Episode 3 The Guardian
Uub opened his eyes, and was blinded by the sudden bright sun light. He was lying in the dry sand and Gohan was sitting next to him.
"Hey, you are awake!" – Gohan said.
"He is?" – Goten asked. Goten walked over to his brother and Uub. "You're right! So what happened to you back there?" – Goten asked.
"Yeah, one moment you were on the ground and the next you have killed 2 of those guys" – Gohan said.
"I… Don't know… I felt like…" – Uub began.
"I'll tell you what happened! Little Uub here destroyed our last chance of survival!" – Trunks said annoyed.
"What? What did I do?" – Uub asked confused. He couldn't see the three soldiers anywhere. "What had happened?" – Uub thought to himself.
"You don't remember anything do you?" – Gohan asked. Uub shook his head in response. "Well Trunks tried to get you to break the ropes, so we could escape. But suddenly you were out of control… and… you… well, what Trunks means is that, without those guys, we are completely lost, with no food or water" –Gohan said.
"That's exactly what I mean! And it's all your fault! If only you had done what I had asked you to do, then we wouldn't be in this situation!" – Trunks yelled angrily.
"I… am sorry" – Uub said. Trunks gave him one last angry look, and then he turned around and started running away.
"Trunks!" – Goten yelled. He was just about to run after Trunks, but he was stopped by Gohan.
"He'll come back, don't worry" – Gohan assured him.
"Yeah, you are probably right!" – Goten said. But they didn't have to wait long, because 60 seconds later, Trunks was flying right towards them.
"Guys! You won't believe this!" – He said with a huge smile, once he had landed. Clearly he had forgotten everything that had happened with Uub.
"What is it?" – Gohan asked.
"Its… I… you, follow me!" – Trunks said, very excited. "Has he found some way to get us out of all this?" – Gohan thought to himself. Trunks took off, and the others followed him. The flew over a sand dune and on the other side there was a large crater than reached down 15 feet.
"Whats that at the bottom?" – Goten asked.
"That's the best part!" – Trunks told him enthusiastic.
They all landed and started to climb down the wall of the crater. When they were about half way down, Uub started to be able to make out what it was. It was a young girl, who lay face down in the sand, with black hair to her shoulders and she was wearing something that looked like a red rope or fighting close. In front of her lay 7 gold balls.
"Is that… The dragon balls?" – asked Uub.
Back on earth:
"So… that's what happened…" – Goku finished. Everybody was standing on the lookout and had listened to his story.
"You stupid clown Kakarot! If you have hurt my son…" – Vegeta started, but was interrupted.
"Please Vegeta, not now" – Bulma stopped. She was the only one her husband listened to.
"Humph!" – Vegeta said angrily.
"Well what do we do?" – Chi-Chi asked.
"We need to find out where the boys are. Then we can redirect the room to that exact dimension" – Dende said.
"I don't get it" – Yamcha said.
"Basically the room is a portal. The right hourglass controls space, where you go. The left one controls time, when you go. If one gets destroyed it becomes unstable and starts sending everyone on the white platform, to different dimension. Luckily all the boys were on the platform at the same time, otherwise they could have been sent to different dimensions" – Piccolo said.
"Can I just use Instant transmission?" – Goku asked.
"No. The further you need to go, the more energy you need, and in order to travel through dimensions, you would need far more power than you could ever dream of Goku" – Piccolo said.
"But didn't Gotenks escape from the Hyperbolic time chamber?" – Krillin asked.
"Yes, but the hyperbolic time chambers dimension, was created as a parallel dimension with ours, and therefore required much less energy" – Piccolo explained.
"Why don't we just go in there and step out onto the platform?" – Vegeta said to them as if they were all a bunch of fools.
"The chances of getting send to the same dimension as they boys are slim to none and even if you were lucky and arrived in the same place. You would be just as stuck as they are!" – Dende said.
"How about the Dragon Balls?" – Pan asked.
"That wouldn't work" – Piccolo said.
"Why not?" – Pan asked.
"The dragon balls can't just pull people from any dimension you would like, there are not like a claw machine!" – Piccolo said, as if he was speaking to a child, even though she was 13.
"But you could just…" – Pan started.
"Pan, just let them deal with it. I am sure they know what they are doing" – Videl said.
Pan angrily away from the lookout. She reached the inside were Bra was lying on a velvet couch with her phone.
"And then I told him that… Pan, do you mind?" – Bra said.
"What?" – Pan asked angrily.
"Hang on, I gotta call you back. Whats up?" – Bra asked.
"You know how the guys are stuck in that other dimension? Well all of the others insist on going through a complicated line of events, but they don't realize that they could just use the dragon balls!" - Pan said.
"I don't know… Things always works for those guys, maybe you should just let them focus on getting them back" – Bra said.
"No way! Can I borrow the dragon radar?
On Planet Caruna:
"Sure is! And with them we can get back home!" – Trunks said.
"But who is that girl?" – Goten asked.
"I don't know… I ran back when I noticed the dragon balls…" – Trunks said.
"I think… That's Pan!" – Gohan said and started running down to her.
"He is right!" – Goten said and then he ran down there as well. Soon Trunks and Uub followed as well.
"Ugh… Where am I?" – Pan asked when she awoke after her father had shouted her name several times.
"You are safe Pan, don't worry!" – Gohan said.
"Gohan? Wow! I made it! Yes I actually did it! Take that Bra!" – Pan said happy.
"What? What is going on, Pan?" – Gohan asked strict.
"Well you see after you guys disappeared in the hyperbolic time chamber, then everybody started to rebuild the room, to get you back. But they were so stupid! I gathered the dragon balls and used Shenron to transport me and the dragon balls here! " – Pan said.
"And then we can use the dragon balls to wish us all back!" – Pan said happily.
"That's great, Pan. But don't you think you should have asked Dende or Piccolo about this first?" – Gohan asked.
"Relax! Let's just wish us back home, and then we can worry!" – Pan said.
"I don't know… There must be a reason; the other guys didn't figure this out" – Gohan said.
"You're right… I don't know if we should do this…" – Trunks said.
"Come if we don't try, we won't know!" – said Pan, and with that she reached out for the dragon balls, but when her hand was about a foot away a massive spark struck her hand.
"Argh!" – she shouted and jumped back. The balls started to emit small sparks to one another, until it looked like they had created an energy field between them. Then they started to hover in the air and rose to knee height. They started spinning and slowly gained speed and began to emit larger spark and soon the crowd was blinded by a giant light.
"What happened?" – asked Trunks as he rubbed his eyes.
"I don't know. But whatever it was, it's over now" – Gohan said and slowly opened his eyes.
But where there before was only the dragon balls, there now was a tall green namekian like creature too. He was wearing loose shaggy blue pants, and a blue long sleeved shirt beneath a green loose vest. His ears were pointy like a namekian, but he had no antennas. He was bald and had no eyebrows, and he stood there looking down on the dragon balls.
"Who are you?" – Trunks asked.
"I… Am Hogosha! Guardian of the dragon balls!" – the creature said.
Authors note:
Alright, the thing about power and Instant transmission, I think that deserves an explanation. Basically the further you have to go, the more energy you need. Goku is very strong and can therefore transport pretty much anywhere he wants in this dimension and probably in the next one too. But from there it gets tricky. Gotenks and Buu was able to escape from the chamber, without knowing the technique. But what they did back then was basically just an unstable and uncontrolled version of Gokus IT.
At least that's the way I see it.
(Did anyone notice how both this one and the last one started out by someone opening their eyes?)
P.S. "Hogosha" is Japanese for guardian, at least according to Yahoo answers :D