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The Replacements

Chap1: Morning training

In A far corner of the earth a legendary man can be found. A man who has achieved deeds most humans couldn't fatham. This man... is sleeping.

"There's no way for you to win now I can easily doge your beams up here"

"Oh really, take this Ka… mee…haa… mee… haaaa! "

"Ohmfff".

"The winner of the world martial arts tournament is Tien!"

Buzzzzzzzzz! Goku awoke with a start at the sound of the alarm clock. He had just had another dream about his old friend's Tien, Yamcha, Chiaotzu, and Krillin."Come on get out of there he told himself as he rubbed his forehead. After a quick shower he was outside for his morning training with gohan and goten."Come on goten that can't be all you've got" said goku pushing more energy into his blast.

"I 'm not done yet, haaaaaaaaaaaa," screamed Goten as he powered up to his maximum. His beam automatically doubled in size as hiski began to pour into it.

"Hey dad" gohan said as he appeared at goku's side and hit him with a hard left hook.Goku didn't move but sharply increased his power level knocking Gohan back from the force of the shockwave.

"Darn" Goten thought as goku's beam quickly began to swallow his, "get him gohan I can't hold him forever."

"Alright here goes," yelled gohan as he charged at goku. Out of nowhere he was backhanded and flung into theground, skidding to a stop right before goku's feet. Goten's beam was swallowed by Goku's and the two blasts washed over him blasting him out of the sky. Gohan and goten quickly got to their feet and regrouped.

"What was that gohan, you had a perfect shot at him."

"I don't know I got hit by something" replied the equally clueless half sayain, just then two goku's appeared before them and in a blindingflash of gold transformed to super sayian. "He's using the duplicate technique, I haven't seen this move since we fought Nappa" said Gohan remembering the life or death battle.

"Let's go then," said goten as he was surrounded in a familiar golden aura. Their trainingcontinued as goten and goku and gohan and goku's duplicate fought. The four powerhouses continued to trade blows at an impossible to see speed.

"Boy's breakfast", yelled chi-chi! "Ah man," they said in unison as they powered down and went in for food.

It has been about 2 years since the defeat of super android 17 and the world has been pretty peaceful. After a year goku was wished back to normal and returned to his family. "What are you going to do today honey?" questioned the aging housewife.

"I don't know chi-chi, there is not much to do".

"Well why don't you train some".

"Training is not as much fun without krillin or the guys to train with." replied the slightly sullen Goku. Yes that's right krillin and the others are gone.

Let me explain, nothing happened to them like everyone thought it would, no monster destroyed them; they didn't sacrifice themselves to stop a meteorite. No it came in the worst way…Weakness. The're time was up with the coming of the bird flu. Although they were in prime physical condition there bodies were starting to get old and could not fight off the disease. Bulma for all her genius did her best to save them and stop the virus but it was too tricky to stop. But even in death the fighters had saved earth, because once the rest of the fighters knew their fate. Goku gathered the dragonballs and wished for an antidote. But unfortunately it was too late for the human fighters. They had all been wished back by the dragon balls before and therefore could not be wished back again. The brave defenders of earth could rest easy knowing they had done their part in saving humanity. Each had small funerals and were honored as deserved, but alas they were gone.