Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball Z, nor am I affiliated with Toei animations. All characters and ideas are property of Toei and Akira Toriyama. Thank you.

A/U: What's up! XD I know it's been a while since I've done ANYTHING on here but I've been craaaaazy busy with work. However, my life is back on track and I'm ready to get this story rolling. I've also come up with a new storyline for this that I think is even better. I make up for my garbo writing with some sweet, sub-par, not so good story… Telling 0_o. Just kidding XD! Anyway, I have a new story planned out as well that has a full on plan! "A Humbling Journey" will be getting published soon for my League of Legends Lee Sin try-hards (I fucking hate his Q and anyone who disagrees well fuck y-) WELL WITH THAT BEING SAID I would appreciate the feedback! I've gotten lots of great ideas from your guys in the comment section and you can pretty much say my "hiatus" is kinda over. I'll start becoming more active before I start receiving death threats 0_o. Anyway, I hope you enjoy, and thanks for reading!

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Chapter1

Pain.

Searing pain.

It felt as if the fire of hell itself was being pressed on her back as she saw herself being forced towards the boy she feared.

"No!" she cried out as she saw the space around her illuminate with bright blue light, the signature ki color of her boss, Bojack. The boy Gohan disappeared through an afterimage right before her vision faded to blue, then black...

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"HAHAHA! So the little Saiyan thought he could take my attack head on huh?" the green giant lumbering pirate turned around and added, "It's a shame, I was really getting my hopes up for an epic fight after that little show of a power up, but I guess it takes more than a hair flip and flashy lightning to get stronger!" and to this he let out deep laugh. His voice booming through the destroyed ghost town, like an evil spirit finally free to wreak havoc wherever he pleased.

"HAHAHA-huh?" the massive dust cloud the ki blast had caused had cleared, and coming into view through the center of it, was Gohan. He had one hand up, his palm outstretched and glowing with blue smoke. He had taken the blast head on with one hand, and in the other hand he held the limp body of Zangya, the very subordinate he had just tried to kill.

Gohan set the slender space pirate down gently onto the rubble before flaring his power again, his aura reaching up twenty feet.

"Ahh so you do have more power now don't you?" Bojack said smugly, "How about we get a taste of wha- URGH!!!" before he could even think, he coughed up copious amounts of blood all over himself and the ground below him. A sudden unimaginable pain shot through his abdomen as he looked down to see that the little boy had an arm lodged in his stomach. It was gut wrenching in the most literal sense as the boy pulled his fist out sharply, the blood of the pirate being spattered out all over the ground again.

"Nnnghhh! Damn!" He clutched his abdomen momentarily. 'I have to finish this now or I'm done for! Fuck! That kid really did some damage!'

"Alright kid! Any last words before I finish you!" He raised his massive arms up to generate two large balls of plasma in his hands.

"Actually, one word does come to mind!" Gohan responded with intensity, his glowing body stepping back into a stance for his ultimate ki blast. "Ka..."

Bojack felt Gohans energy level suddenly spike tremendously, more so than he expected.

'Dammit! His ki is too strong! I need more energy!' His stomach gushed blood all over his lower body, his heart pumping wildly from exertion as he gathered up more energy as fast as he could. However, it was a losing battle as Gohan's energy level kept rising to knew heights he had not felt before.

"Meh..."

Growing desperate, Bojack screamed at the top of his lungs, pushing through the mind numbing pain his stomach was dealing on his body as he succesfully raised his power level to match Gohans.

"HAAAMEH..."

'NOOOO!' Bojack began to panic now as Gohan's power spiked to triple what it was before. 'I have to end this NOW!' Bojack thought as he barreled towards Gohan at hypersonic speed,a war cry escaping his bloody mouth, "RAAHHHHH!"

"HAAAAAA!" Gohan screamed as he let loose a ki blast that shook the ground.

Bojack braced himself, pushing his two plasma balls together to form a ki blast of his own. However, despite knowing it was futile to compete against a blast ten times stronger than his own, his pride wouldn't allow him to back down from this fight.

As the light of the Kamehameha Wave enveloped him, he caught a glimpse of Zangya laying unconscious on the ground. 'Useless 'til the end huh?'

And with that he came at peace with death...

That is until he felt his flesh disintegrating from the heat of plasma surrounding his body.

"AAAAHHHHHHH!!" he screamed as each layer of flesh rapidly fell away until just the bone was left; and even that too turned to powder sprinkled across the air, riding along the ki wave until it faded into nothing.

He was gone.

Gohan fell to his knees, suddenly feeling dizzy from the events set before him. He let himself rest for a few minutes before standing up and inspecting the area around him. "Hmph!" He powered himself up, knowing the job wasn't done. He'd have to find everyone and get them to safety, as all of the Z-Fighters were in critical condition.

'But first...' Gohan hesitantly walked over to where Zangya lay. 'Is this right?' he thought to himself. 'What would father have done?'

He then thought of Vegeta, Picolo, Android 18, and all the others his father had given a second chance to. 'Father would have wanted me to do this...' he thought, as he raised his hand towards Zangya.

He let forth a beam of soft light that ignited around the fallen pirate, flashing brilliantly upon contact with her skin. The moment he saw her stir and begin to move however, he let the beam go.

She opened her eyes slowly, 'Am I dead?' she thought. Suddenly all of the past events flashed through her head, and she grew terrified as she saw Gohan standing a mere two feet away from her. Her breathing sped up as she scrambled to rise to her feet, immediately feeling a stinging pain, followed by a dull throbbing in the muscles of her back.

She focused her gaze on Gohan again and was about to try and power up to defend herself before another memory flashed into her brain.

Gohan had taken a full blast while protecting Zangya from certain death at the hands of her own boss. She had been helpless this entire time, and Gohan had made sure she had made it through alive.

But her trust was not easily earned and she began questioning his motives for saving her.

"What do you want from me?" she spat.

"I don't want anything from you," Gohan said with a gentle but serious demeanor. "I gave you enough energy to recover on your own. In other words, I guess I'm saying I want to give you a second chance at life. I don't know, I've never done anything like this before but it feels like the right thing to do..."

"Boy, I don't need your PITY! Why didn't you just kill me!? What good am I here on your planet if I could just go around and kill anything and anyone I want?" she retorted, trying to pry into his seemingly righteous reasoning. She had lived countless years knowing nothing of people but how selfish they were, and she wasn't about to let someone get the best of her through spoken morality.

"I was prepared for you to say something like that, and I promise you that if you tried anything we could easily stop you and prevent you from doing any harm to anyone." Gohan kept his composure.

She huffed at his response, knowing that what he was saying was true. Regardless, her pride was severely distorting her rational mindset as she yelled back, "I would rather have DIED than to be saved by some kid like you! I've been alive for several HUNDRED years! You're nothing to me! You're but a speck compared to what I've seen in my lifetime CHILD! I WA-"

"STOP!" Gohan's aura flared violently and Zangya recoiled from the sudden show of power. "Great Kami! You're so uptight!" Gohan was starting to get a little sick of this pirate's stupid rant of superiority, "I just didn't think you deserved to die from your own kind is all! Especially not someone maybe you thought you were... I don't know... close to I guess..." He sighed in frustration, "Whatever lady, just don't cause trouble again. I'm done talking to you."

She just stood there in shock, a little boy had just saved her, and to make matters worse, he had complete power over her! He could wipe her at that instant if he wished so. 'So why doesn't he just DO IT!'

She tried to get up but still couldn't, falling back to the ground in a heap.

Noticing this, Gohan turned and noticed she was still struggling.

"Hey..." he said in a much gentler voice.

She turned her face to meet his with an expression that said 'what?'.

Without responding, he lifted his hand and she flinched. 'This is it... this is where I die', she thought as a flash of light surrounded her. She closed her eyes tight and clenched every muscle in her body.

'What...' she felt rejuvenated... somewhat at least. She now could stand on her two feet as she soon found out. She looked at the boy surprised and slightly in awe that he would trustingly just lend her more strength like that.

"I gave you enough energy to fly to the next city over. You can think about what you've done and restart your life there if you want. Just stop causing trouble, I don't want to kill you or have any more conflicts with you. So please, just go."

She stood up, "You sure you won't regret this?" she said menacingly...

"Hurry up before Vegeta recovers, I can already feel his power level rising. Go before he finds you himself. Trust me he's a lot more willing to kill you than any of us."

At that, she started to feel a new power raising in the distance, before hurriedly jumping off the ground and flying towards the city, masking her energy as best as possible so as not to be caught by any fighters.

"Kid..." she huffed and spun to meet Gohan's eyes again, "I owe you, but after I repay you, we're back to being enemies understand?"

"Make sure you're strong by then, and as long as you don't hurt innocents I'll fight with you again all you want!" Gohan could feel his father's fighting spirit within him as he happily exclaimed the last past.

With that, she turned and flew away sighing in relief and frustration. There was something about that boy that didn't sit right with her. It wasn't even the fact that they were enemies, something just felt off within her when she thought about his face. 'What a naive kid...'