Chapter 3

A hatch opened in the asteroid, and they landed inside. Redemption walked out into the hanger bay, followed by Vegeta-Sei and Titania. He opened the pressure-sealed door to the main base, stepped out of the hangar, and into total chaos. They backed against the wall as a Ki blast blistered past them, followed by two rapidly moving shapes: one red, and one green. Redemption shouted to the blurs.
"Arekusanda! Oboe!" Two strange figures approached them - a red-haired man with two sheathed katanas, and a Namek with black hair and a tail. Perhaps even stranger was the fact that the Namek was clearly female, both from her clothing and her... other female traits. Redemption pointed to Vegeta-Sei. "He saved my life." Arekusanda looked at Vegeta-Sei, then held forth his hand.
"I'm Arekusanda. This is Oboe." Vegeta-Sei crossed his arms.
"Vegeta-Sei." A little taken aback, Arekusanda looked ready to respond, when a huge man with red hair charged down the hall. Redemption looked frightened, and prepared to run. In one Ki blast, he was gone. The huge man had killed him.
"Where are Gojinx and Gouki?" Arekusanda, speechless and dumbfounded by the display, pointed. The man ran off. Arekusanda cleared his throat.
"Vegeta-Sei, why don't you and your friend," Vegeta-Sei snorted at this.
"Titania." she volunteered.
"Yes, well, why don't you and Titania come with us? We're forming a new group, and," he looked around, "it doesn't look like this would be a good place to stay." Vegeta-Sei seemed to think it over.
"Very well, I will accompany you. I suppose the woman can tag along if she wants."
"Well then, welcome to the team." Arekusanda cast about worriedly as a not-too-distant Ki blast shook the walls. They looked as if they would crumble at any moment, exposing them all to the vacuum outside.
"Follow me - quickly!" He took off down a corridor, with Oboe close behind. Vegeta-Sei and Titania looked at each other, then shrugged and followed.

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The small group flew at dizzying speed down the corridors of the base, past doors, halls, and training rooms of all kinds. Still, it was several minutes before their goal came into sight.
"This is the hangar where my ship is housed," announced Arekusanda, entering the door. Oboe followed him, and then Titania. When Vegeta-Sei moved to follow, a large, blue hand blocked his way.
"Going somewhere, Saiyan?" hissed a sinister voice.
ZING! Arekusanda had drawn, and thrown his twin katanas in the blink of an eye. Burtur was pinned against the wall, the swords protruding from the wings of his Saiyan armour. Arekusanda walked up to him, and round-house kicked him in the side of the face. He then placed his foot against Burtur's armoured stomach, and with a with a strangled sound from the blue giant as he was used as leverage, Arekusanda withdrew his swords and replaced them in


their sheathes. He turned back to the hangar as Burtur collapsed.
"Now let's get out of here. My ship is this way." They followed him in a daze.

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Arekusanda set the ship down on a small island in the middle of the ocean on a pleasant, tropical, water-covered planet. They disembarked and found a cabin, filled with supplies. They sat down on the couches inside. Vegeta-Sei looked around in wonder.
"Where is this place?" Arekusanda smiled.
"This is a... safe area we set up, Oboe and I, when it became clear that GenerationZ would probably not be staying in the same place forever, due to danger from the Khalids or the Ginyu Force. This has obviously come to pass. I just hope that the others make it here safely... well, no matter. We're safe here - nobody other than GenerationZ knows about it. You two should probably get some rest, you look like you need it - oh, Vegeta-Sei, here." He leaned down and opened one of the boxes. Reaching inside, he withdrew a small bundle. "This," he said, unfolding it, "is the latest version of the Saiyan combat suit. It was developed by one of your descendants, or so I would imagine. He eyed Vegeta-Sei. "You are King Vegeta-Sei, the first Super Saiyan?" Vegeta-Sei nodded. "As I thought. The new combat suit gives better protection, mobility, and flexibility than the one you are wearing now." Vegeta-Sei accepted the suit, and began to strip. Titania gasped.
"You... you're just going to change right here in front of us?"
"Saiyans," he said carefully, giving her a pointed look, "have no problems with the naked body. In fact, fighting unclothed is considered the purest form of combat." His gaze fell slightly lower. "Besides, why should you care? It's not as if you're trying too hard to conceal your... assets." Titania "Humpf"ed indignantly, and turned around. Still, she couldn't resist a glance over her shoulder as she turned. My, but he was a handsome specimen. Not only that, he was also the first of her race that she had ever met. She resolved to have him trained before the end of the week.
"Titania?" She broke out of her thoughts at the sound of Oboe's voice. "Would you like one too?" She held out one of the combat suits. "It'll fit - they're... stretchy." Titania smiled.
"No thanks - I prefer the mobility of my own outfit. Besides, do you have any idea how long this took to make?"

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The Saiyans remained with Oboe and Arekusanda for several days, most of which Vegeta-Sei spent catching up with events that had occurred since his own time.
"But there's one thing that I still don't understand. If I'm here, then what happened to Planet Vegeta? Supposedly I destroyed it - but I disappeared from that timeline a day before it would have happened." Arekusanda considered this.
"Well... no, you were never thought to have destroyed it. You killed a lot of Saiyans, it's true... but you didn't destroy Planet Vegeta.
"Still, how could I have done all that damage if I'm here? Besides, who killed all of those people if it wasn't me?"
"Was there another Saiyan with a power like yours?"
"No. But... there was one who was close. A warrior named Bardock." Arekusanda gasped. "Is there something significant about that?"
"Yes, indeed there is. As I have told you, there are very few Saiyans alive today. They are almost all descended from two Saiyans - you, and Bardock."
"Really? I never knew he had a son... well, no matter. Still, that's an interesting fact. Now, as for Planet Vegeta?..." Arekusanda's eyes narrowed.
"It was destroyed, but not by any Saiyan. It was a tyrant named Frieza - an evil being who first enslaved the Saiyan race, then destroyed it when it became a threat to his power. Originally, it was thought that only four Saiyans had escaped the destruction: Kakarot and Raditz, brothers, and descendants of Bardock. Your descendant, Prince Vegeta, and his retainer, Nappa, general of the Saiyan Elite.
"Right now, where we are, we consider ourselves to be outside of the timeline. Here, we can fight without being disturbed, and without upsetting time All of the greatest fighters who ever lived are here, now, and battling for their respective causes. However, you came here differently than we did, not by choice, and as such we won't hold you to our vows of non-interference. You and Titania were brought here by a natural occurrence, and as such are a natural part of this timeline now. If you wish to involve yourselves, we won't stop you."
Arekusanda's speech was interrupted by the descent of a large, beautiful ship. It looked like nothing so much as a drop of liquid silver, falling rapidly. It stopped suddenly, hovering an inch above the water, there being no room for it on the small island. Suddenly, the side of the mysterious ship rippled, and formed a solid, flat wall. From this wall a set of stairs projected down to the island, and a small door appeared and seperated itself from the rest of the ship. From the inside, several beings emerged.
"Hi," said the one in front. He looked human, sort of. But human like a Saiyan was human, that is to say "not quite." He was tall, with medium-length brown hair, just down to his neck. his clothing suggested a business suit, and came complete with a long white cape, pinned with a jewelled emblem, the sort that absolutely screamed, "I'm not just decoration, I mean something!" He looked, for all intents and purposes, like an average, if somewhat tall human, if one ignored the way the shoulders seemed to bulge slightly, the subtle rising of the cape in the back. He had a certain aura about him, though, and all present were sure that he was not human.
"My name is Taisa," stated the figure, "and you may call us the Kanai."