Preface

I have decided that Kotoro's childhood and history should be explored before I venture any farther into this story. I will mention that this is occuring a short amount of time after Piccolo was killed during the fight with Nappa. I'm going to restructure the order of events. The hidden village of the leaf (& the Naruto universe) may or may not be considered to be in the same universe as Dragonball when I am finished working through this. I think it unlikely that an explosion of this magnitude would go unnoticed or unreported by Mr.Popo or Korin, so I'll have to work my way around the events in Dragonball Z at the time somehow.

I intend to work some on the prequel during winter break. I hope I make enough progress to gain some attention. I'd like some constructive criticism, but I've written too little to expect anything useful.

update: 12/20/2006 12:03 AM

--Kotor/o

Kotoro: "The Awakening"

(Title should probably be changed, but I can't think of a good one at the moment)

Bright light poured into his eyes as he awoke from a deep coma. The block of ice that had surrounded him for so long was already melting. To aid the process, Kotoro raised his output of chi to heat the area around him. Since he was already weakened by his various injuries, he wasn't able to speed it by much, but anything was better than staying in this blasted ice prison.

It took several hours to get his body temperature back under control. When he felt healthy enough, he began to make his way through the white emptiness that was the Hyperbolic Training Room, back toward the small living area that had been built near the door. It was a small dimension in which time flowed faster than time outside, with a door that exited to the temple where the guardian of planet Earth lived. He had no idea how long he had been inside. The only way to know for sure was to get out and ask someone, but before he could do that, he needed to heal, and the perfect way to do that should be in the kitchen of the living area. Korin often kept some of the magical senzu beans that could heal wounds in a bag near the door.

When he arrived at the living space, two things came to his attention. The door could no longer be seen, and there were no senzu beans.

"... I must've been here a heck of a lot longer than I originally planned. The fabric of this dimension has to be unstable, it'll probably rip open if enough energy disrupts the time field. Damn, this is going to take a lot of energy."

Kotoro poured an enormous amount of energy into each hand. Then, he focused the energy into an orb, one for each hand. In one hand he compressed the energy into Carbon atoms in the diamond crystal structure; in the other he formed an antimatter version of the same thing. Keeping a force field around each orb he tossed them into the distance and used his remaining energy to slam the two orbs together. The amount of matter created here was very tiny and this transfer was very inefficient, but the objective was to create a very strong sudden expansive explosion and this was the most effective method at his disposal.

Normally this would have cause an explosion similar to an atomic bomb, but instead the fabric of space-time folded and most of the energy resulting from the explosion was absorbed into the portal that opened up. Kotoro jumped through it.

As soon as he appeared in normal space, the explosive force rebounded back into normal space, thus shutting the tear in the dimensions. Kotoro didn't have enough energy to fight it and was rocketed into the distance, slamming into the ground and making a crater around 2KM wide and 1KM deep. He passed out soon after smashing into the ground, from exhaustion and pain.