Articia was slightly taken aback by this bold statement from the Namek

Articia was slightly taken aback by this bold statement from the Namek. He looked about five years younger than Articia's 22, about seventeen or eighteen, at least by Ice-Jin standards. Then again, she thought, these people are plants, who knows how they age. "I'm not afraid of you. I can sense your energy, and I know you can't hide all that much. You're no match for me. I'm at least fifty times as strong as you."

"Yea, that's about our estimate too, but we know that the cave must have drained your energy, and I'm willing to bet that you're at about half power. It works out like this, you've only got half power, and we have twenty more of our people waiting outside. So it's just about even." Again Articia was astonished at how bold these Nameks were.

"You actually think that you can kill me? You may have some tricks, but you are not warriors. You do not have the courage, the training or the skills to defeat me. So go away before you get hurt."

"Well," the Namek said with a smug look on his face, "you're right about one thing, we have some pretty good tricks." Suddenly the back wall of the house exploded inward and six Nameks came through the hole, flying straight towards her. At the same time, the four Nameks in front of her attacked as well. The one she had knocked out when she blasted open the door to the cave had woken up and joined the attack as well.

It was a bad move on his part, he was much closer than the other two groups and as a result got to her the fastest. With one easy move Articia leapt upward and grabbed the back of his vest with her long prehensile toes. Her foot was different than a full-blooded Ice-Jin's. It was longer, instead of the toes forming what looked almost like a hand at the end of her leg, the 'palm' was stretched. It looked very much like a Sayian foot. Only instead of having 5 short toes, she had 3 long ones. This added reach gave her an advantage, especially against people who had dealt with Ice-Jins in the past, as they tended to misjudge her reach. Weather or not this particular Namek had met her Uncle Freiza or not was unimportant, since he wasen't ready for this kind of attack as he was bodily thrown at the group of Nameks coming from the front door. One of them was quick enough to dodge his flying friend, and continued toward her. She whipped her long tail and wrapped it around his neck. A very Ice-Jin move that her Mother had taught to her. She spun twice getting up to speed and let him fly, directly into the other group of attackers. This whole process, from beginning to end, took less than three seconds, and resulted in sending all of the Nameks flying out of the house.

Articia decided to head up into orbit where they couldn't follow her, and then come back later for the other six Dragonballs. So she took off, crashing through the roof of the house. She got maybe thirty feet up when she was jumped from behind by at least ten Nameks. The force of their combined blows sent her crashing back to the ground. She tried to blast them with her Gallac Gun, another attack that her mother had taught her, but before she could summon the necessary energy, another group got her. They were able to hold her down while the first group landed near her head and prepared to kill her.

NO!!! Articia screamed in her mind. It can't end like this! There was so much I still had to do! I had to bring back Mom, and meet my Dad! There's still so much I haven't done!

As she thought of her parents and all the other people that she would never get to meet, or be friends with or love, something strange started happening to her.

A power unlike any she had ever felt began swelling up inside of her. It was so much stronger than her normal power level that it was almost painful. The power continued to grow in her until she could no longer hold it in, and with a scream of combined agony and rage, it exploded out of her. The waves of pure energy blasted the Nameks away from her, sending them flying almost 50 yards in all directions. After a few seconds the waves of energy seemed to settle down, and they collapsed into what looked almost like bright green flames. Articia was standing in the middle of the pillar of pure energy. Her hair, which she wore rather long, was standing up even more than usual, and waving like she was under water. It too had turned that strange green color.

Articia has no idea what had just happened to her, but she decided to act now before this new power went away. She stopped staring at herself in amazement and turned her attention back to the Nameks who had attacked her. They certainly looked less sure of themselves now. Many of them looked like they were going to run away. But then the Namek who had so boldly stated that he was going to kill her shouted, "Don't back down now, we can still get her!!" The other Nameks seemed to agree, if he was going to fight then they all were.

Not even Articia understood the depths of this power. However, she knew one thing. With this new power, the Nameks stood no chance.