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Chapter 6: Tien Time!

The figures in the clearing below looked up; one of them towards the small building that Tien was hiding on top of. Tien had ducked below the wall he was looking over with his back turned, head tilted up towards the side trying to listen to see if he was exposed.

'Damn! Did they hear me?' he thought quietly to himself. After about half a minute he heard them speak.

"What was that"

"I don't know"

"I didn't hear anything"

"Well I did,"

"It was probably a wild or domestic animal, native to this realm. Nothing to worry about"

Tien raised his head back over the low wall after hearing this to see they had all turned back into their little circle to continue their discussion. Though the sky was dark and starry, he could see well enough mostly due to the understanding of light and sight perception of his psychic eye. They were about 4 feet tall and each wore a long black cloak, completely hiding their features, but Tien could tell they looked somewhat humanoid, though he doubted they were actually human.

"Did you acquire what else is to be sought for?" asked the figure who placed the Dragon Ball back into his cloak.

"No" replied the rest in unison, "We have a pretty good idea of where to find it, but it seems heavily guarded" replied the one closest to Tien. 'What the hell are they talking about?' he thought.

"We need this 'locater'" said the one wielding the magical ball, "It is supposed to make finding the rest of the wishing spheres easier". 'Wishing sphere?' thought Tien, 'He must mean the dragon ball, and he must know it grants wishes. But if experience serves me correct, I bet he's up to no good.'

"We should be able to infiltrate any area. The native race of this planetary plane is nothing threatening."

"No" said another, "While out scouting, I've seen a fight between two of the natives. They appeared to be much stronger than the average native. Maybe even stronger than our own forces."

'Great, there's more of these guys' Tien thought. 'But we should have noticed them if it were an invasion like the other aliens. Or at least sensed something'

"Well, we've known that for awhile, but what does that have to do with the place of reference?"

"The one who fought is the one who resides at the place of reference"

"Oh.."

Tien ducked back behind the low wall, 'Damn, this sounds serious. I better contact Chiaotzu and tell him to get over here. I could use his help.' Tien then closed his two eyes while the third opened up a little more and began to telepathically reach out to Chiaotzu. Chiaotzu was back at the house with Lunch, who'd since then transformed into Launch who attacked Chiaotzu, when he was contacted by his friend.

'Chiaotzu'

The little emperor sat up. 'Tien, is that you'

'Yes, its me my friend. Look, there's something weird going on and I don't have time to explain. But I has something to do with the dragonballs. I need you to go to capsule corp. and get the dragon radar from Bulma. If she asks, tell her someone is looking for the dragonballs and we need to find and hold on to at least one of them, okay?'

'Okay Tien. But are you going to be okay?'

'Yes, I'll be fine. They don't really seem all that powerful. Though I'll try to not influence an encounter right now'

'Okay, I'm leaving to capsule corp. then.'

'Good. Be safe my friend.'

Tien opened his eyes and relinquished his telepathic link and peeked over the low wall again. The three of them were still there talking. He was trying to listen in on what they were saying when he realized something.

'Wait. Three? I could've sworn there were four of them-' Tien was jerked out of his thoughts as a figure grabbed his head from behind, covering his mouth and jerking his head back to expose his neck. The figure then extended his other hand, which held a very large dagger, from his cloak and lunged it at Tien's throat in an attempt to slice it open. However, Tien caught his attacker's wrist with his left hand, preventing the dagger from cutting him open; then he hit the figure in the gut with his right elbow, stunning the attacker. This gave Tien enough time to grab and flip his assailant over his shoulder, across the wall, and into the pavement below.

The other three figures looked up as the fourth landed with a loud thud before flipping back up to his feet. Tien jumped off the building, knocking the figure back to the ground with a kick in the face before landing himself. The assaulted figure fell backwards, landing headfirst, making a indented crack first on the hard pavement; he didn't move after that. Tien looked up at the other three figures who were spreading out and getting into attack positions.

"So much for not fighting" he said as he powered up and lunged himself at the closet figure; the one wielding the dragonball.

Chiaotzu flew swiftly and as quickly as he could over the city without summoning his aura. He reached Capsule Corp. and landed, or not really landed, as he just stop flying and began hovering a few feet off of the ground. He hovered over and telepathically knocked on the door, (if that's possible, I guess Chiaotzu would be able to do something like that). Vegeta opened the door, much to Chiaotzu's dismay. He looked over Chiaotzu.

"I'm not in the mood for company, go home!" he said, and shut the door in Chiaotzu's face. Chiaotzu blinked and opened the door telepathically and floated on inside.

"Clown boy!" Vegeta roared, "What did I just say!?"

"Oh hush!" yelled Bulma. She looked at Chiaotzu, "Oh, hello Chiaotzu! What brings you here?"

"I need the dragon radar" Chiaotzu replied.

"Why?"

Chiaotzu then proceeded to tell Bulma about the dragonballs. Mirai, who'd came downstairs, stopped his trek to the kitchen to listen in. Even Vegeta moved in a little closer to hear.

Tien blocked the incoming kick, grabbed the kickers foot, and swung the owner of that foot into the nearest tree. He'd been fighting them off pretty well for about 5 minutes. Though they all had risen their energy levels to about the same as his own base level, he was still very much in control. He dodge a rather large ki blast from one of the figures and evaded a punch from another one. The third figure, who had somehow gotten up after flying straight through an oak tree, lunged at him again only to be punched to the ground by Tien, where he slid next to the fourth figure who had not yet risen from the pavement to which he was planted earlier.

The other two charged at Tien, both throwing power punches which Tien caught easily. He tightened his grip, crushing their fists and flung the one pinned in his right hand into a nearby building, cracking the wall before he slumped to the floor. The other he lifted up in the air and flung into the ground creating a small indent in the pavement. The figure raised his hand towards Tien, charging up a ki blast; but Tien stomped his palm deep into the ground before stepping on his head, crushing his skull. He then reached into the figures cloak pocket and pulled out the three star ball.

"Well, that didn't go too bad", Tien said. Just then he heard clapping sounds from behind him. He turned to see another figure cloaked in darkness leaning against a tree.

"Yes, that was impressive" the figure said. Just then Tien noticed the figure was behind him again. He also noticed that he didn't have the dragonball anymore. He looked behind him to find the figure removing his hood to look at the dragonball more closely. He would have looked like a normal human except for his skin had a light blue tint. He was also taller than the others, about Tien's height. He had long white hair that draped across the back and sides of his head but cleared the front of his face He also had a black marking on either sides of his face between his eyes and ears; some kind of insignia, an 'X' on top of what looked like some kind of bird. Other than that he had mostly human features.

"What do you want with that?" Tien asked, referring to the dragonball.

"None of your business" came the stoic reply. Tien scowled, he could tell he didn't like this guy already.

"Who are you and want do you want with the dragonballs?" Tien said again, a little bit louder this time.

The mysterious person looked over the dragonball with new interest, "So this is a dragonball then? I thought maybe those conscripts screwed up again. I've never actually seen a dragonball before, so I wouldn't know. But you've confirmed it for me. I thank you." He said, "As for your questions, you probably won't be alive long enough for the answer to really matter, but since you've confirmed the dragonball for me I'll tell you; my name is Elsheik, and even I don't know what this thing is for, I'm just supposed to bring it back. It is supposed to grant wishes, though I don't believe that,"

"I'm sorry, but I can't let you have that" Tien said. "So If you'd just give it back, then we won't have any trouble here."

"But I want trouble" Elsheik replied. Tien heard the answer from behind him yet again and turned around, 'Damn, how does he do that?' Elsheik was holding the dragonball when he put it into a pocket under his cloak, he then turned around and appeared right infront of Tien, punching the three eyed warrior in the gut. Tien kneeled over, but he kneeled right into Elsheik's knee, causing him to be launched ten feet into the air. Elsheik then pulled off his cloak, throwing it into the wind to reveal a dark blue fighting pants with a white and dark blue gi shirt. He jumped into the air, a few feet above Tien, and began to glow light blue. He then began attacking Tien, moving around at very high speed. Tien's body jerked but his attacker could not be seen.

Suddenly Elsheik appeared on the ground walking away from Tien and holding a small dagger flashed a bright blue and disappeared. Tien hit the floor hard, his shirt had been cut up and sliced to pieces, barely hanging on his body. But he wasn't done, not yet atleast. He picked himself up and charged his ki. Elsheik stopped and turned around. Tien punched him right in the face as soon as he did; following up with an uppercut then a knee to the gut. Elsheik stumbled backwards, stunned. Tien charged at him again, unleashing a flurried combination of attacks, most of which were blocked.

Tien threw a hard right that was caught by Elsheik, who twisted Tien's wrist before flinging him over his shoulder and launching a large Ki blast at the Z-fighter. Tien caught himself and the blast, throwing it back at its creator who was hit full force and engulfed in blaze and smoke. Tien then focused his mind and split his person into four separate beings. When the smoke cleared Elsheik looked up to see Tien charging right at him, he caught the punch that was thrown at him but was hit in the back of the head with a kick. He turned to see… another Tien? Elsheik had a confused look on his face, but it was soon replaced with Tien's fist. Elsheik was knocked back and tumbled into a tree.

'I have to get my hands on that dragonball and get this over with, I'm almost out of energy' he thought. When Elsheik got back up, two of the Tien's grabbed him from either sides of his body and locked his arms behind his back.

"What the- Let me go!" roared the Blue tinted warrior. A third Tien appeared infront of them, reached into Elsheik's pocket and grabbed the dragonball.

"NO!!" yelled Elsheik, who began struggling wildly. A fourth Tien flipped over the other two Tien's and Elsheik and landed infront of them, his arm extended outward and hand positioned like that of an imaginary pistol.

"Dodon Ray!!" He shouted as a thinly compressed, ki blast streaked from his index finger into Elsheik's chest, in-between the other two Tien's who promptly let go. Elsheik was sent flying backwards twenty feet into the ground. He furrowed his white brows and opened his eyes and looked up at the Tien's as they merged back into one. Tien briefly considered finishing him off with the Tri-Beam, but he didn't think he had the energy for it. He then looked down and checked his body. There were laceration wounds all across his arms and chest, he even had a couple of cuts on his face.

"D-damn, you-…"

He then looked up to find his foe had drifted into an unconscious state. So he turned and flew into the sky, charging his Ki aura and flying full speed to Capsule corp.

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