The master waited. Five minutes. Then ten. The energy source got closer...and then seemed to veer off in another direction. He did some quick calculations in his head to figure out where it was going. It was heading to Kiwi Town!

His blood ran cold. Kiwi Town was Juze's hometown. He had been there to visit some relatives when he had witnessed Juze's kidnapping and stopped it. The rest was history.

"JUZE!" he yelled. "COME OUT! CHANGE OF PLANS!"

* * *

Juze felt the power source shift direction as well, and when his master yelled for him, he ran to the edge of the mountain path only too quickly.

The dojo was a humble wooden building, situated along a gravel path that cut through the grasses that grew on the mountain at this time of year. More importantly, it overlooked a cliff, giving them an excellent view of the surrounding countryside. Kiwi Town wasn't that far from the mountain, visible in the far distance.

It would be a long drive, and a longer walk. But it would be a quick fly. Juze had been worried about something like this ever since he started training to use his ki, but he had never imagined his town would be attacked. He would defer to what his master said.

"Do...do you want me to go with you?" Juze said, with fear and worry in his voice.

Wo closed his eyes again. When he opened them, he said, "Yes. I taught you your techniques so that you could use them to defend yourself from ki-using attackers, but many of them will want to harm others. Your training in the Falcon School is incomplete, but that does not mean you should not use what I taught you to protect your--"

Juze started flying ahead, still wearing his Falcon School gi.

Wu spluttered with disbelief as he started flying, shouting, "WHY YOU...! DON'T LEAVE WHEN SOMEONE IS TALKING!"

"Sorry," Juze said back, laughing despite the seriousness of the situation. "It's an emergency!"

Wu grumbled a bit about "kids these days," but didn't say more than that, and they soon neared the town.

They were greeted with a screeching sound, as two small green aliens with what looked like exposed brains for heads stopped attacking the nearby townspeople and flew towards them at top speed.

They weren't friendly. The one on the left attacked Wu, leaving Juze to fight the rightmost one.

The Saibaman struck at Juze with a claw, which Juze managed to duck, only for it to knee him in his exposed face. As Juze saw stars, the Saibaman got on top of him and tried to swipe and strike his face repeatedly. Juze caught both of its arms and, whirling in midair, threw it into the sky.

Using the wind to increase his speed beyond even a normal afterimage, he rapidly caught up and kicked it in where its spine likely was.

The Saibaman wasn't without a trick up its sleeve though. It turned around, recovering from the strike, and its head split open, spraying acid. Juze managed to dodge the initial acid spray, but this was actually what the Saibaman wanted. It sliced Juze across the chest with a claw, creating a gash across his pectorals, before it elbowed him in the exposed, bleeding wound.

Juze was sent tumbling, screaming in pain.

Wu, still engaged in his own battle and winning handily at the moment, tried to rush to his aid, but the injured Saibaman he was fighting appeared in front of him, blocking his progress.

Juze managed to stop his tumbling, but the Saibaman was rushing straight towards him, intent on finishing him off. But it left itself open for a ranged counterattack.

"FLAME SPHERE!" Juze yelled, throwing his hands forward with his fingers curled as he released a white-hot fireball from his hands. The Saibaman desperately tried to dodge the flaming projectile, but its right leg was hit by the blast, setting it on fire. The flame rapidly spread to encompass its entire body, engulfing the alien in flames as it screamed in that horrible screechy voice.

Then the flaming creature began moving towards him. Rapidly. While still screaming. Juze desperately recalled the Flame Sphere, still intact, as he shot upwards. This battle was above the town, and he couldn't risk the Flame Sphere's explosion injuring anyone below. And he wasn't sure the alien would burn to death before it got to him.

He only got about a thousand feet up before the alien began getting too close for comfort. He had to kill it [i]now.[/i]

So, he did what he needed to do. "To all scientists around the world searching for extraterrestrial life..." he said, as he screwed his eyes shut, "I'm sorry for this!"

The rapidly-moving Flame Sphere collided with the burning Saibaman, resulting in a gigantic explosion. When the dust cleared, the alien was completely disintegrated, with barely anything left to note that it had once been there.

[i]That explosion was a bit too big to come from just one Flame Sphere...[/i] Juze thought to himself. Then, he realized something.

[b]"OH CRAP!"[/b] he yelled as he flew downwards to deal with the other Saibaman.

* * *

Master Wu had done a lot better than his student, easily overpowering his opponent. A rock-covered fist slammed into the alien's face as Wu prepared to finish it off...only for it to start laughing?

It only took a moment before the alien gained an unspeakable amount of speed and wrapped itself around his chest, binding his arms in place. He tried to break free, but it was too strong. He tried to headbutt it, but its short height didn't allow him to make contact.

It screeched again, then wore a diabolical grin. What was it going to do to him? He had to think of something fast, before he found out what it was!

[b]"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HIM!"[/b] a voice called.

Wu barely had time to look up before Juze's rock-covered fists began to mercilessly pummel the alien's body, to the point where it didn't even have the presence of mind to activate its self-destruct and end this nonsense. His fists slammed into it, again and again, for almost three solid minutes.

By the time he was done, the alien's head was unrecognizable, and had the consistency of Play-Doh. What passed for the bones in its chest were shattered, and its organs were smashed. The rock-armor on Juze's hands were covered in purple blood.

Only then did it finally release its grip, and fall hundreds of feet to the street below as onlookers observed in horror.

"It was going to explode," Juze said as he breathed heavily.

Soon, the cameras started flashing, as people caught sight of the local hero and that astronomer's kid floating in the sky.

Juze dispelled the rock-armor and put his hands on his knees, panting after pushing himself so hard. Wu put a hand on Juze's back. "You did well. You saved thousands of lives today, as well as my own. What do you say we get your injuries looked at, and, maybe then we can go back to training?"

Juze responded through his exhaustion, "Not an option. I sense more of them, around the world. We're going to need to deal with that."

Wu said, "There's more than just [i]us[/i] capable of dealing with them. Don't you sense the other energy sources? You're bleeding from the chest, don't push yourself."

Juze smiled. "Maybe, but we [i]do[/i] know their capabilities now. We should find my parents, they can get this info to the right people, and maybe then the government can coordinate a defense."

"Good thinking," Wu said as they descended, a purpose set.