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Well, what can I say? I almost died when I found out ff.net was down!!! Now we're back!!! Yeah baby!!
Whatever...
Gohan stepped down the battlefield, looking at Vegita and Cryo fighting high in the air. He had felt Cryo's power from where he was and wanted to fight him.
" Gohan... " Piccoro called, but he hardly heard his own voice " Gohan..."
Gohan turned to him; he was still that mean excuse of a saiyajin warrior. He approached the worn out Piccoro and looked at him in the eye, raising his hand to finish him off.
" Gohan... Can you understand my words? Come back to us... We need you. Your mother, Goten, even Vegita needs you. He's up there, fighting that monster for us. But he can't do it alone " Gohan started to power his attack up.
" ... Gohan, listen. Don't let yourself being controlled by the rage, it is not you. Remember your father... Goku. Do it for him... For Chikyuu... Do it for me."
Then, Piccoro kind of fainted. He was still conscious, but didn't have enough strength to keep his eyes open. Gohan extinguished his energy ball and then Vegita fell hard to the ground next to him. He groaned and looked at Gohan.
" G-Gohan. Please."
" Another monkey. How annoying... Well, I guess it might do to watch both blow up" Cryo sighed out of boredom.
Gohan looked at Cryo. It was the first time he would see his face at close range. He felt fear, anger, and love... A love so big for his loved ones and for his planet, that he got all of his thoughts straight. The memories flashed through his head: Frieza, that monster looked so much like the second transformation. The kids. Goku, Piccoro. Those memories kind of hit him through his mind. Now he could see Piccoro and Vegita lying on the ground, his brother and Trunks turned to monsters and that grotesque, evil being floating up in front of him...
" He's got Saiyima " Vegita managed to say trying to move. Gohan turned to him, gave him that warm look Vegita had started to miss already, and offered him his hand.
" It's you... " Vegita whispered, standing with his help.
" You think you can fight some more?
" Of course. I'm not a weakling, boy."
" He's powerful " Gohan said looking down " Really powerful. We need all of us at our best to beat him. But Saiyima's a problem. "
" It's both a problem and an advantage."
" What do you mean?"
" Saiyima can kill us all, but it can make us stronger if we measure ourselves well enough."
" You're right... Who's that guy? " he asked Vegita.
" Drop dead. He's Frieza's big brother. "
" I see. Now, let's get to know his level " Gohan proposed.
They assumed fighting stances and Gohan and Vegita waited for Cryo to come down to fight them.
" All right then. I'll please you for this time, monkeys. But you'll regret.
Cryo was definitely a living paradox, cause a body as big as his, shouldn't be fast enough to fight them; but he actually was, and very. Gohan was very careful to save his current energy for later while Vegita tried to keep up with them.
As if they had been called by the battle's tension, Goten and Trunks showed up. They had stopped fighting each other and spent their time wrecking cities, burning forests and killing some animals in the mountains with a kind of resentment between them. They even wrecked Gohan's school.
Goten just rushed over Cryo right away and was hit by one of those iron-like arms, no mercy for him. Even though the kids had outcome their normal power, Cryo was way too far from their reach. Goten hit the ground (DEJA VU!) really hard and Gohan hurried to help him. He had forgotten the kid didn't recognize anyone and he was struggling to keep his mind clear himself. The kid was tired, his eyes almost closed. Gohan took him in his arms and hugged him tight.
" Don't worry, Goten. I'm here to help you."
" Do I look like my otousan? " his little voice sounded.
" Yes. You look a lot like him " Gohan smiled.
Well, it seemed like the Son children had been rescued from Saiyima, but Trunks was still there, foreign, needed for some kind of miracle to bring him to reality. Vegita looked at the children; Goten had regained his consciousness but Trunks was still one step back. He remembered the drawing Trunks had showed him when he was in the training platform. He remembered his words.
" Trunks! " he yelled at him " Cut the crap and control yourself! After all, you're a saiyajin prince..."
Trunks flew towards him slowly, looking at his eyes, hesitating if he attacked. Vegita's words were making their effect.
" You MUST fight that monster, not us... " Trunks scowled. Seemed he didn't like to be ordered around.
" Now don't you look at me like that! I'm your father and I won't tolerate any insubordination, especially from you... You were complaining that I never taught you to be strong? Well, I'm starting right this moment. NOW KEEP YOUR HEAD HIGH AND WRAP THAT TAIL AROUND YOUR WAIST LIKE A REAL SAIYAJIN!!"
Trunks turned his back to Vegita, facing Cryo. He kind of looked back to his father, and obeying his command, he said:
" Well, otousan. You have compromised to train me from now on. No excuses."
Vegita smiled proudly, proud of his son. He didn't actually notice he was smiling but he felt well inside him. Then all the saiyajins prepared to fight together, but Cryo, on the other hand, was growing angry. What he wanted, what he came to Chikyuu for was to watch the saiyajins kill each other and destroy the planet at the same time. But it seemed like none of that would happen.
Cryo scowled, almost growling. If he had hot blood in him, it should have been boiling inside. 'Kuso! They're all a bunch of kids. This is not what I came to this planet for', he thought clenching his fists, floating up in front of the warriors.
I should say the ugly Cryo was disappointed cause ten years of planning the destruction of the saiyajins went right down the toilet. He had been building the Saiyima beam for nothing. He would definitely have to kill them all himself. But... How did they escape from the Saiyima effect? How can they have such a control on themselves? How could a bunch of kids kill his father and brothers? It was true, they weren't near as strong as Cryo, so it was absurd such low power levels defeated them... Saiyajins... He almost gagged.
Gohan warned the children of the Saiyima beam and then they all took stanced around Cryo and started the final fight (or so they thought...) one more time, giving their best without risking their lives. Gohan learned a lot about Cryo's moves. He noticed he underestimated his opponent and trusted too much in his abilities. With all that, Cryo had hit them all quite a lot; but when they got to hit him, he kept static.
Vegita was almost at the edge. He could feel the tingling sensation in his muscles, he could feel the pressure in his guts, the sweat pouring down him, being almost unable to move.
Kicks, blasts, techniques I've seen a thousand times, deceits, and other tricks were seen in that battle. Not even the four of them together could wear him out. He blasted them twenty times and twenty times they got back up. The saiyajins never surrendered, not a chance! Not when their future and their home were endangered.
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Somewhere, Bulma and Mutenroshi had gotten the seven Dragon Balls and were on their way to the place they saw the battle signs taking place. They didn't know anything about Cryo, or that the kids were all back. They didn't know either that Chikyuu was in even more danger than before. But they were going anyway. Hang on saiyajin warriors! The help is on its way! (Now that sounded sto_Opid)
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Piccoro got a little of his strength back and he could get up and fly away some place safer. He watched the fight, worried, and angry, because he wasn't strong enough to fight with them.
The first one down was Goten. He was hit by the same technique Cryo had used on Piccoro.
" GOTEN!! " Trunks screamed when he saw him fall down.
" Who's that monster? " he questioned again while heading between Gohan and Vegita.
" He's Frieza's brother " Gohan answered. Trunks blinked, thoughtful and then asked again.
" You mean Frieza the guy I killed when I came back from the future?"
" The same."
Cryo got to hear that revelation (Very opportune the little question!!!!!). (I was being ironic, by the way). He just couldn't believe that little boy had killed Frieza. 'That does it! I'll finish them off right now!!', Cryo thought.
He knocked Vegita right down, assuring he wasn't able even of flying. Gohan jumped at him but found a shield he couldn't penetrate. It took him little time to realize that the shield wasn't protecting Cryo, but actually isolating him and impeding his efforts to attack him while draining his energy. Then, it was just Cryo and Trunks.
The kid just froze when he saw himself alone, facing that monster. Cryo vanished and reappeared in front of the boy, hitting him with his tail. He then wrapped it around Trunks' body, squeezing the pain out of him. Piccoro was watching, knowing that even if he tried, he wasn't going to be able to help Trunks.
Gohan struggled to break free from the power bubble Cryo had managed to put him in. Vegita was at the top, looking at his kid being slaughtered by the brother of the being he had hated the most in his life.
Trunks, poor Trunks, felt his small bones almost snapping because of the pressure. He could barely breathe with Cryo's tail around his neck and body like a snake. Vegita took out strength from where he didn't have it and flew towards them creating an energy ball to attack Cryo, but he was smashed by Cryo's kick, as if he was a fly.
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Piccoro sensed Bulma and Mutenroshi getting closer and he decided to meet them on the way. He wasn't running, no. He was the only hope they had to survive, and he knew it very well. He ran as fast as he could to where the kis came from. He found them 2 miles away and the people in the ship saw him right away.
" Piccoro. What is it? " Mutenroshi asked him while crawling out of the jet speeder.
" I hate to jump to conclusions, but we're doomed. Frieza's brother's responsible for Gohan's, Goten's and Trunks' attitude. They recovered their senses but now... He's killing them all."
Bulma was as white as a sheet of paper as she imagined the scene of her family's end; her husband and child in the worst danger they had experienced up to now.
" I've got to save my son! " was the only thing she could say. She took the Dragon Balls out of the black backpack and spread them on the grass.
" I'm wishing for that monster to be destroyed forever " she almost cried.
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Back at the battlefield, Cryo had just broken Trunks' legs, ribs and one arm. He threw him to the ground, triumphant. The child agonized, almost choking, cause his throat was involuntarily blocked. Vegita's eyes were wide open; he had just experienced the worst a man could take: Watching his child in critical pain. He couldn't help despising Cryo and felt a great urge to let all his emotions out. He was even willing to trade his life for his son's (corny, true, but he was his son). Vegita crawled towards Trunks desperately. He could watch the spasms on his broken arm, and Trunks' eyes looking at the emptiness.
" Trunks... Trunks, stay with us... With me Look at me. Look at me, saiyajin prince... My son. My only son."
The child managed to swallow the knot in his throat and said in an almost imperceptibly voice:
" Otousan... Was I strong? Did I... fight... like a... real warrior?"
Vegita could see his life slip out of his hands, waiting for his response with illusion; for an expression of love. But he just couldn't say it. He just couldn't say "I love you".
" ... Yes. You are a true saiyajin warrior " it was all he could say. Why was it so hard?!
" Just like you? " Trunks asked with his last breath.
Vegita just couldn't stop the tears from rolling down uncontrollably and all he could do was touch the kid's little face and stay silent. He then saw Trunks close his eyes, and the rage empowered him to get up and charge at Cryo with a Final Flash.
The energies dispersed. The dust cleared out, and the Final Flash had just hit Cryo; but the entire harm it did on him was to make his mouth bleed. Cryo was furious. Nobody had ever made him bleed; not even his own father. He had never seen his own blood, crimson red and boiling hot. (Remember when Trunks killed Frieza and Cold their blood was red) He then rushed towards Vegita, moved fast behind him, slamming his knee on Vegita's neck; then he took his head and hit it with an elbow and with just one of his fists, broke his spine in three spots. Now there was no escape for Vegita. He landed a few feet away from Trunks and after meeting his eyes one more time, he knew his son had understood what he felt.
Gohan was the only one conscious, but trapped in that power bubble, which stole his energy and left him with nothing. He felt even worst seeing the other three, lying on the ground, helpless, and he gave up to die.
Ok. This thing's coming to an end!!!
Thank Kami... (Kidding ^.^)
Answer to Trivia #4, the last trivia and nobody even bothered to guess one!
Well, duh!!! Goku just put his pants down and showed her the family jewels, chibi version. I so cracked up!!!! You should have seen me!!!
Hyaa ne, peeps!!
