And here it is! The penultimate chapter for this arc. I have enjoyed writing this arc. Mainly because of all the minor changes I made to make it feel like I had put more of a spin on it. Hope you enjoy!
Chapter 13: The Tyrant's Turn
Everything had finally taken a moment to calm down and the fighters all had the chance to take a breather. Krillin dropped to the ground and sat with his hands on his leg. He clearly had some sort of injury. There was blood on his Gi and it was torn on his right leg. He was very tired as well.
Holline stayed on her feet, but used a hand to steady herself on a rock as she tried to regain her breath and energy. She had a cut on her forehead and quite a bit of blood had run down to her chin. She hadn't ever been a battle as gruelling and tiring as this one before, but she was proud to be able to help.
Trunks still had a dislocated shoulder and he wasn't letting Goten try and pop it back in. He just sat against the rock and dealt with the pain. Goten was trying to fuss over his best-friend, but he was ignoring his own injuries. The top half of his clothes had been almost completely shredded away and he had a few gashes across his chest and blood had dripped down along his torso.
Pan didn't have an obviously injuries other than some bruises and a small cut on her face. There was only a tiny bit of blood, but she wasn't paying any attention to that. Her focus was the ongoing conflict. She was stood by her Father. Gohan was ok, but he chose to sit out the rest of this fight, unless he was needed. The only completely unharmed fighter that was currently resting…was Uub. He hadn't taken a single scratch in the fight, but that certainly didn't mean he was happy.
The thing right in the forefront of Uub's mind was how an entire city and island had been eradicated all because Freeza wanted to fight against Goku and the Saiyans. Uub couldn't say it out loud, but he was starting to question the usefulness of the Saiyans on Earth. So much destruction.
He shook those thoughts from his mind as he thought about how they just needed to beat Freeza and get this conflict over and done with.
Noca was ready to fight Freeza, but someone had a few worries on his mind. The Saiyan Prince stepped forward and placed a hand on Noca's soldier.
"It's not that I don't trust your abilities, but Freeza is a terrible opponent, are you sure you want to do this?" Vegeta questioned, but Noca simply smirked and nodded back at his teacher. Vegeta smirked with pride. "Good, that's what I wanted to hear."
Noca stepped forward again.
"I don't care who fights him," Vegeta stated to his student as the Teen stepped forward, "As long as a Saiyan is the one to end that Bastard's life."
Noca nodded over his shoulder and focussed on Freeza. He stopped walking and glared ahead at his enemy. Freeza wore a grin that scream confidence, or arrogance. Noca wanted to ensure he wiped it from his face and wiped Freeza from reality. He would give it his all, but his Saiyan instinct told him not to rush in at his full strength.
Tagoma and Shisami both started walking towards their opponents, Vegeta and Piccolo, respectively. The two allies, moved into stances and readied for the combat to start up once more. Piccolo raised his power and made full use of his reserves. Vegeta didn't want this to go on too long so he flashed Super Saiyan and showed he was ready.
All three of the good guys blasted towards their opponents at the same time. The fights had begun.
Noca made the first move against Freeza, but the tyrant didn't even make an effort to dodge of block whatever was coming. This threw Noca off a little as he quickly altered his plan and phased to Freeza's left and attempted to punch him in the head. The small villain phased immediately and Noca stumbled down, but managed to stay up. Freeza reappeared right behind the teen and Noca felt the presence.
He swung around and tried to attack Freeza, but the tyrant had already phased once again. Noca stopped and looked around, wondering where Freeza would show up next. He hadn't expected him to be this fast. Noca was actually a little worried. He completely stopped moving and tried to focus his senses to pick up Freeza's movements. It wasn't so easy. The tyrant was moving so fast, Noca's senses couldn't keep up.
The teen started to feel some energy constantly handing around to his right. It still moved away very quickly, but Noca was starting to assume that's where Freeza was. He grinned to himself and prepared to block on the right whenever Freeza finally decided to stop moving.
Finally, the energy stopped moving around too much and Freeza moved into the attack like Noca had predicted, but he wasn't to the teen's right. At the last second, Noca noticed Freeza's energy on his left. The Saiyan turned quickly, but was unfortunately met with a knee to the side of his head. Noca was knocked off of his feet and bounced away along the ground.
He did manage to flip up and back to his feet, but he was still very shocked by what had happened. He stopped to think about it some more.
"How is he so fast? I need to keep my focus," Noca told himself, mentally. Freeza was standing tough and staring at Noca with the same evil grin on his face. Noca cursed under his breath and took a moment to steady himself. He took a couple of breaths and closed his eyes. Freeza's brow raised.
Noca's eyes snapped open and the teen flashed forward at an extreme speed. He had a punch aimed for Freeza's head, but that was easily avoided by a swift movement to the left. Noca cursed again and attempted to follow up with a kick to Freeza's head, but the tyrant ducked below the leg and sent a punch up into Noca's gut. The teen dropped back but Freeza followed up with two quick jabs and a strong whack from his tail.
Noca was knocked towards the ground and landed on his back. He grunted in pain, but quickly jumped up to his feet. He glared towards Freeza, but saw that he was just standing in the same calm and composed position as before. Noca grunted in an annoyed fashion, again and charged in once more.
He sent a right hook in towards his target, but Freeza simple stepped back and the punch went across his body, not hitting him. He followed with a left kick aimed up, but once again Freeza simply stepped back to avoid it. Noca straightened up and went for a jab with his right, but the villain just caught it without a second thought and retaliated with his own punch. Noca stumbled away and fell to one knee. It really wasn't his day.
Freeza titled his head to the side and started to chuckle, "I really expected so much more from a relative of Vegeta's."
Noca looked up at Freeza and growled through grit teeth.
"It's a shame really, but I will have to kill you and all your insignificant friends," Freeza's follow up statement didn't agree with Noca. He stood up and glared towards the tyrant again.
"No!" Noca screamed as he rushed in to attack once more.
Meanwhile, Vegeta was in the midst of his fight with Tagoma. The Elite Solider managed to land a kick to the Prince's head and send him rolling through the air. Tagoma dropped down towards Vegeta and attempted to punch down on him, but Vegeta caught the fist quickly and twisted Tagoma's arm away. After doing so he sent two right jabs into Tagoma's chest and let go of Soldier. Vegeta moved so he was above the soldier and then kicked him down towards the ground.
Tagoma smashed down and Vegeta followed up with a blast barrage. Tagoma managed to jump up, avoid the blast and then rolled away to the side. Once clear of the blast range he charged up towards the Prince and made it to his level. He moved in with a spinning kick and Vegeta had to quickly cancel out his energy attacks and block with his left arm.
He pushed Tagoma's leg away and sent a blast into his torso at point blank range. It had been reasonably powerful, but only succeeded in scorching his armour. Vegeta was surprise and as Tagoma was back away the Prince phased to his side and punched him in the head.
Tagoma dropped away and grunted in pain, but he wanted to attack next. He shot towards Vegeta and sent in a right armed punch, Vegeta simply blocked and parried it. Tagoma followed up with one aimed low for Vegeta's ribs, but the Prince blocked that one too. The soldier's next attempt was a kick aimed for Vegeta's head, but the prince backed away, letting it sail past his face.
Tagoma backed off after another failed attempt and then rushed in sending a barrage of punches for his opponent. Vegeta simply avoiding all of them and then caught the final one. Tagoma was shocked, but then a smirk formed.
"You really are powerful," Tagoma muttered. Vegeta smirked, but then realised Tagoma was trying to pull away. The Prince tightened his grip and Tagoma growled in annoyance. He realised he wasn't getting anywhere and instead pulled himself towards Vegeta. He sent his head crashing into the bridge of Vegeta's nose and the Prince was knocked back. They both had to shake off that impact, but once they stopped and noticed one another they were in to it once more.
Over on the opposite side Piccolo and Shisami were locked in combat as well. Piccolo stretched out an arm and grabbed onto Shisami's soldier. It wasn't a great grip and Shisami laughed at Piccolo's attempt, but the Namekian was simply using it as a way to pull himself towards Shisami.
The Namekian began to retract his arm and dropped towards Shisami at quite a great pace. He landed a rather tough knee to Shisami's face. As the red-skinned warrior fell away he grabbed on to Piccolo's arm and and pulled him down with him. He managed to move into an ideal position and sent his knee into Piccolo's gut and followed up with a head-butt to the face.
Piccolo was knocked away, but managed to twist in the air and charge in for another attack. He crashed his own knee into Shisami's head and then kicked out sending the soldier soaring through the air. Piccolo phased to Shisami's position and performed an overhead kick, sending the solider flying towards the ground at a great pace. Piccolo phased and followed after the soldier and attempted to grab a hold of him, but Shisami managed to move and grab onto Piccolo.
The soldier made a swift movement and managed to send Piccolo crashing into the ground instead. Shisami attempted to drop in with his foot on Piccolo's head, but the Namekian jumped up and flipped away. As soon as Shisami connected with the ground, Piccolo charged in again. Shisami attempted to punch Piccolo, but the Namekian dropped under it and sent his fist crashing up into Shisami's face.
The soldier backed off and shook it off, only to be met with a foot to the face. He stumbled back some more and once he gained some time to look ahead, Piccolo shot a blast right at him. The blast exploded and Shisami was sent away. He rose up and dropped down hard, but was able to push up. Piccolo grunted and clenched his fists.
"Why don't you just stay down and spare me the trouble of killing you," Piccolo taunted. Shisami growled and charged for Piccolo. The Namekian stepped to the side, quickly, but Shisami turned and grabbed Piccolo by the head. He then began attempting to crush Piccolo's head, but the Namekian raised his legs and pushed off of Shisami. He sent a blast at Shisami's face as well, forcing him to let go and the Namekian was able to get away. He dropped down and cracked his neck.
Both of them flew at each other again, ready to go another round.
Noca was still struggling to make any sort of progress in his confrontation with Freeza. The teen was still fighting as an ordinary Super Saiyan, but he was prepared to push that to the complete limit before he even considered Super Saiyan 2. Freeza had been taking a completely relaxed approach to the whole fight and Noca was beginning to realise that he may have underestimated the Emperor.
The teen blasted towards Freeza and aimed a punch with his right towards the left side of Freeza's body, but the villain moved quickly to dodge back and let Noca's attack just miss. Freeza then sent his knee up into Noca's chest and punched him square in the face.
Noca moved back to gain some distance and reorganise himself, but Freeza phased forward and and punched him in the face again. The Tyrant then followed up by flipping back and kicking Noca in the chin in the process. Once Freeza level out he shot one of his Death Beams, but Noca recovered quick enough to narrowly avoid said Death Beam. Freeza rushed forward to catch the distracted Saiyan Off-Guard, but Noca quickly turned and put both his hands out to hold Freeza back.
Both fighters hand their hands on one another's shoulders and were pushing back with all their might. Noca could feel Freeza's nails digging into his shoulders and bit back on the pain. He wasn't going to let something as simple as that get him out of this lock, but Freeza's nails dug deep and Noca could feel the blood running down his back.
Noca grit his teeth and reeled back his head to unleash a head-butt. His forehead crashed into Freeza's nose and the tyrant was force to let go. He growled in anger and swipe his hand across Noca's face, cutting his skin. Noca was shocked by it and he felt the stinging pain on his left cheek, but he tried to ignore it. He slowly turned to glare back at Freeza and the blood started to trickle down his face.
Freeza started to chuckle and clearly took pleasure in the sight of his opponent's blood. Noca grit his teeth and clenched his fists, cracking his knuckles in the process. He quickly cracked his neck and nodded.
"Ok, now I'm gonna take you down a peg or two," Noca threatened as Freeza continued to laugh. Noca moved forwards, slowly at first, but he soon phased at a great speed and appeared right in front of the evil Emperor. He threw his right fist forward and landed a nasty right hook on the left side of Freeza's face.
Freeza's head was knocked to the side and he continued to face away for a second. He was no longer laughing and there wasn't an evil smile on his face. The tyrant slowly composed himself and looked back into Noca's eyes, but that smirk didn't return to his face. Freeza's tail started to whip at the air and Noca knew he had angered him, but this would more than likely play to his advantage.
Freeza rushed in and threw his fist directly for Noca's face, but the teen caught Freeza's wrist and kicked out, hitting his target in the gut. Freeza backed off, but rapidly returned in for another attack. He tried kicked up into the side of Noca's head, but the teen dodge around it rapidly and struck Freeza in his kidneys. The Emperor grunted in pain and then turned around to throw a rather nasty Ki blast.
Noca phased around the blast and moved in towards Freeza. He tried to send a punch up into Freeza's face, but the tyrant caught it only for Noca to follow up with his free hand and hit Freeza in the ribs. The evil Emperor let go of Noca's hand and backed away, shaking off the pain. He was the one who had grit teeth and clenched fists now. Noca had stopped trying to attack and just stared at Freeza.
"You're so confident in your abilities," Freeza said. Noca didn't respond or react in anyway. Freeza smirked again. "I'll just have to beat that confidence out of you…and quickly."
Noca still remained calm and composed, but Freeza knew that he wasn't out of this fight yet. His smirk faded again and he phased from view. Noca readied himself to defend, but he didn't expect Freeza to have raised his speed as much as he had done. Suddenly, Noca found himself caught with Freeza's tail around his neck. The teen quickly lifted his hands to try and stop it, but he was too late. Freeza had a tight grip and Noca was losing air.
He desperately clawed at Freeza's tail to try and get free, but he was struggling. He could feel himself becoming faint and knew that if he didn't act quickly then things wouldn't look great for him. Noca attempted kicking back at Freeza, but the tyrant's legs weren't there. Noca continued clawing, but it still wasn't going his way.
Noca tried to calm his mind and think of something, but he was shocked out of it by a strong punch to his kidneys. Noca tried to cough in pain, but it just got trapped in his throat because of the tail and now he was choking on his own saliva as well. Freeza continued to punch Noca in the kidneys, over and over, and the teen's vision was getting blurry. Noca's eyes started to close, but that's when he felt Freeza's tail loosen a little and finally he could breathe.
Noca coughed out the saliva and took a sharp intake of breath. Freeza leaned in close and spoke to the teen.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you yet. I still need to make you feel a whole lot more…pain."
Noca growled in annoyance and continued to try and break from Freeza's tail grip, but he soon found himself free as the tyrant launched him towards some rocks. Noca smashed through them and slid across the floor. He slowly pushed up and continued to cough because of the lack of air. He didn't even make it to his feet before cough heavily. He was on his knees when he noticed a red light getting awfully closer.
The Saiyan looked up as one of Freeza's blasts crashed in front of him and exploded sending the teen even further back. Noca bounced across the ground and almost fell off a cliff edge into the sea. He held onto a rock with one hand to slow himself down and was lucky to stop in time. Freeza set down and started to walk towards his opponent. Noca looked up at Freeza and grunted. He slowly tried to get back to his feet, but he was feeling a lot weaker now. As Noca got to both his knees and looked down he saw a lot of blood dripping from his face.
The wounds caused by Freeza's claws had been widened by the shards of rock from that last attack. Noca could feel the stinging and his breath was getting heavy and he tried to push up further. He couldn't continue to let Freeza keep pushing him like this. He needed to fight back!
Noca was on his feet and he started to walk towards the Tyrant. Both were walking towards each other at slow paces. Noca didn't know what he was going to do, but he was sure that Freeza was holding back. There was no way he had exhausted all the power at his disposal. That was why Noca hadn't thought to transform to Super Saiyan 2 just yet. He wanted to see what Freeza was truly capable of first.
Noca started to break into a run while Freeza continued to walk. The teen leapt into the air and dropped towards Freeza with the intention to slam his fist down on the tyrant. He had moved fairly quickly and thought that he could do it, but Freeza phased at the last minute and Noca's fist crashed into the dirt instead.
The strength in his punch forced Noca's fist into the ground and even shook the island. Noca retracted his arm and turned around only to be hit in the side of the face by a swift kick from Freeza. Noca stumbled along and landed on his side. Freeza rushed in again to try and kick, but Noca jumped up and out of the way. Freeza turned to try and follow up with another kick, but Noca rolled underneath that one and managed to get to the opposite side of Freeza.
The teen jumped up to try and punch the Emperor in the back of the head, but Freeza phased again and Noca was left to stumble. Freeza then reappeared behind Noca and blasted him in the back from point blank range. There was an explosion and Noca was flung across the Island. He crashed into some more large rocks and they were sharper than the ones before. They managed to cut at his skin and shred the top of his Gi.
When Noca eventually came to a halt he could barely stand. His body was stinging and aching. He was almost sure it was the end of his fight. He slowly pushed up and got back to his feet, but fell to one knee almost immediately. He looked up at the same moment Freeza appeared in front of him. Noca smirked as he looked up at saw that the tyrant still wore a smirk on his own face.
"Well now, I expected more from a Saiyan, but I guess you are just a boy," Freeza kicked Noca in the face and the teen slammed back against the rocks. Freeza held his hand up and pointed a finger towards Noca's head. He was going to try and kill him. Noca knew it.
But he wasn't going to die. Noca started to chuckle. Freeza was confused but didn't question it. He started to power a small blast at the end of his finger and Noca could feel its heat.
With a swift movement, Noca raised his right arm and grabbed Freeza tightly around the wrist. He didn't look up at the Emperor and kept his gaze focussed on the ground.
"Go on," Noca started, speaking in a low tone, "Do it."
Freeza's brow raised as Noca slowly looked up, an amused smirk on his first. He started to tighten his grip on Freeza's wrist and the energy dissipated.
"I said do it," Noca repeated as he got to his feet. Freeza wasn't sure where this had come from, but then there was a flash of energy and Noca's aura reappeared, bigger and brighter than before. Noca's hair all shot up and stiffened as his eyes grew more focussed and the static energy started to fizz around his form. Freeza's eyes went wide from surprise. This was something new.
"What's wrong, Freeza?" Noca asked in an amused tone. "Something wrong?"
Noca pushed Freeza away with the sheer force of his energy and the Emperor was flung closer to where the others were fighting. They were all distracted and their eyes darted to where Freeza was and then as they observed a bit more they noticed Noca had become a Super Saiyan 2. The teen was striding forward with a confident yet composed pace. Freeza hurried to his feet and clenched his fists, but he had no idea what he was going to do. Or did he?
"I wasn't expecting this…new form of Super Saiyan," Freeza started, sounding very panicked, "But I've come prepared with my own surprise."
Upon those words Noca stopped walking and everyone else pooled complete focus into what was about to happen. Both Tagoma and Shisami looked to each other with smirks on their faces. They knew what was about to happen.
"I was saving this for Goku, but…you'll do just nicely," Freeza told the teen.
The tyrant clenched his fists and moved into a powering up position and started to yell out as he vastly increased his level of energy. Everyone who could sense energy went wide eyes in shock and started to slowly back away. Noca stood strong, but he had never sensed power like this before. He was astounded by what he was witnessing. Freeza's screams echoed through the sky as the static energy around his body began to shake violently. The shining light that burst from the transformation was close to blinding. Noca closed his eyes and turned his head away as he waited for the light to die away. Freeza's screams had finally stopped so it was definitely almost over.
Noca turned back just as the light finally disappeared and the sight he was greeted with was definitely…shocking. Vegeta's eyes went wide with shock once he finally got a good look and Piccolo clenched his fist, cracking his knuckles. Gohan uttered a simple "Oh no" and that told everyone around him that this was something new.
Freeza…had a new form.
"Well, let me introduce you to my Golden Form," Freeza spoke confidently as if he had already won the battle. He could tell by the looks on everyone's faces that they hadn't expected this to happen and that definitely pleased him. He closed his eyes and chuckled. "What do you think?"
Noca stared at the tyrant and no words were coming to mind. He truly hadn't expected this to happen and the new power he was feeling was certainly something that, right now, he couldn't rival. He took a step back and grit his teeth.
"I…I have to go for it!" Noca shouted at himself as he prepared to blast off, but he was beaten to it as he saw the Saiyan Prince blasting in as a Super Saiyan.
"You're mine!" Vegeta screamed as he attempted to attack the Emperor, but before he could even lay a hand on him Freeza phased away. The Prince stopped to try and find him, but as soon as Freeza revealed himself he blasted Vegeta away into a large plateau, effectively taking Vegeta out of this part of the battle. Everyone appeared shocked by what had happened.
Shisami and Tagoma turned around to carry on facing Piccolo, alone, but Gohan made sure to act fast.
"Uub, help Piccolo!" Gohan commanded. The young man agreed and blasted off to take on Tagoma while Piccolo continued his fight with Shisami. Meanwhile, Noca was left to take on Golden Freeza.
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Next Time...Chapter 14: Vengeance of the Saiyan Race