Chapter 21

"Okay you guys we should be able to see Planet Namek in just a few seconds," said Bulma cheerfully from the pilot's seat of the Namekian spacecraft. "You two should get buckled up because I'll be landing this baby shortly."

"Hopefully your better at landing this thing than you are at taking it off," commented Tien as he sat down in a seat. "Just as a precaution though I made sure that all of Gohan's things were stored in the back. No reason we should have bags flying around while we land."

"Yeah sorry about that," apologized an embarrassed Gohan. "My mom went a little overboard on the packing."

"No problem kiddo," said Bulma. "Hey look there it is!"

Tien lifted his head to look through the giant windshield while the kid ran up to the window, pressing his hands against it as stared through the glass at the bright green planet. He heard the boy gasp before saying, "It's beautiful!"

"It sure is," agreed Bulma before pulling strapping herself into her seat. "Alright guys let's go get those Dragon Balls!"

"Yeah!" Gohan exclaimed before running over to the seat beside Tien and plumped down on it. The three eyed fighter had his eyes closed, in only a few moments he would be free from this blasted spaceship. He smiled a little as he thought of finally being able to feel the ground underneath his feet again and flying in the clear open skies, feeling a cool breeze wash over him.

The spaceship began to shake as they began their descent through the green planet's atmosphere. Surprisingly though, the rattling of the passengers was kept to a minimum and Tien cracked open his eyes and raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"Wow Bulma, I'm impressed. This has been pretty smooth."

The blue haired genius turned around and smiled at him. "Thanks Tien," she said, but right afterwards the ship buckled wildly, before Bulma spun back around and grabbed the controls. "Maybe I should keep my eyes on the wheel though," Tien heard her mutter. The fighter chuckled before closing his eyes again as their ship continued its descent onto Namek.

With one last jolt as the spacecraft touched down onto the ground, the trio finally landed on the Planet Namek. Tien heard Bulma beginning to say something, but he paid her no mind as he dashed towards the exit of the spaceship and in a spilt second he was outside, with Gohan only a second behind him.

Tien heard the genius scream from inside as he inhaled a deep breath of refreshing air before opening his eyes and surveying the landscape before him. There were several trees scattered around a creek that cut through the ground and Tien arched his eyebrows as he noticed the colors of this new planet. The planet's color scheme seemed to be the flip of Earth's, were the grass and the leaves of the trees were blue instead of green and the sky and water were green instead of blue. There weren't many clouds in the green sky but Tien did count as many as three suns, one that was at high noon, another one that was setting, and one which was just beginning to rise.

"It looks just like where Mr. Piccolo and I trained back on Earth before the saiyans arrived," remarked Gohan as he too gazed out at the terrain. Looking out where the boy was looking, Tien saw several rocky pillars that were remarkably similar to the ones where his friends had first battled the saiyans at.

"He most likely gravitated towards that area because it reminded him of this place," said Tien.

"What do you two think you're doing!?" yelled Bulma as she emerged from the spaceship. "You can't just go walking out onto a planet's surface without knowing if you can breathe in the atmosphere! You could have been killed!"

The kid muttered an apology well Tien just shrugged before saying, "Seems fine to me." He heard the woman huff and he closed his eyes as he began to scan the area for any high energies.

"What does the Dragon Radar show Bulma?" asked Gohan when he saw the blue haired woman take out the small device.

"Hum, let's see." Bulma clicked the button atop the radar and then scanned over the map before screaming for joy. "Hey look guys, there all right here and four of them are in the same place. Oh this is going to be easier than I thought." Tien heard her and the boy celebrating as he continued to scan the planet. His eyes snapped open though when he suddenly felt a very dark and very powerful energy emitting several miles away.

"What's wrong Tien?" asked Bulma. "Didn't you hear the good news?"

"It's not that," he answered as his eyes continued to stare off into the horizon.

"I can feel it too," said Gohan as he walked over to where Tien was standing. "The strong force over that way, right Mr. Tien."

The stoic warrior nodded before adding, "It's not just one either. There are several powerful energies in that direction and from what I can tell there not friendly either."

"Oh guys, you're just being paranoid," said Bulma. "I'm sure it's just one of the Nameks. Remember how high a power reading Piccolo had, well everyone on this planet must be like that."

"No," retorted Tien curtly. "They are too high, especially one of them. It's an enormous energy, like none I've ever felt before."

"I'm telling you it's probably just one of the Nameks, and there a peaceful people" she insisted. "Now come on lets go introduce ourselves to the locals and start collecting the Dragon Balls."

Tien turned around ready to rip into the women. For a genius she was being pretty stupid at the moment, seeing as how she couldn't sense energy while he could and the three eyed man knew that the energy he was sensing was bad news. Right as he began to open his mouth to speak though, out of the corner of his eye he caught the glare of metallic sphere crashing down out of the sky.

The warrior turned his head to look up into the green sky and his eyes widen in shock as an image that had haunted his dreams for the past month plummeted out of the sky. The spherical shape of a saiyan space pod surrounded by fire as it fell from the sky with a loud boom as it entered the lower level of Namek's atmosphere. Tien snarled as he watched the pod streak through the sky until it disappeared beyond the horizon.

"Vegeta," spat out the fuming warrior and he clenched his fist together, digging his fingernails into his palm until tiny streaks of blood began to stream out from in-between his knuckles.

"Are you sure?" whispered a frightened Bulma who had fallen to her knees after seeing the saiyan pod in the sky.

Tien nodded, "I'll never forget that energy for the rest of my energy. Gohan," the boy looked up at the man who still had his head glaring at the ground, "you better be prepared for the worst."

"Right Mr. Tien," said Gohan with a firm nod.

"He must be here for the Dragon Balls," muttered Tien. "It's the only reason he would be here, since he doesn't know that we were coming here. No, he's here for the same reason he came to Earth to use the Dragon Balls for his own selfish reasons."

"What are we going to do!?" asked a panicking Bulma. "I say we save the women and children, wait I'm a woman. What do you say we just save me?"

Ignoring Bulma's panicked chatter, Tien said, "We can't let Vegeta have the Dragon Balls, no matter what, and I have feeling those other powers I felt earlier are going to be trouble as well." The three eyed man finally lifted his head and turned so that he was looking at Bulma. "You better call Earth and inform them of these recent developments in the situation. It looks like we might need some back up for this one after all."

"Okay," she said and Tien noticed that her body was still shuttering from fear.

"Hey," Bulma looked up, surprised by the softer tone coming from the stoic warrior. "You don't have anything to worry about. You're safe with Gohan and me here to protect you." The blue haired woman nodded before rushing into the spaceship to grab the satellite phone she could use to contact Earth.

The man sighed as the green sash across his chest began to flutter as a breeze washed over his body. His eyes glared daggers in the direction where the saiyan's pod had crash landed onto the planet and Tien's mind raced as he tried to formulate a plan to deal with the saiyan. He was sure that Vegeta didn't really poise any real threat to him anymore, unless the saiyan prince had increased his power substantially since they had last met. Even using that giant ape transformation would be useless since Vegeta was completely immobile during his transformation, giving Tien more than enough time to destroy the artificial moon necessary for the transformation.

No, Vegeta wasn't the one that truly concerned him now. It was the other power levels he had felt earlier in the other direction. Tien glanced in the direction where he could still feel the giant gathering of energy where almost a dozen powerful fighters seemed to be gathered together. Three of those power levels where even higher than Vegeta's and one of those was more powerful than all of the others combined. It was this massive, dark energy that really concerned Tien now and that's why he was sending for reinforcements from Earth.

Tien's glanced over to where Gohan was sitting next to him. For a few moments when he had first felt Vegeta's energy the triclops had considered blasting off to confront the saiyan and exact his revenge against him. He wondered what the boy would have done. Would he have followed the older warrior into battle or would have stayed behind? It wasn't necessarily the kid who he was worried about though. Gohan could defend himself and even though he couldn't compete against a warrior of Vegeta's caliber it would be easier to defend him since he wasn't completely helpless.

A loud clatter drove Tien out of his thoughts and his eyes looked over towards the noise to find Bulma bringing out the bulky telephone from the Namekian spacecraft. It was because of her that the fighter had flown off the battle once again against the saiyan. He had sworn to himself before they left Earth that neither Bulma nor Gohan would come to harm during this mission and when he had seen Bulma quivering in fear Tien knew he just couldn't leave her alone. Not with all the powerful beings that were currently on the planet, he owed Yamcha that much.

"Alright thanks Roshi," he heard Bulma saying and he heard a clang as she sat the phone down back into its holder. Tien began to turn around to face the inventor but his head spun back around when a metal alarm sounded as another high energy entered his range.

"No it can't be," he said as another space pod burst through the atmosphere and streaked across the sky. "Vegeta and Goku were the only two saiyans left now. Who is that?" The energy coming from the pod was almost exactly as powerful as Vegeta's and Tien's mind raced as the pod disappeared beyond the horizon.

"Was that another one," said a horrified Bulma.

"It can't be another saiyan," mumbled Tien. "King Kai told me that there were only four saiyans left in existence. Wait," the three eyed human's mind flashed back to his talks with the northern Kai and a light bulb went off in his head. "It must be one of those Planet Trade guys. Yeah, it makes since that they would use the same equipment."

"So it's not another saiyan," said Bulma with a sigh of relief.

"No, but it's just as strong as that prick," Tien responded and he heard a yelp come from the blue haired genius and then a fit of nervous laughter. Turning slightly so he could see the woman, Tien could see that Bulma looked scared to death and she slowly began to make her way towards the entrance into the ship, still softly laughing.

"Well it's been fun guys, but it looks like I best be getting back to Earth. Have a pleasant visit." The scientist turned her back on the pair of fighters and began walking towards the ship.

"Hold on Bulma," called out Tien and the woman froze and turned back around. "I'm not entirely opposed to you going back. It's getting too dangerous around here and you would only be at risk while you're here, but first we need to come up with a strategy and you need to know it so when you make contact with Earth again you can tell them."

Bulma nodded her head. "Okay, I'll stay for a little while longer."

The blue haired scientist came to next to where Tien was standing and sat down next to Gohan. Nodding once Bulma was comfortable, Tien said, "Okay so we know that we have to collect all seven Dragon Balls so we can revive the others. It seems though that we have competition in this objective though, with at least Vegeta and presumably one other group after the Dragon Balls. We have the Dragon Radar though, so we should have the advantage of being able to find the balls quicker than anyone else. I believe that Bulma should take the ship back to Earth, it's too dangerous for you here now, and call for reinforcements so we can have some help if it comes down to a fight for the Dragon Balls, which is looking more and more likely by the second."

"I agree with that plan completely," said Bulma. "I should be getting out of here, like right now."

"Won't it be kind of dangerous for her to just travel through space by herself Mr. Tien?" questioned Gohan. "What if something were to go wrong?"

"Ah that's sweet kid," remarked Bulma. "Thanks for the concern."

The three eyed warrior opened his mouth to answer the boy's question but he cut himself off after he felt a pair of energies making their way towards their position. Tien whipped his body around to face the direction the two powers would come from and Gohan jumped up beside the older fighter after also sensing the possible threat.

"What is it you two," asked the blue haired scientist who also stood up.

"Trouble," Tien answered concisely. Right after the words left his mouth; two figures emerged from behind a large rocky pillar across a large stream several hundred yards away. They both wore the same type of armor as the saiyans and they both wore scouters across their left eyes. One of the was a blue muscular man with what looked horns poking out of his forehead with long orange hair growing behind them. The other being was a deep purple color and he looked to be a humanoid with snake-like qualities and a fin atop his head. On one his arms was a strange device that looked like it was some sort of weapon that shot projectiles. All in all they were two of the most bizarre creatures Tien had ever laid eyes on.

"Hey look," said the blue man as he pointed his finger at where Tien and Gohan where standing.

The purple being laughed and raised the arm that bore the strange device on it and Tien heard a small humming sound, which he guessed meant the weapon was being primed. "I think the Nameks look tasty!" exclaimed the snake man as he barred his sharp teeth at the trio of Earthlings.

"These don't look like Nameks to me," said the other man before grinning and reaching up to press a button on his scouter. "Who cares though, Zarbon's orders are to kill anyone we find and these guys look like easy pickings. Wow, there power levels are only 5. Ha, what wimps!"

Tien snorted. "I could say the same about you two, you're not even worth fighting so why don't you two just scurry back to whatever hole you stepped out of."

"What! How dare you address us like that! Don't you know who you're dealing with here?" yelled the purple man as he and the orange haired fighter rose up into the air. Tien just stared at them with a confident smirk on his face.

"You two really think you're intimidating don't you," he said with a shake of his head. "I bet the kid here can beat the two of you without even breaking a sweat." Turning his back to the now furious aliens, Tien crossed his arms and instructed Gohan. "Only use about half of your power kid, no reason to arouse too much suspicion just to deal with these flunkies."

The boy nodded up at the older warrior. "Right Mr. Tien." Gohan bent his knees and his arms at 90 degree angles and a faint glow outlined his small body as he gathered the sufficient power to defeat the two unwelcomed guest.

"What the," exclaimed the snake man. "The kid's power level is rising rapidly."

"Well don't just stand there like an idiot, shoot at him," screamed the blue being as he extended his own hand and began to gather energy into his hand while the purple alien pointed the device on his wrist at Gohan. The kid jumped up towards the pair who fired their ki waves at the boy. Gohan easily evaded the poorly aimed blasts with an aerial spiral and continued on his way towards the alien duo.

It only took a few seconds for Tien to calculate the trajectory of the two ki waves. One was going to hit the front of the ship and the other was going to land near where Bulma was hiding behind one of the legs of the spacecraft. Grimacing, knowing that this would make things a lot more complicated, Tien swiftly moved beside the blue haired woman and wrapped one of his arms around her waist. She let out a scream of terror as his muscular arm grabbed her by the waist, not realizing exactly what was going on because her eyes could not keep up with the action. The triclops jumped away from the spacecraft, with the screaming woman in tow, and watched as a hole was blown through the front windshield of the ship.

Glancing over at where the two aliens had been hovering, Tien managed to catch the tail end of the short battle. He heard a sickening crack as Gohan broke the purple alien's neck with a roundhouse kick and then followed up the kick with a devastating punch to the orange haired being that created a cavity in the man's face. Both of the aliens' limp bodies were thrown back by the force of the blows and the landed with a splash into the river below.

"Nice work, kid," said Tien as he touched down onto the ground and put the stunned Bulma, who still wasn't entirely sure of what happened, back onto her feet. Gohan smiled at the older warrior after receiving the praise and landed next to him. They're heads turned when they heard a wail tear from Bulma's lips as she again fell to her knees, tears in her eyes as she looked up at the destroyed ship.

"Now we're never going to get him," she cried as her shoulders slumped and the scientist picked up several of fragmented pieces of glass and tried to put them back together. It was in vain though because once the glass touched one another they shattered into even smaller pieces. "It's hopeless; we're going to be stranded here!"

"We need to move," stated Tien. "This position's been compromised since someone obviously noticed our presence and sent those two goons after us, and based on what I've seen of Piccolo and Kami, those two weren't Nameks."

"Don't worry Bulma," said Gohan. "I'm sure of we find some Nameks they can help us repair the ship. I promise will get back to Earth sometime, we just got too." The woman turned around to face the young boy who smiled at her. "I think the trick right now is to keep our cool. Like Mr. Piccolo always said, never panic."

A smile broke out of Bulma's face as she wiped some tears of her face and stood up before coming over and hugging the boy. "You're a good kid Gohan," she said before releasing him from her embrace.

"You two need to grab whatever you need, including that phone, off of the ship as quickly as possible," Tien ordered as he took charge of the small band of Earthlings. "The quicker the better because we need to put some ground between us and this ship before someone more powerful than those two cretins show up."

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"Here Goku, I have your sheets for you, nice and clean," Chi-Chi proclaimed as she walked into her husband's hospital room. Her now long black hair was pulled into a ponytail that extended most of the way down her back and she had forgone her usual housewife kimono that she had worn before her training days in exchange for a pure white cheongsam with blue wristbands and a blue sash around her waist. She had made the garment herself and it was similar to the uniform she had worn during the 23rd. World Martial Arts Tournament.

"Thanks honey," said Goku who was using his ki to form and then levitate an orb of water above his head. The housewife set the pile of laundry onto the foot of the bed before sitting down beside her husband, who was still concentrating on the orb of water above him.

"They should be on Planet Namek by now right?" asked Chi-Chi as she lay down on to the bed.

"Yeah should be."

"What do you think Gohan's doing right now?"

"I dunno."

Chi-Chi tapped her foot against her husband's leg, where she knew he wasn't hurt anymore of course. The unexpected contact broke Goku's concentration and the sphere of water tumbled down with a splat onto his face. His wife giggled as he shook his hair like a dog and she put her hands up in feigned self-defense as she felt several water droplets hit her.

"Hey watch it Goku, you're getting me all wet," teased Chi-Chi as she playfully slapped at her husband's shoulder.

"Ouch," exclaimed Goku with a smile on his face.

The brunette sat up and took her husband's hand in her own. "I'm serious Goku, how do you think our baby's doing.

"He's fine Chi," answered Goku confidently. "Right now there's probably no safer place than beside Tien Shinhan. He's the most incredible fighter I've ever seen! I mean, that battle against Vegeta, oh boy that was even better than…"

"Goku!"

"What, I was just going to say that battle was better than a huge feast! Well, I don't know if it was as good as that, but it was defiantly a close second." Chi-Chi let out an exasperated sigh, her husband could be so clueless some times.

"I don't know, maybe I shouldn't worry about him so much but I can't help it. Almost every stray thought I have is one where my poor baby is being mauled by some evil monster out in space."

"That's silly Chi-Chi, everyone knows monsters aren't real."

"How do you know? We're talking about space here; the rules could be completely different. Maybe there are monsters out there and my poor little Gohan could be stumbling into their lair right now."

"Hum, I never thought about that, but you know what I'm a bit of expert on space. I did live there for a while you know."

"Oh really, I didn't notice this past year when everyone was screaming that you were an alien. But do tell what space is really like Mr. Spaceman."

"Black and cold, with some stars sprinkled here and there."

"No monsters?"

"No monster." The couple's lips locked together for a moment before they broke apart and Chi-Chi looked into her husband's eyes.

"Thanks Goku."

"No problem honey. Hey I know something that will help keep your mind off of monsters in space. How's training been today?"

"How did I know that question was coming?" Chi-Chi flopped her body back down onto the bed and Goku gingerly lay down beside her. "Let's see, I think I'm finally getting the hang of 30X Earth's gravity so I should be able to start more intense training soon."

"How's it going with the Kaio-ken?"

"Slowly but surely I'm beginning to get the hang of it. Pretty soon I might take a stab at a higher magnitude of it, but mostly right now I'm trying to maintain it for as long as I can. I'm pretty sure how Tien trained himself to become so powerful in its use."

"I wish I could be in there with you, but the stupid doctors say I still have a long way to go before I'm fully recovered again."

The brunette warrior leaned over and pecked her husband on the cheek before standing up. "Don't worry; you'll be out of this hospital in no time at all. I can just feel it."

As Chi-Chi began to make her way to the window to go back to her training, she suddenly heard the door to the room slam open. The brunette spun around and saw that Roshi was standing in the doorframe panting heavily.

"We've got big problems you guys," breathed out the Turtle Hermit.

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"This cave looks like a good spot to hide out for a while," observed Tien as he peered inside of the opening in the mountain a few feet in front of the hole.

"And now I'm cursed to live out the rest of my days and a desolate cave," wept Bulma as she joined Tien and Gohan in front of the cave. As she dragged her feet towards them, a shock wave coursed through Tien's brain as he sensed the giant group of energies that was nearing their position.

"Quick into the cave," the three eyed man ordered and he and Gohan dove into the cave while Bulma continued to stand out in the open, confused about what was going on. Not waiting for the brilliant women to voice her question, Tien quickly reached out and pulled her into the cave and covered her mouth so she couldn't scream.

"There's a large group of high power levels making their way this way, so be quiet!" hissed Tien at the blue haired genius that was glaring daggers at him. The man released his hold on her and Bulma jerked away from him but remained quiet.

"It feels like Vegeta's energy, only stronger," whispered Gohan and Tien could hear Bulma whimpering behind him.

"Yes, there's no doubt in my mind that this is the group I sensed earlier. Keep your power level suppressed as low as possible kid, we don't want them finding us."

"Right Mr. Tien and if we stay in here they won't be able to see us."

"That was the plan."

The group sat in silence for a few moments as Tien and Gohan kept their minds completely focused on the huge cloud of energy that was rapidly approaching them while Bulma fumed over the rough treatment she had just received. The silence was broken however when the scientist pointed over Tien's shoulder and exclaimed.

"Look I see something!"

The triclops roughly shoved the woman behind him, so that she was out of sight as the line of illuminated dots, akin to bright stars, grew bigger and bigger in the sky. After a short while, it became apparent that blimps in the sky were actually the ablaze auras of men as they flew at over supersonic speed. The sheer amount of energy that was being given off by mass of powerful fighters nearly overwhelmed Tien's senses and he put one hand on his head as the group of flying warriors flew past their cave. Even from inside the cave, the Earthlings could hear the sound the fighters gave off as they blasted past them and they could feel the powerful gusts of wind that originated from the immense energy that the congregation of high power levels was giving off.

It only took a few seconds for the pack of powerful fighters to pass by the cave and out of sight, but Tien and Gohan were left panting as they leaned against the walls of the cave, completely overwhelmed by the influx of energy that had just entered through their senses.

"Did you feel that Mr. Tien?" said Gohan in-between breaths.

"Yes,"

"Several of those guys were just as strong as Vegeta, stronger even!"

"Yes Gohan I…"

"And that one guy in the front, he was like a hundred Vegeta's I've never felt anything so powerful!"

Tien growled as he heard Bulma whimpering as the kid continued to elaborate on the power of the men who had just flown by. "Yes, Gohan I felt it too," he bluntly said before picking himself off the floor of the cave and standing up.

"Bulma I want you to check the Dragon Radar," Tien said concisely as his eyes were fixated on the direction the group of high energies had disappeared in.

"Why?"

"I just want to check if a suspicion of mine is correct."

"Okay," Tien's ears could hear the button click as she turned the machine on and adjusted the map on the radar, and then heard her moan slightly.

"Those guys that just fly past us have four Dragon Balls," whimpered Bulma.

"As I suspected," muttered the triclops as he adjusted one of his green wristbands. The group stood in silence for a moment before Tien proclaimed, "We're going after them."

"Are you insane?" demanded Bulma.

"They have several of the Dragon Balls and we need the Dragon Balls to bring our friends back. It's as simple as that, we have no choice."

"There's no way you can take on all those guys though. Even as powerful as you are it would be suicide to try and fight them.

"I wasn't planning on fighting them," said Tien. "We just need to follow them so we know what they're doing with the Dragon Balls they have. We need to gather intel on them before we can even an attempt to take the Dragon Balls from them."

The stoic warrior turned his head to look at the blue haired genius. "What does the Dragon Radar say about their current position?"

After resetting the radar with a click of the button atop the device, Bulma responded. "There about 10 miles that way," she informed as she extended a finger in the direction. "It seems they're heading directly for another Dragon Ball as well. Great that means they have a Dragon Radar like us!"

"We need to get moving," mumbled Tien. "Gohan, are you with me?"

The kid nodded. "You bet Mr. Tien."

"What you two aren't just going to leave me by myself are you?" asked an exasperated Bulma.

Tien shook his head before responding. "Of course not, especially with all the powerful energies on this planet. You would be practically defenseless by yourself." Taking precautions to make sure that he didn't emit too much energy, Tien crossed his arms and a golden glow outlined his body. After a short while, an exact carbon copy of the three eyed warrior stood beside the original.

"Alright, Gohan let's go. Remember keep your power level as low as possible, we don't want them knowing their being followed," instructed the first Tien.

"Right Mr. Tien," said Gohan and the pair began to run faster than Bulma's eyes could even keep up with in the direction of the Dragon Balls.

"I hope you have some capsules," remarked the remaining Tien as he began to walk inside the cave, "because I've never cared for caves much."

It only took the Earthling duo a couple of minutes to run to where the grouping of power levels had congregated. The older warrior stuck his arm to stop Gohan before scanning the surrounding terrain for a good vantage point to observe from. His eyes spotted a cliff and he motioned for the kid to follow him, the pair keeping very low to the ground as they moved to edge of the cliff. Both man and boy hit the ground and crawled to the very edge of the cliff before peering down into the valley beneath them.

"Hey look they have our ship, I wonder why they moved it here?" whispered Gohan.

Saying nothing in response, Tien quickly scanned the valley below them. There were four buildings that resembled the Namekian spaceship that the Earthlings had arrived in. He assumed that those must be the homes that the Nameks resided in and this must be a small village. From there it didn't take long for him to deduce that the men that were opening the doors to each of the homes where searching for the buildings residents, and there was only one reason Tien could think of that they would want to talk to the Nameks.

"They can't find the Dragon Ball," muttered Tien. "That means they don't have radar like we do. They must be using their scouters to locate the power levels of the Nameks and are going from village to village and then forcing the Nameks to tell them where it is."

"Look!" Tien's eyes drifted back into the village and saw that several soldiers were roughly pushing some of the Nameks out of one of the strange white buildings. There were five Nameks in total, three of them looked almost identical to Kami with dark green skin and wrinkles covering most of their body while the other two looked like miniature Piccolo's.

"I am the almighty Frieza!" Turning his head to the source of the proclamation, Tien's eyes set their sights on a black hoverchair that obscured most of its occupant's form. Hanging out of the chair was a thick tail with a spiked end that was slapping against the side of the black chair this Frieza was sitting in, displaying the creature's impatience. Extending a little above the top of the chair was the being's head, a large chestnut-shaped skull with two horns that protrude at near 45 degree angles.

"Frieza, could it be," Tien muttered as he thought back to his conversation with King Kai about the history of the saiyans. According to the Northern Kai, this alien was the one responsible for the destruction of the saiyan's home planet and their entire race. This monster was the most powerful being in the entire Northern Quadrant of the Universe and when King Kai compared our powers he said Tien's was like a grain of sand compared to the endless ocean that was Frieza. The demon below him certainly had a high enough power level for that comparison to be accurate.

Hearing several other voices, Tien then looked at the two men that stood beside Frieza. The man to his left was tall and elegant looking, the epitome of handsome. The alien had teal skin and emerald green hair that was pulled into a long braid that had been tossed over his shoulder. The noble looking man wore white saiyan armor and with a light blue cape that fluttered behind him in the wind, and wrapped in between each of his arms, which were covered by light pink sleeves, were two giant orange globes that seemed to have stars painted onto them.

Arching his eyebrow as he glanced over at the being to Frieza's right, Tien saw that this creature also held two large spheres in each of his arms. This alien was the exact opposite of the other though, being a massive pink brute, that looked like a piece of chewed bubble gum, that was nearly as wide as he was tall. The round alien's arms and head possessed spikes that protruded from his body, giving him an even more intimidating appearance.

"What do you think they're saying?" asked Gohan, breaking Tien out of his own thoughts.

The older warrior shrugged. "I can only hear bits and pieces or when they shout something and the Nameks never talk that loud so we can only speculate. It's a safe bet though that they're interrogating the Nameks trying to discover the location of the Dragon Ball, which are the huge orange spheres those two are holding."

The young boy was about to ask the older warrior another question but both of Earthlings attention was brought back to the village when suddenly the teal skinned alien suddenly phased out of sight. He quickly reappeared though behind one of the elder Nameks and delivered a fatal roundhouse kick to the old alien's neck. Tien heard the kid gasp beside him as the old Namek's body skidded across the ground and then lay there motionlessly.

An angry battle cry ripped from the throat of another of the elder Nameks and he fired a ki wave at the back of the murderer of his comrade. Tien saw the teal alien just smirk though before throwing one of the Dragon Balls in his hand high into the air before taking to the sky himself to avoid the blue energy wave. The soldier behind him though was not as lucky though as the fish-like alien was fried by the ki wave, destroying his scouter in the process, and he fell to the ground lifelessly.

The Namek's original target escaped unharmed though, and the green haired man raised his hand above his head and gathered a sphere of orange energy in his palm before thrusting his arm downward. An orange energy barrage wave erupted out of the sphere of energy and in a spilt second it made contact with the elder Namek who had attacked him, blasting him into tiny particles. The teal man than landed back at his position to the side of Frieza's hoverchair and caught the Dragon Ball he had thrown into the air earlier.

Tien could see that the remaining elder, who had so far seemed to be the leader of the village, and the two children's mouths were agape as they stared in horror at the spot where the elder had stood only moments ago before being obliterated. The three eyed human then felt the kid's power level rising and he looked over to see that the boy was shaking in rage and his fist balled.

"I can't believe these guys," he hissed. "Bullies!"

The older warrior put a hand on the young boy's shoulder. "You have to calm yourself, kid. We can't do anything about it and if you don't you could give away our position."

"I can't, I'm just so mad!" he responded.

"I know it's hard, but we have to keep our cool right now. You have to remember we came here so we could revive Piccolo and the others. Just focus on our objective."

Gohan was still trembling in anger, but Tien could feel his power level receding again and he sighed. It wasn't that he didn't agree with the kid, nothing would please him more right now than to counterattack against these murderers and make them pay for slaughtering two innocent elderly men. Right now though was not the best time to strike though, since if they powered up even a little, the soldiers' scouters would pick them up and they would lose the element of surprise.

A smirk formed on the bald human's face though as he sensed three new energies rapidly making their way to the village. "Besides Gohan, it seems like the cavalry has arrived."

Looking up at the older warrior confused, Gohan realized what he was talking about when three younger Namekians, who were similar to Piccolo in appearance, landed at the edge of the village. Tien watched as the trio of Nameks landed and they seemed to converse with Frieza before a chorus of loud laughter erupted from the normal soldiers that were scattered throughout the village. After the laugher, the dozen foot troops suddenly leapt at the three Nameks and the battle between the Namekians and Frieza's men began.

"It seems that those men have no idea that the Nameks are suppressing their true power," remarked Tien as he watched the Namekians pummel the minions Frieza had thrown at them. It seemed that Frieza and his top henchmen also noticed, because the one that looked like bubble gum began to make his way towards the battle once it looked like the Nameks had victory in the bag.

Suddenly though, a thin beam of energy collide with the side of the massive alien's face and Tien saw a small explosion as the scouter he had been wearing short circuited. The three eyed fighter trailed the beam back to its origins until his eyes found the elder Namek standing there with a grin on his face.

"I'll kill you for that you stupid slug!" screamed the pink alien before charging at the elder, but the Namek anticipated the move and leaped up into the air to avoid the monster. He then extended both of his index fingers and fired two more finger beams and the both raced past the round brute that was pursuing him and hit two scouters that were on the faces of two dead soldiers.

"That old man's pretty clever," said Tien impressed. "He must have realized that they were finding the Namek villages by using the scouters and so he destroyed the only three that Frieza and his men still possessed.

"Wow that is pretty smart," agreed Gohan.

As Tien watched as the spiked brute stopped right as he was about to kill the elder Namek, a plan suddenly formulated in the human's head. Now that all of the scouters were gone, he and Gohan would be free to power up and move in on the invaders without alerting them first. A smirk formed on his lips as he leaned over and whispered his plan to the kid, whose face lit up after being told the plan.

"Remember though, you are only to move on my signal," reminded Tien as he turned his attention back towards the village.

"Okay Mr. Tien."

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Moori growled in anger as he walked around the side of his home as he made his way to retrieve the Dragon Ball he had been entrusted with to protect. He had failed though and now he was being forced to give up the ball to one who was unworthy so he could save the children from the same fate as the others.

After the one called Frieza ordered the big pink one to cease his attack on himself, the big one named Dodoria had proceeded to kill the members of the proud warrior caste that were sworn to protect the village. The three warriors had fought their hardest and had given it everything they had but in the end they were no match for the terrible Dodoria.

Now the Village Elder was hoping that by giving the invaders what they wanted, they would leave his village without any more bloodshed. As he took the giant orange orb from his hiding place inside of the ceremonial room in the Gathering Den, Moori briefly considered refusing the space tyrant's request for the mystical sphere. The others had died in an effort to protect the village and prevent the evil overlord from getting ahold of the magical orb, so why should he not do the same.

The Elder sighed as he slowly walked out of the den and headed back to where Frieza and his men were waiting for him. He knew that he had to take any chance that allowed the two children, Dende and Cargo even a slim chance of survival. They did not deserve death, so he would not risk their lives by defying these powerful men their wish. The leader, Frieza, had promised that if he brought them the Dragon Ball that he and his men would leave so Moori was taking the slim chance that they would actually be true to their word.

"Hurry up we don't have all day," yelled one of the soldiers that had survived the battle with the members of the warrior caste. The Namek growled at the disrespectful soldier before lifting the 6 star ball in one hand and presenting it to the leader of the group, Frieza, a small humanoid that looked like what Moori imagined a demon looked like.

"Here is your precious Dragon Ball," proclaimed Moori. "Take it and leave!" A light blue alien that looked remarkably like a fish walked up and took the mystical orb out of the Village Elder's hand and then scurried over to where Frieza and his top henchmen stood.

"Oh we will," said the lizard like tyrant. "But before we go, could you point us in the direction of the next village, because you see by destroying our scouters it will be much harder for us to locate it."

"That wasn't part of our deal!" exclaimed Moori. "You have the Dragon Ball, leave us in peace!"

"Oh, but you see I need all seven for my wish and I only possess five right now. So unless you tell me where I can find the other two Dragon Balls, I'm afraid I'll have to go back on our little deal."

"You barbarian," yelled the Village Elder. "I would rather die than allow you to destroy another village like you have destroyed my own!"

"Oh, but I don't plan on killing you. At least, not until you tell me what I want to know, but those two," Moori watched in horror as the sadistic lizard nodded towards the two children behind him. "are not as valuable to me. Dodoria show this old fool that we mean business."

"Yes, Lord Frieza," said the large pink alien with an evil grin on his face. Before the Namek could even blink, the brute had opened his mouth and fired a large orange energy wave at the two children behind the Village Elder.

"No!" screamed Moori as the wave exploded and the children were obscured from sight in a cloud of debris. The elder Namek look on in horror as the dust settled, but his dread turned to surprise and then into happiness when the cloud settled and revealed a tall, pale man that had three eyes standing in epicenter of the blast with Dende and Cargo having been pushed out of the way by a small dark haired boy.

"You should really watch where you're aiming," said Tien with a small smirk on his face. "You could really piss of somebody you don't want to mess with."

Well there it is, the gang is on Namek and things are already in motion there while Chi-Chi and Goku are about to be informed of the situation on the distant planet. Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter and thank you for all the reviews on the last chapter. I would like to address one review which I can say is the first that has ever really been sort of a flame review. I would like to say that I don't mind so much the review because the reviewer had some valid points, such as some fights being almost carbon copies of fights from the anime such as some of the Upa fights against one of the Sabiaman. I would like to defend myself by saying that once I realized this was happening I stopped watching the episodes I was writing about beforehand so that the fights wouldn't be as similar. Also, fighters aren't going to change their fighting styles or their personalities because they are fighting someone different. The main example I'll bring up is in the Vegeta vs. Tien fight when Vegeta tried to destroy the Earth with his Galick Gun attack. Just because he's fighting Tien instead of Goku doesn't mean he wouldn't try some of the same techniques and tricks to win. It's just something he would do regardless of the opponent if he was being humiliated by someone he considered inferior. Also some events are going to happen regardless because there's simply no explanation for why an event would NOT happen. If you start changing the events of the series too much, than your just changing to change it, not so the story is better.

Now that I'm done with that little rant, here are some power levels.

Gohan-1,500

Banan (blue man)-800

Sui (purple snake alien)-750

Namek Warriors-3,000

Zarbon-23,000

Dodoria-22,000

Again I hope you enjoyed the chapter and if you have questions, suggestions, or just comments about the stories leave them in a review. Also, my new story should be coming out sometime tomorrow, so I would appreciate it if you guys would check it out and tell me what you think of it!