Chapter 9: Legendary Super Saiyan Unveiled

Ail and Ann's space ship shot through space, hurtling to find an uninhabited planet, where they could plant the one remains of their tree, and nurture it with love. They had learned their lesson: evil doesn't pay, love is good.

In the exact opposite direction another ship zipped through space. Ridish watched Ail and Ann's ship from inside it, and he looked back at Dimwu. The furred alien checked its scanners, and answered, "Nothing interdimensional."

"Can't have them potentially called reinforcements," Ridish grinned evilly, stopped the ship, and casually walked to the air lock. He went inside, then outside of the ship, his ki protecting from the freezing of space. Soon he would need to go back inside to breathe, but for a few minutes he could easily stand in space. He pointed his hand, and then an energy blast shot across the vas distance of space. His aim was true, the energy blast crossed Ail's and Ann's ship's path right on target. With an explosion the two aliens and their ship were wiped off from the face of existence. Ridish lazily went back into the ship, and ordered, "Onward." Dimwu started up the ship again, and it flew onward, as ordered: target Earth.

*****

The Sailor Soldiers had just finished congratulating each other, after Usagi - the original blonde one, with the odangos - finished telling the story of how Ail and Ann's tree needed love in order to grow, not energy, how the two had finally realized that, and found love, but too late and had left to find a place to plant the one small remains of the tree, and to try and revive it. She had done this of course, from the arms of her lover, Mamoru, who had merged with his split alter ego - Knight of the Moonlight - only just now, and finally regained his memory. At that moment Meiou Setsuna, also known as Sailor Pluto, walked in on them, and introduced herself. Before the team of magical heroes could reply, she made the transformation into Sailor Pluto - minus now destroyed staff - and finished, "I am Sailor Pluto, and I have /grave/ news, Princess. The Gates of Time were just destroyed, by an enemy with unimaginable power."

Pluto continued with detailing the whole event, leaving out that the fake, or turned Sailor Soldier that had brought the guy there was really Usagi's daughter. When she was finished with her detailed account, Artemis came from the group, and asked, "Great Guardian of Time, I know this is presumptuous, but do you happen to know the identity of this enemy?"

Pluto thought long and hard, was about to say no, when she remembered Usagi mention a name, "Yes, and no, the turned Sailor Soldier mentioned his name: Son Gohan."

There was deadly silence, the whole team looked at the newcomer with shocked expressions. "No, way," Makoto was the first to defend their new friend. "Gohan wouldn't do that, he's a friend, a hero."

Pluto was surprised at that answer. "Unless he was tricked," Minako tempered the reactions, of the other girls who were about to vehemently defend Gohan as well.

Suspiciously Rei took a step forward, and studied Pluto, then said, "How do we know /you're/ not the fake or turned Sailor Soldier?"

"Yeah," Usagi said, taking forward, a tiny bit of the great leader showing in the way she handled herself. "You just come barging in here, unannounced, we've never seen you before, and then start accusing one of our friends, someone who's saved all our lives, and most likely the world. Is there anything more than just your word we've got to go on?"

"She is who she says she is, and I did destroy the time gates."

The whole team looked over at the entrance of the small building, where Gohan stood, hands in his pockets. He walked inside, and the others looked at him in shock. Gohan walked passed the shocked crowd, and walked to the far corner of the room, and sat down calmly. "You were tricked?" Ami asked confused.

Gohan shook his head, "No, and the soldier that asked me to do it, isn't a fake, or turned either. I checked, she let me see into her mind, I'll explain in a little while when Umino is here, that way I have to explain everything only once."

The room burst into questions, and accusations, Mamoru having the least idea what was going on, and the least emotionally evolved, kept a level head. His commanding voice instantly silenced the others, as he asked, "Umino? He's an outsider, and he's pretty much physically incapable, what do you want him here for?"

"And who exactly are you?" Gohan asked him, two gazes of command, of royalty locking. It was a challenge, if you belong here, why doesn't Umino?

Usagi quickly interjected, "This is Chiba Mamoru, also known as the hero Tuxedo Kamen, he got split into the Knight of the Moonlight because he couldn't bare to forget me, the two merged again, he's the reincarnation of prince Endymion, he's my lover."

Of course Gohan couldn't keep behind after and intro like that, so he gave the guy a smile, and said, "I'm Son Gohan, heir to the Ox Kingdom throne, and I'm the hero Ninja Z." The two stared at each other, the girls, even Pluto the ancient guardian of time who was practically boiling with anger, and hate, were silent during the tug of wills. Eventually both smiled and then Gohan explained, "You are correct, Umino also has the heart of a hero, the aim of a hawk, I think most of the soldiers here can attest to that . . ." The girls, except Usagi and Setsuna remembered the day in the virtual reality theater, and gave each other a quick look, and nodded. Gohan finished, then, "as for his other physical capabilities, or incapabilities, that won't be an issue once I'm done training him, as I'll be training you." Before the others could make any surprising, or indignant comments, Gohan added, "As for him being here, you'll have to train many others with what I teach you, a few of the fighters at the tournament had great potential, for a few girls, and a guy in fancy clothes won't be able to fight off entire armies, and this Earth's armies won't stand a chance against the armies that are coming."

"Ah, did you invite this fine young lad over here?" an old croaking voice asked. Everybody looked over. Rei's grandfather stood their, his eyes sparkling as they moved over the young, nubile flesh, finally resting on Setsuna. "Ooh, new blood."

"Grandfather," Rei said with a little exasperation, but always respect.

"All right, all right, I'm going, I'm going, I never understand what you kids are doing in there all the time," the old man complained and left the building, leaving a nervous Umino standing at the entrance.

"Come in, Umino," Gohan said, and the Umino took a few steps, looking at the girls, and the costumed Pluto. "I'd like you to meet the Sailor Soldiers, and Tuxedo Kamen, also known as some of your best friends, their friends, and Chiba Mamoru, and the recent new addition, Meiou Setsuna, Sailor Pluto, guardian of time."

The whole group was shocked at the bold-faced introduction, not to mention the accurate naming of Sailor Pluto. "Umino, I'm Son Gohan, I'm half-Human, half-Saiyan, and I'm from another dimension. Everyone meet Gurio Umino, your new ally."

Gohan got up, taking advantage of the shocked silence, "Today a Sailor Soldier from the future arrived in my living room, she was your daughter Usagi."

"WHAT!?" the blonde shrieked out in shock and panic. "Daughter!?"

"She asked me to destroy the time gates, and I did," Gohan continued calmly. "She couldn't change the past more than she was allowed to, but I can write the future anyway I see fit. I'm going to give you the basic history of the future - you die, all of you, the entire planet." All of their jaws dropped in shock. "Because of me, because of you, my arrival here irrevocably changed any possible future. You could not see my arrival Setsuna, because I am not of this universe, and thus not of this time. My breaching the dimensional barriers has been picked up by many sensors, or will be picked up if the signal hasn't reached there yet, throughout the galaxy. And they'll be coming here, two of them already did, I destroyed them. Remember how easily they defeated you? Those following will be infinitely stronger, and / or come with far greater numbers. They want a new power, if they get their hands on inter-dimensional technology they'll get many advantages over any enemy they're fighting."

Gohan paused here, and looked around the room, he saw the expression on their faces. "Partly it is your fault," he continued looking deeply into their eyes, one by one. "You were arrogant, especially you Setsuna. What you saw, is only a possibly future, not /the/ future. You can't get it anymore, it's over, your ideal future will never come, my arriving here irrevocably destroyed that possibility. But you figured that out far to late, you figured you had to guard the time-line, not time, you sent soldiers back in time every time you managed to defeat them, figured out a weakness to exploit. As a result none of you died, none of you saw the threat the enemies posed, you just patted yourself on the back whenever you used a weakness to overcome them. Eventually there came an army, too powerful, and too numerous to overcome, you were defeated, killed, along with city by city the rest of the world. That's why you sent Usagi's daughter back in time, one final desperate time travel; /force/ you to fight, /force/ you all to train, to grow stronger . . ."

Gohan was interrupted as Setsuna dropped to her knees in shock, understanding written on her face. "By removing our ability to go back in time, so we can't get a quick fix, oh, Kamis," she whispered, as she understood what happened, and her own innate knowledge of time and the future allowing her to see Gohan was telling the truth.

"So, you ready to fight the future?" Gohan asked them, and watched the girls turn their heads to him, each slowly bit by bit growing determined, Mamoru's joined them. "That includes you, Umino." The boy swallowed deeply, but did not go away. "Good, time to start the basics." Gohan's ki flame burst into existence, an charged an energy ball above either hand that he held up, "This is your ki, your life force, yin and yang. You may have great battle instincts, but against beings that can level cities, and even destroy planets you don't stand a chance if you can't tap into this power. The more you have of it, the more powerful your attacks, the more powerful your magic. I'm going to teach you all how to tap into it . . . uh, this is the difficult part, I've never been really trained in how to tap into it, I pretty much did it automatically." Gohan scratched his head sheepishly, "This is going to take some figuring out." The magical girls groaned.

In the next half an hour Ami had the brilliant idea (obviously) to transform. As per her idea, the girls found they could feel and tap into their ki much better and easier, and once Gohan had given them the basics, they managed to do the same when they were not transformed - of course, tapping in and feeling their ki wasn't generating waves of energy, flying or powering ki balls. It would take a lot of training before they could do that, this beginning was all internal, better control of their energy and bodies. Gohan had less luck with the two guys who could not transform into magical warriors. Before he could come up with a solution though, Gohan suddenly looked up into the sky and a dark look crossed his features.

The others stopped their practicing, and watched Gohan. "Is their a reason why you let the Seijuurou and Natsumi go?" Gohan asked casually, almost sadly.

"Their tree didn't need energy, but love, they've learned to feel it, their good people now. They're finding an uninhabited planet where they can nurture the last remains of their tree back to life using love," Usagi answered him with big, naive eyes.

"They won't, they're dead," Gohan announced, definitely saddened now. Shock ran through the girls' features, Usagi even let a few tears. "They didn't heed my warning," Gohan said very darkly, anger slowly building over the careless destruction of life, especially life that had obviously been friends with some of his, even though they had tried to kill them on occasion, the two /had/ learned their lesson. He started pulling off his shirt, revealing his Ninja Z costume underneath, then slowly took off his pants, and realized that by taking it slow, they didn't get all caught into each other. By the time he was finished, the girls had transformed as well. Mamoru - not having time to get his costume after the Ail and Ann incident - and Umino both stayed behind.

*****

"Do I really have to come with?" Dimwu asked with a shaky voice, as the shuttle touched down. "I can't just stay in orbit while you go deal with the situations."

"I can destroy this planet with ease, this is just one fighter, coward, I'll deal with him, let's go," Ridish told the fur ball with an angry scowl.

"So can the fighter," Dimwu said but followed the other alien anyway.

Ridish and Dimwu flew into the city, the yellow alien casually scanning the area, and soon seeing a black and red clad person hanging casually in the air, seemingly waiting for him, his arms folded across his chest. On the tall building behind him a few colorfully drabbed individuals stood watching. As Ridish came closer he realized the figure couldn't be more than a boy. Dimwu behind Ridsh swallowed and went over to another building only a few stories high and placed himself there, ready for the shame.

Ridish slowed down a few meters away from Gohan, and with a grin, he asked, "Say boy, you wouldn't now any exceptionally good and powerful fighters around here, do you?" Dimwu winced.

"/I/ am one," Gohan told him casually, only his eyes and hair visible behind the mask.

Ridish chuckled evilly, "I'm sure you are, kid, but I'm looking for the guy who defeat him and a colleague of ours not too long ago. He tried to destroy the city, so you can understand the power behind it. Killing all these innocent people is a big no, no, you see, he's been punished, but we'd like to apologize."

"That would be me, the name is Ninja Z, and apology accepted, now leave," Ninja Z aka Gohan replied with an unseen, grim smile.

The words and meaning took a while to filter through the warriors brain, and then he turned to look at Dimwu waiting fearfully on a roof, and said, "You two got beaten up by a little kid? What kind of weak fools are you!?" Dimwu shrank back in shame, and then Ridish turned back to Gohan. "All right, boy, if you really have that kind of power at this age, the boss could use you. How about you join us, we'll teach you everything we know, make you a great warrior!"

"There's nothing you can teach me, I would be the one teaching you," Ninja Z answered with a statement of fact.

Ridish chuckled, and chuckled some more and harder, and suddenly laughed out loud. Suddenly he moved and threw a punch at Ninja Z, who avoided the blow, and landed a left cross across the yellow alien's chin. The alien shot back a little and then slowed himself down. "That's it," Ridish growled, and a deep purple ki flame enveloped him with such force that the nearby just fixed windows in the tall buildings shattered again.

Gohan's ki flame burst forth with a vengeance, the warning beep on both power levels in Dimwu's scanner made the furred alien jump and then look with wide shocked eyes at the readout. "Unbelievable," he whispered in shock at the machine.

A moment later the two main combatants were in furious battle. Punches in kicks were mere blurs, if they weren't invisible. The alien showed a surprising level of skill, almost equal to Gohan's own. Punches were blocked, and punches were countered on both sides. One of Ridish's connected, and Gohan flew down. He somersaulted, landed on the pavement - cracking it - and then jumped backward immediately. A moment later Ridish's fist hit the pavement where Gohan was standing, and the pavement was destroyed leaving a good size hole. At that moment an energy blast connected with the alien, and exploded, causing the alien to groan in pain as he was flung bang. He growled in anger, pushed off of the asphalt of the road, creating a star of cracks, and sped into the air, where Gohan and him were once again locked into combat.

"They make Jarbal look like a snail," Sailor Jupiter muttered in disbelief at the rapidly moving warriors.

The punches Gohan landed Ridish started to shrug off mostly. Gohan did the same with his, but it was obvious he did it with far less ease. Ridish grinned at the Gohan, he was mightily surprised at the boy's power and skill, but he knew the kid couldn't last long. He landed an energy ball on the half-Saiyan, which exploded and sent Gohan back. Using the opportunity Ridish flashed forward and landed a massive punch against Gohan, who was flung back with incredible speeds. He groaned at the pain blossoming in his chin. He rapidly twisted around his axis, and put his left leg down upon the ground to slow himself down, his ki flame growing in intensity. Gohan continued moving backward, the asphalt cracking open and pushed aside, leaving a ditch. He moved straight for a t-split and a building, and while the Sailor Soldiers watched in awe, he rapidly slowed down, just on time not to take the pavement with him. With a sudden flash Gohan disappeared from his position, and reappeared near Ridish. With a powerful yell he through a left hook with all his might. Ridish left hand came up, and blocked it.

Gohan was still floating in the air, his eyes locked with his enemy's, their arms still locked together. Ridish's smile deepened, and then Gohan pulled his arms back, smirked, and gently lowered himself to the ground. He placed himself a meter away from Ridish.

"You can still join us, boy," Ridish told Gohan with an evil grin, showing a few rows of pointed, razor sharp teeth.

"No, this is /your/ last chance to leave," Gohan countered calmly.

Ridish laughed, and then told him, "You're living in a dream world, boy. You should know I outclass you in power /and/ speed."

Gohan grinned, and told him, "It seems you refuse to listen to reason. Fine then, consider yourself lucky, you're going to be one of a very privileged few who get to fight a legendary Super Saiyan, and far less even have survived the encounter."

Risish looked surprised, and completely confused, "Legendary Super what!? Do you take me for a . . ."

With a quick yell Gohan transformed, and intense golden aura pulsed around him. The asphalt had cracked just a little under his feet. His hair stood up and waved gently as if charged with electricity and was equally golden as his aura. His eyes had turned emerald green, and his pupils were no longer visible. With a small bang Dimwu's scanner exploded, and he looked shocked at the remains. "No way," he whispered.

At the same time, Sailor Mars suddenly grabbed the sides of her head, and screamed out. She staggered back under the completely unexpected onslaught. Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Moon grabbed her, and held her stomach. Slowly Mars gained back control, but she kept holding her head, and her eyes were wide, jaw slack. "That's insane, it shouldn't be possible," she said, straightened and looked down at Super Gohan.

The others looked at the new Gohan as well, amazed at his golden hair, and the golden flame of energy surrounding him, serenely dangerous looking.

"What the . . .?" Ridish muttered in surprise, looking into the cold green eyes. The fact that the rest of Gohan's face was obscured, made him seem all the more dangerous. The alien then got himself under control, and hissed, "Changing your hair color won't do anything!" He failed to notice the destroyed meter as he attacked, and threw a devastating punch. Gohan blocked it with a casual raising of his left arm. Ridish looked into the enraged green eyes of the Super Saiyan, and he flinched. He quickly backed off and continued with a flurry of blows that would have made many martial artist proud. Gohan didn't move a millimeter, only his rams and hands moved, constantly blocking or deflecting the rain of punched. Finally Ridish managed to get through the half-Saiyan's defenses, and landed a solid punch on Gohan's jaw. All it did was make Gohan's head snap to the side a little. Gohan looked back at Ridish, and saw the disbelief written there.

"I told you this would happen," Gohan said calmly. Ridish jumped up, and started firing energy blast after energy blast down at the golden boy. On after the other crashed and exploded, until some came flying back at him. Ridish had to avoid his own blasts that hurtled out into space and was forced to stop with his onslaught. When the dust cleared, Ridish watched the Super Saiyan stand there, unscathed, a myriad of holes slammed into the asphalt and pavement surrounding him.

Gohan suddenly blinked out, and reappeared far above Ridish. The yellow alien looked left and right, but didn't find him. "Up here," Gohan said, and Ridish looked up. His eyes widening when he saw the energy attack charge in Gohan's hands. "Kamehameha!" Gohan yelled and sent the massive beam of energy down. Ridish stayed put like a dear caught in the head lights. A moment later the beam struck him, and he screamed in pain as it shredded at his skin and yanked him down to the ground. The beam impacted, and carefully controlled, virtually all of its energy was directed upward harmlessly into the atmosphere as it exploded.

Gohan rapidly moved downward after Ridish, and before the alien could get up from the whole he was lying in, Gohan smashed his foot into his stomach. Ridish yelled out with pain as she doubled over, before painfully lying back down. Rapidly Gohan grabbed Ridish by his head, and flipped him over, making him face the ground, and smashed him face first into the asphalt, eliciting a painful groan from the alien. Gohan pulled him and smashed him back down again, and did this several times over while he said, "I. Really. Hate. Being. Called. A. Boy!!"

Gohan then just let him go, and dropped him to the ground. He turned him back around, and got into Ridish's face, bloodied with purple, and hissed, "I'm giving you the exact same chance as the other two. Leave, and don't ever come back, better your life, if you return here, or I meet you out there and you haven't changed your ways, I will kill you."

Gohan then stood up and looked over at Dimwu still standing on the roof. "I warned you," Gohan said, stretched out a hand, charged a blast and fired it. Before the furred alien could react, he was blown to bits with a small explosion. Gohan turned back to Ridish, and said, "Now get lost." Then with a mighty kick, Gohan sent Ridish sailing through the air to where his space ship was standing.

A few moments later the Sailor Soldiers arrived with Gohan after jumping off the building. "Whoa," Venus muttered looking at the impressive golden glow surrounding the Saiyan.

Suddenly a reporter and a cameraman arrived, and the reporter said, "Hello, sir. You are a new super hero I see. What's your name? And would you consent to an interview!?"

Gohan looked with disbelief at the man, and Sailor Moon answered for him. "He's Ninja Z!" she exclaimed, giddy with excitement.

"And no," Gohan finished and then lifted up in the air and blasted off. The soldiers quickly turned away from the reporter as well and ran away.

*****

The girls had marveled at Gohan's transformation back at the shrine. Not very comfortable with that, and still no closer to solving the mystery on how to train the two non-magical persons, and neither were the Sailor Soldiers, Gohan had excused himself and gotten back to his apartment. Seeing the inter-dimensional ship got him an idea. He quickly get the interdimensional communicator and dialed up Bulma. #Hey, Gohan,# she greeted a few moments later from the small screen.

"Hi, Bulma, is Krillin training with Vegeta by any chance?" Gohan asked excitedly.

#Uh, yeah, want to talk to him?# Bulma asked a little uncertain.

"Yeah, if you would," Gohan told her. Bulma nodded and disappeared for a short while.

A couple of minutes later Krillin appeared on the screen, Vegeta's complaining could be heard in the background. #Hello, Gohan, how's everything going over there?# Krillin asked Gohan.

"I'm fine, but this place - not so good, which is why I'm calling," Gohan answered with a worried frown. "How did Master Roshi teach you to tap into your ki? I'm trying to teach two guys to do it, but I can't seem to get them to feel their energy. I can't get them to tap into it. I just /did/ it, I never really learned how to go about doing it."

#Have you lost your mind!?# Bulma screeched out and pushed Krillin away from the screen. #You can't do that, Gohan!! You can't just alter an entire dimension to suit your purposes!#

"Bulma, that's already happened," Gohan said with a pained voice, almost pleading for Bulma to understand. "Several aliens have already arrived, and many more will be coming because I'm here. Their sensors detected the breaching of the dimensional barriers, now they're coming here to get their hands on the technology, and this Earth is doomed. A girl from the future came, she needed me to help me with something. They will lose, too strong, too many, in a few decades this world will be a waste land. Nobody will be alive, everyone dies. That's all because of us, because we came here, the least I can do is arm them against what comes." Bulma looked at him, deeply shocked, slowly she slumped away from the screen, obviously saddened that her invention had such a horrible impact on the universe it went to.

Krillin reappeared on the screen, and said, #You came to the right man, Gohan. Me, Yamcha, Tien and Chaozu just started a new Martial Arts school, and we figured that the horrendous training regimen me and Goku endured from Master Roshi was overboard. So we devised a way to teach our students to become quickly familiar with their ki without extremely hard training. Of course, this won't really make them stronger, it's just that now they've learned of their ki, and perfect for self-defense classes. If they want to get stronger, and compete in tournaments, or even compete with us, they /will/ have to go through that horrendous training.#

Gohan nodded, saying, "I get it."

Krillin nodded, #I'll give you both, got a pen and paper?# Gohan nodded grabbing a pen and paper and holding it out for the camera for a brief moment. #All right then, first is the faster way to tap into ki, what you have to teach them, then I'll explain how Master Roshi trained me, they'll have to keep doing that on their own after you leave.# Gohan raised his eyebrows questioningly. #Bulma is almost done with her new ship,# Krillin clarified, before starting to tell the training techniques.