An unintelligible roar made Frieza's more sensitive eye wince as Chayote launched herself in a wide-open charge, looking to butt horns with the emperor she once recognized as the supreme authority and whose validation she sought for most of her life. Frieza extended his hand, stopping Chayote in her tracks as an invisible force clenched her throat. With a sly smile, Frieza clenched his hand to snap the Saiyan's neck at once the Saiyan flexed and shattered the telekinetic hold over her with only momentary delay.
"Wh-What!?" Frieza's left eye blew out in shock. "N-Now wait just a…"
Before he could finish the sentence, Chayote spun in like a whirlwind, throwing a backhand smack across Frieza's cheek and sending him crashing through a couple of hills and leaving carved ridges across the battlefield. Just as Frieza wrestled himself back up, Chayote blinked all up in his face with a twisted scowl, seething in wrath as she threw another backhand, sending Frieza flying up.
The propelling tyrant rumbled and wriggled himself to gaze downward and prepare to punish the Saiyan wench that laid hands on him twice already now, managing to graze him and to draw a meager glimpse of blood from his cracked lip. The Saiyan had vanished by the time Frieza looked down. With infernal curses that were very much unlike his faux politeness, Frieza raced to turn behind him, but he only received a faceful of an exploding energy sphere he crashed into. It was a massive energy ball exploding out from Chayote's chest, detonated by her wild howl.
The rampaging Saiyan roared wildly, exploding in a jade-colored bubble of Ki that expanded around her as she breathed out heatwaves of infernal hue from her mouth with each wrathful breath. Her golden eyes trembled in madness while Chayote grabbed hold of her head and began struggling against the overwhelming rush of power, or rather, look for less destructive ways of expelling the building up Ki rather than erupting in an explosive wave that could blink out the entirety of Planet Vegeta in a second.
"You dare…?" Frieza shrieked, aiming his finger toward Chayote as she howled and tried flexing away the overflowing force that circulated throughout her body. "You dare!?" he yelled out while firing a triplet of Death Beams at the Saiyan, throwing his finger at her with dastardly pokes as he continued his ceaseless barrage of attacks though the beams appeared to dissipate in the growing bubble of energy around Chayote.
"FRIEZA!" Chayote's voice rumbled in an inhuman tone. She threw her entire body with reckless abandon, crashing back down, looking to stomp and bash her opponent's brain in and out into the open, but the very energy bubble surrounding her squashed Frieza into gravel first. The smooshed space emperor twitched underneath the invisible pressure while Chayote's bubble detonated in a shower of stray Ki blasts spreading throughout the area like a blizzard.
Just as Frieza began seeing it straight again, a rough yank caught him by the tail and the tyrant fell, a merciless yank that lifted him over Chayote's head. The maddened Saiyan spun her enemy over her head, smashing him all around her while holding Frieza's tail until she figured she was growing bored with such a rudimentary method of attack and slammed her foot over prone Frieza's head while still controlling his tail. Frieza's shrill scream filled the area as the Saiyan did her best to rip her opponent into two by pulling him by the tail while still stomping on his head, tugging and wrenching the subdued space emperor in all directions to see if she could dislocate or dismember anything, just experimenting with his newfound, escalating force of brutality she's awoken into.
"Chayote's winning!" Krillin cheered on his friend from as far away as possible so that neither of them became an accidental victim of the Saiyan's rampage. "Incredible! She's actually handing it to Frieza!"
"No way, Frieza's just been caught off-guard, that's all. The difference between their power is too great," Yamcha disagreed with Krillin's assessment. "This… Seeing Chayote power up to her very limit and lose her sanity and measuring the remaining gap between her and Frieza… Frieza's Ki got to be dozens of times higher than Chayote's right now."
"And he's only fighting at 50% of his power too…" Goku clenched his fist and grit his teeth. "What a crazy guy! If only I could fight him evenly somehow… It feels downright rotten to be unable to prove to him that hard work and training is much more fun than doing nothing with all that crazy power. Dad… Mom… I can't punish this guy for any of their deaths!"
"No, this is still salvageable," Tenshinhan smirked with the corner of his lips. "Sense how fast Chayote's Ki is growing. It's like she's becoming many times stronger with each punch she throws, each grunt she makes. Her power's building up to unbelievable heights, she'll grow even angrier and stronger. We just need to make sure that she survives until her overflowing power beats Frieza's!"
The three-eyed warrior clenched his fist and pulled it back by his side. "King Kai's Fist X20!" Tenshinhan chanted out before crossing his legs up and positioning his hands to a pose resembling meditation. Everyone turned their attention to their fellow martial artist, looking confused why Tenshinhan chose to nearly rip his body apart before trying to concentrate his mind and meditate.
"Cool… White!" Tenshinhan blew a jet of pure silver vapor from his mouth as he straightened his body out. His bulked-out build lost a few degrees of muscle while the veins that threatened to burst and drown Tenshinhan in blood from within also settled down some.
"Huh? Cool-White combined with the King Kai's Fist?" Krillin scratched the back of his head, looking bewildered that his friend and rival managed to not only figure out such a frightening combination but to pull it off in practice.
"That's right, the King Kai's Fist provides a user with a crazy amount of power but threatens to tear their body apart, meanwhile Cool-White weakens the user but stabilizes their Ki control. I lose a bit of the King Kai's Fist power for the added benefit of stabilizing its drawback," Tenshinhan pointed out, locking all three of his eyes to Frieza who began recovering from down under Chayote's boot.
"Insolence demands discipline!" Frieza squealed as his tail wrapped around Chayote's boot and forced it off of him while he threw his body off the ground and right toward the Saiyan. In a white blitz, the space emperor vanished, confusing Chayote and leaving her throwing her gaze around in an attempt to locate her enemy.
Once Chayote found Frieza behind her, the tyrant threw a hooked uppercut to her abdomen, knocking Chayote off her boots and nearly felling her with a single blow. The emperor proceeded with his punishment, dashing onward with an elbow strike to the Saiyan's chest before shuffling down with a tail sweep that left Chayote off balance and at Frieza's complete mercy. Frieza straightened himself out and posed before his fumbled subject, styling before her as he flicked his hand with immeasurable psychic energy, building up and bursting in a pink gleam from down under.
The emperor taunted his mad opponent further, crossing his arms over his chest and vaulting at Chayote as she breathed in the lower atmosphere breaths from the immense psychic blast upward she suffered. Frieza kicked the female Saiyan a few times, rotating in mid-air and throwing roundhouses while adding a few humiliating tail smacks across her face that left Chayote's twisted scowl red and swollen. The emperor extended his hand and enveloped Chayote in a golden sphere of energy, both psychic and Ki alike.
"Even you will die this time!" Frieza taunted the Saiyan as a psychic pulse sent the imprisoning sphere crashing down like a falling meteor.
"I… I can't break it!" Chiaotzu winced from the sidelines, extending his tiny pale hands and trying to bust through Chayote's psychic prison. Despite his best efforts, the berserker Saiyan slammed into the dirt inside of the golden sphere of energy, coloring the entire view in a blazing dome of hellfire as Frieza's cruel technique detonated and sent most of the Dragon Team rolling back.
Frieza extended his hands to the side, gazing down at beaten down Chayote who laid with whited-out eyes and decimated armor in a miserable pile of rocks and debris and looked absolutely lifeless. Had it not been for her miraculous maintenance of this wrathful form, Frieza would have made the mistake of counting the hysterical Saiyan woman out. Although she stayed in her Wrathful Form, Frieza saw the wounds she had sustained and didn't believe for a second that Chayote could resist his coup de grâce anymore.
"Irksome as all Saiyans. Savagery befitting a useless, primitive race, begone!" Frieza clenched his fists beside him as he enveloped himself in a bubble-gum hue sphere of energy and dive-bombed down toward the battered and broken Chayote using his Nova Strike energy field as a shield for his head butting charge-dash.
Before Frieza could finish off the most vocal and furious member of the opposing force, a golden wave of energy shaped in a triangle enveloped him whole and threw Frieza spinning out of control. Tenshinhan's arms lowered as his body burst with sweat. He hadn't pushed himself with King Kai's Fist this powerful or his strongest Kikoho while trying to remain perfectly calm. Still, if he had failed now–he'd have failed Chayote and Frieza would have finished her off.
"Get mad, Chayote, power-up…" Tenshinhan wheezed while rushing onward to tackle Frieza while shelving no trick he has up his sleeve. Even knowing how hopeless his attempt at matching Frieza who had been dozens of times his superior in sheer strength, the three-eyed martial artist crashed with his enemy knowing that the time he'd help win right now was invaluable to both Chayote and Goku.
"He can't win alone!" Goku grumbled, "Damn it, I have little stamina left but I can go for a few heartbeats with King Kai's Fist X20! Or… I can risk it all and push it to X50!"
"X50!? That's crazy! Plus… Would that even be enough?" Chiaotzu trembled, turning to Tenshinhan and his brave one-man stand against an absolute and immovable threat they've struggled against. "We better attack all together! Time Stop!" Chiaotzu extended his hands out before exploding with King Kai's Fist aura and rushing after Frieza as well, driving his head straight into Frieza's chest and pushing the malicious sovereign away from his best friend's tail just a blink before Frieza would have landed a crushing blow on Tenshinhan.
"Chiaotzu, it's dangerous! You can't die under any circumstances!" Tenshinhan scolded his friend's foolishly brave charge.
"Damn it, even the little guy's showing off, huh?" Yamcha smirked. "Fine, I've got a trick or two of my own to show off too, check out my outstanding defensive King Kai's Fist, you guys!"
After hyping himself up and penning down the resolution to carry this crazy fight to its last moments, Yamcha took a wide-guard pose and burst with scarlet aura, powering himself up to King Kai's Fist X20 just like Tenshinhan and Chiaotzu and took off. Krillin and Goku shared a look, both smirking with the tip of their lips.
"Everyone's doing their best, to be honest, Goku, I've got a technique of my own I want to show off, something I've discovered while fighting Recoome, I guess it's like Yamcha's defensive King Kai's Fist," Krillin scratched the back of his head.
"Right, you guys are going above and beyond for this, I can't look shabby either, let's go… King Kai's Fist X50…" Goku posed to push the boundaries of King Kai's Fist further than he had ever done before but Krillin stopped him by floating out in a shielding position.
"Stop it, Goku. You shouldn't just rush at the enemy like that anymore. This… This method of fighting just won't do anymore. This isn't one of the guys from the World Martial Arts Tournament or some wicked demon that we're fighting. Goku… We need that Spirit Bomb technique you spoke of earlier. Please take care of it while we buy you and Chayote some time. Honestly, I'm not sure Chayote's Wrathful Form will gain enough power before Frieza beats her to a pulp. Spirit Bomb is our only hope, so don't attack the enemy head-on and try to overpower him. Just this once, Goku, let's win a different way," Krillin pleaded with his friend, forcing Goku to drop his stance and sigh in disappointment.
Just as Krillin wriggled in his boots, distraught in his friend's reaction, Goku opened his eyes and nodded with a goofy smirk, raising his hands over his head. Krillin squinted and examined Goku's curious stance before taking his place by the Saiyan's side again and powering up with a X20 King Kai's Fist of his own.
"What a dumb stance, you're all wide-open, are you sure you have to stand like that?" Krillin wondered.
"Yeah, that's the only way. If my channeling is distracted, I'll squander most of the Ki I've prepared. It takes a great deal of focus to pull it off, so let me concentrate. I'll need you guys to hold Frieza off just long enough, okay?" Goku nodded, wondering just how they were going to pull this multiple-layer plan for ridding the universe of Frieza off.
"Alright, we're going to do our best for you and Chayote," Krillin nodded and took off to tackle Frieza and join in on the hectic fray of feet and fists flying around and stray Ki blasts and pink beams going in all directions. A raucous rumble down below suggested Chayote had recovered from Frieza's beating as the confused berserker rose back on her feet and shook her pummeled head, trying to regain her balance again before resuming her rampage.
There was simply no space for Chayote to barge in on the bash. Tenshinhan covered the most ground, fighting enveloped with a crimson aura with a chilly, snow-white outline and glistening flakes, his bulk eased up from the immense strain that the King Kai's Fist normally puts one under, showing the most impressive method of fighting out of the bunch. Chiaotzu whizzed around like a little bullet, occasionally restricting Frieza's moves through pesky psychic attacks and his Time Stop technique, he served as a fine distraction so that Frieza doesn't crush the rest of the Dragon Team in one second with his vastly superior power.
Yamcha moved and hit fast and ran back. With this many pests hassling him, Frieza could no longer believably avoid them all, and his absolutely livid mental condition didn't really want him to outlast the enemy anymore. He was the No. 1 in the universe which justified him crushing all the insects before him with a single strike each. Whereas Yamcha maintained King Kai's Fist's booming power-up while staying on the defensive, which was a method of using the technique that no one before him had figured out, Krillin took the assignment of personalizing his own fighting style a tad different direction–altering between suppressing his Ki and exploding with a full-powered King Kai's Fist to the limit to reduce the damage to his body this way. It was a sort of combination between Yamcha's fighting style and Tenshinhan's.
"Planet Vegeta's grass, trees, Saiyans and animals, buildings and atmosphere itself. Please, give me all your spirit energy right now! I need your help to beat Frieza, I know you hate this guy's guts too, Planet Vegeta, so help me send him packing right now…!" Goku continued to plead with the planet to share some of its fundamental elements that comprised someone's Ki–the life energy that made one energetic, vibrant and happy. The fulfillment of existence, the joy of life. All of those pure feelings, it only felt right that that would be what would punish Frieza and beat him.
As Chayote's roar resonated through the battlefield, Chiaotzu drew breath in and stopped time again, dashing toward the Saiyan and putting up his hands, emitting an authoritative psychic push to shove her further from the battle again. It was a way for the Dragon Team to keep Chayote away from getting pummeled by Frieza, which allowed her ever-boosting power to grow as high as possible before she rejoined the fight again. Unlike King Kai's Fist, the Wrathful Form paid off the longer it was used and had the potential to carry one up limitless heights, which meant that they simply couldn't let Chayote get knocked out of the form with another one of Frieza's merciless beat downs.
Tenshinhan's cry made Chiaotzu turn back the moment he pushed Chayote further away to buy her more time against her own better judgment, Frieza drove his elbow into Tenshinhan's throat with a charging strike and forced the broken martial artist to pull back, clutching at his throat with whited-out eyes and powered down. The cruel alien spun around, kicking Krillin and Yamcha aside while vaulting over his front and whipping his tail at Tenshinhan's head, and slamming the three-eyed warrior down to the ground and inside a dark hole.
Frieza cackled maniacally as he raised all of his hands and began calling forth rubble, boulders, and even entire mountains from all around him as he waved his hands to drive all of this stony blizzard of psychic assault down on the injured martial artist. Chiaotzu aimed with his finger, looking to destroy the storming downfall of boulders upon his best friend with a Barrage Dodonpa, but a wave of pain washed over him and stiffened the little bugger's body. Chiaotzu could have sworn he noticed a golden beam coming at his knee from down below.
"T-Ten-san…" Chiaotzu cried out, noticing Tenshinhan having crawled out of the crater of his making and aiming a heavy index finger toward his friend to prevent Chiaotzu from making more trouble for himself and drawing Frieza's attention. The slamming pile of rocks, boulders, and mountains slammed against Tenshinhan, emitting a thunderous shock wave alongside the splash of psychic energy while Frieza charged forward into the stony pile.
Busting through it with a headbutt, Frieza yanked Tenshinhan out with his tail and flung him into the air. Charging after the lifeless and broken body of his opponent as he kicked and swatted him with both his feet. While Frieza's feet stomped at Tenshinhan's mid-section, his tail flirted with the idea of trying to whip the Earthling so hard that his neck snapped altogether. Once again Frieza vaulted over his front to whip Tenshinhan down, but he grabbed ahold of his opponent before Tenshinhan's limp body ate dirt again.
The tyrant kicked upward with both his feet while maintaining a stable foothold over Tenshinhan as he swatted Krillin and Yamcha, who were rushing to Tenshinhan's aid aside. Feeling untouchable from this point on, Frieza flung Tenshinhan up and raised his hands, sending a pelting storm of rubble from down under to form a rocky planetoid in mid-air just over his head while Frieza pointed his index finger and subtly giggled before erupting into a full-on maniacal chortle. A Death Beam pierced Tenshinhan's psychic grave and decimated it into a nova of blazing fireworks that rained down and colored the surface of Planet Vegeta in cinder rainfall.
"T-Ten-san…" the corner of Chiaotzu's lower lip whimpered after just having seen the demise of his lifelong best friend in front of him. "W-Why…? Why didn't you let me help you…?" the ghoulish martial artist appeared to be broken and utterly stoic at that moment, as not even his paramount grief translated into the oddball facial twitches he went through.
"Goku…" Krillin turned back to his friend, gritting his teeth as he realized that their entire formation would soon break apart and that they'd all meet similar fates. The Spirit Bomb appeared just as a pure-white fluff ball the size of a human-head hovering just above Goku. "The Spirit Bomb?" he wondered.
"Almost ready but… Damn it… This ain't nowhere near enough energy! I… I don't think this is gonna work!" Goku yelled out, both tormented by the demise of his good friend and rival that had occurred before him, one he couldn't prevent, and desperate because this hidden ace in the hole barely provided him with enough Ki to inconvenience Frieza so far.
"Chayote's closing in, but we can't let her join the fight just yet," Yamcha panted beside Krillin while Frieza gobbled these soon-to-be victims of his with a gleeful stare, still marveling at the fireworks of his own creation. This would be the closest he'd get to destroying this loathsome planet that day, so he got his kicks from where he could. "She's gonna get herself killed unless she's angry enough! Chiaotzu!"
The ghoulish warrior didn't seem to respond to Yamcha's request to keep Chayote occupied and keep sending her further away from the battle for the moment. The little guy appeared to have completely lost it before he exploded with King Kai's Fist and turned his attention back down to Frieza.
"Damn it, he's gonna rush Frieza head-on, that madman," Krillin winced. Activating his own King Kai's Fist again and powering back to his peak again in the instant that he'd take to assist his comrade.
"Yeah, we've got to keep hassling Frieza to keep him from focusing on any of us again, that's the only way we can buy Goku or Chayote enough time to leave a good dent!" Yamcha powered-up alongside Krillin with the two spiraling down in a mad dash to join Chiaotzu's grief-ridden challenge to Frieza's stranglehold over the battlefield.
So far, Frieza had been a nightmare that seemed like it would never end.