AN: I still don't own DBZ. Why, does anyone still think I do?

Chapter 2: The Alien Lands

"Do you think he's going to be very powerful?" asked Chao Su.

"Do you think we're going to have to fight him at all?" Gohan added. "Just because he's an alien doesn't mean he's evil or even if he can fight. How are we supposed to know that we need to keep our guard up if we don't even know what we're up against? I mean, it may be an evil creature but it could be friendly and just on vacation or maybe even helplessly lost. I don't know why you always assume that every unknown thing is an enemy. We have no idea of what it's occupation is and..."

"Trust me, Gohan, it's evil," Piccolo replied. "Otherwise I wouldn't have even bothered to send you Kami's message."

"You okay, Yamcha?" Tien asked after what Gohan's third to last word was.

"Yes," he replied. "I was just... hungry earlier. In fact, I still am now. Do you think this is going to take very long?"

"I don't know," Goku replied, "but..." Just then, a white pod came flying out of the sky and landed... in the opposite direction of which they had been headed.

"Great," Piccolo said, "now we have to go back." They had been flying for about five minutes already and by the time it was ten they had flown back over that weird little island, which, of course, makes sense. But they continued to fly in the direction of which they had seen the spaceship fall and they finally reached land and began searching.

"Does anyone see anything?" Goku asked after about twenty minutes of looking for the site of the crash. But no one had found a thing.

"Great, now what do we do?" asked Yamcha.

"I don't know," asked Krillin, "but... hey wait a minute. Was it just me, or did you guys notice something different about Master Roshi's island?" Everyone "stood" there for a while and then put their heads in their hands.

"Of course!" exclaimed Gohan. "The spaceship was in that huge crevice at the back of it. I can't believe that we didn't notice..." but before he could finish his speech, everyone else had turned back toward the island. When they arrived, about an hour had passed since this whole thing had started. They all approached the space ship carefully and looked down at it from the edge of its ditch. Nothing happened, apart from the huge amounts of dust that were still rising for some odd reason.

"Oh well, no alien, I guess we better go then!" Krillin said, but just then, the door to the pod was broken down and a voice said:

"Finally, I've been waiting forever for somebody to show up."

Out flew somebody that looked just like a man, short blonde hair, normal clothes, your average human, which is why none of them were expecting this.

"I have come to destroy this planet," he said, with a slight English accent, "and there's nothing you weaklings can do about it." Everyone stared at him for a while and suddenly they all burst out laughing.

"Oh look at me!" Goku mimicked, "I'm a weak little alien who thinks I can blow up an entire planet even though I have the power of a five year old girl!"

"Oh really," the alien replied, not impressed. "Well, what do you think about this?" He looked at a nearby tree and suddenly it exploded.

The others froze where they were. "Uh, we gotta go!" Goku said and they dashed back into the house.

"What's going on?" asked Oolong as they crowded around the others.

"Oh, nothing really," Goku replied. "Just some weird alien guy who wants to take over the world and can look at things and make them explode."

"What?!" exclaimed Bulma as she and the others started freaking out. "Don't' you think that maybe you should do something about it?!"

"Well, yeah. But first can we get something to eat? I'm starving!" Everybody's eyes got really big.

"What do you mean?!" Master Roshi screamed, he had to have by the size his mouth became. "You already ate all of the food that was here!"

"Oh yeah! I guess I forgot."

"Well, are you guys going to fight that alien thing or not!" Yajarobe said. "You can't just stand there and let him blow us to bits!"

"Um, all right," replied Goku. "Let's go outside and get him, guys."

"I just remembered." Krillin said. "I think I left the iron on! Well, see you guys later!"

"Don't you dare abandon us!" Gohan yelled. "We'll need all the help we can get against this guy! If you leave, we might be short on fighters and would, therefore, fail,

but if you come along, we may stand a better chance because you can help us and help is the thing we need right now!"

"Exactly why I'm leaving!" Krillin answered.

"Oh, come on!" Yamcha said, and they all turned around to go back outside. But, the alien was already standing there waiting for them. Everybody started freaking out.

"There you scaredy cats are. I've been waiting for an hour and now you're chickening out on me. Well, I guess I'll just take over this planet right now."

"Nobody takes over the Earth without fighting us first!" Goku exclaimed.

"Excuse me?" he replied, beginning to laugh. "Is that the best name you could come up with for this planet? Oh my goodness, this is going to be a lot easier than I thought!"

"Oh yeah?" Piccolo yelled and he leapt up and began punching and kicking really fast at him. But, for some reason, every one missed and the alien didn't even seem to break a sweat however he was dodging them. So, since this wasn't working, Piccolo started shooting a whole bunch of weird little laser ball thingies at him and there was a whole bunch of dust. But, when it all cleared, he was still standing there. Everybody started freaking out again.