A Power Shared Chapter 4
Here we go, Chapter 4. I don't own Dragonball Z, or any other series/movie/book/etc that I might reference in this story
This and any fanfiction I might write is an AU and will include spoilers for any events the series that the Author has seen and includes, and that the reader has not. I have seen, not necessarily in order, the entire DBZ series minus a few fillers, about half of DB, a small amount of DBGT and 'Son Goku and his friends return.' I have finished the game Budokai Tenkaiachi 3 and I am busy with DBZ Infinite World. Therefore anything that happened in the above can and most likely will be used as references in my story, and can be called "spoilers" by certain readers.
If you didn't understand the above paragraph: Warning Possible Spoilers and AU story ahead.
Got it this time? No? Go boil your socks, I'm not repeating myself.
Gohan/Golden Dragon will be called 'Gohan', while the Gohan from the future will be called AA Gohan from now on, unless I can think of a better name for him. Oh and a warning for more bad jokes in this chapter.
Talking
Thinking
Saiya-jin (only in Gohan Saga)
Gohan Saga, Son Household.
5 Am. A respectable time to get up, only if you are in the military or work an early shift. Or your little brother is Son Goten.
"Gohan! Gohan! GOHAN! Wake up already! Mom says that there are problems in East City."
"Ok, Ok I'm up."
"Mom says both of you."
"Huh, fine. We'll be down in a few minutes."
"Ok- HELP!" *splash*
AA Gohan had grabbed Goten by the ankle and chucked him over Gohan, through the window and into the nearby lake. Gohan looked outside and saw how far Goten went.
"Nice throw, that lake is a good 500m from here. And you got two bounces."
AA Gohan shrugged, "I try."
"Alright, enough messing. If there's trouble that Yamcha needs our help it must be bad. Let's get downstairs."
Gohan quickly got his Golden Dragon uniform on, while AA Gohan just put on his gi. They went down stairs, where Chi-Chi had prepared some breakfast. The brothers looked at each other and dug in. In-between bites, Gohan asked what was wrong in East City.
Chi-Chi sighed, "Dende contacted me half an hour ago. Some-one started attacking civilians there. Apparently Yamcha was-and is- indisposed right now. Coincidently, Tights Briefs is visiting East City for a book signing this week. Dende describes the attacker as tall, wearing Saiya-jin armour and has long spiky black hair."
AA Gohan said, "That sounds like Raditz. But he's dead."
"Exactly. Now Hercule's time zone is still midnight, or he would have been contacted. Gohan, you are the unofficial leader of Earth's Special Forces, hence you must make an appearance," Chi-Chi looked at AA Gohan, "You have no region in this world yet, so to get you ready, Dende and I are sending you as the new recruit, 'Armless Hero, with our Golden Dragon. You two will deal with this fake Raditz, then report to the Lookout. Now GO!"
Chi-Chi chased them off then returned to the kitchen. She had to cook for 3 half Saiya-jins after all.
AA Gohan looked at his counterpart, "What did mother mean about me not having a region in this world? And what does Yamcha have to do with East City?"
Gohan had to think a bit, "Well after the Cell Games, that was big, I'll tell you later, we all got together and contacted Hercule Satan. He was present at the Games, and is a powerful public figure. He was also a wrestler who was unconsciously using ki to strengthen his body. He eventually became the Champion of the 24th World Martial Arts Tournament. We decided to take Earth's Special Forces public, with Hercule as our 'face-man'. He is also in charge of protecting Satan City, along with his daughter helping the police with keeping the crime rate down.
Yamcha, also known as Urotsuku (Prowl), is in charge of East City. Vegeta is in charge of West City and is Capsule Corps' security force. Tien or Toripuru Kyói (Triple Menace) protects North City. Yajirobe or Ronin guards South City. Piccolo aka Otoko Hanta (Man Hunter) protects Korin's Land, and the tower. I am the Golden Dragon. I am supposed to be in charge of the Ox lands, but mom as Mamushi (Viper) usually does that now. As she said, I am also the unofficial leader of the group.
Finally Dende, having replaced Kami, is our eyes and ears. If something is amiss, like now, he lets anyone who is awake know, and we do our Superhero thing. Now – oof."
Gohan was cut off by a ki blast to the gut. He looked at the source and saw his uncle.
"Raditz?! You're supposed to be dead! And what the hell do you think you are doing?"
The person in question looked at the two Gohans, "I am not the Saiya-jin known as Raditz. I am a Biomechanical Life Replica created in the likeness of the Saiya-jin known as Raditz. I know all of his techniques observed 15 years ago, and am 10 times stronger than the original. My designation is Romeo-Alpha-Delta, 1st model. As to what I am doing- I am destroying the threat to the Overlord's plans. Namely Earth's Special Forces."
At the Biomechanical Life Replica's announcement the two half Saiya-jins burst out laughing.
AA Gohan was the first to regain his voice, "You're (heh-heh) 10 times stronger (ha-ha) than Raditz? Seriously, I was 100 times Raditz when I was 13. I can beat you with one hand tied behind my back!"
The machine looked confused, "Anomaly detected. You only have one arm."
Golden Dragon was laughing even harder by now.
"Exactly. Here let me show you."
AA Gohan disappeared from the machine's view, reappearing behind him. Lashing out with one leg, the fake Raditz was relived of its head. "We should give this to Bulma. Maybe she can tell us where this scrap metal reject came from, and who these 'Overlords are."
They took off in the direction of the Lookout. Across town Yamcha looked out of his window, "What the hell happened?"
He looked at is bed and its sleeping occupant, "Well it's over now," he said and climbed back in and went to sleep.
At the lookout some of the group where awake and present. As the two Gohans landed, Chi-Chi ran up to them.
"So what was wrong, boys?"
Gohan took out the head and tossed it on the floor.
"This is what's left of our fake Raditz. It called itself a 'Biomechanical Life Replica' and proclaimed that it would destroy the Earth's Special Forces for a group called the Overlords. We were hoping that Bulma could shed some light on this."
Bulma came over and looked at the head. "Well it appears to be made up of a titanium alloy musculoskeletal system, with test tube grown flesh grafted over that. The hair is a mix of metal fibres and organic hair, but it isn't human or Saiya-jin. Could be hybrid. Do you two have the rest of the body?"
Gohan nodded, "Yes it's in a capsule. I already put it in the lab and Dr. Briefs is looking at it. One thing bugs me though," he looked at his counterpart, "how could you sense it to phase? We all need to feel some-one's ki to phase near them, and that thing had no ki that I could sense"
AA Gohan replied, "I learnt it while fighting the Androids in my time. All living things have both a Ki pulse and a Ki presence. Normally we sense the Ki pulse, which is how fast you can move or build your Ki presence. Androids can't channel ki, only generate and launch it. Scouters measure your Ki presence, that's how much ki is built up in your body and can be suppressed. Androids have a Ki presence, but it's static. Took me a while, but I can sense both."
Gohan nodded. It made sense. He turned to Dende, "Dende, do you know anything about these 'Overlords'? I haven't heard anything about them or seen anything in the military files from Grandpa's castle."
Dende looked troubled, "No, and that worries me. I can see and hear anything on the surface of the planet, but I'm not omnipotent. I have to focus on what I see or hear if I want details. I'll keep an eye out though. I may be able to gleam something."
Chi-Chi interrupted him, "That's all well and good, but you two have school on Monday. Especially as your body has reverted to its 18 year-old state, Gohan. And that food I made had better not go to waste..."
By the time the word 'food' was finished, both half Saiya-jins where halfway through their third bowl. Vegeta and Yajirobe soon joined them. After 10 minutes AA Gohan realised something.
"School? I have to go to school?"
Gohan looked at him apologetically, "Yep. Fortunately it's just for this year. And Krillin is teaching Martial Arts this week."
"So we'll be learning the Turtle style?"
"Yep"
"And we have to participate?"
"Well you might get off, so long as Krillin isn't in a prankster mood again. I swear he's almost as bad as the Trunks and Goten."
"Nobody can be as bad as those two. Ever."
"They haven't spray painted a national monument yet."
Half held-in laughter was heard from under the lookout. Piccolo took off and floated down to see what was the joke. Soon enough his shouting and more laughter was heard. Everybody else went to see what happened, Gohan carrying Chi-Chi. Underneath the lookout they found:
Piccolo trying to catch Trunks and Goten, who were each holding a bucket of paint and a paintbrush. They looked at the underside of the Lookout. Various slogans were scrawled across the tiles in bright colours. These slogans included:
Kami's Crib
Kami is a green teen
Prince Vegeta is 5 foot tall...
...including his foot tall hair!
Don't feed the dragon
Do feed the Saiya-jins
Warning: Weirdo Clubhouse
AA Gohan looked at his counterpart, "We can cross 'Spray-paint a monument' off the list now."
Bardock Saga
After 2 years of being in charge off the Saiya-jins in Heaven, Bardock realised something, "Hey Tora."
Tora looked over from the picnic bench that he and Fasha where having lunch at, "Yeah boss?"
"Why are there so many Saiya-jins here? I thought that the lot of us would be thrown into HFIL and they would destroy the key in front of us."
"Yeah that should have happened, but good old stick up his royal butt actually came through for us once."
"What?! King Vegeta?!"
"Yeah, His Royal Ass told the big ogre that every thing us Saiya-jins did under King Cold and Frieza was his fault. He said if he hadn't signed Cold-nose's treaty, we wouldn't have become planet purgers'. Yeah, not sure about how true that is, but the big ogre believed him. Now we are living it up here, with hot Saiya-jin girls and he's sitting in Mugen Jigoku for eternity. I hear the place is hotter than the centre of an omega class supernova and you get to deal with oni and the like constantly hitting you with salt covered cat-o-nines. Not a nice place."
Fasha came over and hit Tora over the head, "Enough gossiping you. King Vegeta offered to go there so we could live our afterlife here. Show some respect."
There was a flash of light and an ogre appeared. He said, "Hey you lot. Got you a new Saiya-jin. Says his name is Raditz. I'll leave him with you now," and promptly left in another flash of light.
Gine shot over to Raditz and engulfed him in a hug. Bardock on the other hand looked at him and said, "I hope you died honourably, Brat. Spill."
Raditz scratched the back of his head, looking a lot like his younger brother, "Actually, I was fighting Kakarot."
Gine whipped out her high-grade titanium-alloy table and hit Raditz upside the head, "You were fighting your brother and you died? How the HFIL did you get that right?"
Raditz whimpered from the hit, "I... tried to kidnap my nephew and... Kakarot and a Namekian ganged up on me. Kakarot pinned me and... let the slug shoot us both."
Gine had stars in her eyes, "A grandson? Does he look like Kakarot or his mother? Who is his mother? Is he strong?"
Before Gine could carry on, Bardock said, "If Kakarot is also dead, where is he?"
"He went to train with somebody named King Kai. Apparently his subordinates will 'wish' him back to life in one year so he can fight Napa and Prince Vegeta. And my nephew has your hair, mother. I didn't meet his mother but what I heard scares the sh- stuffing out of me. Apparently she's half demon or something. And the little tyke has a nasty head butt. Cracked my armour and almost made me lose my breakfast."
Borgos asked, "How can they wish someone back to life? Dead is dead, there's no going back."
"One of Kakarot's subordinate, a short bald human, said that they will use something called 'Dragonballs" to make a wish and bring him back to life. Vegeta heard about them via my scouter and is now headed to Earth-703 to use them to wish for immortality. I hope Kakarot kicks Vegeta's ass."
Bardock's eyes glazed over. After a few minutes they cleared up.
Gine said, "Bardock, dear, what did you see?"
Bardock smirked, "Kakarot will defeat Napa with great ease. He won't even need the Kaio-Ken. Vegeta however will be a challenge. Good news is the prince will get an Ozaru sitting on him. Bad news is he lives through it."
All Saiya-jins in the vicinity laughed at that. It was well known that while Bardock respected the King, he had no such feeling for the prince. He was a spoilt brat after all, raised to believe that being born a so-called 'elite' made him better than everyone else.
"Yeah, Vegeta can file an insurance claim 'cause he was rear-ended," Tora joked, causing more laughter, "by the way who sat on the butt-head?"
"My grandson," Bardock said, "The boy is called Gohan. From what I saw his other grandfather is indeed a demon, by the name of Ox King."
Tora slapped Bardock on the back, "Looks like you might have some competition for your throne, eh Bardock? I mean your second son is supposed to beat Frieza, and his son is set up to be even stronger than that."
Raditz looked at his father with an expression resembling a kicked puppy. Gine grabbed him by the ear.
"You are coming with me, mister. We have to discus you choices in life. Specifically: KIDDNAPPING MY GRANDSON!"
Bardock held up a hand, "Wait a moment Gine. We first have to give Raditz an official welcome to this group of Saiya-jins. Raditz, you have 5 seconds to start running."
Raditz was confused, and then he saw the 80-odd Saiya-jins in the area cracking their knuckles and stretching, as if preparing for a fight. He started running. Fast.
Bardock grinned menacingly, "5, 4, 3, 2, and 1. GET HIM!"
Far away, on the Supreme Kai's planet, Shin and Kibito were watching the carnage happing through Shin's crystal ball. Shin looked at his long time friend, "See, Kibito. I told you that Saiya-jin welcoming committees were entertaining."
"I never should have doubted you sir."
And finished, early too
I don't know if Bardock will meet Goku in Otherworld yet, but it could happen at the Otherworld Games. I haven't thought that far ahead.
Gohan Saga:
I need to find another name for AA Gohan, because this will get confusing, and I'm not calling him Goku Jr., Majunior or Bardock. Those names can get cliché or confusing.
Yes the Earth's Special Forces are a 'superhero team', and Hercule is a part of it. I've been watching too much Justice League and Avengers. Some of the members are publicly known and some are not. They are each in charge of protecting a particular region, with the exception of Golden Dragon. Any questions should be answered in the next few chapters, if not I will try to explain it in an AN.
Bardock Saga:
Mugen Jigoku is the 8th level of hell in Buddhist belief, which is based in part on Shinto Mythology. It is normally reserved for the worst of the worst and one day there is equivalent to a couple of million earth years. I could be mistaken, but that's the info that I found. As Tora said, it's not a very nice place, especially as you can't die again to escape the pain.
A 'cat-o-nine' is an old whip with 9 'tails' each having a metal blade/claw/hook on the end, depending on who you ask.
I stole/borrowed the welcoming committee idea from Hektols' story 'A New Chance'. Sorry.
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