A/N: Two quick notes. First, a year ago Chi-Chi and Gohan had been shopping when Chi-Chi was almost mugged. Of course she dealt with them, but she was worried something could happen to Gohan when she wasn't around so she let Goku train him. Second, while training him one day Gohan got... lost. Piccolo found him, and despite his attempts to ditch the kid, or scare him off, Gohan wouldn't leave and eventually (After about three months) grew on Piccolo. Which is why he's sort of a good guy when the story starts. He's still not on the greatest of terms with Goku and definitely not with Chi-Chi, duh! Anyway, onward!

Chapter Six - Amazing Powers! A Sai-jin Reunion!

Goku stood back up on shaky legs, his torn and tattered GI falling in pieces around him. He half coughed and half laughed as he dug into the pouch at his side. A moment later he pulled out a Senzu Bean and raised it toward his mouth. "I... think I'll... take a nap... now." he said toppling over dropping the bean.

"Daddy!" Gohan cried running over.

"Relax kid." said a large shadow standing over Goku. He bent down and picked up the Senzu Bean sliding it into Goku's mouth. /No wonder he's improved so much in the last year./

A moment later he'd swallowed it and was sitting up. "Hey!" Goku cried looking himself over. "Thanks Piccolo!"

The green man just snorted and walked over to a nearby tree where he sat down. "I still don't get where that kid gets all of his power." Piccolo said at last watching as Gohan, in a miniature version of Goku's GI, chased after a butterfly. "It's absurd. His power's still greater then ours."

Goku laughed as he collapsed backwards and sprawled out on the grass. A light breeze drifted over their little hill rustling the leaves and blowing away some of the afternoon heat. "I'm not sure either." Goku said at last. "He was stronger than me when Chi-Chi started letting me train him." Goku closed his eyes and light the cool wind and warm light engulf him. He was just about to doze off when a sudden twinge of power grazed his senses. "What is that!" he cried sitting up.

Piccolo glanced toward Goku uncertainly. Then he closed his eyes and searched for what Goku had felt. "There's no way!" he cried jumping to his feet and looking toward the horizon in the direction of the energy.

***

"Bardock, wake up." The voice of his mate slowly seeped through the gas induced slumber of the last two weeks. "We're within deep scan range of Earth, landing estimated in twenty minutes."

"Right." he said clicking a few switches and bringing up the scan display. "I'm beginning planetary scans now."

"What should we expect?" came Vadora's voice.

"Not much." said Appla. "The Humans aren't that strong, our first scans years ago estimated them at around 5. That's just an average though, I'm sure there are a few humans close to the hundreds, but beyond that I doubt it."

"This is odd... I'm picking up a number of high readings, considering the source world at least." Bardock said a bit surprised. "I'm reading six powers within our estimated range."

Appla frowned. "Six? I don't understand how any Humans could even be in our scan range... you sure it's set with a bottom of 200?"

"Positive, I've double checked twice."

"Alright, what's the readings?"

"Let's see. 208, 210, 233, 306, 405, 412. That's more than expected... well, we'll worry about that in a moment. ETA to landing, ten minutes. We'll be in the atmosphere soon, brace for landing."

***

Goku had grabbed Gohan and the two of them, with Piccolo beside them, where heading toward the powers. At first they'd thought it was one power but as they neared they could sense three separate signals. Two of the signals seemed familiar to Goku, but he wasn't sure why. The three pulled to a quick stop and landed, Goku and Piccolo both felt certain who or whatever was coming would land near by.

Sure enough, a moment later three streaks of light began to descend from the sky. The three pods slammed into the ground about a hundred yards north of them and the three made their way quickly to them wary of possible dangers. Suddenly the doors to the pods hissed and moved upwards allowing the occupants to get out. The first two weren't too shocking, but the third was. He looked almost exactly like Goku.

The three stared at each other for a moment before Piccolo spoke. "Who are you? Why are you here?"

Bardock looked at him for a moment. "Relax Namek... we aren't here for trouble. At least not with you."

"Namek?" Piccolo asked. "What are you talking about?"

Vadora stared at him confused herself for a moment before smiling lightly. "Ah, you must have grown up here." she said. "You're a Namekian, from the planet Namek. That explains your low power, the Namekian average is 3,000"

Piccolo just stared at her as Goku walked over to Bardock and looked him over. It was Bardock who spoke first of the two. "So you are alive Kakkarotto."

Goku looked at him confused. "My name's Goku." he said. "My Grandpa gave it to me."

"Your Grandpa? Ah, he must have raised you here. Then my thanks to him."

"So..." Goku began. "Why do you look like me? Who are you?"

"My name is Bardock. I'm your father."

"WHAT!?" Piccolo and Goku cried in unison.

Bardock chuckled. "Let me explain some things, it'll help you understand." He walked over to a nearby rock and fired a handful of well placed shots creating a chair out of the rock where he then sat. "We are Sai-jins." he waved to the other two. "Me, them, you. This is Appla, your mother. You also have two... had two brothers. Turles, who died recently, and Raditz who was still in recovery when we left.

"We are the strongest race in the galaxy but we don't control it all, only a relatively small portion of it. The rest is controlled by the Cold Family. King Cold and his sons Frieza and Cooler. Our sides don't exactly get along to well, especially us and Frieza. He fears that one of us could surpass him in power, not that it's ever happened. Not even King Vegeta is stronger than him."

Bardock paused for a moment before continuing. He went into detail about the Sai-jins and their constant war against Frieza. He explained about himself and his family, and about the recent events that led to their arrival on Earth. That's when he saw Gohan hiding behind Goku's leg.

"Oh, this is my son Gohan." Goku said lightly pushing Gohan into the space between them. "I've been training him to fight... only I think I'm the one who's been getting the work out."

Vadora reached onto a pouch at her waist held in place by her tail, she and Gohan were the only Sai-jins present with tails, and removed her scouter. "We never got readings on you three... we know the six highest powers but we don't know which of those powers belong to these three."

Bardock nodded. Piccolo stared suspiciously at the device the woman put on. "What is that thing?" Piccolo asked.

"A scouter." Replied Appla. "It allows us to read a persons power level, and also works as a communicator."

"Read power levels? Why would you need to do that?" Goku asked. "Why not just sense them?"

"Sense?" Bardock asked.

"Well yeah. That's what my friends and I do. We can sense how strong a person is."

"Amazing." Appla said as Vadora activated the scouter.

A moment later she had a reading on all three powers before her. "The Namek's at 100... Kakkarotto's at 50 and the kid's at 50..."

Piccolo snorted. "First of all the name is Piccolo. Secondly, that device wont work for us. We can lower and raise our powers at will, it's more efficient then simply wasting energy when you don't need it all."

Appla looked at the three of them. "You can raise and lower your powers? So this isn't your maximum? But... I'd always heard you had to be really powerful to do that. At least as strong as a Second Class Elite."

Piccolo clenched his fists and hunched over groaning at the power that was building in his body as it relaxed and tensed at the same time. A green aura flared to life around him as his turban and cape flew off. His muscles rippled as a few pebbles lifted into the air. Vadora's scouter was going nuts as it read the increase of energy. A moment later he and the scouter stopped. Cracking his neck Piccolo smiled. "So what's that thing read now?"

"What! This is.... how?" Vadora stammered. "He's at 905! That's higher than any of the readings we got from space... it doesn't make any sense."

"How long ago did you take those readings?" Piccolo asked. "If it was less than about half an hour ago then we weren't even powered up anymore, taking a rest between spars."

"Then you're not at your full power yet either?" Bardock asked Goku in surprise.

Goku smiled and looked down at Gohan. "Go over with Piccolo for a minute, okay." Gohan nodded and walked over to Piccolo. Once Gohan was safe with Piccolo Goku braced himself and clenched his fists as Piccolo had. A yell worked its way up from the pit of his stomach as his hair and tattered GI flapped in the updraft. His white aura flared out and the ground cracked under his feet. As the yell died his hair returned to its normal 'style' and the wind died. Vadora stared at her scouter in shock. "How.... Bardock, I thought you said he was born with a power level of 2?"

Bardock looked over at her and nodded. "He was. Why? What's the reading?"

"1,073." she said in quiet shock.

Goku just had a big grin on his face as Gohan came over to him and hopped onto his head. "It's not surprising really." Goku said looking up at the little face staring back down at him. "Ever since I started training Gohan here I've had my work cut out for me." he grinned as Gohan smiled. "Just before we sensed you coming Gohan here had really done a good job of wearing me out."

"You're kidding right?" As Vadora. "You don't expect us to believe that a kid could be that strong?"

Goku smiled up at Gohan. "Show them kiddo."

"Right!" Gohan said happily jumping down to the ground. The kid closed his hands and brought his arms in front of him. A blue and white glow surrounded him as his face took a more determined look. "AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he cried snapping his arms back as his aura flared out and then vanished.

Vadora stepped back in surprise. "That's not possible!" she cried. "How could a kid have a power that high!"

"What is it Vadora?" Appla asked curious as to her grandson's strength having already been shocked by her son's.

"It's... it's at 2,130!"

"Wow." Goku said looking down at Gohan. "You're even stronger than I'd thought." he smiled as Gohan smiled back up at him. "No wonder Piccolo and I can't keep up with you little man, you're stronger than both of us combined."