Chapter 11: The Arrival

Gohan was sparing with Piccolo. When Piccolo first told him that he would be training under him, he had been very scared. Now all he wanted to do was to prove to Piccolo that he was strong enough. Every day he pushed himself as hard as he could in order to reach Piccolo's strength but it never seemed to be enough. Gohan launched at Piccolo but Piccolo put his hand out signaling for Gohan to stop.

"What is it Mr. Piccolo?" Gohan asked. Piccolo looked at Gohan seriously.

"The Saiyans are arriving, they'll be here shortly. And there's bad news I can sense three of them, Raditz must have lied to us." Piccolo said.

"But I thought we had more time, I'm not ready to face the Saiyans yet." Gohan whined.

"Trust me kid, you are ready now. Here eat this and just don't make a move until I say." Piccolo said handing Gohan his last senzu bean.

'Damn-it, where's Goku I know they recently summoned the dragon so he should be alive.' Piccolo thought to himself.

On Snakeway

Goku and Tien flew as fast as they possibly could. When they first arrived on King Kia's planet, he had told them the exact day that the Saiyans would arrive. However he had forgotten to factor in how long it would take them to get back to Earth from his planet. Now the two warriors raced down Snakeway trying to make it back in time.

"Tien we're never going to make it back fast enough going like this, I think it's time to put King Kia's training to use." Goku said

"Right" Tien agreed.

"Kiaoken" They said in unionism. They both enveloped in a red aura of energy and sped up dramatically.

On Kame Island

Krillin, Chiaotzu, Yamcha and Master Roshi all sat at the table chatting. All of a sudden they all stopped talking. They all looked at each other and stood up. This was the moment they had been waiting for, for the last year. Krillin began having doubts, had he pushed himself hard enough? The four months he spent training with Piccolo were a bit unpleasant but he gained a lot of knowledge and had come far. No, there was no time for second guessing, in the last year he had come farther than he ever believed possible in a lifetime. They all walked outside and sensed out Piccolo and Gohan, it would be better if everyone stuck together from this point on.

"Good luck you guys I'll be cheering you on." Master Roshi told them.

"Thanks Master, we'll do our best." Krillin told him and the three warriors blasted off. As they flew through the air nobody wanted to say anything but it was the first time any of them had gone into a fight feeling true fear. They could feel the overwhelming power of the Saiyans and it seemed to be that there was a third one with them, this wasn't going to be good. After a short flight they saw Piccolo and Gohan standing together in some plains. They landed and met eyes with Piccolo. It was going to be weird for them to fight alongside with Piccolo but now was the time to put personal feelings aside.

"Have you heard from Raditz?" Krillin asked.

"Not yet and I can't sense him anywhere either I think he's suppressing his power. That coward probably won't even show up." Piccolo said disgustedly.

"Damn-it as if this wasn't going to be hard enough." Krillin grunted.

"Yeah well he wasn't much of a warrior anyways; I doubt he would have been much help anyways." Piccolo replied.

"What are you talking about? He took all of us on at one time and just about killed all of us." Krillin said.

"Yeah well based on the difference in his power level to all of you, he should've killed you without a problem, instead he got defeated by someone who had a fraction of his power." Piccolo retorted.

"Yeah I guess but we need just about all the help we can get right now." Krillin mumbled.

"Hmph" Piccolo grunted.

Off in a valley

Raditz sat in meditation with his eyes closed. He couldn't believe how far he had come since he first arrived on Earth. He was starting to think that as long as the others had done their part that there would be a real chance of beating Vegeta and Nappa when they arrived. Suddenly his scouter beeped.

'So their finally here.' Raditz thought to himself. He checked his scouter but something was wrong.

'Wha…What's this. My scouter's saying that there are three of them approaching. No! one of them is almost as strong as Vegeta. It's all over there's no way that we could beat two Vegetas.' Raditz put his face into his hands. 'I'm going to die, there's no way around it…unless? That Piccolo guy was able to stay hidden from my scouter until he started charging that attack. Maybe there's a way I can hide my power from Vegeta's scouter.' Raditz started to relax more than he ever had before and as a result his ki began to drop. He used his scouter to check himself. It displayed 2000.

'That's a lot lower but it would still pick up in an instant I have to push it down farther.' Raditz thought. He started to slow his breathing and let his muscles lose tension. His heart rate dropped and then again he checked his scouter. 400.

'Almost I just have to drop it a little more.' He then listened to the river and allowed it to clear his mind. He lost track of time and it almost felt like sleep was coming over him, he felt so weak but he knew he had done. Just to be sure he checked his scouter. 10.

'Yeah they'll never find me with my power level pushed this low. Now I just have to wait until their distracted with those other fools and I can steal one of their ships. Oh Raditz you are a clever one.' He thought while he started laughing.

In the upper atmosphere of Earth

Three Saiyan pods came flying through the air. After a few moments they had reached the ground and all three crashed onto the ground creating a huge crater. People all around stopped what they were doing wondering what had just happened. Everyone that was close to the crater looked down and couldn't believe what they saw. The three pods that had landed were now opening, each one containing some kind of life form.

"So this is Earth, not too bad. I bet after we get the dragonballs that this planet will bring in a nice price." Vegeta said menacingly.

"Yeah, say Vegeta what should we do with these locals they seem to be scared stiff?" Nappa asked.

"Well Nappa I'll let you decide, have fun." Vegeta replied.

"Thanks Vegeta." Nappa said excitedly then just like out in space Nappa lifted his two fingers and destroyed the entire city.

"God damn-it Nappa, why the hell did you do that?" Vegeta said angrily.

"But Vegeta, you said I could handle them." Nappa said confused.

"Turles why don't you explain to Nappa why I'm so pissed." Vegeta snapped.

"What if one of those dragonballs was in this city? Then it would now be gone and our chance at immortality would now be gone." Turles said smugly.

"Exactly Turles, I'm glad at least one of you has a brain." Vegeta said.

"Oh, I…I didn't think about that Vegeta. I'm sorry." Nappa said nervously.

"Whatever it's done with now. Let's go find this planet's warriors and eliminate them and hope that the dragonballs are still around." Vegeta said as he turned on his scouter. "Hmm, it seems that there's a group of them south of here. Let's go." Vegeta said and the three of them blasted off.

The Z fighters stood together and felt the Saiyans approaching.

"It's time." Piccolo said. "Now nobody make a move until I say."

"Who died and put you in charge." Yamcha said.

"Now is not the time! Right now we're all on the same side and I'm taking lead of this operation! You got a problem with that then leave because I'm not putting up with any bullshit right now!" Piccolo screamed at Yamcha. Yamcha didn't say a word and just looked down.

"Ok then." Piccolo said more calmly.

"Now I know they're not going to attack immediately, they're going to try and get the information about how to find the dragonballs first. Nobody say anything about it and nobody attack, we need to buy as much time as we can for Goku and Tien to arrive." Piccolo explained.

"Understood." Krillin said.

"Is that ok with you Yamcha." Piccolo said darkly to the bandit.

"Yeah no problems here." Yamcha said softly. Piccolo looked away from Yamcha and took a look at Gohan, he looked terrified.

"Shape up kid there's no room for fear here. Just remember everything I taught you and remember the power that you have inside of you and you'll do just fine." Piccolo said sternly but somewhat kindly.

"I'll…I'll try Mr. Piccolo." Gohan said. Suddenly the time had come. All three Saiyans were directly above Earth's warriors.

"Well, well, well what do we have here? Now I wonder why you would have a group of warriors standing out in the middle of nowhere?" Vegeta asked sarcastically.

"Look at them I think that their having some delusions of fighting us." Turles added as the three Saiyans landed on the ground.

"Hey Vegeta where do you think Raditz is? These were the only high power levels on the planet and Raditz's ship was destroyed so he couldn't have gotten off." Nappa asked.

"Who knows maybe these weaklings killed him." Vegeta responded. Nappa looked at the Z fighters.

"So did you?" Nappa demanded.

"Did we what?" Piccolo spat.

"Did you kill Raditz? I wanted that honor so I'll be pissed if you did." Nappa shouted back.

"Maybe we did maybe we didn't I guess you'll never know." Piccolo retorted.

"Why you insignificant little…"

"Cool it Nappa. Can't you see he's just trying to get you wound up?" Vegeta commanded.

"Oh right, sorry Vegeta." Nappa replied. "So what kind of power levels do you guys have." Nappa said while turning on his scouter. "Hmm it ranges from 900 to 1200. Oh this isn't going to be any fun at all." Nappa complained.

"Oh Nappa are you really that much of a fool. Weren't you paying attention when Raditz was fighting them? They have the ability to dramatically raise their power levels. The scouter readings are useless." Vegeta said taking off his scouter and dropping it on the ground.

"Oh right then let me see what they can do." Nappa screamed as he started launching towards Earth's warriors. They all fell into defensive stances ready to battle, not expecting that the Saiyan would attack so quickly however the one named Vegeta looked livid.

"NAPPA! DID I SAY YOU COULD ATTACK!" Vegeta screamed. Though his anger wasn't directed at them it sent chills down the spines of Earth's warriors. Nappa looked like he was going to have a heart attack.

"No Vegeta I'm so sorry. I don't know what I was thinking." Nappa replied cautiously.

"I swear Nappa; one more fuck up and I'll end your life myself! Turles here has only been with us for 7 months and he's already proving to be a much better asset than you! DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!" Vegeta screamed at the top of his lungs.

"I thought us working with Piccolo was going to be a dysfunctional team but this is ridiculous." Krillin muttered to Yamcha.

"I know but that Vegeta guy is scary. Did you feel is power spike when he got angry. Unreal" Yamcha replied. Vegeta then turned to the Z fighters.

"I'm so sorry about that. It was very rude of my assistant here to attack you unprovoked like that. Now I believe you know why we are here but just in case I'll make it clear. We have come to understand that you have what are called dragonballs and that they can grant any wish that you want. We would like to make just one tiny little wish but have no idea how to go about acquiring them. So if you would all be kind enough to let us in on them then we might consider leaving this planet in peace. How does that sound?" Vegeta asked them.

"Don't give me that bullshit. We all know damn well that you're going to kill us anyways so why would we tell you anything." Piccolo retorted.

"Okay, okay you got me. I've never been a good liar." Vegeta said while chuckling. "Okay then I'll make you a deal. Whoever tells me how to get these dragonballs, I will grant an instant death to. Everyone else suffers." Krillin, Yamcha and Chiaotzu all gulped, Gohan just looked terrified but Piccolo just smiled.

"I'll save you the trouble of needing to torture anyone. The dragonballs are gone. Even if you did torture us, there's no dragonballs to give you. So you might as well just leave." Piccolo told Vegeta.

"Hmm, you seem to know a lot about the dragonballs. Ah I see you're a Namekian. You know I long ago heard of a legend of something called dragonballs that were on a planet called Namek. I always thought it was just a myth and even didn't think about it until just now but no it makes sense. Okay I now know you can show us how to find the dragonballs so the rest of these weaklings are useless to me. Nappa plant the saibermen and let's see just how strong these fools are." Vegeta told Nappa. For the first time since the Saiyans had arrived Piccolo didn't have the look of confidence on his face. What did Vegeta mean by saying that he was a Namekian? That must be his race and he must be from the planet Namek. Learning of his heritage had taken him back and he hadn't even realized what was happening. All of a sudden he saw six tiny green alien like figures sprouting out of the ground.

"What the hell?" Piccolo said.

"I don't know what's going on guys but I don't like it." Yamcha said.

"Get ready guys this is it." Krillin said falling into stance.

"Alright you six take out the four over there but leave the tall green one out of it. Nappa you beat down that Namekian until he's willing to talk. But do not under any circumstances kill him. Understand?" Vegeta said.

"I got it Vegeta I won't let you down." Nappa said and he then started walking towards Piccolo. The six saibermen launched towards Yamcha, Krillin, Chiaotzu and Gohan. Yamcha, Krillin and Chiaotzu all launched towards the saibermen but Gohan just stood there in fear, unable to move. With Gohan not fighting the three warriors each had to fight two on 1. Krillin had no problem keeping up with his two, keeping them on the defensive at all times but Chiaotzu and Yamcha were both having a difficult time fighting two of the green men at the same time. Krillin, noticing that his friends were in trouble, decided that there was going to be no time for a warm up and he charged two energy blasts in both of his hands and blasted wholes through both of the Saibermen he was fighting. The remaining Saibermen all looked scared at how easily Krillin had been able to defeat two of them at once.

"Alright which two are next?" Krillin asked.

'Hmm, maybe this will prove to be more interesting than I originally thought.' Vegeta thought to himself. He then noticed that one of the Saibermen was fleeing. He then pointed two fingers at him and blew him up.

"There will be no room for cowards here. Either die to them or die to me." Vegeta demanded. With the Z fighters distracted momentarily from Vegeta destroying one of his own the remaining Saibermen all launched at them and latched on holding tight. All three of them began to glow and Earth's three warriors all struggled to get free. Finally Krillin was able to break to Saibermen's hold just in time to get out of the way before he exploded. Yamcha and Chiaotzu however were not so lucky.

"Yamcha! Chiaotzu!" Krillin screamed as he floated to the ground. "Why didn't I try to save them!" Krillin shouted as he punched the ground. Gohan just looked on in terror. He barely knew them but to see them there alive and well one second and the next second seeing their dead corpse was too much.

Minutes earlier

Nappa walked over to Piccolo.

"So are you ready to feel agony." Nappa said cocky like to Piccolo. Piccolo had regained his composure by this point and was back to his confident self.

"You're far too confident. I don't think you're nearly as tuff as you think." Piccolo said smugly.

"Oh you think so. I'll show you TTTTTUUUUUUFFFFFF!" Nappa screamed as he launched towards Piccolo. Piccolo was barely able to trace Nappa's moves but managed to dodge at the last second as he flew sideways to avoid the collision. Nappa however didn't miss a step and followed Piccolo instantaneously. Piccolo saw him switch directions and launched a quick energy wave, hitting Nappa directly in the chest. However all it did was scorch his armor.

"You'll have to do better than that if you want to hurt me." Nappa yelled as he followed Piccolo. Piccolo began to charge energy balls in both of his hands.

"Oh please don't even make me laugh." Nappa mocked as he shot forward, throwing a punch at Piccolo, however he was taken back when Piccolo didn't dodge but rather split into two people shooting off to both sides of Nappa. They both had one of the energy balls Piccolo was just charging and they both launched them at Nappa.

"Oh shit." Nappa yelled, throwing his arms up as the balls collided with him. The two balls set off a huge explosion. The two Piccolos then shot off a bunch of small blast sending dust and debris into the air. Quickly he formed back into a single person and watched as the dust settled. As the dust settled Piccolo was shocked to see that, besides his armor, he had barely even scratched him.

"Hey that wasn't too shabby. Maybe if you weren't such a weakling it would've
worked." Nappa mocked as he slowly started approaching Piccolo.

'Damn-it I thought that move would have at least done some damage. This guy is just too much.' Piccolo thought as he watched Nappa approach. All of a sudden they both heard and explosion and looked over to see Vegeta with two fingers extended and a dead Saiberman laying in front of him.

"There will be no room for cowards here. Either die to them or die to me." Vegeta demanded. Piccolo then noticed that Krillin, Yamcha and Chiaotzu were all distracted and the Saibermen were making a move. He watched as the three remaining Saibermen all latch onto them and begin to glow.

'Damn-it I can't do this with just Gohan.' Piccolo thought. Then he saw Krillin break free just as they all exploded. 'Phew that was a close one maybe me, Krillin and Gohan will be able to hold them off until Goku and Tien arrive.'

And so the Saiyans have finally arrived and as you can see things are already starting to play out a little differently. Krillin just dominated his Saibermen essentially scaring the rest. Well one of them ran away and felt the wrath of Vegeta so instead of getting killed by him they all went into Kamakazii mode. Also Vegeta already realized that Piccolo would've wiped the floor with the Saibermen so that's why he sent Nappa instead after him instead. As far as Raditz is concerned their already dead so he came up with his ingenious plan of escape, do you think it's going to work or is something going to go wrong. Found out in the upcoming story. Finally now that we are to the point of the battle its time for power levels. And please leave a review I really appreciate hearing what you guys think.

Raditz 13000

Goku 8000

Tien 8000

Piccolo 3500

Krillin 3300

Gohan 1200 (but he hasn't gotten angry yet)

Yamcha 1600

Chiaotzu 1300

Vegeta 18000

Turles 16000

Nappa 4000

Saibermen 1200