Now we're on top of the tower and an old man is screaming his lungs out. The strange thing about the guy is that he's about 3 feet tall and has red skin. "LEAVE ME ALONE!!! I'VE LOST ALL MY HOPES AND DREAMS! I'M GOING TO JUMP AND END IT ALL!!". One of the people in the crowd recognizes him as some guy that was on TV talking about an oracle or something. Another says, "Oh yeah! That's him!". But then the two Saiyamen speed by and the crowd cheers for them. The old man continues, "I'M NOT MOVING NO MATTER WHO COMES!". Gohan arrives and starts talking to him, "Hey old man, listen, it's dangerous to stay op here, let's go down okay?". "Go away! I want to die!". Videl floats around like a snot, "Let him die.". Gohan's surprised by her. She screams at the guy, "C'mon! Hurry up and jump!". The old man says, "Okay", and jumps off. Videl looks down in surprise, "Oh my God! No way!". The people in the street scream. As the old man falls he screams, "Heeeeeeeellllpppp mmmmmeeee!!!!!" Gohan swoops down and catches him. He asks him, "Are you okay old man?". The old man starts throwing a tantrum, "You should have saved me earlier! What were you going to do if I died!?". Videl says it like it is, "You're weird old man.". They land later in a park near a fountain. The old man has struck up a conversation with Gohan. "You mean you don't know about Tapion the Legend of the Brave?". "Nope.". "You're telling me you don't know about the legend of the brave warrior who saved the planet Konatsu in the Southern Galaxy a thousand years ago?!". Gohan smiles and his mouth gapes, his eyes glitter with interest. Videl says they should hurry back to school. Gohan ignores her, "I want to meet this brave warrior!". The old man smiles evily, "Really?". "Yes! Can I meet him?". "The old man tries to mask his excitement, "Oh I really wish I could help you, but unfortunately, Tapion was sealed away in this mysterious Oracle.". The Oracle resembles a very ornate and decorative music box. "He was sealed in here? Why?" "Oh, you'll know why when he comes back to us.". Videl drags Gohan away, "Come on Gohan, let's GO!". "Uh, just hold on a second. Old man, explain it to me!". "Well, my senses tell me that the Earth will be in danger soon!". Gohan gets laughably serious, "The Earth in danger!". Videl shrugs. The old man continues, "Something capable of destroying entire galaxies is approaching the Earth right now, so we're in great need from the Brave Warrior Tapion!". Gohan nods with a serious expression. Videl smacks her forehead and looks down. The old guy goes on, "Because of that, I've spent the last 30 years of my life searching for this Oracle!". Videl interrupts, "So why don't you just LET HIM OUT?". "I would've done it already if I COULD!" Gohan pipes up, "You can't?". "No, but can YOU? Just crank the handle.". Gohan takes the Oracle and stares at it briefly. The old man says if he does, Tapion will be released. Gohan tries to push the crank up and down but nothing works. Then he tries really hard, but it doesn't even budge. "W..why? Damn this.". Videl takes it, "Let me do it.". She looks it over then throws it carelessly over her shoulder, "Hmph, just rusty that's all." The old man barely catches it safely. "Come on Gohan, let's not waste anymore time. Gohan calls to her, but she starts off. The old man calls to Gohan pleadingly, "Shenron could do it!". Gohan spins around. The old man gets on his knees. "Please bring me to Shenron!". Videl lands agin, now she's interested. Gohan repeats after the old man, "Shenron?". "Yes, have Shenron bring Tapion back for us, please!". "Why old man?". "Because I found out that you two have been able to contact Shenron before. Please do me this favor!". Videl puts everything together, "So the suicide bit was just an act to call on us?". "The old man smiles, "Well, yeah! Ho Ho Ho".
A short time later, the Oracle is being analyzed at the Capsule Corp. by Buruma. The whole gang is there except for Vegita, Yamucha, Piccolo, Tenshinhan, and Chaozu. Kuririn doesn't really believe the old man's story, "Old man, is this story for real?". Buruma comments, "You don't think so too?". The old guy defends himself, "Hey babe, trust me. We barely have any time left. The Earth will be destroyed unless we bring Tapion. The Orcale is in a glass dome being analyzed by lasers. Goten and Trunks stare at it in fascination. After the analysis Buruma is perplexed, "It can't. I can't scan the contents of it. I think it's made out of something magical.". The dome of glass over the Oracle parts and Gokou picks it up. He grunts and tries to turn the handle, but even he can't budge it. "No good, I can't move it.". Kuririn shows some interest, "Gee, if even Gokou can't open it, maybe there is some truth to the story.". Gokou puts the Oracle down on the analysis table and Goten and Trunks fiddle around with it. Gokou asks the old man if the guy inside the box is really strong. "Of course he is. He's the Legend of the Brave.". Gokou's face lights up, "Really! Okay! Let's go out and find the Dragon Balls right now!". Everyone agrees, and the old man smiles showing a hint of treachery.
And so the task which once took Gokou months to do takes place in a single afternoon, which is of course, finding all seven Dragon Balls. Everyone splits up and heads to different parts of the World. Gokou's carrying the old man with him. He starts thinking outloud by mistake, "Hmmm, I think I'm going to like thsi planet Earth.". Gokou looks down at him, "Huh? You mean you're not an earthling??". The old man falters, "OH..NO, I uh mean, uh I must've made a mistake.". And so the search continues Goten and Trunks are in an snow covered field, "Allright! C'mon Goten, let's hurry up and find it!". "Yeah! I'd love to meet this Brave Warrior!". Gohan and Videl are flying through a mountainous region. Videl's practically swooning of this mysterious warrior, "If this story about the warrior is true, I wonder what he'll look like! I'm really interested in meeting him!". Gohan just looks confused. Meanwhile, Kuririn's off by himself. No one teamed up with him. He's in a dark place filled with bushes. He pops his head out of the shrubbery and sighs, "I'm alone again.". Suddenly, a swamp creature-esque head pops out of the bushes next to him and makes some noise. He turns to look, but the creature is gone. Then a mummy head pops out off the bushes on the other side of him. He turns to look, but he's late again. Then a ghost floats by and a bunch of steriotypical monster heads pop out of the bushes all at once and stick their tongue out at him. The scene switches outside as he screams from fright, and shows that he's inside a Haunted House at an amusement park. Meanwhile, Videl retrieves one of the Dragon Balls from the mountain region. Goten and Trunks are goofing off having a snowball fight since they already found their Dragon Ball, it was in the hand of a snow man. Back to Kuririn, he found his Dragon Ball at the top of an amusement ride. Finally, Gokou and the old man are at a zoo. Inside a cage with no canopy, a giant lion in pawing the Three Star Ball. Gokou stares intently, "I found it!". The old man scowls, "Yeah, but how're you gonna get it?". "I'll show you how!". Gokou smiles and vaults himself off the fencing around the cage and jumps right inside. The lions are startled and advance on him while people scream outside. They all pounce on Gokou at once, and the old man looks away in horror. But suddenly, a lion goes flying through the air and lands at the other side of the cage. The others quickly follow trampling him in a rush to get away. The old man opens his eyes and sees the Dragon Ball in Gokou's hand. He stares in amazement, then looks up and his jaw flies open. There's a lion with it's mouth on the top of Gokou's head, but Gokou is smiling as if nothing is wrong, "Now we should have evrything! Lets go!". And that does it for the gathering of the Dragon Balls. It's assumed that either Buruma had the others, or it just doesn't show them getting the rest.
Everyone's back together, and the Dragon Balls lay glowing like little suns on the lawn of the Capsule Corp. Gokou yells with a smile on his face, "Come forth Shenron!". The balls glow for an instant, and a bolt of light shoots into the sky. The lights suddenly takes the form of a reptilian body, and Shenron face screams up into the sky. The old guy looks up in bewilderment, "W..WONDERFUL! Is he...Shenron?". Shenron's head dips down, and he speaks his little speach, "I will grant you any wish that you ask! Declare your wish!". The old guy steps forward, "I wish for you to open this Oracle and release Tapion the Legend of the Brave from it!". "That will be a piece of cake!". A bolt of blue light shoots the Oracle out of the old man's hands and it falls to the ground, surging with energy for a second. "I have granted your wish! Farewell!". He dissapears in a flash of light and the Dragon Balls appear in the sky, they rotate around each other for a second, then shoot off into the sky. The sky becomes blue again, and everyone gathers around the Oracle. Buruma gets ticked, "W..Wa..Wait a minute! Nothing's happening!". But before she even finishes speaking, the crank beings to slowly turn. And everyone becomes silent. A beautiful song starts to eminate from the box. Gokou gets exciting, "It's working!". In fact, the entire Western Capital is silent and the song can be heard throughout the streets. Buruma's anger softens, "What a beautiful melody.". Videl looks thoughtful, "But it's somehow melancholy.". Goten and Trunks can't control their excitement, "Here he comes! Here he comes!.". Suddenly the lid opens an inch and a mysterious smoke swirls around the Oracle. Goten and Trunks go nuts, "HERE HE COMES!". The lid continues to open as the smoke swirls around everyone at an incredible rate. The smoke begins to gather above the Oracle and starts to form a figure. The figure grows, and floats into the sky, meanwhile the music continues to play getting louder. Finally, the smoke shapes into a figure with a flowing cape. Gohan is stunned, "Father!". "Yeah I know, it's an incredible ki!". Everyone is so amazed, they don't even notice the old man sneak off behind them. He smiles wickedly and his eyes glow red. The music from the Oracle stops, and a thick blue energy surounds the old man. It starts to grow larger, and lurch toward the mysterious figure shrouded in smoke. The evil energy has almost reached the figure, when the music from a flute being played by the figure shatters the energy. It's the same melody the Oracle played, but it has a more commanding and brave sound to it. To remain un-noticed, the old man sucks the energy back inside him. The smoke is now circling around the figure at a furious rate. The Orcale opens completely, then shatters instantly. A huge ball a light shoots out from the center of the smoke and the figure appears. He's playing the song of the Oracle proudly on his flute, with his eyes closed and floats down to the ground in scene that seems almost holy. He resembles a human, but he has elf-like ears. His deep orange colored hair resembles Kaiou Shin's. He's decorated in gear similar to that of Crono from Chrono Trigger. And strapped to his back is a sheath, with a big, long sword. Gokou stares, "Wow, what the old guy said really was true. Amazing.". He finishes the song and lowers the flute from his lips. Trunks rushes forward, "Cool!". Buruma says he's good looking. The old man steps forward laughing in Tapion's face. Tapion unsheathes his sword and puts it to the old man's throat. "Don't come any closer!". Trunks is impressed, "AWESOME!". Tapion shouts at the man, "You brought me back!?". The old man nods his head and smiles, "You've done a good job remaining in there for the past 1,000 years!". "How dare you! Put me back in now!!". "Too late, the Orcale's seal is broken as well!". Tapion grimaces. The old man looks down at the flute with greedy eyes. Gokou steps in with a dumb look on his face, "Hey hey, chill out guys. You finally got out of..". Tapion turns his back to him, "Please. Don't come any closer to me. You all have made a grave mistake!". Gokou looks around confused, "Mistake?". Tapion walks off without a word. Trunks declares with a tinge of excitement in his voice, "He'll be my hero from now on!". Buruma repremands him, "No way! He didn't even know how to thank us for letting him out!". "No way mom!". He runs after Tapion and Goten follows. Buruma tries to call to him, but it's useless. Gohan looks at Videl, "So what do you think?". "I don't know, but something's wrong.". Gohan nods. Gokou scratches the back of his head, "Hmmmm, I don't get it.". (Of course you wouldn't Gokou).
It's now sun down, and Tapion has settled himself in an old broken down factory, teaming with all sorts of decay and rats. Trunks and Goten have followed the mysterious man to the site without him knowing. They're both one level above him. Trunks prepares to open a grate to get a good look at him and Goten objects, "Trunks, we really shouldn't be doing this!". "And why not!? He's a brave warrior! I want to hear all of his heroic stories!". Trunks flips the grate up without giving Goten a chance to respond. Before Trunks sticks his head in, Goten objects again, "But your mom said..". "Never mind her.". Trunks looks down into the factory and looks in amazement at Tapion. The warrior is grasping his head, gripped by pain. He looks directly at Trunks with anger in his eyes and Trunks falls back in surprise. Goten asks him what's wrong, "Oh, nothing, he just surprised me. This is so exciting!". Later that night at the Capsule Corp. Buruma is hosting a Kabbob-aque with plenty of delecacies rosting on the grill. Gokou happily stuffs his face and couldn't possibly be more content with himself, but he looks around for a second, "Hey? Where's the little old guy?". Gohan notices his dissappearance as well, "Yeah. Where is he?". Muten Roshi offers a typical answer, "Maybe he's out cruisin for some hot young chicks!!". He points at Videl and Gohan steps in front of her protectively. Gokou laughs with his mouth full. Buruma gets involved, (never a good thing), "Hey, don't go judging him on your own perverted standards.". Roshi heads in her direction, (he's obviously completely drunk), "Yeah, you're right. If he's not looking for young ones, maybe it's the older developed ones he's after!". He saunters right up to Buruma and points to her breasts. Buruma shut her eyes and tries to keep her patience, but then Roshi erupts with giddiness at his own joke. BAMM!!!!!!! Buruma smacks him like he's never been smacked before and he lands halfway across the deck. Meanwhile, a hand appears from beneath a grill and burns itself trying to grab a Kabbob. A little, "Ouch!", eminates from under the grill. Gokou looks over and sees two litle hands trying to sneak away some Kabbobs. He laughs and throws one right next to the hand. It grasps it, "Yay! I got it!". The camera pulls back and we see the culprits. Goten and Trunks. They put the Kabbobs on a plate and run off to the factory. This time they don't bother sneaking around, they run right into the room Tapion is in. Tapion is still sweating and shivering in pain. He hears a sound behind him and whips out his sword in a second but to his surprise it's just the two little kids from before. Goten and Trunks' jaws drop at the site of him, "Uh uh sir, we're uh, just here to uh leave some food for you!". Trunks places it on top of a metal barrel. Tapion sighs with relief and puts his sword back in its sheath. Trunks nervously tries to make conversation, "Uh you see, heh heh, my mom is a really good cook.". No response. Trunks's eyebrows fall like a beaten puppy, "Uh, okay. Bye then. We'll be back tommorow.".
The next day, the bridge leading into Western City is completely blocked up bumper to bumper. People are hurling insults at each other, "Hey come on! What the hell is the hold up!?". They don't want to know the answer. Out of nowhere, a building explodes in the city. The entire bridge falls silent. In the city itself, people are standing on the side of the road when an enourmous foot crashes down next to them. The Earth trembles, and store windows shatter. From one of the top floors of an office buidling, a helicopter can be seen zooming around the buildings. A shot from the ground shows a view of the helicopter shooting at something, but it retreats when the foot appears again. But it's kicking a huge tank around the streets as if it were nothing. Gohan and Videl dressed up as their alter egos fly over the city and look at the utter chaos below, "What is this mess!?". He and Videl fly to the source of the mayhem. A helicopter spots them and radios in, "Here comes the Great Saiyaman! The Great Saiyaman is here!". The commander of the army responds, "Allright, we'll leave this up to him!". All the troops leave the streets and the citizens appear to be evacuated. Gohan and Videl land, only to have the giant foot come crashing down in front of them. When they look up, nothing could have prepared them for what they saw. "What the hell!?". Gohan gapes at the giant menace. Suddenly, two blocks away, a huge object smashes through a row of buildings as if they were butter and heads straight for them. Videl screams but Gohan pulls her to safety before getting clobbered. Finally another foot sets down next to the other and we get a clear shot of the beast. But it's nothing you could imagine. It's the gigantic legs and and tail of a monster, but there's no body. Just a legs, and a looooooong tail, (it's the object that almost killed the two seconds ago). Gohan and Videl hover above it, but it puts itself in a stance that would make it seem it can see them even without eyes. Gohan thinks for a second, "Maybe this is what the old man meant when he said the Earth was in grave danger!". Videl lets go of Gohan's hand and clenches her fist. "Let's excecute our formation Gohan!". Gohan is stunned, "What! You want to do it now!?". "Why not!?". Gohan doesn't bother to argue. They land in front of the giant legs and go through their "Power Ranger-esque" movements and dialogue simultaneously, "The Great Saiyaman shall never let crime escape!". "I am the Great Saiyaman!", "And I am the Great Saiyaman 2!". "Here we go!!". BOOM! The giant tail smashes the pavement where they stood just seconds ago. Gohan's knocked to one side by the force of the hit and his glasses are knocked off. On the other side, Videl takes off her helmet, "Hey! He didn't let us finish the rest of our lines!". Gohan gets to his feet and barely dodges another crushing blow from the tail. Now he's angry. "Damn! How dare you destroy this town! Unforgiveable!". He brings his arms to his side and charges his ki, blowing out the pavement beneath his feet. "Here I come!". Gohan makes a B-line for the hips of the creature, and barely dodges a kick. He kicks the hips, and puts a large dent in it. The beast stumbles around a bit but he's far from beaten. Gohan flies high into the air, "My gosh, this guy is tough!". The creature makes an about-face and faces Gohan. Gohan readies his fist and flies staright at it, but he goes staright through it. "Huh!?". The craeture's tail appears next to him and smashes through pavement and buildings in pursuit of Gohan. Gohan performs some ballet-like movements through the air and escapes the assault. He flies around to the back of the creature and hurls a standard ki blast at it and the creature falls over into a building. On the streets below Videl dodges rubble, "Go Gohan!". Meanwhile Gohan puts together what he's seen from his fight and figures out the creature's weakness, "I see. When he attacks, he becomes vulnerable to an attack!". The beast starightens itself out and Gohan zips back into the sky out of reach. The tail swings by him and he dodges, but then heads straight between it's legs. One foot stomps down and misses. Then it turns around and sees Gohan on the other side. It brings it's foot straight down on Gohan, but Gohan dodges at the very last second and delivers a crushing blow to the thigh. The creature loses balance and Gohan zooms back down to the legs and kicks the monster's feet out from underneath it. It falls completely over and lies helpless in the streets. The monster shoves its tail in the ground to try and push itself up, but Gohan is too quick. He charges for an instant and sends out a huge energy blast "a la" Final Flash. The monster literally flies back a few blocks blocks, but Gohan doesn't stop there. Gohan charges up again and grabs his wrists. From high above the city he lets an huge amount of blasts rain down on the creature. He sends blast after blast till the explosion grows to Hiroshima proportions. Finally he stops and lands next to Videl. "Gohan you won!". "No...not yet.". But then, the sound of an flute echoes through the streets and the song that Tapion played is heard once again. Videl looks over at Gohan, "This melody...". Gohan doesn't respond. The melody continues to play as the smoke from the blasts clear, but when the smoke finally diffuses, the monster is completely gone. A single figure is standing where the creature was and it slowly walks away. Gohan squints to get a good look, and the song ends as quickly as it began. The one playing it was indeed Tapion. He looks over his shoulder at Gohan for a second, but then turns and continues on his way. Gohan is stunned, "T..Tapion?". He starts to run after him, but Videl stops him, "Gohan! Look up there!". Gohan looks up to the top of a row of buildings and a small figure is silhouted against the full moon. The figure turns and glares down at the two. The figure is completely hooded, but Gohan knows it's the old man. The two super heroes stand alone in the now silent and still city night. Later that night at the dump, the Kabbob lies untouched where Trunks left it. Tapion holds his flute and stares down at in with pensive eyes. Suddenly a noise startles him, he turns around, but it's only Trunks again. His hands are loaded with soda cans and he's dropping them all over the place. He speaks before Tapion can say anything, "Hey! Don't get mad. I'll leave soon.... Hey, you didn't eat anything." Tapion whips around and screams at him, "GET OUT!". Trunks's jaw drops in shock and he zips around and runs out of the place, his arms flailing, "Yes sir!". Much much much later that same night, Tapion is fast asleep with the flute in his hands. But then, his hand drifts away from the flute and it falls to the ground. The entire room is completely silent for a moment, then an eerie smoke starts to crawl out of Tapion's body. It twists and turns and gathers in the air above him, and forms a small blue portal. Suddenly the portal grows and wind kicks up. In moments the room is filled with wind and crashing energy coming from the portal. Tapion opens one eye in annoyance, but then sees the portal and sits staright up, "OH SHIT!". He grabs for his flute but it's not there. He gasps. Suddenly a gigantic arm shoots out of the portal headed straight for him. Tapion jumps to the side, and the arm crashes the pile of rubble where he stood not even a second ago. Another hand appears and grasps the side of the portal and tears it open further. The humoungous body of a monster crawls out of the portal. The creature has what looks like a skull, but its head is filled with veins, and its mouth is filled with fangs. Tapion grits his teeth. His eyes look away for a second and he spots his flute. He looks back at the beast for second to see is he's clear and jumps to the side as the monster puts its hand through the wall of the factory like it were cardboard. Tapion lands and grabs his flute. He pushes himself away from the spot and his back smacks against one of the remaining walls. The creature looks over at him and growls, it has him cornered. Tapion wastes no time and puts his lips to the flute and plays his song. The beast roars in anger and brings his face only feet away from Tapion, but the warrior continues to play, in fact, he gets up and takes a step towards it. The monster's hands tremble and it puts his hands almost completely arouns Tapion, but he continues to play his song fearlessly. Finally the creature is pulled back by some force, and Tapion walks straight up to it. Suddenly Tapion starts to glow and particles start to transfer from the monster into Tapion. Finally the creature disentigrates and flows completely into Tapion and dissapears in a flash of light. Finally Tapion looks up from his flute and puts his hands on his knees as he tries to calm himself down from the danger he faced and fearlessly sealed away.