All in the Technique
By Moonraker One
3. Early Dragonball Z
Chapter One – A Saiyan's Arrival
Goku began to ponder why he was here. He had been quite an excellent warrior so far, and had saved the world from evil such as Piccolo Daimoa, and prevented his offspring from doing to same. But now, he was facing an opponent that he knew to his heart would never be defeated by him, because this newer foe simply was far too powerful. Raditz, a Saiyan just like Goku (in fact, he claimed to be his older brother), made his presence known by kidnapping his son.
"Piccolo!" Goku shrieked. "Can you still fight?"
Piccolo ran his right hand over the area directly below his left shoulder where his arm once was. "Yeah, Goku," he replied. "I think that I can still fight." He was right; he could still fight, he just didn't know exactly how well he could fight now that he was down one arm. In the nanosecond he had before he would be forced to act, he pondered exactly what technique he could use against this evil Saiyan named Raditz. He couldn't use split-form; that required too much effort and too much time. It was the same case for regenerating his arm, which would also lower his battle power slightly. He couldn't use the Makankosappo, for that required a full five minutes to charge to enough power to effectively use against an opponent. Unless, however…
"Goku!" He yelled. "Can you stall him for a few minutes? I think I have a way to defeat him!"
Goku lifted an eyebrow in suspicion. "What do you mean?"
"I mean what I said," he replied. "If you can hold him still for five minutes, I can unleash my ultimate attack against him!"
Goku, who was planning to grab hold of Raditz with all his strength, was suddenly caught off guard by a fist to his back. He was thrown forward, just barely missing Piccolo, who was trying to charge up. Realizing that quick action would decide the fate of this battle, he held down the pain and flew at Raditz with all of his might. Raditz braced for his impact, but was off-guard when Goku suddenly stopped in mid-flight.
"What the hell?" Raditz said. "Aren't you going to attack me?"
After saying that, he turned his attention to a sudden appearance of Gohan, who was angry as ever. So angry, in fact, that he blew Raditz's space pod to bits. With screams of "Daddy!" he flew at Raditz even faster than Goku was trying to do. So fast did Gohan fly that even the mighty Saiyan did not have time to put up a defense against the impact. The impact threw him backwards just a bit, and put a major crack in Raditz's armor. Goku sensed that this was the absolute best time to attack, and threw himself up into the air, landing directly behind his evil brother. Utilizing all of his might, he put Raditz in a full nelson and held him as erect as a statue.
"Piccolo!" he cried, half-desperation, half intense pain. "Can't you fire now!? My ribs are broken!"
Piccolo knew that he needed only a few more seconds, so he pulled out the last bit of power he had and channeled it into his fingertips. Raditz, who was arrogant most of the combat, suddenly wore a dire expression on his face.
"Kakarot! PLEASE!" He screamed, knowing the blast would be too much. "Spare us! We'll both die!"
He turned his attention away from Goku, and faced the Namek that was about to bring his death. No! He thought. I will NOT be defeated by this bunch!
That's when he realized; his arms and torso were held; not his legs.
"MAKANKOSAPPO!" Piccolo screamed, letting all of his energy flow out of his fingertips in the form of the devil beam. Raditz cried for help, knowing that he would die now.
All of what happened in the next few seconds took everyone by surprise. Raditz, who knew he had only an instant's time to react, threw back his left leg, catching Goku square in the balls. Goku, who took the full force of the impact, instinctively let go of Raditz to hold his now-aching crotch area, allowing Raditz to pull free. Raditz leaped out of the way instantly, causing Piccolo's beam cannon to blow straight through Goku, annihilating him instantly. Goku tried to scream out, but the only thing that exited his mouth was a ball of spit and blood mixed together. Raditz then landed behind Piccolo and sent him into the land of oblivion with a sudden burst of ki. Piccolo had only time to scream before he was obliterated.
Sorry, Kakarot, he thought, but it seems that I am the winner after all!
He turned to walk in the direction of Gohan when a fist struck his head, sending him backwards. Standing directly in front of him was a woman that did not seem scared. In fact, she had, around her, a dark field of ki.
"Who the hell are you?" asked Raditz.
"I'm the party pooper," she replied. "But you can call me Maron."
He swung at her, only for her to crouch below it, then uppercut him in the face, hurling him upwards into the air. Halfway back down, he whirled around and flew towards Maron with all of his strength. Coming down, he was planning to swing a fist at her and send her into the land of oblivion with the added speed of his downward descent, but she moved quickly out of the way before his punch could land itself on her. Before he had time to search out his foe, she appeared behind him and delivered a powerful elbow shot to his back, sending him sailing across the field. Before he could stop himself, though, she appeared in front of him and delivered an intense kick to his face, sending him sailing again only in the opposite direction. This time, he decided that it was time to unleash all of his power at once, so he stopped himself, and held his position.
"This is it!" he yelled. "Now you shall be destroyed! You haven't even seen my full power yet!" He wondered how a simple human could possess enough power to go one on one against a Saiyan warrior. Realizing that he had, up to this point, not faced an opponent quite like this one, he made his power level rise to seventeen hundred and fifty, hoping that his absolute maximum would be enough to take out this very powerful-and quite sexy-human warrioress.
"I hate to break this to you," she replied, "but I'm holding back a bit as well! Because you've just raised your power, that means I can raise mine!" He lifted an eyebrow in confusion, for he did not believe that she possessed the power that she was bragging about. It was at that moment that he saw within her, a power that was increasing. For some reason, her power level was going up. Quite an intense power too; it was already at his level, and was going up.
"How can a human possess such power?!" he shrieked. "Most of your species barely breaks a five!"
She did not answer his question, she simply yelled, "DAIMAOH-KEN TIMES TWO!" He was taken aback by her sudden burst of power, which took her all the way past two thousand up to twenty-five hundred. She gave him-almost teasingly-a look that indicated he was done for.
It was like being hit by a missile, only harder; she drove her fist into his gut, penetrating the armor and the skin as well, planting it well into his stomach itself. Instead of pulling out, she powered up, blowing a hole clear out his other side. He screamed in pain-or at least tried to-then plopped on the ground, barely alive. She stood over him in victory.
"It seems you weren't the best after all," she exclaimed. "Don't worry; Goku will be back very shortly. I'd say perhaps a week."
Raditz, lying in a spreading pool of his own blood, replied, "How is that possible?!" He did not understand, how could any type of being survive death?
She smiled. "I'll tell you, you putz," she added. "We've got the Dragonballs. We'll wish him back to life."
Raditz suddenly had an evil smile on his face. "You fool!" he responded. "This device I'm wearing not only determines power levels, but also is a communicator! Prince Vegeta will avenge me!"
She did not believe that there was another being that was hearing what was said, until she read his mind. She was frightened by what she found; Prince Vegeta was the prince of the Saiyans, and he had a power far greater than Raditz. It was obvious that if there was to be hope for the Earth, people were going to need some help. She looked over; Goku was dead, so there would be no help from him. Piccolo was vaporized, meaning there wasn't enough left of him to help. Then, almost as an afterthought, she looked down at the near-dead Saiyan lying in front of her. He could help, but she blew him away. Wait! Wasn't there something she could do for him?
She kneeled down and put her hand on the Saiyan's stomach area, which now had quite a hole in it. A bright light emitted from her hand, and seemed to descend into the center of the hole which had his gut in it. "If this Vegeta guy is really as powerful as you think," she said, "we're gonna need some help. You're gonna provide our assistance."
With blood pouring from his mouth, Raditz weakly said, "NO! LET ME DIE! VEGETA'LL KILL ME IF HE KNOWS I FAILED HIM!" Unfortunately for him, it was too late; his gut had already reformed completely, and the blood was returning to his veins and arteries. She had-in effect-healed him completely. He angrily stood up.
"Why the hell did you heal me?!" he screeched. "If I died, I wouldn't have to face his wrath!"
She smiled complacently. "Just the more reason to train!" she announced. "Now, if you don't train, you'll be annihilated by your master. You also know that if you aren't on our side, I'll kill you."
He blinked, realizing that she had now gained full control over him. "You bitch," he uttered.
"So," she added, "I'd suggest we train together!"
He scoffed at this claim. "How the hell can you trust me?!" It was really quite confusing to him.
"I don't have to trust you," she replied. "If you try to side up with Vegeta again, he'll most likely kill you because of you staying with us. Basically, if you don't do what I say, you'll die. Either by him or by me, it really doesn't matter."
She reached over and snatched his scouter, then smashed it underfoot. He looked over and gave her an angry look.
"That was my scouter!"
"When I'm through with you, you won't need any scouter."
He didn't like it, but she had now gained full command of his future.