A New Ginyu?
Chapter 1
There were about six of them. Peaceful
creatures, nurturing plants out in a strangely blue field. They wore
full body-length robes and were prominently green resembling the
Nameks, although these creatures had a purple tinge to their skin.
The day was nothing in particular; mild and breezy. But that was all
about to change.
The creatures were happily pottering about in
the field, when one of them called out in his mother tongue "look,
in the sky!"
Five round pods plummeted towards the field,
causing the creatures to scatter in fear.
One after the other the
pods collided with the ground, causing huge craters to open up and in
turn sending large amounts of dirt and plant hurtling in all
directions.
The creatures stood in awe as the dust cleared,
revealing the pods along with what seemed to be aliens inside them.
"W-w-what are they?"
He barely had time to finish his
question when steam blew out from the linings of the doors of the
pods. Almost in unison, they opened up. One of the creatures mustered
up the courage to step forwards, although his movements were
sheepish. He edged ever closer to the pod closest to him.
Suddenly,
a tall figure burst out from the pod and high into the air, flipped
and landed straight in front of him, knees bent with its arms
stretched out to either side in a startling display of flamboyancy.
Shortly after, the four others followed, landing in equally
embarrassing poses. Then came a spot of cheerleading, culminating in
the bellowing of the words 'we are the Ginyu Force.'
The
creatures now stood, less scared... more puzzled. They eyed up the
strange aliens… There was the captain, the third tallest. The
creature who had edged forward thought that this alien looked more
like himself than any of the others. Except of course that he had no
horns, was slightly greener and was not wearing one of those things
over his eye. They wore such strange outfits too...
Next there was
the tallest of them, a blue reptile-like thing. It was this one that
he thought looked most fierce. The tall lighter skinned one with the
orange hair looked slightly stupid and so he appeared less
intimidating. As did his ridiculously short, plump looking green
friend with four eyes. Lastly there was a red man with shining white
hair who just seemed to blend in with the rest.
The Ginyus had
more serious expressions on their faces and had relaxed their poses.
Strangely though, they seemed to be surveying the whole landscape
aswell as the creatures in front of them.
"Jeice, give me a
reading on their power levels." Ginyu ordered.
Jeice fiddled
with his scouter, before almost snorting with laughter. "It ain't
even worth it cap'n. All together they barely scrape four hundred."
He said in a strangely australian sounding accent.
Recoome made a
disappointed grunting noise, before adding "I thought Frieza said
this place would be a challenge for us... Couldn't he have sent one
of the Saiyans to do this?"
Burter hissed rather quietly from
behind "Obviousssly not. Oh well… we better just take it anyway,
we wouldn't want him getting all upsssset now would we."
The
preliminary shock of the invasion had worn off of the creatures and
had now turned to anger. The one at the front piped up, "What is
your business here? Speak now or leave us in peace," unfortunately
for him, the Ginyus did not speak his language.
"What did he
say?" Guldo spat.
"Who knows? Rock-Paper-Scissors for these
ones Guys?" Recoome suggested,
"One Hazelnut-candy bar says
you can't take them by yourself Recoome."
With that, Recoome
lunged, smiling goofily as he quickly dispatched of the six defiant
creatures. One chocolate bar trade later, they set off in search of
other life, hoping to destroy it quickly so they could return to Lord
Frieza and reap the benefits.
The inhabitants of this planet were
absolutely no match for the feared Ginyu Force. They barely showed up
on the scouters, so the only chance they stood was to hide, which was
where pride let them down. Although peaceful, they also believed in
standing up for their people at all costs which proved to be their
downfall in most cases.
News spread quickly of the five tyrants
causing destruction across the planet, en route to all the major
cities on the planet, it crossed a small village near the coast of a
vast red ocean. This village was the home of one unusual young
creature whose name was Naso. He was not unusual because of his
appearance, in fact he was normal for his age. He was unusual because
of his urges and desires. His fellow people yearned for peace and
tranquillity, yet he wanted nothing less than to fight amongst the
strongest in the galaxy. He had heard stories from his elders of a
tyrant named Frieza who sent his warriors out to take over planets
and wreak havoc across the universe. Whilst these stories caused
reactions of fear and disbelief in his peers, it only served to stir
his imagination and make him fantasise about serving under Frieza.
Naturally, the news caused great distress to his fellow villagers,
but secretly, Naso was rather excited.
Ginyu, Jeice and Guldo
stood aside, watching Burter and Recoome rip another village to
shreds.
"Cap'n, what did Lord Frieza call this planet
again?"
"Narici. These people are Naricians. Lord Frieza said
they are very similar to Nameks. They can regenerate limbs fairly
easily. But that's not stopping us is it."
They laughed, apart
from Guldo, who was still catching his breath after trying to keep up
with the Force.
"Guldo mate, you really have got to start
coming to Ginyu Fitness Class with me. You look like you're going
to pass out," Ginyu and Jeice burst into raucous laughter.
Naso's
villagers had fled, hoping to reach a nearby city before they were
detected by any of the tyrants. Their village stood no chance against
the invaders, but maybe the city did.
Naso's father, Ocki, was
one of the largest males in the village and because of this he felt
it necessary to take charge and protect the others. He ran in front
of the rest of the villagers alongside two other large males and
naturally kept Naso close at his side.
He suddenly became aware
of the presence of a large blue man standing in their path, which
caused him to grind to a halt. Several villagers gasped, Burter found
this slightly amusing. He posed, hissing his name. Seeing that they
clearly weren't going to attempt to attack him, Burter checked his
scouter. The three men standing at the front were around seventy
each. The other villagers were not even worth a reading to the
scouter which barely detected any of them. Burter chuckled as he drew
his arms back, gathered his ki and prepared to waste the villagers.
"Too bad, I was hoping you people would… waaaa?!" Burter's
scouter displayed the number five thousand and it was pointing at the
little runt at the front… Naso.
"Impossssible!"
Naso
looked up at his dad, who just stared hatefully at Burter.
"Captain…
Jeice… I got one with a power level of five thousand."
Ginyu
received this message through his scouter and replied, "What? You
sure? Your scouters probably on the blink."
"Well, should I
just waste him too?"
"No, get rid of anyone he's with, then
keep him with you. Just as a precautionary measure."
"Yes
Captain." Burter smiled. The Villagers tried to put up a fight, but
their efforts
were in vain. Almost instantly, Naso and Ocki were
the only two left. Burter strolled over to the child, "You're
coming with me," he spat.
Even after witnessing the extent of
Burter's power, Ocki stepped into his path and pushed his son
behind him. He raised his fists, but a well placed ki blast from
Burter ended his defiance. Naso looked on in horror as his father
dropped to his knees and revealed Burter's satisfied expression. He
grabbed the awestruck child by the arm and flew off to the rest of
the Ginyus.
Chapter 2
He got caught by a
thunderous punch to the gut which sent him hurtling upwards through
the air. A swift recovery in the form of a back flip followed, and
using bukuu-jutsu, he levitated in that spot. Seeing that the
saibaman was catching its breath, he quickly fired a dozen bursts of
energy towards the floor. As the dust cleared, he glided back down to
the floor. The saibaman was completely incinerated.
The lights
flipped on as he landed and a voice buzzed through an intercom
speaker. "Nice job Naso, seventeen saibamen on the trot. New
record."
Naso grunted, taking a towel from the hanger by the
door on his way out.
"I'll be back tomorrow for more
training." He said ignorantly, strolling off down the corridor.
Around a year had passed since the Ginyus had brought Naso back
from Narici. For once, Frieza had shown some compassion and let the
boy live. This was mainly because he saw a lot of potential in him.
Naso was
extremely bitter about his father's death. Serving under Frieza had
been a life long dream and now that he had the opportunity, all he
could think about was getting revenge on Burter. He knew right from
the moment he arrived that if he wanted revenge he would have to play
his cards right.
Luckily, Frieza had ordered Zarbon and Dodoria to
brainwash Naso into thinking that the day of the Ginyu invasion had
never actually happened, and that his father had actually abandoned
him at birth. Naso just held out for a few weeks before pretending to
lose all memory of his father. Then he had bided his time, training
on Frieza's spaceship and waiting for the right moment. As he left
the training room that day, he realised that the right moment was not
going to come by itself, and a plan began formulate in his mind, a
plan that held at its forefront a rather unsuspecting Guldo.
Chapter
3
"I'm Recoome!"
"I'm Burter!"
"I'm
Jeice!"
…
"And I'm Captain… where's Guldo?!"
Ginyu spun, causing the others to flinch.
Guldo was a sizeable
distance behind them. He panted as he jogged, clearly out of breath.
He then mustered all of his remaining energy and posed, "I'm…
Guldo… pheeeee-euwww"
Ginyu's face was like thunder. His
eyes twitched, his veins bulged. To put it bluntly, Ginyu was
furious. He turned to the inhabitants of the latest planet that they
were invading. "Please, excuse us for a moment," he said as he
held out a hand to the flabbergasted people.
Guldo held his pose,
acting as if he had not noticed Ginyu's steaming ears.
"Guldo."
He said, slowly and calmly, as people do when they are too angry to
shout, often making it worse. "Go back to your ship. Stay there. Do
not move a single one of your flabby little limbs."
"Y-y-yes
cap'n" Guldo nodded accordingly before scurrying off towards his
ship.
"Blimey cap'n. Never seen him move so fast…"
Ginyu cut Jeice off by raising his arm. His palm began to glow
"No
rock, paper scissors today boys. They're all mine."
Guldo
stood by his pod. Panic was making his thoughts buzz around like bees
to honey, I've never missed the pose before… never. Maybe I
should have gone to Ginyu fitness with Jeice. Ohhh man. What if he
kicks me off the force?
What if he tells Frieza about this. Frieza
might kill me! Oh no… I'm strong though. Who is he going to
replace me with? No one else on the ship would fit in with the Ginyu
Force…
As he panicked, a flurry of ki blasts exploded from
where the rest of the Ginyus were.
Looks like they're doing
alright with out me huh. Alright Guldo. This is it. You're
finished.
He slumped into his pod and waited for the Ginyus
to finish with the planet so he could get back to the ship and
discover his fate.
"Go easy on him cap'n."
"Shut
up Jeice." Ginyu barked, still steaming after taking out his
frustrations on the poor planet they were taking over. The four of
them were now walking back to the pods, Guldo being the hot topic.
"I
sssay, kick him off the Force. He's no good to usss. He just getsss
in the way." Burter hissed, to which Recoome added…
"Yeah,
and he cramps our style, Captain."
"Aww,
come off it guys. Guldo's a mate. We've known him since we all
joined the force. How can we just kick him off after all this
time?"
Ginyu stopped dead in front of Jeice, "I'll tell you
how, Jeice, the Ginyu force is all about strength, good looks and
incomparable style. Guldo is fat, weak and can't even strike a pose
in time. That, in my book, is three out of three reasons to kick him
off the Force. And if you don't shut up soon Jeice, you'll be
following him right out the door."
Jeice felt put in his place,
but still felt obligated to stand up for his friend. "Captain…
Who's going to replace him?"
Ginyu hadn't expected this
question, in truth he hadn't actually thought about it.
Recoome,
for once, had a useful suggestion, "We could hold trials. Let some
of the younger warriors try out for the Ginyu force. Then we
audition, pick the best one and give them Guldo's badge."
"You
know Recoome, that's not a bad idea." Ginyu smirked, "Right
boys, your next mission. Posters."
"Posters?!" They chimed
in, in unison.
"Well, if we don't advertise, how are people
going to know that there's a spot available?"
They
sighed.
"Unfortunately…" Their ears pricked up again, "This
means we will have to keep Guldo on the force until the replacement
has been chosen. No one utters a word to the little runt."
"Yes,
Captain Ginyu."
Chapter 4
Guldo stared up at
one of the posters. Huge bold letters, 'NEW GINYU WANTED,'
The
mere sight of them bore into him like knives. He looked underneath,
at the photo of the posing Ginyu members, his picture had been
silhouetted, his features replaced by a huge red question mark. How
insulting.
Jeice had spotted Guldo and hurried over. "Guldo,
mate… I'm so sorry…"
Guldo cut him off, "Don't speak
to me." He said, storming off and leaving Jeice to stand guiltily
by the poster. Jeice ripped it down from the wall angrily whilst
cursing about Ginyu, Burter and Recoome.
Burter and Recoome
had been ordered to hand fliers out personally by Ginyu. Recoome felt
slightly guilty handing them out. He was torn, part of him hated the
thought of Guldo leaving, but the other part thought it was best for
the team and that that was the main priority. Burter on the other
hand was delighted.
And it showed.
Naso passed Burter and
Recoome on his way to the canteen. His stomach lurched as Burter held
out a flier to him and said "Opening in the Ginyu Force, apply
now," with a huge grin.
He felt sick just looking at Burter, but
having to listen to him aswell was too much.
On the
contrary, the flier Burter was handing to him was very convenient.
Naso had identified Guldo as the weak link in the Force, and his
quickest route to Burter. He had been straining to think of a fool
proof way of getting rid of Guldo, without making it too obvious as
to what he was doing. But now, it looked as if Guldo had gotten rid
of himself and saved him the hassle.
Naso faked a smile, took a
flier and carried on down the hall. He thought it ironic that Burter
was so delighted that Guldo was leaving, when it was the thing that
would lead to his demise.
Jeice appeared on Recoome's
scouter, "Recoome, bring Burter to the launch pads, Guldo's seen
one of the posters and he's off out of here!"
Recoome and
Burter sped off to the launch pads, this would have been good news
had Ginyu not told them to keep it secret from Guldo.
As they
arrived, Guldo had a space pod open, Jeice was pleading with him to
stop, but Guldo just ignored him. He took off his Ginyu badge and
threw it down, then he proceeded to take off his armour and throw
that down too. Finally, his scouter, which shattered as he threw it
down, then he jumped into the pod and slammed the door,
Jeice was
now shouting Guldo's name in a last ditch effort to keep him there,
but to no avail. The pod blasted out into space.
All three Ginyus
were cursing.
Recoome questioned Jeice, "Where did he go?"
"I
think he's gone back to his home planet. Should we go after
him?"
"No." replied Burter, "we just tell Ginyu the truth.
It doesn't matter too much, he didn't want Guldo anymore anyway.
And if Frieza ever stumbles across Guldo, he'll be toast." They
agreed, and went back inside to prepare to face up to their captain.
As Guldo's pod rocketed back towards his home planet, he felt mixed emotions. He resented the now depleted Ginyu Force for kicking him out, especially Jeice. He felt somewhat saddened by his departure. On the contrary, he was excited to be going home and to find out what shape his planet was now in. Many fond memories of his planet came gliding back into Guldo's mind but they were polluted by his jealous thoughts of the Ginyus. He wondered what the new Ginyu would be like. He wondered when, or if, he would see the Ginyus again. Guldo knew he would be sad about leaving the Force at some point, but right now being angry was his main priority.
Chapter 5
Naso had been looking forward to this, but now he felt quite
ashamed to be taking part. On Captain Ginyu's order, the wannabe
Ginyus had been forced to play ten rounds of rock-paper-scissors
which Naso had managed to survive, narrowly beating a young, rather
chubby blue thing.
As if this wasn't enough, they had to copy
Recoome's poses in a game that bizarrely resembled musical statues.
Recoome seemed to be the only one enjoying it, prancing around like a
big buffoon, while a dozen or so young armour-clad warriors tried
desperately to copy him. Eventually it fell down to four: Naso, a
young Saiyan who was apparently related distantly to Paragas, a pink
alien that resembled Dodoria, only a lot skinnier, and finally a tall
light blue alien, who (apart from his colour) looked human. Ginyu
stood up from his 'judging' table. The four young warriors were
eagerly awaiting Ginyu's order. They wanted to fight, to prove that
they were more powerful, to cement there place in the Force. The last
thing they wanted was another round of rock-paper-scissors.
"Now,
my favourite round. The fighting. I'm going to team you up. The
winning team will get a rest, then go on to fight each other. The
winner of that will be given this." He held up Guldo's Ginyu
badge, which glinted in the eyes of the four contestants.
"Let's
see now. You…" He pointed at the Saiyan, "and… errr you"
The Saiyan was paired with the skinny pink alien.
The two
teams separated to opposite sides of the room, they all held their
arms at their sides, fists clenched, apparently powering up. Ginyu
chuckled as he and the other three Ginyus sat to spectate. The Saiyan
and the pink thing both lunged for Naso's partner, presumably
because he was the taller of the two. They had him down on the floor
almost instantly, but the pink one turned his attention to Naso,
leaving the Saiyan to deliver a flurry of shots to the blue man.
Naso ducked a kick from the pink man, before narrowly
side-stepping a punch. Naso managed to trip him and plant his face
hard into the ground with his palm. Naso took a step back and began
to charge up a blast. The Saiyan had left the blue man in quite a
mess and now he headed towards Naso. A well placed knee to the gut
interrupted Naso's attempts. As Naso gathered his breath, the
Saiyan pounded on him relentlessly. The Saiyan's partner recovered
and attempted to help.
The Blue man desperately fired a few ki
blasts straight at the Saiyan's pink partner, which luckily sent
him hurtling into the wall.
The Saiyan
turned round and snarled at Naso's partner, but before he could do
anything, his face screwed up, displaying agony.
To Ginyu's
surprise, the Saiyan was rendered useless, Naso had grabbed his tail.
The Saiyan stood, shocked at his own weakness, and too hurt to
move. Naso twisted the tail, causing shockwaves to ripple throughout
the Saiyan's body.
Naso loosened his grip and watched as the
Saiyan fell to his knees, gasping.
Out of nowhere, Naso was hit
by a flurry of ki blasts, he was knocked down and across the floor,
taking the tiles with him. He landed in a heap of rubble, flat on his
back.
The Pink one laughed at how easily he had taken Naso out
and then walked over to the Blue man. He was in too much of a state
to fight, saving Naso with his ki blasts had taken the last of his
energy. The Pink one raised a hand and blasted Naso's partner
square between the eyes from almost point blank.
Ginyu stood as
Naso's partner was carried off to the rejuvenation chamber.
Two
more soldiers came for Naso, but as they were hoisting him up to take
him aswell, Ginyu stopped them. "Hold on, leave that one." He
barked. As they nodded and dropped Naso, he continued "Well done,
you two. That was very well fought." He smiled.
Naso was now
sitting up rubbing his head. The Saiyan had recovered and stood
breathing heavily, as did his partner. "Yes, one teeny weeny thing
though." They looked up to Ginyu as he spoke, wondering what he was
about to say.
"You!" He pointed at the Saiyan and blasted a
devastating death beam right at him. The Saiyan dropped to the floor.
Everyone stood in shock.
"Take him instead…" He said to the
soldiers who had tried to take Naso, "What? You didn't think I
would let someone onto my precious Ginyu Force who could be rendered
useless, just by grabbing his tail?! What do you think I am… some
kind of idiot? Right, well done kid, you've now been granted access
to the Final. What are you waiting for? Fight…"
Naso and the
pink one looked at each other, still recovering from both the fight
and the shock of what Ginyu had just done. Naso's face gradually
turned from shock to grin, and he gestured towards his hand with his
eyes. The shocked alien looked down at Naso's hand, and saw a
gleaming ball of energy. He did a double-take, not believing how
easily he was tricked by Naso, but then, in what seemed like a very
long time, but in fact was only a split second, the ball became a
beam, which plastered the Alien right in the gut, going straight
through his armour, and pretty much everything else.
Naso sat, shining his new badge. Revenge was closer than ever.
Chapter 6
"Ginyu. We've located a new planet that could be very
useful. Lots of resources. I want you to take the force, take the
planet and come back here by tomorrow."
Frieza had not even
noticed Guldo's absence as he spoke to the force, although he did
usually only address Captain Ginyu. Zarbon was the only one who did
notice, he remembered having to brainwash this child and thought it
ironic that he was now allied with the man that killed his father.
Zarbon also remembered how Frieza had let the boy live, seeing the
potential in him. This 'potential' had clearly come to light, as
the boy was now unnoticeable next to the Ginyus, even to Frieza,
meaning he must have fit the bill.
Naso's head was dipped
slightly, showing very subtly that he was hiding something. He showed
no emotion on his face, apart from a hard, concentrated stare. This
was mainly because he feared that if he did not control himself
fully, he could give himself away.
"Go now Ginyu, I am becoming
a little bored."
"Yes Lord Frieza," Ginyu turned to leave.
Jeice tapped Naso to bring him round from his silent staring and then
beckoned him out. Naso followed Jeice and the other Ginyus, unaware
that he was being watched closely by Zarbon as he left.
Zarbon
turned round to Frieza as the doors glided shut, "Lord Frieza, did
you notice anything different about the Ginyu Force?"
"Zarbon,
do you not think that if something was different about the Ginyu
Force, I would have been informed as soon as this change was
made?"
Zarbon wanted to point out that Frieza had totally missed
the replacement of Guldo, but thought better of it, opting for a
polite 'Yes, Lord Frieza' instead.
Frieza
glanced out of his huge window as four pods marked with the Ginyu
logo, along with Naso's plain pod, shot off towards the target
planet.
"See Zarbon. What is different about that?" Frieza
remarked, leading Zarbon to let out a small sigh.
The Ginyus
landed on a small, hazy planet. The ground was mainly a brown/purple
colour and nearby ran a yellow river. The sky was invisible through
the thick fog that was apparently normal to this planet.
No
posing was necessary as there were no life forms near where they
landed, so the Ginyus just got out and began walking along the
riverbank.
"Gee guys, this place is giving me the creeps."
Recoome spluttered.
"Its just fog 'coom, don't worry about
it. Besides, we're the dreaded Giny-"
"Jeice!" Captain
Ginyu exclaimed, halting in his tracks. Ahead of them were about a
dozen aliens, almost identical to humans.
Ginyu's face lit up.
He turned to Naso. "Your turn."
Naso was startled, "Me? What
do you mean?" He said.
Ginyu chuckled as he raised a chocolate
bar, "One choco-crunch bar says that you can't take them all by
yourself."
"Them? I… don't have a scouter yet. Can you
give me a reading?"
Ginyu fiddled with his scouter and scanned
the aliens. The reading came out at around four thousand in total.
"Woah! Five hundred thousand! Each!" Ginyu faked a shocked
face.
Naso began to sweat a bit, he was not yet used to power
levels but he knew that that was unusually high.
Ginyu turned to
wink at the others to make them play along. They nodded accordingly.
However, as Ginyu turned back to Naso to order him to fight, a cloud
of dust settled, giving the impression that something just moved at a
very high speed.
Naso was gone.
The Ginyus watched in awe as
he tore the aliens to pieces. Barely taking a breath.
"I didn't
think he would go. Surely, five hundred thousand should have scared
the lad…" Ginyu said, "Jeice, what's his power level?"
Jeice
snapped out of shock to get a reading, "Well, he's only six
thousand Captain."
Before Ginyu could react, Naso was back and
had taken the chocolate.
"You sure they were that high?"
Naso said.
"They were about four thousand each. Are you mad?
You would have run into a fight with twelve people, all of which were
stronger than you by about eighty times."
"Isn't that what
the Ginyu Force is all about?"
"Alright kid, you've got a
point."
Chapter 7
Zarbon eyeballed Ginyu. "I can't help but notice, Ginyu,
that your team is missing a certain little fat waste of space
nowadays. Where is he? And why didn't you alert Master Frieza of
this change?"
"He took off without telling us. I told him he
wasn't fulfilling his role in the force properly, we intended to
keep him on the force until we had a replacement but he took offence
and blasted off in his pod."
"Alright Ginyu, but let me warn
you, Frieza hasn't noticed yet and it better stay that way. No
screw ups."
"The kid is fine. We trialled him…"
"Yes
I heard. You also managed to kill a saiyan while you were at it.
You're lucky that these things are going unnoticed… Look, just to
make sure there are no mishaps in future, you'd better take your
team, find the fat one and dispose of him. Remember, when you mess
up, Frieza punishes me, and if he punishes me, I punish you. Got
it?"
Ginyu nodded, then contacted the force through his scouter
as Zarbon rushed off down the corridor.
They landed with a
bump on what they hoped was Guldo's planet.
"Alright, this is
it, we'll split up because the fat little runt probably won't
turn up on the scouters. Recoome, you and Jeice go that way. Burter,
take the kid that way, I'll go straight on. Buzz me if you find
him. No, better, buzz me if you kill him."
They all blasted off
in different directions.
Just as the others were out of sight,
Jeice stopped. Recoome screeched to a halt, "hey, what's the hold
up?"
"Recoome, Guldo's my mate. He should be yours too. You
aren't actually considering killing him are you?" Recoome looked
confused, as usual he hadn't given it much thought.
Burter
was steaming around, gleefully, looking for Guldo. Naso was flying
just behind him, staring hatefully. Burter, in his childish haze of
happiness, didn't realise.
It almost seemed too good to be true,
first Guldo got rid of himself, and now Naso had been left alone with
Burter with no one around to witness anything.
"There!"
Burter shouted, bursting towards a village below which bustled with
creatures that looked just like Guldo. Naso followed. Burter landed
flamboyantly and posed for a while. The Guldo look-a-likes stared
blankly. After a while, one of them piped up, "What do you
want?"
"I am Burter of the dreaded Ginyu forcccce" A few
gasps of realisation came, before the Guldo thing spoke again;
"Ahh.
You have come for Guldo then?"
"Yessss."
"Well, erm,
he's not here right now."
"You'd better hope he turnsss up
then…"
"Ok, ok, he's here."
"Foolsss, cowardly
creaturesss. You are all just like Guldo." As he spoke, Guldo
himself pushed through the crowd to the front.
"Burter. I had
a feeling you'd come. Having second thoughts about kicking me off
the team? Hey wait a minute! My armour, so you're my replacement
huh?" he gestured at Naso.
Naso nodded, but Burter stepped in
front of him, blocking him from Guldo's view, "Don't ignore me
you little sssslob!" He started strolling towards Guldo. "I'm
going to enjoy thisss, you alwaysss brought ssshame on our forccce."
Burter lunged forward, striking Guldo at lightning speed.
The
crowd that had gathered all breathed in deeply, freezing the fight so
that they could scramble away in all directions.
Burter stopped,
startled by the sudden disappearance of all the little Guldos. To his
surprise, the actual Guldo was still there when he turned back.
"Sssso, not running away like all your little friendsss?"
Guldo
rubbed the spot on his cheek where Burter had hit him. "No way. I'm
going to prove that I don't need you or the stupid Gin…
hnnnph"
Burter lunged again, Naso watched as he tossed Guldo
around like a ragdoll.
He finally stopped, leaving Guldo in a heap
on the floor. Burter loomed over him,
light gathering around his
hand. "Ginyu's going to be sssso happy when he…" Burter felt
a fast increase of power behind him. "Kid! What the hell are you
powering up for...?" just as he finished his question, Naso piled
into him, flinging fists around wildly. Burter, still shocked,
couldn't get his guard up. Naso smashed Burter through the air and
sent a barrage of ki blasts after him.
Ginyu popped up on
Jeice's scouter. "Jeice, what's with the power level increase?
Have you found Guldo?"
"It ain't me cap'n. Must be Burter
and the kid…"
Burter lay on his front, in the same state
as Guldo now. He gasped for breath and rasped, struggling up to one
knee. Naso reappeared next to him and hammered his back, driving him
into the floor. "K-kid, what? W-w-why?"
"Don't you
remember Burter? Where I came from? Why I am even here."
"Kid,
I don't know what you're talking about," Burter rasped, hardly
able to speak.
"That's just great. You take me from my home,
my family, my planet! And now you don't even remember doing it?"
Burter strained to remember;
"Wait… I ssseee. The purple
nameksss…"
"That's right. I've waited too long for this
Burter…"
Naso prepared a final death beam for Burter as he
stood over him. He screamed out, charging up his attack with all of
his energy. He raised his hands, finally ready to get revenge. He
froze. Everything froze.
Guldo had breathed in. He looked around
frantically, with barely any energy left, he could not hold the time
freeze for long. All there was around that could be of any use was a
tree…
He hoisted it up with his mind, the roots dangled, sharp
as knives. He let out his breath and flung the trunk.
"Guldo
Special!"
Naso gasped in horror, just turning to see the trunk
hurtling at him… all of this time, preparation and scheming, going
down the proverbial toilet. Naso remembered his father, his home, how
much he had trained to get his revenge. Now in his finest moment,
glory had been snatched away… by a fat little Ginyu and his tree
trunk throwing mind powers…
Naso's armour was obliterated,
pierced straight through his abdomen.
Guldo staggered over,
plucked his badge from the 'purple Namek', and proceeded over to
Burter, who lay beaten in a mound of rubble.
Burter turned his
head slowly and smiled at Guldo…
"Looksss like I owe you
sssome ssserious chocolate…"
