A/N: Sorry about the level of suck this chapter has but.... I just couldn't get it to work right no matter what I tried. Trust me, this is about fifty times better than the first twenty or so attempts at the thing. :( I may eventually re-write this chapter but if I could do it the first twenty times I don't hold much hope for the next twenty....
Chapter Forty-one - Beginning of the End
Goku had spent another week on the Supreme Kai's planet before he and Shin joined the others on New Vegeta. Needless to say they had all been quite surprised. More so when they learned that Vegeta had, at last, surpassed Goku in power. Even if it wasn't by much. They'd only been on the planet a few hours and during that time Gohan and Goku met, for the first time, Bardock. They also were greeted by a number of Sai-jins who knew of their reputations and wanted to meet them. And there were those who still declared their loyalty to Vegeta as well. And of course, everyone got to meet Rain, the future Neo Sai-jin queen.
At the moment their fairly large group was gathered in the royal chambers working out some kind of plan. "I say we do a full assault with fusions. Just attack him head on before he can transform, if he has any transformations left, and get this over with." Vegeta said.
"No." Rain said in a soft voice. "That wont work, try that and you shall fail." The warriors from Earth all glanced at her a moment. Hiroshi had told them of her psychic powers, she could see the future, to an extent. She could feel the outcome of things before they happened, the bigger the scale of the event, the more clearly she could see it. Free will could change events but when some events were set in motion nothing could change it. As a child she'd seen the birth of Glacier weeks in advance but, since she was a kid, no one had believed her and told her it was only a nightmare. They were right, it was a nightmare, a living one.
"I can see much in the future." she said gazing across the room but looking at nothing. "There are so many things that can happen over the next few weeks... so many possibilities. No matter what you do the course of the entire universe will be decided by the end."
Hiroshi nodded. He didn't like the sound of that. So much depended on this coming battle, so much depended on them winning. He was about to make another suggestion when Rain's hands clutched tightly to the arms of her chair and her eyes opened wide as if in shock. He recognized this, she'd just seen a shift of the future, a big one. Somewhere someone had just made a choice that would affect everyone. This had last happened seven years ago when Goku had surrendered his fight to Cell and appointed Gohan to take his place.
"What is it Rain? What did you just see? What's happened?"
******
Glacier watched on in what he felt must be joy. It was done! It was at last done! And ahead of schedule at that! He watched the massive device known as the Gateway as it was activated for the first time. It was a large device comprised of five rings with an open center. The device whirred as the rings began to spin. The inside ring spun clockwise, the one above counter clockwise, the one above it and the last spun clockwise and the one between them went counter clockwise. As the rings spun faster and faster they began to glow and light danced in the center.
Before he made full use of the device he was going to test it by 'summoning' a few people to deal with the Neo Sai-jins and Earth Sai-jins that refused to die. There was a crackle of energy inside the device's center followed by a crack and a flash of light. A glowing liquidy surface appeared inside the rings and Glacier smiled. "Begin the process." he demanded. "Bring me my warriors."
A tech below him nodded and flipped a large switch. There was a loud crackle from the gateway and the liquidy substance rippled and a form pulled free. It stood for a moment then took a solid shape. The person looked almost exactly like a fully transformed Frieza. Only this guy had black armor/skin with red on his legs, shoulders, and head. At the sight of the thing before him Glacier smiled. A moment later Cold and Cooler, both with the red and black coloration, also stood before him. Then, several other forms pulled free as well. "Someone for everyone." he grinned looking at his warriors. "Now we just wait for their inevitable arrival!"
******
They'd only been on New Vegeta for about a day but preparations were just about complete. In the field before the gathered Z Warriors sat fifty thousand yellow space pods and six hundred thousand red space pods. The yellow pods would carry the Old Sai-jin warriors, all of who were Super Sai-jins, to the coming battle. The red pods would carry the Neo Sai-jins. Rain had felt the shift of things earlier, and now she saw little chance of anything working. All she could see were what she called giant golden demons. She couldn't tell what exactly they were, only that they were massive and extremely powerful. And so the decision had been made, this would be it, this would be the final battle one way or another.
"No, I said to use the level eight bunkers for the civilians!" Da'kar yelled into his scouter over the commotion around him.
"He reminds me of Gohan when he was younger." Goku said watching the young Neo Sai-jin organizing the defense of the planet, just incase they failed. "Having to grow up so quickly..."
Hiroshi nodded. "A lot of us have. It's not exactly fair but I'm not complaining. At least, once this is over, we'll be able to get some peace and quiet."
"I hope so." Gohan said with a sigh.
Suddenly a siren began blaring overhead and a voice announced, "Attention all personnel, incoming Empire Ship. I repeat, incoming Empire Ship."
Hiroshi activated his scouter and tapped into the central computer. "So, who's coming then?" He ran through all the scanner readings and pulled up the image of the ship. "Zanis! Here! How the hell did they find us anyway?" He turned to Goku and Gohan, the only ones with him at the moment. "Come with me, it looks like Zanis is requesting landing permission." The two Sai-jins nodded and followed after Hiroshi who was giving orders to allow Zanis to land in area 78.
It took them a few minutes to reach the point but they got there just in time. The large saucer ship was just opening to allow those on board to disembark. The three were rather shocked to see Shiko leave the ship first. A moment later Zanis, too, emerged. Hiroshi was curious because neither one had a scouter or guards with them. He was even more surprised when the two bowed toward him and the others. "Hiroshi." Shiko said slowly. "I guess we're finally on the same side." She then told the three of them about the rebellion that had just begun.
"But... how did you..." Hiroshi started.
"Find you? Brolly knew where you were the entire time. His father was offered a post here before Brolly was born."
Hiroshi grinned. "And where is Brolly?"
Zanis sighed heavily. "There's a problem. Some weird creature absorbed him and a changeling named Tundra."
"Buu!" Goku cried in surprise. "Where is he?"
"Heading for New Namek."
******
New Namek:
It had been almost a week since he summoned his warriors. Now Glacier sat in his throne thinking about what was yet to come. Finally the Sai-jins would die and he'd be able to rule his empire without interference. He grinned at that thought as he glanced at his personal guards. A sudden explosion shook the entire palace and pitched the surprised tyrant from his throne. In an instant he was on his feet as the door to the throne chamber exploded inward. "What the hell!" he cried as the silvery form entered the room. "Who are you! What is the meaning of this!?"
The large form shifted strangely, like it wasn't used to moving. It's lips parted to reveal sharp teeth and a low laugh began to emanate from within. As the laughter built Glacier recognized a mechanical tone to it. "Now I understand." the tyrant said calmly raising an arm. "One of the battle-droid prototypes." A small ball of red KI formed and shot forward hitting the machine head on and engulfing it in a large explosion. When the smoke cleared Glacier took a step back. Now four of the prototypes stood where the first had been. The tyrant turned to his new soldiers, "Destroy these things! I've got traitors to track down!" With that he vanished.
Glacier reappeared a few miles from the throne room in mid air. He wasn't sure who had sent the prototypes after him but he intended to destroy them. Suddenly a twinge of power caught his attention and he turned to look as a Namek floated up to his level. "Is there a problem sir?" the Namek asked.
"Ah, Snug." Glacier said with a nod. "We have traitors in our midst."
"Sir?"
"The Battle-droid prototypes were sent to attack me. I doubt the traitors expected any results from that, only to get my attention. Those things wouldn't have even been able to hurt the old Cold Family, let alone me." As he talked he scanned the ground below him. Suddenly he saw a large group of people emerging from a building far below him. He squinted down at them and saw Zarbon, Dodoria, and several dozen other warriors of varying power looking back up at him. In a flash they were surrounding him.
"You!" he roared looking them all over. "You dare to challenge me!"
Zarbon cracked his neck. He wished the others were there now but... they weren't. "Not just us." he replied before the all launched in. Glacier easily blocked several blows before a surprise attack smacked him on the back of the head. He whirled around and saw Snug floating amid a group of several hundred soldiers, Namek and alien alike.
He was about to scream in rage when an energy beam slammed into him from below. He looked down and saw Recoome, Jiece, Burter, and Guldo as well as a Super Sai-jin Nappa and a level two Super Sai-jin Raditz. Then he saw the odd alien with them and recognized it as from the race they'd been sent to kill. He didn't have time to contemplate however as the entire lot of warriors, over three hundred, began to unleash a barrage of energy attacks.
A sudden surge of energy from Glacier shattered the incoming attacks and they stopped firing. "How dare you!" he roared.
Snug grinned. "Just you wait, the big guns aren't here yet but should be any second now!"
Glacier glared at him a moment. "Big guns? What the hell are you..." he froze and looked around as several powers slammed into his senses. It took a moment to realize he was sensing several hundred thousand powers. His eyes turned toward the sky as thousands of lights descended from the sky toward the planet's surface. The others took the chance to launch another assault but Glacier merely moved to a new location. ~Warriors, they have arrived! Deal with them!~ he demanded telepathically before attacking the group around him viciously. In a matter of seconds several dozen soldiers were dead. Meanwhile Snug had taken off in the direction of the highest of the new powers.
Legion turned toward Recoome. "We can win, and I know how." Recoome looked at him confused. "Burter, Recoome, only the two of you are suitable for this." Legion held out his arms at a right angle to each other forming a perfect point. "Form a triangle with our arms as the sides. We will then merge into one warrior. The fusion will only last a couple hours."
Recoome and Burter looked at each other for a moment before doing as Legion asked. Legion nodded. "Let it begin." He closed his eyes and a blue glow engulfed all three warriors. When the glow faded only Legion remained but he was now massive in size, with arms and legs the size of tree trunks. "Glacier!" He called up in a voice that was both, and only, Recoome's and Burter's. The tyrant looked down at the warrior and realized that he would be his only true opponent today.
Chapter Forty-one - Beginning of the End
Goku had spent another week on the Supreme Kai's planet before he and Shin joined the others on New Vegeta. Needless to say they had all been quite surprised. More so when they learned that Vegeta had, at last, surpassed Goku in power. Even if it wasn't by much. They'd only been on the planet a few hours and during that time Gohan and Goku met, for the first time, Bardock. They also were greeted by a number of Sai-jins who knew of their reputations and wanted to meet them. And there were those who still declared their loyalty to Vegeta as well. And of course, everyone got to meet Rain, the future Neo Sai-jin queen.
At the moment their fairly large group was gathered in the royal chambers working out some kind of plan. "I say we do a full assault with fusions. Just attack him head on before he can transform, if he has any transformations left, and get this over with." Vegeta said.
"No." Rain said in a soft voice. "That wont work, try that and you shall fail." The warriors from Earth all glanced at her a moment. Hiroshi had told them of her psychic powers, she could see the future, to an extent. She could feel the outcome of things before they happened, the bigger the scale of the event, the more clearly she could see it. Free will could change events but when some events were set in motion nothing could change it. As a child she'd seen the birth of Glacier weeks in advance but, since she was a kid, no one had believed her and told her it was only a nightmare. They were right, it was a nightmare, a living one.
"I can see much in the future." she said gazing across the room but looking at nothing. "There are so many things that can happen over the next few weeks... so many possibilities. No matter what you do the course of the entire universe will be decided by the end."
Hiroshi nodded. He didn't like the sound of that. So much depended on this coming battle, so much depended on them winning. He was about to make another suggestion when Rain's hands clutched tightly to the arms of her chair and her eyes opened wide as if in shock. He recognized this, she'd just seen a shift of the future, a big one. Somewhere someone had just made a choice that would affect everyone. This had last happened seven years ago when Goku had surrendered his fight to Cell and appointed Gohan to take his place.
"What is it Rain? What did you just see? What's happened?"
******
Glacier watched on in what he felt must be joy. It was done! It was at last done! And ahead of schedule at that! He watched the massive device known as the Gateway as it was activated for the first time. It was a large device comprised of five rings with an open center. The device whirred as the rings began to spin. The inside ring spun clockwise, the one above counter clockwise, the one above it and the last spun clockwise and the one between them went counter clockwise. As the rings spun faster and faster they began to glow and light danced in the center.
Before he made full use of the device he was going to test it by 'summoning' a few people to deal with the Neo Sai-jins and Earth Sai-jins that refused to die. There was a crackle of energy inside the device's center followed by a crack and a flash of light. A glowing liquidy surface appeared inside the rings and Glacier smiled. "Begin the process." he demanded. "Bring me my warriors."
A tech below him nodded and flipped a large switch. There was a loud crackle from the gateway and the liquidy substance rippled and a form pulled free. It stood for a moment then took a solid shape. The person looked almost exactly like a fully transformed Frieza. Only this guy had black armor/skin with red on his legs, shoulders, and head. At the sight of the thing before him Glacier smiled. A moment later Cold and Cooler, both with the red and black coloration, also stood before him. Then, several other forms pulled free as well. "Someone for everyone." he grinned looking at his warriors. "Now we just wait for their inevitable arrival!"
******
They'd only been on New Vegeta for about a day but preparations were just about complete. In the field before the gathered Z Warriors sat fifty thousand yellow space pods and six hundred thousand red space pods. The yellow pods would carry the Old Sai-jin warriors, all of who were Super Sai-jins, to the coming battle. The red pods would carry the Neo Sai-jins. Rain had felt the shift of things earlier, and now she saw little chance of anything working. All she could see were what she called giant golden demons. She couldn't tell what exactly they were, only that they were massive and extremely powerful. And so the decision had been made, this would be it, this would be the final battle one way or another.
"No, I said to use the level eight bunkers for the civilians!" Da'kar yelled into his scouter over the commotion around him.
"He reminds me of Gohan when he was younger." Goku said watching the young Neo Sai-jin organizing the defense of the planet, just incase they failed. "Having to grow up so quickly..."
Hiroshi nodded. "A lot of us have. It's not exactly fair but I'm not complaining. At least, once this is over, we'll be able to get some peace and quiet."
"I hope so." Gohan said with a sigh.
Suddenly a siren began blaring overhead and a voice announced, "Attention all personnel, incoming Empire Ship. I repeat, incoming Empire Ship."
Hiroshi activated his scouter and tapped into the central computer. "So, who's coming then?" He ran through all the scanner readings and pulled up the image of the ship. "Zanis! Here! How the hell did they find us anyway?" He turned to Goku and Gohan, the only ones with him at the moment. "Come with me, it looks like Zanis is requesting landing permission." The two Sai-jins nodded and followed after Hiroshi who was giving orders to allow Zanis to land in area 78.
It took them a few minutes to reach the point but they got there just in time. The large saucer ship was just opening to allow those on board to disembark. The three were rather shocked to see Shiko leave the ship first. A moment later Zanis, too, emerged. Hiroshi was curious because neither one had a scouter or guards with them. He was even more surprised when the two bowed toward him and the others. "Hiroshi." Shiko said slowly. "I guess we're finally on the same side." She then told the three of them about the rebellion that had just begun.
"But... how did you..." Hiroshi started.
"Find you? Brolly knew where you were the entire time. His father was offered a post here before Brolly was born."
Hiroshi grinned. "And where is Brolly?"
Zanis sighed heavily. "There's a problem. Some weird creature absorbed him and a changeling named Tundra."
"Buu!" Goku cried in surprise. "Where is he?"
"Heading for New Namek."
******
New Namek:
It had been almost a week since he summoned his warriors. Now Glacier sat in his throne thinking about what was yet to come. Finally the Sai-jins would die and he'd be able to rule his empire without interference. He grinned at that thought as he glanced at his personal guards. A sudden explosion shook the entire palace and pitched the surprised tyrant from his throne. In an instant he was on his feet as the door to the throne chamber exploded inward. "What the hell!" he cried as the silvery form entered the room. "Who are you! What is the meaning of this!?"
The large form shifted strangely, like it wasn't used to moving. It's lips parted to reveal sharp teeth and a low laugh began to emanate from within. As the laughter built Glacier recognized a mechanical tone to it. "Now I understand." the tyrant said calmly raising an arm. "One of the battle-droid prototypes." A small ball of red KI formed and shot forward hitting the machine head on and engulfing it in a large explosion. When the smoke cleared Glacier took a step back. Now four of the prototypes stood where the first had been. The tyrant turned to his new soldiers, "Destroy these things! I've got traitors to track down!" With that he vanished.
Glacier reappeared a few miles from the throne room in mid air. He wasn't sure who had sent the prototypes after him but he intended to destroy them. Suddenly a twinge of power caught his attention and he turned to look as a Namek floated up to his level. "Is there a problem sir?" the Namek asked.
"Ah, Snug." Glacier said with a nod. "We have traitors in our midst."
"Sir?"
"The Battle-droid prototypes were sent to attack me. I doubt the traitors expected any results from that, only to get my attention. Those things wouldn't have even been able to hurt the old Cold Family, let alone me." As he talked he scanned the ground below him. Suddenly he saw a large group of people emerging from a building far below him. He squinted down at them and saw Zarbon, Dodoria, and several dozen other warriors of varying power looking back up at him. In a flash they were surrounding him.
"You!" he roared looking them all over. "You dare to challenge me!"
Zarbon cracked his neck. He wished the others were there now but... they weren't. "Not just us." he replied before the all launched in. Glacier easily blocked several blows before a surprise attack smacked him on the back of the head. He whirled around and saw Snug floating amid a group of several hundred soldiers, Namek and alien alike.
He was about to scream in rage when an energy beam slammed into him from below. He looked down and saw Recoome, Jiece, Burter, and Guldo as well as a Super Sai-jin Nappa and a level two Super Sai-jin Raditz. Then he saw the odd alien with them and recognized it as from the race they'd been sent to kill. He didn't have time to contemplate however as the entire lot of warriors, over three hundred, began to unleash a barrage of energy attacks.
A sudden surge of energy from Glacier shattered the incoming attacks and they stopped firing. "How dare you!" he roared.
Snug grinned. "Just you wait, the big guns aren't here yet but should be any second now!"
Glacier glared at him a moment. "Big guns? What the hell are you..." he froze and looked around as several powers slammed into his senses. It took a moment to realize he was sensing several hundred thousand powers. His eyes turned toward the sky as thousands of lights descended from the sky toward the planet's surface. The others took the chance to launch another assault but Glacier merely moved to a new location. ~Warriors, they have arrived! Deal with them!~ he demanded telepathically before attacking the group around him viciously. In a matter of seconds several dozen soldiers were dead. Meanwhile Snug had taken off in the direction of the highest of the new powers.
Legion turned toward Recoome. "We can win, and I know how." Recoome looked at him confused. "Burter, Recoome, only the two of you are suitable for this." Legion held out his arms at a right angle to each other forming a perfect point. "Form a triangle with our arms as the sides. We will then merge into one warrior. The fusion will only last a couple hours."
Recoome and Burter looked at each other for a moment before doing as Legion asked. Legion nodded. "Let it begin." He closed his eyes and a blue glow engulfed all three warriors. When the glow faded only Legion remained but he was now massive in size, with arms and legs the size of tree trunks. "Glacier!" He called up in a voice that was both, and only, Recoome's and Burter's. The tyrant looked down at the warrior and realized that he would be his only true opponent today.