Anyway, here's chapter eleven!
Disclaimer: I'm feeling uncreative right now, so I'll just state that I don't own DBZ.
History of Another Time
When Pan used the prototype time machine, intending to travel to the past where no one knew her, something went wrong. Instead of the past, she was sent to an alternate present where Vegeta-sei was never blown up, her extended family was still alive, Bulma and Vegeta still got together, and so forth. What events led to this timeline's creation? How is the history of this time different, and how is it similar, to the reality that Pan came from? It all started long ago...
In the last few years of Frieza's reign, few planets were targeted to be cleared, as he had his hands full just dealing with the growing problem of the rebellious Saiya-jin. Records of the planets on the schedule to be sold were poorly kept or lost, so it was no wonder that few people knew that, once upon a time, a small planet known by its inhabitants as Earth was on the list of planets to be cleared and sold. The people of Earth were relatively weak, so it was thought that a mere third class baby would be sufficient to handle clearing the planet. Taken from his mother soon after birth and placed in a pod with a course set in for the small, blue-green world, an infant Saiyan named Kakarot was assigned the task of clearing the planet of its inhabitants.
Upon landing on this beautiful world, the baby was discovered by a kindly old martial arts master, who took the child in and raised him as his own, giving him the name of Son Goku. Unfortunately, the child was wild, untamable, and violent, and it seemed that nothing Son Gohan, the martial artist, did had any effect on him.
Until fate took a hand in the matter.
The Saiyan baby now called Goku fell over a cliff and suffered a severe head injury, wiping away all trace of his former identity and nature, leaving behind a sweet and loving, innocent and naive boy with an odd, fuzzy tail. And that was the end of the matter, as far as Son Gohan was concerned. At least until the first time Goku laid eyes on the full moon. Gohan witnessed his adoptive grandson change from child to monster under the moon's influence, then barely lasted through the night as the wild oozaru laid waste to everything around him. When the moon set, however, Goku returned to normal, without any memory of the incident. From that day on, Gohan warned the child to never look at the full moon.
And so peace continued for a few years, until the night when Goku accidentally glanced at the moon and transformed once again. In his mindless rage, the transformed boy stepped on his loving grandfather, killing the old man without even realizing it. When the transformation ended and he woke up the next morning, he heartbroken to find his beloved grandfather was dead.
Yeas passed as the boy continued to live on his own in the wild, until a fateful day when a human girl came searching for a legend, a myth that she intended to prove was no myth. Seven magical balls lay scattered around the world, balls that, when gathered together, would summon a mighty dragon and grant someone one wish. As it so happened, Master Gohan had left such a ball in the care of his adoptive grandson, and so Bulma's Dragon Radar led her right to the home of Son Goku. The two became friends and joined together on the quest to find the seven magical balls, making other friends and having many adventures which will not be recounted in this history.
Towards the end of that first hunt, Goku, Bulma, and their new friends Yamcha, Puar, and Oolong were all captured by a blue midget of a self-proclaimed emperor named Pilaf, who was also determined to use the dragonballs to grant his own wish. During the night, while the five were imprisoned and waiting to die, Goku happened to look at the full moon and transformed for the third time in his life. He broke free of the prison and laid waste to the castle he and his friends had been held in, and he would have killed his friends in his mindless rage, had they not cut his tail off and returned him to his normal form.
Goku's tail never grew back.
Realizing that it was really Goku who had killed his own grandfather, Bulma, Yamcha, Oolong, and Puar all vowed never to tell their friend the truth. At least, not until he was old enough to handle it. It would have broken the poor boy's heart to know he had killed the only family he had ever known. And so Goku grew up thinking that he was just like everyone else, except that he had once had a tail.
Time passed, and Goku was taken in by his grandfather's own master, the Turtle Hermit Master Roshi. Together, he and his newfound friend Krillen participated in the Tenkaichi Budokai, where the young Saiyan made it all the way to the finals. He almost didn't make it past one of his earlier matches, where a dinosaur-like opponent trapped him in an odd, gummy substance, bu through sheer determination and quick thinking, he bit his way through the bonds and beat the other competitor. His opponent in the finals, an old man named 'Jackie Chun', managed to defeat the young Saiyan, although it was a close thing. No one noticed the full moon in the sky, and without his tail, Goku didn't change into an oozaru.
Life continued on and the Saiyan boy grew, still enjoying many adventures
and becoming ever stronger.
In the mean time, Earth and the Saiyan sent to conquer it were forgotten by the Planet Trade Organization. Soon after Goku had been sent to Earth, the Saiya-jin rebelled and sought to end the reign of Frieza. Many records were lost or damaged, and no one was ever sent to follow up on the progress of the infant Kakarot. His family naturally assumed that he had died and, eventually, all but forgot about him. In order to quell the uprisings on Vegeta-sei, Frieza killed King Vegeta and placed the king's young son, Prince Vegeta, on the throne. He had toyed with the idea of destroying the planet then and there, but had changed his mind on a whim. The Saiyans were still too weak to pose a challenge, and with the death of their stubborn king, the Ice-jin tyrant hoped to eke a few more years of usefulness out of the proud race. He hoped that he could influence the child king and manipulate the Saiyans through the young Vegeta into continuing to do his will.
This worked fairly well for about fifteen years. Although he was young, Vegeta was not stupid. He played along with Frieza's plan, all the while training to become stronger, strong enough to defeat the lizard tyrant, free his people, and avenge his father. Upon reaching adulthood, he still was not strong enough to stand a chance against Frieza, though he was by far the strongest Saiyan at the time. However, pride leads people to do stupid things, and during one of Frieza's visits to Vegeta-sei the young king launched his attack, determined to rid the universe once and for all of the being that had plagued his people and held them in thrall.
Vegeta-ou did surprisingly well in his attack, nearly defeating the tyrant even after he had transformed two times. The constant training and battle that he had undergone his entire life had increased his strength to the point where he was at least a threat to Frieza's continued existence. Unfortunately, it was Frieza's last transformation that was the king's undoing. As strong as he was, he was no match for the Ice-jin's final form and was defeated with ease.
Instead of simply finishing his victim off, Frieza chose to toy with Vegeta-ou, rubbing his face in his defeat. Vegeta had convinced the tyrant that the Saiya-jin were becoming too strong, and so must be exterminated. With the king of the Saiyans watching helplessly, Frieza formed his Death Ball, gloating over his victory the whole time. While gathering the ki for his attack, the Ice-jin mocked his fallen foe, claiming that the young king was to blame for the impending destruction of Vegeta-sei. After all, if Vegeta had only been a good little king, had obeyed Frieza and not rebelled, none of this would have happened.
It is uncertain exactly what went through King Vegeta's mind during those critical moments, but something in him snapped and a transformation unlike any seen in a thousand years or more took place. His hair changed from black to a bright golden yellow and his eyes became a pupilless sea green. With this transformation came incredible power, and the King of the Saiya-jin launched himself once more at the hated Ice-jin tyrant. This time, the battle turned in Vegeta's favor, and he overpowered his adversary and ended the threat to his people once and for all.
With Frieza's death, the Planet Trade quickly fell apart, making it no longer worthwhile or necessary to exterminate the life on the planets the Saiyans encountered. Vegeta-ou chose instead to make... 'peaceful' contact with the other civilizations, opening up trade and cultural growth. Of course, his idea of 'peaceful' meant not destroying the planet on sight or slaughtering the inhabitants for the hell of it. The Saiyans were still a very war-like race and loved to battle, after all. Often as not, they used physical strength to 'persuade' the worlds they encountered to cooperate.
It wasn't long before the Saiyans rediscovered Chikyuu-sei. As part of a diplomatic contingent sent to hammer out the details of the treaty between Earth and Vegeta-sei, Bulma Briefs boarded a ship and traveled to the Saiyan home world where she met King Vegeta. It is unclear what happened between these two, but before the human diplomats returned to their home, Vegeta-ou took Bulma Briefs as a mate, and so she became queen.
Under Queen Bulma's influence, relationships with other worlds quickly improved. The Saiyans settled down to sparring amongst themselves, rather than waging war and conquering planets. Earth was declared a "safe" planet, where no Saiyans were allowed to live and few were allowed to visit, unless they had proper identification and were kept under strict surveillance. As closely as the humans resembled Saiyans, it would be all too tempting for tailless Saiyans to try to live on Earth, and with their superior fighting ability, they could easily cause a lot of damage before they could be captured. Not to mention the added difficulty in maintaining species purity if they decided to mate or rape any of the humans.
During the time after his friend Bulma traveled to Vegeta-sei, Goku married Chi-Chi and produced a son named Gohan, after his adoptive grandfather. Yamcha, feeling that the woman had a right to know, informed Chi-Chi of Goku's heritage, so she was well prepared for the fuzzy brown tail attached to the backside of her newborn son. The doctor who helped deliver Gohan was a good friend of the family, and complied with Chi-Chi's request to remove her son's tail, promising not to tell a soul. They all knew that if anyone ever found out that Goku was a Saiyan, it would surely mean his death.
And Goku still had no idea that he was not human.
Gohan grew up, also believing in his humanity, and things continued peacefully for several years, father and son training together. Chi-Chi made sure Gohan also got a good education, but Goku had convinced her that if a rogue Saiyan ever came by, their son would need to be able to defend himself. He was completely unaware of the irony of his plea. Then one day, Goku's past came back to haunt him in the form of two deadly androids, creations of Dr. Gero, numbered nineteen and twenty. In a bid for revenge against the one who had defeated the Red Ribbon Army, Dr. Gero, also known as Android Twenty, attacked Goku's family and killed Chi-Chi. In their grief stricken rage, both Goku and his son Gohan underwent a strange transformation, where their hair turned yellow and their eyes a solid blue-green, gaining a tremendous amount of power. Goku later attributed this odd transformation to be the same as what happened to his friend, Lunch, whenever she sneezed - only their transformation could be controlled and didn't rely on sneezes.
With the power of Super Saiyan on their side, Goku and Gohan quickly destroyed Android Nineteen. Unfortunately, Android Twenty escaped, and since he had no detectable ki, they soon lost him. And that was the last they heard of Android Twenty. Unbeknownst to them, Dr. Gero, or Android Twenty, returned to his lab and reactivated two other androids, despite the fact that they were unpredictable and had caused him much trouble in the past. Much to his dismay, Androids Seventeen and Eighteen destroyed the controlling device he had created to keep them in line, then rebelled against him and killed him. Knowing full well that they had been created to destroy, the twins chose to thumb their noses at their creator in an ultimate gesture of defiance - they chose to live peaceful lives.
Not knowing that Dr. Gero was dead, Goku and Gohan trained almost feverishly, choosing to put off a search for the dragonballs. Chi-Chi would not be safe until the android was defeated, and to do that, they would need to learn to control their new forms. Traveling to Kami's Lookout, they received permission from Kami to train in the room of Space and Time, where they spent the better part of a day learning to use the power of Super Saiyan to it's fullest potential.
While the two were training, a visitor from another timeline appears, a creature known as Cell, searching for the two beings who would make it complete: Juunanagou and Juuhachigou. When Goku and Gohan reappeared, they discovered a new ki on the planet and promptly took off after it. Upon arrival, they found Cell, Juunanagou, and Juuhachigou locked in deadly battle, the former gaining the upper hand over the latter two. At first, the two Saiyans didn't know which side to fight on, but Cell's natural tendency to gloat revealed his true intentions, and Goku and Gohan attacked before the imperfect being could absorb either of his victims. In Cell's imperfect state, he was no match for the two Super Saiyans and was eventually beaten, though the battle was long and hard, with all four working together.
After the battle's inevitable conclusion, the four quickly departed before authorities sent to investigate overly high ki sources could arrive. The pairs split up, Son family going to collect the dragonballs to bring their beloved Chi-Chi back, and the android twins going to find a place to live in peace, making vague promises to contact each other again. After Chi-Chi's resurrection, the Son family celebrated with a huge feast, inviting their friends over to celebrate with them. Surprisingly, Juunanagou and Juuhachigou both showed up to the event, though know one ever figured out how they found out about it. That night, Son Goten was conceived.
When Goten was born, Chi-Chi went through the same process of concealing his heritage from his father and the world in general. She felt a little guilty about hiding it from Goku, but the Saiyan was sometimes a little too careless with information. And so Goku continued to remain ignorant of his ancestry.
Sometime after the get-together, Krillen and Juuhachigou married, eventually producing a blond haired baby girl named Marron. Gohan was sent to a high school in a city called Satan City. The city had been named after the reigning World Tournament champion, who had also somehow managed to claim credit for the disappearance of the monster Cell who had terrorized the world seven years earlier. Why anyone believed him was a mystery known only to the Kais. Well, maybe not even them.
While attending school and trying to keep as low a profile as possible, Son Gohan met the daughter of the World Champion, a girl named Videl Satan, who would eventually become his wife. Together they would conceive and raise a baby girl named Pan. Before Videl married Gohan, though, Chi-Chi let her in on the secret of her husband-to-be's Saiyan heritage. When Pan was born, her tail was also removed before the father found out.
Elsewhere in the universe, Bulma had finally convinced her mate to allow her to bear his children and now had two children, a purple haired boy named Trunks and a blue haired girl named Bra. At first, Vegeta-ou had resisted fathering half-breed children, since half-breeds were known for their inferiority and pathetic strength. Through scientific means, Bulma provided the king with proof that the exact opposite would occur in a Saiya-jin/Chikyuu-jin cross, where the offspring would be stronger than either parent's race normally produced. Vegeta-ou consented, and thus produced the heir to the royal throne. However, he patently refused to even entertain the idea that his demi-Saiyan children could possibly achieve the status of Super Saiya-jin, and so the children grew up believing that such was impossible for their kind.
Goku continued to lead a quiet life in the woods, training in remote areas to avoid attention, sometimes joined by his two sons. Gohan became a professor at the Orange Star College, while his wife, Videl, occasionally helped the police out with criminal activity, which was where their daughter Pan had chosen to serve. Goten and Marron both joined the diplomatic corps, where they began dating on and off even as they became one of the best diplomatic teams in their department. Since Marron had learned some martial arts from both her parents, she and Goten could sometimes be found sparring together. It was because of this training that the two could be sent to planets with high gravity, or violence-prone inhabitants, and they were often given the more dangerous assignments due to their skill and strength.
And yet somehow throughout all this time, neither the Son males or the authorities ever realized that these three men had Saiyan blood in their veins. Videl eventually told Pan, so the girl would be prepared should she ever bear children, but that was where the secret ended.
Perhaps Kami, or a being with more power, was looking out after this family. No one will ever know.
Details Not Mentioned In The History
1) Goku never died, so he never learned Kaioken from King Kai.
2) Bulma left before Goku married Chi-Chi, and so has no idea that
he had any offspring.
2) Goku never left for Namek, so he never picked up the heart virus.
4) Goku never went to Yardrat, so he never learned Instant Transmission.
5) Piccolo never merged with Kami and no one ever met Dende.
6) The dragonballs only have one wish.
7) Majin Buu (and related characters) never show up.
8) GT does not occur in this timeline.
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A/N: For anything else that I've left out or might have messed up... either it will be explained later, or chalk it up to the fact that this IS an Alternate Universe! I've tried to explain everything and fill in all the holes as best I can, which was pretty hard considering I'm not the original author of this fic and didn't already know all this stuff. I had to make it up to fit what was already written. Hope I didn't miss something important, and I hope I did a good job clarifying the history of this alternate timeline.
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