This one's a lot longer than the first two, but I added some fights scenes
and a twist at the end ;)
1 Chapter 2: Earths Last Stand
Vegeta's senses had detected the presence of the evil overlord Freeza before any of Earths primitive space monitoring sensors could track the highly advanced carry all war ship, bearing the insignia of Freeza's personal guard. This time, he had come in force.
"How many soldiers do you think they have on that thing Mr. Piccolo?" Gohan asked after staring wide eyed in awe at the picture of Freeza's ship on the television from an abandoned shop window. They were standing in an empty street just a short flight from the CC building, everyone either had evacuated or was hiding now. "I'm not sure…but we have to make sure none of them can get out of our sights, there's no telling what kind of damage they could do after what we saw on Namek." He replied smoothly, not showing any of the hate he felt towards the cowardly white serpent outwardly. Gohan turned his head quickly with surprise then gasped with surprise. "It's…Vegeta!" Piccolo didn't need to turn his head, Gohan realised Piccolo must have been able to sense him way off in the distance with his new super namek powers. A huge wind swept up the empty streets at Vegetas arrival, kicking up dust clouds as he landed in the middle of the street facing the duo.
"Vegeta, you made it! You're going to help us beat Frieza right??" Gohan asked excitedly. Vegetas lip curled up in an arrogant smirk, his eyebrows forking down as he looked from Gohan to Piccolo. "Oh please, I'm not going to need any help in destroying that clown Freeza now. You two would just get in my way." Gohan was stunned by Vegetas response, after all no matter how strong Vegeta thought he was, Freeza had beat him to death the last time they had fought, then after being resurrected had only barely escaped with their lives. "It's impressive Vegeta…but it's not enough. Freeza's power has grown to a new incredible level, you better leave this to me." Piccolo stated simply in his characteristic deep and controlled manner. Vegeta stared down the namek and actually growled, clenching his fist until a vein was throbbing in his forehead.
"And what do you suggest?! You don't honestly believe you're stronger than a super saiyan do you?!" He demanded angrily, Piccolo just smirked to match Vegeta's simmering anger. "No, I have surpassed the level of 'super saiyan', I won't have any problem destroying Freeza now." Vegeta reclaimed his composure after a moment then smirked his usual proud and confident self. "Fine, you can go get yourself killed if you want. I'll be there to finish Freeza after you've failed." Piccolo was about to say something more when suddenly his ears perked up, everyone turning their heads in the direction as it was suddenly coming closer and, Bulmas motorcycle flew overhead as it bound up a steep road, then crash landed in the middle of their group.
"Cough! Cough! Gah, these are so cheaply made…too bad it's our company." Bulma groaned as she pulled herself out of the wrecked motorbike, Gohan ran to her aid. "Bulma are you alright? You know you shouldn't be here, Freeza's going to show up any minute now." Gohan tried to reason with her, but Bulma only smirked a bit and brushed Gohan's advice aside. "Hey no biggie kid, I missed my chance to see Freeza on Namek but this time I want to see him for myself, there's no harm in that is there?" She was just making excuses and she knew it. She could never forgive Freeza for all he had done, to her friends and to those poor Namekians, not to mention countless billions of people around the universe who had fallen to his army. Piccolo crossed his arms and said nothing; he could never make sense of humans, and especially not Bulma so he would let her have her way. "So it's settled then, I'm staying." Bulma said triumphantly, only getting a grunt from Vegeta as a response.
"We have no time to argue it now, he's here." Piccolo said, still with his back to them. Gohan's eyes grew wide with surprise and Vegeta was looking from side to side, until finally Bulma gasped and pointed a finger to the sky. "There he is-" Before Gohan could hear the rest of what Bulma was saying the ground began to tremble violently and it split apart under their feet, followed by a massive beam of energy that heat-blasted every empty building adjacent to them. When Gohan dared to open his eyes he realised that Piccolo had saved them all, they were floating inside a blue energy shield emanating from the silent namekian, a crater was all that was left of where they had all been standing just a few moment's ago. "Gohan, Vegeta, It's time to go. Get everyone to the ship, now!" Piccolo commanded, dropping the energy shield. Surprisingly Vegeta didn't argue, Gohan grabbed the rattled Bulma up by the arm and flew her away from the battlefield as fast as he could. Vegeta took one last look at Piccolo before heading off, and Piccolo wondered what he had seen in Vegeta's eyes…fear?
The silent namekian warrior stood alone on the desolate street, not 3 blocks away the massive alien war ship had set down, making another decimated building crumble on its approach. He didn't need to wait long, the one massive door on the front of the saucer ship had slid upwards, allowing a legion of Freeza's elite "planet cleaners" to assemble in uniform lines surrounding it, but these were just small fry and Piccolo wasn't concerned with their trivial strength, he was waiting for their sinister master. A metallic sliding noise came from the ship as the ceiling fell away, and Piccolo saw two shapes float upwards through the entrance through an energy field, and masterfully glide down amidst the warrior group. One of them was monstrous in size, a massive demon like creature that was unmistakably Freeza's lineage, and beside him was the evil, grinning symbol of pain and destruction throughout the universe, Freeza. Piccolo clenched his hands into fists at the small white alien, and noticed that he had changed since the battle on his ancient home world. Firstly, the end of his tail had been replaced somehow after being severed, and now a shiny metallic plate was moulded directly on the left side of his face, a wound that Gohan had told Piccolo about when Vegeta had saved him before escaping.
Piccolo didn't wait for them to find him with their energy reading devices, instead flying straight down the narrow street with his new enhanced powers and thrusted his right hand out, held onto it with his left hand to steady the aim of his super powerful energy blast, and let it erupt in the middle of their surprised, undefended ranks. He leaped backwards and let several smaller ki shots join the explosion that had erupted, making the blast larger and hotter until it finally ignited itself and engulfed the surrounding city streets.
"Bastard, burn in hell." Piccolo spat, standing calmly in front of the raging inferno that he set in the city streets; that was all he needed to finish this, Freeza had overestimated himself for the last time. After a few minutes Piccolo heard laughter within the heart of the blaze, to his shock it grew louder and high pitched as a path cleared in the flames, to reveal the white serpent and his giant companion unharmed, surrounded by the blackened ashes of his former troops. "Well it looks like something's got you all fired up my friend, do I know you? Forgive me, all you green lizard namekians look the same to me." He coolly said with heavy sarcasm. Piccolo narrowed his eyes at Freeza and grabbed his cape in one hand, his weighted cap in the other. "I'm just getting started with you disgusting freak." Piccolo rumbled, at the same time discarding all his weighted gear. Freeza wore a cold, arrogant smirk across his metallic features, walking forward through the flames as they died out around him.
"Ah yes, I remember now. Piccolo, wasn't it? The problem with you nameks is that you could never understand, you have no chance of ever defeating me, I am lord of the universe, and you are just an insect to be stepped on for good." It was Piccolo's turn to smirk now. "I didn't think you could get anymore uglier, but that face brace really suits you." Freeza's eyes narrowed to slits, his fist tightening until his hand bled from his nails cutting through. His energy started gathering, dancing across his sleek body in a red lightning storm. "Well my dear friend, I have always said that ones inner beauty is the most important thing…so I think I'll tear you open to see." He smirked at the namek, licking his lips at the thought. "Don't count on it you stainless steel freak." Piccolo retorted, widening his stance. "I trust you can make short work of our green friend here son, I think I'll go amuse myself with dropping in on our other guests." The horned giant said in a deep sophisticated voice. Freeza shrugged "Have fun then, but leave Vegeta and the half breed brat alive…I want to kill them personally." Freeza replied casually. "Of course son, of course…" his chuckling voice rumbled like thunder as he leapt into the air gracefully despite his immense size and flew towards the CC building.
"Better make this quick, they may need my help." Piccolo thought, glancing at Freeza's titanic father. Freeza uncrossed his arms and waved his hand in front of himself cordially "Shall I start us off, or would you like to test your luck against the lord of the universe?" he asked with humour in his tone. Piccolo's aura started turning gold, then the pavement cracked under Freeza's feet as lightning crackled across Piccolos chest and arms. The super Namek warrior smirked maliciously "Gladly."
"All personal and passengers, report to your space capsule for immediate launch!! This is not a drill, we are evacuating immediately!" came a frantic voice booming through all the speakers of the CC complex. When Vegeta touched down on the lawn, Bulma and Gohan in tow, they were swamped by a mass of confused people. "We got to help these people!" Bulma cried, Vegeta turned his head and snarled. "You fool! Freeza will be here any minute now! It's not my concern what happens to these stupid humans. Stay if you want, but I'm getting out of here." Their was a charge in the air, a massive wind sweeping up and knocking boxes and confused people over. Gohan went wide-eyed with awe "That's Mr. Piccolo's energy! He must be fighting Freeza." Vegeta blinked, looking visibly shaken. "His power, it's huge! He must be a hundred times stronger than Freeza now!" Gohan said excitedly over the deafening noise of people running back and forth around them. Bulma's mouth went slack as she saw something against the horizon, a whole wave of Freeza's armoured squadron flying at full speed towards them. "Vegeta, hold them off as long as possible while I get everyone onboard!" she yelled. Vegeta spat and crossed his arms stubbornly. "Why the hell should I?! I take orders from no one." Bulma's eyes turned into hell fire, she grabbed the Saiyajin by his shirt and pulled her face up to his. "You'll do it or else your not going anywhere asshole! You don't know shit about piloting one of our capsules, so either do as I say or you can go fight Freeza!" she screamed in his face. He bared his teeth at her dangerously, his gloved hand forming a fist like he would strike the hapless human down. Instead he shoved her away "Fine, but were going in 5 minutes even if I have to throw the stupid ship into space with my bare hands." Bulma looked like she was going to argue but Gohan interrupted "I'll help too!" Vegeta looked down and curled his lip distastefully at the young demi Saiyajin, but whatever protest he had was silenced when a volley of ki blasts rocked the complex. "Fine! But you're on your own kid, don't blame me when you get yourself killed!" Vegeta flew up into the air, his aura swiftly blazing red around him as he reached the pinnacle of his power in moments. "Come and get it you bastards!!"
Time had seemed to blur for Gohan, he had felt it before. Every time a battle became intense the world would change around him, one minute passed in molasses as the warriors charged Vegeta in the distance, their scouters popping and exploding with a small burst of sparks as they neared. Another minute passed, Vegeta tore into the first rank of them, dismembering the lead soldiers into raining blood and ki charred flesh. He went on and on, never slowing, never showing any mercy as he slaughtered them as a trained soldier. It was obvious to Gohan how Vegeta had made his reputation, when he fought it was like he was summing up all the pain and hatred he had ever felt in his life and turned it into a weapon, shattering whoever foolishly got too close. 3 minutes passed, they tried to trap him by surrounding him with energy blasts. Vegeta spun in a red cyclone of carnage, deflecting the blasts back at their creators. He blazed through the sky like a comet of death; each person in his path was struck down, falling in a shower of their own limbs and blood, dead before they hit the ground. Four minutes passed, Vegeta stopped in the air; his eyes hard and intense like a madman, splattered across his chest and face, and soaked up to his elbows in his opponent's blood. A monster appeared, massive and horned like a demon. He grinned cruelly at Vegeta, over ten times bigger than him, but Vegeta didn't back down. The two collided like freight trains, a blinding explosion of energy following their moves as they fought. The two stopped, each jumping away and landing as the shock wave moved over them. Gohan was vaguely aware that some of the space pods were leaving now, and five minutes were up.
Then everything stopped. The noise around them was muted, Vegeta and King Cold said nothing, both of them looking behind. Gohan's eyes followed theirs, his mouth dropping in silent shock. Freeza floated high above, silhouetted against the bright sun was hard to distinguish except for the glint off his metal face, and what he held in his hand. "Father, I was thinking you could help me decide something. What should I do with this namek?" he asked mockingly, holding Piccolo's battle ravaged body up for all to see. King Cold laughed, Gohan's mouth opened to scream but no sound would come out, his mind refused to believe what he was seeing. Freeza laughed and dropped Piccolo's slack body, falling and falling forever, then time seemed to stop altogether. Gohan screamed this time, but he couldn't even hear himself over the deafening roar in his ears. Piccolo's body was only feet from the ground when he was slammed into by a crimson beam of death from above, He ran for him, his feet moving sluggishly slow like in a nightmare, but was lifted up and turned upside down, caught by Vegeta's arm. He twisted and cried out to break free, but Vegeta held him fast until he couldn't breath, then threw him on the cold tiled floor of the space pod. Gohan got up, his face pressed firmly to the glass window of the space pod as it launched. He tears steamed the glass as he watched the earth grow smaller and smaller, and he knew he would never return.
"Now that was somewhat anti-climatic…running away before we could finish our little party." King Cold commented. "Aren't you going to go after them son?" Freeza waved it off, floating into the air higher as he formed a ki blast at the tip of his finger. "Now that would go and spoil all of my fun…I'll hunt them down at my leisure, I want them to live the rest of their short lives in constant fear before I stamp them out of existence." King Cold rose up at the same speed, the energy ball on Freeza's finger expanded and grew bigger with every second until it was the size of a small moon. "Besides, I'd much rather enjoy the fireworks." With that he hurled the energy ball down, tearing through the planets surface like a demonic ball of fire until it reached the core, and in a magnificent explosion of light and color, the planet earth, and it's people, was no more.
1 Chapter 2: Earths Last Stand
Vegeta's senses had detected the presence of the evil overlord Freeza before any of Earths primitive space monitoring sensors could track the highly advanced carry all war ship, bearing the insignia of Freeza's personal guard. This time, he had come in force.
"How many soldiers do you think they have on that thing Mr. Piccolo?" Gohan asked after staring wide eyed in awe at the picture of Freeza's ship on the television from an abandoned shop window. They were standing in an empty street just a short flight from the CC building, everyone either had evacuated or was hiding now. "I'm not sure…but we have to make sure none of them can get out of our sights, there's no telling what kind of damage they could do after what we saw on Namek." He replied smoothly, not showing any of the hate he felt towards the cowardly white serpent outwardly. Gohan turned his head quickly with surprise then gasped with surprise. "It's…Vegeta!" Piccolo didn't need to turn his head, Gohan realised Piccolo must have been able to sense him way off in the distance with his new super namek powers. A huge wind swept up the empty streets at Vegetas arrival, kicking up dust clouds as he landed in the middle of the street facing the duo.
"Vegeta, you made it! You're going to help us beat Frieza right??" Gohan asked excitedly. Vegetas lip curled up in an arrogant smirk, his eyebrows forking down as he looked from Gohan to Piccolo. "Oh please, I'm not going to need any help in destroying that clown Freeza now. You two would just get in my way." Gohan was stunned by Vegetas response, after all no matter how strong Vegeta thought he was, Freeza had beat him to death the last time they had fought, then after being resurrected had only barely escaped with their lives. "It's impressive Vegeta…but it's not enough. Freeza's power has grown to a new incredible level, you better leave this to me." Piccolo stated simply in his characteristic deep and controlled manner. Vegeta stared down the namek and actually growled, clenching his fist until a vein was throbbing in his forehead.
"And what do you suggest?! You don't honestly believe you're stronger than a super saiyan do you?!" He demanded angrily, Piccolo just smirked to match Vegeta's simmering anger. "No, I have surpassed the level of 'super saiyan', I won't have any problem destroying Freeza now." Vegeta reclaimed his composure after a moment then smirked his usual proud and confident self. "Fine, you can go get yourself killed if you want. I'll be there to finish Freeza after you've failed." Piccolo was about to say something more when suddenly his ears perked up, everyone turning their heads in the direction as it was suddenly coming closer and, Bulmas motorcycle flew overhead as it bound up a steep road, then crash landed in the middle of their group.
"Cough! Cough! Gah, these are so cheaply made…too bad it's our company." Bulma groaned as she pulled herself out of the wrecked motorbike, Gohan ran to her aid. "Bulma are you alright? You know you shouldn't be here, Freeza's going to show up any minute now." Gohan tried to reason with her, but Bulma only smirked a bit and brushed Gohan's advice aside. "Hey no biggie kid, I missed my chance to see Freeza on Namek but this time I want to see him for myself, there's no harm in that is there?" She was just making excuses and she knew it. She could never forgive Freeza for all he had done, to her friends and to those poor Namekians, not to mention countless billions of people around the universe who had fallen to his army. Piccolo crossed his arms and said nothing; he could never make sense of humans, and especially not Bulma so he would let her have her way. "So it's settled then, I'm staying." Bulma said triumphantly, only getting a grunt from Vegeta as a response.
"We have no time to argue it now, he's here." Piccolo said, still with his back to them. Gohan's eyes grew wide with surprise and Vegeta was looking from side to side, until finally Bulma gasped and pointed a finger to the sky. "There he is-" Before Gohan could hear the rest of what Bulma was saying the ground began to tremble violently and it split apart under their feet, followed by a massive beam of energy that heat-blasted every empty building adjacent to them. When Gohan dared to open his eyes he realised that Piccolo had saved them all, they were floating inside a blue energy shield emanating from the silent namekian, a crater was all that was left of where they had all been standing just a few moment's ago. "Gohan, Vegeta, It's time to go. Get everyone to the ship, now!" Piccolo commanded, dropping the energy shield. Surprisingly Vegeta didn't argue, Gohan grabbed the rattled Bulma up by the arm and flew her away from the battlefield as fast as he could. Vegeta took one last look at Piccolo before heading off, and Piccolo wondered what he had seen in Vegeta's eyes…fear?
The silent namekian warrior stood alone on the desolate street, not 3 blocks away the massive alien war ship had set down, making another decimated building crumble on its approach. He didn't need to wait long, the one massive door on the front of the saucer ship had slid upwards, allowing a legion of Freeza's elite "planet cleaners" to assemble in uniform lines surrounding it, but these were just small fry and Piccolo wasn't concerned with their trivial strength, he was waiting for their sinister master. A metallic sliding noise came from the ship as the ceiling fell away, and Piccolo saw two shapes float upwards through the entrance through an energy field, and masterfully glide down amidst the warrior group. One of them was monstrous in size, a massive demon like creature that was unmistakably Freeza's lineage, and beside him was the evil, grinning symbol of pain and destruction throughout the universe, Freeza. Piccolo clenched his hands into fists at the small white alien, and noticed that he had changed since the battle on his ancient home world. Firstly, the end of his tail had been replaced somehow after being severed, and now a shiny metallic plate was moulded directly on the left side of his face, a wound that Gohan had told Piccolo about when Vegeta had saved him before escaping.
Piccolo didn't wait for them to find him with their energy reading devices, instead flying straight down the narrow street with his new enhanced powers and thrusted his right hand out, held onto it with his left hand to steady the aim of his super powerful energy blast, and let it erupt in the middle of their surprised, undefended ranks. He leaped backwards and let several smaller ki shots join the explosion that had erupted, making the blast larger and hotter until it finally ignited itself and engulfed the surrounding city streets.
"Bastard, burn in hell." Piccolo spat, standing calmly in front of the raging inferno that he set in the city streets; that was all he needed to finish this, Freeza had overestimated himself for the last time. After a few minutes Piccolo heard laughter within the heart of the blaze, to his shock it grew louder and high pitched as a path cleared in the flames, to reveal the white serpent and his giant companion unharmed, surrounded by the blackened ashes of his former troops. "Well it looks like something's got you all fired up my friend, do I know you? Forgive me, all you green lizard namekians look the same to me." He coolly said with heavy sarcasm. Piccolo narrowed his eyes at Freeza and grabbed his cape in one hand, his weighted cap in the other. "I'm just getting started with you disgusting freak." Piccolo rumbled, at the same time discarding all his weighted gear. Freeza wore a cold, arrogant smirk across his metallic features, walking forward through the flames as they died out around him.
"Ah yes, I remember now. Piccolo, wasn't it? The problem with you nameks is that you could never understand, you have no chance of ever defeating me, I am lord of the universe, and you are just an insect to be stepped on for good." It was Piccolo's turn to smirk now. "I didn't think you could get anymore uglier, but that face brace really suits you." Freeza's eyes narrowed to slits, his fist tightening until his hand bled from his nails cutting through. His energy started gathering, dancing across his sleek body in a red lightning storm. "Well my dear friend, I have always said that ones inner beauty is the most important thing…so I think I'll tear you open to see." He smirked at the namek, licking his lips at the thought. "Don't count on it you stainless steel freak." Piccolo retorted, widening his stance. "I trust you can make short work of our green friend here son, I think I'll go amuse myself with dropping in on our other guests." The horned giant said in a deep sophisticated voice. Freeza shrugged "Have fun then, but leave Vegeta and the half breed brat alive…I want to kill them personally." Freeza replied casually. "Of course son, of course…" his chuckling voice rumbled like thunder as he leapt into the air gracefully despite his immense size and flew towards the CC building.
"Better make this quick, they may need my help." Piccolo thought, glancing at Freeza's titanic father. Freeza uncrossed his arms and waved his hand in front of himself cordially "Shall I start us off, or would you like to test your luck against the lord of the universe?" he asked with humour in his tone. Piccolo's aura started turning gold, then the pavement cracked under Freeza's feet as lightning crackled across Piccolos chest and arms. The super Namek warrior smirked maliciously "Gladly."
"All personal and passengers, report to your space capsule for immediate launch!! This is not a drill, we are evacuating immediately!" came a frantic voice booming through all the speakers of the CC complex. When Vegeta touched down on the lawn, Bulma and Gohan in tow, they were swamped by a mass of confused people. "We got to help these people!" Bulma cried, Vegeta turned his head and snarled. "You fool! Freeza will be here any minute now! It's not my concern what happens to these stupid humans. Stay if you want, but I'm getting out of here." Their was a charge in the air, a massive wind sweeping up and knocking boxes and confused people over. Gohan went wide-eyed with awe "That's Mr. Piccolo's energy! He must be fighting Freeza." Vegeta blinked, looking visibly shaken. "His power, it's huge! He must be a hundred times stronger than Freeza now!" Gohan said excitedly over the deafening noise of people running back and forth around them. Bulma's mouth went slack as she saw something against the horizon, a whole wave of Freeza's armoured squadron flying at full speed towards them. "Vegeta, hold them off as long as possible while I get everyone onboard!" she yelled. Vegeta spat and crossed his arms stubbornly. "Why the hell should I?! I take orders from no one." Bulma's eyes turned into hell fire, she grabbed the Saiyajin by his shirt and pulled her face up to his. "You'll do it or else your not going anywhere asshole! You don't know shit about piloting one of our capsules, so either do as I say or you can go fight Freeza!" she screamed in his face. He bared his teeth at her dangerously, his gloved hand forming a fist like he would strike the hapless human down. Instead he shoved her away "Fine, but were going in 5 minutes even if I have to throw the stupid ship into space with my bare hands." Bulma looked like she was going to argue but Gohan interrupted "I'll help too!" Vegeta looked down and curled his lip distastefully at the young demi Saiyajin, but whatever protest he had was silenced when a volley of ki blasts rocked the complex. "Fine! But you're on your own kid, don't blame me when you get yourself killed!" Vegeta flew up into the air, his aura swiftly blazing red around him as he reached the pinnacle of his power in moments. "Come and get it you bastards!!"
Time had seemed to blur for Gohan, he had felt it before. Every time a battle became intense the world would change around him, one minute passed in molasses as the warriors charged Vegeta in the distance, their scouters popping and exploding with a small burst of sparks as they neared. Another minute passed, Vegeta tore into the first rank of them, dismembering the lead soldiers into raining blood and ki charred flesh. He went on and on, never slowing, never showing any mercy as he slaughtered them as a trained soldier. It was obvious to Gohan how Vegeta had made his reputation, when he fought it was like he was summing up all the pain and hatred he had ever felt in his life and turned it into a weapon, shattering whoever foolishly got too close. 3 minutes passed, they tried to trap him by surrounding him with energy blasts. Vegeta spun in a red cyclone of carnage, deflecting the blasts back at their creators. He blazed through the sky like a comet of death; each person in his path was struck down, falling in a shower of their own limbs and blood, dead before they hit the ground. Four minutes passed, Vegeta stopped in the air; his eyes hard and intense like a madman, splattered across his chest and face, and soaked up to his elbows in his opponent's blood. A monster appeared, massive and horned like a demon. He grinned cruelly at Vegeta, over ten times bigger than him, but Vegeta didn't back down. The two collided like freight trains, a blinding explosion of energy following their moves as they fought. The two stopped, each jumping away and landing as the shock wave moved over them. Gohan was vaguely aware that some of the space pods were leaving now, and five minutes were up.
Then everything stopped. The noise around them was muted, Vegeta and King Cold said nothing, both of them looking behind. Gohan's eyes followed theirs, his mouth dropping in silent shock. Freeza floated high above, silhouetted against the bright sun was hard to distinguish except for the glint off his metal face, and what he held in his hand. "Father, I was thinking you could help me decide something. What should I do with this namek?" he asked mockingly, holding Piccolo's battle ravaged body up for all to see. King Cold laughed, Gohan's mouth opened to scream but no sound would come out, his mind refused to believe what he was seeing. Freeza laughed and dropped Piccolo's slack body, falling and falling forever, then time seemed to stop altogether. Gohan screamed this time, but he couldn't even hear himself over the deafening roar in his ears. Piccolo's body was only feet from the ground when he was slammed into by a crimson beam of death from above, He ran for him, his feet moving sluggishly slow like in a nightmare, but was lifted up and turned upside down, caught by Vegeta's arm. He twisted and cried out to break free, but Vegeta held him fast until he couldn't breath, then threw him on the cold tiled floor of the space pod. Gohan got up, his face pressed firmly to the glass window of the space pod as it launched. He tears steamed the glass as he watched the earth grow smaller and smaller, and he knew he would never return.
"Now that was somewhat anti-climatic…running away before we could finish our little party." King Cold commented. "Aren't you going to go after them son?" Freeza waved it off, floating into the air higher as he formed a ki blast at the tip of his finger. "Now that would go and spoil all of my fun…I'll hunt them down at my leisure, I want them to live the rest of their short lives in constant fear before I stamp them out of existence." King Cold rose up at the same speed, the energy ball on Freeza's finger expanded and grew bigger with every second until it was the size of a small moon. "Besides, I'd much rather enjoy the fireworks." With that he hurled the energy ball down, tearing through the planets surface like a demonic ball of fire until it reached the core, and in a magnificent explosion of light and color, the planet earth, and it's people, was no more.