Gohan's Inter-Dimensional Adventure:

Chapter: 1

:Journey To Yardrat

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.

Things had been going pretty smoothly for Gohan over the last 6 months since he'd arrived back from his adventures in space. Baby Goten was born 3 months ago after a 6 month pregnancy to the great joy of the Son family. Chi-Chi's pregancy was only six months long due to it's half-Saiyan nature. Chi-Chi said that it was the same when she had him and though they didn't exactly know why it was at the time but now they now knew that it was because that they were half-Saiyan. Vegeta explained that full blooded Saiyan pregnancies were more accelerated due to the demands on a warrior race and that it took only three months for them but since they were only half Saiyan it took twice as long for them. Anyway, it was exciting for Gohan to being a big brother for Goten even though he could be quite the handful. At the Son household they each had to share equal responsibilities for Goten and boy was he ever a handful. Although things seemed to go especially smoothly with Goten whenever Goku took care of him. Goten seemed to connect with his father better than anyone else in the family and he would seem to calm down almost immediately after Goku would hold. It was both weird and touching to see them together since they both looked exactly like each other. Goten was definitely looking to take after his father in more than just looks. But Gohan was glad for it since it almost didn't get to happen and Gohan hated the thought of what would've happened if Goten would never have gotten to meet their father.

But other things had been brewing meantime with the other Z-Fighters. The Cell Games had renewed public interest in the old World Martial Arts Tournament and shortly after they had arrived from their space adventure it was announced that a new one was going to be held in 9 months as the opening celebration of the week commemorating Mr. Satan's "defeat" of Cell. All of the Z-Fighters wanted to participate for the chance to compete with each other in one final tournament and so they all agreed to train in their own seperate ways and to be ready when the tournament came. Goku went to train in the Otherworld by using his Instant Transmission technique to go to and back when the time came for him to go back home. Chi-Chi allowed it since Goku was able to arrive on time for whatever it was that he'd need to do for Goten and stay around the house for at least most of the day. But Gohan however had to juggle between taking care of Goten, his studies and his chores before he could even think about training. But somehow he was able to do it and secretly snuck out under his mother's nose to perform some secret training of his own unbeknowst to the other members of his family and everyone else.

Meanwhile Videl was having her own family troubles. Her mother had returned and had reunited with her father even though they decided they weren't going to remarry from their divorce. They decided that they were going to unoffially share custody in which one parent would mostly take care of her during their own agreed apon day. Her mother's apparent return from the dead was explained away to the general public as that she had been flung from her car during her crash and that someone else she had picked up was the unidentified body they had found in the car and that due to her injuries in the crash she had spent several months in a coma and it wasn't until her daughter found her that she'd woken up. The public bought it and Videl's two month disappearance was also explained as her being with her mother during her recovery. Videl loved being with her mother again and especially so since not only was she allowed to train freely with her but also her mother helped her in her training by teaching her alot of what she'd learned in her many years as a space fighter. Although she couln't fight anymore she still had great insight in what fighting is like at that level and made for a great trainer. And although she didn't very much like it when her father took care of her due to his egotistical ways she still loved him and wouldn't have settled for him not being in at least some part of her life. And all this was happening under the roof of the same building as both her mother and father owned seperate halves of the massive Satan family mansion household so she would never have to live in a seperate house so all she did was walk to the other side of the mansion to be with either one.

Videl went to visit the Son family household periodically to visit Gohan so she could just loosen up and be herself. It was practically the only times when either one of them could just loosen up and be a kid and just play and have fun like normal. It would also be a good opportunity for Gohan to help Videl in her training occasionally since it was her only other real opportunity to do so. Videl was the only one who knew that Gohan was training in secret since she was the only one he felt he could confide in it to although neither one would ask nor tell of the specifics of their training as they both wanted it to be a surprise for the tournament. And although neither one of them were totally aware of it, they were both growing a lot closer to each other than just friendship during their little visits. Although both were somewhat aware of their own personnal feelings towards the other but neither one really wanted to admit it. But all the same they still knew that they were falling in love with each other and to the adults who observed them day by day it was as clear as day that young love was brewing between them and they did their best to either just stay out of he way or to help it along if and when they could.

But today was a different day, as Gohan was at Capsule Corp. to help Bulma with her latest experiment. He was wearing his father's style uniform today. "So, this is it?" asked Gohan as he saw that in the middle of the lab there was a large rectangular machine about the size of a one story house that was grayish in colour with an oval shaped ring about eight feet high and about four feet wide on top of the forward edge with a small platform in front of it that was connected to a ramp that led to the floor sitting right in the middle of the great grey machine. There were also large brownish coloured plates sticking out of many places around the apparatus. Bulma was sitting at a computer console at the base of the giant machine. "Yup, this is it. This is the Time and Space Portal device I told you about." declared Bulma in a prideful boast. "Wow! Does it actually work?" asked an impressed and curious Gohan. "Well... I haven't actually sent anything through it yet. I don't think it's entirely stable yet, there's still some little kinks to work out." explained Bulma.

Gohan spotted a table next to him with lots of tools and unfinished gadgets lying around on it. There in the middle was a what looked like a stange dark coloured watch with a thick octogonal ring. (A/N: Basically it's like a medawatch from the show Medabots. Look it up if you don't know what that is.) Curious, Gohan slipped the device on his wrist. "What is this thing Bulma?" asked Gohan as he showed her his wrist. Bulma looked back to identify what he was talking about. "Oh that's a Portal Beacon. The portal computer locks on to it's signal and sends a portal to it's location to pick up whoever's using it and bring them back here from wherever or whenever across time and space where the person is located. You just press and your off back home. Or at least that's how it's supposed to work." explained Bulman as she then went back to work.

Gohan continued to look at the device on his wrist and pressing the buttons to check how it worked exactly. Pretty son he'd mindlessly walked up directly up to the portal ring and when he realised where was he looked forward in curiousity. "Sooooo? Can you even turn it on yet?" Gohan asked, a clear challenge in his voice. It was then that Bulma's sparked in eagerness to answer the challenge to her genius. "Well of course I can! I've already turned it on before. Just watch!" Bulma declared as she began frantically typing something up on her console in answer to the challenge, unaware of where exactly Gohan was since she hadn't looked at him and pretty soon the machinery came to life. Suddenly a portal that looked like a metal or mercury looking liquid appeared and seemed to warp itself in on the inside of the oval ring in front of Gohan.

Gohan looked on at the strange looking portal with fascination and soon he made his hand go up as if to touch the substance out of curiousity but he stayed inches away due to the hazard. "What do you think of that mr..." said Bulma as she was about to brag to Gohan about showing him up in some way but she cut herself off when she saw where he was. "So strange... and yet so beautiful at the same time." Gohan almost whispered to himself. "Gohaaan! Get away from there! The portal is still unstable! It's not safe yet!" screamed out Bulma to try to warn him but it was too late. A powerful sucking wind emitted itself from inside the portal and before Gohan could even react it sucked him inside the portal. "Oh no! Gohaaaaaan!" Bulma screamed in anguish as warning lights screamed on Bulma's computer screen and she then went around typing frantically on her console to try and bring him back.

Meanwhile, off somewhere on a distant planet a portal suddenly appeared out of thin air and opened up at a diagonal angle a few meters above the ground where Gohan was tossed out and it collapsed in on itself and disappeared as soon as he was out. Gohan hit the ground chest first and slid a few inches forward with his feet up in the air. "Well that could've gone smoother." Gohan said to himself as he lifted himself up while rubbing the back of his sore head. "Well... at least one good thing came out of this. We now know that Bulma's portal machine definitely works. But anyway, wherever or whenever I am I should probably get back before I get into more trouble than I already am right now. Lucky for me I had the Portal Beacon with me when I got transported." said Gohan to himself as he went to press the button on the control watch but sparks shot out of it which forced Gohan to reel back. "Oh maaaaaannnn... It's broken! Just great... Now how am I supposed to get back?" muttered Gohan despairingly to himself.

Then Gohan looked around to see where he was and try to get his bearings but only to realise that he was surrounded by hundreds of pink skinned aliens with great round heads and squinted eyes along with wearing clothes just like his father had worn when he'd gotten back from planet Namek almost four years earlier. Gohan was freaked out at first but stayed still. 'These guys must be the Yardrats dad told me about.' Gohan concluded to himself. The Yardrats all looked pretty scared but curious about their new arrival. Finally one Yardrat moved out of the crowd and asked him something in his native language that Gohan obviously didn't understand. "Uuuuuh? I didn't understand what you just said... but my name is Gohan and I'm sorry for the trouble but I'm stranded here and I need a way home. Can you help me? Is this planet Yardrat and if so my father Goku came here once and you guys helped him by nursing him back to health and sent him back to find his way home. I want you to know that he made it back safely and that he told us that you wee a real friendly people." Gohan said, trying to make contact. The Yardrat in front of him looked back at the other Yardrats in apparent confusion and they looked around amongst themselves in confusion as well while muttering in their native language.

One Yardrat in the front row ran out of the crowd with all the others in his path opening up to give him a clear path out of the crowd. Gohan was pretty nervous at that point as he didn't know what they were going to do with him. Finally after a little while the Yardrat who left came back with another Yadrat who came right up to Gohan. "Who are you stranger? They say that out of your strange language that they didn't understand they thought they heard you spoke the name Goku." said the new Yardrat in a voice that sounded like many squirrels talking at once. "Yeah I did. My name is Gohan and Goku's my father. I sorta got sent here by accident and I'm sort of stuck for the moment." explained Gohan, overjoyed that he'd found one person who could speak his language. "Ah! So your the son of Goku! I'm Yondar, I was your father's caretaker on this planet when he was here so I learned his language and he learned ours from me. I sorry to hear of your predicament but you are welcome to stay here as long as you need until you can find a way home." declared Yondar. "That's good to hear." said Gohan with a smile. "I must say you scared the living daylights out of our local residence. Why don't I explain to them who you are and why your here and also that you don't mean any harm." said Yondar who then immediately addressed the crowd in their native language and reassured them. Judging by all the cheering they did Gohan could tell that they were glad at the news. Yondar led him through the crowd to show him to a place where he could stay. "You know my dad said that he learned his Instant Transmission technique from you guys. I was hoping that I could learn the same." said Gohan as they walked their way through the cheering crowd. "It would be a pleasure to teach it to you my young friend." said Yondar with a great big smile.

Gohan spent about a month on planet Yardrat. He learned the Instant Transmission technique quite rapidly and had a happy time mingling with the people and learning about their culture. But pretty soon it was time to leave as the chief scientists on the planet fixed his wristwatch beacon device as best they could. "Now remember Gohan, our scientists couldn't fix the device completely. They said the best they could do was make it so that you would receive portals but that the places and times you end up in will be totally randomized so be careful. It could take a while before you end up back home." said Yondar as he stood at the vanguard of a crowd to see him off. "I will... and thanks. Thanks for letting me stay and helping me out get back hom. I won't forget it or any of you who I've made friends with over the past month here. Thank you and Goodbye!" Gohan said as he pressed the button on his wristwatch and a portal appeared behind him. Gohan waved goodbye to his new friends as he leaped into the portal and off to unknown places and dangers through time and space on a journey back home.


Author's Final Thoughts: So I hope you enjoy yet again a little one of my sidestories. This one has Gohan learning instant transmission and gets a wealth of exotic experience by having a wide range of travels accross time and space. Having lots of off screen battles and adventures as he picks up several new strange techniques that I'm planning for him to have. And having this wide range of international experience rival that of even his father's wide range of travels and experience.