One quick note, I'm mostly basing what SIGohan remembers of canon on what I remembered before I started my rewatch, since at best it'd have been over five years since she watched the show, even if she took extra care to remember whatever she could things would fall through the cracks

AnosDT95: That is interesting to note. with that in mind I'd guess around 6000-7000 at full then since Goku was still able to overpower him.

scyfly: I kinda debated not responding to this one, but decided it was too funny not to
Dragon Ball is an easy world to be born into? Have we watched the same show? Literally everyone dies, as in, literally everyone, on earth, dies except for Mr. Satan. Especially for Sayains? Gohan literally gets his neck broken as a five year old child in his fight against Recoom. Do you only watch the final fights or something?
And the point of choosing a character to implant a SI Reincarnation is putting them in place of the character as is. Genderbending Gohan physically would be cheating. Would you also have me giver her Super Sayain early just for the convenience?
And hmmm, calling my SI an it, I think I see your real issue here. Though you do make somewhat of a point, I have made a note of it being Gohan Centric.

"Hey Nappa, do you have any of those Saibamen left?"

"You're too much. You really know how to have fun."

"Saibamen?" Krillin questioned not that either Piccolo or I had answers.

Or at least, supposedly.

Nappa reached into his pocket and pulled out an odd vial.

"Looks like there are six of them here." Nappa poked holes into the ground. Placing one little pellet per hole for a total of six. He then covered them and poured the liquid in the vial over the dirt.

"O..k…what are they doing?" Honestly Krillin's questioning kept me from being too tense to move so all the better.

Almost instantly, from each of the hole grew little green…things….humanoid malicious things.

"Well at least…they're shorter than I am…" Krillin's attempted at a joke.

"Yeah well, they're taller than me. Not that I'm not used to that." I added.

This was…

Wasn't the fight supposed to be one on one with these things for a few rounds? After the rest of the group showed up?

Were things going faster or was I just remembering wrong? It's not like I remembered every even play by play but, I figured it'd be easy enough to piece things in as they went. I…probably shouldn't rely on that. If if things went exactly as canon, there are probably too many holes to follow it blindly anyway.

Right. Scary green alien plant people, things. Fighting time.

At this point it'd be two on one for each of us, but I'm not entirely sure, if I could win that fight.

My thoughts were cut off as they started circling us. I couldn't follow their movements so I just looked at them broadly in case any of them moved closer.

And suddenly they were moving off to the sides, destroying a couple of boulders just for show. I flinched and covered my head his my arms, though only dust got close enough to touch me.

"I've got the two on the right." Krillin started

"I'll take the two in the middle, the two on the left are yours Gohan." Piccolo concluded.

"I, uh, ok." Still not sure I could win that fight but I guess I didn't have a choice. Piccolo thought I could though so that's encouraging. I guess.

Except…once the fighting started the Saibamen didn't care for me at all. It ended up being two cases of three on one instead of three cases of two on one.

I know…I should cut in and help but, I don't know how? If I got to close I might distract, well, Krillin since he's the weaker of the two of them and would need the help more.

Instead of helping I ended up standing helplessly staring up at the two fights.

No! Stop it! I couldn't do this, I didn't get ground into the dirt for the better part of a year just to stand around like a child.

I rubbed at my face before jumping into the fray, kicking at one of the Saibamen Krillin was fighting. Now instead of two bouts of three on one, it was one of three on one, one two on one, and one one on one. Not exactly the original plan but better than nothing.

I wasn't winning, per se, but I wasn't losing either. I had to boost my Ki a fair bit but I managed to keep on par with the Saibaman. Unfortunately we were fighting mid air, which was not my favorite, and after being knocked off balance it managed to swipe me across the cheek. I back away in surprise, but was otherwise fine, maybe on par with that time my dog accidentally scratched my nose. It was bleeding a fair bit, but didn't hurt too bad.

I landed as I wiped at the blood before eyeing the ever smiling Saibaman.

It looked about ready to attack when-

"Krillin!" A new, higher pitched voice was heard.

I froze, looking up, only to see two new people join the party. A man, shirtless with three eyes and a boy, who logically I knew was certainly an adult, though looked anything but, as pale as snow and candy red cheeks. Tien and Chiaotzu.

Tien landed solidly on the ground, while Chiaotzu remained floating. In a world where so many people can fly Chiaotzu is the most realistic one since he does so by default. The only thing keeping me on the ground was the fact that I just did not have the Ki to spare.

"Hey you guys! Thanks for dropping by, we could really use the help." Krillin greeted. His casual tone managed to calm me a bit too.

"I see the Sayains brought some friends." Tien said, voice monotone compared to the two shorter men.

"No they grew them here."

"What?"

"Don't ask."

"That's fine." Tien stated, eyeing the scene, before all three of them landed on me, "who's the kid? Is that Goku's little boy?" I frowned at the phrasing but there's not much to do about it. There's no way I'm touching that can of worms until I physically cannot ignore it. Telling Piccolo was enough for now.

"Uh huh. His name's Gohan. He's been training with Piccolo."

"And he survived? Must be a pretty tough kid." I debated defending my favorite kidnapper when another voice cut in.

"Enough of this garbage!" I turned back to see Nappa, standing impatient, across the clearing, "Saibamen, I want to hear them beg for mercy."

"Man, don't you know it's rude to interrupt? We let you talk all you wanted earlier." I cut in, really just hoping to stall extra seconds.

"Well, aren't you a cocky one. Are you volunteering to step up first?" I glared up at the arrogant "elite."

Luckily for me the tension broke again with yet another new voice, "wait for me!"

A long haired man wearing a Gi much like Krillin's landed beside us. He had a few scars over his face and stood slightly off balance.

"Yamcha!" Krillin greeted once again.

"Hey guys, what's everyone being so series about around here?" The scarred man said, remarkably nonchalant despite the circumstance.

"Look Nappa. Now it's six against six. How perfect, this might prove to be interesting after all." Vegeta cut in, voice taunting, patronizing.

"I can't wait." Nappa laughed. Clearly just Vegeta's yes man.

"Gentlemen. How'd you like to make a match of this and fight our soldiers one by one? Well? Answer." Vegeta had barely finished his initial statement before rushing a response.

Piccolo all but growled at the man, "we're not here to play games. We're not going to fight on your terms! We'll take you all on at once!" I nervously glanced up at the Namekian. The art of the stall out was clearly lost on him.

"Hey, now, easy," Krillin appeased, "we're still waiting for Goku to show up, we can buy ourselves some time by playing it their way."

"I'll go first." Tien volunteered, confident, "I'm not afraid of these little creeps, it'll be a good warm up."

"That's the spirit!" Nappa laughed, his voice grating, "but you won't be so cocky once you find out what these "little creeps" can do!"

Tien stepped forward, and Vegeta volunteered one of the Saibamen.

Chiaotzu was giving words of encouragement to Tien when more sounds of helicopters approached.

Apparently helicopters were a personal insult to Nappa since he shot yet another one out of the sky. Even the Saibaman looked off put.

"Why would you do that!" I yelled, forgetting myself. It was just, such a senseless death. What we're civilians so ignorant that they don't even recognize the real danger supposed to do to defend themselves?

Nappa tilted his head towards me.

"It got rid of them. Didn't it?" He tilted his head again, this time to the other two helicopters leaving.

"You could have proven the same point by just, destroying a rock or something!"

"In case you forgot, we're gonna kill everything on this planet anyway. So why would I go out of my way to avoid killing someone on a ticking clock as it is?"

I clenched my fists as I could do nothing but glare. It was one thing when they were characters on a screen, but I had underestimated what seeing it in real life would be.

That was just a helicopter being shot out of the sky. I couldn't even see a corpse from this far away. Namek will be worse. That wasn't a comforting thought.

"Now why don't we get this fight started?" The brute laughed and the Saibaman turn back to Tien, who was silent, thoroughly put off by the thoughtless killing.

The atmosphere was tense until the Saibaman charged, beginning the fight, only to be blasted back by an invisible wave of Ki from Tien.

It's head split open and it spit some kind of liquid, which Tien dodged only for it to be heading towards us instead. I had barely registered it before I felt the back of my shirt being snatched up and quickly being dragged out of the way in a blur.

I glanced up to see Piccolo holding me like one would a cat, his eyes still focused on the fight. I looked back at where I had just been standing and, there was nothing there but a hole eaten deep into the ground.

"Oh, uh, thanks…" I managed, eyes locked on the hole. Piccolo just nodded as he dropped me, and I landed with barely a stumble.

Nappa exclaimed in surprise as Tien managed to get a good hit in, temporarily incapacitating the Saibaman.

Krillin and Chiaotzu cheered their congratulations. Vegeta glared off to his side at Nappa.

"Looks like you got ahold on a weak batch, Nappa."

"No they're all good! These are the same ones that survived that crazy battle on Tradic! They should have won! All these Saibamen have the same power level as-" Nappa cut off.

"As who?"

"As, Raditz," for a moment something akin to remorse entered his voice, before it was quickly chased away.

"Now do you see my point?" Vegeta's voice held no such remorse.

"Well, I think so."

Vegeta laughed, "do you? Well don't strain yourself. Just leave the thinking to me from now on."

The Saibaman struggled back to its feet, intent to continue fighting…only to be shot into oblivion by Vegeta.

"Vegeta! Why!?" Nappa questioned, just as surprised as any of the rest of us. Or, technically, any of the others. Vegeta being an idiot was always a memorable part of the anime.

"He wasn't of use to us anymore." Was Vegeta's simple reply.

"I…know but he was, alive…"

Vegeta only scoffed in response.

I scowled, not sure what annoyed me more, Vegeta's incompetence, or Nappa's sheer hypocrisy.

Actually no. As much as Nappa annoyed me at least he didn't pretend to be smart while being such an idiot. I'd say Vegeta's arrogance would be his downfall, but canon already proved that correct for me. Many times, actually.

No amount of future knowledge would or could make up for the contempt I feel in this moment. Somehow, I was pretty sure it'd get worse before it got better. Probably due to said future knowledge.