Chapter four: Ice Jin Halfling a super Saiyan?!?



He sat nervously as he watched her float in the tank before him, the wires that were attached to her told him her conditions, but the three that were attached to her abdomen told him about the unborn. He clutched his head between his hands, it was his fault that she was in this distress, if he'd only checked her each time, than his unborn would not be so in danger of dying. He looked over at the monitor again and clicked on the screen, he never had the courage to do it before, he was afraid of what he'd find.

But instead, he saw something a little amazing. A tiny baby, moving and kicking within her. He looked deeper at the monitor before him and looked at the baby. It was very small, the shape was undeniable, the tail was plainly visible even at this young age. He could also see that this little one would have its mother's ears, the sight of the unborn made a sort of instinctive longing fill him. He suddenly couldn't wait until he could hold this little baby. But than the memory of the fact that this little one was in danger of dying. His heart leap into his throat, this was the first time he was really afraid. No, afraid wasn't the right word, he was terrified!

He got up after checking her vitals and the baby's one more time and went into his thinking room. It was the only room in the entire ship that did not have a huge doorway, that room was for him only, it was one his father never entered. The room was rather large and spacious, the outside wall was a view of space, a view of which now Freeza was admiring. Of all the worries he had, looking out into space was the one escape he had from all that. Especially now, it gave him room to think while he drifted along the emptiness with the ship he rode.

It was nearly three hours later before he finally came out of his thoughts and looked back at the door. His thoughts returned quickly to that of his new guest and the unborn. She was very young, and yet she had conceived, but something else bothered him about the way the little unborn looked, there were differences he'd been turning over in his mind most of the time. He shook his head. He'd have to take a better look, the tank suppressed a great portion of the ultra sound's view, so that only the very basic details, but they were enough to decipher differences.

He sighed and walked back to the door, pausing for a bare moment to settle his thoughts and calm himself down enough to be able to be gentle to the Saiyans that would be helping him work with his guest.

Upon entering the room, he was greeted by a variety of things. The first, was the sound of voices as they relayed back and forth the results of each readout from the unconscious Ice Jin, the other was the sound of the alarms going off as the condition of the little Ice Jin decreased. Freeza instantly pulled one of the Saiyans aside and demanded and explanation. "Her heart is failing! We don't know if it is the stress of holding a child before she is ready, or if it is caused by an outside stimulus. We're trying to figure all this out right now." The Saiyan explained as he looked from Freeza and the most recent readout.

"I see, and when will you know the full. . .answer to this situation?" Freeza asked, reminding himself that it would take hours to attain new doctors, should he dispatch of these.

"Soon, Lord Freeza, soon." The Saiyan said as he gave a respectful bow and hurriedly went back to his work. Freeza took a deep breath and maneuvered around them all to stand in front of the tank, he wanted to see her and the child, but what he found was something of a little shock. There was a young Saiyan woman, heavy with child, standing in front of him, she refused to give her way.

"My Lord, I must speak with you!" She insisted, Freeza tried to shove her away and dismiss her, but she grabbed a firm hold on his arm. "No, please. I must speak with you." She said with a little more insistence than before. He looked at her, and considered striking her hard to teach her obedience, but stopped instantly as he saw the concern in her eyes, mixed with the intense fear of him.

"Fine." He said bitterly, making sure she was fully aware of how upset he was. She cringed slightly, but quickly began speaking.

"It's the baby, there's something different about it. It is not full blood. . ." Freeza's temper flew, he could not stop the rage that sudden erupted from him like a supernova. She ducked as a sudden energy blast was flung towards her and quickly went on to try and calm her suddenly vicious Lord before he decided to tear apart the delicate female Ice Jin for being with another and not him. "You are the blood father, there is no other signs of paternal belonging but yours, it is her blood that is half. . ." At hearing this he calmed down a little and held a hand up to stop her.

"Wait, she's a half-blood?! That's not possible! If it was possible for Ice Jin blood to be half than there would be more of my kind! There is no way that she can be only half! What is the other half?!" He demanded, she simply lifted the paper she was holding up for him to look at.

"Saiyan. My Lord." She said as she swallowed back the sudden fear.

Freeza clutched the papers tightly in his hand and closed his eyes. "She's part Saiyan? That's impossible, you ran the test wrong." His eyes opened and locked on the Saiyan woman. With lightning fast reflexes, he grabbed her by the throat and lifted her high into the air by his tail. "You know the price for failure." A evil smile creeping onto his face.

The Saiyan clutched her stomach and barely managed to choke out a reply. "It is not wrong! I ran it. . .six times!" She pointed at the paper again, and Freeza looked at it again quickly, still holding her in a death grip. "See?!" She gasped, her face very dark red, her breathing labored as she felt the slight movements of her baby growing stronger.

Freeza growled, but released her carefully back to the ground. "This just can't be right! The DNA sample had to be contaminated!" His voice hinted at a little desperation as he looked over the paper again, trying hard to disagree with the hard proof in front of him. He crushed the paper again and stalked towards the intensive care ward where the young Ice Jin floated in her glass prison.

As he entered, the Saiyans which were helping to oversee her scattered quickly as Freeza stormed in and pressed the release button on the tank, draining it. "My Lord, that's not such a good idea. . ." The woman tried to stop him, but he spun around so quickly with a back hand that it knocked her completely off her feet.

"I will be the judge of what is in her best interests, not you!" He snapped as he glared over at her with such hatred that she instantly backed away, her hand going back to her stomach, as though to shield her unborn from certain death.

"As you wish, my Lord." She muttered as she looked back up at the Saiyan closest to her. "He might as well kill her, she'll die if she doesn't get proper treatment." She spoke softly, so that Freeza would not hear. The other nodded in agreement as he pulled her roughly from the empty tank and into his arms, he jabbed a needle into her arm, extracting just enough blood to run the tests he needed, than barked an order at the closest Saiyan.

"Tell me the instant that you get the results, than run it again, I want to know exactly how much of her blood is different and what her heritage is! Do you understand?!" He growled, the Saiyan nodded quickly and went instantly to work. Freeza glared at his hostage with a seething rage that caused all of those around him to pause in fear. Why did you not tell me you were a half-blood?! He demanded of her silently, but she gave no reply. Only remained motionless and pale, her breath coming in shallow, labored heaves. Did you not tell me to mock me? To make me think that you were one of my own kind? His thoughts became suddenly mellow as he remembered Vegeta telling him that she had little knowledge about her past, only of the lab which was her hell until she escaped. Or perhaps you didn't know. . .

His thoughts were interrupted as the Saiyan he'd put to work quickly showed him the paper of the results and explained what he'd found swiftly, before his Lord read it for himself. "The results are the same, she is half Ice Jin and half Saiyan. In fact, I might actually be able to identify her parents if I was given a little more time and access to records, on both parts of her heritage. . ." But he stopped as he realized the death glare he was getting from one of his fellow Saiyans.

:Are you insane?! If he finds out who the parents are he'll have them killed! If they're still alive, it's possible we might reunite her with one of the parents! So stay quiet!: The woman across from him, behind Freeza sent him telepathically. (Telepathic communication was one of the various gifts Saiyans had that they refused to tell anyone about, it was their one advantage, how they regrouped without the use of any sort of communications department or how they were constantly reinforced just when they needed it without ceasing the fight. Freeza and his father never discovered this mysterious gift due to the fact they did not know to look for it. All Saiyans were smart enough to leave it a secret.)

But to the relief of the two Saiyans, Freeza shook his head in a firm no. "There is no way I will give you access to the genetics of my people. Forget about it. I don't need her parents, they obviously didn't want her, so now she is mine!" He snapped, looking down at her with disgust. Mine until I dispose of her for this horrible mix of blood. He thought bitterly, no longer even wanting to have anything to do with her. Even the sleeping unborn within her would contain a fraction of the Saiyan blood, enough to be potent of Saiyan traits. That was what he did not want, and feared the most. He looked around at the Saiyans, than screamed as he looked back at the sleeping half-blood. "A half blood!" He snarled with such viciousness that they all knew she was as good as dead. Freeza glared down at her. "So, you're a bastard half-breed!" He snarled down at her, for a moment, he considered literally blasting her in half, but hesitated as she stirred. He didn't want to give her a quick death if she was going to be awake! He'd want her to suffer greatly.

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Slowly, I felt myself coming out of the blackness that had held me prisoner. For a moment, I thought that perhaps all of the past had only been a bad dream, I nearly expected to see the tent that had held me while I was with Vegeta. For some reason I had felt safe when he was around, he seemed to feel like an older brother and half of the time he had acted like one around me.

The few female Saiyans that were present looked at each other with sudden sympathy. They had seen what Freeza was capable of when he was enraged, and that was an understatement right now. But it was too late for them to do anything about it now. I was waking up, my eyes held a different light as I opened them, almost at once I knew how angry Freeza was at me as I sat up and looked at him. "Freeza. . ." I began to speak, but his hand hit me so swiftly and with such force that it knocked me back a few feet, to the small crowd of Saiyans gathered in the room.

"A half-blood!! You're a HALF-BLOOD!!! A crime that I should kill you for! Not only that, but now you have contaminated my child! He is no longer pure and has to be destroyed along with his mother!" Freeza's words drove straight into my heart. I cringed and scooted back farther from the fuming tyrant.

"Please! I didn't know! I don't know what or who I am! Please, I meant no offense!" I begged as I scrambled to my feet, not willing to be an easy target for Freeza as he walked toward me.

"I don't care. Because of you, my child is useless!" He raged, whipping his tail out with such speed that I barely had time to block it with my own. "Oh, so now you are going to fight me?" He stated as he wrapped his tail around mine before I could get it away from his reach, I shook my head quickly and pulled back, nearly fully in the middle of the Saiyans that were gathered in the room to help with my healing and now to watch the fight.

"No, please don't! Freeza please! I'm sorry!" I plead as he slowly pulled me back toward him, I was frightfully aware of how close he was to the one spot on my tail that would allow him to violate me once more, but with my struggling, that was far from his mind at the moment.

"No, there is no forgiveness this time, I will finish what I started all those weeks ago. I am tired of having to constantly heal you, you are weak and worthless to me!" He said softly, a single tear fell down my cheek, his words hit me harder than ever before, because I realized, he was going to kill me. Or worse. Keep me alive for a very long time!

"No!" I whispered, closing my eyes, I willed myself to turn inside, so that I would not be effected by his words, but as I did this, a strange feeling crossed over me. I had felt it only once before, that was when I was very young, inside the lab. The feeling had been suppressed by all of the iron and other protective devices that the scientists had set up to protect themselves from me. Before, when I tried to touch it, I felt like I was changing. Like I was holding my stomach in and finally allowed myself to relax and release it, but the devices had not allowed me to do such a thing. But this time, I tried again, as Freeza steadily approached I relaxed and felt myself change slightly, like a weight was lifting off of me.

When I opened my eyes, I noticed instantly that I had changed. The Saiyans around me backed away suddenly, as if I'd turned into a hideous monster, but Freeza suddenly went berserk! "NO!!!!!" He screamed as he suddenly lunged and slammed into me hard with his foot, kicking me several feet into the wall. I wailed in agony as he was on me instantly, his hands wrapped tightly about my throat. "I'm not going to kill you, no, I'm going to send you away. But I'll send you so far that you'll never reach any planet. Oh no, I'm going to send you out into space so that you'll eventually die from lack of air. Now that you've achieved this, you are limited to the amount of time you can spend in space! This discovery will be your destruction!" He screamed at me as he continued to hold me in a strangle hold while he lashed me and beat me throughly with his tail and legs.

I screamed and gasped, writhing in pain and fear from his grasp. I was positively sure that I had lost my baby now, and probably my own life within a few minutes. No longer did I try to reason with him or even to speak actual words, the more I spoke, the more vicious he was. All the while, I still wasn't even sure what I had done to make him this angry.

If I'd been able to see myself, I'd have known that I had managed to look nearly exactly like a Saiyan. With a few differences, of course, for instance, I still retained my tail and wings, leaving me without the normal Saiyan tail, which took away the threat of my changing under the moon like them. I would have liked what I had become, if I had seen it, but now, that incredible miracle of being was in danger at the hands of Freeza.

I wasn't sure how long he continued to beat the shit out of me, but finally, it did end. He threw me into the wall across the hall, clean through the wall. I shook my head and sighed, for a whole moment, I considered giving up. But than something seemed to snap inside of me. This monster wanted me to submit, and when I did, he seemed to want more and more out of me. This time, I thought, if he was going to kill me, than I would go down fighting. I'd fought my whole life after escaping the lab, and am a rather good fighter, it was just the shock of seeing another of my "kind" that had made me think that he was stronger.

Now it didn't matter, I was going to die anyway, so I might as well go down fighting! I could hear him coming into the hallway, his smug laughter causing my rage to boil. Never in my entire life had I ever felt so much anger and rage at the same time! There was no holding it back like I had always done, this time I had to give it a release. And I knew exactly where I was going to focus it, there would be no mercy shown, just as he had refused to show her any.

He was closer, but still, I did not move, I forced my body to stay perfectly still, I wanted him closer. As well as that I wanted to feel the rage that was literally drowning out everything else. Except him. I was all to aware of him. "Aw, you poor little halfling bitch. Have you given up the fight already? Are you already so beaten down?" He asked, his voice mocking me with that icy tone.

He was close. Close enough to pounce! My muscles were drawn tight and strained against the restraint I was forcing myself to use. That's right, walk right into my trap. I had thought viciously, everything inside of me was snapping, I couldn't take the pressure any longer. I attacked.

It was so swift and unexpected that Freeza actually was knocked to the ground. The rage that had built inside me all these long years of being rejected were too much, and with Freeza constantly at me, it wasn't any better. I screamed and let my power go, the barrier that I had carefully constructed when I was young was torn apart like tissue paper before the wrath of my power, my rage! All those years of restraint broke away in a heart beat, and it felt so good! Freeza was struggling to get a little room to maneuver in, but I refused to give ground. His eyes reflected a deep hatred for me, I no longer felt any such belonging to him. I would never belong to anyone like him! Not with a heart so cold as to murder his own unborn child just because it was going to be mixed blooded!

Even the thought of losing my child, my rage grew. But what really caught my anger, was the look in Freeza's eyes when he had hurt me so many time before. He had enjoyed it. Reveled in the pleasures of seeing me suffer! I'm not sure exactly what pushed me completely over the edge, but I managed to go farther than I had ever pushed my rage before. This time, when I released it on Freeza, I felt a subtle change, just like when I un-shifted, I felt a difference that was not there before, only this time, the difference was bliss!

So wrapped up was I in the sudden way my power wrapped its way around me, that I actually backed away from Freeza to 'catch my breath'. I couldn't help it. My power was running like quicksilver through my veins, a warmth was spreading through me, as though someone had wrapped a warm blanket around me and was holding me through the darkest and coldest of nights.

As the feelings grew, I suddenly became aware that Freeza was speaking, his eyes were fuming with seething fury just begging to be released. His body taunt and straining. "No! It isn't possible! You're a female! Females are not capable of this!!!!" He screamed as he attacked.

It took me a long time to realize what he meant, but all I did know at that time was that our fight had just became more intense. I had only a split second to react to the lightning blur that was Freeza, as he slammed into me with a speed I didn't think existed! Even with my feet dug in and my body braced for impact, we still went down. But his fury didn't stop there, on impact, he began hitting me with as much brutality as he could possibly muster. His punches were harder, and this was the moment I knew, the fight was til the end. I had pushed this tyrant too far, now he was either going to kill me or die himself in this fight, there would be no in between!

My own anger grew with each punch and hit, but my body was wearing down, I knew that if I didn't find a way to get him off of me soon that I would not be able to fight like this for much longer. But my experience in fighting was long distance, I didn't have the muscle mass to fight in hand-to-hand combat like this. The fight was all in vain the second he slammed into me. I knew this all too well. But still, I fought against him for all I was worth, I knew that I would not allow myself to be killed, even if it meant killing myself, I would win this fight!

"Aw, I see that you aren't that good at fighting after all, it's a shame, I really enjoyed playing with you, but now it's time to end all this and be rid of you!" Freeza told me suddenly as he broke away, my face must have paled, because the world around me swam with fear.

Playing with me?! He was only PLAYING? My thoughts were rampant, my heart racing, my power surging faster than before. Now was the only chance I was going to have at beating him! While he wasn't physically touching me, I gathered energy as fast as I could, and released it at him, but he lunged at me, dodged it, and slammed into me once more, but this time, I didn't fall. He grabbed a tight hold of me with his tail and lifted me into the air, just like before, his tail began to constrict, only this time, he kicked, punched, and hit me in every possible place to beat the life out of me.

I am sad to say that I was not as successful as I would have liked to be. I seriously lacked the strength to fight him, the last thing I seen before my world was consumed by a merciful blackness was Freeza's fist coming straight to my temple.

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Freeza glared down at the unconscious half Saiyan before him, he gave her an extra tight squeeze of his tail to show her that he meant no mercy. A smile crept to his face as he heard a dull pop come from one of her ribs, he knew that when she awoke, the pain would begin to be immense.

He looked down the hall where a few of his loyal minions looked anxiously on as the fight had reached boiling point. "Take her to a pod and eject her where she will never again see another living soul before her air runs out. I want her to die a slow death, just like my mother. . ." Freeza's last was so quiet that none of them heard it, but the orders were understood. Swiftly, they picked her up and took her down towards the docking bay where the pods were kept.

His tail swished angrily as he watched them drag her away, a thin line of blood trailing them from the various wounds he had left on her, including a very damaging hit to the temple. Freeza smiled as she disappeared from sight and went to retreat to his thinking room, where he might forget about the troublesome half-blood.



Meanwhile, the minions left the half Saiyan in the care of the Saiyans there, what they didn't know was that the Saiyans had begun liking their new charge. So just before they prepped a pod for launch, they sneaked her into a rejuv-tank, so that she might stand a chance, should she land on a half hospitable planet. But there was so little air, in what Freeza wanted to send her in, in order for her to survive, they would have to trigger a hibernated state. But with her having Ice Jin blood, there was no way of knowing if she would completely regress back into an infant form if she was out there too long. There wasn't much else to do, it was all just a calculated risk. It was either place her into a deep sleep that would enable her to live much longer, or allow her to stay awake and cause her to die of hunger and lack of air within days.

It was something that none of the Saiyans wanted to see, it was rare that anyone had the power to fight Freeza, so far the only people who dared to openly hate Freeza were King Vegeta and his son, Prince Vegeta. With the potential that this little half-blood would survive and come back to destroy him, the Saiyans, which even now hurried to send her on her way, would have risked death to save her now.

As she was gently placed in the small pod, one of the Saiyans placed a small mask over her mouth and nose, giving her a soft dose of a gas that would allow her to drift into a very deep sleep. One that, they hoped, would assist her Ice-Jin half to slip into a regressive state that would allow her to live without food or much air. "Good luck, little one." A female Saiyan whispered softly as she closed the pod and looked to the others.

"We're doing the right thing, you know. If we tried to keep her on the flagship, or even to put her on Vegeta, than you know that Lord Freeza or his father would discover her. Than they would kill her themselves. It's best that we simply plot her a safe course and hope that the planet we picked is as developed as we think it is. With her in the hibernating state, she'll have enough air for at least half a century, and with her Ice Jin blood, she might even revert to a baby again so that she'll require less air and food to support her body." The other Saiyan said softly, patting the female on the shoulder. "Elena, we did the right thing."

Elena nodded and pressed the button to put the pod into the launcher. "I know, but I still feel that I could do more, before I send her off. She'll be all alone. Ice Jin can't survive without someone to care for them when they are young. If she reverts, it will be death for sure if she doesn't have someone to care for her." The other nodded, but shook his head.

"Let her go. Lord Freeza will be watching for that pod, you have to let her go. Give her at least a little chance." Elena nodded and pressed the launch button, an unshed tear for the child as they watched the trail of the pod race off towards the uncertain destination.

Freeza was waiting for nearly three hours for the sight of the disappearing pod. As soon as he watched it jet away from the flagship, a wave of both regret and relief waved over him. He was sorry to see her go, she was the only Ice Jin female even near his age, but he was glad also, since she had proved to be a little too powerful, especially since she had joined the distinct few Saiyans that were able to reach higher levels of their potential.

He sighed and slouched down into his chair, he lifted the bottled once more to his lips as he took a deep drink and closed his eyes. The problem had finally been handled. . .