Goku awoke with a start. "Oh wow, Vegeta, that wave of color was super cool! What do you think it was? Also why am I upside down?" Goku, was indeed, upside down. He didn't know about the release mechanism for the chair, so he just flexed and broke the side and slipped out. "Oops. Bulma won't be too happy about that." he chuckled to himself. He then stretched like he woke up from a great nap. He looked around and was shocked to see he was in a city park of some sort, a flow of people leading to a pavilion with a sign that says "FREE HOT DOG CONTEST - SPECIAL GUEST SUPERMAN!" Goku's stomach began rumbling almost immediately. "I can look for Vegeta AFTER I get some hot dogs."
Goku walked up to the pavilion where a woman was sitting at a foldout table. She looks over Goku's gi without a second glance and asks "Here to sign up for the contest?" Goku nods emphatically. "You know it!" The woman grins at his obvious excitement. "Alright, just need your name." She look down at a folder with 20 names written on it. "Goku." The woman stops looking down. "Sorry, I need your FULL name. Not just your first...?" Goku corrects himself. "Oh, it's Son Goku." My grandpa named me that but everybody just calls me Goku." Her lips quirk at the tiny tale of his name and writes down Son Goku (Goku Preferred name)." She points down a path to an open air seating arena and hands him a large number 21 to hang around his neck. "Neat! It's just like a tournament!" Goku cries out and rushes down the path. The woman just smiles and shakes her head, another normal day in Metropolis.
As Goku approaches the arena, he sees a long table set up with 19 people sitting there all shades of apprehensive. One of the event coordinators waves at Goku and tells him to sit at the end next to the open spot. He jumps over the table and into his seat. On his left is a wide man who eyes Goku suspiciously. "You one a dem martial arty type?" Goku is glad to be recognized as such. "Yup! I've been champion a few times." The man grunts and turns away. "Won't help ya none. I'm sure I cin eat more dogs than ya." Anything Goku was about to say was cut off as he felt a massive power level for only a brief moment to his right. As soon as he turned a man landed from the sky and the crowd went bonkers like Mr. Satan had just arrived.
Who had landed was a man wearing a blue jumpsuit with dark red underwear being held in place by a yellow belt. In the dead center of the chest was what could only be called an emblem. A red 'S' with a yellow background. His red boots gently touched the ground as his cape fluttered. His jaw was Perfect, Cell be damned. Before Goku could even open his mouth someone screamed out "IT'S SUPERMAN!!!" and fainted. He wasn't the only one. "I absolutely have to fight this guy after the contest is over." he turned to the wide man, "Do you think he'll fight me afterwards?" The wide man looked at him and laughed out the word "No." Goku couldn't help but frown at that.
Superman was then handed a microphone, he waved everyone down for silence. "Hello everyone, so glad to see you here." The crowd erupted again and he good-naturedly chuckled and waved them back down. "And thank you to LexCorp for sponsoring this contest. For every hot dog eaten, they will rebuild a apartment complex in a city that needs it." The cheers for that were less than before as someone very much knew it was a PR stunt, other people didn't care because they were in spitting distance of Superman. "Now, I hand off the mic to Leslie Willis!" With a flash of electricity, a woman appears from one of the speakers. Her skin is totally white and her hair is spiky. She is wearing a jumpsuit not too dissimilar from Supermans but with more blues and whites and an L on her chest instead of the S. The crowd goes wild and Goku is able to hear some people call out "We love you Livewire!" and one person holds a sign that says 'come back to the radio' which Goku doesn't understand. He also doesn't understand why people are cheering for Livewire when Superman said her name was Leslie?
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"Hey hey, give it up again for the Boy Scout, folks!" The crowd obliged with gusto. "You know, it was on this very spot years ago, I butted heads with Boy Wonder here and was made into the person you see before you. Except I wasn't quite right. The shock had rearranged my brain and all the juice I kept eating only made it worse. Then he showed me a kindness I hadn't ever gotten before. He helped me get my brain straight and this suit helps me with my powers. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for you, Blue." She rushes in for a hug and Superman returns it with all the warmth that Superman can. She breaks off the hug "Alright, alright, enough of being maudlin, let's get this show on the road!" She dabs at her face and heads to the opposite end of the table and starts interviewing the contestants. Goku tunes it out as Superman sits next to him.
"My son wears a cape like you!" Goku blurts out the second Superman is seated. Superman for his part takes it in stride and chuckles winsomely. "It's a popular choice for kids of all ages. How old is he?" Goku has to stop and think. "Well, I spent a few years dead so I don't know if those count. Somewhere in his mid-20s?" This does catch Superman off-guard. "I'm sorry, you were... dead for a few years?" Goku doesn't notice the concern or confusion and plows onward. "Yup! I was killed by my friend Piccolo when my brother came from space and kidnapped Gohan (that's my first son, by the way) and then I sacrificed myself when Perfect Cell was going to blow up the Earth after he puked up his sister." Having heard a LOT of wild stories from people Superman tries to take it all in stride, after all, some people just want to impress him. It's a common thing that he has to deal with. This feels different to him however. Goku is too earnest for one, and for two, he fully believes it to be true. Before he can ask more questions, he is interrupted by Livewire.
"Whoa, look out folks, we got us a real Hong Kong Phooey over here!" She pauses for the crowd's laughter. "Alright, what's your name Mr. Carrot?" and she sticks the mic in his face. "Oh, no, that's my Saiyan name. My earth name is Goku!" Livewire pauses at that and shares a quick glance with Superman who gestures her onward with his eyes. "Alrighty, and we have met all the contestants who think they can out-eat the Man of Steel!" She moves away from the table as trays of hotdogs are given to people. Superman has a fully-loaded cart of hotdogs pushed next to him. Goku leans over and says "Oh wow! That's a lot of hot dogs! I'll need one of those trays if I wanna keep up with you." Superman replies "Don't worry, if need be, we can get you another tray. I'm sure you'll do fine."
Livewire steps to the side of the cart of hot dogs and yells out sans mic, "AND WITH ALMOST NO FURTHER ADO... 3... 2... 1... EAT!!!"