Return of the Legion of Terror

Return of The Legion of Terror

Disclaimers: Don\' own nothin\' of this.

Pairings: GkxV, GtxTr, GhxPi

Warnings: Sexual themes and adult language. If you can\'t deal, ditch. BTW, I\'ve been called aty sty sick perverted freak whose stories are stupid, gay (well duh) and not worth reading. And yet look, I\'ve written another yaoi fanfic with lots of homosexuality and violence! So obviously flames don\'t work on me. Of course, I can always use more stuff to ridicule on my website...fools. I have requests for sequels, so obviously I must be half-decent. (And half-dirty!)

One other thing. I started out writing a comedy and it suddenly turned more angsty than humorous. It\'s hard to steer the characters in one direction when they\'re shouting at each other.

Other Info: I kinda played around with their ages. Just go with me on it, \'kay?

~*~*~*~*~*~

The fun house walls muffled the tinny music outside, leaving only the sound of the air conditioner\'s cold blasts rushing through the dark hallways. Black lights made the paint on the walls glow, so that the entire hallway shone with green skeletons and purple bats, along with a few reddish pink swirls that tried to look like blood but looked more like squashed roses.

Wooden planks creaked under his boots as Vegeta wandered through the hall, cursing Kakarrot, Kakarrot\'s brats, his brat, the Namek, the woman, and anyone else he could think of for making him come to the stupid human carnival.

\"It\'s the last day,\" he muttered to himself in a perfect mimic of Goku\'s voice. \"It\'ll be fun. There\'ll be food. There\'s a special show to close it off.\" He kicked a soda can and listened to it crumple against the wall. \"Damn fools...\"

Pausing for a moment, he raised one boot and stared at it, heavy and black with buckles instead of laces. \"And what the hell\'s wrong with my training suit? I hate human clothes.\"

Finished ranting, he walked down the hallway until he couldn\'t stand the creaking floorboards and floated a few inches above the ground, flying around the next corridor. To his growing disgust, he found that the black lights also made the Capsule Corps patch and strings on his jacket light up blue, along with the edges of his jeans pockets.

So caught up in his glowing clothes, he didn\'t notice Piccolo until they bumped into each other. They both backed up a few feet and dropped into fighting stances, growling and standing straight when they realized who the other was.

\"Watch where you\'re going, Saiyan,\" Piccolo said, hands still curled into fists.

\"You blend with theen een skeletons.\" Vegeta crossed his arms and looked away. \"What\'s your excuse?\"

\"You\'re right. I should\'ve noticed an oversized firefly in this place.\"

\"Watch it, Namek.\"

\"You seen Gohan?\" Piccolo asked, ignoring the threat for now. \"He said he was coming in here.\"

\"I passed him on the second floor chasing the brats. If he hasn\'t thrown them through a wall yet.\"

\"Shit.\" Piccolo looked over his shoulder. \"I just came from upstairs. I don\'t think I can find the steps again.\"

The tip of Vegeta\'s hair swept by the Namek\'s throat as the prince floated down the hall. After a few steps he heard Piccolo walking beside him, but he said nothing.

Wood suddenly crashed around him, and he turned just in time to see Piccolo\'s turban spin in the air for a few seconds before falling down to where Piccolo dangled halfway through a hole in the floor. Only his outstretched arms kept him from falling all the way.

\"Dammit, I\'m stuck,\" he said, twisting one way and trying to push himself up.

\"I guess there are advantages to flying through a funhouse,\" Vegeta said through his laughter.

I can\'t believe this, Piccolo thought, his face turning purple. \"I won\'t bother asking for help, you\'ll just blast the hole wider.\"

\"I wouldn\'t do that,\"Vegeta said. \"Gohan would be pissed if I dared touch your hole.\"

\"You rotten little son of a bitch!\" Piccolo squirmed in his tight trap and strained his muscles, craning his neck as if that would help. \"Quit it with the insinuations!\" He threw a punch but only managed to sink a few more inches.

Still hovering a few inches, Vegeta dodged the punch and laughed louder. \"Oh, the urge to kick the shit out of you is almost overwhelming.\"

\"I could say the same.\" Piccolo finally gave up and broke through the boards, disappearing beneath the floor before flying up again. \"Damn Gohan...\"

\"Perhaps he\'ll suffer the whip tonight, hm?\"Vegeta asked. He dodged the next punch and flew back several feet. \"Now now, what would the Great Saiyaman say if you destroyed more of this human freak show?\"

His entire body tense and his ki glowing, Piccolo simply clenched his hands into fists and strode past the prince, who watched him walk away for the few seconds before the Namek found another weak patch in the floor. This time only his foot went in, but the dip made him stumble and fall.

\"Maybe you\'d be better off flying,\" Vegeta said with a smirk, floating past him.

\"Gohan\'ll kill us if we\'re seen flying.\" Piccolo stood up and jerked his foot out, then dug around for his shoe. \"But with the way you\'re glowing, they\'ll just think you\'re part of the show.\"

\"And they wouldn\'t care about a seven-foot tall green alien?\" Vegeta said. \"You fit in here more than I do.\"

Piccolo gave up looking for his shoe and created a new one. Wordlesse roe rose a few inches into the air straight into the glowing blue spider webs on the ceiling. Hissing as Vegeta floated backwards in a laughing fit, he scraped the webs off his antennae and continued down the hall.

\"Trunks, cut it out!\"

\"I\'m not doing it, he is!\"

\"Dammit, both of you are doing it.\"

Rounding the corner, Piccolo and Vegeta found Trunks, Goten and Gohan all tangled up and caught in the fun house\'s rolling tunnel. The three wore regular clothes, not their training outfits, but piled on top of each other like that neither Piccolo nor Vegeta could tell where Trunks\' jacket started and Gohan\'s jeans ended. Piccolo tried to think of something to say, but of course the prince beat him to it.

\"Trunks, Goten, quit it. You\'re making the Namek jealous.\"

Three pairs of eyes focused on Vegeta, or tried to anyway.

The Namek didn\'t waste time with words but swung at Vegeta, who blurred out of sight and reappeared behind him. With a well-placed push, Piccolo went sprawling into the pile.

\"Piccolo, you\'re heavy,\" Goten said.

\"Papa, I can\'t stop,\" Trunks said. \"I\'d fly, but I can\'t tell which way is up.\"

As the pile of four of the strongest fighters in the universe cart wheeled, Vegeta crossed his arms and watched them go round and round...

...until someone bumped into him from behind and he fell between Goten and Piccolo.

\"What the fuck?\"

\"Get off me, Saiyan!\"

\"Goten, you\'re squishing me--\"

\"*gack*\"

\"Vegeta, those boots\'re heavy!\"

\"Who the hell pushed me? I swear, when I get up--\" Vegeta fell on his front and tried to push himself up, but Gohan, Piccolo and Trunks fell on top of him. Goten landed on the pile just in time to topple off and hit the floor as the tunnel rolled, four fighters falling on him. The indignity not to be borne, Vegeta launched into what would have been an anthem of swearing. \"Goddamn son of a fucking bitch li--\"

\"Hi guys,\" Goku said. \"Sorry I bumped you, \'Geta.\"

The five fighteauseaused for a moment before the tunnel tossed them again.

\"Kakarrot,\" Vegeta said as Piccolo rolled over him. \"Figures.\"

Goku scratched the back of his head as he watched them. \"What are you guys doing?\"

\"Dad, help us!\" Gohan yelled, trying to stretch one arm towards his father. \"We\'re stuck.\"

Hands and arms swirled past Goku, who couldn\'t tell one froe ote other, save for Piccolo\'s. He grasped the first one he could and yanked out Trunks, who sat against the wand and caught his breath. Next came Vegeta, who droppedn ton to the floor and swept Goku\'s feet out from under him. He watched Goku land on his back and lay dazed for a moment.

\"Ow...\"

\"Geez, papa, you didn\'t have to drop him like that,\" Trunks said, standing up again. He helped Goten out of the tunnel. \"You okay?\"

\"As soon as you stop spinning.\" Goten leaned against Trunks, settling on his shoulder and sighing as he hugged him back. \"Let\'s never do that again.\"

\"Yeah, that was a bad prank.\" Trunks looked over Goten at Gohan. \"Sorry for jumping ya, Gohan.\"

\"Sorry? You\'re never sorry, you--\" Gohan tried to crawl out, but his legs tangled in Piccolo\'s cape and they both flopped on each other.

\"Don\'t apologize,\" Vegeta told his son, ignoring Goku as he stood up. \"They probably like it.\"

Growling loudPiccPiccolo narrowed his eyes. \"You rotten little--\"

Gohan landed on top of him, his legs straddling his green chest.

\"Woo hoo,\" Trunks yelled, pumping one hand in the air. \"Ride \'em cowboy!\"

\"Trunks, cut that out--er, Piccolo, watch your hands--dad, help us!\"

\"Ewww,\" Goten said. \"An incestuous threesome.\"

\"What?!\"

\"Hands off my mate,\" Vegeta said, fisting one hand in Goku\'s hair.

\"Ow!\"

Finally Gohan and Piccolo rolled out of the tunnel and onto the floor, this time Piccolo on top of Gohan with their noses an inch apart. For a moment, they forget everyone around them and smiled, touching their mouths together. Gohan reached up and stroked Piccolo\'s antennas, while the Namek slid one hand down Gohan\'s ribs, along his waist and hips, down to his--

\"Um, Gohan?\" Goku tried to hide behind Vegeta so he couldn\'t see his son making out with Piccolo. \"Remember where you are?\"

While Gohan and Piccolo blushed bright pink and purple, Vegeta tugged Goku the the hall, careful to float through the tunnel this time. More glowing ghosts and spiders appeared, along with a set of two hallways.

\"How the hell do we get out?\" Vegeta said, looking down each corridor.

\"I dunno,\" Goku said. \"I just wandered down here. They\'re gonna start the show soon, and I didn\'t want you guys to miss it.\"

\"Oh joy,\" Vegeta said, picka haa hall and flying along it.

\"I remember,\" Trunks said as he and Goten zipped by. \"Down this hall, take a left and you\'ll see the light at the end of the tunnel. Race ya there!\"

Vegeta hesitated for a second. The last time he\'d gone down the light at the end of a tunnel, bad things had happened.

\"Come on,\" Goku said, grabbing his mate\'s hand and rushing forward. \"We can\'t let them beat us!\"

His mate\'s yell gave him no time to react as Goku yanked him down the hall past three startled humans, taking him around the corner so fast his body went horizontal. Then daylight blinded him and they were outsjustjust in time to bump into Trunks, who also held an unwilling Goten\'s hand and had to help the younger demi-Saiyan ohe ghe ground.

\"Gee, I guess we lost,\" Goku said. He turned to Vegeta and caught his punch on reflex, seizing his other wrist before he could try again. \"Vegeta, calm down.\"

\"Let me go.\"

\"Calm down first.\"

\"Let. Go.\"

Half a minute passed as they stared at each other, Goku without his usual smile and Vegeta with his usual glare. The prince considered transforming, but Goku wouldn\'t like that and then he\'d have to deal with a sulky mate for the rest of the day and especially the night. He straightened and looked away.

\"Fine.\"

\"Aw...\" Goku grinned and tugged him close enough for a kiss, releasing his hands in favor of holding his waist. \"Love you, too.\"

\"Should they be doing that out here?\" Goten whispered. \"I mean, out in the open and all?\"

\"No one\'ll see. Everyone\'s heading for the show,\" Trunks said. He leaned closer and nuzzled Goten\'s cheek. \"Trust me.\"

Halfway through the kiss, Gohan and Piccolo came out of the fun house blushing even more than previously. When they looked over at Trunks and Goten and found that pair locked in their kiss, they exchanged their own look and shrugged. Piccolo bent down several inches while Gohan stood on the tips of his sneakers so their lips could meet.

\"Aaahhhh--\" d*
d*

The noise caught Goku\'s attention and he broke the kiss, hugging Vegeta when he heard him grumble. \"Krillin?\"

They all saw Krillin on the ground a few feet away just as Yamcha and Tien landed beside him, their faces twisted up and their eyes wide.

\"Goku,\" Yamcha cried, \"what\'s that bastard doing to you?\"

\"Huh?\"

\"You couldn\'t have been kissing him,\" Tien said. \"Tell me you weren\'t.\"

\"You were watching?\" Trunks asked. \"The whole time?\"

Goten gasped. \"Perverts!\"

\"Um, this isn\'t how I wanted you to find out,\" Goku said, scratching the back of his neck. \"I was gonna wait until after the show to break the news.\"

\"What?\" Vegeta said, wriggling in his arms. \"Without telling me?\"

On the ground, Krillin groaned and pushed himself up. \"Man oh man,\" he groaned. \"I musta been hallucinating. Goku and Vegeta, there\'s no way...\" He looked up and saw Vegeta caught in Goku\'s embrace. \"Oh man...no way...no way, man.\"

\"I get it,\" Trunks said. \"The shock must have knocked him out of the sky.\"

Forgotten and ignored on the sidelines, Piccolo made sure that the humans weren\'t watching before grabbing Gohan and flying into the air, leaving the stunned humans behind. \"I\'m not dealing with this right now.\"

\"But Piccolo-san--\"

\"Don\'t you Mr. Piccolo me,\" he said. \"The last thing I need is to get caught up in anything involving an angry ChiChi.\"

\"But Piccolo-san--\"

\"Dammit, kid, Goku\'s my friend but there\'s gonna be hell to pay when Vegeta and ChiChi go at it and I\'m not gonna be there.\"

\"Piccolo-san...\" Gohan dropped his voice a few octaves. \"We\'re all alone now and the show doesn\'t start for another five minutes.\"

\"So?\"

\"So...I brought the whip.\"

The Namek plummeted from the sky and landed behind the House of Mirrors.

Back at the funhouse exit, Krillin, Tien and Yamcha all spoke at once, not allowing the Saiyans or demi-Saiyans any chance to say anything.

\"Goku, you can\'t be gay. I mean, I never saw you check anyone out when we were in locker rooms--oh my God, were you checking me out?\"

Goku shook his head. \"No, Krillin, I--\"

\"We all thought you were just training with Vegeta,\" Yamcha said. \"I mean, you still love ChiChi, right?\"

\"Well, I--\"

\"Oh my God, ChiChi!\" Tien slapped his forehead, avng hng his third eye. \"She\'ll flip. Or maybe she\'ll kill Vegeta. You aren\'t really gay, are you?\"

\"No way,\" Yamcha said. \"That\'s not possible. I\'ll bet Vegeta\'s manipulating him somehow. He\'s just using Goku.\"

Krillin nodded. \"You must be right. Since you and Bulma are back together, Vegeta must be desperate for any action.\"

\"Yeah, the little slut\'s just after your body, Goku,\" Tien said.

While Goten and Trunks gasped, Goku tightened his grip on Vegeta not just out of concern for his mate\'s feelings. Vegeta transformed a split second after Goku, destroying his Capsule Corps jacket, and then Goku transformed again to keep up with him. As his prince\'s sheer fury started to overwhelm him, he peaked at level three and finally clamped down on him. The sheer power emanating from them threw the humans flat on their backs.

\"Kakarrotto ze ikune gado korashtam edd\'me Tien-kette, Krillin-kette, sosoii wero Yamcha ja\'ta chetchette--\" Vegeta cursed, so furious he fell into his first language.

\"You\'d better take off,\" Goku said to his friends. \"He\'s not gonna calm down anytime soon and you don\'t wanna know what he just said about you.\"

\"But Goku--\" Krillin said.

\"Go! He\'ll kill you if he gets loose.\"

The demi-Saiyans took off when the humans did, but flew in a different direction before Krillin could bombard them with questions. They passed over the carnival games and the House of Mirrors just as Gohan and Piccolo finished and collapsed in a tired heap on the grass.

\"Ewww,\" Goten said. \"I didn\'t need to see that.\"

\"The Great Saiyaman conquers all,\" Trunks said with a laugh. \"Come on, let\'s go find some seats before the show starts.\"

\"You still wanna go? You know it\'ll explode when Dad and Vegeta get there.\"

\"I\'ll be shocked if papa doesn\'t kill someone.\" Trunks opened his jacket and revealed his Terror Twin mask and costume. \"So I\'m not gonna miss this for the world!\"

~*~*~*~*~*~

\"Eckoto rana ma\'ze Yamcha ondoshe krukkon nikuu ezodo Tien na Krillin dezo hu\'man kotoka--\"

\"Vegeta, stop it!\" Goku body slammed his mate onto the ground, knocking the wind out of him. A moment later he started cursing again.

\"Kakarrotto-kette hu\'man do ezodo--\"

Wow, he can cuss! A blush sprang up on Goku\'s cheeks and he gave Vegeta a good shake, knocking him out of his cursing streak for a second. \"Listen to me, they\'re gone. Calm down.\"

\"Fucking shit-faced asshole cun--\"

\"Enough.\" Goku knew the language switch signaled Vegeta\'s cooling temper, but his mate still thrashed like a child throwing a tantrum. \"Or do I have to find a lake and cool you off?\"

Chest heaving as he breathed through clenched teeth, Vegeta\'s thrashing stopped but the growling didn\'t. Goku chanced releasing one hand, and when his prince held still he rolled off of him. For a few minutes Vegeta lay still, struggling to get his breathing back under control. When he did sit up, his hands trembled as if he wanted to hit something. Only an inch at a time did Goku scoot close enough to gently stroke his mate\'s hair.

\"Are you okay?\"

\"I hate you,\" Vegeta whispered. \"They called me...called me...and you didn\'t stop them. You should have killed them but you wouldn\'t even let me do it.\"

\"They\'re just reacting the only way they know how. You can\'t kill them for that.\"

\"Can I say it\'s the only way I know how to react?\" Vegeta closed his eyes, letting the mounting tension headache dissipate. \"It\'d shut them up at least.\"

\"Killing won\'t solve anything,\" Goku said.

\"Not here, anyway. Death is the least permanent thing on this planet.\"

\"You say that like it\'s a bad thing.\" Goku slipped his hand into Vegeta\'s, smiling as his mate returned the grip.

\"Well...not always.\" He sighed and let Goku pull him against his chest. \"Don\'t tell me you still want to go to whatever ridiculous show the humans are planning.\"

\"We have to go. If we don\'t, they\'ll think we\'re hiding from them.\" He stood up and pulled Vegeta up with him. \"Come on. Just let me explain things to them. I\'m sure they\'ll be more accepting when they understand how much I love you.\"

\"More like they\'ll yell at you and try to kill me.\" Vegeta shrugged and started walking, arms crossed. \"Fine. Let\'s get it over with then.\"

Goku caught up and put one arm around his mate\'s shoulders. \"How about ice cream afterwards?\"

\"Hn.\"

\"Chocolate?\"

\"You\'re just trying to bribe me.\"

\"Is it working?\"

\"...maybe.\"

~*~*~*~*~*~

Neither in a rush to arrive, Goku and Vegeta walked side by side past the games of chance and the large sundial in the center of the carnival, joining up with Gohan and Piccolo by the House of Mirrors.

\"Your shirt\'s buttoned wrong,\" Vegeta said.

A pink flush colored Gohan\'s face as he redid his buttons.

No one said a word more until they arrived at a grassy field surrounded by stands filled with humans.

\"I think it\'s full,\" Gohan said. \"Are there any seats left?\"

\"Oh well, too bad,\" Piccolo said.

\"Yes, we might as well leave,\" Vegeta said, nodding.

As they turned to go, they both heard Goten\'s voice clear across the human cheering. \"Hey, guys, we\'re over here! And we got some good seats!\"

While the two Sons grinned identical goofy smiles, Piccolo and Vegeta both scowled and grumbled at once. \"Great.\"

Spotting the demi-Saiyans on top of a high wall in the corner, they first walked around the bleachers so no one would spot their flight. While they sat down, Goten scooted over and sat on Trunks\' lap, sighing when his mate put one arm around him. Beside them sat Piccolo and Gohan, finished off by Vegeta and Goku.

On the field, the announcer they usually saw at the tournament walked out and tapped his microphone. \"Ladies and gentlemen,\" he started, \"welcome to the Carnival Spintacular Grand Finale! There will be fireworks and explosions following a special re-enactment of the battle against Cell, featuring our city\'s champion, Mr. Satan!\"

As the crowd cheered, the fighters on the wall groaned.

\"There\'d better be a lot of ice cream,\" Vegeta said, looking sideways at Goku, who grinned and waved his hands.

\"There will be.\"

\"Hn.\"

\"I swear. Lots and lots of--\"

\"There they are!\"

The six of them looked to their left as a small mob approached. Led by ChiChi, Tien and Chaotzu walked to her right while Krillin and Roshi walked to her left. Yamcha straggled behind listening as Bulma spoke quickly, her hands whirling in the air as she explained something to him.

On the field, the announcer stood back as a rubber suit Cell walked out and struck a few poses. \"Intent on blood and carnage, the evil monster arrives and immediately begins the assault.\"

\"Goku,\" ChiChi called up to him. \"Tell me what I just heard isn\'t true!\"

\"Um, what did you hear?\" Goku asked.

\"Uh oh,\" Piccolo whispered. \"Here it comes.\"

\"That you were kissing Vegeta!\" She stomped her foot and waved a fist at him. \"Well, were you?\"

\"Don\'t deny it,\" Tien said. \"I know what I saw. He practically had his tongue down your throat.\"

Goku felt his mate\'s ki spike and he put his arm around him. \"Don\'t hurt them,\" he whispered. \"Please.\"

\"I swear you ask the impossible,\" Vegeta said, his eyes closed.

Unable to hear their conversation, the humans took Goku\'s move as sometime entirely different.

\"Geez, quit flaunting it, willya,\" Roshi said. \"Hugging him in front of your wife, no less.\"

\"It can\'t be his fault,\" Krillin said. \"Vegeta must be using some kind of mind control. No one\'d want him otherwise.\"

Vegeta hissed.

\"He\'s an animal,\" ChiChi said as she nodded. \"Goku, Gohan, get away from--Gohan?\"

\"Um, hi mom,\" Gohan said, managing a tiny wave.

The seven-foot Namek tried to hide behind Gohan.

\"Gohan, what are you doing with Piccolo?\" She narrowed her eyes and looked back and forth between Goku and Gohan. \"Oh my God,\" she cried, stumbling backward. \"Gohan...not you, too!\"

Confused by her outcry, the humans looked at the two pairs and spotted the similarities between their postures. Gohan sat so close to Pio tho that another inch would have had him on the Namek\'s lap. A look a little farther down showed Goten actually on Trunks\' lap, his head on his mate\'s shoulder as he nuzzled the long purple hair.

\"Oh my God,\" she whispered. \"He\'s corrupted all of them.\"

\"I thought it was my evilin win washing,\" Vegeta said. \"Not that there\'s much to work with in this group.\"

\"Hey!\" five voices chorused.

\"Goddamn slut,\" Tien said. \"Probably misses what he got from Frieza.\"

A second later a golden Goku and Gohan each held one of Vegeta\'s arms and held the level two Super Saiyan between them, planting their feet firmly on the wall and leaning backward. Vegeta howled and managed a step, dragging the Sons with him.

\"Piccolo!\" Gohan yelled. \"Help--\"

Before he could finish, Piccolo grabbed Vegeta\'s waist and pulled back. Sadly he pulled back too hard and they all went sprawling behind the wall that crumbled after them.

\"Massive damage and terror,\" the announcer on the field screamed, trying to be heard over the small explosions set around the Cell look-alike. \"A few fighters come out of the woodwork to challenge his awesome might!\"

\"Let me go!\" Vegeta screamed, sandwiched on the ground between Goku and Gohan. \"I\'ll rip out his eyes and shove them--\"

\"They just don\'t understand,\" Goku said. He grabbed Vegeta\'s wrists and held them. \"Killing them won\'t solve anything.\"

\"Stop repeating yourself, dammit!\"

\"What\'s to understand about a cheating husband?\" ChiChi shrieked. \"What, you bang the first Saiyan you see?\"

Sprawled dazed under Goten and Trunks and a wallful of bricks, Piccolo groaned and raised a hand. \"Um, no, he didn\'t.\"

\"ChiChi,\" Bulma said. \"Calm down. Yelling won\'t change anything. This is just the way they are. They\'re Saiyan.\"

\"You!\" ChiChi turned on Bulma, scaring the genius into hiding behind Yamcha. \"You couldn\'t keep your little monster on a leash, so he tears my family apart. He\'s stealing my husband!\"

\"Leave my mom out of this,\" Trunks said, looking exactly like his father for a moment.

\"Stupid bitch,\" Vegeta said. As he spoke, his words turned more into hisses. \"An unsuspecting husband you had to trick into marriage.\"

\"Bastard!\" she screamed. \"Whore! Corrupting my husband and my children. You and Trunks are evil, worthless sluts. Fucking like animals!\"

A ki flare caught their attention and the humans looked at Goten, now golden and barely restrained by Trunks. Piccolo sat up and wrapped his arms around the demi-Saiyan\'s legs.

\"They\'re not evil,\" Goten said. \"How dare you say that about them.\"

\"How can you defend them?\" ChiChi asked. \"Vegeta\'s nothing but a monster, he\'ll never change. A worthless, evil slut and his son\'s no better--\"

\"Stop it!\" Goten rose his ki to its limit, kicking out of Piccolo\'s grasp and nearly breaking his lover\'s hold.

\"Goten, power down,\" Trunks said. \"You can\'t kill your own mother.\"

\"But she--\"

\"Power down, dammit.\"

Forgotten on the ground, Vegeta abruptly stopped struggling. Goku and Gohan didn\'t let go, but they did relax and catch their breath. To their surprise, the prince\'s hair turned black against as he dropped out of Super Saiyan. He closed his eyes, relaxed his muscles and breathed deep.

\"\'Geta?\" Goku whispered.

No answer. Gohan pushed himself up and off of his father, watching him sit up with his prince in his arms. \"Is he awake?\"

\"\'Geta? Are you all right?\"

Vegeta\'s eyes snapped open and turned blue, startling Goku so much he let go. Vegeta jumped to his feet, his ki still flying upwards, and raised one hand towards Tien.

All of the humans screamed and scattered, but Tien stared in shock at the open hand glowing brighter and brighter. He tried to step back but ended up flat on his ass, his jaw dropping just before he screamed.

\"Big bang--\"

\"Gohan--\"

\"I got him!\" Gohan grabbed Vegeta\'s arm and pulled as hard as he could.

\"--attack!\"

The ball of ki whistled as it sailed through the sky, exploding high over the field to the cheers of the audience. Cheers turned to isolated screeches as a few charpigepigeons and sparrows landed on a few people\'s laps.

Without the time to charge up an attack, Vegeta used smaller ki bursts, aiming at whatever came into his range. Gohan tried to pull him down again but had to settle for hindering his aim. A moment later he found himself on the ground with a bloody lip.

\"Damn,\" he said. \"Forgot about his other hand.\" Someone behind him picked him up, and he looked back. \"You too?\"

Piccolo wiped some blood from above his eyes. \"Your brother\'s got a mean kick.\"

\"Finally,\" Vegeta said, narrowing his eyes at Tien. He raised his hand.

\"No!\" Goku flew in front of Tien and faced his lover. \"I won\'t let you.\"

Tears welled up in his eyes, but Vegeta blinked them back. \"But you\'ll let them--\"

\"Guess I hit mar mark about Freiza,\" Tien said. \"What\'sa matter, Vegeta, didn\'t like it when the little lizard had you?\"

\"Tien,\" Goku said over his shoulder, \"shut up.\"

\"Kakarrot,\" Vegeta said. \"Move.\"

\"Or maybe...you were pretty weak then,\" Tien said. \"Maybe--\"

\"Tien, stop it--\"

\"Kakarrot, get out of the fucking way!\"

\"He\'s not worth it,\" Goku said. \"You\'ve changed. Your heart is good now. I won\'t let you throw that away.\"

\"Just one dead body,\" Vegeta said. \"What the hell would one more dead body mean?\"

\"Everything.\" Goku took a step forward, pausing when Vegeta ped ped back. Taking a deep breath, Goku moved close enough to lay his hand on his lover\'s cheek. \"I love you. And killing any of them would hurt you far more than it could ever hurt them.\"

Neither of them noticed the screams or curses thrown back and forth between the two sides. Goku stared into Vegeta\'s eyes until the smaller Saiyan turned away.

\"Not fair,\" Vegeta whispered.

\"I\'m sorry.\"

\"I should pound you into the dirt.\"

Goku said nothing.

\"Hey, Vegeta,\" Tien started one more time. \"Which one was better, Goku or Freiza?\"

A ki bolt landed solidly in his chest, shooting him squawking across the ground and into a booth full of fuzzy animals. Goku looked past Vegeta at their sons.

\"GotenTrunTrunks yelled.

\"Well, he deserved it,\" the younger demi-Saiyan said.

\"Not fair at all.\"

Hearing his mate\'s whisper, Goku looked down just as Vegeta\'s form blurred and disappeared. He breathed out and closed his eyes. Even without seeing his mate\'s face, he could feel his tears.

\"About time he left,\" ChiChi said. \"Goku, we\'re going home. Now.\" She faced her sons and growled at their lovers. \"Get your hands off my sons.\"

None of them moved.

\"Didn\'t you hear me? Let go of them.\"

His eyes wide and locked on his mother, Gohan pressed himself against Piccolo\'s chest. \"No.\"

Master Roshi stepped forward and tapped his cane on one of the broken bricks around them. \"Now you listen to your mother, Gohan. I\'ve known you since you were a child, and this isn\'t like you.\"

\"You don\'t know anything,\" Gohan said, his voice starting to shake. \"This is everything like me.\" He felt Piccolo\'s hands settle on his shoulders and gently squeeze.

\"Gohan,\" his mother said, her voice low and her hands clenched into fists at her side. \"Get over here.\"

\"No.\"

\"Dammit, don\'t you disobey me. You\'re not Saiyan, you\'re human, and you better start acting like it. No more training, no more fighting, both of you. You\'re coming home and acting like humans, and I\'m never letting you see Piccolo, Trunks,\" she wheeled to face her husband, \"or Vegeta, ever again.\"

Sounds of the fake battle between the actors in the field echoed through the stands, the cheers of the audience the only thing any of them heard for several seconds. Piccolo and Gohan s sti still, both of them staring at ChiChi. Goku tried to come up with a good response, but this type of battle was something alien to him. The humans all waited for the Sons to move towards ChiChi.

\"Go to hell.\"

Krillin and Roshi gasped. Even ChiChi\'s jaw dropped. \"Goten?\"

\"You\'re just full of surprises today,\" Trunks muttered.

\"I\'m not leaving Trunks,\" Goten said. \"And none of you can make me.\"

\"But Goten--\"

\"He\'s right,\" Gohan said. He put his arm around Piccolo\'s waist and faced his mother. \"I\'m half human, but I\'m half Saiyan, too, and I\'m not going to ignore that part of me anymore. I\'m sick of trying to be something I\'m not.\"

\"But Gohan--\"

\"The kid\'s not the one cheating on you,\" Piccolo suddenly said. \"So what\'s got your panties in a bunch?\"

Gohan\'s jaw dropped.

ChiChi squared her shoulders as if preparing for a fight. \"What you\'re doing is wrong. You\'re not the same species, you can\'t even hchilchildren.\"

Keeping his eye on ChiChi, Piccolo bent down to Gohan\'s level. \"You never told her?\"

\"How could I?\" Gohan asked. \"I\'d of had to say how I found out, and can you imagine where that would have gone?\"

\"He\'s right,\"Goku said. \"Hate me all you want, but this is their decision. Neither of us can take that away from them.\"

\"Oh no,\" she said. \"You do not get to be the good parent in this.\"

\"But he has been,\" Gohan said. \"Right, Goten? Goten?\"

They all looked around, but the demi-Saiyans were gone.

\"Mm. Seems to be the thing to do,\" Piccolo said. \"Gohan?\"

\"Yeah,\" he said, nodding. \"Let\'s go.\"

\"Gohan,\" ChiChi said, taking a step forward. \"Gohan, don\'t you dare leave. Gohan!\" She watched the two fly into the air and disappear over the booth where Chaotzu still tried to wake Tien. She looked back at her husband. \"Goku, this is all your fault.\"

\"I\'m sorry, ChiChi.\" He closed his eyes and lowered his head. \"I never meant to hurt you.\"

\"You really are an idiot.\" She turned her back and folded her arms. \"Go. I don\'t ever want to see you again.\"

His shoulders drooping, he rose off the ground and left. ChiChi turned around, her mouth open to say something else, and for a moment nothing came out. \"That jerk,\" she said after a few stutters. \"He really left!\"

TBC...