Author's Note: Aw...it seems that we're coming to the end of the story!


The World Martial Arts Tournament paused for a twenty-minute intermission before the final fight between Goku and Hercule. This was so the TV networks could take a commercial break, the fighters could get some rest, and everyone in the stands could get some food and/or take a bathroom break.

Chi-Chi yelled at Hercule all the way to the fighters' room, which was empty because there weren't any other fighters left in the tournament (except Goku).

"That was total nonsense!" Chi-Chi hollered. "I demand a rematch! I need a lawyer here!"

"Okay, I get it!" Hercule said. "You're mad that you lost the fight! Shut up already!"

"How dare you tell me what to do? If you don't watch out, I'm going to beat you for good! Then everyone will see that I'm stronger than you!"

Hercule put his hands over his ears. "I'm two feet away from you! Stop yelling! Besides, what difference does it make who won the fight? Like I always tell the kids, it doesn't matter if you win or lose a fight; what matters is that you try your hardest!"

Chi-Chi put her hands on her hips and (thankfully) lowered her voice. "Please tell me you are not trying to calm me down by quoting one of your dumb publicity speeches!"

"Look, I admit it, you're a better fighter than me," Hercule said, biting the bullet. "I know it's true, and you know it's true. Shouldn't that be enough?"

"No," Chi-Chi said. "Because, thanks to you, everyone in the world thinks the exact opposite is true!"

"But Chi-Chi, it doesn't matter what everyone else thinks!" Hercule said. "What matters is what you think!"

"Stop quoting your inspirational speeches at me!"

"Dang," Hercule said. He was hoping she wouldn't catch that last one. "Okay, whatever. You're mad at me now. I get that. What I'm trying to say is that doesn't matter now, because we have more important things to worry about."

"Like what?" Chi-Chi asked suspiciously.

"Like our children!" Hercule said. "You don't honestly expect me to sit back and do nothing while my precious Videl goes through her first relationship, do you? No! We have to take an active role in this relationship, or else it'll go straight down the tubes!"

"Agreed," Chi-Chi said. "First of all, Videl needs to get a new wardrobe. Second, she needs to—"

"Huh?" Hercule asked. "What's wrong with the way she dresses?"

"What isn't wrong with it?" Chi-Chi said, offhandedly. "The girl dresses like a middle-aged plumber. Plus, she's way too mouthy for—"

"Too mouthy?" Hercule asked. "She's not too mouthy! Gohan is too quiet!"

"You're crazy!" Chi-Chi said, slamming her fist into her other hand. "Videl is always shooting off her mouth without thinking, just like her stupid father! She's not good enough for my Gohan!"

"What? Rah! Urrrgh!" Hercule said, making a series of strange faces. "Well, fine! I was just thinking that Gohan isn't good enough for my Videl!"

"Fine!" Chi-Chi said. "Then maybe we should break them up!"

"Fine!" Hercule said. "Maybe we should!"

"Fine!" Chi-Chi said. "How do we do that?"

"Fine!" Hercule said. "I don't know!"

"Fine!" Chi-Chi said. "That's because you're a stupid idiot!"

"Fine!" Hercule said. "No, I'm not! I'm—wait, why do we keep saying, 'Fine!'?"

"I have no idea," Chi-Chi said.

There was a pause.

"So...uh, what now?" Hercule asked.

"We destroy our children's relationship!" Chi-Chi said. "I can't let Gohan be contaminated by your evil family!"

"Ah, gee, on second thought, maybe this isn't a good idea," Hercule said. "Gohan isn't the ideal boyfriend for Videl, but I don't hate him, and if Videl ever found out, she'd—"

"Stop getting cold feet, you big chicken," Chi-Chi said. "Now let me think...what's the best way to destroy a relationship?"

"Seriously, this is sounding like a really bad idea," Hercule said. "I love my daughter, and I'm not going to deliberately break her heart just because—"

"I've got it!" Chi-Chi said. "We can break up their relationship by getting married!"

Hercule's jaw almost dropped to the ground, did a sprint around the room, and jumped back up to his mouth. "WHA AHOHWOIH WHA WHAAAAT? NO! No WAY am I marrying a nutjob like you! You'd just yell at me every day for the rest of my life! You'd make fun of my hair! I don't care if you're kind of pretty! It's what's on the inside that counts, and on the inside, you're scarier than Halloween!"

"LOOK WHO'S TALKING!" Chi-Chi said. "And I didn't mean real marriage! I meant fake marriage!"

Chi-Chi had done something tricky like this when she was a young girl, when she thought both Goku and Yamcha were madly in love with her. Or something like that. The entire Dragonball series was kind of blur to her, to be honest. Something about a fan that puts out fire? And a really strange outfit...

"I'm not even going to fake marry you!" Hercule said. "I'm not a genius by a long shot, but even I can tell there's no way that plan would end well!"

"FINE!" Chi-Chi said. "I'll do it myself, you big jerk!"

She gave Hercule a good, hard smack, and he crashed into the wall.


Videl and Gohan were completely unaware that their parents were plotting the demise of their relationship, the poor fools. They were more focused on the fact that Videl had won their bet on who would win the fight between Chi-Chi and Hercule.

"We're a family of champions," Videl said, pocketing the twenty dollar bill Gohan gave her. "Never count us out."

"Is that why you lost the first round?" Gohan asked.

"That was just a fluke," Videl said. "Next tournament, that short guy'd better watch out!"

"Hmmmph," Gohan said.

"Goooooooohan!" a voice called.

Gohan flinched and ducked down. "It's my mom! Look out!"

Videl rolled her eyes. "Gohan, you seriously need to grow up. Only little kids are afraid of their moms."

"She's scary when she's mad!" Gohan said, trying to hide behind Videl.

But amazingly enough, Chi-Chi wasn't mad at all. In fact, she looked...happy?

"Oh, Gohan! Isn't today absolutely wonderful?" Chi-Chi gushed. "It's the greatest day of my life!"

"It is?" Videl asked.

"It is?" Gohan asked at the same time. "But...you lost the semifinals!"

"I lost on purpose, silly-billy-bunny," Chi-Chi said, using a rather old nickname she made up when Gohan was little. "I wanted to help Hercule!"

"Huh?" Videl asked. "Why would you do that?"

"Because we're getting married!" Chi-Chi said.

Gohan fell over.

"WHAT?" Videl asked. "But you and my dad hate each other!"

"No, we love each other," Chi-Chi said, hearts appearing in her eyes. "He's so rugged and handsome!"

"B-b-b-b-but what about Dad?" Gohan stammered.

"What about Goku?" Chi-Chi asked. "He's dead, and he's going back to Other World tomorrow! I need a live husband, thank you very much!"

"But...but...marriage? Isn't that moving a little too quickly?"

"Absolutely not!" Chi-Chi said. "My first marriage took place right after a World Martial Arts Tournament. Why can't my second marriage be the same way? Ah, love is wonderful!"

Videl was giving Chi-Chi the Squint of Suspicion. "Something weird is going on here..." Videl muttered to herself.

"And now you can spend as much time as you want with your friend Videl, because she'll be your step-sister!" Chi-Chi said.

"Step-sister?" Gohan asked. "She can't be my step-sister! She's my girlfriend!"

"You can't date your step-sister, Gohan!" Chi-Chi said, with a large smile. "Guess you'll have to break up!"

"Okay, stop right there," Videl said, pointing her finger at Chi-Chi. "You're making things up, aren't you?"

"What?" Chi-Chi asked. "No, I'm not!"

"You have to be lying," Videl said. "No offense, but there's no way my dad would ever marry you! You just tried to beat his head in!"

"But we've fallen in love!"

"I don't buy it," Videl said. "And you seem awfully happy about Gohan breaking up with me. I bet that's what you're after!"

"RRRRRRGH!" Chi-Chi said. "See, that's why you're the wrong girl for Gohan! You're too suspicious! And rude!"

"So I'm right!" Videl said.

"NEVER!" Chi-Chi said. "Gohan, you are banned from dating this evil girl ever again!"

Gohan scratched his head. "Okay, I'm totally confused now. What's going on?"

"You're grounded, that's what's going on!" Chi-Chi snapped. "And you, too, Videl! How dare you speak to your stepmother that way?"

"Just because there were Cinderella monsters today does not mean we need an evil stepmother!" Videl said. "And if you and my dad are so much in love, how come he's not here to announce his engagement to you, huh?"

"He said he was busy making wedding plans!" Chi-Chi said. She slammed her hands together. How could her perfect plan go so wrong so quickly?

"You're lying," Videl said. "You have to be...right?"


Meanwhile, Bulma and Trunks were almost finished with their quest to gather all the dragonballs. There was only one left find, and it was at...

"Korin's Tower?" Bulma asked, checking her GPS.

"What?" Trunks asked.

"I plugged the coordinates from the Dragon Radar into my GPS," Bulma said, proud to show off her latest brilliant idea. "And it says the last dragonball is at Korin's Tower."

"Where's that?" Trunks asked.

"You'll recognize it when we get there," Bulma said. "The problem is that it's several miles tall! The dragonball could be anywhere inside the tower! And the radar can't measure height!"

"Uh, sure, whatever, Mom," Trunks said, ignoring Bulma and getting back to playing his handheld videogame. "Man, as soon as I get my prize money, I'm buying a new game system. This one's a piece of junk!"

Maybe Dende can help us out... Bulma thought.


Goku and Hercule were relaxing in Hercule's private quarters. Goku was eating all of the food in the portable fridge, which Hercule tried to sweet talk him.

"Goku, we're buddies, right?" Hercule asked.

"Uh huh," Goku said, his mouth full of sandwich.

"And buddies help each other out, right?"

Goku swallowed his sandwich. "Right!" he said.

"Great!" Hercule said. "That's why I was thinking...maybe you should throw the fight."

"Throw the fight?" Goku asked. "You mean, pretend to lose? Why would I do that?"

"Well, everyone expects me to win," Hercule said. "After all, I'm the Champ. They'd be really disappointed if I lost."

"Gee, I dunno..." Goku said. "Wouldn't it be dishonest to lose on purpose?"

"Well, maybe," Hercule admitted. "But I'm just trying to help you out here, 'cause I'm your buddy and all! You know what would happen if you fought for real, right?"

"No, what?"

"Everyone would know that you're an alien!" Hercule said. "They'd probably take you into a lab to perform all sorts of crazy science experiments! They might even try to kill you! It'd be really horrible!"

"Gosh..." Goku said. "But none of that stuff has ever happened before when I fought on TV. Why would it happen now?"

"Uh..." Hercule said. "It probably wouldn't."

"Oh," Goku said.

"But hey!" Hercule said. "It would still be loads better for you to throw the fight!"

"Why?" Goku asked.

"Uh...because I'll give you a lifetime pass to the Sunshine Happy Buffet downtown?"

"Free buffet food whenever I want?" Goku asked. "DEAL!"

Goku shook Hercule's hand energetically.

"Great!" Hercule said. His career was safe! He patted Goku on the back. "You won't regret this, buddy!"

"Sure thing, pal!" Goku said.

"DAAAAAAAAAAAD!" a voice screamed. The two fighters looked at each other, confused, until Videl ran into the room.

"Videl?" Hercule called out.

Videl crashed into the room. "Dad, please tell me that you're not getting married to Gohan's mom! I've told you a hundred times that your crush on her is totally gross!"

"Uh..." Hercule said.

"You're marrying Chi-Chi? But she's my wife!" Goku said.

"I can explain!" Hercule said. "This is all a big misunderstanding!"

Goku looked upset, which was rare for him. "Why would you marry my wife?" Goku asked. "I thought we were buddies!"

"We are buddies!" Hercule said. "Please don't—"

"I'm sorry," Goku said, standing up. "I have to go talk to my wife now, not some fake friend!"

"Goku, wait!" Hercule cried, scrambling after Goku. "Our deal is still on, right? Riiiiight?"

Hercule fell over a couch and landed headfirst on the ground.

"Ouch. You okay, dad?" Videl asked.

"No, I'm not okay!" Hercule said. "I...I..." Hercule sighed. "Now I'm going to lose the match with Goku. Thanks a lot!"

"No, thank you," Videl said. "How could you agree to marry Chi-Chi? Are you nuts?"

"No, I'm—" Hercule paused for a second and thought about what he should say. He was pretty sure that if he said the wrong thing, Chi-Chi would hit him. Either that, or Videl would hit him. How did he get into this situation again?

"Honey, you were right all along," Hercule said. "I really like Chi-Chi. She's, uh, one in a million."

"Ewwwwwww!" Videl said. "That is so gross! Please tell me you two haven't kissed yet!"

"Uh..."

"Never mind, I don't wanna know," Videl said. "What I want to know is how could you do this to me?"

"Augh!" Hercule said, stepping backwards from his screaming daughter and accidentally falling over the couch again.

"You're totally ruining my relationship with Gohan! Can't I go out on one date with him before everything gets all screwed up? Is that too much to ask? Really?" Videl shouted.

"Wow, when you're ranting, you sound just like Chi-Chi," Hercule said.

"UGH!" Videl shouted. "That's it, Dad! I'm never talking to you again!"

"What?"

"Not until you break up with Chi-Chi!" Videl said, swirling around so she wasn't looking at her dad. "If you don't call off this marriage right now, I'll never talk to you again. It's either me or her!"

"Ah, honey, that's not fair! You can't make me choose between the two of you!" Hercule said.


At the top of the lookout, Dende was waiting for Bulma with the two-star dragonball.

"Great, you finally made it!" Dende said.

"Is that the last dragonball?" Bulma asked.

"Sure is!" Dende said. "A few years back, we decided it would be safest for the planet if we kept one of the dragonballs up here. That way, nobody could collect them all without us knowing about it."

"Wow, that's surprisingly smart of you!" Bulma said.

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Dende asked. "I'll have you know that I'm a great Guardian for the Earth! I might have missed out on the whole Bibbety, Bobbetey, Majin Buu thing, but I still do a darn good job!"

"If you say so," Bulma said. "Let's summon the dragon, already. I want my husband back!"

"Ooo, about that..." Dende said. "See, the dragonballs can't bring somebody back to life twice...and besides, you only get one wish."

"Really?" Bulma asked.

"No, not really!" Dende said, laughing. "Those rules only applied at the start of the series! Since then, I made the Super Namekian-Style Dragonballs, which can grant any three wishes you want!"

"All right!" Bulma cheered. "Get the gang here, and let's get started!"


Hey, Z-Fighters? Can you hear me? Dende asked.

"Oh no!" Hercule moaned. "I'm hearing voices in my head! I've gone crazy! The pressure finally got to me!"

"No..." Videl said, looking around to see who spoke. "I think this is the psychic powers thingy."

"The what?"

"I'm not sure," Videl said. "Let's find Gohan, quick."


"You're marrying HERCULE?" Goku asked Chi-Chi. "But...but...you're my wife!"

"Goku, I'm not really..." Chi-Chi began to say, then she stopped. Gohan was still in hearing distance.

She cleared her throat loudly. "I'm not married to you anymore! It's been seven years since you died, you know...and I've been so lonely..."

Goku looked like a lost puppy. "I...I understand," he said, trying not to cry.

The look on Goku's face shattered Chi-Chi's resolve. "I'm lying, Goku. I'm not—"

Hey, Z-Fighters? Can you hear me? Dende asked.

"Augh!" Chi-Chi shrieked. "What's that?"

"It's Dende," Goku said, glad for a distraction. We're listening, Dende. What's up?

We've got the dragonballs here at the Lookout, Dende thought. Can you bring everyone here so we can make our wishes?

Sure thing, Dende! Goku thought.

"Come on!" Goku said. "Bulma's got the dragonballs. Let's go summon Shenron!"


Soon, all the Z-Fighters were gathered on top of the Lookout, thanks to Instant Transmission. Even Hercule and Videl were there, although the two of them stood sort of off to the side, because they felt out of place with the others.

"What does the Z in Z Fighter stand for, again?" Hercule asked Videl.

"I have no idea," she whispered.

"Eternal Dragon! I summon you by your name!" Dende said, waving his hands over the dragonballs. "Because calling you by someone else's name would be kind of stupid! Deus ex machina! Deus ex machina! I—"

"Hurry up, already!" Chi-Chi snapped.

"And heeeeeeeeere's Shenron!" Dende said.

The dragonball seemed to glow yellow as the sky turned black. Lightning crackled as pure power radiated through the air. Out from the dragonballs came Shenron, the eternally grumpy dragon.

"AUAUAUAUAUAIAUOIAUA!" Hercule screamed.

"W-w-w-w-w-w-what is that thing?" Videl asked.

"Oh, wow, cool!" Trunks said.

"Hi, Mr. Shenron!" Goku said. "Remember me?"

"Name your first wiiiiiiiiiiish!" Shenron said.

Gohan stepped forward. "I wish for Goku Son to be brought back to life!" he said loudly.

"Itttttttt isssssss grrrrraaaanttteeeeedddd," Shenron said.

"WHAT?" everyone asked.

"It is granted!" Shenron said. "I was just stretching out the syllables because it's more dramatic that way. The other dragons say I'm a bit of a drama queen, but I'm only on this show once every seventy episodes, so I might as well make the most of it, right?"

"Er, right," Goku said, waving his arm above his head to confirm that he no longer had a halo. "Anyway, our next wish is for Goten to come back to life!"

"It...is..."

"Hold it!" Bulma cried.

"What? WHAT IS IT?" Shenron demanded. "How dare you interrupt my moment of glory?"

"Ignore Goku, Shenron!" Bulma said. "Our wish is to bring back Goten and Krillin and Piccolo and Vegeta and..."

"Everyone else who died today, except for the bad guys!" Yamcha said.

"Yeah, and make everyone besides us forget about what happened with Majin Buu!" Videl said. "That way, there won't be any weird questions about the Gold Fighter once the tournament is over."

"Oh, and I wish for fish!" Hercule said, joining in on the ridiculousness of the situation. "On a dish!"

"You guys!" Goku said. "That's like five wishes in one! Shenron can't do that!"

Shenron, however, could do all that. "Let me get this straight," Shenron said. "You wish to bring back everyone who died, and for me to wipe away the memories of millions of people, and for me to give you some fish on a dish, right? That's kind of a long wish, but okay! It...is...granted!"

"What?" Goku exclaimed. "But isn't that cheating with our wishes?"

"It was all one sentence, which makes it all one wish," Shenron said. "That's how I roll, G-Dizzles."

"Aw, man!" Goku said. "If only we knew about that earlier!"


In the Other World...

Vegeta stood proudly on top of the unconscious body of King Yemma, facing the crowd of fighters. Sure, the Kais and their goons had put up a good fight, but in the end, they had all fallen before Vegeta's awesome power.

"I'm in charge, now!" Vegeta said. "I declare myself King of the Other World!"

"All hail Vegeta!" the Other World Fighters cheered. "All hail Vegeta!"

Vegeta smiled. He was finally the grand ruler he was destined to be! Nothing could stop him now! He would live forever as the King of Other World, and absolutely nothing would—


With a small "pop!", Vegeta disappeared from Other World and came back to life on Earth.

"Ah, crap!" Vegeta said.

"VEGETA!" Bulma said, wrapping her arms around her husband. "I missed you!"

"Daddy!" Goten cried.

"Mmmm, this fish on the dish is delish!" Hercule said, sampling his tasty meal. "Good wish!"

"Hey, honey, did you miss me?" Krillin asked Eighteen.

"I knew you'd come back soon enough," Eighteen said, playing it cool.

"Um, hey," Shenron said. "Sorry to interrupt the happy reunion scenes, but you still have one wish left. Hurry up so I can go back home."

"Rude much?" Videl asked.

"Gosh, I can't think of anything," Goku said.

"Maybe we could wish for me to find a girlfriend!" Master Roshi suggested enthusiastically. "I've been waiting my whole life to get one!"

"We could wish for more food," Hercule suggested.

"A gravity room that never breaks would be nice," Vegeta said.

"A million dollars!" Yamcha said.

"An eyepatch to cover my third eye!" Tien said.

"Definitely a house of our own, away from the pervert," Eighteen said.

"Or we could wish that nobody will be a pervert ever again!" Videl said. "Sharpener would be cured!"

"I want a new game system!" Trunks said.

"Food would be yummy!" Goten said.

"Who do you think I am, Santa Claus?" Shenron asked. "I've got better things to do than to fulfill all of your stupid wishes. Just make one wish and be finished already!"

The Z-Fighters thought for a moment.

"I've got it!" Hercule shouted. "I wish for my old wife, Denaira, to come back to life!"

"You what?" Chi-Chi screeched.

"I'm sorry, Chi-Chi, but I'm breaking off our engagement," Hercule said. "I like you, but we can't be together. I just couldn't do something like that to my good buddy Goku."

Goku's face broke into a wide grin. "Ah, thanks, Hercule! You really are the greatest!" he said.

"Uh, did I just miss something here?" Krillin asked.

"Trust me, you don't want to know," Gohan said to the short man.

"It...is...graaaaaaaaaaaaanted!" Shenron said. "Now don't bug me again for at least a year, okay?"

Shenron disappeared and the dragon balls scattered.