DBZR ½

Chapter 3: Super Saiyans Revealed.

In Nerima…

Everyone in the room look at the newcomers, some with open curiosity, others with apprehension, even outright anger. Ranma was the latter. Goten quickly notices the two and says, "Um, Trunks, there's somebody else here."

"Huh?" Trunks looks over his shoulder quickly, taking in the two Amazons, then freezes. "Why am I getting weird vibes from that old woman?" He glances at the teen girl, noticing that her hair was an even darker shade of purple than his own. "At least I'm not the only one with purple hair here. Her energy is higher than Ukyou's, but not by much. I wonder who would win…" Trunks starts plotting ways to get them to fight, if just for fun as Ukyou begins the introductions.

"Cologne, Shampoo…meet Goten and Trunks. Goten, Trunks… meet Elder Cologne and her great granddaughter Shampoo, of the Chinese Amazons." The boys greeted them pleasantly enough…although they couldn't figure out what was wrong with Cologne and Shampoo.

Cologne simply stood in the doorway, staring numbly at the two boys. "They are the two powers that I felt before?! How could they possibly be so young!?"

Shampoo looked at the two in confusion. Whatever she had been expecting, this was not it. "Ha-ya…they are more powerful than…my Ranma? How?"

For several minutes it seemed they stood there, staring. Goten and Trunks looked at each other, and simply shrugged as they went back to talking with Ranma and the rest. Ranma was about to ask them something when Cologne finally spoke up.

"Excuse me Son-in-law, but I must ask these children something." Ranma merely glared as he said, "Be my guest old ghoul."

She ignored the usual insult as she hopped over to the two boys. They looked at her quizzically as she peered at them, trying to determine their powers through her own. She looked them up and down, and then finally asked, "Tell me something young ones. How powerful are you compared to everyone here?" The question was probably the most direct she had ever been with anyone, and it floored the others. Trunks and Goten, for their part, thought for a moment, and then looked to each other, gauging the others abilities.

Goten turned to Cologne, saying, "Well…I'm not sure if I'm stronger than him, or he's stronger than me, but…" Everyone was rather breathless as they waited for the next part.

"There isn't anyone here who's stronger than us." Trunks finished, his arms crossed, and his eyes closed. A coarse laughter started to fill the room as yet another newcomer entered. He wore a loose flowing garment, and thick glasses, with long dark hair flowing almost to the floor. "I find that hard to believe. There's no way you're both stronger than all of us together, and to prove it, I challenge you!" Without waiting for a reply the stranger leaped into the air, as Ranma and the others cried out to him, "Mousse you fool!"

"FIST OF THE WHITE SWAN!" A large claw on a chain flew from one of the teen's sleeves, heading with deadly accuracy towards Goten. There was no way Ranma or any of the other natives could have stopped the attack…there was also no way they could have ever expected to have happen what does happen.

Goten merely caught the claw in a hand and held it, looking at Mousse with a cocked eyebrow. "This guy sure is strange." With that, he crushes the claw without any effort. Mousse couldn't contain his surprise, or his air as Goten tosses the now 'ball of the white swan' into his gut, knocking him through the wall and into the main dinning area. Mousse struggles to get up, and manages to get to an elbow, when he sees Goten standing next to him, looking at him inquisitively. "Are you alright mister?"

"Why…I'll show you!" With an audible growl, Mousse leaps up, throwing several different types of sharp weapons at the child with a fury he'd never done in any of his combats with Ranma. The rest watch through the hole Mousse made while Trunks calmly walked up to the door, hardly interested. Cologne watched both boys intently, but couldn't detect any real rise of power in Goten.

For his part, Goten caught every single weapon thrown at him and placed it on the floor in an orderly pile. He moved so fast that his arms seemed to be a blur, but there was no real effort on his part. "Absolutely amazing…this child has not only mastered the Amaguriken technique, he has also managed to learn how to do it without using up any energy…at least, I think that's what he's done." Cologne had never ever doubted her insights, yet the young boy was making her do just that. It was a new, and rather unpleasant feeling, and she didn't like it at all. She turned to Trunks, who was lazily leaning up against the wall, watching with an eyebrow cocked at Mousse's antics.

"Goten, maybe you should put this guy out of his misery already?" Trunks called out, more than ready for the show to end.

"Ok." Goten smiled. Mousse didn't heed this though, and came in swinging. Goten simply caught the punch, then stretched out his other arm, palm out. Mousse looked at it, confused. Goten then swiftly pulls the arm back and then swiftly forward, knocking Mousse out through an open door, courtesy of Trunks. Mousse hits a dumpster across the way, and is knocked out cold. "What a weird guy, I hope I didn't hurt him too badly." Trunks shrugged as he walked back up to his friend. The both looked to the rest of the group, all whom had their jaws on the ground.

"Ahh…sorry about the wall Ukyou." Goten apologized, bowing low.

"No….no problem…" With that she fainted. It would be hours before she would recover, even with Cologne there, so Ranma offered his place up for sleeping space for the time being. They accept, and they head over to the Tendo dojo.

Back in Trunks and Goten's dimension…

"ChiChi…something's wrong. I can't sense Goten or Trunks energy." ChiChi and Gohan both looked to Goku as he told them. He continued, "I don't know where they are, but I'm going to go looking for them." Before either could say anything, Goku had rushed out the door, and launched himself into the air, heading in the direction that Goten had taken earlier in the morning. Gohan merely comforted ChiChi as she started to worry.

In no time at all, Goku found himself over the area where Cell had first attacked Earth, all those years ago. No ghosts though were there to attack him, nor any other enemies for that matter. "I can sense their residual energy…they were here, not long ago. But it's fading fast. I have to follow the trail quickly, or it'll grow cold." Goku powered up to Super Saiyan and put all concentration into his senses, trying hard to track their energy trail before it vanished completely. He flew forward slowly, yet anyone who was watching would have seen nothing more than a golden comet.

Suddenly, he stopped. The trail ended abruptly over an outcropping of rock jutting up into the sky. He no longer could sense the energy…yet…he could sense something. "It feels like the boys…but they aren't here. This doesn't make any sense." He thinks a moment; "Maybe if I try to track them with the Instant Transmission technique I can get a better fix on where they are." He placed the first two fingers of his right hand to his forehead, and concentrated. Several minutes passed as he slowly closed in on them…sorta. "Yes…I can sense them. But it's like they're in Otherworld. No…wait…that's it! They aren't in this universe! They're in another!" He realizes, and, with renewed vigor, he concentrated as hard as he could. Sweat dripped off of his skin as he managed to at least detect the general location of where they were. With a last bit of effort, he used the Transmission, and was gone.

Miles away…

"What's happening to me!" Bulma shrieked. Her voice was higher pitched than it had been in years, and her clothing was several sizes too large. The room seemed bigger as well, and it was getting bigger by the minute.

She had been in her bedroom brushing her hair after Trunks left, when she felt some kind of energy envelope her. She could see a glow surround her body in the mirror, and then she saw the changes begin. The few wrinkles she had managed to hide well smoothed away, and her skin tightened and became as vigorous as it had been in her search for DragonBalls on Namek. Her hair didn't feel nearly as thin, her bust firmed up, and her body didn't ache. "Maybe Vegeta made a wish for me! Wait a sec…he wouldn't do that. He's too stubborn to think of something like that." She would have pondered what brought about this wondrous change if she wasn't busy enjoying feeling young again. She looked at herself in the mirror, positively glowing, when she noticed something. She looked down at herself, and saw that her blouse seemed baggy. As had her pants…and her shoes felt too big. She looked at her hands, and with growing horror saw the fingers slowly retract and shrink. It was at that moment that she did what any sane person would do….she screamed.

Vegeta rushed into the room, ready to destroy anyone who dared attack his mate when he quickly skidded to a stop at the door. He watched in utter astonishment as his wife tripped over her own clothing and fell to the floor, yelling at the top of her quickly growing in pitch lungs. "What kind of sorcery is this? Who would do such a thing?" He said as Bulma finally stopped de-aging. She lay on the floor, still wearing her adult clothing, although only her head, some of her arms, and her legs could be seen under the blouse, the pants and shoes lost somewhere else in the room during her panic stricken running. He stepped over, and with gentleness he wasn't known for, picked her up and held her. Her face was wet with her tears, and her chest heaved. With mournful eyes full of tears, she looked up at her husband, and said, "Why me?" He just gazed in shock at his wife, who was no longer a full-grown woman in her 30's, but was now a young ten-year old girl.

In a different realm entirely…

"Ahh, my dear Bulma. You should be happy! You got your wish! Besides, it's not everyday that a person gets to regain their youth!" With that Toltiir laughed up a storm. He watched in amusement in his looking glass as the proud Vegeta cradled his now small wife into his arms, and just held her as she cried. If eyes could kill, and with a Saiyan there was always the possibility that they could, anyone in Vegeta's gaze would have soon become nothing more than dust.

Wiping the tears from his eyes from his laughter, Toltiir slowly regained himself. "Well now, I wonder how those two kids are doing…what…how did he get there? Damn!" The god of mischief finally noticed that Goku had traversed to Ranma's world. "Damn damn damn! How did he do that! Dammit, he'll mess up my fun!" He notices something else…"DAMN! Now he's out of my reach! That island circle is the only entrance I have to that world! I have no power beyond it! DAMN THOSE SHINTU MONKS!"

He fumes for a while, thinking hard. "Maybe…maybe this won't be as bad as I think it is. Yes…yes, this might actually turn out better than I thought." A smile spread upon his face as he pondered the possibilities. "I'll just have to wait and see. And when he attempts to traverse back, then I'll have him." Once again, his hall fills with the peals of his, rather pathetic sounding laughter.

In Ranma's dimension…

Goku struggled to stay aloft. He had spent a lot of energy trying to track the boys, but so far it had been worth it. "Man…I made it. But now…I'm too weak to use the transmission again to…to get me to them. Guess I'm…I'm flying there…" Goku nearly fell into the water as his concentration slipped. "I better get on land fast, before I fall and drown." With an effort, he made his way to a cleft of land nearby, the same spot that Ranma had been doing his routines at. He managed to land, and slowly started to catch his breath. As soon as his breathing stopped being labored, he started walking in the direction of the boys.

At the Tendo Dojo…

Nabiki was saying… "So let me get this straight. You two were having your race, all is fine and good, but when you broke the sound barrier, this blue light appeared around you. When it cleared, you two found yourselves over the Jepoc Island Circle?" Nabiki was the middle daughter, and the most devious. If there was a way to get money out of something, she would find it. Like her sisters, she was an attractive young woman, if not built a little better than them, with short brown hair that framed her face. She was also very intelligent, and was usually able to make sense of anything, although it was probably from all the practice she had in coming up with devious schemes.

"That's what happened." Trunks states simply. They had explained everything they could do the residents of the dojo, with Ranma tossing in a tidbit of info here and there when he could. They sat on their legs at the family table with Kasumi, Nabiki, Akane, Soun Tendo, and Genma Saotome. Ranma, Cologne, and Shampoo were standing…well, Cologne and Shampoo was. Ranma was hanging from a beam in the ceiling, doing a sit-up once in awhile as he listened.

Cologne narrowed her eyes, picking up a tidbit of info in the boys description of the blue energy that had been around them when they found themselves lost. That, plus the part of Ranma mentioning two flashes of gold, added up to something, although she wasn't sure what just yet.

"It has something to do with Ranma's energy, and the power of these two boys in the Jepoc cicle. This must be the god of mischief's work. He would do something like this." Her thoughts were broken when Akane asked, "What do you mean by 'powered up'? And what's this about two flashes of gold?" Cologne's regards for Akane's intellect went up a notch. "She picked up something as well I see."

"Well, we powered up to our full strength. How can you have a race if you don't go all out?" Goten nodded in agreement to Trunks statement.

"So you mean to say that you are even more powerful?" Akane stated, surprised. Cologne's chuckles got everyone's attention. "Of course, young one. I suspected that they were much more powerful earlier, but even I can't tell just how powerful. I was hoping earlier that they would show their true strength, but Mousse proved that they didn't need it.

"You mean…you want to see us at full power?" Goten asked. Cologne nodded, rather curious at what would happen next.

Goten looked at Trunks, who simply shrugged. They both stood up, and walked out into the backyard, leaving their weapons in the den. The rest followed, intrigued, none more than Ranma and Cologne though. Both boys stood before the pond, turned around to face them, and planted their feet shoulder width apart. "Guess we'll see how strong you are now Trunks."

"Yea, well, I bet I'm stronger than you are!"

"You're on!"

Cologne listened to the boys, amazed at how pure their hearts were. "They are powerful, but still children. This shall be VERY interesting."

With their hands clenched into fists, and their arms bent at the elbows, they both proceeded to power up. The air around them seemed to waver, and small rocks slowly rose from the ground. The hair on both boys slowly rose and stood straight up, and their clothing started to flutter about. Both of them were grunting with effort. Everyone's eyes were riveted to them, amazed at the energy pouring from them. For a moment it seemed that they were done charging, but that wasn't the case.

"Here goes, on the count of three, we go up to the next level!" Everyone's jaws dropped, not realizing that they weren't even done.

The counted off together, "Three…two…one…" The ground underneath them started to break, and crater, while lighting bolts singed the air about them.

"…NOW! HIIIYYAAA!" Both boys quickly pushed themselves to the next level, and a blast of light enveloped them. The force and suddenness of the lights' appearance threw everyone back, even as the two pushed their levels as high as they could. As the Tendo residents picked themselves out of the debris, they could only gaze at the two boys. Their hair had changed, from black and lavender, to gold, and their eyes had changed from black and blue to cyan. An audible glow could be seen, yes, even felt around them as the held their stances. The air was charged with power, their faces intense.

With astonishment, Ranma gazed at the two small warriors. "My god…their power…I've…I've never felt anything like it! It has no end! How could they be so powerful!"

Akane was the first to actually say what he had been only thinking. "How can you two be so strong! It's impossible!" Ranma looked at her, and saw true fear in her eyes. He looked back to them.

"That's easy!" Goten smiled, relaxing his stance. Yet the power didn't fade when he did so. The both walked up to the residents, who, against their instincts, just looked at them, some in fear, others in wonderment. The glow around them didn't abate, and their cyan eyes looked them with a confidence that spoke of many battles and training sessions. They had worked hard to reach their levels, and were immensely proud of themselves for having gotten as far as they had. They had battled many powerful foes, and they learned from their mistakes. They were in a level that was unreachable to humans.

"We've gone Super Saiyan!"

TBC...