Goku peered at the women from his position in a hidden crevice between the
crater wall and a boulder that had somehow survived the previous battle.
He had heard everything and he didn't like on bit of it. All he could
think of was Chi-chi and Gohan and the rest of his family being eaten by
this shadow called the Emperor, and it sent chills down his spine. For
once in his eventful life, Goku realized that his power wasn't high enough.
Goku felt despair.
He looked over to where Vegeta lay and thought of going and retrieving his body, but he decided against it. The last thing he wanted to do was draw attention to himself. As long as the other two didn't blow up the earth, he didn't care what happened. If they wanted to bash each other's brains out then Goku wasn't in any mood to try to stop them.
Niy and Rezan stared at each other with a tension so thick that a knife would have shattered if it tried to cut through it. As a rolling gentle breeze sifted and stirred the dust, Niy felt it swell and slowly dissipate. Inside her a red line pinged and as Goku's eyes blinked he found that Niy had disappeared. When he looked for Rezan, he found that she had disappeared as well. Focusing his eyes in they way any fighter did when watching a fight, Goku's sight only picked up blurs and swishes of missed punches and dodged kicks. They were moving so fast that even he couldn't see them!
He refocused on the green swirling figure of Niy and watched as she did a perfect tumbling flip to the ground. Rezan fell to the earth and let the ground cushion her drastic fall. Both fighters looked at each other angrily. Neither had turned out to be what the other expected. Both now had grudgingly raised their expectations of each other.
"Enough of this," the female Namek hissed. "We both have another level to reach, and I think it's about time we got there."
"That's fine with me," Rezan howled. "It's no sweat off my back if you want to die sooner."
Niy roared in anger and half in pain. She felt the burning of her ki electrify her senses and increase her strength a million fold. Her flaming aura claimed the territory of the crater and went beyond it. Rezan responded in the same fashion, and soon the red aura of Niy and the yellow aura of Rezan sizzled and sparked as the breached each other's flames of ki.
"I'll defeat you like I did that Saiyan weakling," Rezan snarled, raising her arms above her head and focusing her energy above her fingertips.
Niy responded by shoving her hands beneath her and summoned her power to flow beneath her fingertips.
Rezan smiled her awful Saiyan one-sided smile, lowered her arms, and shouted, "REHAN-HA!!!"
Niy, totally in focus, knowing not to let her emotions be the cause of her actions, swung her arms and hands out in front of her and shouted, "NEHAN- HA!!!"
Two ki blasts of equal strength crashed into each other and Rezan's cock- eyed smile was instantaneously blown away. Rezan pushed for control, grabbing more of her power she blasted her ki more forcefully at Niy.
Niy grunted feeling the strength rush at her and pushed it back even more of her ki. There was no way she was going to let Rezan win.
Rezan felt the massive strength of the battling balls of ki push her back, and decided enough was enough. She called on every bit, every last fiber of power in her body, and the result was tremendous. Her ki swelled into a ball at least fifty times Niy's size and Niy's eyes widened, astonished at her power. Niy, however, was stubborn to the end. She too called upon every last shred of ki into her body, and willed it through her hands and at her enemy.
Niy's ki exploded into a ball of glowing fire that matched Rezan's ball of power in size and strength. The powers amounted to something beyond mere mortality. It was like watching an act of a god.
Goku instant transmitted himself to Vegeta, hoping the great powers would block any signal of ki from him and it worked. Once there he hoisted Vegeta's still form inside his right arm and instant transmitted himself to his original hiding place behind the boulder. If Vegeta and Goku had any hope for survival then they had to be sheltered.
The twin powers of Niy and Rezan swirled and dove into one another, until something gave. The explosion of ki resulted in a flash of light that was seen in a 1000 mile perimeter and a giant roll of thunder that transformed into and earthquake that rolled and ricocheted around the earth until it simply ran out of gas and things to bounce off of.
Goku closed his eyes, covered Vegeta's body with his own and prayed. He felt shards of rock twist and snip through his skin and he coughed and tried to get some amount of air through the thick dust. When he finally felt the dust clear, and was able to breathe, he felt for Vegeta's pulse and mumbled thanks to someone that the fool was still alive. Then he pushed the rubble that covered the opeing to the crevice and looked around. His heart sank and a look of great sorrow passed the adult Saiyan's face. For hundreds of miles there was only rubble, dirt, and dust. And where Niy and Rezan were, there was deep depressions in rock and mountains of boulders, most a hundred times the size of him.
He looked over to where Vegeta lay and thought of going and retrieving his body, but he decided against it. The last thing he wanted to do was draw attention to himself. As long as the other two didn't blow up the earth, he didn't care what happened. If they wanted to bash each other's brains out then Goku wasn't in any mood to try to stop them.
Niy and Rezan stared at each other with a tension so thick that a knife would have shattered if it tried to cut through it. As a rolling gentle breeze sifted and stirred the dust, Niy felt it swell and slowly dissipate. Inside her a red line pinged and as Goku's eyes blinked he found that Niy had disappeared. When he looked for Rezan, he found that she had disappeared as well. Focusing his eyes in they way any fighter did when watching a fight, Goku's sight only picked up blurs and swishes of missed punches and dodged kicks. They were moving so fast that even he couldn't see them!
He refocused on the green swirling figure of Niy and watched as she did a perfect tumbling flip to the ground. Rezan fell to the earth and let the ground cushion her drastic fall. Both fighters looked at each other angrily. Neither had turned out to be what the other expected. Both now had grudgingly raised their expectations of each other.
"Enough of this," the female Namek hissed. "We both have another level to reach, and I think it's about time we got there."
"That's fine with me," Rezan howled. "It's no sweat off my back if you want to die sooner."
Niy roared in anger and half in pain. She felt the burning of her ki electrify her senses and increase her strength a million fold. Her flaming aura claimed the territory of the crater and went beyond it. Rezan responded in the same fashion, and soon the red aura of Niy and the yellow aura of Rezan sizzled and sparked as the breached each other's flames of ki.
"I'll defeat you like I did that Saiyan weakling," Rezan snarled, raising her arms above her head and focusing her energy above her fingertips.
Niy responded by shoving her hands beneath her and summoned her power to flow beneath her fingertips.
Rezan smiled her awful Saiyan one-sided smile, lowered her arms, and shouted, "REHAN-HA!!!"
Niy, totally in focus, knowing not to let her emotions be the cause of her actions, swung her arms and hands out in front of her and shouted, "NEHAN- HA!!!"
Two ki blasts of equal strength crashed into each other and Rezan's cock- eyed smile was instantaneously blown away. Rezan pushed for control, grabbing more of her power she blasted her ki more forcefully at Niy.
Niy grunted feeling the strength rush at her and pushed it back even more of her ki. There was no way she was going to let Rezan win.
Rezan felt the massive strength of the battling balls of ki push her back, and decided enough was enough. She called on every bit, every last fiber of power in her body, and the result was tremendous. Her ki swelled into a ball at least fifty times Niy's size and Niy's eyes widened, astonished at her power. Niy, however, was stubborn to the end. She too called upon every last shred of ki into her body, and willed it through her hands and at her enemy.
Niy's ki exploded into a ball of glowing fire that matched Rezan's ball of power in size and strength. The powers amounted to something beyond mere mortality. It was like watching an act of a god.
Goku instant transmitted himself to Vegeta, hoping the great powers would block any signal of ki from him and it worked. Once there he hoisted Vegeta's still form inside his right arm and instant transmitted himself to his original hiding place behind the boulder. If Vegeta and Goku had any hope for survival then they had to be sheltered.
The twin powers of Niy and Rezan swirled and dove into one another, until something gave. The explosion of ki resulted in a flash of light that was seen in a 1000 mile perimeter and a giant roll of thunder that transformed into and earthquake that rolled and ricocheted around the earth until it simply ran out of gas and things to bounce off of.
Goku closed his eyes, covered Vegeta's body with his own and prayed. He felt shards of rock twist and snip through his skin and he coughed and tried to get some amount of air through the thick dust. When he finally felt the dust clear, and was able to breathe, he felt for Vegeta's pulse and mumbled thanks to someone that the fool was still alive. Then he pushed the rubble that covered the opeing to the crevice and looked around. His heart sank and a look of great sorrow passed the adult Saiyan's face. For hundreds of miles there was only rubble, dirt, and dust. And where Niy and Rezan were, there was deep depressions in rock and mountains of boulders, most a hundred times the size of him.
