Living Legend
And the expected fight for Earth begins on the new chapter! I'm kind of in a very good mood so I publish faster. Don't know how long that will last. Maybe chapter 8 will come just as quickly, maybe it will not.
It's a bit shorter than usual but I don't care. I just write out of pleasure. Now for the fans of the story, enjoy!
Chapter 7: Invaders
The fateful month had finally gone by and the pack of Z-fighters were finally ready to face their new challenge.
The Saiyan family was standing in a grassy field miles away from any city. The place was dotted with many boulders over the empty landscape. The two Saiyans of Earth were as always in their orange Gis from the Turtle school. Bardock had his own black one with dark green undershirt that Kakarot had materialized for him a year ago. It had become a rather nice companion. Amazingly even Raditz had one, a dark blue color without any undershirt also keeping his former PTO gauntlets instead of wristbands, now of a black color. He wasn't fond of the blue attire but it would suffice for the moment.
The long-haired warrior checked the horizon. A familiar energy was going into them.
"Hey though guy" Inuzama showed up in her own dark blue outfit as always restraining her model-like body. Thanks to a month of training her strength had shot up faster than anything. She rubbed her neck and playfully nudged Raditz in the shoulder "Man, I'm still sore from that last sparring"
"You should see me when I'm serious" The long-haired fighter answered back with a grin.
"Is that a challenge?" The blonde woman shot back hands on her hips. She looked ready to continue the jeering with her mate for an undefined amount of time.
Goku facepalmed. For the last weeks his brother and Inuzama had gotten closer, almost all the time teasing at each other like if it were something normal for them. And sometimes it wasn't even subtle. Scratch that, they were never subtle.
"Guys, can you keep it cool until the end of the fight? Gohan's here and I don't want my son suddenly corrupted by any of you" The palm-haired group leader stated towards the two of them.
"Yeah because fighting aliens from your own kind can't corrupt you" Raditz replied quizzically. Goku shook his head. First Inuzama was crazy. Now his brother. Hopefully it wasn't something contagious.
"Hey dad, do you feel that?" The demi alien said towards his father, both sensing energies heading their way.
"Hey fellows!" Yamcha stated floating down with the bald orange-dressed Krillin and the three-eyed green-pants Tien. They were all many times stronger than before. They could make quick work of anyone if working together.
"Where's Chaotzu?" Goku asked towards his tryclops friend looking around for the mime-faced former Crane fighter.
"I convinced him not to come" Tien replied a bit sad but also happy that his best friend wasn't going to get into any mortal danger "After all, if he dies then we can't bring him back with the Dragon Balls"
"Krillin, you know you already died once, don't you?" The martial arts champion asked towards his bald friend. But the monk waved the statement off.
"Relax, pal. Even if I die, I still do something useful by taking those Saiyans with me" Krillin responded. He didn't sound so enthusiastic about that idea but he knew things could get pretty awful pretty fast. Just a common fact of their lives.
Everyone' stare harden when three incoming energies surged out of nowhere from above the fighters. The Z warriors could see the three attack pods flying down just miles away from them. It was obvious the ships were tracking the highest energies of the planet.
"Remember the strategy" Raditz said in his drill commander voice to everyone. He was the one that knew the Saiyans the most, though only Vegeta and Nappa. The new addition might be troublesome for them "Nappa will sprout the Saibamen. Remember, stay away from the acid and their death. It's only a fake to become a living bomb" They all nodded in understanding.
"Okay, with them taking care off, You guy will handle this new guy. For what I can sense your combined strength will beat the shit out of it" The palm-haired leader Goku stated in confidence. He knew his friends were strong enough. They had all prepared for the moment "Then Raditz, Gohan, Piccolo and myself will go after Nappa and Vegeta..."
"I will take him" Bardock crisply stated. No one argued against him. He was the strongest so he could do whatever he wanted.
The white pods slidded open and revealed the new invaders of Earth. One towered seven feet tall, no hair on his head. He was rather bulky with a yellow and black armor like the one Raditz had. His name was Nappa and had been a commander back on planet Vegeta. The second one was the complete opposite to Nappa, barely above five feet tall and with his hair spiking up defying gravity. His body wasn't so chiseled like his comrades. His armor was black and blue. His name was Tarble. He had been king Vegeta' second son, but had been sent away into a distant planet so to hide his abnormally low power level. Something he was going to prove wrong. The final one was the leader squad, taller than Tarble and shorter than Nappa. He had a white and yellow armor. Most of his height came from his rare widow-peak of hair. A common trait he and his brother shared.
"Tarble, check for the closest energy" Vegeta ordered towards his brother not caring if he sounded like an arrogant prick. The brother did so clicking the scouter machine over his eye.
"There are at least seven signatures ranking the one thousand just a couple of miles east" The shortest fighter replied.
"They must have amassed an army" The prince chuckled with mockery and sarcasm. The three Saiyan invaders took off into their enemies. They wanted to kill the traitor Raditz and his foolish brother. All traitors to their race.
"Here they come!" Piccolo stated, getting his guard up. The others did so. The three Saiyans landed right in front of the Earth Defense Team. They looked at the army with condescending eyes.
"So these are Earth Special Forces" Vegeta commented arms folded over his white-armored chest "Not very impressive" Next to him, the taller Nappa clicked the red-lensed scouter. But now he got a different reading from Tarble's.
"Kakarot's a ten thousand!" The tall alien said out-loud gobsmacked. He then pointed at Raditz "And Raditz's too!" Vegeta actually sweat in his brow. How they were so powerful in such a short period of time was amazing. And also dangerous. The fight wouldn't be an easy one.
The bald invader looked at the green Piccolo and the short hybrid Gohan. He only recognized the hybrid by his brown tail around his waist.
"A Namekian here? And a Saiyan brat too?" The shaved gorilla asked clicking the machine. The fact two new species were there on the same backwater planet was flabbergasting. Namekians didn't have space technology. And hybrids were too scarce on these days. In fact, there might have never been Saiyan hybrids on history records in the first place.
Piccolo wasn't surprised by the name. Kami had been recently having dreams about a distant life on another planet. So it wasn't hard to put two and two together. Not that Piccolo cared if he was an alien or not. The two Gohan and Piccolo measured the same quantity of energy.
"Five thousand! They weren't kidding Vegeta. We are in for some real workout" Nappa said rather shocked to the bone. The Namekian Piccolo dropped his white weights of hundreds of tons, his strength increasing slightly up to six thousand. And that was still suppressed like the others.
"His energy rose to six thousand" The new short-sized Saiyan of the group called Tarble stated in surprise "And the humans reach the four thousand each!" He himself had a strength of four thousand. It didn't bode well for him. He might take one-on-one but the humans didn't look like the type to go solo, when their fate was at the edge of extinction.
They hadn't recognized Bardock yet.
"Indeed, Tarble" Vegeta stated towards his little brother with just a hint of amazement in his voice. The prince stepped forward. Everyone kept their sight on him. No one was fool enough to turn their back on him "But you know, so much strength mustn't be wasted fighting one another. After all, we can help each other out. Frieza is far more dangerous than any of us put together" There was a snicker sound. Both groups saw another person stepping forward.
"Just like your father Vegeta" Bardock stepped forward with a bold tone of condescendence. Something Vegeta hated to hear when it was directed to himself "A coward that would rather stick his head in the ass instead of doing something right" Nappa and Tarble looked at each other in fear. They knew Vegeta was an overdoer when throwing anger tantrums. And those tantrums normally ended with someone dying.
Amazingly, the prince remained calm and collected on the outside.
"Another Saiyan gone rogue. Dimmed the dozen on these days" The royal alien stated with sarcasm controlling his anger. He clicked his red-lensed scouter and measured the new energy. However, the power reading forced his eyes out of the sockets "What the...? Twenty thousand?!" The two other aliens were just as banged by the news.
"Vegeta, he's as strong as you!" The taller commander exclaimed in utter shock.
"Shut it Nappa!" Vegeta barked the order knowing to not show fear in the middel of the battlefield. That would be dishonorable and pathetic. The tall alien fell back in line "Sprout the Saibamen" The scar Saiyan on Earth rose an eyebrow. The Saibamen were a work in project back when he was still on planet Vegeta. But apparently the scientists had worked it out. As Raditz had explained him.
Nappa did so, digging his fingers into the soil and dropping green beans inside them. A couple of seconds later, six disgusting little green imps showed up. They were rather short-sized squeaking like stupid fools. They would look menacing but their power wasn't that big a deal.
"Now Saibamen, destroy them!" Vegeta yelled in utter overconfidence to his just-sprouted lackeys. The next second after they knew what had transpired, however, Bardock shot his open-palm hand forward, a very casual blue blast evaporating the slimy green creatures into the afterlife without wasting a drop of his ki. The three alien invaders looked to have been slapped on their faces with tons of brick. Or maybe they were shitting bricks. They just looked very stupid.
"Oh come on, that was way overkill" Inuzama pouted and folded her arms over her chest. She looked adorable but it wasn't exactly the precise moment for her antics.
"That was it?" The palm-haired time traveler stated rather bored towards the members of his kind. He had hoped they would have become strong enough. But obviously Frieza could keep them weak. After all the Icejinn feared them.
"Um, Vegeta, I think we should..." The shortest alien stammered with obvious fear dripping from his voice.
"Shut it, Tarble!" The prince yelled in anger. He would not allow cowardice even from his own man or himself. His blacken stare returned to Bardock. If the low class wanted to play then so be it "If you think you are so powerful Bardock, then come and prove it!" The Royal Saiyan slighted in anger.
"My pleasure" The scar fighter responded with a smirk, his unexpected light speed uppercut sending Vegeta away into the sky with terminal velocity. One could have almost heard the cracking of the prince's jawbone. The black-dressed alien chased after him.
The other Earth warriors got ready themselves for their respective fights.
"Okay, Piccolo, Raditz, Gohan. Let's take the fight away from here" Goku stated towards his friends. They took off followed by the giant Nappa. But Raditz lingered in the ground for a couple more of seconds.
"Don't kill the midget so hard" Raditz stated towards Inuzama with a casual tone. Tarble was clutching his teeth in anger. Because he was been both ignored and publicly insulted as low-class. He had suffered enough from other Saiyans. But from Earthlings, he wouldn't tolerate that!
"You mean, very painfully and tearing all of his limbs off while laughing like a cliché villain?" The blonde fighter replied towards the long-haired alien, receiving a wink in response. She smirked "Give me a challenge, man"
"I'll give you one once I return" Raditz replied with a smile. He followed after his brother and the others.
"And here I thought she would never get a man" Krillin whispered a joke towards his fellows. The human fighters turned their eyes into their weird-haired enemy. His face appeared to be seething in anger.
The full Saiyan Goku, the hybrid Gohan, the Namekian Piccolo and then at last Raditz landed along the towering Nappa a few kilometers away from the first place. It was a barren land, with some rock cliffs and mesas scattered. Good thing was that there weren't bystanders that could get hurt by the scuffle.
"So, you puny weaklings ready to die?!" The towering Nappa taunted to his group of four enemies. While Kakarot and Raditz were completely out of his league, hard as it was to admit and he wouldn't admit it out-loud, maybe the hybrid brat and Namekian could be easily picked apart from the others.
However, those same two fighters yelled in strength powering up to their maximum. Nappa's scouter beeped until his own mouth was lying on the ground. They ranked in the nine thousand range.
"Oh, fucking sake!" He bellowed in anger. He had been face-slapped like a common bitch.
The palm-haired Bardock landed on the soft sand of the desert. Vegeta was lying in front of him still struggling to get up from the unexpected staggering blow that had sent him spiraling miles away like a useless rag doll. After seconds the royal Saiyan finally returned to his feet, blood trickling from his lips. He washed himself with his backhand. Rage was already boiling inside his middle-size frame. No commoner had taken blood out of him before. Much less a forsaken of his own kind. Vegeta would make sure to slaughter him painfully and with the highest amount of agony he could produce.
"Not bad for a weakling. That draw some blood out of me" The flame-haired alien stated smirking. His bravado screamed for bloodshed and he would get it.
"Get used to the taste, princess" Bardock jeered a bit getting right on Vegeta's nerves "You will have no blood after I'm done pummeling you" The comment did drive the nerves over the edge. Because Bardock could see a pulsating vein of anger on Vegeta's forehead. Not that Saiyans were prone to have brain strokes but it would be an ironic way to die.
"Shut up!" The prince yelled and shot a one-hand wide yellow blast into his enemy.
The fight had already started.
While this happened, a figure checked the fighters of both Earth and from outer space out. He was there in the battlefield hidden to any kind of energy sensing or technology thanks to his amazing powers. He could see the three fights at the same second and never miss a movement. He knew these heroes and villains would be the first key for him to achieve ultimate perfection.
The highest goal of his already withering life.
Notes from Chapter 7:
Not many would have expected Tarble as the main villain. But I changed that.
The Fruit is here. Just waiting for something. Don't worry, you will see.
Oh and we have a little foreshadowing of future saga.
Power Levels:
Bardock:
Base form, suppressed: 20,000
Base form full power: 310,000
Goku:
Base form, suppressed: 10,000
Base form, full power: 15,000
Gohan:
Base form suppressed: 6,000
Base form full power: 9,000
Raditz:
Base form suppressed: 10,000
Base form full power: 12,000
Piccolo:
With weights, suppressed: 5,000
Without weights, suppressed: 6,000
Full power: 9,000
Inuzama:
Base form suppressed: 3,000
Base form full power: 5,000
Tien:
Base form, suppressed: 2,500
Base form full power: 4,500
Yamcha:
Base form suppressed: 2,000
Full power: 4,000
Krillin:
Base form suppressed: 2,100
Full power: 4,300
Vegeta: 20,000
Nappa: 6,500
Tarble: 4,000
Saibamen: 1,500 each.
And so Earth's destiny is against the ropes. Will the fighters succeed?