Warnings for this chapter: Just some hysterics from ChiChi, that's about it.

Vegeta and Nappa Saga:

Chapter IV: Saiyans from Space.

762 A.D. November the 3rd.

"So," Chiara said as she followed her brother through the woods. "These Saiyans are from space?"

"That's what mr. Piccolo said," Gohan answered.

"And daddy is also from space?" Chiara asked, just narrowly avoiding tripping on a stone.

"Yeah, from another planet, I don't know what it's called though," Gohan said.

"But if daddy is from space, why aren't we from space?" Chiara asked, frowning in confusion.

"I don't know," Gohan said, frowning thoughtfully. "I guess it's because we weren't born in space."

"Gohan," Chiara said and Gohan stopped walking to turn to his sister. "Are we aliens too?"

Gohan thought for a moment and then shrugged, "I don't know, mom isn't an alien."

Chiara nodded as Gohan started walking again, and decided to leave it at that. Gohan never got mad at her, but she didn't want to push him. She was very curious about what being an alien meant. If their daddy was an alien but their mommy wasn't, what did that make them?. She shook her head to rid herself of those thoughts as they reached the clearing where Piccolo told them to be.

The clearing was large and barren, really no more than a large patch of dirt and to Chiara it looked forbidding, like a fight was meant to take place there. She had just started wondering where Piccolo was when someone appeared right in front of them. Chiara all but leapt behind her brother, who took on a defensive stance, but the disgusted snort that issued forth from the new arrival was enough to tell them who it was.

"Mr. Piccolo," Gohan said happily, a big smile appearing on his face.

"I see you two are ready," Piccolo said gruffly, emphasizing the last word while glaring at Chiara.

Chiara blushed at her own cowardice and focused her eyes on the ground. Outwardly Piccolo let out a grunt of annoyance but inwardly he was worried.

'She's not ready,' he thought tensely. 'Not even close to it.'

His attention was taken away from his thoughts when what he thought of as 'the goon squad' arrived. Tien, Chao-Su, Yamcha and Krillin all touched down and Krillin greeted the twins boisterously. Chiara and Gohan shyly said hello to Tien, Chao-Su and Yamcha, having never met them before.

Piccolo looked on and felt his ire rising. 'What are they doing?' he thought angrily. 'What do they think this is, a party?'

As if hearing Piccolo's thoughts, Tien turned to him and curtly nodded at him. Piccolo took it for what it was, a grudging acknowledgement that they would have to work together, but that didn't mean they would trust him. Piccolo snorted mentally as he returned the nod, let them mistrust him, he wasn't there for them.

"So now what, Piccolo?" Krillin asked.

"Now we wait," Piccolo ground out.

"Who's to say they'll even come here?" Yamcha asked, scowling at Piccolo. "They might be landing on the other side of the planet for all we know."

Piccolo closed his eyes to try and regain control of his temper, it wouldn't do to kill the weakling standing in front of him, so he had to stay calm.

"When the Saiyans arrive they will be looking for Son Goku, and they will expect him to be waiting for them. They will look for the highest powerlevel they can find, so when we sense them landing, we will raise our powerlevels and lead them here. We will then fight them," Piccolo explained as calmly as he could.

He could see that the humans were sceptical but they knew they had no choice but to believe him. He was after all the only one who had any clue as to what was going on. This thought caused Piccolo to turn to the two small half-Saiyans who were watching them talk.

He closed his eyes and tried to focus on the fight that lay ahead, but one thought kept coming back to him. One thought that worried him more than he was willing to admit, even to himself. 'Babies, that's all they are, just babies.'

Hours passed and Chiara was getting bored. She knew better than to say it out loud though. Even if she whispered it to Gohan, mr Piccolo would hear and he would get angry at her. Whenever she said something when they were training in the woods, he always got angry with her. And so, as they waited, Chiara forced herself to entertain herself.

She counted the clouds in the sky, but that soon got boring. Besides, they kept moving. She then counted the dots on Krillin's forehead but there were only six of them so that was done quickly. She wondered what the dots were for and what they meant, but as she didn't have the answers that too got boring. She tried to build something with the dirt on the ground but Piccolo kept glaring at her, so she stopped. She sighed as she realized there just wasn't anything to do.

Suddenly, Piccolo, Tien, Yamcha, Chao-Su and Krillin tensed and they appeared to be focusing on something. Gohan and Chiara shared a glance before they too focused, and then they realized that it had happened. The Saiyans had arrived.

Chiara swallowed hard and desperately tried to quell the urge to hide behind Gohan. Not only would that anger mr. Piccolo, it would also be showing weakness, and Chiara just knew that was a bad thing. The Saiyans had arrived on Earth, and, as had been agreed on, the fighters on the side of good raised their powerlevels to lure them to the clearing.

Vegeta and Nappa had been absolutely terrifying, at least to Chiara they had been. The others seemed calm enough. The one called Vegeta was small, though much larger than the Saiyan girl, but he had a scowl on his face that told of a cruel disposition. The one called Nappa was much, much larger than Vegeta, larger even than Piccolo, with the same scowl on his face.

The Saiyans had indeed been looking for Goku and had informed them that they would wait for Goku. Chiara didn't know how long they would wait and what would happen when they decided they had waited long enough, but she hoped her daddy showed up soon.

What wasn't known to the fighters in the clearing was that Baba had gone to the Kame House, along with her crystal ball, and Master Roshi, ChiChi, Bulma and the others were now using the crystal ball to see what was going on in the clearing.

The crystal ball showed the Saiyans, making Bulma and ChiChi scream, and then showed the Z-fighters. While Bulma gushed over how well Yamcha looked, the crystal ball focused on two small tots. ChiChi screamed as she saw them and grabbed hold of the ball.

"My babies, my babies are out there," ChiChi shouted, before really looking at the twins. ChiChi screamed again as she saw what they looked like. "That green monster has turned my children into savages."

"Calm down, ChiChi, they look alright to me," Ox-King soothed.

"I am their mother, I know what they're supposed to look like, and this is not it," ChiChi wailed.

Ox-King tried to calm ChiChi down, but to no avail. ChiChi insisted on going down there herself, going as far as equipping herself with weapons, but her father would not let her go. They had no choice but to watch and pray.

Back in the clearing, Gohan was trying to explain to Chiara that Kakkarot was their father.

"But I thought daddy's name was Goku," Chiara whispered to Gohan.

"His real name is Kakkarot," Gohan whispered back, stumbling over the name a little bit.

While Chiara and Gohan held their whispered conversation, Piccolo tensely watched them from a small distance. 'What was I thinking?. Gohan may be ready, but Chiara's not. I'll wind up getting her killed.' He turned away from the others, not wanting them to see the concern on his face and resolved to keep an eye on the Saiyans. 'I'll just have to keep them away from her... somehow.'

Not far from where Chiara and Gohan were sitting, Tien, Yamcha, Krillin and Chao-Su were also watching the Saiyans, wondering whether Goku would show up in time, and if he did, whether he would be able to beat the Saiyans.