Dragon Ball Revolution – Prologue

Author's Note

I'm four chapters in, and already rewriting the entire story - for that, I apologize. However, I will say that there are some changes to the story, some for the better. I will outline the constants that have changed, and hopefully give some forewarning for wary readers.

Goku/Gokou

Goku has been gender-swapped to be female, and goes by Gokou.

Gokou never hit her head as a child, instead being trained by Grandpa Gohan to control her emotions and bloodlust. She still doesn't remember anything prior to her arrival on Earth, however, due to her age.

After accidentally killing Grandpa Gohan in Oozaru, she swore to train herself to control whatever it was that she'd done. She remembered being in the Oozaru state due to the lack of head trauma in her younger years.

Gokou and Chi-Chi, unable to produce a child on their own, gain Bulma's assistance, and have Yamcha's sperm inseminated into Chi-Chi.

Yamcha/Roshi/Launch

Yamcha is a half-Saiyajin.

Launch is a Saiyajin who, much like Goku did canonically, hit her head as a child when arriving on Earth. She was taken in and raised as human, with the rare mutation that her Ssj forms do not amplify her power. This is why when she sneezes and (in this canon) swaps into what is both her secondary persona and Super Saiyajin state, she gains no power.

Launch is Yamcha's mother, and is in her 80's, but appears much younger due to Saiayjin genetics. She hooked up with Roshi in his younger years (as his aging was beginning to grow clear), but the entirety of this time was a blur, due to Launch still learning to cope with her personality changes. She therefore does not remember birthing Yamcha, who then was left on his own, since Roshi simply hooked up with Launch.

Neither remembers the other due to the time that passed.

Aikon

Aikon is the brother of Gokou, and he landed right off the shore of Roshi's island - Roshi found him around the same time that Gohan found Gokou, and took the second Saiyajin child as his own, training him in the process.

Tien/Chaotzu

Chaotzu just flat-out doesn't exist. I never really liked him (maybe because I've not seen the original Dragon Ball), and the two times he tried to be useful failed spectacularly, doing nothing to further the story.

I cannot say how Tien's character progression would change due to this, due to lack of knowledge of Dragon Ball, but assume that overall it stays relatively similar, sans Chaotzu.

Power Scaling/Levels/Transformations

Transformations won't just be handed out. They will have to be earned, and mastery of the transformations will be more useful than shown in the series.

Power gain, scaling, and power levels will all be overhauled for the purposes of this story, as I do wish for power levels to be a constant in Author's Notes.

Power levels will be a guide, not law. A character with a lower power level may defeat a much stronger opponent through skill and strategy. Strength is not absolute.

All transformations will be rebalanced.

With all of that out of the way, let's get into the actual prologue.

- Age 758, May -

The sun shines over the expansive mountain range in which Mount Paouz is contained, trees rustling in the afternoon breeze. A distant crack echoes through the area, followed by more cracking and an eventual crashing sound. The noises of the falling tree echo for a long while, dulled eventually by the thick foliage. This is followed by the sound of another falling tree, though this one falls much quicker.

"Ha-! I got mine down faster!" Gokou smirks cockily at her brother, who stands with his own fallen tree held high above his head, arms not even trembling under the weight and task of balancing the hunk of wood. Aikon shakes his head, looking at the girl with what appears to be disapproval.

"Sis, you realize that you damn near blew up the entire area trying to blast the trunk, right? Just because it's faster, doesn't mean that it's better." Aikon is deadpanning, unsure whether to feel annoyed or just embarrassed by his sister's bashful nature. She shrugs, lifting her own large tree up above her head in the next moment.

Gokou and Aikon walk at about the same pace, trudging through the heavy foliage of the forest and trying to keep from dropping the trees on their way home. The duo traverse in silence for the first few minutes, before Gokou's rough voice rings out once more.

"...Race ya' back?" A cocky smirk plasters itself on the femme fighter's face, resulting in an amused chuckle from Aikon.

"Fine, but no using flight or Nimbus. They're both cheatin'!" The two nod simultaneously, locking their gazes on the direction Chi-Chi and Gohan's kis are in. They push off from the ground with grunts, going as fast as they can without losing their trees.

Aikon slowly takes the lead, a smirk growing on his face as he does so. Gokou frowns, but only for a moment - still running forward, she begins to mumble to herself, focusing her energy with each syllable. "Kamehame..." She jumps, throwing her tree high into the sky.

"HA!" Ki bursts from beneath her feet, digging a pit into the ground as she's launched up after her tree. Grabbing it once more, she sails through the sky, quickly passing Aikon and reaching the clearing her home is located in. She lands on the ground, skidding across the grass for a short distance before coming to a halt.

'Clever girl...' Aikon scowls a little, frustrated that he himself hadn't considered the clever way to get back to the house – the impromptu 'finish line' – before his sister. Dejectedly, the tailed fighter continues on his way back to the house, finding that Gokou has already processed her tree into firewood by the time he does.

"That was cheap, and you know it!" Aikon barks out at her, slamming his tree down before unleashing a quick flurry of chops and jabs on it. Splinters burst out at various points up and down the trunk, and the tree falls apart into much smaller pieces, which he begins to unload into their shed.

"Cheap, maybe. Smart? Definitely." Gokous tail curls as the lets out a happy laugh, rubbing the back of her neck. "Come on, big bro. You know it was clever!" A light frown forms on her face, and she leaps on Aikon's back without warning. He lets out a yell, dropping the log in his hand as he's tackled.

He throws his hands out, stopping his fall before bucking Gokou off of him. Their sudden sparring match is kicked off when he throws his fist into her gut, knocking the air from the surprised Son woman.

"Ack-!" Wincing, Gokou recovers with a stagger, before quickly rushing forward at her older brother, who's clad in his traditional black gi. Her right hook is evaded, but followed up with a quick knee that slams up into Aikon's jaw, lifting him into the air.

Gokou tries to follow it up with a kick to the side of the head, but Aikon's arm lifts up to block it, pushing the leg back only after a quick jab to the inner-thigh. When Gokou lands, pain shoots through the leg.

"Ngh-! That hurt, you fucker!" Gokou smirks, lunging forward in a highly-telegraphed punch. Aikon moves to counter it, only to throw his fist clean through the afterimage. A foot slams into the small of his back, sending a spike of pain up his spine.

In the very next moment, Gokou takes hold of her brother's tail, only amplifying the pain that pulsates through Aikon. However, he had been trained to avoid the weakness of his tail for years by Roshi, something which Gokou had yet to find out.

Imagine her surprise when Aikon keeps his footing, twisting himself to throw a palm into her face. The two stare at each other for a second, before simultaneously yelling - Gokou releases Aikon's tail and tries to dodge, but is quickly enveloped by a ki blast, the resulting explosion kicking up smoke and dust that could be seen for miles.

"Just what is going on out here?" Chi-Chi frowns, storming out of the house with a crying Gohan in her hands. She sort of just stops and stares, seeing her wife on the ground, a bit of smoke wafting from a fire on the tip of one of her hair spikes, and Aikon wrapping his tail around his waist with a bit of a cocky smirk.

'I should have never let Aikon spend the week for Gohan's birthday...' Chi-Chi twitches a little, before sighing. "Both of you, get inside and get yourselves cleaned up. Everyone will be coming over in an hour and you two are a total mess!" Chi-Chi doesn't need to repeat herself, with both siblings quickly rushing inside at her clearly angry tone.

"Hmph! When will they ever grow up..." Chi-Chi mumbles, cooing at Gohan in an attempt to calm him down after being startled by the explosion Aikon's ki blast created.

Gokou and Aikon sit in the wooden tub outside, idly soaking in the heat. Aikon's tail still dully throbs with the pain of being grabbed, while Gokou is a bit singed from the surprise ki blast from her brother. She would call it cheap, but after her earlier stunt with the foot Kamehameha...

"Man, sis, your wife is really somethin'." Gokou perks up upon hearing her brother speak, raising an eyebrow. Aikon continues, once he's successfully grabbed the unfocused girl's attention. "I mean, I still can't tell ya how she reigns us in like she does. If anyone else acted like that I'd probably just have ignored them. I know you would have; that's a fact."

Gokou shrugs, before ducking under the water to scrub herself; she comes back up a moment later, hair weighted down by the water now in it. "Well, for one, she's my wife - I'd be basically signing my death warrant if I just shrugged off what she said. Another thing: she has a habit of saving my bacon from some more compromising situations... do you remember when I got wasted at Bulma's on my twentieth birthday?" From the look on Aikon's face, he does.

"...You stripped down and sang show tunes, how the hell wouldn't I remember it?" Aikon has to resist the urge to burst out laughing then and there, and it doesn't help that Gokou has gone completely red in the face.

"It's not my fault the punch was spiked!" Gokou crosses her arms, looking quite irritated at the more specific turn this conversation has taken, and even moreso at the amusement her older brother is taking in her embarrassment. With a light growl, Gokou hops out of the tub, sure to make as big of a splash as she can.

Aikon is about to finally lose his composure when the water covers him, leaving him surprised – though he shouldn't have been, considering he poked the bear known as Gokou – and soaked beyond what the bath had done so far. "Whatever, not like the bath wasn't going to get me wet from head to toe anyways. Go ahead and be grumpy." Aikon waves her off, chuckling.

Wrapping herself in a towel, Gokou scowls. "I will!" Tail flicking in annoyance, the towel-clad woman stomps inside, heading to her and Chi-Chi's bedroom. The latter is in bed, reading to Gohan from a math book when the tailed girl enters. "Fuckin' Aikon..." She mumbles, fuming enough that her ki has dried her by the time the towel is dropped.

"What'd he do this time?" Chi-Chi takes pause from reading to her sleeping son, sounding quite exasperated at Aikon's antics. "Just another squabble between siblings?" Ever since Aikon came over, the two have been quarreling like children! Chi-Chi just hopes that Gohan doesn't pick up such a nasty attitude from all of it!

"I made a comment about my twentieth birthday, and he just had to turn around and remind me of the specifics..." Red-faced, Gokou finished tying the belt of her spare gi, pulling on her weighted undershirt and tucking it in. Chi-Chi masks her own amusement with a look of sympathy, beckoning her wife and lover into bed.

Gokou climbs into bed with Chi-Chi and Gohan, lying her head on the former's chest while lightly petting her son's tail. Feeling the energy of her lover and son so close, as well as smelling their scent, brings a level of calm to the woman that not many things can... "Thanks, Chi..." Gokou thanks her lover, for simply embracing her.

Chi-Chi smiles warmly, ruffling Gokou's spiky hair. "Don't mention it... Now, maybe you want to take over in reading to our son?" Gokou nods, and snickers as she pulls out a martial arts book, heavily amused by the look of irritation on her raven-haired wife's face. "Come on, Chi', Fighting's in his blood, and you know you can't keep him from that..."

With a dismissive hand wave, Chi-Chi simply settles in, listening as Gokou begins to read from somewhere in the middle of the book, her tail loosely coiling around Gohan's.

Chi-Chi places the last plate of food onto the outdoor arrangement she had Aikon and Gokou set up, each plate piled high with food for both the guests and the monstrous appetites of the two siblings. The raven-haired Son matron looks to the sky, expecting guests to start arriving any moment now.

Gokou is drooling, staring at the various piles of food with nothing less than desire in her eyes; Aikon is showing a bit more self-control, but even he can't deny to himself that he'll be diving into that food once they're allowed to start eating. His tail flicks in annoyance, though, considering guests should already be here by now.

'Speak of the devil...' Aikon thinks in relief, sensing the approaching ki's of Yamcha and Krillin, with Bulma and Roshi not too far behind. The two Z-fighters who had arrived by manual flight touch down in front of the house, absolutely amazed by the copious amounts of food. Yamcha almost drops his present at the sight!

Wow, Chi-Chi- Krillin approaches the woman, handing her a wrapped gift for Gohan. you really pulled out all the stops, didn't you? He and the Ox Prciness laugh a little, before Yamcha passes Chi-Chi his gift as well.

Thanks, you two. I bet Gohan will be so excited when he opens these! Chi-Chi sets them with the small pile of gifts that has already been made thanks to herself, Gokou, and Aikon; up in the sky, the sound of an approaching jetcopter can be heard, and soon yelling with it.

The jetcopter opens, Bulma red in the face and carrying two presents. 的'm gonna kill that old geezer one of these days... Soon after Bulma basically storms out of the jetcopter, Roshi staggers out with tissues in his nose and a lump on his head. Krillin shakes his head and princes the nonexistant bridge of his nose, while Yamcha just chuckles lightly.

Here's my gifts for Gohan- Bulma hands them over to Chi-Chi, who almost drops them due to their unexpected weight. Careful-! The bluenette silently hopes that Chi-Chi won't open them to investigate what they are, given that they're a gift more tailored towards what Gokou wants for Gohan.

'Gokou, you owe me so much for this...' Bulma thinks to herself, having spent quite some time working on weighted clothing that wouldn't be all too much for Gohan. Hey, where is Gohan? Not only is this Gohan's first birthday, but it's also the first time any of them will get to meet him.

Oh, he's inside, napping. We figured that we'd let him get some rest, since meeting all of you is bound to be overwhelming for him. Chi-Chi explains, setting down the suspiciously heavy presents with the rest. 'Must be some kind of technology...' Well, she's half-right, at the very least.

Krillin and Yamcha approach their old friends, chuckling lightly. Gokou, you've gotten stronger - don't want to fall behind Aikon and I over at Master Roshi's, hm? Krillin and Aikon train almost daily with each other, having quite the friendly rivalry; it helps them grow in power, and it gives them a challenge.

Well, I mean, not exactly hard to get stronger than him. He's not the sharpest knife in the crayon box. Gokou deadpans, causing Aikon to spit out the water he was drinking. Gokou, Krillin, and Yamcha all laugh as Aikon chokes a bit, pounding his chest and catching his breath.

Says the person who didn't expect a ki blast in our sparring session earlier! Aikon shoots back, albeit with a weak response. The coy smirk doesn't fall from Gokou's face, leaving Aikon a bit defeated... at least, until he grabs her tail. Gokou cries out in surprise, falling on her butt whilst Aikon releases the furry appendage.

Ya' still haven't trained that thing? Yamcha offers a hand to Gokou, helping her up with a light grunt. 'Geez, she weighs a ton for how thin she is!' Gokou giggles nervously, rubbing the back of her neck and flashing her signature grin.

Kinda haven't had time to, what with having Gohan around. I plan on training it once Gohan's older, since he and I can spar together then; I can train his tail and mine at the same time, so I'll be killing two birds with one stone. Speaking of bird, Gokou's eyes drift to the plate of turkey on the table, a bit of drool escaping her mouth once again.

Sis, control yourself or I can assure you Chi-Chi will keep you in the doghouse for so long that you won't even recognize the bed you sleep in. Aikon is well aware that Chi-Chi wants nothing to be ruined on Gohan's first birthday - not only does everything have to be perfect for Gohan, but Chi-Chi has not been able to stress enough that she wants his first birthday to set the example for all future birthdays, meaning he and Gokou have to be on their best behavior.

They probably didn't start off well with their small fight earlier, come to think of it...

Gohan coos lightly, having just been woken up by Chi-Chi; the Son matron carries the young tailed child out of the house, and his big eyes widen as he sees the plethora of food and the new people around. Everyone is seated at the table, and they all begin to sing happy birthday in unison to the young child.

At first, he quivers as if about to cry, but he soon laughs instead, able to feel all the pure affection basically flowing from everyone around. He's allowed to blow out his candles, of course not knowing that Chi-Chi blew them out from above him. She ruffles his messy hair, seating him in his high chair and cutting cake for everyone, along with allowing them all to feast upon the literal feast she's made.

The rest of the day goes by in a blur of food, people practically fawning over little Gohan, and a couple of friendly sparring matches... Suffice to say Gohan had the time of his so-far-short life...

End, Prologue

Author's Note

For the most part, this chapter was designed to introduce you to some of the more prevalent changes in the canon, as well as give you a feel for the changed personality of Goku. If you didn't notice, Chi-Chi is a bit more mellow and less of a hypocrite than she was in the show, not entirely banning Gohan from all things martial arts.

I'll likely spend a week on each chapter to make sure I can hold a consistent level of both quality and quantity, as opposed to having short chapters with poor pacing. Let me know what y'all think.

Until next time!