Just as the night before, the rain poured its heart out, onto the lamp-lighten streets of West City. The alleys were silent, the streets were silent, everything was silent except for the sound of rain on the puddles. Tai was hiding under some trees to keep him as dry as he could from the rain.

"This is pointless…" Tai said to himself as he looked around the street "I haven't seen anything all night!"

He slowly kicked a puddle and decided to head back home, not seeing any point in waiting for something that was obviously not going to happen. Tai let off a sound of disappointment as he started to see his home in the distance, with one final look over his shoulder he gave up and ran the rest of the way.

A loud cry of "HELP!" echoed along the street. Tai quickly turned round and saw some shadows running into an alley. Knowing it was the right thing to do, Tai ran in the direction of the scream, dropping his video camera.

"No! Leave me alone!" a young lady shouted as two men walked toward her, both holding knives.

"Now, lady.. No need to get so scared. All you have to do is hand over the purse to stop us from hurting you!" said the first as he grabbed the strap to it.

The second smirked at the woman "Yeah. Besides, walking alone in a city like this is inviting trouble!"

Tai stopped, seeing the men and the woman; he slowly frowned and clenched his fists.

"Stop that, right now!" he shouted "'Cause, if you don't I'll have to stop you myself!"

The woman looked at the kid and shook her head "Run! Get help!"

The second man looked down at Tai and laughed "You stop us? You look like you're ten at the most!"

Tai frowned "ELEVEN!"

The first man laughed "Go on, just kick him in. It'll be like a threat to the woman!"

"I like the way you think." said the second man as he reached for Tai's throat with his spare hand.

Tai frowned and pulled back his right fist. He quickly threw it at the man's stomach and he crashed into the first man, the pair of them falling to the ground.

"Whoa!" shouted Tai "I'm a lot stronger than I thought! I didn't even feel like I punched him that hard!"

"That's because you did not, young one."

Tai slowly turned round, looking up at a well built man in a trench coat with a hood.

The woman slowly stood up and looked at the man "Thank you so much, I didn't know what to do once those men took out their knives!"

Tai looked at the woman "Are you alright?"
The woman slowly nodded "I'm in a little shock after the whole event, but thank you, both of you."

Tai slowly put his hands behind his head and smiled "It was nothing!"
The tall man slowly nodded "Come with me, I will walk you home. Your nerves must be at edge after this."
The woman walked toward the pair "Thank you, again, sir.. But what do I call you?"

"The Unknown Hero…" he replied quietly "Now, let me walk you to your street." He then looked at Tai "Come with us, I shall take you back, too."
Tai shook his head "You two go by yourself, I'll be fine!"

The man slowly nodded "If you insist, but I'll keep my ears open in case you need me."
Tai nodded and ran off back home, but came to a sudden stop seeing his video camera on the ground. "Oh… No! I forgot to film him!"

Tai picked up the Video Camera and snuck back into his room, very annoyed he had forgotten his camera.

The next morning Tai awoke to his alarm clock, the news was on. "… That makes it twice in two nights, maybe this man really as an 'Unknown Hero'!"

Tai turned off his radio and sat up in his bed for a big stretch "Aahh! That was so cool last night!"

Tai quickly got dressed and ran downstairs to get some breakfast. As he opened the kitchen door he saw everyone eating at the table, a rare sight for this family. He grabbed himself a bowl and spoon, and then sat to the table.

"It happened again!" said Tai as he started to pour out some breakfast.

Trunks looked across the table at Tai "What happened?"
Tai smirked "That 'Unknown Hero' saved someone else last night."

Vegeta let off a large sigh "I think we've all heard enough about this guy, he's everywhere you look. Kakarot and I saved the world from destruction, but we weren't on the news like that man."

Bulma laughed "Is that jealousy I hear in your voice, Vegeta?"

Vegeta just grunted and walked off from the table "I'm going to train."
Tai slowly looked up at his father walk off from behind his bowl, which he was eating from rather quickly.

Vegeta slowly punched in a code for a door and walked inside, the door closing and locking behind him.

"750 times gravity!" he said bluntly, the machine in the centre of the room bleeped and Vegeta's weight greatly increased. Vegeta quickly through a punch then started to link many moves together, ki blasting, teleporting, and then blocking the very same blow. After a quick warm up he powered up and increased the speed of his movements.

"He makes a lot of sound, don't he…" said Tai, as he walked past the door with Trunks.

Trunks looked down at his brother and laughed "Well he does practice as hard as he can, after all."

Tai slowly shrugged "I guess you're right… Anyway, I'm going up to my room to try out my new game, I want to see if it's as good as I hear!"

Trunks chuckled "Alright let me know what it's like after I get back from my walk."

"Sure thing, Trunks!" Tai said as he ran up the stairs and to his room.

Trunks slowly smirked then walked out the front door, heading to the main area of town.

"You're late!" shouted a familiar voice from an alley

Trunks slowly looked into it and laughed "Well sorry, Goten! I came all the same, though, didn't I?"

Goten shrugged "I guess, let's go eat then!"

Trunks laughed "Alright, same place?"

Goten nodded as he walked past Trunks "Yup! Same place! I can't get enough of Chinese food!"

He quickly opened the door to a restaurant and walked inside "Our usual place, please." Goten said to a waitress, she showed them to the table and walked off, leaving them to choose the food they wanted.

Trunks slowly picked up a menu and started to read through it "You know that 'Unknown Hero', Goten?"

Goten slowly looked up from behind his own menu "Yeah, he's everywhere. Why do you ask?"
Trunks laughs "Well it's just that Tai, he seems to be really taking a shine to the idea of it."
Goten slowly blinks "Yeah, but he's only ten, so he's going to think it's cool."
Trunks smirked as he started to read his menu again "He's eleven, Goten."

Goten blinked "Eleven, Ten… They're the same difference!"

Trunks went blank in the face "How does that justify anything?"
Goten laughed "It don't, but I just like saying it!"
Trunks sighed and put the menu down. Goten also put his own down and looked around for a waitress to call over.

Goten slowly looked at one and smiled at her "Hey, Trunks…" he discreetly said "The one over there's pretty hot!"

Trunks sighed "Is that all you can think about"

Goten and Trunks both quickly looked outside, hearing a loud explosion. Trunks jumped to his feet and ran outside, Goten following behind.

"What do you think it could be!" said Goten as he ran down the street, beside Trunks.

Trunks continued looking ahead "I have no idea, but I could sense a powerful energy!"

Goten nodded "Me too, it was huge!"

"Hah! You call yourself a champion!" shouted a young man with long black hair "You're nothing!"

Goten and Trunks both stopped outside the alleyway, looking at a dead man on the ground, with the long haired man standing over him.

Goten looked down at the corpse then to Trunks, rather disturbed by the sight.

Trunks frowned at took a step toward the man, slowly clenching his fists as sparks starting to flicker around his entire body.

The tall man looked over his shoulder and turned round, looking directly at the pair standing at the entrance to the alley.

"You two wish to fight me, too?" he slowly smirked, letting his open shirt fall from his torso, into the blood from the corpse. "I will just have to kill the pair of you, too!"

Trunks and Goten quickly got into stance, starting to power-up, both well aware that the fight ahead of them would not be so easy.