Note: First off, I'm surprised that some people actually like my story, or at least the premise of it. I thought it would be a dud. For those of you who think that I am going to skip years and head straight to high school... That isn't going to happen. Yes, I am going to skip some years but I plan on having at least two adventures in space, the first one starting in this chapter.

Sirius Potter2: You said that you were shocked to see Gohan leave his dying mother like that and just go off into space. While I somewhat agree with you, I still stick with what I have done. In my head, Gohan wouldn't want to see his mother wither away to nothing, because of something he is responsible for, however indirectly. If you have one dead parent and another slowly wasting away based off of your terrible decision, would you want to wait and see what happens? That is my however feeble argument for Gohan rushing off into space.

others: Thanks for reading and especially for the comments. If anyone has questions feel free to put them in a comment or email me/PM me and I will show you how my twisted mind works.

Disclaimer: Surprise, surprise, no ownership for me.

Chapter 2 Planet Yardrat

Two months have passed since Gohan set off on his journey to Yardrat. The young demi-saiyan has spent all of his time not sleeping, eating, and recovering in the ship's gravity room.

He is working towards controlling the second level of super saiyan as easily as he did the first. The young saiyan never wanted to lose control over his own power again. The first time that happened was a mistake that came at much too high a price.

During Gohan's time on Bulma's ship, he had come to terms with his parents' death. While he still held a fair amount of guilt for what had happened, he vowed to never beat himself up about it. Yes, he would grieve, but never to the point of losing focus of his mission.

The young demi-saiyan had decided to let his actions honor both his mother and father. He would still study and learn as much as he could about all different things, and still train to the best of his ability in order to keep the ones he cared about safe.

Gohan's journey to Yardrat was coming to a close. He was a few hours away from landing on this new planet. He thought to himself, 'I hope they are as nice to me as they were to my father. I would hate to have to fight these people.'

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During Gohan's time in space, Bulma was trying to get her godson's adoption done. The government was being especially difficult with her. They claimed that with all of her responsibilities as head of Capsule Corp. along with her own young son, that she would be 'unfit' to adopt at this point in time.

Bulma was ready to go to court over this when the unthinkable happened. Social workers showed up at the Capsule Corp. front door. They were here to observe Gohan in this new environment and see if the blue haired heiress was taking good enough care of the newly orphaned boy.

Obviously, Bulma could not show the government employees how much Gohan belonged here, as he wasn't there currently and wasn't going to be for the foreseeable future. It wasn't like she could tell them, "Oh, I built him a space ship so he could go grieve and train to eliminate the next new threat, so he won't be around for a while." She didn't think that would help her case at all.

Needless to say, the social workers were not happy when they found out that not one person on Capsule Corporation property knew where the boy was. After the visit Bulma did the only thing that she could; she dropped the adoption case.

'This next call to Gohan isn't going to be nice. Why can't someone else tell him that he will be stuck with a normal family when he gets back?'

The government had already picked out a family that they would send Mr. Gohan Son to, once they found him that is. They chose a family in the newly renamed Satan City, as they heard that the young demi-saiyan that they cannot find happens to be quite smart, and that city has the best schools. Mr. and Mrs. Rubber and their daughter Erasa were happy to hear the news that their request for another child was fulfilled, but the feeling was soon taken away when they learned that the boy was a runaway.

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Gohan landed on planet Yardrat and took time to find the biggest population around the landing site. He was lucky to have landed relatively close to the capital where the majority of the royal court resided.

The young saiyan flew off to where he felt the large quantity of energies after capsulating his ship.

The people he past looked on in wonder of seeing someone so different than themselves. The people native to planet Yardrat had bodies comparable to those of humans. They had red skin with larger heads than humans. (Going off of what I vaguely remember from the 10 second debut they got on the show).

Gohan flew up to what, too him, seemed like the most important building in the city and started asking around for someone with power. After a few minutes of asking he was surrounded by the royal guard and told to wait patiently for his audience. Shortly after the order to stay put was given, a man came out of the mammoth building in front of them dressed much more formally than the others.

The demi-saiyan's attention was undivided at this point in time. The man walked up the the ring of his guard and said, "I am King Lude, and I am told that you wished to speak with me. Why is it that you wish to do so? Also why are you on our planet?"

Gohan straitened and replied, "I was told of this planet by my father and I wish to learn some of your fighting techniques. I figured that since my presence on your planet is unannounced and uninvited, that I should first come to you before setting out on my task."

The king looked mildly shocked at the answer. He certainly had not expected this from the boy in front of him. King Lude said, "Who was your father? I wish to know if I know of him or not."

The surrounded boy looked saddened, but continued anyway. "My father was Goku, the first Super Saiyan in three millennia. He said that he had crash landed here after his fight with Frieza on Planet Namek. He said that your people had nursed him back to health and taught him a technique called Instant Transmission."

As soon as the half saiyan had said 'Goku' there were mutterings and whispers throughout the substantial crowd that had come to witness this alien speak. King Lude also brightened at the news that this boy was the son of Goku, who had rid the galaxy of a feared tyrant.

"Why did you come here to learn the technique when your father could have shown you how? You needn't make the trip." Lude asked, puzzled by this boy's reason for being on his planet. Though at this next question, he noticed that the boy's shoulders seemed to sag infinitesimally and he didn't seem as open as before.

"My father died fighting an evil being that originated from our home world Earth." Gohan answered and simply left it at that, not wanting to talk about his father's death so soon after it had happened.

Lude picked up on the boy's attitude and quickly changed the subject. "Well, you will be my honored guest, and we shall have a feast in the name of Goku the great hero!" The people cheered at this news and Gohan's stomach grumbled audibly at any saiyan's favorite word.

The feast turned out to be a huge success, and it also seemed to ease some of the strain and regret off of the young demi-saiyan's thoughts. The people who ate around him were astounded at watching him eat, even after having witnessed his father's appetite while he was on the planet. A single thought went through the noble's heads while watching. 'The boy eats as much as us!'

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Gohan had spent a week at King Lude's palace, while having some of the finest warriors teach him the renown Instant Transmission technique. He had finally gotten it down pat, and his teachers told him that he learned just as quickly as his father.

After a little light sparring so that the people of Yardrat could see how they measure up against the son of Goku, Gohan's head snapped up with enough force to break anyone else's neck. He got a bad feeling, and was sensing an evil power coming towards the planet.

Gohan realized with a start that this power felt remarkably like Frieza and King Cold's ki. While this new threat to the planet Yardrat was no match for him, the indigenous people were not up to his standard of fighting. Gohan thought idly 'Even Krillin or Yamcha could take out this planet without a sweat'

Without a word to his newly made friends the young saiyan flew off towards King Lude to make him aware of this situation. When Gohan arrived at the king's side he realized that King Lude had many advisors talking to him and he had a several hologram maps of the surrounding areas on a projection tablet an advisor handed him.

The spaceship, which they now had picture of, was going to land a good ways away from the capital city in around an hour. When Gohan saw a picture of this new threat, he couldn't contain a gasp. Lude had heard him and turned to his direction. "Do you know this ship, boy?"

Gohan quickly answered knowing the importance of the question. "It looks like both Frieza and King Cold's ship, even though both of those people are dead. The leader's ki feels familiar, but I cannot pinpoint it. Do you wish me to fight with you? I fear that your people will be overwhelmed."

Lude seemed to sigh. He did not want to ask this of the boy, even as it may be key to his race's survival. The boy was a guest. How could he ask his own honored guest to risk life and limb in a fight that was not his? The young demi-saiyan, who had been waiting for a response, decided for the king.

"I will fight with you and your people. After sensing all the powers on the ship, I fear that you will all perish without my help." With this response, the king didn't want to show his relief that his people would have a better chance with a very strong warrior on their side. He masked his reaction to that of reluctance, and said, "If you feel you must help us, we will do nothing to stop you."

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After the ship landed, Gohan could sense that only one power level was heading towards the palace. He also noticed that were he not there, the people would be severely outclassed and would have no chance of survival, should this meeting go the wrong way. The young saiyan also thought that it was a very good thing that he had been keeping his power level even lower than that of the indigenous people.

A few moments later, Gohan was brought from his musings by the arrival or the threat's messenger. The man was a very tall reptilian-like humanoid being. He was a dark purple in color and had standard issue saiyan armor and scouter over his left eye. His scale covered skin seemed very out of place in this environment.

To Gohan this warrior's power level was laughably low, and it took all of the willpower he had to keep from chuckling to himself. That being said a very saiyan smirk did make itself known of his face. The warrior called himself Evora.

Evora had come to make a deal with the King of the planet. "If you and your warriors both pledge themselves to the Cold Empire and teach their fearless and all powerful leader Lady Cold along with the rest of the elite warriors on her ship the Instant Transmission technique, then Planet Yardrat will remain in one piece and its' people still alive."

Before Lude had even started to consider his options before him, Gohan spoke up. "How about this? You and the rest of the Cold Empire leave this planet and all other peace loving planets alone and you and the rest of those people on that ship get to walk away from this planet alive."

Everyone excluding Evora gasped at the boy's bold statement. King Lude was about to interject when Evora's rage overcame him and he forgot his role as messenger. Evora screamed, "Who are you BOY? How dare you talk to a representative of the Cold Empire that way? I should kill you where you stand simply for thinking such things."

As he calmed down a fraction, he checked the boy's power level with his scouter. He openly laughed to himself when he saw that the boy's power was not more than a fifth of his own.

Before Evora even had a chance to even process what had happened Gohan had rushed forward and rammed his elbow into Evora's stomach, breaking the durable saiyan armor and crippling the warrior and sending him to the ground.

Gohan grabbed the back of Evora's armor and picked him up, while he was still struggling to figure out what had caused him so much overwhelming pain. With what seemed like a casual flick of the wrist Gohan launched the purple warrior in the direction of the enemy spaceship.

Gohan turned to King Lude, "There was no reason to be intimidated by them while I am on your planet. By the time this is done, I hope to finally be done with the Cold family along with the rest of the universe." The king simply nodded, in awe of the display the boy had just shown him. Gohan continued, "They probably wanted to learn your valued technique so that they could purge planets faster, since they wouldn't have to wait around for their spaceships to make it from planet to planet. Giving in would have not only destroyed your race's honor and dignity, but would have started to a whole new reign of suffering everywhere. Failure is not an option here."

With that Gohan turned and walked off to the kitchens to eat, while the rest of the people in the room stared in awe of the boy's maturity and forethought into just one simple encounter with an enemy.