Vegeta would probably find out soon enough ...




Two weeks later ... "You don't seriously believe that I will come to this insane event !?" Vegeta was once again on 180 ... "Yes, that's exactly what I think, you poisonous dwarf!" Obviously Bulma too ... And lately she's been very aggressive anyway. Finally Vegeta gave in, for the sake of the peace and quiet. Bulma's voice was horrific when she screamed. At least there would be something good to eat, that made up for him a little.But he still found the whole thing moronic ... A meeting of Group Z as part of a barbecue, stupid idea! And they did all the fuss just to see the others again ... For his part, he could live quite well without the sight of the cucumber or the bowling ball. Anyway, Bulma wouldn't rest ... So they set off with the glider to the meadow near Son-Goku's house, where the party was supposed to start. Bulma insisted that they take the glider, Trunks and Vegeta would have preferred to fly. The glider was so lame! When they finally arrived, Vegeta's mood was of course even worse. Trunks, Goten and Ice immediately ran to the nearby river, obviously Goten and Ice, who of course was the talk of the day, had already prepared something there that they absolutely wanted to show their friend. Vegeta only gave a disgruntled growl, his opinion about Ice hadn't changed a bit ... And the talk got on his nerves like hell ... Obviously not just him, as he was surprised to find out.Piccolo stood a little to one side, with a face that could make milk sour. Purposefully Vegeta kept walking towards him ... "Hey Grüner ... The theater here is going to piss you off too, right?" Piccolo looked at him. > Typical Vegeta! Kindly as always ...



"Oh crap! Now they have sent us back to bed!" Ice found the whole thing, just like Goten and Trunks, extremely unfair. Now it was getting funny ... The adults started talking about their past adventures ... And most of all about their struggles! The boys were very interested in that! And right now they should go to bed, meanness! Trunks grinned cheekily ... "That we SHOULD don't mean that we DO it too ..." Now the other two grinned too, they knew exactly what Trunks meant ... They erased their auras and then crept very slowly and especially quietly back outside and to the adults. Once there, they hid in a bush and overheard the conversation. On the one hand, Piccolo told for the umpteenth time, because half of those present still couldn't believe how he and Gotenks had escaped from the space of spirit and time.He obviously hated that much attention because he didn't look happy doing it. Vegeta was still under the tree, but now he was sitting on the ground with his back against the trunk and seemed to be sleeping ... "Great! They should have sent my father to bed and not me!" Whispered Trunks. But the second conversation that was going on was much more interesting ... Goku, Gohan, Bulma and Yamcha were talking about past fights ... And just now they were discussing the experiences on Namek. Son-Goten listened intently because his father had promised to tell him the story of how he had become a Super Sayajin. But since Ice had lived with them he had never mentioned this topic again and when Goten had once asked him about it, he had reacted very strangely ... Goten was pleased, he got to hear the story after all! Since they believed the children were already in bed, the adults didn't worry about whether or not she should talk about the story with Freezer, they just did it.And so Ice got to hear everything ... From the point when his father Freezer had started to exterminate the Namekians, to the point when Goku killed him ... Or thought he had killed, because the Trunks from the future had actually given him the very last blow. But that wasn't talked about ... Ice couldn't hold back the tears. That man there who had treated him like his son for a year and whom he had trusted ... He was the murderer of his biological father! Ice couldn't believe it. Suddenly a sob was heard and the adults turned to the bush in which the children were sitting. "Ice man! Be quiet ... They're tearing our heads off!" Trunks whispered ... But too late ... someone reached into the bushes and pulled him and Goten out. There were two green hands and they belonged to Piccolo, who now held them by the collar and picked them up ... For a moment everyone was relieved that Ice was not there and consequently he hadn't heard Goku's story.But when Ice stepped out of the bushes with tears in his eyes, they froze ... Bulma tried to calm him down and explain everything to him ... But without success. He still shouted "You murderer!" then he ran into the darkness. Piccolo let go of the two now and they landed rudely on their buttocks. "Whose glorious idea was it to sneak up here when you should actually go to bed ?!" he asked sternly. "His!" both replied at the same time, pointing fingers at each other ...




At the same time, strange things were going on on board the space cruiser where the dark room from the beginning of our story was. The master had called Tommra and Indra, the two who had been guarding Ice, to him. Obviously he was anything but satisfied with them ... "You have failed ... I do not tolerate mistakes!" His eyes narrowed to slits and the two who stood in the middle of the room trembled ... The master was merciless Failure ... He was sitting across from them now, on the other side of a large table, in front of an equally large window through which one could see into the infinity of space."I gave you both a very simple job! You only have to find the last splinter ... And you fail!" then he raised his right hand and clenched a fist. Suddenly the two began to gasp and finally slumped to the ground. The master let his hand drop and the gasp died away ... the two were dead. For a long time only the slow, deep breaths of the master who stared at the table top as if in a trance ... His form was only indistinctly recognizable, as the large room was only lit by two weak lamps on the otherwise bare walls. Obviously light was not wanted on board this ship ... Finally his cold voice cut the silence. “Zzzoa!” A young man emerged from the deep black shadow in one of the back corners of the room ... He was very tall, slim ... His skin was pale, almost white and his hair pitch black. They reached well over his shoulders and fell smoothly ... Despite the scar under his left eye, you could call him 'beautiful'.And his black eyes, they were just as cold and expressionless as those of the Master. And when he spoke now, his voice was just as sharp: "Master?" - "You will take over the job ... But do not deceive me! GO!" That said everything, Zoa knew that the master was not very talkative or patient ... he did not tolerate failures or delays in carrying out his orders. He bowed briefly and left. His loose, blood-red coat, which he wore over a tight-fitting black suit, waved after him. As he walked through the corridors of the cruiser to the hangar where his spacecraft was standing, he thought of Tommra and Indra ... Those fools! They knew exactly what would happen if they failed! Well, HE would not fail ... Unlike these two idiots, he did not follow the Master for the money, but out of conviction. Failure was absolutely unacceptable for him too ... Win or die, there was nothing else!It only annoyed him that he now had to take on a job for which an errand boy like the two of them was actually good enough. But thanks to these idiots he at least already knew on which planet he had to look for the splinter ... It was a, compared to his home planet, quite young planet with a large proportion of water and weak inhabitants. The earth...




Meanwhile with our friends ... The question of guilt had meanwhile been declared unimportant, which of course pleased Goten and Trunks. Now everyone was sitting in the living room of Goku and ChiChi's little house. ChiChi wasn't exactly thrilled to have the whole group in the house, her living room was bursting at the seams ... They all knew that they had to look for Ice. The only question was when ... now or tomorrow when it was light again? ChiChi of course insisted that they go immediately. Bulma and 18