Author's Note This story will single out three of my favorite animes namely Dragon Ball Z, Ranma 1/2, and Sailor Moon along with several appearences of other animes I like. I combined my three favorites into one world, it's basically an alternate reality, crossover, self-insertion fic. Many of the characters are totally out of character, Akane in particular because she's the main character and she's the cause of this whole thing, by wishing for it. I basically seperated the series into three sagas the first is called the World Martial Arts Tournament, the second is called the Enemies Rebirth Saga. The Enemies Rebirth Saga will be basically this, Kagato is alive (the reason's will be brought to light in the series) and finds Dr. Gero's laboratory plus he finds Gero's android molds and kidnaps Ryoga, Kuno, and Mousse. He uses the Dragon Balls to give Ryoga, Frieza's evil spirit and power level, Mousse is given Majin Buu, and Kuno is given Cell's spirit and power level. When it's finished I hope it kicks ass, especially after Tenchi and Ryoko are together in this series and are one of the main characters in the Enemies Rebirth Saga and the third saga called Dragon's Bane. Tenchi and Ryoko in this series are from the OVA series, as for the other characters from Tenchi Muyo! I haven't decided what to do. Disclaimer: I didn't create any of the anime characters in this fan fiction. Prologue (part 1) The Arrival of Brad Bradford Fitzgerald Wall, sixteen year old high school student was looking around a large grassy field he found himself on. He was wondering how he got there or where he was for that matter. That was until he saw a bright light flash up in the sky, he turned toward the light and saw a man in the sky firing some sort of energy beam at something on the ground. Brad quickly ran in that direction, as he saw a follow up energy blast head straight at the man and caused the man to fall out of the sky. Goku fell to the ground and Raditz ran to him, then slammed his big giant sized boot into Goku's stomach. Raditz smiled cruelly looking up at Piccolo as Piccolo froze in place. "Come on, green man why don't you try that trick of yours again." Piccolo trembled slightly. "I can't, there isn't enough time." he mumbled to himself. Raditz looked down and his smile widen considerably. "Farewell brother!" he shouted and lunge forward preparing to kill Goku, when his scouter went off. "What power level 1000, where?" he said looking around. Gohan then appeared crashing through Raditz's space pod, Raditz, Goku, and Piccolo watched as Gohan do a flip in mid air and land. "So you taught the kid a few tricks, huh, Kakkarot?" Raditz said "Run, Gohan get out of here!" Goku shouted. Instead Gohan suddenly exploded in energy and flew at Raditz. Gohan head butted Raditz in the chest before crashing to the ground. Brad finally arrived on the scene and saw watched as a kid slammed his head into the chest area of a large man dressed in armor. He already judge this guy was basically unpleasant seeing one person on the ground and a strange green skinned man with one arm missing. Brad could safely judge this guy as bad, so he ran at the large man as the man turned toward kid clutching his chest. Raditz cursed the kid and knocked the kid away, clutching at his chest. . Raditz thought walking toward Gohan, as he was about to finish the little kid off. A huge force slam against him, knocking him off his feet, back toward where Goku laid. Raditz quickly stood up and turn to see someone new had entered the fight. It wasn't anybody from Goku's group of friends that he saw eariler from the island. Raditz reach up and turned on his scouter, he then gasp in surprise. "Power level 1500. How is that possible?" Brad stared at the large man questionably, before bending down and picked up the kid. He then carted the small kid closer to the green skinned man, he then turned and saw the downed man holding the larger man in a full-nelson. "Now Piccolo!" the man said. The green skinned man smiled darkly and brought up two of fingers, lightning started sparking from these points. The sparks grew intensely, forming an almost yellow aura. "Man, Goku your something else, hold on a second and don't believe anything he says." Piccolo stated, as Brad stood quietly not knowing what to do. "Is there anything I can do?" Brad asked. Piccolo glanced at the young man standing next to him. "No, just stay put you'll just get in the way." he said. Brad nodded and stepped back out of the line of fire still clutching the young kid closely to him. He watched as the green man known as Piccolo, finished charging up his attack, as he heard the big man spitting words at the one called Goku. "It's ready Goku." Piccolo stated. "SPECIAL BEAM CANNON, FIRE!" Piccolo shouted and a corkscrew style energy beam headed straight at Goku and the big man. The beam impacted the armor went through and out the back of the two men. Both were flung back and crashed to the ground. Brad stood there stunned by the violence of the blast, but somewhere deep inside him knew there was no other choice in such an eventuality. He ran over to Goku and bent down to examine the man. Goku opened his eyes and stared up at the young man who saved his son's life. "Thank you, for saving my son." Brad smiled weakly gently laying the kid down. "Least I could do." A few seconds later all three of them heard a jet engine fly by. Brad watched still holding the child, who was starting to get a little heavy. The strange aircraft circled about before landing not far away. Brad then watched as Piccolo picked up a hat and cape then put them on, Brad looked down at Goku wondering what he could do. "Goku, Goku!" yelled a bald headed short man wearing clothing identical to Goku's followed closely by a shorter pig creature, an old man, and beautiful woman with sea-green hair. "Who are you?" asked the woman. "Uh, my name is Bradford Wall, I woke up not far from here and saw a major fight going down badly so I came to help," he paused handing the child to her. "Is it true, Goku?" the bald headed man asked. "Yes, he saved Gohan's life," Goku replied, "I already thanked him, Krillin." Brad watched as Krillin turned away and went back to his dying friend. Brad quietly walked up to the dead man and bent down. The man's eyes shot open, Brad quickly slammed a foot down on the throat of the man. He then picked up the device over the ear, and brought it back over to the group examining the device. He found what appeared to be communication device attach to it. He place the device over his ear and heard someone on the other end. "Raditz what an idiot, now we have to dirty our hands on that backwater planet," a harsh voice stated. "Do we really have to, Vegeta?" another asked. "Yes Nappa, if we don't Frieza will find out, if he hasn't already," Vegeta replied. Nappa grunted as he and Vegeta stepped into their space pods. "How long will it take to get there?" "A year, remember we have make that stop in the Arlia system along the way," Vegeta said as the pod doors closed. "Raditz that weakling, those two had power level below five hundred, even one of the Sybamen could taken them out by itself." "He didn't take in a count the fact that Kakarot's son or that other man would get involved," Nappa answered. "I suppose that is possible, but it still doesn't matter. We still have to clean up his mess," Vegeta snorted. Brad hit the only button on the device and the voices stopped. "Damn, two more are coming to finish what this guy started," he mumbled walking over to the group who were now mourning the passing of their friend. Piccolo was the only other person who heard the conversation, that was played over the device. "So it's not over is it?" he asked Brad as he walked up. "Nope, listen we have one year before two more like the guy you and Goku fought arrive. But, if I'm right, these guys are hundred times stronger than gruesome over there," Brad said as the others listen in. "Your sure about this?" Krillin asked. "One second, I need to check something," Brad stated then went into series of complicated katas and after finishing smiled briefly. "More sure now then a couple of seconds ago." The woman stared at him oddly. "Well, what do we do next?" Brad crossed his arms and looked at Piccolo. "I don't know what's going on, so what do you think?" "We train to get stronger, and prepare for their arrival," Piccolo said then everyone turned as they heard old man gasp. "Goku disappeared," Krillin shouted. "Don't worry, Kami took him," Piccolo replied. Brad watched quietly as Piccolo and Goku's friends as they started bickering about Goku's son Gohan. Piccolo ended the fight by taking the boy under his arm and flying off. Krillin and the old man named Muten Roshi both looked at each other with sweat on the bald heads. "What do we tell Chi Chi?" Roshi asked Krillin just heaved a sigh of defeat. Brad snorted a bit turning away to his disbelief lifted himself into the air almost without a thought. "I'll see you guys in a year, wouldn't want to miss this fight," Brad stated flying off in an unpredetermined direction thinking to himself. In another place hidden in the time streams sat Sailor Pluto and Goddess Belledandy. Both watched Brad as he flew toward Tokyo. "Are you positive he would be a better father to Ranma than Genma?" Pluto asked. Belledandy nodded with a soft smile. "Anybody would be a better father to Ranma than Genma Saotome. Akane's wish was that Ranma to have a better father than Genma, she said nothing about her parents promise to unite the Anything Schools of Martial Arts. Which leads me to believe that she wanted the engagement." "So what's the reason of having Brad go through all the events involving Goku and company?" Pluto asked. "It's to build him up for a threat that will involve the Z-fighters and the Sailor Scouts I'm afraid," Belledandy responded. "There's another reason for it, Brad Wall is also the father of Sailor Mars, and Nodoka Saotome will be the mother." Pluto spit out her tea. "Why didn't you say so, in the first place?" Belledandy smiled demurely. "I forgot to do so." Brad sneezed as he floated over Tokyo. He looked around and found a large complex just below the horizon that had a dojo. He landed in front of the complex and rang the doorbell. The door open five minutes later, a young girl roughly two years younger than himself open the door and stared at him blankly. Brad bowed in respect of the intrusion, and quickly asked if he could borrow the dojo to train for the up coming fight. The girl was Nodoka Saotome, current head of the Saotome Clan of Anything Goes Martial Arts. Listen intently trying to pick up any signs of being decieved, finding none she let him in. Brad quietly listened as Nodoka showed him around, and described her family hertitage. He found it very interesting, he also found out that she was in engaged to another clan member, Genma Saotome. Brad was then led to the dojo where, looked around at the various objects in the room. Most were weapons, armor, or books filled techniques to learn. Nodoka told him that as head of the clan she had say over who got to use the books. Brad nodded and stood in the middle of the dojo, closing his eyes. Nodoka left knowing he wouldn't touch anything unless he asked. So began Brad's adventures training quietly in the Saotome dojo for twelve months, learning various techniques, making his own chi attacks, which also bordered on elementals like fire, water, and earth. He also trained using extreme gravity enhancing clothing, weighing way over even Goku's standard weights. When finished he said goodbye, to his newest friend Nodoka and promised her after everything was settled he would see her again. The next three years were the most difficult for after leaving Nodoka. He helped the Z-fighters defend against Nappa and Vegeta getting severely injured during the fight. After two months of healing with Gohan and Krillin, he volunteered to go with them and Bulma to planet Namek to search for the Dragon Balls. Once arriving on Namek he was caught up in the battle against the Ginyu Force. Where he and Gohan tried to fight off Racoom only to beaten within inch of there life, just in time for Goku to arrive and shift the fight. Brad then later went one on one with Frieza after Piccolo was unable to beat him. Brad held Frieza off until the evil tyrant went to his third transformation. After killing Dende and holding a dying Vegeta, Goku arrived to shift the fight again and this time held the fight. The fight was long and causing massive destruction to the country side. Brad, Krillun, Piccolo, and Gohan watched as Goku went toe to toe with the alien tyrant. Goku used the spirit bomb. After Piccolo was severely injured and the death of Krillun, Goku went Super Saiyen. Brad and Gohan watch in amazement, but Brad quickly got Gohan to leave carrying Piccolo, to allow Goku to fight on his own. A year later after the events on Namek, ending with it's destruction and Frieza's apparent demise life seem to get back normal only to have Garlic Junior intervene. Brad was busy training on Mount Everest at it's peek so the Dark Water mist missed him by a good twelve miles. So he had no idea what happened during that time except for a few fluxations of combat power levels. Then came Frieza's return only this time he was to arrive on Earth. Brad and the others flew to where they roughly estimated Frieza's arrival point. By that time Brad found an outfit that suited him. Black leather trench coat, black gi pants, red weighted training gi with black over shirt, weighted boots, and flingerless gloves(think about Goku's fighting outfit during the Cell Games). They all sense future Trunks fight Frieza and King Cold, and win then tell them about the androids. Brad returns to the Saotome dojo, and reunites with the now married Nodoka. There he trains using a gravity generator like Goku and Vegeta use. A year before the time of the Androids arrival during his training, he hears that Genma dies of a strange heart disease. He help's console Nodoka'sloss. Over the next year he alternates between training and comforting his friend. Two months after her husband's death, Nodoka is showing signs that she is pregnant, and after a doctor's visit it was confirmed. Nodoka fearing that her child will be without a father she asks Brad to marry her six day's later. Aeight months later Ranma Saotome is born, twelve days before the Cell Games are about to be announce. End of Part 1 DI .- > _~ _~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~y~~~_~~~_~~~ - ! 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H e t h e n w a t c h e d a s a l o n g f o r g o t t e n m e m b e r o f t h e Z - f i g h t e r s f l o a t e d d o w n t o s t a n d i n f r o n t o f h i m . B r a d ? S o r r y , i t t o o k s o l o n g t o g e t h e r e . K i n d a o f g o t w r a p p e d u p i n m y t r a i n i n g , a n d f o r g o t a b o u t t h e a n d r o i d s , B r a d s t a t e d w a t c h i n g a s C e l l b l e w h i m s e l f o u t o f t h e m o u n t a i n . B o y , t h a t t h i n g i s s u r e p i s s e d , h e s m i l e d a n d f e l t a h a n d h o l d h i m b a c k . D o n t , C e l l i s t o o s t r o n g f o r y o u , T r u n k s r e p l i e d a s h e a n d B r a d w a t c h e d C e l l r e a p p e a r e d b e f o r e t h e m . C e l l l o o k e d a t B r a d c o l d l y . S o , M r . W a l l y o u f i n a l l y a r r i v e d . B r a d w a s n t t a k e n a b a c k b y t h e c o m m e n t . I s e e m y r e p u t a t i o n h a s e x c e e d e d m e . M a y b e I s h o u l d s t a r t t h i n k i n g a b o u t p u t t i n g m y f a c e o n T - s h i r t s . C e l l s n i c k e r e d t h e n t u r n t o T r u n k s . M y o f f e r s t a n d s , y o u h a v e t e n d a y s t o m a k e y o u r s e l f s t r o n g e r . M a k e e v e r y s e c o n d c o u n t , t h e a n d r o i d s t a t e d b e f o r e l e a v i n g . B r a d w a t c h e d t h e a n d r o i d e t h e n s t o o d u p . I g n i t i n g a n d f l y i n g o f f t o j o i n , w h o t u r n o u t t o b e K r i l l i n b o t h f l e w s i d e b y s i d e u n t i l t h e y m e t u p w i t h t h e o t h e r Z - f i g h t e r s . O n c e t o g e t h e r t h e g r o u p f l e w t o w a r d t h e a r e n a . T h e y n o t i c e t h a t S i x t e e n , V e g e t a , a n d s e l f p r o c l a i m c h a m p i o n o f t h e W o r l d H e r c u l e w e r e s t a n d i n g o u t s i d e t h e r i n g w h i l e C e l l s t o o d i n t h e m i d d l e o f t h e r i n g . B r a d s n o r t e d l o o k i n g a t H e r c u l e . W h a t a d o p e , h e h e a r d K r i l l i n , Y a m c h a , a n d T r u n k s s n i c k e r s o f t l y . H e r c u l e h e a r d t h i s a n d w a l k e d u p t o B r a d . W h a t d i d y o u s a y y o u l i t t l e r u n t ? B r a d s i g h e d . I s a i d y o u r e a d o p e . H e c k , m y w i f e c o u l d w h i p y o u r p h o n y b u t t . O h y e a h a n d w h o i s t h i s m i r a c u l o u s w o m e n o f y o u r s ? H e r c u l e l a u g h e d w i t h h i s a r m s a t h i s h i p s a n d t h e r e p o r t e r h e b r o u g h t a l o n g h a d a m i c a t B r a d s l i p s . N o d o k a S a o t o m e , l e a d e r o f t h e S a o t o m e C l a n o f A n y t h i n g G o e s M a r t i a l A r t s , B r a d s i m p l e t u r n i n g a w a y f r o m H e r c u l e a n d t h e r e p o r t e r t o g l a r e a t C e l l . H e r c u l e a n d t h e r e p o r t e r w e r e f r o z e n i n p l a c e , s w e a t i n g p r o f u s e l y . S h o r t l y a f t e r w a r d H e r c u l e s t w o g o o n s s h o w e d u p a n d c h a l l e n g e d C e l l o n l y t o b e k n o c k e d o u t o f t h e r i n g , f o l l o w e d q u i c k l y b y t h e i r b o s s . G o k u w a s a b o u t t o g o i n t o t h e r i n g w h e n s o m e o n e r e s t r a i n e d h i m . G o k u l o o k e d d o w n a t t h e y o u n g m a n w h o r e s t r a i n e d h i m . B r a d , w h a t a r e y o u d o i n g ? B r a d c r a c k e d a d a r k s m i l e . I t s t i m e I s h o w e d a t l e a s t o n e a n d r o i d t h i s s u r p r i s e I h a v e . I f t h i n g s g e t t o r o u g h G o k u , I l l j u s t f a l l o u t o f t h e r i n g , h e s a i d s t e p p i n g u p i n t o t h e r i n g a n d h i s d a r k s m i l e i n c r e a s e d . I t s t i m e y o u f a c e d y o u r f i r s t r e a l o p p o n e n t , C e l l . 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