Quest For The Dragon Balls; Desertification Hell
Diablo Desert. One of the dryest biomes on Earth, the home to virtually nothing with the exception of barren and broken pillars. Your luck couldn't have been any worse; you were on the hunt for two more Dragon Balls so you could summon the eternal dragon Shenron, and one of those balls just had to be in a desert. It doesn't help that the boat you rode on the way here has drifted out to sea due to you forgetting to tie it somewhere, so you were basically stuck on an island that exerted an aura of death. Not a good look.
You were walking, seemingly aimlessly, with your familiarity against the wilderness proving the only shield you had against the bitter warmth. Every place you looked just screamed that you had a chance of never making it out; the astrayed animal skulls that dotted the dunes like spots on a dalmation, the absence of life and resources, and the aforementioned hazardous climate. It couldn't have gotten wors-
???: "Hey, trespasser!"
You immediately went into high alert. A voice? In this place? Impossible, was the heat hurting your head already? You'd wish it did, because turning your head to the source would result in the sight of what appeared to be a bandit driving in a motorcycle towards you, and upon closer distance a small blue, anthropormorphic cat behind him. The vehicle would come to a slow halt, the duo now a solid three yardsticks away. Yamcha would exit the motorcycle first, Puar floating along with him.
DESERT BANDIT YAMCHA: "Let's cut this short; I'm Yamcha. These are my lands that you had trespassed upon, and the only way for you to continue your walk without injury is by giving me some money. If you don't provide us some dough, you'll get what is coming." He spoke with an authoritave voice, his face an unwavering smirk.
PUAR: "Yeah Yamcha, you tell 'im!" The cat would add to that with a high-pitched voice. It seems he was only his cheerleader.
It could not have gotten worse than this; you're stranded on one of the dryest deserts ever known, and some guy in a bandit bravado is threatening your life over some cash. There's NO WAY that it could be worse...
Except it could.
Due to your closeness toward summoning Shenron, notorious Emperor Pilaf and his henchmen Agent Shu and Agent Mai have been seeking out the Dragon Balls for themselves to assert worldwide dominance. Mai and Shu were on a mission to steal your Dragon Balls by literally bombing you in secret. Three things can be true apparently: two kinds of people are plotting against robbing your valuables, it's being done in a desert that is known for having a heart-stoppingly low escape rate, and you didn't even know about the Dragon Ball plot, you didn't even know Mai and Shu at all.