This is my first what if story, so I felt like going big with a what if like this one. So bear with me cause this is my first What if, and as the title says, I will be doing a what if about Shallot being canon to DBZ and DBS, integrating his story to fit into the canon story. So none of that 40 variants per character nonsense from the full Legends story. This will be the first part, I will make more, but I’ll continue after seeing if this one gets enough track. So, let's begin.
Prologue:
-The story begins like always. Planet Vegeta - the homeworld of the Saiyans -
is destroyed by the Galactic Tyrant, Frieza. But before its destruction, a Saiyan warrior known as Bardock and his wife Gine, were able to send off their youngest child, Kakarot, to a distant Planet: Earth. In the end, Bardock made his final stand against Frieza, dying alongside his wife
and people. This is where the story of Dragon Ball truly begins.
-Kakarot lands on Earth, where he is adopted by one of Earth’s greatest fighters, Son
Gohan, who soon renames the baby as Son Goku. After hitting his head on a rock, Goku loses much of his
saiyan instincts and any memories he had of his past, and grows up as a more kind hearted
person.
-As he grows and trains to be Earth’s greatest defender, he battles against countless
foes - Mercenary Tao, The Red Ribbon Army, his teacher, Muton Roshi, his own friends,
Yamcha and Krillin, his late Grandpa Gohan, Tien of the Crane School, and even the vile
Demon King Piccolo, and his reincarnation, Piccolo Jr.
-After this he married the daughter of the
Ox King, Chichi, and had a son, Gohan.
Years later, he meets a new villain, one far more powerful and cruel than any he has
fought before, his own brother Raditz, who reveals Goku’s heritage as a Saiyan and demands
he help conquer Earth. Goku refuses but is soon beaten with a singular blow and his son is
taken by his long lost brother. But he would soon team up with his former enemy,
-Piccolo to combat the new threat, after a brutal fight against the far more powerful adversary, both Goku and Raditz die. But before dying, Raditz warns Piccolo that there are two far more powerful Saiyans on their way - Vegeta and Nappa - and will arrive in one year.
-With that, the race to prepare begins now. The Z Fighters train under Kami and Popo,
Piccolo trains Gohan, and Goku begins his journey along Snake Way to train with King Kai.
But during this time of preparation, something happens that changes history.
Part 1:
The Arrival of the Saiyan out of Time
A Disturbance in the Stars: Six months after the defeat of Raditz (Age 762), Goku finally arrives
at King Kai’s planet, and Piccolo truly begins Gohan’s brutal training. Piccolo is deep in thought,
wondering about the saiyans, looking up at the stars until he feels something strange, then it
happens, a strange veil of energy covers the sky, causing the stars to shift and realign in rapid
motion, the constellations themselves are changing before his very eyes.
The other Z Fighters, Kami, and Mr. Popo all see it too. Then suddenly, a blinding flash of light covers the entire sky… and then, everything returns to normal, but then Piccolo senses it, something new about the Earth, no, not something, but someone new has appeared on Earth, a high power level, greater than his own, and faintly similar to Raditz.
“Get some rest, kid” Piccolo says to Gohan,
“we’re heading out at dawn to investigate.”
The Warrior who fell through Time: As the sun rises over a desolate wasteland, a lone figure
lies unconscious, his armour battle-worn, a noticeable blue colour, with a black undersuit, and a tail half wrapped around his waist. His mind echoes with fragments of memories: Fight…
Destruction… Time… Shallot… Brother… Until only two words remain. Shallot. Fight.
He wakes up groaning, disoriented and scarred. He can’t remember who is or where he came
from - only his name, Shallot. Before he can think further, he hears rumbling, and then he is
attacked by a pack of towering dinosaurs.
“What the hell!” Shallot yells outload, as he dodges
their bites and stomps, instinct soon takes over as Shallot rushes in and grabs the leader of the
pack by the tail and slams the beast hard into the ground, knocking it out. He rushes at the rest,
using swift and precise strikes to knock them out. Even without any apparent memories, his
Saiyan and Battle instincts are alive and strong. But as the adrenaline fades, pain surges
through his body. Old wounds. A battle from… somewhere. With no answers, he begins walking
towards the scent of trees and water. A few minutes after he began to walk, something small
and fast came out of nowhere and attacked him with quick and precise attacks. Shallot fends off
these attacks, but soon he notices the attacker begins to attack him with a sword, which he
dodges and blocks with his index finger. Shallot is suprised by his attacker's speed until he see’s
the face of his attacker, and begins to hesitate.
“A child? The heck is a child doing out here in
the middle of nowhere?” Shallot questioned in his head. Shallot soons catches the sword
between his index and his thumb, and flicks the kid away, not wanting to hurt him. Before he can
question the kid, a powerful kick slams into the side of his face, sending him back several meters. A new figure now stands before him, a green man with a cape and turban - Piccolo.
A Clash between Warriors: Piccolo glares at Shallot, noticing the saiyan tail.
“So… one of you came early” Piccolo says with an underlying angry tone, wondering how and why one of the saiyans arrived early. But without warning, Piccolo fires a ki blast at Shallot, with Shallot jumping into the air to dodge it, as the dust clears from the blast, Piccolo charges at Shallot after taking off his cape and turban, and in an instant, the two begin to clash. Piccolo’s blows are precise and fierce; Shallot tries to counter most instinctually but his injuries and confusion make them slow and somewhat sloppy to a trained eye, allowing Piccolo to gain an advantage. But as the
adrenaline begins to rise more and more, so does Shallot’s energy, and soon his blows become more precise, raw but effective, matching and blocking every blow Piccolo sent his way.
Shallot’s strength and energy starts flaring more and more until Piccolo is fully on the backfoot
and begins to struggle. Gohan watches from the sidelines, amazed at the fight.
“He’s strong, really strong but… his ki doesn’t feel evil like Raditz’s.” Gohan says to himself as he watches the fight and senses Shallot’s energy. Piccolo soon realizes the same that the energy of this saiyan harbours little to no malice, even his own ki harbours far more. Piccolo begins to wonder, “who is he?” They break apart, both panting but Piccolo is noticeably more worn out and tired. Piccolo questions Shallot and demands, Shallot simply responds with “My name is Shallot. I don’t know where I came from or what you are talking about.” Before Piccolo can question him further, he senses two energies quickly approaching, they soon land nearby to reveal themselves as Krillin and Tien. Gohan runs up to Krillin to hug him and start a quick chat while Tien stares down Piccolo and Shallot. Noticing the tail, Krilling pushes Gohan behind him, and Tien prepares to charge in and fight, but all are soon interrupted by Kami’s voice as he telepathically
communicates with them.
“Stop! The Saiyan speaks the truth. The great King Kai has confirmed
it. It appears that a time vortex appeared in the North Galaxy last night. This saiyan… is from
another time.”
This revelation shocks them all, including Shallot as Kami continues: “Shallot’s energy contains no evil intent, Gohan and Piccolo have sensed this themselves. I believe he can help us in the coming battle against the Saiyans. You’ll need any and every ally you can
find.” Piccolo still skeptical grits his teeth but reluctantly agrees.
“Fine. He’ll train with me and the
kid then. But if he steps out of line. I’ll kill him myself.
”Shallot glares at Piccolo until Gohan
rushes up to him and says “you are gonna be so much fun to train with Mister.” Shallot gently
smirks at this and ruffles Gohan’s hair. And so, the strange alliance begins - Shallot trains with
Gohan and Piccolo in the months leading up to the Saiyans’ arrival, while the Z Fighters
separate from Kami to train by themselves until the Saiyans arrive.
Part 2:
The Arrival of the Saiyans
King Kai’s Warning - The Final Day of Peace:
On King Kai’s planet, Goku finishes his training
to learn the spirit bomb and the kaioken. King Kai watches from the sidelines and grins proudly
at the level of progression his latest student has been making, but suddenly he freezes, eyes
wide and his antenna standing to a point.
“G-Goku… T-The saiyans will be here earlier than
expected, they have just crossed into the solar system, and will be on Earth in less than a day!”
Goku stands up in an instant and shouts “What?! Already?!” King Kai then contacts Kami
immediately and tells him “The saiyans will arrive earlier than expected. Gather all the Dragon
Balls and revive Goku now! Quickly!” Within hours, Goku’s halo vanishes, and after waving a
quick bye to King Kai, Gregory, and Bubbles, he bolts down Snake Way at top speed. Kami
soon warns the others of the Saiyans’ early arrival, as they begin their final preparations for the
incoming threat. As the day of the Saiyans arrivial arrives, Piccolo, Gohan, and Shallot stop
training as they sense something closing in on Earth and fast, Shallot looks up, his instincts
flaring.
“They’re here,” he says quietly. Each of the Z fighters stopped their training and planned
to regroup when they sensed the incoming energies, but as suddenly as they felt it, the pods breached the atmosphere and came crashing down like meteors on East City, coming down like
twin streams of fire and light as they crater the ground. As soon as the pods crashed into the
city, nearby civilians began to cautiously investigate the crash-site, with some even calling law enforcement. Soon enough the pods opened up with the shine of light, with two figures stepping out, and started to float out of the crater and land on the nearby concrete road. What was left of it anyways. Vegeta and Nappa are finally here. Nappa, the bigger one, wears a similar style of armour to Raditz, but with dark blue replacing the black and yellow replacing the brown. He also
wears a scouter with a blue lense. Vegeta, the shorter one, wears a full body suit that is blue, white gloves and boots, and a similar armour to Nappa but white instead of dark blue as well as a scouter with a red lens. Nappa then presses a button on his scouter as the civilians continue to look on with awe and fear. Nappa lightly chuckles as the power level readings of everyone surrounding
them was laughably pathetic to him.
“Heh. Hey Vegeta, what should we do with these gawking fools, they’re beginning to bother me” Nappa says with a grin and a sadistic chuckle.
“Oh, I don’t know, why don’t you decide for once,” Vegeta replied calmly with a smirk.
“Heh, really? Thanks Vegeta, this is gonna be a-lot of fun for me,” Nappa remarks with a smirk of his own while Vegeta chuckles while saying “Don’t mention it.” Nappa steps to the side a bit as he begins to raise his hand as streaks of energy begin to leak out and form around his hand, the surrounding civilains all begin to slowly back up in fear as a few law enforcement vehicles showed up, before the officers can step out of the vehicle, Nappa sharply raises two fingers as a bright light
emerges from the ground in an instant, and as soon as the light emerged, the entire city was
soon torn apart and blown up in a massive explosion, generating enough light that it can be
seen far out of the Earth’s and Moon’s orbit. The explosion causes a massive shockwave and
burst of wind to spread across the continent, with every one of the Z Fighters being caught up in
it as they look on in fear and anger. As the light settles, all that is left of East City is nothing but a
giant crater, everything from people to buildings reduced to ash.
“Ha Ha Ha! Hey Vegeta, you
think I made a big enough impression! Maybe I should try again!” Nappa says as he laughs proudly about the destruction he just caused.
“That’s enough Nappa, you made your point. That’s the last time I let you have any fun,” Vegeta replies back with a bit of frustration in his voice.
“But why not? Come on, a little destruction isn’t gonna hurt the sale price of this planet. We’ve sold
planets for a profit with 10 times the destruction than what I just did, so what’s the big deal?”
Nappa jokingly remarks back. Vegeta then glares towards Nappa, sending a shiver down the
spine of the bigger man.
“Try to use your head Nappa. We came looking for those wish granting Dragon Balls we heard over Raditz’s scouter remember? Remember the wish?” Nappa remembers the wish they agreed upon, a wish for immortality, something that would make
saiyans like them unstoppable. As Vegeta demeaningly congratulates Nappa and scolds him
about how he could have just destroyed one of the Dragon Balls. Vegeta then presses a button on his scouter as it begins to beep and search for Power levels. As Nappa turns his on too, the scouter soon reads half a dozen power levels reading over 1000. Nappa questions how this is possible when the two Raditz fought barely had Power levels readings over 400. Vegeta reminds him that during that fight two power levels were able to skyrocket to over 1000, and another got
close to that level with a power level of over 920, and then says the warriors of this planet must
have been preparing for us. Vegeta brushes it off and soon singles out the most powerful battle
powers and both him and Nappa soon head out in that direction.
The Battle against the Saiyans begins:
The Z Warriors soon gather up together at Piccolo’s
wasteland as they begin to catch up and formulate a plan. As Gohan chats up a storm with
Krillin, Shallot walks up to Tien, both staring each other down. Shallot soon stretches out his hand towards Tien, shocking him.
“I know you don’t trust me fully, but we’re going into this battle
as allies, and I hope we come out of it as friends and brothers in arms,” Shallot says with a calm
look in his eyes but a prideful smirk on his face. Tien stands there in shock until he reaches out
his own hand and shakes Shallot’s. As they separate, Yamcha walks up to Shallot with a
proudful grin on his face as he places his fists on his hips.
“So, you’re this, saiyan out of time
guy i’ve heard about. You look strong. It’s gonna be fun to fight alongside you. Just don’t get all
upset and embarrassed if I end up beating these two Saiyans by myself,” Yamcha declares with
a laugh. Shallot soon grins back and chuckles “Bold declaration mullet man, care to make a
bet,” Shallot declares as they both laugh and clap each other’s hands together (dab up). As
soon as they finished laughing, each of them sensed the fast approaching powers of the
saiyans, and within seconds they appeared in the sky and began to descend to the ground as
Piccolo looked over at Shallot and asked “You ready for this, Shallot?” Shallot nods. “Don’t know
who these guys are, but something feels familiar, like I've fought monsters like these before.”
The air grows heavy as the Warriors of Earth and the Saiyans have a staredown, Vegeta stands
calm, arms crossed, analyizing the warriors of Earth before him. Beside him, Nappa cracks his
knuckles and grins as he analyzes them as well. As they analyze the fighters, they take note of Piccolo, noticing that he is a Namekian and deducing he is related to the dragon balls, and then they land their eyes on Shallot, as they notice his tail and stand there shocked.
“A Saiyan?” Vegeta says confused.
“I thought Kakarot and his halfbreed son were the only saiyans on this planet?”
Nappa questions. Both soon brush aside their confusion and chalk this up to another Saiyan traitor being harboured by the Earth.
“Doesn’t matter. If he is allied with these Earthlings, he is weak and stands in our way to get our wish from the Dragon Balls,” Vegeta remarks. Shallot tightens his
fist, fragments of memories stirring in his mind, memories of a battlefield drenched in fire,
“I don’t know who you monsters are, I don’t care if you call me weak, but you are threat to this planet,
and if you think you can bring harm to this world and its people, you got another thing coming!”
Shallot declares with a determined yell and a fire in his eyes. With that, everyone of the Z
fighters stand proud and ready for battle next to Shallot, with even Gohan regaining his
confidence to fight Vegeta and Nappa. Vegeta smirks and looks towards Nappa.
“Heh, is that so, well then, let's put you all to the test. Nappa, unleash the Saibamen,” Vegeta declares with a smirk and an evil look in his eyes.
“Heh, as you wish Vegeta,” Nappa replies as he pulls out a small container with two compartments, one with a liquid-like substance, and the other filled with what looks like spheroid-like seeds. Nappa walks forward a bit and begins to poke holes in the soil, before burying 7 seeds in the soil and pouring a few drops of the liquid on the buried seeds. As soon as the liquid is absorbed by the soil, something starts rapidly growing from the soil, and a few seconds later, plant-like creatures sprout from the ground, each looking as nasty as the next. These are the Saibamen, living creatures that are grown like plants, lettuce like heads, red eyes, slender arms and legs with two-three claws per limb, and they feel powerful.
“These are the Saibamen, you will fight them first before trying your luck with us. Each of them are nearly as powerful as Raditz, but far more vicous.” Vegeta declares to the group with an evil grin.
The warriors of Earth chat amongst themselves for a few seconds, formulating a plan, and arguing who fights first, before Tien walks out, standing proud and ready to fight.
To Be Continued…
Next Part: Z Warriors vs. The Saibamen, Shallot vs. Nappa - The True Battle Begins next time
on, DRAGON BALL Z: WHAT IF.
