Fighters of the Future
"And with that another shocking end to yet another round let's have the next contestants up!" The tournament announcer exclaimed.
"We have the two boys of promise Goten and Trunks coming to the stage to finish off the Junior Championship!"
"Now we'll get to see how far they've progressed for real." Gohan said to Vegeta who smirked.
"Don't be surprised if Trunks wins." Vegeta said.
"Oh so you've been teaching Trunks some new moves?" "Well don't count Goten out until you've seen everything."
"We've seen these two boys take out their previous opponents with little effort but now the two boys must face each other in the Junior Tournament Semi-Final!" The tournament announcer said.
"Don't worry about them, if it gets too hot Gohan's got the stadium covered." Krillin said as he looked at the young Saiyan.
"You got it." Gohan said as all eyes were now focused on the ring.
"So it's about time to show dad and Gohan what we can really do in our base forms huh?" Trunks said to Goten as the two hybrids stared at one another from a distance.
"You promise to stay in base form?" Goten said as he stared at his best friend slash rival.
"Goten If I transform during the battle you get to have two of my toys." Trunks promised making Goten's eyes go wide.
"Your serious, you don't let me have any of your toys?!" Goten said excitedly.
"Deadly serious..." Trunks replied as he took up a stance.
"Then I can't hold back!" Goten said as the two waited for the go-ahead from the announcer.
"And Begin!"
Running at one another, the two Saiyans locked fists as they both fought for dominance.
'This is where I get to show big brother that he trained me well!' Goten thought as Trunks began to overpower him.
"Hah!" Goten yelled as he weakened his assault to land a vicious kidney shot to his opponent.
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'Not bad Goten, but you'll have to do better than that!' Trunks thought as Goten's fist went through an after-image.
"Bringing out the big guns already huh?" Goku said to Vegeta as the Saiyan Prince smirked.
"What can I say, the kid knows how to fight." Vegeta said as the crowd began to stare at the fighting children.
"Look at them go!" "Never seen anything like it!"
"Just look at those two, neither one of them giving an inch each one fighting for a chance against the Champ!" The tournament announcer shouted.
"Your brother can really fight.." Shigure said to Gohan as she and the rest of the Ryōzanpaku watched the fight with trained eyes.
"What did you expect, you've seen me fight." Gohan replied with a smile as even he was impressed at how well the two were doing in their base form.
"And they haven't even gotten to their max yet!" Krillin exclaimed as he was finally getting excited about the fights at the tournament.
"If it wasn't for Gohan Sensei showing us how to 'see' fights like these i would have thought that they vanished." Renka said to Kenichi.
"And that was hard enough to do on it's own!" Kenichi replied.
'Thank god for that training..' The other Shinpaku Alliance thought.
Flashback
The two-month training nearing its end, Gohan and the other disciples for the remaining nine days took the time to relax.
"Ah what a nice evening..." Gohan said as he sat in the dojo's personal hot spring with Shigure.
"Indeed, Gohan.. this plan do you still plan to go through with it?" Shigure said from beside him, the steam of the pool concealing her cleavage and the water covering the rest.
"What the plan to take you and Miu-san out tomorrow on a double date with Kenichi?" Gohan said glancing at her as he raised an eyebrow. "They deserve a treat, and also a chance to test their abilities outside of training."
"No that's not what I meant... I meant are you still going to take Miu?"
"Hayato Sensei still wants Kenichi to beat him and even though Kenichi is close, he has nowhere near the same amount of battle experience that any of the masters or Miu has." Gohan replied. "That's why you're our distraction from Hayato."
"You really think it will go that smoothly?" Shigure replied.
"Why wouldn't it? The plan is to make it look like I'm taking Miu-san out while you're taking Kenichi when in reality your on the date with me and Miu is with Kenichi."
"It just sounds so simple and easy to see through."
"That's why I had you hang around Kenichi a lot during the month before while I hanged around with Miu-san. By doing that it would look like we were more interested in someone else."
"So that's why you're so confident that it will work? Because you spent some time with Miu?" Shigure said looking disbelieving.
"No there's more to it than that... but I guess you'll just have to see..."
Back at the Son house in Mount Pazou, however, things are a little more complicated...
"Where can I find these people?!" Videl Satan, daughter of Mark Hercule Satan asks Ox-King, as she brandishes a picture of a Super Saiyan Gohan and the rest of the Z Fighters from the Intergalactic World Tournament.
"Who wants to know and what business is it of yours?" Ox-King said looking confused as he stood at his front door.
"My name is Videl, Videl Satan, daughter of the World Champion and winner of the Cell Games, Mark, Hercule Satan." Videl finished as she stared up at the towering giant that was Ox-King. "And I need to know because someone is trying to scare my dad into forcing these people out of hiding and I need to know why!"
"Someone's trying to force Mr Satan to bring out my friends?" Ox-King said looking even more confused. "I don't see what good that would do them."
"That's not what I asked, I asked where could I find them?"
"Look Videl, even if I knew where they all were I wouldn't tell you. I'm not the kind of person who gives away my friend's locations to random people." Ox-King said as he turned away to walk back into Goku's house.
"Very few amongst the people from the Cell Games were entirely human were they?" Videl said making the Ox-King pause in the doorway.
"It took me a long time to even get this address... you guys most know some pretty wealthy people." Videl added.
"Well there's not a lot of normal humans either, so what's your point?"
"My point is... Is that when I had some big names try to send some of the blood that I acquired from the two main sites that these warriors were last seen at, one being the Cell Games and the other being the Intergalactic World Tournament held by X.S. Cash, to Capsule Corp one of the best if not the best companies in the world, for in-depth analysis, they never received the results nor any of the blood samples sent. Now, why do you think that happened?"
"I wouldn't know, I'm not a doctor." Ox-King replied.
"However I will tell you something that we managed to find out from one of the samples... the sample that one of the scientists examined happened to be the D.N.A of one Son Gohan. Son to a Son, Chi-Chi, and a Son Goku. Both Son Goku and his son Gohan were unique patients at Wukong Hospital who recovered surprisingly fast from near-fatal injuries astounding the doctors there."
"I see you've done your homework..." Ox-King said as he stepped back away from the door opening.
"And that's why I need your help to finish off my search... Ox-King."
"You need not worry about your father... my grandson will be at that tournament alongside his comrades from the Cell Games." Ox-King said as he turned and stared at Videl.
"But it would be so much easier if I found out why the people threatening my father are after them." Videl replied as it became obvious to her that Ox-King was not going to give her any more help on the search.
"It's not your father they are concerned with... it's my grandson that they're after, your father is just a way for them to get in contact with him."
"So my father and the world tournament are just bait?!"
"Look if you really want to find out about my friends and family, this is not the way to go about doing it. Just enter the tournament, you'll see for yourself." Ox-King replied as he sighed and made his way back into the house.
"You're really sure that the boy... will be at the tournament?"
"I'm totally sure. Just be at the tournament in nine days."
"Really you'll let us go?!" Miu said to her grandfather as she and Shigure stared at the elder in shock after Hayato had agreed to Gohan's request to take her, Kenichi and Shigure out on the town.
"Like Gohan said you have earned some time off. So this will be the best time before the tournament for you three to relax." Hayato said.
"Wait a minute... I sense a catch here." Gohan said sounding suspicious.
"There is... but I won't tell you." Hayato said with a glint in his eyes.
"Well, I guess that's all we're going to get from you." Gohan sighed. "What do you guys want to wear for the trip?"
"Huh?"
"You didn't think I was going to make this a normal day, did you? It's a day off of training so we need to enjoy it while it lasts."
"But we don't have the money for fancy clothes."
"Don't worry about that... Gohan said as he raised his hands. "Just tell me what you guys want to wear."
Satan City
"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh oh my gosh!" Miu said as she kept looking at her clothes at every moment.
"Man.. you guys really love your clothes!" Gohan laughed as he took the gang out.
"Does that mean that you made the clothes for the Shinpaku Alliance?" Shigure asked as she too looked at her clothes.
"Yes and no." Gohan said as Miu placed her left hand in his and her right in Kenichi's.
"What do you mean?" Kenichi said.
"My master, Piccolo created the material, I just helped with the design." Gohan said as he put his free hand in Shigure's.
"Interesting." Shigure replied as her cheeks went a rosy pink from Gohan's familiar comforting grip.
'Since we don't know what kind of thing Hayato Sensei has in store for us it will be more appropriate if we spoke to one another like this.' Gohan said as he mentally communicated with Kenichi. 'Especially as he doesn't know that we can communicate like this.'
'Sure!' Kenichi replied as he made sure not to give away the fact that he and Gohan were mentally communicating.
"While we're here we might as well check out the town, I haven't had much need to come down this way besides meeting up with my old friends and other masters."
"So your masters live around here?" Kenichi said also blushing from Miu's grip.
"Yep. In fact, you already met one of them."
"You don't mean... Miu began.
"Yes, Vegeta was one of my masters but I trained him just as much as he trained me... maybe more." Gohan said as he thought back to the intense training sessions that he had, had with the prince and what being a Saiyan meant to the cold warrior.