Hello this is my first time writing about DBZ. I might not be as creative as I intend to, but I hope you have fun reading this. I own all of these characters so don't you dare! Haha, is not like you'd want to steal them anyways. I have my own explanation for certain things in order for them to have more sense and a little more realistic. And also, I do intend to change the facts a little. This is vaguely based in the anime, it doesn't follow according to the actual story, so please don't get my rear on that aspect in a flame format.

Faraway in a different planet, there was a race similar to humans but at the same time very different. It was the Saiyans who inhabited the planet named Vegeta. Many generations after Prince Vegeta had passed away have passed. The Saiyans had virtually forgotten about the planet Earth after Goku, the Saiyan Legend, had disappeared. An unknown Saiyan had collected the dragon balls, wishing back the Vegeta Planet and all of its inhabitants. The race Saiyan was coming to its end. A plague came to the planet eliminating all the females making the last generation made up of males only which stopped the possibilities to reproduce. One generation left. This is then when they remembered about us, humans. They wanted their race to continue and we were the only living creatures similar enough to them within a couple of millions of miles away. Their genes had changed far too much since Goku's era that it was now impossible to make them compatible with human genetics. There was no way to make half-breeds. However, there was a different way of spamming their race; by a process called Recruition. What this process consisted in was transplanting to humans some substance that flowed in the Saiyans blood that made them able to surface their energy and mold it in ways we could only imagine. Think of it as vampires, if part of their blood enters ours, we become like them. Except that they don't have to bite us to transfer energy. If you ever wondered how was it possible for the Saiyans to attack with their blasts of energy and of how unrealistic that was, well, there is an actual explanation. The reason why we can't do that or have never seen such things is because in our planet Earth, we have a limited amount of chemicals that barely surpass a hundred. In planet Vegeta, over two thousand different elements exist. This is how it works; Saiyans have many, many chemicals running through their veins that are highly reactant with air, which is composed mostly of nitrogen and oxygen. The Saiyans can release these chemicals through their body pores with training in simple textures that make the attacks. The reaction between these chemicals and the air makes a very bright highly unstable reaction that explodes when interrupted. For example, one of the most known attacks in the Saiyan history was the Kamehameha wave mastered by Goku. What this attack consisted in was in mere chemicals mixed with air. One of the many substances that run through the Saiyans blood is Xenzium. Goku was able to fire big amounts of Xenzium out of his hands in a straight-lined texture. The Xenzium would then react with the air as it went forward giving the Kamehameha its shape and color, and since it would be highly unstable, it would cause an explosion whenever the other end of the wave would hit something. The same happens with every other attack, just that a different chemical is released.

A/N: The above is authentically 100 mine, therefore copyrighted.

It all started when I was in 12th grade. The Saiyans decided to visit our planet and as stealthy as possible infiltrate in our world. They wanted to recruit as many people as they could, but they try to recruit high-capacitated humans in order to carry on the race. However, the process of recruitment would take lots of energy from them, which would limit the number of people they could recruit.

And so it happened, they went around the whole planet recruiting humans but confidentially. You weren't allowed to let anyone that wasn't a Saiyan know that you were any different from them. One of the many recruited was me, Equinox; a normal athletic high-school student that really enjoyed playing sports.

"We come here to recruit you. We have closely observed everyone and you stand out the most" he said to me as I walked home all by myself that day.

"Recruit me? What the hell are you talking about?" I answered in a sarcastic way. "Who are you anyways?"

"We come from a different planet" he told me in a very polite way. It didn't matter, no matter how polite he was, it didn't stop me from laughing.

"Yeah very funny, I came from the sun, but I'm planning on moving to Venus. Do you happen to know if that's a nice place to live?" I responded, but at the moment I had no idea that he was not kidding.

"This is no joke, you have been chosen."

"Sorry pal, try choosing someone else. I have to be home in fifteen minutes and it's been a long time since I was five. I don't play space troopers anymore."

"Fifteen minutes? I will get you there in fifteen seconds." As a matter of a fact, I think it was much less than fifteen seconds, more like five. He picked me up by the arm and he rose up in the air. We were both suspended in the mid-air for about two seconds, then he launched off straight to my house. Then he put me down as gently as he picked me up. I still didn't know exactly what just had happened, all I knew is that I was home, and that this was some freaky shit. I was incredulous.

"How did you...?"

"Now do you believe me? I have no time to waste. I need to get this over with. I will explain to you how this works" by the time he finished that sentence, I felt like I had no choice. "We aren't here to harm you or any of your kind. We're just here to extend our reign."

"Who do you mean by 'we'?" I asked him a little bit scared.

"Saiyans. We inhabit the planet Vegeta at a couple of millions of miles away from this galaxy. Relative to your planet, our planet is very small."

"Why me?" I didn't mean for that to be a rhetorical question, but he took it that way.

"I'll tell you how it works and the rules too. After I'm done explaining to you, I will transfer a small portion of Thermine into your body. What this substance does is take over the part of your brain that limits the amount of force your muscles can use and break that barrier."

"What does that mean?"

"It means that there will be no longer a limit in how strong you can be. Although your muscles won't keep growing, their capacity will." He then continued "the part in your brain known as the force-barrier will no longer exist in the way it presently does. Instead, it's going to become the heart of your Thermosystem. As you gradually become stronger, your body will make different substances allowing you to make new energy forms."

"I don't really understand"

"There are some rules however; you're not allowed to tell anyone of what you are about to witness. If you fail to do so, everyone else will come to get you if I don't do that myself. Also, whenever there's a galaxy war, you must unconditionally assist." I was still speechless. Whatever I could possibly say wouldn't make sense or would be too childish to bring up. "Also" he continued, "as you grow stronger, you will be able to recruit humans yourself; however, they wont be full-breed Saiyans."

"What difference does it make? Will I be a half too?"

"No. You're being recruited by a legitimate Saiyan so you become legitimate too; however, humans you recruit will not be legitimate since their recruiter isn't natural born Saiyan."

"Legitimate or not, we will still not be humans anymore."

"Only you seize to be a human, the rest still will be." It wasn't so bad after the complementary comment he made afterwards. "There is another difference. Their capacity to become stronger will not match yours. You will by nature be stronger even if the same level of power is reached."

"I have finished talking. I shall now proceed and make better use of our times." He immediately then began to create an aura around his hand. Without the slightest demonstration of hesitation, he leaned his hand against my chest in a speed that prevented me to flinch and whatsoever.

I began to feel warm, too warm. As if my body temperature raised to hundreds of degrees. I could feel a much thicker substance flow my veins. I was paralyzed at the moment, not a single thought on my mind. Just the image of what was going on. The whole day had seem pretty real, everything before had been pretty real, there was no room to think that this was a dream. Everything in deed was happening. It was all over in a few seconds, around twenty I would guess. Right after he retired his hand away from me, I looked at myself; no physical change had been detected by my eyes. I still wondered. Now what?

"So what's different about me?"

"You're no longer human." The sentence he had just finished sounded as absurd as it made sense. There was nothing different about me, yet I'm no longer human? "You're no longer able to breed within your kind."

"What! I am no longer able to what!" I had just become a warrior a second ago and I already felt like fighting.

"Don't worry. You can still breed, just not with humans."

"Then what the hell do you expect me to breed with? A goddamn cow?"

"No, that wouldn't work either."

"No shit! Then how can I still breed if I can't breed with my own kind."

"I never said you couldn't breed with your kind." Bullshit, I thought.

"Where is a tape recorder when you need one? You just told me I can't breed with humans!"

"You seem to forget that humans are your former race, not anymore. You can breed with Saiyans."

"Like who, you?"

"No. It has to be a female. Except that there are no female Saiyans." That is the best goddamn news a straight guy can receive, there are no girls. No girls. Like, NO girls. He interrupted my little sorrowful moment; "You can recruit later some female humans and be able to mate with them."

"My mission here with you is over, bye."

As soon as he left I still wondered what different I was. I still tried searching but no difference occurred. That's when I suddenly remembered I had to be home in fifteen minutes, I was still on time. I began walking towards my house which was really nearby since mister Saiyan recruiter had brought me here. He didn't explain to me how to use any of those inhumane resources. I was so distracted, that I forgot all about commonsense. I began to carelessly cross the street before my house. As low as the odds are of a car coming at high speed at the same time, they still remitted against me. The car did not stop on time because the driver neglected to see me on time. I was hit. The speed that the car had could have easily killed a deer. I was knocked back probably a dozen yards. As I lay on the ground, the driver got out of his car and walked gradually to where my body was. Ami had seen everything. She ran from where my house was towards me probably even faster than the car was. She quickly then picked me up in her arms and sat on the ground crying out my name. "E please answer me! Are you okay! E! E!" The driver just stood by gasping. I then opened my eyes. "What just happened?" I asked Ami as I got up on my legs. "E! I'm so glad you're okay!" I then realized what just had happened. I had been hit by a car yet no damage was done to me. Was that a result of my new acquired inhumanity? The driver just hopped in his car as soon as he saw me in one piece and breathing and drove away fairly cautiously. Ami then got off the ground and hugged me.

"I was so worried. Are you okay?"

"Yeah it was nothing." I was more scared than she was. I wasn't allowed to tell her however. How could I possibly tell my girlfriend that I was no longer human?

"I'm fine baby, let's go inside."

It was not a dream. Everything was real. I was no longer human. The race I had loyally served and respected for seventeen years seized to be part of me. I didn't know how to feel at the moment. Why me? Why me...