Arrival!

()(About Hyperdimensional Brawl, go discuss it in the book review section. I think it's worth writing about, since it really is something to look forward to. Although it wasn't written by the original author, it can still be treated as wish fulfillment. Of course, AF is excluded... Also... ahem. If you're bothered by the fact that it wasn't written by the original author, then don't come here to discuss it. I don't want to set off any explosives. And about one reader saying two chapters a day... Well... my answer is very calm... I'm lazy. So it's extremely unlikely I'll ever release extra chapters... Anyway, it depends on how things go that day.)

The long six months... had already passed while Betkas slept... The silent, desolate scenery of space had long since become a numbing sight...

"Rumble!!!"

Without warning, the spaceship entered the atmosphere of a pitch-black planet. Then it plunged rapidly downward...

The violent impact turned the spaceship bright red... It looked ready to burn up. It slammed straight into a massive mountain, burrowing into it...

"Tch... Lately, I feel like I've been sleeping too deeply. I can't even wake up when the spaceship's alarm goes off. What's going on?!"

When the hatch opened, the sun's dazzling rays shone directly inside. Betkas blinked his eyes, suddenly unaccustomed to the light, then raised his right hand to shield his forehead and muttered...

"The seal is getting weaker and weaker... Could that be why?"

Betkas suddenly noticed the Pentagram on his forehead gradually giving off a red glow. He hesitated, then said...

"Forget it... I'll quickly wipe out every living thing on this planet... Then I need to head straight back. Given my current circumstances, I should have arrived earlier... If I can finish this in a day, then I might just make it back in time for Vegeta's arrival on Earth. That way, I can keep an eye on Frieza."

Betkas looked at the forest below the mountain... His expression turned icy in an instant. He held the Tree of Might fruit in his left hand. He didn't dare leave it in the spaceship; if someone accidentally took it and ate it, he'd be at a loss. Keeping it in his hand was safest. Besides, he was confident that he only needed one hand to deal with the people on this planet.

He immediately rose into the air. Sensing the surrounding energy, he quickly detected a village and broke into a cruel smile before flying toward it at top speed...

Meanwhile, in a city on the planet...

A very young-looking man in an old-model Battle Armor walked along, looking delighted as he carried a bag. Even more astonishingly, he wore a scouter over his left eye, and had spiky hair and a tail swaying behind him...

"Beep beep beep!!!"

"Hm? This is... There's someone with an incredibly high battle power at coordinates 73291, and he's moving rapidly... What's going on?!"

The young man looked panicked as he stared at the data displayed on his scouter. He was thrown into a fluster. The next moment, the scouter exploded, drawing startled looks from the passersby around him...

"His battle power is over eighteen thousand. How is that possible?! How could someone with such a high battle power appear on a planet like this..."

The young man's face turned deeply troubled and pained. He looked at the people around him, still going about their everyday lives, and seemed to make up his mind. Then he strode forward with determination...

"I have to get out of here quickly!"

The young man walked fast, head bowed low as if he'd done something wrong. No one paid him any particular attention. But after he'd gone some distance, his pace suddenly slowed, until at last he came to a stop...

"Damn it!! If I just leave like this, that guy will..."

The young man gritted his teeth in frustration, then clenched both fists. A fierce struggle raged in his mind. When he'd first come to this planet, he'd already investigated its strongest fighters. The most powerful had only a few thousand in battle power, so he hadn't been concerned. But after living here for more than twenty years, an existence with a battle power exceeding eighteen thousand—or perhaps even more—had suddenly appeared. It shocked him. More than that, he was terrified and lost...

Because... he was a Saiyan... one of the Saiyans who always claimed to be the strongest Warrior Race in the universe. By rights, he shouldn't have felt fear at all... But he was different. He was an oddity. Ever since he was a baby, his own father had judged him to have no talent for fighting and sent him to this remote planet. He'd only met his own older brother a few times before being hurriedly sent here.

And there was his younger brother, whom he had never seen, who had only just been born...

"Damn it!!! What's wrong with me?!"

The young man suddenly clutched his head, his thoughts growing confused... Because he lacked the instinct for slaughter and cruelty, his path on this planet was destined to be different from that of other Saiyans. He had been influenced by the people of this planet and had developed feelings... And with feelings came ties that bound him. He was destined to be unable to escape...

So... he had only one path... to face that unknown, powerful being...

Sweat had begun to bead on his forehead, though he didn't even realize it...

"I can only fight him! I hope he isn't an evil person."

The young man seemed to have finally made up his mind. He reaffirmed his resolve, then unclenched his fists and muttered... At the same time, a burst of ki enveloped his body. Ignoring the stares of the people around him, he flew straight into the air and sped off in a certain direction...

"Rumble!!"

"Boom!!"

Betkas gazed blankly at the village below, which he was continuously blasting into ruins... He remained expressionless as he killed one after another of the fools who rushed over to die. It was all unbearably boring... He longed for an opponent who could give him a real fight, but his current circumstances wouldn't allow him to do anything reckless. At the very least, he still had to endure for a while...

"This place is taken care of. Time to move on!"

Betkas carefully sensed the area, then slowly turned toward several trembling children hiding beneath the ruins. Without hesitation, he fired a Ki Blast at them... Watching the blood scatter after the explosion, he muttered...

"Hm? Someone with a battle power of around 1,500 is coming this way... Who could it be?!"

Just as Betkas was about to leave, he suddenly sensed a weak presence heading his way. He stared expressionlessly in that direction... He could just barely make out a human wrapped in ki, flying toward him.

"Hm? If you're looking to die, there's no need to be in such a hurry... Well... I seem to be rather short on time..."

Betkas watched as his opponent appeared to be rushing toward him at full speed. He wore a carefree expression, but it soon turned cold...