Reformed Saiyans
Chapter Forty-Two: Aftermath
"KABOOOOM!" The Planet of Namek bursted and exploded into a million pieces, scattering across the solar system, and even the galaxy.
In the far distance, in another dimension in fact, Otherworld, King Kai gave a frown as he observed over the events, whereas Tien and Chiaotzu were still left uninformed.
"Hey! King Kai! You're gonna tell us what's going on or what?" Tien shouted.
King Kai sighed and slowly turned around, having his gaze lowered for only a moment. "Goku...He defeated Frieza." King Kai said, pausing for a moment. Chiatzou's face lit up with a smile, but Tien could tell that King Kai had more to say.
"Okay so what's with the frown then?" Tien asked.
"I'm afraid Goku was unable to escape the destruction of Planet." King Kai answered.
Tien sighed with relief. "Well if that's what you're worried about then there's no need to." Tien replied. "Goku has never been brought back before so he can still be revived."
"I don't know if that's possible, the Grand Elder of Namek has passed away, and even though he transferred his role I'm unaware of the current Grand Elder's power." King Kai explained. "We don't know if he can make new Dragon Balls or would be willing to after the whole Frieza stuff."
"It doesn't hurt to ask." Chiaotzu pointed out. "We could still ask and find out."
"I guess. Then let's check in on the others." King Kai said.
Tien took a couple steps forward. "I'll relay the message to them, get in contact with Krillin and I'll take care of the rest." He replied. King Kai nodded in response.
The Great Northern Kai used his antennas to reach out through the galaxy sending a telepathic link to Krillin. Tien placed his hand on King Kai so that he could talk to Krillin through it.
"Hey, Krillin are you there?" Tien said.
Krillin, currently residing inside the spaceship with everyone else, cocked his head to the right, realizing nobody was there, instantly assumed it was telepathic.
"Hello? Tien is that you?" Krillin asked.
"Yeah It is. I've got some good news and bad news." Tien answered.
Krillin frowned, "Oh no. What is it?" He asked.
"Good news is, Goku defeated Frieza, he's no longer a problem." Tien explained. "Bad news.. Well.. Goku didn't leave the planet in time."
"I was afraid of that! Damn it!" Krillin replied, before letting out a sigh. "It's fine, we should be able to revive him anyways he was never revived before."
"Are you sure? We were aware that The Grand Elder was dead." Tien said.
"Yeah well I've been talking with the Namekians, and you won't believe it." Krillin replied. "Since Guru transferred his role to Moori, Moori is capable of recreating the Namek Dragon Balls! So we can revive Goku, Gohan, and Yamcha!"
Tien widened his eyes. "R-Really?!"
"It gets better. Not only can we revive them three, but Moori said he can modify them so that they have no affiliation with the Earth's Dragon Balls." Krillin explained. "Which means…."
"No way! You mean…" Tien paused.
"Yup! You and Chiaotzu are coming home!" Krillin smiled. Tien's jaw dropped with excitement. "We'll only have to wait about 130 days to recharge though, but you guys will be back! In No Time flat!"
Tien whipped his head to Chiaotzu. "Do you hear that Chiaotzu!? We're coming home!"
"We are!?" Chiaotzu asked. Tien nodded in response, and in which Chiaotzu cheered with joy.
"Hey, I know you guys are happy and all…" King Kai said. "BUT COULD YOU PLEASE STOP PUSHING ME UP AGAINST THE GROUND!"
"U-Uh sorry, King Kai." Tien replied, feeling slight embarrassment. King Kai lifted himself up after Tien removed his hand, dusting himself off.
"Anyways….Yeah, so I guess I don't have to be feeding for two forever now." King Kai said. "I mean having company around is great and all, but this is ridiculous!"
"We won't have any Earth Dragon Balls though." Krillin put out.
"W-Wait what do you mean?" Tien asked. "Can't we just revive Piccolo with the Namekian Dragon Balls?"
Krillin frowned and paused for a second. "No.. Apparently when Piccolo sacrificed himself, it wasn't an ordinary sacrifice, somehow he managed to take both his and Kami's soul together and used it like some kind of attack. I don't know how, or why it happened, but I think if Piccolo had known he..he would've never done it."
"I guess we'll have to live without the Dragon Balls then." Tien sighed. "Are you sure we can't just wish for his soul to be recreated?"
"I don't think so, I was talking with the Elders, and new Grand Elder, and they said that when a soul is destroyed, it's as if they never existed in the first place." Krillin explained. "Your Soul is like the storage of everything that is you, if its destroyed you're gone forever, all backup versions, all memories, etc."
"How do we know Piccolo's soul is completely destroyed though?" Tien asked.
"I'm not sure, the Elders and new Grand Elder said the technique Piccolo used seemed familiar, they're unsure though." Krillin answered.
"If I could just interrupt you two… I am King Kai, you should know I have enough authority, and power to check right?" King Kai said.
"You can do that?" Krillin asked.
"Yup, give me like a minute. I'll be back." King Kai replied. Stepping forward, King Kai stopped his link momentarily, and searched for Piccolo's soul. After several minutes, long moments of sensing, there was nothing, King Kai let a long sigh out. "Sorry. I cannot sense his soul anywhere, not in the otherworld, not anywhere. And if he's somewhere higher up...well...then I'm afraid there's nothing we can do."
Tien and Krillin frowned. "I guess we'll have to make due then." Krillin said.
"Okay well, I'll be sure to let Chiaotzu know, then I'll see if I can get Yamcha and Gohan informed. They should be somewhere at King Kais or probably at Snake Way maybe." Tien replied.
"Alright then, see you guys in 130 days…" Krillin said.
"Are you sure we're going the right way Woman?!" Raditz yelled.
"Yes! I am! And don't call me Woman!" Bulma barked. "I have the co-ordinates set properly, I've checked it hundreds, if not thousands of times! We're in the right direction!"
"If so, then why aren't we already there?!" Raditz pointed out.
"Probably because I can't concentrate over your impatient whining!" Bulma said. "Besides! We're already low as it is, going faster would burn our fuel! You'll just have to wait!"
Raditz growled under his breath, and shook his head. "Whatever." He thought. Raditz walked out of the main controls room, walking down the hall of the ship, going into the fuel room. In the fuel room were tons of pipes, batteries, and many other mechanical structures.
Raditz walked up to one of the batteries and wiped the dust off of it. It read "EC-3" on top, Raditz placed his hand on the battery.
"Okay, If I do it right, we should have enough energy to make it to a fuelling station." Raditz thought. Raditz gathered energy to his hand, it surrounded his arm and travelled down in his hand. He quickly stretched his hand out and a glowy energy sphere went on the battery, being absorbed into it.
After Raditz sat down for a moment sighing to himself. "Man how did I get in this mess? Sure it got me out of the previous dump, being bossed around by Vegeta and Frieza...but damn…" Raditz muttered. "Stuck up in a cramped spaceship, with a bunch of stupid Namekians, and this Woman who will not shut up!"
Raditz laid back and closed his eyes for a second. "Sometimes I wonder what would happen if I never accepted that stupid offer of Kakarotto's… then again I guess its better than being bossed around by "The Prince" and Frieza."
Nappa sat in a random room of the ship, alone, with the door locked. He had an expressionless face, and continued to stay in deep thought, or tried to, his mind was filled with nothing but images of humility he's faced.
"Damn it!" Nappa growled. He was spared multiple times, beaten multiple times, his pride was torn to shreds, and the worst part out of all of it, is he let himself go too far. He let himself become a puppet of Frieza, the exact opposite of what they were trying to do all for the sake of revenge.
"I'm no General...Not Anymore.." Nappa sighed to himself. The once mighty General Nappa has long since been gone, now Nappa was faced with a dilemma, a small one, one that could be fixed by one simple question.
That question was, "What is he going to do now?" Nappa took the time to think, even sleep on it. At this point his life felt nothing more than a debt owed to Goku. It frustrated him to no ends, but what was he to do?
As time passed, after about two weeks, they returned to Earth, not far from West City, which was perfect for Bulma. This gave plenty of time for the Namekians to create a new Porunga model for the Dragon Balls.
Once arrived at Capsule Corp, Bulma made sure they were behind the Capsule Corporation building before doing anything else, so that nobody could see the Namekians. Before anyone was able to do anything else, Bulma had said she needed a much needed "bath", and told that everyone can meet back up after a day so they can talk about their plans.
So one day went and came. Raditz and Nappa who had nowhere to go, stayed at Capsule Corporation, whereas Krillin returned to Kame House, everyone avoided, however informing Chichi of their return after what happened with Gohan.
"Once we activate the Dragon Balls, they will be automatically resetted and ready for use." Moori announced. "So you can go ahead and use your first three wishes to resurrect your Friends."
"For real?!" Krillin asked. Moori nodded in response. "Alright then, I'll let the others know and we'll discuss who to revive first."
Which is exactly what Krillin did, he contacted King Kai, King Kai had already been observing and waiting back so he was all ready to hear what Krillin had to say. After hearing that they can revive at least three of them ahead of time, King Kai became a little too ecstatic, then again who wouldn't? There is a thing such as staying over too long.
There was that plus even though he didn't want to be rude but Gohan has been the worst! Eating him out of home! King Kai struggled to bring groceries home with the young boy having already gone through it, not that he could blame him. One of the best things King Kai thought was nothing but his "Me Time", and that was definitely needed.
Quickly making their decisions, Gohan was the first to be resurrected, then Yamcha, the third wish was used for bringing the two to Earth. Bulma wanted to celebrate, but Krillin pointed out that they should wait for Tien and Chiaotzu, that way it'd be a bigger celebration, which Bulma agreed upon.
"Hey runt, when we get back to your place, don't tell your mother of any of this alright?" Raditz said.
Gohan tilted his head. "What do you mean Uncle Raditz?" Gohan asked.
"You dying…" Raditz answered. "If we tell her that...If she finds out...Well...It won't be fun. You'll never be able to fight again."
Gohan frowned, but nodded in agreement with Raditz, he knew how his mother was. That's probably exactly how she'd react, especially given the recent events. She's probably already mad enough that they were two weeks longer than they were supposed to be. Gohan figured he'd be stuck on huge homework duty when he got home, however, he was actually wrong.
"Am...I dreaming?" Gohan thought. His mother was actually letting him stay off school for a few days. "Mom, are you okay?"
"Of course I am, why wouldn't I be?" Chichi asked.
"It's just, you never let me skip schoolwork?" Gohan answered.
"It's fine, it's only a few days. Besides you've been fighting so hard, I think its only fair." Chichi replied. "But you will have to be doing extra schoolwork to make up for it."
Raditz and Gohan glanced at each other, then Raditz pulled Gohan away for a moment.
"Okay, on my mark, I'll knock her out, and you'll make some tea, got it?" Raditz said. Gohan gave a confused look on his face.
"What do you mean Uncle Raditz?" Gohan asked.
"She's clearly having a fever or something! I mean this ain't right!" Raditz answered. "On second thought, I'll just knock her out and you run, okay?"
"I CAN HEAR YOU TWO YOU KNOW!" Chichi yelled. The two flinched, Raditz immediately bursted out of the door, and Gohan shook a bit from Chichi's death defying glares. "Just because I decided to give my child a break doesn't mean I'm having a fever!"
Chichi ran after Raditz, grabbing him by the back of his armor. "You get back here! Just for that you're coming with me! I need some help grocery shopping and since Goku isn't around to do it!"
"Hey what the hell makes you think I'm going to he-" Raditz paused, Chichi put her finger out.
"No no. Hush, unless you want to make this worse on you." Chichi replied. Raditz sighed in defeat. "Now get in the kitchen and clean those dishes!" She screamed as she threw Raditz across the kitchen floor. Chichi then turned to Gohan. "Now Gohan, feel free to play or relax just do it before I change my mind. Okay?"
Gohan nodded. "Yes Mom."
After another 130 days, Tien and Chiaotzu were restored to life, brought back home as well. Finally, the Namekians were gonna get their turn after another 130 days, but it was of no burden to them, they enjoyed their time on Earth. Bulma had given them a large area to do some agriculture, they got to learn a lot about Earth's agriculture, as well as a few other cultural things on Earth.
Once a full 260 days had passed it was time for the Namekians, including Dende, to return to Namek. They had tried to wish Goku back before finding out that he was in fact alive, not wishing to return, they assumed he was off training.
"Since we only need two wishes, is there anything you guys would like to wish for on the third wish?" Moori asked. "I'd prefer not to waste it."
"Actually. Yeah." Raditz stepped forward. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but could you revive Vegeta and bring him here in one wish?"
Everyone looked shocked, and gasped. "Listen, I know he isn't the nicest being or anything, but Vegeta did help a lot against Frieza. Without him we would've never lasted as long." Raditz pointed out. "I cannot stand the guy, but it's better than wasting the wish on something small or silly."
Moori's shocked face turned into a smile, and he nodded. "If that is what you wish then Porunga can make it happen. We'll revive the one called Vegeta and bring him here."
After speaking to the Dragon and giving the request, Porunga granted the request. Vegeta appeared right on Earth, fully confused and shocked.
"W-Wha?! What the!?" Vegeta shouted. He whipped his head around several times."Where am I! What the hell happened!" Quickly grasping the situation, he gave an angry frown. "Oh great and I was two seconds from accepting that I was about to be reincarnated to some pansy… Actually now I'm kind of glad!"
Raditz sent an odd look. "Okkaaay….." He said, snapping out of it.
"Just for the record, just because you revived me, don't mean I owe you any favors." Vegeta pointed out.
"Wasn't counting on it. We're just repaying a favor." Raditz replied. "Couldn't have lasted as long against Frieza without you as much as it pains me to admit." Vegeta smirked in response, making Raditz growl angrily before brushing it off. "Whatever.. Just don't go killing any more Nameks or Earthlings for that matter."
"And if I do?" Vegeta asked.
Raditz smirked and chuckled. "Well, then Kakarot is gonna have to kick your ass, not that I can't do it, but I think it'd be more humiliating if he did."
Vegeta raised a brow and got closer. "And how do you expect me to believe that he could? Kakarotto isn't even stronger than Frieza's 1st form! At-...Wait...Where's Frieza!"
Raditz's smirk turned into a wide grin. "Go on and give a guess…"
Vegeta's eyes widened and pupils shrunk at the realization. "No! There's no way that low class warrior defeated Frieza! How!"
"Kakarotto did it. He's exactly what Frieza feared." Raditz's grin turned wider as Vegeta's jaw dropped.
"No! There's no way he's the Legendary Super Saiyan! You're lying!" Vegeta snarled.
"Hey if I were lying than how are we here and not being under Frieza's rule right now?" Raditz pointed out.
Vegeta lowered his gaze as he processed his shocking thought. "But...Then…" He paused. Vegeta raised his gaze and gave an angry scowl. "It doesn't matter if Kakarot is the Super Saiyan! If some low class warrior is capable of achieving such a transformation then so am I!"
Raditz scoffed, rolling his eyes. "You know well there's only one Super Saiyan every thousand years, good luck with that."
"Be doubtful all you want, but I'll become a Super Saiyan! You'll all see!" Vegeta shouted. "And you know what else? You're still the same Saibamen Saiyan you've always been, Raditz, I can see right through you."
Raditz whipped around, hurling his fist out of anger, but Yamcha stopped him, blocking the fist.
"Both of you knock it off! If you two wanna go fight, do it somewhere else where nobody can get hurt!" Yamcha yelled, his aura flared crimson for a moment then turned to white and dissipated. "This is not the place for that."
Raditz growled angrily then turned around and walked off. "Whatever.." Raditz took off and flew away.
"Uncle Wait!" Gohan shouted, Raditz ignored him and continued off, leaving Gohan with a frown.
"Hey, Gohan, it's fine, he just needs to blow off some steam." Krillin whispered.
"Okay.." Gohan sighed.
"Ha! Deserves that low class trash right! He should know his place." Vegeta laughed. Gohan sent Vegeta an angry glare and quiet growl. Taking quick notice, a smirk forms on Vegeta's face as he turns his head. "What? Does the brat wanna try and mess with me now?" Vegeta chuckled evilly. "You know thanks to your Father, Frieza is out of my way and with Kakarot gone, I'm number one now!"
"My Dad will be back! You're nothing compared to him!" Gohan retorted.
"Sure, but how long will you have to wait? For all we could know he could endlessly be drifting in space!" Vegeta pointed out. Vegeta walked up to Gohan. "He's served his purpose, and now that leaves me with one question." Vegeta looked up for a second placing his hand on his chin. "Should I destroy you now so that you don't become a problem in my back or perhaps I should keep you around?"
"You're forgetting there's still us and Raditz! You couldn't take us all on!" Krillin shouted.
"Oh really? I'd like to see you guys try! My powerlevel is much stronger than all of you combined, even with all of your techniques, it'll take everything and MORE! Just to beat me!" Vegeta said. "If you perhaps had that Namekian of yours you might've stood a chance." Vegeta turned his head back to Gohan and pushed the boy's forehead with his finger tauntingly. "Besides, I think I'll need someone to polish my boots around so I've chosen not to destroy you."
Gohan gritted his teeth and growled, he swatted Vegeta's hand away, hurling his chin. "Take this you jerk!" He yelled. Gohan lowered his two hands right above his gut, and gathered purple energy. "Double Sunday!"
Shoving his two hands forward, Gohan unleashed a wave of purple energy at Vegeta. Vegeta placed his hand in front of him and gripped the energy sphere, crushing it into nothing but steam.
"Is that what you call an attack? Please, I've seen better." Vegeta scoffed. Vegeta lowered himself back down to the ground, keeping a wide smirk, while Gohan stayed defensive, growling and showing his teeth almost like a wild animal. Vegeta walked a few steps forward, knowing well the fear that was in Gohan, causing Gohan to step back as he moved forward.
Gohan tried to tackle Vegeta but Vegeta kneed Gohan in the gut, and then whacked him to the ground. Gohan slid across the ground about ten feet, the impact on his gut had made him cough a little blood, with a small stream pouring out the right side of his mouth.
Having already been quickly put to the ground, Gohan struggled to stay awake. Vegeta placed his hand out and concentrated a yellow energy ki blast.
"Pity...What a waste of tale-." Vegeta muttered. The Prince felt a hand smack itself across his face, Vegeta's guard had been down, and it allowed the fist to cause him minor pain. When Vegeta turned his head to see who hit it, it was Bulma? Vegeta was both furious and confused.
"What the hell's wrong with you!" She yelled. "Raditz was nice enough to revive you and the first thing you do is start insulting everyone?! Not to mention we were in the middle of something! Have you any decency!"
Vegeta's face had become more irritated each time Bulma continued to yap, so he used his energy to create a powerful blast of wind shoving Bulma down.
"How dare you talk to me that way woman! And how dare you slap me!" Vegeta yelled. Bulma gulped in fear, slightly shaking. "If you all want to die, then so be i-" Vegeta lifted his arm to cause another energy blast but this time, someone grabbed it.
"Come on Vegeta! You're gonna stoop as low as killing a Woman?" Raditz said.
Vegeta moved his arm away from Raditz and scoffed. "Hmph! Please I've killed millions, if not, trillions of lives, all men, children and women. You have too Raditz, don't be a hypocrite." Vegeta pointed out.
"You're missing the point, there's literally no reason for you to be doing this!" Raditz said. "We're not under Frieza's orders anymore. What you're doing is unnecessary!"
"Perhaps the Woman shouldn't have angered me. Then there wouldn't be a problem." Vegeta replied, crossing his arms.
Raditz growled with anger then sighed out of frustration. "Listen. You wanna get off this planet right?" Raditz asked. Vegeta raised his eyebrow. "In that case, you'll have to abide by some of our rules, the Woman can build you a new ship, and you can leave. That way you'll be out of our hair and we'll be out of yours, deal?"
"A new ship? What happened to Zarbon's? I assume you got here somehow, and that was the only functional ship on Namek." Vegeta said.
Raditz moved his gaze elsewhere for a second then back. "Uhm...that had...some technical difficulties…."
Vegeta blinked twice and then gave a slightly confused look, before having a moment of realization. "You crashed it, didn't you?"
"Well...it crashed, but not by me." Raditz said. He shook his head. "Look, it's not the point. The point is, we'll get you a new ship and you can go do whatever, find Kakarot, or some crap." Raditz then got up close, and lowered his tone. "However if you try to kill anyone here, or even give off the intent of killing someone here, I will make sure to end you right there and then!"
Vegeta smirked. "Since when did you care so much about the inhabitants of this planet?"
"I could care less about the inhabitants of this absurd planet, I just don't wanna have to be responsible for cleaning it up!" Raditz snarled.
Vegeta then shrugged and turned around, walking to a tree then sitting up against it. "Alright Deal. You don't have to worry about it."
After Vegeta had finally quieted, the group resumed their task.
"Thanks Uncle Raditz." Gohan smiled.
Raditz looked down to Gohan and scratched his head. "Eeeh...Don't make this a bigger deal than it already is." Raditz said. "I just wanna get this done and over with, so I can go back to training, waiting for Kakarot."
The Namekians all said their goodbyes to the Earthlings as they made their two final wishes, one to restore the Planet of Namek, and two to relocate the Planet of Namek and bring all of the Namekians to that planet.
As Gohan and Raditz were heading back home, Raditz stopped by Korin's place before going home.
"Hey, why are we going to Korin's?" Gohan asked, with his head tilted.
"Need a senzu bean for you, I don't want your mother seeing you like this." Raditz answered. "Not dealing with another one of her episodes."
Gohan laughed in response.
"And, after we're done here I'm thinking maybe soon we could take a REAL Trip through the Mountains." Raditz said. "We'll do it Saiyan style, and it'll be a part of your training. Now that there isn't any real threat, we can do a little better about that, because I guess I wasn't too great at assuring your technique was good, plus I'd like to see what you've learned when you were in otherworld."
"Really?!" Gohan said cheerfully. "Wait, but what if Mom won't let me?" Gohan's lit face went down.
"Don't worry about it, I have it all under control." Raditz smirked. Gohan tilted his head in slight confusion but decided to shrug it off.
To be continued…
A/N: Moving situations got A LOT more complicated and time consuming than I thought. I don't have a desk to actually take care of future chapters, sorry I can't present the special Christmas Special like I promised. It was supposed to be up on the 24th but like I said, too busy right now.
Hopefully I can release it sometime mid Janurary. Anyways, this chapter is a little more RAW then it should be, but I took a look at it, and its good enough that it's publishable. My proofreaders kinda got busy so, none of them are here to help me proof read it.
Powerlevels: (Just a reminder)
Vegeta: 2,500,000
Raditz: 1,500,000
Gohan: 600,000
Nappa: 300,000
Yamcha: 75,000
Krillin: 50,000
Tienshinhan: 50,000 (Yes this is his current powerlevel now after his training on King Kai's planet again. So that'd be about 1 Month, 2.9 Weeks worth of training)
Chiaotzu: 15,000