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Chapter 12: Goodnight Moon ~ - . . - ~ Dragon Ball Saga

Pain.

That was the first thing he noticed. He couldn't think of anything, his whole body was wreaked with the feeling.

Then he saw the light, it was almost blinding. From dark to light was never a good transition. It hurt.

Then he felt his energy. It was higher than ever before, but it was starting to waver. The body he was in couldn't handle it. His hold on it was slipping.

It was released in a spherical blast from the center of his being. An extremely small one, but it was visible none the less.

He was clenching his mouth. Teeth against teeth. The sound was almost like that of finger nails on a chalk board. The pain of that in his brain was barley anything compared to that which was wreaking his body, but this fresh pain allowed him to see.

They were still falling. The ape was holding the somewhat extended red pole in one hand, and punching it with the other. He would never break it, of course, but this gave Yamcha the opportunity he needed. The Ape was facing sideways, and slowly moving closer to him as they fell through the air.

His tail… Must cut…

The clarity from before was gone. One moment, he was thinking up all sorts of solutions of how to escape a dimension. The next minute, he couldn't think without it hurting.

Which is why he made his hand into a blade, aka, a Hand Sword. Flexing his muscles to do this also caused him to wince in pain, which only caused his body to hurt even more.

Come on… Bear it for Pu'ar… For Oolong… For Bulma.

And so he did. He took it to heart and pushed his body beyond its limit. Keeping the power he used on his freshly made sword low for now, he waited for the ape to get just a bit closer.

He swung his arm and felt some resistance.

Yes, I cut it off! Thank kami, I didn't know if-

His thoughts were cut off when he saw through the initial blood to see that he was wrong. Yes, he cut the tail, but the tail of a 10 story monkey is pretty thick. The cut didn't go all the way through, it wasn't even half way through. His Hand Sword hardly got any bigger from pouring all his power into it, he just wasn't strong enough. Not only that, but because of equal and opposite forces, his down-wards swing made him start to spin backwards, like he was doing a backflip.

"GRAAAAH!"

The alien once transformed let out a mighty roar, and let go of the pole. It looked around, and saw nothing. Until it saw the ground nearing it. It did not like the ground. It wanted to destroy the ground. It readied a punch.

Yamcha saw it too. Except he was heading for it head first.

I don't have enough power to stop myself! And falling at this speed, being this damaged… What was the 'darkness', the one that the other 'me' was talking about, thinking?! Well, the only way to land alive is to fall on something soft…

He looked over towards the Giant monkey, who wasn't paying attention at all. His flip was almost complete, he would have another swing at his tail soon. He would have to get a bit closer though, and knowing how to fight in 'zero gravity' from his previous life's trainings helped him do just that.

Basically standing on top of the ape, he grabbed the tail's hair with one hand, planted his feet in goku's back, and swung his arm.

The Ape gave a mighty roar, and started to slowly revert back to his normal size. He didn't finish shrinking, though, until he hit the ground.

The force was incredible, shaking the ground for miles in each direction, and was registered by the nearest town to be an earthquake on a magnitude of 1.9, but was dismissed as some seismic activity..

Yamcha faired pretty well, actually. He was standing on the monkey's back when they hit the ground, so there was some cushion underneath him. Not only that, but his legs held up a nice amount of shock. His legs were burning at this point, and he involuntary fell off of them. He laid down for a couple of seconds before Goku shrank so much that Yamcha fell off his ever condensing naked body.

Well, at least I can now take a short rest before Goku wakes up… oww.

He closed his eyes.

"IV, what is wrong?" A voice came.

"Not everything went as expected. Yes, we pulled out the right person, but because of his high power level and the large amount of magic that was laid upon him, we ran into several problems bringing him here. His soul was, and still is, attached to his original universe. To keep him here, we had to pin his soul to this universe as well, although the binding isn't as strong as we had hoped. To keep him here better, X was removed and placed within him. But again, we have had further trouble with that, for X has already surfaced several times. We believe that the subject will be able to hold him in only a couple more instances. Another problem is that we had no place to put his soul from this universe, so we had to keep him anchored in that body as well. This will cause other problems, but the effects are so far unknown. The subject's power is also currently higher than projected, but it seems to be tapering off a bit. This suggests that he has finally mastered this body, and now has full control over his current power. VII has given us no more information on his being, so this is all we are able to determine.

"Hmm… well then. That gives me a lot to think about. Continue monitoring and hold more tests, we have tampered enough for now. Giv-"

"Sir, I have just received news that he is currently listening in right now. We have no idea how, but our best assumption it is because of our link with X and his weak, but somewhat potent, physic powers."

"Try to terminate the link immediately. There is nothing else to say for now, except to give me updates once a week. Good job IV, keep up the good work."

"Thank you."

"YAMCHA!"

He awoke with a start, and started to sit up, but his stomach muscles cramped half way, and he fell over on his side. "OWOWOW!"

"Oh my Kami, thank Kami you are not dead… What happened?!"

Yamcha looked up at her and saw tears in her eyes. He then realized she was pointing to something, and followed her finger all the way out to Goku, who was lying naked a couple feet away. It was hard to see him, though, because of how dark it was.

"I will tell you, oww, later. Is everyone else ok?"

His eyes were still laid upon Goku's outline, so he couldn't see Bulma looking at him. But he could almost feel her emotions, worried, frightened, scared. And not just of Goku, but of himself as well. She must have saw some of the bloody fight, and see him when he was not himself.

"Ya, everyone is ok. Some of us have bruises from falling pieces of houses, but nothing compared to you. Are you sure you are ok? You're covered in blood…"

"I'm sure most of it isn't mine, all the pain feels deep, like bruising. I'll definitely live. We can NOT tell Goku about this, though. Ok? Oh, hey Pu'ar, hey Oolong."

"ARE YOU OK?" The little cat said, while getting out the first aid he made Oolong bring, and started applying whatever he could to Yamcha.

"What do you mean we can't tell him!?" Bulma exclaimed. "He is a monster, and he almost killed you!"

"Well, he didn't, and now he isn't." Yamcha said, pointing to the tail laying down on the ground. "The tail is the thing that lets him transform. That, and looking at a full moon. He told us a story last night, back in my time. Remember his grandpa, the one he talks about every once in a while? He told Goku never to look at the full moon, and to stay inside because a monster comes out during a full moon. He probably had to deal with a baby Goku going 'great ape'. He wouldn't really be all that powerful as a baby, but it happened one more time when Goku got older. He crushed his grandfather, and to this day, thinks that the monster was the one who did it. To tell him that it was himself who killed his grandfather, it would be brutal to him."

"Well, why not lay it on him? I don't see what the problem is!"

"You know the whole legend of King Piccolo, right? The demon that scourged the earth and almost set us back to the Stone Age? He looks like a butterfly compared to some of the people Goku is eventually going to have to face. And no, I cannot beat them. I'm not even supposed to be here. He has to do it, he has to save us all. I will tell him about himself one day, but until then, please don't say a word to him."

"If you say so… and are you sure you are ok, you look terrible! Your bruised everywhere, scrapes all up your arms…" she paused, looking at his muscles. "Anyways!" she said, shaking her head "Let me get everything together, I'll go get Goku and throw some of Oolongs cloths on him, Pu'ar, go ready some more first aid, and Oolong, go open your car home. Since the house was destroyed, we can use that until the sun comes up. Ok? BREAK!"

They all lifted their hands into the middle, touching finger to finger. Even Yamcha, laying down, was putting his hand in at a 90 degree angle. Then they all raised their hands straight up, and left in all different directions, except for Yamcha who was left in the middle of it, still laying down. The towering car seemed to poof out of nowhere, and then the pig left sight behind closed doors. There was a rumbling from the car, but that wasn't the engine that was running, it was much gentler, like a water heater. They must have refilled the water in it at some point.

My dream… That felt too real. What was that? I wasn't here for that. But no one else had my body either. X, IV, and VII… Right? Are those positions for some organization, names, military ranks, species, pecking order, or something else entirely? And X is here, in me… Wait, I remember that the me from this universe said there was some evil feeling thing with us here. That is, if it is even who I think it is. They could always be trying to trick me… no, from what I saw, that's not right. Unless they are REALLY trying to confuse me… I should really stop thinking about this. I can't do anything about it now, so I should stop worrying about this, and-

"Yamcha!"

He opened his eyes to the sound of Bulma speaking.

"Come on, get off the floor! We will get you a bath, and then put you straight to bed. You also look a bit hungry…" She took a deep breath "OOLONG, MAKE SOME FOOD." And another breath in, smaller this time. "And your cloths are in tatters, if I remember correctly, you had some capsules in here…"

She boldly reached into his pocket, bushing up against his chest like it was her property. That caused a sharp pain to spike through that part of him and straight into his brain. It only showed in his face though, he remained absolutely still. He didn't think she could see in the darkness and at this angle, but she suddenly slowed down.

"YAMCHA, DON'T MOVE!"

Her hand flew out of his pocket, tossing whatever was inside. There was a couple of capsules, and a couple of sounds of them hitting the ground.

Then came the explosion.

Then, nothing.

Finally, parts of cars and pieces of fabric rained down from the sky. All small pieces, but it was everywhere. Bulma raised her arms up to protect her head, Yamcha just raised his power level and put everything into defending himself. He also hoped nothing hit him in the face. A piece of cloth did, and was stuck there until Bulma picked it up and put it next to her.

"… What was that?" Bulma asked.

"I don't know, what was that? Why did you throw my capsules?"

"Well, future boy, as you must know, I am one of the Briefs, the people who made all of the capsule inside your pocket. When I reached into your pocket, I felt one of them had a crack in it. Usually, it's not that bad, it's just a Plexiglass casing. But this was a big crack, and it ran from the button to the midsection. This is bad for one reason, whatever is inside could come out at any moment. And I really did not want a full sized car coming out and crushing you after you just beat back an angry Goku."

"Wow… thanks. I didn't even think of checking them."

"This is why you are supposed to keep them in the case. Anyways, let's get you inside, and clean you up. We will plan what happens tomorrow in the morning. I'm just wondering about one thing. Why did it explode like that?"

"Explode… OH! … oh… That, um, might be my RPG launcher I had…" Yamcha sheepishly said

"… I'm not even going to tell you what's wrong about all of that. Just get inside." Bulma demanded.

So without further ado, and a little help from his friends, Yamcha got inside, took a nice long bath, somehow managed to dress himself, ate a bit, and then promptly fell asleep.

"Mai, Soba, how close are you to home base?" a voice said, over a single radio that was made out of the combined parts of 2 different radios.

"We are still quite far, sir. Without any vehicles, it's going to take several hours to get there. So we started discussing, we should probably make camp for the night. One of my tent capsules fell out of my pocket that the pervert ripped off, so we would sleep in that tonight."

"WHAT? YOU 2 ARE GOING TO SLEEP TOGETHER! Kami, you should at least have SOME decency, Mai!" Pilaf yelled through the radio.

"No way sir! We would never do that! Soba is going to sleep outside under the blanket, while I sleep inside protected by the tent!" Mai pleaded to her green midget of a boss.

"Ah, I understand, proceed with the plan! But remember to get here quickly! I'm stuck inside this brick cage, and I wanted to eat my glorious meal after I became emperor of the world, so I'm STARVING!"

"Sir yes Sir! Good night lord Pilaf!"

'Sigh' "… Goodnight Mai. Goodnight Soba" He turned the TV radio off. "Goodnight Moon"

Although they didn't much sleep, most of the gang felt as energetic as a kid after eating an ice-cream Sunday. The sun was shining, all of the birds (both of them) were chirping uplifting songs, and the sky was SO blue. The gang got everything that owned packed up and capsuled away. It was difficult to find cloths for Yamcha, but he assured everyone that Master Roshi had clothing in his size. Goku wondered what happened, and Yamcha bushed it aside, saying that it was "a little fight I got into, no big deal". The Saiyan kid accepted it, and went to go look for the power pole. He tripped a couple of times on the way over to it, though, because of his lack of tail.

And then it was time to go.

"Well, Yamcha, Goku, goodbye. I hope to see you someday soon!" Bulma said, with a smile and a twinkle of tears in her eyes.

"Don't worry about it Bulma, we will both be at the next Tenkaichi Budokai. You can see us then, and that's when I'm coming to get you, Pu'ar. Oh, and Oolong, be good, ok?" Yamcha said.

"Ya ya, whatever." The pig said, looking away. He then looked back, out of the corner of his eyes, and smiled a bit.

"Goku, you better train well, ok! Yamcha was saying some pretty amazing things to you, it would be terrible to let me down! Oh, and Yamcha, here is the dragon radar, you could probably use it!" Bulma said loudly, as she tossed the newly fixed radar from the jet she was already nestled in.

"Ok Bulma, I promise I'll train hard!" Goku said.

"Well, I guess that's it, it's time to go! Come on Pu'ar, get in the jet already!"

Pu'ar looked at Yamcha, who looked the small cat straight in the eye. Everything that needs to be said is said, every emotion was trapped within that eye locking. Pu'ar started to tear up, and turned around. He flew as fast as possible to the jet and got in.

"Ok Goku" Yamcha said, turning around. "It's time to get on Kinton and fly over to master Roshi's. Let's go!"

"YA!" Goku said, jumping on. Yamcha jumped on after him.

And fell straight through.

Uch, I knew that would happen. "Hey, Goku, how about I just hold onto your foot, ok?" Yamcha asked.

"Umm, I don't know if that will work, but ok!" Goku replied.

And to make a long story short, it did.

Goku, the kid who was wearing cloths 2 sizes too small, was happily sitting on top of the yellow cloud, who in turn was leaving a yellow streak behind it, who in turn had an almost fully grown man hanging from it with only one arm, whose cloths were in tatters, and they were all flying over mountains, oceans, and trees.

It was definitely a sight to see.

Soon, they were at Goku's old place, and Goku went to get cloths. Yamcha asked if he had anything bigger, and he only had his grandfather's old cloths.

"Well, ya. Your strong, he's strong, and you 2 would get along. He would want you to wear them!" Goku said, with a smile on his face.

So the 2 left the same way they came, except dressed better and now with a couple of futons. They looked like master and son, although the only thing they had between them was a wonderful friendship.

"You know, I only met your grandfather twice. It's going to be nice to see him again."

"GRANDA IS ALIVE?" Goku said, in the most ecstatic voice Goku has ever managed so far in his life.

"Nope" The second this word left his mouth, Goku's energy dropped like a rock thrown off Kinton "But that doesn't mean that we won't see him again. Which reminds me… Goku, when we meet god, remind me to bring up your grandfather again, ok?"

"Kami? We get to meet God AND my grandpa? Oh boy, I'm so excited!" Goku said, basically jumping with joy. And I bet he would be, if I wasn't holding onto his foot.

"Well, you got to be strong enough to meet these amazing people. So let's take this training seriously, alright?"

"OK!"

Dragon Ball Saga END.
Tournament Saga START.

~ - . LAD . - ~

"I am going to do my re-writing and editing once I get to chapter 25."
Oh god, was I serious?

I'm barely on chapter 15 now… Well, it's a good thing I started editing them now. (Although I only found about 10 editing issue in this chapter…)

~ - . Q AND A . - ~

Q - I really liked this. I spent the first half wondering whose perspective it was in only to discover it was Yamcha, someone I never would have guessed. Really good writing. You may enjoy this site by the way... Dragonball_Revivals/index/
A – Why thank you! I really appreciate the good will vibe thing you have here, it's nice. :3
Bu for the site you posted, I looked for it on google, and got nothing. I'm always up for reading anything dragon ball related, so if you got something for me, send me a message!
This is also for anyone who wants me to read their story, just review this asking for a read, or send me a message. I'll read at least the first chapter, and more if I like it (and I haven't met a fanfiction (besides Dragon Ball GT) that I didn't like!)

Q - Great Chapter. I really enjoy a good Yamcha story. He is a really underrated character in fanfiction and in the Anime and always fell to the wayside. I did a really great job of developing him in this chapter and letting the read know his thoughts on his friends. It really goes a long way in explaining his personality. You forgot to mention Pu'ar though, I would think that he would think of her too.
A – Well, thanks for the huge review and the praise!
1. I know he is underrated, that's one of the reasons I picked him. I want to show that humans can be strong too, something that is kind of pushed to the side in DBZ. The other reason for the story is "well, what happens if we take someone who knows a lot about the DB universe, and stick them in the very beginning? Would that change anything, and if so, how much?"
2. Thank you! In this fanfiction, I also really want to focus on his relationship with the people that surround him. Also, developing his new, older personality and view on life is good for the story, to show this is not the same beta-male that we once knew. He is now the lone wolf.
3. I didn't mention Pu'ar? Really? Damn. Well, when I re-do the second chapter (the first chapter is already re-written, btw) I'm going to put more of Yamcha seeing Pu'ar, and not being able to get over the fact that he is alive again, with a whole extra life ahead of him.

~ - . POWER LEVELS . - ~

Yamcha pre-fight – 71

Yamcha power spike – Difficult for him to measure, but around 200 before he lost most of it.

Goku Pre-GA – 46

Goku Great Ape – 185-230-ish

Goku Tail Cut off – 39

(Yes, cutting a Saiyan's tail off reduces their power. Here, his tail cut off about 15% of his power. I might change this, but this little boost they get from having a tail is still nothing compared to going SSJ. Then again, this might count as a Zenkai, so I will have to put his power back up a bit. I'll sleep on it.)

(Yes, I decided that completely losing control of one's self, transforming into a giant monkey, and then passing out until morning because of how exhausted you are is a form of Zenkai, even though it's probably not that big at all.)

EDIT: Again, all power levels are subject to change because of some new way of calculating them. I will reveal more on this later, and after I play around with some numbers.