Ahh, back in writing again…

War for One Begins…

            "…Prince Vegetan, we near the planet earth your highness." A Saiyan in dark armor bowed.

 A blood red cloak swirled as the prince turned from looking out the huge window into space "good, ready the troops, five score imperial Saiyans should hold well against a mere handful."

The man bowed again and left quickly, doing what he was told. Vegetan laughed, "puny earth traitors, they shall soon learn why it is futile to stand up to the mighty Prince Vegetan!!"

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"FURY AYSEL!!!" Raven shouted and a milky, white beam shot out of her hands towards Vegeta, which he just barely dodged! Nearby the Gravity Room's controls read out 950g.

            "NICE BRAT, HOW ABOUT THIS, GALICK GUN!!!" He roared, Raven charged up a quick Kamehameha Wave and they clashed with massive force! Both beams twisted and writhed madly, fighting to overcome each other. Vegeta grunted and sent more energy into his. Raven yelled out and her's doubled in size, matching Vegeta's and then in a burst of brilliant light, both attacks were canceled out! Both Saiyans, panting and sweating, refused to stop training.

            Ki swirled silver around Raven as she jumped into her Super Saiyan form, her hair became streaked with silver and her eyes violet as a silvery aura blasted around her. Vegeta didn't have to do so, he'd already transformed! In less time it took to blink, they were attacking, unleashing an onslaught of attacks! Raven was on the offensive, fighting to hit every inch of her opponent that she could possibly hit. Vegeta let his guard down for a fraction of a second, but it was enough, her fist found his gut. Vegeta gasped and crumpled over, a little blood leached from has mouth.

Raven smirked and hovered nearby, "gettin' old Vegeta."

Vegeta regained himself and attacked, this time offensive, doling out punches and kicks and small blasts. A little silver caught his eye and in a flash, Raven's silvery tail was clutched in his hand, his evil smirk on his face, "young and stupid I say!" He said loudly, as if to regain his hurt pride at the pained expression on her face.

"Well old fart, O wise one, let go and FIGHT!!"

She lunged at the Vegeta's tail, and sunk her teeth into the furry appendage. Vegeta howled in pain and jumped around, attempting to dislodge her. "BRAT, INSUBORDINATION, LET GO!!"

He bounced around, she finally let go, but the second she did so, even before Vegeta could attack again, the gravity turned off so suddenly that they both went flying painfully into the ceiling. Bulma was standing in the doorway, a worried look on her face. Vegeta powered down and landed in front of her, "what is it woman!"

Raven, still rubbing her head said, "yea, give some warning next time jeez!"

Bulma sniffed stiffly, "in my lab I've detected a ship heading for earth."

Raven dropped out of the air, not on purpose, and landed with a thump on her behind, "WHAT!! It's too soon!" She breathed deep and held her head in her hands, "oh no, a month early, damn it! We're not ready!" She banged her head repeatedly on the floor, muttering, "damn it damn it damn IT!!"

Vegeta had assumed his "I'm gonna scowl and look angry" pose complete w/ crossed arms, "I'd best let Kakarot know."

Raven counted her fingers, "and Kakarot Spawner, and Gohan. Leave out the others, like Piccolo, this is a Saiyan's fight!" She laughed evilly, "some might loose their tails."

Vegeta just raised an eyebrow at this comment, it was silent for a little while until Bulma gasped, "Lynx!"

Raven and Vegeta said in union, "huh?" and then looked at each other.

"Bardock is out training with her, and he doesn't know their close!"

Vegeta uttered a string of foul curses that would make any young child cover their ears and go "LALALALALALA" while Raven sprinted out of the room. Vegeta halted her since he'd been standing by the exit, "I'll go find them brat!"

She bit his hand to get him to let go of her shoulder, as soon as he let up his grip she ran out yelled, "I'M NOT, I'm getting my scouter, I remember he had his before leaving today!" 

Vegeta caught up and thought for a second, "that would be faster since time isn't taken up getting out there, then coming back."

Raven rolled her eyes, "duh smart one, I swear, sometimes the all mighty prince of Saiyans has the intelligence of a third class dolt." She disappeared into her room. The angered yells and numerous crashes meant she was tearing the place apart in her search.

"WHERE IS IT!!!!" She screamed and ripped her mattress off the bed stand!

Bulma, very pale and scared slightly, spoke up, "it's in my lab…"

Raven whipped around, "let's go get it, I hope it's not taken apart and whatnot!"

 With a speedy trip to Bulma's lab, Raven collided with the heavy metal door, expecting to break it down, but instead only injuring her head. "OWWW!!!!!"

            Bulma stifled a laugh, "I see I've finally made it Saiyan proof."

            Raven shot a look of acid, "just do the combination to open the place!"
            Bulma tapped in the set of numbers in the keypad that opened the door. Right on the first table in the startlingly white room was Raven's blue glass scouter. Raven lunged at it, grabbed it and fell onto the floor, during this time fixing it over her ear. She stood up, hand on the big blue button, "damn, all I hear is fuzzy, it should be clear…"

            Bulma said, "I didn't do a thing to it."

            Raven pressed it again, "shoot, why are they not in range?! This thing has a distance of several hundred light-years!"

            "Do remember," Bulma said, "they could be training in an unstable environment, interfering with the communication signals."

            "LIKE?!"

            "Bardock was training her near a highly active volcano today, the eruptions are probably blocking all or most signals."

Swearing and cursing she removed it and almost ripped off the little door to some of the electronics and rearranged some of the wires with it angrily…

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Bardock smiled at his student, who was in deep concentration. Her palms were turned skyward as she faced the crater of the ancient volcano. Her hands began to glow red and the air hummed deeply. Underneath their feet the ground rumbled.

Red-hot magma burst out of the rocky ground, steam shot up in searing jets! The lava flew in massive columns into the great sky, as if it wanted to burn the clouds! Lynx deepened her thought; her powers wrapped around one of the geysers she created. The steam from the hot ground twisted and fought, but bowed to her will!. She thrust it towards ones of the springs of lava, and snapped her wrist in a circular movement! With an awesome roar a tornado came out of the steam and rushed towards the molten rock!

For a second it disappeared as it hit the column, but came the lava stream bent and hot winds rushed. It formed into a giant, red cyclone, spewing the land with hot rock!

Lynx was standing waist deep in lava, and thought nothing of it, she pulled her hands farther apart, straining a little from the resistance of natures power. But as the distance grew, the tornado made a gurgling sound as it sucked up more lava, and doubled in size! She grabbed a bolt of lightning out of nowhere and tossed it at her creation, charging it with mystical black electricity! A growl began deep in her throat and her tail lashed as it became a yell!  Jagged pieces of ice flew from the ground, glowing blue and white. With a flick of her tail, those two became part of the tornado!

Now a revolving mass of lightning, ice, and lava roared and ripped at the earth, held in control by the Saiyan of the elements! With a last scream, she threw her hands in union towards the ground, and with a boom and a grating sound, the awesome mass plummeted down into the volcano, and the earth stilled once again!

   Panting and sweating from the energy it took to do such a thing, she flew upwards to Bardock and gave him a small smile, "did I do well?"

Bardock chuckled, "you did better than I could ever imagine, I felt your energy flood into the earth, and become a part of it for a while, very well done."

Lynx looked at the cooling mass of lava and the hole her creation made when she'd plunged in into the ground. "I now feel power I've never felt before in my life." She called a spark of lightning and held it in her hand, "when I was young I always loved storms, earthquakes, anything powerful and earth oriented, I never imagined it was because of this!" She extinguished the spark by clenching her fist, "now I can control the strength inside me and it's all thanks to you Bardock!"

He raised an eyebrow, "I barely did anything than teach you to fly, spar, and use energy. It's your spirit and determination that's gotten you this far."

Lynx nodded, "I guess your right…boy I wish Bra had seen that!"

"Hmm, yea, alright, let's take a five minutes break and back to training, no slackin' off now/"

Lynx smiled and left to get a drink of water from a stream nearby, or more accurately, a stream of water the summoned from the earth earlier. Bardock sighed and shook his head, sometimes she did waste her powers a bit, but every kid does that, she'll learn not to waste it eventually. He looked through the green eyeglass of his scouter as it all of the sudden started to beep and read numbers, odd.

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Raven said a triumphant, "yes!" As her scouter showed a communication link was opened. She said into it once the blue eyepiece was fixed over her eye, "Bardock, can you hear me?!"

There was a few minutes of silence and a , "yea.."

Raven did a happy dance and was about to say when he said again, "I see some off numbers, have you any idea who or what they are?!"

Raven yelled, "yes I know, their coming, the Saiyans are close, I can feel them now, can't you?!"

Another pause and a "yes, I can, I'm coming back right now…!" The connection was then lost.

Bulma asked anxiously, "are they coming?"

"Lynx and Bardock are on their way home." Raven put down her scouter, "and next time, don't disable the power wire and say you didn't do anything." She put a lot of sarcasm in the "anything" almost instantly triggering an eruption from the blue haired genius.

Bulma got her angry look, "don't you talk to me like that young lady!"

"Like what?"

It happened in a flash of silver, and the evil spatula of Doom connected with the Saiyan's unfortunate nose. Raven went cross-eyed and held her nose, since it really hurts if someone hits your nose. Bulma looked satisfied, "next time you won't."

Raven stuck out her tongue and thought I didn't even see that, and I'm a Saiyan! "I'll go get Goku, Goten and Gohan."

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Crisp, cold air swept through Raven's hair as she flew through the mountains. She dropped down lower so that she barely skirted the tree line. A rainbow of goldens, reds and oranges rushed past her eyes, fall was already in the mountains. Shr broke into a clearing, sailing over a deep, clear lake. She skimmed her hand on the surface of the water, watching little fishes dart away. She jerked skyward right before she collided with the high cliff that rose up from the north side.

Now she flew with to speed, having wasted enough time. A reassuring site was the wisp of smoke gently rising over the trees. Raven breathed the cool air in through her mouth, tasting the maple wood smoke. She landed hastily in the smooth yard, hearing the bubbling stream down the hill before dashing inside.

"Hello Raven," Chichi said absentmindedly, "Goten isn't here."

Raven let of a string of cursing that would make any sailor blush deeply, and she just barely avoided the Raging Frying Pan of Death and Destruction! Raven glared at her aunt, "they're here…"

Chichi gasped and almost fainted. Raven grabbed her hand and pushed her into a chair and handed her a glass of water, "sometimes I'm more mature when it comes to some things," Raven sighed.

Chichi gulped down the water and said, "I'm sorry, I should get a hold of myself," tears shimmered in her eyes, "but I just don't want to see my babies fighting again! Why can't we all live in peace!"

"Chichi," Raven sighed, "when the entire universe is in peace with each other, there would be a universe! It just isn't possible, there will always be war!"

Chichi sniffed, "I know, but I can wish."

Raven snorted, "your wasting your time, and this stalling in wasting mine! Where is Goku and the others?!

Chichi thought for a second, "their off farther in the mountains training…" Chichi found she was now talking to naught but air.

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"GOKU!" Raven yelled in glee as she saw the four black dots in the air way off. With a burst of speed that left trees behind her windblown, she blasted off towards them.

Goku turned when he saw her, "hi Raven!"

Goten did a jump in the air, "yea, you're here, let's spar!"

Raven gave Goku an urgent look, "no Goten, save your energy, their here, can't you feel them now?!"

Goku paused for a second and nodded, "now that I think about it I can feel them, their very close."

On the ground Jace and Gohan flew up, the first of the two very pale, "no, it's too soon…" He broke off shuddering, "once they find out I'm alive and a traitor," Jace gulped, "I'll be executed…"

Raven patted his back in a sympathetic way, but not letting him see her smirk, "it's ok, we won't let 'em have you."

Goten sniggered, Goku cuffed him, "hold hands, I'll get us to capsule corporation the fast way."

Raven shrugged and put a hand on her uncle's shoulder. Goten put his hand on her shoulder and Gohan's. Jace brought up the end with his tail just barely touching Gohan. Goku smiled and put a hand to his head.

The same feeling of getting tugged her feet swept through Raven, as the mountains became a blur and a rush of air! She felt as if the was immobilized in this position. In an instant, they were standing the front lawn of Capsule Cooperation.

"Good timing!" Goten laughed as Bardock and Lynx landed at the exact same time they got there.

Raven looked urgent, "we need to prepare, to sort things out. It wouldn't be good to go rushing into battle without a plan.

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A dull mechanical voice announced in the corridors of a Saiyan war ship, "Well come to planet earth, you are now parked outside the atmosphere of this planet."

Prince Vegeta donned his black battle armor, and marched out of his quarters, blood colored cape swirling behind him like a lacy curtain of death. Troops already assembled in the hallways bowed to him as he passed, showing great loyalty to their confident leader.

As the massive door slid open to allow him into the docking area. He pointed to a officer, who's mark on his armor stated him as a Captain, "you, lead a score of soldiers, scout out all strong power levels and exterminate them."

The officer kneeled for a second and was off to do as ordered. Vegetan sneered, this would be easy. Within a few minutes, twenty white Saiyans pods were blasting out of the docking area into the dark recesses of space, bound for mother earth.

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The Saiyans of earth were in Bulma's lab. Bardock and Raven stood side by side against a back wall. Vegeta was off in a corner, arms folded, eyes closed in deep thought. Goten and Trunks were off in a cleared area, practicing the fusion dance. Goku was reassuring Jace that he wasn't going to die. Gohan was explaining about battle to Lynx, who was listening closely. Bulma was crouched over something she was working on, mumbling to herself every now and then.

Raven sighed deeply, and turned to Bardock, "so, what are the odds?"

He grunted, "not good."

Raven's tail twitched, "well, we'll still give it our all, but I have a plan." She smirked.

Bardock looked at her sideways, "and what is that?"

"Well," she started, "they must have large numbers with high power levels. It would be very stupid to face them all head on sooo, we play hit and run, there one instant, gone the next. Wraiths in the deepest of night, silent killers. They'll be unaware of us until their numbers grow few, then they'll worry, become jumpy and uneasy. They'll start to fight among themselves, further weakening their ranks."

Vegeta opened his eyes, he's been listening, "a plan of cowardice."

Raven snorted, "Well obviously you haven't thought of everything. And mark my words, there will be a head to head battle, I can guarantee that."

Vegeta glared at her, "do what you want then brat."

Raven and Bardock each smirked at each other, that was the princes subtle way of agreeing.

Lynx chirped up, "where's Bra?"

Raven looked around, the little clone of her mother wasn't in sight. "Hmm," she thought and left quickly to go find her. Bra's energy signal was totally hidden, making it slightly difficult. But Raven, having lived here ever since that day she, Trunks, and Goten had gotten back from their little trip in time. She checked the little girl's most common hiding places, like the crawl space and the small room at the very top of CC, the steamy jungle made by Bulma's father for his pets.

After many futile searches, she stopped and bit her lip, thinking. Then an idea came up. Why did I check the hardest places first?! She thought furiously and swept off. The door to Bra's room was slightly ajar. She crept in ever so quietly, and saw no one. Then a quiet sniff brought her attention to the bed. Raven crouched down and came face to face with Bra.

Bra had tear steaks on her cheeks and quickly rubbed her eyes, making it look like she hadn't been crying, but she sniffed again and said, "Raven I'm scared."

"It's alright to be afraid your first battle. It's only natural for a beginner." Raven told her soothingly.

"I know, but what if daddy finds out I'm afraid, what will he think?"

"Well I bet he was petrified his first time, tail between his legs."

Bra laughed, "maybe….maybe."

"What's up, anything else on your mind?" Raven asked. Bra shook her head, "than let's get back to the others." Raven swung the giggling girl onto her back. "I'll even give you a ride!"

Bra giggled and wrapped her tail around Raven's waist for support and yelled, "giddy up!"

Raven laughed and set off a at a jog through the house, Bra laughing all the way. Trunks sighed an eyebrow as they pair burst into the lab, collided with Goten, and went into fits of hysterical laughter.

"I DID IT"!!!!!!!!!!!!

All eyes turned to Bulma, who had a look of triumph on her face as she pointed to a row of potted plants. They were strangely pointed and shrubby with a blue hint of the leaves, plus there were little bean pods hanging of them, very odd. Raven raised an eyebrow, "you grew plants?"

Bulma waggled a finger, "not just any plants. I snagged five sensu beans from Raven's stash." She paused as the named yelled in anger, "and I made them grow to full size in only fifteen minutes!"

"Wow! Goku exclaimed, "that's great! Now we can give a better fight and when we get hurt of our energy is low, we just eat one!"

Raven snorted, "that's kinda the point Goku."

Goku did his famous scratch and grin and laughed.

"Anyway," Raven said, "anyone good with makeup, I need your help…hehehe…"