Chapter 117: How to Become a Super Saiyan
"What's with those numbers?" Krillin turned to Lin Qi, curious.
"It's some tech unique to Frieza's army. It can measure someone's location and power level," Lin Qi replied, clearly unimpressed. "It's basically the same as sensing ki—it's kind of useless."
After the Frieza arc, those things became pretty pointless… just there for shock value or dramatic effect.
"Oh…" Krillin instantly lost interest. He'd thought it was some kind of advanced tech!
Bulma, on the other hand, was still excited. "I actually want to take one apart and study it!"
"Then just take it!" Blonde Launch had already picked up a machine gun and aimed it at Raditz.
Her bandit instincts had kicked in!
"Hmph…" Raditz sneered at Launch with visible disdain, mocking her silently.
"Your scouter's still active, right? Probably still transmitting?" Lin Qi asked, planning to lure in the other two before taking this guy down.
"Let Vegeta and Nappa come to Earth too! I know how to transform into the legendary Super Saiyan!"
"A big secret that could oppose Frieza!"
With bait like that, Vegeta was sure to come…
Looks like bringing back Planet Vegeta and rebuilding the Saiyan Kingdom was now one step closer!
"What…" Raditz gasped, and far away at Frieza's headquarters, someone yanked off their scouter.
"Lord Sorbet… I—I've just heard some shocking news!!" the communications officer shouted as he sprinted over, scouter in hand and panting heavily.
Sorbet, Frieza's steward, was short—barely taller than Oolong.
He turned in confusion toward the kneeling officer, squinting as he asked, "And you are…?"
Only then did the man remember Sorbet didn't know him. "I'm the monitor—assigned to keep tabs on Lord Raditz!"
Sorbet struggled to recall who Raditz even was. Only after some explanation did he realize Raditz was one of the Saiyans.
"What's the news?" Sorbet asked, hands clasped behind his back, sounding unconcerned.
"Lord Raditz just arrived on a planet called Earth today. He encountered—"
When he heard "legendary Super Saiyan," Sorbet bolted toward Frieza's chambers without waiting for the full explanation.
Although the communications officer kept rambling about other Saiyans and rebellion, Sorbet had locked on to the five crucial words: legendary Super Saiyan.
Meanwhile, on an unknown planet—
Vegeta dodged a native's punch, retaliating with a quick energy blast that killed the attacker instantly.
"Vegeta—I just heard from Raditz's end…" Nappa came rushing over, yelling urgently.
Boom!
Before Nappa could finish, Vegeta hurled a ki blast at him, shattering the scouter on Nappa's ear. Nappa stared in confusion. "Vegeta…"
Vegeta tossed away his own scouter, grinning excitedly. "So you heard it too—the Super Saiyan rumor?"
"Yeah, yeah!" Nappa nodded frantically, wide-eyed. "A Saiyan who knows how to become a Super Saiyan!!"
"Could he already have transformed?"
Vegeta quickly calmed himself, and after a moment of silence, looked at Nappa. "You think it could be a lie?"
After all, lots of Saiyans claimed to know about Super Saiyans.
"No idea…" Nappa crossed his arms, sinking deep into thought, but after a while, he still couldn't come up with anything.
He wasn't exactly built for deep thinking, so he just asked back, "What about you, Vegeta—are we going?"
As Vegeta remained pensive, a hungry Nappa walked over to the alien corpse, ripped off an arm, and used a ki blast to start a fire for cooking.
"…We're going. If it's a lie, we kill him. If it's real…" Vegeta's lips curled.
"Once I learn the secret, he either pledges loyalty to me—or I become a Super Saiyan and kill him anyway!"
He sat beside Nappa, yanked off the other arm from the alien, and placed it over the fire. "We're almost ready to take on Frieza. Let's celebrate."
Nappa devoured his meat, then suddenly remembered something. "Vegeta, if we could hear Raditz's transmission… doesn't that mean Frieza probably did too?"
Vegeta didn't seem to care at all. He swallowed another bite and said casually, "No need to worry. Those idiot monitors…"
"They don't even know what a Super Saiyan is."
He sped up his eating. "I bet Frieza doesn't want his dumb subordinates knowing he's scared of Super Saiyans."
Throwing away the bones, Vegeta sneered, "An emperor of the universe… If people knew he was afraid of something, who would still follow him?"
"Oh…" Nappa mumbled, watching Vegeta stand up while gnawing on the alien arm in his hand.
"Let's finish up and head to Earth too!" Vegeta took a firm step forward across the blood-soaked ground.
The Super Saiyan—Prince Vegeta is on his way!
Back on Earth—
Hearing Lin Qi's words, Raditz quickly turned off the scouter's communication function. "Keep that Super Saiyan stuff private!"
Everyone perked up, clearly intrigued, ears stretched as they tried to imagine what that "Super" could be.
They all knew—it had to be something huge!
"Kakarot, you too—what are you standing there for?! Get over here!" Raditz barked, not wanting to waste any more time.
After all, the moment "Super Saiyan" was mentioned, things had become urgent. If Frieza got word, it'd be trouble!
Even if Vegeta and Nappa were coming, based on the distance, it'd be at least a year before they arrived.
"I'm not going! But you can come over here!" Lin Qi spread his hands, shrugged, and rejected Raditz's command.
Killing Earthlings? That'd be going against himself!
Raditz protecting Earth would make way more sense!
Raditz was furious, but he quickly accepted the reality—so long as Lin Qi didn't interfere, he could still slaughter the Earthlings.
"Kakarot, what about you? Come on, let's wipe these Earthlings out!" Raditz turned to Goku.
Goku handed Gohan to Bulma. "I don't really get what's going on… but you're probably our enemy, right?!"
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