Gohan looked up to his uncle, unsure why he was looking so worried. "Uncle Raditz? Why are you just looking at the sky? Is someone coming?"

Raditz grit his teeth and lowered his head. "King Kai! I know you're there, so I need you to tell me. What happened to Namek?!"

Everyone looked at Raditz, unsure what exactly he was going on about. The only one who had an idea of what the saiyan was talking about was Vegeta, who was present to learn that Namek's destruction was imminent.

After a few moments of silence, Raditz finally got a response from the deity. "Yeah.. I'm here, not like I'm going anywhere. But Namek.. It's no longer there. Freeza caused Namek to self-destruct.

Raditz felt sweat starting to form on his body as he was getting a very bad idea on where this was going. "A-And what of my brother? Damnit, what happened to Kakarot?!"

Everyone went silent, looking just as worried as Raditz. Yamcha turned to the saiyans, Vegeta specifically. "Hey, what's he talking about? Why is he so worried about Goku? He should be alright, right?"

Vegeta growled and lowered his head. This doesn't make any sense. How would Raditz know about the destruction of Namek? I know it was falling apart but this timing isn't natural. "Freeza destroyed the core of Namek. He said himself that there were only 5 minutes before the planet explodes after that. If I had to guess, that time is most definitely up."

Yamcha started looking a little pale, turning back to Raditz for confirmation on what was going on, as was everyone else. "I'm sorry, Freeza pulled a fast one on Goku and managed to stall out a little time. Goku defeated Freeza, but didn't have enough time to get to his ship. He tried Freeza's ship but it was too damaged to fly. There was no time left before the planet exploded. I'm sorry."

Raditz stiffened as he was given the news, dropping to his knees as his brother was once again dead. Not only that, but any attempt to make real amends with his brother have slipped through his grasp yet again. "No! Kakarot, you weren't supposed to die again! This can't be happening!"

Despite getting the news, Bulma was completely calm about this. "I don't think we have anything to worry about. Apparently the namekian dragon balls are capable of bringing back a person more than once, so reviving both Krillin and Goku is no problem."

King Kai then focused his telepathy to Bulma. "I'm afraid it isn't that simple. They may be brought back from the dead, but they'd only be brought back to where they died. Considering the planet where they died is no longer, they'd only be welcomed by the cold vacuum of space, and meet their end again. And unfortunately I can't move them from where they died as Namek isn't a part of space that isn't in my jurisdiction."

Bulma turned paled and jittery as she was given the information. She got a similar reaction from the others when she passed on the information. The only ones with different reactions were the saiyans. Raditz simply punched a crater into the ground in frustration, Nappa just stared at the ground. Vegeta on the other hand looked annoyed. "Aren't you overlooking a small detail? You're talking about the power of a wish granting dragon. Just have it move their souls back here to Earth before wishing them back. I thought you'd be smart enough to think of that yourselves."

Raditz turned to look at Vegeta. The saiyan stood up and wiped his face, hiding the fact that he was on the verge of tears from his former superior. He then walked over to the saiyan prince and held his hand out. "Thanks for the suggestion, Vegeta."

Vegeta narrowed his eyes and swatted Raditz's hand away. "Don't get the wrong idea. I simply want Kakarot alive again for my own reasons. As a Super Saiyan, I may be the mightiest in the universe now, but I won't feel great about it till I beat Kakarot while he is a Super Saiyan as well."

Raditz looked a little shocked and chuckled as he turned around and started walking away. Now that's an interesting development. He said beat rather than kill. Perhaps the outburst of emotion from losing Nappa softened his heart a little. "Hey, Earth woman, got a minute?"

Bulma turned her head to look at Raditz, looking rather annoyed. "I have a name you know. Would be good to learn it or else you'll look like a weirdo in public. Anyway, what is it?"

"I was just wondering if you had any space for my 2 compatriots over there." He nudged his head in the direction of the 2 saiyans.

Bulma looked at the 2 saiyans and then back at the saiyan before her. "Well, I've already decided to house the namekians until they can use their dragon balls to find a new home, so I suppose I can take in 2 more. But what about you?"

Raditz chuckled and looked up to the sky. "Well, I want to learn as much of what my brother did before he gets back so I suppose I'll find whoever taught him, so long as they're still alive. Also, I think I have a proper payment to cover those 2 staying there, you just have to wait a few days."

Bulma tilted her head as she had no idea what he was on about, but didn't see any real harm in it. "Alright, if you want to learn from the same person Goku did, Master Roshi would be the best place to start. Though I'll warn you, he isn't an easy one to learn from."

Raditz nodded to Bulma and started walking away, looking around through the crowd of namekians, particularly the children. He picked out Dende due to his higher power level compared to the other children. "Hey, runt. I got a huge favor to ask you."

Dende turned his head to the saiyan, a little nervous to why the powerful saiyan was talking to him of all people. "F-Favor? What kind of favor?"

"Well, you've got a lot of time before your dragon balls are ready for use, then you'll be back to a life of isolation with your people, so I was hoping you'd stick with me till I perfect this technique that I've been having trouble with."

Dende looked at the new Grand Elder, Muri, to make that decision. Muri thought for about 20 seconds before coming to the decision. "Very well. This will serve as good practice for him to practice his newfound power given to him by the previous Grand Elder. Take good care of him."

Raditz smiled towards the namekian. He then grabbed the collar of Dende's robe and placed the namekian child on his back. "Hang on tight, I know a great spot to train." And with that, the 2 of them flew off without another word. Gohan was tempted to follow after them but knew he'd be in trouble if he ran off from his mother.

After about an hour of flying, the both of them land atop Kami's Lookout. Neither the elderly namekian nor Mr. Popo were currently present but Raditz could tell they were around. Dende simply looked off the edge of the lookout and was shocked at how high they were, unable to really see anything down below. "W-What is this place?"

"It's the dwelling place of Earth's guardian, Kami. He's a namekian, just like you. This is my first time here, but I've met Kami before so I know what his energy is like." said Raditz, inhaling before shouting. "Hey, Kami! I got someone I'd like ya to meet!"

Around a minute later, Kami walked outside from his little hut, holding his free hand to his head. "You know I could hear you perfectly from where you were, didn't you? There was no need for all that unnecessary shouting."

Raditz chuckles. "I know, but I just wanted to get you out here faster. Kami, this is Dende, a namekian who'll be staying here on Earth till his people can use their dragon balls again."

Both of the namekians stared at each other in complete silence. It was only until Mr. Popo came out with some hot tea that the silence was broken. "Oh my, I knew we had guests but I never could have imagined this."

Kami gave a smile to the younger namekian and walked forward, kneeling down to be face to face with Dende. "It's nice to meet you Dende, I take it you're from the Dragon Clan as well?"

Dende nodded, feeling calmer to be talking to another namekian who didn't seem so scary. "Yes sir. I don't mean to sound weird, but your energy seems oddly similar to the other namekian from here."

"That's because they are one and the same." said Mr. Popo, not giving a moment's hesitation. "The namekian you met, Piccolo, is the offspring to the original Piccolo, who was once a single namekian comprised of both Kami and Piccolo."

Raditz gave Mr. Popo a pretty cold stare for interrupting a rather interesting conversation between namekians of different ages and worlds. "Yeah, that's the truth. I brought you here so you could maybe learn something from Kami."

Kami chuckled and straightened up. "That's quite an interesting proposal. I've never taught another namekian, perhaps this could be fun." He then looked up from Dende to the saiyan. "And what do you want out of this?"

Raditz held up his right arm. "I want to perfect a technique that I've been practicing for over a month. I was hoping that I could use it in an area with lighter gravity back on Namek but that didn't help one bit. I feel like I could have done more against Freeza if I could use it."

Dende turned around to look at the saiyan. "You mean the technique that hurt your arm badly when you tried to use it?"

Raditz nodded in response. "That's the one. Happens every time I use it. If I'm gonna break my arm every time I use it, I at least wanna use it right. Think you could help me out with that?"

Kami narrowed his eyes. "Hmm, I find it a bit suspicious, but I see no reason not to. I just hope your technique doesn't threaten to destroy the whole lookout, or the whole planet."

Raditz picked up one of the cups of tea. "Don't worry, if I get to the point I can use it, I'll just use it on an asteroid or something." He takes a sip of the tea and widens his eyes, chucking the cup on the ground and screams. "God damnit! That's too hot!"

"I know that must have been hot, but that's no reason to use my name in vane." said Kami, getting a chuckle from both Mr. Popo. Dende was chuckling too, but mostly because of Raditz's freak out.

After that moment, 4 months of training had gone by in the blink of an eye. It took around 2 months to finally get the technique good enough to be used, but hasn't used it since because he hasn't had anyone to properly use it on. The saiyan spent the last 2 months training with Master Roshi, who was reluctant to train him at first. Dende learned everything that Kami could teach him quite quickly. Vegeta and Nappa had gotten quite used to life on Earth, spending all of their free time training. Tien had reunited with Chiaotzu after returning from Namek, telling him about everything that happen. The 2 of them vanished a week after the events on Namek and haven't been heard from since. Yamcha spent around a month with Bulma but the both of them drifted apart afterwards, leaving the Earthling to travel around and train all on his own. Gohan returned to his studies afterward and hasn't gotten a chance to train since. Piccolo secluded himself in the wastelands and trained alone as always. Bulma spent a good amount of time working on the numerous spacepods that Raditz had given her after they had landed. The namekians adjusted to life well in the time they had.

After 130 after the results on Namek, everyone gathered together at Capsule Corp. as the namekian dragon balls were ready to be used once again. Upon summoning Porunga, the sky turned black and there was quite a panic in West City upon seeing the massive dragon, thought the panic died down quick when everyone realized that the dragon originated in Capsule Corp., thinking it was some new invention.

"Huh, so this is the namekian's Shenron. He's a lot bigger then ours." said Bulma, pretty impressed as this was her first time seeing it.

"We've been quite happy for your hospitality for our people, so feel free to use all 3 wishes for yourselves. We can wait a while longer." said Muri.

Nappa and Vegeta were just leaning against one of the buildings, watching from a distance away from everyone else. "How's about it, Vegeta? Wanna nab some immortality? As the strongest in the universe, they wouldn't exactly be able to stop ya." asked Nappa.

Vegeta turned his head in disinterest. "No thanks. I mostly wanted immortality to overpower Freeza, but I've already achieved that dream. Besides, that dragon only responds to the namekian language, remember?"

"Guess you're right. When you're the strongest in the universe, who needs immortality?" said Nappa, silently making a crack at Freeza, who wanted immortality for himself.

"Alright, the first wish is pretty obvious." said Bulma, making sure Dende was ready to translate what she said so that the dragon would grant their wishes. "Firstly, bring the souls of Krillin and Goku to this very spot!"

Porunga's eyes glew as he granted the wish, though shifted his mouth with confusion as part of the wish couldn't be granted. "I have retrieved the soul of the one named Krillin and brought him forth to this spot. But I was not able to bring forth the one called Goku."

Everyone stiffened up a bit as the dragon proclaimed unable to grant that part of the wish. "W-Why not?" asked Gohan, a bit scared to hear what the dragon might say. Dende translated the question to Porunga.

"I am not able to retrieve the souls of someone still alive." answered Porunga.

Everything went silent upon hearing that revelation before bursting out into shouts of cheering, roars erupting from Capsule Corp. which disturbed a few of the people walking by. Ever the saiyans on the sidelines smiled upon hearing this.

"Well then, if he's alive then we can rest easy and wait till our third wish to bring him back. Hey Dende, have that dragon bring back Krillin." demanded Raditz, crossing his arms and leaning back against the building closest to him, his hair having grown back in the months he was training.

Dende nodded and chanted to the dragon to bring back Krillin. Porunga's eyes glew again as he fulfilled the wish, bringing Krillin back and in one piece. "As an extra gift, I have restored his body and clothing free of charge."

Bulma chuckled and winked at the dragon. "For someone so scary looking, you sure are sweet. Now for the grand finale, bring Goku back to Earth!" Dende chanted the words to the dragon with just as much enthusiasm.

Porunga's eyes glew but his mouth shifted once more. "I'm afraid I cannot will someone here if they choose not to. He says he will return on his own."

Everyone looked at each other, mumbling reasons why Goku would refuse to return to Earth at the first chance that he got. Roshi blamed Chi-Chi for being so scary but immediately played it off once the woman in question glared at him. Bulma jokingly thought in her head that it might have been so Goku could think of the right way to talk to his brother once they reunite but was taking so long because of how dull Goku could be.

"Well, if my brother says that he doesn't wanna come back straight away, who are we to say no? Since we have no more need for the dragon, you namekians are free to use the last wish." said Raditz, turning to Dende and smiling.

The namekians all gave heartful goodbyes to everyone. Dende asked Raditz if he could pass along a thank you to Kami when he gets the chance. After that, Dende made spoke the final wish in namekian to Porunga. In the blink of an eye, all of the namekians and Porunga vanished, causing the sky to return from pitch black to normal blue of the afternoon.

Everyone then went on their seperate ways once more. Bulma returned to working with the alien technology, still housing the 2 saiyans who refused to do anything but train all day. Chi-Chi and Gohan returned home to continue with the halfling's education. Piccolo returned to his solitude in the wastelands to continue his training. Tien and Chiaotzu once more disappeared without a trace. Yamcha eventually joined a baseball team and has become rather popular in the next few months.

During that time, Raditz in the middle of his training on Master Roshi's island, trying to perform the Kamehameha. He's been pretty good at learning the techniques of the other Z-Warriors, though has witnessed them firsthand. Master Roshi has yet to actually perform the technique to Raditz yet and has only shown him the poses. Raditz has been spending around a week trying to do it but hasn't made any real ground. "Come on old man, just show me how to do it! I don't know when my brother will get back and I wanna be able to surprise him."

Roshi simply sat in his beach chair, reading a dirty magazine while the saiyan was training. "I already told you a thousand times, you won't get the answer out of me. You're already powerful enough to outdo any of the training I could give you, but I'm not just gonna teach you all the techniques I know. I'll show you when you get the general idea of it."

Raditz groaned as he continued to try and perform the technique at the ocean, though just keeps shooting energy blasts at the minimal energy he could to keep from any unnecessary damage. His scouter suddenly went off right as he fired one of his blasts, changing the direction of the blast in the direction of the incoming person. He panicked as he read the very low power level of the energy. "Damnit! Kaio-Ken times 4!" He amplified his power with the technique and flew to the incoming target, accidentally crashing into a flying car and crunching the front of it up. Luckily he made it in time to catch his own blast and break it apart. He sighed and looked into the car, seeing a slender woman with large blue hair just staring at him. "Are you okay?"

The woman nodded as she just stared at the bulky man just flying in the middle of the air holding her car up with one hand. The engine had been totaled in the crash so it was because of the saiyan holding it up that it wasn't sinking into the ocean. "Thank you very much, could you drop me off at Master Roshi's place?"

Raditz nodded as he grabbed onto the car with his other hand and flew to the island, placing the car on the beach. Master Roshi looked up from his chair and jumped in surprise as he saw the busted up car and familiar face inside. "L-Launch?! What are you doing here?! I thought you left to be with Tien?!"

Launch got out of her car and sighed. "Tien said he was too busy training to be with me, too much of a burden." She then put on a smile. "But I'm alright now."

Roshi got behind Launch and made grabby hands as he prepared to touch her while she's not in her violent persona. "A-And how long do you plan to stay for?" Roshi was stopped from touching her after taking a blow to the head from Raditz, submerging the old man's head into the sand.

"Oh, I'm not staying. I've found a place to stay for a little while. I just came by to get some of my stu-" She was cutoff as a salty ocean breeze blew past her face, causing her nose to scrunch up. She inhaled deeply and let out a pretty harsh sneeze, her hair changing from blue to yellow in an instant.

Raditz went pretty wide-eyed as he witnessed this shift. At first he thought the woman before him was a saiyan and underwent the same transformation that his brother and Vegeta had, but wrote the thought off as he sensed no change in power. "You okay?"

Launch turned around and looked at the large saiyan. She went into a panic and pulled out a sub-machine gun from virtually nowhere, firing at the saiyan. "Who the heck are you?!"

Raditz narrowed his eyes and caught each individual bullet. He was reminded of the time he came to this planet and grabbed the bullet of the first earthling who saw him. I wonder if that earthling's okay. I didn't check to see if he was dead. He held out his hand that was full of bullets. "The name's Raditz, and I think these belong to you."

Launch looked pretty freaked out as this man was handing back the bullets she's just shot. She was used to her bullets not doing much to people as they weren't meant to, but wasn't expecting someone to pull that off. She then caught sight of Raditz's tail and went wide-eyed. "Hey, you've got a tail, just like Goku. Spill it, what's your relation to him?"

Raditz chuckled as he walked to the busted car, dropping the bullets into the passenger seat, walking on Master Roshi's back on his walk back to the woman bold enough to shoot at him. "My relation is as close as it could possibly be, seeing that we're brothers."

Launch lowered her gun and looked pretty surprised. "I didn't know that little punk had a brother, let alone a big guy like you." She then turned to her car. "Ah! What the hell happened to my car?!"

Raditz tilted his head as this woman was only becoming more intriguing to him. So not only does her hair and attitude changes, but she doesn't fully remember things the other doesn't? Earthlings are more interesting than I thought. "That was my bad. I was in the middle of training and accidentally shot at ya. I managed to intercept the blast and keep ya from blowing up, but did that to your vehicle."

Master Roshi finally got his head out of the ground, now trying to get sand out of his beard. "I do apologize for this Launch, I should have been keeping a better eye on him." He ended up getting a glare from the saiyan and started sweating. "Do you need me to give you a ride back to the mainland? I'd be more than happy to."

Raditz stood in the way of Master Roshi before speaking again. "No, let me do it. I can carry you and your car to Capsule Corp. I'm sure Bulma could fix it up no problem."

Launch took a moment to think about it, wondering if she should accept this offer from the person she just met. She then put into account that he's the brother of the pure-hearted Goku, so this stranger should be trustworthy. Besides, it's a lot better than riding with Roshi. "Sure, but there's no need to go that far, I know a person not far from the shoreline who could fix it up."

Raditz nodded and hit Roshi again as the old man tried to grab at Launch once more. He waited patiently as the women went inside the little shack and came out a few minutes later, having put all of her stuff into a capsule for easy storage. She slid into her car and waited for the saiyan to help her out. The saiyan slid behind the car and grabbed it. "You might want to brace yourself, this is gonna be pretty fast. Kaio-Ken times 4!" His power amplified and burst across the ocean at insane speeds with very little time to prepare, leaving Launch screaming in fear.

It took a little over a minute for them to reach the shore. Launch's hair was sticking out backwards in a straight line from the heavy winds, her face momentarily frozen in fear. Once she shook it off, she looked at the saiyan, who ended up giving her a smile. "Maybe a little warning next time! I could have died you know!"

Raditz laughed and opened the door, not wanting to mention the new dents he made in the car after amplifying his power. "My bad, but it looks like you're still alive at least. Man, you must have a lot of faith in your friend if you believe he can fix this up. Was nice meeting ya." He turned to face the ocean and prepared to fly off.

"Wait!" shouted Launch, making the saiyan turn his head to look at the woman. "Even if my friend can fix this ol' thing, I'll still need a ride every once in a while. You should give me your number so I can call ya when I need a ride. Who knows, maybe I'll call ya up for a drink."

Raditz was a bit surprised by the request of the woman. "Ah, sorry. I don't really have an Earth phone and I'm not always at the old man's place so that isn't gonna help. Oh!" He reached into a small pocket compartment in his lower armor and pulled out a spare scouter. "You should take this. I have this thing on my head almost all the time so if you talk into this thing, I should answer." He hands her the spare scouter and smiles.

Launch looked at it, then at Raditz, then tries to slip the device on. It takes her a moment but she manages to get the alien device on it. "Alright, so I just talk into this thing? Seems simple enough. Thanks for helping me out. I'll message ya soon when I feel like calling ya out for drinks."

Raditz smiled and turned back to the ocean, performing the Kaio-Ken times 4 again as he blast off back to Master Roshi's island. He'd never met a woman with quite as much ferocity as her, or as bold to attack him on sight. His eyes went wide as a sudden realization just came to him. Did.. Was that the earthlings' way of flirting?

And yet another chapter done. In comparison to the way I ended last chapter, I am much more satisfied with the results of this one. I know there's a lot of potential content I could have written for Raditz's training but I'm holding out on letting you see the results of that new attack until the time is right to unveil it. I had fun building up this new technique for you guys and there's still plenty more fun to be had with it. Now, onto the meat of the chapter that I know some of you might get on me. I know I wasn't the one to originally think up pairing Raditz with Launch, that courtesy goes to the Youtuber MasakoX. But the reason I use it is because it's too good to not use. Besides, Masako may have built the pairing, but I'm filling in the space he left out, the development in their relationship. I hope you guys don't get upset at me for pulling this, I just liked it too much to not do it. Next chapter we're diving right back into the heat of things as you-know-who is showing up, so stay tuned for that. That's all from me. Leave a review telling me what you thought of this chapter and tune in next week for the next exciting chapter of Dragon Ball Z: A Saiyan's Tail.

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