Moving review responses to the end of the chapter.
Sorry for not updating when I said I would, my brother did hog the computer and then San Andreas came out…first time I have gotten into a GTA game and it had to be the one full of rap…anyway, here's the update.
Chapter 21: encounter
Marron bit her lip as she stared out of the window at all of the cars and furious or panicked drivers.
"Thanks for the lift and all dad, but I think I should have just walked." She said slowly, trying to ignore the comments being thrown around outside.
"Its not safe enough to walk. Besides, this isn't so bad." Krillen replied from the driver's seat of the small car. Marron had somewhere along the line been talked into going on a shopping trip with her parents. When the panic had broken out over the hole in the sky, they had offered her a lift back to her apartment. Now they had gotten caught in the traffic created by the mass panicking that the hole had caused.
"Could have flown. That is much faster." 18 stated calmly as she watched the traffic on her side of the car.
"I don't really like flying that much." Marron confessed and sighed. This was going to be a long wait.
"What's going on up there?" Krillen asked, breaking the silence that had fallen as he strained to see what was happening above them. The two women tried to do the same.
Far above them, a trio of escapees seemed to be having an argument. It was Frieza's two former lackeys, Zarbon and Dodoria and a saiyan that looked strangely a lot like Goku, Bardock. As their argument heated up, it looked like they were going to enter a battle when a new figure joined them, trying to get past. Zarbon and Dodoria refused him passage and turned back to Bardock.
By now 18 was staring hard at the newcomer.
"That looks like 17." She muttered and watched as her brother blasted the three blocking his way into oblivion. 18 jumped out of the car.
"17!" she yelled just before he took off. Her twin peered down at her before raising his palm towards her car.
18's eyes widened as the blast formed and she had to act quickly to pull her daughter out of the car as the blast sailed towards it. As the car exploded, 18 floated above it holding onto her daughter.
"Krillen?" she called and coughing reached her ears.
"Don't worry about me, I got out. But I'm getting too old for this." Krillen called back. As the smoke died down, he could be seen across from his wife and daughter.
18 smiled at her husband before turning round and frowning at her brother.
"What the hell was that for?" she yelled, her anger steadily rising. He could have killed Marron! Or even Krillen! After all, the human warrior wasn't as spry as he used to be.
"Don't have time…must…find Gero…gotta…" 17 muttered and started to turn round to leave, continuing his muttering.
"17!" 18 called again and flew up to her brother after setting her daughter down on the roof of a car.
18 stopped in front of her brother and stared at him. He wasn't looking so good. His hair was all over the place and his eyes were red and hollow, completely emotionless.
"Are you…what's wrong with you?" 18 asked softly and 17 raised his palm in response.
"Move…need to find…Gero." He muttered again and a blue blast lit up in his hand. 18 didn't move.
"Why do you have to find Gero? I thought you were free of him! You don't have to listen to him anymore!" Krillen called up from the ground. 17's wild eyes quickly darted to the old warrior.
"Shut up!" he yelled and moved the blast to Krillen.
"17! Don't!" 18 said firmly but her twin didn't listen. He continued to point the blast at Krillen. The little warrior swallowed hard and then decided to continue.
"You don't need to listen to him anymore. Gero has no power over you. You proved that when you killed him. Just calm down." He explained softly. 17 growled and the blast got larger.
"You don't understand! So shut up!" the cyborg yelled and lost his hold on the blast. The ball sailed right towards Krillen and the human didn't have enough time to come up with a decent defence. The blast hit his chest and he was sent flying into his wrecked car.
Marron screamed as she watched her father go limp on the twisted scrap metal that used to be their car. 18 went wide-eyed as she stared breathlessly at her husband and 17 didn't do a thing. Marron was the one who ventured over to her father to check on him.
She looked over her father almost fearfully and then noticed the blood. It was seeping out of his back and at a closer inspection she realised what had happened.
The car's roof had been partially disintegrated leaving the metal sticking up in a sharp point.
It was this that Krillen had landed on thanks to his brother in law's blast.
"Oh Kami…" Marron chocked out as she realised what had happened. She didn't have clue as to what to do.
18 could only stare as she sensed the remains of her husband's ki slowly slip away.
"Krillen…" she muttered and then saw her brother moving his palm towards Marron. 18 reacted on instinct and tackled her brother, pushing him away from Marron roughly.
"Marron! Get out of here!" 18 yelled. Marron didn't have to be told twice as she ran between the cars to get a good distance away from her uncle and mother.
18 turned back to her brother who was glaring at her fiercely.
"I didn't want to do this." He muttered and 18 glared back.
"Well you shouldn't have killed my husband!" she yelled and charged at her brother she hit him hard across the jaw but on her second attack, he moved out of the way just in time and blasted his sister through the shoulder. 18 screamed in pain and fell to the floor leaving her brother to stare down at her before taking off and resuming his search for Gero.
Marron continued to run, her mind a total blur. She didn't notice how long she ran for or where she was going until she hit a wall of muscle. She screamed when she hit it, assuming that it was her crazed uncle, and got ready for any sort of blow. It never came.
"Hey, calm down Mar. it's just me." A calm voice said in a friendly tone and Marron looked up from the white shirt to see Goten's puzzled face staring down at her.
"Oh Goten…" she muttered and hugged him tightly, her mind still a blur. She didn't even realise that the other warriors were floating above her.
"What are the chances that we can get away with calling her his girlfriend?" Zara's voice met Marron's ears and she looked up to see Trunks, Zara, Pan, Bra, Uub and Gohan all with amused looks on their faces as they watched the couple. Marron then noticed how shocked Goten was and shakily stepped back.
It was at this point that the group of warriors realised how shaken up the poor girl was.
"What happened?" Goten asked softly and Marron's head filled itself with an image of her father on the hood of his wrecked car. She whimpered and a moment later Goten found himself holding onto her again.
"He killed him…right in front of me…" Marron muttered softly. It took a while for everyone to work out her meaning.
"Krillen…" Gohan muttered in shock and Marron nodded, giving out a small sob.
"Who…" Trunks began but decided it might be too hard on her to start asking questions.
"Uncle 17." Marron answered the unfinished question and Goten gave her a light squeeze. The others all turned to each other to start a discussion.
"That doesn't make sense. Why would 17 kill Krillen?" Gohan asked.
"Maybe he was in the way?" Zara pointed out logically.
"Or maybe it was the crazy? He looked pretty out of it when I saw him before." Trunks added. Gohan nodded thoughtfully.
"Maybe…" he started.
"Should we really be trying to work out why? Shouldn't we be trying to track him down instead?" Bra interrupted and the others all agreed.
"Ok then, where's he going?" Goten asked as he stared up at the others.
"Gero…" Marron muttered and everyone stared at her. Marron looked back up at everyone else.
"He kept talking about Gero. 'Must get to Gero' its all he could really think of." Marron explained. The others all glanced at each other again.
"Guess you were right Gohan. They were all going to Gero." Goten commented.
"And it looks like we were going to the right place too. That's all the androids except for Gero. Well except for 16 but I doubt he went to hell." Gohan added.
"Yea, 17 is going to Gero, Uub killed 19 and 18 is on our side. That leaves who ever Vegeta is fighting so it must be Gero." Zara ticked off on her hands as she remembered what she had been told about the androids. The others nodded and it was agreed that they'd keep going towards Vegeta as soon as Marron was sent to somewhere safe.
Goten looked down at Marron.
"Hey, I promise we'll make all of this right again." He assured her then looked up to Zara, "you mind teleporting us there?" he asked and she nodded in response.
"Goten, guys, thanks. For everything." Marron said before Zara rested both hands on Goten and Marron's shoulders and then disappeared. A few moments later, Goten and Zara reappeared and the group set off once more.
Dende paced the lookout anxiously as he watched everything below.
"It looks like everything is getting cleaned up thanks to the z warriors." He commented and then turned towards Piccolo.
"Just wish there was something I could do. I hate being so useless." The young Kami continued. Piccolo gave him a stern look.
"I know but they'll handle everything on earth. Now be quiet, I think I nearly have him." The older Namek replied and then returned to his meditative stance. He had been trying to contact Goku in hell ever since the sky closed up again but for some reason he was finding it more difficult then it should have been. Piccolo had brushed it off as him being rusty and had continued to try. Now he thought that he had finally found the saiyan.
"Goku! Can you hear me?" Piccolo asked telepathically and up in hell Goku's head snapped up.
"Piccolo?" he asked, forgetting a little about his small depression. The two dead warriors looked at their companion as if he had completely snapped but then they heard the voice for themselves.
"Yes Goku, its me." The Namek replied in relief. He had finally found the allusive saiyan.
"Alright, great to hear from you! What's going on?" Goku asked almost casually. Piccolo smiled at this, it was the same old Goku.
"Just complete chaos down on earth but its being defused as we speak. I'm more concerned about you. We've noticed that you're rather stuck right now." Piccolo replied. Goku's mask twitched at this and he mentally sighed in relief.
"Well yea, kind of." The saiyan replied. And Piccolo smirked.
"Well I have some good news. Mr Popo and Dende have been doing some research here along side the ogres in other world and they think that they have discovered how to make the rift the escaped hell fighters left through." He explained and Goku felt like cheering.
"That's great Piccolo! How do I escape?" he asked eagerly and the Namek hesitated.
"Well there are a few things first though. We aren't sure how long the rift will stay open for and king Yemma isn't very fond of the idea of us making another rift in hell. He's worried that it'll stay open for too long and allow the hellions to escape again or that it may weaken hell and allow the demons to escape." Piccolo informed Goku listened carefully and wore his rare serious face.
"It won't cause any problems. If anyone else escapes then I'll send them right back again. And the demons will have to be de-frosted first so don't worry about it. Just tell me what to do!" he replied a little too firmly. Olibu and Pikkon gave each other a concerned glance whilst Piccolo knotted his brow in worry.
"As you wish, but Goku…are you sure you are ok?" Piccolo asked. Goku looked surprised by the question.
"Yea, why?" he asked in confusion and the Namek decided to leave it.
"Never mind. What you need to do to create a rift is to exchange energy through the barriers of hell with a person on the planet you want the rift to open up in. so in this case it will have to be me. But as we aren't sure how long it will stay open, it would probably help if you had someone there with you-"
"No problem. Pikkon or Olibu can exchange energy with you." Goku interrupted and looked at the two dead warriors that were standing around awkwardly.
"Who?" Piccolo asked in confusion but Goku wasn't listening. Instead he had turned to his friends.
"So who wants to help out?" he asked with his famous grin in place. The two dead warriors exchanged a glance and then Pikkon stepped forward.
"I'll do it." He said and Goku grinned wider.
"Great," he started before turning back to his conversation with Piccolo, "so you'll exchange energy with Pikkon and the rift will open and I can go save the others. Perfect. Lets get started then!"
Piccolo had no clue as to what was going on but decided to just play along.
"Ok then…to make the rift I need to be in perfect synchronisation with…Pikkon. We can't even have a second error in our little exchange. We need to take the energy at the same time. It even needs to be at the same frequency and amount. If one of us is stronger then the other then the barriers will shift to compensate and it will fail, do you understand?" he asked. Pikkon allowed the information to sink in.
"Yes. But this sounds like it will be hard to judge." He commented.
"Exactly, so it may take awhile. Shall we begin?" Piccolo replied calmly. Pikkon agreed and stood in a stance with his legs shoulder length apart and his hands balled into fists at his side. Goku and Olibu both backed away a good distance to watch. On earth Piccolo sunk into a similar stance to Pikkon's and waited for Dende to start the countdown.
"Ok, both of you better get ready. On the count of three you should both start exchanging your ki through the barriers of hell, ok? One…two…THREE!" the guardian cried and both of the warriors began to power up, signalling the start of the exchange. Olibu and Goku watched the floor in front of Pikkon carefully and began to grin as the floor began to waver in and out of sight before finally…
…It became a solid mass again. Goku's face dropped as he watched the floor grow solid and felt Olibu's hand fall onto his shoulder.
"Don't worry my friend. That was only the first attempt. You're friend did say that it could take a while." The dead warrior said reassuringly and Goku perked up a bit, waiting for Pikkon to adjust his ki to Piccolo's suggestions and to start again.
Vegeta smirked at Artificial 17. The android was giving him a good workout but Vegeta was still only testing the android, despite that.
17 watched his opponent from his spot on a roof. Vegeta was floating smugly above him after sending the android through the centre of the building that 17 had just flown out of and was now standing on.
He wore no emotion on his face that would give Vegeta any pleasure. Of course Vegeta didn't take the same exact pleasure from the battles as he used to. He didn't enjoy harming people just to hear their screams and to enjoy the pained looks on his victims' faces anymore. He was past that part of his life so maybe it wouldn't have mattered if artificial 17 did have a pained look on his face or not.
"Are you just going to cower there on the roof top all day or do you plan on attacking any time soon?" Vegeta arrogantly asked and the android's eyes narrowed into a glare before it disappeared. Vegeta smirked before raising his elbow to hit the android directly on the nose before continuing by spinning round and kneeing his opponent in the gut and the blasting it into another building. Vegeta scoffed down at the android that was now buried in rubble.
"This is pitiful. I'm getting awfully tempted to just blast you away." He commented to the android whilst looking at the two doctors that floated high above them. Myuu was looking anxious whilst Gero was perfectly calm.
"The final components will be here soon Vegeta. Then you will receive a true challenge." The android doctor stated equally as calmly as his demeanour. Myuu gave Gero a questioning look whilst Vegeta smirked up at the doctors before Artificial 17 attacked again.
The android appeared before Vegeta, swinging his fist round to hit the saiyan on the jaw but the speedy saiyan prince ducked under and came back up with a strong punch to the androids chest, sending him right back through the wall. Vegeta then turned back to the doctors.
"You better pray that they do come soon or else your toy will get severally broken." Vegeta announced coolly.
As if on queue, 17 then burst onto the scene in a blur of blue energy. His wild eyes quickly scanned the area before settling on Gero, where they then stayed.
17 hadn't even been there for 5 seconds when the rest of the z warriors came soaring in. Each of them lined up on either side of Vegeta and watched the scene carefully, Zara, Trunks and Bra on Vegeta's right and Pan, Gohan, Goten and Uub on his left.
"Great, looks like we got here just in time for a party. What's going on?" Goten asked, wearing his father's battle smile. Vegeta smirked at the boy and the others.
"The doctors here seem to think that they have created something that will put all of us in our places. But so far he's failed to deliver." Vegeta informed. Gohan sweat dropped at this.
"You do know that so far when ever someone offers you a challenge, Vegeta, you along with the rest of us get beaten up, right?" he asked and Vegeta shot the hybrid a glare.
"You should listen to him, Vegeta, he has a valid point." Gero snickered before turning to the suspended 17. Artificial 17 then chose that moment to burst out of the wall and float next to his counter part. This caught all of the others by surprise and they could do nothing but stare. They didn't have enough time to figure out why there were two 17s.
"17 and Artificial 17! Now is your chance! Join together now and defeat these so called heroes!" Gero then commanded. Artificial glanced at Myuu quickly before starting to glow a bright white. Regular 17 backed away from his glowing counter part, almost mistaking it as another hallucination until he heard Gero's voice.
"17! If you value your sanity then you will bind with artificial 17! It will give back all that was stolen from you!" the doctor announced and as the z fighters tried to work out his meaning, 17 took on a serious look and quickly grabbed the hand of his counter part.
The bright, white hot light engulfed him too and then the two glowing 17s seemed to come together, both forms of white hot energy combining to make one, slightly larger figure that quickly became solid as the energy faded. What was left made the others gasp.
The now solo 17 was more muscular then both of his counter parts. His hair had grown out, leaving several strands to fall across the centre of his forehead. His eyes still had the wild quality that regular 17's had held. And finally he held an air of power that told all of the other warriors that if they could sense his power level then it would be off the charts.
Doctor Gero sneered.
"I'd like you all to meet super 17." He announced proudly but this was met by a scoff from the prince of all saiyans.
"Super 17? What kind of a joke is this? He looks like a damn biker hippie." Vegeta sneered. The other z fighters all shot him a look saying 'don't underestimate him' but Vegeta ignored them and focused on Gero.
"You think so, huh Vegeta? Well that doesn't mean that he's weak. I'll give you a demonstration of his power before he destroys you! Super 17, attack them!" Gero yelled but 17 didn't listen. Instead he looked to Myuu for instructions. Gero stared at 17 in surprise.
"Super 17! I said attack!" Gero said more frantic now and Myuu began to laugh. Everyone turned to give Myuu a confused glance and slowly the alien scientist calmed down.
"He won't listen to you, Gero. I have made sure of this." Myuu finally said after he finally calmed down.
"What are you talking about?" Gero snapped and Myuu chuckled again.
"You maybe a great inventor, Gero, but that doesn't mean that you're not an idiot." Myuu explained and still Gero didn't understand.
"You were so preoccupied with celebrating your little victory that you didn't notice my changes to the programming. You had a chip installed that left artificial 17, and there go super 17, only able to follow your commands. You were going to destroy all of the hell fighters and everyone else using 17 and start your own order, completely protected from any meddling partners or heroes." Myuu continued and began to circle the earthen doctor. Gero stiffened under Myuu's gaze.
"I know nothing of this." Gero said calmly but Myuu continued.
"Yes you do. I found the chip and rewrote the programming. 17 only listens to me now."
Gero's eyes widened as he turned to stare at Myuu.
"Traitor!" he exclaimed and Myuu nodded coolly.
"Yes, well I have to look out for myself now don't I. Now super 17, destroy Gero." Myuu called, glancing at the cyborg. 17 raised his arm and a split second later Gero was reduced to a flaming pile of ash.
Myuu grinned psychotically and turned to the glaring z warriors.
"Well now that that little drama is over with, how about we deal with this one? Super 17, get rid of these pests!" he ordered and super 17 turned to the group of warriors.
"Fine then, we'll battle! But don't get upset when I tear apart your toy!" Vegeta exclaimed and took off before the others could stop him.
The mighty prince started throwing as many punches as he could as soon as he reached the cyborg. 17 looked as if he stayed completely still as Vegeta attempted to hit him but all of the attacks missed.
Vegeta growled as he backed away and burst into his level three super saiyan transformation, his hair instantly growing down to his knees and his eyes turning teal. He then lunged forward again and this time was able to see the cyborg move at an incredible speed to grab the prince's punch and then throw one of his own into the saiyan's chest, winding him. 17 then followed through with a hard blow to Vegeta's back that sent the prince in to the ground and then bounce further away.
Before 17 could perform a finishing move, a battle cry met his ears and Zara appeared above him with her red aura burning as fiercely as ever as her power level continued to increase to rival Goten's maximum.
She preformed a powerful round house that 17 ducked under before he sidestepped to dodge her equally strong axe kick. He then raised his palm and blasted her into the rubble that used to be a building.
Next Trunks came into view with his power level pushing the boundaries of super saiyan two. He was followed closely by a sub level three Goten. Trunks jump kicked the cyborg but 17 ducked under it just as Goten appeared with a sweeping kick that 17 caught before throwing Goten into his angered friend.
Next up were Uub and Gohan. They both appeared either side of 17, Gohan fully powered up in mystic form and Uub fully powered up and just under equal in power. They both threw a punch at 17's head at the same time but the android phased out of sight at the last minute and the two only just missed each other. Then 17 appeared in front of them and kicked Gohan aside before blasting Uub backwards.
Finally the girls appeared and threw blasts at 17, each of them at full in their respective forms; Pan as a super saiyan and Bra in her regular form. 17 allowed all of their blasts to hit him and laughed before simply powering up and knocking them backwards, thus ending round one that would have seemed like a matter of seconds to a passer by.
Super 17 grinned at his handy work and then took to the air. He laughed hard as he created an apocalyptic sized blast above his head. The z warriors were just beginning to get up when he threw it and it looked as though they could do nothing as it continued to accelerate towards them.
Zara growled and jumped to her feet and instinctively raised her hands, instantly drawing together all available energy to create her pinkish dome shield. The shield grew white as the blast approached and the shield quickly turned into a large ball above her head. She threw this ball at 17's on coming blast and it hit it but instead of exploding, the two blasts merged together to form one larger blast that continued to travel towards 17.
He didn't do a thing to block it as it hit him and the blast began to absorb him. A moment later and all that was left was the giant floating ball of energy.
"That's not right…it should be exploding right about now." She muttered to herself as the others quickly made it to her side. Trunks stared at her and then looked up to the ball, along with everybody else.
The ball began to quiver and then shrink and moments later 17 could be seen absorbing the last of the energy.
"Thanks for the pick me up." He said slyly and Zara could do nothing but stare in shock.
"But…that blast should have…done something to him!" she finally stuttered out and then caught Vegeta's glare.
"It did! It replenished his energy supplies and made him stronger! And its your fault!" he shot at her and turned back to glare at 17.
"Hey, at least we now know that he can absorb energy. Its just that blasts are now out of the question." Trunks quickly said in Zara's defence.
"Yea, but he's still stronger now." She pointed out and got ready for the next attack.
Goku sighed as he watched Pikkon attempt to make the rift for the 27th time. Again the ground wavered in and out of existence but it quickly became solid again.
"Damn! What now? Its really hard to try and line up your ki with someone who you don't even know where they are!" Pikkon swore and kicked the dirt. The lack of success was grinding on both his and Piccolo's nerves.
"I know but we were closer that time. Just adjust your power level a little more-"
"Which way? If I do it the wrong way then we could end up completely missing it." Pikkon snapped.
"Lower it. We know that you're stronger so as long as I keep my power level to full then you can keep getting lower until we're there. Goku should be able to help you or at least what you sense whilst we're exchanging can." Piccolo replied, finding it hard to stay calm. Pikkon grumbled and adjusted his ki to try again.
Olibu glanced at them and then returned to the crystal ball.
"Hey you two, I think something's going on down on earth." He called and Goku peered into the ball as well.
"What is it?" he asked before spotting what Olibu was concerned over. Super 17 was displayed in the ball throwing Uub into Goten and blasting them into a wall, knocking them out before Zara and Trunks jumped 17 and missed. Goku continued to watch, worry etching across his face as he continued to watch.
"No…" he muttered and then jumped to his feet and turned to Pikkon.
"Hurry up! I need to get down there now!" he exclaimed. Pikkon shot Goku a frustrated look whilst Olibu tried to calm Goku down.
"Yelling at Pikkon isn't going to help. Patience is a virtue here, we're just going to have to wait and pray that your friends can handle it. I'm sure they can." He said calmly. Goku just stood ridged in front of the dead warrior; gritting his teeth as DG's little slide show played through his mind again but he didn't say a word.
"Here it comes!" Pikkon's shouts quickly caught Goku's attention and the saiyan quickly whirled round to see Pikkon flaring out his aura whilst exchanging his ki. Goku could sense Piccolo's signature mixed in with the ki that was passing through the barriers of hell that separated it with the world of the living. Goku couldn't help but smiling as the ground started to waver in and out of existence and soon a large hole began to grow in the spot where Goku could sense the ki.
"That's it! You're doing it!" he exclaimed and then saw Pikkon beginning to go red in the face.
"Hurry up Goku, I don't know how long I can keep this up." Pikkon announced, the strain evident on his face. Of course that was to be expected. It couldn't be easy breaking hell like that.
So Goku nodded to Pikkon as he wore his rare serious face and he quickly dived into the hole.
"Bye guys, see you again sooner or later!" he called and fell completely out of sight. A moment later and the hole closed up.
Both of the dead warriors stared at where it had once been.
"For your sake Goku, I hope its much later then sooner." Olibu muttered as his thoughts lingered on the fight on earth.
A/N: leaving it there. Get ready for more of a fight with super 17 and a little surprise. I should hopefully post it next weekend since I'm back at school tomorrow.
Reviews:
Rejhan: yea, Goku is going to be doing a lot of thinking about his actions now. Well right now he's got stuff to do but its guaranteed that he'll end up having to deal with it.
Psychomaniac: I think of everything, and if I don't then it's very rare for people to notice. I'm pretty sure that I forgot something a while back but no body pointed it out…
I don't know about anyone else thinking of this, to me it was obvious. Had to use Piccolo for something. Plus this explains why I didn't have Piccolo running around, killing the hell escapees with the others. He was busting Goku out of hell.
Erica: meh, his fight probably could have been but thinking about it, Frieza really wouldn't have stood a chance. Trunks is a SSJ 2 here after all…
Son Oliver: glad you liked. Thought it would be good to have Uub do something to show Goten his true colours. Can't have Goten stay angry with the guy, can we?
Ah…the thing is Krillen kinda has to die. If he doesn't then they won't have as much as a reason to summon Shenron and start the dragon saga off so I had to kill my favourite little human fighter. He's annoying like that; he only ever does any good to the series by dying…that and Krillen is over 60 now. Even if he has gotten stronger then his age will be against him. That's part of the reason why I'm not focusing as much on the old human fighters.
Trugeta: psychological torture is the best. And I just had to show Goku how bad a dad/husband he is. But the funny thing is that if Goten didn't decide to hide after the tournament then he would have spoken with his dad and Goku may have gotten past it so DG would have had less to use against him. Its cool when little things like that happen. :)
Also thanks to super saiyan 4 chichi. Bye!