*Chapter 25*
"Do you guys really have to go?!" Bulma asked Trunks and Pan a few days later, she had invited all the Z-Fighters to a barbeque to celebrate the defeat of Cell.
Trunks nodded smiling sadly at her, "We came back here to help fight the androids, and when Cell and the other enemies got in the way, we had to stay and help fight them too. Now that the androids are taken care of… somewhat, and Cell is defeated, we have to get back to our own timeline and take care of the androids there."
"Yeah," Pan agreed, "Only if Bulma and Granma don't kill us for taking so long to come back first."
"We're going to be in so much trouble," Trunks said snickering as he thought about it.
"You've got to at least stay for the next tournament," Gohan pleaded.
"When is it?" Pan asked him.
"It's next week," Gohan said. "It's being held by some rich dude out in the coast. All the stands and fighting arena are all twenty feet above sea water! Please say you'll stay for the tournament," Gohan begged.
Pan smiled, "How can I say no to my Chibi father," Pan said laughing.
"I guess we can stay another week," Trunks said shrugging.
"Cool! This is going to be interesting, I just hope I don't have to fight Gohan or Pan, Krillin said a bit nervous.
"Yeah you and me both," Yamucya said, "But I don't know whose worse, Trunk, Pan or Gohan. Trunks might be scarier because he's Vegeta's son," Yamucya said.
Trunks, Pan and Gohan, fell on the grass laughing, "You're such a coward, Yamucya," Pan said still laughing.
Yamucya laughed nervously, "You can't blame me Pan, you're three powerful saiyans probably with enough energy to blow up an entire solar system!"
Trunks, Pan and Gohan started laughing again.
"Well you don't have worry about me Yamucya cause I'm not entering," everyone looked at Pan in surprise.
"What?! But why?" Gohan asked.
"Because I want to relax and finally have a vacation from all the fighting we've been doing," Pan said.
"Awe! But this is for fun," Gohan complained.
"You're not going to get me to change my mind dad," Pan said stubbornly.
Krillin snickered, "All I got to say is, thank Dende," Krillin said making everyone laugh.
The week came quickly and it was time for the tournament. All the Z-Fighters except Vegeta were all at the tournament. True to her word, Pan wasn't fighting. She was in the audience with Chichi, Bulma and baby Trunks cheering the boys on.
This tournament was a lot more different from the other tournaments the Z-Fighters had ever been in. Fighters from four different galaxies joined in the tournament as well.
The ZTV camera crew that had been at the Cell Games were also there, luckily for Trunks, Gohan and Pan none of the ZTV people recognized them with their hair being their natural color instead of the super saiyan blonde.
Pan rolled her eyes when she saw Mr. Satan, the man who stole her and her father's title. It was declared that whoever won would fight Mr. Satan, 'The strongest man on earth.' *Yeah right,* Pan thought to herself, Trunks and Gohan could beat him in one punch. Even Yamucya could kick the loser to the curb.
"This is so boring! When's it going start already," Pan complained, she was sitting in the middle of Chichi and Bulma who was holding baby Trunks.
"I think it's starting now!" Bulma said happily.
"About time," ChiChi said.
The tournament was beginning. Two hundred fighters would enter in the first round which would start off with eight specially designed combat stages. On each stage were twenty-five contestants, they all had to fight each other free style. They were disqualified if they fainted, surrendered, or fell into the sea. The last one standing on each stage would move to the semifinals. Killing was not allowed of course and neither were weapons.
"Look it's Krillin!" Bulma said spotting the short bald man who was easily taking down some people on his stage.
"And Piccolo!" Pan said seeing the Namekian tossing all the people on his stage like they were rag dolls.
"It's My Gohan!" ChiChi said happily when she saw her son.
"Look there's Trunks!" Bulma said pointing to the highest stage; where Trunks had just flung all his opponents on Krillin's stage.
Krillin looked up at the saiyan teenager a little irritated as Trunks simply smiled back in response.
"Oh Poor Yamucya," Pan said feeling sympatric for the poor scared faced man, "He's seems to have lost his drive."
"Well this tournament must be really overwhelming," ChiChi told Pan.
"That's true," Bulma said as she had a big smile on her face, "Who could ever win against my Trunks."
"Well maybe my Gohan!" Chichi said.
"Trunks!"
"Gohan!"
"Trunks!" Bulma said standing up.
"Gohan!" Chichi said standing as well.
"I know how we can settle this," Bulma said looking at Pan, "Pan who do you think will win?"
Pan sighed deeply rubbing the bridge of her nose, "You can't make me choose between my father and my boyfriend, I say whoever wins, wins," Pan told them calming them down before their squabble turned into a fist fight.
Gohan and Trunks had both passed the first round; they were the first to finish so it would be a while before the second round would begin.
Pan passed the time by playing with baby Trunks. After a while Piccolo, Krillin, Tien, as well as several other people made it to the next round.
The first match was between Gohan and a man named Ludo. He was huge compared to Gohan. The saiyan hybrid knocked Ludo off of his feet making him bounce before he hit the water.
"Oh yeah! That's my boy!" ChiChi said happily.
The second match was Trunks vs. Tien.
"Hey Trunks, what do you say we give these people a real show," Tien said smirking at the teenager.
Trunks smirked back, "Sounds great to me."
Trunks and Tien moved with rapid speed, not a lot of people could see them; Pan didn't have any trouble keeping up with them though. She followed their every move like it was nothing while telling Chichi and Bulma what was happing so they wouldn't miss out.
Everyone was quite surprised at seeing the two males fighting in the air. Trunks kicked Tien sending him to the water, before he could fall into the water though; Tien caught himself as their fight continued.
Tien shot his Tri Beam at Trunks who easily dodged it. Tien them powered up to his maximum as Trunks did the same going super saiyan.
There were a few whispers about the blonde haired fighter, but not a lot as the fight with Trunks and Tien continued.
Tien shot a blast at Trunks who dodged it easily. He appeared behind Tien and hit him in the back hard as it sent the older man hurtling to the sea.
Trunks powered down as he landed on the stage.
"Hey Trunks, try not to hit so hard next time," Tien told him with a smile on his face. "I'm not as young as I used to be."
Trunks laughed "Sorry about that Tien, I was just having too much fun,"
"You saiyans," Tien said laughing as Trunks helped him up.
The third match began as Krillin and Piccolo stood ready.
Krillin charged at Piccolo but he got caught in Piccolo's cape and fell off the side. He had to catch himself and fly his way back up.
Piccolo grabbed Krillin by the back of his shirt, "I thought I came here for a fight not a circus act, this is a big waste of my time!" Piccolo said throwing poor Krillin up in the air making him land on the ground hard before the Namekian flew off.
There were four contestants remaining as everyone was moved to a dome like shape building in the middle of a volcano. There, they would fight with each other as well as Hercule Satan.
"Gohan! Kick their butts and show them no one messes with the Son's!" Chichi shouted to him.
"Trunks you can do it! Show um what the Briefs are made of!" Bulma cheered him on.
"Wow, Granma, Bulma, I think you're embarrassing them," Pan said seeing both Trunks and Gohan turning red.
"We're only doing what's in our job description," Chichi said jokingly.
"You'll find out someday why we parents find it so entertaining," Bulma told Pan with a wink as she held baby Trunks closely.
The four fighters drawled out rocks where they each went into different tunnels. The tunnels lead them to a certain place where they would first fight fighters from different galaxies. The first person to defeat their galaxy opponent had to take a left to get back to battle Island two, to land in the middle of the stage to be the winner, and then they would get to fight Hercule Satan.
The four fighters were off! Krillin landed on a planet that was covered with lava and melted rock, Gohan landed on a planet that looked like a giant baby's play room, as Trunks landed on a planet that was similar to the earth.
Krillin's opponent turned out to be an alien girl. The girl didn't waste any time hitting Krillin and sending him to the floor.
The other opponents went into the tunnels with the remaining Z-Fighters. The other opponents were being killed on the screen by a blue alien with orange hair.
Pan watched the screen tensely hoping the boys were okay.
Everyone in the audience started freaking out as Tien and Yamucya came running up.
Suddenly Trunks' image popped up on the screen. Pan's eyes were glued to the screen as she bit down her bottom lip. *Please don't let anything happen to him,*Pan pleaded.
Trunks was walking when suddenly a blast was shot from behind him, he dogged it easily. the alien, who did it still had his hand outstretched towards Trunks, he was sitting in a tree.
"Watch where you point that thing!" Trunks told the alien annoyed, "We may be fighting but this is still a tournament no killing allowed."
The alien went to attack Trunks, trying to punch him. Trunks knew something was up; this alien really looked like he wanted to kill him.
"Damn! What the hell are you?!" Trunks demanded as he dodged the alien's punches and kicks.
"Someone not to be messed with kid!" the alien told him grinning evilly.
The camera switched to Gohan who was dodging falling objects. He heard the sound of laughing and a small alien came out of nowhere and started blasting towards the young saiyan. Gohan quickly dodged the moves and the alien charged at Gohan.
The screen switched back to Trunks who was getting thrown into some buildings by his alien.
"Trunks!" Pan screamed. She had to figure out a way to get to him and fast before something bad happened to him.
"Surrender now boy!" the alien told Trunks as he pointed his sword at Trunks.
Trunks laid there on the ground and didn't say a word.
The alien growled, "Fine!" He said swinging his sword at Trunks.
In a flash, Trunks went super saiyan and caught the blade with his hand. He had a Vegeta smirk on his face, "I will never in a million years give up." Trunks broke the alien's sword in half and punched the alien right through his stomach making him fall to his knees.
"That's it," Trunks said still smirking. "Kneel to the Prince of Saiyans!" he said before blasting the alien away.
Before Trunks had time to even move someone came out of nowhere and kicked him knocking him out.
"I have to help him!" Pan yelled getting up from her seat.
"Panny no!" Chichi pleaded, "It's too dangerous!"
"I don't care!" Pan yelled, "I'm not going to lose him, not again, not ever!" she screamed going super saiyan as she blasted off into a tunnel.
"Don't worry Chichi; we'll go after her," Tien said before he and Yamucya flew off into the tunnel.
Gohan landed in the same planet that Trunks and Krillin were in.
"It's been so long…" said a voice startling Gohan. He looked up to see the alien who had killed the unknown contestants and the girl who knocked out Krillin earlier.
"…since I snapped somebodies neck," finished the voice as a huge blue alien walked out with long orange hair.
Soon Pan landed down beside Gohan, as Tien and Yamucya landed right beside her. Pan bent down waking Trunks up as the others talked to the aliens.
The huge blue alien's name was Bojack and the other aliens called him master and believe he would take over the whole galaxy. Tien and Yamucya fought Bojack's minions but they got their faces kicked in.
Gohan charged up to super saiyan and started fighting Bojack's minions as Pan woke Trunks up.
"It looks like your vacation's been ruined," Trunks told Pan jokingly.
"We have to help my dad," Pan told Trunks. Trunks and Pan landed in front of Gohan as he powered out of super saiyan.
"May I join in as well?" Piccolo asked appearing out of nowhere.
"Sure thing," Trunks said before he and Pan went super and attacked the aliens with Piccolo.
Piccolo started fighting with Bojack but was struggling. Trunks was fighting another male alien while Pan was fighting the female alien.
The small alien that Gohan was fighting with earlier started helping the other male alien out. He caught Trunks in an invisible shocking rope that forced Trunks out of super saiyan form.
The female alien sent Pan to the ground and started beating the crap out of her.
Trunks started growling loudly being caught in the rope he couldn't do anything to save his mate.
The other male alien snickered at Trunks before throwing his spear at saiyan male.
Someone threw Trunks his sword to him. The spear was knocked out of the way as Trunks used his sword to cut through the rope freeing himself before he buckled his sheathe onto his back.
Pan grabbed the female alien's hand before she could hit her again. A smirked crossed Pan's face as she blasted the female alien reducing her to ashes. She flew over to Trunks
"Vegeta!" Pan said when she noticed Vegeta behind Trunks. "It's about time you showed up."
"Well I'm here now, aren't I brat?! I wasn't about to let you guys have all the fun," Vegeta said before flying off to fight Bojack.
The male alien was pissed at Pan for killing the female alien; he started flying at Pan ready to kill her.
Before the male alien could even touch Pan though, Trunks grabbed the alien's fist kicking him through the stomach sending him in the air before Trunks blasted the alien to nothing.
"Now it's your turn," Trunks said turning to the little alien.
Just then, Mr. Satan's came in his car to the place where the Z- Fighters were fighting and crashed into the camera destroying it.
Trunks and Pan easily destroyed the little alien. Now it was just Bojack left. They tried the best they could but they were no match for Bojack, so it was up to Gohan who was currently being crushed by Bojack.
Goku somehow appeared as he punched Bojack in the jaw causing him to release Gohan. Goku caught his son as he woke up.
"D-dad?" Gohan asked in a state of shock.
"Release your power Gohan! Believe in yourself son, it's the only way to beat Bojack!" Goku told his son before leaving back to other world.
"I will dad!" Gohan said as he laid on the ground.
"W-was…was that Goku?" Bojack asked standing up in shock.
"I won't let you down dad!" Gohan said as he stood up and then he looked Bojack dead in the eye.
"I know your kind Bojack! You think you can just come in here and take over our planet! But there is one thing you're forgetting. I am Son Gohan! Son of Goku, protector of the Earth!" He yelled as he went Super Saiyan two for the first time since he fought Cell.
Gohan slowly walked over to Bojack, jumping up the alien sent a powerful blast at Gohan but it didn't faze the Demi-saiyan one bit.
Gohan punched Bojack in stomach, knocking the wind out of him.
"That does it you little bastard!" Bojack said gathering up his energy in both of his hands. "It's time to die!"
"Burn in hell Bojack!" Gohan yelled. "Ka…me…Ha…me… HA!" Gohan screamed aiming his attack right at the alien killing him. Gohan smiled slightly after everything cleared knowing that Bojack was gone before he fell back exhausted.
Mr. Satan ended up getting all credit for the defeating Bojack and Gohan as well as Krillin, Yamucya, and Tien all ended up in the hospital while Pan and Trunks had minor injuries.
Oh man, can't believe how close this story is coming to end. sniffles :,(