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Krillin's expression was laced with confusion and fear as Gohan jumped out of his hiding places, landing in front of Frieza and his soldiers. Before Dodoria could warn their companions, Gohan landed a kick to their jaw, sending them flying into one of the namekians' homes.

'What an idiot!'

In a hurry, Krillin rushed towards Gohan, worrying that he was going to be overpowered by the soldiers. As Gohan landed, he threatened one of the soldiers, causing an annoyed expression to appear on Dodoria's face.

Before the soldier could stand back up, Krillin landed a strike to their jaw once more, causing them to slide a few feet away. "Are you insane?! We have to get out of here, quick!" Gohan shakenly nodded his head before they both rushed out of the scene, making sure to grab the child namekian that was still unharmed.

Frieza and his soldiers watched as the two flew away, questioning their appearance. "They don't appear to be namekians! What are you sitting around for?! After them!" demanded Frieza, watching Dodoria take flight after them.

Gohan and Krillin tried to fly faster, but they could see that Frieza's soldiers were quick to catch up. Gohan insisted that they should land and fight the soldiers, earning a look of disbelief from Krillin.

Their hearts started to ring in their ears as they felt the soldiers inching closer to them. Krillin desperately wanted to find another way until an idea popped up. "Gohan! I need you to take the kid from me, now!"

Gohan nodded quickly before catching the child in his arms. Krillin instructed him not to look in his direction, making Gohan and the child turn their heads, reassuring him that they were turned away.

In midair, Krillin turned around in time as he placed his fingers on his forehead. "Solar Flair!" summoning a bright light, it stunned the soldier, feeling his eyes burned in pain. Krillin turned and took flight, catching up to Gohan.

"We need to hide, now!" Krillin demanded as the three hid behind a mountain, making sure to control their breathing and lower their energy. They heard the muffled curses from the soldiers, signifying that they got away in time.

The soldier stopped his muttering before getting an idea. He flew high in the air, gaining distance away from the land. Krillin noticed this and hurriedly grabbed the two before getting out of the blast's range.

The blast from the soldier caused some of the land to blow up in ruins, making it sink into the water. Dodoria muttered to himself as he rushed his way to his leader's location.

Krillin and the others stayed quiet, making sure they didn't blow their cover. They all exhale in relief, slightly untensing themselves. "Are you able to fly?" Krillin asked the child, earning a shaky nod.

The namekian child floated next to them, thanking the two for saving him. Nodding their heads, they insisted that they should head to where Bulma was. The child and Krillin followed Gohan, seeing that he knew where Bulma's current location was.

Back to Dodoria, he was minding his business, flying to his leader's location before he was striked to the head, making him collapse in the water. He was stunned, not knowing who had hit him before swimming to the surface.

Gasping for air, his expression was laced with anger as a familiar figure landed a few feet away from him. "Vegeta! You little..."

The saiyan's expression was filled with cockiness, taunting the soldier that he was too slow to figure out who striked him. "Since you're all here all alone, nobody can help you" he taunted.

"Ha! A saiyan like you? You've got some nerve to challenge me. Let's make a deal, you hand me the scouter and I'll let you go, this one time only..." Vegeta cocked a brow at the offer before taking the scouter off and dropping it on the ground.

Dodoria was surprised that he gave it up so easily, as if Vegeta didn't really need the scouter in the first place. He watched the saiyan smirk before stomping on the device, destroying it.

"Have you lost your mind?! Why did you destroy it?!"

"I have no further use for it. When I was fighting the earthlings, I learned that I could sense their power without it. There were two saiyan's that could do the same thing as well."

An expression of confusion laced the soldier's face, feeling their anger boil inside of him. "Don't underestimate me!" Dodoria went into a defensive stance as it started to charge up a blast, feeling the electrifying energy surrounding him.

Vegeta just stood there, knowing that the blast wasn't going to do anything. But he decided to just play with him for a while.

After the blast died down and the smoke cleared away, he froze with fear as he felt Vegeta's energy behind him. "There's no way a technique like that could work on me"

The soldier swung their fist towards him, making Vegeta catch it with no effort. Dodoria tried to land a kick to distract him, but Vegeta just jumped over the sloppy attack. The saiyan grabbed the soldier's other hand and held it back with force.

Dodoria yelled in pain, feeling his arms ache, nearly begging for mercy to Vegeta to break his arms. He knew that Vegeta was determined to kill him, so he hoped that this idea would help him. "W-wait! If you let me go, I-I'll let you in on a secret about the planet Vegeta!"

The familiar planet name caused Vegeta's eyes to widen, not knowing that his home planet hid a secret from him. He pondered for a bit before letting the soldier's arms go, hearing the pained groans from him.

Vegeta demanded the soldier to spill the secret about his home planet. "Y-you see, your home planet wasn't wiped out by a giant meteor like Frieza told you..."

Vegeta wanted to believe in Dodoria's explanation, but he had a feeling that he was lying. Dodoria explained that the saiyan's power was nothing near his leader, explaining that he was in fear that a saiyan with incredible power would overpower Frieza.

"Frieza himself destroyed the planet and the saiyan's on it! You should be proud that Frieza took you in!"

The explanation caused Vegeta to slightly grit his teeth, pondering if any of his words were true about his leader blowing up his planet. "Don't get me wrong, Dodoria... But I don't give a damn about the planet nor my friends"

Vegeta didn't care about any of those, but deep down, he cared about his parents. He just didn't want to express the words, feeling that he would be weak for expressing his emotions.

His cold words made Dodoria freeze in fear before he took flight, wanting to hurry and warn his leader. Before he could fly any faster, he felt the burning ki blast gaining after him, making him stun as he was enveloped by the attack, killing him.

Vegeta's expression scrunched up in disgust, wasting his time and energy on Dodoria. He should've killed him from the beginning. He pondered for a bit as he took flight.

His thoughts wandered about you and Goku, wanting to see if there was a chance to see you both again for another battle. Was there another way to go back? Should he return to earth and try to terrorize you both to fight him again?

His thoughts were interrupted when he felt a spike of energy in the air. Taking a sharp turn back, he headed his way towards the namekian village. There was a chance that the dragon balls were there as well, making him fly faster.

After some time, he stopped when he found another village, seeing that Frieza hadn't stopped by to visit this village. Once he landed, he felt the curious eyes of the namekian citizens on him.

"Is there an elder here? I've come to take the dragon ball from your hands" he demanded, watching the shocked expressions fill the villagers faces. He watched the elder of the village walk towards him.

"I am the elder, could you tell me why you seek the dragon balls?" the elder questioned. "It's none of your concern, just hand it over!" the saiyan demanded, feeling the frustration slowly rise up.

The elder explained that he's not going to give it to him, sensing much evilness from Vegeta.

"Then you will die!"

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Meanwhile, at Bulma's location.

Krillin, Gohan, and the child namekian safely made it to home base, feeling hungry once they entered inside. Krillin explained that they found Frieza and his soldiers looking for the dragon balls.

Krillin noticed that the child wasn't eating, not knowing if he had an appetite or not. "I don't blame him, everyone in his village was killed, right?" Krillin hummed at her words, seeing that it was probably the answer.

"We don't eat things like this... We get simply on water" the child explained. He explained that they get their resources from the trees that were planted on their planet.

"Could you tell us your name?" asked Gohan, making sure not to speak with his mouth full. "Dende... Who exactly are you people?" he asked, wanting to know who were the people that saved him.

Before they could introduce themselves, Krillin watched Gohan hop from his seat before bolting out of the house. He wanted to know why Gohan ran out until he felt something in the air, now feeling tense.

"What's going on? Is there something coming this way?" Bulma watched the two stand there in silence, having a feeling that something or someone was getting closer.

"A lot of ki are disappearing one after another. More namekians are being killed as well!" explained Gohan. "It's Vegeta! He's attacking another village!"

Krillin instructed that they had to be careful, not knowing if the saiyan was going to head their way. He didn't know if Frieza and Vegeta were on the same side, but he knew that both of them were looking for the dragon balls.

"If we can find one of them, then they won't be able to summon the dragon," Bulma explained, watching Dende's expression show fear. "We don't know when Goku and Nemui will arrive, so we either have to wait to do something about it"

Dende tried to ask them who they were, sensing that there was no evil in the three. They explained who they were, seeing that Dende had trusted them to save their village. He then explained that he would take them to the grand elder.

The grand elder was the one who gave birth to all the nemekians on their planet. He was the sole survivor that once lived on planet Namek long ago. "That's great! Can you tell us where to go to find the great elder?"

Dende knew that the three were in a hurry. The dragon balls were quickly being collected and the citizens of Namek were being killed at a fast rate. "Alright, let's get going. We don't have much time before Vegeta collects the rest of them!" announced Krillin.

"I'll go with Dende. Gohan, you'll stay with Bulma. We don't want everyone to go at the same time" he instructed, getting a nod from the two. Taking flight, Krillin waved at them before following Dende.

'Vegeta seems to be a lot stronger than before... And to make things worse, that Frieza guy is even stronger than him! We need to hurry and get to the grand elder, but we have to stay hidden...'

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In space, you and Goku were getting used to the gravity change in the spaceship. It helped improve your speed as you both wiped the soft coat of sweat from your foreheads.

"Phew, I think we've got the hang of twenty times gravity by now. Want to spar at thirty times gravity?" questioned Goku. "Sure" you responded as you both got into a defensive stance. This would be the first time you both spared with each other.

Goku wanted to know if you had the same strength or even stronger than him, even though nobody can sense your power, he still wanted to test your strength.

Once you were both ready, you both vanished. Reappearing, Goku striked the first hit, making you catch his fist before aiming a strike to the stomach. Goku tanked the hit, sweeping his leg under you. Jumping in time, you landed a roundhouse kick to his stomach, pushing him to the wall.

A smirk fell on his lips as he rushed towards you, exchanging strike after strike. You dodged most of them as you countered with an elbow to the rib. He also landed a hit to your stomach, making you both rush back, gaining distance.

You both panted for air, getting used to the new gravity level. Before you both could rush back, you hear a similar voice calling your names. 'Goku! Nemui! Can you hear me?' It was King Kai.

"Yeah! We both can hear you" announced Goku, making you announce that you heard him as well. King Kai wanted to ask why were you both in space, making you explain the reason why.

'Oh, you're going to planet Namek? Well, I want you two to be careful, something terrible is happening on that planet at this moment!'

Goku emitted a hum as you both continued to listen to his words. The kai then taunted that your friends in the afterlife wanted tougher training than Goku's. You chuckled at his words, knowing that it was Piccolo and the others.

"So they'll be stronger once they're revived?" you questioned, earning an affirmative hum from King Kai. You then hear a few voices from the telepathic call, it was Piccolo's.

'Where are you two heading right now?' he questioned. "We're on our way to planet Nemek. Bulma, Krillin, and Gohan are already there waiting for us" you replied. Goku then explained that you both had to hurry to get the dragon balls before Vegeta could get their hands on it.

"And what's crazy is that there is someone that has ki greater than Vegeta as well!" His words made Piccolo eyes widen in shock, not believing that someone is way stronger than the saiyans they fought on earth.

'Alright, I'll go check and see who this person is...' King Kai then used his antennae to find the being with a higher power level than Vegeta. After some time, his eyes widened with fear.

'It's Frieza! Goku and Nemui, I need you two to stay away from him at all costs. He's way too powerful for you both!'

King Kai was about to warn you both not to hurry your way to Frieza until Piccolo interrupted. 'Don't listen to him, you two. Just do whatever you both need to get your hands on the dragon balls and wish us back to life'

You both assured Piccolo's words before ending the telepathic call. "It seems that we need to speed up the process. Wanna go ahead and turn it up to fifty times gravity?"

You chuckled when Goku's eyes brightened in joy, as if you read his mind. Turning the gravity up, you both resumed your sparring.