Tien startled awake. Something was wrong. He quickly sat up and looked around warily. Somebody was in his room. Tien focused and felt a ki, but his acute vision saw nothing.

"Alright Korlos. I know you're in here! Show yourself!" Tien said as he flipped himself out of bed with the agility of years of training. He immediately lowered himself into a defensive posture.

That was when he felt a pinprick his arm.

"Well, you are sensitive, aren't you? I had my ki lowered as far as I could. I must commend you, most people would not have detected me at all." A voice from directly in front of Tien said. "Don't worry, the effects of the drug are quite fast and painless."

It was true. Tien was already feeling sluggish as the strength started to drain out of his arms and legs. His knees wobbled.

"You fanatic!" Tien managed to say as he used his remaining strength to form a ki ball in his hand. The ki ball disappeared unused as his knees buckled and he fell to the floor.

"Fanatic am I? Well, after a bit of time you will be a fanatic too!" Korlos said as he tossed Tien's prone body over his shoulder and carried him out into the hall.

Korlos looked up and down the hall and didn't see or sense anyone. He sprinted the length of the hall back to the Kladeshian's quarters. Korlos stopped again and looked back down the length of the hall. He also extended his ki senses to take in the Capsule Corporation complex.

"Damned! They're waking up! We've got to hurry!" Korlos entered their room.

"Wake up! Wake up you fools!" Korlos screamed as he kicked their beds. "Get up now!"

The Kladeshians wondered what was going on, but complied immediately.

Korlos deactivated the invisibility device. "Follow me now!"

Korlos ran to the far end of the hall with his people, and Tien, in tow and exited the building.

"Here! Hold him!" Korlos handed Tien over to Kardeem. For the first time, Kardeem sensed what was happening. Korlos pulled out the transportation device and pushed a blue button. The device's lit up and hummed slightly. Korlos then pulled the Neutrino Warp Grenade and pulled the pin out then tossed it several yards. It glowed slightly, then rose rapidly into the air and out of sight.

"In thirty minutes, we will have no more Saiyan problem." Korlos chuckled. Korlos then took Tien back from Kardeem.

"Everyone, place your hand on the transporter!" Korlos demanded.

"What about Katrinka?" Kardeem asked.

"She is a woman! What do you care? She's expendable!" Korlos declared. "Now put your hand on the transporter!"

Kardeem followed the order.

"Okay, here we go!" Korlos pushed the blue button again, and everyone disappeared.

Everyone that is, except Kardeem. He removed his hand at the last possible moment.

"He is insane!" Kardeem whispered to himself. "I must stop this!"

Kardeem launched himself into the air in pursuit of the grenade.

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"Did you feel that Abigail?" Chi-Chi asked after being wakened by a sudden spike in someone's ki.

"Wasn't that Mr. Tien's ki?" Abigail asked uncertain.

"Yes! I'd recognize that ki anywhere." Chi-Chi said.

As suddenly as it spiked, Tien's ki dropped to almost nothing.

"Tien's in trouble, let's go!" Chi-Chi said as she hopped out of bed reaching for her clothes.

Within seconds, Chi-Chi and Abigail were dressed and were out the door. Chi-Chi was concentrating trying to locate Tien's ki that felt dangerously low. For the first time in days, she found herself wishing her husband was around; he could find a low ki from across the galaxy.

"Damned! I can feel it, barely, but I can't tell what direction it's in!" Chi-Chi said.

"Raditz says that in times like this, you need to breathe and relax." Abigail suggested.

"Of course!" Chi-Chi took a few deep, cleansing breaths, and relaxed letting her ki senses flow out.

"There!" Chi-Chi said after a few seconds and flew out a nearby window. Abigail followed. The couple flew down the length of the living complex and rounded a corner in time to see a group of people, one of them holding Tien, disappear from sight. One of them suddenly took off and flew straight up.

"Damned! We're too late!" Abigail said.

"Tien was unconscious!" Chi-Chi said. "They've kidnapped Tien!

"What's he up to?" Abigail asked looking at the rapidly fading energy trail Kardeem left behind.

"Let's go ask him." Chi-Chi said as she transformed to Super Saiyan Two.

"Let's do." Abigail replied as she followed suit. The duo took off after Kardeem.

Kardeem was having enough trouble without a couple of angry Saiyan women coming after him. He had the grenade in sight. But the air was thinning rapidly, and the temperature was now sub-zero. He was at the very edge of the Earth's atmosphere.

"O-Only a f-f-few m-more feet!" Kardeem shivered in the extreme cold. The air was all but gone; each breath was rasping, and painful. Kardeem tried to form a ki attack in order to take the grenade out, but he couldn't concentrate his energy. The lack of oxygen was hampering his concentration.

"Damned!" Kardeem thought. "I've got to make it!"

Kardeem concentrated one more time and formed a small ki ball in his hand.

That's when he lost consciousness and fell, plummeting back to Earth.

The Neutrino Warp Grenade achieved a low orbit, and began collecting neutrinos for it's deadly purpose.

"What's that?" Abigail pointed above them as they were flying.

"He's coming back!" Chi-Chi said ready for a fight.

"He looks injured or something." Abigail observed.

"Yeah, his ki is really low." Chi-Chi said as she reluctantly gave up her intention to throw her very first Kamehameha at an enemy, and moved to catch the prone body of Kardeem. "Damned!" Chi-Chi thought to herself.

Being in Super Saiyan Two form, Chi-Chi easily caught the bulky Kladeshian. He was half frozen, and was blue around the lips indicating oxygen deprivation. He was barely breathing. Chi-Chi and Abigail quickly flew him back to Earth.

"He's almost dead!" Abigail said as Chi-Chi put him on the ground.

"I'm going to try this. I seen Goku do it once for a wounded bear." Chi-Chi said as she placed her hands on Kardeem's chest and slowly released a bit of her ki.

Kardeem's body immediately began to warm; his breathing became deeper, and more regular. After a half a minute, Kardeem's eyes fluttered open. At first he looked confused, he looked from Chi-Chi to Abigail. Then his eyes went wide in horror.

"The grenade! We must stop the grenade!" Kardeem tried to scramble to his feet only to be pushed down by Chi-Chi's hands.

"Hold it right there buster! You aren't going anywhere until you tell us what you are talking about! What is this grenade?" Chi-Chi said.

Kardeem shot Chi-Chi a hard look for touching him, but his demeanor softened.

"Korlos! He's mad! He kidnapped the one you call Tien, and he launched a Neutrino Warp Grenade into low orbit! If we don't stop it, it will destroy everything in this solar system!"

"Damned! We should not have gone!" Vegeta's voice sounded from behind them. "Where is this grenade?"

Chi-Chi and Abigail had been too absorbed in what Kardeem was saying to sense Vegeta, Roger, Gerald, and Jessica appear behind them.

"In orbit around your planet!" Kardeem said. "We need a space ship!"

"No we don't." Vegeta smirked. "Come on Roger, Gerald, we can destroy the thing."

Roger and Gerald nodded and took off after Vegeta.

"I haven't learned how to breathe in space yet!" Gerald said.

It's easy, we'll show you on the way." Roger answered.

"Vegeta, Roger, and Gerald lit up the sky like the noon day sun transforming to Super Saiyan Five.

"Damned it! We're left behind again!" Chi-Chi stomped the ground. Abigail felt the same way.

Vegeta, Roger, and Gerald reached low orbit.

"Where is it?" Vegeta asked irritated.

"If it were in geo-synchronous orbit, it should be here." Gerald mentally communicated.

"You spend too much time around Gohan." Vegeta smirked.

"Thank you!" Gerald smiled.

"Okay, it's a weapon, so its creators would have designed it to be hard to find. So we must assume an geo-asynchronous orbit." Roger surmised.

"But that means it could have gone in any direction!" Vegeta exclaimed. "That means there is only one way to find it. Spread out and blast anything that looks suspicious! Change your direction on every completed orbit!"

"Right!" Gerald and Roger answered, then took off in two different directions.

Vegeta took off across along the west axle plane.

Several minutes had passed with no luck at all. Vegeta wasn't told how long he had until the damned thing went off, but he sensed the time was short.

"Damned it! We've got to find this thing!" Vegeta silently cursed. "Is there a smarter way to look?"

Vegeta thought about all the training he had done at Super Saiyan Five with Kakkarot.

"Remember Vegeta, your vision is very sensitive in this form. If you concentrate, you can see light and energy not normally visible to you."

Vegeta did concentrate, as did Kakkarot. Suddenly his world was awash in colors and movement he had never seen before. Gamma, beta, ultraviolet, and many other energies took physical form in front of him. It was quite... beautiful.

Vegeta concentrated for a moment, the colors and energies became visible to him. He sorted though them. He noticed that one of the energies was moving rapidly to one point. He concentrated on that energy form.

"Neutrinos! Of course! "

Vegeta flew rapidly towards the grenade.

Gerald was much closer to the Grenade and had it in sight. He flew to it and charged up a ki attack to destroy it. Suddenly the Neutrino Warp Grenade glowed brightly, then released a stream of rapidly moving particles. Gerald suddenly found himself being pulled into the resulting warp singularity.

Gerald, caught by surprise, flashed into his Double Mystic Ultimate Saiyan form.

Even at that, he was barely holding his own against the pull.

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On Earth, the ground shook violently as the planet started leaving its normal orbit.

"What's going on?" Chi-Chi asked.

"They must not have found the grenade in time!" Kardeem cowered.

"Is that it then?" Abigail said.

"Once the warp is open, there is no way to stop it!" Kardeem said.

Chi-Chi smiled. "They will stop it."

"How do you know?" Kardeem said.

"Because they are the Z-Warriors." Chi-Chi answered.

Kardeem looked at her in wonder.

++++++++++++++++++++++++

"Think Gerald! THINK!" Gerald was racking his brain over a piece of theoretical science that Master Gohan had taught, and he had only half listened to.

"A warp singularity, which is sucking matter and energy into it. Why is it sucking? It is sucking because an imbalance of matter and energy exists between the two dimensions. When that imbalance is corrected, the warp singularity closes. Matter and energy are interchangeable. So, if I pump enough energy into this thing, it will close... Is that right? Well, I've got nothing to loose in the attempt." Gerald thought.

"I'm going to have to spend more time around Master Gohan!" Gerald thought wryly.

Gerald pushed back a few yards and readied himself to throw the strongest attack Gohan and his Father ever taught him. The now famous attack that the legendary Goku learned from the Turtle Master all those years ago. The attack that he had never used against an enemy for fear of releasing too much power.

"Kaaaa... Meee.... Haaaaaa... Meeee....

Gerald's energy spiked to incredible heights, his eyes glowed, and the twin stripes of white hair glowed like the sun. A ki ball like no other before it, incredible in its size, formed along side Gerald's body. Gerald was putting every ounce of his power into this. If it didn't close almost immediately, the damage to the Earth would be irreversible. Already Earth's envelope of atmosphere was beginning to bulge out towards the singularity. In another few seconds, it would rip away entirely.

"Haaaaaaaaaaa!!!" Gerald screamed as a piece of space debris flashed past him and into the gaping maw.

The attack flew through space, powered from Gerald, but also pulled from the singularity. Gerald was sweating, pumping more and more power into the attack.

The attack entered the warp singularity without a sound.

The rip in space closed without fan fare. It just winked out of existence.

Gerald was glad the crisis was over, but was a bit disappointed. "What? No explosion? No flash of light? Nothing! What a gyp!" He thought to himself.

The planet seemed to breathe a sigh of relief as it settled back into its normal orbit. Gerald looked down at the Earth he had saved and hoped everyone was all right.

"Boy! What happened?" Vegeta yelled as Roger also flew up; Roger had something that looked suspiciously like a part of a satellite in his hair.

Vegeta grabbed the now inert Neutrino Warp Grenade and crushed it in his hand.

Gerald looked at Vegeta proudly. "I saved the Earth!" Gerald explained to Vegeta and Roger what happened.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Goku had gone into some sort of trance. Uub tried to rouse him a few times, to no avail. He finally figured that this much just be a Saiyan thing and waited patiently for him to wake up, or whatever.

Finally, Goku's eyes flashed open.

"My gosh! What an amazing kid!" Goku exclaimed.

"What?" Uub asked.

"Didn't you feel that ki?" Goku asked.

"Oh... No, I guess I didn't. My mind has been on other things." Uub admitted.

"Buu feel ki! Boy/Man saved the Earth!" Buu clapped his hands.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Uub said.

"Uub not ask." Buu returned.

Uub sighed in exasperation.

"Okay, the Namek village is that way. You guys stick with me, the Nameks can be a bit suspicious around strangers." Goku said.

The trio took to the air towards the Namek village.

++++++++++++++++++++++++

Back on Earth, the danger was over, but the Earth was worse for the wear. The pull on the Earth had activated numerous quakes along several fault lines. There was a great deal of destruction; numerous after shocks were still rocking the planet.

"Gerald! Your mother tapped into an ability born of her mystic powers that allowed her to physically heal a planet. Concentrate and see if you have that ability as well." Roger said.

Gerald landed close to where Chi-Chi and Abigail were trying to keep their footing, and closed his eyes.

After a few seconds, the planet quieted. Erupting volcanoes went dormant again, the seas and tidal waves calmed, and the planet was back to normal again.

But even more! Buildings reconstructed themselves, the wounded became healed, and those that had died in the catastrophe, lived again!

Inside Capsule Corporation, Gerald Sr. picked himself up from the floor of the living room where he ran when the shaking started. He didn't know what to think. The last things he remembered was a huge beam falling on him, then he was in line to see King Yamma, then he was back here whole and unharmed.

"What gives?" Gerald Sr. thought.

Then he heard a soft sobbing behind him. He turned to see 16. The android had his huge hands over his face.

Astounded Gerald Sr. spoke "What's wrong 16?"

Clearly startled, 16 slowly removed his hands from his face and looked around. "B-But you were dead! This building had collapsed and you were dead! What happened?" A sudden look of joy flashed across the android's face. "You're alive! You're alive! I don't care how!" 16 picked Gerald Sr. up like a rag doll and embraced him.

"16! 16!" Gerald managed to grunt out. "You're crushing me! I can't breath!"

"Sorry." 16 said as he released his hold on his friend.

Gerald caught his breath for a second. "Were you crying?"

"Sort of, I guess. I mean I have no tear ducts, but I was experiencing the emotion." 16 smiled.

"Have you ever read the story of Pinocchio?" Gerald Sr. asked.

"It is in my memory banks, shall I review it?" 16 said.

"Yes, please do." Gerald Sr. asked.

After a few moments of concentration, 16 said, "Review completed."

"I think you are more human that you know." Gerald Sr. smiled.

16 smiled back.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Vegeta was pissed. "WHY?" was the only thing he could get out.

"Korlos is mad!" Kardeem whimpered.

"Duh! Now tell us something we don't know!" Vegeta fumed. "You'd better start talking mister! The only two reasons that I haven't blasted you into the next dimension yet is that they told me you tried to stop the grenade, and you might provide us with some explanation for all this. If you remove any one of the two reasons, I'm going to blast you anyway!"

"The people of our planet have been with out a common direction for hundreds of years. As a result, we've broken up into numerous factions, cults, and religions each with different beliefs. The one thing we have in common is our fanaticism in holding on to our separate beliefs. Many have died in wars to numerous to count. To date, however, we managed to keep out skirmishes to ourselves. We've never attacked another world, or even associated with other people before. This goes against our teachings. Korlos believes, as do most of us, that the return of our king would solidify our people and bring peace to our world. But Korlos had become warped. I believe that he intends on ruling through King Sarmen, or Tien, as you know him. Please believe me, our people are not genocidal, this is the work of one mad man! Do not destroy us!" Kardeem begged.

Vegeta softened a bit. "Kardeem, there was a time when our people would have destroyed your planet for this. But, for better or worse, we have changed." Vegeta looked over at Roger. "We do intend on getting our friend back, and Korlos will be..." Roger cleared his throat loudly. Vegeta smirked. "...brought to justice." Vegeta finished.

Kardeem looked surprised. He had always been told that the Saiyans were blood thirsty and unforgiving savages.

"We must hurry! Korlos will try to use the mind control device! He will replace Tien's memories with a false life!" Kardeem said.

"Let's get there then!" Vegeta ordered. Everyone took hold of Vegeta as they all disappeared.