Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ What A Trip! ❯ A race? Kakarot you idiot! ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine. At all. Period. Two of them, Base and Alumerzo so belong to a very talented writer by the screen name: B-Chan. My friends and I think she's dead. We miss her and shall honor her memory until she chooses to return to the realm of cyber space.

Marron, Bra'e, Pan, and Alumerzo sat in the den in Capsule Corp., watching music videos and eating snacks. Pan sat cup-style in the big 'Lazy Boy' armchair with a large bowl of popcorn in her lap. Marron and Alumerzo lay head to toe on the plush sofa with a big bag of corn chips balanced between the two of them. And Bra'e lay, sprawled on her belly on the carpet in front of the TV. Suddenly a knock came from the door. The girls groaned and called their mother's. Chi-chi finally came in to see what the problem was.

"Grandma, can you see who's at the door?" Pan asked.

"You girls did all that bellyaching just because you're too lazy to open the door?" she asked.

"Yes," came the unified answer from the girls.

"Generation X, what's going to become of you?" she asked as she went to open the door.

"We'll settle down, get jobs and have Generation Y," Bra'e said.

"Not funny, young lady. Oh, Goku! What are you doing here?" Chi-chi asked as she opened the door to reveal her husband.

"Vejita, Krillin, Tien, Yamcha, Gohan, and I are going to take the guys on a little training expedition; starting today. It's a surprise, we're about to tell them, when they all get here."

"Wow, Grandpa. That sounds like fun. When do we leave?" Pan asked.

"You're not going," came a voice from the stairwell.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Marron asked slowly.

"It means that our fathers are going to totally segregate and exclude us based on gender alone. Isn't that right daddy?" Bra'e asked.

"Basically," Vejita responded gravely.

"That's not fair!" Alumerzo cried.

"Now, now Alu-chan. If daddy wants to exclude the few and only next generation females, it's his choice. After all look what our dad's did to my mom and just look how liberated she turned out. With any luck we'll all being running around being as wanton and free as we wish. Besides without careful fathering in these morally developmental years, we could become women and do just about anything. We'd be like Janine," Bra'e said nonchalantly.

"Well, when you put it that way. I guess it's not so bad. I mean she's only got three kids. And she only prostituted herself six times for extra money," Alumerzo said.

"And now, she's got a sugar daddy. He's actually forty. And he's loaded, gets her anything she wants. And she's only a year older than me," Marron reasoned.

"Uh, Vejita.Maybe the girls should come with us," Goku volunteered.

"Kakarott! I already get enough exposure to these children on a regular basis. I'm not about to give up the only break I ever get over some-" he broke off suddenly as if thinking.

"What is it daddy?" Bra'e asked.

A lazy malicious smile slid onto Vejita's face. He considered the girls carefully for a moment. Bra'e grew slightly fearful at that look. One could almost see the little gears winding in his head as he looked at them.

"Very well. You wish to prove yourselves as warriors? You want to show us that you are every bit as capable as men? Fine. You can come, should you adhere to my terms," Vejita said firmly.

Rolling over and standing up, Bra'e bravely met her father's steadfast gaze.

"What are your terms?" she asked.

"We'll just make this a bit more interesting. It'll be a race. We were going to collect the nova dragon balls. You'll be given a map and ship. Take what ever you want. The first to gather the dragon balls gets the wish. Do you accept the challenge?" Vejita asked coldly.

"We accept. When do we start?" Bra'e asked.

"We'll prolong the original date by three months. So three months from now, at six o'clock in the morning we'll start."

"Very well. Come on you guys," Bra'e called.

"Where are you all going?" asked Goku as the girls rose to leave.

"Shopping," came the unified answer.

"What?" Chi-Chi gasped.

"Well, we'll need clothes, food, first aid kits, hair care products, makeup, tools, videos, snacks, weapons, video games, books, you know. Just the bare necessities. I mean of course now mom and dad will have to make a map and put in checkpoints for rest stops and just places we'd like to see. Hey dad, we need to make this more interesting. How about the race plus both teams have to pick up at least one item from every planet?" Bra'e asked.

"Sure, why not?" Goku said before Vejita could object.

"Kakarott, you idiot!" Vejita yelled.