43 Departure (2/2)

”You're that confident you could beat Cell?” Raditz asked.

”No, I would've been at a disadvantage, but it would've been fun.” Kakarot laughed, ”If I lost, you could've given Cell a Panacea, then fought him after.”

The emperor was still amazed by his brother's negligence towards opponents. Kakarot was completely willingly to give an enemy a healing item to make a fight more fun.

”Alright, I'll spar with you Kakarot. I have some free time.” Raditz agreed to his brother's request.

The air around the Lookout was disturbed by the thundering sounds of impacts from the sparing brothers. Reiss and Gohan watch from the Lookout as their fathers fought in the sky above them. Kakarot was clearly trying to push his brother into using his new found power. Raditz was battling in his normal Super Saiyan form. Although he was winning, his power wasn't too much higher than his brother's.

Finding he was still lacking, Kakarot began to use his new Kaio-ken against Raditz. It was a smart move, because he started to overwhelm his brother with his power. Tired of being pushed back, Raditz exploded into his Ape Power form to contend with his brother's use of Kaio-ken.

When the spar was over, Kakarot was satisfied with the progress he made in his training. He ultimately lost against Raditz, but did better than anticipated. If he was capable of using Kaio-ken ten or higher as a Super Saiyan, then he stood a good chance of making his brother use his new form.

After witnessing their fathers spar, Reiss and Gohan decided to have a spar themselves. Kakarot was interested in watching their fight, but Raditz was uninterested. Their grandfather Bardock was also curious about the outcome of the fight.

”You think Reiss will easily win?” Kakarot asked. ”Gohan has a lot of hidden potential, and he can be stubborn.”

”Reiss could win easily, he is monstrously talented.” Raditz answered. He confirmed Reiss's capabilities on multiple occasions, and training the Room of Spirit and Time was no exception.

”I guess he gets that from you.” Bardock laughed.

Raditz shook his head, ”No he learns faster than me.”

When he was trying to teach Reiss to become a Super Saiyan, the boy managed to achieve the state in just over two hours. The most impressive part was, after Raditz finally became a Super Saiyan 2, his son pulled it off after a short explanation. Reiss claimed after he felt what being Super Saiyan was like and seeing that Super Saiyan Two was possible, it wasn't hard to get ”a feel” for it.

The benefit of Reiss talent was that Raditz could always have someone to train against. The downside was, if he didn't stay motivated, his son could quickly surpass him. It wasn't a bad thing, because it meant his empire would have another strong ruler.

The spar between the children ended much faster than their fathers'. Reiss, as Raditz said, easily obtained the victory once he started trying. He took it easy at first as to not completely over power his cousin from the beginning.

Later that evening, Raditz and his son arrived on the Menagerie to celebrate the victory against the cyborg threat. Bulma listened as the animated Reiss retold the story of how everything happened. After listening to his explanation, she was sorry she missedout on the event. Raditz assured her that their would be another crisis on Earth that she could witness up close.

”How do you know the Earth is going to get attacked again?” she asked. Reiss turned to listen because he was curious as to how his father would know.

”Something always happens to the Earth,” Raditz shrugged, ”It has been attacked more than any planet in the empire. For whatever reason, Earth is unlucky”

When she thought about it, Bulma had to agree with his assessment. Earth had been getting attack since she was a child. Reiss left to go talk about his adventure on Earth to other crew members, leaving his parents alone.

The interview with ZTV aired the following day. The Menagerie was able to receive the transmission so Raditz and Bulma could watch it together. The program was call Interview with the Hero, Emperor Prometheus Raditz.

”What's with the Prometheus Raditz, thing?” the emperor asked his wife. He heard Cell refer to him as that on TV, but now ZTV is doing it too.

”Are they now using the empire's name as my family name?” Raditz thought. Thinking about the only Saiyan to actually have a family name was Kakarot.

After spending a month with his wife, Raditz explained that he would be gone for awhile to train. He power level of Cell had him worried about the strength of the future threats. Cell was way stronger than he should've been because of the changes to history. If the trend continued, then there is no telling how much stronger he will need to get.

”Reiss will be able to help you out while I'm gone.” Raditz said. ”I'll come back whenever I have time. I got the hang of the Instant Transmission now.”

”It doesn't help that you have no idea how long you will be gone.” Bulma didn't like inaccurate predictions.

”Like I said, I'm not sure how long it will take, but I need to get stronger to make sure our empire stays intact.” Raditz was honest. ”If it wasn't for the existence of the Room of Spirit and Time, we all would have been in trouble.”

”Okay, I got it. I married a Saiyan after all.” Bulma sighed.

He smiled and headed out to prepare for the future enemies waiting to attempt to destroy the work he and Bulma put into their empire. Raditz loaded into his shuttle after saying goodbye to Bulma and initiated the startup sequence.

”Menagerie, do you have the coordinates to the homeworld of the deceased Ginyu Force member known as Guldo?” Raditz asked.