Vegeta strolled down the corridor, pushing aside reporters as he went. "That baka." He muttered again. Now he would not have the chance to fight Kakarotto. It was probably a good thing that Piccolo had destroyed all the cameras again. Hopefully this wouldn't make it to the news.
The strange girl that had fought Trunks was irritating him…another Saiyajin? He'd been sure they were the last. So more Saiyajins had escaped. It was possible, through the poor records that his father, Vegeta, had insisted they keep, that a handful of Saiyajins could escape. That wouldn't explain why she was here. Maybe there were more. Vegeta felt old memories coming back. He pushed them back, he had a family to tend to now.
Trunks looked up nervously as the rest of the Z-team rounded the corner. His father was not going to be pleased. Maybe with all of the Risa-thing he could stay out of the conversation.
Risa looked around. The one in the middle was obviously Kakarotto. To his left a strange guy in sunglasses and a weird costume. Next to him a girl. To kakarotto's right a guy who looked strangely familiar. Risa stared at him for a while… 'where've I seen that guy before…?'
"Trunksu…"Gokuo began.
Risa stared up at Gokuo… he looked so much like… Risa shot up into him, hugging him, "OTOUSAN!!!!!"
Chi-Chi stared up him horrified, "Go…Gokuo-san! …you culdn’t have….!" She looked on the verge of fainting.
"Are? Who are you?" Gokuo looked baffled.
Risa blinked, looking at him carefully. She dropped back onto the ground, "Aww… you’re not ‘Tousan. Your clothes are different… You’re Kakarotto, right?"
Gokuo crouched down. "Kind of…you're a Saiyajin aren't you?"
"What's going on? Why's everyone alive? Why aren't you a bad guy?" Risa said quickly.
Gohan tapped Gokuo on the shoulder. "Tousan, I think we should get out of here."
Gokuo nodded. "Capsule Corp or our place?"
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Risa stared out of the window in the air car, thinking. Trunks sat, arms folded, in the window seat on the other side of Goten. He still wouldn't talk to her. Risa turned back to Goten, who was complaining about his stomach. Risa's stomach groaned as well, she hadn't had a good meal in ages. Where ever this Capsule Corp place was, it had better have a lot of food.
That other guy with black spiky hair was really bugging her. He looked really familiar, like someone she'd seen in a picture somewhere…
Risa nudged Goten. "Why don't you have tails?"
"Uh…we cut them off."
"Why?"
" 'cos normal people don't have 'em."
"Oh…"
Goten sat back again. "Can you go Super Saiyajin?"
"What? You mean that thing Trunks did? I don't know. I've never tried."
"I can. Maybe we could teach you sometime."
Risa nodded. It was so strange. She came from a place where the gravity was ten times that of Earth. There hadn't been one person on Najiku-sei who hadn't heard the legends. And now, on this place, there were kids who could go Super Saiyajin. Weird…
Risa stared out of the window. This world seemed so large. Especially
compared to
Najiku-sei's population. The air car began to land. A huge, white,
dome-like building was below them.
"Wow! Is that where you live?" She exclaimed. Goten giggled at her surprise.
"Sure is." Said Bulma, turning in her seat. "Welcome to Capsule Corp." Bulma landed the air car and hopped out. "Come on in."
Risa stared around excitedly. "This place is huge. Can I have something to eat? I'm hungry."
Trunks and Goten nodded in agreement.
Bulma rolled her eyes and sighed.
* * *
Risa put down her thirty-second bowl of rice and grinned. "Okay, I'm full."
Gohan smiled and sat down at the table. "So, can you answer a few questions?" Risa nodded. "Where are you from?"
Risa thought about it for a few minutes. "Sora kara." Goten and Trunks looked at each other and giggled.
Gohan sighed. "More specifically?"
"What's spefifcly mean?" She asked innocently.
"A planet, maybe?"
"Ohhhhh, Najiku-sei."
"Ok, start from the beginning. How did your family escape from Vejita-sei?" Asked Gokuo.
"Well, Badock told obaasan and…"
"Badock?"
"My ojiisan."
"He's my father…"Gokuo was starting to look confused.
"Yeah…and she flew away from Vejita-sei before it exploded but Badock died fighting Freeza and Obaasan and everyone else landed on Najiku-sei and…"
"Wait…My father fought Freeza?"
"Yep. I don't know what happened to Freeza after that though, I think he died when the meteorite hit…"
"Nah…Tou-san killed him." Gohan grinned.
"You beat Freeza?! Wow!"
Gokuo rubbed the back of his head. "Yeah…well anyway. Your grandmother landed on Najiku-sei, what then?"
"Well…they fought the Namekians who lived there till they decided there was no point and made friends with them."
Most of the Z-team turned to stare at Piccolo, who seemed to take a little more interest in what was going on. Risa followed their eyes. "Wha…you're a Namekian? But how? No-one ever left Najiku-sei…"
"That's a long story. Can you finish your's first?"
"Um…then…(sniff) bad guys came and (snuffle) they…they blew up my planet. I was the only (sniff) one to escape."
Bulma patted her on the back sympathetically. "So how did you know to come here?"
"My computer said that Kakarotto might be here." Risa pulled it out
of her bag and flipped it open. Risa showed Bulma the list. "I wonder if
the other three are still around."
Bulma looked hesitantly at Vegeta. "Well…Vegeta is…"
Risa looked up with an almost fearful look on her face. "What?"
Bulma pointed. Half the Z-team looked like they were about to burst out laughing.
"Ve…Vegeta-sama?!"
Vegeta hmphed and turned away.
"Well…we could bring everyone back with the Dragonballs?" Said Gokuo.
"Dragonballs? You've got them too?" Asked Risa excitedly, "…but can you bring them back after more than a year…?"
"…they've been dead for more than a year?" Gokuo looked disappointed.
"I was in stasis for two years…" Risa plonked down onto a couch. "Waaah! It's not fair I want my muuuummy!" She sobbed. The Z-team exchanged sympathetic glances.
"You could stay with us?" Offered Gokuo.
"Huh?" Risa wiped the tears from her eyes.
"We're related too."
In one corner of the room Chi-Chi sighed. 'Another Saiyajin mouth to feed…'
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