Another Path
Another amazing chapter is now here. Enjoy!
Chapter 11: Power to Attack
Nearly a year passed from the death of Frieza. Earth returned to a period of peace that was very appreciated. Goku and Gohan returned to their house in Paotzu, much to Chichi's relief. Both father and son now spent some of their time training on the outside, sometimes alongside Piccolo, who still remained aside the others on solitude. The Saiyan family still had Bulma's ship for when they decided to have a much more intense training. Though the one hundred times Earth's gravity was no longer affecting them, any training counted.
The dead fighters were brought back to life, now with new techniques at their disposal thanks to King Kai. The Kaioken worked a lot of wonders in them. Tien managed to learn the Spirit Bomb, but the downside of having to wait and charge it was a real disadvantage in the fight and decided to just drop it. Yamcha remained training with Tien and Chaotzu so to not suddenly slack and get rusty. Krillin returned to Roshi's house, training just as hard as before. The bald monk sometimes spared with the others so to keep himself in better shape. After the 'Near-death-Frieza' experience, the monk was not ready to be swept aside that easily again.
Vegeta was still out there training on some planet to become stronger. No one had heard of him, but thanks to King Kai's watchful eyes, they knew that he wasn't any threat to them for now.
Nothing worth noting happened, until one day...
Goku and Gohan stopped their sparring session outside in the woods, looking up to the sky. There was a power moving towards them.
"Dad, can you feel it?" The half Saiyan, looking at the sky.
"Yes. It feels like... Frieza" Goku answered his son. The power was surely much stronger than Frieza, but it still felt familiar.
"Let's go, son" The full-blooded Saiyan said and Gohan nodded. Both father and son sped off through the air at amazing speeds.
Both Saiyan father and son arrived in the middle of a desert a few minutes of flight later, waiting for the power to get near. It was obvious a fight was coming. A few seconds later, the purple-dressed figure of Piccolo appeared with the teleporting technique next to them.
"Hey Piccolo" Goku greeted, keeping his eyes fixed in the sky above. The Namek didn't respond, as his eyes remained fixed in the incoming threat. In a few minutes, the rest of the fighters arrived by flight in the middle of the desert.
"So that's Frieza's power?" Yamcha asked surprised "Man, it's surely a huge one"
"No, whoever they are, they are not Frieza" Piccolo said, taking the humans but Krillin by surprise.
"They?" Yamcha asked.
"If I have to estimate it, there's two presences with even more power than Frieza" The Namek responded.
"You think we stand a chance?" Krillin chimed in "Because last time I fought Frieza didn't end up very good for me or Gohan". Goku clutched his hand, a sudden flash of golden appearing around his body. The Saiyan calmed his breath, keeping control over his emotions. Even after controlling the Super transformation at will, the memory of that fateful day on Namek was still vivid on his mind.
Piccolo didn't response to Krillin with words and instead placed his hands on top of Tien and Chaotzu's heads. The situation looked odd, until the aura around the Crane students flared up with new strength, a little crater forming beneath their feet.
"Wow, what was that?" Tien asked, looking at his new sudden powers. Piccolo didn't answer though, and did his Power Unlocking on Yamcha next.
"Now this is power" The desert bandit said smiling by the new strength acquired without doing anything.
"Good idea Piccolo" Goku complimented. He remembered his own power-up by Guru. In this situation, it looked very handy.
"Hopefully it will give us some edge" The Namek said, his face still stoic "Let's be on guard" Piccolo said, keeping his eyes on the arrivers.
As the seconds tickled by, the oval Planet Trade ship finally landed on the soft ground of the green planet. The earth fighters drew near, the door of the ship opening, with many Planet-trade-dressed foot soldiers walking out in two columns, creating a small aisle for their bosses to walk through.
"So this is Earth uh?" A guy that looked like Frieza said unimportantly. He then suddenly realised there were people in front of them "Loot at that father. A welcome commitment"
A taller being, easily twice the size of Frieza walked out, his leg barely as tall as his first son that stood next to him.
The first figure that appeared looked like Frieza on his true form, though more purple color instead of ivory-white, and with only one purple gem on top of his head. His chest, shoulders, forearms, forelegs and head were white colored, from his back a long purple tail protruding.
The 'Father' figure was a towering eight or nine feet tall Icejinn that looked like Frieza on his second form, though stronger than Frieza's full power. His garnet eyes surveyed the group of Z-fighters with barely any interest.
"So, which of you is the one that killed my son Frieza?" The taller Icejinn asked no one in particular.
"And you might be who?" Piccolo asked stepping forward boldly. The foot soldiers stirred by the action but the Planet-Trade leaders moved forward.
"Oh introductions, where did our manners go father?" The guy that looked like Frieza said with a faked smile of hurt, that was followed by a dark smirk "I'm Lord Cooler and he is my father King Cold"
"Hello there. I'm Goku and I beat Frieza" The palm tree-haired Saiyan Goku said determined "Was it something wrong?" Amazingly, both the tall and the short Icejinns chuckled in delight.
"Not at all. You actually did me a favor. I think I spoilt Frieza a bit too much" The PTO leader said with a shrug of shoulders. Krillin and Gohan looked at each. With family like this anyone could end up messed like Frieza did. "But by law, I have to exterminate you so to avoid sudden rebellions. Nothing personal, just business" He rose his hands and fired a Death Beam to the orange-dressed fighter. Suddenly, Goku's aura flared red as he dodged the attack and sped off towards the taller Icejinn delivering an upwards kick. Cold never saw it coming as he was sent spiraling up to the sky, away from the others.
The foot soldiers started attacking the one who dared attack their master, but swift precision and powerful attacks from the remaining Z-fighters killed each of them. Cooler looked to the dead soldiers on the ground, barely surprised and mostly amused. The soldiers weren't exactly a challenge though.
The Earth fighters were on a fighting stance, all together a team to save their planet.
Goku charged at the giant lizard, his Kaioken increasing his powers twenty times over. His fist drove forward towards the nose, but the giant Icejinn was faster, brushing it to his right and kept forward with a left elbow. Goku hastily catched the blow with his hand, but his distraction allowed the King to tail-lash the Saiyan by hitting his head, Goku sent backwards spitting blood from his lips. The red-aura warrior back-flipped in mid-air, just in time to see Cold heading straight at him. Goku barely crossed his arms in front of him X-fashion, protecting himself from a staggering fist that rattled his bones. With Goku temporary distracted, Cold tried to land a downwards punch to the face.
Goku, however, dashed backwards and avoided the strike, putting some ground between the two of them. But Cold was no fool and sped towards the fighter at greater velocity, his left arm stretched in star-fashion. Before Goku felt it, the extended limb hit the Saiyan in the face, causing his body to arch back stun. Cold spun around and pointed at the Saiyan with the palm of his hand, a pink sphere shinning.
The blast sent the red-aura warrior careening towards the ground, blasting a giant crater by the impact.
The orange-dressed Saiyan flew back in scene, his clothes slightly burned. Yet he was smiling by the prospect of a challenging fight.
"I admit, not everyone can take such a blast and live. You could be useful for my army" The king offered the Saiyan.
"You are crazy right? You came to my home with threats of deaths and now you offer me a job?" The Saiyan that bested Frieza asked sarcastically "Is all your family just bad-shit crazy?"
"Fine, your miss" Cold said with a shrug, aiming a punch to the nose. Only for Goku to create an after-image, the real one next to the extended arm.
"No, you miss" Goku retorted with a grin, his Kaioken flaring thirty times over. The warrior fastly landed a kick to the guts that shattered the PTO armor and sent the Icejinn careening through the sky, Goku chasing after him with his legs forward. The tall Icejinn straighten his flight, only for Goku's double feet kick to hit him right in the lips, shaking his skull and almost breaking some bones.
"Seriously, give up" Goku said seriously "I already beat you and I'm not even transformed". His answer though, was a full laughter from Frieza's father.
"Well, then I guess I should use my full power" The king of Planet Trade said condescendingly with a smirk. His arms buckled to his sides "Feel honor, 'Super Saiyan'" A purple aura flared around Cold's towering body, his muscles suddenly bulking a bit. Earth' surface shudder under the new ki power, as the clouds drifted closer to the epicenter.
Cold exhaled his breath, his muscles slighty bigger. There were no other physical changes other the fact his powers had duplicated or more. The towering lizard sent his garnet stare towards his monkey enemy.
"Now, shall we continue?"
"So all of you want to attack me, how quaint of you" The first son of Cold said, eyes-closed with a smirk of superiority. Piccolo took off his clothes, leaving a small crater on impact by the many tons on it. The others immediately had their red auras flaring up.
"Kaioken times forty!" The human fighters screamed, their combined powers causing a massive crater around them, with rocks flying up. The entire PTO ship fell into the crater, but Cooler remained floating, slightly more impressed this time. Just slightly.
Tien and Chaotzu went forward, doing their double Crane attack. The Icejinn was easily holding both of them, the blows parried and brushed aside with little to no difficulty. He was going to win, no doubt about that. Cooler tried to retaliate with fast ki eye blasts towards his enemies. Only for them to create after-images, as the true fighters were now closer to their opponent. Chaotzu managed to land fist to the face, while Tien fired a powerful knee to the guts. Cooler recoiled, not injured but surprised by the unexpected blows. The natives were weak but surely creative.
Both Crane students charged their indexes fingers forward with an orange small sphere.
"Dodon Ray!" The double attack hit Cooler in the chest, causing an explosion to sent the Icejinn a few feet back.
Yamcha and Krillin attacked together next, the Turtle students doing a perfect double team. But recovered with amazing speed, the Icejinn only brushed their attacks aside annoyed. Krillin was shot a few feet back by a simple yet powerful backhand. But the monk only rose his hand, charging yellow energy.
"Destructo Disk!" The attack was shot forward, Cooler jumping to dodge the slicing ki. But the distraction allowed the desert bandit to land a kick to the face that cause Cooler to stumble backwards, at the same time Krillin reappeared with Instant Transmission beneath the Icejinn and swatted his own leg with Cooler's, causing his purple body to suddenly fell backwards. The two Turtle students retreat a bit, gathering blue energy in their cupped hands.
"Kamehameha!" the Roshi students fired their double blue blast, sending the Icejinn careening backwards by a blast capable of whipping a planet.
"Kaioken times twenty!" Gohan yelled, he and Piccolo attacking together at blurring speeds. The last team, Namekian and Saiyan fired with much more intensity, their combined attacks bruising the Icejinn faster than what the others could. Piccolo's fist was hastily blocked by Cooler's forearm, but it created the distraction for Gohan to teleport from behind a fire a sharp kick to the head that sent Frieza's brother skidding away at rocket speeds.
Piccolo thrust his hands forward and enchanted "Destructive Wave!"
Gohan cupped his palms up in his forehead and enchanted "Masenko!"
Both yellow attacks did the job of sending Cooler back and back, the backlash of energy blasting a crater around the area, with many boulders flung aside. The combined power could have blasted something bigger than the Moon.
The heroes sighed, mostly the humans did. Taking the Kaioken so far still drained them of most of their energy.
As the smock cleared though, the Icejinn was still standing, bruised, though nothing more serious than that. The Icejinn rubbed his forehead, taking some ashes away.
"Well, I see how my brother could have troubles with you" Frieza's brother said, his tone not changed, dusting himself "But unlike him, I don't slack on my training" Cooler suddenly rose his hand smirking, showing four of his five fingers "Just like Frieza, this is my fourth form or true form as this is the body all Icejinns are born with. But recently I found out the way to unleash even more power with my new fifth form" A sudden gust of ki escaped Cooler's body, shaking the ground beneath "I was planning to use it against my father and take the Planet Trade for myself but you have pestered me alot more than he did!"
"What's he doing?" Yamcha asked, as the ground rumbled under their feet.
"His power... It's increasing!" Tien replied, looking aghast.
Cooler's body started twitching, his muscles bulking and his heft increasing. The purple aura expanded around him, his white chest armor bulking. His limbs stretched out as now spikes protruded from his elbows and knees. His white head shifted into a white bone helmet, four horns spiking up. His mouth was covered by a bone protection, only his now red pupil-less eyes visible from his ivory helmet.
"Now, face the power of the future ruler of the universe!"
The bald monk called Krillin clutched his teeth, remembering what happened against Frieza. But he wouldn't tolerate it again. His own red aura expanded around him, multiplying his abilities fifty times over. The monk sped off and started raining blows down on the unmoving Icejinn. Yamcha also increased fifty times, tagging along his Turtle-trained friend. But even with the two fighters, each amplified fifty times meant little against the unmoving Cooler, who was not even bruised by the rain of blows on his bulky body. The Icejinn simply thrusted his left hand forward in a fist while his right fist was fired up. The left attack landed the fast-moving desert bandit, sending him sprawling to the ground unconscious, while the other fist sent the bald monk up the sky completely knock-out.
The short-size face-painted Crane student shot forward, also with the Kaioken amplifying fifty times. However, Cooler's simple backhand sent Chaotzu skidding backwards defeated.
"Chaotzu!" The tryclops yelled in anger "You'll pay for this!" His Kaioken increased up to seventy, his muscled body burning under its own ki. Thrusting both of his hands forward in a triangle way, The Crane student was ready to do something that looked stupid and yet it could mean life or death.
"Tri-Beam!" Tien fired his mighty attack. Amazingly, the sheer strength took Cooler by surprise, impacting like something that weighted as much as an asteroid on his purple/white body. The ground caved in a perfect square figure, as Cooler was now lying on the caved soil unmoving, with clouds of dust floating around.
The tryclops panted, as he fell from the sky unconscious. Gohan catched his falling, leaving him in the ground peacefully.
"You think we win Mr Piccolo?" The alien hybrid asked his first martial arts teacher. But before he had answered, a power surge came from behind them and not even a second later the same power was on top of them. Piccolo opened his mouth but not to speak. Purple blood was spitted to the outside, as Cooler had driven his horn shoulder right into the Namekian's abdomen. With his left hand, the Icejinn punched the green warrior against a rock formation that crumbled on top of him.
"Guess that's a no, whelp!" The Icejinn remarked, s smirk behind his bone mask. Gohan looked at his enemy in fear, before an uppercut sent him up in the sky. Cooler followed up with an axe strike to the midsection, Gohan flying down to the soil that shook under the impact. With a small-sized black sphere of destruction, Frieza's brother sent his own Death Ball into the Earth. Miles of soil shook down to the core, plumes of smoke raising. The transformed Icejinn gave a full-blown laughter to the sky, bathing over his victory.
But to his amazement, the soil under him was moving, as the half Saiyan was again on his feet. His dark purple clothes were mostly gone, revealing his built and bruised body. The hybrid was clutching his left arm in pain, barely any ki left in him.
The palm tree-haired Saiyan panted slightly, his clothes burned and tattered but otherwise unharmed. Cold looked just as fresh as before, without dropping in power at all.
Goku cupped his hands left, charging blue/white ki "Kamehameha!" The attack was shot forward, encompassing Cold's towering frame. But the Icejinn remained in the middle of the attack, which engulfed him. Amazingly, Cold started flying through the blast, the energy doing no damage to his stronger body. Goku opened his eyes wide, as his powers increased thirty times still did nothing. The Icejinn got close enough and hit Goku right in the guts with a short uppercut, a followed elbow to the cheek scuffling the Saiyan away without his aura.
The Earth Saiyan panted a bit heavier now, rubbing his bruised body. His eyes, however, drifted towards the ground. The Saiyan could see his son barely alive, standing alone against Cooler.
"Gohan!" Goku screamed from the heavens, flying down with the Kaioken times thirty flaring again. Cooler looked at the intrusion and fired a telekinetic blast that sent Goku up for miles. Cold appeared behind the stun Saiyan, taking him into a body hold.
"Keep your own victims for yourself, father" Cooler suggested. Cold paid no heed though, and started flying up in the sky, only for suddenly twist his flight and go straight down towards the ground. Goku struggled against his enemy's bigger strength. But the Saiyan just couldn't escape.
The King accelerated his flight and let go of Goku, just a few inches away from the soft ground. Goku hit the soft soil with meteoric strength, caving miles of earth around him like a bomb. The Icejinn father floated upwards, barely tired after the fight.
It had been... interesting.
The transformed Icejinn was looking down at the beaten Saiyan kid, a bit surprised though more annoyed.
"I'll give you credit kid. You survived much longer than I had first expected" He rose his hands up in the sky, ki gathering on an orange sphere "But not anymore!" The energy kept increasing its size, becoming like a miniature orange Sun floating on the sky "Now die!" The energy sphere came crushing down towards the blue planet, only a kid in the middle of that deadly path.
Gohan catched the attack, his hands burning against the heated orange sphere of destruction. As much as he struggled against it though, there was no way out for him. It was do or die.
"Kaioken times thirty!" The half Saiyan enchanted, his aura brighten dark red. But even with such a new power, the half alien couldn't do anything. His aching body yelled in pain even more, as his muscles burned the little energy reserves away. The blast kept gaining ground over the short half alien, yards of ground floating and banishing under the destructive ki of doom. Gohan was struggling to even stay footed and conscious, but he was failing.
Goku's son could feel his friends nearby, all of them barely alive and lying at the brink of death. All because of him. His own weakness of always depending on someone. As much as he trained, he just wasn't powerful enough. It had been the same against Frieza though even worse.
But no more. He would prove he was his father's son!
A golden power started erupting from beneath the flesh, the giant sphere suddenly halting its path of destruction. The transformed Icejinn looked in surprise to the sudden stop.
"What?! How could that whelp stop my Supernova?" Frieza's bother asked. A sudden yell of power reached everyone's ears, as Gohan's energies went of the charts. The ground caved even more, now with a stronger power than Cooler's. The power kept rising without stop.
Suddenly, the Nova blast was moving back to its origin.
"What?!" The Icejinn asked aghast. He could see that the kid was now different. His long black hair was shinning in pure golden hue, his onyx eyes now powerful emeralds. For someone so young his body was covered with new rippling muscles.
At last, Gohan was also a Super Saiyan.
"Die!" Cooler yelled, sending even more energy into his blast. But Gohan remained strong and furious, his own new energy charging on his bruised hands.
"Masenko!" The Saiyan enchanted, a golden energy blast pushing the Nova blast even further away from the planet's surface.
Cold saw the attack being blasted back against his son and tried to help him. But he didn't fly an entire foot away than a golden-charged punch hit his chin, rocking his senses inside his head. As the Planet Trade King regained his sight though, he could only stare at an injured golden-shinning emerald-eye Super Saiyan.
Cold stare in disbelief, firing a full power purple blast from his hand, capable of whipping two planets. Goku swatted the attack up to the sky, losing in the space.
"Ho... how did you do that?" The king stammered. A lightning fast punch to the guts and knee to the nose that shattered many bones were his only answer.
The Super Saiyan grabbed Cold's tail and started spinning. With enough momentum, the Saiyan let go of his living rocket projectile, that went straight towards his son Cooler, who was being devoured by his own Supernova.
Kame...Hame..." The Super Saiyan cupped his hands right, blue energy shinning with power to blast planets away "HAAAA!" The blue beam, combined with Gohan's own yellow one collided with the Supernova, both Icejinn father and son in the epicenter of an energy maelström.
The atmosphere light up with a mighty blast that shook the entire planet to its foundations. The entire color spectrum shone bright in the sky for minutes, as the light created nearly outclassed the Sun. The colored sky returned back to its normal light blue coloration after some seconds.
Goku floated to the ground, looking at his son. The half Saiyan was panting, still transformed as a golden-haired Super Saiyan. The hybrid could now only close his eyes and drift into his tiredness, his body falling into the dust. The Super Saiyan father rose his son from the ground, surprised by his powers but also very proud of him.
He wasn't mistaken those years ago against the fight with Raditz. His son could be stronger than him.
Using the Instant Transmission, the Earth Saiyan took every knock-out heroe towards Capsule Corp to get some Senzu Beans.
After a round of magical beans, the Z-fighters were back to consciousness and full-health, ready to train even harder to not be defeated the next time.
Notes from Chapter 11:
Yamcha and Tien were revived with the Earth Dragon Balls while Chaotzu was revived thanks to the Namekian Dragon Balls (remember that when Frieza attacked them on Namek, they still had one wish left)
Cooler, unlike his first movie, is stronger than Frieza without having to transform (I never liked the idea of him being weaker).
Many say that King Cold's appearance in Anime was actually his second restricted form. I do believe that, but I really didn't want to complicate myself with an unbeatable enemy that can transform two times.
Power Levels:
Goku:
After training: 7 millions
Kaioken x20: 140 millions
Kaioken x30: 210 millions
Super Saiyan: 350 millions
Healed (Little Zenkai): 8 millions
Gohan:
After training: 6 millions
Kaioken x20: 120 millions
Kaioken x30: 240 millions
Super Saiyan: 300 millions
Healed (Normal Zenkai): 7.5 millions
Piccolo:
After training (Weighted clothes on): 45 millions
Without clothes: 50 millions
Krillin:
After training: 2 million
Kaioken x40: 80 millions
Kaioken x50: 100 millions
Yamcha:
After training: 600,000
Power Unlocked: 1.2 millions
Kaioken x40: 48 millions
Kaioken x50: 60 millions
Tien:
After training: 700,000
Power Unlocked: 1.5 millions
Kaioken x40: 60 millions
Kaioken x70 with Tri-Beam: 200 millions
Chaotzu:
After training: 500,000
Power Unlocked: 1 million
Kaioken x40: 40 millions
Kaioken x50: 50 millions
Cooler:
True Form: 140 millions
Fifth Form: 280 millions
King Cold:
True form (50 percent): 150 millions
Full power: 300 millions
At last Frieza's family is gone. What can the heroes do now?