Chapter Three
A New World
Gage fell asleep in the Saiya-jin pod after an hour or so, because space fascinated him like no other. It was so vast and infinite, he couldn't believe it. But finally he was asleep, and he had a long journey ahead of him. Deresis had a voice recording of him telling Gage what he was to do, and then how to get back and operate the pod. It told him it was on auto pilot, and that it would be awhile before they got there, so that he should sleep, relax, and prepare when he was close enough. So that's what Gage did, he slept, relaxed, watched the stars, and steadied his mind and saved his strength. He watched planets go by with great interest, and wondered what the planet he would soon destroy looked like. He wanted his freedom, so he would get it, and he wanted to complete the mission so he wouldn't have to worry about Deresis. He probably could just live on Earth for the rest of his life, but he was sure Deresis would hunt him down, so it would just be easier to wipe out his fellow Saiya-jin's Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, and the Namek Piccolo.
Gage woke some time later to find that the voice was telling him to wake up, that they were an hour from Earth, getting ready to make a first strike. Gage thought he would scout out his prey first, then act. So he prepared for that hour, making plans to check out the planet before doing anything majorly disturbing to it. He could be patient, he had as long as he desired, and he had been pent up in that prison for his whole life he could remember, so a few days of scouting could be done easily enough. So his plan was simple, but simple was good for the time. He could get complicated later if he wanted, because he was not stupid, not by a long shot.
Gage entered Earth's atmosphere but felt nothing except he was getting jerked around a small bit. He watched as he ascended and saw that he was going to land in a big forest, though he was not afraid, he knew Deresis wouldn't kill him before his mission, and he thought he would be strong enough to endure the landing. So he slammed into the earth with a tremendous smash, the crater big enough to wipe out a large portion of the forest, but only in the center, so from the outside of the forest nothing had changed. A stroke of luck for Gage.
His capsule door opened and he took his first step on Earth and breathed in the air, and he loved it. Finally, not in that damned prison! Yes! He tested his power in this gravity by punching a tree, and as expected the tree shattered. He jumped and flew for a bit, and he felt great, ready to do some scouting, so he-
"Hey! He's flying!"
Gage looked toward the voice, it was a hunter in the woods who must have heard his exploits, hitting the planet and all. Gage glared at him while hovering in the air, and the hunter turned his gun toward Gage. Gage seemed to appear in front of the hunter, and he said "Boo." The hunter took off as fast as he could. Gage chuckled and lifted his hand with one finger pointed, and shot a beam that went through the hunters heart. Gage thought that was really easy, and the Saiya-jin blood inside him really wanted Goku and them to be a bit more of a challenge. If this Goku was the most powerful fighter in the universe besides himself, then it should prove to be challenging enough. Gage heard a voice from his pod instructing him to come back. It was Deresis's voice, through an intercom.
"Gage," he said, "there is a compartment on the right hand side of the pod, and there is a bag of senzu beans and a bag of special beans that have the equivalent of six months of meals. Each one is approximately one week of nutrition. The senzu beans are just a precaution." Deresis then proceeded to tell Gage all about the senzu and how they must be used only in emergencies. Gage thanked Deresis and grabbed the beans. He was ready.
Gage took a moment to take in his surroundings, getting attuned to nature around here. The colors so lush, the smells vibrant, he loved it. He then proceeded to feel for Ki. It took him awhile because of the new planet, but soon enough he had a lock on a Ki, and off he went, flying low to the ground, not raising his Ki to alert his prey he was on his way. That would be foolish. He flew on until he was in a city. He didn't care to look at the name, for it would not matter, he would be done with his business and on his way back to Chibor and Master Deresis soon enough. He flew on, and eventually the Ki sense got stronger and he saw a city. He was fascinated by it, and he landed and walked into it, flying would attract attention to himself. He walked in wonderment, taking all of it in, but people were still pointing and staring at him, and he couldn't figure out why. He stopped to think, and it hit him.
His tail!
He didn't even think that Earthlings wouldn't have tails, and they didn't, and now he would pay for it. He looked around quickly, and he saw that there were perhaps ten people that had seen him, or were close enough that they could have, and he thought about destroying them, but saw the error in that. He had been walking around for a good twenty minutes now, so a lot of people could have seen his tail, while he was gawking at the city. He could destroy the city, but then the whole world would be on edge, assuming this world wasn't extremely huge. So instead he walked into an alley and got to the forest as fast as he could without being seen. He went rooftop to rooftop, easily leaping over huge gaps when people weren't around. He was lucky it wasn't a busy time with lots of people roaming around, there were very few people indeed, so it wasn't too hard.
Back at the forest, Gage looked at himself. The green armor wasn't too absurd, but his tail was very distracting. Maybe he could wrap it around his waist like a belt? He would try that, because stuffing it in his pants would be very uncomfortable, if not painful. A tail-belt would do for now. He wrapped his tail around and entered the big city at another side, so as the other people not see him again. He walked into this side and looked around. This looked like a market of sorts, with vendors selling food, clothes, toys for children, and the like. He walked nonchalantly around, and he eyed a cloak. He shot a little blast of air so he knocked off some other clothes and the vendor was occupied in getting those back in order so Gage snatched the cloak and ducked into an alley before the vendor had his things stacked back to normal. What luck for Gage, he now didn't have to worry about his tail with his trusty cloak. He put it on with the hood down and walked out, now very fearless, and the vendor was looking for the cloak, so Gage went the other way.
After he was out of site of the market he took a moment to re-lock on to the Ki, and he did so easily enough, and he was off toward the power. He walked through a few larger crowds of people who were watching some screen that had "Z-TV" over it. Some communications thing he thought. Earthlings seemed to be easily amused, and this seemed to prove it by needing something like that. He soon was very close to his prey, so he started concentrating on that. As he got closer and concentrated more he noticed he could sense two different Ki's. Gage thought that was interesting, might he be able to take out Gohan and Piccolo? Goku and Gohan? Goku and Piccolo? Vegeta and Piccolo? Vegeta and Gohan? Vegeta and Goku? He wouldn't care, taking out two of his objectives right away would be great, making his mission go a lot faster than planned. Faster to his freedom.
He got closer until he knew he was close and he nimbly climbed up a building to a better vantage point. He peered over to see which of the two it was, and he was very surprised. He saw a little bald man and a small-Goku! Maybe his child? This was unsettling to Gage, for now he didn't know if he could find them by finding Ki's! But not a lot of people could be fighters on this planet, a planet of people who are so easily amused. Maybe there was something to that "Z-TV" but he didn't care anything about it right now. He listened in to their conversation.
The short bald man was looking at flowers, and he said, "Which ones do you think your mom will like the most Goten?"
The splitting image of Goku only smaller was called Goten it seemed, and that would make him Goku's son he thought. It was very similar to Goku's name, so Gage decided he would trail them to see if they lead him to Goku, and he thought they would, so he listened in some more.
"Yeah! Mom would love those! Good call Krillin!" Goten said, and picked up a bouquet of assorted flowers. "I can't wait to give them to her for her birthday!" Goten grabbed them and Krillin paid the vendor who thanked them and went to help another customer. Gage didn't know what her "birthday" was, but that meant that Goten would surely give them to his mother, and hopefully his father, Goku, would be there too. This was good.
He watched them look at more flowers, then on to another vendor selling various clothes, and Krillin picked out a dress he thought someone called Chi-Chi would like. He paid that vendor and asked him to put it in a box and wrap it with paper. A gift? Most likely Gage thought. Goten picked out a hat for Chi-Chi and wrapped it also.
"Well, Goten, what should we do till the party? We still have an hour and a half. First lets put these gifts for your mom in the car so we don't have to carry them around till the party." Krillin suggested, and Goten was nodding his head in agreement, so they walked toward a parking lot where Krillin and Goten placed there packages in the back seat and left back to the part of the market they were in. Gage decided to follow them for awhile to see if he could learn more about everything. He listened in some more.
The bald one Krillin looked at some other stores with hats, and he picked one up and put it on. It had some sort of symbol on the front, and he said, "Hey Goten! Do you like this hat?" Goten studied him for a moment, then picked up the same hat, just with a few different colors and put it on Krillin's head.
"Yeah! I like that one Krillin! It looks good," Goten said enthusiastically, and he picked up a matching one, smaller and tried to put it on his head, but he had too much hair so it wouldn't fit. He and Krillin had a good laugh at that. Gage found himself chuckling as well, which disturbed him a bit. He frowned to himself, was he more human than he thought? Questions for another day, he had to follow these two around and learn as much as he could. Krillin ended up buying the hat, and the pair got a bite to eat at a restaurant. Gage then realized he was hungry, but he just opened the bag of food-beans and ate one and in a few minutes he was content. He watched them eat, Goten especially gulping down his food extremely fast. Gage thought humans were odd creatures indeed.
They ate and then talked for awhile until Krillin looked at his watch. "Oh no!" he said, "We are gonna be late if we don't hurry! Come on Goten, we gotta go!" And off they went, running with inhuman speed it seemed, and they got a few looks but it seemed many of the people knew them and didn't take much notice. They jumped in the car, and sped away fast. Gage was caught in a dilemma, does he try and fly and hope they don't see him or feel his Ki? Or does he follow on foot and hope he can keep up?
He did a little of both, he jumped from rooftop to rooftop and got ahead as far as he could and hid in the trees, so he could see them at all times. He knew he was on the right road cause there was only one and there were no branches off of it. So he ran ahead of the car and followed it after it caught him and passed him. He ran on until they began coming to a stop. He felt two enormous Ki's and two other very large ones. The first two felt like a battle, the other two maybe just finished with one, or preparing for one, he couldn't tell, so he thought he would try to get a firsthand look. He slowly walked through the forest toward the Ki's and peered through a bush, and he was actually amazed by what he saw.
It was Super Saiya-jin Goku battling with Super Saiya-jin Vegeta. They were on a plateau fighting each other in the air. Neither Vegeta nor Goku held the upper hand, it was fairly even between them. They exchanged blows, both picking off the major punches and kicks, each landing small blows, not sufficient to harm either one. Vegeta then faked a punch, ducked Goku's kick, delivered a kick of his own to Goku's gut. Goku hit the ground with a tremendous force, rendering him semi-concious. Vegeta flew up and put his hand out toward Goku and Gage felt Vegeta's Ki rising fast. Vegeta then yelled, "Big Bang Attack!" and shot it at Goku. Goku tried to get up and run but it was too late. Goku watched as the ball of death descended toward him....
Right before it hit, Gohan and Piccolo appeared in front of him and they both used there power to deflect the hugely powerful ball out away from everyone. Vegeta had his arms crossed and was smirking with pride. "You lose Kakarot, I am the better fighter."
"Maybe today Vegeta, but your mine next time." Goku said, smiling himself. Vegeta floated down and reverted to normal form, as did Goku. Gage was a bit taken aback by how powerful they were. He could not take them all at once, not a chance. He didn't think he could take Goku and Vegeta by themselves, though it would be a good battle. He would have to get them alone if he could, but that could be a problem considering he was dealing with three Saiya-jin's, and Saiya-jin's loved to fight, so chances are they sparred almost constantly. This would take a lot of time he thought. He wanted to do it honorably also, none of this behind the back killing. He wanted to test his skills against the likes of Piccolo, Gohan, Vegeta, and Goku. He wanted to fight Goku the most though, because he was the strongest, even though he saw him get beat by Vegeta. He was sure Goku had beaten Vegeta more than Vegeta beat Goku. It just seemed that way.
Goku and Vegeta, both worn out, walked off to a tree, where a bag lay between two branches. Goku picked up the bag, reached in, and grabbed something and threw it to Vegeta. It was small, and Vegeta ate it. Goku did the same. Gage felt their powers return to full, and he knew what they ate. It had to be senzu, or something like it, that completely revitalized the power and healed the injuries of anyone who ate it. That would prove to be a major problem, considering someone had to grow them. He would have to get those beans before he fought any of them.
He watched then as Piccolo and Gohan proceeded to fight. Piccolo held the advantage at the beginning of the battle, but Gohan powered up to Super Saiya-jin as the battle progressed, thus seemingly gaining an edge. Gage was watching but was lost in thought. He was wondering how he could beat them. He noticed that Piccolo was very strong, being able to hold his own with a Super Saiya-jin, and Gohan showed an extreme amount of potential. He was in his teens, and he looked like he could hold his own with Vegeta, maybe even Goku for awhile. It appeared that they were stronger than predicted. Gage still felt that he could take any of them on one versus one, but Goku and Vegeta would pose larger problems. He then watched again as Piccolo shot two shots, one of which clipped Gohan, the other missed. Gohan shot his own shot, not very powerful, but it connected and knocked Piccolo over. Gage frowned, maybe Piccolo wasn't that strong? Then he realized it. Gohan was about to shoot a beam at Piccolo, when the shot that missed came back around and smashed Gohan right between the shoulder blades, sending him flying toward Piccolo, who was up. Piccolo had faked falling over as a ruse. He caught Gohan by the throat and squeezed. Gohan was fast losing strength. Piccolo smiled, Gohan tried to kick him but it was too weak to cause damage. Gohan tried until he was losing consciousness.
"Piccolo! Let him go! He's too stubborn to realize when he is beaten," Goku yelled, Piccolo looked over, smiled, and dropped Gohan. Gohan landed and began coughing, struggling to breath, but he was back to normal in no time.
After Gohan was fully recovered he have Piccolo a pat on the back. "You and your mind games Piccolo. Your a tricky one!" Gohan said and they both chuckled at that.
"You may be stronger than me," Piccolo said smiling, "but I still have a few tricks for you."
"Yeah, and some of those are pretty good, I have to learn to be more cautious when I fight, especially when it comes to you Piccolo." Gohan laughed. They both took a senzu bean, and Gage noticed it seemed to be quite full. Not good. He watched for awhile, as they all showed each other some new techniques, nothing too good or fancy, just stuff they were working on, until a woman appeared in the door of the little house that was there, and yelled, "Come on in boys! Time to start the celebration!" Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, and Piccolo went into the house. Gage creeped up to the house and peeked into the window.
Inside there were a lot of people, more than he expected. There was Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Piccolo, the woman he assumed was Chi-Chi, Goten, Krillin, a very big man with a hat that had horns, a small boy about the age of Goten with purple hair, and a woman that looked like his mother, who had the same hair. Gage concentrated and memorized how all of their Ki's felt, including Goten and Krillin, and he found out that the purple haired boy had one as well. How many Saiya-jin's were on this blasted planet? Not that it mattered, they would all die eventually, but getting them alone would be the main problem. He now found out he was getting very excited, he wanted to fight someone that could be his equal, he wanted to prove his power to himself. He was starting to shake from it. He knew it was time, he would take all of them out right now!
He was powering up a small blast in his hand and he shot it toward the window just as he realized his mistake. He let his Saiya-jin blood take over, and that was a mistake. He angled it so it hit above the window just before it left his hand. He ran as fast as he could away from the house, he must not be found. He got into the forest just as Goku burst out of the house, followed by Vegeta and Gohan. Goku stood dumbfounded, as did Vegeta. Gohan didn't know what had happened. He looked at the house and saw a small hole where the ball had exploded. Gohan asked "Who did that?" in a exasperated tone.
Vegeta said, in almost a whisper, "Another? There couldn't be..."
Goku replied, just as mystified as the Saiya-jin Prince, "You felt it like I did, it had to be real..."
Now Gohan was getting agitated, if his father wasn't sure about something, he knew something was up. If Vegeta was confused, he knew something was really wrong. "Dad...Vegeta...whats going on?" Gohan asked hesitantly.
"I still don't believe it," Vegeta said defiantly, "I will not believe it." Vegeta could not deny what he felt though.
What Goku said next caused Gohan, and now Piccolo and Krillin who were outside, to gasp in complete surprise and fear.
"Try as you might Vegeta," Goku said with a grim smile, "you know it as well as I do. The person that was here had the Ki of a Saiya-jin."
A New World
Gage fell asleep in the Saiya-jin pod after an hour or so, because space fascinated him like no other. It was so vast and infinite, he couldn't believe it. But finally he was asleep, and he had a long journey ahead of him. Deresis had a voice recording of him telling Gage what he was to do, and then how to get back and operate the pod. It told him it was on auto pilot, and that it would be awhile before they got there, so that he should sleep, relax, and prepare when he was close enough. So that's what Gage did, he slept, relaxed, watched the stars, and steadied his mind and saved his strength. He watched planets go by with great interest, and wondered what the planet he would soon destroy looked like. He wanted his freedom, so he would get it, and he wanted to complete the mission so he wouldn't have to worry about Deresis. He probably could just live on Earth for the rest of his life, but he was sure Deresis would hunt him down, so it would just be easier to wipe out his fellow Saiya-jin's Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, and the Namek Piccolo.
Gage woke some time later to find that the voice was telling him to wake up, that they were an hour from Earth, getting ready to make a first strike. Gage thought he would scout out his prey first, then act. So he prepared for that hour, making plans to check out the planet before doing anything majorly disturbing to it. He could be patient, he had as long as he desired, and he had been pent up in that prison for his whole life he could remember, so a few days of scouting could be done easily enough. So his plan was simple, but simple was good for the time. He could get complicated later if he wanted, because he was not stupid, not by a long shot.
Gage entered Earth's atmosphere but felt nothing except he was getting jerked around a small bit. He watched as he ascended and saw that he was going to land in a big forest, though he was not afraid, he knew Deresis wouldn't kill him before his mission, and he thought he would be strong enough to endure the landing. So he slammed into the earth with a tremendous smash, the crater big enough to wipe out a large portion of the forest, but only in the center, so from the outside of the forest nothing had changed. A stroke of luck for Gage.
His capsule door opened and he took his first step on Earth and breathed in the air, and he loved it. Finally, not in that damned prison! Yes! He tested his power in this gravity by punching a tree, and as expected the tree shattered. He jumped and flew for a bit, and he felt great, ready to do some scouting, so he-
"Hey! He's flying!"
Gage looked toward the voice, it was a hunter in the woods who must have heard his exploits, hitting the planet and all. Gage glared at him while hovering in the air, and the hunter turned his gun toward Gage. Gage seemed to appear in front of the hunter, and he said "Boo." The hunter took off as fast as he could. Gage chuckled and lifted his hand with one finger pointed, and shot a beam that went through the hunters heart. Gage thought that was really easy, and the Saiya-jin blood inside him really wanted Goku and them to be a bit more of a challenge. If this Goku was the most powerful fighter in the universe besides himself, then it should prove to be challenging enough. Gage heard a voice from his pod instructing him to come back. It was Deresis's voice, through an intercom.
"Gage," he said, "there is a compartment on the right hand side of the pod, and there is a bag of senzu beans and a bag of special beans that have the equivalent of six months of meals. Each one is approximately one week of nutrition. The senzu beans are just a precaution." Deresis then proceeded to tell Gage all about the senzu and how they must be used only in emergencies. Gage thanked Deresis and grabbed the beans. He was ready.
Gage took a moment to take in his surroundings, getting attuned to nature around here. The colors so lush, the smells vibrant, he loved it. He then proceeded to feel for Ki. It took him awhile because of the new planet, but soon enough he had a lock on a Ki, and off he went, flying low to the ground, not raising his Ki to alert his prey he was on his way. That would be foolish. He flew on until he was in a city. He didn't care to look at the name, for it would not matter, he would be done with his business and on his way back to Chibor and Master Deresis soon enough. He flew on, and eventually the Ki sense got stronger and he saw a city. He was fascinated by it, and he landed and walked into it, flying would attract attention to himself. He walked in wonderment, taking all of it in, but people were still pointing and staring at him, and he couldn't figure out why. He stopped to think, and it hit him.
His tail!
He didn't even think that Earthlings wouldn't have tails, and they didn't, and now he would pay for it. He looked around quickly, and he saw that there were perhaps ten people that had seen him, or were close enough that they could have, and he thought about destroying them, but saw the error in that. He had been walking around for a good twenty minutes now, so a lot of people could have seen his tail, while he was gawking at the city. He could destroy the city, but then the whole world would be on edge, assuming this world wasn't extremely huge. So instead he walked into an alley and got to the forest as fast as he could without being seen. He went rooftop to rooftop, easily leaping over huge gaps when people weren't around. He was lucky it wasn't a busy time with lots of people roaming around, there were very few people indeed, so it wasn't too hard.
Back at the forest, Gage looked at himself. The green armor wasn't too absurd, but his tail was very distracting. Maybe he could wrap it around his waist like a belt? He would try that, because stuffing it in his pants would be very uncomfortable, if not painful. A tail-belt would do for now. He wrapped his tail around and entered the big city at another side, so as the other people not see him again. He walked into this side and looked around. This looked like a market of sorts, with vendors selling food, clothes, toys for children, and the like. He walked nonchalantly around, and he eyed a cloak. He shot a little blast of air so he knocked off some other clothes and the vendor was occupied in getting those back in order so Gage snatched the cloak and ducked into an alley before the vendor had his things stacked back to normal. What luck for Gage, he now didn't have to worry about his tail with his trusty cloak. He put it on with the hood down and walked out, now very fearless, and the vendor was looking for the cloak, so Gage went the other way.
After he was out of site of the market he took a moment to re-lock on to the Ki, and he did so easily enough, and he was off toward the power. He walked through a few larger crowds of people who were watching some screen that had "Z-TV" over it. Some communications thing he thought. Earthlings seemed to be easily amused, and this seemed to prove it by needing something like that. He soon was very close to his prey, so he started concentrating on that. As he got closer and concentrated more he noticed he could sense two different Ki's. Gage thought that was interesting, might he be able to take out Gohan and Piccolo? Goku and Gohan? Goku and Piccolo? Vegeta and Piccolo? Vegeta and Gohan? Vegeta and Goku? He wouldn't care, taking out two of his objectives right away would be great, making his mission go a lot faster than planned. Faster to his freedom.
He got closer until he knew he was close and he nimbly climbed up a building to a better vantage point. He peered over to see which of the two it was, and he was very surprised. He saw a little bald man and a small-Goku! Maybe his child? This was unsettling to Gage, for now he didn't know if he could find them by finding Ki's! But not a lot of people could be fighters on this planet, a planet of people who are so easily amused. Maybe there was something to that "Z-TV" but he didn't care anything about it right now. He listened in to their conversation.
The short bald man was looking at flowers, and he said, "Which ones do you think your mom will like the most Goten?"
The splitting image of Goku only smaller was called Goten it seemed, and that would make him Goku's son he thought. It was very similar to Goku's name, so Gage decided he would trail them to see if they lead him to Goku, and he thought they would, so he listened in some more.
"Yeah! Mom would love those! Good call Krillin!" Goten said, and picked up a bouquet of assorted flowers. "I can't wait to give them to her for her birthday!" Goten grabbed them and Krillin paid the vendor who thanked them and went to help another customer. Gage didn't know what her "birthday" was, but that meant that Goten would surely give them to his mother, and hopefully his father, Goku, would be there too. This was good.
He watched them look at more flowers, then on to another vendor selling various clothes, and Krillin picked out a dress he thought someone called Chi-Chi would like. He paid that vendor and asked him to put it in a box and wrap it with paper. A gift? Most likely Gage thought. Goten picked out a hat for Chi-Chi and wrapped it also.
"Well, Goten, what should we do till the party? We still have an hour and a half. First lets put these gifts for your mom in the car so we don't have to carry them around till the party." Krillin suggested, and Goten was nodding his head in agreement, so they walked toward a parking lot where Krillin and Goten placed there packages in the back seat and left back to the part of the market they were in. Gage decided to follow them for awhile to see if he could learn more about everything. He listened in some more.
The bald one Krillin looked at some other stores with hats, and he picked one up and put it on. It had some sort of symbol on the front, and he said, "Hey Goten! Do you like this hat?" Goten studied him for a moment, then picked up the same hat, just with a few different colors and put it on Krillin's head.
"Yeah! I like that one Krillin! It looks good," Goten said enthusiastically, and he picked up a matching one, smaller and tried to put it on his head, but he had too much hair so it wouldn't fit. He and Krillin had a good laugh at that. Gage found himself chuckling as well, which disturbed him a bit. He frowned to himself, was he more human than he thought? Questions for another day, he had to follow these two around and learn as much as he could. Krillin ended up buying the hat, and the pair got a bite to eat at a restaurant. Gage then realized he was hungry, but he just opened the bag of food-beans and ate one and in a few minutes he was content. He watched them eat, Goten especially gulping down his food extremely fast. Gage thought humans were odd creatures indeed.
They ate and then talked for awhile until Krillin looked at his watch. "Oh no!" he said, "We are gonna be late if we don't hurry! Come on Goten, we gotta go!" And off they went, running with inhuman speed it seemed, and they got a few looks but it seemed many of the people knew them and didn't take much notice. They jumped in the car, and sped away fast. Gage was caught in a dilemma, does he try and fly and hope they don't see him or feel his Ki? Or does he follow on foot and hope he can keep up?
He did a little of both, he jumped from rooftop to rooftop and got ahead as far as he could and hid in the trees, so he could see them at all times. He knew he was on the right road cause there was only one and there were no branches off of it. So he ran ahead of the car and followed it after it caught him and passed him. He ran on until they began coming to a stop. He felt two enormous Ki's and two other very large ones. The first two felt like a battle, the other two maybe just finished with one, or preparing for one, he couldn't tell, so he thought he would try to get a firsthand look. He slowly walked through the forest toward the Ki's and peered through a bush, and he was actually amazed by what he saw.
It was Super Saiya-jin Goku battling with Super Saiya-jin Vegeta. They were on a plateau fighting each other in the air. Neither Vegeta nor Goku held the upper hand, it was fairly even between them. They exchanged blows, both picking off the major punches and kicks, each landing small blows, not sufficient to harm either one. Vegeta then faked a punch, ducked Goku's kick, delivered a kick of his own to Goku's gut. Goku hit the ground with a tremendous force, rendering him semi-concious. Vegeta flew up and put his hand out toward Goku and Gage felt Vegeta's Ki rising fast. Vegeta then yelled, "Big Bang Attack!" and shot it at Goku. Goku tried to get up and run but it was too late. Goku watched as the ball of death descended toward him....
Right before it hit, Gohan and Piccolo appeared in front of him and they both used there power to deflect the hugely powerful ball out away from everyone. Vegeta had his arms crossed and was smirking with pride. "You lose Kakarot, I am the better fighter."
"Maybe today Vegeta, but your mine next time." Goku said, smiling himself. Vegeta floated down and reverted to normal form, as did Goku. Gage was a bit taken aback by how powerful they were. He could not take them all at once, not a chance. He didn't think he could take Goku and Vegeta by themselves, though it would be a good battle. He would have to get them alone if he could, but that could be a problem considering he was dealing with three Saiya-jin's, and Saiya-jin's loved to fight, so chances are they sparred almost constantly. This would take a lot of time he thought. He wanted to do it honorably also, none of this behind the back killing. He wanted to test his skills against the likes of Piccolo, Gohan, Vegeta, and Goku. He wanted to fight Goku the most though, because he was the strongest, even though he saw him get beat by Vegeta. He was sure Goku had beaten Vegeta more than Vegeta beat Goku. It just seemed that way.
Goku and Vegeta, both worn out, walked off to a tree, where a bag lay between two branches. Goku picked up the bag, reached in, and grabbed something and threw it to Vegeta. It was small, and Vegeta ate it. Goku did the same. Gage felt their powers return to full, and he knew what they ate. It had to be senzu, or something like it, that completely revitalized the power and healed the injuries of anyone who ate it. That would prove to be a major problem, considering someone had to grow them. He would have to get those beans before he fought any of them.
He watched then as Piccolo and Gohan proceeded to fight. Piccolo held the advantage at the beginning of the battle, but Gohan powered up to Super Saiya-jin as the battle progressed, thus seemingly gaining an edge. Gage was watching but was lost in thought. He was wondering how he could beat them. He noticed that Piccolo was very strong, being able to hold his own with a Super Saiya-jin, and Gohan showed an extreme amount of potential. He was in his teens, and he looked like he could hold his own with Vegeta, maybe even Goku for awhile. It appeared that they were stronger than predicted. Gage still felt that he could take any of them on one versus one, but Goku and Vegeta would pose larger problems. He then watched again as Piccolo shot two shots, one of which clipped Gohan, the other missed. Gohan shot his own shot, not very powerful, but it connected and knocked Piccolo over. Gage frowned, maybe Piccolo wasn't that strong? Then he realized it. Gohan was about to shoot a beam at Piccolo, when the shot that missed came back around and smashed Gohan right between the shoulder blades, sending him flying toward Piccolo, who was up. Piccolo had faked falling over as a ruse. He caught Gohan by the throat and squeezed. Gohan was fast losing strength. Piccolo smiled, Gohan tried to kick him but it was too weak to cause damage. Gohan tried until he was losing consciousness.
"Piccolo! Let him go! He's too stubborn to realize when he is beaten," Goku yelled, Piccolo looked over, smiled, and dropped Gohan. Gohan landed and began coughing, struggling to breath, but he was back to normal in no time.
After Gohan was fully recovered he have Piccolo a pat on the back. "You and your mind games Piccolo. Your a tricky one!" Gohan said and they both chuckled at that.
"You may be stronger than me," Piccolo said smiling, "but I still have a few tricks for you."
"Yeah, and some of those are pretty good, I have to learn to be more cautious when I fight, especially when it comes to you Piccolo." Gohan laughed. They both took a senzu bean, and Gage noticed it seemed to be quite full. Not good. He watched for awhile, as they all showed each other some new techniques, nothing too good or fancy, just stuff they were working on, until a woman appeared in the door of the little house that was there, and yelled, "Come on in boys! Time to start the celebration!" Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, and Piccolo went into the house. Gage creeped up to the house and peeked into the window.
Inside there were a lot of people, more than he expected. There was Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Piccolo, the woman he assumed was Chi-Chi, Goten, Krillin, a very big man with a hat that had horns, a small boy about the age of Goten with purple hair, and a woman that looked like his mother, who had the same hair. Gage concentrated and memorized how all of their Ki's felt, including Goten and Krillin, and he found out that the purple haired boy had one as well. How many Saiya-jin's were on this blasted planet? Not that it mattered, they would all die eventually, but getting them alone would be the main problem. He now found out he was getting very excited, he wanted to fight someone that could be his equal, he wanted to prove his power to himself. He was starting to shake from it. He knew it was time, he would take all of them out right now!
He was powering up a small blast in his hand and he shot it toward the window just as he realized his mistake. He let his Saiya-jin blood take over, and that was a mistake. He angled it so it hit above the window just before it left his hand. He ran as fast as he could away from the house, he must not be found. He got into the forest just as Goku burst out of the house, followed by Vegeta and Gohan. Goku stood dumbfounded, as did Vegeta. Gohan didn't know what had happened. He looked at the house and saw a small hole where the ball had exploded. Gohan asked "Who did that?" in a exasperated tone.
Vegeta said, in almost a whisper, "Another? There couldn't be..."
Goku replied, just as mystified as the Saiya-jin Prince, "You felt it like I did, it had to be real..."
Now Gohan was getting agitated, if his father wasn't sure about something, he knew something was up. If Vegeta was confused, he knew something was really wrong. "Dad...Vegeta...whats going on?" Gohan asked hesitantly.
"I still don't believe it," Vegeta said defiantly, "I will not believe it." Vegeta could not deny what he felt though.
What Goku said next caused Gohan, and now Piccolo and Krillin who were outside, to gasp in complete surprise and fear.
"Try as you might Vegeta," Goku said with a grim smile, "you know it as well as I do. The person that was here had the Ki of a Saiya-jin."