Thanks a lot for reviewing guys, I'm glad you're liking the story. So here's the new chapter. This one covers the Red Ribbon Army but rather than tell it slowly, I will be brief with it and leave some things out. Mostly because I don't want to tell the same story all over again so that I can get to where I diverged from the original storyline sooner.
Also I forgot this on the last chapter but I have changed the ages up a bit. Here are the current ages. I'll update it on the incoming time skip.
Goku – 9
Krillin – 10
Bulma – 15
Yamcha – 16
So that's it, hope you enjoy and don't forget to drop a review.
Dragon Ball Kai
Chapter 2
Red Ribbon Army
As he continued to search for his Grandpa's Dragon Ball, Goku ended up running into all sorts of trouble. Those Red Ribbon Army guys would not leave him alone and appeared to be everywhere he went. How they did that he didn't know but he was starting to think that maybe they had a Dragon Radar as well.
The boy pushed those thoughts aside from now as he ran up a flight of stairs up the Muscle Tower. These people had Suno's dad and other innocent people, forcing them to find the Dragon Ball. He had to find the Dragon Ball too of course but after Suno saved him from freezing to death and even gave him some warm clothes, the least he could do was help her dad.
Coming to the end of the flight of stairs, Goku found himself in a large circular room where a giant man stood with a blank look on his face.
"Intruder. You will die." Came the cold voice of the weird man.
"You're not the first to say that," Goku grinned as a fist descended on his small form, but he easily dodged the attack and delivered a kick to the man's side only to grunt in pain. "Wha! What are you, made of metal?"
He received no answer and, caught off-guard by the very weird man, was flung across the room until he hit the wall headfirst. The boy fell on the floor and frowned.
Loud slow footsteps closed in on him while he crossed his arms in thought.
Whoever this guy was, should really think about leaving these Red Ribbon guys. Someone so strong shouldn't be doing bad things like those guys.
The footsteps stopped and the large figure loomed over the small boy.
As a foot with the intention to flatten him on the ground came down on him, Goku pushed against the floor with his two hands, sending himself in the air, and flipped his body to land safely on the ground behind the giant man. Now free to attack, he brought his hands to his side and prepared to attack.
"Kamehameha!"
The blue energy attack shot out of his hands and met it's mark, engulfing the form of the giant man and even taking out most of the room's wall. Soon the harsh air came in and made the boy shiver but when he saw what his attack did, his eyes widened in horror. The giant man no longer had a head!
"I didn't mean to do that! I just wanted to beat him!" Goku let out in concern before hanging his head in shame, "Sorry..."
His horror was short-lived though as the giant man moved even without his head, taking a couple of steps forward before throwing a punch. The surprised boy was so out of it that he could do nothing to defend himself and ended up sailing across the room again.
Goku was on his feet almost immediately, his face reeling with shock, "W-What's wrong with you?!"
The boy swallowed a lump in his throat and took on a fighting stance, ready to attack the hulking figure that remained still, as if studying him. Eyes fixed on the enemy, Goku became aware of the fact that the giant man wasn't studying him, the thing simply stopped moving.
"Huh?" Confused, he went over and tapped the thing on the leg, causing it to fall over. "Well... I guess I won."
With that he continued to the stairs.
Goku gritted his teeth as a bead of sweat rolled down the side of his face. It really wasn't often when he was stumped on what to do during a fight, sure he'd been overwhelmed before, but he was never put in such a frustrating situation before.
After meeting Eighter, a good guy that helped him go further up Muscle Tower, the two of them had ended up facing some giant pink monster. Since Eighter was so strong, Goku though that the monster would be no problem, but neither of their attacks did anything to the thing.
'He's way too flabby and bounces off my attacks. If only he was firmer then I could...' He blinked when an idea began to form, 'Of course!'
Smiling, he moved to the room's wall and punched it, leaving a large gaping hole on the wall. Almost instantly the freezing air raged into the room making Goku and the pink monster tense up at the unbearable temperature.
Hugging himself with tattering teeth, Goku turned to Eighter to see him look like nothing was wrong. "Hey, aren't you cold?" His voice took an accusing tone.
"Oh. I am not affected by temperature so I'm fine."
That was convenient.
"Move over then!" Goku, finally unable to bear the cold, jumped into Eighter's jacket.
Meanwhile the giant pink monster grunted loudly as its body slowly began to freeze. Its flabby skin became cold and hard until it finally could not stand anymore and shattered into pieces.
"It worked!" Goku cheered with a laugh.
With the Red Ribbon Army gone from the cold village, Goku had left the place with his Nimbus, promising to return one day. Now he had another thing to do on his search for his Grandpa's ball. He wanted to get all the Dragon Balls so that the Red Ribbon Army did not make whatever wish it wanted.
On his quest to stop the Red Ribbon Army, Goku had to go through several fights until he finally attacked them head on in their base. Their weapons were no big deal and soon enough he found himself standing before the last of the army, one Officer Black.
"I will gather the Dragon Balls myself and make a real wish!" Black declared angrily, still seething at the fact his boss had wanted to make such a petty wish. To become taller. Hah! What a joke of a man. It was a good thing that he was dead now.
"You won't," Goku declared with a confident smile, "You Red Ribbon Army bad guys won't get what you want. I'll make sure of it."
Officer Black laughed at that, "Real brave of you but can you say the same after seeing this?!"
With a laugh the officer jumped out the window. At first Goku wondered what the man was thinking but the answer came quickly as the side of the room was completely torn off by a giant metal hand.
"Ha! Ha! How do you like my Metal Jacket!"
Goku took a couple of steps back when seeing the giant red robot, that's what Bulma had called things that looked like that, the officer had gotten into.
"Now you will die! You insolent pest!"
Officer Black laughed as he carelessly destroyed the buildings of the base with every step of the giant robot.
"NIMBUS!" Goku jumped high in the air as his yellow cloud appeared and took him closer to the giant robot.
Black swung wildly at the boy but wasn't able to land a hit as the nimbus maneuvered through each attack, at least until the Metal Jacket let loose a barrage of missiles. That's when Goku, not wanting a repeat of what happened last time, jumped off his Nimbus and pushed his hands forward.
"Ha!" A white-clear force shot out of his hands, halting the trajectory of the missiles and making them explode near the giant robot. With that done, Goku flipped through the air and landed safely on the ground, his eyes watching the black cloud of smoke carefully.
Seeing movement, he quickly jumped high in the air just in time to dodge a punch that tore through the ground. However, now in the air, he was not able to react quickly enough when the robot jumped and delivered a kick that sent him crashing against one of the base's buildings.
"Finally got you!" Black laughed.
Goku emerged from the rubble with a glare.
'I can't let him win now. There's no telling what he'll do if he keeps that metal thing!'
Filled with a renewed sense of duty, Goku brought his hands together and began to gather all of his energy.
"Kame..."
Gritting his teeth and closing his eyes in concentration so that he could put everything into the attack, the blue orb began to form on his palms though it was a darker blue, unlike the usual whitish-blue.
"Hame..."
Officer Black laughed and began to walk to the boy, confident in the Battle Jacket being able to take whatever attack the boy could dish out.
"HA!"
The familiar wave was unrecognizable. This one was not only darker, but it erupted from the boy's hand with such ferocity that it didn't look like the same attack.
"Fool! That won't do anything!" Black continued to laugh but just when the attack was moments away from the machine did he think that the attack looked dangerous.
The blue ki attack easily pierced the Battle Jacket on its center, causing a chain reaction that caused it to explode and leave behind a massive cloud of debris. Soon the Kamehameha died down and Goku put his hands down, a wave of exhaustion washing over him.
It was over.
No.
Not until Upa's father, Bora, was alive again.
Goku felt his eyes begin to close and decided that maybe he should take a small break before heading to find the last Dragon Ball.
He was snoring before he even hit the ground.
Master Roshi could not believe it even though he had seen it. Been there.
After hearing about Goku planning to fight the Red Ribbon Army all by himself, he and the others had agreed to go help him. However, what they found was not the base of the army, but a deserted base with destroyed buildings and a large crater near the center of the place.
At first they wondered if Goku had transformed but when they found him sleeping nearby, his clothes still on, they knew that it wasn't the case. His young disciple had vastly improved in just a couple of months. At first he'd been afraid that he'd have to teach his student to be humble all over again but when he woke up, grinning from ear to ear and telling them that he would find the last Dragon Ball in order to revive the father of a friend, he knew that he was mistaken.
Goku was still Goku.
Watching him fly on the Nimbus next to Bulma's ship, he knew that his student was well into the right path. Who knew how far he would go.
Power Levels:
Goku (Zenkai) – 3,000
Goku (Korin's Tower) – 4,000
Goku (Angry) – 5,000
Major Metallitron – 3,200
Eighter – 3,200
Buyon – 2,500
Officer Black – 1,500
Battle Jacket – 4,000
Short chapter I know but I mostly wanted to get this one out of the way. I did think about going through the whole thing slowly at first but decided against it since it is mostly unchanged except for Officer Black's Battle Jacket being from the anniversary special rather than the normal one.
