The Warriors Reckoning was descending through Planet Vegeta's atmosphere. If this had been a different situation, Bardock would be relieved to finally be home. Instead, he was tense beyond belief, he could feel a concentrated amount of power at the capital which had to be Cooler and the Armored Squadron. He looked to his left and saw Vegeta clenching his fist over and over again. Nappa walked over and put a hand on his shoulder, "We will take our planet back, my King."

"Cooler will pay in blood for the saiyan lives he's taken."

Bardock turned with Turles and nodded, it was about time they met their guests. The hatch to the airlocked opened up as the saiyans stepped in. In a couple of moments, they would be fighting the one of the most dangerous squad in the entire Planet Trade Organization and their sinister leader. The airlock light turned from green to red as it flew open and the intense upper winds of Planet Vegeta greeted them. One-by-one, they flew out of the ship and raced towards the cathedral. The city of Vegeta was never in amazing condition outside of the cathedral but it was rough looking even by saiyan standards. Buildings were scorched, had holes in them or were just destroyed. Bodies were scattered throughout the ground; they were of saiyans and Cooler's men alike. Vegeta grunted and increased his speed even more as his lavender aura flared outwards. Suddenly his scouter started beeping and a large energy blast roared through the sky towards him.

"Tch. It'll take more than that to kill me!"

Vegeta deflected the attack away from him. Doore appeared behind a building, laughing, "Back for more, small fry?"

"It won't be so easy to break my ribs this time, you big oaf."

The large, green humanoid cracked his knuckles, "You don't have Lord Cooler to stop me from killing you this time, punk."

"You don't have him to save you either!"

Nappa and the others had finally caught up to them. Vegeta motioned towards the cathedral with his head.

"Keep going, I can handle this weakling."

Vegeta tackled Doore into the ground and began punching him in the chest. The green alien grunted and grabbed him by the hair and threw him off. Vegeta flipped and fired a blast at Doore's feet which caused smoke and debris to fly up into the air. Before he could check his scouter, Vegeta's fist smashed into his face and sent him flying back into a building.

Bardock was impressed, the prince was at least even with the man who had previously defeated him in one casual blow. He's coming a long way and is leagues above his predecessors. With that, he took off in the direction of the cathedral with Turles behind him. Nappa was about to follow them but his scouter started beeping in the direction near Vegeta. There was a magenta glow and a voice cried out, "Take this!"

The attack hit Vegeta in the back and his muscles seized up. He grunted and tried to force them to move but no matter how hard he tried; they wouldn't budge. Vegeta screamed as his body began to burn from the energy surging around him.

"Looks like deep-fried monkey is on the menu tonight!"

Neiz appeared out of another building and began charging another attack in his hands but before he could release it, the ground exploded beneath him.

Nappa landed from the sky, "Nice try, but I won't let you use such a cheap trick on Prince Vegeta!"

Neiz stepped out of the debris and brushed the dirt off of his shoulder pads.

"Hehe I'll take care of you first then!"

Vegeta felt the energy around him dissipate but before he could react, Doore clotheslined him into another building. Purple blood was oozing out of his nose and mouth. With an angry yell, he fired a large orange ki blast into the building which exploded with a heavy thum.

Doore activated his scouter and gasped when he saw the numbers that popped up. The saiyan brat had a power level that was close to his?! That shouldn't be possible, he wasn't even 20,000 when he broke his ribs and the missions that he got sent on shouldn't have put him in a near death state. Just what the hell was going on? Vegeta laughed as he came out of the debris, "The saiyans are a warrior race, don't underestimate us!"

He pointed his index and middle finger at Doore and fired small but powerful energy blasts all over his body. Doore sent his aura outward as they impacted his body. They stung enough that they'd probably leave bruises but if the saiyan thought that was going to beat him, he was wrong. Dead wrong. With a yell, he rushed at Vegeta with a fist cocked back. Vegeta rushed at him the same way. The shockwave caused by their clashing fists blew through the surrounding area of the city.

Bardock and Turles could see the shockwaves from Vegeta and Nappa. But they quickly turned their attention to the entrance of the Cathedral. Cooler and his second-in-command, Salza were waiting for them. Turles activated his scouter, Salza's reading was 500,000. To think Cooler's second in command had a power that rivaled Frieza's first form. When he scanned Cooler, the scouter beeped and flashed several dashes indicating that his power level was too high to calculate; thankfully he upgraded the scouter so it didn't' explode.

"I'm impressed your monkey friends are giving Doore and Neiz problems. But Salza and I are much stronger than those two", Cooler crossed his arms with a smirk.

"It's over Cooler, you die here, I've been training to beat you. I'm the strongest saiyan to ever exist!" Bardock clenched his fist and began powering up.

Salza's scouter started beeping and then exploded (Turles laughed at this) as Bardock's hair turned gold and started standing upright. With a furious yell, Bardock completed the transformation and his golden aura expanded outwards as a fierce gust of wind ripped through the area. Cooler clenched his jaw as he braced himself against the force of the saiyan's transformation. Salza was knocked into the air but before he could right himself, Turles punched him square in the jaw and sent him crashing through several buildings. Turles fired a barrage of energy blasts for good measure; the building that Salza landed in exploded in a dark purple light.

"Now that he's out of the way, lets finish-

A pink beam shot through the right-side Turles' chest, cutting off the rest of his sentence. He spat out blood and he collapsed to the city below, with a small amount of smoke coming from the hole in his chest. Cooler lowered his finger and turned his attention back to the golden saiyan.

"It looks like it's just you and I left. Shall we begin?", the tone sounded polite but the glint in Cooler's eye was anything but.

With a roar, Bardock launched himself at the purple alien with his fist cocked back. He wanted to hit him full force to knock him off his balance since he probably hasn't been hit like that in a long time. That would give him time to get a solid combo on him and shatter his defense quickly. However, his fist was caught by Cooler who was surprised at the power behind it. Reacting quickly, Bardock launched his other fist towards Cooler's gut but that was caught as well. Veins were bulging in Cooler's arms as he tried to force him back; his blue aura exploded outwards, clashing with Bardock's golden one. The stalemate seemed to last forever until Cooler quickly yanked Bardock towards him and sent a knee right into his stomach.

Bardock gasped for air as Cooler threw a wild punch at the side of his head. The impact was harder than Bardock had even imagined it would be. Combined with the struggle in strength they just had, he finally understood the power he was dealing with. This was the power of the Cold Clan that ruled the galaxy. But he didn't come all this way just to die a minute into the battle! He quickly caught himself with one hand and attempted to sweep Cooler's legs from under him but the kick was caught by the sinewy tail of the alien. Bardock expected this however and used his free hand to launch a point-blank blast into his face. Cooler immediately let go of Bardock and clutched his face in pain.

'Now's my chance!'

Bardock rushed at him and hit him with a combo of controlled punches into his face and stomach before he launched him into the air with a kick. Bardock flew behind him and hit him with a double fist into the back which sent him flying into the cathedral.

"Sorry about this Vegeta but this place probably could use some renovations anyways!"

Bardock charged his signature Riot Javelin in his hand and launched it into the hole in the building. The windows briefly lit up before the entire cathedral exploded in a blue light. Bardock stared at the smoking crater, a lot of saiyan history just went up in smoke…oh well. If they could find another planet after destroying their first one, the saiyans could rebuild another cathedral. A jolt in Bardock's head made him focus as a pink beam sliced through the thick, black smoke. He recognized it as the same attack Cooler used on Turles. He powered up and slapped the beam away but didn't react quick enough to avoid the incoming headbutt by Cooler. Bardock's vision greyed out as he instinctively grabbed his face before Cooler gave him a double fist of his own which sent him crashing into the now ruined buildings below.

Cooler was breathing hard as blood dripped from his mouth, "You're the first person to make me bleed since my brother. I'm impressed saiyan but it's time you knew your place."

It has been...quite a while. Thank you for those who have stuck with this for so long after no new updates since pre-COVID times.

-Merc