Author's note: I just couldn't resist and had to put this midi up to go with this chapter because it fits so well with it(I can picture people duking it out to this tune). You are brain damaged if you don't recognize it right away. ;D lol.

Onion lunged, Tategoto lunged, the two met in the middle with a blinding flash and went into a serious hit-and-block routine. Tategoto kicked off the wall and flipped backwards with his cape flowing around him as he planted both feet in Onion's chest. The kick sent Onion sprawling with a surprised cry of pain, but he got back up and retaliated by charging. Tategoto soon felt pain shooting through his jaw when Onion's fist collided with it.

"Argh!" He shrieked, kicking the blue-green demon away.

"Onion! You're not concentrating!" Garlic scolded when his son smacked into a pillar, "Keep your ears open!"

Onion didn't answer when he got up. He started to wiggle his fingers, grinning a toothy grin as red orbs of light started to dance around his fingertips. His arms drew back, and Tategoto braced himself with his arms crossed in an X in front of him as several finger darts slammed into him.

Tategoto was getting angrier by the second, and as his power level was rising with his anger. It didn't take him long to point his palm at Onion and send him sprawling with an invisible blast of wind. Then he seemed to blur out of sight, reappearing over the little demon. Just as before, they started into the rapid hit-and-block routine and the sounds of their fight reverberated throughout the dank corridor.

"Do you think he got lost?" Yasmine asked as Piccolo paced around impatiently while waiting for Tategoto.

He shook his head and spoke dryly, concern hidden somewhere in his voice. "He's smarter then that. Still, he should have been here by now."

"Could he be in trouble?" Kami suggested, leaning on his wooden stick with a sigh. A few particles of dust fell off from his clothing, which was ripped slightly from the minor scuffles he was in earlier.

Piccolo sneered at the idea and turned his head to Vegeta, "I want you to get these two out of here. I'm going to go back and see what's keeping Tategoto." He looked directly at Kami, "And you. Stay out of this fight." The tall Namekian man flipped his cape over his shoulder, not giving Vegeta or Kami a chance to reply.

Vegeta sneered, brushed a hand over his widow's peak and growled. "Don't order me around!" He sneered over at Kami and Yasmine, "Let's go you two."

Yasmine ignored Vegeta's sharp words and grabbed Piccolo's strong green arm, just above the red ring around his wrist. "Piccolo? Be careful..."

Piccolo turned to face Yasmine when he felt her touch and looked down into her dark eyes. His mind swirled violently, as it always did when she showed gentleness to him, but this time he chose to ignore it for the moment, "You'll be seeing me again when this fight is over." He smirked, "Don't you go worrying about me, Yasmine. I'll be fine."

Impatient to get Yasmine and Kami out so he could join the fight, Vegeta snarled, "C'mon, I don't have all day, you know! Let's get going!"

Kami smiled a bit at Vegeta tapped a wrinkled finger against the side of his wooden walking stick, making a soft tapping noise, "Have patience."

"Shut up, old geezer."

"Suit yourself."

"Humph!"

Yasmine just grinned and rolled her eyes at the argument while she slid her hand away from Piccolo's wrist. As soon as she turned away, Piccolo flipped his cape back and walked into the shadows to go find Tategoto.

Tategoto crashed into a pile of cement as a white orb of light slammed into his stomach and knocked the wind out of him. He stayed down, gasping for breath while Onion flew down and kicked him in the kidneys a few times. Though the kicks hurt, the young Namek didn't allow himself to cry out because he refused to give the demon the satisfaction of hearing him scream.

In a swift, smooth motion, Tategoto helicoptered his legs, kicked Onion right in the groin and flipped to his feet. He grinned wildly when he saw Onion's eyes cross.

"You're going to pay for that!" Onion squeaked, one hand on his sore nether regions while he used the other to point a finger at Tategoto's face. Tategoto slapped the offending finger away from his face and nailed Onion in the nose with a left hook that sent him flying into Garlic.

"ACK!"

"OOF! ONION!!! YOU IMBECILE!!"

"Aieeee!" Getting himself a running start, Tategoto hopped up and hovered several feet above where Onion and Garlic were arguing. Yellow light gathered in his palms, he shouted something without words and proceeded to shower the two demons with rapid-fire ki blasts. "HIIIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!" Each flash of light illuminated his young features, revealing the small cuts and bruises he'd received during the skirmish with Onion.

Garlic and Onion jumped apart as the blasts hit them, and Garlic glared up at the little Namek. Tategoto saw this and shifted his aim to the ceiling. The ceiling collapsed instantly and buried Garlic. Onion was untouched, so he charged up at Tategoto from behind and sent him crashing into a nearby wall. The young Namek retaliated with an elbow to Onion's nose.

A large green hand grabbed Tategoto by the cape and yanked him into the shadows. Tategoto found himself looking up into his father's handsome face, the face that he would someday inherit when he was older.

Are you OK? Piccolo signed quickly, speaking the sentence at the same time.

Tategoto nodded, panting, and signed back with slightly bloody hands, Onion is stronger then he looks.

You can beat him. Piccolo gestured quickly, then reached one of his slender-fingered hands down to wipe a small amount of blood away from his son's nose, ignoring his attempts to squirm away from being 'mothered'. He gave up when Tategoto pushed his hand away. Looks like he roughed you up a bit.

The tall Namek smirked with pride, then shifted his gaze to Onion when he saw him moving. He nodded in that direction and Tategoto turned his head to follow his father's gaze. Piccolo started to get up, but Tategoto tugged his cape and shook his head.

Onion is mine. With those swift gestures, he flipped his cape over his shoulder and turned, dropping into his fighting stance as Onion got to his feet.

"Stupid little Namek brat! I'm going to KILL YOU!!!!!!!" He snarled, turning around to reveal that his tipped up nose was broken and bleeding. Dark red blood was running down his face, into his mouth and all over his clothing. Tategoto just pulled his lower eyelid down, stuck out his tongue and razzed the little demon to egg him on further. It worked, because Onion soon charged to start another rapid hit-and-block routine. It wasn't long before they were moving so fast that they only became visible for a few seconds, but the sound of the battle was far from 'invisible'.

That's my boy... Piccolo thought to himself as he watched and listened to the fight, sounds of skin impacting skin, with a smirk of pride spread across his face. Tategoto...you have learned well.

Onion shrieked angrily and flew under Tategoto's legs. He vanished from sight, reappeared above him and used the eerie red gem in his forehead to guide him as he slammed both fists into the small of Tategoto's back. Tategoto cried out and fell a few feet, flipped over and flew straight back up at Onion with a ball of ki forming in his hand. When his fist impacted with Onion's stomach, it caused Onion to gurgle and spit out a mouthful of blood. Tategoto brought his fist back, brought it down on the top of the little demon's head twice. The first impact rattled Onion's teeth, the second one slammed him down to the ground with a loud crash, and he made a small crater upon landing.

Tategoto hovered above Onion with his arms crossed, a miniature version of his father, as he waited for his opponent to get up. He was about to start charging a finishing blast when an intense red fireball erupted from the rubble where Garlic was. The little Namek turned just in time to see it coming, and his world spun wildly when the blast slammed into him. He was unconscious before he even hit the ground.

Piccolo was about to charge, but then Vegeta crashed down through the hole he'd made when he'd beaten Relish. He saw Tategoto down, Garlic poking out of a pile of cement and Onion out cold in a corner. Without a thought, the Saiyan bent one leg, straightened the other to stop himself in mid air and fired several blasts at Garlic to distract him. Then he dropped down at Tategoto's side.

"Hey, kid! Get up!" He shouted as if he'd be heard while glaring at Garlic.

"Be careful, Vegeta!" Piccolo shouted as he came out of the shadows and took on a stance next to Vegeta, "That little twerp is stronger then he looks." He lowered his voice to a whisper, "If he fires a strong enough blast, it will kill Tategoto, and maybe even us. So keep an eye on his power."

Vegeta's hair swished as he turned his head and nodded to show he understood. He fought the urge to glance down at Tategoto again, and focused his thoughts on the battle. A small laugh escaped his throat and he widened his stance, "Gee, Green Bean, I didn't think you cared."

Piccolo's pointed nose wrinkled as he sneered, "Don't push it."

Tategoto sat up so suddenly that Vegeta and Piccolo nearly jumped apart, but he paid no attention to them. Onion was just getting up too, and the little Namek started to attack him as soon as he was on his feet. Vegeta grinned when he saw that.

Damn! He's fired up! He thought, turning his dark eyes back to Garlic. A surge of power rose in the back of his mind and caused the hairs on the back of his neck to stand up. His tongue darted out to moisten his thin lips, which quickly pulled into a typical Saiyan smirk.

Piccolo was as still as a statue, waiting for Garlic to make the first move, but it seemed as if Garlic was doing the same thing. Tense silence stretched on, broken only by the battle between Tategoto and Onion, which was going on at the far end of the corridor.

"Stupid brat!" Onion cried, shooting a white finger blast in Tategoto's face, momentarily blinding him.

"Argh!" Tategoto sputtered as his vision went white for a few seconds. When his sight returned, he saw Onion landing next to Garlic, so he flew down to land between Piccolo and Vegeta. "Loozahs!" He shouted, signing the word at the same time.

Garlic stopped gathering power for a moment to mock being shocked, "Oh my. Did you hear that, Onion? We're LOSERS! Whatever will we do?"

Laughing and flipping his torn-up, dirty cape back, Onion replied, "Let's beat the crap out of 'em!"

Tategoto stuck his middle finger up at Garlic, then dropped back into his stance. He shifted his weight impatiently, amused by the angered expression his gesture had evoked from the demon. Vegeta was smirking and Piccolo was silent as always.

The air was heavy with the smell of sweat, blood and dust. Loud breathing kept breaking the silence. Hearts pounded to pump more blood and power through strong bodies. Ears and eyes were pricked. Reflexes were on hair triggers.

Garlic finally made the first move by suddenly thrusting both his hands forward to shoot a white beam of ki. The light illuminated his demonic features and created a huge explosion when it collided with the three forms at the other end of the corridor. There was a huge explosion, smoke billowed up everywhere and a ground-shaking rumble roared throughout the area.

When the smoke cleared, three very dirty people came walking out of the rubble and stood with their arms crossed.

"Is that the best you can do?!" Vegeta taunted, "My Grandmother could have thrown a blast stronger then that!"

Garlic grinned maliciously and his eyes glinted, "Oh yes, I can. Onion? Let's do it!" He turned his head to look down at his son.

"Right!" Onion replied.

Both father and son straightened and started to yell as white light erupted around them. Their capes billowed out behind them, light flashed around them and their eyes did strange things. The ground started to rumble as the two demons began to laugh, and their power levels were rising at a phenomenal rate.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!" Garlic was the first to change. With an ear-piercing cry, his skin darkened, his muscles seemed to inflate like balloons and his clothing exploded away from his body as he suddenly doubled in height to become a massive muscle-bound monster.

Tategoto's jaw dropped, Piccolo growled slightly and Vegeta's eyes narrowed.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!" Onion bellowed as his clothing ripped away from his body. His muscles increased in size, and his height soon followed until his head was level with Garlic's chest. The color of his skin darkened last until he looked like a smaller version of his father, and the eerie red gem on his forehead took on a demonic red glow.

Still shocked, Tategoto snapped his mouth shut and stared up at the two huge monsters before him. They looked like something out of his nightmares, and he soon realized that the fight was far from over. He felt a tap on his shoulder and turned his head to look up at his father. The two seemed to communicate through the gaze alone, and they both briefly stood down out of their fighting stance.

As if they had rehearsed it a thousand times before, the two Nameks reached for their turbans and removed them. They both took on the same pose to throw their turbans aside in the same direction at the same moment. Simultaneously, Tategoto and Piccolo proceeded to remove their heavy shoulderpads and toss them aside. By luck, Tategoto's smaller cape and turban came to land on top of his father's.

Piccolo and Tategoto looked at each other again, smirked and dropped back into their fighting stances while Vegeta shook his head and chuckled to himself.

Up above ground, Kami was carrying Yasmine away from the battle when he suddenly stopped in mid air and turned to face the direction of the underground castle. His cape rustled and settled against his back as a look of concern etched itself across his age-worn features.

"Kami? What is it?" Yasmine asked.

"Garlic and Onion have powered up."

She laughed out loud in disbelief. "Those puny little things can power up?"

Kami shook his head and heaved a sigh as he silently wished the three warriors luck. "I can assure you...they aren't very puny anymore..."

Back inside, Piccolo, Tategoto and Vegeta tensed in preparation. Garlic Jr. and Onion started to laugh. Then all five warriors faced each other and prepared to fight.