Chapter 4.

Bulma woke up the next morning all relaxed and ready to go. Vegeta on the other hand was still asleep at 9 in the morning. "Hehe, well now to check on everyone." Bulma hopped out of bed, got dressed and went downstairs for some breakfast. Down in the kitchen she saw Goku, Go-han Go-ten and Trunks at the table, they had already finished eating. She was surprised that they saved anything for her. "Thank you for saving me some." Her morning went pretty well, the chat at the table went accordingly and afterwards they all went their separate ways. Go-han went back to fixing up his papers, Go-ten and Trunks went off to find the last dragonball and Goku went back up to the first aid room so Bulma could run some tests on him to see how he was doing.

"So, how is it healing?" Bulma examined the mark on his head where he was hit.

"It's healing up nicely, you still have a concussion tho. I think you should stay here and not train for at least one more day." Goku smiled in agreement. Bulma was relieved that Goku hasn't gone and done anything like he did last time. She was still a bit worried about him tho. "Ok, now I have to do a scan on you to see if your scull was fractured."

"Uh...Whats a scan mean?"

"It means an X-ray, just except that it shows not only the bone, but also nerves. It will show me if you have brain damage too." She poked him in the head.

"Does it hurt?"

"No, but I have to give you something before I can see your nerves. I need to inject some dye into you so they will show up on the scan." He nodded and followed Bulma out the door and down stairs to a strange metal room. She left Goku in the middle of the room looking around while she went over and grabbed a needle and filled it up with yellow dye. "Now here Goku, give me your arm." Goku turned around and seen Bulma coming towards him with a needle in her hand. Goku held out his arm while giving her a sparse smile. She inserted the needle into the main vein in the crease of his arm and evacuated the contents. "There and now, come over here and stand on this." She lead him up to a platform and stood him in the center of it. "...Your being awfully quiet, are you nervous?" He nodded and then shrugged once more giving her a deviant smile. She just gave him a look and smiled as she turned on the machine.

Later on...

Bulma was going over some of the x-rays she took of Goku when Go-han walked into the room. "Hey Bulma, how did the x-rays come out?" She showed him the one of his head. "......What am I suposta make of that now?" He smiled cutely at her and she laughed a bit.

"Look at this white spot here...*Point* That shows a fracture. He fractured his scull." He looked a bit worried. "The funny thing is where he hit it, it was in the back on the opposite side where he hit his head when he was a baby. Another thing." She picked up the scan of his brain and pointed to the same part where the wound was. "Right here, how deep the puncture was, and where it was at, he shouldn't be able to walk right now, or for that matter even speak."

"Woah...how did you get his nerves to show up?"

"I injected dye into him, I thought you might have known that." She laughed.

"Yeah I know how they get the nerves to show up. They use a needle and inject dye in through the blood stream." She looked up at him.

"Then why did you ask me?" Go-han just stared at her.

"You gave dad a needle?!" She nodded and her smile faded, thinking something was wrong with her doing that. "Dad's scared of needles."

"What? I gave him it no problem." She gave him a very odd confused look.

"That's pretty weird, cause dad is petrified of them." They just sat there confused. Goku came in and smiled.

"Hey...what's wrong?"

"Oh, nothing Goku." He sighed in relief.

"So how's my head?"

"Good...uh...Goku....Can I ask you something?" He looked down at her sitting at the desk.

"Sure...go ahead." Go-han waved his hands signaling her not to bother asking.

"Oh...uuh, never mind, it's not important." And with that Goku smiled and left the room. She sighed, relived. "Go-han, why didn't you want me to ask him?"

"No real reason, I just figured he forgot about his fear of needles. So I don't want to bring it up again."

Outside the room...
Goku leaned against the wall with a possessed look on his face just staring into blank space. He began breathing heavily and he clenched his fists as he looked around the hall for something. He made a slight growl under his breath as he made his way down the hallway to Bulma's laboratory where she was working and messed around on the desks looking for something still. He looked over at one of the tables and saw some mail, and with the mail was a letter opener. Goku went over to the table and picked up the rather sharp object. It was a silver letter opener with a solid handle made of gold. He smiled as he ran his thumb across the blade, it wasn't that sharp but the top was. Goku took his finger and pressed it on the top of the knife like object and a small drop of blood ran down the blade, he smiled happily snickering to himself as he left the lab room. He made his way back up to the room where Bulma and Go-han were talking. And entered the room with a completely fake smile on his face...and the blade hiding behind his back. "Hello."

"Hey dad, we were just thinking about taking a shot over to master Roshie's, you want to come too?"

"Sure, I'd love to."

"Great, I'll go out and get Go-ten and Trunks." Gohan turned around and went to leave the room when out of nowhere a knife flies past him, just missing the back of his head. "AH!" He shot around quickly to see his father staring him directly in the eye. He had an evil glint in his eyes, almost like he was made entirely cold.

"Shit! I missed!!" He removed the dagger from the wall and aimed to through it directly at the back of Bulma's head, but Go-han grabbed his arm in attempt to stop him. It failed and the knife flew through the air.

"BULMA DUCK!" She turned around and moved in enough time to just get nicked but the sharp armament.

"AH!" It cut deeply across her cheek.

"DAD WHAT THAT HELL ARE YOU DOING!!??" Go-han yelled. Goku just stared at his son with complete and total anger and raised his hand and fired an energy ball directly at him. Go-han flew back against the wall and it smashed with the great force that Goku blasted him with. Goku at that moment was now gone. "Where....uh? Bulma." HE rushed to her side. "Are you hurt?" He saw the gash across her right cheek. "What the f*** is wrong with him?!...did that cut go through?" She looked at him an shook her head no. "I'm sorry but I have to go find him before he kills anyone." And with that Go-han rushed out the door and found a path of destruction leading down the hall. He followed it and it lead to the gravity room. Go-han pressed the intercom button. "Dad!" He pounded on the door. "Get out of there now!!!!"

".......ha......I don't think so. I'm going to stay in here and train! Now get the hell away!" He backed up from the door with still that wicked grin on his face. "Hehehe...now, to turn this on." Goku went over to the control panel and pressed the on button. The gravity turned on to 450 times normal, he brushed this off. "Time to turn it up a little." Goku, ignoring his son yelling at him through the intercom turned the gravity up to 900. Goku flinched under the great pressure but soon got use to it. Go-han from the other side of the door could hear him training.

"I guess I should leave him to wear himself out...maybe then we can find out what's wrong with him." He looked displeased, but backed off to go and check on Bulma. When he got back up to the room she was sitting at the table with tears rolling down her face and Vegeta was at her side, comforting her. Go-han walked over to them and told them what Goku was doing.

"Good! I hope that bastard get's crushed in that intense gravity." Vegeta rubbed Bulma's shoulders. "What he did to her is no excuse."

Two day's passed...

"Go-han I'm getting really worried about your father, he's been training for two days straight, nonstop. He's going to really get hurt if he doesn't stop." Go-han nodded.

"I know what to do..." He picked up the intercom to the gravity room. "Dad! If you don't stop this right now I'm going to cut off the air to the room." Bulma was shocked. Go-han opened a vid window to see his father. "And if you think I'm joking, you've got something else coming!" Goku just looked at him with a cold dagger stare.

"You don't have the guts to do that." He laughed and went back to his training.

"You leave me no choice." He closed the vid window and the intercom. "Bulma...shut it off." Bulma didn't say anything, she just reached for the switch and shut off the air vents. Go-han once again opened the intercom and told his father... " You have about three minutes of air in there...If you don't come out now, you will suffocate. It's your choice." Once more he closed the link and made his way down to the gravity room to wait and see if his father came out...and nothing. Four minutes passed and Bulma came down with Go-han.

"He passed out...we can go in and get him." Go-han broke the door down and went over to his father who was laying unconscious in the middle of the floor. "Oh my..." Go-han picked up Goku and put him over his shoulder.

"..." Bulma and Go-han walked Goku back up to the first aid room, once again. "I really wish I knew what was wrong with him." He laid him down on the bed and sat in one of the chairs with Bulma. Only a few minutes passed and Go-ten and Trunks came in.

"OK people cheer up! We have acquired all seven dragonballs!" Go-han and Bulma's faces lit up with delight.

"WHAT!?!?!? Thats great! Now we can wish him back to normal!" Go-han patted his little brother on the shoulder. "Great job, I think we should go call everyone over so they can see the dragon too. You think?" They all nodded. Go-ten laid down the bookbag with the balls in it and looked for his cell phone.

"I'll call Krillin." Goten searched around for it. "...um, Trunks, you see where I put me cell phone at?" Trunks shrugged.

"Check the bag." Goten laid the bag down then opened the front part of the bookbag and sure enough. He smiled as he turned on the phone stood up and dialed Krillin's number...and he got static.

"I can't hear a thing, I'm going out on the balcony." Go-ten left the room and crossed the hall into another room the rest of them followed. They all sat down and had some lemonade and talked about Go-ten and Turnks wishes. "Yeah, Trunks can't live without his looks, so we decided to fix him up." They laughed and Trunks blushed.

"Yeah, and were wishing your dad back to normal too right?" Go-ten nodded and smiled then the mood was spoiled by a very loud explosion. "AHH!"

"What the hell was that?...I'll go check it out." And with that Go-han rushed into the house and seen what had happened. "[oh no] GUYS! COME HERE!!" HE yelled back to the rest of them, they came rushing back to the first aid room. They went in and examined the room

Goku was gone...
And so were the dragonballs.