Gohan's Escapade

by AstroZ

The final battle with Cell has an unforeseen consequence, sending Gohan into a world of pure fantasy. While trying to find a way back home, he makes new bonds along with causing such an impact on the fantasy that no one could have ever anticipated. Now, with Cell still on the loose, Gohan must train himself, and his new friends.

6. Training 101 - Gohan Style

V: Hey, we're back. So, High School has started for me, so unfortunately, the updates won't be as frequent anymore. But I'll still try my best. Anyway, enjoy

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Dragon Ball Z belongs to Toei Animation and Captain Jake and the Never Land Pirates belongs to Disney Junior.

Chapter 6: Training 101 - Gohan Style

"A few weeks?!" Chi-Chi unexpectedly screeches, causing Vegeta and Piccolo's ears to ring. "I can't wait that long for my baby boy to come back! Who knows what kind of danger he's in right now!? My baby could be dead by now!"

The blue haired scientist glanced back at her friends for support. None of them, however, even attempted to have Bulma's back on this one. Even Dende, the guardian of Earth, took a step back from the sobbing mother. Some friends you guys are. She thought with one of her eyes twitching.

"Come on, Chi-Chi. She did say she'd help us. It may not be days, but we could wait for weeks, right? Plus, our boy is very strong. He can handle himself in the meantime." Goku said as he tried to comfort his sobbing wife.

"Do you know exactly where Gohan is? Surely you must've figured that out by now." Piccolo asks clearly worried for his pupil's, no, friend's safety.

"Not exactly. I did research and found some coordinates similar to ours." She responds. "But I don't know how that world is. Maybe it's similar to ours…"

"And if it isn't?" Yamcha snaps, worried for his younger friend. "For all we know Gohan could be in trouble as we speak!"

Chi-Chi sobbed louder.

Bulma glared at her ex-boyfriend. "Thanks for that, Yamcha. Anyway, while I was doing some research I found something very odd." There was a short tension between the Z-fighters before the scientist continued. "Just a little while ago, I went to check the coordinates again but this time, the numbers kept changing. It's like someone or something is interfering with the Dimension Hopper. But it was destroyed…I don't get it."

"Well we can't just sit here and do nothing!" Tien exclaimed, eyes narrowed at the group. "Gohan is out there in a whole new dimension. He could be in danger…"

That's when Vegeta cut him off with a snort.

"A Saiyan with his power can handle himself, he's the one who defeated Cell after all." He simply stated, arms crossed and eyes shut. "If anything, you should be worried about the poor idiots who decide to take him on. No mere human could take on a Super Saiyan or an Ascended Super Saiyan."

Piccolo's gaze then met the Prince's. "Oh? And how exactly would you know that?"

Vegeta's prideful smirk quickly fell. "Is there a problem, Big Green?"

"You bastard!"

"Fighting is getting us nowhere!" Bulma shouts, stopping the two warriors from tearing each other apart. "If we want Gohan back we have to work together. That means no fighting, no training," He scowl met Vegeta's, who let out a growl. "…and no flirting." Her gaze then met Roshi's, who was trying to reach for her chest.

"I didn't know you guys were here." A familiar voice said from behind them.

Goku and the gang turned around and their nervous faces were quickly changed to awe, except Vegeta and Bulma.

"Trunks?!"

"Yeah. I've been here the whole time. I was helping mother with the Dimensional Hopper."

"Wow, really? I never noticed you were here." Goku said. "Yeah, I thought you went back to your timeline." Piccolo added on.

"Well, he didn't!" Vegeta cut in. "He's been helping Bulma with her invention the past few days. I'm honestly surprised you didn't even see him at all."

"That doesn't matter now. What matters is that we finish the Dimensional Hopper and find Gohan as soon as possible. Chi-Chi, we know we said a few days, but if me and mother can work together, we get finish it in three weeks time. Don't worry." Trunks said as he tried to consult Chi-Chi.

"Thanks, Trunks."

"Okay, everyone out. Me and Trunks have work to do. Come on, son. Let's get moving." Bulma said as she motioned her son to walk inside with her.

"Oh, yeah, sure." He walked in quickly with her.

Everyone was still standing there.

"What are you fools just standing there for? Go home or whatever it is you live in!" Vegeta demanded. Some grumbles were heard as everyone flew back home, but Piccolo.

"You're concerned, aren't you?" Piccolo asked.

"Not really. I just need to know how to ascend to the next level of Super Saiyan. I'm not letting a mere child surpass me. Not by a long shot." Piccolo smirked. "But he already did."

Vegeta snarled. "Just get out of here before I blast you to smithereens." Piccolo did just that as Vegeta stared into the sky before walking back inside to go train in the gravity room.

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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDN'T KILL HIM!?"

"I already told you boy. Gohan got in my way. So it seems he's with them. As far as I'm concerned, he's stronger than me, so if I was stronger, maybe then I would have been able to kill him." Cell informed Blake that he wasn't able to kill Jake and boy, was he pissed.

"And here you said you were perfect." Blake retorted.

"Oh, I am. In fact, allow me to show you something I should have done a while ago."

Cell then aimed his hand at the cliff near the grove, and shot a blast at it, completely destroying it.

"Now then, you'd better leave before I do the same to you." And when he looked back, they were already gone. He smirked.

"Those fools never stood a chance against me. They made a smart choice to flee. If not, I surely would've ended them. Now then, back to my training regimen."

Meanwhile, it was still dusk and five minutes later, Gohan and everyone else were walking around Never Land, but they were training at the same time.

"Wow... how... heavy... are these?" Jake questioned as he struggled to move quite a bit.

What... kind... of... training... weights... are... these?" the brown haired girl demanded of Gohan.

"They... feel... like... they... weigh... a ton!" Jake agreed as he strained to put one foot in front of the other.

Gohan and the others were now wearing the weighted clothing he got them. They said they were prepared for anything, but they weren't expecting to wear weighted clothing.

"Coconuts. I feel like I'm carrying a big box." Cubby said as he was panting a bit.

"That's the whole point." Gohan said patiently. "You're not gonna get stronger unless you push yourself beyond your limits."

"If... you... say... so!" Jake panted as she struggled closer to the half-Saiyan.

"Boy... this... is... tough!" Cubby wheezed as he followed in her wake.

Pretty soon, they were standing before Gohan again.

"Okay, for the first leg of your training, I want you to run one hundred laps around that lake over there." Gohan said.

He pointed to a nearby lake that looked to be a hundred meters in length.

"You're kidding, right?" Cubby said, wide-eyed.

"How in the world are we supposed to run around that lake with these training weights on?" Izzy demanded angrily.

"You'll get used to it." Gohan said. "I said this was gonna be hard. The question is, how badly do you want this?"

Exchanging a weary look, Izzy and Jake finally nodded in reluctant agreement.

"I've got an idea." Gohan said. "Skully, can you follow them and hit them with your beak to keep them going fast?"

"You got it!" Skully squawked.

"What?!" Izzy exclaimed, sounding completely appalled.

"Haven't we already got enough to do?" Cubby whined.

Gohan laughed. "Trust me, once you see the results of your training, that won't matter. Now hop to it!"

"Welp, get ready." Skully cried as he pecked them with his beak.

Jake, Izzy and Cubby screamed in pain before the attack abated.

Twitching from Skully's assault and determined not to repeat the experience, Jake, Izzy and Cubby went running towards the lake with Skully following after them, unleashing pointy peck attacks every few minutes.

Gohan sighed. "I hope they do okay out there."

I guess it's time to get back to my own training, Gohan thought.

And in a flash, Gohan had transformed into a Super Saiyan.

And now... he thought. Crossing both his arms together by his side,

Gohan cried loudly as he reached deep down inside his body and drew out the power he knew to be lying in wait down there; the planet itself seemed to be shaking as the demi-Saiyan powered up to his strongest, bypassing the first stage of Super Saiyan and ascending to a much higher level far beyond it.

Jake, Izzy and Cubby, already encumbered by all the additional weights, now stumbled under the furious onslaught of Gohan's power up.

"What's... going on?!" Izzy demanded as she tried to maintain her balance and run forward at the same time.

"It feels like an earthquake!" Jake replied, tipping over from side to the side.

"Crackers!" Skully cried as it tried to peck the three but missed due to them moving around because of the earthquake.

Things finally settled down when, in a sudden burst of gold light.

Gohan's body transformed. His hair stood up and went rigid with a single lock dangling over his face, his muscles bulged out, his eyes morphed into a hardened teal, and wild electrical arcs started dancing across his skin, like thousands of contained thunderstorms surrounding a supernova of immense power.

Gohan had become a Super Saiyan 2.

Once he had changed, Gohan let out a deep breath.

Alright, just like before, this shouldn't be any different than trying to master the first Super Saiyan transformation. Gohan thought, standing there basking in the glow of his own power. The trick is in the ki output. This state generates a lot more ki than the normal Super Saiyan form. It's going to take a lot of time before I learn how to regulate the ki until it feels completely normal to me. But still, this takes a lot of energy out of me, and I guess I should stay back at regular Super Saiyan. Don't wanna destroy the place. And that's just what he did s his hair went back to it's original style, but still yellow.

He deciddd to properly show the crew Super Saiyan 2 later.

Later, exhausted, worn out, and physically drained, Jake, Izzy and Cubby wearily dragged themselves back to where Gohan was before, but now he wasn't there. Once they were a few feet away from him. they collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath, and never wanting to move again.

"Oh boy, that was a real workout!" Jake panted.

"I've never had to work that hard in my entire life!" Izzy groaned.

Suddenly, a shadow fell over them. "Hey, are you guys okay?"

Slowly, looking as though they'd rather do anything than move, Jake, Izzy and Cubby struggled back to their feet.

"What do you think?" Jake asked as he got up.

"Do we look okay, you creep?!" Izzy yelled.

But then, Izzy noticed Gohan's radical change in hairstyle, and she gasped in shock.

"I'm sorry." Gohan said in a deep voice with dark tones. Precisely speaking, it were as though he were speaking in a permanently serious pitch. "But this is a necessary step if you're ever gonna improve and become stronger."

"Um, hey, Gohan, what happened to your hair?" Cubby asked, unnerved by the coldness emanating from the boy before him.

"Yeah, it looks like you dyed it." Skully added.

"You know of my Super Saiyan transformation, right?"

The three kids nodded silently.

"Good. So as I said, there were two stages of Super Saiyan. This is my first one, and there's this." Gohan informed the four stoically as he transformed once more.

"This is the level far beyond that — what we call a Super Saiyan that has ascended past the normal limits of a Super Saiyan... or alternatively, you could just call this a Super Saiyan 2."

"Amazing!" Izzy said. "Your hair, your body... you look totally different!"

"It's like you've changed into another person!" Cubby added.

"Definitely!" Skully put forth.

"Well, I haven't perfected this like I have with the first Super Saiyan form." Gohan admitted. "The whole key to gaining complete mastery over the Super Saiyan forms is holding that state for a long time, until your body becomes accustomed to it."

"How strong are you now?" Izzy asked him curiously.

Gohan turned a gimlet eye on her, causing her to nearly freak out at the sight. "At my maximum power I am fully capable of destroying this entire solar system, along with everybody and everything else in it."

"You can really do all that?" Jake asked, dumbfounded.

"Yes." Gohan said with a single nod of his head.

"Remind us never to get on your bad side, Gohan." Izzy gulped.

Now Gohan smiled, a strained smile which seemed more like a smirk, but a smile nonetheless.

"Don't worry." he assured them. "I fight to protect, not to destroy."

"That's good to know." Cubby said, sighing with relief.

"Now, for the rest of your exercises..." Gohan began, catching Jake, Izzy and Cubby's total attention. "I want you both to do a hundred sit-ups, a hundred push-ups, and a hundred crunches — then you can relax."

Jake, Izzy and Cubby sighed, but reluctantly went about their training. Gohan, meanwhile, sat with his arms crossed a short distance away.

I wonder how everyone else is doing. I've been gone for a while as there's no doubt they're doing everything in their power to find me. Of course, I would be happy, but I can't just leave this place knowing Cell is still on the loose. And if I do have to leave, then training them is the best chance their home has.

Gohan looked up at the night sky as he smiled, sadly. Dad...

He could already picture everything that happened in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber as if it all happened just yesterday. He knew he would be back home in no time, but before the android was defeated.

Maybe if we all go back to my world, I can show Jake, Izzy, Cubby and Skullywhat it's like to travel in space.

Another smile appeared across his face, one less hardened than the one which had adorned it before. I think they'd like that.

Suddenly, three voices interrupted his musings.

"Gohan, we're... done." Cubby said, sounding close to falling over.

"Yeah, next time, you can do it yourself."Izzy added with a pathetic whimper.

Gohan opened his eyes to see Jake, Izzy and Cubby standing there, arms hanging limply by their sides as their whole bodies appeared close to literally collapsing to the ground with them never getting back up.

"Good, very good." Gohan praised. "You've taken the first steps into a larger world, but it's only gonna get harder from here on."

Cubby groaned. "Are we gonna have to do this every single day?"

"Yeah." Skully ventured. "We shouldn't be pushing them so hard."

Gohan smiled tightly.

"No, of course not." he said. "We'll just alternate between days. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays will be used for you guys to teach me all about this place, and how to be a pirate like you, and on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday we train our bodies."

Jake, Izzy and Cubby didn't look too happy about that, but they seemed way too tired to even argue with him.

"Well, I guess that's it. We should be heading home now. Come on." Gohan said as he lead the crew back to Shipwreck Beach.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Gohan stopped as he saw three little kids that looked exactly like Jake and his crew, but the only difference was their clothing.

Gohan was utterly confused as his eyes widened a little bit. "Umm, is it just me, or am I seeing two of you all?"

"Blake." Jake said, as if his personally took a complete one eighty. Gohan saw this and guessed he really was not in good terms with him.

"Just what do you want?"

"Nothing, but I am surprised. I thought were dead." Gohan suddenly came into realization. Cell tried to kill Jake, but he certainly had no motive, unless he was doing it for the fun of it, but he thought that wouldn't be the case. He would obviously try to keep himself hidden for the time being.

"Why did you hire some bug to kill me? Tell me right now!" Jake demanded.

"Because I'm sick of you, always ruining everything. I'm tired of you and your friends! And since I can't kill you, what other way was there? And then I met that bug that said he was perfection."

Perfection.

So that's why.

Gohan took a step forward and walked towards them. Jake and Blake noticed this.

"So, I'm guessing you're the one who beat him. I'm not really happy about that. In fact, I am utterly pissed off, and I need something to take my anger out on, so why don't I do so by killing you." Jake gasped, but Gohan still kept his glare at the boy. And then, Blake took out his sword and tried to strike Gohan.

"GOHAN!" Jake yelled, but to his major shock, and everyone else's, they saw this.

Gohan had caught the sword with his two fingers.

"What... the... hell?" Blake tried to pull the sword out of Gohan's strong grip, but it wouldn't even budge.

"Come... on!" He yelled before Gohan purposefully let go and let Blake fall on his bottom. He then grabbed him by the collar.

"I take all of my friend's safety very seriously. No one threatens them and expects to get away with it." He then tightened his grip on Blake's shirt collar, hoisting him up so that they were face to face. "Since you tried to kill him, I'm going to kill you." Gohan said in a matter-of-fact voice.

Blake tried desperately to pull away from that grip of steel. "Pluh, please! Don't!" He mouthed those words over and over.

Gohan shook his head. "You can't reason with me. You can't bribe, you can't beg. This is what I'm trained to do. Of all people, you should understand that best. You threatened my friends, and tried to kill them! I never stand for that, and now you're going to pay the price."

For the first time since they had met, Gohan offered him a hint of malice in his voice. "I don't think I should use my powers since it'll probably cause a ruckus. Fortunately, I don't need my powers to do this." He said and drew his free hand back into a tight fist.

"Wait, don't!" Gohan looked back at the person he least expected it to be.

"Why not, he tried to kill you, remember!"

"Yes, I do. But if you kill him, then you'll be no better then he is. Please... just let him go."

After Cell, Gohan was not one for mercy. He thought justice had to be deserved. But, if Jake didn't want him dead, even after everything he did, then so be it. That proved he believed in mercy, no matter what kind of act they committed.

Gohan slowly put down Blake. His crew mates helped him get up as he growled at the demi-Saiyan, before he glared back.

"Come on, you guys." Gohan walked away as they followed.

"You owe me." Jake whispered as he went past Blake's ear.

Blake considered himself lucky.

"Thanks, Gohan." Jake thanked the Saiyan. "It's alright. You know, I really never believed in mercy. But it seems you're different."

And with that, they walked back home, ready for a good nights sleep.

V: That's the chapter. What more training awaits for Jake and his crew? Find out in the next chapter, which will take a while! Like I said, HS started, so it'll be slow. See ya!

W: Dude, stop removing the Homer head in our server!