Reformed Saiyans
Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Short Shine in the Nightmare That Grows.
"What the? Now the Namek is back too? And how did he get so powerful!" Vegeta gasped. As Piccolo began to fight Frieza, Vegeta kept his eye on the others, noticing quickly that Dende was heading for the unconscious Yamcha.
Vegeta was shocked to learn that Dende had healing powers. "That explains how that bald dwarf was able to come back alive!" Vegeta thought. "Wait...And Nobody has told me of this!"
Vegeta clenched his fists, growling furiously. "Those bastards!" Vegeta said. Vegeta flew over to Gohan and Krillin, after the two had already distanced themselves from Piccolo and Frieza.
"Hey! You two!" Vegeta shouted. Gohan and Krillin shook a bit from being startled.
"Woah, Vegeta, ya startled me there for a second." Krillin said.
"Yeah." Gohan added.
"Don't you play nice with me! How dare you not divulge that the Namekian kid is a healer!" Vegeta yelled.
"Woah woah!" Krillin said, putting his hands up defensively. "We didn't know until recently! If we had known we would've told you!"
"We swear!" Gohan added.
Vegeta growled angrily, then scoffed. "Yea right." He rolled his eyes.
Frieza rammed his arm against Piccolo who blocked with his arm back, creating a powerful clash, with electricity running wild, and the ground beneath them to shake for a few seconds. After a couple of seconds the two fighters moved a couple feet back, Frieza went on the offensive and hurled his fist towards Piccolo's chest, Piccolo shielded himself, placing his two arms in front of him.
Piccolo then attempted to counter by slamming his knee in Frieza's gut, but Frieza put his two hands out and pushed the knee enough away from his stomach. Frieza swung his right leg high to Piccolo's head but Piccolo vanished, quickly reappearing about twenty feet behind Frieza.
"For all the Namekians you've slain Frieza! For all of the innocent lives you've killed! Take this!" Piccolo shouted. "NAIL GUN!"
Piccolo stretched his right arm out and shot a bright golden energy blast that was full in color, and pure in energy. The energy blast went too fast for Frieza to have enough time to dodge, he was left with only a split-second of opportunity, so in that little time Frieza instinctively shielded himself from the attack creating an energy force field around him.
However, the blast continued to push itself onto the force field as an attempt to drill in the barrier.
"Innocent Lives?" Krillin said. He gave a confused look at Piccolo. "Since when does Piccolo care about innocent lives?"
"It's probably what remains of Nail in Piccolo that said that." Dende replied, floating to the others. Next to the young Namekian was Yamcha, now fully restored. Krillin and Gohan immediately turned their attention to Dende, with question-filled faces.
"What do you mean?" Gohan asked.
"Earlier, when I went to heal Nail, he told me that it'd be a waste, and at first I was a bit confused...at least until…" Dende said, stopping for a second to resist any tears to form. "At least until Nail mentioned merging."
"Merging?" Gohan titled his head in confusion.
"Wait. You mean he merged with Nail!?" Krillin replied. "So what you're saying is, that Nail and Piccolo are like...the same guy now or something?!"
Vegeta whipped his head around in shock. "Merge? You mean like some kind of fusion?! He can do that?!" Vegeta yelled.
"Yeah. I've heard of Namekians merging together before in order to stop evil threats, but it was so long ago that it was more of a fairy tale than truth." Dende explained. "But I guess it was possible after all. Nail let himself be absorbed into Piccolo, so while a normal merge would allow the two to remain to exist, the way Nail did it won't."
"He let himself be absorbed?" Krillin said.
Dende nodded. "Yeah, in a nutshell Nail's subconscious will eventually fade, and his soul will just cease to exist but his power and knowledge will remain in Piccolo."
Krillin, Gohan, and Yamcha dropped their jaws in absolute shock.
"Wait! Hold on! So the two Namekians' combined their power! How does that explain this kind of dramatic increase?!" Vegeta said. "Neither of them had the power to go toe-to-toe with Frieza's first form!"
"I-I'm not sure, Nail said that our powers can be multiplied at great heights but when he said that, I didn't realize he meant this high." Dende answered. "The only reason I can think of is because Nail is one of the last warrior-clan besides Piccolo."
Vegeta whipped his head back to face the on-going fight while his mouth remained open from shock.
"T-Then that means the Namekian can get so much stronger than this with a simple merging technique?! That's the literal definition of unfair!" Vegeta thought. His shocked face turned to an immediate angry expression as he gritted his teeth in frustration. "Damn it!"
"A bit poetic isn't it? All of the other Namekians had fallen thanks to my men, and now the final remaining, the most powerful Namekian, the final warrior Namekian shall fall beneath my hands!" Frieza said, laughing wickedly.
Piccolo narrowed his eyes at Frieza, sending an angry glare, and a growl. "If you think I'm gonna die here, then you're wrong!" Piccolo shouted. He clenched his fists, bent his elbows and knees, gritted his teeth and let loose a long powerful roar. The Namekian's aura flared, and his energy spiked. "And another thing! The Demon King Piccolo isn't no Warrior-clan! I am A DEMON!"
Piccolo's intense white aura flourished with a purple color and his power spiked again much higher than before. The Son of Katas darted to Frieza and hurled a powerful punch into his gut, the other punched against his jaw, then his lower leg against Frieza's waist, finally, he grabbed Frieza's right arm, swinging him in a circle.
Piccolo swung Frieza rapidly in a circle for no more than 2 seconds, but had at least made the circle a few hundred times in such a short amount of time, a large yet short-lived tornado generated but dissipated the second Piccolo threw Frieza to the ground. Frieza crashed into the ground harshly, then bounced immediately off of it and collided with several more masses of land until eventually landing on one that caused a large crack.
The large crack quickly expanded around the mass of land, and then the landmass separated into two, Frieza had slid into the salty water of Namek's oceans, waking up about 5 seconds later. The Galactical Tyrant flew up out of the water steaming with rage, continuously firing tons of purple ki beams.
Piccolo ducked the sideway, avoiding the first one, bending back to dodge the second one, rolling to the right to evade the third one, then vanishing for a split second on the fourth one, Piccolo continued evading each death beam sent to him for a moment, then he unleashed a torrent of his own energy to get Frieza to stop, however Frieza whacked the energy wave away, and deflected it.
Frieza then sent a barrage of Death Beams instantly at Piccolo, while he dodged most, a few landed, and Piccolo plummeted to the ground. Frieza's face turned into a wicked and twisted grin.
"Deserves you right Namek!" Frieza yelled. The tyrant let loose a wicked laugh for a few seconds then continued. "You should've never trifled with the likes of me!"
The other fighters opened their mouths in shock, gaping in terror and horror.
"Oh no Piccolo!" Yamcha shouted.
"D-Damn it! We're done for now!" Krillin added.
As Frieza turned to the others with the twisted look on his face, a powerful kick was sent against the left side of his head.
"You should've made sure your beams hit somewhere fatal!" Piccolo yelled. The other fighters had assessed Piccolo dead too easily, underestimating the Namek and overestimating the Tyrant. "Something cheap like a hole in my gut isn't going to kill me!"
The holes that were in Piccolo's gut, the hole in his upper right arm, and lower left leg, had appeared to be gone. Piccolo must've been able to regenerate those little spots since they were not fatal spots. The Demon Fighter flared his aura and released a powerful roar as he rushed after Friea.
"Phew! Piccolo's okay!" Krillin said, sighing a great sigh of relief. "I guess we underestimated him a little"
"Yeah, We might just be able to win this!" Gohan added.
The three Earth Fighters' mood lit up with cheer, as Piccolo showed quick dominance in the fight.
When Piccolo chased after Frieza's plummeting body, he gripped Frieza by the horn and threw the Galactical Tyrant against nearby land harshly. Frieza stood almost instantly up and was met with a powerful punch heading his way, Frieza managed to block the attack but damage was still dealt to his arms.
The punch pushed Frieza across the dirt at least twenty feet, but Frieza's balance remained unphased. Frieza darted to Piccolo and hurled his fist, but Piccolo collided his fist against Frieza's, again, again, again, again, and again. Each one generated a quick and loud shockwave, a quick and powerful rumble, the two clashed for several minutes, with both fists and kicks before doing something different.
Frieza swung his leg against Piccolo's waist, then rammed his foot into Piccolo's gut, and as a final strike the Tyrant hurled his fist against Piccolo's jaw then right cheek. Piccolo plummeted into the ground and caused the ground on impact to rise up then break, turning into rubble.
"This is ridiculous! For such a pest! A Vermin! A termite! To have such comparable strength to even this form is absolutely inconceivable!" Frieza snarled. "I will exterminate you like the rest of the Namekians!"
Frieza lifted his right hand, gathering bright purple energy mixed with dark red energy until it formed a sphere the size of a soccer ball, and Frieza aimed it at Piccolo, firing it at the Namekian.
"Take this you bastard!"
The blast rapidly approached Piccolo, the other fighters being too slow to even see it come down, however the exact second it was an inch from the ground, it was also reflected immediately back, nobody, not even Frieza had seen that coming. The blast clashed against Frieza and created a mass explosion, Frieza let loose an agonizing and short scream.
A moment later, Piccolo stood up, and cracked his knuckles among other bones such as his neck, the smoke began to dissipate as well, revealing Frieza alive but much damaged.
"Are you ready for round 2?" Piccolo smirked.
"W-What?! You're still alive?!" Frieza growled. "How is that possible! How is it possible that you were even able to deflect my blast! You should not be stronger than me! It was only mere moments ago I could easily kill you with but a touch of my finger in my first form!"
"Tch! I don't have enough time to explain that to you nor do I care to or want to!" Piccolo shouted. "So how about we finish this!"
Frieza growled viciously, and glared angrily, then he sighed, returning to his calm and elegant stature. "Fine. Let's finish this pest." Frieza replied. "I'll be glad to shoot that thing of yours you call a brain out of your skull!"
"Now that's what I'd like to hear." Piccolo said. He bent his knees and elbows, clenched his fists, roared mightily, and flared his aura. The ground beneath Piccolo trembled yet again as he powered to the max, to the other Fighters' shock, both Piccolo and Frieza had been holding back, what Frieza could not know however, was that Piccolo was stronger by a great margin.
"H-How is the N-Namekian that strong?!" Vegeta gasped. "How was he holding back! This is absurd! I can understand it giving him a tenfold increase, but this?! THIS?! This is absolutely ridiculous! It doesn't even make sense! It's like he cheated on a literal life!"
"I'd hate to say this but what Vegeta is saying is kinda right." Yamcha said, facing the other two Earth fighters.
Krillin scratched his head, and then chuckled. "I guess it's good that Piccolo is on our side right now, sure we may not be friends or anything, but at least at the moment we aren't enemies."
"Yeaaaa...that'd suck." Yamcha replied, chuckling afterwards.
Filled with great fury, Vegeta became bewildered at this, nothing could fathom the absolute anger that emitted around him.
"Before we continue, there is one last thing I'd like to state." Frieza said. An evil smile formed across his face. "This form you see me in now...It's not my true form."
"W-What?!" Piccolo dropped his jaw in shock, and growled in disbelief. "You're bluffing!"
The others as well had gasped in shock.
"You can believe me whether you want to or not, the truth however is, I have two more forms." Frieza explained. "Two more forms of which each possess far greater power than this form. Although I choose to stay in this form as it will not be needed, none of you would last in my third or true form."
"Underestimating me again?!" Piccolo yelled. "Let me show you just how strong I am!"
Piccolo took his right hand and placed the tip of his index and middle finger on the top of his head, generating immense energy. The energy had sparked several times, with a ring of electrical looking energy, and a yellow sphere rapidly forming. Piccolo's power had spiked once more with the focused energy at his fingertips.
Meanwhile, Frieza lifted his right hand again, only this time, a tiny Supernova like energy ball formed above his hand, gradually getting bigger til it reached that of a large basketball. The other fighters watched intensely, hoping that Piccolo could win, while Vegeta on the other hand had other plans in mind after Frieza's recent statement.
Vegeta faced the other fighters as he said. "Quick! Somebody shoot a powerful energy blast through my gut!"
Yamcha, Krillin, and Gohan looked at Vegeta as if he were crazy.
"W-What?!" Krillin said.
"You want us to what now?!" Yamcha added.
"I won't repeat myself, so listen, I need one of you to shoot me, with a powerful energy blast through my gut, so I can heal, and get stronger!" Vegeta shouted. The others gave Vegeta a still confused look. Vegeta sighed with great frustration. "Okay, let me put it to you this way. Every time a Saiyan comes back from a near-death experience, he comes back only that much stronger! So if one of you blasts me! Then the Namekian brat can heal me!"
"Vegeta, we can't just shoot you! Not only are we not strong enough, but we can't risk it!" Yamcha pointed out.
"Yeah, do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds?!" Krillin said.
Vegeta growled viciously. "We don't have time to argue! You heard what Frieza said! He's got two more transformations!" He replied. "If he transforms again, who knows how strong Frieza will be!"
"But Piccolo is alot stronger now! He can handle Frieza!" Krillin said. "Besides, Frieza is most likely bluffing!"
"Bluffing? Clearly you haven't met Frieza. Frieza DOES. NOT. BLUFF." Vegeta replied. "Has he bluffed so far?"
"Well..no..but.." Krillin sighed. "It doesn't matter, we can't just go off killing allies!"
"Do I even look like I can defend myself now? I've already exhausted most of my energy! At least this way I'll get a sufficient boost!" Vegeta yelled. Vegeta growled angrily again then came closer to Gohan. "You! Runt! Shoot me!"
"W-What?! No! I'm not gonna shoot you Vegeta!" Gohan said. "Even if you are a jerk."
"DAMN IT! What is wrong with you people!" Vegeta yelled. He faced all three of them rather than just Gohan. "Use some common sense! It doesn't matter if I'm alive or dead and Frieza transforms, I'm useless this way right now! But if you give me a near-death experience, then the Namekian runt will heal me! I'll actually have some damn use!"
"I..I won't do it! You've killed too many of my people!" Dende said. "I can't heal you anyways for the trouble you've caused!"
"Are you seriously worried about that right now? If that Namekian, over there! Loses! And I'm not healed! We're screwed!" Vegeta said. "This is an opportunity and we should take it!"
"Alright Fine." Yamcha sighed.
"Woah! Hold on a second Yamcha!" Krillin replied. He dragged Yamcha away with Gohan following along far enough so Vegeta couldn't hear them. "Are you even sure about this?"
"Hey. I'm just saying. Vegeta's got a really good point." Yamcha answered. "At the very least we should have him healed and ready to fight. It's better to be safe then sorry."
"Okay. I guess you're right." Krillin sighed. "Let's get him healed."
"Wait. We can't trust Vegeta! What if he betrays us!" Gohan pointed out.
"If Vegeta wanted to betray us, he would've already." Krillin replied.
"Guys, I can't heal Vegeta." Dende said as he floated to the three. "I just can't. He's killed too many of my brothers! I can't heal someone that wicked."
Krillin placed a hand on Dende's shoulder. "I know Vegeta is super evil, but Dende sometimes certain things are necessary to win a battle. I promise Vegeta won't ever lay a hand on another Namekian again, okay?"
Dende bit his lip, and swallowed hard. "Okay, I'll do it."
The three returned back over to the infuriated Vegeta, who was waiting for an answer.
"Vegeta. Dende will heal you...on a few conditions" Yamcha said.
"Fine. Whatever, tell me the conditions so we can hurry this up already." Vegeta impolitely replied. The Prince crossed his arms, and waited for an answer.
"First off. After this is all done and over, don't ever come back to Planet Namek or harm another Namekian again." Krillin said.
"Done."
"Second. If you betray us, we'll make sure that your life ends right there and then!" Yamcha continued.
"I doubt you can end my life, but whatever, done, what's the third condition?" Vegeta raised an eyebrow.
"Third. Let us see this through, make sure that there is a small possibility of Piccolo needing help." Krillin replied. "We'll be sure to have you healed before Frieza transforms again, but if that never happens...We're not going to give you a power boost."
Vegeta hanged his jaw. "Are you serious right now? What happened to healing me immediately! For all we could know, Frieza is toying with us right now!"
"Sorry but those are the conditions." Yamcha answered.
"Aaargggh! Fine!" Vegeta snarled.
Piccolo fired his Special Beam Cannon simultaneously with Frieza firing a miniature SuperNova. The two shapes of energy clashed midway, and caused a powerful hurricane to blow. Yamcha, Vegeta, Krillin, and Gohan struggled to stand their ground while the tremendous hurricane roared, Dende on the other hand nearly blew away if not for Krillin grabbing his hand.
As the seconds went by Frieza's SuperNova gradually began to overwhelm Piccolo's energy cannon.
"You should've never attempted to make me mad Namekian!" Frieza yelled. "You're lucky you've survived this long, but now this will be your end! PERISH SCUM!"
Frieza's SuperNova almost doubled in size and pushed Piccolo's energy cannon back faster and faster, as it neared the end of the struggle, it got immensely harder for the SuperNova to consume the energy cannon.
"Crap! Piccolo's losing, we need to help him!" Krillin said.
"Right!" Yamcha added, nodding in agreement. Gohan as well began to follow along the other two until they were stopped.
"Wait! Look!" Vegeta said. "He's playing Frieza!"
The three fighters turned to Vegeta with a confused look.
"Playing?" Krillin replied. "What do you mean playing?"
"That Namek has more than enough power to push Frieza back, If Frieza were truly the winner here, there would've been no beam struggle!" Vegeta pointed out. "Your Namek Friend is purposely holding back."
"Wait? If he can win it, then why isn't he?!" Yamcha asked.
"Isn't it obvious? He's giving Frieza some of his own medicine!" Vegeta growled.
The three fighters looked back to Piccolo, still not completely convinced to see if what Vegeta was talking about was true.
"Why won't you just give up!" Frieza shouted. He released as much energy as he could into his blast but Piccolo's energy cannon did not budge. "You worthless vermin!"
A smirk appeared across Piccolo's face as he placed his other hand on top of his right hand, and unleashed all of his energy. "Here you go bastard!" He yelled. The drill forced itself against the SuperNova pushing it back rapidly, before penetrating the blast into oblivion. With little time to react, Frieza placed his two hands in front of his gut before the drill had penetrated through.
Frieza pushed back, attempting to resist the blast ignoring the intense burning rotating pain on his two hands. However, Piccolo closed his two hands swiftly, and the energy cannon erupted, turning into a violent explosion against Frieza. The tyrant screamed in agony before the blast silenced him.
Moments later, as the smoke and dust vanished, a furious Frieza appeared before everyone, with his left horn half gone, his right hand gone, blood pouring out of his right wrist, and clear second degree burns across several parts of his body.
Although the Tyrant was beyond anger, when he spoke, he remained calm. "I've miscalculated and that has cost me dearly. I was wrong, way wrong, I underestimated you Namek." Frieza said. A smirk formed on Piccolo's face as the two lowered themselves to the ground. "However, this time I won't be so reckless."
"This time? What do you mean this time?" Piccolo chuckled. "I don't think you understand the severity of your situation. You're nearly dead, Frieza."
A wide grin appeared across Frieza's grin as he let a wicked chuckle escape. "No, I don't think you understand the severity of YOUR situation." Frieza said. Piccolo raised a suspicious eyebrow, and immediately Frieza began powering up. Instantly realizing what Frieza had meant, Piccolo rushed into action, but a powerful gust of wind blew him away.
"W-What's going on?! I thought Frieza was nearly dead!" Krillin shouted. The bald monk kept his right arm just above his forehead to block any blinding light and incoming wind."But his power is starting to sky rocket!"
"Y-Yeah." Yamcha added. Like Krillin he had also had his arm above his forehead.
"He's transforming!" Vegeta yelled. "Damn it! You idiots! We're all done for! If we had done what I said in the first place, I could've prevented it!"
"You don't know that for sure! And besides it'll take him some time to transform won't it?" Krillin pointed out.
Vegeta grumbled and sighed. "Fine! Let's distance ourselves so we can do it safely." He replied.
The others nodded, and Dende hesitantly followed the four. After about twenty seconds of exiting the battlefield, Yamcha and Krillin readied themselves to shoot Vegeta's gut.
"The brat needs to shoot too, the more power in one shot, the better." Vegeta said.
"Woah there Vegeta, Yamcha and I agreed on this, not Gohan. He doesn't need to be the one to kill you." Krillin replied.
"The runt's at least half saiyan, killing should be natural to him! Besides You're not actually killing me, so why worry?" Vegeta pointed out.
Gohan still looked hesitant, uncomfortable, but he swallowed it down, sighing. "A-Alright.."
Krillin whipped his head to Gohan with a slightly shocked face. "Wait, Gohan are you sure about this?"
"N-No..but...we don't have much choice, and Vegeta isn't wrong, we're not actually killing him." Gohan answered with a shrug.
"Okay then, on my mark!" Yamcha said. The other two stretched their arms out, and gathered energy along with Yamcha simultaneously. "ONE...TWO….." The energy spheres grew larger and more powerful.
Meanwhile at the same time, Frieza's transformation had neared finished, the Dinosaur-like Alien had turned into a much more...monstrous stature, with an oval shaped head, two small spikes and two large spikes on his head, his shoulders more broad, height only slightly shorter than previously, and a face that was like a monster in a child's dreams.
What was most scary was the massive difference in power from his earlier form. It wasn't just a double increase, it was nearly triple his previous form's power, if not more.
"THREE!" Yamcha, Gohan, and Krillin all unleashed yellow energy waves that merged together into one slightly bigger one, but a much stronger blast that collided against and burned through Vegeta's gut. The blood that poured out instantly was burnt by the high heat of the blast, while smaller amounts continued after.
Vegeta was struggling for air, struggling to stand but the Prince of All Saiyans managed. "You. Heal me. Now." Vegeta uttered as he turned to Dende.
Dende became hesitant, he shook, when he looked at Vegeta all he thought was nothing but an evil man he couldn't heal, tears formed from the thought of all his brothers being murderlessly cruel, Dende turned his head, refusing.
"I-I can't!" He said, filled with fear. Dende ran immediately away, making the other three fighters shocked.
"D-Dende!" Krillin said.
"Come back!" Gohan added.
"Darn it!" Yamcha unleashed his energy and floated up to fly after Dende but Krillin stopped him.
"No, I got this! Take Vegeta to a rejuvenation chamber before it's too late!" Krillin said. Yamcha nodded in response. Krillin flew after Dende, while Yamcha picked up Vegeta, flying towards the ships while Gohan followed along.
To be continued…
Powerlevels:
Piccolo (Merged with Nail): 1,400,000
Frieza: 1,060,000 | 3rd Form: ?
Vegeta: 420,000 | Nearly Dead: 10
Yamcha: 75,000
Gohan: 51,000
Krillin: 42,000
Dende: 2,000
A/N: Yeah yeah yeah I know, Piccolo's powerlevel is bullshit, but TBF it's only a couple hundred thousand more than the original...albeit it's still ridiculous, especially since in the original storyline it's possible that Piccolo was something like 500K before fusing with Nail, since he trained on King Kai's planet where as here he didn't.
Dende's powerlevel technically shouldn't be more than 1,000 but I thought it'd make more sense if he were slightly stronger. He's not a fighter, so technically he couldn't necessarily kill someone like Raditz at the start of the series, but with a fully charged blast then yea.
You're probably wondering "Why didn't Dende heal Raditz or Goku", well that's because Dende can only heal so much at one time. He had to heal Yamcha, Piccolo, and Krillin, which was quite a bit, although not shown, Nail thought it'd be safer to save whatever heals Dende has left for later.
It also gives Dende time to rest and gather more energy for more healing. He'll definitely need it in the next chapter.
Updated A/N: Yeah uh…I did a quick proofreading, so It seems okay, if anyone has improvements/suggestions feel free.