Sorry that this took so long, guys! I've had a lot on my plate lately. So, I don't own DBZ, but I own my Bardock glove-y thingies!
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Chapter 4;
There Already?
Months have passed since the encounter with Princess Snake. We find Goku crawling along Snake Way, entirely out of energy. Bardock, on the other hand, is flying above him so as not to be seen.
"So...tired..." Goku panted.
Is he gonna be okay...? Bardock wondered, Should I risk changing the future to help him out?
Goku was still having a hard time, when he saw something.
"Is that...no, it couldn't be! It's...THE END!" he got up and ran when he said this. Sure enough, it was the end of Snake Way! But nothing was there! "Is this supposed to be some sort of sick joke?" Goku began looking around when he saw a small planet. "Oh, that must be it!" Goku flew off to the small planet.
He sure did get his energy back fast... Bardock thought.
When Goku landed, he noticed something! The gravity was intense! He could barely move. He finally got just a LITTLE bit limber-er when he smelled something.
"Mm...I am pretty hungry...I'm sure King Kai wouldn't mind if I took a piece of fruit." he said as he went over to the tree, using every bit of his strength. He tried to climb the tree, but couldn't! Then, he heard something.
What's wrong with Kakarot? Bardock didn't understand that Goku wasn't use to intense gravity like he was.
"Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!" grunted a little brown monkey.
"Hi! Are you King Kai?" Goku asked.
"Ooh! Ooh!" the monkey nodded.
"Can I have a piece of that fruit? I'm starvin!" Goku asked as he struggled to bow as is custom in martial arts. The monkey climbed up the tree with ease and dropped down a piece of fruit, but because of the intense gravity, it went right through the ground! "Whoa! If Sir Isac Newton was hit in the head by one of those apples, he wouldn't of lived to tell the tale!" he exclaimed, "Try again! I'll be ready this time!" the monkey dropped another one, which fell into the Saiyan's hands, but this pinned them to the ground. Goku struggled with all his might to pull it up and after finally gobbling it down, the monkey jumped back to the ground. "Wow. You must be used to this intense gravity, King Kai. I've come to train with you, if you don't mind." when Goku said this, the monkey raised his hands into the air and began to jump around. "You want me to do that?"
"Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!" chanted 'King Kai'.
"Okay...this must make you REALLY strong in this gravity! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!" Goku did the same.
"Hehem...what are you doing?" a voice asked. When Goku looked over, there was a short, fat, blue man that wore a kimono with a Japanese symbol on it.
"Who are you?" Goku asked.
"I'm King Kai."
"What?! But then...who's he?" Goku asked again.
"Him? He's Bubbles, my favorite monkey. He's grown accustom to the intense gravity here." the real King Kai explained.
"Oh...that makes sense...I've come here to train with you, King Kai."
"Hm...not just anyone can train here. I want you to jump as high as you can for me." King Kai said.
"Okay." Goku jumped at least 15 to 20 feet off the ground, "Aw, man! How embarrassing!"
Hm...he has quite the potential...King Kai thought. "So you want to train with me? Alright then, but there's one thing you have to do first."
"What is it, King Kai?" Goku asked anxiously.
"You have to tell me...a joke!" King Kai smirked.
'What?! A joke?"
A joke? That's it? Bardock thought.
"That's right. Because I won't train anyone without a sense of humor. Here, I'll tell you a joke first. Riiing! Riiing!" King Kai said and pretended to pick up a phone. "You don't say! Uh-huh. Uh-huh. You don't say!" then King Kai hang up the 'phone'.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Goku laughed hysterically.
"You were supposed to ask 'Who was that?' and I was supposed to say 'They didn't say.'. I'll give you one chance to redeem yourself, but you have to come up with a joke!"
"I've got it! Why did the chicken...cross the road?!" Goku said as he powered up.
"Oh! I don't know! To...uh...to get to the other side?" King Kai asked as he began to snicker.
"No...wait...IT WAS TO FAR TO FLY!" Goku yelled.
"Oh! Hehehehehehehahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha!" King Kai snorted.
"You laughed! Now can you train me?" Goku asked.
"Yes. When I'm done with you, they shall call you 'The Prince of Puns!'" King Kai said hopefully.
"Actually...I came for martial arts training, King Kai." Goku pointed out.
"Martial arts? Why didn't you tell me that sooner?" King Kai asked, "Any particular reason?"
"Yeah. These two Saiyans are heading to Earth and I need to train to defeat them." Goku said seriously.
"I can tell you how long you have until they arrive, if you want."
"You can? Thanks!"
"Alrighty then...let's see here..." King Kai's antenna began to twitch as he searched the Universe for the two Saiyans. "Oh my...these two are as strong as they come...you might as well give up now."
"No way! I'm not going to give up! Please, train me!" Goku begged.
"I could train you in the 88 days it would take them to arrive for sure, but these two are even stronger than me. Do you think you could surpass my strength?"
"Yes, King Kai."
"Alright, for your first training exercise, I want you to catch Bubbles. Until you're used to the intense gravity, that's all you can handle."
"You want me to catch the monkey?" Goku asked.
"Yes. But don't underestimate Bubbles. He's much faster than he looks." King Kai smirked. "Run Bubbles! Run!"
And just like that, the monkey was off! Bardock made sure Goku couldn't see him and landed behind King Kai's house. King Kai sensed that he did so, so he went behind the house to meet the mysterious guest.
"So, what is a Saiyan like yourself doing all the way out here?" King Kai asked.
"I've been following my son." Bardock answered.
"That doesn't really answer my question." King Kai said.
"Kakarot's my son." Bardock shrugged.
"Who's Kakarot?" King Kai asked again.
"He
goes by the name Goku." Bardock explained, "You just got finished
talking to him."
"So wait a minute...Goku's a Saiyan, too?"
"Yup."
"Hm...does he know you're following him?"
"No. It's complicated, but I think it'd be best if he didn't see me right now."
"Oh...I could let you stay in the back room of my house so he wouldn't see you, but what would you do for me?" King Kai offered.
"I dunno. What would you want me to do?" Bardock asked.
"Well...I'll make a little bargain with you. You can stay at my house, but you have to wash dishes, vacuum, and other house work." King Kai smirked.
"I..." Crap! I don't want to...but I guess I will... "Fine. You have a deal..." he mumbled.
"Good." King Kai said as they shook hands to seal the deal. "You can go on in." King Kai went back in front of the house to see Goku taking off his weighted clothing.
"You're gonna get it now!" Goku laughed evilly. He caught up to Bubbles, but it was no use. Bubbles just kept on running faster.
"I think it would be best for you to train with the weights on, Goku." King Kai called to him.
"What? But why?" Goku complained.
"The Saiyans lived on a planet that had the same gravity as here. You're from Earth, right? So this is about 10x what you're used to." King Kai explained, "The Saiyans have the unique ability to fight anywhere under almost any conditions."
"You just watch! I'm a Saiyan, too." Goku smiled as he put the weighted clothes and ran off.
Believe it or not, I know, Goku. King Kai thought.
"Well, this is boring..." Bardock sighed from the dark room in the back of King Kai's house.
"Hey, King Kai, can we eat? I'm starving!" Goku smiled.
"Oh? You sure you want to eat? It could give you a cramp, you know." King Kai warned.
"Never has before! It helps me do better to eat, actually." Goku explained.
"Yup..." Bardock smirked, "He's my son alright..."
"Okay. If you're truly hungry, then go on in." King Kai offered. As soon as he said that, Goku was off even faster than ever!
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Okay, that does it for this chapter! So...see you guys next time or in my other stories!
Gagawop Wuvs Yu! (Oh wait...wrong story! ')
-Kid Goku 13
