Chapter 6:
Hyperbolic Time Chamber
"Nine hundred and eighty four, nine hundred and eighty five..." Chaozu was doing one handed push ups and he had almost hit a thousand which would be a new record for him. It was the last day they were going to be in there so it was his goal to get to at least a thousand to prove to himself that he was improving. Yajirobe's pep talk had gotten his spirits up and he had made smaller goals to reach. Even when Yajirobe surpassed him he was not that angry, sure he'd received training from King Kai but Yajirobe lived with a master of martial arts, Chaozu couldn't be that upset about it. That being said it was another incentive to keep training that way he could keep up with his partner so that he could get back to winning the daily spars they had.
Yajirobe had gotten better at training and wasn't distracted as much anymore. He had realized that the good food would run out in a couple years if he kept eating it like he was so he decided to have a sensu bean in the beginning of the week, then once he got hungry towards the end of the week to have one meal before eating another sensu bean to keep him going. He'd been going farther and farther into the white void almost every day. He always kept eye contact with the house because he was terrified of getting lost out there even though he could sense ki amazingly and would always be able to find Chaozu. He had really long hair now and remembering what he was told about the Saiyan Raditz he imagined he looked kind of like that except shorter and chubbier. Though when he looked at himself in the mirror now he could really notice that he had slimmed down, his clothes he didn't even fill in anymore. "Hey Chaozu, it's time to go," he stepped out of the bathroom where he was looking at himself to see Chaozu still in the front of the house.
"Nine hundred ninety eight," Yajirobe looked hopefully at the guy 'You can do it Chaozu,' he really hoped the little guy could because it was getting really noticeable how far ahead he was getting from his partner. "Nine hundred ninety nine," Chaozu struggled to push himself up but he did it. Sweat dripped off of his face as his right arm trembled. Come on you can do it, Both men thought at the same time. Chaozu bent his arm and tried to push himself up but his body wouldn't listen, it wanted so badly to collapse. Chaozu was strong however, mentally strong, he wouldn't give up and a visible aura surrounded him as he pushed all his strength into picking himself back up and slowly his elbow listened. It unvented and Chaozu called out in triumph, "One Thousand!" Yajirobe cheered as Chaozu finally succumbed and collapsed onto the ground.
"Here you go," Yajirobe tossed him a sensu and Chaozu caught it in his mouth. Then he stood up and followed Yajirobe to the door. "Let's go," Yajirobe pushed open the door and was met with an unusual sight. It was so much darker in the hallway they stepped into than any single spot in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, their eyes needed a second to adjust. Once they stepped outside they felt some old friends and ran out to them.
Lookout
Roshi stood amazed at the difference between the strength of the two men who went in and the two who came out. Yajirobe was holding onto his pants because they were falling down as he ran towards Bulma, Dende, and Mr. Popo. On the other end of the spectrum there was little Chaozu who was running towards Master Roshi looking like quite the bodybuilder. Both of their clothes were torn and their ki's were enormous. Sure they were still not as powerful as the other Z warriors but those guys were dead now and still the Earth had people willing to save it. "Wow Chaozu, looking buff," the Turtle Hermit commented making the guys cheeks turn redder than usual.
"Well I've been training hard, you should see Yajirobe though he's gotten much stronger too, he's surpassed me and he's probably as strong if not stronger than Yamcha now. Wow after one year, Yajirobe might a little lazy but he's a natural. Roshi thought looking over at the man talking to Bulma. It was weird it seemed as if his entire essence had changed, he wasn't snacking like he always was whenever he had seen the man before, and not only that but he didn't seem afraid. Yajirobe was always a coward what could have happened?
"So did Dende tell you?" Chaozu asked. Roshi just looked at him confused before following the midget to the others.
"Well we just got here so no I didn't know that, and you're saying that they're all fine in death and are with King Kai?" Bulma asked.
"Yeah that's the gist of it," Dende responded.
Bulma for the first time looked Dende in the eyes and said earnestly, "It's good to see you again kid. After all the people we lost... It's good to know that some of my friends are still alive." Dende's green cheeks went pink as Bulma pulled him in for a hug.
'I don't know if the Guardian is supposed to do stuff like this but if it makes we feel better I'm sure I'm doing something right.' He wrapped his arms around her.
Roshi walked up to the group and asked, "So what was the wish?" Everyone got quiet as Bulma and Dende ended the hug and Bulma looked at him questioningly.
Mr. Popo answered, "Remember the new dragonballs could grant two wishes, so we used the two wishes to make these two immortal."
"WHAT!" Bulma and Roshi screamed simultaneously.
Korin quickly got in his car and headed back down to the tower to wait for Chi Chi. Mr. Popo left to go water the flowers and Chaozu and Yajirobe went inside to have a home cooked meal for the last time for another year, Chaozu was quite the cook. That left Dende to answer to the two angry newcomers. "What's the big deal?" Dende asked making himself as small as possible as the two looming figures cornered him.
"Those two immortal!" Bulma shouted pointing in the direction the others went in. "Any wish would have been smarter than that. Like I don't know, wishing back all our dead friends."
Dende opened his mouth to protest but Master Roshi spoke first, "What were you thinking? All the training in the world won't get them ready to fight Bojack and his gang if the Super Saiyans and Piccolo couldn't. Sure they just got stronger spending a day in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber but after another day then what, we won't have any chance of defeating them I can't believe you were so negligent of your duties." Dende tried to cut in to explain to them the flaws in their reasoning, but he was cut off again, "And another thing..."
"Enough!" Dende shouted. Bulma and Roshi seemed shocked by the volume of noise that came from such a little guy. "Excuse me I didn't mean to shout but it was not I who came up with this plan it was a higher God, King Kai told us to do it. No stop." he said as Bulma opened her mouth to say something else. "These dragonballs can't wish people back after they've already died so that takes out everyone except Gohan who we'll get in six more months. In the meantime Mr. Popo has set the time chamber to allow access to people to use it over two days." He stopped taking a deep breath, "Now any questions?"
Roshi thought for a minute about the possibility that they could actually take on Bojack. Six months was a lot of years in the time chamber but to defeat Bojack they would have to be the strongest humans who ever existed and not only that, but the strongest beings in the universe. It all seemed a little far fetched but who was he to argue with the gods.
Bulma had stopped listening when she heard people couldn't be wished back who'd died already. Goku wasn't wished back after the Cell Games but she had heard that was his choice not the rules stopping him. "Wait but why can't we just go to New Namek and wish back the others, they don't have to stay dead."
Dende looked at Bulma sadly, "Sorry but we don't know where it is. Goku instant transmissioned there and back from King Kais planet, from here I have no clue where it is. Sorry Bulma but dead is dead for them." The realization finally sunk in. Before, even when she was grief-stricken, she always had that glimmer of hope that they could be revived, her lover, her son from the future, her ex-boyfriend and best friend, all gone forever. Just focus on the positives: Gohan will come back and my parents can be revived too. At that thought she smiled and the world didn't seem like such a terrible place after all.
Dende was relieved that Bulma wasn't too depressed and out of the corner of his eye saw the Earth's hope walking back towards the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. "Wait guys," he called out to them. Yajirobe and Chaozu stopped their conversation about how to train more efficiently and turned to see Dende running over followed by Roshi and Bulma. "You guys still have fifteen minutes before you can go back in for another day/year." Yajirobe groaned but took a seat where he was preparing his mind for another harsh year of training. He had worked much harder the last year than he had the year when the Saiyans were on their way because he knew there were others who were going to fight back then. Yajirobe knew that he couldn't let the fate of the world rest solely on Chaozu's shoulders.
"Hey Yajirobe pay attention," the man looked up to see his comrade pointing towards Master Roshi who had went into his buff form.
"I may not be as strong as you two but I'm much more experienced." Roshi put his hands together and said, watch closely now I'm only going to show this once." He took a deep breath and Chaozu took notice of how all his ki was being sent towards where his hands touched. "Kame, Hame, Ha!" A large beam of blue energy shot out over the side of the lookout. Roshi was panting as he reverted back to his normal form and Bulma gasped at how powerful the old man still was. "When you come out of there tomorrow I want you both to show me Kamehameha waves at least twice the size of that one."
Yajirobe grinned piece of cake, I'll get it down in a couple weeks.
Chaozu on the other hand didn't see how he would be able to master a move he had only seen once in such a short time but he was going to try anyway.
walked over to them looking up at the sky. The others looked up to see what he was looking at but he told them, "It's now been an hour, you two can go back in," as he said it the time chamber beeped loudly once. "I set it to do that an hour after you leave every time so that you don't need me to inform you."
Both men bowed to the black man, Chaozu gave a quick thank you before stepping into the doors of the chamber and Yajirobe followed behind winking at Bulma as he shut the doors. Bulma blushed and was about to shout something at the closed doors but Roshi just grabbed her shoulder, "They won't hear you, besides it's been about an hour already for them." Bulma was shocked as they had closed the door only second before.
Grand Kai's Planet
"Okay guys we're here." King Kai announced as he unbuckled his seat belt and walked out of the airplane. They had landed on a planet five times the size that the North Kai's planet was.
"Whoa, look at all the fighters," Krillin commented looking around at all the different species sparring and lifting weights. They all had the same white gi with gold belts on and on the back was a black circle with King Kai's training symbol etched onto it. Even Vegeta had to admit to himself that the place seemed pretty intense.
"Hey everyone, North Kai is back!" One of the two short orange fighters with big pointy ears stopped sparring to shout. Many other humanoid, reptile and fish-like, and bug creatures walked, flew, and slithered quickly over to them pausing their training.
"Yes, yes I'm back and before you ask, these fighters will 'all' be joining us here." King Kai said addressing the crowd.
"That's ridiculous King Kai you never take on that many new students, besides you haven't taken on a new student in decades." One of the men who actually looked human except he only had one eye and was eight feet tall said, "You're kidding right?" Some of the other students laughed along believing that King Kai had fooled them. King Kai just shook his head no while grinning.
It looked as if some of the other students were going to speak out against it so Vegeta stepped forward. "Get out of the way weaklings," he raised his hand and sent a large ki blast straight at Trunks who deflected it back to Tien who sliced it in half and the two halves flew up into the air before exploding. The student stood there shocked, they had been training, some of them for centuries and couldn't send out a blast nearly that size let alone deflect or split one.
"Hey Olibu these guys are gonna be trying to take your number one spot in my school." A man who looked remarkably similar to the Hercules of Greek mythology stepped forward.
"Yes I see, I will have to train extra hard to keep up with them. I can sense that they are extremely strong. The man that King Kai called Olibu had the same gi as everyone else but the gold belt was black with a green stripe running horizontally through the middle of the two larger black ones.
King Kai noticed Yamcha staring at the belt and laughed snorting a couple times, "Yeah don't think about the belt too much, it goes to my number one student so I doubt you'll be wearing it anytime soon." The rest of the group laughed except for Piccolo who was disgusted that he was once as weak as Yamcha.
An alien that was entirely red with no distinguishing features besides two blue eyes, all blue no white around them, and a slit for his mouth asked nervously, "Did you all know each other back in the living world?"
Goku responded by nodding his head, "We fought together in many battles,"
The alien was amazed, "What could have defeated you all?"
King Kai answered, "Bojack happened, he was freed Hogar." The red guy screamed in anger before heading back towards the North Kai's otherworld palace. He turned to the humans and Saiyans, "Hogar was also killed by one of Bojack's gang a man named Bujin. He was the short guy with the turban who kept shooting those energy absorbing strings."
Vegeta scowled, "That bastard used those things on me too." The other members of North Kai's school went back to their workouts after the introductions were finished.
"Hmm what size are you Krillin? I need to know so that I know how big to make your uniform," King Kai was looking up and die each of the Z warriors but Piccolo just grunted and waved his left hand replacing their clothes with uniforms the same as the rest of the school's. "Oh thank you Piccolo, that's a big help."
"Hey North Kai can you help me with this new technique I've been learning?"
The group turned around to see a very familiar face on a body that was extremely jacked. King Kai was about to introduce them to the man, when Tien shouted, "Chaozu!" and ran over to hug the little man.
The little man flew a couple feet up in the air to avoid the weird triclops, in a deep voice the man asked "Who?"