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Bright eyes slowly flutter open only to see into infinite black. Goku winces and sits up, holding his head in his hands, {Ugh, where the heck am I? What happened to King Kai?} Looking around the void, his panic rises, {Wait a sec! Why isn't my night vision working here?! I'm not blind am I?!} He looks down at his hands and to his relief sees that they're still visible. {Whew, man, I got scared for a second there. But what the heck is this place? And where is everybody?!}
Standing up, he gets completely creeped out by his surroundings seeing as he can't even make out where sky and ground meet, or even how large this place is. He frowns. {Well maybe if I just walk in one direction I'll get somewhere.}
Easier said than done.
Goku walks, runs, flies and even teleports, but after what seems like days, he doesn't seem to be going anywhere. And the monotony of the place is getting to him. Day in, day out, it's the same thing over and over again. The endless black that just never seems to end! Finally setting down for a spell, Goku flops down on the ground, eyes wide as if he's afraid he's going to miss something if he blinks even once. {Kami! This is like the dimension of time only a bazillion times worse!}
Suddenly a small face suddenly pops up in front of his face. Goku shrieks and nearly jumps up from his position on the ground. Taking a breather, Goku calms down and takes a better look at the child. His jaw drops in shock when he sees the little child is his near clone and has a tail. Both stare at each other, completely stunned.
The young child takes the initiative by going around Goku and looking him over. The little boy whispers, "Holy cow! It's you! It has to be!"
Goku frowns, "Who me? Who's me?"
"You're Goku!" the child yells excitedly.
The elder saiyajin grins, "Aw, I'm flattered. I didn't know I was that famous... in the middle of nowhere..." He adds slightly awkwardly, looking around the black void.
Suddenly the kid smacks him over the head. "No, you idiot! I'm Kakarot's spirit! And I'm going to take over your body!" he announces proudly.
Goku blinks, "What? WHAT?! Kakarot?! I'm Kakarot! Holy! What are you doing?!" The boy starts crawling onto his leg, making his way up to Goku's chest. The older saiyajin yells, "Hey! Get off me! This is completely inappropriate!"
The kid replies, "Oh shut up you!" He finally plops himself on top of Goku's shoulders and suddenly punches at the older saiyajin's head.
Goku can only give a small 'ipe' and closes his eyes. However, no impact comes and he blinks open one eye. Both widen in horror when he sees a fist coming right out of his forehead. "Oh my god..."
The kid grins viscously, "Alright! The sweet spot!"
"NO!" Goku pulls the kid off of him and plops him down onto the ground. "Don't do that again! That's just freaky!"
The spirit glares at him, almost pouting and stands up to him puffing out his chest. "You think I'm going to let you off that easy?! I won't give up until Kakarot gets his body back!"
Goku slowly shakes his head, thinking, {The poor kid, he must have identity problems.} He puts his hands on his hips and says calmly, "Look, can't we talk about this? I think you're confusing yourself with me."
The child's face contorts into a look of pure disgust, "Me?! Think I'm you?! I've never been so insulted in my life!" Goku sweatdrops just as the kid adds, "How dare you compare me with yourself, Goku!"
The taller saiyajin frowns, "Okay, now I'm confused."
The child shakes his head, "I can't believe I'm even bothering with talking with you. That's it! CHARGE!" He lifts his hands above his head, suddenly forming a huge spirit bomb rivaling the one that Goku made to beat Majin Buu. Goku gives a loud shriek of surprise and backs away from the kid, to avoid the bomb. "GIVE ME MY BODY BACK!" With a great heave, the kid throws the spirit bomb at Goku, but the taller saiyajin manages to dodge it by ITing. Spirit mutters, "Aw dang it."
Goku IT's right back and grabs Spirit, holding him in a headlock. "Look, kid, just calm down! You have some issues that I think you need to sort out!"
Spirit yells in fury, "Get your filthy hands off me!" He breaks from Goku's vice-grip with hardly any struggle at all.
The other saiyajin stares at him in alarm. "Holy jeez! You're really strong kid! You wouldn't happen to be the reincarnation of Buu, would you? Do you want to train with me?"
The young child stares at Goku incredulously, "No, you idiot! I'm trying to take over your body! Why the hell would I want to train with you?!"
Goku sighs, "Oh well, that's too bad. Look, if what you're saying is true, I don't really want to lend out my body. And I don't wanna hurt you either. You look too much like...like me! So if you don't mind, I'm getting out of here."
Spirit yelps, "Hey! No! That's not fair!"
Goku ignores him and IT's out of there. Looking around he finds himself in the black void once more, only without the kid in sight. "Whew, I think I lost him." Suddenly-
"YAAAAHHHH!!!!"
Goku screams in response and gets out of the way just in time to see Spirit whizzing right by him. With a loud smack, the kid hits the ground hard, headfirst. Large swirls replace his eyes temporarily, as a nasty dizzy spell comes over him. Goku leans over the kid and asks in a worried tone, "Uh- are you okay?"
Suddenly a small fist comes up and goes straight through his head once again. Goku shrieks and tries pulling away, but it seems like the kid has a hold of something inside his head. Goku barely manages to wrench the kid's fist away and yells, "I told you not to do that!"
"Haven't you been listening to me?! I told you I'm trying to take over your body! I never said it was going to be pretty!" The child picks himself up from the ground and grins, "I just made your body unstable from your mind. It'll be a piece of cake to enter you now!"
Goku finally starts taking the kid's word and glares at him going into a fighting position, "I won't give up without a fight."
"Good, I don't think that Kakarot would want the body of a coward."
The taller saiyajin twitches as if the child has just hit a nerve. He asks quietly, "What did you say?"
"You obviously showed your cowardice when you ran away from me." Spirit smirks, purposely goading the taller saiyajin.
Goku yells defensively, "Hey, I did that because I didn't wanna hurt you!"
"Ah, so you're not a coward, but you are a weakling."
At that, Goku relaxes, "Okay I can live with that. Vegeta's called me that tons of times.
Spirit visibly slumps, sweatdropping. "You know what, you're just weird." Then a grin comes onto his face. "Well, it's a good thing I'm keeping you alive! I might study your paradoxes later."
"Okay, if you're not going to kill me, then what the heck are you going to do?" Spirit doesn't respond, an impish smile on his face. All of a sudden he flies straight at Goku, catching him off guard.
Goku prepares for impact in a split second and gets knocked onto his back, sliding several feet across the black floor. He groans and props himself up onto his elbows, "Wha? What happened?" His eyes nearly bulge out of his head when he sees a ghostlike tail waving around coming from inside his stomach. All the color leaves his face and he tries in vain to get a hold on the furry tail, "Hey! Get out of me! What are you doing in there! Get out!"
A muffled voice escapes his stomach yelling, "Not until I've done what I have to do." At first Goku feels nothing, but he suddenly sees a flash of white accompanied by an explosion of white-hot pain. For what seems like years passed, he lays writhing on the ground, screaming in pain. As quickly as the waves of pain arrived, they fade, leaving Goku on the ground in an exhausted heap. Goku squints open his eyes and to his complete shock he sees his body lying on the ground.
{What the- What the hell am I doing up here if I'm down there?!} He freezes as he watches his body stir and get up on its own.
His body's face slowly transforms, the eyes growing narrow and his grin turning into a vicious smirk. In a voice that's his and yet not, Goku's body opens its mouth to speak. "Wow, you've been taking very good care of this body, haven't you? But what happened to the tail? Oh well," Spirit sighs, "we can't be picky now can we?"
Goku demands angrily, "What have you done?! Get out of my body! Give it back!"
His body grins impishly back at him, "Well, Goku, it's like this. This body is Kakarot's now. Actually it was his in the first place, but you came and STOLE it from him! And besides what are you going to do about it? You're in spirit form. It's infinitely stronger than this body's strength, but you won't be able to move even a muscle for years."
Growling, the spirited saiyajin yells, "I'll show you!" He struggles to move his metaphysical form, but it all comes to naught. Not an inch of him budges and he's having doubts on whether this form is even breathing! He growls with frustration as he struggles in vain.
Spirit says smugly, "I didn't think so. Well, time to wake up Kakarot. He's been asleep for a very VERY long time." He turns from Goku and starts walking away.
"HEY! DON'T WALK AWAY FROM ME LIKE THAT! WHAT'S GOING ON?!"
Spirit turns and says irritably, "Alright fine! Just so you stop blabbing already! I'm Kakarot's spirit. You're currently Goku's spirit since you haven't got a body. When I wake up, I'm automatically going to turn into Kakarot and forget about this whole ordeal. You happy?"
Goku snaps, "Uh, NO! Is Kakarot going to go back to his mission to destroy Earth?"
Spirit shrugs, "Damned if I care. I just wanna get out of here."
"But don't you realize what will happen if he returns to his mission?! If he kills all humans, they'd include my sons, and his sons. My wife, his wife. My friends and his friends. They'll all be gone!"
Spirit says, "Shut up fool! What about your saiyajin brothers, Raditz and Turles? Since they were Kakarot's brothers doesn't that make them your brothers too? And you killed them! How can you say those words without being a hypocrite? Huh?!"
Goku yells, "They were going to hurt people, I had to stop them!"
"Oh sure, murder your brothers because they were going to pick off a couple humans, that makes perfect sense!" Spirit waves his hands around exasperatingly. All Goku can do is sweatdrop. His body turns back away from him and waves, "Well, I've spent more than enough time talking to you, you body stealer. I've got an entity to awaken. And if you wanna see the action, look in that puddle of water below you," pointing at a pool of water that had miraculously escaped Goku's vision. "Gotta run, Goku's spirit. Ciao babe."
He disappears in a flash of light, leaving Goku all alone suspended up in the air. Or whatever was supposed to air wherever the heck he was. Staring out into the eternal black void, Goku says weakly, "Hello? Anyone there?"
"-anyone there?"
"-one there?"
"there?"
The spirited saiyajin suddenly feels very, very alone right then.
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Bright eyes slowly flutter open only to see into infinite black. Goku winces and sits up, holding his head in his hands, {Ugh, where the heck am I? What happened to King Kai?} Looking around the void, his panic rises, {Wait a sec! Why isn't my night vision working here?! I'm not blind am I?!} He looks down at his hands and to his relief sees that they're still visible. {Whew, man, I got scared for a second there. But what the heck is this place? And where is everybody?!}
Standing up, he gets completely creeped out by his surroundings seeing as he can't even make out where sky and ground meet, or even how large this place is. He frowns. {Well maybe if I just walk in one direction I'll get somewhere.}
Easier said than done.
Goku walks, runs, flies and even teleports, but after what seems like days, he doesn't seem to be going anywhere. And the monotony of the place is getting to him. Day in, day out, it's the same thing over and over again. The endless black that just never seems to end! Finally setting down for a spell, Goku flops down on the ground, eyes wide as if he's afraid he's going to miss something if he blinks even once. {Kami! This is like the dimension of time only a bazillion times worse!}
Suddenly a small face suddenly pops up in front of his face. Goku shrieks and nearly jumps up from his position on the ground. Taking a breather, Goku calms down and takes a better look at the child. His jaw drops in shock when he sees the little child is his near clone and has a tail. Both stare at each other, completely stunned.
The young child takes the initiative by going around Goku and looking him over. The little boy whispers, "Holy cow! It's you! It has to be!"
Goku frowns, "Who me? Who's me?"
"You're Goku!" the child yells excitedly.
The elder saiyajin grins, "Aw, I'm flattered. I didn't know I was that famous... in the middle of nowhere..." He adds slightly awkwardly, looking around the black void.
Suddenly the kid smacks him over the head. "No, you idiot! I'm Kakarot's spirit! And I'm going to take over your body!" he announces proudly.
Goku blinks, "What? WHAT?! Kakarot?! I'm Kakarot! Holy! What are you doing?!" The boy starts crawling onto his leg, making his way up to Goku's chest. The older saiyajin yells, "Hey! Get off me! This is completely inappropriate!"
The kid replies, "Oh shut up you!" He finally plops himself on top of Goku's shoulders and suddenly punches at the older saiyajin's head.
Goku can only give a small 'ipe' and closes his eyes. However, no impact comes and he blinks open one eye. Both widen in horror when he sees a fist coming right out of his forehead. "Oh my god..."
The kid grins viscously, "Alright! The sweet spot!"
"NO!" Goku pulls the kid off of him and plops him down onto the ground. "Don't do that again! That's just freaky!"
The spirit glares at him, almost pouting and stands up to him puffing out his chest. "You think I'm going to let you off that easy?! I won't give up until Kakarot gets his body back!"
Goku slowly shakes his head, thinking, {The poor kid, he must have identity problems.} He puts his hands on his hips and says calmly, "Look, can't we talk about this? I think you're confusing yourself with me."
The child's face contorts into a look of pure disgust, "Me?! Think I'm you?! I've never been so insulted in my life!" Goku sweatdrops just as the kid adds, "How dare you compare me with yourself, Goku!"
The taller saiyajin frowns, "Okay, now I'm confused."
The child shakes his head, "I can't believe I'm even bothering with talking with you. That's it! CHARGE!" He lifts his hands above his head, suddenly forming a huge spirit bomb rivaling the one that Goku made to beat Majin Buu. Goku gives a loud shriek of surprise and backs away from the kid, to avoid the bomb. "GIVE ME MY BODY BACK!" With a great heave, the kid throws the spirit bomb at Goku, but the taller saiyajin manages to dodge it by ITing. Spirit mutters, "Aw dang it."
Goku IT's right back and grabs Spirit, holding him in a headlock. "Look, kid, just calm down! You have some issues that I think you need to sort out!"
Spirit yells in fury, "Get your filthy hands off me!" He breaks from Goku's vice-grip with hardly any struggle at all.
The other saiyajin stares at him in alarm. "Holy jeez! You're really strong kid! You wouldn't happen to be the reincarnation of Buu, would you? Do you want to train with me?"
The young child stares at Goku incredulously, "No, you idiot! I'm trying to take over your body! Why the hell would I want to train with you?!"
Goku sighs, "Oh well, that's too bad. Look, if what you're saying is true, I don't really want to lend out my body. And I don't wanna hurt you either. You look too much like...like me! So if you don't mind, I'm getting out of here."
Spirit yelps, "Hey! No! That's not fair!"
Goku ignores him and IT's out of there. Looking around he finds himself in the black void once more, only without the kid in sight. "Whew, I think I lost him." Suddenly-
"YAAAAHHHH!!!!"
Goku screams in response and gets out of the way just in time to see Spirit whizzing right by him. With a loud smack, the kid hits the ground hard, headfirst. Large swirls replace his eyes temporarily, as a nasty dizzy spell comes over him. Goku leans over the kid and asks in a worried tone, "Uh- are you okay?"
Suddenly a small fist comes up and goes straight through his head once again. Goku shrieks and tries pulling away, but it seems like the kid has a hold of something inside his head. Goku barely manages to wrench the kid's fist away and yells, "I told you not to do that!"
"Haven't you been listening to me?! I told you I'm trying to take over your body! I never said it was going to be pretty!" The child picks himself up from the ground and grins, "I just made your body unstable from your mind. It'll be a piece of cake to enter you now!"
Goku finally starts taking the kid's word and glares at him going into a fighting position, "I won't give up without a fight."
"Good, I don't think that Kakarot would want the body of a coward."
The taller saiyajin twitches as if the child has just hit a nerve. He asks quietly, "What did you say?"
"You obviously showed your cowardice when you ran away from me." Spirit smirks, purposely goading the taller saiyajin.
Goku yells defensively, "Hey, I did that because I didn't wanna hurt you!"
"Ah, so you're not a coward, but you are a weakling."
At that, Goku relaxes, "Okay I can live with that. Vegeta's called me that tons of times.
Spirit visibly slumps, sweatdropping. "You know what, you're just weird." Then a grin comes onto his face. "Well, it's a good thing I'm keeping you alive! I might study your paradoxes later."
"Okay, if you're not going to kill me, then what the heck are you going to do?" Spirit doesn't respond, an impish smile on his face. All of a sudden he flies straight at Goku, catching him off guard.
Goku prepares for impact in a split second and gets knocked onto his back, sliding several feet across the black floor. He groans and props himself up onto his elbows, "Wha? What happened?" His eyes nearly bulge out of his head when he sees a ghostlike tail waving around coming from inside his stomach. All the color leaves his face and he tries in vain to get a hold on the furry tail, "Hey! Get out of me! What are you doing in there! Get out!"
A muffled voice escapes his stomach yelling, "Not until I've done what I have to do." At first Goku feels nothing, but he suddenly sees a flash of white accompanied by an explosion of white-hot pain. For what seems like years passed, he lays writhing on the ground, screaming in pain. As quickly as the waves of pain arrived, they fade, leaving Goku on the ground in an exhausted heap. Goku squints open his eyes and to his complete shock he sees his body lying on the ground.
{What the- What the hell am I doing up here if I'm down there?!} He freezes as he watches his body stir and get up on its own.
His body's face slowly transforms, the eyes growing narrow and his grin turning into a vicious smirk. In a voice that's his and yet not, Goku's body opens its mouth to speak. "Wow, you've been taking very good care of this body, haven't you? But what happened to the tail? Oh well," Spirit sighs, "we can't be picky now can we?"
Goku demands angrily, "What have you done?! Get out of my body! Give it back!"
His body grins impishly back at him, "Well, Goku, it's like this. This body is Kakarot's now. Actually it was his in the first place, but you came and STOLE it from him! And besides what are you going to do about it? You're in spirit form. It's infinitely stronger than this body's strength, but you won't be able to move even a muscle for years."
Growling, the spirited saiyajin yells, "I'll show you!" He struggles to move his metaphysical form, but it all comes to naught. Not an inch of him budges and he's having doubts on whether this form is even breathing! He growls with frustration as he struggles in vain.
Spirit says smugly, "I didn't think so. Well, time to wake up Kakarot. He's been asleep for a very VERY long time." He turns from Goku and starts walking away.
"HEY! DON'T WALK AWAY FROM ME LIKE THAT! WHAT'S GOING ON?!"
Spirit turns and says irritably, "Alright fine! Just so you stop blabbing already! I'm Kakarot's spirit. You're currently Goku's spirit since you haven't got a body. When I wake up, I'm automatically going to turn into Kakarot and forget about this whole ordeal. You happy?"
Goku snaps, "Uh, NO! Is Kakarot going to go back to his mission to destroy Earth?"
Spirit shrugs, "Damned if I care. I just wanna get out of here."
"But don't you realize what will happen if he returns to his mission?! If he kills all humans, they'd include my sons, and his sons. My wife, his wife. My friends and his friends. They'll all be gone!"
Spirit says, "Shut up fool! What about your saiyajin brothers, Raditz and Turles? Since they were Kakarot's brothers doesn't that make them your brothers too? And you killed them! How can you say those words without being a hypocrite? Huh?!"
Goku yells, "They were going to hurt people, I had to stop them!"
"Oh sure, murder your brothers because they were going to pick off a couple humans, that makes perfect sense!" Spirit waves his hands around exasperatingly. All Goku can do is sweatdrop. His body turns back away from him and waves, "Well, I've spent more than enough time talking to you, you body stealer. I've got an entity to awaken. And if you wanna see the action, look in that puddle of water below you," pointing at a pool of water that had miraculously escaped Goku's vision. "Gotta run, Goku's spirit. Ciao babe."
He disappears in a flash of light, leaving Goku all alone suspended up in the air. Or whatever was supposed to air wherever the heck he was. Staring out into the eternal black void, Goku says weakly, "Hello? Anyone there?"
"-anyone there?"
"-one there?"
"there?"
The spirited saiyajin suddenly feels very, very alone right then.
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