Author's Notes
I started this story at the beginning of February 2001, finished the rough draft in late May 2001, started uploading it to Fan Fiction in early July 2001, and finished on October 21, 2002. So basically, it took me the time span between Hannibal and Red Dragon! The whole concept of fan fiction was introduced to me by my best friend at the time, Carmen Pisani. He had me read a Dragon Ball fan fic that I can't remember the title of or the site it was on. All I remember is that the story was a romantic/comedy about Vegeta and Bulma getting married. It was pretty interesting, interesting enough to get me to wanna write my own. Also at the time, I had just finished reading Aliens versus Predator: Prey which was an excellent book. The Alien legacy had been a life long obsession of mine and I was always looking for some way to capitalize on it. When the concept of fan fiction entered my mind, 1 thing was going through my head, Aliens versus DragonBall.
I started writing almost immediately by hand. At first, it was called Aliens vs. Vegeta. The original draft was pretty much the same, except pretty cheesy and somewhat poorly executed, but it was a good basis for the final copy to follow. In it, there wasn't much description of environment, emotions, or character. The alien queen wound up being strong than Buu, Vegeta and Goku acted weirdly and out of character in certain situations, the overall story was shorter, and there wasn't much continuality of it. Example, Goku dies from a chest burster in the end. If you saw Alien 3, you would see that aliens don't attack those with chest bursters in them. In the rough draft, aliens attacked Goku left and right. This wouldn't happen. This time around, I tried to hide it, but Goku never really does get attacked this time when you go back and read it. The only time an alien fought him was when the queen had no choice but to defend itself, and even then at first it tried just to get rid of him. Another thing that was in the rough draft that I didn't like was that I made up a bullshit reason for them to swim out. I just had Goku say it was blocked with no explanation why. Goku also woke up almost immediately after Vegeta found him in the rough draft. And in between the that and the fight with the queen, they never left the generator room, making everything seem kind of bland to me. Last was an idea I thought was cool at the time and damn near necessary was to have Vegeta have a weapon while fighting the aliens. So, between Back Into Hell and Live and Let Die (Which in the rough draft was named "God, Kill The Queen) Vegeta fought the aliens with the scimitar that only made an appearance in the final copy in the last chapter.
A major goal that I wanted to achieve in this was to make it seem more like a DBZ movie and not an Alien movie so to speak, though after writing, it kind of worked almost the opposite, and for the better. The story takes place in the DBZ universe soon after the Buu saga, and when I first started writing, I was trying real hard to stay true to that. For the sequel however, I took a different approach, but more on that later. I wanted the atmosphere of the story to be scary, and I subconsciously took the gothic approach from Alien 3 (Which I L-O-V-E-D, I don't care what you guys say!!!). Really, this wound up being an Alien movie with Vegeta and Goku as the main characters, with minimal references to the true DBZ. The atmosphere, the setting, the style, everything except the references to Bulma and the music all seemed to come from Alien. I guess it can be looked at either way however because I wrote this as a DBZ story with the aliens as bad guys and for it to take place during the DBZ timeline.
Not just inspiration from Alien and DragonBall Z went into this. Die Hard inspired some of the scenes, such as the fight in the offices. The chapter Welcome To The Machine was completely inspired by the music of the song by Pink Floyd by the same name. If you haven't heard it, download it and hear it, it's a great song. If you don't listen to the words and just listen to the music, you can really see the chapter playing like a music video in you head. Goodfellas also played a small part in it. It only seemed likely to me and my friends that if he liked movies, they would be movies about people like him, and I saw this in movies about the Mafia. There will be more going into that in the sequel.
Toward the end of the writing process, I thought it would be cool to make a soundtrack to it like a soundtrack to a movie. So, I strung together a lot of songs (mostly from the Alien Trilogy and Aliens soundtracks) that went along with scenes from the story. It came out really well, and the album even has a secret track that I'm not gonna say a word about, you'll just have to contact me if you wanna hear it! (Most of my fans already have though)
Over the summer that year, I was looking for a site that would take my story; I hadn't heard of FF.net then. I was working at a CD shop in Ocean City New Jersey that summer. Somewhere in late June, I met 2 girls one night when I was working that I never saw or heard from again, which kind of sux. They told me about FF. The week end I came home, I typed and uploaded my first chapter. I hoped to have it finished by the end of the summer, but my comp crashed and when we fixed it, we didn't have Word. Around this time, I met Emy for the first time and she gave me new inspiration to write. Her most successful story, Dancing In Darkness, had over 50 reviews. At the time, I only had 20, and this was in late January of 2002. From there, I was in competition to get more reviews, which I thought was impossible. This wasn't the only reason I started writing so much after I met her, and I know she knows the other reasons somewhere in her. So, I really started rewriting AvV, which I renamed Aliens versus DragonBall. She then suggested the idea that I send her the chapters through E-mail and she would post them in my name. The rest is history.
Not long after I finished AvV,I began work on the sequel. I thought that the first was just too much mindless action, and I wanted the sequel to have more meaning and have more of a story behind it. As a result, it turned more into a drama! But believe me, it's a lot better this way. It's more of a DBZ story than the first one. It will have every character from DBZ in it. The only thing is that I decided to not be so anal about having everything perfect to DBZ this time. I decided to have it take place in more of a real world setting than the mythical DBZ setting were animals walk the streets like humans, but it works better this way.
Now I would like to thank a few people. Just far warning, there is a lot of sap coming up.
God-Without you, nothing is possible and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for being together the different things that inspired me to make this.
Carmen Pisani-You are the one that introduced me to fanfiction and got me started in the writing process. Where ever you are at right now, I hope you are happy and doing what you always wanted to do.
Mike Brown-Dude, you're one crazy mother fucker! You gave me endless praise during the initial writing process and have remained as one of the only 2 true friends I ever had. I love ya man, thank you so much for the support!
Jason Feddy-I know I don't talk to you much anymore, and you probably forgot I even wrote this story, but after I finished every chapter, you were always the first one to read it! You expertise in DBZ helped keep me on track and you helped make a lot of useful suggestions. Thanx for letting me barrow all of you Japanese DBZ videos!
Shaun Kelly Heartly-Dude, I feel bad for putting you through that shit, but thanx for making both of the posters for my story. I felt really bossy when I was telling you what I needed in it and making you go back several times to fix things, but you made some excellent posters that I am very fond of! Thanx for putting up with my shit and making them!!!!
Kristen King-You were the first person that read the story in its entirety. That made me feel good and helped me continue writing from then on.
Zaybach and KSClaw-My 2 biggest fans that never met me! Thanx for your reviews and telling me how you felt about every aspect of the story.
Arnold Schwarzenegger-Dude, you just fucken rule!
And Finally
Emy-Thank you beyond thankyous for helping me upload my chapters, supporting me, and being my biggest fan in the world. You are probably the best friend I ever had along with Mike, and words can't express how I feel about that. You inspiration helped me rewrite the story and shape what the sequel will be. You know how I truly feel about you. Just remember that.
Also Thank you to everyone that reviewed! You guys are my energy. With every review, positive or negative, it helps me keep going and helps me to perfect my skills. thank you for being honest and not just saying it was good and not meaning it. I rather you guys be completely honest than give me false compliments, and I feel you guys have done that. Thank you guys.
I started this story at the beginning of February 2001, finished the rough draft in late May 2001, started uploading it to Fan Fiction in early July 2001, and finished on October 21, 2002. So basically, it took me the time span between Hannibal and Red Dragon! The whole concept of fan fiction was introduced to me by my best friend at the time, Carmen Pisani. He had me read a Dragon Ball fan fic that I can't remember the title of or the site it was on. All I remember is that the story was a romantic/comedy about Vegeta and Bulma getting married. It was pretty interesting, interesting enough to get me to wanna write my own. Also at the time, I had just finished reading Aliens versus Predator: Prey which was an excellent book. The Alien legacy had been a life long obsession of mine and I was always looking for some way to capitalize on it. When the concept of fan fiction entered my mind, 1 thing was going through my head, Aliens versus DragonBall.
I started writing almost immediately by hand. At first, it was called Aliens vs. Vegeta. The original draft was pretty much the same, except pretty cheesy and somewhat poorly executed, but it was a good basis for the final copy to follow. In it, there wasn't much description of environment, emotions, or character. The alien queen wound up being strong than Buu, Vegeta and Goku acted weirdly and out of character in certain situations, the overall story was shorter, and there wasn't much continuality of it. Example, Goku dies from a chest burster in the end. If you saw Alien 3, you would see that aliens don't attack those with chest bursters in them. In the rough draft, aliens attacked Goku left and right. This wouldn't happen. This time around, I tried to hide it, but Goku never really does get attacked this time when you go back and read it. The only time an alien fought him was when the queen had no choice but to defend itself, and even then at first it tried just to get rid of him. Another thing that was in the rough draft that I didn't like was that I made up a bullshit reason for them to swim out. I just had Goku say it was blocked with no explanation why. Goku also woke up almost immediately after Vegeta found him in the rough draft. And in between the that and the fight with the queen, they never left the generator room, making everything seem kind of bland to me. Last was an idea I thought was cool at the time and damn near necessary was to have Vegeta have a weapon while fighting the aliens. So, between Back Into Hell and Live and Let Die (Which in the rough draft was named "God, Kill The Queen) Vegeta fought the aliens with the scimitar that only made an appearance in the final copy in the last chapter.
A major goal that I wanted to achieve in this was to make it seem more like a DBZ movie and not an Alien movie so to speak, though after writing, it kind of worked almost the opposite, and for the better. The story takes place in the DBZ universe soon after the Buu saga, and when I first started writing, I was trying real hard to stay true to that. For the sequel however, I took a different approach, but more on that later. I wanted the atmosphere of the story to be scary, and I subconsciously took the gothic approach from Alien 3 (Which I L-O-V-E-D, I don't care what you guys say!!!). Really, this wound up being an Alien movie with Vegeta and Goku as the main characters, with minimal references to the true DBZ. The atmosphere, the setting, the style, everything except the references to Bulma and the music all seemed to come from Alien. I guess it can be looked at either way however because I wrote this as a DBZ story with the aliens as bad guys and for it to take place during the DBZ timeline.
Not just inspiration from Alien and DragonBall Z went into this. Die Hard inspired some of the scenes, such as the fight in the offices. The chapter Welcome To The Machine was completely inspired by the music of the song by Pink Floyd by the same name. If you haven't heard it, download it and hear it, it's a great song. If you don't listen to the words and just listen to the music, you can really see the chapter playing like a music video in you head. Goodfellas also played a small part in it. It only seemed likely to me and my friends that if he liked movies, they would be movies about people like him, and I saw this in movies about the Mafia. There will be more going into that in the sequel.
Toward the end of the writing process, I thought it would be cool to make a soundtrack to it like a soundtrack to a movie. So, I strung together a lot of songs (mostly from the Alien Trilogy and Aliens soundtracks) that went along with scenes from the story. It came out really well, and the album even has a secret track that I'm not gonna say a word about, you'll just have to contact me if you wanna hear it! (Most of my fans already have though)
Over the summer that year, I was looking for a site that would take my story; I hadn't heard of FF.net then. I was working at a CD shop in Ocean City New Jersey that summer. Somewhere in late June, I met 2 girls one night when I was working that I never saw or heard from again, which kind of sux. They told me about FF. The week end I came home, I typed and uploaded my first chapter. I hoped to have it finished by the end of the summer, but my comp crashed and when we fixed it, we didn't have Word. Around this time, I met Emy for the first time and she gave me new inspiration to write. Her most successful story, Dancing In Darkness, had over 50 reviews. At the time, I only had 20, and this was in late January of 2002. From there, I was in competition to get more reviews, which I thought was impossible. This wasn't the only reason I started writing so much after I met her, and I know she knows the other reasons somewhere in her. So, I really started rewriting AvV, which I renamed Aliens versus DragonBall. She then suggested the idea that I send her the chapters through E-mail and she would post them in my name. The rest is history.
Not long after I finished AvV,I began work on the sequel. I thought that the first was just too much mindless action, and I wanted the sequel to have more meaning and have more of a story behind it. As a result, it turned more into a drama! But believe me, it's a lot better this way. It's more of a DBZ story than the first one. It will have every character from DBZ in it. The only thing is that I decided to not be so anal about having everything perfect to DBZ this time. I decided to have it take place in more of a real world setting than the mythical DBZ setting were animals walk the streets like humans, but it works better this way.
Now I would like to thank a few people. Just far warning, there is a lot of sap coming up.
God-Without you, nothing is possible and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for being together the different things that inspired me to make this.
Carmen Pisani-You are the one that introduced me to fanfiction and got me started in the writing process. Where ever you are at right now, I hope you are happy and doing what you always wanted to do.
Mike Brown-Dude, you're one crazy mother fucker! You gave me endless praise during the initial writing process and have remained as one of the only 2 true friends I ever had. I love ya man, thank you so much for the support!
Jason Feddy-I know I don't talk to you much anymore, and you probably forgot I even wrote this story, but after I finished every chapter, you were always the first one to read it! You expertise in DBZ helped keep me on track and you helped make a lot of useful suggestions. Thanx for letting me barrow all of you Japanese DBZ videos!
Shaun Kelly Heartly-Dude, I feel bad for putting you through that shit, but thanx for making both of the posters for my story. I felt really bossy when I was telling you what I needed in it and making you go back several times to fix things, but you made some excellent posters that I am very fond of! Thanx for putting up with my shit and making them!!!!
Kristen King-You were the first person that read the story in its entirety. That made me feel good and helped me continue writing from then on.
Zaybach and KSClaw-My 2 biggest fans that never met me! Thanx for your reviews and telling me how you felt about every aspect of the story.
Arnold Schwarzenegger-Dude, you just fucken rule!
And Finally
Emy-Thank you beyond thankyous for helping me upload my chapters, supporting me, and being my biggest fan in the world. You are probably the best friend I ever had along with Mike, and words can't express how I feel about that. You inspiration helped me rewrite the story and shape what the sequel will be. You know how I truly feel about you. Just remember that.
Also Thank you to everyone that reviewed! You guys are my energy. With every review, positive or negative, it helps me keep going and helps me to perfect my skills. thank you for being honest and not just saying it was good and not meaning it. I rather you guys be completely honest than give me false compliments, and I feel you guys have done that. Thank you guys.