Chapter 2: The Fate of the Planet

AN: Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Wiener. That is what I'd truly like to be. Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer Wiener it'd be possible for me to own DBZ. Just cause being an Oscar Mayer Wiener would be out there, just like being Akira Toryiama or Oscar Mayer (or are those two last names?) or the owner of a candy company, I don't know which. I guess I'll have to settle with being a mutant pickle. But it's not a bad life!

Hey, I was just thinking about this earring fusion. What would have happened if Goku and Mr. Satan had fused, and what would that make Gohan and Videl. "If your fathers are now one person and you want to get married, you might just be a redneck!" Just wondering.

"What's going on?" Vegito asked. "Why didn't they take me?"

The coffee flavored jawbreaker looked around in awe trying to remember what had just happened. "Well, let's see. We fused into me, I was kicking the crap out of Buu, he turned me into candy, then another Buu showed up and, uh, I don't really remember what happened next. But the Nameks just left with my sons. How do I get out of this, anyway? I don't want to be candy forever!!!"

Unfortunantly, being turned into a sucker made his senses all out of whack, and he had no idea where the others had gone nor could he sense them. Also, though he was incredibly strong, he couldn't travel very far very fast. This new form was going to be quite inconvinient!

"Where am I?' he asked aloud, thinking that this would help him figure things out. "Well, Vegeta and Gokukarot were both just kind of sent here, so I don't know where I really am!"

Suddenly, the small, demented chipmunk voice took on a different tone, a softer one, and next took on a harsh one, as if the two sides of this fused warrior were fighting. This could be further seen in how his first voice was inbetween these two new ones.

"Just say Goku!" the softer one said.

"No!" the harsh one exclaimed. "Your name is Kakarott and you know it!!"

"But I never go by that!"

"I don't care. You're an idiot anyway."

"Fellas!" the original voice exclaimed. "Stop fighting. We are one person and getting a split personality complex would be a big problem right now, seeing as I'm all ready in one. Although, I sort of am two people."

Vegito scanned the surroundings again. The sun was high in the sky, obviously making it noon, so Vegito couldn't really tell directions. Anyway, not knowing where he was in the first place didn't help much either. Vegito decided to head out away from the body of water that bordered this strange plain, while the others were actually heading along the edge of the water to their destination.

"Where are we going?" Goten asked.

"To what's left of the lookout," Dende replied. "Are you sure you left your other pants there, Piccolo?"

"Yes," he answered, with a slight tone of embarassment. "I don't know why I didn't realize it in the first place.

"I didn't even know you had other pants, Piccolo," Gohan said with a slight chuckle. "I thought you just zapped new clothes onto yourself when they got torn or dirty."

"Usually, yes, but I 'zapped', as you put it, myself another pair in case something happened to me, not realizing that something could happen to the look out."

"Well, we could just go to my grandma and grandpa's again," Trunks suggested. "I'm sure my mom has another one lying around that she just forgot about."

"But what if Buu blew up your house?" Goten asked. "Wouldn't the radar be gone, and your grandma and grandpa?"

"Don't talk like that!!" Trunks exclaimed. "I'm sure that they and my house are fine!"

"I was just saying..."

"Calm down, guys," Gohan said, turning back toward them and smiling. "We'll get the dragonballs some how, even if we have to find the new planet Namek. And if something happened to your grandparents or your home, Trunks, we can fix everything with one wish... or two."

Dende stopped in mid-flight and looked up at a levitating pile of rubble. The others stopped and noticed that both Namekians were cringing with pain. "The look out," Piccolo murmured, still not believing what had happened to it. "I really hope we can use the few wishes we have left this year to fix things."

"It will all come together," Dende replied, regaining himself. "I just feel it."

"You're a good, Kami, Dende," Gohan said supportively, putting his hand on his friends shoulder. "I'll bet you're right."

"What's going on?" Vegito exclaimed. "Where am I?" The desolate plain seemed to have no end, and the candy had absolutely no idea where he was heading. "I hope I'm not lost. The others should be able to find me eventually, though. ... I hope."

For some strange reason, the sun was still hovering in the same spot, as if it knew that the flying jawbreaker was totally lost, or just one of those weird anime things where it takes nine episodes for five minutes to pass. Vegito decided to trudge on. "I'll have to find something eventually," he thought.

Piccolo was desperatly hunting through the rubble of Kami's Look Out. "Have you found them yet?!" Dende exclaimed.

Piccolo growled. "No, not yet. I sure hope they weren't blown up!"

"Hey," Gohan said to Dende, since he was getting incredibly bored, "why do they call it a 'pair of pants', anyway? I mean, it's one item, but we always refer to it in a plural form. Was there once a one leg thing call a pant that you put on with another one or something and people finally realized things would be easier if they were just one item? And what about underwear, too..."

"Calm down!" Dende interrupted. "I'm not the Kami you should be asking. Try Piccolo, the older God inside of him might know. But that's an interesting question."

In the mean time, while Gohan and Dende were dicussing more of the deeper mysteries in life, Trunks and Goten had decided that this was just too boring for them. "Why don't we fly around and see if we can find the dragonballs without the radar?" Goten suggested.

"There's just one problem with that," Trunks replied. "That would take forever! There are millions of places that they could be hiding."

"I just thought of something," Goten suddenly said.

"No way!" Trunks replied, sarcastically.

"That's not funny," his friend answered. "I just thought that 'what if Buu blew one of them up?' Then what would we do?"

"Oh my gosh!" Trunks exclaimed. "You're right! Well, um, once we've found my mom's radar, we can see if they're all in tact or not."

"I sure hope so," Goten responded, "otherwise we'd be in a lot of trouble. And maybe Dende can make another set if something happened to this one."

"Yeah," Trunks said, turning a little white. "Oh, man," he thought. "I never really realized that that could happen! Man, will everyone be in trouble if some of the dragonballs are gone! How can I get my parents back?"

"I found it!" Piccolo exclaimed.

"Your other pants?!" Gohan replied.

"No, they were destroyed, but the radar seems to be in working order."

"Yeah!" the half-Saiyans exclaimed, while Dende smiled a little.

"That's good," the young kami said. "Now let's find the balls and figure out what sort of a wish we should make."

"... Hey guys," Trunks said, turning toward the elder three nervously while Goten tried to figure out this strange new device. "I thought of something a little while ago. Well, okay, Goten thought of it, but still..."

"What is it?" Gohan asked.

"What if Buu destroyed some of the dragonballs?"

Piccolo, Gohan, and Dende all raced to extract the radar from the curious seven year old's hands. "Why didn't we think of that?!" Gohan exclaimed. "Man, squirt, you sure are smart in tough situtations!!"

"What'd I do?" his younger brother asked, wondering why his new toy had been taken from him.

Gohan hit the button several times to see what he could on the small, green screen. After several panicked pushes, he finally sighed with relief. "It's showing seven of them, guys. As long as we come up with the proper wish, or wishes, we should be okay." The others cheered, and set off in search of the seven magic orbs.

Seven hours, fourteen minutes, and thirty-five seconds later, Gohan and crew had finally managed to find all seven dragonballs.

"Okay," Gohan said, getting ready to summon Shenlong. "What do we wish? Hey, Dende, what's allowed in the wish catergory, anyway?"

"Um, I'm really not sure," he replied. "I know you can only wish someone back to life once with Earth's set, so that leaves several of our friends trapped in Other World. Maybe if we can find the proper way to word our wish, we can fix all of Majin Buu's damage and get Krillin and Yamcha and the others who have died twice back."

"Well, how are we going to pull that off?!" Gohan exclaimed. "Shenlong isn't stupid, you know. He knows when he's brought someone back before. Anyway, I thought his powers couldn't surpass yours."

"That's only in effect when you want to wish away a villian. Then you wouldn't have a seris! Otherwise, he can do anything."

The other four gave him a strange look. "So, we'll have to think of just the right wish to save our friends."

"I know!!!" Goten exclaimed. Trunks was preparing for some sort of a stupid answer while Gohan thought that his brother's childish charms could actually work. Piccolo wondered why he even bothered with these people.

"What is it, squirt?" Gohan asked.

"First, we wish for five more wishes from the dragon! Next, we wish that he could bring people back to life more than once. Then we wish back all the people and next we wish back all the places! Then we can erase everyone else's memories with the fifth and we'll have one more to wish for a giant mountain made entirely out of cheese!!!!!"

"Well," Gohan replied, while he and the others made strange faces, "it's kind of strange, and we may have to think about some of those, but it's worth a shot!" He prepared to summon the Eternal Dragon.

"Wait!" Piccolo exclaimed. "If it doesn't work, we'll have to think up another wish. If we don't have it ready, Shenlong's going to get really impatient and leave!!! We need to get this done quickly, and having to search for all the dragonballs again would not be the best idea!"

"Great," Gohan replied, while he and the others started thinking again. "Man, this is a lot harder than I thought it would be."

"I know again!" Goten suddenly cried after ten minutes of silence, scaring the other four half to death. "We'll wish for a new set of dragonballs that can wish people back twice and then we'll have two more wishes. But then we can't get the cheese mountain."

Gohan glanced over at Piccolo for approval. He shook his head. "It still may be too far fetched. We need a logical back up plan."

Dende, who had been deep in thought the whole time, finally spoke up. "Why don't we just wish ourselves to Namek? Purunga may be able to do something, although we could only wish back up to three people."

"That may have to work," Piccolo replied. "Anyway, we could always try one of Goten's techniques on him if we have to."

"Can I summon him now?" Gohan whined, as he was getting very tired of having his arms extended out.

"Yes."

"Good! Eternal Dragon! Um... Come out and here my... wish... Is that right, Piccolo?"

Dende and Piccolo began tipping over. "That's just fine," he replied once they had magically stopped. A few seconds later, after the balls began glowing very brightly and the sky had turned completely black except for a green horizon, the form of Shenlong shot up from the ground on which the dragonballs layed.

Vegito stopped and looked at the sky. "Oh no!" he exclaimed. "That's the dragon! That means that the others have summonded him to fix everything! If I don't find them fast, I'll be stuck as a jawbreaker forever. Plus, I still don't know where I am." He flew as fast as a coffee flavored candy ball could to find where the dragon had been summoned.

"I am the Eternal Dragon," the deep bass voice boomed. "You have summonded me. Due to some strange events eariler in the week, you have one wish. What will it be? And hurry up, I have to get back to doing nothing."

Gohan was slightly taken aback, for some reason. "Uh, Mr. Eternal Dragon, sir," he said timidly. "Um, first off, I was wondering if you could give us five more wishes?"

Shenlong thought for a minute. "That... is a strange request, but I'll see what I can do. Something tells me that if I knew you, I would like you." The dragon remained quiet while a yellow light dimmed and brightened around him.

Finally, he spoke again. "All right, I could manage to give you three more wishes, but it will be two years until the dragonballs are active again."

Gohan scracthed his head. "Well, I guess that will work. I don't think anybody's planning to die in the next two years. Okay! That'll work."

Shenlong grew brighter while Gohan let down the hard news on his brother that he would not be getting his giant mountain made entirely out of cheese, nor would they be able to erase the rest of the world's memories if the other three wishes worked.

"All right, you've got three wishes," the dragon said once the lights were gone. "Make them fast, because I'm very busy with all the nothing that I do while I'm gone."

"Eternal Dragon," Gohan said, even a little more nervously than when he made his first wish, "um, is there anyway that I can wish for you to be able to wish people back from the dead more than once?"

The dragon, who had remained silent and solemn for millenia, suddenly started laughing, while the faces of the others dropped. "You want me to be able to restore people more than once?" Shenlong exclaimed between laughs. "I've been waiting eons for someone to wish that!! Finally, something for me! I knew I liked you, kid. After the balls revive, I'll give you three wishes just for making the wish that I've been waiting for!!!"

While the five surviving heros watched on in shock, the Eternal Dragon once again made a lot of yellow lights form around him. "It has been done," he said once it was. "Now, let me guess. Your next two wishes are to bring back everyone who died and all the places that were destoryed in the attempts to defeat a savage villain, right?"

Gohan and the others began falling over and making really strange faces, while Trunks even flew/ fell across the background. "H... how did you know that?!!!"

"I done this for centuries, kid, I usually know where things like this were going. Plus, I do keep tabs on this planet when I'm not so busy doing nothing. Here, I'll grant both those wishes, and we'll save each other a lot of stress. See you in two years!"

"... Yeah," Gohan replied, nervously. "Wow, that Shenlong is really a nice guy! You just have to get on his right side and he'll do anything!!"

"I heard that!" the low voice replied. "Luckily for you, I just finished granting your last wish. Have fun explaining to the entire planet what just happened!" And, with another brilliant yellow flash, Shenlong was gone. The sky returned to blue and the dragonballs turned into small, grey stones and hurdled off in unknown directions.

"All right!" Dende exclaimed. "We've finally got everything back to normal! Let's go find the others." They flew off to the Look Out, hoping to find them there.

The sun shone down on an open plain, and a small glint appeared in the air. "Oh no!" a small, menacing voice exclaimed. "I'm too late! They all ready made their wish, and I'm still a piece of candy!"

Just then, a large grey rock came flying straight at him. Vegito dodged it just before he was reduced to a pile of coffee flavored sugar. "Great," he thought. "There go the dragonballs! And I still don't know what happened to everyone else! Now what do I do?"

AN: Yeah! Don't worry, we'll get to the title soon!! Man, I'm so caught up in this story I've all but forgotten about my other ones. Like you care, but I do because I'm obsessive complusive so I have to finish them or I'll go crazy. But I'm having a good time with this one, are you? Please review and make Candyland read them to me, I like hearing what people think!