Dragon Ball Timelines

Believe it or not, I'm actually starting this chapter a few days after finishing with the second one. Trying to pump it out faster now. Anyways, this chapter is mainly just the fight, so it'll be a bit short.

"HA!"

Gio's blood was flaming from the rage he felt at seeing the purple alien destroy his years' worth of blood, sweat, and tears. His aura outlined his body, electricity sparking out from it as a result of his anger. Cui turned into his direction after hearing his name, only to be met with a gloved hand striking the side of his face and sending his body skid back. Gio followed up by charging again with a strong uppercut, sending the shorter fighter into the air before Gio grabbed his foot and sent his body crashing into the rock.

Gio jumped up, aiming to slam his foot into Cui's face while he was still stuck on the ground, only to have him recover, rolling out of the way and using his right leg to deliver a kick to his lower back. Gio stumbled forward long enough for Cui to rise to his feet, connecting an axe-fist strike to the back oh the Saiyan's head. Gio fell to the ground from the impact, but landed on his hands and kicked Cui in the face with his free leg, breaking his scouter.

Gio then did a handspring forwards to gain distance, his feet making a thud upon hitting the ground. He turned around with a ferocious look in his eye as the alien lapdog chuckled to himself.

"Well well, the leader himself. You're not half bad. But you've been a real pain in lord Frieza's side, and he ordered me specifically to end you. But maybe if you bow down right now and beg for mercy, he'll let you join his own personal group of Saiyans." Cui said with a cocky smile. "Before you destroyed it, my scouter picked up your rough power level. You can't be much stronger than around 7,000 units. You stand no chance. Besides, I already killed the rest of your little group. Including the ones absent from here."

"I wouldn't join those fools." Gio barked, though his mind wandered to his team. "Vegeta's group is just three fools who let Frieza boss them around as if they were cockroaches! I may have put it aside, but I'll never stoop as low as to betray my pride as a Saiyan like that! And besides, your scouter may deem me as weaker, but it can't read the pure malice in my blood."

"Oh, what a pity. Seems your "pride as a Saiyan" is the thing that will get you killed." Cui's face contorted into a meniacal grin. "But, you Saiyans never did know when to quit. Just look at that fool Bardock for example."

Gio growled, his aura bursting with renewed vigor before he kicked off the ground. As he approached, Cui's elbow slammed into his nose. Or, it would have, but instead it passed right through Gio's afterimage. The real Gio slammed his foot into Cui's right temple from behind, sending him flying to the side with the Saiyan hot on his trail. He slammed his fist into his opponent's gut, sending Cui plummeting into the ground with his face to the sky.

"DON'T YOU DARE SPEAK OF BARDOCK."

Gio swerved around and charged again at the recovering alien. Nobody ever insulted Gio's father, and this had been shown before when he attacked Raditz. Cui was struggling to his feet, but he wouldn't be fast enough to gather his bearings. Gio cocked his fist back, preparing to strike, but Cui saw this coming, firing an orange energy wave out of his left hand at the oncoming Saiyan. It was too fast to react to, engulfing Gio into it before dedonating. Cui slowly began walking towards Gio, now littered with burns and scorches with blood running down his mouth. But Cui was far from untouched, he had several scratches, cuts, and bruises on his own body.

Cui lifted the Saiyan by his armor before raising his fist. Three hard lefts connected with Gio's face. The Saiyan's vision blurred, the only thing he coould make out was the alien before him and a man in the background, with long white hair and green armor. He almost resembled a Saiyan..but he did not have a tail. He wasn't part of Gio's recruits either, but if he came with Cui, why wasn't he with the other soldiers?

His thoughts were cut short by Cui throwing him into the air and driving his fist into his stomach, resulting in Gio coughing up quite a bit of blood. Gio fell again, limply to the floor. He saw Cui bend down, reaching for Gio's armor again. Gio groaned, sending a kiai wave from his body and knocking Cui back to give Gio time to stand again. The Saiyan looked at the burning rebellion base, heard the screams of his comrades as their flesh was roasted. His fists clenched. He killed all of them..and now he was just being toyed with. He needed to avenge them. He saw his mother, screaming as the death ball from Frieza dug into Planet Vegeta, before...nothing.

And now he was being laughed at.

Cui got up, grumbling. He saw the alien rush at the Saiyan from in front, but instead, Gio thrust his elbow behind him, catching Cui in his big ugly face as his afterimage in front disappeared.

"You think you ca use my tricks against me? You overgrown grape piece of shit?!" He roared. Cui roared at the insult, driving his fist towards Gio's face only to find that it was an afterimage. He spun around and kicked the space behind him, but it was another afterimage. He saw that many afterimages were surrounding him, identical to the real one. He didn't know which was the real without his scouter, so he blindly rushed forward, punching one, but it phased through. Before he could move on, he felt his head grabbed before it was slammed into the ground by the real Gio, afterimages fading. Cui coughed, wiping his forehead and felt blood on his arm.

He heard the Saiyan fighter approaching, reacting faster and jumping up with a spin kick to his cheek that sent Gio recoiling. Cui followed up with numerous slugs to the gut before a left hook that sent the Saiyan stumbling to the side. Cui kicked off the ground, aiming for a finishing blow. However, Cui didn't realize this would be a big mistake.

Gio saw the chance. He leapt into the air, one hand in the air, as Cui would pass under him with Gio's left hand sparking, a pink ki ball forming atop his hand as his body turned, hand going towards Cui with a blast that had all of Gio's ki poured into it. It all seemed to go in slow motion, Cui was just realizing his mistake before he heard Gio shouting.

"THIS IS FOR THE REBELLION!"

It all sped up. Gio's hand fell towards Cui, the ball of ki launching from it and propelling Gio into the air while the ball made contact with the top of Cui's head, pushing him face first into the rocky ground before setting off a huge explosion.

"Nova bomb.." Gio muttered before falling onto his knees, all ki drained. Cui lay unconcious on the floor, but he'd die soon without medical attention. He panted hard and shut his eyes, his own wounds beginning to catch up to him.

He heard a whirring sound in front of him, seeing soldiers that had accompanied Cui surrounding him with their ki blasters pointed at him. One grabbed him by the hair, pulling him up as he growled.

"Soon enough, Lord Frieza will have you begging for death." He heard Raspberry, a humanoid Frieza soldier, say in his ear.

Gio stood straight up. His ki was drained, but these guys hardly knew how to control ki anyways. Yes..a plan began formulating in his head. He took a deep breath before raising his foot up at blurring speeds, kicking Raspberry in the balls and then taking advantage of his loosened grip by grabbing his ki rifle from his arm to compensate for his lack of energy. He jumped out of the way of ki balls flying towards him and returned fire, breaking off into a run towards the hills, even though his body screamed at him to stop.

Upon reaching the top of the hill, he noticed a tree-resembling plant by him. He used his superhuman strength to rip it out of the ground, throwing it at the soldiers that were trying to hike up. He then slid down, dropping into a cave where a hidden space pod lay. He heard shouts from struggling soldiers, but he didn't care. He opened the hatch, revealing an extra set of armor inside. Gio his this pod in the area for emergencies like this, and the palm-haired fighter felt very relieved that he had as he climbed in, setting the co-ordinates he had made sure to memorize.

"Well.." He muttered, feeling himself begin to slip from conciousness. "I wasn't going to go just yet, but I have no choice.."

He remembered one of his men approaching him at dinner several years ago, saying he'd gathered intel that Earth had gone through a huge war, something about a group called the Red Ribbon Army and some guy named King Piccolo. Gio remembered, that's where his little brother was supposed to go. If there were still people there, maybe his brother was there too? It was a long shot, but Gio had remembered the co-ordinates to the planet.

"Kakarot..we're the last of our kind." Gio muttered as the pod readied itself, preparing for a journey that would take at least four years due to the ship being an old model, but it would be enough time for his injuries to heal.. "Please be alive."

With that, Gio's vision faded to black.

"Son."

He heard a voice..but it was fuzzy. Like it was distant.

"Son." The voice got closer.

Gio opened his eyes slowly. He was in a blank space, nothing but white, floor, sky, walls- if there were any-, all white.

"Son!" He heard from behind him. He jumped up, whirling around to see none other than the warrior himself..Bardock.

"Father?" He asked.

"Find Kakarot. He's still on Earth, I know it." The elder Saiyan commanded. "With him, and only with him, can you beat Frieza and end his tyranny."

"Father..how are you here?"

"You're dreaming, it's the only way I can communicate with you, but it takes a lot of energy. I don't have much time, so listen up. You can't continue on your own. Join with Kakarot and the Earthlings, that's the only way you can continue getting stronger. That's the only place you belong. My visions have never been wrong."

"I'm sorry.." Gio whispered, feeling groggy. "I failed you."

"No..you didn't. You built a strong force, one even Frieza was getting nervous of. Both you and Kakarot have done amazing things, and I'm proud of you both. I just wish you could've saved Raditz."

Bardock paused, trying to think.

"Look." He continued. "Please, when you see Kakarot...tell him that I watch over him. Both of you."

His form began to fade.

"Looks like my time's up." Gio's father said. "Goodbye, my son. Please, avenge us all."

Bardock dissappeared, along with the landscape as Gio went into a dreamless sleep.

I apologise for it being short, but at least it was quick to come out, right? I would have wrote more if I knew what else to put in, but reasonably it's about 2/3rds of the previous chapter, so I'm okay with that. Before anyone asks why Gio won, it was because he had more strategy, and that he poured all of his energy into one attack.

Aye, the Saiyan Arc is officially beginning tho.

Power Levels-

Gio: 4,200

Gio (Angry): 7,900

Gio (After Cui insulted Bardock): 8,500

Gio (Severely Injured): 725

Gio (Nova Bomb): 11,680

Cui: 16,000

Cui (Severely Injured): 1,000

Raspberry + Other Soldiers: 500