Pokemon Fan Fiction / Pokemon Fan Fiction / Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Stranded ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 6 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]
Chapter 6

Gohan, Ash, Misty and Brock continued on their journey. Everyone had been in better moods than they were earlier. Ash and Misty were arguing like usual, but not as loud as the day before. Gohan had begun to see this as normal behaviour for those two. Gohan and Brock were discussing the route they were going to take when something caught Gohan's attention.

Gohan stopped and turned around, facing the direction they just came from, causing the others to do the same.

Gohan felt a familiar ki. He could also tell it was being supressed. Gohan kept hisown supressed in order to keep himself from hurting others, and in case of the odd chance that someone else in this dimension could sense ki and discover his power.

"What is it, Gohan?" Ash asked apprehensively.

"Someone's coming..." Gohan said in a low voice.

A minute later a loud noise filled the area as it was followed by a small, one person Capsule Corp jet. It landed in an open area 100 feet back along the path. Gohan smiled and laughed as he realized who it was before he even got out of the jet.

Gohan saw the man walking towards them and Gohan ran over to him. "Kuririn!" he yelled as he stopped in front of the short monk.

"Hey Gohan! Long time no see!" Kuririn responded with much the same enthusiasm. Kuririn took a deep breath and put his hands on his hips as he usually did to make himself look bigger. "Looks like you've been taking care of yourself." He said with a grin.

Gohan nodded. "Yep!" he responded. "How's Marron doing?" he asked, curious.

Kuririn started looking embarressed and sad. "She dumped me a few days ago." he sighed.

Gohan turned around to face Ash and the others. "Do you mind if we talk privately for a minute?"

"Sure." replied Misty looking rather curious. The three of them walked a short distance away so they wouldn't be able to hear the conversation between Gohan and Kuririn.

"How'd you get here?" Gohan asked Kuririn.

"Bulma made a machine that could open a portal here." Kuririn answered. "Don't get your hopes up. The machine is broken and it will be a while before it is fixed. Even if it was in working order, they can only transport one person at a time."

"Oh." Gohan responded. "I promised to do some favors for someone, and it wouldn't be right to leave before they're done, anyways."

"Would you think they would mind if I joined you guys?" Kuririn asked. "The only reason I'm here is to find you."

Gohan thought for a moment. "I would have to ask them, but I don't think it'd be a problem. Just don't mention that we are from another dimension, or about the fact I'm a saiya-jinn or whatever. I never told them."

Gohan and Kuririn walked over to Ash, Misty and Brock. "My friends here are Ash, Misty and Brock. Guys, this is Kuririn. He's a friend of my dad. They used to train together."

Ash, Misty and Brock were rather surprised. "He's hardly taller than you are, Gohan." Ash blurted out.

Kuririn looked a little annoyed. "His father and I were the same size when we began training. He grew, but I didn't."

Ash, Misty and Brock seemed to understand. Gohan decided to ask them about Kuririn. "Do you guys mind if he came with us? He was here to pick me up and take me home, but I promised Professor Oak I would help you guys, and he doesn't have anything else to do."

"I can't think of a reason why not." Misty replied. Ash and Brock nodded in agreement.

Kuririn walked back to his jet and pressed the button to turn it back into a capsule. Kuririrn went back to the group and he noticed Ash's Pikachu and Misty's Togepi. "I've never seen animals like those before." kuririn commented and pointed at them.

Ash smiled. "They're pokemon. This one's Pikachu, and the other's Togepi."

"Ah...Okay." replied Kuririn, scratching his head.

"They train them, and they fight them against one another." explained Gohan.

Kuririn thought for a moment. "That seems kind of silly to me." Gohan laughed at that comment while Ash, Brock and Misty felt somewhat embarrassed.


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(DBZ Dimension)

Bulma wasn't completely sure why the portal generator failed. The data she was reviewing from the portal test with Kuririn made little sense when it was compared with the calculations she and her collegues programmed into it.

After an hour of reviewing the data, she decided to check out if there were any mistakes with the calcuations. She hooked up the hard drives used in the machine and searched through the mathematics and found a file that seemed out of place. She called a programmer over to examine the file.

"How did that get there?" asked the programmer.

"I'm not sure, why?" replied Bulma.

The programmer was scrolling throught the programming code. "It's a computer virus. It turned off the cooling system and caused the CPUs to overheat."

Bulma thought for a moment. "What triggered the virus?" she asked.

The programmer was busy disecting the program. "I believe it went into effect when we were going through the start-up cycle to send someone through. This virus was designed specifically for this machine. It wasn't made by a professional hacker, however. If it was, Kuririn wouldn't have gone through and survived."

Bulma was glad they finally found out what went wrong. A question entered her mind. "Any idea who designed the virus?"

The programmer stopped at a comment in the program. "Here it is. It was made by someone called 'Dr. Gero'."

Bulma thought for a moment. "That name sounds familiar." she muttered. She saw it was getting dark and that most of the work that needed to be done was taken care of, so she decided to get rest for the next day of getting the machine to work.


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(Pokemon Dimension)

They were setting up camp again for the night. This time, there was a big enough clearing that Gohan and Kuririn used their capsule houses. Ash, Brock and Misty took one house, while Gohan and Kuririn took the other.

Gohan and Kuririn were sittng at the dining table of their capsule house talking about little things. "So, what happened exactly when you came here?" Kuririn asked.

Gohan recollect the events of the past week to Kuririn. "then we were walking down the road when you landed."

Kuririn nodded and started thinking quietly. "It looks like you knew what you were doing." Kuririn commented.

"Yeah," Gohan said quietly, almost to himself. "I decided not to tell Ash and them about us being from a different dimension. It would be too awkward."

"That was good thinking." agreed Kuririn. "I do think that the Professor Oak you told me about did seem to be a better choice of someone to talk to."

Kuririn pulled out a small device. "I'm going to tell the people that I found you and you are safe." Kuririn pressed a button and they heard another voice from the other end.

"Hello there, Kuririn. Bulma is asleep so I will take your progress report." said the voice. Kuririn and the voice exchanged information about Gohan and the project. "I think we may have the machine fixed in a few days." the voice finished.

"Ok, thanks for the update." Kuririn answered as he put away the device.

Gohan and Kuririn sat there quietly for a while, then they decided it would be a good time to go to call it a night and went to sleep.

The next morning, Kuririn got another call on the communicator while they were having breakfast. "Hello", Kuririn said into it lazily.

Bulma's voice answered him, "We have a major crisis here!" she yelled at Kuririn, with distress in her voice.

"Oh really," Kuririn replied jokingly. "Are you out of your makeup or something?"

"NO!" she screamed back at him. "Piccolo left a few minutes ago, saying that Frieza is heading towards earth!"

(end of Chapter 6)