A lot has happened after the defeat of Buu. The birth and life of Pan, the finding and training of Uub, the battles, the adventure. The politics.

We take a break from our story to go back in time a bit. In this scene, the world knows about Ki through a simple book that Gohan published years ago, explaining only how to simply use Ki. Most people ignored it, with critics called it "A children's fiction book" and saying whatever sales it had were caused by "kids who want to be super heroes."

This didn't really bother Gohan. He was more concerned with getting the knowledge out their.

However, once power like an atomic bomb is known to exist, even if it's just a rumor, governments will go out to get it, especially if they have reports from the Tenkaichi tournaments, or any records from the Cell games.

Gohan had to talk his way out of a bunch of political situations, sometimes having to rely on the fame of his wife's father, and sometimes having to resort to the fact that everyone he cared and loved about was either insanely rich, or strong enough so that virtually nothing could cause harm to them.

The DNA tests he, and most of the people who fit the above description, were classified confidential and off limits to anyone. That doesn't mean they were, as time would tell, but it was a nice thought.

Gohan then made a new book, with more in depth examples of how to effectively increase one's power level.

The new book caused the average power levels of humans to shoot through the roof. What used to be the average at 5 was suddenly 15 within two years of this book being out. It was getting normal for people to lift cars, accidentally break things, and accidentally break other people. Sure, they were breaking every Olympic record ever held, but crime rate has sprung up from too many people getting cocky about their powers. Police were scared to go out and patrol, especially at night. Gohan needed to do something, people were starting to blame him again. He couldn't work on his scientific studies when everyone was depending on him. So he, with some friends, lawyers and government officials, wrote the "Peace through Martial-Arts Mandate", aka the PM-AM.

The PM-AM was a training schedule for the army/police force. It was very simple, taking aspects from Turtle, demon, Crane, and Saiyan styles of training. It was later adjusted to fit several other styles in, like Yamcha's bandit techniques and styles much more militaristic, but already the effects were devastating. The army and police forces became a force to be reckoned with.

But it was nothing compared to how strong they would become after they received the training properly though the Z fighters. They spread around the world to teach places that needed to be taught, but would always come back once a week at Bulma's place for a nice hot Wednesday dinner. It wasn't that hard for them, since they could fly around the world in seconds.

Not all the Z fighters got regular troops to train. Vegeta's frustration didn't allow him to work with most of them. He was removed from the training program, but was apparently placed to lead the "Special forces team." Master Roshi got along too well with his tropes, and they weren't as trained as the others. The only advantage they ever had was that they could carry a lot, and they could grope a girls butt without anyone else noticing. He got a lecture by the head of the department and his tropes improved, but they were still behind everyone else.

But the head of PM-AM department? That job was for the one who was able to get the most out of there soldiers, not some government official, but one of the Z-fighters. The common man, the one who lived among them once. Also, the one who knows how to best control and sense Ki. One who has a lot of free time, without a family to take care of.

Yamcha.

Sure, he wasn't the strongest, but he knows what to do to improve one's self. So he did. The initial stages of training 'trainers' didn't last that long, for the Z fighters were needed somewhere else, but while it did last there were many radio show talks between Gohan, the head of Ki Research (because he was the only one with knowledge about it, and the only one with any technology that deals with it, like the scouter) and Yamcha. A couple times there were also formal interviews. Even the second book didn't explain everything, and the public's hunger for knowledge was always there. Yamcha also became a favorite world figure, still not as much as though. The people trusted him, and he tried to keep that trust.

This is one of the first Radio show interviews:

Yamcha – Hey everyone! I'm here today with my good friend to talk more about the new fad that everyone is starting to get into. So Gohan, how are you today?

Gohan – I'm good, how about yourself?

Yamcha - I'm feeling pretty good, like always. So Gohan, the question asked most form you today is: What exactly is Ki?

Gohan – Well, you see, Ki is a "good" energy. It's one that life forms can use and abuse into any which way they want. We can make it a beam to cut through things, a blast to blow things up, or a defensive shield like structure. These are the 3 basic forms of Ki using.

Y - Ok, so now we know what it is. How is it made?

G – Well, there is a theory that for every positive force in the universe, there is a negative force. I believe that the end total result of the universe is a force of 0. This theory beleives that at one time, everything here was part of nothing, which somehow got unstable and split up into everything we know. To make Ki, we take the nothing from inside of and around us and split it into Ki and Anti-Ki. The Ki is immediately available, and we can do whatever we want with it. The Anti-Ki made in the cells is stored within them until it can be processed and broken down into a harmless substance.

Y – What is it broken down into?

G – It is difficult to find that out. I don't spend all my time researching Ki you know, I actually have a job. The partials are too small to define, but in large amounts, they are traceable. This is how Scanners work. They pick up the average Anti-Ki that hits the front of the Scouter. Then they use numbers, formulas of the area of a circle, and distance to find out how much power someone is actually using.

Y – But when someone charges up an attack, there is a high power level reading coming off the attack. Why is that?

G – Well, if it can read Anti-Ki, it can also read Ki. If you can control Ki enough, there are no radiating particles. This makes it much harder to read. But as Einstein said, E=MC^2. The energy density makes it somewhat easy to detect small changes in gravity. This is especially easy for the machine to do when the person isn't moving, like when piccolo charged power into his fingers to shoot the special beam cannon at.

Y – Is such a small change of gravity even possible to detect?

G – We are talking about technology that people who can also make faster than light space ships and regenerative pods. We can only reproduce the space ships to an extent; the pods are still completely beyond us. The Scouter also double checks itself by calculating the amount of Anti-Ki given off and the amount of Ki used. If the 2 numbers are close enough, then the programming will take the average of the 2 and display that.

Y – So you are saying that the scouter's readings aren't always correct?

G – Actually, yes. It is very hard to get the correct number on a power due to the very Nature of Ki. Not only that, but the scouter used to be programmed to scale up any power. For instance, the power level rise from 1 to 10, for a difference of 9, could very well be the same jump in actual power level as 10 to 100, which is a jump of 90. This was to make them believe that they were stronger then they appeared to be, and that any gains was more than it was. This boasted moral in the upper sections of the army. Also, if you had a strong captain, you knew that you would do well, so it boosted the soldier's morals at the same time. Also, to the ruling race of frost demons, a higher power level was better. So the scientist who created the scouter wanted to make sure Frieza was satisfied, and 'boosted' his power output.

Yamcha looked at Gohan, who looked a little frustrated at what he just said.

Y – Hey, you ok?

Gohan noticed the face he was making, and then relaxed. – Ya, sorry. It just annoyed me that the code stayed in there for a good while. Doing research on energy is a hobby of mine, and to find out that some of the numbers where wrong, thus causing all the errors I was running into, was annoying. I had to run most those tests again, with the right numbers, and redo most of my calculations. It was very time consuming. The only shining fact about all this was that I found it out when I did. I could only imagine finding this fact out in a year or 2, and completely give up trying to change everything because it would take literal years of my life to go back and fix everything. It would have taken way to long, I would have gave up.

Y – Oh, I see. I think I remember around the time you figured that out, you were getting frustrated at a lot of things. Anyways, next question is this. Now we know what energy is, how it is made, and what the 3 basic forms of use are. We have seen many more types, like solar flare and Salza's hand sword. How would the basic techniques be made into these 2?

G – Solar flare is easy to explain. This is a high intensity beam attack that is spread out over a large area, making it very bright. The technique is made so that its works best if you do it for less than a second, so the length of the beam is very short. This gives it the allusion that it is not a beam-styled attack, which it actually is. Salza's Hand sword is also easy to explain, if not easier. It's the shield type technique, but used for attack. He concentrates a large amount of Ki into his hand, and then compacts it to a small area. He then flattens the area, making it have edges that he uses to displace surrounding particles in the same way a sword would displace particles.

Y – So what about Killen's Kienzan (Destructo disk)?

G – Blast attack, highly concentrated like Salza's attack. The compression of it keeps it together and allows it to cut through things. We have seen it explode before, this is a blast attack trait.

Y – So now we have variations of all 3 types. Are there combinations of different types of attack? For instance, beam-blast, or beam-shield?

G – These types of moves are much rarer, but usually stronger as well. First I will talk about a beam-shield combination that has been used on my father. The person who used it was Pikkon, the other finalist in the Otherworld competition. His attack is called the Hyper Tornado. How Pikkon uses this is simple, he takes Ki and swirls it around him, while he himself spins. This eventually forms a very powerful Tornado laced with Ki. It's almost impossible to block due to the nature of the attack, and does physical as well as energy damage. The attack traps the opponent within, and as long as Pikkon keeps spinning, the attack will continue. He can also use this attack to trap several people at once.

Director – Cut! Gohan, you can not mention the other world. The afterlife is still a very touchy subject for most people. Can we have you say that he met your father somewhere else? We need it recorded.

G – Ah, sure. 'The person who knows this technique is named Pikkon, who wished to spar with my father one day.' Their. Also, can you not interrupt us for something like this until after the show?

The Director gave a thumbs up, and sat back in his chair.

Y – Now I hate to butt in, but I would like to talk about 2 more techniques in particular. Number one is a standard "Kiai". The second is the "Kaioken".

G – "Kiai" is a simple move, it uses the shield-like energy to push objects. This type of energy also allows us to fly, by constantly pushing off itself at low levels, and flying out of us at higher levels. This energy has many other interesting uses, like restraining weaker enemies without hurting them, or lifting objects, although control while doing this is tricky. Too much power trying to move something from a distance, and it will shoot off like a literal rocket. Not enough, and it won't move. You can also accidentally crush things by trying to manipulate an object in 2 different directions, against each other. In simple terms, if you push up and down on an object, it can flatten out.

Kaioken is interesting though. To explain that I will have to first explain more in depth how Ki is stored and how it is processed.

When you take nothing and split it into Ki and Anti-Ki, the Ki part of it immediately becomes usable. The Anti-Ki has to be broken down and safely released into the surrounding area. While it is breaking down, or waiting on line to be broken down, it is stored inside the cell. The cell's storage space and the amount it compacts this negative Ki energy is the amount one can "Binge Use", aka using an attack stronger than one is capable of instantly producing. Doing this is a risky maneuver, as you know, because it makes your body tired, and backs up the production line.

Kaioken is a technique that only someone with a greater understanding of Ki could make, and you would have to understand how it is used to use it. To gain power, you would either need to improve your processing speed, increase amount of cells used to storage, increase storage space, or increase compaction of storage. Improving process speed and amount of cells increases overall power. Increasing storage space and compaction of storage is temporary power increase, aka "Binge Use" power. This is what Kaioken does.

Kaioken is one of the few techniques that uses Anti-Ki. What it does is incorporates Anti-Ki particles into the actual storage sac and into the cell walls, physically increasing the size of the cells and storage size. This is why users actually increase in mass, most noticeably muscle mass. The reason for that is because a favorable place to place and use energy is in muscles, but I digress.

The compression is the next part. You can somehow, though a method I have not discovered, use this technique to compress your storage even further, shrinking the amount of room the Anti-Ki takes up. This can be very dangerous however, as if you lose concentration, these storages within the cell can combust. But even without this combustion that flies into their air, there is still some 'leakage', where some of the opened holes in the Cell allow Anti-Ki to fly out, where it becomes uncontrollable and rips through your body. This will eventually meet up with Ki outside your body and combust back into nothing, but while doing so it will 'flame up' and it will turn your aura red. The color of fire and combustion.

The only reason that even remotely helps is because some Anti-Ki does break free from you and doesn't hit any of your Ki, which means you basically got one free Ki particle for every Anti-Ki particle that left you. This is good for you, but bad for the environment around you, as Anti-Ki tends to destroy organic substances. But considering you have 37 trillion cells, all producing energy, this happening an unlikely 1000 times a minute will literally do nothing for you.

Y – Wow, you sure know a lot about specific techniques. How do you know so much? I thought this was a "hobby"? (Yamcha said this last sentence sarcasticly.)

G – Well, maybe now it is more than a hobby. I saw the endless potential that you can use with Ki, to create and destroy. If I was able to make a completely efficient way to transfer my Ki into electricity and store it, I would charge it every weekend for the rest of my life and the world would have so much energy that they wouldn't need to make any more for at least 250 years after I die. And that is after calculating the vast increase of usage that would happen because of all the free electricity. We could build civilizations and power portals to the end of the universe. But we could also destroy everything that has ever existed. The power we wield has come from not only training, but as gifts. I don't think we put the power to shame, but there is still so much good we can do. I want to make a better place for my daughter, my family, and everyone that ever existed. I guess that has always been my goal, and before I thought science was the best way to do it. But the question has been crossing my mind so often as of late, why should I only use science? There are other sources, like energy, that combined with science could do so much more. For a while now, I wanted to go to Frieza's old territory and study the technology there, with Bulma's help of course. Oh, I forgot, you were still questioning me about Ki for our listeners. If they want any information I didn't cover, just tell them to message me or leave a review. The answer should be somewhere in my notes, and I will give them an answer as soon as possible.

Y – Ok, so back to the interview. How was Ki developed by life-forms? Like, evolution wise.

G – Well, as we can see from Tien's Tri-Beam that Ki and Life energy are different forms of the same thing. This would mean every living thing has Ki, which for all I know is correct.
You know as well as I do that if 2 beings know how to fight equally as well, and the only difference is that one of them has a higher power level, then that one is going to win. The increase of power level not only naturally augments strength, but also defensive powers. The reason for this is back in the days before technology was invented, everyone fought to survive with whatever they had. This lead to 3 different ways creatures have had high power levels. 1: Some beings survived better because they were randomly given higher power levels due to randomness of genes. They survived and passed the trait on.
2: Other beings had a high rate of Power Level increase. These beings had this trait also randomly though genetics, and would rise within their own race to the top. And last but not least,
3: Species that are knowledgeable enough or just happened to learn about Ki and how to use it. Once Ki was introduced as a concept, the average power a world could double over the span of a year. And that is before training and more in depth knowledge was applied. If you have a combination of all 3, the average power is enormous. A species that has all 3 characteristics are the Namekians. The non warriors have a power of around 300, where a warrior has an average or 10 times that amount. There are exceptions though. A warrior Namekian named Nail had a power level of around 40,000. But these exceptions are in every race. Even though the average human was 5, and elites are about 30, Master Roshi was well over 300 at his prime.

Y – Well, thank you for the information! I do regrettably have to leave; I need to consult what happens next with the training schedule. I look forward to seeing you again soon.

G – I look forward to seeing you again as well.

Director – CUT! That's a wrap people. Gohan, we need you over by the computers, we need to edit some stuff out, and re-record some segments. The world isn't ready to know that some aliens have stronger commoners then our elites.

G – Its ok, I understand. (Looks back at Yamcha.) So I'll see you this Wednesday?

Y – You know it pal. I wouldn't miss it for the world!

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Finally got back to re-writing this chapter… I feel SO much better about it now.
Update-2-25-15