Chapter 1: Meeting Ends
Greetings #Dragonball fans
and welcome into
A What If suggested
by one of you,
Where a cash strapped
Chi-Chi makes a strong play
For the money from the 24th
World Martial Arts Tourney
That missed out match
that brought Mr Satan
His initial taste of fame
and such glorious fortune.
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A New Champion
The heart virus done
It's course fully run,
And Chi-Chi is left
With no source of income,
Her son tries to help
But is stuck in a bind
As being a bright scholar
Doesn't pay much when you're 9.
The day's chores all done,
Chi-Chi sits on her bum
Staring out of a window,
Cuz the money is all gone.
Deciding to ask
Her dad for some more,
Her eyes fall on a picture
Oh a shelf by the door,
Of her and her Goku,
Just after her proposal.
Behind them, she can see
What's left after the disposal
Of the 23rd World
Tournament arena.
Grabbing the paper
She quickly flips through.
And there on page 8
Is just what to do.
The 7th of May!
Just two dozen day.
If none of his friends
Choose to take part
She might stand a chance.
She chokes up at the thought.
Goku won't be there to dance.
She continues to read
And soon sees that they
Will now include
A junior grade, with pay.
That's 2 slots to take.
And the winnings so much
What money they'll make.
They could now afford
Gohan's college entry
Tuition fees handled
And books a plenty.
Oh, what a relief
To not have to ask
For money from her dad's
Ill-gotten stash
She floats the idea
With Gohan and while
He's hesitant, to try
And twist on that dial,
The almost wistful look
He can clearly see
On his mother's bright face
When-so-ever does she
Talks about tournament past,
Is not lost on him.
Maybe he'll have a blast.
It'll make her happy,
His dad's favourite thing,
And relieve money troubles
They're so often having.
He knows his mum feels
An deep inner pain
Constantly drawing
on grandpa's questionable gains.
But this will be her's
no, theirs, in fact
Won through their own
Combined, double impact.
Gohan carries them there
And a man that they meet
A man who will make
Chi-Chi white as a sheet.
Her heart it does sink
For that is the guy
Only on the brink.
Goku'd beaten last time.
Mr Piccolo, so massive,
His power emanating,
Her hopes are so dashed,
If that man's participating.
It turns out he has
No interest in competing.
No care for money
The fame too is fleeting
But he had sensed Gohan's direction,
So he thought he might come
To see the boys skill
And maybe show some affection.
For no training they'd done
As time spent with the boy
Had an absence so conspicuous
Sparing felt so ridiculous.
Gohan admits
That he hasn't done much,
Except these last weeks
With his mother, as such.
Chi-Chi sparring with Gohan?
Well, she'd at least want a chance.
So, she trained just a bit
For herself to advance.
At this point in time
He's way out of her league
Piccolo grunts disappointment
Though there's little intrigue.
Gohan's always been
Just that little bit fragile
And with his father's recent death
It's best not to tackle.
The junior division
Goes well enough
Gohan one-punches
His opponents, so tough.
He moves up to face
A young girl in the finals.
Whose dad's hanging about,
Shouting such praise
No denial to spout
Against this young girl
The match initially has
Gohan on the back foot.
As she moves in a twirl
He'd expected the same
But is caught quite off guard
As she comes at him swinging
To hit him so hard.
So much so that he must
End up kicking her thus
That flying, he sends her
Quite out of the ring.
As her dad cries a foul
From nearby with a growl,
Gohan offers a grin
And his hand to pull in.
He heads off to be
Named the 1st winner,
While Videl stands there
Just trying to figure
This unassuming young boy
Who'd just ragdolled a toy.
She had trained with her dad
She had thought him so rad
He was not on this level.
He'd utterly demolished
His first two opponents,
Then this? What gives?
It had taken just moments.
The adult matches go well.
Though Chi-Chi can't tell.
Through Killa then Jewel
She carves like a tool.
Then it came to the final
And she turned up that dial.
He stood proudly before her
Top dog at his school
He'd normally consider
Himself oh quite cool
He might normally offer
A free punch, from this woman
So dainty and demure,
But after watching her son
Demolish his daughter,
He's not feeling generous.
Besides, she'd done well
Against those buffoons
Even if they were put off
By facing a woman.
Ready for a rumble,
She sends him for a tumble.
His movements so slow,
His punches for show.
If he wanted her to see,
Where his fist would soon be,
He might as well use a pen,
To draw a diagram.
Knocked over
A dozenth time,
There's no arena
Left behind,
So down he falls
Upon the ground,
And from the crowd
There's such a sound.
He has lost his shot
At the champion slot
And to a woman
Of all things!
It had to be
Some sort of trick.
Yeah, just like her boy
No normal kick.
What else could
Have sent his Videl,
Flying out of the arena
To the ground as well?
The announcer is not
Having a bit of it though.
He's seen enough fights
To properly know
He announces that Chi-Chi
Wife of previous victory
Is now
The 24th World Martial Art Champion!
With a shrill of excitement,
Chi-Chi heads off to meet
With her son to collect
Their prizes so sweet
Then heading back home
To bask in their wealth,
They say their goodbyes
And then fly off in stealth
But not hidden enough
To go fully unnoticed
By someone who had
Been following them so focussed
After being so casually
Tossed out the ring,
Videl, finally escaped
Her father's crying.
She had then gone forth
To seek out that youth
That sent her flying
As if like a toy.
She wasn't expecting
To see him airborne,
Aloft with his mother
Held tightly beneath
That big green man
Intimidating he was
But flying? I mean, what?
There is no film crew,
No wires, it is true
No cameras to be seen.
No way they could fly
Yet clearly they've been.
Aversion
Her quest to find more
This boy's hidden lore,
Is interrupted, days later,
With news of attacks.
They watch the TV
As the reporters on scene
Try desperately to get,
Their scoops for more view
For their fancy news set.
One by one they fall silent,
As each violently meets
An untimely demise,
As they seek to fill seats.
When one of the anchors
Asks if the champion has shown,
Her dad scoffs at the screen.
As if he had known.
No way a weak woman
Like that would reveal
How utterly useless
She'd be in the real.
Inside she cringes
At her father's dismissal
She had seen his fear
As they moved like a missile
Eventually some fighters
Do actually show up
While grainy, Videl
Can clearly make out
The green skin and pointy ears
Without a doubt,
Oh what had he called him?
Mr Picon? Or Pickro?
Ah, yes she remembers
His name is Mr Piccolo
Or it was because
As if in an omen,
He dies in a massive
Screen shaking explosion!
She loses track of the action
For a time 'til she spots him.
The boy, he is floating.
He lands next to what's left
Of his green friend
there is little
He starts to pick up,
When another appears.
He is short,
with black hair
And a blue and white jumpsuit
At least black it was there.
But the camera goes fuzzy
Gets knocked out hands
Now really quite bloody.
Re-acquiring his target
The cameraman comments
The same man still stands there
Now with a blonde bonnet.
A strange light does spill forth
From where the man stands
So warm and so terrible
He looks oh so grand
The camera loses track
Of the action again
As the blonde man and girl
Vanish as they ascend.
It pans and it zooms
And pauses momentarily
On the face of the boy
Crying at the barbarity.
Videl clearly sees
His tear streaked face
The camera lingers
If only for an instant
Before a crack of thunder
And the end of the assistant
He lays dead on the ground
The rocks piled on high.
The studio crew flounders,
Seeking footage but why?
Videl isn't watching
No, not anymore.
She'd seen it only briefly
That spiky hairball
Slamming into the ground
A few meters from view.
Just a single blurred frame
Of blonde hair and blue suit.
In the weeks that follow
The destruction spreads
From city to town
Everyone ends up dead.
When it reaches her home
Videl can only watch
As the 2 teenage monsters
Each mark their new notch
She hides away quiet,
Only to see them
Kill off the dojo
And ultimately then
They get to her dad
Hercule, in his den.
He tries, he really does
But it's just not enough.
Why wasn't that woman
Here to stop them?
Why hadn't Son Gohan
Come to their rescue?
Oh he hadn't survived
To come to help you.
After they move on,
Videl sees what remains
Of the Dojo with nothing
But her backpack to don.
And a small slip of paper,
The sum total of which
She'd learned of the reigning
World Champion bi… ahem, lady.
It's just some coordinates
And a picture somewhere
Deep in Mount Paozu
She has to get there.
With nothing but memories
Through the ruins of home
On she heads south
Seeking that dome.
Some rough living later,
Past many a crater,
she walks over a hill
And her eyes take their fill
Of a humble wee house.
Knocking on the door
She is relieved
And then more
Her search now over
Her elation wanes
She draws forth
On her anger
On her memory of stains
And it is high
And it multiplies.
This woman has been here
The whole horrible time
Just, doing washing
And being a mother so kind
While those monsters
Roamed the world
All life, they did smother.
After hearing her rant
Through she struggled to sit
Chi-Chi tells her those monsters
Come by for a bit
For her now long dead husband
Though they knew not why.
They were just following orders
From up on high.
On learning that Son Goku
Their primary target
Was buried in the ground now
Quite safe in his casket
Through the wall
They did send her,
To the river
She was thrown.
Her child, Son Gohan
Dove in to save her,
Lest she drift still unconscious
Down the long river.
What? Videl asks.
Son Gohan's alive?
Oh yes, he is
And I hope he will thrive.
Physically at least
For his losses are many
So many deaths
Despite all their zeni.
What of his father,
He died to those monsters?
Oh, Chi-Chi says,
Tearing up as she ponders,
To an illness he fell
So unspeakably fast
No doctor could tell.
Just how long he would last.
Videl sits there in silence,
And Chi-Chi speaks on
To the ragged young girl
About the virus, all gone.
Oh! Chi-Chi says.
I know who you are!
You're Mr Satan's girl!
Videl, is it not?
He was, my father
Videl says, looking off
At a picture with Chi-Chi
A boy who she knows
And some guy with spiky hair
Not the dude who was there
On the news.
That she'd seen
Oh, I'm sorry my dear
Chi-Chi says, reaching out
Having little experience
Of motherly love,
Videl finds no resilience
To this consoling dove
A visibly scraped up
Gohan walks in
And stops to stare down
Wide-eyed, then a grin
At his mother
Gently hugging
That feisty young girl
That is struggling so much
In her guilt she does curl
Chi-Chi gets up and says
She's about to serve dinner
Videl's welcome to stay.
Least she get any thinner.
After a truly amazing
Sweet, home cooked meal,
Chi-Chi shows Videl to
The bathroom to peel
The weeks of hard living
Off of bones so weary
Once all refreshed
So cared for and clean
Videl asks again why
Neither of them had been seen.
They are so very strong.
Even the Super Saiyan prince
Did not belong.
He was batted aside
He was turned into mince.
Couldn't handle that ride
Super Saiyan, you say?
That sounds kinda 'cray
Videl's left quite unsure
How she can endure,
When the exposition's done
Before her there sits
An actual alien?
Adaptation
The very next morning
Videl has a proposal.
They may be afraid
Of this threat that is global.
But Can they please train her
At least how to fly
There has to be a way
Or everyone will die!
Gohan and Chi-Chi
Consider this well
As he had been planning
On training himself
Having a partner
Would certainly not hurt
She'll start with the basics
But Mr Piccolo's training
Must be the core basis.
Unless it's too draining.
For her to endure
Chi-Chi does her best
To put Videl to test
But the girl quickly sees
Gohan's many degrees.
He is just leagues ahead
Of them both so instead
Their training regime
Goes by like a dream.
In only 2 weeks,
Videl learns the techniques
She wobbles in the air
The wing whipping her hair.
Chi-Chi looks on to see
She'd never truly known Ki
Beyond the vague sense
She'd always been dense
If this child Videl
Can do it so well
She'll figure it out
No, she wont pout.
As the years tick on by
They fight and they fly.
The rampage continues
It pulls on their sinews.
A Brief History of Trunks
Skips by in great chunks
Though Videl may be feisty
She's just not enough
To push Gohan, power wise.
Despite being so tough
Gohan and Videl
Training always together
In befores and the afters
They forge a great tether.
Slowly they fall
To each other's embrace
This young boy and girl
With a beautiful face.
When Trunks joins the scene
Established they've been.
To Capsule Corp they move
To maintain their grove
Trunks is still keen
To participate, to be seen
Despite Bulma's objections.
He won't follow directions.
So encounters they do
With, oh, you know who.
Gohan's training with Videl
Means his arm is all well
The disadvantage still present
That fateful fight still occurs.
Gohan leaves her incapacitated
As he goes to be lacerated
Chi-Chi tends to her there
Her prenatal care
Trunks gains his Super Saiyan
Pan birth is soon done
A distraught Videl
Can so clearly tell
That her Gohan is gone.
Now slightly heart broken
Bulma's warning all spoken
Videl and Chi-Chi both
Look to other growth
The time ship complete
Videl's keen to compete
For a birth on the boat
For her and her babe
Bulma wants Trunks
To go fix those punks
By saving son Goku
A few years ago.
Videl cradles her Pan
And asks if she can
Take her back to meet
Her husband so sweet
Being a touch sentimental,
Bulma is slightly gentle.
Videl and baby Pan
Can board the tin can.
It's cramped,
that for sure,
But they'll manage and more.
Chi-Chi too, want to go
But she knew well too
There just wasn't room.
End Chapter 1
As Trunks presses buttons
And pulls levers by the dozen
And the now 4 year old Pan
Giggles at the nervous man
We will say adios
This part to a close
How do you think
Videl will respond
To the much younger version
Of the man she did bond?
Will she be able
Secrets under the table
Will she give in
An uncontrollable grin
As she sees him again
Long before when
They are destined to meet
In their match to compete?
Find out next time here on
What If: Chi-Chi Was
World Champion.