Dead Zone Saga
Over a month or so has passed since Raditz's message of doom. Kunlun has thrived in his island hell. The boy hunted dinosaurs for food and long since discarded his old clothes. He was dressed in the hides of the animal's he had hunted. Some of his clothing is fur, some is dino hide.
In a month Kunlun had learned to fly and use some of his power. As Piccolo said when one month had come and went. Piccolo would come to train him. The lesson of the day 'dodge'. In a mad dash Kunlun is running around trying to avoid Piccolo's blasts. Kunlun rushes behind a large boulder. Piccolo blasts it and it turns to pebbles. Piccolo "You can't hide, that's not how this works."
Kunlun takes off trying to use the rocky outcroppings to his advantage. Piccolo smiles. The boy already has good fighting instincts. Somehow Piccolo even lost track of the boy. He was going to have to sense him out.
But suddenly Piccolo felt uneasy he and Kunlun were not alone on this island and it wasn't any dinosaurs. The background noise of the island stopped, none of the birds of paradise or other animals, chirping and roaring. Only the wind and sounds of the ocean in the distance. They were good, whoever they were. Piccolo couldn't place where they were. So he waited and felt them out until.
Piccolo fired a blast at a nearby plateau, the figures scatter and make themselves visible. They aren't human's. No humans could have gotten this close to him without being discovered. The visual confirmed this. They were demons a simple look could tell you that.
They had scaly skin, odd features and pointy ears. All but one had hair but that one's hair was not like human or saiyan more like horse hair. On their faces were sadistic smiles, they may have been surprised that Piccolo had found them but they weren't scared. The demons formed a triangle around the Prince of Demons, they were relaxed to the point of laughing.
Piccolo "Okay. You have less than a minute to tell me why you are there before I just kill you all." Garlic Jr. "Look at how the mighty have fallen boys. The Demon Prince reduced to a babysitter. Truly Kami's Earth is cruel indeed."
Piccolo looks to see a small blue dwarf with a castle symbol on his shirt staring on from a plateau. Piccolo knew it was in a glance, Kami and he shared memories after all. Piccolo, sarcastically "So Garlic Jr. may I ask what is this O so great pleasure is about?"
Garlic Jr. "Sarcasm suites you Piccolo. It doesn't for many, much like your purple and green look it suites." Piccolo, sarcastically "So you're here to talk about fashion?" Garlic Jr. "I guess that you were the one that inherited what his name's humor."
Piccolo, sarcastically "Now you want to talk about my sense of humor? Make up your mind." Garlic Jr. "I feel like you're not taking me seriously." Piccolo, deadpan "Well I am taking you as seriously as an ego-maniacal imp with daddy issues should be taken."
Garlic Jr. "Wow hey kettle meet pot." Piccolo, incredulously "At least I'm not happy meal sized." Garlic Jr. growls, Piccolo hit a sore spot. Garlic Jr. "You try to be civilized to people and they step all over you. (He sighs) Okay I feel far more justified in what I am about to do. KILL HIM!"
Nicky, Ginger and Sansho charged at Piccolo. Despite being outnumbered three to one the three attackers couldn't touch him. The flurry of punch all seemed to hit air. After the good couple of seconds of this Piccolo attacks. Piccolo throws a back handed punch to Sansho face. A kick to Ginger's gut and a chop to Nicky's neck. The three go flying away but all three caught themselves in midair.
Piccolo "So let me get this straight, you want revenge on Kami. So you try and kill me, to kill him. Even though I'm not a decrepit old man which a cold could kill?" Garlic Jr. trying to act gunho "Well yeah! And then I will use the Dragon Balls to make myself immortal!"
Garlic Jr. starts to laugh. Piccolo face turns from confusion to hilarity. Piccolo "So in your master plan. That I imagine you have had hundreds of years to think of. Your first move is to kill the man whose life-force is key to the second part?"
Garlic Jr. stops laughing and a stunned deer in the head highlights look takes over. The gears in his tiny head have grinded to a sudden halt. Garlic Jr. looks at Piccolo with hate and rage. Garlic Jr. then looks to his henchman 'no more games'.
The three demons suddenly grow in size and bulk. The three charge at Piccolo again with very different results. The punches now hit home. Piccolo starts to lose ground as it were. Nicky wacked Piccolo on the side and he coughed up a little bit of his purple blood.
A blast not from Piccolo or anyone present was fired at Nicky. Piccolo looked to see his ally, Kunlun who looked quite upset. The kid was trying to defend him. Piccolo's mind was confused beyond believe by this fact.
Kunlun "Leave Mr. Piccolo alone!" Piccolo "Thanks for the help kid but this is my fight. Run along." Kunlun looked at Piccolo with some tears in his eyes, the boy is apparently sad about the fact that he is hurt. The kid jumps head first into the fray with understandable results.
The kid may have power but is as of yet not fully trained. Without any sense of self-preservation or coordination for that matter. While Piccolo was fighting off Ginger and Sansho. Kunlun was wildly flailing at Nicky.
Garlic Jr. "Huh I guess I should deal with this myself." Kami "I think you have a bigger problem to deal with." Kami in stand right behind Garlic Jr., staff in hand looking for a fight. Garlic Jr. looks at Kami with mild amusement.
Garlic Jr. "Really? You're really going to fight me you decrepit old leather hand bag?" Kami, heroically "I'm going to stop you just like your father." Garlic Jr. "Well I guess I won't look a gift horse in the mouth. Killing you after all has been a dream over a century. "
Garlic Jr. powers up pushing Kami back. What happens next could be best described as a flogging. Kami attempts to fight Garlic Jr. and is failing horribly. The old man has long since lost at step and it's apparent.
None of Kami's strikes faze Garlic Jr., who doesn't even bother to block the blows. Kami's tries kicking Garlic Jr. in the side of the head. Garlic Jr. doesn't even flinch. Piccolo trying to fight two different guys, make sure Kunlun is okay, rolls his eyes at Kami, he will have to protect him to.
Piccolo upper cuts Sansho, grabs him at tosses him at Ginger. Piccolo uses the distraction to blind side Nicky with a blast to the head. The blast takes Nicky's head off and his corpse falls to the ground. Kunlun is a little shocked at this cruelty but he was trying to kill them.
Before Piccolo can go and help Kami, Ginger attacks Piccolo and Sansho goes after Kunlun. Kami falls to the ground on his knees at a single blow from Garlic Jr. Garlic Jr. "You know I'm about to make 'God is dead and we have killed him' a reality, except for the we part just I."
Kami begins to really regret not sending some of the humans to deal with this. Garlic Jr. stands in front of him. Garlic Jr. "You know it is about time you recognized you superior. Is there any fight left in ya." Kami puts his arms around him and starts to charge up. Garlic Jr. panics a bit. Kami is about to commit suicide. Piccolo "Could you please not do that!"
A blast comes towards them. Garlic Jr. breaks away from Kami. Kami looks at Piccolo who is still fighting off Ginger. Kami sighs in agreement. Kami dying would mean the end of life on Earth when the saiyans arrive.
Piccolo gets his opening and punches Ginger in the gut and fires a blast obliterating him. Piccolo goes behind Sansho who was beating on Kunlun. Piccolo kicks him from behind and fires a blast from his mouth, vaporizing Sansho.
Kunlun is lying on the ground beat up. Piccolo getting angry at the sight of the injured kid. Piccolo, whispering "You did great kid." Piccolo looks over to Garlic Jr. who unlike him had not had to exert himself at all. Piccolo lands on the Plateau. Show down time demon vs demon.
Piccolo "So are you going to show your true colors or are you just going to make me waste my time?" Garlic Jr. "Well I was going to start the fight like this but when you put it like that…"
Garlic Jr. transforms from small blue dwarf to muscle bounded blue giant with a foot or two above Piccolo. Piccolo takes off his turban and cape, he cracks his knuckles and neck. Garlic Jr. and Piccolo get into fighting stance.
They charge at one another and by the first punch it is clear that Piccolo is at the disadvantage. Their punches meet at which Piccolo is pushed back. Garlic Jr. begins to wail on him. A punch to Piccolo's temple knocks him right to the ground.
Piccolo "Heh maybe I spoke too soon." Garlic Jr. chuckles and allows Piccolo to back on his feet, then kicks him before Piccolo can mount a defense. Piccolo knows there is only one way to stop this rampaging blue monster now Special Beam Cannon.
Only problem is that how in the hell will he get farther enough away to make his shot? Kunlun jumps into the fray again. Kunlun socks Garlic Jr right in the face with a right hook. Garlic Jr. seems to be having a problem dealing with the pure-hearted kid.
Garlic Jr. seems incapable of following any of the boy's movements. Piccolo begins charging for his attack. Kunlun is giving Garlic Jr. more than just a run for his money. Garlic Jr. in frustration begins to do something. The sky turns blood red and the sun is blotted out as a swirl begins to form in the sky. Garlic Jr, angry "Let see you runt spend the rest of eternity in the Dead…"
Just then in a yell Piccolo fires the cannon at Garlic Jr. hitting him square in the head right between the eyes. The sky returns to its blue and the sun comes back out. Kunlun seeing the monster having been defeated goes back into unconsciousness. And the day is saved thanks to the Prince of the Demons?
Undisclosed Location
A man in a UNIT uniform in his mid thirties is walk down a walkway in fully military dress with a red beret on. He is uncomfortable about something. In certain spots his hair is graying from its brown. He has pale blue eyes and a cross pin on his uniform.
The man in an UNIT uniform walks into a lab were a white haired scientist has been hard at work. The room shows signs of the old man's obsessions a dart board with the face of Chi-Chi on it. The sheer number of holes on it could tell you it has been there for quite some time.
The air to the room is stale, the door doesn't open much. There is half-eaten food about from various lengths of time. It stinks in the room. There are half-built robots everywhere in the grey-dark smelly room.
The uniformed man looks over to the scientist hard at work on his latest invention. The old man seems aware on the uniformed man presence but does not look or even bother to acknowledge his presence.
Colonel Stryker "I brought you what you asked for Doctor. The alien is in the freezer." Dr. Gero "Is he well preserved?" Colonel Stryker "Yeah the autopsy may have move somethings around but we kept him on ice the entire way." Dr. Gero, happy "Excellent I have a feeling that he will prove a boon to my research."
The Colonel looks over to the dart board on the wall. Shakes his head. Colonel Stryker "Still sore about what happen to the Ribbon? You know we have far more important axes to grind. Aliens are about to come to the planet and kill us all."
Dr. Gero "I understand that Bill but people are allowed to hold grudges right?" Colonel Stryker "I suppose so. Just don't let it get in the way of saving the human race."
Dr. Gero "Bill, I am on my way to making a revolution in cybernetics. Soon I will be able to give a teenage runaway the power of superman. Your guns and bombs are about to be obsolete. You will not need worry any more who will stop aliens and terrorists. Imagine an army condensed to one. You big scary aliens will run in terror of us. The new superpower of the galaxy." Colonel Stryker "Will we even be humans then?"
Dr. Gero "Bill it is a vast universe of possibilities. There is an infinite number of parallel universes out there. And in all of that chaos and contradictions there is only one truth. That change is evitable. Our ancestors were at one point tree bound rat like creatures hiding in holes from the bigger animals. Now Dinosaurs are an endangered species overhunted by humanity. The weak have become the strong. The peasants overthrew the nobility. We'll all live under a democracy. Despite the fact that we have a king. Sam Cole made us equal for a time. But if we stand still, we will die out. The difference being now we can chose the direction we go in."
Colonel Stryker "What direction should we go in?" Dr. Gero "Its very simple Bill perfection."
Snake Way, King Kai World
Chi-Chi after a long time has finally reached the end of Snake Way. She looks up to see King Kai's world above her. She flies towards the tiny planet with a smile on her face. Finally she will be able to get some serious training in.
She comes towards the planet. She all of a sudden feels ten times heavier. She goes from flying to the planet, to crashing down towards the planet. Chi-Chi smacks into the planet at terminal velocity.
The crater she makes is Chi-Chi shaped. Face first she hit the ground and she is slow to get up. Chi-Chi is struggling under the gravity of the planet. Chi-Chi looks up a monkey is staring at her.
Chi-Chi "O more monkeys. Please tell me you're not King Kai." King Kai "Don't worry kid, Bubbles here isn't King Kai, I am."
Behind Bubbles she hears the voice. She gets back to her feet, doing her best impression of a new born fawn. She looks to see an old looking short blue antennae man with two blue whiskers. He was fat and even had a smell to him despite him looking quite clean, just his natural musk. The symbol on his shirt said it all 'King Kai'.
Chi-Chi tries to bow to him but instead falls to the ground. The gravity would take some time to get used to. King Kai chuckles at Chi-Chi misfortune. King Kai "Okay as amusing as this is, my I ask why are you here kid." Chi-Chi raises her head enough to look at him.
Chi-Chi, pleadingly "Master King Kai, my named is Chi-Chi! I come from planet Earth which about to be attack by two Saiyans! I need you to train me so I can stop them from destroying my world!"
King Kai "Well that is the usual reason that people come to my world. No one ever come to learn from my arts of the pun. Well alright kid I will train you kid but first you have got to make me laugh."
Capsule Corp
Bulma goes marching into the hanger were her father is working on the alien space craft and building a new space craft. Bulma "I have done it!" Dr. Brief "O what you done sweetheart?"
Bulma "Dad I have successfully reversed-engineered that Raditz's jerks scouter. I even manage to program it into English and Japanese. I figured out the secret to long range uninterrupted space communication!"
Dr. Brief "That marvelous sweetheart. By the way could you hand me that wrench?" Bulma, angry "I can believe you Dad! I discover a tech that was literally considered impossible and all you can say is 'hand me a wrench'?!"
Dr. Brief, confused "Why what did you want me to say?" Bulma storms out of the hanger, Dr. Brief shrugs his shoulders. Dr. Brief "Man you ask people a question and they blow up at you." Bulma storms into her room and smashed the door shut. Her room is a mess to say the least with pictures and hardware all around on the floor and cabinets.
The pictures our mostly of the adventures that she has gone on. Meeting Chi-Chi while searching for the Dragon balls. Dealing with Pilaf, the world tournaments, the red ribbon army and King Piccolo along with his son.
She has always been a part of the action since the beginning. But she now feels as though she is being left behind. She looks at herself in the mirror. Bulma "Beauty. At least I'm not losing that. Maybe someone out there in the universe needs me?"
Planet Vegeta
Alone in a waste land an isolated Prince is training by himself. A divide between himself and the city in the background. Prince Vegeta "No one on this stinking planet gets it." The Prince powers up destroying the rock beneath his feet desperately trying to force the golden power to him. It doesn't come and the Prince collapses unable to gain the power of which he seeked. Prince Vegeta "Why? Why can't I achieve it?"
Guarda watching from up on top of the Celestial Palace mutters "blue hair" before returning to her mediation. Guarda thinking "My grandson I know your problem all too well. I have given you the solution but you need to learn it on your own. I give you all my faith and all of my love. I wonder what must be your spark? What does that blue hair mean?"
Deep in Outer Space Later On
The two pods of the Saiyans are hurdling through space approach a rocky world. The two go out of stasis as they enter the atmosphere of the Planet. They are fully awake as they touch down. They land on a sunny box canyon in the middle of nowhere.
The two get out of their pods on the desolate plain they landed. A hot sun beats down on them. Kakarrot "So why are we here?" Princess Escarole "Thought the Planet might have some fun on it. Looks like I might have been wrong about that."
The Princess taps her scouter. The alien numbers come up. Princess Escarole "Phf. Only 14 humanoids left on the planet… (The scouter beeps). Huh make the 13." Kakarrot "Well were here so might as well say hello."
The two take off flying over the rocky. The two see a pepper pot looking monster, gunning down some aliens. The planet has been ravaged by them. The Princess blows up the pepper pot and before the survivor could say a thing she ends the odd eared alien.
The two look each other in agreement. They go back to their pods. There is nothing left to destroy. They take off but before they leave the atmosphere Princess Escarole fires a beam down to the planet's core. They go back into stasis and the planet explodes. So ends Planet Vulcan.
The Celestial Palace/ Planet Vegeta Sometime Ago
A twelve year old Broly wearing his tiny RIT armor sits next to Guarda mediating on the deck of the Palace. She looks over to her son a crescent moon in the background highlighting the scene. He tries to mediate like her but keep twitching unable to sit still.
Guarda "It's not just about trying to be still. It's about mental peace. If your mind isn't calm your body can't be."Broly, defeated "Sorry." Guarda, understand "Don't be you're a kid nothing should be at peace in you."
Broly, curiously "Mom why don't you sleep?" Guarda, annoyed "Besides the fact that you blow up my bed?" Broly, sass "Yeah. You made a new one in a second."
Guarda "Doesn't mean I'm not going to bring it up every chance I get." Broly "You're not answering my question." Guarda "I am very aware of that fact. (She sighs). I don't like to sleep because I have bad dreams."
Broly "You have bad dreams?" Guarda "Yeah. Believe it or not your mama can have bad dreams too." Broly "Are they like mine when theirs a monster and you don't have any power or theirs no food at all?" Guarda "No kiddo in my bad dreams there is a moment or the monster is me."Broly "How could you be a monster you don't even have fangs?"
She pats him on the head. Guarda "You don't need fangs to be a monster kid. Monsters can even be smaller then you… Go to bed. Were going down so you can get some sparring time with the Prince's and Princess tomorrow."
Broly jumps up into the air in joy. Broly "Wow tomorrow is going to be awesome." He rushes off to bed even though going to sleep might be impossible now.
Guarda, frowning "So the kids gone you wanted to talk." King Kai "You know for the terror of the universe you seem to be quite domesticated Super Saiyan."
Guarda "He's my baby and the other two are all grown up. He's my last chance to get it right." King Kai "Your other children go and murder worlds." Guarda, insulted "So easy for you on your spot in heaven to judge us."
King Kai "When are you going to tell him that you killed his father?" Guarda, scoffs "I didn't." King Kai "Then why do you feel like you did?"
Guarda, yells "Shut up!" King Kai "That's not what I wanted to talk about anyways." Guarda "Let me guess. You want my son to clamp down on some of the craziness in the North Galaxy."
King Kai "Yes." Guarda "Why should I? The answer was 'no' when I asked for help dealing with Frieza." King Kai "The chaos was of your doing. The only right thing would be for you to solve it."
Guarda, laughing "The right thing? (In a rage). What was the right thing when I asked you for help? It was all ways about my son's or my own crimes with you! Never the Tuffle or Frost Demons crimes just mine! (Calmer). All being right got me was widowhood and emptiness. If anything, I want more death in the universe, more chaos."
King Kai "It's not right to take out your own misery on the innocent." Guarda "Says the god not willing to even have the decency to come here in person or help them yourself." King Kai, meekly "I am observer not a policeman."
Guarda "Well observe this. I'm not going say a thing. I'm just going to continue to watch as the universe collapses into mad dogs ripping each other apart. Because as far as I am concerned I am just an observer." King Kai has leaves her mind. Guarda, in a spit "Coward." Alone she is left in the darkness, unable to sleep, a crescent moon overhead.
King Kai's Planet Now
King Kai wakes up from a day dream to see Chi-Chi going through her paces. She has already catch Bubbles and smashed Gregory. She is in the process of learning the Spirit Bomb and Kio-Ken. He looks to his bright young student.
King Kai "Hey Chi take five." Chi-Chi, nods "Okay." She stops trying to push her energy out of her and goes over to King Kai. Chi-Chi looks to see that King Kai is sweating and visible uncomfortable. Chi-Chi "What going on King Kai?" King Kai "Do you think Chi-Chi. A god can make a mistake?"
Chi-Chi "Well I don't know. You might act like a weirdo but your pretty wise and all." King Kai, deadpan sarcastic "Well than what a ringing endorsement." (Serious again). "Have you ever heard the phrase know your enemy?" Chi-Chi "Yeah, Sun-Tzu."
King Kai "Good because I am going to tell you the Tale of the Saiyan's. Wait there is a really good pun in their!" (He snickers and then goes back to serious look). "So our story begins on Salada many hundreds of years ago. The Saiyan race had become one of the universes most advanced races and established a peaceful co-existence with the galaxy as a whole. The Saiyan were a founding member of the Galactic Police and kept the growing Frost Empire in check. But all that changed when the Legendary Super Saiyan arrived on the scene. Their civilization was destroyed, their technology smashed. This event changed the direction of the species'. The Saiyan were left on a planet incapable of supporting their race. Saiyan's eat a lot more than most species. This problem led to great unrest and war. The peaceful albeit frustratingly punch happy civilization was replaced by an aggressive warlike race. Despite my friend Veler efforts, the other shoe dropped and the Saiyan's blow up their world. The Saiyan race survived, however, going to Planet Plant. They arrived and meet the Plant's inhabitants the Tuffles. At first there was a belief their might be peace but the Saiyans and the Tuffles were incompatible. Fear and mistrust haunted both sides. The advanced Tuffles looked down on the primitive Saiyans and the Saiyans thought the Tuffles deceitful. There were some that tried to avoid conflict but idiocy had its way. The Saiyans wipeout the Tuffles in a ten long year war. The thing that ended that ten year war was the full moon. A thing that only happens on Plant every one hundred years. When the full moon happens a tailed Saiyan transforms into a giant monkey with ten times the power. The extermination of the Tuffles complete the Saiyans were left alone. That was until the PTO came to the newly named Planet Vegeta. Frieza a galactic tyrant and villain drafted the Saiyan race into his army. The Saiyans were made into mercenaries planet murderers. The Saiyan didn't like their servitude however. The Legend return this time liberating the Saiyan race from their slavery. Since the death of Frieza the Saiyan's have become the terror of the galaxy. One of the Saiyan's that are coming to your Planet is the daughter of their King and a grand-daughter of the new Super Saiyan. I fear either victory or defeat might spell doom for your world. Whatever you do, don't not think a victory over the two that are coming means the end of your problems. Earth has entered a dangerous game with powerful players. I trust your instincts Chi-Chi but remember this fact."
Planet Elas
Supreme Commander Salza is walking to his ship when purple and yellow cloaked commander is stopped by one of his soldiers that says to him in a whisper. The green and yellow colored soldier said.
Soldier "We have intercepted a highly encrypted message between Nappa and Kakarrot something about a planet Earth. We have yet to decrypt the message between Kakarrot and his brother. It all seem unusually important we may wish to stay in the Milky Way."
Supreme Commander Salza, nods "Agreed. Keep Lord Cooler informed. We might need his assistance." The Supreme Commander heads to his ship cape swaying in the wind marching up the ramp.
Supreme Commander Salza thinks "Destiny is calling a change is on wind we will final put a end to the filthy monkeys. Lord Cooler has grown so much strong since his families end."
Planet Earth
Kunlun is sleeping next to a fire made by Piccolo. Piccolo is watching the fire and looks to Kunlun. What started as just a way to save himself has turned into something more. The boy was making life worth living. Training him made him feel as though his life matter. Someone needed and relied on him. He had been alone since the begin but now.
Now he felt like life had a certain meaning that it never had before. Being need was new and different. It didn't feel wrong. The boy was so much more important than a means for survival.
He taught him everything he knew about fighting. If he was to die Kunlun would almost be a cheat of death. Like there would be some part of him still alive. The kid looked at him like he was a hero or something. No one but the kid did that.
Humanity could all go and die for all he cared but Kunlun. Piccolo didn't want to see him die. Piccolo even imagined himself dying for Kunlun. Everything was in Piccolo's world self-oriented. The idea of dying to save another was unheard of.
But it was okay. Dying for Kunlun just made sense. He may have not been his father but damn it he was willing to do it. Death was coming and it didn't matter as long as Kunlun lived.