A/N: Thought you might like to know, the ship Goku and Bardock take to Namek is twice the size of the one Goku used in the series. :)
Chapter twenty-eight - Ginyu Force Arrives!
Goku and Bardock stepped out of the deep green military truck and waved good-bye to the driver. They'd just come from the public announcement Toma had made to the world. It had only been a week since the Sai-jins had arrived on Earth and already the planet was a member of the Sai-jin empire. There had been a lot of questions about the Sai-jins, the one most people wanted answered was why they looked so Human. At that Toma showed them all holographic images of other races. Namely images of Kui, Dodoria, Zarbon, and Frieza in his third and final forms. That was followed by a quick explanation that most intelligent races seemed to evolve along a similar path and theories about why. Goku had quickly gotten lost in all the words and taken to watching the clouds.
Now the two Sai-jins were making their way to Capsule Corp. Dr. Briefs had called them an hour earlier with some 'big news that they'd love' as he had put it. "What's up?" Goku called waving. Then he saw the large ship behind the genius scientist. "Wow! Look at that thing!" The ship bore the large symbol of Capsule Corp and was even bigger than Goku's house. "It's massive! Is that our ship?"
"Sure is." he beamed. "And guess what? It's ready."
Bardock grinned. "You're kidding? You've finished already? I'm very impressed, something like this would take at least six months to build back on Planet Vegeta."
"Well, when I set my mind on something I usually work for days non-stop..."
"How long to get to Namek?" Goku asked walking around the massive ship.
"About seven or eight days." he replied. "Vadora sent the location with Toma so it's already programmed. All you need to do is push go."
Goku and Bardock turned to look at each other grinning. "On ward to Namek!" Goku cheered running up the ramp and into the ship. As Bardock went to follow he glanced back at the doctor. "Tell Chi-Chi it was great meeting her and thank her for letting us stay at her place. And tell her I'll bring her husband back alive."
******
Vegeta brought his arms up quickly to stop the incoming punch. There was a thunderous crack as Torg's fist connected with Vegeta's arms. The Sai-jin prince was knocked backward several yards and before he could recover Torg was on top of him again. Vegeta swung as quickly as he could but the Namek pulled back and dodged the attack. Suddenly a foot slammed into the side of the prince's neck. A sudden sharp pain lanced up and down his spine.
Vegeta forced the pain out of his thoughts and thrust his arms forward, palms open. There was a flash of blue and a stream of energy tore free of his body on a direct path for his Namekian opponent. Torg slid to the side letting the energy tear past him but it was still close enough to make him spin out of control. Vegeta capitalized on this with a swift kick to Torg's face that sent the Namek reeling away even farther.
Vegeta short forward again and pulled up over the Namek. In a flash he drove his knee down into Torg's stomach and drove him into the ground. They traveled for several yards, Torg's head carving out a trench in the ground as they went. As Vegeta pulled back and landed on the ground again Torg wasn't moving. He was still breathing, still alive, just unconscious. Vegeta starred down at the beaten Namek and wondered if maybe he'd used to much energy taking him out fast like that. After all, he still had two more to get through. That became painfully obvious as a green fist smashed into his face and cracked his jaw. As he spun through the air he caught sight of Shale chasing after him. The next fight was on.
******
Hotaru, Gohan, and Krillin landed outside Guru's house as Dende came back out. "Guru is waiting, please follow me." the young Namek said. The three warriors nodded and followed him inside. They then rode up a small open elevator to the top floor. There they found the large 'father of the Nameks' Guru. Beside him stood a young woman with sky blue hair and emerald green eyes. /She must be Azura./ Hotaru thought glancing at her.
"Welcome." Guru said with a light nod considering his size. "I am Guru. I had Dende bring you here because I believe we can be of assistance to each other." Guru reached over his head and picked up the large orange orb that sat atop his chair.
"Is that a... Dragonball?" Krillin asked looking at it. "That's huge!"
Guru chuckled. "The Dragonballs here on Namek are more powerful than the ones found on Earth. Thusly they are larger as well."
"More powerful?" Hotaru asked.
"Yes, these Dragonballs, the originals, can grant three wishes at a time."
"Three!" Krillin cheered. "Awesome!"
"Yes, but I am afraid they can only revive one person at a time. That means you'll only be able to bring back three of your friends the first time." While they looked at each other Azura stepped forward. "Now, Azura will do for you what she has done for Nail, unlock your hidden powers."
Azura placed one hand on Krillin's head and began to search his body, mind, heart, and soul for power. Suddenly a white aura engulfed him and his power began to shoot skyward. A moment later she removed her hand and Krillin stood starring down at his hands in awe. "This is... this is amazing!" he cried. Hotaru and Krillin could both feel the power he'd gained.
Next she placed a hand on Hotaru's head. "This will be difficult." Azura said softly. "Powerful magic seals your power deep within you. I may be able to weaken the magic enough to allow some power to reach the surface." Hotaru began to glow orange for a moment before her aura exploded outward larger and brighter than Krillin's had. Azura pulled her hand back quickly as the aura completely hid Hotaru from view. Then, just as suddenly as it came, it went. Hotaru was no much stronger than before as well.
Then she moved over to Gohan and rested a hand upon his head. A faint glow formed around Gohan for a moment but then died off. Azura scrunched up her face. "You're power's playing hide and seek." she said as the glow returned. Again it faded almost instantly. "Every time I seem to tap into your power more just comes and seals it all off again." She thought for a moment. "I'll only be able to pull some of your power out to the surface. There will still be much locked away, I can feel incredible power buried within you." Again the white glow formed around Gohan. This time it stayed and flared up brightly engulfing him and pushing his power up beyond Krillin's and nearly to match Hotaru's.
******
Vegeta could barely see the punches coming as Shale continued to pound on him. The Sai-jin prince tried several times to hit the powerful Namek but to no avail. He'd also tried to yell at him a few times but his jaw hurt to much. Vegeta spun around lancing out with his left foot and finally connected with the Namek's head. For a moment he felt a sense of satisfaction, then he realized Shale hadn't even noticed the hit. The next thing Vegeta felt was a sharp pain in his back and he was engulfed in darkness.
Nail sighed and stepped forward. "He isn't ready yet, just as Guru said."
"If it were not for Azura we would not be ready yet either." Torg said pulling himself out of the ground at last. "Of course, we still aren't fully prepared."
Shale nodded as he spread his arms out. "Even after Torg and I merged with our respective brothers..."
Nail nodded. It had been four years ago that Azura had arrived on Planet Namek. The woman had quickly befriended Guru, she served as his eyes and ears to look for threats. She was, in fact, the planet's Guardian. She took the post a year after arriving. However, in the year between her arrival and becoming Guardian she'd warned them of this day, and of what was still to come. Frieza and, possibly, Namek's destruction.
On that day she'd unlocked the hidden powers within the five Heroes of Namek, its most powerful warriors. In fact, its only warriors. Nail, Torg, Shale, Guls, and Rom. Torg and Guls had merged as had Shale and Rom in hopes of catching the incredible power Nail had gained. They had indeed come close after that but Nail was still the strongest and had remained so over the next four years. They were three of the most powerful beings in the galaxy but they knew that wouldn't be enough in the coming battle.
Nail looked over to his companions. "Let the Prince rest for now. We'll wait until he awakes of his own accord to heal him. In the meantime, Shale, see to Torg. Then he can heal you." The two Nameks nodded and set to work while Nail took a seat on the ground and began to meditate.
******
Goku and Bardock had left earth three days ago and were currently eating between training sessions. As Goku tried to lift a large piece of food to his mouth he found it rather hard. "Um... Bardock? Did we turn off the gravity?"
Bardock glanced up from his bowl of rice to see Goku struggling to lift the large turkey leg but still trying to eat it. HE suddenly cracked up laughing, leaned to far back in his chair, and crashed to the floor with a hard and loud thud. "Ooofff, I think so. I can't get up."
"I'll go check." Goku said standing and still holding on to the food. However he couldn't go anyway like that, the food wouldn't budge. "Um..."
"Let go of the turkey, it'll still be here when you get back."
Goku pouted but let go anyway. He made his way to the main part of the ship where the gravity machine was. He looked over the controls for a second before finding the level display which read one 100 g's. "I know the switch is here somewhere.... maybe this?" he flipped a small green switch and the number jumped up to 200 hundred G's. Now he could barely stand. "Nope..." he flipped the switch back putting it back to 100 g's. Then he searched the panel again. "Oh, there it is." and with the simple flip of a single switch the gravity dropped to one g.
A moment later Bardock stepped into the room. "Perfect! I hadn't realized I was that worn out, where are the Senzu beans?"
Goku pulled out the small brown bag and opened it up. "Let's see. One or two?"
"Just one, we're not that beat."
"Right." Goku pulled out a single bean and tossed it to Bardock then popped one into his mouth.
Bardock cracked his neck. "Alright, crank it up to 120, let's get back to work."
"But... my food." Goku pouted.
Bardock grinned. "Oh, about that. I ate it."
******
It had been three days since they'd arrived on Namek and they now had four of the Dragonballs. It wasn't easy work traveling across the planet carrying the Dragonballs with them as they went so they'd picked a place to take them and leave them until they had them all. They'd soon discovered that their Radar was worthless on Namek and they had to rely on Dende's knowledge of where each village was that a Dragonball was kept.
This made it slow going. The young Namek wasn't all that fast and often rode on one of the others in order to keep up. However he wasn't used to the speed and they overshot three of the four villages by several hours. Dende kept apologizing but they assured him it was okay, such things were to be expected. More than once they'd stopped to watch Vegeta and the Nameks. From what they'd seen Vegeta had made two attempts at defeating the Nameks and had failed both times. The first time he'd fallen to Shale and the second time to Nail.
At the moment Vegeta was still unconscious from his second defeat and Dende was talking with Nail. "So, I can't seem to find Moray's village." Dende explained. "I've never gone this fast and keeping losing track of the distances, I've missed Spire Mountain three times already."
"Spire Mountain? Oh yes, I remember, it's ten miles west of Moray's village..." Nail looked around thinking. "It's in that direction I believe." he said pointing. "I've been here so long I've lost my bearings as well." he said with a smirk.
"So squirt," Shale said coming over. "How many Dragonballs do you guys have?"
"Four." Dende said with a sigh. "We'd have more but I keep getting lost."
"Don't worry about it." Torg said. "At this rate it'll be a few more days before Vegeta is ready. You'll have them in no time."
Dende shook his head. "It's not Vegeta I'm worried about, it's Frieza."
Nail put his hand on Dende's head. "You just leave Frieza to us." he said.
Dende nodded and re-joined the others. Climbing on to Hotaru's back they took off again. As they disappeared into the distance Vegeta rolled over and growled at the three Nameks around him. A moment later Shale had healed him and on his feet again. "You're just stalling me!" Vegeta roared glaring at Nail. "Keeping me here while they gather the Dragonballs and make their wish!"
Nail shook his head. "You only want one wish, correct Vegeta?" The Sai-jin merely glared at him. "Then don't worry, Parunga grants three wishes. You let them worry about getting the Dragonballs while you work on getting strong enough to beat me."
Vegeta stood in silence for a moment longer. A second ago he'd been seething with rage because he'd thought he was being tricked. Now he was calm again. He rather liked the plan these Nameks seemed to have. Train him and let the weaklings find the Dragonballs. He grinned as he shot in at Nail for a third try at this challenge, his second try at beating Nail.
And so the training had continued, both on Namek and in space. Vegeta was defeated a second time by Nail but on his next try won, though sustaining some serious injuries of his own. Those were quickly healed by Shale however and the Sai-jin Prince was stronger than ever before. Bardock and Goku continued to train as they neared the planet, now only 12 hours away. However there were some new arrivals on Namek. The five space pods carrying the Ginyu Force streaked through the planet's green sky as Gohan, Hotaru, Krillin, and Dende landed at the seventh and final village to collect it's Dragonball.
Chapter twenty-eight - Ginyu Force Arrives!
Goku and Bardock stepped out of the deep green military truck and waved good-bye to the driver. They'd just come from the public announcement Toma had made to the world. It had only been a week since the Sai-jins had arrived on Earth and already the planet was a member of the Sai-jin empire. There had been a lot of questions about the Sai-jins, the one most people wanted answered was why they looked so Human. At that Toma showed them all holographic images of other races. Namely images of Kui, Dodoria, Zarbon, and Frieza in his third and final forms. That was followed by a quick explanation that most intelligent races seemed to evolve along a similar path and theories about why. Goku had quickly gotten lost in all the words and taken to watching the clouds.
Now the two Sai-jins were making their way to Capsule Corp. Dr. Briefs had called them an hour earlier with some 'big news that they'd love' as he had put it. "What's up?" Goku called waving. Then he saw the large ship behind the genius scientist. "Wow! Look at that thing!" The ship bore the large symbol of Capsule Corp and was even bigger than Goku's house. "It's massive! Is that our ship?"
"Sure is." he beamed. "And guess what? It's ready."
Bardock grinned. "You're kidding? You've finished already? I'm very impressed, something like this would take at least six months to build back on Planet Vegeta."
"Well, when I set my mind on something I usually work for days non-stop..."
"How long to get to Namek?" Goku asked walking around the massive ship.
"About seven or eight days." he replied. "Vadora sent the location with Toma so it's already programmed. All you need to do is push go."
Goku and Bardock turned to look at each other grinning. "On ward to Namek!" Goku cheered running up the ramp and into the ship. As Bardock went to follow he glanced back at the doctor. "Tell Chi-Chi it was great meeting her and thank her for letting us stay at her place. And tell her I'll bring her husband back alive."
******
Vegeta brought his arms up quickly to stop the incoming punch. There was a thunderous crack as Torg's fist connected with Vegeta's arms. The Sai-jin prince was knocked backward several yards and before he could recover Torg was on top of him again. Vegeta swung as quickly as he could but the Namek pulled back and dodged the attack. Suddenly a foot slammed into the side of the prince's neck. A sudden sharp pain lanced up and down his spine.
Vegeta forced the pain out of his thoughts and thrust his arms forward, palms open. There was a flash of blue and a stream of energy tore free of his body on a direct path for his Namekian opponent. Torg slid to the side letting the energy tear past him but it was still close enough to make him spin out of control. Vegeta capitalized on this with a swift kick to Torg's face that sent the Namek reeling away even farther.
Vegeta short forward again and pulled up over the Namek. In a flash he drove his knee down into Torg's stomach and drove him into the ground. They traveled for several yards, Torg's head carving out a trench in the ground as they went. As Vegeta pulled back and landed on the ground again Torg wasn't moving. He was still breathing, still alive, just unconscious. Vegeta starred down at the beaten Namek and wondered if maybe he'd used to much energy taking him out fast like that. After all, he still had two more to get through. That became painfully obvious as a green fist smashed into his face and cracked his jaw. As he spun through the air he caught sight of Shale chasing after him. The next fight was on.
******
Hotaru, Gohan, and Krillin landed outside Guru's house as Dende came back out. "Guru is waiting, please follow me." the young Namek said. The three warriors nodded and followed him inside. They then rode up a small open elevator to the top floor. There they found the large 'father of the Nameks' Guru. Beside him stood a young woman with sky blue hair and emerald green eyes. /She must be Azura./ Hotaru thought glancing at her.
"Welcome." Guru said with a light nod considering his size. "I am Guru. I had Dende bring you here because I believe we can be of assistance to each other." Guru reached over his head and picked up the large orange orb that sat atop his chair.
"Is that a... Dragonball?" Krillin asked looking at it. "That's huge!"
Guru chuckled. "The Dragonballs here on Namek are more powerful than the ones found on Earth. Thusly they are larger as well."
"More powerful?" Hotaru asked.
"Yes, these Dragonballs, the originals, can grant three wishes at a time."
"Three!" Krillin cheered. "Awesome!"
"Yes, but I am afraid they can only revive one person at a time. That means you'll only be able to bring back three of your friends the first time." While they looked at each other Azura stepped forward. "Now, Azura will do for you what she has done for Nail, unlock your hidden powers."
Azura placed one hand on Krillin's head and began to search his body, mind, heart, and soul for power. Suddenly a white aura engulfed him and his power began to shoot skyward. A moment later she removed her hand and Krillin stood starring down at his hands in awe. "This is... this is amazing!" he cried. Hotaru and Krillin could both feel the power he'd gained.
Next she placed a hand on Hotaru's head. "This will be difficult." Azura said softly. "Powerful magic seals your power deep within you. I may be able to weaken the magic enough to allow some power to reach the surface." Hotaru began to glow orange for a moment before her aura exploded outward larger and brighter than Krillin's had. Azura pulled her hand back quickly as the aura completely hid Hotaru from view. Then, just as suddenly as it came, it went. Hotaru was no much stronger than before as well.
Then she moved over to Gohan and rested a hand upon his head. A faint glow formed around Gohan for a moment but then died off. Azura scrunched up her face. "You're power's playing hide and seek." she said as the glow returned. Again it faded almost instantly. "Every time I seem to tap into your power more just comes and seals it all off again." She thought for a moment. "I'll only be able to pull some of your power out to the surface. There will still be much locked away, I can feel incredible power buried within you." Again the white glow formed around Gohan. This time it stayed and flared up brightly engulfing him and pushing his power up beyond Krillin's and nearly to match Hotaru's.
******
Vegeta could barely see the punches coming as Shale continued to pound on him. The Sai-jin prince tried several times to hit the powerful Namek but to no avail. He'd also tried to yell at him a few times but his jaw hurt to much. Vegeta spun around lancing out with his left foot and finally connected with the Namek's head. For a moment he felt a sense of satisfaction, then he realized Shale hadn't even noticed the hit. The next thing Vegeta felt was a sharp pain in his back and he was engulfed in darkness.
Nail sighed and stepped forward. "He isn't ready yet, just as Guru said."
"If it were not for Azura we would not be ready yet either." Torg said pulling himself out of the ground at last. "Of course, we still aren't fully prepared."
Shale nodded as he spread his arms out. "Even after Torg and I merged with our respective brothers..."
Nail nodded. It had been four years ago that Azura had arrived on Planet Namek. The woman had quickly befriended Guru, she served as his eyes and ears to look for threats. She was, in fact, the planet's Guardian. She took the post a year after arriving. However, in the year between her arrival and becoming Guardian she'd warned them of this day, and of what was still to come. Frieza and, possibly, Namek's destruction.
On that day she'd unlocked the hidden powers within the five Heroes of Namek, its most powerful warriors. In fact, its only warriors. Nail, Torg, Shale, Guls, and Rom. Torg and Guls had merged as had Shale and Rom in hopes of catching the incredible power Nail had gained. They had indeed come close after that but Nail was still the strongest and had remained so over the next four years. They were three of the most powerful beings in the galaxy but they knew that wouldn't be enough in the coming battle.
Nail looked over to his companions. "Let the Prince rest for now. We'll wait until he awakes of his own accord to heal him. In the meantime, Shale, see to Torg. Then he can heal you." The two Nameks nodded and set to work while Nail took a seat on the ground and began to meditate.
******
Goku and Bardock had left earth three days ago and were currently eating between training sessions. As Goku tried to lift a large piece of food to his mouth he found it rather hard. "Um... Bardock? Did we turn off the gravity?"
Bardock glanced up from his bowl of rice to see Goku struggling to lift the large turkey leg but still trying to eat it. HE suddenly cracked up laughing, leaned to far back in his chair, and crashed to the floor with a hard and loud thud. "Ooofff, I think so. I can't get up."
"I'll go check." Goku said standing and still holding on to the food. However he couldn't go anyway like that, the food wouldn't budge. "Um..."
"Let go of the turkey, it'll still be here when you get back."
Goku pouted but let go anyway. He made his way to the main part of the ship where the gravity machine was. He looked over the controls for a second before finding the level display which read one 100 g's. "I know the switch is here somewhere.... maybe this?" he flipped a small green switch and the number jumped up to 200 hundred G's. Now he could barely stand. "Nope..." he flipped the switch back putting it back to 100 g's. Then he searched the panel again. "Oh, there it is." and with the simple flip of a single switch the gravity dropped to one g.
A moment later Bardock stepped into the room. "Perfect! I hadn't realized I was that worn out, where are the Senzu beans?"
Goku pulled out the small brown bag and opened it up. "Let's see. One or two?"
"Just one, we're not that beat."
"Right." Goku pulled out a single bean and tossed it to Bardock then popped one into his mouth.
Bardock cracked his neck. "Alright, crank it up to 120, let's get back to work."
"But... my food." Goku pouted.
Bardock grinned. "Oh, about that. I ate it."
******
It had been three days since they'd arrived on Namek and they now had four of the Dragonballs. It wasn't easy work traveling across the planet carrying the Dragonballs with them as they went so they'd picked a place to take them and leave them until they had them all. They'd soon discovered that their Radar was worthless on Namek and they had to rely on Dende's knowledge of where each village was that a Dragonball was kept.
This made it slow going. The young Namek wasn't all that fast and often rode on one of the others in order to keep up. However he wasn't used to the speed and they overshot three of the four villages by several hours. Dende kept apologizing but they assured him it was okay, such things were to be expected. More than once they'd stopped to watch Vegeta and the Nameks. From what they'd seen Vegeta had made two attempts at defeating the Nameks and had failed both times. The first time he'd fallen to Shale and the second time to Nail.
At the moment Vegeta was still unconscious from his second defeat and Dende was talking with Nail. "So, I can't seem to find Moray's village." Dende explained. "I've never gone this fast and keeping losing track of the distances, I've missed Spire Mountain three times already."
"Spire Mountain? Oh yes, I remember, it's ten miles west of Moray's village..." Nail looked around thinking. "It's in that direction I believe." he said pointing. "I've been here so long I've lost my bearings as well." he said with a smirk.
"So squirt," Shale said coming over. "How many Dragonballs do you guys have?"
"Four." Dende said with a sigh. "We'd have more but I keep getting lost."
"Don't worry about it." Torg said. "At this rate it'll be a few more days before Vegeta is ready. You'll have them in no time."
Dende shook his head. "It's not Vegeta I'm worried about, it's Frieza."
Nail put his hand on Dende's head. "You just leave Frieza to us." he said.
Dende nodded and re-joined the others. Climbing on to Hotaru's back they took off again. As they disappeared into the distance Vegeta rolled over and growled at the three Nameks around him. A moment later Shale had healed him and on his feet again. "You're just stalling me!" Vegeta roared glaring at Nail. "Keeping me here while they gather the Dragonballs and make their wish!"
Nail shook his head. "You only want one wish, correct Vegeta?" The Sai-jin merely glared at him. "Then don't worry, Parunga grants three wishes. You let them worry about getting the Dragonballs while you work on getting strong enough to beat me."
Vegeta stood in silence for a moment longer. A second ago he'd been seething with rage because he'd thought he was being tricked. Now he was calm again. He rather liked the plan these Nameks seemed to have. Train him and let the weaklings find the Dragonballs. He grinned as he shot in at Nail for a third try at this challenge, his second try at beating Nail.
And so the training had continued, both on Namek and in space. Vegeta was defeated a second time by Nail but on his next try won, though sustaining some serious injuries of his own. Those were quickly healed by Shale however and the Sai-jin Prince was stronger than ever before. Bardock and Goku continued to train as they neared the planet, now only 12 hours away. However there were some new arrivals on Namek. The five space pods carrying the Ginyu Force streaked through the planet's green sky as Gohan, Hotaru, Krillin, and Dende landed at the seventh and final village to collect it's Dragonball.
