Revenge
Chapter Fourteen
The winds buffeted the three as they flew towards Freeza. Vegeta snarled as he appeared to be having the most trouble. Me, he thought, the Prince of the Saiyajin outclassed by these worms!! How can this be happening?!
"Freeza!" Piccolo yelled. Freeza turned to face them. Thinking they were attacking he launched an energy blast at them. Piccolo and Gohan reflexively fired back, knocking the ball of energy off course.
"Freeza don't attack! We need to.....talk to you." Piccolo mumbled the last words.
"Oh...what is it? Don't delay me from keeping this fool alive! The brat and I still have a fight to finish!" Freeza shouted.
"Listen, although you're our enemy that thing on the ground is both our enemy. The only way we can destroy him is to take out his source of power." Pointing up, Piccolo said, "That red planet is that source. We need to combine our efforts to be able to take it out."
"Nani? Heh, I don't need your help to destroy a planet. How do you think I got my reputation? Remember I did destroy your world bug." Freeza laughed. Extending his hand towards space he fired a tremendous blast that rocketed towards the Red Planet. Watching, he smiled in triumph as it struck the planet. The smile wiped off his face as nothing happened.
"Kuso! Perhaps you are right Namek-seijin. We will do this together. But afterwards you will die like the rest."
Vegeta smirked but said nothing. Gohan glanced at Freeza with hatred in his eyes. Piccolo smiled and said, "We will see, we will see..."
Garlic laughed hoarsely and shouted, "Well, how do you think you'll do when I increase the portal's power?" He refocused, and the speed of the winds increased, knocking even Freeza off balance.
"Ok, focus your attacks now, we will launch them simultaneously." Piccolo said.
Freeza grinned evilly. "Ironic us being on the same side if but briefly isn't it?"
"Don't worry, it won't last long enough to matter." Vegeta replied.
Winking at Vegeta, Freeza brought his arms up and began creating a huge ball of energy. Cold charged up, doing the same. Piccolo, Gohan, and Vegeta each began their signature attacks.
"Makankousappou!!" Piccolo yelled.
"Garlick-Hou!!" cried Vegeta.
"Masenkou!!" shouted Gohan.
"Haaaaaaaa!!!!" shouted both freeza and Cold.
"Nani?!" yelled Garlic Jr.
Each of the blasts were launched at the same time. Tenshinhan and Kuririn flew for cover, knowing the blast effect could hurt them badly. Swirling together, the individual bursts of energy formed one gigantic blast that streamed towards the planet. Striking it, the planet was vaporized instantly.
"Shimataaa!!!" cried Garlic Jr.
Bending over in pain, the alien slowly transformed back into his original form and began to become transparent. "Nooooo...." Garlic Jr. cried until he completely disappeared.
"Yataaa!" Gohan cried.
Piccolo smiled at Gohan and turned to face Freeza and Cold.
Vegeta licked his lips and prepared himself.
"Vegeta, sit this out, while you have become stronger due to your nearly dying, you still aren't nearly as powerful as Gohan and I." Piccolo remarked.
"Don't you dare tell me what to do Piccolo!" Vegeta snarled. That said, he powered up as much as possible, trying once again to break the barrier to Super Saiyajin. If the child can do it, so can I.
Gohan yelled, "Vegeta, the trick is to become as angry as possible. Anger is the key!"
Vegeta focused, thinking back to his defeat at the hands of Kakaroto, his death by Freeza. But, try as he might, he couldn't do it. "Kuso!"
Abruptly giving up, Vegeta snarled, "I will become a Super Saiyajin." He backed off and crossed his arms to watch the fight.
Tenshinhan and Kuririn climbed out of the rubble caused by the blast magnitude of the planetary explosion and examined the situation. Seeing Vegeta they slowly hovered up by him and watched.
"Shall we continue, Namek-seijin?" Cold asked bluntly.
"Never thought you would ask. " Piccolo grinned and disappeared, reappearing on the ground below.
Cold chuckled, hovered slowly down to face his enemy.
Freeza looked at the Saiyajin a moment, and said, "Would you like to know how your father died child? I held him very close, and killed him like this!" Raising his finger swiftly, Freeza fired a bolt of energy at Gohan. Caught unaware, Gohan barely moved aside. Freeza continued firing, while Gohan continued to evade, trying to get closer with each shot. Finally, he reached Freeza and the fight began once again.
Down below, Piccolo and Cold stared at each other. Cold, full of confidence, said, "It's your move." The second he said it Piccolo attacked, throwing fists with such speed that the three observers had to focus to follow the attacks. Cold blocked, and counterattacked, catching Piccolo with an uppercut then spinning around to kick Piccolo full in the stomach. Piccolo was knocked flying, and crashed through the ground with such force that water sprang up from the deep rift his body had formed. Cold leapt into the air and fired a huge salvo of energy blasts, laying the whole area to waste.
Piccolo suddenly flew out, his cape and and turban little more than rags. Flying with tremendous force, Piccolo collided into Cold with the speed to cause a huge shockwave. Cold was knocked back reeling, and Piccolo quickly swooped to the ground.
"Nice move, even if it was out of desperation." Cold remarked.
"Heh...hardly." Piccolo commented. Reaching up with both arms, Piccolo tore off his turban and cape, tossing them aside. Cold watched as the discarded clothing made a sizable dent in the surface of the ground. "I'm just getting warmed up!" Piccolo said.
Shouting in rage, Cold flew at Piccolo with fierce speed, aiming a punch right at his head. Piccolo simply ducked, and reaching back, punched the huge alien as hard as he could in the stomach. Cold's mouth gouted blood as he nearly vomited. Falling to his knees he tried desperately to catch his breath.
Not giving Cold a second of a chance, Piccolo was on him instantly, attacking with everything he had. Cold was driven back from the ferocity of the attack, and the blows bagan to tell. Knocked back from a wicked uppercut, Cold suddenly flew up in an effort to escape his opponent. Chuckling, knowing he was faster than the Namek-seijin, Cold looked down to see Piccolo's reaction. He was quite surprised to see Piccolo wasn't there. Looking up he stopped abruptly, nearly running right into Piccolo.
"Ba...bakana! How can you be so fast?!" Cold stammered. Bursting into energy flames, Cold took off again, desperate to get away from this creature if only for a second. But, everytime he thought he had gotten away, Piccolo would appear right by him.
"Enough of this!" Piccolo yelled, flying behing Cold and launching a massive double ax-handle that knocked Cold to the ground below. Cold landed on his feet, but the force of the blow had caused the ground to sink below him. Leaping back up, Cold yelled in rage as he launched himself back at Piccolo. Easily dodging every blow, Piccolo smiled.
Cold stopped to catch his breath. Breathing heavily, he bellowed, "I will wipe that smile right off your face you bastard!" Throwing all his effort into the attack, Cold launched himself at Piccolo. Piccolo leapt aside, his index finger touching his forehead. Cold had used so much momentum he was unable to stop himself.
Finally righting himself, he hard a voice yell, "Makankousappou!" Spinning around, he felt incredible pain as Piccolo's signature attack impaled his chest, exiting out through his back.
Blood spurting out of his wound and his mouth, Cold muttered, "Ku...so....ta....re...," and fell to the ground, quite dead.
Freeza and Gohan stopped fighting. Seeing his father's inanimate corpse laying on the ground, Freeza yelled in a combination of rage and agony. "You bastards!!!!!" He cried in insane rage. "You will die for this!!" Pointing his finger at Piccolo, he fired an energy bolt that was headed directly for Piccolo. Caught by surprise, Piccolo has less than a second to live, with moments to act. Yelling, he thrust himself aside.
Managing to evade just enough to make the bolt miss the killing blow, Piccolo gasped in pain as it passed through his right side, piercing one of his lungs. Heh, he thought as he began to lose consciousness, that's the same spot he got me when I saved Son. Drifting into blackness, Piccolo fell to the ground below.
"Piccolo-san!!!" Gohan cried in fury as he burst into energy flames and flew down to Piccolo. He landed and ran to his mentor, tears streaming from his eyes. Kuririn and Tenshinhan followed suit. Vegeta choked in fear as Freeza turned his attention towards him.
To be continued....