What's Good About Life? (Dragon Ball Z SI Chapter 9)

"You have to be about the only Saiyan I've seen eating so slowly. Why are you doing that?" Bulma said as she watched Dive eat.

Goku, Raditz and Dive, along with Krillin, Gohan and Chi Chi whom Goku went to pick up, were eating at Bulma's place, with her mother Bikini serving Saiyan portions of food, as she's used to do when they come over to visit. Vegeta isolated himself to eat in a different room.

Yamcha, Oolong, Puar, and blue Launch join in the festivities as well. Tien and Chiaotzu were around before leaving earlier, rather than stick around.

Nach was of course still training.

"It's been literal millennia since I ate anything. I want to savor this." Said Dive as he ate his triple patty burger, with double steak, grilled mushroom, lettuce, pickles and mozzarella spread. He paused in his burger to take a bite of his meat lovers pizza slice, followed by drinking a bit of his spicy beef ramen broth and then a forkful of ramen, before going back to his burger.

"Fair." Bulma shrugged.

"Why are you breathing weird?" Krillin couldn't help but ask, as it's something he couldn't help but nothing.

"Is that some kind of exercise you're doing to eat better?" Goku paused his eating to ask. 'Paused' as in stopped to chew his food, rather than devour it.

"No, that's me relearning how to breath." Dive said back casually.

""Huh?"" Was the reaction to most of the listeners there.

"A long while into my training I got this idea that, putting all my focus into training wasn't enough because my subconscious mind was still working on other stuff within my body. So I thought, what if I moved some of that subconscious focus also into training?" paused to Dive eat a bit more, enticing his listeners while they waited. "So I stopped breathing. I figured that's something my body does that I don't need as an immortal, and wondered if that would improve my training efforts."

"That is dumb. That is not how that works." Bulma immediately spoke up.

"Did it work!?" Raditz beat Goku to the question.

"Oh yeah, it did." Dive nodded. "If nothing else it helped my Ki Control since I sustained myself with nothing but Ki, so that's an extra exercise that I was always passively doing, till it was second nature." Dive eat again. "I can't wait to try sleeping again."

That got the Saiyan brothers more excited on another "possible training method", while Bulma objected on how dumb it was, with Dive agreeing with her. Yeah, his second wish meant he didn't need sleep, so he could focus on training without sleep or rest, but it's not something normal people, or mortals in general should ever do.

Heck, Dive reckoned even immortals needed sleep as well, to refresh their minds.

"Hmmm..." Bikini hummed as she looked around Dive.

"Something the matter, Mrs. Briefs?" Dive politely asked.

"I'm just noticing I'm not seeing any fur shed anywhere." Said Bikini.

The Saiyans perked up at that, as that could be an issue if they reach Dive's transformation. The other Z-Fighters were worried if the Immortal Saiyan might get offended, as they are still figuring him out.

Dive just laughed.

"No," he shook his head. "That doesn't happen. Every single fur on me is filled with way too much Ki to break off. So no worries about that." He couldn't help but chuckle at the random question.

"Is that something we should be worried about?" Asked Goku, suddenly nervous. "Because Chi Chi will get really made if she suddenly has to clean up fur because of me."

"Damn right I will! You're not getting into the house if you turn like him!" Chi Chi cried out, before turning on Dive. "You better not teach Goku, or even more, my baby Gohan to change into this monkey business, you hear me!"

Dive snorted. He was tempted, oh so tempted to pranked the annoying screaming lady right now, but preferred to focus on his food.

"Technically you're already in the monkey business. But don't worry if they reach this transformation, I'll teach them the ancient art of fur cleaning." Dive chimed back to which Goku, Raditz and Gohan looked fascinated. "Or they could just, you know, power down." He shrugged.

"Power down, so it's not permanent." Gohan asked, entering the conversation for the first time.

Chi Chi wanted to chime in, but was surprise by her son trying to socialize on his own, so held her tongue. But if they talked about training, she'll put a stop to it.

"No, normally it's not. If you get tired enough, you go back down to your base state, or you can just power down yourself." Dive explained.

"So why haven't you?" Asked Krillin.

"I've just been pushing myself to stay in this state for so long, that eventually it became my default. I'd actually have to put effort to power down now." Dive had a thoughtful look. "Maybe I should try that later."

The group chatted and continued eating for a while.

"So where are you gonna be staying?" Bulma slyly asked, wondering if maybe having this new beefcake around isn't so bad.

"Hmm, don't know. Probably somewhere in the mountains. I still do have a few errands to run first before I settle on anything." Dive's eyes lit up as he remembered something. "Hey, can I ask you for a favor?" He said to Bulma. "You guys are a technology company right?"

"Not the right naming, but technically sure." Bulma said back.

"Sweet, do you make fishing rods?"

"What?"

The time came to use the Dragon Balls, both sets of them.

Shenlong was summoned to revive those killed by Frieza and his minions, to which Dive added the suggestion to count in anyone killed by those searching for the Namekian Dragon Balls. This was helpful as it included those killed by Vegeta, something the Saiyan Prince apparently forgot about.

Guru came back to a bear hug by Dive.

After that, all the Namekians were transported by Dive's Ki Connection and Instant Transmission back to Namek, so a wish to do that wasn't needed.

The first wish was to transport Namek to a different location so it can't be found by evil-doers.

The second wish repair the damaged caused by Freiza and others searching for the Dragon Balls.

"Go ahead, Dive." Said Elder Moori. "You have come and helped us in our time of need, and for that we wish to thank you. Please take the third wish, we have nothing else we could want." He said with a smile.

Dive held his chin and thought for a moment, then walked up to Porunga.

Moori and the other Namekian were taken aback by the wish.

"Are you sure about that wish?" Guru asked, as he Dive and Nail stood in the Grand Elder's home.

"I have to say, that's not something I expected anyone to wish for." Nail commented.

"If there's one thing I learned in my long years of meditation is that..." Dive paused, having a wistful smile. "People, life, events. All of it must flow, so just let it be."

"I see," Guru smiled and nodded. "You have matured a lot from when we last met."

"Yeah, same for you." Dive gave a heavy sigh, and intrigued Guru. "It's actually what I wanted to talk to you about."

"Oh?" Guru tilted his head.

"The amount of Namekians that died, Nail being here, along with the damage done being quite minimal." Dive met Guru's eyes. "You saw all of my memories, right? Even my past life." Nail's eyes widened in surprise. "I was too self-centered and stuck in my own head back then, to really think about it. But you knew what's coming and tried to prepare for it."

"I did. I knew it would all work out, but it was painful to go through, and I knew you had a kind heart, and with your wish aiding you, you could only get better with your training. Thus if we truly needed your help we could count on you." Guru said, revealing that he even knew about Dive's training plan with the Room of Spirit and Time.

"Good, that makes things simple." Dive help palm up and gathered ki into it.

The ball of ki that formed was of white-golden light, looking like a fruit in shape.

"You are giving me your life force?" Guru's eyes widened. "Why?"

"Something I discovered is that immortality and mortality don't mix, so it couldn't have been done before." Dive chuckled. "And you know about the future, don't you? About the threats that are to come. Majin Buu, Omega Shenron and the rest. Like Baby," he paused in thought. "Or Super 17. I don't know the others." He looked back to Guru. "You and your people can help with that. Even if they can't they can aid others that can."

"Dive, while I understand your fears, I should tell you that beyond Majin Buu, I have never heard or seen of the others in your memories, like this Omega Shenron." Guru explained.

A small sigh left Dive, as he felt somewhat relieved. Then he snorted. "Well, GT was always considered non-canon." He said under his breath. "But I couldn't be sure of which threats are coming, so I just tried to prepare for it all, while perfecting my power, skill and control, and hope I was over prepared." He paused before offering the Ki shaped like a peach again. "So please, take it."

"My friend, I can not accept this-"

"Yes you can." Dive cut him off. "Please. Just think of it as me paying back just a small amount of the debt I owe you and your people. You have helped me at my very lowest, and I can't not possibly express that with words alone."

"...You are adamant, aren't you?" Guru said.

"Yes." Dive gave a sheepish grin.

"Very well, Dive." Guru help up his hand. "Go ahead."

Dive placed the Ki Fruit in Guru's palm and light filled the room.

"Oh, can I help you with something?" Kami asked, as the Saiyan Dive arrived suddenly on the Lookout.

"Yeah, I came barring gifts!" Dive shouted with a grin.

"Oh?" Kami raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, these took a while to make."

Dive present Kami with a silver and gold chalice.

"As you probably noticed the two chalices are connected, but only transmit in one way." Dive gathered ki in his hand, and placed it in the gold chalice. The gold chalice lit up with flames made of ki, and immediately the silver chalice was lit up as well all on it's own.

"Interesting. And what would it be used for?" Asked Kami.

"A tracking signal." Dive said. "Basically, the silver one can't be doused off as long as the golden one is lit. And the golden one can't be extinguish until the ki in it runs out." Then Dive delivered the bombshell. "I made it to work for the Hyperbolic Time Chamber."

Kami's eyes widened as he understood. "So that those who train there, never have to worry about getting lost in the void!"

"Exactly!" Dive grinned.

"How long would this flame last?" He said taking the offered golden chalice from Dive to stare deep into it. The amount of ki help in it, now that he focused on it, was staggering. I couldn't even imagine how long it would stay lit.

"Hmm, about a thousand years." Dive hummed.

"Truly?" Kami asked with shock.

"Well, a thousand is the absolute worst estimate, I'm not sure on the maximum." Dive shrugged. "After that when you need to train, just have whoever is going to train, or you, or the next guardian fill it up with enough Ki for a few days worth, and it should be good."

"I see," Kami smiled. "This...will be helpful for Goku and the other protectors of Earth." Kami then frowned. "Although I'll have to warn them not to wander in too far."

"Well, that's your problem then, not mine." The two shared a laugh for a moment, as Kami had Mr. Popo take the two chalices, placing the gold one in one of their living quarters, and the silver one within the Room of Spirit and Time.

"Also I came to give you this," Dive created another Ki Fruit to the shock of Kami.

"This is your own life force." Kami commented.

"It's transferable, yeah." Dive said.

"And you're giving it to me? ...Why?"

"Because as the Guardian of Earth you need to be a bit stronger." Dive said bluntly. "A lot of your tasks would be easier if you were even just at the Power Level range of ten thousand. If nothing else, you'll be able to watch over this world, just a tiny bit longer."

"I can not accept this." Kami said back.

"Like I told Guru." Dive sighed and smile. "It is but a small price for all the help you gave me. Or in your case the trouble I caused you." He gave a sheepish smile. "I'm sure it was a pain dealing with the room being locked, and I did know that was gonna happen going in. So think of this as my apology."

"..You have already set your mind on this?"

"Please."

With a bit of hesitance, Kami extended his hand and grasped the "fruit".

Instantly he felt the change, his vitality and youth returning to him, strength beyond he had ever experienced in his life ran through his body.

He was not as equal to Piccolo now, but he wasn't helpless against him should the two battle. Not that there's ever a reason for them to do so these days.

The younger Kami looked back to Dive to see the Red Saiyan just give him a nod, and turn to head on his way.

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a fishing rod to pick up."

AN: Next chapter should be a timeskip.