Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ That'll Do, Son. ❯ This is gonna take a while... ( Chapter 8 )

A/N: Lookie! I'm NOT dead! Here's the chapter everyone may or may not have been waiting forever for. And to those of you who wanna have good ol' kakabaka with everyone else while he's a SSJ4, just you be patient! ^^ I've had that in store since I started.

(argh.. so bored.. somebody add me to their AIM buddy list so I can talk to them... please? o_o.. my screen name's radditzu22...)

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you can read it there whenever you likies. ^^ okay, enuff dawdling.. here ya go:

Chapter 8 - This is gonna take a while.. -_-

Goku trudged down the stairs and stopped on the last three steps. He turned to face everyone in the living room, but only Radditz and Bardock occupied the living space.

"Y'know, Kakarot, that scouter almost makes you look like a proper saiyan." Radditz leaned back into the worn chair. "I mean, if you close an eye and tilt your head sideways, it kinda adds to the effect!" He finished his sentence by doing so, earning a laugh from his brother.

"Thanks, I think..."

Bardock chuckled before crossing his arms. "Anyway, we've gotta get down to business, because worming your way out of hell is obviously not an easy task. Are you sure you're up to this, Kakarot? You're welcome to stay here with us..."

Once again, Goku was flattered. "Thanks for the offer, father," he paused at the foreign word and rolled his tongue in his mouth a few times before shaking his head and continuing, "but I've really gotta get back into Otherworld."

"Suit yourself, kid. If you don't mind my asking..."

Goku nodded.

"Why is it so important that you get back?"

"Because the Kais are in Otherworld, and they allow me to communicate with the living plane. You can't do that from here...I tried. I'm going to ask my friends on Earth to wish me back so that I can go see-" Goku cut the sentence off. He was going to say `So I can go see Vegeta.' But...what stopped him? "So that I can go see everyone."

He frowned at the odd look thrown at him by Bardock and glanced at Radditz. The elder brother understood just who he wanted to go see, he knew. Goku shook his head.

"Well, I suppose that's a good enough reason."

"Good enough? What do you mean, `good enough'?"

"I don't know. Maybe you'll have to use it to get out of here; no one can tell until we get there. It's very dangerous, and only a few have attempted to get out-and failed."

"But Kakarot's the Legendary...they weren't. He should be able to defend us, right?"

"Radditz, you're blind. He's strong physically, and he has to be strong mentally to achieve what he did, but his spirit is out of practice. Who knows what kind of demons we'll encounter? Assuming that he can defend us with his fists is not only stupid, but it's something whatever's out there is counting on. We can't assume anything right now."

"Yes, father."

"Kakarot," Bardock addressed his son like he was a comrade, and not his son, "I'm not sure what kind of clothing you had on Earth, but when you're with us, you'll be wearing Saiyan armor. It will be given to you, don't worry." Bardock crossed his arms and looked out the window.

Goku didn't know quite how to respond to that, so he just said, "'Kay."

Radditz sighed. "So...um...where exactly do we start?"

Bardock shook his head, and Goku caught a fleeting thought. "Why don't you ask the king?"

"Why would we do that? He's no better than any of us here..."

"Because if he knows that I-" There he went again! "...at any rate, he has some sort of contact with the living realm. I guess that's a good sign?"

"I suppose." Bardock uncrossed his arms. "Well, I guess there's no time like the present to pack up and get started. Radditz, go get 3 of the camping packs out of my room; we'll be living out of those."

"Alright."

Goku went over and sat on the couch. Radditz's hair shifted around his shoulders as the bulky man trudged up the stairs. The earthen saiyan's mind was muddled with thoughts of Vegeta, with a little of Goten, Chi Chi, regret, worry, and relief mixed in. He could hear Radditz's heavy footsteps upstairs, milling around somewhere opposite of where he thought his room was. He then watched his brother come back down the steps with 2 soilent green backpacks cradled in his right arm and one hanging from his left hand. He dropped them on the floor by the door.

"What's in the packs?"

"Oh, you know, the usual kind of stuff. We don't eat or drink, though, so we don't have to worry about food spoilage. There's mostly first aid things, bottled water, body suits, and capsules of things like armor and transportation vehicles."

"But this is Hell.. Where'd you ever get stuff like that?"

"The capsules and water?" Radditz chuckled. "Kakarot, we may be dead, but we're still Saiyans. We have ways of persuading people to give us what we want, and we know people that know how to use it."

"Oh...that makes sense."

Radditz nodded. Bardock followed suit.

"Okay. The next thing on our list to do is to plan on how to get to the king."

"Can't you just go in and ask him? Like, isn't he on a throne with the queen?"

"What the hell are you talking about, Kakarot? He's never done that."

Goku stood. "Well, on Earth, we were always hearing stories about magnificent kings and queens that ruled the lands with iron fists, and they had elaborate palaces and fancy clothing and they always sat in a HUGE throne room. And there were a bunch of guards there and the king and queen always sat at the end of the hall and answered peoples' questions and arrested people and stuff."

Goku flashed a wan smile. Bardock and Radditz looked at him as if he were nuts.

"...What?"

"Uh...Well, you have the entry guards right, but our king has no queen and works from a room deep in the palace. It's very difficult to get to him, because usually your problems are handled by lower officials. Only the really lucky or the really loved ever get to see his majesty." Bardock crossed his arms.

"Doesn't he like Zorn?"

Radditz looked at him oddly. "Yeah, what of it?"

"Couldn't Zorn ask him?"

"Wouldn't that be suspicious?"

"Wouldn't it be better than just sitting here pondering?"

Radditz sighed. "Yes, I suppose you're right...how do we ask him?"

Bardock cleared his throat. "Zorn!"

Footsteps could be heard in the kitchen before the burly saiyan poked his head around the corner. He had a slight sheen of sweat on his forehead and his armor was a bit twisted; he cleared his throat. "Yes?"

Bardock eyed him up and chuckled. "Think you could do us a really big favor?"

"What?"

"Could you ask the king how to get out of here?"

"No."

Goku's heart fell. "Why not?"

"One, because I'm in the middle of something, and two, because he already knows why you wanna get out of here and I don't want to be taken as an aide."

"How do you know what happened when we went in there?"

A voice beckoned Zorn from the kitchen. The guard turned his head and his hair shook from a motion made with his head before he turned back to Kakarot. "I used to be his best friend and his closest advisor. I have my ways of finding things out behind peoples' backs." He turned and went back to the kitchen.

Goku, now looking rather dejected, flopped back onto the couch and pouted. There went one plan... Was he ever going to get out of here? Did King Kai even miss him? Bubbles? Gregory? ...Vegeta?

"Hey, cheer up, kid. That was only one plan!" Bardock went over and patted Goku's shoulder. Son looked up at him. "You said you were friends with the kais... Can't one of them help you out?"

"Not unless King Yama says so... He told me that if I did one thing wrong, I would be sent here to find my own way out. That means that no one from Otherworld or Heaven is allowed to help me out unless he gives them special permission. Besides, if I had a way of contacting them, I'd have done so when I first got here."

Radditz sighed and played with his hair. "Well, what about Gozu and Mezu? You said they got you out the first time."

Goku's eyes lit up. He hadn't thought of that! "Do you know where to find them?"

"No, but what's a little adventure to a saiyan?"

Goku smiled. "Okay, then." He grabbed a pack, as did his brother and father. Bardock wrote something on a note pad sitting on a side table, left it there, and motioned for his two sons to follow.

"Let's go."

A/n: and so the adventure begins… what perils will our heroes face? (enter creepy triumphant music)

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