Reformed Saiyans
Chapter Forty: A Spark of Hope
Within an Instant Krillin felt a powerful aching pain in his stomach caused by Frieza's fist. The force of Frieza's fist had sent Krillin flying for several miles, and immediately after Frieza darted to Yamcha, crushing his arm.
Frieza grabbed Yamcha's wrist, and squeezed it tightly as Yamcha let an agonizing scream escape him, then Frieza jabbed his right elbow into the center of Yamcha's right arm causing it to shatter throughout the entirety of the limb.
A short second after Frieza lifted Yamcha by his shattered arm and slammed him against the ground on his back. Several loud cracks could be heard from Yamcha's back, a pain so intense that it caused Yamcha to cough blood out. Frieza cracked a wicked grin and then kicked Yamcha on his side. Yamcha rolled and bounced against the ground into a nearby small hill before falling unconscious.
"It appears this one is already out of fuel." Frieza said. "How sad, with the amount of trouble I was given to you from earlier, I figured you'd put up more of a fight. Oh well." Frieza shrugged his shoulders and then turned back around.
Next he saw Vegeta rushing in and Frieza swat his tail against Vegeta. "Now Vegeta, I'm saving you for last, so just stay down for me will you?" Frieza said, mockingly.
Raditz soon stood up, and slammed his fist rapidly at Frieza, but each fist had missed. Frieza kept the smug look on his face as he kept avoiding each fist thrown, eventually Frieza decided to take the offensive. Frieza instantly moved near Raditz's massive jaw and slammed his foot against it, causing Raditz to nearly fall back.
Raditz tried to unleash an energy volley at Frieza through his mouth but Frieza unleashed a torrent of energy that obliterated every single blast created by Raditz, then Frieza grabbed Raditz's massive fist and swung him in a circle repetitively.
Then Frieza unleashed a volley of massive energy blasts against Raditz's flying body. As quick as the explosion had come it subsided, revealing Raditz on the ground face forward.
"I think it's time we end your little transformation now, don't you agree?" Frieza said as he darted to the Great Ape.
"H-How can he be this strong!? IT'S UNREAL!" Raditz growled in thought. He clenched his fists tightly and swiftly pushed himself off the ground. Raditz leaped up and swung his giant foot towards Frieza, but Frieza evaded, leaving Raditz to hit the ground and water.
Raditz placed his left hand on his right wrist and created a purple sphere that formed in front of his right hand.
"TAKE THIS! ULTRA SHINING FRIDAY!" Raditz yelled. He charged the blast with the most energy he could, the several islands around him shattered as he unleashed the torrent of energy. However Frieza took a stance and waited for the blast as he rammed his fist into the blast, deflecting it against Raditz.
The blast shot up against Raditz's head, causing him to stumble backwards. Frieza then whipped around behind Raditz, and rushed to Raditz's massive tail before he had fallen. Frieza then grabbed the massive tail and with one strong grip, he concentrated energy around his hand, ripping the tail off.
Raditz's face froze as he felt the tremendous pain shock throughout his entire body, his size dwindled, his fur disappeared, and his body had returned to normal. Raditz had fallen to his knees, groaning in pain.
"D-Damn it! M-My Tail!" He said. Instantly in front of him, Frieza appeared, his wicked grin turned wickeder. Raditz growled and gritted his teeth at Frieza, yet more out of fear than anger.
"Do you understand now monkey?" Frieza asked, getting his face closer to Raditz. "Do you understand why you shouldn't trifle with the likes of me!"
Raditz hurled his fist at Frieza but Frieza caught his fist, and squeezed it tightly as he rammed his fist into Raditz's gut. Once again Raditz fell back down to his knees clinching his stomach, trying to resist the pain. Frieza then placed his foot in front of Raditz.
"Here's a dealbreaker, clean my boots and I'll let you go." Frieza said.
Raditz glared furiously at Frieza and lifted his middle finger. "Go to Hell."
"Wrong Answer." Frieza replied. His wicked grin turned into an angry looking frown as he kicked Raditz's jaw sending the long haired fighter in the sky before Frieza appeared right before Raditz, slamming his leg once more against Raditz.
Raditz plummeted in the ground on the remains of an island, sliding across it, nearly falling in the water. Frieza flying on that same piece of land, walked slowly to Raditz and picked him by his shirt.
"Still alive?" Frieza said. "You Saiyans sure know how to be stubborn, I thought you'd at least be unconscious after that attack."
"Just got healed after that whole catastrophe with Ginyu, and now I'm already back to dying...great…" Raditz thought before a powerful punch landed in his gut, then again, again, and again. As every full second went by another powerful punch was slammed into his gut. Each time the pain became harsher, each time caused him to cough more drops of blood.
"D-Damn it. I should've thought this more through! But a plan against something...like this?! His power is too unreal!" Raditz thought. "I...I knew we shouldn't have gone and fought him! I knew it…" Raditz closed his eyes, taking a deep breath. "Who am I kidding? Kakarot was right, we couldn't escape him forever, so why am I complaining about it. If I die, I'm taking this death standing! Not on my knees!"
"U-Uncle Raditz!" Gohan shouted. He growled furiously as Frieza continued to torture Raditz, Gohan unleashed his energy, and rushed angrily after Frieza from behind. Once Gohan had gotten there, he threw several fists and kicks at Frieza, but Frieza dodged them, continuing to beat Raditz mercilessly.
"You know...I've been wondering about something, Raditz." Frieza said. Raditz remained silent only giving an angry and exhausted look. Frieza whacked his hand against Gohan, sending the boy twenty feet across the ground. "This brat behind me...is he yours?"
Raditz's eyes broadened, "N-No! He's not mine, He's my brother's. Leave him out of this!" Raditz shouted.
Frieza raised an eyebrow, and released his grip, making Raditz fall down on his knees"You actually care for the brat? That's a bit surprising."
"N-..I..That is none of your concern!" Raditz growled. Raditz tried to stand up but mid-way, Frieza shot a powerful beam in his leg. "AREGGHH!"
Frieza turned back around and continued walking to Gohan, the boy had opened his eyes back up, and fear sunk inside Gohan. Gohan shook as the Tyrant came closer, too scared to move, the color from Gohan's face drained.
"You know earlier, I had thought maybe I should spare the brat and make him my personal slave." Frieza growled. "But now, I think I'll just kill you, I'd rather not have it bite me in the back."
Frieza lifted his hand and concentrated his energy, forming a purple sphere of energy in front of it. "I hope you've said your goodbyes runt!"
Again Raditz tried to stand up, hesitant to move forward. "Not exactly how I pictured I was gonna go down. Actually I never pictured my fight against Frieza like this at all!" He thought. With a big sigh, Raditz swiftly moved forward, in front of Gohan right before the blast struck.
"Yea...That's gonna leave a mark…Both the hole in my chest, and the indignity from saving a runt." Raditz looked down at the hole in his chest, falling immediately down afterwards as blood had spilled from the hole and onto the grass.
Gohan gazed with shock. "U-Uncle R-Raditz?" He said.
Raditz let a pained chuckle. "Not quite my p-plan…" Raditz utter. He coughed, and slightly choked on his saliva and the blood that was leaving his body. "Died so I could save you...You went and made me soft, kid."
Breathing heavily, a small amount of blood forced itself out of Raditz's arms right before he fell on his back.
"Uncle Raditz! Please! We'll get you to a med bay, please don't die!" Gohan cried.
"Q-Quit your whining! I..I'm not d-dead! N-not yet!" Raditz stuttered. "Y'know it's k-kinda funny, I've been t-trying to s-save my o-own ass all m-my l-life, trying t-to survive, and I go and save s-some k-kid? B-Better it to be f-flesh and b-blood then some r-random stranger… I..I guess this is g-goodbye, finally g-get to rest."
Suddenly, Raditz's pupils started to shrink, even fade away, his response getting fainter.
"Uncle Raditz! Please!" Gohan whined. He tried to keep his Uncle awake but Raditz's life force became fainter. "Why! Why did you do it!"
"B-Because...you've k-kinda grown on me."
"Really?" Gohan asked.
Raditz started to quietly, but weakly chuckle, louder and louder before laughing hard. "N-No! Not really! AHahahah AGH! Ow...It hurts to laugh…."
"Then why did you save me?"
Raditz growled. "Stop b-being m-making me talk a-all f-feely fe-feely, of course th-that's why I s-saved you!" Raditz's last breath then escaped him and his pupils vanished. His heart beated no more, and his response was gone, Gohan stared in absolute disbelief and shock.
Frieza shook his head, "How pathetic, he died before I could even give him the Grand Finale of his own demise." He frowned. Frieza shrugged his shoulders, aimed his hand at Gohan and continued. "Oh well, guess I'll just have to make due."
"N-No...N-No! No! C'mon!" Gohan cried. Gohan shook his Uncle's lifeless body but nothing had happened, obviously. "Please! No!" The tears spilled down his cheeks as he continued to shake.
Frieza made an exasperated look. "Disgusting." Frieza said. "For a split second, I almost pitied you, then you started whining and crying. Absolutely pathetic, at least a real Saiyan would have the nerve to go down fighting, you don't even deserve death."
Frieza turned around. "In fact. You deserve to watch every single one of your friends around you, to be tortured, cruelly, until their last breath is drawn!" Frieza moved his gaze back and forth as he decided his next opponent.
Krillin looked with shock, gulping hard, Yamcha and Piccolo gave a defensive yet clearly dreaded look, and Vegeta gave an angry growl in response to Frieza.
The thought of how much trouble they've given Frieza, had pissed Frieza off.
"So. Dodoria is dead, Zarbon is dead, and so are the Ginyu's. This is just great! No matter how much I try not to, it enrages me to think about! How am I gonna find someone to replace them?!" Frieza thought. He aimed his eyes first on Krillin, and Krillin shook reflexively in response, then Frieza took a step forward.
Frieza had lifted his other foot to take another step forward, but he stopped, and whipped behind him, wondering why he felt the ground rumbling around him. To his surprise, a large aura that pierced through the Namek skies omitted from Gohan's position, the boy's hair flowed up, and a strange orange emitted from him.
Frieza wasn't the only one shocked, Krillin, Yamcha, and Piccolo were as well, where as Vegeta was angry and shocked.
"What the?! The boy he's emitting so much power! How is that even possible!" Vegeta growled in thought. Vegeta continued, like the others to observe.
Chunks of ground floated, and Gohan growled loudly, his muscles slightly bulked, then finally, he let loose a powerful roar. A roar that echoed throughout the planet, but not a roar of anger or grief, but pure sadness and pain.
When the roar had finally finished itself, Gohan whipped his head to Frieza, his pupils were invisible, but the rage on his face was clear. In an instant, a powerful punch struck into Frieza's gut, as Frieza coughed every bit of oxygen out of his lungs. A kick to Frieza's jaw, sent the Tyrant in the air about thirty feet, then a powerful punch in the back sent Frieza crashing back down, breaking right through a nearby small island and into the water.
The waters raged high, and the island that had been split into, for a moment had tilted high before rampantly laying back down.
"I-Is that...Gohan?!" Krillin said. "What's gotten into him!"
"I...I don't know." Yamcha replied, groaning a bit as he stood up. The overuse of the Kaioken has strained his body, and it could quite clearly be shown, from the over pumped muscles, the bulgy veins, the scratches and bruises, and the somewhat broken limbs.
Krillin as well had some strain on him but thanks to Dende's healing, it had not been a problem.
Meanwhile, Vegeta had continued to watch Gohan rage against Frieza, with an unmeasurable confusion.
"It...It's not possible! There's no way the brat could be a Super Saiyan! But...If he's not a Super Saiyan! Then what's with the orange glow! And the intense power!" Vegeta thought. "There has to be an explanation to this! Maybe an incomplete form? No! Ridiculous! Even an incomplete form would be impossible for the child to grasp! There must be an explanation."
Once Frieza lifted himself out of the water, he took several large boulders with him, carried by his energy, and he unleashed them against Gohan. Gohan didn't move, when the boulders approached him he released a violent explosion of energy that turned them into dust.
Enough dust that caused a big enough cloud that Frieza had no way out of. The Tyrant kept whipping his head back and forth, keeping his eyes peeled to look out for Gohan, however when Gohan came to strike, Frieza had not expected it.
Gohan came from the side, grabbed Frieza's arm and threw him harshly towards the ground, unleashing a volley of massive ki blasts as he did. Each ki blast that was discharged was at least the size of two large soccer balls, and there were dozens of them.
Several had struck Frieza long before he hit the ground, dozens more hit as he reached the ground, pushing him further and quicker to the ground, and dozens of dozens more once Frieza had reached the ground. The ground shattered to a million pieces, turned to dust as the explosion caused by each blast had collided with it, and Frieza was forced into the water, but the water as well was pushed away by the absurd amount of ki.
Over two hundred more feet Frieza was pushed til he finally hit some sort of deep ground, and even then blasts came, and came. Each one causing the explosion to radiate larger and larger, the sucking winds to pull stronger.
"We need to get out of here now!" Piccolo yelled. Without hesitation everyone did as such, Krillin helped Yamcha to his feet, and grabbed Dende, blasting off with the other two. Vegeta, about a hill and a hundred feet away, had already distanced himself before Piccolo called his warning.
A moment later, as Gohan finished his energy blasts, and the explosion began to subside, the boy panted heavily, his rage started to drop. Vegeta continued to watch, and noticed something, he noticed Gohan's pupils returning and his energy dropping or well returning to normal.
"If the boy's energy drops...no that's not good! He only has bought us a moment of time! Damn it!" Vegeta growled. "Why is it dropping? Is it because he's becoming lucid?"
Out of nowhere, Frieza appeared behind Gohan, scratches were visible on him, and so was a face of rage.
"You rotten...worthless...BRAT!" Frieza said. Gohan whipped around to throw a punch, growling with anger, but Frieza caught it. Gohan looked with shock, causing his strange sudden transformation to finish disappearing. "Never! Have I once been so damaged! Especially in this form! Absurd to think that such a child could hold this much power! That does it! You must be killed!"
Frieza grabbed Gohan's neck tightly, though the boy tried to struggle himself off, it proved futile. Frieza increased the tightness of his grip gradually, as Gohan tried to even utter a single word, but not even the sound of his voice could come out. Only oxygen that had escaped him but never returned. Yet, at the last second, Frieza released his grip and punched the boy in his face.
Gohan crashed towards the ground, but Frieza would not let him reach it, as he kicked Gohan in the back, sending the boy in the sky once more.
"Oh no! Gohan! We have to do something!" Krillin shouted. He flared his aura up, but Piccolo had stopped him. "W-What're you doing Piccolo! I'm trying to save Gohan!"
"And just how do you propose you'll do that?!" Piccolo yelled. Krillin looked speechless but still refused not to help. "You can't do anything, I can't do anything nor can Yamcha! Not even Vegeta can save Goku's brat!"
"...Still! I have to try!" Krillin replied. "I'd rather die than let this happen!"
"I agree!" Yamcha added.
"We'd actually be buying more time if we let this play through! Then maybe Goku will be healed in time!" Piccolo said.
"Goku?! I'm sorry Piccolo but as much as I hate to admit it. Goku can't save us...not this time." Krillin frowned and squeezed his eyes shut for a second out of frustration before reopening them. "I...I really wish he could but we're all doomed if we don't act now!"
"You want the brat saved?" Vegeta said, walking on to the mass of land. "Then do as I say. No more questions, no hesitation. Shoot me in the gut. And heal me. AGAIN!"
"You think gaining another boost of power will help you?! After what we just saw! Frieza's well beyond any little power boost!" Piccolo pointed out.
"Gaining a Zenkai boost is more than just power! It can also trigger something we've never seen before! Like a transformation!" Vegeta said. "I can feel! I just need one more! One more near-death experience and I'll achieve it! The Legendary Super Saiyan! SO DO AS I SAY OR THE BOY DIES!"
"If a power blast is what you want, then one is what you'll get!" Krillin said. Once again the bald monk flared his aura, before Piccolo stepped in front.
"No, I'll do it. Chances are I can give him a better near-death experience." Piccolo looked at Dende. "You have any healing left in you Dende?"
Dende nodded. "Y-Yes I do. One left."
"Good. Heal Vegeta, one last time." Piccolo said.
Dende gulped, and hesitantly nodded. "Alright, I'll do it...for Gohan." He said.
Piccolo took a stance, placed his index and middle fingertips on his forehead, and gathered energy. The energy slowly formed, taking the shape of a sphere, with sparks reappearing every split second, growing larger with the sphere, and louder.
"SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!" He yelled. In an instant the cannon drilled through Vegeta's stomach and knocked him to the ground. The blood had begun to pour but Dende was quick to begin Vegeta's healing process.
However, at the same time, Frieza had looked down, stunned at the sight, then when he saw Dende healing, his thoughts raged.
"THAT'S RIGHT! THE HEALING BRAT! HOW COULD I'VE BEEN SO IDIOTIC TO FORGET!" Frieza growled in thought. With the mostly unconscious Gohan in his grip, Frieza gathered energy at the tip of his index finger, and then fired.
"There! He's heal-." The beam penetrated through Dende's chest, piercing his heart, and causing a minor explosion around Dende upon impact. As the dust settled not a second later, Dende's corpse had laid on the ground, revealing what had been already obvious.
Although it could be shocking, the fighters were already too shocked out, rather a bit stunned, Krillin and Yamcha feeling anger afterwards, and Piccolo annoyed.
Vegeta on the other hand was feeling his new power, a wide smirk formed across his face, as he shouted. "Yes! Finally! I can feel it! The Legendary Super Saiyan! I HAVE BECOME IT! PREPARE YOURSELF FRIEZA!" Vegeta yelled. He flared his aura and rushed after Frieza, hurling his fist against the Tyrant's cheek.
Frieza had his guard dropped not quite expecting the attack, it caused him to release his grip on Gohan, but to also be very angry.
"Gohan!" Krillin shouted. He started to fly off before noticing Yamcha beating him to it. Yamcha quickly swooped in and grabbed Gohan, bringing him back.
"He's pretty badly hurt." Yamcha said. The scar-faced bandit took a good look. "But..I think he's okay. He'll just need some rest."
Krillin let a sigh of relief escape him. "Phew...and for a second...I thought he was dead."
"Yeah well we'll all be dead soon anyways. That power boost Vegeta gained was NOTHING! Compared to Frieza. I don't understand how he didn't notice that!" Piccolo replied. He clenched his fist frustratedly. "That idiot is getting way overconfident!"
Krillin looked to the sky following the battle, although it appeared as if Vegeta was able to go toe to toe with Frieza, that certainly wasn't the case.
"Yeah...but...maybe it'll buy us sometime?" Krillin said.
"I doubt it…" Piccolo replied. He stayed silent for a moment, then spoke up again. "It won't be long before Vegeta is beaten too, for now he can buy us a little time, but I have a plan to buy some more. Do you guys got any techniques...any techniques at all that just might beat Frieza?"
Krillin lowered his gaze and frowned. "No...I'm sorry, but there's nothing we could do."
"Yeah not even the Spirit Bomb is strong enough for Frieza." Yamcha added. "At this point we'd just be wasting our efforts."
After several minutes of battle, it had become clear that Vegeta wasn't doing anything to Frieza. Frieza had continued to effortlessly evade each attack.
"I don't get it! Why am I not able to hit him! I'm a Super Saiyan! So why!" Vegeta clenched his fists furiously, floating in mid-air while Frieza stood on nearby ground. "Or am I not a Super Saiyan? Or is Frieza just on such a high level that not even a Super Saiyan can beat him?!" Vegeta shook his head and lifted his two fists gathering yellow energy.
"No! I refuse to believe it! The Legends are true! I know they are! They have to be!" Vegeta shouted. He formed the yellow energy that surrounded his arms and hands, into a ball above the palm of his hands. "TAKE THIS FRIEZA!"
Vegeta swung his hands down and threw the yellow energy ball but Frieza vanished from his spot, the ball had only collided with the ground creating a small explosion that swiftly subsided. Vegeta whipped himself around, feeling Frieza's ki in a new direction, and unleashed two violent torrents of energy at Frieza that followed the tyrant.
For a second it had kept up with Frieza than he sped up, and the blasts exploded against each other before they could reach Frieza. Frieza's face formed a small grin as he continued to dodge a barrage of blasts.
When Vegeta had finished Frieza was gone, Vegeta rapidly turned his head around, and a moment later he found Frieza.
"T-There! B-But how!" Vegeta gasped.
"One minor move at full speed and your head is already spinning?" Frieza said. He let an amused chuckle escape him. "Super Saiyan? I think not."
In an instant Frieza had vanished, reappearing behind Vegeta, and with a simple kick against Vegeta's back, Vegeta crashed towards the ground. Frieza approached Vegeta as he slowly stood back up, and raised an eyebrow.
"You just don't know when to quit, do you?" Frieza said. Vegeta threw a raging fist at Frieza, but Frieza caught the fist and bent his hand back, snapping Vegeta's wrist.
"AAaagggh!" Vegeta screamed in agony.
"Well at least you put up more of a fight than that brat did." Frieza added. Frieza kneed Vegeta in the gut then kicked him up high in the air once more, however Vegeta managed to stop himself from going too high. Frieza waited for the Prince to strike, but he didn't. Vegeta stood there silently.
Frieza raised an eyebrow again. "What's this? You're not going to fight back?" Frieza tilted his head and observed Vegeta. "I wonder...have I truly stripped you of your will to fight?"
Frieza's accusations were right, Vegeta, after all he's tried to do, after everything he's done, nothing has worked, after what he has seen, he was convinced that there was no winning this. So Vegeta stood silently, beaten by Frieza, his will to fight had been lost.
Frieza's small grin grew wider, and much more evil. Frieza released his aura, and flew up to Vegeta, ramming his head into Vegeta's chest. Vegeta let a short groan of pain escape him as he crashed towards the waters of Namek.
Frieza followed after Vegeta, using his energy to keep the waves from breaking Vegeta's fall. Vegeta had landed on the harsh reef of the waters, causing a deep cut to his face, a few other parts of his body. Frieza lowered himself onto the ground, and picked Vegeta up by his hair.
"Now now, I can't have you giving up on a small strike." Frieza chuckled. A crab walking up on Vegeta's shoulder was picked up by Frieza and then eaten. Frieza sent a slow strike to Vegeta's back, and Vegeta uttered a loud groan of pain.
"Are you beginning to regret it? Your foolish attempt to defy me?" Frieza said. "Cause if not, I'll be sure to make you regret it you foolish Saiyan Monkey!" Frieza sent four more slow strikes against Vegeta each time causing him to groan painfully, then he released Vegeta from his grip, letting him fall back on the harsh reef.
"I thought that perhaps you were different, that possibly you were useful, and this is how you repay me!?" Frieza growled. Frieza kicked Vegeta against his side, causing him to roll over, then Frieza slid his foot under Vegeta and kicked up.
Vegeta had been sent in the air with Frieza following after him, Frieza struck his elbow into Vegeta's lower chest, several times over, for a final blow, Frieza slammed his foot against Vegeta, causing him to fall on the ground once more.
"Hey look at that, I managed to aim for the ground. A bit shocking considering there isn't much ground left around here." Frieza said, laughing.
Vegeta crashed harshly on the dirt, small and short streams of blood released out several directions from his mouth. Frieza darted to the same ground, and picked Vegeta up with his tail, then sent another blow into Vegeta's back.
"Once I had known you'd gone behind my back and went to Earth, then to Namek without my permission, I was pissed!" Frieza yelled. "I had almost killed that buffoon Nappa before he made a deal with me, but then like all of you filthy apes he went and backstabbed me as well!"
Frieza landed a somewhat quicker punch to Vegeta's back, causing him to cough a bit more blood out. "Let me see, out of all Saiyans who double crossed me. Out of all Saiyans who caused me the most trouble… turned out to be the same three that I had mercifully spared!"
Frieza's momentarily unmoved face turned into intense anger as he released a slow barrage of punches against Vegeta's back. After each punch Frieza had done it more powerfully, and Vegeta had uttered a quick shout of pain as blood would be pushed out of his system.
After each punch Vegeta's backbone would slowly begin to shatter. About ten more seconds and then Frieza had finally released his grip only to throw Vegeta against a massive hill. Frieza slowly chased after Vegeta to continue torturing him.
"So what now? Vegeta's almost dead and we still have nothing to do." Krillin said.
"Hey Kami, you getting any of this?" Piccolo asked.
"Yes..I am." Kami answered. "Do you need something?"
"Yeah...I have a bit of a plan, and you're not going to like it." He replied. "So do me a favor and summon that Dragon."
"I will but...what do you want me to use the wish for?" Kami asked.
"I want you to tell the Dragon to bring all of those that had died by Frieza and his men, to be brought back to life, and to be brought to Earth. Can you do that?" Piccolo said.
"Yes I can do that, but exactly why do you want to make this wish?" Kami wondered.
"No time to explain. Just hurry." Piccolo replied.
"Right." Kami said.
Kami turned to Mr. Popo and nodded to him. Mr. Popo then turned to his side and summoned the Dragon.
"Eternal Dragon! Arise!" Mr. Popo shouted. The seven Dragon Balls glew bright yellowish orange and then the skies turned dark, and a long bright silhouette appeared out from the balls, revealing Shenron.
"You who has collected all Seven Dragon Balls state your wish!" The Dragon spoke.
Kami turned himself to the Dragon, and took a quick breath. "Alright. Dragon! Is it possible for you to bring back those who were killed by Frieza and his men on Namek back to life AND transport them all here."
Shenron's eyes glow red for a second, then return to normal. "This wish cannot be granted, it is beyond my power."
Kami sighed. "I knew he wouldn't be able to." Kami turned his head to the skies as he contacted Piccolo. "The Dragon can't revive and teleport all of them in one wish, he can only do either or."
"That figures. Well it was worth a shot. Tell Shenron to revive everyone who was killed by Frieza and his men on Namek, even if their lifeforce only had a short time left." Piccolo replied.
"Okay, I'll try." Kami said. He turned back to the Dragon and continued. "Shenron, can you bring back those who were killed by Frieza and his men on Namek, even if their lifeforce had only such a short time?"
Shenron's eyes glowed red once more, and at the same time on Namek, the skies turned back from green to dark.
"Your wish has been granted." Shenron said. He floated up a little bit with the balls. "I shall now take my leave." Shenron vanished and the seven Dragon Balls flew across the Earth.
Piccolo looked at the skies, and sighed with a bit of relief. "Good. Looks like Kami was able to make the wish."
Krillin and Yamcha however looked stunned. "Wait what's going on? What wish! And how'd the sky turn dark."
"I had Kami use the Earth Dragon Balls to bring back everyone who was killed by Frieza and his men, this includes Guru for the short amount of time he has left." Piccolo said.
Both fighters gave Piccolo a confused look. "Wait, why?" Yamcha asked.
"I might have a way to stop Frieza, and in case it doesn't work, I want you guys to have a failsafe. Shenron is not as strong as Porunga, so I'm hoping that if this doesn't work…" PIccolo paused, assuring himself that this was most likely the only solution. "You guys can use the final wish to wish yourselves far away enough that Frieza could never find you. At least long enough you can find a way to beat this monster."
"A way to stop Frieza? How?" Krillin asked, staring in disbelief.
Piccolo didn't answer and instead went after Frieza as the tyrant had nearly struck Vegeta in the chest. Piccolo hurled his fist against Frieza's face, causing him to fall back.
"Agh! You stupid slug!" Frieza yelled as he rebalanced himself.. "How dare you!" Frieza tried to fire a death beam but Piccolo narrowly dodged it and disappeared. Frieza stood quickly up and looked for Piccolo, but the Demon King's son had gripped Frieza's arms from behind.
Piccolo held Frieza down and gathered his energy. "Frieza, you won't be able to escape this blast you hear me!" Piccolo yelled. Frieza turned his head at Piccolo with shock.
"What're you talking about! Let me go, you bastard!" Frieza snarled.
"What do you think! I'm self-destructing, and if I'm going to hell, you're coming with me!" Piccolo growled.
Frieza dropped his jaw. "What?! You're insane! You think some simple blast enhanced by your lifeforce will kill me?!"
Piccolo cracked a grin and chuckled. "This isn't a simple blast, it's a little technique, I actually stole it from one of the Earthlings but modified it for myself. I've already started it and you won't be able to stop it!"
"You're bluffing!" Frieza shouted.
"Am I?" Piccolo said. Frieza tried to struggle and break free but Piccolo's grip became stronger and stronger, then with Frieza still in his grip, Piccolo took him and Frieza to the outer atmosphere. Where energy had built more and more up, eventually the two were surrounded by Piccolo's green energy.
"That technique...it looks like Chiaotzu's!" Yamcha said.
"Then...does that mean he plans to?" Krillin wondered, he shook his head. "No! He can't! Why would he do that! Frieza's too strong, there's no way it can work!" Krillin turned to Yamcha. "Right?"
Yamcha shrugged. "I don't know. It's at least buying us some time, maybe we sho-.." Yamcha stopped and turned around. He noticed Dende standing, alive once more. "Wait..If the wish was to revive all killed by Frieza and his men...then...Dende's alive!"
Krillin whipped his head around to see Dende alive as well. "Dende!" Krillin shouted, with his face lit-up. Dende turned himself around still processing what had been going on.
"K-Krillin?" Dende said. He looked with confusion.
Krillin ran to Dende, and Yamcha followed along. "Alright! You're alive!" Krillin replied.
"But how?" Dende asked. Then something else caught his eye, the skies were dark. "Wait, how is the sky dark? Can somebody explain what's going on!"
"Piccolo...He contacted his other half, Kami, to use the Earth Dragon Balls to wish everyone who was killed by Frieza and his men back to life." Krillin explained. "He thought that if Guru was alive again, we could use the wish from Porunga to transport us so far away that it'll take years and years for Frieza to find us. That way we could have time to prepare ourselves."
"Right now, Piccolo is sacrificing himself to finish Frieza off or at least try to." Yamcha added. Yamcha looked over to Gohan. "Are you able to heal Gohan?"
Dende nodded. "I think so…" He replied. Dende walked over to Gohan and placed his hands over the young boy, after a minute Gohan's wounds had disappeared. After a few seconds, Gohan opened his eyes and awoke, a bit stunned.
After a short recap of events, again, the Group now had to do some quick thinking and action. During this, Piccolo had finally released all of the energy and lifeforce he built up, causing a huge and massive explosion.
The group of fighters hid and distanced themselves from the massive explosion. Such a powerful explosion caused anything within a 10 mile radius to be blown to bits except our fighters who had protected themselves.
At around the same time, the now recently revived Namekians were extremely flabbergasted at their events, the Grand Elder as well, so the Grand Elder did one thing he could, and reached out to Nail, or tried to. He couldn't sense Nail's lifeforce and instead contacted Dende.
With Dende giving the jist of it to Guru, the Grand Elder took a moment to think. Once the explosion had subsided and all that remained was nothing but dust, the group wondered if Frieza was truly beat or not.
"I'm just thinking, if Piccolo truly was unsure of his victory, then maybe we should try preparing a Spirit Bomb now. If Frieza is still alive, then we'd be wasting our time not doing it now." Yamcha said.
"Wait..We?" Krillin tilted his head with confusion.
Yamcha scratched the back of his head, and gazed up for a split second. "Uh well...We've both done Spirit Bombs alone but it was never that powerful. I was thinking if we did it together, maybe it might just give us the edge to create a mastered Spirit Bomb?" Yamcha explained.
Krillin looked down and rubbed his chin. "Hmm." He said. Krillin looked up and stopped rubbing his chin. "Yea..That's not a bad idea...but we need to make sure that everyone can get away safely first." Krillin looked over to Dende. "Dende, I need you to go to the spaceship where Bulma is, and heal Goku up."
Krillin then turned to Gohan. "Gohan, go with him." Gohan nodded in response. "Okay, and Dende, when you can, tell the Grand Elder to get someone to the Dragon, so that the wish could be made. Alright?"
Dende nodded. "Yes. I will."
As Gohan and Dende took off, Yamcha and Krillin had begun the Spirit Bomb process.
"Hey Grand Elder! Are you still there?" Dende asked.
"Yes I am Child, what is it that you need?" Guru answered.
"Is it possible you could get someone to the Dragon? We need a wish to be made." Dende replied.
"I will get to it quickly." Guru said.
"Thanks!" Dende replied cheerfully.
"I...I don't get it! I swore we were dead!" Moori shouted, looking stunned. He gazed around the area, all of his brothers were alive, including the young Cargo. The Namekian stared in disbelief, and shock. However before he could even process what was going on, a telepathic message was sent by Guru.
"Elder Moori?" Guru said.
Moori's eyes blinked and widened for a second. "Hello? Is that you Grand Elder?"
"Yes, It is I child." Guru replied.
"Grand Elder, do you know what's going on? I remember being dead, and all of my brothers as well but...we're alive."
"I don't have much time to explain, but can you see the Dragon Moori?" Guru asked.
Moori turned his head around, looking for the Dragon, eventually seeing him far off in the south.
"Yes I can see him. What do you want me to do Guru?" Moori answered.
"Right now, go to the Dragon, stall him, I'm waiting on Dende for the wish." Guru replied.
"D-Dende?" Moori said. This was unexpected to Moori, after all Dende is still a young boy.
"Yes, Dende has been helping our allies, please hurry and stall the Dragon."
"Yes Grand Elder!" Moori flared his aura and flew off towards south. The other villagers who were still trying to make sense out of this, stared at Moori with confusion.
"Dad should be in here." Gohan said, as he and Dende walked in the doorway. Gohan turned to his right, and there was one other machine next to his father's. Of course the two walked to Goku's machine, Gohan looked at the buttons, and tried to remember which buttons were which.
Luckily, Bulma had arrived at the scene a bit lost in the current situation, and was surprised that Gohan was here.
"G-Gohan?" Bulma said. "I thought you were helping the others."
"Err.. No time to explain Bulma." Gohan replied. "But could you help us figure out how to turn the machine off?"
Bulma slightly tilted her head. "Turn off? But why, doesn't Goku need to heal?" She asked.
"We got Dende to do that, he can finish it off." Gohan answered, shaking his head. "Dende has healing abilities so he can do it quicker than the machine."
Bulma then nodded in response and turned the machine off. The machine bleeped loudly before draining all the liquid, then a strange steam was dispersed before disappearing, and the oxygen mask came off as the door lifted.
Bulma and Gohan lifted Goku out of the machine and placed him on the ground. With no further delay, Dende placed his hands above Goku's chest and started to heal him, the same energy rings that usually come from his healing had appeared.
A moment later, and Goku woke up, taking a second to process, after which the others sped Goku up on the situation, only to find he already had the gist of it.
"Then let's not wait any longer, we should make sure Yamcha and Krillin are okay." Goku said. Gohan nodded in response. Goku turned his head towards Dende. "Thanks for the help Dende, it's really appreciated, but I was wondering if you could help us out just a little longer. Those healing powers of yours could really come in handy."
"It's not a problem, I'd be glad to help." Dende replied, giving a respectful bow.
"Okay looks like we got it working! Alright!" Krillin shouted cheerfully. In the sky was a tiny little blue orb, with sparklets of energy from everywhere gathering up to it, slowly merging together.
"If we can just get enough energy from this and the other nearby planets…" Yamcha replied. He paused, sensing a powerful energy, with two familiar energies on their way here. Yamcha turned his head towards the direction with extreme skepticism. "You feel that Krillin."
Krillin nodded. "Yeah it feels like Gohan and Dende...but there's someone else." It then donned on Krillin, his face lit up. "It's...IT'S GOKU!"
A second after the three had landed right beside the other two, Krillin and Yamcha, although super focused on the Spirit Bomb, gave a cheerful look.
Goku gave a wave to the two. "Hey Krillin, Hey Yamcha, What's up guys!"
"Glad to see you healed again Goku." Yamcha said.
"Yeah, I'd love to chat but uhm...well y'know." Krillin added, letting a chuckle out.
"Yea I know." Goku replied. He turned his head straight ahead. "So…" Goku searched around the battlefield for any other energies. "Piccolo and Raditz really are gone, huh?"
"Yeah, Piccolo tried to sacrifice himself, but he seemed so unsure of his victory…" Krillin frowned. "That...if Piccolo was that unsure, then perhaps he really didn't beat Frieza...It's faint.. But I can feel Frieza's Ki...somewhere. I don't know if he's unconscious or what, but we have to prepare the ultimate attack."
"And Vegeta? I can sense his energy still, he seems to be alive but it's f-." Goku stopped, the sudden appearance of Frieza had made the color out of everyone except for Goku to drain. Goku's normally happy and carefree face turned serious, cautious even.
Frieza looked pissed, enraged, giving an irritated glare at the others, while also still dripping water from having come out of the ocean, and heavily panting. After a few seconds of catching his breath, Frieza took a good breath in and out, then his mad face turned impassive once more.
Frieza observed his opponents for a moment. "Hmm, there appears to be this newcomer, he resembles a Saiyan...Actually...He looks quite familiar. Definitely looks like that brat I was fighting earlier." Frieza thought. Frieza looked at Krillin and Yamcha a bit confused why they were lifting their arms. "Is that some kind of surrend-..."
Frieza stopped, and noticed Gohan was completely healed. "What?! How is he conscious! I had him nearly dead! He should be dead! If not, he should be brutally beaten! The hell's going on here." Frieza continued.
Before Frieza could continue thinking, a familiar voice had spoken up from a foot behind him.
"Y-You're going t-to g-get it n-now Frieza." The voice uttered weakly. It was Vegeta, coughing in between his words, with so little energy to speak. Everyone gave a slightly shocked reaction, especially Frieza who couldn't believe after the intense torture he had given, Vegeta was still alive.
Vegeta pushed himself up a bit with his elbow and continued. "H-He's what y-you fear m-most! A S-Super Saiyan!" He cracked a smirk, and cocky chuckle.
Frieza gave a disgusted look as he said, "So. You're still alive? I guess I'll have to fix that." He lifted his finger and shot yet another beam into Vegeta's chest, pushing his seemingly weightless body 10 feet further out.
Everyone gasped in shock, especially Goku, who had become slightly angered at Frieza's attack. "Why did you do that! He could barely move let alone defend himself!"
"Serves him right, I was getting sick of him rambling on that silly ol legend." Frieza scoffed. "Besides, that wasn't a funny joke."
Goku gave Frieza an angry glare and growl.
"D-Don't tell me! You're s-still on that m-mercy n-nonsense!" Vegeta shouted. Goku gave a look of surprise, and Frieza raised an eyebrow in response to Vegeta still being alive. Vegeta uttered a short and weak growl, with a curse under his breath, although it was quite painful. "Y-You're not A Super...Super Saiyan! The o-only w-way to defeat Fr..Ack! Frieza! Is to toughen your heart! Then maybe! M-maybe you can become a S-Super Saiyan!"
"I could never act as cold blooded as you, even if it makes me stronger." Goku replied. "Save your energy, stop talking, it'll only waste your energy." He turned his gaze back to Frieza for a second but then again Vegeta spoke, turning Goku's attention back.
Vegeta scratched the dirt with his hands, struggling to stay awake or..alive. "Li..Listen to me Kakarotto!" Vegeta said. "Y-You need to kn-know what happened! T-To Planet V-Vegeta! Wh-where we were born!"
"I already know what happened, Raditz told me." Goku said.
"B-But..Did he tell y-you everything?" Vegeta asked. Goku looked unsure and skeptical. Once again Vegeta scratched the dirt, quietly groaning in pain, trying to take a breath, but a breath so painful that it made his entire body scream in pain.
"Th-The planet is gone, destroyed, that's true...but.." Vegeta said. "It wasn't no meteor collision, he did it! Frieza! He destroyed our planet! After we served h-him faithfully, b-blindly following his e-every l-last order!" To...well to anyone's shock, tears formed beneath the eyes of the Royal Prince, although they put up fight to stay up, they gradually fell.
"H-He betrayed us, disposed of us like c-common trash, wiped us from existence! So now we're all th-that remains!" Vegeta continued. "Th-..They're all gone! My Father the King! Your Parents! We were growing, b-both st-strength and numbers! And F-Frieza, Frieza feared that soon a S-Super Saiyan would b-be born among us! It terrified him!"
Frieza rolled his eyes. "That old story again?"
"Pl-Please! I'm b-begging you, f-for the pr...pride of the S-Saiyan race!" Vegeta cried, reaching his hand out. "D-Defeat H-Him! He must d-die by a S-Saiyan's hand!"
At last the Prince had shed his final tear and breathed his final breath. A random gust of wind blew, as a silence fell for a short moment.
"Vegeta…" Goku muttered.
"I was wondering when he'd be done, he was getting on my nerves." Frieza said. "Now that he's done shall we resume our horror show?"
"For you to actually cry...for you to beg me for your help...I could only imagine how hard it must've been." Goku said. Turning his head off to the side, Goku gave an angry grunt and unleashed a powerful wave of kiai from his eyes. The kiai made a somewhat deep hole, big enough for Goku to bury Vegeta under.
"I get it now, It wasn't losing your race that made you angry." Goku said, the palm haired fighter started placing dirt over Vegeta's body, slowly covering him up. "At least not entirely...It's because he made you his puppet."
"I may have hated you when you were alive…" Goku continued, placing more dirt over Vegeta. "But I always respected your pride, and now it's time for me to share some of that!"
After Goku had finished, he stood up and turned to Frieza with a serious look on his face.
"I am a Saiyan! Raised on Earth!" He announced. "And for every single Saiyan you've made suffer, every last Namekian you've slaughtered! I will defeat you!" Goku's aura enveloped around him as he released his power, taking his signature stance.
"Hmph, I'd like to see you try." Frieza replied, chuckling wickedly. He also took his signature stance.
Goku rushed after Frieza, shouting powerfully, and hurling his fist. Frieza moved back and vanished, reappearing right behind Goku. Goku spun around and quickly swung his leg, and Frieza disappeared again.
Goku whipped his head around a couple of times, searching for Frieza's energy. "Where'd he go?! He's moving so fast I can't even lay a finger on him." Finally finding Frieza's location, Goku darted to the tyrant and hurled his fist once more.
Frieza however caught Goku's fist, Goku quickly retracted his fist and threw an uppercut but Frieza inched back. Goku pulled his fist back again and hurled his other fist, but Frieza's tail wrapped around his wrist, preventing Goku from pulling back although he did try.
"Is that all you've got?" Frieza asked. "If so, then you'd better give up now, otherwise you have no chance of beating me!"
Goku cracked a smile. "Nope!" He answered. Goku released a loud grunt, and suddenly several images of Goku appeared around Frieza, a bit stunned by this, Frieza accidentally releasing his grip.
"W-What the?" Frieza whispered, darting his eyes and whipping his head around. He hurled his fist at one image but his punch phased through. "This is nothing more than some stupid cheap trick! He thinks he can slip away with this? Feh!"
Frieza gathered energy at the tip of his right index finger and unleashed a torrent of energy which he whipped around at each image. The blast phased through them all and not one was damage, all images then disappeared a second after.
"Okay, so he slipped away but he's not hiding from me!" Frieza thought. Frieza gathered energy above the palm of his right hand which he lifted up. "You can run filthy ape! But you can't hide!"
Frieza aimed to throw the energy ball to the ground but Goku's sudden appearance, and flash of light he caused blinded Frieza, stopping him from firing any blast.
"He..He actually got Frieza with the Solar Flare technique! No way!" Krillin gasped. "We could barely do it last time, and we had to amplify it with several different things!"
"I know!" Yamcha added. The two fighters watched in awe and shock, while also focusing on collecting the energy for the Spirit Bomb.
"D-Damn it!" Frieza growled. "You pests and this worthless technique! Just how many more times will you attempt to stun me until you give up!"
"C'mon, we need to finish the Spirit Bomb." Yamcha said. Krillin nodded in response. "We're so close, we just need some more energy!"
The battle between Goku and Frieza continued to rage on, with Goku using whatever tricks he had up his sleeve, however within only a short few minutes that changed. Frieza became weary and restless of Goku's tricks, powering up to ten percent of his power, Frieza had turned the tides instantly.
Frieza had then begun to slowly take down Goku, no matter what he had done, any punch, kick, any special attack was blocked, dodged, or deflected. Frieza had gone on the offensive as Goku grew exhausted, throwing several punches and kicks to vital areas such as Goku's chest, gut, head, and neck.
"You're just wasting your time." Frieza said. "I'll give you one last chance, give up, and I might just spare you."
"No! Never!" Goku shouted. He hurled his fist but Frieza spun around, and whipped his lower leg against Goku's neck. Goku crashed in the ocean, nearly falling unconscious. In his short state of unconsciousness, something rang through his mind, voices echoed, they begged for his help, revealing their voices as his family, his friends, and even the trillions that Frieza had slaughtered.
"I...I won't...I WON'T GIVE UP!" Goku regained consciousness and flared his aura, unleashing his energy. He blasted out of the water and hurled his fist against Frieza's right cheek, pushing harder and harder yet Frieza pushed his head a couple inches back.
Frieza instantly rammed his fist into Goku's gut and Goku coughed bright red, a small puddle of his blood spilled in the water below them, dissipating away from the salty seas.
"D-Damn it! There has to be something I-I can do!" Goku thought.
"I grow tired of this. You're boring me now, do you have anything else? Or is this all you have?" Frieza asked.
"I have to try something! Anything! Wait...What if I used that power boosting technique Krillin and Yamcha were always using? It can't hurt to try." Goku's mind raced, as Frieza prepared to blast him. "Oh how do they do it? Something like this?" Goku took a powering up stance. "And they shout...what was it again? Oh right!"
"KAIOKEN!" Goku shouted, his aura flashed from white to red a couple of times before going fully red, everyone around him looked shocked, Frieza was dazed, allowing Goku an opportunity to strike his fist against Frieza's face.
Frieza had crashed into a nearby hill, breaking free from the rubble a moment later.
"W-What just happened?!" Krillin shouted. "He didn't just…"
"He used the Kaioken?!" Yamcha gasped.
"Isn't that a good thing though? Now Dad can boost his power to at least stall Frieza's longer." Gohan asked.
Yamcha shook his head. "No, that's bad, very bad." He answered. "There are consequences to using the Kaioken even when you've mastered the basics, but without proper training it can burn out his body."
"T-Then we have to help him! Do something!" Gohan said.
"We need to stick to the plan. If things get too much you can go in there and grab your Dad." Krillin replied.
Gohan frowned and bit his lips. "Alright." He sighed.
"Okay, something isn't right, my body feels so hot right now! And I can't seem to relax my muscles!" Goku thought. His body looked extra bulky, his veins were bulging, and his nerves felt like they were on fire.
"YOU IDIOT!" A voice shouted, a somewhat familiar voice shouted, it echoed in Goku's mind loudly, causing Goku to flinch.
"Ow! Who..What!" Goku said, he darted his head around but couldn't find who the voice had come from. "Uh Hello?"
"It's me King Kai you idiot! The one who trained your friends!" King Kai replied.
"Ooohh! I thought you sounded familiar, what's up?" Goku smiled.
"You shouldn't have used the Kaioken technique! You've never been trained for it! You're lucky right now that you didn't die from it! The Kaioken technique, especially without training, causes SEVERE strain on the body, mind, and SPIRIT!" King Kai lectured. "That was a stupid and risky move!"
Goku let a short chuckle escape him. "Sorry, I was all out of options." He said. Goku's smile turned serious as he caught something with his eye, Frieza had reached his hand out to push himself out the rubble. "Er Sorry King Kai, looks like we'll have to finish this later. Sorry about that, I really had no choice, I was just trying to buy sometime."
Goku darted to Frieza who tried to fire a death beam at him, narrowly Goku avoided the beam, but not the punch that had landed against his chest.
Meanwhile in Otherworld King Kai let out a sigh.
Goku tumbled against the ground from the powerful punch, but quickly regained his balance only to have been met with a punch to his face, sending him flying once more. Goku crashed against a cliff, and fell face down.
Frieza slowly floated over to him, shaking his head. "This Saiyan just doesn't know when to quit." He sighed.
A second later, Goku lifted himself up, and panted heavily, a small stream of blood poured from his nose and lips. "Okay..Maybe that wasn't such a great idea." He thought. "As a matter of fact that wiped me out! I can barely feel anything right now."
Frieza started pacing himself towards Goku, "What modest powers the Saiyan Race does, or rather did possess was absolutely wasted on them. The slaughter of the lot was a whole lot mercifuller in the grand scheme of things, don't you agree?" Frieza said.
"I'm...I'm done for." Goku thought.
"Kakarot! How dare you give up! You're part of the Saiyan race, have some Pride!" A voice echoed.
"I'm...I'm n-not a Saiyan like you." Goku muttered.
"Stop convincing yourself that! You personify our race!" The voice continued.
"Just stop! None of it matters anyways...even together..-we..!" Goku whipped his head around, gasping in shock. "V-Vegeta?!" To his side, was the Spirit of Vegeta, reaching itself out to Goku. Goku looked with his jaw dropped, as the image of Vegeta being dead flashed in his mind for a second.
Frieza raised an eyebrow, looking at Goku as if he were insane. "The hell are you muttering about now?"
"The blood in your veins.. That perfect instinct for battle! Not a single doubt in denying what you are!" Vegeta said. "Reach down deep. Feel the pain to those of us who failed. Your brethren decimated, your homeworld lost!"
"Does it not enrage you to stand before the man responsible for slaughtering us all?!" Another voice spoke. This time it was the Spirit of Raditz who spoke, standing only a few feet off in the distance of the blue void that now momentarily roamed Goku.
"My father, your father…both gone" Vegeta continued. His Spirit changed to represent a younger Vegeta. "Dead. Killed by him! Lord Frieza!"
"You are the last of our kind, Kakarotto!" Raditz said, his Spirit as well changed to show a younger version of himself.
"Everything we are. Everything that we were, everything that we know! Now survives only in you!" The two said in sync.
The two Spirits then returned to their Adult forms.
"And he won't rest, not until every last trace of that has been eradicated." Vegeta explained.
"Because he's haunted every day and night by a single, overriding fear." Raditz finished.
Vegeta's Spirit then changed into the Great Ape form with Raditz's Spirit doing the same.
"That the Legendary Super Saiyan would rise up to defeat him!" Vegeta shouted.
"And obliterate him into ashes!" Raditz said.
The two spirits returned to their previous form.
"I dreamt…" Vegeta said.
The Spirit of Vegeta's father, King Vegeta appeared and spoke in sync with the other two.
"I yearned to be the one to avenge us." Next a Spirit of Bardock appeared and spoke in sync with the other three. "Yet he battered and broke me just as he did the others. You cannot know the torment I've died in."
The Spirit of Bardock and King Vegeta had faded away immediately after.
"Unless you're the one to finish this! Otherwise...We'll be lost." Vegeta said. His Spirit faded away
"Lost forever to the memory of time." Raditz added. His Spirit then faded as well.
"For me..Earth has always been my home, so I'm not sure if I can relate but…" Goku paused and took a deep breath, staring Frieza down in the eye. "I owe it to too many people to lose, I just need to buy more time. So for the sake of the Saiyan Race! The Planet Namek! And all the other people you've slaughtered! I will defeat you!"
Frieza looked annoyed, and growled. "Whatever nonsense this is, it won't save you from the death I'm about to unleash!" Frieza firmly planted his right foot in the ground and lifted his left one to leap off the ground, however dozens upon dozens, upon dozens of energy blasts came roaring down against Frieza.
Frieza had no time to figure out who or what had done because each blast quickly created a massive smoke and dust cloud to prevent that. The blasts came and came like a large barrage, Frieza decided to wait til it was over to make his move.
During that time, Goku darted his head to find who was doing that, and saw Gohan unleashing the energy blasts, but before he could even react Gohan gave him a hand motion, pointing towards Dende. Instantly getting the message, Goku slipped over to Dende who without question began healing Goku.
"Thanks Dende." Goku said.
"No Problem."
"Okay Guru, I'm here. It took a little while but I've made it, what should I tell the Dragon?" Moori asked telepathically.
"Hold on, I must ask Dende what it was again. Please ask the Dragon to hold out a little bit longer." Guru answered.
"Yes Grand Elder." Moori spoke to the Dragon in the Namekian language, and Porunga sighed.
"Very well, I shall hold out for as long as I can, but be wise and quick to make your decision." Porunga replied.
"Dende...Dende! Are you there?" Guru wondered.
"G-Guru? Is that you?" Dende asked.
"Yes it is I, what is the wish?" Guru answered.
"Let me find out from the others real quick." Dende replied. After finishing healing Goku up, Goku immediately went into action, before Frieza could grab ahold of his son. Dende ran over to Krillin and Yamcha swiftly.
"What exactly is the wish?" Dende asked.
Yamcha and Krillin looked at each other then back to Dende. "We've been thinking. Piccolo wanted us to transport all of the Namekians, and all of us away from Frieza to give us a better chance but…" Yamcha said.
"But...what if we were to stand our ground here. If we...If we don't stop Frieza now, if we don't stop him here, he'll continue to terrorize the Universe and we may never have a chance like we do now." Krillin added.
"Would it be right of us...would it be okay with you guys, if we change the wish? Change it so that the Planet can have its energy restored, so that we can be able to use the restored energy in the Spirit Bomb, to stop Frieza. If we can make this Spirit Bomb, the biggest Spirit Bomb ever, we might be able to stop him."
"I'll ask them." Dende replied.
After explaining everything to Grand Elder Guru, Guru connected all of the Namekians together telepathically, and told them of the dire situation. With that being said after some thoughts were taken, everyone agreed with Krillin.
"I agree! We should stand our ground! For the Greater Good!" One Namekian said.
"For Planet Namek!" Another cheered.
"FOR THE GREATER GOOD! FOR PLANET NAMEK!" They all cheered.
"Then I will make haste." Moori replied.
"Before you do Moori. Modify the wish a bit, rather than restoring the energy of Planet Namek, use it to allow the ones called Krillin and Yamcha to be able to connect to other nearby Planets' energy. Porunga should be able to get at least the ones within this solar system. It'll be much more powerful that way." Guru explained.
"Very well." Moori said. With no further delay, Moori spoke his native tongue once more, and the Dragon's eyes glew red after immediately taking the request.
"The wish you have requested has been granted. I shall take my leave now." Porunga announced. He disappeared and the balls as well had shot across the sky in several split directions.
"Dende, let our allies know the wish has been granted." Moori said.
"Right!" Dende turned to Krillin and Yamcha. "The wish has been granted, everyone agreed with Krillin...except, Guru did a modification to the wish."
"A modification? What do you mean?" Krillin asked.
"He thought it'd be more powerful if he could get you guys connected to the other planets within the solar system, that way you can get energy from those planets rather than just this one."
Krillin and Yamcha's faces lit up. "R-Really?!" Yamcha said. "Then I guess we better start now!"
"Right!" Krillin nodded. The two focused on their Spirit Bomb, reached out for the other Planets, asking for their help. They could feel it, the energy coming, it all gathered in the void of space, but it was taking some time to come.
After a few minutes, the Spirit Bomb, it was huge, it...almost became overwhelming, it wasn't done yet.
Goku looked over to the Sky, and as battered as he was, he was still able to chuckle.
"What are you laughing for Monkey? Do you not realize the severity of your situation right now?!" Frieza's anger boiled over once more. He lifted Goku by his shirt and rammed his fist against Goku's face. "How can you find this funny?!"
Goku lifted his finger, and pointed to the Spirit Bomb. Frieza whipped his head and his angry face disappeared, his jaw dropped, his eyes widened.
"W-What the hell is that?!" Frieza said. Although he couldn't sense ki, he couldn't sense the Spirit Bomb's overwhelming presence. "The hell is that thing? Is this what those two Earthlings were trying to do! Well it won't stop me!"
Frieza threw Goku across the landscape, and lifted his index finger. He created a black energy sphere with red electricity, an almost creepy, yet insane smile cracked on Frieza's face.
"Okay I see how it is…" Frieza muttered. "You all just wanna keep intervening don't you? None of you will rest until my very patience has been tested." He continued to let a quiet psychotic chuckle escape him, clenching his fist tight to the point of squeezing a bit of his own blood out. That creepy look disappeared as an enraged face came over.
"You miserable insects! YOU WILL ALL HAVE THE SAME FATE AS THIS PLANET!" Frieza yelled. He floated up into the air gradually, preparing his attack. After a minute, when he got ready to throw his attack, the Spirit Bomb not only got brighter, but much bigger.
"Finally! The energy its here!" Yamcha shouted.
"Let's go!" Krillin said. The two threw their hands down, aiming the Spirit Bomb at Frieza, who turned around in shock and anger. Frieza snarled and threw his blast at the Spirit Bomb, but it consumed Frieza's attack with no difference to its power.
Frieza had been rendered speechless, only bewildered by the size and power of this thing as it came from him.
"EVERYBODY GET DOWN!" Krillin shouted, jumping into the ground. Gohan and Dende followed along, and Yamcha hurried to grab Goku out of the way.
Frieza had his hands full as the Bomb made its way closer, Frieza stretched his hands out in an attempt to push the Spirit Bomb back, but it kept going, like a Giant Bulldozer crushing everything in its path.
"I...I WON'T LET YOU!" Frieza shouted. "I AM LORD FRIEZA!"
Frieza struggled to push it away, but the Bomb kept moving, as it came closer to the ocean, the water was forced away, allowing itself to continue pushing Frieza closer to the ground. The planet rumbled and rumbled, every Namekian off in the distance hurried to protect one another, the hurricanes blasted through, and clouds formed around the planet.
"T-This is m-mere...ch-child's..p-play!" Frieza said. He was trying to convince himself that, but it wouldn't work, he tried to push energy blasts into it, but every blast created from his hands was absorbed into the Spirit Bomb, turned from negative into good energy.
Soon the Spirit Bomb had touched the ground, with Frieza pushed up against it, the bomb detonated, taking Frieza with it as the tyrant screamed in agony, before going silent. For several moments it was nothing more than a massive explosion erupting, but soon after, it had finally gone calm.
There had been water from Namek's vast ocean filling up the tremendous gaping hole in the planet, pulling anything within the water with it.
Only Krillin and Dende had managed to escape the grasp of the Spirit Bomb; it had appeared that the others might have fallen in the ocean from the incredible force.
To be continued…
A/N: I WAS Supposed to have this as the finale chapter, but uh, things change so….ye we got one more chapter in store for ya.
Powerlevels:
The Spirit Bomb: Above 40M
Frieza: 4,800,000 (Against Goku, and Vegeta after Vegeta had lost his will to fight)
Frieza (Against Gohan's Form): 30,000,000
Goku: 3,000,000
Vegeta: 2,500,000 (This is his final powerlevel after his last zenkai)
Piccolo: 1,400,000 | Self-Destruction: 15,000,000
Gohan: 300,000 | Post Zenkai (Again): 600,000 |Power-Up Form: 30,000,000
There will be an explanation to Gohan's form, albeit I'm sure y'all know what it is, but you'll have to wait till next time.