BM: Here we go, one more time
JJ: If you finish that sentence, I will hurt you
BM: Alright then, onward!
JJ: Good
BM: To Stardom!
JJ: ki blasts BM
Kenshin: sweat drops
Disclaimer: O wee O, I don't own
Chapter 10
The training was out of this world
Kami's lookout was strangely quiet, almost ghostly. Piccolo and Korin looked around. Korin simply grunted.
"This is bad, very bad" he heard Piccolo muttering under his breath
"They'll pay, they'll all pay dearly" There was the sound of rustling clothes and Shin appeared.
"Hey!" Goku said, rushing over to their old friend. Shin did a quick scan and shook his head
"You've been better Goku" Kaibitto said. Goku grinned sheepishly
"So I've been told"
"You've all been better, or most of you anyway. You're lucky I didn't need to lock on to your ki to come for you, Piccolo, Tien, and Eighteen's kis completely mask yours" The Briefs scowled, the Sons all gave their trademark grins, and Yamcha looked away nervously, his hands shaking.
'How long has it been since my last fix?' he asked himself. Shin, who heard the stray question, shook his head sadly.
"Not long" he answered, though only Yamcha knew what he meant, and looked at him nervously.
"Now, quickly, we haven't much time, everyone connect to me whether directly or through someone else" Goku put a hand on his shoulder, Gohan held Goku's arm, Goten sitting on his shoulder, and Trunks holding his pant leg with one hand and Vegeta's hand with his other. Tien was holding onto Shin's other shoulder, Eighteen was touching Tien's arm, and Korin was grasping Eighteen's hand.
"Waiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!" Master Roshi hurriedly leapt from the jet Oolong was piloting and ran up to them, panting
"Master Roshi!" Goku exclaimed. Roshi looked at him sadly
"I didn't sense you here" he said, which was self explanatory. Goku smiled sadly. Master Roshi waved at Oolong. And Oolong waved back before taking off, saying he would be at Capsule Corps. and Master Roshi joined the link by putting his hand on Gohan's empty shoulder. Kaibitto nodded and they felt a sense of displacement before their feet landed on the lush soil of the planet of the kais.
"Welcome" Elder Kai said. Next to him Baba floated casually. Korin walked over and nodded to the two.
"Glad you could make it Korin" Elder Kai said
"Did you HAVE to bring my brother along?!" Baba asked
"His help will be beneficial" Kaibitto answered. Baba sighed and Master Roshi snickered.
"Now that everyone is here"
"Not everyone" a voice they recognized said. The Grand Kai appeared, along with all of the lower kais.
"We're in this together, all of the kais" Grand Kai said. "Though I won't be around for now, I'll see y'all there"
"What will you be doing?" Eighteen asked
"Oh, don't worry, you'll find out" he said, winking and grinning like the Cheshire cat. Had the Grand Kai been as perverted as the elder kai and Roshi, Eighteen would have been thoroughly frightened, but as far as she knew he wasn't, so she simply ignored the gesture.
"Everyone link up" Shin said
"We're not training here?"
"Oh no, there is a far better place for the kind of training we'll be doing" the group sent confused looks and lost shrugs at each other, minus Piccolo, the kais, and Roshi and his sister.
"Lets go then!" Goku said. The group joined hands and they all disappeared, reappearing in unfamiliar surroundings.
Yamcha looked around and found himself in a clearing surrounded by lush jungle. Yamcha registered his surroundings even with the feeling of gnawing withdrawal that threatened to consume his senses. He also recognized someone sitting on a rather large rock in the clearing.
"Trunks!" Gohan yelled, running towards his friend. Little Trunks spun and looked at Gohan at the sound of his name, and yelped, expecting Gohan to scoop him up and squeeze him. He was surprised, however, when Gohan simply ran by. He turned around and, at the sight of his Mirai self, whooped with joy and attacked as well. Goten giggled and followed his friend.
"It's so good to see you" Gohan said, embracing his old friend. Trunks laughed.
"I heard you might need some help" he said. Gohan grinned and nodded. M. Trunks' eyes landed on his father, who was watching him. He walked past Gohan and stood just in front of his father before throwing his arms around him in a warm embrace.
"I heard you might need some help" he whispered. Vegeta stood still for a moment before finally deciding to return the embrace.
"We all do" Vegeta said. A sense of relief flooded through Vegeta. He had been worried that he wouldn't be able to achieve Super Saiyan again for a long time, but with another Super Saiyan around, he knew it wouldn't be long before they all became Super Saiyans again.
"Yah!" Goten yelped, leaping back. Gohan looked at his brother curiously
"There's another ME!" he exclaimed. Gohan followed his brother's gaze and his eyes landed on what appeared to be a carbon copy of Goten and his father.
"Umm, hi!" he said. Trunks looked at him with owl eyes and then back to his friend.
"I didn't know there was another Goten" Trunks said
"There isn't" M. Trunks said "That's not Goten, though they are related. His name is Goku"
"Goku! What happened to him?!" Tien asked
"It's NOT Goku either" M. Trunks said "His NAME is Goku, he's Goku's grandson"
"Wha?" Goku asked, looking at the mini him
"Gohan, meet your son" Trunks finally said. Gohan's eyes bugged out of his head. M. Goku gave the Son Family Grin™. Yamcha grinned and wiped the sweat being in the jungle had caused from his forehead. Vegeta gave a barreling laugh. Tien grinned. Goku and Goten gave the Son Family Grin™. Trunks gulped, he was outnumbered. M. Trunks waved a hand in front of Gohan's face.
"Umm, Gohan, please say something"
"W-w-w-w-w-w-w"
"Okay, something I can understand"
"Dad?" Goku asked "Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad"
"Uh"
"So, boy, who's the mother" Vegeta asked. Trunks gulped and said
"I don't know if I can say" M. Trunks said
"Hmm, lets see" M. Goku floated over to Piccolo and whispered in his ear. Piccolo nodded.
"Yup, it's safe Sensei"
"Alright then" M. Trunks said "That's a relief, I never met her, but her name was...Videl"
"Ah!" Gohan fell over in a faint. Vegeta laughed harder. Goten's grin spread from ear to ear.
"YAY! Videl's gonna be my sister!" he did a little victory dance. He'd always liked Videl. She reminded him of someone. Yamcha's pale face formed a smile as he hid his shaking hands behind his back. Goku laughed, M. Goku laughed. The same laugh. Trunks gulped.
"Gohan has a daughter too" M. Trunks said "She stayed home though, to take care of things there"
"Wow, I get a niece AND a nephew" Goten said with starry eyes. He'd always wanted those. The group stopped laughing and Gohan abruptly woke when Yamcha yelled.
"Hey! What's going on?!" several vines had wrapped around him, keeping him immobile.
"Yamcha!" Goku yelled. M. Trunks and M. Goku went to aide him, but Shin stood in their way.
"Stop, he is in no danger" The ground shifted underneath him and the vines suspending him in the air unwound, dropping him. The ground shifted and a hole formed, then closed behind him, showing no time it had recently swallowed a man whole.
"No danger huh?!" M. Trunks fumed
"Yes, the planet we are on is alive, and is helping to remove toxins from him as we speak. He will be back in the morning. For now, we must go to our camp" Elder Kai answered. He led the way out of the clearing and the group walked through the jungle, climbing over roots, and dodging hanging vines. After walking a few yards, the rehabilitating members of the group were winded and sweating.
"What's up with this?" Goku asked
"The gravity on this planet is twice that of the Earth, the temperature is ten degrees above what's comfortable, and the oxygen is thinner than you're used to"
"Why would you choose such a planet?" Vegeta asked "It may be difficult for us for now, but it won't be for long"
"We control this planet, as I said, it is alive, and we command it to change" Shin said. Vegeta's eyes widened.
"And for now, this is all you can handle" Elder Kai added. Vegeta realized then, that if this was all that he could handle, he had indeed gone FAR downhill. He resolved he would slip no further, and would never again slide. The group continued on. Before long, they heard Goku's stomach growl. Angrily, Vegeta spun on him.
"Kakarot! Are you ALWAYS thinking of eating?" Vegeta's stomach growled and Goku grinned. He remembered that he hadn't had any breakfast.
At that moment, Shin, who had disappeared, appeared with several baskets of strange looking fruit and some large jugs of water.
"There is a clearing we can stop in not far ahead" he said. The group continued for a minute or so more until they found a large clearing with a small pond in the middle.
"Wow" Goku said
"Cool"
Tien was in the clearing, and looked as they entered
"You're just in time" he said "I just finished" the group saw five large dinosaurs cooking on spits.
"Alright, I'm starving!" Goku yelled. All those with Saiyan blood ran towards the food, which Shin had set down. They attacked the fruit first, and as they ate, they neglected the meat, focusing on the fruit first. M. Trunks and M. Goku, on the kais' warnings, had avoided the fruit.
"You may want to save some dinosaur and go elsewhere" East Kai said. They looked at her in confusion.
"The sight of toxins leaving the body through both ends is not pretty, and they're going to need food when the process is over" West Kai explained. Their eyes widened and they all took to the sky as quickly as possible, Shin and the lower kais leading the way, while Roshi, Baba, Korin, and Elder Kai stayed to take care of the Saiyans who were soon to be purified.
BM: Okay, that chapters through
JJ: Okies, on to the next one