Dragon Ball: Goku Si c3

“Wow! Amazing! I thought you were messing with me, but what you said is true!” Bulma rushed forward to inspect the pod.

“Excuse me? I am a Martial Artist, not a burglar like you.” Goku huffed while pressing another button to open the pod.

The girl groaned when she heard that. Is he planning to continue calling her a burglar!?

“Anyway. I am offering you this pod with some gear.” He went to the pod and opened the storage area where the scouter was.

“This is an energy scouter. It allows you to measure how strong an individual is.” As he said that, he placed the scouter on his left ear and pressed the button. He scanned the girl in front of him.

The number stopped at one digit. Bulma’s power was… 6.

“Only 6…I haven’t seen such low energy before,” Goku said with a surprised tone. He was genuinely surprised. He completely forgot that earthlings who don’t train never reach levels beyond 10.

“Ugh! That’s because I don’t train beyond regular exercises!” Bulma didn’t like what she heard, so she was defensive.

“Really? So what are you going to do when my fellow Saiyans come?” Goku asked in an ‘innocent’ tone.

“...”

The girl trembled when she heard that!

“Most of us have power beyond a thousand. The King himself has around 15 thousand and above. They can blow up planets.” The boy continued with his ‘innocent’ tone.

**GULP**

“Anyway, I will keep the scouter for a while. I will let you tinker with it after we finish this trip.” Goku gave her a chance to switch topics in the conversation.

“...Right! You want to join me, right?” For now, the girl decided to brush aside the possibility of alien invasion! YEP! If she sticks around the boy, he will protect her! Right!? He wants her to build something for him!

“Yes, it would be for the best. My training is starting to stagnate once again, so I need to start travelling to look for strong opponents to face.”

“...You are looking for a fight?” She looked surprised.

“Well, of course. How else would I become strong and defend this place from all sorts of creatures, demons and aliens, or do you want to serve some disgusting creature?” 

“...Sorry for asking a dumb question…”

Bulma placed her hand on her face as she realised that she asked a dumb question… again.

“No worries. For now, my pod will remain here. Once we are done with this trip, we will return for it.”

“...Fine by me.”

~~~

It felt strange for Goku to leave the mountains. He had been here for twelve years of his life and became quite attached to this place.

For a while, he thought that he could live in a big city. His plan was to move in and live in Bulma’s place so she could make stuff for him. But then he learned magic…

In this world, magic is the counter to tech… if he wants water, he conjures water. If he wants clothes, he conjures them. 

He is certain that he can wield magic to make a pseudo-gravity chamber. Maybe in the future, but for now, he needs Bulma.

That is why he is trying to help her and reveals a couple of things. Like his Saiyan heritage, he hopes she will become interested in training to grow stronger and not become a fragile flower that needs to be protected.

‘Well, the future will tell us how to address this issue.’

Goku pondered on a bunch of things as he sat in the passenger seat and looked through the car window.

“...come on! Say something! It's boring, and radio doesn’t reach this far into the wilds!” The blue-haired girl complained after several hours of driving.

“Hmm? Alright. What is your wish upon the dragon balls?” Goku asked her as he stopped looking at the countryside and instead looked at the girl

“WELL! I want a boyfriend!” She said with a dreamy voice.

The Saiyan looked at her with disbelief. He completely forgot about the Dragon Ball original arc… 

“Are you serious?”

“Yeah! I mean, I have looks, money, and brains, but I don’t have a boyfriend!”

“...Ugh… How stupid is that!” The boy gently massaged his forehead while exclaiming in frustration.

“How is that stupid? What would you ask?” Bulma suddenly became defensive again, and there was anger in her eyes. Can this alien kid stop embarrassing her all the time?

“For one, I would ask for knowledge and information.” He raised his right-hand index finger.

“IF we ask for that, then you will know WHO your dream man is! No! Who could possibly be your soul mate.”

“OHHHH!!! I like it! I like it a lot!” Bulma grinned silly when she heard the wish.

“Yep, on top of that, we could ask for it to be in a manageable format like a computer or a storage device.”

“YES! That is a fantastic idea, Goku!” The girl was bought over with this idea!

‘And I will learn all of my Saiyan heritage secrets along the way.’

Goku is not selfish; this wish will give Bulma what she wants as well as what he wants in the same package.

So it's fine.

After breaking the ice, the pair ends up speaking much more, and honestly, Bulma is impressed by this wild alien kid’s knowledge.

She ended up asking about his race…

Something she should not have…

As the girl realised that Space is much worse than what she learned from her older Sister! Who thought that there was some EMPEROR who annihilates species and sells the planets away for money?

And he is monstrously more powerful than anything she can imagine since he can casually blow up planets.

Yup…

She should have kept her curiosity in check…

Eventually, they arrived at a location that Bulma would use for camping. Goku, for the first time, in live action, saw how Bulma just threw a capsule, and with a poof of smoke, a house appeared.

Which is cool… and strange at the same time.

“With this, travelling is easy!” The girl puffed her chest.

“Great, what about food and water?”

“No worries! The fridge is stacked, and I have Zeni to buy food if we run out.” The girl puffed her chest.

“Nice. So where will I be sleeping? Can you show me the shower?” The Saiyan asked as he looked around,

“Sure! Let me show you!” The girl didn’t even ask how he knew what a shower was…

It's not that Goku is bothered if she asks. He has two trump cards for that. His grandpa and his alien heritage could potentially have those…

~~~

After sleeping for the first time in a proper bed in this world, Goku has decided that he needs a proper house with a bed and stuff. It was quite comfy…

As he left the house, ready to do his morning exercise, he heard a voice coming from the side.

“...Water… please…”

“Hmm?”

The Saiyan looked around and found a large brown turtle.

“...oh…”

He realised what it was, and he nodded at the request.

“Regular water?”

“If you can with salt, please!” The turtle begged the boy.

“Alright.”

Goku went back and prepared a bucket with water and some salt.

By this point, Bulma was still asleep. She most likely could not fall asleep for a long time because she was thinking about what Goku said.

Well… telling her about Frieza is not… a healthy thing to do. But she insisted on learning about that stuff, so…

“So turtle, what are you doing here?” Goku asked the turtle.

“I am looking for the sea. Can you take me there? If you do, you will be rewarded by Turtle Hermit.” The turtle spoke after finishing drinking and recovering.

“Turtle Hermit? As in Master Roshi? The same martial artist who trained my grandpa?”

“...trained your grandpa?” The turtle looked confused as it looked at the boy from top to bottom.

“Yes, my name is Son Goku, and my adoptive grandfather was Son Gohan.”

“OH!” 

The turtle got excited to hear that.

“T-Then you will help me?”

“Yep. Let me wake up the sleepy heads and tell her what we are about to do.” Goku went back to the house. A few seconds later, the girl screamed… there was a sound of slap… followed by sounds of pain and groaning.

The turtle grimaced as he was certain that there was a girl who didn’t like being awakened and most likely tried to establish dominance only to end up trying to slap someone who had Ki…

…

…

…

“And why do we have to help this turtle to reach the beach? It's more than fifty miles away…” The girl said while shaking her hand, which was wrapped in cloth with ice in it.

The girl decided not to use physical force on the Saiyan kid again! Nope! It's too painful.

“...**Sigh**” Goku sighed at her again.

“Because we will be rewarded by a renowned martial artist who could potentially have all sorts of mysterious items or connections that could help us in our quest. Use your brains for once.” Goku clarified to her.

“...Fine, you make sense.”

The girl looked away as she had red cheeks, and once again, she got ‘whooped’ by his good reasoning…

After eating, the house was recalled into the capsule, and instead, Bulma summoned her car, which they used to travel towards the beach.

~~~~~~Couple Hours Later~~~~~~

“Oh how I missed this!!!”

The turtle ‘rushed’ towards the water.

The pair watched the turtle move.

“...That will take a while…” Goku raised his hand, created a Ki barrier around the turtle, and pushed it forward toward the water.

“Well, that's done. Now what? Do you think he will come? Even if he will, how long will it take?” The girl sighed as she raised her hands into the air she was stretching out.

“For one, he will, considering he has his reputation to keep, and two, considering how fast the turtles are in the water, I would say we can have a day on the beach.”

“...I can take that.” 

The moment he said ‘beach day’ the girl realised that they were at a nice beach!

“Good. Then I shall return to my training.”

With a nod, the girl pulled out her capsule case and summoned her house. She went inside to change and, at the same time, get a beach chair.

By the time she was out, she saw Goku floating in the air with a blue aura surrounding him.

“...He can fly?” The girl nearly dropped her beach chair as she saw him floating! The girl has never seen someone do that without wings!

“...T-That guy! If he can fly, then we can search for the dragon balls quicker!” But then she realised could she learn how to fly!?

That would be cool.

Sadly for Bulma, Goku is used to spending days meditating, and he doesn’t notice how time is flowing.

While he spent the whole day training his Ki, the girl got bored, from sunbathing to swimming to eating ice cream…

Honestly, she was so bored that she found a book to read.

Eventually, Goku stopped training, landed on the sand, and looked towards the beach.

His senses picked up Master Roshi, and… Goku was stronger than him already! At least in the current Roshi’s form!

“He is here. He will arrive in a few minutes.” The boy walked towards the water as he said to Bulma, who lifted her gaze and looked towards where he was looking.

‘I am not even going to ask how he knows that…’

The girl sighed as she got up from the beach chair and went back to dress properly. Meeting this martial artist in Bikini is something she has no interest in.

A couple of minutes later, Goku finally saw another one of the iconic characters. Even if Roshi is a perv, the guy is still a Master Martial Artist who is a legend with an array of techniques.

“Well, well, Quite the power you got there, Young Man.” The old man in sunglasses on top of the brown turtle said in an impressed tone.