Yamcha, Krillin, Chi-Chi and Tien were looking up. They saw 2 saiyan pods descend. Both had a large energy signature. Because of their training with the gravity machine they were more then a match for these aliens in terms of powerlevel. But as was told by Piccolo about aliens like Captain Ginyu and Guldo a powerlevel is not always their greatest strength. They were not going to underestimate these warriors. Yamcha was the leader of the team, even though Tien was the strongest. He ordered them to split up, Yamcha and Krillin go to one pod, Chi-Chi and Tien the other. Krillin and Yamcha were almost at the same powerlevel, but Krillin might be a bit higher according to Korin. Logical, since he had been training under Master Roshi weeks before they met. Yamcha had been following a girl named Bulma who was out travelling and he planned to steal her vehicle untill he was stopped by Master Roshi. He decided to stay with them to learn the Kamehameha wave and fight in the tournament. Tien and Chi Chi they met in the tournament a few weeks later. Tien won, an arrogant guy who didn't respect Krillin or Yamcha at first. But they teamed up when the red ribbon army decided to attack and steal from Bulma and her family. Together, under training from Master Roshi and Korin they formed the Z warriors. Tien learned their techniques and he taught them his. Now, they are all really close, like a family. He and Krillin saw the pod land with a large thud. They stood at the edge of the crater waiting for the alien pirate to emerge. Krillin was shaking like a leaf, he always was.

"Don't worry, remember your training." Yamcha said.

"I'm sorry, i can't help it. What if its some hot alien chick coming out there? Then we will both be in trouble." Krillin said in his nervous voice. He was right, Yamcha still had problems around girls. With Chi Chi it was different as she was much younger and he saw her grow up, and Bulma was Bulma, she broke through it pretty quickly with her forwardness. But still every time he sees a girl, he goes numb. Krillin had the same kind of problem, a living with Master Roshi didn't really help. Luckily though what came out of the ship looked nothing like a chick. It was a man, purple skin with a skull sort of like a toad, he had a scouter on his head, attached to one of the holes in his head that are probably his ears. He looked at them. He lifted up into the air. he touched the scouter, when it stopped bleeping he smiled. Yamcha and Krillin moved back as the alien touched down on the edge.

"Powerlevels of only 2000? How pathetic. Bow down before your new master Kewi and i might spare you." He said. Krillin and Yamcha looked at eachother. This alien doesn't seem to have any magical powers. They nodded, then they turned up the heat. They let their powerlevels fly. Kewi's scouter started bleeping and the symbols on it started going crazy. Kewi's smile changed into surprise and fear.

"10,000? Huh? 15... 20... 40,000? Impossible! Its still climbing. 75,000? They are stronger then me? 85,000? You gotta be kidding me, its still going up!" By the time they were done Kewi was shaking in his boots. Then his fear changed into anger, he moved his right foot backwards. As he made the move Krillin and Yamcha both reacted at the same time. They kicked Kewi in his chest hard, his armor broke and he flew, already dead, backwards through the forest. As they touched back down they looked at eachother and smiled. For a moment they thought that was pretty cool, but regained their cool knowing it could have just been luck. The others might not have been so lucky. They went over there immediately. They contacted the Teen Titans saying they took out the first enemy. They arrived at Chi Chi and Tien pretty quickly, they too were faced with an alien. Krillin and Yamcha recognized the species unmistakenly the same as Guldo from piccolo's description, the time freezer. This could be a problem. Tien appeared to be talking to the alien. He then raised his power level and right after so did Chi Chi. This didn't really put fear into the alien as it couldn't even detect KI. Instead it raised his arms and sucked up some air. He was going to freeze time, or at least thats what they first thought. The alien, instead of sucking up as much air as possible screamed out and bend his wrists down. Strangely Tien and Chi Chi didn't react, they didn't appear to be moving at all. Krillin and Yamcha looked at eachother, time was still continuing so he hadn't used his power yet. What is going on? They sneaked closer. Even though it wasn't wearing a scouter Yamcha and Krillin could understand the creature just fine, he must have some sort of translator implant or something. It was talking about winning and how soon the Earth will be theirs. It gave him joy to figure out how to kill Tien and Chi Chi. Yamcha didn't understand, why are Tien and Chi Chi not attacking? Krillin tapped Yamcha on the shoulder. Yamcha looked at him, Krillin was looking up and pointed. They saw hundreds of small green pods coming down, quite small. What on Earth were those? A new wave of attack? The alien noticed them too.

"Ah good, my reinforcements have arrived, the Saibamen. They are not so efficient like a strike team but they are very obedient and numberous. We will have this planet subdued in no time. Luckily there are some more elite ones delivered, not only the weak green Saibamen." He said as he paced around. Tien and Chi Chi just stayed unmoving. Something is wrong, they seem to be paralyzed. They need to move quickly. There were a lot of bushes around and since Krillin was the smallest he was the first one close enough to quickly take out the target. An attack from afar might harm Tien and Chi Chi, they stuck with their training. The alien walked up to a tree and with his magic powers broke it off and turned it into a sharp pole. he pointed it at Tien.

"My brother always liked to kill his enemies this way. I am more of a up close and person type, but since my brother got killed on Namek i started to take over some of his moves. I actually start to enjoy them too. Now, catch." He shot the spear at Tien. Krillin shot out o the bushes and quickly took care of the spear. Without hesitation he shot a big beam of KI towards the alien and vaporized him. Immediately as he died Tien and Chi Chi were released of the paralyzing spell.

"Thanks Krillin. Man, that alien almost had us. i can't believe we fell for that trick. Won't happen again thats for sure." Tien immediately said. Chi Chi was a bit shaken.

"We need to figure out what these saibamen are, i sense even more of these things coming down all around us. We should burn these things before they hit the ground." Yamcha said. They all nodded.

"I don't see any red ones between them, they are all green." Krillin said as they were destroying clouds of these things. They had decided to exterminate them in a ring so they could centralise the ones that would fall down before they can destroy them. Finally they stopped falling, they had burned maybe 60 percent of them. They all rushed over to the spot were they couldn't reach, a lot in the water of a small lake in the middle of the forest. They hoped these seeds won't work without land, but it could have been the other way around just as much. This way they got the most burned and the rest pretty isolated from the populated areas near the forest. Whatever was coming, they had it surrounded. The seeds that landed on the water banks burrowed themselves into the ground. Chi Chi and Krillin quickly went after them and blasted a lot of the spots apart, but very soon they burrowed too deep. Next the ground started rumbling, and the water started boiling. What came out of the ground a water was more horrible then they could ever imagine. Small creatures at the height of a 5 year old emerged, red eyes and a mouth full of razor sharp teeth. They had 3 claws on each of their hands and feet. Their head was split on the top and looked liked a closed venus plant, some sort of goo was seen dripping out of it. Most of the creatures were green, but there were black, grey and red ones among them too. As soon as they saw the Z warriors they attacked. As they did a high screeching sound came from their mouths, very annoying. They were fast little buggers and they surprised them at first. But the green ones turned out not to be so tough to take out. The grey ones were a lot tougher though and Yamcha had trouble holding of 3 of them at the same time. They didn't seem to be able to fly so that gave them a good advantage at first. But these things were smart and found all sorts of ways to reach them high up. There were more of these things then they first thought. More and more of those green ones came out of the water and ground all around them. Too many, they needed reinforcements. Yamcha blasted the grey ones away from him long enough to alert the Teen Titans and the rest of the Earth defence team that they needed help. Yamcha focussed his power on a single grey one and managed to overtake it eventually. He noticed the red ones acted like leaders, giving orders from afar. The black ones where just standing still, but very focussed on the fighting all around them. They tried to kill the green ones first but the grey ones were constantly preventing kills. Only Yamcha and Tien seemed to be able to take on the grey ones good enough. Chi Chi and Krillin were having a hard time handling them. Tien decided to go after a red one but it had a tougher skin then the rest of them, but were not as poweful. Tien managed to kill one after some serious moves Yamcha didn't even know he had. This caused the Saibamen to change tactics and the red ones joined the fighting. The black ones just kept on staying put, Yamcha noticed 2 pairs looked at each one of the Z warriors together. He wondered what was up with that. Suddenly one of the green ones bowed his head and it folded open. From it shot a smoking liquid that hissed through the air straight at Chi Chi. Before she could react though it hit an invisible barrier. Chi Chi looked behind her. The Teen Titans had arrived. Starfire, Darkwing, Dove, Zatara, Kid Flash and Beast boy were all here.

"We heard you could use a little help." Darkwing said as he cut a green saibaman in half. As the Titans joined the fight the black saibamen started to move too. One moved in front of Yamcha, he kept staring straight at him. Yamcha hesitated to attack it, it didn't make any moves yet. Yamcha punched but it grabbed his fist and squeezed. Yamcha screamed out in pain, these were even tougher then the grey ones. But Yamcha noticed something about this one, it started to change. It got taller, its color changed. Suddenly Yamcha realised, it was changing into him. All of a sudden there was a perfect copy of him standing in front of him. It still had that high screeching noise the saibamen made as it attacked him. It was like fighting a mirror version of himself. Every move Yamcha made the saibaman countered it identically. Its power level had increased too Yamcha noticed, he felt similar increases to the ones that had copied the others. The titans seemed at a loss.

"Which ones are the real ones? I can't tell them apart." He heard Kid Flash say.

"Well they are not the only ones that can change their appearance." Beast boy said and he heard him growl. A green grizzly bear then ran through the battlefield.

"I can tell them apart. Zatara, try your magic on them. Starfire, Beastboy, Flash, I point them out and you attack. Over there!" Dove said and she pointed at the fake Yamcha without hesitation. Good call Yamcha thought. Starfire came at it directly and fired a starbolt at the creature but it deflected it. Beast Boy and Kid Flash attacked the fake Tien and Krillin. Darkwing took on both the fake Chi-Chi and 2 red Saibaman. He had help from Zatara though. The few other remaining saibamen were now really starting to spread out, some even made run for it. It could take some time to find them all.

"erutaerC nrut ot enots" Zatara said. "It's not working directly on these things. Gotta improvise. ssarG otni eulg." As he said it the red saibaman was stuck and Darkwing killed it quickly. Yamcha fired a kamehameha on his mirror self and it blocked it like expected. But it didn't know Starfire's moves and she kicked it into kingdom come. The tables seemed to be turning. Yamcha smiled. His smile faded as he felt 2 huge KI's approaching from above. He looked up.

"Tien, Krillin, Chi-Chi. You feel that?" He asked. Krillin grabbed one of the last grey ones by the arm and fired a Ki blast on its head, decapitating it. Then he looked up too and started trembling. "Oh man, that's scary. We can't handle that even if there were twice as much of us. Is that that King Cold fellow? Who is with him?"

"His son." They heard somebody say. They turned around. It was the saiyan Vegeta, he was hiding his power level from them. He could have stood there since the fighting started. Now Yamcha felt his power though, terrible aura. Things just got ugly.


How are we going to stop these monsters Hal Jordan thought. He followed the JLA down towards Earth. Aquaman and Cyborg were already on the surface, backed by a random collection of Earth's heroes, among them the JSA and Z warriors. Cyborg had told the teen titans to back off for now, Frieza and King Cold were way too much for them to handle. Same could be said for the Z warriors though, but they were not children to be ordered around. Besides, the planet was now being infested by some alien organisms the enemy fleet released. The teen titans will be busy enough dealing with that. As Hal came to the surface Kilowog and Kyle Rayner joined him.

"So, what do we do with the Saiyan Vegeta?" Kyle asked

"I'm turning that poozer in." Kilowog said in return. Hal shook his head.

"No, Abin Sur said he was cleared of all charges. We must honor that. You can only turn him in if he commits crimes again, you don't have evidence of that yet. Right now he is a helping hand from a corner we were not expecting, we need him." Hal said, although he didn't like it either. Vegeta might try to gain a wish for immortality like he tried on Namek. If he gets it, his clear record doesn't mean a thing anymore. As a saiyan he would eventually grow bored and start killing for entertainment.

"How exactly do we need him? Our rings are more than a match for these changelings, the corps has been fighting them for years. Kilowog has defeated many of them before." Kyle said. Kilowog smiled and nodded.

"Yes, i was only a cadet when i first ran into the planet trade organization. I learned how to use my ring fighting these poozers. These 2 however, are different. There are no changelings like King Cold and his family. Their powers go beyond anything we have seen before. Frieza has been seen using great powers but never anything like what he showed on Namek. And supposedly his father is even stronger. There is an even bigger problem for us though." Kilowog said.

"Yes, these ones know of our weakness to yellow. Frieza demonstrated it against Abin Sur on Namek, it's what killed him. If they can destroy our constructs and shield themselves from them we need all the help we can get. This is a fight about energy levels, not willpower. Right now they have the upper hand, no member of the Z warriors can match their power level, not even close. Vegeta must be much closer though, he can mean the difference. Plus, we need to help delay them for the dragonballs to be used so they can wish back Mark, who has trained in the other world. His power must be more then a match now. At least according to the guardians." Hal said.

"Vegeta wouldn't come here if he had no chance against the changelings." Kyle agreed.

"No, but he would come here if he tought he could outmatch Piccolo and us to get to the dragonballs first." Kilowog then said. Nobody could say anything against that. They approached the landing spot. The battle had already begun. Or at least that's what it looked like. All around were craters and a couple of the JLA were on the ground. The Z warriors were still standing though, Yamcha was readying a kamehameha wave and Tien was up in the air firing his tri beams. Hal couldn't spot Krillin or Chi-Chi though. The spot Tien was aiming at was all dust and explosions. Yamcha released his kamehameha which was huge and the resulting explosion caused the ground to tear apart all around the area. Yamcha dropped down on his knees and Tien landed next to him. Hal was close enough now to hear.

"I think we did it! Nobody could have survived that last kamehameha." Tien said. But Krillin pointed at the smoke and gave a yelp. Through the smoke they could see 2 figures. King Cold and his son Frieza, smirking and not a scratch on them. Frieza was half robot, his tail, legs and lower waist. Also the left side of his face and left arm were all mechanical. His father looked like Frieza in his second transformation form, only a lot larger. Changelings usually were not so big, but then again normal changelings had only 3 transformations and it was said King Cold had 5.

"Oh my, son. I can't believe i was reluctant to join you to this mud ball at first. But if i knew it was this much fun I would have ordered the fleet here weeks ago. What amusing little creatures these humans, so pathetic. It would have been a nice addition to our collection if the Saiyan send here had done his job properly. But i suppose if he did we wouldn't have seen these weak humans struggle for their existence. How humourous." King Cold said in a cold, queer voice.

"Whatever pleases you father. It's amazing to think the kryptonian didn't just outright take this planet over from these humans, look at them. Some still use magic, do you see?" Frieza pointed at Zatanna and Devil boy of the JSA. King Cold started to laugh hard. They just simply ignored the Z warriors and even the green lantern corps and focussed completely on the JSA and JLA. Hal knew the Green Lantern corps had not been much of a threat to them, but they did fear the guardians. Frieza didn't seem to be afraid at all, hisn ear death experience and humiliation obviously didn't impress him much. Those that defeated him were not here anyway.

"Now please son, kill these weaklings and get the dragonballs so I can make my wish. I also got a nice line of buyers for this planet. You get all the profit of course." King Cold said.

"Yes, father." Frieza said. He disappeared. Hal could hardly follow his movement, his ring had trouble detecting him. Frieza stood in front of Yamcha and kicked him. Yamcha flew away and landed about a half a mile away, he didn't move. Tien and the others around were pinned to the ground in disbelief. Next Frieza took out Wonder Woman who didn't even see him coming. Hal sprinted over there and attacked Frieza, along with Kilowog but Kyle stayed put. Hal looked behind him.

"Kyle? What are you doing? We need to strike together!" But Kyle didn't look at him or even moved. Hal noticed his clenching fist, he had been doing that since they left from Oa. And his ring was vibrating as if it wanted to escape. Then Hal realised something, too late. Suddenly Kyle sprinted straight towards Kilowog and without warning hit him with a construct. He then flung the construct at Hal who only barely blocked it. He was flung into the forest. As he emerged he saw Kyle standing near King Cold, he was bowing. Then he did a strange dance, Captain Ginyu. So that's where he went. Damn him. As Hal went into the air he was blindsided by Frieza though. After he felt the hard blow on his neck everything went black for Hal.