Revised version. Okay so this is my first dbz fic. I'm not sure if this has been done before but I liked the idea when it came to me. Hope this is better than my other story that imp writing.

Life Anew

Gohan gagged as he coughed up blood. He knew he wasn't much of challenge for the androids with one arm, hell he was barely a challenge with two. He laid waiting for the androids final attack on him and thought back on his life. From an early age he was forced into life as a warrior, and now it would take his life. He thought back to all the family and friends he had lost. His dad was the lucky one. He had died before the androids, before the world was damned. His sensei had died at the first attack from the androids along with all the other human Z fighters. Only he and Vegeta had made it along with Bulma and his mother. Mom. She had died when the androids came to their house looking for Goku. Gohan barely made it out alive. Gohan was 12 when Vegeta died. It was Vegeta's body that had triggered the transformation for him. He had come to see Vegeta as a father figure, his only tie to his heritage.

Then there was Trunks. Vegeta and Bulma's son, Gohan's apprentice, who now was the last hope for the earth. Gohan stared at the ki blasts coming down on him. So this was it. The end was finally here. He thought of his wife who he would see again in the afterlife, and with that he smiled. He shouted her name as the blasts rained down on him. His last defiance against the androids.

Gohan opened his eyes slowly, blinded by the light coming through a window. He sat up and looked around. He was in his old room in the mountains. 'How did I get here?' Gohan thought. He then got up and looked at himself in the mirror and gasped. He was in his six year old body. He then heard a voice he never thought he'd hear again, his mother's.

"Gohan breakfast is almost ready." Chichi yelled. Gohan froze at that. He then heard his mother call his name.

"Be right there." he hoarsely yelled back. He then turned back to the mirror. 'Is this heaven?' he asked himself. Then he remembered what his father told him of other world. 'No. This is nothing like what he said.' He told himself. There was no line. No giant red guy. No, this was not the otherworld. Then what was it? How did he get stuck like this?

Gohan looked into his closet to find a hideous combination of clothing, and the sayain armor he got on Namek. The only thing that would be sufficient was the gi, but knowing his mom she would not take that well. He then caught sight of a pair of jeans and a red short sleeve shirt, put that on and headed down to breakfast.

When Gohan got down stairs and saw his mom he froze again. There she was making breakfast like nothing was wrong. His mind flashed back to the last time he saw his mother.

Memory

A 10 year old Gohan landed outside his house and started in.

"Mom, I'm home!" he called out in the house. He got no response. "Mom!" he yelled as he went into the kitchen, and then into the living room. He stopped dead at what he saw. His mother was naked, beaten, and bloody on the floor. Gohan rushed towards her and checked for a pulse, he didn't find one. Tears rolled down his cheek as he started to cry, cradling his mother's body.

"She was a lot of fun." A cold and emotionless voice said. Gohan whipped around and looked into the eyes of Android 17. "She screamed like a whore as I took her." 17 told the young boy.

Gohan was livid, his eyes red in fury. He attacked the machine with a anger he had never felt, but before he could reach the smirking Android he was kicked hard in the side and sent flying through the house and into the woods. He tore out of there making a beeline towards his assailant. Android 18 laughed as he approached and when he threw his fist at her she mearly sidestepped it and put a ki blast to his face and sent him sailing to her brother. 17 caught the back of the Gohan's head and put him face first into the ground. 17 then grabbed Gohan's leg and swung him through a wall and out of the house and rolling on the ground. The Androids slowly approached the beaten boy and stood above him, staring at him.

"It's a little cold out here brother," Android 18 started, "shall we start a fire?" she looked at her brother when she finished talking giving him a small smile.

"Sounds like a great idea sis." Replied the smirking 17, and with that they turned around held their hands up and started sending dozens of ki blasts at the ruined house.

Gohan let out a weak cry as the house exploded and started to burn. He let his tears run freely as he saw his childhood home burn to a crisp with his mother's body inside. He looked up at the Androids as they laughed maniachlly before he blacked out.

End Memory

"Gohan?" Chichi asked tentatively as crouched down in front of him and wiped the falling tears of the memory from his eyes. Gohan gave out a strangled cry before launching himself into his mother's arms and started to sob. Surprised Chichi embraced her son, she soothingly told him every thing was fine. They stayed like that for a ten minutes as Gohan sobbed into her chest until he had calmed down.

Gohan backed out of Chichi's arms before he finally said something. "I love you mom." Chichi gave him a small smile before she pulled him into another hug.

"I love you to sweetie." She responded before letting him out of the hug and put her hands to on his cheeks. Chichi looked at him long and hard until she softly asked him what made him cry like that.

Gohan shook his head and put his hands on top of hers before he replied, "Something that no longer matters." With that he gave her a big smile and lowered their hands form his face. Seeing the look in his eyes Chichi knew not to press the subject and stood up.

It was then Gohan realized that his father was no where around, he couldn't even sense him. 'Must be before he came back from space.' He thought. He then heard his stomach growling telling him he was hungry. Chichi laughed before leading her son over to the table and sat down with him to eat. That was also when she noticed what her son had on

"Gohan why are you not properly dressed?" Chichi asked. Gohan gave her a funny look at that with a pancake stuffed in his mouth.

"I don't really like those clothes anymore." He told her. Chichi gave him a once over before she sighed and accepted what he said.

Gohan was surprised at how quickly she gave up before he continued with his breakfast. He was also surprised at how easily he got back into the swing of things with her after what had just happened. After he bawled his eyes out at seeing her alive, and that was when it hit him. He knew what was going to happen, he knew that the Androids were going to attack and this time he would be ready. He wasn't going to let any of his friends die, he wasn't going to let the world go to hell.

After Gohan had finished eating Chichi told him to go do his studies and once again he froze, again. He had forgotten all about his mother's dream about him being a scholar. He needed to train not study. Then an idea came to him.

"Mom if I finish early can I go outside and play?" Gohan asked his mother. Chichi stared suspicially at Gohan. He noticed this and gave the best pleading face he could. When Chichi saw this she caved.

"Alright." She told him

Gohan smiled as he turned around. Due to him being older than six he already knew everything. He wasn't going to be playing either; he was going to be training. Gohan went upstairs and started studying. He was done by the time lunch came. He sighed as he closed the last book thinking that all this would have taken him all day. It's nice being old, or at least older in the mind. He decided to sit for a while since lunch would be done soon and it would be stupid to go outside now. He then realized that although he was glad to have this second chance but how did he get it? Now that he thought about it things didn't seem to add up. He should be in otherworld, shouldn't he? This was making him curious. He didn't know anybody that had the power to do this. But before he could delve into this any further he sensed something. His head snapped up when he realized who it was. 'Shit' he thought. 'Today is the day dad comes back so that means Frieza will also be on his way.

Gohan rushed to his closet and pulled on the purple gi along with the Namekian shoes. He decided not to put on the white piece that goes around his neck. Being as quiet as he could be he lifted the window and flew out.

"Gohan, time to eat." Chichi yelled.