Within a park in the Central Town district of the large megalopolis West City, many citizens go about their lives. The scenery is peaceful and boasts a pond, several sculptures, and a fountain. Children play and lovers walk around as a long line to an ice cream stand is beside a trail. The line is long and many seem impatient.

“Hurry up already!”

“We want to get some!”

They don’t seem happy and growing very impatient each minute passes by. At the beginning of the line stands a confused man wearing formal clothing consisting of a grey collar shirt and red pants. He’s very confused on his selections as even the ice cream vendor gets impatient.

“Just grab one already!”

“Hmmm I wonder which one Pan would like” the man says.

“Sir, you’re holding up the line” the vendor responds.

“I got it. This one.”

The man selects the Golden Vanilla flavor and the vendor gives two scoops on a cone and hands it off.

“Don’t worry about paying sir. It’s on the house.”

“Really?”

“Enjoy.”

The man walks away as everyone in line is finally happy. The man holds the two ice creams in his hand and looks around the park.

“Gohan!”

He looks over to find Videl sitting on a blanket in the grass with Pan, their baby, in her arms. Gohan gives out a smile. He walks over to them and sits as Pan floats over to him smiling and lands on top of his head.

“Ahaha Pan settle down.”

Videl grabs the ice cream and Pan goes for it, grabbing the Golden Vanilla flavor. She eats and smiles. Videl leans on Gohan as they share their ice cream and look at Pan eat hers.

“I wasn’t sure which flavor she would like” he says.

“I think you’re overthinking it just a bit there.”

“She’s growing so fast. I’m not sure how I’m gonna keep up with that, especially while being a professor. Oh jeez.”

“What?”

“I forgot to grade the students papers for tomorrow.”

A worried look on his face, Gohan let’s out a sigh full of tension and stress on his mind. Videl sees this in her husbands face and grabs hold of his hand and looks at him in his eyes.

“Gohan listen. You can worry about that stuff tonight. Right now is the time you take to relax with your family.”

Gohan looks at Videl and her face reminds him of all the reasons why he fell in love with her in the first place. He smiles.

“You’re right.”

She smiles back.

“Of coarse I am. I am your wife after all. Keep in mind we’re going to go camping when Pan is a bit older.”

“I remember my Dad once took me camping. He rushed me to get my homework done so we could’ve.”

The two laugh as Gohan looks to see Pan floating away towards the ice cream stand.

“Pan!”

He goes after her as she floats over and he grabs her just before she could go any further.

“Don’t go too far okay?”

Suddenly, a bad chill tingles Gohan’s senses. He holds Pan close to him as he looks around the vicinity. Nothing.

“That’s odd” he says in his mind, “I just sensed four ki signatures just now and they’re gone.”

Pan doesn’t seem happy either as if she can sense it also. Right then, a ki blast is fired straight at Gohan and he dodges it instantly with Pan still in his arms, but destroys a part of the ground near him. He looks around and can’t find the point of origin as people run away in panic.

“Gohan!”

Gohan looks over to Videl who is a distance away unscathed and he rushes over to her with Pan safe in his arms. He hands Pan over to Videl as she gathers their things.

“I’m not sure where that blast came from. There were four signatures then they disappeared.”

“Technically they didn’t disappear” a voice shouts to him.

Gohan and Videl look over to where the voice came from to find none other than the Armored Squadron standing behind them. Videl manages to dodge quickly but Gohan is hit in the back of the neck and falls to the ground. He struggles to stand as he sees Dore, Neiz, Salza and NightHollow stand before him.

“Who are you people?” he struggles to say.

“Hmph. None of that is your business of who we are. We’re looking for your father Goku.” Salza states.

Gohan stands before them and recover quickly from the blow from earlier.

“What do you want with my father? Did Frieza send you?”

“Clearly you haven’t seen your father lately then. We don’t work for Frieza, we work for his brother.”

“Frieza has a brother?”

Right then, Dore attacks Gohan once more from behind. One blow after another Gohan takes from Dore who’s smacking him around for the fun of it as the others watch.

Salza sighs as Neiz and NightHollow stand beside Videl to take her and Pan as hostage.

“He really couldn’t have waited a bit longer” Salza comments.

Dore slams Gohan into the ground and grips him by the ankle, lifting him up.

“Such a disappointment. Would’ve figured since you’re his son you’d put up more of a fight.”

“I will. I just wanted to see current strength first.”

A surge of energy flows through Gohan as the rubble around them begin to shake. He closes his eyes as Dore’s eyes widen by the amount of energy he can feel be present. Salza scans Gohan’s power as it increases exponentially on his scouter. After moments of concentration, Gohan opens his eyes and Dore is intimated by the ferocity felt emanating from the saiyan. Without a second to react, Dore is seen off guard as Gohan breaks free from the hold and unleashes a punch so hard it sends Dore flying across the park, hitting the ice cream stand in the process. The others are surprised by this as Gohan stands he looks over to Videl.

“Take Pan out of here!”

Videl nods and tries to flee but Neiz grabs her. She retaliates and gives him a firm kick into his chest which Neiz was not expecting to happen, before getting a distance away. Neiz tries to go after her but stops.

“Let her go. She’s not important to us at the moment” Salza says.

He stares at Gohan who has the face of a proud warrior race on, determined to fight. Dore appears from the clearing unscathed, wiping the dirt off of his armor. Gohan is surround on both sides as he faces Salza.

“I take it you're the one in charge. So I’m say this again, who are you?”

Salza stares at him. He then speaks.

“We are…”

He begins to gesture as Dore and Neiz follow suit. They then pose.

“Cooler’s Armored Squadron!”

NightHollow doesn't pose. Gohan stares is confusion.

“Cooler?”

Suddenly in a split second, Dore attacks. Gohan is ready and the two clash once again as the others watch. Dore proves to be an adversary as Gohan tries to see how he attacks, but in the process gets hit with a ki blast. Dore then Thruster Kicks Gohan in the chest sending him flying into a tree. Gohan recovers quickly and realizes he has to take it up a notch, increasing his power once more. He goes and fights Dore and each punch is controlled and precise that Dore has no time to dodge them before getting kicked in the side of his head. Dore tries to quickly recover but Gohan was already prepared with a Masenko already going straight at him. Dore managed to dodge it unscathed.

“Damn. I take back what I said earlier.”

Gohan is serious just as he was in the Tournament of Power. Behind him, Neiz strikes and Gohan tries to dodge his attacks before Dore joins in on the tag team. The two share blows at Gohan that he tries to keep up with but it’s proving to be a bit overwhelming. He decides to block each attack by stopping them in motion with his hands and sends a ki blast to each of them. Salza looks over at NightHollow whose watching beside him.

“You’re not going to get in on the action?” he asks.

“Not yet. He’s still holding back” NightHollow responds, “he is saiyan after all.”

Videl watches the fight a distance away as her husband fights Dore and Neiz at the same time. Pan is startled seeing her father fight.

Gohan is overwhelmed just a bit and stops a distance away from them.

“I don’t know what you guys want with my Dad but I can’t allow you to be destructive and put people in harms way.”

“Then just tell us where your father is” Dore demands.

Gohan increases his power once more and shouts.

“Haaaaaaaaa!”

His power increases and the aura around him turns Golden. He turns Super Saiyan, but it doesn't stop there. Electricity courses through him as he goes Super Saiyan 2. The Armored Squadron watch with astonishment.

“His hair,” Neiz comments,”it’s golden!”

“What’s with everyone having gold transformations?” Dore says.

Salza watches as his scouter maxes out and he immediately shuts it off before it explodes.

“What is this power?”

NightHollow watches as the scanner in his helmet continues to increase in data numbers. He’s unfazed.

“That there is a Super Saiyan.”

Gohan continues to increase his power but the aura has changed from golden to white as his eyes begin to shine.

“I was once told to be a warrior and no matter the opponent I must fight with everything I got” Gohan says, “it’s been moments since the Tournament of Power but I never forgot that feeling, to fight again, that spirit.”

His hair returns from gold to black but his power is far greater than before. Gohan has gone Mystic, his Ultimate potential, and he’s not going to hold back anymore. Dore and Neiz are shocked to see as Gohan goes in for the attack and overwhelms them both with precise and controlled blows. Each ki blast shot gets deflected and every punch dodged. Dore and Neiz wonder where this power was before as they try to land at least a one blow now. Gohan knocks them both down and begins to charge up a blast.

“Ka…me…”

Salza prepares to intervene, but stops.

“Ha….me…”

Just before Gohan can unleash the blast and end it, he feels a huge force of pressure hit each of his pressure points and his body begins to feel numb. The kamehameha wave disappears as Gohan drops to the ground as none other than NightHollow was behind him in a split second. Gohan reverts to his base form and is out cold as the Armored Squadron stand before him.

“I’ll give it to the kid, he’s strong.” Dore says.

“Yeah, but imagine his father or I even heard Prince Vegeta is here too” Neiz states.

“We’ll deal with them when the time comes” Salza responds, “at least we know exactly what we can expect. Lord Cooler anticipated so.”

Gohan lies out cold on the ground. Videl holds Pan as she begins to cry and she flies off towards Capsule Corp.