[Video]

[smallestsaiyan]

[The video shows a young boy with an excited face, looking back and forth from the right to the left. It's very late at night/really early in the morning and it's still dark out.]

Hey, look what I found! It’s a dragon ball!

[The more nobody pays attention to him, the more his face falls.] Oh, right... There’s nobody here... [Well, nobody that he knows, at least. Then he finally notices that the dragon ball has opened up and there’s a screen on it now. He looks confused.] Huh...? I think this dragon ball is broken...

[He brings it closer to his face to get a better look at it. Here, have a close up of Goten’s eyeball for a moment.] It’s like a really tiny television! Haha, I can see myself! Hi, me! [He laughs and gives the video a wave, then makes a couple silly face at it, sticking his tongue out and wiggling his free hand.]

Wonder what it’s for... I know! I bet it’s something Capsule Corp made! I’ll take it there and show it to Trunks! He’ll know what it is, Trunks knows everything.

Comments

Video 1/?

[hybrid_prodigy]

[... What? ... What?? Is that . . . No, but he's so . . . But, different points in time . . .]

Video 2/?

[hybrid_prodigy]

[Calm down. Breathe. There's an easy way to check this. Energy signatures don't lie. Just check that, and everything will be fine. Totally fine.

[Except what if . . . How would he deal with this?]

Video 3/4

[hybrid_prodigy]

[... No, that's not him. But he looks exactly like him. Except for being tiny. Plus, he mentioned Trunks. Who wouldn't have existed when Dad was a kid. Sure, time travel and all that . . .

[But. There's no getting around the energy signature.

[Oh, geez. He should say something, shouldn't he?]

Video 4/4

[hybrid_prodigy]

[So here's a face that may have a familiar quality to you, Goten, even if something about it doesn't seem right.]

Um . . . hey, you better watch out. There's a lot of dangerous things out here in the dark.

[Video]

[smallestsaiyan]

[Hey, it's a person! He looks kind of familiar somehow...]

Dangerous things...? Like monsters...?

[Video]

[hybrid_prodigy]

[This is so weird. What the heck did you do, Core?]

Exactly like monsters. I mean, you can probably handle yourself pretty well . . . [Because that's a significant energy signature.] But they're all over the place and they'll just keep coming until it's light out.

[Awkward pause. He has to know.] Hey, what's your name?

[Video]

[smallestsaiyan]

Oh... [He looks a little worried.]

Me? I'm Goten! What's your name? You look familiar...

[Video]

[hybrid_prodigy]

If you want some help, I can be there in a few seconds. [Getting ready to go Super and fly out there in his PJs? You bet.]

[The name's not familiar, and all things in his head are adding up to one conclusion. It should make him happy, but . . . it just feels complicated.]

This might sound weird to you, but . . . I'm Gohan.

[Video]

[smallestsaiyan]

Gohan? Hey, that's the same name as my brother! But he's a lot older than you. He's 17.

[Video]

[hybrid_prodigy]

[You know, he would have thought that was cute if he weren't flailing inwardly. It's gotta be. His little brother from the future. Who looks exactly like Dad, and that means that when Dad died, Mom was already . . .

[Oh, geez. Now he really feels lower than dirt about how things went with Cell. But no time for that, right? Gotta put on a brave face for the little brother, right?]

Uh, yeah. I think I'm actually . . . Hey just stay there, okay? I'll come to you.

[Video]

[fightswithpurpose]

[Headtilt. This boy looks like a younger Goten and it makes Nelliel wonder...]

Welcome to the city of Siren's Port.

[Video]

[smallestsaiyan]

Hi. Uhm... Could you tell me how to get home? I don't know where I am...

[Video]

[fightswithpurpose]

I apologize, but there is no way to get home voluntarily. The Core pulls people here, and it sends them home at random. But I can do my best to answer questions you might have about this place.

[Video]

[smallestsaiyan]

What's the Core...?

[Video]

[fightswithpurpose]

I think it's a machine. It is well-guarded and surrounded by Voids - which can nullify a person's powers. So no one has really had the chance to study it.

[Video]

[smallestsaiyan]

Oh... So I'm stuck here...?

[Video]

[fightswithpurpose]

Unfortunately, yes. I can help you find your way around here and enroll you in a school, but I have no idea how to get you home to your world.

[Video]

[smallestsaiyan]

School? [He's not so sure how he feels about that.] I've never been to school before...

[andproper]

I don't think it's a ball. It's some sort of computer.

[smallestsaiyan]

A computer? What does it do?

[andproper]

I think it just lets you talk to people. Like this.

[smallestsaiyan]

Oh. Okay! [He'll take her word for it.]

What's your name?

[andproper]

I'm Prim.

Hello.

[smallestsaiyan]

Hi, I'm Goten!

[andproper]

Are you new here?