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The Portal to Beyond: Chapter VIII

After everyone had stepped through the portal, there was complete silence until Goten broke it.

"Hey! Why do you two look like my parents?" he asked ChiChi and Kakarott.

"Well," ChiChi began, "Your brother said that we are your parents, the past versions anyway."

The older ChiChi still had that look on her face and when the others saw it, they all involuntarily backed up a few steps. Even Vegeta.

"Look, I don't care who you are, you better not cause any trouble or there will be trouble for you."

"Oh Kami, I hope I'm not that bitter and sour when I grow up. That's just too much!" ChiChi2 turned to Bulma. "Gotta go Bulma-chan, we'll be back. Come on Raditz."

ChiChi, Kakarott, Raditz, and the rest followed her outside where they all took to the air, well, everyone except the older ChiChi.

"HEY! You can't just leave me here!" she shouted.

"Tousan, that's something I still can't understand. Why does ChiChi have more power than Kaasan?"

"I don't get it either. Maybe it's just a fluke." he returned down to retrieve his ranting wife. "Where are we going ChiChi? The younger ChiChi."

"Back to my house. Tousan sure will be surprised to see you!" They all took off at top speed to ChiChi's place.

***

After everyone arrived at ChiChi's and they had gotten settled... well, as settled as they could ever get seeing as ChiChi1 was shooting Raditz evil looks throughout the whole thing, the Ox King started up a conversation and boy was it interesting!

"So Goku," he began, "What's it like being the strongest in the universe?"

Goku started to open his mouth and Vegeta cut in. "He's not the strongest, I am!"

Goku put a hand by his mouth and leaned in to Ox King to whisper something, "He's a little jealous..."

"Jealous!" Vegeta shouted, having heard perfectly. "I am not! I should have been the Legendary Super Saiyan! It should not have gone to you! I'm royalty!"

"Tousan! Calm down!" Trunks cried.

"That's another thing Vegeta-oui, why does your brat have purple hair?" Raditz asked, disgusted.

"It's because of his mother's irregular human hair gene that's why! Although I wonder why it's purple instead of blue..."

"Leave my hair color alone! It's fine." Trunks protested.

"Um Raditz, who are you related to? You look kind of like someone I know..." Goten asked, curious.

"Goten, that's Tousan's older brother." Gohan told him.

"Really? Wow!"

"Uncle Raditz are you going to stay this quiet and not cause any trouble?" Gohan asked him.

"It depends on how you people treat me."

"I don't think we will have any problem. He's so much weaker than everyone else here that he can't really do much harm." Goku said cheerfully.

Kakarott looked at him strangely. "Do you always act this way?"

"What way?"

"All cheerful and nice!"

"Yes, he does." Everyone present nodded except Ox King, ChiChi, Radtiz, and Kakarott.

Now it was Vegeta's turn to whisper. "He's also quite slow, if you know what I mean. We think the fall as a child did it to him." he told Kakarott.

"Then I'm glad I didn't come here as a baby!"

"It's a good thing you left when you did." Goku felt a little weird talking to himself. "Vejiita-sei's due to blow up in a year, I think."

"WHAT?!" Kakarott and Raditz shouted.

"You didn't know?" Goku asked innocently.

"Why would we know? What happened?" Raditz asked.

"It was that Frieza. I'll tell you my version, though it might happen differently to you." He told them all about Frieza blowing up the planet and even about how Goku killed him. "I would have done it myself, but I didn't have the time."

"But Vegeta-san, weren't you dead?" Goten started to ask, but Gohan and Trunks covered his mouth. They knew the story as well and Gohan was present at the time.

Vegeta realized something. If Raditz and Goku never died, then the other Vegeta and Nappa were never notified of the dragonballs so they had no reason to come to Chikyuu. That also meant that Bulma may never get with Vegeta, but still be with Yamcha. That just made him mad.

Vegeta jumped up. "I'll kill Yamcha before he takes my Bulma!" Everyone stopped talking at once and looked at him.

"Did I say that out loud?" Then he shook his head, ran out of the front door and flew in the general direction of Yamcha's ki.

Gohan, Goku, Goten, and Trunks stood at the same time.

"He's going to kill someone. Trunks, you and Goten go to Bulma for some tranquilizer darts while me and Tousan try to stop him. We can't let him break his vow." Gohan said assigning duties. They all nodded and started their tasks.

***

(Trunks and Goten)

The two children flew as fast as they could to the Capsule Corp., they didn't bother knocking on the door, the went to an open window and climbed right on in.

"Bulma! Bulma! We need help, quick!" They ran around shouting. They looked everywhere and naturally she was in the last place they looked, the living room.

She stood, looking at them in shock. "What? What?"

"It's my Tousan! He's gone crazy! He's going to kill Yamcha!" Trunks shouted.

"We need, uh, what were they called again?" Goten asked.

"Tranquilizer darts." Trunks told him patiently. "Pronto!"

"Why is he doing it? For no reason?" Bulma asked them. Oh there was a very good reason why he was doing it, but the children were drilled by Gohan not to say anything about it.

"Uh, we can't say."

Trunks smacked his friend in the back of the head. "Goten!"

"It's not important, let's go!" Bulma had already ran to the lab for the supplies and was walking outside. "Just let me get a capsule car..." Before she could react Trunks picked her up by the waist and flew off, Goten not far behind.

***

(Gohan and Goku)

"We have to hurry or Yamcha's done for!" Gohan shouted. We also have to find some way to get Vegeta here and with Bulma. But he didn't say that outloud.

Goku was the one who spotted him first. Yamcha was residing in his old place in the desert and Vegeta was currently in the process of breaking down his front door.

"Vegeta! Get a hold of yourself!" Goku shouted, trying to restrain him. As he was doing so, Yamcha came to the window.

"What is going on here? Who are you two?"

Trunks and Goten showed up with Bulma.

"VEGETA! STOP! Yamcha didn't do a thing to you!" she shouted.

"You know this maniac?" Yamcha asked her.

"Vegeta, STOP!" Something in Gohan's voice made him halt. "You can not affect what goes on here. You have no control over it. If she ends up with Yamcha, fine. You still have your version back in our dimension."

"But Yamcha does not deserve a wonderful person as she. He's nothing but a cheating, lying, BASTARD!" He broke free from Goku's restraint and lauched at Yamcha who jumped back surprised.

"What is going on here and I want the truth!" Bulma demanded. Gohan sighed.

"I guess I have to tell you why." He cleared his throat. "This is the reason why he's so protective of you; In our dimension something comes to pass that has about a 2% chance of happening here. He marries you. He," he points at Trunks, "is the result of your joining. Vegeta just realized that you may not ever be with him in this time. The Yamcha in our time has been exposed and he is exactly as Vegeta says, a cheating, lying, bastard. You break up with him for about the 20th and last time and start a relationship with Vegeta. You are happy with him because of the saiyan bond." He raised his hand to stop her question about the latter. "I can't explain it because I don't think it has ever happened to me. We just have to hope he stays alive."

"If he's as you say, why should we?"

"No one, I mean, NO ONE deserves to die by Vegetas hands. If you get my meaning."

Bulma shuddered and walked over to Vegeta, who was currently preoccupied and beating the life from Yamcha's body, though he was already unconcious.

I hope this works..., Bulma thought. "Veggie-chan..."

Vegeta stopped immediately, and looked up at her. Bulma could swear that he had tears in his eyes.

"I have something for you..." She hid the dart behind her back and handed it to Trunks, who snuck around behind Vegeta. Bulma held out her arms to hug him and Trunks pulled the trigger on the dart gun...

The dart made a whooshing sound and got stuck in Vegeta's rear-end. His eyes widened in surprise as he slowly slumped to the ground. Before he hit though, he was already asleep, sawing wood like an army of lumber jacks.

"I can't believe that worked!" Bulma said amazed. "Oh well, Goku..."

Goku walked over and picked him up, flying in the direction of the Ox King's house.