Reformed Saiyans

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Ginyu Force No More!

The loud rumbling became louder and louder, as Recoome broke his way through the ground of the planet. Although there was the hole that had been created when Recoome crashed in, it had quickly caved in, so Recoome made his own way out.

Recoome was about fifteen feet in the air before he stopped flying, he then dropped to the ground, making a loud stomp.

"That really hurt!" Recoome shouted. "You are really good, Earthling! Let's fight some more!"

A small stream of blood had been pouring from his head, a smaller stream around a cut by his right arm, Recoome was covered in dirt, a few bruises, and a ton of scratches, yet for the most part, he had no severe damage, and not only sounded fine but seemed pretty much fine, good, great even!

Both short fighters gulped, embracing themselves, Gohan biting his lip stood firm, resisting the fear that tried to break free. Recoome rushed after the two short fighters and they split, one going to the right, the other going to the left. Recoome was looking back and forth questioning himself on who to go after, however, he took too long, allowing the two to land a hit.

With a mighty bellow, Gohan came from the behind, and towards the left, hitting Recoome's lower back with his foot. Recoome stumbled forward a bit but he planted his left foot in the ground and kept his balance. Krillin flared his aura, and activated the basic kaioken, coming from the right, he aimed his elbow at Recoome's shoulder.

Recoome reacted swiftly, turned around, and placed his arms in front, blocking the attack, no more than being pushed back by six inches, Recoome had been unaffected by the attack.

Recoome hurled his large left fist at Krillin but he evaded, vanished, leaving an afterimage behind, only to reappear right in front of Recoome yet again. However, Krillin was near Recoome's lower body, not his upper.

Krillin pushed his hands against the ground and launched his two feet into Recoome's gut. The oxygen in Recoome's lungs were forced out, causing Recoome to gasp for air. Recoome had also coughed out several drops of blood and saliva.

Krillin had vanished a bit before that, and gained some distance while Recoome was stunned for the next short two seconds. Recoome rushed after Krillin, seeing him currently as a more valuable prey, leaving his guard off of Gohan.

Krillin sent a glance to Gohan, which Gohan instantly understood. While Recoome was focused on Krillin, Gohan took the opportunity to use a sneak attack. Gohan pulled his two hands to his waist, one on each side, and opened his hand.

He bent his knees and charged his ki. Purple energy formed itself in between Gohan's two hands, after a short moment, Gohan shoved his hands forward, and from the small sphere in between his hands, unleashed one bigger energy in front of his hands.

"MONDAY BLITZ!" Gohan yelled. He pulled his right hand back and threw it forward, balling it up. The giant purple energy sphere split itself into dozens of smaller energy blasts, and they were sent forward to Recoome.

At the sound of Gohan's voice, Recoome had turned around in slight confusion, with little time to react, Recoome placed his two arms in front of him and prepared to block the attack, but the winds combined with blasts that hit, were still strong enough to knock Recoome off balance.

Whatever blasts had missed, rehomed themselves back to Recoome, who was now on the ground, with an energy barrier outlining his body. Once the smoke had cleared, Recoome jumped up immediately, with no damage.

"Not bad! Not bad!" Recoome shouted.

"T-That did nothing?!" Gohan gasped. He gulped, and kept a straight face, embracing for him what might come next. As he suspected, Recoome decided to come after him, and Recoome was fast, superbly fast.

When Gohan leaped back, trying to escape Recoome, Recoome had easily caught up. Obviously, toying with the halfbreed, after all Recoome should've been able to not only match Gohan's exact speed but tremendously faster than the boy like a piece of cake. Recoome jumped at Gohan, trying to slam his fast, but the halfbreed avoided scarcely.

Gohan caught the ground with his hands, and bounced off of it. He flipped and spun forward, before rebalancing himself on the ground, and immediately continuing to run afterwards. Recoome continued to chase him, then a thought occurred to Recoome, he stopped for a second, and slammed his two massive fists against the ground.

The ground shook, then cracked and quaked. It rose higher, higher, and higher as it reached closer and closer to Gohan. Gohan took a glance back, and let a short scream escape him, as it struck him. The uprisen ground had knocked Gohan over thirty feet across the land, and into the water.

"It appears, I have forgotten something very crucial…" Guru said. Dende and Nail moved their attention to the Grand Elder. "I forgot to give our allies the password to the Dragon Balls…" Guru looked over to Dende.

"I'm sorry to ask you of this, but Dende, could you send them the password to our allies for me?" Guru asked.

"Of course Grand Elder!" Dende replied. He took a few steps running forward before Guru had stopped him.

"Wait Dende. Before you go…" Guru said. He motioned for Dende to come forward. Dende turned around and moved closer to Guru. "I'd like to give you a gift."

Dende walked closer to Guru, til he was next to the Grand Elder, and Guru placed his hand on Dende's head. A gentle flame aura appeared around the young namekian before turning into a roaring rising ki.

Dende's jaw opened in shock as he felt his energy skyrocket, and new powers had been bestowed to him.

"W-Woah!" Dende uttered. He turned to Grand Elder and gave him a respectful bow. "T-Thank you Grand Elder!"

"It is no problem, you have earned it, young one." Guru replied. "With this power, you should be able to get there a lot faster than before, and your new healing capabilities should help our allies." Guru paused for a second to catch his breath. "Now please hurry along."

Dende nodded in response.

Recoome raised his fists in joy. "Haha! Take that!" He shouted.

"Recoome! Careful! We were trying to save that toy for Frieza!" Jeice yelled, crossing his arms.

"Yea don't ya remember!?" Burter added.

Recoome looked back to his two comrades. "Oh right! Sorry!" He replied. Suddenly a sharp energy disk made its way to Recoome, and the brute had barely avoided it, leaving a deep cut around the center of his chest.

Recoome whipped his head swiftly in the direction the ki disk was shot, to reveal who had thrown the disk, which of course was Krillin, who also had another Destructo Disk prepared in his hand.

"Double Destructo Disk!" Krillin yelled. He threw the second one at Recoome, but this time Recoome dodged with ease, Recoome smirked at Krillin, but then shot a confused look when Krillin had smirked back.

Krillin had both of his index fingers lifted, and pulled his hands back, making Recoome look with profound confusion.

"RECOOME LOOK OUT!" Jeice shouted. The Red Magma of the Ginyu Force like his other comrade, Burter, who was right next to him, both had noticed and realized quickly what Krillin was doing. "BEHIND YOU!"

Recoome jumped up and turned around to see the two disks of energy pass through where he was once standing. Once Recoome had landed his back was turned to Krillin yet again.

"Krillin! It's ready!" Piccolo yelled. He pulled his two fingers from his forehead, and Krillin nodded in response. Recoome's attention was shortly turned to Piccolo, before he turned it to Krillin when his voice echoed.

"SOLAR FLARE!" Krillin yelled. Recoome had looked directly in the bright light that Krillin omitted, Gohan, Piccolo, and Vegeta had covered their eyes, but Jeice and Burter suffered the same fate as Recoome. "SHINE BRIGHTER!"

The white light grew and went deep into their eyes. A few seconds later the light was gone, the Ginyus' vision as well was gone, temporarily though.

"NOW PICCOLO!" Krillin shouted.

Piccolo took his index and middle right hand fingers, creating a wide energy circle in front of him, then he pulled his hand to his forehead, an intense energy spark and surrounded his two fingers. The energy circle had locked itself on Recoome, who was groaning painfully from the previous solar flare.

"Dirty Bastards!" Jeice yelled. He stumbled around as his eyes suffered in pain, he and Burter as well had their hands covering their eyes.

Piccolo sent his two fingers forward through the energy circle, and erupting from those two fingers came an immense energy beam, which had the energy circle spiral around the beam. In an instant, at the same time Recoome's vision had returned, the beam struck through Recoome's gut, creating a gaping and giant hole in his gut.

Recoome fell to his knees, as life was forced out of him, and the blood from the newly created hole gut poured out, staining the grass beneath him. Gohan looked away, his stomach churned at the sight, the stench became foul, but the young halfbreed resisted his nausea.

Not even a couple of seconds later, Recoome fell in the same puddle of blood that was absorbed into the grass, quickly becoming dry. It was clear that Recoome had been finished, done, nothing remained except a hollow shell.

That attack had nearly exhausted all of Piccolo's reserves, leaving little to defend himself, Krillin had been wiped thanks to his Kaioken times four attack, and Vegeta was brutally injured from the fight previously.

The only one that was still capable of fighting was Gohan who wasn't as far as injured as the rest. However, for a moment, a simple moment, Burter and Jeice were still blinded, it had bought the group a full ten minutes of resting and planning.

It wasn't much, but it was enough. Once regrouped, they began to strategize, or at least try, Vegeta had laid up against a rock, while he talked with the others.

"I can still fight…" Vegeta said. He then growled under his breath, forcing the next words to come from his mouth. "But I'll still need all of your help."

"I'll do what I can, that Kaioken times four attack took a lot out of me, I'm not sure how much longer I can stall." Krillin said. He looked over to the other two real quick and back. "But it looks like they're still blinded by the Solar Flare, so it looks like I bought us some time."

"You should've done that solar flare a little sooner." Piccolo pointed out. "If you had, perhaps we'd all be in more fighting shape."

Krillin shook his head. "No. I couldn't. I needed to time it right to get a full effect on them." Krillin replied. "Because I timed it so perfectly on Recoome, he had just looked at it as soon as I created the flash, that way he couldn't look away so when I increased its intensity, it increased the effect." Krillin paused and thought for a moment, then he looked up to the group after he was done. "I think his Vision was actually returning right before he died."

Gohan and Piccolo both looked shocked. Vegeta was a little surprised, but he had expected as much.

"W-What?! He was actually able to resist that!?" Gohan gasped. Krillin nodded in response. Gohan then looked over to Piccolo and continued. "I guess It's a good thing you were able to fire your blast then huh?"

"Yeah. I guess." Piccolo said. "We got two down but still three to go, and we don't even know how we're going to beat them. So we need to strategize again."

"Jeice and Burter are likely to come after us together now. Which is bad.. obviously" Vegeta said. "With Recoome gone, and us still here. The two won't take any chances, especially with Captain Ginyu absent." Vegeta paused, and sat up. "You'll need to separate them. Limit Burter's mobility, and get creative against Jeice. The only dangerous thing about Jeice is his raw power, and Crusher Ball. If you can find a way to defend against that, you should be good."

Vegeta then stood up, and looked to Piccolo. "Can you do that beam of yours again?"

"Err...Not as powerful as that one, but I can do it again, at least try." Piccolo answered. "Why?"

"Use that technique of yours and create a cage with it against Burter. If you can manage to find the opportunity to do that…" Vegeta said. "Don't. Hesitate."

Piccolo nodded. "I'll see what I can do."

Vegeta then turned to Krillin. "That disk attack of yours. Can you still do it?" Vegeta asked. Krillin nodded. "Okay, can you do a barrage of it?" Krillin nodded again. "Good. If you can find a way to shoot hundreds of those, even if they're small, they just need to be sharp, Burter won't risk moving around through that unless he absolutely knows he can come out unscathed."

Vegeta then turned to Gohan. "You're going to help me fight Jeice." Vegeta said. "With these wounds, I can't risk fighting alone. Even if it kills me to say it, I need to fight with a team. But you better listen to what I say, got it?!"

Gohan nodded quickly in response.

"Perfect." Vegeta said. "Now we wait for those two to regain eyesight."

Gohan then raised a hand.

"What?" Vegeta said.

"Wouldn't it be better to strike them while they're stunned?" Gohan asked.

Vegeta shook his head. "No. Unlike Recoome, those two have sharp enough senses, they can feel something or someone within a ten foot radius of themselves." Vegeta answered. "Ten feet would be all they need to dodge or block the attack. Although they wouldn't know what's hitting them, it'd still be easier to gain whatever energy we can back to strike them later."

"Grand Elder, I sense a wicked and powerful energy heading this way. It should be here any moment." Nail reported.

"Yes I do feel it as well." Guru replied. "Such a monstrous energy, full of bloodthirst."

"Don't worry Grand Elder, I'll protect you." Nail said. "I won't let this person who's responsible for so many of our brothers' deaths get away."

"I know you wouldn't, but I have a different plan for you." Guru said. Nail looked at Guru with a shocked face.

"B-But Grand Elder! I c-"

"Nail, I need you to listen to me, and please do not protest against me." Guru interrupted. "Our allies are in grave danger, although they've had a couple of victorious battles, they have yet to win the war. Their energies are beginning to fade, but the enemies' energies run rampant. Please do as I ask, and hurry yourself to them."

"But Sir! I cannot leave you here. Without you, the Dragon Balls will cease to exist!" Nail replied. "It would defeat the whole purpose of why we entrusted the Dragon Balls to them in the first place!"

"I know, but trust me, I'll take care of it." Guru said.

"Sir please! Let me defend you, it is my duty to pr-" Once again, Nail was interrupted.

"No. My words are final." Guru said.

Nail sighed in defeat, and obeyed his commands. "Alright Grand Elder, I'll do as you ask."

"Then please come to me before you leave." Guru replied.

"Erm.. Sir I know what you're doing, but it won't work. I've already had my potential tapped before." Nail pointed out. "I'm as strong as I can be!"

"Your potential has been tapped before, that is true...but.." Guru paused. He coughed a couple of times then continued. "Despite that, you can always get stronger. There is only a limit to strength if you believe there is a limit. You are the protector of our people, and therefore the strongest of Planet Namek has to offer. You hold one of the most latent potentials here."

Once again Guru motioned for him to come closer, and Nail obeyed. Guru placed his hand on top of Nail, and after a moment, the same process done three times earlier, had repeated itself on Nail.

Nail was certainly surprised but too focused on his objective to even show it, he gave his thanks to the Grand Elder, and flew away from the palace, averting the direction in which Frieza had come his way.

Only a short hour away from Namek, Goku, Raditz, and Yamcha had lounged around the ship til it was time. Raditz in particular stared at the tattered red bandanna he held in his hand. It was very dusty, and looked as if it could easily be destroyed with not much effort.

"Hey what's that Raditz?" Goku asked as he walked by his older brother.

"This? It's our Father's Bandana." Raditz answered. "Or what's left of it anyways."

"Oh…" Goku said. "Wait didn't you say that Planet Vegeta was completely obliterated? And our Father along with it?" Raditz nodded in response. "Then how'd you find that?"

"When we had returned to our Planet, years later, It was floating with the rubble that was once the Planet Vegeta." Raditz replied. "I'm surprised It hadn't just fallen to shreds, but it somehow survived. I don't really know why I took it with me, I just did." Raditz averted his gaze from the Bandanna for the moment, and into space.

"This Bandana is a symbol. It's a bit of a Saiyan tradition, usually it's a token of mastery for when a Saiyan child becomes a fighter, it can mean many things. For example, wearing it around your left wrist means a token of bonding, when a Male weds his mate. Wearing it around your leg means you've been given the highest of honors by the King, it's kinda like a purple heart in a sense." Raditz continued.

"Then what about Gohan? You gave him a white bandana and he wears it on his head." Goku asked, with his head tilted.

"Well that specifically, is simply the token of mastery I gave to him for becoming a fighter, but if it were red, that would imply it was covered in blood." Raditz answered.

Goku lifted a brow. "Covered in Blood?"

Raditz nodded. "Yes. That usually gives it significant meaning, when the Bandana is red, or covered in blood, it's usually covered in the loved ones you lost, friends, family, even your masters' blood. In short, it's a saying or a reminder, that you'll wear in their honor, and until the day they are avenged, you will not let it lay rest." Raditz explained. "Wearing one on the head usually implies friends, students, or masters. Wearing it on your wrist, would imply something a little more significant, such as a spouse, sons or daughters, or someone who was a child to you."

Goku looked a little bit surprised as he sat down. "Wow, and I thought you guys were all evil or something." He said. "But I guess there's more to it after all…"

"Tch! I never said we actually follow it." Raditz replied. "Most of us don't really get sentimental over stupid crap like that! Don't take us for some weak-minded fools!"

Goku tilted his head again. "Then why did you keep Dad's bandana?"

Raditz moved his gaze away from Goku. "Beca-...Well-...You kn-..." He paused and growled under his breath. "I just did! It has nothing to do with some stupid sentimentality!" Raditz crossed his arms, and kept his eyes closed, hoping Goku would buy it...except that's not what happened.

"Riiigggghhht!" Goku said sarcastically. "Hah I knew it!"

Raditz gave a very confused look. "Knew what?" He growled. He was anticipating for Goku to say something embarrassing after his sarcasm.

"You actually do care!" Goku said, with his signature smile and chuckle.

"I never said that at all! Nor implied it!" Raditz yelled. However his words did not reach Goku's ears, as Goku continued to tease him about. Raditz opened his mouth to protest but then paused and turned away, rolling his eyes and scoffing as he walked away.

Raditz turned around and returned to the pilot's dashboard, while Goku busted up laughing.

As Frieza reached the grounds which Guru's palace had laid on, he pressed his scouter once more. Seeing one old lifeform nearby, he looked a bit surprised.

"Hmm, I recall there being two lifeforms here, perhaps I was mistaken?" Frieza said to himself. He shook his head. "No this be not the case, perhaps the other one fled? I wonder why."

Frieza hovered off of his vehicle, and entered the building. He looked around seeing nothing but an empty room, then he looked up seeing the hole above him. Frieza floated up through the hole, and there he saw the Grand Elder.

Frieza slightly widened his eyes at the size of him. "Pardon the intrusion, but perhaps are you the proprietor of this home?"

"Yes I am, and who may I ask you are?" Guru asked.

Frieza gave a quick respectful bow and continued. "I am Lord Frieza, ruler of the Galaxy. I came here on a mission to secure your lovely Dragon Balls, and It appears I have missed crucial information." Frieza answered. "Perhaps you might have the information I require?"

"I am Grand Elder Guru, the creator of the Dragon Balls, but if you wish to be granted this information you must know the history of them, what purpose they were created for, and the history of our people." Guru replied. He paused for a moment to catch his breath as he coughed a few times mid-sentence.

"I hate to be a killjoy but I am quite in a hurry, and only have so much time, perhaps you could tell me another time and give the information I dearly require?" Frieza asked.

"Forgive me, but it is tradition that I must tell you." Guru answered. "I cannot give what you ask unless you listen to my stories."

Frieza sighed and had hoped maybe it wouldn't have been too long. "Very well, you may proceed." He said. If it had given him what he wanted, perhaps a little waiting wouldn't kill him?

Guru told him many things of his knowledge, the great and grand history of where his people's creation started, their legends, as well as several foretold prophecies, amongst which had also plenty of history of the Dragon Balls.

He had even told Frieza about his connection to the Dragon Balls, informing him that if he dies, the Dragon Balls would go as well.

"B-Burter I think my eyesight is returning!" Jeice shouted.

"It is!? Can you see those bastards?! Are they still there? And what about Recoome?" Burter asked.

Jeice looked around his vision was still blurry, he saw the four fighters across from them, Jeice turned to Burter, whispering quietly.

"Yeah, that's strange they're still there. They never left." Jeice whispered.

Burter gave Jeice a very confused look. "They never left?" He replied. "But they had the perfect chance to escape! That doesn't even make sense!"

"Perhaps Vegeta forced them to not leave? I mean he wouldn't go for such cowardice." Jeice pointed out.

Burter nodded. "I agree-.. I can see!" He said. "Er...Mostly...Wait.. where's Recoome?"

Jeice gave a shrug, once more the two fighters looked around, eventually they saw Recoome, lying on the ground. Their eyes had broadened widely in shock.

"N-No! That can't be right!" Jeice shouted. He and Burter both ran to the corpse that is Recoome, and saw the giant hole from his gut. Burter and Jeice had looked with extreme horror, and then intense rage. "Those Bastards!"

"T-They killed Recoome!" Burter added. "How did they kill Recoome! We're the most elite fighting team in the Universe! And they took down both Guldo and Recoome!?"

Burter clenched his right fist, and growled through his teeth. "Those bastards will pay dearly!"

"You got that right!" Jeice said. "We'll show them our Purple Comet Hurricane!"

Jeice and Burter stood up, facing the four fighters.

"Uh oh!" Gohan shouted. "I think they're mad!"

"Remember the plan! DO NOT drop your guard!" Vegeta shouted.

The four fighters took their stances, waiting for the two to attack.

To be continued…

A/N: Proofread it somewhat, made some changes, I noticed that I could've made the Kaioken times four strain seem a little more….severe, but it's already been written into the story that Krillin is at 15,000. It doesn't seem too op, but still I could've made things look more dire.

Jeice: ?

Burter: ?

Recoome: 55,000

Piccolo: 30,000 | (Special Beam Cannon): 60,000 | (Exhausted): 14,000 | (Shortly Rested): 25,000

Gohan: 21,000

Krillin: 19,000 | (Strained/Weakened): 11,000 | (Shortly Rested): 15,000

Vegeta (Weakend): 15,000 | (Shortly Rested): 24,000