Underwhelmed At First Sight

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"Whoa! That's Planet Vegeta? Vegeta-san said it was ruined, but it looks just like when we first landed while looking for grandma!" Gohan gasped in surprise after pressing his face to the porthole.

"Vegeta wouldn't have taken his people away to Earth if Planet Vegeta was still inhabitable. Whatever these guys did, they had a tough task ahead of them," Piccolo hissed, looking rather vexed for no apparent reason. Chayote brushed it off to the Namekian, feeling suspicious of the new Saiyans. Despite her biases, she couldn't say that she blamed him. Saiyans have always meant trouble for them and that went double for Piccolo. The Saiyans were meddling with his life before he was even born.

"Is that...?" Krillin exclaimed in surprise, pointing at a white monorail of familiar ivory texture and tempered glass. "If it weren't for the beetroot skies, I could swear that we're back on Earth!"

"Those are Capsule houses," Yamcha leaned in over Krillin's shoulder with a serious expression. "Just what on Earth is going on? There's no way that this isn't suspicious, right? I mean, Vegeta is married to Bulma, and she's the head of Capsule Corps. Capsules are an exclusive invention, right?"

"Shit..." Chayote snickered. "My bad. I may have given Paragus a sample of capsules when we traded stuff. His unrefined crystals just did me such a massive solid that I borrowed him some to store his research and tissue samples."

"In that case, it makes sense. Paragus struck me as a brainy type. If he got a sample of capsule technology, he'd have been able to reverse engineer it with little trouble," Gohan nodded with some relief that they had solved this mystery.

"It's not just Planet Earth..." Chayote noted as the spaceship soared through the bustling cities and homed in on a landing port. "They've got buildings from many planets here: Planet Bas, Planet Brench, Planet Likom... These monorail systems are a mixture of Earth's capsule technology and Planet Globula designs..."

"Ah, you must be admiring the view. Please, step outside and feast your eyes adequately..." Paragus entered the deck with his security goons surrounding him and wearing their sternest faces while covering most of their expressions with their helmets and visors.

"Listen, pal. Who told you that you can just rip off Bulma's technology like that?" Yamcha waggled his finger. "She'd go berserk if she saw any of this."

"While I don't really understand what your issue is, Earthling, I must say that if it weren't for queen Chayote and her Earthling capsules of storage, we'd have not been able to rebuild this quick. Of course, none of this reconstruction would've been possible if the Shamoians from Planet Shamo didn't work tirelessly to clean up the toxic atmosphere. That cursed Vegeta dragged his planet through the mud and bolted..." Paragus ground his teeth with tightly clenched fists.

"Wow, this guy really hates Vegeta, doesn't he?" Krillin leaned closer to Chayote's ear. "More than it's normal to hate the guy."

"Is that strange? I can't stand him either," Chayote shrugged. "He forced me to turn into a Great Ape against my will."

"Twice..." Yamcha pointed out.

"Wait, what!?" Chayote turned to Yamcha with an outraged look on her face. Having just now realized that the hysterical Saiyan was unaware of her unwilling transformation into the Legendary Great Ape monster during the fight against the Ultimate Dr. Gero, Yamcha shut his face and turned away. "What did he mean by that?"

"Yamcha must be misremembering things," Krillin shook his hands out in front of him. "Don't mind him, he hasn't been there either way it happened, remember?"

"What? You mean Vegeta didn't force Chayote to transform twice? Oh, man... I really didn't know. I guess that's what I get for fighting the Saibamen during the Saiyan Invasion and being out cold when everyone fought Slug..." Yamcha laughed out frantically in panic, trying to play himself off and act like he was just wrong.

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