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Treed

Chapter 2

On his way to Capsule Corporation, Yamcha was driving his nice and new shiny car as Puar sat next to his long-time friend.

"Bulma's gonna be wondering what you did with her money," Puar said nervously.

"Relax, kitten," Yamcha said. "She's going to love this car so much that it will be a smash hit!" Of course, the only way the words 'smash hit' would work is if it smashed into something rather big, so… "What the-"

-KA-BOOM!-

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Later on at Goku's house, everyone strangely gathered there while Yamcha was begging for forgiveness to Bulma for using her money and for destroying the car. She was pretty much fuming and nodding her head in a rather pissed off mood.

"You'll do my chores for 3 months to pay off the car and money you borrowed," Bulma said.

"Aw man!" Yamcha said.

"Anyway, you said you hit this giant tree?" Goku said, rather interested in the tale.

"Yeah," Yamcha said as he went about describing it. "It was like it appeared out of nowhere!"

"Hm, that's strange," Goku said.

"Maybe you weren't paying attention," Bulma hinted.

"I was paying attention, you slave-hoarder!" Yamcha yelled at Bulma.

"Hey! No fighting at the table!" Chi-chi scolded the couple.

"Sorry," Bulma and Yamcha both apologized at the same time.

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"Did you contact Goku yet?" Gregory chirped next to King Kai.

"No," King Kai said. "Something's blocking my signal…"

o-o-o-o-o-o-o

Out in space, an astronaut was busy fixing a satellite that took damage from a certain ship that flew into orbit hours ago.

'Whatever space junk we've been getting, I hope it's none of the extra-terrestrial kind again,' the astronaut thought as he fiddled away at the satellite until it started to work again. "Okay Chuck. It's back on-line."

"I read you, Berry," Chuck said. "Wonder what caused it to go out in the first place?"

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"About damn time things are working again!" King Kai growled as the signal from Earth grew stronger. 'Goku! Can you hear me, you idiotic apprentice?'

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"Huh?" Goku looked up. "I'm not an idiotic apprentice! Whatever that means…"

'Sorry,' King Kai replied. 'Been watching too much Rurouni Kenshin lately.'

"Whatever. Now why are you contacting me right now, King Kai?" Goku said; the others growing curious when they heard Goku mention the Lord of Worlds' name.

'Well, it's like this,' King Kai started. 'A long time ago, there was this tree called the Tree of Might. Originally, it was a food that the Gods ate for strength. However, it somehow felled from heaven by an evil half-god and well, let's say it got into evil hands and yeah.'

"And why are you telling us this?" Goku questioned.

'The Tree of Might's seedlings were recently taken off of the Planet Sameni in the Eastern Quadrant,' King Kai explained. 'If planted upon a living planet, the Tree of Might draws the energy from the planet itself in order to make the fruit on the tree ripen. If it is left to grow, then all that will be left of the planet will be a barren wasteland.'

"So you're saying an evil half-god took these seedlings to the mortal realm and now some alien's got it?" Goku summed up rather quickly. "GREAT! Now we got a 'Tree of Godly Might' to take care of!"

'That is the Tree of Might, Goku, not the 'Tree of Godly Might',' King Kai said. 'And the leader of the gang is a Saiya-jin just like-'

"A Saiya-jin?" Goku interrupted in a rather surprised voice. "You mean like Radditz?"

'Yes,' King Kai answered. 'For a second there, I almost said the Saiya-jin was like someone else.'

"King Kai," Tien asked the Lord of Worlds, "we can hear what you're thinking and who were you going to mention besides Radditz?"

'Um… I think my house is on fire,' King Kai panicked and the warriors heard a dead phone tone and face vaulted.

"Well, I guess we should go stop this menace from destroying Earth," Goku said in a confident and heroic voice. "Who's with me?"

"We are!" nearly all of the warriors said, but when Gohan put his hand on the group's Chi-chi yanked Gohan's hand away.

"But mom! I want to go fight with the others and save Earth!" Gohan whined.

"Well you disobeyed me when I found that dragon of your eating at my flowerbed, so go do your damn studies right now, young man," Chi-chi scolded.

"Yes mom," Gohan sighed. As his hand touched the door, Goku appeared behind his son and smiled.

"I left your fighting gi outside in the shed," Goku smiled. "Go change while I take care of things downstairs and call Icarus to come kidnap you."

"Yay!" Gohan cheered.

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A little later, the warriors (minus Gohan and Piccolo) gathered at the base of the giant tree known as the Tree of Might. They stood at the base of the giant tree that towered towards the heavens themselves as it seemed spooky-like. They were standing there like they were overshadowed by the thought of the world's destruction and stuff.

"Dammit!" Krillin said. "All the work we went through gathering the Dragon Balls and restoring the forest was a waste."

"Question is, how did Shenron know about the forest getting destroyed?" Gohan asked.

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Meanwhile, in a dark realm, a familiar ethereal figure sneezed.

"Bless you, Shenron," a male voice spoke.

"I SENSE THAT SOMEONE HAS SPOKEN ILL ABOUT ME," Shenron boomed.

"You must be imaging things," the voice spoke again.

"I DON'T JOKE BARDOCK, NOW MAKE YOUR DAMN MOVE ALREADY!" Shenron growled at the man as they were playing chess on a rather giant board that knew no limits.

"Fine," Bardock said as he smirked evilly at the giant lizard.

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Back on Earth, the warrior suddenly get close lined by a root. Gathering themselves up, they fly upon a cliff and reach behind their backs for something.

"Everyone power up!" Goku commanded as they grabbed the power tools and chainsaws and revved them up. They charged at the tree like Vikings planning to plunder a village and started to work at the tree, but it failed.

"Dammit!" Krillin cursed.

"Plan B!" Goku yelled to his allies.

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About 15 minutes later, the warriors were standing there panting hard after another ill-fated attempt to destroy the Tree of Might…

"Damn weed-killer," Krillin cursed. "It didn't work!"

"Don't be too sure," Yamcha noted as he pointed down to Chou-su as he laid sprawled out in front of the warriors.

"OMG! THEY KILLED CHOU-SU!" Yamcha cried.

"YOU BASTARD!" Krillin yelled at the can of weed killer.

"Um… maybe he's just unconscious," Tien said.

"No!" Goku said. "Maybe it's a sign that there's no way to destroy it unless…"

"Unless what?" Krillin said as Chou-su started to come to.

"Unless we pool our power together and try to blast the tree down," Goku finished.

"Why didn't we do that in the first place?!" Krillin yelled at the leader of the Z-Squad as he grabbed him by the neck of his shirt. Chou-su, who just woke up, was wondering what in the world was going on.

"I didn't think about it until a minute ago, that's why," Goku said rather nervously as the other fighters face vaulted, including Chou-su.

"Fine, all in favor of blasting at the Tree of Might say aye," Tien growled.

"Aye," everyone else said.

"All oppose?" Tien said. "Fine. But after we finish off this damn tree, then I'm becoming the new leader of the party."

"Why do you want to become the leader?" Goku asked.

"Because all women love a three eyed warrior to kick alien ass," Tien smirked.

"You're only human though and eventually, your character will be overshadowed by a lot of more important characters that will lead to the end of this series as well as within the movies," Goku explained. "Thus, you will probably never be the leader and become some background character with little or no importance in your role. Most likely, Gohan will be leader after I either die or something else happens to me, so there."

"Damn you," Tien cursed as he was about to kill Goku for his logic. However, Yamcha and Chou-su stopped him.

"How do you know that everything will come to pass though?" Krillin said.

"Um… I have no idea what I just said," Goku admitted. Once again, the warriors face vaulted.

"Let's just blast the damn tree already!" Tien growled and the warriors flew back and prepared their signature attacks. One by one, they flew at the giant tree as explosions and smoke obscured their vision. Chou-su cried in pure horror when the tree was unscathed.

"We can't fire at the roots without taking the Earth with it," Goku hissed and walked up to the tree. With a powerful kick, the tree tilted over sideways. "Well, that was easy…" Suddenly, the tree catapulted Goku into Chou-su as he goes flying off a cliff.

"OMG! THEY KILLED CHOU-SU!" Yamcha cried.

"YOU BASTARD!" Krillin said, hissing at the Tree of Might.

"I'm still alive," Chou-su said fromdown thecliff side.

"Well, let's go get revenge for our fallen comrade," Goku said.

"I said I'm not dead, dammit!" Chou-su cried again, but the warriors ignored him.

Goku floated up towards the nook of the tree first as the rest of the warriors, including Chou-su flew up behind him.

"Hey! I thought you were dead!" Tien said.

"I'm not, thank you very much," Chou-su yelled at them.

"Don't be such a bitch," Yamcha said.

"Um… what are you guys doing here?" one of Turles' henchmen said.

"To stop you from making this damn tree destroy our fucking planet," Goku said.

"Well, you're fucked anyway because this tree's already taken root and stuff," a second henchmen said.

"God dammit!" Goku cursed.

"You're lucky to try to defeat us, but Turles will own all of your asses and let us have a share of the fruit," the first one said.

"Actually, I had a change of heart," Turles said from above and smirked.

"What?!" all of the henchmen yelled towards him.

"I said I'll take the fruit since your usefulness has expired," Turles said and did the two-fingered "Boy Scout Sign of Doom". Instantly, all, except the Z-Fighters were instantly killed.

"Dammit!" Goku yelled. "Why in the hell did you do that for?"

"Actually, they were in the way for universal domination," Turles said. "Besides, I have you to thank Kakarot for not devoiding life on this planet."

"My name's Son Goku, you asshole!" Goku yelled at the evil clone of himself.

"Hmph," Turles said. "It seems one of my brethren chooses not to follow the path of universal domination. Oh well. I have the boy to help."

"Boy to…" Goku started before he saw him pick up the bound Gohan. "Let go of my son, you bastard!"

"You're about to witness the true power of the Saiya-jin," Turles said. "The power that you chose not to take because you cut off the source of it!"

"You mean my tail?!" Goku hissed as he suddenly had a flashback of some sort that didn't really happen in the movie, but hell! I'll put in in here as a huge pointer!

::Flashback…::

"…and so you see," King Kai summed up to Goku while he was 'dead' in the Other World, "you're not human. You're a Saiya-jin from some destroyed planet said to be destroyed by a meteor, but really, some gender-confused freak destroyed it."

"So, what does that mean?" Goku said, confused about what the whole lecture was about.

"That you're the reason that in the future, some aliens and other beings will try to conquer Earth because you didn't destroy it like you should have!" King Kai yelled at the Earth-raised Saiya-jin as he falls over backwards like a limp plant.

"Why would I want to destroy Earth anyway?" Goku questioned.

"You were supposed to!" King Kai yelled, grabbing his Mallet of Pain as Goku's eyes widened. Goku barely got on his feet and started running when King Kai started to swing his mallet at the poor confused fighter. "Come back here, you dirty ape! I'll make you remember!"

::End Flashback::

Goku shuttered at the mental images. He managed to escape King Kai's 'faking' the whole idea that he 'remembered' his mission. He ended up lying about it and forgot about the incident until Turles brought it up.

"Dammit!" Goku cursed. "Now I remember everything that King Kai told me."

'I wish you didn't,' King Kai responded.

"Don't make me come up there and smack you like you did to me!" Goku challenged the Lord of Worlds.

'I'd like to see you try!' King Kai countered as Goku growled up at the sky with the other warriors looking at Goku like he's gone completely mental. Before the warrior could bring his fingers to his brow in order to give the Lord of Worlds a beating he'd never forget, Turles cleared his throat.

"I'm so sorry to interrupt your 'conversation', but I believe I have the upper hand," Turles spoke, holding the squirming Gohan.

"Dammit!" Goku cursed. "I'll get revenge later!"

'And I'll be waiting with a Spirit Bomb with your name on it,' King Kai said to threaten the Earth-raised Saiya-jin.

"Anyway, while you're busy playing with your 'son', I'll be bashing your friends up, Kakarot," Turles said with an evil smirk on his face as he holds a familiar ball of light in his right hand. The light streamed from his fingers as he threw the ball into the air. "MIX AND COMBINE! LET THE MOON'S LIGHT SHINE!"

A huge supernova-like sphere of light blinded all of the warriors on the field as an artificial satellite that represented the moon was in the sky. Turles lifted the squirming young boy up and forced the young hybrid's eyes open; making sure he of course didn't see the moon's face. Gohan, trying to resist, found that he couldn't as the warriors stood there dumb shocked. It wasn't until the boy started to grow that Turles let him go and blasted at the artificial moon. The moment he did just that, Gohan suddenly shrunk back into his humanoid form naked and unconscious as Goku quickly grabs him before Turles decides to try it again.

"Dammit!" Turles cursed; knowing that he was almost out of ideas until the Tree of Might was ready to bear fruit. "Guess I'll go with Plan B. I call forth the Destruction of the Fourth Wall!"

"No!" Goku yelled before everything vanished in a blinding white light.

CMG: Heh. Cliffhanger. I love pulling that every now and then. Don't worry though. The story will continue in the next chapter. Now onto reviews:

Kinoha: Truthfully, what happened is whoever dubbed it wrong has dubbed it so that they already had the Dragon Balls. And since I've only seen it once, I feel kind of bad mentioning it. Oh well! I don't know what gotten into me when I got down to the threatening part, but he carried it through this time. (evil smirk)

Xero Reflux: Thanks. I'm glad that you enjoyed it.

Sawnya: Thanks. I was trying not to make him too OOC and still acting evil at the same time. I hope it worked and I won't give up on this one since I'm going to finish this and everything else I started out with. The rest of my fics are left the way they are until I get a fresh idea or two. Besides, I get influenced through shows, movies, games, and dreams.

CMG: So until next week, lata!