Chapter 8: History Repeats!? Freeza vs. Trunks!
Wow, the Freeza arc was a lot more fun to write than I expected! Chapters will be poppin' up probably twice a week (Mondays and Fridays?). Don't be mad if I only get one a week sometimes though, especially when the fall semester starts up. Hope you all enjoy! Let me know what ya think of the story thus far!
"Whew! Wow, that was a great session!" Gohan breathed heavily as he plopped down by a nearby tree. "Alright, you still down to get those tacos Whis?"
"Of course! Oh wait, hold on, looks like Bulma sent me a message a while ago. Ooh I wonder what treat she has for me this time!" Whis chittered as he quickly opened the message up for he and Gohan to see.
"Whis, this is an emergency." Bulma started, a tinge of worry in her eyes. "Freeza has been revived and is going to be attacking the Earth any minute now. We need Gohan's help immediately! Please hurry! I'll make sure to get tons of great snacks for you!" Bulma pleaded as the message cut out. Whis and Gohan stared at each other blankly for a few long seconds.
"Well given the time she sent this message… Freeza is most likely already on Earth." Whis estimated.
"What the hell Whis!? If you had time to write a shopping list down, why didn't you check your messages?"
"No time to question me Gohan. It's going to take 30 minutes to get to Earth, so you better just hold on so we can go." Whis motioned as Gohan hopped up and grabbed his shoulder.
"Hopefully there is an Earth when we get there…"
"You… You changed?" Freeza stammered, getting a good look at his newly transformed foe. "Even so… You stand no chance!" Freeza shot a death beam at Trunks only to have the half-saiyan passively swat it away.
"Shut up. I have heard enough from you." Trunks growled, staring down Freeza. "You've lost your gold form. And with this new power I have obtained, I will tear you to shreds!" Trunks rocketed up at Freeza to make the first blow. Freeza blocked the attack to find it was only a diversion as Trunks shot a powerful ki blast from behind.
"I can still crush you like nothing!" Freeza whipped several kienzans at Trunks.
"GAH!" Trunks managed to dodge most of them, but got grazed in the side by a surprise one.
"Ha!" Freeza howled as he slapped Trunks down to the ground with his tail. "Choke on this, you monkey filth!"
"Galick Gun Fire!" Trunks blasted as Freeza began to lob death balls down at him.
"AHH!" Freeza sputtered as the Galick Gun blasted him sideways. "That's Vegeta's attack isn't it? So I guess this Trunks kid really is his brat."
"HYA!" Trunks unleashed a flurry of ki daggers that pelted Freeza, slicing his tail clean off.
"Wow." Krillin marveled as Freeza yelped in pain. "Well if Trunks is handling Freeza, I guess I need to take everyone else to Dende to be healed." Krillin stood over Goten mournfully. "Don't worry little guy, we'll use the Dragonballs for ya as soon as we can..."
"Death Comet!" Freeza hissed, sending dozens of blasts at Trunks.
"Constantly hyping yourself up like your some great divine being…" Trunks grumbled as he seamlessly dodged all the blasts, appearing behind Freeza to crack his spine. "You are nothing. You are a schoolyard bully with an overinflated ego."
"GAH! How dare…" Freeza spat up blood as Trunks slowly flew closer.
"The only one you have to blame is yourself." Trunks continued his unrelenting beatdown of Freeza. "You… you will pay for what you did to Goten!" The saiyan's piercing eyes erupted in flame.
"YAH!" Freeza began to lift the islands surrounding them out of the water to launch at Trunks.
"Really?" Trunks sighed as he punched straight through all the islands with ease, making his way back to Freeza.
"HAAAAHA!" The tyrant created a Supernova attack and chucked it at the saiyan.
"That's more like it!" Trunks remarked as he seemingly had some difficulty pushing back the attack. "Just kidding. Try again?" Trunks laughed as he lifted the Supernova up with one hand.
"You shit…" Freeza cursed as he flashed back to Future Trunks doing the same thing. "Die!" He shot a finger blast at the Supernova to explode it.
"Getting testy are we?" Trunks appeared behind Freeza to begin another onslaught of attacks. "Whenever I get like this my mommy makes me take a nap!"
"Damn you monkey! This isn't the end!" Freeza raged as he broke free of Trunks' attacks. "NOOOO!" The disgraced emperor roared as he began to power up again.
"It's useless." Trunks shook his head as Freeza returned to his golden form. However now, he was incredibly exhausted.
"I still have power left, you dirty monkey filth!" Freeza snarled.
"You're a fool." Trunks cooly replied.
"AHH!" Freeza cried out as he began to beat down on Trunks. "Can't keep up with me in this form, can you monkey!?" Freeza cackled. "Death ball!" Freeza sent Trunks soaring into the mountainside.
"It feels like Trunks might be in trouble." Tien stated after he and the others had been healed by Dende on the Lookout. "Piccolo we need to go and help-" Tien stopped as he saw Piccolo shake his head.
"Trunks wishes to avenge Goten by himself. He knows what he is doing Tien." Piccolo stated, turning to Dende. "We need to contact Namek and have them wish Goten back to life."
"Right, leave it to me." Dende nodded, running off to gain contact with Elder Moori.
"Hmm.." Whis mumbled as he watched what was unfolding on Earth while traveling with Gohan. "It appears Freeza achieved a new form. It's power exceeds that of a Super Saiyan 3."
"That's what I feared." Gohan replied. "They don't stand a chance."
"Oh, quite the contrary actually." Whis corrected.
"What? Who could possibly be standing up to Freeza?" Gohan blurted out.
"TRUNKS!" Golden Freeza wheezed, his vision becoming increasingly blurry. "Do not hide from me! I will get my revenge, do you hear me!? I WILL!" Freeza blindly began to blast everything he could see, hoping Trunks would pop out.
"Trun… Trunks…" Freeza huffed after that attack. "Where the hell…"
"That'll work." Freeza couldn't turn around fast enough to meet Trunks' foot. "You're making this easy on me Freeza." Trunks wagged his finger condescendingly as Freeza pulled himself up.
"How?" Freeza gasped as he desperately tried to hit Trunks, only to miss time and time again. "I am in my golden form! I should be crushing you!"
"You shouldn't have transformed again Freeza." Trunks lectured as he blasted a hole through Freeza's gut. "That golden form of yours uses too much energy. You had such little energy remaining to start with, and so now that form is doing nothing but exhausting you."
"Impossible. I… Will… Not… Not to Vegeta's brat." Freeza's vision was almost completely gone as Trunks refused to let up.
"You seem to have something against us Saiyans, Freeza. Don't really know why, and I honestly don't care. But I do know you share our greatest weakness. Your pride and overconfidence was your undoing. You are just as flawed as us Freeza. You are just as flawed as us monkeys."
"Damn… You…" Freeza cursed as he tried to explode the planet from underneath him.
"No you don't." Trunks uppercut Freeza high into the sky. "For Goten!" Trunks roared, powering up to new heights. "For my father, Vegeta! And for all the Saiyans! This ends NOW!" Trunks fired an enormous Galick Gun, completely enveloping and destroying the galactic tyrant. Once the smoke cleared, nothing was left.
"He did it!" Krillin cheered as a wave of relief flooded over all of the Z Fighters. "Trunks defeated Freeza!"
"Again." Piccolo added, slightly amused with the poetic justice.
"Goten…" Trunks mourned as he flew down next to his old friend. "If only I could have saved you…" He looked up to the sky as tears flowed down his cheeks.
"It's alright Trunks, just so long as I don't have to scrub your mom's gross feet again." Trunks looked back down to see Goten wide awake, seemingly as if nothing had happened.
"Goten!? I thought you died!" Trunks cried as he hugged his friend.
"Uh.. I think I did." Goten looked around confused. "Where did everyone go?"
"Freeza was defeated. Come one, let's go meet everyone else up at the Lookout." Trunks explained as he and Goten flew off.
"Here we are." Whis and Gohan had finally arrived on Earth.
"But… I don't sense Freeza.. What happened?" Gohan stood motionless.
"It appears as though your friends took care of Freeza before we could even get here." Whis chuckled. "Guess it was a false alarm."
"They're all at the Lookout." Gohan noted. "I'm going to go check in on them."
"Oh hey Gohan!" The adult Saiyan spun around to see Goten and Trunks waving.
"Guys! What happened? Did you fight Freeza?" Gohan embraced both boys.
"Ow! Too tight bro!" Goten protested, pushing Gohan away. "And yeah, we fought that guy. He's dead now though, right Trunks?"
"Yes." Trunks nodded. "We're heading to the Lookout to see the others Gohan, you should come with us. Piccolo can explain it all better."
"Right." Gohan agreed as the three flew off.
"... Well, I still want to go try the tacos…" Whis went in the direction of Bulma's house.
"Wow, thats crazy! You guys did it without me too…" Gohan complemented, although he looked a little disappointed. Perhaps because he too wanted a rematch with Freeza. "Well if you guys would excuse me, I haven't seen my wife and daughter in a while." Gohan waved goodbye as he flew off to Pauzu.
"Hey Krillin, what the heck were you saying earlier about me defeating Freeza before?" Trunks asked the dwarf.
"Uh… Um…" Krillin was at a loss for words.
"He was just trying to trick Freeza." Piccolo cut in.
"Oh. Okay, that's what I figured." Trunks nodded. "I'ma head home now, I'll see you guys all around!"
"Gohan!" Videl burst open the door to greet her fiance.
"Videl! I've missed you so mu-" Gohan was cut short as Videl slapped him upside the head.
"Never leave for months at a time again without telling me first!" Videl scolded.
"Sorry babe, but I…" Gohan's trail of thought cut short as he saw Pan sleeping soundly in Videl's arms. "Oh I missed you guys so much."
"We missed you too." Videl smiled as the family embraced. "Was the training at least helpful?"
"Well, my training isn't over yet." Gohan admitted. "But I think I can continue it by myself and stay here… Not to mention I don't want to miss another fight again." Gohan grumbled, still salty about missing Freeza.
"Trunks! My baby are you alright!?" Bulma rushed over to her son as he returned to Capsule Corp.
"Yeah, I'm fine Mom. I'm starving though, do we got anything good?" Trunks grabbed his growling stomach, only now realising just how truly famished he was.
"Of course sweetie, I'll go make something." Bulma rushed off.
"Hey Jaco! I can sense you're here! Stop hiding." Trunks shouted once Bulma had left.
"Oh… Hiding? I did no such thing… Just checking these bushes over here. Happy to say everything seems to be in order." Jaco lied as he scooted out of the garden.
"What the heck Jaco? We almost lost, we could have used your help!"
"... I'm sorry Trunks. You're right, I failed you all." Jaco hung his head in shame.
"Don't feel too bad. Freeza is a scary guy, I get it." Trunks patted Jaco on the back. "But true heros face scary things head on. In the future, try and remember that."
".. Right!" Jaco stood tall again, taking the advice to heart. "Thank you Crimson Custodian!"
"Don't mention it, Super Elite Jaco." Trunks winked.
"Trunks! I guess we're having tacos!" Bulma called out from inside of Capsule Corp.
"Oh great!" Trunks called back as he ran inside.
"Hey… I kinda want tacos too!" Jaco followed close behind.
"Oh, hey Whis." Trunks greeted as he saw the enigma chowing down on tacos (without beans, of course).
"Hello there, young Master Trunks." Whis grunted in between bites. "Have some tacos, they're divine!"
"Heck yeah!" Trunks cheered as he began to mow down too.
"Oh?" Jaco questioned as he entered the dining room. "Hello, we have never met before, who might you be?" Jaco gestured to Whis.
"I'm Whis. I'm the attendant of Lord Beerus the Destroyer." Whis spat with his mouth full.
"Wait what?" Jaco froze. "Bulma wasn't joking!? Earth is an incredibly odd place."
And so, once tacos were devoured and a few laughs were had, Whis traveled over to Gohan's house.
"I understand." Whis nodded after Gohan explained that he would stay on Earth. "Good luck in your training, Son Gohan. I hope for the best in your impending rematch with Lord Beerus."
"Thank you, Master Whis." Gohan bowed as Whis disappeared into hyperspace.
