Chapter 26. Frieza's Desperation!
"YOU MAY BE STRONG, BUT A MONKEY IS STILL A MONKEY!" Frieza yelled! "SUPER SAYAIN OR NOT, I REFUSE TO LOSE TO A LESSER LIFE FORM AGAIN!"
Goku said nothing at first but looked at Frieza with a serious look. He noticed that veins were showing up on Frieza's body, and his heart rate had increased rapidly. For the majority of the fight, Frieza was actually fighting with a calm head, confident that he could defeat him, but now, Frieza's confidence had plummeted.
"Feeling scared Frieza?" Goku said with a serious smile. "I thought you said that you had the advantage here? Is it enough to beat me now?"
Frieza said nothing but grunted out of fear and anger.
"I don't think so. Whatever plan you have isn't going to work. I'll make sure of that! AHHHHHH!..."
Goku then used super speed to kick Frieza right in the face before the tyrant could even blink! As he flew in the air, Goku quickly appeared from behind and delivered a powerful hammerfist to the back of Frieza's head sending back to his original area, but the attack didn't stop there. From a human's point of view, Frieza's body was moving somewhat mindlessly in nearly every possible position a bipedal creature can be in! It was as if he was moving his entire body on his own! Small amounts of blood could be seen, and faint cries of pain could be heard for several more seconds before the evil tyrant was knocked to the ground.
Frieza laid where he had fallen and thought...
"How much did his speed and strength increase by? I don't even know if my max power will work now! I couldn't even see any of what just happened!"
Frieza managed to get up in stride despite Goku's furious assault.
"So I see you're still using instant transmission to enhance your attacks. Quite cheap, don't you think?"
Goku smiled and said, "Actually I didn't use that technique. That was just purely speed."
Frieza's face turned surprised, and then to anger.
"Oh and you might want to wipe your nose." Goku said. "It's not a pretty sight."
"Huh?!" Frieza went and then noticed his nose was bleeding profusely.
"SHUT UP! I DON'T CARE HOW POWERFUL YOU ARE NOW, I WILL STILL WIN THIS FIGHT AND CONQUER THIS PLANET! AHHHHHH!...
Frieza used super speed of his own by flying into the air, and threw a punch going directly for Goku's face, but Goku used super speed of his own dodging it just in time and appearing behind Frieza! Frieza anticipated this and kicked back fast almost making contact with Goku, but the Sayain still managed to dodge the attack! Frieza improvised and delivered another kick knowing exactly where Goku would go, but the Sayain still disappeared from the attack. Predicting where Goku would be a final time, he appeared to Goku and shot at close range a powerful and fast death beam 1 INCH away from hitting Goku, but the Sayain still dodged the deadly attack!
"HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY BE USING JUST SPEED TO DODGE MY ATTACKS?!" Frieza yelled. "I SAW IT CONNECT YOU... AHHHHHHH!" Frieza yelled as Goku kneed him in the stomach from below knocking the breath out of the evil alien. Frieza still tried to use super speed to escape the upcoming assault, but he didn't even realize that he was already on the ground after getting struck with a 30 hit combo within just a few seconds! It was like a very fast painful blur!
Frieza quickly flew back up in the sky, but this time had no intention of fighting in melee combat. He put both of his hands together, and a small red chi ball formed inside, then within a few seconds, it expanded and grew into the size of a beach ball, and fired it at Goku, but the Sayain easily dodged the attack. Frieza grew madder and tried the attack again, but the result was the same. Frieza then grew madder and madder and finally started blasting random chi attacks at Goku hoping that they connect and overwhelm the sayain. It wasn't long before he couldn't even see Goku anymore from the smoke that started to cloud his vision. He fired mindlessly for 30 seconds before he finally stopped to make sure if Goku was still there. To Frieza's surprise, Goku was gone!
"WHERE DID THAT MONKEY GO?!"
"OVER HERE!"
BOOM! Was the sound of Goku's powerful punch striking Frieza right in the stomach causing blood to shoot out of his mouth and making Frieza gasp for breath! Goku then delivered the final shot to his combo with a kick to Frieza's head completely disorientating him as he fell to the ground!
"Am I too fast for you Frieza?" Goku said. "If you want, I could give you a handicap."
Frieza growled in frustration, and was losing his ability to think calmly. He desperately tried to not allow rage to cloud his judgement, but Frieza was nearly at his breaking point, but Frieza rushed Goku, and attacked once again.
Back at Ponyville, the ponies were evacuating and preparing for the worst.
Twilight Sparkle had hit her critical point. She was in complete shock, sadness, and fear. Mainly because of what Mayor Mare said. Without anypony to control both the sun and the moon, it wouldn't take very long before Equestria would fall into a state of imbalance from the sun being out for too long. With no way for the sun to set, the world was pretty much doomed regardless if Goku or Frieza wins the fight.
"This is insane!" Twilight Sparkle thought to herself! "Why did this have to happen!? It's like the whole world is taking five steps forwards, and then suddenly we're being pulled back ten steps! The princesses were mind controlled, and me and my friends fixed that. Then Frieza kills all of Canterlot and then we get Discord to help is, but then Discord gets killed, and then we used the elements of harmony on Frieza, but that doesn't work, and then he kills all of my friends and the princesses, and right when another alien comes to defeat Frieza, EQUESTRIA IS STILL AT RISK OF BEING DESTROYED! WHO IS GOING TO CONTROL BOTH THE SUN AND THE MOON NOW?! AHHHHHHHH! I'M NOT THINKING STRAIGHT! CAN SOMETHING PLEASE HELP ME! I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!"
"That's enough my dear." Said a voice.
"Huh?" Went Twilight. Who... who was that?" Twilight then looked around but just saw the same panicking ponies. "For a second there, I thought that was..."
"Twilight, my most gifted beloved student..." The voice said. "It's me, Princess Celestia."
"Wait... but how? You're dead!" Twilight responded. "Where are you? I can't see you!"
"I can't continue to interact with the world of the living like this. Sooner or later, I won't be able to communicate with you or anypony else anymore."
"What did you come to tell me?" Twilight said.
"I've come to tell you that because me and my sister are no longer alive, that we are both leaving it up to YOU to control both the sun and the moon."
"WHAT?!" Twilight Sparkle said in shock. "But... but... I'm not at that skill level yet! I don't know how! How will I..."
"Stop right there Twilight!" Said another voice. It was Princess Luna.
"You may not know it Twilight, but you are one of the most powerful unicorns on this planet. We all see the power you really have Twilight, and trust us both that we say that you are more than capable of raising both the sun and the moon."
"I know it seems sudden, but only you are capable of keeping Equestria in perfect harmony now. All that's left to do, is wait for Goku to defeat Frieza, and your duties will start there."
"But I'm still training! I'm still studying! And after all that's happened? How can I hold the responsibilities for two of the strongest Alicorns?"
"Eliminate your self doubt Twilight." Celestia said. "It first starts there. If you think you can't do it, then guess what? You won't do it. We all know you can do it Twilight. I've seen the great amount of magic in you as soon as I first saw you. You're a complete prodigy, and I'm proud to have you as my student, and as a trusted friend."
Tears began to flow from Twilight's eyes.
"Don't be sad Twilight." Celestia said. "We won't be gone forever. Goku's Dragon Balls managed to take him to our world. He even said it himself that in six months, all of the damage Frieza has caused will be reversed! We will all be back in no time, but in the meantime, you must control both the sun and the moon."
"We'll be back in no time Twilight!" Said Rainbow Dash's voice.
"Cheer up now! We won't be dead forever!" Pinkie Pie said.
"I'll be back soon Twilight!" Said Spike.
"You can do it Twilight. Believe in yourself my friend." Said Fluttershy.
"Oh and before we go, tell my brother and grandmother I love them, and its not your fault. Tell them that this won't be forever."
"I will." Said Twilight.
Finally, the voices stopped, and the spirits went back to the Astral Realm.
"Its... its all on my hooves now." Twilight said. "It's up to me to keep this world in balance. Don't you worry everypony. I won't let you or all Equestria down."
Back at the fight...
"This is ridiculous!" Frieza thought to himself. "I know how he fights and what he's prone to doing, but at this level, I simply don't have the speed to keep up with him! How can I exploit his weaknesses if I can't get a hit on him? Those energy blasts I did were even HOMING and they STILL were not enough to hit him!"
Goku continued to stay in the air looking at Frieza, waiting for him to rise back up and attack again.
"Well, are you gonna get back up and fight, or should I come to you and finish this?" Goku said.
"Look at him. He doesn't have the slightest worry in the world!" Frieza said. "He's not even using his full power on me, and my life is still in danger! I've got only shot for winning this fight. I've allowed this foolishness to play on long enough!"
"I guess you want me to come to you then!" Goku said.
Frieza then jumped back to his feet, and flew quickly into the air ready to battle once more.
"There is no need for that. I'll just come to you, and this time I'm done playing around. I'll make sure to kill you quickly."
"Well see." Goku said.
"Yes, yes we will." Frieza said softly as he readied what appeared to be an energy blast.
"I'll be nice Goku." Frieza said. "Since you're clearly at a disadvantage, I'll let you get in the first couple of hits before I turn you into a pile of ashes."
Goku became somewhat confused. Despite Frieza utterly losing, he was acting as if he was the one winning. He naturally felt skeptical about this behavior, but couldn't find a reason to fear whatever plan the evil alien had.
"What are you possibly hiding?" Goku asked. "Your energy is already starting to slightly decrease, and I can sense you're losing your focus. You're either delusional, or I'm in for something exciting."
"I figured you would say that." Frieza said. "Like I said, Super Sayain or not, you can't win this fight. I probably did make a bit of an error letting this silly mismatched fight play on this long, but now I've decided that this ends now."
"At my level, there is no attack you can possibly do that I am not capable of evading or repelling. You are completely delusional, and I'm calling your bluff!" And with that, Goku used super speed to get close to Frieza, but in just a few seconds...
"THERE!" Frieza thought quickly to himself, and with proper prediction, he used super speed to appear where Goku was originally at, and raised his hands up into the sky! When Goku flew back at his area...
"SOLAR FLARE!" Frieza went!
"AHHHHHHH!" Goku yelled! "So that was what you were up to! But unfortunately for you, I don't NEED to see where you are to fight you!"
There was no response from the evil tyrant, and when Goku regained his sight...
"What... where did he go?"
Goku then saw cloudy images of Frieza in the air similar to the after image technique. Goku looked around thinking that it was a matter of time before he catches Frieza, or if Frieza catches Goku first. Several seconds went by and the images disappeared, and Goku then realized that Frieza was escaping!
"Here's my chance to regain the advantage!" Frieza said while running at super speed levels! I need to get myself into a populated area. Goku may be strong, but his sentimental mind is what will cost him this battle! Man am I glad I didn't blow my stack and make the same mistake I did on Namek many years ago!"
It wasn't long at all before Frieza had made his way to Ponyville...
"LOOK ALIVE!" Shouted a frightened mare. "ITS... ITS FRIEZA!"
Frieza thought to himself... "Time to cause a stampede!"
"WHICH ONE OF YOU PATHETIC HORSES WANTS TO BE ON MY DINNER PLATE TODAY?!"
This was enough to cause a panic in the ponies, and they all en mass quickly ran to the opposite direction!
"HE'S HERE!" Shouted Mayor Mare! "FRIEZA'S GOING TO KILL US ALL! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
"He must have somehow defeated Goku!" Twilight Sparkle said. "If that's true, then we really... are dead."
"Not going to kill them yet." Frieza thought to himself. He then raised himself into the air and followed the stampede.
"I have to wait for Goku to arrive, and this is where it gets good. Not only will this planet be mine, but I'll also have my revenge against that golden ape!"
"It's just what I feared!" Spirit Princess Celestia said. "He's going to use hostages to give himself the upper hand! Oh my, this isn't good! As powerful as Goku is, I don't see how he's going to be able to fight him with the needed strength to defeat Frieza!"
"That no good stinking rotten little CHEATER!" Shouted Spirit Pinkie Pie. "He knows he can't win so he punks out and cheats instead of taking the beating he deserves!"
"There has to be a solution to this!" Princess Candance said. "It can't end like this! We've done so much for this world to be taken over by an evil space tyrant! Goku has to win! He must win! For the sake of Equestria!"
Goku easily traced Frieza's energy signal, and caught up to the tyrant, but to his sight was a massive stampede underneath Frieza running for their very lives!
"Well Goku, I say it ends just about right now." Frieza said. "I told you I'd win this time."
"I wouldn't count on it!" Goku said, and he quickly flew at Frieza, but Frieza had enough leverage and space to dodge Goku's attack and retreat further and further towards the stampede of ponies!
"You're not getting it yet are you Goku?" Frieza said. "Let me help you show you why you've lost."
Frieza then used telekinesis to pick up a pony at random!
"HELP! HE'S GOT ME! LET ME GO! LET ME GO! PUT ME DOWN! AHHHHHHHHH!"
"Huh?!" Goku went in surprise. "Wait... you FIEND! PUT HER DOWN NOW!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Laughed Frieza. "If I were you Goku, I'd get out of the way unless you want blood all over your clothes!"
Goku then tried to use super speed in an attempt to take away the hapless pony from Frieza, but Frieza anticipated this and dodged Goku's grab, and did the unthinkable. He shot an energy blast THROUGH the pony aiming directly towards Goku. The attack connected, but did very little damage to Goku, and the Sayain's clothes were now wet with fresh blood!
Goku was in enraged, but mostly in shock. He had finally realized what Frieza was talking about. He wasn't planning to defeat Goku outright fairly. He had the advantage of being able to take hostages.
Goku tried to attack Frieza again, but Frieza used super speed to quickly burrow into the crowd of ponies and grabbed two of them by their throats, and quickly went back up into the air. Goku stopped his attack, but this didn't stop Frieza from killing the ponies by breaking their necks with just his hands and throwing their bodies at Goku!
"Are you ready to stop and listen Goku?" Frieza said.
Goku in that moment was too angry to listen to reason and responded with...
"THAT'S THE LAST INNOCENT LIFE YOU'LL TAKE TODAY!" And the Sayain rushed towards Frieza, but Frieza still had enough space to dodge Goku, and instead of picking up a pony at random, he used sheer will power (telekinesis) to lift most of the crowd into the air!
"I should have expected something like this from you." Goku said. "You're completely pathetic Frieza, and I don't say that loosely. Your entire advantage is relying on those alives. Regardless what happens next, you've lost, because you know that this fight wasn't fought fairly."
"Silly Goku. You still believe in a fair fight?" Frieza asked. "I to used to believe in a fair fight, but I realized that the idea of fairness simply doesn't exist. You win, or you don't win. Why be fair when it puts you at a disadvantage? All beings want to get to their goals, and getting to them sometimes means bending the so called rules. The ends justify the means at the end of the day. I can care less about killing you fairly. I just want you gone, and this entire planet to myself where the beginning of my empire will begin!"
"I don't think so Frieza." Goku said. "Those ponies you're holding are the only thing that is preventing me from serving you justice."
"You underestimate my reach Goku." Frieza said. "Look WAY up there. You see that huge cloud over there?"
"What about it?" Goku asked.
"Look closely. Better yet, try and detect what's up there.
Goku looked closely and searched for energy levels and discovered that it was populated!
"Now detect energy over there..." Frieza said. ", and over there, and there...Do you get my point now Goku? This entire planet is PACKED with numerous different sentient life forms! I can grab most of them with just my mind and kill them before even YOU can stop me. You may be able to hit me a couple of times and maybe even hurt me severely, but you're NOT going to be able to stop me from causing massive genocide within just a few minutes!"
Goku growled in frustration, but then suddenly, just gave Frieza a serious smile, and then even laughed a bit.
"Eh? What's so funny?" Frieza said. "I'm the one in control here, what can you possibly be laughing at?"
"I actually had completely forgot about something, and so have you. This fight belongs to me regardless how many ponies are killed."
"You're going to attack me anyways and risk genocide?" Frieza said.
"The short answer is yes, but here's why no one on this planet or me has to fear you. All we have to do is wait six months, and by then the Dragon Balls will no longer be stone, and I can use it to reverse all of the damage you've done to this planet!"
"Six months isn't going to be able to save this planet Goku." Frieza said. "Earlier I asked one of the Alicorns why the sun hasn't gone out and she said because it's controlled by Celestia who is now dead. This universes physics runs off of some pretty whacky laws. But you have actually reminded me of a very valuable hostage, and she is actually very close to my reach."
Suddenly, Twilight Sparkle from less than a mile away was caught with Frieza's massive telekinetic power!
"WHAT THE? HUH?! WHAT'S GOING ON!? PUT ME DOWN!" She screamed.
Within a few seconds, she was now next to Frieza!
"All the other ponies are useless!" Frieza said, and he released all but Twilight from his telekinetic grasp leaving the ponies to fall to their deaths.
"NO!" Goku yelled, and he quickly used telekinesis of how own to stop the ponies from falling to their deaths and safely lowered them to the ground.
"I have a bit of a theory." Frieza said. "Now that the Alicorns are dead, that just leaves you as the most powerful unicorn on this planet, the only one capable of controlling both the sun and the moon."
"That's... that's not true!" Twilight lied. "I'm not the most powerful! Celestia and Luna were before you killed them!"
"You are trying to lie to a being that can detect how powerful another creature is. Out of just about every unicorn in this world, you're the only one capable of doing it. I have to admit that I was foolish for actually thinking of killing you earlier, but it seems like you have a use, but if Goku decides to attack me, well then I guess this world will fall apart before the Dragon Balls come out from their dormancy. Even though this world runs off of weird laws, it doesn't take a scientist to know that a planet CANNOT last even two weeks with the sun always being out!"
Goku growled again in a rage. "This isn't FAIR!"
"The next aggressive action you do Goku, will be this planet's downfall. I'll kill Twilight and you'll have to watch this planet eventually burn by its own sun. But If you do things my way, I can assure you that this planet will survive, and no one else has to die."
"What do you want Frieza?" Goku said.
"It's simple." Frieza said. "Power back down from a Super monkey back to a monkey!"
Well folks, it looks like Frieza now has the upper hand over our hero! How will Goku be able to regain control over the desperate Frieza? Tune in next week and find out!
To be continued...