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Prologue
By : Herpb4uDerp
Category: Missing Data > Missing Data
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Dilation

Now, my lovely audience, we’re going to take one final step Back this chapter and another even bigger one Forward… so strap in! You’re in for it.

It's the night of Bulma's funeral and Goku is flying at breakneck speed to the first place he can think of for a moment of peace and quiet. He lands on Kami's lookout without a sound. Dende lifts his head from his garden and smiles softly. Goku is on the verge of tears and sits on the edge pressing his face into his hands. He finally lets out a quiet sob.

"I didn't see you at the funeral."

He lets out a frustrated tear soaked noise. "Yeah, I know." he says sharper than he means. "She was my first friend and I cared about her a lot but-” he rubs at his face trying to dry the streaks away, “but that's just not how I do things."

Dende nods his head in silence, a bit out of place for a conversation like this, "You can use the chamber if you wish. Take all the time you need."

Goku ran his fingers through his hair and shook his head. "No. I don't... wanna train right now." It's caused enough problems this week. Being in the endless void wasn't exactly appealing at the moment.

Dende bows and walks away.

Goku tries to remember the last time he felt happy, the last time he felt...not alone, not alien. He can't help the same place coming to mind over and over despite trying to push it away. But he's never been one for denial. So he gives in. He raises two fingers to his forehead and disappears.

He reappears tens of thousands of light years away. Further than he knows the others can sense. He's always been the best at it.

His boots touch down onto soft violet colored grass. He is on a hill where a small pack of brown fuzzy creatures with several black beady eyes skitter away from his sudden arrival. He spots a small village at the bottom of the hill and walks towards it.

The gravity is heavy here, much heavier than on earth. Good place for meditation, he thinks. He plans only to stay for a few weeks, a couple months at most. Then I will go back... Like nothing happened. Like nothing ever happened. Just like he wants. But first he needed a moment away because it's always been easy to do that. To leave.

It's exactly what he had hopped for and just what he needed for the first few weeks. Of course he did a little heavy lifting around town for the locals when he first arrived but before long he was spending long uninterrupted days doing slow practiced kata's under the heavy air.

As he soaks up the last of the rays from the dual suns, while several moons begin to rise, eclipsing the view of the galaxy he thinks he’s never seen a place so beautiful. But it isn't home and it didn’t feel the same as it did when he was here last. The flicker of guilt that inevitably begins to flicker for longer and longer is enough to convince him this isn't where he should be even though it's not the first... or probably the last...time he's done something like this. It wasn't fair to his sons to just up and leave. They might be used to it, but I should be getting back... for them...

It is about this time though, that he is thinking of staying just a little longer, when an elder of the town a few miles away shows up. These people are kind and some of the most peaceful he's ever encountered. It's a shame their planet is a target for poaching. Those little fuzzy creatures do taste delicious, he licks his lips thinking about them.

"Hello."

Goku touches back down to the ground, wiping the sweat from his brow and smiles wide at the old man.

"You are quite the talk of our village."

"Ha ha, still? I've been here a little while."

"Yes. Last time you came with your friend, didn't you? Another soldier?"

Goku frowns at the reminder, although it was why he picked this planet over the dozens of others he'd visited over the years taking occasional odd jobs with the Galaxy patrol for extra cash and well, an excuse to get away.

"You came alone this time."

"This planet’s so pretty. I wanted to see it again."

The old man nods and smiles, "We wanted to thank you. For everything you've done."

"It's nothing."

The man hands him a small container of green soupy looking liquid.

His Saiyan appetite wakes up, "Oh! Thanks, what's this?"

"We noticed you like to eat, it's a delicacy on our planet."

“Oh! Thanks!” But before he can swallow it all in his usual Saiyan fashion he is prompted by curiosity.

"Where's your planet?"

It's takes Goku a few moments to find it. He senses with some trouble, it's so far, but he is able to point to a rough direction in the sky, "It's there... But you can't see it."

"You spend a lot of time looking at the sky here."

"It looks so different. I've never seen the stars move… like this…” he gestures vaguely to the darkening sky, “Faster."

"They aren’t moving faster, we’re moving slower. Time is funny, isn’t it?"

"Hm?" He has the container up to his mouth but again he hesitates before eating because of this alien’s unusual conversation.

"I have never been off this planet, but from what I understand we're close to the center of the galaxy, so the stars-"

"Wait, what did you say before? About time?"

"It… passes slower here, I believe."

"Slower?" Goku stares at him with his usual foolish grin.

"Yes, I think so. We've had outsiders mention it to us before. It’s why we have such a hard time finding help to defend... you didn't notice on your last visit?"

"What?" He tries to remember. "No, I don't-" He thinks back to not quite a year ago, when he was here last. They had only been here for a few hours, not quite the whole day. Hadn’t we? It didn't take long to scare away some poachers. Afterwards we went to the lakes and- It had been so beautiful but- Vegeta said we couldn't stay... He tries to remember when they got back... But I was still thinkin’ ‘bout how we had- Bulma, she was mad. She was still alive... Chi chi was mad too. But she’s always mad. Was it Goten? Who mentioned something about it having been weeks? Almost... two mon- No. no, no no- how long have I been- It couldn't- not possible-!!!

"I need to leave. Now." The realization was sudden and came out rude. He hands the container back to the man without even a sip, taps two fingers to his forehead and disappears from the man's sight.

He reappears back on earth. He knows which Ki he searched for but he doesn't see her. He looks around and recognizes mount Paozu... but it looks different, the house... more worn, was the paint always chipping like that? There's a figure hanging up laundry with her back to him. Her hair is almost completely gray and she looks much older than she should for just a few months... He approaches her quietly, hesitantly. When she turns around all the color drains from her face and she collapses. He barely manages to catch her.

"Chi-Chi?"
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