Dragon Ball Yugure Z
A Dragon Ball Z fanfiction
by Son Goharotto (son_goharotto@hotmail.com)
Welcome to Dragon Ball Yugure Z, my personal pet project. This is what I like to call a "multi-generational alternaverse epic." Expect a complex story spanning several volumes that are littered with cliff-hangers and titanic battles. DBYZ has been revised in its entirety. While some episodes have merely been ridden of typos, others have been rewritten completely. I'll be starting from the beginning at one episode a day so new readers can join in, undaunted by DBYZ's length, and old readers can review past events. All this is leading up to the new Episode 37, from which I'll try to keep a normal updating pace instead of letting this be forgotten as it once was.
DISCLAIMER: As much as I mgiht wish it not to be, DBZ does not belong to me. It's the property of Akira Toriyama-sama and many others who (unfortunately) aren't me. I'm not trying to make any money off of this and it's just a way for me to show my love of all things Dragon Ball. Well, except maybe GT. Bleah. I is teh poor, so don't sue me.
WARNINGS: As a whole, this series contains mature language (usually in Japanese), graphic violence, brutality, mature situations (non-lemon), and a touch of angst.
NOTES: A liberal amount of Japanese vocabulary is sprinkled throughout, though nothing extremely important is ever said in another language that isn't translated. Mostly just basic Otaku Japanese. I've compiled a list of phrases I use on my homepage here: www.enpitsudo-dojo.com/libjapanese.html.
"dialogue"
""layered voice"" (Fusion, for example)
{alien language}
[thoughts, telepathy, memories]
_stressed words_
*sounds*
~scene change~
Volume V -- Evil, Revisited
Episode 36 -- A Fight Too Easy!! Danger Looming on the Horizon!!
Vegeta's cockiness driving him mad with rage, Ginyuu launched himself at the Saiyajin no Ouji. He punched! He kicked! He missed! The raven-haired man dodged them all with an aura of relaxation and ease that only made the purple alien more furious. But the captain was not foolish enough to completely lose his head. He kept his eyes on the prince, watching his every move. Ginyuu swung his hand in a chop that cut only air. Vegeta reappeared just feet away. But Ginyuu did not charge again, visibly agitated.
"Is something the matter, captain?" Vegeta asked in the battle's pause.
A bead of sweat rolled down Ginyuu's heavily veined forehead. "You're one confident s.o.b...d-demo...."
"Demo?" the prince repeated cooly.
"....You can't be Vegeta," the captain finally finished. "He's strong, but not this strong. And Vegeta attacks head on with everything he's got. You can't be the same person!"
"You're right--" a grin, "--I'm not the same person."
"Kono yarou!" the purple alien lunged at the prince. Anticipating Vegeta's counter, Ginyuu began to spin as fast as he could. Just as the short Saiyajin touched down behind him, the captain started firing a Renzoku Energy Dan. Vegeta hopped around and laughed, letting the ki bolts pass him and tear into the landscape. He back flipped over a low one and gave Ginyuu his opportunity. Charging the rest of his ki into his hand, the captain swung it down in a chop. It's purple aura expanded with the motion like a sword, catching Vegeta by surprise. The explosion lit the valley and left a hundred meter long trench in the ground. "Ha ha ha! Whoever you were, even you were no match for Captain Ginyuu! Na, Freeza-sam--AH!"
Freeza had been watching the fight from the side and now his eyes widened slowly. He carefully turned his head when the Saiyajin no Ouji's voice sounded right behind him. "Don't forget, you're next," the prince reminded his former master. The warlord spun and fired a giant beam right where Vegeta would have been, but destroyed a mountain instead as the short man rocketed back toward Ginyuu. The purple alien didn't even see his own death as the prince's foot ripped right through his chest and out his back. Vegeta pulled out and landed a meter away, letting Ginyuu's corpse collapse to the dusty plain.
Freeza was speechless and despite himself, drew back into a defensive posture. But the Saiyajin no Ouji didn't attack and instead turned around to watch his young charges in their battles. The lizard-like alien couldn't believe the prince's audacity! To turn his back to the mighty Freeza so carelessly! But he forced himself to calm and knew that attacking now would only be suicide. Explaining Vegeta's remarkable power increase could wait until later. Right now, he would need to devise a plan.
Rikuum dug himself out of the cliff side. His armor was ruined, his hair was a mess, and he had once again lost many teeth. It was like Namek-sei all over again, but the orange-haired brute swore he wouldn't let it end the same way. High above, Paresu was cheering herself happily and that infuriated Rikuum to no end. At the end of this fight, it would be the Ginyuu Tokusentai who celebrated victory! The giant slammed his fists against the ground, focusing all his energy for another massive attack. "Rikuum!!! Maha!!!" He raised his arms and howled liked an ape. "ATTACK!!!"
Paresu backed up in surprise as her opponent's aura flared a brilliant violet and he streaked towards were with three times more speed than he seemed to have before. The brunette was unprepared for the first strike and took the full force of a shoulder smash, her small body thrown back faster than she could recover. Rikuum shot ahead of her just in time to follow up with a double-knee to the chest that sent the girl soaring down. It continued like that over and over, the orange-haired soldier flying around to juggle Paresu with punches, kicks, knees, and elbows.
At last, Rikuum geared up for the final stage of his ultimate attack. As the chestnut-haired teen spun uncontrollably upwards, he knocked her straight down with a double-fisted slam. She shrieked with the blow and descended like a falling star. The giant man blew past her and dug into the ground, then lunged forward in a head butt. His thick skull rammed right into Paresu's stomach. With the wind knocked out of her, she skidded to the ground and dug a long crater.
With their respective opponents otherwise occupied, Goten and Trunks watched the beating in shock. "PARESU!!" her boyfriend cried.
Baata's hoarse scream drew away his attention and the blue alien jumped to his feet. "It's not over yet!! You'll have the honor of being the first to die by my new technique!!" The tallest Tokusentai soldier gathered his ki in his hands and launched upwards, flying around the annoyed half-Saiyajin in a streak of blue. In his wake, he left a trail of hovering ki orbs that surrounded Goten in a cage. "SHINE!!"
Baata threw one last sphere into the mix and they all exploded in a chain reaction that engulfed the young man. But his shout quickly drowned out the roar of the blast and his aura flared, dispersing the flames. "Don't get in my way again," the half-Saiyajin intoned.
Meanwhile, Jiisu finally got his nose to stop spraying blood by ripping off a finger from his glove and jamming it in one nostril. Trunks had to suppress a chuckle at the sight. "That's it, no more Mister Nice Guy!" the red alien said, sounding slightly nasal.
"You were...taking it easy on me?" the lavender-haired teen replied. He was desperately fighting the urge to bust out laughing.
"Take this!" Jiisu said, rasing his hand. A large ki orb jumped to life in his hand, flames licking off it like small solar flares. "Super Crusher Ball!!!" He smacked it at Trunks, but the young man just slapped it back at the alien soldier. Not expecting such a direct counterattack, Jiisu took the fireball head on and was blown back. Fighting jacket melted and jumpsuit singed, the dazed man bumped into Baata. His friend kept him from falling and they quickly tried to put out the fire in his precious snowy hair.
Meanwhile, Rikuum was approaching the still prone Paresu. He ambled up and stood over her gloatingly. "Aw, did the little girl fall down go boom?" he said depreciatingly.
The brunette surprised him by rolling over. Aside from some scratches and a split lip, she seemed unharmed. The worst damage had been to the blue sun dress that she had been wearing for their day on the town. Paresu arched her back and moaned sultrily, one strap falling off her shoulder. "MmmmMMMmmm....was it good for you too?" she murmured, peering at the giant man through thick eyelashes.
"Nani nani!? There's no way you could have survived that!!"
"You're kidding right?" she replied, sitting up. "Goten plays harder than that. I'll guess I'll have to show you how it's done." Paresu jumped to her feet and did a few stretches right in front of the shocked Tokusentai member. She did a little pirouette and stopped, blue ki charging up between her cupped hands. "KAMEHAMEHA!!!" With Rikuum too stunned to defend, the sparkling beam drilled right through his torso and kept going. As the beam arched up into the sky to explode harmlessly, the orange-haired alien collapsed, lifeless. "Oopsy!" the girl giggled. "I broke him!"
"Yosh, Paresu-chan!" Goten cheered. "That's how ya do it!"
Trunks too was clapping. "Damn fine job!" he grinned.
"Don't you just ignore us!" Jiisu growled. "Let's go, Baata. We'll show these two our true power."
"You're in for it now!" Baata screeched at the half-Saiyajin. "Together, we're unstoppable!"
"That's a joke!" Vegeta mocked them from below. Behind him, Freeza could still only watch and wait.
Baata and Jiisu flared their auras, then flew around each other in an ever-quickening circle. Eventually, they blurred together as a swirling mass of purple energy. ""Purple Comet Supreme Z CRASH!!!"" the two alien soldiers said at once. Their ki formed a large sphere of power on which long jagged blades of ki rotated like a gyroscope.
"Oi, Trunks!" Goten called out to his best friend. "It must take some coordination to do a team attack like that!"
Catching on to his friend's hint, "I bet we could do better!" The lavender-haired warrior assumed the first stance of Fusion in mid-air while the younger teen mirrored him. "Fuuuuuu..."
"...siiiooon...."
""HA!!!""
From inside their 'Purple Comet,' Jiisu and Baata watched as the two teens danced in the sky and touched fingers, creating a brilliant flash of light. What emerged from the radiance was a single man, tall and powerful. He had a sharp, angular face and spiky black hair with a band of lavender wrapping around the back of his head. He adjusted the heavy leather vest on his shoulders and grinned dashingly.
"What--who the hell is that?" Jiisu said to his spinning comrade.
"Who cares!" Baata sneered. "We'll just kill him too!"
Together, the two soldiers directed their whirling Globe-O-Death at the fused warrior. Gotenks didn't seem to be paying much attention and was flexing his muscles impressively while Paresu clapped and whistled. Baata and Jiisu zeroed in and soared towards the half-Saiyajin, but he simply raised an arm and caught it. The cyclone of blades slapped uselessly against his outstretched arm, but one finally cut into the wide orange shoulder cuff of his vest. Gotenks eyed the slice dangerously and growled. He kicked swiftly and broke up their technique, sending the two aliens sprawling in opposite directions.
"M-mas-saka!" the blue one stuttered. "There's no way...!"
"Lucky shot!" his teammate said, hoping he sounded confident. "Again, Baata!"
"H-hai!" They quickly formed their Purple Comet Supreme Z Crash again and launched themselves at Gotenks for a second time.
""Now you guys are just getting on my nerves,"" the fusion muttered. ""Can't you do anything else? So be it, I'll match and beat you! Kore wa Gotenks-sama no Ultra Whirlwind Attack da!!!""
True to his word, the young man started spinning around in place and kicked up a ferocious wind roughly equivalent to an F4 Tornado. Surrounding clouds for almost a kilometer were sucked into the vortex. Large chunks of rock were ripped from the ground by the sheer power of vacuum and crumbled to dust by air moving faster than the speed of sound. Paresu was half laughing, half screaming her head off as she fought to reach the ground and get out of the maelstrom's range. Vegeta, who was closer, was almost plucked from where he stood and had to power up his ki just to keep from being flung around. The Saiyajin no Ouji watched in awe as Jiisu and Baata were instantly drawn into the center of it all. He couldn't hear anything over the roar of the wind, especially not their dying screams. Finally, Gotenks stopped spinning and dispersed the tornado. Blood rained down from the sky for a good ten seconds.
[By Kami,] Vegeta thought dumbly. [He's not even a Super Saiyajin...yet a fusion has _that_ much power...]
Gotenks hovered down to land next to Vegeta and gave him a cheery thumbs up. "Too easy, ne?" he laughed.
Paresu came flying in and glomped onto the fused half-Saiyajin. "Yatta yatta! You did it, you did Fusion right!" she said, hugging him tightly. She paused and ran her hands over the young man's abs. "Really right..."
"Oi oi!" Gotenks said indignantly. He hopped away and clutched his vest over his body. "You break it, you buy it!"
"How much?" the brunette responded. A greedy smile spread across her face and she started chasing him around with wiggly fingers.
"You brute!" the fusion shrieked in a falsetto. "Don't you spoil this pure virginal flesh!" The two--or should that be three--teenagers danced around playfully while Vegeta clawed at his face and wished he could crawl into a hole somewhere to die.
Behind the group, Freeza gawked at the display of goofiness. "Are you mocking me!?" he yelled. "Do you think I pose no threat to you, just because you annihilated my lackeys? I'll have you know that Freeza-sama is a whole different game than those fools."
The lizard-like warlord immediately wished he had slipped away quietly when all three Senshi turned to glare at him.
"Let me take care of this one, Vegeta-san," Paresu offered confidently. She dusted off her dress and cracked her knuckles.
"Iie," the prince answered. "Believe it or not, this one is too strong for you." Freeza's eyebrow twitched.
"Then I'll take him out," Gotenks replied, but Vegeta's arm blocked his way.
"I shall deal with him myself. We have unfinished business," he added soberly. He strode towards the bone-white alien, all pretense of formality gone.
Freeza slowly backed up. "I realize now, Vegeta. I have no chance against you in a direct battle. So forgive me if I must end this quickly." He raised one finger to the sky and an enormous Shitama formed. "Destroying this planet will be enough to defeat you!"
"Too bad you won't get that chance," the Saiyajin no Ouji said. He crossed the gap between them in an instant and now had an iron grip on the warlord's wrist. The pressure broke Freeza's concentration and the Death Ball vanished with one last spark of electricity. The alien's crimson eyes shook as he met the prince's obsidian gaze. "Look into this face, Freeza. See your Angel of Death." He powered up to Super Saiyajin and Freeza's skin burned and boiled under the heat of his aura. "And know that you a hand in making me."
"Bakana!" Freeza wailed futilely.
"You have brought this upon yourself, Freeza!!" Vegeta pulled back on the alien's arm, tearing it off at the elbow, and the lizard-like being could only stare at the stump as it gushed blood. "You made me!!" The back of the prince's forearm slammed into Freeza's gut and though it was a blunt strike, the very power alone was enough to rip open his stomach. The once all-powerful lord fell to his knees and tried to keep his innards from tumbling out. "Your sins are far more terrible than mine!!" The short Saiyajin punched and shattered his foe's spine, rendering him paralyzed. "So perhaps it is divine intervention that has brought you to me for punishment." Vegeta lowered his hand and picked up the alien warrior by his head.
"No...it c..cann..ot...be...."
"Oh but it is."
Finger tips dug into skin.
"You are at _my_ mercy now."
Skin ruptured and bled.
"But I have none for you."
Bone cracked and splintered.
"Now go to Hell...and stay there this time."
Freeza's head shattered in an explosion of bone, blood, and gray matter. Drenched in it all, Vegeta's white glove was a mess. Though not nearly as much as the former warlord. The gore was too much even for Paresu and she turned away, comforted somewhat by Gotenks' protective embrace. The Saiyajin no Ouji picked up the mutilated corpse by a leg. "I'd leave your body to rot here, Freeza. But your wretched blood might seep in and contaminate the ground water." So Vegeta tossed it up into the sky and fired a beam of searing yellow ki that disintegrated it, leaving no remains.
Silence. Only the whistle of the wind dared to make a sound.
"Erm, so....that was fun," Gotenks said at last.
Vegeta powered down and sighed. "I guess we're stuck with you for another twenty minutes?" he said while rolling his eyes. "Wonderful."
Paresu chose not to comment on Freeza's execution and instead tried to hold back the vomit. "Can we go home now, onegai?" The prince allowed himself a genuine smile that surprised the two teens and hovered upwards, leading the way.
~~~~~
Night fell and Basil had made it to the scared forest. Despite his stature, the blue demon had amazing stamina and hadn't stopped running since Freeza's goons drove him away. But he wasn't running scared and headed purposefully to the southwest once he got his bearings. Basil pushed through bushes, jumped over brambles, and ducked under branches. He stopped only at the sound of a crackling fire and hid among some shrubbery.
In the clearing, Basil could see a large wild man and his tiny son cooking some kind of bird for dinner. Opposite their teepee was the base of Karin's Tower, the ivory spire stretching up into the starts. The demon decided to avoid a confrontation and sneaked around behind them. He crawled up to the tower's base and began the long climb.
For several tense hours, Basil feared the wild man might spot him with eagle-like vision. But a bigger problem on the first day of the climb was a mated pair of birds. Their nest was set in one of the tower's many nooks and crannies, so had pecked at the blue man relentlessly for the better part of the morning. When night finally came again and it was too dark for even a demon to see, Basil rested while clinging to the ivory stones. He noticed the air was getting thinner on the second day, but it wasn't until late in the third when he was finally high enough to see the bowl of Karin's sanctuary.
It took an hour of waiting before Basil had the opportunity to slip past the God of Martial Arts and his fat samurai companion. There were many times when the short demon feared he would be found out by the cat master, but it never came to pass. His chance finally came when Yajirobe started complaining about their satellite reception and Karin descended into the bowl-shaped home. The blue man jumped up onto the domed roof above the platform and scrambled to the top. From there, Basil hit a snag. The Tenkai was floating waaaaay up high, just beyond Karin's Tower. After much thought and even more waiting, the demon spotted a passing eagle and made a desperate leap at it. He wrestled with the bird in mid air for a bit and somehow coerced it to fly upwards. When they had reach sufficient height, Basil lept again and grasped a rung of the Tenkai's outer ladder. He scrambled up with the last of his strength, driven by the thought of what would happen to him should he fall. Despite the seemingly impossible task, Basil had made it, he was on Kami's lookout.
Basil knew where he was going, grasping onto the vague memories he picked up from Piccolo while in Nagareboshi's subconscious. Somewhere in Kami's palace was a crystal, hidden away so that it may never be found. But the demon knew it was here and snuck about the divine compound. The resident Kami and his assistant had obviously retired for the night and Basil was free to haunt the palace's rooms and corridors. He searched many a chamber and hall, for the exact storage place for the precious gem eluded his memory.
Finally, he found it. The crystal was sitting on a pedastal and glowed with a dark indigo aura. It's spiked shape was unremarkable, but a dazzling mist swirled beneath its dark surface. It was the shell of negative energy used to cage Chikyuu's first great threat. Basil approached it carefully, grinning evilly. In mere moments, he would release the one person that could rescue his lord Garlic Jr. from the Dead Zone. The demon prince's own father, Garlic-ou.
A Dragon Ball Z fanfiction
by Son Goharotto (son_goharotto@hotmail.com)
Welcome to Dragon Ball Yugure Z, my personal pet project. This is what I like to call a "multi-generational alternaverse epic." Expect a complex story spanning several volumes that are littered with cliff-hangers and titanic battles. DBYZ has been revised in its entirety. While some episodes have merely been ridden of typos, others have been rewritten completely. I'll be starting from the beginning at one episode a day so new readers can join in, undaunted by DBYZ's length, and old readers can review past events. All this is leading up to the new Episode 37, from which I'll try to keep a normal updating pace instead of letting this be forgotten as it once was.
DISCLAIMER: As much as I mgiht wish it not to be, DBZ does not belong to me. It's the property of Akira Toriyama-sama and many others who (unfortunately) aren't me. I'm not trying to make any money off of this and it's just a way for me to show my love of all things Dragon Ball. Well, except maybe GT. Bleah. I is teh poor, so don't sue me.
WARNINGS: As a whole, this series contains mature language (usually in Japanese), graphic violence, brutality, mature situations (non-lemon), and a touch of angst.
NOTES: A liberal amount of Japanese vocabulary is sprinkled throughout, though nothing extremely important is ever said in another language that isn't translated. Mostly just basic Otaku Japanese. I've compiled a list of phrases I use on my homepage here: www.enpitsudo-dojo.com/libjapanese.html.
"dialogue"
""layered voice"" (Fusion, for example)
{alien language}
[thoughts, telepathy, memories]
_stressed words_
*sounds*
~scene change~
Volume V -- Evil, Revisited
Episode 36 -- A Fight Too Easy!! Danger Looming on the Horizon!!
Vegeta's cockiness driving him mad with rage, Ginyuu launched himself at the Saiyajin no Ouji. He punched! He kicked! He missed! The raven-haired man dodged them all with an aura of relaxation and ease that only made the purple alien more furious. But the captain was not foolish enough to completely lose his head. He kept his eyes on the prince, watching his every move. Ginyuu swung his hand in a chop that cut only air. Vegeta reappeared just feet away. But Ginyuu did not charge again, visibly agitated.
"Is something the matter, captain?" Vegeta asked in the battle's pause.
A bead of sweat rolled down Ginyuu's heavily veined forehead. "You're one confident s.o.b...d-demo...."
"Demo?" the prince repeated cooly.
"....You can't be Vegeta," the captain finally finished. "He's strong, but not this strong. And Vegeta attacks head on with everything he's got. You can't be the same person!"
"You're right--" a grin, "--I'm not the same person."
"Kono yarou!" the purple alien lunged at the prince. Anticipating Vegeta's counter, Ginyuu began to spin as fast as he could. Just as the short Saiyajin touched down behind him, the captain started firing a Renzoku Energy Dan. Vegeta hopped around and laughed, letting the ki bolts pass him and tear into the landscape. He back flipped over a low one and gave Ginyuu his opportunity. Charging the rest of his ki into his hand, the captain swung it down in a chop. It's purple aura expanded with the motion like a sword, catching Vegeta by surprise. The explosion lit the valley and left a hundred meter long trench in the ground. "Ha ha ha! Whoever you were, even you were no match for Captain Ginyuu! Na, Freeza-sam--AH!"
Freeza had been watching the fight from the side and now his eyes widened slowly. He carefully turned his head when the Saiyajin no Ouji's voice sounded right behind him. "Don't forget, you're next," the prince reminded his former master. The warlord spun and fired a giant beam right where Vegeta would have been, but destroyed a mountain instead as the short man rocketed back toward Ginyuu. The purple alien didn't even see his own death as the prince's foot ripped right through his chest and out his back. Vegeta pulled out and landed a meter away, letting Ginyuu's corpse collapse to the dusty plain.
Freeza was speechless and despite himself, drew back into a defensive posture. But the Saiyajin no Ouji didn't attack and instead turned around to watch his young charges in their battles. The lizard-like alien couldn't believe the prince's audacity! To turn his back to the mighty Freeza so carelessly! But he forced himself to calm and knew that attacking now would only be suicide. Explaining Vegeta's remarkable power increase could wait until later. Right now, he would need to devise a plan.
Rikuum dug himself out of the cliff side. His armor was ruined, his hair was a mess, and he had once again lost many teeth. It was like Namek-sei all over again, but the orange-haired brute swore he wouldn't let it end the same way. High above, Paresu was cheering herself happily and that infuriated Rikuum to no end. At the end of this fight, it would be the Ginyuu Tokusentai who celebrated victory! The giant slammed his fists against the ground, focusing all his energy for another massive attack. "Rikuum!!! Maha!!!" He raised his arms and howled liked an ape. "ATTACK!!!"
Paresu backed up in surprise as her opponent's aura flared a brilliant violet and he streaked towards were with three times more speed than he seemed to have before. The brunette was unprepared for the first strike and took the full force of a shoulder smash, her small body thrown back faster than she could recover. Rikuum shot ahead of her just in time to follow up with a double-knee to the chest that sent the girl soaring down. It continued like that over and over, the orange-haired soldier flying around to juggle Paresu with punches, kicks, knees, and elbows.
At last, Rikuum geared up for the final stage of his ultimate attack. As the chestnut-haired teen spun uncontrollably upwards, he knocked her straight down with a double-fisted slam. She shrieked with the blow and descended like a falling star. The giant man blew past her and dug into the ground, then lunged forward in a head butt. His thick skull rammed right into Paresu's stomach. With the wind knocked out of her, she skidded to the ground and dug a long crater.
With their respective opponents otherwise occupied, Goten and Trunks watched the beating in shock. "PARESU!!" her boyfriend cried.
Baata's hoarse scream drew away his attention and the blue alien jumped to his feet. "It's not over yet!! You'll have the honor of being the first to die by my new technique!!" The tallest Tokusentai soldier gathered his ki in his hands and launched upwards, flying around the annoyed half-Saiyajin in a streak of blue. In his wake, he left a trail of hovering ki orbs that surrounded Goten in a cage. "SHINE!!"
Baata threw one last sphere into the mix and they all exploded in a chain reaction that engulfed the young man. But his shout quickly drowned out the roar of the blast and his aura flared, dispersing the flames. "Don't get in my way again," the half-Saiyajin intoned.
Meanwhile, Jiisu finally got his nose to stop spraying blood by ripping off a finger from his glove and jamming it in one nostril. Trunks had to suppress a chuckle at the sight. "That's it, no more Mister Nice Guy!" the red alien said, sounding slightly nasal.
"You were...taking it easy on me?" the lavender-haired teen replied. He was desperately fighting the urge to bust out laughing.
"Take this!" Jiisu said, rasing his hand. A large ki orb jumped to life in his hand, flames licking off it like small solar flares. "Super Crusher Ball!!!" He smacked it at Trunks, but the young man just slapped it back at the alien soldier. Not expecting such a direct counterattack, Jiisu took the fireball head on and was blown back. Fighting jacket melted and jumpsuit singed, the dazed man bumped into Baata. His friend kept him from falling and they quickly tried to put out the fire in his precious snowy hair.
Meanwhile, Rikuum was approaching the still prone Paresu. He ambled up and stood over her gloatingly. "Aw, did the little girl fall down go boom?" he said depreciatingly.
The brunette surprised him by rolling over. Aside from some scratches and a split lip, she seemed unharmed. The worst damage had been to the blue sun dress that she had been wearing for their day on the town. Paresu arched her back and moaned sultrily, one strap falling off her shoulder. "MmmmMMMmmm....was it good for you too?" she murmured, peering at the giant man through thick eyelashes.
"Nani nani!? There's no way you could have survived that!!"
"You're kidding right?" she replied, sitting up. "Goten plays harder than that. I'll guess I'll have to show you how it's done." Paresu jumped to her feet and did a few stretches right in front of the shocked Tokusentai member. She did a little pirouette and stopped, blue ki charging up between her cupped hands. "KAMEHAMEHA!!!" With Rikuum too stunned to defend, the sparkling beam drilled right through his torso and kept going. As the beam arched up into the sky to explode harmlessly, the orange-haired alien collapsed, lifeless. "Oopsy!" the girl giggled. "I broke him!"
"Yosh, Paresu-chan!" Goten cheered. "That's how ya do it!"
Trunks too was clapping. "Damn fine job!" he grinned.
"Don't you just ignore us!" Jiisu growled. "Let's go, Baata. We'll show these two our true power."
"You're in for it now!" Baata screeched at the half-Saiyajin. "Together, we're unstoppable!"
"That's a joke!" Vegeta mocked them from below. Behind him, Freeza could still only watch and wait.
Baata and Jiisu flared their auras, then flew around each other in an ever-quickening circle. Eventually, they blurred together as a swirling mass of purple energy. ""Purple Comet Supreme Z CRASH!!!"" the two alien soldiers said at once. Their ki formed a large sphere of power on which long jagged blades of ki rotated like a gyroscope.
"Oi, Trunks!" Goten called out to his best friend. "It must take some coordination to do a team attack like that!"
Catching on to his friend's hint, "I bet we could do better!" The lavender-haired warrior assumed the first stance of Fusion in mid-air while the younger teen mirrored him. "Fuuuuuu..."
"...siiiooon...."
""HA!!!""
From inside their 'Purple Comet,' Jiisu and Baata watched as the two teens danced in the sky and touched fingers, creating a brilliant flash of light. What emerged from the radiance was a single man, tall and powerful. He had a sharp, angular face and spiky black hair with a band of lavender wrapping around the back of his head. He adjusted the heavy leather vest on his shoulders and grinned dashingly.
"What--who the hell is that?" Jiisu said to his spinning comrade.
"Who cares!" Baata sneered. "We'll just kill him too!"
Together, the two soldiers directed their whirling Globe-O-Death at the fused warrior. Gotenks didn't seem to be paying much attention and was flexing his muscles impressively while Paresu clapped and whistled. Baata and Jiisu zeroed in and soared towards the half-Saiyajin, but he simply raised an arm and caught it. The cyclone of blades slapped uselessly against his outstretched arm, but one finally cut into the wide orange shoulder cuff of his vest. Gotenks eyed the slice dangerously and growled. He kicked swiftly and broke up their technique, sending the two aliens sprawling in opposite directions.
"M-mas-saka!" the blue one stuttered. "There's no way...!"
"Lucky shot!" his teammate said, hoping he sounded confident. "Again, Baata!"
"H-hai!" They quickly formed their Purple Comet Supreme Z Crash again and launched themselves at Gotenks for a second time.
""Now you guys are just getting on my nerves,"" the fusion muttered. ""Can't you do anything else? So be it, I'll match and beat you! Kore wa Gotenks-sama no Ultra Whirlwind Attack da!!!""
True to his word, the young man started spinning around in place and kicked up a ferocious wind roughly equivalent to an F4 Tornado. Surrounding clouds for almost a kilometer were sucked into the vortex. Large chunks of rock were ripped from the ground by the sheer power of vacuum and crumbled to dust by air moving faster than the speed of sound. Paresu was half laughing, half screaming her head off as she fought to reach the ground and get out of the maelstrom's range. Vegeta, who was closer, was almost plucked from where he stood and had to power up his ki just to keep from being flung around. The Saiyajin no Ouji watched in awe as Jiisu and Baata were instantly drawn into the center of it all. He couldn't hear anything over the roar of the wind, especially not their dying screams. Finally, Gotenks stopped spinning and dispersed the tornado. Blood rained down from the sky for a good ten seconds.
[By Kami,] Vegeta thought dumbly. [He's not even a Super Saiyajin...yet a fusion has _that_ much power...]
Gotenks hovered down to land next to Vegeta and gave him a cheery thumbs up. "Too easy, ne?" he laughed.
Paresu came flying in and glomped onto the fused half-Saiyajin. "Yatta yatta! You did it, you did Fusion right!" she said, hugging him tightly. She paused and ran her hands over the young man's abs. "Really right..."
"Oi oi!" Gotenks said indignantly. He hopped away and clutched his vest over his body. "You break it, you buy it!"
"How much?" the brunette responded. A greedy smile spread across her face and she started chasing him around with wiggly fingers.
"You brute!" the fusion shrieked in a falsetto. "Don't you spoil this pure virginal flesh!" The two--or should that be three--teenagers danced around playfully while Vegeta clawed at his face and wished he could crawl into a hole somewhere to die.
Behind the group, Freeza gawked at the display of goofiness. "Are you mocking me!?" he yelled. "Do you think I pose no threat to you, just because you annihilated my lackeys? I'll have you know that Freeza-sama is a whole different game than those fools."
The lizard-like warlord immediately wished he had slipped away quietly when all three Senshi turned to glare at him.
"Let me take care of this one, Vegeta-san," Paresu offered confidently. She dusted off her dress and cracked her knuckles.
"Iie," the prince answered. "Believe it or not, this one is too strong for you." Freeza's eyebrow twitched.
"Then I'll take him out," Gotenks replied, but Vegeta's arm blocked his way.
"I shall deal with him myself. We have unfinished business," he added soberly. He strode towards the bone-white alien, all pretense of formality gone.
Freeza slowly backed up. "I realize now, Vegeta. I have no chance against you in a direct battle. So forgive me if I must end this quickly." He raised one finger to the sky and an enormous Shitama formed. "Destroying this planet will be enough to defeat you!"
"Too bad you won't get that chance," the Saiyajin no Ouji said. He crossed the gap between them in an instant and now had an iron grip on the warlord's wrist. The pressure broke Freeza's concentration and the Death Ball vanished with one last spark of electricity. The alien's crimson eyes shook as he met the prince's obsidian gaze. "Look into this face, Freeza. See your Angel of Death." He powered up to Super Saiyajin and Freeza's skin burned and boiled under the heat of his aura. "And know that you a hand in making me."
"Bakana!" Freeza wailed futilely.
"You have brought this upon yourself, Freeza!!" Vegeta pulled back on the alien's arm, tearing it off at the elbow, and the lizard-like being could only stare at the stump as it gushed blood. "You made me!!" The back of the prince's forearm slammed into Freeza's gut and though it was a blunt strike, the very power alone was enough to rip open his stomach. The once all-powerful lord fell to his knees and tried to keep his innards from tumbling out. "Your sins are far more terrible than mine!!" The short Saiyajin punched and shattered his foe's spine, rendering him paralyzed. "So perhaps it is divine intervention that has brought you to me for punishment." Vegeta lowered his hand and picked up the alien warrior by his head.
"No...it c..cann..ot...be...."
"Oh but it is."
Finger tips dug into skin.
"You are at _my_ mercy now."
Skin ruptured and bled.
"But I have none for you."
Bone cracked and splintered.
"Now go to Hell...and stay there this time."
Freeza's head shattered in an explosion of bone, blood, and gray matter. Drenched in it all, Vegeta's white glove was a mess. Though not nearly as much as the former warlord. The gore was too much even for Paresu and she turned away, comforted somewhat by Gotenks' protective embrace. The Saiyajin no Ouji picked up the mutilated corpse by a leg. "I'd leave your body to rot here, Freeza. But your wretched blood might seep in and contaminate the ground water." So Vegeta tossed it up into the sky and fired a beam of searing yellow ki that disintegrated it, leaving no remains.
Silence. Only the whistle of the wind dared to make a sound.
"Erm, so....that was fun," Gotenks said at last.
Vegeta powered down and sighed. "I guess we're stuck with you for another twenty minutes?" he said while rolling his eyes. "Wonderful."
Paresu chose not to comment on Freeza's execution and instead tried to hold back the vomit. "Can we go home now, onegai?" The prince allowed himself a genuine smile that surprised the two teens and hovered upwards, leading the way.
~~~~~
Night fell and Basil had made it to the scared forest. Despite his stature, the blue demon had amazing stamina and hadn't stopped running since Freeza's goons drove him away. But he wasn't running scared and headed purposefully to the southwest once he got his bearings. Basil pushed through bushes, jumped over brambles, and ducked under branches. He stopped only at the sound of a crackling fire and hid among some shrubbery.
In the clearing, Basil could see a large wild man and his tiny son cooking some kind of bird for dinner. Opposite their teepee was the base of Karin's Tower, the ivory spire stretching up into the starts. The demon decided to avoid a confrontation and sneaked around behind them. He crawled up to the tower's base and began the long climb.
For several tense hours, Basil feared the wild man might spot him with eagle-like vision. But a bigger problem on the first day of the climb was a mated pair of birds. Their nest was set in one of the tower's many nooks and crannies, so had pecked at the blue man relentlessly for the better part of the morning. When night finally came again and it was too dark for even a demon to see, Basil rested while clinging to the ivory stones. He noticed the air was getting thinner on the second day, but it wasn't until late in the third when he was finally high enough to see the bowl of Karin's sanctuary.
It took an hour of waiting before Basil had the opportunity to slip past the God of Martial Arts and his fat samurai companion. There were many times when the short demon feared he would be found out by the cat master, but it never came to pass. His chance finally came when Yajirobe started complaining about their satellite reception and Karin descended into the bowl-shaped home. The blue man jumped up onto the domed roof above the platform and scrambled to the top. From there, Basil hit a snag. The Tenkai was floating waaaaay up high, just beyond Karin's Tower. After much thought and even more waiting, the demon spotted a passing eagle and made a desperate leap at it. He wrestled with the bird in mid air for a bit and somehow coerced it to fly upwards. When they had reach sufficient height, Basil lept again and grasped a rung of the Tenkai's outer ladder. He scrambled up with the last of his strength, driven by the thought of what would happen to him should he fall. Despite the seemingly impossible task, Basil had made it, he was on Kami's lookout.
Basil knew where he was going, grasping onto the vague memories he picked up from Piccolo while in Nagareboshi's subconscious. Somewhere in Kami's palace was a crystal, hidden away so that it may never be found. But the demon knew it was here and snuck about the divine compound. The resident Kami and his assistant had obviously retired for the night and Basil was free to haunt the palace's rooms and corridors. He searched many a chamber and hall, for the exact storage place for the precious gem eluded his memory.
Finally, he found it. The crystal was sitting on a pedastal and glowed with a dark indigo aura. It's spiked shape was unremarkable, but a dazzling mist swirled beneath its dark surface. It was the shell of negative energy used to cage Chikyuu's first great threat. Basil approached it carefully, grinning evilly. In mere moments, he would release the one person that could rescue his lord Garlic Jr. from the Dead Zone. The demon prince's own father, Garlic-ou.