Chapter 2

Vegeta's Arrival

A year had gone by since the departure of Vegeta from the red planet, and despite the alien ship speeding toward Earth, Sonic, Tails, Cream, Amy, and the rest of the usual company were relaxing within his Chris' mansion, unknowing of the imminent danger headed straight for them.

"Hey Chris," Cream said smiling, "Amy promised she would take me and Cheese to the beach earlier and she told me to get ready! Do you want to come? I asked Sonic but he doesn't want to come with us..." He smiled awkwardly back at her.

"I'm sorry Cream. I'd love to, but I have school."

"Oh it's okay, Chris, don't worry about it! Maybe we can find more people to come with us. It's not fun with just three people you know..."

Chris felt bad for disappointing her, but he had been running out of excuses for his recent absences. Especially considering hanging out with a bunny, pink hedgehog, and a blue chao wasn't a proper reason to miss class.

"Well, its nice to know Amy was thinking of me, at least," he said smiling, sure that she didn't hear.

"No problem, Chris!" Amy replied, yelling from the next room. Sound apparently carried very well in Chris' mansion.

Chris sat down in his living room and began flipping through the channels on his wide-screen television, periodically looking at the clock before it was time to leave, when he heard Amy and Cheese talking in the next room.

"Good we won't have to babysit that little brat," Amy laughed.

"He's in the next room Amy, he can probably hear you!"

"Oh...shhi-," she whispered, as she covered her mouth in embarrassment. She didn't hate Chris, but had grown increasingly irritated by Sonic's affection for him. That alone made him a prime target for her frustration.

Meanwhile, high above the Earth's atmosphere, a lone satellite began to detect an object heading toward the planet, and within his lair, Dr. Eggman became aware of this fact long before anyone else.

"Sorry to disturb you Dr. Eggman," a robotic voice began to alert, "but there appears to be a metallic object speeding toward the planet at a remarkable rate!"

"A metallic object? It can't be a meteorite!" Dr. Eggman thought aloud while reclining his feet upon the computer's panel. He sat up as his interest began to peek.

"Can you determine its velocity?"

"It's going really fast!"

"Well that doesn't help! Remind me to reprogramme you..."

"Yes, sir." the computer replied in a dejected tone.

"I wonder what this flying object can be," Eggman said as he observed a tiny dot moving toward the Earth on a giant monitor. "By the looks of it, it appears to be systematically shifting positions as it's entering the atmosphere. It looks to be a spherical space ship of some kind. And I thought nothing interesting ever happened on this planet. Ha, ha, ha!"

He then sat down and began thinking, while twisting his long red mustache with his fingers.

"I definitely want to be the first to check this thing out," he thought.

He began laughing in his very cliché, and very over-the-top, evil villain laugh. "This space ship, or what ever it is, could be a threat. Or at least some afternoon entertainment."

"Computer!" he yelled. "Can you give me an idea of where this object is going to land?"

"It appears to be headed for Angel City; About 460 miles East of here. Its precise landing spot cannot be determined."

"No matter, I'm sure it'll create quite a fuss. I just hope Sonic and the others don't get there before I do; assuming they'll even be interested. It appears I won't have to travel far to reach this thing. I must follow this object and see what in blue hell it is!"

He then got up and began leaving for his favourite hovering mode of transport.

Deep in the darkness of space, as Vegeta neared the blue planet, his re-animation began to take place immediately before descent.

"Wake up Prince Vegeta, we are now entering the Earth's atmosphere."

He opened his eyes slowly, still a bit groggy from his hybernation."Finally," he said, letting out a small chuckle, "I'll have a chance to stretch out my legs. I hope these earthlings put up a good fight."

Angel City was a small, yet very metropolitan city. As the round ship began to fall within view of the people, most of them stood in awe as they looked up at the strange object. Many began to panic, thinking it to be some type of meteorite. But most stared in dumb amazement with their mouth's open. Although some pretty exciting things had happened since Sonic and the others first warped to Earth from another world, the prospect of the flying object being an alien from another planet was probably the last thing which entered their minds. The ship was descending extremely quickly, and had no visible sign of slowing down, and in a matter of seconds, went from being almost visible to crash-landing in the middle of the city (not unlike a meteorite would.)

As it impacted, it let out a horrendous blast, as smoke began to bellow out from all directions of the crater. The earth around the impact began to tremble and a few buildings collapsed from the tremors.

Amidst the screaming, many of the citizens began to gather near the impact. After a few minutes, as the ship began testing the atmosphere before letting Vegeta out from within, people from all corners of the landing site tried to get a view of what it was. As the smoke cleared, people began to panic.

"W-what is that?" a man stammered, "Is it from outer space?"

"It's a space ship! Remember that film where the aliens took over the earth?"

"The porno?"

"What?"

"My friends...told me about it, honey!"

"Someone call the police!"

"Like that'll help!"

As the humans continued arguing over what the object was, and what was inside of it, the space pod began to slowly open, causing everyone to gasp. As they stared, trembling in fear, a white-gloved hand, as small as a child's, gripped the side of the opening. A grinning Saiyan prince than slowly stood up out of it, somewhat relishing the fear in the eyes of the lifeforms around him.

"Alien!" a man screamed.

It was truly obvious, not just by the fact the young boy had a tail, that he indeed was from another planet. He was garnished with an armour suit, rather similar to a Spartan uniform, except for the extended shoulder armour. It was mainly white, with yellow plates. He wore a distinctive royal insignia of the Saiyan Empire across his left breast, which somewhat resembled a ship's anchor. Lastly, he wore a long red cape which swayed like fire as he came out of the ship.

"It appears I have quite a reception. This assignment might be fun after all." he said to himself. "The only sad thing is there aren't more lifeforms here to witness as I demolish this city." Vegeta then began to slowly levitate above the crater with his arms crossed, so he was at level with the trembling citizens. Vegeta's Saiyan blood began pumping as a sadistic pleasure took over his body when he thought about the fun he could have destroying every life form on the planet. His eyes began scanning his victims, and seemed to look at them as play things in an almost child-like way, albeit a very troubled and blood-thirsty child. He then lowered himself onto the concrete, as his cape swayed in the breeze.

The citizens just looked on in a mixture of curiosity and utter terror. Vegeta responded to this with an quiet, yet audible laugh, which made everyone around him uneasy.

"Maybe...maybe he's friendly," a woman remarked. Upon hearing this, Vegeta immediately turned his attention onto her and stared at her with a sadistic grin. Wanting to make a good first appearance for his trembling hosts, he decided it was time to give them a little taste of what was to come. He began to gather a small amount of energy in his right hand, and as he laughed slightly louder, raised two fingers toward the sky. As he did this, in less than a second the earth began to raise from beneath the citizens faster than anyone could blink, and an energy wave blasted out from where he stood. Feet of rubble, roads, telephone-lines, trucks, streets, and giant skyscrapers were uprooted instantly within in a blinding torrent of white light, and immediately disintegrated in the horrendous blast. From every corner around him, as far as the eye could see, the city that once stood had been reduced to a sea of ash. All signs of the civilization that once stood their were completely gone. All but the area around Vegeta and his ship.

After Vegeta scanned the area, admiring his own work, his smile turned into a scowl as he realised the Earth wasn't going to be the fun assignment he had expected and desperately wanted. The air was thick with smoke and dust, and Vegeta began to levitate above the fallen civilization. Upon his left ear rested a scouter. This device was supposable developed by Frieza's researchers, and had the ability to measure power levels, communicate across vast distances of space, as well as locate the top power levels on any given planet. It appeared to be a transparent green monocle-like glass which rested in front of his left eye connecting to a white ear piece. It immediately began detecting a significant power level on its own, lighting up the eye piece.

"So," Vegeta said smirking, "the highest power-levels on this planet are all due West. All of them lower than 700." Vegeta's own power-level was around 16,000, but when angry it often momentarily doubled, and in the case of a full moon, would increase ten fold.

"Maybe this planet might be some fun after all."