5 World's Strongest Tour

Traveling with Bulma was an interesting experience. She told me about her adventure with my brother. Their group was looking for the Dragon Balls when they were captured by Pilaf's group. While they were imprisoned Kakarot transformed into a great ape. The shape shifting pig Oolong managed to get her to safety. Unfortunately, a third party arrived on the scene stealing the balls from Pilaf during the commotion.

Bulma almost died from an attack from the mystery assailant, but was able to plant a tracker on it. Kakarot went on a rampage until the morning. When they were able to follow-up on the signal it had already gotten out of range. She had spent much of her time since then trying to design a signal booster to locate the tracker she placed. My brother's contract with her was up and he chose to go train with Master Roshi.

She originally came to the tournament to re-enlist my brother's help in getting revenge on the person who took the Dragon Balls. When I won the tournament she thought I would be a better choice. It wouldn't hurt to check it out because I don't remember this event ever happening in Dragon Ball. I let the blue haired sixteen year old drag me around for four months. Which is how we ended up at a frozen wasteland.

"Are you positive the tracker is in there?" I asked pointing at a half frozen metallic structure.

"I'm certain. Although from that hole it looks like this guy may have had company." she motioned to a large destroyed section of the structure.

"So what exactly are we going to do when we find the person you're looking for?" I asked.

"Well..." she thought for a moment, "Find out what they used the Dragon Balls to do and then you'll punch them."

For Bulma to be a genius she didn't really think this plan all the way through. That or she was completely fearless. It wasn't like I had to be here, but getting in good with Bulma now would allow me to reap many rewards later.

"Okay. Looks like it might be a long fall in." I said while examining the hole.

I gently held my companion's waist and floated down into the building. The inside of the metal structure was dimly lit. The place seemed to be operating on very low power. The place did seem to be familiar to me.Bulma ignited a glow rod which allowed me to have a better look at our surroundings. It became instantly clear to me where we were.

Doctor Wheelo's lab.

The lab from the Dragon Ball movie The World's Strongest existed and we were in it. This raised all sorts of questions. Was this a movie universe? This lab should not have shown up until much later if it was the movie verse. We were in a very dangerous situation right now. If this was like the movie the people here would have power levels up to thirty-six thousand. It had been years since I last used my scouter, but I'm sure my power isn't anywhere near thirty-six thousand.

Was it better to run? To stay?

In the end we decided to keep going.

We walked through rooms filled with large tanks and test tubes, some filled with grotesque half finished creatures. It didn't take long to find the cylindrical elevator shaft that lead into the lower lab where Dr. Wheelo's brain is preserved. The elevator was already lowered so I had to fly Bulma down again. This time she hopped into my arms princess carry style. I was near to my full adult size so holding her this way didn't look awkward.

On the way down we could hear voices speaking. After entering the large basement lab we tried to keep out of sight to better find out what was going on. An old man in a white lab coat was speaking to someone on a giant monitor. Next to him was a green skinned mutant the height of a fourteen year-old human.

"Once again Dr. Kochin. Thank you for your hard work over the years." the mechanical voice on the monitor said.

"It was my pleasure Dr. Wheelo. I have gathered the rest of our research and will be joining you and our new partner soon." Kochin responded.

"I'm pleased you were able to find our new friend he has been most accommodating." Dr. Wheelo said.

"To think I probably never would have met him if the Dragon Balls weren't stolen from when I tried to use them to melt the ice encasing the lab. To melt the ice I had to look elsewhere, but it worked out for the best." Kochin explained.

The mutant next to Dr. Kochin became animated as soon as the monitor was turned off. It alerted the doctor that there were intruders in the lab. Dr. Kochin saw us and panicked.

"Kishime hold them off while I escape. Even though you weren't able to fully mature a couple of humans should be no problem for a bio-man." the elderly scientist cackled, "Join Dr. Wheelo and I at the new lab when you finish with them."

"Yes." the reptilian mutant said.

The creature moved swiftly forward towards us while darting around the room. I could barely perceive its movements. I held out my hand signaling to Bulma to stay back.

"Try to stay behind me, Bulma!" I warned, "This guy is trouble!"

I searched the room with my senses in an attempt to lock on to the enemy's Ki. When I found it he was right in front of me. I shoved Bulma back over a desk to prevent her from being hit by the mutant.

His strike barely avoided taking Bulma's head off if not for my quick reaction. The mutant didn't pause from confusion he instantly switched targets to me.

I tried to bring my arms up to block the punch that was headed my way.

Crack!

I wasn't able to move fast enough to block. The result was of the impact was me being sent into the back wall. The metal wall didn't break, but it did bend leaving me nestled in the indention. I barely was back on my feet by the time the mutant was on me again. This time I was hit with a side kick to the ribs which sent me into another wall.

Crash!

Intense pain shot through me as I felt a few ribs break from the kick to my left side and my right shoulder dislocate from crashing into the wall. I could tell from the hits that Kishime's Ki was disrupted or unstable. Dr. Kochin did say that Kishime wasn't fully mature maybe he was overexerting himself.

The bio-man attacked me again and this time I was able to block. I was slowly beginning to adjust to his speed. He unleash several combinations of punches and kicks against me. I was still able to block, but I could feel the toll it took on my body with each blow.

At the rate it things were going this was going to end as a war of attrition. I just had to hold out longer than my opponent. I think I was losing too much blood from the damage I was taking.

Pow!

Kishime had look of surprise on his face. I was finally able to counter attack with a strike right to his jaw. It was too bad it didn't look like it hurt him too much.

Another combo from Kishime sent me crashing through a lab station destroying it. It took a moment for me to wobble to my feet, but I did it. Bulma was screaming something, but I couldn't really hear it. In fact, I was pretty certain I couldn't even see anything other than red. I was doing my best to stay conscious.

I could feel the unstable Ki rapidly approaching me.

I wasn't going to be able to take a single step from were I stood.

My body screamed at me telling me to shut down.

I was going to run out of energy in the state I was in soon. I would have to make the most efficient use of the energy I had left. Soon Kishime appeared. I felt the surging Ki coming towards me.

Boom!

Kishime tried to remove my head with a kick and I was sent sliding across the room. I couldn't get up this time, but I wouldn't need to.

A pained wail was emanating from the green skinned bio-man. He was gripping his chest and had electrical sparks flying from him.

"Eeeeyyooouuuu!" Kishime was having convulsions rocket through his body.

I could only try to smile; my attacked worked. When I was kicked, at the same time, I was able to deliver a very fine Ki needle into Kishime's chest. The needle caused the unstable Ki to rapidly and painfully build up in his body. All of the fighting already had his body over extended, but the Ki needle pushed him over the edge.

I could hear the motor of the elevator platform moving. Kishime got away and couldn't do anything to stop him. I tried to stand up because I heard Bulma running over. I was able to rise to my feet, but it did last long I fell forwards into unconsciousness.

I do recall that hitting face first into the metal floor was softer than I imagined.

I was standing in front of a large metal desk in a well lit office. There was sounds of movement, shuffling documents, and typing all around me. For some reason I could only look around without being able to move anything below my neck.

A beach ball sized brilliantly glowing orb floated into view. It came over to the desk I was standing in front of and "sat" down. Really it hovered in the air over the chair in the location a person's head would be if they sat in the chair.

"Ah..." the orb sighed blinking different colored lights, "Well first off sorry for killing you."

"What!?" I was confused did a peanut kill me.

"You choking on a peanut was supposed to set off a chain reaction that should've ended up with the appropriate person dying and you being fine." the orb said, as if this were normal.

"Then what happened? Why am I dead?"

"Well, the person that was supposed save you looked away and you panicked. In your panic you tripped over a park bench, which caused the peanut to become dislodged." the orb paused or went to sleep.

"Then what-" seemed the orb took long pauses because he cut me off.

"You didn't notice when you fell there was a flock of geese in the park that didn't appreciate your intrusion. You almost got out of the park when one grabbed your pants pulling them down. By pure bad luck you tripped with your pants around your ankles but this time into a passing truck. It was all very embarrassing." the orb finished.

"So I died an embarrassing death cause you messed up?"

"It was embarrassing for me, also. I haven't had an incident like this since I was promoted fourteen million years ago. Besides we had a good run considering how over worked we are here." the orb was defensive, "But because it was my mistake ultimately I'll let you get another chance in a different universe."

"Do I get a special power or get to be someone important?"

"Haha," the orb laughed changed colors rapidly, "You don't have the kinda karma for that. In fact you were you more bad act away from negative karma. I'd say your luck is could in the fact you get to reincarnate at all."

Wow this thing wasn't pulling any punches.

"Don't look at me like that." the orb sighed, "Fine I'll give you something minor."

It floated over to a nearby filling cabinet and looked through folders, until stopping at one.

"Ah ha, here we are. WEAKNESS SENSE. This talent will let you know if something is strong enough to kill you. That should help a little where you are going. Try to enjoy your new life its not like you will remember me tell you that or any of this after you reincarnate." the orb said slapping me with the file.

I didn't move from the impact but the file disappeared. It felt like electricity flowed through my body as I felt a fundamental change.

"I have transcribed the talent on your soul." the orb explained before it shouted, "Need a pick up for reincarnation!"

Three more orbs of light floated into the room. Two of the them started escorting me towards a certain set of doors on the other side of the office.

"I can't believe you gave him that talent." I heard the orb who stayed behind say to the boss.

"Well it wasn't much just a basic low level talent he didn't have high enough karma for anything more than gauging strength." the boss orb confirmed.

"That's not what that does!" I heard the lower level orb say before I was shoved through the doors.

"Argh!" I woke up with a scream and looked around. I was in a familiar bed in a room I knew well.

Everything hurt and I couldn't remember the dream I had. It seemed important.

"Raditz, you are finally awake." Kami was standing in the entrance to the room, "Your friend, Bulma, will be pleased to hear you are awake."

"How long was I out?" I asked.

"Two weeks Bulma flew you here after your battle. It was quite the tale." he walked over and placed something in my hand. I knew what it was immediately.

"Korin gave me this to help you recover its a Senzu bean." Kami placed the bean in my palm

I popped the bean in my mouth before he finished with the explanation. Just like in the show the effects were instant. I was completely healed and felt better than ever. I think I got a not so small power boost. I was going to have to properly thank that bio-man Kishime the next time I saw him.

"Thank you Kami. Can you lead me to Bulma?" Kami nodded in response to my question and led me outside. "Your friend waited with you the entire time she was extremely upset by what had happened."

"Raditz! You're ok!" Bulma greeted me with a firm hug. "I'm sorry about what happened."

"I'm a Saiyan. We don't die so easily." I reassured. "Besides we didn't get useful information."

"I'm just happy we made it in time you were slipping in and out of consciousness, while giving me directions here to the lookout." she said with a worried look. "You're sure you're ok now?"

"Yeah Kami has some magic beans that heal you pretty much instantly." I stated.

Kami interrupted our reunion with some interesting information of his own. It turns out he knew about Dr. Wheelo stealing the Dragon Balls from Pilaf who stole them from Bulma. He also knows the identity of the person who stole the balls from Dr. Wheelo.

The culprit was a henchman of one of Kami's old foes, Garlic Jr. After making his wish the group as since gone underground. Unlike in the Dead Zone movie Kami believes Garlic Jr. wished for his father to be freed from the dimension of darkness, the Dead Zone. Kami requested that I continue my training so I'll be ready to help defend the Earth when Garlic makes his move. I did already promise him when I first got to Earth I would help if the planet needed me. Besides there was no way somebody was getting a planet that I had plans for.

Bulma and I said our goodbyes before I asked her to try and convince her father to invest in the World Martial Arts Tournament. Increasing the media coverage of the tournament might inspire more people to become martial artists. To my surprise she actually agreed to try.

I decided I was going to take my art to the next level. I wanted to incorporate ideas I saw in other anime that have similar powers to the world I'm in now. An example would be if I could learn Hokuto Shinken from Fist of the North star anime or train like Isaac Netero from Hunter x Hunter.

If I can't replicate other moves from different series I might still be able to approximate their functions. Besides I need more power to stay ahead of the curve. It wasn't like knowledge of the future would help too much seeing as how things have changed drastically. Now that I knew that Earth wasn't going to be as much of a cakewalk as I previously thought, I was going to be ready.