Previously on Dragonball Z: The new ape, non-other than Raditz, had joined the fight against Vegeta. Together with Gohan and Tien he even managed to change the prince back to his normal state. Will the battle for earth finally end? Is there a way Piccolo and the others can be revived? Find it out now!

The solution has a name: Namek!

The ki blast connected with Vegeta and swallowed him completely before it exploded with a massive bang. A really big amount of dust and rubble was kicked up. Goku, whose wound was fortunately on his abdominal area and not on his chest as it was when Piccolos `Special Beam Cannon´ had hit him, was completely unable to move and had to be saved by Tien and Gohan so that nothing could contaminate the wound. As the smoke was fading away everyone looked at Vegeta who was laying on his stomach. His body was still twitching. Then, under the greatest pain the prince reached under his battle suit and pulled out a small remote. He barely managed to press a few buttons before he had to bring his head back on the ground. A few seconds went by as suddenly a space pod appeared on the sky that landed a few yards away from Vegeta who instantly began to crawl towards it slowly. It was clear: he wanted to escape!

"Do you really think that I´ll let you go?" Raditz roared and raised his right foot above the injured saiyan. "Your existence bothered this universe long enough! NOW DIE!"

He was about to bring his foot down and put Vegetas life to an end as…

`No! Stop it! Please!´

The great ape stopped in his movement. "I just heard a voice directly coming from my heart… It told me to stop…"

Vegeta, whose body hadn´t moved an inch when Raditz´ foot was above him, stared in confusion as he wasn´t dying.

`Look Raditz, I´m too weak to speak aloud so I have to communicate this way.´

"Kakarot? Is that you?" Raditz replied as Vegeta started crawling again.

`I know it sound crazy but I want you to spare his life.´

"Are you nuts?" Raditz objected. "You want to let your almost-murderer go?"

"He killed our friends!" Tien agreed with Gokus brother; he and Gohan wear able to hear Gokus voice too.

`I know but listen: when we fought I could feel his power. He surpassed me in everything, I would´ve been done if you wouldn't stepped in. One day I want to fight him again, and I´ll win! I promise!´

You could see that Raditz was thinking about that. But eventually, he gave in. He fired an energy beam at Vegetas Power Ball which blew up instantly, causing Raditz to transform back. Vegeta himself had finally arrived at his space pod and crawled inside.

"Mark my words: I will have my revenge! When I´m at full health again, I will slaughter every last one of your kind. You can count on that!"

The pod closed itself and launched up into space. Raditz, in his normal state again, instantly rushed to his brothers side.

"In which direction is the next hospital?"

Gohan was confused as he answered. "My mom always says the one from the western capital is the best…"

"Thanks."

Before Gohan and Tien knew what was happening Raditz had already got Goku and flown off to the western capital. They thought about following them but then they spotted an airplane from the Capsule Corporation, which flew right towards them.

The door from the hospital were kicked open as Raditz came in.

"I have an emergency! Help my brother or else!" a really serious-looking Raditz cried.

That worked. Goku was instantly brought into an operation room where it was forbidden for his brother to enter. Raditz eyed the remaining doctors critically who all backed away from him. His eyes read: `If he dies, so will you.´ Then he thought it was time to return to the others so he turned on his heel and left. Raditz couldn´t help but grin at the earthlings reactions towards him. They would do everything to get Goku back to health…

The airplane had picked up both Tien and Gohan and rose back into the air. Chi-Chi, who was a passenger had instantly grabbed her son and hadn't let him go since then. Therefore Master Roshi, Oolong and Puar were only able to talk to Tien who was pretty damaged as well.

"So Vegeta escaped, you say?" Roshi asked him.

"Yes, in the end Raditz was able to defeat him. It was pretty close though." Tien answered.

"Oh? And where is he now?"

"I don´t know. Before you came he grabbed Goku and left."

This attracted Chi-Chis attention.

"Goku? Where is he? How bad are his wounds?" she practically shrieked.

"Only Uncle Raditz knows that, mom." Gohan answered out of his mother's tight embrace. "I´m pretty sure he´ll come here."

KLANG, KLANG! All gazes went towards the window next to the entrance door. Said saiyan was hovering in front of it.

"Speaking of the devil, there he is! Can you let him in, Bulma?" Tien asked the pilot.

Bulma hesitated for a moment, but opened the door for him after all. Even though his aura wasn´t that evil anymore everyone took a step back as he entered. Only Chi-Chi who hadn´t watched the fight in TV (she was unconscious) looked at him fearlessly.

"Where is my husband? Where did you abduct him?"

`I see, that must be Kakarots wife…´ Raditz noticed with a frown as he closed the door behind him.

"In the hospital of the western capital." he told Chi-Chi. "No worries. They brought him instantly to an operation room, he´ll live through that."

Chichi was relieved to say the least. Maybe her brother-in-law wasn´t as evil as the others had described him to her… The cockpits door opened and Bulma came out after she had activated the autopilot. Everybody stared at her. A shadow covered Bulmas eyes as she walked towards Raditz. A few moments passed before she slapped him, hard.

"You dirty, miserable asshole! Everything´s your fault!" she cried as tears began to stream down her face. "If you would´ve just continued your stupid planet conquests and left us alone, then would Yamcha be alive, the others as well! Your damn ass alone is too blame for our situation, and you´re to blame too if Vegeta will destroy our home for real!"

That speech left Roshi, Oolong, Puar, Chichi, Tien and Gohan speechless, filled with fear of Raditz´ reaction. For one second an evil shadow flew across Raditz face but disappeared as fast as it had come into view. He said nothing and walked past her. He stopped at a window where everyone gathered around him.

"Say… how advanced is your technology?"

No one understood what he meant. Raditz sighed.

"Well, I guess I have to explain: from what I heard, this planet isn´t the only one that has Dragonballs."

That left everyone, and I mean everyone in shock. They instantly started to bombard the saiyan with questions.

"Does that mean there are even more Dragonballs in the universe?"

"Where? Where?"

"Can our friends still be revived?"

"Which planet? What is his name?"

"Are they far a-"

"STOP." Raditz exclaimed sometime and all became silent. "We have arrived."

He meant the first battlefield where they fought Vegeta and the Saibamen. The corpses of Yamcha, Chao-zu, Krillin and Piccolo were still there. To pay their last respects to them, they decided to bury them. Everyone had to cry, except Raditz. He stood on the roof of Bulmas airplane and observed the whole thing. Sure, he had already seen a few funerals on Planet Vegeta but they were never this emotional. This made him thinking. If all inhabitants of the planets he had conquered thought like this; he never gave them the opportunity to pay their respects…

The next day…

Although everyone else has told him so, Raditz had refused to go into the hospital too and had flown away in a westwards. Gokus surgery was indeed successful, but the saiyan had nearly died to his incredible loss of blood. Lucky for him, since he was the savior of earth a blood donor was found in no time. But the donor kept his name unknown since he had disappeared before Gokus friends arrived.

Gohan and Tien became patients too and got stuck in the same room as Goku. A few minutes later they got visitors in form of Chichi, Master Roshi, Korin, Yajirobe (who had watched the whole fight between Goku and Vegeta but had run away as soon as Raditz had become a Great Ape too), Oolong, Puar and the Ox King. They all said their `Get well soon!´ but Chichi wanted her son to continue studying so she brought him a pile of books.

"Is it allowed to come in?"

Against all expectations, Raditz flew in from the window.

"Raditz, is that you?" Goku asked since he couldn´t see things in front of him thanks to the machine he was laying in.

"Indeed it´s me, brother! Good to see you didn´t die a second time!"

The long haired saiyan couldn´t help but compare the technologies from the earth and his past.

`Ha! With a healing tank of ours he would be at full health in no time! Hah, but I guess one can not have everything.´

The next moment the door opened.

"Hey guys!" It was Bulma.

She wore her hair open this time, her ponytail had disappeared. Raditz started talking.

"Do you have the thing I wanted?"

"You mean this?" She reached into her pocket and took out just the thing Raditz had wished for.

"Excellent! Now I can explain everything. Hey you, listen!"

He instantly got everyone's attention.

"I wasn´t finished yesterday. Yes, there is, in fact, a planet with other Dragonballs. While trained with Piccolo, he told me everything what he knew. Someone named Kami created the Dragonballs, is that correct?"

He got nods as an answer.

"Well, you see: Since Piccolo is a namek, Kami has to be one too!"

"Ah!" Tien had realized Raditz´ logic. "Then his home planet must have Dragonballs too!"

Everyone gasped while Raditz chuckled.

"Indeed, Tien. This is the reason why I need that remote. I´ll use it to get the space pod of that bald idiot, Nappa. Only that capsule is fast enough to get to Namek in time before any of us dies."

"He´s right." Bulma had calculated the time they would need to get to Namek with earth´s technology. "We would need over 4000 years to reach the planet!"

That left everyone speechless. There were more Dragonballs and Raditz could gather them! He really WAS a good guy now. But just 20 seconds later, Mr. Popo showed up on his flying carpet. He said something about a spaceship, so Bulma came with him to investigate it.

…

Raditz had pressed the right button on Bulmas remote, which caused the space pod to land on the hospitals roof. He checked the pods condition, it was acceptable. He went to tell the others but then he heard loud cries from Gokus room. Apparently Gohan had only said that he wanted to accompany his uncle on his quest to Namek, and this was something Chichi couldn´t tolerate. Although Goku, Tien and everybody else was encouraging him, his resolute mother didn´t want him to go. Long story short, it was Gohan himself who `convinced´ his mother. He got angry and shouted at Chichi. When she heard that her son only wanted to revive his mentor, she had no choice but to agree with him. Even the Ox King had been on her sons side.

"Alright, it´s settled: he´s a true saiyan and he´ll come with me!" Raditz announced with a proud grin.

"With you?" everybody asked in sync.

"There isn´t enough space for more than two people. Besides, I´m the strongest here."

One moment later Bulma and Mr. Popo were back.

"You won´t believe what I saw! There is, in fact a spaceship that´s fast enough! It´ll only take one month!" Bulma said happily.

`Right, the namek(Kami) must have had one too, how could I forgotten!´ Raditz mentally slapped himself while Bulma turned to Goku.

"Right, I forgot! My dad is currently working on another spaceship, just for you! This´ll be even faster than ours! You´ll be on Namek in only one week! It even has a gravity machine and - "

"Does this machine work already?" Raditz interrupted her.

"I guess so, why?"

"Alright, here´s the plan: you(Bulma), Tien and Gohan(looks like I´m flying alone after all) will take the plane you´ve found, I´ll take the space pod. We prepare ourselves and start our quest once you all regained health. But I think I´ll start my journey later than you since the space pod is faster."

"And Goku will follow in one month when the Senzu Beans have grown again." Korin said.

"Alright, we´ll meet in one week, Gohan and me can leave in three days, so we can prepare too." Tien concluded.

"Right!" Gohan agreed. "Piccolo… I´ll make you alive again!"

"So, we call this a plan?" Raditz asked.

"YEAH!"

Another planet with Dragonballs is the goal now. How will our heroes handle the challenges they´ll meet on their preparations and their journey? Find it out next time on DRAGONBALL Z!

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