6 days later, at Akio's home

Fasha and Raditz had gotten Akio to her healing chamber, with Fasha stripping her mate down until she was naked and had put her in before activating it, starting her healing process as she was blissfully sleeping.

"So, it appears that while we're back in shape, our princess will have a much longer time to heal." Raditz said with a bit of worry.

"Unfortunately yes, Raditz. As Akio said: this is 1 of the much older healing chambers. It was fortunate she even had this at all when queen Carrotalot decided to put it in her pod." Fasha answered while feasting on a fruit. "I've already programmed it to heal her at its maximum and even put the emergency equipment online in case of the worst. For now, all we can do is hope and wait for Akio to heal."

But then, Raditz had a thought. "Regardless, we can't wait for Akio to be healed, Fasha. We must leave and head for planet Namek, now. Vegeta may be injured but something tells me he'll recover soon enough and head there himself. And we both know exactly what he'll do when he gets there."

"I know. It's just I don't feel comfortable leaving my Akio here alone when there's the possibility that Vegeta may come here 1st after he's healed and try to kill her while she heals." Fasha said with great concern for her mate and princess.

"Then I'll just go myself, get the dragon balls and wish Piccolo back to life." Raditz offered. "Or you could do it and I'll stay here and guard Akio. I've been on this planet long enough to know that there's nothing here that can harm her or us, not even these weak human military weapons."

But Fasha was dead-set against that, as she knew that the Frieza Force liked to eavesdrop on the scouters 24/7, either for gossip or getting very valuable information. "No way, Raditz! You know that Frieza's mindless thugs like eavesdropping on the scouters. And with what you said about the dragon balls and everything else that's happened since we arrived on Earth and with Vegeta and Nappa having their scouters as well, it's more than likely Frieza will be going to Namek for the dragon balls himself."

"Which is precisely why we must go now! With our power and skills having increased as it has, we're more than capable of taking his lackeys down, even Zarbon and Dodoria won't be a problem for us anymore. At the very least, we'll get there 1st, get the dragon balls and bring back Piccolo. His old counterpart will return as well and so will the dragon balls here. Once they're restored we'll leave Namek before Frieza even gets there." Raditz tried to reason with his auntie-like figure.

"His brainless lackeys, yes, but Frieza himself is way too much for both of us. And even if Akio's healed, we still couldn't beat him." Fasha said with regret. "So, it appears we've reached a stalemate. We can't leave Akio in that weakened state due to Vegeta and we can't let stay here without either him or Frieza and his minions getting the Namekian dragon balls 1st."

But that was when they heard an aircraft landing outside of the house, making them think that Bulma had come to visit. They went outside and saw a very fancy Earth car that was violet in color before the door opened and a woman stepped out. The woman was about in her late 20s and had blue eyes and violet hair, wearing what looked like a very expensive purple leather dress that showed much cleavage and was split to show her left leg with comfy shoes to match.

The woman took a look around and saw Fasha and Raditz seeing very similar looks to the 1 she'd come here to see. "Hi. Excuse me for dropping by unannounced, but…would you guys happen to know someone named, um…Akio?"

Fasha raised an eyebrow and answered. "Yes. But what's your business with Akio, earth woman? Who the hell are you?"

Raditz aimed a blast at her and demanded. "Speak quickly!"

The woman was fearful but calmed down and explained who she was. "My…name's Violet. Former colonel Violet of the Red Ribbon Army."

That got Fasha's attention, having been told about the Red Ribbon Army by Akio and how she slaughtered them for getting in the way of her collecting the dragon balls years ago. "I know about that pathetic excuse for an army. Why are you here, revenge? I can assure you if that's what you're here for, the only thing you'll be getting is a 1 way ticket to Hell just like the rest of the ones who didn't cut their losses."

But Violet assured them. "Don't worry, I'm not here for revenge. Even if I was, I know damn well that Akio could kill me and she wouldn't even need a fraction of her strength to do it. And I know that you 2 wouldn't either."

"Is that so?" Raditz asked. "How did you even know where Akio lived? Have you been spying on her?"

"Of course not. I…saw the World Tournament years ago and looked her up on the old list of fighters. And after going to Bulma, who was much easier to find, she told me where she lived and I came here to find Akio. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if they followed me here." Violet said before seeing Bulma's plane quickly landing.

Once it landed, Bulma had come out, along with Chi-Chi and Mai, making Raditz smirk. "Ah, Bulma, how nice of you to drop by. And you brought the 1 named…Mai, I believe her name is.

"We only came to see if you harmed Ms. Violet here." Bulma said with worry. "But it seems we got here a few minutes after she did."

"Don't worry, Ms. Bulma, they haven't hurt me." Violet assured her. "But I I said, I tracked Akio down…to thank her."

"Thank her? Thank her for what?" Fasha asked while waving her tail around.

Violet turned to Fasha and smiled. "For unwittingly helping me enrich my life. When Akio single-handedly destroyed the Red Ribbon Army, I knew they'd easily lose to Akio. So, during the chaos while everyone else was getting slaughtered or fleeing for their lives, I broke into the commander's private safe and stole every bit of money, gold and jewelry he had, as a severance package, loaded up and cut my losses. And, for the next few years, I've lived the high life, while making a shelter for monkeys and apes, as I've always loved them. But, I realized years later that I needed to thank Akio for what she did for me and, after seeing the 23rd World Tournament and keeping track of her, especially at Ms Bulma and Chi-Chi's wedding, I waited for the next few years and let them enjoy their beautiful little girl before I finally decided to find Akio and personally thank her for everything."

Fasha seemed to understand that. "I see. Unfortunately, Akio is healing at the moment."

Raditz saw Chi-Chi and grinned. "Didn't bring your little flower, Chi-Chi? I was rather hoping to see her again."

"Our little angel is with her family! Trust me, Raditz, she will not get anywhere near you, Fasha and especially not that crazy bitch princess of yours!" Chi-Chi said with her usual angry voice.

"Too bad." Fasha said with a smirk. "I was hoping she'd visit her dearest auntie Fasha."

"Akio's…healing?" Violet asked with surprise. She quickly rushed inside the house and found the healing chamber in a special room that Bulma had made years ago. There, she saw Akio peacefully sleeping inside, completely naked. Violet looked at the monitor machines and saw Akio's injuries. "By Kami. What…what happened to her?"

"Her brother." Mai said while walking up to her. "Bulma told me that Akio's long lost brother came here with his nearly brainless brute Nappa and tried to take over the planet from Akio and sell it to the highest bidder. But Akio fought him to keep it, as hard as she fought Piccolo at the World Tournament. But eventually, she beat him after they both injured each other to the point where their bodies were broken and he was forced to leave the planet."

Violet looked at Mai and her face was very surprised at how…beautiful she was as her heart had skipped a beat while everything had seemed to stop and there wasn't anything else but the 2 of them. And Mai, after looking at the violet haired woman, seemed to feel the exact same way as they blushed tomato red. "Oh, uh…hey."

"Hi." Mai said before they quickly looked away from each other. "Anyway, with Akio's body as it is, she's gonna have to stay in here for a couple of months at best."

"How will she…" Violet asked, wondering how Akio will get food and drinks if in that chamber for mouths.

"Well, she'll be sleeping the whole time and Bulma told me that Saiyans can go for a year in these things without food or drinks. Akio's brother went for nearly that long when he traveled here without anything but sleeping." Mai explained. "She should be okay for a couple months, as long as someone's here to keep an eye on her while she heals. Which I'll be doing, as I already helped complete a lot of projects for Capsule Corp so I'm on vacation time."

Violet seemed to understand that and offered. "Well, if you want some company, I'll more than happily help. I'm sure that Bulma and Chi-Chi will wanna spend time with their little girl on her summer vacation." But then she wondered. "But, what are…Saiyans?"

Bulma walked in, followed by Raditz and Fasha. "I'll tell you, if that's alright."

Violet smiled and accepted. "That'd be great, Ms Bulma." And after an hour, she began to understand why Akio was so strong and displayed extraordinary powers and seemed unstoppable. "So…Akio's a warrior princess from another planet and was sent here as an infant by her parents?"

"Yeah. But she's caused trouble for everyone ever since I met her. But despite her insanity, she's also very smart and…occasionally does some good." Bulma said. "Then, after Piccolo came along, she finally found someone worthy enough to call comrade, ally, even brother in arms. Then, a few years later, Raditz and Fasha came here and 1 year later, they stopped Akio's brother, but at the cost of some friends of ours and, you know the rest."

Violet still couldn't believe that Akio was really an alien from another planet, but as it made sense and her soft spot for monkeys and apes of all kinds, she quickly accepted it. "Wow. It's a lot to take in, but it's…amazing at the same time."

"So, Ms. Violet, what do you plan on doing now that you know what Akio and we are?" Raditz asked with his arms crossed as he waved his tail up and down.

"Well, seeing as how I still wanna thank Akio for getting me where I am today, and since Ms. Mai may need some help looking after Akio's recovery while you guys head for this Namek or wherever, I'm thinking of sticking around here for now." Violet answered while smiling. "If that's alright with you, Ms. Fasha."

Fasha figured that this earth woman wasn't all bad and plus, unlike certain others she and Raditz knew, she didn't see them as just mindless monkeys and even liked them for their roots due to her natural soft for all earth monkeys and apes. And she could see that this woman was eyeing Mai in a way Akio did her at Snake's palace.

So, she nodded her head with a small smile. "That's very kind of you, Ms Violet. You have my approval for staying here and looking after my Akio. But then, she looked her in the eye. "But, should anything happen to her, there's nowhere on this planet you'll be able to hide from me. Understand?"

Violet nervously nodded. "Understood, Ms. Fasha."

But Raditz, due to being told about what happened between Fasha and Akio in the Otherworld, corrected her. "That's princess Fasha to you, earth woman."

Bulma, who saw Akio and Fasha kiss on the plane days ago, was easily able to put 2 and 2 together. "That means…she and Akio…mated, which by Saiyan traditions, makes Fasha Akio's lifelong mate and a princess of the Saiyan race as well."

"Hahaha. It doesn't really surprise me, though. Fasha discovered she was only into women when she was 13 years old." Raditz revealed, as he'd known about Fasha's preferred sexuality for years. "She even had 1 night stands with other females capetable to Saiyans before we came to Earth, but they were just for stress relief, pleasure and fun."

"Still, doesn't it freak you out that Akio is like, 20 years younger than you, Fasha?" Chi-Chi asked with an annoyed look.

"So what if she is." Fasha said with a glare. "I've had plenty of 1 night stands with other younger girls below my age before, even other Saiyan women before planet Vegeta was destroyed. They just weren't the ones for me until I met Akio all grown up and turning out to be better than we hoped she would be. And besides, you fell in love, married and even had your little flower with Bulma here, and she's older than you by a fair age as well, so don't be such a hypocrite."

Chi-Chi wanted to say something back, but knew Fasha was right and that she'd never win an argument with her. "Okay, you got me there."

But that was when a voice spoke to them. "Excuse me, everyone." Making them turn around and seeing Mr. Popo. "Hey."

"Ah, the 1 named Popo, current? Piccolo told me about you. You're his weak counterpart's assistant. The 1 who served the previous guardian and perhaps the guardian before him?" Raditz asked while crossing his arms.

"Yes."

"What are you doing here?" Fasha asked. "Unless it's to keep an eye on my Akio or a way to heal her faster, go back to that lookout and water the plants or chase butterflies, now! Raditz and I have a little mission to make to Namek to find those dragon balls and revive our fallen comrade."

But Popo assured them. "Don't worry, princess Fasha, I assure you what I have to show you will be worth your while. It's quite possible it's a spaceship."

"Spaceship or starship, Popo." Raditz said. "Spaceships are meant for flights in solar systems, but starships are for traveling to different solar systems."

"I'm not entirely sure, but it could be a starship. But I wanted to show you before getting any hopes up."

Fasha stepped up. "I'll go with you, assistant, but this had better not be a waste of time. A certain other interested party may very well be making plans to go to Namek as we speak, and we'd absolutely love to beat them there and get the dragon balls before they do."

"Then let us waste no time then." Popo said before going outside, prepared his magic carpet and got on it. "If you would kindly get on, please?"

Fasha was dumbstruck. "What the fuck? I'm not getting on something that's used to cover up a house floor!"

"I assure you, Fasha, it's more than just an ordinary carpet." Popo kindly said. "And it's much faster than it looks."

Fasha was still a bit dumbstruck, but knew that time was of the essence, so, reluctantly, she stepped on the carpet and asked. "What now? Is something meant to happen?"

"Of course." Popo said before it seemed like they had teleported to another place, which had large rocky edges and very hard and cold winds. The carpet hovered to the ground and Popo got off. "Here we are."

"What the hell? Where are we? What is this place?" Fasha asked with a bit of surprise.

"It's called Yunzabit Heights." Popo answered.

Fasha was familiar with the place, as Akio, through Kami, had told her about it. "Akio told me about this place. She told me that Piccolo's old counterpart lived here long before going to that lookout of yours."

"Indeed." Popo said before leading Fasha around, as if trying to find something until they came upon a dead end.

"Why did you drag me here just to find a starship, genie?" Fasha demanded as her hair blew in the wind, along with her tail fur. "Raditz and I have our pods, which have been modified by Akio's Capsule Corporation or whatever it's called. Plus Akio's pod has been on earth for 20 years."

"All in due time, princess Fasha." Popo said before jumping on the upper rocks while Fasha did the same before they saw some kind of alien insect a few feet away from them. "This is it. He said before jumping down in front of the object. "Does this satisfy you?"

Fasha walked up to the ship and rubbed and tapped her tail on the parts of the object that wasn't covered in green moss. "Hmmm…it definitely feels almost like some kind of metal, but at the same time it isn't." Then she realized something. "Wait. Piccolo and his old counterpart are Namekian, but Akio told me that not even they realized it until Vegeta and Nappa told Piccolo."

Popo then explained something to Fasha that Kami told him long ago. "About 100 years ago, Kami finally told me the story of his life before he came to the Lookout."

Flashback, 100 years ago

"So you see, Mr. Popo, when I was a child, I used to live in a place called Yunzabit Heights. It was a very cold and lonely place." Kami revealed to his friend and assistant.

Popo was surprised that his master would live in a place like that, as the land was desolate and very few people ever went there. "Why would you live there?"

"I didn't." Kami answered. "I have no clue how I came to be there. Apparently, I must have hit my head and lost my memory. I have no memory of my parents or anything else up to that point."

"But you had parents, didn't you?"

"I don't know. All I had was a letter that said to wait here and I will come for you soon. But I was certain that someone would come looking for me. So I spent my entire childhood at Yunzabit. But that certainty faded with each passing day. And as time went on, days turned into weeks, weeks to months, and months turned into years. I don't know how many years I stayed. It could have easily been 20, 30 or even more. Eventually, I left Yunzabit Heights behind me. I go back there every now and then but nothing has ever changed." Then he chuckled. "Back then, I thought I had the most normal home in the world but it was years later that I fully comprehended how strange the home I had really was. Not to mention it was round, had 4 legs and looked like some kind of giant alien insect. And that the door to it had no knob or lock. In fact, the only way I could open it was with a single vocal command."

Flashback end

"And that word…was Piccolo." Popo revealed, making Fasha raise an eyebrow before a batch came down like a door with an electric hum.

"Get on." Fasha told him before she and Popo got on the hatch. "Hmm…Piccolo." She said before the hatch went up, as if closing it before its lights came on and they looked around the inside, seeing a chair as what looked like a control device in front of it. "Yep, it's definitely a starship. Any normal human wouldn't be able to figure it out, but I can tell what this thing is at a glance."

"Kami always called this his house, but due to his memory loss, he couldn't realize that it was really a starship." Popo said.

"Indeed. But I bet even he had his suspicion that this thing had to be a little strange for a house. But I know exactly what it is." Fasha said while sitting in the chair.

"But why didn't Akio herself realize what Piccolo and Kami truly were? I mean, you, Raditz, Nappa and Vegeta knew just by seeing him only once, so why didn't she?" Popo wondered, as he was confused about why Akio didn't recognize what Piccolo was when meeting his father years ago. "Shouldn't her computer have had data on other species across the universe?"

"That is very offensive…and complimentary of you to say, genie. While my race did know many life forms in the universe, we'd only built Akio's pod 1 year before planet Vegeta was destroyed. There wasn't any time for us to put data on any other being of the universe, only complete knowledge of our race as well as the training holograms of me and Akio's parents." Fasha explained while being slightly offended and complemented at the same time.

"Well, I guess that explains it." Popo said, accepting that answer. "Sorry for offending you."

"Sure." Fasha said. "But it explains how the Namekian that became Kami and Piccolo arrived on Earth in the 1st place. That Kai fool said that planet Namek was in crisis because of severe climate change, so his father had to have sent him here to save him. But his father more than likely died when the crisis happened, so he couldn't come for him."

"Now that I think about it, it's quite similar to how Akio came to be here. Akio always said that King Vegeta and Queen Carrotalot sent her here to save her so she could live on and survive. Kami's parents must have done the same thing for him." Popo theorized.

"Kami's father, Popo." Fasha currented. "Namekians reproduce asexually, not like Saiyans or earthlings. You or Kami never figured that out due to King Piccolo spitting out eggs? That didn't seem a little odd to you or him?"

"Well…no. But naturally, we just assumed that it was just an ability King Piccolo had. I mean, Kami never did it himself."

"Don't assume everything, genie!" Fasha told him. "But, back to the matter at hand. With what I know now, Piccolo and Akio have a deeper connection than even they thought they did. It was under different circumstances, but they came to be by their parents setting the same course. And with Kami's father never coming for him, it's more than likely he died and it explains why their old society and tech is now lost to time…except for this starship."

"Indeed. And I imagine it will just bring Akio and Piccolo even closer when they find out about their deeper connection." Popo said. "I only wonder what Kami's reaction will be."

"Well obviously, this ship is activated by vocal commands. And if I'm right, you must be able to speak Namekian in order to operate it." Fasha theorized.

"That could be the case. At the 23rd World Tournament, Piccolo, Kami and even Akio herself spoke a strange language that sounded alien to everyone else, even Bulma and her friends and family." Popo realized. "Of course it's only now that I realize that it was the Namekian language they spoke, only no 1 knew it, not even Piccolo Kami or Akio. But fortunately, Kami taught me all that he knew of his native language, and the same can be said for Akio, who was taught by Piccolo."

"Good. Then let me test this ship and see if it works. Tell it to fly to the solar planet known as Jupiter." Fasha told him, making him do just that as he spoke Namekian to the ship's control panel. Fasha sat in the chair and said. "Brace yourself, genie." She said before the ship suddenly took off, flying at incredible speed off the Earth until it got to Jupiter in a matter of seconds. Fasha looked out the window and was barely surprised. "Impressive. Though, the Saiyan space pods could have done this in a bit less time."

And when Popo flew it back to where it was, they got out of the ship and Fasha made sure to close the opening hatch as Popo asked her with hope. "So, what do you think, Fasha, will you and Raditz use this ship to fly to Namek?"

Fasha waited until Popo was out of the way…before she grinned insanely. "Hahaha. Hahaha. Hahahahaha! Sorry, genie, but this ship just made its 2nd…and last voyage." She said before firing a pink blast that completely vaporized the old Namekian ship!

Popo was shocked at this as he walked up to where the Namekian ship used to be. "Fasha…how…could you…? W…why did you do that? That ship could have been useful to you and Akio and Raditz!"

Fasha banged her tail on the ground as she answered. "Because that ship, while barely impressive…wasn't of any use to me. And I doubt it would have been useful to my Akio either. Like I said, a Saiyan starship could have gotten to Jupiter from here in even less time, and Frieza's ships are even faster than that. And there's the fact that I didn't want Bulma or any of her friends trying anything stupid and pointless behind mine, Raditz and especially my Akio's backs, like trying to take that ship to Namek themselves and just get in the way of us and our next mission."

"But…but…"

"But nothing, genie!" Fasha said while grabbing him by the vest and lifting him up. "3 eyes and his friends got in the way of our battle against Vegeta and Nappa and look what happened: they got themselves beat senseless and killed, especially the scared human and that midget that got themselves killed by Saibamen of all creatures because they got cocky and lowered their guard. And Akio told me all about Bulma and the rest of her little circle of meddling pests, how they always rush into situations that don't concern them and end up either getting there too late or getting in the way. So, while I thank you for the history lesson and the revelation that my Akio has a deeper connection with Piccolo than even they thought, this was a complete waste of time."

A while later, back at Akio's home

Raditz was surprised that Fasha had learned of Akio's and Piccolo's deeper connection. "So, our princess and Piccolo set the same course by being sent to this backwards planet. I imagine that will please both of them."

"Indeed. But, now that we've got that little detour out of the way, we should head to Namek now." Fasha said with determination to revive Piccolo. "Preferably before anyone else who was more than likely eavesdropping on the scouters decides to go there 1st."

"Then let's head there immediately." Fasha said before looking at Bulma. "Okay, Bulma, your earth corporation has had a year to modify our pods, so show them to us."

"Okay. Plus, I've made another useful item that could help you look for the dragon balls easier than just looking around from place to place." Bulma said.

A little later in West City

Raditz and Fasha saw the ship that she and her father had remade and even improved from their pods. "Well, I have to hand it to you, Bulma, that brain of yours is quite a useful thing." Raditz complemented.

"Indeed. It's no wonder my Akio trusts you and even considers you her 'friend' more than any other earthling." Fasha added.

"Well…thanks, I guess." Bulma said before showing them 2 modified scouters that were green in color. "And these are the devices I told you about."

"Scouters? We've outgrown those silly little gadgets, Bulma. What do we need them for?" Fasha asked.

"These aren't normal scouters. While they still work as communication devices, I managed to upgrade them to track down dragon balls like my old dragon radar. And as an extra precaution, I made it so it could communicate only with the earth scouters, that way whoever else is with you won't be able to eavesdrop on your conversations but I kept the extremely long range distance feature so it'll be able to reach from anywhere in the universe." Bulma explained before giving them to Fasha and Raditz.

Raditz smiled and took the scouter. "Well, that will be very useful."

"I trust it can still read power levels as well?" Fasha asked.

"Yeah. Despite that you don't really need scouters for that anymore, I thought it might still be useful in some ways. And as a bonus, it won't short out if the power levels get too high for the scouter's readings. And I upgraded it so it'll at least be able to read the 9 hundreds of thousands numbers. But any higher than that's out of the question." Bulma explained further.

"Well, that does it for these scouters, but what about the ship?" Raditz asked.

"Well, the ship has an artificial gravity machine that can reach at least 100 times that of Earth's, and given your adaptive nature, it should be easy for you both if you go steady with it. Akio told me planet Vegeta had 10x the gravity of Earth's so 20x is a good place to start when you're ready for it. And I made sure to label the buttons so that you can easily operate it. And, as an extra useful feature, provided by Akio's special pod and with replication and a little reverse-engineering, the ship doesn't move through jet propulsion and it's entire bottom section is an extremely heavily armored anti-gravitational device that allows it to move through gravity control, as well as the strongest metal on earth combined with bits of the armor of your pods for the entire ship, so you won't need to be too careful with the occasional crash landings but meteors are a different story. And, it has living quarters, bedrooms, bathrooms and even a fully stocked kitchen."

Fasha smirked. "You've exceeded our expectations, Bulma. And then some."

"How long until we reach Namek?" Raditz asked, as he knew this ship, while exceptional, needed to be as fast as possible for interstellar travel.

"Approximately, 6 days, give or take. Depending on if you don't take any detours on the way there." Bulma answered. "And I even programmed it so it would respond to your little remote that controls your old pods, and gave it the ability to capsulize with the touch of the new green button on it. And considering how durable these things are due to the fact that Vegeta had his in his armor the whole time he was taking all that damage, you shouldn't have to worry about it getting destroyed."

"How about healing chambers?" Raditz asked. "Did you manage to replicate that as well?"

"Sure. We managed to make 2 and install them beside the living quarters. And as a very useful feature, I rigged metal clamps that respond to any serious injuries you guys might get while training and the chambers are automatically set to start the healing process once you're in it. Plus, it's a new model, so it should take about…30 minutes at least for you to heal, given how resilient Saiyans are."

"Excellent." Fasha said with a smile before turning serious and pulling Bulma to her to look her in the eyes. "You and your father be absolutely sure that when my Akio is healed, a ship just like this 1 will be ready for her departure. And make absolutely sure she's out of that chamber when she's fully healed and ready. Ms Mai and Ms Violet may be watching over her, but if anything happens to her, I'll hold you personally responsible for their failure."

Bulma, being used to Akio's intimidations, kept her composure. "Don't worry, Fasha. It's not like there's anything on earth that can't threaten her life. And if her journey is delayed, I of all people know what she'll do…unless you forget that I've known her for 2 decades."

Violet and Mai came up to them and said. "Hi, Fasha. We just wanted to see you and Raditz off, if that's alright."

Fasha let go of Bulma and smirked. "Very kind of you both." She said kindly. "Bulma, be sure to tell your little flower that auntie Fasha says hi and see her later. But, if something does come up, we'll be heading right back here."

Raditz and Fasha got inside the ship and the mechanical ramp/door closed behind them before its lights automatically turned on. "Impressive, I'll admit. If only our scientists could have made ships like these, with some even being a fraction of the size built for at least 2 people."

"Perhaps." Fasha said with an impressed look on her face. "But no time for sightseeing right this second, let's get going immediately." Before they sat down on the installed chairs.

Raditz pressed the takeoff button, making the ship turn on before it hovered up and its landing clamps retracted into place for flight. And in a matter of seconds, the ship was off the Earth and began its journey to planet Namek. "I'd say a successful field test, wouldn't you agree, Fasha?"

"Indeed." Fasha answered as the ship flew at a very fast speed past the solar system while she thought to herself. 'My precious Akio, if the gods allow it, we'll see each other again in just a few days.'

Raditz got up and put his hand on Fasha's shoulder. "Come, Fasha, it's time we start our training. We'll need to make every minute of this count in case we have to face other interested parties." Getting a nod from Fasha before they went to the gravity machine and turned it to 20x gravity before starting their training.

2 days later, on another planet

Having found another suitable planet, the Saiyan and his 5 alien crew landed on the planet, with the biggest orange skinned alien and the other 4 standing on a high ledge. "Yes. There's the spot our tree will grow." He said before using his Planet Bomb technique to destroy a large part of the lower area!

The smaller human-like alien then threw a seed of sorts into the hole that was made, reluctantly smiling. "It's unfortunate that we must do this, but…as with many others, it's a necessary evil."

"Indeed. And when we finally meet princess Akio, I hope that when we explain it to her, she'll understand." The alien cyborg said.

"I'm sure she will. Especially since we're going to Earth with the fruit and giving some of them to her, Fasha and Raditz." The small alien added.

And a little later, the seed began growing very big roots before a small plant came from the ground. And a while later, the small plant began to grow into a gigantic tree that was so big anyone could see it from a short distance away from the planet. And within a day's time, the tree was mature but its roots were still growing and forming all around the planet!

And in the big Space pod, the leader of the small band of mercenaries was watching. "This planet is quite the ideal place for the Tree of Might to grow. And soon, the fruit of it will blossom and we will reap what we've sown. It's a pity for this planet. It would have made quite a useful headquarters or a home, but unfortunately, as long as Frieza, Cold and Icicle are out there, no planet will be safe. I can only hope that…1 day when they're gone, the Tree of Might won't be needed anymore."

1 day later

Fasha and Raditz had managed to increase their strength quickly sufficiently, while also overcoming the 20, 30 and even 50x gravity settings in just 3 days. And while they stuck with intense physical training, Raditz also introduced Fasha to the meditative training Piccolo showed him, which gained her a new understanding of how to get stronger without torturing their bodies as much. Fasha even took the time to focus more on the Kaio-Ken technique, wanting to increase the number of how far she could take it as much as possible, and was successful, as she'd gotten it to at least x4.

Fasha also told Raditz about the Otherworld and how strangely bizarre it truly was compared to what any mortal could imagine, especially when Akio defeated Yemma and threw him down to hell. She also told him about Snake but left out the more private parts, while also telling him about her finally meeting her parents, as well as Akio finally meeting her parents too, and especially about Bardock and Gine, as well as his father's and Fasha's crew and everything her father and Gine had done to get them out of Hell and into Heaven, which amazed Raditz and even made him so proud of his mother, as she was more of a warrior then he thought if she was willing to do all that for Bardock and his crew.

They'd also made sure to eat, bathe and rest whenever they could so as not to exhaust themselves, as they wouldn't be at their full power if they didn't. Bulma also made sure to copy their armor and had given Raditz an undersuit that covered his legs but was left sleeveless, while Fasha's was the same way, but pink and showed off her legs, as Akio loved it and a Fasha herself as well due to it being her preferred style.

As Fasha had just eaten a snack and had showered after 4 hours of sparring and merit with Raditz, she had just dressed up in a fresh bodysuit and armor, waving her tail around when she felt a bump. "What the hell? That wasn't Raditz, something hit the ship."

"Fasha, get up here now!" Raditz called out before she rushed up to the controls and saw asteroids from the window. "Approaching asteroids!"

"Fuck! Raditz, you keep monitoring the computer, I'll go out and destroy the rocks." Fasha said while pushing a button, making a spacesuit come down but only getting the magnetic boots and putting them on.

"What?! But Fasha…"

"Do as I say, Raditz!" Fasha told him before opening a hatch and going outside, where she fortunately, thanks to Akio's wish, didn't feel the effects of being out in outer space, and as such, she could breathe and didn't feel the extreme cold. After activating the boots and getting into position, she quickly fired a barrage of energy blasts at the asteroids, destroying them all before firing a massive Hunting Arrow at the other rocks, destroying them all, but 1 of them hit the ship, causing massive damage to the hull!

"Fasha, the hull's been breached!" Raditz said through her scouter.

Fasha looked and saw a massive breach in the hull, forcing her to use some of her energy to keep the hull from bleeding out. "Raditz, find the nearest habitable planet close to us and change course! If we don't land soon, our ship is scrap metal!"

Raditz quickly did just that and quickly found a planet that was habitable and it was 8x bigger than the Earth or planet Vegeta. It had no intelligent life but was close enough to where their ship would bleed out. "I found 1. It's over 10 minutes away from us if we use maximum speed! I'm changing course now!" He said before doing just that before the ship headed for the planet, with Fasha concentrating hard until they got to the planet, with the planet's atmosphere not incinerating Fasha her the ship found a safe place to land and Raditz initiated the landing procedure before it touched the grassy ground.

Fasha took off the boosts and jumped off the ship as Raditz opened it and came out before they looked at the massive hole. "Damn it! We don't have enough parts to repair this!"

"At this rate, we'll have to contact Bulma and inform her of the situation." Raditz said. "But it'll take at least a week for them to build another ship and it'll take her 3 days to even get here!"

Fasha sighed before telling him while capsulizing the ship and giving it to Raditz to put in his armor. "Let's just see if there's anything on this planet that can be useful to us and then we'll contact Bulma."

The 2 Saiyans then spent the next couple of hours flying around the planet and saw that it was a world full of trees and grass and all other things nature produced for most planets, the skies were a mix of cyan green and it had about 2 moons and 3 stars bigger than Earth's sun. And there was even some game on the planet that looked suitable for hunting and eating.

"Looks like this planet is quite suitable for living on. It would make for a great headquarters or a home for many aliens across the universe." Raditz said, complementing the planet.

But Fasha seemed to notice something as she finished looking at the big river, seeing the plants beginning to wither away and the water slowly draining. "Raditz, look."

Raditz looked closely and noticed what was happening as well. "I'm not an expert on plants, but I know that this isn't supposed to happen naturally." He said before they both flew up and saw that it was happening everywhere. "And it looks like it's happening all over this planet."

"Whatever is going on here, we have to find out what it is and take care of it. I have a feeling that if this continues, all the water and plants and game will die off. And I'm damn sure not getting stranded on a dead planet!" Fasha said before she and Raditz flew across the planet to determine what was causing this plague.

Meanwhile, inside the fully grown tree

The mysterious Saiyan and his alien crew were just standing around, waiting for the many fruits that looked similar to that of the durian and lychee fruits, which were currently green to ripen so they could eat it. "It won't be long until the fruit is ripe."

"Indeed, Amond." The human-like alien named Daiz agreed. "When we eat it, we'll be more powerful than ever. Especially Turles."

"But let's not forget that some of the fruits are going to princess Akio, Fasha and Raditz on Earth." The smaller alien named Rasin said, remembering the next phase of the plan.

"All of our powers will grow. We'll outshine the Frieza Force and even Frieza himself." His twin brother Lakasei added.

"Maybe 1 day we will, maybe sooner once princess Akio, Fasha and Raditz are added to our group and the resistance movement. But…at what cost? I doubt princess Akio will approve of what we're doing." The cyborg alien known as Cacao said with doubt.

"Hmmm…perhaps she will understand why we're doing this. And hopefully, when the Cold family is eradicated, we can stop using the Tree of Might for good." Amond said with regret at all the planets that had to die because of them and the Tree. "But hopefully, when we explain everything, Akio will understand and she may have other less destructive means to get stronger.

"Yes." The leader known as Turles agreed, unwrapping his tail from his waist. "But…when we get to Earth and find Akio, you men just hang back on the ship and leave explaining to my fellow Saiyans to me and me alone."

But then, their scouters beeped and showed power levels coming. "Turles, there's 2 high power levels approaching!" Lakasei informed them.

"Yes. They both have power levels over…54,000!" Diaz added, seeing the numbers.

"That's the same power princess Akio had during her fight against Vegeta. Is it possible that she's here?" Cacao asked with surprise.

"Hmmm…I doubt it. She more than likely fought with Vegeta over who would get to rule the Saiyan race because of Saiyan tradition, right? So, she had to have gotten seriously injured in the process and needed somewhere to recover." Rasin theorized. "Hmmm…if anything, it's more than likely…someone else."

"Go out and see who it is. Protect the fruit at all costs! The Tree can't be destroyed without at least planet destructive power, but the fruits aren't as durable. But just as important, we can't allow them to fall into anyone else's hands." Turles said, wrapping his tail around his waist before going back into the ship while his crew went outside.

Meanwhile, outside of the Tree of Might

Fasha and Raditz flew around the planet and searched for anything unusual until they saw a colossal tree. "Fuck, that tree is…gigantic!"

"Stop me if I'm wrong, but that doesn't look like it's from this planet or any other planet we've ever been on." Raditz said with surprise at seeing such a gigantic tree.

"Indeed. But something tells me that there's more to this tree than just its size." Fasha said before she held out her hand. "Blast it."

Raditz was confused but went along with it as he held out his own hands before they both fired their Double Sunday/Hunting Arrow blasts, causing a big explosion but when the smoke cleared, the tree was unharmed as if nothing had happened. "Seems this thing isn't an ordinary tree."

Fasha sensed something above them and flew up with Raditz before they landed on it and saw 5 alien warriors, wearing armor but they weren't any Frieza Force minions. "I'm guessing that you guys had something to do with this…unusual tree?"

"Indeed. This tree is called the Tree of Might." Amond answered.

"Tree of Might?" Raditz asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah. But it was with great reluctance that we planted this tree." Diaz answered. "It wasn't anything personal or to make improvements to the forest, it was for another reason.

Fasha sensed their energy and was impressed. "Your powers are strong. Equal to ours, I'll admit but who are you guys? We've never seen or heard of you before."

"Believe it or not, we're part of the resistance movement you and Raditz started years ago, Fasha." Rasin revealed.

"How did you guys know about our resistance movement?! We've never seen you guys before!" Raditz demanded.

"We'll tell you about that…in exchange for a little match!" Cacao offered.

Fasha and Raditz smirked before getting into battle stances while waving their tails around in eagerness. "Challenge accepted!"

But when Rasin and Lakasei tried attacking 1st, Fasha, not wanting to battle the little imps, only fired a blast that completely vaporized them both. "Sorry, little imps, but I'm a little frustrated right now and I don't have time for you."

"Well, that was…unfortunate. They were part of the extinct Beenz people. Their species was extremely intelligent and the two of them helped build our ship and the rest of our ordnance." Amond said with regret. "But luckily, we have blueprints to more ingenious inventions and all the parts to build and repair, and Cacao's cybernetic brain is capable of building nanotech capable of building whoever we want in just a few hours or even less."

"Don't worry, princess Akio just happens to be 'friends' with 1 earthling who just happens to be an admittedly remarkable genius in her own right." Raditz said before he engaged Amond in battle, going to the bottom of the tree and beginning to trade punches and kicks with each other until they separated and Raditz conjured up 2 Wednesday Blades. "Let's see if you can take these! Wednesday Blades!"

Raditz threw his energy blades before Amond dodged the 1st, grinning with amusement. "I see we're already moving to the fancy moves, huh? I like that part!" He said and then spinned himself like a tornado and launched a razor-sharp energy disc of his own that sliced through nearly anything it touched before Raditz put energy around his hand and caught the disc, throwing it right back at him and making him fire a blast that destroyed it before he became surprised as the long haired Saiyan rushed to him and landed a knee to his midsection!

Meanwhile, with Fasha

The other Saiyan princess and mate of Akio used a technique she called her Sphere of Rage, creating a pink energy sphere that she kicked towards Diaz and Cacao and Diaz, making them block it before it hit them, exploding on impact! But the alien cyborg rushed to her and began trading blows with her before she teleported away, making him use his Cosmic Attack on her, ascending to her by using some sort of rocket propulsion jetpacks on his arms and legs before ramming into Fasha and sending her to the ground!

But Fasha fired a Hunting Arrow blast, hitting him and sending him into the air before she teleported behind him and smashed him into the ground, firing a barrage of energy blasts that hit him when he touched the ground! "Good try, but it takes a hell of a lot more to bring me down!"

"Ah, excellent work, Fasha! Now, take this!" Diaz said before firing an orange energy ball at her that she countered by firing an energy wave that pushed it back but he deflected it before he teleported behind her and tried to punch her but she used her tail to catch it and spinned around, throwing him to the ground before flying down and using her Hysteric Saiyan Lady technique, uppercutting him into the air and leaping after both him and the cyborg, then punching them with both hands, and clawing them many times before punching them downwards, wrapping her tail around Diaz's neck and her right leg around Cacao's before she launched them at the ground hard!

Meanwhile, inside the ship

Turles watched the 2 Saiyans battling his crew, and while upset over the loss of Rasin and Lakasei, he couldn't help but admire the way they were fighting like true warrior elites despite being fellow low class soldiers. "So that's Fasha and Raditz. Their powers are quite remarkable. Yes. Just like true Saiyans." He said with a smirk.

Back outside

Raditz and Amond were continuing their battle, with the Saiyan blocking a kick from the orange reddish alien before he pushed him a distance away and launched a Weekend blast at him that he caught in his hands, struggling to hold it back before it exploded after a few minutes.

Amond looked around, seeing his hands a bit burned from the blast before seeing that Raditz was gone. "Huh? Where'd he go?!"

"RIGHT HERE!" Raditz yelled out while rushing to the bigger alien from above and landing a very hard rush kick that sent him crashing to the ground before the long haired Saiyan fired a Saturday Crush blast that exploded on impact to the ground!

Meanwhile, Fasha grabbed Diaz and Cacao's fists before spinning them around at a very fast speed before letting go, sending them in the same direction before they righted themselves and fired their Combined Energy Wave, charging an energy sphere in their hands and then firing it in the form of a Full Power Energy Wave that eventually resulted in a massive red explosion on impact with Fasha as she defended herself against the blast.

Fasha, with a few bruises and her armor a little cracked, grinned insanely. "Hahahahaha. Hahahahaha. HAHAHAHAHA! Was that it, boys?!" She asked before getting between them in a fraction of a second with her arms spread out. "Try this 1! COURTESY OF MY MATE, PRINCESS AKIO! KAMEHAME…HAAAAAAAA!" She yelled before blasting 2 pink Kamehameha waves point blank range, sending them all crashing to the ground!

Back with Turles

The Saiyan smirked in delight at seeing how well Fasha and Raditz fought. He took off his cape and grinned. "It's time for me to come out and reveal myself to my fellow Saiyans at last."

Back outside

Fasha and Raditz regrouped with each other before Amond, Diaz and Cacao, injured a bit, did the same. "Well, that was fun." The cyborg said.

"Yes. I think you both earned the explanation for the Tree of Might." Diaz added.

"But…I think it would be better for our leader to explain everything." Amond said with a smile before pointing. "He's actually right behind you both."

"What?" Raditz said before he and Fasha turned around and saw…another Saiyan in black and gray armor, shocking them both.

"It…can't be." Fasha said with surprise at seeing a fellow Saiyan.

"Hello, Fasha. Raditz. My fellow Saiyans." Turles greeted politely.

"You…look like my father Bardock!" Raditz said, recognizing that this Saiyan looked exactly like his dead father.

"Why, of course I resemble your father, Raditz. After all, we're Saiyan warriors, struck from the same lower class." Turles said while unwrapping his tail from his waist.

"Who are you? We've never seen you before." Fasha wondered with a raised eyebrow.

"I'm Turles. 1 of the last mighty Saiyans left in the universe." Turles answered. "And the reason why you've never seen me is because I sent off planet Vegeta years before it was destroyed on an assignment from Queen Carrotalot herself. It took me a while, but I managed to complete my assignment but…instead of returning home, I decided to go out into the universe and do my own thing."

Fasha then realized something. "So you're the leader of these guys. And…you're the reason this gigantic tree is on this planet. What is the meaning of this?!"

Turles held a hand up. "I assure you that I'll explain everything, but all I ask is that you listen before doing anything rash."

"All right." Raditz said before Turles and his now 3 man crew led them inside the tree where the fruit was starting to get ripe, but also seeing their ship. "Is that your ship?"

"Yeah. Rasin and Lakasei built it, which is unfortunate they're no longer with us by the way." Diaz said with regret for the loss of Rasin and Lakasei.

"Yeah, sorry about that. That wasn't anything personal, I just didn't want to waste time with those little imps. Geniuses though they were." Fasha said while apologizing. Then she saw the fruits and asked. "And what are those? Some kind of fruit?"

"Oh it's more than just ordinary fruit, Fasha." Diaz said.

Turles sat down with his crew as Raditz and Fasha sat across from him. "So, I believe the time has come for explaining."

"Yes. What is this tree? Why did you plant it and why is it making everything around it wither and die?" Raditz asked.

"Well, as you may have been informed: this tree is called the Tree of Might. But we learned years ago that this tree was grown to bear a special kind of fruit for the gods. But we also learned that once the tree takes root and continues to grow, it drains all the nutrients from the planet to produce and ripen the fruit until the planet it grows on is little more than a wasteland." Turles explained, revealing that the tree while bearing special fruit was also a plague to whatever planet it grew on. "But not every planet can grow the tree. It requires a planet that thrives with all forms of life, which is why my team and I scan planets 1st to see if it's suitable enough."

Fasha looked him in the eyes. "Turles. Originally our race scoured the universe for planets to sell to the highest bidder, but 5 years before our planet was destroyed, King Vegeta and queen Carrotalot decreed that we were mercenaries that save planets and provide any survivors with new homes as refugees. And now you're telling me that you've been around the universe planting this…this plague?!"

"Where did you even find this tree, Turles? If this tree and its fruit were intended for the gods, how did you get ahold of it?" Raditz wondered, confused as to how a Saiyan found a tree that was grown by the gods.

"We…found the seeds on a planet once belonging to Frieza but it was largely destroyed because of a failed experiment. It was by chance that we found the planet and when we investigated it and its base first to look for spare parts or other material we could use for ourselves or sell on the black market, for funding for equipment and resources for the resistance movement, we found many of the seeds to plant the Tree of Might." Turles explained. "Of course it was only after we 1st planted it that we realized its destructive effects. But we also discovered the fruits and what they could do: it made us stronger than we originally were, and it gave birth to an idea: by eating this fruit, we could grow strong enough to defeat the Cold empire. But we also knew we had to sacrifice many other planets in the process."

"Turles, how could you do this?! It goes against everything queen Carrotalot fought with all her willpower to change about our race! She eventually came to realize that it was because of our own evil ways as well as Frieza and his family that our race was gonna suffer the same exact fate we dealt out to this universe! If it wouldn't have been Frieza, it would have been someone else or even ourselves! And she was right, that's just what eventually happened!" Raditz said with contempt for Turles' actions of spreading this tree onto other planets like a plague.

"This has to stop, Turles! This cannot go on any longer! I don't even understand why you continued to spread a plague like this across the universe after you saw the effects of this thing the 1st time you planted it!" Fasha added while banging her tail on the ground.

"I did it to save our people!" Turles yelled out. "And the universe! The Cold family has had an iron grip on the galaxy for far too long, and on top of that, they enslaved our people! And when I heard what happened, I was devastated for years before I decided to get revenge for our planet, our race, and all the trillions of people we slaughtered in their name! They used us and eventually disposed of us like garbage because we were the only race that could have opposed them! It didn't take a smart person to figure out that it was Frieza who destroyed our home and reduced us to only a few! For years, I was alone. Sure I had my crew but more than anything I wanted to feel the feeling of Saiyan comradery! Frieza took that from me, from us! And ever since then,I've thought, dreamt of nothing else but avenging our race. This tree and its fruit was the only way I could see to get stronger to finally kill them all for good, I couldn't see any other way!" He said before shedding a tear. "Believe me, I wanted to stop! Every time I wanted to just throw those seeds away or destroy them, but Cold and his clan's power are far too great and we still never knew how much more powerful they are! And…at least if I did die, it would have been all worth it as long as they died with me, especially since I learned years ago that you both and that egomaniac Vegeta and that nearly brainless brute Nappa were still alive."

"So you and your crew are members of the resistance movement?" Fasha asked.

"Yes. But we couldn't reveal ourselves until the right time. Especially with that egomaniac Vegeta around. I heard about the way he and Nappa had treated you through the years, and I was damned if I was gonna let him do the same thing to me just because I was born a low class warrior. Plus, if he'd ever found this tree and gained the power the fruits granted, there's no doubt he would have planted it on whatever planet he could find just for the hell of it!"

Raditz and Fasha did understand that. "We get that, more than anyone. And there's no doubt any other Saiyan would have felt the exact same way." Raditz said.

"But, as you can see, we're not with Vegeta anymore and Nappa's been sent on a 1 way trip to Hell, courtesy of Vegeta himself. Though it was a shock to us, it shouldn't have been, considering being 1 of Frieza's lap dogs for years has corrupted his mind more than it already was." Fasha added. "But he was an egomaniac even before then. Apparently, he got that from King Vegeta before he became better and treated every Saiyan more fairly. But his ego is probably just worse from being around Frieza."

"Exactly. It's why I never tried to seek any other Saiyans out." Turles said. "And I was damned if I was gonna let something as powerful as this tree fall into any of their hands, especially if they would have just planted it on any planet in the universe just for the hell of it to get the fruit."

"We get that, Turles, but this is wrong. Even for us. This has to stop. Even if this is everything you say it is and manages to kill the Cold family and their empire, who cares?" Raditz said.

"If there's no universe left but just wasteland planets with no intelligent life, what's the point?" Fasha added. "I understand your reasons for it, but this must stop."

"There are more seeds out there. Long range scanning devices detected at least 8 planets with the seeds for the Tree of Might. And it's imperative that we get them before anyone else does. That tree is much safer with us than anyone else, especially Frieza and his family, and especially that arrogant, self-important fool Vegeta." Turles informed them. "After we collect all the fruits we can, we'll head to those planets."

Fasha wondered something. "What exactly do these fruits do?"

"Simple. It grants whoever eats it incredible power, but like mighty Turles said: it costs an entire planet to produce." Amond answered. "We've eaten them for some time but…we're only careful to eat 1 at a time. Eating 3 at 1 time, no matter how strong someone is, kills the 1 eating it, which is why whoever eats it must wait between fruits."

Cacao looked and saw the fruits, which had now become ripe orange. "And speaking of the fruits, it looks like they've become ripe at last."

Turles looked at the now ripe fruits and grinned with delight. "Looks ripe enough for eating." He said before turning to Fasha and Raditz. "Say, how about we make a wedger? A little match: me against Fasha."

"Excellent suggestion, Turles. I've been thinking about testing your skills and what you can do." Fasha said before she flew out of the tree as Turles followed her. "If you prove to be a worthy warrior, we gather all the fruits we can, but that tree itself gets destroyed. Understand?"

"That's understood, Fasha." Turles answered. "But, 1 condition: if I get my hands on the fruit, I eat it. Is that understandable?"

"Of course. Besides, I have a technique that can multiply my energy and everything else, so feel free to eat 1 of those fruits if you wish. But I only want to know this: how much does 1 of those fruits increase someone's power?"

"About 4x that of what our powers are now." Turles answered. "But like I said, you can only eat 1 at any time and wait at least a week before eating another 1."

"Fair enough." Fasha said before seeing what was becoming of the planet. "This tree is too dangerous for any planet. But…there may be a way for the fruit to be used without the need to plant the tree itself."

"Perhaps. But if you do have a better plan, I'd love to hear it." Turles said as he got into a battle stance on 1 of the big tree roots. "But the tree is still growing. Even as we speak, its energy is draining the energy from this planet and ripening its fruit. Once I eat it, I'll be more powerful than ever!"

"Perhaps! But don't count me out just yet." Fasha said before the 2 Saiyans rushed to each other and clashed, trading blows with each other as Fasha landed a knee to his gut and a punch to his face before kicking him back and powering up to her maximum. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" She yelled as her pink aura burst out of her but she kept it inside her body to maximize her power.

Turles' scouter beeped, showing Fasha's power. "Incredible! Her power has increased to 58,000!"

Fasha then rushed to Turles and got in a few good punches and kicks before he blocked an elbow to his chest, teleported behind her and landed a flip kick toher back that sent her to the ground! Fasha then charged a pink blast from her right hand that had 2 circling energies forming around it. "LETHAL HEAT SPEAR!" She yelled out as her new lethal attack at Turles, who held out his hands before the blast hit them, causing an explosion that engulfed the male Saiyan before it was revealed that his hands were a bit burned as his arm bands were shattered!

"Very nice, Fasha, that actually stung a bit." Turles complemented…before his hands healed strangely, making Fasha's eyes widen. "Another great thing about the fruit is it gives whoever eats it a healing factor that heals many wounds that are non-lethal. Now you try THIS!" He yelled before using his Kill Driver technique, forming a ring of energy with electricity sparking around it between his palms and throwing it at Fasha, who got into a defensive stance before it hit her. The resulting explosion was quite powerful, as it destroyed a large part of the ground before it was revealed that Fasha, with her armor shattered and a few bruises, survived the blast.

"That was actually a pretty good technique, Turles. If I hadn't defended myself in time, it damn sure would have killed me." Fasha complemented before she rushed to him at full speed and landed a punch to his face before he flew up and she followed him, dodging a punch by teleporting behind him and landing a spin kick to his back!

Turles, caught off guard, turned and blocked and dodged her punches and kicks, thinking to himself. 'Remarkable! She's every bit the fighter her mother was, and even more.' He then flew into the Tree of Might and grinned evilly before jumping up and grabbing a ripe fruit before going back outside the tree as Fasha continued to chase him before they both stopped for a moment. "If you thought I was strong before, watch this, Fasha." He said before biting a piece of the fruit off and eating it like an apple before his muscle mass bulked up dramatically then quickly receded back to its normal shape as his power quadrupled!

Raditz improved scouter beeped, showing Turles' increased power despite him sensing the power Incredible. "Incredible! His power level just shot up to 232,000! And just by eating 1 of those fruits!"

"Yes. That's the benefit of eating the fruit." Diaz said with a smirk.

"Now you'll both see exactly why we've been planting that tree." Amond added.

Turles, with his new increased strength and speed, used his Terror Conduct attack, rushing to Fasha and punching her into the tree, followed by a knee strike into the air. Then, he knocked to the ground with an overhead smash, followed by a barrage of purple energy waves, inflicting a massive amount of damage on her as the ground exploded! "Now you see, Fasha, why this fruit has increased my power to greater heights than our people ever dreamed of, even if it does come with a very high price."

But Fasha burst from the ground, breathing hard as her armor was completely gone now as she waved her tail around. "I'm not out of it yet, Turles!"

Turles was delighted to hear that. "I never imagined you were. But, I'm a fair warrior when it comes to fighting a fellow Saiyan, so I'll let you eat 1 of the fruits too."

But Fasha had other ideas, inspired by watching the fight between her beloved Akio and Vegeta. "KAIO-KEN X4!" She yelled before her body turned crimson and her power increased to match Turles' strength! She then rushed to Turles and landed a powerful punch to his face that shattered his scouter and began landing very hard blows on his body, from his back, ribs and face and chest before ending her assault with a powerful punch to his midsection, shattering his armor by a fair bit before kicking him away and firing a barrage of pink energy spheres that exploded on impact with him!

"Incredible! Her power level just jumped up to Turles'! How's that possible?" Amond asked with shock.

"It's called the Kaio-Ken. It's a technique she learned a year ago that heightens everything a warrior needs: power, speed, even hearing and vision improve very dramatically…at least for a while until the strain it puts on a person's body takes a huge toll on them. That's why it can only be used in small bursts and for when you must end the fight quickly. Otherwise it could hurt and more than likely kill whoever uses it." Raditz explained, remembering the toll it took on Akio during her fight against Vegeta.

Amond, Diaz and Cacao seemed to understand that, as the Kaio-Ken was very similar to the fruit of the Tree of Might in some ways. "Okay, I get that." Cacao said.

"Good." Raditz said with hope that this wouldn't end in death for Fasha, as she'd already died once and there was no telling how Akio would react if she'd lost her now mate the way she lost Piccolo.

Meanwhile, Turles recovered and charged at Fasha, who tried to rush at him and kick him but he docked and flipped at a fast speed as he dodged more of Fasha's blows before kneeing her up into the air. He then flew up to punch her away and teleported above to kick her down to the ground. And just before she hit the ground, he charged down and knees her in the stomach and Double Axe Handled her into the ground before finally stomping on her head!

"Now, Fasha, you see the power the fruit grants. But you also can feel the power behind the pain, can't you?" Turles asked with a grin.

Fasha grinned insanely before answering. "If there's anything I've learned in the past year, it's that…we Saiyans never stop fighting, even as we draw our final breath! More than anything, we don't just surrender like cowards, we live for the fight…AND TO WIN NO MATTER THE PERSONAL COST TO OURSELVES! THAT IS OUR WAY! THAT…IS SAIYAN PRIDE!" She yelled before using a great amount of power to fire an Energy Bullet attack, shooting an energy blast in the air that came down in multiple blasts that hit both of them, causing great damage to them both!

Turles, whose armor was really damaged, hearing what Saiyan pride meant for the 1st time in so many years, as well as Fasha's attack, felt his blood boil. "That's true Saiyan spirit, Fasha! Now…LET ME SHOW YOU MIIIIINE!" Before he blasted them with a barrage of energy waves that, upon hitting her, caused a second larger wave of purple energy to erupt and cause a large purple explosion, inflicting a huge amount of damage on Fasha!

But, in his pain, as well as the amount of energy he spent against Fasha, even as his wounds began to heal, signaled his men before they helped him get to their ship as Raditz helped Fasha, who weakly smiled. "You'd be so proud, my precious Akio."

When they got inside the tree, Turles picked 2 of the fruits before landing beside them. "As a great reward for giving me the best fight I've had in years, as well as seeing you both in action against my team, you've both earned these." He said before giving them to Raditz.

Raditz took the fruit before helping Fasha eat hers 1st. And when she did, it was the same way for her, as her muscle mass bulked up dramatically then quickly receded back to its normal shape as his power quadrupled and her wounds healed a few minutes after. "How does it feel, Fasha?" Raditz asked with a raised eyebrow.

Fasha sat up and felt her new strength. "It feels good. But still, my opinion on this plague tree still stands."

Raditz ate his fruit and got the same results. "I can feel the effects already. But I still have the same opinion. I say we gather all the fruits we can, then use our maximum combined power to destroy this thing."

Diaz, who'd eaten 1 of the fruits, along with Amond and Cacao, increasing their powers as well, asked. "And are you sure that's even possible? We tried it 5 times and it didn't work."

"Not unless we become Great Apes." Fasha said before looking at Turles. "Assuming you've trained your tail and your Great Ape form, Turles?"

"Well, I have. It took me years but I managed to do it through hard training." Turles answered.

"That could work. With our new increased strength combined with yours, especially in your Great Ape forms, we may actually manage to do it." Amond said with a smile.

"Then you better start gathering as many fruits as possible, boys. And be quick about it. We've wasted enough time here already." Fasha said.

"Why the rush?" Diaz asked with a raised eyebrow.

"We'll tell you after this tree is destroyed." Raditz said before he, Fasha, Turles and his crew began gathering up as many ripe fruits as possible, getting a decent amount of 40 fruits and securing them safely in Turles' ship.

"Well, now that we have all the fruits we need, there's the matter of the tree itself." Turles said while Diaz carried their ship as far away from the tree as possible before returning minutes later. "Excellent. Unfortunately, even though this planet has 2 moons and they're full, it won't be out for another hour so we'll have to use a Power Ball."

"Good. Now let's just get this over with." Raditz said as he created a Power Ball and threw it in the sky. "BURST OPEN AND MIX!" He yelled before it exploded into an artificial moon. Raditz Fasha and Turles stared at the right full moon before feeling the biogeochemical reaction in their tails before the 3 Saiyans transformed into Great Apes in a matter of minutes.

When the transformations were completed, they all wasted no time and flew high into the air before Turles's crew charged up a combined energy blast, putting almost everything they had into it while Fasha prepared a Super Hunting Arrow, Raditz prepared a Super Double Sunday and Turles powered up his ultimate blast: the Super Destroyer Blast. And when everyone's blasts were fully powered up, they fired them at the tree before the energy blasts combined into 1 powerful wave and they controlled it so it went inside of the Tree of Might and went up to the top, with some of the energy blasting out from the inside and in a matter of seconds, after unleashing their full combined power, the Tree of Might as it cracked and was engulfed in a golden light before it exploded so after in a flash of energy that engulfed the entire planet as the energy it absorbed was given back to its rightful owner.

Raditz fired an energy wave at the artificial moon, destroying it and causing them to transform back into their human form before they sat down and rested for a few minutes as the energy was absorbed back into the planet. "So, how long do you think it'll take for anything to grow again?"

"Well, probably a year or 2, considering the tree was destroyed." Turles answered.

"By the way, I've been wondering something: how'd you guys get here anyway?" Amond asked with a raised eyebrow.

Raditz got out the capsule and uncapsuled the damaged ship. "We made an emergency landing when our ship was hit by asteroids."

Diaz and Cacao inspected the damage. "It's nothing we can't fix. We do have parts that could fit this ship's hull nicely. Though I must say that this thing, while impressive, looks a bit behind compared to our technology."

"We came from a planet called Earth. Not a very technologically advanced civilization, though that Earth genius we mentioned earlier was about to make some impressive improvements to our old pods." Raditz informed them.

Turles then wanted to know. "Is it true then, what me and my crew heard about through the scouters? Did princess Akio really survive as well?"

Fasha and Raditz smiled before Fasha gave the answer. "Yes, she did. And she's even more than me or her parents ever could've hoped for."

"Is that so?" Turles asked, Intrigued. "Tell me everything you learned when you met with her."

"Yeah. But please tell us she's nothing like her egomaniac big brother." Amond said with annoyance, as the last thing they needed were 2 Vegeta's when just 1 was bad enough.

Fasha and Raditz looked at each other, feeling like they could trust them before telling them everything about Akio: her insane personality but very and natural gifted talent for battle, her adventures on Earth and everything she'd achieved on that backwards planet and everything she found to be of use to her, the enemies she'd faced, about Piccolo and Kami and even Bulma and her being the only earthling she grew to trust because of her brilliant brain and the company her father once owned before Akio took control of it. And they'd even told them about the weak willed earthling warriors and how 2 of them got themselves killed by Saibamen of all creatures, and the other 2 had succeeded in doing barely anything against Nappa other than killing themselves and how Piccolo, Akio's only worthy companion and brother in arms, had died saving Raditz from Nappa. They even told them about Akio's fight against Vegeta and of Akio's and Piccolo's Berserker Rage modes, which surprised Turles that the Saiyan princess was capable of such a state. And the last thing they told them about were the Dragon balls and their power, and about the wish Akio had made years ago, which surprised Turles but made him understand why that green beam hit him at that exact moment in time. And why they were heading to Namek to find their Dragon balls to revive Piccolo.

"So, that's about everything. But unfortunately, with our ship being the way it is, we'll have to travel back to Earth and get it repaired. And that'll cost a few days." Fasha finished.

Intrigued and fascinated by their tale, Turles and his crew looked at each other and it didn't take long for them to decide what they wanted to do. "Well, I think you've just made new allies and traveling companions, my fellow Saiyans."

"Wait, are you saying that…?" Raditz asked.

"Damn right. We wanna join you in going to Namek. If those dragon balls do exist, we'd like to make a wish of our own." Diaz answered.

"As long as it isn't immortality. That is nothing but a curse, not to mention one's own personal living hell." Fasha said with contempt for immortality. "Vegeta wants that, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna let him get it!"

"Don't worry, it's not. We plan to use a wish to revive all the planets we sacrificed for growing the Tree of Might." Amond revealed.

"It may not be complete atonement, but it'll be a good start at redemption." Diaz added.

"And if not, we'll at least have given back all those planets the things we took from them." Cacao added after his teammates and friends before he used his brain to install the necessary parts Raditz and Fasha needed for their ship before it was rebuilt and whole again. "Consider that as a gesture of trust."

Fasha and Raditz thought about it for a few minutes and knew that if they were going to get the dragon balls before other interested parties got their hands on them, they'd need all the allies they can get, and Turles, being a fellow Saiyan and a very capable warrior, along with his crew, could definitely be quite useful for the future battles ahead.

So, after seeing Cacao restore their ship, as well as everything that had gone down and Turles' motives as well as his need to feel Saiyan comradery as he once did, they made their decision. "We'd be honored to have you with us, Turles. You and your crew. But on 1 condition: this is the very last time you and your crew will ever use this plague tree."

"Yes. We already have 40 fruits." Raditz added. "But I think Bulma, with her brilliant brain, could actually be very helpful in finding a way for us to reap the benefits of the fruit, without the need to plant the tree itself. Trust me, if there's anyone we know and somewhat trust to be able to do it, it's her." Raditz added.

Turles nodded and said. "Condition accepted, my friends. But we can't take these fruits to Namek if other interested parties will be there."

"He's right. Especially a certain tyrant or his minions." Diaz added with equal worry.

"Hmmm…perhaps we can return to Earth and leave the fruit there. And give them to someone we can trust?" Amond suggested. "Perhaps the resistance movement's HQ planet?"

"That could work. We could send 20 of the fruits there, and go to Earth personally and give the rest of them to the earth woman Bulma, the 1 who princess Akio trusts." Cacao added, thinking that could be good for them and everyone else.

"Good plan, but how will we get them to those locations?" Raditz asked. "Perhaps we could split into 2 groups and regroup on the way to Namek."

"That would work." Diaz agreed. "It'll give more of our resistance fighters a better fighting chance and it'll ensure the fruits don't fall into anyone else's hands."

"Mighty Turles, would you like to go with Raditz and Fasha?" Amond suggested. "You and they have much to catch up on and it'll be a good start for you to experience the feeling of Saiyan comradery again."

"Plus, it'll give you a chance to meet princess Akio. Even though she's currently healing at the moment." Cacao added.

Turles felt unsure. "Are you all sure? Your powers have increased a great deal, but if you encounter a certain tyrant, it won't end well."

Amond assured his leader. "Don't worry, we'll be alright. And if we do encounter Frieza before we get to the Headquarters, we'll destroy the fruits and make sure we take as many as those fools as we can and try to take more with us." Before the other 2 nodded in agreement.

"They'll be fine, Turles." Fasha assured her fellow Saiyan. "We've seen for ourselves that they're great fighters. They can definitely take care of themselves." Then she informed them of the abilities of raising and lowering their power levels at will and the ability to sense energy levels and how to learn them both in detail.

And with your power increased as they are, and those abilities Fasha just told you about, perhaps you could even take on the Ginyu Force and even fool their damn scouters." Raditz said with confidence. Although, I hope that when the day comes, all of Frieza's top lieutenants are all together, all lined up to die so we can kill them all together."

"So do I." Fasha said with equal confidence. "But if we're going to do something, we must do it now. We've wasted enough time here already."

Turles smiled before standing beside his fellow Saiyans. "Then let's get to work…my friends." He said before his crew nodded before getting in their ship and taking off to leave the planet and head to the resistance movement's HQ planet.

"We'll be sure to find the other 2 planets with the seeds 1st and once we do, we'll destroy them." Diaz said. "And after that, we'll meet you all on Namek in exactly 9 days."

"Good. But if you get there before I do, don't do anything unless you have to. If I'm wrong, then we don't want to cause the Namekians to see us as a threat." Turles ordered them.

"Of course, mighty Turles." Amond accepted. "See you guys then, hopefully."

The 3 Saiyans then entered their ship and Raditz set course back to Earth before Fasha saw plant life beginning to grow again, making her smile before the ramp/door closed and the ship took off, leaving the planet that was restoring itself and heading at maximum speed back to Earth.

3 days later

Bulma and Chi-Chi, taking a day to be with their little Hana at Capsule Corp, were approached by their mother. "Bulma, dear, it's Raditz and Fasha. They're already back!"

Bulma was surprised that the 2 Saiyans had returned to earth this soon and ran outside with Chi-Chi and Hana. They then saw the ship starting to land in the front of the house and when it did, the ramp/door opened and the family was surprised at seeing…another Saiyan with them.

"Mommy…is he another…Saiyan?" Hana asked, scared.

"Yes." Bulma answered.

Fasha and Raditz smirked before jumping in front of them. "Hello, Bulma, surprised that we're back so soon?" Fasha asked.

"Well…yes. I thought you were going to Namek for the dragon balls." Bulma said with worry. "Did something happen?"

"You could say that." Raditz answered while waving his tail around.

Turles then walked up to them and smiled. "So, this is the little lesbian family I've heard about. I can see why our princess Akio found you all a little amusing out of every earthling on this backwater planet."

"W.. w.. who are you?" Chi-Chi asked while holding Hana close to protect her.

"I'm Turles. And as you can see, I'm another Saiyan survivor." He answered with a grin before eyeing little Hana. "You must be… Chi-Chi, right? And her, your precious little flower?"

"No! Stay away! Stay away!" Hana said while backing up in fear of this other Saiyan, as she still hadn't forgotten about what Akio, Piccolo, Fasha and Raditz had put her through.

Fasha walked up to her and picked her up with her tail. "Oh, my little sweetheart, just relax." She said sweetly before holding her to Turles. "Say hello to your new uncle Turles."

"No! No! No!" Hana cried, trying to get free.

Turles, without his scouter, as it was destroyed, leaned close to look into her innocent and scared little eyes. "Aww…what's the matter, you don't like uncle Turles?" He asked in a maternal tone as he rubbed his tail against her cheek.

"No! No!" Hana cried out.

Bulma stepped up and yelled out. "Leave our daughter alone, Fasha! She's been through enough! Just leave her alone!"

Fasha, Raditz and Turles looked at Bulma and the female Saiyan smirked before walking up to her and leaned Hana to her mother. "You want her, Bulma? Go ahead, take her."

And without hesitation, Bulma took her daughter in her arms and gave her to Chi-Chi. "Take her inside, baby, now." Before Chi-Chi did just that, quickly taking Hana inside the house. "Now, why are you guys back? And where'd you find…Turles here?"

Fasha and Raditz told Bulma everything and to say she was very surprised at it was an understatement, as she could actually understand why even Fasha and Raditz didn't want this Tree of Might planted on any more planets, as it would ruin Akio's vision of the future for the Earth and the universe. But she could understand Turles' motives for using the trees' fruit, as Frieza and his family and their minions must be very evil people who've terrorized the universe for far too long to make anyone use extreme measures to finally take them down once and for all.

"I can understand both points of view of your little argument, as there's truth on both sides. But you want me to somehow find a way for you guys to use this fruit without planting the tree itself?" Bulma asked with surprise.

"Of course." Raditz answered with a smirk as he tapped her with his tail.

"If there's anyone we trust to do something like that, Bulma, it's you, your father, and your very brilliant brains." Fasha added. "Besides, this fruit is much safer with you than anywhere else. And Turles' crew are taking the rest to the resistance movement's HQ planet. You'll have at least 16 of the fruits to study, but we take at least 3 with us. And the last 1 goes to Akio when she's healed. I trust that's understood?"

Bulma agreed with that, as her brain was always eager to complete a project. "Yes. I've always been up for a challenge."

"Excellent. But in case you're tempted to try and use it against us, don't bother trying." Turles warned her.

"I know. I know better than anyone what Saiyans are capable of. Especially Akio despite her unpredictably and her insanity." Bulma agreed. "Besides, people with power have different interests and Akio has stopped a lot of threats to the planet over the years, despite her unorthodox ways and her madness for her own reasons."

"Exactly. And don't forget that she's the 1 who stopped your race from destroying itself by destroying all the nuclear missiles on the planet years ago. And I know you'd rather have us protecting you from any threat than being just another threat as long as you stay on our good side." Raditz said with a smirk as he gave all but 3 of the fruits to Bulma.

"Would you like me to take 1 of the fruits to Akio? Try to tell her everything?" Bulma offered.

"Don't bother, I'll do that myself before heading to Namek." Turles said with a smirk. "Just have that little project of yours ready by the time princess Akio is healed. Try to surprise us." Before flying to Akio's home in Mount Paozu. And when he got there, he saw Violet and Mai, both wearing robes, having been just keeping an eye on Akio and chilling out. "Hello, Ms Violet and Ms Mai. Nice to meet you."

"A,a,a, another… Saiyan?" Mai stuttered in disbelief.

"Indeed. Name's Turles." Turles said, introducing himself before going into the house and seeing Akio still sleeping in her chamber, blissfully sleeping. "Hello, princess Akio, my name is Turles, a fellow Saiyan survivor. And as a meeting present, this delicacy is yours for when you're restored." He said before putting the fruit in Akio's refrigerator in a bag so that it would not spoil. He then walked out of the house and told the 2 women. "Keep taking care of our princess. And should anything happen to her, there's nowhere on this backwater planet you'll be able to hide from me or my new comrades."

Turles then took his leave and rejoined his fellow Saiyans, who had gone inside the house and were talking with Bulma. "Oh, dear Bulma, you know that Fasha and I wouldn't hurt your daughter in any way, we're way too smart for that." Raditz said with a smirk.

"Yeah? But you psychopaths did hurt her, by making her watch what your race is capable of!" Chi-Chi said with anger.

"Oh please, she was gonna find out sooner or later anyway. Better it be sooner rather than later, don't you think?" Fasha said with a smirk of her own white waving her tail around. "My Akio has let you guys and your annoying kind live for 20 years, for her own reasons of course. But still, better it be her than anyone else, like say, the Red Ribbon Army, or the old King Piccolo, or Piccolo, or…the Cold family and their empire."

"Oh yeah? Well, sometimes I think she should have hit her head and lost her memory of everything about her psychopath race." Chi-Chi said with anger. "At least then if anyone found her, she could have been a happy, loving and kind girl who would have been raised the right way!"

Turles got a bit angry at hearing that as he banged his tail on the floor. "Well, it's a great thing for us that didn't happen! Otherwise she would have been raised like an annoying earthling!"

Bulma looked at Turles and countered. "At least she would have been raised to know the difference between good and evil, unlike some people!"

"Hahaha! We Saiyans knew the difference long ago, we just didn't care. And we still don't." Turles countered with a grin.

"And while we are doing some good in the universe, unlike Vegeta, we haven't let ourselves act all goody-goody like some kind of heroes of justice or any of that self-righteousness shit!" Fasha added while grinning insanely.

"Yes! We're more like somewhere in the middle: doing good for our own reasons, like our dear princess Akio." Raditz added before he and they went outside and went to their ship.

"By the way, Bulma, is it? Your ship, while clearly not up to our civilization's standards, is quite impressive. You and your father and your little flower must have worked extremely hard on this." Turles complimented.

"Um, thanks, I guess." Bulma said, as even though she sometimes didn't like Akio or the Saiyans in general, it was nice that she and then actually appreciated her genius and that of her father and sweet little daughter. "I'll…be sure to pass that on. But you should know that it's gonna take another 6 days to get here from Namek since you're starting all over again."

"Excellent. Enjoy working on your new project, and do not eat any of those fruits. Understand? We told you what it does, especially if you eat more than 1 at a time." Fasha reminded her mate's earthling friend.

"I understand. And hopefully, I can think of something so there won't be a need for you to plant the Tree of Might anymore. And for what it's worth, I hope you guys succeed in reviving Piccolo." Bulma said with hope for her dead friends, and even the Saiyans mission to bring their fallen comrade back to life.

"Well, that's very kind of you to say, Bulma." Fasha said with a smile. "But until then, tell you other 2 friends to keep taking good care of my Akio." Before they boarded the ship, having restocked on food before they took off, leaving the Earth at maximum speed and resuming the journey to planet Namek.

About nearly 6 days later, in another part of the universe

18 long days have passed since Vegeta had fled the earth in shame at being defeated by his low-level sister. "To think that I'd ever be in such a pathetic state. I…must recuperate. I…can't allow Akio to gain any more time on me.'

Meanwhile, on planet Frieza 79

As a couple of Frieza's minions were playing a game, the alarm system for arriving ships sounded. "What the…" A human-like alien said before he and another alien with a xenomorph shaped head, purple skin and red spots on his big head checked. "Tell me it's not Frieza."

"Couldn't be." The other alien said. "He just departed, right? The pod's round. That means a combatant."

But the human-like alien with blue hair and a mustache realized who was coming. "Hold on, the signal's coming from Vegeta!"

"Vegeta? But how could it be? We never received word of his return before now."

The human-like alien then contacted the ground personnel through his scouter. "Ground personnel, this is Flag control! Vegeta's inbound! Prepare for his arrival!"

Meanwhile, on the landing platform

3 ground personnel quickly ran outside and got away for Vegeta's arrival. "Get ready!"

"The smaller alien with green scales and a helmet noticed that only 1 pod was coming. "There's only 1 pod! Where's Nappa, Fasha and Raditz?" He asked before Vegeta's pod landed shortly after, making them stand at attention.

But they noticed that the pod wasn't opening. "Is it me or shouldn't he have come out by now?"

"Oh man, this is bad! Look at how low his power level is!" The 3rd alien said while noticing Vegeta unusually low power level on his scouter.

"What?" The blonde human-like alien asked before they checked into the pod, seeing Vegeta with a life support system over his mouth. "He's using his life support system!"

"Oh no! We've gotta get him to the treatment center immediately!" Reptile alien said before they opened the pod and quickly took the near dead Saiyan prince to the healing room.

1 hour later

As Vegeta, who was stripped out of his broken armor and bodysuit, was placed in a newly modeled healing chamber, an alien doctor was monitoring him while operating the controls. "What happened to him?"

"We don't know, sir. But all his states are in the green. He's fully conscious now." The blonde human-like alien answered.

And while they all looked at him, Vegeta was having his own private thoughts, thinking about nothing but his fight with Akio, especially the end where she went berserk but didn't transform into the Great Ape itself.

In Vegeta's mind

As Vegeta tried his best to avoid her attacks, he managed to find an opening and landed a hard elbow to her face, which she didn't even feel as she grabbed him by the throat and pulled him very close so that they were face to face, making Vegeta look into her eyes. "RRRAHHHH! RRRRRRHHHHHHH!" She roared in his face and growled like a crazed bloodthirsty savage before throwing him hard on the ground and landing hard on him before repeatedly smashing him for 8 minutes.

'Akio! I don't get it. I'm much stronger than her in battle, yet I was the 1 taking most of the damage! And the way she turned berserk with fully transforming into the Ape itself. It's…impossible! Why could she do that while no other Saiyans could, not even me?! It's as if…she's a freak of nature!'

13 hours later

Vegeta, bitter, hurt, and overall angry beyond belief at his defeat at Akio's hands, even though, in his mind, he was the oldest and the prodigy of the royal family and destined to rule the Saiyan race and the entire universe, while Akio, who was a low level and was destined to be deemed as outcasted garbage and the family embarrassment and a joke among Saiyans, and to be disposed of by him at a moment's notice and to be long forgotten as nothing more than bad memory to fade with time. It made his blood boil to just think about it. And the fact that Fasha and Raditz easily sided with her and the fact that she saw that weak, filthy Namekian as more of a brother than him was just rubbing salt on the wounds, especially his pride. It was so much that the liquid bubbled because of the rising body temperature as the machines were beeping rapidly until he cooled off again.

Meanwhile, on Earth at nighttime

In Akio's healing chamber, the healing Saiyan princess was having similar thoughts as Mai and Violet were watching over her. 'Vegeta! You selfish, arrogant, self-important bastard! I am your only living family member left in the universe, your own sister! And yet, you reject me and call me the lowest of the low among our race, and think of me like outcasted garbage and the family embarrassment?! Ohhh…if you're still alive by the time I'm healed, I will find you, and I will make you suffer beyond that of anything you've ever imagined! ESPECIALLY SUFFERING BEYOND THE HORRORS OF HELL ITSELF! I SWEAR TO YOU, BROTHER, I WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE INTO YOUR OWN PERSONAL HELL, AND IT'LL GIVE ME GREAT PLEASURE TO SQUEEZE THE LIFE OUT OF YOU WITH MY OWN HANDS!"

Mai and Violet were very worried about Akio, as they could tell that she was very angry with how her hands were clenching and her tail was shaking while the liquid was boiling hot. "Damn, she looks really pissed off. What could be going on in that head of hers?" Violet asked while touching the glass but took her hand off when she felt how hot it was.

"She must be thinking about that fight against her older brother Vegeta. Think about what Fasha and Raditz said: how he told Akio that she was just thrown out garbage and didn't deserve to be born just because she was born with a low power level and the embarrassment of the royal Saiyan family." Mai said with contempt for the way Vegeta was. "And the way he attacked her when she said that Piccolo was even more of a brother to her than him in rage even after all he said and did to her even if she is his sister. She has every right to be pissed off."

"Pfff…fucking hypocrite, selfish, and self-important asshole." Violet said with hate for Vegeta treating his own sister like that. "But it's not true, right?"

Mai answered with admiration for Akio's accomplishments. "Of course it isn't. Akio's parents sent her here as a baby to live on and survive, which clearly indicates that they loved her so much. And because they saw that she had the potential to be a great Saiyan elite. And look how far she's come and all she's accomplished. Granted she is an insane, bloodthirsty psychopath, but still, I've never seen such dedication and determination in any kid, besides little Hana, though, only in a different way."

"Maybe you're right. Maybe it's Vegeta who's got a problem." Violet said in agreement. "Well, whatever happens from here on out, I just hope that whatever Akio has planned for earth and the universe will work out. For everyone." She said as she took Mai's hand, making them both blush like a tomato when they looked at each other.

10 hours later, on planet Frieza

As the doctor looked at the monitor, the healing chamber beeped, showing that Vegeta was fully healed before he pressed the buttons so that the healing liquid could drain. "Yes." He said before the liquid drained and Vegeta shook off the wires and mouth piece of his head and the chamber opened. "You've healed up quite nicely, sir." He informed Vegeta, who opened his eyes for the 1st time in days before standing up and getting out of the chamber. "You're fully recovered, tail and all."

"Indeed, doctor." Vegeta said as he felt stronger than ever thanks to his Saiyan biology for Zenkai boosts. He chuckled in delight at feeling his new increased strength.

A bit later

The doctor inspected Vegeta's ruined armor. "Mighty as you are, Vegeta, sir, it would appear somewhat put you through your paces. Considering the shape this armor is in, it's a wonder you returned to us intact. The mind blows at the thought of such force. What it must have taken to leave armor like this broken. Do I speak out of turn to suggest planet Earth was more than you bargained for?"

Vegeta, who was finishing suiting up in new armor, was only thinking about his fight with Akio and everyone she'd done to him, especially in her berserker state, making him growl as he put on his right glove, then his armor before wrapping his tail around his waist. "Is Frieza here? I need to see him."

"He…he departed not long ago." The alien doctor answered.

"Grown tired of this planet already, has he?"

"Yes, well, about that very thing. Cui has asked that after you've healed that he would like a word with you, sir. In…in the training room."

But Vegeta wasn't about to deal with that waste of cowardly life. "Ha. Is that a fact? Well you can tell that purple bastard the only word I have for him is no." He said with a smirk before leaving the room.

"But he was most insistent." The doctor said before he noticed that the scouter was still on the table. He grabbed the device and chased after him. "Sir, a moment, please. You've accidentally left your scouter behind, Sir."

But Vegeta didn't need such a useless gadget anymore. "Keep it, it's yours, I have no use for it anymore." He told the doctor, making him surprised. And as Vegeta was walking through the hall, passing a few guards that were standing at attention, he thought to himself. 'There's nothing more I want them to return to Earth and pay a little visit to my sister and those traitors Fasha and Raditz, but 1st I'll go to Namek. I need to pick something up.'

But then, he looked up and saw the last person he wanted to see: Cui, an aqua-like alien who thought himself Vegeta's rival, while unknown to him, Vegeta had far surpassed him years ago. "Yo, Vegeta! Word is somebody we all know and love got their tail handed to them. Hahahaha. And Nappa did even worse, I hear. And word is that Fasha and Raditz deserted you." He said mockingly. "Now who could possibly give the Saiyans such a hard time and make half your little troop turn on you? Guess they finally got tired of all yours and Nappa's abuse and traded you for another. But seriously, aren't you supposed to be invisible?"

But Vegeta wasn't in the mood as he bypassed him. "Back the hell off, Cui. If I intended to listen to you mock me, I'd have beat it out of you myself."

But Cui stopped him by putting hand on his left shoulder pad. "Now hold on there. Frieza wasn't pleased with your little stunt: running off to Earth all on your own without permission."

"Humh. Too bad he's not here to tell me that personally." The Saiyan prince countered, making Cui tremble. "Now unhand me before I do something that'll please him even less!"

Cui growled before doing just that but told him. "Yes, well, lucky for you, Frieza's merciful. You're fluke has him feeling gracious. He's willing to let bygones be bygones on account of your find."

"What?"

"Why would he bother holding a silly grudge when he's finally got the prospect of eternal life in his reach?"

Vegeta was a bit fearful, as he knew what that could mean. "Are you…are you trying to tell me that Frieza's headed for planet Namek?"

"Of course, where else?" Cui answered with a smirk.

Then it occured to the Saiyan prince. 'I'm a fool! Frieza's been eavesdropping on the scouters, and if he has, he definitely heard the transmission from Raditz's scouter! If I don't beat him to the punch, I'll be that bastard's puppet for eternity!'

Cui then tried to taunt Vegeta more. "Now don't tell me you wanted to keep the dragon balls all to yourself and not let the big man in on your secret, after all he's done for you. Oh, and I hate to dash your own dreams of immediately, but he's gonna kill every last Namekian and destroy their planet when he's done."

But that only pushed Vegeta to hurry out of the base and get to his pod. "Like hell he will!" He yelled as he ran.

"Hey, get back here!" Cui called out.

Vegeta ran into the doctor who still had his scouter on the way out and another guard but stopped when he saw the device and reluctantly took it. "Give me that!" He said before continuing on. "On 2nd thought I think I'll be needing this absurd relic after all!" He said before getting to his open pod and jumping in before it closed and he quickly set a course for Namek as it went into the air.

Cui and the doctor rushed outside as Vegeta's pod was taking off. "VEGETA!"

And as Vegeta's pod got off the planet, the Saiyan prince vowed as he put his new scouter on. "They belong to me! The dragon balls are mine!" He said before his pod went into light speed, beginning the 5 day journey to Namek.

5 days later, on the Saiyans ship

"I must say, Earth food is way beyond what we ate on any other planet I've been to." Turles said with a smile, as he found Earth food the most delicious he'd ever had.

"I'm glad you agree, Turles." Raditz said as he'd eaten his fill. "Makes me wonder why any other race thought of such delicacies. Perhaps we can make Bulma build a food synthesizer to make thousands of foods like these."

"Yes, excellent idea. Plus, that little gravity machine she installed here, and the healing chambers are great tools for training. It's no wonder Akio kept her around for 20 plus years. Though, why she kept all those other annoying earthlings you guys told me around, I'll never know."

"Well, it's a good thing we did a little training during this little trip. Plus, that little fight on that planet did us all a favor." Fasha added before seeing that that'd reached planet Namek at last. "Looks like we've arrived at last."

"Yes. I can feel my crew's energy. They're close to where we are." Turles said with a grin, as he'd learned how to heighten his senses and sense energy levels a few days ago and quickly got the hang of it.

"Good. I'll begin the landing procedure now." Fasha said with a smile before doing just that and their ship got on the planet in just 2 minutes before landing right beside Turles' ship.

The 3 Saiyans came out of the ship before Raditz capsulized it and put it in his armor and they met up with Amond, Diaz and Cacao. "Ah, hello, guys, nice to see you arrived here okay."

"Thanks, Raditz." Amond said while shaking the long haired Saiyan's hand.

"Did you manage to destroy the remaining seeds?" Turles asked with his arms crossed and his tail waving around.

"Of course, Turles. They've all been destroyed." Diaz reported.

Raditz took a look around the area and saw that the planet had a green sky and yellow clouds before seeing that it was entirely made up of small blue Islands and blue leaves everywhere. "This landscape looks a lot like the place where Piccolo had I trained together before Vegeta and Nappa arrived on Earth."

Fasha noticed it as well. "Yes. Also the same place where we fought with Nappa. Piccolo must have been drawn to the landscape by instinct but he never knew it was because of his Namekian heritage. Akio told me that she and him trained in many places similar to this landscape."

"Akio must miss him greatly. While I may not know this Piccolo and Akio like you guys do…yet, they sure sound like just the kind of warriors that I could've used on my team if circumstances had been different." Turles complimented while waving his tail around.

But Cacao was still serious. "There's no time for this, guys, we've got a very serious problem."

"What problem?" Turles asked with a raised eyebrow before he and his fellow Saiyans sensed a very high and evil energy that they knew could belong to only 1 being in the universe.

"N-no! It…can't be." Raditz said with a shocked face.

"It…it is." Fasha said with wide and fearful eyes. "It's…Frieza! He's…he's on Namek!"

"But…how? Why? It shouldn't be possible for Frieza to be here." Raditz said before realizing why the tyrant that held him and his entire face in bondage his whole life. "NO!"

"What? What's wrong?" Diaz asked with concern.

"The dragon balls! I was right! Frieza's been eavesdropping on the scouters! He knows about the dragon balls! That's the only reason he'd be here!" Fasha explained with extreme worry and concern. She then remembered something and checked her new and improved dragon scouter, seeing, to her horror, 4 dragon balls gathered together in the same spot. "No. No! NO!"

Fasha, what's wrong?!" Turles asked with concern.

"There's 4 dragon balls…gathered in 1 place, and 2 more in close proximity to them." Fasha answered. "And that could only mean only 1 thing: Frieza is here, and he's brought Zarbon and Dodoria along with him. And, if I'm right about this, they already have 4 dragon balls!"

Turles and his crew wanted to say that it was impossible, but at the same time, it made perfect sense. 4 dragon balls gathered in 1 place, the very high power levels, with 1 much higher power filled with evil when the Namekian were bleeding heart peace lovers by nature and making the others look like insects by comparison. There was no way it could be a coincidence. And with a prize as rare as wish granting orbs, Frieza definitely would not pass up an great opportunity like this, especially if there was a possibility for him to become immortal and without the fear of death, he'd be free to rule the entire universe for all eternity with no end of his iron reign of terror in sight.

But before they could comprehend this, they heard a ship and looked up, seeing a pod entering the planet and making Fasha's and Raditz's eyes widen, as they knew the energy inside it all too well. "That's…that's Vegeta's pod!"

"Vegeta? Prince Vegeta? That's who's in that pod?!" Turles asked with anger. "Grrr…how the hell could he have already recovered from what princess Akio did to him?!"

"Well, the newer model healing chambers the Frieza Force has are state of the art! They can heal people even with Vegeta's broken body in just a day or less depending on the severity of the wounds! And since it was Vegeta, we shouldn't really be surprised!" Raditz explained.

"And since he knows about the dragon balls, there's no doubt in my mind that he'd want to come here 1st before returning to earth to get payback on us for defecting from him and Akio for shredding his damn ego and pride!" Fasha added. "Please tell me you guys have got the hang of hiding your power levels."

"Yes, we have." Diaz answered before they all masked their power levels so they wouldn't be detected.

"But why should we worry about Vegeta? He may have gotten stronger, yes, but even if he did, he can't possibly be powerful enough to contend with any of us. At least not at this moment in time." Cacao said with a raised eye.

"Maybe not, but let's not take any chances. We can deal with him if Frieza doesn't do it 1st." Raditz said with confidence.

"But if and when we encounter him again, we should be careful not to underestimate how strong he'll become while on this planet. Despite his faults, he's still a Saiyan." Turles told everyone.

"Indeed. But, I'm not taking any chances. I'm gonna inform Bulma that both Vegeta and Frieza are here. And…we'll just have to hope for the best." Fasha said before pressing the button on her scooter to contact Bulma and tell her everything.

"Make it quick, Fasha. We can't stay here for long." Amond urged his new ally.

"He's right. Their scouters will have picked up our power levels or even seen or heard our ships land on the planet. And if I'm right, some scouts are already on their way." Diaz added with equal worry. "Not that we don't need to fear them, since those dumb fools aren't a match for even 1 of us."

Meanwhile, at the location of the pod's landing

Vegeta walked out of the crates his pod had made with his scooter in hand. "Frieza, you rotten little freak. Don't think I'll let you cheat me. Not over this prize." He said before putting on his scooter. "I'm more than capable of taking his lackeys down. Best avoid a fight with the big man himself, at least now. I'll have to swallow my pride and go about collecting the dragon balls covertly. Argh! Using a scouter, no less." When he pressed the button on the device, it immediately picked up multiple power levels due west. "And there they are. Damn, he's brought Zarbon and Dodoria along for the ride." He said with annoyance before he thought of something, looking at his tail. "Hmmm…Akio never wrapped her tail around her waist, even when she fought me." He said while thinking for a moment before unwrapping his tail from his waist, finding it more comfortable. Plus, he had long trained it so it wouldn't hurt when grabbed and didn't really see the point of it wrapped around his waist anymore despite it being customary among Saiyans. "Well, if she could fight without it wrapped around her, then so can I. And, honestly, it is more comfortable this way. Humh, guess she's a somewhat good example, I'll give her that at least."

Back with Fasha's group

After informing Bulma of everything, Fasha and her group saw another pod land on the planet. "Who's in that pod? It can't be another Saiyan, can it?" Amond asked with a raised eyebrow.

"No, it doesn't feel like Saiyan energy." Turles answered, sensing that this energy was not Saiyan.

But Raditz and Fasha could tell who it was. "Wait, it's that fish face Cui." Raditz said with a smirk. A low level elite in Frieza's army that once rivaled Vegeta when his power level was 18,000."

"Humh. If Chi's here to fight Vegeta, he's in for a very rude awakening and a 1 way trip to Hell. Vegeta surpassed him years ago." Fasha said with a grin of insanity.

"Well, if that's true, he's 1 problem that'll sort itself out." Turles said with a grin. "Let Vegeta have fun with him, we have bigger and more important business to worry about."

"Yeah. In the meantime, let's find a safe place to hold up while we think of a plan. But no flying because Frieza's minions can easily use their scouters to track us down." Fasha told everyone, getting a nod from each of them before they began walking away from the area.

Meanwhile, in a destroyed Namekian village

As the houses, similar to the Namekian ship Popo had shown Fasha, were partly destroyed, a small alien soldier came out of the biggest home, with a dragon ball that was much bigger than the Earth's dragon balls, in his arms. "Here it is, sire." He said with an evil smile.

"Ah, excellent. Now only 3 remain to be discovered. Ahhhahahahahahaha." Frieza, the most evil, ruthless and cold-hearted tyrant that the universe had ever known for 20 plus years, laughed in delight as Zarbon and Dodoria, who had just murdered an elder Namekian, stood beside their master, with 3 dragon balls in their arms, and now had a 4th ball in their grasp.

Power levels

Fasha pre eating fruit: 58,000

Fasha post eating fruit: 232,000

Raditz pre eating fruit: 58,000

Raditz post eating fruit 232,000

Turles pre eating fruit 58,000

Turles post eating fruit 232,000

Amond, Diaz and Cacao pre eating fruit 50,000

Arnold, Diaz and Cacao post eating fruit 200,000

There you go, my dear friends, the Tree of Might chapter is complete. Next will be the beginning of perhaps the greatest saga in Dragon Ball Z, which will have many surprises in store, especially when a certain Saiyan princess finally comes face to face with the bane of her race and the entire universe itself. It'll begin as soon as some of my other projects are updated, which hopefully won't be too long. So, in closing, hope you all enjoyed this chapter and the fact that Turles is part of the expanding group of Saiyans. Rate and review and I'll see you all next time, my dear friends.