DISCLAIMER:
After years of reading toxic reviews based on lack of clarity, allow me to state quite clearly that THIS FANFIC STARTED OUT AS A JOKE. This is why the first few chapters of this particular fanfic might be unappealing to some readers, taking the humor a tad too far and characters acting a tad out of character. See, this is one of my earliest fanfics, dating all the way back to 2011 when I originally posted it. The writing style changes drastically, in chapter 6, where I left off, and in chapter 7, where I picked this fanfic back up in 2017. I don't feel like starting over, though; I will always have fond memories of these first chapters. I've already edited them enough to where they feel less CRINGE to me; I don't know how you will feel about them until you say so. Just know that I have received my due criticisms for the early chapters, and have improved upon them like a good writer.
I would also like to add, for extra extra clarity, that Vegeta does not spend the entire story nerfed just so he can fit comfortably in Avatar without affecting the plot like some Self-Insert fanfic. Yes, he gets stronger as the story goes on; and yes, the plot diverges significantly: Vegeta is far from the only DBZ character to be here as more and more DBZ and Avatar lore is interwoven together into my own personal headcanon.
Enjoy.
The full moon shines over the sky, which was rattled by monstrous roars.
Giant red-eyed Oozarus swung their massive fists into every structure they saw and tore them apart. The lower portion of the mountain temple rocked with the footsteps of gigantic armored Oozarus that unleashed huge chi blasts from their mouths, blowing chunks of the temple to nothing.The monks that managed to get away were overwhelmed by the swarms of cackling Saibaman, diminutive green creatures that vaporized fleeing Air Nomads with rays of chi The Air Nomads fled further into the mountain as the Saiyans claimed the burning ruins of the temple.
Deep within the inner sanctum of the temple, dust dropped from the ceiling, noticed by the progressively worried young girl. The airbender tried her best to keep meditating in spite of the carnage outside.
The ceiling caved in with a powerful slam; Yangchen turned and looked in shock as her master lie lifeless on the floor, the moonlight shining over his curled up smoldering body. The King of the Saiyans landed before the corpse with an irate frown."Well, that was just disappointing on innumerable levels..."
The Saiyan's face leveled up to see the girl.
The young airbender fell on her back and began to crawl away.
The Saiyan raised a brow; after a second, it dawned on him."Well now, what have we here?"
The young Yangchen was startled by the voice, rising up to see the figure approach her.
"Don't tell me that you're supposed to be the Avatar? The strongest being this planet has to offer? All those insects across the continent died with the only solace that it would be you that would defeat me: are you going to fail them?" the king quizzically raised his hand, which created a ki ball.
The ki's light covered the girl's face, Yangchen's eyes and lips trembled, too scared to so much as speak to the alien. She instead spun around and regressed to her knees, her fists folded together.
"Now, who are you praying to exactly?" The Saiyan King asked."I thought you were the god of this world. I certainly hope you're not immortal: because a swift death would serve you well right now!" he yelled, flying straight for the girl, fist cocked.
Just before the fist made contact, the Avatar's eyes and tattoos lit up, engulfing the chamber in a flash.
I HAVE TO FIND SOMEONE!
The night sky filled the quiet forest with a shade of content-full blue. Aang, Sokka, and Katara found a nice empty spot in the forestry to land Appa in and set up camp, and were now preparing to dowse the fire and receive some sleep for whatever tomorrow had for them.
As Katara unfurled her sleeping bag, she noticed her young airbending friend reclining atop his own bag, staring up into the stars with wondrous eyes. "Is something bothering you, Aang?" Katara asked. Aang's innocent eyes never left the sky."Do you think that we're alone in the universe'?" he inquired.
"'Course not," Sokka replied, quenching the campfire with a bowl of water,"there're are plenty of other kids fighting the Fire Nation; that's where people get their inspiration from," he explained.
"No, what I mean is: do you think that, somewhere out there, beyond our world, beyond the stars, that there's...something else?" the Avatar asked, turning to the warrior.
"You mean like, another world?" Katara queried, "huh...I guess it could be possible..." the waterbender speculated, huddling in her arms, as winter wasn't quite through yet.
The team skeptic naturally rolled his eyes as he prepared his own sleeping bag." Com'on; everyone knows there's nothing out there except stars and more stars," he declared.
"But how do we know?" the Avatar inquired, "It's not like anyone ever tried to check..."
"That's because it's impossible," Sokka explained, almost surprised by his friend's naivety," ifs been proven there's no air in space; and if we could never survive up there, well, there you go..." the warrior finished, scooting into his bag and expecting to hear nothing more on the subject. But of course, his sister was far to optimistic to let it die.
"...What if there's a world where the Water Tribe is trying to take over..." the waterbender mused, causing one of her brother's eyelids to shoot open in annoyance.
"Or what if there's a world where there's no war or conflict at all?" Aang continued, "I'd love to see a place that..."
"And you will," Sokka began, "as soon as you master all four elements and defeat the Fire Lord; now stop daydreaming and go to sleep!" he nagged.
"Hang on," Katara teased, "how can Aang be daydreaming if it's nighttime? Wouldn't he just be dreaming regularly?"
"whatever..." the warrior groaned, squirming deeper into the sac.
The satisfied waterbender removed her shoes and descended into her bag."Goodnight, Aang, Sokka, Appa, and Momo."
"Goodnight."
"goodnight..."The area rumbled with the bellow of a fully-grown sky bison, waking up the already asleep lemur.
The young nomad allowed his eyes to regress closed... seconds later having to open them again his lids were irritated by a sudden orange glow. The Avatar looked up to see a truly unexpected sight for anyone about to hit the hay."Oh my GOSH!
"What? Is it a spider?" Sokka rose, frantically searching for the dastardly arachnid.
"Bigger," Aang replied, pointing up to the giant fireball that zoomed overhead, a heart-stopping boom resonating seconds later.
"What was that?" Katara wondered.
"Well, obviously, it was a fallen star," Sokka explained.
"I'm gonna go see," Aang announced, hopping out of his pouch and dashing in the direction of the sound. Katara followed.
"And once again, we're running toward the potentially bad thing," Sokka complained, getting up and following as well.
The kids stopped before a wide lake, with the enormous blazing orb halfway in. "Okay, we saw the meteorite; can we go to bed now?" Sokka hoped. Aang took a good look at the object, noticing a few details that normal boulders didn't have, such as what appeared to be broken windows, and...was that a door? "It's a ship!" he announced.
"A ship?" Sokka inquired, "That fell from the sky?"
"You don't think that..." broached Katara.
"There's only one way to find out," Aang replied, bravely leaping into the sky and zipping down through the entrance, creating an air shield to plow through the flames.
The Avatar looked around within the teetering, burning vessel, occasionally met with a spark or plum that he instantly blew out. "Hello?" he called,"Is anyone here? I'm here to save you!" The Avatar's call was answered: a subtle grunt penetrating the boy's eardrums. The boy snapped to his left to see a gloved hand reaching beyond the smoke, which soon went limp.
"Don't worry! I'm the Avatar, I've got you!" Aang reassured, running to the arm and pulling out of the smoke a grown man covered in burnt marks. He strenuously dragged the unconscious body closer to the exit, eventually able to lean his head outside.
"Katara! He's too heavy! Make an ice bridge!" He commanded.
The girl nodded, assuming a stance, taking a deep breath, and exhaling a cloud of mist over the lake, creating a narrow path between them and the apparent ship.
The orb started to descend quicker than before, causing the airbender to briefly lose balance."Hurry! It's gaining water!"
"Okay, you reinforce the bridge while I help Aang carry the guy out," Sokka dictated. "Alright," his sister replied. The Water Tribe teen preceded to hastily but carefully cross the temporary bridge, while Katara widened it.
The Avatar managed to pull the man off the sinking vessel. Sokka made it to the struggling boy, who went around the body to pick up his legs while Sokka assumed the upper half. The two got out of the hot zone just in time before the whole thing collapsed beneath the water, chipping off of the bridge. It was when the boys passed over the dirt that an explosion erupted out of the lake.
Sokka sighed with satisfaction."Ahh, I knew this day was missing something..." he remarked.
The next morning, the trio, lemur, and flying bison were airborne once more, resuming their journey to Omashu, though this time carrying along some...extra cargo...
"So, how is he?" Aang asked
Sokka turned around to check for any signs of consciousness - there was none."Nope, still asleep."
"Oh, I can't wait till he wakes up!" Katara beamed,"Then we can talk about what life is like in another world..."
The optimist's brother rubbed the bridge between his eyes."Not this again. Just because a guy fell from the sky doesn't mean he's from another planet"
"Then how do you explain the big, round thing I found him in?" the Avatar inquired.
"Well, it was probably some kind of flying machine. It's not impossible; Teo's dad invented one," Sokka explained.
"That was a balloon, what we saw last night was a ship," Katara retorted, "Can you believe it? A ship that travels through space?"
"Or rather, crashes through space..."Sokka corrected.
"Whatever; are you at least keeping an eye on him?" the waterbender inquired.
The warrior crossed his arms, offended." I think my instincts would let me know if a body's about to roll off..." he replied, resting his hand on said body...which he soon found out was no longer there.
"Maybe if you actually had instincts..." Katara muttered.
The sky was alive with the sound of a half-awake, blood-curdling scream; which was eventually cut off by Appa catching the man on his back and soaring back to his previous altitude in dramatic fashion.
"Well, at least he's awake now..." Sokka reviewed.
"Was the backflip necessary?" Katara inquired after almost falling off the bison herself.
"Just trying to make sure we stay in the right direction," the Air Nomad excused himself, shrugging. Another grumble permeated the children's ears.
The four (including Momo) huddled up curiously mound the mysterious person. It was a grown man who looked somewhere in his mid-thirties, wearing some strange skin-tight blue suit that enveloped his entire body, with the exception of white gloves and boots, as well as his torso, which was covered in an extra layer of white armor with yellow breastplates; the front and back portion seemed to be held together by a pair of golden segmented straps within each shoulder-though he was saved from a fire just last night, the clothing didn't appear to bear any damage save for the burnt marks (Katara could easily wash those out later). His hair was long and clumped into sharp stalks. The man slowly turned over on his back, showing his face to them while grunting all the way. His eyelids cracked open.
"Hello, do you speak the human language?" Katara slowly asked.
The man seemed to ignore her as his attention reverted to the bald individual hanging above him. "N...Nappa?"
"Don't worry, we have one..." Aang replied, moving away for a moment.
The man sluggishly rose to a sitting position."...Wha...What happened? Where am I?" he struggled, still dazed. Although the man was now sitting upright, his hair stayed in the same position as when he was lying down, sticking straight up.
"Your spaceship was destroyed in the crash; but we managed to save you," Katara explained, unknowingly earning a face-palm from her brother (that is, he face-palmed himself).
Aang came back, raising a vegetable to the man. He stared at it for a moment."...What's this for?" he inquired, a bit more edge to his tone.
"It's a cabbage," the smiling Avatar replied," you asked for a napa..." The fully conscious man seemed to glare at the boy like he was retarded.
"Not a napa, you idiot, I mean Nappa!" he exclaimed in anger, his voice deep and raspy.
Silence...
"grr, Nevermind..." he dismissed, getting up to his feet and literally jumping off the saddle.
The trio shared horrified glances before the Avatar dashed back to the reigns and perform the same stunt as before, making the flying bison loopy-loop in the air, divebomb, and stylishly catching the screaming man as the bison sailed back to slandered bison-flying level.
"I guess you just didn't know you were on a flying bison!" Aang cried over the wind as the man struggled to push himself back up; as expected, his face wore a very confused expression.
"What? Why didn't I...wait, flying what?" he strenuously asked, then crawling to the edge of the saddle, getting a good view of the creature's legs and matinee-like tail, now fully aware he was currently in the saddle of the huge bison, soaring through the clouds in much the same way that real bison do not.
"Yep, last one in existence," added Sokka.
"well that's a new one..." he mumbled, unimpressed, though he seemed to pause in confusion a moment later."Wait a second..." he vocalized, taking another peek down,"Green flora? Blue sky? I-I can't still be on Earth, can I!?" he cried a bit dramatically.
"Where else would you be, the Spirit World?" Sokka asked.
"That's impossible! I was out of this solar system at least two space-weeks ago!" he continued as if he were talking to the three.
The waterbender gasped with excitement "So you are from another planet! Ooh, this so amazing! We can exchange cultures, history, traditions..."
The young warrior stared at his sister as if she were from another planet. "Katara, can you hear yourself? Just because we find some weird guy with weird clothes and a bad case of bedhead who crashes in a quote-on-quote 'flying ship' doesn't mean he totally just jumped off Appa again, didn't he...?" Sokka trailed off, realizing the man was no longer with them, prompting the Avatar to anxiously repeat the same maneuver a third time to save the once-more screaming man from peril.
Unfortunately, this time Aang could not catch the man in time, his screaming person slamming into the trees and ground, a shock wave whipping through the forest before Appa could even land.
Katara shrieked in horror."NO! What have you done!?" she yelled in Sokka's face.
"HOW IS THIS MY FAULT!? HE JUMPED!"
"...ooooowwww..."
The three were silenced by the faint moan behind the kicked-up dust. They hopped off of Appa, hurried past the brown fog, past the snapped tree trunks, and in the center of the destruction was a small crater, in which lay the still clearly alive - but even more so clearly in pain - alien man.
"Huh..." Sokka blinked,"I guess he's an earthbender..."
"How could he be an earthbender if he's not from the earth?" questioned Aang.
"He's not not from earth..." deadpanned Sokka.
The groaning man pushed his face out of the dirt."What the...again!? Why did I fall!?" he wondered aloud, clearly frustrated for some reason.
"Um, maybe because you jumped?" Sokka observed.
The disgruntled man then lept off the ground and again fell on his face; then he jumped and fell again, and jumped and fell again, and attempted so on again until Sokka latched on to his shoulder."Wait! What're you trying to do, get up and fly on your own!?" Sokka demanded.
"YES!" the man roared out of pure anger, smacking Sokka's hand out of his face
More silence...
"...Urm, so are you, like, an airbender...Do you have airbenders on your planet?" Aang wondered.
The man blinked in confusion." er...w-well yes, I suppose that's a word for it...der...Will you brats shut up before I fry you to crisps!?" he snapped back.
"Wouldn't you have to be a firebender to do that? You just said you were an airbender," Sokka reminded.
The man arose. "I'm not any kind of bender, dammit! I'm a Saiyan!"
Even more silence...
"Yeah, that's right! And just as it happens, I am the PRINCE of Saiyans, a Saiyan Elite, A Super Saiyan, the most powerful living being in all the universe!" he continued, as the children stared at him in natural awkwardness.
Sokka face-palmed again."Oh, of course, how could I have not known that?" he inquired sarcastically,"Oh right! It could be due to the fact that I have no idea what you're saying!"
"So you must be from another world..." Katara misinterpreted her brother.
"Well, I'm certainly not from this plan-" the Saiyan shook his head."Nevermind! Why the hell can't I fly!?"
"Because you're an earthbender, not an airbender; seriously, man, pick an element..." Sokka snarked.
"That's it, you little bastard!" the fed-up man raised his palm in Sokka's direction."BIG BANG ATTACK!"
Poof.
A tiny puff of blue luminescent smoke permeated from the palm of the man...
The kids sat silently, waiting for something else to happen... it didn't...
"...are you...trying to attack us?" Aang vocalized.
The man seemed just as perplexed."...what the...C'mon Big-Bang Attack, Big-Bang Attack!" he kept trying, repeatedly shoving his palm towards Sokka a second time, once again producing a blue puff of smoke. He started forcing his hands in several different weird positions, shouting more random, flamboyant phrases that were neither clever nor catchy all resulting in various small smoke puffs of different size and colors. He then looked at his hands for a short while, his face illustrating a great deal of shock and inner horror, the kind of horror one had when they realized they were blind or deaf, making a series of weird exhaling noises.
Katara gasped."Was that your bending? That wasn't like any bending I've ever seen!"
"If you can call that bending..." Sokka's eyelids dipped.
"YOU!" the man roared, throwing his finger at the kids,"What did you do to me!? What happened to my ki!?"
"Whoa, wait a minute!" Aang responded, his hands raised defensively; he then paused."Wait, your what?" he inquired.
"My ki! What's wrong with it!?" the man replied.
"Well, I'm sorry, we didn't find a key on you when we saved you; maybe it came off when you fell off of Appa..." Katara began.
"Not that kind of key! Ki! My energy! My life-force! It should be screaming out of my body!"
Aang pondered this for a moment, then snapped his fingers."Oh, you mean your chi! Was that how you were trying to destroy Sokka?"
"Well of course! Keh, typical Earthlings..." he mumbled, looking away and crossing his arms.
"But, the monks always taught me that if any human being ever had that much chi inside of them, they'd explode..." Aang explained.
"Oh, but didn't you hear, Aang? He's a Saaiiyaann..." Sokka continued to mock, enjoying this far more than he would usually.
"You dare make fun of my race!?" the man lurched forward, about to seize the teen by the throat.
The Avatar stopped in front of the two."Hey, wait, everybody calm down! Look, Sir, maybe you're just really shaken from the crash and you can't bend yet. Trust me, it's hard to airbend when you're tired."
"Aang has a point, you hit your head pretty hard just now," added Katara,"so hard in fact that no normal human could've survived that fall..." she leered into Sokka's face.
"...except of course for an earthbender..." leered Sokka even harder.
"...which he could not be, seeinf as how he just displayed a form of bending never before seen in our world..." Katara leered as hard as Water Tribely possible
"ENOUGH LEERING!" thundered the man."I am a Saiyan! Not a human! So if what the bald child says is true, then I demand you take me to the nearest civilization where I can recuperate..." the man replied smugly, his arms crossed.
"Oh, well what a coincidence!" Katara beamed,"We're on our way to Omashu: one of the biggest and oldest cities in the history of our world," she explained.
"Yeah, we're going so I can learn earthbending from my hundred-year-old friend; see, I'm the Avat-"
"Whatever! Hurry up and take me there already! I need to recover my power!" the man replied.
"Alright, Space-man, no need to get any asteroids caught in your pants..." Sokka jokingly settled.
"Condescend to me any further and you will pay dearly, boy..." he warned.
The three, now a group of four, sat in Appa's saddle while Aang hopped onto the bison's head "Okay, it's still a long trip; better get comfortable while you can..." Aang explained before he snapped the reigns."Yip Yip!"
Appa slammed his wide tail against the ground and took off back into the sky.
"By the way, I'm Aang," the last airbender began."This is Katara, and her brother Sokka."
"Pleased to meet you, " the young waterbender greeted.
Sokka waved indifferently.
"So, we didn't catch your name..." Aang reminded
The man snorted, lying at the back of the saddle, his arms folded and eyes closed."It's Vegeta: don't forget it".
The sky bison flew off into the horizon, carrying its passengers whose lives will be changed forever, especially Vegeta's.