Chapter Nine

'Thoughts'

"Talking"

Bond

/telepathy/

Frieza smirks as he watches Ginew's body disintegrate. 'So, perhaps this Saiyan will finally bring me a challenge.' As he nears Bardock he studies his face to remember it as one of the few worthy of fighting him.

Bardock looks upwards as Frieza gets ever closer. 'Something's wrong. His ki should feel afraid. Gohan said his greatest fear was that a Super Saiyan would emerge. He doesn't know that Super Saiyans have golden hair and green eyes. No one did. It's been so long that no one remembered that they looked different.'

Frieza suddenly stops directly across from Bardock. Both of the two warriors eye each other down, hands at their sides. Torna and Vasha are just arriving at the scene. "Need some help from your friends Saiyan?" Frieza asks tauntingly, crossing his arms.

Bardock smirks and crosses his arms as well. "No, they're just here to watch."

The other Saiyans of the planet slowly form a circle (albeit a wide one) around the two warriors. Both warriors stare at each other a moment longer before they both faze out. For a moment, all is silent, then, the battle begins.

Cold lands on his once beautiful planet. The sight of it angers him greatly. To think, that the once frozen paradise watched over by his favorite concubine, could be reduced to this. And by two Saiyans at that! The once frozen continents are now merely icebergs in a tremendous ocean. The gigantic dust clouds that have formed from the blasts by the two warriors have created a sort of greenhouse effect and is effectively melting away the last of the ice. With the ground now free from underneath the ice, a slow process has begun that will cause the land to rise.

Cold's body shakes in anger. This planet cost him unimaginable amounts of money to create! It was to be a paradise for him to retire on once his son took over! And now it's ruined! Those idiotic scientists he hired to create this world warned him not to let anyone crack the ice or the internal pressure would cause the continents to rise, and several volcanoes would erupt, causing global warming, ultimately destroying his paradise. Of course, with all the dust clouds caused by the two Saiyans during their rampage, global warming is already taking effect even without the volcanoes. They won't dissipate for days, and by that time the volcanoes will have already finished the job. 'This is much worse than I thought. I thought they were simply attacking, I didn't know they destroyed my entire world!'

Cold's power flickers wildly before flaring out completely. He tosses his head back and roars his anger to the sky. Tiny bolts of power are constantly being expelled from Cold's aura causing random destruction. His eyes are completely white, causing him to look insane. He is standing there for over an hour.

Slowly, Cold regains control of himself. His eyes are fading back to purple and the stray bolts of power are becoming less frequent. "No… I won't loose control… Not now… Those Saiyans will pay for what they've done."

Bardock recovers from an uppercut and stops his uncontrolled flight into the skyline. Looking down at a smirking Frieza, he dives at Frieza and rams him in the gut with his head. Frieza smashes into the ground creating a large body shaped crater. Bardock cups his hands together and begins to chant. "Ka… me… ha… me…" Frieza's hand appears at the tops of the crater as he tries to pull himself out. "Ha!" The famous turtle wave hums as it passes through the air slamming into Frieza just as he is pulling himself out of the ground.

Frieza eyes bulge at the force of the blast. This is by far the most powerful attack the Saiyan has given out yet! Pieces of his skin are vaporized, and his fingers are burning away from the sheer power of the blast. Blood is leaking from his various cuts, and his bruises are severe. After a tremendous effort he manages to deflect the majority of the beam into space, effectively destroying his space ship, and any communications with his father.

Breathing heavily, Frieza lands and sneers at Bardock. "So Saiyan, you think you can defeat me? The most powerful warrior in the universe?" Panting and in serious pain, he manages to form a smirk.

Bardock, floating above Frieza and relatively unharmed, looks down at Frieza with scorn in his eyes. Crossing his arms he says nothing, merely waits for Frieza to continue.

Still smirking, Frieza clenches what's left of his fists and painfully starts gathering his energy. "Fool, you have only seen 50 of my true power. True, I never suspected that a Saiyan would be the one to make me do this but…" Gathering the final buts of his energy together, his body begins to pump up and out.

Bardock frowns as he senses Frieza's power increasing. But his eyes widen as he sees his wounds healing! Because he had Frieza transform as soon as the battle started, he didn't have the knowledge of the healing Ice-jins and other changelings get when moving on to their next form. Had he asked Gohan more about the earlier battles with Frieza instead of only the last, he would have heard the tales of the healing gained with the change.

While he is staring in shock at the healing of all the damage Frieza previously obtained Frieza launches himself at Bardock and spins, slamming his tail into his neck. Bardock falls from the sky barely alive, his neck broken, paralyzed from the neck down.

Torna and Vasha both stare in shock as their comrade and leader falls from the sky in slow motion, apparently dead. For a moment they feel nothing. Then the anger inside them begins to come forth. This is no fast running river of anger, but rather a lave flow pouring down the slopes of a volcano, encompassing all in it's path.

Frieza looks down at Bardock triumphantly only to hear two twin screams of rage. Power, unimaginable power, flows around the to warriors who were previously watching the fight. Power so great that he could actually feel it. Of course, he could cause the same reaction, but these were two warriors causing this occurrence. And Saiyans at that! They were far more powerful than the warrior he had just faced. He wouldn't admit it aloud, but he'd have trouble with one of them, let alone two! This wasn't good, but then again, maybe he should've listened to his father and waited for him rather than going off half-cocked on his own. Looked like that stupid Super Saiyan legend was true after all. One Super Saiyan was enough of a threat, but maybe he could hold off until his father returned to reinforce him. That would be his only hope. 'But to think that one of these monkeys could defeat him at 50 power… And then two have two of them almost match my own power…' Snarling he looks up just in time to dodge twin blasts from Torna and Vasha.