With how low the battle powers were for everyone on Earth, it was actually quite hard to sense them from so far away.
It went to show how awesome Guru was he could do it himself without any Yardrat training.
But, eventually I did lock on to one familiar power, accompanied by another power, and I was quite surprised.
Guru was not at all kidding.
Piccolo and Gohan, by my estimates, were around the strength I was when I went into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber to learn to control the Oozaru form.
Between them and Goku with the Kaioken, I actually can see them cleaning up Vegeta without too much issue.
Looks like Piccolo has been abusing the zenkai with Gohan as I told him and in the process, Piccolo got stronger just from training with someone that strong.
Man, how quickly things changed and spiralled with just a little bit of extra information, huh?
I locked into Piccolo's ki quickly and a moment later, I disappeared from the Planet of Namek and appeared back on Earth, atop a large flat headed mountain.
As soon as I did, my eyes landed on two figures, both sitting cross legged and meditating, on a rock in mini Gohan's case, and floating mid-air in Piccolo's.
As soon as I appeared, Piccolo's eyes snapped open in shock, before landing on me.
"…Kakarot, I was wondering if you would ever get back," the green man snorted, lowering gentle to the ground and towering over me, arms crossed, "How did you get here without me sensing you?" he demanded first of all.
The only reason he wasn't freaking out about my huge girthy battle power was because I had suppressed it to around the same it was at before I left Earth.
It sure is hard keeping a handle on this huge girth of mine.
"A little technique I picked up out in space, let's me teleport to any power I can sense." I casually explained.
The commotion of us talking, broke Gohan out of his meditation, and the kid blinked his eyes open and stared at me in confusion, before his eyes widened and tears began to to bud in the corner of them, "D-daddy?" he sniffled.
I winced, "Not quite kid," I replied, "I'm Kakarot."
"…Oh…" he slumped in disappointment. Looks like Piccolo has explained who I am at least.
"Don't worry kid, your dad will be back soon, in fact, in the next few days I'm betting." I assured him, and it was a testament to how resilient Gohan was that he perked right back up.
"Really!?" he beamed, losing his sadness in an instant, "Thanks for letting me know Mr. Kakarot!"
"…You can just call me uncle, Gohan, I more or less pass for the twin of your dad at this rate." I found myself replying without any input from my brain.
Damn you mouth! This is treason!
"I've not really had a good track record with uncles…" he pointed out with a little smile, "But okay Uncle Kakarot!"
Before I could reply, there was a snort from Piccolo, "Yeah yeah, mushy crap and all that," he huffed, before glaring at me, "By the looks of it, your power hasn't increased at all, what have you been doing these past eight months?"
I laughed, "Oh trust me Piccolo, I've done more than you can imagine," I grinned broadly at him, "I'm just keeping my power suppressed right now because of how terrified you'd be if you felt how massive my power is right now."
"I doubt it," Piccolo snorted, "I heard all about that Frieza freak from Kami, that triclops wasn't very tight lipped around that old fossil, and while I've never felt his power, I at least have a rough basis of how much he outclasses us."
Basically, what he was saying was he'd come to terms with how strong Frieza was and was saying unless I surpassed that, he wouldn't be impressed.
Ah Piccolo, always the harsh taskmaster. Now, if only you kept that up in the normal timeline after Cell, Gohan wouldn't have become a disappointment.
It was funny how little had actually changed between this guy and his future counterpart.
"Oh trust me Piccolo, even in my base form here, I've far surpassed Frieza, I could kill him with both arms tied behind my back," my smirk got even larger, "But don't worry, I come baring gifts. You'll find that Frieza isn't much to worry about these days and in a few hours you would be able to take care of him yourself."
Piccolo's bald brows furrowed, "A bold claim for a mere six months, and that's on top of you being able to get ten times stronger in that giant ape form like Gohan." he mused.
Wait, what?
My eyes snapped back to Gohan, and my eyes widened. There, wrapped around his waist, was a furry brown belt, or rather, a tail. Piccolo hadn't gotten rid of his tail this time?
And he knew how much stronger Gohan got and talked about it casually…
"…You managed to teach him to control it?" I gaped at him.
"Hmph, as if I would allow any student of mine to be so weak minded they couldn't control such a boon," Piccolo snorted, "Now putting aside that plebian matter, tell me Kakarot, what are these gifts you speak of?"
"Something I picked up on Namek," I shook my head and replied, getting back on top. I held up my hand, a portal rippling into existence and dropping a familiar orange spiky fruit into my hands, "This is a fruit from the Tree of Might, suffice to say, I have many of them, and just eating one will increase your power by just around the amount you currently have."
Despite the shocking revelation I just dropped on him, Piccolo was utterly silent.
…."That's absurd, there's no way something that miraculous exists." Piccolo rolled his eyes and shook his head.
Instead of trying to convince him, I rolled my eyes and looked to Gohan, "Here kid, have a snack." I said, tossing it to him.
The kid caught it easily and looked to Piccolo who just nodded, "Erm, thanks uncle Kakarot." he bowed his head politely to me, and then took a bit out of the fruit.
And promptly, had his eyes widen, alongside Piccolo's as his power skyrocketed, more than doubling in amount.
My scouter displayed the number it settled on a few moments later.
37,564
"…Unreal!" Piccolo gasped in shock and awe, while Gohan just gaped at himself, clenching and unclenching his fists.
"Mr. Piccolo…I feel so strong!" Gohan gasped.
"…Of course you do, you just got more than twice as strong as you were before!" Piccolo snapped at the boy in his shock.
It took a good few moments for the both of them to calm down, and I could see the flush in Piccolo's green cheeks, "…..So, gifts huh?" he coughed, "And I assume you brought some for everyone?" he asked.
"Yup," I laughed, flashing him a thumbs up, "I've got a ton of em like I said, I've saved up thirty for each and every single one of you, from you and Gohan, to Kami, the other guys and even Bulma's parents."
"Insane!" Piccolo gaped at me, "How on Earth did you manage to come by these fruit?"
"I abused the Namekian Dragon Balls," I shrugged, "Among other things, I grow a bunch of these fruit thanks to a wish, got myself some regeneration that blows yours out of the water and even have infinite ki."
Piccolo just stared at me.
"….You were a complete monster when you left, and now that you've come back, you put even monsters to shame." he stated neutrally.
"Monsters wish they were as badass as me!" I puffed my best out proudly.
As it is, with how strong I am now, I could probably take on some of Super's earlier enemies. Hmm, I wonder how I stack up against Golden Frieza?
"Anyway, I've got a bunch of people to visit, so let's hurry this up," I continued, waving my arm and forming two portals to my personal dimension - still to be named - and from them, a deluge of spiky orange fruit spilled out forming into a pair of piles in front of Piccolo and Gohan, "There you go, thirty each, enjoy!"
"…I can't believe you actually have this much of these absurd fruit," Piccolo shook his head, "…I don't even know how to put this into words."
"Just say thanks dude," I rolled my eyes, "Anyway, once you're done here, head up to Kami's lookout will ya? The gifts don't end here, there's one more that little green will be giving you as well."
"Little green?" Piccolo gave me an odd look
"You'll see later." I waved him off, and then pressed two fingers to my forehead, focused, and a second later disappeared and appeared on a familiar little island.
As soon as I landed on the island of Kame House, two green blurs that were darting through the air and clashing against one another stopped abruptly and then quickly shot down to kneel before me.
Ichiji and Niji.
They'd been training hard I see. Both of them have a power eclipsing ten thousand, and Roshi was displaying a power over seven thousand on the scouter.
Man, not bad. He could slap around Nappa with that power, not even going into his Ultra Form. Vegeta really would have been fucked even without me coming back.
A moment later, I felt as two familiar powers in the distance began to rapidly ascend and completley dwarf their previous powers and felt as Roshi got startled by it and rushed outside.
"What in tarna-" the old master spluttered before pausing as he saw me, "Oh, this is your doing I take it? Piccolo and Gohan's power and the way it just keeps rising?"
"Guilty," I smiled at him, "How you been Master?" I bowed my head to the old bald pervert.
"Oh you know, doing great, resting from training with these two veggie monsters of yours, enjoying a good little aerobics channel, then nearly crapped myself when I felt Gohan and Piccolo's power," Roshi casually explained, "You know, the usual with a monster like you around.
"And you can now rejoice master, cuz you get to be a monster just like them," I spread my arms wide, "Oh, and regain your youth." I remembered to add on.
Actually, I should have remember to tell Gohan and Piccolo their life span was just increased by like fifteen thousand years.
Eh, they'll get over it.
"And how would you do that?" Roshi hummed, "I've seen a lot of things in my life kid, even know where to find a plant that lets you live for over a thousand years assuming outside forces don't kill ya', but ain't found anything but the dragon balls that could restore my youth."
Oh yeah, the Paradise Herb. I should find out where they are and grab some to grow back alongside my trees and sensu beans. I mean, it was seemingly inferior to my fruit, but I wonder what would happen if I mixed them both together in a drink?
Well, at the very least, it'll be a nice addition to my garden. Fruit of Might, Yemma Fruit, Sensu Beans and Paradise Herbs. Wonder what else I can get my hands on during my path to becoming the ultimate farmer?
"With this," I opened a portal and deposited another fruit of might into my hand, "Each of these fruit, and I have a ton of them, contain five hundred years of life force and will increase your power massively, and I know from experience they can restore your youth."
"…A fruit that surpasses the Paradise Herb, huh? the world sure is a mysterious place," Roshi shook his head, smiling ruefully, "Well, alright Kakarot, I won't reject your offer."
I mean, why would he? Only a complete idiot would reject boons like this.
I looked at the Saibamen who were now eyeing the fruit with interested red eyes, "Don't worry, there's enough fruit to go around boys and you'll be getting a bunch as well." I assured them.
And to punctuate my statement, I waved my hand through the air and dropped thirty fruit of might in front of them, and thirty in front of Roshi.
The crimson eyes of my veggie boys went wide in utter shock, and then the pair of them clasped arms and began to happily dance in a circle.
"KAKAKAKAKA!" Ichiji laughed.
"GAGAAGAAGAAGAA!" Niji followed suit.
What weird laughs, but whatever, as long as they were happy y'know?
"…You really weren't kidding about having a ton of them, huh?" Roshi gaped at me, before grabbing one of the fruit and biting into it.
Power exploded out of his form as he munched away at it and swallowed, and before my eyes, his form shrunken with old age, straightened up and grew, his thin limbs and chest exploding outwards with muscle and before my eyes Roshi visibly became a young man again.
….Though he didn't regain his hair. He'd probably have to regrow that. Honestly, he looked a bit like a taller Krillin, with a nose.
"OH MY GOODNESS!" Roshi shouted his shock to the heavens, "I feel amazing! Like a young man beating his meat for the first time! I'm back girlies, watch out for this handsome young stud!"
Well, good to see he was happy. And as long as he stayed away from my women, he could do whatever the fuck he wanted.
And then he began to happily devour the pile of fruit of might in front of him alongside my Saibamen and their power grew and grew, just like Gohan and Piccolo before them.
…I wonder how the guys on the lookout are reacting to this? I wonder if Yamcha or Krillin shit themselves?
It took quite a while for Roshi to come down from his new youthful high, he was going on and on about hitting up some whore houses before I finally got him to calm down.
I'm perfectly fine with the old man going and exploring his youth by taking some hookers to pound town, but, I'm a busy, busy future god and have so much shit to do.
Good thing he was only too happy to comply when I threatened to cut off his balls and feed them to him. It's good for men to be rational after all.
And then having Ichiji, Niji and Roshi grab ahold of each other, I held on to one of them and with Instant Transmission, teleported us all to Kami's lookout.
Gohan and Piccolo thankfully, had already arrived. But my fucking god was it loud, Yamcha, Krillin and Yajirobe were totally freaking out at the massive, instant increase of strength all five of the ones I'd given fruit to had went through.
Tien thankfully, was as cool, calm and collected as ever, even with multiple people suddenly more than a hundred times stronger than him suddenly popped up.
Good guy that Tien, too bad he's asexual and only pursues the dao of martial arts. But, I'll be sure to take good care of Launch in his place.
"This is incredible," Krillin uttered in awe as he circled around Master Roshi, examining his new state, "You really do look like a guy in his early twenties now, and your power, it's mind boggling!"
The bald man shook his head, his eyes going to the Saibamen, then Piccolo and Gohan, "All of your powers are incredible, like is there even any point in us training for these saiyan guys now?" he sighed, shoulders slumping.
"Hey, hey hey! Kakarot already said he'd give us the fruit to y'know, we'll catch up with em right quick bro!" Yamcha quickly assured
"Besides, strong as they may be, according to Kakarot, that Frieza guy still makes them look weak," Tien interjected, arms crossed, "As far as I'm concerned, grating as it is on my pride as a martial artist to take such an easy increase in strength, this is just a boost before getting right back to training."
"Don't be such a sour puss Tien," Yamcha rolled his eyes, "That Frieza guy like has no idea of Earth right now, yeah? And now we'll all be way strong enough to slap around those saiyans, I'm thinking we'll have a bit of an easy street for once, and Kakarot probably already has a plan for Frieza anyway, right?" the scar faced man turned to me with a grin.
"More or less," I shrugged from where I was sitting cross legged on the tiled flooring, "The fruit isn't the end of it, you'll all get far stronger from a little something else, and you won't need to worry about Frieza, I'm far stronger than him now."
"See!" Yamcha beamed, "Kakarot has it all on- wait, what?" his gaze snapped back to me.
"Didn't you say before you left, that Frieza has a power level of one hundred and twenty million?" Tien asked, arcing an eyebrow at me.
"Things went much better in some ways than I ever imagined, but worse than others," I replied with a sigh, "You are right though Tien, even though I'll be giving you all a massive power boost, you'll need to get right back into the thick of things."
"How come?" Krillin asked, "I thought this Frieza dude was like the strongest in the universe or something? Why do we need to get even stronger if you're that much stronger than him now?"
"In the mortal world at one point maybe," I nodded, "As for you guys continuing to get stronger. How does preventing our universe from getting erased sound?"
Utter silence met me at my words.
"..H-huh?" Krillin gaped, the only one that made a sound.
I took that chance to get to the meat of the topic, "Look, things are a lot more complicated than you guys know, there's so many gods in this universe you don't even know the half of it," I explained, "Even Kami only knows up to the Supreme Kai, the guy responsible for all life and shit in the universe, but above that guy is what's known as the God of Destruction, basically the ruling authority of our universe."
Again, utter silence met my words and lingered for a good thirty seconds.
"The destroyer god…I have heard rumours, but I did not think it to be true," Kami mused, stroking his chin, "Is this threat pertaining to them? Are they perhaps going to destroy us all?"
"Nope, they're just a lazy ass temperamental cat," I waved him off, "The real problem is, that above even the God of Destruction, is the Omni-King, the creator of the universe and all other universes, to my knowledge there are currently twelve universes including ours."
"….And is this guy evil?" Krillin hesitantly asked, "Like, the scope of things are getting kind of hard to handle here bro, I'm not sure I want to even consider the opportunity we'd have to fight a guy like that."
"Oi, idiot stop interrupting," Piccolo huffed, having kept his silence up until now, "Let him finish, you're just dragging it all out."
Krillin flinched at Piccolo's rebuke and nodded timidly.
"To answer your question Krillin, no, the Omni-king is so far above us even I can't tell how strong he is," I answered anyway, "No, the problem he poses, is that he holds each universe to a certain standard, a level if you will, and if a universe is under that level for a certain period of time, he'll erase the entire universe and consider it a failure."
I looked around into each and every single one of their eyes, "And thanks to Frieza and a bunch of ancient threats from long in the past, we of Universe 7 are currently ranked as the weakest of all the universes."
Once again, silence met my words, but the looks of shock that appeared on their faces were more than enough.
Not one of them had the stones to speak up, even Piccolo was gaping at me, horrified.
"S-so uncle, what do we do then?" All except Gohan that is.
"The best you guys can do, is get stronger," I smiled at him gently, he was still just a toddler but he a backbone to him most of the others only wished they could have, "I'm already working on plans to bring the mortal level up, one of that is the strength of the people in the universe. The one thing I want you guys to pursue, is getting strong enough to the point where your sheer existence literally drags this universe up the ratings."
"….Cool, so no pressure then, just get strong enough to carry a whole universe our backs, that sounds simple," Krillin nodded reasonably, "AS IF! ARE YOU CRAZY!?"
"Calm down virgin," I rolled my eyes and he choked and spluttered, before deflating, "Look, going by your average human, Roshi, Piccolo, Gohan and the Saibamen are all worth like two to three hundred thousand humans, and by the end of the day will increase exponentially."
"….When you put it like that, we sound way bigger and important than we really are." Yamcha grimaced.
"I'm really not," I rolled my eyes, "As far as the average human is concerned, when you're done with the fruit alone, you may as well be the gods that rule over their very existence."
That shut Yamcha up quickly, and nobody else dared to speak up to refute the statement.
"The fact of the matter is, a small group can make up for the uselessness of entire planets," I mused, then waved my hand, opening up a series of portals in front of Yamcha, Krillin, Tien, Chiaotzu, Yajirobe, Kami and Popo, "Now let's get a move on shall we? I really am quite busy guys." so much to do, so little time.
I need to go see King Yemma about becoming guardian of my own little world now to push my own strength gain plans along, visit the original and give him his own fruit with King Kai and go beat up and recruit a much more reasonable and cooler lizard than the one I plan to kill.
Honestly, it was all work work work with me. Hopefully, a year down the line will be enough time for me to retire to the NEET life I so desire.
"Woop, food!" while everyone else was gaping at the pile of fruits that appeared in front of them, Yajirobe happily began to dig in, prompting the others to do so as well.
And before my eyes, they went from scrub tier, to still scrub tier.
"Oh, that reminds me," I mused, holding my hand out and forming a portal, allowing a golden fruit to fall into my hand, "Here Gohan, it's best if you take this first, it'll probably be useless to you later if I don't."
Gohan's potential was just that mindboggling, I'm fairly sure he'll shoot right up passed Frieza once Dende unlocks his potential, especially since Dende's abilities have all grown amazingly in the past six months.
"Um, okay." Gohan nodded, biting into the fruit, and then his eyes widened as his power spiked massively, doubling in strength.
The reactions of everyone around me were full of cheer and happiness, despite the heavy news I just dropped on them, the sheer massive increase of strength they just went through, could not be underestimated from their eyes.
I remember back in the day when I was a weak young fucker like them back in my younger days of six months ago. Every time I saw a significant jump in my power, was cause for celebration.
"What was with the golden fruit?" Piccolo asked while everyone else was celebrating, "It pretty much doubled Gohan's power, if what you said is true, why not just give them to all of us."
"Because once you reach a certain point, they don't increase your power anymore and you can only use one," I replied, "With what I'm doing next, Gohan's power would most likely have broken that threshold easily and not be able to use them."
"Logical." Piccolo grunted, but there was still a scowl on his face. I can understand, after all, the four year old kid he was training as his apprentice, was far stronger than him now.
"You'd still win you know, just because he's stronger than you, doesn't mean he knows how to use it, he needs to be trained properly." I assured him.
"Hmph, he does still have a long way to go." Piccolo smirked at my words.
"Make sure to raise him well," I added, "Gohan's potential is greater even than you realise, there's only two others in this entire universe with potential that can match his."
"Is one of them you?" Piccolo asked, curious.
"Nope, I don't even come close," I snorted in amusement, "Honestly, if Gohan had went through everything I have so far, he'd blow my power out of the water, he's just that special."
Honestly, if Gohan was the one to get god ki in the original timeline, and became Super Saiyan Blue later, he probably would have clapped Jiren and surpassed Beerus.
As it was, even with just his ultimate form, he was a match for Golden Frieza by time the Tournament of Power came around.
Strictly speaking, once I have the time, Gohan is going to be one of my trump cards. I won't allow him to be ruined in this timeline and waste that potential.
We all have to make sacrifices. For me, it was not being able to retire to my NEET life already, for Gohan, he was going to have to make that scholar rubbish a hobby.
Their glee over their strength increase, mostly Yamcha and Krillin, dragged on for far longer than was really worth celebrating, I didn't even celebrate that much when I became a Super Saiyan for fuck sake.
"Alright, enough already!" I shouted, stopping them in their tracks, making the two freeze and everyone quiet down and turn their attention back to me.
"…Finally, they were getting annoying." Tien nodded to me.
"Come now Kakarot," Kami, younger than ever and looking almost identical to Piccolo now raised his hands to calm me down, "They're just happy due to the strength increase they've gained, there's no need to get worked up."
"Oh shut up fossil," Piccolo snorted, "Kakarot has things to do, remember? He's busy, he can't stick around watching idiots prance around, frankly I'm right there with him, I want to get this show on the road and meditate on all this, so will you all just grow up a bit and let him finish!"
Kami grimaced at the lecture from his younger counterpart, but didn't speak up, which was good, and Krillin and Yamcha were quick to utter some mumbled apologies.
Good.
I waved my hand, forming another portal, opening up before a much younger, smaller Namekian than the two present, "Hey Dende, can you help me out here?" I asked.
"Ah, okay Kakarot!" Dende nodded quickly and hopped out of the portal, "Oh, the lookout!" he smiled, looking around.
"It's like a mini Piccolo!" Krillin gasped.
"Shut it!" Piccolo glared, quieting the bald man down again, then turned his attention to Dende, giving him a brief nod.
Dende was used to Piccolo in the other timeline so just nodded back, then bowed politely to Kami, "Hello Kami, my name is Dende, it's a pleasure to meet you officially."
"Ah, you too young Dende." Kami smiled warmly at him in greeting.
I rolled my eyes, "Dende, can I trust you to unlock these guys potential for me?" I asked, "I need to get a move on myself."
Let me be honest, I don't really care for all these idiots besides Gohan, Tien and Piccolo. All these other guys? They're Goku's buddies, not mine. I'd rather get a move on and do my shit and get it done and dusted with, than hang around with these fools.
"That's fine Kakarot, I can handle it." Dende assured me.
"Right, then I'll catch you all later then." I nodded, pressing two fingers to my forehead. Thankfully, I already knew how to get to otherworld, I learned how when I got Piccolo and Kami's knowledge of ki manipulation.
As Dende had them all line up one by one so he could release their inner potential, I teleported away and arrived on a massive stone bridge hovering over a sky of golden clouds.
Otherworld baby.
Battle Power After Fruit
Piccolo Battle Power: 618,621
Gohan Battle Power: 1,275,128
Roshi Battle Power: 607,139
Ichiji Battle Power: 612,408
Niji Battle Power: 612,179
Yamcha Battle Power: 606,807
Tien Battle Power: 608,135
Krillin Battle Power: 607,220
Yajirobe Battle Power: 606,022
Chiaotzu Battle Power: 605,592
Popo Battle Power: 601,300
Kami Battle Power: 600,230
Battle Power After Potential Unlock
Piccolo Battle Power: 108,258,675
Gohan Battle Power: 624,812,720
Roshi Battle Power: 59,499,622
Ichiji Battle Power: 60,015,984
Niji Battle Power: 59,993,542
Yamcha Battle Power: 50,971,788
Tien Battle Power: 59,597,230
Krillin Battle Power: 59,507,560
Yajirobe Battle Power: 93,327,388
Chiaotzu Battle Power: 42,391,440
Popo Battle Power: 63,136,500
Kami Battle Power: 105,040,250
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.