Chapter 6: Freeing Namek
Wow, this chapter was tough to write, mostly because I only had two days to do so. Hopefully it came out fine all the same. Enjoy!
This is Namek? Gohan asked himself when the three teleported onto the planet. He looked around to see the once bright blue and vibrant grass of the plains instead rotted and withering, its color diluted. A glance farther outward showed the same state for the green water of the ocean surrounding the platform, the clear color from years prior now distorted into a murky swamp-like color. Anger surged from within him as he clenched his fists, the sight of Cooler's actions disgusting him. Farther away he could see the threat he'd been sent to face: The Big Gete Star. A giant metallic dome seemed to rise out of the ground and sent out tentacles across the area to link onto the planet's surface. "Is that where Cooler is?" he asked Supreme Kai, who nodded and began to speak up.
"Indeed, he has fused with and become a part of the machinery. I fear he is a much greater threat than when your father encountered him," Supreme Kai warned.
"What exactly is the Big Gete Star?" Gohan wondered out loud.
Kibito decided to answer Gohan's question this time. "It was a fairly short time ago, relative to us Kais, when it was developed. A scientist who had survived the destruction of his race created this machine in order to destroy the planet of the people who had caused the tragedy. However he was too late with his plans, as the world he had targeted had already been destroyed. As a result, it was left to drift through space until discovering Cooler, who was able to give it a purpose once being selected as its host."
"I...see," Gohan muttered slowly. Hearing the story had given the Saiyan a few ideas as to what the Big Gete Star's real history was.
A monitor lit up for the first time in several years.
New energy levels detected...scanning...scanning...
"How many are there?" A voice asked out of the darkness.
Three detected...searching for further details...
"Hmmm...we've never had visitors, have we?" The shadow asked. A frail grunt answered him.
"Oh, good to see you're still kicking. Now let's see who it is that's stopping by," it continued.
Sending probe to examine...sending probe to examine...sending probe to examine...
"Yes, yes, yes. I heard you the first time," the voice chuckled. "It's amazing how talkative a machine can be, isn't it?" More weakened moaning accompanied the question. "Oh, it looks like we're getting something from the probe."
Data transmitting...Video Footage playing...
"That outfit...that face...you're finally here. I've waited a long time for this. Computer, send out the drones!" The voice ordered.
Command processing...Drones sent...
Suddenly lights revealed themselves and lit up the room, exposing the weakened Moori, the Namekian grand elder, bound by several chains. In the center of the room laid seven large stones. Out of the shadows emerged the shiny metallic figure Cooler who stood taller and more muscular than his brother Frieza. "I haven't had a real fight since I first came to this planet." He paused for a second, then began laughing. "Oh excuse me for a moment, I meant..." he stopped before grabbing Moori by the head and raising it to meet his own, "...massacre."
Gohan turned to see a small robot floating nearby him and his group. The robot made a small noise, somehow alerting Kibito who turned towards it. "Relax Kibito, I don't think-" Gohan began before the shock of Kibito's eyes quickly glowing and the robot breaking apart in response. "-It's a threat," he finished awkwardly. "Well, I guess Cooler knows we're here now."
Right after he said that, several dozens of giant hulking machines descended around the trio. All of these robots were the same, their bodies gleamed a silver tint that coated nearly all of their armor besides their "face," which was buried in darkness minus a red light that shone through said shadows.
Kibito and Supreme Kai moved out towards the edge of the circle formed the robots before raising their hands outward, both of them yelling "Ha!" and breaking apart the circle. While half of their targets were intact, those that took the full brunt of the ki blasts were completely decimated. "Kibito and I will handle these drones, you focus on taking out Cooler." Supreme Kai said before the two flew their separate ways to destroy the remaining machines.
"Okay," Gohan began, "Now it comes down to me." He looked straight at the Big Gete Star, the source of Namek's turmoil, and charged straight for it.
Kibito landed on a distant island where the rest of the drones had crashed onto after his initial attack. "I ask that you surrender now. You've already seen what I can do when I destroyed your brethren," he warned. The machines simply stared at him and began to attack by extending their crane-like arms and grabbing onto Kibito's body. He looked around at them before sighing. "You should've listened," he mumbled before powering up and using the ki to shoot away his assailants. The cranes began to release sparks that ran down the arm onto the actual robot before they exploded.
Now with his enemies number halved, he offered another ceasefire. "Please just-" he stopped as the remaining drones rapidly shot rays of ki at the unfazed Kai, whose energy formed a barrier around himself that deflected the assault. "You can't understand me, can you?" he asked, their answer given in the form of a fruitless attack. "Alright then," he said while swinging his left hand to the side, destroying the last of the robotic army. "I need to get back to master, too much time has been wasted!" He worried, despite his quick victory. The overly serious Kai continued his trend as he charged at top speed to the Supreme Kai's side.
Gohan raced across the planet until Cooler's metallic figure suddenly appeared in front of him and struck him across the cheek with his fist. The surprise blow caused Gohan to be sent flying through the sky. As he stood out of the crater, Gohan prepared himself for another strike from his opponent, who instead descended onto a nearby hill.
"It's been so long, Goku..." the chillingly robotic voice spoke.
Gohan shook his head and laughed. "Sorry Cooler but I'm not Goku, I'm his son, Gohan."
Cooler's cybernetic eyes twitched with irritation. "After all these years, he sends his filthy half-breed monkey scum of a son to stop me! How dare he!" The Prince yelled, his metallic body disappearing from its position and then emerging in front of Gohan, planting his knee firmly into his enemy's gut and causing him to cough up some blood. While Gohan was stunned, Cooler wrapped his tail around him and began to run across the plains, dragging Gohan's face across the dirt and leaving a trail of blood onto the dying grass. From there, he quickly lifted his tail up and turned to face it before beginning to throw several punches and kicks at the body he held. After losing interest, he released his hold on Gohan's neck and planted a fist straight at Gohan's face, sending him flying in the ocean's direction. As a finishing move, Cooler's eyes lit up and a small ball of energy was flung at Gohan before erupting upon contact with him and consuming him in a field of smoke. "The fool wasn't even a Super Saiyan, what did his father expect?" Cooler scoffed while turning his back on the ocean. His condescending stride was cut off by a strike to the head that planted his legs into the ground, forming two tiny craters. "What in the-?" he began before another hit struck him in the back and sent him toppling over before he used his tail to anchor himself.
In front of him stood Gohan, now glowing in his Super Saiyan transform and looking extremely angry. "You wanted a Super Saiyan? Be careful with what you wish for," Gohan taunted as he charged at Cooler, who swung his leg across his body to stop the attack. Anticipating the hit, he slid his body down along the grass and caught Cooler off guard, appearing behind his enemy and throwing a kick at the tyrant's robotic neck. In order to stay on the offensive, Gohan rushed the stunned Cooler and punched his back several times, cracking the metallic shield and crashing into him with both his feet. Gohan quickly placed his hands on his forehead to charge his 'Masenko' attack and shot it at his enemy, watching him be overcome by his energy.
I can't give him any time to rest! Gohan realized. To prevent Cooler from taking his advantage away, Gohan started firing off a barrage of ki blasts. A pained cry from Cooler was briefly heard before the noise of blasts colliding with Cooler's body overcame his own voice. "How many years Cooler?! How many years did they have to suffer underneath your cruelty?!" Gohan screamed at his opponent, not caring that his words were muffled by the blasts.
After some time Gohan ceased firing his blasts and paused to charge a Kamehameha in order to finish Cooler off. "How many?" A voice asked from the smoke cloud Gohan created. The smoke quickly dissolved and from it a severely damaged 'Meta-Cooler' was revealed. "I lost count. Oh I'm sorry, I thought you asked about how many Namekians I slaughtered," Cooler laughed. Out of his battered state came several wires that repaired the body back into its proper state.
"Kamehameha!" Gohan yelled as he fired off his ki blast straight at the repaired Cooler, who vanished and appeared behind the Saiyan, grabbing his right arm and twisting it behind his back. "Aah!" Gohan cried out as Cooler continued pulling at the arm. He then felt his face pressed into the ground once Cooler planted his foot onto the back of Gohan's head, smothering him with Namek itself. Dammit, how is he overpowering me? I'm supposed to be stronger than this!
"You're disappointing me boy." Cooler lectured before releasing Gohan and firing off a blast of ki that consumed the plain the two were fighting on. The metallic figure rose into the air to observe his handy work. I guess I just need to finish off his little friends.
In the same style as Cooler, Gohan teleported in front of his opponent and began throwing a flurry of attacks at him. Punches and kicks threw Cooler through the air and caused his outer shell to start peeling off, no longer able to protect the interior. Gohan quickly grabbed Cooler's left leg and tossed him into the floating remains of the plain. He then quickly moved behind the falling Frost Demon before swinging his leg upward to fling his enemy back into the air, leaving Cooler dazed. This feeling was only intensified as Gohan repeated the process by teleporting above him and, with both hands locked together and raised above his hand, bashed Cooler in the stomach and burying him in the dirt below.
Knowing his ability to regenerate, Gohan began to charge up another 'Kamehameha' to finish off his opponent. Deep within the ocean, Cooler found himself drifting down further into the water and once again broken before he gradually overcame the force of the waves. Just as he started repairing his shattered body he heard Gohan's voice booming far away. "Kamehame..." In response, Cooler started to charge a large beam of energy to counteract the Saiyan's blast. Aware that Gohan's attack was not yet complete, Cooler fired off the beam in order to consume his opponent. The blast however never made contact with its target as Gohan suddenly appeared to the side of Cooler, allowing him only a few seconds to turn to the sight before Gohan finished his chant with a "Ha!" that carried him out of the water and up into space, his machine-like body slowly deteriorating into nothing.
Gohan eventually flew out of the water, panting heavily and returning to his base form. He dragged himself over to a nearby island so he could rest. "That...was...harder than...expected..." he muttered in-between breaths. At least it's over. Gohan thought.
"Looks like you need a hand," a voice said. Gohan turned around to see Meta-Cooler standing on the mountain behind him. And another one. And another. Over the mountain stood hundreds of Coolers.
"What the-?" Gohan wondered before being cut off by three of the Coolers appearing next to him and striking Gohan's chest, back, and forehead. He used his hands to push off the ground and with the momentum did a spinning kick that struck all three of the clones. While they were stunned, he flew up and began charging Yamcha's signature 'Spirit Ball' technique before firing it off. Twisting his fingers back and forth, Gohan pierced through the three Coolers and caused them to explode before the energy whittled away into a speck.
"C'mon you...bastards..." he weakly said, provoking the rest of the group. Gohan watched as the rest charged at him and he began to power up with all the power he had. "I didn't want to do this!" He yelled as he began fighting more viciously than he had ever done before, his muscles bulkier than normal and his attacks even more powerful. He sent a punch that knocked one of the clones head clean off its body before shoving his other hand down the robotic neck and firing off an energy blast that disrupted its internal system and destroying the body entirely.
Two more flew at him in a straight line, allowing Gohan to throw a 'Kienzan' that cut through both before he forced Krillin's technique to implode on itself and the ki to wipe out the Cooler clones. Four more clones surrounded him and attempted to annihilate him with four separate ki blasts, only to fail when he powered up and created an intense energy field that erased them from existence. He continued the process as more and more were overwhelmed by his expanding field. Suddenly the number of Meta-Coolers dwindled, allowing Gohan to alternate strategies as it seemed they were strategizing. "Dodon Ray!" He yelled as a beam shot from his right index finger and into one of the remaining machines' foreheads, leading to another explosion. "You guys are really flammable," he commented.
"And deadly!" Another yelled out from above. The rest all suddenly flew away from Gohan, leaving him to look up at the clouds and see what motivated their fleeing. He saw the Cooler clone with his index finger raised and the enormous ball of energy floating above it. The ball was a red and orange hue that mimicked the appearance of Earth's sun. While Gohan was stronger than any of the clones individually, the surprise attack threatened the stability of Namek.
"No, your family has hurt these people and their home long enough!" Gohan screamed. He flew towards the sky, ready to confront the blast.
"Begone!" The clone's voice boomed as he swiped his hand across his body, forcing the ball of energy to start descending down towards the core of the planet, building more and more momentum as it did so. "Yes, burn you insufferable monkey!" The clone laughed, as he watched the tiny speck that was the charging Super Saiyan disappear beneath the giant energy ball. "Wait..." Cooler paused as he stared at the ball. It had stopped moving. On the other side of the ball stood Gohan, his hands pressed into the attack and pushing against its downward acceleration. His ki was a more intense gold than ever before as he relied on all the energy he had in reserves.
"Dammit Cooler...what is with your family and blowing up planets?!" Gohan asked out, knowing he couldn't be heard over the intense sound of the attack singing his palms' skin. "Never mind, don't care!" he yelled. He really didn't care. Not about Cooler, not about the Big Gete Star, not even about the pain that should have been unbearable. All Gohan could focus on was saving the Namekians. His muscles began to bulge even more and cuts started to form all around his body from the intensity of his transformation. Blood dripped down from his eyes and nose as the collision continued. This ends now! His mind screamed out as he hurled the ball back up towards it creator, consuming him and almost continuing out into space before Gohan fired off a quick ki blast that caused it to implode. No longer focused on stopping the 'Super Nova', the pain from the scenario began taking its toll. His hands burned terribly and all the muscles in his body were strained from his attempt at a new transformation. "Dammit...I'm all out of energy."
Gohan collapsed onto the ground and heard the sound of several feet touching down. He stood on one knee to see the rest of the clones surround him. "Only seven left? This is better than I thought," he mumbled before jumping off the grass and shooting off a flurry of energy that took out two of his opponents. He grabbed at another pair of clones' heads and smashed them together in-between his palms, leaving only three opponents left. Gohan crossed his arms together in his regular defensive stance but his hands were stretched out, forming smaller and more compact Kienzans. "Raah!" He groaned as he swung his arms back to their sides and sent the oval-shaped attacks at the enemies, taking out another duo. With only one left, Gohan smugly walked over and planted his foot firmly into the ground, coiling his arm back before twisting his body to the side and sending his fist into the 'heart' of the machine and exploding it. He winced a little at the explosion as it consumed his hand before pulling it back and losing his balance. He fell back onto his hands and feet, chuckling as he felt victory. The feeling was short-lived as a beam of energy came from behind and pierced through his shoulder.
"Round three?" A Meta-Cooler asked as he stepped out of hiding and onto the crest of another hill. Behind him emerged more and more of the clones until Gohan realized his own ignorance in expecting victory. He stood up to face them until his body stopped functioning from over-exertion. His powerful new form came at a price as he had not adapted to using it as he had done with his regular Super Saiyan form.
Gohan landed on his arms and knees just as his hair and eyes turned toward their natural color and a clone struck him in the chin with his knee. The airborne Saiyan stopped himself from continuing to drift in the air and removed the Z-Sword from the scabbard on his back. "Alright, last ditch effort time," he whispered to himself, holding the blade out with both hands. Deep breaths...deep breaths...focus...focus on the blade...focus your ki around the blade...The blade began to be surrounded in a thick white line of ki. There we go...now slowly...he moved the weapon to his left side and dropped down to where the Coolers stood.
"HHHAAAAAAA!" Gohan yelled as he swung the blade to his other side, creating an intense blast of wind that sent the first two waves of the clone far across Namek. He quickly flew at the third wave, penetrating the body of the center clone with the sword and raising it up out of the clone's structure. The machine exploded, sending him flying back and crashing into the mountain behind him and leaving him buried beneath the gravel.
The remaining members extended each of their fingers towards the collapsed landscape and rapidly fired off several tiny balls of ki that built upon each other, forming one giant cumulative explosion that left the entire area clouded in smoke. Afterwards, the third wave approached the remains of their target. "What?" one of them said as they looked to see Gohan nowhere in sight. "Dammit!" another added. "Where could he have gone?" a third asked. A loud beep erupted from each of the Coolers.
New Information Received...New Directions...Search for the Saiyan...
"Thanks for the help," Gohan told Kibito, who had quickly teleported him away from the massive ki blast. Kibito nodded and turned away, standing on-guard and surveying the area to see if they were safe. Gohan lifted off his scabbard and rested by a nearby rock. "How's it looking Kibito?" he asked his buff friend. He glanced back at him and smirked, expressing through body language that the group was safe.
Supreme Kai kneeled down beside his friend and began to speak. "You were able to fight a lot of them off, I'm impressed," he complimented. Gohan tried to seem indifferent but smiled at the comment. "Not only that but I could sense your experimental transformation. While you weren't able to manipulate it fully, I'm pleased to see your progress."
"We need to think up a plan," Kibito turned to say to the other two.
"I know," Supreme Kai said.
"The problem is that he's been able to produce several clones," Gohan began. "We won't be able to stop Cooler unless we shut down the source: The Big Gete Star."
The other two exposed their grave expressions, something that seemed like a habit for them. "There would need to be a distraction in order for that to work." Kibito stated.
"Indeed there would," Supreme Kai thought out loud, both he and Gohan glaring at Kibito. "Kibito, with your 'Instantaneous Movement' technique you should be able to distract the clones long enough for the two of us to sneak into the Big Gete Star and destroy it." Supreme Kai proposed.
"I...see. Very well then master, whatever you wish," Kibito stated before approaching Gohan and pressing his hand on the Saiyan's chest. A quick flash later and Gohan's energy had been restored. "Even with his energy now concealed, it's likely that his energy was detected when it shot up just now. Allow me to get their attention." Without another word, the Kai flew away into the distance, raising his ki a noticeable amount and drawing the Meta-Coolers attention.
"Now it's time to do our part," Supreme Kai said, patting Gohan on the back and flying off towards the giant metal dome that was the Big Gete Star. The Saiyan equipped his weapon and met up with his friend, the two heading straight at their target while suppressing their energy.
Kibito stood high above the waves and watched as hundreds of Meta-Coolers surrounded him. Although they didn't give off any life energy, he could tell from appearance the awesome might all of them possessed together. He began to drift away from their circle, causing one of the clones to appear behind Kibito in an attempt to surprise him. Unfortunately for said clone, Kibito had mastered Instantaneous Movement, making the less advanced techniques such as Instant Transmission seem like child's play to him. As the clone swung his tail at Kibito's head, he was met with two tiny beams of energy that shot into his chest that led to it collapsing, unable to properly function. Two more swung at his sides, both blocked by the Kai's forearms. Kibito gripped onto the leg of the one attacking his right and the tail of the one to his left and smashed the two into one another, completely annihilating them.
"This is pathetic," he mockingly uttered, underwhelmed by Cooler's forces. This belief was shortly changed however, as several of the robots charged at him, their combined force able to throw him off balance upon ramming into him. In an attempt to maintain the offensive, they all fired off several rounds of bullet-like ki blasts from their hands, forcing Kibito deep into the water below. The hundreds of Coolers stopped their onslaught once they could no longer detect the Kai's energy.
"Report in," the seemingly-head Cooler said to one of his 'twins.' "One of the three have been elimi-"
The order was cut off as a blast of energy erupted from the sky and blew through half of the leader's head. In the direction of the blast Kibito could be spotted, appearing both unharmed and amused. "Numbers are all that you fools have going for you. My master need not be troubled by your existence," he scoffed while waving his hand across his body, causing some of the machines to be sliced in half by the Kai's ki manipulation.
Beaten and humiliated, the remaining hundreds of Coolers charged straight for their predator like caged animals. Kibito simply chuckled before he evaporated into thin air, teleporting himself several hundreds of miles away. "Rinse and repeat," he mumbled to himself as he began to raise his energy signal again. Far away where he had left them, the Coolers detected the surge in power and began flying in that direction. And now we wait, Kibito thought to himself.
Gohan and the Supreme Kai had just found their way into the Big Gete Star. The two wandered about before they discovered a dungeon-like room that housed several Namekians, each chained with the same material that created the Meta-Coolers and with wires strapped to their antenna. None of them seemed to be aware of their surroundings, as told to the two by the lack of pupils in their eyes. Gohan glanced around the room and saw something he wasn't ready for. In the back of the room sat a young man around his age, secured like the rest but also gravely bruised and wounded. The Saiyan began to approach him, all the while Supreme Kai stated his disapproval. "Focus Gohan, we need to stop Cooler," he advised in a whisper.
"Dende?" Gohan asked quietly, his heart pained by the sight. There lay his childhood friend, beaten and held captive by the same family that had already slaughtered his entire planet less than two decades ago. I'm so sorry I wasn't here Dende. I should have been, I know. But there were troubles on my planet that kept from this. But I'm here now. I'll stop Cooler and free your people. "Please just hold on until then," he begged his friend. Gohan stood up and turned away from the sight, his eyes showing even more anger than before. He exited the room and continued walking down the corridor, Supreme Kai following close behind.
Suddenly there were no more rooms left for them to search through but instead just a clear path to an open room. The two stared at the surrounding area to see in the center, a giant Cooler hanging in the air with wires running through him.
"Welcome..." The decapitated head said loudly, his voice booming throughout the structure. "I assume you've come to kill me?" He said in a condescending tone.
"Be careful Gohan," Supreme Kai instructed. "Given his demeanor I doubt he's unprepared for this encounter."
"Indeed, I'm not!" The voice screeched. "Let me show you what I've been cooking up, in a manner of speaking." The sound of metal scrapping against metal echoed around them until they saw out of the floor rose a giant glass container, inside showing what seemed like any other Meta-Cooler. The glass opened up and the machine's eyes lit up.
Gohan moved into his fighting stance at glared quizzically at the foe. "It looks like all the other ones," Gohan said.
"Oh but it's not, you'll see soon enough." The voice replied. At those words the machine began to bulk up strangely, as though the robot had muscles, and the metal began to expand to form a thicker armor around the body. An obscure head guard appeared above the Meta-Cooler's head and a mouth guard emerged, covering all of the face except the eyes.
"This is bad," Gohan muttered, realizing how serious this final machine really was.
"I don't understand! How can a machine do that?" Supreme Kai asked the floating head.
"It's simple really, this 'machine' is bio-mechanical. With the power of the Big Gete Star, I was not only able to create robotic clones of myself but an actual mixture of technology and biology that produced a living, breathing-"
"Enough!" The Newly introduced Meta-Cooler yelled. "Stop talking like you know it all! You're not even the real Cooler, I am." Without even a chance to reply, the new Cooler shot a 'Death Beam' that exploded the head. Putting himself back together, the Meta-Cooler turned to the other two and spoke up. "Forgive that little outburst, I had just finished transmitting my mind into this new body and the Big Gete Star left a clone's programming take over the head once I had moved on. But oh my, I hadn't expected him to go on like that. That's not something I would ever do."
"Okay then, let's move on from that whole episode," Gohan responded. He quickly switched into his Super Saiyan form and pulled out his Z-Sword. "Time to finish this!" He yelled as he charged straight at the new monster, swinging his sword to the side in an attempt to quickly behead him. Cooler was too fast however, as he had already ducked before the blade could strike him, retaliating with a swift blow from the back of his hand that landed in Gohan's gut. He dropped his sword, holding the wounded spot and backing away in pain, only to feel more as Cooler teleported above him and planted his enormous foot right on Gohan's forehead, smothering the Saiyan and shoving him deep within the floor. Knowing about Gohan's durability, Cooler pulled him out of the ground and swung him at the wall, the body denting the structure before being consumed by a ki blast targeted at him right after the throw.
Gohan pressed off the wall and punched Cooler's head, stunning the Frost Demon for a brief moment, but that time was all he needed. Gohan swung his foot out from underneath Cooler, causing him to lose his balance and allowing Gohan to grab the cybernetic tail and use it to propel him upward. "Kamehameha!" Gohan yelled as he fired off the Z-Fighters' signature move, the attack lighting up the entire room in a blue haze that was only undone once the blast pierced through the ceiling. The Cooler crashed onto the ground and glared at Gohan angrily.
"We're not done yet!" Cooler yelled as he ran across the floor straight at his target, who proceeded to do the same. The two met in the middle of the room, their arms and knees blocking the other's strikes, leaving neither able to make a serious dent in the other's armor. The odds tipped in Gohan's favor as Cooler fell forward slightly, losing his balance upon being struck from behind by the Supreme Kai's attack. Gohan placed both of his hands onto his opponent's chest and fired off a massive ki blast that left him in a crater formed against the side of the wall. Cooler moved out of it casually before firing off a ki blast that was easily slapped away by Gohan.
What's happening to him? Gohan wondered as the fight became easier and easier for him to win. It was at that moment Gohan had punched at the Frost Demon's shoulder, breaking it slightly off and pressing Cooler back. Gohan watched as Cooler began to repair himself before a tiny explosion popped out of the wound and Cooler screamed in frustration; his body wasn't repairing itself.
"Dammit all! Why won't this work!" Cooler yelled out, his body beginning to slightly unhinge itself. Seizing an opportunity, Gohan lunged for the Z-Sword and swung it straight down across Cooler's body, splitting the creature in half.
"Now!" Gohan yelled as he fired off a ki blast that was aided by the Supreme Kai's own, the two attacks breaking Cooler's armor apart.
Dammit, I didn't want it to end like this. Activate Safety Measurement K! Cooler's metallic body slowly was peeled away at by the intensity of the ki, the power eventually leaving nothing but dust in its wake.
"We did it!" Gohan yelled as he boastfully raised his hands up in the air with pride. Supreme Kai smiled at the gesture and the two began to race out of the room to help the Namekians.
After the fight had initially ended, Gohan and the Supreme Kai helped all of Namek's people escape the Big Gete Star. The pair then proceeded to gather up the Dragon Balls and exited the structure themselves. Shortly afterwards, they were met by Kibito, who seemed no worse for wear.
Once the dust had settled, the trio learned of Moori's decision to close off his connection to the Dragon Balls after the Big Gete Star's arrival. Since then, Cooler had been attempting to learn of the procedure to re-activate them by using his advanced technology to draw the information out from their minds, to no avail thankfully.
"So why do you think that Cooler wasn't functioning properly at the end?" Gohan asked the Supreme Kai.
"I've wondered the same thing myself since that fight occurred. Perhaps Cooler was not as in-control as we thought. Upon destroying the head that had stored his mind for so long, he may have cut his ties to the Big Gete Star without even realizing it." The Supreme Kai stated.
Gohan rubbed his chin and pondered the idea. "I guess it is possible that the Big Gete Star was as parasitic as it looked and it really was using Cooler without him ever knowing. Although he had deluded himself into thinking he was making all the calls, the Big Gete Star was pulling the string up until when he was destroyed by his own host. How ironic," Gohan mused. The three stayed silent for awhile after Gohan spoke. What was the real purpose of that machine? What planet was meant to be destroyed? the Saiyan wondered.
Alright guys, the Cooler story has been completed and wow, was this tough to finish up. It takes me a while to write this much and I had to start this all on Saturday and have used all time available to me since then in order to finish up this chapter. I really enjoyed this part of the story since now I feel like we're getting pretty close to wrapping up the first saga of the story, which will give me the chance to revise the prologue and chapter 1. Anyways, this Q&A is going to be a quick one, as there has only been one reviewer with a question since the release of chapter 5.
Q&A:
Q: an emotional chapter, still very nice.so, are we going to see Dende again? I hope so, because he is so adorable
A: First, thank you for compliments as last chapter was extremely important to me and I appreciate hearing that you enjoyed it. As for Dende, the answer is yes, as you've learned from reading this chapter.
Alright, now that we're back to Sunday release scheduling (albeit really late on Sunday), we'll be able to maintain a proper schedule. See you next Sunday readers!