Chapter 44: Goku
*Gasp*
The Namek air was refreshing and the feel of warm dry dirt was a nice change from the seemingly endless waters that was the Planets fast green ocean. Blood and fresh seawater quickly splattered on the ground as The King Of Sayian's Vegeta flopped on the shore.
The King was breathing heavily not only from the excursion of swimming for countless miles to reach the sore line but also due to the fact he was immense pain from the hole in his stomach caused by Piccolo's special beam planet. Vegeta having survived the attack using his Ki energy to stabilise his body as he swam combind with his doggy determination to survive.
"That Fucking Namek" Vegeta swore punching the dirt weakly. "How could he miss Friezia and get me! I gave him every opportunity to finish that barstard off and he misses. I swear after I get back to my ship and recover I am going to put an end to both him and Friezia"
With revenge deep in his thoughts the King Of Sayian began to crawl across the dirt towards the direction of his ship.
"How pitiful" Vegeta thought to himself. "The King Of Sayian crawling on the dirt! This is not were I belong!"
Though the King Of Sayian's felt it was demeaning to crawl on the ground he refused to call for help his pride would not allow it he would rather die than beg for mercy or suffer the indignity of being carried home to his ship by a subordinate. No he would get their on his own power or not at all though one thought crept in his thoughts.
"Were is that Namek child that healed me before! I may have underestimated how useful his abilities are a medic that can perform healing magic could be very useful for my forces" Vegeta thought as he coughed due to his extersion of crawling and spat dirt on the ground.
Though it was humiliating for a Sayian to ask/receive help from another it was common practice to receive medical treatment after a near death battle it just made sense in their warrior society. The Sayian's would face the strongest foe's possible and if they won but required treatment due to injury that was testament to the strength of their foe. If they were to lose however a Sayian could still avoid disgrace, if they survived long enough to receive medical treatment and with their biology of growing incredible stronger after near death experience the Sayian could re-gain their pride by defeating their previous foe or the person who defeated them.
But begging for help was unacceptable as far as Vegeta was concerned begging for help was like turning your back on Sayian society and the King had executed many that had begged him for help after being defeated. In a small sense it was an act of kindness being killed by the King Of Sayian's after begging for mercy was pitiful but being killed by the King himself would give the Sayian's family some pride. Were as if the King chose not to execute the Sayian they would be exceled from the race along with their family or worse they could be killed by an inferior race.
"Grrr I won't die I won't die" Vegeta thought smashing his fist again in dramatic show of frustration though this was more to conceal the feeling of fear growing deep inside the Sayian and the sorrow of his failure to avenge his fathers death. "No I will not let that pathetic excuse for a lord beat me! I will get to my ship! I will recover! I will grow stonger ! I will avenge my father ! AND I WILL PROVE ONCE AND FOR ALL THE SAYIAN'S ARE THE MOST POWERFUL RACE IN ALL OF THE UNIVERSE!"
~DBAT~
Crack! Slash! Crunch! Smash!
Friezia was literally tearing into Piccolo ripping and slicing chucks of flesh from the Namek's body and breaking his bones with crunching hit's. Though the Frost Demon had a hole though his chest and Though he was still fighting with one hand he still far outclassed the Namek and Piccolo knew this.
"Dam it! I can't even fight back the most I can do is regenerate myself after every strike and hope he tires out before I do" Piccolo thought to himself though he knew his Ki reserves would deplete well before the tyrant and what's more the pain was excoriating.
The only reason why Piccolo was able to think straight at all and keep his mind clear was the same reason why he had stayed and fight. Gohan however foolishly had came back to save him and the Namek could not abandoned his pupil now. He would spend every last ounce of his strength to ensure the boy survival and then some even if it meant that he lost his own.
But with each passing second it became clearer and clearer that Gohan was detractin fast and would soon pass on to the next otherworld if he did not get extensive treatment soon, and as much Piccolo hate to admit it their was only one person that could now save their lives.
"Goku we need you now!"
The Nameks thought's were interrupted by another crushing blow from the tyrant that was delivered directly into Piccolo's chin sending the green giant crashing into the plant's hard ground.
"Dam it! if I could just use Kao-ken I could win"
Piccolo had discovered that his fusion with Nail and Guru had came at an unexpected price. Though he had increased his power greatly the Namek had lost the ability to perform King Kia's signature technique the reason's why were explained by the Northan Kia.
" To perform the Kao-ken technique one must be complete physically, mentally and spiritually all these must be one. Since you have fused with Nail and Guru your spirit has not change but has absorbed too other souls into one being. Your Soul has mutated and thus your spirit is no longer one with your mind and body and with even years of training it might never be the same again as such. If you use the Kao-Ken technique I'm afraid it will destroy you".
"But I must!" Piccolo thought to himself. "It's the only way to stand a chance"
"Are you that Eger to die Piccolo" A familiar voice spoke within the Namek's mind. "Or is your desire to kill me made you resort to suicide"
"Shut up Kami! Can't you feel I'm in a middle of a fight" Piccolo replied venom clear in his voice the Namek's disgust for his other half still clear despite his recent change to the path of good.
"Yes I can" Kami replied.
Back on Earth the Earth's guardian was being supported up with the aid of Mr Popo his genie assistant. Purple blood was dripping from the Guardian's mouth due to the trauma that was being inflicted on his own body with was connected to Piccolo's own.
"Well why talk and distract me then?" Piccolo barked in reply.
"Because I have a plan" Kami replied.
Piccolo now curious ignored the pain and the taunts he was Receiving from Friezia and closed his eye's picturing Kami in his mind in order to get a better telepathic connection.
"Oh come on now don't die on me just when we were starting to get to know eachother" Friezia taunted cackling with laughter but Piccolo ignored the tyrant.
"This better be good you old fool" Piccolo growled but this time their was less malice.
"As I am sure you are aware you can no longer use the Kao-ken technique you learnt from Goku due to your fushion with Nail and the grand elder"
"Yes get to the point old man is not like I have time to kill here" Piccolo snapped back impatiently
"Well the fact their two souls is connected to your's makes it impossible for you to use the technique yes?"
"Yes!"
"Well if you were to separate them from yourself you would be able to use the Kao-ken technique again"
"And how do you suppose I remove them from myself" Piccolo retorted back angrily. "Also the reason I am this powerful is because of the fusion between our bodies if I somehow managed to remove them from myself like you suggest I wouldn't be a match for them combine even with the Kao-ken technique let alone Friezia!"
"I know" Kami replied back trying to keep himself calm. "But that is not exactly my plan"
"Then what is it then!? hurry up and tell me already!"
"In order to perform the multi-form technique you must split your soul up in order to give you clones a physical presence and it's own Ki. That is why the more you have the more of your power is divided between them!"
" Yes I know how my own technique works!" Piccolo snapped back angrily the Namek could feel the fact the tyrant had now lifted him up by his throat and was saying something though the Green Giant was blocking out the tyrants words.
"Do you really?" Kami snapped back his own rage at his other half taking over. "Then why have you not realised it's true potential in this fight you fool! The multi-form technique splits your spirit between your two bodies Piccolo! If you focus you could separate you soul from Nail's and Guru's and still retain half of the power you have now and it should allow you to use the Kao-Ken technique which would allow you to increases your strength further than it is now!"
Piccolo didn't immediately reply back he was quite impressed with his other half's plan and a little bit disappointed with himself for not working it out himself however the Namek wasn't going to let Kami know that.
"Why didn't you just tell me that to begin with you old fool!" Piccolo responded back before disconnecting the telepathic connection in order to concentrate on his next move.
"Not half as foolish as you" Kami thought to himself before collapsing to the floor in exhaustion.
"Kami! please no" Mr Popo cried out in fear. Rushing to his master's aid.
"I know your alive" Friezia murmured as he continued to hold Piccolo by his throat. "I know the difference between a corpse and a living person because trust me I have made many! Now open your eyes so I can see the fear in them when I put an end to your miserable life!"
Suddenly and without warning a golden glow engulfed Piccolo waves of energy seeming to engulf the Namek until suddenly another figure split out from the Namek's body. Friezia's eyes immediately darted to the new figure and immediately grew wider as the Frost Giant recognised his old foe.
"Impossible I killed you" The Frost Demon roared.
Crack!
Taking complete advantage of the fact Friezia had been caught of guard the fuse forum of Nail and Guru smashed a right fist into the Frost Demon tyrants cheek and though the punch was not powerful enough to harm the tyrant the fact the Frost Demon had been caught of guard by and the confusion he had at the Namek's reappearance was enough to cause the tyrant to lose balance and fall on his arse.
"You" Friezia roared from his undignified position "Were did you come from I killed you with myself! How are you back from the grave and what's more how are you stronger now?"
Though the Fusion of Nail and Guru was still nowhere near the strength of the tyrants it was still clear that the Namek's strength had incressed substantially and if Friezia had to estimate it was now about a quarter of his strength an unimaginable leap in power from what was only hours ago.
"He's not the only one who's greatly incressed his strength." Piccolo roared bending his knees and bringing his elbows to his sides as the very familiar red aura began to glow around his body. "Kao-ken...
~DBZ~
His body battered and broken Vegeta still continued to crawl to the direction of his ship only to suddenly to collapse in agony. The Sayian King had lost a lot of the blood and was on the verge of losing conciseness and with that would come the cold embrace of death. Knowing that death was drawing near and sure no one was around to see Vegeta allowed his emotions to get the best of him and tears began to well up in his eyes.
"Dam it! I've failed! this was not suppose to happen this was not suppose to happen!" Grief was ripping though Vegeta as he felt his life drawing to a close and though he hated himself for it the Sayian couldn't hide from his fear he couldn't hide from his feelings or himself "This is not how it was suppose to happen. All those years I have trained for this wasted! All those time's I bent the knee discarded my pride for nothing! The life's of my people taken by that tyrant and I their King was not able to avenge them"
Suddenly fear and grief turned to angrier as the King Of Sayian's got a grip of himself and rolled over to face the Namek sky.
"No! Look at me! The King of the greatest warrior race crying like a child how pathetic. So what if I am going to die! I will embrace death like a true warrior! I will fight to the end!"
As if to signify his point to no one but himself Vegeta raised his hands into the sky and gathered energy into the palm of his hands and fired the last remaining energy into the sky.
"I embrace death" Vegeta thought to himself dropping his hands to his sides the tears were still flowing but they were now tears of defiance.
"You look like you need some help"
The voice that was so familiar to the Sayian king sent shivers down Vegeta's body as the realisation dawned on the King that he was not alone. Relief echoed around the Sayian King's body.
"I'm saved" Vegeta thought to himself and he immediately regretted it. The Sayian king had accepted his death but the voice had given him hope and Vegeta hated himself for that feeling ashamed that he would disgrace himself as a warrior to receive help. But he hated the owner of the voice more for the fact he saw the King at his most venerable and what was more the owner of the voice was showing him mercy and offering to help.
"I don't need your help you ingnorant fool! Unlike you I am a true Sayian warrior!" Vegeta roared up opening his eyes and confirming exactly who the figure was.
"I know you don't mean that" The man said kindly "And I know you need my help"
"Listen here Kakarott!" Vegeta spat "I don't need your help or your mercy if you let me live I will wipe out your home planet. I will kill and torture every single one of your friends and family one by one and I will enjoy it. Spare me now and I will hurt you in ways you can't possible imagine! Finish me now Kakarott"
"No" Goku said simple a smile on his face as he walked over to Vegeta's broken body and placed his hands ready to lift the King Of Sayian up into his arms.
"Don't touch me you filthy peasant" Vegeta roared lashing out and slapping Goku around his face and immediately regret it as each and every bone in the King's hand broke upon impact. "What! How strong has this fool become" The King Of Sayian thought stunned at the sudden pain that had erupted in his hand.
"You can't hurt me Vegeta I have far surpassed you now you will only hurt yourself" Goku said calmly not realising the massive dent to Vegeta's pride and how much he had just insulted the King with his words. "And don't think the fact you tried to slap me will mean I will kill you"
"Why" Vegeta croaked weakly the King now in a complete emotional wreck. "Why have you not just killed me!"
"Because I sensed it" Goku said with a smile upon his face as he picked Vegeta up this time the King Didn't react. "It was small and only for a moment but I sensed the good in you. You can be so much more than what you are Vegeta"
"Hahahahahahaha" Vegeta throw his head back and roared in laughter at Goku's words "You really are a sentimental fool Kakarott. Trust me if you allow me to live I will make you regreat it!"
With the last of his energy depleted the King Of Sayian's fell unconscious. Goku looked down at the fallen prience a smile still upon his face as he flew up into the air and back towards the Sayian ship in order to put the king in the healing chamber that he had been in moments before.
"You might not like it Vegeta" Goku mused to himself. "But me and you are a lot more alike than you think."
~DBAT~
Bardock had got to Gohan while Piccolo was using himself as a punching bag in order to distract Friezia. But after examining the Demi-Sayian's wounds the older Sayian knew immediately that he would not be able to move him for fear of actually killing him so as such Bardock was resorted to protecting His Grandson from the debris that were pouring down upon them and hope that somehow Gohan pulled though or the small Namek child would come to heal him.
"Dam it" Bardock roared kicking a huge rock away that had nearly got past him. "I can't keep this up for much longer!"
"Gohan!"
Bardock turned around to see the small Namek child that had been with the elder back at the Sayian medical bay.
"Little green!"Bardock cried relief to see the small healer had arrived. "Gohan need's help heal him quickly"
"My Name is Dende" Dende replied as he flew down next to Gohan and started the healing process. "and I know Goku rold me!"
"Goku? You mean my son he's awake?" Bardock asked feeling even more relived "So he made it after all were is he?"
"I don't know" Dende replied sadly not looking up from healing Gohan. "He asked me to come here and save Gohan and said he would meet me here after he did something first"
"Well I hope he hurry's up and get's here soon we need all the help we can get at the moment"
~DBZ~
"Times three!" Piccolo roared the signature aura of the North's Kia technique roared around the Namek now making his green skin appear brown.
Standing up the Frost Demon looked at the two Namek warriors that had chose to fight him before throwing his head back and erupting into a fit of laughter.
"Ahahahahaha" Frezia cackled though it was clear on his face that the tyrant was not amused. "I really must be getting soft, I have never once allowed anyone to escape with their life Namek you should have seen it as a gift and escaped while you could."
"I would never rest while a tyrant like you lives!" the fused voice of Guru and Nail replied the Namek clenching his fists as a white hot aura burst around him.
"Calm down you two I'll take care of this one" Piccolo said calmly walking forward the red aura around him having began to flow in a stable fashion.
"Don't be a fool Piccolo you no you can't take him alone. It will take both of us!" The fused Namek replied.
"I know you want your share of revenge for our people. But you are nothing more than my multi-form technique you might believe your living flesh but trust me your not. If you take any significant damage you will shatter and the souls of Nail and Guru will rejoin me and If that happens I will not be able to use the Kao-ken technique and that's the only thing that will allow me to get close to his power." Piccolo replied sternly.
"Your wrong Piccolo" This time Guru's voice was more potent in the fused Namek's voice "You forget the only reason you were able to perform the multi-form technique in this way is because of my knowledge. You don't even realise what you have done! trust me this body is of blood and flesh just as much as your's is."
"Ehmm" Friezia obnoxious tone interrupted the Namek's convocation. "As much as I love you two fighting over me I am a very busy man and I still haven't made my wish to the Dragonball's. While this has been fun I don't have time to play around."
A massive purple aura surrounded Friezia the planet itself shock just by the tyrant's mere presence.
"Don't worry this is going to be quick!"
Swish. The Frost Demon disappeared out of sight appearing in front of the Fused form of Nail and Guru.
Squash! With no effort what so ever the tyrant punched his left hand right though the Namek's green body and out the other side. Purple blood squirted in all directions and virtually covered the Frost Demon's white skin.
"Grrr..." The fused Namek cried out gasping in pain.
Crack! Piccolo saw the opportunity as soon as Friezia had moved to attack the other Namek. With Friezia's whole left arm imbedded in the fused Namek's body the tyrant had his whole left side unprotected meaning Piccolo had a clear shot at the tyrants head.
However the Namek didn't account for Friezia's new found speed and his foot merely fizzled past the tyrants alter image technique.
"Did you really think I would leave myself that open I'm not a fool!" Friezia roared before firing a blast into the powerful Namek's back.
"Grrrraaaahhh!" Piccolo cried taking the full force of the attack."This is Impossible...even with the Kao-ken technique time's three he's still too strong for me! And I know I can't push it further! Dam it"
That's when Piccolo noticed Gohan being healed on the ground by Dende while Bardock was still desperately trying to protect the two of the from the debris caused by the Frost Demon's overwhelming power. A small smirk appeared on the Namek's face his mine made up.
"I always knew you were going to be the death of me kid" The Namek thought to himself before roaring. "Bardock! Get Gohan and Dende out of here now I'll hold Freiza off!"
Swish! Friezia appeared in Front of Piccolo and even though his back was to the Namek. Piccolo knew the tyrant was smiling.
"How noble sacrificing yourself so the children can live!" Friezia cackled lifting up his left index finger a small ball hovering above it. "Pity I don't like noble sacrifices"
Cackling with laughter the tyrant threw the small destructive orb towards Gohan, Dende and Bardock.
"No" Piccolo cried using every ounce of energy he had left to try and desperately catch up with the orb. "Gohan I won't let you die..."
"KAO...KEN...TIMES...TEN!"
BOOM!
Hello everyone. Hope you enjoyed this chapter even though this one and the last couple have been quite small but that's just been building up to now and next chapter should be a nice long one. Though not gonna lie I need to read back over my story and kinda see were the Dragonball's are because I'm gonna need them to come into play soon and I forgot were I left them XD.
Right first thing I want to reply to an anonymous review from last chapter.
1. How strong is this Piccolo fused with Nail and Guru?
I don't want to give too much away in terms of power levels at the moment. But without Kao-ken at max's power he is at 50% of DBAT Friezia's strength in his forth form. Now this is probably way over how much you guys might think but here is my reasoning. In Cannon the last power level for Piccolo we got before King' Kia's training was about 3,000 now let's presume he got ten time's stronger like Goku did bearing in mind he had less time to train with King Kia so I doubt it would be more. So that would mean upon being revived on Namek. Piccolo's power level would have been around 30-40 thousand. He then fused with Nail who was at 42,000 to a power level over one million which is a massive lift.
In DBAT situation Piccolo who is stonger than in Cannon thank's to training on the way to Namek with Goku and Gohan learning Kao-ken. Having his potential unlocked by Guru and fighting ton's of opponents getting to the point were his power level is in the hundreds fuses with a fuse warrior with a power level of one Million is it unrealistic that his power level would be close if not around 50% of Friezias ?
Also I want to quickly address something in this Chapter regarding the Kao-Ken I think that I explained why Piccolo can't use it while fused with Nail and Guru I think that makes sense. But the reason why he could use it towards the end is because he basically separated their two souls into his Multi-form body. It is a really complicated and complex technique and he only achieved it because he had Guru's knowledge within him. Once their souls were temporarily separated he was able to perform the Kao-Ken technique as normal and if he was completely healthy and well at a kao-ken times three he would be able to match DBAT Friezia at 75% Of the Frost Demon's power.
Now for the final thing when writing this chapter I did intend for Guru/Nail and Piccolo to fight Friezia together for a while but the more I thought about it the more unlikely it seemed to happen. Piccolo has been fighting for ages now. He has litrally had his body ripped apart constantly. He would be tired and would have lost energy. Were as Friezia though he's injured is still more or less at his max. Their's no way at this point they would be able to fight him especially now with Friezia getting serious.
The next question was and I'm actually glad about it how did Gohan survived? He should have been dead.
Now I agree with this and I'm glad no one was angry Gohan was upset that Gohan got dispatched so easily. Yes he should have died but Gohan did a lot of thing's in Cannon that Gohan should have not been able to do while he was enraged. E.G. Managing to beat on a third form Friezia when he couldn't face his second form.
In my opinion when Gohan goes enrage he unleashes all his latent potential to become mind bogglingly stronger than what he should be and DBAT Gohan also can use Kao-ken albeit unstable but it still draws out even more power. I also Belive that Gohan fight completely on instinct he doesn't think about what he's doing he just reacts. What happened was a split second before he got hit with that slap. Gohan instinctively channelled all of his power into a small concentrated barrier around his face in order to block to attack. Now with every single bit of power he had Gohan was only able to insure that he was barely alive like litrally if Gohan hadn't of hit soft ground when he landed or his a rock or something he would be dead. He is completely and utterly lucky to be alive it was just chance that he survive by alrights he should be gone but he's not. It's more of a miracle he survived and a bit of plot armour ;).
And finally in this chapter we find out the fact of Vegeta yes he's alive. He nearly died and Goku saved his life. And thus the King's hatred and Riveraly for Goku has been born :p.
Please leave a review and let me know what you think.
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