The Misfits, Series 1: The Beginning of All Things

by Lord CyroMinion

The 28th Budokai has passed. The threat of Buu was 10 years ago. Goku and the Z-Senshi thought their lives would finally slow down from there. They'll soon learn just how wrong they really are when they are thrown into a massively confusing merger of many realities, meeting many new friends, but making new foes... Progressive-Crossover of many series, minus GT's plotline/plotholes.

10. Part 9: Weighted Clothing and Chicken Mc

-----DISCLAIMER-----
Nina © Capcom
Clint, Alex, Jason, Vernon, Devin, Dusty, Dan, Neil © 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, Orange-Eyed Creature © Me
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Part 9: Weighted Clothing and Chicken McNuggets!

(September 13, 2001 A.D.; 1:00am; Canton, Ohio)

In the wee hours of that night, in the region of Fohl Village, anyone flying over would have seen a bright yellow light pulsing from the southern end of the park. At the source of the large source of light was one figure, standing in the middle of a long and vacant field, the tall weeds around him being blown all around, struggling not to be uprooted by the energy given off. Clint looked around into the night, using the calmness to train his Super Saiya-jin power. He realized that he needed to hold it in long enough that he could use it normally. He had remembered on the Dragonball Z show something about how both Goku and Gohan had managed to train their SSJ level to a point where it was much like turning it into their base, and had little drain on their powers, or 'Full Power Super Saiya-jin' as many internet fans called it. 'Full power' didn't sound right to Clint, and he called it 'Energy Controlled' as the name made more sense.

Clint had managed to get control at last on triggering the transformation fully at will, but he knew until he reached energy controlled level that he would probably never get to SSJ2. He also realized that was probably the same problem Alex, Vernon and Jason were experiencing. He wasn't sure if those three had gotten far enough long to start trying to go for ECSSJ. He had heard from Alex joke over the phone earlier that night about how Jason seemed to go "USSJ" very often, and Clint could only chuckle, trying to imagine Jason looking so tall, and over-bulked to the point of being stationary. He soon powered down, having been SSJ now for over around 2 full hours at once. He was tired enough for now to go back to sleep. Besides, some people hated all the light in their windows, even if his own parents couldn't see it with their own bedroom fashioned to keep light out of it. He sighed to himself, wondering about his next day's training with Devin and the others, and walked onto the porch on his house, and then back inside of the house itself.

(September 13, 2001 A.D.; 5:29am; Canton, Ohio)

Later that morning, Alex had woke up at 5:10, a little earlier than usual. He had gotten out of bed, cleaned up and ate at a record time of only 5 minutes total, and had been waiting out in his backyard, transforming to Super Saiya-jin at a low strength. He was starting to slightly get the hang of controlling his transformations at will. He also mused as he knew Vernon had been getting closer to getting that far. Jason on the other hand, was still having problems not bulking up to 2nd grade or higher, but he wasn't so reliant on anger now to keep as SSJ. Alex tensed slightly as he picked up Jason, and then Vernon's kis coming in towards him.

He still easily felt Goku and Vegeta's high energies inside of the house they had rented out next door, and then he sensed Buu's odd powerlevel coming in from the east. He then felt out and sensed Dusty and Heero's powerlevels side by side not to terribly far away. He had found out they were using the vacant lot near Devin's own house to train. Not that it concerned him too much. Their powerlevels were better then before, but his was still higher for now, and that was fine with him. Additionally he had a transformation which all of them, except Clint, lacked.

Alex grumbled at that last notion. "How the hell can he be an SSJ anyways? According to everything we got on him, he's fully human, but that might just be some cover up by #17, or something." He then grumbled, as he knew the android... no cyborg, he corrected himself, for having a knack for leading people astray, especially after almost getting landed on by his motorcycle the day before.

"Why the hell where he and Piccolo on motorcycles anyways?" he asked himself, confused still at all of that from back then. However he was stopped as he saw Mr. Buu, Jason and Vernon land nearby. He noticed Vernon was already transformed as well, and so was Jason. Jason still looked slightly strained though, but today he didn't look as if his anger would pump him up like a balloon.

Alex smirked, You know, I might be seeing this all wrong. Maybe competition is exactly what I need to get better. Trying to get ahead of Goku will be hard enough, so I might as well start off with what I can still chew off. he then grumbled, as he would've never said that out loud to any of the others. He hated to admit when someone else was better than he was, even if it were usually at something trivial like a video game or something.

Alex was also an avid game player, and was heavily into fighting games, and even DBZ: Budokai. He was also hearing about plans for a second game in the series to come out in mid-November this year. But he remembered as he and Vernon were always facing each other in the Tekken series. He wondered if his skills had lessened with his training in real life. Although Alex would've preferred truly having power as opposed to just having it in a video game too. Soon, he turned to the rented house nearby, as Goku and Vegeta stepped out, to meet over with the other four.

"Vegeta and I talked last night over it, and we also consulted Buu on it, and we've decided we're going to move to the arena near Massillon for now. It's a lot more open, and you three seem to be handling it fine." Goku told them, and then he looked over to Jason, "Hey, it looks like you finally got the hang of it Jason."

Jason sweatdropped, not liking to be reminded of the hard time he had been having holding SSJ.

"Hey Goku, is there anyway to give us a powerlevel comparison?" Vernon asked, curious.

"Not down to the number, even if I had Radditz's scouter, you're all strong enough to cause it to explode." Goku said.

"Big deal. Vernon, your powerlevel is the highest, Alex's is in the middle, and Jason's is a bit below his. The gap isn't really that large, but enough for me to notice." Vegeta cut in. Alex sighed, and Jason frowned at this, while Vernon barely hid a smirk.

"Let's get moving!" Buu declared out happily, as he lifted up into the air eagerly, and the other five lifted up, and all six shot off northwestward to reach the abandoned stadium.

(September 13, 2001 A.D.; 6:32am; Canton, Ohio)

Back at the vacant lot, Dusty and Heero had gotten some additional time in for about an hour. Heero needed some extra training, and he knew it. Dusty had decided to also teach him the Stone Cold Stunner in the meanwhile, despite Heero's protests. He said it was stupid to use such outdated moves in a battle. Dusty just laughed loudly at him, explaining the moves aren't all just to train against enemy attack. Heero had soon learned Dusty and at one time, even Dan had been big on joining the WWE and the WCW when they had been younger. Dan had outgrown it, but it still stuck somewhat with Dusty. Heero had been upgraded to level 3 training clothing, having been considered ready by Dusty.

Soon enough though, Dwayne and Steve arrived, soon followed by Devin. "You two are early." Devin commented.

"Yeah really, what're you doing here so soon Dusty? According to your mom, you left at around 5:15." Steve asked him sternly.

"Well sorry guys, but I talked to Heero about how he needed some more training, and he himself was interested, so we met up here a little early. It's not a crime, is it?" Dusty grumbled.

Dwayne sighed, "If you see it that way, I guess it's no big deal. I see you tried to teach him the Stunner too."

"How did you..."

"Dusty, your interests in wrestling have always shown you to try to teach people a move or two in sessions. It's not a big surprise to us. Has he mastered the Stunner yet?" Steve replied simply.

"Well, he can do it just fine, but he's embarrassed about using 'outdated' moves in a real fight." Stone Cold chuckled heartily, "Heero, you've got a lot to learn about just how 'useless' our moves really are. I've noticed a lot of the other groups of Misfits have been focusing around using their ki, almost too much. A good few punches and kicks are also necessary to understand, and even some more advanced moves. Do you realize how easily I could break an equal-strength opponents' neck if I did the Stunner on them from mid-air?"

"Thought didn't really cross my mind." Heero grumbled.

"Yeah, and trust me. My people's elbow can hurt from high up if it lands solid." Dwayne said to him.

"Maybe they're not too devastating in the ring since the sport's on more human terms, but in a real battle, those wrestling moves can easily turn the tables, if used correctly." Devin even admitted to them.

Soon, Clint and Virgil had arrived at last. "Hey, you two goofs are late!" Dusty called over as he spotted them, making the others turn to Clint and Virgil as well.

"Sorry, I did some overnight training and had a hard time getting up properly." Clint replied.

"What were you doing, you doofus?" Devin asked him.

"Just trying to figure out how to reach Energy-Controlled Super Saiya-jin, and kept powered up for about 2 hours straight."

"Damn!" Devin grumbled, feeling quite a bit jealous, "You don't understand just how much I wish I could do what you could Clint."

"I bet. Especially with Alex, Jason and Vernon also able to do it." Clint replied, making Devin grumble at the mention of Jason and Alex. Vernon was his best friend basically, so it wasn't a problem there, but Alex's arrogance, and Jason's tendency to be random as hell got under Devin's skin at times.

"Anyways, why the hell's Virgil late?" asked Steve.

"He bumped into me on my way there. I was talking to him a little bit. I was also making sure he knows he's gonna have to train harder today."

"Hah, I'm surprised he still came then, at that rate!" Devin said, half-taunting at Virgil.

"Oh shut up. I can take whatever you can, and more!" Virgil grumbled back.

"Is that a fact?" Devin challenged, "Then you won't mind if you undergo a special regimen I found out from Goku."

"Shoot. I'll do anything to get stronger." Virgil said back. Devin pulled some level 2 weighted clothing out of a briefcase he had brought with him, and tossed them over to Virgil, who caught them with a bit of difficulty.

"You need to put that on at the least first." he told the fatter Misfit. Virgil found a small changing area they had set up near the lot the day before, and went back into privacy and got into the training clothes. Virgil trudged out of the room, having a bit of difficulty walking over to them.

"Now.. what?" he asked.

Devin then got out some level 3 training clothes, and went back to the dressing area and slipped into them, and walked back out, only looking to be slightly hindered by even those. "I want you to chase me on foot, and try as hard as you can to catch me!" he said.

Virgil sweatdropped, but he sighed, "Fine! Ready or not, here I come!" he ran to accelerate at Devin, but he had tried to start off a bit too fast, and ended up tripping over and crashing into the ground, creating a 1.4 tremor.

"Woah! Damn Virgil, you really do shake the ground when you fall!" Dusty commented, not really as an insult, but as a realization. Virgil grumbled, pulling himself slowly to his feet, and growled feral as he started to chase after Devin, who only looked to be mildly trying to run away from Virgil.

In the meanwhile, Clint looked over to Dusty, Heero, Dwayne and Steve, "So what should we start with? More weight training?"

Steve looked over, "Well, actually, I think the lot of us should start learn to use ki more ourselves. I might have said physical moves help, but none of us have too many ki abilities yet." he then looked directly at Clint, "Can you do any real blasts yet?"

"I have been able to do a Kamehameha, and then even control a Soukidan like the kind Jason and Yamcha use. I'm also trying to form another move that I know as the 'great equalizer'." Clint explained.

"Why don't we just start off and try to charge our ki a little bit to shoot larger blasts, and then we'll try to shot signature moves." Heero suggested, a bit impatient to start off.

"Yeah, that seemed to be how Alex and Vernon did it during their earlier training." Clint agreed, as he looked over the ground near him, and quickly shot a stream of 10 small ki shots into the ground in front of him, leaving a small crater in the ground.

"Let's not wreck the place up too much man." Dusty said, "Remember, we're not in any kind of place were training is barely felt by the natives."

Clint frowned, "I know that Dusty, It's kinda depressing we have to worry so much about it."

"Yeah, but I think it gives us more motive to keep control of our ki." Dusty said back, having been truthful about that. It was true that many of the Misfits didn't currently have the luxury of massive and uninhabited areas to go crazy with their training, despite the vast size of the lot. Dusty was wondering how long it'd be before that would really began to limit their growth of power.

Dusty then decided he'd lead off for the others, and charged a short amount of ki by forcing it into his hand, and shot a medium-sized, but weak blast that left a scorch mark on the ground. He then charged his energy and quickly fire three more shots at the same place. Now the ground looked slightly melted in. Dwayne also had taken Dusty's example, pelting the ground with minor ki blasts, about 5 or 6, because of how much he was struggling to do so. He had left a small melt in the ground in front of him as well. Heero, on the other hand, had cupped his hands to the side, and looked like he just wanted to skip onto a Kamehameha.

"Heero, you sure it's wise to start off so high?" Steve looked over to him, as he had nonchalantly shot a few small blasts at a few stationary pieces of trash on the side of the road to train himself.

"Don't bother me right now!" Heero snapped back. "Ka... me... ha... me... ha!" he finished and propelled his hands upward shooting a medium-sized Kamehameha wave into the atmosphere.

Virgil and Devin had also witnessed this and Virgil had fallen over a second time trying to stop on a dime, and caused a another small tremor. Heero so let up on his wave, looking a moderate deal worn out, but nothing severe.

He smiled, "Good, at least I know I can do it now."

Soon, Devin picked up running from Virgil again. Quite a few times he would slightly taunt the weaker of the two by slowing down a little, just enough to let Virgil think he was wearing down, and then would pick up speed as Virgil attempted to lunge at him. A lot of times, Virgil had to peel himself off the ground, grumbling and wanting to scream obscenities at Devin, but he knew this was training, and Devin was just probably trying to get him to get a few hard knocks for experiences' sake. He swore though he would catch him, even if Devin was the stronger one at the time.

Virgil wondered about trying to trick him, but he figured He's too easy to trick anyways, I'll just play along for now, I guess. After about another 40 minutes of running around, Virgil had realized he was close to being exhausted.

"Devin, I need a break!" he wheezed.

Devin shrugged, "I guess I can go train with them for about 10 minutes, but don't get too comfortable Virgil." Clint had decided to move in a little bit away from the others to practice his ki usage more. It was then he noticed Virgil sitting on the ground, panting a lot.

"Virgil, you okay?" Clint asked.

"Damn, this is hard!" Virgil grumbled, "How do you people adapt so fast!"

"Well, I think it's a matter of gritting your teeth and dealing with it." Clint replied, and then he began to think about the other night, "Virgil, exactly why did you prank the others anyways? I wasn't around when it happened, but they said something about getting their attention."

Virgil looked over, "You guys left when you won the Talon ST contest. I knew you all went over to Japan, but I figured you'd be gone only a few days. It was on the 5th I realized you guys had been home for a few days, and when you still hadn't shown up on the 8th, I got worried. I decided I'd get a hold of some of you in a way to annoy them. You guys had been annoying me by not checking in..."

"So you annoyed those guys back, I get it now... sorta." Clint replied, "But why choose to train with us? I thought you weren't a big fan of Devin, Alex, Jason and Vernon."

"The training is solely because of the 11th, and those fucking terrorists Clint. I wouldn't be training at all if they hadn't done this. I was never the biggest fan of things like Dragonball, but now that I realize this merger has done something to our world, I guess now it's good to utilize it to my best need." Virgil replied.

After a few more minutes, Devin finished up his minor training with Dwayne, Heero, Dusty and Steve, noticing Heero had done a second, weaker Kamehameha wave up into the air, and Dusty had now done one of his own, much to his surprise. He walked over back to Virgil and Clint.

"Clint, Virgil's got to get back to his guns. Go off and train or something." Devin said.

Clint rolled his eyes a little, "Whatever. Hey, you want to spar later?" he then asked.

"Why? Unless you're going to stay at base, there's no point. You'd kick my ass." Devin replied.

"Yeah, at base. Besides, I need to get my base stronger too anyways." Clint said.

"How about in an hour or two then." Devin replied. With that, Devin coached Virgil to his feet, and the two larger Misfits went back to the running/chasing exercise, and Virgil was amusingly still trying to lunge at Devin once in a while...

(September 13, 2001 A.D.; 7:01am; Canton, Ohio)

Back in the fields south of Harry London's, Nina and Paula had arrived at their designated training spot for their second day. After a short talk about the day's training methods, Nina mentioned how she'd probably increase the gravity to around 4x of Earth's. Now both had been standing stiffly, trying to adjust their balance to begin their training. They were going to probably try to run laps again, about 125 once again. However this time, they were planning to take some breaks from the running. Paula had discussed that morning over the phone about using rocks and other small throwing objects in order to dodge better.

Nina had been interested, stating it might help increase their speed. She however also wanted the two of them to try to fire off some normal ki, as neither girl had really yet tried to do so yet. Paula had smacked herself mentally, realizing she was right. Goku well knew how to shoot ki, and everyone else had been able to do the same pretty much, therefore they felt left behind a little. It was suddenly that Paula had realized: Nina didn't know how to sense or mask her ki. She knew that it was Nina's fault for flying off the other day, she knew that teaching her about it would probably be a good idea.

"Nina, Wait a minute! Before we do anything else, did you ever learn how to mask and sense ki energies?" she asked.

Nina looked around suddenly, and smacked her head. "Aw hell! I knew I'd probably forgotten something the other day." she then sweatdropped, "Do you know how to do that stuff?" she then asked Paula.

The other girl smiled back, "Yeah, let's get you going first before we start the main training. Basically, for masking your energy, just try your hardest to shove your energy into a confined space, like trying to compress it." Paula replied, explaining in her best words the way one could mask and hide their ki energy. Nina nodded, and soon shoved her ki down about 50, as Paula was letting her know from her own ability to sense.

"How was that?" Nina asked.

"You cut your energy level in half at least. You can probably get better with it though." Paula recommended, but she figured Nina would get that down without her help, and went on explaining about sensing out ki like they were flames in the air.

Nina had a bit of difficulty understanding in those words, but Paula then explained more to the extent of feeling vibrations was a good stepping stone. Soon enough, Nina had finally been able to sense Paula's own ki, and then soon managed to sense the farther off kis of Clint, Dwayne, Dusty, Virgil, Devin, Steve, and then Mr. Buu, Goku, Vegeta, Alex, #17, Piccolo and Jason's kis in another area, and then he sensed Radditz, Dan, and apparently Teresa's kis in one area. Comparing her own powerlevel with her ally nearby, Nina realized she was only about 10-20 stronger than Paula at the moment, and realized they might end up making better partners than she thought. She then altered their gravity auras to be much like 4x gravity, and ran over to the track to run laps.

(September 13, 2001 A.D.; 7:42am; Canton, Ohio)

Radditz had earlier woke up, and checked the backyard behind his and Nina's house. That was where he had planted the sensu bean Piccolo had given him on the 11th. He looked on, but noticed no real progress just yet. He sulked to him, realizing, he needed to get to the fields south of Alex's house to continue training Teresa and Dan. He was going to try to get her firing off larger shots, and maybe even train Dan to fire some more high-scale attacks. Dan could do his own Saturday Crush, and also a Final Flash as well. Vegeta had growled a little upon Radditz telling him and Goku about that the night before, but then the prince shrugged it off, saying to his older comrade that he could always learn a new attack if he needed.

Radditz had then figured out that he too needed to create some kind of new attack of his own. Aside from the Saturday Crush and Double Sunday, he didn't really have much else in the neighborhood of signature blasts. He had been thinking about one specific move that he had starting thinking of back on the 11th, and only made more willing to know after the attacks of that day. He was curious on how to get mastery of it down. Also, he couldn't forget about Nina's suggestion to find a fast-food job. He had already called around, and had to go in and check a couple of places out, so he was going to have to make this session quick. He soon had finally met up with Dan and Teresa.

Apparently Dan had the shattering foresight to start showing Teresa how to shoot larger energy shots. He had witnessed Teresa doing a specific kind of blast, where she had cranked her arm backwards, almost like a pitcher, and had formed a medium-sized ball in her hand. Dan was apparently standing back, just as curious as Radditz. She then shouted out and tossed the ball much like a line-drive, sending the blast shooting out at over 100 MPH. However it wasn't that on it's own that was so important, as the fact she managed to make the shot turn around and fly back toward her.

"What the hell?" asked Radditz, as she saw Teresa direct her own blast back at herself. She then held out her hands and caught the blast in them, trying to push the ball away.

"What kinda bizarre training is that?" Dan asked. Teresa continued pressing up on her own attack, then forming a second ball in her hands that pushed the first ball back in the other direction, and then shot off forward as well. The two balls were now flying around 110 MPH, as she fired a third shot.

"Wait a minute! I think Kakarott told me about something like this before!" Radditz called out, recalling a time when Goku had used the method of shooting controlled blasts around the area, trying to withstand his own hits at a lower powerlevel, or dodge the shots as they whizzed around.

Teresa looked with an intense glare at the three moving shots she had fired. I've gotta time these just right. If this works, I wonder if the other's will be impressed, or think I'm just eccentric! as she screamed, "MERGE!"

Radditz, Dan and Teresa watched in awe as the three blasts slowly began to merge together, and the combined energy began to expand forward, almost as if it were forming into a recognizable figure. In fact, Radditz's eyes almost bugged as the form actually because to resemble Teresa's own build. Dan looked on as the energy soon began to transform into what now looked like an energy clone of Teresa's own body.

Teresa looked on at this, "Now or never. ATTACK!" she then screamed.

Dan watched as the attack began to look solid, now much looking like Teresa itself. However to their surprise, the attack's "eyes" opened, and it jumped forward at Teresa, who jumped forward to meet what was now considered to be her 'ki clone' in mid-air. Both Teresas began to trade punches, and a kick or two occasionally. Teresa even felt a normal level of pain whenever her energy clone connected, and the clone, seemed to also feel a kind of damage when she hit it.

"What the hell did she just... did she create a living ki spirit?" Radditz gaped, as he watched the two Teresas jump up into the air, and the ki clone shot a blast of its' own at the real one, as she shot one back, and then teleported and elbowed the clone in the back.

The clone recovered and zanzokened below her and punched her in the stomach, sending the real Teresa flying upwards. Radditz had decided to see if his scouter could pick up something on this, and pointed it at the two fighting Teresas. Both had registered in at around 8,000 to 8,200 degrees, depending on who was currently attacking or defending.

"That's... can Kakarott even do that! Both she and her energy clone are both at roughly the same powerlevel as she'd have alone at the end of yesterday's session! Where'd she come up with that!"

Dan continued to watch the two Teresas in utter amazement, having realized she had done something probably most of his own friends had not even tried to think about at the time. He looked over to Radditz, to see his expression, noticing he was just as bugged out as he was at this. However, he soon saw Radditz narrow his eyes, and turn about 120 degrees to the south. Dan watched in wonder as he began to see a ki flare surge around the tall Saiya-jin. At first, the aura looked to be a bluish color. However soon, be noticed that the aura had began to change a little to an orangish hue.

Radditz himself had placed his hands on his forehead, or more specifically, 3 of his fingers to his forehead. It had almost looked like he was going to attempt to shoot Piccolo's Makankosoppo at something. However, at the last moment, he saw the ki aura change in a strange way towards the top. It was now appearing as if it were really burning like a flame. Dan noted that normal ki did not actually have any kind of heat or burning property on its' own. Ki was a concussive force when used offensively, which also explained its' explosive properties when it impacted with hard enough surfaces or much stronger fighters, and any burns on the body were usually friction burns from trying to hold a blast back with your hands, or from blocking the blast.

Also, contrary to what most believed, when a ki wave disintegrated an enemy, it wasn't because the enemy was burned and roasted alive, but it was because the ki force was so strong it was literally tearing the victim's body apart and into thin air. In the show, the effect made it look like fatal ki waves literally burned the enemy away. Radditz soon grunted to himself, noticing a flare of fire around his three fingers on his forehead.

"It's time..." he said to him, and pointed out the trio of fingers at the field ahead of him, "ATOMIC RAY!"

Dan, and even Teresa and her energy-made clone stopped and turned at his voice, watching as Radditz shot out an orange-looking ki laser, medium width at the field about 200 feet away. Except they noticed there had been a kind of fire around the laser. The blast slammed into the ground, erupting into both a large explosion, and also leaving flames behind that literally began to eat on the nearby wheat in the field around the blast crater. Radditz smirked at this blast, now realized he had finally managed to fire a successful Atomic Ray attack. He knew that the attack now wasn't just composed of ki, but he could swear something else had felt a little off about it.

That wasn't all ki I just used. But what else could it be? He then swept his hands out in a wave, creating a large gust of air to extinguish the fire he created. "I hope they don't mind all of this." Radditz said to himself, referring to the people of Canton who had people living out somewhat close to these fields.

Teresa had soon called her energy clone over, and Dan and Radditz watched as both clipped each other on the shoulder as if like a kind of link, causing the clone to revert to a normal looking ki ball, which Teresa then shot to the ground below, making a moderate sized crater.

"What the hell is that?" Radditz asked her, "You created some kind of partner from energy. I've heard of body duplication attacks before, but not living ki."

"I figured out something from watching an episode of that Dragonball you seem to have come from." Teresa replied, "One of the characters apparently had the ability to breath out living ki vapors that turned into wispy ghosts." "Wait... the Kamikaze Ghost Attack."

Dan realized what she had meant, "That's something I've only see a fusion do before."

"Well I figured if they could do it, that others could do it. I had to fire several shots though in order to get enough energy expelled to form the clone properly. But once done, it seems to work." she looked over at a little of the damage she and her clone had caused.

Dan then looked to Radditz, "And how about you? What was that fiery blast all about? As I recall, Ki never burns directly or gives off fire."

Radditz chuckled, "I think I realize that now, I guess that fire came from something else, but I have no idea what it was myself. I just knew something felt off about the Atomic Ray." he then looked to both of them, "I think we should get back down to training. Teresa, you think you can teach us that little spirit cloning blast somehow?"

Teresa sighed, "I could try, but It's hard enough to explain to you. You might not be able to learn it, nor Dan."

"Whatever can be done of this, let's get on with this session." Dan spoke up to his training teacher.

"Prepare yourselves, because I think it's time you two learned how to fire more higher-end blasts. It's too bad you two aren't Saiya-jins, or else you'd probably be able to give Alex's group a run for their money soon. They're currently on training to hold SSJ for a long period of time." he explained. After that, the three Misfits, proceeded back to the fields to start training again.

(September 13, 2001 A.D.; 11:04am; Canton, Ohio)

At the abandoned stadium in Northwest Canton, Alex and Jason were somewhat working together and tandem against Vernon. All three of them were at Super Saiya-jin level, darting around each other, trying to get more of a true feel for how to fight in the transformed state. This was something Goku, Piccolo, #17 and Vegeta had been eager to get the three of them to do for a while. Now they could keep their SSJ for a long enough period at a time to start training for real. Additionally, they also were wearing level 4 weighted clothing, making them a bit slow of foot as they all sparred. Alex jumped up at Vernon, firing two blasts up at him as he flew upwards.

Vernon had to worry about dodging both him, and also Jason coming in at him from above, also shooting a small Soukidan. Vernon zanzokened and let both Alex and Jason's blasts hit and cancel each other out, and he reappeared above Jason, and swung his leg into Jason's back, knocking him towards, the ground, while he quick darted in and tried to punch Alex in the stomach. Luckily Alex had experienced this enough and dodged to his side, and managed to axehandle him downwards as well.

He landed quickly, and looked to Jason, "Let's both get him!" he called. Jason and Vernon dodged at different angles, and Alex had soon dodged Jason's swinging kick from the side, and he barely managed to see Vernon appear above him, and ducked fast enough, causing Vernon to hit Jason on the head a second time.

"Come on, you two are slow!" Alex taunted from above, although a sight bit arrogantly.

"Hah, we're only toying with you, Alex!" Jason said, as he jumped up quickly, faster than Alex could track, and quickly smashed into him, butt first, plowing both of them through the air, and then causing them to crash into the ground, leaving an indent with both crashed. Jason jumped back off of him, and Vernon dashed over and grabbed Alex, and threw up high up into the air, where he cupped his hands and fired a kamehameha up which smashed into him.

Alex growled, struggling to recover from Jason's strange attack, in order to pull himself from being carried by the Kamehameha, before he smashed into a wall or another solid object. Screaming out, he formed a ki flare which shoved Vernon's blast away from him long enough to break free. He soon reappeared behind Jason, and shot his own Kamehameha and hit Jason square in the back and sent him plowing into a set of seats and exploded. Jason emerged slightly scorched, but Vernon didn't let that bother him, as he jumped up into the air and aimed down at Alex, with one arm outstretched into a flat palm.

Vegeta growled at him, "Great, now he's trying to do my Big Bang Attack!" Vernon's shot fired down true, but Alex managed to smack it aside, and Jason had to put up his arms to block the Big Bang.

Piccolo looked over to Vegeta, "Don't be so angry, he learned how to do a Masenko in less than 2 days. I'm surprised he didn't try a Big Bang Attack before this." Piccolo stated.

"Come Piccolo, why don't we both spar a little. It's always us training them, or some other stupid thing. Let's actually get ourselves stronger for once." #17 was getting impatient.

Piccolo looked to him ands smirked, "Heh. It's been a while since I actually shed these annoying weights." Piccolo said as he took off his weighted clothing, and tossed it to the ground nearby. The Namekian and cyborg flew up and out of the stadium and landed outside the walls. Piccolo quickly charged up his ki as #17 let loose roughly 20 blasts in rapid succession at the Namekian.

Piccolo formed all of his energy into a barrier which absorbed each blast as quickly as it came. Piccolo suddenly vanished and reappeared behind #17 and swung a large kick to his legs, tripping the cyborg and forcing him to flip backwards a few times to prevent from falling on his face.

#17 grumbled, "All right, time to turn up the heat!" he growled, charging his energy and flying forward at Piccolo. Piccolo prepared to shoot a large blast to intercept #17, but he swerved around the incoming shot, and then turned to Piccolo's side and kicked him them, sending him hurtling back about 10 feet.

Piccolo smirked, "So that's how you want to play it." He said, putting two fingers to his forehead, indicating he was charging his Makankosoppo beam. #17 jumped back quickly as Piccolo released the corkscrew-like beam at him, however Piccolo began to guide the shot upward at his partner.

#17 quickly began to dodge around, a few times just barely avoiding getting hammered by the beam. After about 20 seconds of messing around, #17 ignited his specialty ki barrier, and the Makankosoppo impacted and dissipated on the barrier.

Piccolo let up, as #17 lowered to the ground, "Just remember #17, just is only for kicks. I'd probably already have killed you by now if we had still be enemies.

#17 grumbled, but tried to keep his cool, "Don't be so sure you'd win perfectly. Even now I still have natural speed than you have. You're tall and strong, but I'm slim and quick."

"But I also have the skill too in order to win." Piccolo replied.

"Sure, whatever you say there, Piccolo. Let's go back and check on the munchkins for a second." he said, sensing out to find Alex, Jason and Vernon were still going at it, and now he sensed Goku, Vegeta and Buu's powerlevels had elevated. Piccolo had sensed all of this too.

"Looks like Goku, Vegeta and Buu are getting just as restless as we are." Piccolo said, as they flew back up and re-entered the stadium from above.

(September 13, 2001 A.D.; 1:32pm; Canton, Ohio)

By some freak act of luck, Virgil had finally managed to catch Devin after about 3 or four hours of running around. Now Devin had decided to up the ante a lot. He had thrown Virgil over a level 3 set of training clothes, and then after Virgil had gotten into that getup, he then opened up the briefcase he had brought with him, and pulled out a large, mallet sized hammer, a special hammer were the handle was light, but the main weight was extremely heavy. He held it up, even him having a short amount of trouble, and tossed it over near Virgil.

"Virgil, now you need to chase me wearing those weights, and you need to hit me with that hammer now. It won't be as easy as you might think though. The weight is super heavy!" Devin explained, as Virgil struggled to just lift the end of the hammer off the ground.

Virgil finally managed to pull the weight up off the ground, "So I have to hit you with this? You know this'll really hurt if I manage to hit you." Virgil stated.

"Which is exactly why I'm going to try to dodge you as much as I can." Devin replied, knowing Virgil was right. If he swung that into one of them just right, it could do a good deal of damage even to Steve or Dwayne.

Clint ran over and landed nearby, "Hey, Devin. It's time we did this. You ready?" he asked Devin, reminding them of this spar.

Devin then had an idea, "You know, I think we'll make this interactive. I'll still spar you Clint, but Virgil will also be in on this, trying to hit either of us with the hammer while we spar with each other."

"That seems quite interesting." Clint replied, dropping into a stance, as Devin did the same.

"Virgil, smash the hammer on the ground to lead us off." Clint suggested. Virgil gave the best heave he could, and slammed a large dent into the ground, shaking it with a 1.1 tremor, and watched as Devin and Clint ran at each other as he tried to pick the hammer of the ground.

Devin quickly dodged to the side before Clint could get near, and shot a short volley of ki shots at Clint. Clint smacked two away, blocked 2 more, and dodged the last three as he formed a Soukidan and tossed it at Devin. Devin knew he would probably try to fake him out with it. He stood his ground, and he predicted correctly as Clint suddenly made the ball fly upwards, and then around from behind. Devin jumped forward at Clint, and swung his leg, barely clipping Clint's ankle as the other Misfit jumped to dodge. However, Devin had wisely managed to trick Clint into aiming the ball in an upward angle. Clint growled as he suddenly got smacked in the side by his own attack and almost knocked out of the air.

However Devin capitalized and jump kicked him back to the road, but Clint had managed to correct his landing to avoid serious damage. Clint suddenly dodged to the side as Virgil attempted to swing his hammer down on him. Knowing Virgil couldn't be directly attacked in this spar, he figured maybe he could use the outside Misfit against Devin.

At least he's not rushing into this. he thought sternly, as he darted aside a few more inches to discourage Virgil from making a swing with the large hammer he had.

Clint looked over at Devin and bent down and placed his fists onto the ground, and then jumped forward in a fast charge at Devin. Devin prepared to dodge, but Clint suddenly jumped up, flipping around fast as he gained altitude. He cupped his hands to the side as he flipped, hoping Devin wouldn't expect it, and flipped back to try to hit him from behind. Devin saw Clint's incoming charge and jumped to the side, but Clint smirked, as he shot a medium Kamehameha from his hands while still spinning in the air. Devin was totally caught off guard as the blast slammed into his left thigh and caused him to flip over and land on his face. He saw Virgil moving in at Devin, but Devin saw the larger Misfit heading his way, and used a surge of ki to propel himself back before Virgil made a missed swing into the ground where he had been laying.

However Clint had already appeared behind, him, and gave him a good kick in the back, sending him flying forward, but Devin turned it into a front flip by catching the ground with his hands and shot a large ki shot that Clint had not been expecting. He dodged mostly, but the shot still grazed his cheek, spinning him a few degrees, long enough for Devin to fire three more blasts that hit their mark against Clint's back, left shoulder and the back of his head. Clint was sent flying up into the air, as Virgil finally picked his hammer back out of the ground, and went in to hit Devin. Devin ducked aside and flipped out of Virgil's path, but Virgil did not take a full swing and had recovered quicker than expected, now back on Devin's tail. Clint noticed this and raised his hands into the air, and formed a large-strength Soukidan while Virgil had been distracting Devin.

"Hey hotshot! Dodge this one!" he called down as he threw the Soukidan at high speeds. Devin saw it and barely managed to pull a complicated dodging maneuver that allowed him to dodge both the Soukidan and then Virgil's next attempted swing. However he had only fully cleared Virgil, and the high-speed Soukidan of Clint's was still heading his way, having made a turn back towards him. Devin managed to dodge its' second pass by the skin of his teeth, but he had not seen the second, weaker Soukidan Clint had just tossed, which smacked him on the chin, and sent him off his intended course. He was left vulnerable to the second, stronger blast that had turned back towards him. Devin growled, not wanting to be defeated so easily, and shouted loudly as he felt a temporary boost of strength that both allowed him to dodge backwards and then axehandle the other wise battle-ending Soukidan into the ground like spiking a volleyball. Clint had noticed a short black aura that had formed around Devin when he did this, and realized he must've had a boost of desperation.

He probably can't pull another move like that again, and prepared to attack, but he stopped, as Virgil had managed to get in behind, and took another swung at Devin, which he managed to dodge.

However he could tell whatever burst of strength Devin had done had weakened him. He saw Devin had dodged back from Virgil, but Devin had forgotten Clint was right in his new path. Clint too advantage of this, and axehandled Devin one more time, sending up to the ground, a little roughed up looking. Devin grumbled, as he slowly pulled himself up.

"I'm done. I don't know what happened, but I did some miracle shot, and then it wore the fuck outta me." he said.

Clint called Virgil to try to swing at him instead of Devin, as he called to Devin, "Well, that wasn't too bad. At least you deflected a high-level Soukidan, even if only once." Clint had then dodged away as Virgil had missed his next swing.

"Virgil, you can't just come at us without a plan that way. You're using the same level clothing as us, and that heavy mallet only makes a frontal assault harder." Clint said, "You saw how Devin and I had to keep dodging around and trying to fake the other out."

"I know, I know Clint! But I'm not exactly fast enough that any plan's really gonna work at this point. I'm just trying to get a lucky hit." Virgil grumbled angrily.

"Well luck is random, not constant." Devin said, as he had managed to get to his feet, "You're not going to get much more better at this rate."

Clint looked to Devin, "What're you doing?" Devin looked back, and pulled out a half sensu bean he had gotten from Goku, and chomped it down.

"Nevermind." Clint replied. Devin had healed enough now that he could continue training, but he decided lifting weights would do well for now. Clint could train Virgil for a while. It was what he got for winning the battle, Devin smirked to himself.

(September 13, 2001 A.D.; 3:43pm; Canton, Ohio)

Paula wiped the sweat off of her forehead. She had completed the 125 laps needed for the day with her 4x Gravity. Nina had decided when she finished that she was probably going to go to 7x gravity the next day, and perhaps even bring in some weighted clothing. Paula had been told she should go and get weights of her own if she could find them. Paula had then thought about something. She had realized all of the other groups training had weighted clothing, but they didn't have the gravity training. She wondered if there was a way Nina could use her powers to accelerate their training as well. However she also had a nagging feeling it wouldn't work out for whatever reason.

Regardless, when Nina had finished up her laps about 30 minutes later, Paula had asked, "Hey Nina, you can do this gravity thing on anyone, right?"

Nina panted heavily, but still letting the 4x gravity affect her, so she wouldn't totally wimp out, she then caught her breath and replied, "Yeah, I can do it to a set number of people at once. I think as many as 3 or 4. However my range is somewhat limited. At best it would be about three-fourths of a mile. Also, while I don't have to concentrate endlessly to keep the barrier, I think only I can remove the auras."

"Would you be able to do it to any of the others if you wanted to?" Paula asked.

"Well, yes. I think I could even use it on Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo or Buu. But I don't think what I know how to do would really affect them. I found out from Radditz that Goku and Vegeta have experience in 400 times or more gravity, definitely way better than any of us."

"Still, that leaves like Clint, Alex and the rest of those guys." Paula said.

Nina looked down, "I'm not sure if they deserve it yet." she said, sounding a slight bit irritated.

"Huh? Why? They're training hard too, aren't they?" Paula asked back.

"Paula, I'll be honest with you. As far as I've known many of those guys. Few of them have truly made any real efforts at doing anything for keeps. The only person I can truly credit is Dusty and his determination to be a cook, but the rest of them... I don't think they're either ready to handle it yet, or that they honestly deserve it yet. Besides, I've already told too many people about our training. I accidentally blurted it out to Goku the other night when we were returning from the Red Dog, and I ended up admitting it to Radditz, as I realized with him around, there was little chance of keeping it from him for long. Both of them agreed not to tell the others, but I want to keep our training as private as possible from the others."

Paula was confused, "Why do you want to keep this all so secretive anyways?"

Nina sat down next to her and then frowned sadly, "Paula, it's no surprise we're both female. All the others are male, and I've noticed in both my world and this one that men have much pride, and many have an allusion women aren't good at taking care of themselves. Alex even admitted to me one time he didn't want to ever fight a woman. I know he feels like it's a code of honor, because he told me it was how he was raised, but I see it as a kind of insult in general." Paula looked at her, beginning to understand just a little as Nina continued talking, "I don't totally blame Alex or the rest of them for it, but I've seen the things on Dragonball, the show I mean. If the show is any indication of Goku and his gang's real past, then only one female ever truly fought for any coherent amount of time, and that would be #17's sister #18, and even then she was pushed further into the background after a short time. It's 99 male vs. male on that show, and that mindset will probably grow on Alex's gang the more and more they train."

"You're worried if they find out, they'll try to stop us either out of pride or worry of our safety." Paula cut in.

"Yes, that's exactly why. But that's not the only reason I don't think I'm ready to give them the gravity training." Nina replied.

"What was the other reason?" Paula then asked.

"Remember when I went berserko on Jackson on the 11th?" Nina asked Paula, and she nodded. Nina continued, "Well, if you recall, I was bellowing my head off at him because he had no clue of the hell had I had to go through. I had to basically take care of myself since I was born. My parents weren't evil mean people or anything like that, but it was because of a bad omen concerning the color of my wings. It was said one who was born with the black wings would bring ruin to the kingdom of Windia, where I was born. When I was born, people were going nuts. My own parents had to make a decision to either kill me then, or send me into exile to take care of myself."

"They sent you away for you to try to survive, didn't they?" Paula then realized.

"Yes, but I had many hardships, and I had my own terrible battles. I fear some even made a few of the villains from Goku's past possibly seem weak in will by comparison. Remember St. Evans? He was horribly powerful. I even think I was actually killed for a short time during the fight with him. However my memory is fuzzy, and my other friends who fought Evans alongside me said I never died." Nina continued.

"Wait, is this 'Katt' person one of your friends?" Paula cut in, remembering hearing Nina whisper that name before.

"Yes. Katt is of another unique race known as the Woren, and while with the right clothing she could fit in better with the student body than I could and doesn't have the telltale wings, she has other qualities that would make Jackson target her similarly. The main difference between the two of us is our personalities. That rage I had at Jackson the other day was the first time I ever really retaliated against him in a serious manner. If it had been Katt and not me, Jackson may well have been already killed or at least hospitalized 3 or 4 times. She does not take crap from people, and she angers easily, especially when people get on her case about being a freak. She's also a lot faster and stronger than me physically. You see, most of the others don't really know it yet, but I wield what people on this planet call magic. Although it's called the same on my world, this world had never truly believed in it prior to the merger. I'm sure many of them still don't even now, but I know I can use it. Me shrinking Alex and Vernon a few times, like I mentioned, and even these gravity auras, they're all examples of magic." Nina explained.

"I understand. I have something of my own that's kinda like that." Paula replied.

Nina looked at her with widened eyes, but then she looked at her normal, "I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. You seem to have much experience of your own like me. I saw it in your eyes in our hotel room at in Tokyo. You seemed a bit bothered by something, and it looked as if you'd gone through your own ordeals."

Paula looked down, "You're right. I've had to fight my own share of nasty enemies. Not just Piccolo's father, as I might have said before, but someone far far far worse."

Nina looked interested now, "Surely it couldn't have been as bad as Evans was." she challenged back.

"I'm pretty confident this guy was the highest definition of evil incarnate. Maybe his power didn't destroy too many as I knew of, but had he gotten the chance to complete his mission, the Earth as I knew it would've been royally screwed."

"What was his name?"

"Its' name was Giygas1, and he was basically, as one of our..." she then stopped and saw Nina laughing, "What's so funny!" she grumbled.

"Giygas? That sounds so goofy for an ultimate evil's name. Hehehe..." Nina chuckled.

"Goofy sounding or not, his power was none but serious. The guy was virtually indestructible, and not in a "ungodly-defense" way, but in the fact that no attack we made could contact and even hit him. You could say he evolved beyond anything thought possible by science. No form of physical, mental, or spiritual attack could even tickle him." Paula explained, not impressed with Nina acting lightly.

"If he's that unkillable, how did you survive him?" Nina asked.

"He wasn't unkillable, just nigh-unkillable. No conventional method could even harm him. If it did look like you hit him, he only did it to mess with your head. He had also even destroyed his own mind before we reached him. It was like being locked inside 60,000 or more insane asylums. No, his death, if you even want to call it that, came because of divine intervention. Me and my three friends alone couldn't do a thing to beat Giygas. We had to bring the collective prayers and positive energy of the planet together to 'harm' him. Being a being of evil, no real 'attack' could harm him, so a kind of kindness was what finally killed him. I know it sounds like a rather wimpy way for someone like him to die, but we can't even be sure he's completely dead. He's basically become the definition of evil itself.2" Paula replied.

"Basically one of those 'as long as evil exists, I will always exist' kinda guys?" Nina cut in.

"Exactly. For all I know, I might have to meet him again some time in my life, or it might be thousands of years after I die before he becomes such a threat again. I might not have done too much physical training, but my PK powers have grown stronger since after his death." Paula said to her.

"PK?" Nina asked in confusion.

"Some in my world also call it 'PSI', or some other goofy sounding name. It's a short name for Psychokenesis, but basically think of normal telepathy, telekinesis and all that psychic stuff, and then think of using that same power to literally create and destroy, to form energy, and to destroy it. It's nothing like Ki is, having now gotten an understanding of Ki from Goku's gang." Paula explained.

"Wow, you and I really are kindred spirits." Nina looked on, shocked that Paula had spilled all of this out to her.

Paula looked back, "Is the real reason you don't want to help train the others because you think they've not yet proven themselves ready, like we might have?" she then asked, looking at Nina for an honest answer.

"Yes, that is another reason. But the other reason is because I believe they will get it once they've proven to themselves they can do it. You notice how you and I never really got too much real fight training from Goku or any of the Z-senshi with us? The only thing we learned from him was how to control our ki, but even then, I ran off before I learned how to mask it or sense it, which you ended up teaching to me for him. You see, I think they have to earn most of this stuff on their own, and so do we. Sure we could just train with Goku's gang. We're the next strongest right now under Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, #17 and Buu, but then it wouldn't feel like we made as much of an effort, because at least Goku and maybe Buu would probably baby us too much. I guess I also want to know how well we can stand up to this stuff without their input." Nina explained.

"I can see that, but I personally don't think there's a problem with helping them myself." Paula replied.

"Well, if you can learn how to alter the gravity sometime, you can use it on them if you want to train them, but until I feel they're truly ready, I say we let them handle their own training. If we came in, their pride might also take it as us trying to 'baby' them, and most men don't like having to have a woman take care of them in that way." Nina replied.

"I guess I can understand it that way." Paula sighed in disappointment.

"Now, let's get off that subject. I think we're both ready to train a bit more. I think we should also go home with the gravity on us like this too, and try to do our normal stuff with it on." Nina then replied.

"I thought you said you could only do it within three-fourths of a mile?" Paula was confused.

"I'm talking about the actual process of either creating or dispelling the fields. The fields themselves will last until I dispel it, or until someone else with similar magic or something along that line goes to remove it." Nina said, a bit embarrassed she didn't say that beforehand. Both women soon took to the nearby trees, and picked up some rocks, to throw at each other for dodging practice.

(September 13, 2001 A.D.; 7:53pm; Canton, Ohio)

Later that night, Radditz had finally returned home from his session with Dan and Teresa, and also from a search through a nearby fast-food restaurant. He had been able to form and fire off his Atomic Ray two more times during that earlier training session, but for some reason after two successful uses that he could no longer create the fiery property of the blast, making any other attempts failures. Maybe he just needed to rest before he tried it again. He also realized that the place, a McDonalds restaurant he had examined along highway 77, would make a decent place to start off. A couple of people already working there had actually recognized him from the show, and they had said that if he were allowed to work with them that he might be a good helper in cooking.

The manager had also realized of his strength after he had picked up and moved a refrigerator to a new location, a task that would've worn out several other workers. The manager had told him that he would best be needed during the later hours, a shift of around 4pm to 10pm. Radditz accepted this proposal, even though he realized it would cut down on his training with Teresa and Dan. He would have to call those two and tell them the news. First he would call up his brother and Vegeta to tell them the news. He picked up the phone and dialed the number to their house.

The phone clicked and Radditz heard Vegeta speak up, "Yes?"

"Vegeta, it's me." Radditz spoke back

"Ah, Radditz. What's prompts this little call?" Vegeta asked.

"I wanted to let you know that I've found a part-time job." Radditz broke the news.

"What? You mean as in like a 'human'-type job?" Vegeta said, a bit surprised, although Radditz noticed a lack of anger.

"Yeah, afraid so, but it's because I don't know how long these guys' money will last. I mean, you told us your mate, Bulma was it?" Radditz asked.

"Yes, go on..." Vegeta cut in. "Anyways, you told me that she was a source of the money to build a lot of the things you train with and all. We don't have her support now though, you know."

"I get it, I get it." Vegeta grumbled, "You want to actually do something to support our little sessions with these younger clowns. I commend your efforts, but I don't think a part time job will simply cut it Radditz."

Vegeta replied. "I know, but I can't just totally throw Teresa or Dan out of the loop either. Those two, especially Teresa, seem to depend on me to teach them." Radditz replied.

He then heard a sigh from Vegeta, "If it comes down to no other choice, I suppose Kakarott, the Namek, Buu, the Cyborg and I could take them in, or they could just go back to Dusty's group. Whichever they want. Just be sure you know what you're doing Radditz."

Radditz spoke back, "I'll... think about it. Could you tell Kakarott this news? I'm sure he'll want to know. I know he'll probably stop by and interrupt me several times to see me and eat, but..."

"Wait, exactly where is this job at?" Vegeta interrupted, suddenly interested.

"It's at a McDonalds along highway 77, and Faircrest Ave. It's also merged with a gas station called Marathon. They hired me after I took a look around and moved of their refrigerators for them. I think my strength got the manager's attention. Also, it seems a few of the students from our little friends' school also work there and recognized me both from the other day and that odd Dragonball Z show about us." Radditz replied.

Vegeta grumbled, again that show was mentioned to him.

It was only then he realized something, "Well, it seems to be actually close to where we all are, especially your training spot."

"Yeah, that was one reason I picked it." Radditz said.

"Alright, I'll give your clown brother your message. Talk to you later Radditz." Vegeta said before Radditz heard the click that ended the phone call.

Radditz sighed to himself, also noticed Nina wasn't home just yet, and figured she was just training late, he decided to back down to the basement to rest his thoughts off. He had a lot to do the next day...

(September 13, 2001 A.D.; 11:58pm; Canton, Ohio)

A loud scream was heard into the night, a scream that only very few would ever perceive to be at all familiar to them. The scream was emitting from a neighborhood only slightly west of Canton South High School itself. The scream's source was from one figure in his backyard, with a intense, flaring aura of golden ki, indicating the person was probably a Super Saiya-jin. The person was growling, although not as much with unfocused rage as he was with a clear mind for havoc. He kept thinking to the events on what now many people were calling "9-11", the nickname for the terrorist attacks in Manhattan and Washington D.C. He was using this anger and carefully channeling it through his body, as to not accidentally bulk himself up and mess up the process.

As he focused the attack at the school through his mind, thinking of how so many could've died, and how he had been basically powerless to stop the destruction. He had been wanting to just break away from the school and blow away anyone who was with Al-queda that day. But now he was finally going to get the opportunity to channel his anger right.

"DAAAMMMNNN THEEEEMMM!" he growled out with the volume of an airliner as his hair had gone from looking it was standing up somewhat on end to standing up almost perfectly vertical, and a surge of electricity began to form around the figure's body. His muscles had tensed up and looked tightened, but they had NOT bulked up like he remembered before.

The figure smiled, almost in a peaceful way, and then his smile turned to a frown, "AT LAST I HAVE DONE IT. IT WILL SOON BE TIME FOR REVENGE ON THOSE ASSHOLES."

As he calmed down, the ki flare became more controlled, almost a perfect representation of a flame. Jason Scott Changet looked up at the stars. He had finally attained Super Saiya-jin 2. He didn't even care right then and there he had done it before Alex or Vernon, because his campaign was not for his own self gain right now. It was to avenge the 3,000 and probably more lives that had been lost on '9-11'. After holding SSJ2 for roughly 10 full minutes, Jason powered down, but not fully to base, but back to normal SSJ1.

He had decided he was going to sleep over this night as a normal Super Saiya-jin. He figured Alex and Vernon were probably going to think on doing this soon, if they hadn't done so already, but he didn't care, as he walked back into his house, the calmness radiating off of him a creepy, eerie contrast to his mood only 10 to 15 minutes ago...

(September 14, 2001 A.D.; 5:35am; Canton, Ohio)

The next morning, Goku and Vegeta had met back up with Piccolo, #17, Mr. Buu, Alex, Jason and Vernon in front of their house. They were ready for another day of some training. Although at Goku's discretion, they decided that they would take a break off to go visit Radditz later on at McDonalds and cut their training a couple of hours short. Goku had been rather interested to hear from Vegeta about the fact that Radditz had decided to even get a job, but at least he had gotten one somewhat close to all of them over at highway 77. It was less than a mile away from Alex's house and their own. However now he was focused on a new objective. He was now curious to try to get another gauge on Alex, Jason and Vernon's powerlevels.

"Hey you three, before we go over to the stadium to spar again, I'd like you all to power up to your best. I want to see how much you all changed from the last time."

Alex, Jason and Vernon had no objections, and all three immediately released their power and transformed into the Super Saiya-jin level. However, despite his new found powers, Jason wanted to try to keep from having to use Super Saiya-jin 2 in front of them. He knew Alex would probably get extremely jealous. Vernon would probably be a bit annoyed at first, but he would probably shrug it off and use it as motivation to reach the level himself. However while Goku had scanned Alex, Vernon and Jason's powerlevels, he sensed something off about Jason's. Not being able to either sense or mask his own ki, Jason's ki was fluctuating slightly, not really peaking at any point, making Goku suspicious.

"Hey Jason, something feels off about your powerlevel. It's not staying in any solid place. It keeps rising and lowering slightly back and forth. Are you trying to hold something back?" Goku then put on a rarely used serious face at Jason.

Jason gulped mentally, Shit! He knows! I'm sure of it! He probably sensed me ascend last night!

Goku however had picked up just enough of that thought with his limited telepathic abilities, and his eyes went wide and he did a double take, HE ASCENDED! Now that I think of it, I did sense a strange powerup around midnight last night!

Vegeta saw Goku's expression, "Kakarott, what happened!"

"It's Jason's powerlevel. He's holding back on us." Goku cleanly admitted, causing Vernon and Alex to turn their heads to him as Jason sweated bullets.

It was then when Alex had realized it. "NO. No no no no! No! You didn't! You reached it first! No! How could you have done it so fast! You were struggling the last couple of days just to hold your normal SSJ!" he screamed. Vernon's eyes widened, as Jason gave in, and closed his eyes, igniting the rest of the power he had been holding back, and transforming to Super Saiya-jin 2 for the second time.

"HE'S A SUPER SAIYA-JIN 2!" Vegeta had also almost lost his jaw on the ground, "HOW DID HE GET THERE SO FAST!" Piccolo and #17 had also almost done a double-take at this declaration.

"Jason, how the hell did you manage it!" Piccolo asked, honestly wanting to know.

"It was my anger at Al-queda. They destroyed thousands of lives as we all know, but it was when I finally started to reflect on what they almost did to us, and how helpless I was to stop any of it. That and I was trying to do what Goku and Gohan did before the Cell Games when I transformed." Jason explained.

"You were trying to use Super Saiya-jin as a base?" Goku asked, "I understand a little now. Did it work at all other than your transformation?"

"I did managed to sleep the whole night transformed, so I guess I'm finally getting my anger in control properly." Jason admitted.

Alex gaped at him, "Well, I guess I have to throw my hat off, if I had one, to you. But don't think I'll let this go unanswered. I will also go Super Saiya-jin 2 too!"

Vernon smirked, "Same here you two. I'm not about to let you or Jason leave me in the dust."

"You won't make it the way I did with attitudes like that." Jason said sternly, making his two friends look at him blankly, "I transformed because of Al-queda only, not because of competition with you. Think of how Vegeta couldn't get Super Saiya-jin for some time because he was so concerned with surpassing Goku. Once he finally stopped caring and got angry with himself, he finally transformed." Vegeta sulked at that comment, since Jason's words were completely true.

Vegeta remembered how stupid he had felt once he had finally transformed for the first time that it was because he couldn't admit anger at himself instead of another, "Jason's completely correct you two. You're not going to just reach Super Saiya-jin 2 on will of competition alone. Gohan took severe anger to finally transform when he fought Cell, and Al-queda while not on the same level in my own opinion, was probably like Jason's version of the Cell ordeal."

Alex thought deeply to himself, "I think I understand now. I think now that I know, maybe I can actually bring forth the proper anger. Goku, Vegeta? Do you think you could give Vernon and I some time today to try to ascend?"

Vegeta sighed to himself, "I guess it wouldn't hurt to have three young Super Saiya-jin 2s around aside from myself. Wait! Just how can it be possible for Jason to reach Super Saiya-jin 2 at his low base powerlevel anyways? None of you are over 30,000 at base last I checked."

"Maybe that's another example of what Dusty, The Rock and Austin were saying when they mentioned of rules changing. Maybe reaching Super Saiya-jin doesn't have all of the original requirements anymore, or maybe its something else." #17 said out loud, although it was more directed at himself.

"Alright then. Anyways, I think it's time we all headed off to the stadium. I wasn't going to mention this before hand, but I guess most of our normal training will be called off today. We're going to stop early today anyways. We'll give Alex and Vernon a chance to ascend. Maybe you people really will prove to be our prize students soon." Goku said, and smiled at the three of them, although Jason could swear Goku was smiling specifically at him.

Jason had done what many would have considered to never to be thinkable by transforming to a Super Saiya-jin 2 with such a low powerlevel. The eight Misfits took to the air and flew off to reach the stadium, as they were eager to see Alex and Vernon ascend. Somehow Vegeta had a gut feeling they too would not be too far behind Jason.

(September 14, 2001 A.D.; 6:20am; Canton, Ohio)

At Devin's vacant lot, Devin and Clint had both sensed Jason's powering up as well.

"Holy Shit!" Clint cried out, "Jason's powerlevel just skyrocketed!"

Devin looked over at him, "How the hell did you know that!" Devin had recalled Clint had never taken time to learn how to sense ki.

"Oh, I sensed his ki. It's not that hard considering how close he was to us earlier."

"Wait, you CAN sense ki! I could've sworn you flew off in a giddy mess back when we were all supposed to be taught." Devin said.

Clint sweatdropped, "Yeah, I realized I messed up back there, but I figured out how to sense ki by myself, and I'm even in the process of slowly learning how to mask it."

"What the h... dammit! I thought I'd still have some advantage over you by now!" Devin grumbled.

"Well, you can mask your ki, right?" Clint asked.

Devin realized, "Yeah, I guess that's true. But still, Damn. Jason must've over pumped his body again."

"No... I don't think Jason messed up this time." Clint explained, "His ki actually felt calm, albiet a little nervous at the time. I also sensed something odd last night too, it might have been Jason, but I can't be too sure."

"Wait wait wait! You're telling me Jason might have..."

"Ascended.." Clint finished Devin's sentence, "Yes, I think he hit Super Saiya-jin 2. And that means I must try to do the same eventually." Clint said to himself.

"God dammit! I wish I could transform too you know!" Devin grumbled.

"Yes, this is only the fifth time we've discussed this Devin." Clint said a bit sarcastically.

"I mean it! You're the only one of us here who can transform. I'm surprised you agreed to train with US instead of them!" Devin growled back.

"Because I still have faith that I'm not really a Saiya-jin Devin, and the fact is that you guys are closer to my own level at base anyways." Clint explained. Then the two of them looked over as Virgil soon arrived.

"Hup to fatty! Your training must continue if you ever want to kick those Al-queda bastards' asses!" Devin called up to get Virgil riled up.

Virgil landed and flipped Devin the bird, "Yeah yeah, just gimme the weights and the hammer."

"Eagar to poop yourself out again, huh?" Devin taunted.

"I'll hit you with that thing soon enough Devin. And trust me, it's not going to be pretty!" Virgil growled, as Devin handed him his level 3 training cloths and his mallet. Virgil went back and changed, and then came out, appearing to hold the hammer a bit better today than before.

"At least he's improving at all." Clint stated to himself, as he saw Devin slip into his level 3 training clothes, and started to run around the lot, with the hammer wielding Virgil on his tail.

Meanwhile, Dwayne was now running around, wearing a new level 4 set of training clothes, having felt he had outgrown the level 3 set. Level 1 training clothes were usually somewhere between 200 to 450 lbs total. Level 2 clothing was usually around 450 to 850 lbs. Level 3 clothing, like most of the others had been using prior to this point, weighed around 850 to 1300 lbs. Dwayne's level 4 clothing was around 1600 to 1750 lbs, closing in on a total of one ton of weight distribution3. Steve had also gone with his partner's idea, not wanting to let his wrestling partner and good friend leave him in the dust.

Both of them were also taking the time to run laps, and shoot of medium-level blasts every once in a awhile. Sometimes the two would also shoot a blast towards each other at the same time. Usually both blasts negated each other about evenly as they met half way.

"Rock! How will do you think we're doing, compared to Alex, Vernon and Jason's little gang?" Steve asked as he ran around the perimeter of the lot, not having thought too much about those three in a few days.

Dwayne also thought to himself as he ran, "I don't think they've thought about level 4 yet, but I do think they complained once or twice about that gravity training Goku and Vegeta supposedly use to make themselves stronger on their show."

"Yeah, kinda sucks we don't got that ourselves. You know just much faster we could all probably train if we had those gravity rooms?" Steve replied.

"Well, the ones on the show are only so big, nowhere the size of this lot. I think we could fit like 25 to 30 of them in this place. But each could only hold two, or at best 3 people, and that would limit our contact with each other." Dwayne had thought out loud. Steve furrowed his eyebrows, realizing that keeping contact with one another during the training was a major factor in strength growth.

Steve and Dwayne suddenly motioned at each other with their facial expressions, and both stopped briefly, each letting out a medium-large ki ball towards the other, and then started running again. The two ki balls collided half way, and as before, they struggled for a few seconds before both simply exploded as their energies simultaneously petered out.

Nearby, Dusty and Heero were now actually sparring with one another, both wearing level 3 training clothes. Although Dusty had a somewhat higher powerlevel than Heero, the former Gundam Pilot showed that his natural speed had been superior, and that his own battle experience netted him some fancy dodging and attacking abilities, which allowed their battle to keep relatively even, much to Dusty's interest. After barely dodging one of Heero's kicks, Dusty swung his fist in an uppercut, but missed Heero directly, leaving him open to get kicked in the side and he had to roll into a side flip to minimize the damage of the kick, and shot a small kamehameha at Heero, hoping to make him dodge, and it had apparently worked, and Dusty zanzokened behind Heero and managed to connect with a frontal kick to his upper-left shoulder, sending the Gundam pilot spinning forward, but Heero had surprisingly timed a spin right and fired off a fast blast that slammed Dusty in the forehead, knocking him out of the air, but not bad enough that Dusty crashed.

Heero so corrected himself, and stared at Dusty, "You know, I wonder how Dan's own training is going. He's probably gotten stronger than both of us by now." Dusty knew Heero had learned how to sense ki, and that he himself could not yet.

He had been trying to get Devin to teach him, but Devin told him that he could wait for some time, or defeat him in a spar before Devin would teach him masking and sensing himself. Although he noticed from Clint and Devin's conversation earlier that Clint learned how to sense ki on this own. Maybe he could help Dusty learn it, or at least point him in the right direction. Dusty then soon thought to the subject of Heero's comment: Dan.

Dusty had been able to talk to Dan a few times since the 11th. Dan had gotten better, but he also mentioned that Radditz had called him the other night about his new part-time job at McDonalds. In fact, Dusty was planning to try to call off training a bit earlier so they could meet with Radditz there.

He then thought to himself about trying to ask Dan, Teresa and Radditz to merge their training groups together. It would make the matter a bit less annoying to keep track of everyone. Dusty have even earlier thought of merging back with Alex's group, but he was worried he or one of the others could accidentally become the victim of a misplaced blast from one of the Z-senshi themselves. He had also learned of Jason's ascension to Super Saiya-jin 2, and was a little worried about that as well.

"Speaking of Dan, I want you to help me convince the others to stop training a little early." Dusty finally spoke up to Heero.

The Gundam pilot looked at him odd, "Why?"

"Because I got a surprise for us. Dan's told me that Radditz found a job at the McDonalds on Faircrest Ave near I-77. I need to talk to him later anyways." Dusty told him.

"I'll see what I can do, I guess." Heero thought to himself, looking over in the direction of where Radditz's training area was, wondering to him. For some reason though, he felt almost as if something new were on the horizon, but he couldn't put his finger on it...

(September 14, 2001 A.D.; 12:25pm; Canton, Ohio)

At the forested area near Harry London Candies, Nina and Paula had once again picked up their training. As Nina had promised, but women had returned to their homes with 4x gravity still in effect. Both had found it a bit hard to do normal, everyday stuff while getting ready to rest up. Paula specifically found it a bit hard to train her mental powers with the gravity affecting her in such a way. However, Nina had decided she would increase the gravity to 7x of Earth's normal gravity. Both of the two of them had started off with dodging practice, throwing larger rocks at each other to train their reaction. Nina found that it was getting a bit more difficult to move around as she increased the gravity in greater increments.

She had done it this way so the two would gravity adapt to larger and larger amounts of increase in the environment. Nina had told Paula that they never knew if a potential enemy might be able to screw around with gravity like she could. Paula had replied then that was yet another reason she felt they should give gravity training to their other friends. However Nina didn't want to explain to her a second time that she still didn't think the others were quite ready, although she had mused, that Jason had taken a substantial jump in powerlevel. Paula had sensed Jason's powerlevel as well. It was almost even with her own the day before at its' peak.

She was beginning to understand just a little more of Nina's feelings on the matter. Already had one of her friends come close to catching up to both of them at his peak, and the fact the two women weren't Saiya-jin made them realize that their friends' attitude was an "every one for themself" kinda deal. Nina had even sensed Radditz's powerlevel take a large jump earlier, and had a feeling he may have well finally managed to transform himself to a Super Saiya-jin level.

Now Nina's mind turned to the matter at hand. Paula had wanted that the two of them spar hand to hand for once. Nina agreed it was time to actually try to see their own fighting skills. Nina was not large on hand-to-hand, and usually attacked her enemy with a ring on her finger that could shoot energy at them. While it could make a good surprise attack in a desperate situation, Nina knew she had to actually learn to kick and punch hard. She had a feeling Paula had the same problem, or similar, remembering of her using a frying pan a couple of times. Paula had told her she would not use the steel weapon in this fight, and both stood and stared towards each other, not even bothering to duck into fighting stances.

The two of them however were having a hard time trying to make the first move, each girl thinking the other wanted her opponent to make the first move to retaliate. Both knew charging in like a bull would not usually work in a serious farce. Nina jumped to her side, and charged at Paula from her left, and swung a kick which Paula managed to block as she jumped back. Paula then swung her fist quickly and managed to hit Nina in the shoulder, causing her to spin around a small amount, leaving Paula time to jump up and kick her in the back with a double-foot kick, sending Nina flying to the side. Nina barely managed to correct her landing, the 7x gravity almost messing up her concentration at that time. Paula quickly took to the offensive, and Nina found herself viciously trying to counter or block a barrage of fists from the smaller girl that she had been able to quickly execute.

Shit! She's not kidding about fast! Nina thought quickly.

Paula suddenly kicked her foot out and tripped one of Nina's legs, sending the winged girl into the air, but Nina quickly kicked Paula in the chest before the smaller girl could follow up on the trip. Paula went flying backwards and barely managed to stop from colliding with a tree. Paula recovered and dashed at Nina, as she dashed towards her, and both swung a fist at each other, while their other hand ended each catching their opponent's attacking fist. Both of them grappled and struggled to gain an advantage.

Although Nina's powerlevel was higher than Paula's by about 200,000 degrees, Paula was a little better at hand-to-hand, keeping the two of them relatively even. However Nina realized that while Paula's arms were both occupied, she had two additional limbs, and start to swing her black wings out, slapping Paula on the head several times and beginning to whittle her down a little.

Paula grumbled Dang, her wings are heavier than I thought! Wait a second! I think I have an idea! Paula then jumped up, although still grappling her arms with Nina's own, and gave Nina a vicious headbutt to the face.

Nina cried out in pain and released her grip, but she managed to swing her wings to throw a massive wind gust which caught Paula off guard and threw her back, and this time she wasn't able to stop from smashing against a nearby tree. Nina on the other hand had not been able to correct her fall either, but her landing on her back a bit less rough than Paula's stop. Although she realized her nose was slightly bleeding.

She was impressed her friend had the guts to pull off that stunt. She probably realized my bone structure is more hollow than hers'.

Nina was no fool to the fact that being air-based and slightly bird like that her bones were not quite as dense as a normal human's. However she noticed Paula was having a bit of trouble peeling herself from the tree she smashed into.

"You win, this time." Paula said, not exactly thrilled with the prospect of colliding with the tree again so soon. She was surprised she hadn't knocked the thing over when she hit it.

Nina grumbled, "Well you did hurt me pretty bad too." Nina replied, "Where'd you get the idea to headbutt me anyways?"

"A friend of mine I knew was a martial artist of sorts. He uses an assortment of fighting moves, and I've seen him use that move before on a few of his enemies.4" Paula explained, "I guess mine worked too, but it wasn't enough. You're still moving better than I am right now."

"You want to just resume normal training procedure for now?" Nina asked.

"Yeah, better than you kicking my butt for now." Paula grumbled.

"You kicked mine too you know. You're not exactly weak." Nina grumbled rubbing her nose, which had stopped bleeding. Paula shrugged, as she walked over to the field track the two normally used.

They were planning on running 150 laps today, but Paula wasn't sure if her injuries would allow that to play out exactly that way. Nina had also flown over to the track, and started to run as well, thinking the same about her own injuries.

(September 14, 2001 A.D.; 12:20pm; Canton, Ohio)

Radditz stood silent on the fields at where he trained. He had talked with Teresa and Dan a little more about his job at McDonalds, and how their training would be cut off a few hours. He had also suggested today that Dan and Teresa train with each other and try to see how long they'd last against each other. Radditz had then gone over to a field roughly another mile south, but just close enough he could still keep some tabs on Dan and Teresa if need be.

He grumbled to himself about his plan for the sensu plant. He had checked the place where he planted the bean, and he had still not yet seen even a sliver of results. However, it was not that which had gotten under his skin. He had sensed out and felt Jason's powerlevel skyrocket, well above anything he himself could do. He already knew Jason had the ability to go Super Saiya-jin, but now he realized Jason must've found the way to reach the Super Saiya-jin 2 level Vegeta maxed out at. Radditz had realized he needed to figure out the transformation before he was left way behind in the dust.

He had remembered Goku tell him about the pain of loss, and how you needed to be above a 200,000 powerlevel, but Radditz soon realized the powerlevel requirement was hogwash, and decided that if Jason, Alex, Vernon, and even Clint could do it, he damn well would be able to do it.

Radditz thought back to his own past. He remembered that cruel asshole Frieza, and his left-hand man Dodoria, and his right-hand man Zarbon. He also remembered of Kwei, and then the Ginyu force, Gurudo, Jeice, Baata, Rikoom and Captain Ginyu himself. He snarled at the thought of those bastards and how they'd all walk all over him, Nappa and Vegeta when they had been younger and weaker, but Dodoria... the fat pink tub of lard was a very special case for Radditz. He would always taunt Radditz left and right, whether if in the presence of Vegeta and/or Nappa or not. Dodoria had also given him countless beatings during his service with Frieza, and usually Radditz spent more time healing than fighting when it came to the fat tub of lard.

However Dodoria's beatings were only a minor deal compared to the fact that Dodoria had killed another Saiya-jin, whose' name had long since been forgotten, a female that Radditz had been on the verge of mating with back when Planet Vegeta was still around. Dodoria had killed her right in front of his eyes, and he had been effortlessly thrown to the side when he tried to retaliate, and Frieza had even personally choked Radditz into near death with the iron-grip of his tail, saying that he would not allow him, Nappa or Vegeta, or any other Saiya-jin serving him to mate with any female working for him, Saiya-jin or not. Frieza thought of killing Radditz that day as well, but it was Dodoria who believed letting the long haired Saiya-jin live would serve to humble his pride for the rest of his life. That had been a part of the reason he was reluctant at first to accept Nina's help when she had assisted him in Hell.

He had finally felt it... that deep anger and loss surging straight from the soul. His body slightly tensed up as he began to grit his teeth and flare his ki aura to a healthy dark blue, and then it began to change over to gold, as Radditz's pupils faded from his eyes.

His long hair flicked gold two or three times, reverted to black for a few more seconds, and then Radditz's pupils reappeared, now turquoise, as he screamed out, "DOOOODOOOORRRIIIIIIAAAA!" His aura suddenly uncompressed and flew outwards, as his hair changed fully over to gold.

The shockwave from his aura surged out well over a full mile, so much that Dan and Teresa immediately sensed his powerup, and then had been knocked out of their spar, as they felt his energy.

"I think he just went Super Saiya-jin!" Dan commented.

"You mean where the hair stands up and turns gold?" Teresa asked for confirmation.

Dan was too fixated to reply verbally now, and shook his head in a yes-like motion. Meanwhile, Radditz was still growling, and he began to look to a far off shape, an extremely large tree. However in his anger, Dodoria was the only thing on his mind, with Frieza up on the list a close second. He positioned his hands in front of him, almost in that of a rectangular shape, and began to charge a healthy golden-orange shot in a box-like shape. Some looking at the residue coming off of the blast in between his hands might have mistaken the shape to resemble a kind of food tin.

"MONDAY HATRED!" he screamed and shot the rectangular blast straight at the giant tree. The tree would no longer be the same. While it had not been totally destroyed, the blast had ripped a rectangular shape through the trunk, and the blast had additionally ripped through several more trees, and continued forward, until finally landed inside of a nearby pond and erupted into a massive explosion.

Radditz's rage finally subsided, although he was able to hold onto his SSJ level. "I did it. Yes! YES YES YES! I finally became a Super Saiya-jin! I wonder what the hell all the others will say to this! I'm very sure they sensed my powerup. I'll have to see later if any of them will bother to ask." his face then looked more relaxed, and he looked downwards.

He smirked and then he screamed down, as if he were speaking to someone underneath the surface, "Hey Dodoria! I hope you're having fun down there rotting in Hell! Because I guarantee you if we ever meet again, I'll make you wish that you could die again!" He then sensed Dan and Teresa flying over in, probably to check on him. He knew if no one else, at least those two would've sensed him.

Dan saw Radditz, and he gaped in surprise, "I guess I was right! You transformed!"

"How'd you managed to gather the right anger?" Teresa asked, slightly more understanding to how anger could allow one to transform.

"An old enemy named Dodoria. I hated his guts. He was responsible for more of my own personal grief than even Frieza himself was, far far too much more." Radditz sighed, as he explained.

"Wait, is that why you were mad at Nina for helping you when you two met?" Dan asked.

"Yes... Dodoria, even in death, was still stronger than me by a good enough amount. I never managed to close that gap. In fact, Dodoria had been beating the shit out of me when Nina had helped me out." Radditz said, but it was then he realized, "And I owe her much... if it was not for her, I'd have never had the chance to try anew. I'd have... I'd have never had the chance to finally attain this power." he said sadly.

He then looked over to Dan and Teresa, "I'm sorry. You two must train yourselves for now. I'm done for today. I need to meet up with Kakarott, Vegeta and their gang soon. Now that I can actually transform, I need training to utilize it better. Go join up with Devin's group, or keep training each other for the rest of the day. I must think this over, and I must soon get ready for my first day at McDonalds."

"Radditz, wait a minute!" Dan tried to shout, but Radditz had quickly taken to the air and flew off towards McDonalds in the distance, but then he made a turn and flew back north, towards where he was staying.

Teresa looked on, a little saddened, "Radditz, you'll be alright... I hope."

Teresa sighed. Dan just looked on, as if he had been sucker-punched, almost. "Please tell me he's not going to abandon our training." Dan said, almost sounding like a growl out of his mouth.

"Dan don't. He's just disturbed by the latest events, and he's been given a new path with his transformation!" Teresa quelled him.

Dan still had the seed of doubt planted in his mind, and narrowed his eyes, "I know that, but he can't just abandon us either. He can't abandon you after he promised to train you! The same with me!" he growled, and he looked over, sensing out Devin, Clint, Virgil, Dusty, Dwayne, Heero and Steve.

"I guess we can join up with Devin's gang for now. Maybe they'll welcome some new company." Dan then said calmly. Teresa sighed, and nodded in agreement. The two took up to the air and flew off over towards Devin's gang of trainees. Maybe they'd provide a good challenge.

However, neither of the two would've noticed from the trees that a strange figure had been watching the entire ordeal of the last 30 minutes, eyeing them silently, and even having the ability to evade ki sense. A pair of glowing orange eyes emerged from the figure's head, and out stepped what appeared to be a Chihuahua. However this little dog was no man's best friend.

Yes Dan... Radditz has ditched you. I will soon prove it to you, and soon, you will belong to ME. The little dog, then ducked back into the forest, and darted around a few trees with the speed of a cheetah. After it cleared that set of trees, the creature was no longer a dog, but now it resembled a large buck, still with the orange eyes, as it darted off into the distance.

(September 14, 2001 A.D.; 12:10pm; Canton, Ohio)

At the abandoned arena outside of Massillon, Goku, Vegeta, #17, Buu and Piccolo had decided about 50 or so minutes back they would go into an all out 1-on-1-on-1-on-1-on-1 melee and fight each other to the point of exhaustion. Since Vernon and Alex were a ways outside of the stadium attempting to gather the proper requirements, and Jason had been off nearby, trying to master hold on Super Saiya-jin for longer than 10 minutes. This had meant the five had full freedom to do as they needed with no one to worry about hitting with a stray beam or blast.

When the fight had started, Goku, having Super Saiya-jin 3 backing him up, appeared to have the advantage from the start of the battle, and went for Mr. Buu first, but Vegeta had temporarily formed an alliance with the large Majin, and both together were actually able to muck up Goku's concentration to some extent. Meanwhile, #17 and Piccolo had been sparring with each other again, having no interruptions from the other three nearby for the moment. However after #17 had been kicked up and smashed into Goku from behind costing him precious a precious chance to take out Buu for the time being, he soon teamed up with the cyborg in a strange twist of fate.

Piccolo had then joined up with Vegeta and Buu and attacking #17 and Goku. Although outnumbered, Goku alone was still giving the other team of three no room for error. #17 being a sort of wildcard due to being hard to sense made it interesting, because he would normally either try to harass Piccolo as he tried to aim a shot at Goku, or sometimes the cyborg would even shoot Vegeta from behind with various attacks, while they didn't really hurt the Saiya-jin prince too much, usually caused him to mess up one of his attacks.

Vegeta soon had gone after #17, nailing him with a fast punch, sending him flying to the ground, and taking a lot out of the cyborg, but it gave Goku time to appear above Vegeta and hit him in the back, knocking him downwards a good ways, but allowing Piccolo and Buu to fire a double Makankosoppo, which managed to combine and push Goku out of the air and cause him to land in the stands. Goku flipped up quickly and had prepared to fire up when he suddenly felt something new pop up on his ki sense.

"WAIT! HALT THE SPAR! I'm getting something new!" he called up. Vegeta, #17, and even Piccolo and Buu had stopped momentarily, as Goku felt for the ki more extensively.

"It's Radditz! He's just transformed too!"

"What, him too!" Vegeta cried, "Dammit! Jason's already Super Saiya-jin 2, and now Radditz finally achieved Super Saiya-jin!"

"Alright... it's definitely official. We need to go visit him up at his job soon enough." Piccolo stated. He had been worried this day would come for some time, and the Namekian still had some degree of distrust to Goku's older brother.

"Trust me Piccolo, I haven't forgotten." Goku replied, "But come now, do you still think he's so untrustworthy?"

"Look... I don't know if it's just me, but Radditz is acting a little... as if he's trying to hide something from us." Piccolo truthfully replied, "I admit, maybe I'm wrong about him turning on us, but I still can't help but think he isn't telling us something." Goku sighed mentally, realizing Piccolo had probably been referring to the fact that one of the sensu beans he had given Radditz on the 11th were being used as an attempt to grow a full blown sensu plant.

Goku knew if the plan worked that it could be a boon to all of the rest of them. However he was wondered if he should put Piccolo's mind at ease and explain the plan to him. However he remembered that Radditz hadn't wanted to tell the others because he was afraid he would fail to grow the plant.

"Don't worry yourself too much about it Piccolo. He didn't tell you guys for a reason." he spoke.

"Tell us what for what reason!" Vegeta growled. Goku sighed. He realized the might as well tell those four at least, if not anyone else.

"Guys, Radditz is..." Goku was cut off as a piercing scream had shredded through the air. It had came from outside the stadium. The five Z-senshi all felt Alex's powerlevel expand a great amount, almost quadrupling.

"Woah! Alex must've done it too!" Vegeta said, recognizing that Alex had probably now finally reached Super Saiya-jin 2. The five warriors jumped into the air and flew over the stadium and right over to Alex.

When they landed, they had gotten a glimpse at Alex. He had looked to be wearing an extremely grim expression on his now hardened face. His hair was in fact standing up almost completely upright, and his aura flaring nearly 20 feet into the air with electricity around his aura.

Jason soon landed and also witnessed this, "So he finally made it."

"Yes Jason. You were right." Alex said, his voice still serious as could be, "All that anger at the shit Al-queda did, I was finally able to properly channel it right. I finally ascended as well."

Goku looked at him impressed, "Good, you did it Alex. Now all we need for is for Vernon to finally do it."

Alex looked over to his west, "He's over there still trying at it as we speak. I think he's going to pop soon enough too."

"Then I don't want to be there to miss it." #17 said, wanting to make sure Vernon wouldn't decide to go feral again like the first time he had ever gone SSJ. The seven of them moved over to were Vernon was. They saw him with his head lowered, and they had already saw his ki flare a steady and calm recourse, contrast to the snarl on his face.

Vegeta watched it with grim interest, "These people... their will to learn is amazing..." he said, almost in a whisper to himself. Vernon's eyes opened, as electricity adorned his aura. Instead of releasing his power immediately, he jumped up into the air and screamed feral anger. His hair began to stand up fuller into the air, and the electricity began to crackle around him at a massive intensity.

And Vegeta soon spoke up, "He did it. He's also a Super Saiya-jin 2." However, Vernon was not done quite yet. For some strange reason, he began to feel the electricity course through his body, almost as if it were truly one with him instead of being just energy.

He landed to the ground with a swift motion, and yelled, "CLEAR THE WAY! ALL OF YOU!" in a voice that was quite unlike his normal demeanor. He sounded like he was about to expel a great burden from himself.

They did not understand just why they complied so easily with his order, but even Goku and Vegeta dodged out what they believed was about to become the path of a devastating attack, as Vernon outstretched his arms, and positioned his hands in a pose that would make him appear as if he were clasping a round and circular object.

What would happen next would be considered unprecedented in Goku, Vegeta, #17 and Piccolo's careers as fighters. They saw Vernon's body begin to emit now a bluish-looking electricity, in addition to the yellow-orange electricity that was in a normal Super Saiya-jin 2's aura. The blue electric looked to wrap around his legs, his arms, his stomach, and surged erratically.

"Damn, he must be really pouring on juice for that attack!" Jason growled, as he felt the energy began to slam into him with great force. Alex also felt this great force, and so did #17, Piccolo, Vegeta, and even Goku, still in Super Saiya-jin 3 form, had felt a considerable amount of force from the attack, but Piccolo, Goku and Vegeta's eyes were widened.

I feel the energy hitting me in a physical way! But I don't sense any extra ki being placed into his attack! Goku thought in shock, and Vegeta and Piccolo had been thinking similar.

Buu however looked to be almost totally unaffected by the energy coming off of Vernon, and his the look on his face looked to be that of realization. YES! It is! He's doing it! These people might really be more powerful than I ever imagined! Buu's thoughts were contrastively serious to his normal speech.

Vernon's body appeared to strain slightly as a strange, purplish-blue sphere of energy began to appear below the center of where his hands would meet, and now it looked like he was almost controlling the power of all electricity through his hands, as the sphere began to sparkle and crackle off a large amount of electrical energy. Buu could swear he heard the sphere give a vicious whine through the air.

Buu's eyes widened, but not in shock, but in realization as he called, "Do it Vernon!"

Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, #17, Jason and Alex looked to Buu in surprise as Vernon's following scream came in at a loud volume, but the tone did not sound like an enraged teenager, but almost calm, "WILLY WISP."

With those words, Vernon tossed the ball towards the path made when everyone had dodged aside. The ball sheered through the side of a tree in its' path, and then lowered in altitude as it hit the ground, but unlike most ki blasts which exploded on impact, the ball exploded different, and erupted into a pulsing field of electrical energy, which then formed into a kind of controlled upward spiral into the air. The others sensed on.

"Kakarott, what is that attack! I don't sense any energy from it at all!" Vegeta said, actually sounding freaked out, as they witnessed the attack finally fade out as the last of the electrical energy dissipated into the air.

When they all looked back to Vernon, he looked to be back to original, half-laid back self. He was much calmer than he had been for the last 5 minutes, and his hair still stood up almost completely vertical. That's... that's what's going to happen to those al-queda asshats when I finally get the chance to go after them. Vernon thought calmly to himself.

Buu looked at Vernon and smiled, "Vernon did good! Vernon did very good! Buu commends you for that effort!"

"Buu, what's the big deal anyways? Why did you tell him to 'do it', whatever that meant?" asked Goku.

"Yeah Vernon, I didn't sense any energy in that blast you fired!" Piccolo cut in.

"You guys probably couldn't sense that because it wasn't ki energy." Vernon commented with a strange smile on his face.

"WHAT?" Alex asked in shock. Buu smirked, "Vernon know magic! YES HE DOES! YEAH!" Buu cheered, seeing Piccolo, Alex, Jason, Goku and Vegeta's mouths all falling a varying amount of inches.

"THAT WAS MAGIC!" Piccolo shouted out.

Alex was also surprised, "Wow, the rules must've really changed, if that was really magic, and... wait! HOLY SHIT! I think know that move you just used now! The Willy Wisp... it's an electrical magic bolt out of a game I play!"

"Yeah, I think it's a Mario RPG attack that some enemies use5. I don't know why I suddenly began to use it, but after I transformed to Super Saiya-jin 2, I felt like I had come into tune with electrical energy, and I just had to see if I could do something with it, so I decided to do the Willy Wisp." Vernon smirked.

"Okay so we know that what you did is magic, but why is it that big of a deal?" #17 asked, not understanding the big deal.

"Magic and Ki are two completely different things, #17. I've had my own run-ins with magical abilities, and Buu himself was created by Magic, if you hadn't known." Piccolo explained, "Babidi's energy barrier and Dabura's stone spit are both magical attacks, and I believe the flames he used while fighting Gohan were a kind of magic and ki cross. I found that despite how pathetically weak Babidi by himself was against me that I wasn't able to pierce his magic barrier for a while. I too have learned some magic adaptation from my encounter with him, but I've never bothered to try creating an attack from it."

"Piccolo understand." Buu replied, "Buu can sense magic energies, and ki energies! Radditz and Nina at least have gift too!"

"I kinda had a feeling Nina's little Hokaku attack and a few of the other strange energy attacks she used had to do with magic, but when the hell did Radditz use magic!" Vernon then asked.

"Buu sense him firing it off a few times yesterday. Was weak, but was still present. It mixed with Radditz's ki!" Buu spoke up, apparently revealing Radditz's new Atomic Ray attack had a form of magic in it too.

"God dammit! This is insane! Do you realize what this could mean!" Vegeta cut into the conversation, "Most of us barely have any real control over magic. Those three have a major advantage over us if they should think to use their magic on us! Our Ki is of no defense against Magic! They both operate of different forms of energy that would simply pass through each other if someone tried to use ki vs. magic in a beam struggle!"

"You basically mean Magic and Ki have different 'powerlevels'?" Alex asked.

"Yes. It wouldn't matter that Kakarott is a Super Saiya-jin 3 if his opponents magic-powerlevel was much higher than his own. They'd still be able to waste him if they got the time to fire off a strong enough magic blast." Vegeta replied, still grumbling.

"So how do we distinguish the different types of powerlevels?" Vernon asked.

"Personally, I think normal powerlevel would be best called "battlepowerlevel", and magic powerlevel be called, well... "magicpowerlevel". It's too bad Radditz's scouter would probably have no way of detecting magicpowerlevel." Goku had suggested and mused on this development.

"Hmmm... you know what, I think... I think you all deserve a slight break." Piccolo smirked at the three younger Saiya-jin, "I think if you all train a bit too much that you're going to lose what remains of your teenhood."

"Come on Piccolo, we need to get stronger still! I wanna be an SSJ3!" Alex whined.

Goku looked at Alex with a strange expression, not necessary a jealous or stern expression, but one that indicated that he believed something was up, "Alex, it will probably be extraordinarily hard for any more transformations from here on out. Super Saiya-jin 3 is something I was only able to get after intense training in the afterlife. As you know from your show, although I admit it did exaggerate it a little, a year in the afterlife of training is like around 60 in normal terms. It took me at least 5 years while I was dead to learn how to control Super Saiya-jin 3, and even then, I still can't hold the state longer than 50 minutes at a time."

"I thought it was only like 10 minutes?" asked Vernon.

"It used to be, but 10 years is a lot of time to learn to lessen the drain of energy a little, but it can still be a killer if you over do it." Goku explained, "But still, for me, it was like 300 normal years in time to finally ascend to Super Saiya-jin 3, and that's extreme, even compared to Muten Roshi taking 50 years just to perfect his own Kamehameha attack."

"Yeah, but you yourself have bested the odds others presented to you, so why not us?" asked Jason, making Goku realize the validity of this statement. He had only taken less than 1 year to make a reasonable strength Kamehameha after he saw Roshi do it at Frypan Mountain, and he had learned to do even the weakest of Kamehamehas within less than an hour of seeing Roshi do his first one.

It was then Goku realized something, The further the generations progress, the easier it seems for them to get the things it took us a long struggle to learn. I mean, Vegeta, Gohan, Mirai Trunks and I had to struggle to learn the Super Saiya-jin level, and Goten and the present version of Trunks learned how to do it at age 8 of all things. When I was only 13, I started off with a powerlevel of roughly 25, where as Goten and Trunks were well above the tens of millions at base by the same time in their lives. Just maybe these people will leave THEM in the dust.

He then spoke up, his expression softening into a half-smirk, "Well you never know actually, you might just be right Jason." but then he chuckled, as everyone else heard a reasonably loud roar emit from Goku, but not his mouth.

Vegeta sweatdropped, "You're hungry... it figures Kakarott." he said in a low voice, but he then realized he too was falling into hunger.

Piccolo of course did not care so much since Namekians did not need to eat, and #17 did not HAVE to eat, but he was planning on visiting Radditz at his new job later anyways, so he didn't care. Of course, Buu would never turn down food, being just as hungry as Goku could be. Also, Vernon, Alex and Jason were also pretty hungry as well, especially Jason and Alex, who could eat roughly as much as Vegeta or Radditz at their hungriest.

"Yeah, why don't we just head back to our place for a bit, get an appetizer for now, and then go over and meet up with Radditz at his new job." Vegeta then suggested, causing all the others to nod in agreement, as they lifted up into the air, and took charge in the air, flying back southward, their main tasks for the day finally fulfilled.

(September 14, 2001 A.D.; 3:54pm; Canton, Ohio)

Back at their training field and forest, Paula and Nina had not missed Vernon and Jason's transformations to Super Saiya-jin 2 on their ki radars. However Nina had sensed something additionally that Paula had not. Nina, like Buu, also had the ability to sense magical energies much in the same way as Buu had. Paula had asked her why she looked so bugged out, and Nina had explained to her about Vernon's Willy Wisp magic attack, and how she could sense the aura of magic, and that Magic and Ki appeared to have a separate breed of energies from one another.

It was then Paula had gotten extremely curious. She had asked that she and Nina go back to the open field so they could test something. Nina was a bit perplexed and followed her smaller ally to the field. "Paula, exactly what do you want me, er us, to do, anyways?" Nina asked when they had arrived.

Paula looked over to her, "You told me Magic and Ki are different from another. Now I need to find out something of my own. I need to know where my PK powers fall into the picture." Nina's eyes furrowed in realization, "Of course, how could I forget. You mean you're actually going to show me one of your powers now?"

"First off, I'm going to do a minor PK attack at the ground. I want you to try to see if you can sense it, and if you can, I want to know if it feels similar to magic or not." Paula replied as she turned and looked to the ground.

She raised a hand and fashioned into pointing her index finger into the air. As she did, Nina gaped as she saw a large ball of fire appear on the end of Paula's finger, appearing to do no harm to its' wielder whatso ever. She then pointed her finger at the ground, and Nina was caught off guard as she saw a large fireball streak from Paula finger and smash into the ground a few feet away at high speeds.

"I didn't sense that at all!" Nina told her quickly. Paula narrowed her eyes and turned back to Nina, "Now, can you wield fire magic of your own? I want to try to sense for it."

Nina nodded, and turned around, raising her hand in the air, cupped upside down, as she began to form a ball of fire in her palms. Paula noticed she could just barely sense the energy, but it did not feel like the PK attacks she could use, but like something that was neither Ki or PK energy. "SPARK." Nina shouted as she threw the fireball into the ground ahead of her, looking in some ways much like Paula's fiery PK attack.

"I did sense that, but it was only barely. It doesn't feel the same as normal Ki energy. Now I want to do a real test." Paula figured it was now or never, "I'm going to charge one of my ki blasts and hurl it your way. I want you to charge a decent strength magic attack and fire it straight at me."

"You want to see if the energies will interact in any way?" Nina had realized what her friend had been going for.

Paula ducked down slightly as she formed a Soukidan in her hand, not the most powerful, but strength wasn't the point, it was the principle of it being ki that mattered. "NOW!" she screamed as she pitched the Soukidan at Nina, and then dodged aside as to avoid anything that might come her way. Nina focused her eyes on the Soukidan and fired off a large electrical bolt which flew dead straight at the Soukidan. However both women watched in amazement as both attacks passed right through one another, as if they had completely ignored each other. Both women watch the other's attack impact with the ground behind them, Paula's creating a small explosion, and Nina's dispersing a small area of electrical energies.

"Now you fire a large ki blast, and I'll fire a PK attack of my own at it!" Paula quickly called, already knowing what to shoot. Nina quickly charged a small Kamehameha wave and shot just enough of one that it looked like a wispy trail as it flew towards Paula. Paula thrust her hands outwards towards the blast, in what looked like a sideway Kamehameha hand cup, but it was not a kamehameha, but a moderate sized blue ball of icy energy with wind flowing around it, that was flung at Nina's blast. Both women dodged aside as they again witnessed both attacks ignore each other and pass through as they had never been there.

"ALRIGHT. Nina we both launch fire attacks of PK and Magic at each other! NOW!" Paula screamed over quickly and had already shot another burst of her psychic fire blast ahead at Nina. Nina almost hesitated, but launched a stronger called Flame at the fire blast.

However both women underestimated the speed of the other's attack, and they watched in amazement as the two fireballs went right through one another without interaction, but they had been so fixated they had forgotten to dodge, this Nina had gotten hit by Paula's fireball and fell on her back, and Paula had been hit with Nina's flame ball, also being knocked backwards. Both had been slightly engulfed by fire, having to stop, drop and roll, much like being in a cheese safety video to subdue the flaming effects of each other's attacks. After they finally recovered, they both got to their feet.

"Okay, okay enough!" Nina growled over at Paula, "We get the point now: Ki, Magic and PK are three completely different types of energy, they don't interact and they each seem to have their own powerlevels separate from one another!6"

Paula grumbled to herself, and a sweatdrop was on her head as she scratched her head in embarrassment, "Yeah sorry. I got a bit carried away in the moment. I haven't really trained with another person like this in quite some time. I guess you're presence is growing on me!"

Nina sweatdropped at her, "Riiight, my presence should make you less jumpy than more." she then laughed.

Paula blushed, "True. Anyways, now what?"

"We're done for now. I want to remove the gravity aura for now. I'm a bit too tired from our spar and getting burned by your blast to keep going on. And it might help to finally remove it after having it on for nearly 40 hours at a time." Nina said, as she soon chanted out at Paula, and she had felt significantly lighter as the gravity dissipated from around her.

Nina soon did the same thing to herself. Paula bent down, and lunged upwards into the air without warning. Much to Nina's surprise she had jumped without ki assistance to a height where she couldn't not see the smaller girl anymore. Knowing she had nothing to lose, she also ducked down and lunged up, surprised to find that she was rocketing upwards at extremely high speed. She quickly saw Paula still lifting upwards, but noticed she had gradually caught up with her, and then even surpassed her height.

"Woah! This has to be nearly three-fourths of a mile we've jumped!" Paula was in shock at how light she felt at that moment, but then she realized she and Nina were finally descending at high speeds. The two women where just able to ignite their ki quick enough to cushion their otherwise nasty fall. Both women straightened themselves out.

"So, what do we do with the rest of today?" Paula asked, "Why don't you come with me to the McDonalds on Faircrest Avenue. Radditz is gonna start working there today, and I got the feeling some of the others will probably be going to visit, since Radditz mentioned Goku's gang had planned to stop by."

"Hmm, I take it you want us to lower our energy a little when we see the others, don't you?" Paula asked her friend.

"Yes. I'm still not sure if I can really tell them yet that were doing anything serious. Of course, they might still assume we're doing some training. I just don't want to get Alex, Jason, Vernon the rest of my friends to try to baby us out of it if they do find out by giving off too strong of an energy." Nina explained.

"Alright, I guess we should get going." Paula said, as she began to lift herself into the air. Nina followed suit, and the two women soon shot off southwards, soon splitting off as Nina had reached her house, and Paula continued to her house to rest a little before the two would regroup to go to McDonalds.

(September 14, 2001 A.D.; 4:16pm; Canton, Ohio)

Meanwhile, back at Devin's vacant lot, Clint and Devin had felt Radditz become a Super Saiya-jin several hours ago, and then soon they had felt both Alex and Vernon's powerlevels rising drastically.

"Dammit! I still can't believe those three clowns managed to turn Super Saiya-jin 2 in less than two weeks!" Devin growled. He was now feeling generally pissed about the developments, "I really wish we had a gravity chamber or two to use!"

Clint could swear in Devin's annoyance, that faint black aura from the day before had reappeared around him and flickered in a couple of times before it had vanished again. Clint didn't think it was a transformation due to the fact that he didn't really see anything else about Devin change, and any powerups he got quickly diminished after the flashes occurred.

"Devin, calm down. We should probably take a break soon and head to the McDonalds for some food." Clint suggested, having been quite hungry himself, not to mention McDonalds had been one of his favorite fast food places.

Devin sighed, "If you say so Clint, if you say so." They had called over and gotten the attention of Dwayne, Virgil, Steve, Heero, Dan, Dusty and Teresa, and called them over to prepare to head off towards McDonalds.

Dan grumbled just a slight bit when he heard that, but maybe he could talk more to Radditz when he arrived there. It had also turned out Steve had gotten a call on his cell phone by Vegeta, telling them his own little gang were heading to the same McDonalds. It had been a chance for the entire group to remerge and get some quality time. The nine of them discarded their weights and put them back in the make-shift dressing room, and they also had put Virgil's mallet away in the storage garage near Devin's house, and they all blasted off on their way to McDonalds, intending to eat the day away.

(September 14, 2001 A.D.; 4:30pm; Canton, Ohio)

Devin's gang would soon arrive at the McDonalds/Marathon station along Faircrest Avenue, where they would already find Nina and Paula sitting at a table, eating a few McChicken Sandwiches, and they had not yet caught site of Radditz, or of Alex's little gang just yet. The seven of them found a table close to Nina and Paula, across from the two women.

"So, long time no see." Nina commented, "You goofs behaving well?"

"Ha ha... Yes, we're doing just fine. Thanks for asking anyways." Devin grumbled. Nina had seen Dan and Teresa, "I was wondering where you two had gone. I figured you'd all be here first to see Radditz off on his first day."

Dan frowned, "No, he told us to join up with Devin's group for the rest of the day. He managed to become a Super Saiya-jin earlier. I guess the stress is getting to him. He's thinking about breaking off our own training to join with Goku's group so he can get better training as an SSJ."

"Dan, you okay?" Paula asked.

"I guess I feel a little worried Radditz is gonna ditch Teresa and I for Goku's group. I guess I feel a little sore about it. Also, I'm sure a lot you must feel jealous, not being able to transform yourself."

Devin frowned, "Don't even remind me about that."

"Sorry, must've hit a nerve." Dan sighed.

"You could say that again." Devin replied.

"Hey where exactly is Mr. Long Hair anyways?" asked Dusty to Paula.

"He's back there, but he's not really a cashier most of the time. He seems to be doing grunt work like moving things. Nina mentioned to me that's what he said about the job." she replied back.

"I see. I noticed Neil's here." Devin replied, referring to a former-student from Canton South known as Neil Lorenzo. Neil was actually one of the nicer students who had known the Misfits, and also had ill-feelings towards Jackson and his little yesmen. He also had the tendency to stop by at the school once a week to check up on his old friends.

Devin then took his group to the counter, and Neil noticed him, "Hey Devin, you guys have been missed back at South. With Jackass suspended, his little butt-kissing buddies are too afraid to badmouth you guys for helping to save the county from those terrorist bastards."

"I can imagine. So he's out of there right now huh?" Dusty replied back.

"Yeah, thank God. Anyways, what do you all want? I noticed your lady friends are in the back, you all meeting up here or something?" Neil asked.

"Actually, kinda, that and Radditz is one of us, as you might have figured out." Clint explained, "As for me, two 20 piece McNuggets, a Large Fry, and a Large Strawberry milkshake for me." he then gave his order. Neil put it all down.

Dwayne was next, ordering 3 steak sandwiches and a medium fry.

Steve had gotten an extra-large Sprite, a medium fry, and 3 large cheeseburgers.

Dusty had gotten 2 BLTs, along with a 10 piece McNugget and a medium fry and a medium banana milkshake.

Dan had only gotten a large salad and a 6 piece McNugget.

Teresa had gotten 2 cheeseburgers, two medium fries, and a medium chocolate milkshake.

Heero had been very hungry, ordering 4 McChicken Sandwiches and a large coke in order to wash them down.

Devin had ordered a cheeseburger, a McChicken Sandwich, and a 20 piece McNugget.

Finally, Virgil had ordered 2 large fries and a large Pepsi.

As this had been going on, Goku, Vegeta, #17, Buu and Piccolo had all arrived, with Jason, Alex and Vernon training behind them at base level. They were surprised to find Paula and Nina at the back table as well, but they had been expecting they'd probably meet up with Devin's group. They had also noticed Dan and Teresa with them. The other nine had just received their food, even Virgil, as the eight of them entered.

"Hey you guys, we're here!" Goku called to them cheerfully. Devin and his group perked up, and Paula and Nina looked over to them.

"So you're all here then. Once Radditz comes out, that outta be our entire gang now!" Nina called back. Neil had soon greeted Goku's gang, as Goku himself was more than happy to be the first to make an order, to everyone's expectation.

Neil had sweatdropped after he heard Goku order 4 apple pies, 4 hamburgers, 4 BLTs, 4 McChicken Sandwiches, 4 Extra-large fries, 8 Fish Fillet Sandwiches and 4 twenty piece McNuggets.

As Neil called out the obscenely large order to the back, everyone else heard a "Ah dammit he's here isn't he?" sound from the back, sounding to be Radditz's voice.

Then a door in the back opened, and Radditz walked out, but he was not decked out in his normal attire of Saiya-jin armor or the black undersuit, but he was wearing his own version of the standard McDonalds uniform, along with the goofy looking cap trying to stand in one of the large tufts of his hair. He walked over and saw Goku, Vegeta, #17, Buu and Piccolo, and then saw Alex, Jason, Vernon, and then Dan, Dusty, Steve, Dwayne, Heero, Teresa, Clint, Devin and Virgil. He already knew Paula and Nina had been there, them having gotten to the restaurant just as he was coming in.

"You want me to handle making these guys' orders? I know my brother can eat more than enough to fill 4 cows, and Buu is about the same." Radditz asked.

Neil nodded, "That'd... be appreciated."

Radditz mock saluted to Neil and zoomed back, with Goku's order now in hand, as Buu was next to order. He had looked wanted 11 fish sandwiches, and 10 McChicken Sandwiches, along with 3 extra-large coca-colas. Neil had given that order to Radditz as well, who grumbled slightly at Buu, bit did his duty anyways.

"I'll just have 3 of the largest quantity of those chicken nugget things." Vegeta said mootly, and Neil had given that slightly more normal order to one of the other workers.

Piccolo had simply asked about where a fresh water dispenser was. Neil pointed over to a machine near the drink-filler that dispense cold ice that he could melt into water. Piccolo shrugged and had gotten a large glass and filled it with enough ice water to fill to the top, and promptly sat over with his other comrades who were already eating.

#17 had only gotten a strawberry milkshake, and a small salad, again not having to really eat. Neil had felt that to be probably the most normal order so far, not counting Piccolo since water was free anyways.

Alex had ordered four Fish Fillet sandwiches, and then a large fry along with some water like Piccolo, much odd to his friends.

Jason had order two twenty piece McNuggets as well, along with a large and a medium fry. He also decided to take after Alex and get some ice water though.

Vernon finished up by ordering a couple of extra-spicy McChicken sandwiches with a large Root Beer to top it off.

They got their orders done, and Neil had calculated the sum total among all 18 of the others to be around $298.43, which Vernon had decided to pay for out of his own pocket, before either Paula, Dwayne or Steve could volunteer their own money.

Now the entire group of Misfits, sans Radditz had basically gathered into one place.

"So guys, what's up anyways? Training treating fatty over here well?" Alex asked, referring to Virgil, much to Devin's relief. He really didn't know if he'd be able to withstand it if Alex started messing around with him at the time.

Virgil grumbled, "Alex, don't even talk, I've gotten excellent at level 3 training clothes."

Alex chuckled, "Really there, Virgil? You're actually able to move in those? If it's true, then I'd be more than the least bit shocked."

"It's true Alex, we've been there. Devin's got him doing a method he said Goku told him." Clint piped in.

Goku looked to them, "Is it that hammer swinging training that I mentioned?"

"Yeah, the same thing you apparently used on Gregory on King Kai's planet.7" Devin confirmed.

As the bunch discussed over matters at hand, they had mentioned to each other of their major achievements, with the exception of Paula and Nina, although Paula had really wanted to say it. Nina just wasn't ready yet to tell them. Although Alex had pointed out the two of them felt a little bit stronger, the two had also lowered their powerlevels a little, just enough that it seemed they were about 150,000 degrees stronger than they had started out on the 11th. The two mentioned it was more of exercise-type training than serious fighting. Although Goku had known better, he didn't say anything about it, knowing Nina had wanted him to keep their secret.

"So Vernon can use magic now?" Dusty had asked upon learning of Vernon's Willy Wisp attack.

"Yeah, it's rather cool thing too. Magic and Ki seem to be two different things, so they seem to have their own separate 'powerlevels'." Vernon explained.

Nina replied, "Yes, I did sense that too. Now you have a bit of an understanding of how I can shrink you when you screw around too much." Nina said in a joking tone, knowing Vernon wasn't big on the 'being shrunk' part.

"So, how is Heero handling all the training anyways?" asked Dan, not having been around the Gundam pilot a large amount of times since their return from Tokyo.

"Heero's already at level 3 training clothes, and he actually matched up well against a stronger Dusty in an earlier spar. He must have prior hand-to-hand battle experience or something." Virgil mentioned.

There was a little bit more talk among the group of friends. Sadly Radditz could not really join them during any of it, and Dan was a little miffed about it. Although he was trying to tell himself it was nothing serious. It was just complications of being both a future-superhero and a fast-food worker. Teresa had sensed a little of his misgivings, but she didn't decide she wanted to talk about it with him, especially not in front of the others, however she too then decided she wanted to mention something to them, not sure yet if they considered her really to be one of them.

"Hey Dan, I noticed you never mentioned of my clone ability to them." she spoke up.

Dan looked up, as if he were slightly shaken from a thought, as the others looked at Teresa a little.

"Clone ability? You mean she learned a multi-form like the Shishin No Ken?8" asked Piccolo.

"No no no... this is much different." Dan said, "She appears to do it by firing a set number of blasts around for a while, and then she merges them all to form an energy clone of herself that she can actually interact with and spar with. She first did it yesterday, and it looked really useful. It seemed to be more than just something like a Kamikaze Ghost. The spirit doesn't explode on contact with someone, and it can actually shoot it's own blasts and stuff." Dan blabbed to them.

Goku actually looked intrigued. "If something like that is true, then you should try to show us someday. Maybe it'll make a kind of alternative to the normal Shishin No Ken. Unless the power is split up between you and your clone."

"No, my powerlevel only seems to lessen slightly, around 5 to 10 according to the last three scans Radditz did on me with his scouter thing while I was using it." Teresa said.

Vegeta looked a bit interested, and actually spoke up, "You see now, it seems everyone is learning stuff fast. This new generation is reminding me of Trunks's generation."

"Well Radditz appeared to learn two new attacks of his own in addition to his transformation." Dan mentioned.

"Buu sensed he did a semi-magic attack!" Buu then cut in. Dan, and Teresa, as well as Clint, Steve, Devin, Dwayne, Heero and Virgil were also a bit shocked.

"I bet it must be his Atomic Ray. He told me something about how a small part of it feels like it's not made of ki energy." Teresa spoke up.

Paula decided that even if she couldn't tell them about the full brunt of her own training that she might as well break one other bit of news. "Speaking of Magic, Ki and all that stuff. I need to add more to the information pool. There's apparently a THIRD type of energy variant that ignores both Magic and Ki attacks. It's a kind of power I wield known as PK." Paula had then slowly explained to them the process of how PK was a mental based energy, and Goku and Vegeta, and even Buu had some expressions of shock on their faces.

However this time Piccolo smirked at the other major enemy of his late-father, "So it is true. The Psychokinetic power does have it's own wavelengths of energy. You see Paula, I think Frieza possessed a lesser degree of your PK abilities. He couldn't form energy with it or shoot blasts, but he had so much psychic ability that I actually saw him lift an entire mountain with his powers before with no visible strain on himself."

Paula's eyes went wide, "What! Really? Wow... he could've been truly one bad dude if he had known how to use true PK abilities or had been smart enough to consider them more useful."

Vegeta growled at the mention of Frieza, and wasn't one for hearing 'what-if' situations concerning his former-master's power, "Alright enough about that bastard. I don't think we need to bring back voodoo on us by talking about him."

"Aw come on Vegeta, he's dead!" Alex said to him with a cheer, "It's not like he could come back from the dead, and even if he did, even I, Jason, Vernon could hold him off decently, and the rest of you could probably slaughter him now. It's not like villains can get stronger when their dead. They're like wispy white clouds down in Hell."

"Alex, did your brain snap? Don't you remember Nina was sent TO Hell when the merger happened? She saw both Radditz AND Dodoria's physical forms battling each other. As long as anyone keeps their body, they can get stronger, even in Hell." Clint mumbled at Alex, annoyed he would forget that, but then his expression softened, "Although I do agree with you on Frieza. Even if he had trained all 20 plus of those years he was dead, it's not like he could ever get stronger than Cell, in my opinion. He's probably still weaker than what Perfect Cell was when he died."

Alex smacked his forehead, "Sorry Clint, kinda forgot some things on the show don't seem to have really happened in this case." he then cast an odd look back and forward between both Goku, Paula and Piccolo, still confused to how the hell Paula could know the other two in her childhood. She was not a character on the show, at least not the version he had seen and reviewed.

After a short more amount of talking, the 17 free Misfits, and Teresa as well, who had been assured by Goku that she could probably join their gang if she needed to, had all finished eat their food, and they had all said their goodbyes to each other, and also told Radditz and Neil they had been leaving. All of them except for Nina had left and headed back to their homes. Nina had decided she was just going to stay a little longer.

Something felt out of place to her, as if she had a strange sense of deja vu or something. She got to talk to Radditz one more time and told him they'd talk at home that night. Radditz nodded, and shooed her away after that, not wanting to get fired for talking to his friends too much on shift. Nina soon departed and flew back towards her own home, as sunset was starting to make itself known...

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Footnotes:

1 Giygas Paula's own 'true' arch-enemy, from the RPG Earthbound, for those of you that didn't know where she came from before now. :P

2 For those who've never played EB, or at least never met Giygas, spoiler He destroyed his own mind and body in fits of insane evil before Paula and her friends even confronted him. When his true form was released, nothing could harm or destroy him except positive faith(aka the hopes of the friends and other good-natured people of Earth). There's a lot more explanations to his "nigh-unkillable" status Paula tells Nina about all around the internet. Basically, it's like being trapped in thousands of insane asylums, and (at least storywise) it is impossible to comprehend his attacks, therefore there is supposed to be little means to block them(although the game mechanics are odd in this manner, since you can give characters items that protect from the affects of his attacks ahead of time) :P

3 Since most of the characters don't have the ability to use gravity training for a while, the best alternative is different levels of weighted clothing. I decided to class them by weight-ranges. And yes, the levels will be higher levels in later parts. I guarantee it. :P

4 Paula is referring to Poo, the martial-arts prince that is the fourth and last part member in Earthbound. :P

5 Yeah, THAT Willy Wisp. To be honest, now that I realize it, the original version actually burrows underground and then emerges above the target in a vertical column of electricity, but who says things can't be a bit different once in a while:P

6 VERY IMPORTANT: In Misfits, I have established already there are three mystical forms of power: Ki, the usual energy used in the Dragonball Series. Magic, the arcane force used in many different games. And then PK/PSI, which is a mind-based power, which is established in EarthBound. Also, there is at least one more form of power to be discussed, but there will be some time before it is revealed by name. All four types ignore each other on their own when used in attacks, and each of their own powerlevels. Example: As of now, in a battle between Nina and Goku for instance, Goku would easily wipe Nina on the floor using Ki, but Nina would just as easily do the same to Goku via Magic. It depends on who manages to do what first. And no, scouters cannot yet sense the other 3 types of powerlevels. :P

7 Yes, I know Gregory and the mallet training is a "filler" scene in the anime, but I think it was a cool concept, even for filler, and besides, the show is what gave Devin the idea anyways. :P

8 Shishin no Ken "Fist of Four Bodies". Tien/Tenshinhan's "12 Eyes" ability, where he splits into four, also dividing his powerlevels among his duplicates.