Dragonball: Rewritten

Chapter 27: Frieza Saga

Over the telepathic link to King Kai, both Raditz and Nappa screamed at the same time. "He's WHAT?!"

"OW! Not so loud!" King Kai grumbled, mumbling under his breath, "Stupid Saiyans and their inability to talk normally."

"Okay, first off," Raditz said, pointing up at the blue sky above while Tien and Yamcha placed all the balls in a circle, all still active, "one, fuck you. Two, I can talk just fine, thank you. Three—"

"Vegeta is dead," Nappa cut him off. "Vegeta. Not Kakarot."

"Uhhhh, yeah, that's right. Piccolo's alive too since Kami's around and the Dragonballs are active, so that's good..." King Kai frowned. "I thought you'd be more broken up about this."

"We would be," Raditz said, "if it was Kakarot who died."

A barrage of astonish cries and questions echoed over the telepathic line. "Woah woah woah!" "What the hell?!" "What do you mean?!" "That's messed up, man!" "You asshole!" "Some brother you are!"

"HI'NAI!" All the voices immediately shut up at Nappa's shout. A few seconds of silence passed, wherein Tien and Yamcha finished setting up the Dragonballs and Raditz walked back towards them. Then, Nappa said in a calm, collected voice, "What Raditz meant to say was that it's not good that Vegeta died, because between the two of them, the prince had the best mind control. He wouldn't succumb to the kutshisa, or Tor forbid, dra'zela. With Kakarot being the one alive, we don't have much time. The longer he endures the kutshisa, the higher the chances we will never see the Kakarot we once knew." He cut off everyone's shouts before they began again, his voice booming louder than before. "I'll explain why later! We have to wish Vegeta back NOW!"

"Okay, okay!" King Kai said, alternating between rubbing his antennae and his temples. "Raditz, Yamcha, Tien, you guys ready on your end?"

"We're set," Yamcha answered. "Tell us how to word the wish."

"Say this: bring back every person Frieza and his men killed on Planet Namek. By doing that, we should be able to bring back the Namekian dragon since he was tied to one of the Namekians who passed, just like how Piccolo and Kami are tied to our set of Dragonballs. Then I can ask the closest Namekian to translate for us the second wish so we can get them home."

"Got it, King Kai!" Yamcha turned to Tien with a smile, gesturing to the Dragonballs. "Wanna summon him?"

"Yeah! I never have. This'll be great."

Raditz watched Tien with his arms crossed, eyes narrowed and a raised eyebrow. He sniffed and clicked his tongue, completely unimpressed, at the simple words Tien shouted: "Eternal Dragon, by your name, I summon you forth: Shenron!"

He still remained unimpressed, even as the sky turned dark, the balls pulsed and glowed and a huge light shot upwards. Only when that light started to take shape did Raditz's mouth finally drop wide open, his eyes bugging out of their sockets.

As Shenron appeared before them, asking why they summoned him, Raditz shouted over the dragon's booming voice, "HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THIS THING—!"

Yamcha immediately slapped a hand over his mouth, whispering, "Shhh, not when Shenron's talking, it's rude."

As Yamcha removed his hand, Raditz gestured wildly to the dragon, stuttering over every word. In the nearby distance, Tien addressed Shenron and stated the wish.

Finally, Raditz stopped gesticulating and stuttering. He simply pointed with both hands at Shenron and hissed back at Yamcha in a clear voice, "That's a dragon??"

"Uh, yeah?"

"It's bigger than an Oozaru."

"I... guess?"