Chapter 11 - Winner

Jackie started the fight with three swift kicks in a vertical line aiming to end the match quickly. Tracking the trajectories of each kick, Goku was able to match Jackie's speed and put both his hands out to block.

Expecting an impact, Goku braced himself only to be left confused when he felt nothing. He saw that each kick actually fazed through him like they were an illusion. Before he can figure out the situation, Jackie's fist materialized out of nowhere caving Goku's face in.

Goku, a little dazed, wipes the blood off his mouth when he backed up a little.

'What the hell? I have never seen that before!'

Jackie smirked at Goku sensing his confusion.

"You have much to learn young one. If you can afterimage your entire body, then individual attacks are a possibility, right?

Enlightened, Goku instantly wanted to try and improve himself even more than what he was thought possible. Initiating this time, Goku tried the afterimage technique that he saw Jackie do earlier.

Creating afterimages wasn't just moving fast, but creating a sense of yourself at the place that you want. Goku was only able to fully replicate it after watching Jackie do it.

One Goku popped out after the other, like a horde of monkeys that had just seen their meal for the day. Each one was in a different fighting pose, like an elaborate dance shifting from one style to another with grace.

"Amazing..." Jackie was utterly surprised to see the sheer learning capabilities of his own student as his eyes darted from the afterimages before him. Doing tic for tac, Jackie also transformed into a blur of afterimages, albeit not as smooth as Goku.

He, however, made up for it with his superior experience whenever they clashed. Goku spun around and launched a superman punch with unreal agility. Jackie side-stepped unhurriedly having Goku's punch graze him on the rib.

Jackie sent a fist to the back of Goku's head only to find air. Goku turned his head just in time to avoid his hit and promptly did a handstand. Goku lurched his two feet to Jackie's face. Seeing the impending soles, Jackie jumped back feeling the wind that Goku produced. Using the momentum from his kick, Goku was able to get himself back up.

'Goku is this strong? I was instantly defeated and he is standing toe to toe with that old fool! I need to step up my game!'

Yamcha's self-confidence risen when Ran Fan actually accepted a date with him but got shot down again when he saw Goku's monstrous strength.

"Lad you are pretty good, but let's see if you can stand up to my Drunken Fist! Hic!"

Jackie suddenly started to become dizzy and swayed back in forth.

Knowing this move from his Grandpa, Goku also started to use the Drunken Fist.

The very serious fighting competition turned into a slugfest of two drunken dudes as everyone sweatdropped at the incredible display.

'H-How is executing the Drunken Fist!? A kid like him shouldn't be able to use this move unless he actually experienced being drunk?! Don't tell me that rascal Gohan...'

"Hey! How are you able to use Drunken Fist?!"

Goku started to laugh a little in his mind as he told Jackie. "Eh? Isn't it only to act like an idiot and go with the flow? I see my master do that all time so it was pretty easy!"

Jackie's face reddened and decided to punish Goku later for that remark no matter how true it was.

Seeing his Drunken Fist was getting nowhere, Jackie 'sobered' up and backed up from Goku. Goku did the same they started to go back to using martial techniques.

After a while, they split up looked battered and bruised all over from the exchanges that they made.

"Y-You are one incredible martial artist! You must have one amazing master! HA HA HA!"

"Y-Yeah thanks, you too." Goku sweatdropped at Jackie's shameless, hidden, praise of himself and really wanted to finish the fight already.

Once Jackie stopped laughing, he did some strange movements with his arms, like he was a mine with a wall in front of him.

Noticing the move and the fact that he was getting sleepier, Goku squeezed his eyes quickly to regain his mind.

Surprised at Goku's quick decisiveness, he started to sing his lullaby hoping all was not loss. This time, Goku covered his ears to block out most sound.

Gritting his teeth, Jackie abandoned his technique and sent a fist towards Goku who was open because he was covering two of his vital senses.

Noticing Jackie's presence getting closer, Goku just blindly put his arms to block his face and braced himself. He didn't open his eyes to avoid getting disoriented by a sudden intake of light.

Goku got lifted off the air by Jackie's sheer strength and he landed right next to the edge trying to regain his sight.

"You are the most promising martial artist I have ever had the chance witness. Unfortunately, you are still behind me in terms of strength young one."

Suddenly, Jackie's body swelled up to resemble a bodybuilder. He started to kiss his pecks and gave winks full of hearts towards some of the ladies in the crowd.

'H-How did none of the Z Fighters figure out that Jackie is Master Roshi after the Kamehameha and this technique.'

Feeling the waves of pressure coming off of Jackie's new form, Goku decided to try out his last resort.

"This form is not perfected yet but it seems like I have no choice."

Ignoring Jackie's confusion, Goku looked up towards the moon that was shining brightly in the night. Consequentially, Goku started to grow hair all over his body with various monkey features replacing his old ones.

Everyone's eyes bulged at the rumored Great Ape roamed Mt. Paozu that loomed over them like a titan of death.

"Sh*t"

Jackie quickly dodged a fist that came towering over him with his enhanced physique. Goku's flurry of punches started to distort the martial ring to an extreme degree as Jackie was barely dodging his death.

Goku, although made considerable progress in controlling his Great Ape form, was unable to fully exhibit and utilize his giant body and 10x increase in strength properly. Jackie on the other hand had better control over his enhanced form despite the weaker power increase.

Jackie started to climb up Goku's arms and attacked him with various punches and kicks like an annoying fly. Goku barely took any damage with these attacks, but the accumulation of each attack and frustration was eventually getting to his head.

The scene resembled a certain gorilla versus a series of annoying attacks pelting him from the skys. Seeing Goku get wearier, Jackie went in front of the rampaging beast and started to charge up his lazer.

"Kamehame..."

Knowing that this was it, Goku tunnel-visioned on Roshi and opened his mouth to concentrated the enormous ki that dwelled inside him towards his mouth. It was like looking at a light show when the beams charged up with one side entirely red versus the engulfing blue.

"HA!"

Goku fired when he heard Jackie finish his chant. His beam of death barrelled his way through and completely decimated the entire side that Jackie was placed. All that was left behind was a shadowy afterimage that was still in the Kamehameha pose in his wake.

Looking behind him, he saw a blue beam full of turtle power spiraling towards him spelling out his defeat.

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Goku woke up with a splitting headache like he just woke up from a hangover.

Looking around, he saw pure destruction around him from his fight with Jackie Chun.

Goku laid there thinking back to his fight with Roshi and how he lost if just barely.

'Seems like I lost to Master Roshi even if he was somehow stronger than cannon. It is not too surprising, I basically had the same training as the OG Goku so bridging that gap would have been almost impossible. Even with my newly acquired, controlled Great Ape couldn't defeat Roshi's fine technique during his enhanced state.'

A shadow loomed over him from behind, he turned around to see the rest of the crew with the addition of Yamcha, Puar, and Ran Fan.

Bulma, leading the group, spoke up to the dazed Goku who was still lying down.

"T-That was one amazing fight Goku! What was with that transformation earlier? I have never seen you do that before!"

Bulma's eyes filled with curiosity as she remembered Goku's wish while everyone else was filled with a little fear.

"That was a transformation I had since I can remember whenever I looked at the full moon. It's hard to control but as you saw, it gave me a lot of power. I am still working on it."

"Hmm, formidable trump card there Goku. Too bad that the great Jackie Chun was stronger than you. What a great guy! You need to keep on training to get stronger even if you can't live up to his awesomeness! Alright, let's go get some grub."

Master Roshi's boasting bounced off Goku and onto everyone else as Roshi dashed over to the nearby resturant like a famished hobo.

Everyone was at a table having a good time eating to their hearts content. Yamcha was attempting to flirt with Ran Fan shaking nervously continuously. Goku and Krillin were sharing their training regime with Bulma and Chichi while they talked about the recent events that led them to be friends. Lastly, Puar was stopping Master Roshi and Oolong from molesting their innocent, plump waitress.

"Hey Goku, what are you planning to do now? I am going to go and train at Master Roshis. He actually invited Yamcha to join but I don't know if he will seeing how he is with Ran Fan now."

Looking over, Krillin saw Ran Fan whispering something into Yamcha's ear while his entire face went red and nearly passed out.

"I am going to head over to Bulmas. I promised her I would do something so now that we are not training I plan to do it."

Krillin had a surprised expression while Chichi was elated hearing the news,

"Y-You are going to come with us to Bulma's house? I practically live there now ever since my castle burned down."

'Lucky bastard, hes got two hot chicks while I am going to be stuck with those two pervs over there.'

Krillin looked over his should to find two giant red slap marks on both Roshi's and Oolong's face like burn marks.

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Goku was currently in a car with Bulma driving and Chichi in the backseat. They were hashing out the details of Goku's job at Capsule Corps.

"My parents don't see the point in having security with how laid back they are. Still, with all these armies popping up one after the other, they can't argue with me of hiring SOME personnel. Right now I have two other guys hired and I reserved the head guard duty to you. The other two seem intense and tough, so you might need to prove yourself to them. You are a kid after it's all said in done."

"Hey, I am a teenager! 13 years old!"

"Could have fooled me! Anyway, as the head of security and my friend, you will be staying in the main building mostly looking over my family and I. The other two will be taking orders from you and looking over the science department."

Goku was soaking in the details of his job until he remembered something. He turned around to look at Chichi who was looking at the passing buildings.

"Btw Chichi, you said you mostly stay with Bulma right? Where do you sleep?"

For the first time on the car ride, Chichi looked at Goku straight in the eyes.

"I live in the guest room next to Bulma. My Dad is trying to regain at least a portion of his money back to get a house."

"Are you going to go to school Goku?"

Bulma looked at Goku with the side of her eyes. Cars were honking continuously at her, yet she pretended to not hear them.

"You kidding? School is cancer."

"Agreed."

Chichi and Bulma said simultaneously. Just as they pulled up to Capsule Corporation, Bulma pulled a fast one on Goku.

"Hey Goku, you remember our adventure months back?" Goku nodded hesitantly not liking where this was going. Bulma started to rummage through her cupboard looking for something. Eventually, she pulled out a shiny orange ball with one single red star inside.

"I found a Dragon Ball! I wasn't looking but just found it accidentally one day. Old times huh?"

Goku was looking at the Dragon Ball with a piece of sweat coming out of his head.

'Good thing they hired security...'

They were getting out of the car when they saw two tough-looking people at the entrance intimidating anyone who gets near.

One was the definition of a buff man with ripped muscles in every aspect of his body. The other was slimmer for equally intimidating with his sharp gaze that made you feel uncomfortable.

The tough-looking one and Goku starred at each other when Goku got off the vehicle. Everyone can feel the tension in the air weighing down on them as their stare went on for a minute.

Eventually, the tough-man spoke stupifying everyone.

"The name is...Bob"