Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Bouncer ❯ Trial By Fire ( Chapter 12 )
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By: Majin_Broly 
The date, the trial. Who wins?
R: Language
Anime/Manga: Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction | Genre(s): / Romance / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 07.29.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 4.0K | Visits: 186 | Status: Completed
The date, the trial. Who wins?
R: Language
Anime/Manga: Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction | Genre(s): / Romance / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 07.29.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 4.0K | Visits: 186 | Status: Completed
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The Bouncer
Trial By Fire
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Goku leaned his back against the cell wall. He had been suckered so badly by his father, his father more then likely wanted payback for the pain though he didn't do it physically. He was going to lock him away, Raditz would be there to defend his father. This blatant assault was just more show then anything else as Raditz was a well known lawyer. He could convince a jury of almost anything he was working on, this assault was to destroy Goku. Financially, and emotionally tear him up. He should of seen it! He punched the mattress angrily. " There going to sue me for all my worth, and send my ass of to jail and let my family suffer. God!" He smacked his forehead in stupidity and shame.
The guards walked up to his cell as Goku's head turned. " You've got visitors." They said simply opening up the cell door, they led Goku down the rows and he glared at each inmate who inwardly cringed at the dark burning eyes that looked into there's. He was led into the room where he saw Chi-Chi and Gohan. He smiled when he saw them. He took a seat the orange outfit not going to well as his hands and feet were chained. Chi-Chi was holding the phone so she could talk to him and Goku picked up his line.
" Goku... Are you okay? They haven't brutalized you have they?" Chi-Chi asked her face nit with concern and worry for him. Goku shook his head.
" No they haven't though I doubt they could. But don't worry about this, are you and Gohan alright?" Goku asked more worried about them then anything else.
" Well... me and Gohan are okay but they have set a high bail for you that we can't afford to pay..." Goku knew the number, five hundred thousand dollars." But your father is suing us for six hundred grand! Goku we can't pay that if you lose!" Chi-Chi said her eyes tearing with the thought. " Goku im sorry I should of found a job, then we might of been able-."
" No Chi-Chi don't blame yourself at all. If we lose this there's only one thing you can do to save you and our son." Goku looked away as he had often heard his brother talking about ways to get out of any criminal case or lawsuit. " Chi-Chi you have to claim that you didn't have a choice in the marriage, say I forced you. Beat you, anything to make them believe you and that I was ruthless. You'll be cleared of the charges and you and Gohan won't have to worry..." He trailed of as Chi-Chi shook her head. " No Chi-Chi you have to! I don't want to see my wife and son raised back in the streets! You don't have a choice, or i'll tell them myself. I don't want to have you both suffer."
" Goku... please don't make me do that! I love you I don't want to see you put behind bars for any amount of time. I don't want to raise our son alone and tell him that your in prison. Please Goku don't make me do that!" She cried as Goku hung his head.
" I would rather see our son be raised happily without his father then with a father once he's ten years old and poor Chi-Chi.... I don't want to see that happen to him, he's too important to live like that. Now you know you have to, I would rather he not know a father i'll be out in fifteen years if that goes through so I wouldn't worry..." He cracked a weak grin as Gohan and Chi-Chi began to cry. " Please this is for the best of us both, Raditz is one of the best lawyers in the world. Don't chance your futures for mine. I don't need it as much as you two."
" I'll try Goku but it will be so hard.... I don't want to see you leave me for any amount of time. But I understand our son is more important." The child in her arms was reaching for his father who only started to cry as he saw it. The boy wanted a father but wouldn't have one.... for a long time. " Good-bye Goku, I will always love you." She said holding her hand against the glass.
" I love you Chi-Chi and im sorry." He said placing his hand there just wishing to have her hand there touching his own. He took a step back and left them as the guards escorted him away and to his cell.
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( The date of the Trial)
The judge had just taken a seat in the court room allowing everyone to take a seat. " Well good day gentlemen, may the defendant please rise." The judge looked over as Goku stood with his appointed attorney. " Goku Son, or as known by the prosecutor Kakarot sayjin. You are today charged with assault and battery, your own father has claimed a criminal lawsuit against you. Since neither party will end this in a settlement, Mr. Son how do you plead."
" Not guilty your honor." Goku said as his eyes were dropped, not getting much sleep knowing what was his fate come tomorrow.
" So you have not changed your plea?" Goku nodded his head. " Well in your statement you claim your own father provoked your rage, in order to draw you into a fight though you had told him to leave and he refused to." Goku nodded again. " You also claim that this was all a setup being that the police response was only two minutes away when this conversation lasted nearly five minutes according to you. Not nearly enough time for that to response to occur." Goku agreed.
" Well prosecutor you may present you case." The judge let Goku's brother take over. A finely dressed and dashing man Raditz had became, his hair was never cut as it grew to unbearably long lengths but it didn't even bother him.
" Thank you your honor, as we must know first off this is a completely family affair, being that I am his older brother and representing my father. " The jury looked a little suspiciously at that but Raditz continued. " I have a history of Kakar-..erhm excuse me Goku's." He said catching himself. " Personal arrests before that as well as his mental state of mind, so saying this attack was provoked with his history is an utter fabrication. It merely gave him a reason to commit his acts out of the city limits. As well as being that the victim was an elderly man well over his fifties and being injured so badly that its hard to imagine that he may of been able to relocate exactly how long this conversation lasted. But shall we turn to my brother's mental state. He is-!'
" Objection your honor, that piece of evidence is not admissible as evidence being that my client had been cleared and given therapy which he passed and since has had no prior problems, so I ask that it be dismissed." Goku's lawyer said boldly as Goku smirked. Thinking he might actually have a chance.
" Sustained.... the evidence is not probable to his current state of mind, that was well over six years ago. I ask that it be discarded as evidence." The judge said as Raditz shrugged and went on.
" Well that being discarded shall we move on to my first witness, a former employer of my brother." Goku looked back as his smirk became a scowl as he watched who it was. The place where he had been fired from after nearly killing someone. The employer took the stand as Raditz began. " Well you are once a former employer at time of Mr. Son were you not?"
" Yes I was."
" Well in the few months that Mr. Son worked for you, did you notice anything odd in his behavior? Violent out lashes or completely unprovoked assaults?" Raditz said leaning on the witness stand.
" Violent out lashes there were too many being that anytime anyone got on his bad side they ended up severely hurt or injured. Being patrons were terrified of him, we had to fire him or his temperament may of lost us business."
Raditz smirked as he looked to the jury as they listened in. " So did you ever know of this violent temper? Or was he just another normal bouncer working till the limits of his boundaries."
The man shook his head. " We never knew, though he seemed normal he was always the one to itch to beat someone up if they caught his eye, but he never once struck one of the girls. He never bothered them either then cursing at them for being disgusting and selling themselves out that was about it." Raditz took a step back.
" No more questions your honor the defense may proceed." Raditz took a seat as Goku's attorney took the floor.
" Yes so you claim that Goku was violent at times, but would you call his strength sometimes necessary? That sometimes its good to keep the peace in any establishment by making sure that people know the limits?"
" Objection! That has nothing to do with this trial." Raditz interceded.
" Sustained, keep on topic." The judge said as Goku's attorney straightened his tie.
" So Goku not once ever hurt one of your girls? Did he ever hit anyone that never deserved it correct?"
" Yes that's true." And so it all began as Goku's fate was now resting in his attorney's hands and that of the juries ability to decide whether Goku could be provoked or not. Goku's father was able to escape the witness stand being that he was very 'traumatized' by the incident and should be held back and not put in such a stressful situation.
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Goku was slightly amazed with his appointed attorney he kept matching Raditz easily with every tactic putting doubt and possibility into there minds. But Raditz was far from being done, not by a long shot. This was still beginning in his eyes but Goku could still win so long as his attorney kept up his work. The second day went by just as uneventful as the first, but Raditz did deliver one huge and major blow to Goku's claim. He brought back Goku's old orphanage workers.
" So as we have said.... Goku was openly violent in nature. And purposely did things to end your work and close the orphanage because of his violent nature?" Goku could only stand so much as he listened to these completely ignorant people talk him down. He snapped....
" That's because you put me there! I don't understand you Raditz! You dare to bring back my past into all of this!? This about me and my old man! It always has been! You never were around to see it all not that you would of cared anyway!" Goku snarled as his fist balled and the front of his shirt tore as the strain as he lashed out so quickly exposing the massive bulk and strength to all.
" Sit Down this instant Mr.Son! I will hold you in contempt if you outburst like that again!" Goku scowled but sat back down. Chi-Chi's hands touched his back as he let her hands calm him down.
" Easy Goku, its just like before they are wanting you to outburst-"
" Miss your not Mr. Son's counsel now please sit back."
But Goku's lawyer intervened. " Your honor being that the defendant's wife wishes to console her husband is allowed. She is legally available and considered counsel in other trials." The judge let out a breath.
" You are right but nothing beyond that." The judge agreed letting Goku sit back further in her arms. Though it was a blow against his case, having his wife there would save him out bursting again. It was just all the more help he would need when in this trial.
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The third day Goku sat back in his wife's arms as he held his son being that his lawyer had said, family was counsel the judge could not object to it. Goku smiled as the little boy slept in his lap his wife next too him as they both held their child. Goku noticed a few of the jury members more interested in what he was doing, then the trial so he thought it best to keep his image better in there eyes. He openly hugged his son and just held him as his wife held him. Gohan didn't wake or cry so long as Goku held him as if the boy knew this might be the only time he would see him.
" For my next witness I would like to Call Mrs. Son to the stand." A few murmurs were heard as Goku's dark eyes cast up to his brothers. " Im sure you don't mind mam defending your husband? Do you?" Raditz said as Chi-Chi shook her head.
" No I don't have anything that you can say to hurt my husband's image as much as you already have." She said with a glare that even made Goku cringe. She got up and went to the stand as Raditz took the floor.
" So Mrs. Son how would you describe your 'husband' before you met? What was he like?" Raditz asked as Chi-Chi only looked to Goku and smiled.
" He wasn't the man he is now, but he just never wanted to let anyone see him before. He was just a loner. He didn't really open up to anyone, he never really cared to as I would understand from what he's told me about you and your father. And im starting to believe him that he was really right."
" So he had no problems then? He was perfectly safe and not at all what you see him as."
" Yes." Chi-Chi said as Raditz smirked.
" Then Miss care to explain how his bike totaled itself? And how he ended up in the emergency room? As well as to his over abusive drinking habits, that he consumed nearly three times the legal limit before driving each night?" Raditz said as Chi-Chi stared at him hard.
" Everyone gets into an accident im sure, it happens to us all. And if he drank all of it at once im sure he wouldn't be able to stand, but if he consumed it over the entire six hours he worked I would not be surprised that he was just barely sober but still in complete control and under the rational line of thought." Chi-Chi said as Raditz raised his eyebrow.
" So you allow this man who was barely sober at times to be your husband? Please tell us all why you married a drunk-!" Chi-Chi's slap was cut short as Goku jumped up from his seat and caught his wife leaving his son in his attorney's hands.
" Don't you dare insult my husband! Your hear to talk to me about him not about my reasons for marrying him because I love him!" Chi-Chi yelled angrily as Goku took her back to the seat calming her down. Goku handed her back Gohan which settled her rage but the jury was a little taken back as they saw her outburst and how her husband stopped her from connecting with that slap which would of taken the prosecutor's head off.
" No questions your honor I believe she's not in the greatest mood to answer any questions." The judge nodded as Goku whispered to Chi-Chi letting her get up and take his son leave. Goku turned his foot around as he looked at Raditz.
" Don't interrupt what I have to say your honor this is a brother to brother talk." The judge was a little confused as Goku stood up facing his brother. " You must think yourself pretty big to get my life and try and get my wife upset. You know how to push her buttons just as mine right?" Goku said smirking as his brother stared at him. " Did you really think I never catch on? That I would never understand why? I am not at all as stupid you make me out to be brother. But let me ask you one thing." Goku said leaning forward so that only Raditz could hear.
" Do you enjoy yourself when you fuck all those helpless women? Do you love it Raditz knowing that your so pathetic that you have to let your old man find the ass for you? Do you enjoy it knowing because of your father your allowed to fuck? Or is it because you just love his seconds?" Goku said chuckling as Raditz glared at him. " Not going to say anything? I thought so your just probably thinking that I am going to roll over and give in Raditz? Well to bad im not I know your game and I must say your getting pretty pathetic not because you could ever beat me in anything being your younger brother. Is this good Raditz? Knowing that your sending me down the river because our father tells you to? Your pitiful!" Goku spat which got the result he was hoping for as Raditz struck him across the face with his fist.
The room gasped as Raditz punched him. " Is that all Radtiz? Our old man hits harder but then again you were the weak one? You probably have dad tell you how to aim right?" Raditz was never one to take low insults, he hated it when Goku did things better then him or made fun of him for being so young an much better in almost everything. Raditz swung again but Goku blocked it.
" You think your better then me!? Your so full of yourself!" Raditz spat as Goku smirked again irritating him.
" Prosecutotor!" The judges voice snapping them both back. " Take your seat, I shall not file charges being that we've already seen what's gone on today but strike the defendant again and you will be arrested! Do I make myself clear!?" The judge banged his gavel as Goku smirked walking away from his brother who was more then just pissed, he was livid but kept himself from lashing out again.
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The final day of the trial was set as the closing arguments were set up. Goku still reclined in the arms of his wife and held his son all the while. Not even caring what either side said in his defense or prosecution. " He's a great son isn't he? I just hope i'll get to see him grow up." Goku said as his son hugged his neck, Goku hugged him back gently as Chi-Chi wiped a tear from her eye.
But as this scene unfolded Goku's attorney made it stick in the jury's minds. " Do you see what kind of man this is? Every man has his buttons if pushed, everyone has their own limit. Even me and everyone here, but can you willingly send a man away to six years of his life away from his family. You have not seen such a man be so angry yet so at peace. Not even I can agree to seeing a man so happy with his family, but if this truly was the family these all shared? Why would his own father and brother choose to send there own member of family away? I am not going to answer it for you, its all your choice to decide but think about everyone else who is hurt when you deliberate over it." He walked back as this would be good in his young career actually matching one of the finest lawyers in the business. But also he could see that those who knew his defendant meant a great deal more then he could ever imagine. So he tried to make it personal knowing what a life would be faced by them if he were to loose this case.
Raditz ended with his own closing remark. " I don't have much to say as I probably know that we can honestly prove that Mr. Son is indeed a capable attacker, and is unstable enough. But imagine if that wrath was cast on those around him? He says he loves them but imagine if he could easily beat up several men and legally intoxicate himself? Could he really be like the loving gentle man here? Or is all just a ruse of deception. Don't focus on his appearance but the facts that you've seen. That is all." Raditz concluded.
" Alright this session is concluded. The jury will now deliberate." The judge concluded it as the bailiff took the jury back to decide Goku's fate.
Goku looked to his attorney. " Do we have a chance?"
" I say its 50-50, I don't really know the answer. Its not a clear cut choice but you definitely have a chance in this." He gathered his things and left leaving Goku as the guards came to take him back.
" Chi-Chi this will maybe the last time we see each-!" He didn't' finish before Chi-Chi kissed him on the lips, even the metal chains didn't stop Goku from holding her as Gohan looked on still wondering why they kept doing that.
" I know Goku, but i'll pray as long as I have to, to see you through this Goku I swear sink or swim I will always be there for you." Chi-Chi said as Goku was taken away leaving Gohan and Chi-Chi alone.
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( The next day)
After six hours the jury reached a verdict, after four hours the day before it only took two hours the next day. Goku rose as did everyone else as the jury came back in the room. Chi-Chi held Gohan close as the judge banged his gavel. " Have you reached a verdict?"
" Yes your honor?" The foreman said as he stood up, Goku silently praying for once not to hear the bad news.
" How do you find the defendant?" The judge asked as Gohan gripped his mother's dress shirt.
" We find the defendant.................."
( To Be continued)
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Don't you just love these? God its so fun to leave you all hanging when I know the answer. The next chapter maybe the final one. Sorry if its dissapointing but I didn't even think it would be this many.
The Bouncer
Trial By Fire
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Goku leaned his back against the cell wall. He had been suckered so badly by his father, his father more then likely wanted payback for the pain though he didn't do it physically. He was going to lock him away, Raditz would be there to defend his father. This blatant assault was just more show then anything else as Raditz was a well known lawyer. He could convince a jury of almost anything he was working on, this assault was to destroy Goku. Financially, and emotionally tear him up. He should of seen it! He punched the mattress angrily. " There going to sue me for all my worth, and send my ass of to jail and let my family suffer. God!" He smacked his forehead in stupidity and shame.
The guards walked up to his cell as Goku's head turned. " You've got visitors." They said simply opening up the cell door, they led Goku down the rows and he glared at each inmate who inwardly cringed at the dark burning eyes that looked into there's. He was led into the room where he saw Chi-Chi and Gohan. He smiled when he saw them. He took a seat the orange outfit not going to well as his hands and feet were chained. Chi-Chi was holding the phone so she could talk to him and Goku picked up his line.
" Goku... Are you okay? They haven't brutalized you have they?" Chi-Chi asked her face nit with concern and worry for him. Goku shook his head.
" No they haven't though I doubt they could. But don't worry about this, are you and Gohan alright?" Goku asked more worried about them then anything else.
" Well... me and Gohan are okay but they have set a high bail for you that we can't afford to pay..." Goku knew the number, five hundred thousand dollars." But your father is suing us for six hundred grand! Goku we can't pay that if you lose!" Chi-Chi said her eyes tearing with the thought. " Goku im sorry I should of found a job, then we might of been able-."
" No Chi-Chi don't blame yourself at all. If we lose this there's only one thing you can do to save you and our son." Goku looked away as he had often heard his brother talking about ways to get out of any criminal case or lawsuit. " Chi-Chi you have to claim that you didn't have a choice in the marriage, say I forced you. Beat you, anything to make them believe you and that I was ruthless. You'll be cleared of the charges and you and Gohan won't have to worry..." He trailed of as Chi-Chi shook her head. " No Chi-Chi you have to! I don't want to see my wife and son raised back in the streets! You don't have a choice, or i'll tell them myself. I don't want to have you both suffer."
" Goku... please don't make me do that! I love you I don't want to see you put behind bars for any amount of time. I don't want to raise our son alone and tell him that your in prison. Please Goku don't make me do that!" She cried as Goku hung his head.
" I would rather see our son be raised happily without his father then with a father once he's ten years old and poor Chi-Chi.... I don't want to see that happen to him, he's too important to live like that. Now you know you have to, I would rather he not know a father i'll be out in fifteen years if that goes through so I wouldn't worry..." He cracked a weak grin as Gohan and Chi-Chi began to cry. " Please this is for the best of us both, Raditz is one of the best lawyers in the world. Don't chance your futures for mine. I don't need it as much as you two."
" I'll try Goku but it will be so hard.... I don't want to see you leave me for any amount of time. But I understand our son is more important." The child in her arms was reaching for his father who only started to cry as he saw it. The boy wanted a father but wouldn't have one.... for a long time. " Good-bye Goku, I will always love you." She said holding her hand against the glass.
" I love you Chi-Chi and im sorry." He said placing his hand there just wishing to have her hand there touching his own. He took a step back and left them as the guards escorted him away and to his cell.
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( The date of the Trial)
The judge had just taken a seat in the court room allowing everyone to take a seat. " Well good day gentlemen, may the defendant please rise." The judge looked over as Goku stood with his appointed attorney. " Goku Son, or as known by the prosecutor Kakarot sayjin. You are today charged with assault and battery, your own father has claimed a criminal lawsuit against you. Since neither party will end this in a settlement, Mr. Son how do you plead."
" Not guilty your honor." Goku said as his eyes were dropped, not getting much sleep knowing what was his fate come tomorrow.
" So you have not changed your plea?" Goku nodded his head. " Well in your statement you claim your own father provoked your rage, in order to draw you into a fight though you had told him to leave and he refused to." Goku nodded again. " You also claim that this was all a setup being that the police response was only two minutes away when this conversation lasted nearly five minutes according to you. Not nearly enough time for that to response to occur." Goku agreed.
" Well prosecutor you may present you case." The judge let Goku's brother take over. A finely dressed and dashing man Raditz had became, his hair was never cut as it grew to unbearably long lengths but it didn't even bother him.
" Thank you your honor, as we must know first off this is a completely family affair, being that I am his older brother and representing my father. " The jury looked a little suspiciously at that but Raditz continued. " I have a history of Kakar-..erhm excuse me Goku's." He said catching himself. " Personal arrests before that as well as his mental state of mind, so saying this attack was provoked with his history is an utter fabrication. It merely gave him a reason to commit his acts out of the city limits. As well as being that the victim was an elderly man well over his fifties and being injured so badly that its hard to imagine that he may of been able to relocate exactly how long this conversation lasted. But shall we turn to my brother's mental state. He is-!'
" Objection your honor, that piece of evidence is not admissible as evidence being that my client had been cleared and given therapy which he passed and since has had no prior problems, so I ask that it be dismissed." Goku's lawyer said boldly as Goku smirked. Thinking he might actually have a chance.
" Sustained.... the evidence is not probable to his current state of mind, that was well over six years ago. I ask that it be discarded as evidence." The judge said as Raditz shrugged and went on.
" Well that being discarded shall we move on to my first witness, a former employer of my brother." Goku looked back as his smirk became a scowl as he watched who it was. The place where he had been fired from after nearly killing someone. The employer took the stand as Raditz began. " Well you are once a former employer at time of Mr. Son were you not?"
" Yes I was."
" Well in the few months that Mr. Son worked for you, did you notice anything odd in his behavior? Violent out lashes or completely unprovoked assaults?" Raditz said leaning on the witness stand.
" Violent out lashes there were too many being that anytime anyone got on his bad side they ended up severely hurt or injured. Being patrons were terrified of him, we had to fire him or his temperament may of lost us business."
Raditz smirked as he looked to the jury as they listened in. " So did you ever know of this violent temper? Or was he just another normal bouncer working till the limits of his boundaries."
The man shook his head. " We never knew, though he seemed normal he was always the one to itch to beat someone up if they caught his eye, but he never once struck one of the girls. He never bothered them either then cursing at them for being disgusting and selling themselves out that was about it." Raditz took a step back.
" No more questions your honor the defense may proceed." Raditz took a seat as Goku's attorney took the floor.
" Yes so you claim that Goku was violent at times, but would you call his strength sometimes necessary? That sometimes its good to keep the peace in any establishment by making sure that people know the limits?"
" Objection! That has nothing to do with this trial." Raditz interceded.
" Sustained, keep on topic." The judge said as Goku's attorney straightened his tie.
" So Goku not once ever hurt one of your girls? Did he ever hit anyone that never deserved it correct?"
" Yes that's true." And so it all began as Goku's fate was now resting in his attorney's hands and that of the juries ability to decide whether Goku could be provoked or not. Goku's father was able to escape the witness stand being that he was very 'traumatized' by the incident and should be held back and not put in such a stressful situation.
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Goku was slightly amazed with his appointed attorney he kept matching Raditz easily with every tactic putting doubt and possibility into there minds. But Raditz was far from being done, not by a long shot. This was still beginning in his eyes but Goku could still win so long as his attorney kept up his work. The second day went by just as uneventful as the first, but Raditz did deliver one huge and major blow to Goku's claim. He brought back Goku's old orphanage workers.
" So as we have said.... Goku was openly violent in nature. And purposely did things to end your work and close the orphanage because of his violent nature?" Goku could only stand so much as he listened to these completely ignorant people talk him down. He snapped....
" That's because you put me there! I don't understand you Raditz! You dare to bring back my past into all of this!? This about me and my old man! It always has been! You never were around to see it all not that you would of cared anyway!" Goku snarled as his fist balled and the front of his shirt tore as the strain as he lashed out so quickly exposing the massive bulk and strength to all.
" Sit Down this instant Mr.Son! I will hold you in contempt if you outburst like that again!" Goku scowled but sat back down. Chi-Chi's hands touched his back as he let her hands calm him down.
" Easy Goku, its just like before they are wanting you to outburst-"
" Miss your not Mr. Son's counsel now please sit back."
But Goku's lawyer intervened. " Your honor being that the defendant's wife wishes to console her husband is allowed. She is legally available and considered counsel in other trials." The judge let out a breath.
" You are right but nothing beyond that." The judge agreed letting Goku sit back further in her arms. Though it was a blow against his case, having his wife there would save him out bursting again. It was just all the more help he would need when in this trial.
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The third day Goku sat back in his wife's arms as he held his son being that his lawyer had said, family was counsel the judge could not object to it. Goku smiled as the little boy slept in his lap his wife next too him as they both held their child. Goku noticed a few of the jury members more interested in what he was doing, then the trial so he thought it best to keep his image better in there eyes. He openly hugged his son and just held him as his wife held him. Gohan didn't wake or cry so long as Goku held him as if the boy knew this might be the only time he would see him.
" For my next witness I would like to Call Mrs. Son to the stand." A few murmurs were heard as Goku's dark eyes cast up to his brothers. " Im sure you don't mind mam defending your husband? Do you?" Raditz said as Chi-Chi shook her head.
" No I don't have anything that you can say to hurt my husband's image as much as you already have." She said with a glare that even made Goku cringe. She got up and went to the stand as Raditz took the floor.
" So Mrs. Son how would you describe your 'husband' before you met? What was he like?" Raditz asked as Chi-Chi only looked to Goku and smiled.
" He wasn't the man he is now, but he just never wanted to let anyone see him before. He was just a loner. He didn't really open up to anyone, he never really cared to as I would understand from what he's told me about you and your father. And im starting to believe him that he was really right."
" So he had no problems then? He was perfectly safe and not at all what you see him as."
" Yes." Chi-Chi said as Raditz smirked.
" Then Miss care to explain how his bike totaled itself? And how he ended up in the emergency room? As well as to his over abusive drinking habits, that he consumed nearly three times the legal limit before driving each night?" Raditz said as Chi-Chi stared at him hard.
" Everyone gets into an accident im sure, it happens to us all. And if he drank all of it at once im sure he wouldn't be able to stand, but if he consumed it over the entire six hours he worked I would not be surprised that he was just barely sober but still in complete control and under the rational line of thought." Chi-Chi said as Raditz raised his eyebrow.
" So you allow this man who was barely sober at times to be your husband? Please tell us all why you married a drunk-!" Chi-Chi's slap was cut short as Goku jumped up from his seat and caught his wife leaving his son in his attorney's hands.
" Don't you dare insult my husband! Your hear to talk to me about him not about my reasons for marrying him because I love him!" Chi-Chi yelled angrily as Goku took her back to the seat calming her down. Goku handed her back Gohan which settled her rage but the jury was a little taken back as they saw her outburst and how her husband stopped her from connecting with that slap which would of taken the prosecutor's head off.
" No questions your honor I believe she's not in the greatest mood to answer any questions." The judge nodded as Goku whispered to Chi-Chi letting her get up and take his son leave. Goku turned his foot around as he looked at Raditz.
" Don't interrupt what I have to say your honor this is a brother to brother talk." The judge was a little confused as Goku stood up facing his brother. " You must think yourself pretty big to get my life and try and get my wife upset. You know how to push her buttons just as mine right?" Goku said smirking as his brother stared at him. " Did you really think I never catch on? That I would never understand why? I am not at all as stupid you make me out to be brother. But let me ask you one thing." Goku said leaning forward so that only Raditz could hear.
" Do you enjoy yourself when you fuck all those helpless women? Do you love it Raditz knowing that your so pathetic that you have to let your old man find the ass for you? Do you enjoy it knowing because of your father your allowed to fuck? Or is it because you just love his seconds?" Goku said chuckling as Raditz glared at him. " Not going to say anything? I thought so your just probably thinking that I am going to roll over and give in Raditz? Well to bad im not I know your game and I must say your getting pretty pathetic not because you could ever beat me in anything being your younger brother. Is this good Raditz? Knowing that your sending me down the river because our father tells you to? Your pitiful!" Goku spat which got the result he was hoping for as Raditz struck him across the face with his fist.
The room gasped as Raditz punched him. " Is that all Radtiz? Our old man hits harder but then again you were the weak one? You probably have dad tell you how to aim right?" Raditz was never one to take low insults, he hated it when Goku did things better then him or made fun of him for being so young an much better in almost everything. Raditz swung again but Goku blocked it.
" You think your better then me!? Your so full of yourself!" Raditz spat as Goku smirked again irritating him.
" Prosecutotor!" The judges voice snapping them both back. " Take your seat, I shall not file charges being that we've already seen what's gone on today but strike the defendant again and you will be arrested! Do I make myself clear!?" The judge banged his gavel as Goku smirked walking away from his brother who was more then just pissed, he was livid but kept himself from lashing out again.
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The final day of the trial was set as the closing arguments were set up. Goku still reclined in the arms of his wife and held his son all the while. Not even caring what either side said in his defense or prosecution. " He's a great son isn't he? I just hope i'll get to see him grow up." Goku said as his son hugged his neck, Goku hugged him back gently as Chi-Chi wiped a tear from her eye.
But as this scene unfolded Goku's attorney made it stick in the jury's minds. " Do you see what kind of man this is? Every man has his buttons if pushed, everyone has their own limit. Even me and everyone here, but can you willingly send a man away to six years of his life away from his family. You have not seen such a man be so angry yet so at peace. Not even I can agree to seeing a man so happy with his family, but if this truly was the family these all shared? Why would his own father and brother choose to send there own member of family away? I am not going to answer it for you, its all your choice to decide but think about everyone else who is hurt when you deliberate over it." He walked back as this would be good in his young career actually matching one of the finest lawyers in the business. But also he could see that those who knew his defendant meant a great deal more then he could ever imagine. So he tried to make it personal knowing what a life would be faced by them if he were to loose this case.
Raditz ended with his own closing remark. " I don't have much to say as I probably know that we can honestly prove that Mr. Son is indeed a capable attacker, and is unstable enough. But imagine if that wrath was cast on those around him? He says he loves them but imagine if he could easily beat up several men and legally intoxicate himself? Could he really be like the loving gentle man here? Or is all just a ruse of deception. Don't focus on his appearance but the facts that you've seen. That is all." Raditz concluded.
" Alright this session is concluded. The jury will now deliberate." The judge concluded it as the bailiff took the jury back to decide Goku's fate.
Goku looked to his attorney. " Do we have a chance?"
" I say its 50-50, I don't really know the answer. Its not a clear cut choice but you definitely have a chance in this." He gathered his things and left leaving Goku as the guards came to take him back.
" Chi-Chi this will maybe the last time we see each-!" He didn't' finish before Chi-Chi kissed him on the lips, even the metal chains didn't stop Goku from holding her as Gohan looked on still wondering why they kept doing that.
" I know Goku, but i'll pray as long as I have to, to see you through this Goku I swear sink or swim I will always be there for you." Chi-Chi said as Goku was taken away leaving Gohan and Chi-Chi alone.
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( The next day)
After six hours the jury reached a verdict, after four hours the day before it only took two hours the next day. Goku rose as did everyone else as the jury came back in the room. Chi-Chi held Gohan close as the judge banged his gavel. " Have you reached a verdict?"
" Yes your honor?" The foreman said as he stood up, Goku silently praying for once not to hear the bad news.
" How do you find the defendant?" The judge asked as Gohan gripped his mother's dress shirt.
" We find the defendant.................."
( To Be continued)
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Don't you just love these? God its so fun to leave you all hanging when I know the answer. The next chapter maybe the final one. Sorry if its dissapointing but I didn't even think it would be this many.