Goku Resurrected as Well!? He's Coming to the Tenkaichi Budokai!!

An airplane flies over a city, thick black smoke pouring from its left wing. The engine catches fire. Inside, frightened passengers scream, staring out at the burning engine. The engine explodes. On the ground, people scream and point up at the falling plane. A bright light streaks across the sky. The Great Saiyaman comes up under the plane and holds it up over his head; the crowd on the ground gasps in awe.

A crowd watches the whole thing on the news over a huge TV in the middle of the city. "The plane with engine trouble was able to land safely at Satan Airport. The Great Saiyaman saved a great number of lives today."

A group of reporters crowds the Great Saiyaman. "Great Saiyaman, please say something. Please, anything!" A reporter holds up a microphone. "Saiyaman-san, what do you think about making a super hero group with Mr. Satan?" The Great Saiyaman is silent. "Do you have any thoughts you'd like to share? Please, say anything." The Great Saiyaman turns around. "I guess I'll have to."

He leaps onto the top of the airplane fuselage and begins going through his poses. "From vandalism to murder and hijacking, from small things to the very large, I get indignant over every little evil!" He freezes in mid-pose. "A holder of Love and Justice... The Great Saiyaman! That's me!" The reporters stare up at him quizzically. A little girl holding her mother's hand remarks, "That's too disgusting."

"You're going to enter in the next Tenkaichi Budokai?" Bulma sits atop a Capsule Corporation bike. Son Gohan stands across the room. "Yeah." Without looking up from her work on the bike, Bulma asks, "Why did you decide to enter?" Chibi Trunks stands next to Gohan, sipping a drink. "Uh, there's a classmate of mine who's the daughter of Mr. Satan-san..." Bulma looks up. "Eh? Mr. Satan? Wasn't he the guy that popped up out of no where and got in the way when you fought Cell?" Gohan, "He's the Tenkaichi Budokai champion." Bulma, "The Tenkaichi Budokai champion's daughter is your classmate?" Gohan nods. "Yeah, but she's a good kid. She's like me, she can't stand evil-doers. But she figured out who I am... by my voice and stuff... If I don't go to the Tenkaichi Budokai, too, she's going to reveal my identity." Trunks continues listening in on the conversation. "Gohan-san's clothes are too ugly. He shouldn't have worn stuff like this."

Bulma picks up a pack of cigarettes that were next to a computer. "You klutz." She lights a cigarette. "But taking this level headed like this shows you're your father's son." She leans back against the desk, crossing her arms. "So what? Do you want to fix the helmet to change your voice, too?" Gohan, "Not that... At the Tenkaichi Budokai, you can't wear helmets or any other kind of protection." He holds up the helmet. "So I was wondering what I could use in place of this helmet." Bulma, "So all you need is something that won't lessen the damage you take, right?" She pauses to take a puff of her cigarette. "That's nothing. All you want is something to hide your identity, right?" Trunks smiles. "Is she going to make a new helmet?"

Cut to a little while later, and the Great Saiyaman has traded in his helmet for what looks to be little more than a towel wrapped around his head. "Now I see. I can get away with something this simple! What do you think, Trunks-kun? Don't you think it's cool?" Trunks drops his cup. "No comment. I shouldn't have asked him to ask me." Bulma, "But no matter how much you hold back, you're going to win. Isn't that boring?"

"I wouldn't count on that." All eyes turn to the door and in walks the Saiya-jin prince himself. "I'm going to that whatever-it-is competition. If you're going, I'm going." Gohan lifts his sunglasses up. "Huh?" Vegeta, "At that time, there was a great difference in our power, but how about now? While you were caught up in peace, I've continued training." Bulma, "That's right. He doesn't work a bit. Just like your father! Maybe Saiya-jin can't work." Gohan looks back at her and puts his sunglasses down. Trunks, "This is great! Are Dad and Gohan-san going to fight?"

"I'm entering, too!" Trunks, "Huh?" Then everyone else repeats it in unison. "Gohan!" Gohan, "Dad! That's Dad's voice!" Bulma, "Son-kun?" Vegeta, "Kakkarotto?!" Gohan, "Dad! That's you, isn't it?" Goku responds from Kaiousama's planet. "That's right. It's been a while, hasn't it?" Gohan, "Dad, have you been well?" Trunks stares up at everyone, confused. "Who's that?" Goku, "I guess you could say so. Even though I'm dead." Kaiousama laughs. Gohan, "Is it true?! Are you really coming to the Tenkaichi Budokai?!" Goku, "Yeah! I've asked Uranai Baba to make that my single day back on Earth!" Uranai Baba listens in, standing (well, floating on her crystal ball) next to Goku. "I'm going to make it that day, the day of the Tenkaichi Budokai. You and Vegeta are entering, right? I'm entering, too!" Gohan throws his arms into the air, leaping off the ground. "Yahoo! Banzai!" Trunks tugs on Vegeta's arm. "Who's that?" Vegeta ignores him. "I'm looking forward to it, Kakkarotto. Prepare yourself, I've gotten a lot stronger." Goku nods. "Me too, Vegeta. Okay everyone, I'll meet you at the Tenkaichi Budokai."

Vegeta grins. "This is great. It's getting interesting." Bulma, "Isn't that nice, Gohan-kun? You should hurry and tell your mother, Goten, Kuririn, and everybody." Gohan turns and smiles. "Right." Trunks tugs on his mother's clothes. "Hey, who was that?" Gohan, "Vegeta-san, if you don't want your identity known, you have to wear a costume like this." He holds grabs the shoulders of his cape and holds them up to show off his costume. Vegeta is shocked and almost offended. "I wouldn't wear that!! I don't care who knows who I am!"

The Great Saiyaman departs. He stops above Capsule Corporation to wave goodbye. "Bye! I'll see you at the Tenkaichi Budokai! I'm off to tell everyone!" Bulma and Trunks wave from an upper level window. Bulma, "Tell everyone hi for me!" Trunks, "Bye bye!" The Great Saiyaman leaves and Trunks lowers his arms. "So whose was that voice?"

The Great Saiyaman races over the countryside. "Dad's coming back! He's really coming back!" He darts around, crying out happily and even dives into a lake below, swimming among a school of fish. "It's been so long since I've seen him." He surfaces again, splashing water that glitters in the sunshine. He startles a farmer who is shoveling hay into the back of his truck. The farmer loses his hat to the Great Saiyaman's fly-by and jumps up from what he's doing. As the Great Saiyaman continues on, oblivious to the man on the ground, the dumbfounded farmer sits, his hat slowly drifting back to Earth, eventually landing on his head.

Two cars race through the streets of a city. The first one, a red car, is driven by a young woman apparently trying to escape attackers in the blue car following her. "Stop her!!" In the blue car is a guy with an animal man. The human yells, "Kill her!" The animal answers, "Yes sir." he pulls out a gun and begins firing at the other car. The windshield on the red car shatters; the woman screams, ducking down. Two more shots deal further damage to the windows.

The Great Saiyaman passes by overhead. "Hm?" Both cars veer off the road, then back on. "There she is, get her!" The Great Saiyaman drops into the street. "Stop!" The blue car attempts to swerve, but is stopped by the Great Saiyaman's foot. Both passengers are ejected and land on the pavement in front of the Great Saiyaman. "You guys shouldn't do bad stuff." The animal man rubs his wrist. "What are you...?" The other man rubs his back. "I'm the Guardian of the Oppressed, Defender of the Weak, Defeater of Evil." The sun glints off his sunglasses as he does his poses. "The Warrior of Justice... I'm the Great Saiya--"

A fist suddenly smacks the Great Saiyaman in the head and he falls over. The woman has her hands on her hips. "Hey, you! What do you think you're doing?! That take was going great, too." He starts to get up and she gets right in his face. "That was a show for Satan City TV." The Great Saiyamam stares at her, dumbfounded. "Cut! Cut! Cut!" He looks up as a camera swings in from above. The director yells at the Great Saiyaman through his megaphone. "Hey kid, if you get in front of the camera like that, how are we supposed to get this show done?!" Great Saiyaman, "Are you talking to me...?" Director, "Of course I'm talking to you! Is there anyone else there?! What a brat! Why are you pretending to be the Great Saiyaman like that anyway?!" Saiyaman, "Pretending...?" Director, "Oh well. Let's start over from the beginning." A whole crowd of people crawls out from behind the bushes and says very unenthusiastically in unison, "Fine." The Great Saiyaman turns as they get up. "Hm?" He looks around. The actors converse together. "I think we could have taken that last curve a little faster." Saiyaman, "Wh...what?" His sunglasses slip on his nose.

--COMMERCIAL--

The director yells into his megaphone. "This is scene 153, the Great Saiyaman Flying Action scene!!" The real Great Saiyaman peers out from around a building. "That's surprising. I didn't know they were making a Great Saiyaman movie." He stares up at a movie poster. Director, "Action!"

"Let me down! I'm afraid of heights!!" The entire crew falls over. Atop a building, the "Great Saiyaman" struggles with other members of the crew trying to put a safety harness on him. One man walks up to the stunned director. "What should we do, Director?" Director, "What do you mean, what should we do? We're already behind schedule and we have to get this scene done today."

The Great Saiyaman laughs. "What a scaredy-cat Great Saiyaman." The Director glares at him. "What?!" Great Saiyaman, "I thought if the real Great Saiyaman saw this, that's what he'd think." The man who asked the director what to do says, "That's it!" He says something inaudible into the director's ear. Director, "What?! Him?" Man, "If we change his clothes, he'll be perfect." The Great Saiyaman tilts his head quizzically.

...and then the Great Saiyaman was standing on the edge of the roof atop a tall building. "I didn't think this would happen." He stares down at the crew. "Okay, we'll start the posing scene! Ready to go?" Great Saiyaman, "Yeah!" Director, "Scene 312, action!" The Great Saiyaman begins going through his poses. "From vandalism to murder and kidnapping, from small things to the very large, I get indignant over just a little evil!" Director, "CUT!!" The Saiyaman stops in mid-pose. "That's no good at all! There's no way a real hero could take such an embarassing pose!" Saiyaman, "But..." Director, "Start again!"

The Saiyaman begins his poses again, this time with a different set. "The Warrior of Love, Justice, and Freedom... Great--" Director, "CUT!! One more time!" And the poses go once more. "Defender of the Weak, Defeater of Evil..." Director, "No good!!" Again. "The Cry of the Victims is calling..." Director, "NO GOOD!" And again. "Always wear your safety belts and helmets!" Director, "TRY AGAIN!" Once again. "Always rest for twenty minutes after eating before swimming!!" Director, "NO!" And one more time. "I despise evil!!" Director, "NO, NOT EVEN CLOSE!!" The director is literally jumping up and down by this point. "I can't stand this anymore! I can't believe I ever thought you'd make a good Great Saiyaman!" The Great Saiyaman adjusts his sunglasses. "But I really am..." Director, "SHUT UP! Enough transformation scenes, get ready to fly!" Great Saiyaman, "Okay!"

The crane holding the harness begins carrying the Saiyaman up. On his way, he notices a large clock on the side of a building and looks down at his wrist watch. "Oops! I didn't know it was this late! I have to tell everyone about my father!" The director holds up his megaphone. "Alright, take your pose! You'll fly from there!" Nothing. "What are you afraid of?! You're perfectly safe, start flying already! Are you ready?" The crane operator waves and confirms that he's ready. "Okay, fly!" The Great Saiyaman jumps off the building and begins flying. "I have to hurry." Director, "You're doing fine, that's perfect!" The Great Saiyaman flies toward the camera. "Okay, cut!" The Great Saiyaman continues, and the crew drops to the ground. He pulls the crane a bit before the wire snaps. "I don't have any time, so I'm leaving now!" He speeds up and flies away as the set collapses. Director, "I can't believe it... Was that the real..." The other guy finishes his sentence. "...Great Saiyaman?"

A crab falls off the palm tree at Kame House as Kuririn screams. "Goku, too?! Really?!" We see Kuririn for the first time in seven years, now with a full head of black hair (though I suppose we already knew from the We Gotta Power intro, eh?). Gohan turns to the "camera," pointing at Kuririn. "Since he doesn't fight anymore, this is a Kuririn-san who doesn't shave his head anymore." Muten Roshi lounges under a beach umbrella with, you guessed it, a dirty magazine. Nearby, Umigame sits in the sand. "Goku? It's been a long time." Kuririn, "It's been a long time since the last Tenkaichi Budokai. Maybe I should enter, too." Gohan, "You should enter with us. But you, Goku, and Vegeta are entering, so there's no way I could win. And besides, what would the wife say?"

A ball bounces out of Kame House's open door and a little blonde-haired girl runs out. Kuririn rubs her on the head and she giggles. "You should enter. There's awards out to fifth place." Another voice calls out from inside the house, "How much money?" Kuririn and Gohan look up as Juuhachigou walks out of the house. Gohan, "Let's see... First place gets 100 million zeni, second place gets 50 million zeni, third place gets 30 million zeni, fourth place gets 20 million zeni, and fifth place gets 10 million zeni." Juuhachigou, "You should enter, Kuririn!! I'll enter, too!" Kuririn looks down at the little girl, who begins repeating "One hundred million zeni!" Kuririn rubs her head again. Juuhachigou, "Let's enter, Kuririn!" The girl, "Daddy, enter, enter!" Kuririn looks up. "I guess you're right." Muten Roshi, "Maybe I should enter, too." Umigame shakes his head." Kuririn turns to Gohan. "Hey, don't tell Piccolo or I'll lose my chance to get fifth place." Gohan, "I can't do that..." Kuririn, "By the way, why are you wearing those funny, ugly clothes?" Gohan gets angry and puts his hands on his hips. "What are you talking about?! These are cool! Your fashion sense is old-fashioned!" Kuririn stares at him, bewildered and somewhat surprised. Gohan puts his sunglasses on. "Bye!" And with that, he departs.

At God's Shrine, Piccolo stands with his arms crossed. "That's very interesting." Gohan, "See?" Piccolo, "Okay, I'll enter." Popo, "Do your best. I'll support you." Gohan, "Dende, what are you going to do?" Dende smiles. "I won't enter. I'm not a fighting-type Namekseijin." Piccolo, "By the way Gohan, why are you dressed up oddly like that?" Gohan, "Not you too, Piccolo-san! Don't you think this looks good?" Piccolo, "I don't know." Popo, "Me neither."

The sun begins to set as the Great Saiyaman heads for Mt. Paozu. "I don't know where Tenshinhan-san or Chaouzu-san are. I think Bulma-san will tell Yamucha-san. Now it's just Mom and Goten. Mom will be overjoyed that Dad will be able to come back for a whole day. And this will be the first time that Goten will see Dad. But will Mom allow me to enter? If I'm going to have to enter, I'll want to win. And since I've ignored my body, I'll have to take a break from school and train."

Chichi screams. "What?! Goku-san is coming back from the dead to enter the Tenkaichi Budokai?!" Gohan looks up from his bowl. Chichi, "Why did you wait so long to tell me this big news?!" She hugs Goten, lifting him out of his chair. "Isn't this great, Goten-chan?! You'll be able to see your father for a whole day! But I've gotten older! I bet you don't age in the Afterlife, do you? I'll have to go to a beauty salon. How long has it been? Seven years? This is too exciting, Goku-san's coming back!" Gohan looks up from his food again. "Excuse me, Mom... Can I enter the Tenkaichi Budokai, too?" Chichi spreads her arms. "How should I make myself pret-- Eh?!" Gohan, "First place gets 100 million zeni, and even second place gets 50 million zeni." Chichi, "ONE HUNDRED MILLION ZENI?! ENTER, GOHAN-CHAN! WHEN YOU AND GOKU-SAN WIN, WE'LL GET 150 MILLION ZENI, WON'T WE?!" The house shakes and animals outside are shocked by the sudden barrage of noise. Gohan, "Uh, we haven't won yet..." Chichi, "No, one of you will win!" Gohan, "But in order to enter, I'll need to take some time off school and train..." Chichi, "I DON'T CARE, TRAIN! YOU CAN CATCH UP LATER! This is grace from Heaven! My father's fortune is almost all gone and I was starting to wonder what we'd do!" Gohan clutches his chest, a look of sheer surprise on his face (but no, I'm pretty sure he's not having a heart attack).

A lamp in the Son home goes out. Gohan and Goten lie on the floor next to each other. Gohan looks over at his brother. "Goten, do you want to help me train tomorrow?" Goten, "Yeah!" Gohan relaxes as animals run around outside. As the new day begins, Gohan and Goten sit out in the woods, stretching. Gohan has once again donned his Piccolo apparel, while Goten wears an orange gi identical to Goku's. Finally, Gohan stands up from stretching. "First, I start off by turning into a Super Saiya-jin." He holds up his fists and spreads his legs before transforming. "Okay, let's get started." Goten stares up at Gohan. "Yeah!"