I wish I owned DBZ, but I don't. I own DVD's and tapes, but it just isn't the same. I also don't own the right to any of the music pieces you may see selected, just copies of merchandise, such a shame. The artists that created them are geniuses and we all must bow to them.
Chapter 13: Dark Horizons
We appeared on another long purple road with scaly spikes on the sides of it.
"Welcome to Snake Way, all you have to do is jump through the clouds to get to hell. You'll have to send me a message because once you get done in hell you can't just fly out. Something about the clouds blocks everyone out," Goku explained.
"Got it, wish me luck!" I said with a smile.
"You won't need it, have fun!" Goku waved as he promptly vanished again. I stared at the yellow clouds for a few minutes, before swallowing my breath and jumping into them, letting myself free fall. I fell right through the clouds and into a very strange land. The sky was made of the yellow clouds, but was otherwise a dark purple. The ground was filled with occasional plant life, spiky rocks and pools of think red water that almost smelled like blood.
This is hell? Not that I'm complaining, but I was expecting a lot heat, its actually kind of chilly. I descended slightly before lifting back up in the air and flying slowly around, taking a glimpse of the scenery. Below I saw two large figures hiding behind a bush, one was orange with glasses, the other was blue, and both had horns like King Yemma. They were staring across a cliff ledge, shaking a bit. I landed behind them, but they never heard nor saw my approach, and apparently couldn't sense energy.
"Hey Mez, you think Cell went away?" The blue one asked.
"I don't think so Guaz, he never runs from us, just beats us up," Mez answered.
"Hey I thought we were the ones who were supposed to torture people for eternity, isn't this breaking the rules?" Guaz asked.
"Yeah, but what can we do? We need Goku or Pikkon to come down every time they get out of control!" Mez argued.
"You two are supposed to be ruling demons here? Man I guess the times change!" I laughed aloud, not being able to help myself. It literally made the two ogres jumping out of their shorts. They stood up and scowled down at me.
"Hey, you're one of them Saiyans! We don't usually see you guys around here, especially with Frieza and Cell here. I'd recognize that armor and tail anywhere!" Mez said pointing down towards my belly.
"Well yes, but Goku sent me down to pound some skulls belonging to Frieza, Cell and whoever else might be stirring up trouble," I explained.
"Goku sent you? Just a kid!" Guaz seemed dumbfounded.
"I'm stronger then I look ya know," I frowned.
"Sure kid, we're the baddest ogres in the land and we don't even compare to Cell and Frieza! What chance do you have?" Mez said, folding his arms. And like ogres they have no brain span.
"Well if Goku sent him, then he must be strong!" Guaz argued, "I would know, Goku himself defeated me in a test of strength!" Yeah what a nail biter that must have been.
"Well where is Cell and his friends?" I asked.
"Just over that cliff, we were going to go down there and check things out and see if we can beat him this time!" Mez said.
"I thought we were hiding from him Mez?" Guaz said. Mez smacked the big blue ogre upside the head.
"Stupid! You can't act like cowards in front of new blood, they won't obey or listen to you if you start like that!" he whispered, assuming I didn't hear. Mez stood up and cleared his throat,
"Fine, you may assist us in capturing the escaped villains today, but tomorrow you're schedule begins!"
"Actually I won't have any. I'm just down here for some exercise," I said, lifting into the air. The ogres looked dumbfounded by that, but lifted off as well and we descended into the canyon. I sensed significant energy levels down there, but nothing outlandish to me. I landed at what I thought was another large ogre, but it turned out to be several of them piled up, out cold.
"You guys get hazard pay out of this?" I cracked, not really caring if they answered or not.
"Only on weekends," Mez muttered.
"Do they need help or something? Usually people need help when bodies are piled up like that," I said.
"Nah, they'll wake up in a few hours. Ogres are immortal as long as King Yemma is around. It's some sort of afterlife rule he put in place so we can't be killed by the dead," Mez answered, glancing around, his hefty club shifting in his hands.
"I can't imagine that is all that great if you're getting beat up on a daily basis," I replied.
"Well look what we have here, two ogres we missed," A chilly voice cackled through the air. We spun to see seven figures standing before us.
"So, two ogres and a child. Well at least the kid will know first hand what hell is like, Hahahaha!" The white and purple one laughed through the air. I immediately scowled, because I knew exactly who it was before I even turned around. I recognized him from when Trunks sent me to this timeline. It was Frieza, the tall one next to him had to have been his father King Kold, though that was about all I could remember from Vegeta's stories as I hadn't seen him before. The tall green one resembled both of them and I thought it might have been Cell, but I wasn't sure yet. The lack of memory was starting to get annoying, but it didn't matter at the moment. All I knew was that Frieza blew up my home planet, and now he would pay.
"Oh Frieza, quit being so damn blind. The child is stronger than he looks, looks Saiyan to me. Armor and a tail, gotta be a Saiyan," Kold said.
"Doesn't matter father. He's still just a monkey, and monkeys are weak!" Frieza laughed again, flashing a wicked grin.
"I remember the last time you said that, when we were alive!" Kold shouted at his son, who flinched a little. I allowed my ki to rise out of slight anger, catching the tall green man's attention.
"Well now, it appears you still haven't learned how to sense energy yet Frieza, it seems you may have upset the boy a little bit. I can't imagine how you managed to do it this time. If he's anything like a Saiyan, he'd like to tear your arms off right about now," Tall Green said.
"No need to learn any monkey trickery like you have Cell, but he is certainly welcome to try and scratch me. Since he's already dead it won't be suicide, just a painful beating," Frieza cackled. The other four chuckled a little as well. One was small, a little taller than me, and green with four eyes. Another was short, but taller than the green one, he was red with white hair. The other two were huge in size, one was the most human looking out of all of them and short red hair, but he looked pretty stupid as well. The last one was big and blue, his head was covered with a strange yellow muscle with no hair, and his eyes were beat red with no pupils. All four of them had Saiyan like armor on, with strange looking emblems on the chest plates. Then they grinned and started striking random poses that were just plain ridiculous and gave Gohan a run for his money in their lack of style. I groaned, realizing who these four cluckers were, the Ginyu force. Vegeta had mocked Gohan a few times saying he resembled them with the poses.
"What's wrong boy, get a sudden case of stage fright?" Cell chuckled.
"No, just realizing who you morons are," I said loudly, causing them all to face fault slightly before returning their grins.
"Too bad your so outnumbered, you might stand a chance against Guldo over there one on one, but seven to one are not good odds you know," Frieza laughed again, his icy voice really starting to bother me.
"Seven to one?" I asked, turning to see the ogres were gone, even the unconscious ones. I shook my head slightly as I turned back, Weakling cowards, oh well I'd rather do this alone anyway.
"What do you say we make sport of this Frieza? He can fight us all one on one in the order of weakest to stronger, until he loses," Kold suggested.
"Father, that wouldn't be very fair now would it? Cell and I would never get a chance!"
"I know, but I'm curious about this Saiyan's fighting style," Kold said. Cell seemed to agree and the gauntlet was on.
"Think you can take me huh? Bring it on, I'm not going anywhere!" I challenged.
"Guess what kid? It's your lucky day! You get to fight the galacticly feared, GULDO!" the little green slug piped up as he floated over and landed, then posed on his name.
"Galacticly feared…" Kold joked, drawing a laugh from the whole group. Guldo scowled slightly, but didn't give it another thought. He gathered his energy and stared me down. I stood my ground, just by feeling the air I could tell he didn't have a prayer against me, I didn't even have to pinpoint his power level. He flew at me pathetically slow with a fist outstretched. I dodged aside and watched him go sailing past on his own flight path.
"Tell me something Green Glow or whatever your name is, you're the weakest of all of these guys?" I asked, causing some laughter from the rest of the Ginyu squad. Guldo turned and blushed slightly, not answering.
"Yeah that's what I thought, I don't think you could even beat Mister Satan," I sighed heavily. I heard Cell laughing quite hard after that while Guldo just frowned. I attacked a second later, one punch sent the slimeball into a nearby hill of spikes.
I spun on my heel as soon as I landed, "Next?" As if on cue, three faces cringed in anger, the other three looked mildly interested.
"You may have beaten Guldo, but you will never defeat the Ginyu force!" The tall pale one declared. Him and the other two then went through another round of bad posing while shouting their names.
"Recoome!"
"Jeice!"
"Burter!"
"THE GINYU FORCE!" all said at once.
"So, who gets him this time?" Recoome asked. The good old rock paper scissors game determined that, Recoome won.
"Well little punk, it's your unlucky day!" Recoome started powering up with a deep purple aura, leaving some crack marks in the ground, nothing all that impressive in regards to his power though.
"Aren't you going to run away?" the big brute asked.
I smiled, "From what? All I see is an oversized ant!" Then I charged him and hit him so hard that I accidentally went through his armor and out his back when I hit, making it a little messy in the process. Since he was already dead this was not a problem, but he still dropped to the ground while spitting up blood. I gave him a slight kick, sending him towards the spike hill where Guldo had landed.
"Not bad for a Saiyan child," I heard Kold say. Jeice and Burter though were stunned, they weren't much stronger than Recoome was according to my senses.
"You two can attack together, the outcome is the same," I said, turning my back on them. I guess they didn't take mockery very well, I soon heard two distinct battle cries before a wave of red and blue came flashing by me at random angles. Watching with my ki sense, I waited until both fighters came by at once, before picking them out of the air, a fist for Burter and a kick for Jeice. They both collapsed to the ground in pain, and Jeice started bitching about his nose.
"Hey, that's a landmark face you just ruined!"
"Looks better that way. Now shut up and fight," I said, dropping into a sloppy stance. They nodded at each other before sailing up in the air and powering up again. Once at their pathetic maximums, they danced around each other while firing combined power ki blasts at me. At least to me it looked like they danced around each other, to anyone normal it would have looked like a purple spiral. I brushed a few of their weak blasts aside before taking off and shooting in between them, something they sure didn't expect. A few slaps of the hand and they were well on they're way to visit Guldo and Recoome. I landed before Kold, Frieza and Cell. Frieza looked pissed, Kold chuckled a little, and Cell didn't seem to give a damn.
"Well?" I asked impatiently.
"You can have him father, I know you don't exercise on a regular basis," Frieza chuckled. I let my ki rise secretly, nearing my maximum in my normal form silently. Cell was becoming increasingly interested in me now, clearly detecting my power.
"Are you ready Saiyan trash? Do I have to wait for your mother to breast feed you first?" Kold asked, tossing his cape aside. His futile attempt to anger me only caused arrogance to emerge.
"You're the one that will be crying after this is over," I said. Kold floated forward and charged. He didn't attack head on though; he phased out about two feet in front of me. I charged a ki blast in my hand and waited for him. Sure enough I felt him reappear behind me, both arms in the air and ready to strike. I turned fast and fired right at his chest plate. The look of surprise was quite humorous to say the least, that look didn't last as the ki blast tore through his body easily; he went sprawling into another nearby mountain. After the air cleared, I sensed Frieza trying to sneak up behind me. I spun with a sharp kick that caught him across the cheek and sent him to the ground.
"H-h-how?" Frieza asked, shocked.
"You know, you're the only one I've truly wanted to kill, too bad that Trunks saved me the trouble. Now I'll just humiliate you," I said in distain, spitting at his face.
"I'll show you monkey!" Frieza shouted at he shot a ki blast that he seemed to gather out of nowhere right at my face. Putting up my guard wasn't worth the effort; it didn't do anything other than leave a slight blemish. When the smoke cleared, Frieza's jaw was on the ground.
"Look at you, you're not even worth my time, you are pathetic," I said to his shocked and shaken form. I kicked him sharply in the ribs, breaking at least four of them in the process and causing him to start wheezing a little as he skidded through the dirt. I rushed him and grabbed a hold of his tail with my foot in his back.
"Ow! What are you doing?" Frieza shrieked.
"Giving you a taste of your own medicine! Have fun getting out of this one!" I said, glaring down at him as I wrapped up his tail. He resisted a lot, until I stepped into his back a little more than harshly. Once he quit resisting for a moment, I tied up his tail into a thick but tight knot before tossing him aside. He squirmed on the ground while holding his tail in agony, giving me my satisfaction.
"Okay Saiyan, fight me!" Cell said from behind me. I didn't have a chance to turn before he kicked at me and actually hit. The blow was enough to propel me into the air, leaving a nice little red mark on my side nonetheless. Cell followed into the air to stop and stare me down in mid air, smiling all the way. I turned to face him, ignoring the little pain in my side, in a half scowl-smirk.
"Well aren't you going to power up? I'm sure you know you won't beat me in your current state!" Cell said with a chuckle.
I allowed myself to smirk a little bit, "Alright then," I said, pulling my arms up and glowing gold in the process.
To see Frieza go from pissed to freaked out was funny enough. When he saw my transformation to Super Saiyan, he was high tailing out of there it as quickly as possible, cradling his knotted tail with him. As I built my power, I saw Cell's grin start to fade. Like fuel to the fire, I continued adding on power. My now blond hair shot up high in the air as I approached my maximum. The bright grin of victory that Cell had displayed had now diminished into a deep scowl. I screamed slightly when I hit full power in my Super Saiyan form, my power outshining most of the light that shown from the skies. Wow, dieing sure did increase my power! I thought as I gained control of myself.
"Well, maybe this day will be more exciting after all," Cell chuckled slightly.
"Shut up," I said, charging forward. Cell brought back his arm in full preparation to strike me down. I saw through it and moved away so fast that he swung at the afterimage I left. I rushed around behind him landed a kick square in the back of his wings. He absorbed the blow and flipped upside down in the air and stepped into my midsection. I flew backwards a little from the blow only to be punched solidly in the head and flung to the ground from the blow. I managed to stop my descent right above the ground and hovered. Looking back up, I lost track of Cell, only to sense him appear behind me. I attempted to spin around; I succeeded only to see a nicely powered ki blast in Cell's hand. My eyes widened slightly, and he fired. A quick thought flashed through my head and I fired a blast right back at him while he was firing at me. His ki blast caught me in the upper chest plate, the force knocked me backwards and I hit the ground with a dull thud. I heard and sensed my blast hit Cell's body; the smoke didn't show where yet. I got to my feet and dusted off my armor, minimal damage to it. The smoke cleared and Cell appeared, a deep cringe of pain in his face. His body shown again and I saw that I had blasted a good size hole right smack in the middle of his chest.
"You actually hit me!" Cell whined.
"Don't lose sleep over it," I chuckled slightly.
"You're a fool to think it's over boy!" Cell challenged.
"Yeah yeah, I've heard about the regeneration. I've fought worse than you back on earth. Majin Buu can regenerate too," I explained.
"Majin who?" Cell asked, intrigued, and regenerating himself in the process.
"Majin Buu!" a familiar old voice shouted. We both turned head to see the little brown imp himself, Babidi.
"Buu huh, sounds like a mental case," Cell said.
"Well he is unstoppable, just a brat at heart! He has wiped out all of the earth's greatest fighters with little difficulty, a feat I hear none of you could accomplish!" Babidi cackled.
"Destroying the Super Saiyans isn't something you can do in just a few skirmishes, I myself can tell you that. Bug off you old idiot, me and the boy are having a sparring match," Cell said angrily.
"Ha, you don't have a prayer against that boy! He fought with Buu earlier and so far is the only one that truly challenged him, and you're nothing compared to Buu green bean!" Babidi laughed. Was that supposed to be a vote of confidence?
"Stay out of this you old fool, before I decide that you need disciplined!" Cell threatened.
"Dabura! I need you to wipe a smudge from my sight!" Babidi shouted. Instantly Dabura's ki signal appeared out of nowhere right next to Cell. The red demon with his blue and white fighting gi stood a tad shorter than Cell, but bore a smirk that Cell could not match.
"What the hell are you supposed to be?" Cell sneered.
"Is that all you do is talk green man? I'm surprised the boy wasted his time with you and your friends, but then again he hasn't unlocked his full potential just yet," Dabura cackled. Full potential, I wish I could locate all this power he keeps claiming that I have hidden inside me. Maybe I should let Babidi use his magic on me to find it…then again maybe not. Cell prepared a fresh ki blast in his hands, only to have Dabura kick it away with ease the moment he fired it. Cell threw a punch at him but the demon king simply caught it and squeezed hard. Cell cried in surprised pain before kicking his leg up in-between himself and Dabura, separating them. Cell flipped back around quickly and landed, right when Dabura's fist came calling and he impaled the green cyborg. Cell simply dropped to the ground, out cold. Dabura stood there and chuckled slightly, then glanced over at me. I dropped into my stance quickly, having a sudden bad case of déjà vu. Then I saw something that stuck out about the demon king, or in this case didn't. Dabura's forehead was completely red, there was no longer a large black M on it.
"Now Dabura! Make that boy pay for being such a pain in the ass!" Babidi cheered from behind me, apparently thinking that Dabura was still on his side. Dabura held up his palm and stared at me hard, charging a blast and letting it fly. He released the blast, but it was a little off the mark, so I kept my eyes locked on him and turned my head slightly to avoid it. The blast went sailing past and struck Babidi dead on, and I heard him wail in pain before his voice was too far away to be heard. Dabura and I stared each other down for a few minutes longer, before I felt his powered up ki signal drop. I twitched an eyebrow in response, standing deadly still.
"Hmph, well here we are again. I do not have quarrel with you now boy. I watched your fight with Majin Buu, I for one believe you could have destroyed him once and for all had Babidi not interfered, but enough about that," Dabura said calmly. Indeed enough about that, I didn't need reminded of a fight I so nearly won, yet lost horribly.
"I came back here to warn you about something. I have heard of the dragonballs and their ability to give back life, so I know you will be wished back to the living world eventually, assuming Majin Buu is destroyed. But something will come to Earth soon that can and will wipe out the humans and may yet take the rest of the universe with it. It's a new species that no one else here has seen yet, called the Zerg," Dabura explained to me. Something in his words were familiar, but I couldn't figure it out.
"The Zerg? What threat do they pose, and what exactly are they?" I asked, standing up normally to listen.
"They are a killer breed of insect types that infest planets they are found on and enslave the inhabitants. Where they originate I do not know, but I do know that they will find they're way here eventually. When I last checked our scanning devices they were at least a year or two away from arriving here, following us. They are also a tough species to stop. While you earth fighters are far stronger than any single Zerg, they're swarming numbers will overcome. That was one reason why we revived Majin Buu, we held high hope that he could destroy the Zerg easily as none of us could. They were a threat to Babidi's plans," Dabura continued, pausing for me to question.
"Wait a sec, if you're so powerful and we're strong comparatively to the Zerg, what is the threat? Why couldn't we just wipe them out when they get here?" I asked.
"Good question. The problem is that the higher echelons of Zerg, controllers of the swarm, possess strange energy that normal energy cannot match. Normal ki can fight it, overpower it and batter them to the brink of destruction, but they still live on. We can only assume that only another being with the same rippling energies could truly harm them, but we have found no such species that possess that. I would tell you what that energy is, but it is not my place. The only reason I am telling you at all is because you Earthling fight with honor, something Babidi has never had and never will have. From warrior to warrior I thought you had the right to know what may be coming. I can't tell you if you mortals have a chance to stop the Zerg, but from what I saw today and from what I've heard around here, you could find a way," Dabura said, turning on his heel and walking off.
"Hey wait," I shouted after him.
"Train hard and release that inner potential, I'm sure you will find a way to kill Buu and possibly a solution to destroy the Zerg. Find that way, and avenge…my daughter!" Dabura said, before vanishing into thin air. Daughter?!
Power levels
Ogres: less than 400
Guaz: 550
Mez: 500
Verto: 47,000,000; Super Saiyan: 165,000,000
Guldo: 15,000
Recoome: 45,000
Jeice: 52,000
Burter: 48,000
King Kold: 16,000,000
Frieza: 19,000,000
Cell: 168,000,000
Dabura: 317,000,000