Two hours later. . . .

Nappa had returned, the time was up and there was no sign of Goku anywhere.

The large Saiyan strut around smiling sickeningly as he had just taken down Krillin, practically breaking all the bones in his body.

Piccolo stood between the muscle-head and Chidori, stanced and ready to fight.

"You COULD just give already, you know?" Nappa taunted the Namekian, "You don't stand a chance against us. Might as well lay down and die and give us the girl. We'll make our wish . . . and we'll destroy the planet and be on our way!"

Piccolo wasn't really concerned about himself. He stood even more guard over Chidori, "If you think I'll just give up, you're wrong. And you're not getting Chi!"

Chidori stood ready to fight alongside Piccolo behind him but was still scared shitless. What did they want with her, anyway?! Why was SHE so special?!

The prince chuckled, "We'll see about that. Nappa, just get it over with and kill him already. I can't wait to see Kakarrot's face when we take his spawn from him. We'll raise her ourselves like a true Saiyan warrior . . . .  after we kill everything she's ever loved, that is"

The Namekian growled and suddenly attacked. He shot forward to the large beast of a man only to jump out of the way and move behind him. Piccolo slammed his fists down on his head and shouted at Chidori, "FIRE AT HIM!"

Chidori gasped but did as her master ordered. She wouldn't back down this time like a mouse!

She swallowed and shouted as she geared up her blast, "MASENKO HAAAAAA!"

The blast was decent and landed a direct hit on their target. Piccolo landed back down to Chidori to defend her again only for a dark shadow to fall upon him.

"PICCOLO, LOOK OUT!"

Suddenly Nappa slammed his elbow down on his head and Piccolo fell to the ground.

"PICCOLO, NO!" she went to run to him but Nappa stood in her way. She felt an anger inside of her, "Get away from him, you big bully!"

"Or what, kid? You gonna fight me? Come on then and show me what you really got!" he laughed, clearly amused by her gusto.

Vegeta smirked, too from afar, wanting to see what she'd do, "Her reading isn't very high. Just give her a little taste, Nappa. Don't mess her up too bad"

"You got it, boss" Nappa went to strike her but Chidori squeaked and bounced out of the way.

"Come here you little gnat!" Nappa went to grap her again and again but she just kept running out of his grasp, "Rrrrr GET BACK HERE!"

"Why!?" she shouted back at him, "You're gonna beat me!"

Suddenly, she made her move and grabbed some sand from her ground, throwing it into his eyes.

"AH, you little bitch!" Nappa wasn't to be misjudged, though and reached out quickly, grabbing her tail.

Chidori shouted but Nappa wasn't playing around and swung her into a hard rock. He rushed towards her and kicked her more towards Vegeta and was about to stomp on her but the little girl quickly rolled out of the way and fired a blast right at his face, burning his mustache a little.

"I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU!" Losing his temper, Nappa flung her into the ground a little ways away and shot a destructive blast in her direction.

Vegeta was about to intervene when someone else did instead.

Chidori thought that this was how she'd die and really she couldn't comprehend it quite yet but she wasn't all that afraid. After all, her daddy died and came back to life, right?

But suddenly Piccolo was in front of her, taking the blast for her.

"PICCOLO!"

When the dust settled, Nappa grinned, wiping the sweat from his brow, "Hehhehe. Good thing that happened, I guess, eh, Vegeta!?"

"Moron" was the only response he got.

The Namekian fell to the ground and Chidori rushed to his side, "Piccolo! Are you okay! Get up! Get up!" she shook him.

But Piccolo just laid there, too weak now to move, "Easy there. . . k-kid. . . . M-my time's up."

"N-no, no. Wait! Daddy will be here soon! He'll save us! He will!"

"Ch-chidori . . . . listen to m-me"

Chidori cried, listening to her master's last words, "P-piccolo?"

He let out a harsh breath and coughed a little, "T-trust your gut, kid. . . .. Y-you're a f-fighter." he swallowed the blood in his mouth, "You ju-just have to . . .to be-believe in y-yourself . . . ."

With one last breathe, Piccolo smiled at her, "Y-you weren't s-so bad after all, you know? S-survive, Chi"

And then suddenly he was just gone. His eyes glazed over and his body still.

Chidori stared at the dead body of her friend. Of the man who had taken care of her for the past year.

She glanced back at Nappa who laughed at her anguish and something within her just snapped.

"Rrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!" An aura waved off of her and she lunged at the man with all she had.

Krillin was defiantly shocked, that's for sure, as he laid on the ground, unable to do anything from Nappa's attack on him earlier. Chidori landed punch after punch and roared with such fury that even Goku, who wasn't far away, could hardly believe this was her.

'What's going on?!' he thought to himself as he sped closer and closer to the battlefield.

"Gruh!" Chidori kicked Nappa into a pile of rocks and blasted him with a finishing attack. She breathed heavily as the smoke cleared but her relief was short lived when Nappa appeared out of the smoke with a grimace so fierce that the ground shook in fright of the magnitude of Nappa's powerful rage.

Nappa came at her, albeit slowly from the damage he took, and slugged her right on the stomach and kicked her across the battle field. Chidori landed pathetically with her tail on top of her head but she still stood back up with a ready stance.

If she was going to die, she'd go out like Piccolo did. A true warrior. She had to be strong in more ways than one.

Nappa was even angrier if that was possible and he came at her again.

'I need to be stronger!' she thought, 'I need to get stronger and fight! Why can't I be strong?!'

Lightning blasted from the sky in the distance and Vegeta noticed the anomaly but waved it off. Without his scouter, though, he was ignorant of the girl's power level that was skyrocketing immensely.

Nappa landed another hit and kneed her in the stomach, causing her to hold her abdomen in pain and grit her teeth in rage. Nappa put his foot above the girl with a smile, "It's a pity that your father's not here, brat! I would have really wanted him to see this!"

"NAPPA, WAIT, YOU FOOL!" Vegeta shouted to try and stop him again. Nappa really was an idiot, after all.

Briefly, her tail flashed gold but something stopped her as she was suddenly floating on her Nimbus Cloud that her father had given her. In that moment she had completely forgotten about her rage and her eyes stared over at the man right in front of Nappa.

'Dad!?'

Tears formed at her eyes and her grinned, "Daddy!" she cried as he came over to her and Krillin. She wanted to run and hug him but she was too hurt to do so now. 

Nappa tried to attack but her father he was too fast and suddenly he wasn't there! Goku had used a burst of energy so fast, he popped over away from the larger Saiyan and came over to gave Krillin and Chidori a senzu bean which they both gratefully munched on to restore their energy and heal their wounds.

Chidori laughed and hugged her father when she was healed, "Daddy I'm so glad you're here!" she wanted to cry but if living with Piccolo taught her anything in the last couple years, it was that a warrior didn't show their emotions. She already had several times that day but Piccolo's death had changed something in her.

Goku just stared at her, "Was that your power level a little bit ago, Chi?"

Chidori looked up at her father and nodded enthusiastically, "You knew I fought him?! How did I do? I mean I know I was going to lose but I still put up a good fight, right dad?! Right!?"

Goku's gaze hardened, "After this is over you are never fighting again, you hear me?"

Chidori's smile dropped and she gazed at her father in sadness, 'He doesn't like that I fought? But I was doing good. Wasn't I? Piccolo would've said so. ..  right?'

Vegeta heard the exchange and just frowned in distaste, 'What a waste. It seems as though Kakarrot doesn't know potential when he sees it. Oh well. When this is all over, the girl will be ours to use against Frieza one day and he and the rest of this pathetic planet will be nothing but space dust.'

Nappa grew impatient and attacked. A very bad move on his part as Goku defeated him easily and tossed him over to Vegeta's feet who in turn just smirked, 'He's stronger than I thought. Oh well. Not as strong as me.'

He smirked down at Nappa who was begging him to help him.

"Ve-vegeta. . .. . please. H-help me"

Everyone was shocked at what he did next as Vegeta tossed Nappa into the air and obliterated him into nothing, "Trash" he said, "Nothing but a worthless mulling carcass." He muttered but smirked back at Goku, Krillin and Chidori.

"What? You all look like you've seen a ghost"

"Y-you just . . killed your comrade" Goku was shocked to say the least. He had never seen anyone so cruel.

"He was worthless. An idiot. Besides, who needs him when I have a better warrior lined up?" he glanced at Chidori and Goku growled.

"You're not taking my daughter, my bastard! I told Raditz and I'll tell you the same! You'll have to pry her from my cold dead hands if you want her!"

Vegeta grinned, "That can be arranged!" 

Goku looked around at the bodies of his fallen friends. He was pissed off and wanted to bring Vegeta down in the dust but he couldn't fight around his dead friends.

"Let's go somewhere else to fight. I know a wasteland nearby where it'll be safe"

"Where it'll be. . . safe? Hmph! Oh whatever! I suppose I can grant you that one request! Very well. Lead the way, Kakarrot."

As Goku left with Vegeta to the wastelands, Krillin took Chidori on their way to the Kame house.

Chidori didn't remember the rest of that battle much. She was too disoriented and stressed to keep track. She wore she blacked out possibly out of fear.

All that she remembered was that her and Krillin had went back and help her father. She tried to fight, she remembered, but she didn't remember anything else after that. It was as though that time just vanished. Krillin told her she just lost consciousness.

Chidori woke up to sobbing in her hears and she blearily opened her eyes, "Mmm. Wha?"

A high pitched voice screamed delighted in her ear, "Chidori! Oh thank god you're okay!"

"M-mom?"

"Oh my poor baby! Don't worry! You'll be just fine! I'll never let anyone else near you ever again!"

Suddenly she remembered and shot up, "The Saiyan! What happened!?"

Krillin looked at her with a proud face, "You fought well kid. You should be proud of yourself. It's over. The Saiyan is gone. He won't come back again, that's for sure"

Chidori squirmed in her mother's arms, "Daddy! Where's daddy!?"

A voice came from behind them in the back of the helicarrier, "I'm r-right here Chi"

Chidori popped her head up to look into the back to see her father laying there covered in bandages looking like a mummy, "Daddy! Are you okay?"

"Yeah I'll b-be fine. Are y-you okay?"

"Yeah" she smiled.

Bulma interrupted the reunion, "Anyways. Krillin what were you saying before?"

"Oh yeah! Well it's a long shot but the Saiyans were talking earlier about how Piccolo was called a Namekian. He was an alien! If that's right, then Kami was an alien as well, right? And they also said that they really didn't need Piccolo because they could just go to Namek to get THEIR Dragon balls. In short, there could be another set of dragon balls on another planet! So if we could get to this planet then that means-"

"Then that means everyone could be wished back to life with THEIR dragonballs!" Bulma finished excitedly.

Chidori gasped, "Piccolo could come back to life too!"

Her mother just gasped, "What are you saying, Chidori!? He's the fiend that kidnapped you! Took my baby away for TWO YEARS!!"

Krillin finished, ignoring Chi-Chi, "And then Kami would come back as well and so would our dragon balls!"

Bulma looked depressed though, "But it's hopeless. How far away is this other planet anyways?"

Goku laughed, "Well h-how about I ask King Kai? I'm s-sure he'll know. I'll just talk to him from my mind. Hold on a s-sec"

Suddenly everyone could hear the strange voice in their heads and Bulma freaked when she heard the coordinates. She made Master Roshi take the wheel and she calculated some things on her calculator. Everyone was certainly confused, as was Chidori. 

What the heck was so exciting right now?! How far away WAS this planet?

Bulma gasped and appeared hopeless again, "We may know where it is now but how are we going to get there?! Any ideas?"

Krillin replied stupidly, "Uh . . . . A spaceship?"

"Yeah, genius but even with the best space ship that my dad created we'd be there in over four thousand years!"

Everyone gasped but Krillin had an idea, "Why don't we just use one of the Saiyan's spaceships?! They arrived in two different ones but Vegeta only left in one! The other guy's is still here on Earth!"

Goku shouted a little, "Yeah! Ouch . .. And the one that Raditz t-traveled in . . . except that one's broken. . . . By Chidori"

Chidori blushed.

Bulma laughed, "But we have at least one! We could do it!"

Krillin took out a remote control, "Vegeta was in a hurry to leave, thank Kami, so he forgot this on his way out. I think it's a remote control for one of those things. We could use it!"

"Yeah! We could do it!" Bulma shouted, finding some hope again.

Chidori laughed with excitement that would shortly be outlived, her tail flicking around like crazy, "yeah! And we could get Piccolo back!"

Her mother was WAY less excited about that idea, crying about how much of a ruffian she had become.

The next day came fast and Chidori was sitting up in a bed next to her father, wrapped up in bandages as well in the hospital. Her father was awake and listening to Chi-Chi ramble on about how much she was worried about them both. Bulma had just come back from going to a wasteland with Mr. Popo in search for the Namekian spaceship that Kami had come in years ago since she accidentally blew up Nappa's.

Whoops.

Now it was all down to who would go to Namek and so far it was Bulma and Krillin who volunteered.

Chidori sat there on her bed fretting and stewing, remembering things from the battle against Vegeta.

'After this you will never fight again!'

'You fought well Chidori. You should be proud of yourself'

'Gah! You are so useless! Maybe you should just leave and save us the trouble of having to protect you!'

'You don't seem TOO weak, little brat. For being so young, you can withstand the pain in your tail not to cry out. And besides. . . You've managed against us for this long. That's not bad for a child your age. Half Saiyan or not. Doesn't matter if you ARE a girl'

'You will never fight again!'

Chidori took a breath, "I'll go!"

Everyone stopped talking and stared at Chidori as if they had misheard her. She gulped and stared back at them, "I said I'll go. Please. Take me with you! I can do it!"

Her mother came over to her quickly, "W-what did you just say, Chi? You have to be joking Haha!" She laughed practically insane, "Two months away on top of all of THIS!?"

Chidori looked away from her, "I'm s-sorry mom but I have to do this. For Piccolo. I need to bring him back to life myself! At least HE believed in me a little!"

Chi-Chi was about to scream at her when Goku growled, "Absolutely not! Krillin, Bulma and someone else can go! I will not have my daughter going to a different planet where Vegeta could already be lurking! Do you hear me?!"

"Dad, please I can do it!" she tried to argue but her father resisted, surprising everyone.

"No buts! You won't go! You can't fight, Chidori!"

"For once I agree with your father, Chi! I won't have it, either! You're just a little girl!"

"SHUT UP!!" she shouted, putting them both into silence, "I'm going! . . . .  And right now neither of you can stop me. I CAN fight. I'm not useless. . . . I'll prove it. Just you wait and see!"

Krillin smirked and muttered, " . . .Well said, Chi."

Bulma cleared her throat and tried to console Chi-chi, "Hey, don't worry. I'm sure we'll be fine. Besides, Krillin will be with us too. And who knows? We might be able to beat Vegeta there and get our wish first!"

Chi-Chi and Goku didn't share her enthusiasm but finally relented. There really wasn't anything that they could do to stop her from going anyway. Goku was too weak at the moment and Chi-Chi couldn't reach her level.

Ten Days later they were ready to board the ship to start their journey towards Namek.

'This will show them! And when I'm back they'll have to see I'm not weak! I'll show them all'

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