The Lost Saijin

By Jonathan Rivera

"... Ninety-nine... one hundred," Trunks jumped to his feet in the now one thousand gravity room. Trunks had become a lot like his father, training constantly, though not as extreme as his predecessor. "This is a great warm-up, I will have to work on this later." It was seven years after the "Buu incident," Goku was out training Ubuu, Goten was preoccupied with his love life and Gohan followed suit with Videl. Trunks has not had the time to battle much seeing as he has never found anyone worthy besides his father who was always happy to oblige, but without a real opponent he was left merely toning his already-developed powers. A TV. like monitor dropped from the ceiling of the room and turned on to Bulma. "Trunks, would you hurry up, you haven't had your breakfast and you have to go to school," Bulma said with a sound of exhaustion because of the many times she has said it. Trunks had become a teenage and unlike Gohan, he wasn't the most studious nor reliable. "I'm coming mom," he said reluctantly pulling a towel over his shoulder and walked out of the room.

Trunks sat down at the already set table with the getting cold food. "Trunks, how did you do?" Vegeta asked. "I did 100 under one thousand gravity, maybe we can work on it after breakfast."

"Oh no, no, no... there is no way that you are going to skip school for that, you have to go to school Trunks, both you and your father know that." Bulma said.

"Yea, yea, yea... I've heard all that already, for god sakes mom, It doesn't matter anyway, If all else fails I can work with you and Capsule Corp."

"Oh, so I am just an easy way out, huh? Well, you need to get you education, that is all there is to it?"

"But..."

"But nothing... end of conversation."

Vegeta jumps in, "Dammit, I don't see what the big deal is, he isn't Kakarot's boy, so don't expect him to be that," at this time, Bulma has a frying pan in her hands and his hovering above Vegeta while he has become lost in his own speech, "... I mean think about it, we saijins are warriors not thinkers, this is for the better of..." BAM! Right in the head, Bulma looks at Vegeta on the floor and begins to yell... Trunks uses this time to leave to school.

"Hey Trunks, what's wrong?" a girl asks.

"Huh, oh, hey, um... nothing, preoccupied I guess," Trunks says waking up from a bored like trance.

"I think you need more sleep, either that or a better teacher," the student says.

Suddenly, Trunks jolts up in his seat. He is silent while the whole class stares at him. The teacher stops to ask what is wrong. He sits down, embarrassed but knowing he must leave. What he felt, the energy, was too strong not to be ignored. "Teacher, may I please go to the bathroom?" he said and left to see what had happened.

Once outside, he searched for the energy that caught his attention. It was different, definitely not his father's, Goten doesn't fight anymore, so his energy wouldn't be that high, who could it be? Then, it disappeared, right when he was getting close.

Trunks pulled out a small, metal object out of his pocket, it looks a little like a phone, but bigger, and with a screen about the size of a playing card. He taps a button and a picture of Bulma is seen on the screen. "Trunks? What is it? Why aren't you in school?"

"Mom, put dad on the phone, I will explain later"

"He just left, it was really weird... he stood up and just left... like someone called him... what do you... Trunks? Hello...." Trunks dropped the TV phone on the floor in mid-conversation to find his father. That wouldn't be too hard. Trunks flew high into the air and took a deep breath. He know had a light aura, and his hair started to stand on end. Then, with a scream he threw his head back and went Super Saijin. He stood there with the golden aura and waited, his father would feel the energy soon.

Trunk thought: "Father, hurry up, I know you felt it too. Who is this? Is Goku back? Is it a new enemy? If so, I want to fight him head on.

Then, Trunks felt it, his father... no... it isn't him, he turned around quickly to see a stranger behind him, flying. Quickly, he got in a fighting stance. "Who are you?"

The stranger had black hair, up in the air, similar to that of Goku or Vegeta. He was wearing a blue outfit, the same kind that Vegeta wears. Despite the fact that was flying and was wearing those specially designed clothes, that wasn't what stood out the most about him, what stood out was he had a tail! A long, brown tail.

I thought only Saijins had tails, but he can't be a Saijin, could he? Those clothes, those are a Saijin's outfit. Is this who I felt? He doesn't feel like it, he shows no energy at all. Hmm... even normal humans show energy, he must be suppressing it, but why?

"Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Chrono, and you must be Trunk."

"Yes, how did you know?"

"Oh, I have heard a lot about you, and your friends."

"What? Why are you here?"

"Please, please relax and you can leave your Super Saijin form, I do not wish to cause your planet any harm"

For some reason, Trunks trusted him and let his guard down, he left Super Saijin, "Shall we go down? Wouldn't want to get anyone's attention."

"Ahh, yes, where shall we go?" said Chrono.

"Follow me," Trunks clenched his fists, charged up and shot out in the opposite direction, Chrono did the same. A ball of light sped to Capsule Corp. and stopped, Trunks walked to the door and Chrono followed, "So this is the famous Capsule,"

After a moment, they both settle down in a room with Bulma. "What did you come here for?" Trunks asked.

"I am a tourist, I came on my ship to see you. Hopefully, I will get a chance to meet the rest, I have heard many stories about you, how you along with Goten, in your youth, stood your ground against the Great Brolly, Gohan with Cell, Goku with Frieza and the infamous Buu. I had to come see for myself. When I heard there were more Saijins, I just had to come and see."

"MORE SAIJINS? We are the only ones!!!" Vegeta yelled as he walked in just in time to hear Chrono' statement, "What do you mean, more, Kakarot's and I are the only Saijins left, besides a handful of half-breeds like Trunks and Kakarot's boys.

"It is you!!! Vegeta, I cannot believe it, it is you who I truly wanted to see, the Great Prince, when they said you survived I didn't believe it, but it is true."

"Stop your groveling now tell me are there any.........." Vegeta pauses and stares at the tail protruding out of Chrono' back, "What is that?!? A tail, now don't try to tell me you are a Saijin too."

"Yes, I am," Trunks mouth opened and Vegeta turns his head in disbelief, "... you see, before Planet Vegeta was destroyed, many troops had been sent to other planets, not knowing Frieza was there taking over. When you left with him and the planet was destroyed the troops were left without a planet, the warriors settle on a small planet in the East. After a while, I heard of you all, apparently during a tournament of the undead, stories were told of a Saijin with remarkable abilities in fighting, his name was Goku. Soon, the stories spread amongst the living that Saijins lived. Being a warrior, I had to see for myself, I wanted to challenge you to test my skills as a Saijin Warrior. Anybody who could defeat Buu must be remarkably strong, so where is Goku?"

"GOKU?!?!?!?! Dammit don't you see a true warrior I will fight you," Vegeta said angrily, "or do you fear me, from what I see you aren't much of a fight, at your level you probably couldn't even go Super Saijin. It would be a waste of time."

"Oh, I can go Super Saijin...."

"WHAT!??!" Bulma, Vegeta, and Trunks said.

"That is impossible, you couldn't have gotten that ability, you are lying!"

"Well then, shall we find out?"

Vegeta jumps up to his feet, clenching his fists with his legs spread apart and charges up causing many of the things in the house to shatter and other things to fall. "DON'T YOU DARE!!!! VEGETA, IF YOU ARE GONNA FIGHT YOU'D HAD BETTER, DO IT OUTSIDE NOW GO!!!"

Vegeta, now Super Saijin looks at Bulma in fear and charges back down, "Yes, dear." How embarrassing, a Saijin reduced to this, a sniveling coward at the sound of his wife's voice.

Outside, both of them stretch in order to prepare for the fight.

"Listen, if we are going to fight, we will have to move somewhere safer, my energy alone could take half this town out." Vegeta looks up and agrees both of them suddenly speed to a small barren desert area (a familiar DBZ area, mountains, sand, rocks, water and lots of empty space)

"Shall we start? Or do you have any more things to say."

"No, this is fine, let's go!"

Vegeta suddenly screams, and throws his head back, his aura is humongous, he completely skips Super Saijin and jumps into the second form. His golden aura is accompanied by blue electricity shooting out randomly. He continues to power up increasing his strength as his veins pump from the side of his head, his arms suddenly bulk up along with his legs and body. "Hahaha, now look what you have gotten yourself into."

"Well, well, that is odd. Your hair, it is yellow and your eyes, they are blue"

"Of course they are, all Super Saijins look like this."

"When I saw Trunks with the yellow hair I thought it was because he was only half-bred, but I think I understand now, it is the tail, your tail was removed, a true Saijin has a tail, it is the center of your power, without it you are not complete and therefore, you are not able to fully change."

"Fully change?"

Chrono stood still and slowly his hair began to lift, small rocks levitated and broke up into small pieces, and rocks on the floor shattered. Then it happened, his power level shot up, and his hair pointed upward but with one exception, his hair was white. He continued to scream as his strength sky-rocketed as Vegeta looked on with fear, trying to speak but all that came out was small stuttering sound. His hair began was not only white, but it was growing, now at three times its normal length, his hair was down to his ankles, even his tail was white. Then, he brought his head down and opened his now glowing red eyes.

My god, he his power is enormous, it is higher than that of Goku's at the time that he defeated Buu.

"This is a true Super Saijin, still think you can defeat me? Let's go."

Vegeta screamed and flew toward Chrono directly to his body and threw a huge punch, Chrono didn't seem to move and yet the dead on punch completely missed. Vegeta paused and turned around to see him standing waiting. He charged a ki ball and shot it at him, yet again it missed. Now angry, Vegeta took a deep breath and yelled as he shot out hundreds of blasts at Chrono which caused a cloud of dust to rise. The cloud slowly faded away to reveal him walking towards Vegeta, without a scratch. "You're too slow," Vegeta shoots a blast that hits him in the jaw, without a pause, he continues forward toward Vegeta "Is that the best you can do?" He puts both hands over his head and a white ball of energy grows, Vegeta takes it and throws it right at Chrono, who allows it to hit him, the dust from the blast fades quickly to show him still walking. "My turn now." Chrono holds out both hands toward Vegeta with his palms out and pulls both hands to his chest, slowly pulling his hands apart he reveals what looks like a ki ball the size of a baseball, it is red with black electricity shooting out, it quickly grows into a beach ball size and he lifts it over his head and throws it at Vegeta, who quickly counters with a blast of his own, the meet and Vegeta pushed his energy in order to overcome the blast of Chrono. Unfortunately, with all of his strength it isn't nearly enough to stop his blast, it comes forward, breaking through Vegeta's blast and blowing him back, he is pushed back in the air and hits a mountain, breaks through it and hits the ground. Vegeta gets up onto his knees and coughs up some blood with his eyes to the ground. He looks up and sees Chrono' fist... an uppercut, right in the face knocking Vegeta on his back. Dazed, Vegeta opens his eyes and prepares himself for another hit when, "Dad, just give up!"

Both of them look up to see Trunks. "He is too strong for you," he yells "... give up now or he might kill you."

"Never!!!" Vegeta yells and hold out his hands to Chrono' chest, "FINAL..........................."

"What is this?"

".......................FLASH!!!!!" A huge light filled the area.

Piccolo was training in the mountains when he felt it. "That is Vegeta.... but what is that other energy?" Piccolo got up and flew towards the source.

Krillin and 18 felt it too, and Krillin, leaving Marron with 18, flew to see if he could help, he shot off.

"Ha! I got you Goku," Ubuu said, "Why did you let your guard down?" Goku, just hit by a Kamehameha, stood silent, "that is Vegeta, I know it. Who is he fighting?"

"Ubuu, I have to go, continue your training, I want you to do 20 Kamehamehas, 100,000 push-ups, and 2 million sit-ups."

Goku charged up and flew out. Ubuu got into push-up position and started, "one, two, three...."

The light stopped and now Trunks removed his hands from over his eyes and looked down to see Vegeta, still on his knees, hands still in up from the Final Flash, two feet away from his opponent, Chrono had been hit dead on with Vegeta's most powerful attack and was still in one piece. Chrono fell to his knees, head-to-head with Vegeta.

"Nice shot, but don't think that did much," he wiped his tongue over his mouth and licked the blood from around his lips, "tastes wonderful but it looks as though you are a bit weakened from the attack... that makes one of us," he gets up and flips backward to a fighting stance. "Get up... if you can."

Vegeta put his hands on the ground and tried to pull himself up. With all his strength he pulled himself up, "you...... think...... that..... did any... thing, cough you are... pathetic." He stood up and got at his stance. "It is gonna take a lot more than that to take me out."

"I guess your right Vegeta it is gonna take this...." Chrono extended one hand and stuck out a single finger. At this moment, Goku, Krillin and Piccolo arrive as Chrono creates a ki ball the size of a ping pong on the tip of his finger and like a gun shoots it and just barely taps Vegeta and his head flings backward, he brings his head back down and looks Chrono in the eye, then, as if he were drunk, his body becomes to heavy for himself to hold up, Vegeta falls to the feet of Chrono.