Dragon Ball Neo:

Tree arrives, is planet Earth doomed?

Master Roshi stretched his arms as he stood in the warm, tropic sun of his island. He looked at his little island. It seemed so empty now that all his old friends had died. The whole aspect of death was the one thing Roshi hated about not being able to die unless he was killed; it affected all his friends, but not him.

Every day Roshi thought about his friends, Goku, Krillen, Piccolo, Bulma, Trunks, Gohan, Vegeta, Goten, Chichi, Yamucha, Puar, and Oolong.

Master Roshi was thinking of them all when he thought he spotted something in the sky. He looked up and noticed it was headed straight for his island.

He ran to his house and moments later heard the crash as the thing landed in front of his house. He walked out to inspect the damage and noticed that the object had crushed some of his palm trees.

Then he noticed that the thing that had landed on his island appeared to be a sayajin space pod. "That can't be what I think it is," he muttered, "All the sayajins were destroyed more than 150 years ago. And the only people left with any sayajin blood in them are..." he trailed off as the door to the pod began to slowly open with a serpent like hiss.

Roshi was still standing there when out of the pod came a small, naked sayajin. The sayajin had black hair that stuck straight up for the most part but some hung in his face, and he was about 2 ½ to 3 feet tall. He wore a scouter over his right eye and stared at Roshi, sizing him up.

The sayajin suddenly jumped at Roshi, but Roshi was prepared, he side stepped the attack and brought his cane down hard on the back of the sayajin's skull, sending him sliding across the ground.

Roshi stood there, looking at the sayajin waiting for his next move. Slowly the small sayajin began to get to his feet, his tail swishing slowly. He turned to master Roshi and began hopping around rubbing the back of his head. "Ow, Ow, Ouch! Hey why'd you do that?" "Hmm," Roshi thought, "It must have made him forget his instincts like what happened to Goku when he hit his head on that rock."

Roshi walked over to the little sayajin and looked him in the eyes. "Are you ok son?" "Yeah," the little sayajin replied. "But what did ya hit me for?" "Let's go inside," Roshi said pointing to his little house, "I have some stuff I want to tell you."

The small, naked sayajin followed Roshi into his house and Roshi led him to a small closet of karate outfits.

"Pick one," he said to the sayajin. The sayajin pulled out a yellow gi with the turtle hermit symbol on the back, a blue undershirt, and blue fighting boots. Master Roshi showed the small sayajin a room for him to change in and got himself a mug of beer as he waited.

The little sayajin came into the room and sat down next to Roshi, "how do I look," he asked. The little sayajin reminded Roshi a lot of Goku, dressed the way he was.

"You look like a student I used to have," Roshi said. "Student? Are you a teacher?" "Yes," Roshi replied. "Would you like to learn martial arts?"

"The sayajin's face lit up, "Do you mean fighting?" Master Roshi nodded his head. The sayajin began to jump around the room, "yay fighting!"

Master Roshi led the small sayajin outside so they could begin training. "Hey," Master Roshi said. "What's your name?" The little sayajin turned to face him. "Oh, my names Tree."

Master Roshi looked at him, "My names Roshi," he said. "Wait here," Roshi, said, and he began to walk back into the house. Tree sat down on the ground his mind full of ideas about training.

Master Roshi returned a few minutes later with a giant, yellow turtle shell. "Put this on he said to Tree, and he handed him the shell.

Tree buckled under the weight and gave a huge sigh as he let it fall to the ground. "What does this have to do with training?" Master Roshi looked Tree in the face and told him to put the shell on.

Tree did and was struggling with the shell and fell to the ground. Master Roshi helped him up and then went over to his chair where he busied himself with a magazine.

About 30 minutes later Master Roshi heard the sound of laughter. He looked towards the sound and was amazed to see Tree jumping up and down; he was reaching a height of about 20 feet with each leap despite the weight of the shell.

Master Roshi was stared at this for about five minutes and then he called Tree over to him, there was definitely something special about him.