Goku stared at Ginyu with a look of confusion. "Take my power? I don't quite understand."

Ginyu simply chuckled as he took off his scouter. "Don't worry about the details. Mind holding onto this for me?" He tossed his scouter at Goku who caught it. He then started focusing energy around his hand and pierced it into his chest.

Both Goku and Piccolo looked shocked to see this guy potentially mortally wound himself. What the hell is this guy thinking?! There's no way he can face Son Goku now. Unless.. "Goku, move it!"

It was too late though. As Goku turned his head to face Piccolo, Ginyu spread his arms out, surrounding his whole body in light. "Change now!" The light engulfing him shot at Goku, colliding with the saiyan.

After a brief flash of light, Goku began to chuckle placing the scouter on his head. "And there you have it. That amazing power level of 200,000 is now mine."

Ginyu grunted from the chest wound, staring up at Goku. "Wha.. Why am I looking at my own body? What did you do?"

Piccolo looked in horror as he could feel a severe difference in Son Goku. His energy felt pure evil while Ginyu's evil energy couldn't be felt anymore. It didn't take him long to realize that Ginyu had swapped bodies with Goku.

"Now that I have this much power, it's time to start wiping out all your little friends." Ginyu looked down at Piccolo and smirked. "Starting with you."

Piccolo grunted as he had no option other than to flee. He figured that if he teamed up with the saiyans, they could take him. He flew towards Goku, grabbed hold of him and booked it to where the saiyans were.

Ginyu watched in surprise as the namekian just grabbed his old body and flew off. "Heh. So you want this to be a game now, huh? Alright, I'll play along." He flew after the namekian, thinking he's intentionally letting them get a head start when the truth is this was as fast as he could fly.

While that fight had been going on, the earthlings had managed to reach Bulma. The earth woman was currently asleep with a scouter in her lap when the fighters had arrived. "Bulma! We need the dragon radar!" shouted Yamcha, figuring he could convince Bulma.

Bulma woke up and rubbed her eyes, seeing the 4 of them and immediately got mad. "Where the hell have you guys been?! The first time I see you in days, you show up with Vegeta, take the dragon ball, and then fly off, leaving me alone again. Do you have any idea how dangerous it is to leave a delicate woman like me alone?!"

Tien grunted as they didn't have time for this. He pushed past the woman and grabbed the dragon radar off the small table she'd set up. "Looks like all of them are still together."

"Hey! None of you are going anywhere unless you tell me what the hell is going on?! Why aren't any of you with the dragon balls if all 7 are together?!" shouted Bulma, quickly losing patience if she had any at all.

"There's no time. We'll explain everything." said Gohan as he flew into the air along with the other 3. Before they all started to book it to where the dragon balls were, Gohan turned his head to Bulma to tell her one last thing. "Oh yeah, my dad and Piccolo are finally here, and they're crazy strong!" With that, the 4 of them flew off, leaving Bulma by herself once again.

"Boy, looking back in it, I never expected Goku to become quite the amazing guy. I mean, I knew he was amazing from the day I met him, but I never thought he'd grow up to be so handsome. I know Yamcha and I are supposed to be a couple, but I think any spark between us has gone." Bulma then sighed and sat down, picking up the scouter she'd been working on. "I think I missed my chance."

Meanwhile at Freeza's ship, Vegeta and Nappa were digging through the equipment to find some replacement body armor for themselves. Nappa managed to find one that fit his size pretty well but Vegeta could only find an older model in his body size.

While they were dressing, Vegeta looked at his body and was astonished at how effective that item Kakarot had given him. "Quite the astounding medicine they have on Earth. Not only did it heal all my injuries instantly, but my power's back at 100%. Perhaps we should spare the Earth and force them to make more of that item."

"Would that even be necessary?" asked Nappa as looked in the compartment that scouters are usually at, a force of habit. He didn't find any scouters anyway. "If we succeed in becoming immortal, we won't need them."

"You make a good point. Very well, we'll destroy the Earth as planned then." said Vegeta. He then caught attention of the earthlings coming towards the ship. "Looks like they're on their way. Hide your power level. We'll jump them once they summon the dragon."

Nappa nodded as he concentrated, his power level dropping to 0. He was surprised he could do it but didn't dwell on it, following behind Vegeta to outside the ship. They both hid behind the legs of the ship and watched as the earthlings arrived.

Tien looked at the dragon radar as he stood atop the center of the ship. "They're not in the ship. They're a little northwest."

Gohan noticed an unnatural patch of dirt in the direction Tien pointed out, flying forward to it. He starts digging before the others could catch up with him, finding one of the dragon balls. "Hey, I found one!" He continues to dig and unbury the other 6.

"We did it!" shouted Yamcha, quite excited to for this nightmare to finally be over. "We went through hell but we finally did it. Care to do the honors, Krillin?"

"I'd love to." said Krillin, clearing his throat. "Shenron! Come forth and grant our wish!"

After a moment of nothing happening, everyone began to go into a panic. The panic only worsened as they sensed a high power level approaching them. The panic died out when they saw Piccolo flying toward them but wasn't sure why he was carrying Ginyu, likely thinking they kept him as a prisoner. "Hey Piccolo. Looks like you did a real number on that Ginyu guy. But where's Goku?" asked Yamcha.

"This isn't the time to talk! The saiyans flew this way, where are they? We need their help!" shouted Piccolo, his expression giving the hint that he wasn't joking.

"T-The saiyans? We haven't sensed them at all the whole time we've been here. W-Why, is Freeza coming?!" asked Krillin, a little worried once he sensed yet another energy coming their way.

Ginyu in Goku's body landed and immediately noticed the dragon balls. "Well well, so you've dug up the dragon balls. I don't know how you managed to find them, but I guess it doesn't really matter now since I'm gonna kill you all."

Everyone looked at each other in confusion. Krillin walked up to him, unaware of the situation. "Are you feeling okay Goku? Is wearing that scouter driving you crazy or something? Why are you wearing it anyway?"

Goku in Ginyu's body watched as Ginyu raised his arm up. "Krillin! You have to move, that's not me!"

Everyone turned to look at Goku and almost missed Krillin get hit by Ginyu, sending the earthling flying. Krillin wiped some of the blood from his lip and looked at Goku's body with shock. "Ow, what the hell was that for!"

"That's not Son Goku!" shouted Piccolo, letting go of Goku. "That purple guy used some weird technique to swap bodies with him!"

Everyone went wide-eyed as they then turned to Ginyu, who was chuckling. "Looks like the secret's out. Now to show you just how much fearsome power I now possess!" He started charging up his power as much as he could. Everyone was anticipating a huge jump in power but it barely went above what the earthlings were capable of. "Are you scared yet?"

Goku tried to feel out just how much power Ginyu was outputting but was having difficulties since he wasn't used to this body. That's when it donned on him that Ginyu must not know how to work his body either. "Hey Piccolo. Go ahead and fight him. He's no match for you."

Piccolo chuckled as he knew after a while of Ginyu powering up that it was pointless to get worried over it. "Gladly. I've had some anger to vent on you, best situation I could dream of."

Ginyu chuckled as he was unaware of the situation he was in and prepared to fight. "That chest wound must be messing with your head. I, the illustrious captain Ginyu, shall now strike you down!" He rushed at Piccolo and threw a punch, only to be easily dodged.

Piccolo then responded with an sucker punch to Ginyu's chest, causing him to buckle over and cough up blood. "How pathetic." He then went for an elbow against Ginyu's back, completely messing up his spine. Piccolo then grabbed Ginyu by the hair and noticed something missing. "Hey, what happened to that little bag you had on you?"

Ginyu coughed up some more blood as he tried to speak, hardly able to move after taking 2 blows from the namekian. "I threw it away. It seemed important to you but I had no interest in them!"

Piccolo growled and pressed his index finger against his elbow, firing a small energy blast that paralyzed his arm. He then proceeded to do the same to his 3 other limbs, much like he did to Son Goku in 23rd World Martial Arts tournament. "Sucks to be you then, because without those, those arms and legs of yours won't be moving for a long time." He clearly forgot about the one that Nappa had and apparently so did everyone else since nobody commented on it, not even the saiyans who were spectating. Piccolo tossed Ginyu up into the air and started charging up for a Special Beam Cannon again.

Ginyu grinned weakly as he was just given the perfect opportunity. "You fool! Change now!" A familiar light engulfed his body and shot straight towards Piccolo.

Goku took this moment to fly into the way of the light, forcing Ginyu back into his own body. Once back in his own body, Goku struggled to fly to keep from crashing into the ground. Once he touched feet onto the ground, he collapsed onto the ground, unable to move at all.

Ginyu grunted as he was forced back into his own body. "Rotten bastard. I won't fail this time." He turned around and prepared to use his technique pointblank on Piccolo. "Change-"

Before he could finish speaking, the ground below him erupted in a blazing spire of energy underneath Captain Ginyu, turning his wounded body to a crisp corpse. Nappa stepped out from behind the leg of the ship and grabbed the head of Ginyu's corpse and crushed it with ease. "Just one left."

Vegeta growled as he walked up behind Nappa. "Damn it Nappa, there was no reason to get involved!" He looked at Kakarot and grunted. "Since you aren't aware how to use the namekian dragon balls, it would be beneficial to us to get you healed up. Nappa, carry him to the pod inside the ship. The rest of you, come with me."

While everyone followed behind Vegeta inside the ship, Nappa threw Kakarot over his shoulder and dragged him into a different part of the ship, setting him inside a healing pod. "Judging by your injuries, this older model should heal you within the hour."

Within a couple minutes, Vegeta walked around the corner with the earthlings and Piccolo following behind. The earthlings were all dressed in battle armor much like the saiyans'. Piccolo on the other hand refused to put it on.

Nappa mainly focused on Gohan and chuckled. "Gotta say, besides that stupid haircut, you look pretty good in that armor." He put his hand on the runt's head and then brought his focus to Vegeta. "So what's our next step?"

"We need a namekian to tell us the password to activate these dragon balls and this one is useless in that regard." Vegeta nudged in Piccolo's direction. "Short one, I need you to head down to that elder and ask him for the password. It's unlike Freeza to take this long to torture information out of someone so he likely got distracted."

"Alright, if you say so. Piccolo, you should come with. He'll be able to unlike your dormant potential and who knows just how much stronger you'll become." said Krillin, rather excited at the prospect of having an even stronger ally.

Vegeta nodded as he watched the short earthling and the namekian leave the ship and fly off. He then turned to face Nappa. "You keep an eye on the earthlings. Let me know if they get up to anything. I need sleep." Without even waiting for a response from Nappa, he walked off to the quarters of the ship.

Nappa sat down and grumbled, frustrated with being put on babysitting duty but knew better than to argue with Vegeta. "You heard him, you try any funny business and you answer to me. You, Kakarot's kid. Go guard the dragon balls. Don't want Freeza to get the jump on us and nab them."

Gohan nodded and walked outside, leaving Tien and Yamcha to do nothing. Once Gohan got outside, he sat on top of one of the dragon balls and was forced to wait for Krillin and Piccolo to get back.

Meanwhile on King Kai's planet, Raditz had been keeping up with events by having King Kai tell him what's been going on. He'd been meditating the past 24 hours to better his focus. His right hand occasionally twitched sometimes due to the technique that kept breaking his hand, though that didn't break his concentration.

King Kai walked over to Raditz with what could possibly be the saiyan's last meal on his planet. "Looks like the issue with that Ginyu fellow has passed. Goku's pretty beat up but he'll be better than ever in about an hour, give or take.

Raditz breathed outward as he opened his eyes. "Glad to hear. The last thing I wanted was to reunite with Kakarot in Ginyu's body. So, they got their hands on the dragon balls?"

King Kai sat down in front of the saiyan and poured tea for the both of them. "Yes, though they appear to need a namekian who knows how to use them. Sadly Piccolo can't help with that so you'll be here just a little bit longer."

"That's fine." said Raditz, grabbing his cup and chugging down the tea. He slammed the tea cup down yet didn't break it, slowing his momentum to a stop the moment before impact. "Hey, I'd like you to remove all this excess weight before I go. Don't need it weighing me down on Namek."

King Kai took the cup from Raditz and handed him a couple plates of food as well as a bento box for when he leaves. "Sure thing. While we're on the subject, would you like any alterations to your armor?"

Raditz opened his mouth but said nothing, never having given it much though. "Hmm, I suppose we could lose the shoulder pads, they get in the way. Also, I'll take blue armor, like my father's. Maybe a bit of orange to represent Kakarot. Other than that, I don't care." He then grabbed the plates of food and ate all of it in a matter of moments.

King Kai couldn't help but chuckle at the saiyan's suggestions, seeing that the once barbaric being showing a large soft spot. "Alright. One spankin' new set of armor, coming up." He aimed his hand at Raditz and in a flash of light, the warrior's entire ensemble transformed into what he asked for, a chest piece identical to that of Bardock's with blue and orange representing Goku's gi. King Kai also left an insignia of his own on the back of Raditz's armor. "Not a bad look for you?" He then created a small mirror for Raditz to look at himself.

Raditz looked into the mirror and smiled, confident of who he had become. Though there was one thing he felt should be done to show how much he's changed. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, aiming his hand behind his head. He exhaled and fired a beam that severed half of his hair off.

King Kai looked positively shocked at the saiyan's personal style change. "A-Are you okay? I thought saiyans kept their hairstyle from birth. Wouldn't cutting it that much pretty much take away who you are?"

Raditz chuckled as he put a little effort to restore some of the spikiness to his hair. "I've never heard anyone say it like that, but I suppose you're right. I'm not the same saiyan I was over a year ago. May as well prove it with a haircut."

Back on Namek, Krillin and Piccolo had been flying across Namek for a couple minutes. They both stopped when they felt a small energy flying off to where they were coming from. Krillin recognized the energy and flew after it, Piccolo following suit. The namekian was quite surprised to see they were flying towards a small namekian child. "Dende! It's me, Krillin!"

Dende turned his head and stopped when he saw Krillin, flying towards his earthling friends. "Krillin! I'm so glad you're okay! And-" He turned and jumped back as he saw the namekian, utterly shocked with how powerful this namekian was. "W-Who are you?!"

"I'm Piccolo. Now that we got that out of the way, why are all the way out here?" asked Piccolo, wasting no time as they were likely limited on it.

"Ah, right. The Grand Elder thought you might have gotten the dragon balls so he sent me to help you use them. He didn't tell you that you need to speak namekian for them to work." answered Dende hastily.

"Ah, that makes sense. Thanks Dende, we should head back and go use the dragon balls right away!" said Krillin. He then faced Piccolo. "You should still head to the Grand Elder's. I'm sure that power boost you'll get will be enough to make a difference."

"Right. I'll head there, you go summon the dragon." said Piccolo.

They all nodded and split up, Krillin and Dende heading back to the ship while Piccolo went off to the Grand Elder's. At least that's where he thought he was going. Instead he was heading to someone else's energy, a namekian who was currently dying as they speak.

Gohan sighed as he had been waiting with nothing to do. Until he felt 2 energies coming to the ship, one feeling like Krillin's but the other too weak to be Piccolo's. When he flew off to go meet them, he was overjoyed to see Dende.

"Gohan, what's the status of the saiyans?" asked Krillin, unsure why everyone hadn't greeted them back.

"Vegeta went to get some rest and the other one is currently inside watching over Tien and Yamcha. I was sent outside to watch over the dragon balls." explained Gohan.

Krillin looked quite pleased to hear that information. "Heh heh, this is perfect. While Tien and Yamcha are busy distracting Nappa, we can take the dragon balls and move somewhere else to buy us time to make our wish."

All 3 of them surpressed their energy as much as they could and moved to grab the dragon balls. Considering nobody came out to stop them, they were to assume nobody sensed them. They picked up the dragon balls and flew away a good distance before setting them down. "Yeah! We did it!" shouted Krillin.

Gohan twitched as he sensed something powerful far off heading their way. "U-Uh guys? I don't think that's Piccolo, is it?"

Krillin turned his head to where Gohan sensed the energy and went completely pale. "T-That's Freeza! Dende, quick! Summon the dragon!"

Dende quickly turned to the dragon balls and started shouting in namekian. Once he did, the dragon balls began to glow and the sky went pitch black.

Nappa was quick to notice the fact the sky went dark outside the window. At first he thought it was a storm, but then recalled their conversation and quickly put 2 and 2 together. He busted a hole into the side of the ship and flew out, looking around and spotting the earthlings with the dragon balls. Before he could head towards them, he was put back by the fact an enormous monster rose up from where they were. "What the hell is that thing?! Is that the dragon they were talking about?!" He growled and flew over to the earthling, getting there in no time flat. "Hey, what do you think you're doing you cheeky maggots?!"

"N-Nappa! W-Well you see.." said Krillin, but he couldn't quite find a reasonable enough excuse to be spared by the saiyan.

Raditz, on King Kai's world, spoke directly into Nappa's head with the help of King Kai. "Hey dumbass! Can't you feel that power off in the distance?! There's no time to fight about this! Use the damn dragon to bring be back!"

Nappa flinched as he could hear Raditz's voice in his head. Before he could question it, he indeed picked up on Freeza's approach. While he knew he should go back and report to Vegeta, he was far too tempted to bring Raditz back to life just so they could finish what they started. "Fine! Namekian, bring back a saiyan called Raditz!"

Dende nodded and shouted to the dragon in namekian. The dragon, Porunga, nodded as his eyes glew, fulfilling the wish. "You're wish has been granted. You have 2 more wishes left."

"Good! Now for the second wish, send me to Namek!" demanded Raditz.

Nappa was hesitant to ask for that wish, since that would mean only either he or Vegeta would get immortality and not both, but his temptation was too much to resist. "Namekian, wish Raditz to Namek, now!"

Dende nodded and made the wish. Once Porunga confirmed that the wish was made, everyone looked around to see where Raditz was but couldn't see him. "Where is he? He's not here." asked Gohan.

"W-Wait, you mean you wanted me to bring him directly to us?!" asked a nervous Dende.

At that time, Vegeta woke up from sensing Freeza's approaching power level. He looked out the window and saw it was night time. Yamcha and Tien tried to stall the saiyan prince from leaving but were unable to, instead forced to follow him straight to the dragon. "Well well well. I figured you earthlings would attempt to double-cross me the moment the chance arose. But for you to betray me as well. Where has your loyalty gone, Nappa?"

"W-Wait, Vegeta! We still have one more wish left! We can grant you immortality still!" said Nappa, shaking a bit even though he was just as strong as Vegeta.

All the earthlings looked at each other and knew that they didn't have the strength to argue. Plus giving Vegeta immortality was likely better than letting Freeza have it. "Dende, let him have his wish!" shouted Krillin.

Vegeta chuckled at how compliant the short earthling was being. "Good. You know what to do." he said to Dende.

Dende nodded hesitantly and turned around, preparing to make the final wish when Porunga suddenly vanished and the dragon balls dropped to the ground as stones. "P-Porunga! Oh no, this means the Grand Elder is dead!"

"What?! But that means I didn't become immortal! And if I'm not immortal, then that m-means.." His words cut off as he looks up on top of a cliff.

Everyone else looked to see what he was looking at and everyone went pale. They'd been too busy arguing that they failed to notice Freeza had already arrived.

"I must say, this is the first time in my life where someone has successfully made a fool of me. Now I'll never have my wish for becoming immortal." said Freeza, swatting his tail against the ground, creating a crater. "The only think that could possibly calm me down will be your lives!"

Oh boy, another one done. And I gotta say, this one was probably my favorite one so far. Ginyu was pretty short lived but we all know how that was going to go. Though this change in the story does mean that if I actually decide to continue on into Dragon Ball Super, Ginyu won't be making a return. Though no promises I'll even go that far. I was also suggested to let Yamcha and Tien to fight Ginyu Goku but I've already thought of how to make them useful in the fight against Freeza. Anyway, I really hope you like this one because I had a blast writing it. I really want to hear your feedback for this one so go ahead and leave a review. And while you're at it, follow and/or favorite this story. I'd highly appreciate it. That's all I have to say. Tune in next time for the next truly exciting chapter of Dragon Ball Z: A Saiyan's Tail.