Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Catch of the Day ❯ Chapter 16

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CATCH OF THE DAY: Chapter Sixteen


Disclaimer: I only own Kage-chan and the babies.
Author's Note: Yay!!! One of my pet theories has been confirmed!!! I've always thought that the Tuffles couldn't have been as goody-goody as King Kai claimed. My pet theory was that they treated the Saiyans like slaves. I recently got to see the DBZ OAV and in it, Vegeta confirms it. They're fighting some dead Tuffle scientist named Dr. Raichi. He's complaining about the Saiyans, about how the Tuffles tried to help them out since they were so primitive. Vegeta says that the Tuffles actually treated his people like slaves. This isn't relevant until the chapter after this one, but what the heck!


Five-year-old Bra Briefs clutched her suitcase in her small hands, scanning the crowds for her father. She had been to an all ages summer camp with Pan and Marron for three months and she had really missed him during that time.
"Man, Mom and Dad are really late," Pan said, looking around.
"Give them time, something probably came up," Marron said, the much older girl sighing. She liked the two young girls, but wished she had some friends closer to her age.
"Marron!" Krillin's voice suddenly called out. The short man eased through the crowds to where the girls were standing, his beautiful wife following along and looking bored. "Sorry we're late, honey, we ran into some bad traffic."
He frowned suddenly when he noticed Pan and Bra. "That's weird. I can't sense Vegeta, Gohan, or Videl anywhere near here."
Bra gazed up at him, looking like she was about to cry.
"We should take them home," 18 said, still looking bored.
"Yeah, I guess," Krillin said, scratching his head in confusion. He couldn't figure out why Vegeta wasn't there. He had been against Bra going off to camp to in the first place. He had raised her by himself from the age of two and was extremely overprotective.
//I hope nothing's wrong,// he thought worriedly.
...
Krillin's confusion increased as he pulled into the driveway at Capsule Corps. He could sense Goten and Piccolo there, but not Vegeta. There were also three new power readings he was getting. One felt like Vegeta, but was much too low to belong to the Saiyan prince.
He searched for Goku's ki and found him somewhere with Gohan and Trunks. He frowned as he realized Trunks's power level was a bit low.
He was pulled from his thoughts as Bra opened the door and bounded out. "Daddy!" she shouted as she ran towards the house.
Krillin slowly got out of the car, his wife and the other two girls following him. //Just what is going on?// he wondered.
They went in the house and Pan was immediately ambushed by a frantic looking Videl. "I'm so sorry, baby! I just got back from running an errand and I completely forgot about what day it was!"
"Where's Daddy?" Bra asked, looking around in confusion. "Did he forget too?"
Videl put Pan down and knelt in front of Bra. "Honey, your dad has been having...problems...for the past several months."
"What's been going on Videl?" Krillin demanded.
"You'll be told in a few minutes," a deep voice said from the stairway. Piccolo came down into the living room, his daughter in his arms.
"Where's Daddy?" Bra asked again, looking like she was about to cry.
"Upstairs in his room," Piccolo said. "Goku and the others will be here soon, I just contacted Trunks through our mental link."
Bra ran up the stairs only to be stopped by Goten, who was on his way down. "Sorry kid, but your dad needs to be left alone for a bit."
He carried her back downstairs, where the other new arrivals were looking at Ocarina in confusion.
"Why do you have a child, Piccolo?" 18 asked, getting right to the point as was her style. "And why exactly does she have a Saiyan tail."
"There's something you need to know about Saiyans, but it will all be explained once the others get here. We need to put the girls somewhere so we can figure out what to tell them."
"Figure out how to tell us what?" Bra asked, getting frustrated and scared.
"I can take Pan and Bra outside to play," Marron offered.
"That might be best," Goten said, lowering Bra to the ground. "Go outside with Marron and Pan."
"But-"
"You're dad's doing okay at the moment, but he needs to be alone for right now," Goten said.
Bra glared at him for a few seconds before seemingly giving in and following the other two girls outside. Goku, Gohan, Trunks, and Chi-Chi walked in just as they went out the door.
"You all have a lot of explaining to do,"
...
Marron said and closed her eyes. Today had not been a good day. She had met a really nice boy at camp, but he lived so far away that being boyfriend and girlfriend was out of the question. She had wanted to be comforted and petted when she got home, but instead it looked like they were going to have to deal with some crises.
She only looked away from the younger girls for a minute, but a minute was all it took. When she opened her eyes again Pan was half way up a huge tree and Bra was no where in sight.
...
Piccolo leaned against the wall, giving Krillin and 18 a rundown of what had happened in the past three months. They were in the kitchen and he had just gotten to his daughter's birth. Krillin already looked like he was in shock from all of the things Goku had done in the past three months.
//And I haven't even gotten to the worst thing yet,// Piccolo thought.
"Olenji was born only a few days after Rina. Gohan performed a c-section after Goku went insane and literally beat Vegeta to death. Fortunately, Dende was able to heal the damage and bring him back."
The silent moment of shock was broken by an enraged scream. Bra stood in the doorway of the kitchen, blue eyes shifting to green and blue hair flickering to gold. Bra had just reached super Saiyan and she was pissed.