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The King Tien Saga.

King Vegeta, Roger, Yambia, Kirillin, Chi-Chi, and Abigail materialized on the planet where they spoke with Korlos. They had been in such a hurry, they didn't think to ask what planet they were on during their previous visit.

"What is this place?" Vegeta asked.

"We don't know the name of it." Roger said. "We really didn't have the time to be sociable before."

"Sociable Saiyans! What next!" Vegeta muttered.

"Hmm... How about a friendly King of all the Saiyans?" Roger smiled.

"You know, it's not to late to have you beheaded or something." Vegeta smirked.

Vegeta's head suddenly snapped around, he fell into a defensive posture. "I feel a bunch of kis around me, but I don't see a blasted thing!"

Everyone else felt it too.

Vegeta next thought was interrupted when Korlos appeared in front of them, flanked by six Tien lookalikes.

"To answer your question, you are on the planet Gardedose." Korlos bowed low before King Vegeta.

"Did I hear correctly? Do I have the honor of addressing the King of the Saiyans?" Korlos said with great respect.

"Yes. This is King Vegeta of the Royal House." Yambia said.

"Welcome to Gardedose! We are honored to have King Vegeta here!" Korlos said

"One of my people made a promise to you. It would be dishonorable to break it." Vegeta stated plainly, trying to look disinterested in the attention Korlos was lavishing on him. It made Vegeta a bit uncomfortable.

"Yes, we have come here to see if you or your representatives would like to accompany us back to Earth to retrieve your lost king" Roger said.

"Yes! Thank you! I will put together an honor guard immediately!" Korlos ran off to see to that chore.

After Korlos was gone, Kirillin spoke up. "You know, I've been thinking. There is every possibility that Tien won't be happy with this."

Vegeta pondered for a moment. "You know, you're right for once. Old three eyes has never struck me as a 'royal' type of person. He's way to independent and will probably not care for the duties that his office will demand."

"Oh, you mean like you care for them?" Abigail smiled prettily. Vegeta shot her one of his death glares, so she hastily added "Sire" to the end of her sentence.

Vegeta's glare softened into a smirk. "Point taken. I just don't think that we should do anything to force Tien into doing something he doesn't want to do. We should do nothing to convince him one way or the other. Let him make his own decisions. Let Korlos and his people ask and do the convincing."

"What if these people insist?" Chi-Chi asked.

"Hoping it will not come to that." Kirillin said. "Then there would be only one choice to make. Tien has been our friend for to many years to not take his side, even if it came to a fight."

"Baldy is right again." Vegeta smirked. "We have fought along side him before, we owe him that much."

"You know, "Your Highness", that I haven't been bald for decades now!" Kirillin fumed. "How about dropping the nick?"

Vegeta just smiled.

After about fifteen minutes, Korlos returned with five large men, even bigger than Tien himself, and one woman. It was sometimes difficult to tell the men from the women here, none of these people sported so much as a single hair on their heads or bodies that one could see. No arm hair, no facial hair, nothing.

"We are ready." Korlos said.

"No, we are not!" Roger looked at Korlos in horror. Roger, and the others, noticed that they were all armed to the teeth. The men all had a side arm of some sort on each hip, and a bandoleer of what looked to be grenades of some sort over each shoulder. Strapped to each one's back, was a rifle of some sort.

"You are not going to my planet armed like that!" Roger exclaimed.

"Your planet?" Korlos said. "But I thought you were from Vegeta?"

"It's a long story." Roger said. "Regardless, you are not going there until you've removed all those weapons."

The Guards all looked at each other. One of the largest among them spoke up. "Surely you wouldn't deny us the ability to defend ourselves? We would be without any sort of protection!"

"As King of the Saiyans, I personally guarantee your safety would on planet Earth. The Earthlings are not strong enough to pose a threat." Vegeta said. "But Roger is right. You cannot take your weapons with you. This is not negotiable."

"Perhaps we should just tell you to go home and go to Earth ourselves!" Korlos threatened.

"You could do that, if you wished, however if you go to Earth armed in that manner, we would have no choice but to consider you hostile invaders, and defend the planet as such. We have people on Earth that can contact us immediately, and some of them are Saiyans." Vegeta warned.

Vegeta punctuated his threat by raising his power level to just under Super Saiyan level one.

Korlos and all of his people within sight stopped and stared at Vegeta in awe.

"These people must sense ki energy naturally. Even the children appear to have felt that." Roger thought. "What a unique people!"

"I don't like making unilateral decisions, but in this instance it's our way, or no way!" Vegeta powered down.

Korlos walked a short distance away with his guards and began to talk with them.

The woman was standing just sort of giving them the once over. It looked like she was appraising them in some manner. She was smiling. Kirillin thought that was sort of strange right off. He could count on his one hand the number of times he'd actually seen Tien with a genuine smile on his face, and most of the people here didn't appear to be the smiling sort either.

"My name is Katrinka." The woman finally said. "I am the prince's, The one you call Tien, great, great, grand niece. I am the last member of the royal family to have survived."

"Pleased to meet you." Roger said observing his manners.

This was followed by an uncomfortable silence.

"Umm... We're friends of the prince." Kirillin finally said.

"How did you become friends?" Katrinka asked.

"Well, it was after he tried to kill us." Kirillin started. "That is me and Goku, especially Goku. They had one dozy of a battle! After that, they became friends."

'Who won?" Katrinka pressed for more information, looking excited at the mention of a fight.

"Goku did, but it was real close." Kirillin smiled

Katrinka's manner and body language visibly fell when Kirillin told her that her prince lost the fight. "Oh.." She said, and stopped talking.

Kirillin looked at the girl, or so he guessed that she was a girl. It was hard to tell age on this planet, she may have been an 80-year old woman for all Kirillin knew. She was quite beautiful, except for that lack of hair thing.

Korlos chose that moment to rejoin the Saiyans. The guards were busy removing their weapons.

"We have agreed to your terms. But be warned, our people would not be pleased if any harm came to us." Korlos said.

"Understood." Vegeta said. "I don't foresee any problems. We are just going to get Tien, and then come back."

"Our ships are this way." Korlos started off.

"Your ships will not be necessary either." Vegeta flagged him back, along with his men. "We have other means of travel."

"Everyone make contact with either myself, or Vegeta." Roger instructed. "By the way, what are your people called?" Roger asked.

"We are the Kladeshians!" Korlos bowed low towards Vegeta.

Everyone made contact with Roger or Vegeta, although the Kladeshians looked pretty uncertain about touching them, or each other.

"I don't know what Tien's ki feels like, so I'm leaving it up to you sire." Roger smiled.

Vegeta put two fingers to his head. "Okay.. There's Trunks.... That feels like Goten and Pan... Where's Bra? Oh! There she is.... The androids don't have ki.... There's the old man.... There's Uub.... He's training with someone.. Seems to be old three-eyes!" Vegeta thought to himself.

"Okay everyone, I found him!" Vegeta said.

Roger took a hold of Vegeta's shoulder and they all disappeared.

Tien looked up through blood as the cut that Uub opened up on his forehead bleed freely.

"Oh my! Tien! I'm so sorry!" Uub apologized. Tien slapped him away.

"Enough! If I'm ever going to reach the next stage of my development then you have to fight me all out! Stop whining every time you injure me!" Tien yelled. "I must get stronger!"

"Tien, my friend, please listen. Did it ever occur to you that you've reached your limit? That humans were not meant to be like Saiyans?" Uub pleased with his friend.

"No damned it! I won't accept that! I can't accept that!" Tien was practically screaming.

"Look, I will train with you, but this obsession you have with me beating you to the point of death everyday is getting you no where." Uub argued. "It's only made you a little stronger.

"I have the Senzu Beans!" Tien retorted.

"That's not the point and you know it!" Uub said exasperated.

"Look, as long as I can remember, I've only wanted to get stronger. For a long time I used Goku as an excuse to do so. My goal was to train and become stronger than Goku! But that all went out the window the day he became a Super Saiyan. I stood there and watched him transform while he was talking to Future Trunks that day and I knew that I would never be able to match him. For a while I accepted that and tried to live my life as best I could, but then Kirillin beat me! Even Kirillin is stronger than I am! There must be a way to get stronger! To transcend this form like the Saiyans do!" Tien said.

Uub didn't respond. He was staring wide-eyed over Tien's right shoulder. Uub tried to speak.

"T-Tien... L-L-Look t-t-there!" Uub stammered out.

Tien whipped around, fearing a new enemy had shown itself on Earth. Instead what he found was Vegeta, and Kirillin, some other Saiyans he'd never seen before, and a bunch of people that looked just like him.

"V-Vegeta! Kirillin! W-Who are a-all these p-people!" Tien finally managed to stammer out.

"We were in the neighborhood so we thought we'd drop in. We met some family members you may recognize, so we brought them along." Vegeta smirked.

Tien had never fully forgiven Vegeta for killing him the first time they met. He was mostly over it, but there was still just a bit of residual resentment in Tien's brain.

Before Tien could recover from the shock of seeing people that looked just like himself, one of them flew over to him.

"Please look at this." Korlos said extending his hand out. In his hand was what appeared to be a crystal. As his hand extended, palm up, a 3D holographic image formed over the crystal which was glowing a light blue color.

The image looked just like Tien, wearing the robes and crown of a King. "This is your father, our King, who died fighting the Icejins many years ago. "

"My father w-was a King?" Tien said shocked.

"He is King Sarmen III." Korlos said. "You will be King Sarmen the IV."

"What? You want me to be your king?" Tien could not believe his ears. Roger saw Tien swaying a bit from the news. He reached over and slid a large rock under Tien's butt just as the big man sat down. Roger then noticed that it wasn't the news that was wrong with Tien. It looked like he'd been beaten pretty severely. Uub suddenly came towards Tien.

"Here, take this." Uub handed Tien a Senzu Bean.

"Ah, that's better." Tien stood back up after eating the bean. "Kirillin! Is this some sort of joke?"

"Afraid not old friend. We found their planet pretty much by accident. Like the Saiyans, they had been attacked by the Icejin and almost wiped out. They say that your father launched you into space so you would survive. Your ship got off course and landed here on Earth apparently." Kirillin said.

"My earliest memories were when I was adopted by a family. They raised me until I was about four years old. I had a fairly normal life, even started school and had some friends. Some people looked at me funny, having no hair and a third eye and all, one should expect the occasional stares, but all in all, I was pretty happy. Then a few days after having started a new school year, one of my new classmates found it amusing to pick on me. I became afraid of this boy. He was a huge boy for his age. He called me three eyes, and freak, and said I belonged in a circus sideshow, and when he thought no one was looking, he would hit me, or shove me down and kick me. My parents went to the principle and complained, but were told that 'boys will be boys' and that I should expect such treatment all my life, and get used to it because I was so different. A few weeks later, the bully caught me out behind the school and beat the hell out of me. He walked away laughing. That damned laugh! I lay there bleeding, wishing I were stronger somehow, growing angrier and angrier. Then something snapped, energy flooded my body in a way I'd never felt before. There was a blinding flash of light, and when I focused again the boy was lying in a pool of blood with a hole about the size of my fist cut clean through him, dead. There were about 20 witnesses that said that I had fired some sort of weapon they couldn't see at the boy. The neighbors and other people in town thought I was some sort of demon. They said that if I stayed bad luck and disaster would surely destroy them. They burned my parent's house down with my father in it before the police finished their investigation. My mother and I ran away to live in the woods for almost a year when she was attacked by a panther. At first I panicked, then I felt angry. I had lost so much in such a short period of time, so much! I was five years old and I didn't have anything more to lose, so I attacked the panther. To my surprise I defeated the cat with relative ease. I knew that I was strong, at least stronger than my classmates, but I had no idea up to that point that I was so strong. I was too late to save my mother, she called my name weakly. I bent down to hear her and she said. "You're a good boy Tien, don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise." Unfortunately, it would be many years before I believed her. I swore that I would never fear anything ever again that day!

After that I wandered around for three years, killing or stealing what I needed to survive.

One day I heard a racket outside of the hut I had constructed to sleep the night. I went out to investigate and there were what appeared to be several men chasing a small boy. I thought it odd that the boy's face was painted in such an odd manner. He looked like one of those China Dolls. Anyway, at first I felt that it was none of my business and turned to go, but something in that boy's eyes... He looked so helpless. I ran in and beat the crap out of the men, and their dogs that they were using to track the boy. I turned to the boy and told him he was safe. He ran off into the woods. I could have followed him, but decided not to. A few days later I was cooking some venison when he came out of the woods and approached me.

"Why did you help me?" Choutzu asked suspiciously.

"Looked like you needed it." Tien answered. "Hungry?"

Choutzu eyed the food guardedly. "My name is Choutzu. I am... well was, the prince of the Eastern Kingdom. There's been a revolt; my mother and father were killed. They thought it would cause trouble if they just killed me outright, so they hired some men to kidnap me and bring me to the woods to murder. I broke free from them and was running for my life when you stepped in. How did you defeat all those men?

"Guess I'm pretty strong." Tien said proudly.

Choutzu and I traveled together after that for almost a year. One night just before turning in, we were approached by a rather strange looking old man that asked us if we thought we were tough. Well, I did and I said as much. The old man said that he was the Crane Master and told me I was nothing. I attacked the old man and he cleaned my clock! He beat me with ease and laughed hysterically. Choutzu, trying to protect me, attacked him with no better results.

"So, you guys live out here all alone huh? You've got no one in this world that cares about you?" The Crane Master teased.

"We care about each other!" Choutzu yelled.

"I see that there is a strong bond between you two. That's good! I think you two will do." The old man cackled.

"Do? Do for what?" Tien said.

"Do as my new students!" The old man answered.

I literally jumped at the chance to be trained by such an experienced fighter. Choutzu didn't like it, but came with me anyway. The training was brutal! He pushed us to our limits and beyond! We trained for years. Training, eating, and sleeping were our only three activities. Unfortunately, the Master also taught us a whole lot of bad habits and attitudes along the way. He sent us out into the world to see how ruthless we could be. How to cheat the ignorant, as he put it. That was when we met Goku for the first time."

"Wow!" Kirillin gasped. "You've never talked about your past before!"

"You never asked." Tien said with a smile.

"Sounds like you've had a rough life." Katrinka said.

"Who are you?" Tien asked.

"I am your great, great, niece. My name is Katrinka." Katrinka answered.

"Is it my imagination, or is she actually flirting with Tien?" Kirillin thought.

"Umm... It's nice to meet you. I've never had an actual blood relative before." Tien said.

"I bet you've been lonely here. Away from your own kind." Katrinka said.

"No, not really. I had Choutzu as a friend until he passed away, and also my wife Lunch. I have a son that went to college and lives in the states now." Tien said innocently.

Katrinka recoiled as if shot. "Y-you m-mated with an o-off-worlder?!?!?" she exclaimed.

Tien scanned the faces of the other Kladeshians and seen the same look of revulsion that he seen on his niece's face.

"Umm.. Yeah." Tien was at a loss for words.

One of the guards started to say something, but Korlos interrupted him. "We all have a lot to discuss, it seems. Perhaps we could all go back to Gardedose?"

"Not quite yet." Vegeta spoke up. Some of us have family here, and would like the chance to see them before we leave. Additionally, I think that Tien, rather King Sarmen IV would like more time to digest the information that has just been thrown at him."

"Tien looked at Vegeta with a relieved look in his eye. I think one week should be enough time for both." Vegeta continued.

"What's a week?" Korlos asked.

"Seven full rotations of this planet." Chi-Chi spoke up.

"King Vegeta! Surely you of all people must realize that the affairs of state on any world can suffer in that amount of time. "Korlos argued.

"You've been without a king for almost 400 years and your entire culture is going to fall apart over the next week without one? Surely you don't mean to test my intelligence to that extent, do you Korlos?" King Vegeta countered. "Besides, King Sarmen IV has not even decided to take up the office."

"That can't even be in question! He has duties! An obligation to his people!" Korlos looked stunned.

"Perhaps once that was true. However he is now a citizen of this world, and free to make his own decisions." Roger said.

"B-But...." Korlos's face was livid with anger. With some effort, he brought it under control. "I will confer with my men." He said as he turned on his heal and walked fifty or so yards away with his men in two. Once again Katrinka was left standing.

"This isn't what you expected, is it?" Chi-Chi said.

"N-No! Not at all! It's as if he's not of our people at all!" Katrinka whispered. "M-Marrying and mating with and off-worlder!" The look of disgust returned to her face.

"Don't you see? To him, you're the off-worlder!" Chi-Chi said. "Up until today, Tien wasn't sure where he came from, but he always thought he was born here. This has been his home.

"Please don't get me wrong. I have nothing against anyone on this planet, or anywhere else for that matter, but mating with an off-worlder has always been such a taboo in my culture. It's hard to imagine that anyone would do that!" Katrinka said.

"You're forgetting that he is not of your culture, but of the culture of this world." Abigail said. "He is as much a stranger to your culture as I am."

"You don't understand! The people will never accept him as king now!" Katrinka broke into tears and ran off.

"This is catastrophic!" Kardeem said to Korlos. "What the hell are we going to do! We need King Sarmen to take the thrown to reunite the factions, but if it ever gets out that he mated with an off-worlder it will be war for sure!"

"Don't you think I know that! Either way, we are looking at war! This must never get out! We have to find a way to erase all traces of this. No one is to ever know!" Korlos said.

"How are we going to do that?" Kardeem said.

"This planet, and everyone on it must be destroyed. Along with the Saiyans here as well." Korlos whispered.

"You're joking? Did you feel King Vegeta's ki? And he didn't even break a sweat! I still got the impression that he was concealing a large amount of power. After all, these guys have beaten Icejins!" Langlot said.

"I have a plan..." Korlos smiled wickedly.