"I summon you forth dragon to grant me my wishes." Bulma called to the seven glowing balls that lay before her and the others.
The day grew to night as the balls began to glow. Suddenly out of nowhere the Earth's dragon, Shenron shot out from the dragon balls and into the darkened sky. His body twisted around as he stared down at his summoners from high in the sky. "You have summoned me, name your first wish."
Elsewhere at the lookout, Piccolo, Krillen and Dende were just getting over their initial shock of seeing a battle scarred Goku appear out of thin air, right before their eyes. "Hey you guys." Goku said in his worry free tone.
Krillen held back his tears of joy, he couldn't believe the sight before him. "Someone pinch me. I think I'm dreaming." Krillen said.
Dende pinched Krillen, who jumped in surprise. "Nope, I guess I'm not dreaming. Goku it's you, I can't believe you're alive." Krillen said, running up to his old pal, followed quickly by Piccolo and Dende.
Krillen couldn't fight back his tears any longer, so he let them come forth. Goku looked confused. "Krillen, why are you crying? Aren't you glad to see me?"
"Of course I'm glad to see you. I'm just so happy." Krillen said.
"Hey Goku." Dende said.
"Hey Dende." Goku replied.
Dende looked at Goku, inspecting his numerous wounds. "Hey Goku, why don't we take care of your wounds." Dende said.
"Yeah great, where's them senzu beans?" Goku asked while looking around.
"We don't have any, but I bet Dende will heal you." Krillen said.
"Of course." Dende said.
Goku kneeled down on one knew in front of Dende. Dende put his hand on Goku's head. Slowly Goku's wounds began to disappear. Moments later he was as good as new. Dende removed his hand from Goku's head. "There you go." Dende said.
Goku stood and inspected himself. "Wow, thanks Dende."
Piccolo walked up to Goku in his usual possession. Arms crossed, frown on his face. "Goku, we should start working out a plan to defeat Buu." Piccolo said.
Goku nodded. "Of course, right to the point."
"But how are we going to defeat him, Vegeta blew everything up within a mile of himself. Yet Buu still survived." Krillen said.
Piccolo looked at Krillen. "That's not totally true, what I saw was quite different. When I found Buu, he was scattered in little pieces. I thought Vegeta had defeated Buu, but soon after Buu started gathering himself."
Goku stared at Piccolo in disbelief. "He's worse than Cell was. How do you destroy a monster who can regenerate himself, even from the smallest bit of him?" Goku asked.
Everyone fell silent, pondering on the question presented to them. Piccolo was the one to come up with the answer. "We will know when we have defeated Buu."
Goku and Dende looked at Piccolo in confusion. "When will we know?" Dende asked.
Piccolo looked down at the ground. "I don't know when. I just know that I'll have a feeling when we've beaten Buu." Piccolo said.
Just then the sky became black as night. Goku and the two Nameks looked up towards the blackened sky. "Oh no, this doesn't look good." Goku said.
"It must be Bulma, no one else could collect the dragon balls that fast." Krillen said.
"She must be going to wish the people back that Vegeta killed earlier today." Goku said.
"We can't allow her to do that, we need the dragon balls for what may happen in the future. If Bulma uses both wishes, we'll have to wait another year and there may not be an Earth here in a year." Piccolo said.
"I'll go and stop her." Goku said.
Goku placed his index and middle finger upon his forehead and started searching for Bulma's ki. After a few moments of Goku just standing there piccolo spoke up. "Goku, hurry."
Goku gritted his teeth in frustration. "I'm having a hard time finding Bulma's ki."
Goku was becoming frustrated with Buu's power level being so great, it was hard to anyone else's. Finally Goku located Bulma's ki. In one swift second Goku disappeared before Piccolo, Dende and Krillen's very eyes.
Back at Capsule Corp. Bulma was thinking of how she could word her wish. "Hmm, how should I say this?" Bulma asked.
"How about everyone except the bad ones." Yamcha suggested.
Bulma thought over the words that her former boyfriend had suggested. "Hmm, what a great idea, I'm glad I thought of it." Bulma said.
"What is your first wish?" Shenron questioned once more, his patience growing ever more thin with the slow mortals before him.
Bulma raised her arms above her once more, towards the mystical beast before her. "Bring back all the people killed today, except the bad ones." Bulma stated to the overly sized dragon.
"Your first wish has been granted, now state your second." Shenron said.
Bulma looked up to the dragon. "Second? I never thought about what we should use as our second."
Bulma and the others were trying to thinks of what their second wish would be when they all suddenly saw a figure with a very recognizable gi on and unruly hair appear before them. "GOKU!" Chichi shouted, running over and wrapping her arms around her husband.
"Hey Chichi." Goku said, placing an arm around Chichi's waist and pulling her close.
"State your second with, my patience is growing thin with you pathetic mortals!" Shenron boomed.
"Oh no, Shenron wants the second wish, I'm to late!" Goku said, going hysterical
Goku contacted Dende telepathically to tell him the not so good news. Dende can you here me, it's Goku. I'm to late. Shenron wants to know the second wish.
Dende reached deep into his mind to contact Goku back. Goku, it' s all right, just tell Shenron that he doesn't have to make anymore wishes and the balls will separate again, allowing us to save them for another time.
Goku sighed in relief. He silently thanked Dende and looked up at Shenron. "Shenron, you don't have to grant anymore wishes today, we'll call you again some other time." Goku said.
"Very well." Shenron replied.
The dragon then shrunk back into the golden balls from which he came. The seven golden balls then floated into the sky and scattered themselves to seven separate corners of the Earth. The sky cleared itself of the in which it had been shrouded in and once more everything was calm.
Bulma looked at Goku, who was still hugging Chichi close to him. "Why'd you do that Goku, now we'll have to wait another whole year before we can make another wish." Bulma said, hands on her hips.
"No we won't. I'm just saving our wish for later, just in case." Goku said.
"Goku, what do you mean, just in case?" Chichi asked, looking up at her husband.
"I'll explain later, but first I want you all to come with me to the lookout. Krillen, Piccolo and Dende are already there." Goku said.
Everyone took that as his or her cue to gather around Goku. After everyone had their grip on him, Goku place his index and middle fingers upon his forehead once more while searching out Piccolo's ki, after quickly locating it everyone disappeared from Capsule Corp. to end up at the lookout seconds later. Everyone looked around, wondering why Goku had brought them all there. "Daddy!" Marron squealed in excitement, happy to see her father alive and well.
18 followed Marron, who had run frantically over to Krillen and hugging his leg furiously. 18 walked up to Krillen, who looked up at his beloved wife. 18 leaned down and placed a kiss on Krillen's lips. Before Krillen could return the kiss his to his wife though she pulled away, not wanting to show her softer side to the others for they had always known her as the silent and emotionless one among them. Seeing 18 kiss her husband made Bulma think of Vegeta and her. The question was where was he? "Goku, may I ask where Vegeta is?" Bulma asked, looking at her mate's long time rival.
"Yeah, and where are my boys?" Chichi asked while looking at Goku.
Goku, Krillen, Piccolo and Dende all looked down at the ground in sadness, not wanting or being able to answer. Chichi walked over to her husband, sensing something was not right. She touched Goku's arm. "Goku, what's wrong, where's Gohan and gotten? They're alright, aren't they?"
Goku took Chichi's hand in his and squeezing it slightly, but still refusing to answer her. If he told her he knew she would not be able to comprehend it. "Come on Goku, tell them." Krillen said while holding Marron in his arms.
Goku drew in a sharp breath, trying to find the right words to say. "What I have to say isn't very easy. Goten and trunks are fine." Goku stopped.
Chichi and Bulma smiled, happy to know their youngest saiyans were all right. Goku swallowed hard before continuing. "But Gohan and Vegeta are dead."
The smiles on the women's' faces disappeared just as quickly as they had appeared. Shock hit Chichi, Bulma and Videl like a brick wall. Chichi felt herself become light headed before fainting and falling to the ground unconscious. Bulma looked in disbelief at Goku. A single tear fell down Bulma's cheek. "NNNOOO!"
Yamcha took hold of Bulma's shoulders. "Bulma please come down." Yamcha said, trying to sooth his former girlfriend's pain.
Videl just stood there silently grieving. "No he can't be, he just can't."
Videl felt soft, warm tears sting her cheeks. "I love him."
Goku went to his unconscious wife. "Chichi, I'm so sorry. I should have been there for Gohan."
He picked Chichi up gently in his arms. Goku walked over to the Ox King. "Here, take chichi somewhere to rest." Goku said while handing Chichi to her father.
The Ox King took his daughter in his arms and walked away. Goku turned and walked to where Piccolo was standing, mourning in his own way. Goku cleared his throat, attracting the green alien's attention. "Uh, so what do we do now? Buu doesn't seem to be very easy to beat."
Piccolo gave Goku an annoyed look. "You think I do not realize that." Vegeta was equal in every way to you and yet he could not defeat Buu, it could take two saiyans to do what Vegeta tried to accomplish." Piccolo said.
Goku looked at Piccolo, an idea had just popped into his cranium. "Piccolo, you're a genius. Why didn't I think of it before?" Goku said as he smacked his head, punishing himself for his obvious stupidity.
Piccolo eyed Goku as if he were insane. "What are you talking about?"
"What I learned in otherworld, it's a fusion that takes place between two beings of similar size and strength. All I have to do is go back to otherworld and find Gohan and Vegeta to do the fusion with." Goku said.
Piccolo groaned. "Goku, one problem. Once you go back to otherworld and do the fusion you won't be able to come back."
Goku smiled, putting his hand behind his head. "Oh yeah, I forgot about that."
"So who else could there be?" Piccolo asked.
Just then Mr. Popo came. "Piccolo the boys are awake."
Goku blinked at Mr. Popo as if he had just come up with a plan to save the entire world. "That's it! Goten and Trunks, they are about the same size and strength." Goku said proudly.
Piccolo nodded, sort of surprised that Goku was capable of coming up with such a brilliant idea. "Good idea Goku, we should start right away." Piccolo said as he started to where the two young saiyans were.
Goku nodded and followed piccolo.
Elsewhere Kabito got up, checking himself over. "How am I alive? All I remember is Dabura's ugly hand in my face."
Kabito immediately sensed the faint energy signal coming from Shin. "Hold on master, I'm coming." Kabito said, as he took to the air in fast pursuit of the Supreme Kai.
Shin stumbled along slowly, trying to stay alive long enough to find Gohan. "I must find him. He may be our only hope." Shin said.
The Supreme Kai was determined to stay alive, at least long enough to find Gohan.