Chapter Four: Through the Mountain Pass

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), It's either going to have Gender-bending or Mpreg (Male Pregnancy) (If it has Gender-Bending, then it won't technically have Yaoi, if it has Male Pregnancy, then duh, it's Yaoi), Bisexuality.

Pairings: Everyone:

NOTE 1: DBZ Math: I THINK that Goku was about 17 when he and Chichi got married in the anime, in this fic, Jacob becomes Goku when he and Goku are both 15. also, I think that they have Gohan when Goku's 20, and Raditz got to earth when Gohan is five and a half, there for, Jacob has 10 years to make his wishes wit the dragon balls in order to get everything ready for when he and Raditz meets. That means, he has 10 wishes to use... well, actually, it's only 9 because he fucks up the first wish...

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A short while after finding his large still packed camping pack at the bottom of a small, empty lake that was slowly starting to fill up with water from the river it was attached to, Jacob's 'shark-stick' finished cooking and he sat down to eat, deciding to wait to see what all his father had packed for him. He knew it was just the usual camping stuff because it was a little bigger then usual and was a lot heaver, but he still wasn't sure what was in side it.

When he finished eating the shark-stick, which surprisingly took him only about half a minute, he stood up and made his way over to the pack. Fearing that it would get lost underwater again if he left it at the bottom of the slowly filling lake, he had taken it and placed it next to the large tree that stood between his now fully eaten shark and a large yellow-green field. It was still wet, but at least he didn't have to worry about it washing away when the river finished filling up again.

Now that his belly was full and his hunger pains were gone, he quickly unpacked the camping pack and laid each item out on the ground. Most of the stuff in the pack was pretty normal, like the frying pan, the net, the extra clothes, and the tarp, as for the rest of it... Well, among the weirdest, or rather the most not-usually-packed-in-a-camping-bag items was a large amount of gold which had a very soggy note attached to it that said 'sell me', which he was almost positive was written in his father's sloppy handwriting.

It wasn't exactly hard for him to figure out why his father put the gold in the camping pack, after all, how else was he going to get money? He was, however, really curious about how his father could have gotten so much gold in such a small amount of time. Yeah, he wasn't exactly poor, he was a doctor after all, but still... it was probably really expensive.

'Probably just used my college fund or something seeing as I'm not exactly going to need it, and Goku doesn't exactly strike me as a collage man.' he thought, shrugging his shoulder at the large pile of gold before turning his attention to the other things that were in the pack.

Aside from the gold, there was also a few large, hand written book, all of which were mostly ruined from the water, as well as several computer printed documents, which, again, had been ruined by the lake water. There were also a few other things, like a small metal box and a large water proof tube that his father seemed to have taken great care in sealing and packing.

Inside the large tube was just a few papers to remind him of what the current situation with Pilaf was and how he had gotten dragged into the situation to begin with, a small necklace, a few maps, and a piece of paper telling him where to find his old house at just in case the guy that he had switched with was still alive and living there. As for what was in the small metal box...

Well, to say Jacob got a huge surprise when he opened would be an understatement. According to the note on the inside to the little metal capsule box, the little capsule box had been on his father when he switched bodies years ago, and now he was giving it to him. It also described each of the items that were in each of the eight capsules, though it also said that they were all probably way outdated.

In the first capsule, the largest one, was a small house that only had a kitchen, a bathroom, and a living room in it.

In the second capsule, which was slightly smaller then the first, was a food storage system that was full of burgers and things like that, a fact that made Jacob fall over in surprise.

The third capsule, which was the same size as the second, there was a bike, though the note also said that it wasn't anything like a motorcycle and was instead a kind of dome shape with wheels under it. He wasn't really sure what he meant by that, but he figured he'd just check it out later.

As for the fourth and fifth capsules, both of them apparently had absolutely nothing in them and were just space storage systems that his father never had a chance to put anything in before Shenron told him he was going to be summoning Jacob away.

Then there was the sixth capsule, which, according to the letter, had a small sub in it that couldn't go much farther below three thousand feet.

Fore the seventh capsule, the note simply said 'I don't think you'll really need it' written on it. He wasn't sure what was in it, but if his dad didn't think he really needed it, then he probably didn't, but that didn't mean he wasn't going to have a peek inside it. After all, curiosity never hurt anyone, right?

Last but not least, the eighth capsule. According to the note, his father had no idea what was in it. He had apparently found it in a lake somewhere, a fact that made Jacob sweat drop, and had simply decided to go get it fixed so he could find out what was inside it. Unfortunately, he had gotten wished away before he had gotten the chance to find out and had just put it into his capsule case and left it there and completely forgot about it.

"Well, at least I don't have to sleep outside when it get's dark tonight." Jacob said happily, glad that he no longer had to worry about sleeping outside.

Taking one of the empty capsules into his hand, he looked at the tiny instructions on its back, pushed the button as gently as he could, and tossed it a little ways into the distance. With a poof and a small cloud of white smoke a small metal box formed out of the capsule, surprising him slightly.

Smiling exactly at having something he had never seen in real life before at his disposal, he walked over to the rest of the camping pack and picked it up, carrying it over to the large capsule-box and putting it inside it. Finding a little lock on the side of the box that let him put in some kind of a number, he punched in a few numbers and closed it, smiling when the little lock excepted the new code. Still smiling at the little metal box like an idiot, he pushed the little button on the top of it and watched as it turned back into a little capsule.

"I have a feeling I'm never going to get used to that." He said out loud, still smiling like an idiot as he put the capsule into the capsule case and put the case in between his orange shirt and blue undershirt.

Now that everything was packed away and his stomach was full, he walked over to the large tree and sat down in front of it thinking over what he had to do. It wasn't exactly hard to see that he had to stop whatever pilaf was up to, but that wasn't what he was worried about. He knew he could probably take Pilaf and his men down without a problem, especially since he was in Goku's body, but what about after that?

The first real thing he needed to do was find out was at what point in time in the Dragon Ball series' time-line did he come in at?

He could tell that Goku's body wasn't the full twenty five or twenty six years old that it was at the beginning of Dragon Ball Z part of the series, but he was also sure that he wasn't as young as the thirteen or fourteen he was during the fight with Piccolo in Dragon Ball, so that meant that he had to be somewhere in between. Unfortunately, that meant that he had a lot of other things to think about.

Firstly, he really didn't want Gohan to never exist, and the same thing went for Trunks and Goten too, but he didn't really like the idea of marrying Chichi under false pretenses, or at all for that matter. He wasn't stupid enough to think that she was a viscous harpy or something like a few of his friends back in his own world did, he had seen enough of the anime to see that.

She wasn't cruel or mean in the anime, she was just really, really, really over protective, and he wasn't so stupid as to think that she hated people just because they weren't human either, she had actually gotten along with a few non-humans every now and then, it was just that she wasn't the forgiving type. Both Vegeta and Piccolo had tried to kill her husband at various points in time, and in Vegeta's case, he had also tried to kill her kid, so it was kind of easy to see why she didn't like them so much, but that didn't mean he wanted to marry her.

She's not a bad woman, she's just not his type.

But still, if he didn't marry her, then Gohan and Goten probably wouldn't be born. Then again, they still might not be born even if he did marry here. After all, genetics are still a chance thing, so they could just end up having completely different kids.

"Well, I'm pretty sure I have a few years before Gohan's supposed to be born, so I could probably just find the dragon balls and wish that they'll still be born." He said, silently wishing he had a pen or something to write all of his plans down with.

He could always use the back of some of the documents that his father put into the tube for him, but he didn't have anything to write with. For some reason, his dad didn't seem to think that a writing utensil was all that necessary for coming up with a plan to take down Pilaf or something. Wandering if there was anything that he could use to write with in the bottom of the lake, he stood up and walked over to its edge, raising an eyebrow in surprise when he saw that it was now almost full. Knowing that searching for random bits of junk in a almost fully filled lake would be impossible, her simply turned around and started heading back over to the tree, only to pause when something caught his eye.

The still smoldering Pile of ashes and burnt twigs.

Looking at the still smoking pile of burnt matter few feet away from him, a smile slowly made it's way across his face as he suddenly got a great idea: Why not just use the ashes and half burnt twigs to write with?

Pulling the capsule case back out from between his two shirts, he opened it up and grabbed the storage capsule, which he quickly clicked and tossed, causing it to make a a popping sound before turning back into the storage system it really was. Once he got what he wanted from it, he turned it back into a capsule and stuffed back into its rightful spot in the case, which he then put back in between his orange and blue shirt. With the documents he had gotten from the large tube in the storage system in his hands, he made his way over to the smoldering pile of ash that sat between the two large boulders he had moved earlier. Once there, he grabbed one of the half burnt sticks and sat on one of the boulders and started writing down what he had already decided to do.

"OK, now for the other problems." He sighed, thinking about everything else he had to deal with, like if he should tell the others or not about the switch, or just leave them thinking that he was the same Goku that they had always known.

If he did tell them, then they would probably freak out and treat him funny, but if he didn't tell them, then they would go on thinking that he was the same guy and he would have to pretend that he was, which would really suck. Either way he looked at it, both options kind of sucked.

Shrugging his shoulders, he decided to just worry about it some other time and to just move on to the other problems at hand, like what he was going to do from now on. A part of him knew that he should still protect the earth from bad guys like Goku always did, but did he really want to put his life on the line for people he didn't even know? And if he did decide to protect earth, then what was he going to do about training? He didn't really like the idea of dying when Raditz finally got to earth, and he didn't like the idea of having to fight cell either.

"But I still have to do something about cell either way, I can't exactly let him destroy the world. Well, I could, but then I'd be just as bad as him." He said quietly, hating the idea of letting a whole world get destroyed. "There has to be a smart way to get rid of the cell problem and not have to fight him at the same time, but how?"

In the end, it took him almost two and a half hours to figured out a way to get rid of Cell without a problem. From what he understood of the anime, cell was from another time-line and had come to this DBZ time-line in an attempt to absorb the androids, which were created by the red ribbon army, but most of the ones he really wanted to absorb wouldn't created until just after Gohan was born, or until Gohan was about twelve. So all he had to do was put a permanent end to the red ribbon army, and no more Cell, and he wouldn't have to worry about causing 18, 17, 16, and the other androids to not exist either, because it was always heavily implied, and maybe even stated at one point that the androids were all made out of people that the army had killed. That meant that he would actually just be keeping the RRA from killing them and turning them into androids.

With that finally settled, he took the burnt stick and jotted down a note to himself to take down the RRA before they have a chance to make cell, along with the computer that actually came up with the cloned monster.

The next problem he had to think about was more of a fan problem, as well as a personal problem too.

Whenever he watched Dragon Ball Z or Dragon Ball GT back in his old world, he would always daydream about what he would do if he was a Saiyans. When he was thirteen and had just gone through puberty, the daydreams were always the same and way to perverted, but as he got older, even if it was only by two years, they had changed. When he was thirteen, they had been what ever thirteen year old boy daydreams about: Sex, but two years later and they all became more about the things he would change and the things he would do. Basically, they were always about being a superhero a crap like that, very unimaginative.

But now... Now he actually was a Saiyans and actually did have a lot of things open to him. He could change whatever he wanted, or even just do whatever he wanted. If he just wanted to settle down and have a family, he could, and if he wanted to go crazy and be evil, he could rule the world.

Well, world domination wasn't something he would even consider, he was nuts, but not that nuts. But still, he could do whatever he wanted, so what did he want to do?

"Well, between now and when Raditz get's here, I probably only have somewhere between seven to ten wishes, so I should probably figure out what I want to do before then. Plus, I still have to use one of those wishes to make sure that Gohan, Goten, and Trunks still exist, so that's only six to nine wishes." he thought out loud, still trying to think of what he wanted to do.

'Well, I could always ask Shenron, I know he doesn't usually help people figure stuff out, but he is the one that chose me and dragged me here, so the least he could do is give me some advice.' he thought, deciding to figure it all out later.

The only wish he was actually sure he was going to make, apart from the one about Trunks, Goten, and Gohan existing, was the one about the moon. Like most Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT fans, he had always liked the idea of having a tail, but he didn't like the idea of turning into a giant psychotic monkey every time there was a full moon, so the best way to get around that would be to just wish that he could fully control his transformation, then he could have a tail and not have to worry about turning into a crazy monster.

After he finished writing down everything that he knew he needed to do, he tossed the half burnt stick into the now full lake and stood up, stretching his limbs.

"Well, I guess I should probably start trying to figure out where Pilaf is." He said, knowing that the little blue man was the more immediate problem. "Hm, but how do I actually find him? Hm... Maybe Bulma would know..."

Well, he had always wanted to meet the blue haired genius, and she did always seem to have something that could help Goku..

"Well, now is as good a time as any to meet her... but which way to her house?"

After a few minutes of looking around like an idiot, stupidly looking left and right as though there would be some sign saying 'this way to Bulma's place' or something, he finally remembered the maps that were in the large tube in the camping pack his father had given to him. Sighing heavily and berating himself for his stupidity, he once again retrieved the storage capsule from the capsule case and opened it. Once he had had the tube in his hands, he put his new list of things to do into it and took the maps out before placing the tube back into the storage box and turning it back into a capsule.

"OK... Um... I think Capsule corp. is located somewhere in West city..." He said, looking through all of the maps in search of one that had West City on it.

When he finally found the write map, he folded up the rest of them and put them next to the capsule case between his orange shirt and blue undershirt.

"OK, if this is South West Ire River lake, then West City should be just north of here." He said, rolling his eyes at the lame name of the lake and wandering why everything always had a direction in it's name.

More then half the places on the large map had either North, South, East, or West in there names. Whoever named all of them had a serious lack of imagination. (A/N: In the anime, most of the locations really do have North, South, East, or West in their names: West City, South City, East City, East Central City, Central City, and so on and so on)

Once he was ready to go, which didn't take very long as all he had to do was relieve himself, he turned towards the direction that West City was in and started concentrating, deciding to fly there instead of walking so that he could get in some flying practice. After all, he was still really bad at it, so why not practice?

Lack each of the other times he had tried to fly, it took him way to much concentration to get himself up into the air, and even more just to stay upright. Half of the time he ended up flying upside down a few feet or even ended crashing into the side of a tree or mountain, and he also nearly got eaten a few times. With all the times he ended up having to stop and straighten himself up or just get back into the air, it probably would have been a lot faster if he would have just walked, but after a few hours of practicing and having to right himself over and over again, he finally managed to get the whole flying thing down.

Having already vowed never to do a happy dance again, he somehow managed to keep himself from doing a jig in mid air when he finally got it down. Being able to fly whenever you want was something he had never even though would ever be possible, and he was glad that it was. Being able to fly... there's just nothing like it.

"This is so cool!" He said happily, zooming around large rocks and boulders as he made his way through a large rocky mountain pass.

When he was sitting next to the tree that was back next to the lake, he hadn't been able to see the rocky mountain at all because of all the trees that were in front of it, but once he was on the other side of them, he nearly flew right into the side of it. Luckily for him, he managed to stop in mid air just in time to keep himself from getting seriously hurt, though he did get a nasty bump on his head.

"I wander if this is how superman feels?" he wandered out loud, still grinning from ear to ear as he zoomed through the rocky mountain pass.

Unfortunately, as it turned out, Saiyans were nothing like Kryptonians. While Superman was able to run nonstop around the world without having to train or exercise first, Saiyans needed to train first. Sadly, in the anime, Goku never got enough stamina to fly around the planet nonstop until after he trained with King Kia, which meant that his body got to tired to fly way before Jacob ever got to West City.

"UG!" He grunted as he slowly lowered himself to the ground, falling over in exhaustion as soon as both of his feet touched down. "UG, I completely forgot how much less 'super' he was before the whole Raditz and King Kia thing happened. I'm so tired I don't think I can move another inch."

Less then half a second after he made his declaration of exhaustion, his stomach let him know that he would actually have to move soon by letting out a huge grumble.

"UG, and now I'm so hungry again." He mumbled painfully as he sat up and rubbed at his still grumbling stomach.

Remembering the food storage capsule his father gave him, he pulled the capsule case out from between his shirts and grabbed it, clicking the button and tossing it a few yards away. Once the storage machine appeared, which turned out to be a lot bigger then what he had expected, he quickly made his way over to it and opened it up, smiling when he saw that it was mostly just filled with pre-cooked food, like sandwiches and burgers, as well as a few things that looked remarkably like chilly cheese fries, which his father usually avoided like the plague. Apparently, he had a really bad experience one time that involved chilly cheese fries, twenty people, and a small elevator that got stuck between the thirteenth and the fourteenth floor of his office.

Three people were hospitalized...

"To bad there isn't a microwave attached to this thing." He said, pulling out a few burgers and scarfing them down, not surprising himself at all when he ate them all in less then a minute.

Apparently, Saiyans get really really hungry.

Which is probably why they eat so fast...

When he finished scarfing down as much food as he could, he clicked the button on the food storage machine and watched as it turned back into a capsule. Once it safely back in it's position in the capsule case and was tucked away between his shirts, he sat down and rested his back against a particularly large boulder, sighing contentedly to himself. After a few minutes of just sitting there and resting, he finally decided to get moving again, though this time he choose to run instead of flying.

He decided to run for two reasons:

1, if he didn't want to get himself killed then he was going to have to get used to moving at high speed and he also needed to make sure he could actually react to things when he was moving that fast.

2, he didn't really have the energy to fly anymore anyway.

"Well, here goes nothing." He said, doing a few imitation of Goku stretching before bending low in a runners stance and taking off as fast as he could.

Surprising, he didn't have that much trouble reacting to things while running at such a high speed. Apparently, since they were Goku's eyes, they were already able to adjust to the speed, which he should have expected. As for how fast he was able to go, while Goku's body wasn't nearly as fast as it as in the anime after the training with King Kia, it was still faster then anything Jacob had ever even seen before. If it wasn't for the fact that Goku's eyes were able to adjust to the speed without a problem, everything around him would have been nothing more then a blur, and some of it still was even with Goku's eyes.

As he continued to run through the rocky mountain pass, things flew by him at an incredible speed. It was almost as if everything was moving in super high speed, which, technically, it was.

After five or so more minutes of running, Jacob finally cleared the mountain pass and came to a small valley with a large city sitting smack dab in the middle of it a little ways off in the distance. Stopping as soon as he saw the city off in the distance, he couldn't help but smile weekly at it.

The entire time he had been running and flying towards it, he had been hoping that it wouldn't be there. A large part of him was still hoping that he would just wake up and find out that it was all just a really weird dream, but actually meeting Bulma... If he did meet her and talk with her, then he would have to admit to himself that it wasn't a dream, and then... then everything would change. As long as he still had that small chance that it was all just a dream... but if he met Bulma, then that would be the last straw, he would have to admit to himself that it isn't a dream and he would have to give up on his old life...

And fully become Goku.

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Yes, I know, he seemed fine with everything at first, and he got over everything really fast, so why am I giving him a 'Please let it be a dream' moment? Well, it's simple. I actually thought about this for a really long time, what would I do if I suddenly got sent into the dragon ball z world and became Goku? Well, after a while, instead of saying 'i'd kick some ass and take some names', I realized that it would also mean that I would have to give up everything I ever knew, and I do mean everything. I would have to give up my mother, my friends, even my crazy killer cat that keeps trying to eat my legs. I wouldn't be able to really keep them, not physically, and not emotionally. It would be the same as if they had died, with the only difference being that I wouldn't even get to see them once I've died. That means, it's somehow even worse then death. Even with all the bad guys I would have to face, not having my friends and family is the only thing I would really hate. Without them... well, that would be a really sad life, and a really miserable after life. So, hoping that it's just a dream and living in blissful denial for a little while is exactly what I would do.

Anyway, please remember that it will all pick up speed in a few chapters, so just hang in there.:D

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