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Jason9000: Hello all! Here we are with another chapter to this story. I won't explain much just that it'll be a bit of a party. Alright that's enough from me let's get going.*

Piccolo landed outside Capsule Corporation and went to ring the doorbell to announce his arrival. He waited a few seconds before Trunks answered the door.

"Hey Piccolo what's up? You're the first one here as always," The young man said stepping aside to let the giant Namek in.

Piccolo walked in and nodded.

"Good to see you again Trunks. I trust that everyone here is in good health?" Piccolo asked him walking in.

"Same stuff different day. Mom teaching me how to run the company, dad training so he could beat Goku, and my younger sister being her perfect self and having my dad do whatever she wants," Trunks said walking behind him.

"Good. Dende should be here shortly. He has to finish his watch of the Earth as always," Piccolo said walking towards the back where the party usually was.

"Alright that's good. I'm gonna go help set up the final preparations for the party. I'll see you later," Trunks said walking away.

Piccolo nodded and went to stand in his self-assigned corner. He waited half an hour before the Son family walked. Gohan and Videl were in the front carrying their daughter Pan. Behind them were Chi-Chi and Goten.

"Hey Piccolo it's been a while!" Gohan said handing off his daughter to his wife to see his old teacher.

Piccolo smiled and looked at his old pupil.

"Indeed. I see that you haven't changed much. Still into books more than training as always," Piccolo said with a smirk.

Gohan laughed putting his hand behind his head in typical Son fashion.

"Well you know, I have to keep up with the grading system so I can't really train as much as I like to but I do train Pan a lot on the weekends," The proclaimed scholar said.

The young child wanted to get down from her mother and look at the big green guy talking to her father. Videl put her daughter down and she walked over towards her father.

"Good morning Mr. Piccolo!" The child said to the giant Namek.

Piccolo looked down at the child and for a moment he thought he saw Gohan staring at him getting ready for training they had to do for the day to prepare for the Saiyans.

Piccolo smiled at the child for a moment before returning his attention back to Gohan.

"Daddy is it true that you trained with Mr. Piccolo when you were my age?" Pan asked.

"Yup I was about your age when I trained in the wilderness for a year with Piccolo," Gohan told her.

"I want to train with Mr. Piccolo can I please daddy?" The child asked looking up at him.

Gohan started laughing nervously. "I don't think your mother would like it if I agreed to have you run off for a year."

"I wouldn't mind it to be honest," Piccolo said. "It would give me something to do for a year. She'd probably be better at it than you were," He said smirking again.

"Hey I wasn't that bad!" Gohan retorted.

"Oh really? And who was the one that was a crybaby the moment they found out they were going to train to defeat the Saiyans," Piccolo asked him.

"What about the Saiyans?" A gruff voice asked from behind them.

The three of them turned and there was Vegeta standing in his regular work outfit. He seemed to have just came out of the gravity chamber since he had a towel and two bottles of water.

"Oh hey there Vegeta. We were just talking about the training Piccolo and I did for yours and Nappa's arrival when you first came to Earth."

Vegeta's face remained impassive till he shook his head.

"Namek my respect for you has increased. Dealing with Gohan as a whiny brat for a year must have been almost unbearable. I'm so glad you beat it out of him. Had I arrived with Raditz I would have killed him first because he'd given me a headache from his incessant whining," Vegeta told him.

"Hey first off it was six months! He left me alone in a desert for six months and then came back to see if I had survived before he trained me! I didn't even know how find food for myself!" Gohan responded trying to defend himself from further embarrassment.

Vegeta merely grunted. He looked at his water bottles and tossed the unopened one to Piccolo.

"Here's your reward for telling me a good story," Vegeta said before turning around going towards the shower no doubt.

"Thanks, I'll try to contain my joy," Piccolo said sarcastically catching it.

Gohan only shook his head at the two of them.

"You know to this day I'm still trying to figure out if you two still hate each other or this is how you two show your respect for each other," Gohan said before while picking up Pan and taking her over to see Bra who had just walked into the room with Bulma.

Pan waved goodbye to Piccolo and he nodded in return.

Piccolo then continued to watch the party as the other guests came in. Krillin and Android Eighteen came in with their elder daughter Marron, Dende came in followed by Hercule Satan and Majin Buu, Tien walked in with Launch and Chiaotzu, and finally Yamcha came in last as always.

The party seemed to be in full swing. Goten and Trunks were most likely about to pull a prank on someone soon. Piccolo decided to be careful, because he remembered the time they somehow managed to have him hold Bra for a minute. Then he got suckered into somehow having a tea party with the child. Where she forced him wear the most ridiculous outfit consisting of an apron and some cooking hat instead of his usual cape and turban.

Although nobody showed it but everyone was missing Goku. He always seemed to lighten up the mood and make the party a lot better. It was a year since he left and no one has seen him or sensed him for that matter. Somehow he was keeping his energy low and also training the reincarnation of Kid Buu. How their training was going no one could tell.

However fate seemed to look down on them from above and give them a special treat. Just when everyone's attention was on something else a familiar sound was heard and two energy signatures were sensed.

"Hey everyone, long time no see!" A cheery voice said.

Everyone turned and there was their long time hero and old friend Son Goku. He was wearing the exact same thing he had on when he left the tournament a year ago. Next to him was the boy he took off to train. He looked very shy around the group and was hiding behind Goku's leg.

"Goku!" Chi-Chi exclaimed happily running over to her husband and hugging him.

"Hey Chi. How are you doing?" Goku asked her.

"I'm doing fine thanks for asking, Chi-Chi said.

"Oh boy what a relief I thought you'd be mad at me for leaving again," Goku said laughing.

Suddenly quicker than anybody could there was a clang and Goku was on the floor holding his head.

"GOKU WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! HOW DARE YOU ABANDON ME AND YOUR SONS AGAIN!" Chi-Chi screamed at him holding her well known 'frying pan of Doom' as it was nicknamed by the Z-gang.

"But Chi-Chi Uub really needed me. He had all of this great power and didn't know how to use it! I thought you would be fine with it!" Goku cried from the ground rubbing his head.

Once again Chi-Chi hit Goku again with her frying pan and this time even harder.

"OH DON'T GIVE ME THAT! YOU COULD HAVE JUST USED YOUR INSTANT TRANSMISSION TO COME BETWEEN HIS VILLAGE AND COME HOME EVERY NIGHT AFTER YOU FOLLOWED HIM HOME!" Chi-Chi shouted standing over him.

For a moment Goku was silent and was thinking for a minute.

"Hey you're right Chi! Man I wish I thought of that," Goku said smiling.

Chi-Chi looked down at her husband blankly for a second before falling over in shock of how Goku couldn't think of something as simple as this…again.

Goku shot up and immediately ran over to his wife.

"Chi-Chi are you okay? You're not sick are you?" Goku asked her.

Chi-Chi only laughed at her husband and graciously accepted him helping her up.

"I'm fine Goku. I'm just glad that you're back," Chi-Chi said hugging her husband.

"So dad what brought you back here?" Goten asked his father.

"The party of course! I wouldn't miss the annual summer shin dig for the world!" Goku exclaimed.

"That and I wanted to actually introduce you to my student Uub," Goku also told them turning to his student behind him.

The boy stepped forward making his right hand into a fist turning it vertical and held it against his open left hand while bowing to everyone.

"Hello my name is Uub," The boy said introducing himself to everyone.

The group all walked up and introduced themselves one by one except for Vegeta who just nodded at the boy's direction and Majin Buu who surprisingly stayed in the back watching the boy with great interest.

Piccolo stayed in the back near Vegeta and Android 18 allowing the others greet Goku. The three of them were dubbed "the silent trio" by Goku a while back since they never really talked to the group much and seemed to be content with the silent company of each other.

Uub seemed to really fit in with the others. They all asked him questions of his training, his village, and his lifestyle in general. He answered them as best as he could and seemed like a fine young warrior.

"Hey Pic it's been a while," Goku said finally walking up to him and seeing his old friend.

Piccolo nodded "Goku, it's good to see you again. I trust your training with Uub is going well? We haven't sensed the both of you for the past year." The Namek asked him.

"Oh it's been going great! He's really strong. I'm just starting from the ground up with him. He's a fast learner so hopefully it won't be too long before he's a great master," Goku responded.

For a moment they were silent till Goku's face became serious.

"Alright Piccolo let's stop beating around the bush. I want to speak with you in private for a minute," Goku told him walking out of the area the party was in.

Piccolo followed not saying anything wondering what exactly Goku wanted. He normally wasn't this serious unless something big was about to happen. If it was this bad to have Goku show up out of the blue and seem worried then it whatever was coming must be very big.

They found an empty room where Goku closed the door.

"Piccolo first I want to ask are you alright? I've been noticing that your energy level has been randomly spiking up for a bit then returning to normal. Are you doing some new form of training or something?" Goku asked.

Piccolo didn't respond for a minute thinking of what to say. Should he tell Goku of what's been going on in his head? Goku was concerned for him and did want to know if there was something he could do to help him. Piccolo took a deep breath and began.

"For a while now…I've had visions of my past… before I was born, when my father King Piccolo was first conquering the Earth. At first it seemed like the memories were just resurfacing, because I had suppressed them for a while now. I thought it was because we've had peace for a while and I haven't had to focus on beating an opponent coming to destroy us all. But they kept getting worse. And since the start of this week I could swear I was my father issuing orders to the demons he created over the long years to destroy the Earth," Piccolo told his friend.

Goku was silent for a moment thinking of this new bit of information and then addressed Piccolo.

"Hm…this is strange. I never heard of something like this. I actually talked to King Yemma some years back to see if he was going to reincarnate Buu like I asked. He informed me a bit about the reincarnation process. Now that I'm thinking about it what your father did...wasn't true reincarnation,"

"What do you mean?" Piccolo asked.

"Very few people can reincarnate themselves a new body without King Yemma having a hand in it. Those that do turn themselves into new people the old body and soul is never around in the mortal Universe at the time of the reincarnated soul's creation. The old body dies and the soul is then put into the next body. However, in your case both you and your father where in the same place at the same time. His soul didn't die yet so he couldn't properly reincarnate himself completely. He only had time to put his memories and a small portion of his power in you. That's why you retain all of his memories and why you're also not King Piccolo himself. Think about it for a second. Would your father have teamed up with me to defeat my brother Raditz and then willingly train Gohan?" Goku asked him.

Piccolo was silent for a moment think over Goku's question. Would King Piccolo have teamed up with Goku to defeat the Saiyan? Probably not, he would've fought both of them trying his hardest to destroy both or sit back, watch, and then finishing off the victor. As for Gohan he would have killed him before even thinking of training him. Even with the threat of Vegeta and Nappa over their heads.

"No he wouldn't have. He would have never agreed to help you under any circumstance," Piccolo responded finally answering Goku's question.

"See you have nothing to worry about. Now let's get out of here. I haven't faced Vegeta for a while and I wouldn't be surprised if he kicked down the door and then dragged me to the Gravity Room to spar with him," Goku said getting up and walking out.

Piccolo smirked at the image in his head of Vegeta and Chi-Chi fighting over who gets to see Goku first after the party.

*Jason9000: And that should do it. Hope you all enjoyed. See you all next time.*