Fifth Chapter : Danger Has Come, Beware !

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I can feel it in my heart,
I can sense it with my mind,
danger has come, beware !
and not yet for the last time.

By, Chi Chi, taken from her poetry notebook, a fragment of a poem called
"Danger".
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Before Vegita came to the future, in Earth there was a permanent uneasy
feeling among the warriors of the present time, which, for some strange
reason felt something. Here are some words by Goku "Well Bulma, one day I
woke up and felt like something wasn't right. The same feeling I felt right
before each danger that was going to come. Then I spoke to Vegita and he
felt the same. Soon, all the warriors were on the expectation of a good
fight".

By, Bulma Briefs, taken from her book "An attempt to enter the Saiya-jin
culture" chapter 3 page 45.

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Chi Chi is in the kitchen cooking. She has been up since very early. It's
now 3 o'clock and she continues to cook. She has long experience with how
much food the Saiya-jin eat, and she wants that this dinner has enough
food. With five Saiya-jins and sixteen people in total, that's a lot of
food to prepare. She enjoys cooking. She always has. She is humming to
herself when Videl enters the kitchen.

Videl : Chi Chi ! How are you ! ?

Chi Chi : I'm all right, sankyoo.
 
Videl : I've come to help you.
 
Chi Chi : Videl, I...
 
Videl : Spare me the "don't worry, I can do it myself stuff" Goku called me
and told me to come help you, that you had been too long in the kitchen.
 
Chi Chi : Nani ? ! ? ! ? !
 
Videl : He called me asking me to come and help you.
 
Chi Chi : I can't believe it, I..I..I....
 
Videl : Strange, huh, at last he is beginning to use his head.
 
Chi Chi mused to herself. Goku asking Videl to help me ? ! Unbelievable !
That's the sweetest thing he has ever done ! ! !
 
Videl : Chi Chi ? Chi Chi ? Are you listening to me ?
 
Chi Chi : I'm sorry repeat please.
 
Videl : Hahaha, you're blushing. I was saying, how much salt do I add to
this sauce ?
 
 Chi Chi : Just a pinch.
 
Chi Chi is bewildered. She never thought Goku would pay attention to all
the work she is doing, and in his way, he is thanking her. How sweet !

In the past ...
 
Dantreo continues working on the machine.  Hi workload is doubled now that
he had to make two sets of configurations, one for the king and, another,
hidden set for himself. He smiled secretly, knowing cameras were filming
him at all times, he resented the lack of privacy. That was another drop of
water to the already spilling water glass. But at least, he mused, King
Vegita wouldn't have a chance in that future. 

If his calculations are right, there are five Saiya-jins in that world,
infinitely more powerful that him, even one would be able to defeat him
easily, and he could bet anything to whom it would be. In that future, even
a human is as strong as him, if not, even stronger than Vegita. If the
arrogant King could see it, he would die of embarrassment, the human, is
smaller than him, and even didn't train as much ...At last the pieces of
the plan were falling in perfect place ...

In the present ...
 
Everyone except Tenshinhan and Chazu where on the special dinner Chi Chi
and Videl had prepared. Vegita had not come yet ...
 
Chi Chi : Bulma, where's Vegita, I thought he would come with you.
 
Bulma : This morning Vegita went to train somewhere (she said bitterly) and
he said he would be back before dinner. I waited for him, but he didn't
come on time. Trunks, Bra and I came anyway.

Chi Chi : I'm sorry to hear that. Hope he is all right (she said
sympathetically, even it did not matter to her is he was all right or not.)

Bulma :He is all right, he knows how to take care of himself, but, he has
been acting strangely this days ...
 
Chi Chi looked at Goku, thinking the same thing. Goku pretended he didn't
feel she was looking at him and continued shoveling food into his mouth.

After everyone finished eating, the men went to the living room, the women
went to Chi Chi's room. Pan and Bra, unwillingly stayed talking on the
porch and Trunks and Marron went out for a walk, after stern looks from #18
to Krilin ...
 
Goku : I'm worried you guys. Haven't you felt something strange ...

Goten : Something strange ? ? What do you mean.
 
Gohan : Now that you mention it, I have felt some, I don't know, shadow,
some danger lurking.
 
Krilin : Yeah, like something bad will happen.
 
Yamcha : Well, yes, there is something strange in the air.
 
Goten : What should we do ?
 
Krilin : There's only something we can do ....
 
Goku : Yeah (he grinned while he crackled his knuckles) train more.
 
Gohan : But we have to tell Trunks.
 
Krilin : He is taking a walk with Marron.
 
Goten : Yeah, he told me so.
 
Goku : Marron is Trunks' girl ?
 
Krilin looked at him with a murderous look. For a while there was an
embarrassed silence.
 
 Yamcha : Weeeell, I better go... Puar, come here.
 
Yamcha : Konban wa, everyone.
 
Puar : Konban wa !

Yamcha said thanks to Chi Chi and went with Puar to his house in the
forest.

 Meanwhile ...
 
Bulma : Where can that bakayaro be ? I'm here worried sick about him and he
is some place battering up his body, he has been acting so strange
lately...Kuso ! ! ! ! Why do I have to be so upset.
 
Chi Chi : Calm down Bulma, he is Saiya-jin. That word explains all.
 
Bulma : Demo ...
 
Chi Chi : I said calm down.
 
Videl : Bulma, Saiya-jins are strange. In some way they can sense when
danger is coming or something like that.
 
#18 : What ? None of you feel it ?

#18 normally didn't talk much in this "women chitchat and curse their
husbands" conversation. So when she spoke, it was strange, and all turned
their heads to where she was, standing against the wall, arms crossed.
 
Videl : Feel what ?
 
#18 : The danger in the air, the shadows lurking somewhere ...(she said
vaguely)
 
Bulma : You mean to say there's danger coming ?
 
Chi Chi : NANI ? ?
 
#18 : It's like when you are driving down a street and a car pull out in
front of you and you feel the crash before it happens, even when you try
jamming the brakes.
 
Chi Chi : I don't believe it ! Goku knows danger is coming, that's why he
is acting so strange lately, and he doesn't even tell me. I have a right to
know.
 
Bulma : Maybe he doesn't want to alarm you.
 
Chi Chi : Alarm me ? !
 
#18 : Yes Chi Chi, alarm you, and you probably would begin yelling saying
you don't want your sons to fight, but it is their responsibility. They are
strong enough, they and all our husbands, they are the ones that can save
the world. Only them ...

Everyone sat in shock. They didn't know what to make of this. #18 had
talked more passionately that she had ever done in her life. Specially
about a world she had, time ago, tried to destroy ...

In the past ...
 
Dantreo : Your highness, at last all the configurations have been made. The
machine is ready to work.
 
Vegita : Prepare everything, Nappa. Dantreo (disdainfully) I'll depart in
an hour

Nappa. Only you Vegita-sama ? Aren't I going with you ? I want to have fun.
 
Vegita : I'm going alone. If you want to hear what happens, tell Dantreo to
give you the communicator.
 
Nappa : Hai, Vegita-sama, your requests are orders.
 
Some hours later, in the future ...
 
Vegita was sitting down on the ground. He was resting, a luxury he rarely
gave himself. Strangely, his thoughts drifted to Bulma. He frowned, those
humans and their silly feelings, they are all a bunch of weaklings,
pathetic. But, he is living in this planet, with a *human* mate, with
children forever tainted with the human blood. Suddenly, he felt a strange,
but familiar ki. Peculiarly, a hate he hadn't felt in years came with
feeling that ki. Then someone hidden in the shadows said "Vegita". He had
never heard such hate in one single word. "Who are you ?" "Coward,
weakling, you have tainted the Saiya-jin blood forever, you shall pay" That
voice ! It couldn't be ! Totally shocked he heard the stranger's next
words... "You'll pay, traitor, prepare for your death. Consider yourself
honored by being killed by the King and in battle, an honor you shouldn't
have" ...
 
Chi Chi's Journal, 761 days after the last Tenkai-ichi Budoukai :
 
Tonight I served the special dinner that Videl helped me make (I still can
believe that Goku called her to help me) Bulma was totally upset with the
fact that Vegita didn't come. Everyone is acting totally weird. Even #18
gave me a little speech about the responsibilities that my husband and my
sons have because or being so strong. I wish they were normal. Then they
wouldn't have to be saving the world and looking for Dragonballs. Although,
if Goku was normal, I wouldn't have meet him, and even maybe if I had, I
wouldn't be attracted to him .The two year peace has been shattered. I can
just lay hope over hope that the danger that comes will be one that can be
worked out easily.
