Chapter 10
"Good-bye honey, have a good day at work." Derek waved to his wife as he walked out the door and headed for his hover car. It was the same thing she had said everyday for the last 15 years of marriage, but that made it even sweeter to him that she continued to say it after all this time. The tall, dark haired man took out the keys to his blue hover car and unlocked his vehicle. The glass dome that covered the top of the hover car opened up and Derek opened the door and got into his vehicle. After throwing his suitcase in the passenger seat, Derek put on his seatbelt and began the 45 minute commute to his office in the business district of East City.
It was an unusually easy drive to the business district today, with none of the usual accidents or traffic jams that often clogged up the roads. Derek figured he shouldn't be surprised since it was a Saturday and most people were off work today. "Stupid presentation," he mumbled to himself as he pulled onto the exit. "Of course Bill had to be sick for the past two days and now I have to come into the office and work on a Saturday!" It didn't take long for to pull into the parking lot that was beside the office building he worked at.
As he stepped out of his car, he noticed that were several small groupings of people out on the streets. He wasn't all that surprised. Some of the people were like him, business men or women who were going to the office to catch up on work while others were shoppers here were visiting the shops that were spread out around the towering skyscrapers. Derek walked out of the parking lot, his mind working through every possible way that he could make his work get done faster. If he didn't hurry he would likely miss the East City vs. West City game on TV and he would have to listen to it on the radio. The mere thought of not being able to see what was likely going to a classic made him cringe. His thoughts were interrupted when he felt a tug on his sleeve. He looked down and saw a small girl with black hair that was pulled back in pigtails pulling on his sleeve.
"Hey mister, do you know what time it is?" asked the young girl. Derek looked down at his watch.
"It is 11:43. Hey where are your parents kid?" The girl opened her mouth to answer his question but she stopped when they both heard a loud sound that sounded like a jet was flying overhead. Derek and the girl both looked up into the sky, expecting to see a plane, but the sky was clear except for a few white clouds floating in the sky. The sound grew louder and louder, the sound grew so loud that it frightened the girl and she huddled against Derek's leg. Finally, two spherical objects burst through one of the clouds. Derek quickly realized that the objects were not flying, but were rather heading downward like they were crashing. Derek continued to watch until he realized that nothing seemed to be controlling the objects except for gravity and they seemed to be on a collision course for the building directly in front of him!
Derek scooped up the terrified girl and began to run back towards the parking lot. As he was picking up the girl, the two objects crashed through the building that was across from them. The building immediately began to crumble and had fallen to the ground in several seconds causing a huge pile of debris to fall onto the ground below it. Luckily, Derek and girl had managed to get out of the way of the falling building but others weren't as fortunate. Derek heard the screams of the people behind him as the pieces of the building fell and ended their lives.
He continued to sprint towards the entrance of the parking lot but he was stopped dead when the two spherical objects crashed into the ground fifty feet in front of him. The impact of the large objects created a huge force that pushed Derek back and sent him sprawling onto the ground. Even in his dazed state as he lay on the ground, he could feel the earth shaking. It had seemed that the impact of the objects, they had looked metal when Derek had seen them up close, had caused an earthquake. Derek could hear buildings falling in the distant and the sound of sirens and screams.
Then the ground stopped shaking and everything was quite for a few seconds and all Derek could hear were the distant sirens. As he lay there on the ground struggling to stay conscious he wondered what had just happened. Had those things been meteors? Or was this something far more sinister? Was it a terrorist attack or a missile strike from a rebel organization like the Red Ribbon Army? He didn't think they were active anymore but anything was possible. As he lay there he felt himself slipping into unconscious, his eyes were heavy and it seemed there were but a millimeter from being completely shut.
Then a single sound pierced through into his mind. He heard the crying of the little girl. His eyes snapped open and he sat up and looked around for the little girl. He saw many lying on the ground around him and the other side of the street, many of them also beginning to stir after being knocked off their feet. He saw the young girl lying on the ground several feet behind him and he got up and limped over to her.
"Are you alright?" asked Derek as he looked over her small form. It looked to him like she had a broken leg and she was pretty shaken up. She shook her head and sniffled as she tried to hold back her tears. He bent down and picked her up, making sure not to touch her broken leg. She nuzzled her head into his chest and Derek began to look for a place to sat her down were she would be safe. As he looked around he noticed many columns of smoke rising up into the air. The crash seemed to have done a lot of damage on the entire city not just the epicenter of the crash. Actually it looked to him like ground zero seemed to be more or less still in tact. A few buildings had fallen, but most of the buildings in this area were built to withstand earthquakes. The parts of East City that weren't so well built were probably not as lucky, thought Derek as he sat the little girl down on a bus bench. The city was probably in utter chaos because of this.
"Hey will you be okay if I leave for a second? I'm going to see if I can find some help for you." said Derek. The girl nodded her head and Derek turned around and began to head into the middle of the street. He noticed that no emergency vehicles had arrived yet and that a small crowd of people were gathered around in the middle of the road. He began to head towards the crowd, stopping only to help a heavier woman who was still lying on the ground. The woman who was wearing a green dress and a huge hat thanked him and began to follow him as he made his way to the crowd.
"Hey is anyone her a doctor? I have someone that needs some help over here." asked Derek as he pushed his way through the crowd of people looking for someone that might be of any help. "I have a little girl that needs some help…" Derek stopped mid-sentence when he noticed that he had reached the front of the crowd of people and realized that he was standing on the edge of a huge crater. Looking down into the crater, he saw that there was a large metal sphere with a red window on the front of it lying at the bottom of the crater.
"It's a spaceship I tell yeh!" yelled a man from the crowd. The crowd erupted into a huge argument whether the object at the bottom of the crater was a spaceship or not. Derek wasn't really listening to their arguing. He couldn't seem to take his eyes off of the spaceship that was in front of him. The only thing that caught his attention was when someone yelled that there was another spaceship over here. He shifted his eyes over to the where the voice was coming from a saw a man pointing into an identical crater with another spaceship at the bottom of it. The two spaceships looked exactly the same to the last detail.
Then the one directly in front of Derek opened. The crowd gave a gasp and many people quickly scrambled away from the crater, afraid of the horrors the pod might be holding inside. Derek didn't move, not because he was brave, he wanted to run away, but for some reason his body wouldn't listen to his brain so he just stood where he was and watched as the alien emerged from its spaceship.
It was not a weird colored lizard monster that came out of the pod or a little green man that emerged from it. No it was just a man, a short man in fact. The only thing that gave away that the man was not a human himself was the fact that he was wearing some sort of weird armor that Derek had never seen before. The man had dark black hair which stood straight up which seemed to defy gravity itself which came down to form a prominent widow's peak. The man from space wore a white breastplate with gold shoulder pads and thigh guards and seemed to have a brown belt wrapped around his waist. Underneath this armor he wore a blue bodysuit and white gloves to cover his hands and white combat boots for shoes and he had a red screen covering his left eye. The flame haired man was tan and seemed to be well built. Derek could see the muscles bulging underneath the fabric of the blue bodysuit.
The crowd began to make their way back towards the crater once they realized that there were no ugly scary aliens there. They gasped when they another man emerging from the other pod. Derek's eyes shifted over to the other alien and saw that he was the exact opposite of the one in front of him. This man was a bald giant whose only hair was a thin goatee. The giant was huge, with muscles bulging all over his tan body and he must have stood over eight feet tall, a sharp contrast to the other alien who was no taller than 5'5. This man wore the same armor as the flame haired man but instead of a white breastplate he wore a navy blue one and instead of gloves he wore navy blue wrist guards that covered the top of his hands but not his knuckles. He wore a blue screen over his left eye and had the same brown belt around his waist as the alien with the widow's peak.
The crowd gasped and stared in awe as the two aliens began to float to the top of the crater and then landed, side by side, in front of the crowd. The two aliens looked around at the crowd of people who were staring at them and Derek swore he could hear them chuckling. Then the big one began to speak in a low voice.
"Wow, Vegeta it seems we have a welcoming committee."
"So it would seem," said the short one as he looked over the crowd with a bored expression on his face.
"What should we do about these gawking fools, Vegeta?"
Derek watched as the one called Vegeta continued to scan the crowd of people in front of him until his and Derek's eyes locked together. Derek couldn't seem to look away from the onyx orbs that seemed to be holding him in place. It was at that moment, looking into those dark eyes, that Derek was hit by a wave of fear. Those eyes were just so cold and Derek couldn't tell if there was any life behind them. They instantly sent shivers down his spine and terror into his heart. Yet even then Derek could not pull his eyes away from the alien's.
Vegeta just gave Derek an evil smile and then said without taking his eyes off of Derek, "Oh I don't know, why don't you chose this time." Derek felt chills cover his body as the giant alien began to laugh and raise his hands. Then still with his eyes still locked with the short alien's, Derek swore he saw the flame haired man winked at him.
Then there was a flash of light, and then…then there was nothing.
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"Wow!" yelled Upa as he covered his eyes from the blinding light that was coming from the pillar of pure energy that was on the distant horizon. Upa knew that it must be the saiyans but it amazed him that he could see the blast from his position. He knew they had landed in East City, but he could see the blast from over 3,000 miles away. He could even feel it as hurricane force winds were pushing against his body. He stood firm and watched until the pillar of light finally dissipated and the unnatural light that had light up the desert he was in faded away and the scenery returned to normal.
"Was that the doing of those saiyans you told me about Upa?" asked a brown skinned man who wore an orange fighting outfit with a purple sash over his left shoulder and the top of his head was wrapped in a turban.
"Yes Nam, that has to be them. I knew the day was approaching but I was not sure it was today until I felt their power when they landed. I believe they just destroyed East City." Upa turned around to look in his old mentor in the face. When he began practicing martial arts, his father had introduced him to Nam since his father was a warrior not a martial artist. Nam had fought in the World Martial Arts Tournament several times and was a friend of his father so he took Upa and took him all he knew. After Upa was strong enough, he took his leave of Nam and then he climbed up Korin's Tower to train with the legendary Korin. Now after the training on Kami's Lookout, Upa had returned to his first master's village to continue his training for the saiyans. While Nam was no were near the younger fighter in power now, he still was a master of many techniques that Upa had yet to learn.
Nam clapped his old student on the shoulder and said, "Will then you must go and do what you must do, but first take this as a token for good fortune in your battle." Nam bowed to the younger warrior and presented him with a purple sash identical to his own. The dark haired fighter took the gift and slung it over his own black fighting uniform in identical fashion to how the older warrior wore his.
"Thank you master," he said gratefully. The bowed one last time and Upa then took to the skies leaving the desert behind him.
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"Krillin did you feel that?" asked Goku as he trembled because of the awesome and terrible power he felt radiating from the saiyans. He could tell that unlike Earth's fighters they did not know how to suppress their energy so it was easy enough to sense where they were.
"I could taste that Goku," said Krillin as the two friends looked off in the direction of the two huge powers. As they stood there on the beach of the island they suddenly could feel the wind pick up and the waves of the ocean become more violent. Then they saw a small light that looked like it was a second sunrise appeared for a few seconds and then it vanished as did the wind and the waves.
"Krillin I just felt a huge loss of life coming from East City," said Goku as he tried to sense desperately for any life forces in the huge metropolis. All he could sense were the saiyans and nothing else in the area.
"What! Is that what that was, them destroying East City! That's on the complete opposite side of the planet and we could still feel the force from it and see it! Man we got our hands full huh Goku."
"Yeah we'll leave in a second, let me get these weights off first." Goku sat in the sand taking off his weighted clothes and then he put on regular combat boots leaving him in only the iconic orange Turtle school fighting gi every student of the Turtle Master wore. Krillin in the meantime went inside to get Chi-Chi. She met him on the stairway, already on her way down after sensing the enormous power of the saiyans. She was dressed in the red and blue fighting dress she wore when she fought in the World Martial Arts Tournament and she had her hair pulled back into a ponytail so it wouldn't get in her way. They met Goku out on the beach and they quickly took off and Goku searched for the saiyan's power.
"It looks like they are heading Piccolo and Gohan's way. We better head there, it's a good place to fight them. It's out in the middle of now where so no innocent people will get hurt while we're fighting, trust me I've been there." Chi-Chi gave her husband a funny look as they flew towards the wastelands.
"You've been where that green devil has been holding our precious son hostage!" she screamed. Goku gulped, he had forgotten that he hadn't told Chi-Chi about his training with Piccolo and then later Gohan.
"Uh yeah honey, did he forget to mention it," Goku fake laughed but quickly stopped once he saw Chi-Chi who was glaring dangers at him.
"And you didn't rescue our son from that demon!" screeched Goku's wife. He noticed that she was quickly gaining on him so he increased his speed a little to make sure he stayed out of his wife's reach.
"Well Chi-Chi, Piccolo was training him to fight against the saiyans and Gohan was alright with it, he was actually enjoying it most of the time."
"Goku I swear I'm going to…"
"Hey guys let's not fight, we need to focus on stopping the saiyans right now," said Krillin as he feebly attempted to save his best friend's life from his angry wife. Chi-Chi stopped talking but continued to glare at Goku the entire time they flew towards Piccolo, Gohan, and the saiyans.
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A white blur flew over Snake Way, causing the long winding road to shake as the powerful fighter flew over miles in a matter of seconds. Tien grinded on his teeth as he flew faster than the speed of sound towards King Yemma's palace, where he could finally return to Earth after spending an entire year away from his home world and his friends. He passed the large palace that he had passed on the way to King Kai's planet several months ago.
"Good, I'm already half-way there," he said to himself as he continued to fly towards home. The three-eyed warrior then opened up his mind and then tried to communicate with his newest martial arts master.
'King Kai, are you there? Can you hear me King Kai?' Tien soon heard the voice of the blue kai.
'Yes Tien, I'm here and I can see you have been making good time. You already passed Princess Snake's palace which is the halfway point.'
'Yeah I know that, I'm more concerned about how long it's taken me to get this far. I need to know how much time I have until the saiyan reach Earth.'
'I'm sorry Tien, but the saiyans have already landed on Earth.'
The fighter from Earth growled at the terrible news. He had been careless not to think about how long it would take for him to get back to Earth. He should have known that he wouldn't just magically appear back on Earth, or at least he should have asked King Kai about it. He had been too caught up in training and perfecting the Kaio-Ken to think about all of the little details of his return to Earth and now one of his friends might be killed because of it.
'So it's taken me 12 hours to get half way down Snake Way. So it should probably take me at least 12 more hours to get to the check-in station. Do you think my friends will be able to beat the saiyans without me or at least hold the saiyans off until I can get to Earth?'
Tien heard the ancient guardian sigh. 'No, Tien your friends won't be able to defeat the saiyans without your help. Maybe if only the weaker saiyan was there then they would be able to defeat him with their combined powers but with the other saiyan there none of them stand a chance against them. Since saiyans treat life and death fights like sport though, they might drag out the fight against your friends for entertainment but none of your friends would most likely still be alive when you arrive on Earth.'
The three eyed fighter grinded his teeth together as he thought about how he had failed his friends in their greatest hour of need. How they were counting on him to come and defeat the saiyans for them and how now they would all die. Most importantly though, his best friend Chiaotzu would die forever. He had already been wished back with the Dragonballs once before and the dragon would not grant the same wish twice so Chiaotzu would be gone forever. And it was his entirely fault, because by the time he could get there he would be too late and everyone would be dead.
Tien knew what he had to do, but it would be risky. He had never tried to stay in Kaio-ken for as long as he would have to drastically decrease the time it would take him to get back to the check-in station. King Kai seemed to know what the fighter from Earth was planning to do.
'Tien you can't use the Kaio-ken technique for that long! You would have to stay in the transformed state for at least 6 hours to cut your time in half. You haven't ever tried to stay in Kaio-Ken for that long before. It could rip your body to pieces!'
'Well I guess I'm going to have to try and stay in Kaio-ken for that long aren't I. I have to try King Kai; I just can't let my friends die when I know I have the power to save them.' Tien then severed his connection with the northern kai and began to draw upon the power he had been training to master for the past few months.
"Kaio-Ken!" yelled the three eyed fighter from Earth as his aura changed from white to crimson red and his skin looked like it had a red tint to it. As he felt the added power coursing through his body, Tien picked up his speed and now twice as fast flew towards his ticket home.
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Piccolo removed his turban and threw it to the ground next to his white cloak. He knew that he would need every ounce of speed and strength that he had to even have a chance against these saiyans. He looked over to where his young pupil was standing on a boulder looking up into the sky to where he sensed the huge power levels of the saiyans. The young half-saiyan was dressed in a purple fighting gi that was identical to Piccolo's except the sash around his waist was red instead of blue like Piccolo's. The kid had also decided to wear a white headband to keep his long black hair out of his face while he was fighting.
"Prepare yourself Gohan; it looks like they're heading straight for us. Remember though; don't attack them until the others get here. We aren't strong enough to take them alone, we are all going to have to work together if we are going to have a shot at beating them."
The half-saiyan nodded. "Right Mr. Piccolo." Piccolo stole a glance over to his student and saw that the kid looked nervous. The green fighter then turned to look over at the kid who he had grown quite fond of ever the past year and put his large hand on the kid's shoulder. Gohan looked up in surprise because of the friendly contact Piccolo was showing. His teacher had never touched him unless they were sparring.
"Don't be afraid Gohan; your preparation has been excellent. Believe in yourself." Gohan nodded again and the green fighter removed his hand from his student's shoulder and returned to his normal demeanor. The two stood in silence for a second until Piccolo felt another unfamiliar power level heading towards where he and Gohan had been training for the past year.
"It looks like we have someone else coming to join the party Gohan." The teacher began to look around trying to find out where the newest energy source was coming from while the student tried to find the energy his mentor spoke of. All he could feel was the giant energy that the saiyans were giving off, but he admitted he hadn't quite mastered the technique yet. Piccolo continued to turn his head in different directions as he tried to locate the source of the unfamiliar energy. He finally pinpointed the energy and realized that the unknown power was close and it was behind him. He turned his entire body around and dropped into his fighting stance and stared down the unfamiliar fighter he saw landing there.
The fighter was a tan skinned human who looked like he was in his late teens. The youth had dark black hair which was long enough that it was braided into one long strand that fell across the youth's back. He wore a black fighting gi along with a purple sash that went over his left shoulder and wrapped around his torso. Piccolo could tell that the youth possessed great power, bigger than Gohan's, which surprised the green warrior. He thought he knew all the humans who had significant powers.
"You must be Piccolo," said the dark haired youth. He had not yet dropped down into his fighting stance and looked unalarmed by the dangerous fighter that looked posed to strike him.
"Who wants to know?" hissed Piccolo. He knew that he could defeat this kid but he didn't want to have to fight right before the saiyans got here.
"My name is Upa. I came here because it looks like the saiyans are heading straight for you Piccolo. My guess is they are trying to find whoever killed Raditz so they headed for the strongest power level."
Piccolo stood up straight and looked at the human with interest and surprise. "How do you know about the saiyans kid?"
The dark haired youth just shrugged. "I trained on Kami's Lookout with the rest of the human fighters in preparation for the arrival of these saiyans. I am here to help."
The tall, green fighter smirked a little at the mention of his other half. "So Kami sent you huh. Seems he found another human that can be passed off as a fighter after all. Well as long as you don't get in the way and you can hold your own. From what I'm sensing, we could use all the help we can get." Piccolo motioned for the youth to follow him back over to where Gohan was watching the two older fighters.
Upa noticed the small boy who was watching him with wide eyes and noticed an uncanny similarity between the boy and an old friend. "Who's the kid?" he whispered to the other fighter.
"That's Goku's son, Gohan. I'm sure during your time with Kami and the others you heard all about Goku and his amazing feats." Piccolo snorted and then walked a little ways away from the youth and his student as he tried to search for the energy sources of the other defenders of the planet.
Upa looked over again at the small boy that he was standing next to. Now he could tell that the familiarity that he had seen in the boy earlier was indeed a resemblance to Goku. "You look a lot like him you know," he said. Gohan looked up at the dark haired man. "Your father I mean. You look a lot like he did when I first met him when he was younger."
"You know my dad?" asked Gohan excitedly. He felt like the mere mention of his dad made the stranger seem that much more trustworthy.
The teenager nodded. "When I was a couple years older than you, he helped me wish my father back to life. He was an amazing fighter even then and it was him that inspired me to become a martial artist myself." Gohan opened his mouth to ask another question but was distracted when he saw the dark haired teenager look up into the sky and the half-saiyan felt a cold chill go down his spine. Gohan looked over and saw that his mentor was also looking up into the sky and he followed his mentor's gaze up into the sky and saw two armored men floating in the sky.
Piccolo heard the giant saiyan chuckle as he hovered above the fighters from Earth. "Well it looks like one more joined up with them. What do you think all these strong guys are doing out in the middle of no where Vegeta?"
The smaller saiyan with the flame like hair just stared down at the three fighters with an evil smile. "I think they were waiting for us. Yes I'm sure of it. Well let's go say hello Nappa." The two saiyans descended down towards the ground on lightly landed in front of the three fighters.
"So we meet at last," said the one called Vegeta as he continued to stare down the group of fighters in front of him. Piccolo was the first one to break the eerie silence as the saiyans and the earthlings faced each other.
"Pleasures all mine, but for the record why have you two come here. We won't have to hurt you if don't mean to do any harm."
The short saiyan's eyes widened for a second as his brain registered the voice of his green opponent. "That voice, I recognize your voice. You're the one who killed Raditz a year ago."
"My voice?" questioned the confused Piccolo. How did that saiyan now what he sounded like?
"That's right." responded the saiyan. "Didn't Raditz tell you? Our scouters also act as communicators so we heard everything from your battle with Raditz." The short flame haired saiyan tapped the device on his ear to emphasize his point.
Piccolo looked over at the other saiyan who was a giant brute. The bald saiyan was staring at him with a look that said that he was trying to place where he had seen something before. The brutish saiyan snapped his fingers and then said, "The green one's from Namek right."
The smaller saiyan answered without hesitation. "Yes Nappa he's from Namek alright. No wonder he had so much trouble with him, that human, and Kakarot."
Piccolo was dazed by the news. "I'm an alien," he muttered as he drifted into his own thoughts completely ignoring the laughing saiyans in front of him.
"You didn't know," sneered the flame haired one. "But surely must have suspected something. The green hair and pointy ears are a dead give away don't you think." The saiyan cackled as he watched the shocked Namek's reaction.
'So I'm an alien from the Planet Namek huh. I am surprised but at the same time I know it's true. I can feel it in my very soul. Well at least being an alien is better than being an evil demon.'
"Yes it was you that spoke to Raditz of the Dragonballs," continued the short saiyan. "Now tell us Namek, where are they and be quick about it. We don't have all day." Piccolo was still stunned by the realization of his heritage and the saiyans both growled when he did not answer them immediately. The short one was about to speak again when two more people dropped down from the sky and landed beside the three fighters.
"Yamcha! Chiaotzu!" exclaimed Upa as he recognized the shaggy haired fighter and the small pale fighter. "You're here, a little late but at least you're here now." Yamcha smiled at his rival.
"Yeah I had to come from West City and I met Chiaotzu on the way over here. So I'm guessing these are two saiyans we've been training for." Upa nodded and opened his mouth to say more when he was interrupted by the giant, bald saiyan.
"Be quiet and answer Vegeta's question! We know the Dragonballs are down here and make no mistake we will find them. This can go hard or easy for you so I suggest you tell us where those magic balls are right now or suffer the consequences!" The three fighters from that trained together and the lookout and Gohan all dropped into their fighting stances and glared at the giant saiyan. Piccolo however remained completely upright and just chuckled and looked over at the bald saiyan.
"Thanks to you two I now know that I have a home besides Earth in outer space. But this has always been my home and no man comes into another man's house and starts telling him what to do. You're out of line, weren't not here to bow down to your demands like cowards, we're here to fight!" Piccolo dropped down into his own stance with other four fighters all behind him also in their fighting stances.
As the two saiyans and the fighters from Earth faced off, the sound of helicopters broke the silence between the two groups of fighters. Gohan and Yamcha both stole a glance up at the helicopters and saw that they were news helicopters. The giant, bald saiyan also noticed the helicopters and with a yell he turned his body towards the flying vehicles and thrust his hand into the air fired a ki blast that destroyed several of the helicopters and caused the sky to darken and the three human fighters and Gohan all cried out as they saw the explosions. The other helicopters quickly retreated away from the danger zone as the sky returned to normal. The fighters all turned towards the saiyans with added anger now, determined to stop the evil alien warriors.
"Well it looks like they aren't going to tell us where the Dragonballs are Nappa," calmly commented the shorter saiyan.
"You want to bet," replied the giant saiyan. "Alright let's see how strong you really are." The bald saiyan lifted his hand up to his scouter and pressed a button as he read the power levels that came across his screen. "The Namek is at 1,700, the one with the braid is at 1,200, the scarred face one and the kid are both at a 1,000, and the small pale one is at 800. You fools! You really think you can beat us with such puny power levels!"
The smaller saiyan just calmly took off his red scouter and then addressed his comrade. "Hey Nappa, you better take off your scouter." The bald saiyan looked over at the smaller one with a puzzled expression. "These guys know how to concentrate their energy and raise their power levels. These figures are unreliable."
The giant saiyan also removed his scouter and said, "Oh yeah I almost forgot, that's how Raditz got killed. That weakling let himself be fooled by the power readings." Piccolo and the rest of the fighters all felt like they had been slapped in the face by the bald saiyan's comments.
"Raditz was a weakling," muttered Piccolo in shock as he began to wonder how strong these saiyans were compared to Raditz.
"Hey Piccolo isn't Raditz the guy you Goku, and Tien had so much trouble with?" asked Yamcha. All he got as a response was a growl from the green warrior.
The short saiyan crossed his arms. "Well Nappa, I think it's time we had a little fun with these guys. Hey why don't you get those Sabiamen out, there should be seven of them left."
The bald saiyan laughed. "You're too much Vegeta. You really know how to party." The giant saiyan pulled out a small glass bottle that contained seven small green seeds. "Hey you were right; there are seven of them in here."
"Maybe the Sabiamen can persuade our friends here to tell us where the Dragonballs are, huh Nappa." The bald saiyan laughed as he knelt down and began to plant the seeds into the ground. After he had planted all seven of the seeds into the ground, the giant saiyan poured a thick green liquid on top of were he had planted the seeds. The fighters from Earth watched in horror as seven little green monsters began to sprout from the ground. After the little green men had completely emerged from the ground the stood in front of the saiyans and began to screech.
"Man those things are ugly," said a familiar voice that came from above the human fighters. All eyes were turned upwards as Goku, Krillin, and Chi-Chi all landed next to their friends. Chi-Chi immediately went to Gohan and began to smother him with hugs in kisses much to his protest while Goku walked up to Piccolo.
"So it looks like the saiyans brought some of their friends along with them," said Goku as he stood next to his former enemy.
Piccolo nodded but Yamcha interjected, "No actually they grew them here."
Krillin stepped in between Yamcha and Upa and dropped into his fighting stance next to them. "Grew them here?" he asked confused. Upa just shook his head and said, "Don't ask."
The short monk just shrugged. "Hey at least they're shorter than me." All of the fighters smiled except for Gohan who was still trying to get his mother off of him.
"Wow Vegeta this reunion is really heartwarming isn't it," said the bald saiyan sarcastically.
"It really is, but I'm afraid the Sabiamen are going to have to make it a short lived reunion." The short-haired saiyan then spotted Goku and said, "Look Nappa, its Kakarot."
The giant saiyan stared at the saiyan from Earth for awhile. "Yes that's Kakarot alright. He stinks like the low class scum that he is." Goku glared at the two saiyans who were snickering at him now.
"Ah yes Kakarot," said the flame haired saiyan. "We have special plans for you, Sabiamen you are not to harm Kakarot. I will deal with him myself after he has had the pleasure if watching all of his friends die."
"No one is going to die here because of you two," said Goku angrily as he stared at the two evil saiyans.
The flame-haired saiyan just snickered. "Actually Kakarot they will and I think we will draw it out so you can watch them die one by one because of your betrayal to our race. Nappa why don't we have a little tournament? We have seven Sabiamen and without Kakarot they have seven fighters. We can have them all fight one on one so we can see a match worth watching and Kakarot can see his friends fall one after the other."
The bald saiyan laughed, "That's a great idea Vegeta. You always have the best ideas to make these things so much more fun."
Piccolo began to growl as he listened to them talk about how they were going to draw out killing all of Earth's fighters for their own amusement and to punish Goku. "We aren't here to play your games! We'll take you all on including you two!" Piccolo prepared to launch into battle but he was stopped by an arm appearing in front of his chest. The green fighter looked over to where Goku was standing looking at him.
"Don't be to hasty Piccolo," said Goku. "You're forgetting that Tien hasn't gotten here yet and I think we are going to need him if we're going to have a chance to beat those two. Besides from what I can sense none of us are in any danger from those little green men. So let's just go along with their little game so we can buy some time for Tien." Piccolo snarled his disapproval but he backed down and Goku turned towards the saiyans who were waiting for a response from the earthlings. "We'll play your game, but I promise you none of my friends will fall to the hands of your little green minions!"
The shorter saiyan chuckled. "We'll see about that Kakarot." He then pointed at one of the Sabiamen and said, "You go first, fight to your heart's content, show no mercy." The little green monster nodded and then cackled as he walked into the no man's land between the groups of aliens and the fighter's from Earth.
"I'll fight first," said Upa as he began to walk towards the Sabiamen who was waiting for its opponent. The dark haired teenager stopped next to Goku and said, "It's good to see you again Goku."
Goku smiled and put his hand on his old friend's shoulder. "It's good to see you again to Upa." Upa's eyes widened in surprise and earned another laugh from the saiyan from Earth. "Krillin and Chi-Chi told me about you, you've grown a lot since the last time I saw you but I can still see the little boy I helped in there still. Now go get that ugly little green man, I want to see how well you can fight for myself." Upa smiled but then his face became serious once again as he began to walk towards his opponent.
The teenage human and the little green alien faced each other for a second and then the two opponents launched towards each other.
Thanks for all the reviews! To address one of your suggestions Kisame, I will be using the power-up thing that Roshi uses with Krillin but not in the exact way your thinking, but it will be used later on though. Let me know any suggestions, questions, or anything I need to improve on in a review. Thanks for reading!