Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Lost Love ❯ Just before the Saiyan Saga ( Chapter 2 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

It had been five years since Lunch started living with Tien and Chaozu. They enjoyed her company as she cooked and cleaned, and she loved every chance to be with Tien and try to make him happy.
Things weren't always peachy, however. The two certainly had their ups and downs, especially when blonde Lunch would come home after robbing either a bank or a convinient store. Tien felt he could definetely go without that behavior of hers. Him coming from the evil training of the Crane Hermit, it didn't exactly please him that someone he cared for was still doing that sort of injustice. And he certainly didn't appriciate the guns that would be pointed at him whenever he protested.
Tien wasn't exactly perfect with Lunch either. Everytime she wanted to get his attention, he would always be off meditating or training, and would only come back when he felt like it... unless she happened to be blonde and carrying a gun with her, then she would shoot at him until he finally gave in and did what she wanted.
Today was no exception.
Tien and Chaozu were sparring with one another under a cold waterfall. Despite there were no threats towards the world ever since Piccolo Jr., they still strived to gain strength, just incase a new danger were to come, they could be ready, and perhaps surpass Goku if possible, though unlikely.
"Yo! Tien! Chaozu!!" Lunch called from below, "C'mon down already! I've got some eats for ya!!"
The two continued battling, as if they hadn't even heard her.
*BRATTARATTARATTARATTA*
They stopped battling and began dodging bullets from below.
"HEY!" Lunch screamed, "I'm talkin' to ya here!! Get down here before I blow yer brains out!!!"
Tien rolled his eyes, annoyed. "Of course... Like I know any better..."

The two warriors couldn't help but be amazed with what they saw laid out on the table before them. What was normally a small meal was today a huge gourmet enough to feed an entire dining hall in a fancy hotel.
"Well, whattya think?" said Lunch, "It took a little trouble gettin' it all together, but for you, it's worth it."
"I must admit, I am quite impressed," Tien said as he picked up a plate of food, "Though, you don't think it's alittle too much...?" He glanced around at the rows of entrees, mainly steaks, the fruit pies and ice cream, and even champange in an ice bucket.
"Well, maybe I overdid it alittle," said Lunch, "But then again, you've been pretty cranky the past month. Whatever the reason, I figured this oughta make ya smile, even just alittle."
"It looks so good!" said Chaozu looking around, "But how could you afford all this? Especially on our income?"
Tien glared at Lunch, suspicious, "Yes... do tell."
Lunch cringed. Damn, she hated it when he looked at her like that. It usually meant if she was lying, there would be a major ass-kicking involved. She sighed, "Okay, okay, I was gonna buy you this fancy lunch, but I couldn't get any money from the bank 'cause, y'know, I robbed it last month..... So I knocked over a Ritz Hotel."
At that, Tien slammed the plate of food down on the table and turned away. "Of course you did. I should've known better than to think you've done something honest for a change."
"Hey, c'mon!" Lunch pleaded, "It's the thought that counts, right?"
Tien glared back fiercely, "Next time, when you do something wrong, don't do it for me!"
"That's pretty hypocritical, coming from someone who use to be a wrong-doer himself."
The three-eyed warrior spun and snarled. "I'm not like that anymore!" he shouted, "And if you know what's good for you, you better stop yourself, or else!"
"Or else what?!"
Tien sneered, then turned and left the house. Lunch huffed and looked down at the wonderful food she had gotten for him. "Sheesh, ungrateful jackass...."
"It still looks yummy..." Chaozu reached up for a slice of apple pie.
"Chaozu!" Tien shouted from outside, stopping the young emporer in his tracks, "Don't even think about it!!"
The mime-like warrior quickly placed the dessert back and backed away outside. "S... sorry, Lunch..."
Lunch groaned, "Such a waste of perfectly good food too...."
Suddenly, out of nowhere, the ground began to shake violently. Lunch grabbed the table to attempt to keep herself steady as everything around her crashed to the floor. "What the hell?!" she cried, "EARTHQUAKE!!! I HATE earthquakes!!!"
"It feels like a four-pointer!!!" Chaozu cried as he clung to Tien's leg, "We better get to safety, Tien!"
"It's just a quake!" Tien assured, "Let's just ride it out. It's not like we've been through worse."
Chaozu glanced up, and yelped in fright. "EeeeYAIIII!!! Tien, the mountain!!!" he cried, pointing to where the waterfall was resting as cracks began to sprout all over the place.
"Crap!" Tien shouted, "Chaozu, get out of the way!!" He grabbed the small fighter's wrist and shot into the air just before the entire mountain exploded and the waterfall burst into a raging river that swept across the land. However, part of the waterfall managed to slam into the house, breaking it into pieces and taking everything with it down the flooding river, including its blonde, screaming occupant.
"LUNCH!!!" Tien wasted no time in racing down to the rushing river below and diving in, frantically searching for Lunch. It didn't take long before he felt a strong kick to his head as the blonde despretely tried to swim back to the surface with no avail. The three-eyed warrior grabbed her arm, pulled her up to his chest, and held her tightly as he set forth a huge burst of ki to boost himself and Lunch out of the flood.


"You said they were living around this area?" Bulma asked as she navigated the small plane while Krillin stared out the window, keeping an eye out for their friends.
"Last I heard," said the bald monk, "But I don't see a thing...."
"Perhaps if we tried this thing," Bulma mused as she pulled out the recently fixed ki-scouter. "It worked to find Yamcha. Maybe it'll find Tien's power level too."
Just as she hit a button to activate it, it immediatley went off, beeping wildly and pointing towards a certain direction. "Yeow!" she cried, suprised, but then read the high number off the scouter, "Wow! What power! This definetely has to be Tien!"
"Then let's go already!" said Krillin as Bulma steered towards the direction of the ki set-off.

"Lunch... relax, it's okay now."
The woman slowly opened her eyes and looked up as she saw she was held tightly on Tien's chest. "Tien..." she blushed slightly, "You... saved me."
The edges around his mouth curved upwards slightly. "Of course I did..." He stared into Lunch's green eyes... and was soon reminded that he was angry at her and immediatley shoved her away. "I mean, it would be cruel to not rescue you and just let you die like that!"
Lunch blinked, but then scowled. "You dumbass bastard!!"
Tien sneered, "Can it, you lunatic!!"
Lunch whipped out her machine gun and immediatley shot at the triclops, but he easily whapped the bullets away, and harshly slapped the gun out of her hand. "Knock it off!" he shouted, "I've had it with your bipolar maniacness!! You shove one more gun in my face, and I'll--"
"BRING IT ON, BALDY!!!" Lunch shouted as she lunged at Tien. Tien had raised up his arms, whether it be in retaliation, or to smack her back into the blue-haired personality for good, he never got the chance, nor did Lunch as the two froze in their steps after hearing familiar voices.
"Hey you guys! Long time no see!"
The two slowly looked over to see Bulma and Krillin, standing by a landed plane and Chaozu floating nearby. "Er... we're not interrupting anything, are we...?"
Tien and Lunch quickly jumped back and tried to act as if nothing went on. "Of course not...!"
The group sat on remains of Tien's house as Bulma and Krillin informed them of the situation going on. Apparently, as it turned out, Goku all along was a space alien known as a "saiyan", and his older brother had come to Earth to destroy it for him, and kidnapped Goku's son, Gohan, in the proccess. However, his brother, as well as Goku himself, was killed by Piccolo, who also took Gohan away to train him for an upcoming battle... two other saiyans, even more powerful than Goku's brother, were coming to Earth in less than a year. Not only that, but Kami himself had invited Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, Chaozu, and even the lazy Yajirobe to train upon the Lookout Tower to prepare for this Saiyan Battle.
"It does sort of make sense," said Chaozu, "I mean, it certainly explains Goku's unnatural strength and agility. He was an alien the entire time."
"I'm always up for saving the world," said Tien, "But then... If these saiyans are much more powerful than Goku even, what chance do we stand?"
"Well, you know Goku got to his strength with the help of Kami," said Krillin, "If we take his training, we should have enough power to hold them off until Goku's wished back to life." Tien rubbed his chin as he thought it through.
"Aw c'mon, Tien!" snapped Lunch, "Space aliens?? Training from 'God'? You don't really beleive this crap, do you? It's all a bunch o' bull if ya ask me!"
Bulma glared at the fierce blonde, "Nobody really did..."
Tien grunted, then stood up. "Count me in. If it means reaching Goku's strength, I don't need to think twice. Besides..." He shot a cold glance towards Lunch, "I could stand to get out of this place."
Lunch sneered, "I don't know what's possessin' ya to go through with this... but I won't let ya do it alone. I could use the training myself."
"The only thing you need to train is your attitude!" Tien snapped, "Chaozu can come with me, but that's it! You stay behind and fix this mess... or steal a new house. Whatever works for you." And with that, he stormed into the air and took off over the horizon. Krillin and Chaozu quickly took off after him, leaving the suprised girls behind.
"Hey Tien, wait up!" Krillin managed to reach Tien's side as they soared through the air and get his attention, "Look, I don't mean to pry, but... is there something you wanna get off your chest? Having girl problems?"
Tien sneered, "I don't want to talk about it! End of discussion! We have more important things to worry about, like this Saiyan invasion, so don't forget it!"
Krillin sighed, "Okay, buddy, whatever you say.... But just to let you know... You're pretty lucky to have a girl care about you like Lunch does... even if she CAN be a whackjob..."
Tien muttered a response, and silently continued towards Kami's Lookout, Krillin and Chaozu not far behind.
Lunch let out a disgruntled moan and turned, crossing her arms while she hid her face behind her blonde hair. Bulma thought to turn and quickly leave before Lunch decided to use her for target practice for whatever reason, when she heard a light sniffle come from the woman. The green-haired woman blinked for a moment, not sure if what she thought was happening really was happening... was Lunch actually crying? The evil, gun-maniac robber Lunch? Bulma then realized that just because she wasn't currently the sweet, sensitive alter ego, it didn't mean she didn't have feelings.
She cautiously made her way up to the blonde. "Er... Lunch? You okay?"
Lunch quickly wiped her eyes with her arm and turned around fiercely to face her. "Yeah, I am! What's it to you??"
"Hey, just checking," said Bulma, nervously waving her hands, "You sounded a little upset, that's all..." Lunch stood there in silence. "You know, I am here for you if you need someone to listen..."
Lunch stayed quiet for another moment, until finally she broke the silence. "You don't think... Tien's leavin' me for good, d'ya?"
Bulma took in a deep breath, hoping her words wouldn't upset the rather short-tempered woman, "Well, he definetely won't be back for awhile... But you have to think of it this way... No matter how long he's gone, he's doing this for your own good. Y'know, so you can survive."
"Feh!" Lunch turned away, "It seemed more like he was doin' it to get away from me." She dove into her pocket and yanked out a capsule, in which she immediatley clicked and tossed, turning into her airbike. "Well, he can't get rid of me THAT easily!" she said as she hopped on and started off, "I'll get that dumbass to forgive me! Later!"
Bulma watched haphazardly at the crazy blonde riding off over the horizon, then scratched the back of her head while sweating slightly. "Good luck... I think."


The tribe of Korrin Villiage couldn't help but wonder of the situation their planet was in once more as they witnessed four streaks in the air shoot up towards the heavens. Word was Kami was taking on new disciples who didn't even need to see the elder sage Korrin beforehand.
"Whatever the problem is, Goku should be able to stop it, right father?" Upa asked his father.
Bora rubbed his chin in deep thought. "I would hope so," he responded, "But we musn't just depend on one thing or person all the time. Whatever this problem happens to be, they obviously need more fighters than just Goku."
"I sure hope everything turns out okay," murmured Upa, "And besides... if these guys are receiving training from Kami himself, then maybe Goku could be going through even more intense training!"
Bora smiled. His son was always so optmistic, even if he did rely on one thing for everything.
"Hey! You!"
The two indians spun around to have a gun pointed straight at their faces. "That's right! I'm talkin' to you!!" shouted Lunch, "If ya cooperate, there won't be any need for bloodshed!"
The indians raised their arms to the sky. They have may been skilled warriors, but they mastered arrows and spears much more than they did with firearms. "T... take it easy," Bora stammered, "Just... what do you want?"
"Have ya seen a tall man go by here? Can't miss 'im, he's bald and has a third eye smack dab on his forehead. Name's Tien."
The two shook their heads, "Haven't seen him..."
"You're lyin'!!" the blonde shouted, "He was headin' t'words Kami's hangout!! That's right here, ain't it??"
"Oh, you mean he's one of the warriors being trained by Kami?" Upa smiled.
"DAMN STRAIGHT!!" Lunch screamed, "Now tell me where he is unless ya feel like dyin'!!"
Upa cautiously pointed upwards, and Lunch looked up... to see an extremely high tower straight above in the sky. She could barely see anything past the clouds. The girl blinked wildly. "You're kiddin' me!" she cried, "He's all the way UP THERE?!"
"Even higher," said Bora, "Just above the clouds is Korrin's palace. Kami's Lookout is over one-thousand feet above that even."
"One-THOUSAND?!" Lunch cried, "How's that possible??"
"Well, only the strongest can achieve the climb. Very very few had even made it to Korrin's. Imagine reaching the very top to where Kami is..."
"My god..." Lunch muttered, "I guess only the strongest people on Earth really can achieve this honor...." She turned back to the indians and pointed a second gun at them, freaking themn out once more. "YOU!!! Gimme yer weapons!!! You're items!! Grappling hooks! WHATEVER!!! Gimme all you got so I can manage to get up there and snag Tien myself!! MOVE IT!!!"
Upa spun and raced inside his home, and returned with an armful of items, including spears, meat, and furs, shoving them into the woman's arms. Upon doing so, the fur tickled at her nostrils, which of course brought on a sneeze. Bora and Upa blinked in suprise as the ferocious green-eyed blonde suddenly changed into a wide-eyed blue-haired girl, who blinked at her surroundings.
"Uh... what am I doing here?"
The two looked at each other confused. "You... don't remember?" said Bora.
Lunch looked down at the two guns she was holding, and immediatley threw them aside. "Uh-oh... was I robbing you?" she asked innocently, "I'm sorry. I sort of have a bit of a problem with changing from one personality to another... I hope I didn't offend you in any way."
"Uh.... of course not," said Upa.
"Well, I'll just get out of your way," said Lunch as she handed the items back to Bora, "Have a nice day." She walked off down the road the opposite direction, leaving the two indians behind, wondering.
"Gee, I hope Tien isn't wondering where I am," she murmured to herself as she walked along the dirt-path raod, "I know how much he hates it when my alter-ego goes on a robbing spree. I better get back to the house before he gets worried."
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