Dodoria chuckled as he was given direct orders to kill the last of the namekians. "Roger that, Lord Freeza."

The elder growled as he stood back to his feet, glaring at the tyrant and his underlings. "Children, run away. Now!" He raised his arms into the air, likely preparing for an attack. "Prepare to face the power of namekian pride!"

Freeza rolled his eyes and smirked, pointing his finger out and firing a beam from it, shooting right past the elder's head and hitting his mark by hitting one of the namekian children.

The other namekian child stared down as his sibling drop to ground as a smoldering corpse. "N-No! Cargo!"

Gohan watched this happen and a part of him snapped, his energy shooting upwards. "Those.. Bastards!"

Dodoria didn't hesitate to attack right after Lord Freeza, grabbing the elder by the collar and wrapping his arms around the elder's neck. In one swift moment, Dodoria snaps the elder's neck, killing him. He then drops the corpse and smiled. "What was that you were talking about namekian pride?"

Krillin and Tien noticed Gohan acting up, so they reached over and grabbed onto him, trying to hold him back. "Gohan, just calm down. We don't stand a chance against those guys. You'll just get us killed."

The young namekian tried to run, but Dodoria dropped down in front of him. "Kids don't make very good sport." He raised his arm up. "Oh well, time to die!"

Gohan's head snapped back as he screams in rage, his power higher than it's ever been. He broke out of Krillin and Tien's grasp and rushed at Dodoria. "I'll kill you!"

Both Freeza and Zarbon looked in the direction from where Gohan screamed. Dodoria looked around, trying to find where it came from. "An ally of yours? Where is he?"

Gohan got right beside Dodoria and slammed his foot into the side of the alien's face with a fierce kick, sending him flying into a nearby namekian house.

Both Krillin and Tien knew that hiding at this point was useless. The flew after Gohan.

Dodoria grunted and looked at his assailant as Gohan landed. "What the hell?! Who are you?!"

Gohan grit his teeth and glared at Dodoria. "I'm the one who's gonna kill you!"

Dodoria chuckles as he found the kid's words amusing. "Kill me you say?"

Krillin rushed in and went for a dive kick against Dodoria's face, knocking the pink alien onto the ground. He turns his head to look at Gohan. "You idiot! Move, now!" He grabbed onto the namekian child and flew off.

Tien grabbed onto Gohan and flew after Krillin when Gohan hadn't yet calmed down. "Gohan, snap out of it. This isn't like you."

Gohan snapped back to reality and realized what he'd done. He made Tien let him go and started flying on his own. "I'm sorry guys. I lost control."

Meanwhile, Freeza just watched this unfold with utter bewilderment. "Well that was quite odd. They weren't namekians. Who were they?" He saw Dodoria getting back up. "After them Dodoria! Don't let them get away!"

Completely angry about his assailants pulling a hit and run, he rushed after them in a blind rage. "Worthless bastards!"

"Don't slow down for everything! If we get caught, we're dead!" shouted Krillin. He turned his head to look behind them and saw Dodoria right behind him, gaining on them. "Crap, he's faster than us. We're not gonna make it!"

"Hold on, I have an idea. Both of you, look away and close your eyes!" shouted Tien. He turned around to fly backwards, raising his hands to his head. "Solar Flare!"

Dodoria froze as Tien created a blinding light, unable to see and started rubbing his eyes. "Gah, damn it! My eyes!"

"Good work, Tien! Quick, let's hide while we have the chance!" ordered Krillin.

All of them flew down to the ground and hid behind some rocks. Once Dodoria regained his sight he looked around, trying to find them. "Damn bastards. Where did you go?!" He continued to fly around, trying to find them.

"It's a good thing that old guy destroyed the scouters, otherwise he wouldn't be looking so aimlessly." said Krillin, trying to keep his voice down.

"Damnit, how am I supposed to find them in this kind of conditions? Guess I have no choice." Dodoria flew upwards, making the earthlings think he was running away. "See you in Hell!" He then fired an energy blast straight at the ground, causing the entire area to explode and the terrain turn to dust, falling into the water.

The earthlings and the namekian managed to avoid the blast and were flying right behind Dodoria. Without his scouter, Dodoria had no idea they were only a couple meters behind him. "That's what you get for hiding you little bastards. I'm sure lord Freeza won't mind that I killed them." He then started to fly away.

"Phew, that was way too close. We should get back to the others." Krillin looked down to the namekian child in his arms. "Can you fly, little guy?"

The namekian nodded as he pulled away from Krillin's arms and started flying on his own. "T-Thank you for saving my life."

"Hey, don't mention it. Gohan's the one you want to thank. Never would have had the chance to get you if he hadn't have made the first move." said Krillin.

"Listen, it's great that we saved him, but we should head back and tell the others what happened." suggested Tien.

"Good idea. Any idea where we left them?" Krillin asked. He'd lost his sense of direction in the chase.

Gohan pointed in a specific direction. "I remember. We came from that way!"

Dodoria continued his flight back to Freeza, talking to himself about the recent events. "This is gonna be a pain trying to do this without our scouters. Though now that I think about it, that kid had a scouter. Maybe I should have kept him alive after all."

Dodoria gasps and screams as he takes a serious hit to the back and goes flying down, crashing into the water. He pulls himself out and finds Vegeta and Nappa standing there, both looking quite smug. "What the?! You 2?!

"It's been a long time, wouldn't you agree, Nappa?" asked Vegeta to his compatriot.

"Yeah, I think it has been. Funny meeting you here, Dodoria." said Nappa.

"Why you little! Did you think you could pull a cheap shot like that and just joke it off?!" growled Dodoria, clearly not in the best of moods.

"Well what are you gonna do about it?" asked Vegeta, taking a step forward to intimidate Dodoria, which works. "You're alone, outside the safety of Zarbon and Freeza. Without either of them to get in my way, killing you will be easy."

Dodoria winced a little as he was being threatened by the saiyan prince. "Kill me? A pathetic saiyan like you? You really are in a funny mood. I'll make you a deal. Both of you, give me your scouters. If you do, I'll let you go just this one time."

"Well would you look at that, our hunch was right. The sound cut off because all their scouters got destroyed." said Nappa, smirking as he believed them to have the advantage now. "Looks like our plan will work after all."

"You're right Nappa." said Vegeta. He looked Dodoria dead in the eyes and grinned, pulling off his scouter. "Going back to the nearest base to get more scouters would cost you several days, so I'm sure you want them pretty badly." He then drops his scouter onto the ground, signalling Nappa to do the same.

Dodoria smiled nervously as Vegeta seems to be accepting the deal. "Finally come to your senses? Took you long enough to realize who's in charge. If you're lucky, lord Freeza might take you back."

Vegeta smirked as he stepped on his scouter and fired a small beam at Nappa's scouter, destroying both of the devices.

Dodoria flinched as he watched the scouters be destroyed. "Are you insane, Vegeta?! Why the hell would you go and destroy them?!"

"I didn't need mine anymore. And I sure as hell wasn't gonna let you swipe one from Nappa." answered Vegeta.

"You're a moron! Without it, you won't know where to find the rest of the dragon balls, nor know where lord Freeza or the namekians are!" shouted Dodoria.

Vegeta chuckled at the statement. "Now, I would have agreed with you before my little trip to Earth. The fighters there had an ability to sense a person and judge their strength without a scouter. Raditz learned this trick along with his brother, so I thought I could do it too."

Dodoria just stared at Vegeta, completely dumbfounded. Nappa on the other hand looked surprised and excited. "So that's what you had up your sleeve. You must not have told me because there was a chance you'd be heard, right?"

Vegeta turns his head to looks at Nappa, a bit impressed with the accurate assumption. "That's right, Nappa." He turned his sights back on Dodoria. "Once you know the trick, it's quite easy to learn. Though a simple brute like you and Freeza, who only aim for power, could never figure it out."

"So that's it! Those bastards that got the drop on me were earthlings, weren't they? You teamed up with them, didn't you?!" Dodoria yelled out.

Both the saiyans looked at each other, then back at Dodoria. "Earthlings? You think mentioning them is gonna save you?" asked Nappa. He knew he himself couldn't take on Dodoria alone, but didn't have to be scared since he was on Vegeta's side.

"He's right. There's no way a human could make it all the way here. Even if they did, they'd be my top priority." declared Vegeta.

Dodoria grunts as he needs to get out of this situation fast. "Look, you're wasting my time! I need to get back to lord Freeza and report to him! Get lost, unless you want to die!"

"Letting us go now? I think he's just scared and wants to run away." said Nappa, crossing his arms.

"I think you're right Nappa. Their scouters must have read my power when I killed Cui, and must have read that I had gotten even stronger then even Dodoria." Vegeta grinned and clenched his fists.

Dodoria widened his eyes and raised his hands into the air. "There's no way those reading were right! You're still just a weakling!" He fired a powerful blast of energy, at the saiyans, creating a large explosion. He then followed up with a rapid flurry of blasts.

"Did you really think a simple attack like that was gonna work on us?" said Vegeta, who was now standing behind Dodoria without a scratch on him.

Dodoria growled and swung his body around with his arm out, trying to hit the saiyan prince. Vegeta grabbed Dodoria's arm and completely stopped the force build behind the swing. The saiyan then hopped over Dodoria and grabbed his other arm, pulling them both back, causing pain to Dodoria. Nappa came in with a sneak attack from above and slammed his fists into Dodoria's head. "Gah!"

"Pathetic! We saiyans get stronger after every battle and gain strength from every injury we recover from! The stronger the opponent, the more powerful we become! And after being broken beyond belief on Earth, our power has grown beyond a level we could even dream of!" shouted Vegeta, holding Dodoria in place as Nappa continued to attack Dodoria.

Dodoria coughs up a little blood and and grits his teeth. "W-Wait! If you let me go, I'll tell you a secret! A secret about what really happened to planet Vegeta!"

Both the saiyans stopped what they were doing. Vegeta let Dodoria go. "What are you talking about? What secret could there possibly be on this subject?"

Dodoria wiped the blood from his mouth and tended to his shoulders. "What guarantee do I have that you won't just kill me once I've told you?"

"We'll kill you anyway if you don't start talking now!" shouted Nappa.

Dodoria flinched. Despite being stronger than Nappa, the saiyan elite seemed to have gotten exponentially stronger since the last time they met. "Well you see, planet Vegeta wasn't destroyed by a massive asteroid like we told you it was.

Vegeta narrows his eyes as he hears this news. He remembers that a long time ago, Nappa had told him the same thing. "Excuse me?"

Dodoria smirked as he took a single step backwards. "By itself, a saiyan's power is nothing to lord Freeza. But a bunch of them working together could present a problem." He then started to fly into the air, very slowly backing away. "A small number of saiyan brats were being born with incredible power much like your own, and those numbers were growing. Lord Freeza knew it was only a matter of time before the saiyans rebelled, so he took matters into his own hands and destroyed Planet Vegeta and all its inhabitants!"

Vegeta just stood there in silence. Nappa walked up to try and speak to the prince, but Dodoria continued to talk. "You should feel greatful to lord Freeza! He knew your potential as the prince of the saiyan race would become very useful to him, so he waited till you were off planet to take you in. Nappa and that weakling Raditz were just lucky to not have been on planet when it happened."

Nappa grit his teeth and shook his fist as Dodoria brought up Raditz's name. Ever since the battle on Earth, the saiyan elite couldn't get that low-class saiyan and his words out of his head.

Dodoria continued to back away as the 2 saiyans had been quiet for quite a while at this point. "Sorry if this was a bit too much information for you to process. I'll just return to lord Freeza and tell him everything.

"Don't get me wrong, Dodoria. I don't care what happened to planet Vegeta or any of its people, not even my parents. I'm just furious that you used me my whole life like some tool!" Vegeta smiled wickedly as the veins in his head started to pop out.

Dodoria widened his eyes and turned around immediately, flying away as fast as he can. "Lord Freeza!"

Vegeta fired an energy blast after Dodoria, the beam quickly catching up the brutish alien and completely vaporizes him once it reaches him. "So Freeza is afraid of the potential of saiyans? Now that is the best news I've heard all day."

Nappa walked up to Vegeta. "You've gotten a lot stronger, Vegeta. I bet you could even crush Zarbon at this point."

Vegeta nodded and stared at his hand. "Even I'm surprised by my new strength. Perhaps there was some good out of going to Earth after all." Vegeta stared off to where Dodoria died, something bothering him.

"You also thinking that he might not have been lying about the earthlings?" asked Nappa.

Vegeta nodded again. "I do sense 3 rather high power levels flying away. If they weren't namekians, there's a chance they really were earthlings. Regardless of what they, if they get in our way, you know what to do."

"Maybe we should go pay them a visit. If they really are earthlings, I want to give them a proper thank you." Nappa chuckled as he cracked his knuckles.

"Hmph, very well. I suppose we have some time to lose before finding the rest of the dragon balls." Vegeta turned to where the high power was coming from."Stay close. If you get lost, I'm not coming back for you." He then started flying off in the direction of the earthlings, Nappa close behind.

As they were flying to the cave where Bulma and Yamcha were at, the 3 inhabitants of Earth sensed 2 large powers coming right for them. "What the heck?! Something's coming straight for us!" shouted Krillin. "Quick, hide!"

All of them dove down and ducked under a small cliff. Once they felt they were properly hidden, they dropped their power and left the rest to luck. "You don't think that big guy got one of his friends and had a spare scouter, do you?" asked Tien.

Krillin turned to Gohan. "Gohan, you didn't accidentally drop that other scouter you picked up earlier, did you?"

Gohan reached into a pocket and pulled out the second scouter he collected earlier. "It's right here."

Vegeta came to an abrupt stop as the 3 power levels he was sensing earlier completely vanished. Nappa stopped right behind him. "What's the matter, Vegeta?"

The prince groans and looked around. "Those things I was sensing earlier just vanished. They were right around here but I can't feel a thing."

Gohan looks around the cliffside and widens his eyes as he sees the sight of the 2 saiyans that attacked. "G-Guys, look up there."

Both Krillin and Tien took a look and went into an internal panic. T-The saiyans?! So they really are here! This is the worst possible scenario.

The saiyans flew out of sight, allowing Gohan to sigh in relief. "They don't seem to know where we are. They also aren't wearing those scouters like they were on Earth."

"Then how is he able to find us?" wondered Krillin, holding tightly on the namekian kid.

Vegeta continued to look around, still unable to sense the power he felt earlier. "Damn, don't tell me I'm still getting used to this power sensing trick and made a mistake."

"Maybe we should have just killed Dodoria without destroying the scouters after all." said Nappa, feeling a bit useless as he's just trying to figure out how to pull of this trick himself.

Vegeta picked up on something that caught his attention and turned to the cliffside where the earthlings were hiding. "There's a faint power down there. Go check it out."

"Ah, you don't think he's learned how to sense energy like we can, do you?!" asked Krillin. "If that's it, then we're in trouble! This little guy can't hide his energy like we can!"

Gohan widened his eyes as he saw Nappa closing in on their location. "Uh oh, the big saiyan is coming this way!"

Krilling braced himself to be caught. If we're caught, we'll have no choice but to fight. We have the number advantage, but Vegeta knows all our techniques. We'll be killed!

Nappa stopped as a large fish conveniently hopped out of the water right next to where the earthlings were. He turned back to Vegeta. "It was just a fish, Vegeta!"

Vegeta grunted as and shook his head. "We don't have time for this. We need to get our hands on the last 2 dragon balls. If we can just hide one of them away, Freeza won't be able to make his wish. Then we just have to wait to swipe all the balls he's got."

The saiyans then flew away, letting all the earthlings the chance to breathe again. "That was too close!" declared Tien.

"I thought we were goners. That thing in the water saved our butts." Krillin laughed nervously as he wiped his forehead.

"We should head back to Bulma and Yamcha. They're probably worried sick." said Tien as he stood back up.

Krillin and Gohan nodded. They all started hopping back to the cave, landing nearby. Krillin sighed and looked down. "You know, this might sound harsh, but I wish we'd never came to this planet. I know that isn't fair to Goku's brother, but it won't be worth it if we just end up dead ourselves."

Gohan looked ahead and saw the cave. "Ah, there it is!" He ran ahead, holding the namekian's hand the entire way.

"Hmm, they aren't here." said Tien as he saw nobody in the entrance of the cave where they left them. "Maybe they went deeper in."

As they walked in, Krillin called out for them. "Bulma! Yamcha! Where are you?!" As he turned his head, he saw a small house inside the cave, the 'Capsule Corp' logo on the front. "Oh sweet, they set up a capsule house."

Bulma opened the door and poked her head out. "Oh, hey guys. Glad you're back. Yamcha was just talking about going to find you guys."

Yamcha stepped out and waved to the guys. "Thanks for saving me the trip. Though your energies were all over the place. What the heck happened?"

Before the guys could answer, Bulma took notice of the namekian child standing behind Gohan. "Hey, what's with the short-looking Piccolo? Is that a namekian? Did something happen?"

"It's a long story. We'll fill you in. First, let's get inside." Krillin said.

"Oh, that reminds me. Dad gave me some great news." said Bulma, catching everyone's attention.

"Yeah, Goku's taken off from Earth and will be here in 6 days!" shouted Yamcha in excitement.

The 3 fighters who just got back looked completely confused at this prospect.

"Yeah. apparently my dad found the ship that brought Goku to Earth when he was a baby. Dad rebuilt it and now he and Piccolo are on their way here." said Bulma.

"There's more though. Mr. Briefs says that Goku and Piccolo are gonna do some insane training that'll make them incredibly strong." Yamcha looked quite excited.

The others went wide-eyed and smiled. Krillin leaped into the air with joy, Gohan grabbed the namekian kid's hands and started dancing with him in excitement, though the namekian was just confused, and Tien just stood there, smiling.

"Oh man. Whatever training they're doing, if it's those 2, we might actually pull this off." said Krillin, getting his hopes up and forgetting the dangers just for a moment.

Meanwhile in space, Goku and Piccolo were continuing their training almost non-stop, pushing each other beyond their limits in intense conditions of heavy gravity.

Though they weren't the only one going through intense training. Back on King Kai's training, Raditz was mimicking Krillin's technique by making a literal rain of energy and dodging each of them while wearing very heavy weights. He isn't able to dodge all of the blasts but is able to keep standing and grunting.

King Kai walks up with a wet towel and hands it to Raditz. "Hey, so I know you want to get stronger very quickly, but could you not blow several holes into my planet? It isn't all that big to begin with."

Raditz takes the towel and looks around him, seeing many craters around him. "Oh, right. I got used to training in that wasteland. But it'll be fine. You can fix it."

"That's not the point!" shouted King Kai. "This is my planet! You can't just waltz in here and just start crashing it as much as you want!"

Raditz glared at King Kai and aimed his hand in the kai's face. "You know how much stronger I am than you. Just deal with it and keep fixing this planet until I'm gone."

King Kai stares at Raditz's hand and trembled. "R-Right. I-I'll get right on that. Just don't push yourself too hard. Otherwise your body will be too exhausted by the time they bring you back to life."

Raditz dropped his weights from his body, the weight crashing down into the dirt. "I'll be fine, I'd say I'm done with physical training. I need to keep up on that spiritual training if I'm gonna keep an edge on the other saiyans."

King Kai looked at Raditz and smiled. "Then perhaps I could help with that. You might not be pure enough to pull off the Spirit Bomb, but perhaps I could help you create a new technique."

Raditz turned around to face King Kai and grinned. "Is that right? Fine, but I want to learn something more to go along with an idea I had."

King Kai got a little nervous by Raditz's eagerness, but knows the saiyan is reformed enough to trust him. "Name your price."

And once again, another chapter done. The Namek saga is a bit of a slow burn in my eyes, but then again it is Namek. I wanted to give Raditz some spotlight but wasn't sure how to write King Kai for it so if you have any problems with how I wrote that part, let me know. Also, I know a couple of my biggest supporters have suggested to use Dende's brother in this story, but I couldn't see any way to save him since he's the first to die and canonically Freeza killed him. I really wanted to use Cargo for something, but this is probably for the best. Anyway, this is it for me. Tune in next time for the next chapter of Dragon Ball Z: A Saiyan's Tail.