that stupid alone but not be at all! "
He stepped back and forth, waving his fists.
"Piccolo. Piccolo! Now calm down! The rest of us have only now thought of calling Shenlong." SonGoku wanted to appease him, ran next to the Namekjaner, and had apparently completely forgotten his anger at him."But at least you thought of it at all!" for Piccolo, stopped suddenly and turned to the Sayajin, who had to make an emergency stop in order not to collide with him.
Breathing heavily, he looked at him, frustrated and more than close to a nervous breakdown.
SonGoku met his gaze calmly. Then he started grinning. He tried to stifle a giggle, but couldn't. It just tickled its way out of him, became a chuckle and finally he laughed openly in Piccolo's face.
"What?!" the Namekjan demanded to know.
'I ... I just can't hate him! I can't even be mad at him anymore. ' thought SonGoku and had to laugh even more at Piccolo's dazed expression on his face, 'He ... he can't help it! That's the way he is, Piccolo the devil, through and through. Every now and then you have to shake him up a bit, but I've always been able to rely on him so far. He is and remains a friend. He has to clear up the stress himself with SonGohan, I don't have to interfere. 'SonGoku wiped a tear of laughter from his face and grinned wordlessly at Piccolo. He seemed to have noticed the change in the Sayajin's behavior.
'Only this afternoon I thought he wanted nothing more than to turn my neck with his own hand, and now ... now he's laughing at me like nothing happened. Should it be possible that he forgave me? Just because?'
"SonGoku, I ..." he began hesitantly, but he waved it off.
"Forget it, Piccolo." he said and smiled "Even the devil can make a mistake."
Dende stood by and shook his head.
"Why actually easy when it can be complicated too?" he said to himself and sighs in resignation.
"Now don't pretend, you 'omniscient holiness'! You have just as little thought of the Dragon Balls as we have!" Piccolo scolded played annoyed.
"We?" asks SonGoku surprised "I thought of it!"
Dende laughed in relief, and Piccolo allowed himself a half ironic grin.
"So! Why did I have to appear here so suddenly?Shall I help find the bullets? "He wanted to know.
"No, actually ... I didn't know anything about SonGoku's plan myself when I called you." replied Dende "The chief of New Namek wants to see you."
"Muli?" Piccolo asked in astonishment. "What does he want from me?"
"I don't know, he just said it had something to do with SonGohan."
"Excuse me? With SonGohan?" said SonGoku surprised.
"I understand just as little. Anyway, Piccolo, if you agree, SonGoku will bring you to Namek right now."
Piccolo folded his arms.
"I'm curious what Muli wants from me. And when it comes to SonGohan ... All right. Let's go." with that he looked at SonGoku.
This just suppressed a yawn behind his hand.
"Hopefully it won't take too long." he just said and gave Piccolo a sign to put a hand on his shoulder "I want to finally go to my bed and try to sleep for the rest of the night. So, first to Master Kaio."
"Why then, Master Kaio?" Piccolo wanted to know."Because the Namekjanians are too far away to 'jump' from Earth." explained SonGoku and raised the index and middle finger to his forehead.
"Good luck," Dende wished them.
In the next moment they were gone.

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In a more than hidden corner of the afterlife, at the end of the Serpent's Path, a small planet overgrown with grass, bushes and a few trees hovered above the ubiquitous yellow cloud cover. Those who know their way around the hereafter would probably not discover anything extraordinary if they were standing on the tip of the tail of the stone reptile, one has always had this view from here, for an eternity and a half to be precise. Few of them knew that the Idillic Celestial Body had only existed for a little more than ten years, the 'original', which had broken during the fight against the Cyborg Cell. The only three inhabitants of the planet, a kaio, a monkey and a floating grasshopper, had filed a complaint with the Dai Kaio.He had passed it on to the Kaio Shin (after which he could no longer bear the moaning of his lodgers), and the latter had generously given the three of them a planet from the world of the Kaio Shins (what good is a single Kaio Shin, and his mentor fifteen generations ago, with a whole world to yourself!). How the new planet was finally made in the place of the old one knows allardings nobody.
Now the Kaio of the North stood on the new cobblestone path in front of his new house and felt every part of the galaxy accessible to him with his senses. That was pretty much all he had to do to do his job as Kaio. He had to keep an eye on the course of life in the northern quarter of the galaxy, and to be informed about every occurrence that could affect life in this world. This also included knowing where the strongest and most powerful among the inhabitants of the various planets were at the moment.Now he had failed. He had lost one of those entrusted to him and could no longer find out where he was.
'SonGohan, where are you?'
Since his former student, SonGoku, asked him to see his son's whereabouts, Master Kaio used every free minute to look for the boy. For a Kaio, it was inevitable not to have such a talented fighter like SonGohan constantly in view.
'How did I get the idea of ​​schnapps that he could take care of himself when he's half a Sayajin? They are really anything but infallible! '
His concentration broke. He was tired, very much. Not physically, at least he'd been dead since the Cell Games. But a soul could just as well get tired and needed a little rest every now and then.
'I should be choosing a helper really slowly, like the other Kaios.' he sighed.
But ... putting all this responsibility in someone else's hands, even if only for a few hours, just didn't seem responsible to him.The only compromise he could make would be to hire one of his former students as an apprentice. Just what?
'Harmburr, maybe. Or Konec? Oh no, he was reborn at his own request. Children, how time flies! Almost six hundred years ago he was still training here '
"Master, why so dark? Couldn't you find SonGohan?"
The Kaio of the north looked to the side, looked into the eyes of a small floating figure, a grasshopper about the size of a coconut.
"Gregori. No, I can't find him. No trace of him, just nothing." he shook his head sadly. "And something else worries me too."
"What the master?" the little one wanted to know, eager to help him somehow.
"Don't worry about it. I have to decide on my own."
"Decide? What?" Gregori persisted.
Master Kaio was about to answer him when he should stop annoying him when he felt a slight breeze and two familiar auras appeared a few steps behind him.He turned and sure enough, SonGoku and Piccolo stood by the entrance to his little house. The Sayajin just lowered his hand from his forehead, and the Namekjan took his hand from his shoulder.
"SonGoku! What a pleasant surprise!" the plump man with the blue skin called out to his pupil.
"Good afternoon, master." he replied as he got closer, "We're only staying a short time, Piccolo and I have to go straight to Neu Namek. Have you found out anything from SonGohans in the meantime?"
The Kaio looked down sadly.
"Unfortunately not, I'm sorry. He's as if swallowed by the earth, or in this case, as if swallowed by the universe." he didn't even like his own puns.
"Don't worry anymore, Master! We found a way to get him back." SonGoku tried to encourage him to speak.
"How come?" the Kaio of the North wanted to know.
"With the dragon balls." Piccolo replied simply.
Master Kaio was almost blown away.The dragon balls!
"Please no scene, master." SonGoku came before him and raised his hands soothingly "We also know that we should have thought about that much earlier."
"Yes ... yes, you would have, but ... you think," began the little man after the first shock, "that Shenlong will really find him? Neither I nor Enma have managed that, and even the god of." There are limits to dragons. "
"Well master, but he's clearly over you guys on this point!" grinned SonGoku.
"What does that mean ?!" A squeaky voice was heard, and Gregori built himself up in full size in front of the Sayajin "You snot-cheeky brat! Have you still not been taught any manners after you've trained here, huh? You're talking about the Kaio of the north , and he is 'overlooked' (great word! I just thought it up * g *) "
SonGoku grinned even wider, and leaned forward slightly, so that the hovering grasshopper had to back away in order not to get a headbutt."And how is it then that he couldn't find me after Old Namek was destroyed by Freezer? Master Kaio thought I was dead as well as everyone else, only Shenlong noticed that was not the case. The dragon has me found, and if I hadn't decided otherwise, he could have brought me back to earth right away. "
After this speech, poor Gregori had a thick board in front of his head and was unable to answer in any way. Master Kaio just sighed heavily and hung his head.
'I need holidays.' he decided 'Somewhere in heavenly fields.'
"Master? We have to move on then. I'll keep you informed of any progress."
"Yes! Yes do that, my boy. And give my best to the Chief of New Namek."
SonGoku nodded, then waited briefly until Piccolo held onto him again, and whoosh! , they were gone.

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While on Earth, Bulma had built the Dragonball Radar and switched it on."So. Then let's go. The radar is ... is ..." she muttered to herself and turned in circles.
"I swear if it comes out that this thing has been in your purse all the time, then ..." Vegeta growled impatiently.
"Then what?!" Bulma snapped "But wait. How-where ... bag?"
She put the still-silent machine back on the bench and hurried to the closet in the corner, where she ruffled her father's smock.