DragonBall Out of Place
Chapter 12-Nappa the Invincible? A new foe appears!
Last time on Dragonball Out of Place…
Hiro began his plan to catch up to the saiyans strength, despite his own power waning off.
Meanwhile, the saiyan pods approach the earth...
Age 762, November 3rd
Earth Orbit…
"Prince Vegeta, we have arrived at planet Earth." a familiar robotic voice spoke to its occupant. The saiyan warrior Vegeta.
The Prince shook himself awake as he observed the world below him that was to become his destination. It took one look for him to see it was leagues above the last dirtball they were on in terms of worth.
"We're here you two. Wake up!" he commanded as his companions groaned about having to wake up.
"Oh stop complaining. You've been asleep for months, it's time to get to work." he told them as they finally started coming around.
"'Yaaaaawwn!'... so, this is it?" Amary asked with half lidded eyes. If you've been asleep for as long as you have you'd be pretty groggy too.
"I already like this place more than Arlia." she added as she gave Earth a good look.
"Yeah, this place should fetch a decent price when we're done." Nappa said, getting excited to get a move on.
"Alright, here we go." Vegeta said as their pods began their descent. Aiming for a populated area.
The ride down almost immediately gave Amary a familiar rush that felt familiar at this point, but still shook her from her grogginess.
The impact they made sent shockwaves throughout the city they landed in, scaring all the residents, who for some insane reason, didn't all run away in terror.
It took less than a minute for their pods to cool down enough for them to exit. Prompting them to leave their pods, and float just outside the crater they've made.
The atmosphere was nice, and pleasant to them after so long being stuck in stuffy, recycled air.
Amary spent a few moments just soaking in the fresh air before she noticed they were not alone. The locals were all staring at them, quivering in fear.
"'hm' Seems as though we've got an audience." Amary remarked.
"What should we do with em? They're bothering me." Nappa asked rhetorically, knowing that even though they weren't the main objective, the people here would all be dead by the time they were done.
"Oh, I don't know. Why don't you decide for once." Vegeta told him, not really caring to get his hands dirty at the moment.
"'hehe' thanks, sounds like this will be a lot of fun for me. What about you short stuff? I don't want to hog all the action for my-'gag!'." he didn't finish his sentence as Amary punched him just below the ribs.
"I told you to quit it with the 'short stuff'." she told him. She didn't hurt him before because they were busy then, but there was nothing stopping her now.
"And no, I don't really care for blasting away people who can't really fight back. It's not very sporting." she would kill them when she had to. It was their job after all.
She didn't mind killing the innocent, however, she just found it to be a rather boring activity when they were weak.
"Just be careful. We don't want to destroy the dragonballs remember?" she reminded the brute.
"'heh', alright, more for me then…" he grew a grin as he started charging a low level blast.
And the carnage began.
Nappa then let out a massive city leveling blast that flew out in every direction, killing everyone.
The mushroom cloud covered the area for a full minute, concealing the sun, but disappeared as quickly as it came.
This left behind a grinning Nappa, and two annoyed saiyan siblings.
"'Ha!' That felt really go-'gah'! What the hell!?" the big man doubled over from another blow to the ribs.
"Dammit Nappa! Do you ever listen? You could have just destroyed the dragonballs!" Amary told him, a little pissed off.
Nappa quickly realized his mistake, "Oh, uh, sorry ma'am." he hung his head down in shame.
"It doesn't matter. What's done is done." Vegeta said, keeping his cool despite being angry himself. "Check your scouters. We should find the person who killed Raditz. They will be able to tell us what we need to know about the dragonballs. They're probably going to be the strongest power level here." he told them as they began searching around.
"Hey, there's over half a dozen power levels over 1,000 on this planet, what gives?" Nappa asked as he looked around. Raditz scouter didn't show anyone over 800 when he got here.
"That fool Raditz told them with his last breath that we'd be coming. They've been using this last year to its fullest." she said in slight admiration of the warrior's of this world.
Most people in her experience would probably spend that year either quivering in fear, making peace with themselves, or refusing to believe they were going to die at all.
So in a way, she respected the spirit this world's defenders had. Their power levels may at best be an annoyance to Nappa, but they were at least considerable for most worlds like this.
At the very least, she could afford each of them the time for a warrior's death.
"There, the two largest power levels are in that direction." Vegeta pointed to the South. The others nodded, and began to move toward them.
"Good, I'm dying to get my hands on Immortality." she intentionally made a bad joke that made Vegeta groan in annoyance.
"This is looking to be an interesting mission…" she noted as they began the flight.
Random Wasteland, 24 km away...
Piccolo almost immediately felt the saiyan's arrival, and felt nervous.
Even if Hiro was here, they would still be outmatched in terms of raw power. He'd be happy about Hiro's plan with the time chamber if it weren't for the timing of it.
Still, his 24 hours was almost up, so he assumed it was going well. And if they'd grown this much in one year, how much would he grow in another? Hopefully enough to make a difference.
And so here he was, with his student Gohan, feeling the saiyan's getting closer, and closer.
"Gohan, get yourself ready. The saiyan's are coming straight for us… dammit. It looks like there's one more than we expected!" He said, sensing a fourth power level coming in.
"What? I thought you said there would be three of them?" Gohan got a little scared. The odds were getting more, and more stacked against them. Just one of those saiyan's were stronger than him, and Piccolo combined, let alone four of them.
They were surprised though when the fourth power turned out to be Krillin making an entrance.
"'Hehe' how about some help?" he asked when he landed before them.
Both Gohan, and Piccolo were relieved that it was just the human, although Gohan was far more emotive about it.
"'heh,' that's fine, but you might just slow us down." Piccolo bragged.
"I doubt that. I've been looking plenty of training on my own." Krillin said, confident in his ability.
"I can see that, I can feel your power has grown since before." the Namek noted.
"So, where's Hiro? It doesn't seem like him to chicken out." Krillin didn't know the human turned saiyan very long, but he did get the impression that Hiro wasn't one for backing away from a fight.
"He's taking care of something that should give us an edge. He'll be here alright." Piccolo was confident in this much. Unless Hiro was dead in there, in which case…
"He's going to be here! I know it!" Gohan was certain of it. He admired Hiro as much as he did Piccolo, and knew he wouldn't abandon them.
"Hey, I was just askin'." Krillin said defending himself.
"Oh, and by the way…" he tried asking Gohan a bit quietly.
"Are you alright? No one has ever trained with Piccolo before." Krillin asked Gohan.
"It's alright. He's really a good guy when you get to know him. Besides, Hiro's always there." he reminded Krillin, before being interrupted by his mentor.
"Hey! That's enough of the small talk. They're already here." he said, looking up at the three new arrivals.
The saiyan's floated there for a little while, analyzing the warriors below.
"So, there's one more of them. What do you suppose they're doing here?" the big one asked his companions.
"It seems they're waiting for us." the shorter male said.
"Well, let's not be rude, and introduce ourselves." the female of the group added.
"So these are the saiyan's? They're even stronger than I thought they'd be…" Krillin realized as he was shaking in fear.
The saiyan's then landed before them. Startling them a bit.
"So, you're this world's excuse for warriors then?" the short male asked, judging their power.
"Don't be rude brother. We should introduce ourselves before we slaughter them." the woman said casually, unnerving them a bit.
"Very well, I am the Prince of all Saiyan's Vegeta, this is my sister, Amary, and Nappa." the now named Vegeta introduced them.
"The pleasure's all mine. Now, I'm only going to say this once: Leave this planet! And never return" Piccolo said, volunteering himself as group leader for this one.
"That voice… so, you're the one who finished off Raditz then?" the Vegeta asked Piccolo.
"Makes sense. Raditz might have some trouble facing against two low level saiyan's. Throw a Namek in there, and he would be certainly overwhelmed." Amary said, analyzing the situation
Piccolo wasn't as surprised by this as he could have been. That bout with Slug was an eye opener. But this just confirmed it for him.
"So, it's true, I'm from Namek then…" he was finally coming to terms with it.
"Yes, it makes sense, and a Namek would be the one to know about the dragonballs as well." the shorter man realized.
"Alright, you lot oughta know where the dragonballs are then. Tell us where they are and we promise we'll make your deaths as quick as possible." the big guy threatened them, but the Z Warriors weren't deterred.
"'hmph', do what you want. We're not going to just let you do what you want with them." Piccolo declared as he got into a fighting stance.
They were interrupted however when a bunch of air vehicle's descended into the area.
"'grrr' damn ants." Nappa got angry at their being here, and charged a blast, and fired it at one of them, scaring the rest away.
This made Gohan, and Krillin get into their fighting stances, and look upset at the unnecessary deaths.
"I guess they're not going to just tell us then." Vegeta realized, looking unimpressed at them.
"'heh', wanna bet? Let's see exactly how strong they are." Nappa used his scouter to list off their power levels.
"Don't be a fool Nappa. They can hide their power somehow." Amary told him, taking off her scouter, making him realize his mistake.
"Oh, right. That's how they pulled one over on that weakling Raditz." Nappa pulled of his now useless scouter, and threw it to the ground.
"Not only that, but if I remember correctly there was another saiyan backing them up as well. However, they don't seem to be present at the moment. I'm curious where they might be." Vegeta looked to the earthlings for an answer, but they grew nervous.
"Hiro's going to be here! And he's gonna make you regret coming here!" Gohan declared confidently.
"'hahaha' Is that the name he chose for himself? That's rich." Amary appreciated the irony of calling a saiyan warrior anything sounding like a 'hero'.
Gohan was a little upset at his name for Hiro being insulted, but shook it off quickly enough.
"None of this matters anyway. We have means of getting them to show what they are really made of. And if 'Hiro' really does care for these weaklings they will be here soon. Ready the saibamen." Vegeta said, worrying the warriors.
Nappa pulled out a small container holding small beans that he planted into the ground.
"Get ready! They're up to something." Piccolo didn't like the sound of this.
Nappa planted the beans, which quickly exploded out of the ground, revealing screaming little green men.
They were disturbing little things. They looked like a mix between a very little old man that had all of the wrinkles, was perpetually high on both meth, and some really good… 'ahem'... brownies if you catch my drift, never cut their nails, and were suddenly conducting photosynthesis.
"At least they're smaller than me…" Krillin said, trying to make light of the situation.
"These saibamen seem to have grown well in this soil. They're real… spunky." Vegeta noted, as they were all bouncing around, making a mess.
"Yes, they should show whether they're worth our time or not." Amary added, not wanting to go in blind.
These humans were clearly scared of their power, but if they were hiding their power levels, and 1,000 was the base they were working on they may just get Nappa by surprise. So it was for the best for them to probe their power.
"'grrr' Krillin! You get the two on the left! I'll take the three on the right. Gohan, you handle the rest." Piccolo made his call as he got ready for the fight.
Everyone then made their move, Gohan included. When Hiro was around, he drilled the basics into him to the point where he knew to follow his foes energies if his eyes were too slow. Although he did hesitate, far more than he should.
This clash was too fast for any normal human eye to track. Blurs bounced against each other in violent bangs.
The saiyan's were able to see well enough however, and found themselves unimpressed.
For just a moment, Gohan's concentration lapsed, and was nearly grabbed by his enemy, but luckily, Piccolo had his back.
The Namek threw the saibaman away and the a blast at it that it just barely dodged. The others paused for a few moments to allow the warriors to catch their breath.
"Gohan, you're doing fine but stay focused." he tried to encourage the runt a bit.
"He's doing alright for his first real battle." The namek thought.
"R-Right!" Gohan shook off the fear he felt at the moment.
But that's when they were all surprised by the arrivals of Tien, and Yamcha.
"Jeez, why's everyone acting so serious around here?" Yamcha asked, not worried about their foes.
"Yamcha! Tien! It's good to see you guys." Krillin said, relieved for the support. Gohan and Piccolo were glad to have them on board as well.
"Looks like the saiyan's brought some friends on for the ride…" Tien commented on the saibamen. A bit disturbed by their looks, but didn't let it show.
"No, they grew them here. Don't ask." Krillin explained it to an extent.
"It doesn't matter, they mess with earth they're all getting the same treatment!" Yamcha exclaimed confidently.
"Well, would you look at that? Six on six. This is finally getting interesting." Nappa realized.
That's when Vegeta seemed to get an idea.
"Gentlemen! How about have a little match up. Each of your men faces one of ours in single combat. How does that sound? Well?" Vegeta asked, thinking that this could be amusing to watch.
"'grrr' We're not playing your game! We'll take you all on at once!" Piccolo declared, not wanting to put up with their shit.
"Now hold on Piccolo, this way we may be able to buy time for Goku." Krillin reminded him. Knowing his friend could turn this situation around.
Sure, Hiro was a saiyan too, but at this point Krillin wasn't too sure how he'd compare him to Goku. He just had a feeling that it would be Good that would be saving the day here.
"I'll go first. I'm not afraid of these little creeps." Tien volunteered himself.
"'heh', I think you'll find these 'little creeps' a lot more trouble than you think…" Nappa boasted, but was interrupted when a bunch of helicopters came in, and tried getting footage of the event.
Wanting to show off a bit, and give in to his bloodlust, Nappa then charged, and fired a blast at the copters.
This left the Z Warriors in a state of shock out of the waste of human life. But didn't get long to pull themselves together.
Before the battle began Vegeta reminded the saibaman not to hold back, but it didn't matter if it did in the end.
Meanwhile, at Kame House…
Bulma, and the rest of the game who had become irrele- I mean, weren't able to contribute to the fight we're watching what they could of the fight on the TV.
It was just as they were watching a simultaneous broadcast about Yajirobe explaining the situation, while chickening out, that there were some more visitors coming in.
"Oh, hello Ox King! It's good to see you again. Good idea not bringing Chi-Chi." Roshi complemented his old friend when the giant of a man changed to look nervous because he had indeed brought his daughter with him.
"Where is he? Where's my baby!?" Chi-Chi barged right in over to the TV to try and catch a glimpse at Gohan.
"He's out there fighting. He's his father's son alright." Bulma told her.
But then the camera panned over to one of the saibamen, scaring the mother.
"M-m-m-m-my little boy has to fight that!? Where the hell is Hiro!? He's supposed to be keeping Gohan safe!" Chi-Chi had taken over a year to get over the fact that the person that she had asked to watch over her son had basically helped her husbands arch rival kidnap him.
When she came to this island over a year ago to get an explanation why her husband, son, and Hiro didn't come back that day, everyone did their best to explain to her that he was trying to protect Gohan by teaching him to protect himself, but she was still rightfully angry over it.
"We don't know. None of the others have sensed him since this morning." Roshi told her, but this got her even more angry as she began shaking the TV, as if trying to strangle it.
"'grrrrrrr!' Hiro you better keep my son safe or I'll hit you with the frying pan so hard it'll knock you into other-world ya hear me!?" The others tried pulling her back to calm her down.
Meanwhile, in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber…
"'AAAAACCCCHHHHHOOOOO!'" a massive sneeze echoed through the void, giving life to the emptiness.
"What the hell? Why do I feel so cold all of a sudden?" I asked myself. Feeling a deep, unsettling shiver. "And why am I suddenly overcome by this feeling of dread?"
The only time we've ever felt like this was… ' shudder '
"When Chi-Chi got pissed at me and Goku for accidentally breaking the roof of the barn during training…" I then thought briefly that somehow this was that thing that happens in an anime when a character can feel a woman's rage telepathically for no inexplicable reason. But no, this is real life, not an anime... right?
"What could Chi-Chi be mad about with me anyway? It's not like I-"
Kidnapped her son or anything. I mean, that would just be wrong. Hell, some might even say evil. In fact, back home I feel like you and Piccolo would be on several lists now.
But don't worry, I'm sure Chi-Chi would be very understanding, and forgiving about this entire situation, and will let it slide after this whole saiyan invasion business blows over.
"... I've made a terrible mistake."
The fight went by quicker than anyone expected. With Tien quickly showing he was on a completely other level than the green monster.
There were high speed blurs, a few crashes, and then yelling as the combatants fazed in above them.
It ended with Tien landing a precise blow to its chest that completely disabled the saibaman.
The fight lasted under a minute.
Both landed by their allies. Tien's were all admiring his ability and power, but the saibamen's masters were surprised.
"I-Impossible! These saibamen all clocked in at at least twelve hundred! They were all the same power as…" Nappa then realized the situation.
"As who Nappa?" Vegeta asked rhetorically, satisfied that his point finally came across.
"As… Raditz…" the big man finally realized that their enemy might be stronger than anticipated. Amary on the other hand, was grinning.
"These earthlings may provide an interesting diversion after all." she was more than happy to find anyone able to at least put up a fight.
"Now you see Nappa?" The Prince asked him once more.
"I think so…" Nappa was trying to process it, but was a little slow still.
"How exactly did this guy become one of fathers favored generals again?" Amary had to ask herself. She'd sooner have one of the humans over there come up with the battle plans than let this guy make important decisions!
"Well, don't try to hurt yourself, and let me do the thinking from now on." Vegeta ordered his larger companion before laying his eyes on the saibaman that was trying to pull himself back together.
He then surprised everyone, his allies included, by destroying the already broken saibaman. Blasting it into oblivion.
"Vegeta? Why?" Nappa was shocked. That was one of their guys!
"He wasn't of any use to us anymore. I told it to not hold anything back on him, and he disobeyed me." the prince said, coldly.
Amary was a bit put off by the brutality to their own guys, but was mostly indifferent to her brother acting like this, plus she had other concerns.
"Yeah, but those things don't exactly grow on trees you know?" she reminded him. Life forms that grow like saibamen weren't cheap. It's a wonder they even bother with them.
"Ruthless, even to his allies. We won't get any mercy here." Piccolo told the Z warriors.
"Well? Who's next?" Vegeta asked aggressively.
No one stepped up for a few moments. Vegeta was about to end the game when Krillin stepped up.
"If no one else is gonna I might as well-" he was cut off by Yamcha.
"No Krillin. You already died once and were brought back. We can't do that again. So if anything happens we at least know I can be revived. Let me have a go." Yamcha said, certain in his victory.
"Alright, just be careful." Krillin warned his friend. For some reason he had a bad feeling about this.
"Give him everything you got." Vegeta ordered one of the saibamen, who was certainly more afraid disobeying of the saiyan than he was of facing the human.
They both walked into the battlefield, readying their fighting stances, and disappeared to all normal human eyes. However, the Z warriors all knew how to keep up.
It took a bit longer than with Tien, but Yamcha was able to knock down his enemy rather quickly, sending the saibaman spiraling to the ground.
At this point, Yamcha got a bit cocky, thinking that the fight was over.
"Is that all these guys got? Just send em' all at me! I'll take em' all on!" he declared confidently, drawing a smirk from Vegeta.
"Yamcha? Are you nuts!?" Krillin knew that Yamcha had improved, but this is just getting cocky.
"Oh? I'd love to see that. Too bad it's too late for that." the prince said smugly.
"Oh yeah? Why's that?" Yamcha asked before his friends shouted at him to look out, but it was too late.
The saibaman had him.
It grabbed onto him tightly as he struggled.
"'gah!' let go of me!" The desert bandit demanded, but it was too late.
The saibaman glowed, and exploded, taking Yamcha with him, shocking the Z Warriors.
"Kamikaze, he didn't stand a chance." Piccolo said, put off by it.
"I-is he…?" Gohan asked, but already knew the answer.
"H-he's dead." Krillin said, almost in tears, as he checked the body.
"Why? Why did you have to go and do that? It was supposed to be me!" Krillin asked, breaking down.
"Yes-yes, very touching. Now will one of you get this trash off the battlefield?" Vegeta asked, uncaring.
"Now now brother, we owe them the chance to honor their fallen comrades. Before they join them that is." Amary added, at least respecting that the human had died fighting.
"Why is respecting my enemies strength? They are my enemies aren't they?" the voice of a young girl pouted.
"Because there is more than one strength in battle Amary. Strength in body, and strength in character." a voice from an old man explained to her.
"It's thee least we can do considering." she added.
"They can honor each other in hell for all I care." Vegeta stated, coldly.
Amary pouted. Her brother could be cruel, but there was little she could do about it.
"W-why you bastards!" Krillin had felt half pushed to the edge. How dare they!
"That's it! I'll take them all on! Just like Yamcha would!" Krillin declared before charging his energy into an attack.
"Ka-Me-Ha-Me-Haaaaa!"he threw out his attack in an abnormal pattern for a Kamehameha, but then guided the blast to just above his enemies, and split it up. One blast for each foe, and it was devastating.
By the time the smoke cleared, all the saibamen were dead. Smoking craters, the lot of em'.
"'pant' That was for you Yamcha…" he dedicated his attack with a smirk.
"Alright Krillin!" Tien began the celebrations about Krillin accomplishment.
Suffice to say, all his friends were impressed by the display.
But, that's when they all saw that the saiyan's themselves were still kicking, and barely even scratched!
"H-How? That was everything I had!" Krillin stated shocked.
"Well, I guess you just… came up short? 'eh?'" Amary's bad pun was received, and sent back a duo of groans from her allies, and a look of shock from the earthlings. "Tough crowd." she shrugged.
"Might need a new ceiling for that glass house of yours…" Tien muttered.
"What was that Tri-clops!?" oh she heard him alright.
"I was wondering if you can even see the battlefield from down there." he shot back, only making her angrier. Although his friends tried to stop him from antagonizing her further.
"Calm yourself. Losing control to your anger here might lead to trouble." Vegeta gestured to the still steaming saibaman corpses.
For how angry she was, Amary knew he had a point. While she was confident that these earthlings would be lucky to scratch her, losing her cool might lead to some unnecessary time in the healing pods back at Frieza station 012.
"...fine, let's just get a move on." she backed down for now. She could just kill him later.
But, to the surprise of them all, one of the saibamen somehow survived! And it tried to grab Gohan.
Unfortunately for it, Piccolo had his eyes open, and grabbed it by its wrist, threw it into the air, and blasted it apart.
"Thanks for saving me Mr Piccolo!" Gohan was more than happy about being saved.
"Stay focused, next time you better be prepared to save yourself." the namek coldly told his student.
Gohan was off put by his sensei shrugging him off.
"Very well, I suppose this is the end of our little game." Vegeta declared, noting all the dead saibamen.
"Since you've killed all of our saibamen, you leave us no choice but to send our our weakest member." Vegeta nodded to Nappa who, while a bit miffed at being called the weakest, was eager to get to cracking heads.
"Alright! Which of you puny earthlings wants a go with the mighty Nappa?" he called out to them.
"Nappa remember not to kill the Namek. He's the one that knows about the dragonballs, so don't fuck it up." Amary reminded him. Remembering the outburst from earlier that destroyed the city.
"Yeah, yeah I hear ya!" Nappa assured her, then marched out to the earthlings.
"Alright, so who's first?... How about you!?" He roared as he charged at a shocked Krillin.
However, Piccolo then struck Nappa in the side, and with surprising force.
He then followed the attack up with a series of punches, and kicks that sent the saiyan flying into a rocky bluff.
"How about no?" Piccolo asked panting.
"Alright Piccolo!" Tien praised.
"Yeah! You show em!" Chiaotzu backed him up.
"Way to go Mr Piccolo!" Gohan was proud of his master.
"'grrrrrrr!' Why you trash!" Nappa pulled himself from the dent in the rock.
Piccolo turned to him, and gave the 'come at me' gesture, aggravating Nappa.
"Why you!" Nappa ran back at the Namek, and began a brawl.
Nappa was still stronger than Piccolo, but the namek was the only one that had his head cool, and was able to dodge most of the giants strikes.
"Interesting. Looks like the namek can actually stand up to Nappa." Vegeta said, stating the obvious.
"It wouldn't be like that if that brute would just keep his head clear…" Amary added.
Nappa then caught Piccolo off guard by punching the ground, shattering the earth before him, setting Piccolo off balance, opening him up to a series of devastating strikes that threw him back to his allies.
"You were just getting lucky you hear me! None of you can stand up to me! 'rrrraaaarrrrggghhh!'" Nappa stated before charging his energy.
This unsettled the Z Warriors, who all backed up a bit, Gohan especially.
"Gohan! Don't let your enemy set you off balance! Stand firm." Piccolo scolded his student.
"A-Alright!" Gohan did his best to steady himself.
"'rrrraaaarrrrggghhh!" Nappa kept shouting as bioelectricity danced around his body, and expanded outwards before exploding outwards.
"Here I come!" Nappa shouted before charging at the namek again.
They began a brawl that sent shockwaves across the wasteland. This time though, Piccolo was having a harder time keeping up.
He was knocked out of the brawl by a blow to the gut.
"'rrrragh'!" Nappa charged right back at the unprepared Piccolo, and sent him spiraling to the ground with a haymaker to the face.
Piccolo tried picking himself back up, but couldn't do so in time to dodge a kick to the side that flipped him onto his back.
"DIE!" Nappa commanded as he readied a blast in his hand to end the namek, but was stopped when Gohan slammed into his head with a kick.
"Good work Gohan." Piccolo praised his student who was happy with it, but their moment was interrupted when Nappa came back, clearly pissed off.
"You little runt!" he tried to attack Gohan, but Piccolo wasn't going to stand around for it, and intercepted the saiyan halfway with a kick the took his legs out from under him.
Nappa ended up eating dirt for a moment before correcting himself, and staring down the namek.
"Fine then. Just for that your death will be slow and painful! 'gaaarrrh'!" He was then hit by a small blast that came from one of the saiyan's. The one called Amary.
"Stay focused Nappa! We need the green one alive remember?" she glared at him, which felt like a splash of cold water to the larger saiyan.
"Y-yes ma'am." he hung his head resigned.
"She must be much stronger if this guy is just kowtowing to her like this. I might need to prolong this fight until Goku, or Hiro arrive…" Piccolo thought as he took back up his fighting stance.
"'haaaaaaaaaaaarrrggghhh!" Nappa roared, and refocused his energy. His head was in the game now, he's just become that much more dangerous.
Nappa then charged back in at Piccolo, who did what he could, but could only withstand the onslaught for so long.
They separated for a moment, preparing to go back in when Piccolo stopped himself, and looked back in the direction of Kami's Lookout.
"Is that… Hiro? How did he become this powerful?" he asked shocked at what he was feeling.
The others tried sensing it out too, and was shocked by the power they were sensing.
"No way! Is that really Hiro?" Gohan asked, not believing his senses.
"Hey! Don't ignore me!" Nappa was about to punish the namek for his insolence when Vegeta called out to him.
"Hold on Nappa. I want to see if they can actually sense power levels." he picked his scouter off the ground, and searched for a massive power level. It didn't take long for him to find it- and be surprised by its power.
"Well Vegeta? What's the verdict?" Amary asked him, curious herself.
"There's a massive power level in that direction." he pointed over to the Lookout. "I can't get it accurate at this range but… it's at least at six thousand…" he added, surprising his companions.
"Six thousand? On this mudball? That, I have to see…" Amary found herself excited to fight such a power. Especially if they were still hiding their power like the rest of these earthlings were.
The fight picked back up again when an impatient Nappa charged right back in, and began a brawl with Piccolo.
It ended however, with Piccolo surprising everyone by feinting his foe with an after image that paved the way for a strike to the ribcage that left Nappa bleeding, and falling down on his back. This surprise injury taking its toll.
"W-What? How did such a weakling… 'cough'... overpower me like this?" he tried to get up, but found that he couldn't when Piccolo stepped on his chest.
Piccolo had clearly taken on some injuries as well. That is, if the ripped gi, broken ribs, and bleeding from the mouth were of any indication.
"This ought to teach you not to underestimate earth!" Piccolo scolded him before preparing a blast to end the saiyan's life.
The other saiyan's were shocked by this sudden change in fortune for Nappa.
"That damn fool. How could he let himself be bested like this?" Amary asked no one in particular before moving to help her comrade, before Vegeta stopped her.
"No. If he can't handle these weaklings then we have no use for him." Vegeta said, watching the scene.
Amary looked at her brother shocked. The saibamen were one thing, but Nappa?
"What!? What are you talking about!? He's one of us!" she asked her brother, who held out his arm to stop her.
"Nappa should have known not to underestimate his opponent after the saibamen, and he continued to blunder, after blunder. If he's too foolish to learn from his mistakes then he has no place among us." the prince stated coldly, scaring his sister some.
"I knew he was callous, but to one of our own people?" this was harsh by his standards!
"Now die!" Piccolo prepared to fire his special beam cannon at a terrified Nappa, but suddenly stopped when he coughed up blood.
"'huh?' Mr Piccolo?" Gohan looked to his sensei worried, then shocked when his master collapsed on his hands, and knees, coughing up blood to the ground.
"K-Kami?" Piccolo muttered out in shock as he looked in the direction of the lookout.
"Piccolo! What's wrong!?" Krillin tried getting to his ally who fell to the ground.
Gohan got to his master first, asking him what was wrong, panic clear in his voice.
"G-Gohan… listen to me." he silenced his student for just a moment.
"You… you've done me proud today. Stay strong kid." he said solemnly as he began fading out of existence.
"Pi… Piccolo? Please get up. You can't go. Not now." Gohan realized what was happening, and quietly begged his master not to go. Tears welling up.
"Gohan… you have to be strong on your own now. I know you can do it. Just.. believe in…" he couldn't finish his sentence as he disappeared completely.
Silence reigned for a few moments. The shock of what just happened even had the saiyan's all either in confusion, or respect for the moment.
The Z Warriors couldn't believe their eyes. What just happened?
"Piccolo? No don't go! No… Noooooo!" young Gohan cried out, hoping this wasn't true.
"This… this can't be happening!" Krillin stood there, mouth agape in disbelief.
"What happened? He was winning wasn't he?" Chiaotzu asked his friend, who was trying to process the end of the fight.
"He said… Kami… something must have happened at the lookout!" Tien realized, looking back as the lookout, sensing the area out.
That's when he noticed something was really off.
That power they sensed was Hiro? There were two of them.
One of them however, had a sinister feeling to it that gave Shinhan chills.
What the hell was happening over there!?
Moments earlier…
Kami's Lookout…
Kami was feeling elated. Piccolo seemed to be gaining an upper hand on his opponent.
All was going well so far. All damage done could be repaired by the dragonballs, and Goku, and Hiro would be here soon enough to handle the more powerful saiyan's. Everything would be fine in the end.
Speaking of Hiro, the doors to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber had finally opened moments ago, revealing a power that gave even this 'Vegeta' a run for his zeni.
In fact, here he comes now.
"Ah, Hiro good. This battle might be settled easier than I thought." Kami was relieved to have seen that this kind of power was on their side now when he was suddenly overcome by a feeling of dread.
"Don't worry Kami-" his name was punctuated by a ki blade, stabbing him through the chest, "-everything is going exactly as planned."
Kami summoned the strength to look at his assaulter. He looked like Hiro, but his energy, his eyes, his heart, they were all off.
He then ripped out the blade from Kami's chest, letting the earth's guardian fall to the ground in a slump.
"And now, my revolution begins…" 'Hiro' said ominously before taking off for an unknown destination.
Power Levels-
Piccolo- 4,000
Gohan- 2,000
Hiro (HBTC)- 6,000
'Hiro'- ?
Nappa- 5,000
Nappa (Full Power)- 7,000
Amary- 10,500
Amary (Full Power)- 14,000
Vegeta- 18,000
Vegeta (Full Power)- 22,000
Humans- All same as Cannon
