Koshi, Mameko and Sekkaku sat in the living room in Mameko and Juunana's log cabin house and chatted idly amongst themselves. It was another slow Saturday, but the Majin girls were just content to be together and not in school. Juunanagou had left them alone. He was off to the city to escort a shipment of diamonds.
      "So." Sekkaku filed her nails. "When was she supposed to be here again?"
      Koshi looked up at the clock. "Could have sworn I told her by 2 at the latest.
      "Maybe she ran into some difficulty?" Mameko asked.
      "Feh," Sekkaku waved. "Maybe she's too busy sucking face."
      "That's gross."
     The vampire shrugged. There was finally a knock at the door.
      "Come on in Leeli!"
      The door swung open and Sekkaku and Mameko had all they could do to keep from laughing. Leeli pushed Goten into the foyer of the little house. He was blindfolded.
      "Where are we, Lee-chan?" he asked, oblivious. Koshi frowned and made gestures to indicate she was not happy with this derivation from her original plan. Leeli shrugged and put her fingers to her lips. Mameko jumped up and went to the closet under the stairs. Leeli lead her boyfriend in and closed the door behind the both of them. "Now you just wait right there and I'll have a big surprise!"
      The door flung open and the Saiyajin Princess pulled the girl out. "I thought he was supposed to be unconscious!" Koshi hissed as she dragged her friend into the living room, slamming the door behind her.
      "I looked into his eyes and I just couldn't!" she wrung her hands.
      "But he's not YOUR Goten!" Koshi continued to seethe. "Yours is back in your dimension! Get in there and bean him but good!"
      "Don't you dare hit my grandson," Mameko threatened from her seat on the couch. "The closet will do for now."
      "He'll be fine!" Sekkaku scoffed. Koshi was about to open her mouth to ask why Mameko felt the need to go against her orders when a tall, dark form materialized beside her.
      "Hey, guys!"
      Koshi jumped. "Kakarotto-sama!"
     Leeli and Sekkaku smiled and waved from where they were.
     Koshi smiled sweetly, making Mameko raise her brows. Throwing her carefully crafted plan out the window, Koshi held her hands behind her back and bounced on the balls of her feet. Her tail wagged happily. "Kakarotto-sama, we would be so honored if you would become Majin!" She waved her hands to her friends for encouragement.
     "No, Koshi. I can't do that."
     She pouted. "Please?"
     "No. Anyway I came here looking for Goten, have you seen him?"
     Koshi ran in front of the closet door. "Nope! He's not in here!" Dull thuds emanated from within.
     "Well, we're getting kind of worried about him..."
     Sekkaku furrowed her brows. "Well!" she shouted. "Goten is our hostage and you can only get him back if you join us!!"
     The man raised a brow, but was still adamant. "No."
     "Please, Kakarotto-kun, it's so much fun!" Mameko begged.
     "No, Kaasan."
     Tears welled up in her eyes.
     Koshi grinned. "See! You're making your mother cry!"
     "My son... doesn't love me!!!" Mameko mock-wailed.
     Goku pouted. "O..okassan... gomen.... all right, please don't cry."
     She sniffed and looked up at him hopefully. "Really?"
     He nodded.
     "All right!" Sekkaku cheered. Koshi grinned and Leeli bit her nails, apprehensively.
     "Good boy! You'll see, it's so much fun!" Mameko smiled at her son and gave him a bear hug. They all tagged him on the shoulder and he reluctantly shunkan idoed them to Kami's palace.

     Koshi dipped into the palace and re-appeared with a short, black genie. "Ok, Mameko, do your stuff!"
     Mameko grinned and lunged at Popo. "Com'ere roundboy!" She laughed maniacally and began to rub his belly.
     "Oh no!" he cried. "Not again!"
     "Uh, I can't watch!" Leeli moaned and peeked at the scene through her fingers.
     "Rubbahrubbahrubbah!" Mameko cried and waxed a high gloss shine into Popo's protruding stomach.
     "All right! All right! What do you want!?!"
     "Hehehehe! Make my son a Majin!"
     "It is done!" The genie caught his breath and wobbled back into the palace.
     Goku tried to look up at the black, Cyrillic M on his forehead. Mameko licked her finger and rubbed it. "Yup. It's real!"
     "How do you feel, Kakarotto-sama?" Koshi asked and tried not to drool.
     "Not that different... A little more powerful," he said and flexed.
     "I'm so proud!" Mameko beamed.
     "I got a bad feeling about this..." Leeli muttered to herself.
     Sekkaku jumped up and down a little, "So, now that we have Kakarotto, what's our first mission, Koshi?"
     "Well..." she began, but stopped and looked at Goku. "Kakarotto-sama... daijoubu?"
     He was silent. He had a strange, blank expression on his face. "No... This...This isn't right..."
     Mameko's heart sank. "Kamisama... what's wrong with him!?"
     "Uh oh..." Sekkaku whispered. "This doesn't look good... better bring Popo back out here..."
     But before anyone could do anything, Goku turned on his heel and shunkan idoed into nothingness.
     "Kisama! Where'd he go!?" Mameko panicked.
     A shadow touched down behind the girlz.
     "Papa!"
     Vegeta sniffed the air. "Kakarotto..." he growled. "His power is immense!"
     "We wished him Majin, Vegeta!" Sekkaku informed him.
     "You did WHAT?!"
     "He agreed to it, Papa," Koshi scratched at the ground with her boot. "I wasn't like he didn't have a choice..."

*
     Many miles from Kami's lookout, under the shadow of Mount Paozu, Chi-chi was very surprised to see her husband home so early.
     "Goku-san! Let me guess, you're hungry?"
     "No.." he said, fairly innocently.
     "Then what do you want? You're usually out training all day and it's too late for lunch.... and what's that mark on your forehead?"
     "You know, Chi-chi," he said, his brows arching downwards. "I never loved you."
     "What!?" she asked and backed away a few paces.
     "Not one bit..." he walked slowly towards her.
     "Goku-san! What are you saying!?" she gasped and knocked over a chair. Goku reached out quickly and grabbed her wrist. He squeezed till the bones crumbled in his hand. Chi-chi screamed out in pain and shock. Her husband sneered and knocked her through the kitchen wall.
     Chi-chi sobbed and tried to crawl away, but he was on her. "Say goodnight." He brought his foot down and crushed her skull. The emotionless look fell across his face again and he lifted into the air.

     "He's moving." Vegeta concentrated.
     "Damnit! I wish I could feel him!" Mameko cursed. "Bejiita-sama, please, take me to him!"
     "No. We wait."
The girls were silent, waiting as their Prince had commanded.

*
     Bulma typed a few lines of code and sipped her tea. It was early in the afternoon and she knew she could work for a few more hours before her kids would come looking for food. She leaned back and looked at the monitor. "Damn," she said to herself. "I gotta get my eyes checked." As she was squinting to focus on the program she was working on, she saw something flicker across the screen's reflective surface. She turned around to see what it was.
     "Oh! Damn it, Goku! You scared the shit out of me!"
     "Sorry."
     Bulma stood and held her chest. "It's bad enough that Vegeta seems to want to put me into an early grave by doing that to me all the time..." she stopped short and raised a brow. "You ok? Is something happening?"
     "You could say that."
     She at last saw the mark on his forehead and gasped. "You're.... you're Majin."
     He nodded, his features were noticeably dark.
     "So..." she took a few steps apprehensively towards the door. 'Vegeta, please be home...' she thought frantically. "How's that working out for you? You know Koshi just loves it, though I really think it's just a phase..."
     "Hm," he sneered. "Then for me I suppose it's a mid-life crisis."
     Bulma laughed weakly and felt for the door switch. She turned her head to look for it and there he was, blocking her path. She cried out in alarm. "Goku, what's the matter?"
     "Nothing, Bulma. Nothing at all."
     "Yes! Yes there is! You're not the same! You don't act like this! Stop it!" she screamed. He pinned her to the door.
     "It's too late for me," he breathed in her face. "And for you." Goku took her head in his hands and snapped her neck with a quick motion. She slumped to the floor, dead.

*
     Vegeta and Koshi gasped.
     "No!" Koshi let out a short cry.
     "Bulma..." Vegeta whispered. His brows met in the middle. He powered up and shot off into the air, heading for Capsule.
     "Wait, what!?" Leeli shouted.
     Mameko grabbed Koshi's arms. "Koshi-sama... what happened?"
     "Kaasan... is dead." Her eyes looked forward, but she was lost in grief.
     "This can't be..." Mameko ground her teeth. "Leeli, come with me. Sekkaku, stay here with Koshi-sama."
     "But..." the vampire protested.
     "If he's been swallowed by the power of Majin, I may be the only one who can reach him. Koshi-sama is in shock. Please stay with her."
     Sekkaku noticed Koshi's vacant, open-mouthed stare and nodded. Mameko looked to Leeli who also nodded and they took off after Vegeta.

*
     By the time Vegeta reached his home, Goku was long gone. He charged through the front door and looked into the living room, kitchen and bedroom. No luck. He then ran down the connection to her private lab. Vegeta pushed the button to open the door and to his horror, his wife's body, which had been leaning up against the door, fell towards him. He caught her in his arms and sat there for a minute, his tears falling silently onto her cool skin.

*
     In the gigantic CEO office at Capsule Corp's downtown headquarters, Muzai giggled.
     "Mu..." Trunks smiled. "I know I usually make you meet me here for... illicit reasons..." he blushed a little and loosened his tie. A box of tissues was close at hand. The beautiful 18 year old girl was sitting on his lap.
     "Yes...?" she batted her eyelashes at him.
     "But I have something serious I want to..."
     "Discuss?" she tried to help speed things up.
     "No. Um... ask you."
     "Shoot."
     "Um... Muzai... do you think I'm... to old for you?"
     "What?!" she laughed. "You're a Saiyan, I'm a cyborg, who cares how old we are?"
     He sighed a little.
     "Was that it?"
     Trunks's stomach flip-flopped. "Uh.. yeah. That's it! I should get back to work now!" he laughed and stood up, effectively dumping her off of his lap.
     "Trunks!" she shouted. "You are just so weird!" Muzai frowned and stomped to the door. Trunks opened the top, right-hand drawer to his desk and touched a small white box. He struggled, but still couldn't do it. He closed the drawer.
     "Oh!" Muzai shouted. Trunks's head whipped up. Standing in front of Muzai was Son Goku. Trunks was about to say hello when Goku reached out and plunged his hand through Muzai's chest. Blood and sparks emanated from the wound as he pulled his hand back out. He walked over her body and grinned at Trunks.
     "What have you done!?!" Trunks cried and charged him. He never got so much as a punch in before he too was run through. The grin fell from Goku's face and he put his fingers to his head again.

*
     When Mameko and Leeli arrived at Capsule, Vegeta had laid Bulma's body on the couch and covered her with a throw, her favorite one with the angels on it. Except for her neck being a little too crooked, she seemed to only be sleeping.
Leeli hung her head.
     "Oujisama, there must be something we can do."
     "Why did you do this?" he whispered without turning away from Bulma
     Mameko's eyes teared up. "We... we didn't know..."
     "Majin takes all the evil in a person and multiplies their power-level by how much evil there is. Sekkaku SHOULD be the strongest Majin because she's a vampire, but Kakarotto is infinitely more powerful. It's almost as if all the good in him has been negated. If he was 100% good before, he's 1000% evil now."
     "We've got to at least try to stop him!"
     "You can't!" he shouted. "There's no stopping him. Even I cannot possibly stand up against such a destructive force."
     Leeli gnawed on her fingers. Mameko's tears fell to the floor. She dropped to her knees and began to mutter to herself.
     "Please... Kakarotto, Please hear me..."

*
     Sekkaku paced back and forth. Dende startled her by shouting. "What, what is it?"
     "Trunks and Muzai!"
     "Trunks..." Koshi whispered and slid down against a column. She sat and stared out, grief and guilt consuming her.
     "Shit!" Sekkaku cursed. She grabbed God by the collar. "Where is he now?!"
     Dende had had just about enough of the Majins, so he told her. Sekkaku shot off to the west in search of Goku.

*
     Just to the East of Capsule Corp, Goku flew along at break-neck speed in a bee-line for Juunanagou's cabin, where he knew he's find his son, still obliviously locked in a closet. He was visibly shocked to be met by a vampire.
     He came to an abrupt stop and folded his arms. The evil look fell across his face again. "Shouldn't you be more careful? You're gonna get a sunburn."
     "SPF 300," Sekkaku pointed to her ivory skin. "You should be careful. Seems wherever you go, people drop dead."
     He shrugged. "Call it force of habit."
     "I call it fucked up."
     "Are you going to try to stop me?" Goku laughed.
     "No. I AM going to stop you." Sekkaku clenched her fists and powered up. Her eyes glowed bright yellow, her fangs protruded and her relatively light frame bulked up. She flew at Evil Goku.
     Energy arched around them as Goku tried to out-maneuver the vampire. She leapt out of the way in plenty of time and landed a kick to the back of his head. She flipped, jumped off the ground and punched the large man in the jaw, good and hard, sending him flying a good 100 yards away before he caught himself. Goku flew leisurely back to her.
     "Well well. This is a nice surprise!" he laughed.
     Sekkaku kept her stance. Her breath was even, her mind was clear, but she was still a little frightened of his power. "Will you kill me to, Goku-san? Like you did the others?"
     "Oh yeah."
     "Why!?" she shouted.
     He shrugged. "Cause it feels good." He sneered and charged again. Just as he was about to land a punch, his eyes drifted from his target. Sekkaku took the opportunity to bring her fists down on his head.
     'What the hell?!' she thought wildly. 'He just lost it for a second. What was that?'
     The respite was brief however. Goku shook his head and came at her again.

*
     "Mameko...?" Leeli touched her shoulder. "Are you ok?"
     She rocked back and forth lightly on her knees, mumbling to herself. "Kakarotto-kun, please come back to us. I love you, my son. Please hear me..."
     Vegeta heard the name and looked over. "What is she doing?"
     "I dunno." Leeli shrugged. "You think she can talk to him like that?"
     Vegeta frowned and looked back to his dead wife. "It doesn't matter. There's nothing we can do."
     "Oh!" Mameko cried.
     "What is it!?"
     "I felt him! He reached out to me! Just for a moment, but I got through the enchantment. He's close. Bejiita-sama, where is he?"
     "It's no use..."
     "Tell me!"
     "You'll be killed!" he shouted back.
     "He's my SON. I must try!"
     Vegeta sighed. "Just east of here."
     "Thank you, Oujisama," Mameko said in a reverent tone and ran out of the room with Leeli hot on her heels.

END CHAPTER ONE

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