"Right, you've all gotten stronger again. So come on and show me something interesting!" Dragon yelled at the fighters as they prepared to attack him. This time Oran knew better than to rush in on his own. Instead Applo, Pino, and Oran all charged to fight Dragon together while the others stood back for support.

"Now, who wants to be first?" Dragon taunted as he blocked all of the brothers's attacks.

Oran charges at Dragon again. He ducked under one of Dragon's punches and then grabbed Dragon's arm. This gave Applo an opening to punch Dragon in the kidney. With Dragon doubled over Pino took his chance and released a huge energy blast at Dragon's back.

Dragon fell backwards on the ground and suddenly Applo's hand went numb. His eyes widened in panic as he felt his arm go limp. He tried to shake it off but it wouldn't move at all.

"You bastards. You ruined my cape." Dragon said mockingly as he stood up barely fazed by the attack.

"Applo, is your arm okay?" Oran asked concerned.

"I don't know. It's gone completely numb."

"Ah that's too bad. Here, let me help you with that!" Dragon continued mocking as he shot a powerful energy blast that severely damaged Applo's arm. "There. I bet you can feel that now."

"No! You bastard, I swear I'll kill you!" Applo yelled angrily as he charged at Dragon.

"It's just a flesh wound." Dragon mocked as he easily avoided Applo's attacks. "This is pathetic! It took three of you to catch me by surprise and you think now you can take me on with only one good arm?" Dragon kicked Applo in the stomach and then slammed his elbow into his back sending Applo flying into the ground.

"Shut up you piece of shit!" Applo growled as he got back on his feet.

"Oh, I never said I was going to shut up. But I am going to kill you. So just answer this, when do you want to die. First of your team, so you can become their martyr? Last, so you get to see what I do to them? Or would you rather I let you live and destroy you alongside the planet?"

"I'm going to kill you, DRAGON!" Applo placed a hand in front of his chest and began gathering crackling red energy.

"Is that your Red King Wave? You expect to fire it with only one hand? Oh I'd love to see how this turns out." Dragon mocked as he stood in the air with his arms crossed.

"You may take my arm, hell you can take my life! But you'll never take my Saiyan pride! And that means I won't let you hurt anyone I'm here to protect! THIS IS THE END FOR YOU DRAGON! RED! KING! WAVE!" Applo moved his energy charged hand to above his head and thrusted it out in front of him as he fired an incredibly powerful blast of red energy. As the attack came flying towards Dragon, he simply floated a few inches to the side to dodge it.

"Well it was a very heart warming speech. But it appears I won't be the one dying here Saiyan. Too bad you missed." Applo just smiled and looked to the right and left of Dragon where Pino and Oran were charging their own Red King Waves. "What the hell?! No wait…"

"RED! KING! WAVE!" As Applo's brothers fired their attacks Dragon barely dodged so that he was in the small triangle of space between all three beams.

"DIE ASSHOLE!" All three brothers yelled in unison as they continued charging more and more energy into their attacks. The more energy they charged the wider the beams became until they had squeezed in around Dragon and enveloped him completely.

As the beams faded away the brothers hoped they had managed to take out their enemy, but as they looked on they saw Dragon still standing there, with hardly any damage done to him except for his armor being nearly destroyed.

"You know, it was a good effort. A well thought out plan you came up with on the spot. Honestly I have to give you points for communication and creativity. However, there's room for improvement in effectiveness. Too bad you won't get the time to try again." Dragon installed fear into everyone present. The three way attack had only drained less than 10% of Dragon's energy. As he stood their cockily removing his beat up armor, Dragon smiled maliciously at his opponents. "Now then. I think I'll leave Applo for last. So who goes first." Dragon moved at his top speed and got right in front of Pino. "How about you?" He asked rhetorically followed by a kidney punch that made Pino double over. Dragon then walked behind him and kicked him in the back sending him flying through the air. He landed hard on the ground and laid there for a moment before getting back up.

"Alright Oran. It's your turn. Make it count!" Dragon mocked as he turned to face Oran. The Saiyan boy was too shocked to do anything and was immediately caught by Dragon's roundhouse straight to his head. As Oran hit the ground he wasn't able to react before Dragon delivered another kick to his gut. Then he jumped onto him and began punching him in the stomach. After delivering four more blows, Oran was trying desperately to block all of them, but he couldn't seem to find any way.

"Hahahaha! You're damn persistent I'll give you that. I think I see why Lord Heeta had originally liked you. To bad you've already served your purpose." Dragon grabbed Oran by the collar and threw him into the air.

Oran has just a second to recover his balance and began flying when Dragon shot a powerful energy blast straight at him. Oran knew he couldn't dodge or reflect, so he just tried his best to block. Everyone was shocked when the energy blast stopped just short of Oran, because Rose had flown up to him and blocked the blast. Rose fell forward into Oran's arms.

"sorry…I couldn't do more…" Those were Rose's last words as her body fell lifeless in Oran's arms. He caught her but was in too much shock to do anything. Oran floated down to the ground where the others rushed over to grab Rose and lay her on the floor.

"she's…dead…" Oran muttered as he stared foward unwaveringly. He couldn't do anything. His body was frozen and his gaze was fixed.

"Ah. Too bad. She got in the way, that blast was meant for you. The funny thing was it wouldn't even had killed you because you're much more powerful than she is. Of course that doesn't say much in the face of an enemy 30 times stronger than you. That's the problem with you monkeys," Dragon explained as he readied another energy blast. "You let your pride get in the way of becoming true warriors. If you had ever trained before coming to this planet, you could've beaten me. If instead of staying and trying to defeat me you had gotten in your pods and ran away, you might have lived. But you're too 'proud' to do any of those things. Tch, I call it arrogance and a big ego, not Saiyan pride!" Dragon shot the energy blast at Oran, who smacked it away with little effort. Dragon saw the blast hit a mountain and completely crumble it. "Woah, touched a nerve there. Was it something I said?" Dragon asked teasingly.

"you killed her."

"Huh? Wait a minute, you mean the girl! Oh that's rich! Of all the things! I've beaten you and your brothers to bloody pulps! I've humiliated all of you and wrecked your 'Saiyan Pride'! I'm about to kill all three of you because you're simply too weak to do anything about it! But above all else, you're worried about a human girl? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You know that's why I liked you Oran! I never knew what to expect from you. It's a shame really. If the orders had come from anyone besides Lord Heeta, I would've let you live. But, a job's a job. Say good bye Oran, Warrior of the Saiyan Race!" Dragon charged another incredibly powerful energy blast and shot it at Oran. This time Oran let it hit him, but it did nothing to damage him. "What?"

Dragon was shocked as he saw the sky start to go cloudy and lightning begin to come down around Oran.

"You killed her. She was my friend, and you killed her! You can beat me and my brothers, all you like! But you killed her! And for that," Oran screamed out as his energy began to increase immensely. His hair began turning a spiky yellow, and his eyes a turquoise blue. "I WON'T FORGIVE YOU!" Suddenly a large burst of energy came from Oran and he stood before Dragon transformed into a new stage of power. Dragon's scouter picked up the sudden boost in strength and Dragon couldn't believe what he saw.

"5-50…50,000,000?!" Dragons scouter was destroyed by the sudden overload and he couldn't believe what had just happened. Oran's power was now almost twice his own, and it didn't make sense. "I…I don't understand? Could this…be…a Super Saiyan!" Before Dragon could do anything Oran was right in front of him and slapped him, sending him flying towards the ground.

"This is over Dragon. You've lost. Leave, and tell Lord Heeta to stay away from the Saiyan race, and the humans too."

"GO TO HELL!" Dragon tried to attack Oran but he completely missed as Oran punched him in the stomach.

Dragon jumped back and grabbed his stomach trying to catch his breathe. Oran placed his hands in front of his chest and began charging crackling, red energy. He held the charged energy over his head and honed the attack.

"RED! KING! WAVE!" Oran shot the powerful energy beam at Dragon who absorbed the attack through his own arm and redirected it from the other. Dragon looked to see if the attack had made contact and then realized Oran had completely escaped the beam. Dragon had no idea where he was until he felt an arm spear through his chest. "It's over Dragon. You lost."

"Uh…uhh…"

Oran pulled his arm out of Dragon's chest and let his body fall to the floor. Oran stood up and faced the rest of his brothers. Before the others could run to Oran and congratulate him on the victory, his transformation faded away and he fainted. Applo quickly flew in and caught Oran out of the air.

"Not bad little brother, not bad." Applo smiled as he put Oran down on the ground.

"What do we do now? Rose is…dead." Violet somberly reminded.

"Well I think I can help with that."

The group turned to see a talking cat standing on it's hind legs. Applo and Pino were incredibly confused but the others didn't seem very shocked.

"Geremya, what are you doing here?" Lily asked the cat.

"I heard from a friend that you guys may be in need of their help soon. Come to my tower and we'll see what we can do."

"And we're supposed to take orders from some talking cat?" Applo asked confused.

"Applo, this is Geremya," Lily began explaining. "He's the one who grows the Senzu Beans we use sometimes. We can trust him."