KONICHIWA, FOLKS! KAMENCJ HERE WITH ABOTHER NEW STORY!

NOW, I KNOW IM LATE TO THE PARTY WITH AKIRA TORIYAMA'S DEATH, BUT RHIS STORY IDEA CAME FROM CAMERON W (WHO BY THE WAY, IS MAKING AN AWESOME STORY WHERE ASH IS SPIDERMAN, SO GO CHECK HIM OUT!) TALKING ABOUT AN IDEA WHERE ASH IS THE SON OF GOKU.

NOW THAT IS A STORY I CAN GET BEHIND AS WELL AS THE IDEAS THAT COME FROM IT, SO THIS IS JUST MY TAKE ON IT.

I'M SURE CAMERON WILL BE RELEASING HIS OWN AS WELL SO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THAT.

NOW FOR THE MOST PART, ASSUME THE EVENTS OF THE ORIGINAL DRAGON BALL ANIME HAPPEN LIKE USUAL, AS THIS STORY IS GOING TO START AT THE KALOS LEAGUE.

SUN AND MOON AND JOURNEYS HAVE NOT OCCURRED YET.

I WILL BE SAYING THAT ASH HAS CAUGHT ALL HIS CANON POKEMON MINUS SOME CHANGES, AS THE ONES HE RELEASSD WILL BE BACK.

AND IF YOU READ MY REVAMP TIMELINE STORY, YOU CAN GUESS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PINK BUTTERFREE.

ALSO, DELIA IS BASICALLY CHI-CHI IN THIS STORY, MINUS HER BEING A PRINCESS.

AND A CERTAIN KALOSIAN IS ALSO GOING TO BE HALF SAIYAN, THOUGH GIVEN WHO I CONSTANTLY SHIP ASH WITH I DON'T THINK IT WILL BE TOO DIFFICULT TO GUESS WHO.

NOW THEN, IT'S TIME TO CHA LA HEAD CHA LA THIS AUTHOR NOTE AND GET TO THE DRAGON SOUL!

(I AM SO HORRIBLE AT THIS ARENT I?)


(25 years before the start.)

High above a planet, several aliens were blasting at another figure.

They had been ordered to destroy this world by their master, who had deemed them unworthy of continuing to exist.

Those who knew him personally knew it was because, while he had the highest power level of anyone in the universe, he didn't want to take the chance of the legendary warrior who would be born from this race to destroy him.

It was to be simple, kill all the members of the race then destroy the planet.

And they had almost succeeded.

Now, one lone member of the race was facing them off in the atmosphere, trying to prevent them from destroying it.

"These Saiyans really are stubborn, aren't they?"


He was the last of his squad, the only one to survive.

Dodoria and Zarbon had caught his team unaware and ended them.

And just before he had come up here, he had a premonition and sent his infant son off to a distant planet.

Now was the last stand.

"Bardock, are you sure this is the best idea?"

"Yes, Raditz is already safe off world, but Kakarot could be in danger, so best to get him out of here before Lord Frieza tries something."

He remembered how he and his mate, Gine, had their goodbye with him after he stole a pod for him.

And now, Bardock's path had brought him here.

He had been fighting for a good 10 minutes, getting through a ton of his men before arriving at the saucer that housed his target.

"FRIEZA!"

Several of Frieza's men had tried to body tackle or blast him, but Bardock just knocked them aside or blasted them away.

He floated in front of the saucer as a door opened in the top.

A white and pink alien with two black horns and a purple dome on his head came out, sitting in what looked like a throne, looking uninterested.

"Frieza." He gasped out as the men began to murmur around him at seeing their master joining the battle.

All Bardock cared about was that this tyrant who wanted his race extinct was now out in the open.

"It all comes down to this." He said as Frieza held up one finger and a tiny orange ball of light took shape.

"My fate, Planet Vegeta's fate, KAKAROT'S." He said as he gestured to the planet below him, though Frieza just looked bored as the ball just stood at the tip of his finger.

"And yes, your's too, FRIEZA." Bardock almost growled out as his right-hand glowed blue.

"WE SETTLE IT HERE!" He proclaimed as he launched an energy attack at Frieza, who just waited until the attack was halfway to him.

Suddenly, he took on a maniacal smirk, as he laughed when the ball suddenly began to expand outwards.

Bardock's attack was absorbed into the ball, which shocked Bardock as it continued to get bigger and bigger, until it was just a third smaller than Planet Vegeta.

Then, pointing his finger forward, the orb shot forward, with everyone panicking as there was nowhere to run TO.

Bardock was too frightened by how his last stand meant NOTHING that he was soon engulfed by the orb.


Frieza couldn't help but laugh at the scene in front of him, seeing this pestilent race bite the dust.

"NOW THAT IS BEAUTIFUL!" He proclaimed as the planet began to implode on itself.

"SEE!? LOOK, DODORIA, ZARBON!" He called out as his two right-hand men just watch the scene before them.

"LOOK AT THE FIREWORKS! AREN'T THEY SPLENDID!" He cackled as the planet had just vanished from sight.


Bardock was inside the orb as his body began to perish.

He had failed.

He had failed to stop Frieza from ending the Saiyan race.

Gine was on the planet when this thing collided with it, so she was surely dead.

Raditz, he didn't know if he was killed, but he was on the same squad as the Prince so he was probably fine.

Kakarot …

Kakarot was definitely going to be alive.

He had a power level of 5 at birth so he wouldn't make a tick on a scouter, so the planet he sent him too should keep him safe.

He just hoped he wouldn't…

He didn't get a chance to finish that thought when he suddenly saw Frieza on his throne on another world …

Facing off against someone who looked like him, but without his facial scar.

That could only have been one person.

"Ka- Kakarot?" He questioned …

When suddenly, what looked like a fire version of the Oozaru form of the Saiyans appeared on his right, with a blue canine-like creature standing on his left.

Behind him, a giant green turtle with trees came along with a giant bird on its back with a body and wings that looked like a cloud, glaring at the tyrant.

In front of his son, was a black colored creature with claws and a red crown on its head standing with an oversized pink cow-like creature.

Frieza looked at them irritated before turning around and seeing a younger boy glaring at him.

He had spiked black hair, just like his son, and didn't wear armor, wearing what looked like casual clothes with a confident look on his face.

The boy had a frog-like creature off to his right, with a mighty orange dragon puffing out smoke.

A green lizard-like creature was on his left, with another of that Ape creature with him, but smaller.

A small canine creature was on his right shoulder, looking like a younger version of the creature Kakarot had, while on his left shoulder, he had what looked like a yellow mouse.

Bardock would have scoffed at it if he hadn't seen the look, it was giving and how it let off electricity.

"READY, ASH!? WE'LL MAKE THIS TYRANT PAY FOR WHAT HE'S DONE!"

"YOU BET DAD!"

"INFERNAPE!"

"LUCARIO!"

"TORTERRA!"

"ALTARIA!"

"WEAVILE!"

"MILTANK!"

"GRENINJA!"

"RAUR!"

"SCEPTILE!"

"RIOLU!"

"PIKA! PIKACHU!"

Bardock saw them working with the creatures, pounding on Frieza without effort.

Even when he did put up a fight, he was being forced back.

"Kakarot … Ash …" He couldn't believe what he was seeing.

He saw not only his son, but his grandson taking on the emperor and winning.

Alongside the creatures seemingly getting powered up and taking on new forms.

He smiled.

He may not have been able to meet his grandson, but they both made him proud.

He also would have preferred a more Saiyan name for his grandson, but he still felt it was appropriate.

Ash.

Frieza had reduced the Saiyans to ash.

From the ashes, the Saiyans would rise again.

He smiled as he felt his body begin to disintegrate.

"KAKAROOOOOOTT! AAAAASSSSSSHHHHH!"

That was the last thing anyone ever heard from Bardock as Planet Vegeta met its end at the hands of Frieza.


Gohan had been on his usual morning walk ever since he decided to spend his last years as a hermit.

With his Pokémon friends.

A Tirtouga that had chosen not to evolve, and a Bouffalant representing his two best friends.

He had travelled down this path with his friends for almost 2 years, so they knew this path well.

So, imagine their surprise when they see several trees bowled over in a clean line, like something had plowed through them.

Gohan decided to look as they saw that the path had started near the top of the trees, and was descending downward, given how some trees were still standing, but had circular holes in them.

Very soon, they all noticed a massive impact crater, where a silver pod was resting, and it was open.

Bouffalant approached first, but nothing came out and attacked him.

He checked inside and saw what looked to be a seat in it, with dials and controls that no one could recognize.

However, Bouffalant had the scent that something had been in here and had crawled off somewhere.

And there was a fresh path in the dirt.

Bouffalant climbed back up to the edge and motioned his head to the others to follow him.

5 minutes later, Gohan heard the distinct sound …

Of a baby crying.

And they soon saw a young black spiked haired child wailing the forest.

Gohan turned his head to Tirtouga, who shook his head to indicate that nothing else like this child was around.

"So, we don't have a clue where this baby came from. Pity. I was hoping to give the 'parents' a piece of advice for what they did." Then Gohan had a feeling, given the amount of sadness he sensed from this baby, that something far worse happened.

"Or something outright ended them." He walked over to the baby, who stopped crying and looked at him and his friends in curiousness.

"Well now. No matter how you got here, we very well can't leave you out here all by yourself." He said, as he picked up the baby.

Suddenly, a tail unfurled from behind the child, and it was clearly no costume.

"Oh my. Looks like you have a tail. Maybe you had a run of bad luck because of it. Hehe he." He said as the youngling then looked at Tirtouga and Bouffalant in confusion.

"Guess you didn't get a chance to meet any Pokémon where you lived then! We'll have to change that. Would you like to come home with us?" He asked the baby, as he brought him closer …

Only for the baby to playfully kick him in the face.

"Well, he certainly is a feisty one, isn't he?" He jokingly asked as Tirtouga and Bouffalant laughed at the baby getting the better of their trainer.

"My name is Gohan, and from now on you'll be my grandson." He said as Tirtouga laughed at that.

"Tirtouga?" He asked, as Gohan stopped and began to think.

"Good point, Tirtouga. We need a name for you, but what should it be?" Both he and his two friends began to ponder as hard as their old minds could handle.

"BOUF!" Bouffalant suddenly shouted, as Gohan looked at him and laughed.

"A good idea, Bouffalant! Goku. Your name shall be Goku! My grandson!" The baby laughed as Gohan proclaimed his new name with Goku laughing in acceptance.


Gohan had just brought Goku back to his house when he began to hear clawing.

"Oh my. Is he still doing that?" Gohan asked nervously as Tirtouga rushed in and stopped a small monkey Pokémon with a fire tail.

"CHIM! CHIMCHAR!" It shouted as it was trying to escape Tirtouga.

"Chimchar, we've been over this. You're still too injured from that Usaring and Aggron that attacked you. You're not ready to go out yet." Chimchar didn't take kindly to that as he fought harder to escape.

Gohan sighed at the fact this little guy wasn't only not listening but judging from the pink pill bottle that had not been touched.

He looked in the sky and saw it was almost time to sleep.

Quickly striking Chimchar in a pressure point on his head, Chimchar was knocked out, and went to sleep.

"We'll have to wake up early in the morning to force feed him that medication. I just hope that imprudent Infernape and Monferno had a run of bad luck for what they did to him." Gohan said as they all got to bed.


Goku had been trying to sleep, but he never was able to do so.

Just something was keeping him up, as he felt extremely cold …

And lonely.

Goku crawled out of the bed as he began to explore a bit.

Suddenly, he felt a presence similar to his as he saw Chimchar knocked out in a bed.

Goku groggily crawled closer, inspecting this strange creature.

However, he soon felt …

Warm.

His eyelids grew heavy as he began to hug Chimchar and drifted off to sleep.


Chimchar stirred as he got over that technique the old geezer had done.

Chimchar growled, as only Bouffalant and Tirtouga were able to understand him at all since Pokémon were able to understand one another.

Fact is, the Infernape and the Monferno Gohan had mentioned earlier were his father and Elder Brother, respectively.

After his mother, a Medicham, had passed away after she gave off his egg.

As such, he knew Thunder Punch and Fire Punch before his father and brother.

Both became incredibly jealous and did everything in their power to make his life miserable, calling him weak, and that he was the cause of her death.

Chimchar had been left to die, but he refused to do so and swore to get stronger and beat them.

Chimchar felt enough energy come back to try and stand up …

But found that, while he wasn't tied up, something was weighing him down enough to where he couldn't move.

Looking to his left, he saw the child the geezer had brought with him.

He had his arms wrapped around him, and each time he tried to wiggle free, the kid would tighten his grip.

Not enough to where he was uncomfortable, but enough to where he was stuck.

After 3 more minutes of wiggling, Chimchar gave up trying to wiggle out and just laid there.

Chimchar suddenly noticed that he had a tail.

Humans didn't have those, so Chimchar suddenly felt a wave of sadness when he saw that.

Was this kid thrown out just like him?

Could he be the victim from his parents?

He suddenly felt the sadness change to something else as he fell asleep.

He saw a mother and father put him in some kind of cradle and send him away to here, and then were hunted down.

Chimchar then woke up and looked at this kid in sympathy.

Both were hated for the wrong reason, and now all they had was this old man.

The only one who had shown any sympathy to him, and he was trying to run away before he could fully heal and train.

Guess this was the universe telling him to think twice.


It was morning the next day, and Gohan had just gotten up.

"Well, time to try to get that little scamp that medicine so he can start healing properly." He said to Tirtouga, while Bouffalant was still sleeping, since he liked to sleep in.

Suddenly, Tirtouga pointed at something …

And Gohan saw that the bed Goku had been put in was empty.

"Oh dear! I hope the little one didn't do anything rash or that Goku had left!" Gohan said worriedly as they rushed into the next room …

And saw Chimchar calm with Goku holding his arms around the tiny fire monkey.

Chimchar stirred as he looked at Gohan and then at the medicine bottle.

"Are you finally ready to get back into shape and learn?" Chimchar stared and then nodded.

Taking out two pills, Chimchar opened his mouth as he was fed the pills.

Chimchar then dozed off again, due to the pills enduring sleep to promote the healing.

Once Chimchar woke up AGAIN, he found himself still in the arms of Goku, but less getting hugged and more lightly "punching" from the motions he was giving.

"Hehe he. Maybe you'll be his first Pokémon to become the new champions of the region." Chimchar thought about it and nodded.

Maybe that will show them who was the best.


AND AS SUCH, THE STORY OF DRAGON BALL BEGAN.

YEARS AFTER THAT DAY, GOKU AND CHIMCHAR HAD BEEN INSEPERABLE, EVEN AFTER GOKU HAD SNUCK OUT OF THE HOUSE AND SOMETHING KILLED HIS GRANDFATHER, TIRTOUGA AND BOUFFALANT.

SOON AFTER, HE AND CHIMCHAR MET A GIRL BY THE NAME OF BULMA, WHO WAS INTERESTED IN THE HEIRLOOM GOHAN HAD.

THE FOUR-STAR DRAGON BALL, WITH THE COLOR OF A GARCHOMP WITH THE SILHOUETTE F THE DRAGON TYPE'S HEAD.

THERE WERE 6 OTHER BALLS.

A ONE-STAR DRAGON BALL THE COLOR OF A DRAGONITE AND HAVING ONE SILHOUETTE OF ITS HEAD.

A TWO-STAR DRAGON BALL WOTH THE COLORS OF A TYRANITAR AND TWO SILHOUETTES OF ITS HEAD.

A THREE-STAR DRAGON BALL THAT EVOK THE COLORS OF A SALAMANCE AND HAVING THREE SILHOUETTES OF THE HEAD.

FIVE SILHOUETTES OF THE HEAD OF THE HYDREIGON WITH THE COLORS OF IT FOR THE FIVE-STAR DRAGON BALL.

THE MASTER OF THE KALOS SWAMPS, GOODRA, REPRESENTED THE SIX-STAR DRAGON BALL WITH SIX SILHOUETTED HEADS AND ITS COLORS.

TO THE ALOLA REGION, KOMMO-O GUARDS THE SEVEN-STAR BALL, THE FINAL BALL THAT HAD SEVEN SILHOUETTES OF KOMMO-O'S HEAD AND THE COLORS MATCHING IT.

GET THEM ALL AND YOU GET A PERFECT WISH.

AS SUCH THE TWO JOURNEYED ACROSS THE WORLD SEARCHING FOR THEM, STOPPING ONLY TO GET THEM, OR TO HELP OUT PEOPLE.

DURING THE TRIP, GOKU AND BULMA MANAGED TO HELP A MAN NAMED ROSHI FIND HIS MISSING DREDNAW, SO AS THANKS HE GAVE GOKU THE THREE STAR BALL AND A SWABLU NAMED KINTO'UN, ALONG WITH CHIMCHAR EVOLVING INTO A MONFERNO WHEN THEY RAN INTO HIS OLDER BROTHER.

WHEN THEY STOPPED THE KIDNAPPING OF SEVERAL YOUNG GIRLS, IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT A TEPIG HAD BEEN USING FIRE ILLUSIONS TO MAKE ITSELF LOOK BIGGER, AS SUCH, WHEN IT WAS REVEALED, BULMA CAUGHT IT TO GIVE IT A BETTER LIFE.

IN THE DESERT, GOKU AND BULMA CAME UNDER FIRE FROM A SNEASEL AND AN EMOLGA.

THE EMOLGA HAD CHARMED THEM WHILE SNEASEL TOOK WHATEVER FOOD AND MONEY THEY HAD.

CHASING AFTER THEM, THEY SOON LEARNED THAT THE TWO HAD BEEN ABANDONED BY THEIR TRAINERS FOR BEING CONSIDERED USELESS AND WERE TRYING TO JUST SURVIVE.

AFTER BEATING BACK THE SNEASEL, GOKU HAD HIM PINNED DOWN WITH HIS POWER STAFF AS THE SNEASEL WAS LOOKING AT HIM LIKE HIS OLD TRAINER DID.

THEN MONFERNO TOLD SNEASEL HIS STORY, AS GOKU THEN OFFERED TO BE HIS TRAINER.

THE SNEASEL, UNABLE TO STOP HIS TEARS FROM ESCAPING, ACCEPTED, AS BULMA CAUGHT THE EMOLGA AND NICKNAMED HIM PUAR.

GOKU THEN RECALLED A STORY GRANDPA GOHAN ONCE TOLD HIM OF A FAMOUS THIEF.

AS SUCH HE NAMED THE SNEASEL YAMCHA AFTER HIM.

THEY ALSO DISCOVERED THAT YAMCHA COULDN'T TALK TO ANY FEMALES WHATSOEVER WHEN HE FROZE UP WHEN BULMA OFFERED HIM FOOD AND KINTO TRIED TO TALK TO HIM.

THEY ALSO LEARNED HE HAD A CRUSH ON A SHINY SNEASEL BUT SHE TURNED HIM DOWN AND THREW HIM OUT OF THE PACK, SO HE WASN'T GOOD AROUND WOMEN.

THEY THEN ARRIVED AT A PASTORY THAT WAS ON FIRE, WITH A MAN DRESSED LIKE A TAUROS ASKING FOR HELP.

TURNS OUT THE MAN WAS THE OX KING, A STUDENT OF MASTER ROSHI AND AN OLD FRIEND OF GOKU'S GRANDPA GOHAN.

HE HAD SENT ONE OF HIS MILTANK TO MASTER ROSHI'S HOUSE TO TRY AMD GET A FAN FROM HIM THAT COULD PUT OUT THE FLAMES.

GOKU RAN INTO HER TAKING DOWN A TYRANTRUM, AND THEY FINALLY WERE ABLE TO GET TO ROSHI'S HOUSE AND ASK FOR THE FAN.

THEY VERY NEARLY THROTTLED HIM WHEN HE NONCHALANTLY TOLD THEM THAT HE HAD THROWN IT OUT.

HE WENT WITH THEM AND DEMONSTRATED HIS SPECIAL TECHNIQUE WITH HIS DYNAMAX DREADNAW.

THE KAMEHAMEHA.

IMPRESSED WITH THE AMOUNT OF POWER, GOKU, HIS MONFERNO, KINTO'UN, YAMCHA, AND THE MILTANK HE HAD MET ALL TRIED THE MOVE.

AND BLEW UP THE CAR WITH A DMALLER VERSION OF ROSHI.

SEEING THIS AND REMEMBERING WHEN GOHAN TOLD HIM ABOUT A CHILD HE FOUND, HE OFFERED TO TEACH GOKU HIS TECHNIQUES WHEN HIS ADVENTURE WAS DONE.

HE ACCEPTED AND THE OX KING OFFERED HIM TO TAKE THE MILTANK HE HAD BEFRIENDED WITH HIM.

HAPPY TO HAVE MORE FRIENDS, HE ACCEPTED AND NAMED YHE MILTANK "CHI-CHI" FOR HOW SHE MADE MOOMOO MILK.

ARRIVING AT THE PLACE WHERE THE LAST DRAGONBALLS WERE, GOKU AND BULMA WERE CAPTURED AND HELD PRISONER BY THE PILAF GANG.

WHO'S LEADER, EMPORER PILAF, WANTED TO USE THE DRAGONBALLS TO WISH FOR WORLD DOMINATION.

WITH HIS POKÉMON AND THE AID OF BULMA, GOKU WAS ABLE TO BREAK THE WALL OF THEIR CONFINEMENT CELL AND RUSH TO THE SCENE WHERE PILAF WAS ABOUT TO MAKE HIS WISH.

THEY WEREN'T IN TIME TO STOP THE BALLS FROM BEING USED, BUT GOKU WAS ABLE TO SPEAK A WISH BEFORE PILAF.

"I WISH FOR A FRIEND! ONE WHO WOULD NEVER FALL TO EVIL! ONE WHO COULD KEEP UP WITH ME AND MY POWERS! ONE I CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON WHEN THE TIMES GET TOUGH!"

THE DRAGON, SHENRON, SENSED THE NOBILITY IN GOKU'S HEART AND CHOSE TO GRANT HIS WISH INSTEAD OF PILAF.

"YOUR WISH IS GRANTED. YOU SHALL MEET YOUR NEW FRIEND SOON. FOR NOW, MY WORK IS DONE!"

HE ROSE INTO THE AIR BRINGING THE DRAGON BALLS WITH HIM.

"FAREWELL!"

AND THEN THE DRAGON BALLS EXPLODED, HEADING OFF IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.

WITH THAT, GOKU, BULMA, AND THEIR POKÉMON WERE TRAPPED IN A NEW STEEL PRISON, WITH A GLASS ROOF SO THAT WHEN THE SUN BEAT DOWN ON THEM, THEY WOULD COOK TILL THEY WERE NOTHING.

THEN GOKU LOOKED UP TO THE MOON WHEN THEY LOOKED AT IT.

AND THEN REVEALED THAT WHENEVER HE LOOKED AT THE MOON, HE TURNED INTO A GIANT APE.

WHAT ABSOLUTELY NO ONE WAS EXPECTING WAS THAT GOKU'S MONFERNO, MILTANK, KINTO'UN, AND YAMCHA SUDDENLY BECAME GIANT MONSTER VERSIONS OF THEMSELVES AND OUTRIGHT DESTROYED PILAF'S CASTLE, THE EMPORER AND HIS ENTOURAGE BARELY GETTING OUT IN TIME.

GOKU AND HIS MONSTERIZED POKÉMON WERE BEARING DOWN THE FALLEN BULMA, WHOSE POKÉMON WERE TRYING TO FREE HER FROM THE RUBBLE …

WHEN A RIOLU GRABBED GOKU'S TAIL, FREEZING HIM IN PLACE, AS PUAR USED RAZOR WIND TO CUT OFF GOKU'S TAIL, REVERTING HIM AND HIS POKÉMON BACK TO NORMAL.

IN THE MORNING, AFTER GOKU FOUND A PAIR OF CLOTHES IN THE RUBBLE, IT WAS REVEALED THAT THE RIOLU WAS THE FRIEND THAT SHENRON HAD USED TO GRANT GOKU'S WISH.

RIOLU HAD SEEN HOW GOKU HAD PROTECTED THE DRAGON BALLS, HOW HE HELPED EVERYONE HE CAME ACROSS, AND HIS PURE SOUL.

BOTH GOKU AND RIOLU ACCEPTED EACH OTHER AS GOKU CAUGHT THE RIOLU, NAMING HIM AFTER A TRICLOPS HE ONCE READ THE STORY OF THAT RIOLU REMINDED HIM OF.

TIEN.

WHEN GOKU ASKED IF BULMA HAD THE BALLS' LOCATION, SHE EXPLAINED THAT, ONCE USED, IT WOULD TAKE A YEAR FOR THE BALLS TO REGATHER THEIR ENERGIES AND WERE JUST STONES DURING THAT TIME.

SHE HAD NO WAY OF TRACKING THEM.

SHE THEN ALSO EXPLAINED THAT EACH BALL WENT BACK TO THE RESPECTIVE REGION THEY ORIGINATED FROM WITH THEIR DRAGON COUNTERPART.

MEANING THE FOUR-STAR DRAGON BALL WAS IN SINNOH.

AND EACH ONE HAD A GUARDIAN OF THE DRAGON TYPE THEY REPRESENTED.

TO MAKE SURE NO ONE WITH A BLACK HEART GOT THEM.

UNDERSTANDING, GOKU AND HIS POKÉMON BID BULMA AND HER FRIENDS FAREWELL FOR NOW, AS THEY HEADED BACK TO GOKU'S OLD HOME IN THE MOUNTAINS TO GET SOME SUPPLIES BEFORE HEADING TO ROSHI'S HOUSE FOR TRAINING.

WHILE THEY WERE THERE, GOKU AND TIEN DISCOVERED A BOX FROM GOHAN, ASKING HIM TO OPEN IT WHEN HE LEFT THE HOUSE AND HAD AN ADVENTURE.

OPENING IT, THEY DISCOVERED A POKÉBALL THAT CONTAINED A VAPOREON, A PRESENT FROM GOHAN, ONCE GOKU HAD FINALLY EXPERIENCED LIFE OUTSIDE THE MOUNTAIN.

THANKING HIS GRANDFATHER, GOKU NAMED THE VAPOREON NIOBO AFTER HIS ABILITY TO STRETCH HIMSELF TO AMAZING LENGTHS.

WITH THAT, EVERYONE HEADED FOR MASTER ROSHI'S HOUSE, READY FOR TRAINING.

DURING THE ONE YEAR, WHILE TRAINING WITH ROSHI, GOKU BEFRIENDED ANOTHER STUDENT NAMED KRILLIN, A MONK TRAINING WITH HIS POKÉMON.

THE TWO BECAME FAST FRIENDS, ALONGSIDE THEIR POKÉMON.

WHICH KRILLIN HAD A SAWK, CHINGLING, DUSKULL, DRATINI SINCE HE WAS FROM KANTO, TIRTOUGA AND CASTFORM.

THE TRAINING WAS SO GOOD, TIEN HAD LEARNED AURA SPHERE EARLY DESPITE NOT EVOLVING.

WITH THE ONE YEAR OVER, GOKU DECIDED TO HEAD TO THE SINNOH REGION TO SEARCH OUT THE FOUR-STAR DRAGON BALL, SINCE HE BELIEVED GRANDPA GOHAN, HIS TIRTOUGA AND HIS BOUFFALANT'S SOULS RESIDED INSIDE OF THE BALL.

MASTER ROSHI GAVE HIM HIS BLESSING AND GAVE HIM A TURTWIG HE HAD FOR A WHILE BUT WAS NOW INTERESTED IN JOURNEYING WITH GOKU.

WHEN THEY BEGAN THEIR ADVENTURES IN SINNOH, GOKU AND HIS FRIENDS QUICKLY DISCOVERED TURTWIG WAS JUST AS PERVERTED AS ROSHI HAD BEEN.

WHICH SERVED AS AN IRRITANT IN THE REGION.

WHILE SEARCHING, KINTO'UN WAS SHOT OUT OF THE SKY BY THE RED RIBBON ARMY, WHO WERE ALSO LOOKING FOR THE DRAGON BALLS.

GOKU ATTEMPTED TO STOP THEM, BUT WAS BEATEN AND MONFERNO TOTURED …

BY MONFERNO'S FATHER, WHO HAD BROKEN MONFERNO'S BROTHER'S ARMS WHEN HE LEARNED HE WAS BEATEN BY THE "WEAKER CHILD" AND WAS NOW READY TO DO THE SAME TO GOKU'S, AS COMMANDER RED'S POKÉMON.

DESPITE HAVING THE UPPER HAND, KINTO'UN BROKE INTO THE BASE, AND ALMOST GIVING UP HER LIFE TO SAVE GOKU'S, EVOLVED INTO AN ALTARIA, AND DESTROYING COMMANDER RED'S DRAGON.

GOKU THEN WENT TO AID MONFERNO, WHO WAS NOT HOLDING UP WELL AGAINST HIS FATHER.

GOKU TOLD MONFERNO HOW HE WANTED TO KEEP WORKING TOGETHER WITH HIM, FIND THE BALL WITH THEIR SURROGATE FAMILY MEMBERS AND TAKE ON A CHAMPIONSHIP.

JUST BEING WITH EVERYONE LIKE A FAMILY MADE GOKU FEEL LIKE HE WAS STILL WITH GOHAN.

WITH THOSE WORDS REACHING MONFERNO, MONFERNO SHOVED HIS FATHER BACK …

AND EVOLVED.

AND SOON, HIS FATHER STOOD NO CHANCE AGAINST A BLAZE EMPOWERED INFERNAPE WHO WAS FURIOUS WITH HIM.

AND WITH ONE POWERFUL FLARE BLITZ ATTACK, GOKU'S INFERNAPE DEFEATED HIS FATHER.

CONGRATULATING HIS FRIEND ON EVOLVING, GOKU REVEALED HE WAS WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT TO REVEAL HE HAD A NICKNAME FOR HIM.

GOHAN.

IN HONOR OF THEIR GRANDFATHER.

GOHAN SMILED AND ACCEPTED IT, AND THE 8 MEMBER FAMILY GOT READY TO LEAVE WHEN GOHAN'S FATHER ASKED HIM WHY.

"WHY WHAT?"

"WHY DID YOUR MOTHER DIE AND YOU LEARNED THUNDER AND FIRE PUNCH, BUT ME AND YOUR BROTHER COULDN'T?"

"HONESTLY, I DON'T THINK YOU HAD THE HEART TO LEARN IT, AND JUST EXPECTED POWER TO COME TO YOU FROM MARRYING HER."

"I DID LOVE YOUR MOTHER!"

"AND YET YOU TRAMPLED ON HER VERY MEMORY. TELL ME, WOULD SHE REALLY LOOK AT YOU THE SAME WAY?"

WITH THAT, GOHAN LEFT WITH HIS NEW FAMILY, AND NEVER SAW HIS FATHER AFTER THAT.

AND GOKU CONTINUED HIS JOURNEY TO FIND THE FOUR-STAR BALL.

WHILE TRAVELING, GOKU AND HIS FRIENDS RAN INTO A YOUNG WOMAN NAMED DELIA, WHO WAS FROM THE KANTO REGION.

SHE WAS IN SINNOH TAKING ON THE LEAGUE BUT WAS INTRIGUED BY THE STORY GOKU TOLD HER.

AS SUCH, SHE, HER ESPEON, HER TYPHLOSION, AND HER ALAKAZAM JOINED GOKU FOR A BIT.

EVENTUALLY, THEY FOUND THE CAVE THAT HOUSED THE BALL.

AND CAME UNDER ATTACK BY A HUGE GARCHOMP, WHO WAS THE GUARDIAN OF THE BALL.

THE GUARDIAN EXPLAINED THAT HE HAD BEEN GUARDING THE FOUR-STAR BALL SINCE IT WAS CREATED BY KAMI, AND THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO PROVE HIMSELF TO OBTAIN IT.

GOKU ACCEPTED AND USED GOHAN TO TRY AND BEAT THE GUARDIAN.

DESPITE THEIR BEST EFFORTS, GOHAN WAS DEFEATED, THOUGH HE DEFINITLY GAVE THE GUARDIAN A FORMIDABLE CHALLENGE.

DESPITE LOSING, THE GUARDIAN ALLOWED GOKU AND DELIA TO FOLLOW HIM, WHERE HE PRESENTED THE FOUR-STAR BALL TO HIM.

HE THEN EXPLAINED THAT, WHENEVER THE BALLS RETURNED TO THEM, THEY HAD TO PURIFY THE BALLS OF ALL DARKNESS BEFORE ANYONE FOUND THEM AGAIN.

THE GARCHOMP ALSO EXPLAINED THAT HE WAS TESTING THEM TO SEE IF THEY WOULD USE THE BALL FOR EVIL, AND SAW HOW PURE GOKU WAS THROUGH THE FIGHT, AND ALLOWED THEM TO TAKE THE FOUR-STAR BALL.

GOKU THANKED THE GUARDIAN AND PROMISED TO TAKE GOOD CARE OF THE DRAGON BALL …

ONLY TO THEN HAVE HIMSELF, TIEN AND TURTWIG COME UNDER ATTACK FROM A MASKED FIGURE, WITH A MASKED TURTLE POKÉMON AND A MASKED BOVINE POKÉMON.

THE FIGHT SPILLED OUTSIDE, AS TIEN, IN A DESPARATE ATTEMPT TO PROTECT GOKU, TOOK A HIT FROM THE BOVINE POKÉMON INSTEAD OF GOKU.

THEN HE EVOLVED INTO A LUCARIO, WITH TURTWIG GETTING PAST THE TURTLE POKÉMON, HE EVOLVED AS WELL.

DESPITE THAT, THE MASKED FIGURE WAS ABLE TO GET AROUND GOKU AND GRAB HIS TAIL, WEAKENING HIM AND HIS TWO FRIENDS.

ONCE HE RIPPED IT OFF, THE MASKED FIGURE REVEALED HIMSELF AS GRANDPA GOHAN AND THE OTHER TWO WERE TIRTOUGA AND BOUFALLANT.

GOHAN PLAYFULLY CHASTISED GOKU FOR NOT TRAINING HIS TAIL TO NOT BE A WEAKNESS BUT CONGRATULATED ON GETTING INFERNAPE GOHAN TO HIS FULLY EVOLVED STATE AND GETTING TIEN TO EVOLVE.

GOKU THEN TOLD HIM THAT HE HAD THOUGHT OF USING THE DRAGON BALLS TO WISH HIM BACK TO LIFE, BUT GOHAN TOLD HIM NOT TO.

HE AND HIS TWO POKÉMON BROTHERS HAD LIVED A FULL LIFE ON EARTH, AND IN THE AFTERLIFE, HE COULD TRAIN WITH COUNTLESS MASTERS DAY IN AND DAY OUT.

HE TOLD HIM TO LIVE HIS OWN LIFE, NOT JUST WITH HIS POKÉMON FRIENDS, BUT HUMAN AS WELL.

GOKU DIDN'T CATCH THE SUBTLE HINT GRANDPA GOHAN IMPLIED WHEN HE NODDED TO DELIA.

HE JUST LAUGHED AND TOLD HIM TO WATCH HOW FAMILIES WERE MADE AND THEN HE MIGHT UNDERSTAND.

WITH THAT, GOKU DECIDED TO TRAVEL WITH DELIA FOR THE REST OF HER JOURNEY.

AT THE END, DELIA HAD GOTTEN TO THE SEMI FINALS OF THE LILY OF THE VALLEY CONFERENCE, WHICH GOT GOKU TO THINK ABOUT WHAT TO DO NEXT.

HE DECIDED TO GO EITH DELIA BACK TO KANTO, HER HOME REGION.

THERE, GOKU MET PROFESSOR OAK. WHO KNEW EVERYTHING ABOUT POKÉMON.

WELL, IN THE KANTO REGION AT LEAST.

AS GOKU LISTENED, HE AND HIS POKÉMON BECAME INTRIGUED BY THE IDEA OF TRAVELING THE REGION TO GET STRONGER.

JUST AS GOKU AND DELIA LEFT PALLET TOWN, THEY RAN INTO KRILLIN, WHO WAS ALSO TAKING ON THE CHALLENGE.

AFTER A BRIEF FIGHT TO SEE HOW STRONG THE OTHER WAS, THEY BOTH AGREED THAT IF THEY BEAT THE LEAGUE, THEY WOULD FACE OFF TOGETHER FOR THE TITLE OF CHAMPION.

GOKU FIRST FOUGHT FLINT, THE ROCK TYPE GYM LEADER.

AND DESPITE HAVING SEVERAL FULLY EVOVLE AND SECOND STAGE POKÉMON, GOKU NEARLY LOST TO FLINT'S GRAVELER AND ONIX.

GETTING EXCITED AT THE PROSPECT OF THESE GYMS, GOKU AMD DELIA CONTINUED ON THEIR JOURNEY.

AT CERULEAN, YAMCHA VERY NEARLY LOST TO KASUMI'S STARMIE, BARELY WINNING WHEN HE LEARNED SHADOW CLOW AND BEAT UP.

AT VERMILLION, GROTLE EVOLVED WHEN HOS TEAMMATES HAD BEEN DEFEATED AND HE WAS BACKES UP AGAINST A RAICHU.

WHEN THEY WENT BACK TO CERULEAN, THEY HAD THEIR FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH TEAM ROCKET …

AND WERE NOT VERY IMPRESSED.

WHEN THEY GOT TO CELADON CITY, GOKU DEFEATED ERIKA AND EARNED THE RAINBOW BADGE.

HE ALSO DISCOVERED TEAM ROCKET'S HEADQUARTERS IN CELADON, TAKING THEM OUT AND FINDING A CLAW OBJECT THAT YAMCHA BEGGED TO HAVE.

AFTER THAT, THEY HEADED FOR FUSCHIA CITY AFTER STOPPING ANOTHER TEAM ROCKET ATTACK IN LAVENDER TOWN, WHERE, DESPITE THE NINJA'S BEST ATTEMPTS, KOGA COULD NOT DEFEAT THE YOUNG BOY AND HIS POKÉMON, EARNING HIM THE SOUL BADGE.

THEN, WHEN THEY FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO GET INTO SAFFRON CITY, BOTH DELIA AND GOKU WERE SURPRISED TO SEE BULMA, WHO LOOKED TERRIFIED.

THEY LEARNED THAT SILHP CO WAS A SUBSIDIARY OF CAPSULE CORP, AND TEAM ROCKET HAD TAKEN IT OVER AND TAKEN THE SILPH PRESIDENT AND HER FATHER HOSTAGE FOR THE MASTER BALL.

GOKU DIDN'T EVEN HESITATE TO HELP, KNOCKING A BUNCH OF GRUNTS' TEETH IN AND HIS POKÉMON MAKING MINCE MEAT OF THEIR PARTNERS.

WHEN HE GOT TO THE TOP OF SILPH CO, HE MET THE BOSS OF TEAM ROCKET, GIOVANNI.

HE AND HIS FRIENDS SOON LEARNED HOW TOUGH IT WAS GOING TO BE WHEN GIOVANNI NEARLY SWEPT GOKU'S TEAM.

DESPITE THIS, GOKU EMERGED TRIUMPHANT AS GIOVANNI RETREATED.

AS A THANKS FOR SAVING THEM, THE PRESIDENT OF SILPH CO GAVE GOKU A PROTOTYPE MASTER BALL.

GOKU HASN'T USED IT AT ALL.

WITH SILPH DONE, GOKU WENT TO THE SAFFRON GYM.

THERE, SABRINA NEARLY DEFEATED HIM UNTIL YAMCHA EVOLVED INTO A WEAVILE AMD BEAT HER ALAKAZAM.

HE THEN TRAINED FOR A BIT AT THE FIGHTING DOJO AND WAS GIVEN A HITMONLEE AND HITMONCHAN.

HE DECIDED HE WOULD SAVE THEM FOR THE FUTURE.

HE DIDN'T KNOW WHY, BUT HE FELT THAT THESE TWO WERE WAITING FOR SOMETHING ELSE.

AFTER AN ENCOUNTER WITH ARTICUNO IN THE SEAFOAM ISLANDS, GOKU AND DELIA ARRIVED AT CINNABAR ISLAND.

THERE THEY TRAVERSED A BURNED DOWN MANSION LOOKING FOR THE KEY TO THE GYM, WHICH DELIA HELPED FIND …

BY FALLING DOWN A TRAPDOOR INTO THE ROOM WITH THE KEY.

WHILE EXPLORING, THEY BEGAN TO READ ABOUT A NEW POKÉMON THAT SOMEONE NAMED DR. FUJI HAD CREATED CALLED MEWTWO.

A CLONE OF MEW.

GETTING EXCITED AT THE PROSPECT OF CHALLENGING THIS POKÉMON, GOKU CHALLENGED BLAINE AND WON THE VOLCANO BADGE.

WITH THAT, THE TWO HEADED BACK TO PALLET TOWN WHERE GOKU MET DELIA'S FATHER, WHO HAPPENED TO BE THE BROTHER OF THE OX KING.

AFTER SOME THREATENING WORDS THAT GOKU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT TREATING HER RIGHT, GOKU AND DELIA WENT TO VIRIDIAN CITY.

THERE THEY DISCOVERED THAT GIOVANNI WAS THE GYM LEADER, USING IT AS A FEONT FOE LEGAL ACRIVITY.

AND HE ALMOST AGAIN WIPES GOKU OUT.

UNTOL GROTLE FULLY EVOLVED INTO A TORTERRA AND DEFEATED HIS RHYDON.

WITH THE LAST BADGE IN HAND AND GIOVANNI DISBANDING TEAM ROCKET, GOKU AND DELIA HEADED DOWN ROUTE 22 TO ENTER THE LEAGUE.

ON THE WAY, GOKU TOOK TORTERRA OUT AND TOLD HIM HE NOW HAD A NAME.

EIGHTER.

NAMED AFTER ANDROID 8 FROM THEIR TIME IN SINNOH.

WHEN THEY GOT TO THE MAIN GATE, GOKU AND DELIA RAN INTO KRILLIN, WHO CHALLENGED GOKU TO MAKE SURE HE WAS READY.

IT ENDED IN A TIE, WHICH GOKU AGREED TO LET KRILLING TAKE ON THE LEAGUE FIRST AND HE WOULD CATCH UP.

AFTER MEETING MOLTRES IN VICTORY ROAD, GOKU AND DELIA ARRIVED AT THE INDIGO PLATEAU.

THERE GOKU MADE SURE HE AND HIS FRIENDS WERE READY, AND TOOK ON LORELEI, WHO FELL WHRN YAMCHA LEARNED A FIGHTING TYPE ATTACK.

THEN WITH BRUNO, GOKU DEFEATED HIM WITH GOHAN AND TIEN.

WITH AGATHA, TIEN LEARNED DARK PULSE AND DEFEATED HER GHOST TYPES ALONGSIDE YAMCHA AND GOHAN.

WHEN HE FOUGHT LANCE, HE DEFEATED HIM WITH YAMCHA AND KINTO'UN, WITH HIS 4 OTHERS PROVIDING BACKUP.

GOKU WAS THEN TOLD HE HAD TO DEFEAT THE CURRENT CHAMPION IN ORDER TO BE NAMED THE KANTO CHAMPION.

HE THEN DIACOVERED THAT KRILLIN HAD KEPT HIS PROMISE AS HE WAS THE CURRENT DEFENDING CHAMPION.

GOKU AND KRILLIN AFFIRMED THEIR FRIENDSHIP AND THEN FOUGHT.

KINTO'UN AND DRAGONITE BOTH KNOCKED EACH OTHER OUT, WHILE YAMCHA DEFEATED SAWK DESPITE BEING AT A DISADVANTAGE.

UNFORTUNATELY, CHIMECO DEFEATED HIM AND THEN WAS DEFEATED BY EIGHTER.

EIGHTER OUT UP A GOOD FIGHT AGAINST CASTFORM, BUT THE WEATHER POKÉMON TURNED INTO HIS ICE FORM AND DEFEATED HIM WITH AN ICE ATTACK.

AND WAS SUBSEQUENTLY DEFEATED BY TIEN.

TIEN THEN STRUGGLED AGAINST DUSKNOIR AND THEY BLTH KNOCKED EACH OTHER OUT.

CHI-CHI THEN CHALLENGED CARRACOSTA BUT LOST TO A FOCUS BLAST FROM HIM.

IT THEN CAME DOWN TO CARRACOSTA AND GOHAN.

GOHAN HELD THE ADVANTAGE WITH HIS FIGHTING TYPE, BUT CARRACOSTA OVERPOWERED HIS FIRE SODE WITH HIS WATER MOVES AND ROCK ATTACKS.

HOWEVER, THE TIDES CHANGED AS GOHAN'S HIDDEN ABILITY, IRON FIST, ACTIVATED WHEN HE USED MACH PUNCH.

AND THEN, WITH ONE FINAL FOCUS PUNCH POWERED UP BY A BLAZE FIRE PUNCH, GOHAN DEFEATED CARRACOSTA.

GOKU AND KRILLIN STARED AT EACH OTHER BEFORE THEY WALKED UP AND SHOOK HANDS.

KRILLIN THANKED GOKU FOR BEING PATIENT WITH HIM, WHILE GOKU THANKED HIM FOR DELIVERING A GREAT FIGHT.

WHEN LANCE AND OAK CAME IN, GOKU ASKED IF KRILLIN COULD BE GIVEN AN HONORARY CHAMPION ROLE, FOR HOW GOOD OF A FIGHT HE PUT UP, WHICH LANCE WAS ALL TOO HAPPY TO GIVE.

THE CEREMONY HAD BEEN READY, ALL THEY WERE WAITING FOR WAS KRILLIN …

UNTIL THEY CHECKED ON HIM AND DISCOVERED HIM AND HIS POKÉMON MURDERED …

AND THE 3 DRAGON BALLS HE HAD COLLECTED STOLEN.

WATCHING THE SECURITY FOOTAGE, A STRANGE BEING HAD KILLED KRILLIN WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO PROTECT THE DRAGON BALLS FROM HIM, RESULTING IN HIS AND HIS POKÉMON'S DEATHS.

FUELD BY RAGE, GOKU AND HIS POKÉMON TOOK OFF TO FIND THE ONE WHO HAD DONE THE DEED, ND DISCOVERED SOMEONE CALLED TANGERINE, WHO SAID HE WAS THE SON OF DEMON KING PICCOLO.

DESPITE THE POWER TANGERINE HAD, HE WAS NO MATCH FOR GOKU AND HIS POKÉMON AND WAS KILLED IN THE FIGHT.

GOKU THOUGHT HE WAS DONE WITH AVENGING HIS FRIEND …

UNTIL PICCOLO HIMSELF DESCENDED AND FOUGHT GOKU, INJURING HIM AND HIS POKÉMON IN THE PROCESS.

GOKU AND HIS FRIENDS THEN DISAPPEARED, WHILE PICOLLO FOUND THE LAST 4 BALLS.

BEFORE HE COULD WISH ON THEM, JACKI CHUN, WHO WAS ROSHI IN DISGUISE, HAD MANAGED TO USE THE MAFUBA TECHNIQUE TO SEAL HIM …

AT THE COST OF HIS OWN LIFE.

SADLY, WHILE GOKU WAS TRAINING WITH HIS POKÉMON UNDER THE TUTELAGE OF KORRIN WHO HEALED HIM, KING PICCOLO BROKE FREE AND WAS ABLE TO WISH UPON THE DRAGON BALLS TO GET HIS YOUTH BACK.

HOWEVER, KORRIN GIFTED GOKU THE SPIRIT WATER, WHICH SEEMED TO STRENGTHEN HIS BOND WITH HIS POKÉMON AT THE SAME TIME.

THEY CONFRONTED KING PICCOLO AGAIN, AND KING PICCOLO WAS KILLED WHEN GOKU'S FRIENDS HELD HIM BACK AND HE CRASHED RIGHT THROUGH THE DEMON KING'S CHEST.

BECAUSE OF HIS ACHIEVMENTS, KORRIN TOLD GOKU TO START FLYING TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD, WHERE HE WOULD BE TRAINED BY SOMEONE OF EVEN HIGHER STANDARDS.

ONCE HE FOUND THE VIEWPOINT AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD, HE FOUGHT A MAN NAMED MR. POPO WHO TESTED HIM TO SEE IF HE WAS WORTHY OF MEETING GOD.

ONCE HE PROVED HIMSELF AND HIS FRIENDS AS WELL, GOKU USED THE GATHERED DRAGON BALLS AGAIN TO WISH KRILLIN, AND MASTER ROSHI BACK TO LIFE.

WITH THAT, GOKU WAS NAMED THE CHAMPION OF KANTO, THOUGH HE USUALLY LEFT THE MOST IMPORTANT PAPERWORK TO LANCE.

HE STILL LOVED TO TRAVEL AND TEST HIMSELF, SO HE TOLD LANCE HE COULD ACT AS CHAMPION UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.

LANCE UNDERSTOOD AS GOKU LEFT TO TRAIN ONCE AGAIN.

AT A TOURNAMENT, HE MET DELIA AGAIN WHO PUT UP QUITE THE FIGHT AGAINST HIM.

HE AND HIS POKÉMON STILL WON, BUT THIS TIME HE TOLD DELIA TO WAIT UNTIL HE WON THE TOURNAMENT TO ASK HER SOMETHING.

SHE WAITED AND MET BULMA AGAIN, WHO HAD A NEW POKÉMON SHE CALLED LAUNCH, WHO WAS A MORPEKO.

HOWEVER, UNLIKE OTHER MORPEKO WHO CHANGED FORMS DEPENDING ON THEIR HUNGER, LAUNCH WOULD CHANGE ERRATICALLY IF SHE SNEEZED.

THEY BOTH WATCHED GOKU AND HIS FRIENDS WINNING AGAINST THEIR OPPONENTS …

UNTIL THE FINAL ROUND, WHERE HIS OPPONENT …

WAS PICCOLO, WHO NOW HAD A SERVINE, MEDITITE, DRATINI, YAMASK, LAPRAS AND A MAGMAR.

TURNS OUT, KING PICCOLO, BEFORE HE DIED, HACKED UP AN EGG, WHICH LANDED IN THE NEST THAT THE 6 POKÉMON HE NOW HAD LIVED IN.

THEY HAD BECOME A FAMILY AND WANTED TO HELP HIM BEAT GOKU.

AND HAD USED THE MAFUBA TECHNIQUE ON KAMI TO PREVENT HIM FROM AIDING GOKU.

YET DESPITE HOW WELL PICCOLO AND HIS POKÉMON WORKED TOGETHER, EVEN ALL OF THEM GROWING GIANT, THEY STILL FELL TO GOKU, WHO WAS ABLE TO USE THE GIANT FORM TO FREE KAMI.

KAMI WANTED TO EXECUTE PICCOLO, BUT GOKU TOLD HIM IT WOULDN'T BE GOOD SINCE IF PICCOLO DIED DUE TO BEING THE OTHER HALF OF KAMI, THE DRAGON BALLS WOULD DISAPPEAR.

ONCE PICCOLO PICKED UP HIS NEW FAMILY AND LEFT TO CONTEMPLATE THINGS WITH THEM, GOKU MET WITH DELIA ALONE …

AND TOLD HER HE NOW FIGURED OUT HER FEELINGS FOR HIM, AND ADMITTED THAT WHEN HE FOUGHT PICCOLO, HE USED HIS TIME WITH HER TO STAY FOCUSED AND TO PUSH HIMSELF EVEN FURTHER.

AS SUCH, THEY MARRIED AND HAD A SON.

GOKU NAMED HIM ASH AFTER HIS BLACK HAIR, AND THE FIRE HE SAW WITHIN ASH.

GOKU OFTEN TRAINED WITH ASH USING HITMONLEE AND ASH USING HITMONCHAN.

SADLY, GOKU LEFT WHEN ASH WAS 5, DUE TO BEING UNABLE TO TAKE STAYING IN ONE PLACE ANYMORE.

BEFORE HE LEFT, HE PROMISED ASH, HE WOULD SEE HIM AGAIN ONE DAY, HE WOULD FOLLOW HIM IN SPIRIT, AND TO GROW STRONG SO HE COULD BE BEATEN BY HIS OWN SON.

ASH STAYED WITH DELIA SINCE THAT DAY, AND RARELY HAS HE EVER HEARD MENTION OF HIS FATHER.

WHEN HE STARTED HIS JOURNEY, HE WOKE UP LATE AND HAD TO TAKE A PIKACHU AS HIS STARTER.

SOON HE WAS JOINED BY MISTY, THE NEW WATER GYM LEADER, AND BROCK, THE NEW ROCK LEADER, AS THEY TRAVELED THROUGH THE KANTO REGION, WHERE ASH MET SEVERAL MORE FRIENDS AND EARNED THE BADGES.

DURING A TRIP TO LAVENDER TOWN, ASH BEFRIENDED A HAUNTER WHO JOINED HIM AFTER THEY STOPPED SABRINA FROM GOING CRAZY.

ASH MET A SPOT OF DIFFICULTY WHEN HIS CHARMANDER EVOLVED INTO A CHARMELEON AND ALMOST KILLED A PARAS.

AFTER THAT, ASH TOOK CHARMELEON TO A REMOTE AREA THAT BROCK AND MISTY COULDN'T FOLLOW.

WHEN HE CAME BACK, CHARMELEON SEEMED TO RESPECT ASH AGAIN.

THEN, WHAT BROCK AND MISTY DIDN'T REMEMBER UNTIL JOHTO, WAS THAT ASH CAUGHT A LEGENDARY.

THE LEGENDARY JUST MIND WIPED EVERYONE TO PROTECT HIS SECRET AND ASH'S, MINUS HIS POKÉMON FOR THE MOST PART.

HE THEN TOOK ON THE INDIGO CONFERENCE, A NEW WAY TO SEE WHO WOULD TAKE ON THE INDIGO LEAGUE.

HE CAME UP 4TH AGAINST RITCHIE WHEN HE LOST HIS CHARIZARD TO RITCHIE'S PIKACHU, SPARKY.

AFTER THAT, HE WENT TO THE ORAMGE ISLANDS AND CAUGHT SEVERAL NEW FRIENDS, THEN SAVED THE WORLD WITH LUGIA.

ASH THEN DEFEATED DRAKE OF THE ORANGE CREW, BUT BECAUSE IT WASN'T AN OFFICIAL LEAGUE, ASH KEPT TRAVELING THROUGH THE REGIONS.

HE AND HIS TWO FRIENDS TRAVELED THROUGH THE JOHTO REGION AND HAD TO SAVE DELIA FROM A YOUNG GIRL WHO HAD HYPNOTIZED HER WITH THE POWER OF THE UNKNOWN.

THEN, A POKÉMON EGG HATCHED A LARVITAR, WHO EVENTUALLY TURNED OUT TO BE THE SON OF THE 2 STAR BALL'S GUARDIAN.

WHEN HE RETURNED LARVITAR TO HIS MOTHER AND FATHER, ASH CHALLENGED THE GUARDIAN, MERELY WANTING TO TEST HIMSELF TO SEE IF HE WAS WORTHY LIKE HIS FATHER.

HE DIDN'T DEFEAT THE GUARDIAN, BUT THE GUARDIAN TOLD HIM HE WAS JUST LIKE HIS FARHER AND GAVE HIM NOT ONLY THE 2 STAR BALL BUT ALLOWED HIS OWN SON TO TRAVEL WITH ASH.

THEN HE DEFEATED GARY IN THE SILVER CONFERNACE AND LOST TO A BOY FROM HOENN NAMED HARRISON, EARNING THIRD PLACE OVERALL.

THEN HE WENT TO HOENN AND BEFRIENDEDAY AND MAX AND STOPPED BOTH TEAMS AQUA AND MAGMA FROM USING THE WEATHER TRIO TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

WHILE THERE, HE ALSO BEFRIENDED A BAGON WHO JOINED HIM AFTER HE HELPED HIM EVOLVE INTO A SHELGON.

HE ALSO CAUGHT A SHINY SWABLU, REMEMBERING HIS FATHER'S ALTARIA.

THEN, HE TOOK ON THE KANTO BATTLE FRONTIER, DEFEATING ALL OF THEM.

WHILE TRAVELING, ASH REVEALED TO HIS CURRENT FRIENDS THAT HE ACTUALLY OFTEN SPARRED WITH HIS POKÉMON HIMSELF, GETTING HIS OWN STRENGTH STRONGER, AS WELL AS THEIRS.

"HOW DO YOU THINK I WAS ABLE TO PICK UP LARVITAR SO EASILY?"

HE THEN TRAVELED TO SINNOH, WHERE HE MET A GIRL NAMED DAWN AND SAVED THE POKÉMON GOD HIMSELF, ARCEUS.

WHILE THERE, HE MET AND BEFRIENDED A RIOLU WHO COULD USE AURA SPHERE DESPITE NOT BEING EVOLVED.

AFTER ASH SELFLESSLY SAVED HIM, RIOLU DECIDED TO JOURNEY WITH ASH.

HE ALSO GAINED A RIVAL NAMED PAUL, WHO THOUGHT ASH WAS WEAK UNTIL HE DEFEATED PAUL WITB A FULLY EVOLVED INFERNAPE THAT HE COULD NEVER HELP GET STRONGER WITH AN OVERPOWERED BLAZE ABILITY.

ONCE HE LOST TO A PERSON WITH LEGENDARIES NAMED TOBIAS, COMING UP SECOND IN SINNOH, HE TURNED TOWARDS UNOVA.

THERE, HE MET HIS FATHER'S BEST FRIEND KRILLIN, WHO WAS IN UNOVA TO TRAIN.

ASH HOPED HIS FATHER WAS THERE, BUT KRILLIN TOLD HIM HIS FATHER HAD LEFT TO A NEW REGION THE DAY BEFORE.

HE DID TELL ASH THAT HIS FATHER WAS ALWAYS PUNCHING HIMSELF WHEN HE MISSED HIS SON'S CONFERENCES.

AND THAT HE WAS ALWAYS PROUD OF HOW WELL HE DID IN THEM.

ASH ALMOST WON THE UNOVA LEAGUE WITH IRIS AND CILAN WATCHING, BUT DUE TO AN UNTIMELY EVOLUTION OF HIS OPPONENT'S RIOLU, HE CAME IN 2ND AGAIN.

NOW, HIS JOURNEY THROUGH KALOS WITH CLEMONT AND BONNIE HAD HIM AT THE STEPS OF THE LUMIOSE CONFERNECE.

ALONGSIDE A GIRL WHO WAS AN OLD FRIEND NAMED SERENA.

WHO HAD A CRUSH ON HIM, BUT SADLY ASH INHERITED HIS FATHER'S DENSENESS QUALITIES.

UNKNOWN TO BONNIE AND CLEMONT, ASH AND SERENA HAD MET THE 6 STAR DRAGON BALL GUARDIAN.

AN ANCIENT GOODRA, FROM THE ANCIENT HISUI REGION.

AS SUCH, ALONGSIDE RECLAIMING THE 4 STAR BALL FROM THE GARCHOMP IN SINNOH, HE HAD 3 OF THE 7 DRAGON BALLS NOW.

HE WAS DETERMINED TO WIN THIS CONFERENCE …

AND TO FIND HIS FATHER AGAIN.


(A FEW WEEKS BEFORE THE LUMIOSE CONFERENCE!)

"ALRIGHT, LUMIOSE! I'M COMING TO WIN THIS TIME, YA HEAR ME!?" Ash shouted as they saw Lumiose city far off in the distance.

"Ash, I'm sure they heard you all the way in Kanto. You don't need to shout that loud!" Bonnie told him as they were resting one last time in the forest.

"Now Bonnie, remember. Ash has been at 5 other conferences since his journey started 6 years ago and he has come up close in several of them, so he's probably aiming to make this a win, right?" Clemont asked as he was cooking dinner.

"You bet, Clemont! I've come close 3 times; I can feel it. THIS IS MY CONFERENCE!" He shouted again, as Serena mildly laughed.

"If you train as hard as you shout that, I have no difficulty in believing that, Ash!" She told him as Ash nervously chuckled and scratched his head at that.

"Of course, Serena-Chan would be the most interested in seeing you do this." Bonnie slyly said, as Serena began to blush.

"Well, yeah!" Everyone was taken aback by what Ash said.

"She won the title of Kalos Queen! If I don't give it my all like Serena, then I'm a poor excuse of a trainer!" Bonnie shook her head, while Clemont silently laughed.

Serena, secretly, felt happy that her performance in the Kalos Performance league made Ash feel he had to train harder.

"In fact, once I get to Lumiose …" Ash then brought out the 5 Pokémon he had caught in Kalos.

"Greninja, Hawlucha, Talonflame, Gondar, Noivern. It's time I think for you guys to have your training stepped up!" His Pokémon plus Pikachu cheered, knowing that they had to train extra hard.

"Now then, I have a bunch of old friends in reserve at Professor Oak's lab, I'll talk with Oak about letting Sycamore find a place for you and them to train. I am also going to be swapping you guys around. I have faith in you guys, but I feel it will be less taxing on you guys if I use some of my older Pokémon." Bonnie's eyes widened at the thought of meeting all of Ash's cute Pokémon while Serena and Clemont couldn't help but admire Ash's thought process.

"So, for now, start training with each other, it's going to get harder soon!" Ash told them, as they spread out to spar with one another.

Clemont and Bonnie had headed off to get the tents set up, while Serena began to practice some more Showcase routines.

However, she was close enough to hear Ash whisper something to Pikachu.

"10 years, buddy. It's been 10 years since I saw him." Pikachu patted Ash's head.

"Pika pi, Pikachu Pichu, Pikachuchu." He said to Ash, who laughed.

"I can barely remember his face, Pikachu. And I know Krillin told me that he was following me and was wanting to watch one of my conferences in person for once." Pikachu lightly wrapped his tail around Ash, as he smiled.

"Pika! Pikachu pika Pikapi!" Ash looked at Pikachu, then laughed.

"Yeah! Like I keep telling everyone, especially Serena nowadays, never give up till it's over! Dad surely will come this year! Same with Mom who couldn't join since the Silver Conference!" He said before he and Pikachu …

Started sparing with each other.

Serena knew about this, but Clemont and Bonnie didn't.

She just smiled and thought about, if his mother arrived, how to correctly talk to Ash and what she could do better for him.

Before slapping her face to get her head back in the game, alongside Braixen who had been staring at Greninja and Sylveon who had been watching Pikachu alongside Serena.

Pancham just sighed as they got back to training.


(MOUNT PALZU!)

10 years.

It had been 10 YEARS since he had seen his son's face.

He had been training all over the world by this point and was making sure he got stronger.

At the cost of often missing his son's conferences.

Which angered him.

He was proud of how strong Ash had gotten with his friends.

Sure, he hasn't won, but that's how you get stronger!

This time, however, things felt different.

He felt a sudden surge of Ki coming from the Kalos region.

Last time he talked to his wife, she had told him that Ash had gone there.

He wouldn't miss it a sixth time.

Making his decision, he stood.

"YAMCHA, EIGHTER, NIOBO, KINTO'UN, CHI-CHI, TIEN, GOHAN!" At the call of their names, they appeared.

"Alright, listen up. I have a good feeling Ash is in Kalos right now. I know you guys want to keep training, as do I, but we have missed 5 of his conferences." The Lucario nodded as the Infernape pointed at himself.

"I don't know, Gohan, if he has an Infernape, but he has gone through Sinnoh." The Weavil then pointed at his phone.

"I will call them, once we get started. I want Delia to try and get his friends as best she can, besides, Kinto'un flies faster than those clunkers." The Altaria just beamed with pride at that.

"OK, get yourselves ready, I'll make the call and use that once per year thing, and then we head to Kalos. Hopefully, Delia beats us there. With his speed, I am not holding my breath too much, right boys and girl?" The Miltank chuckled as she brought out his training equipment.

"Yes, but we save that for the end of the conference, you know how focused we get, Chi-Chi." The Miltank nodded and headed off as the Vaporeon partially shape shifted into a dress.

"I hope she does wear the dress, Niobo. She definitely wore it when I won the Kanto champion title, and I saw her wearing it during the Indigo Conference and the Silver Conference." He smiled at the thought.

"She always claimed it was good luck for me and him whenever she wore it. Enough talking. Let's get to work!" With that, he looked one last time at his grandfather's house and bowed respectfully.

Then he grabbed the phone and called an airline company that had given him a free private jet.

As well as send her a message.

He then noticed his Torterra with his tongue off the side of his mouth …

With THAT expression on his face before he sensed an angered Ki behind him.

"Don't even THINK of doing that to Delia or any of Ash's female friends, Eighter! Maybe I should have nicknamed you Roshi instead!" He warned, not noticing Eighter smirking at him.


(PALLET TOWN, KETCHUM RESIDENCE!)

*TAP! TAP! TAP! *

"Had a lucky feeling these white heels still fit!" Delai said as she had tapped the front of her left foot with the heel of her right foot, as she looked over herself in a mirror.

She was wearing a blue dress with a pair of white heels, and a white jacket over her dress and a red jeweled necklace.

"Really missed wearing this after the Silver Conference. Might be why Ash has had a hard time. Still, I hope his father can make it this time." She said as she then grabbed her regular clothes and cream ballet flats and put them in the suitcase.

She then looked over at 3 dusty Pokéballs.

Her 3 friends hadn't come out of those in years.

Oak had checked and saw that they were still very alive, they were just in some kind of hibernation state.

*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK! *

"COMING!" Delia called out as she rushed for the door.

When she opened it, she was surprised to see two agent looking people, alongside Professor Oak and Tracey.

"Excuse me ma'am, but are you, Delia Ketchum?" One of them asked.

"Yes, I am, but who are you?"

"We are merely some security staff dispatched to help you and friends of Ash Ketchum to Kalos to watch his latest attempt at a League." The other told her as he handed her something.

"Does the name Son Goku mean anything to you?" Delia stared at the sheet, as she began to have tears in her eyes.

"Give me a few minutes to check on some things. Is there a limit to how many people can join?" She asked, as she retrieved the Pokéballs, and the men helped her finish packing.

"Person limit is 15."

"Ah, counting me, Professor Oak, and Tracy, there will be 10 people! I'll see if I can figure out where they are."

"Names?"

"Oh, right, right. Besides these two here, Brock Harrison, Misty Waterflower, May and Max Maple, Dawn Berlitz, Iris Ryuki, and Cilan Satre." The men nodded as Tracy came in.

"Mrs. Ketchum, what's going on? Whose Son Goku and why did you start crying?" Delia turned to Tracy with a smile on her face.

"Why would I forget my husband?"


(SOMEWHERE IN KANTO!)

"So, you are planning on watching Ash's attempts at taking on the Kalos League?" Brock asked Misty as they were in her pool living room at the Cerulean Gym.

"Yup! Do wish that we could go and cheer him in person, though." She admitted as they made sure to get everything set up.

"Excuse me, sir and ma'am." They both turned to se some kind of chauffer standing in the doorway.

"Are you two perchance Brock Harrison and Misty Waterflower?" They both nodded.

"Mrs. Ketchum has told us you are friends of Ash Ketchum. We are offering you a flight to Kalos, free of charge." Brock and Misty stared at each other.

"Um, can we get some help packing first?"


(SINNOH!)

"Ya sure, sis!? I mean if you try, Blaziken might lose his appeal in a round!" Max told his sister, after they both discovered Mega Evolution.

"Well, I have a Blastoise, a Venasaur and Blaziken, ya know. I got choice!" She responded back.

"Pardon me, but are you two the Maple Twins?" They turned around and saw a maid looking at them.

"Uh, yeah. Why?" The maid then opened the door of a limousine.

"Mrs. Ketchum is offering you a flight in a private jet to get to Kalos and watch Ash compete in the Kalos league." May and Max looked at each other, then asked if they could send someone to get some luggage packed by their parents.


(HOENN!)

"AAAAHHHH! A GRAND FESTIVAL CONQUERED! WE HAD NO NEED TO WORRY THANKS TO ASH'S ADVICE AND TECHNIQUES!" Dawn said as she and Piplup walked through Lilycove City.

"PI PIPLUP!" Her little penguin cheered as they were about to head out of the city on their next adventure.

"Do wonder how he is doing by this point. He's come so close to winning, right?" She said, as Piplup nodded.

"Pardon me, miss." Dawn turned around and saw a butler standing there.

"You wouldn't happen to be Dawn Berlitz, are you?" Dawn then looked down at Piplup.

"Yeess, but why me specifically?" The man then brought out a tablet as he input some info.

"Mrs. Ketchum says you were a friend of Ash Ketchum. We are offering you a chance to go to Kalos in a private jet. Would you like to accept?" Dawn stared down at Piplup, who was just as bewildered.

Then she checked the proof and then nodded.

"Yup! No need to worry, Ash! This time, you will be able to win with all of us there!"


(UNOVA!)

"Gotta says, Iris, it feels good to be back in a kitchen like my family's, even for a little while." Cilan told his old traveling friend as she was eating in his restaurant.

"I know, Cilan. You planning on watching the Kalos League? I heard Ash is going to be attending." She told him as he smirked.

"Only channel that this place is going to be playing, Iris!" He told her.

"Excuse me." They both turned to a well-dressed gentleman.

"Two of your finest appetizers, and surprise me with them." Cilan wasted no time in bringing them out, as the man tasted them.

"Ah, quite the exquisite taste. Only able to be made by someone who has traveled a region. You two are Iris Ryuki and Cilan Satre, correct?"

"Yeah, but who are you?"

"Be polite Iris."

"Actually, I own the Rayquaza star airlines. Ash Ketchum's father helped me out years ago, and I gave him a free jet to repay him." Iris looked impressed.

"Is he that rich?"

"No and not once has he actually used it. Mostly because I forgot in the moment, he had an Altaria that could fly faster than any aircraft." Cilan looked confused.

"So, he's using it now?"

"More accurately, he is sending his wife, Delia Ketchum, via the jet I gave him. I also gave him a lifetime of private chauffeurs and first-class hotels to help for these things, so we are offering you a chance to fly to Kalos via this time he decides to use the thing?" Iris and Cilan stared at each other.

"Could you give me a few moments to talk to my brothers, and make sure they are tuned in to the Kalos League?"

"And me to contact the Village of Dragons?"


(KANTO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT!)

"Well, here we are." Delia said as she was waiting in her private quarters with Professor Oak and Tracey as they were pulling out the jet.

"I am so happy to hear your husband is pulling out all the stops to make sure we can get there!" Delia smirked.

"And making sure Ash can swap his Pokémon on the fly instead of having to worry about you sending over the right Pokémon this time." Oak chuckled at that and made sure they were taking care of Ash's Pokémon until they had to go back into their balls.

"And making sure that we get THE best suite hotel in the Region there! The Kalos de frere! Their capital suite, no less! 18 bedrooms, full meal service, private pools, the works! How is he able to do this!?" Delia then smiled with pride as the men then arrived to escort them to the plane.

"Well, he IS the official champion of Kanto. He may not use money, but he sure has a lot of it in case things go bad!" She said, as Tracy stared STUNNED at that revelation.

"Do wish my boy wasn't as dense as his father, though. He never realized the girl he helped at one of your summer camps had a crush on him."


(BACK IN KALOS! NIGHTIME!)

Ash and Pikachu stared at the nightlight city ahead of them.

Everyone else had gone to sleep, but he and Pikachu were just getting one last look at their latest attempt.

"We'll do it, somehow, right, bud?" He asked as Pikachu fist pumped.

"PIKA! PIKAPI!" He said as Ash nodded.

Then, his seldomly used phone vibrated.

"Hope that's not mom." HE said as he pulled it out.

Then he saw who had sent it.

Opening it up, he saw 8 words he had always wanted to see from him.

"I AIN'T MISSING THIS CONFERENCE THIS TIME, KIDDO."

Pikachu stared in amazement at who it was, considering he himself had never even met the guy.

"AND YOUR MOTHER AND FRIENDS ARE COMING THIS TIME TOO."

Ash looked back at the city.

And grinned.

"This time, conference, I am not walking away with some runner up spot." He then walked farther up the hill as he stood at the top.

And made sure his friends weren't able to hear him …

By flying up straight.

"THIS TIME, I'M WINNING IT! NO MORE COMING UP SHORT! DO … YOU … HEAR MEEEEEEE!?" The king roared, as Pikachu had to admit it was a bit intimidating seeing Ash like this.

He floated back down, and went to his tent to sleep and make sure he didn't miss registration this time.

Unbeknownst to him, Serena had seen the whole thing, and wondered who was coming to make Ash react that way.

And wondered how he floated up into the sky without the aid of psychics or Flying Types.


(IN THE DEPTHS OF SPACE)

He was currently in stasis, sleeping in his pod as he jetted for the world.

The world his brother had HOPEFULLY ground under his heel.

He had to do this.

Otherwise, Vegeta and Nappa would kick him out.

His brother had a power level of 5 when he was born.

The planet he was sent to should have been great for a low-class warrior like him.

And hopefully, he could convince Kakarot to join them and add his world to Frieza's.

Even if he had to beat him to get him to cooperate.


(PLAY INTRO TO FINALE AND CLOSING MUSIC FROM THE BRUCE FALCONEER SOUNDTRACK!)

FINALLY, ASH HAS ARRIVED AT LUMIOSE CITY TO COMPETE IN THE LUMIOSE CONFERENCE.

BUT WHO HAS BEEN GATHERING ASH'S FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO COME TO LUMIOSE CITY JUST TO HAVE HIM WATCHED?

AND WHO IS THE MYSTERIOUS OFFWORLDER COMING TO EARTH, WITH AN AGENDA AND WHO IS KAKAROT?

ALL THAT, AND MORE, WILL BE ANSWERED AS …

DRAGON MON Z

CONTINUES!


(PLAY YEAH BREAK CARE BREAK ENGLISH HERE!)

(THE SCENE OPENS WITH VARIOUS BALLS STREWN ABOUT NEXT TO A POLE, WITH THE FOUR-STAR DRAGON BALL SEEN)

LIVE YOUR LIFE, DON'T STOP UNTIL IT'S DONE!

(WE THEN SEE THE OTHER DRAGON BALLS SURROUNDING GOKU AND ASH AS THEY STAND IN FRONT OF AN OPEN DOOR, WITH A BLINDING LIGHT SHILOUETTING THEM.)

ONCE YOU LIVE FOR LOVE, THEN YOU'VE ALREADY WOOOOON!

(ASH AND GOKU LOOK AT EACH OTHER WITH A SMILE, LIGHT SHINING ON THEIR FACES BEFORE THEY MOVE TO LEAVE THE HOUSE.)

WHEN I LOOK UP, THROUGH THE INFINITE SKY …

(WE SEE GOKU AND ASH'S FEET AS THEY ARE WALKING WITH THE TWO STAR BALL IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER.)

I NEVER THOUGHT THAT IT COULD COME TO THIS.

(WE SEE A CLOSEUP OF GOKU'S SYMBOL, WITH ASH'S HAT SEEN BEHIND THE SEVEN STAR BALL.)

JUST TAKE MY HAND AND TOGETHER WE'LL FLYYY!

(WE THEN SEE THEIR BACKS ALONGSIDE THE 3 STAR BALL, BEFORE WE CUT TO A SIDEWAY VIEW OF THEIR FACES WITH THE FOUR-STAR BALL.)

LET'S GO!

(WE THEN LOOK DOWN FROM THE TOP WITH THE 7 STAR BALL NEARBY)

I KNOW HOW HIGH!

(WE THEN GET AN UNDER SHOT AS THEY LOOK UP AT THE CLOUDS.)

SOOOOOARR ABOVE THE CLOUDS TO SEE SUCH …

(WE SEE DELIA, TRACY AND OAK LOOKING AT US WITH WHAT LOOKS LIKE A PIECE OF RAYQUAZA WRAPPED AROUND THE 7 STAR BALL.)

BEEAAUUUTY ALL AROUND!

(WE THEN SEE KAMI AND MR. POPO WITH PICCOLO BEHIND THEM WITH HIS BACK TURNED TO US, WITH ANOTHER PIECE OF THE DRAGON AND THE 4 STAR AND TWO STAR BALLS.)

THIS IRREPLACABLE WORLD NEEDS US NOW!

(WE THEN SEE MISTY, BROCK, MAY, MAX AND MASTER ROSHI GIVING US SOME VICTORY SIGNS WITH THE ONE STAR AND 5 STAR BALL BEHIND THEM.)

WE HAVE TO JOIN IN THE FIIIGGGHHHT!

(WE THEN SEE DAWN, IRIS, CILAN, CLEMONT, SERENA, BONNIE AND BULMA SMILING AT US WITH THE SEVEN STAR BALL ABOVE THEM BEFORE WE GET SHILOUETTED FIGUES WITH RED EYES GLARING AT US WITH THE MUSIC SHIFTING IN RHYTHM.)

LIVE YOUR LIFE LIKE A KAMEHAMEHA!

(WE THEN SEE GOKU, ASH, MISTY AND BROCK WITH SEVERAL OF THEIR POKÉMON SENDING A MASSIVE BLUE BEAM SKYWARD.)

GIVE YOUR ALL, DON'T EEEEVER GIVE UP!

(WE THEN SEE GOKU, ASH, MAY, AND MAX WITH THEIR POKÉMON GLOWING SOME KIND OF RED COLOR.)

WHEN WE'RE TOGETHER, I KNOW WE CAN WIN!

(WE THEN SEE GOKU, ASH, DAWN, IRIS AND CILAN HOLDING THEIR HANDS TO THE AIR WITH THEIR POKÉMON GATHERING SOME KIND OF ENERGY.)

I HAVE YOU TO BELIEVE IIIIINNNNN!

(WE THEN SEE ASH AND GOKU ALONE, STANDING AND CASTING A SHADOW, BEFORE ASH'S POKÉMON AND FRIENDS SUDDENLY APPEAR AND HUG HIM, MAKING HIM SMILE.)

LIVE YOUR LIFE, DON'T STOP UNTIL IT'S DONE!

(WE THEN SEE GOKU, ASH, SERENA, CLEMONT, AND BONNIE GLOWING RED AS THEY SEEM TO HAVE BEEN IN A BATTLE.)

GIVE YOUR ALL, DON'T EEEVER GIVE UP!

(WE THEN SEE TWO FIGURES WHO RESEMBLE ASH AND GOKU WITH THEIR POKÉMON, BUT THEIR HAIR IS GOLDEN, WITH A GOLDEN AURA COMING OFF THEM.)

ALL YOU NEED IS LOOOOVE AND TO BELIEVE IN YOURSELLLLFF!

(GOKU THEN CATCHES THE FOUR-STAR BALL WHILE ASH IS BRANDISHING A POKÉBALL, BOTH WITH SMILES ON THEIR FACES.)

IT'S EASIER WHEN YOU BELIEEEEEVVE!

(WE THEN ZOOM OUT TO REVEAL THE ENTIRE CAST POSING WITH ASH AND GOKU IN THE MIDDLE AS THE MUSIC FADES OUT)


(GOKU AND ASH APPEAR IN FRONT OF US WITH A SALUTE AS THE PREVIEW BEGINS!)

ASH: HEY GUYS! ASH KETCHUM HERE, AND HERE TO PROMISE THAT THIS TIME, I'M WINNING A LEAGUE!

GOKU: WHOA! SLOW DOWN THERE, KIDDO! YOU GOTTA DO IT WITH PROPER SUPPORT!

ASH: DAD! YOU CAME BACK!

GOKU: I MISSED TOO MANY TIMES ALREADY, AND I'M MAKING SURE YOU, YOUR MOTHER, YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR OLD POKÉMON ARE ARRIVING!

DIANTHA: SO, YOU'RE ASH'S FATHER? AS WELL AS THE KANTO CHAMPION?

GOKU: AH, YOU'RE DIANTHA, RIGHT? TELL ME, HOW STRONG IS THE CHAMPION OF KALOS!?

DIANTHA: ALL WE CAN DO IS SHOW EACH OTHER OUR POWER IN A TRUE FIGHT!

GOKU: JUST THE ANSWER I WAS HOPING FOR! GOHAN, LET'S FIRE IT UP!

DELIA: HEY, HONEY! DON'T FORGET TO SAVE ME FROM FALLING TO MY DEATH!

GOKU: WHOOOPS! SORRY, DELIA! GOT A LITTLE AHEAD OF MYSELF!

SERENA: SO, I SEE WHERE ASH GETS HIS ROCK HEAD FROM.

DELIA: OH YEAH, THEY BOTH ARE PRETTY DUMB WHEN IT COMES TO GIRLS AS WELL.

ASH: WAIT, I'M WHAT?

DELIA: OH, NOTHING!

SERENA: I FEEL SO EMBARRASSED FROM ASH'S MOM, NOW!

ASH: I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT I CAN'T WAIT TO MEET DAD AGAIN AND SEE HIM IN ACTION AGAIN! PLEASE USE MILTANK!

EVERYONE: MILTANK? WHY MILTANK!?

GOKU: OH, YOU'LL SEE CHI-CHI'S POWER SON!

ASH: NEXT ON DRAGON MON Z!

THE LUMIOSE CONFERENCE MEETING CHAMPION BATTLE!

FATHER AND SON REUNION!

DAWN: SO, DOES ANYONE ELSE KNOW WHO THIS PRETTY GIRL IS WHO HAS FEELINGS FOR OUR BEST FRIEND?

SERENA: WHY DID ASH MAKE SO MANY FEMALE FRIENDS IN HIS JOURNEYS AND HOW DO THEY KNOW I HAVE A CRUSH ON HIM!?

ASH: WAIT, DOES THAT MEAN YOU'RE STRONG ENOUGH TO CRUSH MY HEAD, SERENA?

SERENA: THAT'S NOT WHAT IT MEANS, ASH!


WELL FOLKS, THERE'S MY FIRST CHAPTER OF DRAGON MON Z!

ALSO, TITLE IS OPEN FOR DEBATE, I'M PRETTY TERRIBLE AT TITLES FOR THE STORIES IF YOU CAN'T TELL!

STILL, VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO CAMERON W FOR THE HELP WITH THE IDEAS FOR THIS STORY!

NOW A CERTAIN SAIYAN PRINCE WILL BE GETTING HIS OWN TEAM, AND WHEN WE GET TO SUPER, ZENO WILL BE REPLACED BY A WELL-KNOWN ALPHA.

TILL THEN FOLKS!

CHA LA! HEAD CHA LA!

AND KEEP YOUR POWER LEVEL OVER 9000!