Outside Namek's atmosphere, five meteors tore through the green sea of clouds with piercing shrieks, smashing into the already scarred wasteland and blasting out five bottomless craters.
"Lord Frieza's order is to recover all the Dragon Balls as quickly as possible. Don't let that traitorous wild dog or those Earth insects get ahead of us."
The Ginyu Force, that terrifying elite unit whose name alone made the entire galaxy tremble, caught the ki of Krillin and Gohan not far away through their high-precision scouters the very second they set foot on this land.
"Oh my, found them. Two huge Dragon Balls, right in the hands of those two little runts over there." Jeice, tall and golden-haired, sneered as he tapped the scouter by his ear, his eyes flashing with the cruel amusement of a cat toying with mice.
The five members of the Ginyu Force did not even bother with any extra tactics. Guldo and Recoome were already wearing savage grins as they turned into two terrifying streaks of light and shot toward Gohan and Krillin.
At that moment, in a canyon several kilometers from the main battlefield.
Boom—!!
A violent blue energy wave blasted the rock beneath Chen He's feet into a storm of flying debris.
Vegeta's hair was disheveled, his bare upper body covered in dried blood and deep purple bruises, but a nearly maniacal fire burned in his eyes. It was the madness born from a Saiyan's humiliation after his dignity and pride had been crushed underfoot.
"Chen He... you lowly Earth trash!!"
Vegeta roared hysterically from the rubble, the layer of blue aura around him crackling with blinding lightning under his extreme rage.
"I am the noble Saiyan god of war! My fate, my power, will never allow a low-class warrior like you to surpass me,