Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Chosen One ❯ Chapter Seven ( Chapter 7 )

Chapter Seven

"Hello. It's been a while."

"Who is that?" Dende asked, nonplused. Yamcha, Tien, and Siber knew no more than Earth's guardian, but Vegeta had been rendered speechless, Bulma had fainted, Gohan's eyes had gone extremely wide, and Krillin had turned as white as a sheet.

"What?!" Piccolo exclaimed. "No way! Impossible! It's . . . Raditz!!"

"So you remember me, green man," Raditz responded.

"Raditz, you wimp, haven't I taught you anything?" Vegeta yelled. "This 'green man' is from the planet Namek! You didn't realize that?"

***

"What the . . . ? Is that you, Vegeta?" Raditz was as surprised as the space travelers to find his prince still alive. He turned to Goku. "Kakarot! Why didn't you tell me Vegeta was still alive?"

Goku shrugged. "I thought you knew. I mean, you've never seen him in the afterlife, have you?"

"Kakarot, I was a prisoner for years!" Raditz exclaimed. "Prisoners hear no news!"

"Well, be that as it may," King Kai interrupted, "you need to get on with your message! This isn't a collect call, got it?"

Raditz glared at King Kai, but he went on with his message anyway. "Listen to me. I know what is going on, and it sounds like you need some extra manpower. You need to wish me back with the Dragon Balls!"

***

"Say WHAT?" Krillin exclaimed. "Are you nuts?!"

"Quiet!" Vegeta yelled at Krillin. "Let me speak to Raditz!" He stood straight and cleared his throat. "Listen, Raditz, because I'm only going to say this once. The Dragon Balls of the planet Earth can revive a person, but if and only if he or she had died within one year of the wish. The only way we can revive you is if we used the Dragon Balls of the planet Namek, but we can't use those for another one hundred fifty days."

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"I have an idea," King Kai said. "Why don't you have Shenron reactivate the Namekian Dragon Balls?"

***

"Of course!" Vegeta exclaimed. "Why didn't I think of that?"

"Let's see . . . because you have the I/Q of a fish?" Android 17 responded.

"If I have the I/Q of a fish, then your I/Q is negative!" Vegeta shot back.

"If you're done insulting each other, maybe we can actually produce a plan!" Piccolo shouted at them.

Eight days later . . .

"SPEAK, YOU WHO HAVE SUMMONED ME!" Shenron proclaimed. "I WILL GRANT YOU ANY TWO WISHES THAT YOU DESIRE."

"Um. . . . Can you give us unlimited fuel for our spaceship?" Bulma shouted.

Shenron's eyes glowed for a moment. "IT IS DONE. YOUR SPACESHIP NOW HAS UNLIMITED FUEL. WHAT IS YOUR SECOND WISH?"

"Any ideas?" Bulma asked. No one answered. However, Gohan stood, thinking. Suddenly, he had an idea.

"Please transport us and our spaceship to the planet Yardrat!" Gohan shouted. Everybody turned to look at him in surprise. "Well, you see," Gohan explained, "I figured since we wished King Kai, Bubbles, and Gregory back, along with their tiny planet, a few of us could go to receive his training." Right then, everybody disappeared.

***

"Dad! Can you hear me?" Gohan called.

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"Goku!" King Kai called. "Your son wants to speak to you!" Goku, who was finishing up the dim sum, came out and placed his hand on King Kai's shoulder. "Gohan? What is it?"

***

"Dad!" Gohan called. "I need you to power up to your maximum so I can teleport to King Kai's planet! You see, we went to the planet Yardrat and I learned Instant Transmission, and I want to train under King Kai!"

***

"Whoa! Hang on a minute!" Goku exclaimed. "Not so fast! You need to receive permission from King Yemma!"

"Goku, I have already taken care if it!" King Kai responded. "I knew Gohan was learning Instant Transmission to come here, so I got King Yemma to let him come!"

"Well, all right," Goku said. He lifted his hand from King Kai's shoulder. "Guys, you need to stand back." When King Kai, Bubbles and Gregory were safely away, Goku began to power up. He had just reached his maximum when Gohan suddenly appeared. The next thing he knew, Gohan had tackled him so hard that he got knocked back several feet.

Goku got up, laughing. "Well, it was a good thing I was at my maximum, or I would have actually gotten hurt."

King Kai walked over. "Welcome, Gohan. I see you're quite the party crasher . . . heh heh!"

Gohan got up and brushed himself off. "I'm sorry, did you just say something?" he asked.

"Hmph! So you wanna train under me, huh? All right, make me laugh, and you're in!"

Gohan's reaction was exactly like his father's had been: "Wha?"

"Heh! You must be pretty tense!" King Kai said. "Take it easy! A bad delivery can ruin a good joke!"

Gohan crossed his arms and thought for a moment. "Umm . . . why . . . was six afraid of seven? Cause . . . seven-eight-nine!" He delivered the joke in the exact same fashion that his father had delivered his first joke.

"Nope," King Kai responded. "Bad delivery." Then, he attempted to stifle a laugh.

Gohan smirked. "Because . . . seven-eight-NINE!!" King Kai began to attempt to stifle a laughing fit.

"Didja hear about the butcher who backed up into the meat grinder? He got a little BEHIND in his work!" It was too much for King Kai, and he could no longer stifle his laughter.

"Joe's mama is so fat, when she steps on a scale, it reads, 'To be continued!'" King Kai could take it no more, and he began to roll around in laughter.

"What are you talkin' about?" Gohan began in a flawless impersonation of John F. Kennedy. "Nothin' bad eva happens to the Kennedys!" This one even got Goku to laugh, let alone King Kai.

***

"Ahem! So," King Kai said. "Well, you certainly passed with flying colors! Now, for the first task . . . Oh, Bubbles!" A monkey ran out of the house and up to King Kai. "Okay, your first task is to catch Bubbles here."

Gohan stared. "Uh, you're joking, right? Well, to be fair, I think I'll give Bubbles a ten-second head start."

"Well, do as you wish," King Kai responded. "Okay, Bubbles, go!" Bubbles tore away from where King Kai was standing. Gohan counted down, then disappeared. A second later, he reappeared, holding Bubbles.

"Okay, now could we please stop monkeying around?" Gohan remarked (King Kai began cracking up). "I need to hurry."

"Okay. Now . . . Gregory!" Suddenly, a blue sphere burst forth from King Kai's house. It whizzed around Gohan, then stopped. The sphere dissipated and Gohan saw a grasshopper. King Kai grabbed a hammer.

"Okay . . . now what?" Gohan asked. "Am I supposed to hit the grasshopper with the hammer?"

"Hey! I have a name, you know!" Gregory exclaimed. "How rude!"

King Kai tossed the hammer to Gohan, who caught it in one hand. "This is going to be easier than taking candy from a baby."

"Don't be so cocky!" Gregory exclaimed. "I'm much faster than I look!"

"Well, in that case, I'll give you a five-second head start instead of ten," Gohan responded.

"I'll show you!" Gregory powered up and whizzed right by Gohan. Gohan counted down, then disappeared. He reappeared right in front of Gregory, and "lightly" tapped him on the head with the hammer.

"Checkmate," Gohan remarked. "Now that wasn't so bad, was it?"

"Are you kidding?" Gregory exclaimed. "My body has been super-conditioned, silly! There's no way you could hurt me with that hammer!"

"Oh, yeah?" Gohan responded. "Then what's that on your head?"

Gregory felt his head and found a lump. "Ack! Why . . . you . . . !"

"All right!" Goku exclaimed. "It looks like you're ready!"