A/N: Note that the two battles in this chapter are happening at the same time even though I wrote one and then the other.
Chapter Ten - Defeat?
Slug frowned as he looked across at the girl. She'd been strapped into a chair while Sanil had tried to gleam some kind of information out of her. But it seemed she didn't have any. As ludicrious as it sounded to all of them she wasn't even a trained fighter yet. Not really. Slug had told Sanil what he'd learned and now they were wondering just what it was that their 'mysterious benafactor' was up to.
"Razor works for him." Sanil said thougtfully. "And Razor, by his orders, gave us the power we have now, outside of what our own training has yielded at least. Zildar was also given this power and found his way here, not working for Razor or..."
"Don't even mention his name." Slug grumbled.
"Right." Sanil sighed and rubbed his head. "None of this here makes any sense."
Slugs eyes widened a bit and he turned toward the wall behind him. Sanil turned as well as a muffled yell reached his ears. "Masenko ha!" The wall glowed for a moment and then an energy stream tore through it and curved up to the ceiling before losing power. Neither of the powerful Nameks had a chance to react as two streaks of light, one green and the other red, surged through the opening in the wall.
Piccolo smashed his fist across Sanil's face knocking him back and smashing him through another wall. Meanwhile Bardock's kick smacked against Slug's chest and sent him through a different wall. Appla followed after them while Gohan ran over to Videl and began to break the bonds to the chair.
"Gohan? How..."
Gohan smiled as he broke the last one. "Master Roshi and Yajirobe rescued us, they brough Senzu beans." Videl wasn't really sure what Senzu Beans where but she was glade to be free. "I'm going to go help Piccolo, you should head back to the Embassy."
"I want to help..."
"It's to dangerous..."
"I'm helping." Videl said. Gohan just shook his head and followed after Piccolo.
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Slug grabbed hold of door frame and pulled himself to a stop with a quick jerk. Landing he looked toward the hole he'd made and watched as the two Sai-jins, one male the other female, stepped through. At the moment their powers were quite low but he'd felt them fighting outside the ship a few hours ago, he knew how strong they were. What he wanted to know was how they'd gotten back into such good condition. As he watched them he thought back to the probing of Piccolo's mind and remembered grazing across similar events... "Senzu Beans..." he said softly, with a frown. "Should have searched you first... no matter, Sai-jin healing or not you still can't defeat me."
"We'll see about that." Appla said bracing herself. "Kaio Ken times thirty!" she cried, the brilliant red aura flaring up about her.
Bardock mimicked her stance, bracing his body for the surge of power as well. "Kaio Ken times twenty!"
Slug arched his eyebrows. My, my. In Sanil's current weakened state the Sai-jin is stronger, not by much but he is stronger. "Impressive Sai-jins. I seem to have been out of touch with the powers of your people for some time..."
Bardock smirked. "You're just lucky Goku's not here. You wouldn't last two seconds against a Super Sai-jin."
Super Sai-jin! Then that means.... BY THE KAIS! Slug took a step back at first but steadied himself. "I will not die here Sai-jin." he said, narrowing his eyes. There was a flash of green and he launched in at Bardock. The Sai-jin brought his arms up and blocked Slug's punch. Meanwhile Appla came in from the side and smacked her foot against the Namek's head. Slug only stumbled slightly at the blow and then turned to swat her away.
Before his fist connected Bardock slammed his knee into Slug's stomach and then landed a right cross to his jaw that sent him sailing down the hall and through the hull into the city streets. Two streaks of red trailed after him and slammed their fists into his face simulatenously with a loud crack. Slug was flung backward as the two chased him again. This time the powerful Namek caught himself in the air and launched a punch of his own which smashed into Appla's face with a thunderous crack and knocked her back into the ship.
Bardock moved in and began to trade blows with Slug close range. Crack after crack rang out as the two blocked each other's attacks. The Sai-jin ducked beneath a hard left and swung his right fist in an upward arc aimed for the Namek's stomach. But Slug brought his leg up blocking the blow and then landed a head butt to the other followed up by a kick to the chest. Just then Appla re-emerged from the ship. Hope this doesn't kill me. "Kaaaiooo Keeeennnn! Times... forty!" Her power jumped up again as her aura flared larger.
With a cry she sped across the expanse toward Slug quickly. Bardock regained control of his flight just as she passed and, with a burst of red, shot after her. Appla just managed to duck under a punch but her kick aimed for Slug's head was blocked. Then Bardock reached them and smashed his fist into Slug's stomach. The two Sai-jins began to work together fighting the Namek, slowly rising higher into the dark skies.
An explosion sounded from behind and below them and the three spared a second for a quick glance as a new hole was blasted in the side of the ship and four figures emerged. Bardock gave their powers a quick note and then returned to his fight. Piccolo has a chance, it's small, but it's there... If I can take out Slug quickly I can lend him a hand. He pulled back his fists quickly, one charging with green energy, the other with pink. Then he thrust them forward slamming them together as he did. "Sonic Blast!" There was a thunderous crack followed by an ear splitting wail as the energies mixed and exploded forward slamming into Slug's face and passing over his head.
The Namek reached up quickly and covered his ears, even before the attack ended. When the attack finally ended he lowered his hands, his ears still ringing loudly. "Damn you!" he cried opening in his eyes, but Bardock wasn't there anymore. His eyes widened in shock as Bardock's foot slammed into the back of his neck. He flipped over in the air and slammed his foot into Bardock's chin knocking him higher. "That's it, enough warm-up!" he cried clenching his fists. "Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" His green aura flared up large and bright. It pulsed and grew as his power climbed.
"What! Damn!" Appla cried. She turned and cupped her hands at her side. Bardock and Krillin had taught her the attack that was slowly becoming the signature move of the Earth. "Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" A ball of brilliant blue KI exploded to life between her hands and grew quickly sending waves of power and light in ever direction.
Bardock stabilized himself and saw what was happening. Braced his body again and called out, "Kaio Ken times twenty-five!" As his aura flared around him he dropped down beside his Mate quickly and copied her position, a ball of blue KI forming quickly between his own cupped hands. "Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
Appla gave him a glance and a nod. "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" they called in unison. They shifted their positions and then thrust their arms forward. "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" The twin stream of blue energy surged forth quickly on a direct course for Slug. They flowed side-by-side for a moment before merging into one stream.
Still powering up Slug reached out his hands and braced for the wave to hit. The energy attack smashed into Slug's open palms and washed out around him. He finished his power-up a second later and began to force the attack back slowly. He was struggling more than he'd expected to be though. He bent his arms slightly and then thrust them forward again spreading them apart at the same time. The two waves of energy were torn apart and away from him.
"No way!" Bardock cried sliding back in the air and panting. That had taken a lot out of him, but it looked like Slug was a little worn as well, though not as much. Suddenly the Namek was speeding toward them. Before either could even react the Namek had slammed his knee into Appla's stomach. As she doubled over in pain and shock he smashed his left fist into her face, then his right, and then slammed his elbow into the top of her head sending her toward the ground. She crashed into the street below with a loud crash forming a large crater. Holding her left arm, which she knew was broken, she struggled to get back on her feet.
I need to do something! Bardock cried. As his mind worked rapidly for some kind of plan King Kai's words from his training drifted back to mind. It's a powerful attack but can only be used in defense... I get it now, I understand! Bardock's eyes opened in understanding and he looked toward the clouds above him. Everyone else is to worn, looks like I've only got one option! With that thought he shot up through the clouds emerging a second later above them in the late afternoon sun.
Please, let this work! his mind cried as he raised his arms. "I just need to borrow some energy, please!" he called out. He'd tried the Spirit Bomb before but could never use it. Now... now it looked like his only chance. He closed his eyes and could sense that Slug was starting up after him now, but he could also feel the energy flowing to him from the sun and the handful of animals that still had enough left to give. Almost there....
As another explosion sounded in the near distance Slug suddenly reached Bardock and slammed his fist into his stomach. As Bardock lost the energy he'd managed to gather slug slammed his knee into his face, smacked his fist into his face again, and then kicked him in the chest. There was a loud crack as his armor shattered and several ribs broke. One more punch across his face and Bardock was knocked backward and fell out of the sky slamming into the ground.
He managed to pull himself back into a sitting position and saw that Appla was on her feet again, breathing heavily, and watching the sky. He looked up and saw Slug floating down to them. Wait a second... Piccolo! His power's almost gone... this isn't looking to good... Gohan, get out of there!
"I am impressed." Slug said as he landed. "You've been more of a challenge than I expected, but this is where it ends."
Appla let out a cry and charged in at him yet again. There was a thunderous crack as Slug's fist smashed into her face and sent he sailing back again. She crashed to the ground a few feet from Bardock and slid to where he was. He looked down at her and could see it in her eyes before he felt it with his senses. She was gone... "No... Appla. Not again..." he said softly, his hair slowly beginning to dance in a sudden breeze.
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By the time Gohan and Videl had emerged into the halls Piccolo and Sanil were going at it in the middle of a ruined intersection. Flashes of green radiated out from them as they struck each other, each blow shaking the entire ship. Even Gohan could see that Sanil was still tired from the earlier battle. He wanted to help Piccolo but knew he wasn't strong enough to just head in and attack... he'd have to wait for an opening of some kind.
A hard roundhouse kick from Sanil knocked Piccolo through a wall into one of the med bays. The other Namek and the two half Sai-jin children followed after him. As they entered the room Piccolo was pulling himself out of the remains of some equipment. Sanil launched in at him but Piccolo thrust his arms forward and fired a stream of energy at him the flung him back. Gohan saw his chance and shot in quickly landing a hard kick to Sanil's head that caught him by surprise and knocked him forward.
Piccolo was there and slammed his knee into him and the two began trading blows again. He ducked under a kick and threw a punch that was dodged. Quickly bringing up his leg he guarded against a punch and then backhanded Sanil. Before he could follow up a knee slammed into his stomach and then a fist smashed into his face. Sanil's other hand shot forward firing a point blank KI blast that sent Piccolo through some machinery which exploded, yet another wall, and out into the city streets.
Sanil shot after him, Gohan and Videl close on his heels. The two young half Sai-jins stayed on the sidelines feeling rather helpless at the moment as the two powerful Nameks fought each other. As they traded blows the shockwaves tore cracks in the ground below them ripping up rocks and throwing them about. Suddenly Gohan felt something twinge across his senses and focused. "Oh no! There's people down there!" he called over to Videl, pointing toward a building that the two Nameks were slowly moving towards. "Come on, we may not be able to help in the fight right now but we can save those people."
Videl nodded and the two shot down toward the building which they soon realized was an apartment building. As they neared Gohan saw a few people leaning out the fourth floor window watching the fight, or at least, what they could see of it. Gohan pulled to a stop in front of them and got his first good clear look at them. One was a young girl with blue eyes and hair, the other a young boy with black eyes and brown hair, and the third was an old man who was going bald and what hair he did have was white. "Sir, we need to get you out of here." Gohan said. "It's too dangerous here."
"Nonsense!" the man said. "This has been my home for decades, since I was the same age as my grandkids, I'm not leaving."
"But sir..."
The old man shook his head. "No."
"But..."
"I said no."
Gohan and Videl glanced at each other and as they did they noticed a growing green glow. Turning around they saw that the fight had almost reached them, or at least, the thought it had. The two Nameks were now moving far to quickly for either child to follow. "We have to do something." Videl said.
Gohan nodded and turned back to the building. "You take the kids, I'll grab their grandfather." he said. Both of them shot in quickly and grabbed the three people out of the window and shot off toward the embassy quickly.
"Hey, you let go of me!" the white haired man cried.
Gohan shook his head as he and Videl descended to the ground just inside the embassy gates. "Gohan!" Chi-Chi cried running out to him as he let go of the guy. "Oh, you're okay!" Before he even knew what was happening Chi-Chi had him in a hug that was squishing him. "Oh, I was so worried!"
"Videl!" Hercule called running out of the embassy.
"I'm okay Mom, but I've got to go back, Piccolo might need my help." He managed to pull free of Chi-Chi and started lifting into the air, Videl following after him.
"You get back down here!" Chi-Chi yelled but the two were already speeding back toward the fight.
Returning to the battle they found everything for a couple blocks was destroyed and there was no sign of either Namek. "Where are they?" Videl asked looking around. Gohan shook his head but they got their answer from an explosion behind them. Piccolo had his arms stretched out before him holding off a massive stream of energy as best he could.
"Piccolo!" Gohan called shooting over to help. As he neared he saw Sanil on the ground in a deepening crater pouring more power into the attack. He changed course and shot down at him but Sanil saw him coming, turned his head, and fired twin beams of energy at him from his eyes. Gohan turned to dodge but one of the beams caught him in the leg and punched clean through sending him crashing into the ground.
"Gohan!" Piccolo called down, watching as Videl landed beside him. The temporary distraction was enough for him to lose his hold on the energy and the blast surged over him.
"No, Piccolo!" Gohan cried floating back into the air, doing his best to ignore the pain in his leg. I have to get help him! Gohan's hair and GI began to flap madly as his body began to glow orange, and then his aura exploded to life as he shot in at Sanil. "You leave him alone!" he shouted chagrining. Sanil felt a sudden power spike and turned to watch as Gohan charged at him.
"What!" Sanil ended his attack and turned just as Gohan reached him. As the small Sai-jin began to attack with everything he had Piccolo fell from the sky. Sanil dodged or blocked everything Gohan threw at him. His power, where is he getting it from? It just jumped up almost five fold... how can a kid have that kind of power? Sanil shook his head, even with Gohan's new found strength he wasn't worried. Despite his weakened state he was still the stronger of the two. A moment later Videl came up beside Gohan and joined in on the attack as Piccolo began to pull himself out of the ground.
Sanil felt his primary opponent getting up and quickly backhanded the two children away. "You two are annoying me, get lost! Haaa!" he thrust one arm forward firing a powerful KI blast at them. Gohan stood quickly and got in front of Videl, crossing his arms to block as best he could. The orange ball of energy surged toward him but never reached him. Just before impact Piccolo appeared between them, his own arms crossed in defense.
The ground shook as the energy swirled madly and then exploded in a brilliant flash. Gohan turned and shielded his eyes and when he looked back Piccolo still stood there, arms crossed, panting heavily. "Alright Piccolo!" he cheered.
"You... need... to... go... Gohan." he panted, lowering his arms. "Now..." and with that he toppled over landing face first on the ruined street.
"No! Piccolo!" he cried running over to him quickly. As he knelt down beside him he felt his grandparent's energies take sudden and sharp drops as well. No! Daddy, where are you, we need you! Grandpa, Grandma! Everyone... I'm losing everyone... Tears welled up in is eyes as he looked at the unconscious. "Come on Piccolo, you have to get up! Grandma and Grandpa need our help too..."
Sanil started walking toward them. "Sorry kid, but you guys were all dead the second you started attacking us. That's just the way it goes."
Gohan turned from Piccolo to glare at Sanil, tears streaming down his cheeks. Piccolo and the others were still alive, he could still feel their KI's, but he had to do something or that wouldn't last much longer! As his hair and GI began to flap in the wind once more he stood up, still staring at Sanil. But then his eyes snapped open. "NO! Grandma!"
Chapter Ten - Defeat?
Slug frowned as he looked across at the girl. She'd been strapped into a chair while Sanil had tried to gleam some kind of information out of her. But it seemed she didn't have any. As ludicrious as it sounded to all of them she wasn't even a trained fighter yet. Not really. Slug had told Sanil what he'd learned and now they were wondering just what it was that their 'mysterious benafactor' was up to.
"Razor works for him." Sanil said thougtfully. "And Razor, by his orders, gave us the power we have now, outside of what our own training has yielded at least. Zildar was also given this power and found his way here, not working for Razor or..."
"Don't even mention his name." Slug grumbled.
"Right." Sanil sighed and rubbed his head. "None of this here makes any sense."
Slugs eyes widened a bit and he turned toward the wall behind him. Sanil turned as well as a muffled yell reached his ears. "Masenko ha!" The wall glowed for a moment and then an energy stream tore through it and curved up to the ceiling before losing power. Neither of the powerful Nameks had a chance to react as two streaks of light, one green and the other red, surged through the opening in the wall.
Piccolo smashed his fist across Sanil's face knocking him back and smashing him through another wall. Meanwhile Bardock's kick smacked against Slug's chest and sent him through a different wall. Appla followed after them while Gohan ran over to Videl and began to break the bonds to the chair.
"Gohan? How..."
Gohan smiled as he broke the last one. "Master Roshi and Yajirobe rescued us, they brough Senzu beans." Videl wasn't really sure what Senzu Beans where but she was glade to be free. "I'm going to go help Piccolo, you should head back to the Embassy."
"I want to help..."
"It's to dangerous..."
"I'm helping." Videl said. Gohan just shook his head and followed after Piccolo.
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Slug grabbed hold of door frame and pulled himself to a stop with a quick jerk. Landing he looked toward the hole he'd made and watched as the two Sai-jins, one male the other female, stepped through. At the moment their powers were quite low but he'd felt them fighting outside the ship a few hours ago, he knew how strong they were. What he wanted to know was how they'd gotten back into such good condition. As he watched them he thought back to the probing of Piccolo's mind and remembered grazing across similar events... "Senzu Beans..." he said softly, with a frown. "Should have searched you first... no matter, Sai-jin healing or not you still can't defeat me."
"We'll see about that." Appla said bracing herself. "Kaio Ken times thirty!" she cried, the brilliant red aura flaring up about her.
Bardock mimicked her stance, bracing his body for the surge of power as well. "Kaio Ken times twenty!"
Slug arched his eyebrows. My, my. In Sanil's current weakened state the Sai-jin is stronger, not by much but he is stronger. "Impressive Sai-jins. I seem to have been out of touch with the powers of your people for some time..."
Bardock smirked. "You're just lucky Goku's not here. You wouldn't last two seconds against a Super Sai-jin."
Super Sai-jin! Then that means.... BY THE KAIS! Slug took a step back at first but steadied himself. "I will not die here Sai-jin." he said, narrowing his eyes. There was a flash of green and he launched in at Bardock. The Sai-jin brought his arms up and blocked Slug's punch. Meanwhile Appla came in from the side and smacked her foot against the Namek's head. Slug only stumbled slightly at the blow and then turned to swat her away.
Before his fist connected Bardock slammed his knee into Slug's stomach and then landed a right cross to his jaw that sent him sailing down the hall and through the hull into the city streets. Two streaks of red trailed after him and slammed their fists into his face simulatenously with a loud crack. Slug was flung backward as the two chased him again. This time the powerful Namek caught himself in the air and launched a punch of his own which smashed into Appla's face with a thunderous crack and knocked her back into the ship.
Bardock moved in and began to trade blows with Slug close range. Crack after crack rang out as the two blocked each other's attacks. The Sai-jin ducked beneath a hard left and swung his right fist in an upward arc aimed for the Namek's stomach. But Slug brought his leg up blocking the blow and then landed a head butt to the other followed up by a kick to the chest. Just then Appla re-emerged from the ship. Hope this doesn't kill me. "Kaaaiooo Keeeennnn! Times... forty!" Her power jumped up again as her aura flared larger.
With a cry she sped across the expanse toward Slug quickly. Bardock regained control of his flight just as she passed and, with a burst of red, shot after her. Appla just managed to duck under a punch but her kick aimed for Slug's head was blocked. Then Bardock reached them and smashed his fist into Slug's stomach. The two Sai-jins began to work together fighting the Namek, slowly rising higher into the dark skies.
An explosion sounded from behind and below them and the three spared a second for a quick glance as a new hole was blasted in the side of the ship and four figures emerged. Bardock gave their powers a quick note and then returned to his fight. Piccolo has a chance, it's small, but it's there... If I can take out Slug quickly I can lend him a hand. He pulled back his fists quickly, one charging with green energy, the other with pink. Then he thrust them forward slamming them together as he did. "Sonic Blast!" There was a thunderous crack followed by an ear splitting wail as the energies mixed and exploded forward slamming into Slug's face and passing over his head.
The Namek reached up quickly and covered his ears, even before the attack ended. When the attack finally ended he lowered his hands, his ears still ringing loudly. "Damn you!" he cried opening in his eyes, but Bardock wasn't there anymore. His eyes widened in shock as Bardock's foot slammed into the back of his neck. He flipped over in the air and slammed his foot into Bardock's chin knocking him higher. "That's it, enough warm-up!" he cried clenching his fists. "Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" His green aura flared up large and bright. It pulsed and grew as his power climbed.
"What! Damn!" Appla cried. She turned and cupped her hands at her side. Bardock and Krillin had taught her the attack that was slowly becoming the signature move of the Earth. "Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" A ball of brilliant blue KI exploded to life between her hands and grew quickly sending waves of power and light in ever direction.
Bardock stabilized himself and saw what was happening. Braced his body again and called out, "Kaio Ken times twenty-five!" As his aura flared around him he dropped down beside his Mate quickly and copied her position, a ball of blue KI forming quickly between his own cupped hands. "Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
Appla gave him a glance and a nod. "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" they called in unison. They shifted their positions and then thrust their arms forward. "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" The twin stream of blue energy surged forth quickly on a direct course for Slug. They flowed side-by-side for a moment before merging into one stream.
Still powering up Slug reached out his hands and braced for the wave to hit. The energy attack smashed into Slug's open palms and washed out around him. He finished his power-up a second later and began to force the attack back slowly. He was struggling more than he'd expected to be though. He bent his arms slightly and then thrust them forward again spreading them apart at the same time. The two waves of energy were torn apart and away from him.
"No way!" Bardock cried sliding back in the air and panting. That had taken a lot out of him, but it looked like Slug was a little worn as well, though not as much. Suddenly the Namek was speeding toward them. Before either could even react the Namek had slammed his knee into Appla's stomach. As she doubled over in pain and shock he smashed his left fist into her face, then his right, and then slammed his elbow into the top of her head sending her toward the ground. She crashed into the street below with a loud crash forming a large crater. Holding her left arm, which she knew was broken, she struggled to get back on her feet.
I need to do something! Bardock cried. As his mind worked rapidly for some kind of plan King Kai's words from his training drifted back to mind. It's a powerful attack but can only be used in defense... I get it now, I understand! Bardock's eyes opened in understanding and he looked toward the clouds above him. Everyone else is to worn, looks like I've only got one option! With that thought he shot up through the clouds emerging a second later above them in the late afternoon sun.
Please, let this work! his mind cried as he raised his arms. "I just need to borrow some energy, please!" he called out. He'd tried the Spirit Bomb before but could never use it. Now... now it looked like his only chance. He closed his eyes and could sense that Slug was starting up after him now, but he could also feel the energy flowing to him from the sun and the handful of animals that still had enough left to give. Almost there....
As another explosion sounded in the near distance Slug suddenly reached Bardock and slammed his fist into his stomach. As Bardock lost the energy he'd managed to gather slug slammed his knee into his face, smacked his fist into his face again, and then kicked him in the chest. There was a loud crack as his armor shattered and several ribs broke. One more punch across his face and Bardock was knocked backward and fell out of the sky slamming into the ground.
He managed to pull himself back into a sitting position and saw that Appla was on her feet again, breathing heavily, and watching the sky. He looked up and saw Slug floating down to them. Wait a second... Piccolo! His power's almost gone... this isn't looking to good... Gohan, get out of there!
"I am impressed." Slug said as he landed. "You've been more of a challenge than I expected, but this is where it ends."
Appla let out a cry and charged in at him yet again. There was a thunderous crack as Slug's fist smashed into her face and sent he sailing back again. She crashed to the ground a few feet from Bardock and slid to where he was. He looked down at her and could see it in her eyes before he felt it with his senses. She was gone... "No... Appla. Not again..." he said softly, his hair slowly beginning to dance in a sudden breeze.
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By the time Gohan and Videl had emerged into the halls Piccolo and Sanil were going at it in the middle of a ruined intersection. Flashes of green radiated out from them as they struck each other, each blow shaking the entire ship. Even Gohan could see that Sanil was still tired from the earlier battle. He wanted to help Piccolo but knew he wasn't strong enough to just head in and attack... he'd have to wait for an opening of some kind.
A hard roundhouse kick from Sanil knocked Piccolo through a wall into one of the med bays. The other Namek and the two half Sai-jin children followed after him. As they entered the room Piccolo was pulling himself out of the remains of some equipment. Sanil launched in at him but Piccolo thrust his arms forward and fired a stream of energy at him the flung him back. Gohan saw his chance and shot in quickly landing a hard kick to Sanil's head that caught him by surprise and knocked him forward.
Piccolo was there and slammed his knee into him and the two began trading blows again. He ducked under a kick and threw a punch that was dodged. Quickly bringing up his leg he guarded against a punch and then backhanded Sanil. Before he could follow up a knee slammed into his stomach and then a fist smashed into his face. Sanil's other hand shot forward firing a point blank KI blast that sent Piccolo through some machinery which exploded, yet another wall, and out into the city streets.
Sanil shot after him, Gohan and Videl close on his heels. The two young half Sai-jins stayed on the sidelines feeling rather helpless at the moment as the two powerful Nameks fought each other. As they traded blows the shockwaves tore cracks in the ground below them ripping up rocks and throwing them about. Suddenly Gohan felt something twinge across his senses and focused. "Oh no! There's people down there!" he called over to Videl, pointing toward a building that the two Nameks were slowly moving towards. "Come on, we may not be able to help in the fight right now but we can save those people."
Videl nodded and the two shot down toward the building which they soon realized was an apartment building. As they neared Gohan saw a few people leaning out the fourth floor window watching the fight, or at least, what they could see of it. Gohan pulled to a stop in front of them and got his first good clear look at them. One was a young girl with blue eyes and hair, the other a young boy with black eyes and brown hair, and the third was an old man who was going bald and what hair he did have was white. "Sir, we need to get you out of here." Gohan said. "It's too dangerous here."
"Nonsense!" the man said. "This has been my home for decades, since I was the same age as my grandkids, I'm not leaving."
"But sir..."
The old man shook his head. "No."
"But..."
"I said no."
Gohan and Videl glanced at each other and as they did they noticed a growing green glow. Turning around they saw that the fight had almost reached them, or at least, the thought it had. The two Nameks were now moving far to quickly for either child to follow. "We have to do something." Videl said.
Gohan nodded and turned back to the building. "You take the kids, I'll grab their grandfather." he said. Both of them shot in quickly and grabbed the three people out of the window and shot off toward the embassy quickly.
"Hey, you let go of me!" the white haired man cried.
Gohan shook his head as he and Videl descended to the ground just inside the embassy gates. "Gohan!" Chi-Chi cried running out to him as he let go of the guy. "Oh, you're okay!" Before he even knew what was happening Chi-Chi had him in a hug that was squishing him. "Oh, I was so worried!"
"Videl!" Hercule called running out of the embassy.
"I'm okay Mom, but I've got to go back, Piccolo might need my help." He managed to pull free of Chi-Chi and started lifting into the air, Videl following after him.
"You get back down here!" Chi-Chi yelled but the two were already speeding back toward the fight.
Returning to the battle they found everything for a couple blocks was destroyed and there was no sign of either Namek. "Where are they?" Videl asked looking around. Gohan shook his head but they got their answer from an explosion behind them. Piccolo had his arms stretched out before him holding off a massive stream of energy as best he could.
"Piccolo!" Gohan called shooting over to help. As he neared he saw Sanil on the ground in a deepening crater pouring more power into the attack. He changed course and shot down at him but Sanil saw him coming, turned his head, and fired twin beams of energy at him from his eyes. Gohan turned to dodge but one of the beams caught him in the leg and punched clean through sending him crashing into the ground.
"Gohan!" Piccolo called down, watching as Videl landed beside him. The temporary distraction was enough for him to lose his hold on the energy and the blast surged over him.
"No, Piccolo!" Gohan cried floating back into the air, doing his best to ignore the pain in his leg. I have to get help him! Gohan's hair and GI began to flap madly as his body began to glow orange, and then his aura exploded to life as he shot in at Sanil. "You leave him alone!" he shouted chagrining. Sanil felt a sudden power spike and turned to watch as Gohan charged at him.
"What!" Sanil ended his attack and turned just as Gohan reached him. As the small Sai-jin began to attack with everything he had Piccolo fell from the sky. Sanil dodged or blocked everything Gohan threw at him. His power, where is he getting it from? It just jumped up almost five fold... how can a kid have that kind of power? Sanil shook his head, even with Gohan's new found strength he wasn't worried. Despite his weakened state he was still the stronger of the two. A moment later Videl came up beside Gohan and joined in on the attack as Piccolo began to pull himself out of the ground.
Sanil felt his primary opponent getting up and quickly backhanded the two children away. "You two are annoying me, get lost! Haaa!" he thrust one arm forward firing a powerful KI blast at them. Gohan stood quickly and got in front of Videl, crossing his arms to block as best he could. The orange ball of energy surged toward him but never reached him. Just before impact Piccolo appeared between them, his own arms crossed in defense.
The ground shook as the energy swirled madly and then exploded in a brilliant flash. Gohan turned and shielded his eyes and when he looked back Piccolo still stood there, arms crossed, panting heavily. "Alright Piccolo!" he cheered.
"You... need... to... go... Gohan." he panted, lowering his arms. "Now..." and with that he toppled over landing face first on the ruined street.
"No! Piccolo!" he cried running over to him quickly. As he knelt down beside him he felt his grandparent's energies take sudden and sharp drops as well. No! Daddy, where are you, we need you! Grandpa, Grandma! Everyone... I'm losing everyone... Tears welled up in is eyes as he looked at the unconscious. "Come on Piccolo, you have to get up! Grandma and Grandpa need our help too..."
Sanil started walking toward them. "Sorry kid, but you guys were all dead the second you started attacking us. That's just the way it goes."
Gohan turned from Piccolo to glare at Sanil, tears streaming down his cheeks. Piccolo and the others were still alive, he could still feel their KI's, but he had to do something or that wouldn't last much longer! As his hair and GI began to flap in the wind once more he stood up, still staring at Sanil. But then his eyes snapped open. "NO! Grandma!"