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Bab 24: Ch. 24: Goku and Raditz

"Hahahaha. So much for our little game... Oh, well, it was fun while it lasted." Vegeta said, announcing that neither he nor Nappa had been hurt by the blast that Krillin had sent their way.

"Surprise, Surprise, this is our favorite part, you know. You should see the looks on your faces." Vegeta gloated, the dust clearing around them. While I wasn't particularly surprised by this, since Krillin had split his blast between so many different targets, it was clearly a huge shock for everyone present. However, the bigger shock came next.

"Huh. I guess I really can't hurt you guys. Well, then, good thing I don't have to." Krillin answered, sensing something.

"Daddy!" I screamed as loud as I could, arrogantly turning my back to Vegeta and Nappa as I watched my dad and... uncle... appear. The wish had run its course, apparently. The moment that the last Saibaman died, was the same moment that the two brothers appeared on the horizon.

"Goku!!" Krillin shouted, along with Tien and Chiaotzu. They were so overjoyed by his presence that they didn't even register the jerk beside his's presence. Naturally, Piccolo and the Saiyans didn't make the same oversight.

"What are you doing here, bastard?" Piccolo yelled at Raditz, shocked.

"Don't worry, Piccolo. He's on our side this time." Goku announced, sharing a look with his brother. Surprisingly they seemed like they'd gotten close during their ten or so months together. 

"You wasted a wish to bring Raditz back to life?" Vegeta scoffed, "Why? I thought he was your enemy, and a weakling."

"No. We definitely didn't wish for that jerk back. Goku, he was the entire reason that you died!" Krillin reminded his friend, but Goku wasn't listening.

"da-da-DADDY!!!" It took Gohan's brain a moment to 'reboot' after not seeing his father for so long. As soon as the word managed to leave his lips, he charged his father and tackled him in a hug.

"I missed you too, Gohan. Wow, you grew so big!" Goku marveled, picking my brother up, "Hanna, you gonna give your old man a hug, too? Or are you just gonna leave me hanging?" Goku asked.

For me, it'd been over a hundred years since I'd seen my father. I felt like I'd failed him somehow by not visiting him in otherworld, when I'd been fully capable of it. I'd thought that I was ready for it... that sending Shay to watch over him somehow absolved me of some of that guilt I'd built up by not doing everything that I could to... I don't even know, maybe stay together, but looking at him now, I just wanted to cry, but I couldn't.

"Daddy..." I walked up to him, but I didn't jump into his arms like Gohan had. I didn't deserve that right, and I knew it. In some way, I was betraying him with this farce, hiding my power and putting him in danger... What sort of right did I have?

Goku noticed my hesitation, but he couldn't possibly know the reason behind it, so he instead assumed that it was just a side effect of everything that I'd gone through in this past year, which wasn't totally wrong. Putting Gohan down, he got down on one knee, putting his hand on my head.

"I see you trained in the Time Chamber, Hanna. You're so strong now that I hardly recognized you."

I didn't answer. Tears welled up in my eyes, as I tried not to cry.

"You helped Piccolo take care of Gohan over this past year, didn't you? King Kai told me... I'm so proud of you." He ruffled my hair before pulling me into a hug. I didn't resist, but rather just stood there crying. I could feel Shay in my jacket, angry and helpless as she watched me cry, knowing that she couldn't do anything about it.  Feeling her get so angry on my behalf helped calm me a little bit.

"Kakarot. Now isn't the time for this." Raditz gently chided his brother.

"Done with the little family moment?" Vegeta asked, mocking. He bent down and put his scouter back onto his face to assess the newcomer's power levels.

"Why are you bothering to check their power levels, Vegeta? Raditz was always a weakling. How could his brother be any different?" Nappa scoffed.

"Hmm... The scouter seems to be malfunctioning." Vegeta said, astonishment in his eyes. He crushed the scouter in his hand angrily, unwilling to believe what it said.

Nappa looked at him in surprise. "What did it say?" He asked. Wanton displays of violence weren't exactly uncommon coming from Vegeta, but only rarely did Vegeta show his emotions as openly as he was doing now.

"It must have been wrong. There's no way that their power levels are both above 10,000!" Vegeta shouted, "No way in hell!"

Nappa's eyes bugged out. 10,000? In his mind, there was no possible way. Raditz had always been weak... A bug that even the Saibamen could crush underfoot fairly easily. Now, Vegeta's scouter was saying that that bug was stronger than him by a force of nearly 3,000 units? No possible way. A score like that would be enough to contend even with Vegeta himself.

"No way! That's impossible! There's no way that this weakling's stronger than me!" Nappa shouted.

"You better listen to your little toy, Vegeta. It's not wrong... We're both far stronger than either of you."

"But can we trust you?" Piccolo asked Raditz.

"I'm still the same selfish bastard I've always been, Namekian... But I made a promise to the one who brought me back to life."

"Oh? What sort of promise?" Piccolo wondered aloud.

"I swore to live for myself. No more conquering worlds in someone else's name. No more mercenary work, killing for the highest bidder. In honor of my father, I want to try living a peaceful life, here on Earth." Raditz told the Namekian, determination in his gaze.

"Well, alright, then." Piccolo realized that there were no more words to be said. He still didn't trust Raditz to be capable of living peacefully, but Raditz would be fighting on their side during this battle, and that was enough at the moment.

"Guys... Where's Yamcha?" Goku finally asked.


Bab 25: Ch. 25: 'Weakling'

"Guys, where's Yamcha?" Goku asked. Nobody would meet his gaze for the longest of time. Finally, Krillin pointed towards the ground behind them, where Yamcha's body was still lying on the ground.

"The spiky haired one killed him. Instantly. He didn't even have a chance to fight." Krillin told Goku, his voice cracking a bit from emotions. For a warrior like Yamcha, dying without even the chance to fight was the worst possible thing. Nobody was able to say anything, as they all remembered the loss. Even Piccolo, who had never had any respect for the debonair Z-fighter, was enraged by the mere memory of Yamcha's death. 

"Weakling. He deserved to die! You'll all follow him, you know! We're gonna have fun killing you all, just as easily as we killed that one!" Nappa gloated. An enraged Goku didn't respond to Nappa's provocation, but rather pointed to Vegeta.

"He's mine. Everyone but me and Raditz, take Yamcha's body and go." Goku said with a cold tone that neither me nor Gohan had ever heard before.

"But daddy!" Gohan started to protest, but Goku cut him off,

"Get out of here, Gohan! Krillin, Tien, Chiaotzu, Piccolo, Hanna. Go with him. Now." He shouted in a voice that brooked no argument. 

"You're not getting rid of me that easily, Goku. I may not be fighting, but I'm not leaving until they're both dead." Piccolo told him.

"Chiaotzu, go back to Kame house. Take Krillin, Gohan, and Hanna, okay?" Tien said, unwilling to leave for the same reasons as Piccolo. His pride just wouldn't allow him to not watch the fight. Fortunately, Goku got his wish of a clearer battlefield, as Krillin, Chiaotzu, and Gohan didn't have the same levels of pride keeping them there. Krillin picked up Yamcha's body, and Chiaotzu and Gohan followed him off the battlefield. 

"Hanna, go with them." Goku told me.

"Absolutely not." I said firmly. I trusted that my dad would win this fight with his power, as it was much stronger than the 9,000 or so that he had in the anime, as well as Raditz's power that would make dealing with Nappa a cinch, but I knew my father. He'd try to fight Vegeta alone, and he'd pull his punches to make it an even fight right up until the end of the battle.

He could probably take a Kaio-ken X6 right now, if only barely, which would put him far ahead of Vegeta in terms of pure power, but he wouldn't go that far. He'd have an even fight with Vegeta right up until the end, when he'd just barely pull out the win.

Meanwhile, after Raditz fought Nappa, he'd be sidelined, and I didn't know enough about Raditz's personality to know how he was going to take that. Unfortunately, I couldn't rely on him at all, since he wasn't a part of the canon at all. I could feel Shay's consciousness shrink back a little as I cursed her choice to bring him back in my head.

Luckily for me, I didn't think Raditz living would change the canon too much. After all, once power passed a certain point, throwing numbers at a problem just wouldn't solve it, and Cell couldn't really use his Saiyan DNA to get noticeably stronger in the future, but I'd have to rely on my dad's love for intensive battles in order to ensure that this specific battle went the way that I wanted it to.

As Krillin, Chiaotzu, and Gohan flew away, Nappa yelled "You honestly think we'll let you run!?" as he launched an energy blast towards them. Fortunately, it was deflected by an energy ball generated by Raditz.

"You've not changed at all in these past years, Nappa. Once a brute, always a brute." Raditz chided him as their friends escaped.

"You made me miss. You'll pay for that, you know." Nappa answered his former subordinate, half-annoyed and half-surprised. The old Raditz would never have been capable of doing something like that, but this new Raditz seemed to have not only deflected his energy blast, but done so without breaking a sweat. Maybe the scouter's power readings weren't so wrong after all. 

Unfortunately for Nappa, he just couldn't believe that the 'weakling' that he'd been lording over for years was suddenly even stronger than him, so he decided that Raditz was probably either just barely strong enough to pose a tiny threat, or had used up far more energy in that defense than he'd shown on his face. Either way, he still decided that he had an advantage over the other Saiyan.

"Nappa, don't let your guard down." Vegeta told his 'advisor.' While he didn't trust his scouter's reading at all, the Saiyan prince's battle instincts were telling him that the two before him were a genuine threat, even to him.  But his instincts had been wrong multiple times today, as they were still telling him that the female half-Saiyan who had flown off to the side of the battlefield was some sort of monster.

Vegeta trusted in his power absolutely, though. Even if the readings for the two's power levels were, in fact, true, he knew that he'd still hold an overwhelming advantage with his 18,000 Power level and battle prowess, honed to perfection as the strongest Saiyan Prince in all history. If they killed Nappa, that was fine, as long as the brute managed to give them at least some sort of fight, he decided.

"You honestly think that the reading from your scouter had any truth to it, Vegeta?" Nappa asked.

"I'm not sure, but better safe than sorry. Once you're done with that piece of trash, kill them all. Leave none of them alive." Vegeta told his 'advisor.' 

"I thought that we needed the Namek to tell us how to find the Dragon Balls once they finish recharging? I was looking forward to torturing him over the next year!" Nappa asked.

"There's no point. If we leave him alive, we leave them a chance to come back and steal our wish. Even I would have trouble with weaklings like that if they were immortal, after all. Better to just kill them all." Vegeta decided.

Nappa was confused, "But our wish!? Are you just giving up on our immortality?!"

"Obviously not, Nappa!" Vegeta shouted, annoyed that Nappa would even come to such a ridiculous conclusion, "It's clear to me now, that finding that Namek here wasn't a mistake. It's likely that all we need for our wish is a Namek. 


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