To anyone whom stops reading by the first chapter, I need to inform the readers of a highly important plot element: I am not inexplicably removing all of Vegeta's planet-destroying power just so the Avatar characters can defeat him. Yes, the first two chapters have him with seemingly no powers at all, but by the beginning of the third chapter, Vegeta steadily regains his ki over time. By the time he meets Toph, he'll be flying and blowing shit up like always. This is not going to be a simple reenactment of Avatar with another nerfed DBZ character pasted onto it; this story is about Vegeta, the comical hardships he will face, and how his character is influenced by the Avatar world.
That being said, on with the story...
The night sky filled the quiet forest with a shade of content-full blue. Aang, Sokka, and Katara found a nice empty spot in the forestry to land Appa in and set up camp, and were now preparing to dowse the fire and receive some sleep for whatever tomorrow had for them.
As Katara unfirled her sleeping bag, she noticed her young airbending friend reclining atop his own bag, staring up into the stars with wondrous eyes. "Is something bothering you, Aang?" Katara asked. Aang's innocent eyes never left the sky."Do you think that we're alone in the universe'?" he inquired.
"'Course not," Sokka replied, quenching the camp fire with a bowl of water,"there're are plenty of other kids fighting the Fire Nation; that's where people get their inspiration from," he explained.
"No, what I mean is: do you think that, somewhere out there, beyond our world, beyond the stars, that there's...something else?" the Avatar asked, tuming to the warrior.
"You mean like, another world?" Katara queried,"huh...I guess it could be possible..." the waterbender speculated, huddling in her arms, as winter wasn't quite through yet.
The team skeptic naturally rolled his eyes as he prepared his own sleeping bag."Com'on; everyone knows there's nothing out there except stars and more stars," he declared.
"But how do we know?" the Avatar inquired,"It's not like anyone ever tried to check..."
"That's because it's impossible," Sokka explained, almost surprised by his friend's naivity," ifs been proven there's no air in space; and if we could never survive up there, well, there you go..." the warrior finished, scooting into his bag and expecting to hear nothing more on the subject. But of course, his sister was far to optimistic to let it die.
"...What if there's a world where the Water Tribe is trying to take over..." the waterbender mused, causing one of her brother's eyelids to shoot open in annoyance.
"Or what if there's a world where there's no war or conflict at all?" Aang continued,"I'd love to see a place that..."
"And you will," Sokka began,"as soon as you master all four elements and defeat the Fire Lord; now stop daydreaming and go to sleep!" he nagged.
"Hang on," Katara teased,"how can Aang be daydreaming if it's night time? Wouldn't he just be dreaming regularly?"
"whatever..." the warrior groaned, squirming deeper into the sac.
The satisfied waterbender removed her shoes and descended into her bag."Goodnight, Aang, Sokka, Appa, and Momo."
"Goodnight."
"goodnight..."The area rumbled with the bellow of a fully-grown sky bison, waking up the already asleep lemur.
The young nomad allowed his eyes to regress closed... seconds later having to open them again his lids were irritated by a sudden orange glow. The Avatar looked up to see a truly unexpected sight for anyone about to hit the hay."Oh my GOSH!
"What? Is it a spider?" Sokka rose, frantically searching for the dastardly arachnid.
"Bigger," Aang replied, pointing up to the giant fire ball that zoomed overhead, a heart stopping boom resonating seconds later.
"What was that?" Katara wondered.
"Well, obviously, it was a fallen star," Sokka explained.
"I'm gonna go see," Aang announced, hopping out of his pouch and dashing in the direction of the sound. Katara followed. "And once again, we're running toward the potentially bad thing," Sokka complained, getting up and following as well.
The kids stopped before a wide lake, with the enormous blazing orb halfway in. "Okay, we saw the meteorite; can we go to bed now?" Sokka hoped. Aang took a good look at the object, noticing a few details that normal boulders didn't have, such as what appeared to be broken windows, and...was that a door? "It's a ship!" he announced.
"A ship?" Sokka inquired,"That fell from the sky?"
"You don't think that..." broached Katara.
"There's only one way to find out," Aang replied, bravely leaping into the sky and zipping down through the entrance, creating an air shield to plow through the flames.
The Avatar looked around within the teetering, burning vessel, occasionally met with a spark or plum that he instantly blew out. "Hello?" he called,"Is anyone here? I'm here to save you!" The Avatar's call was answered: a subtle grunt penetrating the boy's eardrums. The boy snapped to his left to see a gloved hand reaching beyond the smoke, which soon went limp.
"Don't worry! I'm the Avatar, I've got you!" Aang reassured, running to the arm and pulling out of the smoke a grown man covered in burnt marks. He strenuously dragged the unconscious body closer to the exit, eventually able to lean his head outside.
"Katara! He's too heavy! Make an ice bridge!" He commanded.
The girl nodded, assuming a stance, taking a deep breath, and exhaling a cloud of mist over the lake, creating a narrow path between them and the apparent ship.
The orb started to descend quicker than before, causing the airbender to briefly lose balance."Hurry! It's gaining water!"
"Okay, you reinforce the bridge while I help Aang carry the guy out," Sokka dictated. "Alright," his sister replied. The Water Tribe teen preceded to hastily but carefully cross the temporary bridge, while Katara widened it.
The Avatar managed to pull the man off the sinking vessel. Sokka made it to the struggling boy, who went around the body to pick up his legs while Sokka assumed the upper half. The two got out of the hot-zone just in time before the whole thing collapsed beneath the water, chipping off of the bridge. It was when the boys passed over the dirt that an explosion erupted out of the lake.
Sokka sighed with satisfaction."Ahh, I knew this day was missing something..." he remarked.
The next morning, the trio, lemur, and flying bison were airborne once more, resuming their journey to Omashu, though this time carrying along some...extra cargo...
"So, how is he?" Aang asked
Sokka turned around to check for any signs of consciousness - there was none."Nope, still asleep."
"Oh, I can't wait till he wakes up!" Katara beamed,"Then we can talk about what life is like on another world..."
The optimist's brother rubbed the bridge between his eyes."Not this again. Just because a guy fell from the sky doesn't mean he's from another planet"
"Then how do you explain the big, round thing I found him in?" the Avatar inquired.
"Well, it was probably some kind of flying machine. It's not impossible; Teo's dad invented one," Sokka explained.
"That was a balloon, what we saw last night was a ship," Katara rctorted,"Can you believe it? A ship that travels through space?"
"Or rather, crashes through space..."Sokka corrected.
"Whatever; are you at least keeping an eye on him?" the waterbender inquired.
The warrior crossed his arms, offended."I think my instincts would let me know if a body's about to roll off..." he replied, resting his hand on said body...which he soon found out was no longer there.
"Maybe if you actually had instincts..." Katara muttered.
The sky was alive with the sound of a half-awake, blood-curdling scream; which was eventually cut off by Appa catching the man on his back and soaring back to his previous altitude in dramatic fashion.
"Well, atleast he's awake now..." Sokka reviewed.
"Was the backflip necessary?" Katara inquired after almost falling off the bison herself.
"Just trying to make sure we stay in the right direction," the Air Nomad excused himself, shrugging. Another grumble permeated the children's ears.
The four (including Momo) huddled up curiously mound the mysterious person. It was a grown man who looked somewhere in his mid-thirties, wearing some strange skin-tight blue suit that enveloped his entire body, with the exception of white gloves and boots, as well as his torso, which was covered in an extra layer of white armor with yellow breastplates; the front and back portion seemed to be held together by a pair of golden segmented straps within each shoulder-though he was saved from a fire just last night, the clothing didn't appear to bear any damage save for the burnt marks (Katara could easily wash those out later). His hair was long and clumped into sharp stalks. The man slowly turned over on his back, showing his face to them while grunting all the way. His eyelids cracked open.
"Hello, do you speak the human language?" Katara slowly asked.
The man seemed to ignore her as his attention reverted to the bald individual hanging above him. "N...Nappa?"
"Don't worry, we have one..." Aang replied, moving away for a moment.
The man sluggishly rose to a sitting position."...Wha...What happened? Where am I?" he struggled, still dazed. Although the man was now sitting upright, his hair stayed in the same position as when he lie down, sticking straight up.
"Your spaceship was destroyed in the crash; but we managed to save you," Katara explained, unknowingly earning a face-palm from her brother (that is, he face-palmed himself).
Aang came back, raising a vegetable to the man. He stared at it for a moment."...What's this for?" he inquired, a bit more edge to his tone.
"It's a cabbage," the smiling Avatar replied," you asked for a napa..." The fully conscious man seemed to glare at the boy like he was retarded.
"Not napa-nappa, you idiot, Nappa-nappa!" he exclaimed in anger, his voice deep and raspy.
Silence...
"grr, Nevermind..." he dismissed, getting up to his feet and literally jumping off the saddle.
The trio shared horrified glances before the Avatar dashed back to the reigns and perform the same stunt as before, making the flying bison loopty-loop in the air, divebomb, and stylishly catching the screaming man as the bison sailed back to slandered bison-flying level.
"I guess you just didn't know you were on a flying bison!" Aang cried over the wind as the man struggled to push himself backup; as expected, his face wore a very confused expression.
"What? Why didn't I...wait, flying what?" he strenuously asked, then crawling to edge of the saddle, getting a good view of the creature's legs and matinee-like tail.
"Yep, last one in existence," added Sokka.
"Peh, I've seen weirder..." he replied, unimpressed, though he seemed to pause in confusion a moment later."Wait a second..." he vocalized, taking another peak down,"Green flora? Blue sky? I-I can't still be on Earth, can I!?"he cried a bit dramatically.
"'On earth?" the Sokka repeated, unfamiliar with the term.
"That's impossible! I was out of this solar system at least two space-weeks ago!" he continued as if he were talking to the three.
The waterbender gasped with excitement "So you are from another planet! Ooh, this so amazing! We can exchange cultures, history, traditions..."
The young warrior stared at his sister as if she were from another planet. "Katara, can you hear yourself? Just because we find some weird guy with weird clothes and a bad case of bed-head who crashes in a quote-on-quote 'flying ship' doesn't mean he totally just jumped off Appa again, didn't he...?" Sokka trailed off, realizing the man was no longer with them, prompting the Avatar to anxiously repeat the same maneuver a third time to save the once-more screaming man from peril, who now appeared more confounded than before.
"Could you stop doing that!? It stops being fun after the second time...!" Aang asked politely over the winds.
"What the...again!? Why did I fall!?" he wondered aloud, clearly frustrated for some reason.
"Um, maybe I was too distracted with my sister to notice, but did you just willfully jump off a flying bison when you were aware you were in the sky?" Sokka observed.
The disgruntled man then attempted just that again, crawling to the end of Appa to leap off, until Sokka latched on to his shoulder."Wait! What're you trying to do, get up and fly on your own!?" Sokka demanded.
"YES!" the man roared out of pure anger, smacking Sokka's hand out of his face
More silence...
"...Urn, so are you, like, an airbender...Do you have airbenders on your planet?" Aang wondered.
The man blinked in confusion."er...w-well yes, I guess that's a word for it...der...Will you brats shut up before I fry you to crisps!?" he snapped back.
"Wouldn't you have to be a firebender to do that? You just said you were an airbendcr," Sokka reminded.
The man arose. "I'm not any kind of bender, dammit! I'm a Saiyan!"
Even more silence...
"Yeah, that's right! And just as it happens, I'm the PRINCE of Saiyans!" he continued.
Sokka face-palmed again."Oh, of course, how could I have not known that?" he inquired sarcastically,"Oh right! It could be due to the fact that I have no idea what that is!"
"So you must be from another world..." Katara misinterpreted.
"Well, I'm certainly not from thi..." the man paused,"Wait, are you really telling me that you people've never heard of the Saiyans before?" he asked for clarification.
"We're just now discovering that there are other worlds besides ours," Aang pointed out.
The strange man blinked twice; and then, out of the blue, he started chuckling ominously with his arms folded and his eyes closed."Well then..." his eyes opened,"I guess it's time for little biology lesson..." he hissed, unfolding his arms and pearing over the bison; he saw a mountain."You see that mountain over there?" he raised his palm to it," Good, take a good look, because you're never going to see it again! Big-Bang...ATTACK!" he roared...
Poof.
A tiny puff of blue luminescent smoke permeated from the palm of the man...
The kids sat silently, waiting for the mass of earth to disappear... it didn't...
"...I still see it..." Aang vocalized.
The man seemed just as perplexed."...what the...C'mon Big-Bang Attack, Big-Bang Attack!" he kept trying, repeatedly shoving his palm towards the mountain a second time, once again producing a blue puff of smoke. He started forcing his hands in several different weird positions, shouting more random, flamboyant phrases that were neither clever nor catchy all resulting in various small smoke puffs of different size and colors. He then looked at his hands for a short while, his face illustrating a great deal of shock and inner horror, the kind of horror one had when they realized they were blind or deaf, making a series of weird exhaling noises.
"Wow..." Sokka joked,"Your little magic trick made a whole mountain vanish and reappear all in the blink of an eye! I must of been blinking as it happened. You, my friend, are a master magician. I cower at your presence..." he mocked, bowing in "respect".
"YOU!" the man roared, throwing his finger at the kids,"What did you do to me? What happened to my ki!?"
"Whoa, wait a minute!" Aang responded, his hands raised defensively; he then paused."Wait, your what?" he inquired.
"My ki! What's wrong with it!?" the man replied.
"Well, I'm sorry, we didn't find a key on you when we saved you; maybe it came off when you fell off of Appa..." Katara began.
"Not that kind of key! Ki! My energy!? It should be screaming out of my body!"
Aang pondered this for a moment, then snapped his fingers."Oh, you mean your chi! Was that how you were trying to destroy that mountain?"
"Well of course! Keh, typical Earthlings..." he mumbled, looking away and crossing his arms.
"But, the monks always taught me that if any human being ever had that much chi inside of them, they'd explode..." Aang explained.
"Oh, but didn't you hear, Aang? He's a Saaiiyaann..." Sokka continued to mock, enjoying this far more than he would usually.
"You dare make fun of my race!?" the man lurched forward, about to seize the teen by the throat.
The Avatar stopped in front of the two."Hey, wait, everybody calm down! Look, Sir, maybe you're just really shaken from the crash and you can't bend yet. Trust me, it's hard to airbend when you're tired."
"Oh really? Well, if that's the case, then I demand you take me to the nearest civilization where I can recuperate..." the man replied smugly, his arms crossed.
"Oh, well what a coincidence!" Katara cut in,"We're on our way to Omashu: one of the biggest and oldest cities in the history of our world," she explained.
"Yeah, we're going so I can learn earth bending from my hundred year old friend; see, I'm the Avat-"
"Whatever! Hurry up and get there already. I need to recover my strength!" the man replied.
"Okay, but it's still a long trip; better get comfortable while you can..." Aang explained, hopping back to Appa's reigns.
"By the way, I'm Aang. This is Katara and her brother Sokka."
"Pleased to meet you, " the young waterbender greeted.
"lunatics..." Sokka mumbled.
"So, we didn't catch your name..." Aang reminded
The man snorted, lying at the back of the saddle, his arms folded and eyes closed."It's Vegeta: don't forget it".
The sky bison flew off into the horizon, carrying its passengers who lives will be changed for ever, especially Vegeta's.