That Time I Got Reincarnated As Future Gohan

Chapter 1: New Beginning, New Problems

It's been a few days since I had initially woken up and I've taken to my new life as I expected, steadily and painfully slow. You ever have those feelings soon after you wake up after a nap or a good night's sleep, of just feeling foreign in your own body? Not to the point to call it body dysmorphia, but you feel as if you almost don't belong in it? Well... imagine that 24/7 alongside a cascade of memories that aren't your own and new role to fill in someone else's life in a fictional setting. In my previous body, I was an average person in most physical attributes. 5'10, average build, brown hair, blue eyes, and a case of nearsightedness. Nothing exceedingly notable, but it was my normal self. The self I was used to waking up as in my bed. Not a well built, muscle toned, black-haired, black-eyed, half-human, half-Saiyan hybrid. Not to mention I was nearly 5 years older in age so my mind didn't feel like itself either. Not the kind of experience overall I had expected when I died. Now I kind of sympathize with Zamasu a bit. Not because of his illogical hatred of mortals or anything like that, but just getting used to being in such a different body.

I had always had those imaginary "what-ifs" in my head as if I was in the shoes of my favorite anime, video game, or book characters as a kid. Fictional characters always lead such interesting lives of unrealistic proportions that just makes any person want to experience their lives for even a moment. Of course being a super powerful martial artist with superhuman abilities fell onto the list as well whenever I watched Z or Super growing up. Daydreaming of going Super Saiyan or experiencing the feeling of the fast paced fights Goku had always done throughout his life just seemed so thrilling to me. It probably because I was the total opposite it personality and habits. Just a normal teen with no responsibilities on the scale of like defending the planet from a world ending threat or having the powers capable of doing such a monumental task. But now, as I stare out the window of Capsule Corp I accept my reality for what it is now. It may be just the world of an anime, but it was one of tragedy and misfortune, and I was the lucky bastard who gets be stuck in the body of one of its many casualties that lights the way for our resident protagonist, which I think as I see a determined Trunks training out in the yard. He spots me watching him, and he gives a playful wave before returning back to fighting some imaginary opponents mostly likely being the androids.

My injuries had healed up rather nicely in only a few days. I guess that's one of the payoffs of being part Saiyan considering they're a lot more durable than the average person and they heal relatively quick too. I'm able to stand now and complete move without fear of pain. Though as I mentioned before, its been hard getting used to this body. The first thing that immediately was a notice l change was my appetite. It was comedic to watch the Saiyans of this universe scarf down bowl after bowl of food like animals, but it was different story when I woke up the morning after first coming to this world. I initially thought it was an alarm to wake me up, but it turned out it was my stomach demanding I acquire food as quick as possible. Bulma at that point told me I was strictly stay in bed and not get up for any reason. Fearing the potential possibility of being nagged by the older woman was something I didn't want to deal with from watching how she interacted with her husband and Goku when they didn't listen to her in the show. Trunks had brought me quite a number of portions in a breakfast of rice and what seemed be some kind of bird meat I couldn't identify. Though it didn't really matter what it was as it tasted quite delicious once I gave it a try. Of course I had initially refused such a large amount of food as I still hadn't fully grasped the devastating potential a Saiyan's appetite could hold, but Trunks insisted and of course I obliged. I was beyond terrified and impressed once I realized it had only been a few minutes since I had started eating and I already left several empty bowls and plates in my ravenous rampage. Apparently when I expressed this shock, Trunks laughed stating "You're impressed you ate that much? You usually eat more!" Which thoroughly surprised me further.

Now, some of you may be wondering how I dealt in keeping my change in "personality" on the down low since I only had the memories of Gohan and lacked his mannerism and all that. I don't know how, but I managed to convince them I was suffering from some sort of amnesia that took my ability to act like my normal self and explain why I lacked my usual mastery of ki and my superhuman strength. Leading on with that, the unnatural strength of this body was another surprise I was expecting, but lacked the ability to properly control it as I wished. This was displayed in full when I was about to eat and I managed to break the chopsticks I was going to eat with cleanly in half. Luckily they had spares. A lot of them. I think I broke whatever this world's record is for going through pairs of chopsticks In one meal because I think I only finished after nearly a dozen of them littered the try my empty crockery sat on. Luckily this wasn't terribly hard to manage as I at least managed to figure out the right amount of strength to grab things with so I wouldn't bend it in two which helped.

Coming back to the amnesia business, I assumed Bulma would be quite skeptical of such a blatant claim such losing my memories to explain an entire change in behavior, and especially Trunks since he would practically knew Gohan for all his life but... they trusted me, or more likely Gohan's body. It was touching in a way as they didn't even question it when I told them and I actually feel guilty for lying to them, but they mostly likely wouldn't believe the whole reincarnation or whatever process brought me into this body. Other than covering my tracks, I also needed to come up with a game plan for myself in trying to survive the inevitable threat of those pompous androids when they came knocking. Luckily, they're taking their sweet time traveling around currently as was stated by one of the radio broadcast still around. So... I believe I have a few months at best given the timing of Gohan losing his arm to the period in time where he snapped and went to fight the androids on his lonesome. And thanks to me actually having a sense of self-preservation, I'm not going to mindlessly throw myself into a fight I know I wont win. Though if I even want a sliver of a possibility of surviving, I need to work out the several disadvantages I have at the moment to level the playing field or else my death, the even more people beyond the thousands the androids have killed already are in jeopardy. So, I'm going to take the approach of the kid from that one book That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha, and foolproof myself so I wont die.

Listing them off based on priority, my first and most important problem is getting back Gohan's mastery of martial arts and getting used to this body's full capabilities. Much like Zamasu when he first took Goku's body, he had to slowly but, steadily get used to it which I have more of a problem of due to not being used to this kind of strength and other powerful qualities unlike that Kai. My main idea for how to solve this is to enlist the help of Turtle Hermit in order to introduce myself into a training routine involving the main aspect of martial arts I need to master, ki. Considering I have no idea how ki works barring its ability to be used for many things like flying, shooting beams, and transforming into forms, I don't have a lot going for me so the guidance of a master would advantageous. Secondly, the pressing problem of evening the power gap between the androids and Trunks and me is going to need addressing at some point. Even thought Gohan in the canon timeline was able to fight both of them in his last moments both one-handed and ganged up on, it was their never ending stamina and the lack of of a partner to even the fight was what caused his downfall. In order to solve that, I need to train trunks to the point of at least being able to turn Super Saiyan so he doesn't get eliminated from the fight that easily. While I don't need him to actually be able to beat an android on his own, I do need him to be able to last long enough to keep one of them busy so I can eliminate the other and then aid him. Hopefully the Lookout is still intact enough to room of Sprit and Time so we abuse the hell out of ability to train an entire year for a single day. Although, in Super, Trunks does mention that they had a lack of access to Senzu Beans so, due to the close proximity to the lookout, it isn't a high chance of it surviving but, I have to hope. Finally, the least alarming problem would be getting used to this lack of a left arm. While I do realize Gohan was perfectly able to fight without it, I'd rather cover all my bases so I'm the biggest possible threat so a replacement limb wouldn't be a bad idea. I'll just have to accept Bulma's offer of making one for me unlike Gohan who refused.

If I can somehow string together this shoddy plan of mine to fruition, I just might be able to live past the point of Gohan's original death, and maybe even change other events for the better. I just hope I have what it takes to pull this off. As I turn away from the window I stretch my arm and my legs as I walk out of my temporary room. Apparently my...or Gohan's mom called Bulma nearly passed out of worry for him so Dr. Briefs insisted I go back "home". Now I got to pass off as Gohan well enough to the point even Chichi wouldn't tell the difference. Wish me luck.