A hoarse scream tears its way out of Nappa's throat as he pulls his shattered wrist from Raditz's grasp. With his uninjured hand, he sends a punch towards the shorter Saiyan, who dodges with ease. Raditz responds with a powerful front kick, launching Nappa dozens of feet backwards. Vegeta watches this unfold with silent, slightly shocked amusement.

"What... what the hell?! Your power level is 4000! How?!" Nappa asks, clutching his injured hand.

"I didn't spend the last year twiddling my thumbs." Raditz begins, unable to stop the grin from forming on his face. "After fighting the Namekian and Kakarot, I decided that their techniques would be worth learning, and trained to master the way they manipulated their Ki. On top of becoming far, far stronger... I've learnt to hide my power level."

"You... what?! Hide your power level?!" Vegeta suddenly interjects.

"Why don't you have a look?" Raditz replies with a smug grin, tossing his scouter to the shorter Saiyan.

"..."

"Ha! Hahahaha!" Vegeta suddenly bursts into surprised laughter as he stares at Raditz.

"Vegeta... Vegeta! What's wrong with you?!" Nappa asks.

"It seems that Raditz isn't the weakest of us anymore."

"What?! What does the scouter say about his power level?!"

"It's over 8000!" Vegeta says, bemused.

"What?! 8000?! That can't be true! A low-class warrior can't be that strong! He must've tampered with the scouter!"

"Believe what you want." Raditz interrupts. "But it won't change the facts. I'm stronger than you, Nappa. I'll happily prove this again... if you want to lose the use of both of your hands."

"You..." Nappa hesitates, his pride fighting against his fear of those stronger than him. Before he can make a decision, Vegeta calls out.

"Nappa, that's enough! He's stronger than you, if you're stupid enough to try fighting him now, then you're worthless to me. Since someone killed the Namekian, this entire trip has been for nothing. Kill the remaining Earthlings, knockout the half-breed, then put him in the pod. We're leaving."

With a cruel grin, Nappa walks towards the stirring forms of Yamcha and Krillin, a blast of energy charging in his good hand. Suddenly, a wave of Ki explodes against his back, throwing him to the ground.

"Leave them alone!" Gohan shouts, finally having gained enough courage to fight back.

Nappa's grin widens as he stares at Gohan, noting the similarities between Raditz and the small child. With a shout of exertion, he launches himself at Gohan... only to be thrown to the ground yet again, this time by Raditz.

"Raditz, what the hell are you doing?!" Nappa shouts.

"Knockout my nephew?! Please. As if I'd let you do that." he says, glaring at Nappa.

"But Vegeta--!"

"I don't give a damn about Vegeta's orders! You're dealing with me now."

Nappa helplessly looks towards Vegeta as he gets to his feet, hoping that the younger Saiyan will do something.

"Ha! You've gotten a little too arrogant now that you've gained some small amount of strength, Raditz." Vegeta says, a hint of danger in his tone. "If it really means that much to you, then you can knockout the half-breed. Nappa, go kill the Earthlings, Raditz will deal with his nephew."

Nappa grits his teeth in anger as he walks towards the two remaining Earthlings. Suddenly, he feels a crushing grip on his shoulder. Looking over, he sees Raditz, not allowing the bald Saiyan to move any further.

"I told you, Nappa. I don't give a damn about Vegeta's orders."

"Are you defying me, Raditz?! Let him go." Vegeta says, face marred by anger.

"Why don't you come over here and make me, 'Prince?' You are stronger than me, are you not?" Raditz says in a challenging tone.

Before Vegeta can reply, a yellow disc of energy cuts through the air, aimed straight at Raditz and Nappa. Raditz reacts instantly, letting Nappa go as he launches himself backwards. As for the bald Saiyan...

"ARGH!"

A sickening scream fills the air as the disc reaches Nappa, cutting him in two. Not far away, a heavy-breathing Krillin smirks to himself, glad to see that his attack got one of the opponents.

Vegeta stares numbly at Nappa, whose screams slowly turn into sobs of pain. Acting on instinct, he points his hand towards the Earthlings, launching a ball of spinning Ki at the two. As it explodes on the ground, his scouter blares out a warning. The blast quickly engulfs Yamcha... yet Krillin is nowhere near.

Looking around in confusion, Vegeta spots Krillin standing next to Gohan, looking as shocked as Vegeta feels.

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"What... what the hell?!" Vegeta mutters, realizing what happened soon after. With fury unlike any he's felt before, he turns towards Raditz, who is standing several inches away from where he was when Vegeta launched his attack.

"You... how dare you?! Are you so desperate to die, Raditz?!"

The taller Saiyan ignores Vegeta, choosing to instead talk to Gohan. "Take the bald man and leave. You'll die if you stay here much longer. Vegeta is too strong for anyone on this planet to defeat. I'll hold him off until your dad arrives."

Gohan opens his mouth, as if to reply, but it stopped as Krillin quickly grabs him and begins to fly away. Vegeta, whose fury has reached a breaking point, aims his hand at the two, charging a blast to knock them out of the air.

Before he can release it, however, Raditz is in front of him, slapping the ball of Ki out of Vegeta's hand. Vegeta responds instantly, launching a powerful overhead punch at Raditz, who easily dances around the attack, moving far faster than Vegeta thought possible.

'Dammit Kakarot, what's taking you so long?!' Raditz thinks bitterly, landing an ineffective blow on Vegeta.

While Raditz tries to hold Vegeta off, Goku flies down Snake Way at max speed, pushing his body to the limits with King Kai's Kaioken technique. Korin will have Senzu Beans ready once he arrives, so he can afford to go at max speed. He just hopes that his max speed will be fast enough...

Raditz throws Vegeta backwards with a front kick, before launching a ball of paralyzing Ki at the stronger Saiyan. Vegeta swats the attack away like one would swat a fly, not paying any attention to the paralyzing effects the Ki attack possesses. The short Saiyan charges at Raditz, catching him by surprise with a powerful elbow to the stomach that throws the long-haired man backwards. Raditz scrambles to the side as he feels the breath leave his lungs, narrowly avoiding a follow up attack that leaves a large crater in the ground.

Before Vegeta can follow up on his attack, Raditz's form blurs, his speed suddenly increasing several times. A sharp kick to the chin snaps the Prince's head backwards, then his feet are quickly swept out from under him. Vegeta halts in midair, using flight to stop himself from falling... but that was exactly what Raditz had planned for. Moving faster than the shorter Saiyan can react, Raditz slips his hand under the Prince, firing a devastating blast of Ki that sends Vegeta flying upwards.

Before the short man can halt his momentum, his opponent disappears from his place on the ground, reappearing directly above him. Raditz's hands join together overhead, coming down on Vegeta's chest a split second later. The force of the blow launches him towards the ground... directly onto Raditz's knee.

A sharp crack can be heard as Raditz's knee meets Vegeta's spine. A raw, bloodcurdling scream of pain quickly joins the sound of breaking bones as the two warriors disengage.

"You... you bastard! How dare you?! How dare you?!?!" Vegeta's voice calls out...

"You broke my armor!" he says, turning towards the taller Saiyan. His anger quickly morphs into surprise... which turns into joy. Mocking laughter echoes throughout the area as Raditz clutches his knee, staring blankly at the air...

Warning: User's Left Knee has 2 shattered bones. Mobility is limited.

"Fool! I don't know how you got so fast, but it obviously doesn't increase your durability. Oh, I'm going to enjoy this." Vegeta mocks, slowly walking towards the crippled Saiyan.

Raditz slowly crawls away, mind almost blank with pain... almost. Despite the pain, his mind races, going through plan after plan as he watches Vegeta's slow approach, a deep sense of dread creeping in. Suddenly, an idea strikes him like a bolt of lightning. Using his Ki to cut off the pain he feels from his left knee, his body unsteadily begins to rise from the ground. Soon enough, he's left the ground completely, using the Kasokudo to increase his speed by several times, he attempts to fly away...

'Something's wrong...' he thinks as he looks around. He is flying, and pretty fast too... but he's nowhere near as fast as he should be. As Vegeta floats towards him, seemingly able to keep up with Raditz's speed with ease, he searches for the source of the problem in a hurry.

'Dammit! Why am I so slow?! This has never happened before! I'm causing the Ki in my body to move, just like the Old Lizard said! Wait... what the hell?!' his thoughts blank out as his inner-gaze finally finds what's wrong. The Ki in his body is moving... except for the Ki in his leg. The Ki he sent into his knee to cut off the pain signals is preventing the rest of his Ki from circulating properly, causing it to be sluggish, unmoving... almost like a dam built along a river. Before he can decide whether to stop blocking the pain signals from his knee, he feels a powerful hand wrap around his wrist.

"Let's see... when you broke Nappa's wrist, I believe you did it... like this?" Vegeta says, forcing Ki into his hand as he quickly tightens his grip on the taller man's wrist. While Raditz's scream fills the air, Vegeta grabs onto the shattered wrist with his other hand, hurling Raditz's body into the ground.

Warning: User's Right Hand has 7 shattered bones. Mobility is limited.

A loud boom can be heard as Raditz impacts the ground, creating a crater that wipes away the previously flat, corpse-covered battlefield. The Saiyan's mind goes blank with pain as he struggles to breathe. With his one good hand, he launches a barrage of Ki blasts at Vegeta, who bats each of them away without a second thought. Soon, the Prince of all Saiyans arrives at Raditz's broken body, grinning cruelly.

"You really thought you had a chance against me, Prince Vegeta?! Ha! Look where that got you. Broken, defeated, and half-dead. I'll admit, I was impressed by your growth... but a low-class warrior is still a low-class warrior, no matter how much they train." he says, stepping on Raditz's shattered knee, his grin growing larger upon hearing Raditz's scream.

Warning: Health at 50%

"It's a shame that Nappa killed the Namekian... this journey could've been exactly what I needed to rebel against Frieza, if only my subordinates weren't such fools. I'll have to head to Namek and use their dragon balls to wish for immortality. Then, I can finally--" his voice is suddenly cut off as Raditz's left fist impacts Vegeta's cheek, snapping his head to the side. Vegeta stares back at Raditz in stunned silence, before erupting in laughter.

"Still resisting, even when you're this close to death?! Hilarious... but I'm not finished talking yet." Vegeta says as he grabs Raditz's tail, smiling when he sees Raditz freeze up. "Now then, where was I... right, I remember! After making myself immortal, I'll kill Frieza and his family, destroy any of his subordinates that resist me, and then finally take my rightful place as the ruler of the Universe! Maybe I'll come back to this planet and help Kakarot's kid realize his true calling as a Saiyan... assuming that I don't kill him and turn this planet into space dust, of course..."

Vegeta shakes his head, bringing his face closer to Raditz as he continues speaking. "But you won't be around for any of that. You were weak, Raditz, and this is your punishment--" he is cut off yet again as Raditz suddenly explodes in movement, his forehead impacting Vegeta's nose with a sharp crack. After breaking the shorter man's nose, Raditz launches Vegeta backwards with his good leg, biting back a scream as he stops cutting off the pain signals his broken limbs send him.

"I think you're getting ahead of yourself, Prince... you still haven't defeated me."