Raditz and Piccolo stiffened up when they felt the energy of the saiyans landing on the planet. Gohan also looked worried, though he wasn't fully able to gauge the power of the saiyans like the more experienced fighters could.

Piccolo growls and clenched his fist. "I knew things weren't looking good when they used the dragon balls a month before the predicted time. Damn, I would have preferred to have a bit longer to prepare."

"Either way, this fight was unavoidable. Just stick to the plan and we might actually get out of this alive." Raditz picked up his scouter and stared at it. It had died out a couple of months ago so he couldn't use it to accurately gauge the strength of the saiyans compared to their own.

Almost an hour goes by without any thing happening other than all the animals running away as they sense the approaching danger. The 3 of them had being going over their secret plan the entire time to make sure none of them screw it up. All of them sensed that a strong power level had approached them, and Raditz fired a warning shot at the target, just barely missing. The unknown person landed and wiped some sweat off his bald head "Gee, some greeting you 2 have there."

Gohan widened his eyes as he recognized the person. He was the short person that dad had always talked about. "Hey! I know you! You were at Kame house, right"

"Yeah, glad you remember me. And the name's Krillin." He turned to look at both Piccolo and Raditz, both of which had almost ended up killing him on different occasions. "So, you're helping us fight the saiyans? Better than the other way around I guess."

Raditz smirked as he stared down the short earthling. "I'm surprised you made it out okay from that attack I dealt you a year ago." He took notice of how the earthling's outfit was exactly identical to Kakarot's. "Listen, if you're gonna fight with us, then you need to know about our plan. See-"

"There's no time for that! The saiyans are here." Piccolo interrupted. Everyone looked up at the sky and saw 2 figures in the air, both bolstering incredibly high power levels. The 2 saiyans landed and looked at the 4 warriors standing before them.

The shorter one was the one to speak up first. "So, have you been waiting long for us to arrive?"

Piccolo grunts as the saiyan is clearly looking down on them by making small talk while having their guard down. "That's right. Just so we're clear, why exactly are you here?"

Vegeta's eyes widen a little as he recognizes Piccolo's voice. "I see, so you were the one who was fighting alongside Kakarot against Raditz."

The larger saiyan turned his head to Vegeta. "Say Vegeta, isn't he a namekian?"

Vegeta took a momentary look to confirm what Nappa was asking. "Yes it is Nappa, it makes a bit more sense how he was able to overpower Raditz the way he did."

Everyone's eyes widened and looked towards Piccolo at this unexpected development. While Krillin and Gohan were asking Piccolo if he was really an alien and with Vegeta explaining what namekians were capable of, Raditz was taking a moment to argue with himself. Damnit, how did I not realize it sooner? I was so busy training with them after my defeat that I never bothered to make the connection. While he was being angry with himself, Vegeta had made the assumption that Piccolo was the one who made the dragon balls.

Krillin stepped back in shock, a rush of worry flowing over him. "Y-You know about the dragon balls?!"

Nappa clenched his fist while grinning. "Of course we do. We were originally here just to see what you earthlings were capable of, but we caught wind of the dragon balls while spying on Raditz's conversations a couple months ago."

The Earth inhabitants looked at Raditz who looked quite pale. They were listening in on me? This is bad. What if they heard about the plan. "How much have you heard besides that?"

Vegeta spoke up as Nappa was reading their power levels. "Nothing interesting other than the dragon balls. After a while we couldn't hear anything. We thought you'd caught onto us but I guess you were just dumb and just let it go till it died out."

Nappa chuckled as he finished reading their power levels. "Those are some sad looking power levels. Did you think you could beat us with strength like that? Raditz is the strongest of all of you and he's barely made any progress in the past year.

"Nappa, take off your scouter. These earthlings are capable of changing their power levels to suit the situation." Vegeta took off his scouter and put it aside. "They're garbage to us at this point."

"Good point, Vegeta. If we rely on these things, we could end up like Raditz and almost get ourselves killed."

Raditz grunted when he took the insult. As he saw Nappa about to put away his scouter, an idea popped into his head. "Hey Vegeta, you wouldn't mind if I took Nappa's scouter would you?"

Both the saiyans looked confused, so Vegeta was the one to ask. "Now why would I possibly do that? I told you if you got in the way, I'd end up killing you too."

Raditz smiled as he put up his facade. "I have no intentions of fighting you. I trained these earthlings so that they'd be a decent fight for you, give you a real reason to come all the way out there. Besides, you're the one who said they're garbage to you, where's the harm?"

Vegeta smirked, finding the weaker saiyan's explanation amusing. "I admit, you sure know how to make an argument, though this little favor isn't going to make me forgive you for your failure. You're still on your own." He turned to look at Nappa. "Do what he asks and give him your scouter."

Nappa knew better than to argue with Vegeta. While he did like the gesture of strengthening 2 of the fighters, he still didn't like how Vegeta was giving the outcast what he wants. "Fine, take it. Don't see much reason for you to use it though." He then tossed the scouter to Raditz, who caught it and put it on.

"Well, if you aren't gonna get in our way, then I guess we'll test what these earthlings are capable of." Vegeta crossed his arms as he turns his focus to Nappa again. "Say, how many saibamen do we have left?"

Nappa chuckled as he pulled out a vial with seeds in the top half and a liquid in the bottom half. "We got 6 of them. Should make things quite fun." He rams his index finger into the ground to make a hole, drops a seed into the hole, and covers the hole. He does this process 5 more times and them drops the liquid onto the 6 planted seeds.

The fighters were shocked to see green creatures sprout from the ground where the seeds were planted. Raditz though couldn't help but cackle as he used the scouter to measure their power level. The healthy soil of the Earth had let the saibamen grow healthy, each one of them exactly as strong as he was when he arrived on Earth.

Krillin took a fighting stance as he looked quite nervous. "This is gonna be harder than we thought."

Piccolo smirks as he also took his own fighting stance, to which Gohan copied the stance. "Maybe for you, but I could take them all on myself."

Raditz admired his namekian ally's enthusiasm, though knew that Piccolo would stick to their plan. He wished he could convey the plan to the earthling but with Nappa and Vegeta within earshot, there was no way they could. His scouter suddenly beeped as 2 more figures showed up, a large muscular man with 3 eyes and a small pale creature that he wasn't sure if it was an alien or not.

"Ahaha! Tien! And Chiaotzu! Boy am I glad to see you." Krillen's nervousness quickly went away as he saw his fellow fighters join them, increasing their numbers.

Raditz got another beep from his scouter as another earthling with long black hair and a scar showed up. He noticed this fighter was also wearing an orange gi similar to that of the short one and Kakarot.

"Sorry I'm late guys."

Krillen looked even more excited as yet another fighter shows up and increases their ranks. "Yamcha!"

Vegeta only looked amused as more earthlings showed up. "How adorable, they just keep coming."

Nappa let out a chuckle as he saw the fighters show up. "Probably have a death-wish."

Tien turned around to see Raditz just standing there behind the Z-warriors. "I was under the assumption that we'd be fighting with a saiyan against only 2 other saiyans."

"A lot happened and the situation's changed a bit." Krillin said as he returned to his fighting stance.

Vegeta beamed as he got an idea. "Say, I have an idea. There are 6 of you fighting us, the same number as saibamen. How about you take turns fighting them, 1-on-1 fights? We'll make it a game."

Piccolo narrowed his eyes and smiled at the suggestion. He turned his eyes to look at Raditz who simply gave a nod. "A game huh? Very well, just don't get upset if these matches take a while."

"Fine by me, I'll go first." Tien made his claim for the first fight as he walks in front of the other fights. He slammed his fists together to show how serious he was.

"Hehe, let's see if this guy's still confident one he sees one of our saibamen in action." said Nappa, who looked more excited than Vegeta.

Vegeta pointed to one of the saibamen. "You! You'll be the first to fight. Don't hold back."

The saibaman didn't even hesistate to launch itself towards Tien, aiming for the strike. Tien was prepared though as he shouted and thrust his hand forward, using his strength to knock the saibaman back. Tien didn't hold back as he rushed toward the saibaman.

Once the saibaman landed and stopped the momentum of being knocked back, its head split open and fired a stream of liquid straight at Tien and the other fighters behind him. Everyone moved out of the way and were shocked to see the liquid melt through the ground and create a hole in a straight line of where the stream landed.

Tien quickly moved and rushed towards the Saibaman, surprising Vegeta with his speed. Tien rammed his elbow into the side of the Saibaman's head, knocking it behind him, the saibaman collapsing. The Z-warriors were cheering for Tien while Nappa was in disbelief that one of the saibaman lost so easily.

Vegeta regained his smile as he watched this surprising development. "Looks like this will be more entertaining than we expected." He turned his eyes to see the saibaman struggling to get up.

"This is impossible, every single one of the saibaman have a power level of 1200. Kakarot and the namekian were supposed to be the strongest fighters on this planet and they struggled against that kind of power." Nappa clenched his fists as he was clearly getting frustrated.

"Use your head you buffoon." Vegeta said whilst not even looking away from everything. "That just means that they were more prepared for this fight than we thought." He looked back at the saibaman as it gets back up. He points his fingers at it and as if by command, the saibaman breaks apart and dies in a pile of broken body parts.

Everyone looked absolutely shocked at the saiyan prince's monstrous power, well everyone except Raditz, who was just watching in silence. Nappa turned to Vegeta in shock. "W-Why did you do that? That saibaman could still fight."

"That saibaman didn't listen to me and underestimated its opponent. It was a waste of space." Vegeta looked at the other saibamen with a stern look. "The rest of you, don't make the same mistake, otherwise you'll meet the same fate." He looked back at the earthlings and smiled again. "Alright, so which one of you is next?"

Krillin was about to step up, but Yamcha walked forward with a completely smug look. "I'll be your next opponent. I'll show you that this isn't a game anymore."

Krillin looked at Yamcha with concern. "It's okay Yamcha. I can fight this next-"

Yamcha turned to look at Krillin with a reassuring smile. "It's fine. Besides, you've already been brought back by the dragon before. If you die, then there's no bringing you back." He turns back towards the saiyans and saibamen. "Alright, come get me."

Vegeta simply looked on with amusement as Yamcha stepped forward. "Looks like somebody's gotten cocky."

"Show them what you saibamen are capable of!" Nappa ordered the saibaman that stepped forth to fight next.

There was a momentary silence before both Yamcha and the saibaman suddenly vanished. At least that's what it looked like to Gohan. "Ah, they disappeared!"

"Fool, they're clearly moving at high speeds. You're still inexperienced but you should be able to see the action. Just sense their energy." Piccolo instructed the saiyan halfling, turning back to the high speed fight.

Gohan nodded as he looked forward. He started to remember the training he did with Piccolo and Raditz, feeling out the energy of the 2 fighting, not taking long to lock onto them and see the fighting.

Yamcha and the saibaman were zooming around the place, delivering rapid blows to each other. None of the attacks were direct hits, so both fighters kept going. The saibaman leapt on top of a tall rock formation, to which Yamcha rushed quickly after. The saibaman left forward at Yamcha, ready to grab hold of him, though the earthling vanished midair and reappeared behind the saibaman. Yamcha brought his hands together and fired an energy blast at the saibaman, knocking it into the ground and presumably out of fighting condition.

Yamcha landed on the ground with his smug look plastered on his face. "Looks like your freaks of nature aren't as strong as you made them out to be. I think I'll take out the other 4 by myself."

Raditz grunted at the comment made by the earthling. Don't even think about it. If you take them out as fast as that one, you'll completely screw up my plans. He widened his eyes as he noticed the saibaman move slightly, knowing exactly what it was about to do.

"Hmph, I think it may be a little early for you to be celebrating." Vegeta chuckled as he also noticed the saibaman shuffle in the crater.

Before Yamcha could even respond to what Vegeta said, the saibaman leapt out of the crater and wrapped its arms around Yamcha, restricting his arms. Everyone got in a panic, especially as the saibaman started to glow. Just as Yamcha's life was flashing before his eyes, an energy blast come flying from behind the the Z-warriors, hitting the saibaman and knocking the creature off Yamcha with enough force to send it flying right before it exploded.

Everyone widened their eyes and turned to look at where the blast came from, seeing Raditz with his hand up from firing the blast himself.

Vegeta glared at Raditz as he uncrossed his arms. "What happened to staying out of our way? I guess you really do wanna die." He aimed his open palm at the rogue saiyan warrior.

Raditz simply started laughing at Vegeta's threat, putting up his facade to hide his fear. "Oh please, as if I would go picking a fight with you 2."

Nappa clenched his fists as he glared at his former ally with pure anger. "Oh yeah? Then why did you attack the saibaman and save the earthling?"

Raditz crossed his arms. "Because I was keeping some more entertainment for you. There's no way that sad excuse of an attack could kill someone I made ready to fight against the 2 of you personally. Besides, if you killed them right off the bat, then who'll be left to fight against you? Pretty boring to come to a planet and not get any action at all." Okay, now just take the bait. This is all I could think of so if he doesn't take it, we're screwed.

Vegeta smiled at Raditz's words and crossed his arms again. "Very well, I'll let it go this time, but if you pull a stunt like that again, you won't get a second chance. You got it?"

Nappa turned to look at Vegeta with pure shock on his face. "Vegeta, you can't be serious! Are you actually giving that bastard what he wants again?!"

"Shut it, Nappa!" Vegeta ordered, immediately making the saiyan elite close his mouth. "Not another word on the matter, is that clear?"

Nappa just stayed silent as his superior had raised his voice in anger to him. He looked at Raditz and found the outcast looking so pleased with himself. Nappa became absolutely furious towards the saiyan, very tempted to rush him. He restrains himself though to avoid angering Vegeta again.

Chiaotzu stepped forth to fight next. Raditz sensed the energy of the strange looking earthling and felt that his power was weaker than a saibaman so he couldn't help but worry. This could be trouble. I won't have another chance to save them so I just gotta hope he has some tricks up his sleeve.

One of the saibaman rushed forward without warning, bringing Chiaotzu to a panic. The short earthling raised his hands and the saibaman stopped midair, surprising all 3 of the saiyans. Chiaotzu aimed one of his fingers straight at the saibaman. "Dodon Ray!" A thin yellow beam fired from Chiaotzu's finger and blasted the saibaman back.

Chiaotzu ran and hid behind some large rocks. Once the saibaman recovered from the blast, it split its head open and fired the acidic liquid from its head straight towards the rock, melting though buthitting the earthling. The saibaman leapt onto the rock to look for the earthling but widened its eyes as its sees a large amount of its acid just floating in a ball. Chiaotzu swing his arms up from the spot he was hiding in and knocked the acid right in its face, melting the saibaman's head into a puddle and then nothing.

Krillin and Gohan were cheering for the crafty victory while the opposing saiyans were just surprised by the earthling's telekinesis. Raditz let out a sigh of relief. Guess I was worried over nothing. I should have guessed that they had some tricks up their sleeves.

"Hmph, these earthlings grow more amusing by the second." said Vegeta, who nudged his head to tell one of the saibaman to get ready to fight.

Krillin stepped forward to get ready to fight next. "Alright, it's time for me to give it everything I've got."

This saibaman decided to open up with firing its acid at Krillin. When the fighter was forced to dodge, the saibaman launched itself straight for Krillen, aiming to end things quickly by self-destructing. Krillen smirked as he didn't seem to move though when the saibaman tried to grab him, it just went right through him.

Krillin appeared elsewhere on the battlefield, firing 2 energy blasts from each of his hands at the saibaman. The alien creature saw the attack coming and leapt high into the air to dodge the attack. Krillin didn't seem bothered as his attack seemed to curve back around and came out the saibaman from behind. The saibaman didn't notice the attack coming for it until it was too late, getting hit by the blast and getting completely obliterated.

"Gah! This is ridiculous! That's 4 saibamen that have lost and not a single one of them even look exhausted!" Nappa shouted, clearly frustrated from everything going wrong for him today.

"Relax Nappa." Vegeta said, his voice calmer than it was before. "The last 2 are the ones who fought Raditz. They'll undoubtedly kill the remaining saibamen, but we can at least see if they're worth the trip here."

Nappa only responded with a grunt. He'd feel a little more excited about this, though Raditz's interference earlier had left a bad taste in his mouth. "Yeah, I guess you're right."

Piccolo cracked his knuckles as he stepped forward, looking at the saibaman that had opted to be his opponent. "Hmph, I'm gonna enjoy making you suffer." This made the saibaman look nervous and towards its fellow saibaman to switch out, the other one refusing to do so as it was also scared.

The saibaman just stayed there and stared at the namekian. It had seen that every tactic the earlier 4 saibamen had used had resulted in their death, so this time it would go on the defensive till an opportunity to self-destruct arose.

Piccolo smirked as the saibaman's cowardice played in favor to the plan.

The day before, Raditz had said that he'd come up with a plan to maximize survival. "Listen, the other saiyans are coming here to see what kind of fighters this planet has at its disposal. Their most likely tactic is to use saibamen, creatures that'll have around the same power I had when I first came to this planet."

Both Piccolo and Gohan nodded as they listened carefully to what Raditz is saying. "So, they're gonna try and waste our energy while also learning what we can do."

Raditz nodded and smiled. "This works in our favor though. The saibamen are undoubtedly going to be weaker than all of us. If we can drag out the fights with them as long as we can, we can give Kakarot enough time to arrive. Then we'll possibly have enough power to take both saiyans."

Piccolo smiled as he returns his thoughts to the present and looks at the saibaman. He threw a faint at the saibaman, to which fell for it and dodged. As it got ready to attack, Piccolo turned swung his other arm an knocked his opponent into a rock. He held back quite a bit so the saibaman didn't seem too damaged.

The saibaman took not to how the punch barely hurt and assumed that Piccolo was a lot weaker than expected, rushing forward and letting its guard down. This allowed Piccolo to dodge with ease and ram his elbow into the saibaman's back. It groaned as it got back up and leapt back, getting into a defensive stance and waited for Piccolo to make another move.

This fight lasted quite a while with the saibaman getting quite tired while Piccolo hadn't even broken a sweat. Vegeta tapped his finger on his arm as he and Nappa had grown bored.

"Alright, that's enough!" Vegeta shouted, causing both fighters to stop. "You've clearly made your point that you're stronger than it. You, get back here." He ordered the saibaman. The saibaman walked over to the other saibaman, which was ready to fight the kid who was up next. "Do it Nappa."

Nappa smirked as he swiped his arm sideways, causing a sudden explosion where the saibamen were standing, vaporizing both of them. "Ah, I really needed that."

Everyone was in a panic as they just saw the saiyans kill their allies, despite one of them haven't fought at all. Raditz especially looked worried. He hadn't taken into account that the saiyans would get impatient and kill the saibamen.

"T-They killed them! How could they do that?!" Gohan asked. His inexperience and young mindedness made him too naive that someone could be this cold-hearted.

"Guess this means we have no choice but to fight seriously." said Piccolo, getting into a stance along with everyone else.

"You don't mind if I take them all myself, do you Vegeta?" asked Nappa as he took a few steps forward.

"Do as you wish. Just stick to the deal and don't touch Raditz unless he gets in our way." Vegeta said as he watched his partner get ready.

Nappa looked a little disappointed by that order, though doesn't let it get to him as his immense energy starts to make the ground quake. "Alright. Get ready, because I don't plan to hold back!"

And with that, I am finally done with this chapter. I gotta tell ya, when you have to write saibamen so many times, you gain a hatred for them. I never expected this chapter to be so long and it would have been longer if I wasn't too lazy. I wanted to be as thorough with this chapter as possible while rushing to get to this chapter done with so I can get the real juice of the story. Hope you don't think less of me for it. Anyway, I'm sure you all probably have a couple of questions so feel free to ask me either in a review or though PM. Anyway, like always, feel free to tell me how you liked this chapter, how i can improve and what you would like to see. Tune in next time for the next exciting chapter of Dragon Ball Z: A Saiyan's tail.