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Dragon Ball Kai

Chapter 5

Two Months After

Training under Kami, the wise protector that looked identical to the old King Piccolo, was a lot different from what he was used to. Normally Goku would choose to train hard by sparring or by doing some sort of physically taxing activity, not with Kami though.

He and Mr. Popo, instead trained his mind. This meant hours of meditation and training in controlling his ki, which despite being boring, ended up teaching him how to fly which was great. Kami had also used some weird power to give him a new set of clothes. The boy now wore a white gi, a dark blue belt as well as weighted blue wristbands and shoes. Finishing off his new uniform were the twin symbols of Kami, a small one on the front and a large one on the back.

Besides training, the protector of the Earth had restored power to the Dragon Balls and with them working again his friends had been wished back to life. Even though he wasn't allowed to go see them he was glad that they were safe and sound.

Goku discarded his thoughts when he approached Kami at the edge of his lookout which was well above any structure, even Korin's Tower. What puzzled the boy was that his new master could actually see a lot of things from there.

"Something has been brought to my attention," the old protector said in a somber tone as he looked down at the world, "A small pod has crashed in the middle of a forest."

The boy looked down as well, trying to see anything but clouds or the green land beneath them. Again, he saw nothing. How did Kami do it?

"I want you to find it and make sure it isn't a threat."

Goku grinned at those words. This would be the first time in two months that he would leave the lookout. Sure he couldn't go wherever he wanted, but he missed the world below.

"I shouldn't have to tell you this but..." Kami said once seeing the eager look on his pupil's eye, "Don't take too long. Your training is not over yet."

"No problem!"

With those words, Goku jumped off Kami's Lookout and dove down the sky.

"Has the boy gone?" Mr. Popo phrased in a question, though it was more of a statement.

Kami looked towards the descending boy with a serious expression, "Yes. I hope I didn't make the wrong choice in sending him. Whatever is in that pod has to be connected to him, and I don't plan to rob him of any chance to find out where he came from."


Covered by a white aura, Goku flew through the skies with a big smile on his face. Kami had given him the location of the place he was supposed to go to telepathically. Painting a picture of where he was going was so much easier than using a map.

As he continued to fly, enjoying the feeling of rushing through the air, he spotted a large yellow airplane flying up ahead.

"I wonder who that is," he muttered to himself. Being in the middle of a sea of trees, this really didn't seem like the place for anyone to be flying at.

Intrigued, he rushed to the front of the ship and peeked inside, finding very familiar faces with looks of surprise.

"Goku!"

"Bulma!" Goku beamed when he saw it wasn't just her but Krillin, Tien, Chiatzu, and Yamcha as well. He moved closer to the glass, "Hey guys!"

"Move you idiot!" Bulma exclaimed when her view was blocked by a very exited boy.

Yamcha opened a door on the side of the ship, giving Goku time to slip in with a wide smile.

"Hey Krillin," he approached his friend first, it was so great to see him filled with life again.

"Goku," Krillin laughed before slinging an arm around his friend's shoulders, "I didn't get a chance to say it before but thank you for bringing me back."

"So what are you doing here Goku?" Tien asked from his spot at the back of the ship.

Goku turned to Tien with a grin, "I'm looking for a pod that crashed somewhere."

Bulma turned back at his words, "You saw it too? We're going to go check it out as well. A lot of people saw it on the city so we decided to ditch the party we threw these guys and check it out."

"Let's go look for it together," Yamcha said, "It's been a while since all of us have been together."

"Sounds good," Tien responded before turning to Goku, "I want to see how much stronger you've gotten too."

The boy smiled. Now that he was able to sense ki, he could tell that his friends had gotten stronger as well, "I want to see how much stronger you guys are too."

"Me too," Krillin broke in, "You beat that King Piccolo that even Master Roshi couldn't beat, you have to be super strong now."

Turning away from the happy group, Bulma continued to pilot the plane with a smile. It was truly the best when they were all together.


"There it is!" Bulma was the first to point out a crater up ahead, making the group stop their conversations and look out the windshield.

"Whoa..." Krillin let out when seeing the destruction the pod had caused.

Goku grinned and opened the door of the plane before jumping out. He could hear Bulma screaming at him to not do that, but he simply laughed and moved towards the pod, followed by Tien and Chiatzu who had also decided to fly out of the ship.

The three landed on the ground not too far from the crater and waited for everyone to catch up. Soon enough the group of complete and they all walked to the crater, finding a smoking white pod at the center of it all.

"Hang on guys let's not – hey!" Bulma yelped when seeing Goku step closer to the ship, "Don't just walk up to it!"

The boy looked at the small pod oddly and tapped its surface with a finger, causing it to rock and emit a bunch of lights and sounds. Taking a couple of steps backwards, he watched the thing curiously as did the others from behind him.

The pod made a final beep and produced a red flash.

"It looks like some sort of scanner," Bulma pointed out as she watched the red light flash across the area slowly, "Is this some kind of information-gathering alien ship?"

Once the pod finished its scan, it began to open slowly to reveal a slick black metal figure. It emerged from the small ship and stood on two thin gray legs as it's equally thin arms twisted and turned until two clawed metal hands appeared.

"Whoa. Is that some sort of monster?" Goku let out in amazement.

"Whatever it is, it doesn't look friendly," Yamcha pointed out a bit nervously.

"Foreign Power Levels detected. Extermination Mode engaged."

With a series of beeps and red flashes coming from the large circular red glass on the thing's head, the robot shot towards Yamcha and landed a powerful punch that sent him hurling through the air.

"Yamcha!" Goku yelled before angrily turning towards the robot.

Tien rushed at the metal figure and threw a punch but the thing flickered out of view and delivered a kick to his stomach. He doubled over in pain before he was sent through the air by a punch. As the robot turned to the other Power Levels, it quickly blocked a punch and a kick from Goku and Krillin. The thing gripped down on them before dropping its hold on Goku and kicking Krillin away.

"You'll pay for that!" Goku screamed and rushed at the robot but it flickered out of view and closed in on Bulma, completely ignoring him.

As the robot approached a terrified Bulma, it was forced to stop and block an incoming strike from Yamcha. The attacks didn't stop there however as Tien and Krillin soon joined in and began to attack the enemy together.

Goku stood on the sidelines before joining in the attack. The instance he did, the robot jumped away and pointed its hands at the four of them to release a barrage of ki blasts. They all put out their hands in front of them however the attacks were not aimed at Goku, but at the others. For some reason it looked like the thing was trying to avoid hitting him.

The boy took advantage of this and closed in on the robot that instantly halted its attacks to dodge the incoming attacker and rush towards the targets. Goku was ready however, and used his tail to latch onto the robot's leg and swing himself to its front and deliver a punch that sent it crashing to the ground.

"Nice one Goku," Yamcha grinned when seeing the boy land on the ground.

"Non-target interfering with extermination. Treason! Treason! Treason!"

"W-what's wrong with that thing?" Krillin backed away in fear as the robot's red glass lit up.

"Saiyan Kakarot. Traitor. Must be terminated."

The robot seized its flashing and zoned in on Goku in the blink of an eye, the boy could do nothing as he was knocked away by a kick and crashed against a tree. Before the robot could continue its attack, Yamcha, Krillin, and Tien let loose a barrage of punches and kicks that the thing blocked with deathly precision. Their struggle came to an end when the robot knocked one of Krillin's punches, grabbed his arm, and flung him against the other two, knocking them back a couple of feet.

With the space, the robot moved to attack but received a kick on the back by Goku, making it stumble forward, before receiving a flurry of attacks from Krillin, Yamcha, and Tien who instantly got up to help their friend. The attack ended when the four of them attacked at the same time, making the robot fly through the air and crash against a nearby hill.

"Did we do it?" Yamcha asked but received his answer when the robot came out of the rubble with its hands pointed at them, "Guess not."

As the robot let loose a barrage of ki blasts, the four were forced to dodge and block any coming their way. Luckily they were not too strong, probably seeking to break their guard and not kill, but the relief didn't last as the blasts became more and more powerful until they were forced to jump away while Chiatzu, who stayed behind to protect Bulma, picked her up and jumped as well to avoid a large blast that caused another large crater in the area.

Goku, Tien, and Chiatzu floated in the air with equally troubled expressions. With the way things were going, it didn't look like they were going to win even with their advantage in numbers.

"I'll have to get serious," Goku stated as he took off his wristbands and shoes, both crashing on the ground below with loud thuds, before charging in at the robot at a fast speed that took everyone by surprise.

Even the robot did not calculate the sudden change in power, and was not able to react on time to dodge a powerful punch that sent it hurling through the air. But the boy was not done and followed after the metal fighter to deliver a flurry of punches and kicks that ended when he used both hands to knock the thing down.

"He's even faster than he was against King Piccolo," Tien pointed out in amazement.

Goku stayed in the air with a frown, eyes not leaving the robot that flew out of the sea of trees much faster than before. The boy barely managed to block a punch and was instantly on the defensive when the robot let loose a barrage of punches and kicks that were much faster than before. Fortunately its attack was halted when Yamcha fired a ki blast at it, which pushed it away to receive a twin Dodon Ray from Tiena and Chiatzu.

A large cloud of smoke covered the robot, but the fighters had no time to rest as the robot was upon Tien and Chiatzu in the blink of an eye. The two tried to block the attacks but were overpowered easily and sent crashing to the ground.

Only Goku left in the air with the robot, he put up a defensive stance as the metal fighter closed in on him but was forced to stop when twin blasts came from below, courtesy of Krillin and Yamcha. Seeing their attack as well as Tien and Chiatzu's earlier one, gave him an idea though it wouldn't be easy to pull off.

Taking advantage of the robot being distracted by Yamcha and Krillin's attacks, the boy landed next to them with a weary expression, "We should hit it with our all at once."

"We can't," Krillin responded in panic, "It's not like the robot is just going to stand there without moving."

Goku grinned at that, "Don't worry about that. Just wait for my signal."

With that he flew off, leaving Krillin and Yamcha very confused as they continued to blast at the metal fighter.

Goku moved to where Tien and Chiatzu crashed quickly, it wouldn't be long until the robot stopped dodging and decided to attack. Once he saw them, not looking too hurt, he descended.

"Chiatzu, could you do that thing you did at the tournament?"

"Hm? What do you mean?" Chiatzu asked in confusion.

Tien seemed to understand and grinned, "He's saying you should immobilize the robot, right?"

"Yeah," Goku smiled, "That way we can hit it with all we've got! Just buy us enough time to prepare our attacks."

Chiatzu seemed unsure, but after an affirmative nod from Tien, he decided that he should give it a try. The three of them flew towards the robot and found it already exchanging blows with Krillin and Yamcha, who were having a lot of trouble. Their scuffle ended when Krillin and Yamcha jumped away to put space between them and the robot.

No words were needed as Chiatzu quickly used his power to hold the robot in place while the others began to charge up their attacks.

"Dodon..."

"Kamehame..."

"RAY!"

"HAAAAAA!"

Goku, Tien, Krillin, and Yamcha unleashed their attacks at the same time, all of them direct hits on the immobilized robot. A massive cloud of debris kicked up in the area as the shock wave of the blast knocked down the hiding Bulma.

"Error... Error..." As the smoke cleared up, only the head of the robot remained, red glass flashing rapidly, "E...rro..r."

The red light gave out and the fighters smiled. While the robot had been much stronger than they had first thought, they managed to beat it before it could do real damage.


"WHAT?!" A Saiyan researcher stood upright from his chair in shock.

"What's the matter?" Asked a fellow researcher.

"One of our Recon Bots has been destroyed!"

A collective gasp of shock sounded in the dark room as the researcher pinpointed the place where the robot had been destroyed.

"It was destroyed on a small planet..." Digging further into the information about the planet he came to a curious revelation, "It's the planet where Bardock's youngest son was sent."

One of the researchers rubbed his black beard, "Bardock huh? That explains it, if it's his brat then he's bound to be the needlessly violent type."

Not convinced, the researcher that had found the information thought it over silently until he came to a decision. King Vegeta had been looking for a weak planet recently, maybe he could make use of this development.

"I'll be leaving," he announced. First he would go to King Vegeta and tell him of this weak planet, then he would find Bardock and tell him about what happened.


Bardock was beyond pissed.

All because of the idiots at the Research Center, he had to travel all the way to some tiny remote planet to search for his son along with his family. It was a Saiyan custom for the whole family to visit a family member's planet if there were some problems during their very first purge. That wasn't so bad, Gine had wanted to see their son, and Raditz would have someone to spar with; what really pissed him off was the fact that he had two unwanted pests coming along.

Princess Mara, the youngest child of King Vegeta was to come with them for some reason. Of course, as it was custom with the spawns of the king, their bumbling idiot bodyguard, Nappa, came along as well.

Bardock clicked his tongue as he entered his Space Pod. He could already feel a headache begin to form.


Power Levels:

Goku (Weighted Clothes) – 3,000

Goku – 13,500

Mr. Popo – 11,500

Kami – 13,000

Krillin – 7,000

Tien – 9,000

Yamcha – 7,500

Recon Bot - 17,000

Combined Attack – 20,000