Rokan and the Surviving Saiyans Part Three
Story treatment through the fall of Sadala
Part Three begins with Eiran, the younger son of the Veyr leader, entering Saiyan territory under a false identity. His account of life on the conquered planet becomes the principal thread. Rokan's recovery, education, and relationship on Earth develop alongside it, while Cress attempts to end a war that other leaders have reasons to continue. Events are described without dialogue.
The story continues the alternate anime and film continuity established in the earlier parts. Roughly four years pass between the invasion's aftermath and Dragon Ball Super Super Hero in this story's calendar. The Future Trunks arc, Tournament of Power, and Dragon Ball Super Broly occur during that interval. The separate manga arcs involving Moro and Granolah are not inserted into this version. Gohan becomes Beast and Piccolo achieves his power awakening and then Orange Piccolo during the Super Hero crisis. Rokan's first personal conversation with Whis occurs shortly before that crisis.
The power of Sareth, Eiran's older brother, is a rule of this alternate story. By the fall of Sadala he surpasses every mortal fighter established here, including Cress and the Earth fighters at this point. Beerus, Whis, and the other divine authorities remain beyond him. That advantage makes a straightforward military victory against him impossible; it does not give him perfect knowledge or the ability to manage a civilisation without other people.
Eiran enters the planet he was taught to hate
Eiran reaches Sadala inside a freight ship carrying replacement parts for civilian water systems. His travel documents identify him as Aren, a technician from a minor neutral trading world. His expensive equipment has been exchanged for used tools, his plates are concealed beneath protective clothing, and his sensory crests are covered by a worker's hood and a fabricated account of an old injury.
The disguise is imperfect. It can survive a cursory inspection in a busy port, not a thorough medical examination or a military identity check. Eiran enters through a commercial route because the kingdom's need for equipment and labour has made those routes less tightly controlled than its military approaches. A freight broker helped him secure the papers without knowing whose son he was helping.
He has fled his family's compound after discovering that his father's officials intend to confine him while the war escalates. His objections to the treatment of frontier populations have made him politically inconvenient. They present the confinement as protection against abduction. Eiran recognises that it would also prevent him from examining events outside the information his household permits him to receive.
He chooses Sadala because he wants to understand the enemy's capital for himself. His initial purpose is ambitious rather than charitable. He imagines returning with evidence that will force his father to change policy and prove that he deserves influence over the Veyr's future. He has heard enough about conquered civilians to expect an opportunity to demonstrate compassion, and enough about Saiyans to assume they will all fit the examples he already knows.
The first inspection unsettles those expectations. A Saiyan officer barely looks at him. The native port clerk examines his documents carefully, discovers that he has paid the wrong entry fee, and directs him into a queue that will take most of the day. The soldier's indifference and the clerk's precision belong to the same system. Eiran cannot oppose one without depending on the other to let him through.
He enters the city with less money than he planned, an unfamiliar accreditation requirement, and a job placement that will not begin until his papers clear. He can fight ordinary soldiers if cornered. He cannot do so without exposing himself, endangering the broker, and losing the chance to discover anything beyond the prison or battlefield his capture would produce.
His first difficulty is finding somewhere to sleep that will not require documents he has not yet received.
Eiran and his family
Eiran is the younger son of Theryn, the High Convener of the Veyr houses. Theryn is the species' principal political leader during the war, but his authority rests on negotiated support from powerful houses rather than unchallenged ownership of every Veyr world. Eiran's position is privileged and politically valuable without giving him independent command over the entire state.
He has received training in military history, languages, administration, and combat. He learns quickly when he can consult written material and becomes defensive when practical experience exposes something his education omitted. He likes accurate maps, elaborate food, and debates he can prepare for. He has a dry sense of humour with familiar people and tends to become overly formal when frightened.
He has completed one major moult and possesses enough strength to contest one of Cress's elite officers, though he remains far below Cress and the strongest fighters on Earth. His sensory crests help him detect shifts in an opponent's movement and the gathering of energy. He favours interruptions and quick disabling strikes over prolonged exchanges. Crowded environments can overwhelm the same senses he relies on, and he becomes less effective when forced to distinguish several moving threats at once.
Living undercover requires him to conceal those advantages. Using overwhelming strength to settle an ordinary dispute would attract exactly the scrutiny his disguise cannot survive. He has to tolerate losing arguments and opportunities he could seize physically. During the later evacuation, he does use his strength to lift damaged supports and move injured people, knowing that each visible intervention makes his assumed identity harder to maintain. The decision is made for people beside him, not for an audience he hopes will admire it.
He wants to be useful and also wants that usefulness recognised. He is susceptible to the belief that understanding someone else's difficulty gives him the right to decide its solution. His time on Sadala repeatedly exposes that habit, although it does not eliminate his ambition to rule.
Eiran genuinely hates Saiyan conquest. He also carries a prejudice broader than the actions he condemns. His family's account of the war presents Saiyans as people who understand only superiority and submission. When one behaves generously, he initially looks for the threat hidden beneath it. He can recognise individual exceptions while continuing to judge the group harshly.
Theryn is a skilled coalition leader who measures proposals against the support required to enact them. He has prevented some confrontations and authorised others he describes as unavoidable. He loves his sons and prefers that neither disrupt the balance he has spent years maintaining. Eiran experiences that preference as affection becoming a restriction whenever his questions matter most.
Sareth, the older brother, was designated the family's exceptional military asset long before Eiran understood what that meant. He is significantly older, has undergone more extensive preparation, and has spent years inside guarded facilities during a dangerous sequence of moults. Most people know him through official reports rather than personal contact. His younger brother remembers someone who repaired a broken training device, disliked being disturbed during meals, and grew increasingly impatient with visits he could not control.
The brothers were never evenly matched, physically or politically. Eiran alternates between wanting Sareth's approval and wanting to escape the importance everyone assigns him. Sareth treats Eiran's civilian interests as tolerable until they interfere with a military objective. Their affection has survived largely in spaces where neither challenges the other's assigned role.
Nessa and the room above the depot
Eiran finds temporary lodging through Nessa, an Ivaran clerk who keeps the accounts for a repair depot. Ivarans are the original inhabitants of the planet the Saiyans renamed. Their grey-brown skin and smaller cranial ridges distinguish them from both human-looking Saiyans and the more heavily plated Veyr. Eiran's covered head and layered clothing conceal enough detail for casual encounters, though they make him conspicuous in warmer rooms.
Nessa is in her thirties, has a daughter staying with relatives outside the city, and has learned to examine a newcomer through their capacity to pay and the problems they might bring. She gives Eiran access to a cramped room after obtaining part of the rent in advance. She does not find his apparent injury interesting enough to compensate for missed payments.
She is exacting about accounts, likes romantic serials she claims are badly written, and resents customers who mistake her work for a minor clerical task. She wants her daughter educated well enough to leave depot work and worries that such an education may also make her unwilling to come home. Those concerns exist independently of Eiran's political discovery.
Her brother lost a transport licence after a Saiyan military requisition was challenged. She knows how quickly a household can be damaged by a decision made elsewhere. She also knows which officers can be persuaded to correct an error and which native administrators will use the opportunity to extract a bribe.
Nessa helps Eiran obtain temporary repair work because the depot needs someone who can read imported technical specifications. He earns his place by learning the actual equipment rather than displaying the broader knowledge he was taught at home. His early mistakes are expensive. Nessa insists that he repay the loss through work instead of treating embarrassment as an exceptional circumstance.
He becomes attached to her household without telling her who he is. The concealment keeps him safe and deprives her of information she would need to decide whether his presence is acceptable. He is aware of that unfairness long before he is willing to end it.
What Saiyan rule looks like in ordinary life
The depot services civilian systems built during Cress's expansion. Some function better than they did before the conquest. Others are continually diverted toward military needs. Eiran sees improved infrastructure and unequal access operating together, which prevents him from dismissing every benefit as invented propaganda.
A Saiyan household can obtain an expedited replacement part through an officer's request. An Ivaran housing block may wait weeks for the same item unless its manager has a useful connection. The official rule appears neutral until its exceptions are counted. Nessa has learned to navigate those exceptions and resents needing to do it.
Eiran accompanies Rell, an older Ivaran field technician, on repairs outside the central districts. Rell is patient with machines and impatient with people who romanticise his endurance. His son served in a civilian transport unit and died during a frontier attack. He supports defending the planet against the Veyr and still considers Saiyan rule unjust. Eiran finds those positions difficult to reconcile because he expected opposition to Cress to become support for the Veyr.
In a rural settlement, Eiran learns that a defence treaty with a Veyr house raised trade fees and placed local supplies under military priority. People there remember the visiting officials' courteous behaviour and the obligations that followed. Eiran has to confront the fact that his family employs versions of the same arrangements he came to condemn.
He also meets ordinary Saiyans with no authority over national policy. A widowed supply driver takes additional shifts to support two children. A young soldier sends part of her pay to native relatives. Their lives do not make the hierarchy harmless. They do make collective punishment harder to defend whenever Eiran has to imagine a particular person inside it.
He continues to dislike Saiyans and rarely volunteers the uncertainty those encounters produce. He fears that recognising complexity will weaken his willingness to oppose the injustice he sees. For much of this part, he holds the recognition and the prejudice together without resolving them.
The first attempts at peace
Cress returns from Earth and proposes limited ceasefires around contested civilian ports. He offers to withdraw several military access demands and requests reciprocal limits on raids. The concessions surprise his officers and divide the Veyr houses.
Theryn considers the proposals useful, particularly where fleet losses threaten commercial support for the war. Other houses interpret the failed Earth mission as evidence that Cress is weakened and that continued pressure could produce larger gains. They want concessions secured by enforcement rather than promises from the same ruler who killed one of their commanders.
Cress discovers that changing his own position does not change the incentives he helped create. Some officers delay revised orders because they believe the ruler is acting out of grief. Some frontier authorities fear that withdrawal will expose the people who cooperated with them. Veyr commanders continue raids while negotiations are underway, sometimes under authorisation that Theryn cannot easily revoke.
Eiran hears these developments through civilian notices, military procurement changes, and messages obtained from home. At first he assumes Cress is presenting a softer face while preserving the same system. Later, actual reductions in requisitions and the release of detained local petitioners make that explanation incomplete.
The changes arrive unevenly. Nessa's brother does not recover everything he lost. Rell's dead son cannot benefit from a corrected policy. People who welcome a reform can still distrust the ruler offering it. Eiran begins recording those differences for a future he increasingly imagines himself administering.
A student finds Rokan
On Earth, reconstruction begins while the defenders still believe Rokan died. A short time after the battle, the underground watercourse carries him farther through the fractured terrain and deposits him near a drainage outlet beyond the closed recovery zone. He remains too injured to climb to the road or raise an energy signal anyone can reliably identify.
Mira Hayashi finds him while cycling home from an evening class. Her usual route is closed because of the damage, and the detour follows the lower service road beside the channel. She notices movement near the outlet and stops because she initially believes someone has fallen from the embankment.
Mira is twenty-three and studying civil engineering while working part-time. She has basic first-aid training from a campus volunteer programme but no ability to treat injuries of this severity. She calls emergency services, follows instructions, and keeps his face clear of the water until help arrives. His unusual anatomy and broken equipment frighten her, but they do not change the immediate fact that he is alive and unable to protect himself.
She does not take him secretly to her room or attempt to become his sole nurse. Medical responders move him to a regional facility coping with displaced patients. His identification is incomplete, his speech intermittent, and his surviving possessions provide little reliable information. The disorder following the invasion delays the connection between the injured patient and the missing Saiyan.
Mira visits because she wants to know whether the person she found survived. Those visits become part of his recovery rather than its entire support system. Nurses, doctors, transport staff, and other patients also enter his life, often when he has neither the dignity nor the strength to choose how they see him.
Mira
Mira grew up in a family that treats qualifications as protection against uncertainty. Her father works in municipal procurement and her mother manages a small distribution business. They support her education and expect her to choose a career that makes financial sense. Mira respects those concerns and dislikes how quickly a discussion of what she wants becomes a calculation of what she owes them.
She is practical, competitive about coursework, and occasionally careless when she believes she understands a problem before everyone else. She enjoys terrible action films, postpones answering messages, and becomes abrupt when tired. Helping Rokan does not make her more patient in every other part of life.
She is drawn to engineering because she likes the visible consequence of a well-made system. She also wants professional recognition and enough independence to refuse a job she dislikes. Her future is not organised around finding someone damaged to repair.
Rokan's early gratitude embarrasses her when it becomes too expansive. He promises repayment he cannot arrange and attempts to make every small kindness significant. She sometimes leaves a visit earlier than he wants because she has an examination, work, or simply another plan. He learns that continued concern does not require constant availability.
Her first impressions of him include pain, impatience, and surprising ignorance of ordinary procedures. Later she finds him funny, observant about certain details, and remarkably defensive about tasks he cannot yet perform. She has no immediate reason to regard those qualities as signs of royalty.
Survival is discovered without restoring the old life
The mistaken death cannot remain unquestioned indefinitely in a world where the Dragon Balls exist. When the defenders are able to address the presumed loss, they learn that a resurrection is unnecessary because Rokan is alive. The resulting search reaches the medical records and identifies him in the regional facility.
Goku, Vegeta, Bulma, and the people closest to the aftermath learn the truth. Rokan's survival becomes known within that circle and later to his father. It is not publicised as a triumphant return, and it does not create an obligation for him to resume the role he fled.
Rokan accepts further care once he understands that discovery does not mean being taken to Sadala. His physical injuries can be treated with help from the defenders, but healing tissue does not settle the instability of his energy or his fear of entering the same state again. He experiences panic when power begins gathering in the familiar way and avoids situations that encourage it.
Cress receives reliable confirmation that his son survived. Relief does not erase the memory of having to strike him or the evidence of what preceded that decision. He wants to come immediately. Through mediation, he learns that Rokan is not ready to see him and does not want to be brought home.
Cress honours that boundary. This is difficult, specific, and more meaningful than another offer to arrange Rokan's surroundings. He supplies compensation and support without making acceptance conditional on contact. He sends occasional messages that contain practical news and concern rather than commands. Rokan reads some, leaves others unopened, and seldom answers.
Mira learns who she rescued from Rokan and from the circumstances surrounding the visits. He admits involvement in the invasion and the destruction, although he initially gives the least damaging version he can bear. She later recognises the omissions and requires a more honest account if she is to remain in contact.
She continues visiting after learning more, but takes time to decide what that contact means. Her decision is not a public pardon and cannot stand in for the people he injured. Rokan finds that limitation painful because he is still accustomed to seeking one response that will settle how he should regard himself.
Choosing education
After the immediate medical recovery, Rokan does not return to martial training. Ordinary movement, rehabilitation, and regaining the capacity to care for himself are necessary. Deliberately increasing his combat power is something he avoids. The years in this part do not conceal a training programme that makes him secretly stronger than everyone else.
He has enough education to read technical material and military reports but lacks the background and records required for immediate admission to a human degree programme. He begins with language work, general examinations, and preparatory courses. His first timetable is less prestigious than the university life he had imagined after listening to Mira.
He chooses a course combining infrastructure management and public administration. Work at Jun's shop gave him a practical interest in systems people depend on. The invasion has given him an uncomfortable reason to study how decisions about those systems are made and who absorbs the consequences.
He struggles with mathematics he never needed in the same form, citations he considers excessive, and group assignments in which his confidence does not grant him authority. A classmate refuses to accept work he completed late, despite its quality. A lecturer deducts marks because he answers the question he prefers rather than the question assigned. He receives no exemption for sincerity or for being unusually powerful.
Rokan takes part-time work when he becomes capable of it. Compensation and the resources his father can provide make his position less precarious than that of several classmates. He tries to conceal those advantages until concealing them begins creating false impressions about the risks he is taking. Learning to acknowledge unequal starting conditions becomes part of his education rather than a claim that hardship is required to deserve a future.
Mira does not supervise his degree. They share study space at times and disagree about assignments. She becomes irritated when he asks for her judgment on decisions she has no better basis to make than he does. He begins learning to reach a decision without first finding someone whose approval will protect him from regretting it.
Repairing the earlier relationships
Rokan contacts Emi once he can give an account without asking her to provide the ending he wants. He acknowledges that she was entitled to refuse the soldiers and that his desire for forgiveness helped make him more dangerous when she would not supply it.
Emi is relieved that he survived and still unwilling to return immediately to their old arrangement. The restaurant requires repairs, some staff have left, and the district's business has changed. She does not promise a room or a job. Their early contact is brief and sometimes tense.
He helps through practical work and compensation without treating either as a purchase of affection. She occasionally lets him assist with something familiar and occasionally sends him away because she does not want him there. Over time, she can speak to him without anticipating another demand. That improvement is valuable without becoming complete forgiveness on a convenient date.
Jun allows him to repay unfinished work under close supervision. His first concern is whether Rokan will accept correction without making the situation about his own shame. Daisuke remains willing to see him but no longer assumes that friendly sparring is harmless. Their relationship develops through ordinary visits and help with the class's facilities rather than combat.
Rokan also has to consider people who never knew him affectionately. A damaged household may accept compensation and refuse contact. An injured defender may recognise his effort to change without wanting to become his friend. He cannot make those responses fairer by demonstrating a new transformation.
The relationship with Mira
Their closeness grows over more than a year. By the time it becomes romantic, Mira is no longer his primary contact during medical dependence. He has his own accommodation, classmates, work, and other people to ask for help. They can meet because they want to rather than because he cannot manage without her.
She likes his enthusiasm when something new catches his attention and the care he takes once he stops assuming strength will replace knowledge. He likes her humour, her interest in structures he once barely noticed, and the fact that she can change a plan without seeking permission. Their attraction includes ordinary physical affection and enjoyment rather than existing only as discussion of his recovery.
They argue over money, lateness, and his tendency to turn a small disagreement into evidence that she has reconsidered the whole relationship. She sometimes avoids difficult conversations and then resents how large they become. He sometimes tries to resolve discomfort with an expensive gift that makes her feel managed.
Mira wants a placement away from their city. Rokan initially assumes they will arrange everything around remaining together. She makes clear that being in love does not cancel the plan she had before meeting him. He can ask what the move means for them; he cannot decide that it will not occur.
They maintain the relationship through a period of distance. It is inconvenient, involves misunderstandings, and survives because both make ordinary efforts rather than because either proves a devotion strong enough to settle every future question. When she returns for a later research appointment, the reunion brings joy and new decisions rather than an agreement that separation must never happen again.
His thoughts about philosophy become less dependent on finding a complete doctrine. Coursework introduces arguments about authority, obligation, identity, and the use of force. Mira enjoys some of those discussions and tires of others, especially when he turns them into indirect requests to be judged a good person. She has work of her own and does not exist to decide what every Saiyan experience means.
Eiran begins acting rather than observing
On Sadala, Eiran's time at the depot gives him access to records showing which districts repeatedly lose supplies to military priority. He initially plans to carry those records home as evidence. Nessa points out through her response to his questions that people need the equipment now, not a future description of why they lacked it.
He begins helping secure repairs and contest incorrect charges through the available civilian channels. His knowledge of imported systems makes him useful. His political instincts also tempt him to present local gains as proof of his suitability to lead.
Rell objects when Eiran promises results he cannot guarantee. A technician who becomes the face of a grievance may lose access to work, and the foreign visitor can leave more easily than the household that remains. Eiran starts asking what people will accept instead of announcing what ought to happen. He does not always listen when the answer seems too modest.
An inspection nearly exposes him. A military medic notices the concealed crests after a workplace injury. Eiran escapes a detailed examination by giving up a shift and leaving the district temporarily. The risk also threatens Nessa, whose records connect him to the depot. He returns to tell her enough of the truth for her to make a decision.
Nessa learns that he is Veyr and that his false identity conceals a politically important background. She demands the complete account before letting him continue staying above the depot. When she discovers whose son he is, she is angry about the information he withheld and frightened of what either government might do if it became known.
She does not immediately expel him because she knows the useful work he has done and because exposure could endanger them both. Her conditions become explicit. He is not to use her workplace as a political headquarters or make promises in her name. If he obtains a way to leave, he must provide warning rather than vanish and leave her to explain him.
Their relationship survives with less innocence. Eiran accepts that he has used her ignorance for safety. He also recognises how frequently his own government has treated informed agreement as an obstacle that can be postponed until the important decision is already made.
Sareth returns to public life
Sareth completes the final stage of a prolonged sequence of moults during the first portion of these years. The process has been financed, protected, and concealed by several Veyr houses. Its result exceeds their expectations and the intelligence available to Cress.
His body is more compactly armoured than that of ordinary elite Veyr. Dark seams remain between pale plates, and his sensory crests are shorter and thicker after the restructuring. His power does not require an endlessly escalating sequence of temporary transformations. The most consequential change is permanent: he can contain and use an amount of energy his former body could not survive.
He has trained throughout every period when his body permitted it. Years spent dependent on handlers, guards, and medical specialists have made dependence itself intolerable to him. He remembers necessary restrictions as evidence that others were allowed to control his life because he was temporarily vulnerable.
Sareth is orderly, attentive to technical detail, and capable of considerable patience when he believes the plan belongs to him. He dislikes loud celebration, notices when someone has altered a schedule, and sometimes shows unexpected consideration toward an exhausted subordinate. Those habits coexist with a growing conviction that resistance is evidence of an inadequate person obstructing a necessary result.
He believes the houses squander lives by maintaining competing interests during an existential struggle. He also believes Saiyans are incapable of permanent restraint and must be erased before they produce another Cress. His hostility to Saiyans is explicit. It is not an accidental implication of a generally stern programme.
Sareth opposes both existing governments. He considers Cress a rival who must be removed and Theryn a negotiator whose compromises preserve the conditions that made the war possible. He offers ordinary Veyr soldiers an attractive promise: an end to raids, contradictory orders, and the privilege of houses that let others die while protecting their assets.
The promise helps him gain support before his rule becomes openly dictatorial. His strength wins battles; his exploitation of genuine grievances gives people reasons to accept the concentration of authority around him.
Why Cress cannot simply defeat him
Cress first encounters Sareth through attacks that destroy positions without following the established pattern of Veyr fleet operations. He assumes the new warrior is a dangerous reinforcement and prepares to meet him personally. Their initial confrontation establishes that assumption as insufficient.
Super Saiyan Zero remains powerful and controlled. It cannot match the level Sareth has reached. Cress survives the encounter through withdrawal, support from his officers, and Sareth's need to secure the captured position rather than pursue him across every route. It is a defeat, not a disguised opportunity for Cress to discover an even stronger form on demand.
Sareth uses the result politically. He has done what the houses could not do and driven back the ruler whose personal power shaped their strategy. Veyr officers begin aligning with him even when the High Convener has not authorised their actions.
Theryn attempts to incorporate Sareth into the existing command structure. Sareth accepts access to its resources and rejects its restraints. He removes officers who obstruct him, places loyal commanders over captured routes, and makes cooperation a condition of continued authority.
Cress continues seeking agreements with Veyr representatives willing to negotiate. Sareth attacks positions covered by those discussions and presents the negotiations as collusion. Some house leaders exploit the breakdown to secure their own advantage. Others lose the means to oppose it.
Peace becomes difficult for reasons more substantial than Cress failing to make a sufficiently sincere appeal. The person able to enforce the largest military decisions has an interest in preventing the settlement, while the people still willing to negotiate are losing power.
The Earth years continue
The Future Trunks crisis occurs while Rokan is building the beginnings of civilian life. He learns what the defenders are dealing with through limited contact and later accounts, not through an invented public broadcast of every event. He is disturbed by the scale of the danger and by the knowledge that philosophical claims can accompany catastrophic violence. He has no direct role in the battles against Goku Black and Zamasu.
When the Tournament of Power threatens their universe, his absence has to be considered rather than ignored. His potential makes him worth evaluating, but his reliable controlled strength has not followed Goku and Vegeta's growth, and the unstable state cannot be safely included in a team that depends on coordination and restraint. He has not trained to resolve that problem.
Goku does not treat the emergency as a reason to pretend the risk has disappeared. Rokan is informed enough to understand the stakes and the outcome, but he is not substituted into the established team. He experiences the frightening lack of control shared by everyone who must depend on the participants. Surviving that crisis does not convince him that every person owes the universe a fighting career.
Broly's arrival occurs later. Rokan learns about the battle and the Saiyan found on Vampa after the immediate danger has ended. The similarity in hair colour and physical expansion draws attention, but the defenders recognise that Rokan's awareness and pattern of anger were different. Neither man becomes a complete explanation for the other.
Rokan is curious about Broly and uneasy about meeting him. He postpones the encounter rather than using another Saiyan's difficulties as proof that his own conduct was inevitable. During this period he continues studying and living with the consequences of his choices. There is no secret rematch or off-page training that cancels his decision to step away from combat.
The films and anime events are part of the world's history. Rokan does not insert himself into each established victory. Their importance to his story is that Goku, Vegeta, and the others keep changing while he builds a life whose value cannot be measured by whether he has kept pace with them.
Eiran's loyalty becomes dangerous
Eiran remains undercover as military pressure increases. He sends carefully selected information to contacts at home, hoping to protect civilian districts from attacks. Some of that information helps. Some allows Veyr officials to identify routes useful for their own operations.
He learns that even a benevolent intention does not give him control over the use of a report. His choice to send it can still make him responsible for exposing people who did not agree to the risk. The discovery echoes the kinds of decisions he condemns in the Saiyan administration.
His family seeks his return. Theryn considers the prolonged disappearance a liability. Sareth considers an informed brother inside enemy territory potentially useful and increasingly suspicious. Eiran refuses instructions to provide names of cooperative native officials or complete maps of civilian systems.
That refusal puts him outside both brothers' expected roles. He is no longer merely the younger son conducting an embarrassing private investigation. He possesses information and relationships that a new ruler could use, and he is asserting control over them.
He begins envisioning a government in which the Ivarans and other subject populations can affect decisions directly. He also imagines himself at its centre. He has learned enough to distrust Cress's title and still believes that his own willingness to listen might qualify him to replace it.
Nessa challenges that assumption in practical terms. She wants enforceable authority over budgets and access, not a promise that the next powerful leader will be nicer. Rell wants protection against decisions that cannot be appealed. Eiran starts developing proposals for councils, published accounts, and limitations on requisition. He remains convinced that those institutions require a strong ruler to secure them, and that he should be that ruler.
His ambition is partly service and partly a need to prove that he can do what his father and brother would not. It will not be resolved merely by choosing the correct side of a battle.
Sareth turns victory into dictatorship
Sareth's early rule arrives through emergency arrangements. Captured ports answer to temporary governors. Fleet commanders surrender independent discretion to prevent conflicting orders. Houses that cooperate retain commercial activity but lose the right to maintain separate forces. Each measure is described as necessary until the conflict is settled.
He keeps the measures when local opposition diminishes. Review boards become extensions of his command. Officers who question the treatment of civilians lose their posts. Victories and improved security win him genuine supporters, while fear keeps other people cooperating after the benefits cease to be worth the restrictions.
Theryn attempts to assert the negotiated authority of the houses. Sareth removes him from command, confines him, and eventually permits his death during an attempted restoration of civilian authority. Whether every participant intended that result is unclear; Sareth accepts and uses it. His father's absence eliminates a figure around whom opposition could organise.
Eiran receives confirmation through a contact he trusts. The news destroys any remaining possibility that the brothers can simply return to a family arrangement once the war ends. He still remembers the brother who once protected him. He now has to judge the ruler that brother has chosen to become.
Sareth declares Saiyan military power a permanent threat. His regime begins targeting Saiyan settlements rather than limiting operations to military installations. Veyr citizens who oppose those actions are detained as collaborators. The campaign is directed against both Saiyan survival and Veyr political independence.
He does not become indistinguishable from the species he rules. Ordinary Veyr people resist, cooperate reluctantly, or support him for different reasons. His strength lets him dominate their institutions; it does not make every Veyr share his aims.
The seven during the prolonged war
Tarro serves beside Cress while struggling with the consequences of concealed information. He becomes more willing to report uncertainty and bad news, sometimes to the irritation of officers who preferred his former reassurance. His damaged arm continues limiting him. He trains younger soldiers to withdraw without regarding survival as disgrace.
Selka is assigned to civilian administration under revised instructions. She can implement material improvements but finds that fewer people accept her assurance that the government now understands their concerns. She begins producing procedures in which decisions can actually be contested. Her progress is uneven because she still takes refusal personally.
Daiko fights on the frontier and initially resents the ruler's concessions. Sareth's strength removes the possibility of proving the old doctrine through an individual victory. Daiko survives one disastrous engagement because native transport workers evacuate him. He repays them materially while remaining embarrassed by needing them.
Nira works through increasing casualties and gains an unusually clear view of the cost of both regimes' plans. Her loyalty to Cress becomes more conditional on his willingness to stop creating the injuries she is asked to repair. She assists native patients and Saiyan soldiers through the same facilities when circumstances permit.
Okra is given responsibilities involving districts where his language and childhood connections matter. He has to choose repeatedly between demonstrating severity and using those relationships to keep people alive. He improves, fails, and discovers that friends will not always renew trust because he behaved better during one emergency.
Rutab continues keeping the military supplied but becomes less willing to accept estimates built around sacrificing civilian routes. The change comes slowly. He can question a new order more readily than revisit the old one that cost his brother.
Mallow recovers with lasting limitations. The account he provides of Earth makes him unpopular with officers who prefer the failed invasion reduced to Rokan's instability. He returns to reconnaissance with stricter boundaries about reporting civilian contacts, though those boundaries become harder to uphold as Sareth advances.
Their developments do not transform the seven into another team of heroes who replace Earth's defenders. They are people changing under pressure, still tied to institutions whose survival and reform may require different choices.
Rokan's first conversation with Whis
Near the end of his degree, Rokan undertakes a supervised project involving reconstruction records and infrastructure planning. Mira has returned from her placement and is working on a research appointment connected to a Capsule Corporation programme. Their professional paths bring them into contact with Bulma's civilian staff without requiring either to become part of her family.
Rokan is present during a routine visit by Whis to Earth, shortly before the Super Hero crisis. The encounter begins around refreshments and a minor logistical inconvenience, not a summons to reveal his destiny. Whis knows of him through the earlier conflict, but they have never spoken personally.
Rokan notices the ease with which someone of extraordinary power participates in an ordinary afternoon. Whis is interested in food and observant about the company without treating the visit as a lesson for everyone present. Rokan finds that combination disarming.
Their conversation turns briefly toward his avoidance of training. Rokan has come to regard stepping away as a moral decision, but he is uncertain whether some of it remains fear dressed as a principle. He is also wary of returning to a practice that once let him postpone every difficult question.
Whis does not decide his motive for him. He distinguishes between increasing destructive capacity and learning to govern a capacity already present. He also makes clear that self-mastery would not answer every question about how Rokan ought to live. A controlled fighter can still make a harmful decision, just as Cress's Zero mastery did not give him the right to command Earth's Saiyans.
The exchange remains casual. Whis offers observations, returns his attention to the refreshments, and does not declare Rokan uniquely important. Rokan is left with a useful distinction and the responsibility to act on it. He cannot convert the encounter into another authority's approval of his whole life.
Mira hears enough to understand that training may become a real consideration. They discuss what that would mean for their schedules and safety. She supports his right to choose and expects a choice that includes honest discussion of the risks. She does not promise to accept every consequence because she loves him.
Watching Gohan and Piccolo
The Red Ribbon crisis occurs soon afterward. Rokan is on Earth and close enough to the aftermath of the reconstruction work to become involved in moving people from a threatened route. He has no reliable information at first about the base or the purpose of the attacks. He helps with evacuation and communication rather than entering combat in an untested transformation.
As Cell Max emerges, the danger becomes impossible to mistake. Rokan reaches an observation point beyond the main fighting while helping clear an industrial access road. He can see portions of the contest and sense the changes in energy without being able to witness every private action that led to it.
Piccolo's awakened state has already changed his power. Rokan then sees the much larger Orange Piccolo fighting to keep Cell Max occupied. The visible transformation is distinct from the yellow-toned awakening that preceded it. What holds Rokan's attention is the deliberate use of that strength to create opportunities for other people rather than settle who deserves authority over them.
Gohan's Beast transformation follows the apparent threat to Piccolo's life. Rokan recognises anger and emotional shock as part of its emergence. He also witnesses Gohan directing that power at a specific danger, coordinating with Piccolo, and finishing the attack that ends the crisis.
The comparison with his own collapse is uncomfortable. He cannot honestly conclude that anger itself makes a transformation evil or that greater understanding guarantees a good decision. He has to examine how he used his awareness, what objectives he preserved, and when he stopped caring about the people in the path of his power.
He does not instantly reproduce Beast, Orange Piccolo, Zero, or a controlled version of his green-haired state. The event gives him a reason to begin work he has avoided. It does not perform that work for him.
Approaching Goku again
After the immediate danger has passed, Rokan asks for an opportunity to meet Goku. This time he brings no demand that another Saiyan relocate, no promise that winning will settle his philosophy, and no claim that the old disagreement requires a rematch.
He asks for help learning to train safely. He wants to understand and regulate his existing power before attempting to increase it. He also wants someone able to interrupt him if the dangerous pattern reappears. Goku has experience with Saiyan training and access to people who understand its risks better than the teachers who concealed his earlier incidents.
Goku is willing to discuss it, but does not treat the request as proof that every problem has ended. He needs honesty about Rokan's warning signs and the acceptance that a session can be stopped without turning the interruption into humiliation. Their first agreement concerns supervision, limits, and gradual assessment.
Vegeta remains more sceptical and insists that willingness to train cannot erase the earlier threat to their families. Rokan accepts that he may work with them without receiving complete personal forgiveness. He has acquired enough experience of that distinction to endure it without demanding a victory that will change the response.
The beginning of martial training lies ahead. Until this meeting, Rokan has done no deliberate combat training since waking after the invasion. His college life and relationship remain commitments he intends to keep, rather than an interval he discards once stronger fighters become interesting again.
Sadala falls
While Earth deals with the Super Hero crisis and its immediate aftermath, Sareth concentrates his campaign against Sadala. Earlier losses have already narrowed the kingdom's access to routes and resources. The final attack is an attempt to end Saiyan government and make the planet an example to any territory still considering resistance.
Cress does not wait for every position to collapse before organising evacuation. Native civilians and Saiyan households receive access to the same departure programme, although uneven local enforcement still causes harm. The change cannot undo the conquest. It does matter to people whose chance to survive would previously have depended on status.
Eiran helps move depot workers and their families. He does not identify himself as Sareth's brother to the approaching occupation forces because doing so would endanger the people beside him and might lead directly to confinement. He sends a warning through a surviving Veyr contact and receives confirmation that Sareth regards his refusal to cooperate as betrayal.
The attack places him between forces he distrusts. Saiyan officers suspect the hidden Veyr technician. Sareth's soldiers treat aid to Saiyan evacuation as collaboration. Native civilians do not have time to settle whether his royal identity makes him a useful advocate or another dangerous guest.
Cress confronts Sareth to buy time for the departures. Zero lets him survive exchanges that would kill his officers, but the disparity remains decisive. Sareth breaks his defence, inflicts serious injuries, and continues attacking even when Cress can no longer plausibly threaten him.
Tarro and the remaining command staff force an extraction under cover of the evacuation. Cress's survival depends on other people doing work he cannot perform himself. He is not saved by discovering a higher Zero stage or by having secretly exceeded Sareth all along.
Sareth secures the capital and announces the end of Saiyan rule. His occupation begins removing Saiyans from public positions, detaining those who remain, and imposing direct control over native institutions. Some Ivarans initially welcome the destruction of the old hierarchy. The detention of local organisers and appropriation of civilian routes soon expose what the new regime expects in exchange.
The fall ends Cress's government on the planet. It does not make Sareth's rule legitimate merely because it replaces a conquest. Eiran sees people he knows threatened by a brother who claims to be correcting the political order that harmed them.
Eiran escapes to Earth
Eiran remains in the evacuation area long enough to be caught in fighting that damages the depot. Nessa is injured while moving records and identification documents needed by the departing families. Rell helps recover her, then insists that the documents leave with the people who will need them rather than become evidence Eiran preserves for a future speech.
Eiran assists the departure of several households and is separated from them when the transport routes fail. He eventually reaches a surviving transit facility under Saiyan control. His damaged disguise no longer conceals his species, and officers recognise that admitting a Veyr passenger may invite suspicion. His civilian contacts and the records of his practical work help prevent immediate detention, but passage requires cooperation with the same command he has been resisting.
The destination is Earth. Cress has authorised an emergency request for refuge rather than another unannounced military occupation. Communications sent ahead explain the injuries, the threat, and the people requiring temporary safety. Bulma and the defenders decide the terms of arrival; the aperture is not opened beside an unsuspecting town.
Eiran takes the opportunity because remaining would likely mean capture by Sareth or death in the fighting. He is carrying damaged records, incomplete information about the families he helped, and proof of his own identity. He does not know where everyone has gone. Nessa and her daughter are among evacuees whose survival he has reason to believe in but cannot yet personally verify.
He arrives on Earth independently of the vessel carrying Cress. His first impression is of an organised reception that prevents armed newcomers from simply declaring their authority. He is questioned, provided medical assessment, and required to explain his connection to the enemy who took Sadala.
He dislikes the scrutiny and understands why it exists. His own disguise has taught him that apparently harmless arrivals can carry consequences the receiving people did not agree to accept.
Cress seeks refuge
Cress reaches Earth badly injured and without the government he once treated as the permanent centre of Saiyan survival. He brings officers, limited resources, and obligations to people who remain scattered across routes he no longer controls.
Goku and Vegeta do not surrender control of Earth's safety because their former opponent has suffered. They permit treatment and temporary refuge under explicit limits. Armed forces cannot operate independently, no household on Earth is to be recruited by pressure, and communication with the occupied planet must not make Earth's civilians undisclosed targets.
Cress accepts. He still believes the Veyr threat requires organised resistance, but his capacity to demand its terms has ended. The people whose refusal he once treated as an inconvenience now have the right to decide what assistance they can offer.
Rokan learns that his father has arrived alive and injured. Their reunion is possible and not compulsory. He chooses a brief visit after discussing it with Mira and the people supervising the reception. It contains relief, discomfort, and practical concern. It does not instantly restore their former relationship or enlist him in another campaign.
Cress sees that his son has built an actual life during the years they were separated. Education, work, and affection have not made him less real as a Saiyan. Recognising that fact is important, but it arrives alongside the loss of the kingdom and cannot be made to solve it.
Eiran's relationship with Cress becomes the principal problem of the ending. The prince knows whose policies harmed the people he lived among. The ruler knows that the person now offering crucial information belongs to the family whose army has taken his world.
An alliance with incompatible aims
Eiran establishes his identity and gives a verifiable account of Sareth's rise. His information explains why agreements with other Veyr authorities failed and which parts of the former political network may still resist the dictatorship. Cress contributes knowledge of Sadala's infrastructure, surviving officers, evacuated populations, and the territory Sareth has seized.
Neither possesses enough to act effectively alone. Eiran has connections and a potential claim that could divide support for his brother, but lacks the force and organisation to secure them. Cress has experienced personnel and surviving resources, but cannot defeat Sareth and cannot expect the occupied population to welcome the restoration of the old order without conditions.
Eiran agrees to work with him because the immediate alternative is leaving people under Sareth's rule. His hatred of Saiyan domination remains. Working beside Cress forces him to distinguish that hatred from the practical decisions required to protect particular Saiyans and native people at risk.
Cress initially treats cooperation as the beginning of a campaign to reclaim Sadala. Eiran makes clear that defeating Sareth must not automatically restore Cress's government. His goal is to become the new ruler, secure the survival of the affected populations, and replace the hierarchy he experienced with enforceable rights and participation.
That ambition alarms Cress. It also gives Eiran responsibilities beyond declaring himself morally different. Native people need a voice in the proposed government. Veyr citizens need reason to believe he offers more than a struggle between brothers. Saiyan refugees need protection that does not depend on whether he likes them.
The provisional arrangement includes shared intelligence, coordinated relief, and preparation for resistance against Sareth. It leaves the future government unsettled. Eiran insists that Cress renounce an automatic return to supreme authority before he will support any plan to retake the planet. Cress does not immediately grant every demand, but cannot compel cooperation as he once attempted on Earth.
Goku and Vegeta learn the scale of Sareth's strength through testimony and recorded confrontations. They have no reason to assume a familiar transformation or fusion guarantees victory. Training and further investigation may become necessary, but Earth does not become an army pledged to either claimant simply because powerful fighters live there.
Rokan's request to begin supervised training now exists beside a threat capable of drawing him back toward the old demand for service. His response belongs to the next part. At this ending, the new protagonist remains Eiran, confronting a task he once believed he could solve by returning home with better information.
End of Part Three
Sareth rules Sadala and the Veyr territories he has forced into his command. Cress is alive on Earth, displaced and dependent on people he once tried to coerce. Rokan has begun asking how to train without abandoning the life he built. Mira continues her own work and expects that life to remain something they choose together.
Eiran stands between a brother he must defeat and an ally whose restoration he does not intend to permit. He wants authority because he believes it can protect the people he lived among. Those people are not present merely to validate that belief, and some will resist the future he proposes even if he succeeds against Sareth.
The immediate alliance is real. Its two leaders are cooperating against the same dictator while preparing for different outcomes after his defeat. Eiran accepts the arrangement because he has no adequate alternative, not because Cress has earned his trust.
Part Three ends on Earth with the alliance formed, Sadala occupied, and Eiran committed to becoming its next ruler for the people rather than returning it to Cress.