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| - This story was written for TeamUnitedNerds' The Random Contest For Randos. Basically, that was a contest to write a story about the first random page you get on Dragon Ball Wiki. I got Goku's Alive!!, the last episode of the Frieza Saga of DBZ. Not gonna lie, that's a really terrible page to write a story about, and I was quite disappointed by my entry. I really didn't want to participate in the contest as a result. However, as it got closer and closer to the deadline, I realized that neither Destructivedisk and WaffleMinifigure were going to post their entries, and due to how the voting works, there needed to be at least three entries. So on the night before this story was due, I wrote it.
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| - This story was written for TeamUnitedNerds' The Random Contest For Randos. Basically, that was a contest to write a story about the first random page you get on Dragon Ball Wiki. I got Goku's Alive!!, the last episode of the Frieza Saga of DBZ. Not gonna lie, that's a really terrible page to write a story about, and I was quite disappointed by my entry. I really didn't want to participate in the contest as a result. However, as it got closer and closer to the deadline, I realized that neither Destructivedisk and WaffleMinifigure were going to post their entries, and due to how the voting works, there needed to be at least three entries. So on the night before this story was due, I wrote it. While my random page was a terrible one, I certainly had ideas. I had four main ideas: one, to write a very short comedic story about Gohan's and Dende's love for each other, based on TFS DBZ Abridged's handling of this episode (it's very weird that they were holding hands like that before Dende is teleported away at the end of the episode); to write a story about the frog Captain Ginyu being the king of the pond in Dr. Brief's garden; to write a story about Moori's golfing journey in the 130 days it took Porunga to recharge; and to write a story about Vegeta after he runs off and steals Dr. Brief's spaceship about halfway through the episode. I ultimately went with option #4, as I thought it had the potential to not only be funny, but expand upon Vegeta's character and show some cool aspects of the remnants of the PTO. I had a particular image in my mind of a mission Nappa and Raditz went on without Vegeta where they got statues for saving a planet from some menace. Y'know, living on beyond death and all that. This is thematically tied to the Shelley's Ozymandias poem that is my favorite poem of all time and that I've referenced (and has influenced me) many times before. Again, this is mostly based on TFS Abridged when Vegeta and Nappa go to Arlia and Nappa complains that he never got to be a hero. I did want to show another side of Nappa. This would allow Vegeta to reflect on his past and on his future, since the episode I got was like the first instance of Bulma showing romantic feelings towards Vegeta. After having just written He's a Baaad Man, I was in the mood for more Vegeta/Bulma stuff. If I had not written that story shortly before this contest, I would have probably done the Captain Ginyu idea. I got super drunk before writing this story, to the point of throwing up violently afterwards. I rarely get that drunk, and I don't know why I drank so much. I drank nearly an entire bottle of vodka. There were some things going on in my life when I wrote this story, not going to lie, and that's probably why I felt the need to drink so much, but I'm not going to talk about that stuff. Anyways, I was blackout drunk, so I don't actually remember writing this story, nor even posting it on this wiki. I have no idea what this story is about, as I haven't ever read it. I don't think I edited it or proofread it either. So when I read it for this commentary, that will be the first time I've ever read it. I mean, I know what the prompt was about and what ideas I had before sitting down to write, but I don't know how it all turned out. We'll see how it goes. Neither TUN or Creeperman seemed to like it though, as neither of them voted for it, so that doesn't bode well. It will be interesting for me at least to compare this to their stories, as I reviewed both of theirs before voting in the contest, and to be frank, I didn't like either of their stories. TUN's probably has a chance to be better than this one, but I would be shocked if Creeperman's Pokopen's story is better than this one. We'll see. Onto the endnotes!
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