Chapter Two: Conversations
Summery: what if you could become who ever you wanted? Well, unfortunately, the one guy that god choose to offer that very thing to has a few screws loose, come in and see what he does with his new life.
Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with any legal rights to Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, or any other Dragon Ball Series in any way, shape, or form. I do not own Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, or any other Dragon Ball Series or any part of the merchandising, gaming, manga, anime, characters, or anything of the sort. Please do not sue me as I do not have any money. The only things that I own from this fic are my own original characters and the weird situation I come up with.
Series: YES, this is actually a Dragon Ball Z fanfic! I know I don't normally put a 'series' thing at the start of my fics, or a warnings thing for that matter, but I feel that they are both necessary since this fic seems like it's a Dragon Ball fic for the first 6-7 chapters. But at chapter 6 or 7 we will be jumping forward to the actual start of the Dragon Ball Z series (when Raditz arrives) and will be going from there.
Warnings: OC, Violence (It's DBZ, Duh), Language (Jacob says things that Goku normally wouldn't), Gender-Bending, Yaoi, , Bisexuality.
Pairings: Everyone:
NOTE!) Don't all of my fanfics seem to have a very important note at the beginning of the first chapter? Anyway, In this, the main character (Jacob) will become Goku when Goku is a teenager, before he actually gets married to Chichi. The story will then skip forward several years because it would be very boring to talk about what he does in the time between when he becomes Goku and when Raddiz arrives. After Raddiz gets to earth, then everything will start moving at normal pace. (Oh, and please not that Jacob isn't usually angry or crabby, he just has a really bad day in this chapter, which can make anyone bitchy)
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The last thing Jacob saw before he was dragged into the sky along with a large bundle of still packed-up camping things was his father sending him a reassuring smile, which wasn't actually all that reassuring at all.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH MY LIFE?!" Jacob shouted both in anger and in horror as he continued rising higher and higher into the black mass of clouds with the great dragon Shenron's head always only a short distance away.
All he could think of, over and over again, was 'Why me?'. Why was it that his life had to change? Why did he have to go from his own world to another one? Especially since that other world is most likely the DBZ world?
As his thoughts continued rushing from why to why the hell, Jacob started glancing around himself, wandering what was going to happen when the clouds finally let him go and disappeared. Will he fall? Will Shenron set him on the ground?
"CALM YOURSELF, HUMAN." Shenron said as gently as he could in that loud, rumbling voice of his, needing to speak to the young man about something and preferring to do it when he wasn't freaking out.
Hearing Shenron's loud rumbling roar, which is kind of hard to miss, Jacob looked up, wandering what the great dragon was about to do or say to him, and unsure if he really wanted to hear it at all. As he was kind of in the middle of freaking out, he really didn't like the idea of talking to a giant dragon that could swallow him up whole, not that he really has a choice in the matter.
"NOW, THERE IS SOMEONE I THINK YOU SHOULD TALK TO, YOU WILL BE LIVING HIS LIFE FROM NOW ON AFTER ALL." The dragon said loudly as a another figure slowly emerged from the black clouds that surrounded them. "FROM WHAT I KNOW OF YOUR WORLD, I THINK YOU SHOULD ALREADY KNOW THIS MAN VERY WELL." the dragon added as Jacob was finally able to see who it was that he would be switching with.
The moment he saw the tan skin, wild black hair, and deep onyx colored eyes, Jacob's jaw fell open, though it wasn't caused by surprise so much as it was caused by horror.
"NO FUCKIN WAY!" He shouted in horror, knowing exactly what Goku's life was going to involve. "THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY I'M LIVING HIS LIFE! NOPE! NOT HAPPENING! My life is already screwed up enough as it is, dying every other fuckin year is NOT what I would call an improvement!"
Apparently, the idea of living the life of someone that gets killed all the time and ends up having to fight every single evil guy in the universe isn't nearly as appealing as you would think. Sure, everyone dreams of having a super hero's life, but have you ever stopped and considered what that would involve? Well, apparently Jacob had, which is why the very idea of doing exactly that wasn't exactly on the top of his wish list. Ironically, he's probably the only person in the entire world that doesn't think that switching places with a super hero would be anything other then a nightmare, and yet, he's also probably the only person in the universe that actually has to do it.
Isn't life just funny like that?
"SILENCE HUMAN!" Shenron bellowed angrily, incredibly annoyed at having to listen to Jacob's attempts at defying him. "YOU DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE IN THE MATTER. YOU WILL BECOME SON GOKU, THAT IS MY DECISION!"
Once Shenron and Jacob were done arguing, or rather, once Jacob was done begging for Shenron to reconsider, Shenron moved Goku and Jacob closer together so that the two of them could talk for a moment before the transference began. When the two of them were finally closer together, Jacob finally realized that Goku wasn't the Goku that he was used to seeing in the amine. While he was still just as muscular as ever, he was a little bit shorter then he was supposed to be. In the anime, he was supposed to be about six foot one, but in person... well, the last time Jacob got measured, he was around five foot seven, which means that Goku was half a foot shorter then what he was supposed to be. He also didn't look nearly as broad-shouldered as he did in the anime, and he didn't look nearly as old. If Jacob had to guess his age, he would have said he was about fourteen or fifteen, just like himself.
While the first thing that he wanted to ask was actually about why he looked so different from the anime and how old he was, he decided to leave that for later and instead just blurted out the first thing that came into his head, which wasn't a 'fanboy' kind of question, but was instead more fitting to his current situation.
(A/N: Yes, I know Jacob cusses a lot, he'll get less and less like that as the fic continues)
"So what the hell happened and why the fuck am I being forced to take over your life?" He asked angrily, demanding to know exactly what happened in Goku's world that had caused all of this.
Apparently, the answer was a lot easier and simpler then he would have thought it would be. Basically, Emperor Pilaf had spent the past few years trying to gather up the dragon balls again, with Goku preventing him from actually doing it because he always had his grandpa's four star Dragon Ball on him, and Pilaf and his men couldn't exactly fight him for it. So, when Pilaf finally did actually manage to get the four star ball, which must have taken the little troll a lot of planning and hard work, he had instantly wished that Goku didn't exist anymore.
Everything else you pretty much know.
"Great, so Pilaf is probably back in your world trying to come up with a new plan to take over the world and is probably also planning on getting all of the dragon balls again, and now it's my job to stop him." Jacob said in exasperation, wishing that someone else could take his place.
"Yep." Goku said, completely oblivious to Jacob's misery.
After another minute of talking, in which Jacob explained everything about how his father and mother already know that Goku was on his way, Shenron informed the two of them that their conversation would have to come to an end and that it was time for the conversion to begin.
"So, what's going to happen?" Jacob asked him, wandering what Shenron was about to do to him.
"THE TWO OF YOU WILL SWITCH BODIES AND SHELL ACQUIRE EACH OTHER'S KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR NEW WORLDS." Shenron explained, causing Jacob to wander what the point of having them talk was.
If they were going to know what each other knew, then why the hell did he have them talk about what was going on in their worlds?
Apparently, Shenron could read minds, something that Jacob had never seen in the anime or manga before.
"I ALOUD THE TWO OF YOU TO SPEAK BECAUSE THE CONVERSION WILL NOT GRANT YOU ALL OF EACH OTHER'S KNOWLEDGE TO BE USED AS YOU PLEASE. THE KNOWLEDGE SHELL FEEL LIKE VAGUE MEMORIES AND WILL NOT BE EASY TO REMEMBER. ONLY YOUR ACTUAL MEMORIES AND THE THINGS YOU KNOW FROM YOUR OLD LIFE WILL BE EASILY RECALLED." Shenron said, answering his unanswered question.
(A/N: The reason why Goku isn't saying much is because the dragon already explained all of this to him.)
Nodding their heads to show that they understood, Goku and Jacob both faced Shenron, though Jacob was still hoping to somehow get out of this. He really didn't want to go to another world, especially not one where he would probably end up getting killed every other year or so, but, seeing as he doesn't really have a choice in the matter...
The moment the two of them were facing Shenron, the great dragon's glowing red eyes became so bright that it was almost impossible to see anything. As the eyes got brighter and brighter, Goku and Jacob both started to glow a golden color. After a minute of glowing, the two of them were smashed into each other, only to come out on the other side, in the others body. The switch itself didn't hurt at all, but the rush of knowledge that suddenly slammed into his brain, that DID hurt, and it hurt a LOT.
Almost as soon as the two of them were slammed into each other, both Goku and Jacob fell unconscious, leaving Shenron to finish up whatever it was he was going to do to them.
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OK, so that's chapter two, I know it was really short, but please bare with me, if you had to read all that in a long, overly stretched out chapter, you would have killed me for it, I know you guys. You want to get to the actual story as soon as possible, so I decided to just speed through this chapter as much as I could. Anyway, I need to go start typing the next chapter, so just sit still until I finish it up.
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