Chapter 52: Clothes beam
The touching scene of Nappa pledging his alliance to Raditz was rudely interrupted by a gruff voice.
"What is the meaning of this? Why aren't you finishing him off?"
Piccolo's words cut the atmosphere like knife, his eyes starting at Vegeta's unconscious body, and the rest of the z fighters seemed to be unsure about this too, but they weren't direct like Piccolo.
They trusted Raditz enough to not do something like that, Gohan also seemed as if he wanted to say something to Piccolo, but Piccolo's hard look stopped him from doing that.
"Grrr."
Looking towards the Namekian, Nappa growled, this guy dared to sully this scared moment.
"King, let me go, I'll teach this guy a lesson."
Nappa's angry words didn't cause Piccolo to flinch, he was not that weak compared to base Nappa.
But Raditz wasn't too upset about the entire thing, this was piccolo, even Krillin wanted to kill Vegeta in canon.
Their current unsure state was entirely due to him being here, just like when Goku asked Krillin to let Vegeta go, they believed him enough to do that.
"No need Nappa, I understand what they are worried about."
Looking at Piccolo's tense body, Raditz smirked.
"No need to be so tense Namekian."
*Whoosh*
*Bang!*
Piccolo's eyes bulged as Raditz appeared before him and immediately kneed him in the stomach.
"Cough! Aagh!"
Collapsing to the ground, Piccolo's eyes were bloodshot, his hands holding his stomach.
The z fighters were also incredibly shocked by this sudden attack, but Piccolo wasn't one of them quite yet, so they didn't attack Raditz.
But Gohan, he immediately ran towards Piccolo with tears threatening to spill, but he didn't cry.
"Don't, don't hurt Mr Piccolo!"
Gohan said with a flash of belief, he was still very much scared, but almost losing Piccolo was such a shock to him, that he was now consciously attempting to get over his fear.
Raditz meanwhile looked at the collapsed Piccolo and grinned at Gohan.
"Beat it kid, this is payback, he collapsed my chest, I collapsed all of him."
"Now get up and talk, don't make me look down on you Namekian."
Gohan held his hands before Piccolo and looked at Raditz angrily.
"No! You can't hurt Mr Piccolo-"
"Stop it Gohan..! Cough."
Piccolo pulled Gohan back and gazed at Raditz with serious eyes.
While Gohan was confused, no one else was, this was a thing warriors understood.
Piccolo was wary of Raditz because of his previous position and was thus questioning him with a malicious angle.
'But with this attack, our feud is over, is that what you want to say.'
After attempting to get up, Piccolo stood shakily, but he wasn't giving an angry look anymore.
Because instead of false words and fancy promises, this was what he preferred, this was a language he understood well enough.
Raditz showed he could kill him any second but chooses not to, and he took the initiative to end their conflict, this was more than enough good faith for Piccolo.
After steading himself, Piccolo breathed out and his white cape materialised on him.
'Clothes beam, I want it. I so want it.'
Raditz smiled internally, and went ahead with a friendly smile towards Piccolo.
With a smirk, Raditz towered over Piccolo and hugged form the side, his left hand grabbing a hold of him and his right was grabbing Piccolo's head.
"You!"
The angry Piccolo looked at Raditz with fire in his eyes, if the previous action was Raditz saying they were cool.
This action was him asserting his dominance, and worst of all, Piccolo couldn't move at all after Raditz grabbed onto him.
"Hahaha! Namekian, I am glad we could solve our differences, it's a happy day today! Don't be so hard faced!"
"Tell you what, I'll call you Piccolo, let's be friends! Hahaha!"
Growling with his teeth out, Piccolo snapped at Raditz, but his action seemed funny because he was still trapped by Raditz in a friendly hug.
"Release me! I have no interest in being friends with you!"
But Piccolo's yell was only met with suppressed laughter of the z fighters, even Gohan was smiling, which turned Piccolo's face red with shame.
Once again boisterously laughing Raditz finally released Piccolo, he had already copied what he wanted to do.
"Hey, your loss, you could have been friends with a king, I might have even taken you to visit Namek, your home planet."
Narrowing his eyes, Piccolo scowled, he wasn't happy being shown his place just now and he will definitely get back at him, Raditz and Goku are two of the obstacles he needed to clear before he takes over the world.
Although he was still thinking that, somewhere down in his heart, he knew this wasn't his goal anymore, Gohan had affected him more than he will ever admit.
But enough about that, Raditz had been dodging the question for a while now, Piccolo won't let that happen.
"I'll see about Namek myself, now tell me, what are you planning on doing with that guy."
Getting a serious look to himself, Raditz spoke silently.
"He's a threat, the moment he gets stronger he will return to kill us all."
"But.. even with all his shortcomings, Vegeta has his Saiyan pride, he lost the royal duel, he will honor it, even if he hates it."
Shrugging his shoulders as he turned to look at Vegeta's unconscious body being carried by Nappa, he said again.
"Before he proves himself to be stronger than me, he won't care about anything else."
"And he can never defeat me, no matter what."
Silently catching Raditz's confident words, Piccolo lightly snorted.
Picking up Gohan, he turned around and began leaving.
"If he comes back, it's your problem."
*Whoooosh*
Immediately Piccolo flew away with the waving Gohan in tow.
Who seems to have realised Raditz isn't a bad guy anymore, he couldn't be, he let Mr Piccolo and his partners go, and he was his uncle too..
Snorting with amusement, Raditz gestured to Nappa.
"Send him to Freeza base 141. They always have extra healing pods available."
Nodding to Raditz, Nappa looked as if he wanted to say something, then made up his mind to say it anyway.
"King, I think, it's in your best interest to eliminate Vegeta, he is not going to stop unless he kills you."
Raditz became mum, then sighed.
"I'll give him one chance, there are too few of us remaining Nappa, I wouldn't want to kill off an elite."
"But I understand your concerns, if he returns and wastes this chance, I'll kill him, I don't need a disloyal Saiyans who attack their king."
With a smile forming on his face, Nappa saluted Raditz, and went to place Vegeta in his space pod.
He would leave a voice message to Vegeta's scouter and warn him once, for old times sake, he hoped Vegeta wouldn't let his pride control him later.
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