Disclaimer: See Chapter I if you really want to read this.

I have a note! Uh anyway, you may have noticed that I spend way more time in the other dimension. Well it's becuase I have a world to create you know. You all already know what happens in the regular timeline, but you don't in the other one and that's what I'm trying to do, inform you.

The Portal to Beyond: Chapter V

Kakarott didn't know what to say, he hadn't really thought about it before. But now that the situation had arose, he realized that there was something more to his love.

ChiChi mistook his silence as an indication that he did not feel the same way. "I knew I should have kept this to myself! I've ruined our friendship!" and then she began to cry. The sound of it shook Kakarott from his reverie.

"ChiChi! How can you say that? I think it's wonderful!"

ChiChi looked up and said in a shaking voice, "You do?"

"Sure I do! There's just one thing..."

"What is it?"

"Now what are we supposed to do? I'm never had a relationship like this before." he paused. "Now that I think about it, I've never had any kind of relationship before, friendship or otherwise."

ChiChi smiled. "Well, we're just going to have to work on that."

***

After ChiChi and Kakarott had made up, they continued their trip to the Capsule Corp. from the day before. Soon they were flying at a face pace and laughing joyfully.

"This is great! I don't know why I never learned this before!" ChiChi shouted over the rushing wind.

"There just wasn't anybody to teach you." Kakarott shouted back.

A few minutes later they had reached their destination. They landed and ChiChi knocked onto the door.

Bulma herself answered. "Oh hello ChiChi. What are you doing here?"

"Hey Bulma-chan. Me and my friend here have a question." she turned to Kakarott. "Kakarott, this is Bulma. Bulma, Kakarott."

"It's nice to meet you." Bulma said politely. Kakarott was silent and remained that way for a good five minutes. Bulma started to get angry and it was apparent in her facial expression.

Bulma gaped at them. "What the hell are you two doing?"

"What was that? It could be evil!" ChiChi exclaimed.

Bulma rolled her eyes. "That was just one of my 'Tousan's experiments backfiring again. ChiChi, I thought you would know that!"

"I don't come over enough." ChiChi relaxed her stance, while Kakarott remained in his. "Sorry about that."

"No problem." she turned to Kakarott. "It's okay, the world isn't about be destroyed you know."

"I don't know you good enough to trust your explanation."

"Oh! He speaks!" she turned to ChiChi. "I thought he was mute."

"Kakarott," ChiChi began, "I vouch for her. If she was lying, I promise you can murder her later."

"Hey!" Bulma cried. "I'm going to assume that you were kidding about that last one." Shaking her head she said, "Come on in."

They made their way through the Briefs' front hallway to their living room where they sat. Bulma in a chair and ChiChi and Kakarott on a couch.

"So," Bulma began, "why are you here?"

ChiChi looked at Kakarott. "I'll tell it. You see Bulma, we had a visitor yesterday. A very strange visitor."

"Yes, go on."

"Well," and she went on to explain how the boy had come and told her a lot of weird things. "And so, he said he would be back. We saw him leave in a ship that sported a Capsule Corporation label!"

Bulma was intensly interested. "Really? That must have been a time machine! But the thing is, my 'tousan has the plans for that, but he hasn't finished it yet! When he comes back, bring him here okay? I really want to meet this boy."

ChiChi rose to leave and motioned that Kakarott should do the same. "I will. Thanks for your help."

Kakarott nodded in Bulma's direction. "Yeah. Thank you for the help."

"You're welcome and remember to bring him by!"

***

On the way home, ChiChi decided to ask a question that had been on her mind for a while. "Kakarott? Can I ask you something?"

"Sure, shoot."

"Well, why are you on Chikyuu in the first place?"

Inwardly Kakarott groaned. He had been hoping she wouldn't ask that question, but now that she had, it would be better to tell her and get it over with. He stopped and ChiChi did the same.

"Now it's my turn to tell you something and hope you don't hate me for the results. I've only know you for about a month, but I'm sure I can trust you. I came here originally on a mission from the King of Vejiita-sei, Vegeta-sama. He told me to, uh, exterminatealllifeonthisplanetandgetitreadyforsale." he finished in a rush.

"Huh? What did you say?"

Kakarott sighed. "He told me to exterminate all life on this planet and get it ready for sale." Seeing ChiChi's horrified face he added, "but I'm not going to do that!"

"You better not because you would have a very irate person on your hands. What do you people do there anyway?"

"It's not my people who started that. We are part of Frieza's Planet Trade. We're kind of like intergalactic real estate agents. Clients come to us when their planet has been made unfit for living and we find them another. Most times though, we have to kill off the inhabitants of a potential planet." he shrugged. "Clients pay big bucks for things like that and the faster we get them one, the more we recieve."

"And you don't see anything wrong with that?!" ChiChi asked incredulously.

Kakarott shrugged again. "It's not my place to question it."

They stood there in complete silence, each preoccupied with their own thoughts until it was broken by the second loud explosion of the day.

ChiChi sighed. "Now what?" She looked to Kakarott who was suddenly looking very serious.

"Oh god! He folowed me here!"

"Who did? How can you tell?"

"I can sense ki. It's just something I was born with. It's my brother." That was all he said as he flew off at top speed in the direction the sound came from. Too fast for her to follow. ChiChi was considering going anyway when she got a message. In her head.

~Don't come ChiChi it's too dangerous.~ It was Kakarott! He continued before she could even form the question in her head. ~This is also a little something I was born with.~

ChiChi went back home. He'll come back to her. She was sure of it.

The next day, Gohan made a trip to Bulma's lab. She greeted him at the door.

"Oh hi Gohan. Back again this week?"

"You know it! Have you told Trunks and Vegeta anything?"

"Nope. Only you and I know about it."

"Um Bulma-san, you'll have to make it you, I, and 'Tousan."

"You told Son-kun!"

"Yeah but he agreed that we can't tell 'Kaasan. Anyway, I forgot to tell you what I told them."

"What did you say?" Bulma asked.

"I kind of told them that I was their future son and some of what I knew about saiyans so that he would believe me."

"Oh Gohan you didn't!"

"Don't worry! "Tousan said he'll help me make sure Goten and I still exist. I don't know about Trunks. Vegeta isn't on the planet."

"I would think not at this point in time. How old did ChiChi look to be?"

"Oh I don't know. About 14 or 15 I guess."

"You see? I'm not that much older than her." she narrowed her eyes. "I'm not going to tell you anymore than that. Raditz wouldn't have even come yet and so Vegeta and Nappa currently have no reason to come."

"Bulma-san, do you want me to make sure that the other Bulma gets together with Vegeta?"

"How long are you planning on staying or will I have to add a date programmer into the ship?"

"A date programmer! Now why didn't I think of that?"

She gave a Vegeta-like smirk. "Because you're not the genius. Anyway, I already added that and it's finished."

"WHAT?! And you didn't tell me!"

"It's not a ship anymore. I had to make a sort of interdimensional gateway."

Gohan's jaw dropped. "You mean a portal?"

"You bet! So far everything's fine." she added something else, "I kind of wonder how come Vegeta hasn't found out about this. He usually knows it when I hide something. It's nearly impossible with the bond and all."

As if on cue, a short figure appeared in the doorway.

"Well speak of the devil," Bulma muttered.

"I know all about it and I want to come also. You couldn't stop me if you wanted to."

Bulma sighed in annoyance. "Veggie-chan! You were coming on the final trip anyway! This is just a test run and I got Gohan because he seems to be the only one who understands my work besides 'Tousan." Gohan beamed at the complement. Bulma turned to him. "Gohan, having that ship malfunction was sort of a good thing. I would have never thought of another way and so I would have spent long months trying to improve on that method. We needed it to seat at least five people and a portal has unlimited possibilities."

She turned and went over to a far corner of the room. I present to you, The Dimension Shifter 2000!" She pulled a sheet.

Vegeta and Gohan both gasped in unison. The thing was spectacular, even unactivated.

"Wow Bulma-san! Just wow!" Gohan couldn't wait to go back.

"And that's not all, you can have unlimited time! I'll give one of you a communicator so you can tell me when you want to come back. Also, I'll bring you back only a minute after you left, but the time in the other dimension will remain normal and unchanged."

"This is great! I hope this works." Gohan said.

"So do I Gohan, so do I."