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 Starcraft or any of the music pieces you see selected, just copies of merchandise, such a shame. The artists that created them are geniuses and we all must bow to them.
Chapter 16: The Secret of the Mystic
"Okay, let me get this straight. You and the prince came here from the future by accident and were trying to get home by use of these magic wishes from a magic set of orange colored balls that are created by Namekians, I get that. The fact that the prince and yourself as well as a few others are the only Saiyans left, I don't quite understand that, but I get it. I even get that you and the others are god-like super Saiyans with unbelievable power compared to Frieza, hell I've seen that. But I'm truly lost on those things you just killed!" Bardock said after I explained to all of them the real story, with the exception of my true human origin. I told them about me being from a different dimension and all of that, but I left out the fact that I used to be a twenty-year-old human, and I left out most of the details regarding my power, as even I didn't have the answers there.
"And you said you've seen those before?" Shugesh added.
"They are the Zerg, nasty little demons of destruction as you can see, and as I would understand it, they shouldn't be appearing until forty years in the future. They were on their way to Earth, where we are all live. Vegeta and I were on a mission to another place and we ended up here because his son messed up the time machine. But just like you, I don't get it either. They shouldn't be here, but then I wouldn't be bleeding like this either," I said, holding my stomach slightly. Fasha finally got over her fear of my deep power as it had blown everyone back earlier, and came closer, taking a off strip of my jumpsuit and clamping it around my gushing arm, applying pressure.
"I knew that when we traveled here, it might mess something up. This kind of change wasn't what I had in mind. It's like the Zerg are following me around now," I said, laughing slightly, then groaning in pain.
"What can we do here then?" Bardock asked.
"Well, if Frieza still wants this planet, he can have it. But I would like to stem the Zerg troops from coming back, so I suggest we find the source of them and stop it. We found one on Earth that looked to be a staging area in a basement. It will be a small structure that looks like a tunnel, ow!" Fasha had just poked a little too hard on my torn arm.
"But without scouters we can't find it!" Shugesh said.
"I don't think that will matter very much, the scouters didn't pick them up at all," Tora said.
"I can sense them, but I have to be close. Around the Zerg I've noticed a scattered ki signature, one reason the scouter probably didn't pick it up. But they can sense energy just as well or maybe better than I can. I'm getting a reading from that direction, but I can't tell how many there are. If I could risk powering up any further I would, but I don't think it's a good idea to get anyone else's attention right now!" I pointed with my good arm while Fasha ripped some more spandex up and patched up the other. I didn't want to power up further so not to alert Frieza and ride into a ambush on the way back, it sounded counter-productive.
"Well, that's about as good as I can do. We won't have any first aid services until we get back to Vegita," she said, standing up.
"Okay guys, we might as well do something while we're here. We're going to find this Zerg structure and destroy it, so we don't have to deal with reinforcements. Let's go!" Bardock shouted, powering up his aura for flight. The others followed suit and I did as well, lifting into the air. Bardock let me take off first, since I had the only ability to detect anything, and the only scouter left was useless now. Flying over the destroyed cities, I noticed the scattered ki reading was growing in intensity. It meant that there was either more of them, or just one big strain. But so far I had only seen one type of Zerg, and hoped deep down that I didn't have to see some of the other types. The ground looked strange up ahead, and then we passed over where it was covered in the same purple crap that was in Satan's basement, and it smelled really bad.
"What is that kid?" Bardock asked.
"It's a Zerg colony, they're definitely here," I said, continuing ahead. We passed a few organic structures, really ugly ones. A few of them were pouring out the purple creep stuff, and my memory of the game started to return even more. Scattered ki feelings kept up, and I looked ahead to see a larger building ahead. Zerg types were scrambling around it, minions as large as a truck were dragging in bodies and trees, and whatever other materials they had. I noticed smaller worm type larvae hanging around this structure, and watched as one suddenly started turning into an egg. We stopped above to wait for the egg to hatch, a process that took about five minutes. Then the egg literally blew up and a pair of Zerglings popped out and growled at us, even though we were about fifty feet up.
"That is a primary hive structure of some kind isn't it? We should destroy that!" Bardock suggested.
"Yes we should, I'm more concerned with the backup troops though. There doesn't seem to be very many here considering the destruction we saw all over the planet," I said, holding my ribs a little where the Zergling had caught me real good. My bodysuit had begun to turn purple there. I scanned around, following the purple creep around until I could find another structure, a different one. I found one about a mile from the central hive cluster, and recognized it as a canal.
"You guys start here, I found the stem!" I shouted, blasting off to the canal. I reached it quickly and brought my palms together, despite the pain.
"Ka, me, ha, me," I chanted. Inside the canal, I saw something start to emerge. It looked to be at least ten feet tall, maybe more. Its fangs were dripping green and it had huge talons on its arms. I didn't see any legs, but I didn't care to find out.
"HAAA!" The blue beam smashed into the building, crushing whatever was coming out of the magical hole in the ground and collapsing the building. The purple mass on the ground started to retreat, and I breathed a little easier. I flew back to the others, only to find that they were blasting the crap out of the hive cluster. But it didn't seem to take much damage from their blasts, as they were probably not releasing anything strong enough. I powered up ki into my hands and let loose a hellfire attack of ki bolts, striking the hive with undaunted fury. Initially it didn't seem to damage it much either, but then I saw what looked to be blood dripping from its walls.
"Focus more energy into your attacks, that'll finish it," I suggested. The crew nodded and fired off stronger beams. The larvae below started dieing. I saw the hive start to shrink the more we damaged it, until it suddenly exploded in a big wave of blood that splashed over us and all over the ground. The purple creep receded rapidly with the rest of the buildings when we blasted those into nothing. I took a seat on a boulder, holding my gut a little harder as it hurt pretty bad now.
"Well, that went off without a hitch!" Tora sounded disappointed. My feeling of scattered ki had dissipated quite a bit, but hadn't vanished, I felt something coming from the distance, slowly.
"I'm not sure, I wouldn't bet on that!" I said, suddenly picking up something from up ahead of me. I jumped up again to see dust in the air, and then I saw several Zerglings racing our way, along with some very big and gruesome looking creatures, the same ones as the one I had seen trying to come out of the tunnel.
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We lifted up into the air quickly, to stay away from the Zerg momentarily. The new type of Zerg that showed up didn't seem to have legs, just a tail that they guided on like a snake would. Unlike a snake though, they stood out and up, about fifteen feet or so tall, a large head with plenty of fangs. It looked like there wasn't a jawbone at all, despite the many teeth. The creature had talon claws that had to be five feet long each, shaped into hardened blades of Zerg skin.
"Man, this shit keeps getting weirder and weirder," Tora said, charging up ki into his palms.
"Stay in the air, they don't seem to have the ability to shoot blasts or fly," Bardock ordered. The huge new creatures stopped below us and lined up. Then all at once their jaws, or lack there of, opened up and they spat into the air. Instead of saliva, I saw small needles come flying through the air, straight at us. Thinking that they might be poisoned, or just plain deadly to touch, I blasted a quick ki wave into their path, destroying the needles.
"What the hell?" Tora shouted.
"Seems they can shoot some sort of green spit into the air. They're long-range types, it must be either very poisonous or very corrosive," Bardock observed.
"Man, let's just blast em into dust!" Fasha whined. No one argued that point, and we started firing multiple blasts at the beasts, tearing up the Zerglings in the process. The new creatures seemed a bit tougher than the lings, it took a few blasts to do anything before some blood was drawn. They were still spitting needles at us, but our ki blasts wiped out the needles before they got close. Eventually the ki blasts started to beat them down, and soon their huge bodies collapsed to the ground, sending chunks of Zergling into the air briefly. In only a few minutes the new Zerg had been obliterated, granted there weren't very many of them, only twenty or so.
"So was that the main base?" Bardock asked me.
I shrugged, "I don't know, they sent backup, but there wasn't anything here. Since the canal was here it would make sense that it was the main base, but it's hard to tell. They might have just got here and were still establishing it. I'm still getting a bit of scattered ki over that way, but its coming here pretty quickly, and I can't sense anything else," I admitted, looking to the distance.
"Then we wait for them," Bardock said, standing tall in the air. A few more minutes passed, no sound or sight of the Zerg.
"Kid, you sure you're okay, the bottom part of your suit is turning red!" Tora pointed out. I looked down to see that exactly, my ki had numbed it well, but I was still bleeding from the center area.
"Take off your armor, I need to see it!" Fasha flew over, insistent.
"I'm okay, and I don't think we have a lot of time," I said pointing.
"Keep saying that and you might collapse pretty soon, now shut up and take it off or I will for you!"
I sighed, Women. I slowly took the armor off, wincing when I hit a sore point. My suit top had been torn through clean through the armor in two big swipes, and the claw talons had imbedded themselves into my gut a few inches deep, something that was bleeding a whole hell of a lot. Blood loss started making me feel a little faint.
"Stay still kid, I'm gonna seal the wound!" Fasha said, holding out a single finger, while I steadied myself in the air. Then she blasted, hitting the very tender wounds and causing my to cry out in pain. I lost control of my flight and she had to hold me up by the other arm. Then she blasted again, pain tearing through me when she did. Man, it sucks having to rely on them like this and not taking it up to full power, but its better than getting blown up on the way back.
She finished quickly, "There, that should hold and stop of the bleeding." I gave her a thankful look, before flying on my own again.
"There they are, some flying ones this time!" Tora pointed. I looked up to see small flyers in the air, they came close pretty quickly. Again I couldn't recognize what they did right away, but the fact that they didn't have wings was making me a bit nervous. Bardock fired a weak blast and hit one dead on. It seemed to shake off the blast, and I saw very thick, scaly skin.
"Armored skin layers, look out!" The crew jumped out of the way as the flyers came through; they swooped around and came back for another pass. I put my hands forward and powered more energy into them, letting one strong blast go and hit one in its head and neck, if that's what you want to call it. It smoked and coughed, and it's scattered ki faded, tearing through the air seemingly on fire. But then it came straight at me, burning and dying at the same time. I got ready to punch it, but my sore body didn't move fast enough, and the beast bore down faster than I thought possible. Then something very strange happened, it's skin exploded right there. Then its body beneath did, but some kind of green stuff came pouring out and rained down on me, hitting my tender midsection. Whatever it was, it started eating my bodysuit, and then some got to my skin. I dropped from the sky in burning pain, hitting the ground with a nasty thud.
"Kid!" Bardock shouted. That was about all the rest of the crew was going to take, and started shooting stronger blasts in random directions, taking out the kamikaze Zerg. Tora and Fasha landed first once the flyers were gone. I sat up, feeling like I had some serious sunburn going on.
"Note to self, don't stand in front of one of those," I groaned slightly, before clutching my stomach. Fasha peeled back what was left of my blue suit top.
"That green crap struck your wounds and started to eat part of the seal, its bleeding again, and now internally I'll bet!" she fired some ki into it again, causing me to jolt and stiffen slightly. It was a good thing I was so much stronger compared to her, otherwise her blasts probably would have done some unneeded damage. I started hearing and feeling a rumbling sound, like an earthquake, but not as strong, it was more like a stampede of some sort. Bardock and Borgos flew over to check it out. They were back pretty quick, coming down to our position where Tora and Shugesh had joined us.
"We have multiple contacts coming in from the west, estimated at least three to five hundred, maybe more. Lots of those ground troops, a few of those suicide flyers also!" Bardock said, "This is it guys, looks like a main attacking force, let's take em out. Fasha stay back and watch the kid, and don't look at the sky unless they get close. Got that? Good, lets go!" With that said, Bardock, Tora, Shugesh and Borgos flew off in the direction of the extremely strong source of scattered ki I was starting to sense. I attempted to get up, but my midsection felt like it had been torn badly, and it hurt just like someone had stepped on my tail.
"Don't you dare get up, you're not in fighting condition!" Fasha yelled at me.
"Well, if those things can do this to me, imagine what they can do to you guys! What does Bardock plan to do against that? He's no fool, but it would be foolish to take on a pack of beasts that can do crap like this to even the strongest fighters!"
"Oh don't worry, Bardock isn't the team captain for nothing, he has a plan!" Fasha assured me.
"And what is his plan going to do?" That's when I heard four distinct feral roars, very loud and very vile, and familiar as I had done it before as well. I relaxed when I saw the Power Ball in the sky, showing off light like a fake moon.
"Good answer, good answer."
"Yeah, that's one of the best moves the entire Saiyan army has, and Bardock came up with it a long time ago. It's a fake moon blast, that simulates.." I cut her off when I put up my hand.
"Yeah I know, I've used it before," I said with a grin. Fasha kept her back to the battle, though the fake moon was above her head and not going to affect her if she didn't look up.
"You have, you mean you have transformed before? But why aren't you doing changing now? You're looking right at the thing!" I was about to answer when the ground shook some more, this time because the transformed Saiyans were stomping the ground, I sensed large ki beams going off as well.
"Because my power is different than it used to be," I said.
"You mentioned that before, but you never said that you had transformed. You can tell me, we're all in this together! We seem to have a few minutes before were needed," she said with a smirk. So I started telling her about the whole incident with Trunks and the mystic power up, as I had not told them at all about that before. Taking my time with the explanation, I concentrated my ki into the wounded areas of my body, slowly healing them. It was a nifty trick that Piccolo had shown me. The drawback to that of course was that it used up my ki and left me drained. This left me thankful that I had so much power still available, and it wouldn't do any good anyway if I was too injured to use it. I doubted my body was going to take a real power up very well, that and it might be detected.
Interlude 16.1 -Beasts vs. Beasts-
"Moon blast explode!" Bardock shouted at his white ball in the sky, squeezing his fist together. He would have preferred to rely on the real moon, but it was broad daylight and it was not scheduled to come back around the planet for another day or so. Since the creatures didn't seem to be able to manipulate energy, he felt fine about using his fake moon ball. Instantly the four Saiyans started transforming, and the upcoming Zerg stopped in wonder, a few Zerglings turning their heads in interest. Bardock finished his first, but waited for his crew to do the same. All at once the Saiyans erupted with a loud and violent roar, and some of the Zerg backed up a little bit, nothing would certainly blame them. The sight of four seventy-foot apes is a bit intimidating. But that didn't stop the Zerg from charging.
The main force of Zerglings charged first, attacking the feet and legs of the huge apes. They paid for it, soon Zergling bodies were kicked and thrown through the air, and others were squashed under the huge boots. Bardock found a Zergling clinging to his ankle, clawing it like crazy. He reached down and picked up the little bugger with two fingers, before taking it into the palm of his hand and crushing it, purple blood splattered over his furry wrist. The remaining Zerglings backed up a little, and the larger creatures came forward and started shooting their needle spines. The needles struck the Saiyans, but couldn't get past all the fur or the tough skin, rendering them useless. Bardock and Tora charged forward and started stomping all over the now not so big creatures, littering the ground with crushed bodies. The ones that escaped their wrath tried to shoot more spines; only to get mouth blasts in return.
While Bardock and Tora were mopping the floor with the front line Zerg, Borgos and Shugesh made their way around the battle by making huge bounds and getting on the Zerg back flank. There were several kamikaze flyers were buzzing around. They came at the Saiyans and detonated before either one could pound or blast them. A few hit Borgos with its green acid in the chest armor, Shugesh got a few on his legs. Both Saiyans roared with pain, but didn't slow down and started mouth blasting the backwash Zerglings, who were trying to retreat. Bardock and Tora finished killing the Zerg on the front line and came up quickly, chasing the rest off, severely dwindled numbers for the Zerg.
"What do you think Bardock?" Tora asked with a growl.
"They'll be back, I think I hear something else coming!" Sure enough, the Zerglings came back and attacked the huge Saiyans legs again, only to get knocked away, kicked away, or stomped on. But then a larger type of Zerg came calling. This one was huge, easily thirty feet tall, but had to be fifty feet in length and forty in width. It had large tusks on the front, resembling a really large elephant. This one charged without fear and ran towards Borgos first. The Saiyan stood tall and waited for it, sending a fist into its back when it got into range. The elephant-like creature staggered a bit when the fist hit its back, some bones were crushed. But then it leapt forward and tackled the Saiyan, before mauling Borgos with its huge tusks, cutting him up in several places before piercing the armor. Shugesh jumped up and threw the creature off Borgos, who wasn't moving very much. Shugesh grabbed the thing by the horns and used his fantastic strength to launch it into the air, when Tora and Bardock fired mouth blasts at it. The ki attack tore it in half, before both halves came falling down.
Borgos managed to get up and bash one of the halves in anger, shooting a mouth blast at the other one and destroying it as well, though the thing was long dead. Bardock and Tora waited a few minutes, watching out for more Zerg but seeing none. Tora nodded and shot a mouth beam at the fake moon; destroying it and making the Saiyans revert to normal. Borgos staggered a little bit, his armor was a bit red where the elephant Zerg had speared him.
"C'mon guys, were leaving this hell hole," Bardock ordered, flying back to where Fasha and Verto were.
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"Yeah, there really are old gods called Kais in the afterlife, the oldest one I think is the one who gave me the mystic power. He gave a friend of mine that power as well, said something about it being hidden deep inside of both of us, just needing to be pulled out. Once we get home we have to use the dragon balls to restore me to my eight-year-old body, but to ask the dragon to keep the mystic power. Supposed to enhance my potential I guess," I shrugged slightly.
"You're better off this way if you ask me," Fasha frowned. I couldn't really argue so I slowly glanced around and realized the loud battle had ended. A small beam shot up and killed the fake moon, much to Fasha's relief, and mine before she went ape on me, no pun intended. Bardock and the others flew back, Borgos looked slightly injured.
"So?" I asked.
"We just kicked the crap out of them, but we saw another type, a big one. Probably about fifty feet long, thirty feet tall, something like that. It had huge tusks, that help any?" Tora asked. I did my best to get my memory on the subject rolling on that one, reaching the answer quickly.
"I think those were Ultralisks, I'd just call them elephants though with that description!"
"And the other things, the fifteen footers with the shooting green needles?"
"Hydralisks, I think, or just hydras for short. It has been so long since I played that game anyway," I shrugged.
"Glad to see your memory is coming back on that subject," Bardock sneered.
"Hey, cut me some slack! Before I only saw them from a two dimensional picture, I didn't know what meeting one would be like!"
"So what was this mission you and the future prince were going on?" Fasha interrupted, curious.
"We were going to a place to get information on the Zerg, my old world where the game was created. I figured that would be the best bet since these Zerg act almost just like them, and the buildings and purple crap on the ground are the same too!"
"So, they sense energy like you?"
"Yeah I think so, I know they can sense at least me pretty damn well. They didn't seem to notice very well when you guys blasted them, and I know I can't sense them worth a crap, I have to look for a scattered ki feeling," I explained again, standing now, but holding my stomach as if my guts were about to fall out.
"What do you suggest for returning, do we tell Frieza or not?" Bardock asked.
That question threw me a little, "How about we don't? Let that purple headed freak find out what's here for himself when the Zerg start destroying his empire!" I snarled at the mention of his name.
"In that case, we wiped out the Kanassans, that is our story guys!" Bardock said a little loud to get the point across, getting several nods in return.
"Lie to Frieza, boy what a death wish! I never liked him anyway. Why'd he want this dump so bad anyway, is he out of his tiny little mind?" Shugesh asked with a bright grin.
"Yeah, but not in this case, I think this planet has special energy or something. Supposedly you could develop psychic ability if you stayed here long enough," Bardock muttered, glancing around. Special energy? I thought as it set off a warning bell or two inside of my head.
"Yeah I heard that too, that you could read minds and see the future and stuff if you lived here!" Tora added.
"Frieza's such a paranoid one too, he'd kill for the chance to read minds!" Bardock snorted.
"Now there's a scary thought, Frieza reading minds!" Shugesh laughed. A pile of rubble moved behind us, causing everyone's ki to spike up, ready for battle. I sensed a halfway normal energy level, not Saiyan, but not Zerg either. A blue Kanassan arose from the rubble, he was very torn up, with a big scowl on his face.
"Well well, seems the Zerg didn't get them all!" Tora laughed.
"Be silent, baboon, I seek the pure hearted one!" That got him several confused looks, until he narrowed in on me, holding my gut from the wounds the Zerg inflicted.
"Come here young one, there are things you must know! I'm the last one so it is I who will tell you."
"What is it?" I asked in a gentler voice.
"I know things, like how those Zerg creatures found this place, and about you!" He motioned with his hand and I floated over to him with caution, I wasn't quite sure what he meant by that.
"You can come over without caution, unlike your friends I trust you. You should be able to trust me!" the fish yelled, causing me to move a little faster.
"Hold on kid, it could be a trick!" Bardock shouted behind me.
I turned back for a brief second, "If it is, fry him."
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The Kanassan led me about a hundred yards away before stopping and turning, asking me to land before him.
"I know of your plight to get home young one, as well as to fight the Zerg creatures there on your planet. I also know of the mystical powers the Kais unleashed within you, for it emits a powerful ki like signal. However, it isn't completely ki your emitting, ki is only part of the puzzle, the unlocking factor. Anyone who can sense ki will only sense ki from you, including yourself right now. Another energy you are emitting is called Psi, and it can be an even more powerful energy when harnessed to its maximum capacity. Ki and Psi are completely different energies that make up your life and spirit, and can be used separately. But unlike ki, Psi has a slightly higher limit of usage in the hands of a true master, as it is also your mental energy. Since it is part of your spirit, it could be used as much as you want as long as your physical body is able to channel it!" he said, taking a deep breath before continuing. I allowed that to sink in, though I was more amazed than anything else.
"The catch is you must have a pure enough heart, which you do. Otherwise I'm sure the great supreme Kai would not have released such a power within you and your friend Gohan. In time you will learn to use Psi as well. For Psi combined with your enhanced Saiyan ki power, will create a greater power in the fight against your enemies, a sacred power if you will. It will be some time before you learn the process of calling up Psi, and I cannot help you, there isn't enough time. Be warned, the Zerg can sense Psi even from the farthest reaches of space. That is how they found you, and us. Our telepathic abilities are a result of Psi as well. Do you understand all of this?" I nodded grimly, understanding the just of it.
"I understand the difficulty learning all of this quickly as well as fighting your enemy that you can't sense very well. Do not despair, for you will return to your place and time, and you as well as Gohan, will learn how to harness Psionic power in the future when the time is correct. Once that is accomplished, your true ability and purpose will become clearer. Until then, good luck, young pure hearted Saiyan! And I apologize for this," the fish bowed slightly before lifting into the air. He then leapt forward suddenly and punched me across the jaw. His hand broke instantly and left no pain for me, but he didn't pay any heed and changed direction. He charged up his power and rushed at Bardock and Tora, who were more than ready for him.
"Die you freakish monkeys!" he shouted. It was too obvious to call him suicidal, and Tora vaporized the Kanassan, leaving only his words behind to me. I gazed at the smoke created by his departure.
"The things you find under rocks nowadays!" Shugesh joked. I floated back to the group, fresh thoughts about this great power called Psi that I was emitting but couldn't use or sense myself. It was like a bad case of B.O. that you just can't wait to get rid of, or in this case, learn to use. Boy this puts a new spin on things.
"So what did he have to say before he decided he didn't want to live?" Tora asked me.
"Something I didn't expect. Not that it matters now," I replied.
"All right then, let's get the hell out of here!" Bardock announced, powering up his aura. He must've realized that he didn't know exactly where he was, and looked at me. I chuckled slightly and tossed him the scouter that was still on my ear. He smirked slightly and rose into the air with the rest of us, blasting off towards the ships.
"You really shouldn't fly as hurt as you are!" Fasha frowned as we cruised through the air.
"Yeah I know, but I'm using my ki to heal the wounds as we speak. It's a little trick a Namek showed me a few months back. The only drawback is that I going to be a bit drained on the way home, three weeks of sleep might actually feel pretty good!"
"Damn, you can control that better than anyone I've ever known. Can you teach us how to do that?" Fasha asked in a lower voice.
"Maybe, whenever we have the time to do it. It's really not a hard batch of techniques, you just need to be patient with it," I added. About an hour passed of flight, most of it discussed on what to do when we get home and the fighting abilities of the Zerg. We came up to the area where we had landed before; the smoke was still coming off the pods a little, as we were not gone for that long. I suddenly picked up more scattered ki signals, and quit concentrating on healing my body right away.
"Guys wait!" I shouted. We all stopped and floated in mid air, waiting for me to tell them why.
"I sense Zerg like signals up ahead, I think they're close to the pods!"
"Shit, let's check it out!" Bardock shouted, blasting off again in a big hurry. We found the pods crawling with Zerglings, who seemed to be sniffing around the area, especially my pod. That Kanassan wasn't kidding about their ability to pick my signal up! Wait a sec, that gives me an idea!
"Damn things just don't know when to quit!" Bardock yelled, charging up his ki.
"Wait Bardock, you could hit the ships. I have a better idea, let me draw them off. I think I've healed enough to take them on at least, stay here!" I said, powering up my ki from its suppressed state. Just as I figured, the Zerglings' attention quickly shifted to me. I swooped ahead of the Saiyans and made a quick pass by the Zerglings, causing them to jump, fall and trip over each other trying to get to me. I flew off towards my pod, passing it and flying slowly enough for the Zerglings to follow without giving up. Sure enough, the Zerglings fell for it, chasing me down quickly and getting away from our ticket home. There had to have been more than a hundred of the vicious creatures. Well I've had enough of them getting close and causing this much damage, I'll finish them off quick this time!
"Okay you little bastards, time to die!" I said, powering up some more and holding a bright blue ki ball in my palm, thumb in and fingers up. I waited for them to pack and then stack up, and out of the range of the pods. I grinned a bit, it was the first time I tried this without being in ape form, and it wasn't draining me at all.
"Big Bang Attack!" I shouted, letting the explosive ball go, ki lightning surrounded it. It flew towards the Zerglings and landed in the middle of their group, flashing into a huge ball of light before the incredible sound hit my sensitive ears. While the ki blast alone would probably be enough to win, I wanted to make sure; I had enough of all the surprises today.
"Now go to hell!" I screamed, firing another big beam into the giant ball of energy. A mushroom cloud formed a moment later as the rocks and dirt were blown into different directions. I turned my head as a boulder went by, letting it go un-interrupted. I scanned the dust blown around, sensing no sign of scattered ki. I restored my suppression, something I forced myself to make a habit of. The smoke cleared some more, and there lay twenty or so barbequed Zergling bodies, about a hundred shy of what had been crawling around the pods.
"Wow, what an attack," Bardock and Tora both said.
"I'd eat them, but they'd be too dry now!" Shugesh laughed. I smirked and pulled the clamp over my arm off. It was slightly red and bruised now, but the cut had healed into a scar. My belly had a couple skin covered scars as well, something just ki healing wouldn't finish, but it would do for now.
"Let's get going, the sooner the better!" Bardock said, climbing into his pod. The rest of us did as well, but I took one last second to look over the wasteland created by the Zerg destruction. Whoever you were, thank you for this valuable information of my hidden powers, I hope we meet again someday, Kanassan. With that I climbed into my pod and the door closed as it took off, entering space a half minute later and pressing on towards Vegita.
Interlude 16.2 –A Villain's Plan-
"Lord Frieza, interesting news. Planet Kanassa was cleared as of last night!" Zarbon bowed slightly even though Frieza's back was turned.
"Oh?" was all Frieza said, clearly not caring one way or the other.
"Kanassa? That job has been in the pool for months, I knew that most of our elites didn't want any part of that place. I thought we'd have to do it ourselves!" Dodoria said.
"No a band of Saiyans took it!" Zarbon explained.
"Wow, their elite teams are getting better and comparable to our own now!" Dodoria said with slight astonishment.
"Actually it was a band of low levels, it was Bardock's crew!"
"What? No way, even for that luck driven team!"
"It seems that they pulled it off though, no life signs of the Kanassans were left. It seems as though we should keep a better eye on them, a small group like that on a full moon would be tough to beat," Zarbon said.
"What, are you scared of them Zarbon?" Dodoria laughed.
Zarbon took that insult in stride, "No certainly not, I just think we should keep better track of them that's all. Like that Bardock, it seems his power level has risen higher than most of our first elite class above the level of eight thousand. That youngster that Frieza promoted is still on his team last check, and we haven't been able to measure how strong that kid really is. Most readings point to fifty-eight hundred, but I have seen reports of higher potential. It seems that three weeks ago the youngster beat up a team of Saiyan high elites in a bar fight and really mangled them all easily. The highest of the group was eighty-three hundred," Zarbon said, slightly surprised himself.
"Still nothing to worry about you green paranoid gook!" Dodoria sneered.
"Well, unlike you, I do like to use my brain sometimes. What were to happen if Bardock and his crew teamed up with prince Vegeta and a handful of other great fighters? How would you like to tangle with that group on a full moon?" Dodoria didn't answer; mental calculations were still being attempted at two plus two.
"Only a fool would welcome that scenario!" Frieza grinned slightly.
"Yes sire," Zarbon said carefully.
"When Bardock's crew arrives on planet Vegita, let them heal in the tanks, and then order them to planet Meat. Order young prince Vegeta and his assistants Nappa and Raditz there as well. Have them all leave at the same time so they arrive together!"
"But sire, planet Meat is full of weaklings. Sending that many Saiyans is overkill, even without the moon!" Zarbon argued.
"Those are my orders Zarbon, because while they are in transit to Meat, the monkey farm is going bye-bye. If you want to get rid of weeds you have to get them by the roots, and I wish to battle the last remaining Saiyans. Something about that young boy intrigues me. We will send them out, blow up the planet Vegita, and then wipe the rest out on Meat!" Frieza started laughing like a maniac, frightening Zarbon and Dodoria.
Power levels remain the same, if you want the ape form levels, just multiply the previous levels by 10.
I thought about having Fasha transform as well, but trust me, there wouldn't have been a point to it.