A/N: This is the fastest I've updated in a long while.
A special treat for you readers this chapter - a fight between Bardock and Gonyhe. These chapters are mainly filler but the next chapter will start to get interesting as the ship arrives back at Earth.
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Daughter Of A Hero
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Getting To Know Grandpa
One week later …
Vegeta's eye twitched and a very large vein began to throb on his forehead as the woman once again began fiddling with the panel on the wall. In an instant he was at her side, grasping her outstretched wrist and hoisting her upwards till her toes were brushing against the ground.
"What do you think you're doing woman? That is very delicate equipment that your lacking intelligence couldn't even hope to comprehend." Vegeta said emotionlessly, knowing by now that there was no point trying to scare the woman as she had clearly been dropped on her head one-too-many times and didn't know how to feel fear for a more superior being.
Bulma giggled nervously and tried to wiggle her wrist out of Vegeta's steel grip.
Vegeta grumbled a few choice words in a guttural language and realised Bulma's arm but choose to knock her away from the console for good measure. That would keep her at bay - for at least another hour.
Piccolo jerked out of his meditative position when Gohan's energy level suddenly shot up a few notches. He took four long strides to cross the room and stood in front of the half Saiyan, just as he opened his eyes
"M-mr Piccolo?" Gohan questioned sleepily, winching as his eyes were flooded with artificial light.
The corners of Piccolo's lips twitched upwards - the closest anyone was getting to a smile.
Gohan clumsily raised a hand to wipe away the sleep in his eye but quickly let it drop again, finding out the hard way that it only intensified the pounding in his head. He groaned outwardly, squeezing his eyes shut to block out the irritating light. His limbs felt like lead and his head felt like it had just gone ten rounds as a punch-bag to Cooler. His eyes were droopy and were tingling, all in all he felt pretty lousy - but that was to be expected, he had just woken up after a week in a comatose state.
"Night, night." Gohan mumbled, burying himself deeper into the chair.
Before Gohan knew what was happening, he found himself being grabbed by the scruff of his gi and hoisted into the air. For a minute, Gohan was dazed as he shook of the sensation of being moved quicker than his mind could follow. He looked down quizzically at his clothing before, questioning just when he had donned a gi. The last time he checked his attire he was wearing a wrecked suit of armour. Gohan looked up slowly to see his Namekian martial arts master looking down at him scornfully. He giggled nervously and smiled impishly at his green skinned friend who merely shook his head and loosened his grip on Gohan's armour, causing the afore-mentioned boy to go crashing back to the floor.
Gohan landed rather ungracefully on the ground - face first to be exact - and groaned whilst Piccolo snorted in distaste. Gohan pushed himself up and rubbed a forming lump on his hairline, his body finally starting to readjust to being moved around after a week worth of sleeping.
"What was that for?" He moaned as one hand grasped the forming bump and the other helped stretch out his ligaments.
Piccolo rolled his eyes and slapped his student upside the head. "You've had a week worth of sleeping and you expect to go straight back to sleep the minute you wake up? We start your training straight away, just because we are in temporally times of peace does not mean you can afford to get too comfortable!"
Gohan gulped nervously and bowed respectively to his mentor.
"Sorry Piccolo." He murmured and immediately dropped to the ground and began a series of press-ups.
Out of nowhere, a white boot came in and hooked Gohan in the solar plexus, knocking the wind out of him and lifting him up into the air. His momentum carried him into one of the screens which cracked around him from the pressure. Gohan lay spread against the screens, a little dazed but fine none-the-less.
"What the?" He questioned only to have Vegeta's fist implant himself in his tender abdomen.
Gohan cried out in protest and scrambled to bring his knee up and slam it onto Vegeta's forearm. The prince leapt a few feet backwards, floating in the air in front of Gohan.
Gohan peeled himself off the wall and fingered his stomach carefully, he was lucky to have taken a punch like that and just get away with severe bruising. Then he rounded on his attacker. "Why did you do that?" He asked calmly.
"You!" Vegeta hissed through clenched teeth, pointing a shaky finger toward Gohan. "How did you the son of a third class soldier manage to achieve the legendary?! The half-breed son of a third class solider who is not even fit to lick the grime off my boots, how?! I am the Prince, the child with the most powerful power level at birth ever to be recorded, yet I did not achieve it. If it's not bad enough your clown of a father managed to reach the status, now his little mutt of a son also has. Is the universe itself out to get me?! How did you do it?!"
Gohan averted his eyes from Vegeta's furious ones and instead focussed on a particularly interesting spot in the ground. He toyed with the bottom of his gi top idly and debated internally whether or not to tell Vegeta what it was really like to transform. Should he tell him the feeling of helplessness he associated with transforming, the feeling of completely letting yourself go, going against your very instincts and willing to give up your life only to be snatched back cruelly at the last moment and turned into something else. Should Gohan explain the hollow feeling you got when you were transformed? It was so cold, like there was no such thing as love in your heart - you knew no emotion but thirst. The thirst to fight and display your power.
You became a monster.
"Do you think I wanted this?" Gohan asked eventually, somehow finding the courage to look up and stare Vegeta in the face. "Do you think I wanted to see my sister die in front of my very eyes and know there wasn't a thing I could do to stop it? Do you think I like the fact that I went against my own basic instincts to survive and just when I was willing to give up - I wanted to give up -, I was brought back to this land, to this hell!"
By this time tears where streaming down Gohan's face but they were tears of fury.
"The only way to win that battle was if somebody transformed. It was the same on Namek - dad transformed when Krillen was killed! My sister had to die so I could transform and save us all. Do you think I wanted that?" He whispered the last part.
Vegeta growled, apparently not even caring about Gohan said.
"You will teach me how to transform!" Vegeta hissed, zipping forward suddenly to clamp a hand round Gohan's neck.
Gohan could feel Vegeta's grip tightening on his neck, the feeling of helplessness as black spots danced in front of his vision. He briefly wondered where Piccolo was, but soon pushed the thought out of his mind as he realised he would have a good reason for not coming to his aid.
It was then that Gohan realised - he was stronger than Vegeta. He was a super saiyan for crying out loud! Before he lost all air, Gohan scowled at his attacker and using an incredible display of flexibility, flipping his bottom half up and twisted slamming both feet into Vegeta's mid-section and breaking Vegeta's hold on him at the same time.
Gohan went to attack Vegeta again as he stumbled backwards but a strong hand clamped down on his shoulder. He followed the hand up to a body to see Piccolo shaking his head at him. "Leave him be. He's learned his lesson." Piccolo rumbled.
Gohan turned to look at Vegeta who was indeed across the room leaning against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest and his eyes closed. Gohan nodded wordlessly and made his way over to Bulma, who was trying to make herself seem as small as possible on the other end of the room.
The battle between the two Saiyans was over, but the war certainly was not!
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Back in the otherworld …
A familiar sort of power erupted within Gonyhe and a fiery red aura surrounded her body. She quickly fought to control her primaral urges and reign in her raging aura. She was mastering the Kaio Ken technique fairly quickly and it didn't take long for her to have it semi under control. Currently she was at level twenty and it was no walk in the park, even when she was dead.
Gonyhe gritted her teeth against the pain and hunched over, letting loose a feral scream in the process. When the pain died down she let out a breath of air and dropped the transformation, falling to her knees seconds later.
A pair of black shoed feet came into her line of vision. "You okay kiddo?"
Gonyhe mumbled a few words and pushed herself back onto her feet and crouched down yet again into another fighting style stance - this time a variation of the demon style and her fathers.
"I'm okay King Kai, I need to master level twenty if I have the slightest chance of even tickling Gohan when we spar."
King Kai chuckled softly and placed a hand on Gonyhe's shoulder, causing Gonyhe a momentary lapse in concentration and for her to loose control of her energy. "Raw power isn't everything. A good fighting technique is the best thing any warrior can hope for. The rest is just advantages. You may not be as strong as Gohan, but you are as smart and as capable of learning new techniques as him. Use that to your advantage!"
King Kai turned and left, leaving Gonyhe pondering on what to do next.
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"Do you think she's alright?" Frowned Chiaoutzui, watching with worry as Gonyhe sat under the shade of the only tree on the planet, unmoving.
Yamcha's mouth settled into a line. "I'm not sure."
"Yeah, she's never sat this still for this long. Not even when she's sleeping, she's even moving then." Krillen chimed in.
"She must be doing something fairly interesting then." Amended Tien.
The four fighters watched with pursed lips from their spot on the other end of the planet. They had just finished training for the time being and where planning on grabbing a bite to eat before going straight back to training.
"She could be recovering, she did crack level twenty on the kaioken technique." Yamcha said a little enviously.
The others all shrugged and Krillin opened his mouth to add something else in when they felt an incoming power from being them and the four fighters threw themselves onto their stomachs just as a fairly powerful ki ball went sailing over their heads and headed straight for Gonyhe.
Nobody had time to shout a warning at the meditating child as the energy ball exploded on impact ensuring a huge explosion that almost tore apart the tiny planet. Krillin threw his arms over his head and buried his face in the ground to shield him from the debris that was coming his way.
When the ground beneath them finally stopped shaking, Krillin jumped up and looked around frantically for Gonyhe whilst his counterparts started to mouth off at the Saiyans who had sent the ki ball their way during a game of Saiyan rugby. No doubt a vicious spar was about to break out.
"Gonyhe?" Krillin called into the smoke.
There was a moment of silence in which Krillin feared the worst - could you die again? - and when he was about to loose all hope he felt Gonyhe's power level spike and breathed a sigh of relief. It took only a few seconds for her aura to kick up and clear the smoke screen around her, revealing her standing there without a scratch but looking thoroughly annoyed.
"Who?" She growled, reminiscing Krillin scarily of when the female Saiyan got angry.
Krillin pointed a shaky finger to the skies where Bardock, Fasha and Raditz where floating, looking like they were ready to break out into a fight with the human fighters.
"HEY!" She called, her face still set into a scowl.
The hostilities ceased as everybody turned round to look at Gonyhe who was now bouncing a ki ball from hand to hand looking extremely menacing. Raditz' face paled a few shades as he caught the look of anger that flashed across Gonyhe's face. If he'd learned anything about his niece and nephew it was to never get them angry.
Bardock appraised the youngster with a raised eyebrow and shot off a ki ball at her, eager to get back to a saiyan's favourite pastime - fighting.
Gonyhe narrowed her eyes at the incoming ki ball and using a burst of her own energy countered it, sending it hurling back toward the Saiyans.
Fasha and Raditz bailed out at the last moment and the ball of energy struck Bardock squarely in the face, minimally singeing his eyebrows but severely damaging his pride. As the earth warriors fell about laughing and even the Saiyans had a chuckle or two, Bardock just stood and blinked, staring straight at his grand-daughter.
It took another minute or so of laughing for Bardock to finally snap. He let loose a feral scream as his power began to build up and build up to the point that it actually shook the planet. After a few more minutes later, his aura turned a very distinguishable red in colour - he was using the kaioken technique but at what level was anyone's guess.
Gonyhe yelped in surprise as Bardock suddenly disappeared and reappeared in front of her with an outstretched leg. She yelled a few obscenities that would have made her mother faint in surprise - after spending a year with a demon as a mentor, one did pick up such words - and flipped over her grandfathers head, landing behind him and lashed out with a sweeping kick that Bardock gracefully dodged by taking to the air.
Growling in her throat, Gonyhe crouched down and pulled out the power from within her navel. She hadn't had a chance to properly power up before leaping into action - yet again because of her inability to stand being prejudged as weak. When she felt she had gained enough power. Gonyhe shot up through the air, penetrating the sound barrier and as she was travelling at such high velocity speeds, Bardock didn't have a chance at seeing her. He felt blinding pain in his abdomen and looked down to see his grand-daughters head implanted firmly in his stomach.
Bardock groaned and attempted to make a grasp at Gonyhe's body but she kept twisting and avoiding his grip. After digging her head in as far as possible, Gonyhe leapt back just in time to avoid Bardock's roundhouse kick. The demi-Saiyan used her grandfathers outstretched leg as a springboard and, using both hands pushed off his leg and came down through the air toward Bardock. She caught him with a double-footed kick to the chest area and Bardock went down like a sack of potatoes, being sent tumbling toward the ground at speeds that were incredible.
The full blooded Saiyan, crashed straight into King Kai's house, bringing the only building on the planet tumbling down on top of him - it was amazing he hadn't gone on straight through the entire planet and into HFIL.
On the ground, the Saiyan's and humans had ceased their arguments for the time being and were watching the fight with amazed eyes. Although they had seen Gonyhe battle on the crystal ball, they hadn't seen her with their own eyes since the fight with Vegeta and she'd just been an inexperienced youngster then. Now, she was still a youngster but was by no means inexperienced!
Raditz winced as he saw Gonyhe's head connect with his father's stomach. He knew from personal experience just how painful that actually was.
"Oh. Poor guy, Gonyhe used her head - he had no chance." Yamcha murmured sympathetically.
Tien and Krillin could only nod in silent agreement whilst Chiaoutzui buried his head in Tien's gi.
It was no secret that all the Son's had exceptionally hard heads - an abnormality even amongst Saiyans. In fact, all the sons had used their head's at one point during a battle - Goku against King Piccolo, Gohan against Raditz and now Gonyhe against Bardock. In fact the attack was becoming a bit of a legend, the Son head-butt attack as it was now being affectionately named.
"When do you think he'll realise he's got no chance?" Yawned Tien as he stretched back on the grass, watching fight overhead.
Fasha looked up at Tien and quirked a brow. "What are you talking about three eyes?"
Tien rolled his eyes and sat up. "Gonyhe can go toe-to-toe with Cooler in his third transformation, Bardock couldn't even hold off Frieza before he transformed. I don't think we need Baba to see how this fight's going to work out. You can't feel ki but we can and anybody will tell you she's not even half way to her maximum and she's still got kaioken up her sleeve."
Fasha chose to shoot a ki ball at Tien's head in response.
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"Come on oldilocks! I don't have all day you know!" Gonyhe teased down at the pile of rubble her grandfather was currently buried under.
She knew he could hear her, his fluctuating ki level at her insults proved that.
"Oh come on, Raditz would be more of a challenge than this!" That did it!
With a distinctive 'Hey!' from the ground, coming from Raditz of course, Bardock burst out of the rubble, looking scratched and bloody but still in prime fighting position.
"Ok you little runt! I'll teach you respect for your elders." Bardock roared as he soared through the air, stopping about fifteen feet from Gonyhe.
A bluish ball of energy popped into existence in Bardock's right hand. Although it was relatively small and didn't get much bigger, Gonyhe could feel the power behind it and at her current level of power it would sting if she allowed it to hit her and possibly take her out of the fight.
'Oh so that's the way you want to play?' Gonyhe found herself saying in her mind.
Gonyhe began to concentrate her energy onto both of her hands. She could feel the tingles as the amount of energy started to affect her. Looking down, you couldn't see her hands for the bright golden glow that had surrounded them.
"Spirit Cannon!"
Gonyhe heard Bardock cry out as he thrust his arm forward, lobbing the bright blue sphere of energy toward her. Gonyhe smirked and also put her arms forward until her palms where facing her grandfather.
"Demon Wave!"
Gonyhe cried her signature attacks name and two golden walls of light burst forward from her two arms, joining in the middle to form one large one. The force of the energy behind her attack actually knocked Gonyhe back a few paces in the air.
Gonyhe had put too much energy into her attack as she didn't even feel her grandfathers resistance as her energy wave ploughed right through it. She did feel the impact as the wave connected with Bardock though, and she instantly cut her attack. As the golden wall of light disappeared into nothingness Bardock's smoking figure tumbled from the skies, landing with a loud thump on the ground below. There he remained, unmoving, in a Bardock sized crater.
Gonyhe grinned down at her unconscious grandfather then turned to her father's friends who were all nodding enthusiastically at her. Mother and son though, were over at Bardock, prodding him with various bits of tree, rubble and foot.
It was then that King Kai popped into existence right beside Yamcha - almost killing him again from a heart attack - carrying groceries. He took one look at the destroyed planet and dropped the bag of groceries. Then turned to glare at the earth fighters who were quick to point out it was Gonyhe's doing.
Gonyhe grinned sheepishly, scratching the nape of her neck in a way that reminded everybody so much of her lovable father.
King Kai was practically foaming at the mouth. "Arrggg! You're just like your father!"
Gonyhe beamed. "Thanks for the compliment King Kai."
That left King Kai stumped as he marched over to the ruins of his house and began digging through it. Then suddenly, his antennae twitched. King Kai gasped audibly, catching everybody's attention on the planet - bar Bardock who was still seeing stars - and rushed over to the edge of the tiny planet. The rest of the fighters congregated behind him.
It took him a few more minutes before he eventually fell back onto his backside and crawled away from the edge of the planet , shaking in fear.
"Oh no!" He cried, burying his head in his hands.
"What is it King Kai?" Chiaoutzui asked concerned.
"It's the Earth, its in danger again. I was too busy watching over Piccolo, Gohan and Vegeta on Utrop, I never bothered to check the Earth, thinking it would be fine but something's came to my attention."
"Out with it fish face!" Raditz demanded impatiently.
"A Saiyan named Turles and his men have been fighting for control of the planet, he wants to plant the tree of might!"
It was at that point that Raditz and Fasha fell onto the floor in peals of laughter. King Kai cleared his throat impatiently. "What?" He demanded.
Raditz was the first one to compose himself. "Turles is a loser, he was thrown off the planet for his crazy ideas about this 'Tree of Might' that could help us defeat Frieza. Of course then nobody thought Frieza would betray us but even then, he's still a few planets short of a galaxy."
"No you don't understand. He's succeeded. From what I can gather, Turles has planted the Tree of Might and it wont stop until it sucks all the life out of Planet Earth, it's already sucked out over half the Earth's natural energy source. Pretty soon the fruits will be ripe and the ripe fruits will give anybody a power boost. He'll destroy the Earth!
"NO!" Gonyhe suddenly cried. "My momma's on the planet. There's no fighters! There's nobody to protect it! I've got to get back!"
Yamcha rushed forward and restrained the child as she began shaking at a very bewildered King Kai.
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Back in Space …
Gohan sighed contentedly. They had been in space for the best part of a month now and where only a few minutes from Earth, they were just passing Uranus just now and Gohan couldn't wait to get home. Of course it would be weird without Gonyhe at first, but she'd be home soon and they could put all the Frieza and Cooler mess behind them and just get on with their normal lives - well as normal as life could be for two superbly strong half alien children! -
"What in the -?" Vegeta wondered out loud.
Gohan, Piccolo and Bulma rushed toward Vegeta who was standing, staring speechless at the observatory screen and with good reason too!
There was planet Earth, the planet they all loved and from outer space it looked like it was dying?
Half of the planet was the rich, green and blue colours they remembered, where life looked abundant and peaceful and then on the other side the planet was grey and looked dead. There was no water where oceans should be and every patch that was previously green was now a sickly brown or yellow colour and in some parts black.
The planet was … dying?
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A/N: Somebody asked for power levels in a review. I'm not a power level fanatic so please don't flame if you find these inaccurate.
Power-levels
Gohan : 45 000 000 - Super Saiyan
2 500 000 - Full powered
100 000 - Resting.
Gonyhe : 43 000 000 - Level 20 Kaioken
2 150 000 - Power increase after dying.
1 550 000 - Full powered (Fighting Cooler.)
750 000 - Fighting Bardock.
Cooler : 35 000 000 - Last transformation - full power.
3 000 000 - 3rd transformation
Vegeta: 2 250 000 - Full powered fighting Cooler
3 000 000 - Power increase after being beaten.
Bardock : 700 000 - Full powered fighting Gonyhe- using Kaioken
70 000 - Maximum without Kaioken..
Piccolo : 2 000 000 - Full power fighting Cooler.