Chapter 1: The Beginning

I'm Katie. I'm fifteen, and my favorite show is Dragonball Z. As I'm heading home from school, I'm thinking about the new episode that will be on in a few hours. I'm excited and hope Vegeta will fight someone, he's my favorite character. I like the older Trunks too, but the way I like him would make people think I'm crazy. I like-like him. If he were real, I know I'd have a major crush on him, and hopefully he would for me too. Dreams… But I'm not pretty; I'm practically a nerd. I read a lot, play video games, and love anime shows and books. I wear glasses and have dark hair and eyes.

My feet hit the ground hard as I jump out of the school bus and run down the long drive way. My feet weren't nearly as fast as I hoped, I'm like the slowest person next to the turtle that lives in our pond.

No one was home yet as I threw my bag onto the couch and down the hall to my room. We live in a double-wide trailer in Ky. But no worries, except for my accent I'm anything but a typical hick from the sticks.

I clicked on the TV and just sat there, barely breathing as the show had just finished the opening titles. I could already tell this would be good.

Later than night I sighed. DBZ was over! How could it be over? As I la there in the dark, I think on how cool being a Sayjin would be. The special powers, the strength, and all the things I don't have now. I would have to put up with the Oozaru thing, but I'm cool with that. If only DBZ was real…

Would anyone there understand me? Would anyone there trust me? I just need a chance… a chance to show what my souls screams, that I'm better than the nerd down the street… that if I had to, I could fight for my dreams…

"Wake up, child." A voice woke me up, and I wasn't in my room, but in a tomb-like chamber. As I stood, I noticed nothing, and I mean that. This room was empty and seemed to go on forever.

"Who's there?" I called. My voice echoed for a long time, it seemed.

"Someone who wants to help you." The disembodied voice called back.

"How can you help me?"

"I know what you want, and I can give it to you." It replied.

"What? What do you mean, 'what I want'?"

"You know what you want, and I could give it to you."

"Why would you do that?" I asked the empty space.

"I have my reasons. Do you want it?"

"Yes." I reply almost hypnotically.

"Then it shall be done." And as he says this, the dark room spins and darkness starts to swallow me. I tried to scream, but no words escape, and no amount of struggling was stopping the darkness. Soon I couldn't see my legs, and then another voice started to laugh as I struggled in vain. My waist was next to disappear, and I finally get a scream out, causing a third voice to laugh louder. The last thing I saw as the darkness started to cover my face were the faces of the three who were doing this to me.

Whoever was doing this to me showed themselves, but I only saw them for a second as the darkness suffocated me and I blacked-out.

AS22: better first chapter, I hope? I screwed up, so here's Ch. 2

Chapter 2: Another World

Suddenly I was wide-awake.

What was that? At first I thought it was a dream, but as I opened my eyes I saw that I wasn't in my room, or even my house for that matter. And the room I am in looks so familiar, but I can't place it. Exhaustion overtook me and I fell back into a deep sleep.

I later woke up after the sun had set, and saw stars out the window. I got up and saw that the mirror in the room shows a different me. I'm still in the PJ's I fell asleep in, the light blue top and bottom set, but my hair is twice its length, now reaching my butt, and perfectly straight, I'm actually pretty, and my glasses are gone. Then I see one more thing that almost knocks me down: a tail. I had a tail, like a monkey.

"What! That wasn't there last night! First I don't have a tail, now I have a tail. What's going on!" I swish my new tail around a few times to see if it really was attached. Then I wrapped it around my waist in the common Sayjin style.

"How did I…? Why…? Huh…?" I stammered.

Am I now a Sayjin?

I can't believe it, but if I have a monkey tail, that could only mean one thing. I'm in the DBZ world and I'm a Sayjin.

Or I'm crazy.

Did my wish really come true?

I pinched myself and saw that I was not dreaming, and I know I'm not nuts. If anything, these people will think I'm crazy when I tell them my story.

What should I tell them? Should I tell them at all?

I decided that, even if this place isn't real in my world, it is to these people. I can't do anything to harm its history. Even if it means letting them die when the time comes.

Sometimes, in DBZ, a certain character has to die. Like in the beginning, if Goku didn't die, he wouldn't have become powerful enough to defeat Vegeta. And if Krillen didn't die by Frieza's hand, Goku wouldn't have become a Super Sayjin.

Hey, could I become a SSJ? That would be so cool…

Reality check, focus!

I walked out the door in a daze and toward the stairs. Sure enough, downstairs, were Goku, Chi-chi, and a 4-year-old Gohan.

Gohan at that age means Raditz hasn't arrived yet.

Goku must have felt my presence because he looked up at me and smiled. They looked just like on they did on the show.

"Good, you're awake. You had us worried." Goku said.

"Hi!" Gohan smiled at me.

"I did?" I said as I descended the stairs.

"Yeah, don't you remember anything?" Goku asked.

"Not really…"

"We found you in the woods unconscious." Goku explained.

"Dear, you should lay back down. You look awful." Chi-chi says as she stands up.

"I'm fine, I'm just confused." I said as she sat back down.

"'Bout what?" Goku asked as I took a seat near Chi-chi, and Gohan runs and climbs into my lap.

"Gohan!" Chi-chi snapped.

"Its okay. I guess there are a few things I need to tell you, but I don't know how to start." They look on as I try to figure out what to say.

"My name is Katie, and I'm not from here. Please, listen all the way through, because I know this will sound weird, and I'm not sure what's going on. I know all about you and your friends, even the ones you don't know yet. I don't know how I got here, but in my… world… you aren't real. This world you live in is known as Dragonball Z, a TV show I watched all the time. Yesterday, in my world, Dragonball Z aired its last show. And until yesterday, I was human, but now I'm like Goku, I have a tail."

"What?" Goku asked, crinkling up his face in confusion.

"What do you mean by that? You make it sound like Goku isn't human." Chi-chi said.

"He's not. He's a Sayjin, but you'll find out soon what that is. I'm afraid that if I tell you too much I may mess up your history, and I don't want to do that." I looked down and saw Gohan had fallen asleep in my lap.

"You're a liar! You're nuts!" Chi-chi cried.

"That's what I thought until I saw you all really sitting here."

"No, she's telling the truth." Goku said. "I can tell. Chi-chi, take Gohan to bed. I want to talk privately to Katie."

"Okay." Chi-chi said shakily. I hadn't heard Goku talk like that unless it was a very serious matter, so I knew he believed me. Chi-chi picked up Gohan and left the room.

"Tell me about yourself Katie."

"Like I said, until yesterday I was a normal teenage girl, and now I'm a Sayjin."

"And I am too?"

"Yes, a Sayjin. Sayjins were a race of warriors from another planet that destroyed worlds, they were bloodthirsty savages. You were sent here as a child to destroy earth, but when your grandpa Gohan dropped you on your head you lost all Sayjin instincts. You still like to fight, but that's all. The Sayjin world is gone now."

"And you said I'm on TV?" Goku asked, looking around as if expecting to see cameras. "Where are the cameras?"

"It's not like that." I said, laughing, "In my world, this is all a popular Japanese cartoon. This show came in three parts; Dragonball showed your life as a child until you married Chi-chi. Now, it's in Dragonball Z, and it shows most of your life, then Dragonball GT will show the rest of your life. Dragonball GT hasn't appeared in America yet, so I don't know all the details. But up until then I know coming events as well as I know my name. So, in a way, I know the future."

"I believe you, Katie. I don't understand this, but I do believe you. You said you're from where?"

"In my world, its called America, the world's largest country. But, you wouldn't know of it, cause it hasn't been discovered yet in this time, I think. The books say the year is around 700 AD. In my world it was the year 2004. The only thing I can figure is that this is another dimension."

"Like Otherworld and here?"

"Yes. I wish I could figure out how I got here, or why I'm here."

"What do you remember last?" Goku asked.

"A dream, a nightmare really."

"Tell me about it." he urged.

"Well, there was a voice asking me what I wanted. It said I could get it, and then I was swallowed up by darkness. Then I woke up here."

"What did you want?"

"Its funny, really, but I wanted to be a Sayjin."

"That's weird." Goku said in a childish manner.

"Yeah, I guess it is." I chuckled at him, "Goku, we can't tell anyone else about this. Not now, anyway. Only you, Chi-chi, and Gohan. Since you already know."

"I'll tell Chi-chi. She probably went to bed." Goku gave a large yawn; "We should go, too. Tomorrows a big day."

"What's tomorrow?"

"I'm taking Gohan to Master Roshi's house to introduce him to all my friends. Want to come?"

Dear god, not already!

"Sure, I'll go. Goku, if I didn't tell you if something bad was going to happen tomorrow, you wouldn't be mad, right?"

"No." he said simply, "Goodnight, Katie." Goku said without any notice at the underlining meaning.

"Good night." I said as I headed to the room I was in earlier. It must have been the spare room. I climbed into bed and worried, for tomorrow Goku would die fighting his own brother. And I had to make a decision.

AS22: Okay, thanks!