Chapter 14: A Hero's Return

Lavos' power started rapidly. "Lavos will destroy all of you. Compared to him you are like insects." Queen Zeal said. "Mother, please stop this! Don't you see Lavos will destroy us all." Schala pleaded. Queen Zeal looked at her daughter, then back at Lavos. "You dare to defy Lavos' power, then I shall destroy you." Queen Zeal told her. She commanded Lavos to kill Schala. Lavos obeyed. The giant creature created a ball of lightning from it's back.

Schala, who was already weakened from giving up all her energy to the Mammon Machine tried to defend herself, but could not. Lavos aimed the ball of lightning and fired. Suddenly, a green barrier was around Schala protecting her from the attack. Crono, Frog, and Gohan were surprised and shocked as well when they saw the source of the barrier was Magus. " So, do you think you can stop Lavos?" Queen Zeal asked. Magus just smiled and said, " Do you think I'm afraid of you Zeal, I've waited my entire life for this moment."

As Magus was confronting Queen Zeal, Lavos created a time portal which brought everyone from the End of Time to the time vortex. " Where are we?" Lucca thought. Lucca turned around to see Lavos, then backed away to where the other fighters were standing. " Lavos has brought you all here, so I can finally be rid of all of you." Queen Zeal said. "That's not gonna happen!" Gohan yelled and transformed into a super-saiyan. Trunks and Vegeta did the same.

All of a sudden, the blue time vortex started to change bright red. The vortex, then created a portal. " That time portal is red." Krillin said. Magus stared at the portal. "I never thought these portals ever existed." " What do these portals do?" Piccolo asked. " The red time portal allows you to go back in time and change the course of one's history. One of you must have a desire to go back into the past and change someone's history." Magus explained.

The Z-fighters all looked at Gohan. " Gohan, you did this?" Piccolo asked. Gohan nodded. "It's just that I miss my dad and I want him back." Gohan said as tears were forming in his eyes. Before anyone could respond Lavos roared created a tornado which dragged all the Z-fighters into the red time portal. "What's going to happen to them now." Crono thought.

The Z-fighters landed in a deserted area. " This place looks so familiar." Krillin said. " I think we've traveled back in time before Cell blew himself up." Android 18 said. Android 18 was right. In the distance everyone could see motionless figures. "What, how come we are the only ones moving. Cell and Kakorot are not moving at all?" Vegeta thought. Trunks then realized what this place was. " This place is also a time freeze. The people in this world cannot move, but we can." Trunks explained.

" That means we can change the course of history." Piccolo thought. Goahn ran to the motionless Goku. " Hey do we have anything to replace my dad's body?" Gohan asked. Trunks took out a capsule and opened it. The capsule opened up and everyone saw a model doll of Goku. " I guess my mom misses Goku as much as you do Gohan." Trunks told him. Gohan replaced Goku's body with the doll.

Then everyone headed back to the time portal. Everyone arrived where Lavos and the others were. " Hey, Crono is that your cousin?" Marle asked as she saw Goku. Goku got up from the floor. "Hey, I'm back." Goku said cheerfully. Gohan ran to his father and gave him a great big hug. " I'm glad you back dad!" Gohan yelled. "Yeah, it's been really quiet without you." Krillin added.

Goku turned around to see Crono, Marle, Lucca, Roobo, Frog, Ayla, Schala, and Magus. " I see we have new friends." Goku said. Then he saw Lavos and Queen Zeal. " And we have new enemies." Goku replied. " How do you know about this?" Piccolo asked. " King Kai has been filling me in all the information about everything that's been going on here." Goku explained.

Queen Zeal, just looked at Goku as if were a mere insect. " No one can defeat Lavos not even you can." she said. Goku just smiled and replied, " That's what all the enemies that I have faced had told me they've all failed and so will you." Goku transformed into a super-saiyan and faced Lavos. " Let's see how you can stand against the strongest saiyan in time." Goku said heroically.