This part is an prologue, explaining who our main character is and how he gets to Earth from planet Vegeta's destruction. Enjoy! I placed this as a taster for what's to come from this.
Prologue: Vegeta's destruction and destination Earth!
On a planet, far afar away from earth, their lived a race called the Saiyans. They were a barbaric race, however, today would be their retribution, as the emperor of the Saiyans has arrived to destroy planet Vegeta.
A kid with and unusual blonde hair was running through the town as everyone was going on with their day to day business. This kid was special for not only has he blonde hair where normal Saiyans have black, he also wasn't produced by a father. It happened in big shock to his mother, who died a child birth. No one was willing to take him so they left him in the streets. He learned to survive on his own and could sense power levels, unlike everyone else. Not long earlier, a saiyan elite by the name of Bardock ,was ranting about, wounded and presumed delusional, he was shouting about how Frieza was going to kill everyone. Everyone laughed. However, this kid walked up to Bardock as they knew each other. Bardock helped him from time to time. "You! You need to get out of here!" Bardock shouted at the kid. He had no name, yet. "I know Bardock, what are you going to do?" "I'm going to fight him." They stayed silent for a few seconds. "Listen, you can't escape naturally kid. So I'm going to trust you with a special task. My son, Kakarrot and Raditz should still be on Vegeta, I want you to go with Kakarrot in his pod. Get Raditz out too if you can. Since you have no name, I shall name you Bard, in my memory. You're a good kid. Don't lose that." And for the first time, not only did he now have a name, he also saw Bardock smile for the first time. "Now, Go!" and Bard ran, as fast as he could to the space pods. He also saw Bardock fly up out of the atmosphere. "Good luck...Father."
Bard reached the pods quite quickly, seeing Kakarrot just about to leave. He couldn't' see Raditz but saw another pod left only a few minutes earlier. "That must of been him." He said and jumped into Kakarrot's pod, after seeing the destination. "Earth, sounds comfortable, more than this pod I hope." With a whir and a bang, the pod left the port and sped away. Only seconds later, the planet behind them exploded in a massive barrage of meteorites, banging the hull. They escaped unscathed and soon, Bard fell asleep along with Kakarrot.
Half a year later, Bard awoke to see a lush green planet ahead, with blue around it too. "Is that earth? Seems nice." he said to himself. They soon crashed into the surface, making Bard get flung a bit away. Kakarrot cried, until a man found him. "Hello there! oh?! You have a tail! Where are you're parents?" The man said, looking round. Bard then approached, stroking his head in pain. "I'm not his parents, but his protector." He said to the man and continued. "We need someone to look after us as we were abandoned. I've barely survived looking after him, I don't have a name for him." The less he knew they were from space, the better. "Hmm, very well, I'll take care of you." the man said with a gleeful smile on his face. "Hmm, now what to call you? I know! I'll call you Goku!" He said. Kakarrot laughed happily. "He likes it! I'm called Bard." Bard said. The three proceeded to the old man's home. "I'm Gohan, i'll take care of you from now on."
Many years have passed since that day, and a heck of a lot of stuff has happened, good and bad. Goku now has a family of his own, with Bard living in plains, similar to Piccolo, training with him from time to time too. Goku is about 19 now, with Bard being 25 and a old relative now approaches Earth, unaware of Bard's presence.