Frieza's Top Troops

(6 weeks after the battle for Earth)

Despair was beginning to weigh down on the humans currently on planet Namek, three weeks of nonstop searching in the waters around the island Yamcha and Moori had been attacked. So far had lead they had seen not a single clue as to where the Dragon Ball Yamcha had been carrying had gone after the attack.

"Damn it guys, this is hopeless; I think we should call it a day." Yamcha complained as he popped above the water for like the hundredth time that day.

"We have to find the Dragon Ball Yamcha, since we can't seem to find the Saiyans all we can do is look." Chi Chi responded irritated at his usual lazy attitude.

"Well actually for once I think Yamcha is right, we've combed every inches for miles it seems like and we haven't seen any sign of the ball at all." Tien added in. "Maybe we should see if Bulma has made any more progress on the dragon radar."

"Whatever." Chi Chi mumbled to herself before taking to the air, the two men right behind her.

Vegeta stretched one final time, his body had healed nicely in the last few weeks; he was practically at full power again. Nappa had made significant progress as well, in fact the giant was nearly as strong as Vegeta at this point, a fact that the Saiyan Prince found as irritating as he was glad the giant would be useful in the coming fights.

"Nappa did you feel that." He suddenly asked, the trio of fighters they had been tracking were on the move again. They had kept a close on the Earthlings as they had searched the area he had ambushed the weaker human several weeks ago tirelessly, no doubt looking for the Dragon Ball he had taken.

Vegeta had spent several days teaching the Saiyan General to sense energy, unfortunately even now Nappa was having a hard time detecting energy from a distance. "Uh I think so Vegeta." the energies felt very faint but apparently each of the Earthlings had somehow managed to be near Zarbon's level, that much he could tell based off of what he had been able to get from Vegeta the last few weeks.

"Come on I think it's time we pay them a visit about that other Dragon Ball, keep your power low though, we don't need them knowing we're on our way." Vegeta ordered as he dropped his Dragon Ball into the water and took to the air.

"Right Vegeta, those Earth scum won't know what hit 'em." Nappa smirk to himself it had been awhile since he had been in a good fight and couldn't wait to pay the Earthlings back for the defeat they had given them nearly two months ago.

Frieza was calmer than he had been in some time, any minute the Ginyu force would be arriving, bringing with them the scouter he would need to find the rest of the Dragon Balls. Finally he would be able to get his wish, and become the immortal ruler of the universe.

As if on cue five fireballs sparked up in the upper atmosphere, streaking to the ground, forming a line of craters a short distance away from his ship.

He exited his ship to greet his elite soldiers, "Right on time as always I see Ginyu." instead of a response he was forced to deal with their usual unconventional entrance. When they had finished their carefully choreographed dance, each of the fight members of his elite shock troop squad held his formation until he finally gave the ok, "At ease men, I have an important errand for you."

All five of them relaxed from the ridiculous poses they had been holding and all took formal military stances. "Thank you Lord Frieza, we are glad to be of service; but let's get down to business, what is our mission." the leader of the Ginyu force, Captain Ginyu said.

"Your mission is quite simple Captain, I need you to retrieve my Dragon Balls, bring me Vegeta and the three eyed Saiyan look alike" Frieza said, confident in his top troop's abilities to complete the mission.

"The Saiyans huh?" Ginyu was surprised by that part of the mission.

"That Vegeta was always a little too cocky for his own good." Burter said with a smirk.

"Stupid monkeys." Recoome added in.

The smallest member of the group had been quiet up until that point, but that didn't mean he didn't have his own opinion on the issue, "So you finally showed your true colors huh Vegeta."

"You can expect resistance. Vegeta and his oaf of a body guard were somehow able to defeat Zarbon. They made quite a mess in the main healing chamber." The tyrant explained.

All of the members of the Ginyu force immediately activated their scouters and began scanning the area. "Hm, well we have three power levels between 15 and 20 thousand, and a couple smaller ones moving in that direction." Ginyu said perplexed that he wasn't seeing any power levels that appeared to match Frieza's description.

"Hey Cap't, there's another big one on the other side of the planet." Jeice added in.

"Well let's check out that closer group first, if Vegeta isn't with them, we'll go check out that other group. Either way it'll be an easy catch we'll have them kneeling at your feet within the hour." Captain Ginyu declared.

"Oh before you get carried away I would prefer you keep them alive, I have some personal vengeance I would like to take on them, though I'll throw you a bone and let you kill except the three eyed Saiyan look alike and Vegeta" Frieza said with a smile.

All of Ginyu's men cheered at the news, it was always more fun to get to play with their victims than just a simple capture mission. "It will be our pleasure Lord Frieza." Ginyu said with a confident smirk.

Just as the group was about ready to go, Jeice suddenly bent down and grabbed a case he had brought with him, "Here you go Lord Frieza, it's the scouter you asked for; it's the newest model." He said with his usual accent.

"Ah very good Jeice." Frieza responded a smile on his face.

"Ginyu Force!" Captain Ginyu shouted, his men forming up in yet another elaborate formation, "Let's get busy." The entire group proceeded to begin some sort of war chant, one that embarrassed Frieza more so than usual.

When they finally finished they shot into the air, purple auras washing over them.

They were nearly back to the cave when Tien suddenly stopped in his tracks, "You guys feel that, a bunch of strong beings just landed"

"Yeah, looks like that Frieza guy must've called in reinforcements." Chi Chi added basing her statement on how close the new fighters appeared to be to the overwhelming force that seemed to cast its shadow over nearly a quarter of the planet.

"I don't think we should be standing around then, let's get back to the cave and keep our power under wraps for a while." Yamcha suggested, not liking their prospects of fighting the new comers.

"Good idea." Tien concluded, before each of them continued on towards the cave that had been serving as their home base the last few weeks.

"Damn it, No not those fools!" Vegeta suddenly shouted, a look of horror on his face.

"What's wrong?...Shit those power levels are huge." Nappa responded, instantly knowing who Frieza had called in as reinforcements.

"They're coming this way, quick, Nappa we need to pick up the pace, but don't you dare show your full power yet, we need the element of surprise on our side." Vegeta ordered before flaring his aura, resuming his flight with much greater urgency, Nappa right behind him.

"Hey Capt'n it looks like we found Vegeta." he shouted over the rushing wind as the scouters picked up the massive jump of the two previously smaller power levels.

"Yes, they are both actually quite significant power levels, this maybe the Saiyans after all." Ginyu responded a smirk on his face.

"I think we spooked 'em." Burter added in.

"Dumb monkeys." Recoome added, causing the whole group to laugh as they continued to shoot across the sky.

Within a few minutes the three human fighters arrived on an island just one island over from their cave home, the three of them turning to face the now seven large incoming power levels.

"This isn't good guys, it looks like the Saiyans are heading this way too." Tien stated, a slight nervousness spreading over him at the wall of large power levels closing in on them fast.

Before anyone could respond, Vegeta and Nappa dropped to the ground in front of them, "Earthlings, I think we need a truce." Vegeta said, "Give us your Dragon Balls and we'll make sure Frieza doesn't get them." His voice on the verge of panic, sweat beading up on his neck as the Ginyu force continued to close in on them.

"Hell no!" Chi Chi shouted, "There's no way-" Before anyone could finish, the sound of feet landing was heard off to the side, everyone turned to see a stream of different colored aliens landing.

"Hello Vegeta." Ginyu greeted, his face locked in a sneer as a look of terror spread across Vegeta and Nappa's faces. The Earthlings immediately knew that things were dire if the Saiyans were terrified of these new arrivals. Several other members of the group offered their own sarcastic greetings to the group, each with a confident smirk on their faces, before the whole group burst into laughter.

"Damnit, not now, another day and I would be immortal." Vegeta scowled, if he could've gotten the Earthlings Dragon Balls he could've been back in the air before the Ginyu Force had a chance to catch up.

"We've come to collect you, the Dragon Balls, and Mr. third eye over there, Vegeta" Ginyu said, his smirk never wavering.

"Well tough luck on that, we don't have the Dragon Balls." Vegeta lied, hoping to keep at least his Dragon Ball hidden.

"You might not, but we have reports that those three apparently stole several from Lord Frieza a few weeks back, which I take it is why you're here. Am I right Vegeta?" Vegeta was tiring of Ginyu's taunting tone as his pride was beginning to override his fear.

"Anyway, we'll deal with you two in a minute. You three where are the Dragon Balls?" He yelled in his most commanding voice, one that would send shivers down even the bravest of the Planet Trade soldier's necks.

His orders had little effect on Chi Chi though, "Like we're going to tell you!" She shouted back defiantly, much to the rest of the Ginyu Forces surprise.

"Hey do you know who you're talking to you-" Jeice was cut off by Captain Ginyu's outstretched hand.

"Quiet Jeice, apparently they do not know who we are boys, so we might as well introduce ourselves." The dark smirk on his face started to send chills down the Earthling's backs as they tried to imagine what the mysterious Captain Ginyu had planned for the 'introduction.'

"Ginyu FORCE!" The horned leader shouted.

He shouted as each of the fighters struck a dramatic pose and held it for a moment before the most muscular of the group went into motion, his right leg shooting out to the side, forming a perfect right triangle, before dropping his hands straight down and then out to his side shouting, "RECOOME!"

Next the tallest of the group took a quicker approach than his comrade dropping to the same angle, he shouted, "I'm Burter!"

Next the Red Krillin sized being twirled his hair temporarily blocking his body from view before dropping to a knee, both of his arms raised above his head, hands tilted towards the ground, "I'm Jeice!" in a thick almost Australian accent.

Mirroring his fellow short comrade, the smallest member of the group, proceeded to strike a pose similar to the crane style, before dropping to his knee as well, shouting "Guldo!"

Finally the apparent leader of the group whose back had been turned to the group since shouting the name of the group the first time, bent over and then peering from between his spread legs, hands symmetrically on either side of his head he shouted "Ginyu!"

Finally each stuck a seemingly random pose of their own choosing before shouting in unison, "We are the Ginyu Force."

Their entire unwilling audience sweat dropped at the sight, unsure whether they felt like laughing at the group or if they should pity them, it was almost as if they weren't there to kill them all for a second.

"What?" Ginyu finally asked irritation clear in his voice as the entire group continued to watch him as if he had sprouted a second head.

"That… was an interesting introduction." Tien finally said, finally deciding on pity at the moment.

"No it was just bad!" Yamcha shouted cracking up finally.

"What do you know about true choreographic art!" Ginyu shouted insulted, "Men whoever draws that one I want his death to be extra painful!" he continued a vein practically bursting from his head.

"Anyway back down to business." He said after mentally composing himself, "Give us the Dragon Balls and everyone except the long haired guy's deaths will be as painless as possible."

"Why the hell would we, just because you did a dance?" Chi Chi responded getting irritated at the seemingly roundabout conversation.

"Fine then, not going to play nice then we'll take 'em by force." Ginyu shouted as everyone dropped into their fighting stances, everyone except Ginyu who pressed the button on his scouter. 'He had detected another small power level while they were coming in, with any luck he could find the Dragon Balls with this other mystery being before the fight happened just to demoralize the group opposing him even more.

"Burter, why don't you go get that weaker person for us, wouldn't wanna leave them out of the fun, see if the Dragon Balls are with 'em while you're at it." He suddenly ordered surprising everyone.

He could tell by the fearful looks on the other three saiyan-like fighter's faces that his guess had been right.

"Yes sir!" Burter said before seemingly vanishing from view.

Bulma was putting the finishing touches on the new and improved dragon radar, not only could it now locate the Dragon Balls down to a 2 foot radius but could also give their height above sea level. She would've been done with it hours ago but so many great ideas kept popping in her head it was hard to concentrate. She finally had to act on one of them that morning, a new high tech security system for the Dragon Balls.

The five orbs in question were gathered nested in a circle, with what appeared to be a small rocket engine pointed at them, whoever tried to touch the mystical objects without turning the system off first would be in for a nasty surprise.

Suddenly a gust of wind filled the small capsule house she and the others had called home for the last several weeks. Immediately she whipped around to be confronted by a large, blue, reptilian alien of some sort standing there staring at her, by his uniform she could immediate tell he was with the aliens that had attacked the Earth. Fear began to well up within her. Involuntarily her eyes shot to the Dragon Balls.

Before the alien had said anything he caught the human's slip and immediately followed her gaze, right behind him lay 5 perfect yellow orbs with a variety of stars on them. "These must be the Dragons Balls." He concluded out loud. Forgetting the weak earthling for a moment as he bent down to pick them up.

As soon as his hand touched one of them, he found himself colliding with, and then going right through, not only the wall of the house but right out the entrance of the cave, carried by a wall of blistering flames.

As his body continued to fly backwards, the other four members of the Ginyu force could only watch in surprise as Burter finished his trip in the water between the islands

After a second he burst back through the surface of the water, death on his mind, a hole burnt clear through his armor causing his blue scales to already begin to blister.

"Burter stop! I want a recon report now" Ginyu ordered now very intrigued as to what just happened.

The self-proclaimed fastest in the galaxy immediately stopped, he knew better than to disobey a direct order from the captain. "Yes Captain." He finally said reluctantly.

Everyone paid close attention to the fighter, each curious to hear his report, the earthling fighters most of all, they each knew Bulma was no fighter.

"I don't know boss, I was reaching for the Dragon Balls and then, bam! Some sort of trap hit me." He explained furious at himself for falling for the trick.

"Booby-trapped you say, interesting. Guldo, retrieve the Dragon Balls and whoever is in the cave." Captain Ginyu ordered.

Nappa and Vegeta both watched on, having similar suspicions about what the result of Guldo's attempt would bring.

Suddenly before anyone knew what happened the small green fighter vanished, everyone watched the cave closely for a second before a voice sounded behind them, "Here...you... go...Captain." Guldo suddenly stood behind them all, sweating profusely with all 5 Dragon Balls at his feet and a surprised and terrified Bulma slung over his shoulder.

"Ah what happened?" She shrieked when she realized she wasn't in the cave any longer.

"Very good Guldo." Captain Ginyu praised the least experienced member of his team.

The humans were all shocked in disbelief at what had unfolded, convinced that they had clearly underestimated the smallest fighter, that is until Vegeta spoke up.

"So it's true, I had hear the stories but had never believed them until now." He ominously said but before he could finish Nappa cut in, "I told you he could freeze time Vegeta, how else could the runt have stolen that whole table full of food that one time." The giant was fuming mad he had been punished by Vegeta, who had believed he had eaten it all before he and Raditz could get there.

"Now with that settled its just a matter of dividing the spoils, obviously I'll be taking Vegeta and the rest of you can do that spin the wheel game you like to do with the others just be sure to keep three eyes breathing, and" He was cut off as he took a step towards the Saiyan prince.

He was immediately meet with all four of his men's whining about how long they had wanted a chance to out Vegeta in his place, finally being a man of his people, he conceded, "Fine just make sure he survives."

"Now then what to do with you?" He asked as he stared down at the still shocked quiet Bulma. When she didn't respond to his rhetorical question he continued, "Why don't you go ahead and explain what you did to Burter over there for starters." He growled at the weak being before him.

Bulma's eyes were wide with fear but after a second she forced herself to respond, "I… he… set off the defense system I built." she finally was able to say.

It was as Ginyu had expected, "Boys go ahead and bring her with you when you're done; Frieza's always looking for good techs." He finished, satisfied his men understood his orders; that was when he noticed she was hiding something behind her back.

"What do we have-" in a flash faster than anyone could see he grabbed the dragon radar from behind Bulma's back and began to examine it. "Here? This is an interesting piece of technology. What does it do?" he asked after messing with the machine for a moment.

The Earthling's held their collective breaths, they would intervene if they had to, but the speed he had just shown was more than enough to give each of them pause.

Bulma's mind was working a mile a minute, but luckily an idea struck her, "Please be careful with it, that was a family heirloom." She begged, putting on her best act.

"A family heirloom you say, I'll consider being careful with it if you tell me what it does." Ginyu responded irritated at his question being ignored.

Bulma had already constructed an elaborate back story, and now it was time to put it to the test. "It's just a watch, my father gave it to me before… before…" actual tears began to stroll down her face, catching the horned alien off guard. "Before he was murdered by his arch rival, Dr. Flappe." She had pulled the name of the scientist Goku had told her about long ago to bring her soap opera worthy story to life. "You see Dr. Flappe was a jealous man, jealous of my father because he had stolen my mother away from him many years ago. So… So to get his revenge he sent a terrible monster of his own creation after him. My poor father never stood a chance."

By the time she had finished, not only were tears strolling down her face, but the faces of several of the Ginyu Force members as well.

"It's just like last week's episode of All My Stars!" Jeice said as he wiped a tear from his eye.

"Just give it back to her Captain." Burter pleaded, momentarily forgetting she was the reason he had a third degree burn on his chest.

Even Captain Ginyu felt moved by her tale, "Here, you go Miss, sorry I didn't know." Bulma couldn't believe it had actually worked well enough that they were apologizing to her.

Vegeta felt like he was about to gag, that was among the worst lies he had ever heard someone tell, the machine was obviously much more complex than a simple timekeeping device, and apparently very important to the Earthlings judging by how each of them tensed up when they saw Ginyu take it. 'I'll have to keep my eye on that; if I survive that is.'

The Earthlings had gone from concerned, to slightly embarrassed by Bulma's tale, each sweat dropped when the mysterious Captain apologized.

"Alright you ready boys." Recoome shouted as all of the warriors threw their hands to the middle of the ring they had now formed, "Rock! Paper! Scissors!" they all shouted in unison. Over and over again they went at it but they seemed to tie every time.

Finally the stalemate ended, with Guldo as the winner, "Yes! I'll have my revenge!" the smallest fighter cheered, only slightly guilty he had used his ability to stop time to have an advantage over his peers.

The other three fighters were disappointed, but figured they would at least get some of the others. "Alright who's next?" Burter asked.

"How about the big-stupid one." Recoome bluntly said referring to Nappa.

"Why not the others conceded." And the three non-paired up fighters began their game again. Finally after several minutes Recoome pulled out victory, "Yeah-ha, I get to kill a monkey!" he cheered much to the other two's dismay.

"Well who do you want Jeice?" Burter asked dismayed that he had missed out on the fun of taking on one of the two Saiyans.

"Well we have to keep ol' three eyes intact for Frieza so he won't be as much fun so I'll take the sheila and teach her not to disrespect the Ginyu Force." Jeice finally decided after noticing she had a slight edge strength wise.

"Fine I got the long haired one." Burter decided, eager to carry out Ginyu's orders of an extra painful death.

"Men, enjoy yourselves but remember your orders, I want you all back there in no more than an hour, got it?" When each nodded, the Captain proceeded to give the five Dragon Balls gathered at his feet a telekinetic twinge, in an instant they had formed up around him and he had taken to the air.

'This mission was even easier than I thought.' He could help but chuckle as he thought of what his men would soon be doing to those who dared defy Lord Frieza, 'I almost want to go back to watch the fun, too bad I have to make my delivery first.'

Vegeta continued to act the part as if he was concerned, but now that Ginyu was gone he was ecstatic, 'I can't believe this I'm going to survive, ha. After I kill these fools, I just need an opportunity to sneak away and steal back the Dragon Balls.' He was especially glad he would be able to kill Guldo first.

Back with the others Guldo had stepped forward ready to finally take Vegeta down a notch.

Vegeta stepped forward and couldn't help but let a smirk cross his face, he knew he needed to be smart with how he approached dealing with his adversary's exotic ability, but the difference in their power levels were astronomical.

"You have no idea how long I've waited for this moment Vegeta. Frieza's not here to protect you this time you filthy monkey trash!" all four of his eye's on the verge of bulging from his head.

"If you wanted to die, all you had to do was ask, I would've been glad to help you out with that problem. If I was a green freak like you I probably would have ceased to exist long ago." Vegeta taunted, clearly getting under Guldo's skin.

No sooner had he shouted it than Guldo vanished from his view, before Vegeta could even react Guldo was right in front of him a large purple blast prepared in his hand. "Take this!" the beam tore right through Vegeta's mid-section, or so it seemed, within an instant the after-image faded away. The rest of Frieza's elite strike force was stunned when Vegeta moved, it was much faster than they had expected. The humans were also concerned the Vegeta had apparently gotten so much stronger recently, only Nappa could both follow and appreciate what he had seen. His arms were crossed, a proud smile on his face, like a father watching his son score the game winning basket, knowing what would come next for Guldo.

All of the scouters went off at the same time a fraction of a second later when a large yellow ball came flying in from the sky. Before it could collide though Guldo seemingly vanished again, appearing a short distance away seemingly out of breath.

"Not bad Guldo, I'll give you that, but you'll have to be much faster than that to hit me." The Saiyan Prince outwardly taunted, though at the same time he was on alert, prepared for Guldo to vanish again.

The small green being just growled, "How the hell did you do that, I was right in front of you!" he was furious, he thought he would get the first hit in before Vegeta knew what had happened, instead he was forced to use his power to go on the defensive instead.

"It's simple, I am strong and you are weak Guldo." Vegeta said with a sneer, he was confident he could take any member of the Ginyu force, minus its Captain, one on one with no issues at all.

Vegeta's response only fueled Guldo's rage, "I refuse to be weaker than a damn monkey!"

Before Vegeta knew what was happening he was flying backwards; in a dozen places he could feel bruises forming on his body, no doubt from Guldo's attacks while time was stopped.

Although he was angry at the cowards use of his technique to attack him while he was defenseless he couldn't help but notice that Guldo was out of breath after every time he paused time, in the fraction of a second that he was continuing his flight backwards he came to interesting conclusion, "Either his time freezing ability requires a massive amount of energy and time to recover, or he needs massive amounts of air, yes he's practically hyperventilating right now, trying to suck in as much oxygen as possible.' A dark smile crossed Vegeta's face as a very intriguing strategy came to find to counter Guldo's ability.

Vegeta arrested his flight and in a flash was on Guldo again, the small green humanoid barely had time to hold his breath again and scurry away, unable to hold his breath long enough to attack again.

But as soon as he breathe out again Vegeta seemingly vanished again, Guldo immediately held his breath again, this time pausing with Vegeta's fist mere inches from his face.

He scrambled as far away from the persistent Saiyan as he could till his oxygen starved lungs couldn't take it anymore, before he had even finished his exhaling, he felt a pair of seemingly massive arms wrap around his diaphragm and squeeze down with pincer like force.

"Let's see you pause time and get out of this one coward." Vegeta growled from behind Guldo.

Struggle as he might Vegeta's grip was too strong, he couldn't break free, what was worse though, Vegeta was squeezing too hard for Guldo to catch his breath let alone hold it in and pause time.

"Hey should we do something?" Burter whispered to Jeice beginning to get concerned for his squad mates safety.

"Naw, Guldo's got this in the bag mate he's just playing around with Vegeta." Jeice responded issuing his vote of confidence of his comrade, his confidence began to wane a moment later when Vegeta shot into the air at mind numbing speeds, turned around mid-flight and then rocketed towards the ground.

Vegeta picked up as much speed as he possibly could before releasing his rapidly paling victim at the last possible second, the collision with the ground caused a massive crater to form, not only that but a cut a straight crack through the island's crust bisecting the crater right through the middle.

Vegeta just smirked as he stared over the crater, admiring his handy work. "Seems like a fitting grave for the coward." He said just loud enough for the other members of the squad to hear.

"Alright Vegeta! Way to show that coward the might of a Saiyan warrior!" Nappa cheered from the sidelines.

The remaining members of the Ginyu Force were less than pleased at the outcome.

"Damn." Was all Burter could manage to say, Guldo hadn't been with the Force long, but he already felt like part of the family.

"Hey, I think Vegeta actually killed the little guy." Recoome said a twinge of sorrow in his voice.

"I...I was wrong." Jeice felt a wave of guilt wash over him, "We should've jumped in I guess."

The Earthling's shared similar feelings on the issue as the Ginyu Force, with any luck they were hoping the Saiyans and these new strange arrivals would wear each other down and make their jobs easier for them, but it seemed Vegeta had other things in mind, each mentally weighed how far they would have to take the Kaioken in order to beat him, only Yamcha was truly concerned at the development though.

Just as Vegeta turned from the crater and began to walk back to his place next to Nappa, a faint coughing sound erupted from what everyone had assumed to be Guldo's grave. Vegeta eyed the hole suspiciously for a moment before that battered and bleeding form of Guldo pulled himself out of the pit, two of his eyes already swollen closed.

"Aright! He made it!" Burter shouted.

"You had us worried there for a minute." Recoome added.

"You better sit the rest of this one out mate." Jeice cautioned, but Guldo kept crawling forward fueled only with rage.

"Consider me impressed, I didn't think a creature as pitiful as you could survive that." Vegeta sneering at the crawling form of Guldo, not even fully turning to face his opponent.

He could only see out of two of his eyes, but everything he saw was blood red, the hatred he felt for Vegeta at the moment, he couldn't even fathom. "That's it Vegeta, I'm done playing around, time to DIE!" He shouted, forcing his ruined body up, his hands striking a strange pose suddenly.

Vegeta felt his entire body go rigid, even as he pumped more and more energy into his muscles they still refused to move. "That's right Vegeta I had another trick up my sleeve, I like to call this my mind games, now I'm sure you would like to know how I am doing this, but i really don't care, I'm just going to get to impaling you now." Guldo telekinetically pulled a tree from the ground and in an instant it was a pointed spear, easily large enough to cut Vegeta in two.

"Guldo! We need him alive." Burter shouted. But before anyone could react, Guldo launched it.

Vegeta just as the tree was launched Vegeta pulled forth his full strength directing all of his power to his right arm, finally it responded, Guldo's psychic abilities temporarily overwhelmed. In a swift movement he swung his arm unleashing a massive wave of energy, vaporizing not just the tree, but Guldo along with it.

The entire audience, Ginyu, earthling, and Saiyan. Stood silently for a moment shocked about the twists the fight had taken at the end, the only sound that was heard was Vegeta panting slightly, but as the seconds passed he caught his breath and all was silent. "Good riddance." He mumbled before walking back to take his spot back with Nappa again.

Finally the other members of the Ginyu Force reacted, and they were furious, "Let's get 'em" Jeice shouted as he and Recoome rushed forward.

"Wait" Burter shouted, both of his allies stopped in their tracks. "Let's make this a game to see who gets to avenge Guldo, whoever takes down their opponent the fastest gets to fight Vegeta." he challenged, more than confident on his speed.

They both thought about it for a minute before both shouting, "You're on." and rushing instead of at Vegeta but at each of their predetermined fighters.

Chi Chi and Yamcha barely had time to unleash their Kaioken enhanced energies before their enemies were on them.

Burter unleashed a flurry of jabs into Yamcha's body, before he knew what had happened, his times two enhanced body was groaning under the force of the hits, but they were coming too rapidly for his to multiply his power further. Finally there was a respite, as Burter backhanded him into a nearby rocky ledge.

Chi Chi had gone straight to her times three multiplier and was able to block Jeice's opening kick with her forearm before delivering a quick punch at his throat, the red warrior was barely able to catch her strike in time. After a momentary stalemate the two separated nothing but blurs shooting back and forth across the landscape.

Recoome had bull rushed Nappa and slammed into him full force, unfortunately for the brute, although he was only able to push his equal sized opponent back a few feet before he suddenly came to a complete stop, "Gotcha!" Nappa shouted before promptly head-butting his enemy. Back and forth the two of them continued to head butt like two rams in mating season, neither giving an inch.

After several more collisions, Recoome felt himself begin to get dizzy, as blood began to flow into his eyes. Quickly he decided it was time to break the stalemate and unleashed a mouth blast right into Nappa's face. The large Saiyan was sent flying backwards before crashing into the side of a nearby island. Recoome immediately followed after him.

Nappa didn't stay down long, the pair meeting over the shallow sea that seemed to cover most of the planet. their massive fists colliding with such force that sea floor beneath them became visible when the shock waves moved through, massive waves moving out in all directions.

Nappa followed up with a bone crushing haymaker, only instead of doing the damage he thought it would, Recoome took the strike in stride and returned a nearly as powerful punch of his own. The two continued to trade blow after blow, drifting further and further away from the main conflict.

After taking in everything on the battlefield, Vegeta decided it was time to solve at least one of the mysteries that had been keeping him distracted as of late, and in a flash was standing behind Bulma. The device she held in her hands appeared to be a map of the area, with five blinking lights moving away fast, it only took the Saiyan Prince a second to realize what he was looking at, "Ah so that's what it does." He said from behind Bulma, causing her to shriek in terror.

Tien who was trying to decide which of his two friends engaged in combat needed help the most; suddenly realized that it appeared to be Bulma at the moment, as Vegeta was right behind her, in a flash he had powered up to his times three Kaioken and was charging the Saiyan Prince ready for combat.

"You want to play human, alright bring it on!" Vegeta shouted when he saw Tien flying towards him, throwing Bulma out of the way as he launched forward to meet Tien in the middle, unfortunately for the Saiyan Prince he immediately found himself at a disadvantage, not only in speed, but as Tien phased in behind him, strength as well, the punch the three eye's human warrior delivered to his back caused his muscles to spasm in pain.

He hit the ground on all fours, each limp crashing through the rock, immediately he popped up, already in his defensive stance, before rushing back onto the attack. His rage burning, "No I won't be beaten by them again!"

"Nail!" Guru called to his strongest son, and de facto bodyguard.

"What is it elder?" he asked stepping forward, ending a discussion he had been carrying on with his two remaining brothers.

"I need you to do something for me. The Earthlings are in grave danger, I need you to aid them, otherwise the Dragon Balls will fall to either the Saiyans or worse Frieza." Guru finished.

"I'm not sure it is wise for me to leave your side, what if they come after you while I am gone?" Nail countered, not wanting to opening defy his father, but at the same time unwilling to leave his side.

"My son, I would rather die at the hands of Frieza than allow him to make his heinous wish, please, help them." The giant Namekian implored Nail to help.

"Alright Guru, I'll do it." He said with a bow before turning to Cargo and Dende, "Please look after Guru as best you can while I am gone." With that Nail rushed out of the building, refusing to be away any longer than need be.

Yamcha was beginning to really regret not taking his training more seriously the last couple months, already his muscles felt like they were on fire, he knew he couldn't sustain the times three much longer, unfortunately he couldn't even finish the fight quickly; even at times three he was at a noticeable disadvantage against his larger, faster, blue adversary.

Suddenly a massive elbow crashed into his cheek sending him back, he wiped the blood coming from the corner of his mouth, "Let's see how you like my wolf fang fist!" Yamcha started rushing towards Burter.

As Yamcha began to rain down perfectly executed strikes, all of which were being blocked just in the knick of time by BUrter, the reptilian warrior couldn't help but be surprised by how much a fight the human was putting up. 'Let's see how he like's me going full force.' he thought as he waited for the opening that would inevitably come.

Just as Yamcha completed the finishing double handed strike, his red aura faltered, before fading away, he had no strength left. 'Shit!' was all he had time to think before Burter's counter attack ripped right through his stomach, his limp body falling to the ground.

'Damn, where'd his strength go?' Burter though surprised by what just happened.

As Vegeta hit the ground for the fifth time in under a minute of fighting, this time forming a massive crater, his anger at the situation began to overtake him., he was a Saiyan super elite, the strongest Saiyan child born in generations, yet for some reason whenever he fought the fighters from Earth he always ended up on the losing end.

"Enough!" He shouted as he blasted into the air, "I am going to kill you pests once and for all!" Vegeta shouted as he launched into another series of fighting. Every well timed punch, every perfectly placed kicked, always ended up being off, or too slow.

Tien knew he had the advantage in terms of speed and strength with the Kaioken, but the angrier the Saiyan got, the once equally skilled warrior's fighting prowess began to diminish as well. Suddenly a golden opportunity presented itself for the former crane student, a s Vegeta over extended just a fraction of an inch on another just missed punch.

Unleashing a powerful jab to the Saiyan's chin, Tien sent him flying back, next he phased behind him and delivered a vicious chop to his back, finally he followed the combo up by unleashing his ultimate attack "tri-beam!" he shouted unleashing a wall of energy quite similar to the one that had nearly vaporized Vegeta just weeks ago.

The wall of energy caught Vegeta just as he hit the ground, causing the entire island to shake with the force of the explosion, one entire side of the island broke free at the crack that Vegeta had caused earlier during his fight with Guldo and slipped into the water.

Vegeta lay broken and battered at the bottom of the crater barely able to move, let alone continue the fight. 'So this is how it ends, at a bottom of a crater killed by the damn earthlings.' Luckily for Vegeta a yell in the distance drew the three eyed warrior's attention elsewhere.

He was able to turn just in time to see Yamcha's limp form hit the ground, a gaping wound in his stomach, barely hanging onto consciousness.

"Yamcha!" Chi Chi shouted suddenly worried that the ex-bandit might finally be through.

Jeice took full advantage if the distraction though and unleashed a vicious haymaker to her temple.

The world was spinning for Chi Chi, she couldn't concentrate and so couldn't multiply her power. Jeice wasn't willing to give her the time to recover either and unleashed a bone crushing blow to her chest just as she rose, she screamed as the air was forced out from behind her breaking ribs.

She landed on the ground in a heap, every breath bringing fiery agony.

Before Jeice could finish the job though a bright yellow blast hit him in the stomach and sent him flying.

Tien landed in front of his two wounded allies, staring down both of their opponent, "Your fight is with me now!"

While Tien's attention was focused on the still recovering red warrior though, an explosion sounded behind him as Burter launched a small but potent blast at the still recovering Chi Chi, when the smoke cleared, she lay still, her skin and clothes charred.

"You monsters!" Tien shouted, rage burning in his eyes, "She was out of the fight, I'm going to make you pay for that!" He slipped into his stance, two warriors on opposite sides of him, his third eye on Burter, his two main ones on Jeice.

"Two on one, you sure can handle that tough guy? Wouldn't want you to bite off more than you can chew." Burter taunted.

Instead of responding Tien simply dashed forward and lashed out with vicious opening punch, Burter raised his arm to block but it did no good, there was so much force behind the attack that he couldn't stop it, Tien's fist bent his abdomen painfully inward, right in the hole Bulma's trap had burnt in his armor.

Burter gasped and fell stumbled backwards unable to breath.

Tien used his excess torque from his punch to twist his body into a spinning kick, catching Jeice across the face and sending him flying.

When they had both got back to their feet, significantly more wary of the warrior in front of them Jeice spoke up, "Hey Burter I think this guy might be even faster than you." Although there was humor in his voice he knew they weren't fighting just any normal warrior.

"No one's faster than me, he just caught me off guard." Burter shouted, verbally going on the defensive, before rushing back on the offensive against Tien. "Let's see how you like my Mach kick!" He shouted before unleashing a series of incredibly fast kicks, not a single one was able to connect though, Tien dodged them all with a simple tilt of his head in alternating directions.

Finally when Burter went to change tactics Tien send a blow straight into the blue being's face rocketing him backwards.

In the meantime, Jeice tried to get in behind him but Tien was able to turn in time to defend the red alien's kick. But he did more than block it, as he grasped onto his out stretched leg, he gave him a strong tug, pulling him right into a power punch, before hurling him with all of his might into the ground.

Tien was forced to momentarily drop out of the Kaioken, his stamina about shot at this point. 'Damn, I don't know how much longer I can keep this up, I've got to finish it now. "He began to channel his power ready to his risky, ultimate attack again.

Jeice and Burter were just recovering from the latest attacks against them when they noticed that Tien was preparing something big, "Hey Jeice, I think we need to introduce this guy to our Purple spiral flash attack, he's a lot stronger than the others." he said to his red companion.

"Ay, I think you're right mate, let's show them the true power of the red magma and the blue hurricane!" He shouted, immediately both began to power up, then in a flash they rushed together, and turned into a spiraling sphere of energy.

"What?" Tien immediately built his Kaioken back up, but it was too late, before he had a chance to react a barrage of purple blasts rained down on him. the best he could do was produce an energy shield quickly using all of the strength he had gathered for his Tri beam attack, but as the assault continued his Kaioken faltered and along with it his shield.

When it had ended he dropped out of the clouds, his body charred, landing with a thud.

Burter and Jeice were panting, but satisfied with themselves. "That did the trick." Burter said with a tired smile.

"Yea, he won't be a problem anymore." Jeice agreed. "Hey where's Recoome?" He suddenly realized their brute of an ally was nowhere to be seen.

Burter looked around, Just then in the distance they heard a deep voice bellow "Eraser Gun!"

"Looks like he's still playing around with the other monkey." The blue warrior concluded.

"Guess that means Vegeta is ours." Jeice responded as the duo began to float down towards the severely injured Saiyan Prince.

Nappa dodged to the left narrowly avoiding a large blast, charging up a large return one of his own and throwing back at Recoome, hitting him squarely in the chest.

"You're going to pay for that!" Recoome shouted, before dashing forward, delivering a powerful double hand ax handle, Nappa though managed to cross his hands at the last minute and block the blow.

Recoome wasn't done yet though and shouted, "Get ready for the Recoome ERASER GUN!" Before firing a massive purple beam point blank at Nappa, who barely managed to fire on off quick enough of his own.

The two beams struggled, just feet away from each other, before finally the center of the beams hit a critical mass, and exploded violently throwing the two warriors back in opposite directions.

"Ah Ginyu, I was wondering when you would be returning. The Dragon Balls!" Frieza suddenly shouted as he noticed the orange balls floating with Ginyu.

"Here are the Dragon Balls you requested Lord Frieza, my men will be bringing Vegeta and the other one along soon after they finish off their friends." Ginyu said with a bow.

Frieza immediately counted them, the genuine, but slightly mad, smile he had had for the first moment quickly faded. "There is one missing." he bluntly said, his smile falling into a full blown frown.

Captain Ginyu was taken aback, he had figured the five balls were all there were, "I am sorry Lord Frieza, I was not aware, I will get back to searching right away, maybe that other cluster of energies far across the planet has the missing ball.?" He asked ducking his head lower.

"Yes that would be a likely place to look, but are you sure the others didn't have another ball?" Frieza asked irritated that his immortality was again being delayed.

"Guldo searched their entire home base my Lord, but I would be glad to search again personally if you wanted." Ginyu offered.

"No that won't be necessary, search the other village first, if it isn't there, we'll torture its location out of the survivors." Frieza decided, as he floated back into his ship, all six Dragon Balls right behind him.

"As you wish Lord Frieza." Ginyu said with a slightly deeper bow before blasting off in the direction of the last village.

A few miles away Nappa and Recoome had recovered from the explosion and gone right back to exchanging blows. Each showing the damage the other had inflicted on them during the prolonged fight. Nappa's left eye was swollen shut, he had at least one rib broken, and more bruises than he could count. Recoome on the other hand, his nose was broken, and had a bad concussion, plus blood freely flowing down into both of his eyes.

"Damn, I didn't think you monkeys were this tough." Recoome said a slight smile on his face, even though he probably wouldn't get to fight Vegeta, he was still having one hell of a fight.

"You're not bad yourself, been while since I had a good fight, good to test out my new strength, I think I'm done warming up now though." Nappa said with a smirk, much to Recoome's surprise.

"Very funny monkey, but if you were holding back you're dumber than I thought, ha ha!" Recoome bellowed, pointing at the substantial damage Nappa had already taken.

"Ha! Me dumb? Come on, I was the general of the Saiyan army. I just enjoy a good fight, and I went full force this fight wouldn't have lasted a minute." Nappa said puffing out his chest slightly.

"Well if me kicking your ass if a good fight, I'll make sure you enjoy it some more, take this!" Recoome shouted swinging his fist forward, this time Nappa didn't hold back at all and snatched the tree trunk sized arm in his hand like it was nothing.

Recoome was too shocked for words for a moment, Nappa's smirk slowly took a darker turn, right before he suddenly lashed his elbow out, completely shattering Recoome's arm.

The giant yelled in agony, but Nappa wasn't done with him yet, a quick punch to the throat silenced his screams of pain, before punting him into the distance. Taking two outstretched fingers Nappa lifted upwards, causing a massive explosion to spread over the area that Recoome was just passing over.

"Well that should do, I wonder if Vegeta's jumped in on the fun yet." The Saiyan general mused to himself before rocketing back towards the main battlefield.

When he arrived he was shocked at what he saw, the entire island was in shambles, the three earthlings scattered down on the ground, with the fourth new one currently hiding behind some rocks, but what was more disturbing what the fact the Burter was currently holding Vegeta up in a full nelson, while Jeice let loose with punch after punch.

"Yeah you dirty monkey. Not so tough now, are yea?" Jeice asked after his last punch caused Vegeta to spit up a mouthful of blood.

Yamcha, somehow the only conscious member of the three Earth born fighters on the planet, watched as blow, after brutal blow, rained down on the Saiyan that had nearly made him a permanent cripple a few weeks back, and was beginning to feel something he never would've expected, a slight pang of pity at how brutal his apparent murderers were being to the Saiyan. 'Damn it, at least kill the blue one before you die.' Yamcha thought as darkness began to creep into the corners of his eyes. He was dying, there was no denying that fact, he wished though he could at somehow see his would be killer get his before he went.

'Damn that Earthling, why… why did he have to interfere, either of us could've taken these two clowns and now both of us are going to die.' Just as the thought crossed his mind, he saw a streak heading his way, before he knew what was happening Nappa seemingly appeared out of nowhere and delivered a powerful double legged kick to Jeice sending him flying into a nearby rocky outcrop.

Burter immediately dropped Vegeta, but couldn't quite react fast enough as Nappa's large hand wrapped around his throat, and quickly started head butting him like he had done to Recoome earlier, Burter's thinner skull was having a harder time coping with the head damage Nappa was dishing out; he was seeing stars after just two blows.

Vegeta was stunned by the sudden turn of events but at that moment he had never been happier to see his old body guard.

Just as Nappa was bringing Burter close for another head-butt, Jeice repaid the giant for his earlier surprise attack with a flying kick of his own. Nappa went tumbling from the blow, but the experienced warrior quickly turned his tumble into a roll, coming up in his combat stance.

Burter, was just woozily getting back on his feet at that time, even so Nappa knew he would be for one hell of a fight if he to take the duo together.

"Blimey, what did you do to Recoome?" Jeice shouted surprised to see the large Saiyan alive still.

"I turned him into ash." Nappa responded a proud smirk on his face.

Burter and Jeice were shocked at the revelation, in less than thirty minutes, 40% of one of the galaxies elite fighting forces had been wiped out.

"You're gunna pay for that." Burter shouted shaking off the last of the dizziness.

"Bring it on!" Nappa shouted defiantly, his mind racing to find the best way to deal with his two nearly equal adversaries.

Jeice and Burter rushed forward eager to avenge their fallen ally when sudden the area separating the three fight exploded in a blinding light, stopping them all in their tracks.

As they all searched for the source of the attack a voice rang out. "This is all of your last chances, leave this world now, or I will not hesitate to kill you."

Out of the rising smoke a figured emerged, a lone Namekian, who slowly drifted to the ground. Nappa was surprised by how strong the Namekian was, 'This might change things.' he thought to himself as he contemplated how this change his chances of victory.

"And just who the bloody hell are you?" Jeice shouted irritated that a local decided to play hero and interrupt the fight.

The mysterious newcomer was silent for a moment, but finally he responded, "I am Nail, the protector of Namek."

Ginyu shot through the sky, taking a slightly longer way towards the group on the far end of the planet. Something in his gut telling him to retrace Vegeta's path.

A few more minutes, and he spotted something out of the corner of his eye, just a hint of smoke rising on a small island off to his left. Turning slightly the planet trade officer had arrived in a matter of seconds.

He landed in the middle of what appeared to be a makeshift camp, little more than two makeshift huts and a smoldering campfire with a massive pile of bones piled off to one side.

"Either this camps been here awhile, or I found the Saiyan's base of operations' he thought to himself as he began inspecting the area, looking for any hint of the final Dragon Ball.

He destroyed the shelters, dug through the bones, carefully burned back all of the vegetation on the island but still came up empty.

'That was a waste of time, back to finding that village' he thought as he took to the air again, no sooner had he reached above the burnt husks of what used to be trees did a glint in the water catch his eye.

What he saw next caused the Captain to laugh with joy, sitting in the shallow part of the shore, next to a medium sized rock, was none other than the final Dragon Ball.

Ginyu didn't hesitate in the slightest to dive into the chilly water to retrieve the object. "Chalk up another one for me!" He shouted out loud, glad he was able to correct his previous oversight so quickly.

"Lord Frieza will sure be glad to see this' he thought to himself as he rocketed back to the frost demon's ship, the final ball tucked safely under his arm.

There you have it, I had to write put some overtime in to get this chapter up as fast as I have, but I think it was a good one. I hope everyone enjoyed it!

I will try to get one more chapter up before I have to head back to school in a few weeks, when I do though my writing time will definitely take a hit, I need to really redouble my efforts in the school front if I'm going to have a chance to make it into Grad school in a couple years.

Some useful power levels for this chapter

Vegeta (fully healed) 52,000

Nappa (fully healed) 50,000

Recoome, Jeice, Burter - 45,000

Jeice+Burter combo attack - 75,000

Guldo 15,000

Captain Ginyu 120,000

The three humans are roughly the same as the previous chapter.

Now for the reviews

Reviews:

Guest: Sorry it took me so long to update the last chapter, I write as fast as I can but I do have other things I have to take care of each day such as work. I also lost an entire week of writing time studying for my differential equations final this summer. I hope this chapter was fast enough for your liking.

12courtney12: I'm glad to hear that you are enjoying the story, I always like to hear that the effort I put into it is appreciated. Yeah I only have read a few similar big ones since I started writing it, but I'm fine with there being less stories with a similar idea, keeps the idea from getting too diluted. Gohan and Raditz are currently still just hibernating in their ships, they are on their way though so don't worry I haven't forgotten them.

Mickj6- As you can see from this chapter the humans already are in deep shit lol. But yeah, if Yamcha had kept up training like Tien and Chi Chi had the fight could've gone differently. The fight i have planned out against Frieza is going to be fun to write, lots of strong fighters that can throw their hands in to help out, but will they be strong enough to make a difference will be the real question.

Super Mystic Gohan- Yeah Vegeta is having a hard time so far, kinda sucks since he's my favorite character, but I'm trying to make sure I don't give my favorites preferential treatment and am trying to keep things as close to how it could've happened in the show as possible.

The three fighters on Namek can definately do a times three, they are hesitant to go beyond that because they are sure if their bodies can take their newly released potentials being multiplied. Tien and Chi Chi could probably take it up one more level at this point. Yamcha can barely keep up a times three.

King Chappa, Nam, and Yajirobe are just about to King Kai's. Yajirobe would've made it already if he wasn't so lazy. The Blue Force members making the run are still a ways off, they have all left Kami in the dust though lol.

For this chapter I tried a new routine in my editing, hopefully that will eliminate the stray writing errors you were noticing. Yeah it can kinda be hard to keep track of all of the characters some times. I'll think I'm done with a chapter or something and then realize I completely neglected someone, and have to add a section about what they are doing.

pointer39- Glad you liked the Bulma potential unlock, I figured every other non-evil being on the planet got their potential unlocked, might as well unlock hers too while I'm at it. Could shake things up down the road lol.

And Finally A big thank you to everyone who reviewed, we didn't crack the 50 review mark like I was hoping, but we're close so keep up the good work, and I'll try to keep making chapters that are worth your reviews.

Enjoy your weekends everybody!