AN: I do not own Dragonball Z. If I did, I would shoot myself over the American dub

Dragonball Zeros

Chapter 1: Piccolo's Warning

Early one morning at 3 A.M., Goku woke up and exclaimed, "Oh no! I slept in! I'll never have my hair ready by eight o'clock! And then I still have other things to do!" He began running around the hut and freaking out.

"Dad," Gohan yelled sleepily.

"Yes?" he answered.

"Will you shut up?"

"Oh, okay," Goku replied. "I have got to teach that boy the importance of a perfect hair do!" He continued to freak out, just a lot quieter until 3:15 when he realized that he was just wasting more time so he finally started on his hair.

"Now where did I put my large surface comb?" he asked, as he began digging through a huge closet stuffed to the brim with his daily hair supplies. "When am I going to find time to replace everything?"

Time flew by. Well, actually, it didn't, but to someone doing their hair like that it sure seemed to. As he was putting the finishing touches on his do, Goku took a look at the time.

"Oh no!" he exclaimed again. "It's 8:01! I'm late for breakfast!" He took one running step and magically glided into the kitchen.

"Where were you?!" screamed Chi Chi. "I've had breakfast ready for a minute!"

"I slept in and was doing my hair," replied Goku, nervously.

"Well, don't let it happen again!" she answered. "I slave over a hot stove and what do I get?! Absolutely nothing! 'Oh sure, I'll be ready for breakfast by eight o' clock!' Sixty seconds later: 'Oh, sorry I was doing my hair!' I swear, Goku, one of these days..."

"What's for breakfast?" he said, trying to change the subject.

"It's sitting right in front of you! If you looked at it, you'd know what it was! Sometimes I think you're eyes are permanently adjusted to a mirror! It's just 'Oh my poor hair' this and 'Oh my poor hair' that and..."

"Mom," Gohan interrupted.

"What?!"

"I'm hungry," he whined.

"I just fixed breakfast!" Chi Chi exclaimed. "Why don't you try eating that?! If you ever studied, you would know these things!"

"Well, I would," Gohan answered, "but Dad ate it all."

"What?" she said calmly, which is a bad sign.

"Well, it's kind of funny, actually," Goku replied. "Apparently in my mad rush to do my hair, I worked up a huge appetite!"

"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" growled Chi Chi.

"Uh, we gotta go," Goku and Gohan said as they ran out the door.

"You come back here!" she screamed after them. "Gohan, you've got studying to do! And, Goku, if those guys in the white coats come back I'm blaming you! Get back here!!!"

"Keep running," Goku said. They continued to run until they were in the middle of nowhere, which is where they always are so forget that. Suddenly, they remembered that they could fly so they stopped running and did that for a while.

"Hey Dad," Gohan said, "I was just wondering how we always know where we're going, because we're always in the middle of nowhere and I can't figure out how we always get where we're headed to because most of the places we're going are hardly mappable so how do we always get to that weird place on the island and other places like that?"

"Um, I don't know," Goku replied. "Why don't we go there and find out, but not so fast that it ruins my hair."

"Dad, why are you always talking about your hair? I mean, most fathers have other things that they would rather talk about but mine seems to talk about hair most of the time and I can't figure out why you're so obsessed with something like that, my dad's hair I mean."

"Uh, did you say something about hair?" Goku said. "Because I know the secrets to getting a good hair do and I could give you a really nice hair cut, not like the time your mom tried and could only get that stupid mop top. But I..." They continued to talk about dads and hair until they got to that little Kame island place and didn't pay any attention to how. So, they decided to go inside and hang out with everybody else, because they were there, too. But, they were too busy in their own little worlds to notice that Goku and Gohan had arrived until half an hour later.

"Hey, Krillin," Gohan asked, "do you know if they've got any food around here?"

"Oh, yeah," he replied, "I... AHHHHHHHHHHH! What are you doing here?!" Everybody else ran in to see what was the matter.

"What do you mean? Are you trying to tell me that my dad and I have been here for half an hour and you didn't even notice that we were here? I am shocked to hear that my father and myself have been in your presence for thirty minutes and you didn't even realize it. It's amazing that for an equivalent of a half of an hour my father and I have been inside this domicile and you didn't even realize our situation! I really think that..."

"Stop him before he says another four syllable word!" screamed Yamcha. "I can't take it! That woman makes him study too much!" Puar desperately tried to calm him down.

"Well, as I was saying," Gohan continued after this sudden outburst, "do you guys have any food? I'm starving!"

"Of course we do!" Master Roshi replied. "There's a couple of things in the kitchen you might..." Just then Goku walked into the room.

"Do you guys have anything else to eat?" he asked. I could only find one apple, two pears, three plums, four strawberries, five oranges, one piece of chocolate cake, one ice cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss Cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, one slice of watermelon, and one nice green leaf."

"See, there's plenty," Tien commented (yes, he's there, too).

"Well, actually, I ate it all," Goku replied. Everyone fell on to their backs with their legs sticking up in the air.

"Great, now what are we going to eat?" Bulma said as they all magically got up again.

"Well, there is a pig standing over there," commented Krillin.

"Hey," Yajarobe began as Oolong started freaking out, "that's a great idea!" Oolong started running around in a state of pure panic when he suddenly stopped and

said, "Hey, that Flute guy is here."

"You mean Piccolo," Gohan corrected.

"Yeah, what did I say?" Sure enough, they looked out the window, and there he was, standing there with his arms crossed (what else?).

"Eahehaehahehaeheah, somebody go out and talk to him," said Krillin, nervously.

"Krillin, Piccolo's a good guy now, remember?" Bulma replied.

"Huh? Oh yeah! I forgot."

"Well, somebody go out and do something anyway," Chao Su said (well, if Tien's there...). So, Goku and Gohan went outside to talk to Piccolo.

"Hey, what's happenin'?" Goku began.

"Nothing really," Piccolo replied. "Kami sent me down to tell you that some weird alien guy is coming in ten years, not like that matters."

"Oh my gosh!" Goku exclaimed. "We'd better train!"

Ten short years passed.

"Man, I wished we could have trained more," Goku said.

"Dad," Gohan began, "why are we the same ages and standing in the same places?"

"Don't ask questions," Goku replied. "Just accept it."

"But it's the same day..."

"Shut up! You were saying, Piccolo?"

"I don't know," he answered. "It has been ten years. Heh! Anyway, he should be landing soon so keep your eyes open." Just then, everybody else came out to see what was going on.

"What's going on?" asked Yamcha.

"Ah, Piccolo just said that some weird alien guy will be landing soon," Goku replied.

"What?!" Krillin exclaimed as he and everyone else began to freak out. "Don't you think we should get ready to fight him or something?"

"Oh yeah, I guess that might work," Goku said. "So, let's go wait for him!" He and the other "Z fighters" flew off to find the alien.

AN: Well, this is Chapter 1. Actually, this should all just be in one huge block form, but that wouldn't work for the Internet. Crap. Tell me what ya think.