Dragon Ball Rewritten

Of Past, Present and Future

Prologue, Visions of Father and Son

What if Bardock, Father of Goku, survived Frieza's assualt? What if Bardock's gift of seeing the future was also passed on to his youngest son, Kakarot (Goku)? What if an asteroid hit Goku's spacepod near Earth and set it off course a little and ended up in West City instead of Mount Paozu? How different yet similar would the story we all know would be?

Dragon Ball Rewritten: Of Past, Present and Future will tell the tale of what could have happened if any of those did happen. The story will start with Dragon Ball then into Dragon Ball Z (not so sure about Dragon Ball GT yet).

Bardock knew he wouldn't survive Frieza's attack. It was a supernova, more then capable of destroying the entire Planet Vegeta. If only he was stronger, if only his crew survived that ambush, if only... there was no more time to regret. All he could do now was wait for his inevitable death.

The second the brave and psychic Saiyan was engulf in Frieza's supernova, he had one last vision: his son, Kakarot as an adult facing Frieza. At that moment; he knew his son would be destined to face Frieza and kill the evil tyrant once and for all. With that, he gave one final smile before his demise.

"Yes... I see it. My son will defeat Frieza. KAKAROOOOT!" his only true regret before his death: he never got to hold Kakarot in his arms when he had the chance. Thus was the death of a great Saiyan warrior... or is it?

After the destruction of Planet Vegeta and Frieza's ship left the area, nobody saw a bubble of energy with someone in it floating in space. Inside the bubble was Bardock, he was alive.

I'm alive... but how? Bardock thought to himself with geat curiousity. Just who saved him and for what purpose? Then he heard giggling that sounded like a playful little kid.

"Who's there?" he demanded.

Just then, a white furry creature, that looked like a cross between a kitten and a fox, appeared right in front of him. Bardock looked at the little creature, confused and curious at the same time.

"Hello, Bardock. I'm glad to see I was able to save you after all." its voice sounded like a young girl.

"Who... who are you? Why... why did you save me and how did you know my name?"

"Hmm... Just call me Ventusia Kistune. I'm the offspring of the great Kyuubi Kitsune himself."

Bardock have heard about the legendary Kyuubi Kitsune. A great fox with nine tails, each containing mysterious and unbelievable power. Compared to Kyuubi Kitsune, Frieza was a joke and that's saying a lot. But he thought it was just a myth, no creature that powerful could exist, yet he was saved by its offspring, who looked like a kitty-fox hybrid and had only one tail instead of nine.

"But... you look... different from the Kyuubi Kitsune I heard about." he said.

Ventusia sighed and said, "I know. Don't ask, but my father, Kyuubi, fell in love with the Ichibi Neko. So I'm part cat. My tail can turn from one to nine if I can learn how to use that power, but I haven't yet. I can only do the basics as of right now."

Bardock nodded and said, "But why did you save me? And how did you even know about me for that matter?"

"Well, I... to be truthful I've known about you for a long time, Bardock. I accidently found myself on Planet Vegeta when I was learning how to teleport. I was out of power and too hungry and tired to do much."

"You may not remember this; but it was you who found me and took me in. You fed me and nursed me back to health. Of course, due to making sure no one ever knows of me or my family, I had to erase your memory of me entirely when I was strong enough to go back home. But I owed you one for helping me and I've been keeping an eye on you."

"I see... so you found out I gain psychic powers and saved me from Frieza's assault?" the Saiyan asked and she nodded.

Bardock then felt another vision coming, his head started to ache.

*Vision*

I see my son, Kakarot again, but this time something seems... different. Why is he wearing that lab coat and those ridiculous glasses?

Kakarot also seems more... intelligent then he was in my previous visions of him. I wonder... did my survival caused a rift and change in the space and time continumm? I hope this doesn't effect the future where he's suppose to defeat that traitor Frieza.

Wait... I also see... someone else with him. Kakarot is full grown now and I think he's holding a young boy with a tail like a Saiyan... is that his son? That person with them looks like... is that... me? Ventusia is with me too. How much change is going to happen now that I'm alive?

*End vision*

Bardock blinked, that vision was much different then all the others. It's as if the future itself has changed. Was it because he was alive? No matter, this may work in his favor.

"Ventusia, how would you like to come with me to the Planet Earth?"

"You want to see your youngest son, Kakarot, right?"

"Yes. How long will it take us to get there?"

"Hmm... well, I still can't teleport very good. If I just take us there myself, it'd take... well, quite a while. But you won't age during the time and neither will I."

"That's fine. Let's get to Earth as soon as possible."

The fox/kitten hybrid gave him a michevious smirk. "I knew saving you would pay off. Alright, off to Earth we go, Bardock."

Chapter 1, The Saiyan Baby

In the spacepod, the baby Saiyan known as: Kakarot was sleeping peacefully. That is, until an asteroid hit the spacepod, waking up the little warrior and made him cry.

The asteroid didn't do any real damage to the ship, but it did cause it to go off course a little bit from its original destination on Earth. Instead of Mount Paozu, the spacepod ended up just on the outskirts of West City.

At the same time, a young girl with bluish green hair was exploring the outskirts of West City with her father: Dr. Briefs. Dr. Briefs wanted to study the wild life outside of West City and took his young daughter with him so she could see the outside of West City too.

"Bulma, don't go too far now." her father warned, yet with a jolly tone.

The little girl, known as: Bulma, saw something that got the intelligent girl curious. Looking at a huge recent crater, she saw some kind of round metal spaceship.

"Hey Daddy, I see something down there." she called to her dad, who came running over and was surprised to see the spacepod there.

"Oh dear me, is this an alien spaceship? I've never seen anything like it before." Dr. Briefs said in wonder.

Bulma, just as curious as any child would be, slid down the massive crater, ignoring her dad's protest. She got near the spacepod and knocked on it, trying to see if anything would respond.

To the young girl's surprise, the spacepod's door opened. She stepped back a bit, afraid some kind of vicious alien would jump out and attack her. Her dad hurried down the crater to protect his daughter from any aliens.

To both of their surprise; they didn't see any little green men or however aliens looked these days inside, all they saw was (what looked like) a human baby in there. The baby was a boy and was naked. Bulma almost screamed as she hurriedly closed her eyes.

Dr. Briefs, however, looked closely at the baby. The baby looked back in equal curiousity. The baby had very spiky black hair. Then Dr. Briefs noticed an unusual feature on the baby.

"Interesting: his baby has a brown furry tail. Wonder what's he doing in that weird space pod thing?"

Bulma smiled at the baby. "Aw, he's adorible, Dad. That tail thing is weird, but he's human. Why would anyone put a baby alone in a space pod? We should keep him Dad, he could be my little brother."

"Now just a minute Bulma, we don't even know for sure he's human. Besides, do you even know how to take care of a baby?"

"Oh come on Dad, you and Mom took care of me, didn't you? What's one more baby in the family?"

"Ugh... very well, but he'll need a name."

Bulma smiled happily. "Alright, how about... Trunks?"

The baby boy with the tail scowled at the name. "Okay... no. What could we name you?"

"Hmm, I remember hearing about a man living in the far regions of Mt. Paozu. He might be interested in training this little fellow. I believe his name was Goku or was it Gohan?" Dr. Briefs mused.

Upon saying 'Goku', the baby giggled. Bulma noticed and said, "Hey Dad, I think he likes that name: Goku. Do you like that name, Goku?"

The baby laughed again with delight. "Then it's settled: your name is Goku. Goku Briefs, my little brother."

Many days past since then. The baby with the monkey's tail named Goku soon went from happy, carefree child to violent, uncontrollable beast. He was unusually powerful for a baby; able to toss big chairs and breaking glass.

Bulma was discouraged that her new little brother was acting like a vicious animal and her parents weren't too happy when he tried to eat their precious cats. However, the girl was stubborn and won't quit until she's able to get Goku to behave himself. She soon figured out the boy seems to show great interest in fighting, seeing that he kept challenging the dinosaurs in the garden (if you watched Dragon Ball, you'd know Bulma has a very, very, VERY, large garden).

"Come on, Goku! Enough is enough! Those dinosaurs will eat you alive if you keep trying to fight them!" she scolded him, which he ignored.

Goku wanted nothing to do with Bulma or her parents, he just wanted to fight and cause destruction and mayhem. It's been going on like this for a couple of weeks now. If her dad weren't so good at inventing, they'd go broke just trying to repair the massive damage of their poor abused house from that one baby with the furry brown tail.

One day, Bulma went into the garden to feed some of the animals they've kept, but to her horror: she saw the little baby Goku crawling on the high ceiling. How he got there, Bulma had no idea.

"GOKU! GET DOWN FROM THERE BEFORE YOU GET HURT!" she screamed at her adoptive little brother.

Of course, Goku wasn't expecting the girl's scream. That caused him to lose his balance and he fell from the ceiling. Bulma didn't know what to do; the baby would die if he hit to the ground at this rate: he was falling head first!

Bulma wasn't fast enough to catch him. Goku had fallen and hit his head, badly, on the rocks. Bulma screamed in horror. Her parents rushed in to see the gruesome result of the monkey tailed baby.

The Briefs' family did everything they could to save the little baby, but even they knew a head injury that bad would result in death. Bulma still refused to give up on her little brother, even if he was a little monster.

Being the intelligent girl that she is; Bulma created a mechanical headband. The headband would treat any brain damage to the boy, but it cannot replace memories, so if the boy has amnisa, that cannot be fixed. So with this resolve, Bulma placed the mechanical headband around Goku's head and activated it. The headband beebed a couple of times and flashed, showing it was working.

The next few days, the baby with the tail soon woke up. Bulma had taken off the headband as there was no longer a need for it. She, Dr. Briefs and Ms. Briefs were all watching him.

Goku looked at them curiously before smiling at them. "Oh thankgoodness you're alive! Don't you ever scare me like that again Goku!"

Goku only giggled as he wrapped his furry tail around Bulma's wrist as if telling her he was okay. She smiled as she hugged her little brother. Ms. Briefs and Dr. Briefs were amazed that not only the child survived such a head injury, but he was suddenly kind. It's as if that furiocus beast that he was earlier just vanished from existence and left a little angel behind.

For the next few years, Bulma insisted on building a special training room for Goku when she found out about his passion for fighting. Dr. Briefs agreed, saying that being able to fight to defend yourself will help greatly.

As Goku grew, the young tailed boy spent a lot of his time training in the room, using its robots as practice dummies. The robots were tough, don't underestimate them. There was also a virtual simulater, where Goku could set the levels and what to fight in it. He particular enjoyed using the Tournament backround and fought a series of fighters.

However, Goku did more then just train to get stronger, the boy also studied, a lot. Being part of the Brief's family, he shared their passion for researching instead of just fighting. He wanted to be like his big sister, Bulma. She was the most intelligent girl he's ever known compared to everyone else. Bulma goes to school to learn, of course, but she always claims that classes were dull and boring.

Goku had always been curious about his own tail though. He wondered why nobody else had one (or at the least why humans in particular)? Through out his studies and research, no other human in the world had a tail like he did and that made him curious. He'd asked Bulma or his parents, but they just tell him they don't know either and that he was just born with it.

It's been five years since Goku was adopted. Even though he was only a little kid, he was really smart and wore a white lab coat along with glasses. He didn't really need the glasses, but he believed they made him looked smarter. Of course, it was also to make people think he was a weak nerd too. Why? Because he didn't want people to know how strong he really is. What he considers fun, others considered unnatural powers.

Underneth that lab coat, however, was a blue gi. His mother, Ms. Briefs, made it for him when he saw a picture of the great Master Roshi and his two students: Ox King and Gohan. He said he wanted to wear something similar to their clothing. Ms. Briefs gave it to him on his fourth birthday last year and thanks to his father's brilliant mind, the gi can strentch, so when he gets older and taller, the blue gi will grow with him.

"Well now, young Goku, I do believe you're old enough to finally go to school." Dr. Briefs said one morning as Goku was writing some notes.

Goku looked up from what he was writing, peaked with interest. "Go to school? Really?"

"Of course. Every kid your age must go to school at some point. School begins next week and I do believe you're ready."

"That sounds nice and all, but what about my training? And my research on the theory of the Man Wolf and Wolf Man's transformation?" Goku asked, clearly unsure how to fit 'school' into his busy 24/7 schedule. He's always been so busy that he gets too tired to stay up late and usually goes to bed early.

"Hmm... come to think of it... I've researched about the full moon and how the Wolf Man turns him from a man into a wolf and vice versa for Man Wolf when they see it. I still haven't figured it out yet though and I haven't even seen a real full moon before." Goku sighed looking at his notes. He's been taking notes as it really interest him, but the mystery of the phenominal transformation from just simply looking at the full moon still escapes him.

Goku could feel his tail twitching, which made him curious because it seems his tail had a mind of its own whenever he mentions the full moon.

"I know, you are a very curious, kind and powerful young boy, but even young geniuses like you still needs to go to school. If not for the education, then for social purposes. Get my point?" the little black cat on his shoulder mewed while he spoke.

Goku nodded. "I understand, Dad. It's just... I'm really nervous. I never actually left the building before now that I think about it."

This school will be a new experience for him, that's for sure.

Chapter 2, School Mayhem

"So you're finally going to school, eh kiddo?" Bulma said with interest.

Goku told Bulma about what their dad told him this morning after she came back from her own school.

"I'm a little nervous. This is my first time away from home. I don't usually talk to other people either." Goku sighed, remembering those times when people visit the Capsule Corp. (the place he lives in ) he was usually in the training room or doing research in his bedroom.

"Not to mention my tail may attract... unwanted attention." Goku sighed, holding the furry tail in his hands.

"Speaking of your tail, have you found out why you have one yet?" Bulma asked, wanting to know if her little brother ever found out he came from outer space. She promised her dad never to tell him.

Goku let out sigh before letting go of his tail. "No. After all that research on monkeys, humans and evolution, I still have not found one single clue of how I'm the only human with a monkey's tail... Is it possible for a human to be part monkey?"

"I doubt it. Oh well, try not to let it bother you too much, little brother. If those kids make fun of you for it, you could show them a thing or two."

"But big sis, you know I don't like hurting people unless the situation demands it. If they're just teasing or bullying me like a normal kid, then I'll just ignore it the best I can. With all the training I've been doing, I'm afraid I could actually kill someone."

"Oh yeah, why were you training so hard recently? You don't usually train as hard as you've been doing three months ago." Bulma asked him curiously.

Goku then gave a smile. "Oh yeah, I heard there's a World Martial Arts Tournament. I've been wanting to enter myself ever since I found out about it three months ago on T.V., but I'm not strong enough to take on the world's greatest fighters just yet, that's why I've been training extra hard lately."

Bulma just chuckled. "That's just like you kid, always pushing yourself too hard. Just try not to kill yourself. Maybe we should let you train under the Great Master Roshi when you get older."

Goku had stars in his eyes. "R-really? I could train under the Great Turtle Hermit himself?"

"I see you've been doing reserach on Master Roshi too. But you'll have to wait until you're older. At least until you've finished elementary school, okay?"

"Deal!" Goku smiled, he knew he could always count on his big sister. She may be hot tempered and stubborn a lot of times, but she's really a kind and very intelligent person.

In fact, it was Bulma who influenced Goku to study hard so he could be smart like her. Goku also wanted to be a brilliant scientist as well as a great Martial Artist when he grows up. Goku had influenced Bulma as well over the years, she use to be a somewhat spoiled brat, but nowadays she's been more toleratable, patient and a little bit unselfish.

The first day of school finall arrived. Goku was anxious yet excited to meet a new challenge, even if it doesn't involve fighting. Goku wore green overalls with a yellow shirt, a typical five year old clothing. He kept the glasses though.

Goku tried to keep his tail in his pants, but it was far too uncomfortable. His mother, Ms. Briefs, made a small hole in the back of his pants for his tail, much to Goku's chagrin as he did not want the kids to see his tail, but he didn't have much of a choice.

Goku was in the car with his dad, waiting to be dropped off in school. That's when it happened; Goku's first vision of the future.

*Vision*

Huh? What's going on? I see... an older version of myself and Bulma. We're riding in a jeep together. I see the older me laughing about something and Bulma was checking some kind of... radar.

Are we... looking for something? What happened? Where am I? Wait, Bulma stopped her car. We both dismounted and saw a little house in the middle of the woods. Who would live way out here?

"The Dragon Ball might be in that house." Bulma said.

"There might be someone in there, what if they don't want us to take the Dragon Ball?" my older counterpart asked her.

"We'll just have to find a way to persuade them. We need those Dragon Balls if we want our wish to come true." she said.

What? What in the world are Dragon Balls? I must do research on that later.

*End vision*

Goku blinked and looked around confused. What just happened? Did he fall asleep and dreamed all that up or something?

"We're here." Dr. Brief's voice cut his train of thought and he remembered this was his first day at school.

Goku was more anxious and nervous now, especially since his tail was so noticable. Hiding it would do little good, but he's willing to try.

Goku got out of the car with Dr. Briefs. Both of them walked into the school building. Before they went in, however, Goku saw some children around his age playing on the playground, laughing and having fun. Goku rather find somebody to spar with then play on the sesaw with them, but he suppose he should give it a try since he's kind of tired of training by himself. Bulma doesn't like fighting and her parents don't like violence either. Goku only trained with animals, but never too harshly, but most of the time he would train in the special simulation training room by himself.

Inside the school building, it was large inside. Not as big as Capsule Corp, but it was a good size for a school. Dr. Brief entered a room full of children around Goku's age. Goku looked in to see they were all noisy and most of them were playing with toys, making messes with paint, arguing and crying with each other or ripping pages out of a picture book. In short: it was pure chaos and mayhem.

"Dad... Is this really school? Or a zoo?" Goku asked nervously, not liking to see that he's the one with an animal's tail yet he's the only kid not acting like a beast.

"Now Goku, this is typical Kindergarden. You'll get use to it. Besides, you acted a lot worse when you were a baby." Dr. Briefs chuckled, making Goku sweatdropped. Goku himself don't remember acting like a monster as a baby, but his parents and sometimes his big sister would bring it up and never let him live it down. Goku wondered why in the world would he even act like that to begin with?

"Are you the teacher of this class?" Dr. Briefs asked a teenage woman sitting in her desk.

The woman had blonde hair and wore a tomboyish black shirt and shorts. She seemed... mean.

"Of course I am! What'd you expect me to be? Some stranger walking into a place full of little brats?" she snapped.

Goku and Dr. Briefs winced at the woman's attitude. They heard she was very nice and kept the children under control... this was the exact opposite of what they heard.

"Um... Why do you let these kids cause such massive chaos?" Dr. Briefs asked, trying not to let her scare him.

"Heh, these kids are a lotta fun. What's more better then causing up a little chaos every now and then?"

"Dad... she scares me." Goku said quietly.

The woman then took notice of Goku the first time. "Well, well, who do we have here? Fresh meat? This'll be fun. Fresh meat are always fun to tenderize."

"I... I think we got the wrong room." Dr. Briefs said quickly, trying to keep Goku away from the crazy woman.

"Nonsense! I heard a new student named Goku was to attend in my class today. Now hand over the kid and be on your marry way, Gramps!"

Just then, a strand of her hair caught up in her nose and she let out a big sneeze. As soon as she sneezed; her hair turned navy blue and her face went from fierce and mean to kind and happy.

"Oh hello, you must be the new kid. My name is Launch, please just call me Launch. I am your new teacher. Oh dear, but first I need to get this class under control."

Goku and Dr. Briefs were completely caught off guard by this woman named Launch, who's actually a teenager, she went from nasty to nice in a split second!

"I guess this is what they mean by a split personaility." Goku noted.

Goku and Dr. Briefs watched in awe as the nice Launch clapped her hand and scolded all the little children for misbehaving. Telling them not to listen to her darkside whenever she sneezes. The children all apologized, though Goku's sure they don't mean it, but Launch just smiled and said it was time to greet the new kid.

"Alright everyone, this is Goku Briefs. He's new here so I want you all to be nice to him. No fighting, that means you, Troops." she said firmly to a brown haired boy wearing green shirt that says: 'Bite Me' with black pants. The boy known as Troops just turned away annoyed.

Dr. Briefs smiled at Goku and said, "Have fun, Goku. Well, Mrs. Launch, I leave him to you." With that, he left the classroom.

Goku decided to try and talk to some of the kids, maybe he could make some new friends. He started out with some boys playing with action figures.

"Uh hey, I uh... could I join you?" Goku asked friendly, trying to make new friends.

One of the boy's looked at him and said, "So you're the new kid, Goku right?"

"I sure am." Goku nodded, still smiling hopping this'll work out.

"Let me ask you something: why do you have a tail? Did you superglue it to your overalls or something?" one of them teased.

Uh-oh, this isn't looking good already. Goku nervously thought, subconscious about his tail once again.

"Uh... y-yeah." Goku lied, he was never fond of lying, but he was desperate to make some new friends on his first day of school. He heard Bulma was really popular in her school. "My dad's a scientist a-and he wanted m-me to s-see what's it like to have a t-tail."

Some of the girls came over with their dolls. Hearing Goku's lie, they giggled. "Yeah right, I'll bet that tail's real and he's just lying, the freak."

"N-no! This isn't a real tail!" Goku wished he cut off his tail or something, but that would've been extremly painful, especially since just pulling on his tail hurt him enough.

"Come on guys, stop picking on the new kid." someone said from behind them.

Goku was surprised to see it was a bald kid, about his age and wore a yellow robe like clothing with orange pants. The boy looked like a monk or something.

"Oh look, if it isn't the Monk of Orin Temple. Did your 'brothers' kick you out again? And why are you defending this freak with the tail? If he really did superglue it to his butt then that makes him a freak too." one of the girls teased him.

"Look, just because someone have a different interest in something doesn't mean you should treat them like an outcast." the boy said.

"Says the outcast himself." they all pointed accusingly at the bald boy.

Goku heard enough and decided to defend the bald boy who was defending him. "Hey, knock it off. It's not nice to treat someone an outcast just because they're different from you."

"Come on guys, let's leave the baldy and monkey boy alone." one of the boys said as the children left the two alone.

"Thanks for sticking up for me." the bald boy said gratefully to Goku.

"I should be thanking you for sticking up for me." Goku smiled cheerfully at him.

"By the way, my name is Krillin. What's your name?"

"Oh me? Weren't you listening to Launch? It's Goku."

"Oh right, sorry about that. Hmm... is your tail real or not?" Krillin asked curiously looking at Goku's tail.

"Uh... well..." Goku hesitated, he didn't want Krillin to leave him too if he found out his tail was indeed real.

Goku's hesitation was all the answer Krillin needed. "It's okay, Goku. I don't really mind if you do have a tail. It's unusual, but that's what makes you unique. Don't be afraid to be different. Being the same is pointless and boring."

Goku smiled, he never actually thought about it like that before. "You know, you're right. Thanks, Krillin. But what were those guys talking about you being a Monk at the Orin Temple? I've read about the place, but there's really not much about it."

Krillin sighed and said, "Well, I've been training over there since last year when I was four. I'm the weakest among the monks and I get bullied a lot. The Master sent me to this school in hopes of socializing with others, but it's not working out so great, espeically when everyone knows about me being the weakest."

Goku then thought about a solution. "Hey, how about you come over to my place and we can train together? I'm sure you'll get a lot stronger that way and you'll show those bullies a thing or two."

Krillin looked at Goku confused. "Eh? But with those glasses I assumed you're not much of a fighter."

Goku chuckled. "Nah, I don't ever need to use these glasses during training. I only use them to read words that are too small. I want to be a Scientist like Dad and my big sister as well as a Martial Arts master like the Legendary Master Roshi himself."

Krillin's eyes bulged out of his sockets. "THE Master Roshi? I heard about him too! I was thinking about becoming his pupil when I got older, but I heard he doesn't take students in very easily."

"Hmm... Hey, how about after we finish elementary school we go find Master Roshi and become his students together? I'm sure he'll accept both of us."

"You sure about that?"

"Yeah and maybe we could even participate in the World Martial Arts Tournament too! It's going to be so much fun!" Goku chuckled happily while his tail waved in the air.

Of course, due to his tail moving around like that, all the children took noticed and immediantly began making fun of him. Calling him 'Monkey Boy' or 'Tailed Kid'. Launch scolded them all for making fun of Goku just for something he was born with. Of course, whenever she sneezes and turn into the 'evil' Launch, she too starts calling him a freak.

Goku, although angered and depressed by everyone's treatment to him just because of his tail, he was not discouraged about being different. Krillin and Goku hung out together because they were both considered 'outcast' to everyone else.

It wasn't until Launch (the nice one) took everyone outside to play did something happened. Remember that boy Launch scolded earlier? Troops.

Troops watched Goku and Krillin chatting away while everyone else played on the swings, seasaws and whatever was on the playground.

"I think it's time I show them what I do to outcasts like them." Troops smirked.

"I still want to know why Wolf Man and Man Wolf turns into a wolf and/or human whenever they see the full moon? I mean I've never actually seen a real full moon before because I always go to bed so early, but it's kind of ridiculous that a rock in the sky could transform anyone into something else, don't you think?" Goku said to Krillin while his tail twitched involuntary whenever he mentions 'full moon'.

Krillin sighed, they've been having this conversation ever since Launch told them the story about the were-wolves (kid version, not gruesome). Apparently Goku's been having trouble finding logic that a full moon could turn someone into a vicious, bloodthirsty animal and it's bothering him.

"I don't know Goku, and I don't really care to be franked. You should really see a real full moon though, just looking at it in pictures don't give you the same feel as the real one does." Krillin said.

"If I ever find the time, maybe I will." Goku sighed and grabbed his tail to make it stop twitching, it was irritating him.

Troops then approached the two 'outcasts' of the school. "Oh Krillin, I'm so glad to see you've brought fresh meat."

Krillin glared at the boy. "Leave us alone, Troops. Launch told you not to start a fight again."

"Krillin, what's up with him?" Goku asked, wanting to know why Troops would always cause fights in a Kindergarden school.

Krillin explained. "If you studied more about school rather then Wolf Man and the moon, you'd know that in every school there's always a School Bully. Troops is the School Bully around here. He's tough and he'll do anything to cause trouble and he even steals anything you have prescious to you."

Goku knew about School Bullies, they're actually insecure people who became jerks and hurt other people. Goku knew he was strong enough to take down Troops, but didn't want to cause trouble.

"Baldy here is smart. I have a reputation for being a tough bully. Now either you hand over anything you have valuble or I'll give a real experience on what a bully does to his toys." Troops smirked evilly, cracking his knuckles.

"His dad actually participated in the World Martial Arts Tournament before and taught his son how to fight. I'd give him what he wants Goku, or he'll just kick your tail." Krillin warned his new and only friend.

Kick my tail? That actually sounds painful. Goku grimace at the thought of someone actually kicking his only weakness.

"I'm sorry Troops, but I don't really have anything with me right now." Goku apologized. He didn't actually have anything besides his glasses and the clothes he wore right now.

Troops actually smirked even wider. "You don't? Oh well, that's too bad. I was actually hopping you would say that; because now I can finally pound my first fresh meat in a long time. Prepare yourself, Monkey Boy."

Troops charged at Goku. Goku easily evaded him by sidestepping and caused the bully five year old to run into the monkey bars.

"He's so careless. It's easy to avoid his attack." Goku said.

"Just becareful, Goku." Krillin warned.

"Why you! You're not going to make a monkey out of me, Tailed Kid!" Troops angerily charged at him again.

Goku was about to avoid him and knock him out by tapping his pressure points, but then he suddenly had an overpowering headache. Another vision of the future soon made its way to his head.

*Vision*

What's this? Huh? Waaaah! What's a giant ape monster doing here? It's huge! And it's destroying our house!

I've gotta stop it! Wait... where's Bulma? I see Mom and Dad are outside, but where is my sister?

"Please stop it! You're going to destroy the whole city! Please stop!" I heard Bulma screaming at the giant ape monster.

I tried screaming at Bulma to get away, but she can't hear me. The ape monster roared loudly before shooting some kind of energy beam from its mouth at the city and destroyed everything! This is horrible! That monster is going to destroy the city and kill everyone!

*End vision*

Goku heard Krillin calling his name and opened his eyes, finding himself lying on the ground with Launch, Krillin and a bunch of children surronding him.

"Huh? What... what happened? Where am I?" Goku asked, confused that he's lying on the ground and his stomach hurts, like someone just rammed into it.

"Don't you remember, Goku? You just suddenly got a headache then Troops headbutted you right in the gut." Krillin told him.

Goku realized that vision or whatever it was caused him to be cut off from the real world for a brief moment. In a fight, that moment could be fatal, he's just glad that boy wasn't so strong or he'd be in the hospital.

"You're a tough kid, I'll give ya that. You took a big blow right in the gut and you're not shedding a tear, I like that. I have a feeling you and I will get along great, Goku." Launch said, yup, she's in her 'evil' form and Goku just impressed her.

"What happened to you?" Krillin asked his friend in concern.

"Monkey Boy just got clobbered by Troops, that's what happened to him." the kids laughed.

Goku ignored them and said, "I'm... not sure. One minute I was about to knock out Troops, then the next I was seeing some kind of giant ape monster tearing my house and the city apart."

"Really? You must've had a bad dream or something. Did you watch King Kong last night or what?" Krillin asked.

"How fitting for Monkey Boy to watch a Monkey Movie." the kids laughed again.

"N-no. I wasn't watching any movies. I don't even know why I saw that..." Goku secretly hopes he's not going crazy.

"Alright, enough with the laughing. All ya GET BACK TO PLAYIN!" Launch yelled at the other kids and they immediantly went back to the playgound.

"Here, let me help you up, Goku." Krillin said giving him a hand.

"Thanks. Where's my glasses?" Goku just realized his glasses are missing.

"That meanie Troops broke it. So Launch had to throw it away." Krillin explained as Goku grumbled.

The first day of school finally ended. Goku was picked up by Dr. Briefs. Dr. Briefs asked how his first day of school went. Goku answered that he made a new friend, but a bully also targetted him.

"Oh dear me. Well, promise me, Goku; that you would not get into a fight with Troops. The last thing we need is an injured child on our hands."

"Don't worry Dad, I promise." Goku didn't mention that little vision he had about the giant ape monster, maybe he's just stressed out from being called Monkey Boy and Tailed Kid all day. But it did happen before he went to school, the vision of him and Bulma looking for something called Dragon Balls. Maybe he should take a break from all that training and studying, it's probably causing his brain to hallucinate.

Back at Capsule Corp, Goku told Bulma about what happened in school.

"Wow, sounds like you've already got it tough, but how did that bully Troops hurt you? I mean I've seen you train, there's no way some bully would be able to get the better of you so easily."

Goku sighed. "Well... big sister... there's something that's been bothering me lately and I need you to keep it a secret. You can't tell anyone, not even Mom and Dad, okay?"

Bulma blinked, what could Goku be worried about so much that he's not willing to tell their parents?

"Okay, I promise. Now spill, what's got you so anxious?"

"Lately I've been getting these... visions. I don't know why or how, but I think it's possible they're visions of the future. I saw things I don't remember ever happening. I saw you and me and we were older, I think I was around eleven or twelve and you look to be around fifteen or sixteen. Anyway, there's another vision I had that caused me to get hit by Troops and it's a really nasty one."

Goku stopped to look at Bulma, she seems to be thinking about it. "What was your second vision about?" she asked hesitantly.

Goku gulped and answered. "I saw some kind of giant ape monster rampaging the city. It destroyed our house and fired some kind of energy beam at the city. I saw Mom, Dad and you yelling at it to stop, but I didn't see me anywhere. I hope I didn't get eaten or crushed or something."

Bulma thought about this hard. She's heard theories about some people being psychic and able to see the future, but most of the time it was just a hoax to gain money from gullible people. She knew her little brother would never lie unless he was desperate, he had no reason to lie about this and he seemed genuinly worried.

"I don't know if you're psychic or anything, but if what you saw is indeed the future, then we better get ourselves prepared for that giant ape monster. In the vision, can you remember anything that would give us a clue as to when this might happen?"

Goku thought about it before saying, "I think you looked about the same age as you were in my first vision. Which means it'll happen appromixatly seven years from now."

Bulma gave a smile. "Then we should have more then enough time to prepare for any giant monster attacks. Don't worry about it little brother, your big sister will handle it just fine." the nine year old genius gave a big laugh of triumph already.

"Oh yeah, is it okay if Krillin comes over to train? He's my new friend I told you about." Goku suddenly changed the subject.

Bulma smiled at him. "Sure it's okay. It's great you're finally making new friends Goku, even if he is bald."

Goku sweatdropped, if there's one thing about the nine year old girl that'll never change it's that she's really picky about boys, not counting family of course. Goku knew girls mature a lot faster then boys, Bulma's already showing signs of a teenager when she's only nine years old. Just wait until she becomes thirteen.

Chapter 3, Survival of the Outcasts

Goku and Krillin has been hanging out ever since they first met. About after a month being in Kindergarden, Goku invited Krillin over to Capsule Corp where he showed Krillin the trainning room. Goku wore his blue gi, the same one he always wear for trainning ever since he got it from his fourth birthday. The bald boy was beyond impressed with everything in the giant Capsule Corp.

"Wow, you're so lucky to be born as part of the Briefs. They're really famous inventors and only special guests are allowed to even visit them. How come you never told anyone else at school about this?" Krillin was in awe and questioned his best and only friend about his heritage.

Goku looked back at his friend and said, "I don't want people to be my friends just because I come from a rich and famous family. Besides, I wasn't born here I was adobted when I was a baby just on the outskirts of this city."

"You were? Then who were your real parents then? Did they have tails too? Why did they abandon you like that?" Krillin bombared Goku with questions.

Goku sighed and answered each one in order. "Yes I was. I don't know who my parents were so I don't know if they had tails. I also don't know why they abandoned me either. They probably couldn't afford to keep me anymore."

Now it was Krillin's turn to sigh. "Aw man, there's so much about you I don't know and you yourself don't know."

"I know, but that's what makes it all the more exciting to find out. I've been wondering if my parents were probably half monkey or something, I mean why else would I be born with a monkey's tail?" Goku smiled.

"That's probably a good theory. Anyway, how are we going to train?"

"Well I usually train with the animals, but most of the time I enjoy trainning using the simulation room." Goku grinned as he pointed at a bigger room, it was just a plain white room.

"Eh? What's so special about this place? It's just a big empty room." Krillin was disappointed and obviously didn't know what 'simulation' means.

Goku laughed at Krillin's naiveness and said, "No, no, the simulation is something like being in a movie. Here, I'll show you."

Goku went to the controls on the otherside of the glass window, Krillin just stood there waiting for something to happen. Goku grinned mischeviously, knowing a good way to really surprise the bald boy. The boy with the tail pushed a big red button.

Krillin jumped when he suddenly found himself in the middle of a jungle. "G-Goku! What happened? Where am I? Where are you?"

Just then, the little monk saw something moving in the bushes. Krillin gulped as he anxiously awaited what was in those bushes. A little lion cub soon came out, looking curiously at Krillin, who gave a sigh of relief.

"Hey there little guy, you gave me quite a scare. Do you know how I can get back home?" Krillin asked the little lion cub.

Suddenly, a much bigger and meaner lion jumped out of the bush and nearly pounced the poor boy who wet himself and managed to jump out of the way in a neck of time.

"N-Nice lion... please don't e-eat me!" Krillin begged ready to cry.

The lion launched at the boy again, only this time Goku jumped in and kicked the lion away. "Hey Krillin, don't get scared, it's not real."

Krillin looked up to see Goku there, he was hugely relieved. "Goku! How did we get here? We have to get back home before we're eaten alive!"

"Relax Krillin, none of this is real. It's all just a simulation. The lions, the wild animals aren't real. In other words: it's all one big movie and we're in it." Goku explained the best he can for an ordinary six year old to understand him. Krillin just turned six last week.

"Huh? A movie?"

"Yeah, it's kind of like... being in a dream, only a little more realistic. If you 'die' or managed to find a way out of here, then the simulation will end and we'll be back in that white room." Goku explained again.

Krillin nodded, beginning to understand. "I think I understand, this way we'll be able to train ourselves without the risk of getting eaten. Smart! Let's do this!"

"Okay, we'll work together to get out of this crazy jungle."

The two kids ran around the jungle, fighting all the wild animals they came across. Goku was impressed Krillin was able to hold his own despite belittling himself on his own strength, he could also see Krillin was very determined to show he's not a weakling. Both of them soon managed to find a way out of the jungle, thus ending the simulation and they found themselves back in the plain white room again.

"That was great how you handled yourself back there, Krillin. Keep that up and we'll be able to train with Master Roshi in no time." Goku chuckled happily.

Krillin was shocked to see the jungle suddenly turned into the white room again, but gave a wide smile across his face. "That was amazing Goku! We should do that again!"

Goku was happy to finally find someone else trainning with him in the simulation room. "We will, but let's try fighting some robots now."

Goku activated some fighting robots, each one armed with weapons and lasers. Krillin was nervous. "Are you sure they won't kill us?"

"Don't worry, my big sister and Dad designed these robots themselves, they'll shut down if it gets too dangerous." Goku reassured his shaking friend.

The two jumped and ran around, dodging the mini-lasers. Once they got into close combat, they had to keep moving to keep themselves from getting hit by the weapons like a metal baseball bat or something that resembled an egg beater and frying pan oddly enough.

"Mom put those parts there from the kitchen." Goku briefly explained before jumping away from another mini-laser.

Goku had enough with dodging and decided to engage combat. The young tailed boy kicked the robot into pieces. Krillin tried to do the same, but the monk's kick wasn't powerful enough to break it, but it was enough to put a crack in it. Soon, the two boys managed to destroy all the robots.

"You sure we don't have to clean the parts up?" Krillin asked Goku as they walked out of the giant garden and into the hallway.

"Nah, the cleaning robots do that. We can train some more, but I want you to meet my family first."

For the next few hours, Goku gave Krilliln a tour around the giant house. Then he introduced his dad first, who was working on a new invention as always. Then he introduced his mom, who just finished baking cookies and was more then happy to give them to the two boys.

While Goku and Krillin were eating their treats, they continued the tour. Goku lead Krillin to Bulma's room. "This is my big sister, Bulma's room. She's a genius and loves to invent high-tec stuff as well as take them apart to see what's in them."

Krillin could see that as the six-year old looked and mostly saw gadgets and gizmoes all over the place, most were taken apart. "I'm glad I'm not a machine. What about you, Goku?"

Goku just gave him a grin. "Me? I'm not all that into technology. I'm more of a bio researcher. I like to learn about the things in the world and possibly what else could be out there in the vast universe like other intelligent lifeforms... you know, aliens. I'm also into fighting, that's why I want to train a lot too."

"Wow, someone who has brains and brawns. There aren't too many of those since they usually go one way or the other." Krillin said with a grin.

"To be honest I never use to be interested in the idea of studying, only fighting, but I look up to my big sister and decided I should try to be more like her, so I started hitting the books. Researching turns out to be something of interest after all. If it weren't for Bulma I'd probably be a naive little muscle boy." Goku chuckled.

Just then, the said person came into the room and was surprised to see her adoptive little brother and his friend were in there. "Oh Goku, you surprised me. Why are you in here with this bald boy?"

Goku smiled. "Hey big sis! I was just showing my friend Krillin around. Hope you don't mind, Bulma."

Bulma sighed. "That's fine you want to show your friend around, but please don't come in here without my permission again."

"Sorry about that, I guess I forgot you like your privacy more then I do. Come on Krillin, I want you to see my room now." Goku laughed as he pulled Krillin away from Bulma's room.

Bulma sighed and gave a little smile. "That kid, he always liked to barge in to my room. Oh well, at least he's finally making friends his own age."

Goku's room was cleaner then Bulma's, he had bookshelves and a laptop on a desk as well as a king sized bed.

"I don't spend a lot of time in here, only when I sleep or doing some research." Goku explained while Krillin looked around in awe once again.

"This is amazing Goku! You have everything here!" Krillin's grin was so wide that Goku thought his face would split for a second.

"It's nice and all, but I'd rather learn how to survive on my own. When I was three years old, I would spend a lot of time in the garden as if it was the wild. It's good trainning and it keeps me from being too dependent on money and houses."

"But if you're so smart, then why do you go to school and let others pick on you?"

"It's so I can spend time with kids my own age. Besides, if I hadn't then I wouldn't have met you, Krillin."

"I guess that's true. But why don't you ever beat up Troops when he tries to beat you up?"

"Troops isn't that strong and I only fight people who are very powerful and tries to hurt others."

"... What are you a saint? Oh well, I guess that's what makes you my friend."

"Come on, let's go train some more." Goku said happily as he and Krillin ran out of the house laughing together.

*Montage of Goku and Krillin's Elementary School Days*

Goku and Krillin spent their Kindergarden days as outcasts. All the kids would make fun of them just because one is bald and gets beat up in Orin Temple and the other is a freak with a tail.

Launch got fired as a teacher when the superiors learned she had a personality disorder and could endanger the children. So they got a new teacher called Mrs. Knucka, a mean old woman who enjoys tormenting kids.

Ever since Mrs. Knucka came in, all the kids were forced to behave and got smacked on the bottom (spankings) if they broke a simple rule. Many missed Launch as she was a much nicer (or more dangerous) then this mean one.

Goku and Krillin were despised by both kids and teacher. It happened when Troops pulled a prank on Mrs. Knucka by supergluing her bottom to her chair and all the kids blamed the two outcasts for it even when they clearly saw it was Troops. Goku and Krillin tried to deny it, but Knucka was far too stubborn to believe only two boys when the entire class was against them.

The two outcasts took the brunt of the teasings, mockings, beatings and punishments from their fellow students and teacher, but the two boys were far from dicourage as they saw this as another part of trainning: a test of willpower and endurence.

Goku didn't have any other visions, however, one day he had another one.

*Vision*

I see me as a twelve year old again and I'm fighting some kind of... man? This guy looks around Bulma's future age. I was fighting him with some kind red stick? The stick suddenly grew and knocked the man's gut, then it retracted back to its original size.

That stick seems unbreakable because when the stick and that guy's sword collided the sword broke and the stick stood strong. I also noticed we were in some kind of desert... looks like the Diablo Desert I saw in my books, but why would I be there?

"That's quite a weapon you've got there monkey boy. Where did you get that? Who gave it to you?" the man demanded of my counterpart.

My older counterpart answered, "I got this from a great man called Gohan. He entrusted me with this valuble weapon just before he died."

"The extending Power Pole, I've heard of such a weapon. No wonder it tore through my sword like fragile glass. I must have it. Hand it over or prepare to fight to the death, kid."

"No! I promised him I would take care of it as well as his Dragon Ball!" my counterpart retalitated and sounded ticked off.

*End Vision*

Goku blinked, it's been a while since he had a vision of the future. Goku went home and told Bulma, the only other person who knew about his visions.

"I think I was in the Diablo Desert and I was fighting some guy who looked to be sixteen. I was using some kind of red stick that can grow and shrink and it appears unbreakable. The man's sword got broken after it smashed the stick. I heard my older counterpart saying I got it from a great man called Gohan and that he entrusted it to me before he died. The man said it was called the Power Pole and wanted it. My counterpart sounded angry and said I promised to take care of it as well as his... Dragon Ball, whatever that is."

"What about me? Where was I?" Bulma asked curiously.

Goku shook his head. "I didn't see you."

Bulma just shook her own head. "Oh well. I've been doing some research on those Dragon Balls you told me about in your visions. I can't get much from the Internate though, I'll have to investigate a little more before I can come up with anything useful. The only thing I'm getting is that they're small, orange with red stars and that there are only seven in the world."

"Only seven? Wow they must be worth a lot." Goku said in shock with wide curious eyes.

Bulma giggled at her child brother's reaction. "No kidding, but I think there's something more to them then just being rare jewelry and I'm going to find out what, no matter how long it takes."

Goku smiled, even if they weren't biologically related, both of them shared the same determination. "Maybe I could find out about my visions too someday."

*Montage continues...*

After a year went by, Goku and Krillin are now out of Kindergarden and are in First Grade. Goku is now six years old and Krillin is seven, being eight months older then the boy with the tail.

While their Kindergarden days people treated them like outcasts, in First Grade they were still outcasts, but at least some of the students talked to them instead of picking on them like the others.

First Grade wasn't as bad as Kindergarden, especially since Troops got expelled after trying to dump a bucket of cold water over the teacher's face and tried but failed miserably to blame Goku and Krillin.

Another year another grade, the boys are now in Second Grade. The two spent more time trainning and studying rather then with the other students since they were still treated as outcasts. Krillin told Goku he's doing a lot better against the bullies in Orin Temple, but he was still not strong enough to much against them. Goku told Krillin they won't get any stronger faster if they don't find a master to train them.

Five more years went by and soon the two boys are about to graduate from Sixth Grade and get out of Elementary School for good. Goku is now twelve years old and Krillin is thirteen. Even after all this time, they were still outcasts, but at least they made it through together. Goku still had his tail and never saw a full moon, Krillin was still bald and still gets his butt kicked at the Orin Temple.

"Tomorrow is when we finally graduate from the Sixth Grade and we can finally start the real trainning with Master Roshi." Goku said to Krillin.

Krillin sighed. "It felt like it was only yesterday we were only in Kindergarden. Goku, are you sure Master Roshi would even take us in? I mean the Legendary Turtle Hermit hardly takes in students anymore."

Goku just gave him an assuring smile. "You still worried about that? We just have to be more positive, I'm sure Master Roshi will take us in and teach us."

Krillin then thought of something. "After we graduate, I'm going to be spending some time in the Orin Temple, so you should spend some time at home before going to become Master Roshi's pupil. By the way, I heard there's going to be a full moon tomorrow night, why don't you stay up later then usual and actually see it?"

Goku's tail twitched. "A full moon? Yeah, I guess I can stay up late tomorrow, I've always wanted to see the real moon in its fullest rather then just in papers."

"I just hope we don't have to finish Middle and High School too, I heard they're much worse then Elementary School." Krillin said nervously.

"Well I think I'll travel the world after we finish trainning with Master Roshi, I've always wanted to exeperience the world."

"That sounds nice, maybe I will too if I can ever leave the Orin Temple."

"Well we'll just worry about tomorrow's graduation."

That night, Goku told his parents and big sister about the big graduation. "Dear me, you're growing up so fast Goku, you're already graduating from Elementary School." Dr. Briefs said astounded by how fast time flies and his black cat mewed.

"I should make a big graduation cake for my dear boy, oh better make it extra big considering your monsterous appetite." Mrs. Breifs laughed.

Goku blushed, he had always eaten so much more then the normal human could. One time he was so hungry he ended up eating over 52 full course meals and still had room for dessert.

Then Goku remembered something. "Hey Bulma, can we go out and see the moon tomorrow night? It's going to be full and I've never seen a real full moon."

"Sure thing kid, you're about to graduate from Elementary School, so you deserve to be able to stay up as long as you want." Bulma smiled, not realizing the danger she and her family are about to be in.

"Thanks big sis!" Goku's tail wavered around excitedly.

Chapter 4, Goku Goes Ape and the Secrets of the Dragon Balls

Graduation was boring and long for Goku and Krillin, but some parents were whispering about why Goku had a tail when he was a human. Other then that, they got their certificate and it was time to go home before they knew it.

"I guess I'll be seeing you later Krillin." Goku waved good-bye.

'Yeah, see ya Goku!" Krillin happily waved to his long time friend before they went their seperate ways.

Tonight was the full moon and Goku was anxious to see it. "Hey Goku, I just found something very interesting about the Dragon Balls."

"Great, could you tell me later Bulma? I want to see the moon first." Goku said excitedly.

"Gosh, you sure are excited just to see some floating rock in the sky." Bulma smiled. She is now fifteen and will become sixteen in a few days.

"I don't know why myself, maybe it's because I've been trying to find out why the full moon causes the Wolf Man and Man Wolf to transformed into a wolf and vice versa for the Man Wolf. Even to this day I still can't figure it out. Maybe if I saw the real moon I could find the answer."

"Okay, but I'm still not sure how that's going to help you." Bulma rolled her eyes.

"Bulma are you inetersted in getting a boyfriend?" Goku suddenly asked out of the blue.

"Huh? Where did that come from? Have you been reading my diary again?"

Goku sweatdropped. "No, I heard you talking about kissing a guy when you turned sixteen when you were watching the soap opera again."

Bulma blushed. "Oh... did I say that out loud?"

"What kind of guy are you even looking for? You've always been picky about a boy." Goku asked curiously.

Bulma gave a girly grin. "What I'm looking for has to be my age, must be tall, must be a strong and a complete hunk. I've been dreaming about the day I turn sixteen and my parents let me drive so I can travel to get the Dragon Balls and get myself the perfect boyfriend."

Goku blinked. "Why do you need the Dragon Balls to get the man you're looking for?"

"Oh silly, I forgot I haven't told you what I found about yet. Don't worry, I'll tell you soon. Oh hey, look the moon is out and it is full tonight. Just look at it Goku, it's really beautiful." Bulma said dreamily while she looked at the big white round moon.

Goku looked up and for the first time in his young life saw the moon to its fullest. "Wow, it is beautiful. That glow it radiates from the sun is... captivating."

Goku then felt strange, his eyes grew wide, his tail began twitching more then ever before. He stopped moving and could feel his body thumping from his heartbeat, his pupils turned red.

*Ba-thump, ba-thump, ba-thump, ba-thump, ba-thump*

Bulma turned her head to her little brother when she heard his heart beating so loud. "Goku? Are you okay? What's wrong?" she waved a hand in front of his face, but he didn't react and kept staring at the moon with his body still thumping.

"Hey! Snap out of it! What's wrong?" Bulma was worried for her little brother now, why is he suddenly so still? Why are his pupils suddenly red?

Soon, Goku's body started to get bulkier, he started growing in size, his teeth became sharper, he started growling like an animal. Bulma flinched and backed away from the rapidly changing boy.

"Mom! Dad! Something's happening to Goku!" Bulma shouted. Then she saw Goku was becoming bigger, brown hair sprouted all over his body, his clothes got torn, his mouth and nose grew out into a snout, his entire eyes were now blood red. Bulma remembered the description Goku told her in his vision seven years ago, about a giant ape monster rampaging and destroying the city and that he didn't see himself anywhere.

"No way... could the monster Goku saw destroying the city was... himself?" Bulma ran out of the room as Goku soon grew too big and smashed through the ceiling, she evacuated her parents just before the entire house came crumbling down.

Now as the giant monkey monster called the Great Ape, Goku roared like a true beast and began demolishing the once giant house.

"Goodness me, did you feed one of those monkeys that super pill again dear?" Mrs. Briefs asked her husband as though nothing was wrong and that there wasn't a giant monster destroying their house.

"No, I don't believe I did honey." Dr. Briefs said though he was a little more scared then his wife.

"Don't you two get it! That's Goku! For some reason when he looked at the full moon he transformed into that and is now rampaging! If we don't turn him back somehow he'll destroy the entire city!" Bulma screamed at them remember all too well of Goku's prediction coming true tonight, if only they knew it was Goku himself that became the monster.

"Goku? How in the world did he turn into that giant monkey?" Dr. Briefs was in shock and astounded by this transformation.

"I guess I should've baked a much larger cake." Mrs. Briefs still acted like there was nothing wrong.

Bulma couldn't believe she's the only one in this family with common sense... or any sense at all. "Whatever, you two stay here out of range, I'm going to try and talk some sense into Goku before he destroys everything."

"Watch out for his big feet darling!" Dr. Briefs called out in concern as his daughter ran towards her rampaging brother.

"GOKU! IT'S ME BULMA!" Bulma yelled up at Great Ape Goku, who stopped thrashing about and looked down at her.

"Don't you remember me? I'm your big sister. Listen Goku, you can't keep rampaging around like this, do you really want that vision of yours coming true? Do you really want to destroy this city? The place you were raised in?" Bulma hopped she was getting through to the big ape, hopping the little kid she knew so well was still in there somewhere.

Great Ape Goku didn't seem to acknowledge anything she said unfortunaly, he just growled and tried to stomp on her, luckily the girl was smart enough to roll out of the way before he could crush her. Bulma couldn't believe she was almost killed by her little brother, he was definetly out of control.

Great Ape Goku stormed around the city and roared loudly, people were running out of their houses and buildings while screaming in fear. Great Ape Goku pounded his chest like a true ape would and kept roaring before facing the city.

Bulma decided to try again, she ran up to the giant monkey. "Please stop it! You're going to destroy the whole city! Please stop!" Bulma yelled in desperation.

Great Ape Goku didn't listen to her and opened his mouth and shot out a massive energy blast, causing a huge explosion all across the city. All the buildings were now in ruins, people were badly hurt. Many cops tried shooting the giant monkey, but the bullets didn't do squat against the Great Ape and it only annoyed him like an annoying bug bite.

Great Ape Goku roared visciously and started blasting the police with that energy blast. Bulma rushed over to her parents.

"Looks like Goku is going through a phase." Dr. Briefs said simply.

"I knew I should've made a bigger cake." Mrs. Briefs sighed.

"Listen to the two of you! Goku's out there destroying the city and that's all you have to say?" Bulma growled in annoyance to her parents' ignorance.

"Now now Bulma, we know what's going on. But didn't you prepare for this very situation?" her dad said.

Bulma suddenly remembered, after the warning Goku gave her about the giant monster, she and her dad have been working on an underground shelter to protect the people from its deadly assualt until it goes away.

"That's it! We can get everyone underground until the next morning and Goku turns back to normal!" Bulma knew just what to do.

While Great Ape Goku continued his rampaging, Bulma made an announment to the entire city, using a microphone to spread her voice through out the ruined city, it was loud enough to for everyone to hear even through the giant monkey's roars.

"EVERYONE! YOU MUST GET UNDERGROUND IF YOU WANT TO LIVE! TAKE ALL YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND ANYONE ELSE WHO'S INJURED UNDERGROUND, MY PARENTS WILL LEAD YOU THERE. HURRY!"

People started to scurry, glad they finally found a safe haven from the violant giant monkey. Great Ape Goku continued his rampage, never noticing the people moving underground with Bulma looking for stragglers and her parents patiently leading them to safey as if it was just a plane trip to Hawaii.

Soon Bulma could detect no more people in the city. "Good that's everyone. Well Goku, I hope when you wake up tomorrow you'll be ready to go on a little adventure with me." she already knew how to fix the damages and that Goku would be guilty and will want to help too, but she'll have to wait until Great Ape Goku turns back to normal and she hurried into the underground before Great Ape Goku notices her.

All night long with the full moon, Great Ape Goku launched energy beams causing huge explosions and stomping around wildly, mindlessly destroying everything in sight. At least there were no innocent bystanders to get crushed or caught in the explosion.

*The next morning*

Goku, now naked, woke up groggily. Goku sat up and rubbed his aching head, he felt as if his body had been ran over by ten trains. When he opened his eyes and got a good look around, he started to panic when he saw he was naked and was lying in a rubbled city... or what was left of it.

"Wh-what happened here? Where is everybody? Why am I naked and why is everything destroyed?" Goku asked aloud desperate for some answers.

The only thing Goku could remember was looking at the full moon then... everything went black. Goku assumed he fell asleep, but he woke up with no clothes and in the middle of a destroyed place, he had a hard time to tell if it was a city or not.

When Goku got enough strength, he stood up and began walking around, trying to find any other sentients around. It felt like a ghost town.

"What happened here? It's like three tornadoes and five nuclear bombs went off here. How in the world did I sleep through it all?" Goku wondered to himself until he spotted a familiar destroyed house, there wasn't much left but he could tell it was Capsule Corp, his home.

"OH-NO! My home! What happened to it? This place... it's West City! It's all been destroyed and in only one night? Could it have been that monster I saw seven years ago? If it was then... Bulma! That's where everyone is; underground!" Goku smiled and was happy knowing that everyone was safe underground.

Goku was about to go to the underground entrence to tell them the monster was gone now, but then two thoughts struck him that caused him to stop in his tracks: 1.) he had no clothes. 2.) why was he the only one above ground during the monster's rampage?

Goku first went back to what was left of his poor house and was glad to see his blue gi was still intact (he only wore the school uniform before he transformed) and put it on, glad he was no longer naked.

"Now I just gotta find Bulma and... huh?" Goku saw a video camera in the rubble, he was amazed the thing was still working. Curious, the boy wanted to see exactly what he missed last night, so he played back the scene just after he looked at the full moon.

Goku gasped and his eyes turned wide when he saw himself changing, Bulma ran out of the room just as he grew too big and smashed the ceiling. To Goku's horror, the camera was angeled just right so he could see Bulma screaming at his Great Ape form to stop, just like in his vision, but to no avail. While he was busy rampaging, he saw Bulma and their parents gathering everyone into the underground, but he did see a lot of injured people.

Goku turned off the camera, not needing to see more to know he was the one who caused all this damage. "I never knew... I would be that monster. The full moon... that light it radiated... it must've caused me to transform like the Wolf Man and Man Wolf do. It's not the moon itself, I know that, but rather something the moon reflects that causes it."

Goku sighed, he felt extremly guilty. "My home... the city... everything is now in ruins because of me. Why did I have to look at the full moon? I've destroyed everything! I must never look at the full moon again for safety of the everyone else."

Goku solemnly made his way to the underground enterence where he pushed the button that rang through the underground like a doorbell. Bulma slowly opened the metalic doors and saw Goku as himself again.

"G-Goku?" she wanted to make sure.

"Hey Bulma, you can all come out now." Goku said with a forced smile trying to pretend nothing was wrong.

Bulma gave a breath of relief before turning around. "The cost is clear! We can now leave!"

With that, everyone started walking out of the underground shelter, none knew that Goku was the monster. They all walked out and many were devastated to see the state the once huge and bustling city was nothing more then piles of cement and broken glass.

Bulma's parents were busy trying to make sure everyone left the underground shelter. While Bulma and Goku were alone, they had a talk.

"Bulma... was it me who turned into a monster and destroyed everything?" Goku asked looking at the ground.

Bulma didn't like answering this; she loved her little brother and didn't want him to know the horrible truth, yet she knew she couldn't lie to him. "Yes Goku, I'm afraid you did."

For the first time since Bulma could remember, Goku shedded a tear and more soon followed. "Everyone's lost their home. They all lost their home and business and it's all my fault. I could've killed them! I was foolish to have wanted to look at the full moon! I should've known something like this would've happened especially after that vision warned me!"

Bulma had never seen Goku cry before, at least not since he became a year old. The poor kid was really heartbroken, he couldn't stand fighting bullies let alone destroying an entire city in one night.

Goku was on his knees, continually blaming himself. "You all took me in and I only payed you back by destroying not only your homes but the entire city!"

Bulma couldn't take it anymore. "Goku Briefs! Listen to me and listen to me good! It's NOT your fault, there was no way you could've known something like this would happen even with that vision. You had no control over yourself when you turned into that giant monkey. Stop blaming yourself, at least nobody was killed."

Goku looked at Bulma was watery eyes, both siblings looking at each other. "But even if I didn't kill anyone, I hurt them all badly in more ways then one. It would take years to rebuild this place because of me, it'll never be the same again."

"No, I have a way to fix everything. Listen to me Goku, I think it's time I told you the Legend of the Dragon Balls."

Goku sat down and listened to what his genius sister had to say. "The seven Dragon Balls were created a long time ago, much too long for anyone to remember. They each hold a mysterious and magical power. Legend has it that if you gather all seven of them then you could summon the Eternal Dragon and it will grant you a single wish, whatever it may be. This includes bringing the dead back to life or instaniously rebuilding a fallen city within seconds."

Goku's depressful and guilty eyes soon turned wide with joy and hope. "Y-you mean if we find all seven of these magic balls this wish granting dragon will fix the entire city!"

"That's right. I've been planning on hunting down those Dragon Balls on my sixteenth birthday to wish for the perfect boyfriend, but since West City is in desperate need of fixing, I'm going to put that wish on hold until after we restore the city."

Goku shot up and hugged his soon-to-be sixteen year old genious sister. "Bulma! I'm so happy! I'm so glad you're a genius and my sister! If it weren't for you, I don't know what I'd do!"

"Okay, easy there Goku, you hug me anymore and you'll crush me to death."

Goku let her go, then another thought came to mind. "But how will we find the Dragon Balls? They're scattered across the world aren't they?"

"No problem. After finding out the legend, I soon created this bad boy." Bulma showed him a little device with a dark green screen, she turned it on by pressing the top botton. Seven yellow dots appeared on screen.

"See these dots? Those are the Dragon Balls. This is called a Dragon Radar, it'll help us detect the Dragon Balls."

"But how were you able to make it track Dragon Balls? I mean I know you're a genius and all, but how are you able to make it without a Dragon Ball?"

"That's the best part. You're right, little brother, there's no way I could've made something that could track Dragon Balls without studying one. That's why I used this." Bulma took out an orange ball with two stars in it. Goku gasped when he saw it in her hands.

"B-Bulma! Is that a...!" Goku pointed at the ball, not believing it.

"Yup, it's a Dragon Ball. It turns out our Dad had it in his lab before I was even born. It was a family heirloom. When I mentioned the Dragon Balls and what they looked like, he gave it to me. I used it to help make the Dragon Radar." she explained, her grin never leaving her face.

"That's amazing! We can find the other Dragon Balls and restore the city! When can we leave?"

"Right away, I already have my Capsules ready for traveling. I'd figure you'd want to come along, so I packed what I needed while I was underground. I already told Mom and Dad about it and they agreed. So we'll be leaving as soon as you're ready little brother."

Goku smiled. "Of course I am. It's my fault this place is in rubble, so I want to find those Dragon Balls right away."

"That's the spirit kid, now let's see..." Bulma took out a Capule from her case, it was labled with the number 3 on it.

"This should do it." she pushed the button and threw it. After the smoke cleared, there was a vehical... a jeep.

"We're riding in this? Why not a hover car? We'd be able to go faster that way." Goku suggested.

"Because they had no hover cars. Now get in Goku." she said as she went in the driver's seat and Goku hopped in the passanger seat.

Goku remembered seeing this jeep in his vision seven years ago... come to think of it, he hadn't had another vision since he was five... maybe they were only temporarly? Oh well, now he knows how this vision came true.

"Here we go!" Bulma stepped on the gas and they took off. Goku was worried they were going too fast and would crash.

"Slow down Bulma! I don't want to die in a car crash!" he screamed with his tail wavering in fear.

"Oh don't worry about that kid, I know you'll be strong enough to handle that. Besides, you're going to be my bodyguard until we find those Dragon Balls!" Bulma said eagerly as she pushed the gas peddle even harder causing them to go faster.

"Why me?" Goku cried as he held on to the seats just in case his seat belt suddenly snapped from the airdraline.

And so, this marks the beginning of Goku and Bulma's quest for the seven magical Dragon Balls in hopes of restoring West City. Will Goku and Bulma be able to gather all seven Dragon Balls to restore West City to its former glory? What dangers await the two Briefs? Find out, on the next Chapter of Dragon Ball Rewritte, Of Past, Present and Future.