General Shisami and the Frieza forces had started reconnaissance on the planet Earth, but it didn't take long before they realized Earth indeed was in ruins. Unknown to them years before their arrival, the cause of this was Dr. Gero but more so his creations of Androids #17 and #18. Dr. Gero had long wanted revenge against Goku before Frieza but in his pursuit it cost him his life. Androids 17 and 18 found out that Gero's plan for them was to only kill Goku and then to be deactivated due to not being able to be fully controlled. Not wanting to be shut off the androids conspired against their creator pretending to play along to kill Goku. However there was no need, Goku had succumbed to heart failure. With this news Gero was excited as he felt Goku would be the only person to stand in his way to reclaim power in the world. While fixated on this the androids saw an opportunity to strike, disabling Gero's only remote to deactivate them.
17 and 18 then killed Gero but not before torturing him. With no one left to stop them, the androids began an assault on the Earth, only to test their powers. With Goku gone the rest of the Z fighters gathered to try and stop the evil duo. But it was no good. Piccolo, Krillin, Chiaotzu, and Tien were the first of the fighters to lose their lives. Yamcha quickly realized he and Gohan were outmatched but felt he should at least put up a fight to let Gohan escape. But right at that moment, Vegeta had appeared. Wanting to prove Goku wasn't needed he led the androids away to fight on his own. Yamcha and Gohan were able to escape to Capsule Corp. There awaiting them was Bulma, Chi Chi and Master Roshi. Hearing the horrible news caused a lot of pain amongst everyone. Bulma especially took this hard because on that day Vegeta was never seen alive again.
At the time no one knew she and Vegeta had become so close. So it was a shock to everyone she was pregnant with his child. After giving birth to Trunks, Bulma didn't want her child to live a life in fear of the androids so she started a resistance. With this Bulma recruited Yamcha, Master Roshi and even Gohan to try and stop 17 and 18. Yet all their efforts were for nothing. All they could manage to do was hide and survive. And in time this way of living became the norm.
As the years went on Master Roshi took it upon himself to train Gohan and Trunks. Both flourished under his guidance. Gohan just like his dad even managed to achieve super saiyan. Trunks admired how strong Gohan had become and looked up to him as a big brother. But nonetheless Gohan's new found power was not enough. Little by little the resistance was decimated. Until one day the androids managed to find a base camp. Mostly everyone managed to escape from the attacks except for Roshi. Gohan wanted to stay and fight but Roshi insisted he run and would catch up later. But that did not happen. Another strong fighter was lost. Times got hard after that. Even Chi Chi had become a victim of the ruined planet, due to old age and not having adequate medicine to heal herself.
Years go by and now the resistance was nothing but a few hundred survivors led by Yamcha, Bulma and Gohan. Trunks would help with the cause but Bulma made sure Gohan kept a close eye on him. But to make matters worse they had no clue Frieza had returned. Puar and a few survivors looking for food noticed some of Frieza's men scouting around. Not recognizing them but knowing they were up to no good, Puar knew he needed to reach Yamcha and the others to tell them what he saw.
"Bulma are you out of your mind?!" Yamcha complained. "There is just no way we can keep taking in more people. It's bad enough we can barely maintain what little survivors we have left in this resistance, if we can even call it that anymore."
Letting out a sigh Bulma just looked at Yamcha as she knew he was partly right. "You don't think I know that already Yamcha! But aren't you tired of running. Yes supplies are low, yes we are barely scraping by. But for what if not to help others in need. I mean we can't just give up."
"I'm not saying we give up. And yes I am tired but, I'm just saying we need to … I dunno take a break, before we become the ones looking for help. But you know if that happens, game over hun cause there's no one left coming to save us." As soon as Yamcha said this he wanted to take it back. He knew deep down Bulma needed no reminding of everyone who had past over the years. "Um Bulma sorry I didn't mean to… I just blurted that out and..."
"Yaaaaamcha!" Puar screeched as he flew like a bat out of hell into Yamcha's face interrupting his conversation with Bulma.
"Puar what's so important that you needed to missle strike yourself into my mouth. Ugh I think I swallowed some of your fur just now." As Yamcha was pulling hairs off his face Bulma could see that Puar was frightened.
"You look really shaken up Puar, don't tell me 17 and 18 are close to finding us again. We barely been here a month." Bulma said.
"No no no… not the androids!" Puar could hardly speak as he tried to catch his breath.
Bulma and Yamcha looked at each other in confusion but right before they could ask Puar anymore questions something set off the base camps intrusion alarms. "Those are the motion detection systems. Puar who did you see? Who is out there?" Yamcha asked.
"I don't know. I just saw a lot of them. And they were all wearing similar armor." As Puar spoke, more and more detection alarms were being set off. At this time Bulma knew something was very wrong. "I'm going to see if I can bring up a video feed. I know the cams have been on the fritz but I need to see what's going on." She then proceeds to type away at her desk trying to pull up any known cameras in the vicinity.
"Oh whoa right there you finally got one up." Yamcha said as he was trying to make out what was in the grainy footage. "Can you make it any clearer?" Bulma continued to configure the systems until finally she was able to clean up the feed. Though what she saw left her speechless and pale. "Bulma what gives these guys they have the same kind of armor Vegeta used to wear."
Yamcha didn't notice right away but Bulma had become petrified by what she saw. He called out to her a couple times but no response. He then reached out to put his hand on her shoulder and that finally caused her to snap out of it. "Bulma you okay there? What about these guys got you so spooked?" Yamcha asked.
"Your right about what you said before Yamcha. Those soldiers they are wearing saiyan armor. But the thing is if you remember it wasn't the saiyans who created that clothing." It took a second for Yamcha to realize but it came to him. Back when he died fighting the saibamen brought to earth by Nappa and Vegeta, Yamcha trained on King Kai's planet. And during that training King Kai managed to bring along Ginyu Force members killed on Namek. And they too were wearing that same armor.
"Wait no it can't be what I'm thinking. If these guys got this armor from the same place then that would mean that they are Frieza's men. Why now? What purpose?" Yamcha said as he was having a hard time grasping at what he just learned.
"What if Frieza is with them Yamcha. This is bad this is extremely bad. It's not enough we got the androids to worry about but now this. And oh no Trunks! Trunks and Gohan went out on patrol this morning! No no no, we have to get to them we have to warn them we ..." Yamcha interrupted as he could see Bulma starting to panic.
"Come on now Bulma. Chill out a second, Gohan's with Trunks and he's smart. No way he lets anything happen out there. And this Frieza talk, its crazy. Frieza's dead. Not only did Goku defeat em but Namek blew up. That's why we ended up wishing Namek back. No way he survived that blast, just no way. Now I'll head out to grab Trunks and Gohan and we regroup to try and figure out what the heck is going on. And who knows maybe the androids run into the soldiers and if we are lucky they take each other out." Yamcha smiled as he explained this to Bumla trying to give her peace of mind. But just like her, he too was afraid of not knowing what was happening.
