Foreword: I bet you're wondering about the BONUS SCENE and how Gohan is able to train at night secretly without going Great Ape. The answer is simple: Most people don't look up without a distinct reason to and Gohan is focusing on working out to get stronger and figuring out how to fight with the Power Pole. That and using a cave full of heavy rocks as a workout room with weights. Now on to the big event.
The day has come for the Z fighters and Piccolo to face the Saiyan threat, the group going to a wasteland and waiting for the alien arrival. They already know that scouters are used to pick up high power levels and with a group of the strongest people in the world being in one place, the Z fighters figure that the oddity would draw the Saiyan's attention and get them to come to the wasteland too.
"Man I hope we trained enough for this" Krillin said nervously, getting an eye roll from Piccolo but no comment. Piccolo was hoping Bansuri would arrive quickly, knowing that the unique tricks Bansuri could do with magic would be extremely helpful (and NO not because he's bringing Goku with him like everyone else here). Piccolo scowled and kept waiting quietly with his arms folded.
The group looked at Piccolo apprehensively and silently considering their fellow fighter with Kami's words coming to mind:
'Piccolo spat out Bansuri's egg just after the World Tournament he lost to Goku in, making Bansuri around 5 or 6 years old. They've been training together for quite a while and Piccolo's evil has diminished considerably' The memory of Kami's voice echoing in their minds.
'Hm, looks like Piccolo has lost some of his malicious presence. Maybe Kami was right about Bansuri easing his evil' Tien thought, although he certainly wasn't going to say it out loud. Piccolo was very much the strongest in the group at the moment and Tien didn't wish to be on the receiving end of that power.
"So we heard you have a kid now. congrats man!" Yamcha said with a smile and the hope of lightening the mood, every human wincing at the massive mistake and death they think they're about to witness. Piccolo looked at Yamcha with a very unimpressed look.
"His name is Bansuri and he can kill you as easily as I can" Piccolo deadpanned, getting a distinct gulp from Yamcha and Krillin and making Chiaotzu hide behind Tien.
"A-ah, bet you're proud of him, yeah?" Yamcha continued in spite of his fellow human's silent plea not to.
"Yep" Piccolo confirmed, killing the conversation and leaving the group in silence once more until they sensed the Saiyans entering the atmosphere and crashed into a city. When they landed, the Z fighters and Piccolo spiked their energy, hoping to catch the Saiyan's attention and coax them into coming their way.
Good news was that this did get the Saiyan's attention, the bad news was that they decided to level the city they were in before flying to the group of spiking power levels. The humans gasped and growled at the loss of lives while Piccolo measured the strength of the approaching threat.
'Hmm, while I am in a similar league of strength to one of them, the other is way beyond me. If the stronger one was distracted by everyone else, I could use the Special Beam Cannon to take them down like Raditz' Piccolo analyzed and thought as he hid his full power, prompting the humans to do the same.
The 2 Saiyans landed in front of the group, one of them being a large brutish-looking one with a bald head and a mustache, the other Saiyan was short with a widow's peak type hair style. Every martial artist present could sense that the shorter one was the bigger threat. The bald Saiyan pressed a button on their scouter and started looking at the group's power levels.
"Ha! I can see why that weakling Raditz died! Everyone here has a power level of 1000. They probably ganged up and stomped the long-haired wimp" The bald Saiyan said with a sneer, sizing up the competition.
"Hmph, those readings are useless Nappa. They're obviously hiding their true power" the short Saiyan pointed out, easily spotting the ploy at work.
"Good point Vegeta, the best way to know how strong a person is is always fighting" Nappa said with glee, stepping forward to engage the fighters.
"The Saibamen you dolt! You don't want to fall for any other tricks these worms have up their sleeves" Vegeta snapped out, making Nappa pause and take a step back.
"Ah right! Forgot about those, Just a sec." Nappa got out a container of weird looking plant seeds and started putting them into the ground, planting 10 of them and emptying the container. After a moment's wait, 10 green creatures sprout out of the ground with evil looking smiles on their faces.
"I didn't know we had that many left, guess we didn't use as many as I thought" Vegeta said with mild interest.
"Yep, well that and I snagged a few extra when Dodoria wasn't looking" Nappa said with a cheeky grin and getting an amused huff from Vegeta.
"Well played" Vegeta conceded.
Nappa then ordered the Saibament to pair up and attack each fighter, making the Z fighters face 2 each, something that Chiaotzu had trouble with but everyone else dealt with just fine, Piccolo dealing with his the quickest with Tien finishing his just after (then helping Chiaotzu deal with theirs).
"Ha! That all you got freak show! I could do this in my sleep!" Yamcha bragged, putting a foot on the more intact body of the Saibaman he beat. Suddenly Yamcha felt a sharp pain in his leg, making him look down to see that the Saibaman he was standing/posing on had a deathgrip on his leg and was starting to glow really bright.
"GYAAAA!"
"What the-!?"
*BOOM!"
The explosion kicked up a sizable cloud of dust which after dispersing revealed Yamcha laying in a crater. The Z fighters couldn't feel his energy anymore, meaning...
"YAMCHA'S DEAD!" Krillin shouted, shocked that such a thing could happen after all the training and improvements they've all made.
'He shouldn't have been so cocky" was the thought shared by both Piccolo and Tien, one more somber than the other.
"HA! That's why you always blast the corpse!" Nappa commented, earning a nod and an expression that said "that is true" from Vegeta.
"Now that we know what they can do, you can stomp them out" Vegeta stated, getting a sadistic grin as Nappa stepped forward.
"Aw yeah! Now the fun can really start" Nappa strode forward, a big excited and malicious smile on his face before charging forward, ready to beat the attitude out of whoever he flies into. Only to be stopped mid-charge by Piccolo!
"Well I'll be! You're tough enough to stop me! Didn't think a Namekian would have it in 'em" Nappa said with a twisted joy. "You better make for a good fight slug!" Nappa continued, lashing out with a kick which Piccolo jumped over and retaliated with a beautiful Dropkick to the face any wrestler would be proud of, sending Nappa flying back past Vegeta and into a plateau.
"Having fun yet?" Piccolo asked after landing on his feet, keeping himself ready to react to whatever the brute does next, said brute standing out of the rubble and cracking his nose back into place.
"Loads" Nappa responded with a grin, looking rather menacing with his own blood on his face.
Nappa and Piccolo rushed at each other, vanishing from sight and reappearing in clashes or punches, kicks, knee and elbow strikes. While Nappa had the advantage of power forcing Piccolo to fight more defencively, Piccolo's skills and technique allowed for the Namekian to deal devastating strikes such as the kick to the Liver followed by the hammer strike to the face to send Nappa reeling back.
"Damn greenie! That seriously hurt! The hell did I do to deserve that?" Nappa asked, getting a deadpan look from Piccolo.
"...So we're ignoring the city you just wiped out? I do call this planet home you know." Piccolo answered, a flat unenthusiastic expression on his face.
"Oh...Would it make you feel better if I told ya the planet won't be destroyed after we wipe you out?" Nappa asked getting sweat drops from the Humans and the Namekian.
"...No." Piccolo flatly stated, absently wondering if stupidity was common in Saiyans.
"Ya know what? That's fair" Nappa shrugged and conceded the point before launching back up at Piccolo and starting to brawl with him again.
The Z fighters watched in amazement at how strong Piccolo was and were quietly thankful that Piccolo wasn't gunning after them. Tien then desided to help out against Nappa by firing distracting potshots at Nappa and allowing Piccolo to deal heavier strikes to the bald Saiyan while they were distracted. Krillin takes a moment to steel himself and then charges up his own attack with the intent of ending the goliath.
"Destructo Disk!" Krillin called as he threw the energy disc, timing it after Tien's distracting blasts so Nappa wasn't looking at the incoming projectile.
"Nappa! Behind you!" Vegeta called out, making Nappa look behind him a moment too late, a kick from Piccolo jostling the body away from the removed head and sending the headless corpse at Vegeta's feet with the head landing on the ground directly beneath the flying fighters.
There was a long moment of silence as the Z fighters and Piccolo watched Vegeta react to the death of his fellow Saiyan. Vegeta looked at the headless body for a long moment.
"...*Sigh* I told him that he didn't want to fall for any other tricks they had" Vegeta said, seeming more disappointed in his fallen comrade than anything else.
"Oh well, I guess I'll just have to deal with this myself" Vegeta said, removing his scouter and limbering up, his power making everyone nervous.
'Please hurry back Goku' Krillin prayed in his thoughts as he saw the blue garbed blight of the world charge forward then vanish.
Goku flew as fast as he could down Snake Way, he had heard that someone was going to be meeting him half way to teleport him back to the land of the living, but Goku didn't see them yet. Maybe he wasn't there yet or maybe Goku wasn't there yet- Goku flew into something head first.
"Ow!"
"Argh!"
Both Goku and the newcomer rubbed their aching heads to soothe the collision damage before looking up. Goku was looking at someone who looked like Piccolo.
"...Hello Goku, I'm Bansuri and I'm here to pick you up" the Piccolo lookalike said.
"Oooh! You're that guy. Bansuri right? Kami told me about you-" "No time for a friendly chat Goku" Bansuri interrupted Goku, putting a hand on his shoulder and teleporting both himself and Goku back to Kami's Lookout in front of a worried Kami and Popo.
"The fighting has already begun, hurry!" Kami said, prompting Bansuri and Goku to find the energy of the fight and fly toward it.
"Wow! There's only one Saiyan left! Looks like everyone's doing okay" Goku brightly said, only for the smile on his face to vanish as the energies of his friends started to vanish. First Chiaotzu, then Tien but things got infinitely worse when Piccolo's energy started to spike and drop making both Bansuri and Goku franticly speed to the battlefield just in time to see Piccolo held by the throat by someone with spiky black hair.
"NO!" Bansuri cried out, making the Saiyan look at him with a sadistic grin before blasting a hole through Piccolo's torso.
"You might need a new friend Namek, this one has a hole in it" Vegeta coldly quipped.
Bansuri stared at his father's corpse, the memories of all the times they spent together and all the teachings that Piccolo gave to him. Bansuri closed his eyes and refocused himself, opening his eyes to give Vegeta a stern look.
"You seem very proud of yourself" Bansuri stated with a cold fury.
"I'm the strongest here, it's hard not to be" Vegeta replied smugly.
Goku spotted a scared Krillin laying in a crumpled heap in the bushes holding his stomach and ribs, hiding his energy and trying not to vocally express his pain out of fear of drawing attention to himself. Goku hid a relieved sigh at not losing ALL of his friends but he still has to figure out how to get the others back with Kami gone.
"...What do you know of the wish orbs that you traveled so far for?" Bansuri questioned.
"I get all the orbs, I get whatever I want" Vegeta answered flippantly.
"Here's a free lesson: the Namekian that makes the orbs is connected to the orbs via their own lifeforce. When that Namekian dies? The orbs do too. Now, out of the 2 Namekians that were on this planet, which one do you think made the wish orbs?" Bansuri explained and questioned with a chilling tone, a look of dread spreading across Vegeta's face.
"Go ahead. Guess." Bansuri said, locking eyes with Vegeta, Vegeta's eyes flicking to glance to the Namekian he just killed.
"That's right. Him. The one person you shouldn't kill if you want a wish. How does it feel knowing your own bloodlust and stupidity cost you what you wish for more than anything in the Universe?" Bansuri asked with a tone far darker than anything Goku can remember Piccolo doing, even King Piccolo put on a polite tone when talking down to someone.
"I'll have you know-!" "Doesn't matter what you think!" Bansuri snapped over whatever Vegeta was saying. "You're paying for the blood you've spilt" Bansuri stated, dropping into a fighting stance with Goku following suit.
How will Goku and Bansuri fare against the Prince of all Saiyans? How is the damage of this attack going to be repaired? Find out on the next chapter of Some Help.