All of the earthlings and Dende backed away as Freeza was shouting in fury, the ground quaking under his immense might. Freeza turned his eye to see Nappa, surprised to see that the saiyan was alive. "So another miserable saiyan has been hiding out. No wonder the number of people on my scouter was oddly high. It doesn't matter. That just means lives to quell my wrath!" He started screaming in rage as his power continued to rise, being higher than the earthlings could ever have predicted.

"Ngh.. That strength, how could we possibly stand up to something like that?" asked Tien, trembling under the emperor's pure power.

Freeza chuckled as he turned his attention towards the 3-eyed human. "Of course not. Regardless of their advantage in numbers, 6 ants could never stand up to a dinosaur."

"Are you sure about that Freeza?" asked Vegeta, standing his ground even under the tyrant's terrifying strength. "I've seen what these earthlings can do, they're not easy to pick off when ganging up on someone. And the boy there, he's certainly got potential. Nappa has also gotten surprisingly strong, enough to make him and I all that are necessary to take you on. As for me, I can feel it. My ascension is near. My ascension to a Super Saiyan!"

Freeza looked a bit stunned for a brief moment before chuckling to himself again. "How amusing. You saiyans may have a much higher power level than I ever expected to see you possess, but to go as far as to call yourself that old myth of your race is truly absurd. If you truly are a Super Saiyan, then why don't you come and show me!" He launched himself at the saiyan prince, throwing a punch for his face.

Vegeta managed to catch Freeza's arm just in time to stop the attack from landing, but began to struggle to hold it back. Nappa rushed in to save Vegeta, but the emperor threw a punch at him too, forcing the elite saiyan to block to punch with his arm. Freeza tried to power through the saiyan duo but was shocked to find out they were plenty capable of holding him back.

Tien refused to sit around anymore. He pointed a finger at the terrifying alien. "Dodon Ray!" He fired a yellow beam from his finger and shot it at Freeza, catching him off guard and blasting through the scouter, landing right in the eye.

Freeza leapt back after taking the attack and growled, his eye undamaged but temporarily blinded. "Insufferable creature! You will be the first to die once I'm done with these 2." He turned his gaze back to the saiyans. "As for the both of you, it would seem that I made an underestimation. It seems there may be some weight to your words after all."

"Go on then, Freeza. Show us your transformation and take us on at your full strength. Otherwise you're just gonna look pathetic down in hell." said Vegeta, crossing his arms and smirking.

Freeza's eyes widened a little in surprise. "Well this is a surprise. How in the world did you ever learn about that?"

Nappa chuckled as he joined in on the conversation. "That idiot Zarbon let it slip. Expecting us to die, he let slip quite a few things you probably wanted left in the dark."

Freeza lowered his head and chuckled even more, a bit more maniacally than before. "Very well, I can see you saiyans are just as battle hungry as ever. Very well, I'll show you the true face of death with my transformation!"

Backing up a little in time, Piccolo continued to fly in the direction in which he believed was. Once he approached the power he was sensing, he was shocked to see that this person was completely messed up and on the verge of death. He landed next to this dying namekian and examined him. "Hey, can you speak."

Nail opened his eyes and gazed upon the namekian standing in front of him, completely shocked at how powerful this namekian's power was compared to himself, the strongest namekian. "So you're the namekian that the earthlings spoke of. I take it you're the part that got split off?"

Piccolo grumbled as was apparently rumored about. "Yeah, you could say that. You look pretty young. I take it you aren't this Grand Elder I was told to find, are you?"

Nail coughed up a little blood and groaned. "No, I'm not. I can already feel that the Grand Elder's life has ended. Whether your friends managed to perform their wish or not is something I don't know."

Piccolo clenched his fist as he came all this way for nothing then. He purposefully avoided contact with Freeza to get the power boost that Krillin had been talking about, but now it seems that was a waste of time. "Damn. I'm afraid I can't help you. I'll have to leave you here to die while I got deal with that bastard."

Nail grabbed onto Piccolo's leg weakly, unable to hold an actual grip on it. "Wait. You came this way looking to receive a boost of power from the Grand Elder, correct? Then merge with me. You'll obtain an even greater power than the Grand Elder would have given you."

Piccolo's ears twitched as it was quite an interesting offer. And considering the circumstances, there was only one question in his mind that kept him from accepting. "What'll happen to my individuality if I do merge with you?"

"Fear not, for your individuality shall remain yours. Some of my own personality will merge with yours as well as you gaining my memories, but you'll still remain as you are." said Nail, coughing up a little more blood. "All you must do is put your hand upon my body."

Piccolo grumbled as he was short on time, if he had any at all. He knelt down and placed his hand upon Nail's arm. "Very well, just do it quickly. You know as well as I do that we're pressed for time."

Nail chuckled and closed his eyes. His entire body began to glow, the light enveloping Piccolo as well. The light didn't last long as Nail's body was nowhere in sight, leaving Piccolo by himself.

Piccolo looked at his hand and threw a punch, shocked to see just how fast it was. "This.. This is amazing! I feel incredible! I can win! I feel great! I! Can! Do! This!" He turns his head to where the others are. "Don't worry Gohan. I'll be there soon." He then started flying towards at incredible speeds, too impressed with his own speed to notice a rather familiar power level not too far off.

Around that same time, Raditz was flying around Namek, trying to get a gauge on everything. He'd spend a whole month without having any means to practice sensing energy and was having trouble to sensing the others on this vast empty planet. "Damn, this would be real handy to have my scouter right about now." During his flight, he sensed a rather weak power level below and flew down to it, regardless of who it was. He landed in the middle of a crevice and was greeted with the sound of screaming behind him. He turned around to see a woman with blue hair was the source of the screaming. Hmm, she looks familiar.

"I-I don't know why you're here, but I swear, I don't know where the others are." shouted Bulma, backing up in terror as she wasn't sure if Raditz was friendly. She bumped into the small table, causing the scouter she'd been working on to collapse to the ground.

Raditz went wide-eyed as he looked at the scouter, recognizing it as his own. He walked over and picked it up, placing it onto his head, knowing for sure it was his considering it slipped on perfectly. He turned his head to look at Bulma. "You, what were you doing with this?"

"T-That? I was just using the parts from the other 3 scouters that the others left me to fix it up. Gohan seemed rather attached to it so I chose to put all the equipment into it, despite 2 of them others being better models." said Bulma, unsure what he'd do if she lied to him. Then again, she doesn't know what he might do to her for telling the truth either.

Raditz smirked as he wrapped his arm around her waist, throwing her over his shoulder. He was responded with being yelled at and the woman repeatedly punching the back of his armor. "You better hang on tight. I believe I saw Kakarot's ship on the way here. You'll be safer there." Bulma then wrapped her arms tightly against the saiyan as he flew off to the ship, getting there in a surprisingly short amount of time.

Bulma yelped as she was dropped onto the floor of the ship. Ugh, guess gentleness isn't a saiyan trait. She got back up to her feet and looked up into Raditz's eyes. "So what're you gonna do now?"

Raditz turned on his scouter and widened his eyes as he read the numbers on the visor. He'd never imagined that a scouter would be able to handle reading numbers this high before, even if it was from a distance. He chuckled and shut it off. He took off the scouter and handed it to Bulma. "Hold onto this for me. If I make it back, I'll want it back." Without any more words, he flew out of the ship and off to where the others were, unaware how much time had passed and how much of the fight had already happened.

Back to the present location, Freeza forcefully blasted his battle armor off. Everyone looked at the emperor a little confused. Their confusion was cleared shortly after once he started screaming, his energy rising rapidly and each individual body part growing larger. By the time he as finished, he towered over even Nappa and possessed large horns that curved upwards. The tyrant looked upon each of the fighters standing before him, looking satisfied as every one of them was trembling in fear. "It's been a while since I've transformed, I might have trouble holding back to torture you."

Yamcha hid behind the larger saiyan, more scared than anyone else. "H-Hey. You guys can still take him, right?"

Having overheard the question, Freeza decided to interrupt and answer first. "That's a good question. Do you saiyans think you can take on someone with a power level of over one million? Let's just see." He raised his hand and unleashed his full strength, causing the ground underneath everyone to suddenly explode and launch everyone away, including the saiyans. Krillin flew and shielded Dende, flying a good distance away from Freeza once the debris splashed down into the water. "Now that I've finished warming up, it's time to choose who dies first." He looked among the group of whelps before him, having 7 targets to choose from. His gaze locked onto Tien, remembering the attack earlier. "How about you!"

Before Tien could even budge an inch, Freeza had already flown at him and impaled the earthling with his horn. Tien coughed up blood as the injury was grave, just barely missing a vital organ. "I-If you think I'm dying easy, you got another thing coming." He brought his hands together and arranged his fingers to form a triangle. "Tri-Beam!" He unleashed his attack, shocking everyone as it sent Freeza flying and crashing down into the water. He grunted and put his hand against his gaping hole. That attack deals a heavy toll on the body and his was certainly in no condition to be using it.

Yamcha grit his teeth as one of his best friends was on the verge of dying. He held out his hand and formed a Spirit Ball. He turned his head towards Krillin. "Krillin! Throw a Destructo Disc!"

Krillin looked a bit shocked at Yamcha giving orders but wasn't going to complain. He let go of Dende and held his hand above his head, forming a spinning blade made of energy. The moment he watched Freeza burst out of the water, he chucked the disc at the tyrant, Yamcha doing the same with his technique.

Freeza went wide-eyed as he saw the spinning blade coming for him, knowing exactly what that attack did. He ducked quickly, dodging both the Destructo Disc and the Spirit Ball. "Alright, which one of you dared to throw that?!"

Yamcha growled as he directed his Spirit Ball into the Destructo Disc, not only putting its energy into the deadly attack, but also giving him control of it. He threw his arm back to force the disc to head back towards Freeza.

Freeza managed to hear the disc coming back from behind and literally cut it close, ducking once again, but this time the blade completely severed his horns. The alien winced in pain as his horns dropped into the water below. "You wretches! How dare you do such a thing to the great lord Freeza!"

Freeza's yelling along with Tien's bleeding wound was enough to trigger Gohan's rage, screaming loudly and raising his hands into the air. "Shut up! You'll pay for what you've done!" He threw his hands down at Freeza and fired 2 beams at the emperor, spiraling around each other just like Raditz did against Nappa on Earth.

Freeza was too blinded by his rage to see the attack coming until it had already hit him, getting launched down against a small island. He managed to calm down a bit thanks to the hit, though it hadn't hurt him. "I guess I got carried away. Looks like I know who I'm killing next." Before he could even move, the ground sudden;y caved in and he got launched into the chasm.

The hole in the ground was perfectly square in shape, meaning only one person could have done it. Everyone turned to look at Tien, who looked better than ever. Dende was right behind him, clearly healing the earthling. "There's more where that came from! Tri-Beam!" Tien fired another Tri-Beam attack at Freeza, pinning the emperor inside the hole to take the attack.

Nappa began to laugh as this actually made things simple. "You got spunk, earthling. Maybe you could teach me that trick sometime. But for now, how about one of my own!" He surrounded his hand in energy and swung his hand up, creating his geyser-like attack right inside the whole where Freeza was unable to escape.

Yamcha fist pumped both his arms at how surprisingly well this was going. "Krillin! Let's join in on this!" The smaller earthling nodded and flew right next to Yamcha. Both of them put their hands together and put them behind them, taking the exact same stance. "Ka.. Me.. Ha.. Me.. Ha!" Both of them fired a large blue beam towards the square crater, the beams joining together to form an even larger beam the crashed on top of Freeza. The combined energy of all these techniques colliding on the emperor was enough to create an astronomical explosion, causing everyone to stop. Tien had to stop anyway as he'd used more Tri-beams than he can handle, even with Dende continuously healing him.

Freeza grunted in fury as he rose from the smoke, his body bruised up from all of the attacks, even bleeding a little. He glared at all the opponents he was up against and grit his teeth. "I'm amazed. A bombardment like that would have killed anyone else. It's a shame, you'd have done quite well in my army if you can hurt me that much. But now is the time to say goodbye."

While Freeza was busy monologuing, Gohan had attempted to sneak up behind Freeza, his anger still acting up. He prepared to fire all of his energy against Freeza's back, but the tyrant had caught on, swatting the child as hard as he could with his tail, sending the halfling flying and crashing against the ground, a good number of his bones already broken from just a single hit.

While all of this was going on, Vegeta had been staring at Dende, shocked that the namekian runt was capable of healing wounds that drastic. It was only until a strong power level was approaching the battlefield, that the saiyan prince snapped out of his daze and returned focus to the battlefield. To his, and everyone elses' shock, Piccolo had shown up as if out of nowhere. The namekian's unnaturally high power was enough to freak everyone out. That is except for Freeza, who couldn't sense power levels.

Piccolo turned his head to look at everyone, genuinely surprised that they're all fine. That is except for Gohan. Seeing the namekian's pupil broken was enough to anger him. "All of you, sit this one out. Get Gohan some help, I'll deal with Freeza."

Freeza stared at the namekian and felt both confused and intrigued. "Well well, I didn't expect to find another namekian on this planet. I could have sworn I wiped you all out. Not to mention you look a lot like the namekian I dealt with earlier."

Piccolo scowled and roared out as he rushed at Freeza, putting everyone into shock when they could barely see him move. Piccolo landed an easy punch against Freeza and sent the tyrant flying. "That's for all the namekians you needlessly slaughtered." He held his hand out and fired a large explosive blast in Freeza's direction, engulfing the alien in the destructive wave of energy. "And that's for harming Gohan."

Freeza roared in anger and parted the wave of energy, panting as he was in disbelief that this was happening. "You may have gotten the drop on me before, but let's see you handle this." He aimed his hand at Piccolo and fired a large ball of energy at the namekian, putting everything he can into the blast.

Piccolo watched as the ball came at him, chuckling at how pathetic it was. Piccolo pulled his arm back and punched the ball in the center, the force of the punch launching the ball at Freeza with even more speed than what it was fired with.

Freeza managed to tank the blast and was in even more shock as this namekian was capable of this much power, overpowering his 2nd form. "You're quite the capable warrior, I'll give you that. But I didn't become emperor of the universe merely with this power alone. Now witness as I show you my 2nd transformation!" He screaming as his head started expanding backwards, spikes growing on his back and extending head. His shoulders also extended out needlessly. Once his transformation was complete, even Piccolo was shocked at this monster's power, especially since all the damage that everyone had dealt to Freeza was healed up. "So, what do you think?"

Piccolo chuckled as he started taking off his weighted clothing. They were light as a feather to him, but he didn't want them limiting his movements. "Let's just see if that new form of yours holds some bite to it." He rushed at Freeza and the 2 of them started trading multiple blows with each other.

While those 2 were seemingly fighting on even ground, the rest were watching from a safe distance. Tien was back to full strength thanks to Dende's healing and was eager to get back in the fight to at least help. Dende was off healing Gohan and bringing the halfling back to full strength. Krillin and Yamcha on the other hand had been pulled away by the saiyans. "Look, we don't have time to deal with this. We need to be ready to distract Freeza again in case Piccolo needs healing."

"While that sounds like an idea, I have a better one. We need you to blast us to an inch of our lives!" demanded Vegeta, catching the earthlings and Nappa off guard.

At that moment, Freeza had found an opening and fired a beam right into Piccolo's shoulder, disabling the namekian's arm. Thanks to the handicap, Freeza was then free to fire a barrage of beams at Piccolo, quickly racking up damage on the namekian.

Once Gohan was restored to full strength and witnessed what was happening to Piccolo, his anger immediately exploded, flying at Freeza at full speed. The tyrant was able to tell the brat was coming and attempted to hit the child with his tail again. Gohan dodged this time however and landed a swift kick to the tyrant's face, launching him back. Gohan then fired a powerful Masenko attack at Freeza, forcefully pushing the tyrant back.

Freeza seemed to struggle against the blast at first, but effortlessly pushed it right back at Gohan. Nappa summoned up an energy geyser to launch the Masenko into the sky. Freeza comfortably landed on the ground and examined the child. "How strange. That blast had far more power than his earlier one, not to mention he should have been dying a moment ago. Wait.. Is he a saiyan?! No, that can't be right. He looks nothing like Nappa, and Vegeta has shown no attachment to him. Could Raditz have had a child and I didn't know about it?!"

Witnessing what had just happened, Vegeta turned back to the earthlings and grabbed hold of Krillin. "You know that we saiyans get stronger when recover from near death. That namekian child can heal me after you 2 almost kill us. Then we'll have enough power to deal with Freeza, even in his final form!"

Nappa grinned as he was suddenly on board with this plan. He turned to Yamcha. "Yeah, there's no way Freeza will be able to take us on if we gain a power boost!"

"Alright, I know it's a simple matter of wiping you out right now, but seeing as you're all dead anyway, I shall show you my ultimate power, my final form!" shouted Freeza, beginning to scream again as his power level began to rise up rapidly and his body began to glow.

Only able to imagine what Freeza's final form would look like, Krillin grit his teeth and fired a blast right throw Vegeta's chest. Yamcha hesitated but the did the same to Nappa.

Both of the saiyans started falling to the ground, but Vegeta was simply laughing. "At last, my ascension has arrived."

Around this time, Raditz had shown up inside Freeza's ship. He could clearly feel that the battle was a bit of a distance away, but he sensed a faint energy here and had to check it out, making sure it wasn't Gohan or Piccolo. He looked inside and saw Kakarot inside the pod. "Damnit.. Damnit!" He punched the wall right next to the pod, busting a hole through it. "I finally get to see you again and I can't even have a proper conversation with you yet. Freeza, I swear. I will make you pay!" He was about to run out when he noticed something peculiar on the floor. He knelt down and picked it up. It was some sort of bean that looked vaguely familiar, suddenly realizing this was the same kind of bean that Kakarot tried to feed him while he was on his deathbed and said it would heal him. "I don't know what this is doing here, But I think I'll keep it with me." He held the bean tightly in his hand and flew out of the ship to go meet with the others.

Dende looked at the 2 saiyans with disbelief as he was being asked to kill them, knowing full well that these guys were responsible for the death of an entire village. However, he was willing to heal them, on account that the Grand Elder saw something in Nappa to be able to trust him, heal him, and unlock his potential. Upon healing the saiyans, Dende flew off to go heal up Piccolo.

Freeza witnessed as the namekian child healed the stronger namekian and seeing all the damage on Piccolo fading, grinning as he knew exactly what to do. The area around Freeza suddenly exploded as he finished his transformation. Once the smoke cleared, everyone gazed in shock and terror at Freeza's final form. He was a lot smaller and sleeker than his other transformations, but knew full well that this was a classic case of 'don't judge a book by its cover.' Freeza raised up a single finger and aimed it at Dende, firing a beam that seemed to move instantaneously, creating a large explosion.

Everyone turned to face the source of the explosion, looking petrified at the cloud of smoke enveloping Dende right now. "Dende, no!" shouted Gohan, his rage about to explode. It immediately calmed down as everyone saw the dust settle and witnessed Dende was completely fine, having been shielded by a familiar long-haired saiyan.

Raditz ate the senzu bean to recover from the drastic wounds that he'd just accumulated. He took a deep breath as all his strength returned and even felt more powerful thanks to it. He chuckled and stared Freeza dead in the eye, something he never thought he could do without shaking in fear. "It's been a long time Lord Freeza. Mind if I join the fun?"

And that, my dear readers, is my favorite chapter thus far. Now before I get on with personal comments and get complaints, I need to answer some information. 1. The reason why things turned out better in the fight against Freeza's 2nd form is because of Tien's involvement. The Tri-beam (or Kikoho for any of you weebs out there) is a miracle technique that is able to suppress even the biggest of baddies, like when he completely immobilized 2nd form Cell. And he's a reckless enough fighter to use it even in the worst of situations like when he fired it at Nappa with only one arm in the original canon. 2. Piccolo being much stronger than 2nd form Freeza and being equal with 3rd form Freeza. He's my logic: In the canon, Piccolo barely trained on King Kai's planet, which has 10x Earth's gravity, for roughly a week. In this story, Piccolo sparred and trained with Goku in an environment with 100x gravity in that same amount of time. Add the fact that the fusion with Nail is a huge boost, he'd be able to hold his own at this point. Lastly, Raditz surviving a shot from Final Form Freeza. I know that seemed ridiculous but I'll explain how he did in the next chapter. I don't really have anything else to add to this except for me not being able to resist Piccolo using that ridiculous chant to himself after fusing with Nail. It's just too hilarious. Anyway, tune in for the next exciting chapter of Dragon Ball Z: A Saiyan's Tail.