Soya was suddenly stunned, his eyes immediately widening, the smile on his face instantly freezing.
Without this planet?
Could Planet Vegeta have been destroyed already?
The corner of Soya's mouth twitched slightly, his complexion changing repeatedly, an ominous premonition surging in his heart.
Soya immediately checked the current time.
It was now 24 years later, which was Age 761.
Planet Vegeta, 24 years later, had actually been destroyed?
Then... what about Kale and the others...
Soya's heart suddenly tightened. He manually controlled the flying cube, frantically racing towards the direction of Planet Vegeta in his memory.
Although the navigation showed "no such planet found", Soya clearly remembered the coordinates where Planet Vegeta once existed.
After nearly another hour of high speed travel, the flying cube finally arrived at the area of space where Planet Vegeta originally was.
However, what met the eye was only a vast, desolate stretch of the cosmos. That familiar planet had already vanished without a trace.
"Where is Planet Vegeta?" Raditz widened his eyes, his face full of astonishment, his voice even trembling slightly.
Vegeta's pupils contracted sharply even more, his complexion changing several times in an instant. His tightly clenched fists showed white knuckles, and suppressed anger emanated from his entire body.
Nappa's eyes also twitched violently. He opened his mouth but couldn't speak for a long while.
Yes... where is Planet Vegeta?
Why is it gone?
"It must have been that bastard Frieza who did it! Taking advantage of our absence, he actually destroyed our planet!" Vegeta clenched his fists, his knuckles cracking, the fury in his heart almost about to erupt.
"Whoosh!"
As soon as he finished speaking, in the distant starry sky, a spherical spaceship was dragging a faint trail, speeding rapidly into the distance.
"That's a Saiyan spaceship!" Raditz's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly pointed at the ship, saying, "Boss, should we chase after it and take a look? We might find some clues!"
"Alright." Soya did not object. His fingertips moved slightly, and the flying cube immediately changed direction, chasing fiercely after that spaceship.
Soon, the flying cube caught up with the spaceship, maintaining a uniform speed alongside it.
Soya looked towards the spaceship's window and could clearly see the person inside at a glance.
Raditz also saw the person inside clearly, instantly widening his eyes. He subconsciously rubbed his eyes, doubting what he saw.
"Raditz, why do I feel that person looks exactly like you!" Nappa turned his head to compare Raditz and the person inside the ship, unable to help saying, "Could it be... he is your real father?"
Raditz: "..."
Raditz's face instantly darkened, veins throbbing at his temples.
Because Raditz also noticed this problem—the person inside the spaceship looked exactly like him, as if carved from the same mold.
Is Bardock not my dad?
Is this person... my real father?
Raditz felt his mind go blank for a moment, and he became completely unsettled.
It seems... ever since that brat Kakarot was born, Mom put all her energy on him, while becoming increasingly cold and indifferent towards me, paying no attention.
Even when I was going to team up with Vegeta to go on campaigns on other planets, something so dangerous, Mom never advised me against it once.
You'd think at a time like that, Mom should at least have given a few words of caution.
Could it be... I'm really not their biological child?
The more Raditz thought about it, the more confused he became, his heart a tangled mess.
"He's sleeping!" Nappa stretched his neck to look towards the window again, adding a comment.
Indeed, the man who looked extremely similar to Raditz was curled up asleep inside the spherical spaceship, his breathing steady.
Vegeta and the others couldn't recognize who this person was, but Soya recognized him at a glance.
He was Raditz all grown up, a Raditz from another timeline.
Let's temporarily call him "Big Raditz".
The timeline they were currently in was precisely the original timeline where Soya did not exist.
Soya now basically understood the situation, so there wasn't much to worry about.
"Boss, should we wake him up and ask about the situation?" Raditz, suppressing the confusion in his heart, hurriedly asked.
"Easy." Soya smiled slightly, raised his hand, and made a grasping motion towards Big Raditz's spaceship through the air.
"Snap!"
An invisible force instantly swept both the spaceship and Big Raditz inside into the flying cube.
"Thud!"
The spaceship landed steadily on the floor of the flying cube, emitting a slight impact sound.
Raditz immediately stepped forward, stretched out his hand, and knocked "dong dong dong" on the spaceship hatch door.
Inside, Big Raditz abruptly opened his eyes, his gaze full of confusion.
What's going on?
How could there be someone knocking?
This is in outer space...
After a brief moment of daze, Big Raditz's gaze swept past the window. He saw the Raditz outside at a glance, and his whole person was instantly bewildered.
I seem... to be seeing my childhood self?
What kind of absurd thing is this?
Was my sleeping position just now wrong, causing a nightmare?
Should I try sleeping again?
Big Raditz simply closed his eyes again, trying to attribute this bizarre scene to a dream.
"Dong dong dong!"
The knocking sound rang out again, clear and persistent.
Big Raditz shivered with a start, abruptly opening his eyes, and found "his childhood self" still outside the window, looking at him with a puzzled expression.
Big Raditz: "..."
Big Raditz only felt his scalp go numb, and he became completely unsettled.
What on earth is going on?
Big Raditz hesitated for a moment, subconsciously reaching out his hand, wanting to open the spaceship hatch door.
But just as his fingertip was about to touch the switch, he abruptly stopped the motion, forcefully pulling his hand back again.
This is outer space!
Opening the door now would mean suffocating to death immediately, wouldn't it?
Hmm, must be a dream!
This is definitely a realistic dream!
I won't fall for it.
Big Raditz simply turned his head away, pretending not to hear, ignoring the knocking outside.
"Still not opening the door?" Seeing no movement inside, Raditz felt somewhat annoyed. He raised his palm and slapped it fiercely towards the door.
"Crack!"
The seemingly sturdy spaceship hatch door shattered on the spot like an eggshell.
Big Raditz was startled, his body involuntarily shrinking back. Then he realized he was already inside the flying cube. He widened his eyes, looking around with a face full of shock.
The next moment, Big Raditz's gaze fell upon Soya and the others inside the cube.
Apart from Soya whom he didn't recognize, he knew all the others.
Prince Vegeta?
And... my childhood self?
And Nappa?
Apart from Nappa, why are Prince Vegeta and "me" both in their childhood forms?
And that unfamiliar man... who is he?
Big Raditz looked utterly bewildered, his eyes bleary as he looked from one to the other, momentarily unsure how to react.
"Are you... Prince Vegeta?" The corner of Big Raditz's mouth twitched. He broke the silence first, tentatively asking.
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