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Raditz was never the most loving or caring Saiyan.

Far from it for any Saiyan to be those things but Gine and Kakarot were both shining pillars of love and kindness.

Raditz was just simply too blind to see the light his brother commanded.

I mean he understood why Kakarot never revived him. After all who would want such a weak pathetic Saiyan around.

Especially one that attacked you and kidnapped your kid.

All that was %100 Raditz’s fault.

So now after realizing all he had done was make his beloved kid brother stressed and in more danger than before. Raditz broke down.

Raditz the moment he was transported to HFIL’s desert climate immediately cried.

He cried for the first time in forever realizing all he had done was make Kakarot’s life harder. How he had destroyed his brother's peaceful happy life.

Raditz would never be able to forgive himself for that.

So he decided to train but not in the way of gaining strength. No instead.

Raditz will train his mind and spirit to become a person worthy of Kakarot’s attention.

A good older brother. A good person.

That’s all Raditz could think of during his time in the cave.

The cave was a place old souls went to die; they'd come to the cave with no form and pass on right as they started to enter.

This place was safe for someone like Raditz who’d rather never be found.

Raditz spent this whole time fixing himself; he had seen improvements including being more calm.

Instead of yelling at and cursing out the old spirits that inhabited the cave waiting to move on he started helping them.

Raditz started to be more relaxed and less stressed after he’d been working on his own personality. Sure he was still cowardly at times but he wasn’t so proud of himself anymore.

Now for the situation at hand. Many years into his tenure at the cave someone of a much more stable consciousness came up.

Nappa.

“Raditz! So this is where you’ve been. I knew you couldn’t get into heaven and doubted you were weak enough to be scrubbed!” Nappa says proudly as he steps into the cave.

Raditz just sighed and stood up.

“Usually by now you’re breaking your voice yelling at me?” Nappa stated as he walked closer.

“What can I say I’ve changed.” Raditz says calmly.

Nappa is a bit spooked after hearing less grit and malice from Raditz’s voice.

“What’s wrong with your voice?” Nappa asks as he looks around at all the old souls.

“Just the fact I’m not screaming every couple hours makes it less broken.” Raditz shrugs his tail uncoiling.

“Well that doesn’t matter, what's important is that I need you to come with me.” Nappa wasn’t asking; it's as if he didn’t bring Raditz with him, something bad could happen.

“What if I don’t want to leave.” Raditz says with a bit of aggression in his tone.

He may have become a better person but that doesn’t mean he’s going to let people walk all over him. He’ll still defend himself after all.

Nappa simply put his hands up in surrender. “Not gonna fight you, just need to take you back to the camp. King's orders.”

Raditz’s eyes widened at the idea of King Vegeta wanting him of all Saiyans found and brought over to the Saiyan camp.

There were many camps and islands in HFIL, for example the Cold camp where most dead Frieza forces gathered under King Cold.

“I really need you to come with me, otherwise someone else will just come find you.” Nappa states as he grabs Raditz by the arm and starts dragging him out of the cave.

“No way, I’m not going! Who’s gonna take care of the old souls while I’m gone?” Raditz says as he breaks away just as Nappa reached the cave’s entrance.

Nappa sighed. “Raditz they’re dying, no one has to take care of them.”

“Bull shit they deserve some comfort as they pass.” Raditz barked in response.

“Go away, I’ll leave this cave once I’ve deemed myself ready.” Raditz growled as he turned away and walked back into the cave.

Nappa was not going to give up but he’d first report to the king.

And like that Nappa tried for a few days to reason with Raditz to leave the cave and come to the Saiyan camp.

Every time Raditz just told him to leave.

This time Raditz didn’t even acknowledge Nappa standing behind him as he meditated.

One of the old souls of a Namekian had taught him how.

“Raditz, today's the day you really need to come with me.” Nappa says with a much more aggressive tone than before.

Raditz simply ignores him and continues his meditation.

“I’m serious, Raditz.” Nappa growls as he grabs Raditz by the hair the first time he’s tried this approach.

He started pulling Raditz towards the entrance of the cave again but Raditz fought back when they reached it. He ended up kicking Nappa in the leg before freeing his hair and jumping back into the cave.

“You slippery little.” Nappa growls as he lunges at Raditz.

Raditz for his credit dodged a good few grapples and punches before Nappa managed to land a good punch to his chest.

Raditz flew back and hit the ground heavily with a groan. “What the here, Nappa! That was uncalled for!”

“If you don’t come willingly I’m gonna have to take you myself.” Nappa grumbled as he walked towards Raditz.

Raditz got up and carefully dodged more attacks, seeing as Ki didn’t work down here Nappa couldn’t do too much damage but that didn’t affect his strength. Nappa still managed to punch a sizable chunk out of the wall when he missed Raditz with a good punch.

“Just go back home Nappa! I’m not leaving!” Raditz yelled. Sure there weren't any old souls here right now since they all had moved on yesterday morning or gone to the other caves after Nappa started coming here but soon new ones would come.

Nappa was able to tackle Raditz and grab him from behind trying to pick him up. Raditz of course didn’t allow this and flipped Nappa over himself and onto the floor.

On the floor they both exchanged punches and rolled around trying to keep their advantage. Eventually though they’d run out of energy.

Raditz started to feel sluggish which for the situation he was in wasn’t a good thing.

Nappa managed to give him a black eye while he was busy trying to keep himself from getting too tired.

“See Raditz, you have to come with me, there's no reason to stay here anymore!” Nappa says as he pinned Raditz to the floor so he could yell at his face.

Raditz couldn’t get up seeing as Nappa was stronger and heavier than him but he still tried to kick Nappa off only making Nappa more angry.

Nappa ended up exhausting Raditz, outlasting him with his stamina.

Thanks to the exhaustion Raditz could barely move so Nappa just flung him over his shoulder and walked away.

Raditz watched as he was helplessly carried away watching the cave fade into the distance.

As an explanation of injuries in HFIL, they heal very quickly and you can’t actually die from them.

Like that Raditz was technically kidnapped from his usual position in the cave by Nappa who was now taking him back to the Saiyan camp.

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Raditz was healing slowly, feeling his eye stop swelling as Nappa walked. He’d been walking for 20 minutes after running for 10 minutes.

So yeah Raditz would definitely not be finding his way back to the cave easily.

“Here we are Raditz, the Saiyan camp!” Nappa said proudly as he entered the large walls of the camp.

Two guards looked at each other before letting Nappa through.

Raditz just sighed watching the gates close behind them making it that much harder to escape from.

“Now Raditz don’t be so upset this is for the better, being with your own kind is a good thing for you.” Nappa says as he finally lets Raditz down to walk for himself.

Raditz slightly stumbles at the suddenness of his own weight but Nappa just grabs his arm to pull him along. Raditz admits that seeing so many Saiyans was definitely an experience but he’d rather be back at the cave.

Nappa led him down the streets passing by all sorts of Saiyans as they approached the large building in the center.

“Why are we going here again?” Raditz asks calmly.

“Didn’t expect you to be so calm still. This is where King Vegeta lives and gives out orders. Like my orders to bring you in.” Nappa explains as two guards open the doors to the building for them.

Raditz coiled his tail around his waist seeing as he’d be going to see the king it didn’t hurt to be cautious.

“Nappa, you’ve brought who you were sent out to find today?” The king says as he sat on his throne made of wood and rock.

“Yes sir, I’ve brought back Raditz who’s been living in one of those death caves old souls stay in.” Nappa says as he pushes Raditz forward for the king to see.

“Excellent, someone get the people’s chosen leader.” The king said as he stood from his throne.

One of the few guards in the room immediately ran to go get whoever the chosen leader was while Nappa also exited the building leaving Raditz alone with the king.

The other two guards had also left when King Vegeta waved his hand.

“Uh- hello your majesty? I haven’t really been briefed about how to treat royalty and all.” Raditz says as he rubbed the back of his neck.

“No need to worry about that. I would dream of trying to get you to act the same as them.” The king stated as he put a hand on Raditz’s shoulder.

“Honestly I feel like he would make my afterlife a non living here if I did.” The king said with a shudder.

‘But what could make the king so scared as to shudder in front of a low class like that?’ Raditz asked himself internally.

Then the door opened again and a new face walked in.

“Ah, just the Saiyan I needed.” The King said still with his hand on Raditz’s shoulder.

The new person immediately after seeing this grabbed the king’s arm and pushed him away from Raditz.

“Well hello to you, too old friend.” Said a mysteriously familiar voice. But Raditz just couldn’t put a finger on who it was until he looked at his face.

“Kakarot? No wait, Dad!” Raditz says dumbfounded at Bardock who just let go of the king and waved at Raditz.

“Jeez you go psycho on me after I sent out so many people to find your son.” King Vegeta said with a grumble.

“Yeah, yeah I’m sorry and all that.” Bardock says in a dismissive tone.

He then grabs Raditz by the back of his armor and starts to pull him out of the room.

“C'mon son, let's go home!” Bardock says as he drags Raditz away.

It’s reminiscent of how most Saiyan parents would carry their children by the back of their clothes or under their arms like a sack of potatoes. But Raditz was an adult so it just served to embarrass him at this point.

But Raditz didn’t care much about that; after all, once he gained enough freedom he’d go back to the cave.

Bardock stopped abruptly when Raditz started to think about how to get back to the cave.

“Don’t even think about leaving, you won’t even get past the front gates if I have anything to say about it. It’s far too dangerous for you to go out on your own!” Bardock scolds like a father scolding their young kid about leaving the house alone.

Bardock took Raditz’s annoyed face as resignation and continued walking until they reached his house.

“Here we are bud, our home!” Bardock said proudly as he walked inside.

Bardock closed and locked the door like someone was trying to break in or out with multiple things in the way of Raditz’s escape.

Raditz just sighed at the fact they knew he was a flight risk. Honestly he could hold his own and was a grown adult.

“Don’t even bother trying to use the windows to escape either; they're all too small for you to fit through and the walls are laced with concrete. If you leave without me the neighbors will set off a flare so I’ll know.” Bardock said as he gave the dad glare directed at Raditz who just sat on the ground still dead tired after his fight with Nappa.

“Are you feeling alright?” Bardock says as he notices how Raditz’s tail slumped the moment he sat down.

“Yeah Nappa just absolutely destroyed me to bring me here. I kept fighting until I was barely able to move so yeah. I’m just a little tired.” Raditz grumbled.

“Well if you came with him when he told you to you wouldn’t be so tired.” Bardock said with a little smirk.

Raditz just glared at him for a second before sighing and laying down on the floor.

“If you’re that tired there’s a couch behind you. There’s also a bed in your room.” Bardock says, a bit worried for his son seeing how calm he was.

Most Saiyans would be kicking and screaming the moment they got enough energy back but Raditz despite being described as quite pissy instead just laid there unmoving.

Bardock took that as a sign to go make some food so he did what he could and went to the kitchen to make something.

Raditz surprisingly got up and followed him only to lay down again this time on the kitchen floor while watching Bardock make something.

“What are you making?” Raditz asks from the floor as he watches Bardock messily cut up potatoes.

“Wait, do we actually need to eat down here?” Raditz asks.

“Not really necessary but it helps and it’s not like it hurts.” Bardock says as he puts a pan on his stove.

The sound of a door unlocking caught Raditz off guard as Bardock looked out the room for a second and then went back to making food.

“Don’t forget to lock all the locks!” He yelled.

Raditz simply decided to hide under the table, not in a cowardly way just because he felt like it.

“Why, though it’s not like you got anyone to lock in here yet.” A female Saiyan said as she walked into the room followed by three males.

‘That explains why there’s so many chairs.’ Raditz mentally noted.

“Yeah and just because Nappa said your kid was a flight risk doesn’t mean he’ll need that many locks.” Toma says.

The woman was Selypa and the other two male Saiyans are Totapo and Pumbukin.

Otherwise known as Bardock’s squad.

“Well for all of you idiots' information my son is here, say hi Raditz.” Bardock huffs as he moves the potatoes around the pan.

The group just looked around the room like idiots.

“Bardock, are you feeling alright?” Toma asks.

“Yeah, should we take you to the medic?” Pumbukin asks as Totapo leaves the room.

“No. Raditz, stop hiding under the table, you're making me seem mentally unstable.” Bardock says as he walks over to drag Raditz out on his own.

He pulled Raditz out by his tail, surprising the others who thought Bardock was having an episode or something.

“Damn you were right he was here. Toma go lock the door.” Selypa says but it was too late Raditz was already pushing past them for the door.

Thankfully Totapo was already over there and was able to grab Raditz before he got out.

“Nappa wasn’t kidding, he is slippery.” Pumbukin says with a grimace as Toma locks the door.

“You idiots almost let him escape.” Bardock scolded.

Raditz returned to his activities of laying on the floor at Bardock’s feet this time.

The others were all sitting at the table minus Totapo who stayed on the couch.

“So who was the one to bring your son back?” Pumbukin asks as he takes a sip of a weird cherry soda.

“From the information in reports it was Nappa.” Bardock says as he grabs Raditz by the back of his armor and pulls him to sit in a chair.

“Seems like Raditz is taking this well.” Selypa says with a giggle as Raditz just lays his face on the table.

“Yeah most flight risks start fighting immediately as they’re captured. And especially when they have enough energy to run like that.” Toma states.

Bardock took a potato from his plate and offered it to Raditz who actually took the food and put it in his mouth. Unsurprisingly it was burnt and tasted horrible.

“Looks like your cooking made him sick, Bardock.” Pumbukin says with a laugh.

Poor Raditz just swallowed what he had and refused to take anymore.

“So Raditz you’re pretty slippery, HFIL Totapo had to use all his limbs to keep you from running out the door so how did Nappa of all Saiyans catch you?” Selypa asks as she opens her own can of cherry soda.

“Simply put I didn’t want to leave where I was and Nappa used the enclosed environment to his advantage. My eye still hurts from when he punched me.” Raditz grumbles and rubs his eye.

“Nappa told the guards in his report that he just tired you out and carried you back when you were too tired to move.” Bardock says with a mix of surprise and anger.

“Tired me out by beating the here out of me while I didn’t fight back. All I did was keep him off me.” Raditz stated as he pulled down his armor to show where Nappa had left bruises from the attack.

“For his credit Nappa is good at fighting without ki.” Raditz said with a grimace while putting his armor back up.

Bardock seemed to be angry so no one addressed him and instead continued to ask Raditz about his time down here.

Bardock’s crew was surprisingly nice; apparently after dying most Saiyans had chilled out minus Nappa and a good quarter of the current population of the camp.

Bardock chilled out after a few minutes of brooding silence and started attempting to make Raditz eat the food he had made.

“Come on you only ate one and you definitely haven’t been eating since you came down here so eat the damn potatoes!” Bardock yelled as he tried to force the potatoes into Raditz’s mouth.

“We don’t even need to eat down here!” Raditz yelled back while trying to keep the potatoes away.

“Bardock and Gine were always good parents.” Pumbukin said with an amused chuckle.

“More like overbearing. Honestly I’d prefer what my mom did.” Selypa says with a laugh.

“Didn’t your mom leave you to fend for yourself as a child?” Toma asked, looking at her like she was crazy.

“Don’t most Saiyans send their kids into space anyway?” She asked.

“Yeah only when they’re old enough to care for themselves mostly, you weren’t even old enough to feed yourself.” Pumbukin said with a smirk.

Eventually it grew dark outside, being what it was HFIL didn’t have an actual day/night cycle but there was a large cloud that blocked out the sky every 12 hours simulating nighttime.

“Time for bed.” Selypa says with a stretch and yawn.

“I thought we didn’t have to sleep down here?” Raditz says curiously after all he never slept.

“It’s a faster way to regain energy and it passes the time.” She said with a shrug.

“Cmon Raditz, I'll show you your room.” Bardock says as he pulls Raditz by his arm.

Bardock toor Raditz into a room with two beds, one side already filled with signs of life while the other was prepared.

“This is my and your room. This house only has three bedrooms after all.” Bardock says as he moves to lay down on his own bed leaving Raditz to his own devices.

Raditz explored his side of the room finding extra pairs of clothes similar to that of the ones they had started making in the camp as well as a comfortable bed stuffed with fur likely from the demonic sheep that lived nearby.

“Your armor is practically destroyed, you should change to the clothes I got for you.” Bardock said with a yawn as he flipped over and probably started to sleep.

Raditz would take him up on that offer because this armor Raditz was wearing was way too old.

Raditz was able to find clothing but not armor as he was able to find a shirt and pants tucked into the drawer.

“You aren’t going to go anywhere you could get hurt so you won’t need armor besides there’s nothing here to make more armor so some have changed to wearing only clothing.” Bardock explained lazily.

Raditz could understand that. After all, it's not like there’s many threats down here that’d take the time to attack the Saiyan camp for no reason.

And like that Raditz was reunited with Bardock who was making up for lost time with his son even if it meant locking him in a house like a house cat.

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Raditz had spent a week trapped in the house with Bardock and his squad taking turns watching over him.

Raditz had managed to escape a total of three times, all three times being caught further than the last.

And he only ever managed to get out when someone other than Bardock and Toma was watching him.

The first time Pumbukin forgot to lock the door and Raditz just walked out and halfway down the street only to run into someone who knew Bardock.

They set off a flare and Bardock came to pick up his son.

The second time Selypa fell asleep and didn’t notice when Totapo opened the door and Raditz jumped down from a beam above the door to freedom.

They both ended up tracking him down and pulling him back inside.

The third time Pumbukin was leaving as Totapo was having his turn watching Raditz and well Raditz managed to squeeze out when Pumbukin was about to close the door.

It ended with him having to chase Raditz through the streets where somehow Bardock caught him.

Bardock no longer trusted those three to watch Raditz.

“Why are you so intent on escaping anyway?” Pumbukin asked Raditz as he was sitting at the kitchen table.

“Dunno, I’m not allowed to leave and there’s not much to do here.” Raditz says plainly.

“That and the old souls need someone to keep them company as they die. Honestly, if I could use Ki I’d be able to do a lot more than before with all they taught me.” Raditz added.

Toma just took a sip of his coffee, he ended up being put on Raditz duty with Pumbukin since they both had the day off.

Not that he minded honestly, he always enjoyed talking to kids and his friends' kids would be no exception.

Other than Bardock and Gine, Toma was the most likely to be a good parent.

He just never ended up having his own kids.

Selypa never did either because she didn’t want to be out of the loop after all pregnant warriors were forced to stay home until their child was born. She hated down time and so she just never had kids.

Totapo had a few kids but they all were raised alone by their mothers Totapo visited them all regularly when he got back of course but it wasn’t the same.

Pumbukin had two kids and was heavily invested in them and their mothers. He just wasn’t too loving, mostly just training them and telling them about how great of warriors they’d become one day.

They all regretted these things mostly Pumbukin and Totapo for not spending more time with their kids before dying. All the kids went to heaven after all no matter how bad they were.

Unlike most Saiyans Bardock and Gine were life partners while most just had many mates Bardock and Gine were exclusive to each other. Much to the dismay of many females and males who found Bardock attractive.

Even in the afterlife he wouldn’t partake in any kind of relationship without Gine.

Most Saiyans started having afterlife partners.

Following what Bardock and Gine had, many chose their favorite mate and started having ceremonies like in the old texts of how Saiyans used to before they became battle hungry animals.

It was sweet and all but no matter how many tried it, Bardock wouldn’t bite.

Many females wanted him and his attention so they’d often come around and do odd things.

Most male Saiyans just showed off their skills during this time to attract attention while females put on displays of their beauty and well built muscles.

Most had cooled down seeing as it was the colder months despite HFIL not having a particular way to tell one month apart from another. Most just followed their mental calendars. But now it would have been spring on Vegeta.

The first day of spring was today and many were feeling it. The sweet warm sun and calming breeze bring a sense of life to the usually lifeless realm. That’s about it though.

A few random plants and a warmer atmosphere with some slight wind.

It was calming to most but some saw this as prime social time.

Pumbukin and Toma both looked at one another and decided they needed to do something to help Raditz out after all they couldn’t let their tsudo nephew waste away inside a cage all day. Not during spring, the most socal month for Saiyans.

“Why don’t you promise not to run away if we take you around the camp today? Bardock should be on outer wall duty today so he won’t catch us.” Pumbukin says cheerfully.

“Yeah we can go walk around and show you the sights of the camp!” Toma exclaimed as he went out of the room to grab something.

“Sounds better than being in here, alright I promise I won’t run off just for today.” Raditz says calmly.

‘The moment I get my chance I’m getting out of here.’ Raditz says to himself internally.

He was distracted enough that he didn’t notice when Toma put a vest on him.

It was a bright yellow vest and it wouldn’t come off.

“This vest is special. It’s made for flight risks like you so we could see you better when we’re trying to find you!” Toma explains as he attaches what looks like a leash to it.

They literally baby leashed him.

Raditz felt like one of those earth children that wears the character backpacks with those leashes for their parents to hold onto.

“Don’t be embarrassed, it's just insurance that you won’t run off. Besides, we have these for all flight risks. There’s a chance you’ll see others like you who run or wander off from their families.” Pumbukin says as Toma holds the leash.

“It feels stupid.” Raditz grumbled as the duo walked alongside him.

They walked through areas with shops and stuff seeing all the things Saiyans never did or made before because it was seen as weak, flourishing from being dead and therefore useful again now that Saiyans had more time to chill.

Pumbukin and Toma both saw the sign to a tavern they frequently visited and decided to go on in and bring Raditz with them.

They of course made sure he didn’t get any alcohol because if he did Bardock would probably kill them again.

“Oh you two have a flight risk! We have an area with someone who watches them for you if you’re interested.” A female Saiyan says pointing to a room off to the side neither of them had noticed before.

“Well what do ya say Raditz wanna see more like you?” Pumbukin asks as he pulls Raditz along.

Raditz of course protested but they gave him to the nice Saiyan at the door and walked away.

“Hello there I’m Spara. I’ll take you to the other flight risks!” The surprisingly large and buff man says as he leads Raditz into the room.

Raditz got in and saw two others in this room surprisingly enough.

They were playing an earth card game with each other and looked up to see Raditz enter.

“Play nice you three!” Spara said as he left the room.

“Hey there, the name is Turles.” One of the two says he looked eerily like Kakarot but with darker sicker skin.

“I’m Raditz.” Raditz said plainly as he sat next to the two of them.

The other one was quietly mumbling to himself before choosing his card only to be immediately thwarted by a plus four and uno out from Turles.

“Dammit Turles!” He yelled angrily.

“Stop moping Broly and re-shuffle the cards so we can deal Raditz in.” Turles scolds and Broly does what he’s told.

“I know the both of you from somewhere.” Raditz says but he couldn’t put his finger on it.

“We both come from another timeline and just so happened to be dropped in this one’s HFIL so you probably are gonna get that feeling of deja vu from us.” Turles explains.

“I know the name Broly, from here he was an enemy fighting Goku and lost but is now an ally. But he looks totally different from the one here.” Raditz explained looking at the more refined version of Broly.

He didn’t want to say the name Kakarot just in case these two didn’t know him by that name.

“I don’t exist in this timeline but I do look like Goku so you probably are getting the feeling you know me from that.” Turles shrugged as he looked at his cards.

“So wait then how are you two flight risks if you have no one here?” Raditz asked as he looked at his own cards and put down a card for his turn.

“My dad from this timeline adopted us but we wander off a lot. He was borderline abusive to the other me but honestly he’s been pretty nice to us since coming here. I killed my version of him so it was a bit shocking to see him.” Broly says as he puts down a card.

“Yeah he wants to make up for what he did to the Broly of this timeline by taking care of us or something. Draw two Raditz.” Turles says as he puts down a draw.

Raditz simply places down another draw two and Broly puts down another one. This continued until Turles had to draw ten cards.

“Son of a space cow.” Turles grumbles as he draws his new cards and to think he had just gotten uno.

“I win!” Broly said excitedly while slamming down his last card Turles started to crash out destroying a chair in the corner of the room while Raditz congratulated Broly.

“You cheated!” Turles yelled angrily.

Then he noticed how calm Raditz was.

“Why aren’t you angry? You just lost!” Turles said, looking from Broly to Raditz.

“It’s a card game dude, besides I’ve been working to better myself since I died so safe to say I’m pretty mellow now at least I think so.” Raditz says plainly as he shuffles the cards.

“Why are you a flight risk then?” Broly asks.

“I keep trying to escape and go back to where they found me. That and I’m pretty slippery.” Raditz boasts as he deals out the cards.

They played cards for a while until an angry thud alerted the three to something happening outside the door.

“What’s going on out there?” Asked Broly both Raditz and Turles just shrugged.

“Where is my son!” An angry voice yelled as sounds of chaos erupted.

“Looks like Pumbukin and Toma forgot to watch the time.” Raditz said with a chuckle.

“The people you came with?” Turles asks.

“Yeah they’re my dads squad members, they were supposed to watch me because I’m not allowed to leave the house but instead they brought me here.” Raditz calmly explained as he put down a card.

“Dammit I don’t have any greens!” Broly yelled as he had to draw a card.

“That sucks, me and Broly go out every day.” Turles says as he draws a card.

“Yeah that’s a reason to become a flight risk if I ever heard one. Blue!” Broly says as he finally uses a wild card to change the color.

The door opens and Bardock walks in to find Raditz playing cards.

“Hey dad.” Raditz says calmly as he draws a card.

“You made some friends?” Bardock asks calmly as he closed the door behind him and sauntered over to see what Raditz was doing.

“I guess we can be friends.” Raditz says as Broly puts down a skip card.

“Fuck you Broly!” Turles yells.

“Snooze you lose Turles!” Broly says in a sing-song tone.

“I’m happy to be friends with you Raditz.” Broly adds as Turles starts to throw a small fit over Broly skipping his turn again.

“Well I’m not gonna ruin your fun I’m just going to go and uh apologize to the nice Saiyan who watches you guys…” Bardock says sheepishly as he walks back out of the room.

“No wonder you turned out so chill your dad’s cool.” Turles says as he finally gets to use a card.

“I was raised by him and my mom until I was like 7 then the planet exploded and I was raised by a Saiyan called Nappa.” Raditz explained.

“I only act like this now because as I said I mellowed out after my death. I cringe anytime I remember how irritable I used to be.” Raditz said as his tail twitched alongside a shiver down his spine.

“Makes sense Broly seems calm but he can really go ape shit when he wants. He’s so strong when he’s angry that he’s actually destroyed planets by accident.” Turles says with a shiver.

“Since meeting Turles I’ve learned to control myself better.” Broly explains sheepishly as he draws a card.

“Broly, Turles it’s time to head home!” Paragus says as he enters the room.

“Oh you’re Bardock’s boy.” He says, noticing Raditz.

“Do you know my dad?” Raditz asks, looking at Paragus suspiciously.

“Know him personally no. But I’ve heard of him.” Paragus says something building in his brain.

‘He’s definitely planning something.’ Raditz thinks to himself as he helped Broly and Turles pack up their uno cards.

“We come here every Thursday to hang out while dad socializes.” Broly says as he waved goodbye.

Raditz decides that means he should ask Bardock if he could come back next Thursday.

“Hey Raditz saw your friends leave ready to go home?” Bardock asked as he came back into the room.

“Sure but I want to come back next Thursday. They come here every Thursday apparently.” Raditz says plainly as he stands back up.

“I’m sure Pumbukin and Toma would love to take you here every Thursday, this time with my permission.” Bardock practically hissed out that last bit.

And like that Raditz made two new friends and secured social time for himself.

Now he felt less inclined to go back to the death cave.

Doesn’t mean he won’t still try and escape but he’s just probably going to explore for a bit.

Chapter Text

Raditz was able to actually leave the house now seeing as he did so well with Toma and Pumbukin yesterday but that didn’t stop him from needing supervision.

Today Bardock decided he and Selypa would take Raditz out for a walk.

Raditz sat at the kitchen table like every day. He actually was given a wall calendar by Toma yesterday and Raditz was excited to put a mark on every Thursday.

The others also put marks for things on the calendar like who was off what days to watch Raditz and certain household stuff like grocery runs or cleaning.

“Hey Raditz, want to go outside for a bit?” Bardock asked half heartedly. He’d much rather Raditz stay safe inside the house where nothing could hurt him but he also understood it could be stifling for someone who spent his whole life going planet to planet with nowhere to return to.

“Sure where are we going?” Raditz asked calmly.

“We’re going to go grocery shopping kiddo!” Selypa says as she walks in with multiple empty bags in her hand.

“We may not actually need to eat but it’s still something we’d rather do than not do.” Bardock says as he grabs the leash from the wall and attaches it to Raditz.

“This is still humiliating.” Raditz huffs as he looks at the leash.

“Tough shit buddy, maybe if you weren’t so intent on running off we wouldn’t need it.” Selypa says as she checks out a stall with fruits of different worlds on display.

Raditz looks at one of the shops and sees someone who was selling books.

He pulled on the leash slightly as he approached the stall, finding that the leash wasn’t long enough for him to reach it.

Bardock noticed his son’s predicament and decided he’d let Raditz check out the books.

Bardock never pegged Raditz for the reading type; not many Saiyans even knew how to read so it was definitely an odd thing to do.

Raditz watched Bardock’s confused expression but didn’t care as he got to the book he was trying to reach.

It was a thick cookbook with recipes of earth printed though its pages the book looked brand new too.

Raditz didn’t really want to make Bardock get him the book since it’d likely be a waste of money. Honestly the afterlife having a money system itself was odd.

“Hey, how much for the book.” Bardock asked, looking at the Saiyan running the stall.

“It’s free, no one needs an earth cookbook anyway. If you want it, take it, good riddance.” The guy said and Raditz was happy to take the guy up on that offer quickly stuffing the book into his hair for safe keeping.

“Find something you liked at the book stall?” Selypa asked, looking at them both after filling one bag with fruit.

“Earth cookbook.” Raditz says as he shows her the book.

“If you want we can get the stuff for you to make one of the recipes.” She says plainly.

“Wouldn’t that be expensive?” Raditz asks, looking at one of the dishes he wanted to make.

“Nah kid, we're honestly rich with our jobs. That’s why we work so often. It's because our jobs are dangerous but they pay well and match what we used to do.” She says as she looks at the stuff Raditz wanted to make.

“Damn that looks good.” She says her mouth watering at the picture of a pot pie.

“I think we could get those ingredients, we’d probably have to sub on the chicken though. Chickens live in the Cold camp’s hunting grounds so we don’t see many over here.” Bardock says as he looks at the page.

With that they headed over to the vegetable stall where they picked up the vegetables the recipe calls for.

Raditz seemed to be actually invested in this, picking out products that were fresher and better than the ones Selypa and Bardock could find.

Then they stopped by the meat stall.

“Hey Celena, you got any chicken?” Selypa asked as she entered the shop.

Raditz looked at the meats on display while trying to identify the different cuts.

“Oh Bardock’s with you! You should’ve told me you’d bring him by, Selypa!” The woman yelled angrily at Selypa. Raditz hid behind Bardock slightly with his tail coiled around Bardock’s.

Yet another common practice for families. Tail holding is like giving a hug.

“And who’s this?” She asked, looking at Raditz then seeing his tail around Bardock’s.

She seemed to be a bit miffed at the sight.

“This is my son Raditz.” Bardock interrupted, causing both women to look at him instead of Raditz.

“Oh one of your boys with Gine! How sweet of you to keep tail holding him even with his age. And he’s a flight risk too.” Celena says bitterly.

“To be fair Bardock never lets the kid leave the house.” Selypa says as she looks at the latest selection.

“It’s for his safety.” Bardock grumbled bitterly.

“I’m an adult and I’m dead. I doubt anything could actually happen to me.” Raditz adds as he walks over to Selypa with Bardock in tow.

“Say that when you don’t get basically kidnapped by someone.” Bardock said teasingly.

“It was literally how I got here. Also if Nappa didn’t know how I move then I would’ve been fine.” Raditz retorts.

“So Nappa’s the one who found you?” Celena asks more softly now that she’s gotten over her earlier embarrassment.

“Yeah he beat the shit outta the kid from what we know and brought him back barely able to move.” Selypa said it like Nappa had absolutely destroyed Raditz versus just wearing him out until Raditz’s body gave in and wouldn’t move.

Bardock looked angry again but softened up when Raditz looked at him in confusion.

It made the girls' hearts melt at how sweet Bardock was to his son who despite being an adult was currently being babied by Bardock.

“You two came in for chicken right?” Celena asked after remembering the reason they came in.

“Yeah Raditz got a cookbook and well none of us really know how to cook so if he’s interested it’s something that’ll give him less time to escape.” Selypa says as she ruffles Raditz’s hair.

“You’re lucky I just got a chicken earlier from Grain. He found a whole bunch of them in the forest.” Celena says as she ducks into a back room and pulls out a big bag filled with chicken.

“It’s free because you brought in Bardock!” She says in a teasing tone pushing the chicken to Selypa.

“Hey, it's the only reason to be seen with him.” Selypa says jokingly.

With that they gathered everything for Raditz’s recipe.

“A lot of people know you.” Raditz says plainly as he sees a few female Saiyans turn their heads as Bardock walks past.

A few males as well but Raditz doesn’t want to get into all that.

“Makes sense, Bardock is pretty popular.” Selypa says as she opens the door to the house.

“Him being popular is both a blessing and a curse because honestly something weird happens every spring that starts a chain reaction.” Selypa says as a shiver runs down her spine.

‘Wonder what she means by that.’ Raditz wonders.

He and Vegeta never really prescribed Nappa's enjoyment of the spring season.

Nappa would always go haywire every spring doing something crazy. Honestly Raditz himself never messed with sexual or romantic relationships before mainly because he never really cared for anyone around him.

Vegeta was his friend in a way but not really more than that. He only really started being an ass hole to Raditz when he started to participate in the springtime insanity.

Raditz always wondered what they did but never wanted to participate so he just stayed far away from them until they calmed down.

All he knew is that Nappa would ‘get laid’ a lot and Vegeta would be more aggressive.

Raditz didn’t even notice that he’d already put the multiple pot pies he’d made in the oven after his spacing out.

“Can’t wait to try them, honestly it’ll be a welcome change compared to what we usually eat!” Toma says as everyone sits around the table with beers.

Raditz didn’t really care for alcohol either so he stuck to some fruit juice he’d made following the cookbook’s instructions.

Not that Bardock would let him have any alcohol for some reason.

“Say Raditz what sparked this random fascination with cooking anyway?” Pumbukin asked.

“Some of the old souls would tell me about recipes but also the fact that I found a cookbook and it seemed like something to do so why not. It’s not like anyone else here is any good at cooking.” Raditz teased.

“Why you little!” Selypa yelled as she playfully grabbed Raditz and ruffled his hair.

“He may have also gotten it from Gine, she used to love to cook after all.” Bardock says with a sad look in his eyes.

“Don't worry dude she’s definitely in heaven right now watching us and calling you an idiot for letting her precious baby near a hot oven and knives.” Toma says with a laugh.

The group ended up waiting for the pies by playing a game of uno that Bardock had gotten from somewhere who knows where.

Raditz seemed to be really good at uno as well as Totapo who won a total of five times while Raditz won 4.

The timer for the pies went off just as Bardock was shuffling the cards for another round.

Raditz got up and took the pies out to find that they were all a beautiful golden brown color like the book had said.

The pies cooled down as Raditz got out forks for everyone who got their own pie.

Everyone immediately dug in as the timer for the cooling went off and it was quiet as they scarfed them down.

Raditz was the only one who ate slowly as Pumbukin finished his pie he reached to take Raditz’s but Bardock glared at him so he pouted and backed off.

“Oh my Lord these are good!” Selypa says in between bites.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Once everyone finished eating Pumbukin was put on dish duty seeing as it was his day.

“Man if I knew you were such a good cook I’d have gone out to find you myself ages ago!” Toma says as he pats his stomach.

“I was trying to find him but I guess I never thought he’d be staying in a death cave besides Nappa never told us where he’d found you until we told him to just bring you back.” Bardock says with a yawn.

“It took him a while to find me. I mean I died before him so that adds up.” Raditz says as he deals out cards.

“Wait he told me he defended you to his dying breath that lying son of a-“ Bardock started to yell before calming down with a sigh.

“He really couldn’t do much when I ran off on my own.” Raditz says, trying to help calm down Bardock.

“I died because I was being insane, I even threatened to kill Kakarot’s friends and family. I kidnapped his kid too. I honestly deserved it to be frank. Doesn’t help that Nappa and Vegeta practically left me to die anyway.” Raditz adds calmly while handing Bardock his cards.

“You what?” Bardock asked, genuinely surprised at the information.

“I didn't hurt the kid, but I did beat up Kakarot and his friends ended up getting killed alongside Kakarot by the same attack. Probably traumatized Gohan though. That’s Kakarot’s kids name.” Raditz dropped a truth bomb.

Bardock just silently went through this information while the others played.

“Bet you also hate me now that you know, pretty sure that Kakarot does.” Raditz states while placing a card.

“I would never hate you, sure I’m a bit upset about all that but in the end you literally isolated yourself in a death cave as atonement. That aside you’ve changed haven’t you? That’s what’s important.” Bardock says as he clears his throat and realizes he’d been unconsciously playing the game this whole time.

“I’m sure Kakarot has either forgotten or forgiven me at this point but I feel even worse about traumatizing his son.” Raditz said with a grimace.

“We actually see their lives sometimes though the pearls down here it’s like live tv for us. It started after Kakarot went to Namek I think.” Pumbukin said as he dried his hands and sat in his chair again.

“His son has grown up and has a kid of his own now.” Toma says sympathetically.

“Hah that makes Bardock a great Grandpa!” Selypa says with a laugh.

“I’m honestly more surprised they kept Vegeta around instead of bringing Raditz back.” Totapo says as he puts down a card.

They ended up re-shuffling and dealing with those who weren’t here aka Pumbukin.

“Well to be fair Kakarot said he hated me so no one tried to talk about me after that I guess. And I doubt Vegeta would bring me back anytime soon because he just doesn’t care enough or whatever.” Raditz says as he puts down a card.

Eventually it was time for everyone to go to bed.

Raditz felt more emotionally drained after telling Bardock about how he’d basically got Kakarot killed.

Honestly Raditz thought Bardock would be more angry at him or at the very least disappointed.

Raditz started to tear up thinking about it; he ended up spiraling while laying in bed facing the wall.

He couldn’t stop thinking about all he’d done to fuck up Kakarot’s life.

Guilt wracked Raditz’s body like the first day he’d been in HFIL. The old souls had coached him through the toughest times and been there to console him during his panic attacks.

Vegeta had them when Raditz was alive he saw the prince shake and freeze up at night all he could do without alerting anyone else was wrap his tail around Vegeta’s as a comfort.

Nappa said that panic attacks were a sign of weakness and that definitely gave Vegeta a complex about them.

But here Raditz was having one of his own in a safe soft bed instead of a dirty cave floor.

Mysteriously he missed the cave floor.

So much so that in his state of panic Raditz somehow found himself back outside again at the empty cave where the old souls hadn’t returned after Nappa had left a hole in the wall.

Raditz just laid where he always did and curled into a ball holding the cookbook from Bardock.

It wasn’t time to dwell on how he’d gotten out and found his way here; he just was here and alone.

Very alone.

Chapter Text

Raditz ended up staying in the cave all ‘night’ and ended up feeling really shitty when he finally woke up and realized he didn’t know how to get back to the camp.

He didn’t even know how he got here to the cave.

All his footprints would already be gone thanks to the spring wind so it was no use to try tracking his way back.

Raditz now had something else to feel guilty for. Well maybe Bardock wouldn’t come look for him after all.

Who would want to.

Raditz was horrible.

That’s all Raditz could think of himself as he just laid on the rocky floor.

He felt like just dying all over again.

Just so he could feel the pain of the consequences of his actions.

Raditz swore he would be better and he was fucking it all up again.

He couldn’t stop hurting people so he’d just stay alone.

That way no one could get hurt.

Unfortunately this was all stopped by the sounds of shuffling behind him.

Raditz quickly moved his cookbook into his hair to keep it safe and turned around to come face to face with a giant green bug man?

“Wow I was thinking I’d find some form of food in here, not a whole person.” Cell said as he looked at Raditz.

“You look familiar.” Cell says as he thinks back on his data.

“That’s right you’re Raditz! Goku’s older brother, man Gero wanted to use your dna so badly but it conflicted with Goku’s thanks to your family connection.” Cell chuckles while looking at Raditz who seemed to go back to his sulking.

“You uh, doing okay?” Cell asked as he sat beside Raditz.

Cell didn’t really understand emotions all that much; he just knew he had them that’s all.

“Yeah just fucking up everyone around me’s lives as per usual.” Raditz said with a sad laugh.

“Damn, I doubt you actually do. Unless you’re like Frieza or something. The worst you could do is get them to trust you then betray them honestly.” Cell says as he examines Raditz’s face.

“I guess I’m not that bad then but still they’re better off without me.” Raditz says as he sighs and sits back.

“Look dude I’m sure your family wants you around regardless. I’m sure they love you and all that junk.” Cell says trying to figure out how to comfort someone.

“Says the big man who was born in a lab and has no real family.” Another familiar voice says as they enter the cave.

“Ah Frieza come to take away my new friend or something to make me upset?” Cell asks as the white Lizard laughs.

“No, but that is a good idea.” Frieza says as he sits on a rock shaped like a chair.

“What brings you two here? It’s not like this place is popular or anything, let alone to people my little brother pissed off.” Raditz asks calmly.

“We were fighting and ran out of energy so this looked like a good refuge to wait until we had enough energy to go our separate ways.” Frieza explains.

“Technically speaking I have limitless energy but I felt like I needed a break.” Cell admits.

“You’re Goku’s older brother and the subordinate of Vegeta right?” Frieza asks as he remembers who Raditz was.

“Yeah, that's me, Raditz, the weakest Saiyan.” Raditz says with a sigh.

“As I recall you were very important to Vegeta so why are you still dead?” Frieza asked, remembering the many times he had threatened to kill Raditz or Nappa if Vegeta stepped out of line.

He always listened when he said he’d kill Raditz while sometimes it’d take convincing if he threatened Nappa’s life.

“Definitely not, Vegeta wanted to leave me for dead.” Raditz replied as his tail swished behind him.

“I recall Vegeta always threatening to leave you both for dead but never actually doing it. It was likely a bluff.” Frieza said with a hum.

“So the space tyrant is able to console people and here I thought you don’t have feelings.” Cell said mockingly.

“I can do whatever I want. I bet I could be a better friend than you to our little monkey here, than you!” Frieza hissed.

“Friendship isn’t a competition, Frieza.” Cell scolds.

“But I’m sure we could make it one!” Cell adds.

“Do I get a say in this as the one you two are trying to be friends with?” Raditz asks.

“No.” They both simultaneously answered.

Over with Bardock and them.

Everyone woke up to Find Bardock going ape shit tearing the camp apart to find his missing son.

“Hey, that's Raditz’s dad.” Broly says as he points out Bardock who was busy threatening some vendor who talked to Raditz yesterday.

“Hey Bardock. What’s got you so worried?” Paragus asks.

“My son is missing. Did you two take him?” Bardock asks with murder in his eyes.

“Calm down and think about it. If Raditz got out we could help you find him.” Turles says calmly.

Truth be told everyone was a bit more scared seeing as two heavy hitters had been spotted in the area. Raditz could be in danger as Cell and Frieza had both been seen moving this way.

“Please.” Bardock says hoping that he’d find Raditz before someone or something dangerous did.

Paragus unleashed Broly and Turles so they could help out seeing as they were only flight risks because they often wandered off.

They’d come back.

Back again over to Raditz who was watching as Cell and Frieza argued over uno.

It was because Cell had called out Uno at the exact same time as Frieza.

“Why don’t you both just do rock paper scissors to see who won?” Raditz says plainly.

It took three rounds of rock paper scissors for Frieza to come out on top.

“You know what, I don't actually mind your company. I should’ve taken you from Vegeta when you were in my force. You would’ve been less likely to die then.” Frieza says as he ends up having to draw a card seeing as he didn’t have the right color to win anyway.

“I died because I was being stupid and didn’t think through my actions.” Raditz says as he puts down a card.

“Uno!” Frieza and Cell yell before Raditz could, causing Raditz to have to pick up more cards.

“I wish you survived long enough for me to meet you.” Cell says as he pulls a card.

“If that happened wouldn’t he still be alive now?” Frieza asks.

“I would’ve been around Kakarot and them long enough for me to have changed like Vegeta. So yeah I would’ve survived.” Raditz says as he puts down a card making Cell have to pull 2.

“Oh you dirty bitch!” Cell yelled as he got no good cards.

Frieza simply laughed at Cell’s reaction causing them to both start fighting again.

Raditz quietly won while they were too busy insulting each other.

“I won.” Raditz said calmly as they both looked down to see.

“Better than the bug winning. Good job monkey.” Frieza says proudly.

“That’s racist Frieza, also congrats dude.” Cell says as he starts to reshuffle the cards.

A growl from outside made everyone stand up.

Raditz was first to try and see what was happening despite Cell and Frieza trying to tell us to wait for one of them to go outside first seeing as he was weak.

“There’s nothing out here, it's fine.” Raditz says as he looks around only for a giant wolf to pounce on him crushing him under its paw.

Raditz yelped as it held him down and growled at him.

The thing was a giant, bigger than a house giant. Its paw covered most of Raditz’s body.

“Get off my new friend you bastard!” Cell yelled as he punched the wolf.

In response the wolf grabbed Raditz with its mouth and started running.

Cell and Frieza both ran after it.

They caught up and Frieza threw some dirt in its eye causing it to yell and let Raditz go.

Raditz fell into Cell's arms.

“Thanks.” He said as Cell put him down.

The wolf lashed out but this time Raditz dodged.

The trio fought back with Raditz being able to trip it and Cell being able to finish it off with his tail by choking it out.

They all seemed a bit tired after the fight so they just walked back to the cave.

“That was interesting.” Frieza said with a sigh as he laid on a rock.

“Tell me about it, I got carried off by a giant wolf.” Raditz said with a shudder.

“What’s important is that we saved you.” Cell said but then realized what he’d said.

“Wait, I actually wanted to save him too!” Frieza noticed as he sat up in surprise.

“Is this what friendship feels like?” Frieza asks as he sits on the rock.

“I doubt it would be anything else.” Cell says begrudgingly.

“I mean hey good thing you now know what friendship feels like I guess.” Raditz says as he gives them a thumbs up.

Raditz then goes to grab his book but couldn’t find it in his hair; he could've sworn he felt it there on his way back to the cave.

“My book!” Raditz yelled and started running for the cave entrance again.

Cell grabbed him by the tail to stop him.

“Let me go with you to find it. There might be more wolves seeing as the ones on earth all hunt in packs.” Cell said as he and Frieza both got up and followed Raditz.

“Found it!” Frieza yelled as he grabbed the book from the dirt.

“It’s still surprisingly clean.” Frieza said impressed at the fact it had minimal dirt on it.

“Thanks Frieza.” Raditz says as he gives Frieza a side hug and grabs the book from his hands to tuck back into his hair.

“You got hugged for the first time in your life, how'd it feel Frieza?” Cell says mockingly seeing Frieza not moving.

“Shut up cockroach!” Frieza huffs and follows after Raditz.

Cell starts laughing as he follows behind them.

“If this is what having friends is like then I’m not ashamed to say I’d like it to stay this way.” Frieza says sheepishly.

“Aww big bad Frieza wants to be friends with an oversized cockroach and a weak monkey.” Cell says mockingly.

“So you admit you’re a cockroach?” Raditz asks as he sits on the cave floor again.

Frieza starts laughing so hard he doubles over and starts hitting the floor.

“N-no I’m an Android not a cockroach!” Cell yells.

“Hey is it just me or are the injuries from that wolf thing not healing quickly like normal?” Raditz asks as he looks at the gash on his arm he had earned from his ride in the creature's mouth.

“You are right it’s odd.” Frieza admits as a small scratch on his tail still hadn’t stopped bleeding.

“I actually feel a little light headed.” Raditz says but just as he finishes his sentence he immediately passes out.

“Raditz!” Cell yelled as he lunged to check on him.

“Calm down, he just passed out because of blood loss.” Frieza says but he’s worried too which was an odd feeling for him.

“I’ll just use his pants to stop the bleeding then!” Cell says as he rips off one of Raditz’s pant legs and uses it to bandage up the offending injury.

“That should do it for now but we need to get him medical attention. After all, if it doesn’t heal quickly it could be worse untreated.” Frieza says.

Cell picked Raditz up and held him under his arm.

“The Saiyan camp is our best bet of getting him help.” Cell says as he points out where he remembers the camp being.

“I’m surprised he wasn’t at the camp.” Frieza says as they start walking.

“He did seem really upset when we found him, maybe someone hurt him.” Cell said worried about leaving Raditz there alone.

“Perhaps. I feel as though we should stay with him instead of just dropping him off.” Frieza reasoned.

Cell and him agreed on two things: they needed to get Raditz help and they needed to monitor said help.

They ended up finding a small group of Saiyans that were heading towards them.

“Hey you monkeys! Where is your camp!” Frieza yelled and the group seemed to see them.

“Frieza you sound like you’re going to find their camp for bad reasons and you’re being racist again.” Cell says plainly as he changes the way he’s holding Raditz.

“See just one is coming over to talk to us I’m sure he’ll show us the way and be off!” Frieza said proudly as the Saiyan started full sprinting towards them.

“Uh Frieza, that guy seems pissed.” Cell says as he notices the Saiyans blood lust.

“Frieza!” The Saiyan yells as he lunges at Frieza.

Frieza moved and allowed the Saiyan to hit the ground instead of him as the group started getting closer.

“Calm down Monkey, I'm not here to harm you.” Frieza says dismissively.

If you guessed this Saiyan was Bardock ding ding here’s your prize!

Bardock looked at what Cell was holding from his spot on the ground seeing the unmistakable messy fluff of hair that was Raditz.

As well as the bloody makeshift bandages on Raditz’s arm.

Bardock went full crazy mode and lunged at Cell who was holding Raditz and therefore wasn’t ready to have to dodge a whole Saiyan lunging at him from this close.

Instead Frieza swiftly kicked Bardock away and into the dirt with a thud.

Frieza took a defensive stance in front of Raditz and Cell while Bardock’s crew, Broly, and Turles ran over to check on Bardock.

“Cell and Frieza. They have my.” Was all Bardock got out before Broly saw the blood on Raditz in Cell's arms.

“Broly calm down!” Turles tried to stop him but Broly’s hair had already started to spark green.

Broly lunged and was intercepted by Frieza who got thrown into the dirt and subsequently stomped on.

Frieza yelped as the foot hit his stomach. Blood pooled in his mouth and he coughed some out onto the dirt.

“What in the here did you feed that one!” Frieza yells as he clutches his stomach and stands back up.

Cell seemed a bit more skittish with both Frieza and Raditz injured.

“My son, give back my son!” Bardock yelled and lunged at Cell.

“Wait pause!” Cell yells as he jumps away to dodge Bardock.

Turles had run over to Broly slowly trying to calm him down when everyone heard a cough.

“Ow.” Raditz said as he woke up.

“So now you wake up!” Frieza yelled as his organs ached.

Cell carefully put Raditz onto his own feet holding his arms out just in case Raditz passed out again.

“What in the, here is happening.” Raditz asks as he removes the bandages to show the gash had mostly healed and therefore he didn’t need it anymore.

“Raditz c'mere!” Selypa yells.

“You are literally with two of the most dangerous people in HFIL right now!” Bardock says as he stands up.

Bardock’s worry was evident on his face.

“You mean Cell and Frieza. They found me in the cave and hung out with me then saved me when a giant wolf thing tried to eat me.” Raditz said plainly.

“What Raditz says is correct, we found him in a death cave. The gash on his arm was because a giant wolf tried to run away with him while me and Frieza were distracted.” Cell says plainly.

Frieza huffed as his organs healed.

“Sorry about that, you know.” Broly said as he was now back to normal.

Turles just dragged Broly back to the group as Bardock hugged Raditz.

“You’re never leaving the house again.” Bardock says as he gives Raditz a rib crushing hug.

“But I just got to go outside!” Raditz complained.

“Tough shit kiddo. You’re grounded.” Selypa added.

“But what about Thursday?” Broly asks with puppy dog eyes.

“I’m pretty sure we are invited to go visit Raditz at home instead.” Turles says as he gives Broly a pat on the back.

“What about us? We can't even get into the Saiyan camp.” Cell asks.

Everyone then realizes that Cell and Frieza were in fact still there.

“We are friends of Raditz now too so I’d like the same privileges as those two.” Frieza complains.

“There’s a back gate no one uses or patrols we can use to sneak you guys inside. We live near it so you wouldn’t have to go far.” Selypa says and Bardock looks at her like she just told them they could kill his dog.

I suppose that could work.” Frieza says as he regains his elegant stance after his ahem.

Tumble.

And like that Raditz gained two new very terrifying friends as well as the realization his other two were also very scary when they wanted to be.

And everyone learned that Bardock does not play when it comes to ‘his baby’.

Chapter Text

It’s been a good three days since Raditz had befriended Cell and Frieza.

Honestly he was so damn bored.

Being stuck inside a house with nothing to do was killing him slowly.

He just knew it.

Well it would if he was still alive that is.

Raditz was just chilling on the floor of the living room with Toma and Selypa watching him from the couch.

“Cheer up kiddo you have a play date today right?” She asked loud enough for Bardock to hear.

Bardock, who was in the kitchen, peeked out. “Yeah since all of us need to go to work I have Paragus coming over to watching him and the others.”

“See you’re gonna be able to hang out with those flight risk friends of yours!” She added excitedly.

Raditz just groaned at the fact he was bored right now.

“I’m pretty sure Cell wanted to come over today too.” Bardock says as he walks into the living room.

Bardock was cut off by a knock on the door and made everyone jump but they then heard arguing outside the door. It was still darker outside since that’s when Bardock and the others went to work but it was still too early for Paragus to be here.

Bardock ended up opening the door to find Cell and Frieza arguing on the lawn.

The moment they noticed the door was open they stopped arguing and looked at Bardock.

Raditz took this as an opportunity to mess around so he slipped out the door only to be immediately caught by Cell.

“Sorry Raditz, Bardock said you’re on house arrest.” Cell teases as he drags Raditz back inside.

“Honestly, I didn't think you’d help me get him back inside.” Bardock says with a laugh as Raditz looks like he’s been betrayed.

Cell and Frieza both somehow didn’t get caught by any Saiyan even with all their arguing.

“Well you did say he’s not allowed to leave the house and who are we to go against your instructions for your own son.” Frieza says plainly as he sits on one of the chairs in the kitchen.

Cell and Raditz both sat down too and Raditz pulled out his deck of Uno cards.

“Well that makes me feel better about leaving you here with him and the others.” Bardock says as he watches Cell start to shuffle the cards.

“Broly and Turles should be here soon as well as Paragus.” Bardock informs them and Frieza flinches when he hears those names.

“Did you say Paragus and Broly?” Frieza asked sheepishly.

“You already met Broly three days ago. If you’re thinking of the one that is friends with Goku then you’re wrong Turles and Broly are from another timeline. Paragus is the one from here though he just takes care of Turles and Broly as penance or something.” Raditz says calmly as he puts down a skip.

“The only issue is that I killed the Paragus from here…” Frieza admits as he draws a card.

“God damn Frieza we’re gonna get busted again because you killed some guy. That’s why we can’t visit most of the camps!” Cell complains.

“Paragus probably won't say anything if he does, we can always deny it. He isn't exactly trusted in the community.” Bardock says as another knock comes from the door.

Selypa got up to go check the door while Bardock kept his eyes on Raditz who showed no interest in escaping at the moment.

“C'mon guys time to move out!” Selypa yells out so the squad exited their rooms saying goodbye to Raditz on their way out.

Paragus hadn’t even had the chance to closed
the door when Broly and Turles ran into the kitchen.

“Raditz you started without us! I feel cheated on.” Turles says with a dramatic mock sob.

“You two just took too long to get here and we were bored.” Frieza says plainly as he threw the rest of his cards on the pile for someone to re-shuffle.

Turles quickly took the cards and started to shuffle them the way he likes it as everyone changed where they sat to allow more room.

Frieza sat on the far right while Cell sat on the same side but closer to Raditz who sat on the end of the table.

Broly sat to the far left while Turles sat next to him.

“Are you guys already playing uno? I swear I should’ve never gotten you that game. Now you’ve infected Bardock’s kid.” Paragus says as he enters the kitchen.

He looks at the table and everyone at the table looks back at him.

Sweat started dripping down Paragus’ face at the sight of Frieza.

His usual dramatic and sometimes elegant manner was replaced with the same manners as a typical toddler.

“See he’s fine with you. Big baby.” Cell says to Frieza as he puts down a card.

“Raditz, does your father know you have the Frieza and Cell in your house?” Paragus asks with fear, lacing his voice.

“Yeah he’s cool with it. It’s not like they can do anything when we're already dead. The worst they can do is say curse words.” Raditz says as he places a draw 4.

“Raditz you whore!” Cell yells as he obediently draws four cards.

“See. Besides, they said they’d protect me more than once.” Raditz says as he looks back at Paragus.

“I don’t see why you’re so scared Paragus it’s not like they could beat me. Besides they don’t have Ki remember. That aside, draw two Turles.” Broly says as he places a card of his own.

Turles sighs and takes two cards.

“I could beat you with my eyes closed.” Cell says jokingly.

“Oh shut it you overgrown roach, even Raditz could beat you.” Turles said it as an insult to Cell but it felt more insulting to Raditz.

“Jeez thanks for the confidence, Turles.” Raditz says with mock offense.

“You know I didn’t mean that in a bad way!” Turles squealed as he tried to explain but everyone was now shaming him for insulting Raditz.

‘Raditz seems to have built himself quite the group of powerhouses that listen to him. I could use this. Broly and Turles wouldn’t listen to me on their own but maybe if I.’ Paragus said in his mind as he watched them play cards.

“Say Raditz how did you befriend Cell and Frieza again?” Turles asks as he shuffles the cards.

“I blacked out and found myself in my old cave and they came around and started trying to comfort me. They ended up playing uno with me and a few things happened now we’re here.” Raditz said as a very un descriptive explanation.

“Me and Frieza had a bet on which of us could become a better friend to Raditz and it devolved to us both actually wanting to be friends with him. That and the fact we killed a giant wolf monster to protect him back made us realize something.” Cell says as he starts off by making Frieza draw four.

“Son of a bitch!” Frieza yells and everyone laughs.

‘So they actually care for Raditz just like Turles and Broly.’ Paragus noted for later.

“Yes I’m very glad I’m the weakest person in this friend group that everyone feels requires protecting.” Raditz says sarcastically as Cell laughed at a joke Frieza made.

“Damn that does sound like it sucks for you. I’m glad it isn’t me at least.” Turles says as he places a card.

“You’re strong thanks to that fruit you tried to make right?” Broly asks, putting down a card of his own.

“Yeah the fruits are hard to cultivate but I’ve eaten a good few of them. So I’m definitely stronger than Raditz and most normal Saiyans even without super Saiyan.” Turles says as he looks at Broly.

“If it wasn’t for the fruits would you be at the same power level as Raditz?” Asked Cell as he pulled two cards.

“No, I was stronger than Raditz even without the fruits.” Turles said with a smirk.

“Is anyone getting hungry?” Asked Raditz as he put down his last card making everyone go ape shit at eachother for not noticing Raditz was on his last card.

As they were fighting Cell accidentally hit Raditz in the nose with his fist causing the commotion to stop.

“Sorry!” Cell yelled as Raditz plugged his bleeding nose with a napkin.

“I’m good, let me go clean up before I make some breakfast. Go ahead and play another few rounds.” Raditz says as he walks away and into the bathroom.

Paragus watched as everyone at the table waited for Raditz to leave the room before attacking Cell.

It started with Frieza pushing him out of his chair then Broly and Turles piled on him with Frieza jumping on top to start stuffing napkins into Cell’s mouth.

“This is your punishment for hitting Raditz.” Frieza said triumphantly as Cell choked on the napkins.

Turles and Broly got off him to let him get them out but the damage was done and now Cell had tasted napkins.

“I’m telling on you!” Cell says as he opens his now free mouth to yell something.

He was quickly stopped by Broly hitting him over the head with his chair.

“Dude, don't hit him with the chair. You could break the chair. Use this instead.” Turles says and hands Broly a bat he got from Kami knows where.

Broly ended up not being able to use it as Raditz exited the bathroom.

Paragus turned for a second to watch Raditz come back in but when he looked back at the chaotic group they had already started another round of uno like nothing happened.

Yes this was the sort of pack mentality Paragus was looking for.

After all, why use Broly when he could use people of similar strength.

Raditz could feel the evil vibes practically oozing off of Paragus aimed towards him but ignored it.

As long as it didn’t affect his family and friends Raditz was okay with being a target.

Raditz didn't take long to cook up some pancakes for everyone to enjoy.

As he set them in the middle of the table he also gave Paragus a small plate of pancakes so he didn’t have to compete with the others.

Everyone got themselves a small stack of pancakes with Cell making sure that Raditz got some noting the competitive nature of Saiyans during meals.

“This pank is delicious!” Frieza says as he swallows a mouthful of pancake.

“It’s pancake you space lizard.” Cell grumbles as he dizzled syrup on his stack of pancakes.

“Dang Raditz, I didn't know you could cook.” Turles says as he greedily eats his pancakes.

“I just started cooking thanks to my cookbook. Turns out I really like cooking.” Raditz says as he takes a bite of his pancakes.

“I would marry you if it meant I’d get to have food as good as this everyday.” Broly said jokingly.

“Damn you like pancakes that much?” Cell asks, looking at Broly who had already scarfed down his second plate of pancakes and was already getting more.

“Thanks for the offer but I’d like someone who’s not with me for my cake!” Raditz replies and everyone starts laughing at the remark.

Paragus couldn’t understand what was funny nor why Broly would marry someone over pancakes. Marriage was overrated anyway.

Paragus said to himself as he sat alone across the room.

He decided to take a bite of his pancakes and then he suddenly understood.

“I would die for pancakes.” Paragus says and everyone starts laughing again.

“Makes sense seeing as unlike him you lived on a planet with bug goop as your only food source. And from what you said it was disgusting.” Frieza says as he takes a bite of his pancakes.

“Maybe I should’ve taken you from Vegeta as my personal chef.” Frieza says as he now also understands.

“I feel like that’d be an insult to those who actually went to culinary school.” Raditz remarks.

The pancakes in the middle were gone and Turles was still hungry. So he set his sights on Raditz’s plate.

Raditz saw Turles looking at his pancakes and just took another bite. If he really wanted more he should just ask after all.

Turles in a fit of true Saiyan food aggression simply snatched a pancake off Raditz’s plate and stuffed it into his mouth.

Broly immediately began chasing Turles as he ran away from the consequences.

Cell moved one of the pancakes from his plate onto Raditz's, seeing as Saiyans did eat a lot and he didn’t need to eat.

“Thanks.” Raditz said as sounds of fighting continued from the living room.

“Truly barbaric.” Frieza commented as though about to add something to his remark but refraining in practice.

“I heard that. Finish your sentence Frieza.” Cell said, looking at Frieza.

“Fine, how barbaric those monkeys. Are you happy now? I’ve been trying to be less racist as you call it and you ruined it.”

Cell and Frieza then started arguing while Raditz grabbed all the dishes to start washing.

As he put the plates into the sink a loud crash alerted everybody to something breaking.

Broly and Turles brought a broken clay vase into the kitchen sheepishly.

“It was Broly’s fault!” Turles yelled the moment Raditz looked at it.

“No way it’s your fault for stealing Raditz’s pancake!” Broly bit back.

“Guys it’s literally just a vase, just throw the broken pieces away in the trash can.” Raditz said as he continued washing plates.

Cell got up and went over to help Raditz while Frieza and the other two started a round of uno.

Paragus was of course flabbergasted that the weakest of the group was also the defining feature of it; everyone wanted to be included with each other thanks to Raditz.

Everyone of them liked Raditz and obviously cared for him and his opinions.

Yet he was weak, almost anyone could beat Raditz in a fight. Especially this group.

So why did they follow him?

Paragus was very confused yet thankful for this dynamic. After all, it's easier to extort people from their weakest link.

After helping with the dishes and playing a few rounds of cards Cell and Frieza left to go and work on their house. They had talked about trying to make somewhere to live nearby for themselves to be able to visit whenever they want.

“We should go out into town!” Broly excitedly says as they finish another game of uno.

“But dude Raditz is grounded, Bardock says he can’t leave the house.” Turles reminded Broly.

“Dang you’re right.”

“It won’t be for long. I'm sure I’ll be allowed back outside soon.” Raditz sighs.

“Why’d you run away again?” Turles asks.

“I forgot why he did it or wanted to do it.”

“Well to be honest I was just having a panic attack and sort of left without thinking. That is the nature of blacking out dude. I don’t remember it.” Raditz says calmly.

“We played uno a lot already today and it’s getting boring.” Broly says with a sigh.

“I could always run out and get you boys a few other card games I saw at the market if you promise to keep Raditz inside the house.” Paragus offers.

“Sure we can just take a nap or something until you get back!” Turles says as Paragus goes out of the room.

“You know I was wondering how you kept getting out.” Paragus said as he turned to see Raditz already right behind him while he heard Broly and Turles arguing in the other room.

“Hey I’m not called slippery for no reason.” Raditz says lazily as he walks back towards the kitchen.

“You guys didn’t even notice that he almost escaped!” Paragus yelled and both the boys peeked out of the kitchen to see Raditz walking away from the door.

“Bardock was right, it's hard to keep you from running.” Turles says with a grimace.

“It’s an impulse at this point to see if I can even escape to be honest.” Raditz says with a shrug as he sits on the couch.

“I feel bad for your poor mother, Bardock, and Nappa now.” Broly says as he sits beside Raditz.

“I never ran from my mother, if anything I ran to her. Bardock on the other hand I slip away from him a lot now but back when I was younger I used to be glued to his side when my mom wasn’t there. As for Nappa. Yeah.” Raditz rattles on as Turles comes to sit with them instead of being on the couch he sits on the floor with his head between the two.

All three ended up falling asleep with Broly laid across the whole couch like a starfish.

Raditz was curled in on himself and Turles had somehow laid on top of both of them using Raditz’s hair as a pillow.

Paragus and Bardock didn’t want to wake them. Bardock ended up seeing Paragus at the market and got worried so they got the card games and came back to find the three boys asleep on the couch.

And like that Paragus learned just how chaotic Raditz was.

Poor Bardock his heart can’t take how much stress both his sons give him.

As for Gine she’s definitely giggling with her feet kicking.

Chapter Text

Bardock couldn’t find anyone else to watch Raditz again so he called in Paragus who happily agreed to watch Raditz.

Raditz was upset to find out that Paragus wouldn’t be bringing Broly or Turles with him and so he spent a good few minutes sulking until Bardock left.

Raditz didn’t feel safe alone with Paragus; it felt gross.

Just call it intuition.

“Hey Raditz. Mind coming here.” Paragus says from Raditz’s bedroom. Which was odd because why was he even in there.

Raditz, not really thinking about all those red flags he’d seen before, blindly went into the room not noticing the door lock behind him.

Paragus watched as Raditz entered the room looking around for where his voice had come from. It was pretty funny to watch Raditz look in all the wrong places.

He had closed the door so even if he didn’t catch Raditz off guard it’d be much harder to escape.

Just when Raditz reached his bed Paragus dropped from the ceiling grabbing Raditz by the neck and pinning him to the bed.

Raditz tried to kick him off but Paragus had obviously been able to catch him off guard, a mistake on Raditz’s part.

His mind raced with what Paragus was going to do after all there’s many things that could go wrong and all of them were not something Raditz wanted any part of.

So many reports of things like this not turning out well in the Frieza force let alone what those reports situations were.

Some were just fighting while others were much more sinister.

Just when Raditz seemed to stop squirming, Paragus took the opportunity and grabbed something from his back pocket and brought it up to clip it around Raditz’s neck.

He then slowly let Raditz go, causing Raditz to immediately kick him into the wall behind him.

Paragus groaned as he hit the wall with a thud.

“What the fuck Paragus!” Raditz yelled as he clawed at the collar.

“This is what I’m known for, my boy. You really should pay more attention to the world around you.” Paragus said with a creepy smile on his face.

He took out a small remote and with the press of a button Raditz felt pain spread through his entire body.

Then it all went black.

He could feel someone picking him up and moving him but couldn’t do anything about it.

He felt helpless as Paragus literally kidnapped him. This was worse than Nappa because Paragus was much more unstable.

There was actually a good chance of getting tortured or worse by this guy. Seeing what he had done to his own son then thinking of what he’d do to a stranger was a nightmare.

Raditz groaned as his body felt like it was just tossed around and burned.

At least he was awake now. Looking at his surroundings Raditz could see that he was in a cage, a literal cage. It was covered by a long ass blanket so there was no chance of seeing the outside.

He could hear Paragus outside saying something but his head was still swimming from fainting earlier.

Paragus said something that sounded more panicked before getting closer and laughing evilly.

“Don’t you see you can’t fight me.” Paragus says as he pulls away the blanket.

“If a single one of you comes any closer It will hurt I warn you!” Paragus yelled, finally waking Raditz up out of his daze.

Raditz’s head turned to see Bardock who looked angry yet defeated alongside his friends who had similar expressions.

“You’re bluffing there’s no way you made one of those down here!” Frieza yelled. Raditz winced at how loud he was.

“Looks like he’s awake, well then time for the first punishment courtesy of Frieza.” Paragus says with a wicked laugh.

He presses a different button this time and pain shoots through Raditz’s body making it feel like it was on fire.

Raditz yelled as it hit. The pain was bad but what was worse is that it was affecting how the others operated.

With Raditz writhing in agony everyone just stood still with shock and anger on their faces. If any of them tried anything Paragus would probably just make the pain worse.

They were powerless in the face of someone they were friends with being used against them. It never happened before to Frieza and Cell but it sure as hell made them angry.

Paragus seeing them give in chuckled and let go of the button.

It wasn’t instant relief for Raditz as his veins still ached. But it was better than the active pain.

“Could’ve sworn you understood that this method doesn’t work Paragus.” Frieza says coldly.

“It didn’t work because Broly was too strong. Raditz on the other hand is quite literally the weakest Saiyan around.” Paragus remarked as he opened the cage allowing Raditz his freedom.

Raditz calmly stepped out before immediately lunging at Paragus.

Paragus didn’t expect for Raditz to attack him so suddenly after all Raditz had a usual pattern of calmly waiting for an opportunity before running away, not blatantly attacking.

Raditz saw red; he was angry and justifiably so. After all he should be allowed to defend himself right?

So Raditz did what he knew how to. Lash out.

Raditz immediately tackled Paragus the moment he let his guard down, letting Raditz knock the remote out of his hand.

Paragus obviously didn’t just take this lying down as he went to punch Raditz thankfully Raditz knew how to dodge.

Raditz ducked down but wasn’t fast enough as Paragus grabbed his hair.

Raditz growled as Paragus put his arm around Raditz’s throat in an attempt to try and get the remote back.

The others realized that they had to help so Cell used his tail to grab the remote before Paragus could, making the man angry.

“Damn it Raditz you were supposed to be obedient!” Paragus yelled as he tightened his grip on Raditz.

Raditz only had one primal instinct left he could use.

He used his arms to pull Paragus’ arms away from his neck far enough for him to bite them.

Paragus yelled as Raditz bit into his arm and wouldn’t let go no matter how hard he hit him.

He didn’t even notice as Broly appeared behind him.

“B-Broly get him off!” Paragus yelled.

“You remember what happened to my Paragus right? Rather what I did to him.” Broly asked as his hair sparked green and his eyes lost their color.

Paragus yelled as his soul was torn apart not by any of them but by a surprise visitor shrouded in light.

A welcome face to everyone as she walked through the sky like an angel shining halo and all.

“My baby!” She cried out as she hugged Raditz.

“Mom!” Raditz said surprised at the fact his mom literally just descended from heaven.

Back at the house everyone took a much needed break, all of them sitting in chairs or laying in bed asleep.

“So Gine, you came down from heaven because you saw Raditz in danger.” Bardock says calmly.

“Yes. Did you want me to just stand by while that evil man hurt my baby boy! Not to mention how he kidnapped my poor Raditz in the first place. I was ready to come down here the second I saw that creep close the door!” Gine said her tail puffing up in determination.

“How did he get you anyway? I thought you were slippery.” Cell teased.

“He held my poor baby down!” Gine cried as she hugged onto Raditz again.

“She's right technically. Honestly could’ve done worse to me. If someone walked in he would’ve been misunderstood is all I’ll say.” Raditz explains with embarrassment staining his face.

“I don’t know if I feel more like apologizing to you or laughing at the current situation.” Frieza said as he put his face in his hands.

“Wait what do you mean by that!?” Turles asks Raditz.

“He was being a creep, always staring at me weirdly so when he pinned me to my bed I thought something worse would happen.” Raditz said plainly.

“You know he did look at you like a weirdo and honestly gave me the creeps too. Didn’t think he’d ever be alone with you though so I thought you’d be fine.” Cell said apologetically.

“I honestly would’ve assumed the same if someone did the same to me.” Frieza said as his face went a little green.

“Me and Broly didn’t even notice he left the house until Bardock came by in a blind rage. Again.” Turles says with a shiver.

“We should watch out more for people like that, that’s actually what our community watch is for. But it doesn’t work if the person is trusted enough.” Bardock says guiltily.

Gine refused to leave Raditz’s side even though any remnant of Paragus was now gone including the collar.

“I’m honestly more freaked out at how similar Raditz is to his brother. Goku did the same thing to me when I tried to kill him. My tail still sometimes hurts where he bit me.” Frieza groaned.

“Wait, Raditz has a brother?” Turles asks.

“Yeah Goku is his younger brother.” Cell informs the Saiyan duo.

“That explains a lot.” Broly said with a dramatic sigh.

“What does that mean!” Raditz yelled and everyone started arguing again.

Raditz somehow started the argument yet wasn’t a part of it now as he noticed Gine start to glow.

“Time to go already.” Gine said sadly as she looked at her son and her husband.

She quickly gave Raditz a hug before moving to kiss Bardock on the lips as she faded out of existence.

Not really she went back to heaven but same thing yk.

“Damn your wife literally just turned into light and disappeared after telling you to keep a better eye on your son.” Cell said with a snort.

“She literally had to come here to save Raditz if it wasn’t for her Broly would’ve done something he’d regret.” Turles says with a laugh.

“I’ll kill a Paragus any day!” Broly said with a crazy look in his eyes.

Everyone ended up falling asleep with Bardock sleeping on his bed alone.

Raditz had all of his friends minus Frieza stacked onto his bed while Frieza refused to join in and instead slept out on the couch.

It wasn’t an odd thing for Saiyans to do. Many squads slept in piles but it’d definitely be weird for a human or one of Frieza’s species.

Chapter Text

After the whole fiasco with Paragus kidnapping Raditz, Bardock trusted no one to be alone with his son.

He wouldn’t let anyone too close without giving them a death glare.

Thankfully he at least started taking Raditz outside again.

Today was one of those days where everyone is outside because of just how nice it is.

Bardock decided that after a week of going full crazy mode Raditz deserved a bit of freedom so the whole crew minus poor Cell and Frieza who couldn’t enter the camp thanks to not being Saiyans went out on the town together.

Broly and Turles didn’t really need leashes but their vests made it easier to notice when they started to wander away.

“This is a weird little celebration we have going on.” Pumbukin says as he looks at the larger crowd.

“Is this like a festival or something?” Raditz asked as he saw many Saiyans getting really excited about something.

“Technically yes it’s a way to celebrate the last week of spring. One could also say that it’s what signifies the start of the true Saiyan mating season.” Toma explains.

“Seems like a waste of time.” Turles says with a grimace.

“What are you two not interested?” Toma asks, looking at them.

“Toma don’t.” Bardock growls out.

“What! He's an adult! I know it starts when they are preteens so he’s had to have gone through enough spring times to understand!” Toma quickly says as he defends the fact he had just informed them about mating season.

“I don’t think any of the three of them are interested.” Selypa said with a grimace seeing all three boys looking a little grossed out

“I never had any urges to go along with the stuff Nappa and Vegeta did during spring.” Raditz explained with a grimace.

“I was too busy cultivating trees to think about it and ended up feeling better without it.” Turles says with a sigh.

“I legit grew up with the only person around being my dad. There’s no way I ever experienced that.” Broly added.

Broly and Turles had met each other last summer; this would have signified a full year of knowing each other and living with Paragus if the guy didn’t go bat shit.

“Well maybe you three will actually experience something this year!” Pumbukin says with a smile.

“I doubt they will honestly.” Totapo adds and everyone just keeps walking.

It wasn’t long before a group of women stopped them to check out the ‘fresh meat’.

One of them noticed Bardock and immediately started flirting.

Bardock just sighed and looked away when the woman tried to get his attention, which made her huff and puff excitedly. After all, Saiyans truly do like things that seem unattainable.

“So what’s his deal?” One of the women asked Selypa.

“His son is with us.” It was the quickest and easiest answer.

“Oh~” the woman cooed as she saw Raditz before turning her attention to Broly.

She immediately started flirting with poor Broly who tried to hide behind Turles in vain.

Turles wanted no part in this but with Broly behind him the woman started to flirt with him.

They both seemed quite uncomfortable with the situation and it made Raditz laugh at them because simply if they just said no the woman would go away like Bardock had already done with the one flirting with him.

“Girls, I’m sorry they’re the after explosion generation. They don’t understand mating season and I think you’re creeping them out.” Toma says as he gets between them and the woman.

The woman then starts flirting with Toma, obviously not ready to go back empty handed.

Selypa, seeing this marches over and pulls Toma’s face to kiss him on the lips. Toma went as red as his namesake and stuttered.

“That’s my man go find another group everyone here is either uninterested or taken!” Selypa growled aggressively with her tail puffed up.

The women took that as a sign to leave and quickly scampered off. Selypa spent the next few minutes holding onto Toma in some way while they walked.

Broly and Turles decided that joining Raditz in the middle of the group was a more surefire way to stop others from flirting with them.

It wasn’t long before a group of men pulled up and started flexing their achievements and muscles.

“It’s like they’ll flirt with anything they can get, at least the women had standards.” Raditz said plainly to Turles as they watched the poor display.

“To be fair male Saiyans take many partners during mating season so they aren’t very picky. Women just choose one at a time until either they’re pregnant or the season is over.” Toma bursts into the conversation.

“What about you, Toma, any spring stories from your youth?” Turles asks, seeing embarrassment creep onto Toma’s face.

“I had a few flings over the years but ultimately I was unable to have kids. Turns out I’m just flat out unable to.” Toma says with a mix of embarrassment and frustration.

“Hey it’s not like that’ll do any good now seeing as we’re dead and all so now everyone can’t have kids. Honestly we could just adopt Broly or something if you wanted one.” Selypa says sweetly as she clings to Toma’s arm.

“That’d be sweet if I was still younger. Pretty sure I survived to be older than you both.” Broly says teasingly.

“Don’t talk to your parents like that young man!” Turles yelled at Broly before breaking into a fit of laughter at his confusion.

Raditz didn’t really have much to say, honestly it’s a pretty good idea. After all, if they did have a kid he’d likely have been born at the same time as Broly.

“Pretty sure Broly is the youngest of us three by birth date.” Raditz says plainly, remembering that Broly said he was born almost the same year as Kakarot.

“Yeah me and Raditz are closer in age while you and Goku are younger than us. That makes you the baby of the group!” Turles teased, causing Broly and him to start arguing.

The whole group laughed at their antics while Bardock got rid of the bachelor group.

“Maybe we should go somewhere less crowded than the streets, less chance of being stopped so much.” Selypa says calmly and Bardock thinks of her idea.

“Yeah there’s a pretty good restaurant nearby with a flight risk watcher!” Turles says excitedly.

“That’d work, I'm hungry.” Pumbukin says as he rubs his stomach.

“Fine, we'll go to the restaurant.” Bardock felt bad about leaving Raditz in the care of another again but if Broly and Turles were with him it wasn’t likely for something to happen.

It was weird to see a few groups just chatting and eating together in a restaurant when there was a whole festival outside but the group was able to find a table that happened to be farther away from the flight risk room.

This only added to Bardock’s anxiety.

But nonetheless he handed Raditz off to the attendant with Turles and Broly both promising to keep an eye on him as well.

With that Bardock and the others were able to get some food without worrying about Pumbukin stealing Raditz’s food.

Inside the ‘daycare’ room there was a small collection of Saiyans running around. As Raditz and Broly looked around, Turles just immediately walked over to an empty table claiming it for their group.

Just then one of the taller members of another group noticed them as they sat down.

“Hey you, you’re pretty weak right.” He stated it like an ultimatum not a question.

“I mean, yeah.” Raditz said calmly while looking at the different card games that were sitting in the middle of the table.

“I’m Oni, what about you?” He says trying to gain Raditz’s attention.

“Raditz… his name is Raditz.” Broly says, looking Oni in the eye.

“A wonderful name. Excuse me!” Oni says as he scampers away.

“That was weird.” Turles says as he shuffles a deck of cards.

“Cards against humanity? I would feel insulted by the name of it if I were a human.” Broly says plainly as he’s given his cards.

“Oh these have some obscene things on them!” Turles says as he looks at his cards in surprise.

“I mean it says dark and dirty humor in the warnings.” Raditz says, pointing out the packaging.

“You’re right it does.” Broly sheepishly says as he sees his cards.

“Well don’t be embarrassed this is played by human teenagers. I’m sure we can handle it. Who the fuck is Mr Satan?” Turles says as he picks up the first black card.

“Human celebrity.” Broly deadpans as he starts packing up the cards.

“These games are too targeted towards humans for us to understand I guess.” Raditz adds.

They then moved onto a board game.

“Candy land sounds weird.” Raditz says plainly remembering the world made out of sugar he had encountered once. He’d never get the feeling of that sticky stuff off his mind; it totally put him off of candy.

Just as they started setting the game up Oni came back and sat next to Raditz at their table.

“I’m sorry this is our table.” Turles says impatiently as he really just wanted to start the game he took so long setting it up.

“Well can I join in then?” Oni asks before grabbing one of the pieces from the box and setting it right next to Raditz’s piece.

Doing this he got closer to Raditz. He was all up in Raditz’s personal space. His tail was even trying to coil itself around Raditz’s.

Raditz didn’t care enough to yell at the guy though and just ignored him.

Broly and Turles saw how touchy Oni was being and how uncomfortable Raditz was but they didn’t know what to do so they just kept awkwardly talking and playing candy land.

The person who was in charge of watching the flight risks ended up calling Raditz over so he could get the food Bardock ordered for him and the others.

Raditz took the chance to get away from Oni immediately and went to go get the food.

“Hey you’re getting way too close to our friend. He keeps moving away from you because he’s uncomfortable.” Turles says aggressively.

“Snooze you lose pal, I’m just shooting my shot after all.” Oni says playfully.

Turles started to throw a small fit but Raditz was back now and shoved a piece of food into Turles’ mouth to shut him up.

Turles happily took his plate of food and forgot to continue his argument now that there was food.

Broly also took his food but still kept an eye on Oni as he continued to try and stay close to Raditz despite Raditz telling him to move over and even pushing him away at one point.

Raditz had to eat with his non-dominant hand because the guy was so close.

That’s when Oni crossed the line by finally coiling his tail around Raditz’s tail.

“Can you back off!” Broly yelled and Broly only really yelled at Turles when he was being an idiot, never at a stranger unless he was fighting them.

“How about no~” Oni said as he snaked an arm around Raditz’s waist.

Raditz felt the arm and without warning just punched the guy. Oni was out the moment Raditz’s fist hit him so he just slumped on the ground.

Turles and Broly were shocked to say the least.

“Damn, his face hurt.” Raditz winced as he shook out his hand.

“I feel like your fist hurt him more…” Turles says as he takes another bite of food.

“What the, here happened to Oni!” One of the others in the room asked as he walked over.

“He was messing with my personal space and I clearly showed I was uninterested but he wouldn’t back off so I punched him.” Raditz explained turning around to face the other man.

“Dude it’s spring! Just tell him to move off or something, don't punch him.” The guy growls as he gets in Raditz’s face.

“My friends told him to leave me alone yet he persisted even when I politely moved away. I believe that is enough justification to punch him.” Raditz calmly stated looking the other Saiyan in the eye.

The other Saiyan raised a fist and tried to punch Raditz but Raditz blocked his fist and head butted the guy causing him to fall back and hold his bloody nose with a wince.

Broly and Turles got up ready for a fight and two others from the other group ran over one checked on Oni and the other guy tried to punch Turles.

Turles dodged the punch and went to hit him back only for the guy to tackle him into the table with his elbow on Turles’ throat.

Raditz seemed to be holding his own quite well so Broly ran to Turles’ aid grabbing the guy by the back of his shirt and throwing him.

“You alright Turles?” Broly asks as he helps Turles up.

“Yeah, I just got caught off guard.” Turles says as he rubs his throat.

“Woah, woah break it up! Break it up!” The Saiyan who watches them says as he comes back into the room to assess the situation.

“What in the HFIL happened.” The guy asked as he separated the groups and woke up Oni.

“That guy was getting too close to our friend and wouldn’t back off so he punched him. And then those idiots picked a fight after their friend started everything!” Turles explained his blood was still boiling.

“It’s Spring!” Was Oni’s only retort.

“Oni just because it’s Spring doesn’t mean you have the right to make other people uncomfortable. And Raditz, don’t just punch people, tell someone who can help without violence.” The keeper says as everyone starts to calm down.

“Since you guys obviously can’t stay together alone without trouble I’m going to see if any of your guardians are ready to leave.” The keeper says as he leaves the room.

“So~ Raditz, want to talk privately?” Oni says as he somehow managed to get right beside Raditz again.

“Dude he already punched you in the face once back off!” Turles growled in frustration.

“Raditz was right, Oni is being weird. He’s not usually like this, I'm sorry.” The other Saiyan says as he grabs Oni by the back of his shirt.

“Oni you’re harassing him at this point stop it.” Oni got chewed out by his friends as the door opened showing Bardock walking into the room.

“Hold on, is that Bardock!” Oni yells looking behind his friends.

They all turned to see Bardock walk over.

“Are you alright Raditz I heard that something happened.” Bardock asks as he pulls Raditz closer to examine him for any injuries.

“I’m fine dad, just a little disagreement.” Raditz says calmly his injuries had already healed so there wasn’t much for Bardock to find anyway.

Turles on the other hand had a nasty bruise still forming on his neck.

“Damn who got you by the neck.” Bardock says mockingly.

“Oh wow not gonna motherhen me I see how it is Bardock!” Turles yells jokingly before having a small coughing fit.

Broly rubbed Turles’ back as he coughed trying not to laugh at Turles’ misery.

“Let’s go home before the streets get crowded with people who I’d rather not bump into.” Bardock says as he grabs Raditz’s arm to pull him outside with Broly and Turles walking after them.

“Dude you harassed Bardock’s son! You could’ve gotten killed a second time!” Oni’s friends yelled at him as he curled into a ball on the floor.

And like that Raditz realized just how much spring sucks.

Chapter Text

Raditz was bored again Selypa and Toma had decided to move out and start living next door while Turles and Broly moved into their room since Paragus’ house disappeared.

Cell and Frieza started coming over more often despite the fact they always seemed to be arguing about something. They actually started to become friends.

Bardock actually trusted them to watch Raditz while he worked too so that gave Raditz more outside time and more importantly time to play card and board games with his friends.

Today was the day Cell and Frieza were allowed to watch the three Saiyans at their house instead of the group’s house.

Bardock walked with Raditz and the two currently arguing Saiyans.

Apparently Broly was upset that Turles had taken the last pancake.

They reached the back gate oddly enough, finding the door already open.

“Cell, did you leave the door open again?” Frieza asked, looking at Cell.

“I’m an Android. I won't forget to close a damn door.” Cell says with a yawn.

“That means someone else probably started using the back gate. We’ll have to be more cautious now.” Bardock says as he hands Cell Raditz’s leash.

“You’re like a very ugly puppy.” Cell says jokingly.

“Says the green bug man.” Raditz responds.

“At least neither of us are as ugly as the lizard over there.” Cell teases.

“I heard that!” Frieza hissed.

The group walked a good bit away from the camp before Cell thought it’d be a good idea to take off Raditz’s leash.

So Raditz decided he wanted to play a game of tag.

Raditz waited until Cell started to roll up the leash before bolting.

Turles yelled as he tried to catch Raditz failing, ending up with his face on the ground.

Broly was next as he tried to grab Raditz’s hair but Raditz just jumped and landed on his face before jumping off into the air causing Broly to fall onto his back.

Turles started laughing at Broly as the other two went to try and catch Raditz.

“God damn it Raditz!” Cell yelled as he failed to grab Raditz twice.

Frieza was up and he watched as Raditz ran circles around Cell.

Frieza simply stuck his tail out and ended up tripping Cell instead of Raditz.

“What the here Frieza!” Cell yells as he gets up.

“Nu uh stay down you lost.” Turles says and Cell accepts his defeat and lays down.

“It shouldn’t count, Frieza tripped me, not Raditz!” Cell argued but the other two just mocked him.

Frieza was the last man standing trying to use his tail to grab Raditz.

He ended up grabbing Raditz’s tail with his own, causing Raditz to fall flat on his face.

“Hah I win!” Frieza says triumphantly as he lets Raditz go.

“That was dirty. Pun intended!” Raditz says as he stands up.

“Well maybe train your tail more.” Turles says bitterly as he brushed the dirt off himself.

“Aww is Turles being a sore loser!” Broly cooed.

“Shut up Broly you lost too!” Turles barks.

Everyone eventually got up and they finally made it to the house.

“I may hate Cell with a passion but he does make a good house.” Frieza says plainly as he walks into the house.

“I mean I’m programmed to learn things quickly so why not have building houses in my arsenal?” Cell says as he sits on a cushioned bench they used as chairs for their table.

Raditz chose to sit beside Cell with Broly and Turles sitting on the other side so Frieza can have the head of the table.

“So what did we bring to do again?” Turles asks and Raditz reaches into his hair.

“Huh looks like I took my stuff out last night and forgot to put it back in this morning.” Raditz says sheepishly.

“Great, so now we have nothing to do.” Frieza complains loudly.

“I have an idea, let's go check out that area we saw when we were choosing where to build our house!” Cell says excitedly.

“Are you sure that area is quite dangerous? What if something gets Raditz again?” Frieza reasons.

“Rude, I can usually take care of myself as seen earlier. The only times I really need help is when something catches me.” Raditz says with a huff.

“See, Raditz would be fine after all he dodged all of us earlier. Besides, if we do run into something dangerous he can always distract it while we take it down!” Cell adds as he slings an arm around Raditz’s shoulder.

“Please Frieza!” Both Raditz and Cell ask their eyes big.

“What about you two, have any stake in this?” Frieza asks only to see both Broly and Turles looking at him with big eyes as well.

“You all are a bunch of idiots, fine. But if something happens I’m not going to be the one who tells Bardock.”

Everyone cheered as they got up.

The place behind Cell and Frieza’s house was pretty cold with snow covering most of the ground. It was odd seeing as it sat next to a jungle and a desert.

But honestly it could’ve been weirder.

“You know I think this is the last part of HFIL that I haven’t mapped out yet!” Cell says excitedly as he scans the environment.

“All I know is this place is way too cold!” Turles grumbles as he shivered.

Broly decides to huddle up with Turles as both of them start shivering.

“Saiyans are better suited towards tropical or warmer climates so it makes sense that you both are freezing.” Frieza says plainly.

“W-why are you not sh-shivering Raditz!” Broly asks, looking at Raditz who was completely fine.

“I like the cold so I usually went to the arctic climates during missions when I was alive because Vegeta and Nappa barely could move an inch without shivering.” Raditz shrugged as he kept moving.

“So you are useful in combat, it's just when you’re in cold climates when other Saiyans falter.” Frieza says laughing at Broly and Turles.

“W-well if you’re so warm Frieza. You sh-should share!” Turles says as he lunges and manages to hug Frieza from behind.

“Get off of me!” Frieza yells as Broly runs over and joins in with the group hug.

“Help, Cell! Raditz! Get them off of me!” Frieza yelled but neither moved to help him.

He was eventually freed by the Saiyan duo as the group continued their journey.

Cell stopped abruptly and grabbed Raditz, moving him back.

“There’s something on my sensors and it’s big.” Cell warns as the ground around them trembles.

“Run!” Turles yells as he and Broly start to run away from the ground breaking behind them.

They didn’t have to hear that twice as the whole group started sprinting at full speed running from the growing sinkhole.

“Guys over here!” Raditz yelled as he found a large rock to stand on.

He helped pull Frieza up while Cell and Broly, who was holding Turles under his arm, just jumped up.

Everyone sat or knelt down panting as they caught their breath.

“T-that was stressful.” Turles huffed out.

“Tell me about it, I almost fell in twice!” Broly stressed.

“Hey, has anyone seen Raditz?” Cell asks as he notices that Raditz and Frieza were missing.

Turles immediately looked over the edge where they were but didn’t see them at the bottom.

“They aren’t here!” Turles says as he looks back and then notices that they just had moved behind Cell.

“We’re right here you overgrown roach.” Frieza says as he stands up and dusts off the powdered snow that covered his body.

“Side note, how are you so heavy when you’re that short?” Raditz asks before getting hit on the head by a snowball from Frieza.

“Don’t think we can go back that way again.” Broly says as he looks at the large fall they’d have to endure.

“Yeah I doubt you’d survive it.” Raditz jokes looking over the edge judging the distance.

“Don’t even think about it, Raditz.” Cell warns as he grabs Raditz by the back of his vest.

“I’ve fallen further.” Raditz grumbles as Cell pulls him and Broly away from the edge.

“Did you fall with Ki to help catch you? Because you don’t have that right now.” Turles reasons as Broly sneezes behind him.

Raditz just sighs and looks around.

“There’s a cave over here, we can see where it goes. It seems steady enough.”

Cell walks over and scans the cave before thinking for a moment.

“Yeah the cave is pretty stable so it may lead somewhere. It’d also be warmer than out here for those two.” He says pointing to Broly and Turles.

With a plan in mind Raditz and Cell enter the cave first followed by Turles and Broly and of course the anchor Frieza.

“This cave is a lot longer than I thought.” Cell says as they’d been walking for an hour already.

“If we were still alive I’d be starving to death right now!” Turles complains loudly.

“I packed snacks but we left them at the house.” Raditz adds sheepishly.

That’s when they came across a small tunnel only big enough for one person at a time to crawl through.

“Yeah I doubt me and Broly can fit through that.” Cell says as he examines the hole.

“The scanner says there’s a room on the other side but I can’t see what’s in it other than a button that likely opens this crack in the wall.”

“Well then who’s going into the wall, me or Turles.” Frieza asks but before they could decide Raditz was already squeezing his upper half into the tunnel.

“Raditz we don’t even know if you’ll actually fit-“ Cell gets out just as Raditz comes back out and proceeds to dislocate his shoulder.

“Raditz what the fuck!” Turles yelled but Raditz was already back in the tunnel.

“I don’t think I’ve ever felt so disgusted at the sound of a joint dislocation before.” Frieza says with a gag.

“Well from personal experience it makes you feel worse when you actually care about the person who’s gaining the injury.” Broly says plainly as they watch Raditz’s feet disappear into the tunnel.

“Why didn’t anyone try to pull him out?” Broly asks.

“If we did, he'd probably just try again. Besides, it’s not like Turles or Frieza wanted to do it.” Cell deadpans.

They then hear a loud scraping sound as the wall opens to show the room with Raditz standing there popping his shoulder back into place.

“I swear if any of you tell dad I did that I won’t talk to any of you for a week.” Raditz stated seriously as the others filtered into the room.

“Raditz you are one crazy bastard.” Turles states as Cell scans the large hallway at the back of the room.

“That’s odd the hallway won’t scan.” Cell says hesitantly.

“It’s just a hallway Cell what’s the worst that could happen?” Broly says as he walks forward with Turles right behind him.

Cell sighs and follows them reluctantly.

“Isn’t it odd that Cell can’t scan the hallway?” Raditz asks and Frieza just shrugs as they follow.

The hallway was long and cold with every movement causing a small amount of fear in Cell, seeing as he couldn’t tell if there were any traps or other things.

And true to intuition Broly stepped on an odd rock that sunk into the floor with a loud click.

“Broly what the fuck!” Turles yelled as the floor below them opened, dropping everyone through the floor.

Cell floundered in the air while Broly and Turles tried their best to hold onto one another.

Frieza being the closest in proximity to Raditz grabbed him and held on.

Two cages waited below where everyone fell.

Broly and Turles both landed on their feet like spider man while Cell was unfortunate and fell onto his back bending one of his wings.

Frieza himself landed gracefully while Raditz somehow managed to land on his own tail.

“What is this place?” Turles asked as he looked around.

The cages had closed with Frieza and Raditz in one while Cell and the other two found themselves in a bigger cage.

“These bars won’t bend!” Broly stressed as he tried to bend the bars.

Cell groaned as his wing slowly bent itself back into place.

“Don’t worry Cell, Raditz also landed on his own body part.” Frieza said with a shit eating grin.

“Screw you Frieza!” Cell yelled as he put up his middle finger.

“Guys where are we, that’s what Turles asked and what I’m asking so where could we have ended up?” Raditz asks as he fixes the fur on his tail.

With that reminder of the current situation everyone examined the room.

The room was pretty big in fact it would be more fit to be called a hall. The only thing in it was the two cages that held the group.

“Do you by any chance have knowledge on how to unlock locks?” Turles asks Cell.

Cell just sighs as he gets the relief of his wing being healed. “I never really needed to know that so no I never learned how.”

“The one time I want you to have random knowledge you don’t have what I need great.” Frieza grumbles.

“Why are you and Raditz in a second cage?” Turles asks, seeing the bars between them.

“I guess that the trap was meant to exclude one person from the group seeing as if Frieza didn’t grab me I’d have landed with you guys.” Raditz reasons.

Turles was about to say something but Cell shushed him.

“I hear someone coming.” Cell says calmly as he stands with his arms folded.

And like that our group has been captured!

Can’t wait to see where this goes?

Tune in to the next chapter to figure it out!

Chapter Text

Sup guys not another chapter just an accident lol

I was using a website to look up Bardock’s squad’s names and turns out the website was wrong!!! About some names

I’ll probably be going through and fixing the chapters but yeah sorry!!

The only two of Bardock’s old squad I remembered when writing this initially was Bardock and Gine imma be real!

So the ones whose names I messed up will be fixed mark my words!!!

Aka I’ll start using their anime names…

Here’s the ones I messed up!

Fasha = Selypa
Borgos = Totapo
Pumbukin = Panbukin = Shugesh
Tora = Toma

I may actually continue using their names I have been!

But honestly you guys could just count them as completely unrelated characters tbh I didn’t really research Bardock’s crew much because I didn’t plan for them to take an active role in the story but my tired ass shush made them a part of it!!

So yeah I think I’ll keep them how I’ve made them this far but I do feel silly for messing them up lol

Anyways I’ll post the next chapter soon just wanted to clear anything up just in case people were confused by their names and all!

I also barely know anything about them so I just made stuff up for their backstories lol I was too invested in Bardock and Gine to pay attention to them!

See ya!

Chapter Text

Cell looked at the large doors at the other side of the room with a steady glare.

Turles and Broly were both tense seeing how aggressive Cell was being.

Frieza kept his usual elegance looking at the door waiting to see who should walk through the door.

Raditz you ask? He was just chilling out fixing the fur on his tail.

The doors were opened by two weird aliens with obvious Frieza force ties seeing as they wore the armor and scouters despite the fact scouters didn’t work in the afterlife.

The only piece of machinery that seemed to work was Cell.

Behind the duo was the large and dominant form of King Cold who strode into the room confidently.

“Frieza there you are my darling baby boy. You have no idea how much me and Cooler missed you~” King Cold said in his usual tone.

“Wait, Frieza's dad is who trapped us?” Turles asked, looking at the others for confirmation.

Frieza’s tongue clicked as he wore a scowl.

“Let me and my companions out or you will regret it. Father.” Frieza said coldly.

Raditz felt he needed to be supportive of Frieza so he stood up and curled his tail loosely around Frieza’s.

Frieza probably didn’t understand the fact it's what Saiyans do to comfort one another but Frieza could just tell Raditz to let go.

(Not a ship, a loose curl is a way to comfort one another!

This is how I’ve structured the Saiyan tail language yk

Coiling tighter is what they do if they’re either courting one another or if they’re just close to one another.

Friends, family, and those who want to be closer to you.)

Frieza seemed a bit more brazen now that Raditz was essentially doing the tail equivalent to holding his hand.

“No can do Frieza you left during the big day so now you have to make it up to me!” King Cold said in a sickly sweet tone.

He walked over to Frieza and Raditz’s cage only now noticing the Saiyan.

“It seems like you’ve gotten yourself a pet. Oh well this one doesn’t seem very strong. I'll allow you to have your emotional support monkey.” Kind Cold says nonchalantly as he unlocks the cage.

“As for the others, they will be kept here until you finish what we started!” Cold said as he walked away leaving Raditz and Frieza locked in the room.

“What did he mean by that?” Cell asked as he relaxed his stance.

“I left during a business trip. My father has been trying to ally with the other camps to attempt to take over HFIL. He plans to use me and my brother to get this done.” Frieza spits out.

“That sounds like he’s going to eventually try to talk to the Saiyan camp too.” Turles says with wide eyes.

Frieza sighs. “He plans to take over all camps with force. He already took over the one I created as well as the one my brother Cooler commanded. He locked us in this place so he could give orders to our armies in our places.”

“So that means your brother should be here too.” Cell says it less like a question and more of a statement.

“We should free Cooler and work together to escape. We can all hide out at the Saiyan camp territory until we come up with a way to get your camp back from Cold.” Raditz says and everyone looks at him like he said something odd.

“What?” Raditz sounded a bit offended.

“It’s just that you never seemed like such a strategist before.” Turles stated sheepishly.

“Well what else do you think kept me alive until I died to Piccolo. I had to be crafty thanks to my lower power level.” Raditz says with a shrug.

“Yeah that’s great and all but how are we going to get out to find Frieza’s brother anyway. It’s not like we can break these bars.” Cell says as he punches the bars for good measure.

“No one asked me if I could pick locks.” Raditz said plainly as he pulled a small lock pick set out of his hair.

“So you forgot the card games but remembered a lock pick set.” Turles complains.

“Yeah.” Raditz deadpans as he opens the cage door.

“You know if it wasn’t for the fact you are my friend I’d punch you.” Cell grumbles.

“I’ll punch him.” Turles says as he playfully punches Raditz’s shoulder.

“We should try to leave using the side entrance. No one uses it.” Frieza states as Raditz starts picking the lock on the doors.

“What is with these camps and not using perfectly good entrances?” Cell complains as Broly helps Raditz open the door.

“So where would they keep Cooler?” Turles asks as the group carefully filtered into the hallway.

“They’d keep him in the other hall. This way.” Frieza says as he grabs Raditz by the shirt.

Everything seemed calm, no guards or anything like they might have been elsewhere.

The door wasn’t very far either; it looked just like the rooms doors the group had been sitting in.

“Think you can get it open, Raditz.” Frieza asks as he turns Raditz to face the door.

“Seems easy enough.” Raditz says as he crouches down to unlock the door.

“Does your father have a shortage of guards?” Cell asks, looking at Frieza.

“Yes actually many of my fathers forces preferred me or Cooler over him so he has only a small group of loyal attendants. Those two guards from before and about ten others should be his whole camp. Me and Cooler’s camps are much bigger. Though our camps merged after I was revived.” Frieza explains.

The door opens to find an eerily similar room with two cages.

In one cage sat Cooler it was much smaller than the one Frieza and Raditz were in. Cooler had to be curled up to fit in it.

As for the other one it was much more spacious with Cooler’s armored squad inside.

“Mr Cooler!” The blue French one named Salza yelled.

“Shut up you idiotic bastard unless you want Cold to catch us.” Frieza growled loudly.

That seemed to shut them up as Cooler lifted his head to see Frieza walking into the room.

“Have you actually allied with father you fucking sell out.” Cooler growled as the group quietly filtered into the room with Cell closing the door behind them.

“No, I’ve come at the advice of my allies to free you against my better judgement. I’d much rather leave you to rot.” Frieza huffs.

Raditz smacked Frieza on the back of the head causing the lizard to yelp.

Cooler looked at Raditz like he was about to get his head cut off but to Cooler’s surprise Frieza didn’t do anything except sigh and roll his eyes.

“That’s odd you’d usually have harmed someone for even looking at you weirdly you damn softy.” Cooler says as he watches Raditz move over to his cage.

“Well Raditz here is an exception. You told me I was too cruel to my own men and so I decided to make friends.” Frieza says in a lighter manner.

“To think you’d make friends with a monkey.” Cooler said with a bite to his words.

“Hypocrite you’re friends with that squad leader of yours.” Frieza retorts as Raditz finishes unlocking Cooler’s cage.

“What is so special about this monkey that’s got you so enamored? He seems weak.” Cooler asks as he grabs Raditz’s face to examine him.

“I am weak, probably the weakest Saiyan in the afterlife.” Raditz says as he pulls away.

“Why are you friends with someone so weak? I’d have assumed your first friend would be someone of similar skill and strength to you.” Cooler says as Raditz walks over and starts picking the lock on the other cage.

“Like the bug man.” Cooler says plainly.

“Me and Cell are enemies. We may have a common friend but we are still enemies nonetheless.” Frieza grumbled.

“Aww and here I thought we were roommates.” Cell says mockingly.

“That too.” Frieza huffs.

“And those two?” Cooler asks, looking at Broly and Turles.

“Friends of Raditz’s that I’ve grown to enjoy being around.” Frieza says plainly.

“What, am I not allowed to have simple ordinary friends, brother?”

Cooler just looked bewildered at the fact that Frieza was willing to stay around so many Saiyans.

“Mr Cooler!” Salza yells as he’s freed.

“Calm down Salza, everything will be fine.” Cooler says softly as Salza moves to hold his hand.

“Seems like you’re actually quite a skilled monkey.” Cooler says in a more lively tone.

“I’ve been told I have weird talents.” Raditz says calmly as he walks over to Frieza.

Frieza seemed a bit nervous so Raditz curled his tail around Frieza’s again.

“What is it he’s doing with your tails?” Cooler asks suspiciously.

“That’s the way us Saiyans comfort one another without saying anything out loud. It’s nothing weird. It’d be weirder if Raditz coiled his tail.” Turles says plainly.

“Well either way you all better have a plan to get us out. I wish to go back to my camp.” Cooler grumbles.

“Cool it buddy, we have a plan but you may have to wait a while to go back to your camp. Cold’s forces are definitely going to try and interfere with our plans if we try to go there.” Cell says as he intercepts the conversation.

“We would be hiding out in the Saiyan territory until we can get a plan in place to fight back against our father.” Frieza states.

Cooler seemed nervous about the plan but it’s not like he had a better one so with a heavy sigh he agreed to go along with Frieza’s whim.

“What’s the plan to get out?” Salza asks, wanting a more detailed plan.

“Dude simply put we just go.” Raditz says and everyone looks at him like he’s crazy.

“Look if it makes you guys nervous we could just use the back door too, I saw it on this. Swiped it off Cold earlier.” Raditz says as he digs through his hair to pull out a map of the base.

“You had this the whole time and didn’t say anything!” Cell yelled in frustration.

“No one asked if I had a map.” Raditz calmly answered with a shrug.

“One problem is that the back door only opens from the outside.” Cooler states pointing at the map.

“But the side door is usually unguarded. However recently father has been growing his forces. They should be patrolling the halls.” Cooler explains.

“Ever since he locked me and Frieza up he’s slowly turned our armies against us in his favor. Gaining their trust.” Cooler grumbled, Salza just rubbed his hand calmly.

“Why didn’t we see any guards on our way here then?” Frieza was flabbergasted at the fact no one had caught them.

“I’m not stupid, I planned for this. It should be lunch time right now after all.” Raditz states pulling out a time table sheet.

“I took this from Cold too, no idea why he had it but it’s the guards shift changes. We left just as lunch started. The first shift should be finished soon.” Raditz explained.

“I stand corrected, he's a smart monkey.” Cooler says with an amused smirk.

“And that’s racist.” Cell teases.

“We should wait until the next shift changes before going then.” Cooler says taking the sheet from Raditz’s hands only to see it was the morning time table.

“Yeah you see I’m not magic I could only grab these. But there’s air ducts that go through the whole building we can use to sneak around.” Raditz points out the giant ass air ducts.

“It takes a lot to heat this place so the air ducts are giant. If we go to the boiler room using the air ducts then we can freeze out most of Cold’s forces. They seem to mostly be made up of tropical species that wouldn’t do well with the cold hence the underground base.”

“Sounds like a hassle.” Cooler winces at how small the openings for the air ducts are.

“The openings are bigger than the cave opening. I’m sure we could all squeeze in.” Raditz says plainly.

“Sounds like a plan. Let’s try and get in.” Frieza says walking over to the air duct opening.

It was a bit too far off the ground for anyone to simply reach but it was definitely a big enough opening to get into.

“I have an idea on how to get up there actually.” Raditz says walking over.

“There’s nothing for us to use to stand on to get up there though.” Frieza points out.

“Hey Broly, mind giving me a boost!” Raditz yells and Broly immediately walks over.

Broly kneeled down and grabbed Raditz’s foot, boosting him into the air. Frieza grimaced as Raditz hit the wall barely holding onto the small ledge of the air duct.

“Be careful Raditz, Bardock will have our heads on a platter if you get hurt!” Turles says as Raditz pulled himself up high enough to take out the screwdriver he had in his hair.

“You had enough time to grab a screwdriver but didn’t get the playing cards!?” Cell complained loudly.

“Look out!” Raditz yelled as the air duct door fell, almost hitting Cell.

Raditz then pulled himself into the opening before somehow turning around.

“It’s just the opening that’s this small, inside is a lot taller.” Raditz says as he looks down at the others.

“Lower your tail down so we can climb up!” Cooler suggested.

“No can do, my tail’s untrained.” Raditz says plainly as Broly looked ready to boost someone again.

“I guess I’ll go next.” Frieza says as he copies what Raditz did and was vaulted up.

He grabbed Raditz’s outstretched arm and was pulled into the air duct.

This process was repeated until Broly was the last one still in the room.

“Cmon Broly!” Turles says as Raditz and him both stuck an arm out of the opening.

Broly backed up and got a running start, jumping just high enough for Turles to grab one of his arms before swinging so Raditz could grab the other.

“This is surprisingly spacious.” Cooler comments as Broly is pulled up.

“Well there’s little rooms like this scattered through the air ducts the rest of the way is single file.” Raditz says as he stands up dusting off his clothes.

“Raditz, while it pains me to say this. As you are the one with the map you should go first. Cell would be a good choice if-“ Frieza said but was cut off.

“If my damn sensors would stop glitching!” Cell grumbled dramatically.

“I’m practically flying blind right now.” He says as he wasn’t looking at anyone he was facing the wall.

“Jeez and I thought my eyes were bad.” Turles said seeing Cell turn around at his comment.

With that Raditz led the way through the air ducts which were more like a system of tunnels forming a maze around the base.

“Damn.” Raditz said, sounding frustrated.

The group had been walking in a straight single file line for the last 20 minutes and they reached a dead end.

“What’s wrong?” Frieza asked quietly, trying to peek around Raditz’s hair to see the path ahead.

“The floor ahead is over a room but the bottom of the ducts is flimsy.” Raditz says moving out of the way so the others could see the gated flooring.

“I’m sure you’re light enough just keep going.” Frieza says as he pushes Raditz forward.

“Frieza seriously it’s not safe-“ Raditz says as he’s pushed over the gate that fell off the moment his weight touched it making Raditz fall comedically right in front of King Cold.

Cold acted immediately after seeing Raditz fall attempting to grab him but Raditz dodged and tried to jump back into the vent only for Cold to swipe at him knocking him into a wall.

“Raditz!” Frieza yelled jumping down and kicking King Cold in the back of the head causing him to fall.

Frieza took that chance to dash over to Raditz who was just standing up.

“Frieza!” Cold yelled out but was silenced by Cooler jumping down onto his head pushing it further into the floor.

“Looks like your monkey was right. It was unstable.” Cooler said with a condescending tone.

Everyone took the opportunity to jump down leaving Cold’s head lodged into the floor.

“Let’s just go the normal way to the side door. It should be over there.” Raditz says quickly as he points down the hall and starts running.

The group was able to beat two guards blocking the way and find exit the door, finding the snowy landscape outside being hit by a blizzard.

“I know we’re already dead and all but it’s a really bad idea to go out there.” Raditz says as he struggles to close the door again.

Broly and Cooler ended up helping him and they barely got it to close.

“How long do snow storms in HFIL usually take?” Cell asks between huffs of air.

“Too long for us to use this exit. Good thing the snow storms here usually only affect a small area; the other exits should be clear as day.” Cooler says as Raditz looks at the map and grimaces.

“Yeah the problem with that is the amount of guards that we’re going to have to deal with.” Raditz says as he shows the others the points on the map that indicated heavily guarded areas. And all of them were in the way of both exits.

“Let’s go for the other exit back here, the front exit would be a death trap but the blizzard should be moving this way anyway so it’d make good cover to stop them from following us after we get out.” Turles says pointing at the back exit on the map.

Frieza led the way this time with Raditz right beside him as the group snaked through the halls avoiding the heavily guarded areas in their way.

“Here we are!” Frieza says triumphantly as he opens the door.

Everyone pushed their way out of the door leaving Raditz last to exit just as a group of guards was approaching.

One of the guards blew a whistle spooking Raditz who quickly slipped out the door closing it behind him.

“We need to run now they saw us!” Raditz yelled and the group started running.

“My mapping systems are back online this way!” Cell yells, getting everyone to follow him as he runs.

Frieza fell back to run beside Raditz who seemed to be falling behind on his own.

“Are you alright?” Frieza asks, seeing Raditz struggling.

“Yeah I think I’m just running out of energy or something. This is what I get for playing around earlier.” Raditz said with a few heavy breaths.

“Yes you did run around a lot today compared to how much you usually get out.” Frieza comments remembering the game of tag earlier as well as the time Raditz pulled him onto the rock and just a few minutes ago when Raditz helped everyone into the air ducts.

Not to mention the scuffle with King Cold.

Raditz was running on fumes.

“Cell! Raditz is running out of steam!” Turles yelled after looking back to see Frieza checking on Raditz.

“I think we’re far enough for us to relax a bit.” Cell says as he himself was huffing and puffing out of exhaustion.

As everyone slowed down half the group collapsed out of exhaustion.

“We’re only a good few miles or so away from the desert.” Cell says as he gets his breathing under control.

“Thank Beerus for that.” Frieza huffed as he sat next to Raditz.

“Are we sure they won’t follow us?” Cooler asks, looking behind them.

They had managed to run far enough that the base was nowhere in sight thankfully but it still made Cooler nervous to be in the frozen area.

“We should be fine since that blizzard hit them just as we got out of the way.” Turles comments pointing at the large cloud in the distance.

“Fair point monkey.” Cooler says with a sigh.

“That’s Racist.” Turles bit out.

They had trained Frieza out of calling them that a few days ago but he still slipped up at times.

“Everybody ready to get going again? If we don’t move now we’ll be in serious trouble.” Cell comments looking at the time.

“What do you mean by that?” Cooler asks, confused at the grimace that appeared on Frieza’s face.

“Raditz’s dad is going to come to me and Frieza’s house to pick him up in an hour. We have about a 40 minute walk back. That should be enough time to hide the fact we left the house at all.” Cell says as the others start standing up.

“You could always tell him I got out from one of your giant ass windows.” Raditz points out.

“Last time Bardock realized I lied to him I was absolutely destroyed. I do not want to go through that again.” Cell said with fear in his eyes.

“Isn’t Raditz an adult?” Salza asked his French accent shining through.

“Yeah but when my dad died I was a kid so he’s still got the mentality of a dad with two young kids. Not to mention my mom went to heaven so I’m the only family he’s got at the moment.” Raditz explained with a sigh.

“Remember that some people actually have good parents unlike you two’s psychotic dad.” Broly says plainly.

“Broly, didn't you kill your dad?” Turles says loudly.

“Yeah, but my dad was a piece of shit too. Pretty sure Raditz is the only one of our friend group that has a healthy set of parents that care about him.” Broly deadpans.

With that the group started their hike back to Frieza and Cell’s house.

“So how did you actually befriend Frieza?” Cooler asks curiously.

Raditz just looked at Cooler like he asked a weird question.

“You didn’t go into detail and I’d like a story for our walk.” Cooler huffed.

“Well I was sulking in a death cave and Cell found me. He talked to me for a few minutes before Frieza came in and they started arguing. We hung out talking for a bit and they made a bet on who could be a better friend.”

Raditz explained absentmindedly while feeling the warmth of the desert hit his skin.

“That is a very odd story. But honestly after all that happened back at the base I feel a sense of camaraderie with you. So I’m assuming the same happened to my brother.” Cooler says calmly realizing that Raditz really was an odd Saiyan.

He seemed to be good at getting others to trust him. That would be a useful ability.

Death changes people. Especially if they feel they need to change.

Chapter Text

The house was in sight giving our party a sigh of relief.

“Thank Kami we got back before Bardock’s arrival.” Cell says with a laugh of triumph.

“I wouldn’t be too sure about that Cell.” Bardock was standing behind the door when Cell opened it causing Cell to jump back in surprise.

“Hey dad.” Raditz says calmly as the others who knew Bardock looked around aimlessly trying not to look the Saiyan in the eye.

“Why did we need to get back before he got here?” Asks Cooler as everyone filtered into the house while Cell and Bardock stayed outside for a ‘talk’.

“My dad’s been overprotective since he found me again. I mean he was more lax when I was a kid so I don’t understand why he’s like this now. But it’s better than him hating me.” Raditz says plainly as he took a seat at the kitchen table.

“Cooler you have to understand that Bardock is a terrifying Saiyan in this world without ki he is surprisingly dangerous.” Frieza says with a shiver.

“Broly may be stronger than everyone in HFIL but Bardock is definitely second strongest in my mind.” Turles explains.

Broly seemed a bit sheepish at the compliment.

“He’s been here long enough to gain strength far surpassing others. Honestly if we didn’t escape Cold’s den on our own there’s a chance Bardock would’ve destroyed the place looking for us.” Frieza adds as Cell came back inside with his wings both bent to look like a bow.

Frieza bursted out laughing at Cell’s misfortune of being the one who Bardock targeted for his wrath; all Cell could do was lay his head on the table.

“What makes that monkey so strong as to beat the both of you?” Cooler asked, curious about Bardock’s abilities.

“For one thing we have no clue. If we did we’d do the same thing he did. He wasn’t that strong before his death but somehow he's grown in power after dying. He’s not actually scary if you get to know him though.” Turles explains as Bardock walks in and goes over to ruffle Raditz’s hair.

“Why, anytime I let you out of my sight some crazy shit happens.” He asks as he sits down next to Raditz.

“Well it’s not every time.” Raditz tried to downplay but Frieza cuts him off.

“It is every time Bardock is away. If I didn’t know any better I’d say you have the whole universe gunning after you. I should be having your luck for all the shit I’ve done.” Frieza deadpans.

“Yeah who cursed you bro?” Cell asks as his wings finally healed.

Somewhere off in the world Piccolo sneezed.

“So what are you guys going to do about Cooler and his friends?” Bardock asks, looking around at the group.

“Well I believe we should make this place a temporary camp just until Cooler gets his camp back.” Cell says excitedly.

Frieza and Cooler looked at Cell like he knocked a screw loose.

“Cell, as much as I tolerate your company… I cannot live with two people I hate.” Frieza grumbled.

“I agree with Frieza. But also I see your point. Father has most of the frozen area under his rule and will be moving this way soon. It would be a good place to make a stand. So I also agree with Cell.” Cooler states weighing the options.

“I would not be opposed to attempting to ‘make up’ to defeat our common enemy. That and your new friends have piqued my interest.” Cooler added.

Frieza looked aghast at how Cooler actually wanted to be anywhere near him.

“You disgust me!” Frieza stuttered out as he stood up and left the room.

“Looks like Frieza’s not used to having a brother instead of a glorified enemy.” Turles says looking at how Cooler’s face shifted at the information.

“You believe I should approach Frieza more as a family member?” Cooler asked like he had a revelation.

“I mean it couldn’t hurt.” Turles added.

“I think you two should try to get along just not in the way Cold wanted you two too. He’s weird.” Broly spoke up.

“Yes, our father always preached that we should get along while also fanning the flames of our rivalry. His ultimatums and threats always seemed so urgent.” Cooler opened up after all these Saiyans seemed to be better at this than anyone else he’d talked to.

“Frieza was to inherit his empire while I was cut out but given false hope that I could fight to gain back my status as heir to the empire. Frieza on the other hand always was threatened to be thrown away if he showed any sign of weakness like attachment.”

“No wonder he was so against actually being my friend.” Cell says like he’d ever actually asked Frieza if he’d like to stop fighting.

“Yeah, Frieza only recently changed since he became friends with me.” Raditz adds looking at the way Frieza used to act versus how he acted now.

“I think it was also Frieza realizing he didn’t actually care about King Cold’s threats anymore. He probably noticed that he’d have people rooting for him even if he’s not emperor of the galaxy.” Bardock says proudly like a dad showing off his child’s improvement.

Like that Cell and Frieza gained a small community and started building a small camp.

It took a few days but they eventually built a few houses and a wall around the camp with a schedule of who would be on watch duty and all.

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Raditz was super bored. Like really, really bored.

After realizing that nothing bad seemed to happen when he was around Bardock started to do his job at night instead. This left him tired and irritable but it also left Raditz with nothing to do.

Turles and Broly had been living in the room beside him but they’d also been spending time at the newly established Cooler camp.

They did bring Cell and Frieza back to hang out with Raditz but that wasn’t the same.

Raditz craved going outside.

Bardock was also starting to worry him. Bardock hadn’t been getting any sleep having to watch Raditz during the ‘day’ hours. Then patrol at ‘night’.

He had no time to rest and relax as he spent most of his time keeping Raditz from escaping. But Raditz hadn’t tried it lately because of how those bags under Bardock’s eyes grew.

It made Raditz feel immensely guilty.

So today he’d do something seeing as Bardock was close to collapsing out of exhaustion.

“Dad, we have to talk.” Raditz said standing in front of Bardock who had just crumpled onto the couch.

“Sure.” Bardock empily answered trying to sit up to look Raditz in the eyes.

“No, stop, lay the fuck down.” Raditz growled as he pushed Bardock back to lay on the couch.

He then turned around and grabbed a blanket that sat on one of the chairs making the couch into a makeshift bed.

“I’m not going to fall asleep so you can run away to get hurt.” Bardock slurred.

“I’m not going to run away.” Raditz says plainly as he moves Bardock’s head moving under it laying his head onto his lap.

“I’m going to make sure you take a nap. Because even though we don’t really need to sleep, you definitely aren’t regaining energy the same as before.” Raditz deadpans laying onto the back of the couch hanging his hair over the back.

Bardock moved and got comfortable before slowly falling asleep.

Raditz would be true to his words and wouldn’t leave unless Bardock allowed it at least until Bardock lets him outside alone.

Bardock was able to take a good nap ranging 5 hours; poor Raditz’s legs felt like static trying not to wake him up.

Frieza and Cell entered the door looking at the duo on the couch before quietly moving to sit on the chairs in the living room.

Cell carefully set up Uno on the table handing Raditz his hand of cards just as Turles and Broly walked in laughing loudly.

Cell, Frieza, and Raditz shushed the both of them as they both joined in the group sitting on the floor together.

“So what’s with Bardock being asleep?” Turles asked quietly.

“He’s not been sleeping well the last couple of days since the Cold incident so I’m making sure he stays asleep at least until he’s able to walk without swaying.” Raditz huffed as he handed Turles a card that was put onto the pile in the middle.

“I’m surprised you didn’t try to escape.” Broly says as Bardock shifts slightly in his slumber.

“I still don’t understand why I’m not allowed to just go out into the camp. It’s not like I’ll leave. I just want to go outside.” Raditz complained in a hushed tone.

“I may not agree with authority but you do realize anytime you get outside something bad happens right?” Turles says with a grimace.

“He’s right, you attract trouble like a moth to flame.” Cell says as he places a card.

“It’s all just a coincidence.” Raditz retorts.

“Raditz, when you stay inside nothing happens, it's all calm, sure there’s some things that happen but they’re usually tame.” Broly tries to explain.

“When dad wakes up I’ll show all of you that when I go outside nothing happens. I’ll just stand there and nothing will happen. You’ll see it’s just a coincidence.” Raditz says determined to prove them wrong as he gets Turles to put down a draw 4 for him.

“Oh you whore!” Frieza yelled, waking up Bardock who immediately sat up and lunged at the table in a tired haze.

The table broke.

“So your plan is to just walk out the door and stand there for a minute to show nothing bad will happen?” Bardock asks as everyone explains the idea to him.

“If I can stand outside and nothing happens then you’ll probably feel less stressed about me going outside.” Raditz explained.

“The plan is foolproof. I'll stand outside for a single minute and nothing will happen then I’ll come back inside.”

“Sure, if nothing happens.” Bardock grumbles.

“What could possibly happen.” Raditz says as Bardock unlocks the door letting him stroll outside confidently.

He walked to the middle of the lawn, turned around and put his hand on his hips with a confident expression.

“I bet 20 that lightning strikes him from the heavens.” Turles says jokingly.

“That’s 60 seconds, come back in!” Cell yelled.

“See nothing happened.” Raditz said plainly as he started to walk back towards the house.

Just as he was about to reach the door something flew at Raditz throwing him across the yard with a yelp.

“Where is he!” An angry red man asked, grabbing Raditz by the collar.

“Jeice!?” Yelled Frieza who recognized the space Australian.

“Lord Frieza!” Jeice yelled with a smile as Bardock lunged at him, throwing Jeice into the ground with a thud.

Muffled cries were heard as Bardock helped Raditz up.

“Jeice, what did we say about jumping the gun?” Burter asked as he walked over.

“How did you both even get in?” Frieza asked, looking at them both as Burter dug Jeice’s upper body out of the ground.

“We just came in through the back door.” Burter explained as the group was all outside.

“No one really questioned us and we saw you coming in here so we just wanted to find you to see if you’ve found the others.” Burter explained.

“Well I haven’t seen anyone from the Ginyu force since we initially escaped from my father’s camp.” Frieza replied knowingly.

“Also sorry about Jeice tackling you Raditz.” Burter sheepishly apologized.

“It’s alright, I’m just surprised he didn’t recognize me.” Raditz replied plainly.

“Well to be fair you do act differently than you used to.” Jeice spoke up.

“Fair enough.” Raditz huffed.

“Oh I just remembered we also came here to warn you guys!” Burter exclaimed.

“Warn us about what?” Bardock asked.

“There’s a crazy old dude who’s been running around looking for Cell and any of Goku’s family members.” Burter explained.

“I bet I know who you’re talking about.
And it won’t be a happy reunion.” Cell says with a nervous look on his face.

“What? Is it someone dangerous?” Frieza asks, looking at Cell’s distressed body language.

“My creator Dr Gero. He’s not exactly dangerous but he’s pretty annoying.” Cell explains.

“So what is he going to smother you or something?” Frieza asks using his own father and Raditz’s parents as a reference.

Paragus was also a point of reference.

“More like he’s probably going to try to get me to join him in a revenge tour. That and he’s going to target Raditz and Bardock.” Cell says with a sigh.

“Isn’t he the guy who got a hold of my bones?” Raditz asked and everyone looked at him in horror.

“He took my bones. That's all I know. I don't know what he did with them but he had them. I think.” Raditz says as he tries to remember.

“So you were the skeleton he labeled a Saiyan. Eww I literally blew up your dead body for fun!” Cell realized as he looked away and started to gag.

“Good to know that no one has my skeleton anymore at least because that was weird as fuck.” Raditz says plainly.

“Eugh he was so weird who the fuck keeps an alien skeleton as decor!” Cell yells.

The group started moving and decided to go to the Cooler camp for now seeing as they were already outside.

“You sure you aren’t tired dad?” Raditz asked, looking at Bardock who seemed surprisingly re-energized.

“Yeah that was surprisingly the best sleep I’ve had since I first found you.” Bardock replied with a smirk.

“I have a question. Why would your creator go after Raditz and Bardock?” Jeice asks, looking at Cell.

“Raditz is Goku’s older brother, Bardock is his dad. So they are probably the biggest targets on Gero’s list besides me.” Cell explains.

“I don’t understand how Goku could possibly be related to Raditz. Just Bardock I understand. Maybe Turles.” Jeice says flabbergasted.

“I’m actually completely unrelated to Goku. I just idolized Bardock as a kid. That and this is an average hair style for low class Saiyans.” Turles says playing with his hair as an example.

“Still how, Raditz was like the weakest person I knew in any of the special units. How is he related to that absolute powerhouse?” Jeice says still shocked at the information.

“Ouch, and the reason why I was in a special unit at all was because I was a Saiyan.” Raditz says plainly.

“It was also because Vegeta refused to have Raditz taken away from him. I tried to get him moved to the Ginyu force once for field experience with another group but Vegeta threw a fit.” Frieza explained.

“Sounds like Vegeta. I have no clue why he treated me like that but wouldn’t let me leave at the same time.” Raditz grumbled.

Turles spoke up with a hum trying to soothe Raditz.

“I’m sure Vegeta felt a kinship with you since you grew up together. Even if he was an asshole he probably was at least a little upset you died.” Raditz just looked at Turles.

“If that makes you sleep better at night then that’s the story. But the reality is that Vegeta and Nappa barely cared about me besides I used to be an asshole. No one would like someone who acts how I used to.” Raditz shivered remembering how he used to act.

All the things he did, what he tried to do. Sure it was all heat of the moment and sometimes you say and do things you don’t mean too when you’re stressed but.

That doesn’t excuse what he did to Kakarot and Gohan.

“What’s this place?” Jeice asked, looking at the walls of Cooler’s camp.

“Jeice!?” A loud French accent yelled as the gates opened.

“Salza!?” Jeice yelled back seeing the blue man.

“I forgot you two know each other honestly.” Frieza commented looking at the two stare each other down aggressively.

“Salza, stop fighting with Jeice, we need to think of a plan and to do that they need to come inside.” Cooler says, putting a hand on Salza’s shoulder.

“Cooler is right we need to put aside our conflicts at least until the immediate threat is eliminated.” Frieza says as he walks inside.

The group made their way to the hall, a large building with a big table and enough chairs for everyone.

“So what’s the problem now?” Cooler asks, looking at Raditz.

“Why are you looking at me?” Raditz asks calmly.

“Usually something bad happens when you are outside, Frieza told me.” Cooler teased.

“My creator is on his way to likely ensure the destruction of Goku’s family in the afterlife as well as to attempt to gain my allegiance.” Cell explains.

“Does he have any weapons he could use against us?” Cooler asked, intrigued at the prospect of meeting Cell’s creator.

“He likely has engineered something to take me down if something goes against his plans.” Cell says nervously.

Unlike the usual way he treats Cell, Frieza decides he needs to do something subconsciously curling his tail around Cell’s wing similar to how Raditz had done to him.

Cell looked at Frieza with surprise but Frieza just gave him a playful shove and looked at Cooler who was processing the information.

“There’s many weaknesses you could have from the various species you’re made up of.” Cooler deadpans looking up to see Frieza glaring at him.

“We can figure it out, maybe he has tail weakness like us Saiyans!” Turles suggests.

“Nope I have had my tail hurt many times but never experienced the same weaknesses as you Saiyans.” Cell shot down that idea and the group went back to brainstorming.

“Maybe you have cold blood like us Arcosians?” Frieza suggested.

“But don’t you like, stand in the vacuum of space a lot?” Raditz asks.

“Yes I do and Cooler does but that’s because of our unique nature as mutants.” Frieza admitted.

“Hard no I have gone to the vacuum before I had no issues there.” Cell dismissed another idea.

“Maybe something to do with the human parts of you?” Broly suggested.

“Humans have no distinct weaknesses other than the fact they’re weaker naturally but they can train themselves out of that.” Cell sighs.

“I have an idea.” Bardock said and everyone looked at him.

“Maybe he has bug repellent.” Bardock said with a smirk.

Everyone started laughing at that comment other than Cell.

Who was failing at trying to be angry at such a joke.

“Maybe we should think about how we could beat him instead of how he plans to defeat us.” Frieza suggested with agreement all around.

The plan was set.

The general idea was to let Gero think he’d caught them off guard before surrounding him with the power of numbers.

And the hour of the fight was near as all the Saiyans and Cell perked up at the sound of rumbling.

“He’s here.” Cell said plainly and everyone took their positions.

“Cell! I know you’re in there my son!” Gero yelled at the gates dismounting the giant truck he had been riding on.

“I just want to talk!” Gero yelled and the gates opened with Cell, Raditz, and Frieza walking out to investigate first.

Silently through Bardock and the other two Saiyans positioned themselves on the sides and back of Gero’s car.

“What do you need to tell me so badly that you came to find me riding a war truck?” Cell said confidently with Frieza and Raditz by his side.

“I wanted to bring you into the fold. I’m working on a plan to get us back in business!” Gero says excitedly.

“What do you mean by that?” Raditz asks.

“Wait, is that? My prize!” Gero says gleefully recognizing the face of the digital reconstruction of his favorite skeleton.

“Your what?” Frieza asks, taken aback by how Gero looked at Raditz.

It gave him and Cell the creeps they could both feel the familiar shiver.

“He was my prized possession! The skeleton of my worst enemy's brother! I was planning to find you eventually.” Gero says with a disgusting giggle that made Raditz and Cell’s skin crawl.

“You’re the reason I knew about your brother’s worst weakness! I never got to use this weapon against him but now’s a time to show the best weapon against those of your kind! Cell as well.” Gero says with a snap of his fingers.

A deafening screech sounded that started to cause immense pain to Cell and all the Saiyans who writhed in pain.

“What the hell did that thing do to them!?” Frieza asked as he and the others didn’t hear or see anything they had just started screaming and rolling around.

“This puts out a frequency that mimics that of Blutz waves. Essentially they’re stuck in a state of frenzied pain until they transform.” Gero explained calmly.

“Oh no.” Frieza says as Raditz let out a loud growl instead of the screams from before.

Just then Cell stopped writhing with pain breathing heavily still clutching his ears as he stood up.

Raditz started to grow and shift alongside Turles and Bardock who started to change.

“Guys! We need to destroy that machine!” Broly yelled as he ran over to the others.

The giant apes kept writhing on the ground, accidentally destroying the desert area around them.

It seemed like they were stuck. Raditz though just sat there motionless.

“Is he okay?” Gero asked, looking at the giant Raditz who was just staring down at him.

Cell lunged at Gero punching him until he stopped moving.

Turles seemed to figure out how to get up his Great ape form moving wildly growling as he lunged at Broly.

Raditz moved, covering Broly with his own body as Turles growled and clawed at him.

This was only worsened by Bardock getting up and tackling him before they started a deadly brawl.

“D-does Raditz have control over himself?” Frieza asks, seeing as Raditz sat back down freeing Broly.

“He seems to at least in some way.” Broly said nervously, looking at Turles and Bardock who were currently attempting to rip each other apart.

“We have to break that machine to get them back to-“ Cell says but was cut off by a giant fist punching the machine.

He looked over to see the giant Raditz growling as he destroyed the car leaving it completely in rubble.

“It doesn’t look like that changed anything.” Broly says out of ideas.

“Maybe if we cut off their tails!” Frieza says quickly.

“They’ll just grow back.” Broly reminds them of that fact.

“Why don’t we just try it with Raditz first? He seems to be calm enough for us to test it out.” Cell says pointing to Raditz who was just sitting there.

Cell walked over calmly with an axe looking up at Raditz who made no movements seemingly undisturbed by Cell’s intrusive actions.

Cell winced. “Sorry buddy but this has to be done.” Cell brought down the axe chopping off Raditz’s tail with one chop causing him to whine in pain before it miraculously re attached.

“I’m out of ideas.” Cell says nervously as they watch Bardock bite into Turles’s arm causing him to whine in pain.

Broly’s hair sparked green for a second as he watched Turles turn over and kick Bardock.

Raditz looked down at Broly.

Then the giant Raditz stood with a growl.

He roared, causing the other two to stop fighting for a second.

They both growled.

Turles then grabbed Bardock’s head and pushed it into a cave where Bardock started growling and squirming trying to escape.

Turles then started to sprint towards them.

“What the, here did he just say!?” Cell yelled looking at Broly.

“What, I don't understand them!?” Broly said back aggressively.

Turles loomed closer causing the nervousness to seep into everyone.

Raditz growled and Turles lunged at him biting his arm. Raditz made no move to fight back, only hugging Turles.

Turles huffed squirming a little before Raditz reached down and grabbed his tail causing Turles to go limp.

“Well that works.” Cell says plainly.

“I think a part of the machine might still be active.” Frieza says as he climbs onto the rubble seeing a satellite dish still fully intact.

Frieza bent the satellite and everything grew quiet for a moment.

The Saiyans all started to shrink, turning back to normal and falling to the ground unconscious.

“Did Gero think I’d turn big like that or something?” Cell asks as he looks to the empty place where he’d last seen Gero.

“Probably but at least they’re back to normaaaand they’re naked!” Broly yelled out as he looked away.

“Do we have any extra clothing?” Frieza asked, looking back at Jeice.

“Yeah I’ll go get it.” Jeice says nervously running off.

They got all the Saiyans re-clothed and back into the broken walls of the camp where they started to wake up.

“Ow.” Is the first thing to come out of Raditz’s mouth as he sat up to find he was wearing the clothes he had left at Cell and Frieza’s just in case of emergencies.

“Man, I feel like I got thrown into a mountain.” Bardock grumbled as he stood up stretching out his joints.

“Why is there a bite mark on my arm!” Raditz asked, seeing the big bite mark that didn’t break flesh.

“That looks like my teeth.” Turles says with a wince.

“I feel like I just got my tail squished in a door or something.” Turles said with a sigh as he fixed the fur of his tail.

“You all gave us quite the heart attack in your Oozaru forms.” Broly says with a smile as he helps Turles up.

Cell helped Raditz up while apologizing. “I’m so sorry I cut off your tail.” Cell whines feeling guilty.

Raditz just looked behind him at the completely fine and intact tail.

“Gero got away, we'll have to be on the lookout for him now.” Cell says guiltily.

“It’s just so odd, I usually can remember if I don't end up controlling my Oozaru.” Bardock says with confusion staining his usually stern tone.

And like that our ‘heroes’ vanquished Dr Gero's evil plans, at least that’s what they think…

Off in some dingy cave sat Dr Gero with a photo of Cell in his starting stages next to a skeleton.

“Soon… soon we shall all be able to destroy that insufferable creature. My treasures.” Gero says coldly to himself with a maniacal laugh.

Chapter Text

Raditz was sure he’d finally shown he could go outside and be completely fine.

Well Bardock disagreed about that and was very pleased to keep Raditz inside.

He and Bardock started to have daily naps together, and it turns out many Saiyans started doing this, finding it to be fulfilling.

Turns out it’s also because it was now summer, a time Saiyans would use as family bonding time, often leaving their usual squads to group up with family members for a month.

Without that the Saiyans had started to have daily sleeping piles with their family members.

Broly and Turles also joined the naps after a few days of being weirded out.

Cell and Frieza found it odd but who cares.

One day around the end time of the daily nap during the last week of the month Cell and Frieza had come over to wait for the sleep pile to unload.

A yawn erupted from the pile of pillows, bodies, and blankets.

“Morning guys.” Turles slurred as he slid out of the sleeping pile.

Raditz wasn’t far behind him, carefully standing up and stretching.

“You Saiyans never cease to amaze me when it comes to your actions.” Frieza teased as he helped untuck Raditz’s hair from his shirt.

Broly and Bardock both accidentally fell off the couch with a thud walking the pair up with sleepy mumbles and apologies.

“I kinda wish I joined in on the trend, but I don’t think I’d be very comfortable to sleep on seeing as I have tough skin.” Cell says with a giggle.

“I bet it’d be fine.” Raditz says with a yawn.

Bardock got up and moved slowly into the kitchen disappearing behind the wall.

A bright light erupted from the kitchen alongside a yelp from Bardock making everyone immediately wake up and run towards the kitchen to see if Bardock was alright.

“Dad!” Raditz yelled as he peered into the kitchen only to find Bardock hugging Gine.

“Oh moms here.” Raditz says with relief flooding his body.

“What is Gine doing here?” Turles asked as everyone sat around the kitchen table.

“I’m here with an interesting offer for everyone here!” She says cheerily.

“What’s the offer?” Cell asks, wondering what it could be.

“You’re all invited to come with me to earth for a week! We’re going for Kakarot’s birthday as a gift for him from King Kai!” Gine excitedly says.

Raditz seemed to be the only one not totally onboard; he didn't want to have to face Kakarot again. He didn’t want to fuck up his life any more than he already had.

“You okay Raditz?” Cell asked quietly.

“I don’t know if I’m ready to see him again…” Raditz nervously says guilt pooling in his gut.

“Look if he’s going to be angry and direct hate towards anyone it’s gonna be me. So don’t worry about it if someone tries to mess with you I’ll teach them a lesson!” Cell says softly with a smile.

Raditz returned his smile and felt a bit less anxious about it seeing as he wasn’t the only one going.

The plans were made and it turns out it was still very early morning on earth at the moment so they had plenty of time to get ready. Not to mention it was also still spring there as well.

April 16th in fact!

(HFIL doesn’t have an actual day/night cycle, just a large cloud that covers the sky every 12 hours.

It also doesn’t have seasons most of them thinking of seasons was just them calculating the seasons using an internal calendar of the seasons.)

Raditz took all his stuff out of his hair and started combing it like a mad man trying to make himself more presentable.

Cell just looked at him with worry seeing Raditz wince after running the comb through his tail fur.

“It’s time you guys!” Turles yelled and everyone stood in a circle holding hands.

On the other side of things Goku had just arrived at Bulma's house and was greeted by all his friends.

“Happy birthday Goku!” Everyone yelled as they started the party.

It didn’t take long for the gifts to be brought up just after a quick breakfast.

Others gave normal things but King Kai and Dende had a special gift in mind.

“Hey Goku, me and King Kai had a cool idea for your last gift if everyone will join me on the lookout!” Dende says.

Dende was there in spirit seeing as he doesn’t really leave the lookout.

Once everyone found their way up they were surprised to see a whole arena behind the godly building.

“Holy! What’s that!” Goku asked excitedly with stars in his eyes.

“Me and King Kai thought you’d like to fight some very special people. Don’t worry though they’re only here for 6 days and are contractually obligated to not cause harm to anyone unless they’re in a sparring match!” Dende says happily as a ring of light appears behind him.

“Who do you think Dende brought back?” Bulma asked nervously.

Everyone was surprised by the familiar faces of Cell and Frieza.

Mixed emotions when it came to the 5 Saiyans beside them. One being Raditz who seemed to not want to look them in the eyes.

“Hello Goku. How’s it going buddy.” Cell says playfully.

“Woah I get to spar with all of you!” Goku asks excitedly.

“I’d much rather not join in!” Gine says quickly.

“Oh yeah c'mere you three.” Dende called and Bardock, Gine, and Raditz walked forward.

The others noticed Raditz and started to question who the other two were.

“Goku I heard you say once you wanted to meet your parents one day. Well here we have all your biological family!” Dende says enthusiastically, showing off the trio.

Gine started to cry looking at her baby boy all grown up.

“You’re my parents!” Goku yelled out in surprise.

“Yes my darling Kakarot! I’m your mother!” Gine squealed before lunging to give Goku a big hug that he accepted with a laugh as Bardock walked over and ruffled his hair.

Raditz, seeing how happy they were, backed away almost running into Dende.

“Are you alright?” Dende asked, seeing the obvious air of nervousness around Raditz that turned to pure guilt and fear upon seeing Goku up close.

“Y-you know the story of when I first saw Ka- Goku when I landed here right?” Raditz stuttered out nervously, tearing his eyes away from his happy family… without him.

“Yes but that’s behind us all now. I may have not been here to witness it but I’m sure that Goku has forgiven you by now.” Dende says softly.

Raditz looked up to see Kakarot walking towards him.

He was terrified so he backed away again this time Cell came over and grabbed Raditz before he could run away.

“Face it buddy you’re gonna have to talk to him eventually.” Cell says calmly holding onto Raditz so he wouldn’t run off.

“Raditz.” Goku said in an even tone.

Raditz couldn’t do it, he couldn't look him in the eyes.

Raditz felt his hands shake as his brother got closer.

He hugged him, Goku hugged him.

Kakarot hugged him.

“I’m sorry.” Raditz said quietly as his eyes started to water.

“It’s alright. I heard you’ve been trying to be a better person now. Why don’t we all have some fun?” Goku says with a smile letting Raditz go.

“See that wasn’t too bad!” Cell says happily patting Raditz on the back.

The group moved into the arena with a spectator ring on the side where those who didn't fight sat watching as everyone moved onto the field.

The people who’d be participating were an odd bunch to say the least.

Androids #17 and #18, Krillin, Goku, Vegeta, Broly, and Gohan.

(Super Broly btw!!)

Trunks and Goten were also there but not allowed to fight.

A few struck off on their own to find someone to spar with while two approached Raditz from where he stood watching as Cell went to talk to his ‘siblings’.

“Raditz.” A familiar voice of authority spoke looking at him.

Vegeta with Gohan standing right beside him.

“Hey Vegeta.” Raditz says calmly and Vegeta looks completely baffled.

“What the hell happened to you? Where’s your firey personality?” Vegeta asked incredulously.

“I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching in the afterlife. Using my time well.” Raditz says sheepishly trying not to look either Vegeta or Gohan in the eye.

“Are you… sorry about what you did.” Gohan asked quietly but loud enough for Raditz to hear.

“I am. I may not have been in the moment but I am now. I wanted to be a person worthy of seeing you and your dad again.” Raditz said with a sigh.

“So you became depressed?” Vegeta asked aggressively.

“No I’m just… not feeling that well.” Raditz shrugged.

Cell looked away from his own argument to see Raditz talking to Gohan and Vegeta and decided to put a pin in antagonizing his siblings to go be a good friend.

“I’ll talk to you two later right now I need to go.” Cell said abruptly after just talking about how great he was.

“What, need to antagonize Gohan now!?” 17 asked aggressively.

“No, I need to help Raditz.” Cell says softly.

“Wait, do you have a friend!? Are you friends with Goku’s brother!” 17 asked loudly.

“Yeah and?” Cell says as he walks away.

“You know I have half a mind to beat your ass for not looking me in the eyes when I’m talking to you!” Vegeta growled.

“Just try it.” Cell said aggressively as he walked over to Raditz glaring at Vegeta.

“You okay Raditz?” Cell asked, examining Raditz’s face.

“Yeah I’m fine, it's just a bit much.” Raditz says with a small sigh.

“Cell…” Gohan says as he sees Cell and Raditz, two of the monsters from his childhood just being pals.

It was confusing to see such a thing after seeing how they were back then.

“Are you two pals or something?” Gohan asks, actually pushing through his personal issues for a moment so he could get answers.

“Raditz has been doing good in changing as a person and even managed to change me and Frieza in the meantime. We’re better people now. Doesn’t mean I’m a complete goody two shoes, it just means that I’m not completely evil anymore.” Cell explains.

Cell put an arm around Raditz’s shoulder and leaned on him looking at the duo.

“Get off him.” Vegeta growled at Cell.

“Oh and why should I Vegeta? Got some cosmic reason for me not to support my friend?” Cell teases.

“Get off.” Vegeta growled with golden sparks lighting up his hair.

Gohan looked at Vegeta with surprise seeing how angry he was.

“What’s got your tail in a twist monkey?” Frieza asks as he finished his talk with Goku and came over.

“Frieza.” Cell says politely.

Frieza shoves Cell and leans on Raditz himself.

“I believe it is my turn to be on Raditz duty, go talk to those siblings of yours.” Frieza says condescendingly.

Cell just muttered something about stupid lizards and walked away.

“What do you two mean by Raditz duty?” Gohan asks. He had calmed down alongside Raditz who was feeling much calmer with someone by his side.

“Raditz is a massive flight risk so we have to watch over him a lot or he runs around attracting chaos.” Frieza stated as he curled his tail around Raditz’s leg lazily.

Raditz groaned in annoyance.

“I’m not even able to leave.”

“Doesn’t stop you from looking like you’re about to bolt.” Frieza says plainly.

“Is that a common problem?” Gohan asks now curious about what Raditz had been getting up to in his journey of self discovery.

“Dad insists that I get into trouble when I’m outside so he’s been locking me into our house all day. I barely get to go outside and when I do something bad happens.” Raditz ranted.

“What kind of bad thing?” Gohan asked.

“How about the time he went outside and somehow managed to get attacked by a giant ass wolf.” Frieza teased.

“Hey, that was when I became your friend! Isn’t that a good thing???” Raditz complained.

“It could’ve been dangerous seeing as me and Cell were traveling together. If we were still alive you would’ve been dead.” Frieza pointed out.

“What about the time with Paragus! That happened in the house!” Raditz says as a retort.

“Yes but you met Paragus outside of the house. Why we trusted that lunatic to watch you is lost on me.” Frieza says with a shiver remembering how Paragus looked at Raditz.

“Wait Broly’s dad?” Vegeta asked.

“Yeah we met him in the Saiyan camp in HFIL, he was tasked with watching me one day and decided to kidnap me using a very easily misinterpreted method.” Raditz explained loosely.

But he was calming down and actually feeling comfortable.

“What!” Vegeta and Gohan yelled.

“Yeah I’m sure Gine could show you what he did but that’s what everyone explained.” Frieza says as Raditz covers his face with his hands.

“Man, I would've thought the same thing. Jeez.” Gohan says with a laugh.

“Honestly the amount of times I’ve gotten into bad situations now makes me believe I’m cursed or something.” Raditz sighed.

“You and dad, he has the same problem but at least here we have Ki.” Gohan says with a wince.

“Well I’ll leave you three to your own devices seeing as Raditz has calmed down.” Frieza says calmly as he walks over to Cell and the Android twins.

Bardock and Goku were over in another part of the arena fighting.

“You know I missed you.” Vegeta says calmly.

Gohan and Raditz looked at Vegeta like he’d grown another head.

“Who are you and where is Vegeta!” Gohan says jokingly.

“Look, Raditz was like my only friend growing up. Of course I missed him!” Vegeta barked angrily.

“Dang and here I thought you left me to die because you hated me for being weak.” Raditz says being a bit too truthful but he was comfortable now.

“I did technically.” Vegeta admitted.

“Anyway, are you going to join in? Pretty sure dad’s fighting Bardock right now.” Gohan asked as he looked over to the battle in the corner of the arena.

Cell and Frieza were tag teaming with the twins and Krillin.

Both the Broly’s were fighting while Turles watched to be sure to calm them down if they started to get too energetic.

That left Gohan and Vegeta over with Raditz.

“Yeah I doubt I could hold a candle to anyone here.” Raditz said dismissively, wincing as 18 kicked Cell in the face.

“I think I'm going to go see if Cell will fight me after he’s done with 17 and 18.” Gohan says, a bit intrigued at the prospect of fighting Cell again.

“What about you Vegeta?” Raditz asks, looking at Vegeta.

“We could spar. After all, I know your limit better than anyone!” Vegeta boasts proudly.

“I will warn you that I’m not going to be too interesting to fight.” Raditz sighed as Vegeta cracked his knuckles.

A loud yell stopped all fighting as everyone looked over to see Bardock turn into a super saiyan.

“Damn guess I’m the only one that can’t do that now.” Raditz says with a grimacing.

“I’m sure we can teach you.” Vegeta said dismissively.

“I don’t even think I want to learn how. I feel like it’ll just make my hair worse than it already is.” Raditz remembers the fact his hair is already so long becoming a super saiyan would just make him look like a hedgehog.

Vegeta then waved Raditz over to a portion of the arena.

They both stood on either side awkwardly waiting for some form of action to start the fight.

Vegeta grew bored and threw the first punch.

Raditz had done at least a little training in the cave; the old souls had taught him a few techniques; this was a good time to test them.