Author's Notes: Hey guys? Remember me? JTX1000 is reporting back in for another installment of Dragon Ball AF. If you've never read the first one then stick around; this first chapter here is a complete synopsis of the events that unfolded in The Room of Spirit and Time Saga. If you're really interested then you can go back and read it, but I'm gonna personally say that reading this first chapter would be just as beneficial. As much as I love The Room of Spirit and Time Saga, the beginning is a little aimless with some errors too and I kind of think it drags just a little at the midway point. Plus it's over 170,000 words so that's a pretty big homework assignment. This chapter sums up everything relatively well; you don't even have to really read this since I'll put a little checklist at the end so you guys know what's what going into this new fic.

Also, for you regular readers I know this fic is late, but the reason for this is that the site has been messing up and not allowing many people to publish on popular fandoms. It won't matter in the long run since it just means you'll get the next update sooner, but regardless I'm still sorry for the delay. There's a link on my profile to one of the many forums of people posting hundreds of comments all with the same problem. Apparently updating chapters is blocked too but there seems to be a way around that, it's just posting new fics that is completely frozen. Thankfully I managed to work around it by posting the story under Dragon Ball rather than Z and then editing it, the downside is that I can't edit characters and whatnot. The two main characters are supposed to be Goku and Vegeta, but since Vegeta didn't exist in the original Dragon Ball I've had to use someone else.


Chapter 1: The Room of Spirit and Time Saga

Six months since Goku's mysterious disappearance following the death of Omega Shenron sees Goten and Trunks hanging out in a local coffee bar, having neglected their training in the Earth's time of peace. Soon after though, Vegeta storms in and demands that Trunks go with him, revealing later that he intends to tutor the boy for a year's worth of training in the recently mended Room of Spirit and Time as he attempts to reach the Super Saiyan 4 without any assistance.

He adds that Gohan and Goten will also be using the Room in the day following their own session, and with that in mind the two enter. Immediately things look suspicious as the pair encounter ghostly apparitions of past events; Trunks sees a transparent, younger version of himself conversing with his relatively unchanged father, and after quizzing him about it Vegeta reveals that they saw a memory of the first time he trained in here with the future version of his son. Trunks insists that the new Room must be faulty and that they should leave while they can, though ever the stubborn one, Vegeta refuses and continues his training. Things carry on as normal for the following months. After getting impatient with his training however, Vegeta stubbornly tries to force the transformation of the Super Saiyan 4, leading to another appearance of the feral Golden Great Ape.

With Vegeta on a rampage Trunks dives into action with his sword at the ready, though with such overwhelming power Trunks is only able to do so much, and before Vegeta can regress into a Super Saiyan 4 he blasts one of the Room's mystical hourglasses in his madness. As the void begins to shift and wildly contort, Vegeta grabs the unconscious form of his son and flies the pair to the main body of the room just before the empty space flies into multiple settings both unfamiliar and recognisable to him. To his horror he also finds that the door back into Earth is completely jammed shut, and that even his most powerful blast does nothing agaist it.

The pair awake to find that with every depletion of the Room's one remaining hourglass, the void shifts in both space and time with a flash of bright light, displaying previous events to them accompanied by echoing voices from their pasts. After Vegeta blissfully sees the capital of his home planet, the void shifts again to show the two a time from Vegeta's past; of him rejecting and insulting Trunks's future iteration back in the reign of the androids. Trunks is annoyed with him, until a later scene shows him that upon the same version's death, Vegeta unleashed a devastating attack upon Cell – an enemy whom he had no chance of defeating.

Finally the Room's chaotic warps cease for a time, landing the pair on an unfamiliar plane of existence in a whole new dimension from their own. Two power levels can be felt approaching in the distance, with one of them familiar to Vegeta alone. The first lands, revealing himself to be none other than Goku's brother Raditz, and as the prince is about to attack the second energy signal of Piccolo arrives and tells him that Raditz had repented and is now a student of his.

It is then that the pair realise that they are in fact in Hell, and as the cry of an evil comrade sounds on the horizon Nappa streams into view, determined once again to get revenge on the saiyan prince. Raditz however, leaps in to the defence of his great leader and defeats Nappa, surprising all with his recent mastery of the Super Saiyan 3. Afterwards, Trunks and Vegeta escort the pair into the Room, and with its next shift Piccolo and Raditz escort them, having been forcefully ripped from the dimension of Hell by the Room's power and back into existence.

Not long after though, that same existence is threatened again as the four Z-Fighters find themselves on another plane of reality; a view staring out over a barren canyon spreading for miles in constant shadow of an enormous black tower in the distance. As soon as four power levels can be felt they arrive, with each new threat acting as an opponent for the group. The two factions banter for a while as these powerful new threats quiz the group as to where Goku is, as their leader known only as the Master wishes to challenge him for title of the strongest in the universe. Piccolo tells them that even if he did know where Goku had gone he wouldn't tell them, and after his temper finally snaps Vegeta steps forwards.

He boasts to the new group that when Kakarot left, the two were at the same stage of power, and that the strongest in the universe is 'standing right in front of you.' After the group displays no interest Vegeta rushes forwards, determined to prove his strength. With only one step off the Room's balcony though, the man finds himself teleported into a whole new place, isolated from the others. Trunks, Piccolo and Raditz all follow him only to find themselves in completely separate locations, each with a new opponent to face.

Piccolo begins against his opponent Secundus, though not before he has a few questions of his own for the strange new foe. He persuades Secundus into telling his about their race, revealing that these new foes are called Vices, and despite looking identical to humans they are incredibly powerful. Piccolo notices before that the power level of the enemies increased with every passing hour that almost identical clock face tattoos on their chest represent, making twelve of them in total. With his mark showing two o'clock, Secundus is therefore the second weakest of the Vices, but even so he remains a powerful foe.

Piccolo asks whether the group's lord known only as the 'Master' is the twelve o'clock symbol, to which Secundus appears frightened and confesses that this is not the case, as he says the Master is far worse than even the strongest of Vices, Duodecimus. Secundus reiterates that the Master wishes to face Goku, who is recognised as the most powerful in the universe, in one on one combat to test his strength. He then laments that his Master will probably not get his wish since the five and six o'clock Vices, Quintus and Seni, both have a power that could best a Super Saiyan 4, and Goku would not go without a fight.

When Piccolo tries to ask another question the two finally battle it out, and as the namekian finds himself in an even match he finally decides to remove the weighted training gear that he wears at all times. This tips the battle in his favour for a short while until the clock face upon Secundus's chest begins to spin as he charges into his maximum power. The two brawl to find themselves equal once more until Piccolo lets out his final attack, though from the smoky collateral Secundus fires his razor sharp technique that manages to completely decapitate the unlucky hero.

Meanwhile, Trunks engages Primus, the first hour and weakest of the twelve Vices. In spite of this, Trunks's full power Super Saiyan 2 is no match for the more powerful foe, and he ends up badly injured until he feels Piccolo's life force fade away. This sparks up new vengeance within, and on the verge of death Trunks finally manages to attain what Vegeta promised him; through the labours of his training he finally accesses the Super Saiyan 3 and finishes Primus in a heartbeat.

Exhausted, Trunks runs out of energy and loses control of the Super Saiyan 3 right before Secundus shows up, still tired from his match with Piccolo but more than capable of finishing Trunks off. The man fears for the worst until Secundus's taunting is cut off by the cry from a familiar voice.

"Special Beam Cannon!"

With his head still intact, Piccolo had managed to regenerate and pursue his foe before impaling and killing him with his last shot of the signature attack.

In Raditz's fight against Tertius, the three o'clock Vicis, the two up their power almost immediately. Tertius's clock face spins and Raditz ascends comfortably into the Super Saiyan 3. Tertius's ability is that of extreme speed, and in utilising it to its fullest potential he gets the upper hand. He comments on how the Super Saiyan 3 is Raditz's pinnacle of power, but in response to this Raditz only laughs and explains his past.

During the reign of Super Android 17, when all villains of the past were released from hell, Raditz tried to find Goku and the others to swear his loyalty, having slowly experienced a change of heart after his death. All the while in hell, Nappa hated him for this in his eternal loathing for Vegeta, and the two fought many battles over their conflicting ideologies.

Once resurrected during the time of Super Android 17, Nappa took it upon himself to engage Raditz in combat before he could have any chance to aid the others. After a fierce battle Nappa came out on top and killed the brother of Goku only minutes before the bald saiyan was personally disposed of by Vegeta.

Instead of appearing back in hell though, Raditz found that upon his death he'd kept his body, and once he reached the front of the queue King Yemma told the saiyan to seek out King Kai across Snake Way for some extra training. Raditz reached Kai's planet in no time at all, and after receiving training for a while King Kai confessed that he had no other techniques to teach him, and so sent him back down to the underworld to study under a new master: Piccolo.

Raditz then explains that Piccolo's training enhanced his power to the point where he could access the Super Saiyan 3, but in the decades in which he received no students King Kai had developed a new technique that he taught to Raditz, allowing him to boost his power even further, even whilst transformed.

"Super Kaio-Ken!" Raditz proclaims as crimson red aura fuses with his golden one of the Super Saiyan and his power shoots up once again. He matches and even surpasses Tertius's speed, and in no time at all Raditz manages to kill the Vicis with a Kaio-Ken enhanced Double Sunday.

Upon a faraway planet Vegeta finds himself being tossed around like nothing more than a ragdoll before the might of the ascended from of Quintus, the five o'clock Vicis. With the beating he receives Vegeta still manages constantly to get back to his feet, showing off the ungodly determination that has only grown more potent with time. Still it isn't enough, as with only the Super Saiyan 3 form at his disposal Vegeta can't do enough damage or move fast enough to be a real challenge.

After the last failed attempt in the Room of Spirit and Time Vegeta dares not try and access the fourth level again, but after the Vicis uses the room's power to change the landscape again, his mind changes: Running low on energy, Vegeta finally loses control of his Super Saiyan 3 form and falls to one knee, and just to rub salt in the wound Quintus uses the space-time paradox of the Room to transport them to Planet Vegeta, years before its destruction. Seeing such a sight fills Vegeta with a mix of rage and determination required to deflect Quintus's executing blast and take a leap of faith to the Super Saiyan 4.

Finally, without the use of the blutzwave amplifier, Vegeta accesses the fourth level of the Super Saiyan and the two do battle amidst the sprawling metropolis of the capital of Planet Vegeta. Despite their power levels being evenly matched however, Quintus finds himself being steadily pushed back by the brute. In his frustration he asks why this is and Vegeta smirks as he replies. The prince explains that despite the two being virtually even in terms of raw power, the decades of experience that he has garnered on the battlefield means that his fighting skills far surpass the likes of the sheltered Vicis.

A terrified Quintus attempts to flee, but in his anger at endangering the lives of his people in whatever timeline, Vegeta pursues the man and blasts him with a fully charged Final Flash, finishing off the last of the Vices that came to greet them as Quintus's control of the Room vanishes and Vegeta silently bids farewell to his old planet, glad that he got to see it one last time.

The four Z fighters each find themselves back in the room's lobby, looking out once again onto that same shadowy plateau ending in the dark spire of the Vices. Piccolo theorises that thanks its control over the space/time continuum, the Room can transport between different places, times, and even different dimensions like this place and the underworld. He speculates that when Goku left with Shenron he crossed over into a hidden dimension – one blind to the eyes of the Vices, and with their ability to manipulate the Room's properties they plan to use it to transfer across dimensions and find up Goku themselves. After Trunks wishes that Goku were here, Raditz faces the facts and acknowledges that they have no idea where he is or whether or not he's even alive, so they can no longer rely on his help.

The hourglass remaining runs out just in time to mercifully take the group away from another squad of approaching Vices. As the Rooms floats around in space, nothing of any major event happens for a while. Occasionally the sand of the hourglass runs out and he group are transported to somewhere else entirely, though they recognise no planets they've ever visited before.

For three months the four get back into training as Vegeta trains Trunks whilst Piccolo and Raditz stick to their strict regime. After spending a week on a desolate world the four then find themselves being whisked away by the fleeting Room. The place rocks and shakes as if an earthquake were occurring, though through the shifting void the four see what appears to be a mirror reflection of the Room heading towards them.

It is in fact a second Room of Spirit and Time, and as the building nears the two Rooms find themselves magnetising towards one another, linking side by side and snapping together. The Z-Fighters investigate the second Room only to realise to their great surprise that a pair of familiar faces inhabit it.

Gohan and Goten emerge from the Room's chambers, and whilst they are initially suspicious of the Z-Fighters (Raditz in particular), they eventually concede and explain just what in the world is happening. Gohan reveals that despite Vegeta and Trunks only supposed to be gone for a single day in earth time, six months in the outside world have passed since they entered, which under normal circumstances would equate to hundreds of years inside the Room.

Piccolo suggests that this is due to the fact that the Room has been completely dislodged from time; that it has fallen completely out of synch with the Earth's natural restrictions and been allowed to run wild all by itself.

Gohan goes on to tell the group that despite their best efforts and his most powerful Kamehameha blast, the door to the Room of Spirit and Time simply would not open, and with the food inside only being enough for one year the Earth has long since presumed Trunks and Vegeta to be dead. After months pass in the outside world Gohan acknowledges that the group still needed training, and so he asked Dende to create another Room.

He and Goten entered the Room together and trained for a good six months before Goten in his clumsiness accidentally shattered one of the Room's mythical hourglasses. As such the pair were sent two weeks ago into a fluctuating limbo through a whole host of different planets; the same event that happened to Trunks and Vegeta. Gohan concludes his story by recounting the same experience that the four Z-Fighters endured, that after a series of flashes and shifts through space and time they found their own Room magnetising to here.

As expected, upon the next flash the two Rooms are transported together, though they find themselves within another place entirely. The void shifts to an unfamiliar planet characterised by flat planes of fresh grass as another Vicis appears before them. This one bears the sign of seven o'clock upon his chest, making him the most powerful Vicis the group have encountered so far and two stages above the powerful opponent Quintus. He introduces himself as Septimus and then states that the group were located thanks to the Room landing them on the planet of the Kais even despite Vegeta, Trunks, Piccolo and Raditz recounting no such visit.

Septimus brushes it aside as being of little significance as he carefully picks his foe out of the six Z-Fighters. He challenges Gohan in a fight to the death, though the unimpressed saiyan merely shrugs off and rejects this challenge, saying that Septimus simply 'isn't worth his time.' An irritated Vegeta once again steps forwards and challenges Septimus. The Vicis claims that he witnessed the match Vegeta fought with Quintus and is subsequently unimpressed by the saiyan's power. Naturally this sparks the prince's anger even further and he rushes the Vicis without hesitation.

The two brawl for a while and Vegeta manages to make Septimus ascend to his full power before being completely overwhelmed by his foe's strength. Just as Septimus is about to finish him off though, the familiar fusion chant rings through the air and a fully powered up Gotenks rescues Vegeta from certain death.

Thanks to Goten recently acquiring the power of the Super Saiyan 3 like Trunks did, the fused form of Gotenks manages to power up all the way to the Super Saiyan 4, making him the third in recent history to do so. Vegeta warns them of the time constraints when using up so much energy though this proves to be of little consequence as Gotenks completely dominates Septimus immediately.

Just as the fusion wears off however, the defeated and dismembered Septimus reveals that his unique power is that of regeneration, and once he is back together he uses his power to stop the two from fusing again. With the aid of a senzu bean Vegeta gets back to his feet and Septimus laughs off the very idea of his challenge. It is only when Vegeta then keeps up with him in combat that the Vicis remembers that recovering from near-death grants a saiyan with even greater power as Vegeta buys enough time for Trunks and Goten to fuse once again and finish the job for good.

As the fighters return to the Room Vegeta suddenly punches and threatens Gohan for his arrogance before. He berates him for rejecting Septimus's challenge and allowing his little brother to do all the work, claiming that despite whatever strength Gohan 'thinks' he now possesses these Vices are not to be taken lightly.

Gohan laments over this but has little time to face his guilt before disaster strikes again. Only minutes after the defeat of Septimus does a second foe show up, this one even stronger at being the number eight Vicis, Octavius. Feeling at fault for his actions before, Gohan steps up to the challenge and reveals a whole new power that only Goten had been previously aware of.

After matching Octavius blow for blow and forcing him to ascend to full power, Gohan takes off his gi to reveal a garment similar to that of the Kais; the kind he wore when training on their planet during Buu's reign and attaining his ultimate form. He informs the group that it was in fact he and Goten's Room of Spirit and Time that arrived on the Planet of the Kais for a week or so, and in that time he had the Elder reawaken his hidden power that had lay dormant in the last decade thanks to his lack of discipline and training.

Once again he powers up to his Ultimate form, revealing that through his recent training he has accessed a subtle second stage of the transformation that's power is even greater than that of a Super Saiyan 4. After a well fought battle he eventually manages to overpower Octavius in a beam clash with his new 'Ultimate Kamehameha', but only after his quick surveying of the area shows him a sight that provides him with all the courage and determination necessary to overwhelm the powerful Vicis.

In the heat of the clash between the two, Gohan swore he saw the distinct figure of his father, standing behind the group and waving cheerily with that same smile he always wore. Upon his victory however, Goku is nowhere to be seen and the other Z-Fighters each confess that they saw or felt nothing of the sort.

With the Room's next shift the group find themselves once again in the shadow of the Vices' spire looking over that same desolate, rocky canyon. They feel more power levels on the horizon, and with their best fighters all completely exhausted Piccolo thinks fast to get them away safely. He blasts one of their two remaining full hourglasses with the Special Beam Cannon, leading to a particularly violent warp through space and time to allow them to escape. Piccolo had realised quickly that the Room is sent whizzing through space whenever one of the hourglasses is broken, and so took drastic measures to prevent the group from being exterminated. He also picks a vital piece of information from Septimus, who unintentionally let slip that the Vices are watching places they've visited before (like the Kai planet) so that whenever the Room transports them to a familiar place they can lock onto its signal and use its power to make the next shift lead the fighters straight to them.

Unfortunately this means that their following shift will land them in danger too, since after an earthquake-like hurtle through space the group find themselves back on Earth; a place where the Vices will almost certainly be watching. Luckily though, the sands of the hourglass fall incredibly slowly, meaning that the group have perhaps a week of safety before the next shift.

Chi-Chi throws a fit upon seeing the man that once killed her husband as Gohan and Goten invite Raditz into their home. Her anger is short-lived however as she reveals that a few days ago she experienced a hallucination of Goku standing in the distance. Gohan confirms that he saw the exact same thing back in the room and the group comes to the conclusion that he must be making his return soon. Raditz informs the family that he will be training alone for the duration of their stay, since he believes that if he trains hard enough he may be able to access the Super Saiyan 4 before the end of the week.

After being away for so long and presumed dead Trunks and Vegeta turn up at the doorstep to Capsule Corporation to greet a tired and overworked Bulma who is naturally ecstatic upon seeing them. Vegeta immediately goes back into training in his own personal chamber, working himself so hard that he collapses several times.

Piccolo meanwhile returns to the Lookout for a talk with Dende, who like the Kais is oblivious to this new threat until told. He asks his fellow namekian to inspect the Room and see if he can stop the hourglass or somehow seal it away, but alas for all his skill Dende fears the Room is too volatile to tamper with. Piccolo then tracks down Uub and Tien, who are training together after being left as the Earth's last line of defence. Hungry for action again, they agree to join his cause as the group meets up once again for the Room's warp.

As expected, the group finds themselves upon a desolate moon confronted by two of the Vices, Quatrus and Seni, representing four and six o'clock respectively. Gohan and Vegeta move to attack, though they quickly find themselves sealed inside the Room's main lobby with everyone else by Quatrus's power of creating powerful barricades of energy. Only Trunks, Uub and Tien remain outside, meaning that the two Vices can challenge them evenly.

Each combatant ascends into full power as Trunks takes on Quatrus whilst Uub and Tien fight Seni. The three struggle immensely and find themselves being completely bested as the group's most powerful fighters can do nothing except watch. Trunks gets punched right out of his transformation and falls to the ground.

Thanks to the incredible amount of surrounding planets around the one moon however, Trunks's eyes suddenly take in an incredible amount of blutzwaves from the surrounding area, and through this freak occurrence he transforms into a Golden Great Ape. After rampaging for a while Trunks's human side takes control and he shrinks down into a fully powered Super Saiyan 4. He suggests to Uub and Tien that they swap opponents and challenges Seni, finding much to his satisfaction that like him, the Vicis wields a sword.

Blades clash as Trunks's newfound power allows him to match Seni's sword blow for blow, and at the end of an extended duel the two confess that they have little left to go on and agree to let out the last of their energy in one final attack. Seni blasts a massive discharge of thunderous energy from the tip of his sword and appears confused when Trunks does not retaliate. The saiyan acts at the last moment however, revealing a new technique called the Echo Force: a surrounding dome of opal light that can reflect any attack dished out on it. Seni dies with his own attack frying him completely as Uub and Tien manage to best Quatrus after a short battle.

Soon more power levels can be felt on the horizon, though whilst the group are debating over it Vegeta uncharacteristically blasts the final hourglass to get them away safely. They find themselves upon a lustrous golden planet the likes of which they've never seen before. The gravity here is intense, though it only makes training that much more effective for them.

After a few weeks the Room shifts again and to the group's dismay they find themselves upon New Planet Namek – another world that the Vices will no doubt be watching, though their time here is well spent at least. Piccolo asks the Elder Moori to gather the Dragon Balls so that they can be used at any time and contacts the Kais using Moori's telepathy.

Piccolo tells the Elder Kai of their dilemma and asks him if he knows anything about it, leading to a story that the Kai recounts from when he was younger. He tells of a great evil that once conquered and laid waste to the universe before he was defeated and sealed away by a great hero in white.

Vegeta meanwhile is growing lax in his training, leading to Raditz confronting him in private and asking him about it. After much deliberation Vegeta finally admits that his training is slowing and that he can feel himself reaching the absolute pinnacle of what he can achieve. He says that within weeks he will have complete mastery over the Super Saiyan 4, and then his progress will stop. Raditz asks him whether or not there could be another level above the Super Saiyan 4 and Vegeta shakes his head. He explains that with the other levels he felt a sense of foreboding; like there was some new plateau of unfathomable power waiting for him around the corner, but with this he feels nothing.

Vegeta confesses that he believes he is getting old. After being in the business of fighting for over fifty years he says he is finally reaching his limits. He goes on to explain that he believes either a level above Super Saiyan 4 doesn't exist or he's simply too old to access it. Raditz assures him that he is technically the King of all Saiyans and an incredible fighter; that the normal limitations of men don't extend to people of his calibre. He adds that Vegeta still needs to finish his fight with Kakarot, giving the Prince much food for thought before the Room finally shifts again.

Once more the group finds themselves in the barren wasteland of the Vices' lair, and since he is itching for a fight Raditz steps forwards once he senses two power levels on the horizon. Just as before however, the moment he steps off the Room's surface Raditz is teleported away to face one of them in single combat. As the remaining energy signal slowly approaches the group debate who would be the ideal applicant to fight, since only one of them will be able to face the second Vicis one on one.

Gohan boldly submits his candidacy to fight, but whilst he states his argument Vegeta steps off the Room's surface and is warped away to take the fight for himself, much to Gohan's annoyance.

Raditz finds himself stranded in a set of snowy peaks facing off against the nine o'clock Vicis Novus. This one stands over seven feet tall, clad head to toe in a mechanical set of power armour and speaking with a distorted, robotic tone to his voice. Even untransformed Novus manages to easily best Raditz at the Super Saiyan 3 level, though he finds himself with his hands full once Raditz shows off the results of his training and transforms into a Super Saiyan 4. For a long time Raditz pounds away at the reinforced armour and dishes out serious damage onto Novus, but for all his hammering the Vicis simply refuses to ascend into his higher level.

After a heavy Double Sunday Novus is left with no choice but to transform, but not before he makes Raditz promise never to utter another word of what he sees. Hesitantly Raditz agrees and the Vicis begins to power up. A smokescreen blasts away in sheer power and beyond the veil the saiyan can hear the clunking of the hefty armour being discarded. The mist eventually clears to reveal not a giant man, but a modestly proportioned, gorgeous looking woman behind the mask.

Raditz is convinced that some kind of trick is at hand until he scopes out the beauty's power level to see that everything is completely genuine. She looks sad and confesses that even Duodecimus has not seen her in this form before. Sensing a genuinely kind hearted person behind the cool facade, Raditz tells her that he doesn't want to fight and asks her to join them.

Out of fear of the Master's power, Novus refuses, and the two have no choice but to engage in combat once again. With Novus's incredible strength Raditz bolsters his efforts to a three times Super Kaio-Ken in order to merely keep up with her and the battle comes to a climax as Raditz breaks out his new move the Kaio-Cannon, which is met by Novus's equally powerful Divine Blaster. Raditz pushes his Kaio-Ken up to a quadruple, and when that threatens to take his life he blasts it up to a times five to quickly overwhelm the woman whilst almost completely destroying his body in the process.

On the verge of death and losing consciousness, the broken and beaten Raditz appears shocked when a mangled Novus drags her half-dead form towards him. In her last breath the woman converts the last of her life force into him, wishes him well and opens up a portal for the rejuvenated saiyan. He flies through it only to see a fully transformed Vegeta having the tar beaten out of him by Decimus, the number ten.

He swiftly intervenes and with the time he buys the saiyan proposes fusion to the Prince after Vegeta eats the last senzu bean. Reluctantly Vegeta agrees and the two fuse right as Decimus closes in. As a Super Saiyan 4 and the power of two pure-blooded saiyans at his disposal the all-powerful Vegeditz wipes the floor with Decimus, and even after the Vicis unleashes his signature power of growing to gargantuan sizes the saiyan still bests him despite being only a fraction of the size.

The battle finishes swiftly with a fused finishing move named the Final Sunday, and in its aftermath the two are warped back to the Room's lobby. With no hourglasses left to smash the group can do nothing except prepare once the power signals of the final two Vices can be felt upon the horizon. Gohan braces himself for battle once again, though moments before impact a familiar face intervenes.

The Z-Fighters hear the nostalgic sound of Goku's instant transmission as the fully grown man teleports in before them. He quickly grabs them and warps the group through dimensions, leaving the Vices with no opponents left and in possession of the precious Room of Spirit and Time.

The group finds themselves inside a huge hall which Goku explains is Shenron's lair and own private dimension that he led them to using his newly upgraded Inter-Dimensional Instant Transmission. He tells them that the Dragon Balls are a kind of vehicle that when gathered together open up a portal to the Dragon's realm.

Vegeta punches Goku and berates him for letting his sons and allies do all the work, but the saiyan apologises and says that the Dragon wouldn't let him leave until his training was complete, and only let him transmit images of himself to his friends to assure them that he was okay. Goku then notices Raditz shying away, and contrary to Raditz's preconceptions he quickly accepts his brother as a friend, reasoning that if Piccolo and the others trust him then he should as well.

Tien realises in horror that the Vices now have control of The Room of Spirit and Time, though Goku explains that they will have to wait until the next shift (two weeks) before they can manipulate it towards their universe. He proclaims that in one week he and Vegeta will mount a full assault upon their tower. Vegeta ponders why he didn't ask Gohan, Raditz or Piccolo before the namekian himself asks a question.

Piccolo states that more than a year has passed since his departure, meaning that the Dragon should have enough energy to grant them a wish – they could seal away the Room of Spirit and Time. Goku bashfully scratches his head and says that the request would be within Shenron's power had he not already used a wish recently.

The group look confused and this prompts Goku to elaborate nervously. To the dismay of the Z-Fighters Goku used a wish to restore youth to both Chi-Chi and Bulma since the two are constantly complaining about how young Goku and Vegeta look in comparison. Piccolo is furious as usual, but Vegeta suspects that part of wasting the wish could be because Goku wants to have a crack at the Master himself.

Vegeta gets out of bed later on and walks out of the great hall to see a moonlike domain that carries on as far as the eye can see. The gravity here is more intense than he usually experiences even in his own private training room, and so he has to ascend to maximum power just to take a look around. He finds Goku bidding farewell to Shenron, and as the dragon disappears the two saiyans banter for awhile.

The prince finally asks Goku why he wants to attack the Vices' lair with him rather than the others, admitting that both Raditz and Gohan have a power at least equal to his own on top of the ability to soar to new heights. He laments again that his own power has completely reached his limits, but before he can count himself out Goku cryptically replies, telling him that he has the 'potential'.

Before the saiyan can elaborate however Goku transmits himself away, leaving Vegeta to ponder over the man's words by himself.

The next day Goku transmits the Z-Fighters back to Earth, and sure enough both Chi-Chi and Bulma appear as only being in their late twenties, much to Gohan's disappointment, as he now looks older than his own mother. The group train as usual, and in almost no time at all their week is up. With Gohan, Trunks and Raditz all complaining about missing out, Goku eventually concedes and allows all eight of the Z-Fighters to come along with him.

With Goku's next Instant Transmission the group finds themselves right at the front door of the dark tower that the Vices inhabit. The group enter and are quickly attacked from all sides by hundreds of strange looking, deformed and grey monsters, each powerful enough to give the Z-Fighters trouble. Goku informs the group that Shenron told him these things are called 'Vynuls', and that they are failed attempts at creating the Vices. He goes on to explain that the Master has an almost infinite number of them at his disposal and suggests that the group split up so that they can go and face the last two Vices.

With two opposing staircases leading up the tower, Goku takes Gohan with him up one flight and tells Trunks to accompany Vegeta up the next, leaving the Vynuls living in the hall in the capable hands of the five remaining Z-Fighters.

The saiyan is left disappointed when his long flight of the stairs leads him to Unidecimus, the eleven o'clock Vicis. He had hoped to face their captain Duodecimus, yet it seems that honour is reserved for Vegeta. Gohan insists on fighting this turn, and in seeing his saiyan blood go to work once again Goku allows him to test himself against the powerful foe. Once maxed out Gohan manages to make Unidecimus ascend to his even greater power, and once that happens the hybrid saiyan is beaten to a pulp by the quiet yet cruel Vicis.

Having disposed of the Vynuls in the hall the five remaining Z-Fighters enter the room and Piccolo asks Goku why he does not intervene. He explains that Gohan would resent him if he tried to save him when he's still not done, and so he waits for his son to be completely bested until he finally steps in. Unidecimus then reveals that with the Room's power they can transport relatively weak beings through dimensions, and so in torment to Gohan he deploys a small battalion of Vynuls to the planet Earth through a small portal.

As Piccolo and the others insist that they swiftly return to Earth Goku only smiles as another part of his plan is revealed. He tells them that he didn't just restore youth to Chi-Chi and Bulma, but also another Z-Fighter whose strength should prove to be invaluable.

Back on the planet Earth the wives of the two saiyans hear explosions on the horizon and realise to their horror that creatures have attacked earth whilst Goku and the others are away. The two fear for their lives as the Vynuls close in before another familiar face appears. With a rejuvenation and a power boost in tow, Krillin enters the fray with a collection of Destructo Disks and manages to destroy the approaching threat to thwart Unidecimus's plan.

Vegeta meanwhile is completely blown away by the strength of his opponent Duodecimus. His pride refuses to let him stay down for long, though his body is completely ravaged by the Vices captain's ability to increase the gravity around him to unfathomable heights. When he refuses to stay down once again, Duodecimus seizes Trunks and breaks almost every bone in his body using his power, prompting a roar of power from the saiyan Prince.

The tower itself shakes and begins to crumble under the pressure of Vegeta's transformation, and the only person who seems to have a clue about what is happening is Goku himself, who challenges Unidecimus to show the group firsthand.

Quickly he ascends through the ranks of the Super Saiyan, explaining each one in turn to Unidecimus and telling him that this will be the last time he ever gets to see them. As Goku hits the Super Saiyan 4 the Vicis laughs, believing it to be the very pinnacle of Goku's strength just as it was before.

As the saiyan begins to smile though, Raditz's ever-growing suspicions are confirmed as Goku is enveloped in a powerful blinding light, transforming to a higher level known as the never seen before Super Saiyan 5. He gives Unidecimus three chances to walk away as the Vicis tries in vain to destroy him before unleashing a new destructive force known as the Dragon Kamehameha to end the fight and put Unidecimus down for the count, holding back just enough power to keep the man alive.

Raditz asks what is going on upstairs as the dark tower continues to shake with Vegeta's transformation, and Goku tells him that the Prince is undergoing the initial metamorphosis of the Super Saiyan 5. Goku then reveals that unlike the other stages of the Super Saiyan, if one fails to attain it in time then they die.

Meanwhile the Prince of all Saiyans finds himself suspended in an open void of his own mind where he is challenged by a great ape several times bigger than any he has ever seen before. With a lack of power Vegeta is unable to even transform into the first stage of Super Saiyan and finds himself being knocked around by the ape as haunting visions of Bulma, Trunks and Goku torment him about his supposed limits.

On the verge of death Vegeta sees a final vision; the kind that has been playing on his mind for some time now. He sees himself as a decrepit old man, perhaps three or perhaps thirty years down the line, unable to fight and stripped of all power. It is only too late that the Prince realises that this is a test designed to see whether or not he is worthy to attain the fifth level.

Vegeta wills himself to stand despite being crushed and broken, and upon seeing a final vision of the dying Trunks he flies up to meet the ape head-on, utilising the full extent of his strength and emerging from the trial as a whole new being.

Back to his old self and wielding the absolute power of the Super Saiyan 5, Vegeta engages Duodecimus for a second time, and to the Vices' horror the Prince can now keep up with his movements and matches him blow for blow with his newest transformation. Duodecimus throws up his gravity field once more, yet it proves no match as Vegeta ploughs through it using every last ounce of strength to land his latest combo the 'Royal Assault' to put Duodecimus out of commission.

Goku and the others regroup with the Prince just in time to see the floor above them completely shatter as the physical form of the Master descends to meet them. With a power even more horrifying than any imagined he kills the already beaten Unidecimus and Duodecimus before challenging Goku just as he wished, and so the saiyan engages him in combat with the Super Saiyan 5.

The battle rages on as a worn out Vegeta is too weak to access his own ascended transformation and can only watch as Goku is toyed with and beaten badly. An incoming blast of unimaginable power towards Goku's blind spot then prompts the Prince to leap into the fray in an attempt to push Kakarot out of the way, though his arm gets caught in the blast and is subsequently blown away in the explosion.

Panicking, Goku quickly grabs the group and transports them back through dimensions to the Lookout. Dende manages to heal Trunks's devastating injuries at Vegeta's pained request, though afterwards the namekian healer can do nothing for the dismembered saiyan. Goku confesses that the Master was far more powerful than he ever dreamed of as Piccolo knocks Vegeta out to spare him the pain of his lost arm.

Vegeta awakens two days later back at his own home, and moments within his rise Bulma rushes in to attach a prosthetic arm of her own making, virtually indistinguishable from a real arm at first glance. Vegeta insists that it would do little good before she explains that it was made from tempered steel that was reinforced by the full power of Goku's blasts and would still allow him to fight. The Prince begrudgingly accepts her offering and quickly seeks out Kakarot once healed.

Vynuls are deployed from the Vices' dimension to conquer and subdue half the planets in the galaxy, causing the Z-Fighters remaining to deploy themselves in three man shifts to patrol Earth and prevent their own planet from being eradicated.

For the remaining five days both Goku and Vegeta train at a solitary moon lightyears away from the planet Earth, fuelled by a series of elixirs created by Dende and Popo that give them a steady stream of energy lasting a single hour. The pair consume countless of these in order to train for the duration without the need for sleep before eventually running out and collapsing twelve hours before the Master is expected to make his comeback.

The Universe itself seems to quake in fear and the skies of every planet in existence flashes with energy upon the arrival of the greatest threat it has ever faced. Chronus crosses dimensions and quickly destroys the Room of Spirit and Time so that it can never be used against him. He then begins to blow planets out of the sky, causing Uub and the other Z-Fighters to warp into space using Trunks's Super Saiyan 4 Echo Force technique as a barrier to allow them to observe only.

As Goku and Vegeta are still nowhere to be seen, Uub himself decides to engage the Master, having powered up from before and re-acquiring the power of the old Majin to survive in the void of space. Since they lack this technique, Gohan and the others can do nothing except watch from the domed barrier of Trunks's Echo Force ability as Uub is beaten to a pulp before finally destroyed under the blast of the Master.

With his last breath however, Uub manages to get within inches of the monster and uses his last cell of energy to Instant Transmit the two to a desolate world not far beneath the other Z-Fighters so that they can fight him on even ground. As Gohan and the others descend towards the planet though, a new force shows itself on the horizon as a holy stream of white light surges past them.

Upon arriving on the deserted planet the Z-Fighters see the Master and another warrior square off against one another as a fight is about to take place. As the two talk, the newcomer reveals that the two are brothers and that he is in fact the hero of legend that the Elder Kai spoke of in his old tale.

Hyperion is his name, and he reveals the Master's true name to be Chronus, telling the others that he sealed him away millions of years ago following Chronus's murdering of their family out of jealousy for his older brother. The pair power up to their maximum strength as a fight breaks out that sends bolts of energy ricocheting across the entire universe. Through his fighting style, Hyperion's moves closely resemble that of Novus's, but the hero's techniques eventually prove no match as Chronus defeats him and destroys the whole planet in the climax of their battle.

Using Trunks's essential technique once again the Z-Fighters manage to escape back into space just in time to avoid being blown up along with the nameless world. Finally Goku and Vegeta show up, warping directly into Trunks's Echo Force and challenging Chronus to another battle. The Master however explains that he has little interest in fighting them again and simply begins to destroy planets from space. With no way to survive in the empty void outside of the Echo Force Goku eventually cracks and the group is forced to retreat back to the Lookout to figure out some way for them to fight on even terms.

Vegeta suggests paying Bulma a visit, and sure enough the blue-haired scientist in just two hours comes up with a way to allow the fighters to survive in space via wrist-mounted devices, though she advises the group to be careful with them since they are prone to breaking. Once again Goku contacts the Kais and Namek's Elder Moori, finding out that the namekians have gathered all seven Dragon Balls. With this knowledge he sends Piccolo to the planet using the Instant Transmission, and with two of Bulma's gadgets at the ready he and Vegeta fly out into space for one final confrontation with Chronus.

Despite their training and combined efforts the pair find that they can only do so much against the ascended Chronus, and so after much coaxing Vegeta finally agrees to try fusion at the expense of his own pride. As Gogeta, the fused warrior suddenly pulls out the last of Dende's elixir that the pair used for training and finishes it in one gulp. With this in tow the fusion will last a constant hour instead of the five minutes the two would have at their maximum power.

Gogeta dominates Chronus completely as a Super Saiyan 5 as their battle escalates into space atop countless exploding worlds. For all his attacking force though, Chronus's powers of regeneration pull him back from the brink of death numerous times, so Gogeta opts to perform a new Spirit Bomb which consumes the last of his energy and forces the two to split once again.

Sadly though, their efforts are in vain, as Chronus miraculously regenerates again. With the two separated they can do little against the onslaught of the Master, yet things turn even worse as Chronus realises their trump card of the Dragon Balls and directs a blast towards Planet Namek.

Bravely Piccolo flies into the stratosphere in an attempt to stop the attack, contacting Moori and telling him to quickly summon the Dragon. Despite the namekian's fear of these Dragon Balls overloading, the group use their first wish to send all the invading Vynuls back to the domain from which they came. For their second wish, all life across the cosmos is restored from the reign of terror that the creatures employed. Finally the third wish is used to replenish the energy of Goku and Vegeta, and just as the Dragon Balls seem about to explode with power they rocket off into the sky and disperse as usual.

Even though the group's wishes have been fulfilled Piccolo still refuses to give up, knowing that if he loses focus the blast will overwhelm both him and his beloved home planet. He ascends to his full power, lets out a primal roar in his barricade and manages to stop the blast, though it is at the cost of his own life as the namekian passes over into the next world once again.

With Goku devastated Chronus pounds away at the two, preventing them from fusion in light of their recent power restoration. During a scuffle out in the void of space Goku holds up an accidental block which shatters the device upon his arm allowing him to survive in the atmosphere. He is forced to grab Vegeta and warp to a nearby planet before the device breaks completely.

With Goku now lacking the ability to survive amidst the void the two are left grounded as Chronus closes from space with a devastating attack that threatens to destroy the planet they stand upon. The pair brace themselves to make the biggest deflection of their lives before another saiyan intervenes. A Super Kaio-Ken cries through the air and Raditz appears out of nowhere to stop the blast, using his own body as a shield.

Goku rushes to his side in the aftermath as Chronus touches down on the planet, though the strain of Raditz's Super Kaio-Ken and the power from Chronus's blast is simply too much for his body to handle, and so he draws his last breath having fully redeemed himself in the eyes of the Z-Fighters.

Vegeta then assures Goku that he will hold Chronus off as long as there is breath within him to give the saiyan time enough to create another Spirit Bomb, one which draws life from every corner of the universe. Goku agrees, and so Vegeta engages in the beating of his life. Despite countless attempts to put him out of action the Prince keeps on getting up with his inhuman determination shining through in full force.

Chronus is mere moments away before finishing the job before a Kamehameha intervenes and Gohan joins the fray. His actions do little against the monster, though the pair manage to hold him off for a few more precious minutes until a divine attack bails them out of certain death.

Despite being broken and on the verge of collapse, the believed-to-be dead Hyperion uses the last of his energy to restrain Chronus momentarily and heal the wounds of both Vegeta and Gohan. He then confronts Goku, and after seeing the purity that he wields the holy warrior opts to transfer his life force into the Spirit Bomb to give it another vital boost in power.

Free of his shackles, Chronus arrives on the scene once again, and Goku debates throwing the bomb early until Vegeta dives in for one last brawl with the monster. As usual he is thrown around and suffers injuries no normal man could take, though he buys valuable time until Chronus holds him in a tight lock and recalls their last battle.

The Master remembers that Vegeta lost his arm and so painfully begins to crush the metallic prosthetic to envoke agony on Vegeta's behalf. Finally, after gathering energy from every life form on the universe, Goku cries up to Vegeta that the Spirit Bomb is ready after seeing him in such pain. The Prince struggles to get free, though a double Kamehameha from both Gohan and a newly revived Uub gives him the distraction he needs to wrench free of the Master's hold and soar out of the flightpath of Goku's Spirit Bomb.

Seeing the planet sized ball of energy fly up to its mark, Vegeta lands next to his rival and asks him whether it will be enough to destroy Chronus. Regrettably Goku confesses that he has no idea, and that he threw the bomb before he was sure in an attempt to stop Vegeta being killed. He states that theoretically it should work, but the Prince insists that Chronus defies all logic and only one hundred percent certainty will succeed in destroying him.

Vegeta confesses that he still has much energy left, having had little chance to use any with the beating he took against Chronus. Goku considers what he means before the saiyan bids him a final farewell and sets off towards the sky. Unable to follow him into space, Goku is left powerless to stop the proud Prince as he races towards the slowly approaching Spirit Bomb and shoots up and into the ball of energy itself, remembering that the technique will never harm someone on the side of good.

Once inside the Spirit Bomb Vegeta initiates his final technique; it is one that uses up his vital life force energy, and as such he has not perfected it since becoming a Super Saiyan 5, but with a sacrifice in mind, he feels he doesn't have to. He charges a crimson energy and dips into his last reserves of strength to bring out a power far too great to be conceivably wielded by one man.

He sees the smile upon Chronus's face as the beast realises he can take on the Spirit Bomb without dying, though what he doesn't realise is that Vegeta's final attack is waiting in surprise to couple with the massive ball of energy.

The Spirit Bomb detonates right as Vegeta fires his last technique: The Crimson Oblivion. Radiant energy surges through the entire cosmos as the two devastating attacks merge in synchronism and erupt with a blast that wipes Chronus's existence from the face of the universe. A terrified Goku borrows Gohan's wrist mounted device and briefly warps into space to retrieve Vegeta before transporting him back down to Earth, however it is too late for the broken saiyan Prince.

The two share a moment as Goku helps Vegeta to stand in the wake of his shallow victory, however the saiyan insists that his death will be worth it when thinking of Trunks, Bulma and all the other lives he's potentially saved. He also reflects that his real arm should be restored to him in the afterlife Under a crimson sunset of his own doing Vegeta finally draws his last breath, leaving a distraught Goku swearing to somehow bring him back as Mr. Satan confesses his weakness and lack of involvement in anything to the world in the aftermath of the final battle.


Author's Notes: So, in its shortest form, that was the Room of Spirit and Time Saga. Now onto what you're here for: The Alpha Tour Saga

Things you need to know/remember going in:

- The Z-Fighters faced a threat known as the Vices, one of whom, Novus, repents before her death

- The major villain was known as Chronus, who had a pure hearted older brother named Hyperion who also died

- Goku is back

- Raditz has also repented, and after training with King Kai one of his new signature attacks is the 'Super Kaio-Ken'

- A new transformation exists called the Super Saiyan 5, wielded by both Goku and Vegeta

- Both Raditz and Trunks can also access the Super Saiyan 4

- Goten can become a Super Saiyan 3

- Gohan has also unlocked a new strain of his Ultimate form, having reawakened it from the Elder Kai

- In the final battle Piccolo, Raditz and Vegeta all perished before Chronus (hey I just realised that it was only the ones who used to be bad guys xD)