Dragonball Z

Resurgence

Prologue

(Present Day)

It was early morning in Mount Paozu and the denizens of the dome-shaped house known all throughout the region as the Son Residence were slowly starting to come around. As light started to filter over the lush, beautiful landscape of the forest-covered countryside, Chi-Chi was already up and working on the family's breakfast, Piccolo was outside meditating underneath his usual tree, and the place's resident hero was just turning in after a good, pre-dawn training routine.

Ambling down the corridor in his orange and blue gi, the noticeably battle worn Gohan stretched his neck and rolled his shoulder, humming quietly to himself as he assessed the damages on his person. The past two hours of solid grinding had left him with a number of bruises and muscle burns, and while this would've bothered any other person, it didn't affect the demi-Saiyan in the slightest. In fact, now that he'd gotten the hard yards of the morning out of the way, he could now settle in for a nice long soak in the tub before going out to carry on with the rest of his day.

"I've sweated up a storm out there. Taking a dip in the barrel is going to be number one on my list," Gohan recited to himself, stopping at his bedroom door and opening it up. The instant he stepped in though, he immediately stopped when his eyes fell upon the surface of his bed. "Second agenda on my list…"

…getting through his room without waking up the other three people sleeping in it.

For the past few weeks, Gohan had unexpectedly found himself sharing his chambers with an odd number of individuals. If his younger brother wasn't crashing on his futon, then he was spending the night with the other members of his family, as well as his home's most frequent visitors.

The current occupants this time around were those he considered closest to him. There was Videl, who was sleeping next to the window curled up in his blankets, Zangya, who had ended up dropping on the futon next to the bed in her oversized sleep shirt after a long afternoon of training, and the newest addition to their group, Sandra, who was sharing the king-sized mattress with his girlfriend.

Counting the peacefully dozing bodies scattered across the room, the surefooted demi-Saiyan quietly snuck into his quarters with a gentle ease in his steps. Lightly hopping over the Hera to get to his cupboard, he quickly fished out a second gi and a towel, before then making his way over to his bed. Standing over the two girls tucked underneath the sheets for a moment, the teen hero smiled and, reaching out, gently tucked some stray hairs behind Videl's ear.

Doing the same to Sandra, who stirred momentarily under his touch, Gohan then took a step back and thought about all the events that had led up to this point in his life.

It'd been a couple months now since the self-proclaimed Saiyan Empress had come to earth. The day she arrived, it'd been one of the most monumental confrontations the Z-fighters had ever had the pleasure of participating in, second only to their battle with the God of Storms, Set. Though the events of that day had been as hairy as they possibly could've been during an 'alien invasion', the chaos inevitably boiled down to a fist fight between himself and the full-blooded Saiyan in the streets of Satan City.

At first the hybrid thought that they were going to kill each other. But as luck would have it, the outcome of their battle turned out to be the exact opposite he was expecting.

Now Sandra, for all intents and purposes, was living here, with him, under the same roof, learning as best as she could about the mundane chores and routines of the 'earthling' way of life.

Despite the fact that a lot of her efforts had resulted in failure so far, Gohan had to give her points for effort.

"She's such a trooper," the demi-Saiyan thought, smiling when he saw the girl unconsciously kick the air in her sleep before snuggling further into one of his four pillows.

Not wanting to wake them so early, the young hero decided to take his leave. But just as he was starting to make his way out of the room, Gohan suddenly spotted the Saiyan uniform belonging to Sandra hanging off of his chair along and a strange electronic device sitting on the desk next to it. Raising an eyebrow at the laptop like accessory, he slowly walked over to it and picked it up off of his table. A quick look at the smooth silver hardware quickly led him to the conclusion that this was some sort of computer, which then had him spare a glance over at Sandra.

"She's been doing work?"

Curious as ever and figuring it wouldn't hurt to take a quick peak, the young warrior quietly opened up the pad in front of him. The device switched on automatically, producing a white hologram screen that jumped up over the plate and immediately accessed the default program, which turned out to be a series of journal entries.

His interest percolating by the second, Gohan scrolled through the files to the very first document, which the owner of the pad had entitled 'Memoirs of a Saiyan – Part One'.

"Heh. What do you know?" the hybrid chuckled.

He didn't figure the tough-as-nails Sandra to be a writer, let alone one who recorded her history and thoughts. However, after hanging out with Videl for over seven years, whom he knew as one of the strongest and most unyielding girls he'd ever met, he wasn't at all surprised to discover that another of his battle-hardened friends had a soft side as well.

Glancing back at the bed once more and seeing that all the girls were still asleep, Gohan then turned his attention back to the diary and, considering it for a moment, decided that he could spare a minute or two for a read.

So, pulling up desk's chair, the teenager sat down, got comfortable and accessed the file, which instantaneously honed in on the opening paragraph.

"Chapter One," Gohan read, his eyes beginning to pan over the text, "My name is Sandra. I am a Saiyan warrior from the Planet Vegeta and a former member of Frieza's branch of the Planet Trade Organization. Like the rest of my fellow kin, I was conscripted into the Saiyan Army as a child with the sole purpose of conquering planets in the name of Lord Frieza. The very first planet I helped subjugate sealed my position as a low-level Saiyan and I was immediately put to work as a soldier of our king's army. I was four years old when I was teamed up with Maya; my best friend and comrade."

"One day, the two of us were sent on a mission to eliminate the population of a Class C planet in a nearby system. It was to be an easy assignment, where we were expected to encounter little to no resistance. But just as we were making our way across the Gamma Sector, we unexpectedly ended up flying into the rings of an exploding sun, which knocked our pods off course. The blast waves from the supernova damaged our ship's navigation and life support systems, which triggered the emergency stasis units and put us into suspended animation. After several years of drifting through the cosmos, both Maya and I ended up crash landing on an unknown planet in a far off galaxy, well out of reach of the Northern Quadrant."

Gohan paused for a moment, remembering the story Sandra had told him of how she and Maya had ended up surviving Planet Vegeta's destruction. It'd been an interesting story for him to hear and, knowing that there were many gaps in it that had yet to be explained, promptly returned his attention to the journal.

If it wasn't apparent already, he wanted to find out more about the mysterious girl's life.

"When I awoke, I quickly tracked down my teammate's pod and rescued her from a marsh. Upon realizing that we were stranded on this planet, outside of radio contact and not knowing where we were, with no possible way of getting off world, we thought that we were done for."

"What we didn't know however was that our first day on that hellhole of a rock, would be the start of our brand new lives…"

XXX

(Twelve Years Ago)

(On a Planet somewhere in Deep Space)

It was midday and, just like every other waking hour on the thriving green world drifting through the outer rim areas of the spiral galaxy, it was swelteringly hot. With temperatures sitting on a level that was close to unbearable for ordinary creatures, it almost seemed impossible that there would be any kind of life living on this planet at all. But with the ludicrous amount of forests and jungles stretching across every open plain and continent on this world, it seemed like the climate here was perfect for whatever organisms and beasts had decided to call this place home.

To them, it was heaven.

But to those that were there purely by accident… let's just say they weren't in the best of moods.

Deep in the heart of one of the endless jungles covering the mountainous terrain, through the labyrinth of trees, each of which grew to roughly the size of a small skyscraper, a low rumbling could be heard echoing through the dense undergrowth. At first the sounds were drowned out by the chorus of insect and bird life serenading the day away, filling the atmosphere with a relaxing chorus. But as the noises grew louder, the orchestra was slowly taken over. A few seconds later, the cause of the disturbance quickly made itself known.

All of a sudden, a tiny silhouette, a person, darted out from behind one of the towering figs, flying through the air in a wide leap before crashing into the clearing below. Almost immediately after the tiny figure leapt out from their hiding spot, the tree behind them was unexpectedly blown apart when an enormous reptile-like monster tore straight through it. The trunk disintegrating in a cloud of twigs, dust and splinters, the rest of the tower toppled to the earth. At the same time, the colossal entity responsible for its collapse continued chasing after the person, who was now blazing a trail of dust across the forest floor.

Panting heavily as she ran, adorned in a damaged one-piece blue spandex suit, white boots, arm guards, and a heavily cracked and barely distinguishable Saiyan battle vest, a five-year-old Sandra sprinted as hard as she could to stay ahead of… whatever monstrosity was now baring down on her. Eyes wide with sweat pouring down her dirt-covered face, the raven haired girl looked behind her in alarm to see more and more trees get knocked aside as the beast thundered after her like a creature from a child's worst nightmare.

Hell, if she hadn't been living on this planet for over a year now, then this would definitely classify as a literal nightmare.

"Damn it! Just leave me alone already, you stupid lizard!" the girl shouted, only to freak out when she saw another fig get utterly annihilated and a rain of debris come plummeting towards her.

Performing a series of acrobatic leaps and dodges, the Saiyan girl with her tail wrapped tightly around her waist sneered before throwing the giant creature behind her a murderous look. After being chased half-way across the countryside for a solid half hour, it was reasonable to suggest that she'd had just about enough of this cat-and-mouse game.

"Alright, you know what…" Springing into the air towards an old fallen trunk, easily the size of a bridge, the girl spun around and landed lightly atop its mossy surface. Cocking back her free hand and taking aim, Sandra gritted her teeth before thrusting her palm forward, unleashing a powerful golden blast towards the approaching monster. "EAT LASER!"

The attack, easily capable of turning an entire country into a smoking crater, shot through the forest towards the fast-moving giant. But just when it seemed like the attack would incinerate the beast completely, it unexpectedly ricocheted off its cranium and shot up into the sky. This did no damage whatsoever and only served to piss the reptile off, which roared loudly as it barreled towards its target.

Sandra's hair bristled in panic. "Oh, fuck me dead." She then turned heel and leapt for it, escaping just in time to avoid the thing from smashing through the trunk.

And so the exciting chase continued, with the path the two participants were taking being marked by a series of trees collapsing one after the other in rapid succession. Watching from above the canopy, you could see the individual trees get swallowed up by the rest of the jungle, with flocks of birds taking flight when their temporary roosts were utterly destroyed. Before long, the high-speed pursuit eventually spilled out into open grassland, which sat on the very precipice of the territory.

Upon breaking out of the undergrowth in a shower of twigs and leaves, and sliding across the field like she was on ice, Sandra was able to look back for but a moment to see exactly what had decided to view her as food.

Bursting out of the jungle a few seconds later, the predator that was hunting the poor Saiyan turned out to be the T-Rex from hell, with an armored head, huge claws, and boney protrusions running up and down its back. Easily the size of a hotel building, but possessing the attitude of a creature a thousand times more aggressive, the enormous dinosaur gave a terrifying roar as it charged towards the Saiyan at a ridiculous speed. Its footsteps shook the ground with every stomp, rattling the entire planet to its core.

Cursing to herself for not being able to lose it, the adolescent Sandra powered up and took flight, avoiding the beast when it dove and snapped its jaws at her. She then attempted to gain some altitude, but just as she was flying up into the clouds the gigantic reptile took aim and, charging a ball of orange energy in its mouth, fired a blast after her.

The attack slammed into the girl's back with a thunderclap, drawing a cry of pain from the Saiyan child and knocking her out of the sky. The energy ball ended up bouncing off of her in a glancing blow, flying into the distance and striking a distant mountain, disintegrating it entirely. Back charred and smoking, Sandra spiraled out of the sky like a downed jet fighter. But just as she was plummeting towards the ground, the winded girl managed to recover from her dive and take flight once again, staying ahead of the kaiju as it continued chasing after her.

Bleeding from the corner of her mouth, the gutsy girl focused on keeping ahead of her quarry, only to balk when she heard a beeping sound coming from her chest. Knowing what it was, the girl reached in, yanked out the scouter with the broken visor, and slapped it onto her ear. "Maya! Do you mind? I'm kind of in the middle of something!"

"Sandra! What the hell were you doing running around Halberd territory at this time of day?!"

"Look, as much as I would like to stand here and listen to your lecture, I kind of have a much bigger problem to deal with, if you haven't noticed!" the raven haired Saiyan shouted, looking back at the giant dino she was steadily pulling away from.

Despite how fast she was flying, this mutated spawn of Godzilla and the Flash was still able to keep up with her step for step.

The girl's voice on the other end of the scouter scoffed angrily, "Oh-ho. And whose fault is that, may I ask?"

"Semantics, Maya! Now are you going to help me out or not?"

"Considering what you're up against, I kind of have to! You're messing with a predator with a power level of over three hundred thousand. It's going to take a hell of a lot more than a single ki blast to take it down."

"Three hundred thousand?" Sandra repeated. Glancing over her shoulder to see that she'd finally gained some distance from the beast, the girl smirked and nodded confidently. "Sounds like a challenge!"

As usual, her friend did not like the tone of her response. "Hey! Don't do anything stupid!"

"Pft. When have I ever done something like that?"

"Uhh… try… for the last six months!"

Sandra grinned teasingly, despite the fact her partner and best friend was nowhere in sight. "And how often have my idiotic stunts never worked? Geez. Have a little more faith in me, Maya."

"Look, just be careful this time, alright? The last thing I want to do is drag your eviscerated carcass back to the cave in buckets," Maya replied, her voice laced with a hint of concern as she readied herself for action. From whatever vantage point she'd assumed on that part of the planet, she could see everything that was going on out on the wide open fields. "Now get ready. I'll distract it while you come around and take it from the side."

"Got it," Sandra replied, hitting the accelerator and rocketing forward at an even faster rate.

Noticing its prey was getting away, the dinosaur growled and opened its mouth. Charging another sphere of orange energy, it prepared to lob a second blast at its target in hopes of knocking her down, until a flash of light from the side caught its attention. When its gaze shifted towards a distant hill, it suddenly saw several golden spheres fly out from behind the distant ridge and slam into its side. The attacks exploded one after the other with concussive force, sending the beast skidding across the floor, digging two trenches into the ground with its feet.

Flesh seared and back smoldering, the dinosaur gave a throaty growl and focused its ire on the horizon where the attack had come from. It was there it spotted a second person appear at the top of the hill. Adorned in black spandex shirt and shorts, with an incredibly damaged Saiyan battle vest designed with brown pauldrons, Maya made her presence known with a swish of her tail and a quick burst of ki.

Her long brown hair tied into a high ponytail and her green, noticeably cracked scouter sitting comfortably on her left ear, the five-year-old Saiyan girl huffed and cocked her hand back. "Right here, you overgrown dathcar!"

Snarling menacingly, the colossal T-Rex gave another infuriated roar and slammed its foot into the earth. Energy once again beginning to gather inside its fang-lined maw, the enraged beast caused a fierce wind to pick up and the ground to vibrate across the entire plain, as the amount of power it was generating flew off the scale. The sight of the growing mass of energy and the numbers flickering across her damaged visor drew a panicked look from Maya, who then recoiled when she saw the sphere of ki gain size and stability.

She didn't need a second set of eyes to know that it was aiming its next attack directly at her.

"Great," the girl hissed, taking a defensive stance.

The instant the Saiyan's legs loaded, the enraged reptile held its head back and reeled forward. With a deafening howl, an enormous blast capable of incinerating an entire moon exploded out of its mouth and rocketed towards Maya like a comet. Having the right mind to leap out of the way, the dark-skinned Saiyan managed to dodge just in time to see the enormous beam tear past her and wipe out an entire range of mountains several miles behind her.

From orbit, the attack could be seen traveling across the continent, carving a trench across the planet's surface before eventually striking a distant patch of jungle. The blast went off in a geyser-like explosion the size of a thermonuclear blast, which parted the clouds and set fire to the sky.

Tumbling down the hill following her evasive maneuver, Maya ended up sliding on her backside to the very bottom, where she flopped down on the hill with a gasp. Panting heavily, the girl shook her head in disbelief and stared up into the clouds.

"Okay… that was terrifying…"

After watching its attack go off in the distance, the annoyed T-Rex made a low gurgling sound in irritation. It was only when it sensed the telltale ping of an approaching threat that it tore its eyes away from the burning horizon and towards its blind spot. There, it quickly spotted the speck that was its previous target charging towards it in the form of a blue bolt of energy.

Bellowing in rage, the fully powered-up Sandra braced herself and, traveling several times faster than light, shoulder-tackled the dinosaur in the side. A loud crack rang out when she caved in its ribs, drawing a howl of pain from the beast before knocking it off its feet and sending it bouncing across the open field. It eventually rolled to a stop in a dusty crater three miles away, allowing its tiny attacker to leap back through the air, arms and legs tucked together into a roll, before she landed on the open lowland a safe distance away.

Huffing, Sandra gritted her teeth and took her stance, ignoring the throbbing pain in her back and shoulder. "Come on, big guy! Let's finish this!"

The cloud of dust from the lizard's landing soon settled. When it did, the shaken and winded T-Rex rose up from the crater and set its sights on the one responsible for blindsiding it. A growl soon left it when it spotted its tiny target, which took a step back and clenched her fists the moment she saw its blood red eyes fix upon her.

Unable to contain its rage, the beast roared one last time and leapt out of the hole. Its feet crashing into the earth, it then began sprinting towards its quarry like a bull, head low and mouth wide open to swallow her whole. That was all the reaction Sandra needed to rev her engine and hit the gas.

With a battle cry of her own, the girl's blue aura exploded around her while her right fist ignited. Energy swirling around her arm in the form of orange flames, the aura soon compressed into a hot sheath, giving her limb the appearance of a hot poker. As soon as her fist was primed and readied, the Saiyan got into a runner's start and dashed forward in a blur.

The girl rocketed towards the dinosaur like a jet, both aliens giving it all they got as they left a trail of dust hanging in the air behind them. In a matter of seconds, the two of them were in range, and as soon as they could feel the other's breath on their face, they struck.

A flash of light filled the air followed instantly by a thunderclap when the pair collided in the center of the valley. The impact of their blows intercepting each other was so violent and so great that it split the ground and punched a massive crater into the area where they met. In that same instance, the two attackers passed one another, Sandra's aura dissipating while the enraged reptile's tail whipped through the air.

Neck clearly broken due to its head being twisted to face the other way, the stunned dinosaur stumbled forward several steps before crashing into the ground, where it tumbled several hundred meters before stopping at the very edge of the field. Sandra meanwhile crashed to the ground, bouncing several times like a ragdoll and grunting painfully with each impact, before eventually rolling to a stop half a kilometer later.

When the dust settled from the exchange, the chase was over.

While the T-Rex lay in a dead, crumpled heap at the base of one of the enormous trees, sprawled out in the valley in a crater of her own, the badly wounded Sandra caught her breath from the effort of her attack. Breathing raggedly from pushing herself to such an extent and feeling a dull numbness flood through her, the girl coughed several times before grinning in success.

Despite the fact that she had a massive gash in her side and was now bleeding out over the ground, the Saiyan girl still had the awareness to acknowledge her victory, and did so in spirited fashion.

"Tag. I win," the girl chuckled before coughing once again.

Hearing a pair of feet touchdown alongside her, the girl cracked open an eye to see her concerned colleague kneeling directly beside her and looking her over.

Vision blurry, the raven haired Saiyan grinned up at her friend. "Did you see that, Maya? How many times did he bounce? Tell me."

Sighing in annoyance, the long haired Saiyan shot a glare at her obviously wounded partner, "Damn it, Sandra. What the hell were you thinking out there?"

"Well, I was thinking about getting us something to eat, so I decided to go for a little stroll across the country. Then I ran into this guy on the way back and thought that I would bring him home for dinner," the girl exclaimed, chuckling a couple of times before choking up blood. Gasping for air following her painful rasps, the young Saiyan looked at her friend with a smile, "Seriously though, I'm kind of dying here…"

"Serves you right for thinking you can take an angry male Halberd all by yourself," Maya replied, bringing her friend's left hand around to press against the wound above her hip. "Here. Keep pressure on it." She then slung the bag she had over her shoulder and opened it up on the grass next to her, where she proceeded to rummage through its contents.

Sandra shook her head, "It wasn't my fault. The animals and predators on this planet can sense you no matter where you try to hide. Remember… we found that out on day one."

And it was a fact that has been baffling them ever since.

Ignoring her friend's attempt to excuse her moment of carelessness, Maya then pulled out a collection of purple leaves from the compartment, each one possessing glowing orange veins. After gathering together about three of them to form into a single sheet, rubbing them down to make sure they stuck, she then turned her attention back to her companion, whom she could see was struggling to stay awake. "I hope you learned something from all this."

"I sure did," the raven haired girl nodded assuredly, "Never taunt an adult Halberd by mooning at it. That just pisses it off even more than calling it names-"

"Sandra…"

"-and they have really sharp teeth too. Gotta watch out for those slicers next time," she added while point at the grievous wound in her side.

"Sandra," Maya spoke again with intent, causing her friend to grin.

"Hey… at least when I wake up, I'll be a lot stronger than I was before," Sandra wheezed, the look in her eyes showing how alive and eager she actually was. "We really have to thank our Saiyan genetics for that."

Rolling her eyes, Maya then shuffled closer, "Whatever, you crazy nut. Now clench up. This is gonna sting a little." Upon giving her warning, she then flattened up the leaves and lined it up with the crescent moon gash in her friend's waist.

Realizing the treatment that was to come, Sandra cringed. "Oh goody."

Upon seeing her friend tense up, indicating that she was ready for her punishment, Maya took a deep and slowly pressed the leaves into her side. Almost immediately after pushing the foliage into the gash, the veins in the leaves started to glow brightly, smoke began to rise from the point of contact, and a loud hissing sound rang out across the area.

The instant the natural bandages were applied, Sandra's entire body seized up and, after trying to hold it in, the girl gave a scream of agony as her wound was sealed shut and the chemicals from the plant disinfected it.

Seconds later, her entire world went black…

(TO BE CONTINUED)


Author's Note: Hello all. This is a little spin-off I decided to write about one of the characters in my story, Dragonball Z: Legacies. Since they are two of my favorite characters, and will become two of the main members of the Z-fighters, I'm now writing a story of their own detailing their history.

As you probably know, I have a lot of original characters and all of them have stories of their own. Sandra's and Maya's is probably my favorite. Obviously a lot of crap has already happened to them and they've gotten stronger because of it, so let's see what other adventures are lying in store for them.

Hope you all look forward to some more.

Power levels:

Sandra - 335,000

Maya – 325,000

Halberd – 320,000

Other: (For comparisons sake)

Frieza (1st Form) – 530,000

Captain Ginyu – 120,000

Recoome – 40,000