A/N: Shiko is pronounced Sheeko.

Chapter Nineteen - Never piss off a Sai-jin

The large group floated staring at the three pods. They'd landed so close together that they'd formed one crater. "Those look like Sai-jin space pods." Krillin said.

Hiroshi nodded. "Yes, they are."

Trunks eyes went wide, "Then they're from the empire!"

Hiroshi looked back at him for a moment before replying. "Shiko is a mercenary who works for Glacier, the other two are soldiers from Glaciers army, they work for her. Warriors revived by the Namek Dragonballs and then enhanced by Glacier's own powers."

"What powers?" 18 asked.

"The ability to bring a living creature to it's full potential. Every living thing has a maximum amount of energy it can handle without being destroyed or transforming to a form that can handle more. Glacier can cause anyone to instantly reach that maximum. He can't force them to transform but he can literally max them out."

"That's just great." Piccolo said. "Doubt he'd be nice enough to do it to one of us when we meet him in person. Anyway, who's with this Shiko?"

"A Shi-tar named Zarbon and Sai-jin by the name of Brolly. They're one of his extermination teams."

"Brolly!" Trunks exclaimed looking down at his arm.

Vegeta looked up at him from where he still floated next to Dabura. "You mean to tell me that the Sai-jin you couldn't beat in your time is the same one that's in one of those pods?" /And that Zarbon. He should learn to stay dead when I kill him./

Trunks nodded.

"Oh, that's just great!" Krillin cried. "If you couldn't beat him in your own time what chance do we have here?"

Hiroshi and Da'kar looked at them. /Well, that explains things a bit./ Hiroshi thought. /That's why him and the little one look so much alike, and if he's from the future he's probably been fighting the Empire. But why wouldn't he recognize us? Something happen to us before we could meet? No, that couldn't be it, Da'kar fought him in the tournament... Guess I'll ask later./

That's when the doors to the pods began to lift open. The first to open was the back left pod. Once open a light green hand reached out followed by the rest of his body. It was Zarbon. Then the back right pod began to open. Out of it stepped a man about Trunks height and build with black hair. "That's him." Trunks said softly.

Then at last the third pod began to open. As the door locked in place to ice blue hands grasped the door frame. From the darkness emerged a woman with ice blue skin, red eyes, and white shoulder length hair who was about as tall as Vegeta (minus his hair). "Ah, Prince Hiroshi, Prince Da'kar, it's been awhile."

"Not long enough for me." Hiroshi said venomously.

"Prince?" Trunks asked.

"Oh my," Shiko smiled. "You've made some new friends." She shook her head. "Just surrender to us now and end this tiresome game. You can't defeat Glacier, you Neo Sai-jins aren't all you're hyped up to be."

"You're wrong about that. I can and will defeat Glacier, even if it's the last thing I ever do! The Sai-jin race is all but extinct now because of Frieza, I wont let Glacier do the same to their descendents!"

/What are they talking about?/ Vegeta wondered listening to the conversation. /What's this about Neo Sai-jins?/ He shook his head and looked toward the one he was interested most in. "Zarbon!" Vegeta called down. "Don't you know how to stay dead?"

"I was just about to ask you the same thing Vegeta, didn't I see Frieza kill you on Namek?"

Vegeta just growled.

Gohan turned to look at Videl. "I think you had better get out of here, things look pretty dangerous."

"Yeah, I think you're right."

"Go tell my mom and Bulma about what's happening out here and then get somewhere safe."

Videl nodded and started to fly off as Hiroshi and Shiko continued to argue. "The only way you're going to stop us is by killing us." he called down. "And that's never going to happen."

"Please Hiroshi, you don't think you stand a chance of beating us do you? I don't care who you or your new friends are you can't stand up to us! How about a demonstration?" she asked cocking an eyebrow.

"Sorry Vegeta, we'll have to finish this in a bit." Zarbon said disappearing.

"GOHAN!" Videl screamed. They all turned to see Zarbon floating few inches from Videl. His right arm was outstretched and he was pointing a single finger at Videl, at the tip of the finger floated a small ball of energy.

"No, Videl!" Gohan cried. Instantly he was flying toward the pair. He was half-way there when Zarbon fired the attack. Gohan stopped frozen in place as Videl began to drop toward the ground. He stared, eyes wide, for what seemed like an eternity. Memories flashed through his mind from the first time he met her up to getting to know her while training, even watching her fight against Spoppovitch.

He was still frozen in place and she'd only fallen a small distance but the others could already fill Gohan's power building on itself. He hadn't transformed yet and a bolt of blue electricity surged around him before vanishing. It was followed a moment later by another. Then his aura began to flow up around him, white at first then gold. Still he was frozen in place, he didn't blink, not even a muscle twitched. As Videl finally hit the ground the energy surrounding him exploded outward. "Videl!" he screamed head thrown back as the aura flared larger and larger and his power continued to build.

"Where's it all coming from!" Shin said eyes wide.

"There's no way... how can he be that strong?" Shiko asked staring into the sky at Gohan her scouter going crazy.

/He's a Sai-jin alright./ Brolly thought watching. /This will be an interesting fight./

Gohan's head came back down as he raised his arms. They jerked and spammed like something was trying to hold them back. The entire area was bathed in a golden glow. Slowly his eyes locked onto Zarbon. "You!" he cried. As he stared at Zarbon flashes of the past came to him.

He was a child again, Raditz had just come and his dad was trying to save him. Somehow he got free of the space pod Raditz had locked him inside of but his dad was hurt. Then something hit him and everything went black. When he woke up his dad was gone. Somewhere inside him he knew it had been his fault.

Time jumped ahead to the fight against the Sibamen, and the one blowing itself up to kill Yamcha, then against Napa he saw Choutzu die and Tein and... Piccolo. All he did was stand there unable to do anything. On Namek he hadn't done much better. He hadn't been able to beat Recome, if his dad hadn't shown up...

Time leapt again to the fight against Frieza. Krillin died, so did Dende, Piccolo almost did. Again he couldn't save them. He was back on Earth again, fighting Cell. This time he had the strength he needed and he was winning. But somehow... it still hadn't been enough and his father had been killed, he'd had the power to stop Cell, to save his father, but he'd failed. He'd almost destroyed the entire planet.

And then Videl. Videl. He hadn't been fast enough, he didn't get there in time. She was gone and it was his fault, all his fault. A tear rolled down his cheek as his eyes focused again on Zarbon. No, it wasn't all his fault, it was Zarbon's. It was Zarbon who killed her. "You'll pay!" he screamed flying forward suddenly. Zarbon hadn't the time to react and in seconds he was laying in a deep crater a barrage of energy beams raining down upon him.

The others all stared in shock as Gohan's rage pushed his power higher and higher despite the energy he was expending in the attack. Goku was the only one who noticed it between flashes of light from the energy waves and explosions. Every so often his face would look just a bit different than normal. He knew that much, but he couldn't place the difference, the glimpses were to short. They'd last for a second then his face would look normal again.

Suddenly the energy barrage subsided and Gohan raised his hands above his head. "Masenko!" the stream of red-orange energy surged down into the bubbling mound of energy and caused it to swell. A moment later it went up in a massive explosion that rocked the entire planet, scattered the clouds, and sent shockwaves out for miles.

Chi-Chi, Bulma, Master Roshi, Yamcha, Ox King, Oolong, Goten, and Trunks were all standing on the top level of the arena looking out to the horizon in the direction the others had gone wondering what was happening when the glow began off in the distance. "Oh my, that's incredible." Master Roshi said. "If I'm not mistaken that's Gohan's doing."

It was a second later that the light glow erupted in all directions as a brilliant flash. A moment later the shockwave hit the stadium as the ground shook. They all had to hold on to the railing to stop from being toppled over. As it did Trunks and Goten were looking at each other. They didn't say anything, they didn't have to, they knew what the other one was thinking. Without the others noticing they took off toward the site of the explosion.

Back at the site of the battle there was nothing left of the point where Zarbon had been, and there was nothing left of Zarbon. Gohan panted staring down at the crater as his power began to subside. Vegeta blinked and swallowed. /I guess the kid has been training over the last seven years after all./