it was empty. Then he motioned to Gohan and the others and then toward the food. The Chibis didn't waste a moment and started grabbing things left and right.

As the boys, Onyx, and Ruby ate, Videl walked up beside Gohan and looked around in wonder. "Where are we Gohan?"

Gohan shook his head. "I don't really know."

"You're in my Palace." Vegeta said waving away the servants around him. "And this planet is Saiya."

"Saiya?" Videl wondered. "Wait, does that mean this is the world your Dad's coming too?" she asked looking up to Gohan.

"I don't think so." Gohan replied. "Dad said the strongest Saiya-jin in the South Galaxy was only about his power on Namek... He's a lot stronger than that." Gohan looked toward Vegeta. "Um... tell me, do you know of anyone named Furnace or Oven?" he asked.

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"Furnace and Oven? No, never heard of them." Vegeta replied.

"Well, that settles it then. This isn't the South Galaxy. Maybe Trunks was right... this could be the original Saiya-jin homeworld..."

"What are you going on about?" Vegeta asked, crossing his arms.

Gohan reached up and rubbed his head. "This is confusing..."

Vegeta gazed over the group for a moment and then turned. "Come, follow me." he ordered as he walked into the building. Gohan glanced at the others, shrugged, and then followed after Vegeta. They passed through hall after hall before finally emerging into a large room filled with tables and chairs. Obviously a banquet hall. Vegeta moved to the head of the smallest table, where the most ornate chair sat, and took a seat. The woman Gohan figured had to be his mate sat at the chair beside him, which was almost as ornate.

He then motioned at the eleven chairs placed along the table silently asking them all to sit. The table wasn't shaped like a basic rectangular table, but a half circle. Vegeta and his mate sat on the circule side while Gohan and the others sat along the flat edge. Gohan took the middle seat, Videl sat to his right, Goten and Trunks on his left, and the two aliens sat at the far end on the right. Vegeta was about to speak when suddenly the large double doors at the opposite end of the room swung open.

Gohan and the others turned to look and their eyes and mouths opened wide at the sight before them. A man in a torn and shreaded dark blue Gi like outfit walked into the room, scars covering his arms, chest, legs, and back, as well as one that reached from his forhead, down over his right eye, and to his jaw. The right eye itself was a milky white, obviously unseeing. But that wasn't the stunning feature about him. Though his skin was dark, equally as dark as that of Vegeta's mate, and his hair more resembled that of Raditz, his face was nearly the spitting image of a younger Goku. He was also caked in dry blood.

"Kakarot!" Vegeta's mate called as she climbed to her feet and ran across the room to the barely standing young man. As Gohan swallowed and tried to shake the weirdness off of him he felt out the new arrival's power. His power was quite low, probably from his injuries. "Oh, I'd thought you were dead..." she said as she reached him.

"I did too." he rasped leaning against a table, a few drops of fresh blood dripping off his forehead. "But Prince Vegeta came to my aid..."

"Where is your brother?" Vegeta asked from where he still sat.

"Recovery." Kakarot replied. "He's in as bad of shape as I. He passed out on the trip back."

"And what of the alien you had been fighting?"

Kakarot shook his head. "I think he thought we died. When I came to again he was gone, our forces decimated, and a barely concious Prince Vegeta laying beside me." Suddenly he lost his balance and started to fall but Vegeta's mate caught him.

Vegeta sighed. "Celera, get him to recovery. I'm going to have to track down this Vergo myself." he said standing. As he did he looked toward Gohan. "I'm afraid our disscussion will have to wait."

"Umm...." Gohan began as he stood. "Perhaps we could talk on the way?"

Vegeta paused for a moment and then nodded. "Very well, but I don't know how long it will take to find this alien. Especially if he's hiding."

Gohan noded. "I take it you can't sense Ki then?"

"Sense Ki?"

Gohan shook his head. "I'll explain along the way." Vegeta gazed at him for a moment and nodded.

As they started to walk off Videl called after him. "Wait, Gohan. I'm coming too."

"No, you stay here. Whoever this Vergo is he's too strong for you." Gohan said looking back. "You're safer here." Videl frowned, sighed, and then plopped back down into her seat.

"What about us!" Trunks said crossing his arms as he stood up. "We're here for some excitement, that was the point of the wish! So we're coming with you."

Gohan sighed. "Alright, fine, you two can come, just don't do anything stupid, ok?"

"Sure!" Goten cheered.

Vegeta glanced at the two young boys as the four of them moved back toward the small courtyard where they'd landed a few moments earlier. "Surely the children can't be that strong... and what was that about a wish anyway?" he wondered. But a moment later they were in the air and looking about for a direction to go in. "So then." Vegeta said. "Which way... I sent my sons off to the North originally, but this Vergo could have gone anywhere by now."

"So then, Kakarot is your son?" Gohan asked.

Vegeta nodded. "My second son, yes. He's younger than the Prince by two years."

"This is just too strange." Gohan said looking around and searching for any unusal energies. "What's happened to this planet anway? Where are all the plants?"

"Dead." Vegeta replied. "Our world is fading away day by day. The only life left is what we've managed to save and cultivate. A war broke out nearly two hundred years ago. The battles lasted for decades, the damage to the planet was severe, beyond repair. The planet was shifted off it's normal orbit, it's slowly drifting further and further away from it's star. In another hundred years it'll be a frozen wasteland. Not even we Saiya-jins will be able to survive.

"We'd put all our ability and resources into a space program, hoping to escape our dying world and find a new one. And then Muck and his troops came. They offered us a chance to survive by 'joining' Muck's little empire." Vegeta snorted. "They're definition of joining was nothing less than slavery. We would rather die than become slaves. And die we shall, all our research and development into space travel was destroyed by the attackers."

Gohan nodded. That confirmed it, this was the Saiya of the past. The one his father said that the Saiya-jins had originated on. Suddenly a power twinged across his senses, one that had to be this 'Vergo' person since his power was higher than Vegeta's. Not by too much, but it was a noticable difference. "That would be him." he said turning and looking North East. "And he's moving East..."

"How can you tell?" Vegeta asked looking off that way. "I can't see anything."

"Oh! Cool!" Goten cried. "I can sense him too! He's almost as strong as Trunks and I! Come on Trunks, this will be fun!" the Chibi cried blasting off toward the power.

"Goten! Oh, those two never think!" Gohan cried shooting after them. Vegeta smirked and shook his head and then followed as well. It only took a moment for him and Gohan to catch up to the boys and by then they were standing on a cliff looking down into a large canyon. "Oh wow... that must be the ship Muck came here on." Gohan said. It was massive, at least as large as the castle they'd just come from.

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And then he saw the red skinned and white haired man standing in front of the ship. Goten and Trunks glanced at each other and then charged down quickly. Gohan sighed again and followed, as did a laughing Vegeta. The white haired man, obviously Vergo since he was the only power around, turned and looked at the landing warriors. "You!" he cried seeing Vegeta. "But... but... Lord Muck went to deal with you personally!"

"Yes." Vegeta said grining. "And he died. Just like the rest of you are about to!"

"No way!" Vergo cried taking a step back. "No one's as strong as Lord Muck! I'm... I'm the second strongest in the universe!"

"Ha!" Trunks laughed. "Maybe you were a few hours ago, but not anymore. First of all, the three of us are all here now. Second of all..." he thumbed back to Vegeta. "He transformed into a Super Saiya-jin. So that makes you the fifth strongest in the universe."

"Hey Trunks, let me fight him by myself." Goten said. "It'll be more fun that way..."

"For you maybe."

"But... if we fight together it'll be too easy!"

Trunks sighed. "I guess you're right Goten. Oh well, I'll just have to wait for the next bad guy we come across."

"Alright!" Goten walked forward and stood before Vergo. The alien was nearly seven foot tall and very muscular looking. By appearances Goten didn't stand a chance. Gohan, however, knew otherwise.

"Just be careful Goten. I don't want to have to explain to mom that you got killed."

"Ok." Goten said. "Well, are you ready to go?"

Vergo looked at him and then started laughing. "What? I have to fight a kid!? What is this nonsense!?" Gohan just took a seat as did Trunks. Vegeta did the same a moment later, interested to see the power of these three with him.

Goten girnned and then, in a flash of gold, transformed. Vegeta's eyes widened in shock and he turned to look at the other two beside him, wondering just who they were. Vergo raised an eyebrow but shot in at Goten anyway. The young demi-Saiya-jin raised an arm and blocked Vergo's punch and then began trading fierce blows with him. A sudden hard kick from the chibi sent Vergo slamming into the cliff face he'd been standing on a moment ago.

Vergo pulled himself free, a mixed look of fear, disbelief, and anger on his face. "This isn't possible! You're only a child!"

"This isn't any fun." Goten said crossing his arms. "His too scared to fight!" Suddenly Vergo shot up into the air. "See!? He's running away!"

"Not on your life!" Vergo called down. "I just know when I can't win in a straight fight. And so it's bye-bye pla..." his speech was cut off as Gohan's fist slammed into his stomach. Vergo's eyes widened in pain. And then the energy in Gohan's fist exploded taking Vergo with him. The teen floated back down and landed lightly, Vegeta staring at him.

"I couldn't even see you move... who the hell are you?" Vegeta demanded.

Gohan sighed. "Well... Kakarot's your son... so I guess we're all your descendants..."

"Wait, Trunks and I are related?" Goten asked.

"Seems that way." Gohan replied.

"You're not making any sense. How could you be my descendants? I've only had two children!"

"We're from the future." Gohan explained. "On our world there exists things called Dragonballs. Gather all 7 and you can wish for anything within the Dragon's power. The boys here wished for some excitement and apparently the Dragon sent us here. Some unknown amount of time into the past."

Vegeta blinked and looked the three of them over. "So then... you're all Saiya-jins?"

"Well, half Saiya-jins." Gohan said scratching the back of his head in thought. "The three of us are half Saiya-jin and half Human."

"Human?"

"A race from the North Galaxy. Videl's a Human."

"So... then you're descended of Kakarot's line then?" Vegeta asked, his mind working to catch up with events.

"Goten and I are, apparently. I mean, he looks so much like our father... The main difference is that hair..."

Vegeta glanced over to Goten and stared at him for a moment. His mind put a scar over his one eye and gave him different hair insteady of the spikey black he had once more. "By the Kais... the resemblance..."

"Heh, ya. He looks just like dad." Gohan said.

Vegeta stood and lifted into the air. "Come, we return to the palace. And I want a... history lesson about you. If you're from the North Galaxy then we must have found a way off world..." With that he took to the air again. Gohan sighed yet again and followed after him. "Now, explain what has... or will, whatever, to my people... and how that kid changed... and how the hell are you so strong!?"

"Well. I'll explain what I know." Gohan said. "My dad was sent to Earth as a child, to clear it of life. But he hit his head and didn't, and married my mom. I was four when his brother, Raditz, came to Earth. We found out then that my dad was one of the last four Saiya-jins alive. Just him, Raditz, Nappa, and Vegeta..."

"Vegeta? You mean a descendant of mine?"

"Ya. Looks just like you, only shorter. Anyway, dad and Radditz fought and Radditz was killed..."

"How come there's only the four left in your time?" Vegeta interupted again.

"I'm getting there." Gohan said still thinking as they flew. "Anyway, a year later Nappa and Vegeta came to Earth and we fought them. Nappa was too much for everyone but dad. And then he fought Vegeta too and barely won. It was on Namek that we found out that Frieza had blown up Planet Vegeta because he feared the legend of the Super Saiya-jin..."

"You mean that transformation I and the boy did?"

"Yes. He was scared that someone would transform... apparently my grandfather had become even stronger than the King had been and he thought the legend might be coming true... Anyway, he'd only left the three survivors, he hadn't known about dad leaving just before he arrived. Anyway, on Namek dad became a Super Saiya-jin while fighting him and beat him."

Vegeta smirked. "I can only imagine the amount of power he'd have had by then."

"Er.. well." Gohan said. "Actually, he was weaker than you. Barely even stronger than Goten or Trunks."

Vegeta looked back at the two boys and frowned. "I could understand Kakarot's line growing weaker over time, he wont be held to the same standards as the Prince or his first generation descendants... but that weak?"

Gohan sighed. "According to Vegeta dad was only born with a power of 2..."

"Power of 2?"

"No scouter's yet? Figures. Um. I'd say about about 65 to 70 times weaker than Videl. I really don't know how to explain it..."

"Don't worry about it." Vegeta said. "Celera has the power to read minds, and show me what she sees. I'll just have her take a look... if you don't mind."

"That would be a lot easier." Gohan said.

"Still, I would like know about how the kid can change, and how you're so strong..."

"Goten and Trunks were born like that." Gohan said. "Probably because dad and Vegeta could transform already. And me... I've been one of the strongest my entire life. I was born stronger than dad, a few days after my 10th birthday I became the first of us to reach the second level... and then a little over a year ago this old Kai unlocked my hidden powers..."

"Second level? Hidden powers? No, never mind. I'll let Celera show me." Gohan nodded as Vegeta turned his eyes forward again. "This is too bizarre. If they're telling the truth I wonder just how far in the future they're from? Hmm, perhaps we can avoid this weakened state of our descendants with the knowledge of the future... or past? that these three have."

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Capsule Corp:

"So, you don't mind keeping an eye on them then?" Goku asked 16.

"It's no problem." he replied. "I am indebted to you for all you have done."

"Oh, don't worry about it." Goku said as he turned around. "Well, see you later 16!" he called back waving as he left, leaving the three women alone with the Android. He found the others gathered outside. "Well, that's taken care of. 16 will watch over them, and Bulma has a lot of work already planned out for them too, heard her telling 16 what needed working on. Seems she's going to make them do something with something called a 'Develonopolink' or something...."

"Devalan Uplink." Vegeta said, shuddering. It's something she's built out in the mountains. She's dragged me out there to help build it. Don't know what the hell it is but the parts are all heavy as hell."

[Mochi]

AAAAAUUUUUUUUGH!!! WHY DID I HAVE TO DISCOVER THE 3RD CHAPTER SO LATE AT NIIIIIIIIGHT?!?! T___T
.....I'LL BE BACK! AND THEN I WILL READ IT!!! IT WILL BE READ!!! BY ME! kipper

[Mochi]

It tool me a while, but I finally read it!! ;D You must finish!!! o.0