บท 446: An Unexpected Reunion

'Did I really just kill Mr. Satan?' Alex asked both Lauren and Ddraig mentally, not sure if he'd been seeing things or if his mind had been playing tricks on him.

'Yep, he looks pretty dead partner.' Ddraig said bluntly, obviously not caring about the life of one weak human. Lauren however said,

'I wouldn't worry about it too much since it saves you the trouble of having to deal with him and his influence later.' Though Alex knew Lauren was right in that this development would make some things easier for him, he still felt sorry for actually destroying Mr. Satan's soul and effectively erasing his entire existence.

"I-is that it then? Is Cell truly dead?" Looking over to the spectators, who didn't want to jump the gun with their celebrations a second time, Alex nodded and said,

"Yeah, that's it. Both Cell and Mr. Satan are dead." Though there were a few exclamations of relief, no one celebrated like they had before as the reporter said to the camera,

"Folks, today is both a joyous one and a tragic one, as the terror who threatened the population of the entire world is finally destroyed, but at the cost of the life of our world champion." As he said that Alex heard a few people sniffling within the spectators, while he even noticed a few others glaring at him for his role in Mr. Satan's death. However, the silence of mourning was then broken as someone stated out loud,

"Don't worry, I'm sure Mr. Satan will be revived when we bring back everyone else Cell killed!" Alex then directed a glare at the speaker, Krillin, as he and the rest of their group touched down on the stage.

Normally they would never interact with the media or otherwise risk their identities being known, but due to Alex's presence they decided to take that risk since they felt they needed to figure exactly who he was, and what he wanted. But as the people became happy at the news that Mr. Satan could be revived, Alex instead frowned and furrowed his brows as he remarked,

"You just HAD to open your mouth, didn't you Krillin?" Taking a step back under Alex's glare, Krillin quickly asked,

"W-what did I do?! I was just trying to say you don't need to worry about his death because we can bring him back!" With the spectators, reporter, and cameraman all paying attention to their every word, Alex massaged the bridge of his nose as he admitted,

"But the Dragon Balls CAN'T bring Mr. Satan back!" Alex's admission was met with a stunned silence, to which he sighed before explaining,

"When I killed Cell with that Kamehameha, I combined it with another ability I possess that allows me to completely destroy souls, so that there was no chance of Cell ever reviving as well. That was the kind of attack that Mr. Satan got caught up in."

As Alex explained the details of the current predicament involving Mr. Satan, Piccolo groaned as he asked with a slight growled to his voice,

"So you're saying there's no way to bring him back?" Alex shook his head as he replied,

"Not that I can think of off the top of my head. So far as I can tell, Mr. Satan isn't just dead, his entire existence was destroyed." Though, as he said that, Alex still had an idea of a way that Mr. Satan could be brought back, the Super Dragon Balls.

Though they looked just like normal Dragon Balls, the Super Dragon Balls were literally the size of entire planets and were infinitely more powerful. However Alex had absolutely no intention of going through the trouble of gathering them, just to bring back the one person he'd argue would benefit them more with his death than life.

So he held his tongue regarding the Super Dragon Balls, even as he detected some people calling him a murderer under their breaths. That was fine by him as Alex had no intention of denying his part in Mr. Satan's death, though rather than murder he compared the situation akin to suicide via a person jumping out in front of a speeding car.

Their discussions and musings though were interrupted as the reporter asked,

"Um, so am I right in hearing that you have a way to bring those killed by Cell back?" With microphone in hand and camera on them, Alex took the lead as he said,

"That is correct, however the method we plan to use is not absolute. If you wish to hear the details though, then I will discuss them all in an exclusive interview later at Capsule Corp." Alex's comment earned him several pointed looks from the others as, until then, no one knew any of them were affiliated with Capsule Corp, which was the wealthiest organization in the world that was owned by Bulma and her family.

Now however there was a good chance people would try to get ahold of them through Capsule Corp, which was bound to ruin their peaceful lives and drive Bulma up the walls.

Without caring though, Alex then began moving the floating platforms they were all standing on down, causing quite a commotion amongst the spectators when the ground beneath them started moving again.

As they drifted downwards though, Piccolo was apparently eager to gain more information as he asked Alex in a low voice,

"So what ARE you here for? I doubt you showed up just to fight Cell" Alex was silent for a moment, as if he was contemplating his answer, before finally saying in an equally low voice,

"I want to fight strong opponents to challenge myself, and make some new friends. As far as I'm aware, this is the universe to do so." Alex then smirked at the shock Piccolo showed behind his back, as the hint that Alex wasn't even from their universe sunk in.

By that point they finally reached the ground, where the chunks of earth that Alex had levitated sat seamlessly back into their original positions. Then, with a snap of his fingers, Alex rewound all the damage that had been done to the surrounding landscape as a result of the military's attack on Cell.

"I think we need to learn that one..." Krillin voiced out loud, earning him a few nods of agreement from the others as they too recalled the amount of damage their battles usually had on their surroundings. Of course the most dramatic example was when the battle between Goku and Frieza resulted in the complete destruction of an entire planet.

Once the complete restoration of their surroundings was finished, the people then began to notice several figures that appeared as if out of thin air around them, all of which were beautiful women. Looking at Grayfia, Rias, Yue, Shia, Lala, Moka, Shizuku, Erza, Sun, Yami, Lucy, Mirajane and Yuna, Alex said,

"Alright, everyone's here so let's go." Before anyone of Goku's group could ask who exactly the numerous women that surrounded them were, Alex snapped his fingers a second time and they all suddenly found themselves outside the main dome-like building of Capsule Corporation.

"Was that Instant Transmission!?" Goku asked excitedly, as to perform the same thing he'd need to have contact with everyone he was transporting, and need to lock onto someone's energy.

"It's kind of similar, but there are several key differences." Alex said simply as everyone inside the building noticed their appearance, and rushed out to meet them with a certain elderly pervert at their lead.

"OH SUCH AMAZING BOOBIES! ONE PUFF-PUFF IS ALL THIS OLD MAN NEEDS TO DIE HAPPY!" Master Roshi cried out as he happily tried to dive directly into Rias' bust, only for lightning to appeared out of nowhere and strike him in mid air.

".....those fatty udders....belong to Alex....." Yue stated firmly, as she and Rias shared a brief look of understanding. The two may squabble constantly, but they both had a firm understanding that Alex was the only man who could lay hands on either of them.

"Woah, Master Roshi!" Krillin cried out in alarm as several of them checked on the pervy Master to see if he was ok. Bulma meanwhile immediately gave Yue a thumbs up and said,

"Anyone who shows that pervert a thing or two is ok in my book!" As the rest of the girls gave Bulma a look of approval, and Master Roshi began to regain consciousness, Alex then stated so everyone present was aware,

"I'll let it go with that, but know that I don't tolerate any harassment or disrespect to ANY of my wives." As he said that, Alex was then surrounded by the thirteen girls present as they all tried to find a piece of him to snuggle affectionately, though the more stubborn girls like Yami and Grayfia tried to act otherwise.

"W-w-wives!?!" Yamcha stuttered in shock to finding out all the girls around Alex were 'his', to which Alex simply nodded before adding,

"There's two missing, but these are my 'main' wives, while there's still a few hundred more waiting for me at home."

"A-a-a-A FEW HUNDRED!?!" Krillin stammered this time, before he then tired to imagine the staggering amount of work it must be to manage so many women at once. Alex however interrupted his wayward thoughts as he said,

"As amusing as your reactions to every little thing is, we do have some business to discuss." Though several of them still wanted to discuss Alex's home situation, everyone adopted serious expressions as Goku led by asking,

"So, why are you here?" Alex then glanced at Piccolo before saying,

"As I said to Piccolo earlier, I mainly came to further myself in finding strong opponents to fight seriously, as well as hopefully to make some friends. There's a few other smaller things, but nothing that you lot necessarily need to worry about for the moment." Bulma however appeared agitated at that and remarked while pointing in the sky,

"I'd say I need to worry about THAT!" In the direction she was pointing was several incoming helicopters and other air transport vehicles, while several other vehicles gathered in front of the Capsule Corp entrance. Alex however just shrugged as he said,

"Well there is that, but it'll just be something all of you will need to get used to." At this point Goku's wife, Chichi, stepped forward and snarled at him,

"Who do you think you are mister?! You can't just waltz in here and decide how we're all going to live our lives from now on! I mean how is my poor little Gohan going to be able to study if people are constantly bugging us!?!" As her anger turned into distress for her son's future, Chichi then knelt down and pulled her son into a tight embrace as if to show how much she cared for him.

Alex however rolled his eyes art the display before saying,

"A bit of fame isn't going to hurt Gohan's future, and I'm thinking of helping this planet and the people on it in the years to come, unlike all of you." Alex then directed his attention to the rest of those around him, and asked, "Do any of you have the slightest clue what your continued anonymity will do?"

With several of them shaking their heads as Krillin even asked, "it wouldn't have that big an pact, would it?" Alex groaned before explaining,

"Well firstly your refusal to publicly acknowledge your deeds just means that idiots like Mr. Satan will step up and claim them as their own for fame! Then those idiots would be free to continue degrading the abilities of the people on this planet, until they won't be able to defend themselves from even the simplest threats. Or do you all intend to fight for this planet's peace yourselves until the end of time?"

Silence met Alex's argument until Master Roshi said,

"That's blowing things a little out of proportion, isn't it?" Alex shook his head though and replied,

"No it's not. I'm aware to an extent of future events on this world, and had I not stepped in Gohan would've obtained SSJ2 and killed Cell after both Android 16 and Goku were killed by him, only for Mr. Satan to steal the credit after everyone leaves. He'd then spend the next several years basking in his fame and glory while degrading the skills of the planets fighters even further with everyone thinking someone as weak as him was unbeatable."

As could be expected, everyone appeared skeptical of Alex's claims, except for Goku of course as he said,

"I would've died against Cell? Well I'm glad you stepped in then! Hahahahaha!" Seemingly not at all worried about how close he was death, Goku then began laughing until Piccolo said,

"I don't think that would've happened Goku, I'd say a lot of what this guy says is questionable at best." With everyone else nodding in agreement, someone else then spoke up as Grant said,

"It's true..." Everyone's attention turned towards him as Vegeta, who had been silent until that point, growled,

"That's right! You knew about those Super Saiyan forms and didn't tell us! So you knew about this as well!" Grant nodded slowly as he shrank under Vegeta's piercing glare, until he finally said,

"I didn't want to change things, and risk making everything worse..... But if I'd left things as they were then Goku would've died, and we wouldn't have been able to see him again for several years!" As Grant explained that he hadn't wanted to lose his friend, Bulma looked thoughtful for a moment before asking,

"Was that also why you insisted on Android 16 staying here as well?" As Bulma said, instead of accompanying the group to the final battle the large and gentle android had stayed behind at Grant's insistence, and even now was within the atrium where Bulma's father kept numerous small animals as pets.

Nodding once again, Grant explained,

"It would've been Android 16's death that triggered Gohan's ascent to the SSJ2, but Goku's death would've come after when Cell would try to destroy the entire planet with a self destruct...." As he detailed some of the other things that would've happen had Alex not interfered, the man himself was scrutinizing Grant since this was the first time he'd gotten a chance to do so.

For the week they'd been in this universe, Alex and his wives had been keeping a low profile as they tried to ascertain how the reincarnator here was compared to the ones they'd run into in the past. Alex had been quite surprised to find that next to nothing had changed though, making him almost wonder if something else had interfered with them ending up in a different time than he was aiming for.

Seeing the man right in front of him though, Alex was quite surprised at how Grant was due to the overwhelming amount of 'bad' reincarnators he'd ran into. Until now the only 'good' ones had been Anne and Beth, the latter one having only met Alex due to another reincarnator taking her as a captive as he transferred world's.

Alex was then stirred from his thoughts as Vegeta demanded,

"Hey! Do we really need our tails to be able to use that SSJ4?" With his question putting everyone's attention back onto Alex, he nodded slowly before saying,

"I won't explain the full details, but yeah you need both the SSJ3 and the tail to obtain the SSJ4."

"DAMMIT!" Vegeta swore at Alex's answer, before turning to look at Bulma and demanding,

"Woman! Bring out the Dragon Balls so I can wish my tail back!" Before Bulma could tell Vegeta exactly what he could do with the Dragon Balls, which wouldn't have been at all a child-friendly offer, Alex said,

"No need to waste a wish, I planned to restore your tails to begin with." Then, with another snap of his fingers, Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, and both future and present baby Trunks all had brand new tails sprouting from their behinds.

"How'd you do that!?!" Krillin asked in amazement, to which Alex shrugged nonchalantly before saying,

"It's just a bit of time manipulation magic. I can rewind time on almost anything to restore it to a previous state, though it takes more magic power the further back it goes." Then, to give them another demonstration, Alex used Regeneration magic on Master Roshi until he was a young man once again with a full head of hair and no wrinkles.

"HOLY CRAP!" Master Roshi exclaimed, before leaping into the air and clicking his heels together in excitement. Alex however said,

"Don't think that's permanent Roshi, I can reverse it just as easily if you so much as look at any of my wives with impure intentions ever again. Though if you ever actually go as far as to genuinely molest or overly harass any women, you'll get a lot worst than that." With some of Alex's intent leaking out of his body while he said that, Master Roshi stood straight up as he said,

"O-of course!" Though he was already planning to go pick up girls with newfound youth, Master Roshi also mentally noted not to do anything that might upset Alex so he wouldn't get turned back into an old geezer. What he didn't know was that Alex wouldn't do that to him, but his punishment would be much, much, worse.

Giving Roshi one last pointed look, Alex then passed several cases to each of the Saiyans and said,

"These all have several pairs of sunglasses that are designed to filter moonlight, put them on during a full moon to avoid accidentally turning into an Oozaru." Though Goku, Gohan, future Trunks, and Bulma(on behalf of baby Trunks) all gratefully accepted the cases, Vegeta snorted before stating,

"I don't need those pointless things." Alex however immediately countered with,

"It's either accept the glasses or lose the tail all over again, your choice." Though he looked as if he was going to argue, Vegeta caught himself as Alex coated his hand in energy to form a sharp blade to show how serious he was being.

Despite grumbling about it, Vegeta still accepted the case with several pairs of sunglasses from him, which Alex incidentally enchanted to prevent Vegeta from 'accidentally' losing or breaking any of the glasses within. After giving them a moment to admire their new glasses, and giving Bulma a sample of the moonlight filtering material to adapt to their own Windows, Alex said,

"While I'm giving you guys stuff, there's something else I wanted to give you two as well Goku and Vegeta." The words were barely out of Alex's mouth when Vegeta snarled angrily,

"We don't need any more of your charity! I've got work to do!" Vegeta then turned around as he seemingly tried to go into the Capsule Corp building, possibly to use the gravity room to train, when Alex suddenly brought his hand down on the top of Vegeta's head.

Normally such a thing wouldn't even be enough to so much as faze someone as powerful as Vegeta, but since Alex was still in his SSJ4 form and didn't bother holding back, Vegeta was instantly sent into the ground as a sizable lump formed on the top of his head.

"How brutal..." Chiaotzu muttered while also cowering from the thought of receiving a SSJ4 chop, as Master Roshi then asked,

"Is there any particular reason you're still in that form?" Ignoring Vegeta as he tried to get up, Alex said,

"I've actually been using the SSJ4 form as my base form almost ever since I acquired it, but reverted to my base form before we arrived so we can go undetected until figuring what the situation on this world was. With how easy it is to maintain, I can pretty much remain in this form indefinitely. Plus, my wives like to use the fur as a handle at night."

The last comment made everyone look at the gathered wives in shock, to which several responded with their own suggestive looks that basically confirmed Alex's claims, while some looked away pointedly with red cheeks.

After helping Vegeta out of the hole, and dusting him off, Alex continued from what he had been saying earlier.

"Anyways, even if you aren't interested in receiving 'charity', I'm sure you'll like this Vegeta." Ignoring the Saiyan Prince's protests once again, Alex conjured a wall of mist before everyone, through which a face familiar to most of them appeared.

"RADITZ!" Goku shouted as he and the others immediately got into position to fight, as the last time they saw Raditz he'd kidnapped Gohan and threatened to destroy the Earth just to get Goku to join him. The encounter ended with both Goku and Raditz dying from one of Piccolo's attacks, with the former holding the latter in place to keep him from dodging.

"Long time no see, brother." Raditz sneered when he saw them.

Raditz was a Saiyan that stood a fair bit taller than Goku, had long and wild black hair that went all the way down to his knees, and shared numerous facial features with Goku that identified them as brothers. Unlike Goku though, who almost always had a happy smile on his face, Raditz's face seemed to be permanently stuck in a perpetual evil sneer.

As everyone remained tense in his presence, despite Raditz not doing anything for the moment, two more figures emerged from the wall of mist behind him, who immediately locked eyes with Goku as one of them uttered,

"Son?" Never dropping his guard against the newcomers, Goku responded with,

"Yeah I'm Son, Son Goku!" Even as Goku remained alert though, everyone else's jaws practically hit the ground as they got a good look at the newcomer for the first time, who looked almost identical to Goku except for a few small differences, like the X shaped scar on their left cheek.

Despite Goku not dropping his guard though, the newcomer readily approached him while stating,

"No you idiot, I mean 'son' as in you're MY son!" As he said so, the newcomer took advantage of Goku's stunned state from the news to clap his hand on his son's shoulders, giving it a brief squeeze due to him not knowing what else to do in that moment. But, before Goku could process exactly what the man said, another voice spoke up as a shorter woman with a slender body, and shaggy black hair reminiscent of Raditz's that went down to her shoulders, approached him.

"Kakarot...it's really you!" Then, with tears in her eyes, the mystery woman quickly wrapped her arms around Goku's body, stunning him even further as he tried to process what was happening.

Seeing this, Raditz's sneer widened as he said,

"Since you appear to be at a loss for words brother, allow me to introduce our mother and father, Gine and Bardock."

"EHHHHHHHHH!?! MOTHER!?! FATHER!?!" Goku exclaimed in shock, as the idea of having parents had never even occurred to him, even after meeting Raditz several years previously.

As Goku tried to wrap his head around the idea of meeting his parents, Vegeta almost appeared frozen as his gaze focused on the final person to emerge from the wall of mist behind Gine and Bardock. The person was stern looking older man with his brown hair sticking straight up, and a mustache that grew down to connect with his goatee.

"F-f-f-father!?!"

***

"Why?"

Vegeta asked Alex once the shock had worn off and everyone calmed down, to which the latter simply said with a shrug,

"I figured having more Saiyans would be helpful in the future, and who better than your own family?" Though Alex's comment made more than few people anxious, especially considering Raditz's track record, Vegeta then asked another question.

"How? Did you use the Dragon Balls?" Before Alex could answer Bulma piped up,

"He couldn't have, we still have them inside and the usual phenomenon when Shenron is summon hasn't occurred." As she said, when the dragon that appeared to grant the summoner a wish was called, the skies of the majority, if not the entire, world would turn black as if a mighty storm was forming, while a golden glow could typically be seen on the horizon.

Krillin immediately countered though,

"But he could have just gone to Namek to use their Dragon Balls?" A a debate of how he did it began, Alex casually mentioned,

"Or, maybe you can let me answer." Immediately everyone quieted down, allowing Alex to begin,

"Well firstly, like I said earlier, I was actively working to keep my energy levels down until I knew what was going on in this world. Instead of remaining completely idle though, I decided to take a trip to Hell to find some people and used the same magic I showed off earlier to return them to a state of living. They all then spent the last several days catching up on everything that's happened since they've died, and preparing for this moment."

As Alex finished speaking and everyone absorbed what he said, there was suddenly a commotion as Raditz shot to his feet and declared,

"I still don't believe it! Do you honestly expect me to believe that Kakarot of all people managed to become a Super Saiyan and defeat Frieza?!?" Imagining only the weakling he'd fought before, Raditz was still having a hard time adjusting to how much had changed in the relatively short time since he died.

Contrary to his expectations though, Goku simply smirked as he effortlessly changed in his SSJ1 form, and said,

"How about it then 'bro'? Wanna have another go?" Eager to see just how much he'd grown since they both died, Goku was more than willing to have another match with Raditz then and there, until,

*SMACK!*

"KNOCK THAT OFF!" Chichi roared at Goku as she smacked him, surprising all four of the new Saiyans as she then seized his ear and went off,

"You just now get a family and the first thing you wanna do is fight them!?! Not on my watch buster!" As Chichi scolded Goku, everyone was then surprised as Gine stepped in as well as she added,

"That's right! This is the first time we've all been together in so long, so everyone should just get along!" Even as she tried to scold her son's though everyone couldn't help but to think about how unusual the scene was, as Gine was significantly smaller than both of them, and due to her being dead for so long they both also appeared really close to her in age.

Deciding to let everyone hash things out themselves, Alex stood and said,

"Well if that's all I'm gonna take off real quick, got some more things to take care of before having to deal with the reporters later." Before Alex could leave though, Vegeta's father, King of the Saiyans and also named Vegeta III, also stood and said,

"Indeed, it's time we were off as well son. Bardock, Raditz, you too!" With no one understanding what he was talking about, Vegeta demanded,

"Father, what are you doing?" King Vegeta then looked at his son and said as if it were obvious,

"Frieza is gone, along with all of his most powerful and faithful followers. The remnants of his army and empire are ripe for the taking! And with the power of the Super Saiyan transformations on our side, nothing in this universe will stop us from taking power!" King Vegeta then directed his attention to Alex and said,

"I appreciate you resurrecting us, but we part ways here. So long as I'm King, I will never bow to the whims of others again." Then, as if everything were decided, King Vegeta began walking away from them as his son, Bardock, and Raditz all appeared confused at the sudden development.

As he watched him walk away Alex just groaned from how troublesome the Saiyan King was acting, before he said,

"You do realize I'm not just going to let you become the new Frieza, right?" King Vegeta looked back when he heard that, before he said,

"Did you not hear me? I will never bow to someone else again as King!" As he said that, King Vegeta's energy levels suddenly spiked as if to show how serious he was in his refusal to serve under Alex.

Despite being King of all Saiyans, King Vegeta had to spend a good portion of his life being subservient towards Frieza and his father, as well as sucking up to the most powerful being in the entire universe, the God of Destruction, Beerus. Now however he intended to change all that.

Though he couldn't get revenge on Frieza and his father, King Vegeta was still able to show the entire universe the true might of the Saiyan race, and even planned to become powerful enough to force Beerus himself to submit.

Shaking his head at the Saiyan King's behavior, Alex immediately moved so he standing directly in front of King Vegeta, and asked,

"And if you WEREN'T King?" The moment he heard those words King Vegeta's expression hardened, before turning into a flat out glare as Alex declared,

"King Vegeta, I hereby challenge you for the right to rule the Saiyan race."