Old Friends Unite

"Wow..." Ritz said as he viewed the planet Earth from the window of his spaceship. There it was huge and luminous, a large blue and white marble. He stared at it and wondered why anyone would want to destroy it. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen during his whole life. The Earth was nothing like his home planet, Vegeta. From what he remembered of home, it was a swirling blood red planet. Home couldn't compare itself to the beautiful Earth.

"Beep! Beep!" the ship's computer rang. "We have arrived at the thruster point!" The Saiyan jumped at the sound of the alarm.

"Kuso!" he cursed.

He had nearly missed the thruster point. Now wouldn't that be grand if I end up spinning myself to death in space because I missed the thruster point while admiring the view.

He scrambled in his restraining belts to reach the controls to complete the thruster sequence for descent. The ship's thrusters whined with life after the sequence was complete. Into the atmosphere he went.

"I hate this part." Ritz groaned. He didn't like the idea of reentry when the ship was on fire. He always hated the thought of something going wrong and then being burned up in the atmosphere. He sat in his seat praying a Saiyan prayer, his tail twitching nervously. Reentry was quick and soon he was in the Earth's blue sky.

"Now for a landing spot," he said to himself.

He choose a large field that was not too far, from what appeared to be a large city.

"Well I hope the people here are friendly." Ritz said to himself as he climbed down the ladder from his ship. He began to across the field towards the city. As he came nearer, the field became hilly. Ritz hadn't realized that someone had already knew of his arrival. When he had reached the top of the hill, a man with very spiky, black hair leaped upon him. Ritz was rolling head over tail with the guy on top of him all the way down the hill. Some how, he managed to pin the attacker down to the ground, when they had stopped rolling down.

"Ha! Pinned you!" Ritz grinned. The guy struggled under him, trying his best to escape him.

"GET OFF ME!" the guy yelled. At the sound of the guy's voice, Ritz realized who it was.

"Vegeta?!" Ritz said. Vegeta stopped struggling for a moment to look up at the guy on top of him who seemed to know his name.

"Who are you?" he asked. Ritz gave him a puzzled look.

"Who am I? Don't you remember me?" Ritz asked, surprised at the question.

"Ritz? But how can that be? I thought you were dead?" Vegeta suddenly realized who the Saiyan was.

"Dead? Not hardly. I'm alive and well," the Saiyan said. Suddenly a voice called from the hill.

"Vegeta! Are you all right?" the voice asked. It was Goku and he had also sensed a strange power coming from this area.

"Oh, great it's Kakarot..." Vegeta muttered to himself. Goku slid down hill as Ritz and Vegeta rose from the ground.

"Boy, you shouldn't jump out at me like that. I nearly had a heart attack. Oh, great there are briars stuck to my tail." Ritz said as he began the painful process of removing the offending briars. One by one he pulled them free from his fuzzy brown tail. Meanwhile, Vegeta stared at Ritz, unable to believe that his old childhood friend was still alive.

Didn't Frieza destroy planet Vegeta along with the race of the Saiyans? That thought went through his mind until Goku spoke.

"Hey, Vegeta who is this Saiyan? And how come he seems to know you?" Goku asked. Vegeta turned and gave Goku a cold hard stare.

"None of your business, Kakarot!" Vegeta said. Goku wondered at what he said that offended Vegeta. But then again, Vegeta was always like that. Goku looked at the Saiyan, who seemed to have busied himself with picking out briars, with amazement. It was strange to him that another living Saiyan was standing in front of him. He thought that Vegeta and himself were the only pureblooded Saiyans left alive.



"Uh? Why are you guys staring at me like that?" Ritz asked when he noticed the two Saiyans staring at him.

"So who are you and how come you seem to know Vegeta?" Goku asked.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I haven't introduced myself. I am Ritz, son of Captain Riggs. My father is the Captain of the Saiyan Army." Ritz said.

"Wait, don't you mean was?" Goku said. Ritz smiled at the Saiyan.

"No, he still is." Ritz said. "And as for your second question, the reason other than Vegeta is the Prince of all Saiyans, is that I used to be his friend when we were little."

Vegeta had friends? Goku thought. "Oh, my name is Goku." Ritz was surprised at the sound of the name.

"Goku? Did you say your name was Goku? Not the Saiyan who had liberated us from the cold murderous hands of Frieza?" Ritz didn't believe what he had heard. Goku nodded his head.

"It is an honor to meet you." Ritz bowed.

"Wait, Ritz. You said that your father is still the Captain of the Army. That means..." Vegeta said.

"Yes, my father is still alive and about 200 of us are still living and well." Ritz answered. Both Vegeta and Goku were surprised that there were still some Saiyans left alive. Two hundred of them!

Ritz? Ritz? a voice called in the Saiyan's mind.

What? What is it, Nite? Ritz answered the call. It was Nite his dragon back at home. Nite had the ability of telepathy. He could talk to Ritz, even if the Saiyan was not standing next to him.

Ritz did you make it safely to Earth? the dragon asked.

You worry too much my old friend. Yes, I did make it safely. I have some good news but I will tell it to you when I get home. Ritz felt the dragon's mind leave his. Vegeta was looking at him.

"What?" Ritz asked.

"I swore I heard someone talking. But there was nobody there." Vegeta said puzzled at what he thought he heard.

"You heard, Nite my dragon. I believe you knew him once." Ritz said to Vegeta.

"You mean that little strange purple dragon that always followed you around when you were a kid?" Vegeta said remembering the little dragon.

"I wouldn't say little anyone. He's as big as my house. Even he towers over the ship that I came in." Ritz told him.

"I'm hungry." Goku interrupted.

"Well, I'm hungry too. I haven't had anything to eat since I entered the Solar System." Ritz was as hungry as Goku.

"Kakarot you're always hungry." Vegeta glared at Goku.

"What? I can't help it." Goku said at Vegeta's remark.



They soon left the large field with its hilly end and headed for the city. They soon reached Vegeta's home at the Capsule Corp.

"Vegeta! Where have you been?" a woman's voice called.

"Woman, why do you ask such questions?" Vegeta said anrgily. A woman with strangly colored blue hair appeared in the room. She looked very angry.

"You know you make me angry sometimes! I don't what to do with you!" the woman seemed to scream at Vegeta. Then she turned to Goku, "Hello. It's so nice of you to visit, Goku. I havn't seen you in a while."

"Yeah...Bulma..." Goku was somewhat afraid of Bulma. It was then Goku's stomach began to growl.

"Oh, you're hungry. Well, you're just in time for lunch," Bulma said and then screamed when Ritz entered the room.

"What? Why does everyone do that when I visit other planets?" Ritz questioned.

"S..SAIYAN!!!" Bulma screamed.

"Does she do that when you walk into a room, when she's in it, Vegeta?"Ritz asked.

"Bulma, he's a friend!" Vegeta tried to calm down the franic woman. She stopped screaming and looked at Vegeta.

"F..Friend?"she said still shaking with fear. As far as she knew, Saiyans were evil, well except for the two she knew. But even now, she was still a little afraid of Vegeta. As for Goku, he was too kind hearted to be evil. But this strange Saiyan scared her.

"Yes, he is my friend from a long time ago.," Vegeta said.

"Hello. My name is Ritz, son of Captian Riggs. It is a pleasure to meet you, my Lady," Ritz bowed since was a custom for a Saiyan to do so. Bulma was surpised at Ritz's politness.

"I'm Bulma. I'm married to Vegeta you know," Bulma said.

It was later after they had finished their meal that Ritz began to tell of how he and his family as well a bunch of other Saiyans had escaped from the cluches of Frieza.

"Someone, had heard that Frieza was planning to destory the race of the Saiyans. We had known long before Bardock had started having visions of our deaths. So we had more time to prepare. We had found a planet not too far from our own, that was unnoticed by Frieza and his men. No lived there except for the local wildlife. It was perfect for a place to live. The planet was small enough for Frieza not to notice it. This was the place where we were going to hide out until Frieza was destroyed. But not too long after we discovered it, Frieza decided to attack our home world. We knew because when Bardock came back from battle he said Frieza was coming. But the sad thing is that most of our people didn't believe Bardock and they perished because of this. But those of us who did, escaped with our lives, unnoticed by Frieza. And here we are, living on our new home that Frieza never discovered. But those years after our home world was destroyed, we were afaird that Frieza was going to find us until we heard of how Goku had defeated the evil traunt. Now that we knew that Frieza was dead, we could live out our lives in peace," Ritz finished his tale.

"Wow, I can't believe that there still some Saiyans left alive," Goku said.

"Ritz, there's still a question that's still bothering me. Why, did you come here?" Vegeta asked.

"Well, my father sent me here to bring you back with me. He knew that you were still alive and everyone will be glad to see that their prince is safely returned to his people," Ritz answered. Vegeta wasn't quite sure if he wanted to go with Ritz to the new home world. But then again he wanted to be among his people.

"When do you have to leave?" Vegeta finally said.

"Anytime you wish," Ritz answered.

"Fine then. We'll leave in two days," Vegeta said. Ritz was so happy that his old friend was coming home with him that he threw his arms around Vegeta and gave the Saiyan Prince a hug. Bad mistake. Vegeta didn't like it one bit and turned and slugged the Saiyan right in the face. Ritz was quite surprised at his friend's actions and gave Vegeta a questioning look as he rubbed his face. Ritz wondered why Vegeta acted that way. He was never like that before.

"Why did you hit me?" Ritz questioned Vegeta. Vegeta gave Ritz an angry glare. He didn't like people touching him.

"Ritz, you're soft like Kakarot. I don't like being hugged. It's stupid," Vegeta said. Ritz couldn't believe what he was hearing. From what he remembered of Vegeta, Vegeta used to be just as kind-hearted as Ritz.

"Well, Frieza must have do something to you. You're not like the Saiyan I once knew," Ritz said. He had the look of hurt in his eyes.

"Listen, Ritz. You don't understand what I have been through. So leave me alone," Vegeta said.

"If your father was here, he won't like what his son has become," Ritz said and then got up to leave the room.

"My father? You leave my father out of this!" Vegeta was now angry. Ritz left and went back to his ship to spent the night there. He wasn't quite sure if he could sleep in the same house with his old friend, whom seemed to have changed. His heart was hurt and he sighed as he curled up in the seat of his ship. Frieza did do something to Vegeta and he didn't like what it had done to him.

It was dark when Vegeta had awoken. But he didn't know where he was. This place that he was in was not home. He got up from where he was sleeping and walked down what seemed to be a dark hallway. When he reached the end of the hallway, he heard someone's voice.

"Well, well what do we have here?" the voice said. Vegeta knew who's voice.

"Frieza!" Vegeta yelled.

"Well, my little Prince, I'm glad you're here! I've come to kill you! " Frieza said.

"You! You murder! You killed my father and all of the Saiyans! You lied to me! You always have. Everything that you ever told me was a lie. You said that my father was killed by the meteor, when it was you who had killed him! Now you shall pay!" Vegeta said and prepared to attack Frieza. But when he tried to attack, Frieza simply knocked him to the ground. Vegeta arose from the ground and attacked Frieza. Agian, Frieza knocked the Saiyan to the ground. This sometime, when Vegeta tried to rise, he felt pain in his side.

"Why, don't you just stay down?" Frieza said.

"Never!" Vegeta sputter as he coughed up some blood. Vegeta managed to stand up. This made Frieza angry. He charged towards the Saiyan with the look of murder in his eyes.

"You know. It was your fault that your father is dead. If you had just listened to me, he wouln't be dead now would he?" Frieza said as he came closer to Vegeta.

"I'll never listen to you! You killed my father even when I had followed your orders!" Vegeta said. He prepared himself to block Frieza's attack. But he wasn't strong enough. Frieza sent the poor Saiyan flying through the air. This time , Vegeta couldn't get up. He laid there screaming in agony. Frieza stepped forward and rasied his hand to give Vegeta the fatal blow.

"Long live the King!" he screamed as he brought his hand down. Vegeta screamed as he knew it was his end.

"Vegeta! Vegeta wake up!" Bulma said when she noiced her husband tossing and turning in bed. Vegeta bolted up from bed. He had sweat dripping from his forehead.

"It was only a dream. You were having a nightmare," Bulma said. Vegeta looked at himself. He was relieved that he was still in one piece.

"A nightmare?" he muttered.

"Yes, a nightmare. Now go back to sleep. It's three clock in the morning," Bulma said. Vegeta knew after having that nigthmare, he wasn't going to be able to sleep. He got up from bed and stretched, trying to shake off the last bit of sleep from him. He jumped suddenly, when he felt something limp fell against his leg.

"Vegeta?!" Bulma said with fear as she pointed to him.

"What?" he asked. Bulma only sat there with the look of fear on her face. Vegeta's tail had grown back!