Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ A Twisted Saiyan Tale ❯ The extent of Vegeta's misfortune is revealed. ( Chapter 7 )

A Twisted Saiya-jin Tail: chapter the seventh

 

By: Mary Sue Dreck

(Mama Dreck says Hi.)

 

Disclaimer: Please read disclaimers of the previous six chapters if you haven't figured out that Dragonball, et al, is the creation and property of Akira Toriyama and not me.

 

Warning: Humor, OOC, and naughtiness.

 

Wherein chapter six it is revealed that a version of Bulma Briefs hath joined in holy matrimony with Son Goku and thrown Vegeta, Saiya-jin noh Ouji, into a snit of royal magnitude.

 

"AAARRRRRGH", was the only vein popping response Vegeta could think of at the news that a Bulma had married a Goku.

 

"Son-kun, you round up our Vegeta and we can discuss things down at this Vegeta's ship, or better yet, Vegeta, you get your family and we can discuss this at Chichi's house.", this timeline's Bulma said.

 

"Why Chichi's house?", Vegeta asked in a perplexed tone, "What does the Harpy have to do with anything?"

 

The Z-senshi, including Bulma and Goku, exchanged nervous, but significant glances with one another. Goku cleared his throat nervously.

 

"Ah, well, we'll explain all that when we get there."

 

So Vegeta flew down to the ship and informed his Bulma and the elderly Trunks that they were going to fly the ship to Mt. Frying Pan and park it there. And once there, they would introduce themselves to this timeline's Z-senshi counterparts, and receive an explanation for their Vegeta's desire to escape from this world.

 

After being scolded by Bulma for flying off and leaving her all alone with Trunks, she started the ships engines and they headed off to Chichi's house.

 

When they arrived the Z-senshi, including Goku holding the other Vegeta's arm pinned behind his back, were waiting for them. The short-haired Vegeta broke away from Goku and took off away from the small cabin in the clearing. Goku took off after him.

 

As the ship settled down on it's landing gear, an irate looking Chichi came banging out of the house, they were unable to hear what she was screeching due to the engine noise, but an irate, shrill Chichi was the norm so they didn't think it was all that important. How were they ever wrong. She was followed by a small brat who buried it's snotty little face in her apron, while she waved her skillet menacingly at the space ship and continued to yell something.

 

The space ships ramp lowered and Bulma, Vegeta, and Trunks disembarked.

 

"Well, we're here. What's with the Harpy?", Spiky Vegeta asked.

 

"HARPY??? HARPY??? HOW DARE YOU?", the 'Harpy' shrilled, "Where did you get that ship? And who are they? That slutty woman looks just like Bulma with a bad hair cut! And speaking of bad hair cuts: what have you done to yours?"

 

Both Bulmas and Vegeta #1 got pissed at these comments and were ready to make a comeback to 'slutty' and 'bad hair cut', but got cut off by the rest of Chichi's tirade.

 

"And who is that old man? He looks like you, Vegeta! I thought all your family was killed on Vegeta-sei! Well, he isn't staying here! I can tell you that!"

 

"Harpy, SHUT UP! I don't know who you think I am, but you had better keep a civil tongue in your head or you'll be doing your bitching to King Enma.", Vegeta #1 growled to her.

 

This would have started her off on an even shriller, longer bitch fest, but she was interrupted by the return of Goku and Vegeta #2. Goku had an angry Vegeta in a head lock but he was still struggling to break his grip. Goku had a black eye and Vegeta #2 had a bloody nose. Whatever music Vegeta the Second was going to face, he wasn't going to face it quietly.

 

When Chichi spotted the second Vegeta she gave a shriek. "Nani!? TWO VEGETAS!!! What happened? It was a Dragonball wish, wasn't it? WASN'T IT?!I always knew those things were dangerous! They should be destroyed! This is all your fault, Son Goku! You and your friends. You're always causing trouble and getting Vegeta up to his neck in it! Having him run around and fight and LEAVE ME!!! Why I ought to--!"

 

The rest of her tirade was abruptly cut off from with an angry shout of , "QUIET, Wench!", from the time traveling Vegeta.

 

Chichi was shocked enough to do just that for about a millisecond. Her face turned red and she puffed up ready to renew her verbal assault when she was interrupted by the visiting Bulma.

 

"Why don't we start at the beginning of the story of who we are and how we got here and then you can tell your version of events, okay?"

 

Since this seemed reasonable they did just that. Vegeta poked Bulma in the ribs and whispered, "Let me tell it, Woman." She gave him an odd look but nodded agreement.

 

"Well, I, uh, I traveled back in time in a ship like this one to save my home world from destruction. Since Radditz is here I'll assume you do know about Vegeta-sei being destroyed by Freiza, right?"

 

"Of course.", was the response they got from all present.

 

"Well, Bulma, built a time machine so I could go back in time and destroy him before he destroyed my home world. I did and I, er, I mean, we got a bit lost trying to get home. That's all."

 

His Bulma gave him a strange look at this fictional and edited account of their travels. She said sharply, "Vegeta!", at this both looked up, "I mean, my Vegeta! Could you come over here just a moment. I need to have a word with you privately." They walked around to the other side of the ship while the others waited.

 

"What's going on? That isn't what happened at all!"

 

"Woman, please, there is no way I'm telling them I was dumped by Old Cyborg Bulma for that, that cheap plastic windup toy!"

 

Bulma grumbled but finally said, "Oh, all right!"

 

They came back to the others and the other Bulma asked, "You mentioned killer androids? Where do they come into the whole time traveling thing, anyway?"

 

"Well, um, maybe I should start with how we met. Since I altered history things are a bit difficult to follow. It was like this….. "

 

This is not a flashback. Repeat: NOT A FLASHBACK. Just a creative lie told by Vegeta to save himself some embarrassment. If you haven't read any of the previous chapters or the two fanfics by Vegeta Goddess that preceded this there is nothing I can do for you, you hopeless twit.

 

Bardock's space pod had all but crash landed on Vegeta-sei. He staggered out of the ship and looked around at the dock personnel. He had made it back just before Freiza was scheduled to destroy the planet. He had another flash of the future.

 

Babbling to the Saiya-jin surrounding him of the impending planetary doom he staggered down the street and collapsed at a local bar. The other patrons whispered and giggled over the 'drunk'. As he was helpless to stop or even warn them of the end, Freiza arrived, and then it was far too late. Kakkorott was sent to Earth and was raised as a native, Turles was picked up in his pod by pirates and raised as a pirate and is killed by 'Goku', Raditz grew up Freiza's slave and died in combat with his own long lost brother and a Namek. Nappa and Vegeta killed by 'Goku' a year later and Freiza dies on Namek.

 

Bardock abruptly straightened up, "Out of my way! I have to attend the launch of my youngest son!" He ran as fast as his he could, even though he was still badly disoriented by the alien's curse. And then it happened. Freiza had arrived, but instead of destroying the planet, Freiza was the one destroyed, by a Super Saiya-jin, a legend, he claimed to be a stranded time traveler. The terrible future Bardock had foreseen was averted and as one of Vegeta-sei's top scientist he was assigned to find away to assist the time traveler in returning to his rightful place. The legend leaves and it seems that things will turn out all right for the Saiya-jin.

 

At this Radditz got excited and said, "Our father is alive! Our species still exists. Our whole world was saved! Did you hear that Kakarotto!" The others hushed him to hear the rest of the story.

 

The Saiya-jin spend the next twenty-six years fighting off an army of angry Aisu-jin led by King Cold. Bardock and all the other Saiya-jin knew they were in for a rough time with the irate Aisu-jin, but only Bardock knew about Chikyu-sei and his son's destiny.

 

A great dragon filled the sky surrounded by seven glowing spheres. "Reflect upon your desire…."

 

Bardock called his older sons to him, "Boys, we're going to go on a little journey…"

 

Bardock wasn't entirely sure what the dragon or the glowing spheres meant, but in his previous visions of the other future they seemed the center of his youngest son's new life. He knew that somehow he would find his youngest, weakest son and the old man he saw in his visions.

 

The old man was sweeping the walk in front of his cabin with his newly acquired grandson tied on his back when a bright light streaked across the night sky. He leaned on his broom like a walking stick as he tracked the small, round silver object with his eyes.

 

"Shimatta, I wonder who's gonna show up on my doorstep now?"

 

Later, a tall, wild haired man and two young kids stood in front of the geezer with the baby. A casual observer would have immediately noticed a resemblance between the large, tailed man and all three tailed children. The large man looked at the old geezer and said, "We need to talk." And they did talk long into the night and for a good portion of the next day. Bardock told Grandpa Gohan of his visions of the future and his sons' future quest for the Dragonballs. Finally, Grandpa Gohan agreed to help his new 'grandsons' attain perfection as martial artists and the large man left without any of the children. Curiously enough, before the large man left the planet he returned to his pod-like vehicle and came back to the cabin in the woods with what appeared to be a first aid kit. Moments later inside the cabin there came a yells of "OUCH, ARGHHH, DADDY PLEASE STOP!!! NOT THE TAIL! NOT THE TAIL!" A short time later an observer would have seen the old geezer with the wailing tail-less baby on his back and two tail-less little kids with X-shaped bandages on each of their bums wave good bye to the large man.

 

This time Radditz just winced at what he heard the part about the de-tailing and Goku interrupted with, "Grandfather is alive! Do you hear that Bulma? And my whole family lives on Chikyu-sei! But, how did you get to earth."

 

"Baka! The same way this fool did!"

 

The night sky flashed with lightning and rumbled with thunder. A familiar snake-like shape began to form itself in the dark clouds.

 

"Reflect a moment upon your desires………"

 

Emperor Pilaf and his gang had appeared and Bulma was sure they were going to kill them all. The seven glowing crystalline spheres floated around the giant beast. She had to beat the little blue creep to the dragon. If he ruled the world it wouldn't matter if his 'minions' killed them or not. In fact, the HFIL would be better than a world run by him. She shouted her 'desire'. So did the others, a moment too slow, but whatever they said was lost in a crack of thunder.

 

"I want to marry the greatest prince in the universe!"

"Sheesh, Vegeta, what an ego!"

"Hush, Woman!"

"Granted"

 

The dragon soared upwards toward the heavens. The spheres scattered to the four corners of the globe. The night sky became peaceful and still once more, and the stars appeared, bright and sparkling. Everyone present paused what they were doing.

 

The angry, ugly blue gnome-creature snarled, "What was granted? What did that girl say? I'd better be king!"

 

Everyone looked around at each other. In the starry sky some sort of black ovoid appeared. It grew and grew until it was about ten feet long and slightly more across. It was like a black hole. A whirling vortex suspended in midair. And suddenly a far off scream could be heard quickly coming closer and closer. Out of the hole in the night sky plummeted a human figure, well a humanoid figure in any case.

 

"AAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII", shrieked the creature as it crash--, er landed lightly in front of the creep who would be king. "How dare you?!", the radiant one roared. "Be gone, foul demon!" Zffft! Bang! The reign of Emperor Pilaf of Chikyu-sei was extremely short and extra crispy.

 

The creature drew itself up to its full height and stood silhouetted in all it's magnificent, pointy-haired glory. The hovering vortex slowly shrank to nothing and disappeared.

 

Yamucha looked at Puar and said, "I think we need some light."

 

"Yes, master!", she squeaked in reply and transformed into a flashlight.

 

Bulma turned to Oolong and snarled, "YOU TOO, Porky!" The pig grumbled but complied.

 

The being turned out to be a magnificent royal vision! In the finest Saiya-jin armor and a golden crown. Definitely wearing trousers and not some tasteless leotard getup. There stood a prince amongst princes. A stallion of a incredible virility.

 

At this point of Vegeta's story everybody started rolling their eyes, including the other Vegeta. "Oh, get on with it!", Time Traveler Bulma said with a poke to his ribs.

 

"What just happened? Where am I? WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS? Do you know who I am!!? I demand you tell me! I am the PRINCE of all Saiyans! I demand you answer me!"

 

Everybody turned and starred at each other open mouthed in shock and then turned back to the angry monarch.

 

"KUSO", He demanded. "ANSWERS!!!", which was punctuated with a HUGE Ki blast.

 

They barely had time to dodge it. All at once they all started babbling answers.

 

"Dragonballs……"

"…..Wishes!"

"……Poor Emperor Pilaf is dead!"

 

The last one was chorused by Mai and Shuu. Every body turned to look at them standing over what was left of Pilaf. What wasn't smeared down the pointy headed guy's front, that is. It was nasty and squished out of any recognizable shape.

 

"Poor? 'Poor'!?" Bulma demanded. "Are you crazy? How can you even care about him? He treated you like crapola! He blamed you for his mistakes and beat you! Good riddance! And worst of all, he was going to kill me!!", she yelled down at them.

Suddenly she thought of something, and she turned to the outraged stranger. "You killed him?", she said slowly as if realizing something. "You killed him and saved all of our lives. You saved my life. You're a hero. You're a hero and a prince!", her voice rose excitedly as she ran up to him babbling, "You're my hero and my prince." She then flung her arms around him and started smothering him with kisses.

Between kisses, "You saved…" smooch "…me!" smooch "You…" smooch "…saved me!" smooch "I think you're really terrific!!!" smooch smooch smooch!

 

At this, the manly, handsome prince gathered the lovely, nubile Onna Noh Ko into his strong arms and pulled her against his strong, muscular chest. He stroked her hair.

 

"There, there, Onna! No need to fret. I am the strongest warrior in the entire universe. Never fear! For I shall defend your honor 'gainst these varlets!"

 

"Vegeta, what crappy romance novels have you been reading, anyway?", this dimension's Bulma asked. He glared at her and continued on, while ignoring the sniggering of the others over the cheesy dialog.

 

The handsome, debonair prince explained that he and Kakkorott and his brothers were really aliens from the planet Vegeta-sei. He told them how his home world was under attack from the Aisu-jin and he needed to return home immediately to defeat his life-long foe. They told him that their world had no space ships that could return him to his home world, but they could wish him home with the Dragonballs. So they gathered the magic spheres once more and waited for them to recharge.

 

During his time on Chikyu-sei, Vegeta trained the Z-senshi in the Saiya-jin fighting style. He taught them everything they knew, really!

 

When it was time to leave, the noble Prince bid farewell to his bride-to-be and went back home so that he could save the galaxy from enslavement by the wicked Aisu-jin. He slaughtered them as only a gallant, hero prince slaughters villains and returned to Earth to wed Bulma. After, of course, winning the Tenka'ichi Boudoukai.

 

Years later the Baka's enemy, Dr. Gero, returned with an army of evil androids. Goku had perished of heart disease along with his baka brothers. This left the Z-senshi to be butchered like a bunch of helpless little school girls by the androids. Vegeta took his wife and child away in the time machine and ended up being the time travelers who destroyed Freiza. Unfortunately, their son suffered a little accident on one of their visits to another dimension.

 

End of highly colorful and fictional account of how Vegeta got to Earth.

 

"That was the biggest load of dung I've ever heard.", was the other Vegeta's only comment.

 

"What!? You dare question the word of the Saiya-jin Noh Ouji? Why, why--", his counterpart sputtered angrily.

 

"Well, it was highly colorful. I'll give you that.", his Bulma interrupted him. "But how did Goku end up married to your Bulma."

 

"Well, Vegeta stayed here on Earth with Goku and the rest of the Z-senshi because he wanted to get as far from Freiza as he could while he trained. He also wanted to get his hands on the Dragonballs to make himself immortal."

 

"Well, that seems like my Vegeta, all right, but why didn't you two get married?"

 

"BECAUSE HE'S MARRIED TO ME!!!", shrilled the forgotten Chichi.

 

"KUSO!!! IT CAN'T BE TRUE!!!", yelled the pointy-headed Vegeta, "Is it true? Is it true? IT IS TRUE!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! What in the HFIL were you thinking, Baka?"

 

At this the other Vegeta slumped down to the ground on his knees and covered his eyes with his hands. "I have no idea! I was young and stupid. Really, really stupid.", he moaned out pitifully.

 

"NANI??? HOW DARE YOU---", came Chichi's shrill response.

 

The other Vegeta interrupted her to say sympathetically, "Feh, no wonder you were desperate to escape anyway, anywhere you could."

 

His counterpart nodded weakly with a very pained expression on his face.

 

"Well, anyway, after he rejected me he said he was the Prince of all Saiya-jin and he would never lower himself to consort with a mere commoner and a mere weakling. With that he said he deserved to marry the strongest warrior Princess in the whole universe. Which he did at the Tenka'ichi Boudoukai. Chichi showed up looking for Goku. That's when I heard that she tried to get poor Son-Kun hog tied as a kid. Before he even knew what marriage was! So I pulled him aside and had a little talk with him about women. Lucky for him Prince Pompous-And-Snobby cut him out. Chichi was angry I told her she couldn't hold Son-kun to that promise since she tricked him into. She went off in a huff with Vegeta. At the same time I got together with Son-kun. Launch-chan hooked up with both Chao Tzu and Tenshinhan. Apparently the bad side of her likes Chao Tzu and her good side likes Tien. You won't believe what their kids are like! Yamucha hooked up with Mai Muu after Pilaf got squished, but she ran off on him and their kids for a reconstituted Emperor Pilaf last year. Recently Piccolo hooked up with a Namek called Nail, and they are, ah, um, cross-pollinating. Years ago Krillin got married to Maron the Moron and had a girl, Marron Jr. Poor kid! She looks just like Krillin. Hopefully the plastic surgeon I found will be able to find some way to plant a nose on her face somehow. And I hear they're doing wonders with electrolysis so maybe she can get rid of that unibrow, too."

 

"Cue Ball is married? Hah, that's rich."

 

"Cue Ball was married. Maron wasn't such a moron after all. She dumped him."

 

Both Vegetas sniggered at this while Krillin glared at them both in turns.

 

"So 'I' married the Harpy instead of Kakarotto? Then that means the brat clinging to her skirts is mine!", then he added, "Sort of mine." Then he added, "Distantly related at best."

 

At this Chichi started yapping again, "Yes, that's right! He is our wonderful little son. One of our wonderful sons! All of our children are just perfect. No thanks to you! Donatello and Leonardo are at college, Michelangelo is in cram school for his high school entrance exam, and little Rafael here is staying home to study with his Mummy. If it were up to you they would be nothing but uneducated, uncouth barbarians."

 

"Lady, I'm not your husband. If you want someone to bitch at, do it to that other guy. He's the dolt that married you.", then he thought of something, "Let's see this kid. He's 'my' son, so how bad could he turn out? I mean, even if you try your worst, how bad could a kid with my superior genes turn out to be?"

 

The other Vegeta groaned while the rest of the others sniggered behind their hands.

 

"Come, Darling, see how bad your father would have turned out if I hadn't civilized him."

 

"Civilized? More like castrated.", her husband said under his breath very, very softly.

 

The chibi pulled his runny, snotty nose out of his mother's apron and Vegeta and Bulma drew closer to see him.

 

"Why, Vegeta, that boy does look just like you!", Bulma exclaimed and then took a longer look. "Sort of."

 

The brat was wearing thick glasses and an ugly checkered suit with what looked like shoes only a member of the Munster family would wear willingly. If that wasn't bad enough, somebody had completed the outfit with an unmatched bow tie. His hair was combed out straight down with hair goo and cut into a bowl. He continued to snivel. Every fiber of his being screamed out 'GEEK'. He looked like the son of Moe (as in The Three Stooges), not the Saiya-jin Noh Ouji.

 

"Well, brat, I want to have a better look at you.", Vegeta knelt down and scooped him up which caused the pint sized dorkling to wail. Vegeta promptly dropped him in shock.

 

"Yaaaaaaaah, you gave me a nose bleed!", he screeched with blood dripping from his nose. "You shouldn't pick me up that quick! I can't stand high altitudes! I'm very delicate! Mummy, Mummy, ouchie, Mummy! Owwww!"

 

"High altitudes? Three feet off the ground? How the HFIL does the kid fly?"

 

Vegeta's counterpart groaned, "Fly? He doesn't fly. He doesn't do anything. Can't fight, fly, or Ki blast to save his life. The other three are just the same. They're useless! They're not even very bright for all the studying their witch of a mother makes them do."

 

Chichi scooped up her screaming brat from the ground and began to berate her husband. The others decided it was a good time to move their party elsewhere. 'Elsewhere' being as far from the couple as possible. They decided to go to Capsule Corp. once more. Bulma piloted the ship to where her house has stood in all dimensions and once more the Z-senshi was waiting for them. They were not alone. With them were the other Bulma's parents and some brats. Bulma, Old Trunks, and Vegeta got out of the ship.

 

"The brats are yours?", Vegeta asked.

 

"Yes, these are my daughters."

 

"Let me guess. You named them Gohan, Goten, and Pan."

 

"Er, no. I did have the idea of naming one after Son-kun's grandfather, but those other names? Yuck!"

 

"So what did you call them?"

 

"If I had a son I would have called him Trunks--", she started.

 

Old Trunks jumped up and said "Huh, what? Did somebody want me?"

 

"Woman, what's it with you and that name?", Vegeta interrupted. "Sheesh!"

 

The Bulma glared at him and said, "AS I WAS SAYING! But I had triplet girls so I named them Asagohan, Chuugohan, Yugohan." Everybody but the Bulmas giggled at this.

 

They both glared and said, "What's so funny?", in unison.

 

The kids lined up to stare at the three time travelers curiously. All three looked just like Bulma. All three she-brats were wearing Power Puff Girl T-shirts. Each one had their hair styled to match their favorite character on their T-shirt. They all had ordinary black-colored hair instead of the Kool Aide colors of their mother's family.

 

Chibi #1 examined the dimensional travelers. "Mama, who are these people? Is that lady a cousin or sister of yours? What is Vegeta doing with her? That old man looks a little like Grandpa Briefs."

 

"Girl," Vegeta said, "We're time and dimensional travelers. This is a version of your mother from a different timeline. I am also a different version of Vegeta. The old man is our son. He has the same name as you. He suffered a little accident and needs the Dragonballs to make him young again."

 

"Do you mean to say that a new dimension is formed every time we make a choice? For every choice?", asked Chibi #2.

 

"Yes, brat, that's right." Vegeta answered her, "You look like you've got Kakkorotto's strength, but you have Bulma's brains."

 

"Yes, we have Papa's strength all right. And are we smart! I am only eight-years-old and I'm a Super Saiya-jin and a Doctorate in Astrophysics.", was #3's input.

 

"Really? How did you get so strong so fast? In my dimension Goku had a son called Gohan. His mother is Chichi and she never let him spar or train and he didn't become a Super Saiya-jin until he was at least ten or eleven. She made him study all the time like the one in this dimension makes her brats study."

 

"Well, you have answered your own question. My mother insists we train with our father. She has since we learned to walk."

 

"Doushite?" (Its pronounced doh-sh-te, "why")

 

"To get them out of my hair so I can get some work done, of course! I love my husband and kids dearly, but I need some peace and quiet for a few hours a day. I made him a training room so he and the girls can ki blast to their heart's content."

 

"So when Radditz turned up years later to collect his brother he didn't find a bunch of weak sissies?"

 

"Hah, I wish!" This was contributed by Radditz.

 

"Oh, he showed up and demanded Papa purge the planet, and Papa refused, of course. He tried to kidnap us, but that didn't work out. He was a jerk in the beginning, but after we kicked him in the head a few times he decided to behave himself. Now he's okay, but sometimes he needs a refresher with the repeated-head-blow thing.", said the middle chibi in a Bubbles T-shirt.

 

Vegeta sniggered evilly at this while Radditz glared at him. "So you got your tail handed to you by a bunch of little girls? Priceless!"

 

"Mr. Vegeta II, why do you need the Dragonballs to make your son young again? Why don't you just give him Senzu beans?", queried the oldest brat.

 

"Nani? Senzu beans will cure just about any wound, but I don't think you can consider old age an injury."

 

"Senzu beans cure all natural illnesses, Mr. Second Vegeta. Aging is the imperfect replication of cells. A natural disease. They make you one year younger. Well, one bean will make you one year younger. You have to be careful, 'though, to not eat more than one at a time. That's what happened to O-tou-san's friend Yajirobe. When he and papa were only twelve he ate a whole handful.", sayeth the middle born brat.

 

At the mention of Yajirobe's name the Z-senshi looked heavenward and shook their heads. Vegeta sniggered at the thought of Yajirobe age regressing to nothing.

 

"So your Senzu beans make people young? Instead of curing their wounds and energizing them? What about them making you not have to eat for ten days?"

 

"Ours don't do any of that. They make you younger if you have no other ailment. If you want some of our Senzu beans, maybe you can trade for them. I bet Korin would sure like some. I know I would.", the brats' mother stated. "Senzu beans that can heal unnatural illness would sure be handy."

 

Vegeta turned to his Bulma, "Woman, do you have any of our Senzu beans?"

 

"Yes, I sure do! You just let me get them!", she said excitedly and ran into the ship. Within moments she came running back. "I saved some for us, but here they are! Let's go see Korin.!"

 

And they did just that. Korin, fortunately, was interested in a new kind of Senzu bean to grow. He then helped them estimate just how many of his beans the elderly Trunks would need to return to his 'proper' age.

 

"Great Gazma!!! There's enough to fill a kettle!", Vegeta yelped.

 

"What a great idea!", yelled his Bulma who raced off to find the other Bulma.

 

"Huh!?"

 

They came back and they were whispering and giggling to themselves. "Yes, Bulma-chan, that is a good idea!", said the other Bulma.

 

"Woman, what are you up to?", Vegeta demanded.

 

"Chili con carne.", she said happily, "I thought it would be a good way to ensure our Trunks eats up the whole bowl."

 

"Feh.", was all Vegeta contributed to the conversation at this point.

 

And so folks, chapter the seventh comes to an end. Please tune in next chapter for the next exciting adventures of Vegeta and Bulma in a Twisted Saiya-jin Tale, er, Tail. Whatever.

~~~ Name Translation ~~~

The literal translation of 'Gohan' is rice, but it is used in general for any meal. Lots of dictionaries say 'shoku' is meal, but all the Japanese people I know use 'gohan'. Meal, in English, by the way, comes from a word that means milled grain, i.e. corn meal. When calling someone to the table, "gohan desuyo".

 

Breakfast- Asagohan

Lunch-Chuugohan

Dinner-Yugohan

Snack- keishoku/sunnaku