The saiyan trio; upon obtaining the last of the Black Star Dragon Balls, rush through the stars towards the green earth. Unaware to them the fiendish Baby has already begun his unlawful infection on the planet the trio call home. Son Goku, still cursed by the wish of the Black Star Dragon Balls, proceeds to stuff his full saiyan face full of food, ranging from meat all the way to exotic fruit from planets they've visited on their grand tour of the universe. The young warrior Trunks Briefs, against his better judgement, is taking a rest in his chambers, leaving the task of flying through space to the experienced fighter, Pan.

Aided by the small, robotic companion, Giru, it seems that the excitement of traveling the cosmos, has reached its limit. Pan, grows bored. "Ugh. If I'd known that going on this stupid quest would mean sitting around doing nothing, I would've just stayed home." Pan grows more frustrated as here vision is filled solely with nothingness of empty space. In her frustration, she hits the dashboard with her closed fist, inadvertently revealing another control panel. Giru examines the panel, showing a release lock for something.

Without thinking, Pan grabs the lock, and twists it, activating a secondary set of boosters in the back of the ship. A small button above the lock begins flashing. Above the button is some tape with the words, "more speed" written onto it. Pan looks to Giru, then back at the button. Grinning evilly, she pushes it. Without any warning, the ship begins to push back its limits, and launch itself from where it once stood. The sudden speed takes Goku off guard, and throws him to the floor, landing in the remains of the curry he'd just eaten.

The increased speed makes the ship harder to control. Pan is unable to turn the ship more accurately, which causes the ship to be hit by multiple small asteroids. Each hit shakes the ship around, and flings Trunks out of his bed, waking him up. It isn't long until the alarms are blaring all out the ship, alerting everyone to sudden space turbulence. Trunks leaps out of his chambers and makes a break for the cockpit, passing Goku as he lays on the ground disoriented, both failing to notice the claw made on the walls of the ship.

Trunks enters the cockpit, and immediately grabs the lock controls, and twists them back into place, before grabbing the break on the ceiling, and tugging it down, stopping the ship altogether. Goku is flung across the room into the wall, The alarms still continue to blare. Trunks, after taking a second to collect his thoughts, looks down at the seat. Pan is slowly trying to creep out of the cockpit. "PAN!" Trunks yells in his anger. "Don't think I'm not going to get out of this one!" Trunks turns around to see the pair trying to make a tactical escape.

"Do you have any ideas, just how much you put us at risk for?" Trunks stared Pan down. She twiddles her thumbs together as she looks to the floor, knowing what she did was wrong. "It's just...I was bored, and thought we could get to earth faster and..." "You were bored!" Trunks cuts her off. "I should've been here, this is my fault for the most part. I shouldn't have left you in charge." Pan straights back up, with a smug look on her face. "Yeah, it's your fault. Don't worry, I forgive you." Trunks' eyes turn from frustration to pure saiyan anger. "For the most part. What were you thinking?" Pan returns his anger with some of her own. "Well excuse me for wanting to keep my home and family alive. The faster we get those Dragon Balls, the faster our families can be safe! Don't you get that."

Trunks slaps back. "Yeah, I get that. But we still need to get them home in one piece, or else everything we've worked for, would be to waste. Once we get those things home, the first thing I'm doing is using them as target practise with father." As the two finish their outburst, they finally take a second to cool down. Pan looks away, trying to fight back tears. Trunks takes a knee, and puts his hand on her head. "Look. I miss home too. More than ever in my life. But, we just need to be careful for now. Once this is over, I could use a hand smacking them." Pan seems to cheer up. Giru watches from above them, his Dragon Ball radar seems to be set off by something, but considers it an error.

Goku walks into the cockpit, rubbing the back of his head. "Hey, why is the alarm still going off?" Goku asks. Trunks realises this too, and goes to investigate. While on the computer, he learns that one of the doors was forced open. Hitting the manual override, he closes the door from their end. Once closed, the alarms finally are turned off. With the alarm silenced, the trio now hear Giru's sensor.

"Isn't that the Dragon Radar?" Goku looks at Trunks, who takes Giru into his hands, and sees the radar. "That ain't right. Says two of the Balls aren't on the ship." Having a brief moment of panic, the pair rush out of the cockpit, to investigate. In the safe that had contained the seven Dragon Balls, they in turn found only five. "How did someone take the Balls? We would've sensed them". Pan holds up the radar. "The balls are still close, they appear to be heading towards that planet." Pan points out of the window. Trunks and Goku come to the window and peer outwards, seeing the small grey planet below the ship. "We can't let them get away, and we can't breathe in space. Let's take this ship down." Trunks gets into the pilot seat, and turns the ship around.

The ship floors the signature of the Dragon Balls. As they get closer to the planet, the balls appear to have picked up speed, getting closer to the planet. The ship starts to get hit by multiple ki blasts. "We're being hit, but I can't sense their ki." Goku holds onto the safety pole as they get closer. "Maybe they aren't organic. Could be something like an android." Goku looks beyond the glass of the cockpit, and sees something moving in the atmosphere. It disappears as they begin their descent to the planet. "The attack has stopped, everyone brace yourself." Trunks pulls the ship on to the planet, but due to the damages endured by the attack and the asteroids, he's forced to crash into the dirt.

Getting back on their feet, the trio vacate the ship. Leaving the interior of their craft, they step foot on a field of grey grass. The air is breathable, but feels lacking. Goku's body starts to tense up as he breaths it in. "Dragon Balls up ahead." Giru gestures to a plato straight ahead of them. Before they take their first steps over, a figure pulls from out of the shadows, and fires a ki blast. The blast is aiming towards Giru, but Goku leaps into the way, and smacks it aside. The ki blast is sent across the fields and smacks into the plato. "Come on out and fight us. Unless you want to die a coward." Both Pan and Trunks seem confused, never seeing Goku come off this addressive before.

"You've got quite the mouth on you, lets see if you can back it up." a voice from the shadows can be heard, before the figure dashes at Goku. They throw a punch that Goku catches with ease. The assailant tries to throw another punch with their free hand only to be blocked by Goku's arm. Using his foot, Goku kicks the assailant to the ground, cracking their visor. "Take off that mask, and show us your face." The assailant picks themself back up, and throws off their helmet, dropping it to the floor. They reveal themself to be an arthropathic cheetor. The team only now sees their tail hanging behind them. "So you're the only to take out balls?" Trunks remarks in anger. "They were just sitting there. So I helped myself." "Who are you?" Goku demands. "I am Peeper"

Goku gets into a battle stance. "So, you stole the Dragon Balls from us. Why only 2?" Trunks asks, putting his hand onto the hilt of his sword. "Your ship flung me back into space. I would've gone back in, but the door closed on me." "But why take them? Don't you know the risk?" Trunks steps closer to the cheetor. "He was acting on his orders!" Above the team, high up in the sky, descends another beast fighter, this time, that of a blue canine. "Let me introduce myself. I am, Pips. And welcome to our home." The canine performs a bow for the trio, as if his presence alone was a gift to them. Pan tugs on Goku's shirt. "Grandpa, leave this guy to me. It's my fault he got on the ship. You and Trunks can handle this dog." The trio prepare for combat, readying themselves.

As Pan steps forward Peeper launches himself off the ground, and at Pan. He grabs her, and tosses them across the field. Giru follows after her, hoping to lend some assistance. The trio turns to a duo, Pips pulls a long sword from their back, and branches it, caressing the blade with his hand. "If it's all the same to you, small one, I'd rather fight the pink haired one. But don't threaten, there's 3 of us here. Our leader is beyond the plato, with the Dragon Balls." Goku clenches his fists, before speeding off without a word. "It's just the 2 of us now, boy." Pips charges at Trunks, the tip of his blade stretched out for Trunks to parry the attack in response.

Goku flies over the plato, and spots a cave on the other side. A ki blast is fired from it, which he narrowly dodges. Goku approaches the cave. He immediately sees the two Dragon Balls laying on the ground. Stepping out of the cave is a reptilian being, looking like a python. "You're a fasssst one aren't you?" the creature spoke. Goku holds his hand out, and charges a ki blast of his own. "Hand over the Dragon Balls, and I promise we'll leave." The creature spits their tongue out as they leave the cave. "No way. We need them to live."

"Listen, snake, those aren't the real Dragon Balls. These ones will destroy the planet if you..." Goku tries to negotiate with them, but is cut off. "My name is Cooke. And I'm not ssstupid. I know what they are. The Sssseeker told us." Goku is confused. Wanting to hear him out, he stops his blast. "We're part of a doomed race. Our only survival was to come to this dying planet." As he speaks, the ground shakes violently, almost tripping Goku over. "We found aid from a Ssseeker, who told us of the Dragon Balls. Unable to leave this rock, they told us of your arrival. We need them to rebuild our home." Goku straightens up, and looks at him. "Look pal, if we don't get those Dragon Balls back to earth, our home will be destroyed." Cooke shakes his head. "The Ssseeker told us that they will be used again, and a planet will die."

"Not going to happen." Goku fires a small wave of ki blasts, pushing them back into the cave, denting his armour. Before Goku could grab the balls, Cooke springs out of the cave and tackles Goku down the rocks. Between the fight with Pan and Peeper, she's being pushed back, only being able to dodge the attacks her opponent can throw, being too fast for her. While dodging the attacks and landing on the floor, she feels the planet shaking again. Looking behind her at a rock formation, she notices that they look unstable, and ready to fall. "Hey you big cat, you think you're fast? You can't even catch little ole me." taunting her opponent she breaks for the rock formation, hoping he'd follow. He does, making it to the top of them. "Nowhere to go here sweetie pie."

Peeper lunges towards Pan. Timing it just right, she socks him one clean in the face. His body strikes the rock formation, for which proceeds to fire around the bottom. Giru fires small missiles at weak points in the formation. Their combined effort was enough to have the rocks crumble down. Peeper gets back up off the ground, before the rocks could land on him. His body crushed under the weight of the rocks, Pan and Giru look down as all they see of him is his hand sticking out, gripping the dirt. Before they could celebrate, Pan is struck from behind, and sent falling, smacking her head on one of the rocks. Giru turns to see it's Peeper. "Surprise sweet thing." He slaps Giru away, and goes down to greet Pan. "How are you still alive?" she asks, confused. "I'm fast. I'm fast enough to create a full duplicate of myself. Sadly, it cuts my speed down. Not to mention, I don't have much time. So I need to kill you quickly."

The sword battle between Trunks and Pips continues, with neither one of them looking tired. Trunks is however being pushed back by the master swordsman. "You seem self taught. You have my praise, not many like you can last this one with me." Pips holds their sword with two hands, and proceeds to try and land a finishing blow. Trunks uses a ki blast to forcely push him away, dodging the fatal blow. The sword cuts through a solid rock. Landing on their feet, Trunks drips his sword tight, and begins to scream. His hair starts to stick up as he's engulfed in a golden flame. Trunks has turned Super Saiyan. The transformation was enough to shake them ground, causing it to react with another earthquake, a powerful one to crack the ground. "If you're going to fight seriously, then so am I." Trunks proclaims with the anger in his eyes. "Bring it on." Their swords clash as the shockwaves create a mini crater beneath them.

Goku has pushed Cooke back with his ki blast slam. The reptile's flexible body helps them to avoid getting hit. "You fool. You can't hit me with these random attacks." Goku, thinking on their feet, puts their hands to their face. "SOLAR FLARE!" The burning light blinds him. Cooke, with their face in their hands, is pushed back. "Ahh, you cheap shot me!" Goku appears right before his opponent. "If small blasts from far away won't stop you, then try this for size. Ka...Me...Ha...Me...Ha!" Goku uses his signature move. The blast hits them head on, with enough power to send them back into the cave, and burst out of the plato on the other side, joining the other two fighters.

Distracted by Cooke being sent through a mountain, Peeper lowers his guard. Grabbing some dirt, Pan throws it into his eyes, blinding him. "You cheated!" Pan kicks him up into the air for Giru to hit him back with some missiles. Grabbing them by the fur on their head, Pan flings the speedly warrior to the rock formation, impaling him on one of the sharp rocks. "We both did. I just did it better, and won." Peepers body starts to glitch out, turning static before disappearing. The duo turn to lend a hand to Trunks in his battle. Pips sees them coming. "No outside help I'm afraid." They conjure a ring of blue flames around the two, leaving only them to fight.

Pips has Trunks on the guard, even in Super Saiyan. Using their sword to guard the canine slashes, he forces a clash. Pips pushes back against Trunks, pushing him close to the fire. Trunks gives out a sudden burst of power, pushing Pips back. They hold their sword two-handed to cut down Trunks, who uses the sudden moment of confusion to attack Pips where it mattered. Using their sword, Trunks cuts off Pip's arms by the wrist, the force sends their sword flying out of the ring. They step back with a smile on their face as Trunks holds the end of their sword to his throat. "Stand down. There's no more reason to keep fighting. You're done." The canine laughs. "A warrior fights on to the end. Besides, that was just a scratch." His eyes glow, as his sword spins back into the ring. Leaping in the air, he catches the sword by the handle in his teeth.

The canine comes at Trunks with their sword grasped between their baring fangs. They parry each attack, Pips is slowing down as the blood loss is getting to him. "Enough!" Trunks plunges his sword into Pips chest, into their heart. The warrior falls to his knees, dropping his sword from his mouth. "Young swordsman. You have bested me in combat. And have rewarded me with a warrior's death. I ask only that...you take my sword as yours. It was passed down to me by my teacher...I never had a student myself, but I'd be honoured if you'd inherit it yourself." Trunks turns back to his base form. With closed eyes, he nods, before pulling his sword from their chest. Pip falls back to the ground, dead. Sheathing his sword, Trunks picks up the canine's blade as the flames die down around him. Pan and Giru run over. "Hey! You won!" Pan's excitement is met with a stoic gaze, as Trunks pays a moment of silent tribute to his foe.

The silence is quickly broken as the ground shakes again. Another earthquake that causes the ground to crack and crumble some more. They see Goku coming from the hole in the plato and tackles Cooke as he floats in the air. "Trunks! Pan! This planet is going to be destroyed! Grab the Dragon Balls! Hurry!" Goku is punched in the face by the reptile. "I'm not done with you yet boy." Goku slams his elbow into Cookes head, forcing it closed. "Can a boy do this!" Goku awakens his Super Super form, going straight into Super Saiyan 2. The change knocks Cooke back down to the ground. Pan with Giru rush into the cave and grab the Dragon Balls. Trunks fires ki blasts at the rocks as they fall onto the pair.

"Grandpa! We have the balls!" Pan shouts as Giru carries them back to the ship. "Stand down Cooke. If you promise to end the fighting, we can take you to earth to use our Dragon Balls." Goku tries to plead with Cooke, who looks to be beaten to near death. "Why ssshould I stop now? I'm clossser than ever to my goal. Besssides, I have the power to stop you right HERE!" Cooke bursts from his chainmail armour, and takes off for the skies. Sparks erupt from his fingertips into the fallen rock formation, and the body of Pips. He pulls out two orbs of pure light from his fallen comrades. With them in hand, he stretched his mouth open right, and swallowed the orbs whole. His body glowed a radiant pink and red, as it grew in size. Breaking from his armour, Cooke hovered over the trio with his fangs blaring.

"Now who's going to surrender." he asks, before laughing like a madman. Trunks looks back at the body of Pips, as it now lies as a pile of ash. "You ripped their soul from them. You bastard!" Trunks turns Super Saiyan again, with Pips sword in hand, charges the grown snake. He slices at his chest, causing them to scream in pain. Grabbing them by their collar, Cooke pulls Trunks back, and fires a ki blast into his gut, sending him flying down to the ground. Still in Super Saiyan 2, Goku charges for Cooke with Pan offering cover fire from ground level. Cooke puts up a guard with his arms, not taking any damage from the attacks. Not even Pans cover fire seems to have caused any harm to them. Trunks gets back up, holding Pips's sword tight. Another earthquake rocks the planet, this time caused by the fighting. The planet splits open like a conquire. "Pan! Get the ship into the air!" Trunks orders from the ground. "I'll help Goku!" Taking off into the sky to aid Goku, Pan takes Giru and the balls to the ship.

Getting strapped into the cockpit, she manages to turn the engines back on before the planet could swallow it whole. She pulls the ship up into the sky as the ground becomes engulfed by the planet's burning magna. Cooke is left to fend off the attacks from the two warrior saiyans. As the fight continues, he feels his strength is slowly fading away, his power boost is leaving him. Trunks slices their tail off, which falls into the magna below, and burns up. Distracted by the loss, Goku sucker punches them in the jaw, and into the plato. As the air becomes full of heat and death, Goku rubs his head. "Oh man, I don't know what came over me."

Still not beaten, Cooke thinks of one last chance to win. "This planet will die anyway. why not sssteal what is has left." He fires a blast of pure ki into the ground, drilling deep between the surface. Once deep enough, he uses the same trick as before and pulls out the very soul of the planet, its core. He swallows it like he did with the others. His body starts to mutate furthur. His legs retracting, turning into a large tail, his claws getting sharp as the finest kept sword. Their fangs burst out of their mouth like a savage. With a stern look, Goku turns to Trunks. "Trunks. Get back to the ship. I will finish off Cooke. But I need you to lend me you to do something for me." Goku whispers something in Trunk's ear. Returning to their base forms, Trunks flies to the ship, while Goku remains in the air to confront the now growing planet sized Cooke.

Trunks gets to the ship, and into the cockpit, taking over from Pan. "Where's Grandpa?" she asks. "Don't worry. He's going to finish that monster once and for all. We just need to be out of the way, before we can pick him up." Trunks flies the ship away from the battle. Cooke approaches Goku, with a grin larger than mountains. "Now then. What sssay you?" With his eyes closed, and looking deep into himself, Goku begins to charge his key, before it explodes out of him. "AHH!" A golden aura consumes him. His hair grows, turning golden as sparks erupt from his very being. As he uses this power, the rest of the power becomes critical, unknown how long it can last. Cooke takes the chance to punch Goku away. He's smashed into a few crumbling mountains. Coming back, with the aura around him, he slams into Cookes chest, hitting him in the sword wound, sending him back onto the ground, his tail digging deep into the planet. Goku has turned Super Saiyan 3. He takes to the skies, getting higher and higher. Cooke, not wanting him to get away, leaves the planet to follow.

On the very doorstep of space, Goku dodges the snakes attacks, avoiding their claws. "Sssuch power. I ssshould absorb you to become invincible." Cooke grabs Goku between his hands; both hands trying to crush him. Goku bursts from the tomb, destroying his hands, making him scream in pain. "Aaaah!" Trunks flies the ship off the planet as it reflects the pain Cooke is feeling. "I gave you a chance. But mercy is too good for you. I will not let my planet die!" Goku charges at Cooke, slamming his fists into the reptile, hitting them one after another, pushing them back to the planet. Moving back, Goku readies his ultimate attack. "DRAGON...FIST!" Goku explodes into golden flames as he turns into a dragon. He pierces through the sword wound, and proceeds to wrap around the evil reptile until it can't move, before exploding into ash to venture the whole of empty space.

As the large snake's life comes to an end, the planet too dies. What's left of its core turning critical, before exploding. The blast pushes back against the ship, but doesn't do any damage. Trunks flies the ship around where the battle took place. He lets Pan pilot the ship as he reaches out and pulls a base form Goku back onto the ship. He's alive, just asleep. Pan comes into the room to check on him. "Is he?" Trunks shakes his head. "Don't worry Pan, he's going to be fine. Just need to rest. I think we all do." Giru takes over piloeting, switching the into auto pilot to allow the rest of the crew to relax on their way back to earth. Hopefully, that would be the worst they'd be facing for a while.

The end.