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Dragonball Z: Frieza Saga [3]

THE REAL NAMEK

After a short discussion, it is agreed that the pod must have belonged to Vegeta. They get out the dragon radar, and check it out. It shows dragonballs scattered everywhere. It’ll be tough finding them all. Bulma sets up the radio, which can communicate all the way to Earth, and informs Roshi that Vegeta is on Namek, and they’re going to need Goku’s help.

Not far away on the planet, Vegeta steps out of his pod, and uses his scouter to read the power levels on the planet. He finds out that Freiza is definitely here, along with his two henchmen Zarbon and Dodoria. Vegeta tells himself that he could beat the henchmen, but he isn’t sure about Freiza just yet.

Elsewhere, Freiza has just collected dragonball number 4, putting everyone else at a distinct disadvantage in the race to collect all the balls, as there are only three left to be found. His two henchmen are with him. One is a tall, green haired, green skinned alien, with a red mark on his forehead, and earrings made from gold, and other valuable materials. His other one is a fat pink alien of some sort, with rippled skin. Zarbon is the green one, and Dodoria is the pink one. Zarbon notices a blink on his scouter, and informs Freiza that there are two mediocre power levels, and one reasonably big one on the planet. He tells him that it’s nothing much to worry about, but Freiza sends two low classed soldiers towards the low power levels, and one of his better fighters, Cui (Remember him, from back at Freiza’s docks?), to the large one. They all shoot off obediently towards their respective locations, as Freiza looks on, in his small, flying-chair type thing. Freiza is a small alien, with horns, and a tail with a spike at the end. He looks kind of like a girl with his red lips, and sounds a bit like one too. He has three toes, each one quite large with a pointed claw on.

Down at Gohan, Krillen and Bulma’s landing site, they are met by unexpected visitors wearing saiyan armor. This confuses them at first, as they don’t have tails, and can’t be saiyans. The two figures are the ones that Freiza sent to check out the power levels, and they destroy the ship with their guns. They then turn to Gohan and Krillen, expecting them to be easy pickings, but are easily defeated, much to their surprise. Gohan and Krillen snap Bulma out of her trance, and start the search for the dragonballs.

Vegeta is trying to read the dragonball energy, when Cui lands. He had been sent to check out the power level, and greets Vegeta, as they meet up once again. He acts real tough, and warns Vegeta not to mess with Freiza, and to just hide instead. Vegeta is not intimidated though, and he just laughs it off. This makes Cui angry, as he powers up. Vegeta does so too, after he informs Cui that he has been hiding his true power.

At the Namekian village, Zarbons scouter breaks, which confuses him a lot. He tells Freiza that he had just read someone with the same signature as Vegeta, of having a power level of 24,000, but Dodoria insists that he must be wrong, and his scouter is surely broken, as Vegeta’s power level couldn’t possibly be that high. He uses his scouter, and takes the power level. It read it at exactly the same as Vegeta’s! This amazed him, as he tried to think of a feasible explanation for the massive increase in power since he went to Earth, but he can come up with nothing. .

Meanwhile, Cui’s scouter has read Vegeta’s power level, and he is petrified. His power level isn’t even close to that, so he backs off, trying to talk Vegeta out of attacking him. He manages to fool the saiyan by telling him to turn round, then uses his most powerful blasts to cover Vegeta, and to attempt to kill him. When Cui finishes with the barrage of blasts, the smoke clears, and standing in the crater, totally unscathed, is Vegeta. He laughs at Cui for a while, then soars towards him, nailing him into the sky with a punch, then sending him into the next dimension with a KI blast out of his hand.

At the Namekian village, which has been destroyed by Freiza, Dodoria informs everyone that Cui no longer has a power level, and that he must be dead. Freiza tells him not to worry, because Vegeta will soon be dead. He also says that there are three things that he will not stand for: 1) Boasters, 2) Bad Haircuts, and 3) Military insurrection, and unfortunately, Vegeta posses all of these. Zarbon, Dodoria, and Freiza take off, onto their next destination.

As we switch once again back to Gohan, Krillen and Bulma, we see that their search has taken them to a cave. Suddenly, Gohan and Krillen stop dead in their tracks, sweating badly, and whimpering. Bulma asks what’s wrong, but she is just pushed inside the cave, closely followed by her two companions. Shortly afterwards, a large group of people fly past. Krillen and Gohan can sense that they already have four dragon balls. They also sense the intensity of the strength of their leader, remarking that his power level is far more than Vegeta’s, and eventually coming to the conclusion that he must be Freiza. They tell Bulma to wait in the cave, then follow the group of people, keeping their power level low so that they are not found. Bulma sighs, and pulls out a capsule, which she throws on the floor, making a big puff of smoke. when the smoke clears, there is a small house there, which she goes inside, and has a rest in.

Back on Earth, Goku is informed that he has but three more months left until he is fully recovered, but he insists that there is no way that he can wait that long, as his friends and family are in danger. The doctor looks baffled, but says that it just the way. When it looks like all hope is lost, in walks Yajirobe with a bag full of ten sensu beans. He feeds one to Goku, which makes him jump up, feeling good as new. Goku quickly puts on his red fighting robes, then gratefully takes the rest of the beans off Yajirobe, and jumps out of the window, shouting for nimbus as he descends. He lands on the flying cloud, and shoots off to the capsule corporation. He arrives there, and gets off, greeted by Mrs Briefs. She takes him to her husband, who is hard at work, working on another spaceship. Goku says hello to him, and asks if the ship is ready. Dr Briefs insists that it wont be ready for a few more weeks, but shows Goku around it anyway. He tells him that he can train in up to 100 times the Earths gravity in there. Goku asks why it isn’t finished yet, and Dr Briefs explains that he needs to put the cappuccino machine in. This makes Goku flip, making a real scene, and stomping around. He tells Dr Briefs that he doesn’t need a cappuccino machine, and that he is fine to go without one. Dr Briefs thinks about it for a while, then agrees, although he tells Goku that he’ll be wanting cappuccino later on, but he wont be able to have any. Goku agrees, and gets in. Dr Briefs shows him the ropes, quickly explaining the controls, then telling Goku that he will be there in about a week because of the ships speed. Goku excitedly pushes Dr Briefs out of the way, and starts the ship up. It rises from the floor, and soars out of the atmosphere, into the depths of space.

Krillen and Gohan have reached the Namekian village which they followed Freiza to. They are perched on top of an enormous hill, looking down on the bunch of bad guys. Freiza is threatening a Namek He is about to yank the dragonball out of the Nameks hand, when some other Nameks step forward. Krillen and Gohan are amazed by the size of the dragonballs here on Namek, as they are twice the size of the Earth’s, if not three times as big.

Meanwhile, Goku is training at 20 times the Earths gravity in his space pod, which is the same as King Kai’s planet.

Back at Namek, the Namekians have started on Freiza’s men, warning them not to touch their friends. One of the soldiers laugh, and shoot a normal Namek, laughing as he does so. This angers the Namekian soldiers. Dodoria only reads their power levels at 1,000 each, so the normal soldiers are sent to attack them. The Nameks easily beat Freiza’s soldiers, and when Dodoria reads their power levels again, it says 5,000 on his scouter! The Namek elder noticed that the scouters were Freiza’s method of finding the dragonballs, so he floats into the air, and shoots some short, sharp blasts at everyone’s scouter. He destroys them all, enraging Freiza greatly. Dodoria steps forward, and destroys all of the Namekian military with ease. He laughs, then Freiza takes the ball off the elder. He then demands to know where the rest of the dragonballs are, but when the elder refuses to tell him, he kills him on the spot. Before the Namek died, he told the two Namekian children to run away. One manages to escape, but the other one is caught by Dodoria, who starts to bully him. Unable to sit back and watch any more, Gohan flies in, and knocks Dodoria down, into a building. Krillen flies in after his friend, and grabs the little Namekian kid. They fly off, but Dodoria is now up, and hot on their heels.

Zarbon informs Freiza that he could sense huge power on the two Earthlings, and asks if he should assist Dodoria. Frieza says no though, and tells him to stay with him, a she is losing soldiers fast. Zarbon agrees, and the two fly off, now with five dragonballs, leaving Dodoria to take on the two Earth’s people.

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