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Episode One: Woke up with a Bang, on the wrong side of the Crystal


On present day Earth, over 2400 years after the battle, things had calmed down after the carnage Majin Buu caused. Despite this fact, Dende's Lookout looked like it had seen better days. The floating palace seemed to be on the verge of breaking apart, and the reason for that was the fight taking place inside. Son Goku and Uub, the good reincarnation of the evil pink blob, were going at it again, much to Dende's dismay. Little did they know their spar was about to be interrupted.

"Goku, can you hear me?" The sudden voice ringing in his head distracted Goku long enough for Uub to slip a fist past his defenses and land on his jaw.

"Goku, are you there?" The voice tried again. As Goku rubbed his sore jaw he recognized the Supreme Kai's voice. A voice that was strangely enough not dual, despite it being Shin and Kibito fused together who were speaking since the fight with Buu, something that only struck him after hearing his own voice when fused with Vegeta. The dominant personality in this fusion was obvious though, the new Kai being far to loose to be remotely close to Kibito.

"Yes, I can hear you. What's up Supreme Kai?" Goku replied in a cheery tone after motioning Uub to take a break. The boy was now thoroughly confused, his mentor interrupting a fight was odd enough, but now he was talking to himself as well.

"I need you to do me a favor. During your fight with Buu a valuable item was lost. We have reasons to believe it ended up on Earth, because both I and my Elder have been getting strange signals from your planet." The Kai spoke, though he seemed to choose his words carefully.

"What kind of item? And why didn't you notice it was gone if it was so valuable?" Goku asked. The Kai on the other end of the link seemed to sigh, knowing he had to explain the whole thing.

"This will take time, but you need to know this. Some three thousand years ago a very powerful force ruled the universe. Nobody could stop it, and thousands lost their lives trying. After a while the weak opponents must have bored him, because he disappeared, taking care everyone thought him dead. For five hundred years he remained hidden, but then he suddenly made himself known to the recovering galaxy. He openly dared the strongest fighters to come out and fight him with all their might. Many gave it a try, but he ended up killing all of the competitors. Enraged nobody could provide a proper challenge he went on a killing spree across the galaxy. The Kais stepped in to stop him before he wiped all life out." Supreme Kai paused, seemingly for the dramatic effect or questions from Goku, before continuing. "But even they failed. At first it seemed all he wanted was a proper fight, but something snapped. He went from an honorable warrior to a mindless killing machine. We could do nothing against his power, so in an act of despair we locked him away in a crystal. It is that crystal we seem to have… misplaced."

"You seem to have been getting an awful lot of very powerful destructive forces. First Buu, now this, how come I didn't know of this?" An annoyed Elder Kai asked while impatiently tapping his foot on the ground and glaring at the younger Kai.

"Eh… well," The Supreme Kai didn't really know how to respond to this. "That's true, unfortunately. My reign hasn't really been one of the best, has it…?"

"You could say that." The old man said as he watched the Kai's face droop.


In a different part of the world, a group of lab technicians were about to start an experiment. For the nth time that day...

"Remarkable, we've been hitting this thing with everything we've got for the past three days, and yet there's not a mark on it." One of the scientists exclaimed as he examined their find again. The artifact had been dug up by a group of archeologists near the ruins of East City. Not sure what to make of it the team's leader had sent it over to one of his friends. Now it rested on the metal table in the center of his main research room. Blowtorches, chainsaws, plasma cutters, and a wide variety of other power tools had so far to even scratch the thing, but he was confident his newly purchased diamond bladed chainsaw would do the trick. After all, diamond was the hardest substance known to man. Though at first glance it would seem odd to purposely destroy such a large gem, the blurry image of an object incased inside it had made him curious, and he wanted to know what was in it.

"Proceed." The order was given. One of the technicians flipped a switch, and the tiny blades started to move. As the chain picked up speed, the machine started to lower it closer to the crystal. Just before contact the saw reached the optimum speed, and cooling fluid was being sprayed over the diamond teeth. A high pitched scratching noise could be heard over the humming of the machinery as the saw made contact and started to press on the crystal. But apart from a rain of sparks there seemed to be no effect.

"Increase velocity, put more pressure on it!" The head scientist yelled over the noise. Some of his coworkers glanced at each other before one spoke up.

"Sir, it's not going to cut it. Increasing the pressure will only make the saw snap!" The comment frustrated him. Partly because they were disobedient, partly because somewhere he knew they were right. Nevertheless, he was convinced this would be their only hope, besides blasting the thing apart with a nuclear device.

"I call the shots here, now do it!" The technician shrugged at his boss' command, then turned the dial. Moments later, the chain virtually exploded, showering the room with sparks and diamonds. After the scientist uncovered his eyes he was glad he and his team were in a separate room. Tiny pebbles of diamond had edged themselves deep into the thick armored glass separating them from the object. The object itself seemed to be undamaged, at least from his angle.

"Blast it, can nothing dent that stupid rock!" He yelled as he slammed his fists into the glass in anger.

"Sir, it's cracked!"


The Supreme Kai gasped as the signal intensified. It could mean only one thing; the crystal had been damaged, if not destroyed. With the increased intensity he was now able to pinpoint the position though.

"Goku, you must hurry! The crystal has been damaged, but I have the location. It's somewhere around the suburbs of South City. You have to stop whoever is tampering with it before they cause a disaster!" The Kai said with a hint of fear in his voice.

"Right, Uub, you want to come? It'll be good practice." Goku said in a cheery voice. Uub nodded, though he still didn't really know what was going on.

"Practice! Goku, if he gets out he'll make Buu pale in comparison!" Goku's eyes widened slightly at this comment, worried the outcome might not be favorable if that was true. His Saiyan side was already thrilled at the prospect of such a challenge though, adrenaline already flowing before it was even sure there'd be a battle. Grabbing onto Uub and raising his fingers to his forehead he searched for South City. After locking on, he and Uub vanished.

In a split second they reappeared above South City. In the large metropolis life went on as usual, nobody even noticing the searching figures floating in the air. Uub and Goku immediately felt it. A powerful Ki was near, within a few miles of their location. It felt slightly foggy, but Goku was sure it felt distinctly Saiyan…


"Yes, progress at last!" The scientist exclaimed as he rushed over to the crystal. "Let me see! Hmm… only a small crack, but a result nonetheless."

The crystal looked intact from a distance, but a closer look clearly showed a long crack going across. The depth was impossible to guess, but it had to be fairly deep judging from the length. "Perhaps another try would chip off a piece!" The scientist thought as he eyed the gem. Suddenly several gasps were heard as the stone started to emit a golden hue, only for it to die out shortly after. It was then the door flew from its hinges, a man clad in an orange Gi, similar to those worn by martial artists, standing in the doorway. Behind him a dark skinned teen with a Mohawk style haircut slapped his hand into his face at the display.

"Oops…" Was all Goku could say before producing what has been known as the Son grin. He'd merely attempted to knock on the door, but the sudden surge of power from the crystal had made it difficult to estimate his own power. The scientists stared at the man with open mouths as if he'd just risen from the dead.

Before anyone could even ask anything the crystal flared up again, though much more intense and this time without dieing down. The sole crack that was in it suddenly split into many within a nanosecond, after which the whole thing seemed to blast apart. The resulting explosion leveled the lab and every building around it for miles, taking out half of South City with it. As the light died down and Goku and Uub could uncover their eyes, all that remained was a crater. Standing in the center was a well built man wearing some clothes that looked like they'd seen better days. The Kais had seemingly done a number on his clothing. Now able to get a good grip on his Ki, Goku gasped at the amount of power emitted from the figure as a golden aura started to build around it. The man was clearly Saiyan, and seemed to be in his late twenties, if not early thirties, tail firmly wrapped around his waist. And he seemed to be thoroughly pissed off. With a mighty yell the aura expanded drastically and his now golden hair stood on end in a way that made it look like gravity didn't even exist.

If the power was high before the transformation, it was now immense, the Ki output getting very close to Buu's level in its strongest form. Slowly the Saiyan's head turned towards the floating fighters, his cold teal eyes taking in their appearance carefully. He smirked as he rose into the air to their level.

"My gut tells me you are my enemies, but I have no quarrel with you yet. However, should you make a false move I'll pick you apart." After finishing the threat he spun around and addressed the sky. "I know you can see me Kais, and I know you can hear me! You've failed at your pitiful attempt to lock me away, and now I'm out, I'm pissed, and I'm coming for you!"



To be continued...

AN:
The changes should be overly obvious in this almost completely redone chapter. Not only is it almost twice as long, but the content was changed as well. To people who only just started to follow this story the less obvious change, but one of the larger plot-wise, is that instead of the Elder Kai it was now the Supreme Kai who was responsible for the crystal. I did this to keep the story in line with the DBZ timeline. Kais do not die of old age; Shin has been installed for much longer than those measly 3000 years. The more obvious is that I now explained why they couldn't feel the Super Saiyan at first, but they could later on with the help from some little humans. I feel this is a large improvement over the earlier version, so I hope you enjoyed it. I'll keep you posted on further progress.

WeirdDutchGuy