Chapter 2: Past and Present

AN: Random trivia: None of the eighteen Dragon Ball movies are canon besides Battle of Gods.

(Planet Malani) Age 767, May 26th, 13:36

"I just can't do it!" A young boy shouted out for the birds in the sky to hear his failure. The light blue sky, tinted with a small bit of pink, replied with the same words, startling the boy into submission.

"Ohohoh! Do not fear Ken, that was only an echo. Your voice bounced off the mountains and zoomed back to meet you," an older man consoled the child. His charcoal hair spiked back, matching the large beard upon his chin. "But this old man is just rambling..."

"Gramps! I just can't do it. No matter how hard I try, I can't feel energy without my Scouter! It's Juarez too hard. Ken complained with a sour face, drawing attention away from his silky brown hair, which he was constantly complemented on. Around the young Saiyan were his squad, Mato, and Lucette, both impatient from the long hours of waiting for their younger friend to attain the ability to read power levels.

"Focus." The elder man cut off the long string of excuses Ken had made up. As he said those words, the young boy cursed him with the small vocabulary set he had, and closed his eyes.

Sounds filled his ears. Many different noises. Four legged creatures roamed the vast grassy fields covering most of the planet, stopping at a nearby stream to intake the light purple liquid with both of its tongues. The ripples of the water seemed to overtake Ken, at least until a winged beast passed by his colorful cheeks. It brought his thoughts to the task of the bird, only to be interrupted by an eschew noise.

"ACHOO," it broke his concentration. "Oh, sorry," Lucette apologized with a sweet smile, full of the innocence she embodied.

"You are so stupid! I was almost doing it!" Ken scolded her insensitively. Tears quickly built up in the twelve year old girl's eyes as she bolted off toward the Elder's home. No guilt came to his foolish young mind, not quite old enough to understand what he did.

Mato giggled at his little sister's easily shaken emotions. The elder smiled as he steadily veered after Lucette, understanding well what had happened and leaving the two boys to converse.

Clouds hung high in the sky, blocking out the red sun that had not even began to set. "You might be younger than me but you gotta know you're my best friend." Mato raised his right hand up, expected a smack on the hand. "I promise I'll help you learn how to sense energy. I promise we'll rule this universe together, even Lucette will be with us."

Seconds past quickly as Ken finally gave into the urge to high five Mato, clapping together their hands. "No, we can rule the universe without her. I don't really like Lucette very much." He nicely worded his disdain.

"Yeah but she's my only sister. Because you're my friend...we have to take care of her, together."

"Yeah... But I'm a year younger than her ya know. So it might be weird of me taking care of her."

"I know..." Mato laughed aloud with Ken for only a brief moment before both of them were thrown to the ground by an enormous shockwave. "Whoa!?" They yelped in unison.

"Keep calm. It is only the end of a battle one solar system over. There is a planet called Ee-rth. It holds the savior of our entire galaxy. A Saiyan by the name of Kakarot." The elder lectured as he returned alongside Lucette, Ken was in awe at the vast knowledge this man had amassed. Somehow the boy got a strange feeling of irony as his elder continued. "When you begin your rule, stop at Ee-rth and attempt to get aid from this man. He can do anything. Truly the most awesome warrior."

Mato smiled, rising from the ground with help from Ken's hand. "We'll get him to join us, right?"

Ken calculated how many more years until his squad would be allowed to leave, coming out at seven, then accompanied his best friend's grin and replied, "Yeah."

(?) Age 774, ?, ?:?

Nostalgia. That's right, I lived with a small company of Saiyans that had survived Frieza's attack. Not even twenty. My parents bore me sometime after. By the time I was ten, there were only four left. Some died from natural causes, some by the harsh weather of Malani at its peak, but most left to conquer, only to be never heard from again. The elder grew sick and died only a few days before our departure, on my eighteenth birthday, meaning we had to fend for ourselves. We needed to conquer a planet, but we failed. What do I do?

The last thing I can recall is a bright pink illumination. I could've sworn that I just had a terrible dream, but after awakening in a tight space against the body of the girl I loved, I knew it wasn't. I knew it. He's still dead. Lucette doesn't even know yet. Any feelings of nervousness or attraction I would've had were pushed far away from my mind. A pink light blasted our ship far away from Abokado, I can only assume that monster destroyed the whole world.

The small window that allowed me to peer out was covered in fire. We're no doubt, in the atmosphere of some solid planet. "Lucette..." I attempt to wake her up, but stop myself for fear of her reaction, not only to me being pressed against her figure, but to the news of the death of her only living family member.

A loud crash shook us both nearly to the point of injury, waking up Lucette from her unconscious cloud. Dread pours into my stomach as the pod opened slowly, giving me time to zip out and onto the soft green grass before she comprehended what occurred. "Mato," her dry crisp lips called out for the dead.

"L..ucette. I..." My mouth barely moves as she opens both crimson eyes and gathers the situation, I could see her pupils widen.

"Mato!" She flies into me, knocking us both down to the smooth blades of grass, making an accidental erotic position, thighs wrapping tight around my stomach. "Ken... Where is he? Where's my brother!?"

My mind wanders as I wonder if this could be Kakarot's planet, focusing on the beauty to distract myself. A burst of wind ripped through our position, drawing my eyes to the brown trunked trees with beautifully crafted oval green leaves. The sky grew dark within seconds, despite my unfamiliarity with this planet, I could tell it was going to rain. Dragon like beasts that were roaming this rocky, grassy wasteland, now ran and flew for cover under trees and into caverns. All the other animals followed the example. It set the mood for what I plan to say, in one way of putting.

"He's..." She knew once I began. Her face darkened, looking as if it aged ten years. A part of her died, the same as me. Solace could only be found in the fact that she didn't witness his gore filled death.

"Hey!" Suddenely a greeting was spoken, echoing across the rocks that held thousands of living creatures. It then repeated, "hey!"

My vision focuses upon the dot on the cloudy horizon. It was a white aura, similar to our's during fast flight. "Lu...Lucette. I think we should run." Her eyes answer the question with a stern 'no'. Emotions fueled her actions.

The body was already upon us. "You guys...are Saiyans...aren't you!?" His voice was like a cough with each word, slightly scratching my ears. I turn, slowly examining him from the ground up, it resembles a Saiyan in body shape. Then I met his eyes. All three of them.