Bardock rubbed the bruise on his face that he received from a haymaker by the General. He knew he had to wrap this up soon before he actually ended up getting killed. The General was confused, someone with this low of a power level shouldn't even be able to survive one punch from him. Bardock had taken several and had come back for more each time with a wilder grin on his face; it was starting to unnerve him.
He pointed an armored finger at Bardock, "How are you keeping up with me saiyan? You should've died from the first punch!"
Bardock chuckled, "Well I guess I haven't been completely honest with you." He began powering up. "I have a form beyond this one that I can tap into!"
The General began to feel a slight feeling of unease as the suit's built in scanner started picking up Bardock's power. His hair began to glow gold and his muscles increased in bulk slightly. The General began to sweat nervously as the saiyan's power began to surpass his own. With one final yell, Bardock's full power exploded outward and enveloped them both in a golden light. The General activated his visor's polarizing ability so he could see the newly transformed saiyan. His breath caught in his throat as the scanner processed his power level.
"His power level is over a million?! That's impossible!"
With a roar filled with fury, he unleashed a large ki blast into Bardock's direction. He didn't have time to react as Bardock dodged the blast with ease and smashed the General's head over his knee. The faceplate smashed into pieces; some of which went into the General's face. He yelled in pain as he tore the helmet off his head, giving Bardock a good view of his face. He had a buzzcut and a strong jaw, he may have been handsome before the glass shards in his face and the newly formed bruise. Bardock crossed his arms; it felt good to be in his Super Saiyan form after so long. "So how do you like my Super Saiyan transformation?"
"Super Saiyan? I thought that was only myth?!"
"Nope, it's here in the flesh!"
He launched himself at the General and hit him with a series of punches. The General was having a hard time keeping up with the blows. Without the helmet's neural interface, the suit is only operating at half its power! This isn't looking good at all.
The General threw a punch only for Bardock to catch it and snap his arm. He yelped and flew back to gain some distance; his left arm hung loosely at his side. His breathing was hard and labored. He stared at his golden hued adversary; besides his incredible strength, what really unnerved him were his blue eyes. They were fierce and cold; a complete contrast to the grin he wore on his face. The General sighed; he knew this would be the warrior that killed him, he just hoped that his planet was spared. With a final roar of defiance, he charged at Bardock with all the remaining strength that he had. Bardock recognized this as a final challenge and charged at him as well. There was a flash of light and then they were in each other's previous starting points. A moment passed and both the warriors were still standing. Another moment passed and Bardock's scouter split in half and a cut appeared on his eyebrow. The General groaned and then fell like a ragdoll out of the sky into the snow drifts below; he did not rise again.
Bardock looked down towards his corpse, "We may have been enemies but you defended your planet with the ferocity of a saiyan and died like a warrior. You even managed to make me bleed at my full power."
He saluted, "May you finally rest in your people's afterlife."
He stared out towards the now partially destroyed military base; the joy of battle leaving him. This didn't feel like a victory, instead he felt wrong. These people had dared to defy the PTO and they paid the price by having their planet invaded and soon to be put under martial law by Cooler. Five years ago, Bardock had dared to go against Frieza to stop him from destroying his planet; now he found himself in Frieza's shoes. He pictured Cooler smirking at the news of Rigel 7 being conquered and growled. "Soon you'll feel the wrath of the saiyans, Cooler, mark my words!"
He powered down and began to fly back to his space pod, he didn't want to look at this planet anymore.
Turles smirked as the last soldier drew his final breath. None of them had stood a chance against him. This is probably how the Cold family feels when they observe the planets they've conquered, he mused.
Instead of feeling disgusted like Bardock however, Turles reveled in it. He had always longed for more power, that's why he'd sought out the fabled Tree of Might in the first place. He wanted to be strong enough to defeat the Cold family and take their place with his own family line. Unfortunately however, he still wasn't strong enough for even Frieza's first form. In fact, he had been pushed to the limit by Broly a couple of months before he had returned to Vegeta. He frowned as he remembered incident.
Several months ago:
Broly cried as he landed hard on the rocky surface of the side of a mountain. He looked up as Turles descended from the clouds, "Get up." He ordered.
This child was gifted with a power level of ten thousand but he didn't know how to use it. Turles was determined to train Broly to be a prodigy. Broly picked himself up and charged Turles with a ki blast in each hand. Turles caught both his hands and held him up before smashing his head against his.
"Is this all you can manage? I'm disappointed."
Broly wasn't speaking but he was clearly conscious. Turles headbutted him again, "Look at me when I speak to you, boy."
Besides breathing harder, Broly still wasn't saying anything or looking at him. Annoyed now, Turles went to headbutt him again but Broly freed himself and kicked him in the chin. Turles spat out blood and was impressed yet slightly disturbed that he was damaged in such a way by the child. His power wasn't close to his at all so why did that hurt? He took a closer look and realized that something was off about Broly; his pupils had disappeared and he was snarling like a feral beast. Suddenly he released a scream that sent a slight shiver down Turles' spine and began powering up. Turles' scouter beeped, "What?! His power level jumped to forty thousand…and it's still rising!"
Broly charged at Turles and began throwing wild blows. Only about half actually hit him but they did a good bit a damage to him. Turles punched Broly right in the mouth and then hit him with a double fist on the back of the head.
"Broly! What's gotten into you? Where did this power come from?"
Normally he'd be impressed by such ferocity but this power increase was beginning to scare him. Had he always had that power? Broly responded with a large, green energy blast that he shouldn't have been able to make at the age of four. Turles deflected it but winced when he felt the burn. He checked his scouter again and his blood ran cold, the scouter was reading a hundred thousand! That was stronger than his own power level! Just what was this kid?
Broly launched himself at Turles who responded by throwing a punch aimed at his face. Broly took the punch head on but merely grinned and returned the favor by punching through his scouter and into his now bleeding eye socket. Turles screamed as red overtook half of his vision. Broly was laughing now, it wasn't a normal laugh though, it was a cruel laugh as if he was a demon from the deepest pits of one of the hells in saiyan lore. Turles felt a pang in his chest as his heart began to beat furiously. Was he…afraid? He remembered that he had one more vial in his space pod; that would be the key to saving him. Turles flew with all his might because if he took too long, Broly would surpass the boost that the vial would give him.
He reached his pod quickly and he quickly ripped open the hatch and grabbed the vial. He heard Broly land behind him; still laughing. Turles gulped down the contents of the vial and grunted as he felt new power surging through him. His muscles bulked out a bit and his wounds even hurt less. Turles yelled as he began to power up. He didn't even give Broly a chance to react as he blasted him point blank. He then fired a volley of purple energy spheres at the smoking crater. To Turles' slight surprise, Broly was alive albeit unconscious.
He radioed in for Cacao to pick them up from his space pod; he needed to sedate Broly and run some tests. He pressed his hand back against his bleeding eye socket and hissed in pain. He's going to have to alter his very way of training and combat now. More importantly, what are the limits to Broly's power; does he even have a limit? All the potential explanations were not helping Turles' state of mind. He needed to find a way to dampen this blood rage.
Turles surveyed the room; there was a lot of alien tech that he could use to upgrade his ship. The saiyans were woefully behind in technology, even with the help of the Arcosians. He activated one of their computers and linked his scouter to it. He skimmed past the files until he saw one that peaked his interests. His eye widened when he realized what it was. This could tip the balance in our favor! With this, I might be able to get the strength I need to rule!
He downloaded all the files onto his scouter and destroyed the rest of the computers. Unlike most saiyans, he had an affinity for engineering and science, with the help of Cacao, it shouldn't take him long to make the required upgrades. He radioed in to Vegeta.
"Turles here. What is your status?"
"This is Vegeta. We're pretty much done here, they surrendered quickly once they saw our power. I'm actually kind of disappointed."
"All in due time my…King," Turles nearly spat the word out, he would never truly think of the spoiled brat as his true king. "Do you know the status on Bardock?"
"The last time I talked to him, he was about thirty minutes ago, he was fighting a strong opponent but said he required no assistance."
Turles' scouter beeped, "Cacao told me that Bardock just arrived back on the ship; lets' all meet back there as soon as possible, I have something to show you all."
The four saiyans were sitting around the holo-table in Turles' communications room. Turles pulled up the first image, it was blueprints for Rigelan armor.
"This armor is pound for pound more superior to the Planet Trade armor we all have. The disadvantage is that it isn't as flexible as ours but Cacao and I are going to make a hybrid of sorts between the two. It'll have the best of both worlds."
Nappa nodded his approval, he could use new armor anyways. Vegeta was just glad he didn't have to wear this ridiculous color scheme for much longer. He wanted armor fit for royalty since Doore cracked his ceremonial armor with ease. He tightened his fist at the memory, he will not forget that any time soon. Bardock was looking off to the side; thinking of ways he could train to attempt to challenge Frieza.
Turles pulled up the next item, it was a sphere with an inner chamber or sorts.
"This is the generator from that suit the Rigelan general was wearing. It has a type of energy signature that I've never seen before. I'm going to put it into Cacao to enhance his abilities. That should put him around a power level of 250,000."
Nappa jumped up, "You mean that tin-can gets an upgrade that makes him stronger than all of us except Bardock?!"
Turles held his hand up, "That brings me to my next point. The Rigelans were developing something that could greatly increase one's power in a short amount of time."
Bardock perked up, this could be what he needs to finally get strong enough to defeat Cooler.
"Well don't keep us waiting Turles, what is this so called device called?" Vegeta was growing impatient, if there was a way to get stronger quickly, he wanted to know what it was.
Turles smirked, "They call it…a gravity chamber."
Happy Cinco de Mayo, everyone! With the end of my college semester going on, I've been chipping at this chapter over a few weeks. The saiyans now have the designs of a gravity chamber. You all know what that means. Huge power boosts for everyone!
Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about Raditz, Kakarot and Broly. They'll be coming up soon.
Power levels:
Bardock (base): 26,000
Bardock (SSJ): 1,200,000
Nappa: 12,000
Vegeta: 65,000
Turles: 275,000
Cacao (pre-upgrade): 12,000
Cacao (post-upgrade): 262,000