Nappa sat there, trying to figure out a way to be spared from Vegeta's wrath once he finds out that the dragon ball that they'd hidden was taken. "Damnit, I can't believe I let that little brat just get away like that. Think Nappa, how do you get out of this?" He considered running away to somewhere else to make it seem that he hadn't landed here, but remembered that Vegeta could sense energy and would probably notice him leaving if he tried to fly away. He grunted as his wounds were aching again, then got an idea.

The saiyan walked to the doorway and stared off into the distance. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath before charging up energy in his mouth, collecting all the power he has left before firing a beam into the distance, creating a large explosion in the distance, though nothing close to what he could do at max strength. He started panting for breath as he had no more energy use, struggling to the bed inside the namekian house he was in before collapsing unconscious.

Meanwhile, Vegeta was too preoccupied with the earthlings to sense the energy collecting and disappearing somewhere else. He mainly focused on Krillin with a look of intrigue. "Now this is quite an interesting development. I don't know how, but your power has risen substantially unlike the other 2 behind you. Regardless, you're still no match for me. Now you have a choice, hand over the dragon ball or die here."

Krillin shook as he was given an ultimatum, looking down at the dragon ball in his hands. "This might be pointless to ask, but if I give you the dragon ball, will you leave us be?"

Both Tien and Yamcha stood in shock as Krillin was actually willing to give Vegeta the dragon ball over a deal that the saiyan could easily break. "Krillin, you can't be serious! Don't you remember what this guy is capable of?!"

Vegeta chuckled as the earthling was willing to bargain with him. "So you want to make a deal with me then? I guess I can oblige your request. After all, there's no reason to waste time killing you all."

Krillin chose not to press his luck and handed the dragon ball to Vegeta. The other earthlings just watched with fear, expecting Vegeta to betray their trust and kill them.

"You know, having all of these under my possession has put me in the best of moods." said Vegeta as he turned around and took a few steps away from the earthlings. "Now there's no chance for Freeza to stop me." He then flew off without another word.

Yamcha collapsed on his back and exhaled loudly. "That was too close. I thought we were goners for sure."

"We can't relax yet. Who's to say he won't come back to kill us once he becomes immortal?" asked Tien, putting worry back into Yamcha.

Bulma stepped out of the cave, having eavesdropped on the entire conversation. "D-Did he say he has all of them? T-Then the dragon ball that I sent Gohan after belonged to him!"

The Z-warriors all turned to face her with a look of shock on their faces. "T-This is bad! I can feel Gohan on his way back, and he's headed straight for Vegeta!" shouted Krillin. "Bulma, pack up the capsule house. We need to be ready to leave in case Gohan manages to get back here with the dragon ball"

Gohan indeed was flying back with the dragon ball. He was quick to pick up on Vegeta heading his way and flew down to a small island with a hill on it to use as cover. Immediately after landing, he suppressed his energy of not being found by Vegeta.

Vegeta managed to notice an energy nearby however, and just as soon he sense it, it immediately vanished. "What the hell? Where did that energy go? Hey! I know someone's out here! Show yourself or I'll erase you along with this entire area!" After a few moments of nothing, he quickly grew impatient. "Fine then, have it your way!" He raised his hand into the air and prepared an energy blast capable of wiping out the surround area.

Gohan grit his teeth and placed the dragon ball down. "Wait!" He climbled onto the hill and stared up at Vegeta. Just looking at the saiyan prince was enough to cause flashbacks to what happened to uncle Raditz, making his anger start to act up.

Vegeta noticed the boy's anger and found it amusing. He landed in front of Gohan and looked down on the runt. "I didn't expect to see Kakarot's son here. Must have tagged along with the earthlings then." He noticed the device Gohan was holding that wouldn't stop beeping due to detecting the dragon balls. "What's that you got there? The noise is giving me a headache."

Gohan looked at the dragon radar and snapped out of his anger to hide it away. "I-It's a clock. This planet doesn't get dark so I need it to tell me when it's lunch time."

Vegeta was both curious and annoyed that he hadn't realized it sooner. He had been feeling rather hungry for a while but was too busy to notice it until now. "Is that right? To think a species like earthlings were capable of space travel all the way here but can't make a clock smaller than that." It didn't take him long to change the subject to something that interested him more. "Tell me, is that obnoxious father of your's here too?"

"N-No. He was still recovering from his wounds when we left. Plus we didn't know that there would be any bad guys like you here." Gohan was lying about that second part since one of their objectives here was to make sure that the saiyans didn't get their hands on the namekians' dragon balls.

Vegeta felt both glad and disappointed at the same time hearing that Kakarot wasn't here. "What a shame, I was hoping to repay him for his hospitality back on Earth. Very well, give him a message when you see him again." He then grabbed Gohan by the back of the head and rammed his knee into the kid's stomach. "Tell him I'll be returning to Earth sometime soon, and this time I'll make sure to destroy it properly." With that off his chest, he flew off, unaware of the dragon ball no more than 3 feet away.

Not long after, Vegeta arrived in the namekian village and looked around, confused that he couldn't sense Nappa's energy. "That's odd. I could have sworn that I blasted him to here. Did I overshoot it? Or undershoot it? I know I couldn't have killed him." He turned to face the water and looked a little worried. "Don't tell me I knocked him into the water and he drowned." He dove into the water and looked around unable to find a trace of Nappa anywhere. Damn, guess I'll have to search for him later. Right now I have more important matters to deal with. He swam around, trying to find the dragon ball, though couldn't find it anywhere.

This isn't right. I know for a fact that it should be around here. There's no way it just vanished. Thought Vegeta, though in mere moments he realized who could have possibly taken it. That insolent brat! He was between here and the earthlings! And that device! It must be able to track down dragon balls! In a moment, Vegeta burst out of the water and started flying back to where the earthlings had been, once more unaware that Nappa had been in the village the entire time. "You bastards! You're going to pay for this!"

All 5 inhabitants of Earth had managed to escape to a new location before Vegeta got back to where they were before. Bulma didn't seem to look happy as she couldn't open up the capsule house in the narrow crevice that they were currently hiding in. "This is just great. I have to be in a place like this without a bathroom with the 4 of you!?"

"Relax Bulma, you'll have the place all to yourself. I'm taking the rest of these guys to meet with the Grand Elder." Krillin responded, a rather confident smile on his face.

Gohan, Tien and Yamcha looked at each other and then back at Krillin as they aren't sure why they were being forced to leave their hiding place. Bulma on the other hand was furious that Krillin was suggesting they leave her alone. "You cannot be serious! What if one of Freeza's soldiers or Vegeta find me? I can't protect myself!"

"It's fine. We won't be gone too long. Once we get to the Grand Elder, all 3 of them will become a lot stronger like I did. Then if we work together, we might be able to take Vegeta on together." said Krillin, his words definitely catching the attention of Tien.

After that, it had been decided that they'd all fly off to go meet the Grand Elder. They had to fly at a rather slow speed so that Vegeta wouldn't be able to track them. Vegeta at the time had gone to where he had hidden the 5 dragon balls he'd stolen from Freeza and set the ball he'd taken from the earthling down and sat on it, waiting for an opportunity for the earthlings to slip. Nappa at the time had regained consciousness and focussed mainly on letting his body recover, passing the time by concentrating on how to sense energy.

Elsewhere in space, Goku and Piccolo continued their training in intense gravity, Piccolo at the point where he could wear his weighted clothes to better increase his strength during their training. They'd already gotten to a high level of gravity training and had already spent 3 of the senzu beans out of the 7 they had.

Back on King Kai's planet, Raditz had gotten his arm healed up thanks to King Kai and continued to work on perfecting his new moves, though was repeatedly messing up his arm every time he attempted to use a specific one. After the 3rd time he broke his arm trying to perfect this technique, he figured it would be a better use of time to leave that technique alone and work on the others.

One day before their arrival on Namek, Goku and Piccolo had gotten used to 100 times Earth's gravity, not even getting tired from the gravity itself and only from training with each other. "Whoo, to think we'd reach out goal with a whole day to spare. What do you think? Should we keep going?" asked Goku.

Piccolo looked over Goku and took notice of how banged up his clothes and body were. "No, this should be enough. We shouldn't waste any more senzu beans on ourselves."

Goku chuckled as he was in agreement. "Alright, we'll rest up the rest of the way. While we're at it, should probably get adjusted to normal gravity. Don't want to be missing our attacks because we're going faster than expected." Goku walked over to the gravity controls and reset the gravity controls. After doing so, both of them were stunned to feel how light they were, it was light their weighted clothing wasn't even there anymore.

"This is incredible. I can't even fathom just how strong we might have become compared to before." said Piccolo, swinging his arm through the air and was shocked at how swift he was.

"Yeah. I bet like this I could handle a 10 times Kaio-Ken." said Goku. He then went for the ladder to reach the lower level of the ship. "Alright, you do whatever you want Piccolo. I'm gonna wash up and then head to sleep."

Piccolo nodded as he watched Goku disappear from sight. He walked a window and stared off into space. "Hope you won't be upset that I've far surpassed you, Raditz."

The next day, the earthlings on Namek were taking a break from flying and were eating some food to keep up their strength. After the meal, they decided that they were likely far away enough that Vegeta wouldn't pick up on them anymore. They booked it for the Grand Elder's place at a speed that should take them less than an hour.

However, Vegeta immediately sensed their collective energy and grinned as they'd finally slipped up. He was confused as to why they were moving further away from him considering he had all the remaining dragon balls, but didn't want to just wait. He took one of the dragon balls just in case and flew after them at top speed, unaware of an energy quite a ways away following after him.

Elsewhere on Namek, Nappa had managed to recover. His body still ached but he was at 100% power. Even more so than before considering the power boost from recovering. He'd gotten the hang of sensing energy and the moment he'd noticed Vegeta flying somewhere, he decided to chase after his superior.

The Z-warriors were in view of the Grand Elder's place when they simultaneously sense Vegeta quickly gaining on them. "This is bad! Guys, get to the Grand Elder's! I'll hold him off as long as possible!" shouted Krillin, taking off the backpack they were using to hold all their food.

Gohan hesitated but Tien grabbed Gohan's wrist and didn't stop flying towards the namekian structure. "We have to trust that him. He's the only one strong enough to fend him off even for a moment."

Krillin watched all 3 of them head towards the Grand Elder's house. The moment he turned around, Vegeta was right in front of him, nearly giving him a heart attack. "V-Vegeta! I-I didn't expect you to find us so fast."

Vegeta glared at the earthling as he clutched the dragon ball tightly in anger. "Of course I did. I'm not some amateur. Now, hand me the 4-starred ball if you value your life." When he noticed Krillin didn't have the ball in his position, he ignored whatever Krillin responded with and took notice of the other 3 energies flying away. "Your other companions must have the ball. I'm not wasting any time with you."

Vegeta then flew off to the giant spire of a mountain where the earthlings went. Once he arrives at the top, he finds a namekian house and is greeted by Nail. "Oh my, so you earthlings made a new ally? Doesn't matter to me how many you make." Before he could take a step, he felt 2 incredible energies inside, quite shocked at the sudden appearance. "So that's it! Kakarot and the namekian from Earth must be in there. Come on out!"

Both Tien and Yamcha stepped out of the house and stared down the saiyan. "Sorry Vegeta. 'Fraid it's just the 2 of us." said Tien, not as scared of Vegeta as before.

Inside, the Grand Elder sensed an incredible power approaching the planet as he was unlocking Gohan's latent power. "Young one, you must tell the others that someone unknown to me is approaching the planet."

Gohan almost missed the instructions as he was dumbfounded by the new power he possessed. "A-Alright." He ran outside and relayed the news to everyone. The earthlings were able to pick up on it and immediately thought it was Goku and Piccolo. But once they counted just how many there were, they got nervous again and Vegeta went into a complete panic.

Vegeta grabbed onto Gohan's shirt and lift him up. "Listen! You need to give me the dragon ball now! If you do, I promise I won't touch the Earth once I become immortal!"

The earthlings weren't buying Vegeta's panic and thought he was trying to trick them into just giving him the dragon ball. "Yeah right. After everything you've done, you think we'd just hand the ball over to you over an empty promise?" said Yamcha.

While everyone had been focusing on Vegeta, nobody had come to realize Nappa showing up behind them. "You guys need to believe him this time. Immortality is the only way any of us are going to survive." Everyone turned around in surprise to see the large saiyan just standing there. Nappa glared at Gohan but continued on with his explanation. "What you're feeling is the Ginyu Force: an elite squadron of Freeza's strongest. Each of them eclipse even Vegeta in terms of power."

Nail stepped forth as his eyes looked off in the distance to where the energies were descending into the planet's atmosphere. "What they speak is true. I sense 5 incredibly powerful evil entities." While the earthlings were dreading the fact that coming to use the namekian dragon balls to revive Raditz was a fruitless effort, Nail decided to give them information that would put them at ease. "The namekian dragon balls are capable of granting 3 wishes."

While the earthlings were both shocked and joyed to hear this, Vegeta interrupted the merry moment. "You idiots! The longer we wait here, the longer the Ginyu force has to track us down and kill us! Let's move!"

And just like that, the inhabitants of Earth and Vegeta flew off to find Bulma to grab the dragon ball and bring it to the remaining 5 that Vegeta had hidden away. Nappa, however, stayed behind and stared down the namekian. "Is there something I can help you with?"

Nappa nodded as he pointed out the various wounds on his body. "Yeah, you namekians are capable of doing tricks that could be considered magic, right? As much as it pains me to ask, I want you to heal me. I may be at full strength but my body's vulnerable."

Nail narrowed his eyes as he stared the saiyan down. "That's some nerve you have, slaughtering an entire village and then asking to be healed? Even if I was a member of the Dragon clan capable of healing you, I wouldn't do it regardless."

Nappa growled and dropped to his knee, doing a rather shameful bow. "I won't say I did it because I was ordered to. That much I will admit. But right now, I'd say keeping myself and Vegeta alive is pretty important. And I suppose those ingrates that Raditz seemed so determined to keep alive should live too."

Nail kept his stare on the saiyan. He had to admit, seeing the saiyan lower himself to a namekian of all things was pretty convincing. But he wasn't completely convinced. "I shall take it up with the Grand Elder. If you're so fixed on this, you'll wait out here patiently."

Nappa kept silent as he staying in his position, even after Nail went inside. Damnit Raditz. Whatever change that happened to you on Earth must be contagious.

Back in space, Goku and Piccolo were woken up to the ship warning them that they'd be arriving on Namek in 20 minutes. While Goku got out of bed, brushed his teeth and put on his spare gi, Piccolo was drinking some water to keep hydrated and using his powers to repair his own outfit. By the time Goku made his way upstairs, 10 minutes had already passed. "Hey Piccolo. Think you're ready for this?"

Piccolo turned to face Son Goku but then faced the window to peer out into space. "Yeah. Despite everything we'd been warned about, I don't feel the slightest bit of fear about what we're up against. You feel the same?"

Goku nodded as he stared out the window as well, wondering if he could see planet Namek yet. "Yeah, I feel surprisingly calm. Think training in that intense gravity drove us crazy?"

Piccolo chuckled as he could see Planet Namek off in the distance. "Maybe it has. After all, I am finding your sense of humor enjoyable."

Returning to the events on Namek, the gang had successfully gotten the dragon ball from Bulma and were in view of the other 5 dragon balls. Once they landed, Vegeta ran over to try and get the dragon balls, but a large purple alien wearing the armor of Freeza's army landed in front of him, with 4 other aliens landing beside him.

"It's been a long time, Vegeta. I take it that item you're holding is a dragon ball correct?" asked the purple alien.

An alien that looked very human in shape looked behind them and noticed the other dragon balls behind them. "Hey, Captain Ginyu. Looks like there are 5 others behind us."

"Wonderful! Lord Freeza will be delighted to know that we've successfully gathered all 7 dragon balls for him! That means we no longer need to bring Vegeta in." said Ginyu, the other 4 grinning and chuckling at this news.

Vegeta growled as he was being backed into a corner, but he figured if he can't have immortality, then nobody can. "If you want the dragon ball so badly, then go fetch!" He then chucked the dragon ball as hard as he could, launching it at high speeds.

In what felt like a single second, a large, blue alien among the Ginyu Force flew after the dragon ball, caught it, and returned to his position, leaving everyone in a state of shock. "So you thought by throwing the ball out of sight, we'd never be able to find it? How utterly foolish. Burter here is the fastest in the known universe, nothing escapes him." said Ginyu, turning his eyes to the dragon ball in Krillin's hands.

Vegeta was quick to notice where Ginyu's attention went and turned his head to look at the earthling. "Break the ball, now!"

Krillin grit his teeth and swung his arm down to break the ball. Though as he swung his fist, the dragon ball mysteriously vanished in an instant. It didn't take long to find it as it was in the hands of an incredibly short, green alien.

Vegeta was even more worried as he remembered hearing certain rumors about this alien, named Guldo. "Damnit, so the little bastard really can just stop time."

"Now then, I do believe that accounts for all of them." answered Ginyu as he takes the dragon balls from his associates. "It's been a while since we've done any warm-up exercises. We'll be taking care of you lot all now. I'll take on Vegeta. The rest of you can choose which of the other 4 you want to kill."

The other 4 started to complain about Ginyu just making the decision to fight Vegeta when they all want a jab at the saiyan prince. "Alright, fine." said Ginyu. "I'll take the dragon balls to lord Freeza. You can bicker amongst yourselves to who gets Vegeta, and the 2 runts among them are taken on as a set, got it?" The rest of the Ginyu Force started speaking praise about their captain and then went on to play a game of rock, paper, scissors to decide who gets who.

After many tied games, the final results are: Recoome gets Vegeta, Guldo gets Gohan and Krillin, Burter gets Tien and Jeice gets Yamcha. After the decision was made, Ginyu used some form of telekinesis to collect all 7 dragon balls and flew off with them.

Gohan watched as Ginyu was flying off and prepared to fire a blast of energy at the captain of these monstrous foes. Vegeta forced him to stop and made him calm down. "Alright, all of you, group in. I'll give you some information on who you're supposed to fight." The earthlings huddled in so that the Ginyu Force couldn't hear their battle plan. "You, bald one. Don't let your guard down against Guldo. He's pathetically weak, but he more than makes up for it with otherworldly abilities. Also, is Kakarot really not here?"

All 4 of them shook their head. "Gohan told us that he'd already told the situation with Goku. Though he should be arriving on Namek any minute now along with Piccolo."

Vegeta grit his teeth. "Damn it. As much as I hate to admit it, having him here would be more reassuring. I don't know where the hell Nappa went off to, but even he would make this situation a bit more comforting."

Before Vegeta could explain what Burter and Jeice could do, Recoome and Guldo started walking towards their opponents. "We're getting bored. Let's do this already." Recoome then looked down at Guldo and spoke directly to him. "You can go first Guldo. I don't wanna trip over them."

Tien put his hand on Krillin's shoulder while Yamcha but his hand on Gohan's shoulder. "You guys got this. We'll back you up if you need it."

The 2 of them nodded as they walked forward and faced Guldo. In the next moment, they raised their power up to the max, shocking all members of the Ginyu Force. Gohan and Krillin the flew into the air and go on opposite sides of Guldo and fired powerful beams at him.

Guldo went into a panic and used his time stop ability to get away from the blast, though when he looked at where the blasts originated, the small earthlings were quite a distance aways already. He exhaled as he resumed time. The moment his opponents figured out where he was, they vanished with a burst of speed. Guldo was forced to use his time stop ability once more and was surprised to see that they were right on top of him. He ran behind a rock to try and gain the element of surprise. Though when he resumed time, Gohan and Krillin immediately knew where he was and flew right for him. Guldo couldn't stop time anymore so he used his paralysis technique to stop them dead in their tracks and used his psychic powers to lift a tree from the ground and split it in half to use a weapon.

Before Guldo could decide who to throw the tree at first though, a solid ball of energy came flying out of nowhere, smashing through the tree and then changing direction to smack Guldo right in the face. Just as Guldo tried to get up, a thin beam of energy shot at Guldo and peirced through his arm. Guldo looked to see who had the audacity to attack him and saw the other 2 earthlings were his assailants. Just as he was about to counterattack, Vegeta swooped in and severed the alien's head. "V-Vegeta, you bastard. This was supposed to be a fight between me and those 2."

Vegeta smirked and aimed his open palm at the still talking head. "I don't recall agreeing to that. You should know better than to just make assumptions. Perhaps you'll remember that lesson in your next life." He then fired a beam that completely disintegrates the head. He then turned to look at Recoome who was stepping up. "The real nightmare is about to start."

Phew, gotta say this chapter was not one of my best. I glossed over a lot of dialogue but I honestly just wanted to get to the Ginyu Force parts as soon as possible. I completely rushed through the Guldo fight because that wasn't going to be any fun at all. Recoome is where I'm going to have some fun. Also, feel free to complain about how I wrote Nappa in the scene with Nail, I know it isn't usually how he'd usually act but I'm trying to prepare his character for the rest of the series, along with build up Raditz as these 2 characters will be my main targets for writing around once I get them in a situation that I can use them. I already have big plans for the 2 of them and I'm just so excited to share them with you. I promise I won't just rush through story like this again, at least not anytime soon. Anyway, that's enough excuses from me. I'll try to have another chapter ready for you guys as soon as I can, hopefully within the next week. Who know's how job hunting will go. Tune in next time for the next VERY exciting chapter of Dragon Ball Z: A Saiyan's Tail.