As they touched down in the wasteland where the final showdown with Frieza occurred, Gohan couldn't help but sigh at the nostalgic feeling that washed through him.
He had been terrified at the time, with a returned Frieza seeking revenge and even more powerful than before, with his while weaker, still incredibly powerful father by his side. But now, he could fondly look back on that time with a smile. 'Those were the good old days.' he huffed in amusement.
"So where are they?" Kakarot asked from beside him, atop the mountain they were standing on overlooking what was once a battlefield. The remnants of Frieza's ship, little more than scrap lay at the bottom of a massive crater in the middle of it.
Gohan shook his head, enemy or not he was not at all fond of the idea of desecrating corpse, "There." he pointed down at the crater, specifically a rough headstone carved out of huge rock, left there was a courtesy by his father.
"So what do you need the corpses of this Frieza guy and his father for anyway?" Bulla asked.
"Wait and see sweet cheeks." Kakarot winked at her and jumped from the top of the mountain down towards the grave of Frieza and his father, clearing the distance in the blink of an eye.
"You never told me your dad was this fun," Bulla pouted at him, "Hell, you'd think with how much mom loved to talk about him she'd bring something like this up."
"That's because while they have the same general feel, they're nothing alike in personality," Gohan replied smiling lightly at her, "Kakarot has bits to him that remind me of my dad, but Kakarot is a lot rougher than he ever was, and acts very much like a.." he trailed off, not knowing how to put it into words.
"A horny teenager?" Bulla asked, smirking at him in amusement.
He sighed, "Yes...that." Gohan nodded in defeat.
"Well, I like it," she shrugged, before giving him a side along glance, her smirk turning into a warm smile, "You weren't lying about that warm feeling though. Like he always knows what to do and that you winning is a forgone conclusion?"
Gohan smiled lightly himself, "Yeah, you're right." if nothing else, he did have the same feeling that confirmed for him that while he was Kakarot, he was very much Son Goku as well.
The sound of earth splitting apart drew their attention down to Kakarot. In front of him, the ground had split into many different pieces. 'Telekinesis?' Gohan wondered in thought. That was something else he'd never got around to learning from Piccolo either.
A moment later, two headless corpses, one around the size of Bulla and easily twice his own size if not bigger floated into the air. "So that's Frieza right, the small one?" Bulla asked, "..He must have been really tough. I can feel ki still within his body and he's been dead for like fifteen years right?"
"That's right," Gohan nodded grimly, "Frieza and his race seem to be incredibly resilient. Even getting cut in half and being on an exploding planet didn't kill him. " Even now, their corpses looked like they hadn't deteriorated at all.
"Woah, badass!" the violet haired girl gasped.
Yes, it was an incredibly feat of durability, that was for sure. Not even his father could have survived an exploding planet back then. Heck, Gohan was very sure he couldn't either. Or at the very least, even if he died he'd suffocate and die within space since there was no air.
"Tch, Frieza doesn't have any of his tail left." he heard Kakarot click his tongue and complain even from the distance between them.
"...What does he want Frieza's tail for?" Bulma asked, confused.
"No idea." Gohan shrugged, watching on as Kakarot dropped Frieza's corpse back into the hole before turning to King Cold's headless body.
"Well, at least he has one." Kakarot mused, and before their eyes he formed a Destructo Disk in his palm and cut off the tail from the huge corpse. He caught the tail and dispelled the the Destructo Disk before tossing the large corpse back in alongside Frieza's and dropping the debris he'd lifted with Telekinesis back on top covering them again, laying them once again to rest. If a rather..rough and crudely.
He then lifted the tail up and before Gohan's horrified eyes brought it to his mouth and began tearing into it with his teeth and eating it! "I think I'm gonna be sick!" he gagged.
"What the hell!? Why is he eating it?" Bulla's eyebrows drew up in surprise.
A second later when Kakarot finished his 'meal', Gohan felt his ki spike and begin to grow! A massive crimson aura burst into existence around Kakarot and he heard the teenage time displaced version of his father roar loudly. And then, Gohan saw Kakarot's body begin to bulk up and grow.
It went on for a good thirty seconds, before the crimson red aura was pulled inwards and Gohan gaped as he saw at the change the teenage version of his father had gone through.
He'd grown about two or three inches and his musculature had bulked up noticeably. On top of that, his power had grown by a decent margin. About a fourth of Gohan's own total base power!
"Oh yeah, this is awesome!" Kakarot shouted loudly, sounding triumphant. He punched a fist into the air and to Gohan's astonishment, a thick white arm brace of white armour formed on his wrist reaching back to cover his entire forearm, a sharp blade formation jutting out from the side of it and a shining crimson red gem in front of it.
That was...! It looked like those kind of armours Frieza could make to suppress his power in lower forms!
"Wait, did he just get the ability to do that and a power boost from eating that dudes tail!?" Bulla asked, incredulous...for but a moment, "That is metal as hell!"
Let me tell you? Like near two decade old space lizard tail? Tastes fucking nasty. I had to fucking roast it in my mouth with my ability to breathe fire just to get it down. Really wish I had brought a fucking bottle of water or something with me though before I headed out, the taste has remained in my mouth.
Still, as terrible as it tasted, and as much as I want to fucking vomit. I cannot deny the results. The power boost was decent, two point two million or so by the scouters count. I was happy with that. But...I got more than I expected.
Do you know what it feels like to go from breathing oxygen, to having the ability to sustain your lungs with ki? The instinctual change came over me in moments after eating the tail and I almost choked from the sudden change.
And then there was the other instinct that gnawed at me. It was hard to explain. It was like suddenly gaining another sense. And just following it by instinct let me form Bio-Armour armour my arm in the shape of a bladed arm guard, just like I remembered Cooler's fifth form having in the debut movie.
That was fucking awesome. And the shining red jewel within it was just sweet to look at. It was like having ruby in an arm guard. I could probably shed the bio armour and sell it for tons of cash.
Well, if I wasn't dating the richest babe in the world back home already.
I looked down at the armour over my right arm, before eyeing my bare chest, my gi top having been destroyed by Fu. Only rags remained. I reached up and tore it from myself, before with a thought formed a set of bio armour over my torso. I formed it in the shape of the saiyan battle armour, and formed another arm guard. Before with a thought, they turned a dark black in colour making the red bio gems on them stand out all the more and leaving my biceps and hands in clear view.
This will do for now until I can get a change of clothes, and will work as a good base form whenever I use it as well I guess if I need to. Odds are, I'm probably only gonna use the arm guards, and maybe on my tail as well. Possibly making some boots out of it as well since well they'd be way more durable than any actual boots I can get, save ones conjured by like Guru or something.
With that done, I turned and looked up at the gobsmacked, disgusted face of Gohan and the grinning one of Bulla. Man, that girl really is a fun one. She's all Bulma, but enhanced with that saiyan instinct
I sprang up, clearing the distance between us in a blink of the eye with my speed and landed beside them again, "Well, now we can definitely get a move on." I said, letting a casual smile splay across my face as if what I just did wasn't a big deal.
Best not let them know I wasn't sure if it would work or not. The game that Tock guy was in, was never very thorough in explaining how eating Frieza's tail gave the dude a power boost. Thankfully, it worked though. And if things went wrong like they did for that Tock dude, or well mutated my looks like his I'd just get Shenron to fix them soon. I'm too sexily handsome to look that ugly after all.
"...Why...?" Gohan struggled to get the word out, looking miserable.
"In one of the futures I saw, some guy named Tock ate Frieza's tail after Krillin cut it off and got a huge power boost," I shrugged, "I wasn't expecting to get Frieza's or well King Cold's racial ability to breathe through ki alone and the ability to create bio armour but I'm not complaining."
"It's disgusting and unhygienic!" Gohan protested.
"Yup, it was and his tail tasted rancid," I continued smiling and withheld the urge to burst out into laughter, "But with my regeneration anything actually harmful from it will be taken care of."
"Let's...Let's just go." Gohan slumped in defeat when I continued to be completely unrepentant, to the amusement of Bulla who burst out laughing.
"I think it was pretty ballsy of you daddy." the curvy violet haired half saiyan thumped me on the shoulder and winked at me, "And this armour stuff is really cool too! wish I had it."
"Well, if Cooler, Frieza's older brother turns up here at any point, you can kill him and eat his." I laughed lightly.
"Huh, there's another one then? Sweet!" Bulla punched her fists together, "Then I'll do that!"
"Frieza has a brother!?" Gohan whipped around and stared at me in shock.
"A son to I think." I 'helpfully' pointed out.
"Ugh, that'd be all I need." Gohan palmed his face.
I eyed him in amusement before Bulla poked me in the cheek drawing my attention back to her, "So where to now?" she asked.
Now? Now I guess it was time to check back up on Bulma and Dende. Make sure they were coping alright with what they saw.
"For now, I need to check on Bulma and Dende." I replied and swiped my hand through the air, opening up a portal to my personal dimension where I could feel them in it. It seemed they were inside the space ship.
"Bulma and Dende!?" Gohan gasped, looking up at me,"They're here with you?"
"Yup," I replied, gesturing to the portal, "Just right in here. I left them in here to be safe when we arrived here and we saw what was going on. I felt you guys fighting so I rushed on over."
"Another version of mom?" Bulla grasped her chin before grinning widely, "This should be fun!"
As soon as I stepped through the portal, a blue haired missile slammed into me, wrapping their arms around my neck. A very lovely pair of lips shot forward, their destination? Mine.
Before her lips could touch mine though, I held up a hand and stopped her, "Yeah I wouldn't do that right now, unless you want the taste of decade old lizard on your tongue." I said as I stopped Bulma's attempt to kiss me.
"Ew, what?" she drew back, scrunching her nose up in disgust, and untangling herself from me, "What the hell did you get up to this time?"
"Nothing much, just ate the tail of Frieza's dad," I shrugged, "By the way, I found out when we ended up. About seventeen years in a future where I was never made."
"...What?" Bulma stared at me blankly while I looked over her shoulder to see Dende sitting on one of the chairs beside the television, looking a bit despondent. Eesh, the massacre he saw must have effected him deeply.
"By the way, I forgot to mention it to you," I continued on, "But I've actually got the ability to see into the future and it's one of the reasons Fu was so interested in me."
"...What did you do?" her eyes met mine, totally deadpan.
"Nothing much, I just helped out a fully grown Son Gohan alongside Bulla Briefs a possible future daughter you would have had with one of the saiyans coming back in our own time if I didn't steal you away for myself," I casually explained, "...From a pair of mass murdering androids created by Doctor Gero of the Red Ribbon Army who have killed all of our friends in this timeline, with Gohan being the only survivor."
"Mmm...lovely," Bulma pursed her lips, "Before we get to the massive elephant in the room, let me ask something. Did you approach me so you could steal me away before I ever met this saiyan guy I apparently had a kid with?"
Before I could answer, someone else did for me, "Most likely, daddy here strikes me as the type," Bulla, who I'd asked to wait while I explained things waltzed through the portal, "Not that you're missing much. Vegeta, the name of my father by the way was a total prick, you're much better off without him even if it does mean you'd lose out on the awesomeness that is me."
Bulma looked passed me and her mouth dropped open while her eyes went wide as she took in the scantly clad younger looking mirror image of herself, the only difference being their height, the volume of their curves and their hair colour.
"Bulla he said to wait!" Gohan called after her as he came rushing in as well, before freezing on the spot as his eyes landed on Dende.
Bulla blinked then as she fully took in Bulma and mirror her mother from a different timeline her mouth dropped wide open, "Holy shit you're strong!" she gaped, "You're stronger than Master Gohan even when he isn't a Super Saiyan!"
"..Bulla huh?" Bulma uttered, slowly coming back to her senses. She sighed, palming her forehead, "...Again I question. Why is my life so strange?
My lovely girlfriend sighed, "You, go to the bathroom and brush your damn teeth for the next hour, I'm not kissing you until I'm sure whatever this King Cold is, is utterly gone from your mouth," she ordered me, "Then we'll talk."
"Sure babe," I agreed. But before that. I made my way over to Dende and gently touched a hand to his shoulder, "Hey Little Green, you doing alright?"
"Uhm...yes Mr. Kakarot," he replied, ducking his head lightly, ad clenching his little shaking fists together, "I can't understand why people would do what we saw earlier. But Miss Bulma helped me through it a bit."
"That's good to hear buddy," I ruffled his little bald head gently, "Can you do me a favour?"
Dende nodded, "If I can help out Mr. Kakarot just let me know how."
"Thanks," I thanked him before pointing at Gohan and Bulla, "Then you see those two? Can you use the ability Guru gave you and unlock their hidden powers?"
"Okay." Dende replied, hopping off of his seat and making his way over to approach Gohan.
While he did that. I headed towards where the bathroom was so I could get rid of the foul taste in my mouth and regain the ability to slurp on my girlfriends tongue.
As I entered the bathroom though, the spaceship began to shake and Gohan's ki spiked massively, surging upwards to incredibly high levels, so high it may surpass even my own when it levels out fully!
'Amazing!' I thought as I pulled out a toothbrush and filled it with toothpaste and got to work.
Moments later, Bulla's own ki began to rapidly grow. While nowhere near the extent of Gohan's, or even reaching Bulma's, it was not in any way weak. And as a Super Saiyan she'd be comfortably able to deal with even Frieza and put up a decent fight against Android 18 by my estimations.
When I returned to the room everyone was gathered in a few minutes later, my mouth now minty fresh, it was to the sight of Gohan and Bulla both looking both incredibly pleased and incredibly shocked.
"..What the hell just happened?" Bulla herself asked as I entered, "My power...it's rising! Really fast and just keeps on going!"
"You'll get used to it once it levels out," Bulma shrugged, "It might take a few hours until you hit as high as it'll go though."
"Thank you Dende," Gohan beamd down at the little Namekian boy standing beside him, "Thanks to you...with this power..I can put a stop to the androids myself now and save the world." he vowed solemnly.
"..No problem Mr. Gohan." Dende shyly replied.
"Well that's good," I commented as I made my way in and took a seat on my bed, "While I'm fine with it, it's really better for you to beat them on your own."
Gohan nodded, "..Then when you think it's time to put them down to use for your plan, I'll take care of them myself." he affirmed seriously.
"Good," I nodded before looking to Dende, "Little Green, how quickly can you restore the Eternal Dragon and the Dragon Balls?"
"Umm," Dende blinked and scratched at his cheek, "If the original sculpture is still around, I should be able to do it on the spot I think."
"Perfect, you're well on the way to being Super Kami Dende," I complimented him, resulting in a flush to his cheeks, I then turned to Bulla, "While Gohan is putting down the androids with his new strength later on, you can come with me and we'll head to the lookout."
She flashed me a thumbs up, "Gotcha daddy." she replied.
"Yeah, I'm gonna step in here," Bulma crossed her arms and glared at me, "Why the hell have you got my daughter from an alternate timeline calling you daddy of all things?"
"...Mostly as a little game," I replied after a moment of thought, "Course, it's technically applicable isn't it? If my balls have got anything to say about it, they'll be pumping a version of her into you some time in the future." I very much intended to plow her silly and knock her up in the future after all.
"..Oh for Kami's sake!" Gohan groaned as the serious atmosphere was broken completely and utterly, "Don't you have any sense of shame or propriety?
"What's that? Can you eat it?" I tilted my head at him and asked.
"Yeah, daddy's got game wooo!" Bulla pumped her fist in the air and cheered me on.
Bulma looked away from me to eye her dryly, "..Are you sure there isn't a version of you that got this timelines me pregnant?" she asked me, "Because she seriously seems a lot like you."
"If only," Bulla shrugged, "If he was, I'm pretty sure those androids woulda got slapped around the second they turned up." man I like this girl, she totally gets it.
"This is true," I agreed. Because I mean, come on I'm fucking awesome. I've been alive for less than two months and I can already slap them around. I'd have put those fucking murder bots in the ground long ago. "Besides, she's totally like you as well, just ramped up with saiyan instincts. She's basically you as a saiyan, babe."
"That's a scary thought," Bulma shuddered, "Me, as an autistic fight meat head like the rest of those idiots back home? No thanks."
"Don't knock it till you try it mom," Bulla snorted and shrugged her shoulders, "Besides, considering how absurdly strong you are, can you really say that?"
"...So weird to be called that," Bulma muttered before turning her nose up at the girl, "Yes actually, since all this power I have? It was a gift pretty much from your daddy over there." she retorted, pointing at me.
Bulla turned to me, raising an eyebrow and I shrugged, "Didn't I tell you? Daddy takes care of his girls."
She turned back to Bulma, "So yeah mom, it cool with you if I'm daddy's girl?" Bulla smirked at her,
Bulma snorted, crossing her arms under her bust, "Sure, but don't blame me if he gets handsy with you," she replied, "He will spank you if you annoy him."
"Well daddy has to punish his bad little girl right?" Bulla fired right back.
Gohan was beginning to look very horrified by what he was hearing. I had the initial urge to spare him and put an end to this. But quite frankly, I'm kinda liking where this is going.
Sorry my son. Your sacrifice shall not be in vain!
Mirai Gohan Battle Power: 299,600,000
Mirai Bulla Battle Power: 7,100,000
Kakarot Battle Power: 128,986,703
If you're confused about the tail munching thing, it's something that appears in a Dragon Ball side game featuring the Time Patrol and a dude named Tock. There's a lot of debate on if the power increase and abilities he got from eating Frieza's tail was due to Towa's magic, or if her magic just enhanced the power gain. I though, took it in my own way and have crafted a back story as to why we only see Frieza's family in the main series.
That back story being, well how do you think King Cold got so strong? He basically slaughtered his own race and ate all their tails to get stronger. And that was how Frieza and Cooler were born stupidly powerful mutants. A fun, happy family story to enjoy on Christmas together, eh?
So moving on, while I've still got more chapters prepared in advance, I'm thinking putting off uploading them for a little while. Mostly because, well I'd like the story to get as much attention and traction as possible. The problem on that front, is that right now is fucking up again and every second chapter I post, well alerts don't get sent out for it, so basically, this is getting a lot less attention than I want to for now because of it.
Anyway, again, shameless Pa-atreon plug. I've got one, go by the same username on there, easy to find and all that jazz. Support me if you want, it'd be swell, but don't feel pressured lads and ladies, I'll be uploading my stuff outside it regardless and not keeping it all behind a paywall or anything like that.