Author's Note: This is my first DBZ Fanfic and I hope you enjoy! Please leave your thoughts in a review! This takes place after Z, but in a separate timeline from Super and GT.
"Will Zuchan and Goku please step onto the stage? Once they've shaken hands, the final match will commence!"
The announcer's voice boomed from the speakers surrounding the gigantic stadium. Rebuilt from the destruction after the first tenkaichi budokai, it was even bigger. A lean young man with spiky black hair stepped onto the fighting platform. His hair went up in one large spike in the middle, with several protruding out of the sides. Two bangs hung from the right side of his tan face. He wore a white gi that had a small Japanese kanji for life, "生活", on the chest and a larger one on the back. The boy's blazing green eyes stared down his opponent.
Across from him was a smiling man who looked around 30 years old. His uniform was orange with a blue belt and undershirt. No symbols were on his gi. They walked to the center of the stage as the audience roared. The two men shook hands and walked back to the opposite sides of the arena.
They both took fighting stances and the bell rang out, starting the fight. Goku flew at Zuchan full speed. Zuchan jumped up and fired a large ki blast at him. Goku deflected it and appeared behind Zuchan. "Got you!" he cheered playfully. He elbowed him down to the stadium, creating a huge crash. The ground was turned up and he was sitting in a crater of concrete.
A bloodied Zuchan got up from the rubble and shook off the dust. He charged at Goku and swung with a powerful right cross. Goku stopped the blow with a smile and slapped Zuchan back down, deepening the crater.
"I can see you're not gonna win, so I'll just finish you quickly!" Goku floated down to the stage floor and waited for Zuchan to climb out. Slowly, Zuchan crawled out of the hole and limped towards his opponent. Goku shot out a ki blast that threw him backwards to the outskirts of the ring.
Struggling up, Zuchan threw a ki blast right back at him. Again, taking it without flinching, Goku crouched and held his hands together.
"Kame… Hame… HA!"
A huge blue ki blast came straight for the weakened fighter. It knocked him out of the ring and into the parking lot.
"WOWZERS! That was some battle! Goku wiped the floor with Zuchan! He is now the victor of the Tenkaichi Budokai!"
Goku blushed at the kind words as a gigantic grin spread ear to ear. He scratched the back of his head and chuckled softly. "I think I might've overdone it," Goku's face dropped. He then quickly flew towards his opponent. Arriving there, he saw a battered warrior, mouth ajar and dripping blood.
Zuchan started to mutter something before his eyes shut tightly and his body fell limp. Goku's eyes widened. He picked up Zuchan and used instant transmission to appear at Korin's Tower.
"Quick Korin! Gimme a senzu bean!"
"I got it, big guy" Korin scrambled around, searching desperately for a senzu bean. All around the two were senzu bean sprouts, but very few fully developed senzu beans. Finally, Korin pulled one out that had slipped into the dirt between two sprouts.
"Here's one Goku!" Korin tossed it to him. He scowled at the dirt covered bean, but still shoved it into Zuchan's throat. In a second Zuchan woke up to the face of a large, white, bipedal cat holding a cane and growing green plants.
"Am I high?" Zuchan shuddered as he looked around. He saw Goku's smiling face and jumped out of his arms. "Where the hell am I?"
"Korin's Tower! Korin's the cat fella. He makes senzu beans. They're these things that heal you up real good and let you keep fighting. You looked like you were about to take the long dirt nap, so I figured it would be a pretty good time to grab one from him. Sorry I went so hard on you back there. I gotta hold back more."
Zuchan ran to the edge of the tower and looked down. Turning back to Goku, he leaned back on the ledge and looked down at the floor. "Hold back? So that wasn't your full strength? Please tell me you're joking. The hell did you do to get so strong? Steroids?"
"Haha, well I'm part of the alien race known as the saiyans who trained for years under an old turtle hermit, then I died and trained under the god of the Northern Planets, then I trained with the prince of my alien race, Vegeta, to see who would be better. He didn't come to the tournament because Bulma is pregnant with their next kid and Bulma wouldn't let him. We're gonna spar later"
Zuchan's jaw dropped. His eyes were the size of baseballs. He nearly fainted. "What? You're an alien? Really? Oh yeah, and I'm a giant ape who can shoot laser beams out of his mouth. What'd you really do?"
"That was it! I swear!" Goku turned to Korin, "Ain't that right Korin?"
"Yup" Korin's expression hadn't changed the whole time, which was all the more baffling to Zuchan.
"Well if that's the case then I wanna train like you too. What was that Maheha thing you did again?"
"Oh! You mean the Kamehameha," Goku shrugged and walked towards the ledge, "If we go to Roshi's place you can learn all about that"
He stepped off the ledge and fell through the clouds. Zuchan started to peer his head over the edge when Goku popped up from seemingly nowhere.
"Well? You comin' or not?"
"Uh-um, of course!" Zuchan stuttered as he leaped off the ledge and hovered next to Goku.
"Okay, just follow me," Goku started flying towards the tiny island that hosted the turtle hermit. The two blasted past the tallest of mountains, the greenest of forests and the bluest of lakes, until they came upon Master Roshi's Island. They landed and walked towards the entrance.