Turles

Grandpa Gohan smiled at Sun Wukong, then left the Bulma family home with Fortune Teller Baba.

"Grandpa!"

In the blink of an eye, three years passed.

Over those three years, Sun Wukong made a wish to the Dragon Ball System and increased the number of wishes granted by the Earth Dragon Balls to three.

He also learned the Evil Containment Wave, Forced Spirit Fission, Fusion, the Magic Extraction Wave (the technique Grand Supreme Kai used to seal Moro), Freeze (a technique of the Supreme Kai of Time), and the ability to absorb energy through the Dragon Balls.

On a plateau in southern Earth,

Piccolo was meditating at the summit of a tall mountain.

A figure suddenly appeared. It was Sun Wukong.

"Sun Wukong!"

Sensing his ki, Piccolo immediately opened his eyes.

"Long time no see, Piccolo!"

"Sun Wukong, what are you doing here? Did you come to fight me?"

"No. I came to ask you to train with me!"

"Train together?"

Piccolo stared intently at Sun Wukong.

"Sun Wukong, what are you scheming?"

He didn't believe Sun Wukong would be kind enough to invite him to train together.

"I'm not scheming anything. Training alone is just boring, so I wanted to find someone to train with!"

"Hmph!"

Piccolo snorted, clearly unconvinced.

"You want to defeat me, don't you? If you train with me, you'll find out just how strong I am now."

Piccolo fell silent, deep in thought.

"Well, Piccolo?"

"Fine! I accept!"

Sun Wukong smiled.

Then he took Piccolo to his home.

Son Gohan and Son Gomen were playing in the yard.

They looked curiously at the green-skinned Piccolo.

"Dad, who is he?"

"His name is Piccolo. You can call him Uncle Piccolo!"

"Uncle Piccolo!"

Hearing them call him that made Piccolo feel quite uncomfortable.

By Earthling standards, he was only four years older than Son Gohan and Son Gomen.

Of course, he was mature for his age.

"Sun Wukong, are these two brats your kids?"

"Yeah! One's named Son Gohan, and the other's Son Gomen!"

"Son... Son Gohan, Son Gomen. Why do both their names sound like something to eat?"

Piccolo grumbled to himself.

A while later, Sun Wukong took Piccolo to the Gravity Room.

"This is the Gravity Room. It's where I usually train!"

"The Gravity Room?"

"Right. It can adjust the gravity to suit your training needs. At the moment, it can go up to eight hundred times normal gravity!"

"E-eight hundred times!"

Piccolo was startled, then gritted his teeth.

"So that's how you got so strong, Sun Wukong! You relied on this thing! I'll train here for a few years, then surpass you. Don't come crying when I do!"

Sun Wukong smiled.

"If you're good enough, go ahead and surpass me!"

Piccolo snorted and walked over to the Gravity Room's controls.

"How do you operate this machine?"

"The first button increases the gravity by ten times. The second resets everything to zero. The third decreases the gravity by ten times!"

"Really? In that case, I'll start by training at twenty times gravity!"

As he spoke, Piccolo pressed the ten-times gravity button twice.

The Gravity Room's gravity soon increased to twenty times normal.

Piccolo quickly felt the pressure, while Sun Wukong stood in front of him without so much as a change in expression.

"H-how are you fine?"

"I usually train at five hundred times gravity. Twenty times doesn't feel like anything to me!"

"F-five hundred times!"

Piccolo gritted his teeth.

"Piccolo, train by yourself for a while. I'm going to teach Gohan and the others."

With that, Sun Wukong left the Gravity Room.

"Damn it!"

As soon as Sun Wukong was gone, Piccolo let out a furious roar and began training.

At noon, Sun Wukong invited Piccolo to stay for lunch.

But when Chi-Chi and the others saw Piccolo, they were all badly frightened.

Even though Sun Wukong stepped in afterward, Piccolo didn't eat with them. Instead, he went to rest on the grass in the yard.

Just as Piccolo was feeling gloomy, Son Gohan brought him some food.

"Uncle Piccolo, don't be angry. Mom and the others just aren't used to how you look yet. They'll get used to it eventually!"

Piccolo looked at Son Gohan.

"You're Son Gohan, right?"

Son Gohan smiled and nodded.

That afternoon, after resting, Piccolo returned to the Gravity Room to train.

Sun Wukong also went into the Gravity Room and sparred with Piccolo for a while.

Of course, Sun Wukong didn't use any of his strength.

Otherwise, even ten Piccolos wouldn't have been able to withstand his attacks.

From then on, Piccolo went to Sun Wukong's house to train every day.

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye.

Because Piccolo was far weaker than him, Sun Wukong had Bulma build another Gravity Room for Piccolo to train in.

At first, Piccolo only cared about training, so he didn't think anything was wrong.

But later, when Sun Wukong had Son Gohan and Son Gomen train with him too, Piccolo gradually realized that Sun Wukong had "tricked" him.

Still, he stayed at Sun Wukong's house so he could improve his strength quickly.

One day, while Son Gohan and the others were training in the yard, Piccolo suddenly sensed a "powerful" ki approaching them.

"That's a strong ki. Sun Wukong, do you sense it?"

Sun Wukong nodded.

"Let's go see what's going on."

"Mm!"

After speaking, the two immediately left the Bulma family home.

"Dad, we're coming too!"

Seeing them go, Son Gohan and Son Gomen followed.

Deep in a mountain in southern Earth, a large, round spaceship was landing.

"Click..."

With a soft sound, the spaceship's door opened.

A dark-skinned man with a scouter over his left eye stepped out. He looked remarkably like Sun Wukong.

The man was named Turles. He was another Saiyan who had survived by sheer luck.

Soon after Turles stepped out, several humans emerged behind him.

They were all subordinates he had recruited throughout the universe.

Boom!

Just then, a towering tree burst up from the ground.

The tree had grown from a Tree of Might seed that Turles had thrown down just before landing.

After the seed touched down, it quickly absorbed Earth's energy and grew into a towering tree.

"Lord Turles, is the Saiyan Kakarot you mentioned really on this planet?"

A man asked.

From what he knew about Saiyans,

any planet they lived on would be ravaged by them. Earth, by contrast, had not only been spared destruction but was being well protected.

"I don't know! But that guy's battle power was only two when he was born. Even if he's dead, it wouldn't be surprising."