The Earthling Chronicles

by FinalFlashX

During the battle with Raditz, Goku is injured too greatly to make the ultimate sacrifice in the battle for Earth's fate, leaving the door open for someone else to step in and be the hero. Follow this re-telling of DBZ where the Earthlings are the main focus of the story.

6. Saiyan Arc: Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Piccolo flew over the barren wastelands of the plains that he had called home for the last four years again as his hawk like eyes scanned over the ground looking for his missing student. It had been three weeks since the kid had gotten lost in that hurricane and Piccolo had been looking for him ever since. He was making a quick scan of the wasteland before returning to his training with Goku, hoping that Gohan had wandered back to where he had been completing his survival training. Not seeing the small half-saiyan, Piccolo sighed and then blasted off towards the training area.

When Piccolo arrived, Goku was finishing a set of sit-ups. Since Gohan had been missing, Goku had been living out in the wilderness with Piccolo so he could help the green fighter look for his son. The black haired fighter sprung up and sped towards Piccolo. Piccolo looked down at his shorter rival with the slightest hint of disgust as Goku seemed to be jumping up in down like a puppy in anticipation.

"Well I couldn't find him, so did you have any luck Piccolo? Huh did ya, did ya?"

Piccolo shrugged away from the saiyan, walked over to a rock, and sat down on it. Looking down at the ground and he murmured, "No."

Goku scratched his head and thought aloud, "Humph, I wonder were that boy's gotten off to? I mean it's not as if he's ever been anywhere. Chi-Chi would never let him go with me or her anywhere. She said he had to stay home and study all the time. In fact, the trip to Master Roshi's was his first time off Mount Paozu and look how that turned out. I wouldn't be surprised if Chi-Chi tried to make it were he never left the house again."

Piccolo growled as Goku continued his babbling and he clapped his hands over his super-hearing ears. As Goku continued to talk about his wife's over protectiveness, Piccolo tried to think about where the kid could have run off too. Piccolo figured that the kid had built some sort of boat and was planning to use it to cross the ocean and go somewhere. But where? That question was plaguing Piccolo's mind at all times for these past three weeks.

Piccolo's head almost exploded when his thoughts were interrupted by Goku's voice sounding off right in his ear. Piccolo jumped ten feet into the air and when he landed he shoot an energy blast at the loud black haired fighter. Goku easily dodged the blast and put his hands up.

"Whoa Piccolo calm down. I was just trying to get your attention."

"What do you want!" roared Piccolo his head still ringing from the massive sound waves that had gone through his ears when Goku had yelled in them.

"I just wanted to know if you wanted to spar," answered the still cautious Goku. He slowly began to advance on Piccolo, playfully trying to get to where he could pounce on the green fighter. Piccolo snorted and turned his back on the childish fighter.

"Oh come on Piccolo. There's no reason to sit around mopping just because Gohan is out exploring the world. I'm sure he's fine. Come on Piccolo, please!"

Piccolo went back over to sit on the rock with the pouting Goku trailing behind him. He rested his head on his long green arm and pondered on the situation. Like he had several times a day for the past three weeks, Piccolo reached out with his mind and tried to sense his young pupil but once again he could not feel it. The brat must have learned how to repress it somehow. Piccolo continued to think about where the kid could have gone while Goku ran around the rock in circles begging Piccolo to spar with him.

"Where would a spoiled momma's boy go?" Piccolo asked himself. That's when the sudden epiphany hit him. "Of course why didn't I think of it before!" shouted Piccolo as he sprang off the rock. Goku stopped running and looked at his green rival.

"What is it Piccolo? Do you smell food? Because I'm starving!" Piccolo glared at the bottomless pit named Goku and then finally shook his head.

"No Goku, I think I know where I can find Gohan."

"Oh well that's good. Let's go get him then."

"No. I lost him, so I will retrieve him. Also it will completely ruin his training to see you, it will completely erase the last four months of training. Besides there's no reason for both of us to miss precious training time to chase your stupid kid."

"Oh, alright. I guess I better get to work than." Goku leaped back down onto the ground and began doing one finger push-ups. Goku lifted his head and looked up at Piccolo and asked his final question before the green fighter blasted off. "Hey Piccolo, where do you think Gohan is?"

Piccolo smiled and simply said, "Where would a momma's boy go?"

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Tien opened his three eyes, uncrossed his legs, and moved to stand up after finishing his day of mediation. It had been over three weeks since he had passed by the giant palace that lay on the side of Snake Way. Ever since then, he had felt as though a dark presence had been trailing behind as he continued on his odyssey to receive training from the legendary King Kai. Tien reached out with his mind to try and sense the dark energy that he was feeling, but every time he thought he was close to locating the source of the dark energy it seemed to vanish and disappear from his mind's eye.

Tien just shook his head and floated into the air ready to fly as far as he could after having his energy restored from his day of rest. His mediation days had really paid off in the long run since they allowed his ki to be restored which allowed him to have enough energy to fly for several days which covered much more ground than when he had to run. Tien often thought if he didn't take these short rests that by now he would have been reduced to crawling along Snake Way.

Tien sighed when he looked down the endless winding path that still stretched before him. He had been traveling along Snake Way for almost four months now and it still seemed as if he had made no progress since he left the check-in station. He often wondered if he would be better off if they had just revived him with the Dragonballs so he could be training back on Earth with the rest of his friends. Maybe Kami had been misinformed some how about this King Kai. Right now it seemed like this King Kai and his mystical planet was more myth than reality and Tien was beginning to have doubts in the Guardian of the Earth's judgment.

Tien hovered above the never ending path and thought about his friends back on Earth. They were all no doubt ably training hard and growing stronger. He could not even imagine how strong Goku and Piccolo were after four months of intense training, and if Kami had told him right, they were training together. They would probably be unstoppable forces after training for a whole year with each other. Tien still remembered their epic battle at the World Martial Arts tournament. It was the most intense, hard fought battle Tien had ever witnessed between two completely evenly matched opponents. Tien had watched with a feeling of inadequacy knowing that if Goku had needed his help he would have been unable to even slow Piccolo down at that time. He felt mediocre and like a complete weakling when he was reduced to praying for Goku to pull out a win, which he did by the narrowest of margins. The feelings he had during that fight was what inspired him to train as hard as physically possible for the last five years, and it had paid off. According to what Raditz had said about their power levels, Tien was almost at the same level as Goku and Piccolo during the fight with Raditz.

Tien curled his fist though when he thought about all of the progress he had made about closing the gap between his power and the power of Goku and Piccolo. All of that progress was gone now that they were training with each other at this very moment, probably making huge leaps in power while he was stuck here, on this god forsaken path. Hell, even Yamacha and Krillin were training and getting stronger. If he was stuck on this damn road not able to train because he was trying to get to the mythical King Kai's he would never be strong enough to beat the saiyans. Sweat began to form on Tien's body and it glistened in the never ending sunlight Otherworld possessed. He began to shake as he thought about all the time's he had been completely useless when the Earth was in danger before.

Tien remembered how he had been unable to stop King Piccolo from making his wish for eternal youth and then he watched helplessly as he killed Master Roshi and his best friend Chiaotzu. Then how he had been completely ineffective in his attempts to defeat King Piccolo or even his demon son, Drum, and save the world from his tyranny. He, the best student of the legendary Crane School and the winner of the World Martial Arts Tournament that had only occurred several days before, had to be saved by Goku the teenager he had beaten to claim his title. He watched completely unable to move from his fight with Drum as Goku somehow matched King Piccolo blow for blow and eventually killed the evil tyrant. He decided to dedicate the next three years of his life to training hard enough to beat Goku again at the next World Martial Arts Tournament, but he was defeated effortlessly by Goku. Then he watched as his friend faced off against the greatest threat the world had ever known, and knew the entire time that if his friend was defeated he would not be able to stop Piccolo from conquering the world. And now it looked as if the same thing was going to happen with the saiyans. Because he was stuck on this damn road, he would be too weak to defeat the saiyans and he was going to have to rely on Goku to save him and the world once again.

"No," he said softly but his voice rose increasingly louder until it was a shout. "No this time I will be strong enough! I will make it to King Kai's and receive his training so that I will be strong enough to beat the saiyans! Goku should not be the only one who is able to defend Earth! I will grow stronger until I am able to help him defend our home! I will be restrained to mediocrity no longer!" After Tien finished shouting into the golden sky of Otherworld, he heard an all too familiar laugh behind him.

"Ha-ha. Too late for that my old friend, you're already a pitiful excuse for a warrior." Tien spun around and his face transformed into a mask of pure horror. Floating behind him was the evil long haired saiyan Raditz, laughing at Tien's outburst. Tien scanned over the all too familiar brown and black armor that the saiyan wore. It looked just like it had at the conclusion of their battle, with one of the brown shoulder spike having been blasted off and a large hole in his black breastplate from where Piccolo's attack had pierced through it for the fatal blow. The only differences the saiyan possessed was that he was missing his green screen that covered one of his eyes and he had a yellow halo over his head like Tien did.

"I have to admit that you were much harder to catch up too than I thought you would be. It didn't help that I had to suppress my power level so you wouldn't notice me following you though. Thanks for showing me that technique by the way it is very useful, I'm surprised I have not encountered it before in any of the purges I have conducted across the universe."

"How long have you been following me, and how do you still have your body?" croaked Tien hardly able to form the words. He was so shocked to see the saiyan alive and moving around. Well not alive, but in possession of a body. He had thought that only people that had lived good lives are were given special permission from King Yemma got to keep their bodies. Why then did the evil saiyan still retain his body in death?

"About three weeks now, ever since you passed by Princess Snake's palace." answered the saiyan who just stared down the three eyed fighter who was responsible for his demise. He had a cocky smirk plastered on his face as he watched Tien's reaction to his sudden appearance. "She was furious that you didn't pop in to visit her, so she sent me to bring you back for a sort of forced visitation. As for how I have my body, all in good time my little three eyed freak."

"Princess Snake? Who is that?" Tien was beginning to regain some of his composure and he straightened his back so that he was standing at full height, but he was still slightly shorter than the long haired saiyan.

"Oh she's just a lovely woman who lives in that giant palace you passed by. You couldn't have missed it, the place is huge. Yes she is a lovely woman that likes to collect the souls of men and keep them for her own personal use." Tien noticed Raditz balling his fist in anger. It seemed that the long haired saiyan was not too fond of this mysterious princess.

"Again I'll ask why and how you're here. It's pretty obvious that you don't care for this Princess Snake but you're doing her dirty work for her."

"I'm not doing this for her you fool! A saiyan bows to no ones demands! I'm doing this for revenge, or have you already forgotten our previous encounter already? It's your fault that I'm here in the first place and all because you had to be a hero. You're a fool if you think that sacrificing yourself saved your planet. My two comrades are heading to Earth right now and they are far stronger than me. They'll turn that mudball you call home into space dust!"

"Yes I already know about the other saiyans and that's why I'm here. I'm going to go receive training from the great martial arts master King Kai."

"Ha-ha you're more of an idiot than I thought! You must have gone crazy after you got yourself killed. Or maybe you were already insane before you died because only an insane person would willingly take a fatal blow from one of your own allies."

Tien laughed at the saiyan and than gave the long haired saiyan a smirk of his own. "It worked didn't." Tien laughed as Raditz began to fume over the earthling's comment about his death. "You still haven't answered my question about how you still have your body."

Raditz composed himself and began to grin again at the three eyed earthling. "Very well, I guess I can answer your stupid questions since I'll be ending your second life soon enough. Right after our deaths, I was brought before that giant ogre thing that calls itself a king. What a pathetic excuse for a god! Anyway the giant oaf sentenced me to hell as I assume you expected. I of course tried to escape, but that giant ogre fell on me and prevented my escape."

Tien scoffed and then remarked, "Actually I think he probably subdued you. You're not as strong as you think you are you know."

"Shut up!" yelled Raditz his face turning slightly red from being embarrassed by his defeat at the hands of King Yemma. "Anyways, apparently in hell you keep your body so you can be punished more effectively for your crimes that you committed during your life. Of course for someone like me with my super strength, the only punishment I could received was not being able to feel any sort of pleasure from anything since they could not torture me since I was stronger than all of the ogres that monitor hell. "

"Once I arrived in hell, I was quickly informed that the rest of my race that had been killed several decades ago was also residing in hell. I was making my towards the part of hell where the saiyans were living when I two red headed blue skinned women caught my attention. They gestured for me to come join them and who was I to refuse the wishes of two beautiful women. While I was talking with them, they said they knew I way I could escape hell and return to the living world. I was intrigued, so I agreed to follow them and we soon arrived at a mountain that went all the way to the golden clouds that are directly below this very road."

"To avoid being detected by the guardians of hell, they said I had to wear ki bonds that they had still from the guardians since my power level was so high that it would be easily detected trying to leave hell. Since I had not yet mastered repressing my power yet, I foolishly agreed. As promised the led me out of Hell and we arrived at a giant palace on the side of a never ending road."

"Once we were at the palace, I thought they were going to remove the ki bonds and let me go. However I was tricked and they smiled maliciously at me and took me inside. I tried to resist of course once I realized that I had been tricked but the ki bonds had zapped all of my strength. I was forced inside and shown to Princess Snake, who said I would make a fine addition to her 'collection'."

"Serves you right," said Tien. "Now you know how all of your innocent victims felt as you slaughtered them for your own personal gain!"

"Fool! You know nothing of why I did what I did. Don't pretend to think that you know what my crimes are. I am a victim of circumstance; my only crime is that I survived the extinction of my race."

"Anyway, I was thrown into the dungeon of the palace where I was kept with many other men that were part of Princess Snake's twisted collection of men. On a daily basis she would come down to the dungeon where we were chained with ki bonds and play with our minds. She tried to brainwash us into becoming her mindless slaves by planting false vision in our minds were we thought we were in our greatest fantasies. One by one, the weaklings around me fell under her control. I as a saiyan would never let someone else control my mind so I resisted the longest. For months I was daily tortured and subjected to hours of brainwashing techniques but still my mind prevailed."

"I soon hatched a plan for my escape though. If I could make Princess Snake believe that I was under her control, I could escape from those cursed ki bonds and exact my revenge on my captors. I finally managed to convince that I too was brainwashed and I was finally brought before Princess Snake. I was about to destroy her and her damned palace when she mentioned a three eyed warrior that had not fallen into her trap. I assumed that it was you, and I gladly accepted her mission of coming to retrieve you. That my little three eyed freak is how I came to be here."

"So you're just going to do her biding? I thought you saiyans were the independent types that followed no ones orders except your own, but here you are doing some Princess Snake's dirty work after she tortured you for months."

"Ha-ha you fool! You think I've been hunting you down for three weeks to bring you back to her? No, I plan on exacting my revenge on you before I turn my sights on that bitch that tried to control me, a saiyan. No I will end you first, and then I will go and level that entire palace to the ground! No one tries to control a saiyan and lives, especially when you try it on a top class warrior such as me."

"Sorry to ruin your plan, but I'm already dead. You can't kill me again."

Raditz grinned evilly at the three eyed fighter from Earth. "Oh but I can. I learned during my time at Princess Snake's that if you are already dead and die again then your soul simply ceases to exist. I can't think of a better punishment for the man that ended my life than the complete and utter erasing of his soul."

Tien gulped. This wasn't good. If what Raditz said was true, than if Tien couldn't beat the long haired saiyan than his soul itself was at risk of being destroyed. Last time they had fought the combined force of Goku, Piccolo, and himself and been unable to land a single punch on the saiyan and they had only defeated him by using a desperation tactic to hold him still and then attacking him with an attack that took minutes to charge. Tien didn't like the odds of him fighting against Raditz one on one were very good from how their last fight had gone.

Tien raised his power to its maximum slow enough that Raditz would not be able to sense the change and then sensed how high Raditz's was. To his surprise, the gap between their power levels was now far less than it had been four months ago. Tien estimated that his fighting power was around 5/6ths of Raditz's, so he would be able to hang with Raditz but Tien still knew that he would not be able to defeat the long haired saiyan just by using pure strength. He would to come up with a strategy, and fast.

"So," said Raditz as Tien sunk into his fighting stance while floating over Snake Way, "are you ready to lose your soul for eternity three eyes?

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On Kami's lookout, Krillin, Upa, and Chiaotzu were all training using the new weighted clothing that Kami had given them a few weeks ago. The heavy black shirts were making their training even tougher than before since none of them had ever really trained with weighted clothing before. Kami had told them however that while Goku was here, he spent most of his time training with weighted clothing and that is why he still wears weighted cloths to this day.

Krillin paused in his kata to look over at his friend Chiaotzu who had isolated himself for most of the time that they had been training here for the past three months. Krillin was glad when Chiaotzu had agreed to join him in Upa for some training in the courtyard while Yamacha, Chi-Chi, and Yajirobe all trained back in the past against the saiyans. Chiaotzu had even accompanied them one time when he and Upa and been training in that room and Krillin saw that Chiaotzu was making huge improvements even by himself. It seemed that Chiaotzu was finally deciding to join others now during training and it seemed that he was starting to get over Tien's death.

At the moment, Upa and Chiaotzu were sparring with each other. Upa wanted to him the experience of fighting against an opponent that could use psychic abilities and Chiaotzu was more than happy to show off his psychic powers. Upa was trying to escape from Chiaotzu using his telekinesis to paralyze the young fighter. Upa was struggling to escape, but evidently he was able to break out. After he broke out of the psychic hold, he flew at the small pale fighter. Upa could not land a single blow though since Chiaotzu was so small and was using unusual and erratic movements to evade the stronger fighter's blows.

Krillin chuckled as he saw Upa's frustration growing with every blow that missed its target. Krillin remembered when he had fought Chiaotzu back in the World Martial Arts Tournament. The small pale fighter had used many of the same tactics that he was now using against Upa. After watching the spar for a few more moments, Krillin noticed that he was not the only one observing the fight. Kami, the old guardian was smiling slightly as he watched Upa trying to catch his swift opponent. Krillin walked over to where Kami was standing and stood next to him silence for a few moments before finally speaking up.

"Hey Kami, thanks again for these weighted clothes, they really are helping a lot with all of our training."

"It was my pleasure Krillin," replied the old guardian while not taking his eyes off of the spar. Upa had finally managed to catch Chiaotzu and had him in a choke hold. The young fighter whispered something to his opponent and then let go of the small pale man. Chiaotzu laughed and then the pair began heading towards where Kami and Krillin were standing.

"Hey Kami, haven't seen you in a while," said Upa as he walked in front of the green guardian. "Do you know when the others will be done with the room? Because I want to try my hand at beating those saiyans again."

The old guardian laughed at the fighter's enthusiasm and then shook his head. "No I don't know when they will be done, but you'll get your turn soon enough Upa. If you would like me to go and check I would be happy to go check on their progress."

"Yes, that would be great Kami, thanks." The old guardian nodded and than turned to walk back into the palace but he was stopped by Chiaotzu. The small fighter was looking down at his feet and watching them shuffle across the white stone ground, but he stood in front of the guardian with something obviously on his mind.

"Yes Chiaotzu want is it that I can do for you?"

"Well Kami, I was just wondering, well you never told us where you took Tien. I know that you took him to Otherworld so that he could train, but where is he training and who is training him? I was also wondering why we couldn't just wish him back with the Dragonballs so that he could train with us." Kami looked down at the pale fighter and saw the grief that was on his large black eyes. He knew that Chiaotzu missed Tien a lot and that he felt lost without the older fighter beside him. Kami had watched them grow up together in the Crane School and knew that they had been nearly inseparable since the day that they met. Now that Tien was gone, the former Crane student seemed to have a separated himself from the rest of the fighters that were training up on the Lookout, and Kami suspected it was because he was worried about Tien. Hopefully shedding some light on Tien's journey in Otherworld would help Chiaotzu's mind be at rest about his best friend so he could concentrate on the saiyans.

"Tien is in Otherworld as you said, but right now he is traveling along Snake Way so that he can get to King Kai's so that he can receive his training."

"Who is King Kai?" asked Krillin who was also interested in where his friend was. Kami had never before explained why he asked them not to revive Tien until the saiyans arrived. Now it seemed that the guardian was finally going to explain his choice.

"King Kai is the ruler of the North Galaxy. Like how I am the Guardian of Earth, he is the guardian of the entire galaxy we live in. He is also a legendary martial arts master, and Tien is traveling along Snake Way so that he can reach his planet so that he can receive training. So you see Chiaotzu, Tien is fine. Actually if my calculations are correct, he should be arriving at King Kai's in a little over a month. There he will receive far better training than I could ever give him."

"Wow that sounds awesome!" said Upa. "I wish I could get training from this King Kai."

"Yeah me too," chirped in Krillin.

Kami just chuckled. "Whoa let's just hold on for a second. Why don't you two focus on my training instead of day dreaming about being trained by King Kai okay." The two fighters and the old guardian began to laugh. Chiaotzu however didn't join in and he walked over to the edge of the lookout and then looked up into the sky and thought about where his best friend was.

"Wherever you are Tien I hope your okay."

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Tien and Raditz faced off against each other high above Snake Way and the golden clouds that were the ceiling of Hell. Raditz stood straight up with his arms crossed snickering at the opponent he considered to be far inferior to him, a saiyan warrior. Tien had crouched down into his fighting stance, which consisted of having one hand in front of his third eye while the other was near his waist. The two fighters remained in silence for several seconds and an unnatural wind began to blow as the two fighters slowly powered up.

Suddenly Raditz disappeared hoping to catch Tien off guard with his sudden movement. Tien however easily tracked the long haired saiyan with his third eye and spun around and blocked Raditz's kick with his forearm. Raditz was surprised that the three eyed freak that hadn't even been able to even see him four months ago could now easily block one of his attacks. The long haired saiyan snarled and then went back on the offense, but Tien was able to block most of the attacks.

Tien was surprised himself that he was faring so well against the evil saiyan. He smirked himself and then went on the offense. He ducked underneath one of Raditz's punches and then punched the long haired saiyan in the gut. While Raditz doubled over, he used rapid, two finger strikes that hit every pressure point on the Raditz's torso in a matter of seconds. He then brought both hands together and hit the long haired saiyan back.

Raditz quickly recovered and snarled at his opponent. "Who did you get so strong!" demanded Raditz as he looked over his opponent again. It was obvious that the three eyed warrior had made great gains in strength and speed since the last time the two had fought. Raditz realized that he had once again underestimated his enemy.

"Well running this entire road has been a pretty good workout," Tien said. He knew was completely out of the woods yet. Raditz had underestimated him and that was why he had been able to get an early advantage. However, Raditz was still the stronger of the two fighters so Tien knew he would have to be on his guard.

"Well I don't care how much stronger you've gotten your still not strong enough to beat me!" Raditz flew towards the earthling with even more speed than before. Tien readied himself to defend himself from a frontal assault, but Raditz simply flew past the three eyed fighter. Before Tien had a chance to turn around, Raditz had driven both of his elbows into Tien's back and sent the earthling warrior spiraling down towards the golden clouds below Snake Way.

"Ha take that. You can't beat me, I'm a top class warrior!" shouted Raditz as he watched Tien falling down and rapidly approaching the golden clouds. When it looked like Tien would fall through the golden clouds, he finally recovered and he did a flip and his feet barely hovered above the golden clouds.

"Man I have to be more careful," muttered Tien as he looked down at the clouds he was mere inches above. "If I fall through those clouds, I'll be stuck in Hell and I want be able to get to King Kai's." Tien then looked up at his opponent who was smirking down at the three eyed earthling. The long haired saiyan then nodded with his head, motioning for Tien to look down at his feet. Tien looked down and then shouted. He was shocked too see several black ghostly hands trying to grab his feet and pull him down into hell! Tien quickly kicked the hands away and then flew up to be at the same height as the laughing saiyan.

"You're lucky I want to kill you personally," commented Raditz as he continued to laugh. "Or you would have just been pulled down into Hell. That would mean that you would have no chance of helping your friends when my comrades arrive on your pathetic mudball. You ought to be more careful three eyes."

"Yeah like I really need to hear that from you," replied Tien. He then flew at the long haired saiyan and the two began to exchange blows with each other. Raditz hit Tien with a hard uppercut, but Tien responded with a right hook. The two fighters continued their exchange for almost a minute before Raditz gained the upper hand and kicked Tien away. He then followed up by flying behind the Earthling fighter and then kicking the defenseless Earthling higher into the air.

As Tien was sent sky rocketing into the sky, Raditz began to gather Purple energy into one of his hands and he set his sights on his opponents. "Here's a present!" yelled the long haired saiyan as he threw the large purple ki blast at Tien. Tien managed to recover and saw the energy blast racing towards him.

With only seconds remaining, Tien pointed his index finger at the blast and then shouted, "Dodon Ray!" The golden finger beam sped out of his finger and was on a collision course with the large purple ki blast.

Raditz laughed when he saw the golden ray that the three eyed fighter had fired in hopes that it would stop his attack. "You idiot! You think that puny finger beam can stop my attack!" Raditz continued to laugh as he watched the two energy attacks collide. Then, the impossible happened. The small golden ray spilt the large purple ki blast in half! "Impossible!" screamed Raditz as the golden ray continued towards the long haired saiyan. Raditz was unable to avoid the incredibly fast attack, but he did try and shift his body out of the way of it. The long haired saiyan watched as the golden finger beam neared him, and he thought he had evaded it. However the small beam pierced through his left bicep and he cried out in pain.

Tien watched as the saiyan screamed in pain and tried to formulate a plan to get rid of the saiyan. As he had just seen, his energy attacks were all probably strong enough to kill the long haired saiyan, so he could use his strongest attack, the Tri-Beam, and finish the evil saiyan off for good. But something held Tien back from using his signature attack.

"No one deserves to lose their soul for eternity," muttered Tien to himself. "Not even a scumbag like him." So what was their left to do? Tien tried to think of something that would put an end to the battle. "If I could somehow knock him below those golden clouds, he would be stuck in hell and he wouldn't be a threat to anyone anymore. But how? The Dodon Ray isn't strong enough to push him that far and I don't think I can do it with any physical attack either." That's when it popped into his head, the attack that he had been developing in his mind during mediation, the Dodon Wave. He had never actually tried to perform it before with his physical body, but in his mind he had done it several times. Besides, it was only a deviation of the Dodon Ray, so it shouldn't be too difficult to perform, right?

"Ah you freak you'll pay for that!" yelled an angry Raditz. The long haired saiyan was flying up towards Tien and he looked pissed. Now'smychance! thought Tien when he saw the angry saiyan charging towards him.

"Dodon Wave!" he yelled as he thrust his hand towards the oncoming saiyan. Golden energy sparked on his hand before sputtering out. Tien stared at his hand in horror. It hadn't worked! "No I can't believe it! The attack died ou…" Tien's body was jarred by the impact of Raditz's good arm punching Tien hard in the gut. As Tien gasped for air, the angry saiyan bicycle kicked Tien down towards Snake Way. Tien managed to recover before smashing into Snake Way, but Raditz wasn't done yet. As soon as Tien recovered, the long haired saiyan was right there unleashing a furious barrage of attacks on the three eyed fighter that forced Tien back over the golden clouds once again.

Tien was finally able to get away from the infuriated saiyan, but Raditz was right behind him. Tien in a desperation move put both of his hands to his temple and yelled, "Solar Flare!" A blinding flash of light lit up the entire area and Raditz screamed as he was blinded.

"Why you! You'll pay dearly for doing this to me you bastard!" While Raditz grabbed his eyes and flayed around, Tien and flown up higher and was behind the long haired saiyan.

"Let's hope this works," he said as he again pointed his right hand at the saiyan's back. "Dodon Wave!" This time a golden energy wave poured out from his hand and raced towards the long haired saiyan. It quickly hit its target and Raditz's eyes snapped open when he felt the energy pushing against his back. The golden energy wave began to push down towards the golden clouds and Raditz knew what Tien was trying to do when he saw the golden clouds rapidly approaching.

"No!" he screamed as he was pushed through the golden clouds and down into Hell. Tien stopped his attack after he saw Raditz's body go through the golden clouds and then he floated over to the solid ground of Snake Way. He lay down on the road and panted as he tried to regain his breath from the difficult battle he had just fought with the evil saiyan. He took a few minutes to rest and then he sat up and looked down the long winding path of Snake Way. So traveling down this road had made him stronger.

"Now I understand why you sent me on this journey Kami." Tien stood up and than with one last inhale of breath; he began to once again run down the winding path of Snake Way.

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Piccolo sat mediating in one of the trees of the large forest that surrounded the Son house on Mount Paozu. He had been here waiting for the kid to show up for several days now and he was beginning to think that maybe he had been wrong in his assumption the kid had been trying to go visit his parents. No he wasn't wrong, where else would the kid go? He didn't know anyone else. No, that brat would show up here eventually and Piccolo would be here waiting for him.

That was when he heard footsteps and then he felt the high power that was accompanying the footsteps. Thereyouare. Piccolo thought as he opened his and saw his student running past his position in the trees. He silently slid out of the tree his mediating in and flew above his young pupil as the kid made his way towards the Son's house.

"Home," he heard the kid say as the young half-saiyan looked at his home. He saw the kid take a step towards the house and then stop. Piccolo looked down at his student with some confusion. Didn't he want to go home?

"Wait a minute, I can't' go home now," said the kid as he remained frozen in place staring at his home. "The whole world is counting on me to train so we can beat the saiyans. Don't worry though mom I'll be home soon." Piccolo looked on with pride as his pupil gave up on his own wants and turned around to return to his training. Piccolo then get a head of the half-saiyan and waited for the kid to pass him. It wasn't long before the kid was running by him. The kid stopped and then looked up at Piccolo and gasped with surprise.

"What is your mission Gohan?" asked Piccolo as he looked down from the cliff he was standing on. "Say it!"

"To prepare for the saiyans! To fight and to defend the Earth!" answered the kid as he looked back up at his master with a face full of confidence.

Piccolo nodded and then said, "Let's go back. I think it's time to start your real training now."

"Right Mr. Piccolo!"

Thanks for reading and please review. If you have any questions are suggestions for the story please let me know. Now for the power levels. Raditz's power level isn't any different because I don't think saiyans get any stronger when they actually die, only when they survive a near death experience. Plus he's be locked up by Princess Snake for several months so he couldn't train.

Tien: 1,000

Raditz: 1,200

Tien's Dodon Ray: 1,700

Tien's Dodon Wave: 2,100