Raditz growled as he was fighting his instincts that were warning him to get away from these androids. Even as Android 17 looked directly at the Z-warriors, smiled and walked back to Android 18, his tail would not stop flailing about while receiving several warning signals. "Vegeta, you can't possibly still be thinking of taking them on alone, are you?"

Vegeta turned his eyes towards Raditz. "What's the matter? Are you scared of them just because they crushed the old man's head? Go ahead and run with your tail between your legs, I'll handle things here."

Nappa narrowed his eyes and placed his hand on Vegeta's shoulder. "Maybe Raditz is onto something. He's hasn't been wrong when it came to a plan, so maybe we should pull back and consider a plan?"

Vegeta grit his teeth and shook his shoulder to throw Nappa's hand off. "I don't need him to beat these androids. Besides, they haven't done anything to be so frightening. Let's see what this new android looks like before making any kind of judgement."

That last sentence set Trunks off. "Absolutely not! I refuse to allow them to unleash another android onto this timeline!" He immediately goes Super Saiyan and fires a powerful blast into the lab, completely leveling the whole place and exposing it to the outside. Everyone barely managed to dodge away from it as the blast left quite a large amount of smoke and dust.

"Look, I understand why you'd act up like that, but how about a proper warning next time instead of just shooting a blast that wipes out a whole mountain!" shouted Krillin.

"Talk about a waste of time and resources. I'm sure Raditz would have wanted to steal some of the stuff in there." said Vegeta, an irritated look in his eyes but a calm smile.

"What are you talking about? How was that a waste of time?" asked Trunks, unsure what his father meant until he saw the smoke clear and the androids were completely unharmed.

Nappa growled and surrounded his hand in energy, prepared to hit the androids with the strongest Blast Geyser he possibly could, though was stopped when he felt Raditz grab onto his arm. He dispersed the energy and watched the androids open the container holding the third android, watching as an android around the same size as him climbed out. "Well, doesn't that just look discouraging."

"I wish I could tell you guys if that android is as strong or stronger than the other androids, but I've never seen that one before." said Trunks, trembling as the android looked intimidating.

As the androids started flying away, everyone started to ponder where the androids were going and what they might be planning. Raditz tried once more to use his scouter to measure the strength of these androids, though wasn't able to get a reading on any of them. Damn, this is bad in a lot of ways. He took the scouter off and stuffed it into his armor, hearing Vegeta become very angry about being ignored by the androids and became Super Saiyan, the saiyan prince prepared to give chase.

Trunks flew in front of Vegeta and held his arms out. "You can't chase after them! If you go after them now, you'll just get yourself killed! Please, I beg you, just wait a little while longer!"

"Oh, and why would I do that? To wait for Kakarot to recover from his sickness? No thanks, I'm more than enough to take them on myself. Though since there are 3 of them now, I'll leave that big one for Nappa." He prepared to fly after the androids but Trunks only proceeded to move in closer. "If you're so adamant about this, I'll fight with Nappa against the androids, now move!"

"Are you absolutely insane?! Even if you team up on them, you'll still just get killed! Stop being so stupid and listen to-" The saiyan from future was cut off as he took a punch to the gut from Vegeta before the saiyan prince flew off.

Everyone went and surrounded Trunks as he held himself in pain. Nappa considered following after Vegeta, but figured it best to let Vegeta vent before trying to calm him down. "It's useless kid, once Vegeta has his mind set on something, he won't change his mind unless it benefits him. And right now, nothing benefits him more than taking the androids on without Kakarot."

Trunks took a deep breath as he starts to recover from the punch. "If only I could get him to understand. There's no doubt in my mind that this same attitude is what got him killed in my time."

Raditz looked at his arm and narrowed his eyes. "What about us? Can you tell us how we died in your time? It might help us out in fighting the androids and creating a plan to take them down."

Trunks went a bit pale at the question and had to think of an answer quick, able to use his injured condition to hide his worry. "A-Ah, well I was only a baby at the time and my mom wouldn't tell me the exact details on how you all died, so I can't help you."

Everyone let out a sigh of both relief and discomfort at the lack of info on how they were supposed to die. They couldn't dwell on it as they felt the energy of Vegeta going wild quite a distance away, meaning he's already fighting, unable to tell how well he was doing since they couldn't sense the energy of the androids. "We need to, now!" shouted Nappa, flying off towards the fight without waiting for anyone to follow.

Everyone followed behind Nappa, managing to keep up pace with the saiyan. When they arrived, they saw Vegeta standing face to face with Android 18, both of them covered with scratches though Vegeta was the only one who looked out of breath. "Hmph, took you long enough to arrive. I suggest you sit this one out, doesn't look like you'll be a match for them."

"Vegeta, at least let me help you, we might actually have a better chance of destroying them, just like the good ol' days." said Nappa, trying to persuade Vegeta into not taking on the androids alone.

Vegeta actually took a second to consider it before smiling. "I'll pass. I have the android right where I want her, I see no reason to ruin the fight now."

"You know, it might actually be entertaining to fight 2 saiyans at once. Though it's okay if you want to run away, that's always an option." said Android 18, adjusting her hair behind her ear.

Vegeta smirked and turned his attention back to the female android. "Oh? You're in a hurry to die then? As fine as that sounds to me, I'd rather you struggle to keep your life, that's what makes this fight entertaining."

"Which is exactly why I'm going to let you continue to fight uninterrupted." said Android 17, who had walked up much closer to the group. "Seeing as most of you are martial artists, I'm sure you're aware of the honor of a one on one fight, so I'll give you one warning. If any of you intervene in their fight, I'll have to cut in and take down anyone stupid enough to attack."

"So, shall we get back to the fight?" asked Android 18.

"With pleasure." said Vegeta. Immediately after saying that, he watched as the android flew right at him. He had to move as fast as possible to duck down and avoid the incoming strike, then retaliating with an upward strike to the androids's stomach.

Android 18 didn't flinch from the blow to the stomach and slammed down on Vegeta's shoulders, knocking the saiyan prince down and leaving a crater from the impact. Vegeta growled and hit the android even harder, knocking her into the cliffside before launching a Big Bang Attack at 18. He rushed down to get a closer view of the damage he's dealt.

18 stepped out from the smoke, her clothes in tatters from the blast dealt to her by Vegeta. "I'm amazed, for someone who isn't an android, you fight remarkably well. Tell me, is Son Goku any better?"

Vegeta growled as the android still still wasn't even phased, despite all the damage he's done. "Of course not. All of the pure-blooded may be Super Saiyans now, though of all of them, I am the strongest of all of them!"

Android 18 removed her shredded jacket and dropped it to the floor. "What a shame, guess I have nothing to expect from him then."

As the fight continued, everyone else just watched in amazement, especially Trunks. The future saiyan was completely amazed that his father was this powerful, actually holding his own against the androids that were completely unrivaled in his own timeline.

Piccolo grunted as he watched the fight. "Looks like Vegeta's on the verge of losing."

Everyone turned their head to look at Piccolo, not believing what the namekian had just said. "What are you talking about? From where I'm standing, Vegeta's completely matched the android's strength if not surpassed it." shouted Nappa.

"That may be true, but take a closer look." said Piccolo, nudging his head back in the direction of the fight. "The android's able to take every hit from him without even flinching, allowing her to respond and attack at full force. Not to mention that Vegeta's stamina is starting to wear out while the android seems to have no limit."

As soon as Piccolo mentioned it, everyone began to see exactly what he meant. Vegeta's movements were getting slower and slower, the speed of the decrease getting worse the longer the fight dragged on. It was when the android landed a fierce kick that broke Vegeta's arm that forced Trunks to snap. The future saiyan unsheathed his sword, turned Super Saiyan, and rushed directly at Android 18. He swung his blade down on the android, but 18 held up her arm to block the sword, breaking it the moment it came into contact.

When he noticed Trunks fly at 18, 17 frowned and flew after the saiyan, resulting in Tien, Yamcha and Piccolo to fly after the android. Almost immediately upon the sword breaking, Android 17 slammed his fists against Trunks' back, knocking the saiyan against the ground and stunned him, which shocked Krillin and the saiyans.

Piccolo rushed quickly to jab at the male android but received a back-handed slap from 17 that knocked the namekian onto the ground. Tien threw a punch at the android but 17 effortlessly dodged it, using the earthling's opening to put him into a choking hold. Yamcha figured it'd be smartest not to go for the direct approach and created a Spirit Ball, tossing it at the android. Android 17 saw the incoming energy attack and slammed his head against it to send it flying back at Yamcha, crashing it into the earthling like a missile and knocking him unconscious.

The saiyans watched in terror as everyone was being so easily overpowered. Raditz's tail wouldn't stop flailing about as the saiyan knew it was best to get out of here right now, though was inclined not to run since he'd rather die than abandon everyone. He held his right arm behind him to prep for his last resort technique if things turn south.

"That's it! I'm not sitting around anymore!" shouted Nappa as he turned Super Saiyan, rushing down at the androids while he flung both his arms up, creating two Blast Geysers under each of the androids.

18 looked down and jumped out of the way before the energy shot out of the ground. 17 pressed down on Tien's neck to knock him out quickly and toss the unconscious human at Nappa while he created an energy barrier around himself to block the spire of heat energy as it came out of the ground underneath him. The androids both looked at each other and nodded, flying into the air and aiming their hands at the brutish saiyan, firing a barrage of energy at him in unison until the saiyan fell completely unconscious.

Piccolo, Trunks and Vegeta all got up and fired energy blasts at the androids with all of their energy, creating a large cloud of smoke as they make contact. Before the smoke could clear, the androids flew out of the cloud and attacked the remaining fighters, 17 kicking the side of Piccolo's head and knocking the namekian out. 18 slammed her foot against Trunk's chest, breaking a few ribs and knocking the future saiyan unconscious, collapsing to the ground. She then swung around and slammed her leg against Vegeta's other arm, breaking it as well, knocking the saiyan prince unconscious from the pain alone.

Raditz was completely stunned in fear at what he just witnessed. Seeing what the androids were capable of individually, he knew it was useless to use his technique if it meant only destroying one of them. He lowered his arm down and took a step back, his spine getting stiff as he pumps into Android 16, completely forgetting the android was even there. "S-Sorry, I didn't see you there."

Android 16 looked down at Raditz and smiled. "You have nothing to be afraid of. Your dna may be similar to Son Goku's but you are not him, so I have no reason to attack you." He then looked up as the other androids were walking up to them. "Your battle scared away the birds."

"Birds? Didn't even notice them." said 17 before locking eyes with Raditz, stepping up to the saiyan. "You're Goku's brother aren't you? Why didn't you partake in the fight?"

Raditz couldn't believe he was being intimidated by this punk kid, though his instincts weren't going as wildly as they were before. "You gave us a fair warning, I chose to actually listen. Why waste a perfectly good sensu bean?"

17 stared at Raditz in cold silence before smiling, gently hitting the saiyan on the chest. "I like this guy, he's sensible unlike the others."

"Is that what you call it? I was reading it more as cowardice." said 18.

Raditz grunted as he was being called a coward by this girl. He knew that she wasn't wrong, but it was better than chancing death in this situation. Choosing not to respond to 18's insult, he flew off to the unconscious fighters to go help them recover. Though before he could ask Krillin for the senzu beans, he saw the earthling running over to the androids to talk to them.

"What on Earth are you guys after? You killed Gero, so what's your end game? To kill Goku, or to tear the whole world apart?" asked Krillin, barely able to hold back his shaking after the events he just witnessed.

"That's a good question. Right now, all we care about is beating Son Goku." said 17, turning his head to the earthling. "After all, he's supposedly the strongest man on the planet. Now you better hurry up and get your friends some of those senzu beans. They might die if you leave them be."

Android 18 walked up to Krillin, causing Raditz panic and ready to go save his earthling friend, but the android simply kissed the short man on the cheek before flying away with the other androids.

Krillin stood there for a moment, completely stunned at what just happened to him before coming to, flying down to Raditz and pulling out the senzu beans he had on him. "Let's see, we should have 9 senzu beans split among me, Tien, and Yamcha."

Raditz dug through Yamcha's gi and pulled out 3 senzu beans. "These and yours should work for everyone. Though I should probably get the ones off Tien as well." As he walked over and started searching Tien for the senzu beans, he turned his eyes to Krillin. "So, what's your thoughts on her?"

Krillin blinked rapidly and turned to the saiyan. "Who, the android? Well, she's absolutely terrifying. You saw how she completely overwhelmed both Trunks and Vegeta, I can completely understand why they ended up killing us."

Raditz smiled and started feeding the senzu beans to the saiyans while Krillin was giving the senzu to the earthlings and Piccolo. "Aside from being complete monsters in strength, they didn't seem all that frightening. Especially that girl."

Before Krillin could properly respond to that, the others started to wake up after the senzu beans healed them. Krillin and Raditz went back and forth to tell the others what happened after the fight, Raditz leaving out the little kiss the android gave Krillin.

"So the androids knew about the senzu beans, huh?" asked Piccolo, growling as that just made things all the more humiliating. "I can't believe it, they didn't even see us as threatening enough to kill."

"I gotta say, it's pretty disheartening to know that all that training we did to prepare was pretty meaningless." said Yamcha, crossing his arms as he was taken down with a single hit during the fight.

Vegeta grit his teeth and screamed as he abruptly flew off. Both Trunks and Nappa were about to follow him, but Raditz grabbed onto Nappa's shoulder. "Don't follow him. I don't think this is something even you can calm him down from. He just needs time to blow off some steam."

"Damn, how could I have let myself get so overwhelmed by them? I trained 3 years under the most extreme conditions so that I could prove useful for Vegeta." said Nappa, clenching his fist and flailing his tail about in anger.

"This just proves to be a problem. If just 2 of androids were able to take down 3 Super Saiyans as well as us within the span of a minute, I don't think Goku stands much of a chance against them either, even with our help." said Tien, his words making Yamcha turn pale.

"There's something else I should probably bring up." said Trunks. "The androids in my time weren't nearly this strong, I was able to at least hold my own against both of them at once."

"I think you all should go and move Son Goku, make sure that the androids aren't able to find him so quickly." said Piccolo as he turned to look off in the distance.

"Yeah, that's probably for the best. I mean, what else can we do at this point?" asked Yamcha.

"Wait, you said 'you all'. What about you Piccolo?" asked Krillin. As Piccolo just stood in silence, Krillin asked again. "Come on, don't leave us in the dark. We're all on the same side."

Piccolo grit his teeth and glared at the earthling. "Same side?! You must be mistaken! I was never on your side to begin with! I am the demon king reincarnate, you all were just tools to quicken my goals for world domination!" He then flew off before anyone could respond.

While everyone just stood in silence, Nappa scratched the back of his head as he watched the direction that the namekian flew off to. "Demon king reincarnate? Did the androids hit his head too hard or something?"

Raditz stared in the direction Piccolo flew in as well and chuckled. "That guy, does he honestly think he could fool me?" Everyone turned to look at the saiyan, unsure what he's going on about. Krillin understood completely what Raditz was thinking but decided to let the saiyan speak. "Back when we were still waiting for my brother to return to Earth, I trained with a namekian named Kami who was once the same being with Piccolo. The direction he's flying to is directly to Kami, and if he fuses with Kami, well you saw how well he handled himself against Freeza."

"But if Kami disappears, won't the dragon balls no longer exist either?" asked Tien, starting to sweat at the thought of having no dragon balls to revive them if things go south.

"With things as they are, that's just something we'll have to deal with. It's not like we can beat them any other way, we'll just have to hope Piccolo can handle them if he fuses with Kami." said Krillin.

After they finished their conversation ended, they all started flying in the direction of Goku's house. Nappa wasn't sure how he would handle being there since he's never spent time with low class saiyan except in battle. In fact, the longest he was around the saiyan was on that cliffside while waiting for the androids to arrive.

"Say Trunks, how long do you think it'll take before Goku'll recover from the heart disease?" asked Krillin.

"Well, I guess that all depends. There wasn't any proper studies for the effects on saiyans, but I guess 10 days would be my estimate." said Trunks.

After a few minutes of silent flying, Tien spoke up that he needed to go check in on Chiaoztu and flew off to Master Roshi's place. Yamcha thought there's no reason for everyone to go to Goku's place so he tagged along with Tien. Not long after that, they finally arrived at Goku's house. Huh, seems pretty small considering who he's friends with. thought Nappa as he looked at Goku's home.

"Hey uh.. Trunks? I was wondering.. The androids, are they truly pure evil?" asked Krillin.

"Well, they kill anyone they come across, regardless who or what they are. At least in my time anyway. Why do you ask?" wondered Trunks, not quite sure why Krillin would ask such a question.

"O-Oh, no reason. Just wondering how great it'd be if they weren't so evil." said Krillin, scratching the back of his head.

Raditz couldn't help but chuckle, knowing exactly what was on the earthling's mind. He walked up to the door and knocked. "Hey, we're back!"

The door opened up moments later with blonde Launch and Nion at the door. The child hopped into her dad's arms and hugged him tightly. Nappa stared at the kid and was having trouble processing the fact that Raditz has a kid that resembled her father, unlike Trunks. He noticed that Nion still had her saiyan tail and grabbed it to see if it was authentic. Nion gasped and went limp as the large saiyan grabbed onto her tail.

"Hey! What do you think you're doing to Nion!" shouted Launch, slapping Nappa's hand off her daughter's tail and aimed her gun at the saiyan. She backed up when she noticed the large saiyan also had a tail. "Oh, you must be that Nappa guy Raditz talked about."

Nappa blinked and turned to look at Raditz. "You talk about me?"

"Of course. I have no reason not to tell my wife about my life before coming to Earth. That includes telling her about you and Vegeta." said Raditz, taking Nion inside to help her recover from the tail grab.

"Listen, I know this is your first time coming here but we've got more important things to worry about." said Krillin as he walked into the house. "Hey Chi-Chi! Is Gohan back yet?!"

Chi-Chi came out from the kitchen, with a sizzling pan frying an egg. "Yes, he showed up not even 5 minutes ago. Why do you ask?"

"We need to move Kakarot out of here. There are 3 androids coming for him so we need to move him to a safer location." said Nappa, leaning against the wall since he's too big to comfortably sit anywhere in this place.

Gohan ran out of his room and looked at the new arrivals. "Ah, uncle Raditz. And.. Nappa? What are you doing here?"

"Your dad's in danger, androids are coming, need to move him somewhere safe." said Raditz, who'd finally gotten Nion to get up.

"Should we take him to our place? It's not like anyone really knows our house is there so they won't think to look there." asked Launch, who was already packing up the food the she and Chi-Chi were cooking.

"That's too dangerous an option." said Raditz, walking outside with Nion following behind him. "It's too close to here that they might accidentally find it. Even if they don't find it, they'll head to Roshi's place anyway. If we're hiding out there, at least everyone will be gathered to fight back."

Trunks reached into his jacket and pulled out a box full of dinocaps, pulling out a capsule, clicking it and tossing it, watching it explode to let out a ship large enough to carry everyone. "Load Goku into here, we'll fly everyone to safety."

Raditz shook his head and pressed a button on the outside of the ship, forcing it back into capsule form. "If we're flying with a ship, we should use mine." He reached into his armor, pulled out a dinocap and tossed it, unleashing the ship that he'd taken from Freeza when Trunks first arrived, though it was upgraded a bit thanks to Bulma. "This thing will get us to Roshi's place in minutes."

"Isn't that a little dangerous to be flying a ship like that through the sky?" asked Chi-Chi, hesitating to let them put Goku in it.

"Relax, if it'll make you feel better, we'll fly higher than any other vehicle on this planet can casually fly." answered Nappa, already carrying several things into the ship.

It didn't take much else to convince Chi-Chi after that, though she was still reluctant to do this. Once everything and everyone were firmly settled into the ship, Raditz took to the controls and took off. He kept Nion in his lap to let her feel like she was flying the ship, which made the saiyan child incredibly happy. Nappa sat next to his fellow saiyan and gave occasional glances to Nion. "So Raditz, do you think the namekian will be able to get the strength he needs to beat the androids?"

"Honestly, I'm not sure. If the worst happens, I'm prepared to get everyone we know onto this ship and fly it somewhere safe so we can train. Since the future Trunks is still alive, I'd say we have plenty of years to prepare to take back the planet from the androids." The saiyan looked down at his daughter and grit his teeth. "I just hope it never has to come to that."

And that makes the 24th chapter done. I feel a little disappointed that I couldn't make Yamcha useful at all during the fight with the androids, but the canon already makes him pretty pathetic, so I guess I've just been delaying the inevitable. I've thought of a way he can be of some significance later on but there's a good while until that moment. I know it isn't that big of a milestone, but for a little 25th chapter special, I've decided to do a Q&A at the end of the next chapter for questions regarding this story or questions directly to me so if you have a question feel free to leave one in the reviews. That's all from me since I don't have much to say for this chapter. Tune in next time for the next chapter of Dragon Ball Z: A Saiyan's Tail.