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Chapter 1:

GETTING STARTED

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own DBZ, it's characters or anything related to DBZ for that matter. It's the property of Toei, Bird Studios, Shueisha and Akira Toriyama.
ATTENTION FIRST TIME READERS: The first 6 chapters are a some sort of "prologue" to the story. In short, it describes how Gohan changes and why. The plot with some Original Characters (OC) starts after Chapter 7/8. But I strongly suggest you read from the 1st chapter, so you can have a full understanding of what's going on. The main events are similar to the canon story (up to Chapter 8), to make the story progress and connect the plot. Thank you for taking the time to read this story :). Have fun reading.

Goku and Gohan entered the Room of Spirit and Time (ROSAT or the Hyberbolic Time Chamber in the dub) full of confidence, especially Goku. The first thing they did was check the stock of food. Of course Mr. Popo has stocked all the food necessary for a whole year, enough even for one Saiyan and one young demi-Saiyan. After that they slowly made their way to the outside of the building, where Gohan was shocked at what he saw-an endless white void. Not a single tree, a grain of sand or patch of soil, just an endless space as far as the eye could see.

He turned to his dad:"Are we the only ones here? Just us and this building where we're sleeping and eating?"

"Of course son. Did you think there would be trees and grass? There's no one here but us for the whole year." Then he added:"Why don't you go down those stairs and see how different it is in here?"

Gohan took a few steps down the stairs, and as soon as he had stepped from then, he fell to his knees, catching himself with his arms. He struggled for a few moments but eventually got back on his feet.

"W-what happened?" I'm barely standing," he said surprised and a little bit shocked.

"That's why I told you to step off of this platform to see what's the gravity like. It's 10 times stronger than on Earth," Goku smiled at his son.

Then he walked to Gohan with no problem, like there was no change in gravity.

"See? It's not that hard. The same gravity was on Kaio's planet where I trained. Now you can imagine how hard was for me also."

He then took a few more steps forward and turned around, and smiled at Gohan: "Don't worry, you'll get used to it soon. By tomorrow you'll be able to walk with no problems; heck, you'll probably be already running and jumping around," he laughed, encouraging his son to not be afraid of these hard but yet perfect training conditions.

"T-tomorrow? Already? I can barely stand how, there's no way I'm going to adjust THAT quickly," responded the demi-Saiyan surprisingly.

The full-blooded Saiyan made another 20 steps away from Gohan, turned around and winked at him:"Come here and catch me."

The young Saiyan nodded, took a deep breath and started doing slow and short steps towards his father. It has taken him a while to get there, obviously exhausting him to a some degree, when Goku made ANOTHER 20 steps and waited for him to continue. He followed him, naturally, but this time with a little faster pace. He was faster and faster and after 3 hours of this intense gravity adjustment training, he was almost walking normally, but was too much exhausted to continue.

"You see? I told you you'd get the hang of it in no time," Goku laughed and continued:"We're gonna take a break for an hour so you can rest a bit, but after that we'll continue."

The young Saiyan agreed with his suggestion, so they both went into the building. Gohan fell asleep on his bed but Goku decided to get up and do a little bit of solo training. He exited the building, transformed into a Super Saiyan and propelled himself high into the air where he started doing fast punches and kicks. Imagining he's fighting an opponent he became more aggressive by becoming quicker, doing summersaults, dodging imaginary attacks and flying with high speed all over the place. He became so preoccupied with the training, he didn't notice Gohan had already waken up and was standing at the base of the stairs. For the finishing move he charged his signature move, the Kamehameha and fired it somewhere in the distance which resulted in a big shockwave and explosion that almost knocked Gohan off his feet.

"Wow, dad is already so strong as a Super Saiyan. I can't imagine he'll become even stronger," Gohan said to himself.

"Way to go dad!" the young half-Saiyan cheered.

Goku had heard him, so he transformed to normal and flew to him.

"You're awake? I hope I didn't wake you up," he apologized.

"No, I was already up, but your Kamehameha almost knocked me back down," Gohan smiled.

Than he got serious and asked his father: "Dad, will we be able to defeat Cell?"

Goku's expression also became more serious, hence his answer: "I don't know son. At the moment we're no match for him. We can only hope Vegeta and Trunks defeat him."

He then smiled again: "But hey, don't you worry about that. That's why we're here, to train and get stronger. And what better way to do that than make you a Super Saiyan."

"Me? A Super Saiyan? Is that even possible?" Gohan responded with his wide-opened eyes.

"Sure, why not?"

"Well for starters, I'm just a kid."

Well yeah, BUT... you're also probably as strong as I was on Namek, and you're still a part Saiyan, not to mention you've demonstrated your hidden potential on more occasions than I can remember," Goku explained himself.

"You sure dad?" Gohan asked again.

Goku knelled before him and put his hands on this shoulders: "I know you can do it Gohan. I believe in you. But you have to remember it won't be easy."

The young Saiyan's expression changed into a big smile full of confidence: "Ok, let's do it."

Days have passed and both Saiyans have been training hard. Because Gohan had already adjusted to the new gravity, Goku has decided it's time to turn him into a Super Saiyan. He walked to his son, putting his hand on his shoulder:

"Are you ready? Let's turn you into a Super Saiyan. To do that you need to power up to your maximum in combination with anger and strong emotions. Bring your most intense memories and emotions to the surface and just let your power explode. Remember... they have to be intense."

After that he stepped back and observed. Gohan started to power up, more, more, upon reaching his maximum, he started remembering all the painful moments in his life; losing Goku to Raditz, his near death on Namek, his heart disease, his friends getting hurt and killed.

"That's it Gohan, let those emotions overflow you," Goku encouraged his son with a serious yet calm voice.

When the young Saiyan finally amassed enough power, he mixed it with his emotions and began screaming and powering up even more. His aura increased in size for just a moment but then subsided. It just wasn't enough... this time. He fell on his knees, breathing deeply.

"It's hard. I can't get angry enough," he explained himself, feeling a bit ashamed.

"We've just started Gohan. You're doing fine. You just need to find those powerful emotions deep inside you," Goku tried to comfort his son.

He picked up Gohan and carried him inside, put him in a chair and said:

"After all that training I think it's time we have dinner."

Gohan instantly went from being a bit sad to being insanely happy. After all, he loved food as much as his father did. A couple of minutes later Goku brought food from the fridge and storage and put it all on the table.

"Let's dig in," he smiled.

Like all Saiyans, they too have an enormous appetite. Food began disappearing at an alarming rate until they were both full.

"Mr. Popo really knows what food to stock here. This was delicious," said Goku, gently rubbing his full stomach.

Because of all the hard training, especially for Gohan, they decided to hit the sack, so they'll have an early start tomorrow.

This is the first chapter; I hope you liked it. It's going to take a few chapters to build up the story, so please be patient. I don't want to rush it for the sake of completing the story quickly. If you still want, you can skip to about chapter 6, where things start happening.