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"Do you think this changes anything?" Vegeta screamed, his prideful nature echoing around the battlefield, "because it doesn't, I still have the power to kill you all! First Kakarrot, then Raditz, then Kakabrat, then baldy and finally, this scar face who cut off my tail.

Goku, Raditz, Gohan, Krillin and Yamcha were scared out of their creative wits, the former two were the strongest of the bunch and Vegeta in his Oosaru state had crushed their ribs as if they were nothing more than tissue paper, which meant that Gohan, Krillin and Yamcha were the only ones left to fight.

On the plus side, Goku had a plan, on the minus side; some of them were probably going to die when he executed it.

"Gohan, Krillin, Yamcha, can you hear me?" he asked telepathically.

"We hear you loud and clear, Goku," Krillin responded "do you have a plan or something?"

"Yes," Goku thought back "remain silent so Vegeta won't hear us, Krillin, Yamcha, I'm going to have to get you to do something very brave for me: stall Vegeta while I give Gohan a special attack that should finish him off. I'd do it myself but as you can see, I'm not in the condition to do so."

Krillin and Yamcha gave Goku a telepathic thumbs-up "you can count on us, Goku!" they gulped with fear before charging off to battle Vegeta.

"You fools!" Vegeta yelled before beginning to battle the two Kame school students. Krillin and Yamcha had the advantage in numbers, but it was almost too clear that Vegeta still had the advantage in power and he let everyone know it. "You're no match for my superior power, now cease your pitiful struggles and die!"

As if on cue, he punched a hole through Yamcha's chest, causing the bandit-turned-hero to double over in pain.

"Yamcha!" Krillin yelled in fear as Yamcha coughed up blood and his eyes rolled over. Whether he was dead or unconscious was unknown, but Krillin was angry.


"Hurry Gohan!" Goku yelled telepathically as his son crawled over to him "there isn't much time left! Take my hand!"

Gohan did this and a flow of spiritual energy flowed through Goku into Gohan. He felt the aura around his hand.

"That's good, Gohan," Goku continued "this energy is the spirit energy, or 'genki' that comes from every being in the universe that only a pure-hearted individual can handle, you must throw it at Vegeta while he's still distracted by Krillin, I don't have the strength to make another one!"

"O-OK," Gohan gulped "I'll do my best!"

He condensed the genki into a single energy ball and took aim...


"You're going to pay for that!" Krillin yelled at Vegeta as he put his index and middle fingers to his head while telepathically messaging everyone to close their eyes, "Solar Flare!"

At once, a bursting gleam of light shot out of Krillin's fingertips, taking Vegeta completely by surprise and blinding him.

"Gah!" Vegeta yelled in anger "that slime!"

"Now, Gohan!" Krillin yelled telepathically at Goku's son, "throw that energy orb at him with all the power you have while he's blinded! Do it now, Gohan!"

Gohan didn't need telling twice. With an enraged and pained face and a primal, Saiyan roar, he hurled the Spirit Bomb at Vegeta full force.

The effects of Solar Flare wore off when the Spirit Bomb was too close to dodge and therefore, Vegeta found himself sucked into the oncoming vortex, letting out a cry of frustration along the way as his body began to be torn apart by the mass of pure energy.

Not focusing on their enemy anymore, Gohan and Krillin turned their attention to their fallen comrades, namely Goku, Raditz and Yamcha.

Krillin still had the last two Senzu Beans from earlier. He knew that Goku, Raditz and Yamcha would have them.

"Krill-in?"

Krillin turned and Yamcha was just lying there, his hand extended as he began to cough up blood.

"Yamcha!" Krillin yelled at his friend in desperation while holding out a the bag that contained the Senzu Beans, "here, eat this, you'll feel a whole lot better!"

"Thanks… old friend." Yamcha grunted, he was about to put the bean in his mouth, but an energy wave tore through the air, knocking the bag out of Krillin's hand and vaporising it and the Senzu inside.

"But, who?" Krillin asked himself. However, he then saw Vegeta standing there, armour and spandex torn, but somehow still alive.

"Ha, ha, ha!" he smirked, "did you really think that would be enough to kill me? I am a warrior! The prince of all Saiyans!"

He then took advantage of Krillin's surprise and disbelief to shoot another small energy beam, piercing Yamcha through the chest. As he coughed up more blood, Krillin knew that even with a Senzu Bean, he was beyond saving. As his comrade's lifeless body fell to the floor, Goku, Krillin and Gohan screamed out in rage. Krillin thought about doing the Solar Flare again, but he knew that Vegeta was too smart to fall for it a second time. This time, it looked like it was really over, until…

WHAM!

A powerful kick smashed into Vegeta's head as Gohan's rage boiled to the top, his orange gi billowing in the wind as Vegeta staggered backwards. However, Gohan didn't let up for a second. Relentlessly, he smashed his tiny but strong fists into Vegeta's armour repetitively, the once gentle and peaceful boy transformed into a vengeful, unstoppable monster.

"This is for everyone you killed!" Gohan yelled as he began forming a blue energy sphere in his hand, the technique that Raditz had taught him "Bōdōtaihō-Ha*!"

The powerful energy wave smashed into Vegeta, causing major damage to the self-proclaimed Saiyan prince just as Gohan's anger calmed down.

When the dust cleared, Vegeta was in a bad condition, if not worse than Goku and Raditz. The Bōdōtaihō had left Vegeta on the last thread of life and he was finally in no shape to counterattack.

"Guess I have no choice," Vegeta said angrily as he used a remote in his pocket to call his ship, "I'll have to retreat, I can't believe the prince of all Saiyans has to retreat from a couple of shrimps on Earth."

"No," Krillin growled angrily as Vegeta crawled his way over to the ship, "you killed our friends, you bastard! You think I'm just going to let you walk away from that?"

Crawling over to Yamcha's corpse and grabbing his bandit's sword, Krillin hobbled over to Vegeta slowly; ready to deal the finishing blow to the evil Saiyan

"No!" yelled Vegeta, actually feeling fear, "I can't die on this backwater world! I'm the prince of all Saiyans!"

"Die!" yelled Krillin as he brought Yamcha's sword down.

The sword stroke would have killed Vegeta, had he not pressed a button on his ship's remote control.

Faster than Krillin could blink, the ship flew in front of it's master and blocked his sword stroke with it's steel. That was all the distraction Vegeta needed, with the last of his strength, he grabbed onto the spaceship's hull.

"Sorry baldy," he smiled at Krillin, promising to come back, "not today!"

With that, the spaceship flew out of the atmosphere and into the stars above.

All four remaining fighters were too drained of ki to so much as move, let alone fly after him.

Krillin knew that while he and Gohan were relatively OK, Goku and Raditz were critically injured from their fight and could die soon.

"Bulma?" Goku used the telepathy he'd learned from King Kai and waited for a response.

"Yes, Goku?" Bulma responded, needless to say, the Capsule Corp heiress was surprised to find her longtime friend talking in her head, "how did the battle with the Saiyans go?"

"Not good," Goku replied "we were barely able to protect the Earth this time, Krillin, Gohan, Raditz and I are alright, but Roshi, Chiaotzu, Tien and… Yamcha are dead, Roshi died sealing Piccolo, Tien and Chiaotzu sacrificed themselves against the big, brutish one and the short, flame-haired one killed Yamcha."

There was a short pause while Bulma was considering her options. Finally, she came up with one.

"Hey! Don't worry! We can just revive them all with the Dragon Balls in a year, right?" she continued her train of thought.

"Tien and Yamcha, yes, but Chiaotzu can't be wished back, Tien refuses to come back without Chiaotzu and Master Roshi refuses to come back at all, he says he's already lived his time."

"Alright, well, there's nothing Shenron can do now since we just wished back Goku, so I'll get you guys to a hospital."

There was nothing more to be said, Bulma simply flew all four exhausted fighters to West City Hospital where they began to recover. Along the way, they picked up Piccolo's jar to make sure some idiot didn't open it and squander Roshi's sacrifice. While Krillin and Gohan didn't require much time in the hospital at all, Goku and Raditz required four months to heal from the battle wounds inflicted by Vegeta.


"So," Krillin asked the two Saiyan brothers, "how are you guys?"

"I'm fine!" Goku scratched his head and gave a cheerful response on the matter, "how 'bout you, Raditz?"

"Ever heard the phrase 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger?" Raditz asked everyone.

"Yeah, actually," Krillin replied, "it's a popular song here on Earth, do you want me to sing it?"

"Uh," Gohan rolled his eyes "I'm not sure that's what Uncle Raditz meant, Krillin."

"The point is that Saiyans grow stronger with each near death experience," Raditz continued, "when Kakarrot and I recover, we might even be stronger than Vegeta, at least the Vegeta we fought today, Vegeta will also most likely get a massive zenkai from our fight and because of his Saiyan royal blood, his potential knows no bounds."

Gohan was quite amazed at his race's genetics, to say the least.

"That's so cool!" he yelled "so, maybe there's some sort of adaptive mechanism you developed as a warrior race and it's some sort of bodily defense that whenever you fight an opponent that nearly killed you, your adaption allows you to raise your power high enough to match them!"

"It's also kind of scary, can you imagine Vegeta being more powerful than he is already?" Krillin asked, "I don't know how long I can keep up with you guys. It also explained why Goku was able to come back from near death experiences, stronger than ever!"

As if on cue, Korin, Yajirobe, Chi-Chi and Ox-King came to see how everyone was holding up.

"Gohan!" Chi-Chi yelled happily as she ran to hug her son, "were you scared?"

"I was, but I'm fine now, mother." Gohan smiled happily, relieved to finally see his mother again after a whole year and showing it by embracing her in a warm hug.

"And are you OK, Goku?" Chi-Chi asked, stroking Goku's head and kissing him on the forehead.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Goku replied, "however, I don't think Roshi, Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu are alright, the Saiyans murdered them all, they're monsters!"

Just then, Mr. Popo appeared, which surprised everyone in the hospital because for one thing, magic genies riding magic carpets was meant to be nothing more than a fairy-tale and for another, the usually cheerful genie looked like he was going to cry.

"Krillin, Gohan, come quick!" he yelled with alarm in his voice, "and bring the sealing container, Kami's dying!"

"Of old age?" Goku asked in alarm.

Mr Popo nodded solemnly.

"Dammit," Goku cursed, slamming his fists on his bed in frustration, "if Kami dies, then our Dragon Balls will cease to exist!"

Gohan gulped "OK," he said nervously, "bye mom, bye grandpa, bye daddy and bye Uncle Raditz, it's great to see you're all alive!"

He then gave a sheepish grin, called his father's Flying Nimbus and flew off with Krillin and Mr. Popo to Kami's lookout.

Gohan and Krillin arrived on the lookout to see a very sick Kami lying on a bed, his eyes were closed and he spoke in a wheezing voice.

"Ah... good work Mr. Popo," he thanked his servant, "thanks for… bringing… the people I said to bring."

"What do you need from us?" Krillin asked.

"I'm cough about to die Krillin," Kami answered, "however, there is one thing that can save me, but not the Dragon Balls."

"What do you mean?" Gohan asked.

"Young one, Piccolo and I used to be one," Kami explained "if we are whole again, we may be able to provide you with the location of our home planet and subsequently provide you with new Dragon Balls, we may also gain the eternal youth that King Piccolo once wished for, as it was passed on to his reincarnation. However, if we do this, it is certain that the Dragon Balls of Earth will be no more. However, if I die, the Dragon Balls will also be no more and you will have no information on how to get to whatever planet I came from and revive your friends using those planet's Dragon Balls.

Krillin turned to Gohan and discussed with him their options.

"I think it's worth the risk," he told Gohan, "if they fuse and Kamiccolo or Pickami or whoever tells us the location of their home's Dragon Balls, then we'll be able to get new Dragon Balls and hopefully a new guardian for this planet's Dragon Balls."

"But what if when Piccolo comes out of the jar, he kills us all?" Gohan countered, "You know what he's like, completely ruthless!"

"It's a risk we're going to have to take," Krillin replied, "besides, he won't dare kill us when Kami's dying, he'll be trying to preserve himself and he might even be weakened due to Kami dying."

"OK," Gohan responded, "let's hope Master Roshi's sacrifice wasn't in vain."

"Pray Gohan, pray." Krillin responded as he ripped off the sealing talisman from the jar.

All at once, a smoky, demonic essence poured out of the jar. Then, just as quickly, it reformed into Piccolo.

However, something was wrong with this version of Piccolo, he was no where near as strong as he was in the battle with the Saiyans and staggered to the ground as soon as he reformed from the demonic mist. As Krillin said, he was indeed weakened.

Dun-dun-dun Cliffhanger, I'm evil.

I'm sorry for the long time until I updated, I've been doing last minute homework, trying out the new Pokémon Sun, you name it!

Bōdōtaihō*: You may be wondering where I got this attack name. Alas, I didn't just pull random letters out of a hat, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the Japanese name for 'Riot Cannon,' It's like Raditz and Bardock's Riot Javelin, only Gohan is saying it in Japanese

I hope you were satisfied with Yamcha's death here (Remainder: he didn't die to a cheap shot from a measly Saibaman, he fought bravely to the very end against Vegeta)

I also hope you were happy about how I portrayed Chi-Chi in this fanfic and that she's not too OOC. In the amine, she's seen as a selfish and overprotective mother and everyone hates her for it, so I decided to fix that by making Chi-Chi more open to what Gohan wants to do, knowing that Goku's Saiyan blood runs through him.

If anyone wants to know why Kami is dying of old age now, In canon, he said that this would be the last time the Dragon Balls were used, either because Piccolo was going to die against the Saiyans or because he was going to die of old age. In canon, it was the former but in this fanfiction, it's the latter...