DRAGONBALL: EARTHWAR
Prologue
They were known across the universe.
A warrior race with the sole objective to conquer and enslave planets. Their Elite, trained in the art of harnessing KI energy to deadly effect, were some of the most feared combatants in the universe. They were called Saiyans.
Chitauri 4
Agrobos System
23 "Earth" Years Ago
The alien metropolis was in ruins, its buildings broken and aflame. The atmosphere, usually a green colour was stained brown by the smoke of burning structures and corpses. This, to any intelligent race, would have been recognized as a battlefield. And the fighting hadn't stopped.
In a damaged, worn out structure a small platoon of alien soldiers scurried about. They were all armoured in dark blue plates, not revealing a single piece of open skin and were all carrying rifle-like weapons. They yelled at each other and pointed at open spots in the structure they had clearly tried to convert into a bunker. Then he appeared.
Their leader was wearing an ExoSuit, the pinnacle of their warfare technology, which greatly increased his strength and his size. On his one arm, a massive cannon was mounted and on his shoulders, two missile pods stood ready. The smaller beings backed away and fell silent.
With a booming voice he commanded them and they quickly went back to work. The giant walked over to an opening in the bunker and observed the outside.
With his suit's built in image enhancer he scanned the area. His people were dead by the millions and it hadn't even been a week.
Their bodies were scattered everywhere: some in vehicles that had been blown up, some on the streets and some in their homes where they had fallen asleep and never woke up. The giant thought back to the night they came: Most were asleep when their ships landed and didn't get a chance to run when the attack started.
"Didn't even get a chance." the giant spoke in his alien language to himself. Then he detected it with his built in radar.
Three of them were closing in on their location, flying at intense speeds the giant could simply not comprehend. After all, they had no wings or technology to assist in flying yet they still did. In fact the scientists who had worked at the base the Giant was stationed at concluded they were more closely related to primates making there remarkable abilities all the more puzzling.
"Primates." the giant thought and finally decided on a name for these fiends.
Apes.
He roared an order and the smaller beings quickly obeyed and prepared themselves. The giant looked on and saw two of the incoming threats break off and head east. The third was still heading for them and the giant chuckled. Perhaps he could avenge some of the death.
Everyone tensed as their enemy came within range. They all prepared to fire when the threat simply vanished.
The giant cursed.
For several moments nothing happened. And then his suit's audio sensor picked up speech directly above their bunker. It wasn't directed at anyone and that made the giant's blood run cold. He knew what happened when these beingschanted something: Death.
The Giant activated his suit's thrusters and sped right through a wall into the street with just enough time to see the energy beam slam into the bunker. The explosion shattered the structure and sent pieces of it flying everywhere as well as bits and pieces of his men. Safe from the flying debris in his suit the giant arose and looked skyward at the attacker. Descending from the sky like some divine being it landed between the giant and the destroyed bunker.
To a human, he would have been indistinguishable from any other. A Saiyan, his hair was pitch black and stood at strange angles unique to only him and his ancestors. His face was cold and emotionless with an x shaped scar on his one cheek. Over his one eye was a device with a green lens called a Scouter that was used to scan organisms for high levels of KI energy. He was armoured in a modified version of the Saiyan armour: Green and brown chest plate and a single shoulder guard. He walked forward, his matching boots crunching pieces of debris. Before the warrior could take another step the Giant was on him.
The titan swung and missed, kicked wildly but only hit air, swung again this time with the cannon's barrel extending his reach but once again missed.
"How could he be so fast!" the giant thought angrily. The giant swung again and missed again but this time let loose with a rocket hoping to surprise the attacker. But the beingbatted away the rocket just as one would bat away an annoying bug, sending it crashing into the city behind him. Trying again the giant swung both arms up and brought them down full force. But the ape just grabbed the incoming arms like they were nothing.
Prying the two arms apart, the Saiyan looked at the giant and shook his head just as emotionless as he had been through the entire ordeal: "The suit makes you slow." he spoke in his language not expecting the Giant to understand. In one swift motion heleaptskyward,spun and threw the giant into the solid street with a thunderous boom. He stayed in the air a moment afterward before descending down again to the giant's level.
The giant tried to get up and fight again but it was useless. The suit had been severely damaged by the impact. So instead the giant locked on to his target and prepared to fire everything. The attacker looked on and in his left hand charged up a glowing ball of energy. The giant saw this but it was too late to react. The attacker fired and the energy ball shot towards the him, tore straight through his exosuit and his body, exited and blew up an abandoned vehicle behind him. The giant, shocked at what had just happened remained motionless for a moment, before falling backwards. His breathing was laboured and painful and his whole world was turning black. Before he was taken by death he saw the ape walk right up to his flayed body. One last defiant thought crossed his mind as the Saiyan lifted his armoured boot.
"F****** Ape."
The foot came down and the giant was overwhelmed for just a moment with agonizing pain before being absorbed by the everlasting grip of eternity.
The Sayian stood still and watched the giant bleed for a moment before walking away into the direction his fellow warriors had flown off to moments earlier. He tapped the Scouter that was hooked into his ear and covered his eye. In his language he spoke: "Bardock here. I have eliminated the threat. Orders?"
"This is Saiya4. King Vegeta has ordered all elite to return to the flagship. You are required for a new mission."
Bardock shook his head but agreed before taking off into the air. Four planets in two weeks had met destruction at their hands and if Bardock knew how the king thought a fifth planet was about to be added to the list.
