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The Portal to Beyond: Chapter VII

When they all arrived in one of the medical rooms, Raditz was already sitting up, confused. Other than the huge bandage on his head, he looked completely alright.

"What am I doing here?" he growled at them with a fierce expression on his face.

"Well Raditz my dear brother, I found you out cold in your pod so I brought you here." Kakarott said as he approached him.

"Well, Kakarott my dear brother, I see that you have not completed your mission since there is still life on this planet."

Bulma's eyes got big and she looked at Kakarott in shock as did Gohan.

"Calm down. I never had any intention of killing off a whole race. I'm not like those bakas on Vejiita-sei. They think I'm weak and that's why they sent me here."

Raditz noticed a figure behind Bulma. "My Prince!" He jumped up and got to his knees before him, bowing low.

"Get up Raditz. I don't have time for this."

Raditz stood. "Well, let me tell you why I'm here. Father and Vegeta-oui thought you couldn't handle it, so they sent me to make sure you could."

"I'm not doing it and I'm not going back. I like it here with Bulma and ChiChi and everyone. You also can't make me, you know why?"

"Why, brat?"

"Because I know about the little incident on Lunar 3. You didn't kill those aliens, they killed themselves. They said that they'd rather be dead on their own account that by your hands."

"You can't get to Father because I would kill you first."

"I wouldn't have to." he gestured to Bulma behind him. "Bulma here is a genius. I haven't a doubt in my mind that she couldn't create a video comunicator that could send signals back to Vejiita-sei."

Raditz gasped. "You're lying!"

"You see all these things around you? Bulma or her father created them. If Bulma couldn't do it, her father could. So I reccomend that you just stop it with the idea that you're going to kill everyone. Also one more thing, you see Vegeta behind me? He's from the future. His powerlevel is about 15-20 times the amount of yours as is Gohan's."

"How can you tell that without a scouter?"

"You don't believe me? Well then use yours and be prepared when it blows up on you. Not all people need a scouter to read ki."

Raditz did as he suggested and was still surprised when it exploded. The last number he got for Vegeta was around 25,000 and he was amazed and terrified."

"I think you would love it back in the future Raditz," Vegeta began, "Over 10 people there have a powerlevel higher than yours. Though when you came to ours..."

Gohan picked up the sentence. "you died and I should know. I was 5. You kidnapped me to get my Tousan to fight you."

"Why would I have anything to do with your father? Unless..."

"You got it. Kakarott, or Goku as he is called in our time, is my father. I also can tell, because I too can sense ki, that he's about 4 times as powerful as you."

Kakarott gave him a look to see if he was just trying to trick Raditz, but Gohan was sincere. Kakarott began to smile. "That's right Raditz, anyone here, with the exception of Bulma and ChiChi--"

"Um Kakarott, ChiChi could too."

"WHAT?!" Raditz and ChiChi shouted at the same time.

"That's right. ChiChi has twice your powerlevel, Raditz. I don't know how. She's never that strong in our time unless you make her mad. Then she's downright scary."

"You got that right. Kakarott in our time is also scared of her." Vegeta put in.

Kakarott rolled his eyes. "Anyway, you see there are many people here stronger than you. We won't hesitate to eliminate a potential problem."

"Wait! Don't do this to me! I don't really want to kill you or anyone else on the planet. I'm just following orders. Are you still going to kill me?"

Vegeta walked up and placed his hand on his forehead. He frowned in concentration, while the others looked at him strangely. After a few minutes, Vegeta removed his hand and opened his eyes.

"He's telling the truth."

"What did you do?" Bulma asked, even Gohan was curious. Then he remembered.

"I know! You read his mind like Tousan did on Namek." Gohan turned to the others. "After Tousan became a Super Saiyan he gained that ability. Does that mean I can do it too?"

"I don't know, but try it sometime." Vegeta replied.

"Hold on. What's this about Super Saiyans?"

"Shall we show the man?" asked Gohan.

"I do believe we should." They both screamed and powered up. In a few seconds they both became super saiyans.

"That's not all. There are more levels than just one." Gohan powered down as did Vegeta. "So far there are three SSJ, USSJ, and the Mystic level. But who's to say that there aren't more out there. We keep encountering stronger enemies, so therefore we had to be stronger to defeat them. Frieza was the first of the strongest we had to face, then Cell and the Androids, and then Buu. I have a feeling the fight isn't over yet, though I wish it was. I really dislike fighting for life or death."

Kakarott still had his eyebrow raised at the previous ki reading and Raditz was inching ever so slightly toward an open window, a wild expression on his face.

"Hold it!" ChiChi walked up to him. "You're not going anywhere!"

Bulma decided to say something after all this time. "You know what? I could give you a capsule house so that you could live near ChiChi and Kakarott. They could keep an eye on you. We'll try it out, but one little disturbance I know they won't hesitate to kill you."

"Uh, that's fine."

Gohan spoke up. "You know what? We really need to get home. We'll be back though, and since it worked out so great, we'll even bring Vegeta's son, my father, and my little brother." He gave a look to Raditz. "All Super Saiyan."

Raditz gulped. Vegeta pulled out the comunicator and pressed a button. "Yeah Bulma? We're ready to come home. What? I don't care what Trunks did woman! Just bring us home! Yeah. Where will the portal appear?"

Suddenly he was knocked backwards in surprise. He hit the floor. "Nevermind. You could have warned me you know!" He continued to argue.

"Are they always like that?" ChiChi whispered to Gohan.

"Nope. Sometimes it's worse!"

Vegeta finally straightened everything out and put the communicator away. "Well, let's go brat."

"Goodbye, we'll be back soon. We just have to sneak away so that Kaasan won't notice. I'm sorry ChiChi, but you're very overprotective. Bye!" He stepped back through the portal.

"If I find out that you've been bothering Bulma, I'll send you on a one-way trip to HELL!" Vegeta glared at him one last time and also stepped through the portal.

After they arrived back in Bulma's lab and you could actually still see everyone else on the other side. Gohan waved one last time as Bulma disconnected the portal.

"So, how was it?" she asked.

"It was great, although Raditz showed up as you saw."

'What?! He didn't try to hurt you two?"

"He couldn't. Everyone was stronger than he was and not just me and Vegeta-san either. Kakarott and ChiChi were as well!"

"You're kidding! That's funny."

Gohan told her how he was trying to cower in the corner. By the time he was finished they both had tears streaming down their faces and were holding their stomaches from laughing so hard.

"WHERE IS HE?!" Gohan jumped at the sound of that voice.

"Kaasan? Oh no!" Gohan tried to hide from her in the shadows. Suddenly the door burst open and ChiChi marched in with Goku and Goten following her.

"Tousan, don't tell me you told her!"

"She was going to cut off my meals! I'm sorry Gohan!"

"Is this it Niichan? Cool!" Trunks decided he was going to show up too.

"Listen Gohan, you WILL NOT be going off to some alternate dimension! You don't know what danger could be there! You will also not take your little brother along!"

"Aw Kaasan! I wanted to go! Trunks is going." Goten began to whine.

"But Kaasan, it's perfectly safe! Bulma-san designed it after all. Can you show her please?"

"Okay." Bulma walked over to the controls and punched in some commands. The portal lit up and you could see on the other side. The thing was that it appeared in the same exact place as before. Bulma, Kakarott, ChiChi, and Raditz looked up, surprised.

"Are you coming back already?" ChiChi asked them.

(From this point until the portal closes, I'll use 2 behind the names of the other dimension people so you won't get confused.)

"No they are not! It is too dangerous. Especially with that monster behind you." ChiChi shouted at them.

"Gohan was right, you are overprotective and scary!" ChiChi2 shouted back.

ChiChi turned to look at Gohan, who was smiling sheepishly.

"How about you come here and see for yourself? You can't judge this world unless you experience it." Bulma2 told her.

ChiChi shook her head and Goku stepped forward. "Aw come on ChiChi! We'll come with you so you won't be hurt." Goten and Gohan shook their heads eagerly.

ChiChi sighed. "All right I'll go. But one sign of trouble you're not going back!"

Gohan and Goten hugged her. "Thanks Kaasan."

"Trunks now you be careful." Bulma said as she hugged him.

"Kaasan, I will." He broke free of her hug and ran ahead with Goten close on his heels. After they all had went through Bulma sighed.

"Vegeta better make sure Trunks is okay, or when he gets back I'll kill him!"