... were not wiped out along with their planet? That idiot from Freezer ... if I had known he was such a failure ..." He clenched his bony fingers fists and shook them bitterly.<br />
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Piccolo's antennae twitched. "Freezer? What have you got to do with that nasty rat?"
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Ramagi's lips curled up in a mocking smile. "What do you think, Namekians, who gave Freezer explicit instructions on how to deal with Namekians and where to find this plague of planets?"
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The otherwise calm, serene Piccolo drew in a sharp breath. Images of slain Namekians appeared in his mind's eye, and Neil, who otherwise never gave a sign of life, reacted with exuberant anger, so that Piccolo's skin turned dark green. Piccolo struggled to suppress Neil's desperation and anger, knowing that the Irider was just waiting to see him lose his composure.
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"Too bad my people have found a new planet, aren't they?" Said Piccolo, crossing his arms. "You shouldn't have trusted someone of Freezer's caliber ..."<br />
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The Irider's lips twitched. The Namek wanted to provoke him for his part, well, let's see who could do the game better .... With a careless movement of the hand he flicked a non-existent lint off his shoulder and brushed back a strand of the lead-gray, fine hair. "Say a true word for a change, Namekians. You can no longer rely on the rank and file nowadays. You have to do everything yourself ..." His relaxed demeanor was deceptive. In his mind he searched feverishly for a possibility to meet the Namek, to wound, to destroy ... Out of the corner of his eye he saw how the little boy wanted to sneak back to his mother. That boy there, he seemed to be the Namekian's only weak point, if he did it skillfully enough, then ...
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From the wrist he shot a ball of energy precisely at the massive, red-faced man. As expected, the boy's father, whose aura resembled that of the angry blond from back then, threw himself into the trajectory, so the way was free and ...<br />
Ramagi was quick. Within a split second he had overcome the distance to the bed and grabbed the boy's forehead. Then he was grabbed from behind and pulled back. The Namek's fist landed on the irider's chin and flung it out through the hole in the wall.
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For a moment he was too dazed to concentrate, he fell like a stone, but before he hit the concrete floor he had recovered and was floating up again in front of the horrified eyes of the passers-by.
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Piccolo and Gokou had also come outside and were already waiting for him. The irider's hand felt for the device on his wrist. It wasn't there anymore.
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"Are you looking for this perhaps?", Asked a bright voice and the little boy joined the two of them, the auric shield generator that Ramagi missed dangling in his hand. He must have ripped the part off his wrist beforehand.Ramagi bit a curse on his lip. Clearly he had underestimated the little Earthling.
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It's a good thing that the blond warrior wasn't here too, then he'd have to start to really worry, but the Aurenschild wasn't the only one of his trumps. Ramagi estimated the distance between himself and the three opponents, looked down, where the powerless Earthlings looked up at the floating figures in bewilderment and made a lot of noise, reached with pointed fingers into one of the many pockets of his wide robe and drew a flat one Apparatus that wasn't much thicker or bigger than a credit card.
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"What are you planning now?" Asked Piccolo, gathering his strength. Gokou took his shoulder, nodded at the passers-by below, and shook his head.
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Meanwhile, Ramagi pressed the flat, red switch on the top and tossed the buzzing part up, just enough that it spanned exactly half the distance between the two parties before it exploded.<br />
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From one moment to the next the four found themselves inside a large dome, the floor was covered with shimmering black tiles and the walls shone like matt silver.
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"Where are we? What happened?" Gohan asked confused.
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"Little Earthling, you are in the 'Arena of Retribution' that I built especially for the end of the Namek." explained the Irider. Without the aura screen, Gokou, Gohan and Piccolo could feel that their opponent really had powers that were considerably superior to those of Freezers. The environment also seemed to encourage these forces. So it's no wonder that Ramagi didn't seem a bit intimidated, even though the three of them could go up against him.
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"Before we fight," said Gokou, "I finally want to know why you hate the Namekians so much."
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“Well,” the Irider didn't seem to be in a hurry, “I don't want to let you die stupid. I can even show you."Again he reached into one of his pockets and pulled out a narrow headband, which he put on. Immediately it became pitch black in the dome, the metal walls flickered and seemed to become transparent and it was as if they were on a strange planet.
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"What you see here is the story as it is passed down in my people. That was Irid, my world a very, very long time ago when a few Namekians visited us. Some of us saw them collecting plants, water and soil samples the voice of the Irider rang out. The scene described appeared. The Namek group walked across meadows and through forests, cutting off a twig here and a leaf there, shoveling small portions of earth into transparent containers, collecting rain and dipping bottles into ponds and rivers. Overall, it appeared to be a very Earth-like planet.
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"What's so bad about that," Gohan asked confused.<br />
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"Shortly before their departure," the Irider continued, as if he had not heard Gohan's objection, "they made contact with the eldest in my village for the first time. We were a fairly primitive people at the time, lived from agriculture and manufactured the first simple metal tools . These green beings with their strange behavior did not frighten us, they just made us curious. "You could see the Namek handing your rather wrinkled, hairless Irider a flat box and explaining something with vivid gestures, but what they were saying could be heard Not. “The Namekians had analyzed and learned our language and on their departure they left us a present.” The Namek spacecraft took off, leaving a couple of indecisive Iriders who curiously opened the box. It was full of little pink dragees. "The gift from the Namekians was a drug, a very special one. It only worked against one virus, and that against the really worst and most insidious of all viruses the universe has ever seen.I suppose the Namek have had an accident somewhere because they wanted to broadcast the results of the investigations to their planets and then come back to us. Because the surface of their spaceship was already occupied with the virus and they did not want to bring the disease to Namek. At least that's what they told my ancestors. "
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"But the drug ..." interjected Gokou.
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"They developed this right after they landed, as soon as they analyzed the first samples of the atmosphere, and it would probably have saved the Namek as it was absolutely effective, but if Namek had been infected with the virus just like our world, the Namek would have never be able to visit another planet again without spreading the disease there. "
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"So dangerous ...?", Gohan asked, really shocked.
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"You have no idea ...", the Irider laughed bitterly, "this 'old man' who had taken the medicine was just 18 years old.Every Irider came into contact with the virus immediately after birth. In every hundred babies, perhaps three survived the first year, and of those three, perhaps one lived to be over 15. The maximum age was around 21 Earth years. The virus caused premature aging, it weakened and made susceptible to all other types of pathogen. And then the people from my village took this Namek medicine, hoping for a longer life with less suffering ... "
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"Didn't it work?" Asked Piccolo.
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"Oh yes, it did. It was better than good. Instead of simply killing the virus, it enabled our immune system to render it harmless on its own. This gift even became part of our genetic information and none of the children who then responded to the." World came, had anything to fear from the virus again. "
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"That's great," said Gohan, frowning. "Then why are you angry with the Namekians?"<br />
"The story is not over yet," said the Irider, "the best part is yet to come. My people had previously survived despite the virus. What does that tell you?"
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"Hmm ...", Piccolo crossed his arms. "That you are very tough."
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"Good description. Our immune system is extremely strong, our organs are very efficient and less prone to injuries and failures, without the virus we live for about 800 earth years. To compensate for the high infant mortality, the birth rate is far higher than on any other planet. .. I was the thirtieth of 190 children and my mother still had many fertile years ahead of her before her untimely death .... "
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“So many siblings?” Gohan's eyes widened. To imagine sitting around lunch with 189 brothers and sisters ...
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"Within only one generation the population exploded on our planet. Famine and wars decimated us, but since we also learned very quickly, we intensified our agriculture, our technical development went extremely fast compared to other peoples, because we knew that Sooner or later, our world would no longer suffice to feed us .. Gradually we even had our birth rates under control, and the wars were reduced to a minimum.But then we got another visitor from space ... "
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The scene had changed a lot. Huge cities now lined the rivers. The first models of automobiles rattled over