CHAPTER 1: Crash Course to Earth
I woke up with a pounding headache and sore body. It felt like I hadn't moved in many years. I looked at my surroundings, it looked like I was in a deserted lab. There was a bunch of scientific equipment, but it seemed like it hadn't been used in years.
"Where am I?" I thought to myself. I looked in a mirror and noticed I was naked. "What's going on?" I found a plain white T-Shirt and some black jogging pants along with a pair of some old running shoes. "This will work I guess."
I walked around some and found a round window. But to my surprise what I saw out the window was moving stars, like I was traveling in space.
"WHAT THE HECK!?" I shouted aloud. "What the hell is going on here, and why am I in space?" I asked, like I was expecting someone to answer. I walked into the control/pilot room seeing a skeleton on the ground. A little towards the right built into the wall was a glass sphere with a white glowing ball inside.
"Heh, looks like the only thing with any life here." I saw a journal beside the skeleton that read:
"The eighth of the tenth month. I have put my subject into a molecule matter-freeze nano time-box to study him. He will not awaken from it until twenty-two years in the future. Unfortunately when he awakens I'll be dead and decayed into a skeleton, I am already old and my death will be soon. I have placed a power orb in my glass container to keep the ship going for twenty-two years. Also, the ship is set in auto pilot. I just hope he can find a planet to land on soon, otherwise he'll die. I wasn't able to find a stronger orb to last more than twenty-two years. But I have learned quite a lot about him. He is a Saiyan born on Planet Vegita and launched off to Planet Arzoph shortly before a powerful being named 'Frieza' destroyed his home planet. I found him lying naked on the ground unconsious. I was told that he had transformed into a giant ape. And by doing this he had destroyed most life on Arzoph."
When I read this I had gotten so infuriated, I just couldn't help but to throw the journal down and kick it against the wall, "Ok that's enough. Who the hell does this guy think he is anyway? It's all lies! The nerve of this guy saying such things, I'd never do that unless I had to, and I don't even remember any of this. This is absolutely absurd! I won't believe it unless there is direct proof!"
Although, after thinking about it, it would explain why I was so different from everyone else. My naturally spiky hair, my tail, my strength, even my appetite. The thought of this made my stomach tie in knots. Twenty-two years? And what is this insanity about a giant ape? I think I would've known if I had turned into a giant ape. This couldn't be true. They were ridiculous claims.
"Nah, there's no way this could be true. Hmm, but what was going when I had seen the moon? Does it affect everyone that way? I mean, that's one crazy reaction to just looking at a full moon. I've gotta get outta here and find my way back to Arzoph."
I let these thoughts swirl around in my head when I heard my stomach growling.
"Oh man, I hope there's some food in here."
I looked around, found the refrigerator, opened it, and saw a bunch of bags that said, "Powder Food" on them.
"Ugh, I guess it's better than nothing."
After gobbling down all 27 bags of it I felt content enough to try to find my way back home. But before I could get up I felt a shift in direction of the ship. Red blinking lights came on as a computerized voice from speakers said and kept repeating, "Warning warning, crash course on planet." I looked out the window and saw that the ship was about to fall through the atmosphere of a blue and green planet.
"Oh no, this could get ugly," I said as the ship was hurdling down towards the planet. A rough and shaky fall it was as the ship started to fall apart. I looked over at the glass container and saw the orb was gone.
"It's just not my lucky day is it?"
And then, the ship hit the ground with a big THUMP. After the dust had cleared I decided to get out. When I stepped out I noticed that the planet was very similar to Arzoph. The only difference was that the skies were blue with white clouds on this planet instead of skies that are yellow with white clouds like it is on Arzoph.
"Well, this place doesn't seem so bad."
I looked around and found I was in the middle of the woods. "Atleast it's peaceful." I saw a stream near-by. The water was different here too, it was blue. "Well, I hope it's water. I'm thirsty!" So I got down on my hands and knees and drank from the stream. I couldn't help but get a flashback from the last time I did this on Arzoph. Right before the full moon. The blue liquid was tasteless just like water was on Arzoph. It had to be water, they were too similar. Plus, it gave you that satisfied feeling you get after you drink water when you're thirsty. I would've caught some of the fish I saw in it, but all the powder food pretty much filled me up.
There was a thomping sound, and I turned around to see a huge furry creature right in front of me. I held up my hands like I was being arrested, "Woah there, calm down. I don't want any trouble," I said with a nervous laugh.
The creature roared at me as it stalked closer. I slid into a fighting stance, "Stop right there! I don't want to have to put you down, but if you come any closer you'll leave me no choice. I have some experience in fighting!"
The creature suddenly had a frightened look on his face and stormed off. "Yeah, that's right! And tell all your friends about me too!" I felt hot breath push against my backside. Slowly turning around, I saw the face of a gigantic scaly creature with it's nose pushed on my back. It's face was as large as my body!
"AAHH!" I jumped back and panicked. "I would've preferred fighting the furry creature!" The creature opened his huge drooling mouth and charged at me. I turned around and fleed in an all-out sprint. The creature was pretty fast and stayed caught up with me. "Help! Help! Someone help!"
Knocking down trees during this pursuit, the nasty reptile seemed determined to catch me. "What's wrong with you, Ronoshie? If you can take on a whole gang at the same time, surely you can do this. You're better than this! You can take this thing down!" With my newly easily aquired confidence, I jumped onto the trunk of a large tree and did a backflip off of it, landing onto the creature's head. "Haha, what now?"
The creature was slippery due to the fact he was covered in slime or some other gooey substance and I slipped, fell backwards, and slid down onto his nasty back. My whole backside was drentched in slime. "That's it! You've done it now!"
The creature stood up on his hind legs and I fell off completely. I looked up just in time to see it's tail coming down towards me and I rolled out of the way. "Whew, good thing I moved on that one. It left a place in the ground from that!" I quickly stood up and slid into a stance. It waved it's tail at me sideways and I jumped up barely dodging it. After landing, I ran over to it's side, and jumped up with a kick ready that went right into it's jaw.
The creature seemed stunned from this. "Now's my chance!" I held up my arms and charged up my ultimate attack. "Tintaria Alimo!", I shouted as the amber Ki blast hit right in the creature's side.
Author's Comment: The "Tintaria Alimo" is in italics because it's spoken in a different language (more info on this further in saga), and to clear possible confusion, the other italicized words are personal thoughts and not in another language.
The creature let out a roar in pain as it collapsed to the ground. "I didn't want to end it like this, but you insisted," I said to the slimy corpse. I looked back at the destruction that was caused. Many trees were knocked down, plants were flattened, and on top of them were the huge footprints of the reptilian creature.
I walked on putting what just happened behind me. I tried to wipe some of the slime off, but it stuck to me like glue and was hard to pull off. I quickly got frustrated with it. "Damn it, just come the fuck off!" All the events that had suddenly flushed my life to hell, and that stupid slime made me enraged all too quick. I shouted in anger while pitching a fit when I slipped on some mud and fell in a patch of vines. I had actually fell through the vines and fell under the ground. I took a long fall and hit some sharp rock formations on the way down.
I felt a little dazed after slamming onto the ground, but eventually got to my feet. There was nothing around but darkness and the light from the hole in the ground that was way above my head. I jumped as high as I could several times to try to reach it, but to no avail. So then, I decided to try to jump back and forth between the tall rock formations (using my sixth sense) and work my way up to the hole. As I was doing this, something grabbed me and I found myself dangling upside down. Something had a hold on my foot!
"Hey, what're you doing? I'm trying to get out of here!" I shouted.
The mysterious figure said nothing save a deep groggling sound. I tried swiping at him, but his body was too far away. I noticed that a bunch of blood red glowing eyes had suddenly appeared in the darkness. It was literally filled with them. The creature holding me gave another groggling sound and I started to hear strange sounds coming from whatever was in the darkness too.
All the eyes suddenly moved and the sound of flapping wings filled the area. These creatures could fly! They passed through the beam of sunlight, but I couldn't really get a good look at them. The creature holding me let me go and I fell through the massive swarm of the flying creatures. After I slammed onto the ground a second time, adrenoline pushed me to get up instantly.
The swarm changed direction towards me and I started sprinting in a random direction. "What did I do to deserve this?" Using my sixth sense, I was able to dodge any obstacles in my way such as a rock formation. Some of the creatures made a disturbing screeching sound at random times. "Leave me alone!" I jumped on to one of the rock formations and onto one of the creature's back. The creature was covered in fur, and I had to hold on to it tight to stay on. Surprisingly, the creature did nothing about this, and it made me wonder if it was me they were chasing.
After a long flight of many turns and moving diagnally downwards, I had actually saw light up ahead. As we approached it, it turned out to be the light of many torches. I got to see the creature I was holding onto and it looked like a giant bat with grey fur and claws on it's feet.
I saw that the torches formed a circle around a large symbol imprinted on the ground. It looked like some sort of creature that was a combination of a bat and a man. All the giant bats were now flying in circle formation slowly downward towards the symbol. Once we got close enough to the ground, I jumped off and landed in the middle of the symbol (which was directly the center of the bat-man's chest). Immediately after I landed on it the whole symbol glowed turqoise. All the bats let out agrivated/frightened screeches and flew off into the darkness. "Oh crap, don't tell me I did something wrong."
The symbol opened up like a trap door from it's center and I fell about a ten foot fall, and it closed back up again. Luckily, there were torches on four ends of the room, which was a giant circle. I saw the top of a circular stairway leading down below the room. "You mean there's more to this insanity?" Infront of me, however, was a large hole in the wall like a cave entrance and unfortunately for me, a creature came out of it. It too looked like a bat but was also mixed with a lion. And it walked on four legs like a lion.
The bat-lion laughed menacingly while slowly coming towards me. "You dare challenge the authority of Taom the Bat Lord? He is not satisfied with your presence and has sent me to exterminate you!" said the bat-lion.
"And who are you?" I asked.
"Noitab, his faithful servant," Noitab replied.
"Well I'm sorry, Noitab, but the only thing that's gonna be exterminated here is you and all your bat brothers!" I said getting into a stance.
"You'll regret that!" he said as he ran and jumped at me.
I easily jumped back out of the way and after he landed came in with a punch on his snout. He roared and tackled me, pinning me onto the ground, then opened his large mouth, pushing massive amounts of stinky breath on my face, and some sort of gooey substance was coming out from his throat. "That's fuckin' nasty!"
"So what the hell are you gonna do? Barf on my face?" I asked.
He didn't respond as the gooey substance started coming out of his mouth. I wrapped my tail around his neck, choking him. Whatever the stuff was, it didn't have a good reaction to his tongue as there was steam coming out of his mouth and his grip on me weakened. I used this chance to punch him hard in his gut, and he yelped in pain.
"Tell me how to get out of here!" I demanded pinning him up against the wall and choking him with my hands this time.
He gave a weak menacing laugh. "You can only get out from Toam the Bat Lord, and he's on the bottom level. You'll never make it to him, below this level is Serat, his apprentice. Try as you might, human, you're dead!" He started to laugh again.
"Fuck you! And I'm not human, whatever that means," I said pushing his head sideways and snapping his neck. He fell to the ground as I started down the circular stairway.
It had taken me a couple minutes to get down it. There were torches that lit the way, and when I had reached the bottom, a bat-serpant was waiting for me.
"I swear on the name of the great Bat Lord, I will avenge my fellow servant -- Noitab!" he shouted.
"I take it you're Serat?" I asked.
"The one and only," Serat replied. He had a faint hiss to his voice.
This room looked just like the first one. It was big and circular, there were four torches on each side of the room, and the ceiling, walls, and floor were made of rock. There was also the beginning of a circular stairway visible that lead down.
Serat, the giant bat-serpant, looked just that -- a combination of a bat and a serpant. His long mass was mostly scaly with parts that were grey fur (like the giant bats had) that formed designs on his scales. He had wings on his back that made him look a lot like a dragon. He had four short legs with claws like a dragon had too. I would've actually thought it was a dragon if his face didn't look just like a serpant's. He had grey fur on the top of his head in which his large bat ears stuck out of. And lastly, his scales were a midnight blue.
"Hope you don't mind but, after I kill you, I'm gonna use your skin as a jacket!" I said.
"I'm not going to give you that chance!" he replied as he unfolded his large wings, gave a quick flap and rised up into the air.
I jumped high into the air and used the wall behind me to launch forward. The large snake winded towards me with his mouth open. I landed on top of his head and started running down his long back. This was my downfall, as his bottom end suddenly darted at me and it coiled around me.
"You're not very smart are you?" he asked squeezing me.
"Dammit!"
He then opened his mouth and revealed his fangs. "And now, I'm going let my poison slowly kill you!" I then bit him hard on the end of his tail and he let out a hiss of pain. After quickly wriggling out of him, I reached up and pulled out his fangs. Surprisingly, it wasn't that difficult. "Argh, you'll pay for that! You've become too much of a neusance to keep around anymore. I will execute you as fast as I can!"
I jumped off and ran away as fast as I could still holding his fangs in each hand. He opened his mouth and the gooey substance like I saw from Noitab was coming out of his throat. But unlike Noitab, Serat could spit it out at high speeds.
He chased me around the room, flapping his wings furiously and spitting out that toxic venom leaving steaming burnt spots in the room 'cause luckily I was able to dodge them while still running.
"Here, you can have one of your fangs back!" I shouted throwing one of them at him like a dart. He spit his venom out on it and it dissolved into thin air before it even reached him. "Oh man, that stuff is serious!"
After making it to a wall, I ran up it and did a backflip off it, landing behind Serat. The back end of his tail came darting at me. In response, I quickly jumped up and landed on his tail (which was pretty much like his whole body) and ran up it. He winded his head around and spat out his vemon. I swung the fang I was still holding like a baseball bat at it and it melted the end of the fang, making it look a lot like an arrowhead.
After I thought I had came close enough to his head, I jumped up and stabbed him in the eye with his own fang. His hiss turned into a horrible screech. I was able to get back on the ground and a good distance away from him afterwards.
"May you scream with undescribable tourment in the wrath of my lord and savior -- Taom!" Serat hissed as he collapsed to the ground. There was steam rising from his eye. It started to come out of his nostrils and mouth too.
"Man, I'm glad he didn't bite me with that shit." His whole body started to burn and steam up. Eventually, he was totally enveloped in it and his body was gone. "You know, I really did want to use your skin as a jacket," I said to the place where Serat was.
Only one more foe remained. And I have to be sure to not to kill him so he can get me out of here. The stairway down lead further and further into darkness, so I grabbed a torch before going down. "It may not be a lot, but I can't fight in total darkness."
I took slow steps down the winding stairway being as silent and alert as I could. Not really sure why I was scared all of a sudden, if this Taom character was anything like Noitab and Serat, it should be a peice of cake. I eventually made it down the stairs, and I could feel the presence of something in there. I moved the torch around some trying to light up as much of the room as I could without walking too far into it.
After finding a little body of water, I stripped naked and washed all the slime off. My tail was the hardest part to wash, but eventually, it was slime-free too. I would've also washed my clothes, but they would've taken too long to dry.
After a good distance hike, I finally came to an end of the forest. What I saw was a tower that went up so high I couldn't see the top of it. And on the ground I saw a hut. A muscular man with dark skin, long black hair, and no shirt along with leather pants came out of it. He was carrying a spear with him, pointing it at me, and it looked like he knew how to use it.
"What do you want?" he asked.
I backed up some, "I'm trying to find my way back to Arzoph," I answered.
He lowered his spear, "I can't help you. Now leave."
"Wait, do you know anyone who could?" I tried to ask politely. Last thing I wanted was to get stabbed with a spear. I had had enough fighting for now.
It was a few seconds before he responded by pointing up at the tower. "Up there, his name is Korin. You have to climb."
"That thing looks pretty high up."
"I help you?"
I was pretty desperate right now and would try anything, "Sure."
And before I could do anything, he picked me up and threw me so high up in the sky I thought he might have thrown me above the tower. But to my amazement it still seemed endless. Once I had almost slowed to a halt, I grabbed on to the tower and started climbing.
"Man, I can't believe such a turn of events. This thing looks long as hell."
I started out at a fast pace, but eventually the climbing had taken it's toll on me.
But surprisingly after about 2 more hours I saw the top just 30 feet away.
"It's about time I reached the top of this thing. I thought I would never to make it up," I said in relief.
Once I had made it up to the top of the tower, I didn't see anybody.
"Hello, is anyone home?" I asked.
A white cat came walking in on its two hind legs. It was an interesting looking figure. The cat had a staff with him. And his eyes were closed and squinty.
"Hello, there" he said in a gruff voice.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"I am Master Korin. Who are you?" he responded.
"Ronoshie" I answered.
"Do you want beans? Training?" Korin asked.
"I came up to see if you could help me find Arzoph," I answered.
"Never heard of such a place. Is it on Earth?" asked Korin.
"What is Earth?"
He made a sound of surprisment. "It's the planet you're on."
"So you can't help me get to Arzoph?" I asked dissappointed.
"Sorry, kid. But you can stay the night and tommorow you can go up to Kami's Lookout and he might be able to help you. Here take a senzu bean, it'll restore your strength. You must be tired after climbing up that tower all day," he said handing me the bean.
"Thanks," I said taking it.
After I had chewed it up, my strength was instantly restored. "Wow, this stuff really works!" I said with surprise.
"You didn't think I gave it to you for nothing did you?" he asked with a smile that I returned.
The next morning I woke up with a growling stomach. "You got any food?" I asked Korin once I saw him.
"You'll have to get it up at the lookout," he answered.
I ran over to the wall, looked up, and saw a small pole leading up so high I couldn't see the top. "Why the hell does everything have to be so long?" I asked
"It won't take you as long as it did you to climb the tower. I guarrantee it." he said with a smile of encouragement. His face was pointed at my tail.
"Okay, well I guess I'll see you around," I said with a slight wave as I jumped on top of the tower roof. I sighed and started to climb. Korin was right about those beans restoring my strength. Infact, I felt stronger than I did before.
After about 15 minutes of climbing I had reached the top of the pole and the bottom of the lookout. "Alright, Arzoph here I come!" I said excited.
I climbed up to the top and saw white tiled flooring with a big palace in the middle with some trees planted in long rectangular pots of soil.
"Who's there?" I heard someone ask. A moment later I saw who that was. It was some black chubby genie-creature. "Who are you?" he asked.
"Ronoshie. Korin told me you could help me go back to Arzoph," I answered.
"Oh, I'm not the Guardian. I'm Mr. Popo, his assisstant. Dende!" he called out.
A green skinned creature came out with something similar to a white robe and brown booties on his feet walked over to Mr. Popo. "You called?"
Mr. Popo whispered something in his ear. "A Saiyan!?", the green creature said aloud. Obviously by accident.
"Can't you see his tail? He's obviously a Saiyan," Mr. Popo said. They whispered back and fourth to each other and finally turned to me.
"Hello, I'm Dende guardian of the Earth," said Dende introducing himself.
"Ronoshie", I said back to him.
"I'm sorry, but we can't help you get back to Arzoph. You see, ahem, it's been gone for over 20 years. Destroyed," Dende said.
A sudden shock went through me. What the hell had happened to my life? You get one exciting thing to happen in your life and it turns your world backwards and upside down. It hit me so hard, I didn't even feel any sadness. Just plain shock!
"If you want, you can stay here. We can't offer you Arzoph, but we'll try to help in any way we can," Dende said.
"I dunno" I said as the sadness started to sink in.
"We'll give you time to think about it" said Dende walking away with Mr. Popo.
I got up and sat on the edge of the lookout, looking down at the view. I couldn't believe Arzoph was destroyed. And it was destroyed so long ago, about as long ago as when I was frozen. "I should tell them about me being frozen for such a long time."
About 30 minutes later I saw someone flying up to the lookout. This guy looked like an older version of Dende, instead he had a purple gi with a white cape and white turpin looking hat.
He landed beside me and asked, "I take it your Ronoshie?"
"Yep" I answered.
"I need to remove your tail" he said.
"What good will it do?" I asked as I got up. I really didn't see a reason why he'd want to remove it. But I really didn't see why I'd need it anymore, not that I ever really needed it.
"It's too dangerous. Just let me do it. It won't hurt, I promise" he said.
"Okay, fine" I said. His hands then glowed blue and he grabbed hold of my tail. With a little tug the tail was off just like that.
"Nothing to it. My name's Piccolo by the way" said Piccolo.
"You know, you look just like that Dende guy" I said.
"We're related, to a degree" he said.
"Well that figures."
"Come on, Mr. Popo has made you some food", Piccolo said. That perked me up some, as my appetite was coming back.
I followed Piccolo into the palace through the halls and into the kitchen. On the table, I saw that it was filled with food. I immediately entered food mode and started digging in. After I had eaten all the food on the table I was stuffed, and let out a large belch.
"Thanks Mr. Popo, I really neede that," I said.
"My pleasure," he replied.
I got up and walked outside where I saw Piccolo. "Tommorow you start your training," he said.
"Training? Who said anything about training? First, they break the news that Arzoph is gone, and then they offer training?" I really didn't know why he was rushing me into training so quick. "Okay then," I was kinda eager to fight anyway, "Where's it gonna be? What stuff will I learn?"
"We are going to be training in the Hyperbolic Timechamber. And as for what you'll be learning, you'll find out once we start, which will be tommorow" he answered.
"So what do I do until tommorow?" I asked.
"Rest up, you'll need it," Piccolo answered.
After Mr. Popo showed me where I would be sleeping I flopped down on the bed and went over the events that passed by today. And I also thought about the events that would be unfolding tommorow. Closing my eyes and and slowly drifting off I fell asleep with the thought of what I'd be eating for breakfast the next morning.