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"Speech"

Thoughts

'Telepathic'

Summary: What if Goku had been more involved in training Gohan at an early age? This story starts at the beginning of dbz.

Chapter 28

Frieza laughed, "So this monkey can turn his hair a different color too. I'm not scared." The tyrant shot a powerful blast at the stranger but it was deflected as if it were nothing.

"You really need to learn how to read power levels," the stranger said with almost no emotion. "Then you'd see how hopeless fighting me would be."

"I'll destroy you for that," Frieza yelled in rage throwing an even bigger blast at the boy.

Just like the last one he deflected it with ease. "Okay I've given you two free shots. I'll give you one more and then it's my turn."

"Just finish him already," King Cold told his son.

"I will father," Frieza said embarrassed now. He rose up into the air high above the youth and gathered energy into his finger. Soon a little red ball of ki appeared above his finger. In no time at all it grew to an enormous size. "Now you'll die you fool. If you try to dodge this pitiful planet will die leaving you no air to breath so I win either way."

-Dbz-

"Oh no," Yamcha said. "He's done it now. We're all finished because of this."

"Quiet," Vegeta barked.

"Yeah," Gohan seconded. "He doesn't seem too concerned. "He's confident he can block the blast."

"But did you see the size of it?"

-Dbz-

Frieza let the blast go at the young stranger a few seconds later. The young man simply raised his hands up and caught the blast with little trouble. The blast pushed him back to the ground and his feet dug in making imprints in the desert floor. The blast continued to push the boy down until he was completely out of sight. Then suddenly it stopped. The giant red ball of ki began to slowly rise back up out of the ground as the boy appeared under it once again. With a grin he brought his knee up sending the ball back at Frieza with blinding speed.

The evil tyrant jumped out of the way at the last second and the ball flew by him to explode harmlessly in space.

"That's strike three the mysterious youth said in a low voice."

-Dbz-

"Amazing," Yamcha stammered.

"Told you so," Gohan said with a grin.

-Dbz-

The youth rose to the air slightly above Frieza. Moving his hands at an amazing speed he finally brought them in front of him and formed an energy attack. "Burning Attack," he shouted as he launched it at the now grounded Frieza.

The changeling jumped out of the way of the blast high into the air. Only to see the stranger above him with his sword held high.

The boy came down with the sword slashing through the evil tyrant in one easy stroke. Bringing the sword back up, he quickly sliced and diced the tyrant. Finally he brought his open palm up and disintegrated the pieces of the tyrant leaving no chance of the tyrant surviving.

A second later he dropped to the ground in front of King Cold. Before the other evil one could even raise a hand he blasted him to nothing with ease. With the work done now he turned and looked right at the Z-warriors hiding in the surrounding hills. "You can come out now."

Gohan leapt from his spot landing next to the stranger in an instant followed quickly by Vegeta, Piccolo, and Krillin. Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu came a second later with Bulma in tow.

"Goku should be here any minute now," the stranger said. "You're welcome to wait for him with me."

Almost on cue, another pod came shooting from the sky and landed nearby. The door to the pod opened and Goku stepped out dressed in some weird alien clothes. "Hey guys," he said with a grin. "How'd you know when I'd be back?"

"He told us," Krillin said pointing to the stranger.

Goku looked at him and didn't recognize him at all.

"He seems to know you," Gohan added.

"By reputation only," the stranger said. "Mind if I have a word with you Goku?"

"Sure," the Saiyan replied.

"Alone."

"Okay," Goku said as he floated to a place in the distance. Once they were out of hearing range of the others Goku spoke up first. "Okay what did you want to say?"

"First," the boy said. "My name is Trunks just to let you know."

"Nice to meet you Trunks," Goku replied. "You already seem to know who I am."

"Yes, but I need to know. Can you go Super Saiyan when ever you want?"

"At first it was off and on and out of control, but now I can control it."

"Go Super Saiyan now then."

Goku clenched his fists by his side and with a slight golden aura his hair stood up and was golden and his eyes were turquoise. "Okay now what."

Trunks grunted a little and then flashed into Super Saiyan himself. He reached back and brought his sword out of its sheath swinging at Goku.

The full-blooded Saiyan never moved an inch.

Trunks stopped the blade bare millimeters from Goku's head. "You didn't even try to dodge."

"I knew you'd stop."

"Okay this time I won't stop." Trunks once again swung his sword at Goku.

The Saiyan warrior reached up and using only his index finger pushed the blade to the side again and again. "You're still holding back he said."

"Well," Trunks replied. "I don't actually want to hurt you."

Goku lowered his power dropping out of Super Saiyan as Trunks did the same. "I do have a question for you. How'd you get so strong at such a young age?"

"I had a good teacher," Trunks replied.

"Who's that?"

"Gohan"

"Huh?"

"Let me explain," Trunks said. "I'm from the future. In three years two powerful androids will attack and destroy all of you and make life on earth a living hell."

"Whoa," Goku said. "That sounds bad."

"You don't even know the half of it. These androids are a lot stronger than Frieza and stronger than even me. When they attacked they destroyed the Z-warriors one by one. Vegeta was a Super Saiyan when they attacked and it did him no good. He fell to them just like everyone else. The only survivor was Gohan. To my knowledge he was the only one who ever matched their power, but it was still two on one and he lost one arm early on. He never stood a chance. I transformed to a Super Saiyan upon seeing him die by their hands. That was years ago and I've been training ever since but I'm still not strong enough."

"Do I die in the battle too?" Goku asked.

"No, you die before it. You catch a deadly heart virus to which there is no cure. You die a year before the androids even appear."

Goku clenched his fists at his side. "You mean I never even have a chance against them."

"Calm down," Trunks said reaching a capsule from his Capsule Corp jacket. "There's no cure now but there is in my time. Just take this when you start to get sick and you'll be fine. Hopefully one more Super Saiyan in the battle will make things better."

"Just one more question," Goku said. "If me and Vegeta are the only Saiyans left how does that explain you?"

"Vegeta is my father."

"Who's your mother then? Is it someone I know?"

"She's standing right over there."

"Bulma," Goku said in shock. "But how?"

"They will find each other trust me but if you say something it may not happen so please don't tell them."

"Your secret's safe with me," Goku said.

"I'm just glad I came in time to stop any early casualties from Frieza. Everyone's help may be needed."

"Oh that," Goku said. "I had that under control. He got about an hour lead on me but if things got bad I could have been here in seconds."

"How's that?"

"A technique I picked up on Yaardat. It's called Instant Transmission."

"Oh I see. I should have waited until you were alone and not risked the timeline as much then."

"Don't' worry it'll be alright."

A few minutes later Trunks returned to his time machine and disappeared in a flash of light. Goku floated over to the others. "What was that about?" Vegeta said impatient.

"Nothing," Goku said.

"I wouldn't call it nothing," Piccolo said. "It sounded pretty interesting to me."

"Piccolo," Goku pleaded.

"Don't worry," Piccolo replied. "I won't say anything to endanger your friend. But I think the rest of us deserve a chance to change our fate."

"You're right," Goku said. With that he began to recount what he'd been told.

-A few minutes later-

"So let me get this strait," Yamcha said. "In three years were going to be attacked by androids?"

"Yeah," Goku said.

"And you thought that wasn't important information?" Vegeta said angrily as he stalked off.

"Where are you going?" Bulma asked.

"To train," the Prince of the Saiyans replied. Within minutes he was out of sight.

"I'm going to train too," Tien said.

"Me too," Yamcha added. "We'll show those androids."

"I'm in too," Chiaotzu chimed in.

Krillin turned to Gohan. "What do you say kid. Just like on Namek?"

"I hope not," Gohan replied. "That beating from Frieza really hurt."

"I meant that we'd be in it together."

"Oh yeah sure," Gohan replied not really paying full attention.

"What's wrong," Krillin said.

"I just don't know if I'll be strong enough to be much help."

"What do you mean," Krillin said. "You're as strong as any of us."

"Yeah but that boy from the future was stronger than all of us and wasn't strong enough," Piccolo answered for Gohan.

"Yeah but we have three years to prepare," Goku said.

"Yeah," Gohan said getting in a slightly better mood. "I'll train twice as hard as normal every day and I will be strong enough."

"We all will," Goku replied serious for once. In an instant the serious look disappeared as the Saiyan relaxed. "Here's a technique I learned in space." He focused on Master Roshi's energy half a world away and raised two fingers to his forehead. In and instant he disappeared and reappeared a split second later with Master Roshi's sunglasses.

"Man that was fast," Yamcha said amazed.

"That wasn't speed," Gohan said. "It's like he disappeared."

"It's called Instant Transmission," Goku explained. "I learned it from the people on Yaardat."

"Will you teach me how to do that?" Gohan asked.

"Yeah sure son," Goku replied but right now we'd better get home to you're mother. She's probably mad enough as it is."

Power levels

Gohan
3.5 million (with weights)
4.5 million (w/o weights)

Piccolo
2.75 million (with weights)

3.5 million (w/o weights)

Krillin
1 million

Vegeta
4 million

Tien
1 million

Yamcha
875 thousand

Chiaotzu
625 thousand

Frieza bot
125 million

King Cold
5 million (second form)

Future Trunks
5 million
250 million (Super Saiyan)

Goku
4.5 million
225 million (Super Saiyan)

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