Goku held his breath as he warmed up with stretching his shoulders.

"Gah..." He released them a locked position. "Now that was a nice little warm up..."

As he walked outside, he was trying to think of someone who could help out his newly discovered nephew to train with.

But more importantly, what was all this newly discovered Saiyan energy... And why did it sense so different.

"Eh, now's not the time to worry about it..." Goku shook his head and flew off to see if he could find a fellow fighter able to train Rohk.

Two Hours Later

"Uh... you sure this is where Goku asked to meet me?" Rohk asked Gohan as he surveyed around the desert like area.

Gohan nodded. "Yeah, this is it... And I think I should know. I was trained here before too."

Rohk raised an eyebrow. "So... does that mean you know who he's getting to train me?"

Gohan laughed. "If I told you now, that'd spoil the surprise!"

At that moment, they both heard a loud crack in the normal desert winds. They both turned their heads and squinted into the sunlight.

"Looks like they're here..." Rohk spoke first.

"Hey you two!" Goku waved as he landed. "Okay, Rohk, I think I found the perfect mentor for you."

Rohk looked at him in somewhat of a surprise. "Uh... is he sick? He looks a little pale..."

"Nah, this is how I always look." The stranger pulled back his white cloth head covering to unveil a green skin tone.

"Rohk, I'd like you to meet Piccolo." Goku pointed to Piccolo. "He's going to be the one who trains you..."

"This is what I'm training?" Piccolo examined Rohk from a slight distance. "I gotta say that I got my work cut out for me..."

"But who else better to get the job done?" Goku joked. "Besides, the Piccolo I know only works even harder the more impossible the task is."

"True." Piccolo laughed back. "Which is why I'm training him and not you?"

"Well, we're going now." Goku turned to Rohk. "Sorry, we can't stick around, but Chi Chi's pretty adamant about getting Gohan into college lately..."

Gohan hung his head. "Yeah, she's actually making me read textbooks before I can eat..."

As they left Rohk and Piccolo stood still for a few seconds just staring at each other. The only noise was made by the desert wind between them.

"So..." Rohk broke the silence. "When do we start training?"

"Get one thing straight right now." Piccolo turned his back to Rohk. "I'm the mentor, you're the pupil, got that?"

"Uh... I gue--"

"And as the mentor, you do what I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you." He still didn't look at Rohk.

"No proble--"

"Let me ask you a question. And answer this in one word." Piccolo turned to the Saiyan trainee.

"Sure?" Rohk shrugged.

"Are you willing to train your hardest? With everything you have? Even to your body's utmost breaking point? And then go beyond?" Piccolo said with his face dead serious.

Rohk nodded his head in seriousness as well. "Yes."

Piccolo smirked. "Good... Then shall we begin?"

In a blinding flash, Piccolo threw off the white robe to reveal his purple battle uniform. And possibly in that selfsame second engaged Rohk.

Totally stunned, Rohk had no time to react to Piccolo's kick directly into his left shoulder.

"Ugh..." Rohk's feet sunk a little into the sand. Before he could catch enough of his bearings, Piccolo threw another kick, but into his other shoulder.

The second one knocked Rohk flat on his back. Before he could get up, Piccolo had his foot pressing Rohk's chest into the sand.

"Hey! No fair!" Rohk growled at the Namekian. "You didn't tell me you were starting!"

Piccolo removed his foot and held out his hand to Rohk. "That's lesson number one."

Rohk rubbed his sore shoulders once he recovered to his feet. "What is?"

"That no matter who is your opponent or not, you must always be on guard. It only takes one second of hesitation to lose your life."

"But you could've have just gone easy on me--" He whined.

Piccolo whirled around and stopped the back of his fist about 1/2 of an inch from Rohk's face.

"I could..." He smirked. "But I'm not trying to kill you am I? If I was, you'd have been stone cold right now."

Rohk was upset at the ambush, but he understood. If Vegeta or Piccolo did try to kill him, he wouldn't have been standing there.

And that's what he was there to do now. Get stronger.

"Alright." Piccolo positioned himself around 10 feet across from Rohk. "Now we start with what you do know already..."

Rohk ignored the now dull ache of his shoulders. "Like what?"

"Go ahead, come at me with your best shots..." Piccolo smacked his abdomen area. "Hit me with your best punch."

"Are you sure? Cause I don't wanna accidentally hurt you or anyth--" Rohk asked.

"I didn't say whine like a girl!" Piccolo shouted. "I said 'punch me'!"

Rohk hesitated for a second, then dashed full speed at Piccolo and threw all his might into his stomach.

It was a brief moment of silence, but was succeeded by Rohk holding his hand and jumping in agony.

"Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!" He shook his hand off, which felt like it was pretty much broken.

Piccolo exhaled a bit and stood up straight, "Not bad, but you drew all your power from your hand, not your body."

Rohk still shook his hand mildly. "But I did put my weight into it..."

"You see this stone over here?" Piccolo pointed to a rather large nearby rock jutting from the sand. "This thing's bigger than my fist is it not?"

"Yeah." Rohk stood up straight once again. "It looks like it's 10 times bigger than you even."

"That's where you're wrong, kid." Piccolo gave off a smirk. "It's only bigger if I let it be bigger... HAA!"

With a single blow from his fist, he shattered the rock into virtual dust. "See what I mean?"

Rohk's face was paled. "But... but there's no way! That's just to big to be broken in one blow!"

"Again, you're wrong..." Piccolo cracked his knuckle. "But then again, that's why I'm here now isn't it?"

That's pretty much how training went for Rohk for the next few weeks. Over the course of that time, he grew a little stronger each day.

In fact, when Piccolo decided the time was right, he taught Rohk the special ability known as "Masenko".

It took Rohk a great deal of time to be able to control it, but after a few days, he began to get the hang of it.

Then, to Rohk's surprise, Piccolo decided the young Saiyan was ready to put his skills to the test and spar.

But instead of private one-on-one training, Piccolo decided to bring a few 'spectators' with him. They included Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan. And two other people Rohk hadn't met before.

One was a guy named Yamcha, the other was a girl who came along with Gohan. Her name was Videl.

"You think you're up for a real sparring against someone?" Goku asked him.

Rohk laughed nervously. "As long as it's not you I think I am..."

"Don't sweat it... He's human... I think he's around your fighting class too." Piccolo smirked.

"So this is the Saiyan you were telling me about, Goku?" Yamcha asked him.

"Yup." Goku smiled. "And from what he tells me, he's my nephew... And he's gotten a lot stronger since he first got here."

"Heh, I'm just glad I'm not the one fighting him... I'm not exactly in the same weight class as you Saiyans..." Yamcha laughed.

"That's a shame then..." Vegeta scoffed at Yamcha. "Because from what I hear, you're the one he's fighting with."

Yamcha swallowed a little hard. "Me! But... I'm not so sure that's a good idea... Because I uh--"

"Aw, c'mon!" Goku smacked Yamcha on his shoulder. "It'll be a great experience for both of you!"

"Guh... Okay.." Yamcha walked out onto the grass field.

Piccolo stood in between the two of them. "I'm going to referee this. I want a clean fight, and when I say it's over, you both stop, got it?"

The two of them nodded and shook hands. "Alright, begin!"

Yamcha made the first move, he shot a few kicks at his Saiyan opponent. But they were countered by Rohk's own kicks.

"Wow..." Rohk got his balance back. "You're strong." He threw several punches at Yamcha's chest, but Yamcha defended just as well as Rohk did.

But each was finished with little tap and goes, so they decided to attack each other at their full force.

They hit each other with an extremely fast flurry of poundings and blocking as best as each could at those speeds.

After about 30 seconds of this, they both broke off attacking for a few seconds. They were too evenly matched, they could beat the other like that.

Rohk decided to take flight, thinking it would give him an advantage over the human Yamcha.

"That's the best you got?" Yamcha smirked and thought to himself. "Guess it's time for a rude awakening then..."

Yamcha dashed into the air right after Rohk and each began to circle each other. "You weren't counting on me being able to fly now were ya?"

"No I wasn't..." Rohk growled in disappointment. "I didn't think humans could fly."

"Well, I can..." Yamcha built his ki into his hands. "And here's something else we humans can do!"

Yamcha threw a barrage of ki blasts at Rohk. Unfortunately, Rohk wasn't expecting a human being able to throw ki either.

He took the pounding of each one. Once they connected with him, his body was concealed in the smoke left from the ki explosion.

"Ouch..." Gohan mused from on the ground. "That looks like it hurt..."

"I don't see how training helped this kid, Kakarot." Vegeta thought out loud. "I can't believe you dragged me over here just to see this... It's a waste of my time."

"Don't think he's finished just yet, Vegeta." Goku waved his finger in the air. "He's still got a lot more fight in him."

Back up in the air, the stunned Saiyan threw his arms back and threw his own ki from within the smoke cloud.

"Whu--? whoa!" Yamcha was almost as surprised as Rohk had been, but he managed to evade a few of them. The rest collided into his body.

Once the smoke cleared, those watching realized that Yamcha and Rohk were once again engaged in close up combat. But this time in mid air.

"Oh, no..." Piccolo to himself as he saw them fighting. "He doesn't know how to fight while he's in midair yet!"

Which was indeed the case. Yamcha clearly had the advantage in the air. Instead of them hitting each other equally, Yamcha was landing every other blow on Rohk.

Still, the Saiyan didn't just give up. He tried to pull it together and took up a solely defense style. Attempting to just block and not throw shots at him.

But that tactic was useless. Yamcha landed a powerful strike from his right leg into the side of Rohk's head.

He was sent flying into the ground below, but was able to bound back up and land. Awkwardly harsh, but he landed.

"Wow, Yamcha's gotten pretty good hasn't he?" Videl asked Gohan.

"You bet." He mentioned glancing over at her and then back at the fight. "But this guy seems like he could put up a better fight."

"Why isn't he then?" Videl was puzzled. "He's getting it handed to him."

"He's not using all his power..." Vegeta thought to himself. "What's he waiting for?"

"Ghn..." Rohk wiped blood from his lip as he stood up. "Alright then... Time to take it up a notch..."

Rohk slowly raised his hands above his head and began to concentrate his ki just like Piccolo showed him.

"Maaa...sen...kooo..." He threw his hands in front of him and unleashed it at his full power. "HAAAA!"

Yamcha was taken by suprise and had no time to react defensively. "Oh crud!"

He was pummeled near full force by the blast and he too was thrown to the floor by the impact.

Both fighters were exhausted by now. Each of them were not only straining to stand up, but both were also quite short of breath.

Piccolo decided they'd both reached their limits. "Alright, that's a good workout you two." He flew down and stepped in front of them.

Yamcha slowly walked up to Rohk and held out his hand. "Good... fight, kid."

Rohk was wary at first, but then shook Yamcha's hand back. "You too… old timer."

"What!" Yamcha was offended. "But-- but I'm not tha—"

By now Goku, Gohan, and Videl had already made their way to the two fighters to check up on them. Goku helped Yamcha while the other two saw to Rohk.

"Hey, you did pretty well, cuz." Gohan helped Rohk stand up straight. "You need a hand getting back to Vegeta's?"

"Aheh..." Rohk laughed and coughed. "I think I can make it on my own..."

"Wait, Gohan?" Videl nudged him.

"Something wrong, Videl?" Gohan leaned over to her.

"We can't just let him fly back alone. Let's at least fly with him... What if something happens?"

"Yeah... Good point." Gohan thought it out first, and then the three of them took off.

"Hey, Piccolo, you sure did a good job training him." Goku said amused. "He's gotten a lot stronger."

"He's making progress very quickly…" Piccolo noted. "He wants to learn and that helps."

"Yes, but he's still far from his full potential." Vegeta noted.

"That reminds me," Goku turned back to Piccolo. "Has anything weird happened lately with him?"

Piccolo raised an eyebrow. "No. But why do you ask?"

"No reason really…" Goku paused. "But those weird Saiyan energies seem to be getting more frequent… It's been bugging me."

"Well, I can assure you it's not from him." Piccolo noted. "I'd have sensed it."

Suddenly, Vegeta head raised rather quickly and he looked around. "Huh… wha-- what was that?"

"What's wrong, Vegeta?" They both asked.

"Piccolo, I think you'd best get Yamcha home…" He turned with an eerie twinkle in his eye. "Kakarot and I have some hunting to do…"

Vegeta's house about the same time

Once they arrived at the Vegeta's, Rohk went straight to the extra room he was staying in to take a nap before anything else.

Bulma was on the sofa holding baby Pan and watching Goten and Trunks playing a new video game that had recently come out.

"Oh hey, Bulma." Gohan waved at her as they walked into the living room. "Hey, where'd my mom go?"

"Yeah, your baby seems to be going through her diapers relatively quickly, so your mom went to go buy some more..." Bulma handed Pan over to her awaiting mother Videl.

"I take it he had a sparring match today?" Bulma asked Gohan and Videl.

"Yup." Videl nodded. "Against that Yamcha guy."

Bulma got a sneaky smile on her face. "Oh that poor... poor Yamcha... I wonder who's idea it was to have him spar in the first place?"

Gohan took a step back from her. "Remind me not to get on her bad side..." He thought to himself.

"Hey, Gohan's girlfreind!" Trunks shouted at Videl. "You two wanna play with us?"

Goten nudged Trunks, "Hey, they got married remember?"

Gohan walked over to them, "Well, she might be busy right now, but I'm free. So what game is this?"

Goten returned to playing Trunks and talking at the same time. "It's called Budokai 3... It's got some neat looking fighters and killer graphics."

"Yeah, they even made a character in this game from that Great Saiyaman guy..." Trunks shot a funny look over at Goten. "And that's the only character Goten over there keeps using..."

"Hey, Great Saiyaman kicks butt!" Goten shouted.

"No he doesn't! He stinks!" Trunks fired back.

Within a few seconds, it had gotten into one of those "does not-does to" matches and the two were soon tussling around with the controllers on the floor.

"Hey! Knock it off the both of you!" Bulma shouted as she yanked them apart.

"Now look what you did! You unplugged it!" Trunks pointed to the TV which was now showing the news.

"Hm?" Gohan looked surprised at the TV. "What's going on there?"

On the television, it showed a helicopter news crew above Hercule City. The lady was reporting something about an explosion and a fire near the street level.

"… We still haven't been able to confirm yet," the reporter said as best she could over the helicopter engine.

"But so far witnesses have told us three men in their late teens somehow manage to break into the chemical storage facility only a few minutes ago--"

She was interrupted by a bright flash and another explosion on the ground level.

"Oh, no…" Gohan mumbled to himself.

"What's wrong Gohan?" Bulma asked concerned. "You don't look so good."

Gohan looked over at Trunks and Goten and decided he'd better not say anything in front of them. He motioned for the two women to leave the room with him.

Once they were out of earshot, he told them. "That blast energy… It's Saiyan energy."

"Wha-- what does that mean then?" Bulma asked concerned.

"It means Vegeta was right all this time." Gohan's faced sterned. "There's other Saiyans alright… And now they're attacking cities!"

"Then we have to try and stop them!" Videl handed Pan over to Bulma and began to run off.

"Wait, Videl!" Gohan chased her down. "It's too dangerous! Besides, I'm not so sure we should leave Bulma and Pan here with that Rohk guy."

"Huh?" Videl looked surprised. "But I thought you said he wasn't a bad guy or anything…"

Gohan's face was solemn. "Right now, I'm not sure what to believe…"

"It's ok," Bulma told them. "I've got the two boys here to look after me, you two just go stop them!"

"Alright then." Gohan looked over at Videl and smirked. "I think it's time we introduce these guys to my good buddy Great Saiyaman…"

Next Chapter: The Saiyan's Clash