Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Dragonball X ❯ Time Disturbance ( Prologue )

The Prelude

Pan smiles as she watches her only grandchild, Goku Jr. trade blows with the current descendant of Vegeta; his grandson, Vegeta

Jr. It is an amazing match. Both are in the form of Super Saiya-jin; a form that Pan never achieved.

For Pan, these events are precious because she believes she has few of them left, and little time left in her life. She was

recently ill; doctors had said that it was her time, but her grandson wouldn't accept that at all. During his adventures to retrieve the

Dragon Balls to wish her well, he achieved Super Saiya-jin when a dear friend was killed. He never told his grandmother that on

that same day, he met his great-great grandfather, Goku, who had returned back to earth, despite his long disappearance.

He had vanished for 100 years; a full century.

This has been an amazing day; and a spectacular turn of events, watching her grandson battle in the Budoukai against Vegeta Jr.

At least, this was the woman beside her called him. Pan recognizes her as Briefs Bikini, Capsule Corporation's President.

Pan should have known the woman better. But the Son and Briefs families grew apart from each other in the decades after Son

Goku's disappearance. Pan had eventually left to go to college; Bra had become the most beautiful model worldwide. Vegeta had

died shortly after Bulma did, perhaps from the knowledge of never being able to see his wife alive again. Goten had married

Paris, his long time girlfriend. They never had children because Paris was infertile. And Trunks, it was told that he had married

a woman when he was nearly in his fifties. Bikini was, of course, his daughter.

Despite heartbreak, Pan lived a good life. Pan met a young warrior who later turned out to be the son of King Bebi, King of the Tsufurujins. He was also related to Vegeta. The Tsufurujin prince, Yuko, his mother ,Sera, was the sister of King Vegeta, Vegeta's father. After a while Pan began to have feelings for him and soon Yuko for her. Pan became pregnant at the age of 28. Yuko died soon after due to unknown causes. Pan had a son and raised her son with the help of her parents. Her son,

Neko, died five years ago with his wife in an airplane crash. Pan still regrets never teaching her son to fly. Maybe then

they could have survived.

But these thoughts are depressing her. Today has been an amazing day; for Pan has seen her grandfather again. Goku had shown

himself to her, if only for a few seconds. At least he came back. Pan always knew he would come back.

The cheer of the crowd brings Pan's attention back to the match as Pan watches the announcer declare Vegeta Jr. as the winner.

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"Ah cheer up sport," replies Pan as she hugs her grandson, Goku Jr. "Second place isn't all that bad. Besides, the prize money is

at least 50,000."

Goku Jr. manages to press a smile. "I know grandma. I just wish I trained a little bit more. Maybe then I could have won."

"Don't worry champ. There is always next year." replies Pan as she and her grandson walk toward the hover car. "How about

we eat out tonight? I think you earned it."

"Are we going to stay and watch the adult matches?" asks Goku Jr. hopefully, glancing back towards the arena.

"Hmm. Why not? Maybe you can pick up some new techniques watching other fighters." replies Pan with a wink.

Goku Jr. smiles and is about to respond but then a low yet sinister voices breaks into the conversion.

"Hey!" replies Vegeta Jr. as he walks up to the two. "How did you make your hair go gold like mine? Answer me!"

"Vegeta Jr.! Stop being so rude!" replies Bikini as she matches up to her son and slaps his wrist. She then quickly turns to face

Pan and smiles. "Please excuse my son here. I try to teach him proper manners, but he can be so savage."

Pan smiles. "He's just like his great-grandfather."

Bikini's jaw drops and her eyes widen. "His great-grandfather? Are you telling me you knew my grandfather Vegeta?"

Pan smile widens. "Actually, I know a lot about your family. I was your Aunt Bra's best friend growing up. Did your father

Trunks ever tell you about the Saiya-jin?"

Bikini gasps. "You… oh my! You are Saiya-jin as well! Father told me about all of his adventures, especially the one into space.

Your name is… don't tell me... Pan right?"

Pan nods. "Yes I am."

Bikini squeals. "Oh my, this is so amazing! We must get a family get together or something? Where do you live? Will you come to

Capsule Corp. with us after the Budoukai is over?"

"I would love that." replies Pan as her and Bikini walk back up to the stadium to watch the adult fights, and talk. Goku Jr. follows

but is soon jerked back by Vegeta Jr. and is raised into the air.

"Listen to me, you low-class idiot. I can already tell my mom and your grandmother have become friends. However, it will not be

the same with us. I do not want your company, but so I wont suffer my mother's constant squabble, I will tolerate you.

Understood?"

Goku Jr. gulps at Vegeta Jr.`s threat. "Sure… no problem."

Vegeta Jr. smirks. "Good." He then drops Goku Jr. and goes up and sits beside his mother turning his attention to the fights. After

a few short moments, Goku Jr. does the same; only keeping his distance from Vegeta Jr.

"So tell me... how is Trunks? I haven't spoke to him in ages." Pan asks as they return to their seats

"Daddy passed away nearly ten years ago." Bikini says sadly. "He was a good man, but I cannot remember him ever being happy

for a long time. He said he had so many regrets in life and that he wished he had another chance to change his life. And I believe

he was serious about it, because he built a time machine. Finally completed it too, but he died shortly afterwards."

Pan gasps. "I didn't know he was dead."

"Aunt Bra is still around. She moved to South Island when I was a little girl. She never married."

Pan smiles. "Your Aunt Bra was a huge flirt. It doesn't surprise me that she never settled down."

The two laugh but soon Pan's smile drops. Pan turns her attention toward the arena. It is time for the adult matches. One of the

competitors steps into the ring. His chi is rife with the touch of evil. From the looks of it, Goku Jr. and Vegeta Jr. have sensed it as

well.

The figure has paled blue skin; giant yellow eyes, and spiky white hair; along with really bulging muscles, that show through his

black leather outfit. Pan is certain that if the man would smile, fangs would show. His hands look as if they have been

electronically enhanced. The announcer announces the figure as Malice.

"Grandma…" whispers Goku Jr. "I don't like this. His chi feels weird. I don't like it."

Pan nods. "I know. Lets hope his intentions are not evil."

Vegeta Jr. cracks his knuckles. "Finally, an power that I can fight to the fullest."

Bikini looks at them as if they are mad. Her father Trunks had tried to teach her how to read chi, but she never was able to;

therefore she is completely blind to this. "What's going on?"

"I am not sure yet. But I am having a bad feeling about that man." remarks Pan.

They all turn their attention to the fight. The match starts as the bell rings. The match is not even a minute long. The other warrior,

a somewhat strong human, keeps sending punches and kicks to the being named Malice. The figure, Malice, smiles and backhands

the human. In one swipe, the human's neck is broken.

The crowd gasps at the scene. Pan growls. The announcer shudders as he steps up to the pale hair warrior. "Mr. Malice…. I'm

sorry but you are now officially disqualified. The rules clearly state that you cannot kill…"

His sentence is cut short as Malice sends his hand through his chest. "Cannot kill… I don't care about the damn rules." smirks

Malice.

"I came here for life energy and I'll be damned if I am denied it." Malice yells.

The crowd is in an uproar as everybody tries to exit the arena at once. People are screaming at each other and are running over

all of the fallen ones; it's chaotic. And Malice is enjoying every second of it.

Malice appears in front of one of the exits. He sinks his teeth into the neck of one of the helpless humans. He absorbs all energy

and knowledge from the man. By his hands, he grabs two other people and through tiny holes in his palms, he sucks out their life

energy. All three fall to the ground dead; their bodies a pale gray.

From their spot on the arena, Pan, Goku Jr. and Vegeta Jr. lift off into the air. Gokou Jr. and Vegeta Jr. waste no time blasting

into Super Saiya-jin to save as many people as possible and defeat this lunatic.

Pan floats back down and grabs Bikini's hand and lifts her to safety outside the arena. During the confusion, nobody saw her lift

up in the air. Pan drops her off near a Capsule Corp. air car and replies, "Stay here. I'll go back and try to help the boys." She

then lifts off into the air.

"Wait!" screams Bikini. "Ah shoot! How come I'm always left behind when all the exciting stuff happens?"

Malice trades a few punches and kicks from both of the young Super Saiya-jins, who are both at their limits in power. Goku Jr. is

trying his best to keep up with Vegeta Jr. who is considerably stronger. In the furious volley of punches, one stray fist hits Gokou

Jr. dead on and sends him flying into the nearest wall. In a few seconds, Vegeta Jr. joins him. Malice raises his hands to throw a

chi blast, which will kill both.

"Leave my grandson alone!" screams Pan as she fires a Kamehameha at Malice. It strikes him in his back, but he is not harmed.

He looks up and smirks. "So, this old biddy has some high chi energy. I shall love absorbing the energy out of you!" replies Malice

as he vanishes from sight.

Pan tries her best to track his fast moving chi, but is unable to pin it down. Maybe if she was younger, maybe. But she is weak

and old; a perfect victim for Malice. She doesn't even have the time to defend herself as Malice appears in front of her and grabs

her wrists. Her body starts glowing the deathly pale color. Her eyes go blank and her skin goes into the gray pale color. Malice

drops her dead body to the ground, holding his head in amazement.

"Amazing. She was a Saiya-jin. Back on my home planet I remember hearing stories about that there were a few Saiya-jin that

survived Plant Vegeta's explosion. For the information I absorbed from her, she was the granddaughter of one of them. She had romantic feelings for a Tsufurujin who I thought was wiped out by the Saiyans. Yukotylia is the man's name." Malice

speaks to himself as he continues to look through the memories he received from the elderly Pan when he absorbed her life

energy. It includes all her memories of love, heartache and of all of her adventures. It includes the knowledge of Dragon Balls.

His history lesson is cut short by a solid punch to the face by an enraged Goku Jr. whose chi level raised along with his anger

pushing the young child into Ascended Saiya-jin. "You monster! That was my grandmother! She was the only family I had left!

And you killed her!"

Malice grins as he whips the little drop of blood from his nose. "You don't have to worry for much longer, kid. You will soon join

her in the other world!"

Malice throws a series of combo's at Goku Jr. He blocks each one; but he knows that he will be severely bruised at the end, if he

even lives. I think he's going easy on me! He hasn't even broken a sweat!

Vegeta Jr. rejoins the fight as he sneaks from behind and delivers a kick to the back of Malice's head. Malice seems unfazed by it

as he continues to throw combos at Goku Jr. This enrages Vegeta Jr.

"Nobody ignores me! No one!" he screams as he pushes Goku Jr. out of the way and throws his assault against Malice.

"So you want to die first, little Saiya-jin?" teases Malice. "Be my guest!" Malice screams as he slams his fist into Vegeta Jr.'s

chest. The sound of breaking bones can be heard.

Vegeta Jr. grabs his chest as he falls from the sky. He lands rather hard onto the fighting arena with a loud crunch; the sound of

some of his ribs shattering.

Goku Jr. growls as he soars back to Malice to continue his act of revenge. Vegeta Jr. may have not have been very nice to him

since they met only a few hours later, but at least together they may have had a chance at winning.

Bikini, who had snuck back into the arena, watched as her son tried his best to sit up despite the broken ribs. Ignoring the pleads

from her security guards, who were guarding her air car earlier, Bikini rushes up to her fallen son.

"Oh my! VJ! Are you okay, honey?" Bikini asks cradling her son in her arms.

"Mother, you must get away. That beast has already killed your new friend Pan. I don't want to lose you…"

"WHAT!" screams Bikini. Rage washes over her beautiful face. "How dare he! She was only an old lady! She was my friend!

You monster!" Bikini screams.

Malice elbows Goku Jr. to the ground. He turns and smirks toward Bikini. He lowers his body toward the ground and walks

toward her. The anger that was spread over Bikini's face a few seconds early disappears and now is replaced by fear.

"NO!" Bikini screams. "Leave my son alone!"

Malice's smirk widens. "It's not him I'm interested in at the moment."

Bikini's face widen with fear and disgust at what Malice hinted at. He grabs Bikini and lifts her up. He licks his lips as he trails

one hand around the edges of her skirt. Bikini growls and sends her knee to Malice's unprotected area.

Malice grunts as he leans over in pain. "Cheap shot whore! I was going to have a little fun with you, but thanks to that, I'm just

going to have to kill you anyways." Malice grabs Bikini by her sides and sinks his teeth into her neck. Bikini's screams of protest

die down and her eyes go blank. Soon her skin turns into the pale gray color as she too, joins Pan in the after life.

"MOTHER!" screams Vegeta Jr. His chi level rises along with his anger. The pain in his chest becomes nothing more than a

numb now. He now joins Goku Jr. in the level of Ascended Saiya-jin.

He rushes toward Malice with all of his energy betting on this final punch. Everything appears to be moving in slow motion as he

sends his chi-powered punch at Malice. Malice smirks as he slaps Vegeta Jr.'s fist away and throws his own punch, barely half of

his true power, at Vegeta Jr. In less than a second, Vegeta Jr. falls dead at Malice's feet from a broken neck.

Goku Jr. pulls himself from the ground and drops down into a fighting stance. This monster has taken everything from him. His

grandmother, his new friends; along with many other innocent lives. He will pay!

"YOU WILL PAY!" Goku Jr. screams as he too rushes at Malice full force in the Ascended form.

Malice blocks every punch and kick with ease. He then turns the tide and begins attacking Goku Jr. mercilessly. Goku Jr. passes

out due to the attack and Malice drops him down to the ground.

"I'll save you for later. Right now, I have a whole city full of energy I can absorb. Be back in a few." he tells the unconscious

boy.

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Far away, in the woods, beneath the water Son Goku jerks. He was in the middle of catching a fish; one of the same ways he did

before he met Bulma or Chichi over a hundred years ago. It only took him a second to realize something wrong has happened on

Earth. Something extremely wrong; that jeopardizes the safety of the planet.

As Goku crawls out of the lake and retrieves his clothes from the shore he curses Shenron. "Damn it Shenron! You had said that

if I merged with the Dragon Balls, no more evil would come to Earth. What is the meaning of all this?"

A voice comes to Gokou threw his mind; the voice of Shenron, the dragon of Earth's Dragon Balls.

What I promised and what you believe are too different things Goku. Nothing is forever, not even the Dragon Balls. Not

you. Not life.

"Not even life? What are you hinting at?" Goku asks.

Something not I can even stop. Not even Porunga can stop the events that are about to happen. It's best if you let things

flow the way they are.

Goku growls. "It's my duty to protect the Earth! I gave my life away for it! And now you are telling me to let this evil destroy

Earth! I don't think so!"

It's not just Earth that is threatened. It's all life in the universe. But this must be carried through. If not an evil more

powerful than anything, even your level 4 of Super Saiya-jin cannot stop him. IF things continue the way they are, it's a

good chance that in the past, he will be killed before he becomes a threat. And besides… this will give you another

chance to be with your family; a way to make up for all those lost years.

Goku sighs. "Fine. I can't argue with you. But can you at least tell me why?"

Even I am ignorant to some things.

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Goku Jr. slowly crawls back to consciousness. He tries to get up to look around, but he finds it difficult to do so. "Damn. I hurt like

hell." he replies as he manages to turn on his back. He looks up in the sky and notices that it is dark.

Pitch black.

Not even a star is in the sky.

His mind wonders back to the events earlier. He can't believe that his grandmother is dead; his only remaining family. And he

completely failed to avenge her. "What kind of warrior am I?"

"A doomed one." replies the dark voice of Malice, who emerges from the shadows.

Goku Jr. growls; it is a growl full of hatred. He turns his head to the other side so he won't have to look at the face of this

murderer.

Malice walks up and stands above the young warrior. Goku Jr. looks up at the figure with blood running out of his mouth. The

figure smiles down at the young warrior. He gently sits down next to Goku Jr.'s body.

"Well, my Saiya-jin friend… I have beaten you and your other Saiya-jin friend," the figure points to the lifeless body of Vegeta Jr.,

"and believe me when I say this, I don't spare anyone. Now be a good little Saiya-jin and tell me everything you can about the

Dragon Balls? I got what I could from your grandmother, but I believe there is more to learn."

Goku Jr. gasps for air. This monster, somehow, is far stronger, probably stronger than his great-grandfather Gohan was. His

power is unbelievable. Goku Jr. had trained non-stop for this tournament. Never in his wildest dreams did he think that he would

ever have to face such power. Yes, he was trained, but what good is it, when you never had a reason to fight, until now? Now the

whole city is wiped out, thanks to this… this…

"Who are you?" Goku Jr. demands through gasps for air. The figure cracks his knuckles and draws his fist back. The blow sends

Goku Jr. soaring through the air. He smashes against and threw the wall of the arena. He hacks up blood and it splashes onto the

floor. Every single one of his ribs must be broken now; all twenty-four of them.

"My name little one… is Malice. My own people have exiled me when I attempted to gain control of our kingdom over fifty years

ago. I was not strong enough to beat the kingdom's champion. So I made it my mission to travel all over the universe to acquire

the energy I needed to redeem myself to our elder. I didn't expect to get much energy from this planet, but it was sure worth the

pit stop." Malice's evil laughter carries threw out the cloudless sky.

"Fifty years ago?" Goku Jr. repeats as the blood pours out of his mouth.

"My people age very slowly. I am at least 105 years old by Earth years."

Goku Jr. turns over so he can now see the bodies of his grandmother Pan. She seems so peaceful. Malice had drained her body of

all its energy. But even if he didn't she would have died soon from old age. Maybe now she can find true peace, for she never

truly had peace to the soul while she was alive, for she and her true soul mate never got together.

Bikini, the woman who is the mother of Vegeta Jr., lies dead. Vegeta Jr., the opponent Goku Jr. was facing in the Tournament is

dead as well due to a broken neck. Everyone in the whole arena, the entire city even, is probably dead. Goku Jr. expands what of

his chi that is left to try to detect any other chi in the city, the world. His eyes widen once he realizes that there are none to be

found.

Goku Jr. is the only survivor.

Goku Jr. tries to hold back the tears but they come freely now. Malice watches the young warrior cry. He then walks up and

stands on Goku's chest plate. "You little beast, before you die tell me about the mysterious of the Dragon Balls, and where I can

find them."

Goku Jr. spits up more blood and smiles. He really doesn't know anything about Dragon Balls despite the information his

grandmother Pan gave him. "I don't know anything... and even If I did, I rather die than tell you." Malice growls between his

teeth, and lugs Goku Jr. up in the air, looking the younger boy directly in his face.

"You lie."

Goku Jr. smiles again. "A Son never lies."

Malice screams in rage and punches Goku Jr. in his chest; causing yet more internal damage; as if it matters at this stage - his

death from his injuries is inevitable.

"The only way… way you can get the Dragon Balls now… is time travel. Too bad it's only fiction…" he replies in his dying

breaths.

Malice smiles. "Time travel. That's not entirely fiction, my boy. Not entirely at all." He drops the boy onto the ground and walks to

a door that leads to a basement of Capsule Corp. "You see boy, when I absorbed the energy of the blue-haired woman, I also

gained her memories. That's how I learned about the Dragon Balls from your grandmother. I know that I can find the Dragon

Balls with the help of a little robot named Giru, but I destroyed him accidentally. I found what remained of him after I blew away a

few of the Capsule cars that Capsule Corp. owned. That woman, Briefs Bikini's father, built a time machine based on his mother

Bulma's blue prints. Your fiction is my reality."

Malice notices the shock of terror across Goku Jr.'s face. It makes his smile grow wider.

"While you were unconscious, I have come up with an amazing plan. All I have to do, is use this time machine, go back to the past

and get the little robot, and find the Dragon Balls and make my wish of being more powerful than any of my kin men and then

return to this time and overthrow the known universe."

Malice lifts Goku Jr. over his shoulder. "Come on, boy. We're going to Capsule Corp." Malice lifts off into the air and heads

toward West Capital City. Once he does Malice flies over the city looking for the towering building named Capsule Corp. Once he

arrives he blasts the entrance open with a chi blast. He opens an undamaged door labeled "THE LAB, AUTHORIZED

PERSONELL ONLY, and walks into the laboratory after dropping Goku Jr. on the ground. Goku Jr. tries to crawl toward the

door. He succeeds and crawls down the steps to see Malice opening closets and doors looking for the so-called time machine.

Goku Jr.'s vision goes blurry. He knows his time is almost up.

"Hah! Success! I have found the time capsule!" screams Malice. He presses the button on top of the capsule and throws it to the

ground. After the smoke clears he steps up to the machine and open's the hatch. He climbs inside and starts typing away.

"One hundred years back in time shouldn't hurt. And I'll just return the same day I left, meaning today." he tells himself as he

begins typing in the coordinates that he learned from Bikini's mind. His ability to read people's memories is a magnificent one, but

it isn't permanent. He wants to make sure everything is right before all of the memories of the people he absorbed disappear.

Goku Jr. gathers his last remaining chi energy and fires a blast at the time machine. It strikes the main computer board, and smoke

starts erupting everywhere.

"NO! Blast you! Look what you have done!" Malice sends a chi blast at Goku Jr. It hurls through his chest and the last

descendant of the Son bloodline dies.

The time capsule starts to spin. Malice curses at his luck. The time capsule rises up into the air. Blinding light erupts and can be

seen throughout the sky over the Western Capital. That is, it could be seen if any of its residents were still alive. A vortex opens

and swallows the time capsule. The time counter starts counting up to one hundred and stops. The time capsule disappears within

the vortex, and Malice's cursing can be heard echoing throughout the time stream.

At this moment a figure lands in the yard of Capsule Corp. Son Goku, the Legendary Super Saiy-jin. He should have prevented

this, but the dragon Shenron told him to let events carry on. Better things can only happen from this mess. A century of peace has

ended and a great evil has slaughtered millions. Not only that, the evil killed Son Goku's granddaughter, Pan. No one messes with

family.

No one.

Goku walks into the Capsule Corp compound. Today Capsule Corp was closed. Bikini wanted to enjoy Vegeta Jr.'s first

tournament. She never imagined what a disaster was going to happen. He kneels down to the body of his great-great grandchild,

Goku Jr. He clenches his fists in anger. No one messes with family.

No one.

Goku stands up and notices the dark sky glowing red, blue and then purple. He looks at his hands and notices them beginning to

fade away. As if he was being…erased. Goku smiles, now knowing what is happening. It is not a good thing, nor is it bad.

"Chichi, Gohan, Goten, my dearest granddaughter Pan, I'll be with you all very soon. Back in the past."

And with those words spoken Son Goku disappears.

This time, as life knew it, cease to exist. Buildings; automobiles and eventually the entire Earth, space, Heaven and Hell disappear.

Time has been completely rewritten in the past thanks to Malice's interference with the time stream. Unlike with the actions of

Mirai Trunks, this time around, the time line has changed. History has been rewritten, and it is up to the warriors of 100 years

earlier: Vegeta, Trunks, Yuko, Pan, Gohan, Goten and Uubu to defend the Earth against Malice's reign of terror.

It has begun.