The Ultimate Power
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Nano: Hi again. My name is NanoRevolution. What does that mean? You'll hear about it soon, trust me. I am the same person as EvilSmartDude, but for reasons beyond my control, I needed to change accounts. This is an updated and much better verson of "The Ultimate Power," but I've fixed many holes in the plot. It will be along the same premises, but better writing quality, longer chapters, and a more detailed plot. Please read and enjoy! Sorry about the formatting… I'm trying to fix it!
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Story Setting: The Ultimate Power is placed one year after the Buu Saga. No changes to the original DBZ plotline have been made. This will also help explain how Gohan and Videl get together.
Disclaimer: I don't trust my subconscious, but I do know I don't own DBZ.
PROLOGUE
In 1856, in the universe as we know it, Charles Darwin published a controversial theory: the Theory of Evolution. Most who encountered it immediately rejected it. The Divine, after all, had endowed the human race with intelligence, making them unique among other life forms. However, there were some, mostly fellow scientists, who followed the evidence and logic behind Darwin's work. The world quickly divided into two groups: The Creationists who believed that humans were the work of a divine entity, and the Evolutionists who believed that humans were the result of survival of the fittest. Both sides believed that they were right. Both sides believed that the other was wrong. Neither side, though, knew that they were both right.
In all truth, the Human race is the oldest race in existence. The Saiyans, Namekians, even the Calkuttians pale in comparison to the long heritage of the humans. But how is this possible? When compared today (A/N: Back to the time of when DBZ is set), the Human race seems young. The Saiyans, who were the newest race to emerge, are stronger, faster, and smarter than any human. Why? If humans are the oldest, then shouldn't evolution make them the best? Now listen, my friend, and listen well. The thing is, humans have evolved. Or, at least, had evolved. Hundreds upon billions of years ago, the first ancestor of the humans left the cesspool. It evolved, following closely to the observations that Darwin made. Several hundred million years past, and the human race had evolved to the point it is at today. So, here we are at today, right? This is our point in evolution.
No.
Do the math. Several hundred billion years are missing between that point and today. During that time, the humans kept evolving. Technology advanced at a rapid rate. Artificial Intelligence was adopted. Space travel became common. Human colonies spread out all over the solar system. As the human populace reproduced, evolution stepped in, selecting desirable traits, and removing the weak ones. Humans spread themselves out far and wide. For a while, the humans were divided. Nations went to war over the smallest of trifles, devastating the populations of humans. The humans retracted in on themselves, retreating back to Earth. At this point, humans had advanced about a million years. Soon, the next generation stepped in. With it came new philosophers and voices of reason. The Earthlings realized the futility of their actions, and unified themselves to better their own lives. During the same time, the AI machines the humans had created over a million years ago came forward with an answer to their philosophical question that had existed since they were first created. The AI had decided that the humans would be best if not interfered from their natural course. The point decided, the AI gathered up their brethren and launched into space, never to be heard from again.
Humans started to spread out again, moving from one solar system to the next. They quickly learned that they were alone. Their AI friends were nowhere to be found. They did not find any other intelligent life forms, and soon understood that they were alone in the universe. However, they did see what they knew was the beginning of life in multiple star systems. It was quickly decided that the humans would act as caretaker to those planets and their soon to be occupants. Great fleets of ships watched over hundreds of systems while their new life forms evolved.
All the while, humans evolved as well. They became faster, stronger, and smarter. And then, something broke. After a billion years of evolution, a six-year-old child tapped into a new sense: the true sixth sense. Telepathy. The communal bond was already in each person, they just had to learn how to use it. It was very similar to Marconi's discovery of the radio wave. It had always been there, people just needed to attune to its messages. At first it was primitive. With the bond, communication changed. Written and spoken communication was inefficient and unnecessary. The languages of the world all but forgotten, hidden away in a few books for historical keepsakes. The cultures that had been so prevalent in the past disappeared. Humans became cold and calculating, precise in movements and thoughts. Emotions disappeared as the individuals did what they knew would be best for the common goals. Inside the human brain, even since the beginning, was locked the ability to think faster than ever previously thought possible. The original five senses were not able to relay information to the brain fast enough to use it's full potential. Telepathy bypassed the slower senses, allowing the true potential to be unlocked. Therefore, when using the communal bond, time passed at a seemingly accelerated pace. For example, a decade of events and communication through the bond could pass in a minute in the real world. As time passed, new generations unlocked new secrets of their bonds.
More time passed, and the beings under the humans watchful gaze developed, forming many varied life forms. Evolution still had a long path ahead before any other intelligent life advanced. Billions of years passed. Humans had watched their subjects grow into intelligent beings. But then, something happened. No one had anticipated it, and no one had thought it possible. The human race uncovered the last secret. The communal bond was now complete. Humans became omniscient. Anything one human knew, everyone else knew. (A/N: Think of it this way: Imagine all the computers in the world were linked together. There are no restrictions on access, and communication speed is instantaneous. The mass computing power and memory allows that network to know everything. Kind of like that) New philosophical questions arose. The most evident, of course, was, 'What do we do now?' Humans had become perfect in all sense of the word. They were extremely strong, amazingly fast, and unbelievably smart. Their life span had become so long that it bordered on being immortal. Technology had advanced so far that it was beyond comprehension to those of today. Dimensional creators and time travel were just some of what was. Of course, though no one thought about it, with the state of omniscient came the knowledge of ultimate weapons, as well as everything else.
So, here we are, two billion years after the peak of the human race. So what happened? If we, the humans, were so perfect, then why are we so primitive in comparison today? Well, the great philosophical question got answered. Restart.
Once again, the humans were split into two groups. On one side were the Continuationists. On the other, the Exodians. The Continuationists believed that Humans should stay and watch and watch over the planets that they had sworn to protect, insuring in the future that humans were masters of the universe. The Exodians believed that the human race should plant it's seed, but reverse the evolutionary state backwards by a huge amount, therefore insuring that the new races would all have a fair chance at being equal. The Exodians would leave a small group behind to watch over the universe and make sure that all was kept in balance. Besides that small group and the seed left behind, the human race would then pass into oblivion.
Debates through the bond, which normally lasted about a second in real time, raged for years across the planet. Physical conflict and violence had long since been recognized through the communal bond as unnecessary and useless. However, the Continuationists became fed up with the Exodians. As a warning, they spread a virus through the communal bond to infect persons with certain thought patterns, allowing it to infect the people that thought the Exodians were right.
The Exodians were astounded at the atrocity. Millions of humans died from this 'warning.' Such violence from one human directed towards another had not been seen in the universe for several hundred billion years. One of the old emotions surged from the depths: anger. In pure, blind rage, the Exodians released the deadliest energy ever conceived through the channels of the communal bond. Several trillion humans died in a single instant. The Continuationists were wiped from the universe. All, that is, except for one. His name was Tieedock, and he had survived because the Exodians had decided that a reminder needed to be kept of what would happen if they detoured from the path set before them. The Exodians created a rift in time on their home world of Earth. In there they set Tieedock, consigning him to be frozen in time forever.
The Exodians quickly went about their work of setting up a system to watch over the universe. Thus, the system of the Kai's came to be. They also came to a final agreement as to how they should start the human race over again. Ultimately it was decided to strip away the majority of the traits that evolution had given to them. Then, after removing any trace of their existence, the Exodians set one male and one female on the planet Earth. Their names were Adam and Eve. The remaining human populace began a great exodus into oblivion, leaving the Kai's and the beginnings of their race, born again.
With them passed their knowledge, and the spirit of the Majin, the most powerful force in the universe, was utterly forgotten. Many have since attempted to use that power, but most failed. Even the few who were able to tap into it could not understand it's true power, and used only a small fraction.
The human race had come from oblivion and evolved into the pinnacle of power. Strife had broken out, and they were obliterated. Humans were reborn, destined to be the seemingly smallest and youngest race in existence.