DRAGON BALL Z
REUNION
CHAPTER XIV: CLEANSING
BY
Sgamer82
Piccolo saw Rutega enter Super Saiyan Two from the alcove in the cavern wall that he was hiding in. Piccolo was amazed at the sudden, drastic increase in power the Tsrufaiya had gained.
I'm not surprised though, he thought, Goku's first transformation was triggered by the loss of a close friend. It's hard to imagine losing the person who raised you.
This was especially true of Piccolo, but being raised on Earth he has a pretty good idea of Rutega's feelings. The Namek warrior knew his chance would soon be coming. He was sure to check on the others. The energy shockwave from Rutega's transformation shattered all the Zettaizero's ice so she, Goku, Gohan, and Vegeta were all free.
They all stared in wide-eyed disbelief at what was happening. Iciicla actually looked scared.
* * * * *
Rutega wasted no time. Iciicla was so shocked she couldn't move. Taking advantage of this, Rutega leapt at her and planted a punch right into Iciicla's chest.
The punch left a fist-sized hole in her armor. As Rutega prepared her next attack she heard a loud cry from the side of the cavern.
"MAKANKOSOPPO!!"
The Namek's drill-beam shot out and hit Iciicla right in the hole Rutega had put in her armor. The beam punctured Iciicla's chest and would have gone all the way through if not for the armor on her back. It bounced off that armor and ripped through her insides, coming out of her left thigh.
Unfortunately the attack seemed to have missed any vital organs because Iciicla stood up. She favored her right foot and was balancing on her tail, but she was otherwise unhurt.
The Queen looked in Piccolo's direction, her eyes glowed and a large explosion rocked the wall. Piccolo leaped out of the dust cloud, just barely dodging the ki attack.
* * * * *
The Overseers were so shocked at the attack on the Queen they forgot all about their prisoners. The Z-Fighters they were holding dropped to the ground and they loosened their grip on Bulma. Bulma knew this was her chance, she wished it had come before Cauliflo died, but there was nothing she could do about it now except follow the plan she had devised in the control room. She grabbed the comlink she had gotten from the control room. She shouted into it.
"Oran, do it now!"
* * * * *
Oran was crouched in a small storage compartment in the control room when he heard Bulma's voice from the comlink he was holding.
"Oran, do it now!"
He immediately rolled out of the compartment, which was situated underneath the main console. He rolled out right in between two Overseers, but they weren't paying any attention to him. Their eyes were fixated on the screen.
Oran didn't know what they were staring at but right now he had more pressing matters to take care of. He immediately slapped the switch Bulma had indicated just before she shoved him into the compartment and was taken by the Overseers.
As he ran out of the hall he noticed a number of purple lights activating on the wall.
Oh, no! he thought, I've activated the radiators. What has Bulma made me do!?
He then suddenly realized something. The radiators were having no affect on him. He returned to the control room looked at the Overseers inside.
They were writhing in pain. He looked at the monitors and saw the other Overseers were doing the same thing. He looked at the Tsrufaiya in the mine and realized nothing was happening to them.
Bulma had done it! She changed the settings on the radiators to affect Overseers. On a closer look he also saw Iciicla holding her abdomen with two holes in her chest and leg. He wondered what was happening to her.
* * * * *
Vegeta flew to Bulma as the Overseers began dying. "Dammit, woman!" he yelled, "What did you do?"
Vegeta saw a smug smile on her face as she answered.
"Easy, Vegeta. I'll explain." The others had already gathered around her, except for Goku and Piccolo, who were regrouping around Iciicla, and Rutega, who had run to her mother and now kneeled over Cauliflo's blackened body weeping.
"While we were in the control room I realized something. I had made a mistake," she was very quiet as she said that, "I had thought that the radiators needed specific settings to set specific targets. While that's true, I didn't think until the last minute that it could work both ways." The Z-Fighters were becoming quite confused.
"What I mean is that you could also use certain settings to prevent the radiation from affecting certain targets. So, I set the radiators to affect everything except for Tsrufaiya, Saiyan, Nameks, and Humans. The first three were already in the computer, and it was easy for me to add the settings for Humans."
"Does that mean Iciicla's gonna die too, Mom?" Trunks asked.
"I don't know, Trunks. There was a program meant to prevent the radiators from affecting Iciicla's race, the Pola. I was able to only partially override it."
"What does that mean?" Yamcha asked.
"It means that Iciicla probably won't die. I am certain however, that her poison has been nullified. We can attack her now without getting infected, she's sterile. I just wish I could have..." she looked at Cauliflo, in Rutega's arms, Bulma's regret obvious in her face.
* * * * *
Rutega heard Bulma and looked up to her. Her face seemed to say, I do not blame you Bulma, and she meant that.
Bulma seemed to get the message and smiled sadly back at the Tsrufaiya. Rutega gently set her mother on the ground and stood up. She looked at Iciicla; she was wounded but not seriously. She was preparing to fight Piccolo and Goku, who was now in Super Saiyan Two.
Rutega leaped in and grabbed Iciicla's wrist and pulled one of her Rock wristbands off of her. Iciicla was shocked at the direct attack but this time recovered much more quickly.
She immediately lashed out at Rutega by slashing a spine across the Tsrufaiya's face. Rutega stumbled back; her cheek was cut but was otherwise not hurt, or poisoned.
Iciicla's eyes opened wide when what just happened finally registered, her poison was gone. Goku and Piccolo also saw this and smiled at each other. They attacked head on, as did Rutega. Iciicla blocked and parried many of the blows, but for every two she blocked, one got through.
That was soon made worse by the intervention of Vegeta, who had left Bulma and the others to fight. Tsrufaiya were watching in earnest, apparently waiting for a chance to help too, to avenge the death of the one who helped lead them so close to freedom, then gave her life.
* * * * *
Iciicla couldn't believe it. They had stopped her poison. She was sterile. That was almost as horrible an insult to a Pola as giving mercy. The Queen lashed out with everything she had and batted away the Namek and all three Super Saiyan.
But no sooner had she done that then a new problem rose up. The Tsrufaiya in the mine began attacking. They struck by the dozens, she easily beat them away but they weren't after her. As the fight went on and more Tsrufaiya attacked she felt something leave her head, then her wounded leg. She immediately realized what was up.
Those apes are removing my armor! She was soon stripped of all the armor she had. She stood before the Tsrufaiya and the Z-Fighters; all the advantages she had planned were gone.
She was severely outnumbered, Goku was still alive, and Rutega was a Super Saiyan because of her. Iciicla had failed and she knew it. There was only one thing left, a Cleansing. It was the only thing Iciicla had left.
* * * * *
The Z-Fighters had regrouped for another attack on Iciicla when the Tsrufaiya made their move. They watched Iciicla struggle against the former slaves as they removed her armor. Goku even heard Vegeta say, "Well, it seems that they're Saiyan after all."
Goku then noticed something odd. Iciicla had finally beaten away the Tsrufaiya and she was angry, but something was wrong.
"Give up, Iciicla, you've failed." Goku said, "Leave now and we will not attack." He knew she would not accept, but he had to at least try. "It doesn't have to end this way."
"You're wrong Goku," Iciicla said, the hatred in her voice clear, "there is no other way this can end." With that she blasted a hole in the ceiling of the mine and quickly flew through it.
What's she doing? Then it dawned on him; we've made her desperate. There's only one thing she could be doing!
Goku had no time to lose. He began powering up to Super Saiyan Three and prepared to follow. Gohan and the others seemed to realize what was happening too, because they took off while Goku was still gathering energy to transform.
* * * * *
Rutega was flying well ahead of the Z-Fighters. She knew what Iciicla would do, Goku had told her all about his battle with Frieza, and Rutega knew she couldn't allow it to happen here.
* * * * *
Iciicla floated in the orbit of Kelvi. She couldn't believe her failure to get vengeance.
Now, I must reclaim Frieza's honor and my own. She thought. The Cleansing was the only way to do so.
It was a last resort, it would cleanse the planet of the things that had dealt a Pola dishonor, in this case, the Tsrufaiya and the Z-Fighters. Frieza had tried it and failed, it was one part of the dishonor dealt to him by Goku.
She charged up her energy for the strike. Iciicla spied the Z-Fighters coming at her with Rutega in the lead. Goku was not with them, that was curious. But for now, unimportant. She charged up a large death ball and sent it hurtling toward Kelvi.
* * * * *
The Z-Fighters were floating high in the Kelvian sky. They were aligned in a ring formation they saw Iciicla's planet-killer ball. The large black sphere was coming right at them. The group realized they had to stop it at all costs.
Rutega, Krillin, Goten, Trunks, and Yamcha began building up KameHameHas. Vegeta charged up a Big Bang Attack. Tenshinhan and Chaozu each began a Kikohou, Piccolo a Makankosoppo. And Gohan started a powerful Masenko of his own.
They put every ounce of energy that they could into the attacks. They fired the attacks into the Death Ball. Their energy was beginning to push it back, but not by much. Iciicla was using her own strength to force the energy sphere forward. It was truly a battle of wills, and the Z-Fighters were losing.
* * * * *
Meanwhile, back in the cave, Goku was charging a KameHameHa after having gone Super Saiyan Three. The Tsrufaiya around him stared in awe at the muscular Saiyan with ridges for eyebrows and long, full golden hair. He was slowly reaching his peak power level. He began the chant, "Kaa...Mee...Haa...Mee..." the blue ball of energy gathered in his hands. The power within him grew and he fired it at Iciicla with a shout of "HAAAA!!"
The beam of blue-white light rocketed into the air. It flew through the middle of the ring formed by the Z-Fighters and their beams and collided with Iciicla's Death Ball.
END OF CHAPTER XIV
REUNION
CHAPTER XIV: CLEANSING
BY
Sgamer82
Piccolo saw Rutega enter Super Saiyan Two from the alcove in the cavern wall that he was hiding in. Piccolo was amazed at the sudden, drastic increase in power the Tsrufaiya had gained.
I'm not surprised though, he thought, Goku's first transformation was triggered by the loss of a close friend. It's hard to imagine losing the person who raised you.
This was especially true of Piccolo, but being raised on Earth he has a pretty good idea of Rutega's feelings. The Namek warrior knew his chance would soon be coming. He was sure to check on the others. The energy shockwave from Rutega's transformation shattered all the Zettaizero's ice so she, Goku, Gohan, and Vegeta were all free.
They all stared in wide-eyed disbelief at what was happening. Iciicla actually looked scared.
* * * * *
Rutega wasted no time. Iciicla was so shocked she couldn't move. Taking advantage of this, Rutega leapt at her and planted a punch right into Iciicla's chest.
The punch left a fist-sized hole in her armor. As Rutega prepared her next attack she heard a loud cry from the side of the cavern.
"MAKANKOSOPPO!!"
The Namek's drill-beam shot out and hit Iciicla right in the hole Rutega had put in her armor. The beam punctured Iciicla's chest and would have gone all the way through if not for the armor on her back. It bounced off that armor and ripped through her insides, coming out of her left thigh.
Unfortunately the attack seemed to have missed any vital organs because Iciicla stood up. She favored her right foot and was balancing on her tail, but she was otherwise unhurt.
The Queen looked in Piccolo's direction, her eyes glowed and a large explosion rocked the wall. Piccolo leaped out of the dust cloud, just barely dodging the ki attack.
* * * * *
The Overseers were so shocked at the attack on the Queen they forgot all about their prisoners. The Z-Fighters they were holding dropped to the ground and they loosened their grip on Bulma. Bulma knew this was her chance, she wished it had come before Cauliflo died, but there was nothing she could do about it now except follow the plan she had devised in the control room. She grabbed the comlink she had gotten from the control room. She shouted into it.
"Oran, do it now!"
* * * * *
Oran was crouched in a small storage compartment in the control room when he heard Bulma's voice from the comlink he was holding.
"Oran, do it now!"
He immediately rolled out of the compartment, which was situated underneath the main console. He rolled out right in between two Overseers, but they weren't paying any attention to him. Their eyes were fixated on the screen.
Oran didn't know what they were staring at but right now he had more pressing matters to take care of. He immediately slapped the switch Bulma had indicated just before she shoved him into the compartment and was taken by the Overseers.
As he ran out of the hall he noticed a number of purple lights activating on the wall.
Oh, no! he thought, I've activated the radiators. What has Bulma made me do!?
He then suddenly realized something. The radiators were having no affect on him. He returned to the control room looked at the Overseers inside.
They were writhing in pain. He looked at the monitors and saw the other Overseers were doing the same thing. He looked at the Tsrufaiya in the mine and realized nothing was happening to them.
Bulma had done it! She changed the settings on the radiators to affect Overseers. On a closer look he also saw Iciicla holding her abdomen with two holes in her chest and leg. He wondered what was happening to her.
* * * * *
Vegeta flew to Bulma as the Overseers began dying. "Dammit, woman!" he yelled, "What did you do?"
Vegeta saw a smug smile on her face as she answered.
"Easy, Vegeta. I'll explain." The others had already gathered around her, except for Goku and Piccolo, who were regrouping around Iciicla, and Rutega, who had run to her mother and now kneeled over Cauliflo's blackened body weeping.
"While we were in the control room I realized something. I had made a mistake," she was very quiet as she said that, "I had thought that the radiators needed specific settings to set specific targets. While that's true, I didn't think until the last minute that it could work both ways." The Z-Fighters were becoming quite confused.
"What I mean is that you could also use certain settings to prevent the radiation from affecting certain targets. So, I set the radiators to affect everything except for Tsrufaiya, Saiyan, Nameks, and Humans. The first three were already in the computer, and it was easy for me to add the settings for Humans."
"Does that mean Iciicla's gonna die too, Mom?" Trunks asked.
"I don't know, Trunks. There was a program meant to prevent the radiators from affecting Iciicla's race, the Pola. I was able to only partially override it."
"What does that mean?" Yamcha asked.
"It means that Iciicla probably won't die. I am certain however, that her poison has been nullified. We can attack her now without getting infected, she's sterile. I just wish I could have..." she looked at Cauliflo, in Rutega's arms, Bulma's regret obvious in her face.
* * * * *
Rutega heard Bulma and looked up to her. Her face seemed to say, I do not blame you Bulma, and she meant that.
Bulma seemed to get the message and smiled sadly back at the Tsrufaiya. Rutega gently set her mother on the ground and stood up. She looked at Iciicla; she was wounded but not seriously. She was preparing to fight Piccolo and Goku, who was now in Super Saiyan Two.
Rutega leaped in and grabbed Iciicla's wrist and pulled one of her Rock wristbands off of her. Iciicla was shocked at the direct attack but this time recovered much more quickly.
She immediately lashed out at Rutega by slashing a spine across the Tsrufaiya's face. Rutega stumbled back; her cheek was cut but was otherwise not hurt, or poisoned.
Iciicla's eyes opened wide when what just happened finally registered, her poison was gone. Goku and Piccolo also saw this and smiled at each other. They attacked head on, as did Rutega. Iciicla blocked and parried many of the blows, but for every two she blocked, one got through.
That was soon made worse by the intervention of Vegeta, who had left Bulma and the others to fight. Tsrufaiya were watching in earnest, apparently waiting for a chance to help too, to avenge the death of the one who helped lead them so close to freedom, then gave her life.
* * * * *
Iciicla couldn't believe it. They had stopped her poison. She was sterile. That was almost as horrible an insult to a Pola as giving mercy. The Queen lashed out with everything she had and batted away the Namek and all three Super Saiyan.
But no sooner had she done that then a new problem rose up. The Tsrufaiya in the mine began attacking. They struck by the dozens, she easily beat them away but they weren't after her. As the fight went on and more Tsrufaiya attacked she felt something leave her head, then her wounded leg. She immediately realized what was up.
Those apes are removing my armor! She was soon stripped of all the armor she had. She stood before the Tsrufaiya and the Z-Fighters; all the advantages she had planned were gone.
She was severely outnumbered, Goku was still alive, and Rutega was a Super Saiyan because of her. Iciicla had failed and she knew it. There was only one thing left, a Cleansing. It was the only thing Iciicla had left.
* * * * *
The Z-Fighters had regrouped for another attack on Iciicla when the Tsrufaiya made their move. They watched Iciicla struggle against the former slaves as they removed her armor. Goku even heard Vegeta say, "Well, it seems that they're Saiyan after all."
Goku then noticed something odd. Iciicla had finally beaten away the Tsrufaiya and she was angry, but something was wrong.
"Give up, Iciicla, you've failed." Goku said, "Leave now and we will not attack." He knew she would not accept, but he had to at least try. "It doesn't have to end this way."
"You're wrong Goku," Iciicla said, the hatred in her voice clear, "there is no other way this can end." With that she blasted a hole in the ceiling of the mine and quickly flew through it.
What's she doing? Then it dawned on him; we've made her desperate. There's only one thing she could be doing!
Goku had no time to lose. He began powering up to Super Saiyan Three and prepared to follow. Gohan and the others seemed to realize what was happening too, because they took off while Goku was still gathering energy to transform.
* * * * *
Rutega was flying well ahead of the Z-Fighters. She knew what Iciicla would do, Goku had told her all about his battle with Frieza, and Rutega knew she couldn't allow it to happen here.
* * * * *
Iciicla floated in the orbit of Kelvi. She couldn't believe her failure to get vengeance.
Now, I must reclaim Frieza's honor and my own. She thought. The Cleansing was the only way to do so.
It was a last resort, it would cleanse the planet of the things that had dealt a Pola dishonor, in this case, the Tsrufaiya and the Z-Fighters. Frieza had tried it and failed, it was one part of the dishonor dealt to him by Goku.
She charged up her energy for the strike. Iciicla spied the Z-Fighters coming at her with Rutega in the lead. Goku was not with them, that was curious. But for now, unimportant. She charged up a large death ball and sent it hurtling toward Kelvi.
* * * * *
The Z-Fighters were floating high in the Kelvian sky. They were aligned in a ring formation they saw Iciicla's planet-killer ball. The large black sphere was coming right at them. The group realized they had to stop it at all costs.
Rutega, Krillin, Goten, Trunks, and Yamcha began building up KameHameHas. Vegeta charged up a Big Bang Attack. Tenshinhan and Chaozu each began a Kikohou, Piccolo a Makankosoppo. And Gohan started a powerful Masenko of his own.
They put every ounce of energy that they could into the attacks. They fired the attacks into the Death Ball. Their energy was beginning to push it back, but not by much. Iciicla was using her own strength to force the energy sphere forward. It was truly a battle of wills, and the Z-Fighters were losing.
* * * * *
Meanwhile, back in the cave, Goku was charging a KameHameHa after having gone Super Saiyan Three. The Tsrufaiya around him stared in awe at the muscular Saiyan with ridges for eyebrows and long, full golden hair. He was slowly reaching his peak power level. He began the chant, "Kaa...Mee...Haa...Mee..." the blue ball of energy gathered in his hands. The power within him grew and he fired it at Iciicla with a shout of "HAAAA!!"
The beam of blue-white light rocketed into the air. It flew through the middle of the ring formed by the Z-Fighters and their beams and collided with Iciicla's Death Ball.
END OF CHAPTER XIV