Authors Note: This is my first dbz fic, and I think I did ok. I'm not fishing for sympathy, so if you think it sucks please offer constructive criticism in your review. Right now it's turning out to be a long story so If you have any ideas or feedback don't hesitate to pass it along. This story takes place in the middle of the fight between Goku and Freeza after her transformed into a super saiyan, with a twist.

The Devils Cold Left Hand

1 Prologue

"KA…ME…HA…MAE…HA!!" The super saiyan screamed, a stream of raw power bursting from his outstretched hands, meeting the furious head on charge of the cold tyrant, their two energies collided in the final decisive struggle for victory on the vanishing planet Namek. The evil warlord gave a lizard like shriek and slowly closed the distance between them, the golden warrior slowly losing the battle, until finally he gave a war cry and released the awesome bulk of his strength, pushing his opponent farther and farther as his legendary strength eventually won out.

The snake like tyrant smirked maliciously, knowing that if he just raised the stakes a little more that the stupid monkey would concentrate only on their stalemate and be completely off guard from all other sides. In a cunning manuever he suddenly broke away from the intense struggle, hurtling down upon the unsuspecting saiyan like a hellish ball of fire, grabbing the startled warrior by the shoulders and driving him down with unmatchable force. He struggled desperately to free himself as he was pushed and drove deeper and deeper through the planet's surface, his grip like an iron vice as it crushed layers of rock and earth, then finally feeling the last layer give way and shoving him helplessly into a underground lake of molten lava.

Two went into that crater, only one came out. Right on his heels a gigantic column of fire, the explosion following the eruption was massive, spewing up giant pieces of rock and sulphur, the flames and lava bursting forth from the planet's wound.

"He's dead…I finally killed him." Was all he said. This was much more than a simple victory; he had finally vanquished the demon in his mind. All his life he had been the strongest in the universe, nothing was out of his icy grasp. With that kind of godlike power also came paranoia, the knowledge that someday someone as equally strong could someday rise up and overthrow him, as he had done countless times to countless rulers of worlds. That fear would eventually be given a name, the legend of the super saiyan. An invincible warrior, told in legends from hundreds of years ago, in other words his only true threat. But that was now past, he had killed the golden warrior of legend and proved once and for all he was lord of the universe.

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"My dad…his power…it just disappeared…?!" Gohan said suddenly, Bulma turning around sharply in confusion. "What?! Gone, what does that mean Gohan?!" She asked, fear and mounting anxiousness straining her voice. "It means…it means he's dead." There was a calmness in his voice that unnerved her, but she needed to get them out of there before the whole planet exploded, which could happen at any time. "I'm sorry to say this kid, but if your dad's been defeated then we need to get out of here." She put it to him as rationally as she could but he shook his head, hitting the door release button. "You go, I'm staying." He stated as he walked to the doorway of the space ship, the raging storm outside whipping his short hair around his face. "I'm half saiyan Bulma, Freeza will hunt me down wherever I go, and the last thing I want to do is lead him back to Earth." Bulma started getting frantic, she couldn't possibly leave Gohan here to fight that alien, and soon the planet would be destroyed. "Wait Gohan! You just can't leave me here, this is suicide!" She cried out desperately. Gohan didn't budge, only glancing up thoughtfully, a small grin crossing his young face. " No way, this is life. Piccolo would understand, and so would my dad. And I don't plan on losing." Before she could say anything to stop him he had blasted out of the ship, flying to the forsaken battlefield.

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"Maybe I'm not alive, maybe this is hell." Vegeta muttered to himself as he walked down the chaotic landscape. It looked like planet Namek but like someone had torn it to pieces, the sky pitch black for once and lightning furiously thundering in the sky above. He looked at his hand in disbelief, a moment ago he was falling down a black tunnel with no light, then boom, back in his shallow grave. He took his raised hand and aimed at a piece of rubble, feeling the familiar surge of his power fill his body, then shooting through his arm and blasting the rubble into smoking chunks of rock. He gasped a bit in awe, drawing his hand back. He knew he could still use his power, but how could he be sure he was alive?

"Wham!!" His own fist came down into his armoured side, the strength from the blow dropping himself to his knees. He groaned harshly with pain and bowed his head, and then he laughed softly, then laughing harder and louder until he threw his head up. "It's true! I really am alive! And that means…" He looked over to his right, his good mood suddenly suffocating in his chest as he saw Freeza engaged in a cruel and lost battle with Kakarotts brat. "So Kakarott failed after all…Freeza's still alive, and his power is even greater than before…" He narrowed his eyes and charged his energy all through his body, becoming as bright as a blue flame. "But just you wait, so is mine!"

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"Just two more minutes…if I can hang on for just two more minutes he'll get caught in the explosion!" Gohan assured himself in his mind as he crawled on the ground. He had been wrong in his hope that his father had weakened Freeza's power enough for him to finish him off, and now with his very survival no longer an option he just hopped he could stall the arrogant devil long enough that he would get caught in the explosion of the planet. He finally reached a block in his path, a craggy outcrop of rock that he used to support him and face his enemy. The grinning, white snake like Freeza raised one hand and shot out a barrage of red deadly ki beams, Gohan braced himself all over to receive the finishing blow, but they had all been purposefully aimed to just shoot around his figure, making him suddenly topple backwards with the crumbling rubble. Gohan scrambled up to his feet, but to his shock Freeza was already standing over him mockingly with his arms crossed. "You never intended to fight, your just trying to stall me so I'll get caught in the explosion. Well sorry, I'll be long gone by the time this planet blows, and you will be dead." Gohan growled at him and launched a futile attack, only to get Freeza's elbow embedded into his stomach, then three quick punches to his face. Gohan spat up blood, panting and crying out in pain. Freeza snarled angrily at him and raised wickedly sharp nails into a killing blow and held them inches from his face. "Don't worry, it'll all be over soon." He sneered, his hand coming down-

"WHAMM!!" Gohan only saw it for an instance, his death ready to claim him, then the blazing aura of Vegeta as he drove his fist into Freeza's startled face, actually shattering bone and making him screech in pain and hate as the force of the blow blew him into the distance. Vegeta grabbed Gohan's shoulder roughly and shook him back to reality. "Come on kid, Freeza's going to be back any second now!" Even as Vegeta uttered the last word Freeza's ki flared dangerously on the horizon, charging back their direction like an angry hornet. Vegeta braced himself for another attack, even though his energy was depleted from just hitting Freeza once. Gohan was completely whipped; they didn't stand a chance. Gohan saw a flash of the evil tyrants face, a black ragged and bleeding wound where the right side of his face should be, a deadly, unstoppable beam ripping from his hand towards them to blast them into oblivion, and then both gone.

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"Your wish has been granted…" said the massive dragon Porunga to no one in particular. He impassively glanced over at the white evil lord Freeza, catching a glimpse of the alien spinning red energy discs in his hands. Porunga was unconcerned, until he rose up to leave that world and the wicked cutting discuses sliced cleanly through his scaly torso. The ancient titan of a dragon roared with rage and pain, falling helplessly back into the black consuming ocean of the planet, swallowing him forever.

"If I can't have eternal life…then all must die instead." The twisted alien thought as he flew up into the endless void of space. His injuries had stopped bleeding, but his body was wrecked now beyond the limits of rejuvenation technology. Whatever had been left of Freeza's fragile sanity was gone now, swallowed up in a sea of destruction and humiliation, consuming him with the desire for revenge. "I will make them suffer…THEY WILL KNOW THE WRATH OF FREEZA!!"