Near the Check-in Station, Otherworld.

The last thing Jake remembered was excrutiating pain in his chest, and then the ground coming up to hit him. Then blackness, and then here he was standing on a stone path surrounded by clouds. "What the….?" he thought as he looked around.

Once he saw Piccolo standing with his arms crossed to his left he groaned.

Piccolo just smirked, and replied. "Took you long enough."

Jake huffed then bit back a retort when he noticed that the Namekian had a golden halo over his head. He then looked around at the endless clouds surrounding the both of them, then noticed the stone path which seemed to go on a ways to a group of asian looking buildings, "What is this place? I thought I was dead?"

Piccolo rolled his eyes, "Of course we're dead no thanks to Vegeta."

Jake's expression darkened as he remembered the fight, "I can't believe the way that arrogant prick just toyed with us." Then as he remembered Daria, and Jane were more than likely still fighting at the moment changed to a look of concern, "I wonder how the girls are doing?"

"Hopefully better than we are." Piccolo grumbled then added, "Might not hurt to hang around here and see if they show."

Jake noticed ahead of them were a long string of small white clouds which appeared to be in a line to the buildings ahead. "Are those souls?"

Piccolo glanced over, and replied "Yeah they must be unremarkable as they didn't retain their bodies like we did."

"How do you know all of this?" Jake asked.

"How do you not?" Piccolo retorted

"Well it's not my fault the Earthlings have no knowledge of the afterlife. They have more religions than you can count."

"And yet you insist of living among them."

"Beats living in the middle of nowhere."

"At least the middle of nowhere is peaceful, unlike your city."

Jake rolled his eyes, "Hmpf, Lawndale wishes it was a city."

Piccolo's retort was cut off when a short blue person wearing a white shirt, black pants, and a black tie with two small horns growing out of his forehead asked, "Excuse me you two need to get in line."

Jake was taken aback at the sight due to his distracting argument with Piccolo and gave a surprised shout, "Woah is that a demon!"

Piccolo rolled his eyes as he replied, "No it's worse than a demon, he's one of King Yemma's bureaucrats."

"King Yemma? Who the hell is that?"

The blue man gave an annoyed look as he replied, "He rules the ogres of otherworld, and judges souls. Now get in line we don't have all day."

Piccolo smirked as he added, "Just all eternity."

The blue man pinched the bridge of his nose as he exasperated, "Why do I even bother." as the two warriors took their place in the long line.

Hours later both warriors entered the check in station, an asian styled mansion, where King Yema judged souls. Jake immediately noticed that everything inside seemed to be giant sized, and curiously enough had the aesthetics of a middle level managers office. In the center of which was King Yema, a colossal sized giant in a blue business suit with black hair, and beard, who sat at a simple desk which stood four times higher than Jake stood tall.

Jake muttered to Piccolo, "Wow this isn't what I expected at all. This looks less heavenly and more like a DMV."

Piccolo glanced over before replying, "No sure what a DMV is, but yes this isn't what I expected either."

"Excuse me if I'm interrupting anything important, however I do need to determine your eternal fate's." King Yema bellowed to the two warriors with annoyance.

Piccolo taken aback at offending King Yema just froze with a shocked look on his face, while Jake panicked, and stammered out, "Uh sorry your kingship uh sir…"

"Hmpf." King Yema grunted before he continued, "Well since you are both are here might as well judge you together. So we have a Namekian self styled "Demon King" who's been menacing Earth for decades, and a self exiled Saiyan warrior with the blood of thousands on his hands who's been playing family man for the last twenty years in relative peace."

Jake feeling like he's got a leg up on Piccolo gave him a smug look until King Yema noticed, and continued, "Who also routinely jokes about conquering the planet Earth, AND encourages his daughter that murdering people is an acceptable form of conflict resolution."

Jakes smug look quickly faded as Piccolo smirked back at him.

The giant man glared at them both while practically yelling, "You are both irredeemable monsters who deserve nothing more than eternal punishment for your actions!" Which caused both warriors to take a step back before they revert to their well honed defense mechanism of crossing their arms and glaring at their advisory in proud defiance.

King Yema then leaned back into his chair, "However their is the fact that you both put aside your rivalry for the purpose of saving said planet's inhabitants from extermination with no regard for your own lives. A fact that King Kai happened to notice. Therefore at his insistence I will allow you the choice of traveling to his planet via snake way for training or... eternal punishment."

Piccolo replied, "Gee that's a hard one, the former." To which Jake added, "Yep same here."

King Yema glared harder at them then muttered to no one in particular, "The arrogance of it all. By Kami King Kai if I come to regret this you're the one who's going to Hell when you die."

Then louder to the two warriors, "Get out of my sight!"

Later after another ogre bureaucrat lead the two out to the entrance to snake way, which literally looked like a giant snake made of green stone with a path on its back that stretched off above the yellow clouds out as far as the eye could see.

"Wow how long is this thing? " Jake asked the ogre.

"Its one hundred thousand kilometers long. It'll take you months if not years to walk across it, only King Yema has managed it."

"He walked across it?" Piccolo replied incredulously. "Who would actually walk one hundred thousand kilometers?"

"I know right!" Jake added before turning back toward the ogre, "So are you any good at math?"

"Ugh yeah I it's part of my job." The ogre replied confidently.

"Ok so if one were to fly at three hundred kilometers an hour over snake way how long would that take?"

The ogre looked up as he tried to estimate that, "Well uh it's not that long if you fly and that's awful fast…."

Jake cut off his train of thought as he said a quick "See ya." Then rocketed off at top speed leaving behind a trail of blue ki which streaked off into the distance.

"Woah! He's fast!"

Piccolo smiled, and added, "Yeah the short answer is not very long." Before he rocketed off to follow.

The ogre just looked on in amazement, "Oh man King Yema's not going to be happy that they made it quicker than he did."

The White House, Washington DC.

President Sutherland sat half stunned as his military advisers finished the presentation on the apparent alien visitation that occurred two days ago. The Air Force had tracked the descent of the two spacecraft once they showed up on NORAD's air defence radars whose range stretched out half way to the moon.

Originally their purpose was to look for missiles from the Soviet Union however they also were quite up to the task of tracking space debris, and meteoroids. Once it was determined that the objects were slowing, and that they intended to softland Sutherland immediately dispatched a diplomatic team to meet up with whatever emerged. After all this would have been a monumental moment in Human history.

Conventional wisdom indicated that any extraterrestrial species who were more advanced would more than likely be peaceful. After all it didn't make sense to travel the enormous distance between stars just to conquer a planet. Especially when the same resources could be had for free in the asteroid belt. However his diplomatic ground team turned out to be too slow to make it to the arrival of the ship, however the FBI and the Air Force were not.

Luckily for them a couple of FBI agents had been monitoring a suspected drug dealer with laser audio sensing equipment at a hidden pot farm nearby. They immediately relocated to where the ships were expected to land, and set up in a secluded location. They lazed the window on one of the pods after the occupants left it. Sound wave bouncing off the glass caused it to vibrate slightly which the laser was able to pick up. The agents managed to record pretty much the entire exchange between the alien, and the apparent group of aliens who showed up to greet them. All the while under the watchful eye of a Predator drone which orbited at 30,000 feet.

To the horror of everybody involved, conventional wisdom turned out to be wrong. Earth was supposed to have been purged of life and sold decades ago, but for some reason this didn't happen much to everybody's relief. Though it begged the question as to why the Earth had been spared perhaps they would never know for sure. The fact that two individuals were sent to accomplish this was ludicrous to Sutherland, until he saw the footage of the fight if it could be even called that. The fight had been something straight out of comic books or movies, super powered beings clashed in a titanic battle which left the landscape a scorched cratered mess.

Engineers had burned the midnight oil to determine the energy output of the various physical, and energy attacks, not to mention the craters left behind. Much to the engineers surprise the results were terrifying to behold. The combatants involved could easily shrug off humanities strongest weapons. The explosion at the end had the yield of a decent sized nuclear weapon which thankfully didn't leave any radioactivity. As it stood there was no way the military could deal with this threat. Not without laying waste to the country that is.

Sutherland had been torn on the whole incident. On the one hand he was grateful the invasion was stopped by an apparently friendly group. Or at least a group who didn't want the planet decimated. The words of the leader, Vegeta he thought that's what the aliens name was, stuck in his mind, [i]"I've purged plenty of planets all by myself. Murdered every last person on them."[/i]

Luckily for Sutherland it didn't take long for General Buck Conroy to show up with group of high ranking officers wanting to show him some information they had. To Sutherland's amazement they hadn't been completely in the dark about this threat. They had detected two similar pods decent at different times decades ago during the mid 70's, and another in 1980. The military never noticed any occupants, but rumors of powerful fighters began to spread. Fighters with unbelievable strength.

Most of these rumors led no where, however the US military determined the downfall of the Red Ribbon army, a paramilitary organization with criminal ties, was due to single unique individual. Most of the information at the time was second hand, however a few video clips of this boy with a tail firing energy blasts from his hands did emerge. Though nothing has been heard of this individual since his death by a green skinned man who looked like the man in the drone footage.

General Conroy finished his presentation with information about a possible countermeasure being developed by a scientist named Dr. Gero who was formerly affiliated with the Red Ribbon army. A fact which troubled Southerland however he had little choice in the matter. More invaders could already be on their way, or their so called "savors" could turn on them. The lives of billions fell on him to make the right decision, and a decision to protect them was the only moral course of action.

Sutherland stood and addressed the General and his aids, "You will have your funding General. We need a deterrent against this kind of threat."

Conroy smiled, "Of course sir. I'll get my people started immediately."

Capsule Corp, Anaheim California

Slowly but surely Daria regained consciousness. The first thing she noticed had been the fact that she felt sore all over her body, however she also appeared to be lying in a bed. She slowly opened her eyes which ached against the light in the room. Gradually they focused on her surroundings, luckily for her Saiyans rarely needed eye correction, and she saw that she was in a hospital bed.

She initially felt a wave a panic before she realised she wasn't restrained in anyway, not that restraints would hold her, this of course caused a heartrate monitor to beep more quickly. She slowly sat up, and looked at the red skin on her left arm which had an IV stuck in it.

Daria lifted her blanket a bit and looked at the typical hospital gown they had put her in. She dropped the blanket on herself as the door opened as a grey haired man in a lab coat walked in. Curiously he had a small black cat perched on his shoulder, had black framed glasses, and a lit cigarette in his mouth.

Daria noted the ventilation system worked a little harder to draw the smoke away. "This isn't what I expected at all." She thought before asking, "Um, should you be smoking in here? This is a hospital right, and hopefully not some secret government lab?"

The man chuckled, "Oh it's fine I engineered the ventilation system myself. One could light a good sized fire in here, and not suffer from smoke inhalation. The name is Dr. Briefs by the way, and I do hope you are comfortable Ms. Morgendorffer. You were a little worse for wear when my daughter brought you and your friend here."

"Um yeah fine." Daria replied even though she was slightly confused. Then after a few moments her groggy mind remember that Dr. Briefs just so happened be the genius founder of Capsule Corp one of the largest corporations on the planet. His daughter was none other than Bulma Briefs whom was as smart if not smarter than him.

Of course given her state the first thing she blurted out was, "I must be in California."

"That you are my dear, Anaheim specifically. Bulma has a soft spot for you lone adventurers. You remind her of a friend she had years back. Though it's the least we can do given the fact you four saved our bacon more than likely from those aliens."

Daria thought to herself, [i]"Well I guess I'm not a prisoner then. In that case I guess blowing the place up and escaping is out of the question as it would be a bit rude.[/i]

Memories from the fight came to the surface of Daria's mind, and she asked. "Did I finish off Vegeta? I don't remember anything after the explosion."

Dr. Briefs replied absentmindedly, "Yeah explosions do have that effect on short term memories. Oh no I'm afraid he made it back to his ship, watched him leave the planet myself."

"Dammit." Daria growled, " It'll only be a matter of time before he comes back for revenge."

Before Dr. Briefs could say anything the woman pulled her covers off of her and started to get out of bed till she remembered her lack of clothes, and immediately threw them back over her bare legs. Needless to say Dr. Briefs turned very quickly to face the wall away from her. "Uh are you sure leaving so soon is a good idea with your injuries?"

Daria replied with a red face, "Pants, I require pants."

Dr. Briefs replied as he hastily left, "Of course my dear.. Uh… I'll be right back."

Later Jane walked in with a mischievous smile on her face. She wore her black boots, but had blue pants on with a black shirt covered by a blue Capsule Corp jacket. "So the maiden has awoken."

Daria groaned as Jane laid out similar clothes for her red faced friend.

"So Dr. Briefs looked a little high strung when he came to get me, and believe me when I say that isn't his typical aura from what I've noticed over the last few days. So what did you do?" Jane inquired.

Daria just mumbled quietly "Hmmm I forgot I was wearing just this stupid gown."

Jane laughed, "Oh so you flashed the good Dr. Well that's one way to land a genius billionare. But you do know he's married right?"

"Very funny Lane, I'm only completely embarrassed enough as it is. But that's not our current problem."

"Oh don't worry Daria you should see his trophy wife, he likes them young it seems. You'll have no problem being the next Mrs. Briefs. Though you would be younger than Bulma so that might be weird. Think she'll hate you forever?"

Daria held out her right hand at Jane as she glared, "You know what? I don't need that bridesmaids dress to bury you in if there's nothing left to bury."

Jane chuckled, "Ok amiga I'll leave you alone. I'll just be right outside while you change."

Daria just groaned for a moment, "Knowing her she'll never let me forget this."

Daria felt as if she had been walking through the labyrinth of the Capsule Corp campus for miles before she finally reached the kitchen of the Briefs house. "I swear this place must take up a couple of city blocks. I'm surprised Jane didn't get lost on the way."

Daria had read alittle about the Brief family in the past, and knew that they were very brilliant and eccentric, however she didn't expect the scale of the campus in which they lived. Most of the super rich lived in simple mansions, not a campus which included medical facilities, and an industrial wing. Then again the Briefs are not your typical wealthy business family.

Once both girls arrived they were greeted by all three members of the Brief's family who were sitting around a table with a rather large amount of food on it. Bulma was the first to speak, "Well since you are awake we thought you might be hungry, and if you're anything like Goku was then hopefully this will be enough.

Mr. and Mrs. Briefs got up as they entered. "We'll leave you three alone. I have some work to attend too anyway. Nice meeting you all." Mrs. Briefs added as they left, "If you need anything at all just holler."

Daria smiled slightly and sat down. She hadn't realised how hungry she was since waking up, after all she'd been out for days. "Thank you. Normally me and my father try not to go overboard to keep cost down, however after intense fights we do both tend to binge."

After getting a plate full of food she asked Jane, "Goku, was that the name of the Saiyan Raditz was looking for?"

Jane snip her soda and nodded, "Yeah it was, while you were out I filled Bulma in on everything since she seemed to be already familiar people of our abilities."

Daria raised an eyebrow at that and looked over to Bulma, "Oh?"

Bulma sighed, "I met Goku while I was looking for the Dragonballs as a young teen. He was one of the nicest most pure people I've ever met. He had a tail like yours and was an amazing fighter, he even took down the Red Ribbon army single handedly not to mention various monsters and bandits."

Daria was surprised she knew from her father that Saiyans were sent to other planets as children to conquer them as they were aggressive by nature. The thought of a selfless kind hearted Saiyan wasn't what she expected.

"That's surprising my father said young Saiyans are usually quite aggressive, violent, and were used to conquer weak planets."

Jane smirked as she tried to imagine a wild rampaging baby Daria, but kept imagining her reading, and eating pizza. "Maybe if somebody tried to take the book away." she thought while chewing.

Bulma looked up as if in thought then added, "Well according to him he was kinda like that until he fell and hit his head as a baby then he changed."

"I see." Daria replied, as she continued, "I'm sorry to ask, but what happened to him in the end?"

Bulma's expression darkened, "There was a martial arts tournament where he and some of his friends that we travelled with participated. Piccolo entered the tournament and killed them all out of revenge for Goku defeating him his father in battle. He said he was going to rule the world, but I never saw him again after he left."

Daria tried to be sympathetic, "I'm sorry for your loss. Piccolo killed Jane a few months ago so we're not exactly on friendly terms with him. I suspect my father kept his world dominating tendencies in check over the years. Me and Jane were on our way to kill him once and for all when Raditz showed up, and ruined everything."

Jane sighed, "And now without Piccolo Kami is gone, and with him the Dragonballs. Now what are we going to do."

"I don't know Jane." Daria replied sadly at the thought of her father being gone permanently.

Just then all three girls heard a voice in their collective heads, "I hate to interrupt your conversation, but I just wanted to inform you that Mr. Popo is on his way."

"Who the hell was that?!" Bulma replied in shock hoping the other two heard the voice.

"King Kai?" Daria asked the ceiling with a puzzled expression.

"Bingo! Man Kami was right you are a sharp girl."

"How is he talking in my head?" Bulma replied frantically.

Jane just shrugged, and added, "I think he's a god or something. Kami knew him."

"Whoa I have a god talking to me now?!"

"I know right!" Jane exclaimed.

King Kai just chuckled, "We'll normally I don't pay this close attention to the goings on of the various planets in my Galaxy, but for you I've made an exception."

"And here we were trying not to be popular." Daria replied.

"Well for starters you two girls are part of the reason seven billion people aren't dead, and second I need your help resurrecting Kami. Can't have Earth go on guardian less now can we."

"But the Dragonballs are gone." Jane added.

"No Earth's Dragonballs are gone. However Kami was a Namekian from the planet Namek, they have their own set of Dragonballs naturally since they invented them. You just need to go there and use them. Mr. Popo will lead you to the ship Kami came in a few centuries ago."

"Centuries?" Bulma exclaimed, "How do we know it will even still work?"

King Kai scoffed, "Unlike the stuff you humans make some things are actually built to last. Besides I have it on good authority that you are more than qualified to make any repairs that are necessary to it."

"Good authority? Who's authority?"

"Why my own of course. I am a god after all."

"Oh thats right I guess you are" Bulma replied somewhat uncomfortably.

Daria frowned slightly, and asked hopefully, "King Kai is.. Is my father there?"

"Oh no not yet Daria. He's still traveling down Snake way. Both him and Piccolo got special dispensation to train with me. Think of it as a reward for helping to save the world."

"So they didn't end up in hell?" She asked slightly stunned.

"Ha just barely! My was King Yama angry. But all kidding aside you four really fought admirably besides your father and Piccolo have changed over the years for the better."

"Piccolo! Change!" Bulma angrily exclaimed, "I think not, that monster killed Goku, and all of my friends!"

King Kai sounded slightly flustered by the outburst, "Well… yeah… I guess he did…. Anyway I have to go. Um, important business to attend to. Mr. Popo will be there shortly."

Jane smirked at King Kai's sudden departure, then added, "Well this is certainly good news, once we get the Dragonballs back we can wish your father back!"

Daria smiled, "And he gets to train with a god to boot. I bet he never expected that. It'll probably go to his head."

Mr. Popo arrive shortly afterward, and took Bulma to the resting place of Kami's ship. After a quick flight into space to Jupiter they landed at Capsule Corp where she began refurbishing it for the trip to Namek.

Denver, Colorado

Lazuli, a slender blond teenage girl, held her jacket closer as a gust of cold air blasted through an alley where she and her brother, a dark brown haired teenage boy, huddled. They had hitch hiked to Denver after they were chased out of the last city they were in by the authorities. Lazuli, and her brother Lapis had run away from an orphanage that had been their home for many years after their mother had passed away.

Things had been going well until a change in management coupled with a cut in funding had made life harder for them there. Her brother Lapis finally suggested leaving the orphanage when he noticed one of the new caregivers, a rather creepy man, had been leering at his sister even though she was only fourteen. Lapis tried to tell the staff, however his concerns fell on deaf ears from the overworked and underpaid staff.

Due to a chronic funding shortage in the state of Kansas most social programs were underfunded, and therefore inspections and background checks were few.

They had managed to slip out in the night, and dodge the subsequent half hearted manhunt and made it to Denver by hitchhiking. However all attempts to find any assistance or employment had eluded them due to their age as at fifteen Lapis was too young to work. They also hadn't expected it to be colder due to the higher elevation.

Lazuli looked over to her brother as he sipped a cup coffee they managed to get from panhandling for money, "Do you think the shelter will let us stay tonight?"

Lapis looked over at his sister, and tried to be optimistic as to not worry her, "This is a big city, much bigger than Wichita so I'm sure there will be room. Let's go ahead and find out. Maybe we can save a spot if we're early. Plus walking will help us stay warm."

Lazuli nodded in agreement, and her brother stood first so he could help her up. Suddenly though she heard a curious burst of compressed air come from the left down towards the end of the alley. Then to her shock she saw her brother's eyes glaze over as he collapsed to the ground with some sort of dart sticking out of his left shoulder.

Lazuli immediately jumped to her feet as her adrenaline kicked in, and started to run. However she heard another puff of compressed air, and then felt pain from her back as the dart hit her. Immediately she became groggy and fell to her knees. Before she lost consciousness an old man with long white hair, and a mustache approached.

The man walked up to the two fallen teens one was a male with black hair, and the other was a blond female. Probably his sister from her looks.

He thought to himself, "You two will be perfect. Much better than a purely artificial being. Once I'm done with you two I'll finally have get my revenge for the humiliating destruction of the Red Ribbon army!"

After quietly loading the unconscious youths into a nondescript van near the end of the alley he paused as his cellphone rang which he answered, "Yes?"

A gruff southern voice on the other end answered, "Dr. Gero. General Buck here. The president approved your funding via executive order. You may proceed with the project as planned."

"That's very good news General. I will get started immediately."

Dr. Gero thought as he hung up, "Oh yes General. You will get the weapon you want all right, and with it my revenge!"

Frieza Planet 122 was a small barely habitable rock in the middle of nowhere. The fact that Frieza even bothered with the small outpost on it confused Apu. It had to be one of the most boring postings he could think of. Nothing of note ever happened except for when Vegeta's pod had landed a few days prior.

The young prince was an absolute wreck just barely alive. Apu wasn't sure he would survive even in a healing tank, but the stubborn Saiyan seemed to be doing well as he looked at the console on the tank.

A soldier approached Apu and stated, "Sir I finished loading the medical supplies you wanted in the pod. Its ready to go at anytime."

Apu replied while he adjusted some settings on the tank, "Good. Frieza wanted extra supplies for his trip to Namek."

The soldier asked, "Namek eh? Never heard of it. Frieza conquering the place or something? He never does that much himself."

Apu continued, "He heard a rumor about some sort of wish orbs called Dragonballs. If they exist he's going to wish for immortality."

Vegeta's interest perked up at that. Unbeknownst to the two people outside of the round fluid filled tank he wasn't unconscious, but merely meditating.

"Dragonballs eh. So that ugly tyrant thinks he can make us suffer for all eternity. Well we'll just have to see about that after all such things are reserved for royalty, and not for some treacherous lizard. I'll get there first and once I claim my prize I'll claim my birthright as a prince and make him suffer the rule of another for a change."

Vegeta smirked under his breathing mask and started raising his ki.

The last thing Apu and the soldier saw was a bright blue light coming from the window of the healing tank before they were vaporised an instant later.