Reformed Saiyans
Chapter Thirty: The Fruits of Hard Work
Jeice and Burter dashed around the four other fighters, back and forth, causing their blue and red energies to meld together turning purple.
"W-What are they doing?!" Krillin shouted. He and the three others followed the movements of Jeice and Burter, but just like the others he could barely keep up.
"It's their Purple Comet Attack! Restrict their Mobility now!" Vegeta yelled. Krillin and Piccolo nodded in response.
Piccolo gathered his energy to the tip of his two fingers and his forehead. Krillin created two small sized Destructo Disks above the palm of his hands. The two waited for the moment to strike, and as Krillin started to throw his attack, Burter came in spinning around with one foot out.
He moved so fast Krillin was unable to react, his powerful foot kicked Krillin's right cheek, sending the bald monk across the ground. Piccolo tried to fire a cheap version of his Special Beam Cannon at Burter, but missed, and only slightly unbalanced, Burter.
Burter was able to quickly rebalance himself, by doing a couple of flips, then curving back around dashing immediately back. Instantly after, Burter had struck Piccolo's face with his fist, and Jeice had kneed Vegeta in the gut.
Within a matter of a few seconds, Gohan was left standing for that mere moment. The young halfbreed had frozen for a moment, not knowing what to do, his mind raced, as he waited to protect himself from the next attack.
The only thing Gohan could see was a glimpse of both fighters' wicked smirks, as they launched a series of powerful hits to Gohan. Jeice launched his fist against Gohan's jaw, which sent Gohan several feet upward, Burter came from above, and kicked Gohan's head like a soccer ball.
Gohan plummeted towards the ground, and Jeice rushed after him, kicking Gohan in the gut, sending Gohan into the ground.
"D-Damn It! Gohan!" Krillin shouted. He pushed himself off the ground, released his basic Kaioken, and charged after Jeice. "I hope this doesn't kill me!"
Krillin hurled his fist at Jeice's head, while being a bit above the Red Magma. Jeice ducked and lifted his foot against Krillin's chest mightily. Krillin spun rapidly up in the air before falling to the ground, generating a crater beneath him. He could hear a slight crack from the right side of his chest, and the lower part of his back.
"Aghck!" Krillin screamed. He tried to lift himself off, but the intense pain caused him to go briefly unconscious.
In the meantime, Vegeta and Piccolo had both stood up once more. Vegeta charged after Jeice, throwing any punches or kicks he could try to land at the Red Magma, but all were dodged by the smug-faced Jeice.
"Is that the best ya got Vegeta?!" Jeice asked mockingly. "You looked better when you were fighting Recoome! Ahahahahahaha!"
Vegeta growled through his teeth viciously. "Shut up!" He yelled. Vegeta placed his feet firmly on the ground and pulled his left foot back. He aimed his foot towards Jeice's heel, and Jeice had already reacted quickly, lifting his foot out of the way, however, Vegeta changed his direction, and aimed against Jeice's waist.
Jeice nearly stumbled, having his back lean backwards, and having to place his right foot back down to keep him from falling. The attack hadn't dealt much damage nor pain to him, though it certainly caused him imbalance.
"You jerk!" Jeice snarled. He pulled his fist back and hurled it against Vegeta's jaw. A loud shockwave echoed on impact, and Vegeta's jaw snapped, the Prince was sent across the land, before crashing into the ground.
Vegeta's impact created a small circular crater, as well as a decently sized crack that ran for about twenty feet. Vegeta could only utter a groan before passing back out.
At around the same time, Piccolo had shot several cheap Special Beam Cannons at Burter but each one had missed...or at least that's what Burter was thinking.
"If you keep firing those you're gonna end up exhausted before I even strike ya!" Burter taunted. "Or is that all you can do?"
Piccolo ignored his taunting comment, and continued to fire more Special Beam Cannons, while Burter continued to circle the area. After a moment, Burter stopped, and Piccolo as well.
Burter was a little bit winded, yet mostly energized and still ready for fighting. "You gonna do anything else besides shoot little teeny cannons at me?!"
A wide smirk expressed on Piccolo's face, which made Burter feel dumbfounded.
"The Hell does the fool think he gets to sm-." Burter screamed in incredible pain, cutting his thoughts off, as he raised now hand and wristless right arm. His jaw hanged, and only quiet groans escaped his mouth.
Around Burter, were dozens, and dozens of Special Beam Cannons in static motion. The energy cannons were all in the same circle, Burter had been dashing around Piccolo, now trapping Burter in a cage of energy.
"M-M-My H-Hand! Y-You obliterated my hand! AND M-MY W-WRIST!" Burter hissed. He clenched his left fist, growled furiously, and concentrated energy from his left hand to his right arm. The energy surrounded and burned the revealed flesh where his hand and wrist once laid.
The once gorey image of blood pouring from his arm was now gone, due to Burter cauterizing his hand.
"That's what you get for underestimating me!" Piccolo snarled. "I don't give a shit how powerful you think you are! You're full of yourself if you think you can win with raw speed!"
"You son of a…" Burter said. He tore a piece of his pants off and wrapped it around his missing wrist and hand. "BITCH!"
Burter stretched his arms and legs out, unleashing a massive amount of energy, causing a huge explosion on collision with Piccolo's Special Beam Cage. It caused an effect where each explosion triggered any other energy cannons to explode on contact, also increasing the explosion size.
Piccolo reacted quickly and created an energy barrier around him to protect himself. A moment later, the smoke had slowly dissipated, Piccolo darted his eyes around as he felt Burter's energy, it was moving rapidly going from one spot to the next.
This time, it was not moving in a circle, rather it was completely random. Before Piccolo could react, a powerful kick landed in his chest, knocking him against the ground. Several energy blasts were thrown at Piccolo, but the Namekian forced his body to roll away, scarcely avoiding each blast.
Immediately after Piccolo pushed himself off the ground, and bounced up. He fired an energy blast at Burter's location, but the blast had easily missed, and a strike to Piccolo's gut was sent immediately after.
Oxygen was pushed out from Piccolo, as well as some saliva. Then Burter gripped Piccolo's right wrist and sliced it off with a sharp energy cut.
"You took my wrist! NOW I'LL TAKE YOURS!" Burter hissed.
Piccolo screamed in agony, the sharp and intense pain in his hand caused his focus to go elsewhere and although he could regenerate it, finding the time to do so would be a bit of a problem. A bit sad for Burter, he'd permanently lost his wrist, and Piccolo could simply regenerate, but then again it was Burter's fault for attacking them.
Burter had continued to land more punches and kicks against Piccolo before the Namekian could do anything else. A powerful punch against Piccolo's jaw, a couple of jabs against his chest, a powerful kick against Piccolo's back, and another powerful slam into Piccolo's gut. Piccolo was left for a moment, struggling for air, clutching his stomach, he fell to his knees no longer able to stand.
"Now what're you going to do? You're all out of energy!" Burter laughed. "And you only have one hand as well!"
Piccolo panted heavily and remained silent for a moment, then once again Piccolo smirked. With a mighty roar, he regenerated his wrist and hand, despite it taking quite a bit of energy from Piccolo.
Burter's reaction was a mix of shock and anger, which turned into pure rage and jealousy.
"WHAT?!" Burter screamed. "THAT'S SO NOT FAIR! YOU CAN REGENERATE YOUR LIMBS!"
Piccolo laughed in response, and Burter unleashed a powerful torrent of energy against Piccolo afterwards. Piccolo was too exhausted to dodge it, so the blast had landed directly against Piccolo.
Gohan pushed himself back up off the ground, darting his eyes to reassess the current situation. He saw Vegeta knocked out, and Krillin charging after Jeice, using what seemed to be a three times Kaioken.
Krillin had prepared to hurl his fist, but Jeice dodged, and countered immediately. Jeice struck a mighty blow into Krillin's gut, then grabbed his arm and swung him against the ground.
"MR KRILLIN!" Gohan shouted. Anger filled the boy, as he darted to Jeice. Gohan swung his foot, but Jeice blocked it. Gohan slammed his two fists together at Jeice's head, but Jeice blocked again. Gohan threw a fist to Jeice's right cheek, blocked, Gohan threw a fist to Jeice's left side of his chest, blocked, Gohan threw several more attacks but each were blocked.
"Hey! I got a great idea!" Jeice said while blocking Gohan's attacks. "Whaddya say, I grab you like this!" Jeice caught Gohan's next fist, and then his other fist with the same hand. Jeice put his left hand on Gohan's head, and kept Gohan's eyelid from closing other than to blink. "And!"
Jeice's tone suddenly became deeper, darker, and evil, psychotic even. "I let you watch your friend die!" Jeice said, laughing. "After all it's only fair for the trouble you've caused us."
Gohan's eyes widened and his stomach turned. "N-NO!" He yelled. Gohan tried to struggle, to resist, but he couldn't move.
"Burter!" Jeice shouted. Burter ran quickly over, as an instant response.
"Yes, Jeice?" Burter asked. Jeice nodded to Krillin, and motioned for him to kill Krillin. "Oh, I see.." Burter was already able to see what Jeice had in mind, and picked up Krillin. "Although, I think I'll do it slower, more painful." A wicked grin appeared across Burter's face, as well as an evil cackle from his mouth.
"Great Idea Burter! Give the runt a little horror to life!" Jeice replied. "It'll give him character!"
"No, leave him alone!" Gohan snarled. Gohan tried to slip his way out but Jeice tightened his grip, and Gohan couldn't move again. "Please!" Tears swelled in the halfbreed's eyes.
Burter grabbed the defenseless Krillin, and slowly, painfully, twisted his wrist. All Krillin could utter was an agonized scream.
"Come on now! Don't you want to help your friend!" Burter chuckled.
Gohan swallowed hard and bit his lip. "Please! Leave Him alone!" He begged.
However, this only made Burter do the opposite, he snapped Krillin's left wrist, and then broke Krillin's back with his knee. A short scream could only escape Krillin because the sharp pain caused him to instantly go back unconscious.
Burter frowned at Krillin. "What?! Done already?!" Burter said. "I thought you had more fight left in you! If you wanna stay alive, you're gonna have to fight back!"
Jeice and Burter laughed loudly and evilly.
"Krillin! No! Please Wake UP! PLEASE!" Gohan begged in his thoughts, the tears forming down his cheeks.
Yet nothing had worked, Gohan couldn't break free, and Krillin was about to die. Burter picked up Krillin's limp body, and placed a finger near his jaw.
"I'll give ya ten seconds before I blow his brains out." Burter said. "One…"
Gohan tried to struggle, but again his movement was fully restricted and he couldn't do anything. "Stop!" Gohan shouted. No response.
"Two.." Burter said. A grin so wicked that just by looking at you could easily be traumatized appeared across Burter's face. "Three…"
Gohan's anger bubbled inside. "Stop It!" Gohan yelled. "Let Mr Krillin Go!"
"Four…" Burter continued. He shook his head in disappointment. "Five… Come on! He's gonna die! Ya gotta come save him! Six…."
"LET HIM GO!" Gohan's rage built and built, his energy began to rise.
"Seven…..Eight…" Burter said.
Gohan gritted his teeth in anger, and clenched his fists. Furious Rage broke through, and Gohan's energy dramatically skyrocketed. "I SAID STOP!" Gohan screamed. Tears poured down his face, and Gohan broke free from Jeice's grip as Burter had uttered nine.
Gohan rushed after Burter, and slammed his foot into Burter's head, releasing his grip from Krillin.
"I SAID LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Gohan screamed. His aura violently flared around him, and the ground beneath his feet trembled. Gohan stretched his right arm out, and placed his left hand around his right wrist. A smooth purple energy sphere generated in front of Gohan's hand.
"SHINING FRIDAY!" Gohan yelled.
The smooth purple energy ball changed into a current of energy that violently sped it's way to Burter. It collided with Burter's head, and then when Gohan fully unleashed his energy, the wave of ki grew to an exponential side, covering Burter's full body.
The wave took Burter with itself as it flew miles away before turning into a mass explosion. Gohan panted heavily from exhaustion before falling to his knees.
Gohan let a short smile of victory appear on his face. "I did it!" He thought. However, his vision became somewhat blurry from the lack of energy, as he started to fade in unconsciousness, and Gohan was willing to let himself go unconscious at least, before he had felt an energy come up from behind him.
"You little runt…" Jeice said. He clenched his fist, and grabbed Gohan by the neck of his armor with his other hand. "First Guldo, then Recoome, and now Burter?!" He slammed his fist several times into Gohan's left cheek, and Gohan was helpless to stop him. "The hell am I gonna tell Ginyu?! What the hell am I going to tell Frieza?! HUH?!"
Jeice kneed Gohan in the gut, and then rammed his fist against Gohan's jaw while keeping a grip. "You should consider yourself lucky!" Jeice said. "If it weren't for the fact that we were giving you to Frieza as a gift, I'd kill you right here and now! But noooope! You get a free pass, and I have to assure you that you're in tip top shape!"
Jeice pulled his fist back, surrounded it in energy, and launched it yet again at Gohan's cheek. Jeice growled as he stared at the battlefield of the other fighters, and then back to Gohan.
"All of you bastards!" Jeice yelled. "Every last one of you! Will pay dearly! Oh no! None of you are dying today! Each one of you will get a proper sentence when the time is right, but until then, you're all coming with me alive!"
Jeice's eyes passed by Vegeta and then he continued. "Well...Most of you.." He said. "Vegeta has a place in Frieza's Torture Chamber. The rest of you will come to our torture chamber! And if Burter somehow is alive! Then it'll only be worse for all of you!"
Gohan tried to utter a growl, but he was far too weak, rather instead, he spat at the Red-Magma's face. Jeice lowered his jaw in shock, then growled.
"You little shit!" Jeice yelled. He grabbed Gohan's leg, and aimed to swing the young boy into the ground as he hovered quickly high in the air, however something prevented him from moving his arm… It was another hand! Jeice's eyes followed the arm, until he saw who it belonged to.
The owner of which, was not anyone Jeice really recognized, at least completely, Jeice could tell easily that he was a Saiyan, although not wearing typical Saiyan battlegear. Rather he was in an Orange and Blue Gi, as well as Blue and Red boots.
"Who are you?" Jeice said.
"Let my Son go!" The Saiyan replied.
Gohan managed to peak his eye open, seeing his Dad floating there. "D-Daddy!" Gohan said.
Jeice remained silent for a second, something about this Saiyan was...odd. He shook his head and snapped into reality.
"Who do you think you are to demand me like that!" Jeice yelled.
"I'm his Father! Now let him go!" Goku replied, pointing to Gohan.
Jeice took a few glances from Gohan to Goku, and quickly saw the resemblance. "He's your Son? Then perhaps you should teach him some manners!" Jeice said. He lifted his hand, and aimed to throw Gohan towards the ground, yet again something restricted his movement. It was Goku again, and not even a millisecond after, Jeice felt the oxygen in his lungs be forced out of him.
A blow so powerful, it easily knocked Jeice out, causing him to instantly fall to the ground, and his grip to release...although there was nothing in his grip anymore, as Goku had already grabbed his son from Jeice right before that.
Goku put a senzu bean in Gohan's mouth. "I hope you can hear me, but try to eat Gohan." Goku said as he lowered to the ground.
Unconsciously, Gohan managed to chew the bean, with a loud crunch echoing from his mouth. He slowly opened his eyes to see his father once more.
"Dad!" Gohan said, his face full of joy, giving his father a quick hug.
Goku glanced around for a second, a serious face expressed on his face. "I guess a lot while we were gone huh?" He asked.
Gohan nodded. "Y-Yeah! They're so strong! Even Vegeta could struggle to beat them without our help." Gohan gulped. "A-And...Krillin he.." Gohan paused, tears swelling in his eyes, but stopped and looked at his Dad when he placed a hand on his head.
"Hey..Don't worry about it, he's fine, I can sense his energy. It's vague but it's there." Goku said, reassuringly. "Now if you could hold still a bit, I wanna try something." Gohan eyed Goku with much confusion.
Goku closed his eyes, several different images flowed in his mind from Gohan's mind, it all seemed to be memories of Gohan. After a moment, Goku had caught up to current events.
"Okay I see…" Goku said. "You did pretty great there Gohan! Saving Krillin like that! And oh man Krillin's Destructo Shield! That was so cool!"
Gohan looked at his father with surprise. "You saw that?! B-But how!?" Gohan asked.
"Uh..I'm not quite sure." Goku scratched his chin and let out a short chuckle. "I sort of read your mind."
Gohan looked with even more surprise. "Woah! That's so cool!" Gohan replied. Gohan then paused for a second, and glanced around. "Wait where's Uncle Raditz and Mis-.." He paused again seeing the two already taking care of the other fighters. "Oh…"
Yamcha had handed Krillin a Senzu Bean, and the bald monk was instantly restored.
"Alright! Man I never get tired of those things!" Krillin shouted. He jumped for joy, and stretched his limbs out. Then he noticed something felt off. "Hmm, that's strange, I feel great, but still kinda winded…"
Krillin scratched the top of his head, and blinked a few times. He didn't quite feel right, almost still exhausted.
"You okay there Krillin?" Yamcha asked.
"Y-Yea...I just, it's weird, I can't put my finger on it, but my energy doesn't feel normal." Krillin answered. "Ever since I used the times four Kaioken a second time, it kinda burned me, but not physically. I'm not sure how to explain it."
"Oh yeah that happened to me a few times as well when I was training the way here." Yamcha said. "If I recall correctly, I think King Kai told me that even if we can heal the physical and mental strain, the spiritual strain cannot be so easily healed."
"Then I guess I should avoid using the Kaioken for a while huh?" Krillin asked.
"Yea, probably." Yamcha answered. "That's fine though, I think we can handle the rest from here."
Krillin shook his head. "No! You can't...You don't understand, these guys…" Krillin paused. "They're unbelievably strong! It took me a full times four Kaioken attack to actually deal damage! Even then it only dealt so much! It took everything we had and more!"
"Relax Krillin, trust me! What do you think we've been training for?" Yamcha replied.
"Yamcha, no amount of training can help." Krillin pointed out.
"We thought that when we fought the Saiyans, but found out we were wrong." Yamcha said. "You know how King Kai's planet was ten times the gravity that of the Earth?" Krilln nodded in response. "Well uh, the ship we came in had a gravity magnifier, and we went all the way up to one hundred times…"
Krillin dropped his jaw. "O-O-One hundred times?!" He shouted. "How were you not crushed?!"
Yamcha shrugged. "I'm not really sure." He replied.
"I mean...Goku's a Saiyan! So at least he's a different race...but you? You're a human, just like me! You should've been crushed." Krillin pointed out.
"Yea...might uh, be due to that Fruit of Might I ate." Yamcha said. Krillin raised an eyebrow in confusion.
While Yamcha quickly explained to Krillin about Turles' Arrival on Earth. Raditz had helped out Piccolo, and begrudgingly Vegeta.
"Those damned beans, can't ever seem to stop surprising me." Piccolo said as he cracked his knuckles and neck, also stretching his limbs afterwards. "Thanks for the bean." Piccolo paused and looked over to Vegeta. "But you might wanna go help the Prince." Piccolo rolled his eyes, while mockingly saying "the Prince".
"And why should I?" Raditz asked.
"Eh. I don't like the guy either, but we owe him a favor. If it weren't for him, I doubt we would've lasted this far." Piccolo answered.
Raditz sighed. "That's a fair point, I guess we'd need all the help we can get against Frieza." He replied. Raditz walked over to Vegeta, who was barely conscious and threw the bean in his mouth.
Vegeta woke up, choking for a second, while his injuries were also restored. "Ack! W-What the h-hell!" Vegeta yelled. Vegeta stood up a second, trying to process what happened. "Were you trying to Ki-.." Vegeta had paused upon realization his injuries were restored. Then had also growled at Raditz when he laughed at him. "Jackass! You did that on purpose!"
"Hey I healed your injuries, the least ya can do is not complain about how I did it." Raditz said mockingly. Vegeta growled once more than scoffed, and turned his back to Raditz.
"Whatever…" Vegeta muttered. Returning his attention to Goku, Vegeta stood up properly. "I don't get it...He took out Jeice so easily?! Without breaking a single sweat! I mean he couldn't be...could he?" Vegeta shook his head, snapping himself out of it. "No it'd be impossible. If it were true and Raditz is supposedly as strong as Kakarotto, then there couldn't be two Super Saiyans! It makes sense that only I, Prince of All Saiyans, could attain such a form anyways!"
At around the same time, Jeice had re-awoken to this visible sight of everyone standing up again, and these...new arrivals.
"What the hell is going on here?! They have reinforcements? And how the hell are those four standing again!" Jeice yelled in thought. He pushed himself off the ground and growled. "I was sure their bones were far too broken for them to stand! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!"
Jeice growled ferociously, opening his mouth to yell...then he stopped. He had realized that if he was the last one standing, and that some of these guys were able to beat Recoome together, and the possibility of these new arrivals were as strong as the others, He'd be mince meat.
Jeice thought to himself for a moment, and decided to use the time to escape. He snuck off the battlefield, and flew away, he clicked the button on his scouter, to call his boss.
"Hey Captain Ginyu! Are you there?!" Jeice asked.
"Yes, Hello, Jeice?" Ginyu answered.
"Cap'n! You need to come now! It's a severe emergency!" Jeice replied. "These...These bastards! They've gone and dismantled our force! Guldo's gone! Recoome's dead! And I can't find Burter!"
"Woah Woah! Slow Down Jeice! I can barely understand you, you said what!?" The Captain replied with panic laced in his tone.
However no response was added, as Jeice had an unexpected encounter with Vegeta. The Prince floated in front of him with a blank expression on his face.
"V-Vegeta! What the hell do you think you're doing!" Jeice shouted. The only response was a wicked chuckle coming out of Vegeta's mouth, Jeice growled in response to that.
"Hey Jeice! Are you still there!" Ginyu shouted.
"Yea, hold on Cap'n! I got a little trash to clea-" Jeice said. Vegeta had blasted the Red-Magma, obliterating his scouter, but not Jeice himself, although a good deal of damage was dealt to him. The blast had caused Jeice to plummet into the ground, not far off from the rest of the fighters.
Everyone turned their attention, seeing Vegeta stand in front of Jeice, who was now against the ground.
To be continued…
Burter: 73,000 | Missing Wrist: 64,000
Jeice: 68,000
Recoome: 55,000
Vegeta: 24,000 (Weakened)| Post Zenkai: ?
Gohan: 21,000 | 17,000 (Weakend) | 55,000 (Enraged)
Krillin: 15,000 (Weakened)
Piccolo: 25,000 (Weakened)
Raditz: ?
Goku: ?
Yamcha: ?