JJ: So I have time to be typing this up so Imma do it ROLL OUT!

Chapter 3: Arrival at Namek

The many humans on Namek had been thoroughly confused as of late. For years and years they had been lead to believe by their champion Hercule Satan himself that the light tricks used against Cell were nothing more than just that, tricks and technology. So how was it that these people seemed to be using all of these tricks without any chance to prepare or stage anything right in front of them? It simply was not possible and it caused murmurs among the crowd. They had all, within the last 3 days of being on the planet apparently called Namek, witnessed people defying the laws of gravity and lifting into the air and travelling around in the sky at speeds none of them could begin to comprehend. They had seen fighters knock down trees with their bare hands and form craters with their bodies in intense "training" sessions against eachother without coming to harm. None of this added up.

Sure the Gold Fighter always seemed to be able to do all this stuff and once even demonstrated his ability to move faster than light with apparent ease on live TV for no other reason than to show criminals everywhere what he was capable of. But everyone had always assumed that a somewhat decent person had just gotten their hands on Cell technology and broke a few laws in order to help the public, so in general they took a liking to him. But this? The fighters were fighting shirtless and there was no exo-suit, no device, no jetpacks or wires. No mirrors or smoke machines. It was all so natural and organic to them and they simply couldn't process how they did it?

After all, Mister Satan had always been very firm and confident in his remarks and claims about such abilities not existing naturally, but then again, he also claimed that there were no such thing as aliens and here they were. They were on an alien planet with a friendly and helpful alien species seeing alien things. Maybe…just maybe…..Mr. Satan wasn't right about everything? It may sound preposterous to some but at this point in time it was the closest thing to a logical explanation.

Of course some people greatly detested this view and remained firm on the basis that somehow this was all a trick and they awaited word from the champ himself to confirm their beliefs with a logical and rational explanation that would elicit an sense of understanding for all his loyal followers, however the champ was yet to make a statement and never once showed his face to the public. As the days had progressed, the number of people who believed him slowly dwindled as the human race slowly lost faith in his ability to know everything about everything. People began to doubt. As it stood now, after 3 days with no word from Mr. Satan, slightly under half of Earth's population remained loyal. Some because they were stubborn and firm and refused to believe anything they couldn't rationalize for themselves. Others because they feared living in a world where they knew nothing of it's true nature and desperately grasped at the straws that were the common knowledge of Earth.

Not long after it all started happening Erasa had stopped believing in the "champ" and spent a lot of time talking to Bulma and Chi-Chi, helping her get through their combined grief and sorrow at the probability that Gohan and Vegeta were dead. Sharpener tried to stick with his idol but soon he, like most of the population, stopped believing in the boastful man. He apologized to Videl just as Erasa had to which Videl smiled and nodded her understanding. She too had lost faith on some level, but she couldn't just abandon her father. Not without talking to him first at least. But unfortunately he refused to let anyone in the capsule house he had been given by Bulma. He stayed in there all day and all night never leaving the portable house's confines. Not even for his own daughter.

Still, the loyal person Videl is she never gave up. Not until she had answers and a clear understanding of the situation as a whole. So she set up her house right next to her father's and waited. She trained and talked with her friends mostly during the day but at night she lay awake, barely getting the right amount of sleep. Her planet was destroyed, and Gohan was most likely dead.

Hearing this had torn her apart. She knew she had to face facts and try to get stronger and move on in memory of him but she couldn't help but hope that he was really alive, no matter how slim the chances were. Not to mention ever since she found out Gohan had probably died she'd been having these strange dreams every night. She dreamed that she found Gohan dead in the rain. She dreamed that a man claiming and appearing to be his father took his son's limp body in his arms and silently wept at the sight. More people were there as Goku buried him in a tomb of rocks to protect his body from the weather. All of them grieved and cried and Videl remembered that it had hurt so much to experience.

The blood spatters on his face, his open eyes rolled into the back of his head. His mouth frozen open in the agony he must have felt during his last moments. She remembered being taken with the group of people she assumed were Gohan's family and training with them. Even learning to do the things she had witnessed happening lately. She had gotten much stronger and Videl laughed to herself as she thought sarcastically that it would have explained why she felt so much stronger….recently.

"Wait…could it-? No, impossible….but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try to find out." She reasoned to herself mentally. Videl knew that this was pointless and that it was just a stupid dream. But some part of her mind was screaming for her to explore and investigate the possibility. Besides, she needed answers anyway and what better way then to go straight to the source.

Videl got out of bed on the 4th day of being on Namek and made her way out of her capsule house, locking the door behind her rather than decapsulising it to save her spot. She marched to the group of people that seemed to know Gohan and immediately got hit by a sense of Déjà vu looking at all of them individually. In fact….somehow…..she knew these people without ever having met most of them.

She recognized Chi-Chi, Gohan's mother. Goten, Gohan's little brother and they're both named that way after….their father. Yamcha is the scarred one. The one with 3 eyes it Tien. She knew all of them somehow without having ever met them. Or maybe those are just made up names her dream created? But then, where did it get the appearances of these people. Bulma she could get, Yamcha was a baseball player. But the others, they made no sense. How could she possibly know all this?

She saw Mirai off to the side leaning against a tree looking off into the sky with his arms crossed, much like his father, "HOW DO I KNOW THAT?!" she screamed internally, while looking fine on the outside. Videl approached him quietly and noticed that he seemed to be in deep thought and she could see the dry sadness and sorrow in his eyes. She had to know how she knew. And hopefully Mirai would have the answers. "Hey Mirai, how are you?"

The distracted teen didn't even turn his gaze to her when he responded, "Hey Videl. I'm fine, thanks." he responded and though Videl could tell it wasn't the truth she knew better than to delve into it at a time like this. He might take offense at her intrusiveness and refuse to answer her questions. Videl simply nodded before stopping. With a deep breath she mustered all her courage to ask her what would probably sounds like the ramblings of a crazy person.

"Mirai….I've been having these….dreams lately and…" she began, clearly trying to stall for time to find the right way to word what she wanted to ask. Trunks noticed this but allowed it regardless, choosing to help lengthen her stalling.

"Dreams? About what? What kind of dreams?" he asked inquisitively, wondering why she would possibly want to talk to him about dreams. The future traveller knew they were friends sort of but they weren't, "talk about our innermost feelings" friendly.

"Well that's just it. I feel like they might be visions rather than dreams….crazy I know…" she trailed off feeling embarrassed about the whole thing and suddenly regretting her decision. She began mentally berating herself when she was interrupted by a short chuckle from the taller teen.

"It's not crazy Videl, I believe you. Tell me what kind of vision. It must be important if you came to me instead of one of the others." the Lavender-haired teenager told her reassuringly with a light smile which immediately made her feel less awkward.

"Well, you see I was having what I thought were dreams about…" she trailed off again. Battling internally over whether or not she should tell him. If she was wrong and they had nothing to do with this she'd sound like a total creep. But she HAD to know, this wasn't something she could live with and ignore without any answers for the rest of her life. Forging an armor of steel around her self-confidence and once again sucking in a hefty mouthful of air, Videl asked what her mind was screeching for answers for, "Well about all of you, Gohan's friends and family. I had a memory of Gohan…dead, in the rain and mud covered in blood, and I saw his father. In the dream his name was Goku and he buried his son and everyone was there and upset" Videl began, completely oblivious to the shocked expression on Trunk's face.

"And these dreams continued but they feel more like memories and somehow my subconscious knew the names of people I shouldn't know. Like, I know your father is Vegeta! Short, muscular guy with flame-like hair! How do I know that? I've never met him and only heard him mentioned before!" she began getting more passionate and loud as she explained it all to the taller boy who's jaw was hanging wide open and his left eye twitched.

After her explanation of it all Trunks finally had his chance to speak and explain it all. After clearing his throat and registering everything she had told him he thought of the best way to word this. He decided to start with the simple answer, "Alright Videl, first of all, all of that stuff WAS a memory." Trunks confirmed, making her visibly relax in relief that she wasn't going crazy or somehow psychic.

"When is it a memory of though?" she asked totally confused, "According to my memory all those things took place about halfway through this year, in fact only a few months from now? How is it possible to have happened in the future?" she asked, her brows scrunching in irritated confusion, trying to grasp or in some way rationalize how it had happened.

"Okay Videl, I'm going to tell you exactly what happened and no matter how crazy it may sound know that it's the truth, alright?" he told her, earning a confused look and a nod of confirmation. "Okay, so the school year had been progressing quite well. But a crazy doctor created a variable army of killer robots in secret. They weren't just any robots though, they were cyborgs. The scientist took living people and experimented on them to make them more machine than man. The process however made them exponentially stronger than they were before the experiments, and so with this he built an extremely powerful army with the intention to exterminate Earth's population." Trunks told her, starting with the simple beginning and purposely skipping the part about the doctor being from the future.

Videl's face morphed into horror and disgust, "That's terrible!" she exclaimed, feeling anger towards anyone who would want to do that.

Trunks merely nodded in confirmation, "Worse was the way he gained these people to experiment on. There was an official martial arts competition company set up in Satan City that invited strong fighters to come in once a week where they would have a tournament. The winner of the tournament was deemed the strongest fighter of the week and they took and experimented on them, adding them to their army, creating rather exceptionally powerful warriors. Sharpener actually found out about it and invited us all to see, that is, Gohan, Erasa, you and I."

Now that he had said it Videl suddenly recalled such a memory, going to this big flashy new business operation for fighters with a stupid name. "Well what happened next? It's clear whatever happened to us in there is important to the story." Videl commented, guessing ahead of time with her long practiced detective skills. She noted that at this exact moment Mirai faltered and he flinched slightly clearly in regard to the memory. He hesitated a second trying to find the best way to word it.

"Well, one of the fighters they threw in to the competition was an already-converted robokiller, so Gohan decided enough was enough as the cyborg mercilessly beat the human, and went down to save him." Trunks explained seriously hoping she didn't remember the bit about the Gold Fighter. Because then he would be forced to explain that they were one in the same and he didn't really feel like doing that.

"Yeah I remember Gohan getting up out of his seat during a fight….vaguely. Why would he do that aren't they supposedly multiple times stronger than normal people?" Videl queried. Sure Gohan had seemed pretty good when he fought those guys on Earth but if he could beat them they couldn't have been than much stronger than her could they? So how would he match up against a killing machine?

The muscular adolescent before her merely locked eyes with her and continued with a tone of absolute seriousness that she was inclined to believe, "Videl you saw the way he dealt with the guys down on Earth before correct?" he asked, receiving a slow, short nod from the vertically challenged girl. "Well to put this into perspective for you, even the weakest of those enemies would have been too much for you, especially in such large numbers. But regardless even in a 1 on 1 with them you were totally outclassed." He explained bluntly to her, shocking her and even slightly offending her with his easy dismissal of her abilities. Videl opened her mouth to argue but Trunks closed his eyes patiently and held up his hand to silence her, "Videl, trust me I'm not underestimating you, I know what I'm talking about. My point isn't that you were too weak for them. In fact for a human you are already exceptionally strong, especially due to the power you obtained from the training we gave you" again her mouth opened to say something, "I'll get to that." He interrupted, "Anyway. They were simply too powerful for you, it wasn't your fault, no-one could have stopped them, not even your father as I'm sure you've gathered from your time here" he added slightly quieter.

Videl's eyes widened comically, he knew about her father already. He knew something. She had to know what he knew right this instant. However for a third time he seemingly read her mind ahead of time and before she could even get a word out gave her an ultimatum in the tone of a patient man who was beginning to become frustrated. "What do you want to know today, about your father or about what happened that led to the human race losing their memories?"

Videl immediately shut up and forced away all questions or thoughts of interrupting for something dumb again. He nodded to himself before continuing. "Anyway now I can't really put into perspective how much stronger Gohan was then you at that point in time, just know that it was a LOT, and so with great power, came great responsibility. He had a moral obligation to help in any way possible, especially for someone who couldn't defend themselves. He dashed in and easily beat the monstrosity to nothing. However apparently the higher-ups took note of this and sent a more powerful enemy. Gohan knew he could beat it but Gohan…well you see, ever since he was young Gohan has had this anger problem. When he got angry his power would multiply to levels inconceivable and he was always angriest when someone evil took pleasure in hurting the innocent. So understandably he was angry with these robot murderers. This wouldn't be so bad however when Gohan gets this anger it also awakens another side of him, a more sadistic, cruel and cold side of him. So instead of immediately destroying this new, more powerful enemy, he instead took advantage of his opponent's handicap and purposely only fought at its level. Toying with it and instilling a sense of hopelessness. However the machine barely felt emotions such as fear so it instead calculated that by eliminating someone close to Gohan it might cause him to grieve and give the bot the chance to escape." Trunks paused now, unsure of how to continue without totally freaking the girl out. He looked up thoughtfully with his arms crossed for a long minute. His face was creased into a grim kind of contemplation.

"That's horrible! Who did it pick to kill?" Videl asked with her face twisted, showing just how aghast she was at the atrocities of these poor twisted souls. At her words Mirai sighed in resignation, entirely unsure of how to do this, and just went with strictly the truth.

"Well it knew next to nothing of Gohan but saw Erasa cheering his name and assumed she must be close and fired a condensed Ki beam" he already anticipated what she would ask next unless he explained, "Which is basically one of those light beams you see us use in our fights, only it's much smaller and its intent is to pierce right through the opponents body, making it effective for aiming for gaps in armor and hitting major organs." He elucidated for the girl and her eyes immediately grew wide at the implications. "Your friend Sharpener pushed her out the way at the last second and was hit by it. There was a lot of blood and there was no way a normal human could have survived that." He told her and her eyes bugged out further.

"SHARPENER DIED!? That's not even possible, how is he here now if he died!?" she screamed in total confusion. Everything Mirai was telling her sounded so far-fetched and impossible but her visions and her way of knowing people and things about people she shouldn't told her the guy was telling the truth.

"Well thanks to interference by a guy named Chan3-…" A sudden flash of memory crossed Videl's mind suddenly and she remembered him. The strange guy that joined their school…she remembered not liking him very much he always seemed pretty hostile towards Gohan "he was able to survive it. We however didn't know that." Videl only nodded, and Trunks voice seemed to get much quieter and it seemed more like he was talking to himself at this point as his voice was suddenly filled with sorrow and pity for his friends predicament in that situation. "It tore Gohan apart, Gohan could've defeated it from the beginning and he knew it. But he had to live with the knowledge that he could have saved Sharpener, but even more prominent than his self-loathing was his unadulterated, blind rage." Trunks trailed off here.

"I'm assuming Gohan killed it?" Videl asked quietly, mentally on the edge of her seat at this story that almost sounded like it came straight from fiction, (A.N Sorry had to have a throwback to these cheesy 4th wall jokes from the original story) anxiously awaiting an answer. The now strongest fighter on Namek only nodded in response for a minute before actually explaining it, "Yeah, he powered up to a level of strength we previously thought he didn't have and fired the largest and most powerful beam he could without obliterating everyone and everything this side of the Solar System, completely disintegrating a large portion of the building, so there wasn't even a lot of rubble left over, and it annihilated the cyborg completely" Mirai told her, giving her the most detailed picture possible and her face seemed suddenly distant which Mirai was beginning to assume meant she was getting a memory.

Videl remembered standing behind a figure next to Mirai. Due to the super intense light from the attack she couldn't actually make out any real colours or details of the fighter from behind him, due to the shadowing, but the silhouette definitely seemed tall enough to be Gohan and the outline of his hair fit the description too. "Yeah…I remember that" Videl whispered in total awe at the brilliant light that shot into the sky and detonated somewhere out in the atmosphere, throwing all to the ground, creating a blinding explosion. "Is it really possible for him to destroy half the solar system? Just like that?" she asked in a mix of fear and awe before being given a pointed look by Mirai.

"He can do far more than that at his full power, I'd wager by now that he's marginally stronger than when he could destroy the whole Solar System." Trunks corrected for her, dropping her jaw even wider. How was something like that possible from a being so small in the grand scheme of things? He was barely a little speck in comparison to a tall building, let alone the entire Solar System. This knowledge caused her to fear and respect Gohan far more than before, and she remembered all those times Jake had made fun of him in class. If Gohan had wanted to he could have killed them all with a flick of his wrist for their insolence at any time. Videl was having trouble wrapping her head around this new information. "After that whole scenario androids and cyborgs started appearing more frequently, and at one time one of them put Gohan in such bad condition we thought he was dead and buried his body" Trunks visibly flinched slightly at the memory. It had reminded him so much of the way Gohan died in his time. Videl remembered her dreams about Gohan dying and figured that must have been what he was talking about.

"So it was real after all…." She thought off-handedly and also flinched at the recurring sight of Gohan's bloodied, lifeless form in the rain, his eyes still open and face a mask of excruciating pain.

"Eventually there was an army of them at our doorstep. After we thought Gohan had died we took you with us to train you to defend yourself against such powerful enemies which is why you might have found yourself feeling especially strong, or found yourself able to do things you didn't previously think you were capable of" Trunks continued, ignoring Videl's inability to process the information fast enough as she remembered all the times she had done something she shouldn't have been able to, "They destroyed a large portion of the human population and a few of our close friends in the ensuing battle. But eventually the army was defeated and we used the Dragonballs, a set of mystical orbs that when gathered together grant any two wishes the user asks for, to revive everyone who was killed and fix the damage to the planet and even force the population to forget the whole thing had happened, to make it as if that had never happened, essentially throwing you all back in time." Videl's eyes shot open even wider, wondering to herself if such a thing was really possible, but then she remembered something.

"No….you had to use….Dragonballs from another planet alongside these ones….I remember going out into space with you all to this planet before…" Videl said, clearly straining herself trying to remember it more clearly.

Trunks looked astonished, "That's right Videl, honestly I didn't think you would remember that part yet. Well yeah with both planet's Dragonballs we were able to fix all damage and casualties on Earth as well as erase your memories of the event. Though to be completely honest, we hadn't meant to erase yours." The time traveller admitted to her, eliciting a face of confusion.

"You didn't? Well then how did you? Why did you?! This is important!" Videl asked frantically, waiting for an answer.

"It was an accident Videl" he explained to her, "It was a technicality with the way we worded the wish. And from there we kinda just rolled with it. Luckily for you though the wish only repressed the memories. It didn't seem to actually erase them." He detailed more clearly for the girl, "Anyway, now you know pretty much the whole story, and now you know more about the situation with your father too." He added.

"Yeah, to be honest I'm pretty shocked that this really happened to me…I thought it was all just a dream…" she murmured. Mirai's mouth opened as if to say something when his eyes widened and he spun very suddenly and looked out into the sky in a seemingly random direction. Videl noticed that many of the others from Gohan's group and a few of the Namekians were looking in that direction too in confusion, awe, and concern.

"Guys…" Yamcha started a little shakily, "D-do you….sense that?" he asked, hoping that this energy was just a malfunction or something in his senses. His hopes were quickly crushed when Tien confirmed it was indeed real.

"That power! It's huge!" the tall, incredibly muscular man said in shock.

"Calm down! Not power, power's" Mirai corrected for them, "It's more than one person, in fact it's a lot of people" he explained, calming everyone slightly

A few Namekians began raising their powers, ready to fire at the intruders but Mirai stopped them, "Don't, the energy up there feels friendly and without malice. I think whoever it is came here looking for us" The half-Saiyan instructed before adding, "Sorry for bringing so many uninvited guests to your planet."

"It's fine, we never get visitors and it's the least we can do, we have the room for you after all." One of the Older Namekians told him with a small comforting smile.

As the powers neared they saw it was in fact a spaceship filled with energy and they could not all tell for sure that it was definitely much more than one person. Once again Mirai noticed something before all the other's did due to his exceedingly more accurate Ki abilities. Among the hundreds and hundreds of Ki's on that ship one stood out to the Lavender-haired boy more than the others. It seemed….familiar. When the ship entered the atmosphere and slowed down and prepped it's landing gear Mirai could sense it much more clearly and distinguish it easily from all the other powers among the ship.

"Son of aaaa bitch…" Mirai muttered in amazement with a smirk on his face that reminded Videl of his father, Vegeta. The look confused Videl, did Mirai know who was on that ship? What was going on here? How many aliens would she see in one day?! This was almost too much for her and so for the normal humans over behind her at their individual houses it was probably causing a lot of fainting and jaw-dropping.

"Mirai, do you know who's on that ship?" she asked, and received a nod. She did not however get the explanation she was hoping he'd give without her needing to ask it of him. She heard cheering and whooping from the rest of Gohan's group and saw them smiling and waving at the ship. "Mind explaining this to me please?!" she growled in frustration and being left out of the loop, despite the fact that she was RIGHT there.

"I knew that bastard could pull through" Mirai said simply smirking, "Videl, you can now have all your questions answered, because Gohan's here"

JJ: Hey guys sorry this took so long I'm on a really tight schedule as of late, anyway here's your chapter, hope this one was more to your liking as the last one was rushed A LOT. This one was a little rushed due to time constraints, plus I have School again starting tomorrow so I don't know when I'll be able to work on the story but I promise I'll do it whenever possible since we're still only just getting started. Until next time yo.