NB : For the ones who were here before this chapter was posted, I would like to recommend that you re-read the previous chapters before engaging on this one if you don't want to miss any new content as I changed some details and added more content (at least the prominent one being 'another rival' who had the most changes)

Also REALLY IMPORTANT, because I am scared the following section might be degrading for the people who don't have confidence in themselves or are in a bad situation mentally, I suggest that if you are one of those people, skip the following section as I suspect it might trigger uneasiness (I put some angst that I find kinda brutal so don't take the risk), just scroll until you see *SPLASH* written and you're good to go!

And don't worry about missing content, it is not important as it will be explained soon after, you'll only miss the details

That's all, enjoy!

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π™°πšπšŽ 735, π™°πšžπšπšžπšœπš 1𝚜𝚝, 6:05 π™°πš–

(Display of uncertainty and fears, last Warning)

'It was finally time, the moment he was waiting for

They chose their battlefield at Vegeta's lake and they both took a stance at the opposite of each other

"You know" His Sister began "You can give up whenever you want, you'll just lose your one chance to prove your worth in your family, nothing big"

Despite a shiver passing through his spine, Raditz shaked his head negatively "There's no way I'm doing that! I'll give up only when I'm dead!"

His Sister just looked straight into his eyes, before she shrugged her shoulders as she acknowledged his response "Welp, your funeral then" and disappeared into nothingness

"Wait, what?" Raditz's eyes widened as he began to search everywhere around him, until he turned sharply to his left as he heard some movements, only to find nothing but air

"What's wrong? Can't keep up?"

As fast as he could, he twisted his body to his right where he heard the voice, only not fast enough apparently as he, again, found nothing in front of him

"Hey, you need to be much faster if you want to catch me in time"

Again, he looked over his shoulders to, as expected, find nothing behind him beside air, when he clearly heard the voice… Was he going crazy?

"No, not enough"

"Still not here"

"Not even close"

"Are you even trying?"

Each time he tried to spot her, the voice seemed to change direction, it was as if she was nowhere and anywhere at once, taunting him

"Common! Do better!"

"Was your so-called 'training' even worth it?"

"Just give up"

At that, he let out a giant scream of frustration as he completely lost his temper and then proceed to launch ki blast after ki blast everywhere around him, in hope that at least one of them could intercept her

One minute passed as he breathed heavily, completely drained of energy and not any more anger to let out

"Sorry little bro but…"

He could only look in dread as Aspara suddenly appeared right in front of him as she raised her fist while she wore a grin that sent chills down onto his spine "You're gonna have to try a little harder than that!"

And with one straight punch to the head, he was sent straight crashing towards the lake, and as he realized that he will not be able to stop himself in time, he proceeded in panic to close his eyes and cross his arms in front of his face to brace himself from the impact, but as he was about to crash into the water at full speed, he suddenly heard a voice that was really not supposed to be there'

"IT'S TRAINING TIME BOY!"

*SPLASH*

Raditz suddenly woke up in panic to find that, even though he was completely soaked from head to toe, he was still on his bed at home, safe and nowhere near the lake and his Sister was nowhere to be seen either, only his Father in the middle of his room with an empty bucket in his hands…

…Wait a minute!

As he retook his senses, he pushed the wet covers away from him and glared at his Father "What the fri*k Father! What was that for?! Couldn't you wake me up a little more gently?!"

Bardock only raised an eyebrow at him "You asked, no that's not right, oh yeah, BEG me to train you so you can get the proper training to become a warrior have you not? So get your ass out of bed and join me downstairs, and if you aren't satisfied with how I proceed, go see if someone else will be willing to train you better than I, which I doubt, and if that makes you feel better, I did the same thing with your Sister so that's not as if any of you got any different treatment" and with that, Bardock, with his bucket, walked away without a second glance

Raditz, after several seconds of glaring at the door, released a sigh of exasperation and actually got out of bed and walked into his bathroom with his cloths and armor of the day, he posed everything on a nightstand just beside him and went into his shower to wash himself over as he took the time to think about his nightmare from earlier, while he's relieved that his Sister didn't say any of these to him, and apparently he could also fly, his subconscious found it funny to regroup every insecurities he had and launch it right into his face, at least now he knows what NOT to do when the time to actually face her come

"So" Started Bardock, as he watched his Son walk towards him "As per your request, we are now in a disclose location unique to our training session, which your Sister does not know the existence of, also, which we are on the topic, are you really convinced you have a chance at beating her? I mean, I do not doubt that you seem to have motivation but so soon?"

"Well…" Raditz scratched the back of his head "Either way I will not have to literally beat her, we'll surely make our own rules when we get there, and because she doesn't know that you've been actually training me, I might catch her off guard with an attack that she doesn't expect? At least that's what I hope for…" He admitted, grinning

Bardock only raised an eyebrow, and nodded, understanding "Either way, I already said that it didn't bother me to train you a little, what you use your power for is your responsibility however, also I might add that because you signed up for 2 whole weeks, you will have to follow it through no matter what, which include each session every morning before school, understand?"

"Of course!" Raditz nodded in confirmation, if he's tired, he'll sleep in class anyway!

"Alright, let's get on with it then!"

7:30 π™°πš–

Raditz and Bardock successfully returned from their training session before any of the girls had the time to realize they were even gone, Raditz installed himself at his seat as Bardock went upstairs to wake up the rest of the family

Gine was the first to show up "Hello sweetie, did you have a good sleep?" She asked, curious, as she kissed his forehead and prepared their breakfast

"Yes, although a little tired still but nothing I can't manage" Raditz admitted while he cracked his knuckles and put his hands behind his head while he leaned back against his chair

Gine hummed in understanding "If you say so, anyhow, I'm sure you'll be revitalized after a good ol' meal!"

Raditz hummed in return, he then turned his head as he heard two sets of footsteps on the staircase

His Sister then walked into the kitchen like a zombie while she dragged her feet against the ground, eyes barely open, and dropped herself against her chair while she yawned in fatigue, follow by Bardock, who himself took his place calmly

Gine did the same thing he did to Raditz and gave her daughter a kiss on her forehead, which awaken her a little bit more as she had banged her head against their table and was about to return into the world of dreams, as well as a big kiss on the cheek for Bardock while she placed their breakfast on the table

After all of their stomach were filled, Aspara and Raditz took their school things and armor, then proceed to walk to the door

"If you want I can-'' Bardock was about to volunteer himself to escort the children to school before Gine interrupted him "Nope! I think it will be better for the children to handle school travel themselves! It will build independence!" She declared happily before she gained a strange look as she directed her sigh at her Husband "Your Father and I will have a special activity together…"

The last thing they saw before their Mother closed the door was Bardock's horrified look as he was dragged into the house

"…What was that?" Raditz asked his Sister as they walked along their path leading outside of their property

"Dont worry about it" Aspara replied "Tho I warn you that the last time they did their thing, you came along, so I guess they are just creating another Sibling thingy or something, who will transform our Mother into a balloon again for some reason, and if were lucky and she doesn't pop, I will let this potential Sibling live like I did with you, and another matter is how strong he/she will be"

"Well, I would kinda hope that our 'future Sibling' will be weaker than me, because being the weakest kinda sucks…" Raditz said while he scratched the back of his head

Aspara thought for a moment as she crossed her arms and looked back at Raditz "I guess I don't blame you for thinking like that… I do hope however that it will not be the case, while your will and determination is at least admirable, you're still as strong as a paper cutter for me" she then looked on the ground while she mumbled the last bit "And if he/she is even weaker than you… then I fear the state of our family's reputation at this point…"

However, she didn't see Raditz glaring at her for her comments about his strength before he rolled his eyes and sighed in exasperation, letting it pass, besides, it did motivate him further into his quest 'You'll see during our fight if I'm still as weak as a paper cutter'

"Either way" Aspara continued as she crouched "Get on, were speeding up or we'll be late and I don't want to miss any fights"

Raditz rolled his eyes again as he climbed onto her back, and once she made sure he was securely strapped so he wouldn't fall to his death, she powered up and sped towards their school

πš‚πš‘πšŠπš•πš•πš˜πš π™²πš’πšπš’, πš‚πšŒπš‘πš˜πš˜πš• π™Άπš›πš˜πšžπš—πš, 7:45 π™°πš–

"Wow, we somehow managed to arrive in time!" Aspara said as they approached the ground

"Well, it's not that far from our home you know?" Raditz replied while he kept his grip firmly onto his Sister as she glared back at him behind her shoulder "Maybe, but remember that in the beginning you still managed to somehow arrive 45 minutes late, and, even if you don't know how to fly yet, you still refused to let me help and walked the WHOLE WAY in FOOT and got LOST in the process just because you didn't want the other kids to 'see' you being helped by your big Sis, oh and I also got grounded because of you because I let you go alone, so now you stop being whiny and deal with it or I swear I will persuade Mother to take you to school herself and it will be even worse, understood?"

Raditz rolled his eyes a third time as he let loose his grip on her back and landed on the ground "Yeah, yeah, I heard you"

"It's still being whiny but whatever, wait for me a little, I wanted to speak to general Nappa about our training, I'll be back in 10 minutes tops" with that, Aspara didn't let Raditz respond and walked away, not giving him a choice but to wait as he didn't know the place yet

"Hey, if it isn't little Raditz" a voice greeted behind him

Raditz turned around and immediately frowned as he recognised them, it was a group of 3 brats that loved to pick on him because he came from a higher tier family and profited to state comments like he didn't deserve his place into his family and he's so weak that he can't even beat a low class Saibaiman and other things like that

The two smaller ones are from the Middle Class and the taller one is a High Class level warrior, the good thing is that their pretty stupids and bratty, however, the bad thing is that the taller guy was apparently ranked between 10-15 place in the tournaments, which makes him still able to kick his ass without any effort

"What do you want again…?" He asked, unsure

"Raditz… Raditz… Raditz…. didn't we tell you to watch your tone when you address warrior's WAY stronger than you? We don't want a repeat of last time don't we?" The leader of the 3 asked him with a false friendly smile

Raditz frowned, there's no way he will take this shit today, not even with them "First of all, you consider yourself a warrior but you still lose your time with a quote 'weakling' like me? Also you say you're strong but didn't you get one-shot by Prince Vegeta while you were busy flexing? That's not a feat of a warrior right here, more of someone full of themselves"

While the faces of the other two were completely shocked by what Raditz had dared to say directly in the face of their leader, the latter was completely FURIOUS "WHAT DID YOU SAY?! DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT I COULD DO TO YOU?!"

Raditz however didn't even blink as he just replied with this "Yes, but am I scared? Not really. The only thing your doing right now is proving my point"

He had enough, the leader's punch went flying straight towards his head as Raditz closed his eyes and crossed his arms in front of his face, in preparation of blocking the blow

…but nothing came

He opened his eyes to see his Sister just beside him, blocking the punch by having grabbed his wrist mid movement

Aspara first looked at her little Brother with exasperation "I just left you for not even ten minutes and you're already being attacked by some random guys? Really?!" Then towards the 3 tugs with confusion "And who the heck even are you, morons? Don't you know it's bad for your physical health to attack someone from the Bardock Family while I'm nearby?"

The leader, still furious, tried to pull his arm out of her grip, in vain however, and after he saw that she wouldn't budge, he screamed towards his two friends "You two! Don't stand there staring at us! Do something!"

His two friends looked at each other, unsure, until they both did a war-cry and both leaped straight at Aspara, who only looked at them both like they were stupid and simply used the High Class moron as a hammer as she slammed him into the other two, instantly rendering the both of them KO

The High Class kid then tries to get up, only to get slammed right back into the ground head first by Raditz's foot, knocking him out as well

Aspara only looked at their work, nodded in satisfaction, and then left as if nothing had happened

"Huh… Were just gonna leave them here?" Raditz asked as he caught up with her

Aspara looked over her shoulder to their 3 down quote 'opponents' and shrugged, unconcerned, as she looked back at him with a little grin "Dont worry about it, someone will see them eventually, and it will serve them a lesson to not fuc* with our Family ever again"

With a little sweetdrop by Raditz, the two continued with their day

πšƒπš›πšŠπš’πš—πš’πš—πš π™Άπš›πš˜πšžπš—πš, π™°πšžπšπšžπšœπš 20πšπš‘, 8:30 π™Ώπš–

In some random wasteland, Bardock, scouter in place, stood at distance while Aspara and Raditz were about to face each other

"So" Bardock started, pressing a button on the scouter "I will be the referee for this confrontation, I will set the ground rules as well as record it into this scouter, which comes from the new set that was given to you all several month ago when you went into your travel. It will also be on video feed by Gine's request which was specifically programmed into this scouter for this occasion by the Royal Scientist. Are you both ready?" Both children nodded "Here are the rules : The goal here is to take your opponent out of this drawn circle that you're both currently in" Bardock pointed with his finger the circle traced on the ground which both were standing in (N/A : Which is about half the size of a ring in the Tenkaichi Budokai) "For fair play however, as one is clearly stronger that the other, Aspara will not be able to either fly or use any of her arms, is that understood?"

"Yes!" Aspara responded with a salute as she crossed her arms in front of her

Bardock then turned his scouter towards Raditz "As for you Raditz, you do not have any restriction and you can use any tactic you want to win, and if you both agree to that, then I can start the battle"

When both children responded with a nod of confirmation, Bardock let his arm fall, signaling that the battle had officially started

Raditz took a deep breath and he wrapped his tail around his waist as observed his Sister's next move, unfortunately for him thought, she also did the same and she was simply waiting for him to do the first move

He raised his guard and started thinking which tactic could work against her, he knew he couldn't rush as she was no doubt much faster than him and he could not overpower her either, which means he had to play smart if he wanted to have a chance

…After some deliberation, Raditz decided to immediately rush straight towards Aspara like a bull, which makes her quirk an eyebrow in wonder before she prepared herself to just kick him of the ring

However, instead of trying to punch her like she originally thought he would, she gets completely caught off guard as he suddenly stopped at four feet of distance and launch a ki blast straight to her face, destabilizing her and forcing her to walk backwards, almost reaching the end of their makeshift ring

He went to rush at her again and follow his surprise attack with a fatal punch to hopefully make her fall out of the ring but it apparently wasn't enough of a distraction because she managed to stop her momentum to stabilized herself and responded to his earlier stunt by slapping him with her tail, making him rolling a few meters back until he stopped himself and got rapidly back up, meeting a slightly pissed off Aspara glaring at him "How did you learn that?!"

Raditz gained a smug expression and replied "Did you really think you were the only one that Father was training?"

Aspara's eyes widened in surprise as she turned to their Father "Since when?!"

Bardock shrugged as he continued recording "Every morning for approximately 3 weeks now"

As Aspara looked back towards Raditz, he himself was surprised that he wasn't met with anger but with a very pleased one instead! That's a first!

"You know what?" Aspara exclaimed, excitement heard in her voice "This will be actually interesting!" Then, a smirk of challenge took its place "Alright, show me what you can do against this!"

Instantly, Aspara sprinted faster and faster around Raditz until she appeared as if multiple version of herself surrounded him

"What now? How can you aim at me if you don't know which one I am?"

Immediately, Raditz got a flashback from his dream from when he started training a few weeks ago, how he lost his temper which got him to recklessly attack everywhere in vain and exhaust himself without being able to do anything

He would NOT reproduce the same mistakes this time!

He also does have a rule to his advantage

Raditz then jumped high into the air and… didn't come back down…

Aspara steadily stopped running as she saw Raditz wasn't going to come back and raised an eyebrow as she looked up at him, still floating several meters above her "You know I can't follow you up there because of my restrictions, right?"

"Really?!" Raditz exclaimed in false surprise as he floated aimlessly "I guess you gotta deal with it somehow! Or you can walk out of the circle and give up-" Raditz was interrupted as Aspara let out a laugh "Oh no- I totally can get you without flying or using any of my arms, it's just that you flying kinda defeat the whole purpose of this fight as you need to touch the outside of the circle to lose and if you can just stop yourself mid flight then its kinda cheating you know?"

Raditz rolled his eyes and crossed his arms, appearing confident "I think it's more about you being unable to do anything and trying to convince me to come down and finish me off, but guess what? It will not work because I will stay up there and you can't do anything about it!"

As she calmed down from her laughter, Aspara let out a small smirk, knowing what would come next "Alright, alright, we both can play this little game, but remember, you brought this upon yourself"

Immediately, Aspara started to power up, levitating a good number of rocks as she took a deep breath while contracting her stomach with the support of her arms and bulking her chest "This is by far my least favorite attack but you're forcing my hand here"

"What are you even doing? You can't use either of your hands, remember?" Raditz reasserted, just in case, as his confidence slowly started to change into uncertainty

Aspara, chest still bulked up, chose to respond "Don't worry little bro, I am not planning to cheat, I am only gonna tell you to get down, only in a more… strong and effective way"

As a very bad feeling took hold of his guts, he slowly raised his guard up "...and how do you plan to do it…?"

Aspara smirk widened as she replied "Simply like this : GET DOOOOOWN" and launched a big green ki wave out of her mouth and directly into his direction as this time it was his eyes that widened as he powered up and flew out of its trajectory before it could reach him

"So?" Aspara said as she wiped the saliva from her mouth with her shoulders "You want to force me to do it again or have you finally decided to come down here?"

Raditz, after some deliberation, decided to fly down and return into the circle instead of staying in the sky and risking being shot at like a bird "How did you do that? I'm genuinely curious"

Aspara shrugged before commenting "Nappa taught me, but enough is enough, you did good but this fight is starting to last so I'll finish this quick" then rushes at Raditz, clearly wanting to take him out in one blow

However at the last few seconds, Raditz tried his last card and created two ki blasts from both of his hand and threw it at the ground at Aspara's feet, which made her stop in her track and created a big cloud of dust

"Wha-" Aspara couldn't concentrate on localizing him anymore, she had dust in her eyes as well as in her mouth, and coupled with her attack from earlier she will definitely have to take a mouthwash after this, now, where this little shit disappeared t-

As she was about to finished this train of thought, Raditz sneaked behind her and with all of his remaining strength, he kicked her as hard as he could into her back, sending her tumbling back and out of the makeshift ring and granting him the win

"Wow, you were able to pull this off after all, congrats" Bardock said to his son as he came over after stopping the recording

"I admit…" Aspara added, as she got up and rejoined them "I didn't think you would be so reckless, although I warn you that if you redo something like that in a real match, not only you will damage yourself, but it will make your opponent more pissed off than anything" She warned him, before giving her brother a little smile and clapping lightly with her hands "However, I still admit my defeat, bravo, your surprise attacks gave you the win this time"

With a big grin, Raditz raised his fist in the air in celebration "YAY! 1 for Raditz and 0 for-" until he got slapped in the face by his Sister's tail "Not another word you brat, don't get cocky because you managed to outsmart me, this would be real match I would have got up and blast you to our closest Moon, don't test your luck"

When Raditz got up, while rubbing the side of his cheek, which was red, Aspara dropped her menacing scowl before smiling again "Buuut, because unfortunately for me a victory is still a victory, you deserve a reward, although because Father already taught you how to fly and how to use your ki, I gotta find something else that you can benefit, but what…" she then picked her chin and thought for several second before shrugging to herself, making her mind "Alright, here's what we're gonna do, tomorrow morning I'll convoque my whole crew and maybe I can arrange a meeting so you can potentially join our group, but I'll make things clear, YOU do the talking, I will only propose the idea and be here as a support and you will have to sell yourself to the others and convince them, is that good for you?"

As Bardock's eyes widened a little at her proposition, Raditz suddenly got ecstatic at the Idea, finally he could have an opportunity to get some recognition and being in his Sister's crew would finally get the respect he wanted for so long! If he can at least get it from his future comrades that is… because while he almost never talked to any of them, at least Komatsu seemed friendly, and she seems to pretty much go along with whatever her Sister says. The Prince however, if what he remembered is accurate, seemed pretty scary and mean the last time he saw him, which means this will not be easy

…alright fuc* this, he will never get any other golden opportunity from his Sister like this otherwise

Raditz looked at his Sister straight into her eyes before stating strongly "I'm down!"

"Ok" Aspara nodded in understanding "Tomorrow it is then"

"Hold on a second" Bardock interrupted "Would the King even allow this? Raditz is not even a Low Class in term of strength-"

"Fuc* him then" Aspara interrupted as well as she stated her discontent with the King while she crossed her arms in defiance "It's our crew, we do what we want with it, not him, heck even Nappa would have more of a say in this than this guy"

Bardock raised an eyebrow at her reply "Why do you hate him so much now all of a sudden?"

Hearing this however, his Daughter could only reply with a deadpan expression "…Don't you remember what I told you?"

Bardock looked at her blankly for a moment, before he sighed "Nevermind…"

πš‚πš‘πšŠπš•πš•πš˜πš π™ΏπšŠπš›πš”, π™°πšžπšπšžπšœπš 21πšπš‘, 11:50 π™°πš–

"Why should we accept a weakling like you into our group?" Vegeta asked him as himself, Aspara and Komatsu were sat on a picnic table in front of Raditz as if they were having an interview (they kinda were actually) while Nappa was standing beside them, being a neutral party and only observing their interaction

"First of all" Raditz started as he was trying to appear as professional and serious as possible "I not only managed to outsmart my Sis multiple times yesterday but I also defeated her at her own game! This prove that I could be helpful in case we need a strategy vs a stronger opponent"

"I admit you have a point'' Komatsu interrupted "However, as Veggie said, you aren't very strong… You managed to beat Aspara at your little game yes but as we saw in the recording, if this was a real confrontation she would have simply got up and kicked your ass. Are you sure you could even survive with us? It's something you should also consider Raditz, it's not only about prestige but also about what you could do or not… While having a talent in strategy is a valuable asset to have, it will do nothing if the enemy can simply shrug off everything you throw at them, what will you do then?"

"Well… I agree I can not do much right now but I can improve and learn! It's why I wanted to join in the first place! So I can progress! Please give me at least some chances to prove myself! I promise I will not disappoint!" Raditz finished his speech with a bow is he closed his eyes and waited for the verdict

As the girls were silent, also waiting to know what was the Prince's decision, Nappa decided to voice his thought and propose his idea "I suggest to make him at least a member honorific for now Prince Vegeta, like this he will not really be member permanent and he can still come with us on mission, like a trial if you will"

After some moment of silence, Vegeta announced his verdict, tone serious "Fine, ok for the trial, but if we catch you slacking or if we fail a mission because of you, we're leaving you alone on some random planet, is that clear?"

Hearing this, Raditz became ecstatic, beside the leaving him on some random planet part but whatever, finally he could go on a real mission and prove that he is more than Aspara's weak little Brother

"Well…" Aspara exclaimed as she got out of their picnic table "If that's out of the way, me and Raditz will go home now. Bye bye to you three" and after fist bumping Komatsu and giving a bye sign to Vegeta and Nappa, Raditz and herself powered up and flew towards home to announce the news to their Mother

π™½πšŽπš‘πš π™²πš‘πšŠπš™πšπšŽπš› : π™ΊπšŠπš”πšŠπš›πš˜πš'𝚜 π™΅πšŠπšπšŽ