Chapter 6

Vegeta and Nappa glided across the ocean at jet speed, and with great ease.

"Wahahaha! The gravity on this little rock is so low I feel almost weightless!" Nappa exclaimed as he flew through the clouds.

"We're getting close to the power levels now. They must be on that island ahead of us." Said Vegeta.

"Ah, it looks like a third power has joined them." Said Nappa, checking his scouter.

"And there are several more headed this way." Vegeta said, "Now how could they have known we were coming without scouters I wonder?"

"Maybe this planet isn't as primitive as we thought." Nappa suggested.

"Or maybe they have some other way of detecting energy that we don't know about." Said Vegeta.

Vegeta and Nappa approached the island's shore, and flew over its surrounding mountains. They then came upon the source of the three powers; a little kid, probably the son of Kakarott, a green alien that didn't look at all like an Earthling, and a bald midget.

"Tell me, have you been preparing for us?" Vegeta asked them with a smirk.

"How did you guess?" asked Piccolo sarcastically.

"Ah that voice…it was you who killed Raditz wasn't it?" said Vegeta to Piccolo, "We heard the transmissions on our scouters."

"Hey, that guy is Namekian, right?" asked Nappa.

"Looks like it," said Vegeta," I guess Raditz's death wasn't as dishonorable as we thought. Namekians can be quite the warriors."

Piccolo looked baffled." Namekian…" he pondered it in his mind.

"They say these Namekian gastropods posses magical powers as well." Said Vegeta, "It was you that made the dragonballs, wasn't it?"

"You know about the dragonballs?!" shouted Krillin.

"Why else would we bother with this dump? Hand them over!" commanded Nappa. "Bring all the Namekians you want, they're all just slugs to us!"

The three struck fighting stances.

"Well. If you don't tell us where the dragonballs are, we'll have to have beat it out of you. "said Vegeta, "Why don't we see what they can really do? Maybe they'll tell us about the dragonballs after the saibamen beat the information out of them."

"Heh-heh! Sure thing, Vegeta. That should be good for a laugh!" said Nappa as he pulled a small vial from his tights. He emptied its contents, six seeds, onto the ground, and poured a green substance over them. Within seconds the ground began to move, and strange green men came out from under ground.

"Those three are your targets." Said Vegeta.

Just then, Tien and Chaotzu flew down from the sky, and seconds later, Yamcha and Trunks finally made their way to the battlefield.

"Well well, if it isn't that boy I picked up a couple months back." Said Piccolo, "I see you've learned to fly since then. What you're doing here I may never know."

Trunks looked down, remembering the shame of appearing as a weakling when he first got to the past. He noticed Gohan look over at him and giggle a little.

"Hey, don't count this guy out." Said Yamcha, " He's a saiyan too you know!"

At this everyone froze and stared at Yamcha in disbelief.

You had to go and blurt it out Yamcha…

However, no one was as shocked to hear this as Nappa and Vegeta.

"A saiyan? Impossible! He must be bluffing." Said Nappa.

"Is this Kakarott?" asked Vegeta.

"Well, if you must know, his name is Trunks." Said Yamcha.

"And he's on our side?!" exclaimed Tien.

"It has to be Kakarott! Unless they're bluffing, which they probably are!" said Nappa to Vegeta.

"Well, Kakarott was Raditz's brother, and I think he's far too good-looking to be related to Raditz." Said Vegeta with a smirk. Trunks almost laughed at this.

If you only knew what you just said…

Trunks stared at his father, dressed in his saiyan armor, looking proud and cocky. At this point, he realized that he hadn't come with Yamcha to fight his father, but just to get a glimpse of his father, as a younger man.

"Alright then, saiyan, how about a duel with a saibaman, one on one. Unless, of course, you don't want to mess up that pretty little haircut of yours." Vegeta taunted.

"Um…alright then…" Trunks said nervously.

The saibaman lunged at Trunks with a punch. Trunks blocked it and returned a punch of his own, sending it flying back. But it regained its footing, and suddenly the top of its head opened up and acid squirted out. Trunks jumped out of the way, and Piccolo had to quickly pull Gohan away. The acid burned through the soil. Trunks took this chance to charge at the saibaman with his sword, and with a thrust he stabbed it in the gut.

"Huh? It can't be!" said Nappa.

"Hey, maybe this kid really is something." said Tien.

"Beaten by a simple weapon…how pathetic." Vegeta scoffed.

Trunks stood up and threw his sword in the air, letting it fall into its sheath by itself, a trick he picked up in his childhood.

"Impossible! That saibaman was as strong as Raditz!" exclaimed Nappa.

"Strength doesn't always win the battle." Said Vegeta.

The saibaman began getting to its feet, clutching its wound. But Vegeta stretched out his hand and pointed two fingers at it. It suddenly exploded. The seven fighters were stunned.

"But Vegeta…why?" asked Nappa.

"The kid already had him beat. It would have been a waste of time. I gave him and honorable death instead." Vegeta answered.

"Yeah, but…it was still alive…" Nappa lamented.

"Well who's next for a one on one battle? This time, hit them with everything, saibamen!" ordered Vegeta.

"I'll go." Said Yamcha. "Time to whipe the smiles off their ugly green faces."

The fight began. The two were moving so fast it was hard to see them. They struck each other rapidly, and the saibaman went in to grab Yamcha, but Yamcha evaded it and flew up, blasting it from above. It lied twitching in a crater. Yamcha flew down to the craters edge.

"Heh, these guys aren't so tough." Said Yamcha.

"That's what you think." Said Vegeta.

Suddenly the saibaman jumped out of the crater and grabbed Yamcha from behind. Before Yamcha could struggle free the saibaman self destructed, with a tremendous explosion. Trunks shielded his eyes, and then looked on in horror. Krillin rushed to his body, and the look on his face confirmed their fears. Yamcha was dead.

"Come on, next!" ordered Vegeta." Pick up your trash, little man. Lets get on with this."

"Settling for a draw, how pathetic." Said Nappa, as tears began to well up in Trunks' eyes.

How could you be so heartless, father?