-----DISCLAIMER-----
Nina © Capcom
Clint, Alex, Jason, Vernon, Devin, Dusty, Dan © Themselves
Goku, Radditz, Vegeta, Piccolo, Juuanagou/#17, Mr. Buu © Akira Toriyama
Heero Yuy © Sotsu Agency Co. Ltd
Steve Williams, Dwayne Johnson © Themselves (Their ring names are © WWE)
Paula © Shigesto Itoi
Jackson, Teresa © Me
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Part 7: Pissing The Depression Away

(September 11, 2001 A.D.; 1:23pm; Canton, Ohio)

After their departure from Canton South High School, the Misfits and their current allies all flew over to Alex's house and stopped there for a short time. With the looming disaster of the day over their heads, depression was not uncommon amongst them. But they decided that they should go over a few more things before they would finally commit to what they would call their new training regimen. On the way back, Radditz had been asked by Teresa about some training, and Radditz, realizing she and Dan were in the same boat for the moment due to their little meeting back as CSHS, decided he would train Dan and her both in some of the things he knew. He warned them that while the training methods of the recent days were fresh in his head, that there would me much more for him to learn, and he suggested that he was probably not the best trainer for them, but Teresa felt he was the best choice, since he had found and rescued her family from Al-queda.

Clint had decided he was probably going to join up with Devin and Dusty's little gang and train more of his powers. He needed to get a hold on where the hell he had learned to go Super Saiya-jin from. He also needed to ask his parents about this development, as Alex and even Vernon had. Vernon had asked his mother and father about his Saiya-jin roots back on the 9th. His parents was totally confused about his comments, and said they didn't know anything about him crashing to Earth.

Although Vernon could swear when he looked at his mother, she almost looked like she was hiding something from him. However he realized that his parents may in fact really have had no clue to the origin of his powers. He realized that he was gonna have to up the training session. Knowing he could go SSJ, he realized it was possible he could become a Super Saiya-jin 2 as well, and that would give him quite a boost in the fight against his enemies.

Alex had similar thoughts on his mind about wanting to become a Super Saiya-jin 2, and he had also thought further beyond, also imagining himself as a long-haired Super Saiya-jin 3, or a fur-covered Super Saiya-jin 4. In fact, that last thought made him wonder. It sounded from the look of things that most of the characters had come from a time during the ten years between the end of Z and GT. He wondered if Goku and Vegeta might have even known a level such as SSJ4 even existed, and if they could actually do it1.

"Goku! Vegeta! I need to know something!" Alex called over to them.

"Huh? What do you want to know?" asked Goku.

"What are your strongest Super Saiya-jin levels as of now?" Alex asked back.

"Me? I can go Super Saiya-jin 3. Vegeta, he can at least reach 2, but I don't know anymore." Goku replied.

Vegeta grumbled, "No Kakarott, I haven't found a way to go 3 like you have yet! It's been getting under my skin for several years."

Alex thought to himself, Hmm... so they don't know about SSJ4! Sweet! Maybe that knowledge will give me the way to one day surpass them! If I can do it before them, not even Goku would be able to defeat me in a fight!

As for Devin, Dusty, Dan, Steve and Dwayne, they had talked it over with Clint and Heero, and they had eventually agreed to add those two to their training kosher, and they even at Dusty's suggestion had decided to add Virgil to their sessions. Perhaps they could teach him a few things, or even teach him a couple of wrestling moves, Dusty had wondered to himself. However Dusty had also been terribly shaken inside. Not just from the events of the attacks on New York, D.C, and CSHS, but also from Nina's enraged outburst at Jackson less than 2 hours ago. He still maintained his crush for the winged girl, but he definitely realized that she was not one to piss off, lest he end up plastered on the wall like Jackson had.

He had asked Piccolo about what her powerlevel was, and Piccolo grumbled to him, saying "At the peak of her rage, she would've been able to waste me like I was a fly if it had been me and not that jackass."

Dusty knew that was WAY more than his powerlevel, even if it wasn't an exact number yet, and Piccolo had flown up to Dan and started discussing over that little bet they had made.

"Well Piccolo, it looks like you're gonna be teaching me and Dusty your Makankosoppo beam soon." Dan smirked, and then his face became serious, "Because there is no way I'm gonna let what almost happened today go unanswered."

"Bleh, I know, I know! Shut up and stop rubbing it in my face!" Piccolo growled, not because of the bet, but because he was tired of being reminded of today's tragedy, and the fact all his 'friends' were almost vaporized by a powerful bomb. Clint, what the hell are you! You are not a Saiya-jin, but I sense your body is fully human, and that makes no sense at all!

Nina and Paula were along the others near each other. Both had also vowed they were going to get stronger now, and stop lounging around like they had for the past week. They had realized, even if they were going to probably be perceived as the weaker ones by the others, that they should try their best to prove their friends wrong. The two girls had agreed that they were going to train each other. However the problem was, they were wondering how to do so without too many interruptions from their friends.

Although that probably didn't seem too much of a problem, they knew the others wouldn't train 24/7, even in the midst of their new regimen. Nina however had a good deal of knowledge of Canton, and even southern Akron due to her 2 months of being a Misfit, and also largely because she could already fly. She had a few ideas for some possible far away training spots for her and Paula to use. However both agreed that they were going to part ways for a short while before Nina would call Paula to start their first session the next day.

"Hey, I'm going to head off home. Good luck with whatever training you're going to do today guys." Nina said, "Radditz, I'll be in and out if you decide to come back to the house."

"Very well, I'll probably get started on Teresa's catch up training. She needs to be taught the ki usage and flight, and all that good stuff." the older brother of Goku replied back.

Paula also lifted up into the air. She realized from talking to Nina that she needed to learn more about Canton's geography, and all that stuff, "I'm going as well. I need to check around this place, and get more of a feel for it. Talk later Goku, Piccolo, and all the rest of you." she said, and fly off at a high speed.

(September 11, 2001 A.D.; 1:34pm; Canton, Ohio)

After a while, Dusty, Devin, Clint, Heero, Virgil, Steve and Dwayne had flared up their ki and flew off to Dusty's house to begin training Virgil to catch up. They figured maybe Clint could help in teaching the youngest of the Misfits how to use his powers, considering at least Devin knew how to also sense and mask Ki, and all the other's could explain to him how to find and use his ki.

However Devin was still a good deal annoyed at Virgil from the night before and his little phone pranks, and he decided he would teach Virgil some other time. He was also a little sore at the rest of his training group that they had neglected to stay around to train Ki sense and Ki masking, so he figured he'd teach them all on a better day when he wasn't so pissed at the idiots in the world.

As they reached Dusty's house, they had all landed there, but they quickly realized a problem at hand: Virgil was much bigger around than Dan, and his presence would leave little room to spare, especially with Devin not being the thinnest person himself. They sweatdropped at each other, and realized something.

"You know, we need a better place to train." Dwayne spoke up.

"Yeah, I know what you mean now." Dusty replied.

"Any good ideas? The rest of you know this city better than the rest of us." Steve added.

"Hmmm..." Clint thought to himself, "I used to live further north in Canton. I might know a place or two for us to train, if they'll let us."

"Lead the way Clint." Devin replied, realizing this was all true. They desperately needed a good training location if they would prepare to fight back against Al-queda and any other serious threats down the road.

As they looked around Devin suddenly perked up, "I got an idea for a training ground. I know of a large vacant lot near my own house." Heero and Virgil looked on, as did Clint, Dusty, Dwayne and Steve.

"Well then by all means lead the way." Heero said, eager to get started. They all turned back southwards, and flew off towards Inner Drive, the area where Devin lived, and where this lot was said to be.

(September 11, 2001 A.D.; 1:45pm; Canton, Ohio)

Back at Alex's house, Goku and Piccolo had began a mental conversation

/Goku... With all this shit going on, I think it's time we told Vegeta, Alex, Vernon and #17 about our little secret./ Piccolo started.

/Jason, right/ Goku asked back for confirmation.

/Yes./ Piccolo replied.

"Hey, Vegeta, Alex, #17, Piccolo, Jason over here. I We need to talk to you five." Goku spoke out loud to his comrades.

"What's going on, Kakarott?" asked Vegeta, having a feeling he wasn't going to like the news.

After the seven were all gathered, Piccolo started up, "We have to tell you something: Earlier this week, Goku and I found another person to train. That would be Jason. He's not as strong as either Alex or Vernon yet, but he's close behind them."

"What! Jason's training too?" asked Alex.

Vegeta looked at Goku and grumbled, "Is this what you were telling me when you said 'I'll tell you another time'?" he asked Goku harshly.

"Yeah, that's why I was heading off after training sessions." Goku admitted.

"Piccolo, why train him?" asked #17, "We've already both got Vernon to worry about!"

Vernon merely looked on and spoke, "I guess that explains Jason's strength. I had a feeling he'd been training when I saw him almost break the desk in Mr. Summers' room in half."

"You knew!" Jason replied.

"Well, I was gonna eventually ask you about it, but then all the attacks occurred and took my attention elsewhere." Vernon replied.

"Kakarott, Namek, why are you telling us this now!" asked Vegeta grumpily.

"Because I think we should all just merge our methods together, like we had planned to do yesterday. Except this time add Jason in on it."

"Can he even go Super Saiya-jin?" asked #17.

"No, at least not yet he can." Goku admitted.

But #17 interrupted him, "Forget it, he'll probably do so soon enough."

"What! Why?" asked Alex.

"Remember when I told you at the hotel in Japan "you never know"?" #17 asked.

"Wait! Of course, you're an android! You can probably see Saiya-jin DNA!" Alex realized, feeling a bit stupid.

"I'm a CYBORG, not an android, and yes, I can see your DNA structures somewhat. I see Saiya-jin DNA in you, Vernon, and even Jason." #17 replied.

"Wait, you knew Vernon was Saiya-jin and you never told us before!" Piccolo growled at him.

"I wanted you to find out yourself." #17 smirked back2.

Piccolo grumbled. "Whatever. Look, at least we know Jason is Saiya-jin now. Now I think we need him to transform to Super Saiya-jin."

"I'm sure you and the cyborg can handle that part, much like you did with Vernon. Kakarott, you and I on the other hand, need to take care of what we were intending to do from the start." Vegeta replied.

Goku thought for a moment, and suddenly realized, "Yeah, we don't know too well about this city. We need to go around and get a feel for this place. Piccolo, #17, can you two handle these three while we're out?" asked Goku, referring to Alex, Jason and Vernon.

"Feh. Fine, but you two owe us." Piccolo replied.

"Sure thing." Goku replied, as he and Vegeta rose up into the air, and flew off to the north.

(September 11, 2001 A.D.; 2:11pm; Canton, Ohio)

As for Teresa, Dan and Radditz, they had also recently flown off to find a ground for training. They traveled a little to the east, near a large patch of wheat fields along a crossroads. He figured some landmass could suffer a little for teaching Teresa how to use ki. After they brought her to the field.

Dan went to sit down, when Radditz replied, "Wait. You're gonna need to do some of this too."

"Why? I've been through all of this." Dan replied, curious to Radditz's command.

"Not the Ki Sensing and Masking. You guys all ran off after you learned how to fly. You missed a few things." Radditz explained.

Dan sweatdropped, "Shit, sorry about that. I guess I was really trying to beat Piccolo so bad I forgot."

"What? What're you talking about?" Radditz asked.

"Piccolo and I made a bet back in Japan. Basically it was that if we humans could surpass a 45,000 powerlevel in 3 months that Piccolo would teach me and Dusty how to do his Makankosoppo attack." Dan replied.

Radditz smirked, pulling our his scouter, and putting it over his ear, "I guess I should scan you both, and me too." he hit the button on the scouter and pointed it over Dan first.

"Hmmm... powerlevel is 14,948." he then pointed it at Teresa, "Hers is 13.4, much higher starting off than you and all of your friends actually." he then took off the scouter and tossed it to Teresa, who caught it and looked at it funny, then put it on her ear.

"How do I scan you?" she asked.

"The button on the side." Radditz replied.

Teresa hit the button and the scouter looked over, and she saw a climbing number, which them stopped at around 63,119, "Yours is 63,119." she said.

Radditz laughed loudly, "Damn! Dodoria would struggle to keep up with me now, and that's only a little over a week of training!" He then thought to himself, a little jealous of Vernon and Alex, who he knew now were Super Saiya-jins. Even Clint appeared to have transformed similar.

He then realized, "No, it's not enough." he said, making Dan look at him.

"What you mean?"

"I need to ascend! Two weak brats managed to attain Super Saiya-jin before I did!" Radditz scowled.

"Alex and Vernon..." Dan realized.

"Yes. I need to become a Super Saiya-jin soon! Before I get surpassed by brats who only had double-digit powerlevels a week ago!" Teresa tossed the scouter back to the tall saiya-jin, who put it in his pocket. He then looked to her, "Alright, let's get this over with. It's now or never."

Radditz started off by explaining the full concept of ki energy. Teresa had taken to this in earnest, as Radditz had explained it was the explanation for their ability to fly(sans Nina) and shoot energy. Also for sensing others' energies. He then told Teresa to sit down and close her eyes to concentrate, telling her to feel deep down into her soul to bring forth the cauldron of ki. It wasn't easy for her, not having a big knack for the supernatural, and it took her about an hour to finally get it right.

After that, Radditz had her try as long as possible to hold onto it, until she could hold it all the time. Soon, she had gotten the hang of that, and Radditz explained that flight consisted of using your ki as a cushion, or to push you around in the air. Teresa slowly began to learn how to expel her ki properly, and was now flying around like a bird, the wind whipping in her hair. She had actually began to realize this had been worth it, especially if she could use it for something good. Radditz then had her land, and commanded Dan over alongside her.

He now began to explain to them what Goku had told him before about sensing ki. Dan was picking it up a lot faster due to his ki experience, but Teresa was having problems scanning out for lesser kis, and could only for a while sense Dan or Radditz's ki. After some encouragement from Dan and some explanation, she finally got the hang of it. Radditz then began to explain to the two of them how to mask and hide their ki from others, and demonstrated it in front of Dan and Teresa to give them a mental aid. Oddly enough, Teresa got this down almost immediately, while Dan had taken another 10 minutes to figure it out. After it was over,

Radditz gave both congratulations. "There, now you know the basics, Teresa, and Dan you now know too. Feeling dumb for running off now?" he asked jokingly.

Dan grumbled and flipped Radditz the bird, causing him to chuckle, "Oh pipe down! You couldn't beat me yet. I wouldn't prompt me into battle." he taunted, "I guess it's time to get Teresa caught up. Dan, you go and do some warm-ups, or something." Radditz replied, and Dan flew off further in the field, beginning to do a kata involving using the zanzoken and firing small ki blasts.

Meanwhile, Radditz had given Teresa a similar type of weighted armor, gloves and shoes as the kind that he had given Devin on their first day of training. Although it had fit her decent, it wasn't a female-style armor, making it look odd on her. Radditz had basically made her do the same things she had made Devin do, including running laps with the armor on, as well as making her pull boulders and large rocks out of other parts of the ground on the other side of a road. Another thing he had made her do that he didn't make Devin do was dig up trenches in the dirt with her bare hands, a training method he had been told to by Goku to try out. He also made her dig the ground with both the rock and the armor on at the same time.

At the end of the session, she was sweaty and exhausted, but Radditz pressured her to keep going, and to try to shoot some ki from her hands. He demonstrated to her by firing a minor blast at the ground close to where she had been digging, putting a minor crater in the soil. Teresa had tried several times, but she was having a hard time even getting the energy out to shoot a single blast, until she finally managed to control her exhaustion enough to finally concentrate enough ki together to fire off a small blast that only darkened the soil. She tried a second time, but she feel to her knees, in total exhaustion.

Dan gasped at this and ran over to her, "Are you okay?"

Radditz grumbled to himself, "I should've known. She wasn't ready for it yet. I tried to go too fast. Damn these Al-queda bastards for making me so mad!" he walked over, and gathered Teresa's near-unconscious form in his arms.

"Let's bring her back to Goku. I think a sensu will help her heal up faster." Dan suggested.

"Well, probably. But we can't expect they have an unlimited amount Dan. There's gotta be a limit to how many beans we can use." Radditz said, until he suddenly felt a mental smack upside his head.

Wait a minute! I am such an idiot! DUH! STUPID STUPID STUPID! He thought, and quickly set Teresa back down.

"Hey, what're you doing!" Dan demanded at this.

"Dan, I need to ask a favor from you." Radditz replied.

"W.. what?" Dan replied.

"I want you to attack me a few times. Enough to put me in bad enough-looking shape that they'll give me a bean too. I know Kakarott and Vegeta don't fully trust me yet. I don't think they'll just give me a second bean without a serious enough reason." Radditz replied.

"Are you crazy! I can barely hurt you at all!" Dan grumbled.

"Look, I'll lower my powerlevel significantly or something like that! Look, I don't want to totally spoil my surprise. It might not even work, and if it doesn't, there's no point in getting your hopes up about it." Radditz explained.

Dan quickly weighed the decision in his head, "Fine, but I want you to fight back. I don't feel right about attacking someone who doesn't fight back."

"Fine, let me lower my powerlevel to 16,000. You'll last longer when I fight back. At worst, at least one of us will require a sensu bean in some way." Radditz replied, lowering his powerlevel to about 25 of his current amount, and then shedding his armor and his Saiya-jin utility belt, not wanting the armor to crack up and/or get destroyed, and the same with his scouter and belt. The two crouched down into a ready stance and jumped at each other.

Dan and Radditz began a punch trading fest, with a flurry of blows, most being blocked by both fighters, although once in a while, Radditz would connect with Dan, and visa versa. Dan soon broke off and darted to the side, and teleported left, and aimed his Saturday Crush, and fired it at Radditz from his backside. Radditz, in a real fight, would've dodge to the side, but knew he needed to look convincing to Goku and Vegeta and let the blast hit him in the arm, hitting with the force of a hammer. Not really too painful, but it had left a mark on his damaged arm.

Radditz decided to retaliate with his Double Sunday, a double-armed blast which was shot at Dan quickly, and followed him semi-seeking. Dan dodged aside quickly, although the Double Sunday made a sudden turn and smashed into his side, with a similar force to Dan's own Saturday Crush, and knocked him to the side. The damage wasn't too great either, but it would help make him look convincing. Radditz suddenly appeared in front of Dan and swung his leg and kicked him across the dirt, causing his to skid back, until Dan flipped back up and shot a minor Kamehameha which smacked Radditz's right in the face, knocking him back about 2 to 3 feet. His face was slightly bloodied, and it felt good to actually get hit a little, knowing healing from it would make him a little stronger later on.

Dan suddenly jumped back, and growled, and Radditz was looking at him with a strange expression on his face, as Dan began to change a strange look wave motion of energy into his arms. And then he looked down at Radditz, and cupped his hands out in the front.

"What the hell!" Radditz shouted, as Dan screamed, "FINAL FLASH!" and shot Vegeta's special trademark ki blast right at Radditz.

"That's one of Vegeta's attacks! Dammit!" he growled, realizing he did not want to get hit completely by the wave, lest it damage him a little TOO much. He dodged upwards, but he underestimated the speed of the Final Flash as it smashed right into his lower legs, causing Radditz to start spinning vertically in mid-air as he flew up. His legs were also badly hit by the shot, although not totally taken out. Radditz righted himself one more time, just in time for Dan to appear behind him and axehandled him over the head. Radditz quickly powered back up to 50 and managed to correct his landing and managed to land safely, and then zanzokening behind Dan with a final kick to his back that sent Dan plowing forward into the air, and causing his to slowly fall to the ground across the road.

Luckily, Dan had not taken as much damaged as he had expected, and was also able to correct himself before hitting the ground. He then looked to Radditz, realizing it was probably time to stop.

Radditz grumbled, "Dammit! How'd you learn Vegeta's Final Flash!"

"I guess it came to me after watching the show a few times, and all of this anger at the terrorist and what they did." Dan explained, and then looked down, "And also I guess I was a bit pissed at you. I'm sorry, it's just I don't see why you couldn't have just taken Teresa back before we did this."

"You're worried about her, aren't you?" Radditz asked, "After she almost lost consciousness."

"Yes. She had almost killed me because she had no choice. I know I should be a bit mad at her, but I can't be. I feel for her. I don't know why." Dan replied.

"Well that's fair enough. I guess I got a little overboard. I guess we need to go back to Kakarott and Vegeta now." Radditz replied, and cradled Teresa in his arms again, and he and Dan quickly flew off towards Alex's house, not really thinking to sense out for the two people they were looking for.

(September 11, 2001 A.D.; 2:45pm; Canton, Ohio)

When they finally got back, they found not Goku or Vegeta, but Piccolo and #17 training Vernon, Alex and Jason. In fact, the three others had just arrived in time to witness something important. They looked on and realized that Piccolo, #17, Vernon, and even Alex, although grumbling a little, looked to be on the sidelines, watching Jason standing in the middle of the yard, looking down at the ground, and Radditz could swear he felt a great anger welling up in Jason.

Jason was thinking over the events of earlier that day: the planes that hit the World Trade Center.

The plane that hit the Pentagon.

The plane in Pennsylvania.

The collapse of the outer east walls of the Pentagon.

The collapse of the North and South Towers, and then, the attack on Dan and also Teresa's families.

Then finally, the bomb that almost wiped out several counties, and how CLINT of all people had managed to save them by getting the bomb out of the atmosphere.

Jason's growls of anger and the tears in his eyes overwhelmed him, and he let out a terrifying scream that Dan realized would dwarf any volume Dusty had ever used to this point, "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Jason's hair began to stand up and flicker gold, as his energy flared out around him, causing a shockwave that almost flung a nearby car on its' side, and then his eyes faded out, and reappeared turquoise and his hair finally became a solid gold.

Jason gasped for air a few times, still managing to hold his first Super Saiya-jin transformation. However, it was not over just yet. Jason had not fully let his rage out, and then screamed again, his arm, chest and leg muscles bulking up immensely.

#17 growled, "Dammit! What the hell's he doing!" By the time Jason had finally finished screaming, his muscle mass had made him appear a full 9 inches taller, and he looked to be nearly Piccolo's height. He slowly let up on his anger, and his muscle mass slowly shrunk down a little, to a point he only looked 6 inches taller.

"Dammit! Now I understand! He's doing what Vegeta and Mirai Trunks original did when Cell attained his Perfect state!" Piccolo replied, "Wait a minute! Shit! He almost destroyed himself in his own rage! When he peaked, he went well beyond what Trunks did!3"

"Wait! You mean the so called 'Super Saiya-jin, 3rd grade'!" Vernon asked, having recognized this form.

"What's all that mean?" Alex asked, a little forgetful to what they were blabbing about.

"Alex, Jason basically just went similar to Super Saiya-jin 2, except not quite as strong, and nowhere near as fast. In fact, his speed is probably heavily reduced." Piccolo explained.

Jason breathed heavily a little more, and his muscle mass shrunk down another 3 inches, now only in normal 'USSJ', "Yeah Alex, you might as well say I was an '3rd class Ultra Super-Saiyan, one level beyond Future Trunks." Jason explained, now letting out the last of his blinding rage, reverting to a normal SSJ level.

"Woah! Jason might prove to actually be a serious rival to us just yet." Vernon thought out loud, actually a little interested in this prospect.

"Hah! He's slower in that form though! I bet I could've taken him, or at least have outlasted him!" Alex boasted a little, actually feeling relieved he never went into any of those outdated Super Saiya-jin classes. He was already hard of speed, and USSJ levels would only making it significantly harder to train.

"Ahem. Not to interrupt your celebration," Radditz cut in, getting their attention, and making Jason suddenly almost lose hold of SSJ, "But where's Kakarott and Vegeta. I'm afraid all three of us need some of those beans again."

Piccolo grumbled, and reached into the cloth material on his cape-like plate, and pulled out a similar pouch to the one Goku was holding, "Goku and Vegeta are running around, scanning the city to learn more about it. They left #17 and I here to train these guys. But you're lucky. I happen to also have a few left over Sensus. Although the girl only looks worn out. Here's two beans."

Piccolo threw them over to Dan and Radditz, "I don't have as many left over as Goku and Vegeta do, and besides, a half bean will work fine on her. Have her split it up and use each half in different sessions if you need. Don't waste it Radditz."

"Thanks, green one." Radditz replied. He broke one of the beans in half and gave it to Teresa, causing her to get to her senses, but she was still a bit worn from the training session.

"Thanks. Sorry I pooped out on you earlier." she apologized to them.

"Don't sweat it. It's not the easiest thing to get around your first few days." Dan explained, and Radditz just chuckled. The three of them lifted up and began to fly off into the air.

"We'll see you all later. Tell Kakarott and Vegeta to be vigilant if I don't see him for a while!" Radditz called down to them.

Piccolo harrumphed at him, but acknowledged this, as the trio flew off, now trying to find Teresa's home so they could locate her quickly.

#17 hid a smirk under his calm face, Radditz, he didn't seem all that banged up, and Dan doesn't look quite so bad either. Why did they want three beans? He then widened his eyes, Wait a second! I think I get it now! Yes... something Piccolo and his gang probably should've thought about long back. But, I got the feeling they too probably tried it and failed. I should confront him about it later. #17 then turned back to his comrades, and prepared to put the 3 younger saiya-jin through more lessons...

(September 11, 2001 A.D.; 6:13pm; Canton, Ohio)

Meanwhile, Goku and Vegeta had finished scanning over northern Canton. They had found various places of interest, even some that Alex and his gang had mentioned to them before. They had even flown north enough to find the Akron-Canton Airport, where the plane from Los Angeles heading home had dropped them off. Flying a little back south, they had reentered the Belden Village area. They realized they were hungry now, not having really got the chance to eat due to the events of the day. After some scouring of the area, and picking up a little food from the nearby Burger King, and then heading back south to head back to more familiar territory.

However Vegeta's mind was in a daze, This is insane! Jason... his powerlevel skyrocketed, at least compared to Alex and Vernon. It had to have been almost quadruple of Alex's powerlevel as a Super Saiya-jin a couple of days ago! Dammit! This is getting overwhelming. These young brats are determined as hell to get strong enough to avenge the people who died today. Dammit! I wish I knew were to find these bastard terrorists. Their terror is nothing to what I'll show them when I get my hands around their necks! Vegeta thought in bitter rage.

Although he knew the attacks were little damage-wise compared to even some of the lesser damage he did when sparring with Goku, he knew the terrorists had not deserved to control fate so easily, and definitely not to kill so many. Those fucking shitheads! Al-queda! Enjoy your petty victory today, for when we find you, you'll wish you never even thought of all of this! he then sighed to himself, "Kakarott, let find us a bar or something. I need a drink. BADLY."

Goku looked to Vegeta, a bit worried, but he knew from Bulma's own experiences that Vegeta was a different person when he managed to get drunk, as opposed to his normally sub-grumpy personality. Although it was a rarity, he had the feeling from the anger radiating off his friend's body that Vegeta might very well decide to drink himself stupid.

After a few more minutes, they had found a bar southwest of Clint's home area of Fohl Village along a road called Sherman Church Avenue. The place was known as the Red Dog Saloon. As the two entered. Vegeta looked around. A decent number of people were in the bar, and many of them had also apparently drank themselves to drunkenness, and anyone else had an air of depression around them, some also looked more obvious than others.

Probably feeling the same way about today. Goku noted, as Vegeta immediately walked up to the counter, and pulled out some money.

"5 shots of Vodka, on the rocks!" he grumbled.

The bartender realized that he was probably here for the same reason as many of the others, and said, "No, don't worry about money today. The news is too depressing. Today has been a tragedy."

"I know that! Get me my vodka, now!" Vegeta growled, not really knowing how long he could stay patient. However that had gotten another person's attention.

"Vegeta?" Nina's voice had called from the back of the saloon. Goku looked over towards her voice, and saw the winged-girl sitting alone at a table, with a medium glass of liquor in front of her.

"Nina, what're you doing here?" he asked.

"Drinking the night away, what does it look like?" Nina growled back, just a bit annoyed at his question, and then looked to Vegeta, who had already shot all of the five glasses of vodka he had ordered, "Woah, Vegeta can definitely pack it. Vodka usually gets someone drunk in two or three shots." Nina was amazed.

"Bartender, gimme more!" he said, slapping his hand on the table as to indicate his point.

"Is he trying to get drunk!" Nina was awestruck.

"Trust me, Vegeta's a totally different person when he's drunk.4" Goku replied, although a bit worried from his friend's reputation, as the bar tender put down five more shots. Vegeta quickly gulped down all five shots of vodka in less than 4 seconds, and he hiccupped slightly, but he was still a little bit conscious.

"Another 5 on the rocks!" he shouted, although his voice seemed, a little subdued this time, Nina noted, watching in amazement as Vegeta gulped down another 5 shots of vodka. After doing this, she and Goku watched Vegeta suddenly go still, although he was still breathing. Nina was worried all that vodka had completely shut down his brain, but Goku merely looked on blankly. Vegeta suddenly gave a chuckle, and then another chuckle. After 5 more seconds, he began to actually burst out in a hearty and continuous laugh, as the red took over his cheeks completely. Vegeta even hiccupped once.

"Here he comes." Goku said, apparently having seen this once before for himself.

"Bartender! Heeey baarrtender! Get myy friends Goku and Nina here 5 shots, and geeett me another 5 shoots..." he droned on, in a rarely happy sounding voice which chilled Nina a little bit, having known Vegeta to always be semi-grumpy. Goku and Nina looked at him.

"Vegeta, you sure about this?" asked Goku. The last time this happened, Vegeta had challenged Goku to a drink off. However, as if he were the seventh wonder of the world, Goku had taken over 50 shots of Vodka, and although he had to go to the bathroom a lot that night, had barely even felt the slightest bit frazzled, which had angered Vegeta greatly the next morning when he got over the resulting hangover. It was almost as if Goku's body were so powerful that alcohol had no effect on him at all5.

Vegeta however at the time was too wasted to care, "Come on Goooku. I, Vegeeta, the Prince of all Saiyaaa-jins, hic, challenge you two to a drink off!" Vegeta chuckled. Apparently he only called Goku by his Earth name when he was drunk or not conscious of what he was doing. Goku also noticed he was getting stares at him and Vegeta by some of the other people.

Nina shrugged a little. "I guess I can take a shot or two, but I'm not competing in your little contest."

"Verrry well! Barteeender, get Goku here 15 shots of vooddka to start him off." Vegeta slurred. The bartender perked up, realizing that despite the horror of the day, Goku and Vegeta's drink off would be good entertainment to get everyone else's minds off the problems of the day, at least for a little while.

Goku sat down, knowing that he was probably going to outdrink Vegeta again. He didn't mind challenges with his friend/rival, but he didn't like the idea of having to go to the bathroom several times in less than 3 hours because of these little contests. This had to be the third time he had seen Vegeta drunk. He knew Yamcha and Vegeta had once challenged each other at one point, and Vegeta had easily won out, although getting drunk in the process. Soon, he had received his 15 shots of Vodka. He quickly drank all 15 of them down, in less time than Nina had even cared to try to drink one of the two she had ordered.

Vegeta chuckled, "Goooood... get us each anooother fifteeen shots!" Vegeta bellowed in a drunken glee. The bartended chuckled slightly, and the other occupants had scooted in closer, as the bartender had soon rigged up all 30 shot glasses and split them between the competing Saiya-jin. Both clocked in at around 40 seconds to drink all fifteen glasses each. As he predicted, Goku wasn't even noticing any effects of the vodka yet, and Vegeta had almost turned fully red in the face, although he had not appeared to grew too much more drunk than he already was.

Nina on the other hand had finished the first shot of hers, and was contemplating on drinking the last. She decided for the sake of the night to do so just this once, maybe it would help her in the off-chance she and Katt got into a drink off someday.

Vegeta laughed loudly, "Hhaahhaahhaahh! Yoooooou reaaaady fooor moooore... Goookuuu?" Vegeta slurred, "Gooood... 20 mooore shooots!"

Holy damn! Nina said to herself, still miraculously able to keep from totally losing herself to the vodka, but more at Vegeta's declaration.

The bartender filled up 40 more glasses, but was thinking to himself Holy shit! These two have taken in over 50 shots total! I should've charged them after all!

Goku had actually managed to pick up this thought, "Sorry about that. Here." he pulled out around 300 dollars and gave it to the bartender. The bartender wordlessly took the money, and gladly put the 40 glasses down for Goku and Vegeta to drink from. However as the two began to gulp it down, Vegeta suddenly stopped on his 16th of his 20 glasses, and he grew wobbly and fell over on his butt, causing some of the people in the bar to laugh their heads off.

Nina looked at him in amazement, "That was 46 glasses of vodka, and only now he falls on his ass?" Vegeta however, calmly picked himself up, and gulped down the other four, equaling to 50 shots so far.

Goku looked at him in amazement having finished now his 50th shot of vodka as well, still not feeling any real effects, "Vegeta, please. Enough of this! I know you need to piss this night off, but think of the hangover you're gonna get!"

Vegeta laughed back, "Aaaaawwww come oon... I caaaan beat yooouu stilll! 25 more glaaaasses eaach!"

Goku looked at the bewildered bartender, and pulled out another 400 dollars, and gave it to him, "I'm very sorry about this. This is actually farther than he got last time."

The bartender looked at both of them with his eyes wide, "You're not drunk yet! How the hell is that possible!" he asked.

"I don't know myself. The last time we both did this, I remained completely sober even after 50 drinks. He gave up after 43 drinks though. Looks like he's really out to drink this off though." Goku sheepishly replied.

"Fine, but this is the last time, you hear me! I don't want to be held responsible for you two and your stupidity!" the bartender grumbled, pouring 50 more glasses, the last 50.

Nina nodded, "Yeah really. I understand competitive flair, but you Saiya-jin are truly competitive." she growled at them, as the final 50 drinks had been placed on the table.

Vegeta and Goku quickly grabbed them one by one and gulped down the vodka. Surprisingly, Vegeta had lasted until his final glass, where he suddenly went slack for a moment. Nina had noticed the look in his eyes. It almost looked like he had fallen unconscious. Suddenly, Vegeta's head fell down and slammed into the table with a smash, leaving a crack on the table. Goku on the other hand had finished up his 75th and final drink.

"Wow... he actually got 74 shots down this time. I just hope I don't feel too much from this. EEP! I'll be right back!" Goku suddenly realized he had to go to be bathroom BADLY, and ran off at near light-speed to the nearly bathroom.

Nina looked over at Vegeta, who was now snoring loudly on the table, his eyes closed, and a little trail of drool coming out of his mouth, "Christ. I should be glad Alex and Vernon don't do this. Good god... Vegeta's gonna probably be a laughing stock here, or some kind of local hero. Wait no, Goku'll probably get that title for NOT GETTING DRUNK EVEN AFTER 75 SHOTS OF VODKA!" she then finished in a loud, almost Dusty-level volume back towards the bathroom where she knew Goku was.

Goku called out, "Hey, it's not my idea of fun either!" from behind the wall.

(September 11, 2001 A.D.; 8:57pm; Canton, Ohio)

After Goku had managed to get as much out of him as possible, he realized Vegeta was in a big jam. He would have to carry the prince back home, and break the news to him that he had lost to Goku by one glass. Although Goku probably could've gone farther than that if Vegeta had managed to make another order, that wasn't the issue. Also, Nina was a little frazzled from her liquor and 2 shots of vodka, and was having some trouble flying around alongside Goku.

"Nina, why don't you stay at our place for a little and sober up. I don't want you crashing and getting killed. It's just as bad to fly drunk as to drive drunk." Goku suggested to her.

Nina rubbed her head, having a bit of a headache, "I know. Radditz can get along fine without me there. Damn... Paula's gonna probably be pissed at me for this. I promised her I was going to start training with her tomorrow." she said.

"Really? Well good luck to you two. Tell Paula to train hard. I remember she was very useful as a fighter when we were younger." Goku stated.

"Goku, do me a favor... don't tell anyone else about our training for a while. We don't want the others to bother us too much for now. We need to think over this training a little bit." she replied.

"Um, alright. Just don't get yourselves killed." Goku replied, as they soon landed in Alex's neck of the woods.

Noticing no one was outside at the moment, the three of them snuck into Goku and Vegeta's rented house. Once inside, they were greeted to an annoyed-looking Piccolo, looking at the two saiya-jins almost like a father-figure catching their son or daughter sneaking in late.

"And just where in the blue hell where you two!" asked Piccolo with a low anger.

"Sorry Piccolo. We were looking around, and Vegeta suddenly ask me to find a bar, so we came upon a place south of here, and well..."

"NOT AGAIN." Piccolo growled, realizing that Vegeta was slung over Goku's shoulder because he was drunk, "Wait. Why's Nina with you?"

"I was there before they were. I was just getting a little liquor to drink all of the events of today off, when I heard Vegeta ordering vodka." Nina replied.

"How much did those idiots drink this time!" Piccolo asked her.

"About 75 shots each. Vegeta passed out on his 74th or 75th glass. Goku took all the shots down like it was nothing." Nina replied.

"Dammit! Again! Goku, how the hell can you withstand all that alcohol!" Piccolo asked, apparently he had been familiar with the two Saiya-jins' last drink-off.

Goku scratched his head, and then he jumped up, "EEP! NOT AGAIN!" he said, and threw Vegeta to Piccolo quickly as he dashed up the stairs to the bathroom, and slammed the door behind him.

"Dammit! I hate it when those two do this!" Piccolo said, and threw Vegeta to Nina, who barely caught him, "At least you had the smarts to not join them." Piccolo said to her, "By the way, Jason managed to become a Super Saiya-jin as well today. I thought you might like to know."

"Did he go feral like Vernon?" Nina asked.

"Not exactly, but I know he was much more angry when he did transform, because he hit Super Saiya-jin, 4th grade today." Piccolo explained.

"4th grade? Wait... he bulked up his body immensely, didn't he?" Nina said, now remembering a few times her friends spoke of Mirai Trunks and his battle against Perfect Cell.

"Yes. I dare say he was stronger than what he'd probably be as a normal Super Saiya-jin 2 at the time, but his speed would've been next to nothing. I'm surprised his body didn't fail on him." Piccolo replied.

Nina went over and walked upstairs, and opened the door to Vegeta's room, which she recognized due to some of the stuff he had up on the wall, mostly DBZ merchandise of himself, a few of Bulma as well. She placed Vegeta in the bed, and covered him with the sheets.

"Goku, Vegeta's in his bed now! You might want to use a sensu on him when he wakes up!" she suggested.

"Alright then." Goku called back. As she walked down the stairs.

Piccolo looked at her, "Speaking of sensu beans, Radditz got a little hammered up today. He and Dan must've been sparring after they taught that Teresa girl how to use her ki. She's a lot stronger than she started off, but I don't have Radditz's scouter anymore. He'd be the only one to give an exact number. He's probably back at your place now though." Piccolo mentioned.

Nina looked back to him, "Alright, I'll see if I can't find out more from him later, but I need to sleep this night off."

"Later." Piccolo said, and he watched as Nina flew off, heading northeast, in the direction of her home, as he heard Goku groan from the bathroom upstairs.

"Son6, I'll talk to you later tomorrow! You owe me and #17 some off time, remember!" Piccolo said.

"I know, I know!" Goku said, a bit impatiently, "Talk tomorrow, okay?"

"Later Goku." Piccolo said, taking to the air after leaving Goku's house, and flying off into the distance, heading back to #17 and Vernon at Vernon's house...

Footnotes:

1 Remember, in due terms of DB's own time it is only 2 or 3 months after the 28th Tenkaichi Budokai, so technically by Misfits' standards, GT would not have happened for another 10 years. However, more than likely, if anything from GT other than SSJ4 ever makes it into Misfits, it will be vastly different from the original version of GT. Example: There are NO Black Star Dragonballs, and the Earth Dragonballs do not use negative energy in the same purpose as the way Misfits will do it. You'll begin to understand the Misfits method of dispersing negative energy from Dragonballs soon enough. Also, due to all of this, Goku and Vegeta are not even aware of Super Saiya-jin 4, although Alex and his gang are due to the show. The Z-gang has not yet gotten any real glimpse of GT, although it will only be a matter of time.

2 Remember, #17 has the tendency to be very mischievous, even around his fellow Z-Warriors. Now you understand why he said what he said to Alex at the hotel in Tokyo. :P

3 What Piccolo means is that Jason went one 'level' beyond what Mirai Trunks did versus Cell, not that his powerlevel surpassed Trunks at that time. If you don't totally understand what the hell just happened, you can say Jason went "USSJ3", or "Super Saiya-jin 4th Grade". Basically, it's along the lines what Vegeta and Trunks used against Cell in 2nd and perfect forms, but there ended up being too many weaknesses, especially when Trunks went to "USSJ2" or "Super Saiya-jin 3rd Grade", the great bulking in muscle causing Trunks to slow down too much. :P

4 The idea to have Vegeta change his personality when wasted comes from another fanfiction I read on Also, we need some humor in the midst of all this serious crap, dammit:P

5 This idea with Goku being 'immune' to alcohol comes from a fanart I have, it has Goku, Radditz and Bardock in a drink-off, and Goku has packed down several glasses of alcohol and isn't yet affected. :D

6 'Son' Goku's surname, for the dubbies who don't know. In the Japanese version, Piccolo tends to call Goku by this in serious situations.