Dragons, Umbrellas, and bones

New Threads and New Threats

Klaus eventually grouped back with the others about 2 hours later with a large worn cardboard box labeled "DBSS Pickup" and an almost exasperated look on his face.

"Okay guys. I had been thinking about bringing you guys to my place to catch up soon anyways but I had to eyeball the sizes, which turned out to be a bit off from what I anticipated. Thank god that I was picking up some dry cleaning anyways or else this would have taken a lot longer. Luther, you're actually borrowing Kakarot's clothes since you clearly bulked up and shot up more than I anticipated. Ben, could you go call one of the twins or Mirai and have them come over to help get back with all these extra people? The last thing we need is for one of them to wander and run into that mangy nutjob that keeps trying to come back and fight everyone."

"No problem, bro. Have fun with the clothes and shit. You have an idea how long it'll take to get ready to go?"

"Probably around 20 minutes, and that's if we take way too long. It's just a clothing change and some quick adjustments that only take a tack or 3."

"Got it. I'll wait out in the entry hall then."

With that, Ben left to make a call on an older model flip phone with raised numbers on the buttons, cane in hand as he whistled a tune.

"Alright. Alison, Vanya, luckily there's some more feminine-built people in our group around your size so I just nabbed some back ups for them. Vanya, I kept in mind that you seem to prefer more conservative styles and got you a tunic instead of just a gi top or a chest wrap. Alison, your's is a gi top and a wrap. which means a tube top of sorts as an undershirt and a wrap top that ties closed with the belt in the sleeve. It goes left over right, the other way is for dressing the dead, as a heads up. Diego, you and Luther have similar clothes except you also have a vest since I grabbed some of Yamcha's clothes."

"Erm, what's with these pants having holes in the back?" A confused and mildly concerned Vanya piped in, fingers playing with the fist-sized hole located about where the tailbone would be on a normal human.

"I think I already said most of the people we live with are highly evolved monkeys. They have tails. Hence the tail holes. I made sure you got under shorts that are unused in those packets. Five, I got you some of Gohan's stuff since you're the same height and age now. He's a genius like you so maybe you can make a friend or something."

"I'm assuming most of these friends of yours were raised themselves by people from Asia?"

"I mean, the dude who found most of them and raised the kids at first while the older guys were getting patched up from a bad mini-plague was from Japan. The Namekians are from the Andes mountains but got shipped to Brazil after a few generations by exotic animal smugglers and the Saiyans are natively from the Amazon. Rich assholes are the worst, they got trafficked to the US a while back as a group and those that survived the trip and rampant disease and abuse in the damn facilities they were trapped in managed to escape after a while. Since they aren't human they had to hide and the rest is history."

"God my brain hurts from all this shit. Look I'm just going to go change and catch up with Ben. If you want to join me, that would be great." Groaned Alison, grabbing the packet Klaus handed her labeled "Caulifa" and going to her old room.

Soon after, the others dispersed one by one, leaving an anxious Luther fidgeting with his coat in the living room as Klaus picked at his nails.

"Uh... Klaus?"

"Yes, Luther?"

"Do you happen to have any......"

"More covering outfits that would fit you? No. Besides, I have a feeling I know what's up based on your frankly shitty attempt to hide that fur and your nails, and if my hunch is right you are going to absolutely love my friends so suck it up and go change. I might need to take the cuffs or waistband in a bit since Kakarot is a few inches taller than you. Granted that could also just be the hair."