Chapter 1: The Mysterious Girl

It was a perfect day to have a nice outdoor reunion for the most powerful fighters known to man, including Mr. Satan. The smell of sizzling meat lingered in the air and the sound of chatter as well.

"Pan, have you seen these new clothes? There so in right now! Marron and I think all three of us should go to the mall tomorrow to do some shopping!" Bulla squealed. She gripped the magazine tightly and hugged it. Pan didn't want to show it, but she really liked those pants she saw in the catalog.

"Sur-" Pan started, but she couldn't finish because of the loud sonic boom everyone heard overhead. The sound made everyone cover their ears and drop to the ground, even Vegeta. "What's that noise?!" Pan shouted, trying to block out the sonic boom with her voice.

"I don't know!" Marron replied loudly. Her eyes were squeezed shut and she was on her knees.

Finally, it stopped. Everyone got to their feet, a little dazed. Bulla's vision was a little fuzzy. A second later, everyone heard something make contact with the earth. It sounded like the Earth was going to break open.

Trunks looked up above and saw a trail in the sky. It looks like some kind of spaceship, he thought. Trunks removed his phony glasses and took off his jacket. That power level; it's huge. Instinctively, he looked at his father, who nodded. They were going to check out the scene. Trunks turned around and looked at both Goten and Gohan in the eye, wondering if they wanted to join. The brothers gave similar smirks. Right when they were about to take off, a voice stopped them.

"Wait! We're coming, too!" Bulla shouted with her hands on her hips. Marron and Pan stood behind her in the same pose. Goten nearly fell over because he was already on his tip-toes. He swung his arms in circles violently, trying to keep his balance.

"Fine, Bulla. If you can't keep up, we'll leave you behind," Vegeta said as he took off into the sky. The rest of the group followed suit.

"Be careful, Goten, you, too Gohan!" Chichi called. She didn't even bother to put up a fight because Chichi knew there were no more Dragon Balls left. To be a little more motherly, she added, "Goten, make sure you come home with those underwear clean!" Everyone around her chuckled and Chichi stood there triumphantly with her hands on her hips.

High in the sky, they could still hear Chichi's voice, just faintly, though. The girls giggled hysterically as they flew farther ahead with Vegeta. Trunks and Gohan only smiled, trying to suppress their laughter.

As they neared their site, Vegeta realized it wasn't any ordinary spaceship. It was a Namekian spaceship. They don't match up. No Namek has a power level as high as this. The life force doesn't match up either, Vegeta thought. He clenched his teeth anxiously. As the leader of the pack, Vegeta dove down and landed softly near the edge of the crater the ship had created.

"Seems reasonable enough," Gohan said as he pushed up his glasses. "Landing at that speed seems virtually impossible. But what's really bugging me is that the spaceship is still intact."

"Yeah, I agree with you, Dad," Pan said nervously. Without Goku, Pan felt unprotected. Especially with an unknown person inside a space pod with a power level that exceeds her own. Carefully, she stepped closer to her father. All she wanted was to hide behind Gohan, but she didn't want to show that to her friends.

Seconds turned into minutes and minutes turned to hours. No one came out of the spaceship. As they stared down into the pit, a familiar voice said, "If you're not going down there, I will." Everyone turned their heads, but it was Gohan who was the first to see Piccolo standing behind them. All the memories came flowing back to Gohan; the times where he had trained with Piccolo to the times where he sacrificed his life to save not only the planet, but Gohan as well.

"Piccolo?!" Gohan cried. Tears began to form in his eyes, but he didn't shed them. Not in front of Pan. "How did you come back from, uh. . ." Gohan couldn't find the right words. Surely he didn't want to swear in front of his only daughter. "How did you come back from down there?" Gohan pointed to the ground.

Piccolo smirked. "Let's just say I've been a good boy lately and they let me off the leash," Piccolo said. He walked to the edge and slowly descended down into the pit with Vegeta following him. The ship was still intact, but it was a complete mess. The landing gear was scattered along the sides and the windows were broken. "Vegeta, why don't you do the honors?"

Vegeta looked at Piccolo confusedly and gave him a smirk of his own. "Oh? Had the Super Namek suddenly gone weak?" Vegeta sneered. He laughed at his own joke and raised his hand in front of him.

"Vegeta, no!" a childish voice called from above. The voice belonged to no child, it belonged to Goku! Shocked from what they heard, everyone looked up into the sky eagerly. Gohan finally let go of his tears and smiled at the sight of his father. Pan was on the verge of crying, too. Goten just smiled.

"What? Kakarot? What are you doing here?" Vegeta asked.

Goku let himself drop into the pit and landed on both feet and a hand. "What? I can't visit an old friend?" Goku asked as he straightened up. He was wearing an orange gi with no undershirt. The two "frenemies" stared each other down, but what they didn't realize was the mysterious person watching them.

"Umm. . . Guys. . ." Piccolo said with wide eyes. Vegeta and Goku looked at the Namek, confused. "Look." He used his green hand to point at the person standing next to the ship. Goku and Vegeta redirected their attention.

Their expressions changed. "WHAT?!" the two Saiyans shouted. "NO WAY!"

"Hello," she said.