On the isolated island where Master Roshi’s house is situated, there is a small party taking place. The guests include Goku, Gohan, Krillen, and Piccolo. They are mingling, talking about the fight with Freeza. They are drinking lemonade, with huge grins on their faces. Goku is making actions with his hands, showing how he formed the spirit bomb, and how he managed to beat Freeza from the small advantage the genki dama gave him. Gohan and Krillen are laughing with joy. Even Piccolo is having a good time, talking to Gohan about how his power level has been increasing lately. All seems well at the moment, as if nothing can go wrong.

   A long way away, on another island is the lone figure of Vegeta. He is hard at work training, with some powerful KI blasts, aimed at rocks. He will always continue his conquest to be stronger than Goku, no matter what. Vegeta stops what he’s doing for some reason. He has sweat pouring down his face, and he is breathing hard. Vegeta starts backing off. He speaks wearily. “No….it can’t be! That…..that power, it’s even stronger than mine and Kakarots!” He powers up, then flies off towards the power, going at maximum speed.

   Back at the party, no-one seems to have noticed the power that Vegeta sensed. They are still joking around, and continue talking about the fight. Krillen and Gohan are now talking about how they managed to fend off Freeza for a while. The clinking of a glass is heard, and Goku is standing up, holding his glass, about to make a speech. “I would like to congratulate Gohan, Krillen and Piccolo due to their spectacular fighting skills, and after doing so well on Namek. I really wanted to talk to Vegeta, but he isn’t here yet……I wonder where he could be?” he said curiously.

   Vegeta is speeding towards the power he sensed, getting closer to it all the time. He is shaking with fear, and sweat is pouring down his face. He suddenly comes to a halt, and floats down to the ground slowly. He looks around, and sees that there is a huge dark figure standing behind him. The figures hair is gelled up, in a spikey form, exactly like Vegeta’s is. The figure is also spookily the exact same size as the saiyan warrior. Vegeta backs off upon sensing his power. “5…..5….5..million! That’s three times of what mine is!” said Vegeta, with a positive look of fear in his eyes. The sweat continues to steadily flow down his face, as he backs off, further and further. “No….it…it…can’t be! You look just like….like….me!” said Vegeta, his voice trembling with fear. The figure starts to laugh, then looks straight into the eyes of Vegeta. He charges in, and knocks Vegeta straight off his feet. Before the saiyan prince hits the ground, the dark figure had got to him, and hammered him down with a double axe handle smash. The figure then charges up a final flash, and shoots it towards the downed Vegeta. It connects with incredible fury, shaking the whole planet, and making an absolutely huge crater in the ground. Smoke fills the battle field, and it is impossible to see anything below tree-top level. The dark figure quickly charges up, and shoots many small balls of energy down into the crater, just to make sure Vegeta is dead. Laughing hysterically, the dark figure then flies away.

   Goku felt the shaking from the final flash, and was curious as to what it was. He gets up off the floor of Roshi’s house, and goes to walk out to check out the source of the shaking. Bulma manages to talk him out of it though, and continue to enjoy the party. “It’s probably just a minor earthquake or something Goku. Just relax and have fun!” she said thoughtfully. Goku nods, then goes back to talking to his friends. Everyone in the whole house is laughing, and having a great time. Goku floats into the air and uses his great speed to fly into the rooms center. All the guests missed this speed, and don’t know where Goku has gone. Laughing comes from behind them, and they turn round to see Goku. Krillen remarks on Goku’s superior speed with great admiration “Wow Goku! Your speed has improved so much since you fought Vegeta! Do that super saiyan thing again!”. Goku sighs, and then lets out a roar as energy builds around him. His hair and eyebrows turn a golden yellow, and he stands proud, surveying the awe-stricken faces of his friends. “That was awesome!” remarked Krillen as he powered up to full power. “Bulma, read my power level, see how much I’ve improved!” said Krillen excitedly. Bulma picks up the scouter that they took from the Ginyu Force on Namek, and puts it on. She presses a few buttons, and some pictures come up, with numbers on. “Krillen, you have a power level of………….160, 000! Wow! You really have improved! Goku, your power level in super saiyan form is……..4.75 million! That’s incredible!” she said, looking absolutely shocked. Krillen bows his head in shame, as the superior warrior Goku tries to comfort him. Before Bulma can read any more power levels, someone bursts through the door. It’s Vegeta! He crawls across the floor of Roshi’s, and stops at Goku. Talking pains him, as blood pours down his bruised face, and his devastated armour, covered in dirt, starts to crack. “K…K…Kakarot…..listen carefully….” he said, wincing every now and then at the pain. “No, don’t talk Vegeta. You’re too badly hurt to do that. I’ll read your mind.” Goku replied caringly. Goku puts his hand onto the head of Vegeta, and closes his eyes. A few seconds later he lets go, and he looks very serious now. Sweat has started to come down the usually calm face of Goku. He looks in utter shock. “How….how could he be that powerful?” said Goku, not believing what he had just seen. “Kakarot, not even you and me combined could beat him! We have to think of…of…of a battle plan…..” Vegeta said, stopping half way to regain some of his breath, and to try and nurse some of his wounds. He then passes out before he can say any more, after being thoroughly destroyed from that dark figure. Goku nods his understanding, then picks up Vegeta. He then says in a very strong tone “We have to get you nursed back to health now Vegeta. Bulma, can you look after him?”. Bulma’s face goes blue, and she backs away from the two saiyans. She is scared out of her mind at Vegeta, still remembering what he did to the gang not long ago. Goku carries Vegeta over to one of the bedrooms, so that he can rest, and recover. Bulma helps out, despite being scared witless. As Goku lays Vegeta down on the bed, the front door once again bursts open. This time it is Tien and Chaozu. They greet everyone, and start talking excitedly to Krillen, Gohan and Piccolo. “We got stopped on the way down here by a man at the southern mountains. He said he predicted that a terrible power will arrive on earth shortly. He also said that he needed to speak with Goku.” said Tien, expressing what had held him up on the way. Chaozu backs the story up, nodding as Tien says this. Goku comes back into the main room, and sees the two long-time friends. They say their hello’s, and Tien tells Goku and the man wanting to see him. “This man knew about an evil landing on Earth? Vegeta already got pasted by some awesome power, there’s no way that an even stronger one can be on the way! You guys hold the fort while I am gone. I won’t be gone long, so don’t worry. If that power that attacked Vegeta comes near, I want all of you to get out of here!”. Goku then powers up, and flies out of the house at such speed that he knocks all the standing objects over, including the plant, the TV, and all of the people in the room, except for Piccolo.

   Goku is charging through the air, trying to make it to the southern mountains as quickly as he can. They aren’t that far away, so he will be there soon. A large range of snow-topped mountains come into view as he steams ahead, coming to a halt above them. He sees the man, who has now started a fire. Goku floats down to him, then introduces himself. “I am Goku. Are you the one who needed to tell me something?”. The man looks up at him, then nods. He speaks very quietly, and very slowly. “Goku, there is am evil coming to Earth like no other. Its power cannot be compared with anything. Even Freeza was weak by his standards” Goku seems quite taken back at this remark. He thinks the man is crazy, and just making things up. “I am not some old mad man who makes false prophecies. This evil will come, and his minions are already on Earth.” Goku realizes what he means now. The dark figure that beat Vegeta, that must have been one of these minions. “How can anyone be stronger than Freeza though!?” said Goku disbelievingly. “Why wouldn’t they have come forward and beaten Freeza before?”. The man seems to understand why Goku thinks that he is loony, so explains himself. “This evil was created using DNA from the greatest fighters that have ever graced space. It has their best qualities in them. Part of Freeza is in him. He takes the form of Freeza too, as that is the most dominant gene. The thing was created by Freeza’s scientists, just in case he was ever defeated. He wanted his evil to carry on, thus creating the monster. He will destroy you if you challenge him when he is with his minions, but if you take on his loyal followers one-by-one, then maybe, just maybe you could beat him.” Goku nods, then walks away, and gets ready to take off, when he is stopped by the man. “I can train you. I can teach you the power of teleportation too. Let me introduce myself, I am Master Hiyarmato” said the old man, who seems to be very wise. Goku stops, the turns to the man, and nods. He walks off to him, getting ready to train.

   A day later, Gohan and Krillen are sparring, practicing their moves, and trying to increase their power levels. They are aware of the strength of the person who beat Vegeta close to death, and they know that they need to be twice as strong to so much as compete with it. Piccolo is meditating, trying, and succeeding, to move theavy objects with his mind. Vegeta is almost back to full health, after Bulma has given him some very strong medicine, whilst he waits for Tien and Chaozu to return with the sensu beans that they had been sent to get earlier in the day. Yamcha is training with Karin at the moment, learning to become stronger, trying to get the edge that the others have. Gohan and Krillen stop their training, and turn to look at the sky. They get ready to fight, but instead of an enemy, Tien and Chaozu shoot down, almost knocking Krillen and Gohan out as they land. They toss Bulma the sensu beans, and she hurries to take them to Vegeta. Tien and Chaozu don’t waste any time, and they get training too.

   Bulma hands Vegeta a sensu bean, and he eats it gratefully. As soon as he swallows it, Vegeta jumps to his feet, clenches his fist, and shouts out “I feel great! I will be a super saiyan soon!” Vegeta then flies away, without even saying thank you to Bulma, and he speeds past the training ‘Z’ warriors, out towards the mountains, to train by himself before he goes to challenge the dark figure that destroyed him last time. After a saiyan recovers from serious wounds, they become far stronger, and Vegeta is now very close to becoming a super saiyan.

   Another 2 days pass, and the sky is starting to get dark. It is only midday, and hardly anything can be seen. Flashes of lightning shoot down from the heavens, and clashes of thunder echo through the dark, empty sky. Goku is sitting down by the man who trained him. They are eating their final meal together before Goku departs, and once again goes back to Roshi’s house. The two men shake hands after all has been devoured, then Goku puts his forefingers on his head, and disappears.

   You can probably appreciate how alarmed everyone would be when Goku appeared from out of nowhere after teleporting to the main room of Roshi’s house. Goku gathers everyone up, and tells them to go down to a nearby clearing in a wood, where Vegeta met the dark figure. Goku then senses power, and finds out where Vegeta is. Before he goes over to get him, he grabs a particularly large bag of sensu beans, the ones that Tien and Chaozu bought back. He then goes flying off into the distance towards Vegeta. They meet up, and Goku explains what happened to the saiyan prince. Vegeta nods, and then floats into the air, then the two of them fly to the battleground together. Everyone meets at the clearing, and look around. They can all sense some sort of major powers. There is more than one too. From out of no-where appears a black figure, the same black figure that beat Vegeta in fact. Then another one appears. This one is very small, and has a power level far lower than the other one. A third black figure appears. This one is fairly short too, and there are no signs of hair coming from it. Another two appear, in the form of a taller, bald headed man, and a man with spiky hair, about the same size. All of these figures are completely black, so that only the outline of them can be seen. A final figure comes, this one is far more powerful then the rest. The figure stands in front of the others, and gets into his fighting pose. He clicks his fingers, and as if by some sort of magic, the rest of his formally pitch black warriors reveal themselves. Each one is a clone of the ‘Z’ warriors! The only physical differences in the appearance is that the dark warriors have yellow, evil-looking eyes, and they are a lot darker than the ‘good’ guys. The leader is a clone of Goku, and his power is incredible. The one who destroyed Vegeta looks like it must have been the Vegeta clone, the ‘dark’ Vegeta. This signals that the clones powers must be far greater than that of the normal people who were cloned. The battle looks as if it is ready to begin as a cold, icy wind blows across the battlegrounds. Two people step forward – Vegeta, and his clone, the dark Vegeta. They look ready to finish this. “I thought I killed you last time, but this time I will make sure!” threatened dark Vegeta. The real saiyan prince just laughed at the evil clone of him though, and managed to anger him. The two warriors are ready to battle, and about to charge up. This will be a great fight………………………………………………………………………..