"You damned dirty MONKEY!" Frieza roared, slinging punch after punch, kick after kick at Goku. His eyes were manic with rage, with body trembling from anger, and he only had eyes for Goku at the moment.
The tyrant yanked back an especially powerful punch before flinging it forward to strike. Goku dodged around the attack before slamming a thunderous knee to Frieza's stomach. "You should really think up better insults!" he yelled before striking Frieza with a punch that sent him flying away.
"The whole monkey thing is really getting old," he added as he took a quick breather from the momentary break in the fight. The three of them had been at it nonstop since the dragon had taken all of the others off of the planet. The hero hadn't felt this exhilarated about a fight since Vegeta, and even then it wasn't near as exciting as this. Between Frieza and Cooler, his Saiyan blood was roiling with joy.
An explosion of lava spewed from the darkening and unstable surface of Namek. He watched as it roared high up past his body, which was impressive considering how high he was in the sky. He turned to Namek's surface, saddened by the slow destruction of the once peaceful planet. "We really need to speed this up," he said absentmindedly, wondering exactly how much longer the planet would give the trio to fight on her surface.
"Stop fighting and die then!" Goku turned back to the wall of lava that roared near him, shocked when Cooler exploded through the molten fluid.
He barely had time to thrust up a forearm to block the massive punch of the elder tyrant. The hero winced in pain as it struck, but ignored it and sent a kick to Cooler's jaw. Of course, he blocked the attack, but Goku couldn't help noting how much more effort Cooler was putting into his attacks and blocking as compared to earlier.
"Don't tell me you're getting tired, Cooler," mocked the Saiyan with a bit of a chuckle, his leg still firmly pressed against the tyrant's arm and Cooler's fist still pushed against his forearm.
"Tired of you maybe!" he roared in reply before quickly thrusting a punishing elbow to Goku's skull.
The hero's snapped back in pain before he replied with a snap kick to Cooler's side, followed by a thunderous uppercut. Cooler recovered almost instantly with a punch to Goku's abdomen and Goku answered with a jab to Cooler's jaw. Before long, the super duo were locked in an aerial brawl of might, their attacks resounding like shotguns as they flew in faster than the eye could see.
"Why don't you just give up already?!" Cooler shouted sending off two punches to Goku's skull.
"I can ask you the same thing!" replied Goku before launching a thunderously powerful knee to Cooler's chest that sent the tyrant skidding across the sky. He recovered quick enough and landed a hateful glare on Goku. The Saiyan laughed, "I guess you can say that I just like a good fight. Besides, if I don't stop you and Frieza here, then no one will."
"Frieza will be stopped, you impudent monkey. As for me? It'll take more than you to EVER defeat me!" replied the older Arcosian, ignoring his fatigue to straighten his posture with an air of pride. "I'll crush Frieza, then you!"
"I look forward to the challenge!" replied Goku with a flare of his golden aura.
A twitch in Goku's mind just then sparked. Acting on pure instincts, the hero did a backflip in the air, and as he did so, a disc of purple ki came hurdling under his body. Goku flipped back upright as the disc flew on ahead of him, while Cooler simply sidestepped the attack.
"Frieza…"Goku hissed as he turned to the tyrant who'd nearly sliced him in half.
Frieza floated far across the sky, looking absolutely livid as he held a second purple ki disc in the other hand. "I'll kill you! I'll kill the both of you. IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO, I WILL MAKE YOU PAY!" he shouted before slinging the second, then a third, and finally a fourth disc at the duo ahead of him.
"Pest," sneered Cooler as the discs flew toward he and Goku. They both zipped away just as the discs were ready to slice them to pieces.
A few yards away, Cooler reappeared in the turbulent skies of Namek. He could see the look on Frieza's face, the coward was growing desperate. "As if you'll ever beat me with an attack like this," he hissed and moved just as one of the discs nearly sliced his shoulder off. Then, his aura flared as he sped off with a second disc following after him.
"AAAHAHAHA! Run all you fools want! These discs won't stop! They won't stop till they slice you to pieces!" roared the manic tyrant as his hands directed the four discs to his opponents.
Cooler snorted with disgust at his brother's behavior before turning his attention to Goku. The Saiyan had two of his own discs to contend with and looked to be trying to lead them back to Frieza. A smart move, but Frieza wouldn't be so foolish as to let his own attack kill him, Cooler was willing to give him that much credit. Still, that Saiyan, that pest of a monkey, was a bother. It was like nothing Cooler did could stop him. Maybe it was because Cooler had wasted so much time and energy, but Goku was beginning to keep up with him. Not just in speed, but power. At this rate, Cooler might just weaken to a point that Goku proved to be his superior.
He sneered at the mere thought. "When the depths of hell freeze over," he seethed and zipped away as the two discs moved in on him at the same time.
Goku was a threat and Frieza was a pest. Cooler never thought that he'd admit that, even if it was in his head. Nevertheless, it was high time this "battle" drew to a close. Reappearing in the sky, far away from the discs, his eyes settled on Frieza as his younger brother maniacally laughed aloud. "You fool," he muttered in disdain. "You've lived long enough."
Just as he'd made up his mind, the discs came flying at him once more. A growl of irritation rolled past his mask. He brought his index and middle finger together before striking them across the air. "Fissure Slash!" he roared as a slash of purple ki zipped across the sky and struck Frieza's two Death Discs. The lethal attacks met in an explosion of energy, effectively cancelling one another out.
Cooler ignored Frieza's shocked expression and turned to Goku and his two trailing discs. Again, the tyrant cleaved his fingers through the air as another Fissure Slash was sent out to destroy Frieza's final two discs. He watched as Goku turned back to the destroyed discs with a look of pure shock on his face.
He didn't even give the hero time to speak his shock before zooming over and slamming a punishing knee to Goku's stomach. Next, an elbow spiked into Goku's back and he was sent spearing into the chaotic oceans of Namek. Not wasting a second, Cooler rocketed down to the hero, blasting through the ocean like a comet and slamming a final merciless punch to the Saiyan's hero's stomach, sending Goku ramming into Namek's seafloor and breaking through to the molten interior of the dying planet.
In a split second, Cooler was back in the sky, watching the chaos of his brutal attack. It was only meant to buy time, he knew Goku wasn't dead.
"Some show, Cooler." The elder tyrant then turned to his brother, scowling at the disgustingly pleased look on Frieza's face. "I didn't think you had it in you to kill the Saiyan, but…wow…apparently I was wrong."
That fool. Always celebrating before true victory is certain. "He's not dead, you idiot," Cooler said, ignoring the annoyed, yet shocked look Frieza's face. "He's merely down for the moment. I just wanted to make sure we had the moment alone."
A spark of lighting struck in the distance, followed by a roar of thunder as the brothers glared down one another. An unsettling and tension-thick silence fell between the two as they leered at the other, their eyes speaking more of their hate for one another than words could ever say.
"How long have you been planning this?" asked Frieza, arms folded and voice steady.
"To be honest? A very long time. Let's just say that I was urged on by your desire to gain immortality. I couldn't very well kill you if you were immortal, now could I?"
"And father? You do realize that he'll never allow you to live for this. I don't care how much stronger you think you've gotten, he will crush you like the bug you are."
"He'll never find out, no one will. The only people that know that I'm here have already been killed. You'll come to this planet, attempt to blow it up, and get caught in the explosion yourself. And just like that your legacy will end and mine will begin."
Frieza chuckled, a sinister smile on his face. "You just have it all figured out, don't you? One final question before I kill you though. What is…that? How did you do that?"
It was Cooler's turn to chuckle. "This is the next step, Frieza! For so long, we thought our fourth form was our limit, but it turns out that we were wrong! There's more to our race, so much more, and the fact that I'm the first in centuries to come across this should be proof enough that I'm your superior. This is our fifth form and it has granted me a power that greatly outclasses your own!"
Silence fell before them once again as Frieza really took in Cooler's words, his eyes scanning over Cooler's entire form. After nearly a full minute of glaring, Frieza finally opened his mouth to speak. "I'll be next…AND YOU'LL BE DEAD!"
Moving as fast as he could muster, Frieza zipped over to Cooler, aiming a punch directly for his elder brother's bone mask. However, just before impact, Cooler effortlessly snatched up Frieza's arm. Frieza's eyes grew panicked, but he quickly answered with a point blank blast directly to his brother, courtesy of his freed hand.
A smile grew across the tyrant's face, but it waned as he tried to yank away his free arm, realizing that the grip still wouldn't budge. "You'll be the one dead, Frieza." Before the younger tyrant could think, a powerful kick slammed into his jaw with so much force that he was sent barreling into the sky like a rocket.
His brain was a mess of pain, his entire body rocked by the kick. Nevertheless, anger poured through his veins and revitalized his body. With a splay of energy, Frieza forced his body to stop before he was hurdled into space. Once he looked back down to his brother though, his heart nearly dropped at the sight.
"Don't look so surprised, Frieza. I could always gather energy faster than you," mocked Cooler as he held an enormous Supernova in his right hand.
Frieza wasn't sure if he was hyperventilating or just out right trying to breathe fire, but he was huffing and puffing air like it was all that he needed, even though he certainly didn't need it to survive. He was practically going blind with rage as he took in the smirk on Cooler's face. And then, he threw it, the attack passed down in his family for generations. The attack was meant to strike down the lesser beings, the third world planets that didn't deserve to exist, the barbaric races that could contribute nothing to the PTO. IT WASN'T MEANT TO BE USED TO KILL ROYALTY!
"RAGHHH!" shouted Frieza, his anger manifesting as his purple aura roared to life. "I WILL RULE THIS UNIVERSE!" he declared before firing an enormous purple energy wave directly at the approaching Supernova.
Against Frieza's wishes, his attack was simply absorbed into the attack, not deterring it for half a second. "No," was all the tyrant could mutter, horror etched into his face as the death ball drew closer and closer and closer.
No more fight left in the tyrant, he simply watched as the Supernova engulfed his body and flew him out into space. He could only replay images from his childhood, thoughts of the past, his interactions with Cooler and his father. He could only think of all the times he'd embarrassed Cooler, demeaned him. All the times that he outclassed him in training, all the times he'd stolen his friends as children, all the times he'd gained father's approval over Cooler.
The Supernova struck the surface of one of Namek's many suns as Frieza's body began breaking away from the roaring fires of the attack. "Father…make him pay!" was the last words Frieza uttered before the Supernova exploded against Namek's sun in a grand display of bright orange and golden light.
Back on Namek's dying surface, Cooler began to chuckle. Then, he laughed. He laughed so hard is body ached, his lungs burned, his stomach knotted. Cooler threw his head back in uproarious glee as his mad cackle struck the skies of Namek. "After all of these years, after listening to your annoying voice almost every single day, after having to play the role of the good brother for soooo long, after feeding that overinflated ego for all of these years, after forcing myself time and time again to control my anger, the hallowed day has finally arrived! The day that solidifies my triumph and your end! HAHAHA! Frieza. Is. Dead!" Cooler's body convulsed once more with gleeful laughter as continued to watch the turbulent skies of Namek.
"You actually did it."
Cooler stopped his moment of laughing and turned to the voice of Goku. A dark smile pulled at his lips as he said, "Did I ever give you a reason to think that I wouldn't, Saiyan?"
"Siblings have issues, but they should never willing kill one another. My brother perished at my hands, but only because he would've killed so many innocent people if Piccolo and I hadn't stopped him." Goku shook his head as he failed to wrap his head around the concept of killing family and actually being happy about it. "People…people that do things like that, they aren't right. They're twisted in the head."
"I suppose that makes me twisted then?" Cooler laughed at the implication, finding joy in the seriousness on Goku's face. "I've been called worst."
"You're more than that, Cooler." The Saiyan hero leveled a serious eye on the tyrant across from him, his expression so uncommonly stern that Cooler was a bit unnerved. "You're a heartless evil freak! You've finished off Frieza and now it's my job to finish off you!"
Lava ran in plenty on Namek's surface, various volcanoes spewing its contents across the land. Sulfur permeated the dark and thunderous skies. Cooler took in the planet's dying state before looking back to Goku. "Good luck with that, Saiyan. I fear Namek will not hold us on her surface too much longer. Let's deem this the final act. The Legendary Super Saiyan versus the Supreme Super Arcosian! Let us see who the dominant race really is!"
Goku's golden aura flared around his body as he prepared himself. "Just so you know Cooler, I don't care about being a dominant race or even being the strongest person in the universe. All that matters to me is making sure that you are defeated." Just then, the hero lunged across the sky, his aura blaring as he declared, "AND I WILL BEAT YOU!"
Cooler darkly chuckled before clasping his bone mask over his mouth once more. "We'll see about that!" was all the tyrant could remark before he and Goku began clashing all around Namek's sky.