Mostly scraps I haven't posted elsewhere

"I love you Madara."

“I- I can't, don’t make me say it back."

"Oh, I just, I thought-"

"Shut up. Just because I can't say it doesn't mean I don't feel it."

"Oh! Okay! But would you wear my necklace? So long as you wear it I'll know you feel the same and you won't have to say anything."

"Just so long as you don't get all depressed on me."

Madara's face shifted to a soft smile as Hashirama reached behind his neck to fasten the necklace.

Madara faced Hashirama with a grim look. His hand was thrust out to him, fist closed around a gift Hashirama never wanted back.

"You're not wearing it."

The words broke the heavy silence. Hashirama motioned his retinue away. This would be bloody.

"How observant. Take it back."

Madara loosened his grip so the pendant could dangle between them. The fading light of sunset caught and shown through the aquamarine gems.

"I don't want to."

Despite his words, his own shaky hand reached up from his side to hover beneath the necklace, not able to make the final move to take it back.

"Madara, please-"

Madara let go of the leather strap, forcing Hashirama to catch it.

"I love you, Hashirama."

They jumped apart and spoke no more for the next three days of non-stop combat. Exhausted, Hashirama finally delivered the final blow. Close, so terribly close, Hashirama whispered into Madara's hair.

Most wouldn't think it, but baring world ending catastrophes Capsule Corp was a generally peaceful place. Sure there was the occasional explosion, but they were contained to the labs (if it was Bulma's doing) or the Gravity Room (if it was Vegeta's doing). It took Vegeta many years to grow to appreciate the constant peace Capsule Corp had and very recently he even started secretly reveling in it. After long days he'd take solace in the sunset. It was the only time the sky reminded him of his home planet. Angry reds and oranges painted across the sky, not a hint of anything else, anything human.

Vegeta had long since memorized the night sky over Capsule Corp. After most sunsets he'd find a high rooftop and gaze at the stars, far above anyone else who could interrupt his serenity. He watched the months turn constellations around and back again, some he learned the names and shapes of from the inhabitants of Earth and others he made up on his own. He'd found the dark spot where planet Vegeta's twin stars should have been and decided the ring of stars around it was a crown in honor of his race and his family.

On these quiet nights he'd muse on how his life could have been different. The first fantasy he'd usually visit was deciding how his life would have gone without Freeza. He'd of course be crowned king of the Saiyan race, ruling over his people like he was born to. He'd find himself a wife or have one given to him based on merit and status. They'd have two sons, the first one of course being named after himself and all his paternal ancestors since they first came to their planet. He'd spend his days holding court and war council (one measly planet for the might and pride of the Saiyan race? No, there would be many campaigns in the name of expansion and power). He'd never make it out to Earth, likely never even hear of it or of it's Dragon Balls or Cell or Majin Buu. He likely wouldn't have even heard of Kakarot unless he did something outrageous (a bitter voice in the back of his mind suggested he'd still become the first Super Saiyan). He visits this thought a lot, tweaking it from time to time. After Bulla was born he wondered about having a princess in that life. That never changed anything, as a king his children had little to no affect on his life except training his son to be the next king. Thinking about having neither his children nor his rival left a bitter taste in his mouth and he quickly moved on.

From there it would vary what he thought about. If he had beaten Kakarot the first time they fought everyone on Earth would be dead, there'd be no Dragon Balls, Earth would fade as a distant memory and he'd still be a slave to Freeza. Any time Vegeta found a scenario Freeza lived his scowl would deepen and he'd drop that train of  thought quickly.

The moon rose high in the sky. A full moon, not that it had much sway on the prince anymore.

When all other musings left him he thought of Kakarot. Ever unreachable, unattainable Kakarot. A walking, talking, fighting, living contradiction. He had no memories of being a Saiyan but all the instincts. All of the strength but none of the pride. Vegeta had hated him for a long time, but anymore he grudgingly respected him. He even… maybe, maybe not. His feeling about Kakarot were complicated, he refused to put anything to words before he was certain.

The moon bathed him in its cool gentle light.

"I love him."

It didn't quiet taste right but he couldn't say it tasted wrong either.

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It was always quiet when Goku woke up. The only sound he could hear was the soft breathing of Chichi sleeping beside him. He gently got out of bed and put on his usual gi in total darkness. He loved getting up before the sunrise to watch the world gain its vibrant colors and listen to it wake up.

Once he was outside he started moving through simple stances working his way toward more complex routines. He liked the pattern of it all, something he could lose his body in while he took the quiet time to think.

In his head he fought previous battles, wondering if there could have been a way for a better outcome. He still hasn't forgiven himself for a single time he lost a friend and tries to find a way that he could have saved them all from ever dying. He wonders if there could have been a way to talk Raditz down, if they could have found peace long enough for him to know his brother. Maybe having one more person at his side might have stopped any of the death he'd brought with him to his adopted home. He wondered what roles Grandpa Gohan would have played in his life. If Gohan, his son, would have liked the man his was named after.

Goku's movements quickened as he warmed up.

What if he hadn't trained Gohan to take on Cell? He and Vegeta could have probably trained together to get strong enough and with Trunks there too? No question. Hell, he could probably still have trained with Gohan, just taken things seriously with Cell from the beginning. He would have fought more strategically, conserved his energy, maybe even ascended to Super Saiyan 2. (He could have taken advantage of the tournament set up, sending his friends to wear Cell down until he could finish him off (or honestly anyone who could take him out, just doing it right from the beginning.)) He could have at least tried harder, or not given Cell a damn senzu bean.

The crack of a tree being snapped brought him back to the world around him. The sun was finally peeking out from the horizon. Birds squawked and fled the area. He shook his head and moved back to the center of his little clearing. Maybe thinking about things he regretted wasn't the best way to start the day, for himself or his surroundings.

How would things be different if he didn't lose his memories? The planet would be devastated but what then? Would his pod still work or would it have been broken by a raging Oozaru? If it did work would it take him back to the rubble of planet Vegeta? What would happen then? Would there still be patrols looking for survivors to kill or take back to Freeza. Would he have met Vegeta? How would things have changed if he was what Vegeta wanted him to be? They wouldn't be friends like they were now, probably just king and peasant like Vegeta always says he wants.

Without a thought Goku flared up to Super Saiyan. He opened his eyes and looked around. It was full light now,  maybe 6 or 7 in the morning. Chichi would probably being finishing up breakfast soon and tapping her foot waiting for him. He let go of Super Saiyan, not really sure why the thought of Vegeta and him not being close made him ascend.

A small voice in the back of his mind knew. It whispered to him during fights and talked like Vegeta did. It preened itself in his power and scoffed at his softer moments. It knew what he wanted and had no problem reminding him. Just for a second he let it loose.

"I love him." Goku admitted to the empty morning.

He wasn't sure if it was himself or the voice that spoke out loud but either way he couldn't disagree.

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@kakavegeweek

Let's see, in the last year I started this blog to post WIPs and some completed stuff. I've participated in at least one fandom week (maybe 2? I don't remember now). I also have set aside a minimum of 2 hours a week just for writing so I've been able to progress a little on a lot of different things I've been writing

Raditz couldn't believe it. She had spent her life slaving away for her Prince, hoping for the day they'd be free and that maybe he'd view her as more than weak and useless. Instead she found herself dead and abandoned by her only comrades in a line with her stupid brother in front of some building built on top of clouds. This was not the warriors paradise she was promised.

"Damn it! This wasn't supposed to happen this way! None of this! I can't-" Raditz cut herself off with a wordless yell of frustration. Kakarot didn't even remember her, he didn't remember anything. It was all his fault. If he'd just done what he was supposed to she could have picked him up, they could have gone back and maybe her Prince would've finally thought more of her. But no, mister fucking brain damage had to help the Namekian kill her.

"I'm sorry?" He sounded genuine but conflicted. "You threatened my son and my friends though, I did what I had to do to protect them. If it means anything to you, I didn't want to kill you, it was my last option."

"Considering that we're standing in a line with halos over our heads awaiting our final judgment or whatever, no it doesn't mean much to me Kakarot." She turned around to face forward, the line had moved slightly but it seemed it would take a while before they made it to the building.

"I prefer to go by Goku, Raditz."

"I prefer having my last living relative remember that they're my species and my brother, but I guess we can't always get what we want, Kakarot."

"If I was the only one left, then technically my son is your only living relative."

"I swear by the Goddess, the Moon and anything you find holy that I will find a way to make you more dead than we already are." Raditz growled. Maybe she was already in Hell, stuck in an endless line with her traitor brother.

"Why are you so angry? I mean sure, we're dead, but even before then you were really on edge."

Raditz turned again to look at her younger brother and crossed her arms. "Look, I had one mission, one simple mission: bring you back to the other two living Saiyans. I was trusted with this mission since you're my brother and we all figured you'd want to get off a long dead planet ASAP, but I arrive and that's not the case. Instead there's millions of power levels. Sure, they’re all super low, but still significantly more than a cleared planet should have. So I thought maybe the power difference went to your head and you wanted to play at king or something with the inhabitants – it's been known to happen if we don't pick up the children we send out. Anyway, I figured I'd show up to wherever you had your kingdom situated and I'd either challenge you, win and force you to go with me or you'd just follow me from the beginning because you trust your older sister to know what's best and then we'd leave. None and I mean none of the multitude of scenarios I thought of could have prepared me for what I saw. I found a man that looked exactly like my father playing with a child who had a Saiyan tail mingling with people he should have killed over a decade previous. I thought maybe you spared them after you figured out you could crossbreed with them or maybe you found a small group that were useful to you in someway and were just waiting for the right time to take the rest out. But when I made myself known and you treated me as a stranger. That's when I knew I lost you. I hoped that maybe I could remind you, help you become what you should have been, but even without any memories your instincts are still the same as mine."

"What instinct is that?" [apprehensive, he doesn’t want to have anything in common with her, at least nothing bad]

"If it's yours, you protect it with everything you have. Your pride, your planet, your family, your life: if it's yours, you fight tooth and nail for it, you fight 'til you're dead or the person trying to take it is dead, 'cause that's the only way you keep anything in life. You defended what was yours from a marauding enemy, you followed Saiyan instinct to a T."

"If you hadn't attacked-"

"I'm sure we wouldn't be in this situation but Prince Vegeta sent a warrior, not a diplomat. This is what happened. Besides, there's no point in what ifs now, we're dead and that's not changing. Enjoy your borrowed time if you do get 'wished' back with those Dragon Balls you mentioned before Kakarot. Vegeta and Nappa will just kill you again. There's no way you and your Earth friends can beat them, Nappa's three times stronger than me and Vegeta's five times stronger than that. You might as well just stay here and plan a welcoming party for your friends and family."

"You could help us. When we go back we can train and you know how they fight so we can come up with a strategy."

"Kakarot, you were born with a power level of five and while yes you've improved, you're still just a third class like me. What could we do against Elites? Dying once was enough for me, thanks."

"If you go into a battle thinking you've already lost you'll be right."

"Of course I'll be right, I've never beaten Nappa in a spar and according to Vegeta it's a waste of time to do anything but beat me near to death and hope the Zenkai boost was worth it. If I'm that weak compared to them how do you think the rest of you will fare considering the only way you killed me was to sacrifice the literal strongest person on the planet to hold me in place to make sure I took a mortal blow? Mind you, the literal strongest that is still a fraction of my strength."

"I thought you wanted to find your family on Earth."

"My family died on Planet Vegeta. You're just a mistake living in my brother's body."

"Just because I don't remember being your brother it doesn't mean that I can't learn to be. The only family I ever had before my wife and son was my adopted grandpa, I want to know what having a sister is like." By now they had made their way inside the building. Behind a massive desk sat an even bigger red man with a plaque that read "King Yemma". Around the foot of the desk the red man's attendants skittered about, leading other souls though various doors that lined the room. The large red demon yelled.

"NEXT." Raditz, seeing that she was at the front of the line finally, stepped forward. One of the blue attendants spoke next.

"State your name and race."

"Raditz, daughter of Bardock, Saiyan."

The demon flipped through a book on his desk. "Let's see, a Saiyan, not too many of those kicking around anymore. Ah yes, Raditz." King Yemma let out a low whistle. "You have killed an awful lot of people. Entire planets worth of people. You showed some remorse at first, but by the end it was little more than sport to you. No acts of notable good to balance your scale. I sentence you to repent in Hell until a time that you've calmed down enough to go through the Soul Cleansing Machine."

"I'm dead and it’s still all the fucking same. Death is supposed to be the great equalizer but I guess that's just the ignorant hopes of the weak. Send me on down to my final resting place or whatever, I'm ready."

"Wait!"

"Kakarot!-"

"Who speaks out to King Yemma? State your name and race."

"Uhh, Kakarot, son of Bardock, Saiyan, I guess. Maybe Son Goku? I'm from Earth and-"

"Ahh yes, a memory loss case. Why do you interrupt my sentencing?"

"Well, uh, I want to get stronger. My friends are going to wish me back to life and-"

"Why did you feel the need to interrupt my sentencing?"

"Let me take Raditz with me to train. If I can't convince my friends to wish her back with me then she can fulfill her sentence after I get wished back."

"Why do you believe she can help you?"

"Currently she is stronger than me and is a goal to reach, once I match her in strength she'll be an ideal sparing partner throughout our training. There's also a threat coming to my planet, one she knows very well, in addition to helping me train and get stronger I believe she can help us come up with a plan to beat them."

"I too would make a request of you, King Yemma." Raditz jumped and turned around to see a wrinkled, old Namekian, oddly reminiscent of the Namekian that killed her and Kakarot.

"Ah yes, Kami, Guardian of Earth, what would you like since everyone's asking for favors?"

"I want the spirit known as Son Goku to have his body returned to him and be allowed to train with King Kai."

"But what about the Saiyans? I need to get back to Earth."

"Your friends will wish you back before the threat arrives. There's no one on Earth that can train you anymore Goku, but King Kai's training is legendary."

"Can Raditz come with me? She could be very helpful against the Saiyans."

"Her comrades? Why would she fight with you against them?"

"They left me for dead, I say fuck 'em."

"If you trust her then I suppose. It's up to you to convince your friends to wish her back. In that case, King Yemma, I ask that both Son Goku and Raditz have their bodies given to them and be allowed to train with King Kai."

Raditz: "Can you kiss me? One last time? That's all I ask."

Vegeta: "Why last? I've been enjoying myself, am I somehow unsatisfactory to you?"

Raditz: "Not at all, it's been very enjoyable for me as well, I just... Permission to speak freely?"

Vegeta: "Granted."

Raditz: "I have this feeling I can't shake. Like something is going to change when I leave on this mission. Don't get me wrong, I want more Saiyans as much as you do, but something's telling me that things would be better if we didn't pick up my brother."

Vegeta: "But having another Saiyan, regardless of strength, would be immeasurably useful for our missions."

Raditz: "I know. I'm still going to do the mission as you've asked. Just one last kiss before I leave and when I return you can chastise me about my excessive paranoia."

Vegeta: "I'll chastise you as I like and see fit, but you are going to be gone from my side too long for me to go without something to remember you by."

Raditz: "Goodbye my prince."

Vegeta: "Return swiftly."

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"Can you kiss me? One last time? That's all I ask." It hurt the prince to echo those words from so long ago. He wished more than anything that he had a better memory of his first love, but at the time he didn't care for love, he cared about satisfaction and survival. Vegeta didn't even remember his love's dying moments for what they were, he was too focused on the prospect of limitless power.

Goku: "One last time? If that's what you want." Their lips met, heavy with words they wanted to say.

Vegeta: "Oh, I never want to stop doing that."

Goku: "Then why did you say one last time?"

Vegeta: "Because I know you and you're getting restless and there's no way to know when you're coming back. I can't live on bated breath like that. You want to leave, I don't, so we have to end this, end... Us."

Goku: "But I don't want to lose you."

Vegeta: "I don't want to lose you either, you've already left me too many times, but I can't leave like you can. At one point I would have welcomed the idea of getting off this shitty planet with open arms and exuberance, but it's all I have and I can't bare the thought of leaving my home again."

Goku: "What if I promised to come back within a year? Would you wait that long?"

Vegeta: "I swore to my father I'd return in a fortnight."

Goku: "And...?"

Vegeta: "The planet was destroyed less than a week after I left on my mission. My point is it doesn't matter what you promise me or what your intentions are, the universe has it's own schedule and it bends for no man, not even its strongest. Your ship will get irrevocably damaged or you'll find some technique that you need just a little bit more time to learn or you'll find some sad pathetic planet that you'll feel obligated to save or maybe you'll just like it better out there than here. Regardless if it happens this time you leave or ten times from now, there will be a time that you leave me and don't come back."

Goku: "But I love you."

Vegeta: "I know. But I can't change for you and I refuse to have you change for me. It's better this way. If you ever come back to stay then by all means, we can pick up where we left off, but for now you should just leave and do what you want because in the end that's what you'll do anyway."

Goku: "But I love you."

Vegeta: "Love isn't enough. It's a good motivator to try to get into a relationship and it'll keep you together for the first couple of fights, but it won't last forever. There comes a day that you have to decide to put effort into the relationship. You put the relationship before your wants and I know that you're not ready to do that."

Goku: "What do you mean I'm not ready?"

Vegeta: "The fact that we're having this conversation for one. You'd rather go out into space than stay here with me, therefore you want whatever going out to space will get you more than staying here with me. Don't worry, between me and the terrors, we'll do our damnedest to keep this place in one piece for you to return to."

Goku: "One last time then, my prince?"

Broly: "What if it doesn't work?"

Raditz: "Then we just don't consummate any of the bonds."

Turles: "Wait, I never get to have sex with either of you again?"

Raditz: "No Turles, just until the marks fade. If we don't consummate, the marks don't scar, and there's no bond."

Turles: "how long will that take?"

Raditz: "Like a week or something."

Turles: "No sex for a week?"

Raditz: "Lady Moon, we go out on missions longer than that all the time."

Turles: "But those are missions, I'm not even on the same planet as either of you so of course we can't have sex."

Broly: "I still can't believe we're the first three that wanted to group bond like this."

Raditz: "My dad wanted to bring Toma into his thing with mom, but after she died in the attack he just mated Toma. Maybe they always died before they could try."

Turles: "Well, I don’t plan on losing either of you so let's get this show on the road and hope it works."

Raditz: "And if it doesn't-"

Broly: "I swear to Goddess if you were going to finish that sentence with 'the two of you could bond' I'll knock you out cold."

Raditz: "All I'm saying is at least two of us deserve to be mated and if I'm the odd one out then I'm the odd one out."

Turles: "No. We are together in a relationship. All of us are mated to each other or none of us are mated to each other."

Raditz: "But the benefits-"

Broly: "We already have a squad bond so we just need to open that a bit more and it's basically a mating bond on the telepathic and empathic fronts. Because of your brother we can sense each other's energy and honestly I think we have a longer range with that than a mating bond has."

Raditz: "No one will recognize us as a couple- er, a relationship."

Turles: "Fuck'em."

Raditz: "But-"

[[Broly is feeling thankful, he had a long day, he’s tired and glad that this is his last errand. He gets to the front of the line and looks at a mirror over shoulder of the teller, sees a man approaching. Make eye contact via mirror. The man pulls out gun and puts to broly's head. Puts duffle bag on counter.]]

"Put the money in the bag or pretty boy here gets it. No big notes, just what's in the till."

Broly imagined a lot of things go through one's mind when they suddenly become a hostage, but beaming at being called "pretty boy" wasn't what he thought he'd fixate on. On the other hand, putting aside the fact he was holding a gun to his head, his captor wasn't so bad himself. On the other other hand, Broly wasn't supposed to be thinking about men in that way at all ever or else his father would send him back to the "correctional facility".

"Shh shh, no need to panic, what's your name hun?" Broly turned back to the teller who had started crying at some point. He wondered why she was crying, she wasn't the one with a gun to her head.

"M-my name is Launch" the navy-haired teller replied.

"Okay Launch, you can call me Rad and everything is going to be fine. I know you have to hit the button under your desk to signal the police, and that's fine, but in the mean time, if you don't want Gorgeous' gray matter all over you and your pretty dress, you should start putting money in the bag." His voice was calm but by the end it turned sharp and insistent. The girl had started haphazardly stuffing bills in the bag while trying to look Broly in his eyes, like she was trying to apologize that he was involved at all. Broly looked back to the mirror, avoiding her gaze.

"Broly" he murmured. If he was going to die today at the hands of the most handsome man he'd ever seen, he was going to hear the man say his name.

"What was that Sweetcheeks?" The man was also looking in the mirror, his lazy smirk more fitting of someone trying pickup lines at a bar than of someone robbing a bank.

Broly: "Broly. My name's Broly."

Raditz: "Well alright Broly, how are you doing today?"

Broly: "Alright considering, just running some errands for my father. He's probably wondering where I am, I was already running pretty late before I made it here to the bank and, well, this is definitely taking longer than usual."

Raditz: "Well don't you worry your pretty lil head over it, Launch here is almost done so soon I'll be on my way and you can go back to your dad all safe and sound. Not a single one of you luscious locks harmed or misplaced."

Paragus [further back in the line]: "What's the hold up? C'mon, I've got places to be."

Raditz: "Sorry sir! Just robbing the bank, I'll be done in a minute and then you can be on your way."

Paragus: "Wait a minute, is that my son? Broly? Broly what are you doing with this hooligan?"

Raditz: "Oh, is this your father you mentioned?"

Broly: "Please don't send me back to that asshole, I'll do anything."

Raditz: "Anything?"

Broly: "Is there a fucking echo, yes, anything."

Raditz: "Wow, you went from demure to berserker rather quickly."

Paragus: "Broly answer me!"

Raditz: "Sorry sir, he's a little tied up at the moment being my hostage, I'll drop him off somewhere, some time later."

Broly: "If you're going to send me back to him I'd rather you just shoot me, I'll be better off."

Launch: "Excuse me, mister Rad, sir, uhh, here's your bag. I've notified the police."

Raditz: "Thank you kindly Miss Launch, I hope you have a lovely day. C'mon Gorgeous, we have places to be."

Paragus: "Where are you going with my son?!"

Raditz: "He's my hostage, I need him to get out of town. I'll give him some money for a bus ticket back, I promise."

Broly: "I swear to god-"

Raditz: "Calm down darling, we have to make it to the car."

[[at the car, Turles in the driver seat with the window down]]

Turles: "Rads, who's this?"

Raditz: "This is Broly, he's our new recruit."

Turles: "What?"

Broly: "What?"

Raditz: "Shut up and drive, the cops are coming, you, get in the damn car."

Turles: "Damn it Rad!"

Raditz: "Shut it Turls!"

Broly: "I hear sirens."

Raditz: "Jesus fuck, Turls we can talk while you drive now put your goddamned foot down."

Turles: "Oh you want me to put my foot down? Oh, I'll put my foot down."

[[Turles driving like he wants to get pulled over]]

Turles: "This what you wanted Raditz!? I put my goddamn foot down! You happy?"

Raditz: "Turles you're in a fucking school zone!"

Turles: "'Oh Turles go faster, oh Turles go slower, oh Turles let's actually take a hostage this time as opposed to leaving them in the fucking bank where they belong' I'm sorry, when the fuck did we agree to take real hostages? The gun doesn't even have bullets!"

Broly: "The gun doesn't have bullets?"

Raditz: "That's one of the reasons I didn't kill you in the bank and had to take you with me."

Turles: "Wait, you were going to kill him? Raditz the fuck?"

Raditz: "He asked for it."

Turles: "There have been plenty of dicks at banks before, why did he deserve to be killed?"

Broly: "It was that or going back to my father, I prefer death."

Turles: "Jesus kid, okay, I see why you took him with you, but what are we gonna do with him?"

Raditz: "If there's two of us we can get two bags?"

Turles: "No, two bags mean twice as long, twice as long means-"

Broly: "The police will come and arrest us."

Turles: "Thank you, see the kid gets it, what was your name again?"

Broly: "Broly and I'm nineteen, I doubt you two are that much older than me."

Turles: "Anyway, he's right, two bags is too long."

Broly: "Can we go back to the gun not having bullets? What were you going to if the police showed up? Suffocate them with your hair?"

Raditz: "I'm pretty good at hand to hand and I had you as a meat shield. I wasn't enough of a threat for them to risk hitting you so I was gonna walk out behind you and probably push you and distract them somehow so I could make a break for the car."

Broly: "Oh my god."

Raditz: "Hey, it's worked every time before this."

Broly: "Oh yeah, how many times is that?"

Raditz: "This is, what, our tenth bank? Twelfth?"

Turles: "Not to mention four convenience stores and a Taco Bell."

Raditz: "I thought you were paying!"

Turles: "I'm just the get away driver dude, I only went in to piss and make sure you didn’t fuck up my order."

Broly: "How have you robbed this many banks and I haven't heard about you?"

Raditz: "Well, you watched the heist. We're not flashy, we're very calm and really, stealing a couple hundred to a thousand from a bank isn’t really gripping stuff. Half the time other customers in the bank don't even know it's getting robbed, hard to make a sensational story out of that."

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Saw this art and was inspired:

Raditz:"I'm gonna be honest, I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm sorry any of this happened."

Gohan: "I'm just glad we have a roof over our heads, you really didn't have to."

Raditz:"When I heard they were in an accident I dropped everything so I could see if they needed help and then they… I couldn't leave you guys not knowing what would happen. I know I don't visit often and your dad and I don't-didn't- always see eye to eye, but you're family and that matters."

Gohan: "I still can't thank you enough. I'm legally old enough, I could have taken care of us-"

Raditz:"You don't have a job and you're not even out of high school yet, there's no way I could have left you to fend for yourself, much less taking care of your brothers."

Goten: "Uncle Raditz, I'm hungry."

Raditz:"Alright Goten, let's get some food and then we'll stop by the house for you to grab some stuff. Or, wait, well, do you want to stay there? I could grab my things and stay there, it's a bit farther to work but it's fine."

Gohan: "I'd rather not, I don't think I could stand staying there knowing that they're…"

Raditz:"Do you want me to run inside and grab stuff for you?"

Gohan: "No, I can handle that much, I just don't think I could handle waking up every morning and them not be there."

Trunks: "Uncle Raditz."

Raditz:"Okay, more planning later, food now."

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Raditz:"It's not much and you'll have to share a room but it's home enough."

Gohan: "Sharing a room will be fine. Trunks and Goten already do and if I stay up late I'll just crash on the couch."

Raditz:"Sounds good. If you can't get a hold of me and you need something the guys who live in 207 are really chill and at least one of them will probably be home. I also leave that window unlocked and it's pretty easy to scale up the building but that should be a last resort if you get locked out."

*knocks on door*

Turles: "Yo, Rad, you there? We still on for movie night?"

Raditz:"Speak of the devil. How do you guys want me to play this? I completely forgot about them coming over tonight with all, ya know, going on. If you don't want to meet them and just get settled in that's totally fine."

Gohan: "What kinda movies do you guys watch?"

Raditz:"I think tonight was gonna be action movies."

Gohan: "Y'all wanna watch some action movies?"

Goten: "Yeah!"

Trunks: "Sure!"

Raditz:"Okay, I'll let them in, but if at any point you want them out just let me know, okay?"

Turles: "Yo Rads, what's up?"

Raditz:"Hey, Turles, Broly, these are my nephews Gohan, Trunks and Goten. They're gonna be staying with me now."

Turles: "Aww shit, we shoulda brought more chips and dip. Fuck, here, I'll be back, goin round the corner, what kinda chips y'all like?"

Gohan: "I'm a teenager and you're offering a seven and eight year old chips, anything you grab will be fine, I'm sure. Thank you so much, Turles was it?"

Turles: "Yeah and no prob Gohan. Be back in a flash. Broles, you good or do you want to come with?"

Broly: "I think I'll be fine, Raditz can take care of it if anything happens, he's almost as good as you anymore."

Turles: "Now Raditz, don't go taking my man on me, he's all I have."

Raditz:"Fuck off Turles, we all know your first and only love will always be your car."

Turles: "Fuck you. I also love my cats."

Raditz:"Get outta here, sooner you're back, sooner we can watch the Retaliators 2: Era of Ulton."

Broly: "Raditz, you sure it's okay to swear around them?"

Raditz:"Y'all've heard Vegeta say fuck at least once right?"

Gohan: "More like once a day."

Trunks: "Yeah, Dad swore all the time."

Raditz: "It's fine to say 'fuck' in front of the children."

Broly: "So how long are they staying?"

Raditz:"Permanently. Their dads were in an accident, we just got back from getting some stuff from their house."

Broly: "Their parents…"

Raditz:"Yeah. I'm all they have, anyone else that could take them either barely know that they exist or live like half way across the country. Literally there's adoption, but we lost Kakarot to the system once, I'm not letting it happen again."

Broly: "Of course, Turles and I will do whatever we can to help."

Raditz:"Thanks, it all happened so fast I really don't know what I'm doing."

"What's going on? Where am I? V-Vegeta?"

"We start in five minutes, make your questions count."

"What are we starting in five minutes?"

"I'm helping you. Next."

"Where are we? I don't feel anyone's energy."

"We are on a dead planet. About 36 hours away from Earth using the woman's latest ship."

"How did you get me here?"

"You know, Saiyans have an astounding sense of smell and if you used it you probably would have smelled the sedatives I slipped into your dinner at Capsule Corps."

"What about my mom? Or Bulma? How are they okay with this?"

"I don't need permission from that harpy or the woman. But I asked them ahead of time anyway. Amazing what they're okay with if they think it'll help you."

"Why do you think I need help?"

"You haven't been okay since your father died. You're a Saiyan, boy! Brats half your age lost their parents in battle and it didn't affect them half as much as you've been."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that you don't do anything. You wallow and you hold your infant brother. You don't study, you don't train. Yes. Your father died. This isn't even the first time he's died! So I'm doing what worked last time."

"You kidnapped me and now you’re going to train me?"

"I kidnapped you and I'm gonna beat the shit out of you until you're better. Time's up."

[[Fighting]]

"Why are you doing this? At least Piccolo had purpose in his relentless beating."

"As do I, if you can figure it out."

[[Fighting]]

"Where's that strength you beat Cell with? Where's that power you surpassed your father with? Where's your resolve to improve yourself?"

"It died with my father! I killed it and I killed him! All those people died because of me. He's dead because of me. Goten's going to grow up without a father because of me. Fuck, I'm going to grow up without a father because of me. I wanted to make Cell pay but in the end I just killed my dad! Is that what you want to hear from me? Because I know that I killed him. I was so stupid and drunk on power that I didn’t listen to any of you!"

"Now we're getting somewhere."

((Gohan turns Super Saiyan))

[[Fighting]]

((Gohan falls out of Super Saiyan))

"Get up boy."

"I can't."

"I said, stand up. Boy."

"I'm too weak."

"I never want to hear those words from your mouth ever again. Kakarot didn't die for you to wallow in self pity. Stand. Up. Boy."

"It hurts."

"Not as much as it can. You want to live through this? I'm going to continue beating you until you learn your lesson or you die and the only one capable of stopping me is you."

"My legs-"

"-Don't matter. You stand up and you fight until you win or you're dead. Are you dead yet?"

"No."

"Then you keep fighting. You fight and you make every hit count. If you don't move I'm going to crush you like Cell crushed that android's head."

"No."

"What was that boy?"

"I said no, Vegeta!"

"Then you better get up and show me."

((Vegeta and Gohan go Super Saiyan))

[[Fighting]]

"Come on boy, you can do better, I've seen you."

"Stop calling me boy!"

"Quit acting like a spoiled brat and I might!"

[[Fighting]]

"If you're going to throw a punch make it matter. If you're not going to try you might as well stop."

"Harder."

"Faster."

"If you can't hit me, you should just let me kill you now, less disappointment later."

"You know, despite everything, I still have half a mind to just destroy Earth. Kakarot was interesting and something to surpass, but without him or someone to take his place, Earth serves me no purpose."

"Too bad your father died for you, you sad, pathetic, waste of-"

((Gohan bursts into Super Saiyan 2))

"My father died protecting what he believed in!"

"He died believing in you?"

"He died protecting the Earth! His friends, his family, his home! He died to save all of us!"

"Was it your fault he died?"

"No! Cell was a sore loser and would rather blow us all up than lose! Dad saved us all from that because that's what he does!"

"Good. Let's go home."

((Vegeta lets go of Super Saiyan))

"What?"

"Let's go home. I have senzus back at the ship but I'd rather have a warm meal as soon as possible."

"What?"

"Let us. Go home. I didn't deafen you did I."

"Vegeta I don't understand."

"You were too caught up in grief to understand it wasn't your fault that Kakarot died for us. What he did was brave and he doesn't deserve to have it tarnished by your useless self loathing. Now that we've broken that we can honor him the way he should be, since the world won't know his sacrifice."

[[On the ship]]

"Were you really going to kill me if I didn't snap out of it?"