“It’s the bunnies!!!!” Goku yelled and ran around in circles “Don’t let them take me! Chi-Chi, please, noooooooooo!!”
“Bunnies?” Vegeta asked. He knew Goku had issues and also knew that his harpy of a wife was to blame for most, if not all of them, but bunnies? Bunnies!!
Now squirrels were another story. Kami knows the little furry tree-climbing rats were evil. Always going about their nut collecting. It was obvious that they were plotting world domination. Dolphins were shifty too.
Vegeta focused again on Goku, shook his head in disbelief, embarrassment, and pity then opened the door to Capsule Corp. and walked in, leaving Goku to wallow in his insanity.
By now Goku was sitting on the ground curled into a ball. His thumb was in his mouth and he was rocking back and forth mumbling, “Find the happy place.”
Vegeta walked through the house and searched for signs of what had happened. The kitchen, living room, and dining rooms were all normal so Vegeta decided to check the basement and if all was right down there, he would check upstairs.
Vegeta opened the basement door and entered it then flicked on the light switch. The room remained black. “That’s odd.” Vegeta thought, “Bulma just replaced the lights.” Vegeta flicked the light off and on a few more times then gave up and stared into the darkness. A few seconds later, his eyes adjusted to the darkness.
Vegeta walked down the steps then observed everything around him. The basement was made up of three rooms. Storage, laundry room, and the room where the backup generator and main power sources were.
Vegeta looked towards the power room and noticed a few sparks. He walked towards it and saw a broken wire that was moving from side to side. Near it was a bucket that was tipped over. The water it had held had spilled all over the floor and stretched out under the power cord and over towards the generator and main power box.
“Damn squirrels.” Vegeta said and observed the mess for a moment longer before he heard a scuffling sound. Turning towards it, Vegeta saw that his 2 year old son was the cause of the noise. His hair was a bit ruffled and Vegeta caught him glancing over towards the power box before looking at him again.
“Shouldn’t you be in your cage brat?” Vegeta asked.
“No.” Trunks responded. It was his favorite word next to why.
Vegeta looked from Trunks to the power box then backed to Trunks again. It was obvious now that he was the reason behind the mess even though Vegeta wasn’t sure how.
“It’s not like I need electricity anyway.” Vegeta commented. He then grabbed Trunks by the back of his shirt and held him a full arms length in front of him, silently longing for a 10-foot pole.
Once upstairs Vegeta walked into the living room and tossed Trunks onto the sofa then reached for the phone with the intent of ordering out , only to realize that it wouldn’t wok just inches from picking it up.
Vegeta’s stomach growled in impatience once again and he turned to Trunks, wondering for a moment what brat stew might taste like.
His hunger induced cannibalistic thoughts were postponed as Goku came walking in the door. His good sense, if you could call it that, had finally returned. In his hand was a small piece of a sandwich. It was the equivalent of a 1-inch sub.
“Oh, there you are Vegeta.” Goku said and put the sub into his mouth. Before he could even close his mouth to chew, Vegeta was on him like a rabid dog. One hand went in his mouth in an attempt to retrieve the sandwich.
“Begmhnh!” Goku mumbled Vegeta’s name while trying to keep the sandwich in his mouth. After a few seconds of the two rolling around Vegeta got the sandwich..
He opened his mouth ready to devour the soggy morsel, but was too slow. Goku caught him off guard and punched him, then stole back his stolen food and ran out of the house through the wall causing several things to fall off of shelves. Vegeta followed him un-relentlessly.
Possession of the sandwich was switched from Goku to Vegeta then Back to Goku again.
Vegeta backed Goku up against a tree, and put both arms up to block him.
“Give me that sandwich Kakkarot.” Vegeta ordered.
“I um..think we killed it.” Goku said and opened his hand to reveal a few crumbs and little bits of lettuce and meat.
“You lie!” Vegeta said and tore of Goku’s shirt, to see if he had hidden it.
“I see...” Vegeta said after he was sure that Goku hadn’t hidden it. “This means that there’s only one thing to do.” Vegeta looked around himself, to make sure than nobody was there, then attacked Goku’s hand...with his mouth. A few quick licks later and Goku’s hand was wet and crumb free.
“Tell anyone about this and I’ll kill you,” Vegeta said. He then turned and started to walk back to Capsule Corp.
“Hey wait Vegeta!” Goku said and jogged up to catch up with him. “If you were that hungry you should have just said so.”
“Who says I’m hungry?” Vegeta asked. In response, Goku held up his spit-covered hand.
“I found that sandwich in one of the buildings. It was some kind of food storage room.” Goku said, before Vegeta could respond. “It’s this way.” At that, he turned to the right and made his way two the storage room followed by Vegeta.
Goku opened the door and Vegeta walked ahead of him. The room looked like it had held a couple months worth of food for a human, but now the food had been reduced to about a week.
“Kakkarot...” Vegeta said slowly
“Oh sorry Vegeta.” Goku said nervously. “I got kind of hungry with all that food, and Chi-Chi was still cooking when I left...”
“Just shut up,” Said Vegeta as he walked around the room, studying what was left. There was cow sweat and snake liver in the fridge. Grape flavored Ice cream in the freezer. Fried cat poop and dried lizard in the pantry and many, many bottles of chicken flavored soda.
Vegeta grimaced in turn as he came to each one. Why they would even be in storage except as some sort of cruel and unusual punishment was beyond him. Even the food that he had licked off of Goku’s hand seemed like a delicacy when compared to the crap in this room.
“Found anything?” Goku asked.
“Nothing remotely desirable.” replied Vegeta. “Thanks to you.”
“You’re welcome.” Goku responded with his trademark grin plastered across his face obviously taking Vegeta’s statement as a compliment.
Vegeta shook his head and wondered for a moment if Goku was extremely stupid, or a genius of sorts then pushed past him to get out of the storage room.
“So do you want me to take Trunks back with me?” asked Goku, getting back to point
“And let your wife mess him up?” Vegeta said, remembering Goku’s bunny scene earlier. “I think not.”
“Hey Chi-Chi’s not that bad. She’s a loving wife and mother.”
“Sure...” Vegeta replied. The two then walked in silence back to Capsule Corp. and along the way Vegeta saw someone leaving Capsule Corp. They had probably had some kind of question for Bulma or Mr. Briefs.
Goku and Vegeta walked in through the new doorway that Goku had so generously created then Vegeta looked at the couch and saw that Trunks was no long there. “Joy.” he thought as he quickly scanned the other rooms on the floor. He and Goku hadn’t been gone long, so Trunks couldn’t have gotten far...at least not by himself.
Vegeta ran out through the wall and looked around till he saw the person who had left Capsule Corp. earlier. He was just getting into a car, and sure enough, in his arms was a struggling Trunks.
Vegeta was at the car in under a second, and the man was on the ground begging for his life in even less time.
“I want straight answers.” Vegeta said as he glared at the man. “If I think you’re lying, you’ll lose something. Maybe a finger; maybe a toe. Catch my drift?”
“Y...yes sir..” stammered the man.
“First question. Lets make this worth your thumb. Why do you want my son?”
“I..it’s my job.” The man said and fumbled in his pocket. After a few seconds he pulled out a business card. And handed it to Vegeta.
“I’m from the I.C.U.P.” The man said. His voice was becoming steady again.
“The I.CU.P?” Not only did the name sound funny, but he had never heard of it before.
“Yes, it stands for the International Coalition of Underage Pornography.”
“Really?” Vegeta said, and lifted the man up so that he was eyelevel with him. He actually had to make him bend a bit, because he was taller.
“Please, please don’t hurt me.” The man pleaded again
“You mean to say that you were about to take my brat to a pornography ring and I don’t even get to show my displeasure?”
“Um..yes..I mean no sir.” The man said.
“Well I think I should have you punished, now what to do hmmn?”
“You know Bulma will be mad if you kill him.” Piped in Goku from the background. “Maybe we should take him to the police.”
“I don’t really care about what the woman thinks. I guess the cops might be happy to have him, but first, my revenge.
(An hour later)
“Is he dead?” asked a horrified voice as they looked down at a man on the floor.
“If he’s not he’s going to wish he was!” Exclaimed another voice
“Yeah. If I had to pay for all that I would die too!” Responded one of the waiters who had come to see what had happened, “Those guys aren’t human.” The waiter was referring To Goku and Vegeta who were busy shoving huge amounts of food down their mouths, and still asking for more.
“They must have eaten at least 1000 dollars worth of food!” someone exclaimed.
“Woah that was good!” Goku said 10 minutes later. Piles upon piles of dishes were in front of him.
“It was ok,” replied Vegeta as he played with a spoon. After a few minutes of thought, he had finally decided that the best punishment would be for the man to pay for their food.
“Grab the brat from the play pen Kakkarot.” Vegeta said as he stood, stretched and picked the unconscious man up from the floor. He searched in his pockets for a few second until he found a credit card and left it on the table.
“Keep the card,” Vegeta said to the waiter “Maybe you can sell the plastic for something.”
Vegeta walked to the door and met up wit Goku and Trunks.
“Are we going to drop him off at the station now?” Goku asked.
“No. We’’ll do it tomorrow. They might be able to answer some questions, but I want to have a spar first. ”
“Fine with me.” Goku responded in a happy voice.
Back at Capsule Corp., Vegeta set Trunks down where he could keep an eye on him, tied the man up to a nearby tree and began to spar with Goku.
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