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Chapter 5
"Hyaah!" yelled Yamacha as he kicked at Krillin as he came crashing down from the sky above. Krillin dodged the kick and then did a handspring to put some distance between him and his sparring partner. Yamacha kept up the attack and quickly closed the gap between him and Krillin. He then began delivering lightning fast blows in rapid succession. Krillin blocked all of the attacks, but Yamacha could tell the bald fighter was struggling to block every one of his blows. Yamacha put both hands together, cupping them, and then thrust them forward. The attack broke Krillin's guard and sent the bald fighter flying across the lookout.
"Ha, you can't block my famous Wolf Fang Fist attack!" boasted Yamacha as he grinned at his friend who had recovered from the attack and was now walking back towards Yamacha.
"Lucky shot," remarked Krillin as he approached Yamacha. Krillin looked over to where Upa was fighting Chi-Chi and Yajirobe at the same time. The young Indian fighter had managed to goad the glutinous fighter into fighting with him. It was obvious that Upa had the advantage even over the combined force of the other two fighters. Upa easily dodged each of their blows and then would calmly knock them away.
"Man that Ultra Divine Water really made him strong huh," commented Krillin as he continued to watch the young fighter easily beat his adversaries.
"Humph, it's not fair he got a head start!" complained Yamacha. Krillin just looked over at the former bandit and shook his head.
"Another thing, why haven't we gotten any training from Kami yet?" asked Yamacha. "I mean we've been up here for two months now and he hasn't taught us anything."
"Yeah I've wondered about that too," said Krillin as he looked over towards the large palace. The Guardian of the Earth had only been present for several of their training sessions and so for he had not taught them anything new.
"Hey what's up guys," said Chi-Chi as she walked over to the pair of Turtle students. The female fighter was battered and bruised from her sparring sessions but she refused to show weakness in front of the other fighters.
"Hey Chi-Chi, we saw you were having a tough time with Upa over there," innocently commented Yamacha.
"Like you could do any better," snarled Chi-Chi as she sat down next to the two fighters. As she massaged her sore muscles, Upa also came over and joined the other fighters.
"So is anyone else up for sparring?" asked Upa.
Everyone quickly shook their heads and Upa chuckled. "Well I guess it's back to training by ourselves for now. Hey where's Chiaotzu? I haven't seen him all day."
Krillin looked around. "Yeah I don't see him anywhere. You don't think he left do you?"
"No, I saw him earlier," said Chi-Chi as she stood up. "He's at the bottom of the tower meditating. I feel bad for him; he must be so lonely without Tien here. I think I'll make something extra for him tonight at dinner."
"Yeah I think he's taking Tien's death really hard," said Yamacha with a frown. He and Krillin had been trying to keep the small pale martial artist company for the past month but he just seemed to keep drifting further and further away from the rest of them.
While the fighters all thought about their distant friend, Kami and Mr. Popo both walked out from the palace. Krillin was the first to see the pair and he dashed in front of them. The two seemed to be talking to each other but they both looked up when they saw Krillin in front of them.
"Hey Kami, I don't mean to be rude sir, but we haven't really learned anything new." Kami just stared at the small fighter and Krillin seemed to shrink before the guardian's intense gaze.
Yamacha flipped over to the group. "He's right. We haven't done anything here that we couldn't have done on our own. We want to be just as strong as Goku was when he was here." Upa and Chi-Chi had now made their way over to where the guardian and the two former Turtle school students where at.
"Yeah Kami we want the same training you gave Goku!" yelled Krillin being abnormally aggressive. Kami just stared at the group of fighters that had gathered before him and were staring up at him expectantly.
"Well listen carefully then," began Kami. All of the fighters edged closer to the Guardian of the Earth. "I taught," Kami paused, "Goku," the guardian paused again, "nothing! That's what I taught him!" The group of fighters fell over anime style as Kami walked away laughing at the group of ignorant fighters.
"Man what did he mean by that?" asked Yamacha as he watched the guardian retreat back into the palace.
"Who knows," answered Yajirobe. "If this camp wasn't free I would be out of here. Just between you and me the food's not that great." Yajirobe was instantly hit over the head by a large frying pan held by an annoyed looking Chi-Chi.
"I work hard on those meals you big jerk!" yelled the angry woman as she chased the fat samurai around the lookout hitting him over the head with her frying pan every chance she got.
"Where does she hide that thing?" muttered Upa as he watched Yajirobe run for his life around the lookout. Krillin and Yamacha just shook their heads and turned to look at Mr. Popo. The black genie had remained behind and had continued to observe the fighters.
"Mr. Popo we all know Goku received training here," said Yamacha. "Why can't you just tell us what it was?"
"Yeah come on Mr. Popo, we just want to get stronger!" pleaded Krillin.
Mr. Popo just stared blankly at the fighters. He then closed his eyes and said, "To be strong you must know yourself and your enemy. Once you know this all will be clear." The fighters looked at the assistant to the Guardian of the Earth confused.
"Know myself, what does that even mean?" asked a confused Krillin.
"Don't give us that crap!" yelled an angry Yamacha. "How could we not know ourselves? I know myself better than anyone."
"Oh is that a fact," said Mr. Popo. "So you know yourself Yamacha, then how come you do not know that you are weak?"
Yamacha's face grew red and he raced towards the black genie. "Oh would you like to prove that you beach ball!" Upa shook his head at the bad insult Yamacha had just used. Mr. Popo merely pushed Yamacha out of his face with one finger.
"All of you follow me," said Mr. Popo as he walked back towards the palace. The fighters all exchanged puzzled looks and then followed the black genie into the palace.
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Piccolo sat floating in the sky with his legs crossed meditating as he tracked his young pupil's movements with his mind. He watched in his mind as Gohan raced through the trees in the forest picking fruit from the trees for his lunch. He then watched as Gohan jumped down a large cliff and landed at the bottom with easy. Piccolo even cracked a smile when Gohan punched a rock hoping it would break. After the kid had walked away from the boulder, it spilt in half from the force of his punch.
It had been three months since he had left the kid out on his own in the wilderness , and Piccolo was thinking that it might be time to begin to teach the kid how to fight. Piccolo stood up and opened his eyes as he prepared to go meet Goku for their spar.
"Nah, I'll give the kid a couple more months before he begins his real training," said Piccolo out loud as he flew to a different part of the wastelands that had become his and Goku's training grounds for the past two months. When Piccolo touched down at their training area he saw that Goku was already there stretching for their upcoming spar.
"I see you've come back for another beating," taunted Piccolo as he crossed his arms and grinned at his sparring partner. Goku just stood up straight and smiled at the green fighter.
"You know that I've won just as many spars as you have. That last time was pure luck, you won't get the slip on me again Piccolo."
"Hum we'll see about that." Piccolo then phased out of sight and then reappeared behind Goku. Goku was ready for him though and he threw an elbow at Piccolo. Piccolo moved his head and the elbow moved past him missing by half an inch.
Goku did a handspring trying to get some distance between him and Piccolo, but Piccolo had other plans. Piccolo's arms extended farther out than should be able to and shot towards the retreating Goku. Goku tried to fly up into the air but his ankle was grabbed by a long flexible green arm and he was dragged back towards Piccolo. Piccolo had already retracted one of his arms and when the other brought Goku back to him, he let go of his rival and then backhanded him into a mountain.
Goku climbed out of the rumble and grinned out the tall green fighter. "Nice trick Piccolo, but that won't work again." Goku then charged towards Piccolo. As he neared Piccolo though, he phased out of sight. Piccolo, expecting him to appear behind him turned his head to look behind him, but Goku appeared in front of the green fighter and delivered a powerful punch to Piccolo's jaw. Piccolo was sent flying across the wasteland but Goku phased out and appeared in Piccolo's path. Bracing himself, Goku put two hands on the ground and as Piccolo flew over him Goku kicked Piccolo into the air using the force of both of his legs.
Piccolo was sent into the sky but he stopped his forced flight and looked around for his opponent. He quickly spotted his rival flying up to meet him and Piccolo brought one of his hands forward and pointed it towards him. Several small energy blasts came out of Piccolo's outstretched hands and flew towards Goku. Goku easily deflected the blast, but he lost sight of Piccolo while he was preoccupied with the energy blast. Goku stopped and looked around frantically for the green fighter.
Goku was soon aware of Piccolo as he was kicked in the head and he was sent flying back down towards the ground. Goku gracefully rolled on the ground as he made contact and was quickly back on his feet. Piccolo calmly landed on the ground and faced the slightly panting Goku.
"What happened to not letting me get the slip on you?" mocked Piccolo. Goku just chuckled and stood up straight. The two rivals just stood there staring at each other for several minutes, testing each other, seeing who would make the first move. Suddenly, Piccolo's eyes began to glow and a small red energy beam was shot out of each eye and the two beams raced towards Goku. Goku just smiled and then moved his head and the small energy beams passed by him harmlessly. The beams hit the ground several miles behind him and a huge explosion lit up the training area and the wind picked up from the power of the small energy beams.
"Come on Piccolo, I know you can do better than that," said Goku with mock disappointment.
"I would but if I did it would probably kill you Goku since you're so weak," taunted Piccolo.
"Don't worry about me Piccolo. I can take anything you can dish out."
"Enough talk are we going to spar or not?"
"I've been asking myself that question since you got here Piccolo." Piccolo snarled as Goku began to laugh at his own joke. Piccolo's right arm bulged and then he thrust it forward and his Explosive Demon Wave began tearing through the ground as it raced towards Goku.
Goku quickly jumped up and over the large energy wave as it obliterated the ground he had just been standing on. Cupping his hands together, Goku began to charge his most powerful attack. A blue energy began to glow in his cupped hands as he took aim at the green fighter who was staring at his own attack that was still traveling across the wastelands and out of sight.
"Kamehameha!" yelled Goku as he released his famous attack. The blue energy wave raced towards the green fighter and as it connected the energy wave exploded and a blinding light covered the entire training area. Goku covered his eyes and braced himself as a strong wind all most blew him away. When he opened his eyes he looked down at where Piccolo had been standing and a crater had taken the green fighter's place.
"Huh I hope I didn't hurt him to bad," said Goku out loud as he looked down at the crater his attack had just created.
Meanwhile on the mountain directly behind Goku, Piccolo stood on the ledge of the mountain with his cape flapping wildly with the wind.
"Humph that bum almost got me."
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Tien had been running for almost two months now since he stopped flying after resting on the back of the street cleaner. He had made great strides in endurance since then being able to fly for two days straight compared to only a few hours when he had just started on Snake Way. Now he was beginning to tire again and was going to need another rest soon.
"No not yet," said Tien, "I've got another day in me at least." Tien kept running as fast as he could but he stopped after only running for another few minutes. Tien looked up at a huge palace that he could see in the distance. Even from the great distance he was from the palace, Tien could clearly see that the place was gigantic.
"I've made it!" exclaimed Tien as he rushed towards the huge palace. As he began to near the large palace though, doubt began to creep in his mind. King Yemma had said that King Kai would be at the end of Snake Way, but he could still see the winding road continuing on past the gigantic palace. Tien stopping running as he neared the entrance to the palace grounds. This must be a trick, there was no way he had improved that much that he had already reached King Kai's place by now had it? Tien shook his head, no this had to be a trick. Snake Way had not ended yet so his journey had not yet ended either.
Tien started running faster than ever, trying to put as much distance between himself and the mysterious palace. Even though his body was demanding that he stop and rest, Tien refused to stop as continued to run from the place that seemed to be giving off a strong dark energy the farther he got from it. Tien felt as though the palace was somehow angry with him for leaving and not accepting it's welcome.
Tien continued to run faster than he ever had in his life until he felt that he put a good distance between him and the mysterious palace. Exhausted, the three eyed warrior collapsed onto the ground and sprawled across the narrow road. As Tien laid there panting, he thought about his friends that were no doubt training back on Earth. I hope you guys are doing better than I am. It doesn't seem like I'll ever get to King Kai's.
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Meanwhile inside of the mysterious palace, a beautiful woman with dark blue skin and bright orange hair was fuming over her failed attempt to draw in her newest victim. Her terrified servants bowed before her, not daring to raise their heads for fear of drawing their mistress's wrath. The woman paced around her entrance hall her sharp eyes focused on the ground as she thought about the one that got away.
"How could he resist my magnificent palace?" she screamed.
"I don't know Princess Snake," replied the only servant still standing. The servant shrunk as Princess Snake turned her fiery red eyes towards her.
"No one can resist me!" screamed Princess Snake as she backhanded her servant to the ground. The servant whimpered but just bowed down and covered her now bruised face.
"Has the newest member of my collection been behaving correctly since last time?" questioned Princess Snake as her red eyes swept over all of her bowing servants.
"Yes he has mistress and I must say that now that he is behaving, he is a fine addition to your collection of men. He may be the finest that you have ever collected."
"Excellent," said Princess Snake gleefully. "Bring him here now." The servant rushed out of the room to fulfill her mistress's command and Princess Snake thought out her devious plan. The servant soon returned with a tall long-haired man trailing behind her. The man wore black and brown armor with a large hole in the breastplate exposing his muscular chest. The long haired man bowed before Princess Snake with his furry tail swaying gently behind him before finally resting around the tall man's waist.
"What does my mistress ask of me?" asked a monotone voice. Princess Snake looked down at her latest addition to her collection to see the blank stare of the long haired saiyan. She smiled down at the brain washed saiyan, it seemed that her magic had finally worked on the saiyan. He had been difficult to break, but it seemed that he had finally given into her mind warping magic.
"Raditz, will you behave if I send you to go do something for me?" asked the blue woman innocently as she circled the long haired saiyan.
"Yes mistress, I will do as you command," answered the brain washed saiyan. Princess Snake smiled and bent down and whispered into the saiyan's ear.
"Earlier today another man refused my generous invitation to join my collection. I would like you to go retrieve him and bring him back here. Will you do this small favor for me honey?"
"Of course mistress, I will leave immediately." The long haired saiyan stood to walk out of the palace but Princess Snake called out to him.
"Oh sweetie I need to tell you how to find him," cried Princess Snake. "He'll be hard to miss seeing as how he has three eyes."
Raditz's expressionless face cracked into a smile as he opened the door and prepared to leave. "Of course mistress, I'll find him."
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"In this room the past, present and future are mixed. You will start your time trip from here." The group of fighters looked around in amazement at the large room they were standing in. The huge room was almost pitch black and the only light came from a glowing purple symbol that was drawn on the floor. Above the large symbol was a huge clock that swung back and forth from an even larger clock that was attached to the ceiling that was over 100 hundred feet high.
"Wow this place is amazing!" stated Yamacha. Krillin and Upa both shook their heads in agreement while Yajirobe just shrugged his shoulders unimpressed. Chi-Chi looked in amazement up at the giant swinging clock as she followed the swinging clock's path, completely mesmerized by its rhythmic movement.
"Yes while Goku was here he did most of his training in this room." All of the members of the group looked in surprise at Mr. Popo
"Goku trained here?" asked Krillin.
"That's right," answered Mr. Popo. "Are you ready to begin?"
"Yeah I think we are," responded Upa. "I'm ready to get some serious training in."
"What about Chiaotzu?" asked Chi-Chi. "Shouldn't we get him before we do whatever we're doing in here?"
"No I'm pretty sure he wants to be alone right now," said Krillin. "Maybe he'll be more willing to train with us some other time. I think we should go on without him."
"Yeah let's do it!" shouted Yamacha. The others all nodded there agreement except for Yajirobe.
"No thanks you guys," Yajirobe said as he turned away from the rest of the fighters. "I think I'm going to have power lunch instead. I think I'm going to start with dessert."
"Alright all of you that wish to go please step inside of the circle," instructed Mr. Popo. All of the fighters except for Yajirobe, who had already sat down against the wall and begun to eat, stepped inside of the glowing circle. "I can only recommend that you see with your hearts. Now close your eyes please. The next time you open your eyes, you will be in a far off place exactly 100 years ago. I wish you luck brave warriors."
As the four fighters closed their eyes, the glowing purple symbol began to grow brighter and brighter until the light from the symbol lit up the entire room. After a few moments the four fighters all opened their eyes at the same time to see a scene of devastation. As far as they could see the four fighters saw destroyed buildings and a barren wasteland that seemed to be a red desert.
"Where are we?" asked Chi-Chi as she looked on with horror at the barren wasteland. She knew that no place on Earth looked like this place.
"I don't know but it looks like some serious fighting has been going on around here," commented Yamacha as his eyes swept across all of the crumbling and destroyed buildings and roads that were in front of him.
"No doubt, this place has been demolished," said Krillin as he looked at the ruined city in awe.
"Yeah but it seems that the fighting has stopped," said Upa as he dropped down to one knee and picked up some of the red dirt that was underneath the destroyed roadway the group was standing on. "Listen, all you can here is the wind, the calm after the storm." As the fighters all stood in silence listening, they heard a loud noise as some of a small cliff crumbled underneath the weight of a human sized skeleton. The group looked over as the skeleton slid down the cliff and came to a halt next to the group.
"Look," said Yamacha as the group converged around the skeleton, "it's a saiyan." The rest of fighters soon saw that Yamacha was right as they saw that the skeleton was wearing saiyan armor and had a furry tail.
"Not anymore," remarked Krillin as he looked at what remained of a saiyan warrior.
While the others continued to look at the remains of the saiyan warrior, Upa turned away from the other fighters and looked over at the ruined city. He could have sworn he had heard a strange, unnatural sound while he had been looking at the body. Upa cleared his mind as he tried to locate the sound. After he was about to give up, he heard the sound again.
"Hey you guys do you hear that?" asked Upa as he continued to try and track the sound.
"Hear what?" asked Chi-Chi as she, Krillin, and Yamacha all stood up straight and looked back at the decimated city.
"Yeah I don't hear anything," said Yamacha.
"I don't hear, wait I think I hear it too," exclaimed Krillin as he finally picked up on the sound.
"Yes, I think we're not alone here," said Upa. "We should stay on our guard." The rest of the fighters all nodded their agreement.
"Come on lets go check this place out," said Yamacha. "Maybe we'll get lucky and there will be some live saiyans that we can get a good fight out of." Yamacha began to walk into the decimated city with the other three fighters following behind the scarred bandit. As the four fighters walked through the city, they were being watched.
"So what do you think, can we have any fun with these guys," asked the taller of the two saiyans.
The short bald saiyan pressed a button on his green scouter and laughed. "Their total power level is only around 1500."
"Weaklings huh," scoffed the tall saiyan. "And they want to find some saiyans. Well I'll be happy to oblige them, what do you say."
"Yeah let's go him some fun."
The four fighters continued to walk for over an hour as they searched around the ruined city for any live saiyans. After a while the fighters began to grow bored, especially Chi-Chi.
"Why don't we just go back you guys," she said as she kicked a stone out of her way. "It's obvious that we're not going to get any training here. Plus I have to start dinner soon, or I'll never get it done in time!"
Upa snorted at the female fighter's trivial concern. "How do you plan on getting back anyway? Mr. Popo never told us how to get back."
"Hey that's right he didn't did he," chimed in Krillin.
"Aw come on you two you're not scared of some saiyans are you?" mocked Yamacha. "Because I'm not. In fact I think their afraid of us. Yeah their hiding from us!"
"Guess again," sneered a gruff voice from behind the scarred bandit. As Yamacha turned his head to look behind him, he was hit hard in the face and he was sent flying into a building and the building crumbled around the human fighter.
As an evil laugh echoed around the fighters, the three standing fighters dropped into their stances as Yamacha climbed out of the rumble of the recently destroyed building.
"Aw look they think their tough don't they," said a new voice. The fighters all looked around as they tried to find the strange new voices. Their evil laughter echoed across the entire empty city.
"Yeah you can tell just by looking their weaklings! They even have a female with them," sneered the voice from before that had attacked Yamacha.
"Yeah she's not a bad looking broad either. We could have some fun with her." Chi-Chi cringed as she thought of the saiyans foul intentions as the city ringed with their evil laughter again. Suddenly, Chi-Chi was hit from behind and was sent flying over a steep cliff that dropped down into a seemingly bottomless pit. Chi-Chi screamed as she looked down at bottomless pit she was about to fall into. The others yelled and began to move her way when suddenly a tall long haired man appeared behind Chi-Chi and caught her before she fell.
She started to scream but the saiyan put his large hand over her mouth. He laughed when he heard her muffled screams. As he continued to laugh he put his hand behind her back and pressed it against her. As Chi-Chi let out one last muffled scream, a green energy wave pierced through the brunette's chest. The saiyan laughed and then dropped the lifeless woman down into the bottomless pit.
"You monster!" yelled Upa as he glared at the tall saiyan. He charged forward at the tall saiyan and he let loose a barrage of furious blows on the evil saiyan. The tall saiyan merely swayed his body, easily dodging every one of Upa's punches.
"Come on Krillin we've got to help him!" yelled Yamacha. The two fighters started to move forward but suddenly a short bald man with saiyan armor appeared in front of them.
"Oh no you don't." said the bald saiyan. "You two are my playthings."
"Well then you'll be the first to taste my Wolf Fang Fist!" shouted Yamacha as he charged the short saiyan. Yamacha attacked with his signature move, his fist were flying so fast that Krillin could not even see them. The saiyan however easily dodged each of Yamacha's lightning fast strikes and on Yamacha's last punch, the saiyan caught Yamacha's fist. Yamacha tried to hit the saiyan with his other fist but the bald saiyan merely caught the other fist as well. He then head butted Yamacha away and then phased in front of Krillin and round housed kicked the short fighter over to where Yamacha had landed.
As Krillin and Yamacha tried to stand back up, they were sent back down to the ground as Upa landed on top of them. The young Indian quickly handspringing back upright and quickly dropped back into his stance. Krillin and Yamacha also recovered and the three remaining human fighters stared at the two saiyans who were snickering at the fighters.
"We'll never be able to beat them head on," said Upa.
"Yeah I think we're going to have use energy attacks on these guys," remarked Yamacha as he began to gather energy in his hand. He raised his hand up and grabbed his wrist with his other hand as he poured his energy into his palm.
"Kame," said Krillin as he cupped his hands at his side as he prepared to use Turtle school's signature attack. "Hame,"
Upa raised his right arm above his head and a light blue energy began to gather in his palm. The saiyans just continued to laugh as they saw the human fighter preparing their strongest energy attacks. As the separate fighters finished gathering the energy they needed for their attacks they all attacked at once.
"Lightning Arrow!" yelled Upa as he thrust his arm forward and the energy in his palm shot forward at the two saiyans. As the light blue energy came off of Upa's palm, the ball of energy separated into several different beams of light blue energy that all converged back onto the saiyans.
"HA!" screamed Krillin as he thrust his cupped hands forward and a blue energy wave raced towards the explosion that had been caused by Upa's attack. The blue energy wave fed into the large explosion making it even bigger.
"Sprit Ball!" yelled Yamacha as he threw his ball of energy that had been growing in his palm. Controlling the ball of energy with his index and middle fingers, he threw the ball into the large explosion of energy that had already engulfed the saiyans from Upa and Krillin's attacks. When the sprit ball hit the explosion, the dome of energy nearly doubled in size. The three fighters panted from the effort of using so much of their energy, as they tried to look through the huge cloud of dust that had risen around where the saiyans had been standing.
"We did it you guys!" exclaimed Yamacha through his panting. "We beat those stinking saiyans."
"I'm not too sure about that," solemnly said Upa as he kept his eyes focused on the cloud of dust that was beginning to settle. The three human fighters stared in horror as two shadowy figures come in to focus. The city was once again filled with the two saiyans' evil laughter.
"Was that really the best you've got? That couldn't have even hurt my grandma!"
"But to be fair, your grandma is one tough cookie."
"That she is. How about we show them a real attack!" With a laugh, the two saiyans brought one hand up and aimed at the three fighters. The humans were frozen with fear after seeing that their strongest attacks had no effect at all on the two saiyan warriors. With their laughter echoing throughout the ruined city, the two saiyans fired two identical green energy waves at the human fighters that were frozen in horror. The entire city was filled with green light as the energy waves engulfed the human fighters that were frozen in fear.
Krillin opened his eyes, finally deciding to see what Otherworld looked like. He was surprised when he saw that he was back in the room where he and the others had left from. He, Yamacha, and Upa were all lying in the floor with Chi-Chi.
"Chi-Chi your alive!" exclaimed Krillin happy to see that his best friend's wife was not in fact dead.
"Yeah we're all alive," commented Yamacha as he grabbed his training gi making sure that he was in fact not dead. The group of fighters looked up to see that Yajirobe was standing and was staring at the group of fighters who were lying on the ground. Yamacha noticed that Chiaotzu had entered the room as well and Kami was standing next to Mr. Popo.
"Kami how did we get here?" asked Krillin as he and the rest of the fighters that had gone into the time portal stood up.
"What do you mean get here?" sneered Yajirobe. "You never left! You've all been standing around like a bunch of zombies."
"Only your physical bodies remained here, but with the help of this room you created dream bodies that traveled through the dream like past." answered Mr. Popo as he explained how the magical room worked.
"So how did you guys do against the saiyans?" asked Yajirobe. Krillin, Yamacha, and Upa all lowered their heads in shame and Chi-Chi shuddered at how easily she had been killed by the brutal saiyan.
"Yeah how did you guys do?" asked Chiaotzu when he noticed the dejected looks on all of his friends faces.
"They did very well," answered Kami. The fighters all looked at Kami surprised by his answer. "They all fought valiantly against a very strong enemy. I should mention that the saiyans that are heading to Earth or twice as strong as the ones that you just fought." All of the fighters looked at Kami in horror as they heard the terrible news that he had just delivered.
"Are you sure about that Kami?" asked Yamacha hoping that Kami had been mistaken.
"Yes I am." Kami let the news sink in before he continued. "I can certainly understand if any of you would want to back out of this deal now. There would be no dishonor in doing so, but if you must leave do so today because for those of you that stay there will be no turning back after today."
The fighters all sat in silence while they all thought about the prospect of facing fighters twice as strong as the ones that they had just fought. After over a minute later, the silence was broken by the sound of Yamacha's laughter.
"I wouldn't ever give up to those jerks!" he laughed.
"Me either," said Upa calmly.
"I'm in," said Chi-Chi with a nod.
"Me too," said Krillin. The four fighters looked over to Chiaotzu who after a little while nodded his agreement. Then they looked over at Yajirobe who just shrugged.
"Yeah I'll stay too."
With a nod Yamacha turned back to the others. "It's settled then, from now on we stick together through thick and thin." The rest of the fighters all smiled at the scared bandit and nodded their heads in agreement.
"Well let's get back to training then!"
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Piccolo and Goku were exchanging blows when Piccolo's mental alarm went off in his head. "Okay Goku our three hours are up," he said calmly as he stopped himself mid punch and began to walk away from his rival.
"Aw come on Piccolo just a few more minutes, I was about to win," pouted Goku as the green fighter prepared to leave.
"No Goku, I said we would spar for three hours and then I would have to go check on the kid. That kid also happens to be your son so I think you might want me to see if he is still alive or not."
"Yeah I guess you're right," said Goku as he sat down on the ground. "It looks like it's about to storm to so I should get home anyway. See you tomorrow Piccolo."
As Goku flew away Piccolo scoffed at his rival. "He's afraid of a little rain please." Piccolo took to the sky as well as he began to head towards where he felt Gohan's energy. As he flew the wind began to pick up and rain began to come down hard. Piccolo merely brushed off the sheets of rain and kept flying towards the huge dark clouds that were forming in front of him.
As he flew, Piccolo noticed that he was heading towards the coast and that he was farther out than where Gohan usually stayed at. What is that kid doing? Doesn't he realize that a hurricane is forming here? Piccolo doubled his efforts to search for the kid but he soon came to the realization that the kid was out in the ocean.
What the hell is that spoiled brat doing out in the ocean? In a hurricane no less! Just his luck. Piccolo sped into the black sky as he flew above the ocean that was filled with violent waves. The wind was faster than ever now and Piccolo was having trouble flying through the hurricane's fierce winds. He dodged around a forming tornado and scanned the violent waters with his eyes.
"Come on kid I know you're out here, where are you?" muttered Piccolo as he continued to search the ocean for his missing pupil.
Well there it is, Raditz is back, the humans got their asses kicked, and Piccolo lost his student. Just another day in the life of a Z fighter. Again sorry for not updating for so long, my computer has been messed up so that's why its taken so long. Now to answer some of your questions, the Kaioken technique will be used as a sort of transformation but not for all of the humans. There will also be a transformation for the humans. Next Tien will learn some of the moves Goku did but he won't learn all of them.
Thanks to you that reviewed. As I said before I love it when people review and its what inspires me to write. So the more reviews I get, the faster the next chapter gets done =).
I have also decided to give you updates on people's power levels so you can see how they differ from the anime/manga. I will only give you people's power levels that fought in battles during the chapter though that way you aren't all knowing about everyone's power level.
Krillin: 400
Upa: 500
Yamacha: 350
Chi-Chi: 250
Piccolo: 1500
Goku: 1400