Chapter 26
A large, pink blob of fat was holding down a red demon in a white, muscle shirt while a big, bald man pounded ruthlessly on it. A couple of feet to their left a small round, four-eyed alien was helping a large man with a tuff of orange hair beat down another demon in a similar shirt. Several other people were torturing white, fluffy clouds while the four beings of immense power that King Kai had pointed out watched with wicked grins on their faces.
~Those will stay out of the fight until they think they know what they're dealing with, all I really need to worry about for now is their henchmen,~ Akira thought as he walked towards the scene. When he was only a couple of feet from the pink blob he spoke up, "Excuse me, I think you should leave him alone. Perhaps you could find some one a little more your size to pick on?"
The blob and his bald friend turned and stared at Akira for a moment before bursting into laughter.
"If you find someone our size, let us know, okay kid?" the bald man said, and then, looking over his shoulder, he called out, "Hey Raditz, get a load of this wimp!"
A man with hair down to his knees looked up from the cloud he was smacking around and smiled wickedly. With a flick of his wrist he sent the white fluff sailing into a small lake of what looked like blood.
"Well, he certainly looks like he'll be more fun to play with than these stupid clouds, doesn't he Nappa?"
The other five henchmen (as Akira had deemed them) had stopped what they were doing and had formed a circle around the young man. Akira smiled; at least they weren't going to make it hard to round them all up.
"I don't think you'll be smiling so much when we're through with you, mate," a short, orange skinned man with long, white hair said as he cracked his knuckles.
"Yes, I'm afraid we're going to have to wipe it off your face." This came from a light blue man with a long braid of green hair.
Akira's smile grew larger, but his dark eyes became cold, "I'd like to see you try."
All eight of the henchmen tried to hit him at the same time, but before their fists could connect with their target, Akira was standing outside the circle with his arms crossed. Most of the henchmen stopped mid-swing, but a few ended up punching each other. Akira bother suppressing his laughter.
The henchmen glared angrily at him and prepared to attack, but before they could, the orange man held out his arms and stopped them.
"Come on boys, we don't really need everyone for this pipsqueak. You guys step back and let the Ginyu Force take care of him." With that, he and three others stepped forward and began making a series of awkward poses. "Ginyu roll call." The small man stuck his arms straight up and dropped to one knee, "Jaice!"
A blue skinned reptilian-looking alien with box shaped ears ran in place, then pointed both hands toward his face and yelled, "Burter!"
The little green fellow with four eyes stood on one foot and made a funny chopping motion with his arms, "Guldo!
A big muscular man with orange hair an unintelligent-looking expression on his face bent over and looked between his legs, "Racoome!"
The four stood perfectly still in their posses as if waiting for Akira to cheer. He didn't, but he did fall on the ground and roll around laughing. The four members of the Ginyu Force looked pissed at his lack of respect.
It took Akira a moment to recover enough composure to stand again. "Sorry about that, I've just never seen anything so... entertaining... in all my life. Anyway, I believe we were about to fight."
The four fighters circled up and began playing rock-paper-scissors; Akira stared open mouthed at them in amazement. In the end it was Racoome who won and he stepped forward and dropped into a fighting stance.
Akira cocked an eyebrow and flashed a cocky smile, "Just one? Are you sure that's all you want to send?"
Racoome laughed, "You got balls kid, I admire that. I tell you what, I'll just end it real quick, get ready for the Racoome-boom!"
Akira was bored, these weaklings were wasting his time with all their silly posses; he was going to let them know what they were dealing with. Right now.
It took him less than a half-second to cross the distance that separated himself from Racoome. He watched with no small amount of satisfaction as the man's big, stupid eyes widened in surprise and fear. A moment later Racoome was lying flat on his back and looking like he probably wouldn't wake up for a week.
The remaining member's of the Ginyu Force gave an angry shout and surged forward. It took about fifteen seconds for Akira to have them all lying in a pile at his feet. He glanced over at the four remaining henchmen and winked.
"Now, do you boys want to come peacefully or do I have to hurt you also?" he asked mockingly.
The fat pink man looked at the henchman with green hair and smiled, "Well Zarbon, would you like to take first crack at him or should I?"
"By all means, after you Dodoria," Zarbon said with a courtly voice.
Without another word Dodoria rushed at Akira, but the young warrior nimbly dodged to the side and tripped the tub of lard as he passed. Dodoria hit the ground with a loud thud as Akira turned back to the three remaining miscreants. Zarbon looked in raged, with an earsplitting scream his handsome face changed to that of a repulsive monster and his power level rose significantly.
Akira was a bit shocked to say the least, not because the creature represented anything close to a threat, but the hideous change was quite unexpected. The monster charged as Akira watched calmly. At the last possible second, he took one incredibly quick step to the side and Zarbon ran straight into Dodoria who was attempting to sneak up on the young man. They fell down and looked dazed. Akira calmly walked over to them, picked them up by their armor and smacked their heads together then tossed the unconscious bodies onto the pile of Ginyu. Akira turned to Nappa and Raditz and looked expectantly at them.
The two big men glanced at each other and smiled. Their tails, which Akira had not noticed until that moment, curled around their waists and they began to power up.
"You're Saiyans?" Akira asked in disbelief. The two men grinned wickedly at him, but said nothing.
With a fierce yell and explosion of blue light Nappa flew at the young man, followed closely by Raditz. The two Saiyans pounded on the boy from all sides, moving so fast that they seemed invisible. Akira was too stunned by the sudden development to fight back. After almost a minute Nappa threw the young man to the ground as he and Raditz shot into the air and began launching ki blast after ki blast, creating an enormous hole where the boy had fallen. They did not stop their attacks until there was a large cloud of dust covering the newly formed crater.
The two were hovering in the air, laughing and congratulating each other on a job well done, when the dust finally cleared revealing a dirty and extremely pissed looking Akira staring up at them.
Suddenly the crater grew larger as Akira powered up, dropping his barrier as he did. The two Saiyans eyes went wide in horror at the sight. They didn't even have a chance to cry out in alarm before he was upon them. A moment later the two large men were lying on the pile of henchmen that Akira had created.
With the underlings incapacitated, Akira turned his attention to the ringleaders on the hill. They were now well aware of him, of course, and would not be as foolish as their minions had been. He began walking up the hill with a determined look upon his face.
When he reached the top, the person King Kai had called King Cold was standing and clapping. "Oh, bravo! That was an amazing show."
"Thanks," Akira said with a grin, "Now, why don't you guys save us all some trouble and come along quietly?"
"Did you hear that father? He wants us to come along quietly!" a short, white creature with a tail said in a raspy voice.
"Well, that's just too bad now isn't it?" the one known as Cell said. "You see boy, we're running things now and while you are very powerful, you don't stand a chance against the three of us at once!"
Akira sighed and shook his head.
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Piccolo watched the boy standing on the hill talking to the three monsters. He looked down at King Kai, "Are you sure this is a good idea?" he asked anxiously.
"Akira can take care of himself just fine, you'll see," the Kai said with a cheerful smile.
"I don't doubt that the boy is amazingly skilled for his age, but still, those three are a lot stronger than they were when Goku last faced them."
King Kai just smiled and continued watching his young student.
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King Cold, Frieza, and Cell. The three of them had all been the most powerful known fighters in the universe at one time or another, now all three were preparing to jump Akira. They assumed that the fact that the young man didn't run away screaming and crying was due to him not being alive when they had been at the height of their power.
The three moved as one, each pouncing upon the young fighter with all their speed and might. King Cold was sent flying by an over the shoulder throw, Frieza received a round house kick that sent him in the opposite direction, and Cell was hit with an uppercut which sent him flying in a third direction.
When the three Super Villains had managed to climb to their feet, they once again flew at Akira. The four became a blur of motion as the young Saiyan gracefully dodged all of the attacks from six fists, six legs, and two tails. After a few minutes of fun, he began dishing out punishment again. In no time at all the three villains were again lying on their backs wondering what had happened. Akira rose in the air and waited for them to recover again.
Cell was the first to rise, followed by Frieza, and lastly King Cold. The three of them looked up at Akira and then huddled together to discuss their strategy. After a minute, they broke the huddle. Frieza immediately powered up a distructo-disk, Cell began to charge a Kamehameha, and King Cold prepared to fire a death ray. Akira dodged the death ray and caught the distructo-disk, but Cell's Kamehameha caught him in the chest with a huge explosion.
When the smoke cleared Akira was right where he had been, still holding the distructo-disk. He looked at the disk, broke it in half, and dropped the pieces. "Don't you see how futile this is?" he asked. In response all three fired ki blasts at him. "You fools!" Akira shouted as he fired his own blast. It overwhelmed their blasts and smashed into them, finishing the battle.
Several demons began picking up the unconscious villains and taking them back to their cells as a smug Akira walked to where King Kai and Piccolo were waiting for him.
A large, pink blob of fat was holding down a red demon in a white, muscle shirt while a big, bald man pounded ruthlessly on it. A couple of feet to their left a small round, four-eyed alien was helping a large man with a tuff of orange hair beat down another demon in a similar shirt. Several other people were torturing white, fluffy clouds while the four beings of immense power that King Kai had pointed out watched with wicked grins on their faces.
~Those will stay out of the fight until they think they know what they're dealing with, all I really need to worry about for now is their henchmen,~ Akira thought as he walked towards the scene. When he was only a couple of feet from the pink blob he spoke up, "Excuse me, I think you should leave him alone. Perhaps you could find some one a little more your size to pick on?"
The blob and his bald friend turned and stared at Akira for a moment before bursting into laughter.
"If you find someone our size, let us know, okay kid?" the bald man said, and then, looking over his shoulder, he called out, "Hey Raditz, get a load of this wimp!"
A man with hair down to his knees looked up from the cloud he was smacking around and smiled wickedly. With a flick of his wrist he sent the white fluff sailing into a small lake of what looked like blood.
"Well, he certainly looks like he'll be more fun to play with than these stupid clouds, doesn't he Nappa?"
The other five henchmen (as Akira had deemed them) had stopped what they were doing and had formed a circle around the young man. Akira smiled; at least they weren't going to make it hard to round them all up.
"I don't think you'll be smiling so much when we're through with you, mate," a short, orange skinned man with long, white hair said as he cracked his knuckles.
"Yes, I'm afraid we're going to have to wipe it off your face." This came from a light blue man with a long braid of green hair.
Akira's smile grew larger, but his dark eyes became cold, "I'd like to see you try."
All eight of the henchmen tried to hit him at the same time, but before their fists could connect with their target, Akira was standing outside the circle with his arms crossed. Most of the henchmen stopped mid-swing, but a few ended up punching each other. Akira bother suppressing his laughter.
The henchmen glared angrily at him and prepared to attack, but before they could, the orange man held out his arms and stopped them.
"Come on boys, we don't really need everyone for this pipsqueak. You guys step back and let the Ginyu Force take care of him." With that, he and three others stepped forward and began making a series of awkward poses. "Ginyu roll call." The small man stuck his arms straight up and dropped to one knee, "Jaice!"
A blue skinned reptilian-looking alien with box shaped ears ran in place, then pointed both hands toward his face and yelled, "Burter!"
The little green fellow with four eyes stood on one foot and made a funny chopping motion with his arms, "Guldo!
A big muscular man with orange hair an unintelligent-looking expression on his face bent over and looked between his legs, "Racoome!"
The four stood perfectly still in their posses as if waiting for Akira to cheer. He didn't, but he did fall on the ground and roll around laughing. The four members of the Ginyu Force looked pissed at his lack of respect.
It took Akira a moment to recover enough composure to stand again. "Sorry about that, I've just never seen anything so... entertaining... in all my life. Anyway, I believe we were about to fight."
The four fighters circled up and began playing rock-paper-scissors; Akira stared open mouthed at them in amazement. In the end it was Racoome who won and he stepped forward and dropped into a fighting stance.
Akira cocked an eyebrow and flashed a cocky smile, "Just one? Are you sure that's all you want to send?"
Racoome laughed, "You got balls kid, I admire that. I tell you what, I'll just end it real quick, get ready for the Racoome-boom!"
Akira was bored, these weaklings were wasting his time with all their silly posses; he was going to let them know what they were dealing with. Right now.
It took him less than a half-second to cross the distance that separated himself from Racoome. He watched with no small amount of satisfaction as the man's big, stupid eyes widened in surprise and fear. A moment later Racoome was lying flat on his back and looking like he probably wouldn't wake up for a week.
The remaining member's of the Ginyu Force gave an angry shout and surged forward. It took about fifteen seconds for Akira to have them all lying in a pile at his feet. He glanced over at the four remaining henchmen and winked.
"Now, do you boys want to come peacefully or do I have to hurt you also?" he asked mockingly.
The fat pink man looked at the henchman with green hair and smiled, "Well Zarbon, would you like to take first crack at him or should I?"
"By all means, after you Dodoria," Zarbon said with a courtly voice.
Without another word Dodoria rushed at Akira, but the young warrior nimbly dodged to the side and tripped the tub of lard as he passed. Dodoria hit the ground with a loud thud as Akira turned back to the three remaining miscreants. Zarbon looked in raged, with an earsplitting scream his handsome face changed to that of a repulsive monster and his power level rose significantly.
Akira was a bit shocked to say the least, not because the creature represented anything close to a threat, but the hideous change was quite unexpected. The monster charged as Akira watched calmly. At the last possible second, he took one incredibly quick step to the side and Zarbon ran straight into Dodoria who was attempting to sneak up on the young man. They fell down and looked dazed. Akira calmly walked over to them, picked them up by their armor and smacked their heads together then tossed the unconscious bodies onto the pile of Ginyu. Akira turned to Nappa and Raditz and looked expectantly at them.
The two big men glanced at each other and smiled. Their tails, which Akira had not noticed until that moment, curled around their waists and they began to power up.
"You're Saiyans?" Akira asked in disbelief. The two men grinned wickedly at him, but said nothing.
With a fierce yell and explosion of blue light Nappa flew at the young man, followed closely by Raditz. The two Saiyans pounded on the boy from all sides, moving so fast that they seemed invisible. Akira was too stunned by the sudden development to fight back. After almost a minute Nappa threw the young man to the ground as he and Raditz shot into the air and began launching ki blast after ki blast, creating an enormous hole where the boy had fallen. They did not stop their attacks until there was a large cloud of dust covering the newly formed crater.
The two were hovering in the air, laughing and congratulating each other on a job well done, when the dust finally cleared revealing a dirty and extremely pissed looking Akira staring up at them.
Suddenly the crater grew larger as Akira powered up, dropping his barrier as he did. The two Saiyans eyes went wide in horror at the sight. They didn't even have a chance to cry out in alarm before he was upon them. A moment later the two large men were lying on the pile of henchmen that Akira had created.
With the underlings incapacitated, Akira turned his attention to the ringleaders on the hill. They were now well aware of him, of course, and would not be as foolish as their minions had been. He began walking up the hill with a determined look upon his face.
When he reached the top, the person King Kai had called King Cold was standing and clapping. "Oh, bravo! That was an amazing show."
"Thanks," Akira said with a grin, "Now, why don't you guys save us all some trouble and come along quietly?"
"Did you hear that father? He wants us to come along quietly!" a short, white creature with a tail said in a raspy voice.
"Well, that's just too bad now isn't it?" the one known as Cell said. "You see boy, we're running things now and while you are very powerful, you don't stand a chance against the three of us at once!"
Akira sighed and shook his head.
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Piccolo watched the boy standing on the hill talking to the three monsters. He looked down at King Kai, "Are you sure this is a good idea?" he asked anxiously.
"Akira can take care of himself just fine, you'll see," the Kai said with a cheerful smile.
"I don't doubt that the boy is amazingly skilled for his age, but still, those three are a lot stronger than they were when Goku last faced them."
King Kai just smiled and continued watching his young student.
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King Cold, Frieza, and Cell. The three of them had all been the most powerful known fighters in the universe at one time or another, now all three were preparing to jump Akira. They assumed that the fact that the young man didn't run away screaming and crying was due to him not being alive when they had been at the height of their power.
The three moved as one, each pouncing upon the young fighter with all their speed and might. King Cold was sent flying by an over the shoulder throw, Frieza received a round house kick that sent him in the opposite direction, and Cell was hit with an uppercut which sent him flying in a third direction.
When the three Super Villains had managed to climb to their feet, they once again flew at Akira. The four became a blur of motion as the young Saiyan gracefully dodged all of the attacks from six fists, six legs, and two tails. After a few minutes of fun, he began dishing out punishment again. In no time at all the three villains were again lying on their backs wondering what had happened. Akira rose in the air and waited for them to recover again.
Cell was the first to rise, followed by Frieza, and lastly King Cold. The three of them looked up at Akira and then huddled together to discuss their strategy. After a minute, they broke the huddle. Frieza immediately powered up a distructo-disk, Cell began to charge a Kamehameha, and King Cold prepared to fire a death ray. Akira dodged the death ray and caught the distructo-disk, but Cell's Kamehameha caught him in the chest with a huge explosion.
When the smoke cleared Akira was right where he had been, still holding the distructo-disk. He looked at the disk, broke it in half, and dropped the pieces. "Don't you see how futile this is?" he asked. In response all three fired ki blasts at him. "You fools!" Akira shouted as he fired his own blast. It overwhelmed their blasts and smashed into them, finishing the battle.
Several demons began picking up the unconscious villains and taking them back to their cells as a smug Akira walked to where King Kai and Piccolo were waiting for him.