(Author's Note: This is my second story being written on this website. It focuses on Gohan if he were able to find a strong sparring partner, which is either Vegeta or Piccolo, to encourage him to train more after the battle with Cell. In this story, the person will be Vegeta because there are already many stories with Piccolo training with Gohan. This Gohan will be very different from the one displayed in the Buu saga because rather than settling down and continuing to be home schooled, he continues his father's legacy as a fighter. This story will not be as long as my other story, The True Saiyans. Please read and review, I hope you enjoy!)
Disclaimer: I don't own DB/Z/GT, or anything having to do with Dragonball. This is just a fanfiction.
Chapter Cover: Piccolo and Vegeta watch in awe as Gohan transforms into a Super Saiyan 2, and slightly beyond for the second time nearby them.
Chapter 1: Strongest In The Universe
-Three days after the Cell Games-
The Earth is still rattled with memories of the terror the android Cell brought upon them just a few days before. Many were revived, but their memories still lived with them. The world has become a seemingly much more dangerous place, with people on-edge all the time and ready to kill to defend themselves.
Gohan has felt isolated ever since that day. He was responsible for his father's death, and he knew it. His mother could do nothing to console him, no matter what anyone said, they could not convince him that his father was happy and was in a better place. He didn't care what they said ... he killed his father, an innocent man, he was a murderer.
Piccolo, however, knew Gohan better than anyone else. He didn't understand what was going on with Gohan, but he did know Gohan enough to know just how to fix it. The problem wasn't that Gohan believed his father ... no, he would never believe anything else. The problem was that nobody was helping him to get over this.
Piccolo noticed that three days had passed since he caused his father's death and nobody else fixed his problems for him. Also, Gohan didn't train at all. He had his face in his books the whole time, and slept sitting on his desk. Piccolo found that if this problem was going to be fixed, he would have to step in (#1). He decided to pay Gohan a visit.
"Gohan!" he calls from outside Gohan's window. He knew that Gohan would be able to sense him approaching from half of the Earth away, but he had a feeling that Gohan wasn't feeling okay and wasn't using his senses. When he actually looked through the window, his fears were confirmed. Gohan's room was a total mess, and he was knocked out next to his bed.
"Gohan! Gohan! GOHAN!" Piccolo repeats to Gohan's body, who's power is drastically decreasing from its already unusually low level. Piccolo knew the only person other than him who would be able to figure out his problem, Vegeta, had given up fighting. But this problem wasn't due to any injuries he received during his fight with Cell; he had a senzu bean directly after the fight.
Piccolo picked up Gohan's limp body and flew straight for Capsule Corporation. Even though Vegeta wasn't training, he still lived there with Bulma and Trunks. In less than a minute, he was outside of Vegeta's window. He didn't want to deal with Bulma's yelling and Trunks' crying. Vegeta, even though he wasn't fighting, was still using his abilities to their fullest, and senses Piccolo long before he arrives.
"What do you want, Namek?" Vegeta calls out, just before Piccolo arrives with Gohan in his arms.
"Him ... there's something wrong with him, and since you're the last full-blooded Saiyan left on this planet, I believe you would know what happened to him" Piccolo replies, motioning towards Gohan.
"Well, unlike you, I have been checking tabs on the strongest warrior in the universe ... I recognize how his power level decreased. He's half-Saiyan, and from the looks of him he obviously hasn't been eating. You, being a Namek, wouldn't understand this because all your kind needs is water" Vegeta responds, so calm that it's evident he's not lying.
"Great ... now I have to deal with Bulma ..." Piccolo says, mostly to himself.
"What was that?" Vegeta says, a tint of venom in his voice, which was all the warning Piccolo needed. Vegeta may have stopped training, but three days wasn't enough to give Piccolo the advantage in a fight.
"Don't worry about it, Saiyan ..." Piccolo says, carefully picking out his words as so to not anger the prince.
Piccolo then walked out of the room with Gohan over his shoulder. He went to the room where he felt Bulma's energy, and found her laying on her bed, sad even.
At the sight of Piccolo, Bulma sighs. "Ever since the Cell Games, he hasn't been talking to Trunks and I. All he has done is get food and stay in his room and ..." her jaw almost drops when she sees Gohan.
"Oh my gosh! What happened to him?" Bulma screams. The savior of the Earth, the successor of his father, the strongest in the universe, was on the verge of death and was extremely pale.
"He hasn't been eating ... and he's a half-Saiyan, a senzu bean can't keep him full for a whole ten days (#2)" Piccolo explains, and Bulma immediately understands.
"That's it! A senzu bean! If you just get him another, not only will he lose his hunger, but he will be recovered! You should get him one now, Piccolo, he's dying!" Bulma responds.
Piccolo didn't need to be told twice. He purposely flew through Vegeta's window, breaking it, and in a matter of minutes was on Korin's Tower.
"I already know why you're here ... I felt his energy decrease, too. Here!" Korin shouts, while throwing a senzu bean at Piccolo. As expected, Piccolo catches it, and begins to fly back to Capsule Corporation.
Several moments later, he arrives back inside the home. He puts the bean in Gohan's mouth and forces him to chew and swallow it. Slowly but surely, Gohan gets up. He looks around, shocked to see that he wasn't dead. He had been purposely starving himself, which was painful even due to him being a half-Saiyan.
"I wanted to be with my dad! I don't deserve to live while he has to be up there alone!" Gohan yells, powering up into a Super Saiyan at the same time. He then blasts off towards the mountains, even though he knows that the Z-Fighters can sense him going there.
"We need to stop him ... the kid is a prodigy, but the emotional toll his father's death took on him is far too great for him to handle on his own" Piccolo says.
Just then, Vegeta came out of his opened door. "He'll kill us if we try to use our power against us. He knows and trusts you much more than he does me, so I suggest you go alone, and if that doesn't work we'll step in" he suggests.
"If that's what it takes to stop him, it must be done ... we can't have a hostile Super Saiyan eleven year old on the loose" Piccolo replies. Then, he leaves the home and he flies off in the direction that Gohan went in.
It isn't long before he reaches where Gohan has arrived at. The look he sees in Gohan's eyes shocks him. His eyes were even more cold than they were when he was a Super Saiyan 2, but he was a Full-Power Super Saiyan, and was supposed to be as calm as he was in base. Then, Piccolo tries to approach Gohan.
"Don't you guys get it? LEAVE ME ALONE!" he says, before his power explodes. His power is even greater than it was when he initially ascended, partially due to him recovering from battle, and the rest from his new found insanity.
Then, Piccolo examines Gohan the way he had seen him only once before. His hair became longer and more rigid, and he has became slightly taller. Suddenly, Gohan starts powering up again. This time, his energy feels disturbed, something very unusual for the Gohan that Piccolo knew.
"His power! It's ... amazing!" Vegeta says, in his Super Saiyan form. Gohan's power was so overwhelming that Piccolo couldn't sense Vegeta's power, which was greater than his own, approaching.
Suddenly, Gohan turns to the both of them. "I will be forced to kill you if you do not leave ... IMMEDIATELY!" he screams, and Piccolo and Vegeta don't hesitate to leave. If he had this power only 3 days before, he could have killed Super Perfect Cell with no problem. The problem, Piccolo figured out, was that he was too hostile. Without a good influence in his life, like his father was before his death, Gohan is as uncontrollable as a baby, with a power far surpassing the gods.
"I think we should leave him alone for now ..." Piccolo starts, facing Vegeta mid-flight.
"WHAT? That is an absolutely stupid idea! At this rate, he may accidentally, or not-so-accidentally, destroy the planet! We need someone strong enough to control him, and even his father wouldn't be able to do that!" Vegeta quickly responds, to get the idea out of Piccolo's head.
'Vegeta has used up both of his years in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber ... but I've only used one year inside. At least this will ensure me a chance against Gohan if he ever becomes too hostile and targets us, and some respect from Vegeta. He probably won't take himself being weaker than me too well, but this is for a much bigger cause than him ...' Piccolo thinks, upon hearing Vegeta's words.
"Are you listening to me at all? If we don't stop him, WE WILL DIE!Dumb Namekians ..." Vegeta says, angered upon being ignored by the fellow warrior. A while later, after receiving no response from Piccolo, he flew off back towards his home. If there's one thing Vegeta can't tolerate, it's being ignored, but he realized that if he fought Piccolo the results may be less than desirable for the planet.
'It worked. Now that he's gone, I know exactly what I'm going to do. I know that he'd try to stop me from becoming more powerful than him if he knew what I was trying to do beforehand ... but he can't stand to be ignored and can't fight me at the moment. The Hyperbolic Time Chamber will give me the training necessary to help, and if it comes to it, stop, Gohan. We can't have the strongest being in the universe loose on a single planet, there's no way that the planet will survive.' Piccolo says in his head, even though he didn't need to now that Vegeta was gone. He then heads towards his destination, the Lookout, so he can go inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber for yet another year of training. He was looking forward to shaming the Prince once again.
This is chapter 1, of course it's going to be short (compared to the upcoming chapters, at least). I can't have much going on in the first chapter, or else you won't be surprised by the later chapters.
Chapter Notes:
(#1): Goku is dead and in Otherworld, Vegeta isn't fighting anymore, and Future Trunks is gone (for this chapter, at least). This leaves Piccolo as the next strongest person on the planet (by far, in comparison to the other Z-Fighters) and the only person left to deal with Gohan's insanity.
(#2): This doesn't go against canon. Saiyans don't actually stay full for ten days from a senzu bean, which was shown in canon. Since Gohan is a half-Saiyan, I can manipulate the amount of time it takes him to be able to become hungry again. For this instance, it was just a couple of hours (for the plot, of course!).
(#3): In this story, the Super Saiyan multiplier decreases like in canon. In my other story, The True Saiyans, the Super Saiyan multiplier stays constant at 50-75x. So don't complain about the multipliers for Super Saiyan being different in the story. Also, Super Saiyan 2 will ALWAYS be 7x Super Saiyan. It's my opinion and I'm sticking with it.
Power Levels:
Piccolo – 4,700,000,000
Vegeta (Base) – 700,000,000
(Super Saiyan) – 5,600,000,000
Gohan (Base) – 1,300,000,000
(Super Saiyan) – 10,400,000,000
(Super Saiyan 2) – 72,800,000,000
(Just a little higher than Super Saiyan 2) – 85,000,000,000
Perfect Cell – 25,000,000,000
Super Perfect Cell – 77,000,000,000
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