//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: The Strange Astroid // Story: Dragon Wish // by DanishDash //------------------------------// "Alright girls, you all will have to take turns on my telescope."   Said Twilight, as she adjusted said telescope. The cutie mark crusaders, three fillies who had banded together to find their cutie marks, had convinced Twilight to let them sleep over, along with Twilight's own friends.  They had all wanted to test Twilight's telescope, trying to get their cutie marks in star gazing, or astronomy. Twilight had given a short beginners lecture about the stars, and solar system, but after seeing the three fillies were about to fall asleep way too early, she decided to skip ahead to her telescope. One by one they tried, each of them letting out an oooh, and an ahhh. Twilight was happy, it was nice to see the three fillies appreciating the night sky. Hopefully this would lead them on a path to knowledge, and some less dangerous and troubling attempts in getting their cutie marks. "Who knows," continued Twilight, smiling to herself. "Maybe you will find an asteroid, and get it named after you." "Hey! I see one! I see one!" Exclaimed Sweetie Belle. "What? No.. What?" Twilight didn't believe it. The likelihood that she would spot one right at this moment would be insanely small. "Let me see! Let me see!" Scootaloo yelled, pushing aside Sweetie Belle, who let out a small protest, but did not press the point. Scootaloo gasped, grinning. "That's amazing, Sweetie Belle, you're right!" "What? Give me a turn!" Apple Bloom put in, moving in and looking through the telescope. Though instead of exclaiming  how amazing it was, she looked at Twilight with a worried expression. "Is it just me, or is it coming closer?" Now Twilight looked alarmed, she hurried to the telescope, looking through it towards the so-called asteroid. What she saw shocked her even more than an asteroid would have. She saw something strange and perfectly round enter their atmosphere, and it was by no means an asteroid. It was some sort of crafted sphere, and it was going to land any second now! "By the sun! It's a-" Before she got to say anymore the girls let out a startled scream, having realized the sphere was going to crash near here. By reflex, Twilight moved to cover the girls, afraid of what would happen. But, nothing did happen. They heard the crash, but there was no explosion or anything. Though what did happen was a lot of birds near the Everfree forest seemed to wake up, all screaming and flying in all directions. The sound of the impact had also got a lot of ponies out of their homes to look towards the source of the sound. "Twilight!" One of her friends called, sounding shocked and slightly panicked. "What is going on?!"  She could hear her friends running up, and as they did, Twilight looked towards the forest. She wasn't sure if what she saw was real, something that had been built by intelligent life coming from space. It sounded insane, and she knew of no pony who had made such a breakthrough.  But she was gonna find out! "Ow ow ow..." Daniel groaned, feeling like the whole world was spinning around. His hand moved to the safety belts, and released them, freeing him to leave the pod as the door seemed to open on its own. Reaching up, he put his hand out, and grabbed the side for support, sort of dragging himself out. He didn't feel tired, but he was a little disoriented from the violent crash, but he himself and his ship seemed fine. Having no idea where he was, or what to do, he looked into his small ship, and found what he expected to find.  A scouter. To him this was so cool, but still very scary. A lot of emotions was running through him, and the only thing he could think of doing was to go along with whatever was happening for now. He placed the scouter on the left side of his head amazed how well it sat on him with no straps or anything like that. The Scouter was a wearable, all-purpose computer that is mainly used to measure power levels early in Dragon Ball Z. They also worked to scan for life forms, and as communicators.  Though as a fan of the show, Daniel knew how useless they were in finding out the strength of an opponent, but for now it would serve him well. Sure, he might look like a Saiyan, but he had no real idea how to use or sense Ki, the spiritual energy. He would have to learn it all, and he still had no idea how dangerous this planet was. For all he knew this place could be filled with monsters! He couldn't help but chuckle a little, some of it was just as an attempt to calm himself. This was still so unreal, and insanely confusing. Deciding he could not stand around in a random forest forever, he went about to test out his own strength. As a human he was probably average for his age, maybe a little above. Now however, now he was a Saiyan, so he should be way stronger. He did a few test punches into the air, and already did he feel a massive difference. He was faster, and he could feel the force behind his punches. Moving on to another test, he started to do some careful jumps here and there, half hoping he would start flying. Daniel didn't fly, but he did jump higher and higher, depending on how much force he used. He couldn't help himself, he started to laugh. This was so much fun! Giving it his all, he managed to jump so high up into the air, that he passed the very top of the trees. Once he landed, he tried a few flips. It was all so much easier in this new form! Well, while he still looked like himself, he felt much stronger, and so much cooler! Holding out his hand, he grinned, giving it a little jerk, as if expecting something to happen, but nothing did. Daniel frowned. "Come on.." He tried again, but just like before, nothing happened. "Dammit.." He had expected to fire an energy beam out of his hand, but nothing happened. Then he remembered, he actually knew next to nothing about this stuff. He might have the potential, but without the knowledge, he was just a strong kid. He looked at his hand, opening and closing it a few times, thinking about how to learn everything he knew Saiyans could do. Sadly though, he didn't get to think for very long, because his thoughts were soon interrupted by some menacingly growling coming from behind him. Turning around, he came face to face by something he had never seen before. "Whhhaaaaa!!!!" He screamed, jumping back as he just barely missed a claw made of wood slashing at him. He was so surprised he forgot about the fact he was a Saiyan, that he was much stronger than he ever was as a human. Still, a change in body was nothing, inside, he was still the unsecure ten year old boy he had always been.  He did the only thing he could think of, run away...