Chapter Three

'Thoughts'
"Talking"
Bond
/telepathy/

"Damn it Vasha will you just shut up!" Bardock yells.

"Why should I? Everything we know about him could be a lie! You don't hold back during a test! Especially when the king orders it!" Vasha says angrily.

Gohan, sick of the arguing, speaks up. "Vasha you've been arguing the whole way here. Now you shut up and listen. I am much stronger than what you saw. If I didn't hold back when I fought the king, I could've accidentally killed him. The reason that the king trusts me is because I could kill him if I wanted! I don't want to be a ruler. I don't know anything about ruling, and I don't want the responsibility. Unfortunately, you don't seem to understand that if I was as bad as you think I would just kill you all and be done with it. I don't need any of you. I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself. I don't kill without reason. I must have a reason or I won't kill. That's why we will only be assigned purges like the last one where the race being purged is trying to kill another race."

Vasha immediately barks out a laugh. "There! You see? He's proved it himself. What kind of Saiyan has reservations about killing? Sure we don't kill mercilessly, (not yet anyway since Frieza isn't here yet) but if the king says kill we don't hold back. You however seem to only kill when your beliefs are justified."

Gohan finally ends it. "The king allows me to choose my missions. If you wish to question his judgment, then go talk to him. Until then, leave me alone. Bardock, I need to talk to you in private." Bardock dismisses them and Gohan starts flying towards the palace, Bardock not far behind.

As they approach the gates, the elites snicker at Bardock. /Pathetic. He's a Second class and from the testing, his mates gonna have a third class. I knew it was too good to be true when his son came out to be a first class. I bet it'll be all downhill from here./

His partner chuckles before responding. /Probably can't even control oozaru. No wonder he has that scar on his face. He was too weak to hold off the enemy before a woman killed it for him./

Gohan, after his training with Piccolo is much better at his mental control than any of the other Saiyans and easily picks up their conversation. /If you persist in degrading my family you will have the honor of challenging him. After I've finished training him of course./

The two guards quickly shut up but can't help but think to themselves that Bardock has to rely on others to back him up. It never occurs to them that Gohan shouldn't have ever been able to hear their conversation in the first place. (At least according to what they've been taught.)

As they head into the restricted areas, Gohan has to place his thumb against several doors before they can proceed to his room. As they head down the Hall of History Gohan feels his blood rush at the sight of the weapons. His hands itch to take them down and use them in a bloody battle. 'Man, Vegeta was right. Being around all these Saiyans really does bring out more of my Saiyan instincts. Hmph. Oh well, if I'm going to survive here I need to be more Saiyan than I was taught by my father.'

When they get inside Gohan's room, Gohan jesters for Bardock to sit down. "What I have to tell you is very important. I really don't think that I should tell you this early, but deception was never one of my methods. I may withhold the truth but with you it would almost be like telling a direct lie if I didn't let you know."

Meanwhile, Bardock is sitting there looking utterly confused. Seeing the look on Bardock's face, Gohan continues. "I'm, well, I'myourgrandson."

Bardock's face is now even more confused than before. What could have caused Gohan to act the way he is? Is he sick or something? (Remember, Saiyans don't show emotions therefore they haven't really experienced nervousness in a long time.) "What?"

"I'm your grandson." Gohan says.

Bardock looks at Gohan the way one would look at a crazy person. "You're my grandson. Riiight. I'll umm, be going now." 'I'd better get the hell out of here. Who knows what this guy might do.'

Gohan moves in front of the door. "Wait. Here me out. I know it sounds crazy, but I'm really your grandson from the future. I can prove it."

Bardock cocks an eyebrow. "How?"

Gohan thinks for a while before coming up with an acceptable answer. "By showing you something that could only be obtained in the future. The Legendary. Besides, it does explain how I got so strong. We all know that each generation is stronger than the last. (As a whole not as individuals otherwise Goku wouldn't have been born a third class.) In the next two generations we Saiyan will get much stronger. The king is going to be forced to create a contract with a being known as Frieza. He is immensely powerful. I could defeat him, but if I did I might change the past and create a time loop. So here's what I'm going to do, I was told by Prince Vegeta about you. It seems that you suddenly got stronger around the time Frieza decided to… I can't tell you that either, damn! Well, suffice to say that you suddenly got stronger. The only thing I can think of that got you as strong as you were would be training. Therefore I am going to train you but not too much. However, there is one thing I am going to change. I will not allow the Saiyan race to die! I'll have to have the king ban us from leaving the planet for a while to keep up the illusion, but it'll be worth it. I hope."

After hearing the last few sentences of Gohan's speech he leaps out of his chair. "What do you mean the Saiyan race will die? What are you talking about?"

Gohan looks Bardock in the eye. "You want to stop the Saiyan race from dying? Then I'm going to need your help. As you no doubt already know the king has commissioned you to help me and several other scientists build a training room that can block off energy signals so that they cannot be read by a scouter from the outside of the room. Eventually, we're going to need one to cover the whole planet. So what you need to do is invent some kind of machine that makes a field that does what is necessary so that when the time comes we can simply expand it. Also, I need a hologram large enough to cover the planet and the surrounding area for thousands of miles with a holographic image of the planet suddenly exploding and breaking apart. Then it will show pieces of the planet simply drifting around in space. Otherwise I'll have to let us die rather than create a temporal paradox, thus possibly destroying the very fabric of time in this dimension. So, Bardock, are you going to sit there and interrogate me when the king trusts me or are you going to start helping me out so your training can begin? Because even if I am crazy like you think, would you take that chance and doom your whole race if I'm not crazy and telling the truth? Besides, the sooner you finish that field, the sooner you will get to see the legendary.