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"Gohan!" yelled ChiChi before she turned her attention back towards the crying baby in her arms.

"Wahhh! Wahhh!" cried the infant.

ChiChi rocked the rocking chair in which sat harder as she tried to comfort her child.

"Shhh! Shush, my precious one." she soothed, "I know you're hungry. I know."

But the child refused to relent and his cries grew louder.

I would breast feed you, she thought, but mommy's a little bit sore from the last feeding. The child most definitely had a strong grip.

"You obviously get that from your father", she said aloud. Then paused and chuckled.

"Gohan!" she called again towards the kitchen.

"I'm coming, Mom!" he yelled back. When he walked into the nursery room he saw his mother sitting in her rocker holding his new baby brother. His mouth was opened wide with cries of anguish.

He's so tiny, Gohan thought as looked down at his little brother. I wish Dad could see him.

Obviously, ChiChi was unaware that Gohan had walked into the room, otherwise she would not have begun to unbutton her blouse. Realizing what his mother was about to do, Gohan turned red face and jumped back.

"Ahh! Mom, I'm here! I'm here. I have the bottle." he said quickly.

"Oh", ChiChi said surprised, "I didn't see you come in." She noticed that his face was red as he handed her the bottle. She knew how much it embarrassed him to walk in on her breastfeeding. Goku had been the same way when she had first had him.

She laughed and said, "Oh, Gohan. I use to feed you the same way. It's perfectly natural. You'll understand some day."

Still a slight red-faced, Gohan quickly changed the subject.

"Mom, if there's nothing else I'm going to go now", he said.

"Hmm.", she said. "Oh, yes. Go ahead and go." She didn't seem to be paying much attention to Gohan. She had turned her focus back to little Goten.

Normally, she would not have been so compliant about Gohan leaving on a school day, but ever since she had had Goten she had become very mellow. Usually he had to sneak out his bedroom window if he wanted to take a break from his studying. His mother was very strict about his studies and made him work diligently at academic achievement. She just wanted him to have the education that she had never received.

When she was a little girl her father, the Ox-King, had made her train in the martial arts. While she did enjoy it, she knew there was more to life than fighting, and wanted more for her children. Looking at his mother at that moment, she looked so happy and peaceful. He was glad that she had found something to take her mind off the pain of his father's death. She now had a new little life that needed her full attention and there was no time to dwell on loss.

"Okay, bye then", Gohan said as he left the room. "Bye, Goten."

As Gohan proceeded to take flight into the air, he began to reflect on the events of the past year.

So much has changed since the Cell Games, he thought. Once again peace reigns over the earth and everyone has gone forth to live their lives without fear. This is exactly what he had fought to restore to the world when he faced Cell…but it just felt strange to be doing it without his father. He had long since come to terms with his father's death. He had accepted it. Besides he knew that his father was with him in spirit wherever he went. Sometimes his presence was so strong that Gohan could swear that he was standing right beside him, but that wasn't the same as actually having him there.

Gohan sighed and said aloud, "It will be good see a familiar face. I'm sure that Trunks is here with good news."

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"Finally, my quest to seek out the chosen ones is almost over", Utori said to herself as she looked down upon the earth. She was floating high in the air. "But theirs is just beginning."

She closed her eyes and began to focus on the life energies of the ones that she sought.

Hmm, they're all spread out, she thought. I'll have to find a way to get them all together in one place. That way I can take them all at once. It'll sure make my life easier.

She shook her head as she remembered the first stop she had made and the trouble that the girls from the first world had given her. They too had been spread out in different locations.

The first seven had given her a hard time. She turned her head and glanced at the bottom of her cloak. The ends were a bit singed from the flames of fire that had been inflicted by the girl with the long jet-black hair. Utori had been caught off guard by the attack. She had not expected the girl to put up so much of a struggle. The others had also had the same look of determination and courage in their eyes as they attempted to fight her off, although their attempts were futile.

But I can't say much for the two longhaired blondes, she thought.

The one with the pigtails had walked right up to the portal and faced Utori. One might have mistaken that for courage, but it soon became clear that the young girl was obviously clueless and dim-witted, as she just wailed for her boyfriend to come save her.

Uh, more like screeched, Utori thought as she winced at remembering the high-pitch shriek.

The other one had given the longest and quite pointless speech.

All in all, most of them appeared to be good choices and who was she to question the will of Fate and the power of the stars. She then turned her thoughts back towards the matter at hand, collecting the last warriors chosen by Fate, herself. Then it came to her and she knew what she would do.

"I'll kill two birds with one stone and all I have to do is sit here and wait."

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"I'm tired of doing nothing, Tacere!" hissed a female voice that sounded very reptilian.

"Yes, we no longer need her. She has lead us to the world with the last of the chosen. I say we destroy her now."

The third of their group turned his glance away from the young woman dressed in green that they had been watching from afar, to look at his companions. Sesha and Lycoris looked at their leader awaiting his command.

"Master Daisan, put me in charge and you both will do what I say. We are already so close to finding the last of the chosen ones. She will lead us to them. Then and only then will we kill them.", Tacere said angrily.

"I don't know why Daisan gave you command! You don't deserve his praise. I should be leading this mission!", Sesha said in a voice filled with venom.

Tacere reached forward and grabbed Sesha by her neck in a tight grip. He had grown tired of her constant objections. She gasped in surprised and struggled to leave his grasp. She wasn't the only one startled because Lycoris had taken a few steps back. Seeing that his grip was unbreakable she quit struggling and gave him a look filled with hatred. He said nothing, but stared at her hard with cold, unblinking eyes. He squeezed her neck harder once more before he released her. Sesha fell backwards and coughed as she held her neck. He had let her know that he would not hesitate to kill her if she ever crossed him.

"Anymore objections?" he said daring either one to speak. Seeing there was none he turned away from them both and focused back on Utori. Instead of being scared Sesha was furious with rage as she stared at the back of Tacere's head. She was now even more determined to prove to Daisan her loyalty and worth. Then once she had it she would make Tacere suffer. She would dig her claws into his neck and rip his head off.

"Huh?" Lycoris said suddenly as he watched Sesha disappear.

"Sesha is gone, Tacere!" Lycoris began.

"What?" Tacere yelled.

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Utori looked up as she sensed a dark energy. Standing before her was what appeared to be a woman dressed in red. She had a sinister smile on her face as she bared two sharp fangs.

"You don't know how long I've waited to meet you." the woman said softly, "And to kill you."

"Actually, I've been waiting on you. Daisan sent you, right?" said Utori. She smiled at the momentary surprise that had appeared on the woman's face.

"Did you think I could not smell your stench?" she continued. "I knew that you were following me."

"Good, then you also know how badly I've wanted to rip your body to shreds." smiled the woman.

Utori glared intensely at the female, who returned an icy stare with jade green eyes. She was humanoid with some human features. Her skin was scaly and smooth like a snake's. The sun seemed to gleam off her slick, reptilian hide. She was relatively the same size as Utori except she had long arms and a long neck She wore gold bangles on her neck and a tight sleeveless top with a V-neck cut and a high collar. The bottom of the top had an apex point that connected to skin-tight pants. The side of the pants had small holes connected with gold hoops that lead to the side of her ankles. On her arms she wore sleeves that began at her mid biceps and ended in bell-shaped cuffs at her fingers. On her hands she had black gloves with the fingertips cut off to reveal long sharp claws on five fingers. The whole outfit had intricate diamond-shape, gold designs.

"I can taste your blood already." Sesha said as she ran her tongue over long, sharp bicuspids.

Utori turned to look at the woman's other two companions, who had just appeared beside her. Both were exceptionally large men. One of them was glaring hard at the woman in anger.

"Don't worry, Tacere. I'll take of what you don't have the guts to do." she said to the man. Then she looked at Utori.

"I'm going to enjoy this," she said as she moved with blinding speed to attack Utori.

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"Hi, Gohan!" greeted Mrs. Briefs.

Gohan had just arrived at Capsule Corp.

"Hello Mrs. Briefs." Gohan answered as he walked toward her.

"How are you?" she asked cheerfully. She was outside picking yellow roses from her flowerbed. She had on khaki shorts, garden gloves, and a straw sun hat.

"I'm fine. Is Bulma here?" Gohan asked politely.

"Oh, yes. She's inside the house with Vegeta, Krillin, and Yamucha."

"Is that all?" Gohan asked.

"Oh, no. That handsome young man that visited us last year is here, as well." she answered.

"Alright!" Gohan said excited, "Trunks is here then."

"Yes, little trunks is here, too. You should go inside. I set out some cookies. Go and enjoy yourself." she smiled.

"Thank you, Mrs. Briefs." He gave a quick bow and then proceeded to enter the house.

He walked up the stairs and entered the balcony that connected to the living room. Trunks was sitting at the balcony table with Vegeta, Krillin, and Yamucha. They were all dress comfortably in casual clothes. Krillin was the first to notice him.

"Hey Gohan!" Krillin said.

"Hi Krillin. Hi Yamucha. Hi Vegeta." Gohan greeted them all.

Everyone said hello except Vegeta. He just gave a grunt.

"Hey, Gohan." Trunks said, "Long time no see."

"Yeah, no kidding. It's good to see you, man." Gohan returned, "Sorry it took me so long to get over here. I came as soon Bulma called me and told me that you had arrived."

"No problem." he said.

Trunks' appearance hadn't changed that much from the last time Gohan had seen him. He had grown his lavender hair long again and looked a year or two older. What Gohan noticed the most was that Trunks looked relaxed and happy. He didn't have the same look of constant focus and that trace of sadness.

Gohan smiled, "The battle against the androids in the future went well. I can tell."

"Yes." Trunks nodded.

"And he defeated Cell, too." Yamucha added.

"That's great, Trunks! I knew you could do it." Gohan congratulated.

"Thanks. Things have really gotten better for the people, too. Although, it is still hard for some people to believe that the nightmare is over, many have come out of hiding. We've begun to rebuild the cities, as well. It's going to take some time, but we're working to get things back to way they use be." Trunks smiled.

"That's great to hear." Gohan said.

"Isn't it?" Bulma said as she came into the room. She had just come from putting little Trunks down for his nap.

"Hi, Gohan." she said, "I haven’t seen you in a while."

"Yeah." Gohan said.

"How's your mother?" Bulma asked kindly. She knew that ChiChi had still been upset about Goku's death and panicked when she had first found out that she was pregnant.

"Oh, she's fine and so is little Goten."

Bulma smiled. Having Goten had been good for ChiChi she decided. Maybe ChiChi had realized that in someway it was like having a little piece of Goku still with her.

"That's good. I know how much work it can be being a new mother. Just wait till Goten becomes a toddler. If she needs anything tell her to call me." Bulma said. Gohan nodded.

"You have a little brother now, Gohan?" Trunks asked. "Congratulations. I'm sure he'll grown up to be just like your dad." Everyone nodded in agreement.

"So, how long are you staying, Trunks?" Krillin asked. He was sitting backwards on a chair with his arms folded over the back.

"Oh, not long. I plan to leave tomorrow. This is the first time in a long while that I've had a chance to come back and see you guys." he said.

"Well, hey, no problem man. We understand that you've been busy." Yamucha added.

"Yeah. Besides having to rebuild our civilization, we've had to deal with environmental problems all over the planet these past couple of weeks, too."

"Environmental problems?" asked Gohan.

"Yeah, it's been weird. We've had thunderstorms, where the sky gets dark and only lightning will streak the sky. We've had floods, earthquakes, and tornadoes. It's like the earth is upset. My mother and I aren't sure what to make of it, though."

"Really? We've had strange weather like that the past couple of weeks, too." Gohan said.

"Hmm…" Trunks said, "Well, my mom has a theory. She thinks whatever is happening could be a natural event. Like when the ice age ended and the climate changed on the earth millenniums ago."

"Hey, guys are we going to sit here and talk about weather all day?" Yamucha said. "Trunks, you said you're leaving tomorrow. I say we all go into the city and have ourselves a good time."

"Yeah, I'm all for that!" Krillin agreed. "What'd you say Trunks."

"Well…yeah. I guess so." Trunks replied.

"How about you, Vegeta?" Krillin asked, but he pretty much already knew what he was going to say.

"Hmmph! Please! Spend a day with you pathetic losers. I'd rather be beaten into unconsciousness. I have better things to do." Vegeta sneered as he walked into the living room.

"What better things to do?" Yamucha mumbled. "File his nails?"

"Probably his teeth. He's such a grump." Krillin said. "Well, can't say I didn’t try."

"Like this Piccolo-san?" Dende asked. He was perfecting his fighting stance.

"Yes. Good Dende." Piccolo instructed.

For the past year, Piccolo been living here at Kami's place or maybe he should say Dende's place since he was the new guardian. After the Cell Games he had decided to stay and make the floating top in the sky his new home. He had kept a watchful eye on young Dende and guided him in his new duty as earth's guardian. Watching Dende, it was then that Piccolo was once again reminded of how much he liked to teach. Dende looked a lot like Gohan had when he had first began his martial arts training. It felt good to be useful again and to not be alone.

"Okay Piccolo-san, what about this?" Dende asked.

"What do you think?" the young Namek asked, changing positions. When he got no response he turned to look at his mentor.

"Piccolo-san?" he said. But Piccolo was not listening. He had all of a sudden become very tense and seemed to be focusing on something.

"Is something wrong?" Dende asked.

"I sense high ki energy. Four different energies." Piccolo said, "Two of them are engaged in battle."

Dende decided to see for himself and began to focus his mind to see if he could sense what Piccolo sensed.

Dende realized Piccolo was right and opened his eyes. "But who are they and what are they doing here on the earth?"

Piccolo clinched his fists together tightly.

"That's what I'm going to find out."

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"Well, let's go." Yamacha said as they walked out the door.

"You guys check out my new car. Isn't it great!" Yamucha bragged. It was a red, convertible model hover car.

"Yeah. Looks like you've been really raking the dough in ever since you started playing baseball again, Yamucha." Krillin said.

"Yup, and it's a great chick magnet."

"But wouldn't we get around faster if we just flew." Gohan said.

"Ah, Gohan, Gohan, Gohan. You just don't get it, bro. You don't know anything about girls." Yamucha said as he shook his head.

"Yeah. You need to learn from the experts." Krillin said.

"Expert? " Yamacha asked as he shook his head.

"Expert? You? You can't even get a date with an android!" Yamucha laughed.

Krillin turned red faced.

"Hey, I bet the ladies are all over you back home, huh, Trunks? I mean after all you did save the world." Krillin said.

"Oh well," Trunks said blushing, "I don't know?"

"Hey, Gohan. What's wrong?" Yamucha asked. All of the sudden the kid had become very stiff and alert.

Just then Bulma came running out of the house.

"Hey, you guys! Come check out what's on the news!" Bulma said.

"What is it, Bulma?" Krillin yelled.

"Just come see!" she yelled back.

When they walked in the house they saw Bulma and Vegeta staring at the television with their eyes glued to the screen. They saw a woman dressed in green and another in red. Both appeared to be fighting.

They must be what I sensed, thought Gohan.

"I wonder where they came from?" Bulma asked. Her big blue eyes were full of wonder.

"I just want to know what they're doing here?" Krillin commented.

"I say we go find out." Gohan said, "Who's in?"

"Count me in." Yamucha said.

"Me, too", Krillin said a slight bit reluctant, "And you Trunks?"

"Yeah." Trunks said. Even though this wasn't his world Trunks felt a connection with the people that lived here.

"Are you coming, too, Father?" Trunks asked.

"Of course, I'm going." Vegeta scowled. He was just as curious to find out what was going on.

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"You look tired, girl." Sesha laughed. "Maybe we should take a break. How long do you think that you can keep this up?"

"As long as I have to." Utori said panting.

"You've been running away from me. You're afraid and you should be." Sesha cried as she built up an energy blast in her hands. "You shouldn't run from death. It's inevitable."

"I'm not afraid of anything and I don't run. I will fight to protect the dimensions until the very end." Utori said as she created a shield around her body to block the blast.

"My master will have the three Gems of Time. Once I've destroy you and your little helpers, there will be nothing to stop him." Sesha looked out the corner of her eye at Tacere. He no longer possessed an angry expression. If anything he seemed to be smirking at her. Sesha scowled. What could he possibly be laughing at? She'd show him. Soon she would have Master Daisan's approval.

Sesha raised her arm above her head and began to create a bigger energy blast in the shape of a ball.

"I can see why you follow that fool, Kala. You're just as deluded."

The blast sent Utori flying backwards a far distance and crashing into the ground.

"We never had introductions. After all you should know the name of the one who's going to kill you. My name is Sesha", she said arrogantly.

Utori struggled to stand up, "The name is Utori. I'm the one who's going to stop you."

Her arm and leg were scratched up badly. She also had a gash on the side of her forehead.

I just need to hold on a little longer, she thought. They're coming. I feel it.

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Piccolo flew as fast as he could. His white cape flapped roughly in the wind. He was following the energy signatures he had picked up. Poor Dende had wanted to come, but Piccolo didn't feel that he was ready to engage in battle.

The two energies I feel are still battling, he thought. One of them seems to be getting weaker.

He didn't recognize either of the two battling energies or the other two who seemed to be inactive, but in close vicinity of the battle.

"Hey, Piccolo! Wait up!" called a voice.

Piccolo turned to see that it was Tien.

"I see you weren't the only one who picked up on those power levels." Piccolo said.

"Yeah and it was all over the news." Tien replied.

"I don't watch television." Piccolo said.

"Um... no, of course not." Tien responded, " Anyway, I don't recognize any of those powers. Do you?"

"No, but I think the earth has been through enough."

"Yes. All I know is whoever those two girls are they're going to have to take their cat fight somewhere else. I'm sure the others are on their way to find out what's going on, too." Tien said.

"They are." Piccolo confirmed.

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"We're almost there. I can tell we're getting closer." Gohan said.

Many thoughts were running through Gohan and his friends' minds.

Could this be a new threat to the earth? Gohan wondered to himself.

Where did these four powers come from? They just appeared out of nowhere, Vegeta thought. Could they be here to challenge me? If so, then they've come to the right place.

Ah, man! It's only been a year and already it looks like I'm about to put my life in danger once again, thought Krillin. Maybe those two girls are just having a misunderstanding. The media does have a way of blowing things out of proportion. But then who were those two guys. They looked pretty big. I hope I don't have to face them.

Could this be another possible threat to the planet? It seems like no matter what we do to protect the earth there's always a new threat, Trunks said to himself.

Hmm…maybe this won't be so bad, Yamucha thought. The girl in the green was pretty cute. So was the one in the red. In a scaly, alien sort of way…

"Piccolo!" Gohan shouted as he saw the big green Namek flying up ahead.

"Hey, Tien!" Krillin yelled. "Just like old times, eh?"

"Hey, guys!" Tien greeted. "Yup, here we all are again."

"Piccolo, do you have any idea who these powers belong to?" Gohan asked.

"No. I'm not sure," Piccolo said, "but whoever these people are they're going to have some answering to do."

"Hey, look up ahead! I see them!" Trunks shouted.

They all stopped and hovered in midair. The two girls were on the ground. The girl in the red was on the offensive and attacking the girl in green viciously with two large daggers in both hands. The girl in the green was dodging the advances, but she looked tired. Not far off there were two men standing on top of a plateau. They were also watching the battle between the two young women.

"You really are beginning to look haggard, Utori", Sesha stopped and commented. "But then I've always had a bad habit of playing with my food before I kill it."

Utori had more gashes on her legs and arms. Sweat trickled down her brow. She was too exhausted to respond.

"But I'm done playing. This time I go in for the kill!" Sesha hissed as she lunged forward.

Before she could reach Utori, a ki blast shot in front of her causing her to stop in mid tracks. Both Utori and Sesha looked up in the air. They saw a young boy with wild black hair.

"STOP!" yelled Gohan.

"I don't know who you are, but you are going to leave that woman alone."

"Hmmph! You must be the chosen ones that Utori, here has been waiting on." Sesha replied.

"Huh? The chosen ones?" Gohan asked puzzled.

"Well, good. That just makes this easier. Now I don't have to go searching for you. I will kill all of you here, right now."

"No, you won't." Utori said standing up straight. She let go of her injured arm.

"What?!" said Sesha. "Your able to still standing!"

"Of course, I am. You didn't think that you had actually won did you." Utori smiled. "I should thank you, Sesha, for making my job easier."

"What are you talking about?" Sesha asked confused.

"I just used you to draw out the warriors that I was seeking and now that they're here my quest is finished." Although, maybe she had been a little overconfident when she thought that she could face Sesha by herself, but Utori wasn't about to say that.

"You won't get away. I won't let you and you're too tired to fight me off anymore." Sesha replied.

What are they talking about? thought Gohan. The rest of the Z fighters felt just as confused. Then suddenly the two men who had been watching from the sidelines were floating right in front of them.

Sesha laughed, "You see, Utori. There's no way out of this. I win!"

They were surprised at first, but the Z fighters quickly jumped to ready stance.

Their power levels are extraordinary. I can feel it, Vegeta thought. How were they able to conceal so much power?

Oh, man! Krillin thought. I knew I should have stayed home.

They're too powerful to fight one on one. We'll have to all attack together, Piccolo thought.

"You guys! Power up!" Gohan yelled. Everyone quickly turned up their power levels. Gohan, Vegeta, and Trunks went Super Saiyan, turning their hair gold and their eyes green. They all began to power up for a ki blast, aiming at both grinning men.

"FIRE!" Gohan yelled.

All at once they exerted the largest ki blast that they could summon. Then they wait for the smoke to clear and see if their attack had worked.

"That's it?" laughed the one with the blonde hair, "Tacere, let me handle this."

"Go ahead, Lycoris." Tacere grinned.

The two men wore form fitting body armor unlike any of them had seen and had on red capes. The one named Lycoris began to exert his energy creating an electrical field that grew and grew. He began to form two balls of energy in his hands.

This is unreal! Tien thought.

The Z fighters tried to back away, but couldn't move. Somehow the magnetic field Lycoris created had paralyzed them.

"Uh! I can't move." Krillin struggled.

"Neither can I!" Gohan yelled back.

The rest of the Z fighters struggled to free themselves, but it was no use.

"Look Utori!" Sesha taunted. "What will you do?"

"This." Utori said as she raised her arms in the air. "TIME FREEZE!"

At that moment everything ceased to move, including Sesha, Tacere, Lycoris, and the Z-fighters. Using the last bit of her energy Utori caused her and the rest of the Z-fighters to vanish.