Piccolo the guardian of earth?

Meditating in the cold north was my normal training method. however this time was different. I was on my way to the lookout after all. I've collected the reanimated dragon balls made my wish. Brought Gohan back and now I was left to essentially meditate and fly around.

I landed on the lookout and Kame was sitting their waiting. "Don't look so sour Piccolo."

I rolled my eyes, "I don't mean to be blunt, but you haven't really cared too much what happens to either of us."

Kame gave a shrug and sighed. "I cannt argue with that. However this talk is related to my duty. As the guardian of earth. Though over the years lately I haven't felt like it. Especially after the most recent events, don't you agree?"

I nodded, he was my other half and I could sense the change in mood he had when I landed. I shook my head, "I am not gonna become Earth's guardian. I have no responsibility for it truly. After all, you separated yourself from me for that exact reason."

Kame nodded he couldn't find any fault in my logic and so he just continued. "No, No, its nothing like that. I realized if I want to pass my duty to someone else they must be able to use the dragon balls. No, this is about a threat to earth that I am sensing."

I raised an eyebrow, "More invaders?"

Kame gave a shrug, "If I knew I'd tell you."

I rolled my eyes how nice. "So what am I just suppose to sit around and find out?"

Kame gave a shrug, "I know the location."

I threw my hands up, "Fine where is it?"

"The northern mountains slightly west of North city. While you are there you can train. Nice and cold."

I made a show of rolling my eyes and left.

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Abductions, about 37 reported missing people and at my guess 12 to another 30 none reported. At first I thought it was in fact more Frieza Force members. I found 4 drop pods that were buried in the mountains.

They came to earth during a blizzard, making them concealed. I looked over the crash site. I thought I'd find hostages or some signs. Except there wasn't much of nothing.

"PICCOLO OVER HERE!"

I glanced in the direction of Gohan and jumped over. Gohan was passing by and after hearing me out started helping me investigate. The problem was even with both of us traveling around the north we haven't found a trace or even a slightly larger power level then normal.

I raised an eyebrow and knelt down. "Signs of battle? It was covered by the snow."

Gohan nodded, "Similar craters and pockets of destruction are around. Whoever is the cause was resisting hard against a stronger opponent."

I nodded, the stronger force was overwhelming. Marks of where they stood when they were attacked. My eyes caught something though that I don't think Gohan did.

"Does this remind you of something?"

I pointed down at a specific crater that seemed warped. Gohan didn't get it, so I made it easier. "I have sparred Eins a lot, and I hes worked hard on the ability to break ki down."

Gohan's eyes widened. "Energy absorption. No wonder the area is so strained. If one absorbs energy of an attacker some of the ambient energy is bound to be absorbed as well."

I nodded, "So the attackers most likely jumped the Frieza Force members. North city is that way, so it must be when they were going there."

Which meant this new threat was technically a savior. I raised my hand slightly and Gohan caught it. We were being watched. Yet we couldn't sense them, it was... incredible.

I nodded to Gohan and we both fired. "SPECIAL BEAM CANNON! KAMEHAMEHA!"

The observer was blasted through the chest and went down. However we were caught off guard when it got up. "How did you detect me? I was well hidden?"

Gohan spoke, "Its an android!"

Its insides were made of metal. The metal man stopped and a new older voice spoke through it instead of the mechanical one it had before. "How did you detect android 19?"

I looked at Gohan to see if he knew the voice. To my surprise Gohan seemed to reacted. He looked between us and spoke, "The voice belongs to Dr.Gero, he worked with the red ribbon army. His son saved my life when I destroyed their base."

Dr. Gero's voice raged over from android 19. "YOU KILLED HIM! DO NOT LIE YOU MONSTER! Never mind I do not care how you found 19. Kill them!"

19 moved fast and grabbed onto my wrist. To my surprise it begun draining my energy! With a quick motion I ripped my arm off and blasted 19 away. "Gohan he can absorb energy."

Gohan nodded and kicked 19 in the head. It gave me time to regrow my arm. I moved my new arm and nodded. Always felt strange to regenerate. I yelled, "MOVE GOHAN! HELLZONE GRENADE!"

Gohan dodged through the orbs of thrown energy and just as he made it out I motioned exploding them all behind him. The android came out of the smoke to grab Gohan. However I was prepared and grabbed his head and tore.

Dr. Gero's voice came through one last time. "You will regret killing my son Gohan! Just you wait..."

Gohan looked distracted. However it needed to be addressed. "We need to take this thing to Bulma's."

Gohan nodded, "We trained so hard yet, if I had to guess this things power?"

I responded, "About equal to our own. If we fought it one on one we would've lost."

Gohan smirked, "Eh, it doesn't help that I can't regenerate an arm like you."

Indeed, and I only made that decision because I knew Gohan could follow up. "We can't rely on our current strength. How far are you on those mortal arts?"

Gohan gave a shrug, "Not very."

I sighed and looked around. "Let's leave for the lookout."