DRAGON BALL Z
REUNION
CHAPTER XIII: FURY UNLEASHED
BY
Sgamer82

Goku watched helplessly as Rutega's mother's veins began to turn a sickly black color. Cauliflo was twitching barely in control of her body. Eventually the twitching stopped and Cauliflo looked up at Goku.

"My...child..." she said reaching out her hand to Goku.

That poison's making her delirious, Goku thought, she thinks I'm Rutega. Goku looked at Cauliflo. Delirious as she was, Goku thought that the best thing to do was comfort her by indulging the delusion.

"Mother..." he said, hoping he sounded like Rutega to her as well.

"Oh...my lovely...one..." she coughed, "I...am...proud of...you..." she was gasping.

"Mother, stop talking. Save your strength." Goku told her.

"No...you must...hear this...my child..." she looked in pain but continued talking.

"I...am...so...happy...that...you...weren't...raised...a Sa...iyan...be..cause...of...that...you...have...pow...er...that...no...Sai...y...an...can...e...ver...tr...ul...y...un..d...er...st...an...d..." Her hand started wavering "I...love...you...Kaaa..." her hand fell limp.

Cauliflo had finally passed away. Goku could only hope he had given her some comfort in her final moments.

He looked over at Rutega. As did the other Z-Fighters, the unconscious ones had long since fully woken up. She was taking this hard. He saw the pure hatred in her eyes and immediately recognized what was going to happen.

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Rutega looked on as her mother said her final words to Goku. She saw Cauliflo's hand fall limp and knew she was gone forever. She looked at Iciicla.

That monster killed my mother. She saw Iciicla smile at Rutega, as if she were proud of what she had done to Cauliflo.

She calls us animals, she's the animal! She felt her anger rise inside of her. It was a rage unlike anything she had ever felt.

All she wanted to do was save her people. She had trained so hard. Now Iciicla threatened to take it all way.

The monster had already taken away the person dearest to her. Rutega felt like the fate of the rest of her friends, new and old, now rested on her shoulders. She wouldn't let them down.

She let out a scream that those who heard it would remember for the rest of their lives. Though the ice obscured it, Rutega knew that her hair was becoming gold and her pupils were disappearing and when they reappeared they would be blue-green. The energy in her body was gathering at an incredible rate.

It exploded in a shockwave that shattered all the ice encasing her. Rutega had become a Super Saiyan. Iciicla looked at her with little surprise, she had been ready for this eventuality. But the Queen didn't realize that Rutega was far from finished.

Rutega had built up a lot of anger over her life. A lot of it she had been forced to choke down to avoid punishment, but no one was going to punish her now. Now she would be the one doing the punishing. All of her pent-up anger was building for this moment. Everything about Iciicla that she hated ran through her mind. She began speaking to Iciicla.

"ICIICLA! You enslaved my people. You killed my father. You killed my mother! You used me!! And all for some idiotic concept of HONOR!!!"

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Rutega's rage just kept rising and rising until finally, her hair became segmented in large triangular strands and her body became more muscular than she was before. Iciicla stared in pure shock at the monster she knew she had created.

Iciicla had been prepared for Rutega at Super Saiyan One but she had never thought that a Tsrufaiya could reach Super Saiyan Two. And for the first time since this whole thing started, Iciicla felt terror.

END OF CHAPTER XIII