Hey, I'm back for chapter 4. In this one Alex will finally land in the DBZ
world, though it won't exactly be a pleasant landing.
Alex: Hey, I remember that. I hated it... I think...
Alex Ultra: Yeah, well, keep your socks on, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!
Alex: Are we going somewhere?
Alex Ultra: ... Uh, no.
This chapter is going to have a few twists, but that's okay 'cause from what I've seen so far, either I've got no readers, or my readers simply haven't reviewed! So a little bit of confusion may spur someone to review! Oh, and, PLEASE REVIEW!!!
I do not own DBZ or any of its characters. But this plot, and Alex, Kinkilla, and any other characters I will soon introduce all belong to ME!!
Alex: HEY!!
~~~~~~*** KILLER LANDINGS ***~~~~~~
"How strange." While still in that gate thingy I marveled at the bright lights surrounding me, though it didn't last long. Soon I saw the end of the darn thing and was (rudely) ejected from it.
"Aaaahhhh!!!" I found myself about twenty feet off the ground, and I didn't know how to fly! Needless to say, I fell like a lead weight.
"Oof!... OW!" Initially nothing out of the ordinary seemed obvious to me, I was in the middle of a large field between a large city and some mountains. "But, what happened to all that power?" All that power I had moments ago seemed to just, not exist anymore.
"But..." But THAT MUCH power can't just DISSAPPEAR!
Almost as if an answer to my questions, my power started returning, starting as a tingle. "I guess it just needed to come through that funny tunnel! Ow, I didn't think I landed that hard!" First, my legs started hurting, and at the same time, my power continued rising.
And the more it rose, the more it hurt! It didn't take long for me to make the connection... but at this point there was really nothing I could do! No matter what I did it just kept coming!
"AAHH!" My legs were more than just sore, THEY HURT!!! But soon my guts joined in. And it didn't take long for everything else to follow suit. I mean it HURT!!!
"Uhhhh... ngh, ahhhhhhhhh! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Now the pain was simple and pure TORTURE!!!
The pain was everywhere, everywhere!! From the tips of my hair to the ends of my toes, every joint, every muscle, every fiber of my being was SCREAMING IN PAIN!!! If I had been able to think straight enough I might have compared this to HELL!! Pure torturous pain flowing through my very BEING!! I thought for sure I might die... but I wasn't that lucky.
Instead the pain became MORE and MORE intense with every second! As more of my power returned to me, more of the pain that adrenaline had allowed me to ignore before returned, and without a target to focus my efforts on, that pain only got worse. IT ONLY GOT WORSE!!!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I was clutching my head with one hand, and clutching that hand with the other. This wasn't simple pain, like a headache or a backache, THIS WAS FULL-BODY, UNBEARABLY INTENSE PAIN!! I FELT AS IF MY BODY WAS BEING RIPPED APART!!!
And all the while, my power continued to flood my frame. Flooding my body with power it was not prepared, and not meant to handle. To put it simply, my body couldn't handle that much power, and if I was to survive, I would have to adapt.
But what did I care, the pain was so incredibly intense, that nothing else existed. The entire world to me was the pain in my body, and the power still coming back to me... and I was still only half there.
My shouting was becoming irregular; I was getting short of breath, heck, I COULD BARELY BREATHE AT ALL!!
But little did I know that someone had noticed me, had noticed my ki signal and could tell it was growing, and had grown curious...
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" My shouts were becoming screams now, what did I care if I sounded like a little girl? WHAT DID IT MATTER!!?? THE PAIN WAS UNBEARABLE!!
I started crawling around, clawing at the ground and beating at it. My body started going into convulsions, it felt as if my insides were being ripped right out of me!!
~~~ Stranger ~~~
The ki signal seemed to be coming from just outside Aaron City, right at the foot of the mountains where I was training, and when I got there, I saw the strangest thing. There was a form here, but it was glowing. Glowing like a light bulb!
And even more striking, this form seemed to be both in incredible pain, but it also seemed to be getting smaller!
It was a good thing Goku was on the other side of the world in Japan (where it was still night-time), or he might have been the one there, and he would likely have wanted to help, but, unfortunately, there was nothing to be done.
Either this person fought through it, or he (or she) would die.
~~~ Alex ~~~
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" If I had been paying attention, I might have heard my insides shifting, but the pain was too intense for me to wonder WHY it hurt so much.
I was writhing in pain, indescribable pain!!! Pain that cannot be described in words!
Then, there was one last pulse of incredible pain, and then... nothing. I closed my eyes and sighed one last sigh, then, having gotten through it, I did what any other sensible person would have done.
I fainted.
~~~ Stranger ~~~
I was watching with incredible interest as the form got brighter and brighter and the screaming got progressively louder.
Then, with a flash that reminded me of Solar Flare, it all stopped. No light, no screaming, nothing more than the feeling of dispersing energy as the form gave one last sigh, and fell silent.
Curious, I edged closer, I didn't want to cause undue alarm.
Upon close inspection I found what appeared to be a small child, and upon even closer inspection, I found a young girl.
So I did the only thing I could think to do. I took her to my house, to rest, recover, and maybe, to provide some answers.
~~~~~~ *12 hours later* ~~~~~~
"Ungh..." As I started to come to the first thing I noticed was that I wasn't in the field anymore, instead I was in some sort of bed. Granted it wasn't a very comfortable bed, but it was certainly better than laying out in some field.
But the second thing I noticed was that I needed to use the restroom, BADLY! Which wasn't out of the ordinary for me.
So, in a hurried manner, I hopped out of bed and rushed to the bathroom, which just happened to be just outside the door of the room I was in.
For some reason, the fact that everything seemed much bigger than it ought to be escaped me. But the thing that didn't escape my notice, was that when I pulled down my pants to pee, well, you know.
Confused, I did two things. First, by demand from 'Mother Nature', I hopped up and 'did my duty'. Then, second, I screamed, surprising myself with the high pitch of my voice.
But I hadn't actually expected anyone to come running as HE did.
~~~ Stranger ~~~
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" The high-pitched scream caught my attention immediately... How could I miss it!?!? I could have sworn that my ears might have started bleeding had it been any louder!!
I was so alarmed by the sudden outburst that I rushed to the source, and, after running into the closed door, found the girl, curled up on the toilet with (thank Kami) the large shirt that served as some kind of gown pulled over her legs.
When she saw me she was shivering in something I vaguely recognized as fear, looking up at me pleadingly.
"What happened to me?" She was on the verge of tears. But I had no answers, so instead, I told her what I saw. Somehow it didn't seem like enough, but when I mentioned that she seemed to be getting smaller when I saw her, she suddenly acted as if she understood. Apparently, I did have the answer.
~~~ Alex ~~~
"So," the stranger had just finished relaying his story and decided to change the subject, "what's your name?"
What's my name? Well, if what he had just told me was true, I wasn't who I was anymore. So, I chose a name, a name that somehow seemed appropriate. "Alex."
He didn't respond, instead, he closed his eyes and nodded, the sash of his turban swishing gently against the back of his green robe.
Now it was my turn, and strangely enough, although he had obviously gone to great lengths to hide it, I knew exactly who he was. "And you are..."
He seemed to be thinking it was a question, so he interrupted me. "My name is..." So I felt it appropriate to interrupt him back.
"Tien Shinhan. Your name is Tien Shinhan, the tri-clops." Judging by his reaction, one would have guessed that someone had told him he had ten minutes to live!
Then his surprise turned to a curious scowl. "How did you know my name?"
"Trust me, that's a long story. Perhaps I'll tell you later." Then I looked up at him, particularly, at his turban, the one hiding his third eye. "But first, take that thing off."
He was confused, but I guess he figured that a little girl couldn't exactly do much against him, and therefore I wasn't much of a threat. He took it off.
"That's better."
"So, Alex, how old are you?"
To be honest, I didn't know what to say in response to that. I knew that I was 18, but it was apparent that that was no longer the case.
So instead, I asked him a question. "How old would you say I am?" He thought for a moment, then said that I looked about five years old. "Then that's how old I am."
"What do you mean?" He asked, bewildered.
"Well, before I came here, I was 18, but it's obvious now that I am not."
Just then the albino kid, Chiaoutzu, floated into the room. "That sounds logical."
I pointed at him, and simply said, "Chiaoutzu." Again, surprise, and the assurance that I would fill them in later. But first, there was something bugging me, so I just had to ask. Why? Because I didn't know at what point in the saga I had landed. "Excuse me, but, how old is Gohan, Goku's son?" Again surprise, but Tien soon supplied me with an answer.
"I would have to say that he'd be about five right now." Great, that meant that Raditz had just left, IF he had even gotten there yet. Either way, that put me at the very beginning of the entire series.
But that was not a good thing. I knew that I could, but I didn't want to change the way things played out.
"If you want, we can visit them both in an island party. Do you want to come?"
Great, Raditz hadn't even come yet. But I was torn. I really wanted to see Goku and the others, but I knew that I could not interrupt.
What could I do?
~~~~~~*** End of Chapter 4 ***~~~~~~
How was it? Good and confusing? Doesn't it just make you want to review? I'd sure like it if you did!
By the way, I hadn't originally intended for Alex to be the same age as Gohan. Originally (in 'Hidden Power') Alex was to be twenty years old and the setting was two years after the Buu saga. It wasn't until I worked out the years all the way up to Cell that I figured out that she was Gohan's age! (I didn't even fully realize that she was 18 in the Buu saga!) Then I worked it back until she was five ('cause I wanted her to start at five) and ended up (by chance) with her landing right at the beginning of the series!
Alex: Yeah! And that kind of sucked!
Alex Ultra: Yeah, well, that's the way the dice rolls.
Alex: [mumbles]
Alex Ultra: By the way, she landed in America, far from most of the Z fighters (Z-Senshi), which is why Goku didn't show up.
Anyway, like I said before, REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!!
Oh, and next chapter will include things like: explanations, decisions, and meetings.
Till then, Alex Ultra says "See ya' next time!"
Alex: Hey, I remember that. I hated it... I think...
Alex Ultra: Yeah, well, keep your socks on, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!
Alex: Are we going somewhere?
Alex Ultra: ... Uh, no.
This chapter is going to have a few twists, but that's okay 'cause from what I've seen so far, either I've got no readers, or my readers simply haven't reviewed! So a little bit of confusion may spur someone to review! Oh, and, PLEASE REVIEW!!!
I do not own DBZ or any of its characters. But this plot, and Alex, Kinkilla, and any other characters I will soon introduce all belong to ME!!
Alex: HEY!!
~~~~~~*** KILLER LANDINGS ***~~~~~~
"How strange." While still in that gate thingy I marveled at the bright lights surrounding me, though it didn't last long. Soon I saw the end of the darn thing and was (rudely) ejected from it.
"Aaaahhhh!!!" I found myself about twenty feet off the ground, and I didn't know how to fly! Needless to say, I fell like a lead weight.
"Oof!... OW!" Initially nothing out of the ordinary seemed obvious to me, I was in the middle of a large field between a large city and some mountains. "But, what happened to all that power?" All that power I had moments ago seemed to just, not exist anymore.
"But..." But THAT MUCH power can't just DISSAPPEAR!
Almost as if an answer to my questions, my power started returning, starting as a tingle. "I guess it just needed to come through that funny tunnel! Ow, I didn't think I landed that hard!" First, my legs started hurting, and at the same time, my power continued rising.
And the more it rose, the more it hurt! It didn't take long for me to make the connection... but at this point there was really nothing I could do! No matter what I did it just kept coming!
"AAHH!" My legs were more than just sore, THEY HURT!!! But soon my guts joined in. And it didn't take long for everything else to follow suit. I mean it HURT!!!
"Uhhhh... ngh, ahhhhhhhhh! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Now the pain was simple and pure TORTURE!!!
The pain was everywhere, everywhere!! From the tips of my hair to the ends of my toes, every joint, every muscle, every fiber of my being was SCREAMING IN PAIN!!! If I had been able to think straight enough I might have compared this to HELL!! Pure torturous pain flowing through my very BEING!! I thought for sure I might die... but I wasn't that lucky.
Instead the pain became MORE and MORE intense with every second! As more of my power returned to me, more of the pain that adrenaline had allowed me to ignore before returned, and without a target to focus my efforts on, that pain only got worse. IT ONLY GOT WORSE!!!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I was clutching my head with one hand, and clutching that hand with the other. This wasn't simple pain, like a headache or a backache, THIS WAS FULL-BODY, UNBEARABLY INTENSE PAIN!! I FELT AS IF MY BODY WAS BEING RIPPED APART!!!
And all the while, my power continued to flood my frame. Flooding my body with power it was not prepared, and not meant to handle. To put it simply, my body couldn't handle that much power, and if I was to survive, I would have to adapt.
But what did I care, the pain was so incredibly intense, that nothing else existed. The entire world to me was the pain in my body, and the power still coming back to me... and I was still only half there.
My shouting was becoming irregular; I was getting short of breath, heck, I COULD BARELY BREATHE AT ALL!!
But little did I know that someone had noticed me, had noticed my ki signal and could tell it was growing, and had grown curious...
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" My shouts were becoming screams now, what did I care if I sounded like a little girl? WHAT DID IT MATTER!!?? THE PAIN WAS UNBEARABLE!!
I started crawling around, clawing at the ground and beating at it. My body started going into convulsions, it felt as if my insides were being ripped right out of me!!
~~~ Stranger ~~~
The ki signal seemed to be coming from just outside Aaron City, right at the foot of the mountains where I was training, and when I got there, I saw the strangest thing. There was a form here, but it was glowing. Glowing like a light bulb!
And even more striking, this form seemed to be both in incredible pain, but it also seemed to be getting smaller!
It was a good thing Goku was on the other side of the world in Japan (where it was still night-time), or he might have been the one there, and he would likely have wanted to help, but, unfortunately, there was nothing to be done.
Either this person fought through it, or he (or she) would die.
~~~ Alex ~~~
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" If I had been paying attention, I might have heard my insides shifting, but the pain was too intense for me to wonder WHY it hurt so much.
I was writhing in pain, indescribable pain!!! Pain that cannot be described in words!
Then, there was one last pulse of incredible pain, and then... nothing. I closed my eyes and sighed one last sigh, then, having gotten through it, I did what any other sensible person would have done.
I fainted.
~~~ Stranger ~~~
I was watching with incredible interest as the form got brighter and brighter and the screaming got progressively louder.
Then, with a flash that reminded me of Solar Flare, it all stopped. No light, no screaming, nothing more than the feeling of dispersing energy as the form gave one last sigh, and fell silent.
Curious, I edged closer, I didn't want to cause undue alarm.
Upon close inspection I found what appeared to be a small child, and upon even closer inspection, I found a young girl.
So I did the only thing I could think to do. I took her to my house, to rest, recover, and maybe, to provide some answers.
~~~~~~ *12 hours later* ~~~~~~
"Ungh..." As I started to come to the first thing I noticed was that I wasn't in the field anymore, instead I was in some sort of bed. Granted it wasn't a very comfortable bed, but it was certainly better than laying out in some field.
But the second thing I noticed was that I needed to use the restroom, BADLY! Which wasn't out of the ordinary for me.
So, in a hurried manner, I hopped out of bed and rushed to the bathroom, which just happened to be just outside the door of the room I was in.
For some reason, the fact that everything seemed much bigger than it ought to be escaped me. But the thing that didn't escape my notice, was that when I pulled down my pants to pee, well, you know.
Confused, I did two things. First, by demand from 'Mother Nature', I hopped up and 'did my duty'. Then, second, I screamed, surprising myself with the high pitch of my voice.
But I hadn't actually expected anyone to come running as HE did.
~~~ Stranger ~~~
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" The high-pitched scream caught my attention immediately... How could I miss it!?!? I could have sworn that my ears might have started bleeding had it been any louder!!
I was so alarmed by the sudden outburst that I rushed to the source, and, after running into the closed door, found the girl, curled up on the toilet with (thank Kami) the large shirt that served as some kind of gown pulled over her legs.
When she saw me she was shivering in something I vaguely recognized as fear, looking up at me pleadingly.
"What happened to me?" She was on the verge of tears. But I had no answers, so instead, I told her what I saw. Somehow it didn't seem like enough, but when I mentioned that she seemed to be getting smaller when I saw her, she suddenly acted as if she understood. Apparently, I did have the answer.
~~~ Alex ~~~
"So," the stranger had just finished relaying his story and decided to change the subject, "what's your name?"
What's my name? Well, if what he had just told me was true, I wasn't who I was anymore. So, I chose a name, a name that somehow seemed appropriate. "Alex."
He didn't respond, instead, he closed his eyes and nodded, the sash of his turban swishing gently against the back of his green robe.
Now it was my turn, and strangely enough, although he had obviously gone to great lengths to hide it, I knew exactly who he was. "And you are..."
He seemed to be thinking it was a question, so he interrupted me. "My name is..." So I felt it appropriate to interrupt him back.
"Tien Shinhan. Your name is Tien Shinhan, the tri-clops." Judging by his reaction, one would have guessed that someone had told him he had ten minutes to live!
Then his surprise turned to a curious scowl. "How did you know my name?"
"Trust me, that's a long story. Perhaps I'll tell you later." Then I looked up at him, particularly, at his turban, the one hiding his third eye. "But first, take that thing off."
He was confused, but I guess he figured that a little girl couldn't exactly do much against him, and therefore I wasn't much of a threat. He took it off.
"That's better."
"So, Alex, how old are you?"
To be honest, I didn't know what to say in response to that. I knew that I was 18, but it was apparent that that was no longer the case.
So instead, I asked him a question. "How old would you say I am?" He thought for a moment, then said that I looked about five years old. "Then that's how old I am."
"What do you mean?" He asked, bewildered.
"Well, before I came here, I was 18, but it's obvious now that I am not."
Just then the albino kid, Chiaoutzu, floated into the room. "That sounds logical."
I pointed at him, and simply said, "Chiaoutzu." Again, surprise, and the assurance that I would fill them in later. But first, there was something bugging me, so I just had to ask. Why? Because I didn't know at what point in the saga I had landed. "Excuse me, but, how old is Gohan, Goku's son?" Again surprise, but Tien soon supplied me with an answer.
"I would have to say that he'd be about five right now." Great, that meant that Raditz had just left, IF he had even gotten there yet. Either way, that put me at the very beginning of the entire series.
But that was not a good thing. I knew that I could, but I didn't want to change the way things played out.
"If you want, we can visit them both in an island party. Do you want to come?"
Great, Raditz hadn't even come yet. But I was torn. I really wanted to see Goku and the others, but I knew that I could not interrupt.
What could I do?
~~~~~~*** End of Chapter 4 ***~~~~~~
How was it? Good and confusing? Doesn't it just make you want to review? I'd sure like it if you did!
By the way, I hadn't originally intended for Alex to be the same age as Gohan. Originally (in 'Hidden Power') Alex was to be twenty years old and the setting was two years after the Buu saga. It wasn't until I worked out the years all the way up to Cell that I figured out that she was Gohan's age! (I didn't even fully realize that she was 18 in the Buu saga!) Then I worked it back until she was five ('cause I wanted her to start at five) and ended up (by chance) with her landing right at the beginning of the series!
Alex: Yeah! And that kind of sucked!
Alex Ultra: Yeah, well, that's the way the dice rolls.
Alex: [mumbles]
Alex Ultra: By the way, she landed in America, far from most of the Z fighters (Z-Senshi), which is why Goku didn't show up.
Anyway, like I said before, REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!!
Oh, and next chapter will include things like: explanations, decisions, and meetings.
Till then, Alex Ultra says "See ya' next time!"