A/N: Well time for the 8 months between the Dragon Ball hunt and the 21st WMAT. This chapter will include Dr. Briefs interactions with Goku, a good bit of fluff, training, and more fluff. Goku is going to grow a little more this chapter. But he won't grow again until during the three year trip after RRA saga. Also this chapter will go far more into depth about Goku's biology and what else the wish did to him. Also more on The Pod! What secrets could Goku's transport to Earth hold? We'll even have a few of Dr. Briefs' experiments on Goku. All humane of course. No torture. Just science. I don't do that extremely dark stuff. Anyways...On with the show, err story!

Disclaimer: I'm running out of things to put here. I don't own it.

Goku 13 5' 4.5" Roshi 320 5' 5"

Bulma 17 5' 5" Krillin 14 2' 3"

Dr. Briefs 50 5' 1" Launch 20 5' 8"

Mrs. Briefs 42 5' 8"

Science and Turtle's Teachings

Dr. Briefs and his wife walk into the main room to welcome their daughter home. "Welcome home dear. Who are these two with you? Friends?" Dr. Briefs asked while looking from his daughter to her companions. "The short pig is Oolong." Bulma says while waving her hand at Oolong. She grabs Goku's hand and leans against him. "And this is my boyfriend, Goku." She says with a smile. "So this is him huh? Other than that fur around his waist, which I'm guessing is his tail, he looks completely human. More muscular than most but if he hid his tail then I wouldn't believe that he was from a different race. It's incredible. Tell me what's the earliest thing you remember? How quickly do you usually heal? Can you lift things with your tail?" "Dad stop!" Bulma says, interrupting her father's questioning. "We just got here. We're hungry and tired and I need a bath. I'm sure Goku would like to take a bath too. He can answers your questions later and only if he wants to." "I apologize for that Goku. Sometimes my curiosity gets the better of me. Come along. We'll get you settled in." Dr. Briefs says while guiding them inside. "Goku's stuff goes to my room." Bulma tells the servants. "Now see here." Dr. Briefs starts only to be interrupted by Bulma. "I'm not letting him sleep in a room by himself so that he wakes up in one of your machines." "I would never!" the doctor says indignantly. "Just like you didn't vivisect that talking pterodactyl?" "It was a talking pterodactyl!" he argues, as if it would explain everything. "It didn't even look human." "How about the time you tried to scale that poor mermaid? She was terrified!" "I was just making sure she was an actual mermaid. I wasn't going to do it." he says unconvincingly. "Then there was the time you wanted to dissect King Furry to see how large his brain is." "It was a valid question. He's supposed to rule the world." "That's why you can't just dissect him." Bulma deadpans. "But- Fine you win." he concedes. "I'll have another dresser and wardrobe sent to your room." "Don't worry about a bed. We've been sleeping in the same bed for a little while. Nothing's happened." "Very well. You three go take care of what you need to so that we can eat. Afterwards, I'd like to ask a few questions if that's okay with you Goku." "Sure. Bulma said you'd want to know as much as you could about me." Goku says before they all walk off to bathe and get adjusted to their new home.

2 hours later

The occupants of Capsule Corp. now sit in the living room so that Dr. Briefs may ask Goku the questions that are plaguing his mind. Goku is sitting in a large chair with Bulma dozing off on his lap and his tail wrapped around her waist. Oolong went to explore the rest of the building, believing that he wouldn't understand the questions that the scientist asked. Dr. Briefs is sitting on the couch watching Goku and his daughter with intent curiosity. Mrs. Briefs bring in a tray of tea and sits it on the table in the middle of the room before sitting on the couch next to her husband. "My daughter seems fairly attached to you, Goku. It's nice to see her able to be so comfortable with you. If your ready, we can begin." Goku slightly readjusts Bulma so the they are both comfortable. Bulma smiles and buries her head in the crook of his neck. She had already fallen asleep, exhausted from the night before and flying all the way back home without rest. "Yeah, I'm ready. Just please in mind that I may not be able to answer all your questions." Goku answers. "I guess my first question would have to be: Why does your tail wrap around Bulma's waist like that?" Dr. Briefs begins. "I'm not really sure why it started at first. I'm not even sure when it started to to wrap itself around her. At first it was only her arm or leg while we were asleep. The first time it wrapped itself around her waist was on her last birthday when I showed her the Valley of Mystical Flame. She said she liked it so I don't stop my tail when it tries to wrap itself around her." Goku explained. "I see. Do you know if the rest of your race has tails?" "I would guess yes, since the recording from the pod that brought me here called me little monkey. It sounded derogatory. It wouldn't be much of an insult if I was the only one with a tail."

"Then maybe I can explain. I'm not sure if this is right since your an alien species, but monkeys on Earth will wrap their tails around each other as a form of comfort and in some instances dominance. I believe your body naturally does it as both. I've watched her interactions as well as your own with others. While you're more outgoing than I would've thought from someone who was raised in the wilderness, Bulma was raised here in the city and she seems to have grown more reserved in her actions when you're not around. I'm not even sure if she is aware of it, but she tries to position herself close to you whenever you two get too far apart in a room. She grows tense, yet the moment your tail wraps around her waist she relaxes almost immediately. Not only that, she looks to you whenever she goes to leave the room and, whether you know it or not, you usually smile at her when she doe so. I think if you weren't to smile then her subconsciousness would make it extremely difficult to leave the room. By human customs, you two have only been together for a couple of weeks. But as far as your instincts are concerned, the moment she accepted your tail being around her waist, she belonged to you." And so for the next few hours, the conversation continued in this manner.

Bulma woke up to hear her father and boyfriend chatting away about Goku's past. "So you plan to leave to finish your training with the this Roshi in a couple of months?" She hears her father ask. "Yeah. I'm leaving in two months. I'll be back as soon as he's finished teaching me what my grandfather didn't get the chance to. We figured it should only be five months at most. That will leave me with at least a month here before the next WMAT." Goku answers. "And after the tournament?" "I'll be here with Bulma waiting for the Dragon Balls to reactivate so that we can go find my grandfather's 4 star ball. After I find it, I don't really care what happens as long as I get to stay with Bulma." Bulma smiles when she hears Goku say this. She sits up in his lap and kisses him. "You can stay with me as long as you want." She says as she wraps her arms around his neck and lays her forehead against his shoulder. Dr. Briefs laughs and says, "Like I told you, you two may have acknowledged it a couple of weeks ago but as far as your instincts are concerned, you've been together for a few months." "That's fine by me." Bulma says as she stands up from Goku's lap and stretches. "It's still daytime so I'm going to change and you're going shopping with me. You need some clothes more appropriate for the city." She tells Goku as she walks off towards her room to change. "Are you wearing that?" she asks as she turns to look at Goku. Goku looks at what he's wearing to see that he's in a pair of black sweats and a black a-shirt. He shakes his head and moves to follow her. "They really are cute together, don't you think?" Mrs. Briefs asks her husband. "Yes. He's a rare person. Too bad there aren't more like him." Dr. Briefs answers.

"I'll change in the closet. No peeking." Bulma says as he walks into the closet and Goku goes to the wardrobe with his clothes. "So did you have a nice chat with Dad?" She asks from inside the closet. "Yeah. He wants to gather more data on me. He said the worst thing would be drawing some blood. Everything else would be scans and tests. He also wants to build me a training room that will scan and record everything while I'm working out. He wanted to do a MRI and a scan of my brainwaves tomorrow." Goku answers as he finishes changing into a dark green shirt and gray leather pants with a pair of black boots. "He's worried about whether the brainwashing is really gone. He's not one to just blindly believe in magic." Bulma says as she exits her closet changed into a white button up shirt with rolled sleeves, a pair of dark red pants and white sneakers. "Well let's get going."

The next morning

Bulma wakes up and notices that Goku is still asleep. She shakes his chest and puts her chin on his chest. "Time to wake up." She says while smiling up at him. Goku slowly opens his eyes and looks down at her. "Morning beautiful." He says smiling at her. "Morning." She replies with a light blush. "Come on. Dad likes to start his day early." The two get up and go through their morning routines. They meet back up in the dining room and find breakfast waiting. As they are eating Dr. Briefs enters the room and sits at the table. "Good morning you two. Are you ready for your tests Goku?" he says as he begins to eat. "Yes sir." "Please. If you must use a title then just doctor will do." "Okay." Goku says as he finishes eating. He sits and waits for Bulma and the doctor to finish breakfast.

30 minutes later

"So why is Goku going through all these tests?" Oolong asks, having joined them after breakfast. "He wants to know more about himself and hopefully some things about his people." Bulma says as they wait for Goku and Dr. Briefs to finish getting ready for the MRI. "We're ready." Dr. Briefs says as he walks into the viewing room. He goes to a small intercom and presses a button. "Goku, lay down on the table and we'll begin." Goku lays on a metal table with a large ring around it, attached to a rail underneath the table. Dr. Briefs starts the machine and examines as the data from the scans begins to show on the screens. He examines them closely, marveled at the similarities. "His heart is larger than a human's. Other than that, his organs are just like any other person in a fit physical condition. Switch to skeletal." Bulma presses a few keys and an image of Goku's bone structure appeared on screen. "His bone density is unbelievable. It's reading 8.7 g/cu. m. That's higher than steel! Look at his rib cage. It has a bone plate over the sternum. Switch to muscular quickly!" He says in an excited voice. Bulma presses a different set of keys and Goku's muscular structure appears. "The muscles are far more defined than a human in his condition would be. Magnify times one hundred. His muscle weave tells me his race is one that fights often. Whether from necessity or enjoyment I do not know, but his muscles are perfectly woven for extreme and prolonged combat. Muscle density reading is 7.6 g/cu. m. That's nearly the same as iron. Let's move to neurological. Bring up brainwaves as well." Bulma does so and her father stares at the screen in shock. "What is it dad?" Bulma asks. "His beta and delta waves are extremely high. Far higher than they should be." the scientist says. "This is going to require more tests, but the fluctuations that were there are gone now. That will be enough for this test. Let's move on to the next." He walks over to the intercom and turns it on. "You can get up now Goku. We'll be doing the strength and speed tests next."

Goku changes into a set of workout clothes that Dr. Briefs provided and walked into the room where the tests were set up. Before him was a treadmill with different machines connected to it and a group of large metal weights ranging in size from five hundred pounds to twenty-five hundred pounds all connected to a separate system of pulleys with a bar at the end. The bottoms of each weight were locked to the floor. Dr. Briefs, Bulma and Oolong were waiting just inside the door for him. "Okay these two tests will be simple. We'll do the strength test first. All you have to do is grab the bar connected to each weight and pull it forward until it clears a height of eighteen inches. After that the next weight will unlock and you'll be able to lift it. There are five weights: 500lbs, 1000lbs, 1500lbs, 2000lbs and 2500lbs. Any questions?" "What if I can't lift the next one?" "Then we'll add 100lbs to the last one you lifted until you can't lift that weight." "Okay that's the only question I had." "Then let's begin. Computer unlock the 500lb weight." A sound of metal grinding is heard as the lock holding the 500lb weight is released.

Goku walks up to the bar, grabs it with one hand and yanks forward. The weight is sent several feet into the air and the 1000lb weight immediately unlocks. He does the same to the 1000lb weight though it didn't lift but three feet off the ground, compared to the nearly ten feet for the last weight, but still enough to unlock the next one in line. Goku uses both hands on this weight walking forward until the weight was two and a half feet off the ground. "After hearing that he threw a car, I figured those three wouldn't be a problem. This next one should tell us more since it ways more than the car did." Dr. Briefs says as Goku gets ready to lift the one ton weight. He places his hand on the bar and steadily walks forward, lifting the weight two feet and letting it down once the last weight unlocks. He walks to the bar for the last weight and manages to lift it a foot off the ground. "That's good Goku." Dr. Briefs says and Goku drops the weight. "He's a monster." Oolong says, shocked that Goku was able to lift over a ton with only a small bit of exertion. Bulma wasn't as shocked since she watched him throw her car with her inside. "Let's move on to the speed test then we'll eat lunch and move on to the mental tests."

The speed test ended abruptly when Goku ran faster than the treadmill could handle. Dr. Briefs said that the test gave him enough for now and that he would build something to better handle high speeds. They ate lunch and moved to the intelligence test where Goku was capable of completing high school, due to Bulma's teaching. They are now about to begin a test to see why Goku's brainwaves are so high. "Dad, this is crazy." Bulma states while following her father. "Dear, it would be crazy if he was human, but he's from an alien race. There's no telling what they may be capable of. Simply because humans haven't had many interactions with psionic abilities doesn't make them impossible just rare. His beta and gamma waves should not be that high." Dr. Briefs lectures. "I've spent almost every moment of the last seven months with him. I think I would've noticed if he could move things with his mind." Bulma tells her father. "Maybe he can't. Maybe it's something else. We won't know if we don't test for them. If nothing happens then we'll take more readings and look elsewhere for a reason." Dr. Briefs says as they reach the room that Goku is waiting in. "This room is special. The entire room is one giant EEG machine. It's normally used for large animals, but it is perfect for this situation. It'll give Goku the room to work and let us monitor his brainwaves. We'll be connecting a few smaller devices to his body to monitor his vitals as well. I also used the initial data you sent me to create a sleeping gas that will render him unconscious and filled containers linked to this room with it. We will be watching from a separate room. After we enter the separate room, I will be locking us in there. That way should something happen, your emotions won't cause you to rush into the room to try and help him. It may seem cruel but the gas would be instantly fatal to anyone without his metabolism. After the gas is cleared from the room then we can enter and assist him however is necessary. Now let' go so that I can explain it to him."

After Dr. Briefs explained what they were testing for and the safety precautions, He attached a few devices to Goku so that they could keep track of his vitals. Two assistants entered and activated the room. "We're ready to begin Dr. Briefs." One says as he walks into a small viewing room. The other assistant walks up to Goku with a syringe that has a small amount of clear liquid. "What's that for?" Goku asks curiously. The assistant smiles as she says, "It's just a very mild sedative to help you relax faster." She injects Goku with the sedative and disposes of the syringe. "Just sit down and and get comfortable. Once the sedative kicks in, we'll begin the test." She walks into the same room as the other assistant followed by Dr. Briefs. "If you want to stop at any point during the test, just tell us Goku." Bulma says before she kisses him and follows after the others. Goku sits on the mat in the room and waits. "It should only be a few minutes for the drug to kick in." Dr. Briefs says.

After nearly ten minutes Goku speaks. "Doctor I feel strange." Dr. Briefs pushes a button to activate the intercom. "That's just the sedative Goku. Just close your eyes and clear your mind. Can you tell me what year it is?" "Age 750." "That's right." Dr. Briefs says. "He's still lucid and able to think clearly. The sedative is working correctly with his body." "Doctor, his beta waves are lowering. Delta and alpha are on the rise. He's entering a meditative state." The female assistant informs Dr. Briefs. "You're doing great Goku. Just keep your mind clear." Goku begins to hear something in the back of his mind. (Maybe Bulma's right something should be happening by now.) Goku hears just before a more voices start to flood into his head. An alarm sounds off inside the viewing room. "Sir, beta and gamma waves are spiking dramatically." the female assistant says. "Vitals are elevated and still rising." "Stress levels are rising." "Snap him out of it." (Capsule Corp.'s new jet is coming out maybe I should upgrade...Front row seats to the tournament. Maybe Lin wants to go too...I wonder if Shin's going to propose tonight...) Goku begins eyes snap open as he begins panting heavily. "Stress levels are reaching critical" "GOKU! Push whatever it is away! You have to snap out out of it!" Dr. Briefs yells through the intercom. Goku couldn't hear as more and more voices flooded his mind and he dropped to his hands and knees, sweating profusely. "Vitals are reaching critical! If this keeps up he's going to go into cardiac arrest!" "Gas the chamber! NOW!" The male assistant activates the sleeping gas and they watch as it floods the chamber. "The gas isn't working fast enough! He's going into shock!" "GET OUT OF MY HEAD! JUST! SHUT! UP!" Goku yells loudly as a white flame-like aura wraps around him just as the gas renders him unconscious. "Vitals are stabilizing." "Get a medical team in there this instant." Dr. Briefs orders as the gas clears the room. Before the room clears out, a group of people in gas masks rushes into the room and loads Goku onto a stretcher, quickly moving him to a room where they can assess and begin repairing any damage.

"It would seem that your boyfriend is telepathic, Bulma. He's being moved to an emergency wing. I'll begin working on a suppressant that will weaken it until he can fully control it." Dr. Briefs says while sitting in a chair, for once looking every bit of his age. "I'm glad it happened here. Had he been walking down the street when it came out then it most likely would have killed him." "But where could this have come from? It's wasn't there before-" "Before you made that wish? This isn't your fault dear. I believe that his mind was suppressing it so that it could use the energy to block out the attempted brainwashing done to him. When that was removed then his mind no longer needed to suppress it. I gave him the push he needed to activate it and it would seem that I pushed too hard. We'll find a way for him to control it but he must not use it until then." Dr. briefs says before hugging his crying daughter. "I'm sorry dear. My curiosity nearly killed him. We won't be attempting any other tests until that ability is under control. It's for too risky to his health. Now come on, let's go check on him."

Goku wakes up in a sterile white room. He looks to his side to see Bulma sitting in a chair, with her head laying on her folded arms on the bed, asleep. (What happened?) "Something went wrong." Dr. Briefs says while entering the room. Goku looks at him confused. "You asked that out loud." the doctor explains upon seeing Goku's look. "How do you feel my boy?" "Like some dropped a house on my head." Goku answers. "So what went wrong?" "You have telepathy. Whether it's just you, some of your race or all of them, I don't know but what I do know is that it's powerful. So much so that you couldn't control it. It overtaxed your body and nearly killed you. You've been asleep for two weeks." Dr. Briefs explains while going through Goku's medical chart. "She hasn't left your side, you know. Only to use the bathroom and get food late at night. I was worried she was going to make herself sick if you didn't wake up soon." Goku tries to sit up and falls back to the bed. The jostle wakes Bulma from her sleep. She looks up and sees that it's mid-morning. "Guess I fell asleep." She says quietly before looking at Goku and seeing him awake. She starts to cry before jumping on him. "You idiot! Don't you ever scare me like that again or I'm going to kill you myself use the Dragon Balls to bring you back just so that I can kill you again!" She says before burying her face in his chest while still crying. Goku shakily wraps his arms around her and gently rubs her back, letting her cry it all out.

When Bulma finished crying, she looked at up Goku and he shakily wiped the tears from her face. "I'm sorry I scared you. If I had known that would've happened then I wouldn't have gone through with it." Goku says while looking down at Bulma. Bulma moves up and kisses him. Dr. Briefs clears his throat alerting to the two to him still being in the room. They blush and Bulma moves back and lays her head on Goku's chest. Dr. Briefs pulls out a small pill and hands it to Goku. "While you were asleep, I drew some blood so that I can make this. It's a suppressant for your telepathy. This one will block it out completely and you'll take it once a day until you're fully recovered, which with your rate of healing should be about a month. After that, you'll start taking the one that will block you from hearing the thoughts of anything not touching you. Once you're able to control it at that level I'll supply you with one to block it at everything past two feet, and so on until you've mastered it." Goku nods and takes the pill. "Now let's get you moving around some." The scientist says with a smile. He and Bulma help Goku sit up and get slowly get out of the bed. His feet are shaky but they manage to help him walk out of the room before he needs to take a break. They continue helping him walk until he can do it mostly on his own, only needing help with stairs and slopes.

(Man, the doctor wasn't joking when he said that my body was really messed up. I've never been down for that long. At least it's over now though.) Goku thinks as he stares out over West city from a balcony. It's been almost one month since he woke up and he was finally told yesterday that he was fully recovered and can start training at full speed again. He starts his new suppressant today and wants to try to spend as much time with Bulma as he can since he leaves to finish his training with Master Roshi in two weeks. "Zeni for your thoughts?" Bulma asks as she walks up behind Goku and wraps her arms around the back of his neck. "Goku smiles and turns around to face her wrapping his arms and tail around her waist. "Just thinking about how I have to leave in two weeks and that most of the last two months has been you taking care of me while I healed." Bulma smiles back and says, "Then it looks like we need to go out and have some fun."

Two weeks later

Goku is getting ready to leave for Kame House while the Briefs family and Oolong are waiting to see him off. "Do you have your suppressants?" Bulma asks as she makes sure he has everything he needs. "Yes Blue. I have everything I'll need." Goku says as he picks her and his small case up and walks to the front door. "Goku! Put me down." Bulma says with very little fight in her voice. He does as she asks when they get outside. He kisses her and says, "I'll be back in a few months." "You better be mister. Cause if I have to come find you then I'm going to hurt you." She says before he kisses her again. "Thanks for the meds doc. And Oolong don't be perverted. I'd hate to have to crush you." "No problem. Anyone else I'd say 'bite me' but you can do some serious damage." Oolong says, slightly scared at the thought of an angry Goku. "Nimbus!" Goku calls out and the golden cloud comes racing down to him. Goku climbs up and waves to everyone. "See you soon." He says as Nimbus races off towards Kame House.

Goku arrives at Kame House after flying with Nimbus for a few hours. He hops off the cloud and lands on the island to see Master Roshi laying on a chair and a short bald kid wearing an orange turtle shell and monk robes standing next to him. "Hey old man. I'm here." Goku says while walking over to said old man. "Oh, Goku has it been two months already?" Roshi asks. "Yeah and you promised to finish my training when I got here." Goku answers happily. "I did, didn't I?" "Hey how come I had to go find a woman and bring her here to get trained when all he has to do is show up." the bald kid asks. "Because Goku has eight years of training with one of my former students who died before he was able to finish Goku's training. How did Gohan die anyways, Goku?" "I transformed into a 50ft tall monkey and accidentally stepped on him." "Such a shame. Wait what?!" "Yeah. I'm an alien." "We don't have to worry about that right?" "No. Shenron fixed it. Along with that other thing you saw when we first met Master Roshi." "That's good." "Well now, let's get to it." Roshi says as he gets up and walks inside. He comes back with a black turtle shell. "Here put this on." Roshi says as he hands Goku the shell. "Okay." Goku puts the shell on his back and is shocked when he knees almost give out under the weigh. "How much does this thing weigh?" Goku asks as he adjusts to the weight. "200 pounds. It's the heaviest shell I have. I originally made it for Gohan. But I think it will work nicely for you." Roshi says. "Now let's get to work. There's an island to the south of here. Get swimming! Both of you." "Yes master." the two say as they take off swimming. After six hours, they finally pull themselves onto the shore of the island. They plop down, completely exhausted from the swim. After catching their breath, Goku speaks. "You never told me your name." "It's Krillin. I'm 14." "Goku. I'm 13." After they rest, they sit up. "Well I guess we should swim back if we want food." Goku says before jumping into the water. Krillin follows after him.

The two apprentices arrive back at Roshi's island and drag themselves to the house. A woman with blue hair in an apron walks out and says, "Sorry boys Roshi says that I can't feed you if you can't get to the table and eat." "But Launch I've come back this tired before and you were allowed to feed me." Krillin says tiredly. "That's because I've moved your training to the next level. You've been ready for about a week but I wanted to wait for Goku to get here first. Everything you've been doing, Krillin, has been strength training, something Goku went through a while back with Gohan. Tomorrow the actual training begins. Today was to test Goku's strength and stamina. He passed with flying colors. I hope you two can make it to the food before I eat it all because you're going to need the energy...tomorrow." Roshi says before noticing Goku wasn't listening or even present. "Where's Goku?" "He's eating. He left as soon as you said that you were going to eat all the food." Launch says helpfully before going back inside. "He's going to eat all the food! Quick, Krillin, we have to hurry!" Roshi and Krillin get inside to witness Goku finish the last of the meal. "There's not even crumbs left." Roshi and Krillin say with tears in their eyes. "That was great. Thanks for the food Launch." "It's no trouble and thank you for leaving me some Goku." "Sure thing. Well I'm going to sleep. Rough day tomorrow. Night guys."

Goku says as he heads to bed.

Goku wakes up the next morning and moves around. (It feels strange not waking up with Bulma next to me.) He thinks as he gets up and stretches. "This shell isn't comfortable." He says out loud. "Time to get the day started." He walks down the stairs to see Launch making breakfast. "Good morning Launch." "Good morning Goku." "I'm going to get my morning workout in before breakfast." "Okay Goku. Be careful." He goes out and does his workout. When he came back, Roshi and Krillin were eating their breakfast. "Where you been Goku?" Roshi says as he finishes. "Morning workout." Goku simply states as he sits down to eat. "You guys don't do that?" He asks having finished his breakfast along with three extra servings quickly. "Master, where did it all go? How did he put it down so fast? And how didn't he spill a crumb?" "Krillin there are many great mysteries in the world. Goku's eating habits are one of them." "In other words, you don't know." "Not a clue." "Well let's get to work." Roshi says, getting up and going outside.

Goku and Krillin follow Roshi outside. "Okay. Stand in the water." The apprentices do as their master says and move into the water. "Now I'm only going to explain this once so listen up " Roshi says seriously, causing his students to snap to attention. "I'm going to explain ki to the two of you and teach you to control it. Ki is life force energy. Every living being has it. Whether it's an animal, a plant, a person or even a planet, if it's alive then it has ki. Ki can be used for many things. The Kamehameha wave is a stream of the user's ki energy. Ki can also be used to reinforce and even manipulate the body. But like all good things, there's a downside to it. Using too much ki can cause serious damage to your body at best and at worse it will kill you. To control ki, you must will it to do as you want. I will only be teaching you to reinforce your bodies with it. First we'll see your current levels. I want you to feel the energy inside you and then use it to push the water away from you." Roshi lectures. "Now close your eyes and look deep into your body. Imagine a glowing light, then push that light around your legs. After that stretch into the water and force the water back with it." "This will be easy. I learned this with the monks." Krillin says confidently. He immediately begins to push back nearly a foot of water while gritting his teeth with a constipated look on his face. Goku shrugs and does as Roshi told him. He closes his eyes and searches for a light inside. After what seemed like hours, he finally found a small light and pushes the light out. "Hah. See I'm the better pupil. He can't even push the water back." Krillin says boastfully. "You should know something Krillin. Goku can use my signature technique. He learned it after seeing me do it only once." Roshi says as he chastises Krillin. "That's impossible!" Krillin shouts indignantly, believing that Roshi is just trying to make Goku sound better than him.

"I don't get why it won't bend!" Goku shouts. "I thought that may be the problem." Roshi says as he steps into the water. "Watch me like you did on Fire Mountain." He tells Goku as he slowly begins to push the water back and up. Goku watches Roshi intently. As he does he senses that instead of bending the energy, Roshi was making it into threads and pushing them into the water through his legs. Goku closes his eyes and begins to copy Roshi's actions, causing the water to rise up almost two feet. "There's no way he's that much stronger! How did you do it?!" Krillin shouts angrily. "Krillin! You're acting like a child. Goku has a natural ability to sense ki energy, therefore he learns better by seeing others manipulate their own ki. Normally it would take years to gain such an ability. It's incredibly rare but not impossible for someone to do it without being trained. Goku you will have to manipulate your ki like I showed you. It'll be harder to maintain a reinforcement around your body but it'll be much stronger. Krillin yours won't be as strong but you'll be able to keep it up for much longer. Now let's continue."

10 weeks later-Capsule Corp. lab

Bulma has been working long hours on Goku's pod and the contents she found inside since he left to finish his training. "How you figured anything out dear?" Dr. Briefs asks as he enters the lab. Bulma looks up at him before standing and stretching. "We can't convert to power source of the pod to get it back online and I haven't been able to figure out much about it since it only had enough power left to run an initial scan. Everything save the life-support and navigation was gone. Mostly from wear over the last few years. I couldn't find anything on the navigation computer because I couldn't read the language it was in. The same language that this thing is in. All I can figure out about it is that it takes some kind of readings and goes over the eye. I'm trying to get it to translate into basic but it's far more complex than anything we have. The clothing and armor I found inside are the same way. Go ahead and examine those. I guarantee that what you find will shock you." Bulma explains as she grabs a drink. Dr. Briefs lights his cigarette and walks over to the armor and clothing. He picks up the clothing and pulls on it. "Is it some kind of spandex?" He asks as it stretches in his hands. "That's what it thought at first but our computers can't even make out half the materials it's composed of. It can gives us the closest things we have to it, but believe it or not, that piece of clothing is mostly metal. It's even bulletproof." Bulma says as she sits on the tabletop. "The armor does the same thing. And no matter how much I stretch it, it always goes back to it original form. I actually stretched it all the way across the back wall." Dr. Briefs is shocked to hear this. "Told you that it would shock you." Bulma says grinning at the dumbfounded look on her father's face.

"Can we recreate it?" Dr. Briefs asks, thinking of all the ways that such a metal could advance technology. "We could probably have a prototype of the clothing in two to three years. It wouldn't be as strong but it would have the same properties. As for the metal of the pod, I'm not sure. It's far more advanced than the clothing. I had to use a laser for cutting diamonds as a cutting torch just to get a small piece to examine under a microscope. That still took nearly twelve hours to cut through and the piece was just big enough to hold in your hand. The bonding on the metal, I wouldn't have even began to imagine possible. Whoever made this stuff, they're far more advanced than humanity has even dared to dream. The scary part is that this could've been the old models over a decade ago." Bulma says. "So they could be far more advanced now. Well then we should start by sending the materials for the clothing and samples of them to the research division so that they can get started. I'm going to get to work on something that can get us a better sample of the pod's metal." Dr. Briefs says as he heads for his personal workshop. "I guess I'll get back to work on this thing." Bulma states as she sits back down and tries to translate the small scanner.

1 month before the WMAT

Goku lands in front of Capsule Corp. after being dropped off by Nimbus. He walks into the house and sees Mrs. Briefs walking into the living room. "Oh my, welcome back Goku." She says. "You've gotten taller. How have you been?" "I've been good. Training was exhausting but I think I'll do great in the tournament. Is Bulma here?" "Yes, she's in her workshop." "How long has she been in there?" "Six weeks. Give or take a few days." "That won't do." Goku says as he heads towards her workshop. "Was that Goku?" Dr. Briefs asks as walks from the hall Goku just left down. "Yep. He asked where Bulma is and I believe he's heading to see her." His wife answers. "Good. She's been working too much. She needs a break." He says as he grabs a cup of tea and sits down.

Goku enters Bulma's workshop and sees her asleep on her table. He grins mischievously and creeps up to her. He reaches over to her and gently shakes her shoulders. She slowly wakes up and gives a groggy "Huh?" Goku immediately starts tickling her. "Ahh! No! Goku stop!" Bulma yells while laughing. Goku picks her up and pulls her to him. "I've missed you." He tells her as she calms down. She turns in his grasp and wraps her arms around his neck. "I've missed you too." She kisses him and he sets her on her feet. "Wow. You've gotten taller." She says looking up at Goku. "I guess so." Goku says while grinning. "Come on I got you something." Bulma says pulling Goku along with her.

Bulma pulls Goku to the garage and opens one of the ports. Inside was a red and black motorcycle with a gold turtle kanji on the side. The red covered half the bike before quickly fading into black. On the seat of the bike is a black jacket with a crimson turtle kanji on the back. The sleeves were like those on his brown jacket. The dragons wrapping around the sleeves were outlined in crimson and the front left breast of the jacket had the seven Dragon Balls in a circle with the 7 star ball in the middle. Sitting on the handlebars is a black helmet with an image of Shenron on it. "I didn't know when your birthday is so I figured this would be as good a time as any. Happy Birthday!" Goku picks her up and spins her. "Thank you. You didn't have to buy this for me." Bulma kisses him. "You're right but I wanted to." "So want to go for a ride." "I'd love to."

Goku 14 5'6"
Bulma 17 5'5"

A/N: So I didn't get to the prelims but that's fine. It just means I have a starting point for next chapter. Anyways, I'm sorry this chapter took so long. Lots of editing and rewriting plus having to work equals long chapter times. Launch's sneezing thing will come in as part of flashbacks and the tournament. So, leave reviews. Also poll on profile for one-shot for Goku and Bulma's first date.

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