The threatening words from Dodoria instantly chilled the atmosphere.
"Oh? You want my scouter?" Vegeta lifted a brow, amused.
"You always seemed like a simple-minded brute, but I didn't expect you to show a bit of intelligence at a critical moment. You actually know what's important."
With mild interest, Vegeta removed the scouter from his face.
Bringing this device to Planet Namek was originally just for convenience — tracking the movements of the Frieza Force and moving around more efficiently.
But now, with his strength rising rapidly and his Ki cultivation reaching a deeper level, his Perception ability was far more reliable than any scouter.
Dodoria's expression twisted into an ugly scowl at Vegeta's sarcasm.
However, he suppressed his anger. Getting the scouter came first.
"Hand over the scouter, Vegeta, and I can consider sparing your life," Dodoria growled.
"Otherwise… you know the consequence. I can still get it after killing you."
"Is that so?" Vegeta replied calmly.
Then he casually tossed the scouter to the ground in front of Dodoria. "If you want it, pick it up yourself."
"You—! Good… very good!!!" Dodoria snarled, veins bulging across his forehead.
But he didn't dare overstep.
He stepped forward, bent down, and reached for the scouter.
In the blink of an eye, Vegeta appeared in front of him and stomped his head into the ground.
Dodoria froze in shock.
That action instantly ignited his suppressed fury, and his energy exploded outward violently.
Vegeta had originally planned to crush the scouter himself.
But this idiot completely lowered his head right in front of him… practically begging to be stepped on.
"You really are a good dog," Vegeta mocked coldly.
"Even the way you pick things up looks exactly like groveling."
Dodoria roared, his battle power erupting — a burst of 22,000.
In the past, this might have startled Vegeta.
But now?
Now Dodoria wasn't even an ant.
One percent of Vegeta's strength was enough to suppress him completely.
"H-How is this possible?! How can you have such strong power?!" Dodoria screamed.
His violent energy surged around him, but he couldn't move Vegeta at all.
He couldn't even lift his head — Vegeta's foot pressed him so deep into the ground that half his skull was buried in dirt.
At that moment, Dodoria remembered the intelligence report he'd heard earlier…
Vegeta's power had surpassed both him and Zarbon.
It wasn't a lie.
"How I achieved this strength isn't something you need to know," Vegeta said coldly.
"Just understand this — my current battle power is on a level you can't even imagine. Even Frieza, without transforming, would have to back away from me."
Vegeta increased the force.
Dodoria's head sank deeper into the ground.
No matter how desperately he struggled, it was meaningless.
After a long moment of crushing Dodoria, Vegeta finally vented the rage buried deep within the original Vegeta's memories.
His mood lightened.
He removed his foot and casually kicked Dodoria — sending him flying across the landscape.
Dodoria smashed into the next island with an earth-shaking explosion, debris burying him instantly as thick smoke billowed up.
Vegeta walked forward casually before lifting off and arriving above the rubble.
"Trying to play dead?" Vegeta sneered.
"You think I'm like you — too stupid to tell whether someone's alive or not? Under my perception, you have nowhere to hide."
He raised his hand, and an energy ball condensed in his palm — dense enough to wipe out a planet, though of course not one the size of Namek.
"No! Don't, Vegeta! Spare me!" Dodoria's panicked voice echoed from under the rubble.
He crawled out, bloody and trembling. "If you let me go, I can tell you a secret!"
"Oh?" Vegeta chuckled. "You know how to beg for mercy too? A secret?"
He snorted.
"Let me guess — you're going to say that Planet Vegeta and the entire Saiyan race were destroyed by Frieza? If that's it, too bad. You're just a pathetic beast who knows nothing."
Frieza is just a dog controlled by the God of Destruction.
"You—! How did you know?! Who told you?!" Dodoria's eyes widened in terror.
This secret was something Frieza forbade anyone from speaking about.
It was all to toy with Vegeta.
And yet Vegeta already knew.
Which meant…
Vegeta had never been loyal to Frieza.
He had been preparing to betray him all along.
Everyone had underestimated him.
"Anyone with half a brain could figure it out," Vegeta said, teleporting right in front of Dodoria, energy ball aimed at his face.
"A 'meteor impact' destroying a planet? Do you believe such a pathetic excuse?"
Dodoria stumbled backward in fear, tripped over a stone, and fell flat on his back.
Vegeta burst out laughing.
Dodoria always tried so hard to look intimidating, but now?
Combined with his pathetic terror, it was hilarious.
This humiliation felt like proper justice for the original Vegeta.
"So, you might as well die! Don't worry — I'll soon send Zarbon and Frieza down to join you. In hell, you can keep being Frieza's dogs."
Without giving Dodoria another second to beg, Vegeta fired the energy ball.
BOOM!!!!
Dodoria's entire body was engulfed instantly, vaporized without suspense.
His energy signature plummeted until it vanished completely.
Shockwaves roared across miles of land as the explosion cleared.
Vegeta looked into the distance.
The other energy signature he sensed earlier belonged to Zarbon.
Dodoria and Zarbon must have split up to search.
Dodoria was dead.
So Zarbon should die too.
With Frieza's two strongest subordinates gone, Frieza would be helpless until the Ginyu Force arrived.
Just as Vegeta was about to move, a voice echoed directly into his mind.
A telepathic message from the Grand Elder.
He had sensed Zarbon's path — and if Zarbon continued forward, he would reach a village holding a dragon ball.
He hoped Vegeta could intervene.
Vegeta agreed immediately.
He considered it a small repayment for the help he had received.
Besides… if his guess was right, this was the same village the original Vegeta destroyed in the anime.
One more thing to correct.