Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Wish For The Past ❯ Important Author Explanation ( Chapter 25 )

Next chapter I will be taking a very large departure from the Dragonball timeline. In order to avoid confusion, I am explaining the necessary differences here. I do not know Dragonball nearly so well as I know Dragonball Z! I'm a poor dubbie victim, and the bakas at FUNImation are slow in releasing new episodes. My knowledge of Dragonball ends where they left off in the second search for the dragonballs and the fight against the Red Ribbon Army. Even that knowledge is sketchy because I haven't been watching the reruns for a while. You may inform me of any mistakes I've made, but I may very well just conveniently ignore you. ^_^

I realized that I would need to depart from the timeline for two reasons. One was that it would make things more interesting. The other was that things would become very messed up if I didn't. Imagine if Bardock and the gang get Goku's four star dragonball before Bulma ever meets him. That dragonball is the only reason she ever meets up with him in the first place. Once the wish was made, the dragonballs would scatter all over the Earth. Goku would be unable to retrieve his beloved "grandpa Gohan" because he would need the Dragon Radar (which he doesn't even know exists) and he would never have a radar without meeting Bulma, who would never meet him because he had no dragonball. I'm going in circles now, aren't I? *grins* Anyway, you see the dilemma. Changes were in order, and so I changed a few things to make it more convenient for me. ^_^

Ages of important people in the past:
Goten- 8
Trunks- 9
Vegeta- 10
Radditz- 15
Bardock- 33
Bulma- 11
Yamcha- 12
Goku- 7
Krillen- 8
Chi-Chi- 7
Master Roshi- No one knows anyway, but he's still a perverted old geezer.
If there's anyone else that appears, I'll give their age in the chapter they appear in.

Important information about various characters/events.
The rest of this story that happens on the Earth of the past will occur immediately after Goku lost in the Tenkaichi Budokai to Jackie Chun. Goku has gone off in search of the four star dragonball. Yamcha and Bulma are not boyfriend and girlfriend. Just friends. Krillen has rejoined Master Roshi and is currently training with him.

Bulma: Even though she's only 11, she still tries to be as beautiful as possible and ogles men. Instead of trying to wish for the 'perfect boyfriend', however, she only wanted the 'perfect friend'. Seeing as how Oolong used the wish to get a pair of panties, she settled instead for Yamcha. She may be young, but she is still a genius capable of inventing many things, including the Dragon Radar and hoi poi capsules. Other than that, same old temper and personality (though I might change her just a little bit due to the fact that she is younger.) Be warned: I don't have much experience with 11 year old girls, so even though she's 11, I based her personality off her 16 year old self. Meaning, she acts older than she is.

The Red Ribbon Army will not appear in this story.

Yes, Chi-Chi is still quite intent on someday marrying Goku.

I'm going to consider Goku and Goten to be exactly identical, despite the 1 year age difference.

The dragonballs will not be in the same places that they were in the second dragonball hunt of the Dragonball series.

I may think of something else later, but for now, assume that everyone and everything else is the same as always. It all just happened when they were younger.

That's it for now! Ja!