What's Good About Life? (Dragon Ball Z SI Chapter 3)

For the next few years, Nash lived as a servant to Prince Vegeta and Nappa. Like Raditz, another Low-Class Warrior she was used as a punching bag and someone to boss around.

Thankfully Vegeta didn't want her around as some womb to use, or anything of the sort. He literally just wanted another pair of hands around and someone to lord his position and rank over.

It was both insulting...and to Nach's shame, a relief that she was look down upon so much for her Low-Class status.

Nappa didn't have Vegeta's disgust at the idea of sleeping with her. Her only solace was, thankfully regardless of power levels, a punch to the dick, was a punch to the dick. That dissuaded Nappa from future attempts, but he did beat her up something fierce.

And that's how she lived.

Head to a planet, slaughter the natives, report to Prince Vegeta and the Frieza Force. Rinse and repeat.

Vegeta and Nappa lorded their status and power over her and Raditz-whom she got paired up with a lot. She didn't like pairing up with Raditz unless ordered to. The feeling was mutual.

Raditz thought she was a raging bitch, after trying to get into her pants didn't work.

And Nach thought...well, she thought he was a poor copy of Dive. Raditz was smart, resourceful, that was true. But he was the cowardly sort, never going into a fight he can't win, the number of time he put his life on the line, were almost never. He knew how to "choose" his battles as he liked to say.

Nach knew the hypocrisy and flaw of her reasoning. She didn't care.

Raditz reminded her of Dive, yet was like a bad mirror version of him, and that annoyed her.

Then she realized she was thinking about Dive, when there was no reason for her to think about that Deserter, and she would just feel angry even more.

Another thing that she was wrong about, it wasn't just her, Vegeta, Nappa and Raditz that were alive after Planet Vegeta's destruction, there were other Saiyans. They just died over the years. Nach wasn't sure if they annoyed Vegeta, so he sent them on suicide missions, or Freiza would send someone to off one whenever he's bored.

So on top of everything, there was always this lingering feeling that something might come at her, and kill her one of these days, and she would know about it, or can overcome it. That paranoia helped once. A species that was pretty tech savvy, hacked her Scouter wirelessly and tried to show her there was no lifeforms near her, in order for them to ambushed her.

Had been her from before, she would have fell for the ruse. But something felt off. No life forms? She hadn't spend enough time on that planet to have managed that, and so she had to rely on her hearing and smelling to counter the ambush when they jumped her, and destroy their hacking device.

And her life just continued, missions, taking Vegeta and Nappa words, and self-loathing at not fighting back.

Till one day, she was sent on a mission to a planet called Earth.

Raditz had a self-imposed mission of finding his brother, after finding the coordinates Bardock had placed into the infant's Kakarot's pod.

The mission was allowed because beyond the occasional jobs, not much was expected from Raditz. He reported to Vegeta, and the prince waved him off, saying he didn't care what Raditz did.

Except for a small caveat.

"Do take Nach with you though. She had been taking longer and longer to finish her mission, maybe a primitive planet would be more her speed." Vegeta said with a chuckling smirk.

Nach said nothing. She could only take the implied insult and carry on.

"Oh, because she's a weak bitch whose barely managing to stay alive, right Vegeta?" Nappa had no subtlety and just voiced the insult out loud as he laughed.

"Very helpful, Nappa. The Low-Class dead brain might not have gotten it." Vegeta deadpanned, before just chuckling and rolling with it.

"...Will report to you when it's done, Vegeta." Nach had to grit her teeth to not say anything more, and just turned and walked away with Raditz in tow.

Raditz tried to say some stuff, half to comfort her, half to get in her pants. She punched him in the face and ignored him, going on her way.

"You're putting him on a pedestal." Raditz said at the opening of his pod ship.

"What?" Asked Nach.

"Dive. I know about you chasing him when he deserted. You act like he's this cunning daring guy, that escape the might of the Saiyan Empire. He's just a grunt that was lucky and got away." Said Raditz.

Before Nach could answer back, Raditz entered his pod and closed the door behind him.

For a moment, Nach really thought about blasting the Attack Ball with Raditz in it. Who would care? Vegeta certainly won't give a shit, but she would be reprimanded for "damaging equipment" and losing "precious Saiyan assets".

So she let it go for now. Remembering to pay him back in their next sparring session.

Reaching Planet Earth was easy.

Finding Kakarot? Not a problem. The power levels of this planet were a joke. Nach thought the place might serve as a nice vacation spot. Just relax and do whatever she wanted.

At least till Frieza came to take the planet and rename it with a stupid number.

Nach decided to just let Raditz do whatever he wanted here. She couldn't bring herself to care about what he was doing.

It's his family reunion, let him handle it or fuck it up.

That might have been a bad decision.

Facing four weaklings, Kakarot, the Namekien, that bald short guy, and the bald old guy seemed like a joke. They were all so weak, that there was no way Nach could take that fight seriously.

In the beginning she and Raditz dominated the battle. Nach thought her first thought about this planet was right. This place would make a good vacation spot with entertainment like this.

Then everything started to go wrong. She could pinpoint the exact moment the battle started to go to the Earthlings favor.

While Kakarot and Piccolo took on Raditz, Nach took on Krillin and Roshi. She was annoyed at having the weaker opponents, especially when she was stronger than Raditz. Him having a power level of 1500 and her being 2000.

But she figured she should let him deal with his family feud, while she played around.

The Earthlings fought desperately as if their lives depended on it, which well, it did. Then she came to witness a hilarious scene of Kakarot holding Raditz by the tail.

"Give me your word, you both leave here and never return." Kakarot said menacingly.

"I will! We will I mean! We'll leave and never come back, right Nach?" Raditz said desperately while looking at her. Telling her with his eye to just play along, but she didn't feel like it.

"Hahahahahahaha, no, no. You can just kill him, I don't care." Nach couldn't stop grinning at the hilarity of this situation. It would be hell of a story to tell later to Vegeta and Nappa. Let them have fun turning their attention on Raditz for a while.

"You'd just let your own friend die?" Krillin asked, looking agast.

"Friend is a very strong word." Nach charged up an energy ball. "In fact, you're all taking too long with all this talking and pleading." She aim and fired her energy blast at Raditz, seemingly making it look like I killed him. There, that's enough help to get him out of that sticky situation.

The four Earthlings gathered to facing, thinking me the only threat now.

"Well come on then," Nach gave a nasty smirk. "Do your best, it's not gonna make a difference in the end."

And so the fight continued. Krillin and Roshi acting as support while Piccolo and Kakarot, no, Goku were the main hitters.

Nach got into the rhythm of things, just playing around and enjoying decimating her opponents, no matter how many attacked or how quickly. They really should have left that old man home, he was nothing but a liability.

She showed this by moving much faster than the Earthlings could react, appearing meters away behind the group, and behind Roshi.

"You should have been nice to your elderly and let them stay home. End Shot." Nach laughed as she fired a large energy blast that would vaporize their weakest member. Incinerating Roshi till not even a body was left should break their spirit.

Only for Krillin to get in the way with a ki sphere in both hands, as he began to fire his Scattering Bullet, hoping to wheedle down her own attack, but it didn't work. Nach's ki beam was weaker, but still it blasted Krillin fully, taking him out of the fight.

"Krillin!" Goku and Roshi shouted.

"That fool." Piccolo muttered.

"You, you..." Roshi in his bulked up form, threw away his half broken glasses. "You will pay for this." Roshi gathered up his energy, but Nach didn't pay attention to him as Goku and Piccolo attacked her at the same time.

It was a joke, anything that they could do was a joke. Seriously why struggle like this, when they are so much weaker? What drives them? Nothing would change.

Only the Namekian that she slammed away mid-fight returned with his arms extended and wrapping all around her like a weird disturbing hug.

"Get your filthy hands," Nach kept pushing against her hold, slowly breaking Piccolo's arms. "Off of me!" She had enough room to fly up.

"Thunder Shock Surprise!" Roshi threw his arms at Nach, launching a green electric energy at her.

"AAAARGH!" Nach shouted as she was electrocuted, and held in place in the air.

Goku prepared a Kamehameha.

"No!...I won't...lost...to you weaklings!" She was able to power through the electric energy cage, and she could see Raditz making his way sneakily toward them. She grinned as those Earthlings wouldn't know what's about to hit them.

Piccolo prepared a Masenko.

Raditz was closer preparing an energy blast of his own, then looked at Nach and just smirked.

"You bastard!" She shouted, the Earthlings thinking she was screaming at them.

She broke free from the Thunder Shock. Piccolo and Goku fired their attacks, Nach in desperation fired a ki beam from her mouth, scorching her throat and mouth from not being used to this attack yet.

Raditz fired his own ki blast at Goku.

An explosion went out all around.

The fighters were shocked and were silent.

Nach's smoking body hit the ground, she was lucky to be alive, yet she had never felt pain like thie before.

Raditz attack was stopped from an unexpected source. Krillin was alive and has used his own Kamehameha to cancel out Raditz's Saturday Crush.

The group was surprised by Raditz still being alive, but also relieved Krillin was alright.

"Well," Raditz said. "I was gonna return the favor. Sorry about that, Nach." His grin showed he wasn't sorry at all.

"I will...fucking...break you when this is all over." I said through gritted teeth, surprising the Earthlings that she was still alive.

The Raditz wailed in on the group, now taking them seriously given how their carelessness wounded them so much, against warriors that really should have been no trouble for them.

As the four Earthlings fought, they couldn't help but keep splitting their attention back to Nach who did nothing at the moment, as they worried of a sudden attack from her.

That distraction costed them.

"Gahk!" Roshi coughed blood with Raditz fist in his chest.

"ROSHI!" Shouted Goku and Krillin.

"Finally! One down!" Raditz hollered in laughter. "There you go, Nach. Caught you the one that caught you. Ha! That rhymed."

"You, you'll pay for this!" Goku's ki blew up, increasing with his rage, as he, Krillin and Piccolo attacked with new vigor. But that boost from anger didn't close the gap between Goku and Raditz enough. The Saiyan Warrior was sure of his victory.

Nach stood up, having rested enough, and decided to just end this farce.

Only it seemed like Krillin wasn't keen to be hoodwinked again.

"Solar Flare!" He shouted as he had sensed Nach coming, and launch a strong white light that over took Nach's vision.

"Aaaah!" Nach screamed as she was blinded.

Somehow the little twerp had seen her coming.

She tried to get her baring, firing energy blasts in front of her, but all she heard was a shout from Raditz. Wow, in a field of enemies she ended up hitting him. Okay, that was definitely funny but she would laugh about it later.

Yet the moment her eye sight was back, she saw Krillin with a full powered Kamehameha.

Nach had no choice but to use her secret weapon.

She gathered her energy quickly to her straightened knife hand, moving the energy like a funnel over her fingers to the middle one and pointed at Krillin.

It was her fastest attack, with great piercing power, yet it was too weak.

"KAMEHAMEHA!"

"Swift Stab!"

The large blue beam and thin violet ray went past each other.

Nach got a full powered Kamehameha from Krillin to the face, completely launching her off the battlefield.

"Gaaah!"

Krillin spat out blood, as he held the hole in his chest, falling to one knee.

"Krillin!" Goku cried out, but Raditz wouldn't let this chance go.

Raditz wailed on Goku then, completely outclassing and beating him down. Piccolo stood to the side trying to see what moment he can attack the Saiyan invader, as he didn't know if Nach was out for the count, or would return.

Suddenly everything changed at once.

A power level suddenly spiked rapidly near them. It was coming from Raditz's pod.

"Leave my daddy alone!" Came the child's shout, as the Attack Ball broke up with the half-breed, Gohan covered in orange and red energy flying straight at Raditz slamming into his chest, critically injuring him.

"What the fuck!?" Nach couldn't believe it, as she watched from where she was under some rocks.

How is this possible? For a child to go from a power level of 2 to over a thousand in seconds.

The boy after critically injuring Raditz, fell back down his power fading just as his anger did. Raditz knocked the kid aside, which was easy even with the little strength he had.

Then Goku held Raditz into a full nelson, while telling Piccolo to using his special attack once more.

Nach couldn't believe her ears. These Earthling, why are they not afraid of death? Yes, she had seen beings from worlds she invaded fight, when they have no hold, but well, that's because they had no option. They fight or they die, even if the end result was the same.

But here? They will die to take out a threat to their world willingly.

No, that wasn't the surprising part. It was that Goku, a Saiyan was willing to do that.

Yet Nach had to act, she was injured from all the direct hits she took, and couldn't complete her mission on her own.

"Special Beam Canon!" Piccolo fired his attack.

Just as Nach fired her own at Goku.

"Aaaagh!" Goku's strength was loose enough for Raditz to get out of it.

But Piccolo's attack hit Goku all the same.

Raditz stood shocked at this event, unable to believe it happened.

Nach dashed with all her strength, pick up Raditz and flew away.

They can't afford to keep fighting with their injuries.

The Earthlings had "won" for today.

The two Saiyan decided to lick their wounds and fight another day.

Things couldn't get any worse.

After reporting back to Vegeta, telling him of the events that transpired, telling him about the fight-and something called Dragon Balls that came up in the battle between Raditz, Goku, Krillin and Piccolo, and how they can't revive Roshi with it-their leader's answer was a damming one.

"Raditz and Nach, I honestly can't believe how lower my disappointment can get anymore, when it comes to you two. I'm done, you are both expelled from my command." Vegeta spoke through the scouter.

"But Prince Vegeta, we couldn't have anticipated the Earthlings resistance! We still took most of them out, so if you'd just give us-" Nach tried to argue.

"You killed an old man, a weakling that managed to take you by surprise and beat you, and this Kakarot only died to his own ally's attack. You two are a comedy act." Vegeta said back.

"Please Prince Vegeta-" Raditz tried to grovel.

"I don't want to hear it, Raditz. You and Nach are a disgrace to our Saiyan blood, and if you have any sense in those in those empty heads of yours, when we get to that puny planet for those Dragon Balls." Vegeta paused. "Don't get in our way." He said with a menacing low tone.

The line was cut.

Nach and Raditz sat down in silence.

Raditz looking shocked at how in a day his world turned upside down. From his belief on Saiyan strength, to his belief on his place with his race, what's left of it, to his belief on what courage and strength were.

"What...What do we do?" He said, his tone lost. Nach wasn't sure if he was talking to her or himself.

Nach took off her scouter, and gestured for Raditz to do the same and hand it over. Raditz did so.

She destroyed them.

"Nach, what the hell?" He shouted.

"You asked me 'what do we do?', the answer seems pretty clear." She stood up. "We help the Earthlings."

"What? Are you insane?" Raditz stood up and shouted. "We killed most of their allies. Heck, they probably won't believe us about Vegeta and Nappa coming here."

"That Namekian didn't seem like their friend, but an ally of convenience. We go to him and tell him. Then we train and prepare." Nach squared up to Raditz looking him in the eye. "There is no third option out of this, we help out the Earthlings and maybe survive a bit longer once we take out Vegeta and Nappa, given that I don't think Frieza gives much of a shit about it. Or we sit with our tails in our hands, till Vegeta and Nappa kill us." She narrowed her eyes. "No tricks, no fast talking, you in or out."

Raditz took a moment to think, and after a long while he let out a sigh.

"Fuck it," he then looked up and grinned. "Let's pull a Dive."

Nach weakly punched him on the back of his head.

It took a month of a game of cat and mouse to find Piccolo-as the Namekian could sense their ki and could hide his-who took Gohan to train him.

After that with the warning given, and a tentative alliance forcefully made, the warriors of Earth and two Saiyans could do nothing but prepare.