Dragon Ball Z: the Next Generation

by The Legendary Dragon Reaper

Who would've expected that just a few changes could have such a major impact. Read as Gohan and Kai journey through life and across the universe in this exciting retelling of DBZ, with changes and surprises around every corner. Yamcha x Bulma, Raditz x Android 18, Gohan x Erasa later on. Other pairings undecided at the moment.

10. Galactimania 2019, Calling Forth Porunga

Captain Ginyu continued making his way back towards Frieza's ship, only to end up dropping one of the Dragon Balls along the way "Oh son of a bitch!" he quickly blitzed down and caught it before it fell into the ocean "Okay so I definitely have to be careful, I can't afford to lose one of these. Frieza wouldn't like that one bit and I can't afford to have a blemish on my record on my final mission before my contract with the force expires and I go into Wheel of Death full time."

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Kai stepped up to the plate, with Raditz doing the same and Gohan backing off and heading towards the sidelines alongside Nail "So are we gonna do this shit or-"

"HIT RECOOME'S MUSIC!" Recoome thundered, which prompted Burter and Jeice to start playing the 1993 Doom theme "Alright listen up Raditz and kid who may be just as awesome as we are, though this mostly applies to Raditz. You think that just because you're one of the last survivors of the Saiyan race you're the best there is at what you do, but let Recoome tell ya something brother: You ain't no Wolverine and you ain't got what it takes to step up to a FIVE TIME CHAMPION!"

"Champion of what exactly?" asked Raditz.

"This fight right here is gonna be a blooming slobber knocker it is." Jeice noted.

Burter nodded "You can just feel the intensity."

"Who the hell are you talking to?" asked Kai.

"Who else, the audience. Someone's gotta do commentary."

"Oh. Carry on."

"Recoome intends to." and so Recoome went on "You see Raditz, you can just sit there and brag about how the Saiyans are the mightiest warriors in all the universe and how they're the most ruthless! Well look at where they are now, DEAD! You can talk about your legends and your warrior race and your pride! But that doesn't mean a DAAAAMN thing to this man! Because the name is RECOOME! And it rhymes with DOOM! And YOOOU'RE gonna be hurting! ALL! TOO! SOOOOOONuhh! Now what do you have to say to that?!"

"He's got nothing, I've got this. Hit my music mother f*ckers." Kai stepped forward, followed by Number One (Ichigo's theme from Bleach) playing in the background "Alright listen up now big guy, you think that just because you're a member of the Ginyu Force you're the best there is at what you do! But let me making something painfully clear to you my man, you're no Hugh Jackman and you don't have what it takes to step up to the awesomeness that is ME!"

"Okay okay Recoome thinks that he likes where this is going, the boy definitely knows how to get into it."

"You can just stand there acting all badass and bragging about how the Ginyu Force is the most elite and amazing team in all of the universe, how you're the best of the best and how you're unbeatable. Well look at Guldo over there, he's dead BY MY HAND! You can show off how you're a five time champion and how the two commentators have a little Yin Yang thing going and how and how your Captain makes you look like a bunch of kittens to his tiger, but that doesn't mean a DAMN thing to this man! Because the name is KAI, and it rhymes with DIE, and any minute now you're ABOUT! TO! SEE! WHYYYYYY!"

"...Never has Recoome seen anyone grasp the beauty that is Galactimania so quickly, and never has Recoome been so proud of anyone for that reason either, nor will he be so proud of anyone like that ever again." Recoome was actually shedding tears of pride "And you know something boy, just for that Recoome is going to let you have the first shot."

"Well all I can say to that is, eat your heart out Hulk Hogan. KAIOKEN!" Kai proceeded to power up his Kaioken aura, taking the three Ginyu Force members by surprise when they saw the readings on their Scouters.

'Okay Recoome wasn't expecting this, the boy's power level just shot all the way up to a solid 50,000. Recoome is going to enjoy this, either defeating such a worthy opponent or losing to such a worthy opponent this will be the battle of the century.'

"Let's go!" so with a roar Kai bolted forward and slugged Recoome straight across the face, followed by a vicious combo of smashing him to the ground and then dealing him a devastating knee to the gut before flinging him into the side of a nearby mountain "And there goes Space Mountain, I doubt Disney is gonna be happy about this. Oh yeah anyway, JABRONI CAN BLOW ME!" and to prove his point he fired a fully powered Explosive Demon Wave at the remains of the mountain, completely obliterating it in the process, the blast and the shockwave forcing everyone else present to take cover.

Gohan was the first one to come back out into the open "That wasn't even a contest, that was some kind of slaughter. Man you're totally amazing Kai, it's almost scary to think how much power and ferocity you're packing now."

"Don't let your guard down again midget, it's not over yet. He's not dead, someone packing as much power and passion for the sport as that guy wouldn't go down so easily."

Sure enough, Recoome emerged from the rubble clearly scathed and wounded but still alive, much to the horror of Gohan "So are you done talking smack? This is one Muscle Tower that won't be brought down so easily."

"Well you're definitely one touch mother f*cker I've gotta give you that much, you're brushing that off like it's nothing."

"Silly boy, there's only one thing that Recoome sells and that is merchandise." he took out some pictures of merchandise (baseball cap, t shirt, action figure, keychain, hand bag and yes the last one is a vibrator) out of nowhere.

"...Can I get a t shirt?" he was promptly thrown a t shirt, which he quick took the chance to slip on underneath his gi "Awesome."

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Jeice shot a glance over at Burter "Oi Burter get this mate, I bet ya Recoome don't even leave a body."

"Oh get real." Burter let out a scoff "Keep in mind that you already owe me a space soda from our last bet."

"Well you still owe me a space burger from the one before that."

"Fine how about this, no bets until we head out to Spacey's after this and we settle any old unpaid bets that we may have."

"It's a deal mate." they shook on it.

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And where can you find all of this spectacular space food? At the popular restaurant Spacey's, now with our new Raditz menu. Spacey's, it's good food in space that's better than KFC (which is probably a lie).

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Frieza was quite pleased to see Captain Ginyu return with all 7 seven Dragon Balls, especially with how quickly he managed to do it "Outstanding Captain Ginyu, simply outstanding is the best way to describe you performance today. Once again you have exceeded my expectations, not only did you recover all 7 Dragon Balls but you did it with such apparent ease that I'm disappointed in myself for not having you and your men in sooner."

Captain Ginyu nodded "Thank you sir, I thought it was best to go out on a high note before my contract expires."

"And at last eternal life is within my grasp, it's right here in the palm of my hand. I want to savor the moment!"

"This calls for a special performance to commemorate the occasion, in your honor I shall perform the Dance of Joy!" and then he started dancing.

"...Yes you know what, perhaps you could do that for me the next time."

"Whatever you say."

'Oh thank god, that's the last thing I need right now. Anyway I still can't believe it, my dreams for eternal life is about to be brought into reality. I don't mind admitting it to you, I'm actually quite excited for this!"

"And how could you not be, it's only a matter of seconds before you cement your place as supreme ruler of the universe for all of eternity!"

"Yes! Now then my Dragon Balls, I Lord Frieza command you to grant my wishes of immortality and eternal youth!" and so they waited for the wishes to be granted.

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Jeice and Burter took the chance to sign back onto Galactimania 2019 "And now we're back mates, while you were gone Recoome caught our challenger Kai off guard and dealt him a brutal blow using his patented Recoome Knee and let me tell you know that it was absolutely devastating and now he's back on the offensive but he can't seem to land a single hit on the poor kid!"

"Recoome ELBOW!" Recoome elbowed Kai square in the center of his skull, sending him crashing down into the Namekian ocean below.

"Oh and Recoome follows up with a vicious Recoome Elbow!"

"It looks like Recoome is just too fast for Kai and that's coming from the fastest guy in the universe!"

"That's not really relevant right now Burter."

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The tension in the air was thick when the two present for the apparent wish realized that nothing happened.

Captain Ginyu was the first to comment on it "Well that's strange, it doesn't seem like anything is happening is it? Or maybe it's already done, do you feel any different?"

"No, no I don't think so." Frieza muttered "But I don't understand, why didn't it work?" and then a certain flashback hit him "Of course, what the second Namekian elder said when I took his Dragon Ball from him! At the time I just thought that he was acting like a sore loser but he said that we outworlders would never be able to unlock their power. We outworlders dammit! There must be some sort of key required to grant a wish on the Dragon Balls, perhaps it's some sort of secret ritual that only the Namekians know of that will unlock their power and grant the wish of the user! So what is it, is it a password or a location, or is it some secret way of arranging the balls?! I need a Namekian here and I need him here now!"

"Well to be fair that may be a slight problem, are there even any Namekians that are still alive on this planet?"

"Well let's find out." Frieza checked his Scouter "Well I just located Raditz and his companions over there, I suppose it's possible that he or one of his little friends might have the answers that we need."

"Well if that's the case then I'll call off my men, as annoyed as they'll be over Galactimania 2019 being cancelled, and have them bring the others back here for questioning. I do remember there being what I thought was a Namekian with them."

"Yes that would probably be for the best- Wait hold on a second, redirect your Scouter in the direction of coordinate 8829401. If I'm not mistaken then I'm picking up what may very well be at least three more Namekians, since we've never bothered to attack that area then it would seem that these three have been lucky enough to escape from our attention until now."

"So what then, do you want me to track them down and get the answers that you need in order to activate the Dragon Balls and make them grant your wish?"

"No such a thing will not be necessary I believe it to be best if I just go and talk to them myself, after all in my time on this planet I've managed to gain quite a bit of experience dealing with the natives. Anyway since your contract will expire before I return just bury the Dragon Balls, call it a hunch but I have a feeling that a certain third party will attempt to seek them out while myself and Raditz's group are occupied."

"Understood, whoever you're talking about and I have a far idea of whom that is they won't get their hands on them. I wish you the best of luck."

"And I thank you for your services captain, and now Namekians you're mine." and then Frieza took off after the three power readings, those being the Grand Elder, Dende and his first real challenger in the form of Yamcha, but we'll get to that later.

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Once again Jeice and Burter signed back on to do more commentary for Galactimania 2019, or more specifically the fight between Kai and Recoome "And now we're back with the fight ladies and gents, here's what you guys missed." literally nothing, Kai hadn't even emerged from the water yet "Boy did we time that commercial right or what?"

"SHOT THROUGH THE HEART!" in a reference to a certain Bon Jovi song and with his Kaioken aura flaring, Kai burst up from within the water and dealt Recoome a vicious sneak attack to the gut.

"Oh and we've got a vicious sneak attack from Kai but too bad for the poor kid because it looks like it didn't do jack shit!"

While the statement wasn't entirely true due to Recoome spitting out a little bit of blood, he still grabbed Kai by the waist "Recoome is impressed, but now it's Recoome's turn! Recoome…"

"Oh shit." was all Kai could think to say.

"PILE DRIVER!" Recoome unleashed his Recoome Pile Driver on Kai, slamming him down into the ground below in a massive explosion.

"Oh and a devastating Recoome Pile Driver there, this match may very well be over now for the poor little bastard!"

Recoome pulled Kai out of the ground, revealing that the top of his gi had been partially shredded from the impact "Never in all of Recoome's years has he had a challenger as worthy and as valiant as you, but alas it would seem that Recoome will never find someone capable enough to take his place."

"Yeah about that, NEO WOLF FANG FIST!" as he powered up his Kaioken to the third level and he freed himself from Recoome's grasp, Kai dealt Recoome a devastating Neo Wolf Fang Fist combination attack, finishing with a devastating kick to the gut that stopped Recoome in his tracks.

"Oh bloody hell will you look at that, he may have just left Recoome down for the count with that brutal strike attack!"

"Hey you left yourself wide open Recoome and I took an opening that I saw. And now I'm gonna go ahead with this. The name… is KAI! It rhymes… with DIE! And as of right now… YOU! KNOW! WHY!" and then he let out a wrestler style roar, only for the nonexistent crowd to suddenly go silent.

"My god… That was absolutely INCREDIBLE!" and then the nonexistent crowd suddenly began to go wild.

"Yeah that's right, I'm big, I'm bad, I'm AWESOME!" and then Kai started posing like a jackass.

Recoome slowly pulled himself to his feet "Never has Recoome seen someone so talented and yet so passionate about the sport, he sees now that in him he has found the true worthy successor to his title. The others probably won't understand but Recoome does, that last attack was different from the rest, for the amount of sheer force packed into that elbow was completely devastating. Recoome concedes Kai, the championship belongs to you now. Jeice, Burter, show this fine young man the respect he deserves. Recoome will be taking his leave in order to be able to understand this boy better and what makes him as strong as he is. Recoome may return for the championship one day, but he has much to learn before then. Until we meet again, and that day will be glorious." and with that, Recoome took off into the horizon, leaving everyone speechless in his wake.

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Raditz observed this from the sidelines, with Gohan and Nail both doing the same "I've never seen anyone actually take Recoome down before, that kid is really something."

Gohan nodded "Yeah he says that he's gonna surpass Yamcha one day, and that he wants me to surpass my dad too."

"Well that's a long time coming boy, especially considering that we'll have to fight Frieza sooner or later, and if we're going to defeat him then Kakarot has to have done it."

"Have to have done what?"

"He'll have to have fulfilled the legend, but then again according to all of the old legends it's been over 1,000 years since one has appeared in this universe. A warrior of the Saiyan race that was able to break free of the normal limitations of a Saiyan in order to achieve an unprecedented and unimaginable level of power, but those were just old stories and I never actually believed any of them or took them seriously. At least not at first, but the more I thought about it the more it made sense to me, at least that along with something that my father Bardock told me once when I was a child: Saiyans have no limits."

"Huh."

"And then I could see that even as we were fighting Beets, Kakarot was evolving continuously against him and then I could sense that he had the potential to surpass the normal limitations of a Saiyan warrior and then go far beyond them. Whether it be the special training that he and the other one went through or something far greater I could see it in his eyes, Kakarot was the one who has what it takes… to become a Super Saiyan."

"Woah… hey what happened to Nail, where did he go?"

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Jeice on the other hand was quick to lose his temper over Recoome losing and then just giving up like that "What the bleeding hell?! We were having a right rip snorter here and then that arrogant little shit swizzling piker shows up and then just like that it's Goodnight Irene!" he suddenly picked up something on his Scouter that made him cease his Australian rant "Wait a second, what the hell?!"

As it turns out, Nail was standing behind him and Burter looking ready for a fight, having discarded his vest "The two of you work for the character Frieza that has been slaughtering all of my fellow Namekians, but your senses of honor in terms of battle and feelings of camaraderie tell me that you hold little to no evil in your hearts. I'm going to give you both one chance to leave this planet in peace, I would rather not settle this with violence but you must understand that if you stay then I will be left with no choice but to fight."

"Oh for- Oh you think you're a real tough guy huh? Yeah just because Recoome gave up his championship you think you and your friends are the kings of the world! Well let me tell you now Mr Namekian, we're not like guys like Recoome or Guldo, we're the Purple Comet Duo and we're totally unbeatable! Against the Red Magma and the Blue Hurricane you haven't got a chance in hell!"

"...So do I take that as a no then?"

"What the hell do you think?" the three of them moved the showdown of Green vs Red and Blue onto the main battlefield "Alright you arrogant little bastard, prepare to feel the wrath of the Ginyu Force-"

Nail cut him off with a punch to the face.

"OH GOD! YOU GODDAMN WANKER, YOU PUNCHED ME IN THE-"

A second punch.

"GODDAMMIT YOU JUST HAD TO DO IT AGAIN DIDN'T YOU?!"

A third punch.

"FOR THE LOVE OF F*CK WILL YOU STOP-"

A fourth punch, this one causing him to start bleeding.

"FOR THE LOVE OF PISS! Okay think for a minute Jeice, what did the captain tell us to do in a situation like this? Let's see, he said that if I ever found myself being punched repeatedly in the face then I should always remember to-'

A fifth punch rudely interrupted his flashback.

"OH FOR THE LOVE OF HELL HE JUST HAD TO CUT OFF THE CAPTAIN!"

"So… do you actually intend to dodge any of these attacks?"

"Oh so that's what the captain was gonna say-"

"You only realize that now." cue a sixth punch "And in all honestly even I must admit that you deserved that one."

"Son of a bloody- BURTER! SUPPORT! NOW!"

Burter gave a shrug "Well alright, I think that you've got very nice hair, you're a beautiful shade of red and to be totally honest you're the only guy that I can rely on on this team."

"I WANTED YOU TO PUNCH HIM YA DAFT BASTARD!" and yet he still calmed down considerably "Oh but thanks for that mate, to be honest that really cheered me-"

"Punch." Nail punched him a seventh time "Come on now that one was your own fault and you know it."

"OH FOR THE LOVE OF BLOODY HELL I THINK HE BROKE SOMETHING THAT TIME! You know what that's it, I am done screwing around!"

"For once we agree." Nail caught both of their elbow strikes with his bare hands, dealt Jeice a quick kick to the gut and kicked Burter's knees out from under him and then flexed his arms at them, sending out a shockwave that sent both of them flying.

"What in the bleeding name hell was that?!" Jeice managed to stop himself, with Burter doing the same "Where did he get that power all of a sudden? This doesn't make any sense, the Scouter doesn't lie and it says he's only around 20,000 or so."

"We Namekians as well as many other races have the ability to suppress our power level and then raise it sharply in the exact instant that we attack, as well as disguise our power levels at will so that with those devices you can't tell how strong we truly are."

"Oh. Well shit then."

"Hey come on man, keep your cool." Burter told him "You know what Jeice let's have a little bit of fun with this one, I think it's time for us to break out the Purple Comet Crush!"

"It's been a long time since we dusted off that one but yeah I think that sounds good, let's show this slug man what the ultimate tag team can do!"

"Hell yeah!" so they were each engulfed in a ball of energy, Burter's being blue and Jeice's being red, and they both blended together "PURPLE COMET CRUSH!" they both blended together in a purple twister that started spitting out Ki blasts in every direction.

'They're growing desperate, perhaps now I should get more serious.' realizing the power of the combination attack, Nail quickly unleashed a miniature Explosive Wave to shield himself from the attack deflecting the Ki blasts being thrown at him.

Once the attack subsided, Jeice and Burter both separated "So what's the deal did we get this guy or what?"

When the smoke cleared it revealed Nail unharmed, at least aside from a few scratches here and there.

"Oh for the love of f*ck what does it take to take out one f*cking slug man?!"

"Calm down Jeice, listen to me closely."

"Burter if you're gonna say I love you again then I swear to god…"

"Hey that was one time at my cousin's bar mitzvah, anyway let's go for plan B. I want you to fire your Crusher Ball at this guy and then the slug man here will try to dodge it I can rush him and slam him into the dirt. I don't care how strong or how fast he is, this little bastard has got nothing on the fastest guy in the universe."

"Okay you know what hold up a second, we need to talk mate."

"About what?"

"About this whole thing about you being the fastest in the universe, first off the Captain has got a higher power level than you doesn't he?"

"Yeah what's your point?"

"Well then correct me if I'm wrong but a higher power level would technically mean that he's faster than you right? I mean at least there's a pretty decent chance that it would right?"

"Well okay maybe but that's not always the case."

"And Lord Frieza has a higher power level than all of us combined."

"Okay that one's just not fair, it's like comparing the knights to a king! It's just a load of Chess stereotyped bullshit!"

"Well anyway if you think about it Guldo had the ability to stop time so maybe this one is kind of stretching it but wouldn't that technically make him faster than-"

"NO! NO NO NO NO NO! THERE IS NO WAY I'M SLOWER THAN F*CKING GULDO YOU STUPID RED SHIT!"

"For god's sake Burter would you just calm down?"

"NO YOU JUST SHUT THE F*CK UP, YOU SHUT YOUR STUPID RED FACE! YOU SAY IT LIKE IT'S NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT WHEN I'M SLOWER THAN SOME SACK OF SHIT LIKE GULDO!"

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(Back on the ground, not giving a shit about the argument between Jeice and Burter…)

Kai shot a glance over at Gohan "Hey do you think they have a Denny's somewhere on this planet? I don't know about you but I could really go for a Grand Slam with triple bacon all over the place."

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"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE MAN!" Burter was still ranting "Everyone else has something special that makes them recognizable for who they are and what they can do but I don't! What the hell am I?! I'm just the big blue snake guy whose face makes babies cry when they see him!"

"That was just one time." Jeice pointed out "And besides me sister Sheila said that she was sorry about that."

"Whatever it's still true, and it's all that I've got! It's all I've got going for me and it, it's just not fair man!" and then he nearly started sobbing.

"Oh. Geez I'm really sorry mate, it's not like I meant to hurt your feelings or anything. I didn't realize it meant that much to you."

"All I want is to be special, something that I can call my own that makes me recognizable outside of just being part of the Ginyu Force you know."

"Take it easy mate I get it, I really do. But you know what do you have something special going for you, you're me best mate." and note that unlike with TFS, this is gonna be totally sincere all the way through."

"Oh come on now dude."

"No mate I'm being totally serious, remember when I had to move me piano into me flat awhile back and Recoome was too busy with his match? And Guldo was just being Guldo so you know what I mean right? But you were there for me mate, you were the one who got those ivory keys up those five flights in no time at all! I've learned that if there's anyone in the universe that I can count on then it's you Burter, you're me best mate."

"Thanks for that Jeice, and you know what you're my best friend too. Hey you know what, it's our last day on our contracts so let's just dish these clowns and head off to Spacey's and then just have a good old time just like the old days?"

"Sounds good to me mate, let's blow this joint."

"But keep in mind that you still owe me that space soda."

"And don't forget that you me the space burger too."

"You're damn right I do Jeice, you're damn right I do." and on that cheerful note, the two of them took off back in the direction of their pods. What neither of them nor any of those present knew was that they would never make it back to their pods.

Nail was left alone and dumbfounded, but also slightly relieved "Well that was… surprisingly lighthearted." and then he returned to the others.

"So you're just gonna let them ago?" asked Gohan.

"They clearly have no intention to fight and I think I've already demonstrated that I can handle them both without too much difficulty, besides we still have other things to worry about such as their captain."

"Not to mention that Frieza still has the Dragon Balls and even if all four of us and my uncle try to fight him he'd probably just wipe the floor with all of us

Raditz nodded "I'm afraid so, and now that the Ginyu Force is all but dealt with I doubt he's going to underestimate us. Besides even with the element of surprise Frieza wouldn't go down lightly if at all."

"Oh come on now." Kai let out a snort "You can't tell me that you're not exaggerating at least a little bit Sonic the Hedgehog, besides you can't tell me you didn't see how badass I was in that fight against Recoome and what Nail did against the other two so how much tougher than those three could Frieza actually turn out to be. You've gotta be more realistic."

"Okay first of all I'm pretty sure you don't even hear yourself talk, second of all I don't see you raring and ready to take him on."

"...Bite me."

"At any rate he already has all 7 Dragon Balls which means that chances are he's already obtained immortality by now so any thoughts of taking him out are pretty much fantasy at this point so the best hope that we have now is to not run into him."

"Actually I don't believe that to be the case." Nail pointed out "I haven't detected any of the signs of the Dragon Balls being used."

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

"I mean that the most noticeable sign of the Dragon Balls being used is that when they're in use then the sky should turn darker than the soul of the likes of Frieza."

"Or Mr Popo." Kai muttered.

"Something as obvious as that would easily noticeable, which would mean that the Eternal Dragon has yet to appear."

"Which means that Frieza doesn't have a clue about how the Dragon Balls work, you would think that would've come up by now."

Gohan nodded "Yeah I guess but either way he doesn't know what the password is and he probably just thought he would have his wish granted the minute he brought all 7 of the Dragon Balls together."

"And that means that there's still a shot at us bringing Piccolo and the others back with the Dragon Balls and we don't even need Goku and Tien to get here to do it! The only question is, how do we get past that Ginyu guy and get the Dragon Balls back."

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Ginyu wasn't exactly thrilled to hear what was happening from Recoome "So let's try this one again, take it from the top, back from the field, full report."

Recoome let out a sigh "Okay so Recoome says it like this Captain, everything was going fine at first but the next thing we knew Guldo was, well…"

"Oh lord he's dead isn't he?"
"That he is sir."

"Well in our line of work our lives could be compromised at any moment, that is something that we have to live with. On the plus side that means that Burter owes me 50 Raditz."

"Actually Recoome picked up a transmission on his Scouter, Burter and Jeice are both withdrawing from the mission and heaving out to Spacey's."

"Oh. I see. Well then Recoome I believe that the next step is obvious, as professionals we cannot let this go unabated. Now then just accompany me back to the field and watch me do battle with these foes and then you can head out to join Jeice and Burter, but as Captain of the force I have a job to finish and I shall see it through on behalf of my men. After all, a Captain's loyalty lies with his men. Now then, Ginyu Force away!" and so the two of them took off back towards the battlefield.

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Bulma on the other hand was not having fun on her own back at the hideout "Goddammit I've had it up to here with dad, where in the name of the hell does that old crank get off telling me that Goku and Tien should've arrived on Planet Namek by now?! Surely if either of them had landed on Namek by now then their first priority would be to rescue me! I mean you would think that that's obvious isn't it?"

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Gohan let out a sigh "If only we had some kind of surefire way to get back the Dragon Balls back from these guys. Hey Raditz you know these sorts of guys don't you, what's the best way to go around them without having to fight? There has to be something the four of us will be able to do at least until dad and Tien get here right?"

"Well at least you're more logical than the other brat." Raditz noted "At least you're reasonable about the prospect of taking on Frieza."

"If I have to fight him then I guess it can't be helped but before that we have to make good on the promise we made to bring back the friends that Vegeta and Nappa killed back on Earth a month ago."

"Fair enough but before that-" Raditz paused when he sensed something "I'm guessing the rest of you feel that as well, that means that the Captain himself is coming. Recoome is on his way back here and he's brought his fearless leader Captain Ginyu with him. Even I'm going have my hands full with this one, I think you've already sensed it but he's way stronger than the rest of them."

"Yeah we do, you think you can take him on?"

"Only one way to find out. But in the meantime where did Frieza run off to? I'm not sensing his energy anywhere, you would think that he'd be on his ship hovering over the goods that just got laid at his feet."

"Well he isn't there now, that much I can assure you of." Nail glanced around for Frieza's Ki signature, only to find it in a direction that he had dreaded "I'm sensing a massive evil amount of power coming from that direction. That is Frieza without question, and it is also what I had feared most."

"But isn't that where…"

"I'm afraid so Raditz, he must have found a way to locate the Grand Elder. My guess is that Frieza was unable to get his wish granted so now he's using one of those devices to track down the last Namekians and get the answers that he will need."

"But if he does get the answers that he needs to get his wish granted then he'll just kill the Grand Elder like he did to all of the other Namekians, not to mention that he doesn't know that if anything happens to the Grand Elder then the Dragon Balls will be useless."

"The only hope we have is that Yamcha will be able to stall him for long enough for us to get your wish granted."

"I guess we have to put it all on him for now."

"Yeah here's the thing about that." that was when Captain Ginyu and Recoome both dropped down onto the scene "I did detect a power level in the neighborhood of 45,000 or so but against the likes of Lord Frieza he's not going to last for very long."

"Well from what I've seen he's tougher than he looks, he did manage to one up Dodoria at only a fraction of his true power and if I hadn't shown up to finish off Dodoria then he would've finished the job without too much trouble."

"A feat in itself I'll admit but that means little against the likes of Frieza, and even if he did the rest of you still have to go through me. Frankly Raditz right now I'd peg you at somewhere around 50,000, I imagine that you're holding back so that makes this into what will no doubt be quite interesting fight. I never thought I would get to see the day that Captain Ginyu will get to show off his true power."

"And here I thought I wouldn't be able to get an actual challenge." Raditz shot a glance over towards Nail and the others "I'll hold these two off for awhile, I want the three of you to go get that Dragon Ball location device from the blue haired woman and then find the Dragon Balls as soon as you can."

"My guess is that these guys took them back to Frieza's ship and if he's not there then that means that we can get to them." Kai pointed out "Alright Gohan, Piccolo reject, let's hurry up and get those balls before Frieza reaches the Namekian god's home or whatever. He might even be there right now."

"Whatever you do don't do anything reckless."

"No promises." and so he took off, with Gohan and Nail following right behind him.

"Now then, I guess that leaves us to fight it out Captain Ginyu. Or it would if you weren't one of my allies."

Captain Ginyu exited a battle stance "Yeah yeah Raditz rub it in, keep in mind I'm only doing this because our contracts are about to expire. I'm not openly going against Frieza because I like my life and I like my crew, all I'm doing for you is keeping tabs on Vegeta and that's all there is to it."

"You gave me your speech before Captain, now where is he?" Raditz was answered in a very gorey manner when Recoome was suddenly hit with a Ki blast from behind, sending him flying into a mountain "I think we have our answer."

"Bloody hell man how are you so nonchalant?!"

"Because he's one one of your men not mine. Anyway there's no need to act like a badass or anything Vegeta."

Sure enough, standing before the two of them was Vegeta looking as confident as ever, holding the bloody corpses of Burter and Jeice above his head, which he promptly threw to the ground just to be a dick about it "Well well it would seem that the low class scum has grown quite the pair to talk back to his prince like that."

"You've never been a prince of mine, Kakarot already defeated you once so I should be able to do the same."

"You really believe that now don't you? Well let me give you a little bit of insight as to how in over your head you really are. As I retreated from that hell hole Earth I was originally planning to retreat to Frieza Planet 70 but my course was diverted by enemy fire and I ended up on Frieza Planet 420 as a result. Space Weed aside the planet had 10 times the gravity of Planet Vegeta, so I decided to take some time and use it to my advantage in terms of my training, the fruition of which I'm about to unleash on you."

"So you're after petty revenge because of your bruised ego? That's just typical of you, honestly you're not even worth killing."

"You say that as if you can." Vegeta suddenly blitzed forward and decked Raditz across the face, sending him flying.

Raditz was quick to rebound and began trading blows with Vegeta as he shot a quick glance over at Ginyu "Take him and get out of here."

"You'd really just let us go?" asked Ginyu "Keep in mind that we're still enemies."

"I know you Ginyu, you're not really evil." Raditz ducked under a knife hand attack from Vegeta and dealt him a kick to the face, resulting in the two of them trading even blows "You believe in a fair fight and that's enough for me, and besides I know your code."

"...That I'm a captain before a soldier, and as a captain my loyalty is with my men."

"Yes now GO!" Raditz dealt Vegeta a kick, only for his foot to be caught and for him to be hurled away.

Ginyu made his way over to Recoome and picked him up, sparing one last glance over in the direction of Raditz 'Show that bastard what loyalty really means and keep this in mind as well, one day I will repay my debt to you. That is, if you can avenge Jeice and Burter.' and then he took off back in the direction of the Ginyu Force space pods with Recoome in tow.

Raditz recovered and charged at Vegeta with a kick aimed at him, only for Vegeta to suddenly disappear "What the-?"

"Am I supposed to be impressed?" Vegeta burst out from the ground and dealt Raditz a kick to the head and then to the jaw, sending him hurtling away towards a nearby lake.

Raditz quickly stopped himself before he hit the water and charged at Vegeta, resulting in the two of them exchanging close ranged punches flying off at high speed, every single one being blocked, countered and returned, only for both of them to retreat to the ground sporting bloody covered bruises 'Dammit, I should've known he wouldn't go down so easily.'

"You seem quite confident for low class scum but you'll learn your place soon enough, another piece of trash soon to be begging for the mercy that you'll never receive."

"...You know what Vegeta, before we keep going there's something really important that I want to ask you."

"Last words eh? Suit yourself."

"Good. Now then… where the hell is your Saiyan pride?" his voice was laced with disgust and contempt.

"My Saiyan pride? My Saiyan pride?! My Saiyan pride is who I am, being the vicious prince that I was always meant to be! I am far more than a mere Saiyan like the likes of you or Nappa, I am the embodiment of everything superior about the Saiyan race! And look at you, the one who has a reputation for being as weak as the Saibamen, and now you've shed your Saiyan heritage to stay on this god forsaken rock and protect a bunch of worthless slug people! A true Saiyan knows that our kind has no duty to protect worthless creatures such as them, we are warriors nod freedom fighters!"

"And where are they now? They're dead by Frieza's hand! Look at us Vegeta, we may very well end up all but extinct but those of us who remain strong because we protect those who can't protect themselves! Look at me, I've killed some of the strongest that the galaxy has to offer like those pigs Zarbon and Dodoria. Look at Kakarot, he's grown strong because he protects the world that raised him and those who live on it. Yes that's right Vegeta, even two of the lowest class warriors are stronger than you both in body and in spirit. You will never become the legendary Super Saiyan, that's why we can and why I will defeat you, because you lost your understanding of what Saiyan pride is a long time ago. That is why you're going to lose to me, and that's why you'll never even get a chance to defeat Kakarot or his allies."

"BE SILENT YOU WORM!" Vegeta charged towards Raditz in a blind rage, resulting in the two of them once again clashing in mid air, trading even blows throughout the skies of Planet Namek.

Raditz elbowed Vegeta straight across the gut and then kicked him in the jaw, his brutal assault forcing Vegeta on the defensive, as well as sending him hurtling towards the ground at high speed.

Vegeta rebounded and charged at Raditz, forcing him on the defensive and slamming him into the side of a mountain before following up Final Galick Cannon at point blank range, which engulfed Raditz in a massive explosion, which Vegeta himself escaped from "Alright enough trying to hide, I can sense energy too you know. Get on your feet so you can die like a man already."

Sure enough, Raditz emerged relatively unharmed, aside from a few burns "Even now you're just proving my point."

"You've become quite the slippery one, even at point blank range you still manage to pull yourself out of harm's way. I guess that means that I'll just have to try harder."

"By all means try." and so Raditz and Vegeta began clashing once again, trading even blows in mid air, which ended with Raditz dealing Vegeta a fierce barrage of attacks to the face and the torso.

Vegeta dealt Raditz a brutal kick to the skull, sending him hurtling towards the ground, which gave Vegeta the chance to fire up his new Big Bang Attack and fire it off at full power "Try to dodge this one if you can Raditz, you might be able to save yourself but your precious Planet Namek and all who are on it are doomed!"

Calm and confident as can be, Raditz slowly stood up and with a mighty roar he deflected the Big Bang Attack into the upper atmosphere, and then fired a Shining Friday at Vegeta, engulfing him in the massive explosion that followed.

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Bulma was having her own issues at the moment, mainly involving something that does make this important "Well this totally sucks, first the stupid spaceship gets demolished so we're stuck on this planet and then the communicator decides to break down on us and the next thing I know the sky will start raining fire or something- Oh thank god the communicator is fixed, at least one thing is working out for me now." and then she got knocked out of her chair by the ground shaking from the battle between Raditz and Vegeta "Oh for the love of f*ck what does this planet have against me?" she pulled herself to her feet and noticed something when she glanced at the Dragon Radar "Well what do you know, all of the Dragon Balls are gathered together in one place and I'm cooped up all by myself in here. Those sneaky little bastards are trying to summon the dragon and have their wish granted without me huh, well we'll see about that." she pulled out a capsule and summoned a jetbike, only for a thought to occur to her 'Wait hold on a second, if this Frieza guy has all of them then what exactly am I getting myself into?' and then the ground started shaking again "Oh for the love of god give me a break Namek, what in the name of hell did I ever do to you?! Hey wait a second I've got it, even if it is this Frieza guy who's got them all I just have to tell the dragon to take me home and then it'll whisk me out of here and back to Earth! Of course, this is simplicity itself! Sorry about this you guys but this is what you get for leaving my by myself, now let's get moving!" and then she took off.

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Raditz watched as the smoke began to clear 'Well that's just typical of him, he's as stubborn as hell until the bitter end.'

Sure enough, when the smoke cleared it revealed Vegeta, still alive but slightly scorched and pissed as hell "How dare you… How dare you spill the blood of the noble royal Saiyan bloodline you wretch!"

"You often told me and Nappa that your father was weak but the reality is that he was just trying to protect you, to ensure that you have a future to live for, to ensure that you could become truly strong! He was making the best of a bad situation."

"You dare… DON'T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT MY FATHER! YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME, YOU FAIL TO UNDERSTAND YOUR PLACE AND NOW I SHALL INTRODUCE YOU TO A PAIN WORSE THAN HELL!" now at full power due to his absolute rage, Vegeta started laying into Raditz with a devastating combination attack, ending with him smashing Raditz into the ground before calming down somewhat.

Raditz pulled himself out of the rubble and spat out some blood 'Yep he's as volatile as I remember him being.'

"You'll have to forgive the slow start, I honestly wasn't expecting that much from you but now that I know but now that I see that you can handle yourself I thought it was time for you to see just how outclassed you really are against a true Saiyan elite and a future Super Saiyan for that matter. A mere fraction of my true potential."

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Kai, Gohan and Nail touched down in front of the cave hideout "Alright there it is, hey She Who is Always on Her Period we're back and we need the Dragon Radar- and she's not here. Son of a bitch."

"I don't get it, did she just run off somewhere?" asked Gohan "Why would she just take off now of all times, and where would she go for that matter?"

"Probably to try the Namekian shaft."

"...I still don't get it."

"I'll explain it when you're older."

"And again I say for the thirteenth time since we've been here, we're the same age!"

"Yeah I know."

"Both of you take a look at this." Nail gestured to some jet bike tracks in the dirt just outside of the cave.

"Those are the tracks from a jet bike but that doesn't make any sense, where the hell would she have to go in such a hurry that she needed a jet bike?"

"Well wherever it is we've gotta find her and fast." Gohan pointed out "We can't let anything happen to her, and besides we need the Dragon Radar."

"Do we really have to?"

"YES!"

"Alright alright fine, hey Nail how about you head over to Frieza's ship and see if you can clear out his remaining forces."

Nail nodded "That would most likely be for the best." and so he promptly took off in one direction, with Gohan and Kai taking off in the other direction.

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Yamcha tensed slightly and glanced out the window 'This Ki is so powerful and evil. There's no doubt about it, it has to be Frieza. Well I guess Nail was right on the money when he said that someone should stick around here. That must be Frieza coming, he'll be here any minute now too."

The Grand Elder nodded "It would appear so my friend. Dende, please come over here quickly child."

"Of course sir." Dende quickly made his way over to the Grand Elder's side, giving him the chance to place his hand on top of Dende's head and unlock his potential, leaving him to take a moment to grasp his new abilities.

"Listen to me Dende, you must venture out at once. I rely on you to give our friends assistance in the stead of Yamcha here, I have released your latent power so that you may fly to them all the faster and assist them in any way that you can."

"But elder…"

"Hurry child, there is no time."

"...Of course Grand Elder, I'll do as you ask. Please just try to hold on for as long as you possibly can." and so he took off outside as ordered.

"I will do my best my child, however if the enemy does not claim my life then I fear old age will do their job for them."

"Then that means that the others are gonna have to act fast." Yamcha noted "I'll do what I can to buy them time."

"You have my deepest thanks."

"Call it repaying the favor you did for me by making me stronger." Yamcha glanced out the window and let out a sigh 'Sorry Bulma, I might not be able to keep my promise not to die again.'

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Frieza glanced back to see Dende pass him but didn't give a damn "Let the dust mite run in terror, he's not worth the effort when I have the more intriguing bounty right in front of my eyes." he made his way up to the top of the plateau to the outside of the Grand Elder's house, and he exited his hoverchair and waited.

Yamcha slowly made his way out of the house, trying to be as cautious as possible around someone like Frieza "Can I help you?"

"Oh yes allow me to introduce myself, my name is Lord Frieza and I've come on rather pressing business in regards to a certain wish."

"I'm listening."

"You see I've succeeded in gathering the seven fabled Dragon Balls of this planet but it would appear that what I lack is the key to unlocking their power. Namekian or not if you are aware of this location then I can only assume that you may very well have the answers that I seek, what must I do in order to have my wish granted now that I have obtained all seven of the Dragon Balls?"

"Yeah sorry about that but you're not exactly the kind of person that I would be willing to hand out that kind of information too."

"Is that so? Well you would be wise to be careful my friend, stubbornness does not become one whose life is cheap. From what my Scouter has told me there are two of you present, even if you're not willing to talk I'm sure this friend of yours will be much more agreeable than you are right now."

"I wouldn't be too sure about that if I were you, if you wanna try then I'm not gonna stop you but you should know something before you do. The other one inside is the Grand Elder of the Namekian people, he's the oldest living member of this people and one of the few that your men haven't murdered and he's also the one who created the Dragon Balls on this planet. He's not someone you want to mess with."

"Oh is that right? Do go one, you've captivated my attention quite effectively."

"How about this for starters, the most important thing to know about the Dragon Balls is the link that they share with the creator, which means that if you do anything to the Grand Elder then that means that the Dragon Balls will be rendered permanently useless." this actually took Frieza by surprise, but only for a moment.

"You don't say? Well that does make this quite a bit more interesting." Frieza slowly removed his Scouter and fired his eye beams at the house, destroying the upper level window and revealing the Grand Elder "Well this is quite fascinating, there does appear to be a small grain of truth to this nonsense. He's a different creature all together from the rest of his kind, so fatso I harbor no illusions that you will divulge your secrets to me of your own free will but with that being said. Perhaps you would become more forthcoming when the life of another outworlder is made into part of the bargain, I think you take my meaning."

"I do, but it is only fair that you should be warned." the Grand Elder told him "Yamcha here may prove more difficult to manipulate than you suspect, he may not be a Namekian like the rest of my children he has far surpassed nearly all of them and I believe that you will find that you will find him much more resilient than the peaceful Namekian people that you have encountered up to this point."

"...Enough of this postering, I believe that the time has come for me to stop being civil with the likes of you." Frieza promptly placed his Scouter back on.

"I leave it up to you now Yamcha my friend, please try to buy us as much time against him as you're possibly able to."

"If you have no intention of giving up your precious secrets without a fight then a fight is what you're going to get but just be ready to start talking, this isn't going to take long."

"It might take longer than you think." Yamcha told him "I'm pretty sure that something like this goes without saying but being as old as he is the Grand Elder is pretty much hanging on by a thread at this point and neither of us would benefit if when you and I go at it he were to get caught in the crossfire, let's take this fight somewhere else."

"To refer to what we're about to engage in a fight is quite the overstatement but I suppose I don't see the harm of it, lead wherever you wish and I shall follow you."

"Okay then." and so Yamcha blasted off into the skies of Planet Namek, with Frieza following close behind 'Sorry guys, I'll stall him for as long as I can so you can make the wish but there's no telling just how strong he really is.'

The Grand Elder could only watch as Yamcha and Frieza disappeared from sight "Yamcha you brave and noble soul, please forgive me for this. Please just try to hold him off until Dende reaches Nail and the others, they need just a little bit more time. The fate of our world now rests in the hands, all we can do for now is place our hopes with them."

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"WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THIS PLANET?!" by now Bulma was being chased by a gigantic pterodactyl "Just for the sake of being perfectly clear me and Planet Namek are never ever gonna be friends! This is it now, I'm totally done for!' and then she noticed a cave in front of her not that far away 'Yes I'm as brilliant as I am beautiful, if I can just maneuver into that cave them I'm gonna be home free! Just a little bit further!' she neared the entrance to the cave, only for another dinosaur to come out in front of her "OH COME ON!" she got thrown off of her jet bike and landed on something "Okay yeah I think that one was a little bit close maybe." she looked down and realized that she was on the back of the pterodactyl "AND WHAT THE HELL DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS?! NOT A F*CKING THING!" she got thrown off of the pterodactyl in the direction where the other dinosaur was waiting with its mouth open "And now I'm gonna be lunch, goodbye cruel world!" but then the dinosaur suddenly passed out, causing her to just bounce off of its back, with the pterodactyl collapsing on top of the other one mere seconds afterwards "Uh… okay so what the hell just happened?" she glanced up and saw a shadowy figure approaching her, which prompted her to start screaming and throwing dirt and spouting all sorts of random crap until…"

"Bulma calm down it's just us!" it turns it was Gohan trying (and failing) to calm her down from her little fit.

"Gohan is that…?" Bulma slowly glanced over at her alleged assaulter.

It turns out it was just Kai covered in dirt and pissed to high hell "Every minute I'm near her gets me that much closer to pulling a Frieza and shooting a beam through her chest, Gohan don't you f*cking dare hold me back."

"Oh. Well in that case…" cue the Angry Big Head Jutsu from Naruto "I don't know what you little shits thought you were up to but showing up with some Piccolo look alike out of the blue and then taking off without an explanation was totally not cool! This not telling my anything crap stops and it stops now! You left me alone in a cave for the love of bloody hell, do you have any idea that does to a girl with a fragile constitution like mine? Let me answer that for you, NOTHING GOOD!"

"Okay Bulma let's just calm down for a second." Gohan tried to calm her down while sharing a subtle glance with Kai, motioning for him to grab the Dragon Radar out of Bulma's pocket while she was distracted "What are you so upset about?"

"You wanna know why? It's because I'm always alone on this rock and this stupid planet has it in for me! Now I have to walk back to the hideout on foot because the jet bike is in a complete heap!"

"Okay Bulma, let me ask you another question. If me and Kai either me or Kai would just drop everything and stay here with you then what would that accomplish?"

"...Just take the f*cking radar before I realize what I'm doing."

"Already did, just wait for us back at the hideout and we'll be back to get you once our wish has been granted. Come on Kai let's go!" and so Gohan and Kai took off, leaving Bulma screaming with fury.

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Frieza was still following Yamcha across the skies of Planet Namek, growing rather impatient in the process "How far away must we be?"

Yamcha gave him no audible reply 'Just keep on stalling Yamcha, you've gotta buy the others as much time as you can.'

"That's it, this area will do just fine." Frieza suddenly blitzed in front of Yamcha, clearly out of patience "I will have no more of your stalling, we will conduct our business here."

"...Fine, I guess this will work." so Yamcha dropped down to the ground, with Frieza doing the same, and he promptly removed the black t shirt he was wearing underneath his gi as he prepared to fight.

"My my perhaps it is something about this planet that prompts warriors to throw their lives away so readily at the drop of a hat like this, but before we begin I must ask. Are you by any chance one of the Earthlings in league with Raditz?"

"That's one way of putting it I guess, his brother happens to be a friend of mine and those two Earthlings that you saw earlier are his son and my nephew."

"So then it would seem that the sins of the uncle shall fall upon the uncle. It really doesn't have the same ring to it."

"No, but I think this does." Yamcha dropped into a stance and slowly began flaring his white aura, and with a quick growl it shot up to his current max.

Frieza scanned Yamcha with his Scouter "Well this is quite interesting, your power level just shot up to 48,000. That's far from being a small feat, you really do stand apart from those other Earthlings and you are far beyond the other quivering insects that seems to be churned out in droves by the rest of this planet. I am impressed, and I have to say that you would make quite the fine addition to my staff if you only had the wisdom to shift loyalties but before you let my glowing compliments go to your head it's only courtesy that I give you a clear picture of just how far in over it you really are. I'll have you know that my power level is exactly 530,000 at the moment. There's no need for you to allow that to alarm you too much however, I personally doubt that I'll be using much more than 1/10 of that."

"You're gonna regret that soon enough, because I'm nowhere near my full power right now either as a matter of fact." Yamcha's white aura began turning a deep shade of crimson, his muscles bulging 'Well what do you know, the Grand Elder's power up makes using the Kaioken a lot easier than it was before. Kaioken… times FIVE!" he quickly unleashed his Kaioken at the fifth level.

"240,000? Now this is a great deal more impressive, for once I actually find myself being excited at the prospect. Now then, let's see if you can back up all of that bravado." Frieza quickly flared his aura, shattering the ground beneath him as he fired a single Death Beam.

Yamcha was quick to bolt out of the way of the attack, as well as dodge the barrage of Death Beams that followed, a thick layer of dust and smoke covering the battlefield as a result of the explosions 'Man he's definitely as much of a monster as I thought he would be, at this rate I might as well go for broke.' with a roar he held out both of his hands and deflected one of the Death Beams, destroying a nearby island in the process "Not gonna lie that actually stung pretty bad, I think I've got my work cut out for me this time around."

"Exactly, you see when a snake battles against the likes of a dinosaur who do you believe will emerge the victor?"

"Is that right? Well I personally believe that with enough hard work and training even a lowly snake can evolve into a dragon and then the dinosaur will have his work cut out for him as a result."

"You believe that to be the truth?"

"As a matter of fact I do."

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Raditz slowly pulled himself out of the rubble and spat out some blood as he dropped into a combat stance "Well I think we have one more thing in common Vegeta, we've both been holding back in this fight."

"Oh please, as if." Vegeta let out a scoff "You really expect me to believe that you've been fighting me with less than your full effort? I didn't think you were the lying sort like Beets had been."

"Well I'm just full of surprises now aren't I? And now I'm gonna make you pay for what you did to Kakarot. Former Prince Vegeta-"

"Former?!"

"-you've violated all three of the unwritten codes that every single Saiyan must follow. You always fight with honor and pride, you never turn your back on your family, and you never turn your back on another Saiyan. Beets and Nappa both broke all three of these codes and they paid the price as a result, and now you will do the same! Prince of the surviving Saiyans or not you will pay for your crimes!" Raditz suddenly blitzed away and dealt Vegeta a fist across the face.

Vegeta rebounded and retreated into the air.

Raditz blitzed above him and dealt him a heavy smash attack, sending him hurtling towards the ground, and he caught him and grabbed him in a pile driver "Kakarot doesn't have the time to waste in dealing with the likes of you, after all he's going to be the one who will finally do the impossible and defeat Frieza. Yeah that's right, you're going to lose out on your dream of becoming the legendary Super Saiyan to Kakarot, a low class warrior and the younger brother of your killer!" he let go of Vegeta, leaving him in a brutal pile driver "And now I'm gonna finish you off, consider yourself dethroned!" and using all of the power he could muster Raditz fired off his Vacation Delete attack, engulfing Vegeta in a massive explosion.

When the smoke cleared, it revealed Vegeta, still alive but heavily charred, unconscious and unable to move.

'He's still alive after the thrashing that he took, he's persistent I'll give him that much. But no matter, he's not getting another chance and I've got bigger threats to deal with. I can sense that the human with the scars is fighting Frieza and they seem about even right now, and Nail has split off from the boys and is making his way towards Frieza's ship. I think I know what I have to do next.' and so he took off, but not before grabbing Vegeta and snapping his neck, thus ending his reign of terror 'I did my part in this war for the time being Kakarot, now it's up to you to do yours when you get here.'

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At the same time, Gohan and Kai were both making their way towards Frieza's ship with the Dragon Radar in hand "The radar says we're getting close, hey Kai that means that we're that much closer to bringing back Piccolo and the others!"

Kai nodded "Yeah I know, who would've thought that the Princess of Mount Bitch would be so compliant."

"You realize that we basically just pick pocketed her."

"A skill that I got from my uncle being a former bandit."

"Wait my dad was for real when he said that? I thought he was joking."

"Whatever the point is that Bulma's probably having her time of the month, the way I see it she could really use a little bit of wink wink nudge nudge (tongue clicking and whistling)."

"I still don't get it."

"And that's the beauty of it."

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At the same time, Nail had already made his way to Frieza's ship and quickly lowered himself to the ground, catching their attention almost immediately "I'm going to give all you one chance to leave this planet in pease, I would rather not settle this with violence but you must understand that if you leave then you will leave me with no choice but to fight."

"Get this slug bastard!" and then pretty much every mook there charged at Nail like an army of, well, mooks.

15 minutes later…

Nail let out a sigh as he dusted himself off and glanced back at the charred corpses of the soldiers lying around the ship on the ground "I did warn them." he glared down at Frieza's ship 'The game is about to come to an end Frieza, if his elite has to come during that battle then it must only mean that the Dragon Balls are still around here somewhere. If that is the case then it's only a matter of time before Raditz and his comrades find them using that device of theirs, I have no doubt in my mind that they'll be here before long.'

"Hey Nail!" that was when Kai and Gohan dropped down onto the scene and noticed all of the charred corpses "Well it looks like you've been busy."

"It took about 15 minutes and I gave them the chance to leave quietly, they chose not to take that chance so they have no one to blame but themselves."

"Fair enough, so what's the ETA on the Dragon Balls?"

"I haven't looked yet, besides with that device you have it's not like I need to."

"Well the Dragon Radar says that the Dragon Balls aren't on the ship, if I'm reading this right then the signal is coming from somewhere just outside." Gohan told him.

"Are you able to pinpoint them?"

"Yeah it's actually not that far from here." Gohan gestured to a certain dirt spot in the ground a few feet away "The radar is pointing to right here."

"My guess is that Recoome and the rest of those guys buried the Dragon Balls here to hide them in case we came looking for them, but of course they didn't know that we have a radar to track these little f*cks. Or that we can just do this." Kai fired a simple Ki blast at the spot in question, revealing the Dragon Balls covered in dirt but all 7 present "And just like that we found the motherload."

"Yeah we did it Kai, we found all 7 Dragon Balls!" the two of them high fived "And we didn't even need my dad or Tien here to do it!"

"Yep." and then their expressions hardened "So this is then, now we're gonna bring back Piccolo and the others just like we promised. Hey did we ever think about how these Dragon Balls work exactly? I mean to think that the Dragon Balls here would work exactly the same as the ones back on Earth do is kind of redundant."

"Oh yeah, so what do we do?"

"Allow me to do the honors." Nail stepped forward "You must simply as the Eternal Dragon to come out but you must say it in the Namekian language."

"Oh. Well that makes sense."

"You know I bet the Namekian dragon is huge." Kai commented "What do you say we go and find out?"

"Actually… maybe we should wait until Raditz gets here, after all without him we would never have been able to get this far."

"I do believe that is fair." Nail noted "I can sense him on the way here as we speak, that must mean that the so called captain of the Ginyu Force has been dispatched."

"No that's definitely not it, I sensed them leaving the planet a little while ago. Raditz was fighting someone else, whoever it was it was insanely evil."

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Another battle was taking a turn for the worst.

Yamcha found himself being forced to one knee with clear obvious wounds being visible all over his body 'Yeah okay, this one might have seemed like a better idea when it was still inside my head. But don't forget about your secret trump card though, maybe you can get one last potshot in on him and with any luck buy the others a little more time.' he hid his hand behind his back and began charging Ki into that hand.

Frieza did have a few scratches and bruises here and there but it was nothing significant, and he was still pretty much the dominator in this fight "Well I must say that you have an interesting form and a surprisingly well hone technique, not that it will do you any good but still. I'm sufficiently impressed, to hold your own against the likes of me is a feat that only the likes of my brother and my father have been able to claim before. I mean granted I have yet to transform against you and I see no need to but still, you've shown a level of power far beyond even the likes of Captain Ginyu. But that being said surely you realize that you're hopelessly outmatched here, so how about you stop with this fruitless resistance and simply tell me what it is that I wish to know."

"I've got a better idea actually." Yamcha quickly pulled himself back to his feet and flared his Kaioken 5x aura for one final assault "SPIRIT BALL… BARRAGE!" he suddenly revealed a large number of Spirit Balls that he had hidden underground, and using a series of swift finger movements he caused them to close in on Frieza, each on hitting him dead on and engulfing him in a massive series of explosions, much to Yamcha's delight as he finally powered down his Kaioken technique 'Yes it worked, I spent like a month with Scarlet creating that technique during the year when me and Goku were dead in case there was some kind of opponent I needed to get the jump on.'

Unfortunately for him, when the smoke cleared Frieza had only received a few scratches, but his armor was scorched for the most part and the shoulder protectors had been left considerably cracked, though he wasn't as pisse d as he was amused "Well you do get some points for creativity but I'm afraid that nothing in your actually rather large bag of tricks is going to work on me, I believe that now the time has come for you to accept the situation for what it is and relent or do we have to follow the present course to its natural conclusion? It's only natural that the choice be yours but I simply cannot understand the will that you find in persisting to defy me so readily. Do you fight for the sake of the fallen or will your guilt be satisfied by laying down your own life as well." he suddenly blitzed in front of Yamcha and dealt him a fist to the gut and a Death Beam through both of his shoulders, as well as both of his knee caps, leaving him to crash to the ground in a heap "This is the final warning that I will be giving you my friend, either you will tell me how I can make the Dragon Balls grant my wish for immortality or you may prepare to embrace oblivion."

"Yeah… here's the thing about that." Yamcha slowly lifted his head and let out a chuckle despite coughing up some blood "Yeah here's the thing, even if I did tell you now the information wouldn't do you any good."

"Oh and why is that?"

"My nephew and Raditz have the password and the Dragon Balls right now."

"...What?"

"You remember that little Namekian kid that you passed on the way to the Grand Elder? He's on his way to my nephew and the others with the password, by now he's probably already there and they're about to summon the dragon."

'The little dust mite?! You mean… HOW COULD I HAVE FALLEN FOR SUCH AN OBVIOUS ROUSE?!"

"Don't ask me, I'm just the guy who was stalling you and maybe trying to prove something to himself. But anyway if I had to guess your biggest mistake then it would be not stopping him, either that or the purple lipstick."

"I WILL F*CKING MURDER YOU!"

"Whatever!"

"I'LL BE BACK FOR YOU YOU SCUM!" and then Frieza blasted off back in the direction of his ship.

'Well, I did everything that I could. I got my ass kicked but at least I can say I held my own against the most powerful being in the universe so I guess that's something. Kai, Gohan, all of you, the rest is up to you now.'

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What they didn't know was that Scarlet had been watching the intense battle between Yamcha and Frieza all the way from Otherworld through King Kai, and she gave a small sad smile 'Looks like you've gotten really strong little brother, and I know that you're just going to continue getting stronger.'

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The Grand Elder gazed out at the skies of Planet Namek, his expression solemn and rather guilt ridden "Why did I not tell our visitors how to summon the dragon while they were here to see me before? My mind has been sapped of some of its clarity by age and now forced one of our visitors to endure the beating of his life." he let out a weak hacking sort of cough, feeling himself being drain even further "Please, may Dende and Nail be able to help our friends soon. The time left for me to exist on this planet grows ever shorter with each passing moment."

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Frieza was making a beeline back towards his ship, checking for the Ginyu Force with his Scouter, to no avail "Why am I not picking up any readings from the Ginyu Force?! Those damned fools! This is absurd, how could they all have been beaten! I don't believe it, so this means that Raditz and those other miserable earthlings have somehow managed to best my most elite team of fighters?! If that is the case then they may already have the Dragon Balls! YOU WRETCHED VERMIN! HOW DARE YOU TRY TO STEAL MY WISH, I AM THE MIGHTY LORD FRIEZA! I WILL ALLOW NO ONE TO STAND BETWEEN ME AND MY ENTITLED IMMORTALITY! YOU HEAR ME?! NO ONE!"

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At the same time, Raditz was making his way towards where Nail and the others were, only to stop when he sensed something "There's another energy signature headed straight for Nail and the others. Wait a second, I know that energy!" he charged in the direction of that energy until he noticed Dende flying in the distance "It's Dende! HEY!"

Dende whipped around to find Raditz floating in front of him "Raditz you're alright, more or less from the looks of it."

"Yeah I kind bit off enough for it to be hard for me to chew, I'll tell you about it later but for now we have to hurry. Right now I can only assume that Nail and the two runts found all seven Dragon Balls that Frieza was keeping at the ship but I personally don't know how to get the Eternal Dragon to come out since I've never seen it happen before. I guess I was just lucky to find you on the way there."

"Finding me wasn't a stroke of luck, the Grand Elder must have known that you guys were going to have trouble and he actually sent me here so that I would be able to teach you the password. I mean granted Nail probably knows it already but I think he just wanted to think ahead."

"Makes sense, so what exactly are we supposed to say to the Dragon Balls exactly?"

"We simply have to ask the Eternal Dragon to come out but we have to say it in the Namekian language or else it won't work."

"Namekian language huh? Well I should've seen that coming, I wish you guys would've said something about this before Frieza ever even arrived on this planet and that would've spared us a lot of grief and struggling."

"Well his ways are a bit of a mystery sometimes, maybe he didn't think you would be able to get them all together but that doesn't really matter right now. The important thing right now is for us to hurry up as fast as we can, the Grand Elder is barely hanging on at all and if that itself isn't bad enough Frieza is on his way now too."

"Well then we don't have any time to waste, come on let's get moving."

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As he and the others were moving the Dragon Balls away from Frieza's ship, Gohan began reflecting on the events leading up to this point 'You know it really isn't that bad, I mean sure I've seen a lot more people die than most people my age or really most people in general, and I kind of come off as if it's not a big deal but then again that's probably because I hang out a lot with someone as nonchalant as Kai. Then again Kai is the only person that I know that's actually my age and he's one of my best friends aside from a green man who constantly hits me. I guess that's just life for some people.'

"Someone is close." Nail's voice snapped him out of his thoughts "There's two of them and both of them are hiding their Ki signatures."

"So that means that one of them must be Raditz and…" Gohan glanced up to see not only Raditz, but also Dende approaching them and he lit up as a result "Dende! Alright you guys made it here!"

"How the hell did you guys get here so fast anyway?" asked Kai.

"I was on my way back from finishing up a certain fight that I'll tell all of you about later but believe it or not I found Dende here was on his way to help all of you guys, I found him before he was even halfway there." explained Raditz.

"So that means that we have two green guys that know how to summon the dragon." the four of them lowered themselves to the ground "So who's gonna do the honors?"

"I shall." Nail slowly stepped forward and prepared to summon the dragon, when…

"Okay guys, I hate to ruin the mood but I think we've got company." Gohan pointed back in the direction in which they were sensing a massive evil Ki signature "And they're definitely not friendly, I think that might be Frieza."

"All the more reason as to why we must make greater haste and make your wishes before it is far too late." and on that note Nail proceeded to utter the password in the Namekian language, only for nothing to happen.

"Okay so is it supposed to look like nothing actually happened or did you screw up the words or something-" Kai was cut off by the Dragon Balls beginning to glow and the sky being covered by a thick layer of darkness "Okay so that's a pretty good sign so far, the balls glow and the sky turns dark."

"Is this what happens when you use them on Earth?" asked Gohan.

"At least from what my uncle tells me."

Sure enough, in a magnificent and brilliant column of light, the Eternal Dragon manifested himself in front of them, ready to grant their three wishes.

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At long last, in the climax of the long war on Planet Namek, the Namekian dragon Porunga has finally been summoned. Will Gohan and Kai at last be able to have their wish granted by this mysterious and ancient being? Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z: the Next Generation!

A/N:

And now we see even more changes from canon, such as Captain Ginyu and his men revealing their true colors and actually surviving (with the exception of Guldo). I always thought that these guys, aside from being absolutely hysterical, were really interesting, especially when Goku expressed beliefs that Ginyu could be good since he was an honorable fighter. The idea originally came from this DBZ fic I found called from Enemy to Student. Also sorry if some parts don't turn out that well, I kind of experience a little bit of burnout when writing out the parts with Captain Ginyu. But I did do a little bit of revising, so now Burter and Jeice were both killed by Vegeta out of pure spite, while Ginyu and Recoome are now the only members that are still alive. But all five members of the Ginyu Force will appear in the next few chapters or so, keep that in mind.

In order to compensate for the lack of evil Ginyu Force in this arc I added in our very own Saiyan prince Vegeta. I had pushed him off to the side for this arc so that he could make a dramatic return which would lead to an epic showdown between him and Raditz, something that I got the idea for from watching the What if Nappa Turned Good scenario, showing Raditz and Vegeta having clashing ideals and beliefs as to what a Saiyan should be, with Ginyu being added in to the show (to an extent) in order to demonstrate where his true loyalty lies as a captain: his men. But that doesn't mean he's going to be a full on good guy. Like Cooler, he and his men are going to be considered neutral at least for the time being.

Yamcha fighting Frieza is meant to replace the Nail vs Frieza fight and show off a little bit of what Yamcha can do now that his potential has been unlocked. Also, it's sort of a F*CK YOU to Ultimate Butoden, or more specifically the What If scenarios that basically are meant to mock Yamcha, which I think is completely unfair.

Just so you know, since next time is when the battle with Frieza will begin and I thought it was best to leave things here for now, I thought it was only fair to let all of you know that since I'm about to start my next semester of college, my update speed is gonna be downgraded considerably. Don't get me wrong, I have no intention of stopping with this story but I have to have my priorities in check so please just be patient with me.

Power levels:

Gohan: 20,000

Kai: 25,000

Kai (Kaioken): 50,000

Kai (Kaioken 3x): 75,000

Kai (Kaioken 3x, Neo Wolf Fang Fist): 80,000

Yamcha: 48,000

Yamcha (Kaioken 5x): 240,000

Raditz: 55,000

Raditz (full power): 165,000

Nail: 75,000

Recoome: 45,000

Burter: 43,000

Jeice: 42,000

Captain Ginyu: 120,000

Vegeta: 75,000

Vegeta (full power): 150,000

Frieza: 530,000