First let me thank Lionpire for reviewing my story. It is extremely appreciated. Hell, I'm not sure anyone else but you and I are even reading it! But, that's alright. An audience of one will be fine. (Do I sound pitiful enough?)
Anyway, a few of you have asked questions during my long absence.
Seth7: My nephew is fine. He's home after serving his hitch (plus three involuntary extensions) with only a few scars and a limp from some shrapnel to show for it. While his injuries are unfortunate, we all feel much luckier and blessed than the many families that have lost sons and daughters in this war, or any war for that matter. I think the saddest thing in the world is when a parent loses a child. May they all come home safely. He has gone through some physical therapy, and his doctor says that with the proper exercise and therapy his limp may disappear over the course of the next year or so.
Update on my father. He has gone through the first course of chemo therapy and he had a CAT Scan last week. Good news! The Cancer is shrinking and with any luck, and some hopes & prayers, one more course will get rid of it. Keep your fingers crossed.
BballAnimeLover89: Sorry for the delay, but life slapped me a little. I'm starting to get back into the swing of things. About Goten, Trunks, & Gohan. This story doesn't really focus on them, but I'm sure that they are training and trying to improve.
Manny! Welcome back!
Anyway, I hope that all that have read my fan fics have enjoyed them. On with the story!
Omega Porunga opened his eyes and surveyed his surroundings. The planet was truly dead. In a few hours it would explode and send his negative energy rippling through the universe; or, at least, farmore of his negative energy. He could literally feel the planet dying under his feet. His birth had been a long time coming. The utter stupidity of Mouri, combined with the petty wishes of the Saiyans finally tipped the scales in his favor.
The Namekian Dragon Balls had only been used one time in the four-hundred years of their existence prior to Frieza attacking the Planet Namek. That was to banish the Super Namekians off of the planet. That was the reason Guru created them to begin with. The negative energy had dissipated from the orbs before that time.
The Two Star Dragon was born when Piccolo was wished back to life to fight Frieza.
The Three Star Dragon was born when the wish was made to move everyone from the Planet Namek, to the Planet Earth, except for Frieza and Goku.
The Four Star Dragon was born when Earth and all its population was restored just before the defeat of Buu.
The Five Star Dragon was born with the wish to restore Goku's power, so that he could defeat Buu.
The Six Star Dragon was born when Earth was once again restored after the use of the Black Star Dragon Balls caused the Earth to explode.
And the Seven Star Dragon was born when Roger wished he were a Saiyan.
Omega Porunga smiled. As far as he could tell, there was only one person out there that could offer him any sort of resistance at all. Still, he couldn't get over the nagging feeling that, dead or not, Goku would just be lying back while the universe was being destroyed. Maybe he would get a challenge before it was over after all.
The planet under Omega Porunga's feet began to quake violently as a huge crack opened up in front of him. Lava launched out of the crack spewing molten rock and gas high into the sky. A white hot pyroclastic flow engulfed the dragon.
Omega Porunga just chuckled in the middle of the maelstrom. "It has begun."
"Okay, you've all mastered the new fusion technique, which we've named, "The Ghost Fusion Technique." Vegeta said.
"That was my idea!" Gotarm said excitedly.
"Yes, well, you've all mastered it with two people, now we will practice it using three people at a time. It's the same thing, only now you have to adjust your power levels for three people." Vegeta looked them all over. "Do you understand?"
"How many people can fuse with this technique?" Vegeta Jr. asked.
"There is no limit, as far as I know, but the more people involved, the bigger the chance that one of them is going to screw it up." Vegeta answered frankly. There is also no time limit involved, but if even one of the people in the fusion decides they don't want to be fused, and goes ethereal, the entire fusion comes apart. Which is another point, you can't go ethereal unless you are ready to end the fusion, so you mustn't forget that."
"We understand." Bardock Jr. said. "It's a shame, going ethereal is a pretty useful technique."
"Okay, which three of you wants to go first?" Vegeta smirked as they all raised their hands.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet…
"You can do this! Just have faith in yourself!" Goku said as his daughter struggled with the huge ball of energy she held aloft. The ball was already twice as large as the one Goku prepared to defeat Omega Shenlon.
"Father, I-I'm trying, but it's so much power!" Shi-Chi said through clenched teeth. Her face was a mask of concentration as sweat poured off of her brow. The muscles in her shoulders and arms bunched violently as she struggled to hold the ball in place and to keep it together.
"Do you think it's hard now? Here, try this!" Goku formed a large ki ball and hurled it straight at his daughter.
"Father! What are you doing?" Shi-Chi managed to say just before the energy attack reached her.
"Oof!" Shi-Chi had the wind knocked out of her.
"That's it! Hold it up! Don't let the energy go!" Goku said. "Here's some more!"
Goku rapid fired ki balls at his daughter, all of which found their mark.
"Father stop! I can't…" Shi-Chi fell from the sky and the Spirit Bomb dissipated.
Shi-Chi lay on her back panting heavily. She felt like someone danced a Polka on her ribcage. She opened her eyes to see her father standing over her, smiling that big goofy grin.
"You have come a long way in a short period of time. An enemy isn't likely to just stand by while you gather the energy you need for your Spirit Bomb. You may be under attack while trying to use the technique." Goku said. "You can't let them break your concentration like that."
Shi-Chi sat up and looked at her father. Random wisps of smoke drifted from her hair
Goku chuckled.
"I suppose you think this is funny?" Shi-Chi smirked as she tentatively tried to stand.
"Yep, I do." Goku smiled.
"That was part of my training then, was it?" Shi-Chi asked.
Goku put out a hand to help his daughter up. "Uh-huh, and we're just getting started now that you can form a fighting Spirit Bomb."
"Say, where did all that energy come from anyway?" Shi-Chi asked.
"I lent you most of it. The rest came from the planet and plants and moons and such." Goku answered.
"Oh." Shi-Chi said.
"Hey, I know. It's getting late, so what do you say that we have an good, old-fashioned, father-daughter sparing session, then go and get something to eat? Goku smiled broadly.
"You know, that sounds like the best idea I've heard all day." Shi-Chi returned the smile. I betI may even give you a run for your money this time!"
"Ha! We'll see about that!" Goku said as he launched himself off the ground straight up into the air. "Let's get the ball rolling with a good power struggle! KAAA-MEE-HAAA-MEEEE…"
"Oh, you want to go right to the heavy stuff, huh? Okay… "KAAA-MEE-HAAAA-MEEEE…."
Goku and Shi-Chi smiled fiercely at one another over the intense balls of energy each one held in their hands.
"HAAAAAA!" Father and daughter voices called out at the energy left their hands to meet in between them. A shock wave flattened the grasses and tossed turf and rock into the air for a hundred yards around. Goku and Shi-Chi grunted under the exertion of trying to push the other's energy back.
If Goku wanted to see how strong his daughter had gotten, he was sure getting his money's worth.
"She's amazing!" Goku thought, and then opened a telepathic link. "You sure have gotten strong!"
"Well, let's see how you handle this dad!" Shi-Chi answered telepathically.
Shi-Chi smirked and transformed into a Super Saiyan. She then pushed all of your transformed power into her attack, quickly accelerating it toward Goku. Goku let the deadly ball approach him until it sat at a standstill with in twenty feet of his outstretched hands.
"Okay, my turn!" Goku said as he powered up to transform.
Shi-Chi thought to outsmart her father by transforming to a Super Saiyan Level Two, but Goku got the better of her, skipping level two, and going right to level three. Before Shi-Chi could recover, Goku had pushed the combined attack right back in her face.
"Cheater!" Shi-Chi reprimanded her father.
"Now, now. All's fair in love and war... and eating.. I think that's the way it goes." Goku chuckled.
Shi-Chi was struggling to keep from being engulfed by their ever growing attack. She let out a rebel yell and transformed to Super Saiyan Four. She managed to push the ball back to an equal distance between them. She couldn't see her father, but she knew from what she could feel that he had transformed to level four as well. They both struggled their attacks back and forth, each looking for some weakness, some advantage that they could use. They both yelled and transformed to level five, pushing more and more power toward each other. The planet shook as a huge crater opened in the ground beneath them.
"The planet's coming apart Dad!" Shi-Chi said.
"No, it won't, It has special protection from the Ultimate Kai!" Goku reassured his daughter. "We can go all out here!"
"Well, if that's the case then…" Shi-Chi gave no warning at all as she transformed to Super Saiyan Level Six and pushed all her power at her dad.
Shi-Chi's beam pushed toward her father at high speed. Just as it looked like Goku was going to take the hit, he disappeared.
"Oh father, you are so predictable." Shi-Chi thought to herself before turning and blocking a kick aimed at her head.
"You're getting good. I would have caught you by surprise with a simple move like that when you first arrived." Goku said with pride. "Let's turn up the heat, shall we?"
With a flash of light Goku transformed to a Super Saiyan Six and attacked with such speed that even Shi-Chi was having trouble keeping up.
With a banshee like scream Shi-Chi powered up to her maximum, taking Goku by surprise and forcing him back a few yards.
"Come on daughter! You're almost there, I can feel it!" Goku thought to himself.
Goku suddenly powered up to Ultimate Super Saiyan form and with an open hand slap, sent Chi-Shi careening into the planet below.
"THAT'S NOT FAIR AT ALL, FATHER!" Chi-Shi yelled in anger as she levitated out of the crater that she created with the force of her impact. "You know I can't go that high!"
"You complain a lot." Goku said with a backward wave of his hand. "I thought I raised you better than that."
Shi-Chi landed back on solid ground, glaring at her father and wiping the blood away from her lip with her sleeve. "You know I can't transform to Ultimate Super Saiyan."
"Can't, or won't?" Goku said calmly. "Think about it. Why have you never surpassed your cousin or brother?"
"Surpassed them? It's been all I could do to just keep up with them!" Chi-Shi said.
"Has it? Or have you simply settled for keeping up?" Goku said.
Chi-Shi started to speak, her mouth opened, then snapped closed with an audible click of her teeth. Was what her father said true? Did she simply settle for keeping up with them?
"I train just as hard as they do!" Shi-Chi finally said.
"Granted, but you don't train any harder than they do, do you?" Goku smiled.
Again Chi-Shi was at a loss for words.
Suddenly, a huge growling, rumbling noise filled the air like the released rage of a huge, untamed creature.
Chi-Shi's head snapped up toward the sound only to find her father rubbing his stomach.
"You think about what I said and we'll discuss it in the morning. Right now I'm starving!" Goku smiled.
"You never change, father." Chi-Shi smiled.
"Now explain this to me one more time." Bardock asked scratching the back of his head. "I've never understood this whole time travel thing. Why can't Gerald simply go back and destroy whoever it was that released Omega Porunga, before they release him?"
"He could do it, Bardock, but time doesn't work the way you think it does. He wouldn't change our current predicament; he would only succeed in creating a new timeline. Our timeline would remain just as it is." Mouri explained patiently.
"Remember the story that Kakkarot told us about Future Trunks and the Androids?" Raditz said.
"Yes, that's right. Future Trunks didn't succeed in changing his own future to a happier place, he still had to go back to his time and destroy the Androids and Cell." King Roger said.
"It's a shame that it wouldn't work though." Gerald said.
Nappa frowned. "Since when have we ever been given an easy solution?"
"Being Saiyans, do we ever look for an easy solution?" Bardock said and everyone chuckled.
The king and his escorts were walking through the main lobby towards the front doors of the palace. Their destination was the Arena of Heroes. The name of the structure would never be more aptly named than it is right now. Heroes from all over the known Galaxy had been sent to the Planet Vegeta. It was as if they sensed that the Dragon would be drawn to this place first.
"Where is Applinia?" Raditz asked. "She should be here."
"I sent her ahead to check security. There are a lot of aliens on the planet right now." Bardock answered.
"Good idea." Nappa said.
As the king and his troop exited the castle took to the air for the Arena, Roger reflected on just how far the Saiyan people had come since "The Resurrection". They've progressed from a time when other races and species would have rather seen the entire Saiyan Race dead, or to have stayed dead, to this level of cooperation. It was really nothing short of amazing.
As they passed over the city's center, Roger looked down to see the statue of Vegeta, Goku, and the latest addition, Gohan. Gohan's statue was specially made, and several yards away from Vegeta and Goku. It was the spot where Gohan was buried. The statue depicted him in the robes of an educator on one side, and the battle gi of a warrior on the other. It was as fitting a tribute as Roger could have hoped. Videl, who had died only a few years ago, was buried next to him.
"We could sure use you guys now." Roger thought to himself.
"Hey Dad? Where is Gotarm, Shi-Chi, and Bardock Jr.?" Gerald asked.
Roger stopped in mid-air. "Well damned it! In all the excitement, I have forgotten that they were missing! Gerald, go find them. Go find Turles, Jessica, Celritri, and whomever else you think would be useful and find them."
Gerald got a far away look in his eye, he slowly turned 360°. "We'd be wasting our time dad. They're not on the planet."
"What? How…? I mean where could they have gone?" Bardock exclaimed, worry etched in his face.
Gerald expanded his senses and took in as much of the Galaxy as he could. After several seconds had passed, he answered. "I don't know."
"What's that mean? Are they dead?" Raditz asked. His face was a mirror of that of his father's.
"Him, interesting question." Gerald mused while he tuned his senses into Other World.
"They're not at the Check In Station, nor are they on the Grand Kai's Planet, nor are they in Heaven, or Hell…" Gerald's face suddenly became a mask of concentration. "Something is blocking me from sensing what is on the Supreme Kai's Planet, but that is where Bardock Jr., Gotarm, and Chi-Shi is at."
"How do you know that?" Raditz asked.
"Simple. If they are no where else, then they have to be there." Gerald said. "There are extremely few viable choices left."
"So… they could be dead, or alive, on the Supreme Kai's Planet?" Roger asked.
"This is a guess, but I'm thinking that they are probably alive." Gerald said. "Since I am not sensing Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Goten, Trunks, or Piccolo in Other World, my surmise is that they brought Bardock Jr., Gotarm, and Chi-Shi to the Supreme Kai's Planet to train against Omega Porunga. The Ultimate Kai is involved in all of this as well."
"What makes you say that?" Nappa asked.
"He would be the only one, besides Omega Porunga maybe, with the power to block my ki sensing abilities." Gerald answered. "With my ki senses blocked, I cannot use Instant Transmission to teleport there to see what's going on."
"We can't do anything about it then." Roger said as he continued flying toward the arena. "Let's get our battle plan organized."
The king and his group landed on a stage in front of a huge crowd of waiting warriors. Roger stepped up to the podium.
"Gotarm, Bardock Jr., you are dismissed for the day." Vegeta said. "Vegeta Jr., you stay here."
Vegeta Jr. looked up at his ancestor, an unspoken question in his eyes. Vegeta didn't say a thing until the others had flown out of sight.
Vegeta Jr. squirmed a bit. This felt a little too much like being kept after class in Jr. High School to atone for some indiscretion by cleaning erasers, or stacking books.
"Ancestor, have I done something wrong?" Vegeta Jr. asked.
"Why would you think that?" Vegeta raised an eyebrow.
"I think that because you kept me here." Vegeta said.
Vegeta gave the youth an irritated look. "No, you haven't done anything wrong. I kept you here because I have something important to give you."
"Oh? What is it?" Vegeta Jr. asked his curiosity piqued.
Vegeta turned and removed his Kai's Shirt and tossed it on a nearby boulder. He turned back to his descendant.
"Do you see this?" Vegeta said pointing at his forearm.
"Yeah! That's a wicked tattoo!" Vegeta Jr. said excitedly.
"It's more than a tattoo!" Vegeta exclaimed as he placed his opposite hand on the hilt of the sword.
Before Vegeta Jr.'s astonished eyes, his ancestor began to glow, irradiating a brilliant white light. Vegeta Jr. started to cover his eyes, but instead he discovered that the light did not cause him pain. He gasped as Vegeta withdrew a full length sword from his own arm and held it up.
"This is the Sword of the Saiyans." Vegeta declared. "I have carried it proudly for many years now. I have used it in battle, and it has protected the universe." Vegeta paused while he watched his descendant's reaction.
"Now, I give it to you." Vegeta said.
"Really? What would I do with it? I've never trained with a weapon before. Why is it necessary?" Vegeta Jr. said.
"That's exactly what I thought when I first got the sword. I didn't see much use in it either. But this sword is imbued with special abilities." Vegeta smiled. "First and foremost of which is that it dispels negative energy. I have given it the name of Clau'tem Se Ordornach, Dispeller of Darkness."
Vegeta extended the hilt of the sword toward the younger man. "Oh, wait a minute." Vegeta walked over to his shirt and reached in the pocket and removed a small bag.
"What is that?" Vegeta Jr. asked.
"These? They're just a few Senzu Beans." Vegeta said. "When you take the sword, it decides on whether or not you are worthy, and if it will accept you. If yes, then there's no problem. If no, then… well, that's why I have the Senzu."
Vegeta smirked.
Vegeta Jr. smirked back. "There's always some catch to these magical sword things…"
Vegeta smiled and offered Vegeta Jr. the hilt again.
Cautiously, Vegeta Jr. placed both hands on the hilt and lifted it above his head. Vegeta Jr. was suddenly engulfed in a bright, white energy. He felt like his very soul was on fire.
"This isn't good!" Vegeta Jr. thought just before he found in a war of wills.
A/N: I think that I've included all of the wishes that were made on the Namekian Dragon Balls through the Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT Series, and the wishes made in my own stories. If I've forgotten any, let me know.