Prologue: Chapter 2: Five Years Later
Five years flew by them since that night. Son Goku and Chichi had another son who had been born those five years ago. Chichi had more to do with naming this child than Son Goku. She eventually chose the boy's name to be Goken. Son Goku and Son Goken would always spend time together with Son Gohan, Son Goten, and Pan. He became near Gohan in strength as he spent most of his time training with his oldest brother. Goten helped out too but wasn't able to keep up with them. Goken demonstrated great potential and he wasn't even able to speak words yet. Since his mother, Chichi, had gotten fatally ill and died when he was just two years old, nobody was there to hold Goken back. The loss brought a great sadness to Gohan, Goten and Goku. Goken was unaware of the happenings in his surroundings but Gohan and Goten missed their mother terribly but the one who got hurt most by her loss was Goku. In Chichi's honor, Goku declared that he would no longer fight nor train. This brought a shock to all those around him. Things in the Son household became pretty unstable after Chichi's passing. Videl took on the responsibilities that Chichi left behind and had become frustrated and separated from Gohan, and Pan ran away from home never to be heard from again. All motivation lost, neither Gohan, Goku, nor Goten stopped them at all.
While Son Goku took it easy and relaxed, a reborn arrogant soul vigorously trained. This person gave it his all in the training room. The gravitational mechanism was set to the highest limit while Earth shattering footsteps could be heard. The person was none other than Vegeta, the Saiya-Jin Prince. Since that day, five years ago when Vegeta and the others rushed over to the Son household, he knew that hidden deep within Son Goku was a challenge waiting for him. Vegeta still had the mentality of defeating Goku once and for all and settling things in combat one last time. He knew nothing of Goku's loss so he kept training with red hot intensity. Because Vegeta didn't reach Super Saiya-Jin level Four the right way, he wound up having to re-acquire this form. After continuous training, Vegeta managed to achieve Super Saiya-Jin level Three in a matter of ten months. Once he accomplished this goal, he trained himself harder everyday and eventually reached the desired form of Super Saiya-Jin. He also managed to increase the form's maximum potential after agonizingly painful training. After training a majority of the day, Vegeta decided to rest his body so that the torn muscles can repair themselves.
The son of Vegeta, Trunks, had given up fighting as a whole and become quite the business man. He went back to his job as president of Capsule Corporation. Once Trunks graduated from Orange Star University, he had become the C.E.O of Capsule Corporation. Bulma had long since retired from creating machinery and became nothing more than an old, rich woman. She had lightened up and took anger management to control her frequent angry outbursts. Every day, Bulma would do breathing exercises to control her beastlike temper. Bra remained the spoiled little girl she was but managed to graduate from high school. She had become very uncaring about her schooling and wound up getting pregnant and dropping out of college. She married some guy she had met in high school and had been friends with ever since. Kuririn, Juuhachi-gou and Marron had moved away from Muten Roshi into the city. The only ones left in Kame House were Muten Roshi himself and his sea turtle, Umigame.
All seemed to be going well with everyone but the Son family. Goku would go up to the very tip of Mount Paozu and meditate there. As he sat there on the tip of the mountain, images of Chichi and her death. He kept twitching slightly as if having a terrible nightmare. Gohan and Goten were in the forest with Goken on a hunt. A hulking mass stomped its way through the forest where they hunted. It stomped its massive foot right behind Goken as he looked on confusingly. At that moment, Gohan and Goten both looked back at their little brother and nodded at him. Goken then jumped up and stomped his tiny foot on the beast's head. With that, the beast collapsed to the ground causing the ground to shake slightly. Gohan then came back to Goken as did Goten. "Nice hit!" exclaimed Gohan as he grabbed the tail of the beast. Goten gave Goken a brotherly pat on the head and said, "You did good bro, you did good," with a gleeful look on his face. The three of them walked back to their home dragging along the beast. Gohan looked over at his youngest brother, "You have gotten so much stronger Goken," he said with a smile. Goken simply looked up at him with a clueless look on his face and then looked down at his hands, "You really think so?" he asked. Goten broke in with, "We know so." Goken then opened and closed his fingers as if squeezing something. "I guess I'm a little stronger now but its nothing compared to you two," Goken said disappointingly. Both Gohan and Goten laughed at the comment as they arrived home.
As Gohan set the beast down over the wood that was prepared before they left, he began to think, "Dad seems to be on that mountaintop frequently these days." He lifted his head and looked at the top of the mountain where he saw the silhouette of his father as he sat on the mountaintop alone. Gohan then used a little bit of his ki to light the wood on fire to cook the beast. Goten sat with Goken in front of the fire and began to tell stories of his exploits as a child. Gohan sat on the opposite end and simply stared into the burning fire, wondering just when his father will recover from the loss of Chichi.
To Be Continued...