A New Life

Chapter 2

         Zero had no idea what he was getting himself into.

         'Please don't get the wrong idea.' He nervously thought while holding the unconscious pony in his arm.The clopping of hooves on wood and the sound of something solid hitting the ground could be heard from the inside the tree.He hoped this wouldn't turn out a disaster but with his luck it probably will.His thoughts were cut off when the door suddenly flew open revealing a purple pony who wasn't even looking his way.

         "Hello how can I-" She ceased speaking when she saw what had knock. In front of the doorway stood a large bipedal creature wearing some sort of orange clothing.Twilight noticed it strongly resembles primates although this creature had no fur except it did have a monkey tail wrapped around its waist and had a large spiky mane of it head.She was trembling, not knowing what it would do and if it was dangerous but her emotion soon changed to anger when she noticed Rainbow Dash conscious in it arms.

         "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER!" She yelled as her horn became intertwined in magic.

         "This is her own doing she ran into me." Zero calmly responded walking inside and closing the door not wanting to attract anymore attention .Twilight was surprised it spoke but that still didn't change anything for her.

         "DON'T LIE TO ME!" Twilight used her magic to pull Rainbow Dash out of his arms and placed her on the other side of the library.She was fueled by anger at the monster that hurt her friend.She turned back to the perpetrator with determination in her eyes         "Listen, I don't want to hurt yo but-" He was cut off as he felt himself being lifted into the air.He tried to move but he was immobilized, he looked over at the pony to see it using some sort of energy wave to lift him.He sighed not wanting to hurt the little ponies but he couldn't let this get out of hand.He began to build up a small amount of his ki and broke free from the grip.

         'How did it do that?!" Twilight was shocked to find that it could counter her magic but she would not give up.Mustering a large amount of her strength she created a magical barrier around Zero.

         "Good luck trying to get out of there, nopony has ever-" She was cut off as Zero broke through the barrier with a punch as if it was like glass.Twilight hit the floor in pain from the magic backslash.She could barely move as the creature slowly approached her.She closed her eyes fearing the creature was going to hurt her. But instead she felt something else, a warm sensation washed over her, as she opened her eyes she saw the creature sticking its what she presumed to be hands, like a dragon or griffons just without claws, at her.It was emitting a gold light as she felt her energy slowly returning.

         "What are you-" She was cut off with a response.

         "I told you I didn't want to fight, what happened to your friend was their own fault they saw me in town and thought I was going to hurt "somepony" as it seems you ponies would say." Zero said

         "I- I'm sorry.I didn't mean to jump to conclusions like that." She said with a guilty expression

         "It's alright I've had people think way worst about me." He replied. They sat there in silence as Zero healed her. "There you should be good as new."He said with a smile.

         "Th-thank you I feel much better now.But if you don't mind me asking just who and what are you and where are you from?" She asked anxiously wanting an answer.

         "My name is Zero and I'm a Saiyan from Earth." He gladly responded.

         "Saiyan?Earth?I don't think I've ever heard of a Saiyan and definitely of any country named Earth."She said curiously.

         "That's because Earth's a planet not a country." He snickered.

         "Wh-what your telling me your from another planet? But how is that possible?" She asked not believing her ears.

         "Well Bulma is really good with science,she make ships that can go into space and that's what I got here in."He replied.

         'Amazing' She thought, she was the first pony every to make contact with an alien.There was so much she could learn from him, his planet, the life there, the science, the-

         She was cut off by a loud rumble almost like a growl.She looked around nervously looking for the source and soon found it when she saw Zero clutching his stomach and rubbing the back of his head.

         "Can we get something to eat, I'm starved!" Zero exclaimed giving a hearty chuckle.

         "Well what exactly do Saiyans eat?" She wondered hoping it wasn't ponies.

         "Well we Saiyans will eat pretty much anything that we can but we usually eat stuff like Fruits,Vegetables and Meat." He listed off.At the mention of meat Twilight began to slowly back up fearing that she may be on that list.Zero noticed this. "Don't worry I'm not gonna eat you I would never hurt anything innocent even if I wanted to." He reassured. With that Twilight sighed in relief.

         "Well I don't have any food here but my friend Applejack has an apple farm outside of town and might be willing to give you some." She offered

         "Great lets go." Zero exclaimed.

         "Let me leave a note for my assistant telling him i'll be away when he gets back." Twilight levitated a piece of paper and a quill to herself and began to write.

         "Alright, but what about your friend over there." He said gesturing to Rainbow Dash.

         "Oh, right I almost forgot about her, hehe, don't worry Applejack's grandma can nurse her back awake." She replied as she finished the letter.

         "Alright let's go!" Zero grabbed Rainbow Dash and Twilight then put two fingers to his head.

         "What are you-" Twilight stopped when she noticed they were no longer in the library but looking at the Sweet Apple Acres barn-house. "But- No magic- Impossible- I." She could not grasp what had just happened.

         "Come on." Zero yelled as he slowly ran towards the residents door. Twilight decided it was best just to ask about it later so she wouldn't have a mental breakdown in front of Zero.She followed Zero over and knocked on the door.

         "Let me do the talking." She demanded. Zero nodded and stepped out of the doorway sight holding Rainbow Dash in his arms.The sound of slow hooves approaching the door could be heard.The door slowly opened.

         "Oh why hello there Twilight dear what can I do ya for?" It was Granny Smith, a very fragile old green mare.

         "Oh, hello Granny, we were wondering if Applejack was around." Twilight responded.

         "Oh,she and Big Mac are out in the field buckin them trees." She motioned to the acre fields.

         "Thank you Granny, also if it's not to much trouble can you help Rainbow Dash, I think she's unconscious." She asked

         "Oh, dear did that poor dear get hurt flyin again?" Granny worried.

         "Well no, okay Granny please don't freak out at what your about to see." Twilight pleaded.

         "Freak out about what deary?" She asked curiously.Twilight motioned Zero over to the door way. Granny Smith's eyes widened at the sight of a large creature that looked sort of like a big monkey standing in her doorway holding Rainbow Dash. "Who's yer friend Twilight, he sure is a tall one?"

         "I know he may seem scary but- wait your not scared?" Twilight was confused most ponies would run away or attack him like Dash did.

         "As far as I've seen you seem ta trust this fella." Granny smiled at Zero. "So what's your name?" She asked Twilight.

         "My name is Zero ma'am." Zero answered politely.

         "Such a polite young man." Granny said. "Go on and bring Dash in we'll put her in Applejack's room till she wakes up." Zero brought Rainbow Dash upstairs where Granny showed him Applejack's room and placed her on the bed. "Thank ya deary."

         "It was no problem." Zero replied. "Now... Let's go get some apples!" Zero exclaimed.Twilight facehoofed but Granny Smith could only smile that this new creature wanted to try some of their fresh grown apples.

         "Well now, yer welcome to as many apples as ya like." Granny Smith offered.

         "Alright then i'm starved!" Zero quickly grabbed Twilight and pulled her outside running off into the outside trees.

         "That boy sure has some energy." Granny Smith stated to no-one in particular.

Outside

         "Zero slow down!" Twilight yelled at him.Zero immediately stopped.

         "I'm sorry." He said putting her down.Twilight picked herself up.

         "It's fine." She sighed. "Now I think Applejack should be around here somewhere." She said looking around.

         "Yep she's about 30 feet that way." He said pointing to his left.

         "How do you know that?" She asked.

         "I'll tell you later, right now i'm hungry." He then began walking towards the direction he pointed.Twilight followed not knowing if he was telling the truth or not.They soon came to an opening where an orange pony could be seen using its hind legs to kick the trees, Zero thinks that was what Granny meant when she said bucking. "Excuse me!" He slightly shouted as he got a bit closer. Twilight gave him a surprised expression.Applejack stopped bucking but did not look away from the tree for a moment.

         "What can I-" But what she saw when she looked back surprised her. Standing next to Twilight was a large monkey looking creature even bigger than Macintosh. "W-what are ya?" She asked nervously.

         "Hey, I'm Zero." He greeted as he held out his hand towards Applejack. Applejack backed away in fear thinking his handshake was a sort of threat. "Hey don't worry i'm not gonna-"

         "Get away from ma sister!" A gruff voice could be heard from the right of Zero.

         "Huh?" Zero looked over to see a large red pony charging at his. He prepared himself to defend himself. Big Mac spun around mid-step and kicked with tremendous strength at Zero. But instead of him going flying, Zero had a grasp on Big Mac's hind hoofs during the impact.

          "What the-" Big Mac had never in his life seen a creature like this that could withstand one of his kicks like it was nothing. Even a dragon would have felt that.Zero pushed him away not wanting to hurt him.

          "That wasn't nice you know, I wasn't going to hurt her." Zero calmly said.He approached Applejack. Big Mac could barely move as his legs were now very numb but he was trying very hard to stop the creature.But before he could move he felt a hoof on his shoulder and looked up to see Twilight stand above him.

          "Don't worry, he won't hurt her." She reassured.Macintosh had no choice but to trust her.

          "Hey, my name is Zero, don't worry I'm not gonna hurt you." Zero assured her as he held out a hand.

          "Pl-pleasure ta meet yer acquaintance pardner, I'm Applejack." She nervously put a hoof forward.Zero shook her hoof in return.Zero then walked over to Macintosh.

          "Hey, are your legs okay?" He asked concerned

          "Ah think ah can manage ta stand on my own." Mac said as he slowly stood up on his hooves.

          "Well, now that that's all over." He looked at Applejack then gave a huge grin. "Can I have some apples?!" Twilight nearly fell over after that statement.

          "Well, I suppose it's only right after what my brother tried to do, go head and take as many as you want."Applejack offered.

          "Wow thanks!" Zero kicked the nearest tree dropping all its apples.Using his quick speed he caught all of them and began to scarf them down like nothing. The ponies were shocked what they were witnessing. The creature had just bucked the tree of the apples, caught all of them and was already eating them down in no time flat.Applejack trotted over to him.

          "Ya might wanna slow down on them apples, else yer gonna choke." She warned. Zero swallowed.

          "But i'm still hungry!" He complained after he finished his fourth apple

          "Ah come on now, look how many apple ya ate, ya gotta be full." Applejack stated

          "Okay I guess." Zero obliged not wanting to be rude and eat all there apples.

          "Well now that we got that outta the way can I ask ya a question?" Applejack requested

          "Uh, sure." Zero replied.

          "What exactly are ya, I ain't ever seen no creature like y'all before." Applejack asked

          "Oh that's easy." Zero said. "I'm a saiyan from Planet Earth."

          "A Sai-yan?" She asked confused.

          "As Vegeta would say we're a race of some of the strongest,most prideful warriors from Planet Vegeta."

          "I thought you just said your from Earth?" Asked a confused Twilight

          "I am, Planet Vegeta was destroyed by someone evil named Frieza-who apparently ruled over the Saiyans at the time- after he got scared of some Saiyan legend that one of us would be become stronger than him, at least that's what I was told." Zero explained " Anyways some Saiyans escaped the explosion, some stayed loyal to Frieza, while the others inhabited different planets, in all there was only about 12 survivors from the destruction that I know of,which include my family, Vegeta and Goku."

          "Wait you sayin' this "Frieza" destroyed yer planet?" Applejack worried "How is that even possible?"

          "There's plenty of people way stronger than that, Goku already beat Frieza like 20 years ago if I remember, I'm pretty strong to ya know I could beat Frieza even as I am right now." Zero slightly bragged

          "What do ya mean as ya are right now?" Applejack asked

          "I'll explain some other time anyways, more questions?" He asked

          "Well how about this Goku, when did you and him meet?"

          "Well I met him during the fight with Frieza after I went with my friends Bulma,Gohan and Krillen to Planet Namek. At the I'd say I was about 15 at the time." He said thinking back to his first time seeing Goku stand up to Frieza.

          "15? Didn't your parents say anything about you going into space?" Twilight questioned. Zero was quiet for a moment but soon spoke.

          "I- i'd rather not talk about that right now, please." He requested with a hint of sadness in his voice. The ponies noticed this and quickly changed the subject.

          "Well y'all sure handled that kicking Big Mac gave ya, how'd ya get so strong?" Applejack asked

          "Well Vegeta said something about Saiyans being naturally strong and growing stronger every time they heal from a fight." He explained to the best of his knowledge on Saiyans. "Plus we usually do a lot of training on Earth.

          "What kinda trainin y'all do? Lift boulders or somethin?"

          "Nope, we train with a gravity chamber?" He replied

          "Gravity chamber?" Asked Twilight with a twinkle of science in her eye

          "Yep, Bulma makes them, they can increase gravity in one area up to a thousand time higher, I flew a ship here that uses one."

          "Wait, y'all flew a space ship here?" Applejack asked

          "I guess if you wanna call it that." He answered

          "That's amazin I'd love to see it sometime." She said

          "Sure, why not,we can go now if you-" He was cut off

          "Don't mean ta interrupt but Dash is wakin' up now." Granny Smith said as she slowly moved into sight.

          "Good I need to make sure she didn't get hurt to badly." Zero said

          "Why what happened?" Worried Applejack

          "Well when I tried to go into town, she sort of, charged at me but ended up hitting her head to hard on me and fell unconcious." He explained

          "I'm terribly sorry 'bout ma friend Dash, she's stubborn as a mule." Applejack apologized lowering her hat

          "It fine, believe me I've dealt with worse, anyways we should check on her." Zero said " Now everyone put a hand- I mean hoof on me."  Everypony complied as he put two fingers to his head.Quicker than they could blink they were in front of the barn house.The Apples were shocked.

          "How'd y'all do that without any magic?" Asked Applejack

          "It something Goku taught me, it's called Instant Transmission it lets me move anywhere I want at the speed of light, pretty cool huh?"

          "I'll say that's quick handy, right Big Mac?" Asked Applejack

          "Eeyup." Said Big Mac using his usual vocabulary. They all walked inside to see Rainbow Dash at the stairs looking at Zero with an angry expression on her face.

          "GET AWAY FROM THEM!" Yelled Rainbow as she flew at Zero

          "Here we go again." Zero said preparing to stop her.        _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Author Notes: Hey everyone sorry this took so long to update I was really busy and completely forgot about this but hopefully now I can work more on it, luckily this time has given lots of ideas for chapters and hope to get one out by at least next month. Anyways hope you enjoy and thank you for reading.