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.
Status Power Mingguan
-- Peringkat
Power 
-- Power
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