A four-legged alien with the head shaped like that of a hammerhead shark and an X-shaped quartet of growths with eyes attached to the end crossing its flat head fled with unintelligible pants and yells. In a green and purple blur, a tall, brown, reptilian humanoid with big, yellow eyes and pointy, horn-like ears blitzed the fleeing alien with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Trying to run away from the Cooler Armored Squadron? Don't dare mock our speed!" the reptilian humanoid taunted his prey before smacking him down on the ground with a backhand strike. The head of the fallen alien split open, covering it with violet blood all over as the whining alien began crawling away from imminent demise.
"No fair, Neiz, you've already bopped him! You know smashing skulls is my favorite thing to do! It won't be the same now!" a large, green-skinned, muscular humanoid with long, black hair landed near the injured alien, blocking off his path to retreat. As hopeless as the poor thing was to escape with its life before, with this juggernaut of flesh landing before him and scooping him up with both hands, the quivering alien abandoned all hope and waited for a gruesome end.
"Wait!" a handsome, turquoise-skinned, humanoid alien with short and stylish blond hair and a futuristic set of body armor matching that of his two colleagues landed behind Dore, placing his hand on the giant's shoulder. "I haven't caught a single word he said. That's odd. I can speak…"
"Over 7000 languages, we know, you keep reminding us of it all the time!" Neiz flipped out, grabbing hold of his head. "Captain, if we obsess over each local we crush, taking over this planetoid will take entire days!"
"This is just a measly asteroid. A race as puny as this couldn't have found a planet of their own, I'd imagine. What are you guys again?" the captain of the Cooler's Armored Squadron tapped the shoulder of his much larger colleague, suggesting that the giant should place the poor alien down on the ground instead of smashing his skull in between his hands like he intended to.
"Crosstilians…" the frightened alien babbled after falling on his rear and crawling back from the terrifying mountain of muscle before him.
"Crosstilians? Didn't Cooler-sama's brother, Frieza, destroy your planet twelve years ago?" the captain scratched the back of his head. "No wonder you've fled to some pathetic space rock and made your temporary home here, though I am impressed by the impressive cities you've established in the twelve years you had with only the measly survivors you must have scrounged up. I am rarely impressed."
"What does it matter?" Dore grumbled. "Let me smash his skull now. I'm stronger than you, Salza. I could beat you and take control over this squad if I wanted to."
"Perhaps you could if you weren't simple as a crayfish, Dore. You lack both the ambition and the grey matter up there." Salza shrugged. "Though I suppose Neiz was right, we have a civilization to help Cooler-sama conquer."
"Curse you… Curse your entire bloodline, this wicked family has destroyed our home and now you'll even take this uninhabited asteroid away from us!?" the alien with the split skull yelled out as an act of final defiance, knowing that his death was all but assured.
Dore's massive hands wrapped around the alien's skull as the musclebound giant lifted the poor, struggling quadruped off the ground, leaving his shabby legs wobbling in the air as the alien yelled out in pain of the pressure mounting around his skull. A myriad of synchronized beeps went through Salza's scouter, forcing the captain of the Cooler's Armored Squadron to give his henchman a signal to release the alien.
"Cooler-sama would like to apologize to you about what his brother has done to your planet," Salza said while patting down the clothes of the alien, who bled profusely through the crack in the middle of his skull. "He'd like to speak to you directly, local."
Salza took off his scouter and placed it on the broken upper branch with an eye on it of the injured local. The poor alien shivered when the blurry image of a shadowy, crooked figure with lean and short features revealed itself to him. The room which this mysterious Cooler was in was drowning in shadow, but a few tongues of flame off to the sides lit it up to a point. There were piles of bodies littering the room while the tyrant himself sat in a throne-like chair behind a control panel. The vision of the beholder wasn't what it was meant to be after Neiz busted his eye so he couldn't make everything out clearly.
"This device you are wearing right now. It also serves as a communicator, you see. It is for that reason that I couldn't help but overhear what you've said about what my sniveling pest of a brother has done to your species. I apologize, Crosstilian. We weren't aware that this asteroid belonged to you when we invaded it. Unlike my brother, I have a speck of honor. That is why my father never let me rule his empire, despite me being the elder brother. As a gesture of apology, I will leave as many of you alive as possible and rule your species as a benevolent ruler, integrating your kind into my family's empire. I will create a utopia on this tiny space rock of yours, making up for my brother's transgressions against your species." The shadowy figure with a whipping tail behind him explained.
Salza took the scouter off of the horrified alien and placed it back on his own head. The Cooler's Armored Squadron lined up in front of the injured local and struck a pose together with Salza leaning down and placing his palm on the ground while the other two leaned from the left and right over their commander, connecting with their arms over his head.
"Don't worry, fellow citizen of the Cold clan empire! We, the Cooler's Armored Squadron will protect you and see that Cooler-sama has no obstacles fulfilling his promise to you!" the triplet chanted out before splitting apart and taking off in all directions to smash to pieces the resistance of the Crosstilians before they could report their progress to Cooler who already rested in the central royal command tower with nothing but corpses surrounding him.
A blazing fireball flying at a curved trajectory hit a nearby Crosstilian hover-tank, which burst into flames and exploded violently, throwing the confused Neiz flying backward and struggling to straighten up his position on his feet. The confused alien warrior looked around frantically before looking up and noticing a short and seething Saiyan hovering over the battlefield with one of his arms raised and bent in front of his chest, still smoking after having launched a heat-based Ki attack just like the one that had thrown Neiz for a loop.
"Tsk, finally noticed me, didn't you trash?" Vegeta cursed, gritting his teeth. He clenched his fists, bursting with an immense, crystal-clear, white aura that forced Neiz's scouter to activate and begin counting up. Before long, the scouter blew off of the face of the shocked alien speedster. "Your corps is just as pathetic as Frieza's Ginyu Force, solely relying on scouters!"
"You're… Vegeta, aren't you? One of Frieza's lackeys, you'll pay for comparing us to those goons at the Ginyu Special Squadron!" Neiz shook his fist out in front of him.
"You cocky bastard!" Vegeta yelled out, swiping his right hand back as he raised his left fist out in front of him. "It is you who will pay for calling me a Frieza's lackey! I'm coming for you all, you hear me? Your boss too!"
"My boss…? Cooler-sama? Have you gone mad?" Neiz shook, giving Vegeta a perfect opportunity to snap away and charge at his opponent with a foot-dive which Neiz blocked with a cross-shaped arm block, flying back an immense distance before lowering his arms that twitched with painful impulses and felt like someone had filled them with lead.
"You'll pay for this betrayal, Vegeta!" Neiz yelled out, vanishing and appearing right in front of Vegeta, throwing a rapid barrage of punches in the face of the Saiyan king but they appeared to bounce off of Vegeta's face leaving no dent whatsoever. With a terrified shriek, Neiz dashed back, feeling burning sensations in his crumbled knuckles. "This… This is impossible… None of my hits registered!"
"You're not too different from Burter. You make the same mistakes too. Who cares if you throw fifty-thousand punches a second if you don't put any focus into any of your blows?" Vegeta mocked his opponent with a cocky taunt, inviting him to attack him again with a hand gesture. The king of Saiyans bid his time until the entire Cooler Armored Squadron gathered into one place, sparing him from the trouble of having to look for them all.
"I'll show you! I'll show you the impossible to match the speed of Neiz of the Cooler's Armored Squadron!" Neiz proclaimed before vanishing again. Vegeta just snickered and followed suit, appearing in front of his opponent each time that Neiz tried to attack him from a different angle and easily dodging every blow that Neiz threw his way. Despite the forearms and calves of the alien warrior blurring and disappearing altogether because of the incalculable speed in which he attacked his opponent, Vegeta's own body became transparent and illusionary as well as the Saiyan king danced around his opponent.
"You like to toy with your opponents, don't you?" Vegeta mocked Neiz before throwing a stray punch to push his fist right through Neiz's ribcage but intense jolts of pink electricity burst forth from the alien's body, subduing Vegeta in place while the speedster blitzed away leaving one afterimage after another on his trail to an acceptable distance from the Saiyan powerhouse.
"Neiz! What's the matter? These locals giving you trouble?" Salza teased his comrade after the two remaining Cooler Armored Squadron goons gathered in one place. It was only then that Dore and Salza looked down and saw Vegeta powering back up and breaking the numbing hold of Neiz's Bind Wave technique.
"That's… Vegeta…" Dore stated the obvious.
"A filthy Saiyan, here? It only makes sense that after Frieza got himself crippled and rendered harmless for life that his dogs would run rabid and rampant across the galaxy." Salza sighed. He pressed the button of his scouter, reaching back to Cooler in the central communications tower. "Cooler-sama, we have an unexpected third-party intervening. It's prince Vegeta. That's right… That's what I thought too… Very well…"
"You'll die a painful death for calling me prince Vegeta, smug bastard!" Vegeta clenched his fists as a vein popped out on the right side of his forehead. "I am no longer just a prince, I am the highest rank of Saiyan super-elite–the king of all Saiyans!"
"Not for much longer, I am afraid, Saiyan rot," Salza chuckled to himself with a smug look on his face. "You see, unlike his foul brother, Lord Cooler has a sense of honor to him. He hates the fact that his brother's rabid lapdogs are running foul across his universe now. He sees it as his responsibility to take care of all of you, so he's going to kill you and then wipe out your entire race of loudmouth primitives."
"I was right to come to kick his teeth in first then!" Vegeta taunted the Cooler Armored Squadron.
"Come now, Vegeta, surely you don't believe that you alone can take on all three of us all by yourself…" Salza taunted the proud Saiyan king with an elegant shrug before Vegeta vanished and appeared right in front of the trio, choosing to tackle all of them by himself. Dore dived under Vegeta's right hook and captured the king into a Full Nelson hold while Neiz began throwing a light-speed barrage of punches into Vegeta's body.
"You'll pay for your hubris with the most elegant of executions, Vegeta, face the refined sophistication of the Salza Blade!" Salza taunted his opponent while he sharpened his palm into a focused stream of Ki, reminding of a slicing blade formed out of pure, pink energy as he lashed out from behind Neiz and charged to slash Vegeta into two.
Vegeta coughed up in pain. His eyes whited out. Salza shook in place. The commander of the Cooler's Armored Squadron froze up after he realized this palm failed to penetrate Vegeta's body, having become stuck in the outer layer of the king's armor that he penetrated while Vegeta exploded in a burst of violent energy which flung all three aliens away at once.
All three members of Cooler's armored squadron attacked Vegeta at once, surrounding him from each side as they threw wild and wicked shots at him with reckless and brutal flurries of punches and kicks but the king of all surviving Saiyans dodged and weaved out of them without a single flaw in his evasive defense. With a smug grin, Vegeta scooped Dore by swiping at his calves with a hooking dive that flipped the musclebound giant over in mid-air.
Vegeta spun around with a knife-edged chop that smacked all three alien warriors away from him at once, the king vanished, appearing in front of Neiz and driving a vicious chop in the front of the wide-eyed alien's throat, leaving his eyes yellow and rolled back as the alien collapsed back down weightless, Vegeta vanished once more, shooting a rising knee strike up in Salza's face and busting that handsome face of his. Following up, the rampant Saiyan warrior grabbed hold of Salza's head and kneeled him in the gut before throwing the alien over his head and push-kicking him off into the lower atmosphere while he vanished once more.
Just as Dore had about recovered from the soul-crushing collection of chops he took, the proud Saiyan appeared before him with a cocky grin once again, delivering a violent cross to Dore's face that pushed the giant's entire face caving in before Vegeta rolled in mid-air with stiff, whipping kicks that outright decimated the member of the Armored Squadron and sent him crashing down into a crater. The resulting shock wave wiped out an entire platoon of Crosstilian military heavy machinery in its wake.
With a double-knee dive from up above, Vegeta crushed Neiz's spine before vanishing up in the air and positioning himself right above his helpless target. Putting his hand down, Vegeta unleashed a cerulean Ki wave that swallowed up the fallen and paralyzed speedster whole and drilled deeper into the asteroid, bursting outward with gleaming pillars of starlight shine from its core which put the survivors of Vegeta's beat down in terror over the artificial atmosphere of the asteroid holding Vegeta's rampant power.
"Damn it… He killed Neiz…" Dore grumbled, huffing and panting through his blood spraying down his busted face, which the giant couldn't move his hands away from.
"Calm down, Dore, there's no way that a mere Saiyan can be more powerful than us! Saiyans are just filthy sava…" Salza was about to console his henchman before Vegeta appeared before him and plunged his fist into Salza's gut, spilling darker turquoise blood all over his glove and forearm while Salza's shocked face twitched in pain. With a rising uppercut, Vegeta sent Salza flying and directed two fingers up over his head, detonating his airborne opponent from within his body by making a small Ki blast he had left in his opponent's innards explode, making Salza burst outward into sparkly remains.
"Humph… What self-righteous, prickly fireworks." Vegeta muttered to himself before turning his strict glare to Dore. The giant moved his hands away from trying to stop his leaking, busted face, but his teary eyes couldn't show him anything that was going on. Vegeta disappeared from his view again.
By the time that Vegeta revealed himself, there was nothing that Dore could do as the king's royal elbow dug into the back of his skull, leaving Dore whited out and with no control over his facial functions. The alien began plummeting down with his eyes whited out and his mouth wide open, Dore's tongue flapped helplessly on the outside as the powerhouse with a caved-in skull fell in look for his grave. The only thing he found was Vegeta's double thrust kick from down below that crushed Dore's ribcage and smashed his heart into a bloody inner stain of mush.
The king of Saiyans raised both his hands up, forming a bright, white pillar of energy around him that reduced the murdered Dore into mere ash that scattered away in the wind. A psychotic smile couldn't leave Vegeta's gleeful expression. He didn't much care about those goons, he'd have much rather inflicted all this gruesome punishment to the Ginyu Special Squadron while they were still alive, but this would have to do. The two teams were constantly bickering with each other. While Cooler's Armored Squadron had stronger individual members, the Ginyu Special Squadron had more members and had better teamwork altogether, making them somewhat similar in terms of combat potential. Not that it mattered in the end. Vegeta was stronger than all of them. He would be the one to elevate his race to the state of ultimate warriors!
An unseen purple hand with white, natural bio-suit gauntlets decorated with a deep-blue gem in their center swiped upward, forming a bright crescent shimmer of electric green and unleashing a blizzard of decimating Ki blasts all over the asteroid. The merciless downfall of merciless energy rain had left very few buildings standing and left but a black and fiery trail of apocalypse in its wake while Vegeta burst forth from the smoke, coated in the remains of a golden, explosive energy wave that he used to protect himself with.
"Impressive. Very few beings in this universe can sense me attacking when I don't want them to." Cooler smirked, revealing himself to Vegeta in all his glory. Frieza's brother had a deep-purple skin and a much more masculine build to his brother, being almost a whole head taller than Vegeta, sporting several, more armored carapaces of bio-armor over his chest, shoulders shins, and his head, decorated with naturally formed gems. That wicked, black-lipped smile and cold, red eyes. Those features were something that the two tyrants shared with each other.
"You're the one to talk," Vegeta snorted. "To think that someone in this accursed bloodline would actually train and learn to suppress their Ki when they didn't want to be noticed… Not only do you appear to be physically superior to your wimp brother, but you're a lot more skilled too. It might just be beneficial to the Saiyan race that I take you out before you build yourself up to becoming a real nuisance to us."
"Those are some hefty proclamations from a simple primate." Cooler sighed. "With my poor, little brother being left catatonic, it has now fallen all on my shoulders to watch over his universe and correct his mistakes. I'm afraid I just can't let wild dogs run amok and cause disarray. Not only am I an honorable ruler, but I am orderly as well. Now, king Vegeta, face your execution!"
The two men who would proclaim themselves the emperors of the entire universe prepared to clash on a shaken asteroid that was but a part of the clustered cities built upon a rich and thick asteroid belt. Despite its immense size, the universe proved itself to be too small for the two of them together, leaving them no other choice but to crash at each other.