A young man had just climbed to the top of a 99-foot TV tower for his very first time and tied himself in place.

“What do see from there Steve?” Hollered his grandfather and cousin from the ground.

“I can see everything from up here.” Replied Steve.

The young man took a good look around at all he could see. The day was bright with clear skies and a light breeze. Being this high up was exhilarating for the young man but he pushed it all to the back of his mind and went to work fixing the antenna and checking its connections to the box. When he finished, Steve took one, last, long look around then untied himself and started the long climb back to the ground.

With a smile on his face Steve reached the ground. “Wow!!! It is a beautiful sight to see from up there. I sure wish I could fly so I could see it like that all the time, this world is too beautuful to just see it from the ground. Oh well, I guess I’ll just settle for sky diving next month.”

“Well you’re gonna have to settle aren’t ya” said Steve’s cousin sarcastically with a mischievous smirk on his face. He too was going to go sky diving the next month so he was anxious and excited like Steve.

“Yep” was the only reply Steve gave with a smile.

Later that week Steve was enjoying a frosty adult beverage when he heard what sounded like an explosion in the back of his house.

KABOOM!!!

Steve jumped up from where he was sitting and slowly stepped outside. His jaw dropped at the site before him. In a clearing about 50 feet behind his back door was a bright wall of light which seemed to have no source. The wall was circular and about10 feet in diameter. Bright, blue-white waves of light rippled across what seemed like its surface. As Steve stepped forward he could see a different landscape through the wall. Curiosity got the best of him and he stepped up to the wall to get a better look. When he was about four feet away a strange wind started to pick up all around him and the wall.

“This is amazing!!” Steve thought to himself not noticing the wind that had started.

He was standing no more than two feet away from the wall now when a very strong burst of wind blew him or rather sucked him through the wall of light to the other side. He lost sight of everything for a couple of moments. When some familiarity returned to him Steve looked around frantically. After his eyes focused a bit more he noticed he was lying on his back in what seemed like a room with no boundaries. Even the floor, as solid as it was, seemed to not exist. Steve stood up and looked around. What he saw, or didn’t see, made his jaw drop and eyes bulge.

“Oh m-my G-God, there’s n-noth-nothing here!” he exclaimed to no one in particular.

Steve’s eyes were wide with astonishment. He looked all around but all he could see was white. Nothing else, no landscape, no horizon, no up, no down, nothing but white. Suddenly, a panel appeared right in front of Steve. The panel had a screen and keyboard on it. It was about 3 feet square and seemed to hover at just the right height for Steve to place his hands on it comfortably. He read what was on the screen aloud.

“Choose race” was the first item. Steve scrolled through and saw ‘Sayian’ as one of the options.

“Sayian? Could that be from……..?” His thought trailed off as he decided.

Clicking to choose that option the next question came up.

“Choose beginning Power Level” The highest option was '900,000 before transformations' so he chose that.

The next question was “Tail or no Tail” Steve thought about this one for a moment thinking a tail would be kinda wierd so he chose to have no tail.

With this last option entered the panel vanished and everything went black.

He had no idea how long he was out, or even if he was out at all. But when Steve looked up a sharp pain hit him in the center of his brain, almost like he took too big of a gulp of an ice slushy, then, as quickly as it came the pain was gone.

“Owe, man what happened?” he thought to himself while holding his head in his hand “I wonder where I am, nothing looks familiar here.”

Steve picked himself up off the ground groggily. “Maybe I’ll recognize something if I look around.” he thought while trying to focus his eyes.

Just then he heard a scream from a window and looked to see a beautiful blue haired young woman looking at him with a quizzical look and a bit of fear in her eyes.

"I've startled her." he thought. "I should go explain myself before I get into some kind of trouble. Maybe I can find out where I am as well."

Suddenly from behind him he heard a voice “HEY! Who are you!?!” the very loud, stern, angry sounding voice spoke.

Steve slowly turned around not knowing what to expect. When he was facing the direction the voice had come from Steve saw a short man about 5’3” with jet black hair which stood on end giving his hair a look of fire and making the man look taller than he really was. The man’s eyes were black as coal and cold as ice. The man was wearing a blue spandex looking uniform with what looked like some kind of armor over top of it.

“I asked you a question, who are you and what do you want!?!” the short man snapped with even more sternness and now aggravation plainly visible on his face.

“M-My name is Steve, I don’t know how I got here or where I am. Where am I?” Steve stammered to introduce and ask at the same time.

“Don’t lie to me boy, you had to get here some how. A loss of memory isn’t a likely excuse!” came the harsh reply “Now tell the truth or I’ll blast you to kingdom come!” the short man snapped again.

“I swear, I don’t know how I got here or even where here is.” Steve tried to explain while waving his hands in a ‘I don’t know’ fashion.

“Enough lies, say goodbye!” the man said as he raised his palm toward Steve.

Steve’s eyes grew wide as he saw and could feel an incredible force gather in the middle of the man's palm.

“VEGITA!!! DON”T YOU DARE KILL THAT YOUNG MAN IN MY FRONT YARD!!!” Yelled the woman from the window.

“Stay out of this WOMAN!!!” replied the short man.

“FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME MY NAME IS BULMA NOT WOMAN AND IF YOU KILL HIM YOU’LL BE COOKING YOUR OWN DINNER FOR THE NEXT 6 MONTHS I SWEAR IT!!!”

Steve’s eyes had not left the man's palm until now. He saw the man's jaw clench in anger then the man put his hand down. The man looked at the woman who called herself Bulma then back to Steve with a look of disdain.

“Fine! You are spared for now, boy, but get your self off this property now!” The man said obviously aggravated with the whole situation. Then he started walking away.

Steve tried to get the mans attention “Wait, please wait?”

“What now boy!!?!!” the man snapped. Just then the woman calling herself Bulma walked up.

“I really need some help.” Steve pleaded again. “I don’t know where I am or how I even got here. Please can you help me?” Steve said trying the sympathy bit. He really was confused now. Bulma saw this on his face and stepped a little closer.

“Hi, my name is Bulma” she introduced “and Mr. Rude over there is Vegita. So you don’t know how you got here huh? Well, lets go inside and talk about it over some coffee and a snack. What do ya say?” Bulma was nice and inviting.

“Oh yes ma’am I’d really appreciate it, thank you so much,” said Steve quickly so as not to be rude.

“Well follow me. You said your name is Steve right?” asked Bulma.

“Yes ma’am” was Steve's quick reply.

“OK Steve, come on. Oh, and that ma’am bit, you can loose it. We don’t need to be that formal, besides, it makes me feel older then I am.” -_^ Steve smiled and nodded to show he understood.

Bulma and Steve went inside while Vegita went somewhere else, probably to train by what Bulma had said. Once inside Steve began to tell Bulma everything that had happened to him up to meeting Vegita outside. He explained about the wall of light, which he and Bulma had begun referring to as a portal. He told her about the panel and the options and then how he seemed to had lost conciseness but felt awake at the same time then showed up on the lawn. After about an hour and a half of explaining and re-explaining, Bulma got up from the table, seemingly deep in thought, and then pored herself another cup of coffee.

“Well,” started Bulma “this is a crazy occurrence and seeing as how you obviously have no place to stay, you’re welcome to stay here until we can figure this out. Does that sound good to you?”

Steve sighed lightly “Yes, thank you Bulma… Bulma… I know that name somehow… Bulma…hmmm…”

Bulma smiled and said jokingly “Well that’s my name don’t wear it out, OK?” ^_^

Steve just looked at her blankly. Now he was seemingly deep in thought. Suddenly, Steve stood up knocking over the chair he was sitting in and bumping the table making all the dishes on it rattle.

“Oh my God I can’t believe this… This is so crazy…” Steve said almost hystericaly, his eyes looking kind of wild “I know where I am and who you are and who Vegita is. My god, how could this happen, this is so wild!!” Steve then began mumbling something to himself in thought.

Bulma couldn’t hear him and looked at him quizzically “Do you remember something?” she asked.

“Remember…? Oh yes…” Steve said with a huge smile on his face. “I remember everything.” Steve began pacing the floor now. “You, you’re Bulma Briefs, Vegita, he is your husband he is also the prince of the Sayian race but his home planet was destroyed by a tyrant named Freeza. You two have a son named Trunks. If I’m right you have a very good friend named Goku. Vegita calls him Kakkorot. Goku has two sons named Gohan and Goten and is married to Chichi. I know some of your other friends, let me see there is Krillin, his wife #18, Piccolo, Yamcha, Tienshenhan, Chosu, Master Roshi I know you all. This is amazing….” Steve suddenly stopped sentence and got this far away look in his eyes. “Oh my, I need to see something Bulma, please excuse me.” Steve quickly walked outside with Bulma a bit confused but close behind.

Once outside Steve took a deep breath, released it slowly, began relaxing his body then got into a semi-crouched position and began concentrating on something Bulma couldn’t quite figure out. He held his hands in such a fashion that his fingertips were all touching and positioned in front of his stomach. One could see him diliberatly breathing slow and deep. As he did this, one could see his muscles relaxing. He seemed completely calm.

After about a minute something inside him snapped, then a bright purple-white aura enveloped his entire body. He then began to flex and concentrate even harder. Steve could feel a raw, indescribable power filling his very being. His body began to expand and electricity began crackling around him and over his body. With one last heave of concentrated effort he had the ground shaking and gale force winds were whipping around him,. Just as he was getting use to what he was feeling Steve felt something strange behind him. Something that felt like his own newly found power only different and a bit stronger. He turned around to see Vegita standing there in front of Bulma protectively. Vegita was powered up with a similar aura around him as well and looking even more pissed than he did earlier.

With a scowl on his face Vegita addressed Steve almost challengingly. “You are a liar boy! Explain yourself right now before I change my mind and destroy you!!”

Steve smiled at him “Vegita, I know all about you. I know how strong you are, how fast you are. I couldn’t remember before but Bulma helped jog my memory. I remember everything now, plus some. I know this is weird but I’ll explain it all if you would be so kind as to invite everyone here. I am not an enemy and I promise I will not hurt anyone on purpose while I am here… Oh good, my “power up” got the attention I wanted. You won’t have to call many people now. I’ll explain it all inside in 2 hours.”

“You’ll explain it NOW!!! Or I’ll rip you apart!!” Vegita snapped.

“Patience, Prince of Sayians. You will find out when everyone else finds out. Oh, and not to be cocky or to challenge you but if we were to fight for real you would loose.” was Steve’s reply.

Vegita was shocked that Steve knew about his royal bloodline by calling him ‘Prince of Sayins’ but quickly snapped out of it. “Well why wait, Steve, lets find out how much of a bad ass you are right now…!” Vegita’s words seemed to drip from his lips and tongue like venom and he had a huge, evil smile at saying it.

“I said later Vegita, that I promise. You’ll have your chance to test yourself against me soon enough.”

“Fine!!” Vegita seethed “I will teach you some respect soon boy, very soon!”

Steve smiled and nodded then walked over to where Bulma had moved to so she could see everything. Steve powered down and asked. “Bulma, could I have you invite everyone over here so I can explain this, all at once…..?”

“Oh my goodness, what is that Dad? Do you feel that?” Asked Gohan with wide eyes.

“Yes son I feel it. It doesn’t feel evil but it is close to Vegita. If it is friendly I might need to be there to keep Vegita in check a bit.” Replied Goku.

“Yea, we all know how he can be. Can I come with you Dad, please? I’ll stay out of the way. Besides I feel Piccolos energy heading that direction as well. Please….” Begged Gohan.

Chichi was about to protest when Goku looked at her and shook his head. The couple had agreed that if Goku felt it to be good for Gohan or Goten then they could go with him with no protesting or throwing tantrums from her.

The last tantrum Chichi threw was over what Goku was wearing and Goten’s training. This was Gokus last straw and he had to put his foot down about it. After all he was only wearing some jeans that had holes in the knees and had only taken an hour longer with Goten than anticipated. Nothing big but he liked the jeans, they were comfortable, and Goten lost very little study time due to his training. When Chichi started in on him about the jeans and training he had asked her a number of times while she was screaming to calm down and explain what was wrong but Chichi wouldn’t calm down. So Goku did the only thing he could think of. He grabbed Chichi by the arm, with her protesting the whole way, used instant transmission to go out over the ocean about 5 miles and asked her once more to calm down. When she didn’t, he dunked her under the water repeatedly. After each dunking he asked her to calm down. It took about 20 dunks before Chichi got the picture. She lost that fight and even though her pride was bruised a bit, by her own making, she knew she was in the wrong and promised to never counter her husbands’ judgements again.

“So can I come Dad? Please….?” Gohan continued to plead.

“Ok Gohan, you can come with me but no playing around until I know what’s going on. Got it?

“Got it Dad, thanks!” was Gohan's jubilant reaction.

“Ok, here we go Gohan. Put your hand on my shoulder.” instructed Goku to his oldest son.

Gohan did as he was told and put his hand on Gokus shoulder. Goku looked at Chichi and mouthed the words “I love you” and “Thank you” Chichi smiled, waved, and gave the ‘I Love You’ sign. Goku put his index and middle fingers to his forehead then he and Gohan vanished.

Steve was walking back to the house with Bulma beside him and Vegita directly behind.

“Thanks again for all your help Bulma. I don’t know how to explain this yet but I hope I’ll have an idea how to by the time everyone gets here.”

Bulma smiled and walked on in the house. Steve however stopped at the door and turned around to see a rather large man with a teenager holding his shoulder. The large man was about 6’5” tall and wearing an orange and black gi while the teenager was about 5’7” tall wearing orange shoes, blue pants and a blue vest over a white T-shirt. Steve faced the duo, then walked over to them.

“Hi, my name is Steve, you must be Goku and this must be Gohan. I’m guessing you felt my power signature just now.” Steve introduced and explained.

“That’s right. How did you know my name was Goku and that this is Gohan?

“I also know your Sayin name, Kakkorot.” -__^

Goku stepped back a step with a gasp.

“Please don’t be alarmed” Steve continued. “I have a lot of explaining to do but I want to wait until everyone is here first. That way I’ll only have to explain it once” Steve explained.

“Well I guess we can wait. I wonder if Bulma has any food to eat” Goku said with a little grin. Gohan sweat dropped.

“Kakkorot I swear if you were anymore relaxed you’d be asleep!” snapped Vegita from behind Steve.

“No I wouldn’t.” Goku said with a blank, innocent look on his face.

“Oh never mind, your hopeless Kakkorot!” Vegita snapped again.

“Well I think Goku has a great idea. Let’s go inside and relax until everyone shows up.” Steve was trying to cool off what looked like a heated situation beginning. Surprisingly though, everyone agreed and went inside to wait.

Steve stepped up in front of everyone and cleared his throat to get everyone’s attention. When that didn’t work he went ahead and began talking loudly.

“Gentlemen, and ladies [Bulma and #18 were the only women present] first I want to thank you all for coming on such short notice and little information. My name is Steve. I too come from planet Earth but from a totally different dimension. I don’t know how it happened but I’ll explain everything I can, just please be patient as I might not have all of the answers you might want.” [When Steve mentioned patience he deliberately looked directly at Vegita]

“Last night I was sitting on my couch relaxing when I heard a loud Booming sound behind my house. When I went to investigate I found a large portal. My curiosity got the best of me so when I got too close, I got sucked through it to an alternate dimension then I found myself here. [Mumbling and low talking] I know all of you because where I come from you are all described in a story. [More mumbling] I know that sounds really weird, but it is the truth. I also have some bad news. As a result of that portal opening it has given me knowledge of occurrences that are about to happen here. This Earth is in real danger again. [Gasps and mumbling]

There is a being, a creature, coming here that is frighteningly more powerful than even Gogita using fusion.” Steve looked at Goku and Vegita when he said this. [More gasps and murmuring] “Please hear me out. All this creature wants is to destroy life and/or sell the planet he evacuates to the highest bidder. The creature has no name that I am aware of and it has never been defeated in battle. I, however, know of a way we can defeat this creature though, but it will take all of us to do it!” [More gasps and murmuring]

Krillin stood and faced Steve “So what do we do?” he asked. Everyone echoed his question.

Steve thought a moment then replied “Multi fusion of every fighter here.”

“That’s impossible!!!” cried Goku and Vegita in unison.

“No it’s not. Thanks to that other dimension I know the technique and am willing to show you all if your willing to learn without question” Steve replied [With the last statement he was again looking directly at Vegita.]

“Why do you keep looking at me as though I am the only one ‘not getting it’?” Vegita snapped.

Steve smiled wickedly yet playfully “Because you are a bad seed Vegita and you often don’t get it. You are a hot head, ego filled, overgrown child who wants it his way or no way. You’re the only one who still goes flying off the handle and rushes in like a fool wanting to be destroyed.”

Vegita was turning red from anger at hearing this. “Are you challenging me BOY?!!” Vegita’s fists were clenched tight and his eyes were fixed firmly on Steve.

“Point made," said Steve as he continued "and you complain about how Goku is slow to understand things. At least he knows how to be patient, how to listen and how to wait.” Steve’s expression never changed, he just looked Vegita directly in his eyes. “I told you earlier that you would have your chance to face me Vegita. Did I not?” Vegita grunted and nodded in reply, Steve continued again. “Then you will wait unless you wish to be unconscious while I explain the rest of this to everyone else. What is your decision, Prince?”

Vegita looked at him and grinned wickedly. Without any audible sound Vegita disappeared and Steve followed suit. One loud crack was heard and then, Vegita was being set on the ground totally unconscious. Everyone’s eyes were wide at what they had just witnessed. Goku and Gohan both were shocked at how fast Steve was.

“Could you follow him dad?” Gohan asked

“No I couldn’t” replied Goku.

“Now,” began Steve “I apologize for having to do that but he has been prodding me sense I got here.”

Bulma was kneeling next to Vegita now “Well, he has been asking for it sense you powered up in the front yard. He’ll be OK, I think you just bruised his pride a bit, that’s all.”

Steve nodded and excused himself for a moment from the room.

On a planet far away from our heros, an insanely hysterical laugh could be heard echoing across the surface of a Class ‘M’ planet. A very powerful creature was terrorizing the small-colonized inhabintances.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Die you pathetic weaklings DIE!!!! HAHAHA!!!

shshshshshshshSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHAAAAWWWWWWW………… KABOOOOOMMMMM!!

The planet exploded in a brilliant flash of light, fire, and expanding gases, which was followed by the sheer silence of space. Nothing of the planet remained not even so much as a grain of sand or even a molecule of water. It was totally obliterated as if it never existed.

“AAHHH that was fun! Well, time to move on to even more fun things.” The creature thought to itself.

It stood about 7 feet tall with long, flowing, dirty orange hair that reached his lower back while the rest of his body was hairless. His skin was dull, neon blue with dirty, orange circles and small spikes of sharp, black bone protruding from his shoulders, neck shins and forarms. His eyes were solid black spheres with no pupils or even eyelids and when he smiled one could see he had sharp, jagged, serpent like fangs and feline like teeth. He was a sight of pure evil. This creature moved through space effortlessly to where he had a medium sized pod ship waiting on him. He didn’t really need the ship to travel in space but it helped him save power and energy.

When he reached the ship and had entered its doors he went over to the control panels and pressed a few buttons.

“HHMMM, well, well, well, I’d almost forgotten about this little task. It seems the changelings want this puny planet called E-arth for colonization. It is a bit far out there. Oh well, might as well get it over with. Computer,” the creatures’ voice rumbled when he spoke. (A beep came from the computer) “Calculate estimated time to planet Earth.”

(‘Beep’, estimated time to planet Earth from current location is 12.15 parsecs) the computer answered with an even, electronic, feminine voice.

“12 parsecs, lets see that translates to a little more than 1 of that planet Earth's years. That’s not too bad, besides I’m sure I can have some fun destroying a few other things along the way. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Computer, (Beep) set course for Earth and engage engines immediately.”

(Compliance) answered the computer. The ship began to rumble and shake to its very framework then blasted off on its journey.

Evil was on it’s way to Earth…………

Steve had returned to the main room where all the Z-fighters were. Vegita had woken up and tried to leave but Goku and everyone else convinced him to stay and finish hearing what Steve had to say about the menace that was heading there way.

“Tomorrow I would like to meet everyone in the desert.” Steve began. “With the amount of power we’ll be emitting we need to be as far away from population as possible. How does 8 o’clock sound to everyone?”

Heads nodded and everyone agreed to the time and place.

“Great, then I’ll see all of you tomorrow to begin training.” Finished Steve.

After the time and place was agreed upon everyone went there separate ways to go home around 6:00pm. Bulma led Steve to his room and informed him dinner would be around 7:30pm. She pointed out some clothes that would probably fit him and went to the kitchen to finish up the dinner she had started earlier. As she was leaving Steve caught her attention.

“Bulma?”

“Yes Steve?”

“Thank you so much for believing me and helping me out.” Steve said with a slight bow and a smile.

“Don’t be silly Steve. Your gonna help save this planet and its people. This is the least I can do for you.” replied Bulma.

“Well thanks anyway then. I’ll see you at dinner. 7:30 you said?”

“Yep 7:30, see ya then.” ^_^

With that, Bulma disappeared into the hallway.

All of the Z Fighters were at the agreed upon location.

Steve began “Ok gentlemen, the first thing I need to know is who here does not know the fusion dance? Speak up, we’re a team and need to work like one.”

Krillin stepped forward first followed by Yamcha, Chosu, Tien, Gohan, and #18.

“Well I see our work is cut out for us. Everyone else who does know the dance I’m going to teach you the different moves first, then I’ll need for you to help me train everyone else. Everyone remember this one thing. We have to get the dance correct and perfect for us to fuse correctly. If we don’t we are all dead along with this planet and it’s people.” Steve explained.

“Enough talking, lets get started for crying out loud! I don’t like dancing in the first place, it's too prissy! Having to learn this new dance is not my idea of fun!” Vegita said from the back of the group.

“Ok, ok Vegita lets get started” Steve sighed.

Steve first verified with Goku how the single fusion dance went then he began to show the different moves to the new dance. By the end of the day everyone who knew the original dance had the new dance pretty well down but they still needed a lot of practice. Those who did not know the dance were starting to get it. As the sun started to touch the horizon Steve let everyone go home to rest in there own way. When everyone began parting Steve caught Gokus attention.

“Goku.” Steve called.

“Yes Steve?”

“I need to talk with you for a moment alone if I can”

“Sure, what’s up?” asked Goku.

“Well, I have a problem that I need your help with”

“What is it?”

“Goku,” Steve hesitated and looked at his feet then continued. “I don’t know how to fight in one on one combat.”

Goku’s eyes grew wide and he had a look of confusion on his face.

“I know I’m strong and fast and all but I don’t know how to fight like that” Steve said with a little more infuses on the word fight.

“But you took Vegita down like it was nothing back at Capsule Corp., I don’t understand.” Goku said confused.

“Goku, the only reason I was able to put Vegita down is because I am 5 times faster than him right now. I’m not even a Super Sayin yet. I was just able to smack him before he smacked me thanks to my speed.”

“Oh, I see. Well, what would you like from me?” Goku had a quizzical look on his face.

Steve’s eyes looked a little pleading at his next question. “Goku, would you train me in one on one combat?”

Now Goku’s eyes were wide but with excitement. “Are you kidding?!? I’d love to train and I’d be honored to train you” exclaimed Goku.

“Thank you Goku. I’ll cut the dance training lessons a little shorter tomorrow and on every other day so we might have some time.” Steve smiled

“Sounds good to me.” said Goku “Say, are you hungry? Chichi always makes a lot of food and I’m sure she wouldn’t have a problem if you joined us this evening for dinner. What do ya say?”

“Thank you. Now I am honored. I accept” Steve said with an even bigger smile.

“Great! Here, place your hand on my shoulder and we’ll go.”

Steve did as he was instructed and watched as Goku raised his two forefingers to his forehead. Steve then started feeling light as a feather then everything blurred around him. In a single moment they were now standing on the front porch of the Son house.

“Here we are!” ^__^ Goku said with a smile as he walked to door. “Chichi..! We have a guest for dinner. Is that ok?” Goku spoke loudly to the ceiling.

“Yes Goku, that’s fine. I made plenty. I’ll be down in a minute I’m just washing up.” Chichi replied from upstairs.

Goku went to the kitchen and straight to the stove. He picked up a spoon that was set to the side and went to dip it into the large pot that was steaming with the most delicious smelling stew Steve had ever smelt. Just as Goku was bringing the full spoon to his lips Chichi had snuck in unnoticed and WHACK! She hit Goku in the back of his head with another wooden spoon she had picked up from somewhere else and broke the spoon with the impact to his cranium.

“Son Goku…! You know better than to get into the pots when the food is still cooking. Now be a good husband and introduce me to our guest for this evening.”

Goku was rubbing his head where Chichi had hit him. “Sorry Chichi, it just smells so good and I feel so hungry.” Chichi playfully glared at him then looked at their guest. Goku straightened himself and introduced “Chichi this is Steve, Steve this is my lovely wife Chichi”

“How do you do ma’am” Steve said politely.

“Oh, a guest with manners. This will be a nice change. I do fine thank you very much sir.” ^_^ Chichi said with a slight bow.

Steve blushed slightly at her demeanor towards him.

Chichi then got a half-serious look on her face. “Now, I have to ask you both, yes Goku that means you too, to go into the living room while I finish up with dinner. We should be ready to eat in about 20 minutes”

“20 minutes?!?” whined Goku.

“Yes 20 minutes, now get out of here, go to the living room and talk about fighting or something.” Chichi prodded.

Steve and Goku both left the kitchen but not before Goku copped a quick feel from his wife’s bottom side making her squeal and blush very brightly. He was also able to snatch two apples from the fruit bowl as he left the kitchen. Steve saw this to be a lot like his own parents, playful yet respectful. For the first time after arriving in the Dragon-World, Steve felt comfortable.

“Well now what kind of puny l'il planet do I have here? Computer,” (Beep) “report on the planet ahead.”

The computer began clicking and beeping erratically then suddenly stopped. The electronic voice began spouting data.

“Planet # 24978, Rojin Sentari. Class M Planet. Population is 7,986,235,657,341. Industrial culture exists with mid-advanced technology. The planet has good quantities of minerals and metals. Highest power level detected 2,000,000. Worth of planet is estimated ¥698,087,142 yarshay.”

“THAT’S IT, THAT'S ALL!!!" the creature roared "For a planet this large and potential slaves of that amount! Computer, explain pricing.”

The computer clicked and hummed for a second and replied (deflation)

“DEFLATION! Oh well, I’ll destroy it for fun and sport then.”

The creature exited his spacecraft and hovered in the Northern Hemisphere of the planet. It looked over the planet and finally noticed the largest power level heading its direction.

“Ah good, just what I was looking for. Yes, a fight will perk up my day. Come to me you weakling.” The creature thought to itself.

Just as the creature finished it’s thoughts the large power level arrived.

“I am Johashi, protector of this world. Are you friend or foe?” introduced the large power level loudly and sternly.

“Johashi, what a peculiar name.” The creature addressed sending visible chills down Johashi’s spine. The creature continued. “Well Johashi, I am most definitely a foe. I am going to kill everyone on this puny l'il planet first and then I’m going to destroy it. How does that grab you?”

Johashi backed up a few feet at this statement then caught himself and stood his ground. He knew this creature was not bluffing.

“I’ll not allow you to do anything to my world!!!!! AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!”

Johashi powered up to his full potential in an instant and got into a defensive stance. Johashi had long white hair that flowed down to just below his shoulder blades. When powered to the level he had reached his hair stood on end giving him a Sayian look. His eyes had an electric look to them though and static electric bolts fired across his skin, outfit and throughout his hair. Strength and power bellowed from Johashi in immense waves but did not even phase the creature.

It looked at Johashi with a look of disdain and hate and began to power-up itself. It quickly reached Johashi’s power level and very easily surpassed it. The creature stretched as though it was waking up from a nap. When it did this, the sheer force of its power drove Johashi back a few yards. Johashi’s eyes grew wide and fear completely enveloped him. In his heart he knew there was nothing he do except perhaps delay the creature a little but even that would be to no avail. He knew this creature could not be stopped. He, himself, nor any other race he knew of could even rival it. But he had to try, his world depended on him for protection.

Pushing his fear aside, with no warning at all, Johashi attacked the creature full force.

He never even got close to it before he was enveloped by his own destiny. He made no noise aside from the single, short prayer he was barely able to utter for his planet and people before he was vaporized by the creatures’ power. The creature looked at where his opponent used to be with a slight grin on it's evil face.

“Well, he did have spunk… I suppose I’ll do this quickly then. He did prove himself by trying instead of running away. Oh well. Goodbye Rojin Sentari. Hehehe.”

With that said the creature raised a finger to his temple, looked at the planet, pointed his finger and it was done. Nothing remained when the flash cleared. The creature smiled evilly, chuckled slightly at its handy work and returned to his ship happy with his evil actions.

“Computer” it bellowed “continue on course to Earth.”

(Compliance) The computer exclaimed in its electronic voice. The engines exploded to life again and the ship was once more on its destructive path to Earth.

Fusion-Dance training was done for the day and Goku was in rare form while showing Steve some energy attacks. Namely, the Kamehameha.

“No, no, no that’s not right! Here try concentrating your power to this point in your palms.” Goku explained and was pointing directly to the middle of Steve’s palms.

“Ok, I’ll try” was Steves reply.

“NO!!” Boomed Goku. “You can not ‘TRY’ when you’re doing this. You either do it or do not do it. There is no ‘TRY’. Got it!?!”

Steve looked at Goku and felt his own temper rise at Gokus forceful instructions. He shook it off a bit, got into his stance and began again cupping his hands at his side then started chanting...

“KAAAA-MEEEE-HAAAA-MEEEE-HAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!”

The beams’ base formed in his hands. Steve could feel the heat and power it was generating along with the pressure of the energy against his palms. With the last heave of the Kamehameha chant he thrust his hands forward, palms first, and released the attack perfectly. The beam shot out and almost instantly destroyed the boulder he had been aiming for during the training sessions.

“YOSH!!!! Way to go Steve! That’s what I wanted to see!” ^__^ Exclaimed Goku.

Steve was breathing very heavy from the effort of making the attack, but he smiled non-the less. However his smile vanished when Goku told him to do 5 more Kamehamehas.

“What!?! 5 more!?!” Steve exclaimed, “I barely… got that out… Goku. Can’t I… take… a rest… for a minute?” Steve was breathing very heavy and sweat was dripping from his brow due to the exertion of energy.

Goku got a very firm look on his face, walked directly up to Steve, looked him in the eyes and said one word (failure) It was not a question or a statement, it wasn’t even directed at Steve or anyone else. The word was simply spoken, barely spoken at that. Goku then turned around, walked 15 paces and powered up to Super Sayian 4 instantly. Steve could feel the slight disappointment Goku was emitting. Steve looked down at his feet then up at the sky, he took one last deep breath and screamed to the top of his lungs.

“AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Steve’s ki flared and then exploded around him.

"KAAAAAAAAAA-MEEEEEEEEEE!!!”

The ground began to shake and break up into large chunks.

“HAAAAAAAAAA-MEEEEEEEEEE!!!”

Now the large chunks were breaking up into smaller chunks and the entire earth was starting to shake even to its core.

“HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!”

Steve released the energy beam upward so as not to destroy the earth. Goku turned around at the beginning and watched in silent awe. The beam put off so much power and energy that it broke up the ground so much that Goku had to rise up into the air to watch. When Steve finished he glared at Goku and began again for the second time, then the third, then the fourth and then the fifth but Steve did not stop there. He charged himself up for a sixth time. Goku tried to get him to stop before he burned out but Steve was pissed at the one word that had been spoken. Steve knew the word was not directed at him but he couldn't help how that single word made him feel. This one word echoed in Steve’s head and got louder and louder making Steve even more angry and determined.

When Steve released the sixth beam he screamed “I AM NOT A FALIURE!!!!!!!!”

After about 2 minutes of holding the beam steady he let the beam die out and Steve fell to his knees, then passed out form the effort. Goku lowered himself back to the ground and walked over to Steve’s unconscious, unmoving body while he powered down. He knelt down and placed his hand on Steve’s shoulder.

“I know you’re not a failure Steve, I sensed that from the first time I felt your energy signal.” Goku said at barley a whisper.

Goku then raised his forefingers to his forehead and transmitted himself and Steve to Capsule Corp. As soon as they got there Goku put Steve into a Regeneration Tank, set the controls, informed Bulma and went home with more confidence in Steve’s motives and words of the impending doom heading toward Earth.

“He will help save us. I know this for sure now. I only hope it will be enough.” Goku thought to himself…

While Steve was recovering, the Z Fighters kept practicing what they knew of the new fusion dance and carried on with sparring sessions.

Steve finally got out of the Regen. Tank 4 days later and was in his room. Trunks and Goten came to the door and knocked.

“Hey there guy, how ya feelin?” asked Trunks with Goten echoing the question.

“Hi guys, I’m feelin better thanks. I’m still a bit shaky when I power-up but Piccolo said that would pass with a little more rest. What are you guys up to today?” Steve replied.

Goten smiled, walked over to the bed and plopped down.

“Well our dads let us have the rest of the day off from training so me and Trunks were going to go check out the mall today and see what we can see. We were wondering if you’d like to come check it out with us.” Goten winked and gently elbowed Steve in the side.

“So you’re gonna check out the chicks up there huh?” Steve figured it out pretty quick and smiled mischievously. Goten made a mock look of surprise and Trunks grinned slightly. “Yep, answered my own question. Well guys, I’d love join ya. Just give me a few minutes to get ready and we’ll go. Ok?”

Both boys smiled and nodded. Goten jumped up from sitting on the bed and joined Trunks by the door.

“Well, we’ll be downstairs when you’re ready.” Trunks said while giving the wall a tap with his fingernail.

“Ok, I shouldn’t be long” replied Steve.

With that said the two teens left Steve to change and wait downstairs in front of the TV…

15 minutes later the trio left Capsule Corp. on foot. After about half a mile of walking Steve asked “How far is it to the mall guys? Are we gonna have to walk all the way?”

Trunks spoke up this time. “Well we usually walk far enough away from the complex so no one will see us when we take off but Goten and I weren’t sure if you felt ready to fly again yet.”

Steve smirked and rose effortlessly into the air. “I know the drill fellas, lets cut down our travel time a bit. What do ya say?”

Both teens rose to meet Steve just at the top of the trees. “We know a good place we can fly to that’s not too far away from the mall. We’ll fly there and walk the rest of the way.” Chimed Goten.

“Sounds good” replied Steve and Trunks in unison…

They reached their destination fairly quick. The boys were right, they were only about a football fields distance from the mall when they landed. The mall was huge and busy. Steve saw all kinds of interesting knick-knacks and different clothing stores. The trio window-shopped for about 30 minutes, then walked down to the food court and got a snack. As they sat munching they pointed out and discussed the many beautiful women that walked by. Trunks and Goten were getting into their reverie when all three saw the same gorgeous woman at the same time.

“WOW!! She is HOT!” Exclaimed Goten.

“I’ll say, she is one FINE looking woman!” Chimed in Trunks.

“Well guys, I have to agree with you both. So which one of you is gonna introduce yourselves?” Steve said with a smirk on his face. Both teens looked at Steve like he was out of his mind. “What?” exclaimed Steve shrugging his shoulders.

Trunks leaned forward and looked directly at Steve and said. “She is way out of our league bro…”

Steve laughed. “HA!! Here, let me show you.”

Steve got up, straightened his shirt and walked over to the young woman.

“Excuse me…” he began.

She looked up from the window she was looking through. Her eyes caught Steve a bit off guard by their beauty but he quickly recovered.

“Hi, my name is Steve and I noticed from across the way, you looking at these lovely garments… This is a bit odd of me to do but I was wondering if you might be interested in having a drink with me some time?”

The young woman looked Steve up and down, taking in his well defined, built body and handsome face.

“Well, I don’t usually have drinks with complete strangers.” She replied politely but with a bit of flirtation in her eyes.

“Then perhaps I could buy you a drink or snack here in the food court. That way you could feel a little more comfortable having a crowd around.”

Steve was trying to recover quickly. The young woman thought for a moment and then extended her hand.

“Sure, why not? My name is Jodi, it’s very nice to meet you.”

They both smiled and shook hands. Steve led her to a table that was not too far away from where Goten and Trunks were sitting. A waiter came over and took their order. Just as the waiter left Steve realized he didn’t have any money. Steve glanced over to the two teens and quietly got their attention. He then distracted Jodi to make her look away and motioned to Trunks that he needs a couple of bucks. Trunks caught on and thought for a moment. He stood up with his bag of chips and walked over next to the table Steve and Jodi were sitting at. Goten caught on as well and came from the other direction. Trunks was behind Steve so he had to look casual but Goten was behind Jodi so he motioned to play like they bump into each other.

Everyone got the plan and thought for sure Jodi was non-the wiser. Trunks and Goten knocked into each other right in front of the table of Steve and Jodi. Trunks dropped his bag of chips next to Steve. Both teens apologized profusely and when Trunks knelt down to pick up his chips he flicked a folded $20 dollar bill in Steve lap. Steve caught the bill and then stood up as though surprised about the ‘accident’. Trunks got the mess picked up quickly, apologized again and walked away. The transfer worked. The two teens went and sat down at another table caddy-corner behind Jodi and gave Steve the thumbs up. Steve and Jodi talked for about 20 minutes about this and that and then the time came to part ways.

“Well thank you very much for joining me Jodi. It was a pleasure meeting and talking with you.”

“Well thank you Steve, I enjoyed our time and conversation as well.” Jodi smiled and grabbed her bags from the back of her chair. “Maybe you’d like to call me some time?” She asked.

Steves smile grew even bigger as he replied “Yes, yes I would like that.”

Jodi reached in her purse got something to write on and with and handed Steve her number.

“Thanks, I’ll definitely call you,” said Steve as he noticed a sparkle in Jodi’s eyes. Jodi leaned over and kissed Steve lightly on the lips. Then they both said “bye” at the same time. Jodi began to walk away but then turned around.

“Oh by the way Steve, your friends looked cute trying to be smooth to give you some money.” ^_^ She smiled and giggled slightly. She looked at Goten and Trunks, winked, then walked on her way.

The two teens turned bright red and couldn’t help but smile and both waved politely. When Jodi was out of site Steve walked over to the table the boys were at and exclaimed “BUSTED!!” All three broke out into a fit of laughter.

When they left the mall they were still talking and laughing about the whole situation.

“So are ya gonna call her Steve?” asked Trunks.

“Of course man, did you see the body she has and her eyes? I would be a stupid idiot to not call her.” Steve replied.

“U-huh!!” exclaimed Goten.

“Well guys, I have to thank you for taking me out today. I had a really good time.” Steve said smiling. “Hey, I got an idea. Lets race back to the complex. What do ya say? He added.

The two teens agreed and they all got into a line at the top of the tree line. Steve counted it out.

“On your mark!” All of their ki’s flared.

“Get set!” Now their ki’s rose slightly more.

“GO!!” All three shot forward at extremely high speeds.

Their wake was enough to bend the trees over half way. Each one was putting more and more speed into it. They were all tied until Goten and Trunks transformed into Super Sayins and blasted off to take a lead to Steve.

Steve chuckled to himself and then reached down into his own power. He exploded with speed and in no time caught up to and left the two boys in his wake. Try as they might the teens simply could not catch up. When the boys got to the complex 2 minutes later, Steve was lying on a beach blanket, in his swim-trunks, with sun block put on.

“What took you guys so long?” Steve said with a shity grin.

Goten and Trunks looked at each other and nodded. They both playfully pounced Steve and the three wrestled for a bit until Steve was able to get the two teens in a headlock with one arm. He held them there for a moment and gave them both noogies on top of their heads then let them go. They were all three in a fit of laughter when the other Z Fighters came out to see what the commotion was about.

Gohan was the first to speak up. “What’s going on guys?”

Steve stood up and brushed himself off. “I was just showing these two a couple of ‘Wr-A-stling’ moves. Just having a bit fun”

The two teens were up and brushed themselves off as well.

Then Goten chimed in “Yea, it’s been a fun day.”

“Yea! Hehe.” Trunks agreed.

Goku stepped out “Well we are all about to get ready for dinner. Your mothers have decided to have everyone over so y’all need to get cleaned up” he directed from the side of the group.

All three went to respective rooms and cleaned up. They all met at the table and told of their day at the mall and the race home. Everyone laughed with the story of the trios’ day. Even Vegita’s cold, hard expression lightened ever so slightly at the boys’ story.

Steve called Jodi and set up a date. He was a little nervous but he wanted to see her again. Everything seemed to be going well with training. He was getting stronger and faster and the Z fighters were getting the new fusion dance down pretty well. Steve was even close to reaching Super Sayin, level-1. With everything else going as smoothly as it was he knew this would go smoothly as well.

Steve picked Jodi up around 6:30pm so they could have dinner then they went to check out a movie they had agreed on. After that they went dancing at a club that Jodi knew of. The whole night went great even up until he took her home. He walked her from the air car to her front door. They talked for a couple of minutes and he gave her a light kiss on the lips. When he started to pull away she wrapped her arms around his neck and allowed them to kiss even deeper. Steve could feel the passion rising and really wanted to go in with her but knew it was too early for that kind of action. They finished the kiss and said goodnight to each other and Steve left. On his way back to Capsule Corp. he thought to himself. “What a perfect first date.” He smiled big and sighed lightly, then picked up speed a bit and got back safe.

The next 2 dates went just as smooth and just as fun as the first. On the fourth date everything was going wonderful. When he took her home she finally invited him in for some tea and a snack. Of course he accepted and followed her inside. Steve’s heart was pounding at this point but he kept himself calm. Once inside Jodi declared she was going to change into something more comfortable and went to her room. A couple of minutes later she came back out wearing a blue sports bra and gray sweat pants. Her hair was pulled back into a ponytail and had a thin ribbon holding it in place.

She made the tea while they idly talked. When she came out of the kitchen she had a tray that she had placed the teapot and cups on as well as some cheese and light crackers. She sat down next to Steve, and pored the steaming liquid in the cups. Before she could hand Steve his cup, he took her hand in his and petted it gently on its topside and palm. The whole while looking in her eyes. Steve leaned forward and kissed her gently on the lips.

Their kisses intensity grew and soon they were frenching each other deeply. She pushed Steve back on the futon and straddled his waist. Her hands ran up and down Steve’s chest and arms while her hips moved back and forth over top of his. Steve ran his hands slowly up and down her back and moved them down to her butt and legs. Slowly Steve moved one hand to her right breast. She moaned gently as he lightly squeezed and massaged her breast.

Jodi then sat up, looked at Steve in his eyes and removed the sports bra revealing her breasts to him. Her breasts were firm and supple. They were tanned slightly and one could see a very slight tan line. Her nipples hardened when Steve sat up to kiss her. He moved his lips from hers to her neck just below her earlobe and gently nipped at the sensitive skin there. The whole while, his hands were massaging her back, butt and legs. He moved his lips from that spot below her earlobe down to the apex of her neck and gently continued to kiss, lick and nip at and around her collarbones. He moved down a little farther to the middle of her chest just above her breasts.He kissed her back and forth here for a bit, then reached up and took her mouth with his once again.

He moved his kiss once more, only more quickly this time, down her neck, then down her chest and took her left nipple in his mouth. He rolled her nipple around with his tongue and gently bit at the tip of it making it even harder and once again making her moan with pleasure. Steve moved from the left to the right nipple and performed the same task. He then left the nipples and began kissing and licking all around the breast going back to the nipples occasionally so as not to desensitize them. He laid her back and flipped his leg around so that now he was straddling her.

He kissed her again on the lips and continued to massage and rub her sides, chest and breasts. He moved his lip’s attention now from her chest and breasts down to her firm, defined stomach. He kissed her stomach all around and circled her belly button with his tongue teasing her even more. Steve then moved down even farther and she opened her legs so that he could have his body between them. Steve kissed her down her leg to the knee, then back up and did the same on the other side. He then took her sweat pants waistband and pulled them from her body leaving only her satin panties.

He began again to kiss her up and down each naked thigh caressing her smooth firm legs in the process. Steve grinned to himself and sat up so he could remove his shirt, which had been on this whole time. She eyed him with wanting in her expression and raised herself up so she could kiss and lick at his chest and nipples. Steve continued to rub her back as she kissed his chest then she lay back down for him to continue his pleasurable exploits.

Steve flattened his palm and placed his hand directly over what was now her moist pleasure. He slowly began rubbing her in a slow, circular motion which made her back arch slightly. He then removed the satin panties and brought his lips to hers below. He kissed up and down a couple of times and finally parted her lips with his tongue. At doing this she gasped and moaned with pleasure all the while making her more and more wet. Steve made circles with his tongue and flicked his tongue at her sensitive nub of pleasure. About 3 minutes of eternity past and they traded places yet again. This time she was on top straddling him. She kissed him and allowed their tongues to intertwine then she began to move down. She kissed him up and down his neck finding all of the sensitive spots. She then moved down to his massive chest and washboard stomach. She mimicked every move Steve performed on her exactly. Even circling his belly button with her tongue.

She started rubbing his manhood through his pants and could feel his hardness. Moving her hand up and down finally stopping at the top so she could undo her obstacle. She removed Steve’s pants and continued to rub, massage and kiss him everywhere from his knees to his stomach. She then took her next bold move and removed his boxers exposing his manhood to her. Jodi’s eyes sparkled mischievously as she gently wrapped her hand around his hardness and gently began to stoke it. She smiled at him and lowered her lips to his head. Steve gasped when she took him into her mouth and began massaging him with her tongue and lips. She licked and kissed his entire shaft and scrotum then took him in to her mouth repeatedly sucking and stroking in smooth, exhilarating yet rough motions.

Finally neither of them could take it any longer. They had to have each other. When the protection was on, she yet again straddled him and lowered herself to him and allowed his manhood to enter her. Both of them moaned with ecstasy as she rocked her hips back and forth and moved her body up and down. It was all Steve could do to keep himself in control. They changed positions a couple of times and when they reached there own climaxes, her multiple times before him, they lay in each other’s arms and both drifted off to a blissful slumber.

There are now 8 months left before Evil arrives. Deep in the dessert training area...

“Ok everyone, I feel we have been practicing the new dance long enough and it’s time for everyone to fuse with your assigned partner.” Announced Steve after a good morning of practice and sparring.

Everyone looked at Steve kind of skeptical but found their partner anyway.

Goku with Vegita who would make Gogita

Steve with Gohan who would make Stehan

Goten with Trunks who would make Gotenks

Piccolo with Tien who would make Tieccolo

Yamcha with Chosu who would make Yamosu

Krillin with #18 who would make Krilleteen

When everyone paired up, Steve instructed for everyone to fuse. Goku and Vegita started. Their posture was correct and their dance was perfect. When the tips of their fingers touched at the end of the dance, a brilliant flash of light exploded and the typical ki driven wind wailed around flicking up dust and small rocks. When the light had calmed down and the dust settled, there was now only one warrior where there use to be two. The warrior looked at Steve and the group and introduced himself in a strange double voice that sounded like Goku and Vegita talking exactly at the same time.

“I am Gogita.”

“YOSH! Perfect!” exclaimed Steve. “Now I would like everyone else to fuse. If you think you would like some help while your doing it just let me know.”

Everyone but Steve and Gohan as well as Yamcha and Chosu did their dance and became their respective fused warrior. Each one introducing themselves as their fusion finished.

“I am Gotenks”

“I am Tieccolo”

“I am Krilleteen” because #18 was part of this fusion the voice had a slight feminine lilt to it.

Steve walked over to Yamcha and Chosu.

“Hey guys, what’s wrong? Do you have a question or problem I could help with?” asked Steve concerned.

“Well,” started Yamcha “to be honest Steve I’m kind of nervous about this.”

“Yea, me too.” chimed in Chosu looking a little ashamed.

“Look guys, you have known each other for years. Do you trust each other?” Steve was trying to sooth their nerves. Both fighters looked at each other then back at Steve.

“Yes I trust him.” They both said in unison.

Steve smiled and continued “Well then if you trust each other, and you know neither of you is going to hurt the other then neither of you have anything to be nervous about. I tell ya what, Gohan and I will do the dance with you guys so you have visual aid. We’re fusing last cause I wanted to make sure everyone did it correctly. Now come on, lets do this you guys.”

Yamcha and Chosu looked at each other and got into their stances. Steve and Gohan did the same only they were farther apart so they could fuse last incase Yamcha and Chosu lost it. The dance went smooth and the two warriors fused perfectly and introduced themselves.

“I am Yamosu”

“Yosh! Perfect you guys, way to go!” ^__^ exclaimed Steve.

Now it was Steve and Gohan’s turn. They got into their respective positions, fused perfectly, then introduced there self.

“I am Stehan”

All of the fused warriors looked at each other for a few seconds then Stehan spoke up in a strange double voice of Steve and Gohan.

“You have all done very well. I would like for each of you to stay fused for as long as you can. With the extra steps to the dance, it is up to you as to how long you can remain fused. At first it will be difficult but I’m sure we can all get use to it pretty fast. Now lets spar.”

All of the fused warriors paired up and sparred for about 2 hours before the first ones un-fused from being too tired. Yamcha and Chosu were first followed about 30 minutes later by Krillin and #18. Another 2 hours went by then Tien and Piccolo un-fused followed shortly by Goten and Trunks. The last two fused warriors, Stehan and Gogita, continued to spar. Neither warrior could touch the other and finally after a total of 8 hours of sparing while fused the last two warriors un-fused. When the un-fuseing had finished all four fighters were breathing heavily. When he had finally caught his breath Steve directed that the days training was done and sent everyone on his or her own way.

“Good job today guys, I’m proud to be a part of this team.” Steve said while patting them on the back or nodding at them in approval. “Same time and place tomorrow people. I want to do this first stage of fusion for 5 more days then we’ll move to the next step.”

Everyone nodded in approval and left to go to their respective homes for the night.

After a couple of mishaps and mis-fusions, it was time for double fusion.

“Ok everyone, time to double fuse today. I have worked it out so that Gogita and Stehan will fuse first so everyone can see and feel how it is done. I want you to also pay attention to how our power levels don’t have to stay the same as we fuse.”

Steve looked at the other three participants and signaled that it was time to start. He let Gogita get formed first then Stehan formed.

“Now” began Stehan in his double voice “the next step goes as follows.”

The two fused warriors got into their stances and began. The dance went perfect and the two fused warriors fused and introduced themselves.

“I am Stegogitahan”

This warrior’s power was almost too much for the un-fused fighters to fathom. Even Piccolo, former guardian of earth, was astonished at his fighting power. Piccolo remembered meeting the Kio’s of this universe a long time ago and he could tell that this warrior’s power was stronger than the Grand Kio. But that meeting with the Grand Kio was a long time ago.

“A-Astonishing!” exclaimed Piccolo. “I can’t believe how powerful he is, I mean they are!”

Stegogitahan spoke again. “Let’s finish this up fellas. Do your fusion’s, then your double fusion’s, then we can spar.” He said with a grin. His grin spread to a full smile at the mentioning of sparring.

The rest of the fighters did as they were told. They all fused stage one without a hitch. Now they were ready for stage two, double fusion.

Gotenks and Tiecollo fused first and introduced.

“I am Tiegotenkcollo”

Next were Yamosu and Krilleteen. They fused perfectly this first time and introduced.

“I am Krillyamosuteen”

Now three double-fused warriors stood face to face. Stegogitahan stepped forward and began.

“We all know the drill, we spar until we cannot spar as fused entities anymore. I will utilize Gokus instant transmission to move us to a pre-selected, uninhabited planet. It is basically a rock in space with an atmosphere. If we destroy it, it won’t matter. It’s uninhabited so I’ll just find another one. Does everyone understand and are we ready?”

The other two warriors nodded in agreement. Stegogitahan raised his two right forefingers to his forehead and instructed the other two warriors to place their hands on his shoulders. In a moment they were standing on granite rock instead of desert sand. This planet had a higher gravity than that of Earth and its atmosphere was thicker making it difficult to breathe. The three warriors looked at each other then vanished to begin their sparring session. They were moving so fast that they covered a 220-mile area with ease for just one fight.

After about 6 hours of sparring Krillyamosuteen announced they had to stop. Everyone did stop and were returned to Earth to un-fuse. When all were un-fused and had caught their breath Steve addressed them.

“Great job today guys. I think we might be ready by the time the creature arrives. But I have to be honest. I’m still not sure our efforts are going to be enough. Tomorrow I would like to take everyone to the Room of Spirit and Time (hyperbolic time chamber). I want the fusion’s to be faster and for all of us to work on making them last longer. Keep that in mind tonight and I’ll see everyone here tomorrow.”

Everyone began departing for the evening but Steve stayed. Vegita noticed this and went back to prod Steve. Messing with and picking on Steve, or anyone for that matter, was something Vegita liked doing, Steve just happened to be a fairly easy target, or so Vegita thought.

“What are you doing? I thought you were leaving for the day,” said Vegita in his regular gruff voice.

Steve smiled but did not look at Vegita, and he remained silent as well.

“Are you going to say anything or are you going to ignore me, weakling?” Vegita smiled at the last part of his statement. He was trying to get to Steve. “You’re not going to reach Super Sayin in time to meet this creature of yours so give it up.” prodded Vegita a little more. “You’re not a true Sayin anyway so why keep trying?”

Steve’s smile disappeared and there was left only a look of sheer loathing and hate. Vegita had pushed him for the last time. Many times before after there Fusion Dance Training had Steve stayed and tried to reach the Super Sayin level. Vegita had been there a few of the times and did nothing but piss Steve off by be-rating him and telling him he wasn’t good enough and that he wasn’t a real Sayin. Today was different. After being fused with Vegita as Stegogitahan, Steve knew what Vegita was doing. Steve powered up all the way and tried the transformation. As he tried it he could hear the words Goku told Gohan when Gohan was training to become a Super Sayin.

“The power comes from a specific need, not a desire. You have to create that need.”

At remembering this Steve smiled, closed his eyes again and created his own need deep in his heart. Steve could feel the transformation taking place. His muscles and tendons bulged and tightened, his skin felt like ants were crawling all over him, and each of the ants’ steps were blazing with fire. He could feel his hair standing on end and generating heat. Steve opened his eyes to reveal their color changed to an emerald green.

###Vegita stood there aggravated that Steve had not answered him. He was about to do something about it when he felt Steves ki change. He watched as Steve’s body bulged and increased slightly in size. His eyes grew wide to see the young Sayin’s hair flash gold then black then gold again and remaining gold. He was dumbfounded when Steve opened his eyes and looked at him with emerald greens. Steve stood there, the newest Super Sayin, and Vegita got to witness it.

When their eyes met, Vegita caught his composure and half frowned, half smirked. “It’s about time you reached it. Want to test it?” challenged Vegita with a big, teethe smirk on his face.

Steve, now hungry for battle to test himself, smiled. “Yes.” was Steve’s only reply.

Vegita’s ki exploded around him then turned gold as he quickly transformed to Super Sayin himself. Both warriors got into stances, sized each other up, and then vanished with their first attacks. Steve was faster than Vegita even before he became Super Sayin so now he was even faster. Vegita knew this but he is a very astute fighter, quick thinker, cleaver, and much more experienced at fighting than Steve. They fought for about 45 minutes at hypersonic speeds until finally Vegita got a kick in. Even if it was only a scrape of Steve’s foot, but it was enough to open Steves defense, or so he thought. Vegita went for the opening but only hit air. Steve was already behind him and tapped him on the shoulder. By this time both fighters were tired so Steve suggested to head home. Vegita only grudgingly agreed because Steve had pointed out that Vegita had gotten the first hit in. They both powered down out of Super Sayin and sat on some boulders that were near by before their trip home.

“Well thank you Vegita for that sparring session. I’ve learned a lot from you and Goku.” Steve said admiringly.

“Just don’t get cocky! You’re a Super Sayin now, don’t let it go to your head! Besides, I was going easy on you for your information!” shot back Vegita smugly.

“It doesn’t matter, you helped me transform and you allowed me to test my transformation with yours. That’s what I was thanking you for… I’m tired and I’m going to the house. Wanna fly with me, or do you want to remain stubborn and fly by yourself?” was Steves quick jab reply back.

Vegita looked at Steve a second and finally got up. “As I said, you are a Super Sayin now… I guess you can fly with me. But don’t let that go to your head either, I am not your friend! Got it!?!”

“Got it” smiled Steve.

Both fighters ki’s flared at the same time then exploded around them. Vegita looked at Steve gruffly for powering up the same way but then smirked and they both blasted off into the sky together heading towards home at Capsule Corp.

Steve and the Z-Fighters have been working hard while normal, transformed, fused, and transformed while fused. Everyone’s power level has risen tremendously sense Steve arrived and Steve has become fluent at Super Sayin level 1 and 2 and is currently working to reach level 3. Thanks to the Room of Spirit and Time, everyone is coming closer to their goals. Despite everyone’s increased skill and power on individual levels and fused levels Steve has yet to order the final fusion.

“Two months, we only have two months till this creature gets here and already I can feel his power weighting on me!” cried Yamcha. “I don’t know if I can take it much longer you guys!”

The creature’s power could be felt a month ago and was getting difficult for the weaker fighters to handle.

“Hold on Yamcha, we need you for this. Think of the power you feel when you’re fused with Chosu, #18, and me. That’s what I do when the creatures power starts to bother me,” said Krillin trying to calm his friend.

“He’s right Yamcha, think of the power you have when your fused and you’ll be just fine,” said #18, backing up her husband.

“Ok, I’ll do that.” Yamcha started concentrating and in a few moments he exclaimed, “WOW! It works, thanks you guys!”

Steve saw and heard the whole conversation and had walked over to the 4 Z-fighters just as Yamcha was showing his gratitude by padding Krillin on the back. Steve moved over to Yamcha and placed a hand on Yamcha’s shoulder.

Steve looked Yamcha in the eyes “Be at peace Yamcha. Always keep in mind when you start feeling like that again that, you are not alone and you can come to any of your friends for a helping hand or kind listening ear.” he said.

“I know I can count on all of you Steve. It’s just that sometimes it seems very difficult.” explained Yamcha.

Steve smiled “I know, believe me I know it can be difficult. But never forget that when your strength fails, your true friends will be there to give you the support you need to get through the trial you’re facing. Don’t forget that. Ok?”

“Ok, Thanks Steve. You really know how to make someone feel better. I’m glad you’re here man,” said Yamcha.

Yamcha was in a better mood now and joined some of the other fighters for the evening. Steve snuck out to the gravity machine for some high gravity meditation.

Piccolo was at Kami’s Palace above Korin’s tower training when Steve, Vegita and Goku flew up. Piccolo was moving at incredible speeds. He stopped suddenly, still not noticing his visitors, and crossed his arms in front of his face.

“MUL-TI-FORM!” shouted Piccolo.

His body split into 4 different individuals that looked exactly like him. They all looked at each other, and then 3 attacked one all at once. Non of the individual entities laid a hand on the middle one but Steve, Vegita and Goku could see Piccolo getting faster and stronger as he did this exercise. Piccolo kept going for a few minutes until he finally saw the three fighters watching him. Piccolo stopped and all 4 entities joined back together into one being.

Piccolo faced the three Sayins and spoke. “What brings you 3 up here? Came to see the view?” Piccolo grinned at his own sarcasm.

“No we didn’t come here for the view Piccolo. We came here to see if you’d like to come with us to spar at the Heavy Mountains.” invited Goku.

“The Heavy Mountains? Isn’t that the one place on Earth that gravity is five times normal?” Piccolo asked.

“Yea, it is. Is it too much for you Namek?” Vegita said. He was feisty today and eager for a fight.

“Vegita, you never give up, do you?” said Piccolo “I’ll come with you. I have a new technique I’d like to try out. It may come in handy when that creature gets here.”

Piccolo was smiling mischievously at mentioning his new techniques. This got everyone’s attention. Goku spoke up.

“That’s great Piccolo, lets go so we can see what you’ve got.” Goku always got excited when new techniques were found out.

They all agreed and blasted off heading to the Heavy Mountains. It took about 20 minutes of high speed flying before they arrived at their destination. Floating half a mile above the mountains, none of them could really feel the increased gravity that awaited them below. They all descended and as soon as they got about 150 feet above the mountains, it felt as if the Earth was pulling them to the surface with haste. They all touched down in one of the valleys surprisingly gentle despite the slight increase in gravity.

“This isn’t that bad.” commented Goku.

“Well what did you expect Kakkorot? This is not a gravity machine!” snorted Vegita “Let’s get this started! I’ve been wanting to kick someone’s ass sense I got out of bed this morning! With the Namek saying he’s got some new moves my interest has been piqued!” Vegita finished with a grin, and then he gave Piccolo a challenging look that did not go un-noticed.

“Anytime your ready Sayin, bring it on!” retorted Piccolo “I’ll give you what your daddy should have given you when you were a kid! Yea, a good old fashion ass whipping is definitely what you need!”

Vegita was red with anger at Piccolo challenging back. Steve stood leaning against a boulder watching the two fighters for about 10 minutes and started to giggle at their boasts. His giggle quickly turned in a chortle then he was in a full-blown laughing fit. He fell to one knee he was laughing so hard and every time he looked at Vegita and Piccolo his laughing got even louder. Both fighters stopped arguing and looked at Steve in bewilderment. Steve looked up and pointed this time at the two fighters while he was laughing. He took a deep breath, lowered his hand and finger and once again broke out laughing. By this time, the bewilderment had worn off and the two fighters knew Steve was laughing at them. Neither fighter liked that fact and turned their attention directly at Steve.

“What the hell are you laughing at!!!” Vegita and Piccolo yelled in unison at Steve.

Steve stood up holding his side, still giggling a bit, and then he got serious “You two are ridiculous, I mean look at you! Arguing over who is stronger, faster, and more cunning. YOU LOOK LIKE A COUPLE OF SCHOOL GIRLS ARGUING OVER A LITTLE BOY THEY BOTH LIKE IN GYM CLASS!!!! That is what the HELL I am laughing at and you know what makes you look worse? YOU’LL START AGAIN IN ABOUT FIVE MINUTES!! I swear you’re both gonna get the ASS kicking of you lives if you don’t shut the hell up and get TO YOUR TRAINING!!!!”

This did not go over well at all cause both Piccolo and Vegita powered up and at the same time, charged Steve. Steve simply stood his ground and waited for them to reach him. Vegita got there first and was met by Steve’s fist in his gut. Vegita stumbled to the side. Piccolo was next and his attack to Steves head was met by a fast round house to the face. Piccolo hit the ground so Steve turned his attention back to Vegita, who was almost up to his feet. Steve showed no mercy and fiercely attacked Vegita. He vanished from Vegita's site, appeared beside him and delivered an uppercut into Vegita's left side. Vegita fell to the ground once again holding his side and cursing under his breath.

By this time Piccolo had gotten back up and was charging up a ball of energy in his hands. Steve watched thinking this could be one of his new attacks. Piccolo brought his energy filled hands together in front of his face and touched his index fingers and thumbs together making a diamond shape with his hands. Bolts of power and energy blasted from his body destroying the area they were in and the ground began to shake. Piccolo’s hands and arms began to glow and his eyes shown white with little bolts of static electricity flickering between them while his green antenna stood straight up in the air.

When he was done powering the attack, Piccolo thrust his hand forward and screamed “DIAMOND MASENKO HAAAAAA!!!” and released the attack.

Steve saw how strong the attack was and very quickly moved out of its way. The attack hit the valley wall that was about a half mile behind Steve and melted a hole the size of a freight train right through the mountainside and then exploded just on the opposite side. Everyone stopped to look at the aftermath. Eyes bugged out and jaws dropped, even Vegita’s expression told he was impressed.

“WOW! Man, I didn’t know it could be that powerful” exclaimed Piccolo “I was going to use it as a stunning attack but this is much better.”

Everyone nodded their heads in agreement. Goku excitedly jogged, well ran is more like it, up to Piccolo and looked again at the hole in the side of the mountain.

“YOSH!! What an attack Piccolo, that should definitely help in the fight against the creature.” Goku was grinning from ear to ear as he applauded Piccolo’s new attack.

“Alright, alright you guys. Let’s get back to sparring and not beating the daylights out of each other.” said Steve.

They all agreed and started their training.

The rest of the day went much more smoothly and the four fighters finally went home after sparring and training for about 12 hours.

Steve went over to Jodi’s house to hang out.

The two had been watching TV while they talked and enjoyed an adult beverage. After about 2 hours had past, silence fell for a few moments and Jodi began looking nervous and a bit jumpy. Steve ignored it thinking she was just getting more comfortable. When she stopped she was facing Steve and looked him directly in his eyes.

“Steve,” she began “I have something I need to tell you.” She had a blank look on her face and took a deep breath. “You know last weekend when you were out training and I went out with my friend?” Steve nodded to say yes “Well, I slept with someone else that night.” Jodi finished and just looked at Steve.

Steve’s face was blank from the shock of this revelation unfolding before him. He lay there for a few moments expecting to hear more, perhaps an explanation or her trying to defend her actions. Nothing more was said at that moment. Steve sat up and rolled his legs off the bed he was lying on and held his head in his hands. He then reached for his things and put his shoes on. Jodi began saying something behind him but Steve was so infuriated he couldn’t hear her.

When he finished gathering his things and putting his shoes on, Steve stood up and walked out if the house without so much as a “fuck you” or even a “good-bye”. Steve got in the vehicle that Bulma was letting him borrow and went back to Capsule Corp. When he pulled in the drive, after the 15-minute commute, Steve saw the lights on in the gravity room and new Vegita was training. Steve put the car back in it’s capsule and went to see Vegita.

Peering in the front door window Steve could tell Vegita was hard at it. He could see the controls from where he was and noticed the setting. (850 X Normal) Steve grinned slightly and knocked loudly on the door. Vegita looked over and saw him looking in the room. Vegita stopped his training, turned off the gravity machine and went to the door cursing under his breath for being interrupted.

With a look of disdain Vegita opened the door. “What the hell do you want?!” he snapped in his usual manner.

Steve just walked past, ignoring him and went directly to the gravity machines control panel. “You might want to close that door Vegita.” Steve said softly as he set the machine to (1000 X Normal).

“Something on your mind you want to fight about?” Vegita said grinning as he closed the door. He walked over to Steve and saw the setting.

Steve looked Vegita in the eyes and said two words. “Get Ready!”

With that said, Vegita’s jaw dropped slightly and his eyes actually bugged out a little bit. Steve smiled and hit the key to start the machine. Within seconds the massive pressure was upon them. Both fighters stood there ground but only with some effort. Steve walked very slow out to the middle of the room and began to stretch. Vegita just watched for a minute cause he to could only barely move. When Steve finished stretching he faced Vegita with eyes still closed. His face took on a scowl and he exploded in to Super Sayin level 2. At seeing this, Vegita followed suite and transformed as well.

“Vegita, I have some, frustrations, I need to work out and need a punching bag. Care to volunteer?” Steve said with his eyes still closed.

“Well I don’t know about being a punching bag but I know I’ve been itching to kick someone’s ass this evening. I guess you’ll do.” said Vegita in his arrogant, bored, smug tone.

“Fine.” was all Steve said.

Steve’s eyes shot open and he phased to behind Vegita. Steve tapped Vegita on the left shoulder and then knocked him to the other side of the room when he turned to look. Vegita shot up from the floor and viciously attacked Steve. Punches, kicks, lunges, elbows, legs and feet flew at Steve and they were all blocked. Vegita kept coming on full force until he made a small mistake. Vegita had thrown a left jab and held it out a fraction of a second too long, leaving himself open. Steve took the opening and delivered a bone-crushing uppercut to the jaw knocking Vegita to the ceiling. Vegita hit the ceiling hard but was able to get his composure quickly enough so he could float above Steve in the air. The fact that he had been hit enraged Vegita so he began gathering his energy into his palms. The room began to shake from the power Vegita was emitting and Steve knew he was about to be the recipient of the ‘Final Flash’ attack.

Seeing the eminent attack, Steve powered up his own for defense. He crouched slightly, began concentrating, and then started the chant for his attack.

“KAAAAA-MEEEEE-HAAAA-MEEEE…” Steve was timing Vegita’s attack and knew he had to hold his own attack back a moment longer. The only problem was that the power and energy being emitted from the two warriors was causing the ground to shake uncontrollably and the floor plates were trying to rise out of their bolted or welded places. Finally Steve saw it was time to release his defending attack because Vegita’s power piqued and was released. Steve finished his chant and released his attack.

“…MEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!”

The two beams met in the middle of the room and exploded in a brilliant flash of light and energy. The two beams pushed back and forth on each other neither one gaining an advantage. Steve, fueled by his recent loss of breaking up with his girlfriend, screamed to the top of his lungs…

“You fucking, cheating, bitch! How dare you cheat on me! YYYYAAAARRRRAAAAAAAAA!!!!!”

With his emotions running higher and more painful than ever, Steve’s power to his attack increased instantly and overtook Vegita’s beam. The increased power was enough to knock Vegita to the back wall. Exhausted from the short bout and massively increased gravity, neither warrior was able to continue. Vegita and Steve fell to the floor breathing very heavy and sweating profusely. After a few minutes of catching their breaths the two fighters got up and faced each other.

Vegita looked Steve over quizzically “I must say that was a good fight Steve. After that last attack and what you said I know what happened to you tonight, no explanations necessary, or wanted for that mater. Don’t let my loss of this bout to you go to your head cause I let you beat me, got it!” said Vegita gruffly.

“Well Vegita, weather I beat you or not was not my goal tonight. If you know what happened to me then you know all I needed was to get it out. Thank you Vegita, I’m glad I could help you with your training. I’ll go now.” Steve said as he walked over to the gravity machine to turn it off and then powered himself down.

On his way out Steve stopped only once to glance back. Their eyes met briefly, Vegita’s were cold, hard and careless as usual but Steve’s were warm and damp and showing his own pain. The two fighters connected silently if only for a fleeting moment. Steve closed the door behind him and headed for his room in the main building. He showered in a haze of oblivion and went to bed with eyes full of tears that simply would not fall. Just before he dozed off to sleep he mumbled one last thing. “Good-bye Jodi, I loved you.”

Steve awoke feeling better.

The pain of his loss was still fresh in his mind but Steve ignored it. “I am not going to let this bring me down or put me out.” He said to himself as he left Capsule Corp.

Steve met everyone at the training site a little late. He instructed them to train or work on whatever they needed or wanted to. Steve then floated over to a large boulder and used a small cutting laser attack to mold the top of the boulder into a flat, even surface. Steve sat down and observed everyone for a while then began meditating.

After about 6 hours of meditation Steve’s power-level shot through the roof. Everyone stopped whatever he or she were doing to see what was happening. Goku and Vegita had to step around the group to see. Their eyes bugged and jaws dropped at the site before them. Steve was floating about two inches above the surface of the boulder he had been sitting on and had his energy surrounding him. He was not in a Super-Sayian form but his power-level was just as strong if not stronger than his own SSJ2 level was. His face had a look of pain on it yet he looked comfortable at the same time. His body was relaxed completely.

Piccolo sensed something and quickly faced the others. “Something is about to happen.” He stated plainly.

Just as Piccolo finished saying that a burst of ki wind and energy started coming from Steve and then picked up to gale force winds. Steve’s energy blew so hard that it cleared the area of large boulders, rocks of all sizes, and sand. Suddenly Steve’s eyes shot open. Everyone gasped, for his eyes were emerald greens but his hair had not yet changed to the golden color of a Super-Sayian. Blots of power began firing all around Steve as he started floating upward. He got about 20 feet in the air and stopped. He had not come out of his seated position until now. Steve opened and stretched his body into a spread-eagle position. The winds then died completely but the energy was still firing all around Steve’s body. Just when everyone thought he was done, Steve screamed to the top of his lungs and transformed himself into a Super-Sayian. He shot his power straight up to it's maximum at SSJ2.

“He’s found the key.” Goku stated with an excited grin.

Moments later, Steve’s power changed, it seemed to be compressing. His hair started growing then stopped when it reached the back of his knees. Steve now stood in Super-Sayian level 3 form. He continued to power-up causing the ground to shake violently and also making rocks and boulders float up in the air and shatter into dust.

Goku then floated up to Steve. “Steve… Steve you need to calm down… Steve… calm down or you’re going to explode from the power! STEVE!!!”

Their eyes met and Steve smiled. “I’m ok Goku. I just need to rest now.”

Steve reverted back to normal, passed out and fell to the ground like a stone. Goku caught him just before he hit the ground.

The group walked over and Piccolo spoke up.

“Goku, do you have any sensu beans?”

“No I don’t.”

“Then you need to take him to a regeneration tank. He seems to have used almost all of his energy in that display. He kept just enough to keep himself alive.”

“I’m on it Piccolo.”

Goku placed his hand on Steve’s shoulder and transmitted Steve and himself to Capsule Corp. Once there, Goku got Steve into one of the regeneration tanks then went to tell Bulma and get a bit to eat.

Everything was dark and still. Temperature could not be determined. Light and darkness could not be distinguished. Deafening silence ruled the shallow and the deep. No dimensions seemed to exist. No height, no width, or depth could be discerned of anything. Nothing ruled the emptiness that filled the Universe. Suddenly Steve felt a warm glow from behind him. He turned to look and see what might be there but saw nothing. Steve strained his eyes to try and see something, anything but the brilliant blackness of the dark still loomed over like a pitch-black rain cloud covering the countryside on a moonless, light-less night. Steve noticed that the silence was so quiet his ears were ringing. No senses seemed to work save that of touch, for he could discern heat and cold now. Slowly Steves senses came into play.

First, touch, he could feel the temperature first. Now he could feel a very slight breeze moving across his skin and through his hair. Next he could smell, the sent of blood was all around and hung thick in the air. The smell of blood began invigorating his Sayin side driving him crazy with blood lust, but Steve kept control, if only barely. Now Steve cold taste his own blood on his tongue which almost sent him over the edge with blood lust, but still he hung on to his sanity.

Next he could see but only images flashed in front of him. Images of his new friends being ripped apart by some unknown force. Steve watched in horrifying detail and deafening silence as Krillin’s body was slowly ripped limb from limb. First Krillin’s arms seemed to break in multiple places at once. Then his arms were literally torn from their sockets as gushes of blood spewed from the nubs where his arms use to be. Now his stomach split open revealing Krillin’s intestines as they spilled out onto the floor. Steve watched as the dissection of Krillin continued. All the while Krillin was alive and screaming in agony, yet Steve could not hear anything or even move. He watched this happen to each one of his dear friends, unable to move or help in anyway.

Steve felt a terrible hurt deep in his soul for his friends. He now could hear their screams. The sense of hearing that had come back to him caused that terrible hurt to explode into rage. Steve now had his full faculties and his rage erupted. His transformation was instant and his power bellowed from him like typhoon size waves. Steve stood in his highest achieved Super Sayin form, level 3, but he was still unable to move. His blood lust mixed with the horror and pain of seeing his friends dissected in front of him caused Steve’s power to explode again and reach the power of Goku at his full power. But now Goku lay still and lifeless, dissected like some meaningless animal in a laboratory, just like everyone else within Steve's site. Suddenly, everything changed to balck again while Steve screamed in aggony...

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Steve woke in a frenzied panic and found himself wearing an air mask and boxers, he was also submerged in a liquid. He quickly looked around and could make out the blurry image of a blue haired woman. He knew it must be Bulma and quickly tried to calm himself down.

“I’m in a regen. tank? Then everything I just saw, everything I just felt was all a dream…or was it a premonition?” He pondered to himself. "It seemed soo real." he continued as he finished his thought.

Steve reached forward and tapped on the glass door of the tank. Bulma looked up quickly from what she was doing.

“Oh! Your times up already, well lets get you out of there.” Said Bulma with some excitement.

She pushed a few buttons and the liquid drained out of the tank then the air mask was withdrawn. Steve stepped out of the tank into a robe Bulma was holding up for him.

“Thank you Bulma.” Steve said with a weak but heartfelt smile and then he went to his room.

Steve rested in his room until dinnertime was called around 6:00 in the evening. He picked himself up out of bed, got dressed and slowly walked down to the living room. Only Bulma and Trunks were at the table when Steve came in. Trunks smiled at Steve between bites of his food and Bulma invited Steve to take a seat and eat. Just as Steve had finished filling his plate and was about to eat, Vegita walked in and sat down.

"So your finally out of the tank. It took you long enough!" Vegita made that one statement then ate in silence the rest of the time.

When dinner was finished, Vegita got up, walked to the doorway and stopped. "You've reached a new level. Are you ready to test it?" he said without looking behind him.

Steve looked at Trunks and Bulma and winked at them with a mischievous grin then he answered.

"Well Vegita, that depends." said Steve.

Vegita got an aggravated look on his face. "On what does it depend?" irritation was clear in his voice.

"It depends on weather you're ready to get your ass kicked." Steve finished with the same mischievous grin.

Vegita clinched his fists and stated with as much control as he could muster right then. "Bring it on, I'll be in the gravity room when you're ready. You had better not make me wait for too long! I don't want to have to come looking for you! You'll be sorry if I do!" that said Vegita stormed out of the dinning room and slammed the first door he had to go through.

Steve chuckled and thanked Bulma for dinner. He was about to leave when Trunks caught his attention.

"Hey Steve..."

"Yea? What’s up Trunks?"

"I can tell dad is in one of his moods. Watch your back and keep it together."

"O don't you worry Trunks, I will, I have to. Your dad doesn't exactly know how to take it easy, know what I mean?"

"Yea, I sure do. Say, do you mind if I watch the session?"

"I don't have a problem with it. I'll open the observation window for you."

"Thanks!!" Trunks said with a smile as the two made their way to the gravity room.

As Steve and Trunks got closer to the room they could feel Vegita's power. He was warming up, they had concluded. The two warriors reached the hall that lead to the observation deck and Trunks padded Steve on the back one last time before going to take a seat.

Steve reached the door to the room and knocked loudly. Moments later the door opened with Vegita standing cross-armed and glaring at Steve.

"Once again you took your time. Warm up so we can get started. I'm anxious to kick your ass for your impudence earlier" Vegita snapped.

Steve just looked at him and walked right past Vegita after he had finished talking. Steve walked directly to the control panel and opened the observation deck for Trunks. Then he set the gravity controls to 1000 X's normal.

"What are you doing!?! Close that observation deck! I don't want anyone watching me kick your ass!" Vegita snapped.

Steve turned his head to look at Vegita through the corner of his eye and stated evenly yet sternly. "No, the deck stays open, unless your scared Trunks might pick up some trademark move of yours. Or do you just not want anyone to see YOU get YOUR ass kicked?"

Vegita's ki flared then exploded around him and Steve followed suit. Vegita glared at Steve and smiled evilly.

"Are you ready?" Steve asked then nodded and flipped the switch for the gravity to come on. Both warriors felt the gravity increase and could barely stand. Just then they both transformed to Super Sayins. Now they could move with more ease. Steve stretched briefly then powered up to SSJ2 with Vegita matching his power output. Steve crouched slightly, closed his eyes and allowed his power to increase even more. His power began to compress and his hair grew till it reached the back of his knees. Steve now stood in SSJ3.

Vegita looked at Steve in awe for just a moment then put on his usual fighting grin. Vegita and Steve circled each other and slowly began floating up in the air. Vegita tried a couple of scare tactics by jumping toward Steve to try and get him off guard but Steve was on to him and stood his ground firmly. Finally Vegita tried once more and unwittingly opened himself up slightly. Steve saw this and viciously attacked Vegita's midsection with blinding speed and deadly accuracy. Most of the hits made contact but Vegita was able to block quite a few. Steve backed off after a minute or so to ponder his next move. Vegita, now enraged, shot his power up to unbelievable heights for a SSJ2 and his power kept growing.

Trunks was watching from the observation deck in total awe at the amount of power both Vegita and Steve were producing. "This is amazing!! I never knew my dad was this strong. Why his power feels like it's changing, compressing, like Steves did. Oh my god I think he is about to transform! I'd better hit the force-fields or he'll destroy the entire complex." Trunks ran to the control panel on the deck and quickly hit the emergency force-fields just as Vegita’s power exploded.

Vegita’s body was in a fetal position. Then he stretched out his body to a standing spread eagle position just as his power stopped compressing. His hair grew to the back of his knees and his power now matched that of Steves. Vegita stood still in mid-air and was taking in deep breaths. He too now stood in SSJ3.

"YOSH!!! Vegita, you did it, you transformed to SSJ3! Nice, very nice! Now you have a chance to beat me. But that will be only after you get some more control over this new form."

Vegita just looked at Steve while he tried to catch his breath. About five minutes went by and Vegita had floated to the floor and was trying to hold the transformation as long as he could. Finally the fatigue got to him and he fell out of Super Sayian completely. Sitting on the floor helped for little bit but Vegita still passed out from the exertion of the transformation. Steve walked over to the control panel to turn off the gravity machine and then dropped out of Super Sayian as well. He caught his breath and sat down next to Vegita. Trunks had rushed down from the observation deck and knocked on the door. Steve looked over and waved him in. Trunks unlocked the room and walked quickly over to Steve and Vegita.

"Are you guys OK?" Trunks asked in a bit of a frenzy.

"Yea, we're OK. Vegita just passed out from the transformation. It's very hard on the body the first time ya know. Here, help me get him to the regen tank." Steve said.

Trunks looked at Steve "Here, I'll carry him. Can you walk?" he asked.

"Yea, I'll be alright, thanks." replied Steve.

Trunks picked up Vegita’s unconscious body and Steve opened doors for him as they headed to the regen tank. They got Vegita in the tank and set the controls for 30 minutes. Once they were sure everything was set Steve lay down on a cot that was in the room while Trunks went to get some food from the kitchen.

When Trunks got back he had 15 sandwiches, 3 bowls of chunky stew, and some cheese crackers. Trunks and Steve ate their share while they waited on Vegita to heal and wake up. Finally the buzzer went off signaling the tanks cycle was done. They saw Vegita was awake and coherent and was starring death at them both. Steve and Trunks both ignored his looks and drained the tank. No one said a word, the room was silent as Vegita climbed out of the tank, dried himself off and put on the fresh clothes that were laid out for him. Vegita saw the food and tried to act like he didn't want anything but when he tried to leave Steve stepped in his way and looked him right in the eyes.

"You need to eat something." Steve stated plainly as he motioned toward the food.

"I need nothing! I am a warrior and warriors can handle a little strain on the body. Now get out of my way!" retorted Vegita looking very menacing.

Steve looked at him and frowned deeply. "I will not get out of your way until you eat something. You and I both know your strength is not back completely so you would be foolish to try and move me. Now sit and eat! Then you can go and do what you like, not before."

Vegita knew this was true so he shoved the food in his mouth and stormed out choking a bit while he chewed and walked away.

Everyone was in the desert training diligently on the dance, their new techniques, or just their own styles. Piccolo and Tien were sharing energy attacks. Piccolo had showed his diamond masanko attack to everyone and was trying to show Tien how he came up with it. Tien had come up with an attack of his own that was similar in principal to Piccolos so he was comparing the two attacks.

"So you charge your arms and hands while they are above your head then bring your arms down to in front of your chest while holding your hands in a diamond shape. As you are bringing your arms down you say diamond. Then when your hands are in the diamond shape you say masanko. When you are ready to release the attack you just end it with an exhale of breath, which for me sounds like I'm saying HA." said Piccolo while showing Tien.

"That is soo cool Piccolo. My attack is similar but produces a different beam. I call it the power beam. You know how the tri-beam works. Well this gives more control over the blast. You start the same way as your diamond masanko with your hands over your head but your hands should be in the tri-beam shape. You then bring your hands down to in front of you facing forward and still in the tri-beam form. Charge your arms and hands, say the chant then release with a HAAA!!! Like this..." said Tien.

Tien faced away from everyone and showed Piccolo. Tien's face looked concentrated and he charged his arms and hands, he dropped his hands in front of himself and roared POWERBEEEEAAAAAM HAAAAA!!!! He released the beam and leveled a large sand dune that was about half a mile away. By this time everyone had turned from what they were doing to watch Tien and Piccolo. Steve, Gohan, Vegita and Goku stepped over to them.

"Hey, that’s a good attack there Tien, it's almost as strong as Piccolos." stated Gohan.

"Well thanks Gohan, I've been working on it for a while sense Piccolo showed everyone his diamond masanko. It's been some hard work but I am pleased with the results." said Tien with a smile on his face.

"Well it looks good and strong. I'm certain it will help us against the creature." chimed in Goku.

"Yea, with attacks like yours and Piccolo's, we'll make mienced meat out of that thing heading our way!" cheered Gohan.

"You're dag, dang, damned right!" chimed in everyone else.

"Well, we'll practise your and Piccolo's attacked in the Hyperbolic time chamber in a few hours. The creature will be here day after tomorrow so we need to be as ready as we can get." said Steve "Besides, today and tomorrow are the only two days I have allowed for us to do the final fusion so lets go everyone. I'll meet you all at Kami's lookout in about 3 hours. For now lets take some personal time. See ya'll!" Steve finished then vanished from sight.

At Kami's lookout there was a light, cool breeze with a hint of floral fragrance to it that made it invigorating. The fighters were all gathered in the open court yard talking, going over tactics and moves or playing cards. Trunks and Goten had decided to meditate off to the side while Tien and Piccolo sparred. Vegita stood over to the side alone, as usual, while Krillian and #18 were on the other side of the lookout having a moment or three together in private. Everyone else, except for Steve who had not arrived yet, was sitting in a circle playing cards. Just as the second hand of cards came to an end Steve flew over the edge of the lookout and landed next to Vegita with a grin.

Steve was looking at Vegita as he landed then leaned toward him. "Ready for the fianl fusion today Vegita? he asked.

Vegita's eyes squinted down to and evil look and Steve could hear a low growl emmiting from his fellow warrior before he spoke. "I told you I don't like danceing, I don't like having to learn this or be killed and I DO NOT LIKE BEING ASKED WEATHER I AM READY! I want to get this over with, kick the living shit out of this thing comeing here AND THEN BE LEFT ALONE!! Anything else you'ld like to know?" spat Vegita

Steve smiled a huge teethy smile at Vegita. "GOOD!! Then lets get started, shall we?" said Steve as he walked over to the rest of the brave warriors.

"OK eveyone, it's time to kick-the-tires and light-the-fires!!" Steve exclaimed.

Everyone looked at him quizically, shrugged and put thier things away to get ready for the next level of training, the final fussion. Antisipations were high and the air was filled with excited fever as they all followed Steve and Piccolo to the Room of Spirit and Time.

While walking down the halls to the Room, Steve looked back to the group and noticed that Krillian and #18 were not with them and spoke up.

"Hey guys, where's the married couple?"

Yamcha smiled brightly and pointed to a meditation room that had padded floors and pillows lining the softly lit area. Steve saw the mischevious smirk on Yamchas face and nodded. "Well, you guys go on ahead and I'll go get them out of thier....... meditations." stated Steve before anyone could volunteer.

The group kept walking to wait at the Rooms door. Steve took a deep breath and started for the meditation room Yamcha had pointed to. As he got closer to the room, Steve could hear moans and panting coming from the room. Soon he could hear smacking like someone kissing loudly. Suddenly "...ah...ah..ah..AH..AH..AH..AH..Oh yea..Oh yes..mmhhumm..OH GOD..OH YES..OH YES..OHYES..OHYESSSSSSSS.... AHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhh!!!" could be heard from the the couple in the room simultainiously. Steve walked up to the doorframe and loudly cleared his throat then knocked on the edge of the doorframe.

"oh shit krillian, get up, I think someone is out side the door." #18 whisper-yelled.

"oh shit!!" replied Krillian.

Steve could hear the two bumping and thumping around trying to get thier things in order and get dressed before anyone walked in on them.

"Hey guys, I'm not going to come in there but I wanted you to know that we are all going to the R.S.T. (Room of Spirit and Time) for the final fusion training. It would be nice if you could join us. See you at the door, K?" Steve spoke loud enough for them to hear him but kept his voice down so the others down the hall could not. He then walked away with loud footsteps so they coud hear him leaving.

After about 3 minutes Krillian and #18 came walking up to the group with flush faces and disheveled clothes and hair. (#18's hair that is.) Before they got to the group Piccolo turned to the door and opened it. Everyone smiled at the couple but turned and walked in themselves followed by the bright red faces of the two and Steve was the last one in and he shut the door behind himself.

Inside the R.S.T. was the same view they had all witnessed on previous occations. White ground, white skys, white horizon, everything so white it looked like a vast, endless exspanse of absolutely nothing. The air was thinner, making it hard to breath, and the gravity was 10 times that of the outside. Steve walked to the edge of the building and then on out into the white expanse. He stopped about 25 yards out and turned around to find everyone had followed him out. Smiling to himself Steve started everyone with 5 minutes of stretching. Once all were done he began.

"Ok everyone, this is it. The moment of truth. Remember, concentrate, stay focused and we can all do this to save your world. I have faith in all of you and in our training. Now....Lets do this!" Steve stated, ending with a wide grin.

First, everyone paired up according to the assignments. Next, they all fussed then they double fussed. With the three warriors now standing face to face. Stegogitahan (Steve/Gohan/Goku/Vegita), looked at Tiegotenkcollo, (Tien/Piccolo/Goten/Trunks), and Krillyamosuteen, (Krillain/#18/Yamcha/Chosu).

Smiling, Stegogitahan spoke, "Here we are people, remember to get into a peace symbol position to start with, perform the dance and all three of us must touch the tips of our fingers at the same time for this to work. If we miss, we will have to come apart completely and start from the begining. Are we ready?" he finished and looked at the two double fussed warriors with determination in his eyes. The two nodded and everyone got into position.

All together, "READY.....FU...SION.KIA...HAAA!!!"

The dance was perfect, fingers touched at the exact time perfectly and the three double fussed warriors bodies exploded in light and power and then turned transparent. The bodies began to draw into eachother quickly. When they were evenly crossed through each other, they were instantly surrounded by a swerling vortex of lights raging in whites, purples, greens, silvers, blues, reds and extremly vivid gold pulses. The bodies molded and seemed to melt in the blinding light. First the legs and arms fussed, melting into eachother, followed by the torsos and lastly the heads fussed creating a single entity. As the power and light died down a bit, the warriors eyes opened to reveal pupils of pure, swerling power. A moment later stood the most powerful warrior the earth had ever seen. He stood in one spot looking at his hands and then his body.

With a voice so powerful his short introduction of himself to the universe shook the entire building of the R.S.T., which was now about 500 yards away.

"I AM THE Z WARRIOR AND AS SUCH MY NAME IS 'Z'"

That said and the biggest smile on his face, Z began to spar with himself in the R.S.T. so fast that one could sware he didn't move an inch. Z spent the entire alloted time in the chamber, which was one year, before coming out and defussing for all to rest.

After all had rested from their experience of 'Z' they talked for hours about the experience. While in the R.S.T. 'Z' had individually used every warriors attackes over and over again. From the common attacks to the more recently conjured attackes. Of course with the combined intellegence, fighting prowess, and experiences of all 12 Z Senshi, 'Z' was able to come up with variations of his own. Everyone was also excited for 'Z' because he did not defuss or need to for one whole year inside the R.S.T.. No one, not even Steve, thought that would be possible but yet to their delight, it was and did happen.

Steve finaly got everyone calmed down after about 4 hours and sent them all home to thier families to spend together what could still be theirs and the Earths last day and night in exsistence.

When Steve got to Capule Corp he found Bulma working hard on one of her inventions. He didn't want to disturbe her right then so he went and found Vegita, who was pacing back and forth in the front of the house while muttering under his breath. He caught sight of Steve and stopped. They looked at eachother for a minute before Steve walked over and padded his right hand on Vegita's right shoulder. Suprisingly, Vegita did not back away from this but rather raised his right hand and placed it on Steve's right shoulder. That is when Steve had an idea come to mind and it shown via a thoughtful grin.

"Why are you ginning like that Steve? Did you think of something else we could use agaist this fucking thing coming this way?" Vegita said with the slightest quiver in his voice.

Steve's grin had turned into a full smile by this time. "Well, in lamens terms Vegita, no. I was thinking, instead of us all spending this time separate, lets have a party this evening to spend with everyone together. It may be the last time we can do such a thing and I think it will ease some tensions I have seen and felt from everyone. What do you think Vegita?"

Vegita stared at Steve for a moment. "Well, I am not one for pathetic dribbling such as parties, but I agree that some of the weaker fighters might find it benifical to spend their last hours with close peirs. It may do them good and even I know that an eased mind can do more than a stressed or scared mind. I'll tell Bulma and arrange for everyone to be over here by around 1900 hours (7:00pm). You have done well training us Steve and 'Z' is impressive, but, I too can fell this bastards power, I know this can still go either way. I only hope it will be enough" Vegita withdrew his hand and walked inside.

Steve stood their in disbelief. "Did Vegita just agree to, not just attend but help throw a party? It must be the strain, but I will help them all get through this and we will relax and party tonight!" he thought. Then Steve went inside as well to assist with party preperations. It was 11:00am so he had time to go wash up first.

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