Dragon Ball Z: Paradise Found

Family Matters

"I don't honestly see why you guys even need this..." Goku scratched his head as he took it to the air, evading a barrage of plasma bolts fired from futuristic tanks of an alien world. Planet Fasbel was an iron planetoid that its inhabitants coated with grey gravel and cement and built meaningless blocks of indistinguishable spiky buildings.

It was tough to see just what kind of people the Fasbellians were as the entire species, dressed in long leather coats and wore bodysuits with filtering masks. Even if their weaponry and intense military technology didn't really seem like it could hurt Goku, the recovered Saiyan did his best to avoid getting rocked too hard so that his spacesuit didn't take the beating for him and force Goku to breathe in the air that the locals considered so toxic.

"You don't even know what this is," Goku showed the Ultimate Dragon Ball to the armies accumulating down below as he tried luring them as far away from their bigger cities so that he could then blast off in one big shot toward the ship.

A handful of mechanical tanks merged together, colliding and connecting into a technological marvel of destruction and military might as it launched a red energy orb from a tube crackling with pink electricity. The energy ball was rather slow, but Goku felt its weight affecting his movements and actually drawing him closer to it.

"Sheesh, it's like you guys don't care about your own planet at all!" Goku grunted as the gravitational field around the energy ball began weighing against his ability to fly freely. One by one, a merciless fusillade of energy blasts began finding its way toward the Saiyan, who braced for impact. "I bet you guys ruined your planet's air all by yourself. We've searched your planet high and low and we couldn't find one tree in the entire thing. It's all one big city. One big barrack."

Feeling incapable of escaping this heat without cutting loose, Goku lit up with a golden aura, his hair spiked up with bright white light before settling for a golden gleam, and his black eyes turned turquoise. The Saiyan punted the super-powered fusion energy ball off Planet Fasbel and vanished in a golden flash, appearing in the midst of the warmongering Fasbellians.

While the Super Saiyan wore a calm and collected face at first, his wrath exploded suddenly as Goku extended his hands to the sides and lowered his center of gravity. A rampant golden orb of energy formed around him as if Son Goku's shout had resonated and became physical, wiping the brunt of the Fasbellian military away. The exploding shock wave sent the soldiers slamming through buildings and their super heavyweight tanks flying like a hurricane swatted cardboard about.

"I didn't really wanna cut loose like that on you guys, but you will destroy your own planet just to get your hands on this thing, even though you've no idea what it is. I think that makes you guys too reckless to ever be allowed to use the Dragon Balls," Super Saiyan Goku looked down at the Ultimate Dragon Ball in his hand.

"B-But... It has a black star on it..." a single Fasbellian crawled through the wreckage toward his plasma rifle. The soldier's leathery bodysuit and overcoat had been torn up, revealing violet skin with cartilage armor plating underneath all those military uniforms. "It is the symbol of our great military power!"

Confused, Goku looked up at the tank that laid on its back to his side and saw a black star shining on its side. He could see similar decorations on the futuristic rifles that the Fasbellians used as well. The Super Saiyan gritted his teeth, pocketing the Ultimate Dragon Ball. He hadn't noticed that since all the Fasbellian military uniforms were all black. The only feature on their uniforms standing out was a round, white circle with a black star on it they carried on the side of their upper arms just below the shoulder.

"You would level this whole city just for that!?" Goku shouted out, swiping his hand aside and forming a weak wall of air in a soft Kiai blast that sent the beaten soldier willing to fight on until his final hour just for a meaningless symbol of a black star crashing into the wall of a wobbling building and through a glass panel.