Landfall
With a thunderous roar the meteor overshot the mountain range, rattling stones and waking animals unfortunate enough to lie in the vicinity. The object finally impacted the ground, creating a scoured clearing on a rocky plateau, and as the smoke cleared from the landing site it revealed not a meteorite, but instead a ship. The spherical craft, recognizable as a saiyan pod to one familiar with the Planet Trade Organization, seemed on its last legs: scorch marks marred almost the entirety of its hull, and there were ragged holes across the left side next to the hatch.
As the ravaged pod settled into its final resting place, the hatch began to haltingly slide open. Halfway down, it seemed to suddenly jar to a stop, until with a sound like a gong being struck it curled outwards, blown open by some tremendous blow. Bloodied hands grasped the mantle of the hatch, and a thick head of unruly hair appeared from within the pod, swiftly followed by a bulky figure dressed in the shambles of a uniform sitting on shattered PTO armor. The figure pulled its way clear of the pod, then seemed to flag in strength, collapsing to its knees and desperately clutching at its waist to pull free a crumpled sheet. Clutching it with a desperate grip the figure fell over and embraced unconsciousness, as the strange belt around its waist unraveled a little to reveal itself as a furry tail.
"Chichi, did you hear that?" Goku asked the prone form next to him in the bed. Seeing that he wasn't going to get a coherent answer from the comatose woman, Goku roused himself from his half-slumber, and quickly donned his familiar orange training gi before taking off in the direction he had sensed the ki presence arrive and fade. While it was nowhere near a threatening level, even to one of the weaker human Z-fighters, it had been far greater than that of an ordinary human or animal, and Goku nothing if not curious about what caused such rapid fluctuation in the energy, from nothing, to something, and then gone again. Not gone, he realized as he flew nearer, just drastically weaker. Whoever he was sensing, Goku decided, was either an expert at hiding their power, or else severely injured or even dying. The thought of this new presence in danger spurred the saiyan on, and he drastically increased his speed, breaking the sound barrier with a CRACK before rocketing towards the faint energy signature. His flight came to a sharp halt when he came in view of the crater. "What a minute," he thought "that looks like a saiyan pod like what Vegeta and Nappa arrived in!"
Now wary of the possibility of hostility Goku slowly lowered himself down to the charred impact crater, carefully scanning his surroundings for trouble and searching again for the faint ki signature. He locked on to it just as his eyes fell on the fallen figure slumped a few feet from the bent pod hatch. As he moved closer Goku made out more details, "Man, whoever this is he really found a good fight!" he thought to himself as he surveyed the mauled and bloodstained clothing the strange man bore. "Yep, this guy really got his..." Goku's train of thought trailed to an abrupt halt has his gaze finally fell to the brown tail mostly curled about the man, the saiyan's waist. "Oh wow, another saiyan! I can't wait to tell Vegeta!" the naïve hero of Earth excitedly thought, as he picked up the unconscious kinsman and began to fly towards capsule corp. In his excitement, Goku never noticed the crumpled page still tightly held in one of the newcomer's ragged hands.