Hello friends, here is my newest (and best in my opinion) Fanfiction. The rise of Goku through the ranks, this will not be following the typical dragon ball z guidelines, in fact, probably the only thing similar here with the original story will be the name of Goku and a few of his techniques such as the kioken etc.

I hope you enjoy, and if you do, be sure to leave a review so I can know what to fix J

A really starry night is a rare sight, one with real, glorious, shining stars across a wide expanse of brilliantly shaded dark blue. A shooting star is very easy to spot on one of these nights and can be seen in all its glory, the sad part is that shooting stars are even rarer than nights like this. However what crossed over the great Himalayan Mountains of Eastern China was no shooting star, no it was something else entirely.

See the human body has no limits, when a man is born it is at its weakest, as he grows he gets stronger until his prime which is strongest, yet after that due we get weaker…why? What is it that makes us die? Why can't we live as long as we like? Allow me to pause this story which has only barely begun to explain.

The human body is fascinating in itself but it is not perfect, we have one large deliberate flaw installed by god himself, the ultimate creator that when humans reach a certain age they grow old and weak and start moving slowly and deliberately towards that inevitable fate called death, this is the natural death, or death of old age. Why does it happen, and can we stop it? Well…yes, not exactly by medicine or whatnot, but by evolution. How? Allow me to elaborate.

After a certain period of time the body starts getting weaker because to survive we need to replicate cells and produce new cells in a process known as mitosis. These new cells replace the old cells, basically like retiring one old, incompetent person and hiring a new fresh, and to most intents and purposes, better person to take over. These people may be their friends, relatives, descendants, or even children. That doesn't matter; all they have to be is skilled in the trade that is required of them. Same goes in the human body except for one thing, the life code, or source of us (DNA) is lost little by little each time we replicate, the time when we start getting weaker is about the time our cells have lost so much DNA that they can't afford to lose anymore and the rate of reproduction decreases. However there are two species with solutions to these problems.

The first species is the naked mole rat. It produces an enzyme that replaces the lost bits of DNA, however this could not work as a solution for humans because if evolution did provide us with this rare enzyme that could be described as the elixir of life then it would also have to provide us with the cure for cancer because rapid cell reproduction would lead to mutation which would lead to a cancerous death. Not only that but we would not be able to progress any further with our minds or bodies due to the lack of DNA implementation. Since the naked mole rat is not known for its high IQ or its passion for dead lifting, or even its tendency to develop cancer this is not a problem for it, it is still however a problem for us.

Don't get your hopes up for this one because this solution is a dead end too. The second species with the solution for the aging problem is the medusa jellyfish which cannot stop growth, however it can reverse it. The medusa jellyfish, after crossing its prime reverses growth till the time before its prime and stays that way until the time comes to repeat the cycle again. This is extremely complicated and probably over a 1000 years past modern medicine, however hypothetically if this could be applied to humans it would still be pointless, because by changing the basic formation of DNA you are basically turning yourself into a pile of mush and then turning back into a human. Any muscle or cognitive growth you have developed will be lost. Since the jelly-fish are known for their lethality, not their prodigious memory this is not a problem for them either.

Now suppose that humans were producing the enzyme needed to fix DNA, and that we were not turning to mush and back or had an iron hard immune system protecting us from cancerous growth, in general stopping aging, this would be the Utopia, but this could only happen through the billions of years of evolution and no amount of scientific development could speed that up. We don't have a billion years. In fact, cold hard fact, says the human race will probably be dead in less than a hundred years unless we put our plans of migrating to mars in action. So unfortunately for most of you reading this that are teenage or less, there is a pretty slim chance that you will die a natural death or even see your grandkids. The fact is hard to accept for me as well, but like I said, cold, hard, fact.

Now imagine another humanoid species much further away on a planet tucked into a different corner of the galaxy. These are not humans; they are extremely evolved humans with their harsh planetary assisting evolution. These evolved humans have countered the aging problem, now they are the supreme race of the universe, every second they live makes them stronger, they never lose their youth and they just keep getting stronger and stronger. Until they encountered a tyrant, a creature so powerful that no number of them could stand up to him. Even the strongest of them fell to the power of this creature, the creature that called itself the Syron.

In its defense the Syron had come in peace, it had said that it came from a very powerful species, that an asteroid storm had been the reason for the demise of his race, which no matter how strong a species was it could never be a match for the rage of the universe. Syron said that he would be an invaluable asset in warfare providing advantage via both tactical help and military strength. The immortal species however was very arrogant; it after all had no need of military strength its soldiers set the meaning of 'top class'. And the prospect of another immortal species daunted them. They told Syron to demonstrate his power if he wished to live amongst them, and upon witnessing his enormous strength they fell into fear, Syron said that he had chosen this planet because the humans were the species closest to him in power, but they would have none of it, they attacked Syron, they never stood a chance. Syron in his rage killed all the inhabitants of the planet, making himself its lone inhabitant.

However that was not the end, the eldest of the now perished race had a young son, too young to know what was happening, the great man, knowing what was about to happen put his son in a capsule and sent him on a course to space to the nearest planet that could support humanoid life, unsurprisingly this was earth.

Did the story sound familiar? it was my own invention except for the extraterrestrial alien warrior part, which is a must for any good story, I hope you enjoyed it and next chapter will hopefully be up soon.

This is only the intro, the real fun begins next chapter…