Gohan finished slipping on the gi that Kai gave him and neatly folded his tunic "So what do I do now, I mean how do we train?"
"Well for now you don't have to do anything for training." Piccolo told him "All you have to do is survive."
"Wh-What do you mean survive?"
"Out here for 6 months with that idiot (referring to Kai), the two of you stay alive out here for 6 months and then I'll teach you how to fight."
"You-You're leaving me out here? But you can't!"
"I'd rather you be alone but the other kid is here, and besides it's not going to be alone out here or anything. You've got Kai there along with a bunch of hungry wild animals to keep you company."
"Which means we either eat them or they eat us." Kai put a hand on Gohan's shoulder in order to calm him down "That sound about right?"
"That's one way to look at it."
"But then what do we have to do?" asked Gohan.
"Just do whatever it takes to stay alive for 6 months, what that entails is up to you. Do that and you'll be far stronger both in body and in mind. Remember this if nothing else, there's a great power inside of you just waiting to be unlocked. The question is, do you want to unlock that power? If you do then you have to believe in your own abilities and those of the people that surround you."
"I… okay, I'll do it. I guess." he glanced over at Kai "Have you ever done this before?"
Kai gave a simple shrug "A few times a month or so, besides it's not like the Grinch over there said that this would be easy. But fate chose this path for us for a reason, the sooner we accept it the less of a bitch life is gonna turn out to be."
"Best to keep that in mind." and then Piccolo took off without another word.
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Mr Popo glanced up at Kami and noticed him looking disturbed "Kami whatever is the matter, is there something troubling you?"
"It's Piccolo." Kami let out a sigh "I can still feel the evil that dwells within his heart, and yet at the same time there seems to be a change coming over him as well Mr Popo. He's not acting like the villain that I had anticipated."
"Yes it is quite odd, the old King Piccolo would never have been willing to train two children, let alone the son of Goku."
"Yes I found it equally surprising when he agreed to forge an alliance with Goku and the others in order to do battle with the Saiyan Beets, I realize he had his own selfish motives for doing so but still it does not change the fact that he chose to defend the Earth. And thought it would appear that the true evil nature within Piccolo chose to reveal itself when he killed Goku along with Beets we must not forget that Goku chose to make that sacrifice, and not only that but he can be easily revived with the Dragon Balls. Piccolo knows that Goku is certain to return along with Yamcha and yet he has still made the choice to train his son and Yamcha's nephew, two boys that one day may very well grow to be powerful enemies in their own rights."
"But when you put it in a way such as that it doesn't make sense."
"And yet at the same time perhaps it does Mr Popo, Piccolo may have come to the same realization that I have that in one year we shall both die."
"No Kami, you cannot be serious."
"I am sorry Mr Popo but this I had foreseen, I do not know the exact cause of our inevitable death whether Piccolo loses his life in the battle with the Saiyans or if I will simply succumb to my old age but the result is the same. My life force is forever bound with that of Piccolo, we are two halves of the same being, one cannot exist without the other. You might refer to that as the curse that comes with foresight, seeing the day of my own demise and yet being unable to prevent it. If Piccolo has sensed my mind then he may wish to pass on his knowledge before he meets his end, even if one of those two whom he does pass it on is the son of his most hated enemy."
"But what about the Dragon Balls?"
"They have the time for one final wish on them."
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Meanwhile, in Otherworld…
Goku and Yamcha were still running down Snake Way "You know I can't believe Gohan and Kai are both so strong, what they did today against Beets was totally amazing! I guess Gohan really is a chip off of the old block."
Yamcha nodded "Yeah and Kai is too, he takes after my sister in so many ways."
"You know I never even knew that you had a sister."
"Yeah… she passed away about a few months ago. It was natural causes so the Dragon Balls can't bring her back with the Dragon Balls."
"Oh… Yamcha I'm sorry."
"It's okay. Look Goku here's the thing, Scarlet was my big sister and I loved her more than anything in the world, and I love her kid and I'm happy to do anything I can for them."
"You know Yamcha I know I don't say this a lot, but you're a good guy."
"I guess I learn from the best."
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By this point, training had already begun.
Kai sat down with Gohan in the wasteland "Alright I'm gonna take this one step at a time so you can follow it alright?"
"Okay." Gohan sat down.
"Good, now the first thing we're gonna do is teach you how to use Ki. The first thing you have to do is quiet your mind and relax." he cupped his hands "When you're ready you start to slowly draw out the power from within your body." he formed a ball of Ki in his hands "What do you think, pretty cool right?"
"Woah…"
"Yeah my mom taught me how to use it about a year ago before she… Anyway do you wanna give it a shot for yourself?"
"I think so." Gohan slowly cupped his hands.
"Remember that you've gotta keep your cool or it's not gonna work."
"Right." he relaxed slightly as a light began pulsing slightly in his hands, and slowly but surely a small Ki sphere began to flicker into life in his hands.
"Yeah there you go, man you're a natural at this. It took me about an hour to learn how to do this and you did it in just a few minutes."
Gohan's ball of Ki disappeared and fell forward slightly, but he smiled "So what are we gonna do now?"
"Right now, fight off that thing." he pointed to the gigantic dinosaur drooling over them "I don't know about you but I sense dinner coming."
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Master Roshi's eyebrows shot up "What the heck do you mean that you couldn't tell Chichi what happened?"
Krillin let out a sigh "I'm sorry but I just couldn't bring myself to do it, I was gonna but I just, you know…"
"You mean you chickened out and didn't tell her a damn thing?" Launch (yellow hair) shot her a dirty look "You're seriously hopeless you know that, all you had to do was blurt it out and run before she could castrate you."
"You say that like it's easy, and sure for you it sounds easy enough as it is but you don't you go over to Chichi's and tell her that Goku is dead!"
"Well…" Master Roshi let out a sigh "All things considered I can't really say that I blame you you know."
"But it's not like we can just not tell her." Bulma pointed out.
"Yeah yeah I know so how about this, we'll write a letter to Chichi instead."
Krillin lit up at this "You mean I'm off the hook, oh man that's a great idea."
"Okay so what about the two Dragon Balls that Goku keeps at his place, at least tell me that you managed to snag those." Bulma told him.
"...Oh crap."
"Oh for f*ck's sake you're totally hopeless!"
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Nightfall came, and things had already settled down.
Kai had started a fire and was now roasting a slab of dinosaur meat that they had cut off of the tail of the dinosaur that had attacked them earlier "Word of warning I am probably a god awful cook."
Gohan let out a chuckle "Hey you know Kai I've really gotta thank you, something like this is something that really scares me but knowing that there's another kid out here with me that knows how to do this is actually pretty comforting."
"Save the thanks runt, your training is only getting started."
"What?"
"We've got 6 months until Piccolo comes back for us and I know for a fact that what you tapped into during training today isn't even scratching the surface of the surface of the power that you've got locked away in there. You pushed through one wall and now we're gonna push through the next. You can't tell me you're not curious, that you don't wanna know how strong you truly are. Don't settle for being pretty good when you could be the best there is. Like I've said we've got 6 months out here, let's put that time to good use." he held out his hand "Now do you wanna get stronger than Goku like I wanna get stronger than my uncle right?"
"...Stronger than my daddy?" Gohan slowly accepted the hand "Yeah I think so, now let's do this."
"Great minds think alike I guess."
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What neither of them realized was that Piccolo was actually watching them from afar 'Well what do you know, the brats can learn. I guess they've got more potential and grit than even I had anticipated.'
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Morning came, and shit was about to hit the fan.
Chichi was driving towards Kame House with her father the Ox King, intent on giving Goku literal hell "He kept Gohan out all night and didn't even bother to call me once! The nerve of that man!
Ox King let out a nervous chuckle "Well it's been so long since Goku has seen all of his friends I bet that that he probably just lost track of time and then they decided to spend the night with Master Roshi and the rest of them."
"Well that's still just poor parenting, Gohan has his school work to think about."
"Oh come on Chichi, missing one day isn't that big of a deal is it?"
"Yeah but where does it stop, first it's just a single day and then the next thing you know my son is a homeless bum!" and then she proceeded to floor it.
"CHICHI!"
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By this point in the day, the sun was shining over Kame House.
Bulma finally finished working on the Scouter that Raditz had given her "There that should be enough for it, hey guys come and take a look at this. Hop to, I think I finally got this bad boy working!" she scowled when she noticed that they were sleeping "Launch you mind?"
"Don't mind if I do." and so Launch preceded them to shoot them awake, drawing yelps of terror from Krillin and Master Roshi.
"Thank you. Listen up you two I have been up all night and I'm a little bit irritable right about now so you would be wise not to get on my bad side, now then we're gonna try this one again okay? Now hope to guys."
"Uh… hop where exactly?" asked Master Roshi.
"Come on just stand up so that I can put this baby through its paces and I even changed the characters in the display so that it would be easier to read." she scanned Master Roshi using the Scouter "Huh, you're at 139."
"139? Oh no Bulma I'm much older than that."
"It's not your age it's your strength, your power level or whatever it was that Raditz called the thing."
"It can tell you that just by looking at me? Wow that's an amazing device and 139 sounds tough to beat."
"Yeah I guess."
"Okay okay my turn!" Krillin bolted to his feet "What's my number Bulma?"
"Let's find out. Well what do you know, you're at 206."
"Hey check it out I'm stronger than you now, the student has surpassed the master! Oh yeah it's a new day for the Krill-Dog!" and then he fell off of the couch "Ow."
"You had that coming."
Master Roshi started sweating "Hold on a second, are you sure that you actually fixed that thing?"
"Not to brag but I am sort of a wiz at this stuff!"
"Hello is anyone there?" a voice called from outside "Hello?"
"Yeah yeah we're coming." Krillin went to answer it, only to find a muscular young man standing there with darker colored skin, beady eyes and a feather in his hair, someone that he recognized and his face lit up because of it "No way, Upa?!"
Sure enough, standing before him was Upa, the young warrior of the native tribe that lived underneath Korin Tower "Hi Krillin how's it going?"
"Holy crap you've gotten so big, what are you up to now?"
"I actually climbed Korin Tower and I've been training under Master Korin, it took me about 3 weeks to get the water from him and I've been living up there with him and Yajirobe ever since then. Anyway Master Korin wanted me to come and give you guys a message, he wants you to come to his tower for some special training."
"Wait a second, as in the Korin?"
"The white cat with the staff, yes. He wants you to bring Yajirobe since he wouldn't want to come willingly, as well as two people called Tien and Chiaotzu."
"Wow uh, it sounds like a pretty big deal."
"Yes I know. Oh and also I have a message from Goku and Yamcha, they don't want you to wish them back to life with the Dragon Balls until the Saiyans arrive one year from now."
"Wait what but why?"
"From what I can tell they're undergoing some sort of special training in the afterlife with some sort of martial arts master, I think Fortuneteller Baba is meant to come by later on and give you more details. I would stay but I have to get back to Korin Tower before Yajirobe realizes that I took his car. See you them!" and then he took off.
"Wait a second, Baba is coming all the way here? So what the heck are Goku and Yamcha doing again exactly?"
"Don't bother asking me, I don't have a clue." Master Roshi muttered.
"That's helpful, and is it just me or is he coming back?" Krillin gestured to a vehicle approaching them in the distance.
"Wait what?"
As it turns out, it was just Ox King with Chichi "Hey there Master Roshi it's great to see you again, how are you everybody!" this unintentionally caused Master Roshi to pretty much lose his shit.
"Oh crap oh crap oh crap, it's Ox King and he's with Chichi!"
Krillin was practically trying not to piss himself "Okay this is really really bad, what the heck are we supposed to do?"
"Well I guess it's too late to write that letter."
"And I don't know about you schmucks but I'm so out of here." Launch pulled a car out of a capsule, hopped into it and then suddenly took off across the ocean.
"Yep, we're screwed." this proved to be true when Ox King and Chichi finally pulled up onto the scene.
"Master Roshi it's been far too long!" Ox King hopped out of the car and started bowing in front of Master Roshi "How are you doing teacher, I hope that all of these years have been treating you well."
"Oh yes, so far so good I guess. For the next few minutes anyway."
Chichi was less than cordial as she hopped out of her car "Alright where the hell are the two of them? I know they're around here somewhere, now start talking!"
"Oh boy. Well the thing about that is… it's like this!" this prompted both of them to lean in as he explained the entire situation from the day before.
"...WHAT?!" this was a high pitched harpy like shriek that nearly made their ears bleed "You guys let that Piccolo monster take my son?!"
"Not like we had much of a choice, but yeah."
"And you're saying that Goku had to, I mean that he's…"
"Well, he and Yamcha are both kind of dead."
"..." Chichi then took the chance to faint on the spot.
"Oh crap Chichi, Krillin hurry up and get the smelling salts!"
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Nightfall came, and the full moon was shining brightly.
Gohan sat up and went to pee against a rock until he noticed "Why do I have a shadow when it's night time?"
"Probably just from the moon now piss quietly." Kai rolled over to try and go back to sleep, which failed miserably.
Gohan looked up and made direct eye contact with the full moon "Oh wow it's the biggest moon ever, and it's so bright! It must be a full moon, I've never seen one of those before-" he cut himself short when his heart began racing and his eyes started to turn red.
"And thus goes any chance of me getting any sleep tonight." Kai bolted into the air just in time to see Gohan transform into a full Great Ape "Or for the next week or so."
Now in his Great Ape form, Gohan was unable to control himself and started going on a rampage, shattering mountains around them left and right.
"And now it looks like I'm gonna f*cking die."
"Sad thing is I don't think you're that far off." Piccolo pulled him out of the way of a mouth blast from Gohan "If he keeps this up then the Earth will be destroyed before the Saiyans even get here!"
"Not to mention that he puts Donkey Kong to shame!"
"Enough with the references, we have to figure out some way to stop him!"
"Calm down green man I already figured it out, Raditz said that the full moon is the key to unlocking the true potential of a Saiyan, which means that… You know what I'm just gonna do it, Sailor Moon eat your heart out! NAIL GUN!" and so to prove that point, Kai fired a full power Nail Gun at the moon, blowing it to bits in an instant "I was able to figure out that they need the full moon to produce blutz waves to allow them to transform, sort of like a werewolf effect."
"...I'm honestly rather scared by you at some points." Piccolo glanced down to see Gohan change back to normal and pass out "So that's the secret of the Saiyan's power, it has to be that tail of theirs, somehow it gives them the ability to transform at a full moon."
"Again like a werewolf effect, but either way the fact that we destroyed it might be for the best at least until we get rid of the Saiyans and then we can bring it back with the Dragon Balls when this whole thing is over."
"But if the kid did this much damage then I would hate to think what the other two Saiyans would be able to do when they arrived."
"But now without the moon they won't receive the necessary blutz waves they need in order to transform which makes the playing field at least somewhat level."
"In fact we have an advantage now because we know that their tails can be a weak spot for them that we can exploit."
"Actually I think my uncle mentioned that Goku was able to train his tail so that it wasn't a weak spot anymore so the other Saiyans might have been able to."
"Well regardless this means that the kid's tail is only a liability." and so Piccolo grabbed Gohan's tail and ripped it clean off "There we go."
"The only problem now is that the kid is naked in the jungle, god this feels like an episode of Survivor on LSD."
"Yeah now he might need some new clothes and maybe a sword, I guess I can at least prove the kid with that much and now that I think about it you might need a sword too." so he then used his lethal attack Clothes Beam, equipping Gohan in a new gi similar to Piccolo's own, as well as giving both him and Kai their own swords "The clothes are like mine to show that he's for my camp."
"That is easily your most metro attack."
"Whatever, I've already done more for you brats than I had intended. I don't have time to babysit the two of you any longer, I have my own training to do so now you're gonna have to teach this brat how to survive. If the two of you are able to survive out here for six months by yourselves then you'll see me again, and then you'll both see what you're made of when your real training begins. Believe me when I tell you that once you both learn what I have in store for you then I promise that you'll wish that you had died." and with that, he took off into the night sky, leaving the two boys on their own.
'Well we're one step closer to being prepared for the end of the world but it looks like a long hard road still lies ahead.'
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The days kept on going by, and before anyone knew it 6 full months had passed.
Gohan was woken up by two things, one of them being the early morning sun and the other being his stomach "Food…"
"Way ahead of you!" Kai suddenly came running with a certain familiar dinosaur on his tail, but he swerved at the last second and made it crash head first into a mountain "Eat your heart out Meet the Robinsons."
"And now for my role!" Gohan drew his sword and cut off a piece of the dinosaur's tail, and then used a Ki blast to create a small fire "Looks like he's gonna be all out of tail pretty soon."
"Well it's been about six months so Piccolo oughta come back for us any day now." Kai then proceeded to start grilling the slab of dinosaur meat.
"Hey just remember that I like my meat golden brown."
"Yeah yeah I got it."
Piccolo observed the two of them from afar "Good it looks like the two of them are improving faster than I thought, I guess having two of them is accelerating their progress more than I had anticipated."
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At the same time, Goku and Yamcha were still running down Snake Way, panting heavily all the way 'Oh come on, how much further is it to King Kai's place?'
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By this point, Krillin, Upa, Tien, Chiaotzu and Yajirobe had all gathered up at Kami's Lookout to begin training "I'll tell you now guys, with all of us fighting together like this I doubt those Saiyans stand a ghost of a chance."
Tien nodded "You got that right Krillin, we'll be sure to be ready for them. Especially after we train with Kami."
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Piccolo took the first opportunity that he could to confront Gohan and Kai "Looks like the two of you managed to survive for six months, and I can see that the two of you learned a lot in that time. But your still not a fighter, now is when your real training is going to begin. Are you ready?"
"As if you had to ask!" Kai charged at Piccolo, with Gohan doing the same.
Piccolo proceeded to throw both of them to the ground without breaking a sweat "What's the matter, is that all you've got?"
"Far from it!" Gohan charged at him first, only to receive a kick to the face "Ow."
"You can never allow yourself to lose sight of your target."
"But I couldn't even see you, you were moving way too fast."
"Your eyes will deceive you on the battlefield, try to feel it."
"Yeah but I did feel it, that's the problem." he was promptly blasted by Piccolo using his Eye Beams, frying him and knocking him out cold.
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The days continued to pass, feeling longer for some than for others.
Goku and Yamcha climbed up a massive hurdle on Snake Way and stopped in order to catch their breath "Oh man this is insane."
"Hey Goku take a look at that!" Yamcha pointed to what he saw not far away "It looks like we finally reached the tail, and you said that this was never gonna end!"
"Yamcha you said that like 7 times every day but yay, we really did it!" they started sliding down the other side of the tail hill until he almost fell off into the clouds, only to be pulled back onto the path by Yamcha when they noticed something very off putting "Okay is it just me or is there nothing here?"
"Nope I'm not seeing anything, as far as I'm concerned this is a major ripoff."
"I know it's like- Wait what's that up there?" Goku pointed to a very small planet sitting high above them.
"You think that's where King Kai lives?"
"Oh yeah it's gotta be, it's just gotta be! Come on, let's go!" and so the two of them leapt as high as they could into the planet's gravitational pull, only to end up crashing onto the ground of the planet with a loud thud.
"Ow."
"...Hey Yamcha?"
"Yeah?"
"Can you move?"
"Not really no. You?"
"No. It feels like my body is completely made of led, I can't even get on my feet!"
"Hold on, let me try." Yamcha struggled a great deal, but eventually he was able to pull himself onto his feet "Okay it's pretty heavy but I think I'm getting it."
"Yeah well good for you." Goku wasn't anywhere near as successful "The more I try to fight against it the harder it seems to pull me back down!"
"Well your weighted clothes might not help that."
"Well either way it feels like my body is completely made of lead! Dammit!" he looked up to see a monkey staring at the two of them "Hey Yamcha do you think it would make sense for King Kai to be a cat?"
"Why in the name of hell would it make sense for a martial arts master to be a monkey?"
"Well to be fair Korin is a cat."
"...Yeah okay fair enough. Hey let's get something to eat from that tree over there."
"Good idea." the two of them started struggling towards a nearby tree " I mean King Kai is supposed to be the best and Korin was the best on Earth.
"Well unless you count Kami and Mr Popo, what the hell is he anyway?"
"Oh god don't even get me started, I fought him once after I beat King Piccolo and he wasted me."
"How bad?"
"I fired a Kamehameha wave at him and he literally swallowed it."
"...There's weird and then there's Mr Popo isn't there?"
"Truer words have never been spoken, hey how do you know Mr Popo anyway?"
"Well after you beat Piccolo in that tournament a few years back my sister Scarlet kind of tore into me for losing out to Kami in such a humiliating way."
"Oh you mean the way you hurt your balls on his head?"
"Yeah, anyway she beat me down for a few weeks and then sent me to meet Korin, who then sent me up to meet Kami and Mr Popo."
"...You have my sympathy."
"As do I for anyone who met King Yemma's wife." that was when a short blue figure came out of the house "Seriously have you seen her, it's like every single nightmare I ever had fused into one being, cloned itself, f*cked the clone and then made her!"
Yamcha nodded "I know right?"
"Yeah! Hey quick question, who the hell are you two?"
"Oh yeah right." he bowed and forced Goku to do the same "You must be the great master known as King Kai, my name is Yamcha and this is my good friend Son Goku and we've both travelled a great distance to meet with you-"
"Oh hang on, let me do my intro. If you're itching for a laugh- Oh yeah speaking of which I've got a killer." he tried to scratch an itch on his back "Dammit I can't-"
"I've got it." Yamcha summoned a Spirit Ball and rubbed it against King Kai's back "How does that work?"
"Like wonders, I already like you. Anyway I'm your guy, I'm King Kai and that over there is my pet monkey Bubbles."
"Who Goku here actually thought was you."
"Is that supposed to sound funny? Because that's just weird and believe me when I tell you that I know funny, I'm sure you gathered that from my clever little rhyme there. It's not too late to laugh if you need to."
"Hey I laughed at my sister's jokes all the time and they're in the same ballpark, I think I'm funnied out for now."
"Fair enough. Goku what about you, you need to laugh at it?"
"Laugh at what exactly?" asked Goku.
"...Yeah it's official, Yamcha is my favorite out of you two. I should know better than to lead with the high route stuff-"
"Goku doesn't get jokes." Yamcha told him "But trust me he's got his own set of issues in the head."
"...You're killing me man, what are you two doing here anyway?"
"Oh see we both died and were told that you were the best martial arts master that we could meet so we came to seek you out."
"Yeah I figured that much from you Yamcha, see about 6 months ago I got a new student and she wouldn't stop talking about you and her son."
"...Wait do you mean who I think you mean?"
"Let's find out, you can come out now!"
'Is it…'
That was when another figure emerged from the house, revealed to be a woman with brown hair in a ponytail, black eyes and a crimson red martial arts gi "Hey Yamcha, looks like you've bulked a little bit."
"Scarlet…"
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Training continued back on Earth.
In a surprising turn of events, Gohan was able to deal Piccolo a solid kick to the face, sending him stumbling backwards "You said that I'm worthless in battle if I can't control my energy so that's what I'm doing!"
"Take your own advice ponytail!" Kai dealt Gohan an uppercut kick to the jaw.
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"Come on he who doesn't have a sense of humor, let's give the two of them a chance to catch up a little bit." King Kai led Goku away, leaving Yamcha and Scarlet alone.
Yamcha sat down on the edge of King Kai's well "You know Kai's turning out really well even if he's so young."
"I see." Scarlet sat down next to him and gave him a gentle smile "It's good that you're looking out for him."
"Yeah." he wiped away a few tears "You know I've tried to be strong for him but what happened to you, it still really hurts. I just don't know when it's gonna stop, I keep thinking it's gonna go away but it doesn't, it just gets worse. I show him pictures of you all the time and I get this empty feeling like what happened to mom and dad all over again. I mean I feel like I could've done something."
"No Yamcha you heard what the doctor said, that disease that took me had no cure. Besides I know that feeling, both when we lost mom and dad and when I lost my husband. I don't think that feeling ever goes away, I'm so sorry that I put you through this and my son."
"I miss you sis, it's not easy for me to talk about."
"It hurts me too, the thought that I put you through so much pain and that I won't get to see my son grow up. But just know this if nothing else, I'll watch over you to to the best of my ability and be there when it really counts." the two of them hugged it out "Now why don't we go see your friend make an ass out of himself in front of King Kai."
"What does he have to do?"
"Well King Kai thinks he's a comedian but he has nothing on me."
"His sense of humor is exactly like yours."
"...I'm going to ignore that but in the meantime I want you to come at me." she stood and took on a combat stance "I hope you're as good at fighting these days as you are at running your mouth little brother."
"You got it." Yamcha got into a combat stance "Hey by the way why is it that ever since Goku and I got to this planet I've sort of been having a hard time moving?"
"That doesn't surprise me, I had a hard time with it too when I first got here. You see the gravity of this planet is 10 times stronger than it is on Earth, frankly I'm impressed that you can stand at all. Try this for example, jump as high as you can."
"Alright." Yamcha leapt into the air as high as he could, only to end up falling back down to the ground in a matter of seconds "Dammit it's no use, I can barely get myself off of the ground at all! At this rate I'm never gonna be ready."
"10 times your own gravity and you can still jump that high? That's impressive, I can tell that you're going to get even stronger than me when we're done."
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Training was continuing on Kami's Lookout, with Krillin, Tien and Upa in particular showing a great level of improvement.
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King Kai gathered both Goku and Yamcha to begin with their training "Before we get started we're going to have to work out your training regimen, how long do the two of you plan to stay here anyway?"
"Well I'm not really sure how long Goku and I were on Snake Way for but I doubt we have a lot of time left, see there are two Saiyans on their way to Earth right now and when they get there everyone is gonna be in a lot of trouble." Yamcha told him "Right now we're not strong enough to stop them yet so we have to get as strong as possible before they get here."
"The Saiyans huh? They're a nasty bunch that's for sure, I doubt even Scarlet here would want to tangle with them. But that being said we still need to come up with an estimate before they reach the Earth, so let me use these bad boys here to check out how much time we have and where they are right now." so he used his antenna to determine the locations of Vegeta and Nappa flying through space at the moment "Yeah no doubt about it, I can tell that's them. Judging by their speed and current location, I would say that they're due to arrive on Earth in 158 days."
"Man that's pretty soon, but how could you possible be able to tell that?" asked Goku.
"These antennas get all of the channels in the universe, TV be damned."
"Uh huh. Well if you're sure that they'll get to Earth in 158 days then I don't think we have enough time now do we?"
"Well it's not as much as I'd like but I think that with me and Scarlet teaching the two of you then we should be able to make it work. Think of it like the gravity on this planet, everything here is multiplied so 158 days here with me is worth years of training back on Earth."
"That's awesome!"
"But don't become complacent, even the best training doesn't guarantee that you'll be able to defeat the Saiyans. The two specific ones that are on their way to Earth are among the strongest and most ruthless warriors in the universe, to be perfectly frank these Saiyans are even more powerful than I am."
"Wait what, are you kidding?"
"No not this time, I mean there's a chance that Scarlet could defeat them but even then there's no guarantee. Regardless, that means that if the two of you wish to defeat me then that means that the two of you will have to be able to become even stronger than me before you leave or you won't stand a chance. But regardless of that now we'd better get started, Bubbles can you come over here and lend me a hand please?" he called Bubbles over to him "The first thing that you need is to get accustomed to the increase gravity of this planet, so your first training assignment is to catch Bubbles. Let me just warn you now that he's pretty quick, if you can't at least do that then you might as well just give up now."
"...Yeah sure works for me I guess."
"Okay Bubbles now get moving." and so King Kai sent Bubbles on his way.
"Oh man I've totally got this!" Yamcha took off after Bubbles at a somewhat reasonable level of speed, with Goku lagging far behind "Yeah you're going down monkey! And see Goku this is why wearing weighted clothes is more of a hindrance than a help!"
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Training had started early that morning.
Kai was taking an onslaught of punches and kicks from Piccolo, until he managed to block one punch and deal him a kick to the face "Now Gohan!"
"Right! Kamehameha!" Gohan charged at Piccolo and unleashed a weaker version of the Kamehameha, but it still sent Piccolo reeling a few feet.
"Yeah that's how we do it in our neck of the woods asshat!"
Piccolo wiped the blood from his lip "Good job you two, but don't let your guard down!"
"We're not!" Kai yanked Gohan out of the path of a Ki blast, only to stop and for his head to snap in a certain direction "Piccolo."
"I know." Piccolo glanced back to see two warriors by the names of Ginger and Nicky charging towards them in mid air "Get ready you two, something feels off about them."
"Wait are they running on air? That's so stupid, they're flying so why would they even need to-"
"Focus!"
"Yeah die mother f*cker!" Sansho burst up from the ground and decked the three of them, before he and the other two started laying a beating on them, ending the assault with a three way Ki blast "Yeah that's right, now Piccolo and Kami are one in body and spirit in Hell! Choke on that one mother f*cker! Now let's get those Dragon Balls!"
"Wait wait wait hold on a second." Kai and Gohan suddenly appeared in front of the three of them, with Piccolo hanging back "So you tried to kill Piccolo and Kami and then use the Dragon Balls?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"You realize that if Piccolo and Kami are dead then the Dragon Balls are useless right?"
"...Oh shit."
"DAMMIT YOU IMBECILES I TOLD YOU TO TARGET KAMI AND THEN SUBDUE HIM, NOT KILL THE STRONG ONE!" that was when a small gremlin like figure in a robe appeared on the scene "Honestly it's times like this that I think minions are supposed to be incompetent."
"That sounds about right." Piccolo proceeded to off Ginger in an instant, leaving the other two for Kai and Gohan "You two got this?"
"Oh yeah we've totally got this." Kai blew Sansho's brains out with a quick Nail Gun to the head, with Gohan firing a Masenko and vaporizing Nicky, leaving only the gremlin left "You mind if me and Gohan double team this little freak?"
"Fine by me." and so he chose to hang back.
"Now then small blue and annoying, what's your name?"
"Such a mouth on you." the gremlin tutted "You see the reason why we're here is quite a simple one child, my name is Garlic Jr-" he was cut off by Kai snickering "What's so funny?"
"No no carry on. Garlic though, seriously? Dammit now I want garlic bread.'
"As I was saying, my name is Garlic Jr and this planet will soon belong to me!"
"Okay so that's your objective, now what's your shtick?"
"What do you mean?"
"I think I know what he means, from what I understand no real villain is actually that intimidating unless they have a good backstory." Gohan told him.
"Oh, I see. Very well then, I suppose I might as well tell the two of you before I wipe you from the face of the Earth. It was before your time. 300 years ago my father Garlic (cue the snickering again) was in competition with the one you know as Kami for the role of Guardian of the Earth, but Kami had been chosen and then my father tried to claim the throne by force, only to be imprisoned and sealed away for all of eternity. For over three centuries I have been biding my time gathering my strength, and now I shall usurp that foolish guardian."
"By going after the stronger half?"
"As we've already agreed my henchmen are fools, but I suppose I could call this a preemptive strike. After all with Piccolo and Son Goku both dead then there won't be anyone left strong enough to stop me!"
"Brilliant plan Einstein, except there are two factors you're not considering." Kai told him.
"Which are what exactly?"
"Me and Gohan."
"Oh yes, you killed two of my henchmen during this conversation. I will admit that your skills are impressive, it's such a shame that the two of you are sacrificing yourselves for the inevitable."
"Yeah, your death."
"We'll see about that soon enough, boy! I guess it's like the old saying goes, if you want someone to be killed right then you have to kill them yourself!" and then with a mighty rage filled roar Garlic Jr transformed into his full power form, which basically looked like a blue gremlin version of the Hulk "Now do you see, this is what true power looks like!" he blitzed past Gohan and Kai and elbowed both of them in the backs before firing his Death Impact energy wave, destroying the plateau they were fighting on.
Kai took the chance to throw a pen and a notepad at Piccolo "Write down some of those lines, they could work out for you!" he then proceed to charge at Garlic Jr and fire off a barrage of punches and kicks, only for his attacks to not have any effect, forcing him on the defensive.
"Kai get down!" Gohan pulled him out of the way right before Garlic Jr hit them with another Death Impact, leaving him at the mercy of Garlic Jr as he got slammed against the side of a mountain.
Kai on the other hand to nurse his wrist 'Dammit that bastard f*cked up my wrist, I mean it doesn't hurt a lot but it's definitely uncomfortable. Maybe I should have Piccolo conjure up a wrist brace or something-
"PAIN TRAIN IS COMING!" having grabbed Gohan by the face, Garlic Jr then proceeded to do the same to Kai and then slammed both of them down to the ground "Next stop: ROCK BOTTOM!"
"I get it!"
"In case you little brats haven't figured it out yet then let me spell it out for you, you can't beat me!"
"We'll see about that."
"There has to be some day for us to stop him" Gohan muttered.
"Talking about it isn't gonna work, all we can do is beat the ever loving shit out of him before he does it to us anymore than he already has."
"You seem like you're serious, but with all of the power that I'm sensing from him we have to work together if we want to have any chance of defeating him."
"I hope you plan on taking your own advice."
"We've been training out here together for about 6 months, I think you already know the answer to that."
"Yeah I do." and so the two of them charged forward at full speed, with Kai taking the front as usual.
"Do you think that can stop me?" Garlic Jr blitzed through their charge, with Gohan and Kai blitzing through his attacks.
This ended when Gohan caught Garlic Jr and kicked him in the face, giving him and Kai the chance to begin their counterattack "MASENKO!" and with two simultaneous mighty roars of rage, they each fired a simultaneous Masenko, the combined power allowing them to complete vaporize Garlic Jr on the spot without even giving him time to scream.
Kai breathed a sigh of relief "Well that was fun."
"That was… exhausting…" Gohan fell to the ground on his back, panting heavily as he lost consciousness.
'He's still not used to fighting on that level but all things considered he did well.'
Piccolo lowered himself back to the ground "A little bit sloppy on your parts but all things considered not a bad job the two of you did, there might just be hope for you yet."
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Nightfall came, and things had finally settled down, with Kai already being fast asleep.
Piccolo had built a campfire and shot a smirk at Gohan "Well at least the last six months had knocked the crybaby out of you at the very least."
"Yeah I know, but you kind of have to when you're stuck alone with someone like Kai for that long." Gohan pointed out.
"True."
"Hey!" Kai let out an offended yelp.
"Well it's true."
Then Gohan thought of something "Hey Piccolo is it really true that you and my dad fought each other a long time ago before I was born?"
"Yes it is, and believe me when I tell you that that fight is far from over. Once the Saiyans are defeated, that is to say if they are defeated, then I intend to pick it up where we left off."
"Yeah but my dad used to tell me that ever since you got reborn you're not nearly as bad as you used to be, he said that now you're not as evil as you are grumpy. I don't know I think he wasn't that far off from being right."
"And losing interest in this conversation."
"And plus my mom is still totally scared of you."
"...Just stop blabbering and go to sleep, and if you think today's training was tough then wait until you see what I've got in store for the two of you tomorrow!"
"Um… okay." and then he rolled over and went to sleep.
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3 weeks of intense training and anime levels of hijinks later…
Yamcha broke away from a quick sparring session with Scarlet "Man I knew you'd paste me, I guess you haven't been wasting your time here."
"I've been dead, training is all that I can do with someone like King Kai." Scarlet pointed out dryly "Just be glad I talked King Kai into letting you spar with me instead of having to use that mallet on Gregory, you probably would've lost it and killed him."
"I don't think Goku is that far off."
"What do you mean?"
"OH THAT IS IT!" with a mallet in his hands, Goku started chasing a flying grasshopper around the planet, smashing everything in failed attempts to hit him "ENJOY IT NOW YOU LITTLE BASTARD BUT JUST YOU WAIT UNTIL I GET THIS THING WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE OF THAT SKULL!" and he even ended up smashing King Kai's car.
"...Well he's driven if nothing else, you've gotta give him that much. Still though you and he have been improving spectacularly since you've been here."
"You think so?"
"Absolutely, in fact I have no doubt in my mind that you and Goku will both be able to master the Kaioken technique."
"Is that a big deal?"
"Oh you have no idea."
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Krillin watched as Tien and Upa sparred 'The two of them are getting more and more incredible by the day! Dammit Yajirobe will you take this seriously for once?!"
"Alright alright fine, just lose the metal pole up your ass." Yajirobe threw away the corn cob that he was eating and knocked Krillin to the ground, and then proceeded to literally bite him on the ass.
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Piccolo dealt Gohan a sharp kick to the face "Hey come on now what are you waiting for you little brat?"
Gohan managed to dodge a few punches "Yes I'm really getting there aren't I guys? Just admit it!"
"Don't get so carried away, dodging my attacks only once or twice doesn't give you the right to be cocky because YOU'RE STILL SOFT!" and to prove this point he blasted Gohan in the face, sending him falling down a cliff, kicking him off of it for good measure.
"Hey what the heck was that for?!"
"IF YOU CAN'T GET BACK UP HERE ON YOUR OWN THEN YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST GIVE UP!" and then Piccolo sat down and began meditating, hearing Gohan's screams and failed attempts at getting back up the cliff 'So what now Gohan, will you rise above it or cower in the face of a challenge?' and then he heard a voice.
"Hey Piccolo! PICCOLO! Are you still there?! Well listen up cause I've got something to say to you! I know what you're trying to do and I get it, you want me to learn to take care of myself in the same way that you and Kai do! Well fine I'll do your training or whatever else you say, my dad wouldn't give up and neither will I! But I'm not gonna quit! You hear me Piccolo?!"
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At the same time, Kami addressed Krillin, Tien, Yajirobe, Chiaotzu and Upa "I am pleased to confess that there is nothing left that I am able to teach all of you, there is no doubt in my mind that your abilities have far surpassed both Mr Popo and myself. Return now to your homes on the Earth below and hone the newfound skills that you have learned until that fated day arrives upon us. The future of this world is in your hands."
"So does that mean that we can get out of these heavy clothes now or what?" asked Yajirobe.
"Yes feel free to do what you wish with them."
Krillin glanced over at Tien and Chiaotzu "I say that we go and put the finishing touches on these new skills, at this rate I feel like we can keep on powering up forever! We have to be invincible!"
Tien nodded "Yeah I know what you mean, but if we're invincible then I can't wait to see what's become of Goku and Yamcha."
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King Kai watched as Goku finally managed to smash Gregory into the ground 'Excellent and we still have 118 days left! Could they be the ones, the students that I've been waiting for that can master my techniques? Not only do both Goku and Yamcha possess the strength to master the Kaioken technique but Goku has the purity of heart required to wield my most powerful attack, the Spirit Bomb!'
"So you're gonna keep your end of the bargain right?" Goku and Yamcha both made their way up to him.
"Make no mistake you two, this training will be more strenuous than you could possible begin to imagine! Are the two of you ready?!"
"Oh you bet we are!"
"Very well then you two, expect nothing less of yourselves than to be the best of the best! I want the two of you to aspire to greatness you hear?! GREATNESS!"
"You can count on that."
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The months continued to pass, and before anyone knew it the last day of training had at last arrived.
King Kai had Goku and Yamcha stand at attention "Well this is it boys, the last day of your training under me. I wish we could've had another month to hone your comedic skills but other than that I've been able to teach the two of you everything you'll need to know in order to succeed. Why don't we review what the two of you have learned just to be on the safe side you know?"
Goku nodded "Yeah that sounds about right."
"Alright then, Bubbles you're up first. Ready… GO!" he clocked it as Goku managed to catch the monkey "0.8 seconds, you've broken the record! Yamcha, you're up next!"
"Got it!" Yamcha got into position.
"Ready… GO!" he clocked it "1 solid second, that's remarkable!"
"So what's next?" Goku lined up next with a mallet in hand
"Next up is Gregory. Ready, and… GO!" he clocked it "1.2 seconds, that's unbelievable! Okay so, Yamcha's next! Ready… GO!" he clocked it "1.5 seconds, this is amazing!"
"So what do we do next?" asked Goku.
"Well rather than risk you blowing up my planet let's just make sure you understand the specific mechanics behind the Spirit Bomb, only then will you be able to use it correctly. Essentially you pull a small amount of energy from the grass, trees, people, animals, every living thing on the planet and the air itself, and then it releases all of that energy in one giant burst."
"Oh yeah it's a pretty awesome technique alright."
"Even here on a planet as small as this one we're on right now you know exactly just how capable it is, you can only begin to imagine how powerful it will be on a planet as large as the Earth, which has that much more life energy to draw from, not to mention the energy you'll be able to pull from the sun. But at the same time you must be extremely careful, the raw power of your Spirit Bomb could easily become too much for you to control alone. One small mistake and you could destroy your home and all of the friends that you're fighting to protect."
"Yeah, I know."
"For that reason that you must promise me that you won't use it unless you have absolutely no other choice and even then only once. Do you understand me?"
"All too well King Kai, all too well. Besides, with everything else me and Yamcha learned from you we probably won't even need it."
"I hope you're right, I really do. Now I'm afraid that we don't have the time we need to put the final touches on your training, the Saiyans should arrive on Earth in about 24 hours."
"Right, so we'd better get back to Earth then."
"...OH CRAP!" King Kai suddenly screamed "WHAT HAVE I DONE?!"
"Woah man take it easy, what's the matter?" asked Yamcha.
"Okay so try to stay calm but the thing is that I may have forgotten to factor in how long it would take the two of you to get back to Earth."
"Wait what? But I thought you were gonna send me back home, Goku and I thought you were just gonna teleport us there or something."
"Uh…"
"...YOU MEAN WE'VE GOTTA TAKE SNAKE WAY ALL THE WAY BACK! GOKU AND I TOOK SIX MONTHS JUST TO GET HERE, WE CAN'T MAKE IT BY TOMORROW!"
"I know but you're faster now and it won't take you as long, maybe 2 days at the most, and then I'll have Kami meet you guys at the end to meet you the rest of the way!"
"No we don't have two days, they're almost there now! If me and Goku aren't there then everyone is gonna die!"
"Quit being such a baby will you! I messed up and I admit it, don't you think I feel bad enough as it is?! Now listen it's important that we get in touch with your friends back on Earth and fast so you can tell them to wish you back with the Dragon Balls right away!"
"But how?" asked Goku "I know you don't have a phone unless we missed it somewhere!"
"There's no phone now listen carefully, one of you is gonna put your hand on my back and then think as hard as you can and then your friends should be able to hear you."
"Wait are you serious?" Yamcha put his hand on King Kai's back "You mean like here?"
"Yes whatever that's fine, now hurry up and think!"
"Alright alright. Hey Bulma, Bulma can you hear me? It's me Yamcha, if you can hear me then say something! Bulma are you there? Please say something!'
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Bulma was sitting on the couch at Kame House reading a certain magazine 'You've been one hell of a naughty boy haven't you?'
"Bulma, Bulma are you there?"
"What I wasn't reading male pron!" Bulma threw the magazine out the window, only to suddenly freeze "Wait Yamcha is that you? Where are you?"
"Oh man this is awesome, you can really hear me! I'm in Otherworld with King Kai, Kami sent me to him he's actually the one that Goku and I have been training with for the past few months once we actually found him. He's helping me talk to you using my thoughts.'
"What like some kind of interdimensional phone?"
"Something like that. So how's it going with the Dragon Balls, have you guys managed to track down all 7 of them yet?"
"Y-Yeah we found all 7 a few months ago, we didn't rest until we found them because we wanted to be ready in case you and Goku wanted to be brought back early."
"That's perfect because we kind of are! You see Goku and I need to be brought back to life by the Dragon Balls right away! The Saiyans are close and moving fast, if my source is correct then they're gonna be there tomorrow!"
"Wait a second, TOMORROW?! But it hasn't been a year yet, I thought they weren't supposed to get here for another month!"
"Looks like what we were told was a little bit off, now I don't have the time to explain but the thing is that me and Goku are gonna be a little bit late. Tell Tien and Piccolo and the others to stall them for as long as they can."
"We can bring you back right away, and you say that you and Goku have been training? You know it's kind of funny, Krillin, Tien and Chiaotzu have been training with Kami up on the Lookout along with, get this: Upa!"
"You mean the little Indian kid? Good for him!"
"So how's it going, do you think you and Goku are gonna be ready to take on the Saiyans and beat their assed into the sun?"
"You bet we are, and you know I even got to see Scarlet up here. She's been helping me with my training too."
"Oh wow great, tell her I said hi. Man I just wish I could tell him that Kai and Gohan were taken away by Piccolo.'
"Bulma you know that I can hear your thoughts right?"
"...Oh look at the time, gotta go bye!"
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Yamcha lifted his hand off of King Kai's back "Well I'm gonna have hell to go through after this is over but it was still great to get to talk to Bulma, thanks for that. Not only that but Goku and I get to be alive again."
King Kai nodded "Yeah you got that right, now while we wait for your friends to get the Dragon Balls ready what do you say we do something about those worn out training clothes for the two of you?"
"Yeah sure go for it." Goku told him.
"Just watch and learn boys." with a flick of his antennas King Kai gave both Goku and Yamcha brand new martial arts gis exactly identical to what they had before, only with his symbol on the back instead of the Turtle School symbol.
"Hey thanks, it's really light!"
"You know I had a feeling you might appreciate that but it's not just light, it's made of incredibly strong fabric. It can even repel minor attacks."
"Thank you King Kai you're the greatest and I love how you put the Turtle School mark right in the same place as it was before, you know I was actually pretty worried that we'd end up getting stuck in some stupid outfit like what you're wearing but I won't be embarrassed to be seen in this!"
"...You're welcome. I think. Anyway I think you'll agree that the mark on the back gives it an extra touch of pizzazz!"
"Oh hell yeah!"
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Training was still going strong back on Earth.
"Come on and get a grip!" Piccolo was attacking Gohan and Kai with a rapid barrage of Ki blasts in a frenzy "Stand your ground! You have to counterattack, don't just evade!"
"You want a counterattack?! Well fine!" Gohan suddenly burst forward faster than either Piccolo or Kai could react and decked the former in the jaw before aiming for a kick at the knees, only for him to be caught by the leg and hit with the Eye Beams by Piccolo, frying him and knocking him to the ground.
"Oh. Oh shit are you alright? I might have gotten a little bit carried away there, you're not gonna die on my are you?" he was hit with a Ki blast to the knee, blowing a hole through it "Ow."
Gohan pulled himself to his feet "That was cheap for both of us only mine was payback, you promised us you weren't gonna use those eye beams things of yours."
"And what if I did?! You can never trust your enemies, especially in a real fight!"
"Well yeah I know that but…"
"But what?"
"But you're not the enemy." this caused Piccolo to fall silent.
"Okay you know what hold that thought for a little bit you guys." Kai butted his way into the conversation "Let's try and give Gohan a quick haircut, it's getting pretty wild up there and the last thing we need is for the Saiyans to pull any cheap moves and grab him by the hair."
"Um… okay." then Gohan looked up and noticed the skies growing dark "Hey guys why is it getting so dark when it's still the middle of the afternoon
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At the same time, Master Roshi had prepared to summon Shenron using the Dragon Balls in order to bring Goku and Yamcha back to life "Now then, Shenron come forth!"
The Dragon Balls glowed, the skies darkened, and then Shenron appeared "You who have gathered the seven Dragon Balls, state your wish and I shall grant it."
And then Oolong spoke up "Okay so just a thought here, but what if we wished for Shenron to destroy the Saiyans before they even got here? That way we wouldn't have to even fight them or anything."
"What are you kidding me?!" Bulma rounded on him "What kind of stupid idea is that? What about Goku and Yamcha, do you just want them to stay dead forever?!"
"No that's not what I meant, I mean I just figured that it could be easier and besides we can always bring Goku and Yamcha back next time can't we?"
"You have requested a wish that is beyond my power. I was created by the Guardian of the Earth known as Kami, I cannot grant a wish that exceeds his power."
"Well in that case forget about the Saiyans and just bring Goku and Yamcha back!" Bulma told him.
"Very well young one, that wish shall be granted." Shenron's eyes glowed as he granted the wish.
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"Looks like they're bringing Goku and Yamcha back to life early." Piccolo suddenly started sweating.
"But then that means that the Saiyans are gonna get to Earth a lot sooner than anyone thought they would." Kai noted "I guess that means we're f*cked."
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King Kai lit up when he noticed that Goku and Yamcha's halos were gone "Yes your halos have disappeared, that means that you're both alive again!"
"ALRIGHT!" Goku and Yamcha caught each other in a high five.
"Now there's no time to lose, keep in mind that these two Saiyans are as evil as they are powerful. Don't underestimate them, you must never let your guard down even for a fraction of a second. And make sure you don't end up back here again, next time will be forever."
"Yeah we know that, you don't have to worry. I know that the Dragon Balls can't bring us back to life twice so I guess we're just gonna have to win. Thanks again for everything that you've done for us King Kai, I'll be sure to visit the next time that I'm dead but let's hope that this isn't for awhile."
Yamcha nodded and turned to Scarlet "Well sis I guess this is it then."
Scarlet nodded "Yeah I know, sorry I can't go with you Yamcha but my place is here in Otherworld now. I can't go with you this time, I just wish I could be there to watch you grow as a warrior and to see my son grow up."
"Yeah I know, I'll say hi to him for you."
"Thanks. It's sad really, this is the last time I'll get to see you before your time really does come for you to join me here one day. Good luck little brother, show those Saiyans what you're made of and give them exactly what they deserve." they shared a loving hug.
"Until we meet again big sister." and with that, Yamcha took off, with Goku right behind him as they leapt off of the planet and down onto Snake Way as they began the 1 million mile trip back to Earth.
'Until we meet again little brother.'
"It's hard to believe." King Kai commented "I would never have believed that someone of their levels of strength existed, or that someone like Goku could have such a pure heart if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. I doubt we'll run into anyone like them again anytime soon."
"Yeah, and I have no doubt in my mind that Yamcha and Kai will both surpass me. It's only a matter of time now."
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"Man this is awesome!" Goku and Yamcha were running down Snake Way like they didn't have a care in the world "I still can't believe how light these clothes are, it's totally amazing!"
"Goku come on we've gotta focus!" Yamcha took off flying down Snake Way, with Goku soon doing the same "This is no time to be goofing off, we've gotta hurry and get back to Earth as fast as we can!"
"Yeah, yeah you're right."
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Even as Goku and Yamcha began their return journey along the 1 million mile Snake Way, elsewhere the year long journey of the Saiyans across the galaxy across the galaxy was about to come to an end, and the following day at 11:43 am terror would descend upon the Earth.
At long last, the day of reckoning has come and the Saiyans have arrived. The fight for the survival of the Earth is about to begin, next time on Dragon Ball Z: the Next Generation!
A/N:
The gi that Gohan wears is basically the one that he wears during the Cell Games, only minus the cape. I always thought it looked so badass so I decided to give it to him early. I also gave him that haircut too, in order to replace the one that he had during the Namek Saga, which I always thought was horrendous.
I added in Upa based on something I saw in this one fic called the Earthling Chronicles, I would've added in Chichi too but then it would just be copying that guy's work. The title of this fic is The Next Generation, meant to give the kids of the main characters from the original Dragon Ball series their chance to shine, and since Videl and the others of Gohan's age group are still too young I figured why not do someone who's actually old enough and already knows Goku. In this case, Upa is the best candidate.
The appearance of Scarlet on King Kai's planet was meant to delve into her character and give Yamcha some bonus character development in terms of coping with her death. That's actually inspired by the Jesse and Danny scene from the Thanksgiving episode of Full House.
This chapter basically covers the events of Dead Zone in this fic, partially to avoid the events of the Garlic Jr saga and partially to show how strong Gohan, Kai and Piccolo are now. So to put it simply, they're training fodder and meant to up the word count.
Next chapter is when the battle with Vegeta and Nappa begins, with Gohan, Kai, Upa, Piccolo, Krillin, Tien and Chiaotzu stalling for time until Goku and Yamcha can arrive. There will be at least a few noteworthy divergences from canon so be prepared.
Power levels:
Scarlet (suppressed): 5,000
Gohan (Great Ape): 30,000
King Kai: 3,500
Upa: 105
Krillin: 206
Tien: 300
Chiaotzu: 145
Yajirobe: 183
Gohan (6 months later): 700
Kai (6 months later): 650
Piccolo (6 months later): 2,000
Garlic Jr: 1,000
Ginger: 530
Nicky: 455
Sansho: 480