Raditz winced as he felt his daughter wrap bandages around his chest. He could have easily healed himself in one of the pods on his ship or the portable healing pod, but both his wife and kid insisted that he needs to properly rest. He knew there was no arguing with either of them, Launch wouldn't take no for an answer in her current state and he couldn't possibly argue with Nion, regardless how much he tried. "Gah, Nion! You're wrapping it too tightly!"

Nion didn't seem to stop regardless of her father's complaints. She continued running around her father's large frame to get the bandages on. "You've been working too hard daddy. If I don't make sure you heal properly, then you'll just break again."

"Yeah, you tell him sweety!" cheered Launch, encouraging Nion into punishing her dad, particularly for the fact that he almost died yesterday. Since then, she's been keeping a close eye on him to make sure he doesn't go overboard with his training.

Raditz couldn't believe he was being teamed on by his family. He drooped his head in defeat as there was no getting out of this. "I know you're both just trying to protect me, but you don't have to go to such extremes." He stiffened and howled in pain as he felt the bandages tighten on his ribs. Surprisingly they weren't broken despite how rough he was on himself during his training in the ship, though they still ached to the point that just the slightest amount of pressure hurt.

With a start, all of them jumped at the sound of the phone calling. Normally they don't use it thanks to the functionality of the scouters, but Raditz's refusal to use a scouter other than his own left them no choice but to use the simple Earth method of communication.

"I'll get it." said Launch, walking over to the phone. "You've reached the residence of Raditz, Launch and Nion. Oh Bulma, nice to hear from you, hows Trunks?"

Nion watched her mom walk out of the room and smiled. That smile faded quickly when she turned back to see her father look so distraught. "What's wrong daddy? Are you having trouble breathing from me bandaging you?"

Raditz shook his head, his hair swaying with the motions. "No, that's not it Nion. Daddy's angry and upset because daddy wasn't strong enough. I never have." His entire body slumped forward, as if he completely lost the strength to lift his body.

After several moment of silence, Raditz felt a rather fierce slap across his face that flung him across the room. He growled in pain as he put his hand to his cheek and got up, seeing Nion had hit him with her tail, a look of anger and tears shedding across her face. She looked like she was about to rush forward and follow up on that slap but was stopped as Launch ran up and grabbed hold of her. "Nion, what the hell do you think you're doing?! Apologize to your dad this instant!"

"That is not my daddy!" roared Nion with great anger, stunning both of her parents. "My daddy would never say that he's weak! Daddy is the strongest person there is!" The raw aura emanating from this child not even 3 years old was enough to push her mother back as she stared at her father, a rain of tears falling from her eyes.

"But I wasn't strong! I was too weak to avenge one of my friends and now I'm too weak to do anything to the monster who could very will kill us at any time.." said Raditz in a defeated tone, tears starting to shed from his eyes as well.

"Then get stronger! Beat the monster and become stronger than anyone else!" Nion charged forth to punch her father, closing her eyes as she couldn't bare to look at her dad as she struck him again. Launch lunged forward and grabbed the young girl's tail, though that didn't seem to slow the half-saiyan girl in the slightest.

The punch never landed, the girl's fist was stopped by the tail of her father. The saiyan couldn't help but cackle to himself as he was amazed how much strength and ferocity his daughter already possessed and she hadn't even learned to properly throw a punch yet. Even now, it was all he could do to stop her from hitting him again in his weakened state.

"You're right Nion. I do need to get stronger. But daddy needs to take risks to get stronger." He looked up, his confident smile on his face once more. "Will you let daddy disappear until tomorrow night?"

"Hold on, you're not going anywhere!" screamed Launch, recovering from being dragged across the stone floor of their house from holding onto her absurdly powerful child's tail. "What if Cell ends up attacking us while you're-"

"Okay." Nion interrupted. She eased her punch again and that sense of overwhelming strength completely vanished from her in an instant. "But only if you tail promise." She swiped her tail free from her mother's grip and held it out from.

Raditz stared at his daughter in the eyes to make sure she was genuine about her decision. He coiled his tail around his and nodded. "Tail promise." He then grabbed his daughter and pulled her into a hug, to which she returned the gesture openly.

Launch watched the both of them hug each other and exhaled, giving in to the fact that her daughter truly was part saiyan. "Fine, I won't stop you from leaving. But only if you promise me that you'll protect us from Cell afterwards."

Raditz forced himself to his feet, once more reminded of what shape he was currently in, and grabbed his wife's hands. "You have my word. And after this is all over, perhaps we can take a trip somewhere nice."

Launch couldn't stop herself from blushing from her husband's gentle gesture. He wasn't normally this soft, but she finds herself unable to resist against him when he is. "Very well. Nion and I will be at Kame House with everyone else." She gave her husband a quick kiss on the cheek and made her way to her daughter. "Oh, and I have a message from Bulma. She said that your scouter is fixed."

Raditz smiled warmly to the affections of his wife, seeing her pick up their child and made their way for the door. "I'll be sure to get it as I get Nappa."

Hours later, Cell made a declaration to the world about hosting a martial arts tournament dubbed the Cell Games, stating that anyone can challenge him, but should he win he will kill everyone on the planet. Nappa had been sitting on his bed the entire time while it was happening as Bulma and her father were busy repairing Android 16 and Vegeta had isolated himself inside the gravity chamber within Capsule Corp.

The saiyan heard someone knock on his door and walked over, opening it to find Raditz standing before him. "Well look who it is. For someone who has access to advanced healing technology, you sure look like hell."

Raditz understood what the larger saiyan meant. He wasn't wearing his armor and was donned in a sleeveless top that made sure to let others see the bandages around his biceps. Not to mention the little ice pack to help with the slap from his daughter earlier. "Yeah, had a bit of an argument with the girls. Everything's good now. I take it you saw Cell's declaration?"

He was given a nod as Nappa walked back to his bed and took a seat. Raditz withheld a comment on how the bed was able to support the other saiyan's larger frame. "Bulma seems to think that we have a chance of beating Cell if we all work together to take him down, but I've witnessed his strength firsthand. I'm not so certain we actually can take him down. Plus, something tells me that the last thing Vegeta wants to do is work with any of us after what he did." He turned his head to look as far behind him as he could, pointing to the fact that he no longer had his tail.

"Believe me, I wouldn't want to work with Vegeta either for the Hell he started. But it's pretty obvious we're going to need everyone if we're going to even have a chance survive this." Raditz said, leaning against the wall. "My brother and nephew should be exiting the Hyperbolic Time Chamber in just a few hours. Once they do, you and I can go inside and finally train to the same level that Vegeta and Trunks have. Actually, we'll train beyond that."

Nappa looked a bit stunned at the younger Saiyan's declaration. "You actually think that's possible? It's no secret that we were weaker than him before he trained in the chamber. How do you plan to go beyond that?"

Raditz simply gave a toothy grin to Nappa's question. "You'll find out. Now let's get going. If we don't head up there to declare we're going in, Vegeta will take our spot." He would then open the door and make his way outside.

The saiyan elite narrowed his eyes, wondering what trick Raditz has up those non-existent sleeves of his this time around. He pulled himself off the bed and made his way outside with Raditz.

The two of them would then proceed to fly up to the Lookout, where Trunks, Piccolo and Tien were all just sitting in wait. After a few hours passed, Vegeta also arrived, though didn't say a word to anyone, the saiyan prince just walking circles around the edge of the Lookout for hours on end. In the meantime, Trunks and Nappa started to talk about possible ways to deal with Cell while Raditz and Piccolo meditated the entire time.

Without warning, 3 hours sooner than expected, everyone turned their head to the direction of the Time Chamber, sensing a pair of energies emerging from nowhere. Everyone got to their feet and made their way to the entrance of the chamber. From the doorway, they witnessed both Goku and Gohan emerge, both of their armors completely torn apart as well as both of them being Super Saiyan, to everyone's surprise.

"That's good, Trunks and Vegeta are still alive. But so is Cell." said Goku, looking around and taking notice of everyone, understanding something strange. "What exactly happened while we were gone?"

As Piccolo was explaining everything that had happened, a single thought ran through the minds of Vegeta, Nappa and Raditz. Why are they in the base Super Saiyan state?

"I see, so Cell's giving us time to prepare for his little martial arts tournament." Goku smiled and actually looked relieved at that. "That's good, that means we have plenty of time."

As Goku started getting dressed in his usual gi and Gohan had Piccolo materialize a new Demon Clan gi for him, Vegeta spoke up finally to Raditz and Nappa. "Hurry up and get into the chamber already. We may have 9 days before the Cell Games but there's no point wasting any time that could be used for preparing."

Raditz groaned at Vegeta's hasty tone but didn't retaliate harshly since he couldn't hear Vegeta's aggressive tone. "Just give us a few minutes. There's something I'd like to ask my brother." The saiyan would then walk up to Goku and asked them to walk over to the other side of the Lookout to privately talk. "Tell me brother, how does Gohan play into all this?"

Goku's eyes widened in surprise as his brother named Gohan out of nowhere. He tried to think of a way to hide what he was planning. "What do you mean? I needed Gohan to become a Super Saiyan so I'd have a perfect training partner."

"We both know that's a lie Kakarot." Raditz could see that Goku understood he was being by using his saiyan name. "If you wanted a perfect training partner, you'd have taken me since I'm already a Super Saiyan. Not to mention you wouldn't have bothered doing whatever you did to keep yourself in Super Saiyan with Gohan if he didn't have some sort of role in what's to come."

Goku was stunned as his brother completely read through him. He chuckled nervously and looked around, pulling Raditz in closer and lowered his voice in the hopes Piccolo couldn't hear them. "The truth is I plan to have Gohan fight Cell."

"What?!" Shouted Raditz, to which Goku would then desperately try to shush him.

"In the years preparing for our fight with the androids, I noticed something inside Gohan." Goku smiled as he started recollecting their training. "That anger of his is hard to control, but it's able to draw power out of him like I've never seen. So I spent several months teaching him to control that anger. Once he did, he was able to become a Super Saiyan with no problems. But while I was training, I noticed something else. He might be able to do it. He might be able to break through the limits of the Super Saiyan form, he just needs a proper push."

Raditz stared in complete bewilderment at his brother's ludicrous plan. "So you plan to have my nephew fight the biggest threat the planet, no.. The universe has ever seen, just to gamble the chance that Gohan might go even further beyond Super Saiyan." Once he saw his brother nod in confirmation, Raditz couldn't help but sigh as he backed up. "Only you could think of something this ludicrous. But I'm no better. I have my own method of breaking through that barrier, but whether it's to the same point you're expecting Gohan to go, we can only see."

"Hold on, what do you mean by that?" asked Goku, ever curious what his shifty brother might have planned.

Before Raditz could give his brother an answer, he heard someone call out his name. "Raditz! Are you going to talk with your brother until your time's up or are you and Nappa going to get into the damn chamber?!" Vegeta was gritting his teeth at the saiyans stalling valuable time that could be used to get themselves ready for the Cell Games.

The saiyan brothers walked around the corner, Raditz looking a little sour at Vegeta. "I suppose we should start getting home. Chi-Chi's probably worried sick." said Goku. "Let's go home Gohan." His son would then nod cheerily and the father-son duo flew off the Lookout.

Nappa and Raditz would then start making their way to the entrance of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. Nappa grabbed the handle of the door when he noticed Raditz had stopped at the staircase and was looking at his capsules. "What do you need all that for? There's already food inside and our armor will last for the entirety of the year."

"Just making sure we have exactly what we need to optimize our training." Raditz clamped his capsule holder shut and walked up to the door. "You ready to spend an entire year with just me?"

Nappa gave a toothy grin. "Nope, we're gonna be at each other's throats within a week minimum."

Without warning, the entire Lookout began to shake violently, a sharp tingle running down everyone's spine as they could tell exactly where the quake was originating. Directly below them, at Korin's Tower, Goku was unleashing a tremendous amount of power. The quake eased down half a minute later, but the shock it left on everyone, particularly Raditz who knew of Goku's plan.

This is absurd. You hold this much power with likely even more in reserves and you plan to have your son draw out something even greater? Raditz then chuckled to himself, a sign to Nappa that the Saiyan had likely lost it. "You always were one to do such absurd things. Just wait dear brother, we'll see you tomorrow."

The saiyan duo finally entered the chamber and were completely washed in the intense conditions of the area. It took some adjusting, but they finally caught their breath. Nappa stepped out into the seemingly endless white void. "Everyone lasted an entire year in something this intense? No wonder Vegeta seemed so angry when he got out, after a year of this I'd lose it too."

"Then it's a good thing we'll be training in something far more comfortable." Raditz pulled out his capsule holder and pulled a large one out. He clicked it and threw it into the open space, watching it pop open into a cloud of smoke and unveil his spaceship.

Nappa stepped back in surprise as the large ship had appeared only a few feet away from him. "Raditz, you're a genius! Not only will we be able to train in more intense gravity than this place can provide, we'll also be able to recover from our injuries a lot faster." A sudden realization came to him as his proud expression looked more stern. "Why didn't you offer this to the others? If they had this kind of benefit, Cell might have been dead by now."

"To be honest, I hadn't thought of this until halfway through Vegeta's training." He walked over to a rack where he put on a set of intense weights that caused him to stumble a little just in normal gravity. "And when I suggested it to my brother, he said that gravity training wasn't what Gohan needed. It'd keep him active if he stayed in conditions he wouldn't be able to adjust to."

The saiyan brute wondered why Raditz was putting on such unnecessary weight when they were about to go into increased gravity. "Then why aren't you trying to do the same. A strategist like you should always be adapting so that sounds like the perfect way to test your abilities." He stepped into the gravity room and started messing with the controls.

Raditz took a deep breath and upped his power as much as he could without going Super Saiyan. "A strategy is only good in a situation where I can use what we have to our advantage. Cell's little tournament puts us in a tight spot where we'll be forced to take him on one at a time and thus negating any sort of advantage against him."

"Then what exactly do you have planned?" Nappa tried to hide the worry in his voice, though wasn't sure he was doing the best job. Raditz usually had a plan that had good odds in success, though from what he had just been told it sounded like his friend didn't have anything that would work against Cell. "Are you planning some new technique that can bypass his regeneration?"

Raditz shook his head as he moved up to the controls, adjusting it to 100 times Earth's gravity, immediately buckling as the weights strapped all over his body had grown even heavier. He forced himself back up as he started swinging punches into the open air. "Something like that, but first I need to train my body. It's far too weak to withstand the power that I'm trying to unleash. I could bring out short spurts back when I was fighting Cell but it still drained my body. That was when he was still imperfect and weakened. If I hope to prove a real fight against him as he is now, I'll need to increase my durability a hundredfold."

Nappa sighed in relief as Raditz at least had something in mind, even if it didn't sound like an actual plan. "So you're putting down the copycat act and actually prioritizing getting stronger. Seeing how that worked well back when you fought me, I'll help you out. You're more useful than I am in my current state."

Raditz grit his teeth and quickly turned around and struck Nappa in the chest. It didn't hurt the large brute a whole lot since Raditz was slowed down by the weight currently trying to crush his body. Even still, it caught the Saiyan elite off guard. "Don't you dare say that! You may not see it but I do. When all our strengths are roughly the same, you're the saiyan with the most brute force strength. My brother may be the most powerful overall and Vegeta has the most destructive energy output, but you're the one we can rely on when we need some real muscle, not like that form Vegeta used."

The larger of the duo was amazed Raditz had given a roughly fair role of the saiyans. He noticed Raditz didn't even mention himself but let that slide to keep up with the current conversation. "Then what, I just build up my power and hope my 'brute force' is enough to take on Cell?"

"Not exactly. The unfortunate thing is that Cell probably understands you better than he understands us other saiyans." The saiyan returned to his training, wincing at how much the weight was making his body hurt and only a minute had passed since he turned the amplified gravity on. "You have great mastery over your techniques, but Cell understands them quiet well. The only technique he'd probably have trouble with is your Blast Geyser technique."

"Oh I get it, Cell only knows the techniques I used back in that timeline I apparently died in. If I learned new techniques, I'd be able to fight him more evenly since he wouldn't know how to compete against techniques he's never seen before." He thought it was perfect, since Cell nearly died fighting Vegeta since he underestimated the Final Flash technique. "You could teach me some of your techniques and put my own spin on them."

"That won't work. One year just isn't enough time to fine tune an entire arsenal to face him. Instead, it's easier to work with what we have." Raditz flipped upside-down and started holding himself into doing full-weight push-ups. "It's like the expression Master Roshi taught me, you can't teach an old dog new tricks."

"Who exactly are you calling old?!" shouted Nappa, feeling a sting to that coming from another Saiyan.

"It's just an expression. I just mean that it's easier to work with what we have rather than start from scratch." He gets to his 15th push-up before he has to stop and flip back to his feet. "Your techniques are powerful, but they're too simple in execution. We need to adjust them to be something Cell would never expect."

"That simple huh? I suppose that'll work with the time we have. Though I have a request from you in exchange." Nappa crossed his arms as he saw his training partner turn to look at him. "You've told me countless times about that ace technique of yours, but you never quite explained it to me. I'd be satisfied with just knowing the name at this moment."

Raditz just stood there, smiling as he was glad to have Nappa as his training partner. Goku would never have agreed to such favorable conditions, Vegeta would have mocked him for being too weak to being able to use technique of his in the first place, Trunks is too unknown for him to comfortably spend an entire year with and Gohan would have been difficult to train all out with, even in such comforting conditions. Nappa was someone he held a healthy relationship with over the years and their shared inferiority to their betters was a good enough reason for them to bond and help each other improve. The saiyan turned to his ally, ignoring the pain flowing through him as he fulfilled Nappa's simple request.

"Doomsday Finish."

Happy new years everyone. I initially wanted to get this done around Christmas but was a little busy, what with Christmas shopping and life just continuing its streak to be an absolute ass to me. Even still, I try my best to juggle writing this story that helps calm me, the fun I have playing with my online friends, and just living the life that I have. Since I'm in the spirit of New Years, I just want to thank all of you for liking this story as much as you have and making me feel like I actually have some skill in writing. With that out of the way, I'd actually like to leave it up to you on what I do next. With the story primarily focusing on Raditz and Nappa, I have two options. I can either write the next chapter of the two of them training with jump cuts between certain days or just skip the training altogether and inch closer to the Cell Games. Or I can finally post a chapter of that special I promised oh so long ago, taking a look into the History of Trunks special, only with Nion joining that fray. I'll leave a poll here for you to decide and take it into consideration when I get back to writing. With that, here's to 2019.