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Chapter 1- The End of the Beginning.

Pain shot through my body in waves. Not one inch of me couldn't feel the searing ache. I can't believe this! I thought. I should be out there, helping my friends beat this... this monster. Not lying here too injured to move! If only that wretched Vegeta hadn't lopped off my tail! Oh, if I could stand, then I'd show him... I attempted to get up, but to my displeasure I merely collapsed back onto the rocky ground. I gritted my teeth in discomfort. My gaze then drifted to the battlefield, where Gohan lay unclothed on top of a motionless Vegeta. Krillin's face was lit up in pure excitement and relief, and he limped to Goku's side to assure him it was over. I couldn't help but smile. It's done with. Finally all the pain and suffering is at an end. Everyone's sacrifices are no longer in vain... But as I ended my thought, I noticed something moving in my peripheral vision. Vegeta had pulled out a remote- the one to his space pod. He pushed a few buttons and his pod landed just few feet from him. No... he must be to weak to move. He won't escape. This is over. Though while I watched him turn himself over and inch to his salvation, I saw I was wrong. With the little strength left in my body, I managed to call out.

"Krillin, are you blind! Don't let him escape!"

Krillin looked from me to Vegeta, and took on a weary expression. He held his aching arm, grabbed the katana that Yajirobe had left behind, and trudged over to the fleeing enemy.

Vegeta's eyes widened as he turned around and saw Krillin holding the katana to his back. It was a look that I had never once seen him bear the entire time he had spent here. Could it possibly be fear? I would have laughed at him, were it not for the pain.

"Where is all your confidence now, Prince Vegeta? Oh, how the mighty have fallen." I said to myself with a smirk, instead.

I watched Krillin yell out as he was about to strike, but he stopped just short of his target. Why didn't he follow through with it? I thought, utterly confused. Impatiently, I waited for Krillin to do something, but he just stood there and stared at Goku. And while he stood there, Vegeta continued to crawl into his pod, right from under his grasp. It was infuriating. I got even angrier as I watched Krillin lower the weapon and step back. Vegeta weakly said something that I couldn't hear from my position, and his pod took off.

I clenched my fists together. This was not acceptable, letting the enemy go like that. Apparently Krillin sensed my puzzlement and anger, and shuffled over to explain.

"You... let him go?" I asked, too weak to put much emotion into the question.

Krillin sighed. "Believe me, I didn't want to. I would of finished him right then and there if Goku hadn't stopped me."

"But... but Goku didn't move. He's too injured. How did he...?

"He can talk through his mind, I guess. But he said something about how much of a waste it would be to end him. He said he gets a thrill from the knowledge that there's someone out there stronger than him."

"Of course! I forget I have that ability sometimes..." I thought out loud.

"I'm just worried he'll come back, is all. People like that don't have a change of heart after one beating." He stated.

I nodded, then cringed as an unfathomable amount of pain flew down my spine.

"We really should get to a hospital..." Krillin said in response.

"I won't go."

Krillin looked shocked. "What? Why not! If we leave you here you'll die!"

"I'm going to go somewhere I know of that can treat me better and faster than your Earth hospitals can."

"But we're going to need you with us if we really go through with our plan to find the Dragon Balls on planet Namek!"

"Don't worry, Krillin, the place I'm going isn't too far from Namek. I can meet up with you guys there if you need me." I assured him.

"And if you're healed in time..." He mumbled. "But how are you going to get there?"

I pulled out a remote similar to the one Vegeta had, and entered in my coordinates. "My pod's still intact. I think you guys are the one's who need to worry about transportation."

At that moment my pod landed next to me and I slowly, and agonizingly, hoisted myself inside. "Make sure you tell Goku and Gohan where I'm going to be, okay? And I'll keep in touch with you guys through telepathy, to stay updated on the plan."

"Alright." Krillin said.

"Oh, and Krillin,"

"Yea?"

"Be careful, alright? All of you."

Krillin nodded, and I shut the door of my pod. I was too weak to steer it, so I set it to auto pilot and rocketed off.

Just so you're aware, the first few chapters follow pretty close to the actual show. It's just kinda building up the story line. I'll add in alot more of my own stuff in a bit. So, yea. Thank's for reading! :D