I changed chapter 32, so if you haven't re-read it, you might be a little lost here. As due to popular demand, I left the silliness in Chapter 32 and extended the battle into this chapter. Anyways, big thanks to all that have reviewed and on with the story!!
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Tharsasher tried to dodge, but didn't quite make it. After Trunks Jr. redirected the Final Flash into space, Tharsasher's entire left torso and most of her chest were blown completely away. Tharsasher floated above the ground breathing heavily. Trunks gathered the energy he needed for another Final Flash attack, but in the short amount of time it took him to do so, Tharsasher regenerated her wounds.
"Damned this human!" Tharsasher exclaimed. "Humans are not supposed to be this strong! Something is not quite what it seems here."
Cordell strongly agreed. He had never felt this sort of ki from a human before. Not even Rogalle, who had completed all of the scrolls, was this strong. "Have humans interbred with an alien race?" Cordell wondered out loud.
"Alright kid, brace yourself! FORM THREE!!" Tharsasher cried out as she began yet another transformation. A bright but dark light momentarily blinded the Z-Warriors. When their sight cleared, Tharsasher had grown bigger, more muscular, and an additional head.
"Damned!" Tharsasher mentally exclaimed. "Inside the Demon Realm, I would be at least three times this strong! What gives?"
While Tharsasher's transformation was impressive to look at, her overall power only increased another 15%.
"So now what do we do?" Tharsasher's recently added head asked. "We fight. There is nothing else we can do. Cordell would only kill us for our failure if we tried to return, and he would hunt us down if we didn't return." Tharsasher's head #1 replied.
"Whew! Stereo ugly!" Nappa made exaggerated gagging sounds. "That's like having two mate-in-laws!"
Vegeta looked at the big warrior with some sympathy in his eyes. He had met Nappa's mate-in-law once. He'd just as soon fight 1,000 demons like Tharsasher than to ever repeat that experience again. If Nappa had begged, Vegeta would have had the woman vaporized on the spot. But Vegeta finally relented thinking that Nappa would be a better warrior if he weren't worried about domestic problems at home.
"My mate's mother died before I came to Earth" Goku said. Goku started thinking about it though. The OX King was such a laid back fellow, once you got past that whole protecting Fire Mountain with an large axe thing. Yet Chi Chi was so obstinate, and well, downright bitchy at times. A mental picture of what his mate-in-law would have been like popped into Goku's head, and it scared the living shit out of him. He shuddered inwardly. Then he said a very unGokuesk thing. "Come to think of it, I'm probably far better off."
"Why Kakkarot, I think that's the first unkind thing I've ever heard you say about anyone that wasn't trying to kill us." Vegeta smirked.
"I think I've had too much orange soda." Goku smiled.
"I knew there was a true Saiyan in their someplace." Bardock teased.
Goku's only response was to turn and burp in Bardock's general direction.
"Yep, there it is." Bardock said desperately trying to fan the stench of recycled Orange Soda, Beer, and Buttered Popcorn from his face with a paper plate.
Trunks Jr. landed on a small rise and took a defensive posture. "I sense that her ki has risen again and it's very close to my own now. I have to take her out before she does any damage to the planet." Trunks reformed his skin level ki shield and launched an aggressive attack. Trunks landed several damaging blows before Tharsasher responded by slashing at him with her taloned feet, and hand weapons. Trunks Jr. managed to dodge most of her attacks, and the ki shield deflected the rest.
"I mustn't give her a chance to regenerate." Trunks Jr. thought to himself.
Suddenly, Tharsasher spit from both of her mouths, the saliva landing squarely on Trunks Jr.'s ki shielded chest. The acidic spit actually began to eat through his shield.
"Damned!" Trunks Jr. exclaimed. "If that shit eats through my shield, I'm a goner!
Trunks Jr. quickly expanded his shield pushing the offending substance away, and then let the ki shield drop. The result being that the spit was ejected away from his body.
"Gotcha!" Tharsasher yelled as she slashed a sword down Trunks Jr.'s back.
"Arrrrgggghhh!" Trunks Jr. had been cut deeply across both shoulder blades, and only by a miracle did he manage to dodge her follow up attack, which would have skewered him through the chest.
Gohan looked at Vegeta. "Vegeta, don't you think we should help him now? He's losing a lot of blood, and…."
"Not yet!" Goku said. "He can still win this fight."
Vegeta offered a wan smile in Goku's direction, thankful that he understood. Still, for the first time, Vegeta was very worried about his Grandson.
"I need some distance!" Trunks Jr. thought and phased out, then phased back in about 1,000 yards away. "I did the one thing that Gohan warned me against! I tried to duke it out toe to toe with this crazy bitch! Damned that was stupid! Ok, speed; Gohan said that speed is the ticket. In, strike, and move out. Damned this bitch! I've never seen anyone so bent on killing before!"
Trunks Jr. was now, officially, mad. Unlike his Grandfather, Trunks Jr. was far more laid back, more so than even his father. But every once in great awhile, he was known to lose it. This was one of those times. It wasn't like he hadn't ever been hurt fighting or sparing before. Dendi knows that Vegeta wasn't the gentlest trainer on the planet, but this was different. This creature was trying to kill him, in fact, she would delight in killing him, and everyone else on the planet, including his loved ones. This was Trunks first brush with his own mortality. And he didn't like it one damned bit.
Trunks Jr. began to power up. He began to feel his muscles expand, his skin heat up. The feeling grew intolerable and he screamed. Pure rage fueled his power.
Tharsasher, who had been moving in for the kill, was suddenly thrown back violently by Trunks Jr.'s pure force. "What!?!?! No way! Who is this asshole?"
Suddenly, Trunks scream intensified, his hair changed from ebony, to navy blue, as well as his eyes. He surpassed Super Saiyan Four and ascended to Super Saiyan Five. The light of the transformation, which physically and mentally heals those in the moral realm, destroyed Tharsasher completely.
Lumbistru, who had been watching the entire fight, suddenly screamed and fell behind a boulder, blind as a bat. The boulder protected him from being completely destroyed, but in his efforts to get away he had let his invisibility slip, and his ki to rise.
Every Saiyan capable of detecting ki suddenly turned in Lumbistru's direction. "What the hell was that?" Vegeta wanted to know.
"I don't know, but it feels like another demon, or something nasty." Nappa said.
Gohan fairly glowed with pride. Nappa had learned to detect ki very quickly.
"Nappa, you and Bardock go and investigate." Vegeta ordered.
"Yes my Prince." Bardock said sarcastically.
Vegeta just gave him his best Vegeta smirk.
Nappa and Bardock flew off in the direction of the ki.
"Gohan, follow them and make sure they stay out of any real trouble, but don't make it look like you're protecting them or helping them if you can possibly help it." Vegeta said.
"You got it." And Gohan followed Nappa and Bardock at a respectable distance, keeping his ki as low as possible.
Trunks Jr. hovered in mid-air, triumphant in his power. "So, this is what Super Saiyan Five feels like. What power! I never imagined this kind of power before. It's almost God like!"
Goku suddenly broke into his thoughts. "We are not Gods! We cannot afford to start thinking that way either!"
"But Goku! This power!" Trunks Jr. started.
"Listen to me! If we start thinking of ourselves as Gods, better than all the others, how long would it be before WE are sending creatures like Tharsasher to destroy those who oppose us? After all, don't WE deserve to rule? Shouldn't WE be making life and death decisions for all these… Insects? Where does such thinking ultimately lead you boy?" Goku demanded an answer.
Trunks Jr. thought for a moment. "Y-you are right Goku. We are not Gods, we shouldn't ever put ourselves above others." Trunks Jr. looked a bit ashamed of his previous thoughts. He powered down to normal.
"Don't worry about it. I struggled with the exact same emotions the first time I went Super Saiyan. It was a bit of a struggle for a few minutes until Frieza reminded me of who I am, and what I stood for." Goku smiled.
"What's going on between you two?" Vegeta demanded to know.
"Nothing really Vegeta, just passing on a bit of wisdom to our new Super Saiyan Five." Goku answered and smiled broadly.
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Cordell hadn't seen the last of the fight.
Just a big flash of light as the boy was trying to power up. He had lost visual from Lumbistru and could
not seem to communicate with the lesser demon.
Every time he tried, all he got was "Pain! Pain! MY EYES ARE
BURNING!" "Had Lumbistru been
attacked? By whom? And what about Tharsasher? Damned!
I sent them there to gather information. Now, one may be dead, the other too injured to communicate
coherently, and I haven't learned much of anything new! Well, that's not entirely true. I have learned of one major fly in my
ointment haven't I? Outside of the
Demon Realm, it appears that the Orkrans, and possibly all the demons, cannot
access their full power in their transformed states. Damned! I really hadn't
counted on that!"
"Milord Cordell!" Ethcynicor suddenly appeared to his left. "I have a report sir." The great demon looked decidedly nervous.
"I hope this is good news Ethcynicor. I've just about had my fill of shit for one day." Cordell said.
"I wish that it were sir." Ethcynicor diverted his eyes.
"Sigh.. Oh well, give it to me then." Cordell resigned.
"All psychic transmissions from Tharsasher have ceased. We believe that she has been sent to oblivion. " Ethcynicor reported, then waited for the results.
Fortunately for Ethcynicor, Cordell had expected this from the time he sent Tharsasher on this mission.
"Oh, is that all. Well, she can join her mate there then" Cordell replied calmly.
"Y-you're not surprised that she was defeated?" Ethcynicor stammered.
"Under the circumstances? Not really. That's why I sent her." Cordell smiled an evil smile.
"You wanted her to die?!?!?! Why?" Ethcynicor was incredulous.
"I got word that she was trying to organize a rebellion against me. So when you suggested that she go on this mission, I accepted. Now, no more problem." Cordell smiled up at the huge demon. "Okay Ethcynicor, her death wasn't a total loss. I learned something very important. We have to change our plans. Instead of attacking and defeating the mortal world, then establishing a permanent conduit and bringing the Demon Realm into the Mortal Realm, we now have to establish the conduit first, bring the Demon Realm into the Moral Realm, then attack and defeat those that oppose us." Cordell explained. "If the demons cannot use their full powers in the mortal realm, we will have to take the demon realm with us."
Ethcynicor smiled with long fangs bared. "Excellent. I will make the necessary changes in our preparations."
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Uub was in a bit of a quandary. He was sure that Raditz was ready to go Super. But he was not sure how he should proceed. Uub wasn't very good at insults, giving or receiving. His young years of being a resident of a dirt poor village with few jobs, and fewer opportunities made Uub's childhood very rough indeed. He had lost two sisters to malnutrition during those years. Family was all one had to survive, so insulting a family member, even someone else's family member, was abhorrent to Uub. Goku had seen the horrible living conditions in his village and realized that the generous zeni contribution from Hercule was not going to be enough for everyone. Goku then went to Capsule Corporation and asked Trunks for help. Trunks responded by building a large avionics factory less than a mile from the village. Then he paid for the training of the villagers, helped build some proper school facilities, and even convinced many teachers to come live and teach in such a remote place. Later Capsule Corporation set up a medical clinic, brought in medical staff, and gave everyone free physicals and needed medical treatment. Thanks to Goku, the people of Uub's village are living in homes instead of grass huts. As a result, Uub would walk through fire and ice and through the gates of Hell for Goku, or any of the Z-Warriors for that matter.
"Now, how do I go about pissing this guy off?" Uub thought and thought, but was stumped. He just wasn't very good at this type of thing. "Well, I guess I'll go and ask him." He finally thought.
Uub flew over to where Raditz was doing a set of speed drills. "Raditz, what is the one thing that makes you as mad as you can get?"
"Oh that's easy. Thinking about when Frieza destroyed my home planet, Vegeta-sai." He answered simply, but even in answering that simply question, Uub felt Raditz's ki rise significantly.
"And you were powerless to stop him?" Uub pushed.
"No, I couldn't stop him, I wasn't there at the time. We were told an asteroid struck the planet and destroyed it." Raditz's ki rose some more.
"But deep down, you knew that was a lie, didn't you?" Uub said.
Raditz's eyes shot the smaller man a wicked glare. Then looked down. "Yes, deep down we all knew that Frieza had destroyed our home. Vegeta knew before we did."
"And to top it off, you had to serve Frieza as a slave." Uub continued.
Another rise of ki. "Why are you asking me all these questions? This is really none of your business!" Raditz yelled.
"Goku says that in order to be a proper instructor, I must get to know my students and the lives that they have led. I really know so little about you." Uub pressed. "Was it hard serving as a slave for Frieza?"
"Y-yes, yes it was. But I forgave him! It was part of my penance." Raditz said, sounding unconvinced.
"So if he appeared before you right now, you wouldn't want to kill him?" Uub said.
Raditz pictured Frieza in front of him in his mind. Remembered his days of slavery under him. The abuse and the horror. But there was something new to. Something he wasn't accustomed to feeling. The thought came to the front of his head that he had people that cared about him, and that he cared about, on this planet. His father, his brother, his nephew, and they might die at the hands of the lunatic in front of him. Raditz panicked and suddenly went nuts. His ki started rising at an incredible rate. His eyes flashed between black and aquamarine, his hair between black and gold. Suddenly, he screamed, "I'll get you Frieza!, I"LL GET YOUUUUUUU!
Raditz was a battle machine. His already impressive muscles had grown considerably and his gold thigh length hair made him look more like a Super Saiyan Three, than just a regular Super Saiyan. It made him look far more impressive.
"He'll need a hair-cut before he goes Super Saiyan Two, or he'll be stepping on his hair." Uub chuckled.
"What are you laughing at little man?" Raditz snarled.
"Are you not happy being a Super Saiyan?" Uub said.
Raditz looked at him blankly for a few seconds, then blinked. "I'm a Super Saiyan?" Raditz looked down at himself, seen the now familiar golden aura and started laughing. "They said I couldn't do this! But then I found out that my own brother had achieved Super Saiyan, then I knew that one day I could do it too! I never told him, or anyone else this, but the day I learned that he defeated Frieza, it was the proudest day of my life! And now, here I am!"
"You have done well Raditz, your family will be proud." Uub said.
"Thank you." Raditz said.
"C'mon then, we've got about three months left in here. Let's train hard and maybe you will ascend to the next level. Let's start out by sparing. Uub fell into a defensive posture.
"You got it Mr. Mohawk, let's do it!" Raditz charged with everything he was made of.
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