Reformed Saiyans
Chapter Twenty: Search on Namek
When Vegeta's ship entered the atmosphere, the booming sound echoed throughout the planet. The ruckus caused birds to fly away in a blitz, the ground beneath the ship to tremble for a short few seconds, and the waves nearby to grow in size, crashing against each other and the ground of the planet.
Not far off from where Vegeta had landed, another ship had landed, with a Ki signature Vegeta recognized. The door to Vegeta's ship opened, and Vegeta climbed out of his ship. He floated above the crater, letting a wide grin appear on his face.
"So fish face wants to play?" He whispered to himself, expressing a smug face. Vegeta stood where he was for a moment, waiting for Cui, he knew he didn't have to go looking for Cui cause Cui would come looking for him.
When Cui arrived, Vegeta turned, keeping the smug smirk on his face, it annoyed Cui, but Cui remained calm, keeping an evil grin on his face as well.
"I've waited for this day for so long!" Cui said. "Finally! Today is the day we settle our score!"
Cui clicked his scouter, scanned Vegeta's powerlevel, and up read fifteen thousand. This was exactly how Cui remembered Vegeta's power.
"We'll find out just who the superior fighter is!" Cui smirked. "That is...if you're up to it?"
Vegeta let out a short chuckle before replying, "As a matter of fact, I am.". Vegeta took a couple of step forwards, and continued. "You see, while I was on Earth, I've learned a few new, and special tricks."
Cui raised a brow and laughed. "What new tricks? Running away?" He said tauntingly. "I don't see how that's new! After all It make sense for a stupid monkey like you to run away!"
Vegeta kept his smirk, and growled. "Oh, I'm going to make you eat those words." He replied with a low tone. He slightly bent his knees, and clenched his fist, releasing his energy. His power shot up quickly, and the once smug Cui turned fearful, and shocked.
The ground around the fighters rumbled, and Vegeta let loose a quick roar, finishing his power up.
"W-What?! But HOW!" Cui yelled. "We've always been on par! There's no way you could be th-that m-much stronger!" Cui looked at his scouter with disbelief, his body slowly shook uncontrollably, and Cui swallowed hard. "Tw-Twenty Four Thousand?! That's Impossible! He's stronger than Dodoria!"
"Fool! I've been in combat situations that you can merely dream of! Combat situations that nearly took my life! You've been sitting lazily by Frieza like the rest of his soldiers!" Vegeta yelled. "That battle on Earth nearly claimed my life, and because of that, I'm stronger than ever! And I have new tricks! Like concealing my strength!"
Cui took another step back, gulping hard again, trying to think of a way out of this. "V-Vegeta W-Wait!" Cui said. Vegeta rolled his eyes, and stopped for a second to humor Cui, he crossed his arms waiting for the fish alien to respond. "H-Hear M-Me Out! W-What if! We teamed up against Frieza!"
Vegeta raised a brow, waiting for Cui to continue. Cui gupled again, and continued. "I m-mean I d-don't like t-the guy! I n-never liked the guy! Who e-even l-likes the guy!"
Vegeta scoffed, taking a few steps closer, he bent his knee, gathering energy in his right fist, Cui's eyes drowned with fear, Cui tried thinking of something else, he had to do something otherwise he was dead.
"Come on Vegeta! Think!" Cui pleaded. "We could have the whole universe to ourselves! We'll start by taking down Dodoria and Zarbon!"
"Pathetic." Vegeta whispered.
"H-Huh?" Cui looked with slight confusion, not being able to hear Vegeta properly.
"You'd think, I'd team up with scum like you? Share the universe with scum like you?!" Vegeta said. He growled, and tightened his fist angrily. "Spare me your lies Cui! Have some damn pride before I kill you like the trash you are!"
Vegeta took a couple more steps, of which then Cui had begun to panic.
"C-Come on V-Vegeta!" Cui begged. His mind and heart raced rapidly as Vegeta came closer, then he had an idea. "Ah Lord Frieza!" Cui bowed immediately, pretending that the tyrant was there, but he wasn't. Vegeta turned around to face nothing, and only turned back to find Cui in air.
Vegeta became enraged, annoyed, and the red energy blast Cui shot at Vegeta, Vegeta caught it. He flew instantly to Cui, who panicked, and tried to run the opposite direction but Vegeta appeared in front of him. No matter which way Cui ran to, Vegeta was in front.
"You thought you could trick me?" Vegeta said. He scoffed and rolled his eyes. "That's the oldest trick in the book! Only absolute morons fall for that!"
Cui gupled, shaking in intense fear. "C-C'mon Vegeta! I was j-just kidding!" He shouted. "C'mon Le-"
Vegeta rammed his fist in Cui's stomach so that Cui would be quiet. The powerful blow caused Cui to struggle for air, and cough a small amount of blood out. Vegeta grabbed Cui's left arm, and swung him rapidly further in the air. Cui rose hundreds of feet in the air, and Vegeta fired several tiny energy blasts against Cui.
"Take this little present of mine!" Vegeta smirked. The two tiny blasts stuck on Cui, and exploded when Vegeta closed his hand. Cui was gone, all that remained was dust in the wind, and some of Cui's ashes. "Those were some dirty fireworks!"
A pink rotund man, with spikes around his arms and head, stood next to a turquoise skinned, green-haired reptilian like man. The two, with incredible powers, stood in the middle of a village, with death across the field. However, something shocked the pink man when his scouter exploded from a high reading.
The green man that stood next to the pink man looked with slight shock and confusion.
"What happened to your scouter Dodoria?" He asked.
"I don't know, I was watching Vegeta's battle with Cui." Dodoria answered. "Somehow Vegeta's power rose above 22,000!"
"You got one of those older models, here let me look." Zarbon replied. He clicked the button on his scouter, only to see a shocking result. "What?! That's impossible! This thing must be busted! There's no way Vegeta could be a powerlevel of 24,000!"
Dodoria gaped with shock. "What?! Twenty-Four thousand?! That thing is surely busted!" He replied in agreement. Zarbon stopped for a second, when an incoming transmission appeared on his scouter.
Zarbon clicked to accept it, slightly surprised to hear Frieza's voice.
"Zarbon, Dodoria, you made sure to bring Faju and Duran with you right?" Frieza asked.
"Yes My Lord. Faju and Duran each have their own team, searching for the Dragon Balls." Zarbon answered.
"How many Dragon Balls have you acquired?" Frieza said.
"Currently, Faju's team has 1 Dragon Ball, Duran's team has another Dragon ball, Dodoria and I, have a third Dragon Ball." Zarbon replied. "We are currently in the middle of securing a fourth."
"Excellent, so I am to assume everything is going well?" Frieza asked.
"Y-Yes, though it seems Vegeta has arrived as well." Zarbon replied.
"And is that a problem?" Frieza said.
"Well you see sir...a few moments ago, Vegeta's power read way over 22,000. He was stronger than Dodoria." Zarbon replied. "It also seems he's killed Cui, Lord Frieza."
"It shouldn't be a problem for you, Zarbon, should it not?" Frieza asked. "What reason do you tell me about Vegeta's current power?"
"Well, It shouldn't be possible. Vegeta has always been lower than Dodoria's powerlevel." Zarbon answered. "There must be something wrong with the scouters, so I'd like to request some new ones."
"Nonsense. There's nothing wrong with the scouters. Isn't it obvious?" Frieza said. "While you two have been sitting around, Vegeta's been constantly putting himself on the frontline. It's only expected that he's gotten stronger."
Zarbon swallowed lightly. "Of course sir." Zarbon replied. "But Dodoria's scouter had broken from reading it, so we're still one scouter short."
"I'll be sure to bring an extra scouter on my way there." Frieza said. The transmission finished, and the two lackeys of Frieza continued their mission.
"Now where were we?" Zarbon smirked. He and Dodoria turned to the remaining villagers of the village. There were a few adult Namekians, and two children. Zarbon paced around them, keeping his evil grin.
"Do you guys feel that? There's a bunch of small powerlevels dropping, not far from here!" Krillin said. He gulped, when he felt the two powerlevels that toppled the three. "And...there's two, immensely powerful energies too, and they're extremely dark."
"What do you think is going on over there?" Gohan asked.
"My guess is two guys who also work for the same guy Vegeta does." Piccolo pointed out. "Keep your energies masked as much as possible. We don't want to attract their attention." Piccolo growled in frustration, first Vegeta, and now these two. These two powerlevels, one was almost as strong as Vegeta, the other was equal to Vegeta's strength.
Piccolo was pissed, there wasn't much strategy to what they could do. Everyone here was way out of their league, and as much as Piccolo hated to admit it, they needed Goku.
"Should we check it out or something? Maybe it might give us some answers." Krillin suggested.
"No, bad idea. We don't need to reveal our location and engage in an unnecessary fight." Piccolo replied. He sighed. "It seems we might end up waiting for Goku."
"Wait for Goku? But they're dying over there! We can't wait for him!" Krillin pointed out.
"Then what the hell do you suggest we do? I doubt we can take them on." Piccolo replied.
"Maybe we don't have to. If we plan it out properly, we can at least help the villagers escape." Krillin said. "If we can pull off a long enough distraction, I can use a solar flare near the end, and we can all get out of there safely. Plus it seems like all of these guys don't know how to read energy. They won't see us coming."
"Yeah when Vegeta and Nappa were on Earth. They fell at least once or more." Gohan added.
"Fine. Keep your energies as low as possible, we'll scout the area, and you guys can follow my lead." Piccolo replied. The two fighters nodded in response.
The three fighters flew as fast as they could while keeping their power to lay on the low. Gohan and Krillin hid behind a cliff from the east, while Piccolo hid behind a hill in the south. Gohan and Krillin waited for Piccolo's signal, in the meantime Gohan watched in horror.
"You slaughter and torture our entire village, and expect us to give you a Dragon Ball?!" An adult Namekian said. He donned a purple robe, was about 6'8, and had a white scarf around his neck, like the rest.
Next to him, was another Namekian of similar size, and donned a yellow vest instead of a purple robe. In Between the two, was a shorter adult Namekian of 5'9, wearing a red vest, who kept the two children next to him closely.
"Yes, that's exactly what I expect." Zarbon said. "You don't seem to understand how this works. Give us the Dragon Ball, you walk free. Otherwise you'll die."
"Never! You won't get the Dragon Ball from us!" He said.
Zarbon sighed, and glanced at Dodoria, who glanced back. Dodoria knew exactly what that meant, a wide wicked grin appeared on his face as he looked at the purple robed Namekian. Dodoria cracked his knuckles, and loosened his right shoulder, taking several steps forward, before the purple robed Namekian's very eyes, his right cheek was collided against Dodoria's fist.
A blow so powerful that it caused the purple robed Namekian's head to twist, his jaw to crack, and his neck to click. The two adult Namekian watched in horror, covering the young ones' eyes.
"Look away children." The Namekian with the red vest said.
"I could barely see that!" Krillin whispered with a slight gasp. "These guys are no joke!"
"Yeah.." Gohan agreed.
Dodoria moved back to his original position. "Now, The Dragon Ball?" He asked.
"Regardless of what you do, we will not surrender the Dragon Ball to the wicked like you!" The Namekian with the red vest replied.
"You really want to die then, don't ya?" Dodoria smirked. Dodoria let a short chuckle escape his mouth, before charging at the Namekians. "Ahahaha! Prepare to die scum!"
Watching this made Gohan's anger boil inside him, letting his energy slip speck by speck, clenching his fists tightly, growling quietly under his breath.
"Gohan, relax, we can't reveal our location." Krillin said. "There's nothing we can do now. If we go out there, we'll get ourselves killed for nothing."
Gohan bit his lip and gulped, letting out a deep sigh. "Alright." Gohan frowned, swallowing hard.
Dodoria's knee collided against the Namekian with the purple robe's chin, sending him against a few houses of the village and into a hill. Dodoria then looked to the other Namekian, and the children with him.
A wicked idea generated in Dodoria's head. "I got a great idea, give me the Dragon Ball or I'll kill the children."
"No! Leave the children out of this! They've done nothing to you!" The red vest Namekian replied.
"Then hand over the Dragon Ball, and they'll be left alive." Dodoria said.
"No, my previou statement still stands, I will not hand over the Dragon Ball!" The Namekian with the red vest answered.
Dodoria shook his head in disappointment, and charged towards one of the children, however, a sudden energy blast stopped him.
"What the?! What was that!" Dodoria yelled. Dodoria turned his head rapidly around til he spotted the one who shot the energy blast. There he saw three other Namekians rushing after him.
One Namekian with a white cape, and white scarf, hurled his fist at Dodoria. Dodoria inched his head away, easily evading the attack. Another Namekian with a lavender colored robe launched his knee at Dodoria, but Dodoria moved back, evading swiftly. The third Namekian, that donned a yellow vest, swung his foot at Dodoria's left side, but Dodoria dodged that as well.
The three Namekians attacked Dodoria in unison, but Dodoria continued to toy with them, dodging each attack with ease. After a few moments, Dodoria eventually reached the ground, continuing to dodge them. As he touched the ground, Dodoria flipped backwards, gaining about four feet of distance.
Dodoria leaped back forward, launching his knee into the Namekian that wore a white cape's gut, and thrusting his fist into his chest immediately after. Small streams of blood poured through the hole of his chest, and his pupils faded.
The two other Namekians both hurled their fists towards Dodoria, but he ducked, evading quickly. Dodoria jumped back a couple of feet, grabbed the two Namekians and slammed each other against each other, then tossing the two to the first dead Namekian.
Dodoria unleashed a violent short torrent of energy against the ground, erupting where the three Namekians laid, obliterating them into nothing. The remaining Namekian Adult, as well as the unseen and unaware watchers gaped with shock and terror.
The horrid bloodthirst of Dodoria created quite the appalling and brutal massacre. It made Gohan's gut turn, yet his rising anger continued to overpower such a disgusted feeling. Dodoria looked back to the remaining Adult Namekian, who sighed.
"F-Fine...You can have the Dragon Ball, just please leave the children alone." The Namekian with the red vest replied. He kept his gaze down as he walked inside a Namekian Home, grabbing a three starred orange ball, however this ball was at a monstrous size. It was more than twice the size of an Earth Dragon Ball, and looked like it weighed more.
"C-Can you believe that?! That Dragon Ball it's way bigger than the ones on Earth!" Krillin said.
"Yeah, the four star ball my dad had, was nowhere near that size!" Gohan added.
Dodoria took the ball from the Adult Namekian, and examined it. "Thanks for your services, I'll be sure to take good care of this." Dodoria said. He looked at it one more time and had a thought. "Y'know, I'm just thinking, after all this trouble, it doesn't seem quite fair for you to give us the Dragon Ball now."
Dodoria turned his head to Zarbon. "Isn't that right Zarbon?! I mean after all the trouble we went through, we should at least be given a little extra something, know what I'm saying?" He smirked.
"I agree, Dodoria." Zarbon smirked. "I say we should take a little extra something!"
"W-What?! But I gave you the Dragon Ball, you promised to leave us alone!" The Namekian with the red vest gasped.
"If I recall correctly, you said for us to leave the children alone." Dodoria pointed out. "Besides, I never agreed to that."
Dodoria let out a short wicked chuckle, as the Adult Namekian looked with fright and horror. Quickly, Dodoria rammed his fist into the Namekian's gut, and then thrusted it through, creating a hole in his chest, after which Dodoria tossed him to the side.
The two children trembled in fear, they tried to run to escape, but stumbled, Dodoria managed to kill the one with the blue robe with a simple kick, however, the other one was gonna take him a few extra seconds.
"NO!" Gohan screamed. He rushed immediately down to the field, launching his foot against Dodoria's head.
"Darn it Gohan! You were supposed to wait." Krillin shouted.
"That little brat! He's supposed to wait for my signal!" Piccolo growled.
Zarbon took quick action, and darted to Gohan, but a powerful yellow energy disk passed through in front of him. Zarbon leaped back, but a small deep cut appeared on his armor. Zarbon turned his head in the direction where the disk had come from, to see who had fired shots.
"Why you!" Zarbon yelled. "What do you think you're doing interfering with Frieza Force matters!"
Zarbon rushed towards Krillin, but a beam of energy with several energy rings appeared at Zarbon mid-way. It came from Piccolo's two fingers, as he had unleashed his signature technique.
"Another Namekian?" Zarbon said. He clicked the button on his scouter, shocked to learn this one was much stronger than the rest, and smirked on how much better of a challenge this would be. "So this one's got a powerlevel of ten thousand? This'll be interesting."
Zarbon turned his attention to Piccolo, and flew after the Namekian. He rammed his knee against Piccolo, but Piccolo had managed to place his arms in front of himself, blocking the attack. It caused mild harm, and sent Piccolo midway towards the ground, luckily it was not a powerful enough blow to really deal some damage.
Dodoria got up from the ground, and growled at Gohan with anger, who now trembled in his shoes.
"You little runt! I'm gonna make you pay for that!" Dodoria yelled. He stomped rapidly his way to Gohan, but again he was kicked in the face. This time it was Krillin with his basic kaioken activated.
"You get the kid Gohan, Piccolo and I will take care of these guys, got it?" Krillin said. Gohan nodded in response.
Gohan flew over to the Namekian kid, he wore a white robe, with a red vest.
"Hang on." Gohan said as he grabbed the kid. Gohan grabbed him by his wrist, and flew off, taking him to safety.
In the meantime, Krillin and Piccolo were having a bit of a battle.
"Krillin, I'm talking to you through telepathy. I'm going to lure this lizard guy to you, once we get him and that pink fatass together, use your technique, got it?" Piccolo said.
"No, I'll lure the pink one to you. He seems to be weaker than the lizard guy, and with the Kaioken technique, I should be able to do it." Krillin answered.
"Alright, just hurry up and do it. This guy is strong, and I don't think I'll be able to handle him for long." Piccolo replied.
Zarbon rammed his fist at Piccolo's face, yet Piccolo made an afterimage of himself, barely escaping the fist. Zarbon was able to quickly spot Piccolo afterwards, flipping back several times. Zarbon chased him down as swiftly as he could.
Krillin threw a couple of more energy disks at Dodoria to stall him. Dodoria tried dodging them but he quickly learned that the disks could follow him. The disks chased Dodoria all over the place, meanwhile, Krillin gathered his energy.
"A three times Kaioken should be more than enough to lure him." Krillin thought. He tightened his fists, and bent his knees, mustering up his energy. The white ki outlined his body, his veins bulge, and his muscles pumped, as that white ki turned red then redder.
With a powerful shout, Krillin swung his arms up then down, unleashing his aura. His aura turned bright crimson, and at around the same time, Dodoria managed to destroy Krillin's disks.
"That was a little dirty trick you did there punk!" Dodoria yelled. "I'll make you pay for that!"
Dodoria charged after Krillin with intense anger, preparing to slam his fist at Krillin, however he had a bit of trouble keeping up with Krillin, no matter how fast he was, Dodoria tailed the bald monk but that was it.
"Woah! Even with a three times Kaioken he can keep up with me!" Krillin thought. He hurried to Piccolo but with Dodoria tailing him, he couldn't quite do it. "Guess I have no choice, it's only for a short time, I can recover easily afterwards...I hope"
He gathered his energy once more, the crimson red energy that outlined his body turned deep and dark but still on a crimson scale. He quickly sped up, and was at least another 20 feet away from Dodoria.
"What?! How is this pest faster than me?! That's Impossible!" Dodoria growled in thought.
Krillin curved right, and headed to Piccolo, he unleashed an energy blast aimed at Zarbon who jumped scarcely out of the way. Krillin stood next to Piccolo giving him a few sign language glances.
As Zarbon and Dodoria charged after Piccolo and Krillin, the two Earth Fighters flew back up in the sky. Krillin placed his hands by his foreheads, and closed his eyes, Piccolo closed as well.
"TAKE THIS! SOLAR FLAAAAAAREEEEE!" Krillin shouted. A powerful blinding light unleashed around everyone, Zarbon and Dodoria's eyesight was fried, their eyes in pain, both yelled in pain.
"You little dirty rat!" Zarbon yelled.
Krillin relaxed himself, de-activating the Kaioken technique, both him and Piccolo then caught up with Gohan and the other Namekian later.
To be continued…
A/N: Okay so this is a fresh note, meaning I just wrote this down before releasing the chapter, a lot of the time I make notes ahead of time for certain things but whatever. On to the point, I proofread this really quickly so if y'all notice any areas of error or improvement needed, let me know and I'll get to it.
I'm very busy today but I wanted to at least do a quick proofreading to make sure there weren't any grammar errors. Anyhow, C'ya next week!
Powerlevels:
Zarbon: ?
Vegeta: 24,000
Dodoria: 22,000
Cui: 15,000
Piccolo: 10,000
Krillin: 6,000 | Kaioken: 12,000 | Kaioken x3: 18,000 | Kaioken x4: 24,000
Gohan: 5,000
Namekians: 1,500 | 1,700 | 1,900