Raditz was sitting under a waterfall in the middle of the mountains, not a far flight away from Gohan and Chi-Chi. Goku's wife had been very wary of the saiyan but in the year he'd been around, she'd grown to tolerate him and fed him whenever he came over to visit. Sadly, despite the numerous times he's asked, she's absolutely refused to let Gohan train with his uncle. Therefor, Raditz has occasionally trained with Piccolo in the past year and meditated to better control his energy. Every chance he'd get, he's been unleashing the Kaio-Ken times 4 to help his body better withstand to pressure of the power up. He was in the middle of training his body to the pressure when his concentration broke, undoing the power up. He looked to the sky and shook as he recognized that power from anywhere. He jumped out of water onto the shore, grabbing his armor and slipping it on, slipping on his scouter and looking to see just how far that power was. Thankfully, Bulma had tuned it up quite a bit, no longer exploding when it read a power too high for it accurately read. "Damnit, I thought Freeza would have been done for! Brother, what did you do?!" The saiyan then flew off in the direction that Freeza and another huge power were going. During his chase, he sensed Gohan not far behind him. "Gohan? What the hell are you doing?!"

"I'm going to see what's going on. If Freeza's here, then there's no point trying to hide." said Gohan, noticing a power closing in behind them. "Krillin, did you feel that energy too?"

The bald earthling nodded as he slid beside Gohan during their fight. "Yeah, kinda hard to miss the energy of the guy that killed ya. Although I don't recognize that other huge power. Raditz, you got any ideas?"

"I may have an idea, but it would be best to get confirmation from Nappa and Vegeta. Vegeta worked closest to Freeza while we were under his rule and Nappa's been around longer than either of us, he might know something we don't." said the saiyan. He noticed everyone else had already shown up and masked their power levels. Surprising to him, Bulma was there too. Chaotzu was also there, but he shouldn't be surprised about that considering the odd earthling was always with Tien. There was also a floating cat next to Yamcha that he'd never quite figured out. "Yo, Nappa! Vegeta!"

Both the saiyans turned their heads to look at their fellow saiyan. Nappa's beard had grown quite a bit since the last time Raditz had seen him, though Vegeta looked the same as always. "Well look who it is. Here I thought you'd left the planet in search of your brother." said Nappa, any animosity towards Raditz being long gone.

Vegeta scoffed and turned his head, still holding a bit of a grudge towards Raditz. He didn't act on it since there was no point challenging the saiyan due to him being a Super Saiyan and Raditz not being one. "What do you want?"

"Come on, don't be like that. I was just gonna ask you 2 if you can confirm my suspicions. Is that, or is that not, King Cold on the ship?" asked Raditz, spending no time beating around the bush.

Both the saiyans elite looked at each other and grit their teeth as they confirmed Raditz's suspicions without even needing to say a word. Everyone else looked among themselves, Bulma being the one to step up and ask the question. "Hey uh.. Who's King Cold?"

"King Cold is Freeza's father. He's roughly around the same power level as Freeza, thus why Vegeta hasn't already tried to take Freeza on for a rematch." said Nappa, grunting as he felt so useless in this situation. "Not to mention Freeza feels even more powerful than last time."

Everyone started to look pale as things were starting to look a little bleak for their chances. Raditz broke the eerie silence with the sound of his laughter. "We should be able to hold them off just fine. I've got a handle on my new technique that I'm sure Freeza will be 'dying' to see."

Vegeta lifted an eyebrow, curious to what exactly his former underling has under his metaphorical sleeve. After all, he's sense the saiyan's power jump constantly over the past year, sometimes making training distracting. "Oh really? Then by all means, make the first move. I'll jump in right afterwards if it actually succeeds to do anything but piss them off."

Raditz groaned as Vegeta didn't hold any faith in him whatsoever. "Geez, fine. Let's get closer to them on foot so we can catch them by surprise." Just as he was about to start moving closer to the ship, a chill ran down his spine as he felt several energies, likely Freeza's soldiers, instantly vanish. "What the hell is going on over there?!" He then started sprinting ahead before anyone had the chance to take a step forward.

Everyone else followed behind as they were also curious to who exactly was responsible for the death of Freeza's men. Right before everyone made it to the peak of the mountain that was blocking their view, everyone froze in place as they felt a massive jump in power from the one likely responsible for the death of Freeza's men. The energy was all too familiar to Vegeta as it was undoubtedly the energy of a Super Saiyan. "Kakarot?! He's already on Earth?!"

Raditz shook his head as he continued to run up the hill to get a better look at everything, looking wide-eyed as he saw where that immense power was coming from. "No, that's definitely not my brother, though that power is definitely a Super Saiyan."

Everyone made their way to the top of the hill and proceeded to watch a sight that completely shocked every one of them. Not only did this unknown Super Saiyan slice Freeza to pieces with a sword and blast him into oblivion, he also killed King Cold with severe ease. Raditz noticed that the Super Saiyan fired an energy blast at Freeza's ship and knew he wasn't about to let a good opportunity like this slip past him.

"Kaio-Ken times 10!" He amplified his power and dashed forth to intercept the blast approaching Freeza's ship, using both his hands to stop it and launch it into the sky. "Damn, so that's what it's like to take a hit from a Super Saiyan, huh?"

The unknown saiyan looked at Raditz and narrowed his eyes. "Looks like I missed one." He gripped onto his sword with both hands and rushed at Raditz at full speed.

Raditz just barely dodged out of the way in time, and even then some of his hair was cut off. "This isn't gonna cut it then, is it? Kaio-Ken times 20!" He amplified his power even more and fired a Double Sunday attack at the Super Saiyan. "I don't know who you are, but I'd rather you not destroy something I plan to take!"

The saiyan deflected the attack with absolute ease, then stared at Raditz with a curious look. "You're not one of Freeza's men? But you're dressed just like them, although the colors are a bit odd."

Raditz chuckled. "Hey, they're the ones insulting my look. Vegeta and Nappa would probably say the same." He stopped using the Kaio-Ken as it wasn't necessary anymore now that he'd gotten this stranger to talk.

The saiyan looked wide-eyed as this person he'd just met had mentioned Vegeta. He lowered himself to be eye level with Raditz and undid his Super Saiyan transformation, showing that instead of having black hair, it was more a lavender color. "You know Vegeta? I'm so sorry, I didn't realize."

Raditz was still trying to figure out why someone who was obviously a saiyan would have such an odd hair color. Nevertheless, he continued on with the conversation. "Don't worry about it. Not the first time someone's tried to kill me upon meeting me. I'm Raditz. And you are?"

The saiyan looked down at the ground a little nervously. "Sorry, I can't tell you that. I can tell you that I'll be headed to where Goku is going to land in roughly 3 hours from now."

That certainly caught Raditz's attention and was tempted to ask more about that, though something told him that this stranger wasn't gonna spill any details. "Sure, take my friends with ya. I need to take this thing somewhere safe." He turned his head to look at everyone else just flying in the air, looking at the 2 of them. "Hey, Nappa! Come give me a hand with this!"

Nappa looked pretty surprised to be the one called out. He looked to Vegeta for approval, who simply gave him a nod. The saiyan brute flew down. "What's the deal? This guy on our side or what?"

"Yeah, he's fine. Won't tell us his name but is gonna show everyone where my brother is gonna land." He then turned and gently punched the leg of the large ship, making a loud clang noise. "Meanwhile, I want you to help me scavenge through this and see what we can salvage from it."

Nappa grinned as he flew up top to the opening in the ship. "Disrespecting Freeza by taking his stuff? You can definitely count me in." He then hopped inside without waiting for Raditz.

Raditz chuckled. "You can definitely tell he's got a grudge from dying." He then turned to look at the saiyan that refused to say his name. "Alright, go and show them where to go. We'll catch up soon. Fair warning, be careful around Vegeta. You go Super Saiyan in front of him, he's gonna challenge you to a Super Saiyan brawl."

Trunks looked surprised to hear that. "He's a Super Saiyan? That doesn't sound right. Anyway, thanks for the warning. Remember, 3 hours." He then flew into the air and started to lead everyone to wherever Goku was gonna land.

Raditz scratched the back of his head as he tried to make sense of that young saiyan. Regardless, he went inside the ship and started looking around, hoping that Freeza was dumb enough to leave stuff for them to take. He found some of the newer models of healing pods and chuckled. "These'll definitely come in handy. Nappa! Did you find anything?!"

Nappa walked out from around the corner, holding a box full of scouters and armor. "Yeah, definitely a lot of good stuff to take back with us. Let's get out of here and head back to the others."

"You think we're stopping there? I'm taking this entire ship and everything in it. Not like Freeza will be using it." said Raditz as he started making his way to the control room, Nappa following close behind.

"This is new for you. I remember you sent those pods from Namek here as well. Did something happen to make you do that?" Nappa almost dropped the box as he wasn't paying attention to where he was going and nearly tripped.

Raditz tried to hold back a laugh as his saiyan companion nearly fell over. "Earth is a pretty unique place but the technology is a bit lacking. I may not be a brilliant scientist, but that woman you and Vegeta have been staying with certainly is. May as well help her out in exchange for some luxuries." said Raditz, opening the door to the control panel and taking a minute to figure things out.

The rest of the ride was pretty silent. Mainly because it didn't last long. After all, they were using a spaceship to fly to the mountains where Goku's home is. Raditz had been sleeping in a clearing he'd made himself since he didn't want to be a big bother to Chi-Chi. Luckily it was big enough to store the spaceship. Once it landed, the saiyans left everything there and flew off to where everyone else was. It was hard to locate them since none of them had their power levels up, though it wasn't hard to find them thanks to Raditz's handy scouter. When they arrived, everyone was just sitting around and drinking various drinks around a small fridge.

"Ah, uncle Raditz!" said Gohan, running up to Raditz and hugging the large saiyan. "What took you so long?"

"Sorry about that. Needed to take that ship back home and fly all the way back here. I could have gotten here a lot sooner but Nappa didn't have a scouter so I had to fly at normal speeds."

"Hey! I could have gotten here just fine by myself!" shouted Nappa, not wanting to look badly in front of everyone.

The unnamed saiyan simply watched over everyone in silence, trying to make sense of everything. Uncle Raditz? I don't recall him ever mentioning an uncle to me. I don't remember hearing about him or this Nappa guy. Did mom and Gohan think it best for me not to know about them?

Everything from that point on was relatively quiet from that point on. Only around 2 hours later did Raditz stand up to confront the unnamed saiyan. "Hmm? Something I can help you with?"

"Yeah, I want to see how I scale to a Super Saiyan. I'd ask Vegeta, but he'd never let me hear the end of it if I lost to him." said Raditz.

The saiyan looked a bit stunned by the request but didn't see any harm in it, seeing how he'd already made a mistake and attacked Raditz as a Super Saiyan. "Alright, but I can't guarantee your safety." He stoood up and transformed into a Super Saiyan without hesitation, shocking everyone by the immense power in such close range.

Raditz grinned as he knelt down. "No need to worry about me. I've been working quite vigorously this past year. I can maximize my power for roughly 5 minutes before my body gives out." He then took a deep breath and closed his eyes before tightening all his muscles. "Kaio-Ken times 30!" His power jumped up dramatically and launched himself at the Super Saiyan without warning.

The boy looked shocked at the increase in power by this warrior, disappearing in a burst of speed to avoid getting anyone else involved in the fight, reappearing roughly 100 feet. Raditz was able to keep up with the Super Saiyan and chased after him. Bulma, Chaotzu and Puar were all shocked at the 2 fighters suddenly disappearing, unable to keep track of their movements. Everyone else was able to see the fight just fine without trouble.

Raditz started charging up energy in his hands as he throws a flurry of punches at the boy, keeping the Super Saiyan from fighting back as he charged up his attack. Once his attack was fully charged up, he brought his hands together in a familiar position, the pinkish energy around his hands starting to swirl around a ball of blue energy forming between his hands. "Shining Kamehameha!" He fired the beam, a spiraling beam of blue and pink energy headed right for the saiyan boy.

Seeing as the boy didn't have enough time to prepare one of his stronger attacks, presses both hands together above his head and moves them in front of him. "Masenko!" He fired a large blast of energy that collided with Raditz's combination attack and stopping both their attacks in their tracks.

Both Gohan and Piccolo looked surprised that this stranger that they'd never met before was able to use an attack that only they knew how to do.

Raditz didn't hesitate for a second, knowing full well that he was on a time limit with this power and didn't want to waste a second of it. He fired two beams from his hands into the sky, throwing them downwards to break the beams apart into a shower of energy blasts, leaving the Super Saiyan not many options to deal with them.

The boy looked at the blast and grunted. He pulled out his sword and managed to slash through every one of the blasts that came his way, leaving only the ground to be damaged from the attack. He was too focused making sure everyone else was okay to respond fast enough to block a close range blast from Raditz from behind. The blast didn't hurt that much but for some reason his body wouldn't move.

"How do you like my new trick? It's not a permanent solution but being able to cause temporary paralysis is sure to help me out. Just like this." He started to prepare yet another Shining Kamehameha to fire at the boy at close range.

The boy grit his teeth and screamed loudly, forcing out more of his power to break through the paralysis. He then brought his hands together, aiming them at Raditz. "Burning attack!" He fired a very large blast of energy at Raditz.

Raditz widened his eyes and fired his beam at the incoming attack before he was fully ready. The resulting explosion pushed the saiyan back quite a distance as he had to catch himself, looking at the Super Saiyan who was completely unfazed. "I gotta admit, I never expected you to be this powerful. Ever 30 times my base power isn't enough. But if you're this much stronger than me, then I see no reason to hold it back." His red aura started to shift and collect around his arm, the result causing Raditz to be in immense pain. "Try not to die from this!" The energy fully collected into his hand and he was about to do something with that power when something large zoomed right past him, breaking his concentration and dispersing the energy that was building up. He looked to see what exactly it was and widened his eyes as he saw the ship that his brother had brought to Namek. "N-No way!"

Everyone else turned to look at the ship that had crashed down very close from where they were, nobody having noticed it as they were all busy watching the fight. Everyone ran over to the crater that the large ship had created when it crash landed. "There's no mistaking that energy. That's my dad!" shouted Gohan, runing closer to the ship as the door was starting to open.

The boy undid his Super Saiyan transformation and went to join everyone around the crater, looking at the ship and seeing the Capsule Corp. logo on in, putting his hand to his head as something wasn't right. Wasn't it a small pod that Goku came in? Also, wasn't it supposed to be 3 hours when he was supposed to arrive? There's supposed to be an hour left, right? Did mom screw up when she was telling me all this?

Goku stepped out of the ship and looked at everyone, more confused than happy. "How did you guys know that I was going to land here?"

Bulma patted the saiyan boy on the back. "It was this guy right here. He knew exactly where you were going to land and sure enough he was right."

Goku tilted his head as he looked at the boy, seeing something familiar about him but never actually seeing the boy before. "Weird, I've never seen him before. Though I guess it's fine right. By the way Vegeta, great job taking out Freeza. I could feel your Super Saiyan energy all the way out in space."

"Actually." said Piccolo, not wanting Vegeta to try and take any credit that he doesn't deserve. "It was the boy right here that took out Freeza. And oddly enough, he did it as a Super Saiyan, very much like you and Vegeta."

Goku was a bit surprised to learn this and looked rather excited. "A Super Saiyan huh? Well that's certainly a surprise. No wonder he was able to deal with Freeza so easily."

The boy then spoke up for the first time since Goku's arrival. "If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to talk to you in private." Everyone looked a bit confused as this mysterious boy wanted to speak to Goku in private but didn't act up on it, letting the 2 of them walk a good distance out of earshot from them.

Everyone watched as quite a few things happened in the time they were together. Both of them had gone Super Saiyan, did a quick spar, then powered down. After that it was mostly talking that nobody was able to hear other than Piccolo, who kept quiet about the whole thing. Shortly after, the boy flew away and Goku came back to relay all the information to everyone else, though it was Piccolo who explained everything that they needed to know.

Vegeta then decided to ask the question that everyone's been wondering for over a year. "By the way Kakarot, I think we'd all like to know how exactly you survived the destruction of Namek."

"Huh? Oh right, I guess none of you really would know how that happened." said Goku, scratching the back of his head. "Well, I honestly thought I was a goner. Surprisingly though, my body managed to survive the destruction of the planet. I couldn't breathe so I didn't have much time so I tried to fly around to find something to save me. Turns out the spaceship I came in on was fine too, if only slightly."

"So you mean to tell us that you held your breath in the void of space long enough to find your spaceship?" asked Nappa, finding this all hard to believe. "If that's the case, what exactly took you so long to get back here?"

"Well, thing is I didn't exactly know how to fly the ship myself. It was already programmed with the course to Namek when I took off from here. I just started pressing buttons like crazy. Eventually I made my way to a planet called Yardrat." said Goku, chuckling as he was felt a bit silly for telling this story.

Vegeta narrowed his eyes as he became ever more curious on the situation. "Let me guess, the reason you refused to let the dragon bring you back was so you could learn a trick from the yardratians, isn't that right?"

Goku smirked gleefully as he scratched the back of his head again. "Wow, you can read me like a book, can't ya? Yeah, though I was only able to learn one of them since I was also focusing on controlling that Super Saiyan power."

"So, we'll all be meeting back up in 3 years right? That should be more than enough time to prepare ourselves." said Raditz, a bit excited to have a real reason to train with his brother. "Glad to hear. I don't want any of you slacking off, not after everything on Namek."

"Are you kidding? I've never been more ready to train in my entire life." said Tien, excited to push himself to the limits after the massive power boost he'd gotten on Namek.

"Kakarot, don't let this go to your head." said Vegeta, catching the attention of everyone. "Don't forget that you owe me a fight. Once we deal with these androids or whatever, we'll see which of us is truly the strongest." After that, he flew off, Nappa close behind him.

Afterwards, Tien and Chaotzu flew off as well, unheard from for the next 3 years. Krillin went off to train with Master Roshi for the entirety of the 3 years along with Yamcha. Goku, Piccolo, Gohan and Raditz all trained with each other for the most part of the 3 years. Raditz would every so often skip out on training to go deal with a personal matter that he was certain to keep hidden from Goku until he was certain the time was right. Even after Raditz achieved the state of Super Saiyan after a year, he would continue to skip out on training every few weeks and disappear for a few days.

Raditz woke up and stretched as he climbed out of his bed. During his free time from training, he'd been working on recreating a saiyan household not far from Goku's place, only a 10 minute walk. It was a 2 story household and had 3 bedrooms, one of them being a spare bedroom for whenever they had company over. He stepped downstairs and knocked on the door to one of the bedrooms. "Hey, it's time to wake up."

Roughly a minute after the knock, the door opened up and a little girl roughly around the age of 2 yawned, rubbing her eyes as she tried to wake up. "Morning Daddy."

Raditz chuckled, picking up the little girl and carrying her upstairs where a woman was getting out of the same bed he'd gotten out of just a little bit ago. "Launch, do you think you could whip up a big breakfast? I think it's time to introduce Nion to her uncle and cousin."

And that is the introductory chapter of the Android arc of the story. Now, I know that ending felt really damn cheap and could have been fleshed out better, I get it. But I'd rather not spend a majority of time focused around Raditz when Nappa hardly gets any limelight. We all knew where that story was going anyway so it was probably best to push it to the final results of that story. As for the name of Raditz's kid, I wanted to continue with the tradition of the family being named after root vegetables, so I picked Nion (pronounced Knee-own). Leave a review to tell me what you thought of this chapter and not just for the shoehorned ending I did. I liked the short but sweet fight I managed to push in so I'd like feedback on it. I'll answer any questions or comments regarding certain things that confuse you. That's it for me, tune in next time for the next exciting chapter of Dragon Ball Z: A Saiyan's Tail.