For as long as the written word has existed, legends were told of seven mythical spheres called Dragon Balls. Scattered around the Earth, the legends say that whosoever can gather them together, they need only to call forth the mighty dragon that sleeps within and he will grant them any wish their heart desires. No records exist of anyone ever summoning the Dragon, but myths surrounding the Balls can be found in multiple cultures, lending credence to their legitimacy. But the Dragon Balls are not Earth's only legend. In fact it has a rich history of warriors and martial arts masters. Even in the modern day, the Martial Arts are revered with a tournament that is only held once every three years called the Tenkaichi Budokai. As that name suggests, it is a tournament held to determine who is the Strongest Under the Heavens. But the Earth is about to learn that they are not alone in the Universe.

In another Galaxy, a race of warriors called the Saiyans make a name for themselves on a galactic scale. Craving battle, they became known for roaming planet to planet, each conquered by only one or two Saiyans at a time at most. But they are few in number, their home planet lost to a disastrous meteor strike five years ago. What remains of the race is a handful of survivors under the command of one who calls himself their King. Their invasion of other planets is an effort to find a new world suitable for them to make a new home. In all of this, a pair of Saiyans find themselves eying the Earth itself. Their Scouter devices have alerted them to several individuals with high battle power residing on the planet. But rather than approach this cautiously, they instead have decided to see this as a challenge to test their mettle as proud warriors. And they may also have come to Earth in pursuit of another goal as well.

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The sun was bright, and the morning was reaching its end. It was approximately 11:30 AM when a trio of small objects began their descent into the Earth's atmosphere. They were round, perfectly spherical in shape, only large enough for a single person to fit inside and each had a small window that could allow one to peer inside. The alien alloy that the pods were made of protected their hulls from the heat caused by their friction with the atmosphere. This also protected their occupants as the pods each crashed down onto the ground below, with all three resting at the center of their own small impact crater. The location was one of the Earth's many vast wildernesses outside of the cities. This particular location was southeast of the main continent among an archipelago of islands, the pods having all landed on one of the larger islands.

There was no civilization for miles, but even so the arrival of the objects could at the very least have been seen from several miles away. One by one, the three pods opened with a hissing sound followed by sounds other computerized machinery designed to awaken the occupants from their temporary stasis. Hands grabbed for the edge of the hatch openings as the armored figures emerged from their vehicles. One was muscular and with an imposing figure, having no hair on his head but instead a rugged black beard on his face. His armor appeared well-worn, even appearing to have one of its shoulder parts broke off in a previous battle. His upper arms were bare and his hands covered by some kind of fingerless gauntlets. His legs were also largely bare save for the boots on his feet and skin-tight that looked similar to a pair of spandex shorts. The parts of his skin that were visible were grizzled and in many places scarred, most notably a large scar on his forehead and the bridge of his nose. The second figure was a younger man, his figure not as tall but very well toned. His own armor looked somewhat scuffed but not as worn as first man. He possessed no facial hair, instead having an exaggerated feauxhawk of sorts that appeared to split into 3 large hair spikes. His suit covered more of his skin, indeed covering all of his arms and legs. And his gloves and boots appeared to be white and made of a rubber material rather than some form of armored material like the other man's was. And finally, the third of the visitors was instead small, appearing to be a child of some kind.

The second visitor closed his eyes and took in a long whiff of the air on the planet, "Finally... those damn pods can give you such a killer leg cramp." he declared, having begun stretching his muscles like someone getting out of bed in the morning. As for the second man, he said nothing. With stoic composure, he retrieved from his pod a glass vile filled with seeds of some kind. Without any words he began meticulously burying the seeds in the ground, "Really? You're gonna give all the fun to the Saibamen? C'mon, Jagen, the power level readings weren't that high." this finally elicited a response from the stoic Jagen, who at first gave his younger counterpart a stern look before speaking.

"There's still only three of us, Korun." he then kept up with his work he spoke further, "The Saibamen will allow us to cover more ground in our search, and act as a suitable test for the warriors of this planet. If they can't even best the Saibamen, then they were never worth our time to fight directly."

Korun smirked, unafraid of showing his Saiyan arrogance, "And if they just so happen to flush Negi out of hiding, all the better, is that what you're getting at?" he sounded a bit disappointed, but already knew that he had no counterargument. As usual, Jagen's logic was frustratingly sound. The guy used to be one King Daikon's most trusted officers for a reason, after all. Still, Korun walked over to the shore of the island and dipped his hands into the water in order to wash it over his face and cool it off. After this he sat down on the and laid his head back on his hands, "Whatever. Wake me when the action starts."

After planting a dozen seeds, Jagen stood back up. He stepped back a bit order to watch the results of his work take form. There was movement coming from under the ground, and then green figures emerged from the soil. Their bodies were varying shades of green, their heads bulbous and their faces looking impish and flashing fanged smiles. They were very small in stature, no larger than a child, and their hands only seemed to posses three clawed fingers with a similar number of toes on their feet. They didn't speak, only seeming to communicate using high pitched growls and shrieks. Jagen nodded his head in an approving manner, "Good. Now go and seek out the strongest warriors you can find. Let them have a taste of what's to come." without much of a response, all of the Saibamen suddenly powered and took off into the sky before scattering in various directions.

"And now... we wait. Yay." said Korun from his spot at the shore, with an obvious lack of enthusiasm in his tone.

@mattmanganon@Headhunter@Chev@Senseless@Weird Tales

I already hate this planet.

Tabaga muttered under her breath as she rubbed her hands together in a futile attempt to stay warm as she stared daggers at the attack ball. Already damaged in an asteroid field, the damn thing had found her a planet to land on for which she was grateful. But did this planet have to be so cold?! She had been stuck in this frozen wasteland for nearly five hours now and the attack ball was damaged enough that it wasn't going to be flying anytime soon. Or ever now that she took a closer look at it. It was probably the asteroid field encounter that had done the most damage.

Could be worse. I could be a frozen corpse in space. She thought as she tried to find something in this frozen wasteland other than ice and snow and not succeeding. She was still feeling a bit weak after nearly five years in stasis and the fact that her current environment was less then hospitable.

If I don't get out of here I'm most likely going to freeze. She thought bitterly as she slowly rose into the air and tried to catch sight of anything other than ice and snow. The only thing she saw was a far off storm cloud approaching her from what she assumed was the east. She thought she could see a far off body of water and a few distant specks which could be islands off towards the west.

"Screw this." She muttered aloud. "If I head south I might find something warmer." She quickly rose a bit further into the air and flew off south.

Daini Saisei, Master Swordsman and Adept Ki-User, only apprentice to the legendary Kyuseishu no Ken, was having an off day.

It all started when he left his room to get himself some breakfast. Normally, this would be a simple process resulting in a nutritious breakfast of cereal and potentially a banana. Today however, when Daini opened his pantry to grab the box of cereal, he laid eyes on a giant rat tearing through all of the food inside. He managed to deal with the rat without getting injured, but now his clothes were covered in rat's blood! And he still had no breakfast! After changing his clothes, Daini left the house and went to the nearby town in the hopes of getting something to eat from elsewhere. Before he could get halfway there, he was jumped by a group of bandits! They weren't very dangerous bandits, but by the time Daini had managed to deal with them all (beating the braver ones, catching up to the cowardly ones) it was midday!

"Can this day get any worse!?" Daini cried out, frustration clear in his voice.

Hunter kept low behind some bushes to watch a flock of deer grazing in the clearly several dozen yards away. He had been tracking them for about twenty minutes and now that he had them in his sight he took aim with his shotgun and charged up a small energy blast in the nozzle of his gun. He fired off a single shot and the ball of light shot from his weapon and flew at insane speeds towards its target. It went right through the creature's heart and out its body making a quick and clean kill. The other deer scattered and fled. Hunter would only be killing one. He didn't need to be greedy and one would be enough for him.

He began to collect the meat and skin the fur off of the animal. Once he was finished Hunter went back to his home in this region of the world. He had set up several cabin houses in several parts of the world for when he traveled from one place to another. Anyone who tried to stay in his cabin when he arrived would be quickly and painfully kicked out.

The cabin was located on the edge of the woods and it offered him a small view of the city in the distance. It had been a few weeks since his last contract as a bounty hunter and he wanted to take some time away from ridding the world of criminals and would be warlords. He wondered how long until his next contract and if it would be a challenge.

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Cheral Castella chatted merrily along with her friends as they walked through the mall. They were quite the diverse group of individuals, colleagues, old high school-chums, and fancy rich 'kids' all together. Their clothes were all quite different, ranging from dresses to leather jackets and jeans that made them all clash with each other. Cheral herself was quite casual today, skin tight jeans, a green and white striped t-shirt with a tan vest on top. To complete her look was some brown, lace-up boots and a pair of silver clip-on ear clasps for just the slightest bit of edge.

It was odd to see so many different kinds of people together but when one thought about it, it was actually pretty easy to understand how such a group might come together. While it was obvious that many of these people had little in common with each other, they all had a central figure to hover around, Cheral Castella. As the daughter of one of East City's most powerful mob bosses it made sense that so many people would want to be her friend.

Cheral knew all this of course, it was impossible to not notice how differently she was treated once they realized who she was the daughter of, but she didn't let that get in the way of her fun. She couldn't change how people thought or acted but she could certainly have quite a bit of fun whenever she wanted!

At the moment as they walked together, one of her oldest friends was talking about how much she despised her boss. She was a girl two years younger than her that she had known since she was a kid. Her father worked for the Castella family as one of his enforcers so it was only natural that they had gotten to know each other from an early age.

"So I was like, doing my job, and I had to make some copies for the next meeting when my boss suddenly calls out to me from his office. 'Helen! Get your skinny ass moving and get me a coffee while I'm at it, capeesh!' Gaah, what a creeper! Maybe I should get dad to pay him a visit, but I think he's a little too wealthy for my dad alone to do anything. Course if he had your dad along for the visit it might shut him up!" Helen laughed and linked a arm around Cheral's while she hinted at doing her a favor.

Cheral rolled her eyes at her friends antics and chuckled. Helen acted an looked like a 'valley' girl but as the daughter of an Enforcer in reality she was quite strong herself. The impression she gave others often caused them to underestimate and dismiss her however, which extended to her office life.

Cheral decoupled her arm from Helen's and playfully nudged her. "Now, now Helen, you know my dad's got a lot more important things to do than deal with some jerk. Besides, if you really were having troubles he'd already be in the hospital right now."

Helen gave an adorable puffy pouty face and stuck her tongue out at Cheral before clinging to her rather rough looking boyfriend in a leather jacket.

Cheral chuckled and turned her gaze to her surroundings. "Well guys I'm feeling generous today so how about we all dine for lunch together, on me!" A collective cheer from the group could be heard as they all headed toward a fancy restaurant called Ponuello's. It was a moderately priced Italian restaurant that always had fresh baked bread one could snack on before the main course, it was fine dining at a reasonable price. As they all filed in though, Cheral realized she was forgetting something as she searched around all her pockets.

"Oopsies, I think I forgot my wallet." She clonked herself on the head with a fist and everyone else groaned, this sort of thing had happened before.

"Don't worry guys, I'll be back in two gulps of a beer! Why don't you all head inside and wait for me, shouldn't take me too long to find it, must be back home." Cheral waved to her friends and rushed out to the nearest taxi to head back to her home lab where she left her wallet, probably.

A young man on a bench outside the mall watched her go and then looked down at his smartphone. A map showed up and a small icon could be seen going away from the mall...

@IceHeart



Bururi was doing some exercises, Mostly consisting of one finger push ups, squats, and sit ups. The sit up and squats involving heavy weights that are 200 pounds. After his exercises he wiped some sweat form his forehead drinking from a bottle of water, Looking at his watch seeing that he was late for one of his odd jobs. Quickly rushing into his small shack that he calls home, Putting on clean clothes consisting of a yellow t-shirt with the words "Tough Boy" printed on the front, Light brown shorts and running shoes.

Deciding to fly to East City and head to where he needed to work, Finally arriving at the edge of East City landing on his feet and looking around. He was curious about the city and most importantly the people living there. Deciding that this time he would walk to his work while watching people walking by or driving along in their cars.

He was so distracted by his daydreaming that he bumped into someone, Landing on his butt feeling like he was hit by something hard. Looking at whom he smashed into was a slim looking human woman. Humans was something he was trying to learn about and was quite fascinated by them. Human woman especially since his experience speaking with them always lead to being slapped in the face. "I'm so sorry i was not focus on where i was walking" He jumped onto his feet and held out a hand to help the woman up onto her feet.

"Po..." The boy stirred in his pod "PO!" All he could remember is fire, destruction all around him. He could feel nothing but fear. The immense form of someone approaching him. He was positively shaking as the figure lunged at him.

Waking up, he jumped straight out of the open pod door and started screaming. He slowly stopped as the other two looked at him. "Look, kid, i appreciate your enthusiasm, but save the warface for the locals." The large one shook his head.

"I... Um, i..." He pushed his fingers together as he looked down at them.

"Want me to take this one?" He heard.

"No, i'm good." He replied.

"Wha?" Korun asked.

"Wasn't talking to you." He replied. Korun looked at him with disdain. "I didn't ask you two to come, King Okura gave ME this assignment, you two needn't come along." Korun approached him, before grabbing him by the scruff of his Armour. and pulled him up so that they were face-to-face.

"Someone so bite-sized shouldn't be so mouthy to their superiors." He scowled. He reared his fist back.

"Nice try, Po, but i've got this." As the fist rushed towards his face, Po grabbed it and slipped under it, before wrapping his legs around the Man's upper-arm and flipping over to his back, he grabbed the other arm, wrapped his arms around the man's neck and began pulling the other arm, until he was in an arm lock. "Come on, fat-boy, say Mercy!" He giggled.

"LITTLE BRAT!!!" Korun screamed as he flailed around with his other arm.

"SAY MERCY!!!" He was laughing uncontrolably now.

"SCREW YOU!" He fell backwards, trying to crush Po under his weight. Just before he hit the ground, Po jumped off and was about to jump on Korun, he suddenly froze and began to shiver uncontrollably as Jagen grabbed his tail and held him, suspended by it, Po's arms and legs instinctively retracted up to his body.

"Look, Po, we are elite Saiyan Warriors, we have a job to do and fighting each other is pointless."

"Not... My... Fault..." Korun got up and dusted himself off. He walked over to Po.

"I like this one. He'll grow into a nice little killer." He laughed, before giving Po a playfully light punch to the cheek. Po didn't react, due to his tail being gripped tightly.

"Get that tail of yours in check." Jagen ordered, before dropping him, the tail wrapped back around his waist. "You still got that gift your "Mother" gave us?" He asked. Po opened up a pouch on his belt and pulled out the small capsule. "Give it to me." He ordered. Po did so. "Now, go and scout with the Saibamen, maybe find something for us to eat, i've been living on damn ration packs for weeks."

"Yeah, i need to eat something that was recently alive." Po shook his head as Tah retreated back into his subconscious.

"Yes sir..." Po saluted by banging his fist to his heart, before taking off.

Master Wu's foot collided with the side of Juze's face for what felt like the fifteenth time that afternoon, sending him flying a hundred feet through the open air. He managed to recover before he hit a nearby mountain, stopping his momentum by flying in the opposite direction briefly. But no sooner had he gotten his bearings before the old man was in front of him, having used the wind to dramatically enhance his speed. Juze barely blocked the punch, but Wu was faster still, vanishing and attacking from another direction with a kick to Juze's back, sending him upwards slightly. Then, Wu appeared above him and struck at his abdomen, which sent Juze down to the Earth...only for the master to be dragged along for the ride. The cause quickly became apparent as they hurtled downwards: Juze had intentionally wrapped his calves around Wu's right leg, and with some mid-air maneuvering, Juze was able to let go at a specific time and deal a heavy blow to the chest, sending Wu to the ground and leaving a small crater.

"Ugh...you've done well!" Wu said, as he pulled himself out of the depression he'd created with the force of his fall. "You managed to catch me off-guard, and reversed the flow of battle to boot!" He looked at the sun in the sky. "It's about lunchtime. What do you say we go to the nearby village and get some ramen to celebrate?"

"Sounds good to me!" Juze said as he descended to the ground. They both started to walk off down the mountain path when Juze stilled. "Hey...do you feel that?"

Wu stopped, and closed his eyes. "Hmm...I sense that power as well. It feels...not of this world."

"...Can we investigate?" Juze said, perhaps a bit too giddily.

"No, not yet." Wu said quickly as he opened his eyes, realizing the implications of his previous statement. "It may be hostile, and I don't want you risking your life needlessly, especially if it's as strong as it feels."

"Um...Master?"

"What?"

"I think it's getting closer."

"Skip the ramen, go inside and let me handle this!"

"Master, it's an alien. I need to be here, and it doesn't feel that strong."

Wu looked like he was about to pop a blood vessel. "Aren't you more cautious than this most of the time?! Go inside and hide your energy! If you really must, go find a place to view it and take notes! Maybe record it or something. It's broadcasting its energy and rushing straight towards us, I don't think this will be the peaceful first contact you think it will!"

"...Yes, master," Juze said, looking crestfallen as he suppressed his power level to a minuscule amount. He began to walk away.

"If it proves too much for me to handle on my own," Wu said as Juze walked back towards the dojo, "Then you can help me, within reason. If it's strong enough that both of us can't deal with it, then just run."

"Yes, master!" Juze said, much more enthusiastically, as he ran into the dojo and quickly tried to find a hiding place that would let him observe the battle from there. It didn't matter, of course: Feeling their energies would be almost as useful as a direct view.

Master Wu Lin, in turn, stood outside, waiting tensely for the threat to get close.

Color = Firebrick

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Like many other things Saudagrimm had come to discover since arriving on planet Earth, his opinion on the inhabitants were quite mixed. Especially one little one that regularly got on his nerves. Right at this very moment, even.

"YIP! YIP! YIP!"

The sound of tin tearing preceded the alien's attempt to calm the small, scruffy dog. "Sit still, Toshi." he asserted as he held out his free hand flatly towards the animal, his voice stern as his Sensei had taught him.

Toshi tilted his head, before letting out a series of more barks - earning a sigh from Saud. He emptied the can he held into a bowl, or rather on top of it; the pile of food was towering over the brim of the dish.

He set the bowl down for Toshi to start his meal, before wandering out of the kitchen, in search of his Sensei.

Living room? Nope. Bedroom? Nope.

It wasn't irregular for him to check a few rooms before finally finding his Sensei's location, despite the small footprint of the home - the old man was the best he'd ever met at concealing his Ki.

The only place left was the garden. A moment before his hand reached the handle, the thin door slid open.

"Good morning, Young Dajin." a voice greeted, almost instantly.

Saudagrimm shifted to the side before bowing lightly, "Good morning, Sensei." His brow furrowed at the use of the nickname. He knew the old man was aware of the fact that he didn't like nicknames, but he teased him with it anyway. The alien could've sworn there was a faint grin as he passed by his pupil.

Saud followed him down the hall. "Master Tymui, do you have any plans for training today?"

There was a pause as they entered the kitchen, the older man looking down at Toshi, who was lying belly-up on the floor next to his empty bowl, seeming quite satisfied.

"You over-fed him, again." he said as he approached the cupboard and started rummaging through it.

"O-oh...uh..Sor-" Saud began, before a box of dry noodles pegged him in the back of the head, as he had turned towards the TV in the living room. "-ow..." he stooped to pick them up, tossing them on the counter.

"And, yes. I plan on training with Raijin later." the old master responded. "..Why? You want some more training?" he said, his eyebrow raised as he peeked out from inside the cupboard, his tone clearly amused. "You could barely stand two nights ago."

Saud looked at his Sensei with crossed arms. "I recover fast." he said matter-of-factly, with the faintest hint of a smirk on his lips.

"Oh, I know. Which is why I think it could do you some good to spar with someone more your speed. Hmmm...Raijin, perhaps?" he offered as his liver spotted hands gathered the tools necessary to create his semi-famous Ramen.

"Um, well I uh- I don't think-"

Ding, Dong, Ding.

"Great! It's settled then. You and Raijin will have a great time; I'm sure of it." Tymui said with a devilish grin peaking out of his long, white beard.

Saud groaned as he went to the door and opened it. "Hello-"

"Greetings, Saudish." Came a strong, but sly voice.

"-Raijin..."

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"Alright, gentlemen. I want a good, clean fight."

Now they stood in an open field. A large clearing with light grass, surrounded by a thin line of trees. Saudagrimm and Raijin stood opposite one another, about twenty feet apart. Master Tymui sat probably ten yards off to the side, resting comfortably in a lawn chair topped with an umbrella, while chowing down on a bowl of noodles.

Being that they didn't want to damage anything, the three had to walk a ways off from the edge of town, where the master and Saudagrimm resided. Here, they wouldn't have to worry about collateral.

"When I say go, you will go. Got it?"

"Yes Sensei."

"Yes, Master."

"Alright then! 5...4...3.."

Saudagrimm found himself somewhat concerned for the outcome of his fight with Raijin. They'd fought only a couple of times before, but it had never been one-on-one. Only when their Master had held sort of "Training games" with multiple of his pupils had they opposed each other. And when they had, the alien learned the Raijin was fast. Really fast. Despite being slight bulkier than Saud. Normally in those games, Saudagrimm was ahead of almost everyone else who attended - but Raijin was always a whisker-width away.

"GO!"

Neither of them moved.

They stared at each other, watching every muscle for a sign of a twitch.

Saud sensed him move before he saw it. He raised both his arms to each side in order to block what he could, and fortunately caught Raijin's shin on his forearm, preventing a kick aimed at his ribs.

"Impressive, Sau-" the human was swiftly interrupted by Saud's arm turning to grasp his leg and slam his opponent's body into the ground. "-ack!"

Then Raijin was gone. Saud had felt no resistance from his grasp, one moment his opponent was on the ground, the next - vanished. Soon enough though, he felt a limb strike him in the back and send him sprawling forward. He rolled into the dirt and ended in a crouched position, looking up to see Raijin dusting his hands with a smirk.

"You got lucky, but it won't happen again." his muscles tensed as his opponent stood, before he appeared in Saud's face again.

He threw a barrage of punches at Saud's stomach and face regions, trying to throw them in unpredictable patterns, and at great speed.

Saud reacted as fast as he could, trying to block the punches at quickly as his brain allowed - but Raijin was a good deal faster than him, and punches got through every fourth strike or so.

A jab hit him straight to the jaw and he staggered, earning him a forearm to the side of the head. He went stumbling, Raijin closing the short distance again to attack, but one of Saud's arms shot out at his opponent, even outside of his peripheral vision. Two of his fingers jabbed Raijin in the chest and the human stiffened immediately, letting out a yelp.

Saud faced him and attacked his opponent with a combo of three jabs, two to the stomach and one to the face, sending him sprawling into the dirt.

Raijin groaned after a moment, his vision returned. "What some say is true...your punch is that of a dozen.." he breathed as he licked blood off his lip.

What he said wasn't far off. Being that Saudagrimm focused much more on being defensive, performing many quick attacks against his opponent wasn't something he could really fit into his style. So he substituted. Each attack used more Ki than one would think, and hit much harder than a standard practitioner's punch - but he made a lot less of them; so the Ki usage about evened out.

Saud looked at him with the same calculating expression he normally had - regardless of how excited he was on the inside. He was holding well, it seemed.

He remained in place as his opponent regained his stance, Raijin tensing his muscles to charge again.

"Wait."

Saud jumped out of his skin, almost. Master Tymui was standing right next to him.

"Master? What is it? Did I do something-"

"Listen!"

There was a long pause, where both Saudagrimm and Raijin reached out to feel the world around them.

There.

They all turned towards the same direction.

"There's someone coming towards us. Quickly." Their master warned, a furrowed brow showing his curiosity.

Papaya Island. Beautiful and majestic, filled with all types of fauna and peculiar creatures, along with so many other noteworthy things, but the World Tournament wasn’t among them.

“What the heck!” Ponzu slammed his hammer into the ground. The seismic impact created a small fissure. “Where’s the friggin tournament at?”

“You dingus!” Cogo narrowly escaped from falling into the chasm. He picked up a loose rock and chucked it back at Ponzu. “Watch where you’re swinging that thing!”

Ponzu snapped his fingers, summoning a small portal to shield him from the rock. The projectile went through it, then dropped down from another portal that opened above Cogo’s head.

Bang!

Cogo’s little demon eyes protruded out from his silver hair in cartoonish fashion. Ponzu gave a hearty laugh, flashing his fangs.

“You stupid idiot!” Cogo’s eyes watered. “I told you the thief was right! It’s not for another year or so. We came here for nothing!”

Ponzu thought back to the Thief they interrogated. He remembered what he said about the dragon balls and where the strongest people might be, because he reasoned that only the strong could possess something so powerful.

“Hmph!” Ponzu spat. “That fool probably lied to us to save his own hide. We should go back there and finish what we started on that good for nothin piece of-”

“Or…” Cogo scratched his head, rubbing the bruise from the rock. “We can forget the tournament all together and just look for strong people ourselves.”

“Ugh, that’ll take too long! I want the dragon balls now!” Ponzu rolled his eyes and groaned.

He raised his hammer to slam it down onto the ground again to vent his frustration, but his eyes caught sight of something off into the distance. Three streaks of light flashed vibrantly into the sky, streaking down from the atmosphere.

“Whoa!” Cogo saw it too, following their trajectory with his finger until they disappeared into the horizon.

“You think those might be dragon balls!?” Ponzu said, excitedly. Cogo gave an awkward shrug.

“I’m not sure. Didn’t the thief say after the dragon balls are used, they shoot up and outward, separating into different directions?” Cogo said.

Ponzu blew a raspberry.

“That idiot lied to us about the tournament. Maybe he even lied to us about the dragon balls, but either way, we don’t have squat to go on, so lets just go in its direction. Maybe we’ll pick up some clues along the way…”

Cogo’s innocent demeanor then shifted into an evil grin as he rubbed his palms together. “And…maybe we can pull a couple more pranks on some unsuspecting earthlings?”

“Why of course, you buffoon!” Ponzu laughed, kicking up dirt at Cogo’s face as he ran forward. Cogo chased after him with more rock throwing. He still didn’t learn his lesson, not after the second time Ponzu used a portal to redirect the rock back at him, nor the third, fourth, or fifth. The two demon kids clumsily moved in the direction of where they assumed would be the impact site, readily distracted by whatever obstacle they encountered along the way.

The master waited. Five minutes. Then ten. The energy source got closer...and then seemed to veer off in another direction. He did some quick calculations in his head to figure out where it was going. It was heading to Kiwi Town!

His blood ran cold. Kiwi Town was Juze's hometown. He had been there to visit some relatives when he had witnessed Juze's kidnapping and stopped it. The rest was history.

"JUZE!" he yelled. "COME OUT! CHANGE OF PLANS!"

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Juze felt the power source shift direction as well, and when his master yelled for him, he ran to the edge of the mountain path only too quickly.

The dojo was a humble wooden building, situated along a gravel path that cut through the grasses that grew on the mountain at this time of year. More importantly, it overlooked a cliff, giving them an excellent view of the surrounding countryside. Kiwi Town wasn't that far from the mountain, visible in the far distance.

It would be a long drive, and a longer walk. But it would be a quick fly. Juze had been worried about something like this ever since he started training to use his ki, but he had never imagined his town would be attacked. He would defer to what his master said.

"Do...do you want me to go with you?" Juze said, with fear and worry in his voice.

Wo closed his eyes again. When he opened them, he said, "Yes. I taught you your techniques so that you could use them to defend yourself from ki-using attackers, but many of them will want to harm others. Your training in the Falcon School is incomplete, but that does not mean you should not use what I taught you to protect your--"

Juze started flying ahead, still wearing his Falcon School gi.

Wu spluttered with disbelief as he started flying, shouting, "WHY YOU...! DON'T LEAVE WHEN SOMEONE IS TALKING!"

"Sorry," Juze said back, laughing despite the seriousness of the situation. "It's an emergency!"

Wu grumbled a bit about "kids these days," but didn't say more than that, and they soon neared the town.

They were greeted with a screeching sound, as two small green aliens with what looked like exposed brains for heads stopped attacking the nearby townspeople and flew towards them at top speed.

They weren't friendly. The one on the left attacked Wu, leaving Juze to fight the rightmost one.

The Saibaman struck at Juze with a claw, which Juze managed to duck, only for it to knee him in his exposed face. As Juze saw stars, the Saibaman got on top of him and tried to swipe and strike his face repeatedly. Juze caught both of its arms and, whirling in midair, threw it into the sky.

Using the wind to increase his speed beyond even a normal afterimage, he rapidly caught up and kicked it in where its spine likely was.

The Saibaman wasn't without a trick up its sleeve though. It turned around, recovering from the strike, and its head split open, spraying acid. Juze managed to dodge the initial acid spray, but this was actually what the Saibaman wanted. It sliced Juze across the chest with a claw, creating a gash across his pectorals, before it elbowed him in the exposed, bleeding wound.

Juze was sent tumbling, screaming in pain.

Wu, still engaged in his own battle and winning handily at the moment, tried to rush to his aid, but the injured Saibaman he was fighting appeared in front of him, blocking his progress.

Juze managed to stop his tumbling, but the Saibaman was rushing straight towards him, intent on finishing him off. But it left itself open for a ranged counterattack.

"FLAME SPHERE!" Juze yelled, throwing his hands forward with his fingers curled as he released a white-hot fireball from his hands. The Saibaman desperately tried to dodge the flaming projectile, but its right leg was hit by the blast, setting it on fire. The flame rapidly spread to encompass its entire body, engulfing the alien in flames as it screamed in that horrible screechy voice.

Then the flaming creature began moving towards him. Rapidly. While still screaming. Juze desperately recalled the Flame Sphere, still intact, as he shot upwards. This battle was above the town, and he couldn't risk the Flame Sphere's explosion injuring anyone below. And he wasn't sure the alien would burn to death before it got to him.

He only got about a thousand feet up before the alien began getting too close for comfort. He had to kill it now.

So, he did what he needed to do. "To all scientists around the world searching for extraterrestrial life..." he said, as he screwed his eyes shut, "I'm sorry for this!"

The rapidly-moving Flame Sphere collided with the burning Saibaman, resulting in a gigantic explosion. When the dust cleared, the alien was completely disintegrated, with barely anything left to note that it had once been there.

That explosion was a bit too big to come from just one Flame Sphere... Juze thought to himself. Then, he realized something.

"OH CRAP!" he yelled as he flew downwards to deal with the other Saibaman.

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Master Wu had done a lot better than his student, easily overpowering his opponent. A rock-covered fist slammed into the alien's face as Wu prepared to finish it off...only for it to start laughing?

It only took a moment before the alien gained an unspeakable amount of speed and wrapped itself around his chest, binding his arms in place. He tried to break free, but it was too strong. He tried to headbutt it, but its short height didn't allow him to make contact.

It screeched again, then wore a diabolical grin. What was it going to do to him? He had to think of something fast, before he found out what it was!

"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HIM!" a voice called.

Wu barely had time to look up before Juze's rock-covered fists began to mercilessly pummel the alien's body, to the point where it didn't even have the presence of mind to activate its self-destruct and end this nonsense. His fists slammed into it, again and again, for almost three solid minutes.

By the time he was done, the alien's head was unrecognizable, and had the consistency of Play-Doh. What passed for the bones in its chest were shattered, and its organs were smashed. The rock-armor on Juze's hands were covered in purple blood.

Only then did it finally release its grip, and fall hundreds of feet to the street below as onlookers observed in horror.

"It was going to explode," Juze said as he breathed heavily.

Soon, the cameras started flashing, as people caught sight of the local hero and that astronomer's kid floating in the sky.

Juze dispelled the rock-armor and put his hands on his knees, panting after pushing himself so hard. Wu put a hand on Juze's back. "You did well. You saved thousands of lives today, as well as my own. What do you say we get your injuries looked at, and, maybe then we can go back to training?"

Juze responded through his exhaustion, "Not an option. I sense more of them, around the world. We're going to need to deal with that."

Wu said, "There's more than just us capable of dealing with them. Don't you sense the other energy sources? You're bleeding from the chest, don't push yourself."

Juze smiled. "Maybe, but we do know their capabilities now. We should find my parents, they can get this info to the right people, and maybe then the government can coordinate a defense."

"Good thinking," Wu said as they descended, a purpose set.

Tabaga had been nearly overwhelmed with joy after flying south and finding a much more temperature friendly climate. There had even been a small island with tall trees and small brown fruits hanging off them. Truth be told, she had still felt a bit drained after the time in the pod so she had landed as gently as she could and had laid down on her back on the yellow sand and had almost immediately decided that this planet wasn't as bad as she thought it was.

The sound of waves and the cries of the flying animals above her had nearly lulled her to sleep but just as she had drifted off her stomach had begun to growl.

Damn, I'm hungry.

After looking up at the trees and seeing the coconuts hanging from the tree next to her a sudden idea came to mind. It might not be meat but I don't care at this point. She thought as she smacked the tree with the palm of her hand and four the fruits landed next to her as the tree shook violently. A few minutes later, nothing was left of the coconuts except the shells and Tabaga was content.

At least until a somewhat familiar cry echoed through the air. She recognized it from somewhere but she couldn't place it.

Her eyes shot open and she turned towards the approaching dot in the sky and her eyes narrowed angrily. Whoever had disturbed this relaxing afternoon was going to be in a world of pain. A moment later, a green skinned Saibaman dropped down in front of her and she rose to her feet and extended her hand towards it.

"I don't know how you got her little guy and I don't know why your bothering me. Why don't you just go back to whoever planted you? I'm having a great day so far and I'd rather you not ruin it."

The Saibaman responded with a growl and a somewhat angry hiss and Tabaga sighed heavily. "You know, I used to enjoy fighting you guys when I was little but I'm a little beyond your level now. Last chance, go away."

The Saibaman launched itself as her and Tabaga was barely able to dodge out of the way in her somewhat weakened state. "Huh. Your a tough little thing aren't you? Okay. I could use a work out." The Saibaman let out a laugh as it launched itself at her and attempted to claw her repeatedly with it's claws. Tabaga was barely able to avoid the attacks but she was confident she could destroy the thing with a few good hits. A moment later, the Saibaman released a blast of acid from the top of it's head which Tabaga dodged but it hit one of the beautiful looking trees behind her.

She turned to look back at the disintegrating tree and then back at the Saibaman that she swore was smirking at her.

"Bad move on your part." Tabaga growled as two glowing orbs of light appeared in her hands and she unleashed a barrage of energy blasts at the Saibaman which let out repeating howls of pain before Tabaga finished it off with a full power strike to it's head.

She sighed heavily.

I need to find out who sent those little pests. And I was having such a nice day... She rose into the air and switched her scouter on and locked in on the highest power source she could find.

Whoever you are...You are in for a world of pain. She swore to herself as she flew in the direction of the highest power signatures.

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Cheral was just about to flag down a taxi when she had a rather rude fall. She had just started to raise her hand to get the taxi's attention when she crashed into someone and landed on her butt.

"Ouch, sorry about that, guess I should look where I'm going." Cheral apologized but soon enough the blue skinned individual who ran into her was already on his feet and offering her a hand.

"I'm so sorry I was not focused on where I was walking." The alien said as he extended his hand out to her. Cheral quickly took up his offer and before she knew it, the man had lifted her back on her feet. She was slightly surprised to see someone with blue skin, but when you lived in a city full of beastmen and the occasional dinosaur it wasn't that far out there.

"Well I don't think my butt got too dirty so I think you're safe." Cheral winked and looked down for a second at where her posterior had been planted, there was a bit of spit nearby, it had been a rather close call. Thanking her lucky stars she then turned back to the person who had knocked her down. "Certainly not a skin-tone you see everyday, did you perhaps dye it?" Cheral couldn't help but ask, as her previous thoughts of retrieving her wallet were knocked out of her head on impact.

As she waited for a answer however a somewhat rough looking 'pack' of people showed up around them. A tall individual with jagged looking teeth and an evil eye butting in on the conversation.

"Say pretty lady, I'm pretty sure our boss would love to have an honest chat with ya." The nasty man and several goons closed in on them. Cheral felt herself start to sweat a little when she recognized the tattoos on some of the goons necks, they were pledged to the Macaron family, a rival mafia group. Sure she could hold her own in a fight but without her power suit she felt a little vulnerable.

"Ya I'm sure Don Macaron would like to have a nice long chat without any of my family around." Cheral looked around trying to find an avenue of escape, sure she could just fly but if they could too, it wouldn't be the best idea. Also she had blue stuck in the middle of a 'family' feud while she tried to keep her distance from the mafia members. "Sorry about this Blue, I'm sure they wouldn't mind if you just skedaddled along."

The thugs sneered at the blue man. "Heh, sure we can let the blue man go, if you come along with us quietly, wouldn't want to alert the cops after all."

Cheral sighed, of course they would be the low-brow types who thought they could easily threaten her by taking a hostage. No doubt they were looking for a fast promotion in the Macaron Family and felt that kidnapping a rival's daughter would be just such a ticket. Sure she didn't want to random fellow getting hurt on her account but as the daughter of a Don, she had to look after herself first or her family might go to war and then East City would be hurting quite a bit. "I hope you can fight Blue cause looks like I'm going to have to fight and I can't protect you while doing it!"
"So it is going to be a fight, heh, gonna have to make this a quick one as we're a little exposed here. I'll just have to go all out right from the start." The talker then started to growl as his body mass expanded, fur grew all over his body and his face elongated into a wolf's snout.

"Crap, of course one of them would be a werewolf." Cheral was a lot more nervous now, while she could probably still beat them, a werewolf had those nasty claws to slash with so she was going to have to be extra careful. "Training don't fail me now..." She thought as the werewolf and three other human thugs closed in.

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Hunter came to his cabin and quickly went inside to store the deer meat and fur for later. He placed his shotgun beside the front door and went into the kitchen to poor himself a cup of water. On the wall of his cabin were a couple of trophies from his hunts and bounties. After finishing his glass of water, he went about cooking some of the meat from his hunt. Once it was cooked to his liking he put the meat on his plate and began to dig into it. The quality was really good and all natural with no chemicals or hormones.

As he ate his eyes looked towards the window and something outside caught his eye. He got up from his chair and went over to the window and peered out. He saw three bright streaks of light flying through the sky towards East City and at a very fast pace. Hunter grabbed his gun and hurried out the front door to get a better look. The throw lights were starting to descend towards the city and looked like meteors going in for an impact, but his Ki senses told him that those were energy signals from something living. This gave him a bad feeling and when the lights landed in the city and disappeared from sight, he waited with baited breath.

He then saw several explosions off in the distance within the city. Hunter knew that who those energy signal belonged to where not friendly and he immediately took off into the air and flew towards East City with great speed. He had no idea what he was getting himself into, but he wasn't going to sit and watch whatever it was destroy a city. As he flew over the city he spotted two figures below him surrounded by a group of goons. He paused for a moment trying to decide if he should intervene or if he should go quickly to the threat at hand.

He decided to do help the two people below and he took aim with his shotgun and fired off a blast of energy at one of the goons. He didn't want to waste too much energy since there was sure to be a great threat by whatever was attacking the city.

Panic began to erupt after the first screams rang out. In the downtown section of East City, monstrous green creatures were on the attack. They attacked indiscriminately, one in particular subjecting an unfortunate victim to its acid spray, leaving behind a grotesque half-melted corpse. Two other simultaneously fired green beams of energy from their mouths that collided with a nearby business, reducing the building to rubble. Everyone inside were either dead or injured. The destruction of the building was what caused the panic. Police began appearing to confront the green men, aiming firearms at them and warning them to surrender themselves. The warnings went ignored and one of the policemen was hit by an acid spray while the rest opened fire. When the bullets did nothing to stop the attackers, it became the police's turn to panic. Some them fled in fear while others at least tried to radio for backup.

As this happened, an unassuming stranger was walking away from a convenient store about a block away. He heard the screams, at first thinking it was nothing that concerned him. As he was about to continue on his way, his senses alerted him to an incoming attack. He let go of the grocery bags from his arms and dodged out of the way of a sickening acid spray that melted the bags. The stranger glared in the direction the attack came from and saw something that briefly threw him for a loop. It was... a Saibaman? It certainly wasn't one he himself had planted, which could only that the people after him had finally discovered his location.

"So you found me, did you?" asked the man before he went on the attack himself. He launched into the air and rushed the Saibaman faster than the creature could react to. He buried a fist into its gut, then grabbed the Saibaman by the neck with his free and flinging it straight down into a parked car below them. This got the attention of all the other Saibamen, who began closing in on the person who was clearly stronger than anyone else they attacked in the city so far. The man simply smirked a bit, "You want me? Then catch me, you freaks!" and then shot off through the air as fast as his considerable Battle Power would permit him. He glanced behind himself, noticing the Saibaman he attacked had recovered and was joined by four more to give chase, totaling at five.



The two Saiyans were still waiting for results from the Saibamen, when all of sudden both their Scouters began beeping. Both Saiyans pressed buttons on their Scouters and then looked at each other, "A fourth Scouter is active on this planet, and there's only three of us." Jagen said, his stoicism never leaving him, "It's him, it has to be." Korun gave an excited smirk.

"Well it's about damn time!" suddenly his Scouter gave a second alert. Two semi-decent Battle Powers were flying toward them, and fast. And they weren't Saibamen, nor did they belong to Po, "Well well, someone must be curious. Think I'll teach them what happens to people who get too curious!" and before Jagen could protest or stop him, Korun unleashed some of his full power and took off like a rocket to to head off whatever poor souls were coming at them alone.



As she flew toward the two highest Battle Powers, Tabaga would soon discover she was not alone. A Saibaman, who were likely close enough to have witnessed the killing of its compatriot was swiftly closing in on her. In fact, as soon as soon as it was in range it let loose an acid spray in the Saiyan woman's direction.



Before Daini could reach town, he would hear strange and unsettling shrieks. In an instant, two green aliens came out of the sky and and sprayed acid from what looked like their mouths. They were definitely not of this world, and they eyed the swordsman with almost childish grins and murderous intent in their eyes.



When Wu and Juze reached the observatory where the latter's parents worked, they would find it under attack. Another of the green monsters had arrived and was trying to wreak havoc.

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The alien helped the human woman onto her feet, Making sure she was was okay and had no dirt on her clothing. "No i did not dye my skin, I was born like this, I am Brench-seijin but i guess not alot of people know about my people" His hand rubbing underneath his chin. He thought that at least most people on earth would know about Brench-Seijin, But that didn't not seem to be the case. Noticing the menacing looking men approaching them staring them down as they approached.

Listening to wanting the human woman to follow them, He didn't like the look of them and honestly he didn't like the idea of the woman going alone with these men. "I don't think i need to go anywhere, And i don't think she wants to go with you to see your boss" He spoke standing in front of her staring down the human man that spoke first. "I am very much capable of fighting, And these men should not be a problem" His voice was filled with confidence as he got into a fighting stance.

Looking over at the werewolf a bit surprised since he has not seen one before, Suddenly he saw a energy attack hitting one of the goons. Looking up seeing the figure who shoot it. Nodding and smiling his way as he took that distraction as a chance to attack, Trying to get in the first strike by trying to slam his fist full force at the werewolf.

At the sight of small green alien creatures spitting what was apparently actual fucking acid at him, Daini leapt backwards to avoid the attack. "Holy shit," Daini thought to himself as the green liquid ate a hole in the ground where it landed, "that's some serious stuff." He then fly up into the air just enough to be level with the green creatures and drew his blade.

"Alright you green sacks of shit, I'm gonna give you both one chance to take the easy way out and off yourselves before I do the job for you," Daini shouted to the creatures across from him. They responded by loudly screeching at him and rushing at him claws first. Daini let out a sigh, and matched their rush with a resounding cry of "Accelerate Spirit!" As his speed increased he met the aliens partway, lashing out with his blade in an upward strike aiming to bisect the one on the left. Whatever little intelligence the creature had seemed to understand the concept of not letting the pointy thing touch it, but wasn't quite fast enough to put this idea into practice. Although the creature managed to fling itself backwards, it only managed to do so after Daini's sword had already cut deep into the lower half. As green blood and viscera spilled out of the creature its ally moved into close combat with Daini, claws continuously impacting against the flat of Daini's blade as he held it off.

"It hits harder than you'd think it would," Daini thought with a frown. Aside from the acid attack, Daini had found that the creatures didn't actually have much in the way of power. They just kept mindlessly attacking him as if doing so would magically get rid of the power gap. Still, that wasn't any reason not to get rid of them. Think of what would happen if these creatures got into a town full of normal people! With that thought in mind, Daini pushed back against the green creature, forcing it backwards and putting it off balance. Then, with a quick flick of the wrist, Daini decapitated the strange creature. The creature's body fell from the sky and hit the ground with a dull thump and slowly created a pool of green blood. "Well, that takes care of that. I wonder if I can still make it to breakfa-" Before Daini could finish his thought, he felt something impact his back. He stumbled forwards in the air for a second before he managed to right himself and turn around to see what had hit him. With wide eyes he stared back at the still bleeding creature in front of him, the one he had attacked first. Apparently, the creature was still able to fight even while being close to death. With a cry that was equal parts pain and fury, the creature rushed at Daini for the last time. This time however, Daini was ready for it. Daini took a small step forwards, thrust his blade outward, and let the creature impale itself using its own momentum. The creature still managed to struggle against him even that, so Daini turned his blade to the side and tore it out of the creature's chest. Only then did the creature finally die.

"Damn thing took to long to die," Daini thought with a growl. He flicked the blood off his blade and sheathed it on his back, before he noticed that a large amount of the alien's blood was covering his arms and the front of his clothes. He'd have to go back home and wash himself, and then he'd definitely miss breakfast! "DAMN YOU GREEN ALIENS!" he cried in anguish.

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A surprise shot from above was enough to spook several of the goons and distracted the werewolf long enough that he didn't see the punch in time. Burburi's punch smashed into the werewolf's snout, making him take a few steps back as he nursed his nose, blood started trickling down from the impact. He growled but before anything else could happen, screams and explosions could be heard further in town, while civilians scrambled for cover. Not wanting to get caught up in the destruction, the goons made their escape.

"I'll get you for that you piece of garbage!" The werewolf cursed as they fled with the rest of the people.

Cheral was only momentarily relieved as they left, since the new threat appeared to be much more dangerous. She got a glimpse of one of the strange aliens down the street as it messed up the city, it was a disgusting little green man thing with a huge head. Their proportions were almost comical but their destruction was anything but. The saibaman gave her an evil grin, but then noticed a stranger had attacked one of them and gave chase to the man with the rest of it's brethren.

"What the heck are those things!" She broke out in a cold sweat as she noticed the amount of damage that had been done at their attack, cars were flipped over, storefronts were on fire, parts of the street had been melted with acid, it was chaos. The goons from before were child's play in comparison.

"I don't know what you're going to do Blue but I need my suit..." Starting to panic, Cheral quickly brought out her phone and called home. After a few tones, finally someone answered. "Hey guys, could you get my suit prepped and ready like, right now? I really feel like I'm gonna need it." With a click she was done.

She looked up at the flying aliens, then back to the blue guy who insisted he was a Brench-seijin, whatever that was. "So thanks for giving that guy a massive right hook and sending him home, but I gotta go. Nice to meet ya big blue!" With a pat on the alien's back, and realizing there were going to be no more taxis, Cheral ran as fast as she could toward her lab. As long as she could get into the suit, then she wouldn't have to worry about those little green men anymore. Also once she got it on, she could give those aliens a good thrashing for daring to claw their way in the Castella family's city.

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Bururi smiled at the wolfman letting out a laugh that sounded like he was trying to clear his nose, "I'll be waiting, And next time i wouldn't go easy on you" Watching the group of thugs leaving as a new threat arrived. Looking up at the new threat being little green men that were shooting acid deviating the city and killing innocent people. "Hurry back as quick as you can, I will need help dealing with them" He said to the human woman before turning his attention to the small creatures.

With his attention turned to the little green men flying up in the air and towards the green creatures, He was not going to let these aliens to attack and cause chaos in his city. Including hurting or killing innocent people, Scanning the area and seeing if their was any more of them attacking any other civilians. Noticing their was some of these creatures that were chasing what he thought was human male, Chasing after them deciding to fire a few energy blast at them. With this action he would try to either divert their attention to him and or help get these creature off the man's back.

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"Master, I sense many power levels. They all seem the same."

"Follow me then, boys." The older man ordered as he flew off towards the city.

The two younger fighters flew after their master, trying to keep up with him as he traveled at a not-so-casual pace.

"Who do you think it is, Saudish?" Raijin inquiried as they flew side-by-side.

"How would I know that, Raijin?" Saud said, before thinking for a moment. "But it does seem peculiar. We've never had multiple individuals of the same power level arrive at the city en masse like this." The curiosity was visible on his face. "Seems to have Sensei worried."

"That is does."

As they drew towards the city, the boys caught up with their master who was now hovering over the streets, above the buildings.

The destruction was clearly visible. Buildings obliterated, flaming cars, explosions.

"No...what...why?!" Raijin asked nobody in particular, shock clearly visible in his voice and on his face.

"Master...what-"

"I don't know."

Raijin raised his head. "The ones who did this are still here. They will pay for destroying it!" he shouted through gritted teeth, before he rocketed towards the power levels that were towards the innards of the city.

"Raijin, stop!" Their master shouted as he flew off after the man, Saudagrimm in tow. "He's going to get himself killed by whoever did this. He knows he doesn't spar well when angry!"

Saud surpassed his master, using his stored energy to increase his speed.

Flying around a skyscraper, he saw his training companion flying straight towards little dots in the distant sky that appeared to be the signals. He began to close the distance between him and his friend. As they drew closer, they saw that the apparent assailants were a group of short, green skinned individuals - who were seemingly chasing after another person, whom was flying away.

Saud could feel Raijin building up energy until he saw a bright blue beam shoot out of his friend's outstretched arm, the attack soaring right towards the back of the group. However, it seemed they sensed it as well - each Saibaman dodging to the side easily, and the beam flying over the head of the one they were chasing. Then one of them split off from the group, flying towards Raijin while baring its teeth. As it began though, it was forced to dodge another array of Ki blasts produced from somewhere down below, before setting its gaze on Raijin again.

The two of them flew straight towards each other, staring at one another with mutual animosity. Raijin drew back his fist into a hate-filled hay-maker - however the opponent was much too quick for it. It easily moved to the side, planted its own fist into his face before slashing across his shoulder with his claws, and finally delivering a kick to his chest. His opponent was sent sprawling through the air.

Much to any bystander's horror, the little green beast's head then began to squelch and split open, releasing a stream of acid to shoot through the air at the human.

However, the acid spray flew through empty space.

A couple yards away Raijin was recovering from the attacks, as well as the aerial tackle Saud had just given him.

"Calm down. You almost got yourself killed." he said, frowning at his roughed-up companion.

"Hff. Hff.." Raijin breathed heavily, both out of physical exertion as well as emotional. "..alright." he responded, seemingly having cooled down at least visibly. "Help me make sure this thing doesn't hurt any more of our neighbors, huh?" The human said through a half-growl. It didn't sound like a question either.

The two fighters assembled themselves and flew to confront the Saibaman frontally, hovering a few yards away from it.

"Be careful." They heard from their master, "This creature is known as a Saibamen. They are willing to kill regardless of their own well-being. You can defeat it together if you exercise caution." And with that, the white-haired man flew downward into the city's chaos - presumably to attempt helping civilians in trouble.

The Human and the Yektishian wasted no time engaging it. Without words they flew at it from opposite angles; left and right. The beast waited until they got close, before rocketing off backwards while spraying a barrage of yellow energy blasts at the duo. Saud had anticipated an attack, as it was quite obvious. He moved quickly enough between the blasts to avoid them. Raijin was struck by two of them out of about eight, but fortunately they were not very strong.

He's out of touch with his training. Saud thought. "Raijin, you need to calm down, or you will get both of us hurt."

Unfortunately their opponent was tired of waiting for their dialogue.

The Saibaman appeared in front of Raijin, striking him in the gut before kicking him in the face, then releasing a blast of Ki into his chest. "Uhmf-" Was the only sound his opponent made as he started to fall downwards from the quick assault.

Saud took this opportunity to strike as the little green devil, touching his forehead before striking out at it. However, it was fast - fast enough to grab the Yektishian's arm while still blasting his ally away. Fortunately, the Saud it grabbed was a copy. It soon felt a small force hit it in the back, before its vision went completely white, and it found itself unable to move. Saudagrimm then struck the creature over its head with a Double Axe Handle, sending it spiraling downwards, into where his human friend was just now recovering from their opponent's blows.

Raijin sent both his joined fists into the Saibaman's stomach in return, before releasing a Ki blast into it, sending it upwards once again - as if the two earth-dwellers were playing tennis with the creature. Raijin fired another blast, but his opponent was quick to recover. The Saibaman deflected the blast with its bare arm, spiking it back into Raijin's face before it fired its own barrage of Ki blasts at the human, sending him plummeting into the concrete far below.

It sprung up into the air suddenly, appearing in front of the quickly approaching Saudagrimm and delivering a charged punch of Ki energy into his gut, before the taller alien leaped back to avoid further attacks.

It's too strong... he thought, as he felt the power level of his friend below draining.

He soon felt a warmth spreading over his back, seemingly seeping into his body. He looked behind him, and Master Tymui was flying some yards away with a civilian under his arm, and nodded at him; a bright, thin beam traveling from his index finger into the back of his disciple. He was feeding the student Ki.

In the few years Saudagrimm had spent on Earth, he'd never seen his sensei truly fight. He didn't know if it was because of his age or because he'd done so enough "in his time" as he said, but he never doubted his master's power. And he was always perplexed when the old man insisted that Saud was almost as powerful as himself, or perhaps even moreso, as the geezer usually repelled his attacks and techniques with relative ease.

So why was he feeding him energy? Saudagrimm didn't always understand the elder's train of thought - but he trusted him more than anyone. And so he would now.

He took his stance across from the little green man, glaring at it intensely. Those nearby would be able to sense his power level slowly rise, substantially even, as he stared down his opponent. "Surrender, or I will kill you."