The Goliath size man slammed up against the wall as Tambourine chuckled. Blood smeared the wall. He gasped for air as he threw one last punch at the monstrous green terror. Tambourine caught the punch and a bolt of energy came from his arm and electrocuted the giant. The air smelled of burning garbage as the giant smoking collapsed into a pile of trash.

"Well I got to say that, that was the smelliest of these jobs." He threw a demon symbol on the corpse and flew off.

A bum who had heard the commotion came over into the alley say a glimpse of Tambourine then saw the paper with the word 'Devil' on it. He freaked out loud proclaiming the devil had come.

A door swung open to an office overlooking a Central city. It was a junior officer with a report in hands marked South City PD.

In the office was a man in a UNIT Captain's uniform green his hat on the table. The marker on the table said 'Captain William Stryker' in red.

Stryker's head went up from his paperwork. His right eye covered by a black eye patch. He looked sickly like he hadn't been eating. He was still in shape but clearly not in the best of shape. The bags under his left eye screamed that he hadn't been sleeping.

Staff officer "Sir you wanted to be given the police reporters of any dead martial artists."

He grabbed the report and quickly looked through it and looked as though he had seen death itself. He got up as he decided it was time to tell it to his bosses.

"Stryker have you lost your damn mind?" The Colonel said angrily in his office at his table on his large black leather chair. The Major was just sitting there his head in his hand on a black couch.

"Sir we have to cancel the two hundredth celebration ceremony of Royal government we are under siege as we speak!"

Colonel angrily asked "Son have you look at yourself in the mirror lately? Major why do you let your people harass me with this nonsense?"

"I honest didn't believed him when he said that it was a planetary threat."

Bill yell at him "It is!"

Colonel said with sarcastically in his voice "So let me get this straight, A three-hundred-year-old space demon out of a crack pot conspiracy theory has just out of the blue returned for no reason. He is killing martial artists because they know a magic spell that could seal him up. And that if he succeeds, he will take over the Earth by attacking the world unity ceremony. Is that all of it?"

"Not in those exact terms sir but yes." The Colonel sighed loudly as he shook his head. "I know how this all sounds, but you have to believe me. The things me and Frank saw at the Tournament were real. These powers exist sir. We need to get the King and the Prime Minster to their bunkers. We need to evacuate the major cities and call up the Royal reserves. We are at war right now!"

Major shaking his head "I am so sorry sir. This is on me. I am just deeply honestly and truly sorry. That you had to listen to any of this."

"It's true Goddamnit!"

"So, you want me to tell this story to the Prime Minister and recommend that we get on a war footing cancel the biggest celebration in about a hundred years."

"Yes Sir!"

"And at the same time explain to the Ribbons that all of this. And this is why were are doing this, not that we're about to launch a sneak attack on them. After we had just signed an extensive nuclear weapon ban giving our side the very clear advantage of numbers."

"Stop thinking of our human opponents! We right now have much bigger foes knocking on our door!"

Colonel now just feed up "Here's what I think son. You haven't been getting enough sleep or eating as much as you should be. You just got engaged. You lost a friend and a mentor not all that long ago. I think, son that you are under a lot of stress." Bill tried to interrupt.

"Shh! Crazy babble time is over. I am speaking. I think you need a vacation a month or two to fuck your fiancé or anybody for that matter. To see a therapist maybe go camping. You need time to decompress."

Bill interrupting "Sir that's…"

Colonel angrily continued "Did I say son that you could talk? No, I didn't. Now there are a few reasons why you're just getting a vacation and not becoming a section eight. Your daddy saved my life many years ago and we happen to be good golfing buddies. He is my friend and I really don't want to do that to his boy. Two Captain Franklin Harkness was an outstanding officer whose death wounded me and all of UNIT including obviously you. He put a lot of faith and time into you and I don't want that to go to waste. Number three you're young, green and full of heart. And I believe honestly that you can bounce back from this. We however are never going to talk about this shit ever again." He then asked like he was speaking to a child. "Do you understand soldier?"

Bill nodded in agreement.

"Now get the fuck out of my office before I have you dragged out."

Bill stormed out to be followed by the Major. Saying to the Major sarcastically "Thanks for having my back Mack."

"Well what the fuck did you expect! You were talking about space demons and magic."

Bill looked him dead in the eyes and said "We're under attack and we might as well be putting up a sign that says strike here for maximum damage. And we aren't going to do a damn thing about it."

As Bill stormed away a picture of Palace had come into view the caption underneath read. 'This is where peace and freedom on Earth stands'.

Bulma placed the capsule containing Krillin into a dresser as the TV played the news while outside Yamcha spared with Chiaotzu.

Oolong with fear in his voice "Hey a Bulma you might want to see this!"

Bulma came looking at the screen along with Oolong and Puar. She yelled out to Yamcha and Chiaotzu. They all crowed around the TV.

News reporter for ZTV "Over twenty professional Martial Artists have been murder in the last twenty-four hours. The police are at a loss to explain the murders with the only clue begin a piece of paper with the word 'Devil' circled in red. Stay with us for more updates on the story as it develops. In other news tomorrow is the two hundredth…"

Bulma angrily had turned off the TV saying with both fear and anger "It's begun." Very dramatically.

Oolong cowered "Oh no it can be the end of the world. I'm too young to die."

"Zip it piggy! Can't you think about anyone else for once?"

"Yeah Oolong!"

Yamcha growled in anger as he looked at his fist then at the capsule for the air car on the table.

Bulma looked at him sideways "You're staying right here!"

Yamcha looked at her angrily "I'm not just going to hide here like a coward Bulma while everybody else is fighting a dying!"

Tears started to come out of her eyes as she said, "I just lost two of my best friends in the world and I'm not losing you."

To that Yamcha shuttered. Her tears were making him feel so much shame. He felt like he was being dragged in twenty different directions. The anger left his face, he grabbed hold of Bulma and hugged her.

Yamcha with pain in his voice "I'm sorry. I'm being stupid. I'm not going anywhere."

She cried into his shoulder as he felt like the biggest douche in the universe.

"Roshi, Tien and Launch will get the dragon balls. Krillin and Chi-Chi will be back before you know it be running around here again with their goofy smiles."

She was still sobbing as the two kissed. Oolong grinned thinking while watching "Hey I might die but at least I'm going to get a good show before." He grinned as Puar noticing this smacked him on his head.

Suddenly Bulma and Yamcha looked deep into each other eyes. Bulma practically jumped into his arms bridal style as they started kissing far deeper this time. He rushed up stairs with her in his arms. A door slammed shut as Oolong tried to listen while Chiaotzu and Puar turned on the TV. They turned it up as far as it could go while looking quite embarrassed.

Turtle who has been watching this all unfold with the others said. "Well it is maybe the end of the world."

They looked at him and he shrugged as a particular loud moan came from above.

Chiaotzu thought "Man I wish I went with Tien and Launch that would less awkward I think?"

Out loud they heard Bulma say "Screw the condom!" The wall of Roshi's were paper thin possibly by design.

"Yeah anything has to be less awkward then this."

Kakarrot landed in front of Tower of Korin as a Native man and his young son eyed him. Suspiciously they looked at him until seeing Chi-Chi. She had been taken a nap on his back but woke up when they landed. She waved to them.

The little one rushed over while the big one continued to keep his eyes on Kakarrot. Guess he could see a threat when he saw it.

Upa asked Chi-Chi "Are you okay?"

"Yeah… Well no, but I'll live. I came here to see Korin for the reason you can see before you."

Bora angrily asked, "Was it him that did this to you?"

Kakarrot grinned as he replied before Chi-Chi could "Brilliant deduction Sherlock. I actively tried to kill her and then decided to do everything in my power to make sure she lives."

Kakarrot could feel her eyes drilling into his head telling him she did like him being rude to her friends.

Bora stared daggers at him as Kakarrot said "We're going up the tower. If you don't mind?"

"It's a free world. You can do what you want."

Kakarrot before grabbing onto the tower said slyly "For now."

Quickly Kakarrot started climbing but as he did so he asked her "So I take it every one of your friends is from the start is going to treat me like a villain?"

Chi-Chi bluntly asked, "Well it's not like you haven't done anything to cause them to treat you like a bad guy?" She asked sarcastically.

"Hey, I've done quite a bit of good since then."

"Really? How don't I know you just pretending to be good to get everyone to drop their guard so that you can take over the world?"

Kakarrot sighed internally to himself saying internally 'Well I won't have liked her if she was that stupid.'

"Truth is you don't. I guess you'll just have to trust me."

"Trust you. You have by my count lied to me every step of the way."

Kakarrot blushed "No I haven't."

"Name something."

Kakarrot thinking quickly said breathily "That I haven't been able to forget you."

He could feel her heat up on his back. She may not be as naïve as before, but he knew his silver tongue would do its job. This whole monster attack was definitely playing to his advantage. I guess chaos does just mean the same thing as opportunity. It was all just a ladder he was now climbing. Getting closer to Kami.

The climb seemed to take forever but before the sunset the two reached Korin's tower. Kakarrot had basically gone a day without food and he was beyond hungry at this point. He figured whoever this Korin was he kill and eat.

Chi-Chi would be angry at him, but his stomach needed food and Chi-Chi was off the table. Maybe if this Korin had some food waiting he won't.

Chi-Chi had slipped back into sleep due to the long climb. Slowly but surely, he made it into the lookout. He had no reason to wake her.

Gently he laid her out onto the floor then went investigating. He couldn't seem to sense anyone home. The place stunk but their seemed to be no source. This Korin was very good at making himself quite elusive.

He searched around there had to be something to eat. On the top of the building he spied three barrels. Jackpot he thought as he went over to them.

He opened the first and saw only water that seemed to at his eyes change. A familiar scene played out. Grampa Gero was coming upon his pod when he was a baby. He then saw him running into Chi-Chi the first time. The World Tournament then him becoming Lord Commander. After that there was tons of dead face all those he had killed over the years. The water disappeared. He was left confused.

Irritated at the slide show he went to the next one. It too only contained water. In it he saw Grampa again only this was far more recent. He saw him working on Ten. He could tell though that his heart wasn't in it. He was worried not doubt about him. It showed Yurin fighting Nine getting her ass kick but improve after each knock down. It showed Tanmen staring out her window into the sky. The water then disappeared.

Kakarrot growled still no food just useless magic water "What sorcery is this?"

"It's the Past, Present and Future those barrel gives you a look at all three."

Kakarrot turned around to face the voice. It was a rather plump white cat standing upright. He had a cane in his hand and his eyes almost seemed shut. Everything about this creature made Kakarrot curious. Korin as he guessed was not to be taken lightly.

"So I just looked into the Past and Present?" Korin nodded. "How useless is that? Sure the present maybe but showing me the past what I already know?"

"You'd be surprise."

Kakarrot point behind him to the unopened barrel "And that would be the?"

"Future."

"Interesting."

"I would imagine so Lord Commander."

"How accurate is it?"

"Hard to tell. Always in motion the future is. But I can guarantee your future is probably not a pleasant one for either you or for everyone else if you get your way."

Kakarrot with great care turned around and slowly took off the lid. He looked inside to see utter darkness. He heard blood curling screams of those he knew and those he didn't. An ocean of blood seemed to exist and a burning bleeding symbol of utter hate came to his eyes. It was a three-pronged trident with a curved line underneath the handle. He saw a gold aura then purple versus blue. Lastly was green hair and three eyes and his own laugh. With that the water disappeared and he was left with more questions than answers.

Kakarrot miffed "What was that?"

"The future as you would have. It's a night dark and full of terrors."

To that Kakarrot smiled "So that's it trying to scare me into being nice."

"No. It's telling you the truth. Something I know you have trouble with the concept of. Your path is dark it a road that I couldn't get you off from with the universe on my side. Because you actually enjoy the despicable things that you do."

"I'm a Saiyan it's what we do."

"You really believe in that kind of justification don't you." Kakarrot nodded. "Shame I feel like you could have been so much more." Korin throw him a senzu bean. Kakarrot looked at it confused. "It's a senzu bean. It will heal you and feed you for a week or so."

Kakarrot looking at the bean "Really? No charge."

"No there is. You eat it and leave. I don't like your corruption around here. I can take care of Chi-Chi. You leave."

Kakarrot nodded in agreement and tossed the bean in his mouth. He waved sarcastically at Korin then jumped off the tower. He thought to himself he was going to have to steal one of those beans.

Korin shook his head saying "Man! What a piece of work that kid is."

Down below he placed a Senzu bean into her mouth. In an instant she was wake and looking around. She looked at Korin then looked confused.

"So, I made your 'friend' take off. A holy place like this shouldn't have to host a monster like that."

Chi-Chi frowned "He's not that bad."

Korin shook his head and said, "Oh to be young in love and stupid again."

Chi-Chi miffed "I'm not being stupid master. He brought me, here right?"

"Because it suited his goals." She looked frustrated so Korin decided to change the subject. "So other than the Senzu bean why are you here?"

"A terrible monster killed my best friend Krillin. He was strong."

"I can image. A spawn of Piccolo tends to be."

"Piccolo? Who is he?"

"The monster's daddy, he is way stronger than his brood."

"Then he's who I need to stop. Korin I don't even know if I was strong enough to stop the brood. I need more training."

Korin sighed his hand went to the back of his head "Well that's the thing I've kind of got nothing left to teach you."

Chi-Chi looked panicked "What!? That can't be true master! I need something anything to stop Piccolo even if it kills me."

Korin looked uncomfortable and said, "Even if it kills you huh?" She nodded. "Well against my better judgment there is one thing."

Cymbal had been following Piccolo's instructions despite the changing location of the ball. He had been flying for hours and he finally came upon his target. Right underneath a massive tower sticking out of the ground Korin's tower. He then spied Bora and Upa.