Chapter 1

:The incident

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Dragon Ball Z. All rights are owned by their respective owners,Toei, Toriyama, etc. This is purely a fanfictional work done by a simple fan done for fun. I do no get profit from this in any way.

While Gohan and his friends had been off in space bringing back Goku from the dead and saving the Nameks from Broly the Earth had been facing it's own crisis without the protection of it's most powerful defenders. It'd been five weeks after Gohan, Vegeta, Videl, Trunks, Bulma and Chi-Chi had departed for New Namek and over a month since Piccolo had left to join them too. Things had been moving along smoothly on Earth since then, Yamcha was staying over at the Briefs in order to help take care of baby Trunks as a favor to his long time love interest Bulma and also helping her father Dr. Briefs with all his various experiments. "Hey Doc? What the heck does this contraption do anyway? I mean, what the heck is it that you're working on this time? What's the experiment about?" asked Yamcha as he sat in a chair surrounded on both sides by scientific machinery with dozens of wires and electrodes sticking into him. "Oh? Well you see Bulma once told me that Vegeta told her that pure blooded Saiyans' hair never grows from the day they're born. Well that got the old gears turning and I thought why not try intergrating those features into a product that regrows hair and makes them stay that way. It was a good thing that I had samples of pure Saiyan DNA from Goku and Vegeta on file in order to create such a formula. Although I thought it would be best to use only Goku's DNA since we don't want to risk anyone accidently getting Vegeta's personnality traits. But just imagine it, people might never have to go for their haircuts as long as they live or bald people could grow back their hair to exactly the way it was before. Just imagine the possibilities my boy!" explained Dr. Briefs from behind his computer panel that sat parallel across to where Yamcha sat on the machinery. "Yeah... I can imagine it..." dreamily said Yamcha as he envisioned himself with his wild black mullet again and beind swooned over by women.

"Alright then, what do you say we get things started." said Dr. Briefs as he then began typing the keyboards on his computer and started up the machines. A pair of mechanical hands above Yamcha's head began moving as some dark greenish coloured gel-like substance was poured onto his head and the mechanical hands began lathering the substance on his head like an old fashioned shampoo. Things seemed to be going well, until the cat on Dr. Briefs' shoulder noticed a lovely little butterfly that had flown in from the garden outside and landed on the computer keyboard. The cat leaped in trying to catch the butterfly in a moment of comical animal instinct but it landed on the keyboard causing the computer and by defacto the machinery to go haywire.

The machinery around Yamcha began to short-circuit as the arms above him began to flail around in all sorts of directions and electrical shorts were happening all around. Before Yamcha could unstrap himself and get out he was electrocuted in his chair shortly before the machinery exploded behind him, knocking him out of his chair and into the floor face first. Smoke filled the room as Yamcha layed unconscious as electricity continued to coarse through his body as the glass vile containing the experimental substance in the machine cracked open and sending gooey liquid washing all over the floor. The liquid slowly spread its way across the floor until it reached Yamcha's still simmering electrified body and washed all over him. The heat from the shocks caused some of the liquid to evaporate and be absorbed into Yamcha's skin. After a few moments of being left all alone obscured by the smoke, Dr. Briefs finally battled his way coughingly through the smoke and rescued the unconscious Z-Fighter by dragging him to safety.

A few hours later, Yamcha sprang forth to wake up and found himself lying in a bed in the Capsule Estates' hospital wing. "Wha-What the heck happened?" asked a befuddled and confused Yamcha as he rubbed his hand on his head in confusion. "Aaah! I see that you're awake now. It's a good thing that since you're one of 'those' fighters that you're body is as tough as it is otherwise I don't think you would've survived long enough for me to pull you out." said Dr. Briefs as he sat at Yamcha's bedside. "Yeah, I remember now. We were conducting an experiment when the machinery blew out. How long was I out?" inquired Yamcha. "It's been about 2 to 3 hours since I've brought you here and I must say that you've shown an incredible recovery in waking up so fast. And it also appears that that's not the only thing that's worked fast. It seems that my new formula also works fast." Dr. Briefs jokingly explained. It was then that Yamcha realised that the hand he was rubbing his head with was holding a tuft of hair that was totally unlike the short black spikes he had on before. Yamcha then got out of bed and walked over to a nearby mirror on the wall and looked to find that his hair had grown back to the long wild black mullet he had had back before the invasion of the Saiyans. "OOOH YEAH! I am liking this! I'll bet the ladies are gonna like this. Especially now that Bulma's out of the picture for good now and I'm totally single again. The 'Wild Lone Wolf' is back!" exclaimed Yamcha as he then gave himself a total thumbs up pose in the mirror accompanied by a sparkling white smile.

As Yamcha continued to flex his arms and strike poses to himself in the mirror, Dr. Briefs looked on in silent dismay. "*coughing**clears his throat* Yes.. Well, according to your tests that I had done on you while you were out show that you are apparently in perfect health and so far you haven't shown any indications of any side-effects. Although I would like to keep you around for another day for observation or at least to wait until your blood test results come back just to make sure that nothing has effected your systems but I see no reason to keep you here any longer." announced Dr. Briefs. "Hey! That's great to hear doc!" exclaimed Yamcha as he turned around and forgot about his 'posing'. "Yes, but if you're not too busy I would like to ask you if you wouldn't mind continuing helping me with my work today. There's still many things I need to do today and I could still use someone to help me." asked Dr. Briefs in his usual friendly but lackadaisical style. "Sure thing doc! But just so long as its not me who's the guinea pig okay?" Yamcha pleaded in a somewhat whinny sounding voice. Dr. Briefs sweatdropped but then just laughed it off. "Hahaha... Don't worry, you won't have to go through that again. All you'll be doing from now on is observe and assist as I conduct my research and experiments for the day." explained Dr. Briefs which made Yamcha feel a heck of a lot safer and so he agreed and for the rest of the day Yamcha continued to assist Dr. Briefs in his work for the day.

A little later on in the day, Dr. Briefs went up to the observatory along with his assistant Yamcha and the newly arrived Oolong to continue tracking an object in space that he had been observing for the past couple of days. "Oh, dear me! Oh my, this isn't good my furry little colleague." mumbled Dr. Brief to his cat on his shoulder while he sat on an uplifted chair as he observed through the telescope. "Meow..." simply responded the cat. "Yes, I know, but how?" responded Dr. Briefs, as if he could understand the animal. "So what's the scoop Doc? Is it gonna hit?" asked Yamcha from the railing platform surrounding the telescope. "I'm afraid so my boy. It won't be long now." grimly assessed the still ever calm Dr. Briefs. "Whaaat? How can you be so calm?" exclaimed the incredulous Yamcha. "Can't we just destroy the darn thing for goodness sake?" questioned the ever cowardly Oolong. "Yes, we've thought about that. It's definitely an option. But the problem is it's inhabited." again grimly assessed Dr. Briefs as he continued to look through the telescope lens. "Huh?" exclaimed Yamcha. "It's either them or us?" simply said Oolong. It was then that Yamcha walked up to the opening in the observatory and leaned on it with his forearm as he looked off into the sky reflectively. "Yeah, I know but we don't want to hurt anyone. But man! What are we gonna do? This is sure is heck of a great time for Gohan and the others to be away in space. We could sure use their help right about now. I just wish Goku were here. I'd betcha he'd know what to do." said Yamcha as he stared off seriously into the sky.

Pretty soon all the regular scientists also detected the object and the news spread quickly over the world as panic gripped every person on Earth. The planet sized object continued it's path until it struck the Earth and made it explode into hundreds of millions of space rocks, but only on tv screens all over the Earth. "Well folks, you saw it. That's the computer simulation of what's going to happen to the Earth later this afternoon. Now, if you're anything like me then you're scared and you don't want to spend the last moments on Earth in a television studio! So have a happy end of the world. See you, bye!" said the newsman on the tv screen as he hastily picked up a bunch of stuff and started walking out the studio which then caused the people holding the camera to panic and drop it and run for their lives. Krillin was forced backwards in surprise out of his couch from what he saw on his televison at KameHouse. "Holy cow! I just wanted to see the sports! *groans* Instead I find that the worlds ending. Oh man, it can't end! I've never even gone on a date with Android 18 yet. DooaaaaaH! It's not fair, I haven't even lived yet!" cried out Krillin as he looked up with tears streaming out of his eyes. "There, there honey *snores* It's alright, don't worry ladies there's enough of me to go around." mumbled out Master Roshi as he slept in a deckchair with a perverted magazine laying on top of his face. "How can Master Roshi sleep at a time like this!" asked out loud an incredulous Krillin.

Meanwhile, as people panicked in the streets around them, Launch and Chiaotzu were watching the exact same program as Krillin did on the many tv screens on display in a store window with bags in their hands. "Great! I finally find Tien again and managed ta convince him ta let me live with him again guys and this happens while I'm out shoppin." said a highly annoyed sounding Launch. "Well just so long as you agreed to stop robbing people then you can stay. Both you and Tien should have a little love in your lives. But yeah, it is bad that this had to happen now of all times. I hope that Krillin and Yamcha can handle things on their own." spoke Chiaotzu as he then watched overhead as two white jetstreams flew in the skies over the city.

The streaks belonged to Yamcha and Krillin as they made their way high in the sky to try and intercept the incoming threat. "Alright, remember what the Doc said, we're not trying to destroy this thing, just change its course." said Yamcha as he and Krillin floated above some clouds. "Right, I got it. It's risky though. It would be alot easier just to blow the whole thing up ya know." said Krillin with a hint of question in his voice. "Yeah, I know but do you want the deaths of possibly millions of innocent people on your conscience?" asked Yamcha rhetorically. "I was afraid you'd say something like that." replied Krillin. Suddenly the wind picked up as the stellar object began to close in with the Earth's atmosphere. Meanwhile, Chiaotzu and Launch observed from down below somewhere in the countryside near the city looking up in the sky praying for their success.

"HAAAAAAAA!" screamed out both Yamcha and Krillin as they both unleashed their powerful Kamehameha waves simultaniously up into space. Their beams danced, snaked and wound their way around each other until they combined into one massive Kamehameha beam. The blast made contact with the planetary object but for some reason it broke apart on contact like a water droplet on a waxed dome. "WHAT!? OH NO!" screamed out Yamcha in surprise and horror as both he and Krillin were totally stunned at what had happened to their beam. The planet then closed in on them and caused terrible wind pressure that blew them away.

As the object closed with the surface of the Earth it caused all sorts of devastation all across the eastern side of the planet. High winds blew away buildings and cities as well as causing massive waves to rise up and devastate coastal areas and flooding cities and their streets with massive waves. Volcanoes erupted and earthquakes that broke the ground occured all over the east side of the planet as people themselves for what they feared was the end of all. Chiaotzu and Launch were forced to hunker down on the grassy ground as the hurricane-like winds threatened to blow them off their feet. "THIS IS ITTTTTT!" screamed Launch as she felt the moment had come. But then the planetary object suddenly and unexpectedly shifted its course on its axis as if on its own just before it would've impacted the Earth. The object then suddenly exploded inexplicably on its own after getting a safe distance away from Earth and leaving it unharmed. The threat had been averted, but for what reason?

Author's Final Thoughts: Well... there you have it, Yamcha's going to be starring in his own sidestory. I always felt that Yamcha got shafted in the DBZ series and even in Dragonball a little. I always felt that his character was really cool, especially at the start of the original series. And when he appeared at the start of the Saiyan Saga, I initially thought that he looked as cool and as feral as ever and that he looked ready to seriously rip it up. But then he sorta... got... killed... A major buzzkill. And then he sorta started getting really shafted as a character after that. And now this is my chance to rectify that to a certain extent. And so while the others are of in space reviving Goku and fighting Broly, Yamcha and the rest of the gang left behind are going to be dealing with a threat back on Earth. This story is going to be about Yamcha getting a power up and saving the world from Lord Slug and will follow mostly about the events of Movie 4. With Yamcha taking the leading role from Goku and with Tien and Chiaotzu taking the places of Piccolo and Gohan in the movie.

And about the whole "incident" with the shampoo and the Dr. Briefs. Now I'll admit that it was a pretty crazy and implausible scenario, but given from what we've seen in DBZ itself, it's not as implausible as other things we've seen. But then again, you can't really say that you couldn't really see Dr. Briefs attempting a crazy scheme like this can you? But long story short, this was the best way I could think of to give Yamcha a power up while giving him the wild hair I loved back and simultaniously make it seem plausible for the characters and all the while making it work for the movie plot while making it believable in its own universe.