Author Notes: I thought it was a waste that we never went back to Piccolo's original roots in Dragon Ball and instead focused entirely on the Namekian aspect. This power-up is a return to character for Piccolo.
I included this character as he was fun in the filler he was in.
Chapter 21- TOP Part 4- Demon Clansman
Piccolo recalled how he received his latest power up as Gamisaras was frozen in fear.
Prior to the Tournament of Power
Whis and Piccolo had arrived a magnificent palace, where an old man with pointed ears, wearing dark sunglasses , yellow robes with a black mantle depicting the kanji symbol for Kai, as well as a hat with the kanji symbol for "Grand" on it.
"Lord Whis, it's an honorable to meet a groovy cat like you again.," said the old man.
"He is the Grand Kai, one step above King Kai...or rather the North Kai and one step below the Supreme Kais.," Whis explained.
"It is an honor to meet you sir.," Piccolo replied as the Grand Kai walked towards a door.
"With our universe going up in smoke potentially, its best that we get all the help we can get. Come inside and see the monsters in the basement.," the Grand Kai explained in a hipster tone of voice.
"Guess all the Kais below the Supreme Kai are...strange.," Piccolo said to himself.
"I'd say if he were fighting Freeza during Old Namek's Destruction, he would be on par with him. So he's potent on some level, but his main potential is training powerful students.," Whis explained as Piccolo noticed the warriors of various alien races looking at him.
Piccolo gulped as he followed the Grand Kai through the throne room, down the stairs and into a dark room with a sealed door.
"Its the monsters hidden in the darkest parts of your soul, your soul brothers and soul daddy. He may have been reborn through you, but his being is behind here.," the Grand Kai explained.
"Demon King Piccolo and his kin are in here? Are you here to enlist them?," Piccolo asked.
"You know they're technically Namekians, which means...," Whis explained.
"I have to merge with them...if that's the case, I'd rather train with Gohan. Knowing that they still exist likely is going to piss off Goku and the Namekians are going to be ashamed knowing that these are related to them.," Piccolo remarked.
"You were a bad person, but accepted goodness in your heart, but in order to be complete, you need to balance your evil. Both are sides of the same coin, Yin and Yang brother.," Grand Kai explained.
"Will I become stronger if I were to do this?," Piccolo said with reluctance.
"You'd be more useful to defend the earth, then yes, you would. Even if you now had a darker nature to go along with it.," Whis replied with cold honesty.
Piccolo nodded as Grand Kai undid the seals and opened the door.
Shadows bursted from the room as yellow eyes glared at Piccolo, with the largest belonging to the leader.
"You have come home my son...Why is Kami with you...and another you?," asked the villainous and confident voice.
"Father...I merged with Kami to face a more frightening monster than yourself...and you're not a demon per say...you're a Namekian...a hermaphrodite race of slug people who give birth to offspring via eggs and live peaceful lives.," Piccolo explained to the voice's anger.
"Lies!," the voice yelled as he fired an eye beam towards Piccolo.
"If you don't want to accept it, its your deal, but denying it means you won't be able to get out of here.," Piccolo explained.
"How Brother?," asked a slithering voice.
"You must be Tambourine...Goku is definitely not going to like this, but we need to merge for the sake of the lives of the universe in order to save it from the other universes from destroying it.," Piccolo explained.
The shadows laughed horribly and vilely as a reaction to his words.
"There is no greater realm than earth and the afterlife. You lie.," said the voice of a stout demon.
"Your ignorance astounds me. There are countless planets-," Piccolo explained before being interrupted.
"28 will life.," Whis interjected the intense atmosphere with a deadpan tone of voice.
"...Anyway, 28 planets with life amongst countless planets in four galaxies ruled by gods who are ruled by greater gods who coexist with a destroyer god, in 12 universes ruled by the Omni-King.," Piccolo explained.
"Who is that weird fellow with the blue skin, curved hair and lipsticks...," asked an intelligent voice that was subtly snarky.
"He's the angel in charge of the destroyer god and aside from the assistant to the Omni-King, the Omni-King's guards and the Omni-King himself, he and his 11 siblings are the strongest in the multiverse I know of. In fact, aside from a few humans I know, 98% of the beings I know are drastically stronger than even Father- even our peaceful relatives on Planet Namek.," Piccolo explained.
"We are the greatest race in all of existence, we will show them our superiority.," said a bestial voice.
"Don't let Vegeta hear that, he's rightfully convinced the Saiyans are more powerful...that's what Goku is by the way. They're human were monkeys from space.," Piccolo explained.
"Goku...I will pay him back for defeating me!," yelled the voice of the head shadow.
"Unfortunately, he's surpassed you by a great deal...ok, infinite deal. It's not going to matter if the universe gets destroyed if you don't do what I suggest...," Piccolo replied.
"What is that?," the voice asked.
"Reunite with this body in order to get out of here...and have the pleasure of knowing that countless voices in the universes will be brought down through our ascended power.," Piccolo explained.
"Multiple universes in agony...a great deal more intriguing than just a single world...I'm interested.," the voice said as he reached out a shadowy hand.
"Place it on my chest and we'll merge permanently, that is the Namekian way. And I'm the main body because mine is more oriented towards combat.,"
"A small sacrifice for our evil to return. Muwahahahaha!," agreed the voice he placed the shadowy hand on Piccolo.
In a blinding flash of light, the shadows vanished and only Piccolo was left standing. The room was once again bright.
"Now, I can put in my greatest hit collections back here again.," Grand Kai said as he floated upstairs.
"You've done a necessary thing for our universe. Whether it succeeds will be up to you.," Whis explained as Piccolo's eyes opened to reveal yellow sclera.
"I have once again become a demon! Demon King Piccolo the II is reborn once again.," Piccolo yelled as he flew towards Gamisaras.
Desperate, he fired a Green Mouth Blast at Piccolo, only for the latter to flew through it. Piccolo extended his tongue and constricted the reptile, which soon became supercharge with electricity generated from his body.
Fried, Piccolo tossed the reptile out of the ring, causing him to land into the stands with dizzy swears in his eyes. Quitela gritted his teeth in frustration.
"What a demonic form...how will people react to this.," Shin said as he continued to record the tournament.
"Universe 4- Gamisaras- Eliminated.," the Grand Minister said aloud.
Back on Earth
"Eh?! King Piccolo's back?! What's that mean?!," Yamcha yelled aloud.
"What's that mean for us?," Chiaotzu asked Tien.
"It means that Piccolo realized the power gap that he and the other Universes had, so he had to do something to close the gap. I hope its for the best for us.," Tien replied.
"What if he turns on us?," Yamcha asked with Puar nodding.
"If he does, I'm getting the heck outta dodge!," said Oolong, the small pig man as he, Pilaf and Shu prepared to leave.
"Where do we go? If our team loses, it's the end of our universe!," Mai said, which caused the trio to stop in their tracks.
"If we win and if he decides to turn on us. Prepare the Dragon Balls because I'll use the Evil Containment Wave on him.," Roshi said with a tone of severity that hid his anger at the cause of his teacher's death was fighting for the sake of his universe's survival. The bitter irony caused him to clench his fist tightly.
"I'm getting King Piccolo vibes...along with Tambourine.," Krillin said aloud.
"He's the one who...," 18 said.
"Yes, Piccolo must've been desperate to stay useful. Wish there was a convenient way for us humans to remain in the spotlight.," Krillin weakly laughed.
"Do you think we'll be ok?," asked Mr. Satan.
"What's Goku doing, letting those green people knock him around like that.," Chichi said as she Goku on the ground.
"Go Piccolo!," Videl cheered with Pan cooing in cheer.
"Guess we don't have anything to worry about.," Mr. Satan said as he saw Goten and Trunks smiling.
Bulma was away trying to fix what was happening with 17.
Back at the Tournament of Power
Monna rushed towards Piccolo with a green energy covered fist as the area that Gamisaras turnt invisible.
"Whatever you just turnt into won't matter. In fact, becoming ugly is what sealed your fate!," Monna gloated only for Cell to block her path.
"What do you want bug man?," asked Monna irritably.
"Oh, I just saw how he became relevant again and I would be sorrily disappointed if he were done in by you.," Cell said with confidence.
"Then I'll beat you with my full power!," Monna yelled as she charged up her power, only for Cell to grab her by the neck.
"Ok, no.," Cell said to Monna.
Slowly, Monna gradually became thinner and paper-like until she was just a gaunt, flat husk with her eyes darting about.
Amused, Cell tossed her off the ring and she then drifted down to the stands.
Quitela's left eye twitched as Kuru's usual unfazed expression became wide with dread.
Cognac sighed as he used his staff to inflate her to her slim self. Also Nink's wounds were erased as well.
"Universe 4- Monna- Eliminated.," the Grand Minister announced.
"Tsk...wanted to give a real horror show...you're no fun.," Cell said.
"The real fun will come later.," Freeza said to Cell indirectly from afar.
"Guess, Cell's a man-eating monster at his core.," Piccolo said as he flew towards Gohan.
"Piccolo, why do you look like that?," his student asked him, with Piccolo looking ashamed..
"As long as it leads to a form that's more pleasing to the eyes, I'm ok with this., Now, we have to save Freeza's lackeys, Buu and the Saiyan woman whom I know would be to you what Pan is to Chichi." Vegeta said, interrupting Gohan's train of thought.
"What do you mean?," Gohan asked before Vegeta rushed to Goku, prepared to knock Ganos off of him. But, then he noticed Dercori getting closer to one of Universe 2's fighters and an idea came to his head.
Su was walking around the city when she saw her mother, who looked like her except older walking towards her.
She then saw the image of Sagaladoola, Atom, Jiren, Lord Winter, Savag, Dercori, and Cell looming over the city as Dercori fired a beam of energy towards the city block, destroying it and everyone in it.
Su fell to her knees as she saw the burnt corpse of her mother.
"Now to punish these girls for their idealism in the multiverse that demands cutthroat tactics to survive.," Dercori said as she turned into her white haired form and began to strangle her with her tentacles.
"I completely agree.," Vegeta said coldly as Dercori turnt around to an awakened Burter dashed towards her and proceed to pummel her in a multiple hit combo in that he would pinball her in a circle repeatedly.
"I thought you were unconscious!," Dercori yelled aloud.
"This is the second time, he's got the jump on me while I was unconscious.," Burter said as he rubbed the right side of his cheek.
He then charged up with blue Ki...and then red Ki to Dercori's shock.
"Two types of Ki?! Are you a chimera or a fusion?!," Dercori yelled as she turned into a more cephalopod monstrosity.
"I sped so fast that I breached the barrier of speed itself...and I got weird and convenient powers from it. This is my tribute to Jeice!," Burter yelled as his skin turnt purple and he unleashed a purple sphere vortex and fired it at a shocked Dercori, shooting her out of the ring.
"I did it for you Jeice!," he yelled out.
"You Saiyans are idiots who can only think of fighting! That's what Lord Quitela said!," Dercori said as she flew downwards before landing back in the stands in her normal form.
"Fighting requires strategy on using all of abilities to their best potential, being able to improve, and using all of your pieces well...you were the Queen piece as Bulma's father put it. Your team's now in check.," Vegeta replied.
That's what you think Prince., thought Quitela as he smiled underneath his outraged stomping and thrashing around.
"Now to deal with the shrimp and the dumb lug.," Vegeta said before he noticed Cell and Gohan already rushing towards them.
"I resent for Guldo. Only we get to call him shrimp.," Burter said as he rushed towards Goku.
"Dercori- Universe 4- eliminated.," the Grand Minister announced, but Quitela wasn't worried.
Gohan rushed to Damon and kicked him away, causing the bug to explode and once again shed his skin. This time, becoming the size of an average man.
"I know your game now...you're trying to bulk up in order to beat me with size. But, being bigger sometimes means you're slower!," Gohan explained as he pummeled Damon several feet away.
Gohan paid more attention to slapping Guldo awake than seeing that Damon had once again shed his skin, becoming larger than before, but to what manner of size he would grow to was uncertain.
"Almost...," Quitela said with glee in a hushed tone of voice.
"You were smaller than me before.," Guldo said as he woke up.
"I grew up.," Gohan replied.
"No fair, I need to get back at those guys...," Guldo said as he jogged towards Shantza.
"What's he thinking?," Gohan asked himself, wondering what Guldo was planning with a puzzled expression on his face.
"Tch, went out of my way to save her, she gets eliminated anyway. Now its up to me...hope Ganos, Damon and Caway keep in the ring to protect me.," Shantza complained.
He then noticed Guldo looking placid at him.
"I'll just put you back to sleep Pyoh!," Shantza said as he lunged at Guldo.
He then noticed Guldo looking placid at him.
"I'll just put you back to sleep Pyoh!," Shantza said as he lunged at Guldo.
He then noticed Guldo looking placid at him.
"I'll just put you back to sleep Pyoh!," Shantza said as he lunged at Guldo.
He then noticed Guldo looking placid at him.
Shantza then paused from what he was about to do.
Was that Deja vu? What's going on?, Shantza thought in confusion as he felt like this moment had already repeated.
He then noticed Guldo looking placid at him and then asking,
"Are you sure you know your reality?"
Shantza then dashed at him, got tripped by the green alien, got up, dashed at him, then he got tripped by the green alien again, but the odd part, was that it felt like a loop.
"What's going on? No gniog s'tahw...Wha'ts going on?," Shantza said as his word rewound themselves as he then repeated the same phrase.
This caused Shantza's placid expression to break as his pupils became smaller and he began to sweat profusely.
"What the fuck are you doing?!," yelled Shantza in an aggressive, bratty voice.
"I continued holding my breath for longer and longer...till I could hold it as long as I wanted. I can stop time when I hold my breath...and now I can do what I want with it. Wake...um, Buu...," Guldo explained as he tapped Buu awake.
Buu awoke to see Shantza looking terrified beyond all belief. Buu then remembered this team attacked Mr. Satan and became very angry.
"You hurt Mr. Satan. I hurt you now.," Buu said as he cracked his fists.
"Ganos! Caway! Damon! Help me!," Shantza attempted to float away from the fighters, but felt paralyzed.
"Hard to move while horrors happen to you...now you're gonna get beaten up this time!," Guldo gloated.
"Shit!," Shantza shouted he charged up a purple Ki and became to enlarge and bulk up into a more muscular and combat oriented form.
"You won't beat me!," he shouted with angered, narrowed eyes and proceeded to kick and punch Buu, but the punches just felt like insect bites to Buu.
Buu then stretched his arms and proceeded to thwack Shantza back and forth before launching him into the sky.
Buu then sucked in air and proceeded to blow a massive gust of wind as he blew Shantza out of the ring and into the stands in his normal form.
"We lost the member that could keep the other fighters from beating up on us...now they'll want to fight us instead after what we did to them...," Kuru said aloud as he noticed that the Grand Minister announced Shantza's elimination.
"We got one ace in the hole...gimme your earrings so we can make it two aces this time.," Quitela told the Supreme Kai.
He then called out for Caway to notice him and tossed her the Potara earrings.
Ganos smirked before he was dropped kicked by Burter a few feet away.
Burter then took a moment to weakly kick Goku in the back saying
"Take that...try having that..."
Goku then awoke right away to Burter's shock.
"Thanks, you guys do your own thing...I'm gonna eliminate the last of these jokers once and for all.," Goku replied with a tone of seriousness.
Burter nodded and dashed away.
"I noticed that your little bug friend's Ki's skyrocketing? You planning on eliminating us with a giant bug swatting us like vermin? What a crappy joke if I ever heard one.," Goku said with a dark sense of humor.
"Not before I eliminate you first...," Ganos said as he took a battle stance.
"You have some sense of fighter's pride after all.," Goku said as he dashed towards Ganos and then the two proceeded to parry each of their kicks and punches. The two leapt away as they proceeded to keep their distance.
They then figure Ki blasts at each other, blue and green respectively.
"We're evenly matched right now, but...," Goku said as he charged up into Super Saiyan 1.
"How about now? This kinda transformation is unusual for you isn't it?," Goku concluded with Ganos looking stunned.
"There's the legend of the legendary Super Lupine in which a canine man's green fur turns purple, but I think your friend with the freaky transformation is more up my alley.," Ganos replied as he began to transform. He became larger and muscular, with a more bird-like humanoid appearance, with long orange and yellow hair, feathers, and a thick beak resembling that of an eagle or a shoebill.
"Guess the feet weren't just for a clever gimmick.," Goku said as he dashed towards Ganos proceeded to pummel him for a short while. Eventually, the punches stopped Ganos from reacting with wide eyed shock to barely feeling them.
Ganos then charged an orange Ki around his fist as he threw down a punch towards Goku who proceeded to dodge it, only barely in his Super Saiyan state.
"You improve as you fight. Just like Hit...how troubling.," Goku complained.
"Yes, my race is able to increase his power every minute we struggles in battle, being able to improve at a fast rate, especially in my case, due to the perilous nature of the Tournament of Power. I might end up surpassing you.," he said in a deeper voice than usual.
"If your kind was able to do that. Then the yellow rat wouldn't be up there since you're capable of being the strongest...you have a time limit you need to be able to increase till you go back to normal.," Goku observed. This caused Quitela and by proxy, Ganos to burst a vein in their foreheads.
"You dare call Quitela a rat?! He is a Mighty God Mouse and you will not insult him! Grand Adora!," Ganos screeched as he generated three orange energy blades in the shape of feathers; two on his left hand, and one on his right; using them as blades to strike Goku.
"Not enough. Super Saiyan Grade 2.," Goku said as he bulked up in muscle and began to fight on par with Ganos' more aggressive state.
Goku leapt a couple of distance in order to try something new.
"Vegito's me and Vegeta...so I should be able to do it too.," Goku said as he fired Ki blasts from each of his fingers in order to disarm the feather blades.
"Circular Cutter!," Ganos stated in frustration as he generated and flung an orange buzzsaw energy disc towards Goku.
A purple energy disk interrupted the strike and the two cancelled each other out.
"Oh my, can't Goku being sawed in half...or the bird accidentally doing it to himself, begging for aid, attacking from behind and then swearing vengeance after he beats you. Seeing another doing it is not very pleasing.," Freeza said as he bowed mockingly.
"Didn't need your help, I can do this on my own. I'm not as dumb as you were back then.," Goku said as he charged up to Super Saiyan Grade 3.
"Resembles what I did on Namek very well...," Freeza remarked as he dashed away.
"Goku...must really be be belittling this foe...or hates him so much that he wants to defeat him with the weakest forms he can muster. Either way, he's not thinking straight.," Cell observed from afar as he blocked Jirasen's kick.
Goku might've been slower due to his muscle mass, but to Ganos as he was right now, the man was like a tank that rushed like a cheetah. The Super Saiyan pummeled Ganos and kicked him in the groin. This caused Ganos to cough up blood and vomit.
"Did you make Goten and Pan suffer like this? Did you?!," Goku yelled as he cracked Ganos' spine with a backwards kick.
Quickly, Ganos leapt away and with a scream his backbone re-cracked into place.
"Fine, you get Super Saiyan 2 now.," Goku said as his hair became longer and spikier, his forehead now had only three bangs over it, making his hair more defined; his muscles also became more defined and his aura also generated electricity surrounding his body, while the aura grew markedly larger and more vibrant.
"Yes that form again.," Cell remarked with some painful memories of being its victim the first time around.
Goku blitzed towards Ganos and proceeded to punch him so hard that the bird man tripped and fell back in pain.
"You're not getting off that easily.," Goku said as he fired Ki blasts relentlessly at Ganos.
"What're you doing dad?! That's what you told me not to with Cell!," Gohan yelled out.
"Kakarot! He's not Freeza, he's not going to get weaker as the fight drags on! It's the opposite!," Vegeta yelled out in agreement.
"...," Goku said nothing, but was suddenly kicked away as Ganos got his second wind.
"You can use electricity...I can too...And I'm gonna avenge my comrades your team humiliated!," Ganos said as he charged electricity through his body.
The two then engaged in a blitz barrage of clashes with Ganos firing electricity spheres to counter Goku's Ki Blasts.
Ganos then charged up a torrent of electric energy in order to counter Goku's...
"Kaaaaa...mmmmmmeeeee...Haaaaa...mmmmmeeee...HA!"
The two clashed for a few intense second until Ganos' won out, pushing Goku a few feet away, destroying a part of his heart.
"Tch, I underestimated him.,"Goku cursed himself.
"I let my anger get the best of me. Why am I getting the shaft after beating up a stupid geezer?," Ganos acknowledged.
"That old man...you beat up Roshi?!," Goku yelled out as he turned into Super Saiyan 3, his Super Saiyan 2 rigid hair becoming more flowing and smooth again with a single hair lock protruding outwards, and grew his waist; his hair took a but takes on a darker and more yellow shade of gold than his previous form; his eyebrows vanished completely, making the forehead and eye ridges appear larger and revealing a more prominent brow ridge; his muscle mass increased with a more defined physique, his aura became rounder with larger electrical sparks; his eyes also gained pupils.
"He was past his prime. If I were to use the Super Dragon Balls- I would make myself eternally young. I assume the others would've had their physical ailments healed or become more famous or popular.," Ganos scoffed.
"How selfish.," Goku remarked.
"You're likely no spring chicken yourself. Accept your limits and retire soon.," Ganos said as he charged at Goku.
The latter blitzed him and kicked him with intense force, enough to finally cause the Kach-Katchin to break and cause the rubble to rise like mountains, a feat that impressed the Gods of Destruction above.
"I'm all about gettin' stronger. Even if I die again and again, I'm gonna fight to get stronger to fight stronger guys. Move well, Learn well, Play well, Eat well, and rest well. Enjoy life merrily and live to the fullest.," Goku said in a serious, gruffer tone of voice.
"Ngh...," Ganos grunted as he returned to his base state, and then noticed Caway walking towards him.
"What're you doing here?," Ganos asked.
"Ganos. We'll get to prove be useful to our universe together.," Caway said with a blushed expression as she put a Potara earring on her right ear.
"Isn't that?," Ganos asked as she put the other earring onto Ganos' left.
"I always wanted to be closer to you.," Caway screamed with glee.
"Ehhhh?!," Ganos yelled as he pulled against his will towards the very passionate Caway.
In a green flash of light, a single being emerged, with Caway's light-green skin; Ganos' magenta iris eyes; spiky black hair with long pink hair protruding from the ends of the back; slender pink and indigo feet, that were very bird like, sporting two large black talons per foot; a dark blue sleeveless vest accented with an orange lining, black arm warmers with yellow lining; baggy pants with a brown cape wrapped around it with a red and yellow gem at the center buckle; and a gold beret with a red gem hanging down from it. Her body and face leaned more towards Caway than Ganos. She wore green Potara on her pointed ears.
"Gaway is born.," said the woman with Caway and Ganos' voice in unison.
As Goku prepared to fight Gaway, he saw the now gigantic Damon rising behind the fused woman.
Next Chapter: Goku and Gine face off against Gaway and Damon