Reformed Saiyans
Chapter Thirty-Six: The Beginning of A Nightmare
"What the?! Gohan!" Yamcha shouted. He turned around to see Gohan falling but couldn't focus on that, turning his head back to Frieza, seeing the monster easily beat the others. "Agh Damn it!" Yamcha clenched his fists and bent his elbows, releasing a surplus amount of energy. "KAIOKEN TIMES FOUR!"
Frieza shot a confused look at Yamcha, and the sudden power boost caught him off guard, Yamcha rammed his shoulder against Frieza's chest. The scarred-face bandit flew back about ten feet and fired a yellow energy blast at Frieza immediately after.
However, Frieza regained his balance and deflected the blast before, then hurled his fist into Yamcha's gut, causing Yamcha to gasp for air.
"Impudent pest!" Frieza snarled. He elbowed Yamcha's right cheek, putting enough force into the blow to send Yamcha nearly instantly to the ground. Before Frieza had a chance to catch his breath, another energy beam was sent towards him, causing Frieza to growl viciously. "You filthy squabbling trash!"
"Special Beam Cannon!" Piccolo shouted. An energy beam with rings swirling around it, instantly shot at Frieza, however Frieza caught the blast, crushing into smithereens. Piccolo gaped in terror, barely moving his lips, shouting. "H-How?!"
That was all Piccolo could utter before a powerful energy blast collided against him. After this short moment, Vegeta had finally regained consciousness, infuriated and steamed. He roared to the top of his lungs, flaring his aura as he rushed at Frieza with his fists clenched tightly.
"FFFRRIIIEEEZZAAAAA!" Vegeta screamed. He hurled his fist against Frieza's cheek, his sudden appearance allowed for Frieza's guard to be dropped, and Vegeta took advantage immediately. He launched his knee into Frieza's gut then another fist at Frieza's face yet this time Frieza caught this fist, and made a wide grin.
Vegeta's mouth hung open, his pupils shrank at the shock again, but Vegeta recollected himself, and growled angrily. He pulled his fist away, and then tried to throw a punch with his other fist but Frieza bent his neck an inch back and avoided.
Frieza let out another short chuckle. "You should've left when you had the chance, you should've stayed as my underling where it was safe!" He smirked. Frieza laughed again, and although Vegeta kept an angry look on, it was clear that he was terrified. "But nope, you decided to retaliate, and challenge me. Now look where that got you! Ahahahahahahahaha!"
Frieza grabbed Vegeta's wrist and squeezed it tightly, causing tremendous pain to be sent through Vegeta's body, then with his other hand Frieza rammed his fist into Vegeta's gut over and over again. Again and again Frieza rammed his fist, Piccolo was unconscious, Yamcha was unconscious, Nail was unable to do anything, Dende was still finishing up healing Krillin, and Gohan? Who knows what happened to the boy.
Soon the tissue around Vegeta's gut weakened, and each punch hurt worse than the last, causing him to cough up bits of blood mixed with saliva that rapidly turned into small puddles of blood. After a minute Frieza got bored, and decided to do something different, Frieza lifted Vegeta high, and swung him to the ground.
"C'mon just a little more, wake up Krillin!" Dende shouted. He had his two green hands above Krillin, emitting a strange yellow ki rings, Krillin's energy gradually came back, and his injuries disappeared. Although his armor still displayed damage, his chest did not.
Krillin's eyes slowly opened, and his first sight was Dende. "D-Dende?" Krillin said.
"You're awake!" Dende said cheerfully.
"W-What's going on?" Krillin sat up rubbing the back of his head. The near-death experience caused a very small and short amount of amnesia to come across the bald monk as he tried to recall the recent events.
"Frieza transformed, remember? He speared you with his horns." Dende said. "I..I healed you up, but… everyone else is in trouble."
"R-Right. Where is everyone?" Krillin asked.
Dende looked to the sky, and took a quick glance, he saw Nail trying to fight, Vegeta being helpless, and the others gone. Dende looked back, and answered Krillin.
"Piccolo is unconscious, your friend Yamcha was knocked out too, Nail is trying to fight Frieza, but...Gohan...he fell unconscious out of the blue and wasn't even hit by Frieza." Dende said. He looked worried as he turned shortly to the side before turning his head back to Krillin.
"Go see if you can wake Yamcha and Piccolo up. I'll find out what happened with Gohan and then see if I can buy us some time." Krillin said. Dende nodded in response. The two hovered off the ground and flew away.
Krillin searched for Gohan's ki, keeping a low profile to stay out of Frieza's sight. "Was Frieza perhaps able to hit Gohan without anyone seeing? I mean none of us saw Frieza when he stabbed me in the chest." Krillin wondered, regardless, he hurried to Gohan.
Once he found the unconscious Gohan, Krillin tried to shake him awake, and noticed that there was no external or internal damage to the young halfbreed. "Gohan...Gohan!" Krillin said. Nothing. "C'mon Gohan, wake up! We need you!"
A second later Gohan slowly opened his eyes. "K-Krillin?" Gohan said.
"Good, you're awake." Krillin replied. "Are you able to tell me what happened out there? Dende says you passed out, and nobody saw Frieza attack you."
Gohan bit his lip, and swallowed hard, not saying a word, his gaze was averted away, the young halfbreed tried to hold back the tears that nearly broke free.
"Hello Gohan?" Krillin said. No response, in fact, Gohan wasn't even paying attention to what Krillin had said. "Gohan!" The loud shout snapped Gohan back into reality. "Hey! We need to get out there and fight, so are you gonna answer me?"
"I...I don't know, I just passed out." Gohan said, obviously lying. "Sorry."
"Gohan..If you aren't able to focus on the battle, then we can't have you fighting." Krillin said. Gohan turned his attention immediately to Krillin, with a confused look. Krillin placed a hand on Gohan's shoulder. "Nobody would blame you if you're too scared to fight, alright?"
"I-I never said I was scared." Gohan replied. "I can fight, I'm fine."
"Gohan, that's not true, we're all scared here. We just can't let it consume us during a fight like this." Krillin said. "Your Dad and Uncle will be healed soon, so we need to hold out until then alright? Just take a deep breath, and you'll be fine."
Gohan gulped again and nodded. "O-Okay.." He said.
"Good. Then let's go"
The two fighters hovered off the ground and hurried to the battlefield. Gohan took a quick deep breath, then followed along after Krillin.
"On my mark, give him everything you got!" Krillin said. Gohan nodded in response and took a stance. Krillin waited for the opportunity to strike, quickly creating a destructo disk above his hand while the others had Frieza focused on them.
Piccolo fired multiple Special Beam Cannons but each one was swiftly dodged. He quickly swung his leg but Frieza blocked, then Piccolo hurled his fist, but Frieza caught his fist, then as a wicked grin made itself across Frieza's face, Frieza snapped Piccolo's wrist, causing Piccolo to scream in terror.
Frieza elbowed Piccolo in the face then shot one death beam through his arm, and his left leg. Piccolo collapsed from the pain and quickly fell to the ground. As Frieza prepared to fire another beam, a sharp pain coming from his tail had stopped him in his tracks.
"DESTRUCTO DISK!" Krillin yelled.
Frieza's jaw dropped in shock, then turned into immediate rage as he narrowed his eyes at Krillin.
"Now!" Krillin said, turning his head to Gohan. Gohan moved out of the way as Frieza charged at Krillin, and Krillin placed his hands in front of his forehead. "SOLAR FLARE!" A bright white blinding light flashed itself at Frieza, causing Frieza's pupils to shrink and a burning sensation to his eyes. "SHINE BRIGHTER!"
The light grew and penetrated through Frieza's eyes, causing temporary blindness to him.
"AGH! YOU STUPID RAT!" Frieza yelled. He covered his eyes with his hands instinctively to try and comfort his eyes but to no avail, the burning lingered.
Quickly, Gohan flared his aura, and released his energy, he gritted his teeth, letting loose a powerful roar.
"FRIEZA!" Gohan yelled. Staring at Frieza, his newly acquired image from transforming, reminded Gohan of what had happened recently, and as those images of Krillin being repetitively stabbed, again, and again, Gohan's rage boiled. Gohan's power spiked tremendously and the young halfbreed hurled his leg against Frieza's forehead before the Tyrant could see it coming.
Frieza plummeted towards the ground but stopped himself mid-way.
"What the hell was that! It sounded like that stupid brat!" Frieza thought. Trying to ignore the intense pain in his eyes, Frieza relaxed himself and waited for Gohan to come at him again. However, to his surprise, Gohan had moved much faster than expected, and the several fists that jabbed him in the stomach had successfully landed.
For a final hit, Gohan kneed harshly into Frieza's gut, then threw an uppercut onto Frieza's jaw, and whacked his two fists against Frieza's right side of his head. Frieza crashed into a small island nearby, with a strong enough impact to cause it to break, and Frieza to fall in the ocean, with the waves collapsing into him.
"I don't get it! The boy's power just spiked immensely!" Vegeta said to himself. The Prince left his jaw hanging in shock, staring in disbelief. However, before he could even answer that question, another question opened in his mind when he saw Krillin alive and well. "W-What the?! How!"
Vegeta shook his head and decided to brush it off for now, knowing that Frieza won't be stunned for long, rushing to the two short fighters immediately.
"He won't be stunned for long! Don't just stand there! Throw everything you can at him!" Vegeta yelled.
"R-Right!" Krillin said. The three unleashed a volley of ki blasts to where Frieza had originally fallen, causing a tiny explosion to slowly expand and any water nearby to simply evaporate.
"D-Don't." Nail said. The warrior Namekian was covered in dirt, scratches, and a few harsh bruises. He had several wounds around his right arm, and a deep cut along his right leg. On a few of those wounds were caked in dried blood, dirt, and new blood that still slowly poured out.
Dende looked at Nail with confusion. "W-What do you mean? You're hurt! If I don't heal you, Frieza will be-"
"No, trust me, It'd be a waste." Nail replied. "If we keep healing me, you'll run out of energy to heal the others. Besides, I have a better idea." Nail pulled himself up from the ground, and looked around.
"A better Idea?" Dende tilted his head.
"Where's Piccolo?" Nail asked.
Dende looked over where he might have thought Piccolo would be but he was unsure, shrugging to Nail."I-I'm not sure, I didn't see where he last fell." Dende answered.
Nail looked around for a second, then closed his eyes and searched for Piccolo's energy, opening them a moment later. "Found him. Come with me."
Nail flared his aura and flew over to Piccolo, with Dende following along. Piccolo laid in a deep crater on a massive piece of land, immediately Dende had healed the Demon King's Son. Only ten seconds later, Piccolo slowly woke up.
"Thanks." Piccolo said as he sat up. He then quickly noticed Nail was right by, unhealed, and not fighting, which put several questions in Piccolo's mind. "You aren't healed yet, and aren't fighting, either you want something or have an idea."
"Yea, actually I do have an idea." Nail replied.
Piccolo sighed and stood up. "Alright, what's your idea?"
"I'm going to Merge with you."
"Gohan look out!" Krillin shouted. Frieza rammed his fist into Gohan's gut, and all oxygen in Gohan's body was released as he gasped for air.
Frieza grabbed Gohan by the tip of his armor, and flew straight towards the ground, releasing him as they reached only a foot away from the ground. Frieza unleashed several powerful energy blasts at Gohan, causing a tiny yet quick explosion.
"I wonder who's brat is that!" Frieza thought. He looked over to Vegeta and shook his head. "Definitely not Vegeta nor Nappa's...perhaps.. Raditz? Yes there is some resemblance."
As Frieza finished firing his last energy blast, he unleashed a torrent of energy to finish it off. "It's too bad the runt had to meet his end now, I would've liked another servant, especially since the Ginyu Force's service has been terminated."
"No!" Krillin shouted. He threw another two destructo disks at Frieza with no luck, the tyrant fired two death beams at the disks and caused them to explode.
"Insolent Fool...The same trick won't work twice on me!" Frieza yelled. Frieza soared rapidly to Krillin and slammed his shoulder against the bald monk. Krillin plummeted against the ground, and faded quickly unconscious. Frieza then turned around and lowered himself towards Gohan to see if the job was finished, although Frieza had no doubts that he wasn't.
"Let's see if the boy survived." Frieza said. He stood outside the smoke waiting for it to dissipate. To his shock however, another..bulky individual had protected Gohan.
Earlier...
"Agh…..W-Where am I?"
The man looked around, recollected his thoughts, and then became enraged when his thoughts and memories were recollected.
"D-Damn it!" Nappa yelled. "How! How did I get beat! Dam-..." He paused, feeling a sense of dread, and intense power omitting from far away. A power so terrifying it nearly left him speechless. "T-That power! It feels lik- agh!" Nappa tried to sit up, but moving even the tiniest bit caused intense pain to his body.
The brute concentrated and caused his energy to surround him, lifting him up from the ground, allowing him to float without actually moving a muscle, though if he weren't careful he could lose focus and fall.
"Frieza is fighting..but who!" Nappa thought. He closed his eyes and searched for the energies, though he had trouble doing so with his injuries and focused on his flying. "If I could get some sort of healing done. I'll have to head back to Frieza's ship."
Nappa gradually made his way back to Frieza's ship, as he approached the area, the energies became clearer and clearer.
"So that runt of Kakarot and Vegeta are fighting Frieza?! How did Vegeta get so powerful?! And Who's this other energy I'm sensing!" Nappa thought. Another shock of pain went through his body causing him to stop thinking. "Darn it, I'll have to heal up before I can continue."
Nappa floated into the ship, and then into the medical bay, a bit shocked to see both Goku and Raditz in nearby pods, but decided to brush aside. Nappa then walked to the far back of the medical bay, passing multiple rejuvenation chambers, and placed his hand on the wall. Around his hand it glew, and out came next to him was a bigger, and darker colored schemed pod.
"Hah! I knew it was still unused! They never even bothered to look!" Nappa said, laughing loudly. "One of the newest and most advanced rejuvenation chambers, this should get me healed in less than 30 minutes! I'd say fifteen at best!"
Not a second more and Nappa floated himself into the chamber, placed the oxygen mask over his face, quickly falling asleep. The tank filled up with a purplish liquid, instantly soothing him, and restoring his smaller injuries such as bruises and scratches almost immediately.
Although Nappa thought this would be a restful cat nap, it was not, Vegeta's words continued to echo in his head, in his dreams, words that Vegeta had said, and words that he would've said if given the chance.
"Disgraceful! Pathetic! Becoming a slave? And to Frieza of all people! And for what? Some petty revenge?!" An image of Vegeta appeared in the dark void of Nappa's dreams. "You've degraded yourself! What kind of Warrior is that? I'll tell you what kind of Warrior! None!"
"Tch! What would you know!" Nappa scoffed. "You threw me aside! After everything I've done! After everything I did!"
"I was giving you a Saiyan's death! I wasn't the one who let his rage take over and tried to fight when the fighting was over!" Vegeta yelled. "You were defeated! And you couldn't even acknowledge that! If you had stopped when you were told to, and stepped aside, you wouldn't be in this situation, instead you disobeyed a given order!"
"I disobeyed an order given by a selfish spoiled brat!" Nappa snarled.
"What difference does it make on who gave it? You made yourself a fool. You wanted to continue fighting simply because you were mocked for mediocre things, and easily beaten." Vegeta pointed out. "Then you tried to prove yourself again by transforming, but instead you got in my way! After you were spared by Kakarot's friends, you could've saved yourself the trouble of NEVER showing your face again!"
Vegeta scoffed, and turned his back. "You know what your main problem was? Every time you've had a chance to redeem yourself, you let your rage consume you and make a fool out of yourself." The image of Vegeta had faded leaving Nappa speechless, and angry.
"What the hell do you know!" Nappa yelled. "What do any of you know! I am a Saiyan Warrior! I am the General of All Saiyans! I am the most Saiyan Warrior there is!" Nappa clenched his fists tightly screaming to the top of his lungs and slammed against the ground of the endless void in his mind.
He gritted his teeth and growled viciously, releasing a mighty echoing roar that no one but him could hear.
"W-What?!" Frieza yelled, shocked to see the sight of Nappa protecting his target. "It appears I've made a miscalculation on your loyalty! You dare double cross the mighty Frieza?!"
"W-Why'd you s-save me!?" Gohan gasped.
"D-Don't take it personally, I-I'm only repaying a debt to your f-father!" Nappa stuttered.
Nappa turned around, slowly, using whatever strength he had left to speak. "Anyone would double cross you if they weren't terrified of your power! I bet they'd rather work for your brother Coo-."
A powerful purple ray of energy shot through Nappa's heart, his pupils instantly shrunk then faded a split second later. "THUMP!" The brute fell to the ground lifelessly, with some of the other fighters still a bit shocked. Nappa's pupils disappeared as his last breath escaped him and a small puddle of blood poured from the hole in his chest.
"I am getting real tired of you filthy simian bastards and your stupid speeches!" Frieza yelled. "Hmph! No more playing around, it's time you all DIIIIEEE!"
Frieza flared his energy and powered up, clenching his fists, bending his elbows, bending his knees, letting loose a mighty roar.
"HRAAAAH!" Frieza shouted. He slammed his arms down and lifted his head, as he finished powering up, then lowering back down after he rushed after Gohan, with the intent to kill, yet a kick from the behind caused him to be thrown a couple of feet the wrong way.
Frieza shifted his head to spot who kicked him, revealing to be Yamcha with a dark crimson aura surrounding him.
"I guess this Earthling shall be first on my list!" Frieza yelled. Frieza hurled a fist into Yamcha's gut and then slammed his elbow on Yamcha's neck, sending Yamcha plummeting to the ground.
"M-Mister Yamcha!" Gohan shouted, looking at the bandit as he fell from the sky. Gohan turned his head back to Frieza and growled viciously. "You jerk!" Gohan rushed to Frieza and swung his foot, but Frieza dodged and slammed his other elbow against Gohan's face.
Frieza aimed his hand at Gohan and gathered purple energy in front of his hand. "PREPARE TO DIE BRAT!" He shouted. Frieza unleashed the torrent of energy at Gohan but once again Frieza's attempt to Gohan failed, as yet another momentarily mysterious individual had blocked the attack.
Piccolo had stood in the way, blocking the attack with no damage, and immediately after Gohan stopped himself from falling, rebalancing himself as well. Gohan gasped in shock at Piccolo's power, as well as Krillin and Vegeta.
"What? How did you block my attack?! I put enough power in it that you shouldn't have been able to block it! Especially leaving unscathed!" Frieza screamed.
"Unscathed? I wish, you kinda destroyed my cape and turban." Piccolo said, smirking widely. "Now I'm kinda pissed!"
Frieza narrowed his eyes on Piccolo growling ferociously. "Pissed? I'll show you real anger and terror Namek!" He yelled, clenching his fist. "I have no idea where you got all that power, but it won't be enough to stop me!"
"Come and get it." Piccolo muttered as he motioned for Frieza to come after him.
"Merge? I'd rather pass, been there and done that. I'm good." Piccolo said, turning his back.
"Wait." Nail said. Piccolo stopped moving and turned around. "At least hear me out first."
Piccolo looked skeptic, but the energies he could sense, it almost seemed hopeless, Piccolo would go out there and get one shotted, then if he were lucky he'd just be pointless healed again. "Fine." Piccolo sighed.
"If we merge, our powers won't just be combined but multiplied at incredible heights!" Nail explained. "If we merge, we might just be able to defeat Frieza."
"Yeah but then we'd be stuck together, and I don't like the idea of having a co-driver." Piccolo replied. "I'd rather defeat Frieza on my own."
"Not necessarily." Nail said. "It'll be more like a transference of power and knowledge, you'll keep your body, but gain tremendous power, at best my I'll only be there for a short time, eventually my subconscious will fade away."
Piccolo raised an eyebrow in suspicion and disbelief. "Then what would be in it for you? It doesn't seem fair that I be the one to remain in existence. We both know this is permanent and there's no going back."
"My people, the Grand Elder, all of them are already gone and killed because of that Monster! I will not let the rest of the universe suffer the same fate." Nail pointed out. "As long as that Monster is killed, then I'll be fine."
Piccolo let a smirk across his face. "Alright, deal. You've got guts." Piccolo said. "Now how do we do this?"
"Just place your hand on my chest." Nail replied. Piccolo steadily and cautiously aimed his hand towards Nail's chest. "Don't hesitate. Trust me."
"W-Wait! Nail! You can't!" Dende whined. Dende gulped trying to resist the tears that began to flow down his cheeks. "You're the one of the last Namekians! One of the last Warrior Clan Namekians too! If you go, then the Namekian race will only be that much closer to extinction!"
"Sorry Dende but it is for the greater good." Nail replied. He lowered himself to Dende's level. "If I don't, then we definitely will be extinct. It's the only way to beat Frieza!"
Dende bit his lips, and lowered his gaze. "Alright." He sighed.
Nail lifted himself back up and motioned for Piccolo to continue. Piccolo placed his hand on Nail's chest, about a second later, a bright white-ish blue energy surrounded Nail, then quickly enveloped Piccolo as Nail disappeared.
The bright white-ish blue energy lingered around Piccolo for another few seconds before gradually vanishing. Piccolo let his jaw hang, looking at himself, and feeling his power.
"I-Incredible!" Piccolo shouted. "Such Unimaginable Strength!" He flared his aura and his energy, his power spiked to great heights, greater than that even of Frieza. "If I had known merging with another being could give me such great strength, I would've sought it out years ago! I FEEL INCREDIBLE! I'M AWAKE! WIDE AWAKE!"
"Dende! Let's go!" Piccolo shouted. Dende propped up, and wiped the tears from his eyes.
"R-Right!" Dende nodded.
To be continued…
A/N: Just so this is clear and there's no confusion later on. Gohan uses the "Mister" as a proper respectful thing simply because Yamcha and Piccolo are adults, although in the original series, Gohan uses it to Piccolo specifically as respect for his master, in this version it's just him being mannerful.
Also Yamcha didn't get much spotlight here cause it's tricky with so many characters but he will get something. Not that he can do much at this time, but don't count him nor Krillin out yet ; )
That aside, I know I put yall on a one month hiatus, but I just found out that I'm moving through that hiatus this month, so I will be losing internet for a while soon, so everything will be delayed again but I promise everything will be caught up BEFORE Christmas.
I'll have the next chapter set up sometime between Nov 12th (Today) - Nov 15th. I got a little late on proofreading.
Powerlevels:
Frieza: 1,060,000
Vegeta: 420,000
Nail: 80,000
Yamcha: 75,000 | Kaioken: 150,000 | Kaioken x3: 225,000 | Kaioken x4: 300,000
Gohan: 51,000 | Enraged: 500,000
Piccolo: 45,000 | Post Healing: 60,000 | Post Merge: ?
Krillin: 26,000 | Post Healing: 42,000