The tournament had been going all day, and the last match was finally at hand, Son Goku Vs. the newcomer Ranma Saotome. They stood across from each other on the large concrete ring, and waited for the announcer to finish his pre-fight spiel. Both of them had neutral looks on their faces, as they mentally prepared for what was to come. Goku was sure he could handle his opponent, but he was curious as to what he was going to do next, Ranma had yet to show his true potential, and Goku definitely wanted to know what he was going to do.

Ranma on the other hand knew he was in for the fight of his life. His Goku was probably at least ten times more powerful than he was now. This Goku was beyond that; this Goku was easily a hundred times more powerful than he was. And the only hope he had was he had to go with everything he had, and hope he got VERY lucky.

Only Human

By Verse12

Verse12 (At) Hotmail (Dot) Com

Disclaimer:

By do not own these characters nor do I claim too, this is a simple fan based homage. Their creators and the companies they work for and with own the characters and all that pertains to them. (I.E. Rumiko Takahashi, Viz, Shougakukan, Pioneer LDC, Hiroki Hayashi, Ryoe Tsukimura, Akira Toriyama, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Artmic, Youmex, Bandai, C2) This is just fans of the shows expressing their love for it for fun, no profit is involved or expected thank you.

Chapter Twelve

Ranma & Ifurita's Excellent Adventure Special

Or

Overflowing

The announcer had left the stage and signaled the beginning of the match, and the two fighters looked across at each other, each one measuring the others skill and power.

"Hey," Ranma called out, "lets do this," he said with a smirk. And at that Ranma's power level skyrocketed, and in the same millisecond he flickered from where he was, and reappeared behind Goku's back with a right cross coming at his head.

Of course Goku sensed that, and flickered as well, leaving Ranma to swing through his afterimage, who then doubled over from the shin kick Goku delivered in retaliation.

Ranma swung a back fist at his opponent and barely clipped his chin. Ranma used this momentary respite to flip back away from the Sayia-jin; he continued to back flip until he was all the way on the other side of the ring.

Goku smirked at the human across from him and rubbed his chin in amused surprise, While Ranma called out, "nice kick."

"Thanks," Goku yelled out, "I'm surprised you could follow me even at this level."

"Well I may have a few surprises left in me," Ranma responded.

"Really?" Goku said with an interested smile, "I'd like to see that."

"Well I'll do what I can do to accommodate you," the former Neriman resident replied with his own smile.

Meanwhile up in the luxury box the family and Z-Senshi who had not entered the Budokai laughed at the sight before them. Imagine a regular human who thought he could even compete with Goku.

Piccolo though of course was not laughing not that he would anyway, but he had overheard some things from down in the ring that had left him thinking.

"I wouldn't laugh to much," he finally grumbled to the others in the room.

"Huh? Whys that Piccolo?" the Krillan of this reality asked with a confused expression.

"Theirs more going on here than we know, these guys are up to something," the big Namekian grumbled in his deep bass voice.

"What do you mean," Yamcha asked with a worried tone of voice, afraid of being caught up in another life and death struggle. "I mean sure he's strong but he doesn't seem to even be as strong as that Kilroy guy from earlier.

"Maybe," the green skinned warrior said, in a tone that left no dispute that he didn't think so.

"Look that guy's up to something," Bulma called out as she leaned out the window.

When the saw and felt what Ranma did, well lets just say some jaws dropped.

Ranma had let the smile fade from his face as he powered up with a roar, "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Goku frowned as Ranma's power grew and grew until he let out one final shout and the ground shook with his roar and the concrete cracked. Goku cast his senses at his opponent and was mildly shocked, not that his power was anywhere close to his but he was very strong for a human, about as strong as Goku himself was when he first came to the planet Namek.

Ranma smirked as energy sheathed his body in a torrent of power, "this is nothing, watch this."

"KAIO-KEN TIMES TEN," he roared as his aura exploded to blinding levels. And while Goku was temporarily shocked, by someone else knowing this move Ranma made his move and flickered out of sight.

A hard right cross that lead instantly into a knee to the stomach caught Goku off guard. And while he had the initiative Ranma pressed in and followed up with a reverse vertical roundhouse kick that launched Goku high into the air and left Ranma standing on the ring with one leg pointed straight up above his head while the other was firmly on the ground.

While Goku was soaring into the air by Ranma's kick he began to shake off the effects easily. In fact it wasn't the attack that affected him so much as it was the shock of what Ranma had done. Of course Ranma wasn't going to let up for even an instant and even as Goku began to regain his bearings Ranma had flickered down on the ring and reappeared just above Goku and brought his hands down in a duel overhand blow that sent Goku instantly down into the concrete ring.

The explosion of dust and debris was thrown high into the air when Goku impacted the ring. The shocked silence that followed up that move was broken by Ranma as he floated high in the air, as he roared, "KAAAA - MEEEE - HAAAA - MEEEEE - HA!" With that Ranma brought his hands forward and let lose a brilliant beam of light straight at where Goku had landed.

The glare from the blast blinded the eyes of the spectators in the luxury box, and left them blinking in shock.

"How?" Bulma asked in shock, with a stunned expression on her face.

Piccolo's eyes narrowed as his vision cut threw the glare much easier than a human's could. "He's strong, much stronger than his friend, in fact he's the strongest human I've ever seen."

The Krillan of this universe frowned down at the ring and stroked his graying mustache, "he's stronger than I ever was." He smiled slyly, "but it looks like Goku isn't going to be anyone's punching bag," he said as he gestured to the center of the ring as Goku burst out of the piles of concrete.

"My question is how did he learn the kiao-ken?" Android 18 said in her usual monotone manner.

"Not only that," Piccolo said as he watched Goku shake off the concrete dust that covered his blue tunic. "I want to know how he hid his power so perfectly from all of us."

"Your right," Krillan nodded with a frown, "usually even if you tamp down your power level one of us can usually get some sense, even if its just the fact that something is being hidden."

Piccolo nodded at this statement and he frowned, "watch his movements."

"Huh?" Dende said with a confused frown, as he looked at Ranma as he floated back down to the damaged ring, to join Goku, "what do you mean?"

"This Ranma," the big Namekian said, "he was using what looked like Kame Ryu style, but now he seems to have switched to some other school, he's tricky."

Goku's grin split his face as he looked across at his opponent. "WOW, that was something," he said with innocent amazement.

"I aim to please," Ranma said with a grin of his own.

"Now though it's my turn," the Saiya-jin warrior said with a suddenly fierce grin. And before Ranma could respond Goku flickered from view, and reappeared next to Ranma while throwing a punch at his face.

Goku's fist though went straight threw his human adversaries afterimage. The reverse then happened as Ranma counterattacked. This actually went on for several seconds as they disappeared and reappeared all about and above the ring.

Finally though as Goku came in for a hard right, thinking that Ranma would once again evade in the normal manner, he was shocked by what he did. Ranma grabbed Goku's wrist with both hands and slipped down between Goku's legs pulling his arm with him. The end result was Goku ended up flipped end over end and landed flat on his back.

In fact he lay there for a moment blinking owlishly, 'how did he grab me like that?' he thought. After that he flipped back on to his feet, with a grin, 'I want to find out, that's for sure.'

What began then was a series of attacks and feints by Goku, that Ranma evaded and flowed around with a graceful style that has not been seen by the Z-Senshi.

After about five minutes of this Goku jumped back and frowned at his opponent. 'He's reading my moves,' he thought with a shocked frown.

'He's using this style of his to bend around my moves instead of meeting me head on like I'm used to.'

'He's sneaky,' he thought with a sudden smile, 'this is shaping up to be kind of fun. I always like to see different kinds of fights, and any kind of challenge is cool.'

Over in the fighter's waiting room the assembled warriors watched with varying degrees of shock and confusion. "THIS ISN'T POSSIBLE!" Vegeta roared, "He isn't even as strong as Freiza was, how is that pitiful little nothing of a Human even daring to try to match a Saiya-jin warrior. Even one as stupid as Kakkarot," The Prince of the Saiya-jin finished with a snarl.

The Krillan that has been traveling with Ranma for so long leaned against the window as he watched the fight outside. "Raw strength isn't everything," he remarked to the furious Saiyan Prince, without taking his eyes from the fight.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY YOU LITTLE PUKE!" Vegeta shouted as he spun to face Krillan.

"Just what I said Vegeta," Krillan said as he turned to face the angry Saiya-jin. "A little strength combined with A lot of skill can even things out a lot, in terms of martial arts." With that the short human turned back to watching the fight, his final mumbled comments drowned out by Vegeta's furious rebuttal, but what he said was, "it can overcome a lot, but it's not going to be enough today."

The fight between Ranma and Goku went on for several more minutes. With Ranma using his superior skills in the art to read Goku's moves. But that wasn't all he was doing, this wasn't his Goku but he was close enough for Ranma's purposes. Ranma knows Goku's style and this one is using Kame Ryu and Kai Ryu styles, it's easy for him to read the moves he was going to do.

But something was spoiling Ranma's enjoyment of this fight, 'he's holding back on me,' he thought with a frown,' and if I'm right he's holding back a lot.'

With that thought Ranma flipped backwards to the other side of the ring and he frowned at his opponent across from him. "Goku, can you please respect me enough to not play with me."

"Huh?" the Sayia-jin responded intelligently.

"Let me see your true power... Go all out, please," Ranma said with a determined air.

Goku frowned at that from his spot several yards away, before he floated back a few more feet and nodded, "okay."

As he stood there the sky began to darken as clouds began to roll in, and began to spin about in the sky directly above Goku.

Power began to flicker about Goku's body as a low growl began in the back of his throat and his eyes began to glow and lost that innocent air that always exists in the back of Goku's eyes.

A tremor began in the ground as things started to shake, and Goku's aura began to grow to blinding intensity.

Then Goku threw back his head and let loose a loud roar, as his hair turned golden and his form bulked up slightly.

"Super Saiyan," Ranma whispered.

Goku's power died down momentarily before he yelled out again as he and his hair grew.

"Level two," slipped quietly from Ranma's lips.

All went quiet before a deafening bellow came from Goku's lips that shattered glass for blocks his battle aura exploded outwards shattering the ground under his feet and causing loose debris to float in mid air. As this happened he grew even larger and his hair grew down to his mid-back, while his forehead sloped and his brow grew more pronounced, giving him a slightly menacing face.

"I knew there was a level beyond level two," Ranma whispered in stunned amazement. 'Gohan was so close to breaking into this level while he was fighting Supreme Cell,' the human warrior thought.

"Thank you," Ranma called out to his opponent.

"No problem," Goku nodded before he... disappeared, and before the impulses in Ranma's brain could register this he was hit faster and harder than he had ever thought possible.

Moments later Ranma fell to the ground in a bloody heap, his body mangled and broken, but he was still alive. And much to Goku's surprise he was conscious, Ranma lay on his back on the concrete looking up at the sky as the clouds formed by Goku's transformation disappeared. One eye seemed completely swollen shut, Ranma noticed distantly before he turned his head wearily toward Goku and mumbled around his swollen jaw, "Thanks."

"No problem," Goku murmured as he returned to his normal state. Ranma groaned and tiredly draped one broken arm over his face.

Goku was about to go get help for the injured man when he heard Chi-chi's 'VOICE OF DOOM' screech from behind him "SON-GOKU, IF YOU DON'T GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW, I will NEVER COOK FOR YOU AGAIN!"

Hearing his wife's pronouncement Goku's face fell and a look of such horror appeared that some who saw it felt like the very fiends of hell were upon him. With a speed that astounded even the other Z-Senshi Goku flickered and appeared before his confused wife, ready to fall to his knees and BEG for her pronouncement not to come to pass.

But before he could stop levitating Vegeta roared a thunderous "STOP," causing all to look to him and Goku to stay floating a few inches off the ground. "You idiot," he muttered while shaking his head, "even if you deserve it I will not let a pathetic human defeat a Sayia-jin, it's obvious the woman didn't say anything."

"But? I heard Chi-chi, yell," Goku questioned.

"But I didn't," the woman in question said in confusion.

Vegeta cut off any more discussion, "the fool in ring had something to do with this I'm sure," he said with a glare at Ranma, as he lay out on the ring barely conscious.

"Well… it was worth a shot," Ranma murmured through his pain before he fell unconscious.

"Showoff," Krillan muttered good-naturedly before he strode out to collect his friend as the announcer named Goku the winner.

As Krillan reached his friend he winced as he saw him and the shape he was in, 'just had to see how strong he was huh?' he thought with a shake of the head.

As he leaned over and hefted the larger man over his shoulder he brought the signet ring on his finger to his mouth, "hey guys, you better make you way over here. I think we are going to have to explain things," he said.

"Is Ranma all right?" Ifurita's voice is heard from the ring, it's L shaped emblem plainly visible on its surface.

"Yeah," Krillan replied with a smile "I'll make sure he's all right, just get over here to help explain things."

"Okay, we copy we'll make out way over there as quickly as we can," Ifurita responded.

"See ya soon," Krillan said as he adjusted Ranma on his shoulder and began to walk toward the fighter's waiting room.

"ALL RIGHT HE LOST, NOW WHAT'S GOING ON HERE," Vegeta roared at Krillan in anger.

"Hey, lets get Ranma up and about and then we can talk, okay?" Krillan said defensively. "Let me put him down over here on the table and then we can see."

Krillan set down Ranma and went over to his bag by the wall, "now what," Vegeta muttered angrily.

"He's out cold, how are you going to give him a senzu bean?" Gohan asked in confusion, "we need to get him into a healing tube first, he's pretty hurt, or maybe get Dende."

"I've got something a little better for situation's like this," Krillan said with a cocky grin, as he rummaged through his bag.

"And what's that?" Videl asked in confusion.

"That, is this," Krillan exclaimed with triumph as he pulled out a circular disk made of a stone like material with a matching band over the middle. (1) With a smile Krillan slipped the band over his hand and walked back over to Ranma, "this will help enough so we can get him a senzu."

"This is a device here is one I obtained a couple of years back, it will heal him enough to get a senzu in him," Krillan said with a grin as he waved the disk in his palm over Ranma. A soft glow came from the disk as it radiated over Ranma, "only people with certain genetic trait can use this, now give me a minute to concentrate," with this the short man closed his eyes and concentrated on the healing device as Ranma's wounds lessened and eased.

"Look," Goten said in amazement, "that's pretty cool, like having Dende's healing powers in a hand held gadget."

"What kind of power cell does that thing use anyway," Trunks asked once Krillan stopped using the healing device?

"Whoa," Krillan murmured as he staggered and leaned against the table, "uh, I don't really know all of that, and the stuff it's made of doesn't even exist in this universe."

"You okay?" Goku asked in concern.

"Yeah, I'm okay, this just takes a lot out of you."

"You'd better be okay, all we need is for both of you to pass out," the prince of the Sayian's said sarcastically, "So when will the idiot wake up."

"Now, you prince of nothing," Ranma muttered as he stirred on the table.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY, YOU &#$," Vegeta roared.

"Simmer down Vegeta," Goku said with a shake of his head. "You okay?" he asked Ranma as he walked over to him and handed him a senzu.

"Yeah I'm all right, I'll be even better once I eat this, thanks," Ranma, replied with nod as he chewed the bean.

"OH YEAH," he exclaimed as he was restored to full vitality.

"Defiantly better now," Ranma said with a cocky grin.

"Great, now you can give me some answers," Vegeta jumped in.

"Yeah how did you do that thing with my voice?" Chi-chi asked.

"Yeah, did you do that?" Goku questioned.

Ranma looked over to Krillan and rolled his eyes, "yeah that was me, and as to how I did it… well lets just say that the way we travel has certain side affects. And one of them gave me the power to duplicate any voice or sound I have ever heard."

"How you travel?" Trunks asked in an intrigued fashion.

"Yeah," Krillan began and glanced over at Ranma before returning his attention to the others, "what do you know about alternate realities."

To be continued:

In Only Human: Chapter 14

A scene from chapter 14

"Yeah, in our reality Goku and Bulma got married," Ranma, said nonchalantly with a smirk.

"KAKKAROOOTTTTT!" Vegeta roared, "YOU AND MY WIFE! YOU… ARE… A… DEAD MAN!" With this Vegeta's power exploded in a torrent of energy as he flew at Goku with all of his strength.

Footnotes:

(1) – Yes to all of you Stargate Sg-1 fans out there, this is in fact a healing device like the one found in the season two episode "Thor's Chariot"

Endnotes:

Once again I am soooo sorry for taking so long to update. I have actually had the bulk of this chapter written for sometime. But then my PDA broke, and other Real Life issues took most of my desires to write with them. Also part of this story was accidentally deleted and I had to restore some of what I had already written, and let me tell you that was not fun to do I hate to rewrite stuff.

I originally had planned to finish this part of the story with this chapter, but after reaching a pretty good length I didn't want to delay anymore. So I figured that I needed to just cut it off here and finish the explanations and wrap up in a new chapter.

I won't make any promises on what will and won't be updated next. Every time I try to predict what will be my next thing it usually is wrong. So I will just tell everyone still reading this that I plan on finishing my stories and I haven't given up on anything. I am already working on the next chapter though.

And once again thanks to my prereader Taurock on this one.

Oh and one more thing, I have totally changed "Big Sister Interlude one" and the changes will have a bareing on this one so let me know what you think.

So once again let me know what you think and please review.

Thanks again, later.

Signed: Verse12