Chapter 2

Blast from the Past

As Sirius walked outside to where Rigil was waiting for him, he was reminded of the first time he had met Rigil.

Sirius jumped up and down in anticipation. The 14-year old could hardly contain his excitement. He was going to be fighting in the World Martial Arts Tournament, and he was going to be doing it with his best friend Bruin too!

"Now don't go getting to excited Sirius," said Master Kame. "You'll wear yourself out before the tournament even starts."

"Yes, Master." He had been training with Master Kame for six years now and he wasn't going to start disappointing him now.

"I hope the fighters aren't as strong as they were during the last tournament," said Burin with a worried look on his face.

Five years ago Master Kame had taken his two young students to watch the tournament to show them what they had to work up to becoming the greatest fighters on the planet.

Sirius and Burin saw many great fighters using techniques they had never thought were possible. It had the desired the effect and it made them train half to deaf for the next five years.

Master Kame laughed "You boys will do just fine. Don't be so nervous!"

The two boys easily breezed through the preliminaries, surprised at how easy it was to defeat their opponents. One all of the finalists were gathered together the two friends were surprised to find another boy that was their age in the finals as well.

Sirius went up to the teenager and introduced himself. "My name's Sirius what's yours?"

"The name's Rigil and I plan on crushing you on my way to title of World Martial Arts Champion."

"Well I hope you do well," said Sirius with a smile. His untidy black hair contrasted greatly with the well tended to short black hair of Rigil.

All three teenagers easily defeated their opponents in the first round. In the semifinal round Burin was matched up against Rigil and as they entered the ring, Master Kame thought his eardrums were going to burst.

"Yeah, you go little bro, you show that little shorty what fighting's really about."

Master Kame turned to see an attractive 18-year old blonde screaming her head off as Rigil and Burin faced each other.

"Good luck, I hope that these will be a good battle. Burin bowed to his opponent.

"Whatever, I don't need luck."

The fight began as Rigil rushed Burin and then phased out of sight and behind Burin. Rigil then kicked Burin in the back and sent him to the opposite side of the ring. Burin did a flip to face his opponent once again.

As the battle continued Master Kame noticed that while Rigil obviously was the stronger and quicker of the two, he lacked the discipline to completely finish off Burin. Burin was often able to provoke Rigil into attacking so that he could get good quality hits in.

In the end however Rigil managed to get Burin in a full nelson and he flew into the air. Rigil then flew as fast as he could down towards the ring. He released Burin and sent him crashing out of bounds.

Rigil then looked over to Sirius who had already advanced to the finals and said "Your next!"

"Ah good times," thought Sirius. He was glad that Rigil had stopped being such a jerk and now the two were great friends.

"So Sirius are we going to fight or what," said Rigil with just a hint of a smile on his face.

"Sure am Rigil. It will be the rematch of the century."

As Sirius crouched down into his fighting stance, he felt a powerful ki signature. His entire body shuddered as he felt the strength of the strange power source.

In the blink of an eye, a tall man with long black hair, stood in between the two fighters. Sirius looked over the strange newcomer.

He was muscular and his arms and several scars on them. He wore some sort of weird armor that Sirius had never seen before. The man wore a brown chest plate and the armor's shoulder pads were long brown spikes. Also around the man's waist he wore a furry looking belt.

Over the man's right eye, there was a green screen that was attached to his ear. The man kept pressing buttons on the thing as he looked to each fighter.

"If this guys hair were brown, it would fit perfectly with that ridiculous outfit that guys wearing," thought Rigil as the man turned to him. The stranger pressed a button near his ear and numbers began to flash on the green screen.

"Just as I thought you two are nothing." The man then scanned the rest of the group who had gathered to watch Sirius and Rigil's sparring match. As he got to David, his faced turned into a horrified expression.

"Aw, there breeding with the natives! Disgusting!"

"Who are you and what do you want here!" The man turned to Sirius, who was clenching his fists. He sneered at Sirius and then simply said.

"My name is Radeus and I'm here for you two." Radeus sneered at the two again.

Rigil saw the puzzled look on Sirius and he felt the same way. Why did this Radeus guy want the two of them? He had never even met this strange man. If he wanted to fight though, that was fine by him.

"Why do you want me and Rigil?" Sirius stared at Radeus with a curious look on his face. This guy obviously was trouble but Sirius was still curious.

"Well because you two and I are the same race, and I was sent here to find strong saiyans."

"What the hell is a saiyan?" Radeus turned to Rigil. "And I don't know about Sirius but I'm sure as hell that we are not of the same "race" whatever the hell that means."

"Well first of yes, you are a saiyan. But before you interrupt me again let me explain."

"Saiyans are a warrior race with fighting skills that are wanted thought the galaxy. We are the premier mercenaries for the Solis Empire, or at least we use to be."

"Twenty years ago, our home planet Saiya was destroyed from the inside out. The core of Saiya became unstable, resulting in massive earthquakes and violent volcanic activity. So much ash was released by the volcanoes that it made the atmosphere toxic. It killed almost every single saiyan."

"There are only four saiyans left now. Well now theirs six and half." Radeus sneered.

"Wait the story about your home planet being destroyed is sad but it doesn't explain how you think that we are saiyans," Sirius stated.

"Before our home planet was destroyed, a peace movement was born after a civil war was prevented. The saiyans in this movement advocated giving up our lives as mercenaries and becoming a peaceful people."

"Of course this idea was rejected by almost every saiyan except for a handful of older saiyans, whose prime and lust for battle were gone. These saiyans decided that they would leave the planet and start new, peaceful lives. They left ten years before Saiya was destroyed."

"They arrived on this planet and from what reports that I have read removed their tails and decided that they would integrate themselves into this society."

"Wait you have a tail?" asked a new higher pitched voice. Radeus turned to the new voice finding that it belonged to a short man with very short hair.

"Of course," he replied as he uncoiled his tail from around his waist. He waved his tail around and then wrapped it around his waist again.

"Hah now I no your lying!" Radeus turned to Rigil. Rigil had a huge smile on his face.

"I can prove I'm not one of these saiyans, seeing as how my parents are still alive and my sister is standing right there."

"No, you're wrong. I've already scanned everyone in that little group and not one of them is a full blooded saiyan. However you are. So it's obvious that these "parents" of yours adopted you."

Rigil's smile disappeared. "No it can't be true, they've always been there. I can't remember ever being apart from them," he thought.

Rigil turned to his sister. "It's not true is it?"

Kate nodded her head. "It is. Your parents were scientist for dad and when they died we adopted you."

Rigil couldn't believe it. This Radeus person had just turned his world upside down in five minutes. "I can't believe they never told me."

"Rigil it doesn't matter." Rigil looked in shock at his friend Sirius. How could it not matter?

"The Kaplan's are your family no matter what this Radeus says. Haven't they always stood by you no matter what? They love you and raised you the best they could. Actually you couldn't have been in better hands."

Sirius was right, he didn't care who his biological parents where. The Kaplans were his real family, always had been.

"Oh how touching." Radeus laughed. "You two are pathetic. The only reason I even decided to come here is because you two or the strongest on the planet."

"You still haven't answered my question of why you've come here." Sirius stared angrily at Radeus. This jerk had tried to crush Rigil by destroying the only family he had ever known.

"I'm here to recruit you. You see right now the remaining saiyans are under the control of an insane galactic tyrant named Solaris. Prince Vega sent me here to find any strong saiyans that could help us defeat him."

"Why should we even for one second consider helping you!" yelled Rigil.

"Well for one to help a fellow saiyan out and two because I'll destroy this entire planet if you don't."

Sirius stared at the saiyan in horror. "Why would you do something so terrible?"

"It's not that bad, it's actually quite fun."

"You monster!"

"Not the worst thing I've ever been called." Radeus smiled evilly at Sirius and Rigil.

"We'll never join you!" Sirius nodded at Rigil and both fighters rushed the saiyan.

As the pair was about to strike Radeus phased out of sight. Sirius and Rigil crashed into each other.

Radeus laughed at the pair. These two had no chance. The one with the red gi had a power level of 600 and the one called Rigil had a power level of 550. Radeus had a power level of 1500.

He laughed as the two charged him again. Radeus easily dodged every attack Sirius and Rigil threw at him. He then phased behind Rigil and karate chopped his neck. Rigil was knocked out instantly.

Sirius grimaced as he saw Radeus kick his friend off to the side. This guy was so fast. Sirius knew he had no chance at victory as he once again charged Radeus.

Radeus crouched down as Sirius charged him. Sirius sent a flurry of punches and kicks at Radeus but not one touched the saiyan. Radeus then sent one punch into Sirius's gut.

Sirius was stopped cold as Radeus kept his fist lodged into his stomach. Sirius coughed up blood as he tried to breathe. He felt his vision fading as he passed out.

Radeus threw Sirius's limp body down onto the ground. "These fools can hardly even be called saiyans."

He then looked at the kid. He had noticed that while he was scanning him that the kid had some saiyan genetics and some that were the same as the rest of the people in the group.

The kid also had a power level 300. Not bad considering his father's was only 600. The kid might be a valuable asset in the future.

"Tell these fools when they wake up that they have two hours to decide if they want to join me. Oh and I'm taking the kid."

"What no one man," Burin said angrily. This guy had just beaten up his friends and now he was going to take David. No he wouldn't let him.

Burin flew towards Radeus. The saiyan smiled as he saw the human's power level. 350. "Pathetic. The kid's almost as strong as him," he thought as he backhanded Burin.

Burin was sent racing towards a storage unit. He crashed into the small building, the force of his impact collapsed the building on top of him.

Radeus walked up to David and before David could even react, the saiyan had knocked him out.

As Radeus slung the half-saiyan over his shoulder he turned his head to look at the blonde woman who was cowering behind an old man.

"Remember, 2 hours and if they don't show the planet gets destroyed." Radeus took off heading back to his ship, leaving Kate and Master Kame in a layer of dust.