Gerald crossed his arms in front of his face and prepared to block Coldar's attack. Suddenly Kirillin, in Super Saiyan level three form grabbed the boy and yanked him out of harm's way.
"Why'd you do that?" Gerald asked in an irritated voice.
"I can't believe you were going to try and block that!" Kirillin exclaimed.
"He's just an Icejin!" Gerald fired back.
"Have you even bothered to sense his ki yet?" Kirillin snapped at the boy.
Gerald extended his senses for a second, and his eyes got huge.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know he was that strong." Gerald said sheepishly.
"Well think next time!" Kirillin admonished.
"If you two are quite finished arguing, I have some killing to do." Coldar laughed like a maniac and flew at them at high speed.
Just as Coldar was closing in on Gerald and Kirillin, he was hit hard from both sides by ki attacks. This only knocked a bit of wind out of him, but it was enough to distract his attention.
Jessica and Raditz were busy powering up another ki attack. Raditz was in Super Saiyan level three form, and Jessica was in Super Saiyan level two form.
Another ki blast hit Coldar from behind. A shaky but still living Bardock floated off the floor a few yards behind Coldar.
"So, you think to gang up on Coldar do you?" Coldar said.
Coldar started to power up again. He suddenly flashed with power and transformed. His new form resembled that of Frieza's forth form. His horns were gone, but his hair remained. It was now a Super Saiyan gold color.
"Dende help us!" Kirillin exclaimed. "His ki is radical!"
Coldar screamed and released his ki. In a second the entire palace was gone, nothing but rubble, the guards that had been trying to get into the palace was vaporized, as well as several blocks around the palace and all the inhabitants living there.
Fridgitor, Icia, Kirillin, Bardock, Raditz, Jessica, and Gerald slowly pulled themselves out of the rubble.
"Hahahaaha! So, still alive I see! Well, I'll soon remedy that!" Coldar yelled.
"You idiot!" Fridgitor yelled. "You almost killed us!"
Icia was just about to open her mouth to file her own complaint when Fridgitor was blasted into oblivion.
"Hahaha! Now I rule the Icejins! Any complaints sister?" Coldar asked.
"No, none at all brother." Icia didn't want to meet the same fate her father did.
A wounded Captain of the guard and several hundred Frithian soldiers came flying in and tried to decide on whom to attack. They hated the Saiyans, but it was quite apparent that the Icejin floating before them caused the recent destruction.
"Where is the king!" The Captain demanded.
"Consigned to the dust bin I'm afraid." Coldar grinned.
"W-What? You k-killed our king?" The Captain stammered.
"Afraid so." Coldar replied.
"Damned you!" The Captain cried. "Men, kill the interlopers.
As the last words left the Captain's mouth, Coldar released an eye-beam attack that reduced their numbers to a couple dozen in less than a few seconds. The rest retreated off as best they could.
"Hmmph! Pitiful weaklings!" Coldar said.
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Roger's eyes slowly opened to a world full of pain. His shoulder is out of its socket, as well as a dislocated jaw. Some of his ribs are broken and on fire, his body now sports numerous abrasions and contusions, and he's pissed. Roger staggers to his feet and looks up the ravine wall. With his left hand he reaches and grabs his lower jaw and pulls it back into place with a sickening crack. Then does the same with his shoulder. A wave of pain and nausea almost knocks him off his feet again. His vision finally clears.
"Damned sneaky bastard!" Roger exclaims. "He'll pay for this!"
Roger's breathing is short and raspy as he breathes against the pain in his chest.
"What I wouldn't give for a senzu bean right about now." Roger thought.
Roger's ki gathers around him as he jumps into the air back towards what was the palace.
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The team attacked Coldar from different directions. They were certainly scoring hits, but not doing much damage.
"Fools! Do you honestly think you can defeat me!" Coldar scoffed.
Coldar phased out of sight and slapped each Saiyan back into the rubble.
"Hahahaha! You are nothing to me!" Coldar raved.
Bardock couldn't attain Super Saiyan Level Four, no matter how hard he tried. The blast that threw him against the wall earlier took a lot out of him in addition to breaking his right arm.
"Damned! I won't be killed by an Icejin again!" He thought to himself as he launched himself back into the fray.
Raditz and Jessica slowly pulled themselves out of the rubble. Suddenly off to the right a huge pile of stones exploded upwards.
Raditz, Jessica, Bardock, and Kirillin were suddenly hanging on for dear life as a huge wave of energy blew what was left of the roof off the palace, and knocked down several walls. Debris was flying everywhere.
"I-Is that Gerald?" Kirillin yelled over the din.
Bardock looked passed his son at the screaming tyke. "What is he looking at?"
Everyone followed Gerald's gaze into the sky. There they saw two of Felonisei's moons were full.
Everyone immediately turned away.
"Damned! Can Gerald control his Ouzaru form? "Raditz asked.
"I don't know, it's he's never transformed before." Jessica answered.
"Grrrrraaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr" Gerald growled as his body began to grow. Hair sprouted out all over his body. His eyes turned blood red as his nose grew into a snout.
"Crap! This could get real ugly!" Bardock exclaimed.
Gerald threw his head back and bellowed to the moons.
Coldar was watching this in fascination. He had heard about the Saiyan's ability to transform into an ape, but never actually witnessed it before. It was quite remarkable. He wondered briefly how they triggered the change.
Suddenly Gerald became aware of his surroundings again.
"Umm... Gerald?" Jessica called.
Gerald's head and eyes slowly swung around to rest on the half familiar voice.
Then his mouth opened and a soft glow could be seen within.
"MOVE NOW!" Raditz and Bardock screamed simultaneously.
Kirillin, Raditz and Jessica grabbed Bardock under the arms and whisked him away at faster than light speeds that caused the wounded Saiyan to yelp in pain.
Behind them what small amount that was left of the palace and several blocks of the surrounding city ceased to exist. The planet shook violently.
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Several thousand yards away, the Captain of the Frithian Guard looked back at the noise from the palace. There he saw a huge Golden Ouzaru stomping what was left of the rubble and screaming out his displeasure.
"I-It's h-happening again!" The Captain stammered.
He was a fast thinking being and made an instant decision. "To the ships!" He called.
Their race learns from past mistakes. A vast number of ships were kept in secret launch vaults deep within the planet. In an emergency, as many of the people as could make it was to use the ships to leave the planet. Of course, the Frithian scientists rigged a special surprise for whoever caused the evacuation in the first place. A few minutes after they launched, the planet would explode. Thermal nuclear devices were so primitive, but they did get the job done. "Guard! Radio all of the cities! Tell them to implement evacuation plan Delta-Omega!"
"Right away sir!" The guard responded.
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Back at the battle, Coldar was having a bit of trouble with Gerald's new form. The Golden Ouzaru focused on the only body that was left after his mouth blast.
Coldar had been momentarily stunned by Gerald's attack and after recovering blasted out from beneath the rubble.
Gerald spied the Icejin and swung a large fist at unbelievably fast rate of speed, burying the Icejin in the rubble, and several feet underground.
Gerald began to blindly pound at the spot where Coldar was buried.
Suddenly the ground exploded under Gerald's feet sending him flying up several hundred yards.
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Roger was flying towards the battle when Gerald transformed and let fly with his mouth blast. He was preparing to power up when the space in front of him filled with light. He found himself flying backwards for almost a hundred yards before he caught himself.
"G-Gerald?" Roger stammered.
Before him was his son, in Golden Ouzaru form. He was emitting an incredible amount of power.
Roger tried to contact his son's mind, but found nothing coherent to address.
"Wait! Who is that?" Roger called.
"Uncle Roger? You're alive!" Jessica exclaimed.
"Yes, but not happy." Roger said. "What are you doing in Gerald's mind?"
"Same thing as you I suspect. Trying to find something rational in order to try and calm him down." Jessica said.
Suddenly there came another huge explosion and Gerald went flying straight up from the ground.
Coldar flew straight up after Gerald.
"Damned! That Icejin is after Gerald!" Roger said.
"Gerald's the only one that's inflicted any damage at all on Coldar, little wonder why he wants to destroy him." Jessica returned.
"Not on my watch!" Roger yelled and flew in pursuit of his son and Coldar.
"I'm not going to make it!" Roger said
Coldar had closed the distance between him and Gerald and powered up one of his huge planet buster balls to toss at the boy Saiyan.
"No! Not my son!" Roger screamed flashing past Super Saiyan level four, straight into Super Saiyan level five. "I will not let you hurt him!"
The pain through Super Saiyan level four was intense, but the healing effects of the Super Saiyan level five transformation repaired his broken ribs. Coldar threw the ki ball straight at Gerald who had started his decent back towards the planet and caught himself to hover in the air.
"Die you monkey!" Coldar yelled.
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The almost daily drills had paid off. The entire population of the planet had been evacuated to the escape ships within 15 minutes.
"Launch now!" The Captain exclaimed. At his order, thousands of ships burst out from hidden launch tubes and out into space."
"Hehehehe... You assholes have got 10 minutes." The Captain thought to himself as his ship carried him away to a preprogrammed destination.
Bardock and Raditz noticed the mass exodus. "Rats fleeing a sinking ship." Bardock observed.
"Yeah." Raditz answered while securing his makeshift sling around Bardock's arm. "To bad you weren't close enough to Roger when he hit Super Saiyan Five. You might have been healed."
"Well that's your fault, you brought me over here." Bardock complained.
"It was either that, or become cheeseburgers at one of those Earther fast food places." Raditz said.
Bardock smiled at the memory of Vegeta taking them to Burger King when they were all there for the weddings. Eight Saiyans at a fast food joint? Not one of Vegeta's brightest ideas. The place had to close for two days to restock.
Jessica was intent on the fight. She looked like she was concentrating on something.
"Jessica?" Raditz questioned with concern.
Sweat was pouring from Jessica's forehead and down her neck.
"Jessica? What's wrong?" Bardock asked, also getting worried.
Jessica didn't answer; her mind was locked into Gerald's.
"Damned! What's going on?" Raditz demanded from no one in particular.
"Look!" Bardock exclaimed while pointing at the huge ki ball just leaving Coldar's hand.
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Roger used instant transmission and phased into the ever-shrinking space between the giant energy ball, and his only son. He surrounded himself with his blue ki shield and prepared to intercept the planet destroyer.
The two energies clashed with a cataclysmic force. Huge chunks of dirt and rock were ripped out of the planet and sailed straight into the energy. The clouds moved through the sky in unnatural directions to also be consumed in the energy. This lasted for almost a full minute before the energy ball collapsed in on itself, then exploded.
After the smoke cleared Roger stood surrounded in his blue ki shield with his hand outstretched and unharmed.
"This doesn't make any sense." Roger thought to himself. "I sense that he is every bit as powerful, if not a hair more powerful than I am, yet that ki ball was comparatively weak. What gives with this guy? Is he sandbagging?"
Coldar shrieked and flew at Roger full bore. The two warriors exchanged punches and kicks for almost 30 seconds and Roger was clearly getting the better of the Icejin.
"That's it! They got Vegeta's DNA, but not his experience! While Coldar may have the power of a Super Saiyan level five, he doesn't know how to tap into it, or use it! They didn't have time to train him! That's why they were trying to keep his ki cloaked before we got here! They didn't want to be discovered too soon!" Roger deduced. "Well, I'm not going to give him the time he needs to learn his new skills."
Roger powered up to full and launched himself straight at Coldar.
Gerald hovered in the air quietly the entire time.
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"Jessica?" Raditz reached out to touch his adopted daughter on the cheek. The second he made contact her eyes flew open.
"I did it!" Jessica proclaimed.
"Did what?" Bardock asked.
"I reached Gerald's rational mind!" Jessica said. "He's in control of himself again1"
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As the fight raged on around him, Gerald's eyes slowly opened.
"Father!" Gerald's voice boomed like thunder.
Gerald balled up his great fists, each on as large as a pick-up truck, tight and closed his eyes and started yelling. Vast energies began to swirl around him. He began to shrink in size, his face lost its ape features and became a human visage once again. His chest and face cleared of fur.
Gerald became the youngest Super Saiyan level four in history.
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Roger had Coldar on the ropes. His anger at him was fueled by Coldar's earlier attack on him, but mostly because he tried to kill his son. Roger was in a blind fury that he had never felt before. Coldar was reduced to whimpering.
"Father!" Roger heard from behind him. The voice sounded like Gerald's, but it was impossibly deep for a boy of his age.
Roger turned his head to see a man who was his mirror image.
"W-who are y-you?" Roger asked.
"It's me, Gerald." Gerald looked a bit taken aback by his father's question.
"But you're an adult!" Roger said shocked.
Gerald looked at his hands, then down at the ground and the rest of his body. "I wonder why?" Gerald finally said.
"We'll figure it out later." Roger turned his attention back to Coldar. Roger knew Coldar's personality. When faced with greater power, he was different that most of the other Icejins that Roger either seen or heard about. Coldar was, at his heart, a coward.
"Well, I wondered what happened to her." Gerald said and suddenly took off.
"Alright Coldar, you have one, and only one chance to live. I want the antidote to the poison you gave King Vegeta's assassin, and I want it now!" Roger screamed in his face.
"What are you going to do if I don't tell you?" Coldar tried to look defiant but only achieved a sort of frightened rat look.
Roger put the palm of his hand right on Coldar's face and began to power up a Kamehameha. "You have roughly five seconds to start talking.
"Ka......."
"Stupid monkey!" Coldar spat
"Me....... Insults will not help you."
Coldar remained silent glaring at Roger.
"Ha......"
Still nothing.
"Me..... One more syllable left Coldar."
"Wait!" Coldar exclaimed suddenly as the ki in Roger's hand started to burn his skin. "Damned you! The Antidote is in the lab!"
Roger maintained the ki in his hand. "And where is the lab?"
"It was four floors under the palace. Sub-basement four they called it. It was heavily fortified, it should still be there." Coldar said.
"Thank you Coldar, see how pleasant things can be when we cooperate?" Roger teased.
Coldar just fumed.
Gerald flew back up with a very beaten and battered Icia.
"Look what I found dad!" Gerald exclaimed.
"He might have an adult's body, but his mind is still that of a child." Roger thought and smiled. "I wouldn't have it any other way."
Jessica, Bardock, Raditz, and Kirillin ran up to them.
"Jessica says that something is wrong! The planet is going to blow up!" Raditz exclaimed.
"We can't leave until we get that antidote!" Roger said as he zoomed off towards the site where the palace once stood with Coldar tucked under his arm.
"I'm coming with you!" Jessica and Gerald said in unison.
