Guldo had to eventually finish the job Burter had started in the research facility to minimize suspicion, though he didn't have it in him to kill what few survivors were left when they were praising him as a hero. His new leg served as more than just a prosthetic and came with some additional combat features, and they were able to use all the resources at their disposal given Guldo had to destroy the place afterwards anyway. The leg gave him a retractable blade on his heel, which would help Guldo have something sharp to attack with when time was frozen rather than his small stubby leg. It also served as a ki amplifier, enabling Guldo to fire ki from that leg in addition to his own hands. Ki attacks fired from it would be marginally more powerful than those generated directly through his own power, though since that part of him was mechanical his power level still only showed as a mere 10,000 which meant everybody would continue to underestimate him. If anything, Guldo practically wanted to thank Burter for giving him such a generous "gift" with his death.
After having fully healed, Guldo and Nappa finally touched down on Namek. Nappa did a cursory scan with his scouter before nodding to Guldo. "Yeah, I can barely even see any power levels above a thousand. They're definitely not here yet."
Guldo heaved a sigh of relief. "Good, good. If we can just get them all before they show up this should be very easy. Don't waste time, though. We're going to split up to get the Dragonballs as quickly as possible."
Nappa smacked his fists together. "Hear ya loud and clear."
Nappa got ready to leave, but Guldo stopped him. "Aren't you forgetting something?" He pointed off to Nappa's pod.
Nappa felt insulted. "I don't need to turn Great Ape to kill some wimpy Namekians!"
"Frieza's army could arrive at any time. You should really take it with you in case you need to transform."
Nappa groaned as he went to haul the pod up over his shoulder. He was powerful enough it didn't really inconvenience him much. "Alright, can I go have some fun now?" He asked Guldo like an impatient child.
Guldo waved him off dismissively. "Yes, yes, you know what to do. Get it done." Nappa shot off into the distance at full speed, giddy for the chance to kill some innocents again.
Guldo had reasons beyond just speed for splitting up. Gurd had told him how the Namekian Dragonballs only responded to the Namekian language, and he intended to go learn it without telling anyone else about that fact so only he could use the Dragonballs. Guldo made his way to the first Namekian village he could find in the opposite direction Nappa went and did his best to make peace with the locals. He was unsure how this was going to go, but was surprised when he could hear them conversing amongst themselves in the universal tongue instead of something incomprehensible. He wondered if this would be simpler than he'd thought.
Deciding he should best make a show of it, Guldo decided to put the 'training' he'd gone under Ginyu to use as he went through their usual routine of poses before shouting his name. He wanted to come across as a hero. More than anything, this just puzzled the Namekians before one finally came up to ask him who he was.
How did Ginyu think those poses made them look stylish? He quickly went into a more normal stance as he went to introduce himself. "That was just the greeting of the people from my planet…" He cleared his throat. "Greetings, citizens of Namek! I am Guldo, the legendary hero from the stars, and I have come here to save you from a great upcoming threat. Lord Frieza, the galactic tyrant who has enslaved over half the galaxy, intends to use your Dragonballs to make himself immortal while killing every last one of you. I may not be strong enough to defeat him now, but with the help of the Dragonballs I will have more than enough power to do so."
The Namekians didn't know what to think, but the elder came forward and spoke up on their behalf quickly. "We appreciate your offer and thank you for your warning, but the Dragonballs aren't something we can just hand out for free. We will use them on our own people and we will defeat this so-called 'Frieza'. You are more than welcome to join in the fight alongside us if you wish."
Guldo wished he had gone Nappa's route when he heard that, but he still couldn't give up on this. "I don't have the time for this. Frieza's going to be here soon!" Guldo smirked as he came up with an idea on the fly to force them to believe him. "As a matter of fact, he might already be here! I sensed a very powerful presence, stronger than my own, off that way!" He pointed off in the direction Nappa had flown. "Send your warriors there if you care about the safety of your people." Based off what Nappa had said about having "fun", he knew that he more likely than not would waste his time killing everyone and would pass fine as a "galactic tyrant."
The elder was still suspicious enough of Guldo he didn't want to leave his village entirely unguarded. After discussing the matter with his warriors in his native tongue to hide the conversation from Guldo, he spoke. "I'll send a man as a scout to see if what you say is true." The warrior went off as promised.
Guldo put his hands on his hips and tapped his biological foot with mild impatience. "Very well, I'll wait." He considered proving his power, but he didn't want to make them even more paranoid about him. He had to try to make these people trust him somehow. "What do you people eat around here? I'm curious to try your finest delicacies and, uh, learn your culture."
They didn't exactly see much harm in allowing Guldo to taste their "finest" food, given Namekians only consumed water and soil. They gave Guldo a small pile of rich soil and a bucket of water. Guldo was used to extravagant foods since joining the Ginyu Force, and he hadn't been this fat back when he'd first joined. The thought of eating dirt appalled not only his taste buds, but the symbolism of it disgusted him also. Guldo couldn't tell if they were insulting him or not with this, but he still needed to learn their language. With great hesitance, he went to try to eat this fine Namekian "delicacy" as a sign of good faith, attempting to wash it down with some water, but ended up choking on it.
A handful of younger Namekians laughed at Guldo and he clenched a fist, but he did his best to hold back his anger. The elder came over and did his best to hold himself back from chuckling. "You don't have to eat that. It's obvious your body needs a different kind of sustenance from ours."
Bored and needing some time to kill, Guldo saw an alien bird flying overhead. He casually used his levitation to slam it down onto the ground. "You people ever tried eating meat? You know how to cook?"
While a handful of people had probably tried it over their lifetimes in Namek's history, it was generally considered a barbaric practice. Regardless, Guldo cooked the meat while waiting for the scout to come back and let some of the Namekians try the food "of his country", which unsurprisingly tasted pretty good to them when they'd spent lifetimes consuming nothing but dirt. This enabled him to gain some popularity with the people of the village as he killed a bit more of the surrounding wildlife for them before the scout finally came back.
Apparently, Nappa, or "Frieza" as the Namekians were now calling him, had mercilessly killed an entire village's people and taken the first Dragonball in the time Guldo had spent gaining their trust. While it wasn't much of a demonstration, slamming down birds flying hundreds of feet in the sky down to the ground in seconds was still pretty intimidating for somebody who couldn't fight and it was obvious he was more powerful than the native warriors of the planet simply with how fast he was able to fly. The village elder went to present Guldo with the village's Dragonball and allowed him to take it with him.
Guldo thanked the elder for the Dragonball even though he could have casually taken it at any time. "Thank you for your trust, it won't go forgotten. Now, you should still probably spread out and hide in case Na-" He cleared his throat. "In case Lord Frieza comes back here. But before you do, I need to know your language so that I can make my wishes."
"Of course. Tell me just what it is you intend to wish for?"
Guldo already had his three wishes in mind by now. "I want my race to have an unlimited lung capacity, then I want immortality, and a muscular eight foot tall body!" He couldn't help but show some excitement.
The elder cocked an eye about the first wish. "How will a bigger lung capacity help you?"
"Let's just say my power is directly tied to my lungs. Even if I'm immortal, I'll need that in order to do enough damage to even have a chance at killing Frieza and saving your planet."
The elder was still paranoid of Guldo because he had the ability to sense the evil in people's hearts. While there were far more evil people in the universe than Guldo, the Namekian's limited exposure to those with dark intentions made Guldo still one of the darkest hearts he'd ever seen if not the darkest. While Guldo had acted nice enough in front of them, there was no telling what he would do with all of that power if it was given to him. He didn't believe that so much power should be given to one person, as even if Guldo was a so-called "hero", power would inevitably corrupt him. Regardless, with Frieza and Nappa out and about destroying their villages, he had little choice but to not allow Guldo some of his people's power.
The elder told Guldo the password for the Dragonballs and translated his first wish as agreed. For the other two, he masked his intentions and intended to get two of his own wishes through Guldo. His first wish was to purge the evil in Guldo's heart, and the second one was to make it impossible for anyone to travel to Namek in the future. Guldo thought he was just going to get his own wishes that he'd already asked for, when in actuality he was going to end up brainwashing himself as he recited words he didn't know the true meaning of.
After destroying the first village with almost no effort at all, Nappa was goofing off and trying to kill the Namekians in a variety of ways by the time he'd got to the second village. This place didn't have nearly as much civilization as earth for him to rampage through, so he had to get creative before all the bodies were gone. He was getting annoyed at having to carry around his space pod with him everywhere limiting him, to the point he started using it as a battering weapon. At first he started just smashing in on top of his victims, but then he started bowling it forwards and knocking the Namekians down like a set of bowling pins. It didn't take long before his pod was totally covered in blood.
Nappa was having enough fun that he didn't bother to notice that Frieza, Zarbon, and Dodoria had arrived to witness his destruction. The smug smile was promptly wiped off his face when the three of them showed up as his evil laughter turned into a shocked gasp. Frieza wasted no time with directly confronting Nappa. "It was nice enough of you to gather two of the Dragonballs for me, Nappa. However, impersonating me is unforgivable." Given Guldo's lie, some of the Namekians had been referring to Nappa as Frieza.
Nappa was flabbergasted. "I would never try to impersonate you, Lord Frieza!" He didn't see much of any other way out of this than to feign servitude. "I merely came to assist you with attaining the Dragonballs!"
Frieza casually levitated Nappa's Dragonballs next to him, easily ripping them out of his grasp before giving them to Zarbon to carry for him. "Don't insult my intelligence, Nappa. You obviously came here in that rather…Unsightly pod."
Zarbon nodded. "I can confirm he wasn't with the forces we brought with us. He has no reason to be here or to know about the Dragonballs."
Frieza rolled his eyes. "To think a lowly Saiyan would dare try to usurp me. I have no time to deal with trash like you. Come on Zarbon, we're going to the next village. Dodoria, I leave his execution to you." Frieza was in a particularly lazy mood. He didn't even feel like flying around with his ki and was instead casually riding in his hovercar.
Dodoria saluted his emperor. "I'll rejoin you again soon, my lord. One attack is all it'll take to put him out of his misery."
Nappa was at least relieved Frieza and Zarbon were leaving. He was definitely lucky that Frieza didn't just kill him directly. Still, Dodoria was a large obstacle for him to overcome without any help with a power level of 22,000. Dodoria cracked his knuckles as he got ready for battle. "Any last words, ya filthy Saiyan?"
Nappa glared over at his pod. He needed to use it to transform into the Great Ape, but it was a good hundred feet away from him, covered in Namekian blood and body parts. "Don't you get tired of doing menial tasks for Frieza, just killing weaklings?" He said despite the fact killing "weaklings" was just fine and dandy for him personally.
He chuckled. "If you're tryin' to get me to think about taking the wish from Frieza, don't. Of course I thought about it, but I'm nowhere near as dumb as a pea brained Saiyan like you. Frieza would kill me in an instant. You might see me as Frieza's lapdog, but I know on the inside you're just jealous. Being Frieza's #3 guy gets me a lot more perks than you'd think."
Nappa couldn't hold back his anger that well and was visibly annoyed by the insults, but couldn't give in if he didn't want to die. "I'm not talking about betraying Frieza. I can offer you a real fight. If you let me transform, I'll be a more worthy challenge for you. You'll get to have some fun and tap into your true power for once. Aren't you tired of fights you can't possibly lose?"
Dodoria shrugged. "No, not really. Personally, I like winnin'! All I'm hearing is a desperate shell of a man begging for mercy."
Nappa grit his teeth and pointed forward at him, trying to turn it back around on him when he couldn't think of anything else. "Y-You're just scared of my true power!"
Dodoria laughed and threw an arm around Nappa's shoulders faster than he could react. "You crack me up! You know I could kill ya right here, right now." He paused to let his laughter die down. "There's no harm in telling you this before ya kick the bucket, I suppose. I killed countless upstart Saiyans back on Planet Vegeta, and after I was done, Frieza blew up the whole damn planet."
Nappa threw Dodoria's arm off him as he backed off. He had always suspected Frieza might have done it, but it still enraged him to have it finally confirmed all these years later. "What possible reason could he have to do that for?! We'd served him loyally so long, we'd conquered so many planets for him!"
Dodoria knew the reason why but didn't want to tell him. He wanted Nappa to die while thinking he and his people were totally worthless. "Because you're all a bunch of idiots who couldn't take orders, that's why!" He snickered as Nappa's fury only continued to grow. "And where was the mighty general of the Saiyan people all that time while I was killin' every last one of 'em?" He burst out into genuine laughter. "He was busy babysittin' the prince!"
Nappa was seething at this point, he grit his teeth so hard he was practically going to grind them to powder. His rage got the better of him as he lunged forwards to try to tackle Dodoria to the ground. Dodoria casually reacted by uppercutting him a good eighty feet into the air, then flying faster than Nappa was knocked away and punching him back down towards the ground as he did a two handed slam on top of Nappa's giant bald head. This alone was enough to inflict massive damage to Nappa given the huge power level difference between the two, and he was only barely conscious after getting hit in the head.
Dodoria went to finish him by firing a simple, casual ki blast aimed at his heart. Nappa was unable to react in time to get out of the way, but lifted two of his fingers to use his exploding wave technique to block the blast in a gigantic explosion in midair. Dodoria came to land back down on the ground next to Nappa, laughing. "Bit of an overreaction, don't you think? Wasn't that your strongest technique?"
Nappa coughed as dust from the explosion got into his face. "I told you what my strongest technique was. You were too much of a coward to let me use it." He slowly made his way back up to his feet. He could barely think straight after that direct hit to the head. If Dodoria had actually been trying, he could've easily killed him with that attack.
Dodoria put his hands on his hips. "Oh will you give it up already? Your race is worthless! Or should I say, WAS worthless." He laughed. He didn't know what had happened to Vegeta, though it was weird enough seeing Nappa separated from him it wouldn't surprise him if Vegeta had died.
Nappa knew that Frieza had to have a better reason than what Dodoria had said to have blown up his planet. He didn't know exactly what that was, but he wasn't going to accept this. "I bet Frieza blew up our planet because he was afraid of our transformation!"
Dodoria knew about the legend of the Super Saiyan, but Nappa hadn't and was still only talking about his Great Ape form. Dodoria thought Nappa might be deluded enough to think he was the legendary warrior. When he already knew Vegeta was much more powerful than Nappa, he knew that it would undoubtedly be impossible. "Fine, I give. Let's see your AMAZING transformation." He kept chuckling.
Nappa was relieved he was finally getting the chance to transform and hastily made his way over to his pod. "Alright, just give me a minute here..."
When Nappa didn't just immediately power up on the spot, Dodoria was suspicious and suspected he might be trying to take the chance to flee. He was only further confused when he opened up his pod. He laughed even harder to the point he was on the verge of tears. "All of that was just so you could get the chance to run?! Even IF you got into the pod, I'd just blast it outta the sky without even thinking about it!"
Nappa did his best to ignore him as he fiddled about with it. "I'm not running! I told you, just let me get this working properly…" Nappa was getting frantic now when it appeared that his pod wasn't working. The pod had taken too much damage to be functional because he'd abused it too much as a weapon against the Namekians, and was now nothing more than a worthless hunk of metal. "Why isn't it working?! Useless piece of junk!" He kicked it in anger as if that would magically make it work somehow.
Dodoria pat Nappa on the back sarcastically as his laughter died down into a chuckle. "There there, it's alright. I'll help you get it working again." He kicked Nappa into the pod and slammed the door on him. "How's about a one way trip straight back to Planet Vegeta? I'm gonna reunite you with all those worthless Saiyans I killed!" He picked up the pod with a single hand and spun his arm around to build up momentum, then threw it as high up into the air as he could manage. He charged up his signature mouth beam before firing it straight up after the pod in order to detonate it with Nappa still inside, going for a flashy execution.
Inside the pod, Nappa attempted to have the pod door open through the pod's controls, but the pod was so damaged by now that the controls weren't responding at all. He had to blast the door open and kick it off its hinges before just barely leaping out of the pod's interior in time to evade Dodoria's attack. In the pod's wreckage, a small amount of the radiation needed for the transformation was dispersed into the air around it, causing Nappa to begin the process. While he wouldn't be able to emit those waves to trigger it again, he was more than happy to get it one last time.
Dodoria couldn't make out everything at first, though had clearly seen Nappa had escaped the pod before it had become his tombstone. He flew up next to Nappa and could see him slowly begin to increase in size as his fur grew out. Dodoria was relieved when it turned out Nappa's transformation was just the common Great Ape Form – he'd killed plenty of Great Apes with power levels that barely exceeded 10,000 and were slow as molasses. He couldn't help but keep laughing at Nappa. "This is what you were bragging about? Just turning into a dumb monkey?" He turned on his scouter out of curiosity, and his laughter slowly stopped as Nappa's power level didn't stop rising throughout the transformation. Once it had surpassed his own power level, Dodoria took it seriously and attempted to interrupt him. He knocked him out of the sky and into the dirt, firing a constant barrage of ki blasts aimed at his head that were strong enough to destroy mountains. Dodoria knew he didn't have any time to prepare a bigger attack, as he needed to hit Nappa while he was still vulnerable, as it was obvious his usual defensive aura of ki wasn't up in the middle of the transformation. This caused Nappa to take heavy damage before he finished the process as he collapsed onto the ground with a massive thud in his new gigantic body.
Nappa was still suffering from a lot of injuries to the head, still retaining the damage he'd taken in his regular form in addition to those blasts Dodoria had thrown at him in the middle of the transformation. While he was a Saiyan elite and normally had complete power over the Great Ape, entering it while having such heavy damage already made Nappa struggle to focus as he had to fight against the beast's primal instincts as he carelessly swatted about at Dodoria, letting out an animalistic roar. While the difference in speed between Dodoria and Great Ape Nappa wasn't nearly as great as it was between Burter and the Saiyan, Nappa was predictable enough in this state that it may as well have been. Dodoria took the chance to taunt him. "You had a better shot of hitting me normally!" He chuckled. "Ya could at least try to hit me, y'know."
Nappa held onto his head and desperately attempted to regain control over himself as he let out another roar of pain. Having played an integral part in the destruction of Planet Vegeta, Dodoria was fully aware of the Saiyans' weakness, even if he hadn't really had to make use of it before. It was obvious Nappa wasn't fully in control given he hadn't bothered to wrap his tail around his waist. While Nappa was unfocused, Dodoria got behind Nappa and prepared to use his charged mouth beam to blow the tail up into several pieces.
Just when Dodoria thought Nappa was too dimwitted and slow to react, Nappa regained his sentience as he grabbed Dodoria with his tail, wrapping it around him before he threw him between his legs in front of him. Nappa lifted up a leg in preparation to stomp down on Dodoria as he slid past him. Dodoria had to use his mouth beam to propel himself through the air more quickly to avoid getting stomped, which would probably be fatal. The beam went into Nappa's knee fairly harmlessly, just singing and disintegrating a bit of Nappa's ape fur. After that, Nappa went to wrap his tail around his waist as he kept it in his base form again, not wanting his weak spot to take up quite so much space. "Why don't you try taking me head on? I thought we Saiyans were worthless!"
Dodoria was shocked that he'd come that close to dying, but he wasn't going to show that. If he had to report that he'd somehow lost to Nappa, things weren't going to look good for him. Still, he managed to keep up his air of confidence. "You still haven't damaged me."
"Because unlike you, one hit is all I'm gonna need!"
"So? All I need is one good hit to your tail."
Nappa couldn't come up with much in the way of a retort to that and just went to start picking up the Namekian houses to throw at Dodoria as projectiles. His ki manipulation in this form wasn't as strong outside of his mouth beam, so this was the best he could do for "quick" projectiles. Rather than dodging them, Dodoria just blasted his way through the insides of the shoddily made homes as he again attempted to get behind Nappa while he was busy. It turned out that Nappa wrapping his tail around himself was a mistake, as now he had nothing to properly defend himself with from behind and it was rather difficult for him to turn around. Dodoria latched onto the back of Nappa's armor as he fired a successive series of ki blasts aimed at his tail, causing him a great deal of pain, too much to be able to use his tail to attack. Lacking much of an alternative, Nappa leapt back to try to crush Dodoria against his back on the ground, though that attack was so telegraphed Dodoria got plenty more shots in before Nappa fell over.
As Dodoria was coming out from under Nappa's body, Vegeta came blasting in at full speed to grab Dodoria from behind by the arms. Vegeta was only in his ordinary base form and had lost his tail on Earth, so it was baffling to Dodoria why he couldn't casually break out of Vegeta's grip. It would've been easy for Dodoria to see Vegeta coming, but Nappa's towering figure had managed to hide him from view. Dodoria scoffed at him. "You Saiyans are a lot of cowardly, dirty fighters. Hidden transformations, two on ones, sneak attacks…You have to resort to these tactics to make up for your pitiful strength!"
Vegeta painfully kneed Dodoria in the back. "And you're going to tell me you bootlicker Planet Trade soldiers are honorable?"
While in a lot more pain than he expected from that attack, Dodoria wasn't going to go down just yet. He charged a ki blast in his hands and fired it back at Vegeta, blasting him away and enabling him to try to escape. He attempted to go under Nappa's legs and use the big ape's body to block off Vegeta from attacking him, but Nappa was able to grab Dodoria with his tail for the second time. While the tail was the Great Ape's biggest weakness, the extensive training Saiyan Elites had to undergo with it to overcome those weaknesses made it one of their fastest attacks. Nappa quickly threw Dodoria away before he could do any more serious damage to his tail, directly towards an incoming Vegeta. Vegeta was so strong that with his newfound power and the momentum Dodoria had from being thrown, the punch was powerful enough that it went right through Dodoria's body, "impaling" the fat purple alien on his fist. Vegeta retracted his fist as Dodoria's body lifelessly fell to the ground, then fired his Galick Gun energy beam straight at him to disintegrate his corpse.
Nappa didn't know how Vegeta could hurt Dodoria without turning Great Ape. He still hated him for his attempted betrayal after they'd known each other for so long. "Didn't think I'd be seeing you here again so soon." Knowing that he might have to fight Vegeta as well, he did his best to keep up his tough guy act, chuckling. "For all your bragging, I've still got my tail and you don't. How did you even manage to lose it?"
Vegeta angrily retorted at him. "How did you manage to lose so badly to Kakarot that I nearly incinerated your carcass?!" He folded his arms and looked the other way. "If you must know, there was an old man who nearly trapped me inside of a jar."
Nappa laughed harder at him. "Trapped in a jar in Great Ape form?"
"It shrunk me down to fit inside through some black voodoo magic! I was so big it was nearly impossible to avoid. I had to cut off my own tail to deform quickly enough to not get trapped for eternity in that old geezer's basement."
Nappa didn't stop laughing, which made Vegeta wish he didn't bother giving Nappa the luxury of explaining his current predicament. "You only had to fight weaklings, whereas I had to take on Kakarot and his teacher." He quickly changed the topic. "Regardless, it seems you aren't quite as useless as I'd once thought. You've…Slightly improved since our time on earth. It's nothing compared to the power boost I got, but it's enough you'll be helpful to me here when you still have your tail."
Nappa angrily stomped forwards and yelled down at Vegeta. "I'm not just a tool to be 'used' by you, asshole! What, are you just gonna throw me away again once I stop being useful?! Back down on earth, you went on and ON about your father. Guess what? Unlike you, your father actually cared about his race! He wouldn't have killed one of the only remaining Saiyans!"
Vegeta kept a totally straight face and just ignored Nappa. "Calm down, you imbecile! Did you forget where we are and what form you're in? Frieza can probably hear you from the other end of the planet! Turn back to your regular form already!"
Nappa thought about that for a second before realizing that was probably a bad idea. "Yeah, uh, about that. Dodoria kind of ended up destroying my pod. If I turn back, I won't be able to go Great Ape again." He chose to omit the part where he'd stupidly broke it beforehand.
"Heh, even with a difference of 30,000 between your power level and his, Dodoria managed to cripple you this badly? He'd of probably killed you if I hadn't shown up."
Nappa kept shouting. "Hey now, I was doing just fine before you showed up! All I needed was one good hit! All the damage I took was before I transformed!"
Vegeta angrily looked from side to side as he started scanning with his scouter, making sure nobody was coming in on their conversation Nappa was broadcasting for miles. "Yes, I'm sure…Look, Nappa. Let me put this into terms your tiny brain can understand. You wasted the last Planet Vegeta space pod besides mine. Without me, you're stuck walking around like that forever and will inevitably attract Frieza's attention. That form is powerful and all, but you can't even fly. With me, I can casually make you as many fake moons as you want to switch back and forth."
Nappa still wasn't totally sold, as he was still very bitter about the betrayal and didn't like how much Vegeta was talking down to him. "How can you expect me to trust you?"
"Do you intend to do this entirely by yourself? I don't see Guldo around here anywhere. I'd assumed that disgusting green turd had died."
"I'll have you know he's very much alive, he's probably gathered half the Dragonballs by now!"
Vegeta's smugness knew no bounds as he chuckled, having far from a high opinion of Guldo. "If you remember, he ran like a coward from me back on Earth."
"That was when you had a tail!"
"And that was before I got my power boost. Look, you need to decide now, Nappa. I'm not going to stick around here arguing with you while you lure Frieza straight to us."
Nappa hesitated. He really loathed Vegeta for what he'd done to him and definitely didn't want to betray Guldo, but he knew he had a point given he couldn't survive another encounter like the one with Dodoria. He decided to align himself with Vegeta for now and to try to betray him when the time was right, as he knew Vegeta was inevitably planning the same thing anyway. He went to deform as he let out a sigh. "Guess it's back to you and me again."
While Nappa was quite injured from that battle, Vegeta had no intention of giving him any time to heal his wounds as he went to fly off into the distance, extremely impatient. "Finally. Let's move. Your idiocy has wasted enough of our time already."
Nappa went to fly up alongside him. He didn't bother retorting back to him at this point, as he knew in his regular form Vegeta could easily take him out if he wanted to. Vegeta folded his arms as he turned to glare at him. "Well, you obviously got here before I did. Don't just sit there. Tell me what you've seen."
"Dodoria claims that he and Frieza killed all of Planet Vegeta's inhabitants and blew up the planet. It didn't just vanish in some mysterious explosion." Nappa wondered if hearing that would even have an effect on Vegeta at this point.
"Obviously. Who else could've done it? I'd put one and two together back when I was a child, Nappa. Are you telling me you were so incredibly stupid you hadn't figured that out already?"
Nappa was getting seriously fed up with Vegeta at this point. "Of course I thought that's what probably had happened! Doesn't mean it's not a big deal to have one of those guys finally come out and say it. We're talking about the destruction of our planet, Vegeta. Don't you think you should care?!"
Even now, Vegeta refused to give Nappa anything. "I'd barely spent any time on my home planet. I was off conquering planets for Frieza at what, age five? That's all I've really known. The closest thing I have to a home is that stupid space pod."
Nappa considered saying something supportive, but at this point, he was well past the point of caring. He was disgusted that Vegeta had so little respect for the planet that he carried the namesake of. After a long period of awkward silence, he added in one last thing. "Maybe when I wish for the planet to come back you'll change your mind."
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