Chapter #11
Return of Garlic Junior
Frieza grinned as he saw Vegeta's astonished look, "What's wrong? I thought you had this all planned Super Saiyan."
He hurled the Death Ball, and it completely eradicated the ground of Namek. The planet almost seemed to flash white as it was destroyed almost to its core. Finally, the Z Fighters could see again, but what they saw looked nothing like Namek. Lava poured everywhere, and the once beautiful landscape of Namek looked destroyed. Dende and Nail choked back tears, as Piccolo, Gohan, and Krillin were merely shocked. Raditz and Nappa had already witnessed Frieza's power, but now they witnessed his true power. Frieza frowned, "That should have sufficed to destroy Namek…how did it fail?"
His question was answered as Goku laid on the ground, in his base form, and near death. Frieza growled, "So it was you!"
Trembling back up, Goku gave Frieza a glare of hatred, "I'll never forgive you!"
Vegeta emerged, his Super Saiyan form still intact, and kicked Frieza. Frieza began laughing, "Try all you want…Namek's destruction is inevitable!"
Goku yelled out to Krillin, "Any more Senzu Beans?"
Krillin threw one at him and Goku caught it. He began eating the bean, and instantly felt a gigantic power increase. Turning Super Saiyan, Vegeta began raising an eyebrow, "That power…it's far greater than before!"
Goku sent a punch towards Frieza, causing the Ice-jin to react in shock, "B-but how?!"
Goku rammed his fist firmly into Frieza's stomach, "Enough Frieza. This is your end!"
With a yell of rage, he blasted Frieza, causing the tyrant to gasp and spit out purple blood. As Goku was about to lay another blow, Frieza caught it and intercepted with his own attack, sending Goku flying towards a lavafall. Vegeta hit Frieza, and punched him back. Both Super Saiyans were vastly above Frieza, and the tyrant began seeing no escape. Frieza began powering up, "No… this will not be my end! This place shall not bear the mark of my grave!"
Meanwhile, Goku teleported to Dende and whispered, "Send everyone except for me and Vegeta back to Earth with a wish."
Dende nodded, and relayed the information to the Z Fighters. Piccolo and Nail agreed to escort Dende, and the group left while Goku and Vegeta distracted the enraged Frieza.
Vegeta began powering up, "Do you have any idea how much pain you put me through?"
He punched Frieza and then blasted his stomach point-blank. Teleporting behind him, Vegeta grabbed Frieza's shoulder and forced down a wave of kiai, causing Frieza to gasp in pain. The Super Saiyan firmly grasped Frieza's wrists, and with a quick jerk, heard a little snap. The prince then smiled in satisfaction as he heard a yell from Frieza.
Goku was angry however, "Enough Vegeta!"
Vegeta turned towards him, malice in his eyes, "You don't tell me what to do! I'm still the stronger one here."
He teleported in front of Goku and punched his stomach, hard, "You don't command an elite."
Goku spat out blood, his eyes not bothering to disguise his look of shock. Vegeta turned towards Frieza, and in a split second, karate-chopped the tyrant's neck. Goku quickly recovered and growled, "Vegeta, now's not the time!"
Vegeta pointed two fingers at Goku, and instantly an explosion erupted, "Shut up."
Frieza coughed out blood, struggling to get back up to his feet. Vegeta smirked, "The strongest in the universe? That's such a pathetic bluff."
He kicked Frieza, and stomped onto the tyrant's back. Frieza slammed his fist into Vegeta's abdomen and kicked him back. Growling, Frieza grabbed Vegeta's fist and continuously rammed his knee into the prince's stomach. Giving a yell of pain, Vegeta staggered back and was shot back from another point-blank wave. Goku arrived now, and attempted to punch Frieza, who dodged. Yelling with anger, Frieza blasted Goku back point-blank as well, surprising both Super Saiyans with his new outburst of power.
Goku growled, "Enough, Kamehameha!"
The beam rammed into Frieza, who emerged with his body completely battered with bruises and wounds, "H-how?"
Vegeta glared towards Goku, "Kakarot he's my kill and you know it, stay out of my way."
Frieza yelled, "Quit treating me like I'm trash! Enough of this, enough!"
He held up two hands, both with razor sharp discs.
He threw both of them at Vegeta and Goku. Goku narrowly dodged one, "Hey! It's just like Krillin's Kienzan!"
However, Frieza brought his hands back, and the Death Saucer turned towards Goku. Vegeta yelled, "Kakarot watch out!"
Goku narrowly dodged the Death Saucer, "Damn it, they're homing!"
Vegeta was having his own trouble with Frieza's Death Saucer, and it seemed to follow him everywhere he went. If he turned around a charged a ki blast, he would surely be dead, and Vegeta had no choice. The prince fired a wave of kiai, pushing the ki disc back. Vegeta growled, 'How the hell do I win?'
Suddenly, the prince had an idea, he went straight for Frieza, and in a mixture of shock and awe, Frieza felt his own body be cut in half. Goku turned towards him, and used kiai to push the disc back as well. From there, Vegeta blew up the disc with a ki blast.
Frieza panted, "How the hell could you simians defeat me?! No, it's impossible!"
Vegeta smirked, "Don't even bother Frieza, you're time has ended."
He flew up into the skies, and with a confident energy beam, finished Frieza off for good….or did he?
Now that Frieza was gone for good, the two Super Saiyans were focused on finding a way out of this hellhole. They spotted Frieza's ship and immediately the two Super Saiyans went there. However, upon noticing that it didn't work, they left. Luckily they found the spacepods of the Ginyu Force, and use them to leave Planet Namek's explosion.
Meanwhile…
The tall horned figure sipped from his formal glass, the wine he was drinking was fine wine, extracted directly from the grapes of Auersia, a planet under the Planet Trade Organization's rule. The soldier who was unfortunate enough to deliver the unfortunate news trembled, "L-lord, Frieza's dead!"
King Cold's eyes flashed at once, "Dead? By whom and where?"
The soldier gulped, "We don't know sir, the only possible force that could have killed Lord Frieza is the…" he gulped, "The last time he was alive was on the almost destroyed Planet Namek."
King Cold's finger began charging a beam, and it killed the soldier instantly. He turned towards the frightened ship drivers, "Head straight for Planet Namek."
The ship driver nodded, "As you wish sir."
On Planet Earth…
"Dad, where are you?" asked the anxious Gohan.
His dad must have beaten Frieza by now, unless both Super Saiyans had died. At least Frieza was dead, but at that cost? Nail patted him on the back, "Hey, it's alright kid."
Gohan choked back tears and nodded. Piccolo growled, "I guess we'll just have to learn to defend Earth ourselves. We'll have to train."
Nail nodded towards Piccolo, much of the Namekian's evil heart and selflessness had left during the battle on Namek.
Hearing this, Raditz snorted, "Good luck catching up to me."
Dende suddenly beamed, "Hey guys, let's get Porunga to wish back your deceased ones and to tell us about Son Goku's whereabouts!"
Nail laughed, "I forgot about that, great idea Dende."
This seemed to brighten up Gohan's mood, and Raditz interjected, "You'll have to promise to revive the Saiyans as well!"
Dende nodded, the Saiyans seemed like child's-play compared to Frieza. The Namekians began gathering all seven dragon balls.
Meanwhile…
The most skilled mechanists in the universe were currently working on Frieza's body. He had been giving mechanical parts to supplement for the areas lost in the battle against the Super Saiyans. King Cold surveyed the operation with glaring eyes, not wanting a single mistake to happen.
A tinkle appeared in Frieza's eyes, and King Cold grinned with satisfaction. Frieza stood up and flexed his arms, in a cold mechanical voice, he spoke to King Cold, "We're going to Earth Daddy."
King Cold gave an expression of surprise, "Hmm? And why would we do that?"
Frieza clenched his fists, "The two Legendary Super Saiyans that defeated me, they're on Earth, and they'll pay!"
King Cold gave an amused smirk, "Super Saiyan? I thought that was merely a legend passed on by Saiyans."
Frieza replied, "No, it isn't. Head course for Earth."
As the ship drivers nodded in fear, Frieza turned towards King Cold, "I'm going to make sure that the Saiyans pay every bit. We'll get to Earth before them, and torture their friends before the two Super Saiyans arrive, only to be greeted by a bloodbath!"
Yardrat…
"Nice spar Soba," grinned Goku as he fought on par with the strongest warrior of planet Yardrat. Soba was easily Yardrat's strongest fighter, and even Frieza would have trouble conquering the planet.
Vegeta meanwhile, was testing his new Instant Transmission technique against all the natives. He scoffed; he must have been going soft, if it wasn't for Kakarot, then all the Yardrats would be dead right now. Vegeta shot invisible waves of kiai towards the natives, easily defeating them in training.
Meanwhile, Goku was having an even match with Soba, even though he hadn't began to use Super Saiyan yet. Soba managed to land a double-fisted blow to Goku's abdomen, and the Saiyan responded with his own kick. Goku began gaining the upper hand as the two began trading blows evenly for a couple of minutes. Goku smiled, "Well, we've just about fully recovered Vegeta, wanna leave?"
Vegeta scoffed, "Don't ask me idiotic questions like that again Kakarot!"
The two Saiyans said their farewells, and left Planet Yardrat.
Earth…
"What the hell's the meaning of this?" asked Piccolo as he fended off a group of superhumans. They were literally superhuman, with strength far above that of an average human, yet they looked like your average citizen.
Gohan and Krillin were having similar troubles, though they were on the defensive as they didn't want to hurt the humans. Nail was fighting ten at once, and having almost no difficulty, "Are you Earthlings normally not as strong as this?"
Krillin nodded, "These guys, they aren't normal!"
Piccolo easily shrugged two humans off with a ki blast, "C'mon, stop being cowards!"
Gohan yelled, "Piccolo stop!"
But the Saiyan half-breed was still weaker than Piccolo, and the Namekian continued his onslaught. Suddenly, a chilling voice alerted the fighters, "Where are the Ddddrrraaggoon balls?"
The voice came out as a hiss, and a mysterious shadow appeared. Piccolo growled, "What the hell is this thing?"
The shadow swirled and manufacture four figures, all mysterious black entities, "Llleeetttt mmmmee test your strength," it hissed.
The shadow warriors all rushed towards the Z Fighters, and caused them some trouble, especially Chiaotzu, but they managed to knock them down.
"Dodon Ray!" yelled Chiaotzu, aiming the beam with picture perfect accuracy at the shadow.
The shadow swirled around and then laughed, "Your attacks have no effect on me."
Piccolo began to smirk, "Oh really, Explosive Demon Wave!"
The purple blast caused the shadow some alarm, and it separated quickly to dodge the beam. Piccolo growled, "Interesting, this shadow can manipulate its body at will."
The shadow created four more bodies again, "Level 2."
All the shadow fighters gained enhanced strength and speed, and managed to knock Chiaotzu down. Nail blocked a punch from one and fired his Mystic Cannon at point-blank, knocking them all down.
The Namekian smirked, "It looks like our training paid off a lot."
Piccolo cracked his knuckles, "Come on, you're just delaying the inevitable, show us your real strength."
The shadow hissed, and a body appeared in the form of Master Roshi. Krillin yelled in shock, "Master Roshi, is that you?!"
Without a word, Master Roshi entered his max power mode and instantly knocked Krillin back with a quick jab. All the Z Fighters were surprised at this quick display of power, whatever was controlling Roshi, it was giving him tremendous strength as well. The master began charging a purple orb, "Ka-me-ha-me…HA!"
The purple beam shocked all the Z Fighters, but Piccolo responded first, "Demon Explosive Wave!"
Both beams met midway in a powerful and mighty clash. However, Piccolo's beam was beginning to overpower Roshi. With a yell of fear, Roshi fell back, the dark aura quickly leaping away from him. The symbiotic shadow growled with anger and impatience, "Looks like it'll take a little more than what I had originally thought to defeat you."
More beings quickly materialized, and Piccolo frowned in anger, "Really, is that all?"
Raditz was getting bored as well; the Saiyan was easily dodging each of the symbiotic attacks and didn't even bother firing any of his own. The symbiote gave a massive groan and fell as Raditz finally delivered a Double Sunday at point-blank range. Suddenly, a chilling laugh crept over to the Z Fighters, a laugh they knew all too well (except for Raditz and Nail), "Congratulations, you made it past round 1."
All three Z Fighters leapt back to see a short figure, one with pointy ears and a jagged tooth. His head was almost dome-shaped, and but his ki was tremendous. Piccolo breathed in astonishment, "Garlic Junior?"
Next to Garlic Junior were minions, but they were different. Garlic saw this confusion and said, "Allow me to introduce my new lackeys, the Spice Boys: Spice, Vinegar, Mustard and Salt."
Now Garlic Junior looked at the Z Fighters, "Now, you must be wondering how I gained this incredible power, in my base form too! Well, the Makyan Star is ever so close to Earth's axis, and that symbiote was the Black Water Mist personified. I used it to possess the humans, how weak-minded they were, and it granted them tremendous strength."
He gestured towards the unconscious Master Roshi. Garlic Junior then powered up, "Come, let's show them the power of the Makyans!"
I hope you enjoyed this chapter of Light of Hope
Power Levels:
Goku (Post Zenkai): 2,500,000
SSJ Goku: 125,000,000
Frieza Full Power: 120,000,000
King Cold 2nd form (Heavily Suppressed): 5,000,000
Piccolo (Post Training): 535,000
Nail (Post Training): 635,000
Raditz (Post Training): 975,000
Gohan (Post Training): 240,000
Krillin (Post Training): 135,000
Garlic Junior (Base): 520,000
Salt Boys: ?
Black Water Mist Possessed Roshi: 5,000
Black Water Mist Possessed Human (Average): 240
