Captain's Orders
Chapter 3
by TAFKAE again
Disclaimer: Why do I keep putting a disclaimer up? It always says the same things. I don't own DBZ. I don't own the characters. I wish I owned 17. Copyrights and disclaimers suck. Let's get on with the story. It's finally getting to the good part.
~*~*~
The next thing Gohan knew, or in any sort of detail anyway, he was lying on the ground in great pain. He felt really weird, too, but didn't quite know what the feeling WAS. He decided not to open his eyes for a minute. He had fought Goten, and he was winning by a lot, but Goten - or rather, Captain Ginyu - had said something, and then he woke up here. Wincing, he forced his eyes open.
And found a frog staring into them.
"YIKES!!" he shouted, sitting up and scrambling back a ways. "Oh, it's just you."
"Yep," the frog - or Goten, as it were - replied.
Gohan blinked. "What?"
"It's just me, Goten," Goten repeated.
"I heard you the first time. But…" Gohan thought for a second, getting in a cross-legged position. "…frogs can't talk… can they?"
"I told you a while ago, I can talk to animals. That's why I can talk to you."
Gohan tilted his head and stood up. Somehow he felt shorter than usual, but he attributed it to his imagination. "What do you mean? I'm not an animal."
"No," Goten replied, "but I'm an animal, and you're me!"
That took a second to sink in. Then:
Gohan started frantically looking around, mostly at himself. His clothes were bright orange, but that wasn't the only thing wrong. He was shorter, after all… "WHAT THE HECK?!?!?!" he screamed, feeling his hair, which felt just like Goten's. "OH MY GOSH! I AM YOU!!! WHAT… WHAT HAPPENED?!"
Goten covered his ears, if frogs have ears. "You don't hafta yell…"
Gohan was too panicked to care. "JUST TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED!!"
"All right, all right. Don't have a cow." Goten hopped up and down a bit, then seemed to calm down and started talking again. "You were fighting the frog guy, and you were winning, and then he figured out he was losing or something, so he said 'Change How' or something, and then you knocked him out - or he knocked you out - I kinda lost track of who was who. But," he continued after inhaling deeply, "then I figured out that he did what he did to me again, and so you had to be me!"
"'Change How'?" Gohan asked, thinking some more. "OF COURSE!!! Captain Ginyu's technique! Why didn't I see that coming?!"
"I woulda warned you, but I forgot," Goten stated. "How did you know about it though?"
Gohan narrowed his eyes. "He pulled the same trick on Dad on Planet Namek ten years ago."
Just then, there was a small *pop* and Goku appeared in the field next to them. "Hey Goten! How's it going?" he asked.
"DAD!!" Gohan yelled. "Thank goodness you're here. Come on, we've gotta go find me - I mean Gohan - I mean - oh my gosh, I don't know WHAT I mean, but it'll probably make more sense later -" He grabbed Goku by the hand and started pulling.
"Whoa, slow down champ," Goku said, kind of confused. "What're you talking about?"
"JUST COME ON!"
Goten groaned. "I wanna be me again."
Gohan glared at his brother slash frog. "Shut up."
"Whaddaya mean shut up?" Goku asked. "Has Trunks been teaching you stuff again?"
"I was talking to Goten!" Gohan shouted.
"Quit joking around, Goten," his dad replied.
"I'm not joking around!" Goten shouted.
"I said shut up!"
"QUIET!!!!!" Goku yelled, finally getting fed up. "All right. Now, Goten, tell me what's going on."
The frog started ribbiting hysterically.
"He wasn't talking to you," Gohan told his brother slash frog, who decided to shut up. "Dad, this is VERY important."
"What is?" Goku asked.
"I'm not Goten!"
There was a pause, and then Goku laughed. "Quit kidding around! Come on, your dinner's getting co-"
"DAD, IF YOU'D JUST SHUT UP AND LISTEN FOR ONE FRICKIN' MINUTE!!!" Gohan yelled. Goku stopped immediately, a little apprehensive of "Goten's" outburst.
"What's with you?" he asked.
Gohan inhaled deeply. "I can explain it all later. Can you use your Instant Transmission to take me to Gohan?"
Goku tilted his head to one side. "Sure I can, but why?"
"I said I can explain it all later," Gohan said before Goku had finished his sentence. "Just do it, okay?"
Goku shrugged and put one hand to his son's shoulder, then raised two fingers to his forehead and all present disappeared.
~*~*~
It wasn't long before they arrived above a city. Gohan looked around until he spotted a small, yellow dot about 500 yards away. He cupped both hands to his mouth and shouted. "GINYU!!!!"
The dot turned and looked at him.
"I JUST CAME TO SAY I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU!!!" he continued. "YOU'D BETTER CHANGE ME AND GOTEN BACK, OR ELSE!!!"
The reply came from very far off. "OR ELSE WHAT?"
"REMEMBER MY DAD?"
The dot seemed to wince. Gohan thought. But he hadn't. "YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!" came the answer. "AND BESIDES, NOW I HAVE THE POWER OF THE SUPER SAIYAN!"
Oops. No one had thought of that. "Oh yeah," Gohan mumbled. "I was fighting him as a Super Saiyan, so when he… ooooohhh noooooo…"
Goku scowled. "All right, Goten, what's this all about? Is this some kind of game?"
Gohan whirled around. "It's not a game, Dad. It's for real." He pulled Goten out of his pocket. "See anything familiar about this frog?"
Goku tilted his head. "No."
Gohan came close to facefaulting from fifty feet in the air. He sighed and continued. "You remember Captain Ginyu from planet Namek?"
"All too well," was his father's reply. "But how did you know about that? Did Gohan tell you, or what?"
"I AM GOHAN! I was THERE!"
Goku gave him a look that demonstrated a kind of a cross between confusion and shock.
"Captain Ginyu got transported to Earth just like the rest of us when Namek was about to blow up," Gohan continued. "I don't know what he's up to, but it can't be good!"
Goku tilted his head the other way. "Well, if you're really Gohan, then how did you end up in Goten's body?"
Gohan almost facefaulted again. "THE SAME WAY YOU ENDED UP IN CAPTAIN GINYU'S!" he screamed.
The bright yellow dot had moved closer now, so his face was in plain view, smirking. "You know kid, if you want to win, you're going to need a lot more than - "
"Oh, come on, Gohan," Goku interrupted. "I think you two need to take your training a little less seriously."
"I never asked for your opinion, Son Goku," Ginyu replied. "Besides, what makes you think this is just training?"
Goku's eyes suddenly narrowed. "You're not Gohan!"
Gohan's lit up. he thought.
"Oh really? I thought you knew," Ginyu answered him with a sarcastic look of concern on his face. "Too bad you found out so late."
The real Gohan jumped back just in time to get out of the way of the flurry of punches and kicks that followed. He would have joined in, but knew he would have just gotten his brother's body hurt. That is, more than it already was, he thought, rubbing a bruise on his left arm that he had given Ginyu, but now had himself.
~*~*~
The fight lasted a long time. Too long. Ginyu was holding his own for a while until Goku decided to get serious and go Super Saiyan himself. After that, Ginyu suddenly found himself unable to land any punches, but Goku was having trouble doing the same, too.
"You've improved since we last fought, Goku," Ginyu smirked, blocking a punch with his forearm.
"Gohan's improved since we last fought, too," Goku replied. "You certainly haven't, though. You're just using the same dirty tricks you always have!"
"Dirty, yes," Ginyu returned, returning the punch as well. "But they work, don't they? I'm still winning."
Goku dodged it. "You won't be for long."
"I beg to differ." Ginyu shot a punch at Goku's head, which the other managed to dodge again, and the fight continued.
It was a good ten minutes later when both fighters started getting desperate. Ki blasts were exchanged, blocked, countered, and dodged. Gohan watched in horror as neither one got anywhere. Goten fell asleep.
Suddenly Goku decided to take drastic action. "KA… ME… HA… ME…"
Ginyu knew the technique, so he launched his own just then, hoping to block it…
"HAAAAAA!!!!" The world-famous blast shot out of Goku's hands and hit Ginyu square in the chest, but Ginyu's attack hit Goku at exactly the same time; Ginyu then went normal and fell to the top of a tall building, unconscious. Goku floated to the same building, breathing heavily, but didn't drop out of Super Saiyan. Gohan and Goten were already standing there when Goku arrived. After a while, Ginyu hadn't moved at all, but Goten had woken up.
"Wha' happened?" he asked sleepily, rubbing his little froggy eyes.
"Dad got him," Gohan replied, smiling triumphantly, then turned to Goku. "Thanks, Dad. As soon as he wakes up, we'll make him change us back."
Goku put one hand behind his glowing hair and grinned. "Well that's good, I'd never get used to Goten being a frog!"
Goten scowled. "That's not funny, Dad." Gohan laughed.
Goku did the same, then looked at the kayoed form of Captain Ginyu (in Gohan's badly beaten-up body) with a serious expression on his face. "When he does switch back, you and Goten are gonna need some of those senzu beans. Say," he continued, not allowing Gohan the time to interrupt, "howzabout I go get some now?" Then he took off into the air, flying at top speed.
"WAIT, DAD!" Gohan yelled, pointing the other way. "KORIN TOWER'S…" Then he realized Goku couldn't hear him. "…that way…" He sighed. "Oh well, he'll probably find it one of these days… or at least realize he's lost and just IT there…"
Goten laughed.
~*~*~
Meanwhile, over the Southeast Islands, Captain Ginyu (now in Goku's body) laughed. "What a sucker."
~*~*~
GASP! Looks like Ginyu's not done! I have every intention of continuing and finishing this whole darn story, even if I don't get any reviews at all, but I'd love to hear them anyway!
(o^.^o) The Artist Formerly Known As Ed
Chapter 3
by TAFKAE again
Disclaimer: Why do I keep putting a disclaimer up? It always says the same things. I don't own DBZ. I don't own the characters. I wish I owned 17. Copyrights and disclaimers suck. Let's get on with the story. It's finally getting to the good part.
~*~*~
The next thing Gohan knew, or in any sort of detail anyway, he was lying on the ground in great pain. He felt really weird, too, but didn't quite know what the feeling WAS. He decided not to open his eyes for a minute. He had fought Goten, and he was winning by a lot, but Goten - or rather, Captain Ginyu - had said something, and then he woke up here. Wincing, he forced his eyes open.
And found a frog staring into them.
"YIKES!!" he shouted, sitting up and scrambling back a ways. "Oh, it's just you."
"Yep," the frog - or Goten, as it were - replied.
Gohan blinked. "What?"
"It's just me, Goten," Goten repeated.
"I heard you the first time. But…" Gohan thought for a second, getting in a cross-legged position. "…frogs can't talk… can they?"
"I told you a while ago, I can talk to animals. That's why I can talk to you."
Gohan tilted his head and stood up. Somehow he felt shorter than usual, but he attributed it to his imagination. "What do you mean? I'm not an animal."
"No," Goten replied, "but I'm an animal, and you're me!"
That took a second to sink in. Then:
Gohan started frantically looking around, mostly at himself. His clothes were bright orange, but that wasn't the only thing wrong. He was shorter, after all… "WHAT THE HECK?!?!?!" he screamed, feeling his hair, which felt just like Goten's. "OH MY GOSH! I AM YOU!!! WHAT… WHAT HAPPENED?!"
Goten covered his ears, if frogs have ears. "You don't hafta yell…"
Gohan was too panicked to care. "JUST TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED!!"
"All right, all right. Don't have a cow." Goten hopped up and down a bit, then seemed to calm down and started talking again. "You were fighting the frog guy, and you were winning, and then he figured out he was losing or something, so he said 'Change How' or something, and then you knocked him out - or he knocked you out - I kinda lost track of who was who. But," he continued after inhaling deeply, "then I figured out that he did what he did to me again, and so you had to be me!"
"'Change How'?" Gohan asked, thinking some more. "OF COURSE!!! Captain Ginyu's technique! Why didn't I see that coming?!"
"I woulda warned you, but I forgot," Goten stated. "How did you know about it though?"
Gohan narrowed his eyes. "He pulled the same trick on Dad on Planet Namek ten years ago."
Just then, there was a small *pop* and Goku appeared in the field next to them. "Hey Goten! How's it going?" he asked.
"DAD!!" Gohan yelled. "Thank goodness you're here. Come on, we've gotta go find me - I mean Gohan - I mean - oh my gosh, I don't know WHAT I mean, but it'll probably make more sense later -" He grabbed Goku by the hand and started pulling.
"Whoa, slow down champ," Goku said, kind of confused. "What're you talking about?"
"JUST COME ON!"
Goten groaned. "I wanna be me again."
Gohan glared at his brother slash frog. "Shut up."
"Whaddaya mean shut up?" Goku asked. "Has Trunks been teaching you stuff again?"
"I was talking to Goten!" Gohan shouted.
"Quit joking around, Goten," his dad replied.
"I'm not joking around!" Goten shouted.
"I said shut up!"
"QUIET!!!!!" Goku yelled, finally getting fed up. "All right. Now, Goten, tell me what's going on."
The frog started ribbiting hysterically.
"He wasn't talking to you," Gohan told his brother slash frog, who decided to shut up. "Dad, this is VERY important."
"What is?" Goku asked.
"I'm not Goten!"
There was a pause, and then Goku laughed. "Quit kidding around! Come on, your dinner's getting co-"
"DAD, IF YOU'D JUST SHUT UP AND LISTEN FOR ONE FRICKIN' MINUTE!!!" Gohan yelled. Goku stopped immediately, a little apprehensive of "Goten's" outburst.
"What's with you?" he asked.
Gohan inhaled deeply. "I can explain it all later. Can you use your Instant Transmission to take me to Gohan?"
Goku tilted his head to one side. "Sure I can, but why?"
"I said I can explain it all later," Gohan said before Goku had finished his sentence. "Just do it, okay?"
Goku shrugged and put one hand to his son's shoulder, then raised two fingers to his forehead and all present disappeared.
~*~*~
It wasn't long before they arrived above a city. Gohan looked around until he spotted a small, yellow dot about 500 yards away. He cupped both hands to his mouth and shouted. "GINYU!!!!"
The dot turned and looked at him.
"I JUST CAME TO SAY I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU!!!" he continued. "YOU'D BETTER CHANGE ME AND GOTEN BACK, OR ELSE!!!"
The reply came from very far off. "OR ELSE WHAT?"
"REMEMBER MY DAD?"
The dot seemed to wince. Gohan thought. But he hadn't. "YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!" came the answer. "AND BESIDES, NOW I HAVE THE POWER OF THE SUPER SAIYAN!"
Oops. No one had thought of that. "Oh yeah," Gohan mumbled. "I was fighting him as a Super Saiyan, so when he… ooooohhh noooooo…"
Goku scowled. "All right, Goten, what's this all about? Is this some kind of game?"
Gohan whirled around. "It's not a game, Dad. It's for real." He pulled Goten out of his pocket. "See anything familiar about this frog?"
Goku tilted his head. "No."
Gohan came close to facefaulting from fifty feet in the air. He sighed and continued. "You remember Captain Ginyu from planet Namek?"
"All too well," was his father's reply. "But how did you know about that? Did Gohan tell you, or what?"
"I AM GOHAN! I was THERE!"
Goku gave him a look that demonstrated a kind of a cross between confusion and shock.
"Captain Ginyu got transported to Earth just like the rest of us when Namek was about to blow up," Gohan continued. "I don't know what he's up to, but it can't be good!"
Goku tilted his head the other way. "Well, if you're really Gohan, then how did you end up in Goten's body?"
Gohan almost facefaulted again. "THE SAME WAY YOU ENDED UP IN CAPTAIN GINYU'S!" he screamed.
The bright yellow dot had moved closer now, so his face was in plain view, smirking. "You know kid, if you want to win, you're going to need a lot more than - "
"Oh, come on, Gohan," Goku interrupted. "I think you two need to take your training a little less seriously."
"I never asked for your opinion, Son Goku," Ginyu replied. "Besides, what makes you think this is just training?"
Goku's eyes suddenly narrowed. "You're not Gohan!"
Gohan's lit up. he thought.
"Oh really? I thought you knew," Ginyu answered him with a sarcastic look of concern on his face. "Too bad you found out so late."
The real Gohan jumped back just in time to get out of the way of the flurry of punches and kicks that followed. He would have joined in, but knew he would have just gotten his brother's body hurt. That is, more than it already was, he thought, rubbing a bruise on his left arm that he had given Ginyu, but now had himself.
~*~*~
The fight lasted a long time. Too long. Ginyu was holding his own for a while until Goku decided to get serious and go Super Saiyan himself. After that, Ginyu suddenly found himself unable to land any punches, but Goku was having trouble doing the same, too.
"You've improved since we last fought, Goku," Ginyu smirked, blocking a punch with his forearm.
"Gohan's improved since we last fought, too," Goku replied. "You certainly haven't, though. You're just using the same dirty tricks you always have!"
"Dirty, yes," Ginyu returned, returning the punch as well. "But they work, don't they? I'm still winning."
Goku dodged it. "You won't be for long."
"I beg to differ." Ginyu shot a punch at Goku's head, which the other managed to dodge again, and the fight continued.
It was a good ten minutes later when both fighters started getting desperate. Ki blasts were exchanged, blocked, countered, and dodged. Gohan watched in horror as neither one got anywhere. Goten fell asleep.
Suddenly Goku decided to take drastic action. "KA… ME… HA… ME…"
Ginyu knew the technique, so he launched his own just then, hoping to block it…
"HAAAAAA!!!!" The world-famous blast shot out of Goku's hands and hit Ginyu square in the chest, but Ginyu's attack hit Goku at exactly the same time; Ginyu then went normal and fell to the top of a tall building, unconscious. Goku floated to the same building, breathing heavily, but didn't drop out of Super Saiyan. Gohan and Goten were already standing there when Goku arrived. After a while, Ginyu hadn't moved at all, but Goten had woken up.
"Wha' happened?" he asked sleepily, rubbing his little froggy eyes.
"Dad got him," Gohan replied, smiling triumphantly, then turned to Goku. "Thanks, Dad. As soon as he wakes up, we'll make him change us back."
Goku put one hand behind his glowing hair and grinned. "Well that's good, I'd never get used to Goten being a frog!"
Goten scowled. "That's not funny, Dad." Gohan laughed.
Goku did the same, then looked at the kayoed form of Captain Ginyu (in Gohan's badly beaten-up body) with a serious expression on his face. "When he does switch back, you and Goten are gonna need some of those senzu beans. Say," he continued, not allowing Gohan the time to interrupt, "howzabout I go get some now?" Then he took off into the air, flying at top speed.
"WAIT, DAD!" Gohan yelled, pointing the other way. "KORIN TOWER'S…" Then he realized Goku couldn't hear him. "…that way…" He sighed. "Oh well, he'll probably find it one of these days… or at least realize he's lost and just IT there…"
Goten laughed.
~*~*~
Meanwhile, over the Southeast Islands, Captain Ginyu (now in Goku's body) laughed. "What a sucker."
~*~*~
GASP! Looks like Ginyu's not done! I have every intention of continuing and finishing this whole darn story, even if I don't get any reviews at all, but I'd love to hear them anyway!
(o^.^o) The Artist Formerly Known As Ed
