When Goten and Trunks had finished training and wanted to change, Bulma called them to eat. Then moving would just have to wait! As they sat at the table, Goten, Bra, Trunks and Vegeta began to shovel pounds of steaks, bread and rice into themselves. Bulma was content with a small bowl of rice and a steak (disgusting combination, I know!).


"Leave something for Ilana, too," she reminded the four of them.


"Why should we? The cook can do something new!", Vegeta then simply said.


"The cook has gone home! She has finished work!" replied Bulma irritably.


Trunks groaned: "You're not trying to cook yourself again tonight, are you?"


Bulma, who knew what these gourmet Aiyajins thought of their cooking skills, said: "No, I stopped! What you can't do should be left behind! Today we're going to a restaurant for dinner again. And woe betide any of you don't behave or eat without end!Tonight you hold back! "She said the last one in a threatening tone.


Goten, Trunks and Bra dutifully agreed, but Vegeta was stubborn: "I eat as much and as I want!"


"YOU DO NOT DO THAT!"


Vegeta winced and then nodded her head dutifully. For ages everyone on the Z-Crew wondered how they did it. Vegeta didn't listen to anyone else.


When Bulma had calmed down again, Vegeta spoke to trunks and Goten: "In a good six months there will be another big tournament. If I'm not mistaken, Kakarott will take part again this time."


Goten agreed: "Yes, my father, my brother and I finally want to bring some money into the house budget! It cannot go on like this, that we are slowly going bankrupt just because my father and I eat so much."


Trunks was enthusiastic: "If you take part, we will of course take part too! Aren't we, Papa?"


"Certainly, I haven't fought Kakarott in years!"

"Then do a little more training, Goten!" Said Trunks.


Goten was on the other hand: "No, let me stick! We have only just trained."


Vegeta said: "You can have the gravity room to train, I'll fly over to this Piccolo and tell him to make me 15 ton weights!"


That changed Goten's opinion abruptly: "If we're allowed into the gravitational space, that's different! I like to train in there!"


As soon as they had finished eating, Goten and Trunks made their way to the gravity room and Vegeta made his way to Piccolo.


Goten and Trunks trained for 2 hours under increased gravity. Then Vegeta came back. He had already tied the 4 weights. Goten and Trunks had to leave the gravity room again because Vegeta claimed it for himself again. Now they went to shower and change. Then they made their way to Ilana.


Ilana was still on her bed.She looked like she had barely moved in the past few hours. And apart from the food she had eaten, she hadn't moved much either. She had been thinking all along. In the end she decided that Goten, Trunks and Gohan were not to blame. They were just defending their planet. She would have done the same if she had had the opportunity. At that moment, Goten and Trunks entered the room.


"Hey, Ilana! Finished with the memory?" Said Trunks.


"More or less..."


"So? Have you come to any conclusion?" Goten wanted to know.


"Yes, actually."


"And? What have you been thinking about?" Trunks asked curiously and earned a was-yes-clear look from Goten.


"Isn't that important."


Trunks asked no further questions. But Goten asked something else: "Tell me, what are you actually wearing tonight? You have nothing else with you than this!" and pointed to Ilana's battle suit, which reminded a bit of that of Goku and Goten, only that it was neither red nor orange, but yellow.

"I'll get something from Bulma!", She said.


"Aha .. Let's just hope that my mother's stuff fits you too!"


"Oh, it'll be fine! And even if they don't fit, it's only for one evening!"


Now Goten spoke up: "Well then. I wanted to ask you something else: In six months the big tournament of unarmed martial arts will take place here! I wanted to know whether you might not want to train with us and then take part ... "It took a lot of courage for Goten to ask that straight ahead, because Ilana would have yelled at her yesterday whether she was crazy and why she should do that. He wasn't sure if her opinion about Goten and Trunks had changed so much that she agreed to do so.


"Why not? I don't have my goal in life anymore and I don't know where else to go. So I like to stay here to train with you guys!"


Goten's heart leapt into the air.Ilana's heart too. She had already wondered what to do when her leg healed again.


The three talked for a while, until Bra came in and Goten and Trunks said that Bulma had said that they should get ready.




Note: It only occurred to me during this part that Bra already exists here. That is why it was not considered in the previous chapters.