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The New Threat

The day was just another normal and boring day in the office. Well, the new office for the woman behind the desk, given she got the job recently. Although right now she's fallen asleep at the desk, absentmindedly drooling on a paper from Danzo, getting the ink to be almost tattooed to her cheek. However, when two people enter, one a woman of fair skin, slender, and average height with black hair and eyes. She is wearing a bluish-black kimono with white trimmings.

The man that enters with her had spiky waist length hair that was tied in a ponytail, wore a horned forehead protector with the kanji for oil written out on his forehead, with a that has red markings on his cheeks. He wore a short, green kimono with matching pants with mesh armor under his clothes, he also had hand guards, geta shoes, a red haori with yellow dots, and a scroll on his back.

When they entered, they stopped dead in their tracks when they saw the sleeping woman before them, eyes bulging out and their mouths almost sucked in like they just sucked on a lemon. They both then stopped their moment of shock and went to wake up the woman. The woman does wake up, but has ink smeared on one of her cheeks. She quickly gets out of her drowsiness and wipes the ink away. She looks over the paper and is glad that it's just one of Danzo's papers.

The woman then gets out of the chair she had just spent sleeping in. She is a light skinned woman of average height with brown eyes and waist length blonde hair. On her forehead is a violet rhombus tattoo. Although she is a fairly aged woman, she is still youthful and beautiful, with rather large breasts. What she is wearing is a grass green haori with the kanji for gamble written on the back, along with a grey kimono blouse that shows off her cleavage.

She also wears dark blue pants and an obi belt to tie her kimono along with high heeled sandals. She then tells the two, "Thanks, if you hadn't of done that before someone else came in, I don't know what will happen." The brown haired woman then says, "I'm sorry we had to bother you Lady Tsunade, but Lord Jiraiya and I have found out two things." Tsunade then asks, "Well what is it, Shizune?"

Jiraiya answers, "We found Orochimaru, he's being treated for his injuries by some of his doctors at one of his personal bases on the border of the Land of Fire." Tsunade then asks, "And the other thing?" And Shizune answers, "Danzo is on his way here to demand an assassination mission on Orochimaru." Tsunade then tensed up and growls, "I don't have time to order an assassination. Me and the rest of the shinobi and kunoichi have been too busy treating the wounded."

"Well then, Princess Tsunade, don't think of it as an assassination-Change it into a mission that will keep your old friend Orochimaru on his toes and keep him distracted from having his arms be usable again." The three turn to the voice at the door. At the door is a frail, old man with a cane in one hand, with shaggy black hair. His right eye is bandaged, and has an x shaped scar on his chin.

He wears a white shirt, with a black robe that goes all the way to his feet and the entire right side of his body, making his arm rest on the inside of the robe. With him are two men, wearing the black and grey uniform of Anbu, one having an animal mask with a green forehead, and the other has an animal mask as well, but it frowns. But there was something that the three notice about these Anbu, red sashes and straps, meaning they are from Root, Danzo's personal faction.

The man Danzo just stood there, till Jiraiya asks, "Danzo, what do you expect us to do with Orochimaru?" Danzo squints his only visible eye at the man and tells him, "Either you send 10 teams of 4 to infiltrate the base and assassinate Orochimaru, or you can set up paper bombs at strategic points before Orochimaru's surgery and spook him into being on the run again with the destruction of the base."

Tsunade then asks, "What's the catch?" Danzo continues, "I ask for a simple request...Just let me choose one member of the operation." Tsunade ponders then tells him, "I will allow you to put this one request in, but I have conditions as well...Due to the fact that both of our nations having lost a Kage to Orochimaru, Sunagakure will be asked to join Konohagakure in this mission." With a nod, Danzo leaves.

Five minutes after Danzo leaves, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Shizune start checking the office for anything Danzo left behind to spy on them. After nothing was found, Tsunade then tells them, "Alright, for that mission, we will need precise orders that this isn't an assassination, that would be suicide due to how powerful Orochimaru and his followers are. But I doubt that Danzo's Root agent would follow that order."

"I think I know someone who can help us with that." The women turn to Jiraiya, who continues, "He is a former experiment of Orochimaru with the First Hokage's DNA, was raised in Root due to memory loss, and is a close friend of Kakashi." After that, two men are in the office now, one a full grown man in anbu uniform, the other a pale teenager in black. Tsunade starts by saying, "To begin, your new names are Yamato and Sai, you will both be posing as master and student when around the members of the team that is for this mission."

The pale boy just smiles a fake smile and repeats the name he was given, "Sai." The Anbu man removes his mask, revealing black almond shaped eyes and brown hair, he then exhales, "Very well then, when will the mission be?" And Tsunade then answers, "At the end of this week is when Orochimaru's surgery will begin, at that time, both of you and a team of 36 other genin, chunin, and jonin from Konoha and Suna will infiltrate the base and will set up explosives."

Yamato is confused and asks, "36? I thought that this is a 40 man team, so including us, that's 38...Who are the other two?" Jiraiya answers, "I will be the 39th, and Shizune will be the 40th." After that, both turned to leave, but Yamato saw Jiraiya make a hand sign and stayed a little longer. Sai never noticed Yamato behind him as he left the office. The moment the door was closed, Yamato immediately said, "Did Kakashi teach you that hand sign, Lord Jiraiya?"

The answer never came as Tsunade immediately tells him, "Keep an eye on Sai, he's a member of the Root Faction." Jiraiya continues, "Or a former member. I mean, we don't even know if Danzo obeyed Sarutobi Sensei on disbanding Root for what he did to the Uchiha's." Yamato then tells them, "I understand, Lord Jiraiya, Lady Hokage. I will be on my way now." He then finally leaves the office.

Jiraiya then asks, "You never intend for Shizune to go on this mission, do you?" Tsunade smirks, "Am I that noticeable? No wonder I'm horrible at gambling." Shizune then asks, "Are you sure you want to go disguised as me, Lady Tsunade? I mean, I'm not sure I can pose as you for too long." Tsunade just tells her, "Don't worry about it. I just need to get out of the office and get some fresh air, besides, I won't be going in the base. Me and Jiraiya are going to just relay orders to those going in."

Near the end of the week, Tsunade (Disguised as Shizune), Jiraiya, Sai, Yamato, Team Asuma, Team Kurenai, Team Guy, Team Kakashi, the violet haired, overcoat wearing Anko Mitarashi, the Sand Siblings, and several Konoha, Suna, and Anbu shinobi and Kunoichi set off for the hidden base. The Orochimaru Suppression Squad travel separately to avoid possible detections as well as travel down unusual paths.

Eventually, the team made it to the outskirts of the base, which looks like a giant, grey block sitting on a small island. To start up, the island is investigated by use of toads belonging to Jiraiya, Sai's ink animals, the Byakugan of the Hyuga, and insects of the Aburame. There, they found the pale skinned, black haired Orochimaru in a hospital bed with his dead arms bandaged, his bodyguards include the white haired Kaguya Clan warrior.

Along with the guard is the red haired girl, the orange haired, overweight man, the silver haired man with a sleeping second head, and the dark skinned man with multiple arms. Outside of the room was the glasses wearing servant Kabuto Yakushi. In what looked to be the cafeteria, there was a fight going on between a red haired girl with glasses, a orange haired madman, and a white haired man wielding a sword.

But unbeknownst to everyone, but in a tall tree, men and women in black cloaks with red clouds watch the base, preparing to attack as well. With them are pale men in tattered clothes, several glass tubes with bodies in them, and a man with an orange mask that only shows one eye. The leader, orange haired, grey skinned, heavily pierced man addressed the Akatsuki, "When the two forces get into conflict, we will intercept."

One member, Hidan, asks, "So why do we all have to be here? I mean I get Orochimaru's an ass and that there's two jinchuuriki, but is it necessary that all of us are here?" Another member, a man who looks like a walking venus fly trap, Zetsu, tells him, "We simply don't know how powerful the two jinchuuriki are and how powerful Orochimaru is, even in his weakened state. Not to mention the small army both forces are composed of."

But before anything could be done by either side, a violent storm appeared out of nowhere. Jiraiya is shouting through the powerful gusts of wind, "Where did this storm come from!? There's been a summer drought for months!" Kakashi shouts as well, "It hasn't even rained since the Third Hokage's funeral!" And eventually, a ocean blue spiral appears in the sky. Then the center of the spiral turns pitch black.

Then the violent wind starts blowing everything into the black dot, now recognized as a portal of some kind. It sucks up the hidden Konoha-Suna forces, the entire Oto Base as it crumbles due to the intense winds. Even the tree the Akatsuki are in is pulled into the portal as well. As everything is moved through space, everything looks like an abstract painting. Then eventually, everything turns white.

July 12th, Age 761, Earth

Naruto Uzumaki woke up in a grassy field with only a few trees around him. He wanders around like a lost puppy till he finds what looks like a village in the distance. Along the way, he sees somebody he recognizes, shouting, "Hey! Kakashi Sensei!" Waving in the air and he catches up with his teacher. They then wonder to the village that is actually bigger than Konoha. When they enter, Kakashi asks somebody, "Excuse me, but where are we?" And the guy says, "West City."

Elsewhere, Gaara is using his sand to float high in the sky with his sister Temari holding on to him. As they float over a series of islands, they find a series of fires that spell out the kanji for help on an island. There, they find Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno. When Gaara lands on the island, he immediately asks, "Are you two okay?" Both are shocked because the last time they met Gaara, he was a psychotic killer. Temari thinks to herself, 'Thanks blondie'.

On a mountainside somewhere else, Kurenai Yuhi is helping her students Kiba Inuzuka, Hinata Hyuga, and Shino Aburame out of a river they were walking through. They continue hiking up the mountain till they come across Might Guy, Neji Hyuga, Rock Lee, and Tenten. Neji immediately goes to Hinata and checks on her well being. They join together and continue hiking till they come across a house with a woman in the front yard doing laundry. Lee and Guy shout, "Hello!"

Back with Naruto and Kakashi, they wonder around West City for a very long time, going from dome house to dome house, until they find a yellow one with a c in a circle in the front. As they get near the house, they see a strange metal object flying out of the back yard, only to suddenly have smoke come out of the back and slowly, but violently, fall into the main city. Naruto and Kakashi run to the crisis, then hear a noise.

"Wood Style: Giant Forest Jutsu!" And as that noise was heard, the metal object was caught by a series of strange tentacles. The tentacles then gently put the object down. As it touched the ground, a blue haired woman inside the object got out. The source of the tentacles, Yamato, asks, "Are you okay, ma'am?" Behind him are Anko, Sai, Asuma Sarutobi, Choji Akimichi, Ino Yamanaka, and Shikamaru Nara.

Gaara, Temari, Sasuke, and Sakura continue to ride the flying sand till they started hearing, "Hey! Gaara!" And when they looked down, they saw Kankuro, and he was with Jiraiya and Tsunade. When they landed, Kankuro went to his siblings to check on them, but Gaara asked, "Lady Hokage? How are you here?" And she tells him, "When you get an office job, you'll do anything to get fresh air once in awhile."

Kurenai, Guy and their students go closer to the woman and she asks, "Good evening, are you lost?" And they all nod. The woman then tells them, "Don't worry, my husband can help you out. Goku!" And suddenly, a man in an orange gi with blue boots and an undershirt with a palm tree for hair arrives carrying a full grown tree. He says, "Hey Chi Chi. Sorry I'm late, I was just getting firewood for tonight."

The blue haired girl, Bulma, invited the travellers into her home and let them stay with her for a while. While eating a buffet of different foods, Bulma calls Roshi, "Hello, Roshi, hey it's Bulma. You're not going to believe this, but I think I found you some new students. Why I say that, one guy just made wood grow from his arm and saved my plane when the engine failed." After that, Roshi tells her, "Hang on, I can see Goku. Gotta go."

But when the turtle hermit got out of the Kame House to see, it was actually Gaara and the rest of the travellers he found. Roshi just says, "Hang on. You guys aren't Goku, and yet you ride a flying nimbus?" But the moment he says that, the sand cloud turns into a pile of sand. Gaara tells him, "Sorry sir, but it's sand, not a nimbus." Roshi just shrugs, "Don't worry, so what can I do for you youngsters?"

Sakura tells him, "We got lost and found ourselves on a chain of islands somehow, can you point us to Konohagakure?" A bald, short man with orange clothes comes out and tells them, "I've never heard of a place called Konohagakure before." Tsunade then asks, "Could it be possible that light we all saw took us to another dimension?" Roshi then notices her and has a nosebleed, chanting, "I think I see the pearly gates cause your a total babe!"

Jiraiya holds Roshi back and tells him, "Not a good idea, trust me. She put me in the hospital for when she got into my research. I looked like a mummy in the hospital." Before Roshi can respond, Goku does arrive on a flying cloud, with Bulma following in a plane containing the rest of the ninja's from Konoha and Suna. The Konoha and Suna ninjas reunite with each other and Bulma takes them to the training island Roshi trained Goku and Krillin.

Bulma then set up a series of capsule houses in rows. Bulma tells them, "I know that this isn't home to you guys, but I hope that this will be a good start till you guys can find Konoha and Suna. Till then, if you need help, just call on us, my dad is one of the world's best scientists, he should be able to help out with anything." She then showed them around and everyone was fascinated by their temporary homes for now. But everyone was wondering one thing.

July 12th, Age 761, Frieza 117

Kabuto and Jugo are carrying the sick Kimimaro into a hospital on the planet controlled by a mysterious Frieza. The scaly alien with a beak looks at them confused. Then a man with most of his face bandaged, minus his white hair and his golden slit of eyes, enters and tells him, "Could you help us out. Our friend has been fighting a terminal illness and this is the nearest hospital we could find?"

The alien just shrugs, "Sure." And he starts doing a check up, after a while, he manages to get Kimimaro medicine that will help him live a little longer and will only go back to his coughing fits if he doesn't take his medicine. Jugo keeps asking if he'll be alright. The alien looks to Kabuto who tells him, "Jugo here is Kimimaro's brother. He feels a little insecure when Kimimaro is hurt." And then, suddenly, a blue skinned man with green hair enters. The doctor says, "Ah, Zarbon."

July 12th, Age 761, Planet Taris

The Akatsuki are staying in an abandoned apartment complex as they watch hover cars fly by skyscrapers outside the windows. The Zetsu's are kept in the basement as they are tended to by Zetsu himself, Konan and Nagato are at the very top floor with the six Pains being tended to. The rest of the members and Tobi are dispersed amongst the random floors, waiting for something to happen, till a dwarfed, aged, yellow alien with an orange cape enters with an M on his belt.

September 18th, Age 761, Earth

Ever since they suddenly came to this world different than their own, things have gotten a little bit easier. They would train to keep their skills from going dull, would visit Bulma, Goku, and Roshi to chat, explore, and train with them thanks to robot flown planes. Till one day, there was a bright light that appeared, and then there were 7 people just sleeping on the ground, with only 3 fair skinned with the rest very dark skinned.

When Kakashi and Yamato goes near them, Kakashi asks, "Tenzo, are those-" "Kumo Shinobi and Kunoichi, yes. And it's Yamato, now." The Shinobi and Kunoichi then help them to Tsunade's house, which acts like a doctor's office for the makeshift village. The first one to wake up was a dark skinned man with shaggy white hair covering one of his eyes. He says, "Mourning. Name's Darui, what's up?"

The next ones to wake up are the blonde haired C, powerful Jinchuuriki Yugito Nii, Rapping Jinchuuriki Killer B, and students Karui, Omoi, and Samui. When they all wake up, Jiraiya decides to ask, "How did you all get here?" And C answers, "Recon teams found that the border between Konoha and Kumo started looking like a tornado had struck, so Lord Raikage sent us to investigate. We were near some ruins of a base when we woke up here."

October 12, Age 761, Earth

The day starts out normal, peaceful, and serene. Pink ostrich like animals are out grazing in the tranquil plains. A farm is in the middle of this peaceful paradise with farmers chatting mindlessly and children playing games with each other. You see, five years have passed since Goku and his friends thwarted the evil king Piccolo's plans for world conquest. Thanks to their heroic efforts, the shadow of doom was lifted from the world.

And a new day of hope begins, for in the time of Piccolo's defeat, the world has been rebuilding, healing, with prosperity and peace for the citizens of the earth. But, unknown to them, at this very moment, a new threat to humankind is hurtling through the solar system. And as the mysterious invader makes it's final approach to Earth, one thing is certain-the peaceful era the human race has enjoyed for the last five years, is about to come crashing to an end.

And this moment has come, for a strange meteor has crashed into a series of plains. Elsewhere, in a misty mountain range, with birds flying high in the sky. A woman cries out into the mountain range, "GOHAN!" If people were to try to find the source of the noise, they'd find a small, rustic house, with a pretty, yet modest, woman walking around calling out the word, "GOHAN!" Not far from the house, a man with hair that looks like a palm tree, is hopping from tree top to tree top.

The man dressed in orange and blue then lands in front of a tree. With a childlike glee, he stares at the tree with a wide smile. "This one outta do." Is what he thinks aloud. Then he punches the tree, causing a minor earthquake. Back at the house, the woman continues calling out, "Gohan!" She then sees the man and smiles as he brings a tree trunk 100 times bigger than him. She asks, "Hey, Goku, do we have enough firewood there?"

Immediately, he drops the trunk to his side. He shrugs, "Yeah, this outta last us for a while, ya think." She then lectures, "You know you're going to hurt yourself one of these days." He just tells her, "I'm fine. Where's Gohan?" She bluntly tells him, "I don't know. But I think you need to go find him. You need to be at Master Roshi's pretty soon." He then says, "Oh, yeah. That's right." She then suggests, "You better take the flying nimbus. You don't want to be late for your reunion."

Goku then runs off, shouting, "Bye, Chi Chi!" His wife then shouts, "Goku, be careful!" She then thinks to herself, "Uh. I'm gonna worry myself to death." Back at one of the quiet plains, an average farmer is tending to a bail of hay while the pink ostriches continue to graze, with his blue truck right next to him. While he's taking a break, he can see something that looks like a red star. He asks himself, "What is that?"

The red star then gets closer and is now a ball of fire and crashes about a mile away from the farmer. The Farmer decides to go and investigate the guff of smoke. After driving most of the way, he walks the rest of the way with a rifle in hand. Finding a large crater, he sees a strange ball made of white metal and red-purple glass, with creases around it. Then like an egg, it starts to break apart.

Almost like an archaic light shines out, and a human looking man then steps out. Wearing red bands on his thigh and forearm, with shoulder guards, shin guards, and groin guards. He also wears black and brown metal boots, metal gauntlets, and sleeveless undersuit. The man floats out of the crater, showing the shaggy black hair that flows down to his knees. On his waist is a shaggy belt, and his face is a very stern, with a dominant widow's peak, and a sort of green eye piece.

The farmer fearfully backs away from the imposing man. The man says through gritted teeth, "So. The creatures on this planet are still alive. Kakarot has failed us!" The farmer then tells him, "Your on my property." The man then touches a metal box on his ear and asks, "Is that so?" And as he pushes a button, a picture comes up, he then tells the farmer, "Your power level is puny. Level 5." And the farmer then fires at the man as he steps closer.

Yet the man catches the bullet with his hand. Then with a flick of his thumb, he kills the farmer with his own bullet. The man then snorts, "Ha. What a fragile breed of people." Then his eye piece then lights up, with him saying, "I'm picking up a high power level from that direction. It must be him." He takes off flying, screaming, "Prepare yourself Kakarot!" Back in the forest, a little boy is wandering around, crying.

The boy is dressed in yellow clothes, with a red hat with a crystal ball looking like it's made of amber with four red stars inside of it. The boy whimpers, "I want my daddy. I wanna go home." As his monkey tail is swaying side to side. Then he cries out, "Daddy!" After no response, he runs off bauling. The boy stops crying when he sees a beautiful blue butterfly. Transfixed, he goes off following the butterfly.

While wandering around with the butterfly, a sabretooth tiger finds Gohan. Gohan then plays dead to confuse the tiger. The tiger then licks Gohan on the cheek, and then takes Gohan's hat with the crystal ball on top. When he feels around, he realizes it is gone. He cries out, "No! My daddy gave me that hat!" The boy chases after the tiger, and upon seeing the crying child, the tiger becomes terrified and tries to flee.

The tiger eventually makes a turn that the boy doesn't see, and runs off a cliff, eventually falling asleep during the fall. The child survives thanks to his tail grabbing onto a tree branch and eventually wakes up. Meanwhile, Goku is wandering around, hollering, "Gohan!" Back with the child, he finds a bird sitting on a tree trunk and goes to see it, asking, "Do you have a name? I'm Gohan." And he then tips the tree trunk he is on into the river.

Gohan then continues to cry out as he goes down river, "Mommy! Daddy! Help me!" Meanwhile, Goku finds Gohan's hat on the tiger. Goku eventually gets onto a golden cloud and flies high above the forest. Goku eventually finds Gohan on the tree trunk riding down a precarious river. Goku reaches Gohan as the log goes down a waterfall and Gohan somehow jumped above the mouth of the waterfall and Goku rescues Gohan, his son.

With the stranger, he flies over a sprawling metropolis with people going about their lives. The man mumbles, "Miserable vermin." And on the outskirts of the city is a gloomy desert, with a lone figure standing in the center of it all. Upon closer inspection, the man has a white cape, turban, and purple gi with a bright blue belt, and brown shoes. What is curious is that his skin is green and his ears are pointed.

Suddenly, he turns around, wide eyed and his maw agape, showing his vampiric fangs. Along his arms are pink muscles. He asks himself, "What is this!? I've never felt so much power! It can't be Goku, it's too horrible." Then suddenly, the long haired stranger appears, and the green man asks aloud, "Who is that!?" The stranger lands in front of him and tells him, "Excuse me for dropping in, but I'm trying to find a man named Kakarot. I thought you were him."

The green man tells him, "Well you thought wrong. Now turn around and get out of her before I get angry." The stranger snorts, "Someone's having a bad day." The green man retorts, "Believe me, you have no idea. Now get lost!" The stranger chuckles at this, "Oh, you'd like that wouldn't you?" Then he presses on the ear piece with his finger. He then reads aloud, "Power level 322. I can tell you're not from this planet. But you'd be a fool to attack me, with such an insufficient power."

The green man barks, "Now listen to me! You came here! I have no intention to starting a fight." But the stranger remarks, "I do." The green man growls under his breath, and thinks to himself, 'Alright, if that's how you want it.' He then fires a single, powerful energy shot from the palm of his hand. The green man smiles, but it's quickly wiped away when he sees the Stranger's suit isn't even scuffed.

The man cackles, "Impressive. You managed to singe some of my leg hair. But allow me to demonstrate a more effective attack. It's one of my favorite. I call it a Double Sunday." He then raises one of his arms up and prepares the shot, and continues, "Now. See if you can follow this one." Then his eye piece beeps a sound and tells him, "Well, I guess it's your lucky day, Green Man." And then he takes off into the sky.

The man then thinks aloud, "There it is, just on the edge of my Scouter Range. And it's big. It must be the largest power level on the planet. It's Kakarot, this time I'm sure of it." Then he takes off like a speeding bullet. The Green man then drops to his knees, lamenting, "I don't believe it. I hit him full force and he didn't even flinch. This guy could be a problem." Back with the man, he continues to think aloud, "Have you forgotten your pride, Kakarot!? We're Saiyans, the mightiest warriors in the universe! I can still remember the day we first sent you to this planet as an infant. We had high hopes for you then, Kakarot. Why have you not carried out your mission? KAKAROT!"

And as he flies, he pictures Kakarot, a baby with hair that looks almost like a palm tree. Who is this mysterious Saiyan warrior, who now darkens the sky with his presence? His search for the one named Kakarot has already lead him to Piccolo, one of the most powerful warriors on the earth. Could it lead him to Goku as well? The answers to these burning questions will soon be revealed, and Goku will discover his past. Next time, on DRAGON BALL Z!

A/N: Okay, I'm currently looking for assistants in writing, grammar and story, so what you see is what you get for this first chapter. If there are any mistakes, they are mistakes I will personally hold to myself.