The Ginyu Force were off at a bar on one of Frieza's resort planets, celebrating their latest victory from having near effortlessly conquered yet another planet to add to Frieza's collection. Burter noticed Guldo just having some caffeinated drink and offered him a beer. "Come on, Guldo. Enjoy yourself for once."

Guldo tried to keep a straight face, but subconsciously rolled the eyes on the side of his head. "My body can't tolerate that stuff, I'm not a ten foot giant like you." He had already made his preference abundantly clear before.

Recoome laughed at him after taking a swig from his glass. Despite his bulky body, it was already clear he was getting drunk. "That's not all your body can't tolerate. You almost actually got hurt on that job somehow!"

Ginyu pat Guldo on the shoulder. "Now, now. Guldo is a very valuable asset to our team. He has a wide array of unique talents."

Guldo was glad to get validation from somebody and smirked, glaring at Recoome. "Yeah. Just because I can't blow people up as easy as you, I can stop time and freeze people in place."

Ginyu chuckled nervously. "Heh, well, there's that too. More importantly, however, you're the only one who can complete our team pose! You're so small and green! You're the perfect fit to complete our choreography!"

Recoome, the most avid poser of the team besides the captain, still wasn't satisfied. "He's so fat and out of shape he can barely pose though. Weren't there any other midgets we could've got? I think there was one with a higher power level than his!"

Ginyu shrugged. "I suppose there was another…But he was blue and that would just be redundant with Burter, wouldn't it?"

Recoome nodded. "Yeah, I guess all Guldo has to do is just stand there anyway to make the pose work. He makes the rest of us look better."

Guldo had always hated the group's poses and thought they were silly, aside from being very impractical in the face of combat. He knew his size and skin color had been a factor, but was extremely offended when it had come out that this was the primary reason for him being picked. "Look, I can do more than just pose! You want to talk about 'redundancy?' We don't need three people whose job description all consists of the same thing. I contribute something unique, I can stun people so the rest of you can finish them off. If you like the spotlight so much, you should enjoy me giving you the chance to kill people yourselves!"

Recoome still wasn't convinced. "Who cares? We don't need any help. We're so strong we can just kill everybody with no effort. We don't need you to stun people when we're so fast nobody can escape from us anyway!"

Hearing the word 'fast' mentioned, Burter had to immediately chime in. "Yeah, I'm the fastest guy in the universe after all. Nobody's going to escape my speed."

Guldo groaned. "What's going to happen when we fight somebody that actually gives you trouble? At that point you're going to need my help. Three guys all around the same power level aren't going to do much. You don't have anything to set yourselves apart like I do."

Burter had thought Recoome was being a little harsh on Guldo previously, but at this point he thought Guldo was stepping out of line. "Hey now, don't lump me in with them like that! I'm super unique! My speed means I'm way faster than Recoome and Jeice!"

Everyone in the group knew Burter was incredibly insecure about his speed, given he was slower than both Ginyu and Frieza. Ginyu humored Burter and let his friend keep the title, deliberately holding himself back in battle to be slower to not burst Burter's bubble. Guldo gave Burter a cocky smirk. "You know…I can stop time. Everyone else is at a total standstill and can't move at all. Technically, -I- am the fastest in the universe."

Before Guldo finished the sentence, Burter casually punched him across the room before he could react, instantly getting back into his seat and sipping his beer as he let out a big laugh. "Ooohhh, why didn't you see that coming, you time stopping speed demon you?" The rest of the force laughed along with him as Guldo struggled to get up from the force of the blow. He'd been punched in his leftmost gigantic eye in the side of his head. He eventually got up, mumbling under his breath as he begrudgingly took back his seat.

Ginyu tried to console Guldo. "Look, Guldo, if you're so concerned about practicality, I wouldn't need any of you at all. I'm stronger than all of you put together, so just focus on your poses more. Those are what need work."

This only made Guldo angrier. "I could've gone and been one of Frieza's right hand men if I'd wanted to. I could beat Zarbon and Dodoria any time of the week. I turned that position down specifically for this job!"

Jeice was starting to get tired of this. "You still yappin' after Burter punched your face in? Frieza wouldn't want somebody with a power level of 10K next to him all the time."

"If I've told you once I've told you a thousand times, my power level-"

Jeice spoke over Guldo and finished his sentence for him. "Yeah yeah your power level doesn't take into account your psychic powers and you're soooo much stronger than the rest of us. Just give it a rest already, will ya? Nobody cares. We were tryin' to have a nice little celebration here but you always gotta go and ruin the fun, ya little wanker."

"Remind me what it is you do again, Jeice? Besides do that big combination attack with Burter. Burter is, after all, the fastest man who has ever lived-"

Burter interrupted Guldo. "Or ever will live!"

Guldo could barely hold back a chuckle at Burter's insecurity, giving a smirk before continuing. "Anyway, Burter is more useful on his own. You're more like, Burter's wingman. A supportive fighter rather than the main show, like I am." Guldo didn't actually believe Burter was any different from the rest of them, but played along with that enough to try to make a different point. He wasn't eager to get punched in the face again, he was still feeling the pain in his eye from the last one.

"Oi, don't compare me to the likes of you, Guldo. Don't even pretend. I'm the second in command of the Ginyu Force after all!"

"Why is that, anyway?"

Jeice grit his teeth. "Are you seriously gonna tell me it should be you?"

Guldo knew he had to pit the other members against each other to try to get anywhere with these people. He had to take the focus off himself. "Oh no no no, of course not! But Recoome's ultimate attack is so strong he can destroy planets, and he easily kills the most people of any of us. I think he should be second in command."

While Recoome was just as egotistical as any of them, he hadn't really thought about Jeice's rank before. "Huh, yeah. Why IS Jeice the second in command?" He asked Ginyu directly, expecting some kind of answer. Jeice also glared at the captain, expecting him to finally shut Guldo up.

Ginyu scratched the back of his head and looked at the ceiling, desperately trying to avoid the question. Truth be told, the reason was seniority, though all of the members besides Guldo had joined the force at roughly the same time anyway. "Well, ah, you see…"

Guldo took further advantage of the situation to push this further. "Aside from Recoome being the second strongest of us in battle, he also has the best poses of us by far! He does more than just pose before the fight, he poses DURING the fight. I mean, if that's not dedication, I don't know what is!" Guldo could barely hold himself back from lacing his voice with sarcasm, given the posing if anything constantly left Recoome open to being attacked.

Recoome nodded in agreement. "Yeah, you're right, Guldo! I should be second in command! My poses are way better than Jeice's!"

Guldo was going to try to push this as far as it could go. He wanted to drag someone else down with him. "Yes, yes, and he should be below Burter also! Jeice is far from the fastest in the universe!"

Ginyu didn't know what to say and was struggling to come up with a response. Finally, someone showed interest in somebody other than themselves when Burter spoke up to come to his friend's defense. "Look, Guldo. Even if everything you said about Jeice was true, which it's not, at least he's not a little conniving asshole like you trying to pit us against each other. If you're gonna call me insecure about my speed, then why don't you stop trying to compensate so hard?"

Jeice was appreciative he could at least count on somebody to step in, and quickly took the chance to change the topic back to insulting Guldo. "I mean, he's got a lot of compensatin' to do, Burter. I called him a wanker but I don't think he's got much of anything down there."

Recoome laughed stupidly at the joke, being a fan of low brow humor. "Yeah, I bet the only way Guldo could get action would be if he used his time stop! No way any chick would ever want to do it with him!"

While Guldo disagreed with everything else that had been said, this one was more or less true and stung more than the rest, not that he was going to let them see that. Still, he had no real comeback. "Yes yes, hilarious." He looked on in boredom and zoned out from the rest of what they said, taking his leave before the rest of them. While he had full confidence in his ability to best Zarbon and Dodoria, he had been humiliated by Vegeta directly in front of Frieza, which would leave a pretty terrible impression on him. Vegeta was a mere Saiyan, so it's unlikely Frieza would even entertain Guldo's offer. At this point, though, he just wanted people to finally respect him. He wanted people to suck up to him like he'd had to do to others, he was tired of being on the bottom. While it had gotten to the point where he regularly got in jabs at the other Ginyu Force members, he'd always get shot down and put back into his place in the hierarchy before long.

Guldo was in his usual quarters on the resort Frieza planet, relaxing in a 5 star hotel next to a large beach. The majority of the planet's original inhabitants had long since been killed outside of a handful made into slaves for the VIP guests allowed to come, such as the Ginyu Force. This kind of life was the main reason he continued to stay in the Ginyu Force despite the fact he loathed the lot of them. Guldo was far from the nicest person to the slaves, threatening them with death if they so much as didn't prepare his food exactly the way he wanted it. Since joining the force, he had killed so many people he was desensitized to it, and only acknowledged people in his personal life and those with higher power levels as "people."

Guldo's larger left eye had swollen up into a black eye from Burter's punch in the bar, and he was in the middle of applying some eye drops into it when he eventually got a call from room service. He was agitated that they'd interrupted him and blamed it on them despite them having no way to know what he was doing. "Yes? Did you get in more chili for my burgers yet?"

"Not yet I'm afraid, it's on its way. However, there was somebody here to see you, Guldo. A man by the named of Gurd. He claims to be your grandpa. Do you want to see him?"

Guldo had thought his grandpa had died of old age recently, but he was curious enough he wasn't going to disallow it. "How did he get a pass to be on this planet? Whoever he is, send him in. If he's an imposter, I'll kill him for daring to impersonate one of my relatives. In that likely event, I'll need you to clean up my room of his body afterwards. I'll tell you when that happens."

The voice on the other end was a bit shaken, but wasn't going to respond with anything other than an affirmative response. "Yes, of course! I'll send him right in."

When 'Gurd' came to the door, it was largely like looking into a mirror for Guldo. He had the same build, though was very old and wrinkled, and slightly less fat. Guldo immediately recognized him as not being his grandpa. "You've got 10 seconds to tell me why I shouldn't just kill you for-"

The other man was quick to put his hands up. "Relax, Guldo. That was just a story for everyone else. I fully intend on being honest with you. Sit down and get comfy, because there's a lot to explain." The other man took a seat with little to no hesitation, being strangely familiar with the room.

Guldo continued to stand, irritated. "Who do you think you are? Show some respect! You can't just waltz in like you own the place!"

"That's just the thing. I do own the place. I know this will be difficult to accept, but I'm you, from the future." He used time stop to appear in several various places in the room to demonstrate his ability, holding his breath before coughing and hacking due to his old age.

Guldo was puzzled and wanted more proof than this, but before he could even ask his future self was savvy enough to speak up. "Yes, I know this is sudden. But trust me, I can prove it. You just got that black eye from daring to challenge the oh so sensitive Burter on his speed, right?" He paused and smirked. "It's true, by the way. We -are- far faster than he could ever hope to be."

Guldo was still not totally convinced but was curious enough he was going to start asking questions. "How did you even get back here? I can stop time, not go back in time."

"You have a lot more potential than even you realize. I had to spend nearly a lifetime of training to make my ability powerful enough to go back, but I've finally mastered it. I don't know exactly how it works, I was halfway expecting a paradox when I came back to meet you. From what I was told by Cell in hell, though, this should just be another split timeline. This is just an alternate universe from where I came from."

"In…In hell? What do you mean, in hell?!"

"It might shock you, but it turns out mercilessly killing people doesn't send you to heaven."

"Well yeah, that goes without saying. But why did I die? You…You just died of old age, right?"

The elder shook his head. "I grew old within hell. If I hadn't come to intervene, you wouldn't have all that much longer to live. I'm here to prevent your death."

"Wouldn't that stop you from existing?"

"Like I said, it's a split timeline. The fact we're even able to talk means we're entirely separate people. Up until this point in our lives, though, we went through the same experiences."

Most of the timeline theory was going over Guldo's head. "Fine, whatever! You're the expert. I'll take your word for it. More importantly, how do I die?"

"The rest of the Ginyu Force, along with us, are tasked with going to a planet called Namek to get the Dragonballs. We're in the middle of fighting some weaklings when Vegeta spontaneously comes behind us and decapitates us."

"Vegeta? Seriously, VEGETA?! He's so weak, how could he possibly-"

"Yes, yes, that's what I thought at the time. He had gotten stronger, though even with that power boost I'd have been able to defeat him. The point is, he's a dirty fighter. He took the chance to kill us while we were distracted."

"So all we have to do is kill him first, right? That shouldn't be so hard."

The elder laughed. "Oh, it's a lot more complicated than that. After we're killed by Vegeta, some long lost Saiyan not in Frieza's army called Goku shows up and kills the rest of the force. He even goes so far as to kill Frieza himself."

Guldo stared at him in disbelief. "Okay, I'd gone along with what you'd said up until now, but that's just stupid. You're losing me. Only Vegeta and two others survived the destruction of the Saiyan homeworld. Saiyans are a super weak race. If there's a guy that strong, what do you expect me to do to stop it anyway?"

"Saiyans are deceptively powerful, there's a reason Frieza blew up their planet. For perspective, in hell, Raditz claimed he was Goku's brother. Even Raditz could potentially become powerful enough to defeat Frieza. They have some bizarre ability called 'Zenkai' where if they get into a near death experience, their power level goes through a permanent massive increase."

"And how did they never figure this out before?"

"Because they're a bunch of idiots who only fight people that they can easily beat. You know how strong people in Frieza's army are. The rest of the Ginyus went on about how they don't need someone like us to support them when they can kill someone so easily themselves…And that's exactly why they died. Hell, if we had teamed up properly, Ginyu and I might've stood a chance against Goku. The other three were useless."

Guldo groaned. "Saiyan biology is so stupid. I'd have probably blown the planet up too in Frieza's position. What's the plan from here?"

"I should've gone back far enough in time that Goku and Vegeta should still be at their weakest. Namek has Dragonballs that can grant three wishes, while Earth has Dragonballs that can grant one wish. Vegeta should be going to earth around this time to fight Goku for Earth's Dragonballs, and we need to stop them and get there first to use it for ourselves. It'll also be our chance for revenge for what they did to us."

"Sounds like a good plan. Should we prepare before we head back? Maybe you could teach me your time travel technique?"

"That would take ages. I'm lucky it worked out as well as it did. Even without me there to help you, you should be more than powerful enough to defeat Vegeta and Goku in this state before they get the Dragonballs. We need to get going as soon as possible, there's no time for any burgers."

"Just as well, this dump is out of chili anyway." Guldo didn't entirely trust this other version of himself, and had thoughts he might attempt to betray him. He considered just using all of the knowledge he had just got and killing him right there on the spot like he'd said he would to the slaves. The elder Guldo would probably want to waste a wish on returning to his youth before he died of old age. It was obvious the other Guldo would probably croak over soon, given he struggled to walk and instead just flew around to travel more easily. "What exactly are you proposing I use the wish for, anyway?"

"There's a lot of limitations on what does and doesn't work. We can't wish to become more powerful than or to effect people more powerful than the dragon, which includes just about everyone. My proposal is simple...I've had a long, long time to think about it. We're going to wish our race had an unlimited lung capacity so that we can stop time indefinitely."

Guldo gave him a big smirk. "Even for me, that's pretty genius. If we can hold our breath forever, then who can stop us?"

"Exactly. The 3 wishes from the Namekian Dragonballs can be reserved for me regaining my youth and getting us bodies more worthy of us. Maybe immortality. That will just be a victory lap."

Guldo laughed and pat him on the back before going to walk out of the room with him. "You really have thought of everything! Couldn't have put it better myself."

The elder Guldo just gave a small sigh, annoyed at the pun. "Just call me Gurd, like I told everyone else. As far as the rest know, you're just going on a vacation with your grandpa."

Guldo and Gurd had almost made it down to Earth, still in their space pods. They were just now being awoken from stasis as they were about to enter the Earth's atmosphere, given it took them nearly a week to get there. In the least, the pods were spacious for someone as small as Guldo, given they were made big enough to carry hulking giants as big as Burter and Recoome, so Guldo wasn't especially stiff despite his body having been motionless for several days. When they landed and came out of their pods, it was clear Gurd was having a significantly harder time as he came out of his pod, practically coughing up a storm. Guldo went over to help him, but Gurd dismissively waved him off. "Don't worry, this is nothing compared to what I've gone through. Soon my age won't be a concern anymore regardless."

Gurd pointed off to two nearby pods. "There. Those must be Vegeta and Nappa's pods. They just landed here with the automated coordinates like we did. We have to hurry."

Guldo shrugged. "How are we going to track them? Did you bring a scouter?"

Gurd scoffed. "Of course not. You know as well as I do that scouters aren't made to fit on our heads. Anyway, yes, I thought this out. I learned to sense ki long before I learned how to travel through time. I'm not super good at it…But the biggest power level on this planet is unmistakably Vegeta's." He pointed off in another direction. "Half a dozen miles to the east."

The pair flew off together into the distance. Half a dozen miles didn't take them long to travel across with their level of speed before they eventually reached a desolate land. Guldo and Gurd hid behind a tall rock formation, waiting for the ideal chance to strike. Next to the ideal spot was a short fat samurai, whom attempted to run off in terror. Gurd sighed as he froze him in place with his Paralaysis technique. "Get rid of him."

Guldo levitated up a javelin made out of earth from the wall before getting ready to impale Yajirobe with it. "Is this really necessary?"

"I'm not going to risk everything I've come back for on the off chance this loser doesn't give away our position. Just do it."

Yajirobe just desperately attempted to flail around in the air. Gurd used his levitation to keep Yajirobe's mouth shut to prevent him from calling for help. Guldo did as ordered, casually impaling him to execute him.

Both the green aliens peeked out from around the corner to witness the ongoing battle. The arena was presumably chosen by the Z Fighters to minimize outside casualties from the fight. Several corpses were scattered about, with the newest body added to the pile being Nappa's as Goku casually tossed the hulking giant to the ground next to him. He addressed Vegeta. "Look, whoever you are, just take your friend with you and go. He's the one that killed my friends, and he's never going to be able to fight again. "

Vegeta folded his arms and scoffed. "Friend? A Saiyan who can't fight is worthless."

Nappa knew he could be saved by just taking a bath in a healing tank back in Frieza's territory, but he wasn't going to say that with Goku right there when he'd just killed so many of his friends. Still, it didn't even occur to him that Vegeta could betray him. He extended a hand up to Vegeta. "Vegeta, I can't even get up. Help a pal out here, would ya?"

Vegeta took Nappa's hand, reassuring him that Vegeta was just joking about what he said before. "Thanks, Vegeta. I know you'll be able to beat this disgrace to our race."

Vegeta smirked as he stared down at Nappa's beaten and bloodied face. "The only disgrace to our race is the person I'm staring at right now." Vegeta took advantage of his grip on Nappa to throw him a couple hundred feet into the air as he screamed in shock. Vegeta laughed at him as getting his hand in position to fire up at Nappa to finish him off. "Stop whining, a Saiyan should die with honor!" He charged up an energy wave. "Maybe you won't be such a disappoint in death!"

Gurd had already met Nappa in hell and already knew about this, given Nappa never shut up about how much he hated Vegeta. Guldo, on the other hand, was seeing this for the first time. Gurd spoke to Guldo telepathically to not draw any attention to them. "Alright, we go when he releases the beam from his hand to catch him off guard and kill him. 3…2…" Gurd turned over to his side to notice that without warning, Guldo was gone and had used his time stop ability. Gurd had entirely intended to sacrifice Nappa to guarantee the kill on Vegeta, but Guldo moved over with his time stop and leapt off the top of a rock spire to tackle Nappa out of the way of the attack.

Guldo wasn't entirely sure why he'd done it himself as he unfroze time. He certainly wasn't a good natured or heroic person, he just hated Vegeta enough that seeing this made him sick to his stomach. He saw an element of himself in Nappa, and wasn't going to let Vegeta humiliate another person like he humiliated him. He'd seen the kind of person he was eventually going to become in Gurd who so carelessly executed Yajirobe, and he didn't like it. While he'd mercilessly killed plenty of people in his time, this was a pretty direct wake up call when everything was put in front of him like this.

As time unfroze, nearly everybody was confused. Gurd was angry enough that he broke his cover to come out from behind the rock spire and yell at Guldo. "What'd you go and do that for?! That was the perfect chance to kill him!"

Guldo came up with a quick excuse to try to justify it to Gurd, replying telepathically. "Look, Nappa is so beat up his Zenkai should trigger, right? I saved his life, he owes us now. He'll be a good ally."

Vegeta was terrified at the sight of Guldo. He wasn't afraid of Guldo himself, but where one Ginyu was, the rest of the force was likely to follow. He frantically checked his scouter before the expression of terror turned into a smug grin. "You really scared me for a second there, Guldo. I almost thought a real threat was going to show up. What, did you get fired from the Ginyu Force?" He laughed before scanning Gurd with his scouter. "And who's this old man? His power level's even lower than yours!"

Guldo had been told by now that Goku was the heroic type, so he attempted to pretend his actions were out of some sense of justice. "That's not important! The important thing is that we've come here to stop you from doing your villainous deeds, you…Villain! I'm nothing like you!" Guldo was making this all up on the fly and could hardly believe how cheesy this sounded.

Vegeta could hardly hold back his laughter, to the point he eventually just burst out into a hearty laugh. "I'll take that as a yes on being fired from the Ginyus, then. Don't know why else you'd try to save a wimp like Nappa."

Nappa was still in enough pain he was struggling to process everything that had just happened, but managed to prop himself up against a rock. He had no idea why somebody like Guldo would want to save him. After the destruction of Planet Vegeta, the only other people he'd been able to trust were the two other surviving Saiyans. While his savior was puzzling enough, Vegeta's betrayal was devastating enough that that's all he was able to focus on. "How could you do that to me, Vegeta?! I was like a father to you after Planet Vegeta blew up!"

Vegeta stopped laughing, getting legitimately offended at what Nappa had said. "A father? You were nothing like my father! My father wouldn't have gone down like a sniveling coward and lose to a no name low class Saiyan like Kakarot!" He paused. "You know why I still call myself the -prince- of all Saiyans, right? The title of king still belongs to my father. Unlike you, he earned that respect!"

Nappa grit his teeth and shook his fist. "How old were you when your dad died? I knew him way longer than you, buddy. I was his general, while he just sat on his throne doing nothing. When planet Vegeta blew up, I bet your daddy screamed REAL good before he died!"

Vegeta was visibly shaking with fury and wanted to take the chance to kill him right then and there. He blasted off towards Nappa at top speed, wanting to take the chance to kill him before anyone else could interfere. Guldo wasn't nearly as fast as Vegeta in raw speed and attempted to levitate up debris in the middle of his path. Vegeta was able to maneuver around it at high speeds and avoid the brunt of it, only getting scratched by the side of the attack as he made his way in. Guldo used his signature ability to stop time right as Vegeta got in his and Nappa's face. Vegeta had an energy blast prepared to kill the both of them, but with the time stop increasing Guldo's reaction time, he was able to throw it back into Vegeta's face with his levitation as time resumed.

Getting hit by his own attack, Vegeta was stunned as his high speed meant he kept going and crashed through a large rock formation that fell down on and crushed him, skidding off into the distance. Guldo was quite pleased with himself as he pointed and laughed at Vegeta. While he knew he was the better fighter, he still hadn't totally expected the plan to work.

Goku had just watched all of this occur, not really understanding any of it. He addressed Gurd. "So who's side are you two on again?"

Gurd just went along with what Guldo had proposed. He had originally intended to kill Goku here also, but he decided that could wait for the time being. "Yours. We're here to help protect the earth from Frieza's forces. A galactic emperor far more powerful than Vegeta and Nappa who has conquered countless planets is going to come here soon, and we need the Dragonballs to stop him."

Goku scratched the back of his head. "Nice to have some aliens be friendly for a change, but we're fresh out of Dragonballs. That big muscular guy you saved? Nappa? He killed Piccolo, and without him there's no Dragonballs."

The large eyes on the side of Gurd's head visibly twitched in anger as he threw his hands up in the air. "OF COURSE there's no Dragonballs here." He murmured out loud. "ALL because of that STUPID Vegeta." Regardless of Nappa having been the one to do it, Gurd hated Vegeta enough that he irrationally placed all the blame on him.

While Vegeta was sure of himself, he was unfamiliar with Guldo's abilities and realized he had to take this fight seriously after how casually Guldo had interrupted his attack. To Vegeta, it just appeared like Guldo had reacted with near instant speed to repel the attack, and that wasn't something he could compete with, much less if they all ganged up on him. If he couldn't outspeed Guldo, he could at least outmuscle him. Vegeta hid in the rubble and produced a fake moon to transform into a Great Ape before bursting out from it. After completing the transformation, Vegeta made sure to destroy the moon so that Nappa couldn't transform either, though Nappa was fading from consciousness anyway. Now towering over everyone else in a body over a hundred feet tall, Vegeta laughed. "This is the power you threw away by getting rid of your tail, Kakarot. This form is meant to level civilizations! You should consider it an honor that I'm using it to kill you. If you had been one of us, this is the kind of power you could have at your fingertips!" Vegeta clenched his giant hand into a fist as he let out a smug grin.

Gurd stared up at Vegeta, for once actually scared. He went over next to Guldo and went to chew him out. "See? If you had just gone along with the plan, we wouldn't have to deal with this! Was it worth it?"

Guldo groaned. "Just use paralysis to stop him, alright? He's big and slow. It should be easy." Guldo attempted to use his paralysis technique on the great ape, followed by Gurd. Vegeta was so big in this form, though, that he couldn't be fully contained within the effects of Paralysis. Gurd kept one arm held in place while Guldo kept the other arm held down.

Vegeta was shocked that Guldo was even this strong as he grimaced in pain. "How? HOW? Your power level is less than a tenth of mine in this form!" He roared in anger as he desperately tried to free his arms, but was unable. Still, just because his arms were restrained, that didn't mean the rest of his body couldn't move. He chuckled. "No matter."

He charged a massive mouth beam. Guldo attempted to extend his paralysis to Vegeta's upper body, but to no avail. "You had a lifetime to train or whatever, can't you freeze any more of his body than that?!"

Gurd scoffed at Guldo. "I'm not used to fighting enemies this big!" He said as he too failed to extend out the paralysis' area of effect. Vegeta was almost ready to fire off the beam. "Abandon ship!" Gurd and Guldo used their time stop to avoid the attack, left with little other choice. When he came out of the time stop, Gurd looked around. "Well, at least Goku will surely have used the time we bought him to land an attack, right?"

Goku was off saving Nappa from the attack, taking him well out of the arena to not get in the way of any future attacks before he came back. Being saved by a third party was one thing, but Nappa was almost offended the person who had just beaten him up was trying to save him. "What're you saving me for? Guldo was weird enough, but you? Those guys I killed were your friends, weren't they?"

While Goku had killed people more carelessly as a child, he'd grown up into a more idealistic person as an adult. "After you were put in a position like that, I thought you might be able to see things from the perspectives of your victims. It's never too late to change." Goku hoped he could make another success story like Piccolo out of this.

Nappa still found it puzzling a Saiyan with such a warped mindset could manage to exist. He just laughed it off, not wanting to take responsibility for his actions just yet. "You can't be a true warrior when you're that soft, kid. If you hesitate to finish off your opponent, that'll be more than enough time for them to seize the opportunity."

"Then I'll just have to be even stronger." Goku put Nappa down and whisked off back to the fight. Nappa could hardly believe Goku had said something so cliché. Even if he was strong, with a mindset like that there was no way he could beat someone like Vegeta in Nappa's mind.

Meanwhile, Guldo and Gurd were attempting to fend Vegeta off with eye laser attacks and throwing debris at him. Vegeta was able to shrug off almost all of the attacks, with the worst that he was getting was having his ape fur singed by the explosive techniques. The two green aliens attempted to attack Vegeta from behind, but Vegeta only had to take a couple steps to keep his back to them given his massive size.

Vegeta was attempting to grab and punch at Guldo and Gurd, but it was like swatting flies as neither party was able to inflict much damage on the other. Deciding to launch an attack that was too big to dodge, Vegeta hefted a massive boulder from the ground before throwing it straight at Guldo. Guldo had already recently used his time stop so he couldn't avoid it that way, so he instead had to carve out a hole in the middle of the boulder with his eye lasers to not suffer the impact of the hit. Gurd took the chance to use his time stop to latch onto Vegeta's tail, and used his paralysis on it to try to stun him. While Gurd had a lot of intel on how Saiyans worked from the dead Raditz and Nappa of his timeline, Gurd had assumed what Raditz had told him in the afterlife for how Goku had defeated him would apply to Vegeta.

Vegeta just laughed this off and went to grab Gurd, dragging him off his tail. "That doesn't work on a Saiyan Elite like me, fool!" Gurd had already used both his time stop and paralysis, his two primary techniques, and was unable to avoid Vegeta's grab because of it. Vegeta considered bringing Gurd up against his face to intimidate him, but thought better of it and trapped him fully inside his hand. Vegeta had been perceptive enough by now to learn how they stopped time, and didn't want to give Gurd any chance to breathe as he suffocated the already out of breath Gurd. "Not so tough now when you can't breathe, are you?! I figured out the secret to your speed!"

Vegeta kept laughing, but couldn't keep it up for long before Guldo came up to try to free his future self. Guldo intended to use paralysis on Vegeta's hand to force him to drop Gurd, but Vegeta realized what was going to happen as he backed off and swatted away at Guldo with his free hand. Unable to otherwise communicate, Gurd went out of his way to talk to Guldo telepathically. "Just go after his tail and kill him! He only has one hand, he can't stop you!"

"What about you, though? I can't just leave you in there."

"I know that, you idiot! You're not abandoning me, just force him to revert so I can get out of his grip!"

"Can't you just use your time travel or something?"

"That takes nearly an hour, I can't use it in combat!"

Not wanting to fall to the same fate as Gurd, Guldo didn't want to use time stop for anything other than evasive purposes. After failing to get past Vegeta, Guldo eventually went under his giant legs and attempted to saw off his tail with his eye lasers. Frantic, Vegeta simply went to sit down to try to crush Guldo and cover up his weak spot by sitting on it, forcing another use of Guldo's time stop. This left Vegeta open enough for Goku to finally attempt a Kamehameha aimed at Vegeta's hand to try to free Gurd as he came back into the fight. Just because Vegeta's body was slower, though, it didn't mean his reaction time was any slower. As Vegeta saw the attack coming, he threw Gurd directly into the blast. Gurd was too suffocated from being squeezed by Vegeta's giant hand that he was unable to use time stop, resulting in Goku's blast killing him. Karma had hit Gurd hard for killing Yajirobe, given the fat samurai had somehow managed to cut off Vegeta's tail in the primary timeline he'd originally come from. The beam went well past Gurd and into Vegeta's hand, singing his fur slightly as the first attack so far that had managed to damage him in this form.

Vegeta let out a hearty laugh. "You spend all that time saving that useless fool Nappa, all just to kill another ally on accident. Are you seeing just how stupid you are now, Kakarot? It's impossible to keep dead weight like them around! Only the strong survive in the real world!"

Guldo was practically traumatized that he'd somehow failed to save his alternate self. If a more experienced version of himself that could time travel couldn't survive, what chance did he have? He knew Vegeta was a weakling in his regular form, but was getting incredibly overwhelmed by Vegeta's raw power in Great Ape form. "If you're so confident, why don't you try to fight me without your giant form, huh, big shot?"

Vegeta chuckled. "Oh, cute little Guldo. Aren't you the one who always whined that your power level undersold your fighting abilities? Don't think you're so special. I've kept the raw power of this form on the downlow for years, and I'm not going to let you live to tattle to Ginyu about it!"

He went and did a simple stomp after Guldo, which was rather easily evaded. Knowing that Goku apparently somehow defeated Frieza in the alternate timeline, he looked over to him angrily. "What's the plan now?!"

Goku wasn't exactly the best when it came to strategy. "I dunno, Guldo. You have that weird stun ability, right? Could you hold him for a while while I charge my spirit bomb attack?"

Guldo grunted. "Fine, how long do I have to hold him?"

"Two minutes or so?"

Guldo rolled all four of his eyes. "Two MINUTES? Who would EVER let you charge up an attack that long?"

Goku shrugged. "Well, something similar worked on that Raditz guy who came through here earlier. I guess it did get me killed though, so it's probably not a good idea!"

Realizing Goku was an idiot and clearly the much weaker of the two Saiyans here, Guldo came up with his own plan. "Fine, how about this. You need to get him to use his mouth beam attack, alright?"

"How am I supposed to do that?"

"I've been the distraction for WAY too long in this fight! It's your turn to take the heat. Get up in his face, try to attack his eyes, I don't know."

Goku did as directed by Guldo, lacking much in the way of other ideas when the vicious Vegeta wasn't giving them much chance to fight back or to even try to attack his tail. Goku attempted to dodge around Vegeta's face as firing small ki blasts towards his eyeballs, prompting Vegeta to shield his eyes with one hand as peeking between his fingers, swatting at Goku with the other. Goku was only very narrowly avoiding getting grabbed. Realizing he wasn't making much progress this way with his goal, Goku went down into his mouth and attempted to fire a Kamehameha down Vegeta's throat as he briefly opened his mouth. Vegeta was on point, however, interrupting Goku long before he could do it as he bit forwards at him. Left with no other choice to evade the attack while keeping his Kamehameha beam going, Goku moved forwards slightly to evade Vegeta's giant teeth and enter his mouth as the beam was ready to fire, sending it down his gullet. Vegeta's insides were far more vulnerable to the attack than his outsides, doing great damage to him if not nearly enough to take him out.

Meanwhile, Vegeta had to sit down again to defend his tail from being attacked by Guldo, with Guldo's levitated javelins not even able to pierce the giant ape's armor around his lower torso. Taking Goku's Kamehameha caused enough pain to Vegeta he fell over on his back in pain, taking a couple seconds to get up. As he fell over, he opened his mouth in pain, allowing Goku to escape it. Goku kept up the assault, flying directly towards his face. Vegeta, afraid of something similar happening again, charged his mouth blast to try to wipe Goku out. Goku didn't have enough time to get out of the way of the attack's massive area of effect and could easily be wiped out by the move, but Guldo finally took his chance. With all of his might, Guldo used the power of his levitation to force Vegeta's mouth closed just as the beam was ready to fire, causing Vegeta to take the full brunt of his own attack as the blast went directly through the front of his primate muzzle and shattered all of his teeth. While the blast still hit Goku, going through Vegeta's body significantly weakened the otherwise fatal attack from killing him.

Vegeta grit what remained of his teeth, now missing a large portion of the skin from around his mouth. He was in great pain and strained himself to be able to speak, but given his tail was still in perfect condition he wasn't forced to go back to his previous form just yet. "You were so weak that you had to use my own power to damage me. How utterly pathetic." With some hesitance he stood back up from the ground. "Was that the best plan you had? Do you think I'm going to be stupid enough to use that attack again, Guldo?" He looked around from side to side. With his towering height, he was able to see a massive distance, but he still couldn't see him. Even with the damage he had taken, he still had plenty enough fight in him to let out another laugh. "It seems your last ally has abandoned you! This is what trusting in others gets you, Kakarot. The only person you can rely on at the end of the day is yourself!"

Guldo had realized the fight was nothing short of hopeless, especially when he'd lost Gurd. Guldo was taking the chance to run after Vegeta took the biggest damage he was going to take, having used time stop to get as far away as possible and to reunite with Nappa. He picked him up with his levitation as he made his way back over to the pods. Nappa was happy to see Guldo. "You're back, does that mean you finished him off?"

Guldo groaned. "No, no, of course not. That would be too simple. I missed my chance for a clean kill on him because I was too busy saving you." Guldo was deeply regretting having traded the life of his alternate self for Nappa.

"What did you even come here for in the first place? Did Frieza order you to put Vegeta down or something?"

"It's a long story. I came here for the Dragonballs, like you, but apparently, they're already gone because you went and killed their creator like an idiot. For now, we need to escape this planet before Vegeta is done with 'Kakarot.'"

"What about after that? What are you gonna need me for?"

Guldo didn't intend to tell Nappa about his race's insanely powerful Zenkai ability yet. "We're going to Namek to claim the Dragonballs of that planet instead. Those grant three wishes instead of just one. I'll get two wishes, and you'll get the one leftover. Only fair considering I saved your life, isn't it?" Guldo was unsure of if he intended to follow through and actually give Nappa that wish or not, but he wasn't going to go to Namek empty handed.

Nappa was still unsure of why Guldo needed him, though even without a Zenkai boost Nappa was still a powerful force to be reckoned with thanks to his own Great Ape form that he never got the chance to use against Goku. "You've got yourself a deal."