Blazing with a crimson King Kai's Fist aura, Yamcha dashed toward Frieza alongside Krillin. The two warriors shuffled with one another, switching poses and going through a myriad of formations to throw the pale terror off his guard as much as possible. Frieza stretched his arms out to the sides and leaned forward. His image became blurry as the tyrant vanished and appeared in between Yamcha and Krillin, looking straight at the bald warrior with psychotic glee.
As Krillin's hands were in position for the Solar Fist, Frieza targeted him first, extending his hand and catching Krillin in an adamant telekinetic hold as he propelled the bald warrior flying away until he could deal with the other troublesome warriors without having to worry about being blinded in a flash of light. There was not enough time to crush the captive, however. It was a fact Frieza regretted somewhat but because he merely flung Krillin away; he turned around just in time to catch Yamcha's palm thrust and lock his grip around the fighter's hand.
Yamcha winced and grunted, Frieza's grip began applying grand pressure on his captured hand that made the martial artist believe that his entire hand could get shattered any second now. Diving, Yamcha swept at Frieza's lower calves, but the tyrant raised his knees up in mid-air as if he'd have hopped up. Frieza's tail lashed over his head to block Yamcha's upper chop with his free hand before the tail locked up on Yamcha's wrist and twisted it. Somehow, Yamcha's left hand broke before his right one. With torment translating in tearful crystals in the corners of his eyes, Yamcha dived forward with a dashing knee strike but Frieza dampened it with his own knee.
Yamcha's knee strike transitioned into a vertical kick to the bottom of Frieza's chin, but the tyrant absorbed the blow entirely and whipped the martial artist away with his tail, preparing to dash after him. Krillin's tunnel vision proved to be a mistake as a pair of rumbling mountains crushed him in between them while the bald martial artist dashed to help his friend from the faraway distance Frieza had flung him to. The space emperor turned around, as a cerulean dot gleamed in his eye, he broke Chiaotzu's attempts at a psychic hold on him before waving his hand up while Frieza's tail spun to protect him from behind and drove into the cheek of charging Yamcha, swatting him away.
A bursting wave of fuchsia pink burst from underground, swallowing Chiaotzu up and spitting him out while Frieza turned his attention back to Yamcha, who just had both his right hand and his left wrist broken and was in the worst possible condition to defend himself. Fighting crushed and battered opponents always provided the most joy to Frieza, so he just couldn't resist enjoying himself some more, even if he'd end up breaking the poor little Earthling in the process and losing another fun toy to play with.
With a blinking dash, Frieza closed in on Yamcha and drove his arm in an uppercut underneath Yamcha's ribcage, driving all semblances of life out of the martial artist and whiting him out for a second with a single strike. Frieza turned to drive the butt of his sole into Yamcha's face before charging onward with an elbow strike to crack the Earthling's neck and a diving air slide to break both his shins and leave him utterly defenseless. Frieza's tail whipped up, propping the broken man up and preparing him for the finishing touches.
With a maniacal cackle, Frieza waved both his hands up and crossed his arms. A booming fuchsia energy pillar exploded from underground carrying a blizzard of boulders controlled with psychic energy within it, each pelting Yamcha relentlessly on their journey up with enough latent pressure to each blow that they popped into insignificant pebbles upon impact. Frieza drove his round and disproportionately big head into Yamcha's gut with a tackling charge before spinning around and whipping the motionless and defenseless martial artist with his tail.
The tyrant crossed his arms up and kicked his feet out in a mocking, Cossack-like dance as he trampled Yamcha back to the ground one kick at a time and stomped on his head while tilting his foot off of the finished martial artist only when he felt the warm and revolting feeling of dampness underneath his foot. The space sovereign extended his hand and fired a fuchsia Ki blast which swallowed Yamcha up whole and disappeared underground, bursting forth outward from everywhere at once in the shape of booming pillars of light before it drowned the entire battlefield in shimmering pink and when it settled–Yamcha was no more.
"Yamcha!" Krillin's desperate cries shot the silence that had taken hold of the battlefield dead. "You monster!"
"Me? A monster? Insignificant, underdeveloped insects, you reap what you sow!" Frieza turned a scornful look toward Krillin and Chiaotzu, the only survivors that still showed fighting spirit with Chayote rushing right at the tyrant with a raging roar. The mindless rioter seemed to stop in her tracks and grab hold of her head as she grumbled and seethed in hectic wrath, however, as killing Yamcha seemed to affect her and halt her mindless charge for a second. "You were the ones that attacked my perfect empire and killed my valuable soldiers and officers. Your pathetic minor planet had been decades away from colonization and it has absolutely nothing of interest to my empire, rendering it obsolete and just a loathsome pixel in the vastness of my universe."
"It's ready, Krillin!" Goku's mental signal popped into Krillin's mind. "The Spirit Bomb is ready but… Sensing how incredibly powerful Frieza is now, it's not… It will not be nearly enough."
"No way! This has to work, it has to! Ten-san sacrificed himself for this plan, and now Yamcha too!" Chiaotzu reflected to Goku telepathically. "Is there no other way for you to make the Spirit Bomb stronger? Can you maybe strengthen it with King Kai's Fist?"
"No, King Kai's Fist might help me make sure Frieza eats the Spirit Bomb, but it wouldn't empower it in any way. The Spirit Bomb taps into the Genki energy of everyone around me, so powering up would have no effect on its power. It would just ensure that I land it," Goku replied.
"Tsk… So, it's all for nothing then? Everything is hopeless then, isn't it?" Krillin's arms sunk down as the martial artist closed his eyes and began trembling. "There's just no way of closing that monstrous gap in power, is there?"
"Hmm?" Frieza turned to Krillin and Chiaotzu who have been just floating in mid-air, lined up to one another. The tyrant's glare then switched to Chayote who had been grumbling and muttering to herself, curled into a fetal pose while flashing in emerald energy, then to Goku who seemed to be just standing in place even though he had a vibrant, ethereal, and almost majestic white aura brimming outside of his body. "Is this some attempt to stall for time? Whatever that primitive power-up that female Saiyan went through is useless against me, I punished that other Saiyan accordingly as well. In his state, it is unlikely that he can muster up much resistance. Maybe a demonstration is in order that I can eradicate all your hope in just one go to rustle some of that delectable despair in you?"
Frieza raised his hand and aimed his finger at Chayote's cradled head as a pink speck of energy formed at the very tip of his finger. A mindless roar distracted the tyrant, forcing him to cancel his attack prematurely and turn to its source. It wasn't even the wrathful Saiyan that had exploded in anger. It was, in fact, the bald Earthling who expelled all of his energy and burst with a crystal clear aura with a heated, red outline to it by its edges.
"No!" Krillin yelled out. "I won't let it be so! I won't let Tenshinhan and Yamcha's sacrifices be in vain, I won't let down Bardock, Gine, Piccolo, and even Vegeta! If ever was there an opponent that we just had to win against, if ever failure was less of an option, it's against you, Frieza!"
"Have you gone mad?" Frieza crossed his arms and pressed a finger to his black lips, raising the right ridge over his eye as he thoroughly enjoyed mental breakdowns in the face of utter crushing at his hands.
"If we lose here, all those deaths would have been in vain, all that we've done here would be in vain. Frieza would find our planet and subjugate it just like he has Planet Vegeta, he'd destroy everything that we hold dear and everything that we've worked so hard to protect. All the times we fought to protect the Earth, all of that, our entire lives' work would be meaningless! I refuse to accept that!" Krillin yelled out, unleashing all of his Ki as he dragged both his open palms back by his sides and let his raging Ki form a pair of white orbs with azure and red mingling outline. "That's why, I'll throw everything I have, my resolve, my determination, and my strength, my entire lifetime of training, our victory here, I'm willing to put it all on the line!"
"Krillin…" Goku stared at the back of his friend in awe.
"The Earthling dog has gone rabid, don't worry, I'll pop that noggin of his at once," Frieza cackled, raising up his hand and dislodging a sharp piece of stone as he took aim to drive it through Krillin's head and pop it like perforated grape.
"No!" Chiaotzu gasped, breathing in and stopping the surrounding air to take aim at the stone spear flying toward Krillin. "Dodonpa!" he yelled out, firing a full-power energy beam at it and destroying the psychically enhanced mountain in its track before it could skewer Krillin. "Go, Krillin!" Chiaotzu cheered on his friend after allowing the flow of time to resume.
"Red-Hot Scattershot Kamehameha X20!" Krillin shifted through his teeth as the pressure of both the Red-Hot Mode and King Kai's Fist X20 besides his signature Kamehameha variant drove his body to the very edge and he'd been fighting under the very limit he could push the King Kai's Fist to for a while now. This very well may have been his last gambit.
Krillin extended his arms outward, thrusting the two Kamehameha spheres he had created and unleashing both of them into a singular, roaring energy wave. Frieza straightened his body, flexing his stiffened hands and smirking with the corner of his lips as he raised his hand and waved his palm upward to use telekinesis to deflect Krillin's last resort attack into the atmosphere. With a resolute face, Krillin clenched his fists, scattering the deflected beam into a downpour of Kamehameha waves from the peak of the deflected beam, raining back down upon Planet Vegeta.
The sky turned burgundy as magenta domes littered the entire planet's surface, decimating the entire crust of Planet Vegeta at once with apocalyptic blasts that seemed impossible to avoid as it flattened every mountain, evaporated every ocean, and sent geysers of hot magma burst forth from underground as the surface of the entire planet turned to charcoal. There were no more trees or even a hint of natural splendor left on Planet Vegeta as Krillin's ultimate attack had rendered the planet a decimated wasteland.
As the chaos settled down, Chayote stood in a crucifix position with an emerald energy bubble that had shielded her from the attack with little of her input. It had been an involuntary, instinct-driven call as the buffed-out female Saiyan seemed irked by this explosion of power. Chiaotzu floated in front of Goku with his arms stretched out with an invisible field of psychic energy, deflecting any stray Kamehameha waves that might have accidentally come toward Goku by skidding them off the psychic barrier. The doll-like psychic ghoul looked back to Goku with a smirk as the Saiyan nodded in gratitude and sighed easier.
"Now look what you've done," Frieza's displeased voice rung from one of countless masses of dust accumulated in the area, decorated with airborne cinders and reeking of sulfur. "This planet is utterly worthless in its current state. It'll be just an ugly stain on my perfect empire and I can't even destroy it either!"
"He's… Completely unscathed!" Krillin's stare blanked out as his fuming, rough aura blinked out after the Earthling could sustain his over-the-limit power-up no longer.
Hurling like a cannonball, Frieza burst forth from smoke and slammed into Krillin in his bullet-like aerial roll. The cruel tyrant unraveled himself as he flipped over his front, repeatedly smacking his tail into the back of Krillin's head, driving the Earthling's neck further and further toward snapping and just mere moments before he'd have hammered the helpless fighter down into the ravaged ground, Frieza drew a second breath and whirled with a vertical spin with his legs extended to the side, kicking Krillin up as he rotated like a disc saw. Krillin's body hit the ground like a lifeless sack of potatoes while Frieza posed his sophisticated splendor before him.
As Chiaotzu and Chayote both rushed at the tyrant at once, Frieza glanced up, his eyes drowning out in an overwhelming, cerulean glow as a psychic hold enveloped both warriors and froze them in place. No matter how skilled with psychic abilities and telekinesis Chiaotzu was, Frieza was an absolute monster, and it felt as if his grip has seeped into the warriors' bodies on a cellular level, holding every alveolus, every minuscule muscle fiber in place individually.
"It appears you have snagged the Time Stop ability from Guldo. Oh well, you've got no way of stopping time if you can't even breathe in or control your lungs at all, can you?" Frieza smirked.
"Frieza! This is the Spirit Bomb of Planet Vegeta's energy and you're going to eat it!" Goku's thundering voice distracted the tyrant as the Saiyan warrior clenched his fist and channeled the ethereal, pure glow of life's energy into a sphere centered on his fist.
"Wait… Goku… You said… You said this wasn't enough… Please… Don't squander the Spirit Bomb for me… Goku… Please… Win… For all of us…" Krillin's faint telepathic signal stopped Goku in his tracks before he could fling the Planet Vegeta's Spirit Bomb at Frieza.
"Hmm? Have you realized just how pointless using the energy of such an appalling world is against me? Good, it'll exasperate your situation much less and make your inevitable death a tad less excruciating. Now… Where was I?" Frieza turned his attention back to Krillin. "Ah yes… Punishing the waste of my empire's treasured assets and squandering of its human resources!"
The monstrous space emperor took a leap into the air as he raised two fingers over his head and formed a fuchsia-colored outline of sparkling energy around him. With a sadistic expression lingering on his face, Frieza slashed his two fingers like he'd have cut with a sword, expelling a crescent energy projectile from the tip of his fingers as time appeared to stop without Chiaotzu's aid, with little rhyme or reason, just an aftereffect of shocking horror that took its dark reign and everything around blacked out just a little tip of its stranglehold. Only the white shapes of Frieza and Krillin, severed in half diagonally at his chest and lying lifeless on the ground before the descending tyrant.
"Humph… Revolting, unsanitary filth… Your ugly insides are such an eyesore…" Frieza snickered, raising his hand up and elevating Krillin's remains with psychic energy before clenching his fist and forcing them to explode into ashy powder over his head.
"KRILLIN!" Chayote's resonating battle cry followed by the resounding noise of shattering glass as the rowdy Saiyan broke Frieza's lingering and dwindling down psychic hold since it was no longer necessary filled the air. The wrathful Saiyan cradled her head and rose into the air as she surrounded herself in an emerald bubble of energy and prepared to let her pent-up wrath explode.
"You again? I thought I had already pummeled you into the dirt, you rampaging primitive," Frieza sighed and shrugged while shaking his head as if his murderous burden was too much for his subtle, royal shoulders to bear.
"Now do you see what a terrifying monster Frieza is, Goku?" a voice rung in Goku's head, snapping the Saiyan out of his mindless wallowing in self-loathing and grief.
"King Kai?" Goku muttered under his own nose.
"I am afraid I'll have to intervene and do my best to guide you through this situation. Remember what is at stake here–Chayote cannot die under any circumstances. Sacrifice your own life if need be. Remember, Goku, this is the survival of the entire universe that's at stake." King Kai lectured Goku which only made the Saiyan wince and grit his teeth as sweat, mixing with his own blood poured down the Saiyan's body.
"Shut up! King Kai, your ultimate technique, the Spirit Bomb, it's no good, it's too weak! It won't even scratch Frieza at all, and I've garnered all the energy from the entire planet!" Goku fired back a thunderous telepathic signal back at the ancient deity. "Can't even the ultimate technique of the gods do anything about this monster?"
"Just one planet…?" King Kai replied with a subtle telepathic ping which made Goku's eyes snap wide open in shock as a bright realization came to him.
"That's right… Just one planet ain't enough. I need to borrow energy from Frieza's entire empire. It only seems right that everyone he has ever hurt and held under his foot would fight back and defeat him. Thanks, King Kai!" Goku yelled out into the sky out loud.
"Hmm… It appears that this Saiyan has embraced madness as well. He is certainly madder than he was before, at least…" Frieza chuckled to himself as he prepared to execute Goku with a Death Beam.
"Listen up, everyone! Surrounding planets, planets in the entire universe that Frieza has ever abused or hurt! Everyone he has ever taken over and been mean to, everyone who has ever lost someone to this monster, listen up! I need you to raise your hands over your head and lend me some of your energy. All of us, all of us together can beat Frieza, I believe in it!" Goku pleaded out into the universe as an overflowing snowfall of white energy dots began pouring down from the cosmos and feeding in to Goku's body. The Saiyan could no longer contain all that energy, prompting him to raise his hands over his head and form the Spirit Bomb already.
A shimmering, azure sphere of the universe's life energy, the essence of well-being surged into the sphere and fed it directly as Goku's plan became crystal clear to Frieza immediately. Thus the hopeless struggle against the unbeatable Frieza became a mere struggle against time. The unrelenting, murderous tyrant became a hostage of everyone he had ever oppressed, though will still lingered strong in his psychotic expression to snuff out this little coup before it took shape and fully formed.
The oppressed universe just became a part of the Dragon Team at a time when the team's members had grown incredibly slim. A fusillade of emerald Ki blasts raining down in the area sent Frieza fleeing in fear for his own well-being as Chayote unleashed a violent downpour of Ki blasts from up above and dive-bombed, heading straight toward the fearful tyrant. The seething expression on the face of the female Saiyan suggested she had her own tooth to pick with the tyrant and was ready for a second round with the murderer of most of everyone she ever cared for.