The Vicious Gods Wrath
Chapter 14: Widening Gap
PTO Command Ship, Two Years Post-Resurrection
"My turn now, what was your most... horribly disgusting assignment?" Shisami directs the question to twins sitting opposite of him in the ship's mess hall, all three of them gorging on delicious, vanilla ice cream. Ever since their master's forceful way of ensuring battle cooperation between them, the three have become far more amicable in recent months, choosing to talk and even train together, sometimes without Lord Freeza himself present. "Surely you two must've encountered some grotesque creatures out there in the stars?"
"Hm, gimme a second to think about that," Abo leans back into his seat, rubbing his chin thoughtfully, Kado sees this as an opportunity to annoy him, as they do and quickly snatches a couple spoon fulls of ice cream from his brother's bowl. Abo takes this in stride, rummaging through the memories his dozens upon dozens of assignments while casually punching Kado across the face, knocking him out of the seat.
"Daruunga!" Abo snaps his fingers. "Definitely that place, it was one of our first assignments too."
"Why'd you have to remind me that place while we're eating?" Kado groans as he sits back down, visibly losing much of his appetite.
Abo merely punches him in the face again. "As I was saying, this was back when I and idiot here were just starting out, even if our power levels were anything but that of rookies or ordinary grunts. So, the two of us and three more guys got assigned to take this planet over. Apparently, it was rich in gasses, the types you use for wrist-mounted blasters or to power space ships."
"Yes, I seem to recall reading about some tribes living on the swampy world. A bug-like species with abilities of bodily manipulation, am I correct?"
"It almost sounds dignified when you say it, but trust me, seeing it first hand is anything but," Abo finishes what's left of his ice cream with one last, big scoop. "So, we did everything under the standard operating procedure, smashed our pods into a good landing spot then started blowing stuff up. It went well for a while too, managed to clear out a whole city-sized section of the place before one of our guys dropped like a rock out of nowhere."
"Pretty sure one guy drowned too," Kado interrupts again though he receives only an annoyed glance from his brother instead of a fist.
"Kado, me and the other two guys didn't last much longer after that, first we felt pretty dizzy then sick to our stomachs and wham!" He smacks his palms together. "Out like a bunch of babies! By the time we woke up it was night out, and trust me, the stuff they hit us with kept us pretty groggy for a while even after we woke up."
"Most certainly one of those gasses you mentioned, even the ordinary type can render someone unconscious through enough exposure," Interjects Shisami with Abo giving him an annoyed glare as well. Clearly, he's up to here with all of these interruptions. "My apologies, continue."
"As I was saying. All over the place, there were these big, green and brown looking bug guys with like three arms, four antennae growing out of their heads and standing in front of some temple looking place. The other two guys, the weaker ones got put on some altar, still too out of it to really do anything. Some big looking bug with a necklace of teeth showed up, starting chanting something in some clicking noises then shoved a couple eggs down the throats of the other guys."
Shisami leaned in closer, growing more enthralled by what will happen next, unfortunately, he will not hear the end of this tale today, for a loud explosion is heard occurring on the east end of the ship, causing it to shake violently. With the alarm initiating, the three soldiers quickly leap out of their seats and head towards the direction from which they heard the explosion.
"It's coming from master Freeza's quarters!" Shisami realizes as the trio, along with several other joining troops rush towards the place of the disturbance, wondering what in blazes is happening all the way.
His question is answered with the clearing smoke, revealing a nearly unconscious Sorbet lying on the ground with his back pressing against a nearby wall. His entire body is covered in gray dirt and he mumbles something incoherently. In front of him, the door lies blasted off from the explosion. The regular soldiers go to tend to Sorbet while Shisami and the twins head to inspect the inside of the room.
Standing in the middle of it is a dirt ridden Freeza with his back turned to the entrance, were it not for his violently shaking fists and the tail whipping into the metal floor, denting it, Shisami would've thought he is petrified. The three of them dare not speak as they practically feel the wave of barely contained, anger fueled power ready to explode and kill them all.
"You three," Freeza coldly addresses them. "Get to the pods, we've some training to do."
Following an exchange of nervous glances, the three of them are flung and buried into the wall, utterly paralyzed by their master's instantaneous telekinetic blast.
"I said. Get. To. The. PODS!"
And so they do, wanting to put as much distance between them and their master as they can, even temporarily. Shisami and the twins no doubt know of Freeza's fearsome temper, yet, in the year he's served under him, the fury was always held in check. Present but controlled, but something in his master's demeanor worries him as they enter the pods and take off to wherever Lord Freeza wants them to go. Something has monumentally infuriated him, what could it be he can only speculate on.
But if what Abo and Kado have told him of Earth is true and all of these things done to prepare for its invasion, Shisami knows for certain it has a role to play in his Lord's foul mood.
One Week Later
Shisami crumbles to his knees with a loud thud, his lips gasping for air through the blood seeping out of his throat. Despite his purported infinite energy generator installed in him to effectively eliminate fatigue of any kind, fatigued is precisely how he would describe his current condition. His arms feel heavy and his legs no longer have the strength to keep him standing. Scrapes and bruises cover him from head to toe, allowing for more blood to escape.
Nearby, he can hear Aka fighting Freeza, still eager to obey his master's command of training. "How does he do it?" Shisami wonders to himself, for the first time lacking the need for combat that made him join the Organization in the first place. Yet even the most battle seeking warriors can only stay so after spending a week of uninterrupted training, certainly practice and grueling as this.
Ever since his unexplained outburst, the three of them have been doing battle on this sun-scorched planet covered in mountains of sand under levels of gravity that would destroy the bodies of any lesser beings. No sleep, no food, no water and no rest of any kind. All of which have taken their toll on the giant and the twins, but not on Freeza. Even now, he observes his master in the sky, still fighting as fresh as if he had just started and steadily growing even angrier and angrier.
Yes, Earth has most certainly done something quite unforgivable to Lord Freeza this time.
"Is that all you can muster?!" His master's growls in blind fury as his punches mangle Aka's face. "You two truly are wastes of time and money!" With a strong uppercut, he sends the fused being dozens of feet in the air before watching him crash into a giant mountain of sand, finally, Aka's own fatigue does its part, he defuses into the unconscious pair of brothers.
The rise in Freeza's power gets Shisami's attention away from the brothers and back to his master, to his shock, he finds a monumental ball of energy growing above Lord Freeza's, easily twenty times his size. Shisami wonders if this is another test, a show of comradery between himself and the two brothers, when the ball comes down on them, Shisami has no time to think, only to act.
With a mighty roar, Shisami takes off towards the ball, approaching it from its left side. With all the strength his body can afford him, he rams his horned skull into it and manages to fling it far off into the distance. A moment later, it bursts forth into a brilliant ray of purple light and vanishes just as quickly as it came.
"How ironic that you would come to their rescue," Lord Freeza shouts without humor. A month prior, this gesture would earn approval from him, not for the gesture of mercy or nobility, but as a gesture that his sparring partners were willing to cooperate for their practice and for the future battle of Earth.
"In their defense, they're not a bad bunch of fellows to hang around with once you get to know them a bit. Besides, they have a story left to tell me and my curiosity wouldn't let me sleep at night without hearing it through to the end."
"Humph," Freeza appears behind him, delivering an elbow strike to Shisami's skull, still intent on pushing his soldier to train despite the obvious strain its put on him. Shisami lets out a pained gasp and falls forward, he quickly takes hold of the nearby ground and with some difficulty, manages to leap into the air with his arm. The instant his grounds hit the floor, he opens fire on Freeza, releasing several Ki blasts all of which his master swats away like flies. "I expected better."
"And I would oblige... Were I not in such a sorry state..."
Freeza's scowl at the comment is proof enough that the quip hasn't lightened his mood any. A fact confirmed by his index finger gathering a distinctive, minute ball of energy for his master's favorite attack: the Death Beam.
"Lord Freeza! Do. Not. Kill. Him!" The two look up to find a simple transport vehicle descend from above, and sticking out the side of it is a waving, bandaged up Sorbet.
"What is that imbecile doing here?" Lord Freeza mutters while Shisami breathes a sigh of relief, thankful for his other master's timely rescue. The vehicle lands to their right with Sorbet hopping out of it immediately. "You better have a damn good reason for interrupting my training session."
Sorbet glances over to Shisami, examining the various injuries covering his body. The sight makes him wince."Yes... your training session. On the matter at hand, I do have some news which should cheer you up right away!"
"Unless it's a weapon capable of murdering a God, I sincerely doubt you've anything worthwhile to offer me."
"Not a weapon, no. But a means of becoming a God!" For the first time in a week, Lord Freeza's perpetual scowl momentarily falters. "After the... incident, I knew you would push yourself and by extension the others to their limits for your training! So I re-examined the footage we received from the recent dealings on Earth and began scouring all information on any species myths or legends concerning Gods. It took me quite a while to find anything conclusive, but I believe I've found a way for you to ascend to Godhood and close this new gap between yourself and the Super Saiyan!"
"Myths and legends are what you bring me? Hardly conclusive evidence don't you think?"
"Correct me if I'm wrong, master, but have those not been proven quite true in your case? The Super Saiyan legend turned out to be true, now this Super Saiyan God one has as well. In fact, I found a very old one tied to your very own species along with many others!"
Freeza stares at the tiny blue alien to his side before his expression becomes distant, no doubt remembering whatever incident on Earth has prompted this murderous sparring practice.
Earth, One Week Ago
"Long ago, a group of pure-hearted Saiyan's questioned the evil committed by their race!" The Dragon of Earth, Shenron begins explaining the origin of the being sought after by Beerus, the God of Destruction at the behest of Son Goku and his various friends and allies. "The good Saiyan's decided to lead a revolt against the bad and to ensure their victory pooled their powers to ensure a savior. A Super Saiyan God. The savior easily defeated many of evil Saiyan's with his immense power, yet just vanished as quickly as he came for the energy offered to him by his allies could not last for long. In time, evil again took root on Planet Vegeta, and the memory of the Super Saiyan God became a myth. Merely lost altogether, however, I still know how to attain this power-"
"I've never heard him talk this long!" Whines Son Goku as he tries to keep up with all of the information provided to him. "Are you following all this Vegeta?"
"Ssh! He's explaining it!" Replies the prince.
"Five Saiyan's with righteous hearts must join hands and instill their inner light into another. With his friends energy flowing through him, this Saiyan shall become a Super Saiyan God!" The group looks on in amazement, minus the sleeping Roshi. "I have given you the knowledge you desire, your wish has been granted. Is there any other you would like me to grant?"
"Nope, that's pretty much all we needed you for Shenron!" Goku bows in thanks to the dragon.
"Very well then, I shall take my leave of this place," He turns to Beerus and Whis, bowing his head to the two Gods before returning back to the Dragon Balls and dispersing them across the planet. With him gone, the Earth's fighters argue for a bit as to who qualifies in the category of a righteous hearted Saiyan, earning an amusing reaction from Vegeta.
The Prince, Goku, Gohan, Trunks and Goten all join hands as Super Saiyan's, even Gohan who briefly turns into it for the purpose of the ritual. Their golden auras join and expand before entering Goku yet no obvious difference is shown, a fact proven by Piccolo who states his power has only marginally increased. Moments later they attempt the ritual again, this time with Gohan's pregnant wife Videl joining in.
A blue, flame-like aura emerges from the gathered beings, overtaking their usual golden ones and enveloping them inside of it. Soon, the aura goes to Goku with the Saiyan in question lifting off the ground and becoming enveloped in a blue, orb of bright light and energy. All present look on in amazement and anticipation, knowing full well of Beerus' intentions towards Earth should it fail.
To their relief, it does not, for the orb dissipates, revealing a red-eyed and equally red-haired, slimmer bodied Goku emerging from the orb. Landing nearby just as Beerus finishes his drink. As per their agreement, the two deities proceed to battle across the planet, from a nearby city to an underground cavern to the upper atmosphere of the planet. They battle with all their might despite Goku losing his God form and becoming a mere Super Saiyan right in the middle of it, he still manages to keep up with Beerus.
Unbeknown to any of them, the spy cams film each and every moment of it. As they have been for the past two, consecutive years. Through the vastness of space, they send all of this footage to the PTO command ship, where Freeza and Sorbet watch this in utter silence. The whole ordeal, from Beerus easily cutting his way through the Earth's finest warriors with utter ease, to Vegeta's surprising yet unexplainable burst of power to the ritual then to Goku's battle against the God of Destruction, an actual battle between two foes of seemingly comperable level across the entire planet...
Present Day
"That damn Saiyan bastard..." Freeza venomously curses Goku, his family, Vegeta, Beerus and all responsible for making his efforts over the last two years all for naught. "Just as I start to close the gap between us, he makes it impossible for me. Worst of all he made me sympathize with Vegeta of all people..."
"But it is not impossible, my lord! Sorbet urges. "I have a way for you to attain this level of power! To become a God in your own right!"
Freeza says nothing, eyeing his second-in-command with suspicion and doubt, but what else can he do? The gap between himself and the Saiyan's was already disproportionately high and would take many, many years to overcome before this God business. Now with that to factor in? This may be his only shance.
"Very well," Freeza relents. "Prepare a presentation of this solution of yours back at the ship. And get those two imbeciles into a healing chamber, am I understood?"
"Yes, sir!" Shisami and Sorbet say in unison while their master flies off to his space pod located on the edge of the suppression field. "
"Whatever you've found to calm him down sir, I sincerely hope your findings are proven correct." Shisami advises.
"As do I Shisami, as do I." The red giant flies away to the sound mountain to retrieve the twins leaving Sorbet alone to contemplate the potential outcome of this plan. "Then again, Lord Freeza might not survive long enough to punish us for it if it fails anyway."