Atop the Lookout, Earth's guardian, Kami, stood, watching over the world. He, too, could sense the insane power moving towards them, and was extremely worried about Earth's safety. Soon enough, he sensed Piccolo moving towards him. He was quite nearby, but moving in slowly.
Piccolo was still contemplating the choice in his head, deciding whether or not he should, infact, unite with Kami. He began to see the Lookout in view, only a few miles ahead. With this, he sped towards it at full speed and was there in a matter of seconds. His feet made a loud sound as they collided with the stone tiles below. He still was wearing his turban and weighted cape. It blew and rippled in the wind as he stood.
Kami turned his head to look at the caped warrior standing before him. He almost knew what Piccolo would have to say, and he sighed a sigh of almost sadness, but mostly frustration.
"Piccolo. I believe I know what you are here for." Kami exclaimed towards the Namekian. Piccolo only stared back, with an angry face, as if he was disagreeing with everything that happened to be unfolding at the moment. He stood with his arms crossed for almost a minute with Kami staring at him, until he unfolded them. He began to slowly walk towards Kami as to speak to him, head down, sweat nervously pouring down his temples.
"It is a hard decision. But Goku believes that we must unite once more to be able to eliminate this threat. I believe he is right, but I am not sure." Piccolo explained to Kami, although Kami had already known the problem, as the recent massive power heading towards Earth and the requirement of a fusion with Nail one year ago told him so. Kami looked up at Piccolo.
"It is the correct thing to do. How do you feel about it, Piccolo? I am worried." He asked as his faced turned to slightly caring. Piccolo looked confused and angry at the same time, thinking the words over and over again in his mind. The power drew closer and closer by the second, they had not much time to think. However, Piccolo merely turned around and sat down with his legs crossed.
"I need time to contemplate this." He said as he closed his eyes. Kami turned around as well, their backs facing one another.
"Piccolo, you must come up with an answer soon, whether it be a yes or a no. The power is drawing closer by the minute, by my estimate it'll be here in less than an hour." Kami stated, practically ordering Piccolo to give an answer, to open his mouth. Piccolo just stayed there, eyes closed, still thinking about the facts, still trying to say whether or not he could physically and mentally carry this burden. It would be tough.
At the desert, the scene of the upcoming fight if there would be one, the Z-Fighters all sat in a circle on the sandy ground of the dry desert. They were all formulating a plan, as like Piccolo was contemplating his answer thousands of miles away. The arrival of the infamous King Cold was only minutes away, and the Z-Fighters would have to agree fast of death would become of them.
"If we can all lower our power levels and get close, we might be able to take whoever this is by surprise, and kill him." Yamcha threw out. However, Tien put up a contradiction to the possibly perfect plan. It was a simple, yet not easy to think of con.
"His power is insane, there's no way he will be suppressed enough once he arrives for us to jump him." Tien stated, with a worried look on his face. He knew the power was coming, and the sheer depth of it was incredible to say the least.
"Hopefully Piccolo will fuse with Kami." Gohan said, with nervousness as well. Goku suddenly sprouted an idea.
"Yamcha, that really could work. That idea isn't that bad." He said with an oddly pensive face. Yamcha looked confused.
"But how? Tien already put it down, it would never work!" He said with a worried face. He was wondering what Goku was thinking, how they could fix that plan. Krillin looked at Goku with a smile, as he thought he knew what Goku was thinking.
"I believe I know what Goku's plan is…" He said as he looked at the others. "We would carry out the normal plan, sneak up on the enemy, then Goku would use his Kaioken technique! This enemy may be a relative of Frieza's, but Goku has gotten much stronger over the past year. He can't be beat!" Goku looked over, surprised that Krillin had it correct.
"Exactly!" Goku said, almost excited. He had always been itching to fight Frieza, and a relative would do the job. The power was itching closer, getting more and more powerful as they spoke. It was much less than an hour away from Earth, and it was speeding up.
At Kami's Lookout, Piccolo was still deciding whether or not they should unite.
"Piccolo… you know it is the only way. This fiend is too powerful, none of you could beat him. Not even… Goku." Kami said as he turned slightly to the right to see Piccolo begin to stand up.
"I think I have an answer." Piccolo stated. He had thought this over for quite some time, but now it seemed like there was no other way. "We shall unite." Kami looked at Piccolo with a slight smile. He understood much more than Piccolo did about this threat, and he also knew it was the only way.
"Very well. Just know, Piccolo, that once we unite, you will carry the burden of this world. You will know all of what I know, all of my fears…" Kami warned. Piccolo didn't seem any bit worried.
"Yes, I understand. However, we must not waste time, the insane power is minutes away from here!" Piccolo said, slightly angered, leaning in towards Kami.
"There's… there's the ship!" Krillin stated nervously as he looked up into the sky. It was round and detailed, with many landing gear that were beginning to protrude from the side. It was built almost exactly like Frieza's ship, quite large and grand. It landed on the other side of a small hill, covered in the landscape.
"Well then… let us initiate the plan." Tien said as he began to run towards the ship. "Remember, guys, lower your power levels and do not fly!" Goku followed, next Gohan, then Yamcha, and finally Krillin and Chaozu who were far in the back. It was not a minute before they were able to clear the hill. They looked down at the landed ship. A hatch had opened from the bottom, and they had arrived there just in time to see a multitude of soldiers pile out of the doorway, followed by the insane power: King Cold.
"That… that looks like it could be Frieza's father!" Krillin said with obvious fear in his voice as he looked down. "Goku, you'd better be careful!" Goku stood up with a serious face. Faster than almost anyone could see, he zipped down into the fray. Without warning nor hesitation, he disabled many of the soldiers standing around the area. Cold was surprised, and looked around to see the unnoticable blur zoom across, up a mountain and back down again, as to turn himself around. Goku stopped in his tracks, around thirty feet in front of the behemoth.
Goku's hair blew and rippled in the wind flying through the desert. Cold had an angered and slightly annoyed face at the moment, and was not happy to see the Saiyan warrior right in front of his eyes.
"I suppose you've come here to destroy the Earth and take your revenge." Goku said as he looked at the king with disgust. Cold stared back at him.
"Who are you to be so brave?!" Cold asked, almost demanding an answer. Goku's face tightened up with anger even more.
"I am Son Goku, a Saiyan warrior, raised on this planet!" Goku said, his pride beginning to kick in. "And I will not let you harm anyone here!" Cold suddenly put on a smile. He stared even harder at the warrior.
"A Saiyan, huh? This should be fun. I never thought I'd see one again…" Cold said as he cracked his knuckles. He was poised in such position it began to look as if he wanted a fight.
"Show me if you are really that strong, Saiyan." Cold demanded. Without warning all of his soldiers darted towards Goku, however, Goku didn't move one bit. A group began to form, fists raised, ready to slam them into the powerful Saiyan. Quickly, Goku completely phased out of view. Not even King Cold could tell where he had went.
Behind them, on the top of a steep mountain, Goku was firing a large ki blast. Cold's scouter detected it, and he turned around. Goku's ki blast was enough to wipe out every single one of Cold's soldiers with ease. Before he fired it, Cold's scouter finally locked on to Goku's power level.
"How could… how could a Saiyan have such power? 6,000,000… How is it possible?" He asked himself as the ki blast barely zipped past him. Suddenly, the area went up in blazing blue light as the bodies of the soldiers were completely evaporated from existence. Even Cold's elites, with power levels up to 20,000, were destroyed instantaneously. The smoke cleared nearly a minute later, and a massive crater was all that was left of the entire landscape. There was no sign of Cold's ship or his men, but an angered king rose up from the ashes.
"You sure are strong… But I am leagues above you!" He said angrily. Goku merely smiled, still on top of the mountain. Below them was a smoking crater, charred and destroyed, no sign of any life. Cold began to zoom towards Goku. The King was extremely strong, and Goku was only in his base form. He could not detect Cold's movement as he came towards him at lightning speed.
A punch met Goku as it drilled into his stomach. His eyes opened wide as saliva spilled out of his mouth. As Goku was completely stunned, Cold took no time to grab Goku's head. With Goku in his grasp, he threw the stunned Saiyan at the mountain below, smashing him into it. Cold flew down and suddenly grabbed Goku's face. He then began to crush him into the mountain, however the resilience of Goku topped every fighter Cold had fought before. The mountain cracked under the sheer force of the attack, and Cold threw Goku straight into the collapsing rock. He then quickly sent a ki blast towards Goku, and in seconds the mountain burst into flame and destruction.
This sent a jolt through Goku, and he quickly pushed himself out of the grasp of the explosion. His gi was horribly ripped, the entire top half torn to shreds, so much so that it was gone, ripped off of him. He quickly got into a fighting stance to see Cold zooming towards him. With a quick power up, he multiplied his power by five times using the Kaioken technique.
Goku caught a heavy punch thrown by Cold, and went for one himself with his other hand. Cold caught that punch as well, and they found themselves in a grappling position, trying to push each other away. Due to Cold's recorded second form power level being an insane 50,000,000, he easily overpowered Goku, with even the Kaioken times five, as he racked up to only a 30,000,000 with said technique.
Goku was focused on trying to deal with Cold's strength when one of Cold's hands receded and formed into a fist. Faster than Goku could see, the fist flew straight into his face, launching him away. He gathered himself around twenty meters away from Cold. As he strode towards Goku, Goku began to power up. In seconds, a scream caught King Cold off guard.
"KAIOKEN TIMES TEN!" Goku screamed as the red aura enveloped him entirely, lighting up his underside and his hair. He launched at King Cold with menacing speed, and threw a powerful punch into his stomach. Cold was blown back nearly thirty feet, and only needed a quick power up to equal Goku in strength and speed. The king flew back at Goku and began a barrage of punches and kicks, which Goku blocked, all the while returning the favor with kicks and punches of his own. None of them could land a hit until a strong power began to emanate from from Cold. Soon enough, it began to rise, and the barrages that King Cold was delivering began to become much harder for Goku to block.
Without Goku seeing, a punch struck his face, followed by many more quick punches. In less than a half a second, nearly a hundred extremely fast kicks and punches were delivered to Goku's body until one finally knocked him away. He gathered himself mid launch and kicked off of a rock nearby. He landed himself on a nearby hill, and breathed heavily, power draining.
Hiding in behind the lip of a hill, the Z Fighters were watching the battle unfold. Much like Goku, they could tell the true power of this tyrant. None of them would stand a chance… not even Goku.
Suddenly and without warning, an enraged Gohan blasted off to the enemy standing before them. Cold's scouter picked up a growing power level of 1,900,000 to his left, and before he could turn to react, a kick landed flat against his skull. The kick did nearly no damage, and Cold's head was barely moved. His left hand grasped Gohan's leg. He then swung the half-Saiyan into the ground below, dealing quite some damage to the unknowing attacker.
Goku stared at this in misbelief, and began to power up. It was a small influx of ki at first, but it began to rocket off, his power rising and rising with no end in sight. Cold was about to put an end to this when another attacker barraged him from the side. It was Krillin, attempting to save his friend from a horrid death. His barrage did close to nothing, and the beast only had to turn around and allow his shoulder to collide with Krillin. The sheer power of the small hit sent the human flying, with a broken nose and swelling head.
Out of nowhere the trio of Tien, Chaozu, and Yamcha landed many a hit on Cold. Their powers together were merely a fly to the tyrant, but their combined attacks stunned him for a second. In the distance, the ground began to shake. Goku was powering up to insane levels, and Cold stood in awe of the destructive force Goku's ki was creating before all of the other Z Fighters barraged him with combined kicks, punches, headbutts, ki blasts, everything that could hurt the opponent. Leaving the others to fight, Gohan leapt out of the fray. He raised a hand up into the sky, and a yellow ball of energy began to grow from nothing.
He threw his hand downward, still carrying the energy in his palm. A reading popped up on Cold's scouter as he was fighting the Z Fighters. It was an oddly powerful reading coming from the Saiyan Gohan. A reading of a surprising 8,500,000. Suddenly, Gohan screamed, and a beam of yellow light shot from his hand. The Z Fighters could sense this insane power and backed away, not wanting to be hit by this destructive force. Cold was too late to move, and the beam struck him like a truck. He was covered in the powerful energy, and once the attack had come to its end, the only thing the Z Fighters could see was smoke and flame.
Even Goku had paused his insane power up to see the attack. Sadly, it was not enough. The outline of an angered alien began to appear in the smoke, and an attack too fast to see struck Gohan. He was out cold instantly, all of his previous power gone in one shot.
Goku, now even more angered at the king, made a horrifying scream that echoed throughout the landscape. His power blew up in insane amounts, stopping nowhere as it climbed and climbed. He then said three chilling words…
"KAIOKEN…" He yelled. "TIMES… FORTY!" Such an expanse in energy would wear him out in seconds, so he had to use it quickly and efficiently. Cold, not using much power, did not expect such strength coming from a Saiyan. The power was immense, and Cold could not see him anywhere as he disappeared from sight. A fraction of a second later, he appeared far behind Cold, and cupped his hands out infront of him.
A ball of blue ki appeared in his hand, growing larger by the second. He was about to unleash his strongest Kamehameha ever fired, not holding back one bit. Once he pushed his arms forward, a blue wave of destruction flew towards the tyrant, who had just turned around at the sign of the blue light. He quickly put his hands up to stop the beam, and it was almost successful. He was pushed back by sheer force, ground shaking and cracking, light filling the space around them. However, a red aura appeared around Cold. A large explosion followed, and suddenly Goku's Kamehameha was overpowered by Cold's attack.
When the smoke cleared, Cold's power had grown immensely. On top of that, he was now smaller. In appearance, he was similar to Frieza's final form…
And so it begins.