500,000 years later. Capsule Corp.
"Onna! The gravity room is broken again! Fix it!"
"HOW MANY TIMES MUST I TELL YOU?! MY NAME IS NOT ONNA! IT IS BULMA! AND IF YOU WANT THE GRAVITY ROOM FIXED - DO IT YOURSELF! I HAVE A DATE WITH YAMCHA TONIGHT!"
Muttering darkly to himself, the Saiyan Prince walked outside and launched himself up into the air.
Damn onna. What did I ever see in her? I lower myself to mate with her, then the evening I plan to Bond with her, I find her in bed with another. Stupid, worthless onna.
I need to get away from here. Surely there is someplace where the Prince of all Saiyans can go.
Hmmm……. Dende is familiar with this area of the cosmos. Maybe he knows of something interesting. Ruins I can plunder, annoying races I can annihilate, something. Anything!
Kami's Lookout
"Hey Vegeta! How are you? What's wrong?" Mr. Popo greeted the Saiyan no Ouji with a stream of questions.
"Where is Dende?" Vegeta demanded.
"Oh, hello Vegeta. I'm right here." Dende stepped out of a nearby doorway. "What can I do for you?"
"I'm bored of this stupid dirtball. You know this area – is there anything interesting to explore in this galaxy?"
"Well….hmmm…." Dende taps his fingers on his chin and stares up at the sky in a thoughtful manner.
"Dende, what about the Lunar ruins?" Mr. Popo asks.
"Well, there are those. Most of them have been buried by impact dust at this point though. Piccolo's wish moved it to a synchronous orbit so that it is always on the opposite side of the sun from the Earth, but doing so increased the number of asteroids that hit it. With no remaining atmosphere, the ruins are probably too dangerous at this point."
"Bah. Ruins from some minor moon are of no interest to me. I am looking for something profitable, someplace I can find something worth something." Vegeta scoffed.
Dende thought about it for a moment. "True. There might not be much left of value left in the wreckage that remains of the capital of the Silver Millennium. True, their technology was probably the most advanced the cosmos has ever seen, but most of it was probably looted long ago."
"Mr. Dende, sir, you know that's not true. No one has ever succeeded in finding the ruins once they reach the surface."
Dende looked at Mr. Popo, surprised. "What do you mean? I hadn't heard that part before."
Vegeta interrupted. "Bah. Like it matters. I have never heard of this Silver Millennium of yours, thus it is unimportant. I want some real ruins!"
"Mr. Vegeta, you never heard of the Silver Alliance? The Saiyans were one of the member species!"
"What?! Explain. Now."
"Well, as I recall, the Silver Alliance was made up of nine of the races in this solar system. The Earth was, I believe, considered to be too primitive to be a member."
"Hah! As if that is a surprise!" Vegeta interrupted.
After a glaring at Vegeta, Dende asked Mr. Popo to continue.
"Each of the eight inhabited planets was ruled by a cadet line of the ninth member, Earth's Moon, which was the home of the Serenitys. Every millennium, the ruling Queen would give birth to one child – always a daughter. After another millennium of training, the Queen would evolve to the next plane, while the Princess would take up the throne. With the Alliance growing, the member races started to colonize outside of this solar system, but only the Saturnian and Mercurian colonies were established before the Alliance fell. They were named 'Destruction' and 'Wisdom' respectively, which when translated into their native languages, worked out to 'Vegeta-sei' and 'Namek'."
At this point, Vegeta and Dende were both staring at Mr. Popo with their jaws running toward the floor.
"The last Princess Serenity was rumored to have been reincarnated after the Silver Alliance fell, but the only records show that the Princess' honor guard – made up of a member from each of the eight ruling families – was active during the late 20th and early 21st centuries AD, around Tokyo, Japan. They supposively repelled several waves of colonization attempts by other races, but without the balancing effect of Serenity, eventually fell to infighting, and annihilated each other- in the process destroying Tokyo, which led to the establishment of Western Capitol. The Lunar ruins have never been explored though – anyone who has tried claims that while their scans showed the ruins in remarkable condition, once they actually landed on the surface, they were unable to locate them. If they are there, there is no telling what they may contain."
After a few moments of silence, Vegeta snapped his mouth shut. "Well, that is possibly the very thing I am looking for. A challenge."
Dende, after blinking at Vegeta a few times, said "Glad we could be of help. If you find anything interesting, bring it back here. I want to know more about these other races."
"Fine."
And with that, Vegeta headed for his ship. He had a mystery to solve.
