Welcome to Gaia! ::

He landed on the lookout, several younger Namekians around him. He raised a hand with a slight grin. “Hi.” Hero said with a grin. The Namekians greeted him with a nod. Then an older Namek came out from inside the building. “I’m sorry Mr. Shen however you shall be unable to learn the Healing Arts.” He said leaning on a cane. “However there is an art you can learn from my helper. Mister Popo.” Then a man of some sort suddenly appeared beside them.

“You needed me sir?” He asked turning his eyes on Hero. “Oh I see a new trainee.” He said directing Hero. Not sure he waved good bye to the other Namekians and followed Mister Popo. Mutterings from the Namekians could be heard down the hall. Such things as ‘no one ever came back from training with Mister Popo.’ This caused Hero swallow for a moment as he made his way behind Popo.

“There is only one technique that I shall teach you. But first I must gauge your abilities.” He explained stopping at a door. “Tell me do you know of your ki level?”

“No..” Really he didn’t pay attention to his unless it was on level with someone else. “I’ve just been training all this time.

For a moment the one called Mr. Popo disappeared and suddenly he was back holding a scouter. Putting over his eye he pressed it. “Your ki level is 21,400.” He explained.

“Really? I thought I’d be stronger..” He murmered as the door opened. “Within these doors will be a battle. You may win. You may not.” Popo explained as they walked inside. “This is the pendulum room.” He explained and directed Hero underneath the pendulum that swung over on head. “This shall allow you to go into a battle that has, had or will happen.” He explained. “How you interact shall show if your are able to be taught the technique I give.” Withat he turned around and Hero found himself pulled in several direction by a strange light.

“What the-”

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Hero’s eyes snapped open. He was laying on grass and looking at the sky overheard. But wait something was wrong. The sky was a different color! Green instead of blue! And the grass was blue instead of green! What was going on? He checked to make sure he was all there. His headband? Check. His sword? Check? All his body parts? Check and check.Well wherever Popo had sent him he wasn’t going to prove himself by standing around.

Then he felt it. Power Levels, several them in one spot but one. One stuck out, one was so horrifyingly powerful it nearly brought him to his knees. But the power level felt familiar. Like he had sensed it before. “A changeling?” But there was none that powerful on Earth! Immediately he began to fly, going to where he could sense a battle going on, making sure his own power level wouldn’t be sensed.

When he came upon the battle scene he was horrified. Destruction everywhere, six people were there but it only felt like half that from the energy given off.

“You do well. But I had my fun.” He said bringing his foot down upon the boy’s neck. Hero didn’t know who or why they were fighting but to kill someone in such a way was horrific. Choking the life was to slow and painful for even a battle to the death. Before he knew it, he was already down there.

“HA!” He caught the big off guard and kicked him as hard as he could. It felt like the time he had kicked a brick wall in his youth. It didn’t break anything but damn it hurt like hell.
“D-dad?” The young boy asked looking up.

“Sorry kid you got me confused for someone else.” It must be the gi, orange was oddly a very common color. Looking around he saw someone in an older version of the armor, beaten up with spikey black hair. Why did he looked so familiar. As well as a bald guy, with the same gi as him. Wait bald guy? Floating the boy over to him he handed the kid to him.

“That isn’t Kakarot!” The one in the spikey hair shouted.

“Who are you?” The bald man asked helping the boy off the ground.

“My name is Hero Shen. Student Master of the Turtle Hermit Style.” He said looking back at three others. Two looked untouched while the one he had kicked looked like he had fought all three.

“Whoa? Really I’m Krillen I trained under Master Roshi too!” Krillen? That name! He knew that name. So the pendulum room took him into the past.

“Yeah. Master Roshi.” Hero agreed, he didn’t want to create some sort of paradox with his words so he make a quick explanation. “He sent me to help.”

“How did you get here before Goku?” Goku? He was coming? Then these guys should have had the floor wiped with them. The guy over there must be Vegeta. This was when they first teamed up! His father told him that they worked together on Namek. Namek! This must be Namek. That explained it.

“…Magic?”

“Oh so Master Roshi must have asked his sister to bring you here. I guess she could only do that with one person.” He let Krillen do the rationalizing. Right now he had a guy to go fight. Stepping forward he was slightly amazed at how the big guy had let him talk to them.

“Hey! Burter, Jeice what this guys power level?”

“They can hide their power level, remember? We gotta wait for him to power up.”

“No need. I can tell you now.” He unsheathed his blade, he was at a disadvantage, this guy’s level was nearly twice what his was. “21,400.” He said swiping the sword to his side. “Now I’ll give you one chance. Leave this planet and never come back. I don’t want to kill you but I will if you force me.”

“He’s just like that third rate warrior Kakarot. We’re doomed.” Vegeta grunted.

“Hey, don’t say that! Come on Hero!” Krillen cheered.

“Well whatever I’ll let you fight with your toy. You blind sided me, so now it’s my turn!” Recoome shouted charging at him. But for his bulk the guy was not as fast as he was powerful. He managed to escape his grasp with a simple after-image and appeared over ahead.

“HA!” He did a simple strike with the sword. This guy was prepared to kill and right now Hero had to stop him. If that meant he had to kill him he had to do it. Even if he really didn’t want to. But he didn’t get a chance as Recoome shouted.

“RECOOME BOOM!” He was thrown off by a powerful field of energy. Reorienting himself in the air. “Your fast! But not fast enough!” The brute said charging at him. Hero sheathed his sword, so the guy wanted to go head to head? Fine.

“Wolf..”

“He knows the wolf fang fist?” Krillen asked confused by this person ability.

“Fang..”

“Your no Vegeta but you’re an amusing boy! But I’ll crush you like a bug!” Recoome shouted flying at him.

“Blowing Wind!” Using Recoome’s momentum against him, Hero struck first. His fist gave off a red spark, then he hit him again, not going for the stomach as most folks would but for the neck. Recoome taken aback for a moment grabbed his neck and then another ki enforced strike into the eyes.

“Gah! Your cheating.” Hero raised his fist, slamming an axe handle down on him to the ground.

“Not cheating. Winning.” Normally he would fight fair. But this wasn’t some battle in the Budokai tournament. This fight was for survival. His hands ached from the strikes. This guy was tough, all he was doing was throwing him around with punches. True to his thoughts, Recoome indeed got up. But what he looked at was an after-image he reappered right in front of Recoome his hands raised.

“SOLAR FLARE!”

Immediately Vegeta, Krillen and Gohan shielded their eyes. Recoome being so close up didn’t have a chance to react. He was blinded by the technique, but that didn’t stop him from throwing a swing at Hero, who found himself flying and skidding across the ground.

“Crikey that’s bright.” The red alien said shaking his eyes.

“Gah. I can’t see!” The blue one said in anger.

“No fair again, stop going for the eyes, I don‘t want glasses!”

“Hehe, hey since we lost Guldo, think Recoome could be the new four eyes?”

Getting up Hero got back into fighting style. That one hit hurt like hell! He was doing more damage to himself and this guy was barely winded. He needed to think smarter, not harder. How was he going to win? He could just shove the scroll he uses to summon his sword down his throat and resummon in his stomach. That would just pop a nice sharp object in his stomach. No that was sadistic even for a villian to be apart of. But a good mental note in case he fights someone who can regenerate.

“I’m not going to win just by throwing ki blasts at him. He can take anything I can dish out.” He murmured, then as Recoome charged again, he got an idea.

“ERASER GUN!” A beam fired from his mouth shot as Hero.

“Multi-form!” It cut his power in half but he used it for a different purpose, his other self grabbed him by the shoulders, flipping himself over the beam in the process. They remerged, both still were technically thrown in the process. Powering up at the same time Hero brought one hand back and unsheathed his sword. Recoome still in place as he breathed out his attack tried to finish the attack up. Then Hero brought the sword down on Recoome himself. The beam stopped and he had enough time to take a step back, the Z-sword cut down Recoome’s chest, enough to cause him to bleed but not be slice him apart like Hero had wanted. He wanted to do a clean cut, end his life fast but now.

“HA!” Recoome retaliated with a punch but while his sword went flying, Hero was caught by the leg. Slammed onto the ground, he was stomped hard on by Recoome.

“GEH!” The air in his lungs was pushed out by the kick. Then another, and another. Hero blacked out for a moment but the pain was to much and even unconsciousness wouldn’t be a leisure.

“Now I’ll break your neck, since you stopped me from breaking the boy’s neck.” He slowly brought his heavy boot down on Hero’s neck.

“STOP IT!” Gohan’s voice propelled itself across the field. Some how he had the Z-Sword in his hand. Throwing it, weakly but just enough for Hero. Controlling it with his telekinesis he let the sword continue being thrown. Recoome jumped out of the way before it stabbed into him but Hero grabbed it, pushing himself off of the ground he snarled.

“STRONG ARM!” He focused the ki into his sword arm at the same time. Recoome turned to find a sword through his chest. Choking out a bit of blood, Hero shoulder’s shook.

“Y-you..aren’t..such a..great..hero.” He grunted. Hero’s eyes widen at that. He just took a life. He didn’t want to. Hell he was just thinking that earlier because he felt that someone else would just come along and finish this guy off. Some amoral type! But there was no escape from this. He rushed into this conflict. Yes it was to stop this same man from crushing the neck of a little boy. But what gave him the right? What gave him the right to end a life?

“I’m sorry.” He whispered pulling his sword out and flicking the blood off. Recoome crumpled to the ground.

“Blimey! He just stuck Recoome like a piece of meat.” Jeice shouted. That wasn’t helping.

“I didn’t want to do that. I said it before, leave this planet and be spared your lives!” His arm was shaking. He swallowed his regret. He knew he couldn’t beat both these guys, but maybe they’d be deterred by the fact he just took him down.

“Let’s take him out together.” Burter said stepping forward.

“Crap! Hero the blue guy’s really fast! Watch out!” As the sound of Krillen’s voice hit Hero’s ear, Burter was already there. With a simple kick, Hero found himself laying on the ground, his body felt as though he just took a dip in lava.

“S-s**t.” Vegeta said seeing the fact that the guy who saved them was now getting his butt whooped.

Hero sprawled on the ground could only look up seeing the two Ginyu force member come over him. ‘That’s it..come closer.’ He thought. When the closed in, Jeice raised his foot.

“Gotcha!” He pushed himself off of the ground. Wrapping both arms around the two, he got them by surprise. “HAAAAAAAAA!” He began to shine in a bright light.

“Wait..that’s..”

“Chiaotzu’s technique!” Gohan finished.

“No! Hero don’t!” Krillen said going forward.

“No. Stop.” Hero said breathing heavily. “I’m taking these two out with me…I warned them. I didn’t want to do this. I..guess I’m going to join you Shima..” He said closing his eyes. Suddenly he felt an arm on his shoulder.

“You don’t need to do that.”

Time itself froze. He released his grip on the Ginyu members, falling back for a moment only to be caught. Then his wounds seemed to heal by themselves. “What’s going on?” Then Namek went black. Not dark, all but himself an other person was there.

“You passed.” A man said, he tried to turn his gaze on him but every time he did, shadows obscured his appearance. All he could see was the red gi and blue shirt underneath it. Was this who he thought it was?

“Son Goku?”

A bright smile covered the man’s face as the light revealed him. “You got me.” A laugh escaped him and Hero couldn’t help but smile. “While these events didn’t actually happened, you were willing to sacrifice yourself to save my son. People you only just met.”

“But I could have easily sided with those other guys, I had no context for the fight. I could have came in when the other side was winning.”

“Be that as it may you managed to choose correctly. We all make mistakes but we also try to correct those mistakes. I can see you’re a good person.” Goku rested a hand on Hero’s shoulder.

“Can..I ask one question?”

“Sure!”

“Can I try my hand at fighting you?” Hero asked. He may as well.

“Hehe, sorry I’d love too but your times almost up. But I like that spirit…spirit…spirit..spirit…” His last word echoed all around Hero.

“Hi.”

“HOLY CRAP!” Hero stumbled back seeing that Popo was face to face to him.

“My apologies you see, you were merely in a state of livid dreaming, your body remained here but your mind left. You were suppose to wake up sooner.”

Hero rubbed his eyes, his memories fresh. “Did I pass?”

“Of course, you already know the technique now. I used a psychic imprint to let you learn it right away.” The instantaneous transportation technique? Goku knew something like that! All he needed to learn now was techniques from the very gods!

“T-thank you!”

“Your quite welcome.” With that Hero raised his fingers to his head and teleported away.
Popo smiled and then. He began to laugh. “AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.”

“Mr. Popo why are you laughing?” Dende asked from the door.

“Oh. I thought of a funny joke.”

“Really what is it?”

“…I forget.” (2626)

"I just touched the ground from the Look-Out and came right back here. Awesome!" He was enjoying his new power, but then he felt another ki. Different from the Namekians he went to the surface. Staring up high in the sky he saw him. For a moment he scanned the sky until he saw him. Immediately he floated upward to get a closer look. "My name is Hero Shen. And you are?" He asked looking at him. He was a Majin, he was familiar with them. Big eaters, some were destructive when they didn't get their candy. Others were the nicest people you could know. Maybe he was slightly edgy from his little mind battle? "Did you come here to learn the technique? I just got to learn it, it's awesome." He couldn't help himself but gush about it. (139)

"Well we could on the look out. It's big enough." He directed with a backwards point to his thumb. "The Namekians were would probably gladly work with their healing talents on us if we're injured enough." He said a smile crossing his face. Maybe this guy wasn't that bad. Landing down he adjusted the sword on his back. He had just refitted himself with new Saiyan armor that he wore underneath his clothes, the scouter was new on his face, he would use mostly across long distance for communication rather than simply gauging power levels. His telepathy could only reach so far. "So who else have you trained with?" He asked in a curious tone. He fiddled around with the scouter on his ear for a moment, trying to figure the thing out. (130)

Maeyo landed on one of the tiles of the Lookout. He smiled to himself. He knew this was the place from which he would rule. The Makyan also sensed a number of beings on this holy structure, but he did not recognize any of their power levels.

Interesting. I only expected the current Kami to be here. Who are these others?



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Bubbles started to worry for a brief second but brushed it asside but when he heard the voice in his head and swung himself backwards but when he heard Hero's voice he turned back around only to be hit by the Wolf Fang Fist and was pushed to the ground by the fierce attack. Bubbles sat up and laughed, "You are strong" Bubbles laughed as he pulled himself completly to his feet, he held his hands above his head and then thrusted them forward shouting, "Masenko! Kyaaaah!" He shouted unleashing the yellow energy wave from his hands

Maeyo flew forward until he came close enough to see those two people fighting. He did not recognize either one of them, but it looked to him like they were fighting. Why? He did not know why they were fighting.

The Makyan just watched for now.

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“Galick Gun? LIKE THE STORIES!” He had to do it. Cupping his hands back, he grinned. “KA…” He began charging up the power, a blue light. Hero couldn’t help but smile at this, this technique was just like the one performed between Son Goku and the Prince of All Saiyans Vegeta! His father told him about it. He had learned the truth beyond Hercule and researched the book by Son Gohan as well as his heritage.

“MEHAME….” His hands separated as a blue ball formed in his hands, the Namekians began to scatter, those who could fly, jumping off the edge, carrying those who could. Popo mumbled in the background. ‘Just like Goku and Vegeta.’ Before teleporting those who couldn’t get away easily.

“HA!” The pink light nearly engulfed him before he brought his arms out. His arms were bent but as they pushed against the beam, he straightened them. He had experience with a beam war and he knew to test the opponent’s before overcoming them. Push the enemy too the limit and then overcome that limit with your own! (181)