Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Dragonball Infinity ❯ Chapter Ninteen: Redundant ( Chapter 19 )

"So ... it's really not Olibu's baby?" Elra poked at her stomach, and then raised an eyebrow up at Gokuu, obviously still not quite believing her tale.

"Nope," she said, cheerfully confidant that the father would be causing a riot any time now, and crunched her fangs into her fifteenth watermelon. "The daddy's down in Hell."

Eyes widening, Elra then grinned, and nudged her with her elbow, "Why you sly dog! You like 'em bad too, huh? How'd you get into Heaven anyway?"

Blinking, she looked down at her, licking her fingers after finishing up the large fruit, "Because I've done nothing but good in my life. I'm innocent, and pure ... least that's what Kami-sama and King Kai always told me." She smoothed her hand over the developing curve of her belly, kicking her feet contentedly as they didn't reach the ground - the bed was too high up.

"... Gokuu, Olibu's in love with you. Why are you going around with some other guy's baby in you? A Hellion's baby even ... Do you even know what you're doing to Olibu with this act? How are you so sure it's not Olibu's?" Elra sat up, staring at the Saiyajin with large, astonished eyes.

"It's Vegeta's baby because I died when I was pregnant," she said, wondering what Elra was getting upset about.

The nurse frowned as if thinking, and snapped her fingers in front of Gokuu's face, "Hello? I just told you that hunk-a-hunk of burning man flesh is in love with you. You even going to squeal or gush even a little bit?"

"I ... should I be?"

Her jaw dropped before she covered her mouth, "Oh, my ... Gokuu, you don't understand me, do you? You really are that innocent ... you don't know that you're hurting Olibu at all!"

Freezing, Gokuu's hand clutched over her belly, "I'm hurting him? I don't want to hurt him, Elra - he's such a wonderful friend!"

Smiling a little sadly, she nodded, and took her hand to pat it with the other, "I know, sweetheart." She clutched at the Saiyajin's stronger hand before she sighed, and sat back, "Gokuu, are you still being ... intimate with Olibu?" When Gokuu stared at her in confusion, she laughed softly, "I mean, is he still bringing you under his sheets?"

"Oh, no," she said, "he only does that when I ask him now. I've been ... restless. The doctor says I'm horny though, but I haven't seen any horns-"

Elra's abrupt cackle made Gokuu almost jump right off of the bed, "No wonder that poor boy is sticking around! You're so clueless about everything, he must enjoy being your teacher!" She calmed down a bit after that, "It's going to hurt him a hell of a lot when he learns that you don't know a thing about love ... Gokuu-chan, what do you know about love? I mean, have you ever really felt it before?"

"... I love my Grandpa Gohan."

"Oh! So you do get it a little, huh? What do you think love is?"

She thought a moment, trying to recall all the uses of the word she had heard before, "It's between a family ... and friends ... and food!" Gokuu smiled, and patted her suddenly rumbling belly, "I love food."

"Okay, good, we got the gist of it now ..." Tapping her chin, she then nodded as if to herself in decision, "That's a different kind of love though. It comes in all sorts of forms. The way that Olibu loves you is ... you make all of his days just a little bit brighter. You ... love is when you feel like you can't go on without the other person for very long. When you can't stand being apart, and ... it's when it hurts to be away."

Gokuu had gone silent throughout this telling of love, and when Elra stopped as if searching for more words, she said, "It's when you get lonely ... when they're gone? No matter how many people are around you? No matter how many others say they love and adore you when all you want is for him to come back" - she let out a tear which she scrubbed away - "and scowl and shout at me?"

"Ah ... yeah. Yeah, something like that, Gokuu-chan."

"I miss him. I've found myself with all of these great friends - and you too - but that doesn't stop me from wanting him around." She pursed her lips as she let her thoughts go through her brain and out her mouth, "I go to bed every night, and think of him, and when I get up the next morning, I think ... 'I'll see him today. He'll cause a riot, and I'll see him today.'" She looked up into Elra's violet eyes, "Is this it then? That love? I ... need him, Elra. I can't think of not seeing him ever again."

The alien nurse gazed at her for a long while before she smiled, and clutched Gokuu's hand again, "I thought you actually had something for Olibu going on there, but this is about that man in Hell, isn't it? You're in love with Vegeta?"

Lowering her head, Gokuu then laid back into the bed, hugging her belly, "... Do you think that Enma would let me see him? Before I give birth, I mean? It's getting close now."

"Another month to go, right?" Gokuu smiled, and nodded, rubbing her belly more fondly then, "It's getting really big now ... but I don't know. Maybe. Enma might be a bit lenient towards a mother seperated from the father of her baby. Maybe your lover boy has been trying to be extra good so he can see you."

"No ... I don't think that Vegeta even knows that I'm dead ..."

"He ... what?"

She nodded, "He died so that me and the baby could live ... it didn't do much good in the end though - he didn't know I was sick with the heart disease. He's probably still in Hell, thinking that I'm alive with a baby on the way."

"Huh ... maybe that's why he's not making any riots. He doesn't think he'll be able to see you until you're dead anyway! You have to bother Enma now! You'll won't see Vegeta for another hundred years if he thinks you're still alive."

Gokuu sat up, her black eyes wide and shocked, "I don't want to wait that long to tell him about the baby!"

"The baby won't even be a baby then, Gokuu. It'll be all grown up!"

Frowning ahead at the thought of that tragedy, she then nodded, getting out of her bed to waddle toward the door, "I'll go talk to him now."

"Gokuu-chan, I think you need to get some clothes on first."

Blinking, she looked down at herself in her pajamas, and scratched the back of her head, "I don't have a lot of clothes that fit comfortably anymore though."

Elra sighed, and got up to shift through her clothes, "Let me see what you got, and then we can go shopping for something better to wear."

"Son Gokuu," Enma said conversationally as he stamped away, "I didn't know you were wished back - dead again already?"

"Nope, still dead," she told him with a grin, "and with a kid on the way."

Blinking, he paused in stamping the documents in front of him for the faintests of moments before he looked at her, "I see that. Congrats, Gokuu." He went back to his work, "What is it that you want?"

"A round way trip to Hell. I wanted to talk to Vegeta about the baby - he needs to know that I'm dead, and that the baby's okay."

He had been shaking his head before she stopped her plea, "No can do. It's not an emergency situation, Gokuu. Sorry."

"Well, can I send him a message then?"

He hummed, and tapped his chin mid-stamp, "If they can get to him. We lost track of him sometime after he entered Hell."

Gokuu began to pale, "What? You mean he's lost somewhere in there all by himself?

"I wouldn't say that he's lost, Gokuu. We just don't know where he is."

"Gokuu!"

Her head shot up, and a smile ripped her face nearly in two, "Kuririn! ... Kuririn? What happened to you? Why are you dead?"

He laughed nervously as he stepped up, and she then noticed Yamucha, and Tenshinhan behind him, "Some big cockroach if you'll believe it. Hell, I almost don't believe it still. I never thought that the things I stepped on would ever step on me!"

"A bug?"

Kuririn turned serious then, "No, just looked like one I guess. It was an android. Someone made it to kill you, but ... well, you're already dead, so this thing went after us instead. Or at least, we jumped into its way first. Pretty stupid idea in hindsight - well, since you and Vegeta are dead and all." Blinking, his eyes finally narrowed in onto her stomach, "You ...?"

"Oh! It's Vegeta's baby." Grinning, she rubbed her belly fondly, "I'm going to give birth in about a month. Least that's what the doctor figures."

Yamucha leaned in to touch her extended stomach, "Wow, he's going to be a big kid, huh?"

"Yeah, the doctor said that too. 'Saiyajin have big babies,'" she said as if quoting someone with a slightly Russian accent.

"So Vegeta's down in Hell, right?" She jerked in shock, looking up to see Piccolo suddenly standing there.

"Ah, yeah, he is ..." her eyes narrowed, "Wait, it killed even you, Piccolo?"

"Unfortunately," he grunted.

Abruptly, Enma began to speed up his stamping, "What the ...? Hmm, got a bunch of souls coming in from Earth all of a sudden."

Piccolo's lips twisted in distaste, idly watching Chaotzu and Tenshinhan reunite, "So he got bored then."

Gokuu walked closer to look up at his face, "What do you mean?"

"All he wants to do is fight someone powerful. Since there was no one powerful enough to battle him left on Earth, he just blew it up." His eyes cut over to Enma, "I suggest that you brace yourself for an onslaught of death from multiple planets in the next few months. Though I wouldn't be surprised to see the entire universe on your doorstep come the end of the week."

Jerking in shock, his hand sped up, "...! What? I can't deal with that many souls! It'll be suicide down with the tanks, and with the ogres watching over the line! The lines for Heaven's jet plane will be backed up for aeons! And even if we get this whole thing cleaned up, we'll all be out of a job!" He ceased moving long enough to clutch at his throat, "This'll do murder on my perfect work record!"

"I really want to say something," Kuririn said finally when Enma went back to being a stamping-machine, "but I don't think it's appropriate here."

Gokuu ...!

"Huh? King Kai?"

Have you heard about the trouble down in my galaxy? It's a madhouse down there! There's already been four planets annihilated - Earth included!

"Three more planets?"

"Three more?" Enma sped up.

We need to do something, and fast before Enma's wrist gives out!

"But what can we do? I'm still dead, and I have a baby on the way! I can't exactly go out and find this guy and expect to fight him!"

What about Piccolo?

"He was one of the first to go, King Kai. He's standing right beside me," perking to attention, she grabbed Kuririn and Piccolo, dragging them back a step to give the crowd of souls more room as they surged past.

Vegeta then!

"He's dead too, remember? And besides, no one can find him down in Hell anymore."

Ooh, this is bad, bad, bad ... I'll be right back, I need to look up stuff about ressurections.

Blinking, she then shrugged, and glanced around at the others, "He's going to look into something to help bring some of us back to life."

"Eeeugh ... count me out of it," Yamucha said, "I'm a mosquito compared to that guy. He'll just murder me all over again. I don't mean to leave you guys hanging, but that's just how it is!"

Pouting slightly, she nodded, "Okay, if you're sure. I'll wish you back with Namek-sei's dragonballs then."

"If they're still there," he muttered.

Found something!

"Ack!" She clapped her hands over her ears though it would not help the ringing in her head, "Don't shout!"

Oh, eh, sorry, about that, but I found something interesting. 'They who are coming, they who are there, and they who have gone.' It has something to do with a Saiyajin world. I have the original copy right here.

"What kind of world?"

Let me see ... 'the Legendary World of the Dead.' Ept Pinto'Per'End. If I'm reading this right ... the World of the Dead is where the Saiyajin go after going through Hell. Since you never went to Hell, Gokuu, that's why you weren't admitted there. That must be where Vegeta is!

If her heart were able to beat, she knew it would be pounding in her chest then, "You were saying something about bringing us back to life. What's that about, King Kai?"

Says here ... It says here there's a portal somewhere in ... Desmen'Po'End Ept'Tedin. Where the Gods Walk. Supposedly there's a temple that leads straight to Vegeta-sei, and upon crossing the threshold, your life will be returned to you. But oh, this won't work at all since Vegeta-sei is gone.

"No, King Kai! It will work! I wished Vegeta-sei back with the dragonballs before I left Earth to find Vegeta. It's the perfect plan."

"What? You wished it back?"

Blinking, the Saiyajin looked down at Kuririn, "Yeah, I thought that it would be fun for me and him to make a pit-stop there on the way back to Earth."

"Okay ..."

"Gokuu," Yamucha said, "this may not seem like the time to be asking, but ... why's the baby still alive? Or around, or ... whatever it is?"

"Ah? Oh, I don't know," she smiled fondly, and stroked her belly, "I think it's great though. Maybe after this, Vegeta and I won't have to miss out on each other, and we can raise the baby back home."

Kuririn smiled weakly, "If you can manage to wish Earth and everyone back."

"Don't worry, I'll work something out."

Gokuu, we have to start right away. The Grand Kai just told me that if this Cell keeps on his rampage, the universe will be nothing but cosmic debris in a couple of years.

She went quiet, staring ahead at nothing as her usual determination came over her face, however, after a moment, she blinked a few times in bewilderment, "Wait, who's Cell?"

What was decided was a journey into Hell - for through there was the way into Ept Pinto'Per'End. Piccolo had been meant for Hell upon his death, so he was to be Gokuu's bodyguard for the trip. He would accompany her until she could get into Ept Pinto'Per'End because only Saiyajin could enter the Saiyajin's afterlife. She would be on her own after that.

Not that this detered her. The first thing she did was take Piccolo's hand, and teleported to where she felt Freeza. The Icejin jerked away in shock before he gritted his teeth together, "You!"

"Hi!"

"Gokuu!" Piccolo yanked her back away from the tirant, stepping in front of her, "Are you mad?"

"Huh? No, I'm not mad at anyone. I just wanted to see if Vegeta was hiding out around him."

"Peh, sweet Vegeta-san?" Freeza hissed, and his splayed out fingers curled into a fist, "Ah, yes, he died about a year ago, didn't he?" His eyes cut down to look around Piccolo at the pregnant Saiyajin, "I take it that's his, right?"

She nodded, exhuming total calmness, "Yes."

His fist opened up a bit, violet energy glowing bright in his palm, "What sweet revenge that this will be then! It was a mistake to come here, Gokuu!"

Watching Piccolo grimace, she merely stepped back a foot, her tail curling up and then wagging about - not yet concerned over the two super-powers in front of her. The Icejin rushed forward, cracking their skulls together as Freeza's tail lengthened, and whipped it around Piccolo to aim for Gokuu's belly, obviously about to skewer her alive.

Her hand lashed out, and Gokuu tore off his tail with an abrupt rip sounding through the air. Afterwards, she frowned at the squirming, severed appendage in her hand before she threw it aside, "... Don't do that."

Freeza hissed, and stepped around the Namekjin as his tail was abruptly back in place behind him, lashing almost dociley behind himself, "... What is it that you want here, Saiyajin? Surely, you got all that you wanted out of Vegeta-san already," he gestured to her rotund belly.

"Have you seen him?" She asked finally.

His head cocked to the side, obviously considering another attempt to harm her and the babe before he shrugged, and turned away, "What can I say? Vegeta-san and I lost touch after I killed him. There's not much that I could tell you. Besides, if he was still down here, I wouldn't know the first place to look since I don't think like a monkey."

"Well, have you seen any Saiyajin since you've been down here?"

"Why? You want to get fat all over again when you expell that dirty monkey?"

"Maybe, but first I want to find Vegeta."

Turning around to stare at her, Freeza cocked a hairless brow at her oddly, pausing as if expecting something before he snorted, "I haven't seen tail nor hair of you filthy beasts until you showed up just now."

"All right, thanks, Freeza," she said, and then nodded to Piccolo, "Come on. Let's see if any ogres saw Vegeta."

"Wait!"

She glanced over at the white alien, loosely crossing her arms on top of her belly, "What is it?"

"You've found something out, haven't you," Gokuu could tell that it wasn't a question, and she only smiled at him before she nudged Piccolo's ribs to motivate him to keep moving. "If I had my body, I could start training to defeat this new plateau of power, but they don't afford bodies to people that go to Hell. It's a shame. Once the devil of the universe, and now only a spectator."

"Anything I could say wouldn't be any encouragement," she said. "You've lived your life. Now you have to learn to accept the consequences."

They were a couple of meters away before her ears caught Freeza's murmur, "Are we good because we want to be good? Or are we good because we want to go to Heaven? Is there a difference?"

The boy looked up to see the three figures - exact replicas of the one beside him except for their attire. The man in the red armor looked down at him, and patted his head, "Ah, I'm sorry about this, little one. You never even got to be born."

"What do you care?" His voice rasped, unused to talking after trekking after their energy signals for the past year and a half. "It's what you're supposed to do."

"... I remember now." He slowly pulled his hand back, so as to not attract the young boy's fangs, "You're dead too now, so you can talk."

"I could talk before."

The man snorted, "And what need did you have so that you could talk?"

"The need to live - to survive," he tilted his head to the side as he looked up at him. "One of the greatest needs of the universe. I want to be born."

"You will be, just not into the world of the living."

"Then what's the point in being born?"

"What's the point in not going back into the womb?"

Approaching closer, the boy's tail lashed out, "I want to live. This place is boring me after waiting for so long. I know this place already, and I want something new."

The Legendary Super Saiyajin hissed, and spun around, gnashing his fangs in rage, "Spoiled brat! Join the soul with the body within her! If you do not, that body - their only vessel will die totally and utterly! The game will be lost. Your mother will fade away, and you with her!"

"I will not be born as something that's no better than a corpse!"

"The way is closed! Forget about life ... You will fade away into nothingness if you don't do as I say. She will die a miserable, painful death in labor while she attempts to give birth because of an unruly brat that cares nothing for her!"

The retort was quick, "What, and you do?"

Stiffening, he gazed down at the boy before he turned away, "I do. And if you do not repent, I will rip the babe from her belly to keep her here. So she won't fade into nothing."

"No ... this is so they won't fade away," he glanced out of the corner of his eyes at the other two who had remained silent throughout the exchange. "What will you do if you can't save them from my so-called unruliness?"

"The way is closed," he insisted. "They will only meet with their true death at long last ... and you as well. The way is closed."

... XP Okay, I tried to make as short as the normal chapters were. It just didn't work, okay? Doubt that you guys are complaining, of course.