Chapter 6:
Other World
"Everyone this is Yuri, he's my newest student before you guys, having joined only thirty three years ago, and previously number two student in my school." North Kai announced as Yuri hovered safely above his master's head. "Sorry Tien but now they are going to find out either way."
Tien nodded his approval, "It's okay King Kai I'll tell them." Tenshinhan turned to his friends and Vegeta who he still wouldn't consider a friend, not big on forgiveness, it took Piccolo sacrificing himself for Gohan for Tien to forgive the Namekian for his attempted murder of Goku and take over of the world. "Okay this is going to be hard to hear but like Goku, Chaozu came to the Earth as a baby. He's an alien." Gasps came out of everyone's mouths.
"Didn't see that coming," Krillin said laughing, "I'm surprised he never told us."
"That's just it, I never told him." He received shocked looks from his friends. "My village took him in when he crashed here as a baby. When he became a young boy he stopped aging, entirely. He stopped growing, getting older, growing hair, even his voice never got deeper." Tien sighed, "When our village was pillaged and the last of the triclopses were killed I was away getting supplies from a nearby city with Chaozu, I was eleven at the time and he had just stopped aging, I think he was five. We returned to the village to find them all dead and that's when Master Shen found us and decided to train us I think it had to do with my hate towards the people who had done such terrible things to my people. When I realized that I was the only one who knew about Chaozu left alive I decided to let it slip away and to never tell anyone about it not even him." He looked back over to King Kai, "When I reached the end of snake way the first thing I did upon reaching King Kai's planet was ask if he knew about Chaozu."
"I'll take it from here Tien," North Kai interrupted. He cleared his throat, "Chaozu's planet had once been under the control of Frieza's brother Cooler and similar to planet Vegeta sent the young to other planets to eventually grow up and exterminate the population." The Tarlacs were a naturally peaceful race and only a few like Yuri here were able to unlock the secret powers of their race and become extremely powerful. Chaozu was not one of these people and even if he had unlocked the potential he wouldn't have tried to kill all earthlings. Cooler had miscalculated, he left one of his captains to rule over planet Carn but that captain was not strong enough, even with an army, to prevent an uprising from the Tarlacs. After only a couple years of being under Cooler's control the people of Carn rose up. Many were killed and it looked as if the Tarlacs were going to lose. At this time their leader, Yuri, decided it was up to him and took on the entire army by himself smashing through enemy lines before reaching the captain and grabbing onto him self-destructed taking most of the army with him. The Tarlacs took this opportunity and flew out of hiding and wiped out the last remnants of Cooler's forces. The Tarlacs were able to trick Cooler by answering as his captain whenever the main force checked in over the radio. Unfortunately within those few years that Carn was under Cooler's control, many baby Tarlacs were sent away including baby Chaozu."
Vegeta felt for the man Yuri who was waiting patiently for King Kai to finish. After hearing the last sentence Yuri became frustrated, "I tried to convince my people to fight back as soon as Cooler left but they were all too afraid," now Vegeta was really bonding with the man mentally. He too had been in a similar situation most of his life. "If only they had listened my son wouldn't have been sent away."
Tien looked at Yuri wide eyed, "Chaozu was your son!?"
The man shrugged his shoulders, "I'd have to see him, no two Tarlacs look the same but those of the same family bear a striking resemblance to each other.
Goku quickly said, "Well then you have to be his father you look like the same person I could have sworn you were him when we first saw you." Some of the others nodded in agreement but King Kai was waving his arms in a frantic way.
He pulled the group to the side while Tien transferred the image of Chaozu telepathically to the other Tarlac. "They all look pretty much the same to anyone outside of their species. If he sees Chaozu and doesn't think he's his son you will be branded a racist and none of the other students will want to interact with you." Goku covered his mouth realizing his mistake.
"Good going Kakarott, our first day and you're already making enemies," Vegeta was cut off by Yuri shouting behind them.
"That's him that's my Yuri Junior." the Tarlac said gleefully.
"Wow original name," Krillin commented getting a laugh from Yamcha before Vegeta punched Krillin in the arm and Piccolo extended his arms to punch Yamcha in the gut.
"Not for you guys, on you guys it sounds great," Yamcha said hunched over in pain as Krillin rubbed his arm.
Korin's Tower
All this Bojack loving smut on television stinks, where are my soap operas? Where are my game shows? Korin was a little peeved that every single channel had switched their programming to be news stations about how great Bojack is. Hmmm what's this?
"And here you can see the remains of what was West City before Bojack gave it some improvements. Bojack announced earlier that this would be where he ruled from, all we have to do to keep our lives is to send him ten out of every hundred people in our towns, villages, and cities to build him a castle." The news anchor was desperately trying to hide his anger and Korin could see a nozzle of a rifle stick into the camera frame for a second before the man gulped and continued. "We should all be thankful that our Supreme Overlord is only taking ten percent of the population instead of all of it. Now a message from one of his henchmen, the beautiful Zangya."
The camera switched to being outside with a shaky cameraman who was trying to focus on the orange haired monster. The blue creature started to speak, "This town right here had twenty five thousand people in it, they refused to send us any of their people." She's not going to... Korin got out of his chair and to the side of his tower looking out to where that town was. Back on the tv the woman held up her arm facing the town and without hesitation, sent a huge blue beam of light that incinerated the entire place, buildings, streets, people all destroyed in a heartbeat.
"No," Korin whispered as he personally felt all those lives extinguish in his heart. Benevolent ruler my ass.
"Finally I'm here." Chi Chi collapsed on the floor of the tower causing Korin to spin around. Wow she got here quicker than I thought she would. Chi Chi looked around but all she saw was a cat, "Oh Korin, where are the others?" She sat up looking at the television, "Oh my God, this is terrible." Korin quickly grabbed the remote and shut off the tv.
"They are already at the top." Koin replied.
"Alright let's go." Chi Chi responded. Korin was confused, every person he told that they still needed to go to the top always, always with no exceptions, asked 'But isn't this the top?' He was about to ask why but Chi Chi held up her hand, "Goku has told me things you know. We were married." Korin nodded wondering how he so easily made a fool out of that Bulma woman but this one was getting him on every point.
"Get in," Korin popped his air car and she hopped in ready for the cat to drive them up the tower to Kami's Lookout.
Kami's Lookout
Dende and Popo were getting nervous, the two men were supposed to leave the time chamber at least ten minutes before the day was up so they wouldn't get trapped in there forever, there was only one minute left however and the seconds felt like hours for the two guardians. "Where are they Mr. Popo? Their time is about to run out."
"Remember Dende, a minute here is a very long time in there, they could still be training and have a nice meal before they would need to come out." His words would have been reassuring had he not been shaking while he said it. Oh, no. If those two don't make it out of the time chamber in time.
"Thirty seconds Mr. Popo!" Dende shouted getting the attentions of Roshi, Oolong, and Puar. Bulma was in the kitchen making some food for when they got out, if they got out. "TEN!" Roshi ran over to see the guardians freaking out, the last hope for the world gone before... Chhhhh, the doors opened with a hiss and the two men walked out, Yajirobe smirking and Chaozu frowning. "WHAT were you two thinking?!" Dende yelled very unguardianlike.
Chaozu pointed at the fat man, who was no longer fat but very muscular all around. He even looked taller without his usual slouch.
Yajirobe smiled, "I wanted to give you guys a good scare, and he didn't," he pointed to Chaozu who looked away, "so we sparred to see what we would do. Guess you all know who won." he chuckled and headed for the palace, gone was the comraderie the two men had the day before. They didn't seem to be mad at each other but their friendship was gone.
Roshi walked up and put his arm around Chaozu's shoulders, "What's wrong?"
Chaozu was angry, and sad, and disappointed. The last year in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber he had barely improved while Yajirobe just kept getting much stronger. Only a month after they went in, the man had far surpassed the midget that they stopped training together, before the spar they had when they left, the last time they spent time training, or sparring together had been a half a year before. They even ate at different times, not on purpose it just happened because of their training schedules. "I don't think I'm needed anymore." Chaozu said and sulked after Yajirobe towards the palace.
"Hello, Earthlings are you there?" The crowd on the lookout turned up to the sky. "It's King Kai again, and I've got some great news." Chaozu had stopped walking to the palace and Yajirobe and Bulma stepped outside, Bulma was blushing like mad.
"What is it King Kai?" Dende asked trying to take charge as was his responsibility.
"This is mainly for Chaozu but I think you should all hear it to be able to help him achieve it." Now Chaozu was no longer frowning and had a look of anticipation on his face. Korin and Chi Chi landed on top of the Lookout ad were connected with the telekinetic conversation too.
"Hey Bulma," the blue haired woman turned to see Chi Chi storming over, uh oh, "Where is my baby!?"
"Chi Chi don't freak out," all the earth's fighters ran back a couple feet except Yajirobe who stood next to Bulma. She continued, "but they didn't wish Gohan back." Chi Chi screamed, "It's okay they're going to in six months when the balls are ready again."
"As I was saying," Chi Chi looked up recognizing the voice of King Kai from a previous encounter with Goku, "Chaozu this is going to be hard to hear but you, you are an alien." Everybody on the lookout gasped except Yajirobe who kept his cool again surprising everyone with his new attitude.
"Are you sure King Kai?" Chaozu asked.
"Yes and there is someone here who really wants to speak with you." Tien I hope it's you, over the same line Yuri grabbed onto King Kai's shoulder, "Hello, my son."