Prologue
Five years since the battle with Majin Buu, and Saiyans (who had been resurrected by an unknown force), Humans, and Nameks now live in a coexistence known as the Galactic Trinity. Governed by the Trifecta Military, and protected by the most powerful warriors from each race, the three Origin Systems are joined by a central system called Trinity.
It was formed so that each race could aid the others in a war, but when Trifecta got power hungry, Planet Trinity fell under its tyrannical rule. Goku, Krillin, and Piccolo all agreed that Trifecta had to be stopped before they spread to the Origin Systems. But when even the mighty Goku proved unable to defeat Trifecta, the three warriors came up with a contingency plan. They would concentrate their combined powers into a single Dragonball, the Eight Star Dragonball.
Because of the Dragonball's vast amount of power, Piccolo suggested that it be left to a guardian who could call on it in combination with the other Dragonballs whenever needed, or could call on its powers in battle when his powers were all gone. Goku and Krillin agreed, but before they could make a final decision, Trifecta attacked them full force.
Just before Goku was killed in the blast, he transferred his spirit into the Eight Star ball and commanded his instant transmission technique to find his spiritual signature when it returned to Earth in another body. The three warriors were destroyed and the Dragonball buried deep within the ground of Trinity until the day came that Goku's spirit would be resurrected into one of his descendents...
Chapter 1
Eight more years pass and Goten and Trunks' wives bore two other sons, Goshin and VJ. They're older brothers, Raditz and Nappa, taught them the basics of martial arts and soon they would go train with Masters Roshi and Uub on Kame Island. Pan, Goshin's older cousin, was somewhat jealous because she had never had such an opportunity. Her school schedule wouldn't allow for it.
A transport waited for them at the Capsule Corp. headquarters to take them to the island. They had packed enough clothes to last them one week (they would wash them periodically during their training). The two young Saiyans stood ready to begin their training.
"You ready, guys?" asked Raditz.
"This is gonna be great!" said Goshin excitedly.
"I'm gonna tear up and then some!" VJ yelled confidently.
"Cool your jets, little bro." said Nappa. "Master Roshi isn't going to go easy on you, not by any stretch of the imagination."
"Neither is Master Uub, Goshin." said Raditz. "He'll test your body AND your mind."
"Trust me, Raditz, I can handle it!" Goshin smirked.
The door to transport opened up at that moment and the engine revved up on its own. Goshin and VJ stood triumphantly in front of their destiny, smiling confidently and feeling perfectly ready to begin their training. They climbed up into the transport and then turned to wave good bye to their families. Their mothers cried happily as they disappeared into the transport and the door closed tight. The engines roared violently as the transport lifted itself off the ground.
It shot off into the distance as Goshin and VJ waved out the window. VJ and Goshin sat down looked at the control console in front of them. Goshin scratched his head curiously.
"I wonder what would happen if we pressed some of the buttons." he thought aloud.
"Don't even think about it, Goshin! You'll just get us in trouble like you always do!" said VJ scathingly. Goshin looked embarrassed.
"Ok, I won't touch anything…" he whined.
"Hey, let's go spar in the simulator while we have nothing better to do." said VJ, trying to make up for being so mean.
"Ok!" said Goshin, happily. They got up and walked away and Goshin dropped a little pouch as he got out of his seat. He saw and stopped. "I'll be right there, VJ. I just dropped something."
VJ walked into the simulator and Goshin went to pick up his pouch. He picked it up and then stood for a moment and stared at the console. He shook his head hard, to rid himself of the temptation to push one of the buttons.
"No! I told VJ I would touch anything! I'm not going to mess this up!" said Goshin. He turned on his heel and walked away.
It wasn't Goshin's fault he was clumsy. He had a natural curiosity and an unfortunate knack for letting it lead him into the worst of situations. But not this time! This time would be different. As Goshin walked into the simulator after VJ, though, a small, green
monster came out from behind the control console and smirked evilly.
On Kami's lookout, a dark figure watched though a psychic link with the creature as Goshin disappeared into the simulator. He smiled with evil fangs bared.
"How delicious, the little twerp made it ALL too easy!" said the evil figure with a chuckle. "Now his friend will think he is behind my little 'course correction'"
The little, green man began climbing up the console quietly. He clicked some random buttons, chuckled, and disappeared as quickly as he came. The figure who was watching from Kami's lookout chortled under his breathe.
In the simulator, Goshin and VJ were fighting hard when the transport started shaking violently. It started spinning out control and knocking the boys around like rag dolls.
"GOSHIN!" VJ yelled between impacts with walls. "WHAT…DID…YOU…DO?"
"I didn't do anything!" said Goshin as they corrected themselves and made there way to the control panel. "I swear!"
VJ frantically tried to restore the auto-pilot controls as Goshin tried to explain himself in the background. Goshin yelped as he saw the little, green monster climb out of the trash hatch.
"VJ, LOOK!" he bellowed. VJ looked up abruptly and hit the wrong button on the control panel. The engines shut off completely and the transport began plummeting toward the ocean water beneath them.
"DARN IT, GOSHIN!" VJ howled as he tried to reactivate the engines. Nothing seemed to work. Goshin's face lit up immediately as he concocted a plan.
"VJ WATCH OUT!" he yelled. VJ looked and then jumped out of the way. Goshin concentrated hard and pushed some of his energy into the control panel. The engines flared to life and the transport blasted back towards Kame Island.
"How did you do that?" asked VJ.
"My grandpa taught me that fighting isn't just bodily…you need your mind, too." said Goshin.
"Wow…you did that just with your mind?" asked VJ.
"Not just with my mind…but mostly." said Goshin.
The transport suddenly shut back down and began quaking again. The boys were horrified. VJ looked at the console and saw the transport was out of fuel.
'What the…? Goshin couldn't have been THAT specific with the controls…' he thought in a panic. 'He doesn't even know how to use them!'
The two young Saiyans panicked as they saw that they were careening toward the island. On the island, Masters Roshi and Uub screamed as they saw the transport plummeting toward them. They jumped out the way as it hit the water and sent a great tidal wave crashing into the Kame House. Master Roshi looked back in horror.
"MY HOUSE!" he wailed. "IT'S RUINED!"
Ruined was a gross understatement. The entire front side of the house was caved in and everything inside was either soaked or smashed. The door to the transport opened and Goshin and VJ clambered out holding their heads.
"You. have. arrived. at. your. destination. Goshin. and. VJ." said the transport's onboard computer. Master Roshi was still gawking at his demolished house. Master Uub turned his sights on the boys.
"Goshin! VJ! Just what were you two thinking!" he asked angrily.
"It wasn't our fault, Master!" said VJ. "Well…not both our fault…"
"I told you I didn't touch anything, VJ!" said Goshin.
"There was no one else in the transport, Goshin!" VJ retorted. "It had to be you, you fart knocker!"
"But there was someone else!" Goshin yelled. "I saw him jumped down the garbage chute!"
"My eye, you did, Goshin…" VJ started to say.
"ENOUGH!" Master Roshi screamed. "If I didn't have such respect for your grandfathers, you two would be swimming home for all I care after what you did to my house! So help me God, you two, your training is going to be hell until my house back to the way it was!"
"But…Master Roshi…I can fix your house." said Goshin.
"Wha..!" Everyone looked at Goshin like he had just threatened to kill Master Roshi AND Master Uub.
Goshin stretched out his arms and hands and concentrated on the house in front of him. He concentrated with all his might as chunks of the caved in walls began to return to their original placement within the house wall. Goshin's body began to glow dimly as the house repaired itself piece by piece. In a matter of minutes the house was whole again, and dry as a bone as well. Goshin fell backwards in exhaustion and just lay there in the sand panting.
"Amazing…" said Master Roshi.
"Incredible…!" said Master Uub.
"Show off…" said VJ.
Goshin just lay there, unable to get up on his own power. VJ looked down at him and smirked.
"You drained yourself, didn't you?" he asked.
"Just a little…" Goshin croaked weakly.
Master Uub carried Goshin inside to let him get some rest and Master Roshi walked up to VJ.
"Well, I hope at least YOU are ready to begin your training." said Roshi.
"Yes, Master Roshi! More then ready!" said VJ with suppressed excitement.
"Very well…" Master Roshi put his hand on VJ's shoulder and the tips of his two fingers on the opposite hand on his forehead. "Why I let Goku teach me this I have no idea…3…2…1…!"
They disappeared instantly and reappeared on a much larger island farther from shore. VJ looked around in amazement at the beautiful sights and sounds. Master Roshi just stood there for a second, trying to regain his composer without letting VJ know he'd even lost it.
"20 LAPS! ON THE DOUBLE, BRIEFS!" Master Roshi yelled suddenly. "I wanna see foot prints on the entire perimeter of the island!"
VJ jumped and started running as fast as he could down the beach. Master Roshi opened up a Capsule and followed on the hover disk that appeared from it. VJ ran like mad trying to keep a steady pace, fearing that the stories about Roshi planting booby traps against lazy students that Nappa had told him about were true.
Meanwhile, back on Kame Island, Uub was putting Goshin through a great deal of drills involving physical strength and mental focus. With each passing exercise, Goshin's arms felt as though they were about to burst through the skin and explode. Concentration on even the simplest tasks was difficult enough, let alone the things Uub was having him to prove just how far his ki powers could go.
As time passed, VJ proved to be just as adept at ki use as Goshin, in some cases more. As Goshin learned to channel his energy into more powerful physical attacks and tracking techniques, VJ could use his energy to move so fast his movements were impossible to follow for a normal human eye. Each one trying to best the other in order to prove superiority, they trained harder and harder each day. As they trained, they grew more and more powerful, until Master Roshi and Master Uub only felt safe in a bomb shelter when they fought.
The big problem for Goshin was that it seemed like the stronger he got the trouble he caused. It seemed every time Goshin turned around, he unwittingly caused the destruction of something that didn't belong to him. No one ever got angry with him once he proved able to fix it. His control over his ki powers had been growing rapidly and he was almost ready to try ki attacks.
VJ was already working on them, training to use his grandfather's Big Bang Attack. Master Roshi had taken him to a broad field where he could practice the technique without hurting innocent people. The attack was very weak for VJ, who hadn't realized just how much energy Vegeta had used in it to begin with.
One day he was practicing the attack and saw the little green man that Goshin had seen crawling out of the transport. When it saw that VJ had seen him, it attacked. VJ hit it hard with the most powerful Big Bang Attack he could muster and it fell in a heap on the ground. Master Roshi, Master Uub, and Goshin all rushed over to see why VJ had launched his attack into the air.
"Hey," Goshin yelped. "That's the guy that messed with the transport! I saw him climbing out of the trash hatch!"
"It's a Saibaman…" said Master Roshi. "Created by the Tuffles to act as an unlimited source of soldiers, they were first used on Earth by the Saiyans. I highly doubt this is the only one."
"Who do you think created it, Master Roshi?" asked Uub.
"I don't know, but who ever it is must be behind the accidents that we've been blaming Goshin for…" said Roshi. "But why get one of the students in so much trouble?"
"To slow down his training…" said Uub. "Goshin hasn't made the progress I expected him to because the accidents have him to fear using his powers at all."
"I see…" said Roshi.
"Master Uub…" said Goshin.
"Yes, Goshin?" asked Uub.
"If it's ok with you…I'd like to fix this on my own." said Goshin.
"You mean…fight on your own?" asked Uub. "I'm sorry, Goshin, but I cannot allow you to do that."
"But I can do it! I know I can!" said Goshin angrily.
"Show me the Kame Hame Ha and you can do as you wish." said Uub.
Goshin nodded and took the familiar stance. He concentrated as hard as he could, feeling the energy around him pulling into the space between his hands. Uub and the others were astonished at the amount of power he was pulling in so quickly.
"KAAAMEEEE…" he began to yell as the energy in his hands began to glow. "HAAAMEEEE…!"
As Goshin charged the attack Master Roshi began to sense someone other then Goshin and the others amongst them.
'Goku…' he thought. He watched Goshin take aim at a nearby boulder.
"HAAAAAAAAAAA!" Goshin wailed as he released the energy and the boulder exploded in a brilliant display. Master Uub was certainly convinced as Goshin held the final stance, breathing heavily.
"Very well, Goshin, you and VJ have both proven yourselves capable of completing your final challenge." said Uub.
"You first mission is to go to the Guardian Lookout and determine who is behind these Saibamen." said Master Roshi.
"How do you know that they are on the Guardian Lookout, Master Roshi?" asked VJ.
"Because there is no other way they could have known where you boys were, and it's clear that you boys are the target." said Master Roshi.
"But what if we run into Trifecta soldiers?" asked Goshin.
"I think you can handle Trifecta, Goshin" said Uub with a smile.
"Do be very careful, however," said Master Roshi, "Trifecta didn't gain their power because they're pushovers. There is a reason people live in fear of them. Their ruthless, bloodthirsty brutes that won't hold back on you because you're children. When you fight them, especially their leader, you'll have to give it everything you've got…both of you!"
Goshin and VJ nodded their heads.
"But Master Uub," said VJ, "neither of us knows how to fly…"
"I think you two can figure it out" said Uub.
Goshin and VJ looked at each other, nodded defiantly, and began concentrating on trying to fly. They started floating in the air almost instantly. They smiled and burst into the air as fast as they could, rocketing toward the Guardian Lookout.
Sure enough, as Goshin feared, Trifecta was there to intercept. Three soldiers with jet packs menaced them with laser blasters and screamed at them to stop. Goshin and VJ got serious and blasted toward them, their ki flames so powerful that the laser blasts just bounced off. They burst the terrified Trifecta soldiers and up to the Guardian Lookout where an ugly little man with pale green skin and sharp fangs stood smiling darkly.
"Welcome young ones," he said, "my name is Sprout …I'm the leader of Trifecta and your worst nightmare!"
"Prove it, you loud mouth little midget!" VJ said confidently.
Sprout pointed up at a large red star high in the sky. Goshin and VJ cringed as they felt the amount of evil energy emanating from it.
"The Makeo Star, my source of power and my means of escape from the Dead Zone." said Sprout "If it wasn't for Trinity, it wouldn't even exist thanks to that despicable Namek, Piccolo. Of course if not for Gohan, my father wouldn't still be trapped in the Dead Zone!"
"Gohan? That's my uncle!" said Goshin, realizing too late that this was a mistake to point out.
"I guessed as much from the way you just blew through my men without so much as a 'hello.'" said Sprout
"If you think we're gonna let you and Trifecta take over the Origin Systems, you've got another thing coming!" VJ barked.
"My dear boy, Trifecta already has control of all three Origin Systems…we're just trying to get rid of any potential rebels!" said Sprout
"Well your rebels are right here, Sprout! We won't let you get away with whatever you're planning!" Goshin snarled.
"Don't you two get it? I already have!" said Sprout with an evil cackle.
"Then we're going to stop you before you do anymore damage!" VJ snapped.
"We shall see, young Saiyan." said Sprout
"Ready, Goshin?" asked VJ.
"Ready!" said Goshin taking a fighting stance next to VJ.
Sprout stood in a box stance and smirked at them. The Makeo Star seemed to get suddenly hotter, and Goshin and VJ knew something terrible was about to happen.
"Now you little pests will see the true power of the Makeo Star in I, the Immortal Sprout!" he yelled triumphantly. He stretched his arms out to the evil star and his body began immediately growing. In a matter of minutes, Sprout had doubled in size, and his power quadrupled. Goshin and VJ were suddenly very afraid for their own lives.
"Goshin…I don't think we can beat this guy…!" said VJ, his voice shaking violently.
"YES WE CAN!" Goshin bellowed, not looking at VJ. "WE CAN AND WE WILL! THIS MONSTER HAS HURT TOO MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE!"
VJ looked shocked at Goshin, who would have normally agreed with him without a second's hesitation. There was something different about him here, though, something that VJ couldn't help but admire. Goshin seemed to suddenly radiate with an unusual power, a power that strengthened VJ as much as it clearly strengthened him. VJ stood and smirked confidently at Sprout
"You're going down, you annoying piece of filth!" he barked pointing at Sprout's chest.
"Prove it!" Sprout yelled as he launched himself at the young Saiyans.
Goshin and VJ braced themselves as he began an onslaught of punches and kicks. They blocked and dodged like mad, but it almost didn't seem to matter. He grabbed both of their heads and threw them to the ground. They landed hard on the marble floor of the Lookout, causing it to cave in a little.
Goshin opened his eyes slowly and saw Sprout looking down on them with a condescending smile. He growled and launched himself at Sprout, throwing ki blasts the whole way up. When he reached Sprout, he started pummeling him with his fists until he got an opening on his head. He front flipped and kicked Sprout in the head, sending flying into the marble floor where Goshin had just been.
Goshin immediately turned and aimed at Sprout, taking the Kame Hame Ha stance in mid-air. His ki flame burst outward as he began screaming.
"KAAMEEE! HAAMEEE! HAAAAAAAAAAAA!" he wailed as he launched the attack at full force.
Billions of miles away, on Planet Trinity, a pile of ruble that had once been a Ki User Temple began to glow. It exploded and a bright light shot out from it and screamed toward Earth at light speed. Before it hit light speed, it was tracked by Trifecta headquarters.
"Lt. what was that!" asked a disgruntled looking Saiyan General.
"I'm not sure, General Zuccil," said the Lieutenant, "but I know that it came from the remains of the Temple."
"Where was it headed!" asked Zuccil.
"Based on its entry trajectory…Earth." said the Lieutenant.
"The Eight Star Dragonball…it DID survive the blast." said Zuccil. "CONTACT MASTER SPROUT! NOW!"
Back on Earth, Sprout took the full brunt of the attack that Goshin had hit him with. An instant later, Goshin saw something in the sky. When he looked harder, he saw that it was a Dragonball. On some unknown instinct, Goshin caught it in his arms and held it tight to his chest just as Sprout hit him with a gigantic blast from below.
When the smoke disappeared Goshin floated there, his ki flame stronger then ever and his hair standing on end, and he looked at Sprout with deadly malice. His ki flame faded and his hair fell back to normal, but Sprout knew that he'd been too late.
"You're…you're the Guardian!" Sprout stammered, "You're the Keeper of the Eight Star Dragonball!"
"I'm not going to let you hold Trinity in these dark times anymore, Sprout!" Goshin snarled.
"This is not the end, Goku!" yelled Sprout But before Goshin could attack, he disappeared. Goshin looked puzzled.
'Why did he just call me Goku?' he asked himself.
Goshin landed on the ground and VJ looked at him fearfully.
"What's wrong, VJ?" asked Goshin.
"What the hell just happened to you!" asked VJ.
"I dunno…"
"Well whatever it was, we should probably get it checked out at Capsule Corp." said VJ. "I'm Professor L can help you."
"Maybe your right…"
The two Saiyans shot off in the direction of Capsule Corp. Headquarters…