Another Path
Two chapters people! You must really love me. Anyway, it's taking me sometime updating the other stories so you will have to wait a bit more for the new chapters.
Still, enjoy!
Chapter 10: The Easy Way Home
Two Saiyans, a Namek and a human were sparring inside Bulma's space ship, that soared through the blackness of space at great speed. It had been just three days since the Earthlings departured from the green planet of Namek and with their current speed, they would be back home in nothing but other ten days. Piccolo, Gohan and Krillin were one fighting team all together hitting Goku, who was using the Kaioken to keep himself ahead of the three fighters. Of course Gohan and Krillin had their own red-aura technique to equal the full-blooded Saiyan. They were training in thirty times gravity, as Piccolo still had to adapt a bit more to the higher gravity pressures. Though after training in ten times gravity with weights in King Kai's world and increasing his power thanks to Guru power unlocked adn fusion, adapting to higher gravity was rather easy for him.
Piccolo elongated his arm forward, with Goku ducking down the blow. Gohan and Krillin went forward, and hit the full-blooded Saiyan in the Solar Plexus, winding him. The palm tree-haired Saiyan recoiled a few feet back, and Piccolo shot forward with his white aura flaring around his green body. His shot both of his hands forward, but Goku catched them, both warriors fighting for leverage.
"Come on Goku, you weren't this weak against Frieza, were you?" Piccolo taunted the Saiyan to use more power. However, his words would have a much bigger impact than he expected.
The memory of Frieza. His son and friend having their lives slipping away. Goku clutched his teeth, his powers increasing. The rage took him over, the red ki aura replaced with bright golden colors. The hidden energy exploded around his orange-dressed body, shaking the oval-shaped ship.
On the main controls, Bulma suddenly lost control of the ship's command when a sudden tremor run through the spacecraft. A few cracks ran over the floor, as the scientist feared the spacecraft would split apart by the sudden energy source.
The full-blooded Saiyan calmed his breath, recalling his meditation. The golden-haired warrior eased his breath, slowly but continuously. In a few minutes the golden power receded and the hair went back to spiky black.
"I'm sorry guys. It's just that I still can't control so much power" Goku apologised to his friends, who stood up again after being easily swept aside to the other side of the room by the devastating shock waves "I'll go and see Bulma is okay" The Saiyan disconnected the gravity and went to the upper level. He saw his old female friend checking the main controls.
"Hey Bulma, are you okay?" Goku asked.
"Goku, what are you four doing down there? Playing dodgeball with Asteroids?!" The scientist yelled/asked the Saiyan, who rubbed his head innocently. Bulma sighed, Goku would always be Goku, no changing that "Now we must land in the nearest planet to repair the ship"
"That bad uh?" The Saiyan said with a simple smile. The Earth woman set the coördinates to the nearest planet. There was no data referring about the giant orb, as she had never found it before. The important thing was that it had a breathable atmosphere.
The ship managed to land safely on the nearest rose-colored planet after a few minutes, the four fighters flying out to look at the planet's surface. Bulma went through the many cables and wires, trying to find the malfunction now that she didn't have to pilot the spacecraft.
"Oh great" The blue-haired scientist said with a huf towards the damage.
"It can be fixed, right?" Krillin asked to Bulma. The monk was at a loose about Mechanics and those stuff so it was better to let Bulma do her magic.
"Sure it can, but patching up something so big will take me a while" Bulma replied "And taking into account if this planet has advanced technology"
Hey guys, can you feel that?" Gohan asked, looking something in the horizon. The others turned their eyes and also looked. There were many power levels fighting a few miles away.
"Maybe they are just the natives" The bald monk suggested.
"I feel something else" The Namekian said seriously.
"I agree. Someone is attacking this planet" Goku said seriously "We must help"
"I will stay here with Bulma. I don't know what kind of trouble she will get in without our supervision" The bald monk said.
As the three alien fighters flew in scene, they could see buildings crumbled with smoke and fire rising. The natives looked like short pink-skinned aliens with big heads. The attackers were planet-trade-dressed soldiers, many aliens though there were few with human-like appearance.
A pink alien was going to be blasted away by an energy beam. But with amazing reflexes, the pink alien disappeared out of sight with the air shimmering around his body and appeared behind the intruder, kicking him in the back of the head before any warning.
The Earth fighters looked in surprise. The pink alien was a bit weaker than the Planet trade soldier, but he had moved so swiftly that even Goku couldn't keep track of him. But that wasn't normal super speed. It was something more.
Another blast sent the pink alien a few feet away, his clothes burned. Before another blast could finish him off, a hand clutched the blaster, the energy sphere still firing. Yet that only caused the blaster to explode by the backlash after doing no damage to the intruder.
The planet-trade soldier was raised by a grip on his neck, looking at the orange-dressed fighter.
"What's going on here?" Goku bluntly asked, cutting the crap out.
"Lord Frieza will kill you!" the soldier yelled in anger, not going to answer the stupid intruder.
"Frieza? I don't think he will be bothering us ever again" The Earth Saiyan said and punched the alien invader away with minimal effort. The Earth fighter sped of at blurring speeds towards the other attackers. Even with his powers holding back, Goku was safely beating Frieza's soldiers without anyone capable of landing a single blow against their enemy. If one was doing just fine, three were overkill. Because Piccolo and Gohan made their own fast job with the other soldiers.
After a minute or two, the ground was covered by the Planet-Trade soldiers, some unconscious, some others dead. Not that they were very important.
A pink alien moved towards the heroes, though speaking in their native language. Goku looked confused, not knowing what to say.
"Um, sorry, I don't understand" the Saiyan savior said downhearted. The pink alien moved towards Goku, placing a hand on his chest. The Earth Saiyan felt a warm on his heart and a second later the alien backed off. The short alien looked at all the gathered also-pink aliens, as their heads all shone blue. The Earthlings didn't know what to say or do.
A minute later, the light deemed and who looked like the leader moved towards the Saiyan Goku.
"We want to thank all of you for saving us" The alien said, making a body bow.
"Um, thank you. It was nothing" Goku replied, astonished that now he could understand the little men.
"What happened here?" Gohan asked to the leader.
"It was Frieza's doing. He targeted our planet as his next sale and sent his minions to terminate us" The leader said.
"Don't worry, that lizard won't be making any more troubles in any other planet" The Namekian said now.
"How can you be sure of what Frieza does and doesn't do?" Another pink warrior asked Piccolo.
"Because he died. Goku killed him" The green Namek replied, pointing with his head towards Goku.
"You did that?" The pink alien asked surprised and Goku nodded. The aliens inclined their heads in respect "Let us help you anyway you need. Not only did you save our home but also the entire universe of such a powerful evil"
"Can I ask you something?" The half Saiyan asked now "How did you learn our language so fast?"
"It's one of our techniques. We are not a powerful race because of our strength but because of our intellect. Our kind has developed many techniques that aren't found in any other place of the universe" The pink leader explained.
"Like the super speed thing?" The Earth Saiyan chimed in.
"What you saw it's what we call Instant Transmission" The leader kept explaining "It allows to teleport anywhere you want, as long as you can home into an energy signal"
"You think you can teach us that technique?" Goku asked the leader. He then turned his head around and looked at his friends "If we learn it, we won't need to travel through days in space"
"But dad, how are you going to feel any energy on Earth if we are this far away?" The half Saiyan asked.
"I will teleport us to King Kai and then we go from there to our home" Goku explained smiling.
"Makes sense" Piccolo simply said stoic, though he was indeed surprised. Goku had never been this bright or cunning before.
"It would be a great honor to do so" The leader said, everyone dispersing.
A few days later, the group from Earth was ready to leave. Their ship was ready to take off but because they were now teleporting, there was no point in flying it. Bulma was inside, protected from the outside. After all, they were going to teleport directly into ten times gravity, something that could be too much for her.
"Thank you for helping us" The Saiyan thanked the short pink aliens with a head bow. The other Earthlings also said their respects.
"It was our honor" The leader replied honored "If you ever need anything then don't hesitate in coming back"
"Ready guys?" The full-blooded Saiyan asked to the others. They all grabbed hands, and Goku placed his index and middle finger on his forehead, concentrating into a distant energy. The air shimmered around them and the fighters suddenly disappeared in an instant.
A split of second later, the fighters and the ship were on the small green planet's surface at the end of the Snake Way. The full-blooded Saiyan fell to his knees, panting and sweating.
"Goku you okay?" Piccolo asked.
"Yeah, but teleporting four people and two tons of ship into another dimension is not easy for a first-time attempt" Goku said with a small joking smile, hard breathing "Don't worry, I just need to catch my breath"
"Hey guys" Tien greeted them, walking on scene with Chaotzu flying next to him. Yamcha also arrived with his trademark scar face. They would normally be surprised by the sudden appearance but King Kai told them what the others were up to so they weren't taken aback by a teleporting technique.
"Wow guys, you are much stronger than I remember" Krillin complimented his humans friends, feeling their powers amazingly augmented since the last time in the fight against Nappa.
"So are you. Man, looks like our training isn't enough" the desert bandit smiled, feeling he might need to step up his training with the Kaioken.
"Wow, Gohan is it you?" Tien asked in surprise to the long-haired human-alien "Wow, I almost didn't recognise you. You suddenly skyrocketed"
"Thanks" Gohan said, rubbing his head in innocent Goku fashion "You guys are also stronger"
"Never thought I would say this, but it's thanks to Piccolo" Yamcha replied to the kid, causing the Namek to rise his eyebrow "Thanks to the extra weight clothes he gave us we are getting really stronger"
A cough behind them caused them to see the chubby King Kai walking in scene, followed by monkey Bubbles and cricket Gregory.
"Yes King Kai, you helped us too" The bandit said towards their trainer.
"And never forget it" The galaxy overlooker said with a proud smile. He then looked towards his first student from Earth "So Goku, you met the Yadrats?"
"Yeah, quite interesting people" The Saiyan replied smiling "That Instant Transmission surely will help a lot" The Earth Saiyan then looked to his dead friends "You guys ready to be back?" Goku asked his friends.
"Not yet. We want to stay here for a while. We have to learn as much as we can" Tien said smiling. He was not going to be easily defeated again like with the Saiyans.
"Okay, we'll have the Dragon Balls ready for when you are ready" Krillin said with a thumbs-up. The group of living people clutched hands again, now Gohan trying the instant-moving technique. With more concentration, the half Saiyan took everyone out of King Kai's planet and back to Earth.
The group arrived outside Bulma's house in less than a second. Gohan dropped to the floor, tired and panting. But for his first try, he had also been succesful.
"Good job son" Goku rubbed his child's head.
"It's so nice to be home" Krillin said opening his arms, basking in the sunlight. Piccolo looked around, his inner Guru marveled by the blue and green planet's places. Just as Namek, this world was unique in the cosmos.
"Bulma, do you mind if we take the ship with us to train with it?" Goku asked Bulma, who had walked outside the oval spacecraft, surprised that they were already back on Earth in seconds.
"Sure. I'm already thinking in making one with even more gravity" The scientist replied, walking back into her house, ready to work. She had missed her lab gadgets.
"Well, see you later guys" Krillin fare-welled, flying into the distance. The others waved their hands towards their monk friend, who floated away.
"Piccolo. Why don't you come with us and train?" Gohan suggested the green alien.
"Sure. It's better to always be ready" The Namekian replied. As much power as he had, he knew he couldn't just slack while the others grew in power. The three aliens raised on Earth flew into the distance.
Far away from the Solar System, the Saiyan Prince was doing push-ups on a planet with fifty times Earth's gravity. But as much as he tried, his power wasn't increasing as much as he first wanted. Kakarot was obviously training even when he was now a Super Saiyan. Any decent warrior would always train despite their strength.
Vegeta was fuming. How could the low-class fighter be stronger than the prince himself?
He shook his head, attacking the air in front of him. He had to do it too. He had to be a Super Saiyan of his own!
Notes from Chapter 10:
Let's say that Goku's transformation to Super Saiyan, or better, his 'motives' to transform will always be vivid in his mind (I mean, his son and best friend were neck-broken right in front of him, that isn't easy to forget).
Krillin did learn the Instant Transmission technique, just if that wasn't clear on the chapter.
The Yadrats translating technique was something I invented (It's just weird that all the aliens suddenly speak English like if it was something normal)
Power Levels:
Goku:
Base form after training: 4.5 millions
Training with Kaioken x10: 45 millions
Tired after teleporting: 2 millions
Gohan:
After some training: 3.5 millions
Sparring with Kaioken x10: 35 millions
Tired after teleporting: 1 million
Krillin:
After some training: 500,000
Sparring with Kaioken x25: 12.5 millions
Piccolo:
After training (Weighted clothes on): 30 millions
Vegeta:
Training on another planet: 3 millions
Yadrats: 900 each
PTO soldiers: 1,000 each
Yamcha:
After training (Weighted clothes on): 150,000
Tien:
After training (Weighted clothes on): 150,000
Chaotzu:
After training (Weighted clothes on): 100,000
The Earth is back into a period of peace. But for how long can it last?