"Who are you?" was all Goku could ask. The kid was just there, scratching the back of his head, wondering how somebody else happened to find their way in this area. Goku had been here for a few weeks now and it took him until recently to find his way around the area. For some newcomer to know where he exactly happened to be located was either just a downright coincidence or pure luck.

Raditz was hit hard by those three words being put together and directed towards him. For a moment, he didn't know what to say but after a brief moment of thought, he brushed it to the side. After all, the kid was just a little toddler the last time they had seen each other so it would make sense that he wouldn't remember a lot of things after all these years. Still...he remained skeptical.

"It's me, Kakarot. I can see why you wouldn't recognize me but the moment I laid eyes on you, I just knew who you were. Hell, you look just like father."

"Eh?" Now Goku was left only more confused. He had no idea what this guy was talking about. "Who's Kakarot?"

Now, this was definitely getting weird. Raditz couldn't tell if he was being funny or acting stupid. "Kakarot...your name." Raditz walked closer to the near naked kid. "Stop fooling around. Tell me, why haven't you carried out your mission?"

"I'm going to need to stop you right there," Goku said. Raditz growled deeply into his throat. Just within 1 minute of getting to meet the boy in over a decade, he was already beginning to lose his patience. "Are you mistaking me for someone else or something? I mean, my name is Goku, not that Kaka-whatever you just called me."

"Hm." Now Raditz was putting two and two together. Those people from that little beach definitely referred to a small monkey boy as Goku, the very person Raditz was under the presumption of who must have surely been Kakarot. Now he knew just who were his friends. "So you go by some stupid name over here. When are you going to cut the act and get down to business?"

"What are you talking about?" Goku asked, getting a bit agitated. "And my name isn't stupid! My Grandpa gave me that name!" For someone to insult his name would also be insulting the very man to give it to him; Son Gohan: the only person he cherished most.

Raditz shook his head and sighed deeply. He didn't want to believe it but he sure as hell was starting to. Such cases of a Saiyan child getting amnesia was very, very rare but it didn't mean that they never happened. Just by how Goku was acting in the current moment, he just hoped that it didn't happen to him.

"Tell me, Kakarot...d-"

"Goku," the boy quickly corrected.

"Tch. Did you happen to ever hit your head once when you were very little?"

Goku didn't know why the man would ask such a sudden question, despite it actually having happened in the past. He naturally began rubbing the spot where he was told that he hit his head long ago as a small boy. "Yeah, so?"

Raditz closed his eyes and shook his head. Out of all people, why Kakarot? Why couldn't it have just been some long lost Saiyan out in the cosmos? He hated the current circumstances but there was now only a matter of working with what he got.

"Then that explains it. You don't remember who the hell you really are."

"What do you mean?"

"You know what amnesia is, do you not?" Raditz asked.

"When you forget stuff," Goku answered Raditz. "I've been told that's what it is, am I right?"

"Yes, and you're a victim to it. When you bumped your head as a child, you more than likely forgot who you really are and just where you came from."

"Why do you even care?" Goku asked. "Nobody where I'm supposed to be from cares about me, so I shouldn't either."

Raditz scoffed. "You're wrong." With his menacing presence, he would manage to have anybody be a nervous wreck, but not Goku, at least. Said boy didn't know how to sense ki and it was a good thing he didn't at the moment, otherwise, he'd realize he wouldn't stand a chance in a fight against the guy. "You and I come from the same home, Kakarot: The Planet Vegeta. There resided the Saiyan people, our people."

"So I'm one of you...?"

"Of course," Raditz confirmed. "For that very reason, you are stronger than most of these weaklings by a long-shot. We come from a warrior race that is meant for battle from the very second that they are born. It's been like this with us since as long as I can bear to remember. And I've come back to have you rejoice with us...those that remain, that is."

"Tempting but I'll have to decline," Goku said. "I love just where I'm at and I don't see myself making friends with anybody else than who I got right now. Sorry, but you can go back to where you came from." Even while knowing that the two of them had a deep relation, Goku didn't show any care in the world for it at all. Still, it was very hard for him to believe this stuff and it was quite a lot of information to internalize. Just believing that he was found in the woods as a toddler to coming from an alien planet was a big jump.

"Sure enough if you knew who I really was to you, you wouldn't be talking so much smack either. Kakarot, you and I are brothers, real blood brothers with the same mother and father. It'd be a shame to have to smack some sense into you just after meeting one another. Now, whether you like it or not, you must come back with us."

"What if I don't wanna?"

"Then you'll be making a stupid decision. The world that the rest of our people remain in now is much better and far more luxurious than whatever you've got going on here. We scour the cosmos, fighting all different types of beings for the sole purpose of wiping them out so the planet can be sold to the highest bidder. So not only do we get to make some profit out of it, but we get to have some fun with our battles as well."

"Fighting is fun but killing people isn't the right thing to do! That's not right at all..." Son Goku was all about fighting various opponents, but just to test other people's power as well as his own to get stronger, but killing those that didn't deserve it? Where was the righteousness in that?

"We Saiyans don't care for right and wrong, Kakarot. We do whatever we want just to please our own needs. Despite you hitting your head and being influenced by these feeble beings, I'm more than sure enough that you would come to admire the lifestyle that a true Saiyan warrior lives."

"I don't think so," Goku replied. The kid could feel some hostility from the man rising up and instinctually got into a battle stance.

"I'm willing to spare those you call friends if you just abide by me and do whatever I tell you."

"It's not going to happen," Goku yelled back to him. "Get away from me now or I'll have no choice but to fight."

Seeing Goku willing to fight had Raditz smile. Sure enough, he seemed much different from the regular Saiyan child but the simple need/want to fight was still there. He saw it in Goku's eyes. Not all of his Saiyan tendencies had truly gone away.

"One thing's for sure. I'm definitely not budging."

Goku got the message by this point and went on to make the first move. He had a feeling that Raditz was going to be a tough one to fight though it would be just perfect training for him at this moment in time to see just how much he's progressed. Little did he know the real monster he was about to get in the ring with.

Raditz saw Goku's first movement come a mile away and was already a dozen yards off the ground, arms crossed. Goku had slid through the wet ground and turned around at the last second, being saved from falling down by a group of bushes. Seeing the young man's cocky grin lit a fire in Goku's eyes. He wasn't just some amateur fighter to be taken lightly and he didn't want to be treated as such.

Goku hopped off the ground with just enough force to meet Raditz mid-air. Goku tried with a series of incessant punches but Raditz was dodging all of them. Since the boy didn't know how to fly, they both progressively descended down near the ground.

Goku was getting fed up of not landing a hit and cocked his fist back. "Enough!"

Raditz winked at Goku prior to rocketing back into the sky. Subsequent to missing horribly yet again, Goku fell down right on his two feet. He immediately looked back up to Raditz and cupped his hands together.

"You can stop the act, Kakarot! I'm ten times stronger than you, so there's no way you can come out of this winning!"

PIPIPIPIPIPIPIPI

Just then, Raditz's scouter began to beep, getting a higher read in number. The numbers were coming from none other than his little brother, who seemed to be generating his power through a specially charged attack. Raditz didn't think Goku would be so advanced with his fighting intelligence and would manage to put his power into one single point of attack and increase it. Hell, he himself couldn't even do that.

"113..." Raditz grinned. "Impressive." As much as Goku did power up, Raditz didn't see any harm to him coming out of it. He was still much superior to his little brother in every way and only saw him as child's play.

"KAMEHAMEHA!"

"For you..." Raditz pushed the blue wave of ki directly back to Goku with a single kiai shout as he placed his hand directly in front of him. The force of Raditz's sheer powered dominated Goku's own attack and had the kid eyes wide.

His own Kamehameha was coming back quickly and would result in perhaps fatal damage if he didn't block or get the hell out of dodge. As misfortune would have it, the latter wasn't one of two options. All he could do was guard himself and even then, he would be left with some scars.

Raditz rocketed down and smacked away the blue wave of energy high into the dark and cloudy area just before the younger fighter could have been struck. Goku didn't expect to be saved by his own opponent and was just about in the midst of thanking him.

Before the kid could do so much as open his mouth, Raditz did him in with one shot: an elbow right to the face. Goku was knocked back with blood flying in the air prior to landing down with a thud. Not once after landing did he remotely move, proving that he was knocked out cold.

Raditz turned around and walked over to his unconscious brother. Raditz just stared at Goku as he was down and eyes closed, looking as if he was in a deep sleep but with just a bloody nose to add. "How can you look so much like father and be just about the damn near nothing like him." Bending down, Raditz grabbed Goku by the tail and descended up into the rainy skies of the area.

Raditz recalled the location of where he landed at and was headed directly for it. As he soared through the skies with Goku just hanging, the young Saiyan was deep in his own thoughts. He recalled as to how he was told that Kakarot was sent to a different planet. As he assumed, it would be to destroy it at the time. One would think that he was one of the lucky ones because of the fact that he missed out on the destruction of their homeworld, but then again, he ended up forgetting who he was.

He didn't know if it would all end up a blessing or a curse in disguise. Perhaps that'd be something he'd manage to find out some time later on down the road.

Back at Kame House, Roshi had Launch being well-tended to. The woman had woken up a while ago with an ice pack on her cheek. She initially got up ready to kill whoever she first saw but eventually managed to calm down.

Yamcha was standing with his back against the wall and arms crossed, just looking up at the wall. Nothing but silence had filled the entire area in the place. Just thinking back on it, Yamcha realized he should have done something by now. Hitting Launch was probably the last straw but he was just too shook to do anything.

Krillin was left sitting on the floor, so many questions running through his head. He wondered just what type of relation that guy had with Goku and he also wondered just how deep it ran. Roshi was in the kitchen, thinking the same as Krillin and Yamcha.

KNOCK KNOCK

Everyone's head turned over to the entrance of the door. In came a purple haired woman wearing a tank top and some cut up jeans and sneakers, alongside her being Oolong and Puar, two mutual friends. Just because of having to get there in a hurry after taking a shower, her hair was in a total mess.

"So, tell me, what's going on." Bulma knew by the tone of Roshi's voice over the phone that something big had gone down recently and she wanted to help the others as much as she possibly could.

"We need you to take us over to Baba's place," Roshi told her as he entered the living room from the kitchen.

"That old lady's again?" she asked. "What for?" Through the phone call, all she happened to be told was that she was needed by Kame House as soon as possible.

"We'll explain on the way over there," Roshi told her. The old man was the first one out the door. "Let's go."

Bulma had to move out of his way so Roshi could leave. By now, without anything being explained to her, she was getting quite worried. Everyone surely seemed okay, perhaps except Launch, though there had to be something more than just that. Whatever was going on, she hoped that she'd get enough information as soon as possible.

Once everyone got inside a jet that Bulma had in a capsule of hers, that's when Roshi and the others had told her everything, from this guy appearing out of nowhere with the ability to fly and with him referring to Goku as a different name and saying he wasn't from here or something along those lines. A lot of paraphrasing was being done but the message was very clear.

Never had Bulma truly been too worried for Goku as she was now. And being that she finally got the gist of what was going on, she understood the significance of heading over to Baba's now. None knew where Goku was as he was training so Baba would be the only person to possibly know how.

"Do you think she'll really let us know free of charge?" Yamcha spoke up.

"What do you mean?" Krillin asked.

"Remember when last time we needed help from Baba and she had us go through those trials and tribulations? Really, I hope she doesn't put us through that ringer again because this is much bigger than last time."

"Oh..." Krillin didn't even remember that and almost smacked himself for it. If Baba was to be told the situation and really put everyone through the fighting trials, wasting everyone's time at such an important moment, he just might jump off a cliff or something.

"No, she won't do that," Roshi assured everyone. "My sister can be a thorn in the side at times but I'm sure she saw this coming eventually. She won't tell us what we can do nor what will happen but she will, sure enough, tell us just where Goku is going off to."

"Seems like a lot for her to tell us being that she's a fortune teller right?" Oolong butted in the conversation. "I mean, just telling her where Goku is would be something that she'd have us pay for. Asking more questions might mean more of a cost for us, yeah?"

"Oolong's right," Bulma said. She then removed one hand from the driving wheel and rubbed Oolong's nose. "Don't worry, she'll tell us all we need to know for just the right price."

Oolong crossed his arms and leaned back in the chair of the jet. "I certainly hope so," he mumbled. By the way everyone seemed to be acting right now, they didn't present themselves to be thinking the very best of things. Looking outside his window, Oolong just let the clouds and everything fly by. Far as he remembered, it would be a while from now until they would get to Baba's place and back, so if anything, it was probably best to sleep until they arrived.

As he was ready to get some shut-eye, he saw two little objects from afar blazing up into the skies. He was very familiar with rocket ships, though the difference between those and what he was currently seeing had to do with the fact that rockets were actually big and not as fast.

"Guys, look!" Oolong pointed out the window.

Everyone did as told and looked out the window to see whatever Oolong was seeing. Each and every single one of them immediately grew suspicious. The suspicious thing about it was that it wasn't for one but for two. And not only that but they were both taking off into the skies.

"Are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?" Krillin asked out loud.

Everyone knew what Krillin was getting at, though none of them put it into words. Things felt as bad as they were right now. To imagine that guy kidnapping Goku and taking off with the boy was just near heart-shattering. Whatever he had planned for Goku, they knew it wasn't good at all.

The rest of the ride over to Baba's was utterly silent.

Said old woman was already outside her palace, just waiting for the arrival of Roshi and the others. Being the one who can foresee the future, she knew it was only a matter of time before this happened.

Right outside her place as the skies began to darken was exactly where she was. Bulma's jet landed just before her and she watched as six different people exited the jet. All the sad and gloomy faces she witnessed before her had already told Baba the story before either of them even uttered a word.

Raditz had taken the time out to go find Goku's ship. Being in a rush, he flew all over the planet at blinding speeds until he found an exact replica of the ship he arrived at Earth in. It was a little banged up and was definitely an older model but it was to get the job done of conveying Goku to the same planet that they were destined for.

Still, Raditz was greatly displeased with how things went. If not for his amnesiac inducing accident, this planet would have been done with by the next few years or so subsequent to his little brother's arrival. Things surely didn't go according to plan, but Raditz knew that he'd have to work with what he currently had.

"Consider yourself lucky, Kakarot. If you were older I wouldn't have let your idiotic actions slide so easily. But you're still a child and you just might grow to realize things as they are. I haven't lost all hope yet."

By now, they were far away from the planet Earth, a few thousand lightyears in fact. Raditz considered plundering the entire planet but he figured it'd be best to save that for a much later and special occasion.

Besides, he had other plans for his little brother.