"Say goodbye to your life," hissed the Hasha.
Suddenly there was a bright light, and he felt a pain in his side. He let go of Vegeta, who simply hung in midair, and fell to the ground.
Clutching his side, he rose to his feet.
And was immediately knocked down again by the same blinding light.
He rose again, and this time launched himself into the air as well. An explosion detonated where he had been standing. His gaze darted around, until he saw the three-eyed man standing on the roof of a building. He charged at him.
***
Tenshinhan quickly unlinked his hands and placed one on each side of his face.
"TAIYOKEN!"
***
The Fist Of The Sun burned into the Hasha's retinas.
He cursed himself silently. He couldn't believe he had fallen for that! Not after Kakarot had used it on him before!
But he could still sense ki...
Eyes squeezed shut, he flew in the direction of Tenshinhan. The three-eyed warrior rose into the sky, and his opponent turned towards him.
As the pain went away, the Hasha opened his eyes just enough to see, so that he could close them again quickly in case his opponent utilized the Taiyoken once more. However, the three-eyed man had opted instead to try the Kikoho, gambling that he could fire it off again.
He laced his hands together, but before he could fire, the Hasha appeared behind him. With a double-fisted punch to the head, he slammed Tenshinhan through the Capsule Corporation building, creating another hole in the roof.
Descending through it, the king found the man embedded in the floor, bleeding from a wound near his temple and definitely unconscious. Smirking, he raised an arm and prepared to bring it down on Tenshinhan's neck, when from the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of something moving.
Whirling to face it, he saw that it was Bulma, trying to sneak out of the room unnoticed. Once she saw that she'd been spotted, she froze in place. He began to walk towards her, deciding to begin to kill humanity all over again starting with her.
"Any last words?" he said as he stood before her, grinning.
"Die, you bastard!"
She quickly powered up to the third level of Super Saiyan as well. Unable to do anything but gape in shock, he was unable to defend himself as she kneed him in the stomach. As he bent over, trying to take in a breath, she aimed a kick at his head.
Still wheezing, he was able to grab her ankle with his right hand mere inches from his face.
***
On the outskirts of the city, Gohan landed, with Nappa, Turles, and Bardock following suit. They let go of their civilian passengers.
"I'm going to go back and help," said Gohan, placing two fingers to his forehead. "Follow me if you want."
He disappeared.
***
The Hasha no Ankoku charged a ball of light in his left hand, ready to fire it straight through Bulma's stomach. He never got around to it, though, for Gohan chose that moment to appear inches away and punch him directly in the jaw. As he staggered back a few steps, Gohan grabbed him by his hair and tossed him back up through the ceiling, into the sky once more.
"Get out of here," the half-Saiyan snapped at Bulma before taking off after him.
***
Moving so fast as to split the air in front of him, creating sonic booms in his wake, Piccolo arrived at the scene of battle. He took in the situation in a moment, but did not enter the fray. As much as he wanted to, he knew that if he began to fight now, he would simply get in Gohan's way.
Instead, he began to distribute the senzu beans given to him by Karin. The first recipients of the magical healing items were Mirai, Broli, Yamcha, Raditz, and Juunanagou. They were all still unconscious, so he had to bend down, open their mouths and tip the senzu into them.
He stood up. The five had not woken up yet, and probably wouldn't for quite some time. Glancing around, he saw Vegeta-the Vegeta he was familiar with-hanging in the air. The Namek began to fly up to him, but then he heard something. At first it was a small sound, but it soon grew much louder. He was able to identify them.
*Cars. Two of them.*
***
Both Videl and Chi-Chi arrived at approximately the same time. They didn't see each other, for they were too absorbed in watching Gohan fight the Hasha no Ankoku. He wasn't doing so well. After the initial surprise attack, the king had soon recovered and taken the edge in the duel. Even with all of his power, the scholar had been forced to go on the defensive, which wasn't his strong point. It wasn't much longer until Gohan's guard had been penetrated completely, and he was simply taking a pounding.
The two most important women in his life watched in horror as the Hasha lifted him into the air, then brought him down back-first onto his knee.
Even they could hear the loud snapping sound as his spine was broken.
***
Piccolo snarled, angry as he had rarely been ever before. It was almost time to act.
***
The Hasha simply tossed the half-Saiyan on the ground.
"Now you will face me," said a voice in ice-cold tones of rage. He turned to see Piccolo floating there.
***
"GOHAN!" screamed Videl and Chi-Chi simultaneously. Paying no heed to the danger, they exited their cars and sprinted to where he was lying. They bent over him for a moment, wondering what they could do to help him.
Then they noticed each other.
***
"So, it is the Namek. You are nothing next to that pathetic fool, and you saw how easily I dispatched him. I can kill you effortlessly."
"Perhaps, but you will not. You may be far more evil than the Vegeta I have come to know, but you have one thing in common: a huge ego. And that ego is fed only by your power. You know that in an even battle, you would not stand a chance."
"Fool! For those remarks I will not cut you down where you stand! I will prove you wrong and also make your death long, drawn out, and above all, PAINFUL!"
Lowering his ki to the same level as his opponent, he launched himself at Piccolo.
***
"What are you doing here?" asked Chi-Chi, a note of spite in her voice.
"My *husband* told me that he was going somewhere that might be dangerous, and I'd be damned if I let him do that without me," replied Videl. "Why are you here?"
"For the same reasons. Now get out of the way, I need to try and help Gohan somehow."
"What? You?"
"I'm his mother. I've been taking care of him since the day he was born, I know what works best with him," she said in a tone of infuriating calmness.
"That's as may be, but I'm his wife. I love him more than anyone else on the planet and I know quite a few things about him myself. I'm going to help whether you like it or not."
***
In the air, Piccolo was being very careful not to take too much of an advantage. By keeping a cool head, he could have easily started to humiliate the Hasha, but then he would probably get angrier and return to his normal level of power.
So instead, he kept just a minor edge in the high-speed battle. He had a plan, he just had to find the perfect moment to put it into effect.
***
As the two women stared at each other balefully, Gohan moaned beneath them and stirred a fraction. They quickly looked down at him. As they watched, feeling helpless, he began to talk. His eyes were closed, and it sounded like he was mumbling to himself.
"Not again…" he said weakly. "Not again…it's happened again. I have great power, but I can't use it….I choked up against Nappa. I used everything against Freeza too soon. I could have beaten Cell effortlessly but I toyed with him. I let Buu trick me. And now this. Again, again I wasn't enough. But I'm not down…yet!"
He tried to stand up, but found that he was paralyzed from the waist down. So he tried to levitate himself off of the ground. Panicking, Chi-Chi and Videl hurled themselves on him, trying to drag him back to the ground. Apparently oblivious to their presence, he raised an arm and pointed it where Piccolo and the Hasha were still fighting. He began to charge up a ki blast.
And then, mercifully, he at last lapsed into blissful unconsciousness.
***
Piccolo at last maneuvered the Hasha no Ankoku into the position he wanted. The Namek planted both his feet into the Saiyan's side. Using his right arm, he began to pull on the Hasha's own right arm. Before the other could react, he surrounded his left arm in a ki aura and brought it down onto the joint where the shoulder meets the arm.
Severing it.
Suddenly there was a bright light, and he felt a pain in his side. He let go of Vegeta, who simply hung in midair, and fell to the ground.
Clutching his side, he rose to his feet.
And was immediately knocked down again by the same blinding light.
He rose again, and this time launched himself into the air as well. An explosion detonated where he had been standing. His gaze darted around, until he saw the three-eyed man standing on the roof of a building. He charged at him.
***
Tenshinhan quickly unlinked his hands and placed one on each side of his face.
"TAIYOKEN!"
***
The Fist Of The Sun burned into the Hasha's retinas.
He cursed himself silently. He couldn't believe he had fallen for that! Not after Kakarot had used it on him before!
But he could still sense ki...
Eyes squeezed shut, he flew in the direction of Tenshinhan. The three-eyed warrior rose into the sky, and his opponent turned towards him.
As the pain went away, the Hasha opened his eyes just enough to see, so that he could close them again quickly in case his opponent utilized the Taiyoken once more. However, the three-eyed man had opted instead to try the Kikoho, gambling that he could fire it off again.
He laced his hands together, but before he could fire, the Hasha appeared behind him. With a double-fisted punch to the head, he slammed Tenshinhan through the Capsule Corporation building, creating another hole in the roof.
Descending through it, the king found the man embedded in the floor, bleeding from a wound near his temple and definitely unconscious. Smirking, he raised an arm and prepared to bring it down on Tenshinhan's neck, when from the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of something moving.
Whirling to face it, he saw that it was Bulma, trying to sneak out of the room unnoticed. Once she saw that she'd been spotted, she froze in place. He began to walk towards her, deciding to begin to kill humanity all over again starting with her.
"Any last words?" he said as he stood before her, grinning.
"Die, you bastard!"
She quickly powered up to the third level of Super Saiyan as well. Unable to do anything but gape in shock, he was unable to defend himself as she kneed him in the stomach. As he bent over, trying to take in a breath, she aimed a kick at his head.
Still wheezing, he was able to grab her ankle with his right hand mere inches from his face.
***
On the outskirts of the city, Gohan landed, with Nappa, Turles, and Bardock following suit. They let go of their civilian passengers.
"I'm going to go back and help," said Gohan, placing two fingers to his forehead. "Follow me if you want."
He disappeared.
***
The Hasha no Ankoku charged a ball of light in his left hand, ready to fire it straight through Bulma's stomach. He never got around to it, though, for Gohan chose that moment to appear inches away and punch him directly in the jaw. As he staggered back a few steps, Gohan grabbed him by his hair and tossed him back up through the ceiling, into the sky once more.
"Get out of here," the half-Saiyan snapped at Bulma before taking off after him.
***
Moving so fast as to split the air in front of him, creating sonic booms in his wake, Piccolo arrived at the scene of battle. He took in the situation in a moment, but did not enter the fray. As much as he wanted to, he knew that if he began to fight now, he would simply get in Gohan's way.
Instead, he began to distribute the senzu beans given to him by Karin. The first recipients of the magical healing items were Mirai, Broli, Yamcha, Raditz, and Juunanagou. They were all still unconscious, so he had to bend down, open their mouths and tip the senzu into them.
He stood up. The five had not woken up yet, and probably wouldn't for quite some time. Glancing around, he saw Vegeta-the Vegeta he was familiar with-hanging in the air. The Namek began to fly up to him, but then he heard something. At first it was a small sound, but it soon grew much louder. He was able to identify them.
*Cars. Two of them.*
***
Both Videl and Chi-Chi arrived at approximately the same time. They didn't see each other, for they were too absorbed in watching Gohan fight the Hasha no Ankoku. He wasn't doing so well. After the initial surprise attack, the king had soon recovered and taken the edge in the duel. Even with all of his power, the scholar had been forced to go on the defensive, which wasn't his strong point. It wasn't much longer until Gohan's guard had been penetrated completely, and he was simply taking a pounding.
The two most important women in his life watched in horror as the Hasha lifted him into the air, then brought him down back-first onto his knee.
Even they could hear the loud snapping sound as his spine was broken.
***
Piccolo snarled, angry as he had rarely been ever before. It was almost time to act.
***
The Hasha simply tossed the half-Saiyan on the ground.
"Now you will face me," said a voice in ice-cold tones of rage. He turned to see Piccolo floating there.
***
"GOHAN!" screamed Videl and Chi-Chi simultaneously. Paying no heed to the danger, they exited their cars and sprinted to where he was lying. They bent over him for a moment, wondering what they could do to help him.
Then they noticed each other.
***
"So, it is the Namek. You are nothing next to that pathetic fool, and you saw how easily I dispatched him. I can kill you effortlessly."
"Perhaps, but you will not. You may be far more evil than the Vegeta I have come to know, but you have one thing in common: a huge ego. And that ego is fed only by your power. You know that in an even battle, you would not stand a chance."
"Fool! For those remarks I will not cut you down where you stand! I will prove you wrong and also make your death long, drawn out, and above all, PAINFUL!"
Lowering his ki to the same level as his opponent, he launched himself at Piccolo.
***
"What are you doing here?" asked Chi-Chi, a note of spite in her voice.
"My *husband* told me that he was going somewhere that might be dangerous, and I'd be damned if I let him do that without me," replied Videl. "Why are you here?"
"For the same reasons. Now get out of the way, I need to try and help Gohan somehow."
"What? You?"
"I'm his mother. I've been taking care of him since the day he was born, I know what works best with him," she said in a tone of infuriating calmness.
"That's as may be, but I'm his wife. I love him more than anyone else on the planet and I know quite a few things about him myself. I'm going to help whether you like it or not."
***
In the air, Piccolo was being very careful not to take too much of an advantage. By keeping a cool head, he could have easily started to humiliate the Hasha, but then he would probably get angrier and return to his normal level of power.
So instead, he kept just a minor edge in the high-speed battle. He had a plan, he just had to find the perfect moment to put it into effect.
***
As the two women stared at each other balefully, Gohan moaned beneath them and stirred a fraction. They quickly looked down at him. As they watched, feeling helpless, he began to talk. His eyes were closed, and it sounded like he was mumbling to himself.
"Not again…" he said weakly. "Not again…it's happened again. I have great power, but I can't use it….I choked up against Nappa. I used everything against Freeza too soon. I could have beaten Cell effortlessly but I toyed with him. I let Buu trick me. And now this. Again, again I wasn't enough. But I'm not down…yet!"
He tried to stand up, but found that he was paralyzed from the waist down. So he tried to levitate himself off of the ground. Panicking, Chi-Chi and Videl hurled themselves on him, trying to drag him back to the ground. Apparently oblivious to their presence, he raised an arm and pointed it where Piccolo and the Hasha were still fighting. He began to charge up a ki blast.
And then, mercifully, he at last lapsed into blissful unconsciousness.
***
Piccolo at last maneuvered the Hasha no Ankoku into the position he wanted. The Namek planted both his feet into the Saiyan's side. Using his right arm, he began to pull on the Hasha's own right arm. Before the other could react, he surrounded his left arm in a ki aura and brought it down onto the joint where the shoulder meets the arm.
Severing it.
