Chapter 9: The fight with the Ginyu Force

The four fighters continue to fly across the sky with Raditz still holding the last dragon ball, and with Vegeta leading the way toward the six he has hidden. But as they were heading their way to Vegeta's stash they feel the power of five individuals coming from the distance heading towards them as well.

"It has to be the Ginyu force we must hurry before they get to us." Vegeta thought to himself, he still couldn't believe how much stronger that Raditz had become, over a year ago he was the most pathetic of the Saiyan group, now suddenly he has been able to kill Nappa a Saiyan elite and now has a power greater than his own right now. "Am I now the weakling, have I really been reduced to this despite my royal blood?" he continues to think to himself. But he still hasn't forgotten about his goal, once he has his wish and the Ginyu force is dealt with, he can finally kill Raditz and be the best of the Saiyan race again along with having Frieza's head as a trophy.

Finally, the group made it to the cliff where Vegeta had hidden the six dragon balls. They can finally make their wishes now. But before they could get near them a large purple alien appeared right in front of them along with four other aliens of different shapes and sizes. It was the Ginyu force just beating them to the punch.

"Hello Vegeta, nice to see yah." Said Captain Ginyu, with the others quietly laughing.

"Damn it, we were so close." Said Vegeta now realizing that they now have to fight Frieza's top men, Raditz looked just as terrified of them as Vegeta was as was Krillin and Gohan.

"Lord Frieza order us here to capture you and get you to spill out where the last dragon ball was at, as well as finding those other six you stole from him, but it looks like you already brought the last one here with you right to us." Said Captain Ginyu pointing at the Ball Raditz was carrying.

"And looky here we have the other six right here." Said the human looking Ginyu Reccome looking at the six dragon balls Vegeta had clumped together.

"Frieza will be pleased by this, he will even be prouder once we kill all of you, so just hand it over." Captain Ginyu demanded from Fighters and none of them knew what to do now.

Raditz decided without to much time to think about it threw the dragon ball as far as he can in the hopes that they can't track it even with their scouters, but unfortunately it was almost immediately grabbed in air by the fastest of them Burter, in a blink of an eye, the Ginyu force now have all seven dragon balls all they have to do now is kill them all. But Captain Ginyu wanted to savor the moment.

"I'll take Vegeta, the rest of you play rock, paper, scissors on who takes care of the grunts," Captain Ginyu told the rest of his squad, but this only made them all start to argue since they all wanted to kill the strongest of them.

But of course, they are mistaken on who the strongest was there, thanks to the Elder releasing his power Raditz was the strongest of them even stronger then Vegeta, but Raditz knew to kept this to himself for now as he will have the element of surprise for whoever he has to fight.

The force continues to argue but Captain Ginyu had enough of it, "Fine fair is fair, I'll take the balls to Lord Frieza and the rest of you can have your fun with these runts." Ginyu told his force who were now all cheering since they can finally have some fun.

The squad agree to play rock, paper, scissors and the first place winner will get Vegeta, second place Raditz, third gets Krillin and Gohan, and fourth has to sit it out. The four fighters still scared, it's good that Captain Ginyu was heading out who was second only to Frieza but they still had to deal with the rest of the force who are all powerful fighters.

After a couple of ties eventually Reccome becomes the winner so he gets Vegeta, Jeice the long haired red one won seconded place so he gets Raditz, Guldo the short green one won third so he gets Gohan and Krillin, and Burter the tall blue one ends up being last so he's force to sit out.

"Alright I get to kill Vegeta." Cheered Reccome

"I guess I'll settle for second best, at least he won't instantly die with one blast, so he should be fun." Said Jeice

"I guess it's better then nothing." said Guldo making the best out of third place.

"Aww this isn't fair, I should be able to fight someone." Said Burter disappointed that he must sit out of the fights.

"Don't worry Burter, you'll get dibs on the next big fight once we get back to Yardrat after all of this." Jeice said to Burter, which cheered him up a bit and will be happy enough to just watch the carnage.

With the force satisfy, Captain Ginyu takes the dragon balls by levitating them all and with them fly's off back to Frieza leaving his men to take care of the trash.

The Z fighters then try to speak with each other for any advice. "Don't let Goldo's looks fool you, he's more dangerous then he looks what he lacks in power he makes up with his physic abilities including stopping time so keep your guard up." Vegeta tells to Gohan and Krillin, "Raditz is your little brother here as well?" Vegeta asked Raditz.

"No he's not, but him and the Namek Piccolo are on their way here." Raditz answered to Vegeta

"Well we need them here now, as much as hate having more of your stupid family here it will at least even the odds." Vegeta said giving his honest thoughts.

The three force fighters then moved up all eager to fight. They allowed the weakest Goldo to go first just to see how he can handle to runts of the group. But when the fight had just started Krillin and Gohan show off their real power they were hiding from the force and both flew up in the sky and throw two large Ki blasts at Goldo, the impact was quite large, stronger then any of the Ginyu expected from runts though this just makes it more fun for them.

Vegeta was also surprised by this power. "These earthlings were never this powerful back on earth how did they get this strong? It must be how Raditz got this strong as well, it has to be?" Vegeta thought to himself still wondering how Raditz got his sudden boost in power.

But unfortunately, the attack does nothing since Goldo was now way over in another area, he used his physic powers to stop time to get away from Gohan and Krillin, but his powers do have limits so he himself knows that he has to be careful.

Krillin and Gohan continue their attacks doing their best to trick the small soldier but every time they got close he would stop time and run away.

After a while Goldo was becoming desperate to kill them off since his team was getting impatient on how long he's taking. Goldo finally used his ultimate move paralyzation, which kept Gohan and Krillin in place but before he could finish them off with a sharp tree he made and slowly threw at them, Raditz flies by to grabs Krillin and Gohan out of Goldo's way, not wanting to make the same mistake he did with Yamcha and the Siboman, and while Goldo was confused wondering what happen Vegeta kills him by slicing his head off when he wasn't paying attention

"Thanks guys we owe you one." Krillin said appreciating Raditz and Vegeta's help, "I didn't help you fools, I just saw an opportunity and I took it up, you idiots need to pay attention or you're really going to get killed." Vegeta scolded at Krillin but they weren't done they still have to deal with the three stronger Ginyu's now.

The three force fighters were anger over Goldo's death since now their over-the-top Ginyu pose will now be off.

"I guess I'll have to deal with the runts now." Said Burter

"No way I got them, they should be a piece of cake along with Vegeta." Said Reccome arguing with Burter, they then have rock, paper, scissors again on who will kill Gohan and Krillin, and Burter loses again so he has to sit it out again to his disappointment. Jeice still had Raditz so he didn't care about who won.

Reccome and Jeice then went up to fight their respective Saiyan's. "Come on Raditz lets have fun, don't just die on me like a Siboman." Jeice taunts at Raditz, "Theirs only one person in this universe that can have that type of hairstyle and that is me and me alone." Jeice continues to comment, as him and Raditz had similar looking hair."

"Brag on whatever you like at least I don't have a stupid sounding voice." Raditz said mocking Jeice.

"W..what? My voice doesn't sound stupid." Jeice said not taking the insult to well, Burter and Rwccome only quietly laugh about. "For your information my mother had always said my voice sounded like an angel." Said trying to defend himself.

"Really your mother must be either deaf or just brain dead." Raditz said continuing his insult.

"Don't you dare mock my mother!" Jeice shouted having enough of the Saiyan and soon flies up and giving the first attack, throwing punch after punch, Raditz was doing his best to dodge and block every one of Jeice's attacks holding out against him.

Reccome was about to make his move on Vegeta but the Saiyan presumably caught him off guard and started wailing on him until he throws him into a island and blasts a large Ki blast on Reccome from a distance, with the others thinking he was finished, but after the smoke cleared up, while his clothes were damaged, Reccome was still standing with a big smile unfazed by Vegeta's strongest attacks. "That Reccome, always trying to show off." Burter commented.

"You want to play now Vegeta, all right let's play." Reccome finally taunted at Vegeta and begins pounding on the Saiyan. What Reccome lacked in brains he makes up with strength and despite Vegeta's best efforts is unable to match the giant brute.

Raditz in the other had was doing a lot better, Jeice wasn't weak himself but he was having a harder time trying to deal any significant blows on the long haired Saiyan, with Raditz even getting a few punches on him that genuinely hurt. He even resorted to throwing Ki blasts causing large explosions in the area but Raditz managed to dodge most of them. "Damn, this Saiyan is harder then he looks, why is Reccome having no trouble with Vegeta, yet this runt won't go down like his superior." Jeice said to himself starting to worry about the Saiyan he was fighting now and how his reputation will go down if he doesn't beat him soon.

The two fights continued on with Reccome not pulling back on Vegeta, even when Krillin and Gohan finally stepped in help it was no use as Reccomes was still unfazed by anything the fighters threw at him. But Jeice was having a harder time to beat down Raditz as their fight wasn't going anywhere. Both of them were starting to get tired and both took a moment to catch their breaths. Raditz knew that if he didn't step in to help the group soon Reccome was going to kill them all, he had to deal with Jeice now. After a little bit of thinking he came up with a plan.

Jeice and Raditz then continued their fight again now flying in the air with Jeice getting angrier on how he isn't winning already.

"Come on Jeice you don't need any help now do you." Recoome mocks to Jeice only angring him further.

"That's it I had enough out of you!" Jeice shouted at the Saiyan and soon Jeice was throwing faster punches then before, faster then what Raditz can block and soon enough he hits Raditz down with two hands making him fall and crash to the ground.

"Raditz no!" shouted Krillin worried that he was finally down, and he was the only one putting one of Ginyu forces at bay

"That's more like it Jeice." Said Burter congratulating him

"Yeah, about time you showed him who's boss." Said Reccome

"Now its time to finally kill you off in ultimate style." Said Jeice as he flies high in the sky he does several summersaults and then was shooting himself right towards Raditz with his fists out in great speed ready to squash his head. "Let's see you make a fool out of me now." Jeice finally says to Raditz who looked like he couldn't get up after the last attack. But right before Jeice gets to his face, Raditz with all of his strength moves his legs laying on the ground and kicks the fast moving Jeiece right in the stomach causing great physical pain to the red fighter and stopping him in his place.

This surprised everyone even to Reccome and Burter. Jeice was just stuck there laying broken on Raditz shoes feeling the worst pain he's ever felt. It was Raditz's plan the whole time, he fakes being knocked out, and stop Jeice with a surprise attack and Jeice fell right for it. Raditz then without any hesitation grabs hold of Jeices arms still sticking out. "Hey what are you doing." Said Jeiece still trying to recover from the pain, but without a response Raditz continues to pull on Jeices arms, and despite Jeices struggle to get off of the Saiyan, Raditz then uses his full power to pull and soon he rips the arms of Jeice completely off of his body.

Everyone one was now in complete shock, Raditz had permeantly crippled Jeice and was now useless in battle. Even from all of the pain Jeice couldn't end say a word anymore, he only feels fear now and could only quietly cry with the Saiyan throwing his detached arms away and then throws another great kick in the stomach launching Jeice in the air. And without any hesitation Raditz got right up and charged as quickly as he can for a large Ki attack and as quickly as he created it he launches the beam right to the flying armless Jeice.

And soon the beam hits Jeice who could now only scream in agony as he is vaporized into ash. Jeice was now dead.

No one could believe their eyes, Raditz was able to kill one of the Ginyu force in a direct fight. But that celebration was cut short when Burter just started laugh to himself. "Ha so your really strongest here, I wouldn't have expected that." Said Burter, "Now I can finally play." He continues finally stepping up to fight.

"Aww no fair I wanted to fight the strongest." Said Reccome who was looking less shocked and was smiling again. They were irritated that with another of their squad died their poses will never be the same, but Burter was just happy to finally fight after having to watch at the sidelines the whole time.

"You were able to catch Jeice off guard with your hidden strength, but it won't work on me, my speed is legendary you will never compete with me." Burter taunts to Raditz. Raditz worst case scenario had come about. He was hoping to help the rest of his crew against Reccome but that wasn't happening with Burter now involved. If he had fought Burter first before Jeice he might've had a chance against him, but the last fight left him exhausted, Burter was fully energized ready to go, and Raditz's element of surprise with his hidden strength had been exposed so Burter won't be holding back.

"Try to even touch me." Burter taunted to Raditz but before he can make a comeback or react Burter in a blink of an eye was behind him and punch Raditz square in the back causing a large amount of pain to the Saiyan, Burter then went on the offensive and began to throw an array of fast punches at Raditz many too fast to dodge and was hitting the Saiyan over and over again. And while that fight went on Reccome continued to show off to Vegeta by throwing him around like a ragdoll and showing off how useless Vegeta's, Gohan's, and Krillin attacks were.

As the two fights go on it became more apparent how outclassed the fighters were, Raccome continues to play with Vegeta and the earth fighters with them barely able to stand up and Raditz wasn't doing any better, despite being relatively equal in power Burter was much to fast for the Saiyan. Every punch he threw every Ki blasted he creates all get dodged, and Burter in return moves to fast for Raditz to dodge back at his attack allowing Burter to pulverize the Saiyan and breaking his bones much like Reccome was doing with the others.

Raditz was barely able to stand up at that point and soon Burter grabbed hold of Raditz and threw one more giant punch at Raditz throwing him near the others who are down as well.

"Man you guys are nothing but pushovers, what a joke." Mocked Reccome

"I'll give the long haired one some credited, he definitely had some fight in him, but I ultimately came on top in the end." Said Burter giving the faintest of praise to the fallen fighter.

"Come on Burter let's just kill them already and get it over with, I had with these runts." Reccome said to Burter be then a large object came falling from the sky, it wasn't a meteorite but a spaceship but who could it be? It stopped the two curious Ginyu fighters from finishing their jobs.

The large ship then lands on the planet and soon two individuals came flying out of the ship. It was Goku and Piccolo finally making it to planet Namek after their long trip from earth. The two then flew over to the group with the fading powers as fast as they could.

In less then a minute they were at the battlefield with the other fighters are barely alive. "Kakarot it's about time you and Piccolo showed up." Raditz said to his little brother. Goku first went to Gohan with a senzu bean despite having a broken neck after being feed the bean Gohan was all better like nothing happened, surprising what was left of the Ginyu force.

"How…How is that even possible he shouldn't even be able to move after taking a hit like that." Burter said.

"Dd..dad you and Mr. Piccolo finally made." Gohan said to his father happy that they are finally here.

"I see you got a lot stronger since back at earth Gohan, you really made me proud." Said Piccolo happy to see his protégé still alive and willing to fight and Gohan smilies back at him.

"Dad, Piccolo you need to watch out for those guys they nearly kil…." But before Gohan finish Goku interrupted "I know I know lets first give these senzu beans to Krillin and your uncle first, Piccolo why don't you give this one to Raditz." said Goku as he tosses one to Piccolo, Goku heads towards Krillin and Piccolo walks up to Raditz.

As he is up to the Saiyan he looks at him angrily most likely for what he did to him and the rest of the earth fighters back on earth when Vegeta and Nappa attacked. "I know what your angry about, and I'm sorry about the whole thing, I was nothing but a coward at that time and if you don't want to give me that bean I can understand why." Raditz said to Piccolo while laying on the ground with broken bones.

"I really shouldn't, but in the end, you did go back saved Gohan from death and was willing to make up for your screw up." Piccolo said to Raditz finally giving out a smile, "And seeing you on the ground like this amuses me, let's say at this point were even." Piccolo says finally throwing the senzu bean to Raditz which he catches and consumes it and was all healed up now.

At the same time Krillin had receive his own senzu bean and was heal up as well. There was just one more that needed healing left, Vegeta, Goku wanted to know why he was fighting the bad guys in the first place if they're from the same side. Krillin tries to give the short story on the whole thing but Goku just reads his mind with psychic powers he learned at King Kai's when he was training with him, so with it he finds out about everything by grabbing on Krillins head.

"I see Vegeta is as nasty as ever but when it came down to it he did help save you guys, so I think we owe him one." Said Goku, Krillin wasn't sure about it but they need all the help they could get so he accepted it. Goku then threw the last senzu bean to the injured Vegeta and he reluctantly eats it getting himself back to full health.

"Come on Piccolo let's take these Ginyu guys down." Goku said, but Krillin was confused

"Wait a minute all by yourselves, Raditz was barely able to take one them down do you two really think you can take on the strongest of them?" Krillin asked Goku worried of his friends' safety and Piccolo's as well considering Kami and earth's dragon balls. "Don't worry Krillin we can both take them down." Goku said confidently as he and Piccolo walk up to the Ginyu fighters who were still wondering who these two were.

Goku heads up to Reccome and Piccolo heads to Burter. Reccome could only laugh at him "Do you have what it takes to beat us huh, yeah your really funny." Reccome mocks to Goku

"You Nameks are a joke to us, do you think your any different from the rest of these losers." Burter mocks to Piccolo. He checks his scouter only reading a power level of 5000 from Piccolo so he wasn't worried.

The rest could only watch and wonder how they can be strong enough to beat these guys. But the two hardly looked worried on who they were fighting against. After a bit of more mocking from Reccome he finally strikes at Goku head on, but he dodges it like nothing and Goku hits him in the back severely hurting the large brute. Burter also does his first strike at the side of Piccolo with his super speed but Piccolo can see Burter coming and punches him right in the gut hitting the nearly impossible to hit fighter. "How's that possible you shouldn't have been able to see me." Burter said to Piccolo as he moves to distant himself from him

"I've improved my reflex's the last seven days, so I can fight punks like you." Taunted Piccolo

The others couldn't believe in what they were seeing it seemed unbelievable how strong the two had gotten, even Vegeta was thinking to himself looking at Goku, "Is it really possible, could've Kakarot have become a super Saiyan?" he asks to himself.

But Burter wasn't allowing himself to be beaten this quickly he shakes the pain off and continues to fly around and continually striking the Namekian but he was dodging every attack as well was Goku with Reccome after he got back up to fight. Piccolo was able hit Burter several times injuring him more and more like nothing. Burter was becoming more and more afraid that he won't be able to take on Piccolo and Raccome was being pelted by Goku and he wasn't even using his 100% of his power.

After getting hit in the face enough times by the earth Namekian in desperation Burter finally grabs hold of Piccolo by his arms. "I had enough of you, I'm the fastest in the universe, your nothing to me." But Piccolo was unfazed "Do you think this is even a struggle I'm not even using all of my power." Said Piccolo "Wait what?" Burter asked wondering if that was even true, but before he got a response he received a large blow to his back, but it wasn't Piccolo it was Raditz giving a sneak attack on Burter

"Hey, I didn't need any help!" Piccolo shouted to Raditz, "I just wanted a little pay back from this bastard, the kill is all yours." Raditz answered to Piccolo wanting on major blow on him before Piccolo finishes him off. "You cheating bastards." Burter says to the both of them. But then Piccolo with his full power got out of Burters grasp and just Butts his head on him and the injured Ginyu fighter falls to the ground.

Piccolo flies down and strikes him right on the stomach with his foot injuring the fighter even more with blood coming out of his mouth now, Piccolo then grabs hold of his body with one hand and raises it upward and raises his other hand charging a Ki attack, Burter was too injured to fight back and could only look with fear as the Piccolo finishes charging and blasts his attack right to his head, blowing it into pieces. After the beam stop, Piccolo lets go of the body and it falls back lifeless on the ground without a head, Burter was now dead.

Reccome was now terrified, "No Burter, this can't be happening!" Reccome shouted now panicking, he was the last of the Ginyu force other then the Captain but he was long gone, Raccome finally makes one more desperate attack on Goku with all of his strength but Goku just gives him one massive punch to the stomach, and with that one punch Raccome was down for the count, he won't be getting back up, could fold down and cry in pain Goku refuses to kill him because of his own morals.

Gohan and Krillin can finally cheer on now that Goku and Piccolo helped take out the rest of the Ginyu force. After the dust settle, Raditz finally went up to his brother again and raises his arm to him, "It's been awhile Kakarot, glad you and Piccolo have gotten here." Raditz said to Goku which he shakes his brothers hand back bonding a little.

"Don't mention it, both of us had gotten a lot stronger after being on the ship for a week and hoped that we could get here in time to help you guys out" Goku said. He and Piccolo explained that after Piccolo got out of his comma and Goku was able to recover with a senzu bean a week ago, Bulmas father Doctor Briefs was able to find Goku's pod that he was in when he was a baby and reversed engineered it for it to be space worthy. Originally Goku was going to go alone but Piccolo volunteered to go with him to help out Gohan and finally see where he truly comes from, and for the past week while they were in space they train hard in the gravity chamber as well as doing some sparing with each other.

Despite them still being rivals Piccolo was willingly to tolerate being with Goku but continually reminds him that they were still not friends and is only willing to work with him, so he can get stronger himself. But in the end, everyone was glad they were here stronger than ever.

But soon enough when they finished talking Vegeta decided to finish off Raccome himself by blasting him away with a Ki attack, now the Ginyu force was just Captain Ginyu now.

"Hey Vegeta, he was completely out cold, he wasn't going to harm anyone anymore." Goku scolded at Vegeta for his action but he didn't care. "He got exactly what he deserved, you just make me sick, I should've known that you were not a real Super Saiyan." Vegeta said but Goku was wondering what he was talking about.

"Not this again, you know that whole thing is just a legend, it's not really and it will never be." Said Raditz not wanting to hear any more of that old Saiyan fable.

"Shut up, I know that it's real and I can feel it, you're too pathetic to ever be one and your brother is too soft to even be considered a Saiyan, I'm the only one that is worthy." Vegeta tals back to Raditz "But even with your new found powers none of you will ever beat Frieza he'll chew every single one of you and spit you back out." Vegeta says to the group but Goku didn't care.

"I don't know much about this Freiza guy but me and Piccolo got stronger and so have you and Raditz after recovering with the senzu bean, so he shouldn't be that much of a challenge." Goku said with confidence

"Don't be so foolish Kakarot, but it doesn't matter anyway, he's most likely already achieve immortality by now so their nothing we can do now but hide." Vegeta said speaking the truth to the fighters but Krillin didn't look worried.

"I don't think Frieza has made his wish yet." Said Krillin which made others look confused.

"What? What do you mean spit it out?" Vegeta asked

"The sky hasn't turn dark yet, usually when the dragon balls back on earth are collected when the dragon is summoned the sky turns dark even in board daylight." Krillin answered.

"He's right if the dragon balls work like they do on earth it would've been obvious, the balls most likely need a password to unlock and it's most likely in the Namekian language so unless he has a translator Frieza won't be getting his wish." Said Piccolo as he knows about the dragon balls more than anything else with his relationship with Kami.

Vegeta couldn't believe himself that an actual dragon appears when the dragon balls are collected. "Frieza must be regretting killing off those Namek villages, now that he needs one of them to unlock these dragon balls." Raditz commented until Gohan realizes, "Oh no the Grand Elder, they are the last of the Namekians on this planet, Frieza is probably going after him to force him or Dende to reveal the password and then kill them." Gohan said with now Krillin, Raditz, and Goku worried about their safety as well.

They then try using their Ki sense to see where Frieza was at now and they feel a huge force moving right towards the Elders direction. "Oh no he's going to kill him, we need to stop him before he gets to him." Gohan said,

"Don't be so stupid, your no match for him, he'll kill you in one move with his finger, you don't stand a chance." Said Vegeta, but Gohan couldn't just stand there and almost started to cry, "But…. But…." Gohan says barely able to speak now, but then Piccolo puts his hand on his shoulder.

"I'll go." Said Piccolo with the others wondering why, "Their my people and someone has to stop that Frieza or he is going to get to them, I don't know if I can stop Frieza but I can at least slow him down." Piccolo answered to them, "He most likely left the dragon balls behind, if you can get to them before he comes back and once you get them head back to the last Namekians so you guys can get your wishes." Piccolo finally says.

"Captain Ginyu will most likely be their watching them and he's second only to Frieza, but hopefully their will be a chance to take them away without him knowing and make a run for it." Raditz said with the others agreeing on the plan, and Piccolo flies off and begins to follow that huge power.

"I hope that Namek doesn't die on us to quickly, last thing we need is Frieza turning back after us." Vegeta said not caring to much for Piccolo's health.

Goku then says, "He's strong, he'll do his best, right now we need to get to the dragon balls before…Huh?" but Goku then stopped and look toward one direction, it was another great force heading his way. It was Captain Ginyu most likely wanting to check up on his now dead squad.

Sneaking up on him was no longer an option anymore, now they were up against the best the Frieza force has to offer. Will they survive? And will Piccolo get to Frieza in time before he gets to the Elder and get his wish?