Everyone turned their head and looked in horror as they saw the tyrant in horror. What really stood out was that Freeza was a lot bulkier than before, muscles that put even Nappa's to shame. "I honestly must say, I thought I was truly dead. I never believed I would be forced to use 100 percent of my power just to survive an attack. Allow me to repay you the pain I suffered, working up my list of grudges!" He turned his eyes to Tien and fired a large beam that pierced right through him, leaving a massive, gaping hole in the earthling's chest.

Everyone watched in horror as Tien collapsed to the ground, the life fading from his eyes rapidly. Goku turned his head to stare at Freeza. "Freeza, stop!"

The tyrant refused to listen, taking aim and firing at Piccolo. The namekian was more prepared for the attack and managed to only lose his arm. Though the sheer pain from the power of the blast knocked him unconscious, starting to bleed out as he wasn't able to regenerate his arm. Once the namekian was down, Freeza then turned his eyes to Krillin, remembering the pain of losing his horns. He grabbed a hold of the earthling with his psychic powers and launched the earthling to the sky.

Goku looked in complete fear as he watched his best friend get thrown to the sky. "Freeza, don't do it!" His pleas weren't heard, forced to watch as his best friend's body exploded. It was at that point that he snapped, grunting as every muscle in his body started to tense up.

Freeza was too seething with rage to notice. He then gazed up on the rest of him and his eyes locked onto Vegeta. "You, I know you're responsible for those giant apes. I won't allow you a second chance to do so!" He took aim and fired.

Vegeta watched in shock as the beam came right for him. He was too paralyzed in fear to move, knowing this was to be his death. But the beam never hit. Before it was bound to, the saiyan prince was pushed aside, Nappa being the one to be shot instead. Vegeta sat up and watched as his subordinate was bleeding.

Nappa coughed up a lot of blood as he held his hand out towards his superior. "Does.. This make us even.. For sparing me on Earth?" His hand then dropped to the ground, the lifeless body of the saiyan just lying there, a smile on his face.

Vegeta was in disbelief. He clenched his hand into a fist, getting back to his feet as he grit his teeth. "You.. heartless bastard.."

Freeza was also in disbelief and simply chuckled. "What a pointless effort. There wasn't any point in do that when you're just gonna die anyway." Before he could fire again, both Raditz and Yamcha grabbed hold of Freeze, trying to pin his arms. Freeza simply sighed. "I guess you'll never learn." He threw off the both of them with ease and was about to shoot at him when something felt off. There was an air of malice in the air, far greater than his own. He turned his eyes to the Goku and Vegeta, widening his eyes as he witnessed something extraordinary.

Both of the saiyans screamed out in anger, their power shooting through the roof, collapsing the very ground around them. That wasn't it either, both of their hair were standing upwards, no longer black but a bright yellow, as well as their eyes being a bright blue. Gohan, Raditz and Yamcha stared at the saiyans in surprise as their mere energy was enough to scatter the residue energy of the Spirit Bomb. "D-Dad?" asked Gohan.

"Gohan, Yamcha, grab Tien and Piccolo, get to the ship and go." ordered Goku, a hateful tone in his voice. As he watched them all hesitate, he grit his teeth and started shouted. "Get out of here right now, before I lose what little sense of reason I have left!"

While the 2 of them did as they were told, Vegeta turned his eyes to Raditz. "You, do the same for Nappa. He died a proud warrior, I don't want his body desecrated anymore from what I'm going to do to Freeza."

Raditz grunted and nodded, hoisting Nappa's corpse over his shoulder and faced where Goku's ship is. "Fine, but I'm not doing it because you told me to. I'm doing it because he's my ally." He then started to fly off to the ship, Gohan and Yamcha close behind.

Freeza growled as he was simply being ignored. "It's adorable how they think they're going to get away from me." He raised his hand up to fire upon the 3 targets, only for Goku to appear in front of him and grab his hand while Vegeta kicked the tyrant about a mile away from them, showing up near him in an instant. "What?! Where did that power come from?! There's no way you should be hurting me at my full power!"

Vegeta looks down into the water, seeing the water ripple from his overflowing power but was able to make out his reflection. "Hmph, I'm amazed. To think that the legends were true. And for 2 to show up, this is the worst day possible for you."

Goku immediately caught up and glared at Freeza. "Don't kill him just yet Vegeta, I want to tear him apart for what he did to Krillin."

Vegeta turned his gaze to Kakarot. "Careful now, don't go making an enemy of me. Once we're done with him, it's your turn next."

Goku returned Vegeta's gaze and chuckled. "Fine by me, though let's focus on Freeza for the time being. He needs to suffer after all for everything he's done."

Freeza shook in fear as these saiyans talked so casually right in front of him at his full power. He grit teeth and aimed both his hands at them. "The only ones who will suffer are you!" He fired several beams at the both of them, holding nothing back. Though they dodged all of them. "Damnit, hold still! Or are you aware that you can't take an attack at my full power?"

Vegeta chuckled and tapped his forehead. "Then go ahead Freeza, take your best shot right here." This act of aggravation pushed Freeza over the edge, who fired a beam right at Vegeta's forehead. The prince's head snapped back as if pushed, but when he lowered his head back into place, his forehead was barely damaged. This resulted in a pretty cheeky grin from the saiyan.

Freeza backed up as his attack was completely ineffective against the saiyan prince, realizing if his attack couldn't do much to Vegeta, just what is this other changed saiyan capable of. "Damnit, you think this changes anything?! You may have gotten a significant power up, but I am still the strongest in the entire universe!"

"I don't think so anymore Freeza. I think it's become pretty obvious that this fight's as good as over." said Goku, what little control of himself he had was noticing that Freeza's strength was slowly dropping.

Around that time, Raditz, Gohan and Yamcha were all flying back to the ship. Gohan and Yamcha were capable of going faster, but Raditz was quite exhausted from his confrontation with Freeza as well as giving most of his power to the Spirit Bomb, so the 2 of them kept a steady pace so Raditz doesn't get lost. Raditz couldn't help chuckling to himself.

"What's so funny?" asked Yamcha, genuinely worried that the stress and fear of people dying has made the saiyan go crazy.

"It's nothing. Well, nothing but the fact that all that nonsense that Vegeta's spoke over the years has been true the entire time." said Raditz, the image of the 2 saiyans with their golden hair constantly in her mind. "To think that both the supposed 'greatest of saiyans' and the 'lowest of trash', as he would put it, have both become the warriors of legend. In the face of 2 Super Saiyans, Freeza is absolutely nothing."

"Do you really think that they'll be able to handle Freeza?" asked Gohan, tempted to go back and help his dad, especially after the beating he took before the Spirit Bomb was thrown.

"There's no need to worry about it. Vegeta's got years of pent up aggression towards Freeza and my brother looked like he was about ready to tear Freeza apart. If the Super Saiyan legend is as fearful as Vegeta made it out to be, then everything's going to be fine." Raditz didn't hear any responses from the 2 of them so he figured he successfully reassured them that everything will be alright. He finally saw the ship that his brother and Piccolo came in, landing at the entrance. "Earth woman, are you here?"

Bulma stumbled out of the driver's seat and looked at everyone. "Oh thank god, for a sec I thought Freeza or someone show-" She cut herself off and turned pale as she noticed the corpses of Tien and Nappa, also believing Piccolo to be dead. "N-No way. Tien? A-And Piccolo? T-Then that means that Kami.."

Gohan ran past Bulma, looking for anything to stop Piccolo's bleeding. Yamcha was the one to step up and tell Bulma. "No, Piccolo's not dead, at least not yet. That means that we still have our dragon balls back on Earth. Though I'm not sure how long he's gonna last like this."

Bulma went from her look of dread to a look of excitement. "Then we haven't a moment to lose! When are Goku and Krillin getting here so we can head back to Earth?"

Mentioning Krillin made both Yamcha and Raditz go stiff, looking down in despair. Once Bulma caught on to what they were thinking, she fell to her knees, the life void of her eyes as she realized that Krillin couldn't be brought back a second time by the dragon balls. Raditz grit his teeth and grabbed Yamcha by the shoulder. "Give me whatever energy you have. I'm heading back out there!"

Yamcha went wide-eyed. He really has gone mad! He pushed Raditz's hand off his shoulder. "You're really planning on going back out there?! I know you want to get revenge on Freeza for killing our friends, but even you said that the other 2 can handle it!"

Raditz glared and pushed Yamcha against the wall of the ship. "I'm not going back out there for Freeza, I'm going back out there to find that namekian runt! He might be able to heal Piccolo and ensure that the dragon balls will be safe!"

Yamcha looked a little horrified but new that the saiyan wasn't planning on killing him. He obliged Raditz and gave him all of his energy.

Raditz backed away from the earthling and turned to Bulma. "My scouter, where is it?" Bulma pointed to a small shelf where the scouter was comfortably sitting. Raditz took the scouter and put it on, using it to lock in on the namekian's location. "I'll be back, do not take off until I get back!" He then flew off to go find Dende.

Gohan returned with a bandages, wrapping them around Piccolo's severed arm. He looked up and saw that his uncle was nowhere in sight. "Where'd uncle Raditz go?"

Bulma and Yamcha went to help the halfling bandage up the namekian. "He went to go get Dende. Something about having him heal up Piccolo? I don't know, apparently a lot happened while you guys were gone."

While Raditz was out, he found a good number of space pods along his path. To get back on Freeza even more, he took the time to input the settings to launch every pod he found back to Earth. There, now he has no chance of getting out of here in case he escapes those 2. Now, for the namekian. He then flew off to where Freeza's ship was, knowing it was around that area that they told the namekian to wait.

Around this time, Freeza had taken a vicious beating from the Super Saiyan duo. He had managed to protect all of his vitals, but it was growing more difficult to avoid them as time went by. Damn saiyans. I absolutely refuse to let me see my end here. He looked down at the planet's surface and grinned. He then saw the saiyans coming at him, using his psychic powers to push them back. "Prepare to die, filthy saiyans!" He created a large orb of energy, chucking it down at the planet's surface. The resulting impact creating a bright light that enveloped the entire planet.

The light soon vanished and to both the saiyans' and Freeza's surprise, the planet wasn't destroyed as the emperor had planned. There was a massive crater in the place of the explosion that the bottom couldn't be seen. Vegeta chuckled as he crossed his arms. "Looks like you didn't have the necessary power to even destroy a planet, let alone us. Or were you just so afraid to die that you held back at the last moment?"

Freeza growled and closed his eyes before smiling. "It would appear that I held back unconsiously. It doesn't matter though as the core of the planet has been completely vaporized. By my estimate, that gives you 5 minutes before this planet is reduced to nothing. You may be the Super Saiyan of legend, but I doubt that little transformation can last in the vacuum of space."

Both the saiyans looked shocked at this dreadful information, but Goku simply laughed. "5 minutes is more than enough time. After all, your power's been dropping the entire fight. I'd be surprised if you can last 2 minutes."

Around this time, King Kai was just observing the fight from his planet. He was quite nervous as to how things are gonna play out now that Namek has a countdown to destruction. He jumped in surprise as he heard a familiar voice in his head as he was caught off guard.

"King Kai, what's the status of everything happening on Namek?"

King Kai shook his head. "Kami? For my sake, don't do that. Well, everything was seemingly going fine for a while. At least, until recently. Both Tien and the saiyan with Vegeta were killed by Freeza, as well as Krillin. Piccolo almost recieved the same fate but is hanging in there. "

Kami looked off the Lookout as he put himself into deep thought. "So Krillin was vanquished has he? Then I'm afraid that I am powerless to help him now. I can bring back both Tien and the saiyan if it is necessary, but those brought back by the dragon balls cannot be brought back twice."

King Kai stiffened as he processed the information given to him. "You mean your dragon balls can revive multiple people at a time? Also, I thought the dragon balls weren't allowed for an entire year after their initial use."

Kami was a little surprised that King Kai wasn't already aware of the first fact fact but didn't feel like questioning it. "Yes, the dragon balls can bring back as many people as necessary as long as they fall in line with the specifications of the wish. As for the dragon balls requiring a year, I do have the power to make them usable immediately, but they'll have an additional year to charge along with the time they initially had."

King Kai looked rather stoic when he heard this information. "I just gotta know something, is the dragon balls able to bring back people from distant planets? Such a Namek?"

"Hmm, I'm not entirely sure. I've never had a reason to try." said Kami, honestly curious as to what the deity was thinking. "What are you planning?"

"Listen, if you can, use the dragon balls to wish back everyone killed by Freeza and his men! There might be hope! The dragon on Namek still had one wish left to grant, so if the creator of those dragon balls are brought back, we can use that wish to save everyone!" shouted King Kai, not really necessary since he's speaking telepathically.

"Hmm, very well. I'll have Mr. Popo gather the dragon balls as quickly as possible. I just hope it won't be too late." said Kami, turning around to go find Mr. Popo.

King Kai went back to watching the fight on Namek. "So do I."

Raditz was freaking out quite a bit as Namek was suddenly collapsing in on itself. "Damnit, what happened?! This isn't just some natural disaster! Don't tell me Freeza is the cause of this!" As he was flying around, his an eruption of steam from the water burst upwards and hit him, sending his scouter off his face. "No, my scouter!" He flew after the scouter and caught it, stuffing it inside his battle armor. "This isn't good. I'll have to find the runt the old fashioned way. He made his way to the ship, keeping an eye out to sense Dende's power.

Around 2 minutes pass before as the fight against Freeza continues. Freeza looked incredibly exhausted as the saiyans barely looked tired at all. Goku then powered down from his Super Saiyan state, surprising both Vegeta and Freeza. "There's no point in fighting anymore. We've already proven that we're better than you. Leave now and hide under a rock, knowing the shame that you've been bested by the thing you hate most. Come on, Vegeta."

As Freeza was just left in shock at the bold words by the saiyan, Vegeta couldn't help but chuckle. "You know what? You're right. This is a far more satisfying fate for him. He should know the pain I've suffered of being treated as inferior. Just know this Freeza, if I ever catch wind of you being in the same area of space as me, I won't hesitate to put you down." He then powered down as well and started flying off, with Goku right behind him.

Freeza grit his teeth as he refused to believe that this was how it was going to end. "No! I refuse, you will die now!" He created a disc of energy very similar to what Krillin was able to make, tossing it right at the saiyans. His shouting was enough to warn the saiyans of his attack as they dodged it.

When Goku turned to face Freeza, his anger grew and took the form of Super Saiyan once more. "You damn bastard! We gave you a chance to live and you threw it away!" He turned his head to Vegeta. "Get out of here, I need to settle things. Your friend can be brought back by the dragon balls but Krillin won't be coming back. I promise, Freeza will pay, just let me be the one to do it."

Vegeta hesitated, looking at Kakarot, then back to Freeza, then back to Kakarot. "Fine, I'll let you have him. But promise me that you won't give him anymore mercy! He dies today, got it?!" He then flew off, flying right for the others, sensing a stray energy in the direction of Freeza's ship but ignoring it.

As Raditz searching around to find the namekian, his eyes caught the attention of a rather incredible sight: a massive green dragon that showed up out of nowhere. "N-No way! Is that the thing that brought me here?! But I thought that-" He was cut off as he started feeling a large abundance of energy around the planet show up at once, as if hundreds of beings has shown up at once. "Namekian, where are you?!"

Dende crawled out a small crevice in the ground, looking at the saiyan. He was also shocked at the sight of Porunga. "P-Porunga?! But that means the Grand Elder is alive! Which means all those people I sense are-" He hopped about in excitement as he could quickly tell that the namekians were alive again. His excitement was brief as he heard a voice inside his head instructing him on what to do with the wish.

Raditz heard no such so at first he thought the child was just talking to himself. It didn't take him long that King Kai was likely involved with this. "Hey, King Kai! What's the meaning of all this?!"

"Geez, you didn't have to yell you know, I have been paying attention." answered King Kai, his head hurting from hearing Raditz screaming at him again so soon. "Listen, we don't want anyone overhearing this, but that young namekian is going to use the namekian dragon's last wish to bring everyone except Freeza and Goku back to Earth. I planned to take Goku as well, but he said he had to bring finish things with Freeza."

Raditz sighed and crossed his arms, a little relieved and stressed at the same time. "Damnit brother, is this really the best time?" His eyes then widened as it just occurred to him. "Wait, does that mean that the earthlings and Nappa are alive again?!"

"Hmm? Well, Tien and Nappa are alive, yes. Krillin wasn't able to come back as the dragon balls aren't able to bring back someone twice." said King Kai, regretting to have to share that news with the saiyan.

Raditz growled and clenched his fist tightly. "Guess it can't be helped. Namekian, get us out of here!"

Dende nodded as he started speaking namekian to the dragon, wishing for everyone on Namek besides Goku and Freeza to Earth. He sensed Freeza flying towards them, but the wish had already been granted and everyone started vanishing from Namek rapidly until it was just Goku and Freeza left.

Raditz was shocked to see the familiar sight of Earth, the area that everyone on Namek showed up in looking very similar to the place that he crashed down when he first arrived. It took him a couple seconds before he remembered why he went to find the namekian in the first place. He grabbed the child and flew off to where Piccolo was.

Piccolo woke up as his Dende healed him up, also restoring his arm without sacrificing his stamina. He looked at Dende and smiled, patting both his head and Gohan's head. He then looked at Raditz. "So, mind telling me what exactly happened?"

As the saiyan explained the whole situation to Piccolo, the Grand Elder explained everything to the rest of the namekians. Vegeta was leaning against a tree and listening to the rest blabber on when he saw Nappa approach him, a small smile forming on his face. "You look worse for wear, don't you think you should change out of that armor?"

"Is that an offer to give me yours?" The two of them laughed comfortably, somehow able to relax more than they ever could.

As all of this was going down, a sharp chill ran down Raditz's spine, turning his head to look at the sky. He wasn't able to feel it from such a drastic distance but he could already tell what that sharp chill was. Namek had just exploded, and Goku hadn't made it off planet.

And that is chapter 19 of the most successful story I've ever written. Now, I'll admit that I could have definitely done that ending better and just might change it up in the future. But I wanted it to be brought to you sooner simply because I was gushing at what I had written for it. I know this is primarily a story regarding Raditz and Nappa being in the main story, but as a Vegeta fan I had to give the prince some shine that Toriyama never gave him, so I chose to give him both some character development as well as an early access pass to Super Saiyan. Also, while the information I wrote about the dragon balls requiring a longer charge, but there have been 2 occasions in the canon in which the dragon balls have been used faster than the year long wait and there isn't any knowledge to contradict what I had written. Anyway, feel free to leave a review if you liked this chapter, save for the cruddy ending that I will likely change sometime int the future. Anyway, this sorta concludes the Namek saga, with a filler chapter next time to get some of the story progression out of the way. And I plan to bring an old character back at the end of next chapter. For those of you watchers of MasakoX, you know who and why. For those of you who don't watch him, you're likely in for a treat. That's it for this week, tune in next time for the next chapter of Dragon Ball Z: A Saiyan's Tail.