Ah screw it, the prologue of this seemed more popular than my hobbit story so ill put that on hiatus and do some of this instead. Hope you all enjoy it.
Chapter 1: Origins
On planet earth, there was peace. It had been peace for quite a while after Piccolo's attempted revenge at the young man Goku. Now, after being defeated, he hid in the wasteland and trained to beat Goku. He was not alone however. Along with him, was Goku's friend and sub teacher, Bard. He trained with Piccolo to get himself stronger, even though he was already stronger than Piccolo. At the time, he was wearing no chest clothes, only black training leggings and bare feet. On his chest, was a wound which Piccolo inflicted on him during his revenge. He took the blow as Goku finished Piccolo. He also wore a necklace, it's origin only he knew. The two's training was brutal, to Piccolo.
Piccolo was actually struggling to get up. The two could sense a person's power level after lots of training and focus. Piccolo felt Bard behind him and dashed away. The two stood, and stopped. "You feel that?" Piccolo said. "Yeah, it feels powerful, and fearsome. Get ready." They didn't wait long the figured appeared in the sky and landed only a few meters away from them. "Hmm, you!" the man said, pointing at Bard. "You are the most powerful warrior this planet has?! Ha-ha Pathetic!" The figure's hair was exceptionally long, and his also wore a strange armour. It had sharp long shoulder pads, it had a brown body but white outline. He had a chest plate and also long sharp bits by his chest, but his legs were bare. His arms and feet also had a similar armour, with beads on his right armour. But what Bard noticed, was the tail around his centre. Piccolo thought it was part of the armour, but Bard, he instantly knew who, no. What this guy was.
"You're a saiyan." Bard instantly pronounced. The man's expression was shocked for a minute. "How do you know that I am a saiyan?" He asked, obviously intrigued. "Simple. The tail's a big giveaway. Goku had the same." "Goku?" the man asked. "Hmm, this Goku must be Kakarrot." He thought. "And you know what else? I'm a saiyan too." This made the man and Piccolo lean back in shock. "What?!" The man was now interested. You're Kakarrot?! Impossible! Your hair looks nothing like his or his father!" "Maybe so, but I'm named after his father. I came with him to earth when Vegeta was destroyed by Frieza. I decided to take solitude with Kakarrot and stay here, hopefully in peace. Of course, now I know it is inevitable. But if I'm correct, that makes you his brother, Raditz?" The man was incredibly shocked. "That is correct, now tell me where Kakarrot is, so that we can all join with prince Vegeta." Now Bard was shocked. "The prince is alive?!"
During all this, Piccolo had flew off to get Goku and tell him of what he had learned. "So, it is as I thought. Goku and Bard are both aliens, much like myself I'd guess, and if that's Goku's brother, we might be in trouble. I need to get Goku and try and get his help." and sped off as fast as he could.
"We're not going with you. You're working with the man who destroyed our planet!" "Only for now. Once prince Vegeta is strong enough, he will turn into a super saiyan and defeat him!" "Hah! You believe that legend! How foolish. I'm sorry, but Bardock placed Kakarrot under my protection, not to mention you won't convince him any time soon. He has a family here. Had you come a few years earlier, when he was still a child, but older, maybe we might of. If you're going to try and force him away, you'll have to fight me first, despite lacking a tail, I still can fight you." Bard proceeded into his combat stance, hands forward and closed, legs separate and still, his breathing silent. "Hm. Very well, if you will not join me, you will die by my hand, and the same fate will befall Kakarrot too. Fools." Raditz just crossed his arms, with an evil smirk.
The wind rushed past the figures, making their hair wave. Bard's hair was still bright blonde and although short, still long enough to wave. The two stood like so for the next minute, but just as Bard moved to charge Raditz, Goku and Piccolo arrived. "Why didn't you tell me Bard?" Goku asked, a bit angry. "You weren't ready to know the truth. I wanted to try and raise you peacefully as your father asked of me but obviously that shall not happen. No doubt once we defeat Raditz anyway." Goku sighed. "I guess you're right. I mean now that I think about it, it was a bit odd to have a tail. But oh well. I'll fight with you Bard, Piccolo, stay back and ready the attack you told me about. We might need it." "Sure thing." Piccolo said and took of his weighted clothes along with Goku and placed his two first fingers to his head. Goku prepared to fight for Piccolo heard everything Raditz said, even after leaving so he told Goku all he heard.
This time, Raditz made the move. To Goku, he had disappeared confusing him, but to Bard, he moved very quickly behind the two so Bard countered and stopped Raditz's kick into him but Goku was still caught unawares and sent forward a wide berth but regained his balance quickly. When he did, he saw Raditz and Bard throwing punch and kick at each other, deflecting, dodging and hitting the other's attacks. It was a stalemate. Goku waited for a chance to join but didn't see any openings so decided a different approach. He cupped his hands together and brought them behind him. "Ka...Me...Ha...Me.." As Goku prepared an attack, a blue ball started to emit from his hands. It was the Kamehameha. Bard saw this and prepared to make an opening. "HA!" Goku shouted and thrusted his hands forward, the ball towards Raditz and a blue energy beam erupted from his hands at a great speed towards Raditz, but he saw it at the last second and dodged back, to get kicked into it by Bard, causing great damage.
"Excellent work Goku!" Bard shouted. When Raditz emerged from the smoke, his armour was scuffed and his eye piece destroyed. "Damn you!" Raditz shouted and threw his own purple blast at Goku, who barely had time to defend it, before Raditz appeared behind Bard and smashed him into the ground. Goku and Bard were now also scuffed and bruised. Raditz was, in reality, stronger than them both even together. Goku was able to recover and charged Raditz, catching him by surprise but only for a second. The two proceeded to punch at each other. Just before Goku was smashed down, Bards came from behind and punched Raditz in his back, stopping him from hitting Goku and now being attacked from the front and back.
"It's ready!" Piccolo shouted, his fingers now sparking with power and Ki. The two smashed Raditz to the ground. Piccolo then shouted "Special Beam Cannon!" As he pointed at Raditz, now groggily getting up. A colourful red sparking beam with green rings emerged from his fingers straight for Raditz. Right at the last second, Raditz dodged, losing his shoulder pad to the beam, the beam smashing into a mountain, destroying it instantly.
"That was close, that would have killed me had it hit me." and the battle continued. Soon, Piccolo had another beam ready but Goku and Bard were on the ground, with only little strength left. If Piccolo shot Raditz again now, he'd just dodge. Raditz was repeatedly smashing his foot on Goku's ribs, but before he finished him off, Bard's anger broke and he charged Raditz with a almighty speed, smashing his fist into his chest, and giving Goku the chance to catch Raditz in a full nelson. "Piccolo! DO IT!" He shouted. "Special Beam Cannon!" Piccolo shouted again, erupting a beam towards Raditz, now immobilised by Goku's full nelson. The beam hit Raditz right in the chest, piercing him with a large power and taking him and Goku out in one.
Goku and Raditz both fell to the floor. Piccolo confronted Raditz to finish him as Bard went to Goku's side. "One year. That's how long it'll take till Vegeta and Nappa come. And they are a lot stronger than me. Train all you want, it's all in vain." Were Raditz dying words. Piccolo then proceeded to Goku and Bard. "I want you two to train Gohan. He has a strength in him not even I can imagine. You can revive me with the dragonballs in one year. I'll train hard. See...you...then." and Goku died as well.
"Well." Bard said. "Shall I get Gohan?" Piccolo asked. "No, ill bring him to you after talking to the others. Where shall we meet?" "A wasteland a few miles north of here." "Right, see you there Piccolo!" Bard shouted as he sped to Kame house. "He's taking Goku's death well." Piccolo said to himself as he sped to the meeting point. All Bard said was "One year. One year until it all starts. Damn."