Two is better than One
"This" is spoken words.
This is thoughts.
(A/N: This) is my inserts and explanations.
Time for my second FanFiction! I have been messing around with this and other similar ideas for a while, but finally settled on this. Also, if you didn't watch much Dragon BAll, then this won't make too much sense. Not that it won't be good, but it'd be better if you'd watched the original.
Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ. *RIING! RING!* Oh wait…. (picks up phone) Really! Yay! I still don't own DBZ!
Chapter 1: Prologues, Turtles, and Bandits
"Amazing! This is the 1st pair of Saiyan twins in over a hundred years!" exclaimed one Saiyan scientist. He and another scientist were in a birthing room on the planet Vegeta. The twin children had onyx eyes and their black hair jutted out in every direction.
"It's a shame that they have such low power levels though. Kakarot only has a level of 2 and his older brother, Dengen (A/N: Pronounced, Den-jin), has a power level of 3, making them 3rd class," said the other. Dengen was slightly taller, and he had shorter hair. The two scientists sent the children straight to a planet called Earth to purge it and prepare it for sale. Their pods crash landed and were both found by a kind old man by the name of Gohan.
Gohan raised the two boys as his own and named them Goku and Gosan (A/N I'm just gonna call him that for lack of a better name. I may change it later). The children were wild, uncontrollable and wanted nothing to do with the old man's kindness, but one day, the boys suffered a terrible accident. While Gohan was returning with them from a food market, they both fell into a deep ravine and hit their heads, causing them to lose their memories of their Saiyan mission.
From then on, Goku and Gosan were kind and obedient. They trained together all of the time, and became abnormally powerful. One day, however, Goku and Gosan transformed into Great Apes, or Oozaru, at a full moon and crushed their Grandfather. To them, he lived on in a small, orange ball that he left behind.
When they were both fourteen (A/N yes I'm making them older; you'll see why later), something, or someone, happened that would change their lives…
Gosan and his brother Goku had been living in solitude, away from all civilization for 6 years, each doing their part to survive and then train. Fighting was Gosan's favorite thing to do along with eating, but lately he wanted to do something else like go on an adventure. He got his wish when one day, while he was bringing back the food, he was hit by a metal monster.
"Yikes! Is he dead?" said the blue haired driver.
"What the-"
"Huh? You're alive?"
"Oh, so you thought you finished me off? Well you're not going to get my fish that easy you big monster!" said Gosan while getting up. Goku came running out from the small hut that they lived in, saw the monster, and ran up to it.
"Hey monster! What'd you do to my older brother!" he yelled. The two boys punched the car at the same time and it was thrown on its side. "Why don't you come out of your shell and fight? Don't tell me you used up all your power already, monster?"
"Not quite!" yelled the driver. She pulled out a handgun and shot at Goku. The bullets hit him square in the head and knocked him over. She then turned to Gosan and shot at him. Moments later, the two were lying on the ground rubbing their heads.
"What? You shouldn't be alive!" said the girl.
"So you thought you finished me off again huh?" yelled Goku.
"Goku wait," said Gosan, "I think that's a person like us inside of the monster. Now that I think about it, didn't Grandpa tell us about those?"
"Oh yeah, cars!" Bulma stared at Goku and Gosan, and jumped out of her car.
"Please don't hurt me! I'm not a monster, I'm a human being just like you, see?" she said while putting her hands up and dropping the gun. Goku walked over to her and poked her with his power pole, inspecting her. "I won't bite," She said. Gosan just watched curiously, content to let Goku do whatever.
"Yep, your human alright, but you're different. You're all thin and scrawny," said Goku.
"Of course I am silly, I'm a girl!"
"A girl? So that's what you are!" chimed in Gosan.
"Oh my gosh, are you saiying you've never seen a girl before?" said Bulma to the two children.
"You're the first person we've ever seen other than Grandpa, but Grandpa told me about girls. He told me that if I ever ran into a girl that I should be polite as I can possibly be." Goku said.
"Oh! I can see that your Grandpa is a very wise man, is he?"
"He was," said Gosan, "He died a very long time ago." Goku walked behind Bulma and llifted up her skirt.
"Hey!" she yelled as she swatted his power pole away, "What do you think you're doing?"
"I was just checking to see if you had a tail," he said innocently.
If Grandpa told us to be polite to girls, then Goku better stop pestering her. Gosan thought, but he did wonder about why she didn't have a tail, "Maybe it just grows later for girls than it does for boys." He said.
"Hehe. Sure," she said.
"Heyy. If you're driving a car around, does that mean you're from one of the big cities?" asked Gosan.
"Yep! You got it." She said.
"Wow! Why don't you come to our house so I can cook you some lunch," Goku offered, "you can tell me all about the city you're from."
"Hold on just a second." She said. She got something out of her bag and clicked it. Goku and Gosan were already walking to the house and were nearly there when she caught up.
"So, what are you guys' names?" she asked.
"I'm Gosan, and this is my little brother Goku. What's yours?"
"My name? Bulma." She said with what sounded like uncertainty.
A few minutes later, they reached the house.
"Gee, that's a nice place you got there,"
"Thanks," said Goku and Gosan in unison.
Goku and his brother walked in and saw the 4 star dragon ball glowing. "Look big brother, Grandpa's glowing again; I think he's trying to talk to us."
"What do you mean, I don't hear anyone talking." Bulma gasped, "Oh my gosh, the four star dragon ball!" Bulma pushed Goku aside and grabbed the ball, but Gosan quickly took it from her.
"Hey, that's my grandpa! No one can touch it but my brother and me. Look Goku, I think he's trying to talk to us."
"What do you think he's saying, Gosan?" said Goku.
"I hate to do this, but look," interrupted Bulma. She got out two other balls and Goku was shocked.
"What? You have two Grandpas!" he said.
"They're not grandpas, silly. They're dragon balls." She said. Bulma went on to tell Goku and Gosan about the dragon balls, and they eventually decided to get together and find the other dragon balls together. All three of them set out to find the dragon balls.
After a whole day of riding, they decided to stop for the night. Bulma got out a dino cap and threw it. It exploded and a small house appeared where the smoke once was.
Goku jumped in front of Bulma and stopped her with his Power Pole, "I knew it! You are a witch!"
"Goku calm down, it called technology; have you been living under a rock for your whole life or what?" Bulma said calmly. She calmly walked to the capsule house and entered; Goku and Gosan followed.
A little while later, they were eating dinner. Goku poked at his food, "What is this stuff? It's all hard and crunchy."
"It's bread, silly!" said Bulma.
"Oh, I don't know about you, but I'm going to go and get some real food," and with that Goku and Gosan left. The ventured out into a nearby forest and foraged some berries, but were still very hungry.
Goku looked up and saw an airplane, or what he thought was a bird, "Look, big brother! It's a bird. Let's get it."
Meanwhile….
"Go get me my dragon ball!" yelled the short, blue, self-proclaimed emperor Pilaf.
"Yes sir!" replied his two servants. Mai and Shu left without another word to the location that their scouts told them about. They got into their plane and took off. An hour later, Shu saw a red, glowing light.
"Look Mai, a dragon ball." He said. They went to check it out, but little did they know, they were being followed by two hungry boys. Once they were within 20 meters, the light disappeared, and dozens more appeared, "Uhh, Mai? I don't think those are dragon balls."
On cue, two boys leapt into the clearing, "Hey! That's our bird, we saw it first!"
Mai and Shu stared at the boys for a second, but, before they had a chance to say anything, a mean-looking wolf jumped in between them.
Gosan's eyes widened, "You can have the bird; we get the wolves!" The kids attacked the wolves and pummeled them easily.
Gosan kicked one in between the eyes and elbowed another in the ribs at the same time. He sent a small flurry of punches at a group of 4 and killed them immediately. Goku got out his Power Pole and whacked one after another after another after another after another after another….
Mai and Shu watched silently, but that was until a wolf bit Shu from behind. Almost. Goku swept (literally, like on a vine) in and kicked it, almost snapping it in half. Soon, all the wolves were dead, Goku and Gosan took their share: three wolves apiece, and left. Later, they reached the house and entered, still carrying the wolves.
Bulma saw them and freaked out, "AHHHH! WHAT ARE YOU DOING! GET THOSE THINGS OUT OF THE HOUSE!"
"But they're our food!" said Gosan.
"I DON'T CARE! GET OUT!"
The two boys walked out, sat down, and ate. Only a few minutes later, they finished all six wolves. "Ahhhh. That was good," said Goku while patting his stomach. Gosan agreed. They went inside and went to sleep.
In the morning….
"AHHHHHH! Bulma! Your balls are gone!"
"What! Oh no!" Bulma ran over to her backpack and got out the dragon balls and sighed in relief. "Jeese, Goku, don't scare me like that!" she said. Goku stood against the wall breathing heavily, "You must've been having a nightmare," she continued. Gosan, who was already up, stared at Goku, wondering what he meant. He hadn't been troubled when he woke up, and he always talked about his dreams, good or bad, to Gosan. That ruled out a nightmare. 'I'll just talk to him later.' He thought.
Goku and Gosan went out to train, still shaken from the previous events. Goku got into the stance Gohan had taught them, while Gosan dropped into his own, newly developed stance. The two glared at each other for a moment, and attacked at the same time.
Goku opened with a hard right aimed for Gosan's face, but the blow was ducked. Gosan kneed his brother in the gut and, after rolling past him, kicked him in the back. Goku fell on his face, but quickly recovered. He charged at a waiting Gosan and threw a quick flurry of punches, which mostly were blocked. Gosan saw an opening and jabbed Goku in the ribs as quickly as he could. There wasn't much force behind the punch, but it still knocked Goku back, giving Gosan enough time to go on the offensive.
The two fought for a while, and Bulma came to watch after freshening up. She marveled at their speed and endurance. She looked down at her watch; they had been fighting for over an hour.
Goku aimed a kick for his brother's ankle, and it connected. Almost. Gosan jumped over the kick and flipped over Goku. Goku turned around to hit again, but Gosan was gone, nowhere to be seen. 'Uh oh not again!' he thought as he slowly looked behind him.
"Hi," said Gosan as he threw a punch straight at Goku's face. Goku was knocked over by the blow, blood coming from his nose. "I win again!" Gosan said cheerfully.
"Darn it. You're too fast," Goku whined as he got up.
"Yeah" Gosan mumbled, now looking at something else. "Hey, bet I can break a bigger rock than you!"
"Yeah right, you're on!" With that, the two boys ran off to find a bigger rock than the other and break it. Soon, Goku picked up a rather small rock and was about to break it, but before he could, it talked.
"Ahh! Please don't hurt me, I didn't do anything."
"Oops! Sorry, I thought you were a rock." He said as he put the creature down. Bulma walked out as soon as she heard yelling and saw the turtle.
"Hey little guy, what are you doing so far from the sea? It's at least 100 miles away from here," she said.
"That's the problem, I'm lost. I've been trying to find my way back to the sea for a year. By the way, do you have any salt water?"
"Sure, one sec." Bulma replied. A minute later, Bulma returned with a bucket and gave it to Turtle. He gulped it down and thanked her.
"Hey, I'll help you get back to the sea. I'll carry you," chimed in Goku. Bulma sighed.
"Didn't you hear me Goku? The sea is over 100 miles away."
"So? Come on Turtle. We'll be back, Bulma!" Goku, who already had Turtle on his back and was starting to run off, yelled.
"Oh no you don't mister!" yelled Bulma, "Get back here, bodyguard!" She chased after him, but stopped when she saw him speed up. 'At least I still have Gosan.' She looked over at him. He was staring off in the distance, contemplating whether he should follow.
"No. Don't even think about it."
"But he's my brother."
"I don't care, you're my bodyguard."
Gosan frowned, "Too bad for you. Unless you come with us, you just lost your 'bodyguards'." Gosan started to jog off in Goku's direction.
"FINE! I DON'T NEED YOU ANYWAY!" She screamed; she crossed her arms and turned her back to him. But as soon as she heard wolves and bugs and other creatures, she got on her motor cycle and raced after them. 'Stubborn little boys. Ugh, frustrating.'
Gosan quickly caught up to Goku and they were soon joined by Bulma. Together, they all set out towards the sea.
One day later, when Goku, Gosan, Bulma, and Turtle neared the sea, they were ambushed by a massive bear-like person. He had a huge scar over his eye and dark armor. He growled and licked his lips, "Ahhh, Turtle and Humans, delicious. Hehe, I'm feeling generous. If you give me the turtle, I'll let you go."
"You heard him Goku," Bulma managed to say, "Give him the turtle"
"No way! You'll just eat him" yelled Goku.
"I'll handle this Goku" Gosan walked up to the ambusher with an excited, but confident look on his face. The monster started to back off, but held his ground. Gosan charged the monster and, before it could react, he hit it in the eye. It stumbled back, but did not run. Gosan slid under its legs and jumped up to head level.
He kicked it in the back of its head; then, he gave it a quick chop to the neck. The monster fell silently to the ground. Gosan stood on its head and made a "V" with his fingers, the victory sign.
"See? Easy."
Bulma stood shocked at what she just saw. Think about it, you would probably be freaked out if a fourteen year old just beat a 20 foot tall monster without even getting touched. "Wow," she managed to say. Goku, who wasn't surprised at all, grinned at his brother and sat back towards the ocean.
A few hours later, they reached the sea and the twin Saiyans were stunned "Wow" Goku said. They stared out at the massive body of water in awe. "It's huge." Gosan and Goku said in unison. Turtle smelled the air happily.
"I'm finally home. It is just as I left it." He waddled/walked/ whatever turtles do (slide?) to the water. He slowly made his way in and relaxed. "Everyone stay here, I'll be back with some gifts."
Sometime after that, Turtle returned, and on his back was a bald, short, old man. He was wearing an orange Hawaiian shirt and khaki shorts. An orange ball was around his neck, and to top it all off, he had on a pair of red sunglasses. "Master, these are the ones that helped me."
"Oh, why hello! My name is Master Roshi, the Turtle Hermit," he said, "I hear you helped out my friend Turtle here, so in turn I'll give you some gifts." He smiled, got off Turtle, and faced the ocean. "COME TO ME FLYING CARPET!" He yelled at the top of his lungs. He stood there for a few minutes, but nothing happened.
"Master," said Turtle, "you took the magic carpet to the cleaners."
"Oh yeah, that's right….. Oh well. COME TO ME FLYING NIMBUS!" Soon, a small, puffy, yellow cloud came into view. It flew straight to Master Roshi and stopped in front of him. "Here…" he looked between Goku and Gosan, "Turtle, which one of these lads helped you the most?" he asked the turtle beside him.
"Well, Goku here was the one to suggest carrying me here and Gosan saved all of us from a big monster. How about we have the Nimbus split in half so one gets half and the other gets the other!"
"Good idea, Turtle. Nimbus?" The cloud shook for a moment, but then separated into 2 equal sized clouds. "There you go boys."
Bulma spoke up, "What about me?"
"Well, since you didn't help Turtle at all, offered him to the one who attacked you, and threatened to make him into soup… you don't get anything. That is unless… you give me a small, you know… peek."
"Master!" yelled Turtle, "What about the code!"
"Shhhhh!"
"Well uhh…" Bulma blushed and looked away, "fine, but it's gonna be quick." Master Roshi giggled in anticipation, and Bulma quickly lifted up her dress and returned it back to its place. Master Roshi's nosebleed was epic, but he quickly stopped it and regained his posture. Goku and Gosan, however just watched with puzzled looks on their faces, but dismissed whatever was going on.
"Kay so what do I get?"
"Uhhh…. I didn't think about that," Bulma saw the orange necklace he had on and pointed to it, "I want that!"
"Huh? This old thing? Ok I guess." Bulma grabbed it and rushed over to the twins.
"Look at this, the two star dragon ball," she said with glee. It lit up brightly and began to glow.
"Well turtle, I guess we can go, but one thing. Goku, Gosan, judging by how easily you took down the beast that attacked you all and the description of your spar, you are welcome to come and study martial arts under me."
"Really!" the two boys looked at each other, and cheered. "We get to study with a master!"
"Hey, not now. We're still searching for the dragon balls, remember?" said Bulma before they got carried away.
"Oh yeah." Said Gosan, "I guess we should get going; bye Master Roshi!" Gosan and his brother got onto their clouds and, after Bulma mounted her motorcycle, took off to the location of the next dragon ball.
Gosan neared a small village, and once he and the others entered, they saw that there wasn't anyone around. Gosan walked over to a door. Just a second ago, he thought he saw a person look out the window at them. He knocked on the door. No answer.
He knocked again, harder this time. Once again, no answer.
Getting frustrated, he kicked the door in, throwing up dust and dirt. As soon as he entered, a large axe came from the shadows and hit him on the head, shattering. Gosan fell over and looked up at his failed attacker. Goku and Bulma ran in after they heard the commotion.
"I'm so sorry mister Oolong, please don't hurt us. We're so sorry" Gosan looked over in the direction of the voice and saw a man on his knees, begging him.
"Who's Oolong?" Gosan said to the man. He looked up at the small boy and noticed that he was only that. A child. He got up from his knees and looked at Goku and Bulma.
(A/N: I honestly don't feel like writing this, so for now I'll quickly fill you in. This part is the same as the anime. Goku dresses up as a girl to draw out Oolong and beats the crap out of him. Oolong is a shape-shifter. He ends up joining the gang and they get their dragon ball and leave. If you want to see more, Google, "Oolong the Terrible, Dragon Ball" I don't own Google either.)
Goku, Gosan, Bulma, and their newest member, Oolong, were traveling downstream a large river towards their next dragon-ball. "Hmmm. It looks like we're heading to a place called Fire Mountain," Bulma said.
"What! Fire Mountain? That place is a hell-hole, why would we go there?" Bulma glared at the pig, but he paid no heed and continued, "They say Fire Mountain is ruled by the Terrible Ox King, who beheads everyone who opposes him with his mighty battle ax. His evil makes you shake in your boots, and the mountain is literally on fire!" Oolong emphasized his point by waving his arms in mid-air, "If you plan on going to that place, then I'm leaving."
"No, too bad. We're going and that's final," Bulam said.
"But-"
"NO!" Oolong sat back in his seat and covered his face with his hat in defeat.
Suddenly, the boat stopped. "What the- what just happened?"
"We ran out of fuel." Said Oolong.
"WELL NO DUH!" screamed Bulma at the top of her lungs. Both Goku and Gosan covered their ears, the girl's loud voice hurting their sensitive hearing. "Change into a paddle or something so we can at least get to shore."
"Ugh, Fine" *POOF* Oolong turned into an oar and Bulma handed it to Gosan.
"Paddle," she ordered.
"Uhh, OK." Gosan took the paddle and paddled (bet you never saw that one coming). They slowly but surely made their way to the shore.
Gosan got out of the boat and looked back waiting for the others. "It looks like we're going by land for now." She searched for her capsules, but couldn't find them, "Oh no! I think I left my capsules in the village!" She fell to her knees, "I guess now we have to go by," she gulped, "foot."
"OK, let's go!" said Goku cheerfully. Bulma and Oolong trudged along behind the two eager boys. Gosan led the way, and a while later they were all in the middle of a Desert. It was hot, dry, and barren. Gosan was hungry. Very hungry. He looked over to his brother and saw that he was in the same state.
7 hours! It had been 7 hours since either of the two brothers had eaten. Oh the Horror!
"I can't take it anymore, I going to take a nap in the shade over there," said Bulma while pointing to some area behind the rocks. Gosan also walked over to somewhere close by to nap as well. If he couldn't eat, he'd sleep to pass the time quicker.
"Me too" he said. He walked to a shaded spot and collapsed, almost immediately asleep. Goku and Oolong sat down on the ground with nothing else to do.
Gosan woke up to the sound of collapsing rocks. He jumped up and ran to the source of the sound and saw a large pile of rocks and a man standing in a fighting position. He had long, black hair and was wearing a sleeveless green shirt and orange pants, with a white sash around his waist.
"That'll teach you to mess with me, monkey boy," he said.
Then Gosan realized who was under the rocks and he was mad. "Hey you!" he shouted, "What'd you do to my brother!"
The bandit looked over, "Huh? I just kicked you into the-; wait a minute," he looked between the rubble and Gosan. Gosan growled and ran at the bandit.
"You hurt my brother!" He punched the bandit in the gut and then in the face. The bandit stumbled back, and Gosan pursued with an uppercut and knee to the gut at the same time. The bandit backed off and got into his stance.
He shouted, "Wolf Fang Fist!" He ran at Gosan and launched a flurry of punches, which Gosan easily blocked.
"Is that all you got!" yelled Gosan. He caught the bandit's fists and kneed him repeatedly in the gut; he heat butted the bandit and leapt over him. As the bandit turned around, Gosan hit him in the face.
Gosan swiped the bandit's feet out from under him and drop kicked him.
"Yamcha!" yelled a blue, floating cat thing that had just come out from a rock formation. "Are you OK?" Yamcha groaned as he sat up.
"I'll be fine, Puar; now run!" Gosan watched Yamcha charge him again. The bandit drew a sword and brought it down on Gosan's head. Gosan simply caught the sword between his index finger and his middle finger. He yanked the blade out from Yamcha's grip and kicked him away. Gosan began to bend the sword on his knee, trying to break it. For a few seconds, nothing happened, but eventually the sword snapped with a resounding clank. Yamcha gasped while Gosan smirked and threw the sword away. The boy leapt at Yamcha and launched a painful assault. The bandit wasn't fast enough to block the powerful punches; therefore, he was backed into a corner.
Gosan kicked Yamcha's knee and then elbowed him in the gut. He grabbed Yamcha and spun him around until releasing him at a large pile of rocks. The raider hit them hard, knocking him out for the moment.
Just then, another pile of rubble began to shake. Goku exploded out of it and landed with his Power Pole drawn. Gosan walked over to him, "It's OK Goku, I took care of him."
Goku looked over the bloodied form of Yamcha, but there was only one actual thing on his mind. Food.
"Why you little," Yamcha began, but was interrupted by anther voice.
"Guys? What's going on?" Bulma had just woken up and was walking towards everyone, but she stopped when she saw Yamcha. "Who's he?"
Yamcha, on the other hand, froze in his tracks, screamed, and sprinted off. "What's his problem?" Bulma watched curiously, while Puar chased after his friend.
"Yamcha! Come back!"
"That was weird." Goku said. Gosan helped him up.
*POOF* The twins looked in the direction of the sound and saw a large trailer.
"What! Why didn't you tell us you had this earlier!" Bulma screamed at the poor pig beside her. "Ugh! Piggy! Piggy! Piggy, Piggy, Piggy!" Oolong's eyes widened and he sprinted away, behind a rock. "Come on guys, let's go."
Power Levels
Goku 14
Gosan 16
Bulma 4.1
Mai 7.4
Shu 6.4
Emperor Pilaf 2.4
Master Roshi 139
Turtle .001
Oolong 3
Yamcha 10
Puar 1
I wrote this over a long period of time, so the entire story probably won't have chapters this long. Please press the big blue button below and review!