Spinning.
Goku's head was spinning.
He drowned out everything except Gohan's name.
He couldn't believe that Gohan, his only son. His pride and joy,
Was gone.
It just couldn't be real. Gohan had been dominating the fight up until Cell had fired that blast, and even then Gohan was still the stronger of the two.
But now he was gone, and Goku couldn't do anything about it.
The martial artist fell to his knees, looking at the ground beneath him. He thought of all the times that Gohan and himself had shared. How they had ridden Nimbus before the Saiyans, Namek, and the Androids.
He felt the anger building up, and the ground around him shaking.
He remembered Gohan's laugh, his smile, and his undying innocence.
All gone.
It was that thought that did it, the straw that broke the camel's back.
Goku threw his head back and let out a cry of pain and agony, letting the rage overtake him. The ground shook and boulders were lifted off of the ground from the sheer power he was putting out. His aura swirled around him like a tornado, and now had bioelectricity added to the normal golden glow, making it seem deadly. His hair spiked up even more, if that was possible, and took a sharper look. The super saiyan's power skyrocketed, leveling off at a level just above Cell's new power.
Goku's scream intensified as his aura turned red, when he unconsciously activated the Kaioken technique along with his new Ascended saiyan form.
Goku's cry of agony rang through the area, giving everyone present chills, and striking fear into Cell.
Goku's cries stopped as quickly as they had begun, and he shot out of his position burying his fist into Cell's ribs, turning them into dust. He then grabbed the back of Cell's head and brought it down onto his knee.
The androids nose gave way, and a sickening crunch was heard throughout the area.
Goku let the back of Cell's head go and pushed the android to the ground, where he withered in pain.
The super saiyan shot walked over to the android and picked him up by the top of his head. He then spun around with the android, before releasing him up into the air.
Cell flew through the air for a good 2 seconds, which almost made him go into orbit, where he stopped his ascent.
Growling, the android dropped into the Kamehameha stance, and chanted the famous words.
"KAAAAAAAA…"
Krillin heard this and started freaking out. "Guys what are we going to do. He took out Gohan with a less powerful attack, and he had more power than Goku."
Nobody responded as they all waited for their doom.
Except for one.
"No." Everyone looked to the voice to find none other than Trunks.
"I will not stand by and watch as this world is destroyed as well." The super saiyan from the future started. "It's bad enough that I did the same with my mentor twice, but I will honor his memory by protecting his home like I could not my own." Trunks finished by powering up to his super saiyan state before taking it a step further. His hair spiked up even more, and his form became unbearably bulky, due to the amount of power coursing through his veins. His power went up considerably, but was nowhere near the amount of power from an ascended saiyan.
"This ends now." Were Trunk's final words before he blasted off to where Goku was already preparing his own attack.
The ascended saiyan looked over and nodded to the ultra super saiyan, before turning his attention back to his attack.
"MEEEEEEE..."
Vegeta looked down at his hands, before saying something that caught the Humans, and Namekian present off guard.
"For years I have strived to surpass Kakarot, and for years I have failed." The other fighters present looked over to the proud prince. "For those years my only purpose was to gain power and become better than Kakarot." Vegeta turned his gaze up to the sky where Cell was residing. "But now I have a new purpose." Vegeta powered up to super saiyan and the fighters listening all thought that he was going to say his new purpose was to protect Bulma, or his home, or his son…
...Nope.
"To surpass Kakabrat!" The prince yelled with an evil laugh, before he shot off and landed on the opposite side of Goku, while having some very, Vegeta like thoughts. 'Oh god I'm glad I came up with that new "purpose" off the top of my head. If they knew my purpose was to protect Bulma, my home, and my son, I would never hear the end of it.'
"HAAAAAAA..."
Piccolo said nothing as he flew off to join the three super saiyans.
"MEEEEEE…"
The four fighters that stood before the green android, all of them charging up their respectful attacks.
Piccolo had his Special beam cannon.
Trunks was using his Buster cannon.
Vegeta was using his Galick Gun.
And Goku was using the Kamehameha.
The air was tense as Cell drew in a breath to chant the final word of his planet destroying attack. The fighters that were facing him were pouring all of their remaining power into the attack, and while they wouldn't admit that it was overkill, they all knew it was.
"HAAAAAAAA!"
Cell released his attack and a giant blue beam of pure energy came crashing through the skies, blocking out the sun.
Goku, Trunks, Vegeta, and Piccolo all released their attacks in unison, and with a mighty yell, the attacks all formed one super attack. The super attack, as their friends dubbed it, was a giant blue and pink beam with corkscrew purple swirls surrounding the multi colored beam.
The large beam coming from the four fighters was clearly more powerful than Cell Kamehameha, but the green android had everything to lose, because, like Goku and company, he had put everything into his attack.
The entire world shook when the two beams met in a fiery shockwave, creating a 3 mile wide crater surrounding the area that the attacks met. Cell's Kamehameha held it's own against the combined attack from the four fighters.
For about a second.
The combined attack easily overtook Cell's and moved onto the green android himself, slamming into him with the force of a father's rage. Cell let out an agonizing scream as his ki disappeared all at once, and not in the usual fading fashion. Although this was odd, nobody thought much of it, due to the overwhelming relief of feeling the bio android's energy disappearing.
Meanwhile while everybody was celebrating, Goku dropped to his knees partially from exhaustion and partially from grief over losing his son. As soon as Goku's knees hit the ground he dropped his ascended form and kaioken boost, reverting to his base form. He then did something that nobody had seen him do for years.
He cried.
Trunks noticed the muffled sobs, and felt sorry for the saiyan father. Walking over to Goku, the teen saiyan kneeled down next to the crying man and placed a comforting hand on his back.
Goku looked at the lavender haired man, who had a look of understanding on his face. The full blooded saiyan knew that Trunks knew the pain of losing a certain half saiyan to one of Gero's creations.
"Don't beat yourself about it Goku." Trunks started with a forced smile. "We can just wish him back with the Dragonballs." Trunk's comments went unanswered as Goku looked at the ground and sighed.
"I know that we can wish him back, and that he'll be back before dinner, it's just…" The Son man trailed off.
"It's just what?"
"I failed him." At this Trunks had an "Ah-ha" moment.
"So you feel guilty?" The lavender haired man inquired.
"No, I mean of course I feel guilty, but I feel like I failed him." Goku started. "What kind of father sends his 11 year old son to fight the most dangerous villain in history? Tell me Trunks. I. Want. To. KNOW!" Goku's voice slowly rising to a yell throughout his explanation.
Trunks stayed silent.
"And because of that, he died before he went through puberty. Do you know what that does to a kid Trunks. Huh? Do you!" Goku said while continuing to look at the ground.
Trunk's face contorted in anger and the last comment something snapped in him. "NO I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO DIE. But, I know what it is like to live without hope after the most powerful man on the planet died. And that sure as hell wasn't you Goku. Oh no you just rolled over and died, while your son fought on and lived throughout the entire thing. He even had time to train and raise me along with saving countless lives. So no Goku, I don't know what it's like to die, but I'd bet it's better than what my timeline has to offer."
To say the Z-fighters were shocked at Trunks's outburst would be an understatement. Vegeta was especially shocked, and somewhat pleased at the man's outburst.
"Now if you will excuse me, I will be going to wish back the hero of my timeline." Trunks said with malice in his voice, before blasting off to the lookout at incredible speeds.
The happy mood had been replaced with a very tense air as the remaining Z-fighters all started heading to the lookout, but at a much slower pace.
****Lookout****
Trunks landed on the Lookout with a heavy thud. Seeing that nobody was in sight, he extended his senses and found Dende and making their way out of the building near the center of the giant, spherical structure.
After a brutal minute of waiting, a small namekian, and a slightly larger black genie in arabic clothing walked out of the building. They noticed Trunks standing on the edge of the lookout and started heading towards him.
When the two men were almost to the demi-saiyan, Dende was the first to speak. "Hey Trunks, what happened down there? First Gohan's power goes through the roof, then Cell's power goes down, then it increases, then Gohan disappears and Goku's power goes up to the point of right under Gohan's, then you, Goku, Piccolo, and Vegeta kill Cell."
Trunks leaned up against one of the nearby trees and started to explain what happened and why Gohan was gone. "Ok so Android 16 tried to sacrifice himself to take down Cell but failed due to his bomb having been removed. So Cell went and killed him, making Gohan go berserk, earning him a new transformation." The guardian and his assistant both wanted to say something, but Trunks continued before they could start. "Gohan started kicking Cell's ass and if I am correct, started insulting him in a way that made my father proud." Trunks smirked at the memories of what the younger demi said. "So Gohan made Cell spit out #17 and #18, making him revert back to imperfect. Cell tried to self destruct, and Gohan stopped him. But Cell went and absorbed #16's power core and #17, shooting him back up to perfect. Cell tried to kill everyone and Gohan sacrificed himself, making Goku go berserk and transform again, but the odd thing was that Goku's power was still a little under Gohan's even though he activated the kaioken with his transformation…" Trunks trailed off.
Popo put everything together and summarized the rest. "So you, Goku, Vegeta, and PIccolo all defeated Cell in one big energy blast."
"Yep~" Trunks said, while popping his "p".
"Well that's… new…" Dende muttered while leaning against his staff.
"Soooo, Dragonballs?"
"Good idea."
The trio walked to the building where Dende had stored the Dragonballs prior to the Cell games. When they arrived where the Dragonballs were being stored, Trunks gathered them in his arms and walked back out of the building, leaving Dende and Popo behind.
The black genie looked to his master. "He really is in a hurry to get Gohan back isn't he."
The newly crowned guardian started walking in the direction Trunks had gone, all the while answering his friend and companion. "Yes, yes he is."
****Vegeta****
While the others had gone at a slower pace, Vegeta had decided to take a path much like his son's, breaking the sound barrier multiple times when he took off from his spot.
When he did this he knew that the others were all staring at him, wondering what he was doing.
But he didn't care, their opinions and beliefs weren't his problem, or his son's problem.
Yes Vegeta considered Mirai Trunks as his son, and secretly hoped that he would come back and stay after he wrapped things up in his timeline.
But that was all for the future, he needs to focus on the present and wish back Gohan.
Again yes, Vegeta thinks of Gohan like his surrogate son, and has come to respect the half breed when they would train together during the four year gap between Frieza and the androids. He truly hoped that Gohan would come back and not pull a Kakarot and stay to train in the otherworld for a year.
Vegeta was pulled out of his musing when he saw the blasted dragon be summoned on top of the lookout. He heard the dragon's voice boom through the sky as he demanded that the three figures make their wishes.
The Prince landed next to his son as he made the first wish.
"Dragon, please revive all of those killed by the bio-android named Cell!" Trunks exclaimed while holding both of his hands above his head.
Shenron's eyes glowed a brighter red. "Your wish is well within my power, it shall be done." Everybody who could, sensed the lives of millions of people come back, and they had a moment of joy before Yamcha mentioned something that put worry into all of their hearts, while also announcing the arrival of the rest of the gang.
"Hey guys, wheres Gohan?" The bandit asked, getting confused looks and a 'huh'.
Vegeta turned to the Dragon before asking the question on everyone's mind. "Dragon where is the Brat?"
Shenron's response was a real shocker to all of the people present. "The one known as Son Gohan does not exist in this dimension."
"What do you mean 'This dimension'?" A puzzled Goku asked.
"Do you wish for me to tell you what happened, and show you where the one called Son Gohan resides?" Shenrons voice boomed throughout the Lookout.
"YES!" Was the immediate response from all present.
"Very well. During the battle with the one known as Cell, Son Gohan was transported to a different dimension due to the power of the blast the one known as Cell unleashed was enough to rip the dimensional barrier for a short amount of time, transporting Son Gohan to another, alternate reality. Do you wish for me to show you where Son Gohan is, and what he is currently doing, If so It will take the rest of my power." The magical dragon stated, earning another unanimous 'Yes' from the group of Z-fighters.
"Very Well"
****With Gohan****
The pain sucked.
Gohan was glad that he packed an extra senzu bean, even if it was hidden in his shoe. Even with his new super saiyan form, which he had dubbed super saiyan 2 in his inter-dimensional musing, this still hurt like hell. He was also a little confused by the strange prick by his lower back, but that was the least of his problems.
Just as Gohan though that he would drop his ascended state, he felt the sensation of falling through regular skies, and not freaking gravitationally challenged space with god damned black holes everywhere trying to suck him in.
Gohan had just gotten used to falling through air when he hit something really hard, giving the final blow to taking away super saiyan 2. Gohan groaned as he sat up, rubbing his head to rid it of any stray rocks that decided to hang out in his golden, super saiyan hair.
When he sat up he noticed two, semi-large ki signatures nearby. One of them was almost, if not as pure as his, and the other was similar to Vegeta's when he first landed on earth.
He looked in the direction of the two energies, and found two beings that looked like humans, except one was in a weird metal armor, and the other was in a dark blue spandex suit that had a weird 'S', a red cape and boots.
They were both looking at him with interest, and the one in blue and red had concern etched in his eyes. Gohan studied the situation, and immediately knew that the one in armor was leading some sort of attack on this planet, and Blue was trying to stop him.
But Gohan couldn't tell this from his eyes. No. It was the fact that the not so shining knight in black armor, was rearing up for a wild punch.
Gohan of course tried to warn Blue, but was too late, as the punch connected with his head and sent him into a nearby building with a huge shockwave. Armor was about to jump and follow but was distracted with Gohan floating up in the air calmly.
Gohan growled and shot at the man with leisure, which was saying with speeds that Superman could only dream to achieve.
He rammed his fist into the man's gut, making hit cough up blood, even with his kryptonian genes. On impact the man flew miles away from the initial battlefield, making a huge crater where he landed.
After making sure that the man was down for a few minutes, he went over to check on Blue. The superhero in question was currently trying to get up and push the rubble of a building off of him.
Gohan walked over to the man, and looked down at him. He already knew that he wasn't human, because just by the amount of sheer power he was packing would be enough to make Vegeta jealous.
Wanting to make sure that Blue wasn't a threat, Gohan happily introduced himself while offering a handshake. "Hiya my name's Gohan! What's yours?"
The man in blue ignored Gohan and started frantically looking around for something, but relaxed when nothing revealed itself to be out of the ordinary, you know besides the destroyed city.
Blue looked at Gohan before speaking in a noble voice. "Cl- I mean Superman." He quickly covered up.
Gohan looked puzzled, but couldn't question him due to being grabbed by the back of the head and thrown into the stratosphere. Gohan stopped in the sky before growling and sending a good amount of his power into his right leg.
Blasting to the ground with both fists outstretched in front of him, Gohan reached the man in armor in a split second, driving a brutal knee into the back of his neck. Shocking him and throwing him into the supports of a skyscraper. Making the giant building groan as it started to tip over.
Gohan realized that the structure would fall onto thousands of people in the streets, killing them instantly.
Not going to let that happen, Gohan rushed over to the middle of the building and put both of his hands onto the glass covering. The glass shattered from the pressure, leaving the metal structure visible from the outside.
Gohan grabbed onto the structure and sent webs of ki up and down the skyscraper. This supported the skyscraper as Gohan hefted it above his head and held it there, giving the people on the streets time to clear out.
While Gohan was dealing with the skyscraper, Superman was fighting the man in armor. The man currently had the upperhand and was dragging Superman through the building that Gohan was trying to hold up, making his job a hell of a lot harder.
The Man of steel scowled when he saw Gohan struggling to hold up the building. 'No kid his age should be put into the situation he is in, no matter how powerful.' With this in mind, the last son of krypton grabbed the man in armor's arm and spun him around before throwing him through a different building, shattering his armor around him.
"Zod, stop this madness now!" Superman yelled from the skies.
A raspy voice was the carrier of his response. "And what, give up on krypton! I will not be stooped to your level and actually be caught sparing these wretched humans." The man now identified as Zod yelled from the building.
"You don't have to harm the humans, you can leave the planet and create a new Krypton on a different planet."
"I cannot, with you and I being the only living kryptonians, I cannot serve Krypton. I can't even make a new Krypton or leave the planet with my ship destroyed!" The alien general all but screamed, bursting from his place in the building and giving a kick that could destroy world's, straight into Superman's side.
The Man of steel let out a cry of agony as he flew through the air at supersonic speeds, crashing through the building that Gohan was still trying to set down without killing anybody. All the supports the building had left were crushed in an instant, killing everyone inside and making the building unstable.
Realizing that there was no saving the building or anyone in it, Gohan threw the building into the air, hitting Zod on its way to the atmosphere. The evil kryptonian sailed through the air with the giant building, which was falling apart as it went further into the sky.
Gohan decided that there had been enough bloodshed for the day and flew straight through the skyscraper (A/N: LOL… its a real skyscraper isn't it) and punched Zod in the stomach as hard as he could, which was enough force to send him out of orbit and straight into the Sun.
Gohan let out a sigh of relief and stared us at the giant ball of fire that he had used to kill his enemy. The demi saiyan had just turned around to go back to Earth and talk with Superman, when he heard an all too familiar yell.
"You will die!"
Gohan swung around and was about to make a sarcastic comment, when Zod, glowing orange, slammed into him, burning his skin with the heat radiating off of his body. Zod drove Gohan into the ground before jumping up and kicking him football style across the continent.
Gohan was sent flying and before he could recover like earlier in the battle, he was slammed into the ground by Zod, creating a hundred foot wide crater. Gohan sat up and clutched his left arm, hissing in pain.
'Damnit, he broke my arm. I guess I'll really need that sensu now.' Gohan turned his attention back to the glowing kryptonian, who was dominating Superman currently.
Zod gave Superman a nasty uppercut, before flying behind him and slamming him to the ground. The evil kryptonian's eyes glowed a deadly red as he prepared to end the man in blue.
Gohan watched as Zod prepared to deal the final blow to Superman. Not being the one to watch, Gohan went into motion as the deadly beams shot out of Zod's eyes. The half saiyan was almost to Superman, when a sudden jolt of pain went through his arm. Gohan bit into his lip to keep from crying out and kept running to the pure hearted kryptonian. He was about ten feet away from his destination when he jumped.
Superman watched as the red beams of death came flying towards him. He was too paralyzed with fear to be able to jump out of the way or fire a counter blast. The Man of Steel closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable to come.
Only it didn't.
Superman opened his eyes and saw something that horrified him.
The Man of Steel's eyes burned in rage and only two things were heard in the area.
The agonized scream on Son Gohan, and the raspy yell of...
"Zod! You will pay!"
-DBZ-
"NOOO!"
That was the only thing on everyone's mind, and one person just so happened to have voiced it out loud. That person was none other than Son Goku of Earth.
"We need to help him, he's going to die!" Piccolo exclaimed frantically.
But that was just it, nobody could do anything to help Gohan, not even the dragonballs could do anything for the half breed.
'Wait. Dragon-, Oh Gohan here I come' Goku had a stroke of genius, and suddenly placed two fingers on his head like he was going to do the special beam cannon.
"Grab on everyone."
This confused everyone, but without question, most of them grabbed on and dematerialized to only Goku knows where leaving Dende, Popo, and Shenron on the lookout.
"Farewell, I have granted all of your wishes." And with that the mighty Shenron went back into his balls, right before they scattered across the globe.
Dende and Popo looked at each other and shrugged before going back into the building on the spherical structure.
***New Namek***
"Your wish cannot be granted." Porunga said.
"Dammit, Why not?" A frustrated Goku yelled at the giant dragon.
"Full blooded saiyans have a distinct reaction to inter-dimensional travel that would result in the destruction of any saiyan who attempted inter-dimensional travel, therefore, you are unable to travel between dimensions."
Goku thought for a minute and furrowed his eyebrows in concentration. After a tense moment of silence, Goku's expression brightened as he thought of another way to help his son. "Dragon, since Gohan is only half saiyan, could you possibly bring him back to this planet?"
Porunga's eyes glowed as he concentrated on the dimension that Gohan was in. "This is not possible for the inter-dimensional travel of Son Gohan caused his dominant heritage to take over, making him a full blooded saiyan." The dragon explained, making the Son father and all others who cared for the half breed lose hope of seeing him again. The dragon had already made it clear that Namekians were banned from inter-dimensional travel, humans weren't durable enough, and sending Trunks their would mean they have two saiyans gone.
"However." Porunga spoke, gaining the undivided attention of all present. "If you wish, I will bring a being to this location and send it to the same place as Son Gohan as a companion, before I send the being, you will also be able to give it an item to give Son Gohan. This being will help Son Gohan in his travels, and become his most loyal guardian."
Goku was shocked that this was the most that he could do for his son, and was also aggravated that they could only give him one item.
Goku was about to tell the dragon to bring the being that would be with his son here, until he was beat to it.
"Well what are you waiting for, bring the blasted creature here!" Vegeta commanded the Eternal Dragon.
"Very well." Porunga's eyes glowed a brighter red and the surrounding storms intensified, making the fighters shield their eyes from incoming debris. An object started to form next to the seven large Dragonballs.
The object glowed brighter than a sun as it molded into the shape of something very familiar.
"Seriously?"
Heyo guys, I'm sorry for the wait, but this is going to be the normal time between chapters and the normal length of the chapters. I'm really sorry about the Power Levels in the last chapter and I realized that they were really stupid, so I updated them.
Also I am going to give you guys a choice on how this story can go. Enter your answers in the review section below.
Gohan has contact with Batman before Young Justice, and forms a friendship with him. Batman will introduce Gohan to the Team as another one of his students.
Gohan is a mystery to the Justice League, and is entered to the Team some other way.
Please tell me your responses below!
Power Levels
Gohan
Base: 14,000,000
Super Saiyan: 740,000,000
Super Saiyan 2: 1,500,000,000
Goku
Base: 13,500,000
Super Saiyan: 675,000,000
Super Kaioken: 700,000,000
Super Saiyan 2: 1,350,000,000
Super Kaioken 2: 1,400,000,000
Cell
Perfect (Android 16 absorbed): 1,200,000,000
Vegeta
Base: 10,000,000
Super Saiyan: 500,000,000
Super Saiyan 2nd Grade: 650,000,000
Trunks
Base: 9,500,000
Super Saiyan: 475,000,000
Super Saiyan 2nd Grade: 617,500,000
Ultra Saiyan: 800,000,000
Piccolo
Super Namekian: 275,000,000
Superman
Base: 610,000,000
Sun Dipped: 1,000,000,000
Zod
Base: 610,000,000
Sun Dipped: 1,000,000,000