New Year's Resolutions from Dragon Ball Universe!

- a Dragon Ball Z Collection -

Resolution One: Goku

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With that said, I hope you enjoy the story!

One of the most awesome times of the year is the start of a new one, not just because Chi-Chi always makes a bunch of awesome food for me and everybody else at our parties, but because I get to have the opportunity to make a new year's resolution for something I hope to accomplish in the upcoming year!

Back when I was dead, or rather, the first time I was dead, my new year's resolution was to learn how to perform the Spirit Bomb technique. That ended up being a great resolution to fulfill, especially since I very recently used the technique to save the universe from Buu.

Even though the almost-year that Gohan and I spent in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber was just about a day in the real world, we kind of celebrated the start of a new year while we were in there. At the time, my resolution was to enable Gohan to become a Super Saiyan, and in the end, that resolution turned out even better than expected, thanks a lot to his amazing strength.

This brings me to the extremely related subject of what my new year's resolution is going to be for this year.

In the new year, I want to help Vegeta finally become a Super Saiyan 3!

Just as I helped Gohan become a Super Saiyan after I had already achieved the form, I want to help Vegeta achieve the third level.

He's been really infuriated about the fact he hasn't become a Super Saiyan 3 yet, even more so than he usually is about most things. I mean, when he found out after our battle as Super Saiyan 2s that I had been holding back on him, and that he had sacrificed himself without knowing I could become a Super Saiyan 3, he was even more pissed off than he had been the time on that one April Fool's Day, before the battle with the androids, that I replaced all the tiles on the floor of his gravity chamber with farting cushions.

I mean, I feel bad for the guy. We both train a lot, and yet he's not able to progress nearly as fast as me because of my natural abilities, while he needs to work much harder to achieve his goals.

I also don't want him to be extremely pissed the next time we play Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2, like he was last time, when he finally found out that the video game contains a playable version of him as a Super Saiyan 3. When Vegeta saw the game depicting him as a "what-if?" character in that form, all that did was emphasize for him that not only have I achieved the form while he hasn't, but that even Gotenks, a kid less than 10 years old, has reached it, while he hasn't!

I remember him saying, "Damn this accursed game for mocking my honor!" right before he threw his game controller into Bulma's big-screen T.V. And then, he took Trunks' game system, brought it outside, threw it straight up into the air, and Big Bang Attack-ed that thing into oblivion!

I think that if Vegeta finally becomes a Super Saiyan 3, he will be really proud of himself. I suspect that he'll be very resistant to accepting help from me, but if he doesn't accept my help before the end of the first week of the new year, I'll show up at Capsule Corporation every day, already in my Super Saiyan 3 form, and keep on urging Vegeta to accept my help so that we can have an even better battle against each other, at the very best of our abilities.

Besides, in the event that there is a yet-unknown form past Super Saiyan 3, he'd probably absolutely hate it if I managed to reach that advanced level before he achieves Super Saiyan 3. I mean, it's not like he'd ever be able achieve that further form without first becoming a Super Saiyan 3, right?

Vegeta, it's time for you to ascend!

And to everybody reading this, have a Happy New Year!

Sincerely,

Goku

Thanks so much for reading the first of many DBZ New Year's Resolutions to come!

Up next: Piccolo!

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