RISE OF THE SAIYANS

By: Cephius

A DRAGONBALL Z fanfic

CHAPTER 1

He wandered the universe for the next couple of weeks, not caring where he was going, not caring if anyone cared.  After what happened, his focus on life was lost.  If he did make it to a planet, it was by pure luck.  And, he'd only stay long enough to refuel and resupply.  He didn't want to be around anyone.  He didn't want to be reminded of what had happened and what he lost.

During his voyage through space, after refueling at a station orbiting a binary system, he encountered the edge of an ion storm, which tossed him around a bit, but caused no damage to the ship.  At least on the outside.  On the inside, anything that wasn't bolted down was scattered all over the place.  After exiting the storm, he starting to clean up the mess, not really thinking about it.  Once he got most of the ship clean, he headed to his room to pick up what little had been knocked down.  As he cleaned, he picked up a picture frame.  As he looked at the picture, he recalled that day when he left his mother at the young age of fourteen.  She always kept up a smile that day, but, he knew, she didn't want him to go, but, he decided back then, that he needed to.

As he set it back down, he remembered that his mother had written something on the back of the picture.  He pulled out the picture and flipped it over.  It read, "To my beloved son.  May fortnue guide you to your destination.  Love, Mom."  He smiled a bit after reading that.  Then, a great idea hit him.  He put the picture back on the shelf where it was and headied to navigation.  Once there, he punched in a set of new coordinates.  "Why didn't I think of this before," he thought to himself as he felt the ship change course.  The computer told him that he had six hours before they arrived.  Enough time to get some rest and clean up before arriving.  Besides, you want to look half way decent when visiting your mother, especially when you haven't seen her in eight years.

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As the ship arrived at the planet, he headed to the viewport to look.  There, floating out in space was a blue planet, with wisps of clouds here and there.  As the ship got closer, he could make out the continents, the seas, and could even see some of the forested areas.  He smiled a little as he remembered looking at the planet as he left eight years ago.  Still looked the same.  Just before he left the viewport, he saw a small flash on the planet's surface.  Even though it looked tiny, he knew that it was a large explosion of some sort.  He quickly headed back to the navigation station and began scanning the planet.  Whatever it was that exploded, it was big. . .and very close to the village he was heading to.  He tried to narrow down the scanning field.  He was able to get it to identify quite a few life forms, which he knew was the village.  But, there were two life forms about 500 yards away from the village, and they seemed to be moving, very fast, towards each other.  He realized that they were fighting, and the explosion came from that area.  He calmed himself down and began to concentrate.  He could feel the two fighter's power levels.  One was very strong, stronger than a super saiyan, but not as powerful as a stage two.  The other one. . .he couldn't believe was his ki sense was telling him.  It was a saiyan.  Not only that, it was a super saiyan.  Not as powerful as he was when he transformed in the legendary warrior, but still quite powerful.  And the only saiyan he knew that was on the planet was. . .

He took control of the ship, heading into the atmosphere rather fast.  He had gotten a communique from the planet's starport, but he ignored it, heading straight for the surface towards the village.  The computer warned him that the hull of the ship was heating up, but he knew it could withstand it.  For twenty long seconds, the hull of the ship grew hotter and hotter until it finally slowed down enough that the friction with the air stopped heating the hull.  He quickly preprogrammed the computer to land outside the town about a kilometer away, then, rushing to the nearest airlock, opened it and jumped out.  He didn't wait to see the ship land.  He flew straight at the two fighters, flying several thousand feet above.  He saw the village, which, luckily, was still unharmed,  As he looked in the direction of the fighters, a brilliant flash of light, followed by a large  explosion rocked the area, sending a blast wave of air in all directions.  Normal people would of been flung off their feet, as he saw a few of the villagers near the edge of the village lose their footing, but did nothing to him, as if it had never exisited.  He landed outside of the fighter's vision, as well as the villager's vision.

"You fight well for an old lady," one of the fighters said as he hovered about twenty feet from her.

"I'll show you old lady," she replied as she wiped a bit of blood of her mouth.

She looked horrible.  She had numerous cuts and scapes, her clothers were torn, and she has having trouble standing up.  She couldn't take much more of this.

"It's too bad you weren't much of a challenge.  Otherwise, I might have enjoyed this," the other fighter replied as he slowly walked towards the female.

As the fighter approached, the female took a defensive stance, ready to fight.

"You still want to fight me," he said to her.  "I'll give you credit.  You are a stubborn one, but, like all good things, you'll come to an end.

With that statement, she flew at him, launching an assault that saw fists and legs flying from both opponents.  With nearly blinding speed, punches and kicks were sent back and forth, both blocking the others hit.  But it was soon apparent that she was losing.  A solid kick launched her from the other fighter, slamming her into the ground and leaving a trail for several hundred yards.

"Well now.  It seems that I am growing tired of this.  I believe it is time I ended this."

The male fighter walked over the the female, who had gotten up to her knees, and looked down at her.

"Good night," he said as he pulled back his arm to fire the final punch.  But, just inches from her face, his fist stopped.  A hand was holding it.  The male looked confused for a second, then looked where the hand had come from.  A young man stood there, with a very serious look on his face.  Before the male fighter could react, the young man punched him square in the face, launching him back into a large rock formation, causing it to collapse on him.  The young man walked over to the female.  She looked up at him with one eye.

"Thank you, stranger," she said.

"Now when did your son become a stranger, mother," he said as he helped her up.

She wondered for a second why he had said that, then took a good look at the young man.  She gasped out loud as she looked at the young man.

"Tomo," she said with her eyes watering, ready to cry.  "Is that really you?"

"Yes mother, it's me."

She began to cry as she wrapped her arms around her only child.  He returned the hug with his own, holding his mother tightly to him.  For several seconds, they held each other.  But, the reunion didn't last long.  A yell, followed by a large explosion brought it to an end.

"I'll handle this mother.  You head back to the village."

She looked up at him.

"He's too powerful, son.  Even as a super saiyan, I can't stop him."

"Trust me, mother, I'll handle this."

She paused for a second.

"He sounded like his father just then," she thought to herself.

She couldn't let her only son fight this monster.  She didn't want to lose the only family she had left.  But, the way he said it made her question that idea.

"You are not the only super saiyan in the universe," he said to her.

"You. . . .are a super saiyan," she asked.

He simply smiled.

"Now go back to the village.  I'll take care of this guy."

He quickly hugged him and left for the village.

"That's some punch you got kid," the male fighter said to him.

Tomo's response was silence.

"Well, not the talkative one.  Fine by me."

The male fighter powered up a bit, surrounding himself with a bluish aura.  Tomo's response was to go super saiyan.

"Another one.  Let's hope you are a lot better than the last one," the male fighter said as he smirked.

Tomo took a defensive stance and waited for the other one to make the first move.  He didn't wait long.  The male fighter rushed at Tomo, launching a barrage of punches and kicks that seemed mind boggling.  But, Tomo blocked his attacks with ease.  For several seconds, they traded blows, never seeming to hit one another.  Eventually, the male fighter broke it off.

"You are good.  I think I'm going to enjoy this."

The male fighter began to power up, yelling at the top of his lungs.  His aura grew more violent, sending dirt and dust flying in all directions.  He also began to bulk up, his muscles growing all over his body.  Within a few seconds, he was a hulking mass of muscle with his energy aura sending waves of dust away from him.

"My ultimate power.  Well, what do you think?"

"I hate people like you.  Those who think they are better than everyone else.  Those who trample on those that are weaker.  Those who hurt or kill because they want to, because they think they can get away with it.  It's people like you that cause destruction and death.  Hurt those that never deserve it."

As he said this, he to began to power up, but it was very gradual.

"But, there is a saying, 'What goes up, must come down'.  Your little power trip is over.  I'm through playing games with the likes of you."

He powered up, shifting from super saiyan to stage two, his aura arching with energy bolts, sending huge amounts of dust and dirt away from.

"What the," the male fighter said.  But, before he could finish his statement, Tomo's fist was suddenly in his stomach.  The punch was so hard that the guy's back bulged out from where Tomo struck.  Suddenly out of breath and in much pain, the male fighter collapsed to his knees.  He had never felt pain like this.  There was no way that this kid could be that powerful.  But, to answer his question, Tomo's foot connected with the guy's face, launching him into the air, sending him high into the air.  Tomo's response was to fly above the guy and, with a double-fisted strike, sent him back towards the ground.  But before he hit, Tomo, coming from nowhere, slammed his knee into the guy's back, causing him to scream in pain and cough up blood.  For a few seconds, Tomo let him rest there, suffering with the pain, then launched him back into the air.  The guy flew upwards, higher and higher.  Tomo began to power up an energy attack.  He right foot slid back and brought his hands together, touching at the bottom of the palms, and slid them back to his right side.

"Ka. . .me. . .ha. . .me. . .ha!"

The energy ball in his hands grew, then flew out of his hands as he thrust them in front of him.  The energy ball streaked towards the guy, who had finally stopped heading up.  As he turned around, he saw the energy ball.  But, it was too late to avoid it.  The energy blast slammed into him, slowing disintigrating his armor, then his clothes, then him.  A titanic explosion echoed, sending shock waves for miles around.  The explosion was so bright that it dwarved the sun for a few moments, then the light faded and the remanants of the explosion came down to earth.

Tomo looked at the location of the explosion for a few seconds more, then flew towards the village.  There, the villagers had gathered around  the edge of town.  As he landed, a few of them backed away from him in fear.  His mother, on the other hand, rushed up to him and hugged him tightly.  He smiled and returned it.

"Welcome back home, my super saiyan son," she said as she hugged him, "welcome home."