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2 years and 6 Months into Training
Goku walked into his son's room. They had been training hard for the arrival of the androids as foretold by the Gohan that came from the future. Every day they would wake up at the crack of dawn and train until long after the sun had disappeared from the sky. Gohan was somewhat keeping up with his father and Piccolo, but would wear out much faster than either of them. Still, he had grown much stronger than he had been just a year earlier.
Bulma had called the previous night asking for some help with a few problems going on at Capsule Corp and West City. Goku felt that sending Gohan would be best for everyone for a couple of days, he and Piccolo could go all-out and Gohan could continue his training at a slightly slower pace. Goku launched himself on Gohan's bed and began jumping up and down.
"Get up sleepy! I've got some special training for ya!" He yelled. Gohan groggily rubbed his eyes and rolled out of bed.
"What is it dad?"
"You're gonna go help Bulma at Capsule Corp for a little while. Apparently that area has been having some trouble lately, I'm pretty sure you can handle it though!" Goku told his son.
"Uh alright, do I have to stay there long?"
"You shouldn't have to!" His father replied, "Well I'm off to train with Piccolo some more, hurry back son!"
Gohan watched his father run out the door and shoot into the sky. Then he put on his purple gi and told his mother where he was going. After convincing her that he could study at Capsule Corp while he wasn't helping Bulma she gave it an OK. With all of that out of the way Gohan stepped outside and took a deep breath. The woods were his favorite place to be and he was glad his family lived in such a secluded area. He held a backpack that contained all of the items that he would need while he stayed with Bulma, a toothbrush, an extra gi, toothpaste and his math and science books. One last deep breath and he flew into the sky. He could feel his father and mentor's energies a few miles away and considered stopping to say goodbye, but decided not to figuring that he would return in less than a week.
He was skeptical about his father's intentions with him. He wasn't sure that helping Bulma was the only reason he was going to West City. Over the past couple of years Gohan had felt like he was holding the two back. Sure he would keep up with them and try his best, but eventually he would pass out and have to be carried back home. His father and Piccolo were too considerate to tell him to go easy or to sit one out, but he could tell every once in awhile. Now he was determined to make sure he never held them back again, at Capsule Corp he would train as hard as he possibly could.
After a half an hour of flying he landed at the entrance of Capsule Corp. Bulma was standing there waiting for him.
"Hey Gohan! Long time no see!" Bulma waved at the half-saiyan.
"Hi Bulma! So what do you need me to do?"
"Down South of here there is a small sub section of West City that mostly gets it's money by farming. There is a group of triceratops that are stampeding and ruining all the crops before they can be picked, could you go stop them please? I know it's kind of dumb but Vegeta isn't back from space yet and Yamcha..." Bulma grabbed her opposite arm and looked down at the ground.
"Alright I understand. I'll be back before you know it!" Gohan shouted as he took to the skies once again. So, Yamcha and Bulma broke up again, imagine that. Bulma looks much more sad than she usually does after their break ups though.
1,001 light years away from Earth
Vegeta sat in the control seat of the ship he had taken from Bulma's. So far he had liberated half of the planets Freeza had previously controlled. When he arrived at each one he would find it still under the Cold Empire usually. So Vegeta would go in and liberate it. The locals would call him a hero, throw parties, try to get him to take the leadership position. They didn't understand that he only did it to train. He wasn't trying to make the galaxy a better place, he just wanted to grow stronger, to beat Goku. After a few hours of unbothered rest flying to his next destination an alert went off.
"Huh." He sat up and took a look at the flashing red screen that was in front of him. He hit the command to play the transmission and a purple face appeared on the display.
"You are entering the airspace property of Lord Cooler, turn back if you wish to survive." The face gave a quick smirk and the transmission was cut.
"Hehe Lord Cooler eh? I didn't get a chance against Freeza, but now is the time to redeem myself!" Vegeta was filled with confidence. He started tapping on the keyboard in front of the screen. Another face appeared on it after he was finished. It was a fatter blue face with craters all around it. It's eyes were a bright yellow and it's nose pulled up like a pigs.
"This is Lord Cooler Planet 45, Captain Pinto speaking. Who are you and why are you entering our airspace?"
"It doesn't matter who I am, is Cooler on your planet right now?" Vegeta replied cockily.
"That is classified information that only high ranking officials have the right to know. It doesn't matter if he is or isn't on the planet I wouldn't tell you anyways. Turn around or die!" The blue face was becoming quite flustered, beginning to turn a red shade.
"Ha that's all I needed to know. You wouldn't have gotten so upset if he weren't here right now. I'll be taking landing dock 346, I expect a party when I get there." He cut the transmission. Vegeta laughed inwardly. This time, the acrosian was his.
Gohan landed in the middle of the small farming subsection that was being plagued by the triceratops. He could see that for a couple hundred foot radius around the town the corn was all packed down against the ground. There were a few packs of triceratops just running around in circles, preventing the corn from ever having the chance to recover.
He walked over to the nearest villager he could find. It was a man that looked very scruffy. He had a medium sized beard and wore a flannel shirt over his overalls. His shaggy brown hair was matted to his forehead and he appeared to be troubled by something.
"Hi! My name is Gohan." The young demi-saiyan said as he approached the farmer. The man looked up from his thoughts.
"Oh hello, I'm Jay. It's a pleasure to meet you I'm sure." He returned to staring off at the triceratops herd running around the village.
"Excuse me, is there any way that I could help you? I came here to defeat the Triceratops King." Jay brightened up and finally gave Gohan a serious look.
"What? That's excellent! But you can't be anymore than 12 or 13! How do you expect to beat the King?"
"I have my ways. I'm much stronger than I look!" Gohan gave a big smile, showing his confidence in himself. Jay looked happy, then his expression shifted to solemn.
"Well that's great and all, but we can't loose very much more crop without having to leave. I'd say another day or so and it'll all be over."
"Don't worry about it! I'll take care of this whole situation by the time you wake up tomorrow morning!" Gohan smiled once again, "Any chance you could point me in the direction of the King?"
"He is to the South of the village. Just follow the triceratops that are running amok and you'll find him."
"Thanks Jay!" Gohan hollered as he ran off with the directions he was given.
"Be careful kid!" Jay called out, not wanting to see Gohan get injured.
Vegeta sat in his cell quietly. He was all by himself in it. He knelt down and picked up a small rock that lay on the floor. He threw it up and caught it a few times before examining it a little closer. He determined by the one smooth side that it must have broken off the ceiling during one of the more rowdy prisoner's stays.
Vegeta chuckled to himself as he remembered what had transpired just a few hours ago. Instead of his usual entrance on the planet of seeking every high power level out and killing them, this time he had landed and let Captain Pinto take him in. They chained him up and threw him in the cell in which he now was sitting. He knew that eventually Cooler would come, hearing that a saiyan was in his custody, and that if he had just gone about killing everyone Cooler may escape. This way he had everyone fooled, they all thought he was weak. Even that pathetic Captain Pinto thought he could destroy Vegeta easily. Bah, damn fools, Vegeta thought. A figure began to approach his cell.
"Hey! Get up monkey. Captain Pinto and his court want to question you before Lord Cooler arrives." The chubby yellow alien said. He had four arms and stocky little legs. He wore the armor that most of Cooler's soldiers wore. Very similar to Freeza's only the jumpsuit was purple and the solid armor was a light yellow. Instead of two shoulder plates there was only one over the left side. The yellow soldier's face was mostly humanoid but instead of hair he had a row of bumps going down the middle and had large, round ears. Vegeta could barely contain his laughter.
They walked down the corridor in silence. The Saiyan Prince was surprised to see that the short chubby alien could move quite quickly for his stature. As the rotund alien led him along Vegeta thought about what he had experienced back on Earth that had driven him to this planet. Kakarot was a Super Saiyan. That was fine, he had almost come to terms with that, almost accepted the fact that his rival had reached the goal he had striven for his entire life before elite saiyan could. But when he saw Kakarot's damn abomination of a child achieve it as well, he could barely take it, not only that but that the bastard could have so easily killed him. It was intolerable. Since then Vegeta had done everything he possibly could to increase his strength. On one planet he had even gotten a hundred and fifty of the inhabitants to attack him at once. By the time they were all gone he was half dead, but that was twice as alive as those laying around him. In the two and a half years traveling in space he had increased his power exponentially. Still, he couldn't feel the Super Saiyan energy at all as far as he knew. Finally they approached a large set of doors with some foreign alien god on them, Vegeta assumed.
As they entered into the dark room Vegeta counted twelve people sitting around the outside of the room, each wearing ceremonial robes and most were of species that Vegeta hadn't run into before. It wasn't surprising really, as powerful as he was Freeza was only the Lord of around 10 galaxies or so, each with about nine or ten inhabitable planets. Any galaxies that were under another Cold family were off limits to Vegeta and anyone below him. Knowing that Vegeta had only really been to about a hundred and twenty or so planets, most with very similar life forms on them. Still a couple of the aliens around the room looked familiar. He stood in the middle of the room in his hand cuffs. Captain Pinto stood at the end of the room, behind a podium.
"Mister Vegeta, what is your business on our planet?" Pinto said, his voice commanding, but still very amusing as he sounded like a depressed dog. Vegeta snickered.
"That's PRINCE Vegeta, and I am here to sell you Galactic Donuts. I'm going planet to planet selling them for my Junior Cooler Ranger Merit Badge. If you bought some it would really mean a lot to me." The smile across his face was menacing and confident.
Gohan crept past the triceratops that were sleeping all around the camp. It was around nightfall and he guessed that they were ruining the crops in shifts. So far he had passed through a maze of destroyed corn to get here. Now he was staring at what he was positive was the entrance to the area containing the Triceratops King. At his count there were 10 sleeping guards and only one was half awake. Alright, Gohan thought to himself, this will be too easy if I just go at full power, I'll have to give myself some handicaps. He thought for a moment and then decided on the rules of his upcoming fight. First, as he heard Jay say that they couldn't handle loosing too much more of their crop, he wouldn't knock over any more corn. Second, he wouldn't fly or use any ki in the fight. With that figured out he leapt out of the bushes and with his open hand hit the lone conscious guard in the back of his head, knocking him out. Now standing by himself he looked at the entrance to the dark section of forest he was about to enter. He let his eyes adjust and ran in.
Gohan noticed a ring of triceratops around a clearing about forty feet around. In the middle of them stood a massive one, at least five times bigger than the rest. He had a scar running down one eye that starred Gohan down with a glassy gaze. On each of the horns protruding from his head he had red rings near the base. He grunted.
"Alright! My name is Son Gohan, I'm giving you this one chance to leave the village and it's crops alone. Please take it now or face doing this the hard way." Gohan yelled out. The Triceratops King stood up and turned towards the saiyan boy.
"Is this a joke? You dare challenge us?" The King let out a large guttural laugh.
"Leave the village alone! It is full of people just trying to make a living for themselves!" Gohan was more stern this time.
"We are claiming this land for the triceratops! The humans have had the land long enough! Get out now and I'll spare your life." Gohan tensed himself up and slowly began walking towards the gigantic triceratops. The Triceratops King became more angry with each step.
"Fine! You have made your choice, and it just so happens to be your unlucky day. You interrupted our prisoner's execution." As the King stepped aside and towards Gohan he saw a wooden cage. Inside of it lay a purple dragon that couldn't have been any taller than Gohan.
Now I have a prisoner to worry about too, darn it! The triceratops King began to charge at Gohan. He expertly dodged to the side as he came rushing past. Gohan ran to the opposite side of the arena the triceratops had set up. He had to study the giant's movements if he wanted to beat him without flying or using his saiyan abilities. The King turned around and faced Gohan. All the triceratops around him were cheering their leader on. He charged again, but this time he was faster, throwing Gohan off, he made contact with the young man and threw him a good fifteen feet. Gohan quickly jumped to his feet, trying to be on guard for the next attack. It was too late, the old dinosaur was once again on top of him, throwing him again. When Gohan got up he was barely able to dodge the oncoming giant. He got ready for yet another charge, but when he dodged this time the royal dino turned and hit him again. As Gohan slowly got up he saw the King coming at him yet another time. His brain went on overdrive thinking of a way to get ahead in this scrimmage. Then, he had a plan when the beast was just feet away from him. He kicked off the ground and launched himself to the left, narrowly dodging the three deadly horns. As he rolled out of the way he aimed himself away from the charging beast. The King rounded the corner and came back towards the preteen. As he was just about a foot away Gohan leapt into the air and landed on the King's middle horn, just above his nose and grabbed on to the two horns above his eyes with both arms. With all his might he pushed down with his feet. The Triceratops King's buried itself into the ground for ten or so feet. Gohan jumped up and over it's crest and jumped off to it's side, giving the King a strong kick to the ribs in the process. When he landed on the ground he pivoted to face the downed royalty, hand outstretched. He had an orb of energy hanging just a few inches away from his open hand.
"Now, leave this area. Never come back." The King looked up and saw the stern expression in the young boy. He immediately started to cower in fear of this mighty foe.
"F-fine, we'll leave, I promise! If you come back you'll find this town is back to normal and we will be long gone." He pleaded.
"And the dragon? You'll let him go free?"
"Yes!" Gohan let the blast dissipate and his expression softened. He helped the massive triceratops back upright.
As the triceratops began to leave their little settlement Gohan strode over to the cage containing the dragon. He smacked one of the corners and it all fell to the ground. The dragon flapped it's wings a few times and let out a roar. "Hey, are you alright?" The dragon nodded.
"Do you have a name? Mine is Gohan." The dragon looked at him quizzically. "How bout Icarus? Does that sound OK?" Gohan had remembered the name from some legend his mom had made him read for his English studies. The dragon nodded excitedly.
"You like that huh? Alright well I gotta get going, hopefully I'll be seeing you again sometime!"
"Now, for the last time, why are you here?!" Captain Pinto was very irate at this point. "So far you've told us that you are looking for real estate, trying out for the Planetary Olympics and are starting a band called FLOW. Tell us why you're here Prince Bejita!"
"I told you, my name is PRINCE VEGETA!" The smile faded from his face.
"Oh alright, sorry, your highness." Pinto let out a chuckle from his pudgy blue face.
"You have no idea how sorry you should be." Vegeta looked up and smirked. Everyone in the room was taken aback. In one swift movement he flexed his arms and pulled his arms away from each other. The cuffs shattered to a million pieces. Before anyone could react he raised his hands so they pointed to opposite ends of the room and fired off 6 small beams from each hand. Pinto was shocked when he looked across the room. In the place of each of the robed officials was now splatters of red and purple against the walls. Vegeta was in front of him in a flash.
"What I did to them I will soon do the same to you." An evil grin was on his face.
Props to anyone who knows where the Gohan section comes from! The Vegeta part was awesome to write, hope I kept him in character. Getting closer to the main plot of the story so keep with me here! As always, reviews are welcomed and appreciated! Leave constructive criticism, guesses, doomsday prophesies, you know, the usual.
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