Reformed Saiyans
Chapter Thirteen: The Saiyan General's Defeat
As the two apes threw fists, Goku immediately realized he'd need to distance himself further, these too were about sixty feet tall monsters, duking it out, even being a couple hundred feet wasn't enough.
Goku grabbed his son, distancing another a mile away, and even then they could see the battle as a clear day. He let out a sigh of relief as he watched the battle rage on in awe, it was incredible, the amount of strength they had possessed.
Despite being much larger, their speeds did not decrease, but their strength was exponentially increased. Although they didn't move at large distances in an instant, they still moved at shattering speeds.
Vanishing and reappearing repetitively, they either clashed fists or kicks, and sometimes one of them would land a successful hit. Vegeta hurled his fist at Raditz but he blocked it, putting his arms in front of himself, only being pushed back several feet.
Vegeta tried to throw another fist, charging forward, but Raditz threw his quicker, and slammed his fist against Vegeta's left cheek. Vegeta went backwards, his body flying uncontrollably for about a hundred feet before he'd stopped himself. As he rebalanced himself, Raditz had came in, trying to stomp on Vegeta.
Vegeta jumped back, avoiding the attack, and threw a fist trying to counter, but Raditz hurled his fist, colliding with Vegeta's, causing a massive shockwave. The shockwave generated at such intense strengths, caused the winds around them to be severely sharp, destroying the rock formations for miles.
Goku formed a shield around him and Gohan to protect the two, otherwise they'd get hurt. It wasn't the safest here, but Goku knew he could keep him and Gohan safe, for now. The two apes vanished into thin air, reappearing in a new location, having collided their attacks once more.
Again and again, they collided with attacks, their fists, legs, and even energy attacks that they unleashed at a super-close range, and despite the explosion caused by it, the two managed to stay on their feet.
Pushing against each other's hands, trying to push the other back, their auras raged as they exerted more and more energy, as a couple of short minutes went on, Vegeta began to push Raditz back. Further, Faster, but Raditz persisted and slammed his forehead against Vegeta's head, knocking the Prince down, before Raditz unleashed a violent strike against Vegeta's chest.
Raditz had jumped high up, slamming his knee into Vegeta's chest, which caused a loud crack to be heard by all and Vegeta to cough a mixture of blood and saliva. The Prince bellowed a ferocious furious roar before tackling Raditz down.
"You piece of!" Vegeta yelled as he knocked Raditz to the ground. "Scumbag!" He threw a fist against Raditz's face, then another, and another, each one stronger than the last. "Trash!" Vegeta then lifted Raditz and threw him over himself, causing Raditz to go flying. Vegeta dashed after Raditz, clamping his hands on Raditz's shoulders as he pressed his knee into Raditz's gut, forcing Raditz back to the ground.
Blood forced its way out of Raditz's throat before Vegeta hurled another fist, this time Raditz had caught it. Raditz gripped Vegeta's fist tightly and flicked it back, making Vegeta's wrist snap, and once more screaming with painful anger.
Raditz took his opportunity to throw Vegeta off him, by shoving his hands against Vegeta as he forced himself up. Raditz jumped back, wiping the blood off of his mouth, and panted heavily. As Vegeta stared at his dislocated wrist, his thoughts filled with rage, he snapped his wrist back, trying to resist the urge to vomit from intense pain.
A moment later, panting slightly, Vegeta stretched and shook his hand around, standing back up, staring down at Raditz, before once again, the two had charged after each other, throwing fists at each other's cheeks simultaneously, both landing a successful hit.
Piccolo wiped his face, after having saliva forced from his gut, he made a quickening jump to gain distance. Swiftly, he took a stance as Nappa charged forward, hurling a fist, but Piccolo ducked to the side and threw his leg at Nappa.
Nappa vanished, reappearing behind the Namek, and kicked him from the behind. "That was for humiliating me! Making me look like I'm some weakling!" He yelled. He clenched his fists, bent his knees, flared his aura, and powered up. "And this! This is…" His aura condensed around him, Nappa opened his mouth and a powerful whitish yellow energy orb formed. "FOR CUTTING MY TAIL!"
The blast unleashed itself violently towards Piccolo as he stood up, Piccolo's eyes went wide, his color drained from his face. The blast struck explosively at Piccolo, Piccolo had no time to react, and Nappa smirked in his victory.
However, when the dust settled, Piccolo was unconscious, not dead, his body still twitched, showing signs of lifeforce. Nappa walked up to Piccolo, deciding to assure his demise, but was knocked from the side by Krillin, who's aura was red, and had delivered a powerful blow to Nappa's face.
Nappa was sent flying before he could see who'd thrown his punch, sliding across the ground, a few seconds later.
"Good. I can still feel Piccolo's ki." Krillin thought with relief. He turned his attention back to Nappa who had gotten back on his feet, looking pissed.
"It doesn't matter how many of you there are, I'll kill all of you!" Nappa yelled. "You're all tired! Exhausted! However, my energy is restored!"
Krillin smirked. "Maybe they are, but I haven't done much yet!" He shouted. "So let's go! You and me big guy!" Krillin once more unleashed the Kaioken technique, rushing simultaneously at Nappa.
Both aimed to throw a fist, however as Nappa threw his fist, it phased through, revealing an afterimage left behind, as Krillin reappeared behind Nappa, striking Nappa in the back of his head with his lower leg.
Krillin's red aura dissipated immediately after, and Nappa crashed harshly through a bunch of nearby trees before landing on the rough ground. Krillin lowered himself back down, taking another stance.
"If I keep up, just short bursts of the Kaioken, I might be able to minimize the stress damage caused by it." Krillin thought out loud. He looked at himself, assessing the damage, his muscles were bulky, and veins were still bulging. He could already feel a bit of stinging pain, but Krillin ignored it. "And if I'm careful, maybe I can use the next level to finish him off without burning myself out."
A short moment later, Nappa stood back up, and flinched from the aching pain in the back of his neck, instinctively rubbing the area. Nappa turned himself around, his eyes went slightly wide from rage.
"How did that pest deal damage to me!" Nappa continued to disbelieve. He refused to believe it, even when it struck him in the rear several times but not one, not two, but five of these guys were stronger than him. "It doesn't make sense! They were all barely Raditz's level, last year! They CAN'T be stronger than I am! They can't even come close!"
Nappa clenched both fists tightly as his aura fluctuated with his boiling anger. "I am Nappa! The Saiyan General!" He slammed a foot forward. "I do not fall to a backwater planet full of scum like them! I am second to only Prince Vegeta! And no one else!" Starting to power up again, the ground beneath him trembled as energy sparked.
Quickly, Nappa had vanished from his original spot, with a powerful path of energy that followed him, with the ends of it fading away, Nappa had darted to Krillin hurling his massive fist, cleanly against Krillin's left cheek.
Nappa grinned wickedly as he watched Krillin crash into a nearby boulder, this grin however disappeared when a powerful kick slammed itself into his face. His balance remained the same until a fist from the other side rammed itself into his right cheek, sending Nappa about a few feet off the ground for three yards, then sliding on the ground for a couple of feet.
Krillin stood up from the boulder, rubbing his cheek, wincing from the pain. "If I were just a couple feet closer, that punch could've knocked me out! Or worse!" Krillin said to himself. Looking over to where he'd thought Nappa was, was Yamcha and Tien back up. Though the two have seen better days. To his relief they weren't out of the fight yet.
Krillin rushed back up to the two. "Good. You guys are okay, how much energy do you have left?"
"Enough to fight." Yamcha replied, keeping his focus on Nappa, who was beginning to stand back up.
"About a third, but I think together we can handle him." Tien added.
"Okay good, I'll take the lead then." Krillin said. The other two nodded in response, distancing themselves from Krillin, when Nappa had looked back to see who hit them, he'd just barely seen the two disappear from the scene.
"How are you not dead yet!?" Nappa snarled. "Those blows would kill weaklings like you! You should all be dead!" Nappa darted again to Krillin, throwing his fist, but Krillin stepped to the side, hurling his foot at Nappa's gut.
Nappa managed to distance an inch between the two, avoiding the kick, then tried to slam his fist down onto Krillin, however Krillin leaped away, making Nappa crush the ground instead. Then Tien came in, slamming his knee into Nappa's face, causing Nappa to stumble back.
Nappa rubbed his face as he groaned in pain, when he took his hand away, Yamcha's fist had landed into his gut the second after, then Yamcha kneed Nappa's kidney, with Tien coming from above as Yamcha moved away, and Tien cupped his two hands, slamming it into the back of Nappa's head.
Nappa fell into the ground, head first. A short second later, Nappa rebalanced himself, blood dripped from his forehead, and a few teeth had been clearly broken. Nappa took charge at Tien, shoulder bashing him, and Yamcha who tried to swing a leg from behind, Nappa caught his leg.
Nappa then grabbed Yamcha's leg with both of his hands and swung him against Tien, causing the two to crash into each other then the ground. Next was Krillin, Nappa fired a small volley of energy blasts which Krillin dodged before going into the air, but before Krillin knew it, Nappa had appeared above Krillin, slamming his elbow into Krillin's back.
As Krillin plummeted, Nappa kicked him back into the air, before punching him back to the ground in a different way, making a triangle, and Nappa did this three more times, before sending a barrage of punches against Krillin which he couldn't escape.
At least until, Nappa suddenly couldn't move, and a purplish glow outlined his body. A similar glow had outlined Krillin right before he hit the ground, and faded as Krillin was slowly placed on the ground.
Nappa tried to move to see the attacker, but his body was stiff, he struggled for a moment before finally being able to turn enough to see Chiaotzu.
Nappa showed his teeth, and growled. "So it was the small psychic one who was preventing my movements!" He shouted. "Don't worry! I'll be sure to kill you too! I'll break free from this trap!" Nappa began to slowly turn his body, but that wasn't before Chiaotzu had blasted him with some eye beams, which caused Nappa to be stunned.
"Somebody! Get him! I can't hold him off for much longer!" Chiaotzu yelled.
Tien looked to the sky, unleashing the Kaioken technique. "Don't worry, Chiaotzu! I'm coming!" He shouted. Hurrying to Nappa, he prepared a fist, but Chiaotzu had given out a second too early, allowing Nappa to narrowly dodge Tien's fist before Nappa jabbed into Tien's gut, then elbowed into the center of Tien's arm.
Nappa heard a snap, and a smile formed on his face, he'd heard Tien's arm break, deciding to take a step further, he broke Tien's other arm, and squeezed on it tightly as Tien screamed in agony.
"N-No Tien!" Chiaotzu panicked. Chiaotzu gathered his energy, and blue energy began to surround him. Chiaotzu closed his eyes, and focused his energy intensely, before flying to Nappa, and attaching himself onto Nappa's back.
"H-Huh?! What the!?" Nappa said. He tried to grab Chiaotzu but couldn't. "What the hell do you think you're doing, runt?!" Nappa continued to try and grab Chiaotzu but it wasn't working. So instead, he tried to knock Chiaotzu off, but nothing worked.
Tien looked concerned, worried. "What're you doing Chiaotzu?! Get off of him!"
"Tien, Please Listen…" Chiaotzu said. His energy rose higher, and despite Nappa's attempts to crush him against rocks, trees, and even the ground, nothing worked.
"Chiaotzu! You can't be thinking of…" Tien gulped. "No! Don't! We can still win this! There's no need to sacrifice yourself!"
"You're my best friend, always, alright?" Chiaotzu replied. "So please don't forget about me, and stay alive for me, okay?" His energy rose higher and higher, this time it glew red.
"No! Chiaotzu stop!" Tien begged. "You've already been brought back once by the Dragon Balls! You can't be saved again! Please! Don't do this!"
However, Chiaotzu had already made up his mind, and again Nappa could not shake him off, finally Chiaotzu's aura turned crimson, before his body burned out leaving a powerful radiating energy sphere that densely exploded for several feet while in the air.
"CHIAAAOOOTZZUUUU!" Tien shouted. It was too late, the small Earthling had already taken his life in order to stop Nappa, the fighters below had gasped, Tien's jaw dropped as he stared in disbelief. Memories flooded his mind, memories about him and his best friend, now…now his best friend was gone, the thought and realization had slowly emerged.
A moment later when the dust had settled however, Nappa was still alive, though severely damaged.
"H-He survived that!?" Krillin gasped. "What the hell is this guy made of!"
"That shouldn't have been possible!" Yamcha added.
Tien remained silent but furious and shocked, Chiaotzu had sacrificed himself, and yet this murderer still lived. Nappa lowered himself to the ground, smirking and laughing.
"What was that supposed to be?" Nappa said. "Some kind of heroic sacrificial saving? Please…" He rolled his eyes. "That trash should've known his place and stayed in the garbage can where belongs, what he did was a complete waste."
Tien clamped his teeth, clenching his fists and growled furiously. "You…You monster!" He said. Tien took a stance, his aura bursted in sequence with his fury, flaring red. "Chiaotzu! He…He gave his life away! And for what!? Nothing?!" Tears formed at the corner of his eyes, as Tien powered more and more up. "I won't let his sacrifice be in vain! I'll kill you!"
Tien flew to the sky, clapping his hands together then forming a triangle with them, and in between his hands it zoomed in on Nappa.
"Take this! NEO TRI-BEEEAAAAMMM!" Tien shouted, Nappa had looked up, not immediately noticing Tien's disappearance. His eyes went wide as Tien's tri beam struck him, obliterating the ground beneath him.
"Tien! No!" Krillin shouted. "Don't! If you do that.. You'll burn yourself out and you'll die too!" His words did not reach Tien, who was too blinded with rage, nor were the quick enough anyways.
Again, Tien concentrated energy, readying another blast, his veins bulged, and his muscles expanded. An intense fatigue washed over Tien but he persisted on, concentrating another mighty blast.
"Tien stop!" Yamcha pleaded. "You're going to die! And you know what Mr. Popo said! If you kill another soul! Yours will be tainted again! And you'll never be able to come back!"
Tien turned to Yamcha, his eyes stricken with fury. "I can't! I can't let this bastard go! Not after what he's done!" He replied. He turned to Nappa who was just getting out of the hole but barely. "He killed Chiaotzu! And I…I refused to let him go!" Again he unleashed another blast, sending Nappa back down.
This time the fatigue was much stronger, and Tien fell to the ground, before being caught by both Krillin and Yamcha. It was quiet for a moment, Tien had barely grip his consciousness, as the two other fighters let him stand.
"Are you okay?" Krillin asked.
Tien nodded, resisting to wince. "Y-yeah…I think I'll be fine."
"Don't do that man! You gave us a scare." Yamcha said. Krillin nodded in agreement.
"Sorry. I just.." Tien gritted his teeth. "I couldn't…Chiaotzu…he's gone."
Krillin and Yamcha frowned, giving a second of silence to honor their friend.
"Yeah…I'm sorry Tien." Krillin replied.
Yamcha placed a hand on Tien's shoulder. "Hey. We're here for you pal." He said. Krillin placed his hand on Tien's other shoulder and nodded with agreement.
A second later, Nappa crawled out of the hole but barely, and he tried to crawl away, but Tien noticed him immediately, walking up to him angrily.
"Tien, Don't!" Krillin said.
Tien had aimed his hand at him, but Krillin and Yamcha came forward, trying to hold him back.
"Come on, Tien, it's not worth it!" Yamcha added.
Nappa chuckled. "You Earthlings and your ridiculous mercy!" He said. "Go on! Do it! Or are you too weak?!" The three turned their attention to him. Tien remained silent for a moment. "No wonder no one bothered to check this backwater planet, that's because you're nothing but weak. Cowardice, losers and full of pity!"
Tien aimed an energy blast at him with the two other fighters screaming at him to stop, the blast had missed Nappa by a centimeter.
Tien looked at him with fury in his eyes. "You know what, I don't have to kill you." He said. "Because you'll forever have to live and be disgraced with the fact that you were beaten by a bunch of "weak, cowardice, and pitiful losers", and that torture alone will forever be worse than death." Tien began to turn away, then continued.
"You're so self-absorbed by your own strength, that you couldn't even believe your eyes when a bunch of Earthlings got far stronger than you, that you became blinded with rage and made your own demise." He finished. "So you know what, if you ask me, you're the one who's truly weak." A smirk formed across his face as he turned away.
Nappa's eyes struck with rage, weak? Him? Weak?! The Saiyan General!? One of the most feared in the Galaxy!? Weak?! How could he be weak?! He wasn't blinded by his rage?! He was angry but he sure as hell wasn't blinded by it! And it wasn't his fault! He's not weak!
"I'm…I'm not weak." He muttered quietly. With a burst of rage he stood up, yelling, and ramming himself into Tien with every bit of energy he had left. "I'M NOT WEEEAAAAKKK!"
"ENOOOUGH!" Vegeta yelled, as Raditz threw his fist from behind, Vegeta dodged it, grabbing his fist and threw Raditz over his shoulder, slamming him into the ground. "I am the Saiyan Prince! I do not fall against weaklings like YOU!" He slammed his fist into Raditz's right cheek, then into his left cheek, into his jaw, then repeated again and again, each time with more blood spilling.
Vegeta leaped into the air and slammed his knee into Raditz's gut. "You are NOTHING!" Vegeta yelled. He got off of Raditz. "Nothing but some low class trash! You should be bowing to me, not defying your own Prince!" Vegeta kicked Raditz, sending him crashing against several boulders, then walked slowly towards Raditz as he got up.
Vegeta picked him up by the collar of his shirt, but Raditz slammed his head against Vegeta's head, causing Vegeta to release his grip and stumble a bit backwards. Raditz jumped forward and hurled his fist, but Vegeta reacted quickly, ducking to the side, and slamming his fist into Raditz's jaw.
Then as Raditz went flying again, Vegeta unleashed a violent wave of energy against Raditz. Vegeta walked back to Raditz again, Raditz tried to lift himself up but his body felt weak, and ached harshly with even the tiniest movement.
Vegeta slammed his foot down against Raditz's upper arm, pressing violently. "Let me show you what happens when you stand in defiance against your superiors!" Vegeta said, mockingly laughing. Vegeta pressed his foot harder and harder trying to get Raditz to scream, but the lower classed fighter only groaned.
After a couple of seconds, Vegeta slammed his foot down again and Raditz screamed in agony, continuing to scream as Vegeta pressed against.
Gohan's eyes went wide. "U-Uncle Raditz!" He yelled, his ki flared as he attempted to rush off, but Goku grabbed ahold of his leg stopping him. "Let me go Dad!"
"No! Go find the others, Gohan!" Goku replied. "I'll take care of it."
"B-But Dad!" Gohan said.
"Go! Now!" Goku urged.
Gohan gulped, then nodded, and flew off towards the others quickly.
"Where do you think you're going! Nobody leaves this battlefield!" Vegeta shouted. He pulled his hand back, gathering energy and forming a sphere. "Especially half-breeds!" More energy swirled, but an energy shot from the side hit Vegeta's left eye.
Vegeta stumbled forward, but stopped himself, hovering his hand in his eye as he hollered. "Aaagh! You asshole!" He yelled. Vegeta tried to fire a blast at Goku, but Goku had avoided easily thanks to Vegeta's eyesight currently being sliced. During all of this, Gohan managed to escape quickly.
"Leave him out of this! You're fighting me now!" Goku shouted, floating mid-air and taking a stance. He fired another blast at Vegeta and Vegeta growled furiously in response. "Looks like I might be able to get that chance after all, I just hope Raditz can wake up, otherwise we might be screwed!"
Vegeta chuckled. "Fine. You want to die." He said. "So be it. A worthless low class warrior like you stands no chance against me, let alone myself in my ape form!" He threw a fist at Goku, but Goku ducked down, landing on a nearby rock formation, which Vegeta aimed at.
Goku leaped out of the way, leaving Vegeta's fist crushing the rock formation that he was standing on before. Goku's eyes widened at the sheer force Vegeta had emitted, if it were him that had been struck, he could've been crushed.
Vegeta threw another fist, which Goku almost didn't see him coming, fortunately Goku evaded, leaving an afterimage behind.
"Sit still!" Vegeta snarled. Vegeta threw his hands out, emitting an energy sphere that unleashed hundreds upon hundreds of energy blasts that followed Goku's path as he tried to evade them. Jumping left, right, right, up, dashing against several boulders, so many of them merged when exploding as well, making it even more difficult for Goku to dodge.
Eventually, when the blasts stopped, there was smoke everywhere, making it hard for Vegeta to see Goku. From various spots in the smoke, Goku fired energy blasts at Vegeta, each one doing nothing to Vegeta.
Vegeta smirked. "Fool. Now I know where he is!" Vegeta mumbled. He fired a large energy blast in the area, causing a massive explosion, simultaneously, Goku had started to fly away, the blast knocked him off course, and caused him to crash in the nearby forests.
Vegeta however didn't see Goku, this allowed Goku to get back on track and fly behind Vegeta without him noticing. Goku concentrated energy and aimed it at Vegeta's tail, before he could though, Vegeta's tail slammed against the front of Goku, a few of his ribs cracked, and the oxygen in his gut was immediately forced.
Goku plummeted through a few intact boulders, then one that was already in rubble, with sharp pieces that gave Goku several cuts on his back.
To be continued…
Powerlevels:
Vegeta: 18,000 | Galick Gun: 24,000 | Great Ape: 180,000
Raditz: 12,000 | Shining Friday: 15,000 | Great Ape: 120,000
Goku: 8,000 | Kamehameha: 12,000
Nappa (Post Senzu): 8,000 | (Post Self-Destruct): 500
Chiaotzu: 1,500 | Self-Destruct: 3,000 | Kaioken Imbued: 6,000 | Kaioken X3 Increase: 9,000