All out there in FanFiction land! Alex Ultra is back and starting a new
Fic!!!
Oh, and if anyone out there has seen a fic by the same name already out, this is the same one. See, I got a comment that my chapters were too long and decided to repost the story with shorter chapters. See, originally, the second chapter was 27 pages long so I very well couldn't argue that they couldn't use shortening.
In this fic Alex will be traveling through what Alex Ultra calls 'Dimensions of Thought', also known as dimensions. HAHAHAHA!!! Anyway, the fun thing about this one is that you never know just where she'll end up next! (Suggestions welcome.) And just to make this point Alex will start from the first, and move on... learning things and getting stronger as she goes.
Just as a setting, at this point Alex is 17, leaving the world of DBZ one year before the appearance of Majin Buu, and is incredibly strong. You'll have to read on to figure out how strong. Anyway, she's leaving in order to get stronger (hopefully) and to find the enemy she's been after for a long time.
Also, for those of you who have seen my fic called 'Internal Flame', this fic is set after the end of that, which is why I'm making it separate, because it will take a long time to get to the end of that story, and I'm not willing to wait that long. ;)
Alex: FINALLY!!! ;) I get to tell people what I did those three years I was gone!
Alex Ultra: And I get to write all those things that have been swimming around for so long.
Alex: Yeah! And I get to go over all those things I can do!
Okay, before we get started, I have two things to clear up. The first is that I don't own DBZ, or any of the other various shows and characters that are bound to show up in this fic.
The second is that I need to say what one of Alex's special abilities is, which is integral to understanding the story. It's called the 'Cold Warp Gate'; the purpose of this attack (technique) is that it is how Alex hops from dimension to dimension. It looks like some kind of black hole and is named for how it feels when sensed from the outside, like cold, empty power that allows people and things to go through (originally used like Instant Transmission...).
If you're still with me at this point I'll start the story.
~~~~~~*** DEPARTURE ***~~~~~~
"But why do you have to go?" Jennifer, Alex's little sister, was pleading with her sister not to leave. Even though she was adopted, Jenn loved her sister more than ever.
"Because, I need to get stronger." Alex said this rather matter-of-factly, having already gone over this several times.
"But you're strong enough already! You're almost as strong as Gohan now!"
"Yes, but I just can't get the kind of training I need here..."
"But we've got the Gravity rooms! And we'll get your GS going eventually! What else is there?"
"Trust me Jenn, no matter how high I go, I just can't get the kind of training I need here, and besides, if I stay I might... just trust me... I need to go." (A/N: Did I mention that Alex is worried about screwing around with the timeline? That's another reason she's leaving, to get away from that danger. She won't be coming back to this particular timeline for quite a while. Kind of like when Trunks went back in time, he could play around with Goku's present, but not HIS present. He ended up going back to the same world he left, which is what will happen here.)
"FINE!! But at least tell me when you'll be coming back?" At this point Jennifer's brown-green eyes were beginning to tear up.
Alex smiled warmly, her bright blue eyes reminding Jennifer why Alex could talk her into nearly anything. "I promise, when three years have passed, I'll be back. Wait for me, Okay?" Jennifer gave a teary nod. Jeff, their brother, only just now came in the room.
"Hey, girls! Whatcha' doin'?"
"Alex is leaving. She's goin' off to space."
"Why?"
"'Cause she wants to train."
"Well, okay, later Alex." And he promptly left, to who knows where...
Alex turned to her sister, and waved goodbye. "Bye sis, I'll see you in three years. Just think of it as me going to College again!" (A/N: Did I mention she's also a bit of a smarty-pants? Kind of like Bulma!) And she promptly pulled one hand in front of her.
"Bye, Alex. Remember! Three years! You promised!" Jennifer backed away to give her sister room to perform one of her favorite techniques. The Cold Warp Gate.
Alex's hand started to glow and she flashed Jennifer a quick smile before thrusting her hand forward, puncturing a hole in the very fabric of space and leaving a very disturbing feeling behind. Jennifer watched intently as Alex got in her space-pod (gravity equipped of course) and waved as the ship disappeared into the little black hole; gone from the universe and leaving Jennifer feeling rather... alone.
~~~~~~ Part II ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~*** A MEETING ***~~~~~~
Somewhere about 50 feet above the ground a cold feeling began emanating from a rather powerful well of power. As the core grew stronger the surrounding area seemed to push out of the way as something forced its way out. The Cold Warp Gate opened and Alex's ship popped out, hovering in mid- air.
"Okay, now let's see where I am?" Alex peeked out the window only to find a puzzle. She seemed to still be in the same world, with the same color scheme, and it was even still Earth! But something seemed different, somehow.
"Is that Goku?" Alex's rather surprised exclamation came out as she sensed a gaggle of fighters duking it out on the ground. The surprise was not so much finding Goku, but from finding Goku in such a WEAK state! "Okay, I gotta check this out!"
Bringing the craft to land on the ground just beside a small crater (which she found to have some kind of craft in the middle!) and, upon inspecting the fighters, found that Goku and Piccolo were apparently fighting some kind of Saiyan. "Who in the world? That certainly isn't Vegeta!"
It wasn't so much the overly long hair that tipped her off, as the gloatingly confident voice. It was the voice of Raditz, Goku's long-dead brother.
She found them at just the point where Goku had hold of Raditz's tail and Piccolo was pleading with Goku to not let go. "Heh, as if he'll listen." And, as predicted, Goku let go, and Raditz quickly had his brother on the ground.
"Too BAD! Now you're ALL MINE!!" Raditz was grounding his foot into Goku's back, causing him to yell out in pain.
"No way. Something's wrong here... GOHAN!!" Frantic, Alex went back to search the space pod in the crater. "Gohan! Wake UP!!" And, sure enough, the young Gohan was far too deep in sleep to be awoken, let alone to save his father.
"Oh, man. Oh, man!" Ready to help Goku out of his predicament Alex powered up a bit and flew out of the hole, blasting a bit of a hole in the top of the pod so Gohan could get out when the time came.
"RADITZ!! Get off of him!!"
Raditz stopped his assault on Goku's back just long enough to take a look at this daring newcomer. "Who is this? Another human? Well, no matter."
"I'm not like everyone else! Just try me!"
"Why should I? HUH!? Why should I bother?"
"Because! I'm going to kill you whether you fight back or not! So I would advise you to get off him and pay me a little attention!"
Piccolo, for some reason, thought this was a good time to act heroic. "NO!! HE'S TOO POWERFUL! YOU WON'T STAND A CHANCE!!"
And this little outburst apparently sparked Raditz's interest; he stepped off of Goku's back and picked him up, bringing them face-to-face, brother- to-brother. "So. Another friend of yours, Kakkarot?" But Goku was too hurt to respond, so Raditz simply threw him aside and faced Alex. "So, if you're so powerful, why don't you attack me? Come on! Right here! I dare you to try!" Raditz taunted Alex by pointing to his cheek, and Alex decided to take the challenge.
"You got it." Immediately she launched herself at the evil Saiyan, just slow enough so he could see her, and before she got there she fazed out, leaving Raditz a bit dazed.
"Ahh! Where did she go?" He looked around a bit, scanning the sky.
"Yoo, hoo! Behind you!" Raditz turned slowly around, only to find Alex hovering upside down with a victorious grin on her face. "Oh, and I promised this to you." Before he could even move, or even see the movement, Raditz found himself digging a trench in the ground with his body. All this because he had told her to hit him on the cheek, a part of his face that was now bleeding a rather interesting shade of crimson.
"Well, you told me to hit you there!" Raditz turned around again to find Alex standing there. "So, I guess it's only sporting to give you a turn. Go ahead, right here. As hard as you can." In much the same way as Raditz had done just a minute before Alex pointed to her cheek, daring Raditz to hit her.
The mocking of his own actions, as well as the outwardly apparent disrespect for him, A SAIYAN, Alex's tauntings got Raditz rather riled up. "FINE! But just remember... YOU ASKED FOR IT!!!! AAAAHHHH!!!!!" Alex didn't even flinch as Raditz launched himself at her and threw his strongest punch directly towards her face.
And, when it connected, and she didn't even move under all the force Raditz could muster, Alex found herself, yet again, facing a puzzle. 'Is this REALLY all he can throw at me?' Her confusion was rather apparent across her features. "Is that it?"
"WHAT?!?! How can you still be standing?"
"Well, Raditz, you of all people should know... that there's people out there, that are a WHOLE lot more powerful than you are!"
Raditz, for the first time since he arrived on Earth, was now showing fear. "Prince Vegeta. Forgive me."
"Yes, well, you know, Raditz, even if you had killed him, he could have been brought back, with the Dragon Balls."
"What?" Interest sparked across his face as what he had just heard registered in his mind. "What do you mean?"
Now Piccolo, who seemed to have been speechless up to this point, decided to pitch in. "That's right. With the Dragon Balls we can ask for one wish, even to bring people back from the dead, and get it immediately." His evil smile seemed so ancient to Alex that she wondered just how different this dimension really was from the one she knew.
Raditz smiled on this comment, but before he could tell anyone that his scouter was also a communicator, Alex took it from his ear with blinding speed. "Oh and, Prince Vegeta. Do hurry. It would be such a shame if these fine warriors were to train for a year and you ended up arriving late." Her monologue finished, she crushed the scouter and returned to Raditz, who was still hovering in the air no more than five feet in front of her. She didn't want to seem vicious, but she applauded Raditz for his bravery, literally. "Wow Raditz! I commend you for sticking around! What bravery!"
Raditz's expression hardened from terror to... well you know what I mean (A/N: I can't think of the right word right now.) and he sneered a rather angrily. "A Saiyan Warrior never runs from battle, no matter what the outcome."
"Well, whatever. Now, I don't want to seem vicious, but I need to kill you now, even if only to give you an idea of what it's like."
He took up a defensive position as he prepared for his life to end. But he wasn't prepared for what happened next.
Alex simply fazed out and, turning around, Raditz yet again found her behind him, and was scared out of his wits when she stuck her tongue out at him (making a silly face), and he fell on his butt. "Bye." Was all she said before he was blasted to Kingdom Come (wherever that is), or Other World, you get the idea.
Alex was almost bored at this point. She didn't like killing, but to her Raditz was already dead (it just wasn't always meant to be her who killed him...).
At the same time in Other World Raditz was being given a rather hard time as King Yemma was trying to be funny... "Oh! how humiliating! Beaten by a human girl! How stupid you must feel right now! HAHAHAHAAHAAAAA!!!!"
But Raditz wasn't in such a good mood. 'I hope he coughs up a lung, the old blowhard!'
Anyway, back on Earth Piccolo was in awe. 'Such power! It's incredible! How can anyone BE so powerful?' But Alex wasn't paying much attention to Piccolo; instead she was tending to the injured Goku, who wasn't dead. And whether that was a good thing or not was yet to be determined...
"Goku? Goku, can you talk?"
He shuddered a bit when he tried, but he managed to choke out a "Yes."
"Good, Krillin should be getting here soon. In which case he should have some Senzu beans so hang on." Goku only smiled and laughed slightly.
Then Alex turned her attention to Piccolo, she had to make sure Gohan got the training he needed to become the worlds strongest fighter. "Piccolo. Take care of Gohan." Seeing the questioning glance he shot her way she continued. "He has a great power. If he hadn't been asleep he would have been the turning point in this fight. Only he doesn't know it, when he gets angry or afraid, his power goes to incredible heights. And that could be an incredible asset against the other Saiyans on their way here. You don't want to be caught off-guard, do you?" Piccolo only grunted angrily.
"Who are you anyway?" It wasn't much of a question. More of a demand for an answer.
"Well, I guess I'm just a passing stranger. Oh, and don't go easy on him either. The harder you are, the better, those Saiyans are pretty strong." She chuckled a bit here. "Heh, if you think MY power is impressive, just wait and see how powerful Gohan grows up to be! Hehe, let's just say that if you're puzzled now, you'll understand later on."
He chuckled a bit himself a bit at this comment. "Well, why doesn't his father train him?"
"Because!" Piccolo snapped to attention, mostly because she was so quick to answer. "Because Goku has training of his own to do. Off-planet training."
"Oh really? And where will he get this training?"
"In Other World, with King Kai." Piccolo only chuckled inaudibly as an aircraft closed in on their location. "Hurry, go ahead and take him for your (enunciate now) RIGOROUS training." With a smile Piccolo took off with the kid just as the copter with Krillin and the others landed and Krillin went straight to his friend's side.
"Goku! Here, it's a Senzu Bean." Goku smiled as he chewed the magical bean and was healed to perfect health.
"Thanks Krillin." Then, with a harder expression he walked over to Alex. "Thanks to you too. Uh...?"
"No thanks are necessary. My name is Alex and I'll explain everything if you'll meet me at the watch-tower in ten minutes, okay?" He nodded, and took off (without forgetting to say good-bye, of course). Alex, on the other hand, went over to Krillin.
"Krillin, right? Right, well anyway, when the time comes about one year from now I want you to gather the Dragon Balls and wish for Goku to be brought back to this world, maybe even to the watch-tower?"
Well, he may have been confused, but he wasn't stupid. "You beat Raditz, didn't you?"
"Yes, but there's two, more powerful Saiyans on their way here. They'll be here in about a year, you all need to be ready."
Krillin didn't seem to understand. He acted like the spastic baka he really was and seemed pretty smug. "Well, with you on our side how can we lose? HAHAHAHA!!!"
But he was cut short when he saw Alex's serious expression. "Sorry, but I have to leave soon. I can't stay here so you're pretty much on your own from here on."
Tien showed up from somewhere. "Yes, I understand... perhaps some of us can get some training on Kami's tower?"
"Sounds good!" Alex was back in a light-hearted mood as the plan was hatched.
"Ooookaay! But where's Gohan?"
"Well, try not to let ChiChi kill you when you tell her this, but Piccolo took him for training. He's got a long way to go." This last part was said at a barely audible level, but it still wasn't enough to arouse Krillin's suspicion.
"OH! MAN!! Goku gone and Gohan under Piccolo's care? How much worse can it get? Geeze! I am SO dead!!"
Alex only chuckled a little. "Well, try not to die, Goku needs you around when he gets back, okay?" Krillin nodded and Alex took off for Kami's Tower. With just a few more things to set in motion.
~~~~~~*** End of Chapter 1 ***~~~~~~
Well, there's the end of the first chapter. It looks like I'm going to be pretty consistent and put each adventure in two chapters. I guess I just can't do it all in one chapter at a time.
Anyway, what do you think? Is it a piece of art? Is it something you want to see the rest to? Are you waiting for the other half? No matter what your response, I would love to hear from you, so leave a review.
Alex: I like picking on Raditz! He's so fun!
Alex Ultra: Yeah, and you also like learning new things.
Alex: And do you know what else I like?
Alex Ultra: Pizza?
Alex: PIZZA!
Yeah, next chapter Alex lands somewhere in Goku's future (somewhere along the DBZ timeline). Where you ask? Tune in next time and find out!
LATER
Oh, and if anyone out there has seen a fic by the same name already out, this is the same one. See, I got a comment that my chapters were too long and decided to repost the story with shorter chapters. See, originally, the second chapter was 27 pages long so I very well couldn't argue that they couldn't use shortening.
In this fic Alex will be traveling through what Alex Ultra calls 'Dimensions of Thought', also known as dimensions. HAHAHAHA!!! Anyway, the fun thing about this one is that you never know just where she'll end up next! (Suggestions welcome.) And just to make this point Alex will start from the first, and move on... learning things and getting stronger as she goes.
Just as a setting, at this point Alex is 17, leaving the world of DBZ one year before the appearance of Majin Buu, and is incredibly strong. You'll have to read on to figure out how strong. Anyway, she's leaving in order to get stronger (hopefully) and to find the enemy she's been after for a long time.
Also, for those of you who have seen my fic called 'Internal Flame', this fic is set after the end of that, which is why I'm making it separate, because it will take a long time to get to the end of that story, and I'm not willing to wait that long. ;)
Alex: FINALLY!!! ;) I get to tell people what I did those three years I was gone!
Alex Ultra: And I get to write all those things that have been swimming around for so long.
Alex: Yeah! And I get to go over all those things I can do!
Okay, before we get started, I have two things to clear up. The first is that I don't own DBZ, or any of the other various shows and characters that are bound to show up in this fic.
The second is that I need to say what one of Alex's special abilities is, which is integral to understanding the story. It's called the 'Cold Warp Gate'; the purpose of this attack (technique) is that it is how Alex hops from dimension to dimension. It looks like some kind of black hole and is named for how it feels when sensed from the outside, like cold, empty power that allows people and things to go through (originally used like Instant Transmission...).
If you're still with me at this point I'll start the story.
~~~~~~*** DEPARTURE ***~~~~~~
"But why do you have to go?" Jennifer, Alex's little sister, was pleading with her sister not to leave. Even though she was adopted, Jenn loved her sister more than ever.
"Because, I need to get stronger." Alex said this rather matter-of-factly, having already gone over this several times.
"But you're strong enough already! You're almost as strong as Gohan now!"
"Yes, but I just can't get the kind of training I need here..."
"But we've got the Gravity rooms! And we'll get your GS going eventually! What else is there?"
"Trust me Jenn, no matter how high I go, I just can't get the kind of training I need here, and besides, if I stay I might... just trust me... I need to go." (A/N: Did I mention that Alex is worried about screwing around with the timeline? That's another reason she's leaving, to get away from that danger. She won't be coming back to this particular timeline for quite a while. Kind of like when Trunks went back in time, he could play around with Goku's present, but not HIS present. He ended up going back to the same world he left, which is what will happen here.)
"FINE!! But at least tell me when you'll be coming back?" At this point Jennifer's brown-green eyes were beginning to tear up.
Alex smiled warmly, her bright blue eyes reminding Jennifer why Alex could talk her into nearly anything. "I promise, when three years have passed, I'll be back. Wait for me, Okay?" Jennifer gave a teary nod. Jeff, their brother, only just now came in the room.
"Hey, girls! Whatcha' doin'?"
"Alex is leaving. She's goin' off to space."
"Why?"
"'Cause she wants to train."
"Well, okay, later Alex." And he promptly left, to who knows where...
Alex turned to her sister, and waved goodbye. "Bye sis, I'll see you in three years. Just think of it as me going to College again!" (A/N: Did I mention she's also a bit of a smarty-pants? Kind of like Bulma!) And she promptly pulled one hand in front of her.
"Bye, Alex. Remember! Three years! You promised!" Jennifer backed away to give her sister room to perform one of her favorite techniques. The Cold Warp Gate.
Alex's hand started to glow and she flashed Jennifer a quick smile before thrusting her hand forward, puncturing a hole in the very fabric of space and leaving a very disturbing feeling behind. Jennifer watched intently as Alex got in her space-pod (gravity equipped of course) and waved as the ship disappeared into the little black hole; gone from the universe and leaving Jennifer feeling rather... alone.
~~~~~~ Part II ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~*** A MEETING ***~~~~~~
Somewhere about 50 feet above the ground a cold feeling began emanating from a rather powerful well of power. As the core grew stronger the surrounding area seemed to push out of the way as something forced its way out. The Cold Warp Gate opened and Alex's ship popped out, hovering in mid- air.
"Okay, now let's see where I am?" Alex peeked out the window only to find a puzzle. She seemed to still be in the same world, with the same color scheme, and it was even still Earth! But something seemed different, somehow.
"Is that Goku?" Alex's rather surprised exclamation came out as she sensed a gaggle of fighters duking it out on the ground. The surprise was not so much finding Goku, but from finding Goku in such a WEAK state! "Okay, I gotta check this out!"
Bringing the craft to land on the ground just beside a small crater (which she found to have some kind of craft in the middle!) and, upon inspecting the fighters, found that Goku and Piccolo were apparently fighting some kind of Saiyan. "Who in the world? That certainly isn't Vegeta!"
It wasn't so much the overly long hair that tipped her off, as the gloatingly confident voice. It was the voice of Raditz, Goku's long-dead brother.
She found them at just the point where Goku had hold of Raditz's tail and Piccolo was pleading with Goku to not let go. "Heh, as if he'll listen." And, as predicted, Goku let go, and Raditz quickly had his brother on the ground.
"Too BAD! Now you're ALL MINE!!" Raditz was grounding his foot into Goku's back, causing him to yell out in pain.
"No way. Something's wrong here... GOHAN!!" Frantic, Alex went back to search the space pod in the crater. "Gohan! Wake UP!!" And, sure enough, the young Gohan was far too deep in sleep to be awoken, let alone to save his father.
"Oh, man. Oh, man!" Ready to help Goku out of his predicament Alex powered up a bit and flew out of the hole, blasting a bit of a hole in the top of the pod so Gohan could get out when the time came.
"RADITZ!! Get off of him!!"
Raditz stopped his assault on Goku's back just long enough to take a look at this daring newcomer. "Who is this? Another human? Well, no matter."
"I'm not like everyone else! Just try me!"
"Why should I? HUH!? Why should I bother?"
"Because! I'm going to kill you whether you fight back or not! So I would advise you to get off him and pay me a little attention!"
Piccolo, for some reason, thought this was a good time to act heroic. "NO!! HE'S TOO POWERFUL! YOU WON'T STAND A CHANCE!!"
And this little outburst apparently sparked Raditz's interest; he stepped off of Goku's back and picked him up, bringing them face-to-face, brother- to-brother. "So. Another friend of yours, Kakkarot?" But Goku was too hurt to respond, so Raditz simply threw him aside and faced Alex. "So, if you're so powerful, why don't you attack me? Come on! Right here! I dare you to try!" Raditz taunted Alex by pointing to his cheek, and Alex decided to take the challenge.
"You got it." Immediately she launched herself at the evil Saiyan, just slow enough so he could see her, and before she got there she fazed out, leaving Raditz a bit dazed.
"Ahh! Where did she go?" He looked around a bit, scanning the sky.
"Yoo, hoo! Behind you!" Raditz turned slowly around, only to find Alex hovering upside down with a victorious grin on her face. "Oh, and I promised this to you." Before he could even move, or even see the movement, Raditz found himself digging a trench in the ground with his body. All this because he had told her to hit him on the cheek, a part of his face that was now bleeding a rather interesting shade of crimson.
"Well, you told me to hit you there!" Raditz turned around again to find Alex standing there. "So, I guess it's only sporting to give you a turn. Go ahead, right here. As hard as you can." In much the same way as Raditz had done just a minute before Alex pointed to her cheek, daring Raditz to hit her.
The mocking of his own actions, as well as the outwardly apparent disrespect for him, A SAIYAN, Alex's tauntings got Raditz rather riled up. "FINE! But just remember... YOU ASKED FOR IT!!!! AAAAHHHH!!!!!" Alex didn't even flinch as Raditz launched himself at her and threw his strongest punch directly towards her face.
And, when it connected, and she didn't even move under all the force Raditz could muster, Alex found herself, yet again, facing a puzzle. 'Is this REALLY all he can throw at me?' Her confusion was rather apparent across her features. "Is that it?"
"WHAT?!?! How can you still be standing?"
"Well, Raditz, you of all people should know... that there's people out there, that are a WHOLE lot more powerful than you are!"
Raditz, for the first time since he arrived on Earth, was now showing fear. "Prince Vegeta. Forgive me."
"Yes, well, you know, Raditz, even if you had killed him, he could have been brought back, with the Dragon Balls."
"What?" Interest sparked across his face as what he had just heard registered in his mind. "What do you mean?"
Now Piccolo, who seemed to have been speechless up to this point, decided to pitch in. "That's right. With the Dragon Balls we can ask for one wish, even to bring people back from the dead, and get it immediately." His evil smile seemed so ancient to Alex that she wondered just how different this dimension really was from the one she knew.
Raditz smiled on this comment, but before he could tell anyone that his scouter was also a communicator, Alex took it from his ear with blinding speed. "Oh and, Prince Vegeta. Do hurry. It would be such a shame if these fine warriors were to train for a year and you ended up arriving late." Her monologue finished, she crushed the scouter and returned to Raditz, who was still hovering in the air no more than five feet in front of her. She didn't want to seem vicious, but she applauded Raditz for his bravery, literally. "Wow Raditz! I commend you for sticking around! What bravery!"
Raditz's expression hardened from terror to... well you know what I mean (A/N: I can't think of the right word right now.) and he sneered a rather angrily. "A Saiyan Warrior never runs from battle, no matter what the outcome."
"Well, whatever. Now, I don't want to seem vicious, but I need to kill you now, even if only to give you an idea of what it's like."
He took up a defensive position as he prepared for his life to end. But he wasn't prepared for what happened next.
Alex simply fazed out and, turning around, Raditz yet again found her behind him, and was scared out of his wits when she stuck her tongue out at him (making a silly face), and he fell on his butt. "Bye." Was all she said before he was blasted to Kingdom Come (wherever that is), or Other World, you get the idea.
Alex was almost bored at this point. She didn't like killing, but to her Raditz was already dead (it just wasn't always meant to be her who killed him...).
At the same time in Other World Raditz was being given a rather hard time as King Yemma was trying to be funny... "Oh! how humiliating! Beaten by a human girl! How stupid you must feel right now! HAHAHAHAAHAAAAA!!!!"
But Raditz wasn't in such a good mood. 'I hope he coughs up a lung, the old blowhard!'
Anyway, back on Earth Piccolo was in awe. 'Such power! It's incredible! How can anyone BE so powerful?' But Alex wasn't paying much attention to Piccolo; instead she was tending to the injured Goku, who wasn't dead. And whether that was a good thing or not was yet to be determined...
"Goku? Goku, can you talk?"
He shuddered a bit when he tried, but he managed to choke out a "Yes."
"Good, Krillin should be getting here soon. In which case he should have some Senzu beans so hang on." Goku only smiled and laughed slightly.
Then Alex turned her attention to Piccolo, she had to make sure Gohan got the training he needed to become the worlds strongest fighter. "Piccolo. Take care of Gohan." Seeing the questioning glance he shot her way she continued. "He has a great power. If he hadn't been asleep he would have been the turning point in this fight. Only he doesn't know it, when he gets angry or afraid, his power goes to incredible heights. And that could be an incredible asset against the other Saiyans on their way here. You don't want to be caught off-guard, do you?" Piccolo only grunted angrily.
"Who are you anyway?" It wasn't much of a question. More of a demand for an answer.
"Well, I guess I'm just a passing stranger. Oh, and don't go easy on him either. The harder you are, the better, those Saiyans are pretty strong." She chuckled a bit here. "Heh, if you think MY power is impressive, just wait and see how powerful Gohan grows up to be! Hehe, let's just say that if you're puzzled now, you'll understand later on."
He chuckled a bit himself a bit at this comment. "Well, why doesn't his father train him?"
"Because!" Piccolo snapped to attention, mostly because she was so quick to answer. "Because Goku has training of his own to do. Off-planet training."
"Oh really? And where will he get this training?"
"In Other World, with King Kai." Piccolo only chuckled inaudibly as an aircraft closed in on their location. "Hurry, go ahead and take him for your (enunciate now) RIGOROUS training." With a smile Piccolo took off with the kid just as the copter with Krillin and the others landed and Krillin went straight to his friend's side.
"Goku! Here, it's a Senzu Bean." Goku smiled as he chewed the magical bean and was healed to perfect health.
"Thanks Krillin." Then, with a harder expression he walked over to Alex. "Thanks to you too. Uh...?"
"No thanks are necessary. My name is Alex and I'll explain everything if you'll meet me at the watch-tower in ten minutes, okay?" He nodded, and took off (without forgetting to say good-bye, of course). Alex, on the other hand, went over to Krillin.
"Krillin, right? Right, well anyway, when the time comes about one year from now I want you to gather the Dragon Balls and wish for Goku to be brought back to this world, maybe even to the watch-tower?"
Well, he may have been confused, but he wasn't stupid. "You beat Raditz, didn't you?"
"Yes, but there's two, more powerful Saiyans on their way here. They'll be here in about a year, you all need to be ready."
Krillin didn't seem to understand. He acted like the spastic baka he really was and seemed pretty smug. "Well, with you on our side how can we lose? HAHAHAHA!!!"
But he was cut short when he saw Alex's serious expression. "Sorry, but I have to leave soon. I can't stay here so you're pretty much on your own from here on."
Tien showed up from somewhere. "Yes, I understand... perhaps some of us can get some training on Kami's tower?"
"Sounds good!" Alex was back in a light-hearted mood as the plan was hatched.
"Ooookaay! But where's Gohan?"
"Well, try not to let ChiChi kill you when you tell her this, but Piccolo took him for training. He's got a long way to go." This last part was said at a barely audible level, but it still wasn't enough to arouse Krillin's suspicion.
"OH! MAN!! Goku gone and Gohan under Piccolo's care? How much worse can it get? Geeze! I am SO dead!!"
Alex only chuckled a little. "Well, try not to die, Goku needs you around when he gets back, okay?" Krillin nodded and Alex took off for Kami's Tower. With just a few more things to set in motion.
~~~~~~*** End of Chapter 1 ***~~~~~~
Well, there's the end of the first chapter. It looks like I'm going to be pretty consistent and put each adventure in two chapters. I guess I just can't do it all in one chapter at a time.
Anyway, what do you think? Is it a piece of art? Is it something you want to see the rest to? Are you waiting for the other half? No matter what your response, I would love to hear from you, so leave a review.
Alex: I like picking on Raditz! He's so fun!
Alex Ultra: Yeah, and you also like learning new things.
Alex: And do you know what else I like?
Alex Ultra: Pizza?
Alex: PIZZA!
Yeah, next chapter Alex lands somewhere in Goku's future (somewhere along the DBZ timeline). Where you ask? Tune in next time and find out!
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