Piccolo

The landing was definitely rough; I felt myself shaking in my ship, nearly falling out of my seat. I tried to stabilize it, but nothing I did seemed to adjust it to Earth's gravity. I felt it heat up as I entered the atmosphere. I looked at the planet Earth, with it's strange, blue oceans and green landmasses, and white clouds. It was nothing like Namek, with its blue grass, and green water. All of the Namekians would have to get used to this planet, though.

There shouldn't be much intelligent life. If our last generation's databases are not outdated, the smartest two creatures down there should be gorillas and octopuses. But, seeing as our old databases were thousands of years old, I doubt it. We had passed countless of other planets, all of them appearing vastly different than what we thought they'd look like.

One of them we thought was a molten core, still forming it's surface. But, when we passed it, our ships' sensors detected oxygen and microbes in its atmosphere. Another one should have been teeming with life. Actually, it was the planet we had sent the albino Namekians to terraform. It looked completely barren and desolate, so either they failed, or they succeeded and then something bad happened.

Another planet just wasn't there. All we could find were the remnants of a destroyed planet, completely blown up. It actually appeared to have just been destroyed around 20 years or so ago. It was really a shame that that planet had been destroyed; last we had checked, there was a race living there called Tuffles, extremely scientifically advanced people that had helped advance many sciences.

So, Earth. We had all finally made it down to the surface, our ships more or less intact. I quickly got out of it as soon as I knew the planet still had a viable atmosphere. The air was fresh enough, though it had a strange hint of something else. The grass was green, but the sky was a dark color, like how Namek got when it was going to rain.

We landed in an area very reminiscent of Namek; all around us there were towering plateaus. We had landed around a ravine cutting right through the middle of some. The first thing I did was go to the Grand Elder's ship to make sure he was still alive. I flew towards the highest plateau, watching below as a few hundred Namekians disembarked the millenia-old ships. Most of them had a lot of people coming out. Some were old, some were young. Some were like me, in perfect physical shape while others, mainly the elders, were a bit fat.

I stopped for a moment to look down. A lot of the children came out crying and throwing tantrums. I landed down on the ground to talk with the elder with them.

Before I could say anything, Elder Moori quickly started talking. "Ah, Piccolo. The kids just won't stop crying, I think it's because of how different Earth is from Namek." He was interrupted by one of the little ones grabbing onto his short legs, preventing him from moving.

He looked down at him, with concern showing in his eyes. "Come now, Cargo. Earth isn't so different from Namek. Just think of it like our planet but with different colors."

Cargo just started to cry more. "B-b-but where's the water here? Are we gonna starve?"

"Well,we'll just move closer to water when we've made sure everyone is fine."

"O-okay…"

I looked down at Cargo, how sad he was. Soon, we'd be settled in here and continue living out the rest of our lives. I started to fly towards the Grand Elder's ship again, hoping that he was still alive. It was the largest out of all the others. He was a gigantic, morbidly obese Namekian. He was alive for centuries, maybe even a millenia. He was old enough to know about the ships, and what Namek was like before the climate disaster.

I had reached his ship, and entered it to see that the Grand Elder was breathing heavily.

Quickly, I flew up so I could be at his eye level. "Grand Elder! Are you ok?"

His breathing was shaky, I don't think he could speak if he wanted to. Another Namekian, Nail, had flown up to meet me.

"I think he'll be fine. He needs to adjust to the atmosphere and then should be ready to talk. Before we landed, he said we should go scout for water," Nail said.

I nodded at him as we left the ship. He told everyone that the Grand Elder should be fine after he's rested. We flew up higher and got out of the ravine we landed in. However, instead of finding water, we found strange metal things that had surrounded the entire ravine.

They looked large and metallic. Some of them moved closer to us. One of them launched a large, metal ball at us that I quickly caught and threw back at them. Then, one of them started speaking, really loudly at that.

"WE ARE PREPARED TO FIGHT IF NEED BE. IF YOU COMPLY WITH US, THEN WE WILL NOT HURT YOU. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" It felt like that sound was making my ears bleed, it was so loud. I couldn't hear anything and I felt threatened. Nail was already ahead of me though.

He picked up one of the speaking metal things and threw it at another, falling on their sides.

Strangely enough, people came out of them. They appeared to be white, and had some kind of metal covering their ears, and a piece that stuck out over their mouths. I heard one of them say something that seemed to be about me and Nail. "General, the aliens are hostile, I repeat, the aliens are hostile. Should we engage further?... Um… okay, sir. … T-they've toppled two tanks, General sir. … yes sir…"

Then, he climbed onto another metal thing, and went inside of it. The other people that came out of the metal did the same. Then, another voice, this one even louder. "EVERYONE ATTACK THE ALIENS!"

Immediately, even more of those metal balls were shot at us. Me and Nail kicked each of them back at the metal masses with enough precision and strength to cause all of them to blow up.

In a circular mess of flames, Nail and I stood in the center, watching to see if any of those creatures would crawl out of them.

"Ha, so much for no intelligent life," I heard Nail say as he flew over the flames, heading back towards the ravine to tell everyone what had happened. Before he could go down there, small little pellets started raining down on him, and fast. He started to move so fast I couldn't see him. Of course, I could feel and hear where he was though.

I looked upwards only to see a giant black and metallic… thing in the sky. Something as large as that could be created by a species who had hardly evolved just a few thousand years ago?

As Nail continued to dodge the pellets, one of them hit me right in the arm. All it did was cause me to bleed, though. I gathered ki energy in my hand and launched it at the flying thing in the sky. It burst into flames as ki hit it, falling quickly to the ground, exploding upon impact and launching one of those creatures towards me.

It looked up at me, it's face a bruised and bloody mess. I grabbed it by the collar of it's shirt to examine it more closely. It winced in pain as I held it up to my face. The anatomy was roughly similar to that of Namekians, except these creatures weren't green. They had small, rounded ears and no antenna.

As it looked up at me, its face became distorted through fear, trembling as it spoke to me. "Wha-what are you? Why are you here?"

I didn't want it to keep speaking, so I told it the reason we had come. "A hundred of us have come to Earth to inhabit it and repopulate our people."

A gasp came from it's gaping mouth, the face becoming distorted this time by shock. "Have you-you come in p-peace?" It's voice started to fade as it looked like he was about to faint, but he kept going. "What are you going to do to the humans?"

I thought about it for a while. I closed my eyes to think, then started to hear someone in my head.

"Piccolo… We cannot live here while creatures as violent as these inhabit the Earth. I don't want to have to do this, but they pose too much of a threat to our well-being. The creatures must be exterminated." The voice of the Grand Elder reverberated through my head, sending a chill down my spine. If that is what he sees fit, then that is what must be done.