Son Family Homestead
April 3, A763

Sure enough, three Saiyans appeared over the horizon, and came in for an easy landing before Gine and Nappa. Each of them had a golden halo above their heads. They all wore a scouter.

One was a male Saiyan of average height, with standard black hair that came up in the front, and ran about halfway down his neck. He wore the black and red armor of a Saiyan Royal Elite, with a red cape marking him as a member of the Royal Family. He was clearly a warrior Saiyan from his build.

Another was a female Saiyan wearing a black Gi over blue chest armor and gray pants. Her black hair parted out at the scalp and curved up, spiking at the ends. Despite not having any markings, she was built like a Saiyan warrior.

The third Saiyan was a woman Saiyan, with straight, purple hair. She wore white robes over chest armor, marking her as a scientist. She was not well-built, supporting that she was not a warrior. Unlike the grins on the two warriors, she had a neutral, placid look on her face.

"Zorn?" Nappa said, looking at the male Saiyan, "What are you doing here?"

"General Nappa!" Zorn laughed, walking up to him, and patting him on the arm, "Of all the Saiyans I expected, you were the last! How are you?"

Nappa nodded to Zorn, "Doing well. I didn't realize you'd escaped planet Vegeta's destruction. It's good to see you again."

"Heh, I wish I could say it's true, but, sadly, it's not," Zorn said, gesturing to his Halo, "My friends and I struck a deal to get us back to the mortal realm."

"Is that food, and can I have some?" the warrior Saiyan woman asked, gesturing to the sandwiches. Gine picked up a plate and offered it to her. She threw one into her mouth, and gushed, "Oh, yes, it has been so long since I ate something that wasn't clouds."

"Who are your friends, Zorn? Was it?" Gine asked.

"Nappa, who's the low-class?" Zorn asked, gesturing to Gine.

"This is Gine. She's my mate. She escaped Planet Vegeta, too," Nappa said.

"I suppose with most of us dead, you didn't exactly have much to pick from," Zorn said, "Scouter doesn't seem to be impressed with her power level. Or yours, for that matter, Nappa. What happened? Did you get soft? We detected a power blowing something up, and figured that was our target, but we just found the two of you."

Nappa crossed his arms, "This is my home, Zorn. Now what are you and your friends doing here?"

Zorn picked up a sandwich and ate it in a couple of bites, "Like I said, we struck a deal with someone. He wants us to find a couple people who defeated him before, kill them, and then take over this planet for him. Then, he'll make sure we'll come back to life."

"I've heard about you, General Nappa. You're a real brute, right?" the warrior Saiyan asked, "Real in-the-thick-of-it kind of leader. I can respect that. Once we're done, ditch the low-class and we'll start a real line of warriors."

The warrior reached for another sandwich, when Gine grabbed her arm, and squeezed, holding her arm in place.

"This is our home," Gine said, "And you will talk to me with respect."

The Saiyan warrior tried to pull her arm away, but Gine's grip was unwavering as she glared the warrior down.

"Sesamee, back off," Zorn ordered. Sesamee relaxed, signalling to Gine she was deferring, and Gine let her go. Zorn looked to Nappa.

"Look, I'll strike you a deal: You help us kill the people we're looking for, and we'll demand we get brought back immediately. Then, once we're alive, we'll deal with this creature, and we'll take over this planet for ourselves. A new Planet Vegeta. You can keep your home," Zorn said.

"There's enough room on Earth for all of us. There's no need to take over anything," Gine said.

"Tell that to King Vegeta. Of course, once we're done, I have no plans on sharing anything with him; as the King's cousin, I've got just as much of a claim as he does, doubly moreso once I send him back to the Otherworld. But we can sort this out later. Help us kill our targets, we'll come back to life, then we'll blast those freaks off this planet," Zorn said, "What do you said?"

"I can't say I dislike the idea of more Saiyans," Nappa said, looking to Gine, "We need as many as we can if we want to recover our numbers."

"Who are the targets?" Gine asked.

"Oh, damn, what were their names...It was a Namekian and a Saiyan," Zorn said.

"Piccolo and Goku," the scientist said.

"That was it, thank you Nion. Bardock's youngest brat, Kakarot. Goes by Goku here. Some puny Low-Class that went local, and some Namekian. Shouldn't be too hard, with all five us us. What do you say? Up for a little bit of a stomp?" Zorn asked.

"Absolutely not," Gine said, "Goku is my son, and Piccolo is a friend. We won't help you hurt some of Earth's greatest defenders."

"Nappa, why are you letting your wench talk out of line like that?" Zorn asked, "Woman, you should learn not to get too attached to children."

"Things are different, Zorn," Nappa said, "There's another way to do this."

"No, see, you've let your wench talk back to me, and now I'm insulted. You're going to tell us how to find Kakarot and this Piccolo, or I'm going to tear your mate in half in front of you, all right? I'm not asking anymore," Zorn said. Sesamee cracked her knuckles.

Gine chuckled, "Do you really think we've been standing around eating sandwiches these last few years?"

Gine punched Sesamee in the face, sending her flying up into the air. She aimed her hands, and fired a Flambe, which was a series of flaming Ki blasts meant to set the target on fire. By the time Sesamee hit the ground, she was, indeed, aflame. As Sesamee rolled around, trying to put out the fire, Gine landed a knee on her stomach, knocking the wind out of her. Before Sesamee could even recoil, Gine kicked the Saiyan warrior towards the cliff. Sesamee rolled down the cliff, hitting every rock and protruding plant on the way down, until she landed on top of a tree, and then struck every branch down the tree.

"Very impressive, honestly," Zorn said, applauding, "I'm not being sarcastic here, I didn't expect to see that kind of power from a Low-Class like her. And hiding your power levels, that's also a new trick. Well...New-ish. Nion, I believe you figured that out before we all died, didn't you?"

"Yes, sir," Nion said. She took off the coat, revealing her sleek, well-toned arms and calves. Nion took a deep breath, and rocks and debris began to float around her. A translucent, white aura surrounded her as Nion began to power up, her yell reaching a crescendo. Her arms, shoulders, legs, and chest bulked out, and she flew straight at Gine.

"You see, Nion discovered that practice made perfect from a young age. But she kept it hidden, because her position as a scientist allowed her to study the changes happening to her. She reached just over nine thousand, but nobody ever saw her over six hundred while she was alive," Zorn explained to Nappa, "Of course, there is no kill like overkill, and we've received a bit of a power-up in exchange for our good work."

Nion struck Gine, who took the hit on the chest. Gine dug her feet into the dirt, stopping herself from flying off as she'd done to Sesamee. Gine grabbed Nion's arm and tried to flip her. Nion used the movement to move up and kick at Gine' head.

Gine ducked, aimed her hand at Nion, and fired a blast to get some distance between them. Noin rolled with the attack, doing a backflip to land back on her feet. Zorn's smile showed all his teeth, which included overly long canines.

"So long as we're working for our employer, our power on this planet will only grow. You don't stand a chance, Nappa, so just tell me where Kakarot is, and we'll kill him quickly," Zorn said, "Tell us, and I'll let your mate go, after only a little bit of a beating."

Nappa punched him in the face.

Gine stood straight and arched her back, which made a few cracking noises, and she let out a satisfied grunt, "You know, the last time I fought someone at your level was Captain Ginyu. I mean, I helped lay the hurt on Freeza, but that wasn't quite a fight. Truth be told, I used to hate fighting. But I learned to enjoy training for myself. You understand that, right?"

"If you're trying to delay by talking, it won't work," Nion said, holding up her hand. She fired at Gine, again and again, but with each blast, Gine deflected them towards Zorn. Nion attempted to fire at different angles, but Gine charged at Nion and kept deflecting the attacks. Nappa held Zorn in place so each attack struck true. Gine reached Nion, and laid a flurry of strikes on her chest, before grabbing her arm and began to swing her around.

"Cheap Low-class warrior! Your tricks mean nothing!" Sesamee, who'd flown up into the air, aimed her hands at the ground and began to fire at both Gine and Nion. Gine let go, allowing Nion to fly up into the air at Sesamee's attack. Nion caught herself in midair and chopped at the attack, causing it to explode before it struck her.

Nappa, after he punched Zorn in the face, had grabbed Zorn with one arm, and kept punching him repeatedly in the face and chest, taking Zorn's attacks on the bicep and shoulder instead of allowing Zorn to land a solid blow. When Gine began to deflect attacks their way, he seized Zorn's other arm, and began to aim him so each attack struck his enemy.

"You know, what's funny is, at this point, Gine is stronger than I am," Nappa admitted, "She's had more experience fighting at this level of power. I've just had training."

He headbutted Zorn, and then kicked him across the field to Gine. Before Sesamee or Nion could make their attack on Gine, he flew at Nion, catching her with one arm, and slammed her head against Sesamee's chest. Sesamee let out a grunt, but began to punch Nappa in the chest, which hurt a lot more than Nappa let on to his enemies.

"You're a fool to stand in our way!" Sesamee said, "You should have joined us!"

"You're a fool to waste this opportunity trying to kill Kakarot," Nappa said. Nion grabbed Nappa's arm and pulled herself up so she held his upper arm with her legs, and his forearm with her hands. Then, she pulled his arm straight, and yanked.

Nappa let out a scream as the crack of his arm dislocating rang through the mountains.

When Zorn reached Gine, she kicked up, causing him to go from a straight collision to a spiral with the impact of her leg with his head. When he'd spun over a couple times, she kicked down, planting him into the ground. She then borrowed a move from Brussa, and began to jump up and down on his back.

Zorn swung his arm at Gine, using the momentum to swing himself out of the hole Gine had kicked him into, but she jumped over his attack, landed next to him, and kicked him in the face again, which peeled him out of the hole. She spun, striking him a fourth time, before landing in a fighting pose.

"Wow," Zorn panted, "You were even holding back against Nion. Nappa was right, you are the more powerful between the two of you!"

Gine shrugged, "And I'm still not even the most powerful in my family."

Zorn held up his hands to fire a blast, but Gine was quicker on the draw, leaning over to avoid Zorn's line of fire while striking him with a blast to the side. His went wide, while hers hit him right in the chest.

Then she heard the crack of Nappa's arm.

"NAPPA!" she screamed, and flew up to help him.

"Whoops, looks like I found a weak spot!" Zorn laughed, and he began to pelt the three Saiyans with Ki attacks. Gine spun about, and flew at Zorn, pelting him with blows on the face and chest to stop his attacks on Nappa.

"Nobody hurts my family!" Gine snarled as she pounded him into the ground again.

"Bite him!" Zorn shouted while getting pummelled. Above, Nion and Sesamee opened their mouths, revealing their long canines, and they both dug their fangs into Nappa, who screamed again. Zorn laughed as Gine stopped punching him and flew up to help him. She silenced his laughs with a Broiler before speeding to his side, leaving him to scream as he burned.

Gine punched Nion in the cheek, forcing her to release Nappa and sending her up into the sky. She rotated her body to land a dropkick on Sesamee. Gine held his arm, felt where it was dislocated, and jerked, putting it back into place. Nappa let out a groan, rather than a scream, when she felt it slide it back in place.

"We'll stick together. These three don't have our teamwork," Gine said. Nappa began to chuckle, and he looked at her with a crazed look in his eye, and when he opened his mouth to laugh, she floated away from him, shocked at the fangs in his mouth.