章 14: Showtime

Raditz was surprised by the jump in the Saiyans' strength. He knew what the Tree of Might was, but to feel the strength jump in person was amazing. He wanted to take the fruits for himself, but they were meant for gods. He was worried about if he'd have to explain the matter to someone like Beerus, the god of destruction, later if he ate one.

The long haired Saiyan hovered over the fallen Earthlings as he moved smoothly towards his enemies' location. Reiss followed alongside his father. The boy was excited to get the chance to participate. Over the last couple of years he was allowed to help kill pirates, but they were all weak.

"Ah Raditz, the so called emperor. Good to see you finally up." Vegeta mocked, "Do you also need to experience the power of a super elite or will you now join us?"

"No, I'm not joining you. I want to see this super elite power you're boasting first hand." Raditz replied.

"I get to help too, right, father?" Reiss asked.

"Sure, you can fight the bald one and the two twin guys." his father answered, "I'll leave how you deal with them to your discretion." The boy nodded and smiled in response. Ever since he was capable of training the boy has enjoyed combat. This was going to be one of his toughest challenges, besides his instruction he received from his father.

"Are you really so eager for your offspring to die?" Turles laughed.

"He can probably handle it." Raditz said watching his son fly towards Nappa.

Raditz had wondered what it would be like meeting Vegeta. He thought about whether or not he could persuade the prideful Saiyan to his side. Turles was unexpected and he had no use for him.

The universe might be made worse by Turles's continued existence. He had already destroyed one planet for the Tree of Might fruit, which ran counter to Raditz's goals.

Personally he didn't care about the survival of worlds, but he knew about mortal levels. Apparently, universes are ranked according to mortal levels. It wasn't clear exactly what determined mortal levels, but it wasn't ranked solely on strength. Raditz had guessed it was a combination of factors such as: strength of the mortals in the universe, number of planets with sentient life, welfare of the mortals, and general comfort levels. If Raditz tried to dominate the universe through pure strength and terror like Frieza the mortal level would undoubtedly drop. If the mortal level became unacceptable the whole universe could be wiped out by Zeno at a moment's notice.

"Turles handle this fool." Vegeta commanded.

"Why, don't you want to play round some more." Turles responded.

"With my power it would be beneath me." the short spiked haired Saiyan said coolly. Turles was angered by Vegeta's assertion that he was meant for grunt work, especially after letting him eat the fruit of the Tree of Might.

"I want to test my current strength. I'd rather fight you both." the long haired Saiyan interrupted.

"This basta-" before Vegeta could finish is insult he was interrupted by a set of violent explosions.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Vegeta and Turles looked by to see Nappa lying in a crater with has limbs broken. Above him Reiss was blocking a punch from Lakasei with his right forearm and a punch from Rasin with his left shin. He pushed the twins back and they vanished in high speed combat.

"What is this?!" the Kakarot duplicate asked, "How is that boy so strong."

"Where are you looking?" Raditz asked punching Turles while he was distracted. The blow sent Turles back into a small plateau. He followed through with a kick to Vegeta's ribs. The short Saiyan stopped himself before impacting the ground.

"That should get them motivated." he thought.

It was a sound tactic because his opponents charged back ferociously. They were moving quick even for Raditz's senses. He could still block all of their strikes because of a technique he developed over the years. During a fight, he would maintain a very thin sphere of Ki is a three meter radius around his body to better sense movement. The developed the idea from an anime he watched in his past life. So far the skill had proved very useful.

As he fought he felt a rumbling sensation from with causing him to rapidly adapt to his opponents' speed. It was the same rumble that developed after the hyper moon incident. The rumble, or better yet the power had become part of his essences after he learned to harness it. It took all of two years for him to firmly control the power and was worth all the effort.

After minute he could keep up with the movement's of his opponents with the assistance of his sphere technique. His arms started to become numb from blocking all of their attacks. His foes were getting angered he'd survived as long as he did and seemed to be improving.

"How are you doing this? You shouldn't be this good?" Turles spat.

"It doesn't matter he won't last long look at his arms their shaking. He's good at dodging, but not good at taking hits." Vegeta declared. "I will give these 'Earthlings' this they are good at hiding there power."

"If you think that is impressive, let me show you what I gained in my travels." Raditz stated and began gathering power. The ground shook was stones began floating into the air.

"Haa...!" Raditz dove into the rumbling power within. The power he discovered to be the roar of the Great Ape.

"Ahhhh...!" Raditz continued to build his power up. His hair began to take on a more wild appearance and his muscle mass increase several fold. His once black irises became a firey Great Ape crimson.

With a final shout Raditz finished his transformation.

His Saiyan foes floated midair looking dumbfounded by what they witnessed. Neither of them knew what exactly happened. Vegeta was worried that Raditz had somehow usurped his destiny becoming the Super Saiyan. He didn't want to believe it so he checked his scouter. His current scouter model would possibly break if it tried to detect a power over fifty thousand. If it did it would at least let him know Raditz was stronger than that.

BEEP!

Vegeta's jaw dropped.

The scouter showed nothing.

It took the scan then blanked out.

If Raditz was hiding his power it should apply some number to it. He turned quickly to scan Reiss. Surprisingly, the boy's power was also concealed from the scan.

"Don't worry, Vegeta. I'm sure your scouter is fine. Since my incident happened years ago scouters have never worked properly on me. After, Reiss was born his power would fluctuate wildly then eventually became unreadable like mine. We think he inherited a mutation from me." Raditz informed the Saiyan prince.

Vegeta removed his scouter and crushed it in frustration.

The three fighter vanished and Raditz commanded the upper hand in the encounter. He was using brute force to dominate his enemies. He grabbed Turles by the face and flew him into the ground at a high speed. A cone of force developed around them a few feet from impact.

BOOM!

Raditz was smirking in delight as he forced the skull of Turles into the dirt. Vegeta was ruthlessly attacking Raditz's back, but the long haired Saiyan didn't seem to even feel it. Next, he delivered a kick to the side of Raditz's head hoping to break his neck.

BOOM!

The sound of the collision echoed through the rocky area, but Raditz was unmoved. He lifted Turles's head and gave it a smash once more, before catching Vegeta by the leg he used to kick. A crunching sound could be heard when Raditz applied pressure to Vegeta's leg.

CRUNCH!

Raditz stood to his full height which was now taller by far than he normally was a stared at Vegeta dangling upside down in his grip. The short Saiyan still looked defiant. Nothing less should be expected from the prideful Saiyan.

"Galick Gun!" Vegeta fired the beam attack point blank into Raditz. The purple beam engulfed his captor for what seemed to be an eternity. Vegeta was gasping for air when the attack finished. His foe's upper body was covered in smoke so he couldn't see how much damage he cause, but it should be significant.

When the smoke cleared...

"What?" Vegeta gasped seeing that his attack just ruined Raditz's armor. "Im-impossible."

Raditz grinned, still holding Vegeta's leg, and slammed the prideful Saiyan into the ground twice. The long haired Saiyan noticed Turles stand up behind him and quickly swung Vegeta around like a sword.

"Turos Sword Style!" Raditz shouted moving in the sword style he learned on the first planet he destroyed.

BOOM!

On impact with Turles Raditz released Vegeta's now broken leg sending the two Saiyans careening into a nearby mesa. The rock formation crumbled down around the two invaders.

"ROAR!" the sound coming from Raditz was no less threatening than the Great Ape's roar. The area of rumble concealing Turles and Vegeta exploded from the force of the ape scream. They appeared to be heavily wounded from the fight.

Turles's eyes filled with fear from the approach of Raditz. His muscle mass appeared to have increased even more as he approached. If Raditz looked like he was in the mood to negotiate Turles would have tried to offer his services as a means to maintain life. He now regretted that they were so heavy handed in their approach. If only there was more fruit or if it gave more power.

Trying the only thing he could think of Turles decide to flee. He pushed his speed to the limit as he took to the air. He needed to get to his ship.

Raditz smirked and charge an orb of energy in his right hand. The Kakarot lookalike didn't make it far before Raditz unleashed his attack.

"Giant's Bomb of the North Galaxy!"

The pulsating orb of energy hit Turles and he began to cry out in a chilling shriek. He crashed into the ground and started writhing in pain. He bleed profusely from his pores as his muscles destroyed his own body. Turles's suffering was ended when his body torn itself into pieces and exploded.

Vegeta was in the crawling position trying to get to his feet, but was pressed back into the ground by Raditz's boot on his back.

"It looks like I won Vegeta." Raditz taunted, "I hope you used the power of a super elite you bragged about. If you did I wasn't impressed if you didn't I'd say you were just being arrogant. So which was it?"

The rocky ground under Vegeta cracked from the pressure of Raditz pressing down.

"No words, eh?" Raditz questioned. "Oh well" he shrugged powering up a beam on his index finger.

Vegeta resigned himself to die.

The beam on Raditz's finger dimmed and vanished.

"I changed my mind." the long haired Saiyan stated. "My Galaxy might be more entertaining with you in it. However, if you dare to interfere with my plans ever again you will die."

With those words Raditz kicked the fallen prince in the ribs breaking several and sending him tumbling off in the distance. Vegeta came to a stop in a secluded area away from the reporters. He was barley conscious.

BOOM!

Another impact happened near him. He looked over to see a half dead Nappa lying beside him. Above Nappa, Vegeta could make out the purple haired boy from earlier.

"Good work, boy." Raditz said catching up to where Vegeta landed.

"Thanks father it was a fun fight. I decided to let this bald one live because he was a Saiyan." Reiss said.

"You two have five minutes to summon your ships and leave. Any longer and your lives are forfeit." Raditz command, "Reiss go give the others a Panacea bean. I'll wait here."